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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
Al I i N 1. 1 MINI , h'HHI U. 1 IBRAM>
IIIMIIIIIIIIJ
3 1833 01148 4109
A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA
ancTari
extended history of its
Southern Coast Counties
by
J. M. Guinn, A.M.
Illustrated
Complete in two volumes
Volume II
Historic Record Company-
Los Angeles, Cal.
1907
1359856
BIOGRAPHICAL
VOLUME
NDEX
Adams, Thomas G 1020 calender, Harry R 742 Fairchild, John A 714
Adloff, Jacob 975 Campbell,' Eugene, M. D 1044 Ferguson, William 1076
Alderson, Joshua H 781 Campbell, George W.. M. D....1007 Flint > Frank P $ 47
Armstrong. Alfred C 1052 Carpenter, Richard B 1004 Follansbee, Elizabeth A.. M. D. . 875
Carson, John M S33 Forbes. James 905
B Carter, Hon. Henry E 976 Fnrman, Charles 659
Baker, Dona Arcadia 641 Carter, Marion D 1009 Foshay, James A 673
Baker, John H 910 Chambers, Judge Joseph F 7$2 Foy, Samuel C 777
Baldwin, James V 989 Chapman, Alfred B 1027 Francisco, Andrew W 1067
Bandini. Don Juan 635 Chapman, Charles C 683 Francisco, J. Bond 568
Bandini, Juan B 528 Chapman, Frank M 703 Fredericks, Capt. John D 1029
Bard. Cephas L 1087 Clapp, William T 724 Frederickson. Judge William... 660
Bard. Thomas R 5" Clark. Eli P 599 Fremont, John C 677
Barker, Obadiah T 967 dine, John C 527 Fre - V ' Joseph W 868
Barlow. Walter J.. M. D 735 dough. Frank S 1038
Beckett. Wesley W., M. D 571 Cochran, George 1 727 G
Benedict, Walter S 1028 Cochran. Guy. M. D 1035 Ganlm0I1] Ansel E 8 4g
B?ntz J° hn C 88 ^ Courts, Cav, J 886 ^.^ ^^ c
Beveridge. John L 1102 Cowan. William K 687 Q c , avton H I0 - 3
Bicknell, John D 579 Croft, Thomas F 1038 Q Rkhard *
Bixb >- Fred H 997 Crow % Pro f. George R 6.3 Gaylord> Robert H Io6 ,
Bixby, John W 983 Crump, Edward S 900 ^ James A ^
Bixby Jotham ... 505 Giddings Joshua R ^
Blanchard, James H. 962 ^ Edward w ^
Bohrmann, Henry C io^s n . n w
Bouton, Gen. Edward 755 Dalton. E. H 986 g^r J ^W. ig
Bovard, George E, D. D 1091 Davis. Charles C 588 •
Boynton, Frank P ois Davisson. John H. M. D 938 ^VbeT P Z
Bradley. Edward R„ M. D 1078 De Groot, William E 839 ^ reen ' „ p , r .,
Bragdon, Charles C 1031 Dennis, Mrs. Mary ED 895 £««!. Hon. R M 551
Braly. John H 579 Dodson. Arthur M 93. £«««' ?*? ^ ,'" «™
Brice. James L to68 Dodson, James H 932 Groenendyke. Edward H 610
Briggs. Mrs. Anna L 728 Dodson, John F 032 Gulnn > J ames M ™ 72
Briggs. Mrs. Mary A 811 Dorsey. Stephen W 815
Brodrick. William J 746 Dow, Herbert G 1075 H
Brown, Charles C 1051 Dozier, Melville 820 Haas, Walter F 881
Brown, Harrington 890 Dudley. T. Horace 1098 Haddock, Charles G 1026
Browning. Charles C, M. D 785 Durrell, George A 942 Hafen, Conrad 792
Bryant, Ernest A., M. D 765 Hagan, Ralph. M. D 700
Bryson, Frank 844 F Hahn - Hon - Benjamin W 596
Bullard, Frank D, M. D 919 Hamburger. Asher 1085
Burks. Dana 109S Edgar, William F., M. D 621 Hammon, Hon. Percy V 1019
Burnham, David R 795 Elliott. Dr. Thomas B 773 Hancock, Major Henry 984
Burnham, William P 1070 Ellis. H. Bert. M. D 655 Hardwick, James J 923
Byrne, Callaghan 799 Emery, Grenville C 833 Harkness, Lamon V 648
R
IXDEX.
-.. S6S Lawler, Hon. Oscar SV Parker. Millard M 974
P 'f 1 P« se - N'les 56
» I ft Bradner W 627 Pease. Sherman 1041
Hon. Walter R 600 Pdl.ss.er Germain 9/9
Henry .1 W Perk.ns^ Hon. D. 1 1100
: I ndley, Walter, M. D 1032 Pierce, Clarence W M. D 843
!l 1028 Lips, Walter 924 Pierce, Hon. Fred E 1008
«* Pierce. Judge H. A 717
M 96S Lopizich, John 1071 Pitman, John S 683
\1 5(37 Lowe, Thaddeus S20 Pomeroy, A. E 853
508 Lowe. Thaddeus S. C 618 Ponet, Victor 1025
713 Lull, Linford C 997 Porter, Andrew 617
811 Pottenger, Francis M, M. D.... 707
863 Mc
572 McAdam, James 891
945 McCaldin, William J 091 Rendall. Stephen A 826
'"•' McCartney, Hon II S. G 829 Reynolds, David H 878
514 McCoy, Hon. Alexander 790 Reynolds, Isaac J 1052
973 M inder B 1000 Richardson. A. Joseph 885
'•-" McDonald, Frank A 847 Rindge. Frederick H 51"
7-'2 McGarvin, D C 1084 Robbins, A. S 1066
McGue, Robert K 721 Roeder, Louis 731
McKinlay, Samuel 816 Rowan. George D 613
858 McLachlan, Hon. James 566 Rowan. Robert A 613
805 McNally, Andrew 778 Rowley. Quentin J 945
•■• 7'0 Rule, Ferd. K 1089
M Ryan. Andrew W 1080
1 eph 889 Ryder, Fred L 906
699 Marble, John M. C 591 R yu s, Harmon D 1069
II 699 Markham, Hon. Henry IT 5S5
704 Marsh, Joseph E 819 S
917 Marsh, Robert 825 „ ^ , . „,
..918 Mem,,. Lewis 1015 l*™*' * dW " ?/ " '" ^
66, Savage Hon. William H 933
John I0 95 ***■ J ° S T ! P /.""A I
Mills. Henry W 04. Seabert Franklin A 1056
[ilner, John 8 S o * ; lph '. > *". E ' " f*
Col. James 1 .054 ' ? '"''T J f 2
... 669 ' "" er ' Eeon l 8 ° 3
i D 960 ™ er> Reuben 749
... 994 Mullen. Andrew 903 M, " r, »- AndreW S - M D ' 82
Claire W... . Sibley. Mrs. George W 927
irphy, William W., M. D 1070 ", Charles 736
Skillen, Charles M 643
x Slaughter, Frank R 914
Slauson, Jonathan S 679
!E?£rEL-£:::::::::3JS£7$ r
S*iL^c:::::5
Nevin, William (, oRe ,. . TT ,, , '*
ryB u* Sny^r, Hon Meredith P 647
3 SUnton, Wilham 995
S earns Don Abel 641
3 Stem. Fredenck W io39
p Stephens, J udge Albert L j(a
Stewart, Gideon T 693
intci Milt< n I) «, c to i„- ,,- „, ^
■ \t i, '5» stokes, r-rank 1049
hAm ■• K48 Story, Francis Q 6 Z
M 864 Story, Hampton I .....'. £4
INDEX. v
Strong, Frank R 576 U Widney, Joseph P 952
Stuart, Holloway 1 906 Umsted Jesse R Io6 Wilbur, Judge Curtis D 835
Summerfield, J. W 1017 Wills, John A 909
Summerland, Theodore 796 Witmer, Henry C 821
Summers, Mrs. Emma A 800 Wolf skill, Joseph W 969
Summers, William H 857 Vavra - A - Ste P han QI 4 Wood, John W 1018
Sutton, D. J 1041 Viole, Jules 1043 Woodhead, Charles B 1065
Visscher, Louis G., M. D 1079 Workman, Elijah H 990
Workman, William H 537
W Wright, Cyrus 1047
Thomas, G. Roscoe 1055 Walker, Frank 871
Thompson, George F 892 Ward, Ben E 1045 Y
Thorpe, Spencer R 861 Warner, Adam D 903
Threlkeld, James B 1035 Washburn, William J 1086 Youn & Rev ' Wllllam S 8 7 8
Toberman, Major James R 553 Waters, Russell J 1093
Townsend, Stephen 955 Weid, Otto 1048
Transue, Hon. J. P ion Welch, William 766 Zahn, Johann C. M. D 1061
Turner, Joseph S., M. D 956 Welsh, Joseph 895 Zobelein, George 812
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JOTHAM BIXBY.
O you youths, western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and
friendship,
Plain I see you, western youths, see you tramping with
the foremost,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
Have the elder races halted?
Do they drop and end their lesson, wearied, over there
beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the
lesson,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
All the past we leave behind ;
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied
world ;
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor
and the march,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains
steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing, as we go, the
unknown ways,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
We primeval forests felling.
We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep
the mines within ;
We the surface broad surveying, and the virgin soil
upheaving,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry
mistress, (bend your heads all,)
Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive,
weaponed mistress,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
See, my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear, we must never yield
or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions, frowning there behind
us urging,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
All the pulses of the world,
Falling in, they beat for us, with the western move-
ment beat;
Holding single or together, steady moving, to the front,
all for us.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Lo ! the darting bowling orb !
Lo! the brother orbs around! all the clustering suns
and planets;
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop dis-
couraged, nodding on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause
oblivious,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
Till with sound of trumpet.
Far, far off the day-break call— hark! how loud and
clear I hear it wind;
Swift ! to the head of the army ! — swift ! spring to your
places,
Pioneers ! O Pioneers !
When Jotham Bixby, the subject of this sketch,
just turned twenty-one, set sail from Boston,
March i, 1852, aboard the clipper Samuel Apple-
ton, Captain Doane, bound for a voyage of one
hundred and fifty days around the Horn for
San Francisco, it was doubtless because a certain
adventurous fire was still steadily burning in his
veins unquenched from that which prompted his
emigrant ancestor, Joseph of that name, to come
over from England in the early years of discov-
ery and clear a farm in the virgin forests of
Massachusetts, and which, a little later, while
this splendid mother of Colonies in the first flush
of her early matronhood as a Commonwealth
was busily engaged in bringing forth, suckling,
weaning and sending out to the frontier so many
others of her sturdy offspring, impelled the sons
and grandsons of that emigrant to themselves
blithely and bravely cut loose from parental tie<=
and as they became of age set their faces res-
olutely in the direction of more room. Thus it
happens that we find many apparently unrelated
families of this name, which is rather an odd one.
widely scattered over the continent, from New
England, New York and Missouri to Indian Ter-
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rit. rv. California and Manitoba, all sprung from
nun who were pioneers of their own particular
ubt all tracing to a common
origin in this single Puritan ancestor.
The branch of the family now in question set-
tled in Maine toward the end of the eighteenth
century on the hanks of the Kennebec river, then
an outpost of civilization. Here, in the second
generation, one of the sons. Amasa, married
Fanm Weston, granddaughter of Joseph Wes-
ton, one of the most active and capable of the
pioneer settlers who in the first year of the war
of the Revolution volunteered as a woodsman
guide to accompany the ill-fated expedition of
Benedict Arnold through the pathless forests of
Maine against Quebec, and lost his life in the
patriotic discharge of that service.
Under this roof-tree were reared to maturity
eight sons and two daughters, all of whom soon-
er or later removed to California, and of whom
Jotham and his older brother, Marcellus, who
came out together around Cape Horn, are now,
fifty-five years later, the only survivors.
These two brothers went at once to the mines,
and for several years followed the washing of
gold with varying hut rather indifferent sne-
er--. Here, through the exercise of that thrift
and frugality which had been instilled into them
in a home where principle and character and com-
mon sense constituted the animating spirit rather
than mere idle catchwords of daily life, they
ged t" save a few thousand dollars, which
the) first invested in a small mountain farm sup-
plying produce to the mines.
• mi, having sold this, they invested in a
heep, which were
then valued at about $<> a head. During the
I [863 and 1864 these flocks,
which m the meantime had materially increased
in numbers, were maintained with great diffi-
culty by the partners on free government range
in the foothills and mountains of San Luis Obispo
If the crop of acorns in the latter year
had not proved exceptionally abundant they would
probabf) have lost everything, hut through this
• ntial circumstance and their own ui
. living with their sheep a- diil tl
triarehs of old, they saved most of them.
\l»:tit this time the half interest of Marcellus
in the sheep business was bought by the firm
of Flint, Bixby & Co., composed of another
brother, Llewellyn, who was the first of the fam-
ilv to come to California, and two cousins, Ben-
jamin and Thomas Flint. This firm was already
well established and doing business on an ex-
tensive scale, and through them the new firm of
I. Bixby & Co., then formed with Jotham Bixby
as half owner and managing partner, was en-
abled to buy lands in Southern California and
abandon the at best uncertain practice of graz-
ing on the free ranges.
As an indication of the wildness and inac-
cessibility of Los Angeles county at this time,
as late as 1866, it may be mentioned without im-
propriety that one of the chief impelling motives
which induced the elder brother to sell out his
half interest to the wealthier firm, whose mem-
bers indeed did not have to live here, was the
fact that he dreaded to bring his family into so
rough and distant a region, as it was then viewed
even in the not over-thickly settled districts of
Central California.
Rancho Los Cerritos was purchased by J. Bix-
by & Co., in 1866, from John Temple, a well-
known trader and land holder who had come to
this coast also, as it happened, from Massachusetts
long prior to the Mexican war, and who died
in San Francisco soon after making this sale,
his widow, who was a daughter of one of the
old established Spanish families, thereupon re-
moving with her daughter and son-in-law to
Paris, never to return to the Pacific coast.
The great drought above referred to had all
hut exterminated the formerly extensive herds
of cattle throughout Southern California, the
country being of course entirely without trans-
portation facilities, and as these cattle ranges
were now lying idle and unproductive of any
revenue to their owners they were held at what
at the iirexent day seems an absurdly low value.
Los Cerritos, which contained twenty-seven thou-
sand acres of the best grazing lands in the Los
\ngel< - valley, embracing the present flourishing
farming districts of Clearwater, Hynes and
Llewellyn, and the townsites of Los Cerritos and
Long Beach, was bought for $20,000, and paid
for out of the first two clips of wool sold by the
new owners.
I rom this time dates an era of steady progress.
The close of the Civil war sent hitherward many
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homeseckers out of both disbanded armies, farm-
ing settlements were started in some of the choice
alluvial lands of the San Gabriel and other ir-
rigible valleys of the county, and many of the
larger grants which had hitherto been used for
grazing alone were opened for settlement, their
owners being tempted to part with portions of
their holdings through advancing values. The
first sales from Los Cerritos were made along
the northern boundary contiguous to the colony
of Downey. Then followed fourteen hundred
acres to the Wilmington Colony, and later in
1884 six thousand acres off the north to the
California Co-operative Colony, and four thou-
sand acres on the ocean side called the American
Colony tract. Here is now situated the city of
Long Beach, whose growth has appeared as a
marvel of these latter years of improved electric
transportation, but is, after all, only the natural
outcome of her peculiarly favored situation up-
on gently sloping hills fronting the most at-
tractive of sea beaches, while, moreover, she is
no doubt destined to reap high benefits from im-
provements now in progress in the harbor of San
Pedro, a large part of which lies within her cor-
porate borders. More recent sales from this
rancho embrace one of seven thousand acres to
Senator Clark, of Montana, and one of one thou-
sand acres to Mr. Skinner and others, of Florida,
all of which make up one of the richest and most
productive bodies of farming land in the New
River district. Mr. Bixby still retains personally
some thirty-five hundred acres of the rancho
surrounding the original adobe ranch house,
built and first occupied by Mr. Temple, and
where he made his own home for so many years,
and to this he devotes much of his time in per-
sonal direction of operations in dairy farming,
and the growing of barley and alfalfa, never hav-
ing lost a primary interest in the live stock and
farming business.
Other extensive properties were acquired by
him and by the firm in which he was half-owner
and managing partner, from time to time since
coming to Los Cerritos. Some of these con-
sist of sixteen thousand acres of Los Palos Ver-
des rancho, situated on the coast between Red-
ondo and San Pedro, six thousand acres of farm-
ing lands in Los Alamitos rancho near the Beet
Sugar factory, seven thousand acres of the rancho
Santiago de Santa Ana lying between Santiago
creek and the Santa Ana river in Orange county,
a little foothill orange ranch in Temescal canon,
Riverside county, certain landed and livestock
interests in Arizona, various holdings in the
cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles, and in
other localities.
Mr. Bixby was elected president of the first
bank established in Long Beach, and still remains
at the head of that institution now called the
National Bank of Long Beach, the growth of
which has been steady and rapid while practicing
a policy of conservatism and security in loans
and investments. He is one of the stockholders,
though not a controlling owner, in the Long
Beach Hotel Company, and other enterprises
which have been started with a view to develop-
ing the resources of the town in which the latter
years of his life have been cast, and in the
growth and prosperity of which he has always
taken a lively interest. Mr. Bixby has never
been in any strict sense a speculator, all of the
properties which he now owns having been
purchased with a view to permanence of invest-
ment. It was his good fortune to come early to
a favored region and to acquire large interests
here ; to him was also given the clear head and
sober judgment to manage these interests some-
times through seasons of prosperity and again
of perplexity and discouragement, but always
with skill and a good measure of that success
which comes alone from correct perception and
appreciation in the use of figures as applied to
receipts and disbursements in business. Califor-
nians, indeed, of that day and training were more
generally actuated, it may be, by the principle
known as "live and let live," than those schooled
in an environment of more exacting commercial
competition. In this prevailing spirit of fair
dealing among Californians, which, of course,
like most rules, was not without its exceptions,
it is believed that the student of social condi-
tions may find an item of real compensation for
many of the hardships and drawbacks of a life
so far removed from the great metropolitan cen-
ters of social and industrial activity. At all
events to those who know Jotham Bixby best it
is not necessary to enlarge upon this side of
his character as a business man.
In 1862 at San Juan, San Benito county (then
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
in the county of Monterey), Jotham BSxby mar-
ried Margaret Winslow Hathaway, daughter of
Rev. George W. Hathaway of Skowhegan, Me.
This marriage followed an engagement made
some time before on a visit by Mr. Bixby to his
old home, and for this purpose this handsome
young woman came out alone under the protec-
; acquaintances, on the long steamer trip
by way of the Isthmus. An older sister was at
the time married to Llewellyn Bixby, who was
to become her future husband's partner, and they
were living in San Juan. Here the young couple
made their first home, and their oldest son,
George Hathaway, was born. Later at Los Cer-
ritos and Los Angeles six more children were
born, of whom tun, their daughter Fanny Wes-
ton and their son Jotham Winslow, are now liv-
ing. Both these suns are married and there are
now six grandchildren of whom one is the son
. f their si n Harry Llewellyn, wdio died in 1902.
Larger fortunes than Mr. Bixby's are not un-
11 among those who have combined the
exceptional opportunity of early residence in Cal-
ifornia, good judgment in investing and close
study in the handling of their affairs, but in this
it least the best legacy which will be left
b\ the pioneer father to his offspring, when in the
days to come, let us hope still many long years
distant, his soul goes faring forth out of an out-
worn tenement, to join those of his own forbears,
will be a name unsullied by personal misconduct,
dice or any meanness. More than this, on
the positive side to those who really know him
will be revealed a depth of kindness and con-
siderateness t< ward others but thinly veiled un-
der habits of reserve and unostentation border-
ing on diffidence.
How are the strong, simple men of that gen-
eration to be replaced under these more artificial
and tense conditions of American society? The
answer comes through an appreciation of the
spirit of the virile verses of the poet Whitman,
which have been prefixed to this article.
Hail and all hail our fearless, able, generous
r the good of the Republic may
the line example and stirring memories of your
adventurous lives prove a beacon guide alike to
leaders and to hosts of many a stalwart genera-
- Americans vet unborn!
CLAUDE S. HOLM AX. To her noble, self-
sacrificing pioneers, no less than to her enterpris-
ing business men of later days. Southern Califor-
nia owes her remarkable progress. To their zeal
and energy will prosperity be indebted, and
among the names worthy of perpetuation in the
future is that of Woodford C. Holman, a pioneer
of 1849. A native of the south, he was born in
Woodford county. Ky., March 18, 1824. To him
more than to the average boys with whom he
associated came the privilege of obtaining good
school training, first receiving instruction in a
private school, and following this by a course in a
private academy. The same year that John C.
Fremont, the famous pathfinder, set out to find
the Pacific coast, also found Mr. Holman making
his way across the plains with ox-teams. He ar-
rived in Oregon after a most perilous trip, during
which he had many narrow escapes from the
Indian's tomahawk, as well as suffering from
the encroachments of wild animals. His destina-
tion, McMinnville, Ore., was finally reached and
there he settled down content with his surround-
ings in the west until the news of the finding
of gold in California made all other places pale
in comparison. Coming to the state during the
same year he stopped for a time in San Francisco,
but finally made his way to the mines, where it
proved a rich harvest was awaiting him. During
the ten years which he spent in the mines he also
carried on a merchandise business in San Fran-
cisco, both of which avenues were productive of
large incomes and made him a wealthy man. His
association with Los Angeles dates from the year
1870, at which time he purchased large tracts
of real estate in what later became the corporate
limits of the city. In addition to carrying on
general farming he also gave considerable at-
tention to horticulture, setting out groves of
lemons, oranges and deciduous fruits, besides
shrubs of various kinds. Selling a part of his
ranch he removed into the city of Los Angeles
in 1890, and from that time until his death. May
-'.)■ [898, was unable to attend to any business on
account of ill health.
A man of unusual ability and versatility, Mr.
Holman was perhaps even better known as an
author and lecturer than in the commercial world.
Hi- early pioneer experiences in the west and ex-
tensive travels in the old world furnished him
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
511
with valuable material from which to draw, and
whatever came from his pen or lips had the sound
ring of truth and substantiality. His subjects
on the lecture platform were almost always in the
line of agriculture, gold-mining or early Califor-
nia history, on any or all of which subjects he
was perhaps as well able to speak authoritatively
as any who ever came to the west, not excepting
his great contemporary, John C. Fremont.
Among other books of which he is the author we
mention but one "The Old Pioneer," which is
not only interesting in the extreme, but claims
the added merit of being instructive as well.
Personally Mr. Holman was a man of unimpeach-
able character, great force and energy, and- all
who were privileged to know him felt that they
were in the presence of a pure. God-fearing man.
His earth life came to a close in McMinnville,
Ore., May 24, 1898, while on a visit to his
brother, Daniel Holman.
A native son of the state, bom in Los An-
geles June 10, 1874, Claude S. Holman received
his entire training in the common and high schools
of this city and county and when still comparative-
ly young began to assist his father in looking
after his business interests. Starting out in busi-
ness on his own account some time later, he be-
came associated with W. I. Hollingsworth under
the firm name of W. I. Hollingsworth & Co., real
estate brokers, a partnership which existed for
ten years and during which time a large volume
of business was transacted. At the end of this
time, however, the partnership was dissolved,
since which time Mr. Holman has continued in
the real estate business alone, handling Los An-
geles business property exclusively. His local
office is in the Union Trust building.
A marriage ceremony celebrated October 16,
1901, in Los Angeles, united the lives of Claude
S. Holman and Miss Elizabeth Lebus, the latter
a daughter of Lewis and Martha C. Lebus. Mr.
and Mrs. Holman have two children, Margaret
and Katherine. At this writing Mr. Holman is
erecting an elegant modern residence on Hamp-
shire street, between Wilshire boulevard and
Seventh street, which when completed will rep-
resent the acme of perfection in the builder's
art. Mr. Holman is a member of but one fra-
ternal order, the Free and Accepted Masons, his
membership being in Southern California Lodge
of Los Angeles. The fine personal character-
istics which stood out so prominently in the father
and made him a man among men, are found in no
less degree in the son, who in following his high
ideals is setting an example which the rising gen-
eration would do well to take for their arxiicle.
HON. THOMAS ROBERT BARD. As a
man of exceptional talent, high character, a
statesman of eminent ability, and a distin-
guished lawmaker ex-Senator Bard has left
the impress of his individuality upon the legis-
lation which was enacted during the period of
his connection with our national legislature,
and no man of this state has a wider or more
favorable reputation among his former col-
leagues of the senate. His is a family which
has for many generations been one of promi-
nence, antedating the founding of the United
States government on this continent, and
while on a trip to Italy in 1905 Mr. Bard suc-
ceeded in tracing his lineage back through the
British Isles, through France and into Italy,
where in the ninth century the family left its
record, at Ft. Bard, Piedmont. The history of
the family in America begins with Archibald
Bard who came from the north of Ireland, and
settled near Gettysburg, Pa. The next in line
was Richard Bard who was born in Pennsyl-
vania, served in the French and Indian war,
and in April. 1758, after Braddock's defeat he
and his wife were captured by the Indians
and held for a ransom. Mr. Bard succeeded
in making his escape after ten days' captivity,
but his wife was carried away and held cap-
tive for two years and five months before her
whereabouts were discovered and her release
secured by the payment of forty pounds ster-
ling to the Indians. Richard Bard also served
in the Revolutionary war. Captain Thomas
Bard, the son of Richard, was born in Frank-
lin county. Pa., and took part in the second
war with Great Britain in 1812. This brings
us to Robert M. Bard, the father of Thomas
R. He was born at Chambersburg. Pa., being
an attorney of prominence who was consid-
ered the leader of the bar in his section of the
state. He was also a strong man in political
circles and the year before his death was nom-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
inatcd by his -party as a member of congress.
His death occurred in 1S51. at the age of for-
ly-one years, in Chambersburg, a most suc-
cessful and promising career being cut off in
the prime oi life. David and William, broth-
; Richard Bard, were the founders of
Bardstown, Ky.
On his mother's side, also, Mr. Hard has in-
herited good blood. She was Elizabeth Lit-
;le. born in Mercersburg, Pa., the daughter of
Dr. Peter W. little, who was born in York
county, Pa., was a graduate of the Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia, read medi-
cine under Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadel-
phia, spent his lifetime in the successful prac-
tice of hi- profession ami died at Mercersburg.
His wife was Mary Parker, a daughter of Ma-
jor Robert Parker, who was an officer in the
Revolutionary army, and in private life after
the war conducted a merchandising business.
Hi- -ister was the wife of General Andrew
Porter, whose great-grandson is General Hor-
ace Porter, late ambassador to France. While
visiting her son Mrs. ]■'.. L. Bard died at
Berylw 1, his home, near Hueneme, in Ven-
tura county, on the anniversary of her birth-
day. December 7. 1881. There were four chil-
dren in the family, two daughters who reside
in Chambersburg, Pa., and two sons. The
younger son. I )r. Cephas I.. Hard, was the
Foremost physician in Ventura county for
many years and died in [902, loved and re-
! by all who knew him. A sketch of his
life appears elsewhere in this volume. The re-
maining son is Thomas Robert Bard, who
was born in Chamber-burg, Pa., December 8,
1841, and spent his boyhood days in that
After preliminary work in the public
Schools Mr. Bard attended Chambersburg
Vcademy and graduated from that institution
when seventeen years of age. Having decided
la 1 he sei ured an opportunity to
under Judge Chamber-, a retired su-
preme justice of Pennsylvania, but soon
learned that his tastes inclined to a more
active occupation and he secured a position
on a railroad corps and worked for a while on
the Huntington & Round Top Railroad in
Pennsylvania. After ihis he re umed the
study of law for a short time, then accepted
an offer from his uncle by marriage, David
Zeller, to enter his office as bookkeeper, he
being engaged in a grain and forwarding busi-
ness at Hagerstown, Md. These were excit-
ing days, for at this time the Civil war broke
out and Mr. Bard, who was an enthusiastic
reader of the "Atlantic Monthly" and the
Xew York Tribune, which publications print-
ed strong abolition articles, was one of very
few people in Hagerstown who openly es-
poused that side of the question before the be-
ginning of the war.
While the war was yet in progress Mr.
Bard became an assistant to the superintend-
ent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, hav-
ing charge particularly of the movement of
trains carrying military supplies. While an
incumbent of this position he became ac-
quainted with Colonel Thomas A. Scott, sec-
retary of war, and president of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, and was induced by him to
take charge of his large land holdings in Cali-
fornia. Mr. Bard started about the 20th of
December, 1864, via the Panama route, spent
Christmas of that year on the sea, and ar-
rived in San Francisco January 5, 1865.
While a part of Colonel Scott's property was
located in Humboldt and Monterey counties
the greater area of the three hundred and fifty
thousand acres of land was located in Los An-
geles and Ventura counties, and in the last
named locality Mr. Bard made his home.
Mr. Bard was the pioneer in the develop-
ment of the oil fields of that section of the
state, and as superintendent of the California
Petroleum Company sunk some of the earliest
oil wells in California on the Ojai ranch. The
results of this work were not equal to the ex-
pectations of the company, and in 1868 the
work was abandoned. Among other oil en-
terprises in which he was interested and was
the organizer are the Union Oil Company of
California, the Torrey- Canon Oil Company
and the Sespe Oil Company, of which he was
president, both of which were ultimately ab-
sorbed by the Union Oil Company. In 1868
he subdivided the Rancho Ojai and sold it as
small ranches and a little later disposed of the
Rancho Canada Larga in the same way. It
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513
is a notable fact that while there has been
much trouble over titles to lands comprised in
the various grants in this state, there have
never been any controversies over the acres
disposed of by Mr. Bard. In 1871 he built the
wharf at Hueneme and laid out the town. He
subsequently acquired the ownership of this
wharf from Colonel Scott, built warehouses,
enlarged and improved the landing and ex-
ploited its advantages until it became a very
important shipping point, handling more ag-
ricultural products than any other wharf
south of San Francisco, it being possible for
him to secure cheap transportation rates on
account of the returning lumber schooners
from ports below. The building of the wharf
at Hueneme encouraged others to engage in
such enterprises at places on the coast, as ex-
posed and unprotected as was Hueneme ; and
as the mechanics whom he employed on the
Hueneme wharf were desirous of securing
further employment in their business, they
took contracts in his name, but on their own
account, to build wharves along the channel.
Among others were the wharves at More's
landing, Gaviota, Santa Cruz Island, and the
wharf built for the Los Angeles & Independ-
ence Railroad at Santa Monica.
Mr. Bard next subdivided for Colonel Scott
the Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia
and secured some undivided interest for him-
self in that grant. He became one of the prin-
cipal owners of the ranchos Simi and Los
Posas, and bought as well, from the company
he represented, the San Francisco ranch
which he afterwards disposed of to Henry
Newhall. He was largely interested in sheep
raising several years ago and at one time he
and his co-partner owned thirty-five thousand
head. During the dry years following 1875
thousands were lost, but the business was con-
tinued, and later success made the venture a
profitable one as a whole. Since its building
Mr. Bard has been president of the Hueneme
Wharf Company and was one of the organ-
izers of the Bank of Ventura, serving as pres-
ident of that institution for many years. He
was likewise an organizer of the Hueneme
Bank and is now its president. He was one
of the supervisors of Santa Barbara county
and when Ventura county was created he was
one of the commissioners appointed to organ-
ize this county. Although in charge of such
extensive business interests, no movement
calculated to be of material benefit to his sec-
tion of the state went without his support,
and both time and means were freely given to
every interest deserving the attention of a
good citizen.
The political career of Mr. Bard has been
a long and honorable one which culminated in
a term in the United States senate. He was
sent as a delegate to the Republican National
Convenion in 1884 when James G. Blaine was
nominated for the presidency, being the only
elector from California sent to the electoral
college in 1892. At a special session of the
state legislature in 1900 Mr. Bard was elected
to the United States senate by a unanimous
vote of the Republican members of the state
senate and served his term with great credit
to himself and satisfaction to the people whom
he represented. Whenever a question came
up for his decision he studied the pros and
cons of the matter deeply before expressing
an opinion, which however when once arrived
at was almost invariably right. He made an
especially thorough study of the Panama Ca-
nal project, even before assuming his sena-
torial duties at Washington, and in the con-
sideration of the amendments to the first Hay-
Pauncefote treaty his colleagues accorded to
Senator Bard the credit of having offered cer-
tain suggestions which resulted in several of
the important amendments to that document.
When Mr. Bard assumed his duties as su-
perintendent of the lands and wharf at Hue-
neme he met with opposition from some of
the residents. His life was even threatened at
times and it is said that upon one occasion a
gibbet had really been erected for his execu-
tion. Mr. Bard felt himself in the right on
disputed questions, however, and pursued the
even tenor of his way apparently unconscious
of trouble, and the time came when even those
who were once his pronounced enemies be-
came his stanch friends.
It was in 1876 that Mr. Bard began to im-
prove the grounds of his beautiful home and
make it what it is today, one of the finest res-
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idence places in the state. There are fifty
i of ground attached, half of which is laid
out in a park and contains trees, plants and
rs rom all pan- of the world. Floricult-
ure has always been one of the most pleas-
urable recreations of Mr. Bard, and in his
flower gardens are found many fine roses
which were originated on his grounds.
His marriage, which occurred in 1876.
united him with Miss Mary, daughter of C. O.
Gerberding of San Francisco, founder of The
Evening Bulletin of that city. She was a
native of San Francisco, and became the
mother of eight children: Beryl P..: Mary L..
wife of Roger ( i. Edwards of Saticoy; Thom-
as G. ; Anna G. ; Elizabeth Parker ; Richard ;
Philip: ami Robert. All are now living ex-
cept Ruber;, who died at the age of two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bard also opened their home to
an adopted daughter, Alethea Maiden, a
young English iady.
Mr. Bard was made a Mason in Ventura
and is now a member of Oxnard Lodge, F. &
A. M.. and of Oxnard Chapter, R. A. M., and
of the Ventura Commandery, K. T. He is a
member and liberal supporter of the Presby-
terian Church, and a man of superior integrity
and rectitude. There is a pronounced yet 1111-
explainable influence felt in the presence of
some people that can be accounted for in no
other way than that it is caused by the in-
ward thoughts and high motives of the per-
son to whom they are ascribed. When in the
presence of such a man one feels, instinctive-
ly, that he has lived a pure and upright life
and is one who can be trusted implicitly with-
out fear that any confidence imposed in him
will be betrayed. There is no necessity to
eulogize a man of the well known reputation
and eminence of Senator Bard, vet it will not
be .mt of place to mention that he possesses
1" a remarkable degree this personal magnet-
ism, as it is popularly called. While naturally
endowed with the qualities which win the love
of his fellow men, there is a
in all his actions without
which it would be impossible for him to live
the blameless life he has with a career so
filled with public and private duties as have
fallen to his share.
MRS. MARC.ARET HCGHES. One of the
finest residences to be seen in Los Angeles is
that owned and occupied by Mrs. Hughes, at No.
34 St. James Park, where with true California
hospitality she entertains her hosts of friends,
who come from the most cultured and refined
homes of the city. On the maternal side she
comes from Revolutionary stock, her great-grand-
father participating in that struggle as a lieuten-
ant. Her grandfather, Conrad Miller, fought
there under Colonel Bower in the Fifth Virginia
Cavalry. His marriage united him with Mar-
garet Groscup, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and
the daughter of Col. Nicholas Groscup, a title
which he won at the siege of Quebec, in the
French and Indian war. Conrad Miller also par-
ticipated in that conflict and it was on the battle-
field that he met Colonel Groscup. The latter
was a large landowner in Kensington. Frances
Miller, the daughter of Conrad and Margaret
(Groscup) Miller, became the wife of William
Harvey, and to them was born a daughter, to
whom they gave the name of Margaret. When
about ten years of age Margaret Harvey went
with her parents to Philadelphia, there becom-
ing a pupil in Miss Ashton's Seminary, at that
time one of the most noted ladies' schools in
the east.
In Philadelphia Margaret Harvey became the
wife of Hon. Isaac Walker Moore, whose fore-
fathers on both sides came to this country with
William Penn, settling in Chester county. Pa.
The land on which this early immigrant settled
at that time is still in the possession of and the
home of one of his descendants. Mr. Moore was
born and reared in Pennsylvania, and was a grad-
uate of the University of Pennsylvania. Besides
being an artist of considerable note, he was no
K~s well known in legislative halls, being a mem-
ber of tin' Pennsylvania legislature. His death
occurred in Philadelphia, and his remains lie
buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Moore's second marriage occurred in
Philadelphia and united her with William F.
Hughes, a resident of that city. Personally he
was a man of commanding proportions, whose
qualities of head and heart were no less con-
spicuous, and in whatever circles he moved he
was well known a- a man of thorough business
integrity, on whose word one might rely most im-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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plicitly, it being as good as his bond. Besides
being president of the City Bank of Philadelphia,
he also rented from the state and superintended
the farming on League Island, having charge of
it for twenty-seven years, and after his lease ran
out the island was sold to the government. Some
time prior to his death he had a magnificent
bronze statute of himself executed by a noted
sculptor and placed on the family lot in Laurel
Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Here his remains
are interred, his death having occurred in that
city April 5, 1871.
Owing to the ill-health of her daughter,
Josephine, Mrs. Hughes found it necessary to
seek a more even climate than prevailed in the
east and in the hope of finding a suitable location
in California she started for the west April 15,
1874, in company with her son, Walter S. After
a stay of two weeks in Santa Barbara she came
to Los Angeles, and so charmed was she with the
city from the first that she decided to make it her
future home. Returning to Philadelphia for her
family in June, the following October found her
again in Los Angeles, she having made the trip
with a party of fourteen by way of the Isthmus
of Panama. The party received royal treatment
throughout the trip, and what is usually looked
upon as a trying ordeal proved one of the most
delightful experiences in Mrs. Hughes' life. They
sailed from New York on board the battle ship
Richmond, and before debarking at Panama a
ball was given in their honor. From Panama to
San Francisco they sailed under Captain Dear-
born, who also showed them many courtesies, and
from the latter city they sailed back to San Pedro,
thence to Los Angeles.
At the time Mrs. Hughes came to Los Angeles
there were only two vacant houses in the city,
one of which she secured, this being on Second
near Broadway ; there she made her home until
removing to Hill street between Third and
Fourth. Still later she purchased a ranch near
Anaheim, upon which she made her home until
1885. in which year she once more took up her
residence in Los Angeles. In 1875 she purchased
twelve and one-half acres on Adams and Figueroa
streets, extending north to Twenty-third street.
The purchase price of this property was $275 per
acre, and after holding it for six months she sold
the entire tract for $9,000, thus nearlv trebling
her original investment. It was in 1887 that she
bought her present home on St. James Park,
where she has a comfortable home set in the
midst of well kept grounds. Mrs. Hughes is
much loved by her many friends, all of whom re-
ceive a cheery uplift whenever they come under
the spell of her sunny disposition. While on a
visit to the state in 1874, Edwin Forest, the noted
actor, remarked to Mrs. Hughes as his prophecy,
that in fifty years the actors, artists and singers
of the world would be from Southern California,
for, being reared under these beautiful skies, and
in the midst of its magnificent scenery, to say
nothing of its salubrious climate, they could not
be other than artists. Mrs. Hughes was a charter
member of the Woman's Club of Los Angeles,
but is not connected with the club at this writing.
FREDERICK H. RIXDGE. The late
Frederick H. Rindge holds a place in the an-
nals of Southern California unsurpassed by
that of any other citizen, won not by his great
wealth nor yet by his use of it, but by the in-
herent qualities of noble manhood which dis-
tinguished his career. His death, which oc-
curred in Yreka, Siskiyou county, Cal., August
29, 1905, removed from the society that had
known him, a philanthropist, a Christian gen-
tleman, a successful financier and a man of
affairs, and above all a man of noble mental
and moral stature, unswerving integrity and
honesty of purpose, whose life, though closing
in comparatively early manhood, was ever a
power for good and an influence toward bet-
ter, purer and higher things. His is a career
which will never pass from the memory of
those who have known him, for its influence
will live for all time in the lives of the many
who have felt the power of his strong, earnest
and upright manhood.
Mr. Rindge was the representative of an old
eastern family, the name having been estab-
lished in New England during the colonial
period of our country. His father, Samuel
Baker Rindge, was a prominent woolen im-
porter and manufacturer of Cambridge, Mass.,
where his citizenship was productive of much
material benefit to the city. Frederick H.
Rindge was born in Cambridge in the year
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HISTORICAL AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
[857 and spent his boyhood and young man-
hood- in that city. His preliminary education
was received in private schools and with tutors
with whom he prepared for college, entering
Harvard University one year before President
Roosevelt. During his third year his health
became impaired. A few years later he re-
ceived a degree from his Alma Mater. He suc-
! to the large estate left by his father,
a care and a responsibility which generally
taxes men of his age to their utmost capacity.
That he proved equal to the task is evidenced
by the fact nf his successful career, during
which he doubled his wealth. He brought to
bear upon tin- business interests left him by
his father the same ability and energy which
have characterized his efforts in all enter-
prises, lie was a true philanthropist, studying
the needs of the human family and endeavor-
ing to uplift it in ever) waj he could. He be-
lieved that people should not wait until they
died to make their bequests, but should make
them during their lifetime. Following out this
belief he gave liberally to many causes and
studied closel) tin- effect it had upon the com-
munity where he gave it. Several substantial
monuments were the result of his generosity
t" his home city, as well as an imposing city
hall and a handsome public library which he
built and presented to Cambridge. His crown-
ing gift was the erection of the Rindge Manual
Training School, which was conducted at his
own expense for the period of ten years, when
it was turned over to the city of Cambridge.
This was the first manual training school in
ite of Massachusetts, and from it sprung
up a system of schools which is now a pride
to the state. As a direct result of the estab-
lishment of the Rindge Manual Training
1 tin- Massachusetts state legislature
passed a law making compulsory the estab-
lishment of similar schools in all cities over
twenty thousand population.
Tin- interests of Mr. Rindge became identi-
fied with those mI' I.ms Angeles in [887, when
he became a resident of Southern California.
\ detailed description of bis association with
business enterprises since that date would form
a history of itself, for as he was ever found
ready to espouse the cause of public or pri-
vate interests he was called upon daily to lend
the influence of his name and wealth to incipi-
ent plans. He early established his interests
here on a firm basis, one of his first invest-
ments of importance being the purchase of the
Malibu ranch, above Santa Monica, where he
made his home for a large portion of the time.
That magnificent expanse of mountain and
valley were a source of much pleasure to him,
and there he expended much money in bring-
ing the lands to a state of high cultivation
and beauty. He erected a fine home, and al-
though far removed from neighbors or settle-
ment it was supplied with every modern con-
venience. In 1904, at a great expense, he
built a wagon road up the coast for the con-
venience of the ranch interests, and as the
house had been destroyed a few years before
by fire it was Mr. Rindge's intention to build
again, as life on this vast estate held a pleasure
for him surpassed by no other. Malibu ranch
stretches as a shoe string along the coast line
from a point a little north of Arch rock far
beyond Point Dume into Ventura county. It
is a mile wide at some points and at others
broadens out, containing in all about twenty
thousand acres of land.
In the city of Los Angeles Mr. Rindge be-
gan to make judicious investments in the busi-
ness districts shortly after his location in
Southern California, and that his vision at
that early date was keen and sure is evidenced
by the fact that his property has about doubled
in value up to the present time. Tine Rindge
block, at the northeast corner of Third and
Broadway, was owned by him. and it was
largely through his aid that the handsome
Conservative Life building, at Third and Hill
streets, was built. Apropos of this building
may be mentioned Mr. Rindge's association
with the Conservative Life Insurance Com-
pany, an organization established in this city
about six years ago, when he was elected
president and thereafter he discharged the
duties of that office. His moral influence was
as keenly felt in this line as in all others that
engaged his attention, fellow officers and all
employes experiencing the kindliness of his
nature, the friendliness and generosity char-
acteristic of his dealings with those about him.
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519
Through his activities as president of the
Maclay Rancho and Water Company, Mr.
Rindge was instrumental in opening up for
settlement thousands of acres in the San Fer-
nando valley, while in the central portions of
the state he also conducted several large af-
fairs, including both arid lands and those sus-
ceptible of cultivation. As president of the
Middle River Navigation and Canal Company
and the Rindge Land and Navigation Com-
pany he was instrumental in starting enter-
prises which will reclaim thousand of acres of
peat and tule lands near Stockton. Over twen-
ty-five thousand acres have already been re-
claimed. Mr. Rindge was also identified with
other corporations of similar nature, giving to
all the same ability, energy and enthusiasm
which insured the success of all enterprises
fostered by him.
The spiritual life of Mr. Rindge was one of
power and influence. He lived in close touch
with high ideals and made his everyday life
conform to them. He was for many years a
member of the Westlake Methodist Episcopal
Church, with whose interests he was largely
identified, contributing to all charities and the
various building enterprises which have dis-
tinguished this denomination in Los Angeles.
At the sessions of the general conference,
which were held in this city, he took a promi-
nent part, and was the leader of a laymen's
evangelistic movement which was far-reaching
in its effect. While a resident of Santa Mon-
ica he built the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of that city on the site of the old
building. A man of pronounced prohibition
views, a few years ago. when Santa Monica
abolished the saloons, he agreed to pay from
his personal funds any deficit which might be
caused in the city treasury from the lack of
saloon license money. As president of the
Young Men's Christian Association Mr.
Rindge was most active in the support and
upbuilding of this institution, a power in both
its spiritual and material existence, and was
one of the most enthusiastic supporters for the
new building which the association contem-
plates putting up.
One of the most beautiful homes of Los An-
geles, reflecting without and within the cult-
ured and refined tastes of its owner, was oc-
cupied by Mr. Rindge and his family, the lat-
ter consisting of his widow, two sons and one
daughter: Samuel, aged seventeen years; Fred-
erick, aged fifteen years ; and Rhoda, aged
twelve years.
In closing this brief review of the life of
one of Los Angeles' great men it is only fitting
to recall the tributes paid to his memory by
those who knew him best. His inheritance
was much, for coming of the best New Eng-
land stock there was much in his character to
remind one of the beautiful simplicity, the
sturdy independence, the rugged, unpreten-
tious honesty and unswerving integrity in all
things which went to make up the good Ameri-
can citizen of fifty years ago. Engaged at
all times in forwarding great movements and
in a notable manner a man of affairs, he still
realized that business was not all of life, but
that the amenities between man and man were
as great a matter as the transaction in hand.
Every man, of high or low estate, felt his kind-
liness of heart and responded impulsively to
the hand of hospitality held out to them. His
manhood stood out as something unquestioned,
as something always understood, for as has
been said of him the strong, forceful qualities
of his character were inherent and were always
prominent in his dealings with men. Such a
man cannot die nor can never pass from the
memory of man. His visible presence is lost
for a little while, but the atmosphere created
by his nobility of soul, his honesty of purpose
and his honorable manhood will still be felt
as a power toward better and higher things.
HON. OSCAR LAWLER was born in Mar-
shalltown, Iowa, April 2, 1875, a son of William
T. and Margaret (O'Conner) Lawler. The
father served in the Civil war in a New York
regiment for three years and was wounded in
battle. After the close of hostilities he removed
from Dunkirk, N. Y., to Iowa and located in
Marshalltown, thence in 18S6 came to Los An-
geles, where he now resides with his wife.
Mr. Lawler attended the public schools of
Marshalltown until he came to Los Angeles in
1888. In 1891 he became secretary to United
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HISTORICAL AMD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
States Circuit (then District) Judge Erskine M.
Ross, and while acting in that capacity studied
law. being admitted to the bar in April. 1896.
He at ..nee began the practice of hi- profession
and has continued thus occupied to the present
writing, the firm now being known as that of
Lawler. Allen. Van Dyke & Jutten, with offices
in the Equitable Savin-- Hank building. This
firm has an extensive practice and is one of the
strongest and most influential law firms of the
city. In December, 1905, Mr. Lawler was ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt to the office of
United State- attorne) for the Southern District
fornia, entering at once upon the discharge
of hi- duties, which have since occupied a large
part of hi- attention, lie takes a broad interest
in all public affairs, is a Republican in politics
and has taken an active part in the affairs of the
party in Southern California. In 1904 he was
chosen as delegate to the Republican Xational
Convention held in Chicago, which nominated
Theodore Roosevelt for president.
The marriage of Mr. Lawler occurred in Los
Angeles and united him with Miss Hilda Brode, a
native daughter of this city, and they are now the
parent- of two children. Charles B. and Helen
Jane. In his fraternal relations Mr. Lawler is as-
d with the Masonic organization, belonging
I lati Lodge No. 290, F. & A. M., of which
he i- past master; Signet Chapter X.'. ?~. R. A.
M.: Los Angeles Commandery No. 9. K. T. ; and
Al Malaikab Temple, V \. ( >. X. M. S. In ( )cto-
06, in San Francisco he was chosen junior
grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Califor-
nia. IK- i< also identified with the Knights of
Pythias. He i- a membei of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Los Angeles Bar Association, the
Municipal League, and socially is prominent in
the Jonathan and Concordia Clubs.
THADDEUS Li AYK. A name which will
1 t<> live in the histor) of California as
long a- the state itself has been made memor-
able through the achievements of Thaddeu- S. (".
Lowe, the father of our subject. -Hi- acl
nient- in the scientific and engineering world
have been a- extensive a- the) have been import-
ant, but without doubl the crowning effort of his
life was the building of the railroad from the
base to the summit of Mount Lowe, in the Sierra
Madre mountain-, and which was so named in
his honor. He was born in Jefferson, X. H.,
August 20. 1832, and in the subscription schools
of that place he laid the foundation for the
wide knowledge which he possesses today. As a
child he was an inveterate reader, and his great-
est happiness consisted in delving into the hid-
den deeps of scientific problems. When he was
still a young man his genius was recognized, and
was put to practical service during the Civil war
through his invention of a system of signalling,
and valuable instruments 'for atmospheric inves-
tigation. While chief of the aeronautic corps
during the w'ar he constructed and operated the
largest aerostat ever built. He was also the in-
ventor of the first artificial ice manufactured in
the United States, which dates back to the year
1865, and two years later he refrigerated the
first steamship ( the William Taber of Xew
York ) for the transportation of meats and food,
a system which has transformed the whole phase
of transporting perishable goods. Since 1888
he has been a resident of Pasadena, Cal.
A son of this distinguished resident of Pasa-
dena is Thaddeus Lowe, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of the California Coke and Gas
Company, also holding these positions in the
branch company known as the Valley Gas and
Fuel Company. The business was organized in
1902 and incorporated the same year with a cap-
ital stock of $1,000,000. The present officers of
the company are Horace M. Dobbins, president;
Thaddeus Lowe, vice-president and general man-
ager; D. J. Macpherson, secretary; and Caroline
W. Dobbins, treasurer, all of the officers being
residents of Pasadena and vicinity. The Valley
1 '.a- and Fuel Company, which is an off-shoot of
tlie parent company, are sellers and distributers of
gas to the city of Pasadena, South Pasadena and
Alhambra, while the Long Beach Gas Company,
still another branch, furnishes gas to the city of
Long Beach and vicinity.
Thaddeus Lowe is a native of New Jersey,
born February 18. 1870. and was educated prin-
cipally in We-t Newton, Mass. In the year 1890
he came to California and for several years was
superintendent of the Pasadena Gas and Elec-
tric Company. In addition to supplying gas to
Pasadena ami the surrounding towns and vil-
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lages the California Coke and Gas Company, with
its branches, also manufacture and handle gas
meters, gas ranges, gas heaters, regulators and
all fixtures necessary to heating plants. The gas-
generating plant of the company is located at
Dolgeville. Air. Lowe's wide experience along
the line in which he is engaged has made him
conversant with all of its various departments,
and it is but natural that he has experienced a
phenomenal success.
HOMER LAUGHLIN. The name of Homer
Laughlin is synonymous with all that has stood
for the highest development in the city of Los
Angeles during the last decade, and to those who
know him it speaks eloquently of the worth and
works of the man. A true cosmopolitan, he is
equally at home in the city of his adoption or the
state of his birth, his loyalty to the one in no wise
detracting from his loyalty to the other; his
friends of the west, although of more recent ac-
quisition, holding the same place in his regard
as his friends of the east. Los Angeles is proud
to claim him as a representative citizen and place
his name in the list of those who have done most
for the promotion of enterprises calculated to de-
velop the resources of the city.
Scotch-Irish ancestors have given to Mr.
Laughlin the salient points of his character, the
name being to-day a prominent one in western
Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. James Laugh-
lin, the grandfather of Homer Laughlin, was born
in Maryland, where he spent his young manhood,
eventually removing to Pennsylvania, where his
death occurred when past middle life. He was
survived by his wife, formerly Nancy Johnson,
a native of Pennsylvania, and who died in Ohio.
In their family was a son, Matthew, who was
born in Beaver county, Pa., March 31, 1799, and
in the vicinity of his birthplace was reared to
years of maturity. Inheriting the instinct which
brought to American shores the first emigrating
ancestor, he became a pioneer of Ohio in the days
when the middle west was as unknown as the
Pacific coast at the time of the discovery of gold
in California. He was a man of strong business
ability, high principles and the qualities which
make the best type of citizen, and although he
never enjoyed the advantages which belonged to
the era of his children, yet he acquired a broad
fund of information and a financial success in
life. He was known for the period of forty-five
years as postmaster, miller and merchant at
Little Beaver, Columbiana county, Ohio, and
finally he removed to East Liverpool, where his
death occurred in 1876. His wife, formerly
Maria Moore, was a native of Columbiana coun-
ty, Ohio, her birth occurring in 1814. She sur-
vived her husband and later went to Pittsburg,
Pa., where she died June 19, 1888. Her father,
Thomas Moore, was born in the vicinity of Bel-
fast, Ireland, where he received an excellent edu-
cation. Of an enterprising disposition he de-
cided to seek a fortune in the western world and
accordingly came to the United States. In the
employ of the government as a civil engineer he
was sent to Ohio when it formed a part of the
Northwestern Territory. He continued to make
that section his home until his death, which oc-
curred in Columbiana county at the age of sixty-
six years. He married in America Nancy Lyon,
who was born in Beaver county, Pa., and died in
Ohio at an advanced age.
Homer Laughlin was born in Columbiana
county, Ohio, March 23, 1843, an d in the vicin-
ity of his home received a primary education in
the common schools. Later his studies in the
Neville Institute were interrupted by the call to
arms for the maintenance of the Union. On the
12th of July, 1862, he offered his services, en-
listing in Company A, One Hundred and Fif-
teenth Ohio Infantry, under Capt. H. R. Hill,
and immediately accompanied his regiment to
the front, remaining actively engaged until the
close of the war. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., he
was mustered out of service and received his
final discharge in Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865,
after which he returned to his home and as-
sumed once more the duties of civic life. Dur-
ing the years which he had spent in the army
he had passed from boyhood into manhood and
thus his outlook upon life and its responsibilities
had perceptibly changed. Following his dis-
charge from the army he engaged in the oil
regions of Pennsylvania in the boring of wells,
putting down twelve in a little more than a year.
Deciding then to take up active business life he
went to New York City and together with a
brother began the importation of china from
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England, which was disposed of here through
a wholesale and retail trade. After three years
he returned to I ihio and -till in partnership with
his bn ther built the first white-ware pottery es-
tablished in East Liverpool, Ohio, and together
the two conducted their interests until 1877. He
then purchased the entire business interests and
since that time has carried on a constantly in-
creasing trade under the name of the Homer
Laughlin China Company. The demand for this
ware has called for constant improvement in
method and equipment and is now numbered
among the important enterprises not alone in
the city where it is located, but of the United
Slate-, in that the product is shipped to every
state in the Union. In 1876 he received the
highest prize at the Centennial Exposition and
in 1 S7<> hi- work was recognized at the Cincin-
nati Exposition by the presentation of a gold
medal, and in 1893 he was awarded three dip-
lomas and a medal at the Columbian Exposition
at Chicago, 111., for both plain and decorated
ware.
The business experience of Mr. Laughlin has
well fitted him to pass judgment upon the op-
portunities presented by any section of the coun-
try, and when in 1894 he purchased property in
l.«i- Angeles it might well be considered a move-
ment after thoughtful and mature deliberation.
Subsequently event- have proven the wisdom
of his choice and have brought to him large
financial returns for the money invested in
realty in this city. Three years later he estab-
lished his home in Los Angeles and at that time
zed a corporation known as the Homer
Laughlin China Company to carry on that busi-
East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1897 and 1898
ted the magnificent structure known as
tin Homer Laughlin building, located on Broad-
way between Third and Fourth streets, which
wa- tin- first fireproof building in Southern Cali-
fornia and i- equipped with all modern con-
venience-. Up to [905 the building was ade-'
quate lor the demand- made upon that location,
but in that year he built a re-in forced concrete
which continues his building
from Bn idwa} through to Hill street, and giv-
ing him a depth oi three hundred and twenty-
seven feet and a frontage of one hundred and
twenty-one fed, both on Broadway and Hill
street. This was the first building of its kind
ever erected in Los Angeles and indeed on the
Pacific coast, being entirely of re-inforced con-
crete, faced with white enamel terra cotta, and
absolutely fireproof. In addition to his building
operations he has taken a prominent part in
other enterprises, serving as director in the
American National Bank and various organiza-
tions. He served as a member of a committee
of three to select and purchase a lot for the new
Giamber of Commerce building, and this pur-
pose accomplished he became a member of the
building committee which erected the magnifi-
cent structure now occupied by this department
of the city's activities.
Until her death the home of Mr. Laughlin was
presided over by his wife, formerly Miss Cornelia
Battenberg, a woman of gracious presence, cul-
tured and refined, and a welcome addition to the
social life of Los Angeles. Their union was
blessed by the birth of two children. Homer, Jr.,
a chemical engineer and a graduate of Stanford
University, and Guendolen Virginia. His home
and interests in this city, Mr. Laughlin has given
personal time and attention to the duties which
he considered of vital importance in citizenship.
Politically he upholds the principles of the Re-
publican party and has always been a stanch sup-
porter of this platform. He is known and held in
the highest esteem by a large majority of the
former and present day leaders of the party, dur-
ing his long residence in Ohio numbering among
his warmest friends the late William McKinley,
an attachment which continued unabated up to
the time of the latter's death. Mr. Laughlin was
chairman of the reception committee when the
late President McKinley. with his wife and cabi-
net, visited Los Angeles, and while here were the
guests of Mr. Laughlin. For several years he
held the presidency of the Lmited States Potters'
Association and for twelve years served as chair-
man of the executive committee. In his fra-
ternal relations Mr. Laughlin has been associated
for many years with the Masonic organization, as
a member of the Allegheny Commandery of
Knights Templar visiting Europe in 1871 with a
partly of forty representatives, known as the First
1 irusaders.
In summing up the life of Mr. Laughlin it
would be impossible to close without brief men-
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tion of some of his personal characteristics, for it
is through their exercise that he has won his high
position financially and socially. A man of strong
intelligence and mental power, he has still not
allowed this to be the dominant force of his life,
but with its cultivation has also developed a
kindly personality, a ready and stanch friendship,
and a citizenship whose influence for good is felt
wherever his name is known.
JOHN C. CLINE. One of the prominent
citizens of Los Angeles and Southern Cali-
fornia is John C. Cline, who has been identi-
fied with the material growth and progress of
this section since his first venture in young
manhood. He is the descendant of an old
Maryland family, his paternal grandfather,
Casper Cline, being a native of that state and
a large farmer and land-owner ; he was a cit-
izen of worth and ability, holding a position
in his home community by virtue of his many
sterling traits of character. He served as cap-
tain in the war of 1812 and otherwise partici-
pated in public affairs to the benefit of the gen-
eral community. He married Catherine,
daughter of Col. Robert Evans, from whom
our "Fighting Bob" is descended. This fam-
ily came originally from Wales and were lo-
cated for years on the Howard Woods tract
of Baltimore, which is now embraced in the
Druid Hill Park. Of the family of Casper
Cline a son, George T., became a successful
lumber manufacturer and millionaire landown-
er of Chicago, where he died in 1906. Another
son, John A., was born in Frederick. Md., an
inheritance of his being the pioneer spirit
which induced his Scotch-Irish ancestor to seek
a home in America in an early day. for in
1848 he set out to seek his fortune in newer
lands. He went first to Australia and in Bal-
larat engaged in mining for a time, then went
to Melbourne and became proprietor of the
Spreadeagle hotel, the largest concern of its
kind in that city, and at the same time con-
ducted a hotel in Ballarat, between which cities
he ran the stage line. After quite a number
of years spent in Australia, during which time
he met with much success in his efforts, he re-
turned to Maryland and thence, with his broth-
er, George T. Cline, went to a point on Lake
Michigan and engaged in the lumber business.
He remained connected with this enterprise
until 1869, when he placed his interests in his
brother's hands and with his family came to
Southern California with the intention of mak-
ing the City of the Angels his permanent home.
Here he lived in retirement until his death,
which occurred in July, 1896. He was promi-
nent in fraternal orders, being a member of the
Odd Fellows organization and also the Knights
of Pythias, while politically he was always
a stanch advocate of Republican principles.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and was liberal in his support of all
charitable movements. His wife was former-
ly Agnes Neven, a native of Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, and a daughter of William Neven,
a large landed proprietor of Scotland, who was
an extensive traveler both in the United States
and Australia, it being in Melbourne of the lat-
ter country that Mr. Cline met and married the
daughter. She .is now making her home in
Los Angeles. They became the parents of the
following children : John C, of this review ;
William H., George T. and Casper W., all
three merchants of Los Angeles.
John C. Cline was born in Ballarat, Austra-
lia. May 2, i860, and shortly afterward was
brought to America by his parents, who again
located at their old home in Frederick, Md.
From that place he accompanied them to the
middle west, passed a brief time there, and then
in 1869 came to Los Angeles, Cal. where he
has ever since remained. He received a pre-
liminary education through the medium of the
public schools, and after graduating from the
high school completed a course at La Fetras
Business College. His first work was on a
railroad survey corps under Chalmer Scott for
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company be-
tween Yuma and Port Ysabel, Mexico, and up-
on his return from this trip he was appointed
deputy by city surveyor Hansen. Later he
served as deputy county assessor, and in 1883
was elected township constable, and at the
close of this term was appointed deputy sher-
iff under Sheriff Kays, a position which he held
for six years. In 1892 he was elected sheriff
of Los Angeles county by a large majority and
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against the concentrated Democratic forces.
This office he held from January. 1893, to Jan-
uary. 1895, discharging the duties devolving
upon him with credit to himself and to his
constituents.
Having always ^cen identified with the Re-
publican party from the time when Republicans
were in a hopeless minority. Mr. Cline was the
original McKinley organizer in the state, be-
ginning his work in the Sixth and Seventh
congressional districts a year and a half before
the general campaign was begun. In 1896 he
was sent as a delegate to the state convention,
where he did effective work for the party's in-
terests. In 1899 he received the appointment
9f collector of customs for the district of Los
Angeles, which contains three ports of entry.
Port Los Angeles, San Pedro and Santa Bar-
bara, which means a large and important bus-
iness to look after. The thorough knowledge
of the territory embraced in the district as well
as the excellent business training which Mr.
Cline was able to bring to bear in his new oc-
cupation proved of invaluable service to him
and gave him the success in this line which
had attended all his other efforts. His re-ap-
pointment four years later by President Roose-
velt was heartily endorsed by both business
and political men of Southern California, who
had come to appreciate highly the ability of
Mr. Cline, and his thoroughness and painstak-
ing care demonstrated in his business. At the
close of his second term Mr. Cline retired from
the office.
Mr. Cline has always been much interested
in the growth and development of Los Angeles,
and has aided materially in its upbuilding. He
owns valuable property here, which he has
improved. In this city. October 12, 1885, he
married Miss Margaret Terry, a native of La-
fayette. Ind., and they are the parents of two
children. J. Banning and Harry W. Mrs.
• line is a daughter of George and Louisa
(Stout) Terry, the father a descendant of the
Terry and Mills families of New Orleans, La.,
who later became early settlers of Indiana.
Terry's grandfather had a factory run
1 power for the manufacture of large
'■grandfather" cabinet clocks, made with wood-
en wheels, of which he was the inventor and
the first builder in this country. The Stout
family were originally from New Jersey, and
they too became early settlers in Indiana.
In the midst of his busy career Mr. Cline
has still found time to ally himself with frater-
nal organizations, being a member of Los An-
geles Lodge No. 42, F. & A. M., Los Angeles
Consistory, and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O.
N. M. S. It was Mr. Cline who added to the
success of the annual Fiesta by his organiza-
tion of the first club of Cabaleros, which is now
a feature of the parade each year. At the time
of President McKinley's visit to Los Angeles
in 1901 he acted as grand marshal of the Fiesta
parade, was grand marshal of the Free Harbor
Jubilee, and also of the Fiesta parade at the
time of President Roosevelt's visit in 1903.
He was a leader in the organization known as
"Teddy's Terrors," a political club, and remains
an active member of the same, while he is oth-
erwise active in political movements. He is a
citizen who justly merits the high esteem in
which he is held, whose personal efforts have
always been for the upbuilding of the place,
and whose public and private life have con-
tributed to the best in American citizenship.
JUAN B. BANDINI, second son of Don
Juan, was born at San Diego in 1833. While
yet a lad he was for several years in the service
of the American Merchant Marine. At the age
of sixteen he came to Los Angeles, entering the
office of his brother-in-law, Don Abel Stearns,
as clerk. Later he became manager of his fath-
er's property in Lower California. During the
Civil war Mr. Bandini was a soldier of the
Union. He was lieutenant of Company B, First
California Cavalry, serving in his own state and
in Arizona for eighteen months, when he was
honorably discharged. After his sister Arcadia,
Mrs. Baker, became for a second time a widow
he took charge of her large interests at Santa
Monica, where he lived until his death, which
occurred in August, 1905.
Mr. Bandini was twice married. His first
wife was Esperanza, daughter of Jose Diego
Sepulveda, a prominent and wealthy member of
a family renowned for its great possessions. The
children from this marriage were two daughters,
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who became noted belles of Los Angeles. Ar-
cadia, the elder, married John T. Gaffey of Los
Angeles. Dolores, the younger sister, by her
marriage with Russel Ward, entered a prominent
English family, the Wards of London, which
have produced many persons of note in artistic
and literary circles. Mrs. Ward is now a widow
with two children. Her only son, Cecil Mon-
tague, entered the English navy while quite a lad,
and at the writing of this sketch is sub-lieutenant
on the flag ship Triumph of the Channel fleet.
Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Gaffey each possess a com-
fortable inheritance from the wide acres of their
mother's family. They are gracious, accom-
plished women, loved and honored by all who
know them. Some time after the death of his
first wife Mr. Bandini married Miss Caroline
Moreno of San Diego. She died in 1874.
Juan B. Bandini was a valued member of the
society of Elks ; he was a man of charming man-
ners, deeply beloved by a wide circle of friends.
WILLIAM HAYES PERRY. The busy
years of an eventful career found their
fulfillment in the life of one of Los Angeles'
old pioneers — William Hayes Perry, whose in-
herited traits of character led him not only to
seek his fortunes among the less tried oppor-
tunities of a new country, but to establish a
home and surround it with all the refining and
uplifting influences which accompany prog-
ress and development. His parents were pio-
neer settlers of Ohio, where they endured the
privations and hardships incident to life in a
new country, establishing a home and giving
of the best of their efforts in the development
of the commonwealth. Their son, William
Hayes Perry, born in Newark, Ohio, October
17, 1832, was reared among the primitive sur-
roundings of a pioneer home, in the midst of
whose duties he attended the rude school in
pursuit of whatever education it was possible
for him to procure. Following the custom of
the early days he became an apprentice in
youth and learned the trade of cabinet-maker,
which occupation was interrupted by the ac-
complishment of his desire to try his fortunes
in the land but shortly before made famous by
the discovery of gold. In 1853, immediately
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following his majority, he joined a party of
about fifty men and women made up at Coun-
cil Bluffs, Iowa, and with them began the us-
ual perilous journey whose destination was,
"the land of sunshine and flowers." The party
had with them a large band of cattle, sheep
and horses (Colonel Hollister, of Santa Bar-
bara, bringing back with him to the coast a
large number of stock), and this presented
quite a temptation to the Indians, who con-
stantly attacked them. Not until February,
1854, did the party finally reach Los Angeles.
The first employment of Mr. Perry in the
then small city of Los Angeles was at his
trade of cabinet-maker and in this work he
managed to accumulate some means. After
one year occupied thus he opened the first fur-
niture store and factory of the town, in part-
nership with an acquaintance, the firm name
being Perry & Brady. Enterprise and ability
were the only requisites of the business, as
there was no competition demanding a display
of capital. The firm grew in importance, and
after the death of Mr. Brady in 1858 the late
Wallace Woodworth purchased an interest in
the business, which was then known under
the name of Perry & Woodworth ; in 1864 S.
H. Mott purchased an interest in the business
and they were henceforth known as Perry,
Woodworth & Co. The original business of
the firm was the manufacture and sale of
furniture, but other interests later became a
part of the organization. In 1865 Mr. Perry,
through Captain Clark, applied for a franchise
to furnish gas for the city, and combining
with others built the works and began the
manufacture. In 1873 the firm of Perry,
Woodworth & Co. changed from the manu-
facture of furniture and the cabinet business
to dealing in lumber, mouldings, doors, sash,
blinds, builders* hardware and finishing sup-
plies of all kinds. With the growth of the
city and the demands upon their business, the
plant was enlarged and constantly improved
with all modern devices in machinery and gen-
eral equipment. Their plant was located on
Commercial street, extending through to Re-
quena street, where they built a branch
of the Southern Pacific Railroad for the ac-
commodation of their interests. This plant
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was put up in 1899, the original building- hav-
11 destroyed by fire. The death of Mr.
\\ hvorth occurred in 1883, after which the
business was incorporated as the W. II. Perry
Lumber & Mill Company, and this today is
one of the strongest firms of its kind on the
Pacific coast. They own timber lands in va-
rious places along the coast, logging camps,
sawmills, vessels, wharves, spur tracks to the
railroads, and handle the lumber from the tree
to the structure into which the finished product
goes. This has brought to the company prof-
its undivided by successful competition, and
has also proved a wonderful power in the work
of development of the Pacific coast country.
Mong this same line of business Mr. Perry or-
ganized the Los Angeles and Humboldt Lum-
ber Company, of San Pedro, with the object of
sending lumber to all points in Arizona ; and
also the Pioneer Lumber and Mill Company,
of Colton, near this city, to supply the coun-
try adjacent to that point. The Los Angeles
Storage Cement and Lumber Company, which
supplies to builders of Los Angeles lime, plas-
ter, fire-brick, cement, hair and other materials
used on buildings, is another corporation in
whose organization he was the most prominent
factor and the controlling element.
Mr. Perry's identification with the business
enterprises of Los Angeles was such in
the past years that scarcely an improvement
or mark of development missed the mas-
terful touch of his hand. In 1868 the waters
of the Los Angeles river had been leased to a
company with the privilege of laying pipes in
the streets of the city and supplying water to
the citizens. The company did not meet with
the success it had anticipated and after eleven
years had not succeeded in establishing a
sound financial basis. At that time (1879),
Mr. Perry was elected president and general
ger of the company, and continued to
act in that capacity until the sale was made
to the city. Seeing that the supply would
not equal the demand he purchased
three other small companies, becoming presi-
dent and manager of them as well. Under
his able supervision the stockholders retired
from the water company very rich men.
Mr. Terry was, perhaps, associated as presi-
dent and director of more companies than any
other one man of Los Angeles, his many busi-
ness interests constantly calling upon him for
the benefit of his experience. In banking cir-
cles he was eminently prominent in South-
ern California, serving as a director in the
Farmers' & Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles,
with which institution he became connected
at an early date in its history, contributing
materially to its substantial growth and pros-
perity. He was a stockholder in the Ameri-
can National Bank of this city, and likewise
identified with the Nevada Bank and the Union
Trust Company, of San Francisco. Besides
being president of the W. H. Perry Lumber
& .Mill Company, he was president of the Pio-
neer Lumber & Mill Company: president and
director of the Southern California Pipe &
Clay Company ; while he formerly served as
president of the Cosmopolis Mill & Trading
Company, of Grays Harbor, Wash. He was a
stockholder in the Charles Nelson Shipping
Company, of San Francisco, which has large
timber, mill and railroad interests in. Hum-
boldt county ; in the Vallejo & Napa Elec-
tric Railroad ; the Gas Consumers' Associa-
tion and the National Electric Company, both
of San Francisco; the Bard Oil & Asphalt
Company ; the Olinda Crude Oil Company ;
the Western Union Oil Company, of Santa
Barbara ; and was formerly in the Reed Oil
Company, of Kern county. He was one of
the original stockholders in the Home Tele-
phone Company, of Los Angeles. Although
so constantly occupied every enterprise with
which he was connected has profited largely
by his unusual business ability and wide ex-
perience. He was largely interested in real es-
tate in Los Angeles, his faith in the permanent
prosperity and growth of this city being un-
bounded and surely justified in the light of his
career.
The home life of Mr. Perry was not the least
of a successful career, for it is one thing to
found a fortune and another to establish a
home and rear a family that shall add honor to
the name. In 1858 he was united in marriage
with Miss Elizabeth M. Dalton, the daugh-
ter of a pioneer of Los Angeles, and herself
one of the courageous, self-sacrificing women
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who faced the hardships of the frontier life.
Side by side they walked together when the
road was rough, youth, courage and confi-
dence promising them something that the
future held for them. After a happy married
life of nearly a half century the bond was brok-
en by the death of Mr. Perry October 30, 1906.
Six children blessed their union, of whom one
son and two daughters are living: Charles
Frederick is located in Washington and is en-
gaged in the lumber business ; Mary Barker be-
came the wife of C. M. Wood ; and Florence,
the wife of E. P. Johnson, Jr., both being resi-
dents of Los Angeles, and with their mother
are prominent in the select social circles of
the city. The eldest daughter, Mrs. Wood,
is one of the most accomplished musicians
of Los Angeles, having received her educa-
tion in Milan, under the tuition of Anton
Sangiovanni, one of the most noted instruc-
tors of that city. She made her debut in
Milan and during her engagement there made
a favorable impression on the musical world.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry had nine grandchildren
in whose lives their own youth was renewed.
Mrs. Wood's children are named in order of
birth as follows: Elizabeth Marie, Florence
Perry, William Perry and Mona Chapman ;
those of Mrs. Johnson, Katherine, Robert,
Margaret, Eleanor and Edward P.
The characteristic traits of Mr. Perry which
helped bring about his financial success
also made their impress upon his personality.
By inheritance he was endowed with many of
the qualities which make a successful fron-
tiersman — personal fearlessness, a cheerful
optimism in the face of reverses, a spirit of
conscious ability and perseverance — and these
have proven potent factors in his career. In
the early days of the state he was foremost
among the citizens in preserving good gov-
ernment and peace, it being necessary to
guard the families from the lawless Mexican
element. Many times he had occasion to wish
himself out of the country, but with the per-
sistence characteristic of his entire career he
remained a helpful element in the troublous
times and with the passing years mounted
to a position of prosperity in a manner well
worthy of emulation bv the Younger genera-
tion. He had taken time to ally himself with
the Masonic organization, being a member of
the blue lodge, chapter and commandery, and
was a Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Ma-
son. When he arrived in Los Angeles, now
a little more than a half century since, he was
penniless, friendless and alone. The journey
had been a hardship, having worn out his
shoes by constant walking and his only clothes
were in rags, and he was thus left without
sufficient clothing in which to make applica-
tion for work : he therefore sought the only
way open to him by going to a clothier and
asking him for a suit of clothes on credit. He
was trusted, and he let that lesson sink deep
into his life, giving to others the faith that
was given to him, and extending a helping
hand to many who would have sunk to utter
failure and insignificance but for the help
which he gave at the time most needed. The
position given Mr. Perry was not his alone as
a man of business ability, but as a liberal and
loyal citizen, an honorable man and a stanch
friend. His death October 30. 1906, removed
one of California's great and honored pioneers.
JOHN M. CARS* IN. So closely associated in
the historv of Southern California are the names
of Carson and Dominguez, that to mention one
is to call the other vividly to mind. The latter
carries one back to the period when Los Angeles
county was divided into a few great ranches, the
proprietors of which were much like the patri-
archs of old, — at the head of almost an army of
servants — a necessity in caring for the vast flocks
and herds, which were driven long distances at
certain seasons of the year for water and pastur-
age. Those days of long ago furnished Cali-
fornia with a romance especially her own. fitting
reminders of which are seen in the fine, though
now crumbling missions. As early as 1795 there
were five ranchos in private possession, held un-
der provisional grants, and among these the third
in size and importance was the famous San Pedro
or Dominguez rancho, occupied by Juan Jose
Dominguez with about one thousand head of cat-
tle, under permission given by Governor Fages.
After the death of the original occupant the
rancho, which comprised ten and one-half leagues
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of land, was granted by Governor Pablo de Sola,
December 31, 1822, to Sergeant Cristobal Dom-
inguez, a- nephew ami heir of Juan Jose. The
of Don Cristobal three years later brought
another change in ownership, the estate then fall-
ing to bis son Manuel, then a young man of about
twenty-two years of age. Of excellent repute
and a man of large influence, it was only natural
that lie should figure prominently in the public
life of the period, one of the most stirring and
tragic epochs in the history of the state, during
which time Spanish rule gave place to Mexican
dominance.
In 1828 Manuel Dominguez was elected and
served as a member of the "Illustrious Ayunta-
miento of the city of Los Angeles." and the fol-
lowing year was elected a delegate to nominate
the representative to the Mexican congress. In
1832 he was made first alcalde and judge of the
first instance for the city of Los Angeles; in
[833-34 was elected territorial representative for
I .. 1- Angeles county, in the latter year being called
to a conference at Monterey. During 1839 he
was elected second alcalde of the city of Los
Angeles, and in May of 1843 be was elected
prefect of the second district of California. It
was during the same year that two military com-
panies were formed for the defense of the county
and of one of these he was made captain, but
upon the suppression of the office the year follow-
ing he returned to private life. He was not long
permitted to enjoy this privilege, however, for
in 184c; he was elected a delegate to the first con-
stitutional convention which assembled at Mon-
nd winch formulated the first constitution
ilifornia. In [852 he was elected super-
visor of the county, in this as in all previous posi-
tions acquitting himself nobly and retiring there-
after to private life, followed b) the love and
respect of the many who had been brought in
daily contact with him during his public career.
Many positions of importance were offered and
even pressed upon him, hut he steadily refused
their acceptance, as his private affairs by this
time had assumed such proportions as to require
his whole attention. In 1855 the San Pedro
rancho was portioned between himself, his broth-
er Don Pedro, and his nephews, Jose Antonio
Aguirre and Jacinto Roeha, his own portion com-
prising tw< m five thousand acres, which included
Rattlesnake Island in San Pedro bay. On this
property be made his home the remainder of his
life, which came to a close October 11, 1882, at
the age of seventy-nine years. For a number of
years prior to bis death he was almost blind, but
instead of casting a gloom over his life the mis-
fortune seemed rather to bring out more distinct-
iv the fine and noble qualities of his nature. Well
educated, intelligent and widely read, he was a
man of unimpeachable character, and was a fine
type of the old Spanish gentleman, and at the
same time a true-hearted American citizen. In
1827 he married Maria Alta Gracia Cota, a
daughter of Don Guillermo Cota, who served as
a commissioner under the Mexican government.
His death in 1882 broke a relationship which had
existed for fifty-five years, and as they bad been
united in their aims and ambitions in life, they
were not 'long separated in death, her demise oc-
curring the following year, March 16. Of the
ten children who blessed their marriage, six
daughters were living at the time of the mother's
death, and among them the large parental estate
was divided, Victoria Dominguez, among the
others, receiving four thousand acres of the old
San Pedro rancho.
The union of the Dominguez and Carson fam-
ilies dates back to July 30, 1857, when Miss
Victoria Dominguez became the wife of George
Carson, the representative of an old eastern fam-
ily, but a resident of California for over half a
century. Born in Jordan, X. Y., March 3. 1832,
he was a son of John and Sophia (Cady) Carson,
both also natives of the Empire state. When
George Carson was a lad of twelve years, in 1844,
the family removed to the middle west, settling in
St. Charles. 111. During the war between Mexico
and the United States he enlisted in Colonel New-
berry's regiment, serving until the close of the
conflict and receiving bis discharge at Santa Fe.
X. Mex. Thereafter he remained in both Xew and
Old Mexico for a number of years, coming to
Los Angeles in the year 1853. In partnership
with a Mr. Sanford he established a hardware
business on Commercial street in this city which
was a credit alike to the proprietors and Los An-
geles, hut at the end of nine years the partnership
was dissolved. Mr. Carson thereafter giving his
attention to the management of the large estate
to which his wife bad fallen heir. Continuing the
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
537
policy which had prevailed for so many decades,
he, too, became an extensive stock raiser, giving
the ranch his entire personal attention through-
out the remainder of his life, which came to a
close there November 20, 1901. Fraternally he
was a Mason. His widow is still living and
makes her home on the estate which has been
handed down from her forefathers from one
generation to another. A plan has been proposed
to restore the old adobe house formerly the home
of Manuel Dominguez to its old-time splendor.
In order to preserve the lineaments the whole
structure is lined with brick and concrete, making
it even more substantial than when originally
bui't, and it is the intention of the heirs to leave
this as a home for coming generations.
Born of the marriage of George Carson and
Victoria Dominguez are ten living children, of
whom John M., the subject of this sketch, is the
oldest son, his birth occurring in the family home
in Los Angeles at the corner of Second and Main
streets, April 12, 1862. After attending the pub-
lic schools of this city he took a course in Santa
Clara College, acquitting himself with honors.
When his school and college days were over he
returned home and assisted his father in the care
and management of the ranch, later running a
part of the ranch on his own account. The death
of his father, however, placed the entire ranch
under his care, a responsibility which his previous
years of training had well qualified him to as-
sume. Of later years the Pacific Electric Rail-
way has been constructed from Los Angeles to
Long Beach, passing the San Pedro rancho. A
station on the line of the road at this place has
received the name of Carson in honor of the
present occupant and his father.
John M. Carson was married in San Francisco
November 24, 1891, with Miss Kate Smythe, a
native of that city, where the family had been
represented for many generations. Four children
have been born to Mr. Carson and his wife, John
Victor, George Earl, Valerie S. and Gladys G.
Mr. Carson is affiliated with a number of frater-
nal societies, among them the Knights of the
Maccabees and the Royal Arcanum, besides which
he is a prominent member and worker in the
Chamber of Commerce of this city. Pride of
family has ever been a marked characteristic of
the Dominguez blood wherever found, and is
being nobly sustained in the present generation
by John M. Carson, who now has charge of the
ancestral ranch.
WILLIAM H. WORKMAN. The family
represented by William H. Workman boasts
an ancestry which has given to its descendants
sturdy qualities of manhood and insured the
success of their careers. The paternal grand-
father, Thomas Workman, was a native of
England and a prominent yeoman of West-
moreland county ; the maternal grandfather,
John Hook, inheriting from German ancestry
a strong character, was born in Fincastle, Va.,
and served under General Washington in the
Revolutionary war. His wife was Elizabeth
Cook, a relative of the distinguished traveler
of that name. As early as 1819 the Hook
family located in Missouri, which was then
the frontier, where the Indians preyed upon
the settlers and constantly threatened their
lives and property. It required courage to
face these dangers and ability to establish a
home in the midst of the wilderness. David
Workman, the father of William H, married
Nancy Hook, and born of this union were three
sons, of whom the eldest, Thomas H., was
killed by the explosion of the steamer Ada
Hancock, in Wilmington Harbor, April 27,
1863. The second son, Elijah H, settled at
Boyle Heights; while the third, William H.,
is the subject of this review.
He was born in New Franklin, Howard
county, Mo., in 1839, and accompanied his
parents to California, the family crossing the
plains with ox-teams in 1854, taking six
months to make the trip. This was the third
trip of the father, who had just returned east
to bring his wife and children to the Pacific
coast. He came first in 1849 to seek his for-
tunes in the mines ; returned home, then in
1852 came back to the state and again in 1854.
His brother William came as a trapper from
Santa Fe with John Rowland, and while on a
visit to this brother he conceived the idea
from him to bring his sons to this state and
enable them to start in life and make a home
in California, and make "men of his boys,"
this suggestion coming from his brother
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
Their first location upon their arrival in the
state was in Los Angeles, making the trip
through the mining section of Northern Cali-
fornia, whence they came by boat to this city.
Previous to his location in the west William
11. Workman had attended the public schools
in Boonville. Mo., where he obtained an ele-
mentary education, after which he pursued a
course at F. T. Kemper's Collegiate Institute,
and later learned the printer's trade with the
Boonville Observer. Following his settlement
in Los Angeles he followed this trade in the
office of the Southern Califoniian, which was
published by Butts & Wheeler, on the corner
of Court and Spring streets, in a corrugated
iron building brought from England by Hen-
ry Dalton, the owner of the Azusa ranch.
Later he worked in the office of the Los An-
geles Star, located on Spring street opposite
the Temple block. After a brief time spent
in this position he clerked for a time, then
accepted the offer of employment to carry
messages on horseback between Los Angeles
and San Bernardino for the Banning Trans-
portation Company. These were the early
days of the state and the very beginning of a
civilization which should one day place Cali-
fornia on a par with all other states of the
Union; but at that time the country was
sparsely settled, hardships were the lot of the
many and only the far-sighted pioneer could
look to a future beyond his primitive surround-
ings. In the early years of his manhood Mr.
Workman engaged with his brother, Elijah
11.. in the establishment and management of
a harness and saddlery business, and from a
modest beginning this grew into a lucrative
and important enterprise which continued suc-
cessfully for twenty-one years.
In the meantime, in 1867, Mr. Workman
married Miss .Maria E. Boyle, the only child
of Andrew Boyle, the first settler of Boyle
Heights. His old brick house, built in 1858,
still standing as a historical landmark of the
East side, is being preserved by Mr. Work-
man. Although at this time he was identified
with rerd estate transactions in Los Angeles
his interests naturally became centered in
Boyle Heights, ami through his efforts was
■1 much of tin- improvement of this sec-
tion of the city. To induce settlement Mr.
Workman built a carline (the second line in
the city) on Aliso street and Pleasant avenue;
in 1886 he built the First street line and after-
wards was instrumental in building one on
Fourth street, extending through Boyle
Heights and then on Cummings, and though
at first it was operated by mule-teams once
every hour it afforded ample transportation.
A later enterprise required an expenditure of
$30,000 as a bonus on the part of Mr. Work-
man to assist the traction company to connect
Los Angeles with the south side of Boyle
Heights through on Fourth street, he having
to secure the right of way, which with the
cutting down of the street took two years.
In numerous other ways he also sought to
improve the locality, in conjunction with Mrs.
Hollenbcck, Mr. Workman donating two-
thirds of the land for that which is now known
as Hollenbeck Park, the two later giving it
to the city.
With the passing years Mr. Workman had
also assumed a place of importance in the
public affairs of Los Angeles and was called
upon to fill many offices of trust and respon-
sibility. As a Democrat in his political affili-
ations he occupied a prominent place in the
councils of his party, and in 1873 was nomi-
nated for the legislature. Being anti-monoply
he was defeated in the election that followed.
As a member of the city council for several
terms he was instrumental in bringing about
needed reforms, and in 1887 and 1888 served
acceptably as mayor of the city, giving an
earnest and conscientious fulfillment of duty
which won for him the commendation of all
parties. This being in the year of the great
boom when property ran to such incalculable
heights in value, Mr. Workman's strict ad-
herence to his official duties and the conse-
quent neglect of his personal interests is all
the more commendable. In 1900 he was elect-
ed city treasurer by a majority of one hun-
dred and thirty votes and again proved his
efficiency in official position ; two years later
he was enthusiastically re-elected by a major-
ity of three thousand votes, and upon the ex-
piration of his term was elected a third time
by twenty-three hundred majority. This be-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
539
ing the year of the Republican landslide shows
more fully the esteem in which he is held by
the citizens of Los Angeles. During his term
of service the grand jury took up the matter
of keeping money in various banks of the city,
the city not owning a vault. This being
against the law Mr. Workman had to provide
for the occasion and he did so by hiring
guards and a vault for the protection of the
money. Although this movement withdrew
from circulation over $2,500,000 it proved no
detriment to business interests. Mr. Work-
man was one of the stanch advocates of the
scheme for bonding the city for $2,000,000 in
order to secure funds for the purchase of a
water plant, and with the city attorney, W.
B. Mathews, went east to float the bonds, but
on account of the low rate of interest — three
and three-fourths per cent — encountered many
difficulties in disposing of them. They final-
ly succeeded, however, in New York City,
and this movement proved very advantageous
in the growth and development of Los An-
geles. After retiring from the office of city
treasurer he assisted in organizing the Ameri-
can Savings Bank, of which he is now presi-
dent. As a charter member and first vice-
president of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce Mr. Workman has always main-
tained a prominent place in the advancement
of this organization. Fraternally he is a
Mason, having been made a member in 1861
and holds membership in the Los Angeles
Lodge and Chapter.
Mr. Workman has been versatile in his tal-
ents and accomplishments. He has made his
own way since the early years of boyhood
and has won his way step by step to a position
of honor among the representative citizens of
Southern California. He has established a
home and reared a family of children of whom
any parent might well be proud. His chil-
dren, three sons and four daughters, Boyle,
Mary, Elizabeth. William H., Jr., Charlotte,
Gertrude and Thomas E., appreciate fully their
father's standing as a prominent citizen of
their native city. The family home at No.
357 South Boyle avenue is in the center of a
well-kept lawn, spacious grounds, and there
their friends are always welcome and the
stranger given the warm hand of fellowship.
Mrs. Workman presides over the home with
a quiet dignity and has reared their children
to ways of usefulness.
Mr. Workman is a pioneer and is justly
proud of his connection with the Pioneer As-
sociation of Los Angeles County and the His-
torical Society of Southern California, the
former of which he was instrumental in or-
ganizing. He has served as its president three
terms and has always taken a deep interest in
the preservation of early historical data. He
recalls the days when a vineyard occupied the
ground now a part of the railroad terminals
of the city ; in the early '70s he was a member
of the board of education and assisted in hav-
ing the first high school building erected in
the city, where the present courthouse stands,
since which time he has taken a never failing
interest in the advancement of educational
standards. He has contributed liberally to-
ward all movements calculated for the growth
of the city, having given lots for the building
of five different churches regardless of de-
nomination, and supports all charitable enter-
prises with equal liberality. To young and
old he is "Uncle Billy." To celebrate his
fiftieth anniversary as a citizen of Los Angeles
he banqueted five hundred pioneers and served
them with a Mexican menu from which to se-
lect their favorite dish, in memory of the early
customs of Southern California. The event
marked an epoch in the history oi our beau-
tiful southern city. Mr. Workman has truly
won a place of exceptional prominence in the
citizenship of Los Angeles, where he has been
actively associated in business for many years.
It has been said of him by those who know
him best that he is generous to a fault, pos-
sesses the confidence of the people, and no
man in Los Angeles stands higher in the es-
timation of the representative men. He has
not been entirely free from reverses, but at
the same time has ably managed his affairs
and these entrusted to him : conscientiously
discharged the duties of the offices to which
he has been elected, often to the detriment of
his personal affairs. In the evening of his
days he can look back upon a life well spent
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
and forward without fear to whatever future
awaits him, for he has lived in all conscience
for and toward the right.
CHARLES SUMNER GREENE. A leader
in his kind of work, Charles Sumner Greene,
the Pasadena architect, was born October 12,
1868, in Cincinnati. Ohio. His father, T. Sum-
ner Greene, M. D.. also a native of that city,
was descended from the same stock as Gen.
Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. His
mother, Lelia A. Greene, nee Mather, is de-
scended from Rev. Cotton .Mather. Dr. Greene
served four years in the Civil war. He entered
as a private, but reached the rank of captain
before the close of the war. It was in the South
after the war that he met and married Miss
Mather, who was at the time visiting relatives
in Louisiana. Fourteen years after his marriage
he commenced the study of medicine and after
completing his college course he began to prac-
tice in Cincinnati. Later he moved to St. Louis,
Mo., where after a few years he succeeded very
well in his profession.
It was here that Charles Sumner Greene re-
ceived his primary education in the public schools
and afterwards took the course at the manual
training school of Washington University. In
1889 he was sent to Boston to enter the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. After finish-
ing his course there he began work with a Boston
firm of architects. He remained in that city
several years and was connected with a number
of noted men of the profession, among them H.
Langford Warren, R. Oipston Sturgis, and
Winslow ami Wetherell.
In 1891 Dr. Greene came to California for
the benefit of his wife's health, and two years
later he induced his two sons, Charles Sumner
ami Henry Mather Greene, to settle here. In
1893, in partnership with his brother, Mr. Greene
1 a modest little office in Pasadena and
began to practice his profession. For the fol-
lowing -even years he found but little encourage-
ment. Year after year he battled and lost, but
canu- off the richer in experience and still true
to hi. ideals. In 1001 the office was moved to
Los Angeles, but he still continued to be called
the Pasadena architect. In February of this
same year he was married to Miss Alice Gordon
White, of Pasadena, formerly of England. One
month later they set sail for London, where Mr.
Greene spent some time in studying the later
art movements. Before returning home he vis-
ited France and Italy.
A new inspiration, gathered from the broaden-
ing influences of travel, was at once felt and
soon brought success. The sympathy he so long
sought began at last to make it possible to realize
some measure of his ideal in house building for
the home. It is this great vital theme that con-
cerns the welfare and happiness of the nation.
To him it is the one great interest. In his own
words this is how he explains his attitude to
man and art:
"I am an American. I want to know the
American people of today and the things of
today. It is my earnest endeavor to understand
the lives of men and women ; then perhaps I may
be able to express their needs architecturally. I
seek till I find what is truly useful and then L
try to make it beautiful. I believe that this can
not be done by copying old works, no matter how
beautiful they may seem to us now. When con-
fronted with the actual facts I have not found
the man or woman who would choose to live in
the architectural junk of ages gone. The Romans
made Rome and the Americans — well ! — they are
making America. Who could live in a house
of two hundred years ago and be happy if we
had to conform to all the conditions of today?
How in the name of reason, then, can we copy
things two thousand years old? Is the Paris
opera house built onto the front of a railway
station or a Greek temple plastered over the en-
trance to an office building good art? One is
apt to seize the fact for the principle today and
ignore the very lesson time should teach. The
old things are good, they are noble in their
place ; then let our perverted fingers leave them
there.
"Let us begin all over again. We have got
to have bricks and stone and wood and plaster;
common, homely, cheap materials, every one of
them. Leave them as they are — stone for stone,
brick for brick, wood for wood, plaster for plas-
ter. Why are they not better so? Why disguise
them? Thought anil care are all that we need,
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543
for skill we have. The noblest work of art is to
make these common things beautiful for man."
In 1901 Mr. Greene built his own house on
Arroyo Terrace, where one may get one of the
finest views in Pasadena. Subsequently he de-
signed most of the houses in that locality, which
has been called "Little Switzerland," with, how-
ever, more readiness than propriety. And
whether it is for sight of the village or the view
it is certain that no appreciative tourist consid-
ers his itinerary complete without this little cir-
cuit.
Mr. Greene's influence on the domestic archi-
tecture of Southern California is plainly to be
seen and to those who may appreciate his work
it appeals mainly through its frank simplicity
and its great originality.
HERMAN W. HELLMAN. The enter-
prises sustained by the financial aid and un-
erring business ability of Herman W. Hell-
man have given to Los Angeles within the
past few years a decided impetus toward a
phenomenal growth and development. For-
tunately a wise conservatism has held in check
any movement which might have tended to
inflate values, attract the speculator, and thus
produce a condition disastrous to permanent
development, Mr. Hellman's long association
with the banking institutions of this city prov-
ing his peculiar fitness as a leader in financial
circles. A resume of the life of this substan-
tial pioneer is one which cannot fail to inter-
est those who have witnessed his rapid rise in
the business world, his subjugation of obsta-
cles in his path, and the position of esteem
and respect which he has won among the citi-
zens of the city.
Born September 25, 1843, in Bavaria, Ger-
many, he was the son of natives of that coun-
try, by whom he was reared to the age of
fifteen years, receiving a practical training in
the common branches of study and also the
foundation for the principles which have dis-
tinguished his business career. At the age of
fifteen years he decided to try his fortunes
away from the shelter of the paternal roof,
and accordingly took passage on a vessel
bound for California. The city of Los An-
geles and its vicinity attracted him first and
practically continuous has been his residence
since. From the time of his location in the
city he was interested in commercial affairs,
accepting, in June, 1859, a position as freight
clerk in the forwarding and commission busi-
ness at Wilmington, conducted by Gen. Phi-
neas Banning. He held the position until ac-
quiring some means, when he resigned and
returning to Los Angeles he connected him-
self with the stationery business in partner-
ship with a cousin. After conducting a suc-
cessful enterprise for several years Mr. Hell-
man withdrew to take up the work on his
own responsibility, also dealing in fancy
goods, for which he found a constantly in-
creasing market. Having been absent from
his native land for nearly eleven years, he dis-
posed of his business interests in March, 1870,
and spent the following year in Germany and
other countries of Europe, enjoying the asso-
ciations of his boyhood years. Returning to
Los Angeles in November. 1871, he entered
into partnership with Jacob Haas, a former
schoolmate of his, and established a wholesale
grocery business under the firm name of Hell-
man, Haas & Co., and for the ensuing nine-
teen years catered to an extensive trade
throughout Southern California, Arizona, New
Mexico, and Texas, the strong, forceful man-
agement of the men who had proven their
ability adding materially to the commercial
supremacy of this section of the state. In the
meantime Mr. Hellman had become associ-
ated with various enterprises in Los Angeles,
an important movement being the purchase of
stock in the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank. In
1890 he retired from the firm of Hellman,
Haas & Co., disposing of his interest to Haas,
Barnett & Co., and became vice-president and
local manager of the Farmers' & Merchants'
Bank, since which time he has became one of
the most widely known bankers in the state of
California. Shortly after his assumption of
duties in this bank the financial panic of '93
brought disaster to many of the monetary in-
stitutions throughout the United States ; the
security with which this bank stood out among
others whose doors were closed either tempo-
rarily or permanently, and the long era of
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prosperity which has followed that crisis, are
largely due to the wise conservatism and sa-
gacious judgment of Mr. Hellman. That the
deposits have increased from $2,300,000 to
S8,ooo,ooo since his association with the bank
are an evidence of the confidence inspired by
the policy which has been elemental in the
building up of this bank. Outside of his asso-
ciation with the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank
Mr. Hellman has been intimately identified
with other financial institutions of the city,
in July, 1903, accepting the presidency of the
Merchants' National Bank, after his resigna-
tion in May, of the vice-presidency of the
former institution. At the present writing he
is acting as president, vice-president and di-
rector in twelve other banks, in this city and
Southern California, in the business of all
bringing to bear that energy and ambition
which have assured his success in whatever
enterprise he has been engaged. Mr. Hellman
has also been associated with other business
movements in Los Angeles, one of the most
important being the erection of an imposing
eight-story and attic building, fireproof and
modern in every particular, and accounted one
of the finest office buildings west of New York
City. The material used in the exterior is a
native light gray granite in the lower two
stories, and hydraulic pressed brick and terra
cotta in the upper stories; the corridors are
floored and wainscoted with white Italian mar-
ble. The finish of the ground floor is of ma-
hogany and all the office floors of quarter-
sawed white oak. The Security Savings Bank,
one of the largest institutions of its kind in the
west, and other business enterprises, occupy
the first floor, while above are well-equipped
offices, well-lighted and ventilated, and with
hot and cold water and every modern con-
venience : in the basement is one of the finest
grille rooms in Los Angeles, The Bristol.
This immense building was erected at a cost
"< 10.000. and represents one of the larg-
est individual investments of this character in
California.
The home of Mr. Hellman is presided over
by his wife, formerly Miss Ida Ileimann, with
whom he was united in marriage in Italy,
July 26. 1874. Mrs. Hellman was born in Tre-
viso, near Venice, Italy. She. is a woman of
rare culture and refinement and well endowed
by nature with those qualities which have won
for her a wide friendship and esteem. She is
the mother of two daughters, Frida, married
to L. M. Cole, of Los Angeles, and Amy, and
two sons, Marco and Irving. Mr. and Mrs.
Hellman are prominent members of the Re-
formed Jewish Congregation B'nai B'rith, Los
Angeles, of which he was president up to
1901 ; under his administration there was erect-
ed on the corner of Ninth and Hope streets
the elegant temple, one of the most beautiful
houses of worship in the city of Los Angeles.
The family are liberal supporters of all char-
itable movements, whether of the city, county
or state, and arc intensely loyal to the inter-
ests of Southern California.
Notwithstanding his engrossing business
cares Mr. Hellman has found time to associate
himself with clubs and fraternal organizations,
being a member of the California, Jonathan,
Concordia and several other clubs of the city
and county, and is prominent in Masonic cir-
cles. He became an apprentice Mason in Sep-
tember, 1869, and on March 21, 1870, passed
to the degree of Fellowcraft ; and June 14,
1870, was raised to the sublime degree of Mas-
ter Mason, in Pentalpha Lodge No. 202, of
which he is still a member. On the 10th of
July he was advanced to the honorary degree
of Mark Master; inducted and presided in
the Oriental chair as past master July 17, re-
ceived and acknowledged Most Excellent
Master August 8, and exalted to the sublime
degree of Royal Arch Mason August 14, 1883,
in Signet Chapter No. 57, of which he is still
a member. In 1906 he also took the Scottish
Rite and is now a Thirty-second degree
Mason ; and is also a Shriner, belonging to
Al Malaikah Temple.
In reviewing the life of Mr. Hellman an
impression is gained not of the opportunities
which presented themselves throughout his ca-
reer, but by the manner in which he under-
stood and grasped a situation. Practically
empty-handed he came to the Pacific slope in
boyhood, at a time when the country was law-
less, when the survival of the fittest was the
unwritten decree. when it was far easier to sink
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547
into insignificance with the multitudes than
to rise to the heights which few were success-
fully attempting. That he proved himself ca-
pable of holding his own in the beginning,
the later position which he assumed as factor
in the most important enterprises of this sec-
tion of the Pacific coast have demonstrated.
The multifold duties which are his as one of
the most prominent citizens and business men
of the city have not overburdened him, but
have rather spurred him on to stronger and
more forceful thought and effort and have
brought out all the latent ability with which
nature endowed him. His position to-day is
one acquired by the few even where oppor-
tunities have abounded as in Southern Cali-
fornia, for it requires a quick, mental vision
and an unerring decision to know and improve
the opportune time. Loyal to the country of
his adoption and the city wherein has been
passed his eventful career, Mr. Hellman is
honored as a citizen whose worth and works
have been tested.
HON. FRANK P. FLINT. The career of
the Hon. Frank P. Flint, United States sen-
ator from California, has necessarily been brief
as he is still a young man, his future, how-
ever, promising much if his past is a criterion.
Although not a native son of California all
but the first seven years of his life have been
spent in the state, where his parents, Francis
Eaton and Althea (Hewes) Flint, located in
1869. They were both descendants of old
New England families, the paternal ancestor,
Thomas Flint, having emigrated from Eng-
land in 1642 and located in Salem, Mass.,
where members of succeeding generations be-
came prominent in public affairs.
At North Reading, Middlesex county,
Mass., July 15, 1862, Frank Putnam Flint was
born, spending the first seven years of his
life in his native state, when he accompanied
his parents to their newly established home
in San Francisco. In that city he attended
the public schools and acquired a substantial
foundation for the real experiences of life,
later taking up the study of law, which he
had decided to make his life work. Interrup-
tions came from time to time in the midst of
his efforts, but nothing daunted he continued
perseveringly, taking up the work again in
1888, having previously spent two years in
Orange county, Cal., engaged in farming. In
the last-named year he located in Los An-
geles, where he entered upon a clerkship in
the United States marshal*s office. Three
years later (1891) he was admitted to the bar
and after one year's practice was appointed
assistant United States attorney under Hon.
Matthew T. Allen, with whom he formed a
partnership the following year which contin-
ued until January 1, 1895. The election at
that time of Judge Allen to the bench as a
superior judge of Los Angeles county dis-
solved the relationship, when Mr. Flint be-
came associated with Donald Barker under
the firm name of Flint & Barker, which is
to-day recognized as one of the leading law
firms of the state. They have been asso-
ciated with cases of state-wide importance,
and the ability with which they were man-
aged have brought the members of the firm
prominently before the legal fraternity of the
state. The extent of their clientele has
brought them lucrative returns.
Mr. Flint first became identified with poli-
tics as a member of the political organiza-
tion known as the Blaine Invincibles, being
then a resident of San Francisco, where, in
1884, he cast his first vote for Blaine as
president. His support has ever since been
given to the principles of the Republican
party, upon locating in Los Angeles at once
taking an active interest in political affairs of
municipality, state and nation. Combining
with unquestioned ability the art of meeting
men and issues in a frank, public-spirited
manner, with none of the aggression which
instinctively antagonizes, he has always held
a high place among the prominent men of the
Republican party, and has been chosen to
represent them at numerous local conven-
tions. He was made a member of the Re-
publican state executive committee and was
also an alternate to the national Republican
convention at St. Louis, which nominated
William McKinley for president in 1896. On
the 8th of April of the following year Presi-
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dent McKinley appointed him to the position
of United State- attorney for the southern dis-
trict of California, which office he held ac-
ceptably for four years. In response to an
urgent request of a large number of the citi-
zens of Los Angeles, Mr. Flint consented, on
the 9th of July. 1904, to become a candidate
for the position of United States senator from
California, and following covered the entire
state during the presidential campaign of that
\ear, delivering speeches in the interest of the
national Republican ticket at all of the prin-
cipal points in the state. The first joint ballot
of the legislature, January II, 1905, gave to
Mr. Flint the senatorship, and March 4, 1905,
he took the oath of office, succeeding Hon.
Thomas R. Bard. The future promises much
in the career of Senator Flint and the people
of Southern California confidently look to him
for support of measures which mean the fur-
ther development of the country which he and
they have reclaimed and made the garden spot
of earth.
The home of Mr. Flint is brightened by the
presence of his wife, formerly Katherine J.
Bloss, daughter of Henry A. Bloss. and a wo-
man of rare traits of character which have
given her a prominence in social and church
circles where she is best known. Their union,
which was solemnized February 25, 1890, in
Los Angeles, has been blessed by the birth
of two children, Katherine and William. In
addition to the many exacting duties of his
practice and his association with the political
affairs of the state, Mr. Flint is prominently
identified with tin- growth and development of
Los Vngeles and of Southern California, up-
holding it-- interests as a member of leading
clubs, fraternal societies and commercial or-
ganizations, baing vice-president and a di-
rector of the First National Hank and the
Equitable Savings Bank.
HI >N. JAMES A. GIBSON. A man who
has served with honor and credit in official posi-
tion and made for himself an enviable reputa-
tion in private law practice is lion. Janus A.
nlier of the law firm of Bicknell,
Gibson & Trask of Los Angeles. He is of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his father, Thomas
Gibson, sacrificed his life for love of his adopted
country. He enlisted in a Massachusetts regi-
ment of volunteers in the Civil war. in which
he was killed while in active service. As a young
man he had settled at St. Johns, Newfoundland,
where he clerked for an uncle, a leading mer-
chant of that city. Later he removed to Massa-
chusetts, and Boston became the native city of
the son. The mother was born in Ireland, but
in girlhood lived in Marblehead, Mass. ; she
passed away some months before the father's
death and thus the boy was left an orphan at a
very early age. He was cared for by an aunt
until old enough to earn his own living, and was
little more than a child when he accepted the
first opportunity that offered and went on a cruise
at sea. At seventeen years he secured employ-
ment in a large manufacturing establishment in
Massachusetts with a view to becoming a me-
chanical engineer, and continued at the work
until he had attained practically the management
of one of the departments. At the same time
he commenced the study of law, but had not
finished his readings when he came to San Fran-
cisco in 1874. He remained in that city only a
short time before removing to San Bernardino
and having continued his law work was admitted
to the bar in the district court of San Bernar-
dino county June 13. 1879. Later he attained
the right to practice in the superior courts and
supreme court of California, and in the federal
courts of the United States.
His first official honor was an election to the
judgeship of the superior court of his county,
having for several years conducted a private
practice that convinced his constituents that he
was thoroughly qualified to satisfactorily and
honorably acquit himself of the duties of that
important office. So well did he succeed in this
that he was soon chosen for a higher position
and on May 3, 1889, resigned from the superior
bench and received the appointment as a mem-
ber of the supreme court of California commis-
sion, retaining that position until January, 1891,
when he resigned in order to again take up his
private practice. He removed to San Diego
and became a member of the firm of Works,
Gibson & Titus and was not long in attaining
the high position among the leading attorneys of
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551
that city that his talents entitled him to. Judge
Works ultimately withdrew from the firm to
establish a partnership with his son, and the
two remaining members continued the law busi-
ness as Gibson & Titus. June i, 1897, Judge
Gibson desiring to locate in a city of larger
opportunities, dissolved his connection with the
San Diego firm and removed to Los Angeles,
where he joined Messrs. Bicknell and Trask in
the formation of what is now recognized as one
of the strongest law firms in Las Angeles — a city
boasting many attorneys of more than usual abil-
ity and prominence. He has been especially
prominent in connection with a number of im-
portant corporation cases, and the esteem in which
he is held by the legal fraternity in the state is
evidenced by his election to the office of vice-
president of the American Bar Association for
California. He has also been president of the Los
Angeles Bar Association. While filling official
position politics was necessarily held in abeyance
by Judge Gibson, yet he is a strong believer in
the principles advocated in the platform of the
Republican party. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic lodge ; and he has been con-
nected with military affairs of the state, having
held offices in the first brigade with the rank of
major. He was also for two terms a trustee of
the Southern California Hospital and is actively
interested in all matters of social and civic in-
terest to the public.
In 1882 Judge Gibson was united in marriage
with Miss Sarah A. Waterman, who died some
years later, having become the mother of two
children, James A., Jr.. and Mary W., both of
whom survived her. He was afterward mar-
ried to Miss Gertrude Van Norman, a native of
1 'hiii. two children also blessing this union,
Martha A. and Horace V.
HON. P. M. GREEX. The death of Mr.
Green March 23. 1903, closed a career of dis-
tinct usefulness which had extended over a
period of many years, the greater part of
which was associated with the origin and up-
building of one of Southern California's most
beautiful residence cities, Pasadena. His
identification with its history dates back to
the days of the Indiana Colony, or, as it was
also known, the San Gabriel Orange Grove
Association. As early as 1873 he was one of
the twenty who organized and incorporated
the company, acquiring the right of title to
over three thousand acres of land, which was
subdivided into homesteads of from fifteen to
sixty acres. In a word, this was the begin-
ning of Pasadena, and from then until his
death Mr. Green never ceased to cherish and
strengthen its interests and enterprises, many
of which he founded. The regard in which he
was held may be best illustrated perhaps by
quoting from the tribute from the officers of
the First National Bank of Los Angeles, of
which he was vice-president : "He was an
honest man. a just man, firm in his convic-
tions of right 'as God gave him to see the
right,' ami withal was possessed of a pecu-
liarly sweet temperament. He was the friend
of everybody. His sympathies were bound-
less and his charity for all mankind immeas-
urable. In his death the commonwealth loses
one of its best citizens, and the financial com-
munity a splendid exponent of business right
living, his home the exquisite tenderness of
a model husband and father, and the bank a
faithful officer and friend."
The history of the Green family can be
traced to Nathanael Greene, the Revolution-
ary patriot and general from Rhode Island,
and the friend and coadjutor of General Wash-
ington. From North Carolina, whither the fam-
ily finally drifted, they removed to Kentucky,
and it was in that state that Lot Green, the
father of P. M. Green, was born and reared.
From there he removed to the adjoining state on
the north, and in Rush county, Ind., was known
as a citizen of considerable importance, hav-
ing served his community as an educator and
as a justice of the peace. In politics he was
a Whig and in religion was a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church. His wife before
her marriage was Annie Cooper, who from
her birth until her marriage was a resident of
Kentucky, her father being a minister in a
Baptist church there. Of the eight children
born to these worthy parents only one is now
living. Mrs. A. O. Porter, of Pasadena.
Perry M. Green was born in Rush county,
Ind.. May 7. 1838. and was next to the young-
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est in the family. When he was only about
lour years old his life, was saddened by the
death of his mother, and the death of his father
three years later left him desolate indeed.
From the age of seven until he was fourteen
he was eared for by his older brothers and sis-
ter-, and then started out for himself by ac-
cepting a clerkship in a store. As the work
was not to his taste he gave it up and hired
out as a farm hand, receiving $7 a month for
his services. Subsequently, however, he re-
sumed clerking for a time, but relinquished
this to enter Richland Academy, for which
training he had been saving his earnings for
-oim time. When he was nineteen years old
he began to read law in the office of Davis &
Wright, of Shelbyville, and at the age of
twenty-one was admitted to the bar of In-
diana, thereafter engaging in practice in Shel-
byville for five years. During most of that
time he was city attorney, a position in which
he made quite a brilliant record. In 1865 he
removed to Indianapolis, where he became a
member of the firm of Campbell & Green,
manufacturers and wholesale and retail deal-
ers in drugs. This association existed until
187,}, when he disposed of his interests in In-
diana and came to California, a change which
was brought about by the ill-health of his
wife. As a member of the Indiana Colony he
was entitled to a choice of lots, and purchased
sixty acres in the southern part of Pasadena,
and there it was that he gained his first expe-
rience as a horticulturist. To one of his ver-
satile abilities and large ambition it was dif-
ficult to confine himself to one line of en-
1. and thus it was natural that from time
to time we find him adding to his responsibili-
ties and business connections. In 1885 he or-
ganized the Pasadena Hank with a capital
stoek of $50,000, and was made its president
and manager. In the following year this was
incorporated as the bust National Bank of
Pasadena, with a capital stock of $100,000.
nnection with the parent institution a
savings department was organized in 1901
under the title oi the Pasadena Savings, Trust
& Safe Deposil Company, capitalized at $50,-
000, .Mr. Green also being president of this
institution. He was a stockholder in the Los
Angeles Savings and Trust Company, and was
a director and the vice-president of the Los
Angeles National Bank.
A subject which was uppermost in the mind
of Air. Green during the early days involved a
plan which would provide adequate irrigation
facilities in order to cultivate the land to the
fullest extent. The first enterprise of the
kind organized in the locality was the Pasa-
dena Land and Water Company, of which Air.
Green was a director for over twenty-five
years. He was also one of the organizers and
a director in the first gas company established
here, as well as a director in the first street-
car company in this city. In later years he
became associated with Al. H. Sherman and
E. P. Clark in the construction of the Pasa-
dena and Los Angeles Electric Railway. Still
another interest which was very close to his
heart was the Throop Polytechnic Institute, of
which he was president, director and one of its
most liberal supporters.
From the foregoing it might be concluded
that Air. Green gave the best of himself and
the most of his time to the multitudinous in-
terests with which his name was associated,
but in reality they took a second place in his
esteem, no one being a greater lover of home
and family than Mr. Green. His marriage oc-
curred in Shelbyville, Ind., October 30, i860,
and united him with Miss Henrietta Camp-
bell, whose father, John S. Campbell, was
born in Delaware, reared in Philadelphia, and
later became a pioneer of Indiana. One daugh-
ter, Alary, blessed the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Green, and since the death of Mr. Green
the mother and daughter have continued to
reside in the old family residence in Pasadena,
which has been the scene of so many happy
gatherings. Upon the organization of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena in
1873 both Air. and Airs. Green became charter
members, and from then until 1901 he held the
office of trustee. For some time he was also
a director of the Y. M. C. A. organization of
Pasadena, greatly encouraging it by his ever-
ready aid and sympathy. From its earliest
days he was a member of the Pasadena Board
of Trade and a warm ally of all organizations
and movements for the commercial upbuild-
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ing of Southern California. A strong advo-
cate of Republican principles, it was on that
party's ticket that in 1879 ne was elected to
the state legislature as representative from Los
Angeles county. During the session of 1880
he introduced a bill for the establishment of
a state normal at Los Angeles, a measure
which did not carry at that time, although he
had the satisfaction of knowing that it was
carried during the next session. Among his
friends he numbered Frank P. Flint, member
of congress, Judge M. T. Allen. Judge Conrey,
Gen. M. H. Sherman and E. P. Clark, besides
many other men of equal note, including the
bar of Los Angeles. As the last mark of re-
spect to one of Pasadena's best-beloved citi-
zens every business house in the city was
closed during the progress of the funeral, and
his body was laid to rest in the city which he
had nurtured and tended as his own child.
-MAJOR JAMES R. TOBERMAN. No
name is better known or held in higher appre-
ciation in Southern California than that of Major
James R. Toberman, one of the most prominent
factors in the upbuilding and development of re-
sources of this portion of the state. His life
history, in view of his connection with the high-
est interests of the state, is of interest to all who
know him either personally or through the in-
fluence of his far-reaching efforts, and it is fitting
that his name should appear among the repre-
sentative citizens of Southern California, where
he has been located since the pioneer days of the
state.
Major Toberman is a native of Virginia, and
was born June 22, 1836, a son of John and Eliz-
abeth ( Campbell ) Toberman ; on both sides of
the house he is the descendant of fine ancestry —
German on the father's side and Scotch on his
mother's, the paternal grandfather having served
throughout the Revolutionary war in a Virginia
company. John Toberman was born the year
that Washington died, grew to manhood in Vir-
ginia, there married and learned the trade of
cabinet-maker, and after his removal to Missouri
in 1845 began making wagons. At the age of
fourteen years James R. Toberman left school
to assist his father in earning a livelihood for
the family, finding employment as a clerk in a
small country store ; the first year he received as
remuneration only his board and clothes and the
second year was transferred to another store on
the Missouri river where he was paid $10 a
month for his services, a part of his work there
being as clerk on the levee. He was evidently
able to display considerable business ability even
at his youthful age, because he was approached
during this time by another merchant who offered
him $25 per month for his services. He ac-
cepted this position and for two years worked in
a large wholesale house in Sibley. Resigning
at the expiration of that time he returned to his
home town — Carrollton — where a college had re-
cently been built, intending to take a course in
the institution, but after six months he changed
his plans and instead entered the county clerk's
office as assistant. During the three years he
held the position he acquired a knowledge and
experience which proved of far more benefit than
any collegiate training could have done. He then
became deputy circuit clerk, from which office
he resigned and on October 25, 1859. he started
for California, with two young men companions
taking a hack to the nearest railway station,
thence by Chicago to New York City, and there
embarking on a steamer bound for Colon ; after
crossing the isthmus they again took passage
on a steamer and subsequently arrived in San
Francisco. There Mr. Toberman remained for
a brief time, later went to Sacramento and from
that point crossed the mountains to Virginia
City, New, and there began mining when there
were only three houses built in that place. Not
successful in his efforts, however, Mr. To-
berman was forced to sell his pack animal, as he
had spent the greater part of his savings in the
heavy expenses of the trip, and following this be
engaged in prospecting over the country. Tiring
of the life, he went by foot to Sacramento, spend-
ing the nights under the stars and traveling
steadily by day toward his destination. When
he reached Hangtown be bad but $12, but he
continued his way to Sacramento, where he se-
cured a position as night cashier in the Crescent
City hotel. He remained in this employment
until the fall of i8f>o. when he went to Napa,
thence to San Francisco and finally to San Jose,
where he worked in a store at the New Almaden
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quick silver mines. In Santa Cruz he engaged
in the sawmill business and made some money,
with which, in the spring of 1863, with a friend,
he came to Southern California and thence by
ox trams went to El Paso, where his friend had
some mining claims. However, because of the
Indians, they were finally driven out of that loca-
tion and Mr. Toberman came to Los Angeles,
where he had been appointed United States rev-
enue assessor b) President Lincoln, his term of
office dating from .May 4, 1864. He served six
years in this capacity, but in the meantime (1865)
he was appointed the agent for Wells Fargo &
Co. Express, and two years later he was made
secretary of a gas company which was just then
organized. At this time he bought his first ranch
and the following year he built his first house in
Los \ngeles, which is still standing. On the 2d
of June. 1867. he married Miss Emma J. Dye,
a daughter of George W. Dye, an emigrant of
.Missouri who crossed the plains with mule-teams.
and they began their housekeeping days in their
new home.
The commercial interests of Los Angeles have
always had in Air. Toberman an earnest and
practical factor. As early as 1868 he engaged
with Mr. Hellman in the organization of the first
bank in Southern California, which institution
was known as Hellman, Temple & Co., a private
banking concern. When Mr. Toberman resigned
from his connection with the express company
he sent to San Francisco and asked a friend,
W illiam Pridham, a messenger of the company,
to come south and succeed him and he is today
the incumbent of that office. The banking inter-
ests eventually proved too wearing for Mr. To-
berman and he early retired from the concern
with which he had identified his interests, only
urne the weightier responsibilities of pub-
lic office, being elected in [869 councilman from
his ward, and after an acceptable service, in
[872, was chosen to the position of mayor of
I os Angeles. He was candidate for this office
I a Mexican, who had served in this ca-
pacity for years, but an evidence of the major's
popularity was recognized in the large majority
he received at the election, I lis service as mayor
is known to the early residents of the city and
to re elect him in 1S7S to the same office,
during which administration he proved his loy-
alty and patriotism in his efforts to advance the
best interests of the city, expending much of his
own means in a legal contest with the gas com-
pany for the welfare of the city, and winning the
suit. He was elected the third time to this office
January I, 1880, and served until 1882, among
his most successful achievements during his third
administration being his reduction of taxes from
$1.82 on the hundred dollars to one per cent
on the same, putting the city out of debt. Near
the close of his administration he signed a con-
tract with a St. Louis man for an electric light
plant, which he set in operation on the last day
of his administration, by pressing a button. He
was also one of the strong advocates for the
Southern Pacific Railroad and finally secured its
admission into the city by voting a tax of
$500,000. No man has been more prominent in
his efforts to advance the interests of Los An-
geles, and no man is given more credit for his
unselfish interest in the welfare of the public.
What he has accomplished cannot be written, for
it is that upon which the present city's greatness
is built. Be it said, however, that Major Tober-
man occupies a unique position in the minds and
hearts of those whom he has helped in the past
years by his conscious integrity in his official ca-
pacity, his faithful discharge of every duty that
fell to him. and his manifest belief in the future
of the city he has helped to build.
Mr. Toberman acquired his title of major by
serving from 1 864 to 1 868 as quartermaster on
the staff of General Banning, and it is as Major
Toberman that he is known throughout Southern
California. Since 1864 he has been identified
with the Masonic interests of Los Angeles, hav-
ing been made a Mason in the first lodge organ-
ized in this city. Me has reared his two sons,
Ralph S., born March 29, 1868, and Homer J.,
born July 7, 1872, in the same broad environment
he believed in when he chose California for his
permanent home : the elder is engaged in a gro-
cery business in Hollywood while the younger,
who married in 1898, died in 1900, leaving a son,
James W. The major is a thorough Californian
and intensely alive to the interests of his adopted
state. It was not until 1871 that he made a visit
to his eastern home and since his return to this
state has been more than ever impressed with the
possibilities of its future. Those who know him
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best place him highest among the citizens of Los
Angeles, where as a pioneer he witnessed the
magnificent upbuilding and participated in the
development of his adopted state.
STODDARD JESS. The history of the
Jess family in America dates back to the
grandfather, John L. P. Jess, who was born
in Nova Scotia, of English descent, and who
there grew to manhood and established home
ties. Subsequently he brought his family
to the United States, and for many years the
name was a prominent one in the vicinity of
Fox Lake, Dodge county, Wis., where he then
settled. Among the children who made the
trip from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin was
George Jess, the father of Stoddard Jess.
Among the adventurers who came across the
plains in 1850 as a result of the discovery of
gold was George Jess. An experience of two
years in the mines, however, satisfied him that
his forte did not lie in working in the mines.
and it was with a good deal of satisfaction that
he turned his steps toward Wisconsin. For
some time he carried on farming and merchan-
dising in Dodge county, both of which enter-
prises he gave up later to establish a bank
in Waupun, that state. From then until the
year 1885 the banking firm of George Jess &
Co. was one of the solid monetary institutions
of Dodge county. Relinquishing his interests
in the state in that year he came to California,
spending the remainder of his life in Pomona.
From whatever standpoint his life was viewed
it showed him to be a man of versatile quali-
fications, and while he was a resident of Wis-
consin he represented his district in the state
legislature, besides filling many city offices of
trust. Politically he was a Republican, and
fraternally he was a Royal Arch Mason. His
religious home was in the Unitarian Church.
The lady whom he chose as his wife was be-
fore her marriage Maria Theresa Judd, a na-
tive of Dutchess county. X. Y., and a daugh-
ter of Stoddard Judd. The latter was a prac-
ticing physician in New York state until set-
tling as a pioneer in Wisconsin. Under Presi-
dent Polk he received the appointment of
United States land office receiver at Green
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Bay, going from there to Fox Lake in the
same capacity some time later. Well known
alike in the political and legislative affairs of
the then territory he was worthy of much
credit for the part he took in the organization
of the state during its formative period. He
was a member of the first and second con-
stitutional conventions that formed the con-
stitution of the state, and served several terms in
the state senate from his district. Politically he
was a Republican, and fraternally he took an
active part in the work of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, having been a mem-
ber of the order for many years.
Stoddard Jess, who bears the given name of
his illustrious maternal grandfather, was born
in Fox Lake, Dodge county, Wis., December
3, 1856, and was the only child born of the
marriage of George and Maria T. (Judd) Jess.
His initial school training was received in the
public schools of Fox Lake, after which he
matriculated with the University of Wiscon-
sin, graduating therefrom in the class of 1876.
Immediately thereafter he became associated
in the bank of George Jess & Co. in the ca-
pacity of cashier, during this time also serving
as a member of the city council for a number
of years. During 1883 and 1884 he filled the
office of mayor of Waupun, an honor indeed,
for he was then less than thirty years of age.
Coming to California with his parents in
1885, Stoddard Jess organized the First Na-
tional Bank of Pomona in 1886, remaining as
its cashier until January, 1898. In whatever
locality Mr. Jess resided his qualities for guid-
ing and directing affairs of a public nature
were soon recognized and thus it was that
while he was still a comparatively late ac-
quisition to Pomona, he was made its first
treasurer. He took an active part in the or-
ganization of the board of trade, and for the
first two years of its existence was its presi-
dent. For many years he was a member of the
board of library trustees, and during the last
three years of his residence there was presi-
dent of the board. The strenuous life which
he had lead finally began to tell upon his
health and a complete rest and change of
scene were prescribed as the only restorative.
Resigning his position as cashier of the bank
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in 1898 he began a course of travels that ex-
tended over six years, during which time he
completely recovered his former health. It
was in 1904 that he was tendered his present
position of vice-president of the First National
Hank of Los Angeles, and the same year he
located in this city with his family. The First
National J Sank of Los Angeles ranks high
among the monetary institutions of the state,
and is the largest hank in the city, thus Mr.
Jess' call to the position of vice-president was
a double honor. Since locating here he has
also become interested in a number of other
interests and has been made a director in the
following institutions: Los Angeles Trust
Company, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Com-
pany, L. D. Powell Company (law book pub-
lishers), and the Huntington Beach Company;
of the latter company he is also vice-president.
In Monroe county. Wis., in 1879, Mr. Jess
was united in marriage with Miss Carrie Helen
Chenoweth, a native of that part of Wiscon-
sin, and a daughter of Benjamin Chenoweth,
representative of one of the old families in the
southern part of that state. One son, George
Benjamin, has been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Jess. As will be seen from the foregoing Mr.
Jess is thoroughly conversant with banking
affairs, and at one time he was a member of
the executive council of the California Bank-
ers' Association. He is also well known in
fraternal circles and was made a Mason in
Pomona Lodge No. 37, F. & A. M. He has
since taken all of the degrees of the order,
now belonging to the chapter and commandery
:i > Pomona, the consistory of Los Angeles, and
also to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Los
Angeles, He is also identified with the Ben-
evolent Protective Order of Elks of Pomona.
The Republican party has a stanch supporter
in Mr. Jess, and the business element of the
city of I. os Angeles find his membership in
the Chamber of Commerce of material assist-
ance in discussing the matters that come be-
fore that body. Notwithstanding the multi-
plicity of affairs that enter into the life of Mr.
Jess, lie yet tin,]s tin," for recreation of a
purely social nature, the Jonathan Club, I mo,.
League Club and California Club all welcom-
ing him as one of their members. M r . J ess [ s
of the same religious belief as was his father,
and is a member of the Unitarian Church of
Los Angeles.
FRANK M. KELSEY. As an off-shoot of
the First National Bank of Los Angeles, so to
speak, the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Com-
pany of this city came, into being May 1, 1905,
with a capital stock of $250,000, and a surplus
of $25,000. The entire stock is owned by the
parent organization, and the directors of the
former bank hold the same relation in the newer
organization, these two facts combining to give
it the stability and prestige which, though so
young an organization, places it among the re-
liable monetary institutions of the city and state.
The Metropolitan gives considerable attention to
the enlargement of its trust department, while at
the same time it transacts a general commercial
and savings bank business. The bank building is
a three-story structure on the northwest corner
of Sixth and Spring streets, owned by the com-
pany, and admirably located in the heart of the
business district. Under the direct supervision
of its president, Frank P. Flint, and Frank M.
Kelsey, vice-president, a conservative business is
conducted which reflects great credit upon the
wise judgment and keen discrimination of its
officers.
Mr. Kelsey is proud of the fact that he is a
native Californian, for he is intensely loyal to the
state and devoted to its progress along every line
of advancement. He was born on a farm in the
San Joaquin valley March 31, 1857, a son of Dr.
J. M. Kelsey, who though a native of Ohio spent
his most active and influential years in the Golden
state, whither he came as a pioneer. Having re-
ceived his diploma from one of the most cele-
brated medical colleges of the Union, Dr. Kel-
sey located for practice in Stockton, where his
reputation as a practitioner of merit made his
services in great demand, which incidentally made
him a man of large means. He was also well
known in political and business circles, having
served for two terms as county treasurer of
Santa Clara county as a Republican candidate,
and at the time of his death, in 1877, he was
president of the Stockton Savings and Loan So-
ciety. His marriage united him with Miss Algie
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C. Childers, who though born in Missouri spent
the greater part of her life in California.
Mr. Kelsey's earliest recollections take him
back in memory to Stockton, where he attended
the public schools and prepared himself to enter
as a student in the University at Berkeley. Two
years in that institution marked the limit of school
days, for upon leaving the university in 1878 he
entered upon a business career by establishing
himself in the real estate business in Abilene,
Tex. His efforts in this undertaking resulted in
a flourishing business, but thinking he saw even
better prospects in the growing city of Los An-
geles he gave up his interest in the south and
located in Los Angeles in 1886 and engaged in
the real estate, insurance and surety bond busi-
ness until becoming connected with the banking
business. While still continuing his interests in
this line he promoted the plan which finally re-
sulted in the organization of the Metropolitan
Lank and Trust Company, assisting in the per-
fection of the new institution under the banking
laws of the government, since which time he has
held the office of vice-president.
Mr. Kelsey's married life began in 1879, dur-
ing which year he married Miss Ada Field, a
daughter of Benjamin F. Field, an old resident
of Stockton. Three children have blessed the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey, as follows:
Jack M., who was born while his parents were
residing in Texas ; Van R., and Lawrence F.,
the latter of whom is still in school. Following
in his father's footsteps in the matter of politics,
Mr. Kelsey is a Republican in his views, and fra-
ternally is identified with the Masons, Knights
of Pythias and the Maccabees. By right of birth
he is eligible to the Native Sons of the Golden
West, a privilege which he is proud' to avail him-
self of, hence his membership in Ramona Parlor.
In Los Angeles, where he has made his home for
so many years, he has a host of warm personal
friends, to whom his prosperity is a source of
gratification.
NILES PEASE. The commercial activity
of Los Angeles has had in Niles Pease, for-
merly president of the Niles Pease Furniture
Company, one of its strongest and most suc-
cessful men and one who has added steadilv
to its prestige for the past twenty years.
When he first came to the Pacific coast it was
after a period of twenty-four years of success-
ful work as a manufacturer and merchant in
his native town, and with the capital and ex-
perience thus gained easily established himself
in a secure business position here. The suc-
cess achieved by Mr. Pease has been the re-
sult of earnest, indefatigable labor, sturdy ap-
plication and well-directed zeal, and bespeaks
possession of the strongest characteristics of
manhood.
Mr. Pease is of eastern birth and ancestry,
the name being widely known and honored
in Connecticut, where his grandfather, Simeon
Pease, enlisted for service in the Revolution-
ary war. His parents, Wells and Betsey
Pease, were also natives of Connecticut, where
in the vicinity of Thompsonville, on the 13th
of October, 1838, their son was born. He was
reared to young manhood in his native local-
ity, receiving his education in the public
schools until he was eighteen years old, when
be became apprenticed to learn the trade of
tinsmith. Three years later he engaged in
this occupation, establishing a manufactory
and dealing in stoves and tinware. He met
with success in his enterprise and gradually
enlarged his operations until he was well
known throughout the state and largely iden-
tified with its business interests. In 1876 he
suspended this branch of his business, and
devoted his efforts entirely to the sale of fur-
niture.
Finally deciding to locate on the Pacific
coast, Mr. Pease sold out his interests in 1884
and in the same year came to California, where
he identified himself with the Los Angeles
Furniture Company as a partner in the con-
cern. They established a store at No. 122
South Spring street and began business. At
the end of the year Mr. Pease purchased the
entire interest of the business, and as his trade
increased enlarged his operations and added
to his stock. In 1887 he removed to the Har-
ris block, between Third and Fourth streets,
on South Spring, and there he had a well-
equipped carpet and furniture salesroom.
With the splendid increase in patronage which
came with the passing years Mr. Pease found
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it necessary to seek more commodious quar-
ters, and accordingly, in 1897, moved into the
large five-story building at No. 439 South
Spring street, this being built by L. Harris at
that time to accommodate the Xiles Pease
Furniture Company. On the 25th of Septem-
ber, 1897, this business was incorporated under
the latter name, his children being taken into
the concern. With the passing of years they
built up one of the largest and most extensive
trades in Southern California, their patronage
extending also to Arizona. December 1, 1905,
the business passed into the hands of the Pa-
cific Purchasing Company, the latter repre-
senting the combined business of five similar
enterprises in this city.
In February, 1905, Mr. Pease incorporated
the Niles Pease Investment Company, a close
family corporation. This company has erected
a magnificent reinforced concrete building on
Hill street, between Sixth and Seventh streets,
seventy-five feet front and eight stories, which
is occupied by the Pease Brothers Furniture
Company and is the finest establishment of
its kind west of Chicago. His two sons, Sher-
man and Herbert, have large interests and
manage the business.
Vside from his other interests Mr. Pease
has been interested for a number of years in
various enterprises. He served for some years
as a director of the Columbia Savings Bank ;
is at present a director in the Central Bank of
Los Angeles ; the Dollar Savings Bank and
tin Provident Building and Loan Associa-
tion ; is a prominent member and a di-
rector of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce; and for four years, ending January 1,
1906, served as president of the Merchants'
and Manufacturers' Association. Ever since
deciding to cast in his fortunes with those of
the commercial interests of this city, Mr.
Pease has taken a deep interest in the ad-
vancement of its best interests, and has added
the force of a solid and substantial man of af-
fairs to the municipality's growth. In his po-
litical convictions he is a Republican, and
while a resident <>f Connecticut, in 1876, was
chosen by his party to the state legislature,
where lie serve'l with credit to himself and
with satisfaction to his constituency. Frater-
nally he is a Knight Templar and a Thirty-
second degree Mason and stands exceptionally
high in the organization. For some years he
has been identified with the Unitarian Church,
to whose philanthropies he is a liberal con-
tributor, and served as trustee of the church
for some time.
The marriage of Mr. Pease occurred in
Thompsonville, Conn., March 25, i860, and
united him with Miss Cornelia Gleason, a na-
tive of that place, and born of this union are
the following children : Grace G., Jessie F.,
Sherman, Jewell, Anna, Herbert and Flor-
ence. Mr. Pease is passing on to a peaceful
and happy old age, surrounded by the com-
forts and luxuries which his years of labor
and effort have brought him, serene in the
conviction of duty cheerfully done wherever
met in his noteworthy career; of success
achieved; of friendships won; and ranking as
one of the representative men of Los Angeles
and of Southern California.
In the fall election of 1906 Mr. Pease was
urged very earnestly by prominent citizens to
be a candidate for councilman of the Fourth
ward of the city. He did not desire any public
office, but as a matter of duty to a city he
loved he consented and was elected for a term
of three years, ending January 1, 1910. At the
time of organizing he was unanimously chosen
as their president, a position which will occupy
much of his time during these years.
EDGAR EUGENE SELPH enjoys a high
position in the citizenship of Los Angeles county,
where he has been located since 1898, and from
that date to the present writing he has taken an
active part in the advancement and development
of this section of Southern California. Although
not a native Californian, he was born on the
Pacific coast and all his life has been passed here.
His father, William Selph, came to California in
the early days of the state in search of gold, cross-
ing the plains from Tennessee, his birthplace, and
following this pursuit for some time. Deciding
to locate in Oregon, in 1852 he went north to that
state and there combined his trade of blacksmith-
ing with the occupation of farming. He was
first located in the vicinity of Salem, but finally
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505
removed to Jackson county, where he is still liv-
ing at an advanced age. His wife, formerly Julia
Chitwood, a native of Iowa and of English de-
scent, went to Oregon in 1853, there married, and
there her earth life came to close in 1872. Air.
and Mrs. Selph became the parents of four chil-
dren, three of whom attained maturity, one
daughter and one son only surviving at the
present time.
Born in Salem, Marion county, Ore., in i860,
Edgar Eugene Selph spent the years of boyhood
and young manhood in his native state. Because
of the moderate means of his parents he was early
compelled to depend upon his own efforts, and,
nothing daunted by the prospects, he set out in
the world at the age of twelve years. His first
employment was on a farm, where he worked for
some years. In the meantime he secured a com-
mon school education through an attendance of
the district school nearby and qualified himself
for a teacher. Not content with what he had
gained he worked his way through McMinnville
College, which he entered in 1880, and where he
remained for five years. While teaching he began
the study of law under W. D. Fenton, one of the
foremost lawyers in Portland, Ore. Being ad-
mitted to the Oregon bar in April. 1890, he began
his professional career in his native state. He
had built up a large general practice when, in
1898. he decided to locate in Southern California
because of his wife's health. He first made his
home in Pasadena, but later came to Los An-
geles and here he has since resided.
Mr. Selph succeeded in building up a large
general practice in this section, and now ranks
among the ablest attorneys of Southern Califor-
nia. At the same time he has taken a keen in-
terest in public affairs, and is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. In Feb-
ruary. 1906, he was appointed deputy attorney-
general to succeed J. C. Daly of Ventura and was
re-appointed in January of the following year
by Attorney-General Webb, an appointment which
he held until March, 1907. when he resigned to
accept the office of justice of the peace of Los
Angeles township. Politically he is a stanch ad-
vocate of the principles of the Republican party
and seeks in every way to advance their best in-
terests. Fraternally he is also prominent, hav-
ing been made a Mason in Tillamook, Ore., and
is now a member of Palestine Lodge Xo. 351, F.
& A. M., of Los Angeles, of which he was the
first master ; Signet Chapter No. 57, R. A. M. ;
Southern California Commandery No. 49, K. T. ;
and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
He was made an Odd Fellow in Sheridan, Ore.,
and is now a member of Commercial Lodge in
Los Angeles ; and is also affiliated with the Wood-
men of the World and the Fraternal Brotherhood.
Personally Mr. Selph has won a wide circle of
friends through the demonstration of the highest
traits of character both as a man and citizen, and
as a representative of the best in American citizen-
ship he is held in the highest esteem by all who
know him.
ARTHUR C. HARPER, the present mayor
of Los Angeles, is a man and citizen who has
ably demonstrated his ability along both
business and municipal lines, although deeply
engrossed in financial enterprises of import-
ance throughout his commercial career in this
city, keeping in close touch with the municipal
affairs. Because of this observation and past
interest he was in possession of such informa-
tion as enabled him to assume intelligent and
practical control of the city government when
entering upon his administration as the city's
chief executive. Mr. Harper is one of the
early residents of this section of Southern
California, where he has practically spent his
entire life, being but two years old when
brought to the state by his parents, Charles F.
and Martha W. (Mullen) Harper. Both father
and mother were of southern birth and lineage,
the former born in North Carolina July 14,
1832, and the latter in Mississippi, June 17,
1838. The maternal grandparents were George
and Mary (Cross) Mullen, residents of the
south, where they passed their entire lives.
Charles F. Harper engaged as a hardware
merchant in Mississippi after the close of the
Civil war (in which he participated first as
a soldier in the Fourteenth Regiment Missis-
sippi Infantry, and later on detached service),
and upon disposing of his business enterprise
in 1868, came to Southern California. He at
once established a similar enterprise in Los
Angeles, at the corner of Spring and Temple
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streets, and from this small beginning has
grown one of the most extensive concerns of
its kind in this city. He finally retired from
the active management of affairs, which had
been incorporated in 1880 as the Harper-Rey-
nolds Company, and is now making his home
in Hollywood on a beautiful estate known as
the Ceilia Vista, so called because of its loca-
tion on the mountainside overlooking the
beautiful Cahuenga valley. His wife enjoys
with him the evening of their days in their
beautiful home. Five of their ten children sur-
vive, and in Southern California are active in
various pursuits.
Arthur C. Harper was born in .Mississippi
March 13. 1866, and in the month of June, two
years later, was brought to Los Angeles. Here
he received his education through the medium
of the public schools, becoming a student in
the high school and graduating therefrom in
June. [885. From boyhood he had received
business training from his father, and upon
leaving school he at once entered his father's
store and prepared to master the details of the
business. That he succeeded is demonstrated
by the fact that he soon became known among
the most prominent business men of Los An-
geles, gradually relieving his father of much
of the management, and to-day is recognized
as a business man of unusual ability and
executive requirements. During his years of
business association he kept in close touch
with all municipal improvements, and when
in 1906 he received the election of the Demo-
cratic Miters to the office of mayor, there were
many who marveled at the ease and confidence
with which he assumed the reins of govern-
ment. It was nut, however, a misplaced judg-
ment from a careless or superficial study of
the conditions, but was rather the thoughtful
research of a man and citizen bent upon the
practical enlargement and improvement of af-
fair-. X.i citizen at the time of his election
could hav< been found to more perfectly grasp
the detail- and mure intelligently manifest his
abilit) in .nil. with the situation. His popu-
larity as a citizen and a business man has fol-
lowed him into his official position and he is
than justifying the high regard which
him there. Much is expected of him,
and from his past record much will be re-
ceived during his administration.
In addition to his interests in the Harper-
Reynolds Company, Mr. Harper is associated
with various business concerns, being presi-
dent of the Consolidated Pipe Company, was
cashier of the State Bank & Trust Company,
of which he is now vice-president ; organized
the Southwestern Packing Company and was
a prominent factor in 'the organization of the
St. Louis Brick Company, and is also largely
interested in many important real estate deals,
as well as oil wells and gold mines. Socially
he is a member of the Jonathan and Athletic
Clubs, the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion and the Democratic Club, in which he is
an officer, and fraternally is identified with the
Masons, being a Shriner ; belongs to the Ben-
evolent Protective Order of Elks, the Eagles
and Fraternal Brotherhood, and in spite of the
many demands made upon his time is actively
interested in all of them. His home is located
in Los Angeles at No. 1128 West Twenty-
eighth street, and is presided over by his wife,
formerly Miss Minnie Hamilton, whom he mar-
ried in chis city. They have five children,
three sons and two daughters. Both as a man
and a citizen Mr. Harper enjoys the esteem of
his fellow citizens, honored for his sterling
integrity, and with the confidence and trust of
the people whom he is serving, bids fair to
bring to his adopted city a material improve-
ment and betterment in the municipal condi-
tions.
HON. JAMES McLACHLAN, M. C. The
heights to which men can rise are limited by their
mental endowments and their physical powers.
A rugged and stalwart physique, capable of long
endurance, is not less necessary to success than a
strong intellect and broad mental gifts, and the
man who possesses the two qualifications enjoys
the open sesame to power and prominence. In
studying the success which Mr. McLachlan has
attained and the prominent position to which he
ha- risen we find that he owes much to a "sound
mind in a sound body," for he inherited from a
lung line of Scutch ancestors a robust constitu-
tion, remarkable power of will, and a mind re-
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sponsive to training and cultivation. With these
qualities, backed by tireless industry and energy,
he has steadily worked his way forward unaided
by moneyed friends or prestige until now he is
in a position commanding the respect of all who
know him.
The bleak and rock-bound coast of the shire
of Argyll. Scotland, was the home of generations
of the McLachlan family, and Congressman Mc-
Lachlan was born there in 1852, being a son of
poor parents of honored name and honorable
ancestry. When he was three years of age the
family sought the larger opportunities of Amer-
ica and crossed the ocean to New York, where
they settled on a farm in Tompkins county. In
that locality he learned the first lessons of life,
attended country schools and aided in the farm
work at home. Eager to acquire knowledge, and
being a diligent student, he was ready to begin
teaching when only sixteen years of age, and at
that time took up the calling near his home. In
his leisure hours he continued his studies so that
he -fitted himself for a college course, and with
the money earned in teaching he paid his ex-
penses while at Hamilton College. From that
institution he was graduated in 1878. after which
he took up the study of law, and in 1880 was
admitted to practice by the supreme court of the
state of New York. Opening an office at Ithaca,
N. Y., he built up a growing practice in that city
and continued there until 1888, when he removed
to California and took up professional practice in
Pasadena, his present home.
Ever since early youth Mr. McLachlan has
been an active worker in the Republican party
and has been prominently identified with political
affairs in the various places of his residence. He
is a forceful and convincing speaker and is con-
sidered one of the best campaigners in the state.
The first office he filled was that of school com-
missioner of Tompkins county, to which position
he was elected on his party ticket in 1877. Two
years after coming to Los Angeles county he was
elected district attorney and the splendid record
which he made in that office not only established
a precedent difficult to be surpassed by his suc-
cessors, but also it brought him before the pub-
lic in such a favorable light that his name was
deemed worthy of consideration for higher offi-
ces. The seventh district chose him to be their
representative in the Fifty-fourth Congress, and
again he was chosen to serve in the Fifty-seventh
session. The ability with which he met his duties
and the support which he gave to measures for
the upbuilding of the coast country deepened the
admiration of the people for his sterling qualities
and led to his re-election as a member of the
Fifty-eighth Congress. At this election he re-
ceived nineteen thousand four hundred and seven
votes, while the Democratic candidate, Carl Alex-
ander Johnson, received eight thousand and
seventy-five ; the socialist candidate, George H.
Hewes, twelve hundred and sixty-one ; and the
Prohibitionist candidate, Frederick F. Wheeler,
eleven hundred and ninety-five.
In 1904 Mr. McLachlan was elected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress by an increased majority ;
in 1906 w ? as re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress,
and now devotes his attention largely to the dis-
charge of his responsible' duties as representative
of his district in the capital city of our nation.
Most conspicuous among his services may be
mentioned his efforts to secure the harbor at San
Pedro and the million dollar appropriation for a
postoffice at Los Angeles. In committee work he
has been prominently connected with the river and
harbor committee and as a member thereof he
has worked in the interests of Southern Califor-
nia. In every association of statesmanship his
uprightness and sincerity of purpose have never
been questioned, even by those whose opinions
bring them into affiliation with other parties than
his own.
On the 26th of December, 1887, Mr. McLach-
lan was married to Minnie J. Jones of Groton, N.
Y.. and they came to California on their wedding
trip. The\' had no intention of remaining per-
manently, but finally concluded to make Pasa-
dena their permanent home. Mr. McLachlan did
not return east again until seven years later, when
he went to Washington as representative to Con-
gress. Mrs. McLachlan died of pneumonia Jan-
uary 30, 1907, while Mr. McLachlan was hasten-
ing home from Washington to be at her bed-
side. Four children were born of the union of
Mr. and Mrs. McLachlan: Anita J., Gladys K..
Marjorie J. and Douglas J. The family occupy
a comfortable residence in Pasadena set in the
midst of a well-kept lawn and attractive sur-
roundings.
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J. BOND FRANCISCO. Nowhere on the
American continent lias Nature so combined and
blended her inexhaustible store of attractions as
in Southern California, a fact which Edwin For-
est, the noted actor, realized when he prophesied
that actors, artists and singers, after searching
the world over for an ideal spot, would finally
locate in Southern California in preference to
Southern France or Italy. It is unnecessary to
enumerate the numerous instances of the fulfill-
ment of this forecast further than to say that
the histrionic profession was until recently here
represented by the famous Modjeska, while art
and music combined are represented by J. Bond
Francisco.
It is shown from the early records that the
Francisco family is of Spanish origin, although
the representative from which Mr. Francisco de-
scends subsequently established the family in
France. From there its members found refuge
m England as a result of the persecutions of
the Huguenots, to which sect they belonged, and
the first representative in the United States was
Henry Francisco. For many years the family
was identified with the Empire state in the vicin-
ity of Whitehall, but in time became equally
well known in Cincinnati. Ohio, where the father
of J. Bond Francisco, Andrew W. Francisco,
Sr., was born and lived the greater part of his
long and useful life. A man of versatile talents
and accomplishments, he was well known in
newspaper circles as the founder of the Cincin-
nati Enquirer, and as editor and proprietor of
thi ' incinnati Penny Press, the Cincinnati Times
and the Ohio State Journal of Columbus, and
also the Commercial Telegram of Toledo. While
connected with the latter paper he became in-
ed in tin- Los Angeles Times through the
influence • >( his friend < icneral Otis, and in the
year [883 he took up hi> residence in this city.
Always an anient Republican, his friends of like
belief soon recognized his ability and fitness for
public office, and the fulfillment of these duties
resulted in his retiring from newspaper work al-
r. At the time of his death he was serv-
ing as the collector for the port of I. (is Angeles,
to which he had been appointed by his old-time
friend William McKinley. Mr. Francisco passed
away in Los Angeles in 1897, while his wife,
formerly Mis- Ella C. Clark, died here in 1893.
Of the six children born to Andrew W. and
Ella C. (Clark) Francisco, J. Bond is the fourth
in order of birth and was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, December 14, 1864. Coming to California
with his parents during boyhood, he early dis-
played a taste for both music and drawing, his
first training in the former art being under the
direction of Prof. Herman Eckhardt, a noted
violinist, who came to this country with Jenny
Lind. He further pursued his musical studies
abroad with Professor Wirth in Berlin, Benno
Walter of Munich, and with the famous Leonard
of Paris, during this time appearing frequently
as the principal artist at musical gatherings in
these three cities. While abroad he also studied
painting with Hans Fechner and Franz Lippisch
of Berlin, Nauen of Munich, and while in Paris
he attended the famous academies Julian and
Colarossi, studying under such masters as Bou-
guereau, Fleury, Rixens, Coutoir, Dagnan and
Blanc. While Mr. Francisco confines himself to
no particular line of painting, the fact that he is
a great lover of mountain and marine scenery
finds these subjects more often depicted than
any others, and while in Europe he made many
sketches of the natural scenery in Switzerland,
Tyrol, France and Germany. Probably none of
the many California scenes which have been pro-
duced under his brush has attracted the attention
and favorable comment bestowed on his "Ma-
tilija," which shows a sunset in the mountains.
This now hangs in the rooms of the California
Club, of Los Angeles, the gift of J. S. Slauson,
Sr., who paid $2,000 for it. For several years
Mr. Francisco maintained a studio in the Blan-
chard building, where he received pupils from
all over the United States, lessons being given
in charcoal and oil. from cast, still life, heads,
costumed figures and the nude.
As is natural to expect Mr. Francisco's home
is a "thing of beauty" and that it is a perpetual
joy to him is best told in his own words : "The
hours in which I may enjoy it are all too few."
Here many musicians, artists, actors and numer-
ous other persons of note have been hospitably
received and entertained. Mr. Francisco's mar-
riage was celebrated in Los Angeles and united
him with Miss Nanette Gottschalk. They have
one daughter living, to whom they have given
the name Nanette Louise. Their first born,
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Yvette, died at the age of three years. Airs.
Francisco comes of a family well known in Los
Angeles, she being the daughter of the late Judge
Louis Gottschalk, of St. Louis, Mo., who before
coming to the west had served as lieutenant-
governor of Missouri and consul to Stuttgart.
Socially Mr. Francisco is a member of the Sun-
set and University Clubs, and fraternally is a
Mason. Mr. Francisco and his wife are honored
wherever known, for the talents which have
brought him professional prominence are no less
conspicuous in private and social life.
WESLEY W. BECKETT. M. D. The
medical profession of Los Angeles has in the
above named gentleman a skilled and suc-
cessful practitioner, who has done no little
toward establishing the prestige which the city
enjoys in this particular. Dr. Beckett is a
native of the Pacific slope and although not
born in California has spent all but the first
few years of his life in the state. His father,
Lemuel D. Beckett, who was born in New
Jersey in 1818, became a farmer and merchant
upon attaining years of maturity. In his native
state he married Miss Sarah S. Chew and to-
gether they made the trip across the plains to
Oregon in 1852. Their home remained in that
state for some years, when they located in
California, where Mr. Beckett died April 27,
1885, being survived by his wife until February
22, 1905, when her death occurred at the home
of her son, Dr. Beckett. Benjamin Chew,
who was for many years Chief Justice of
Pennsylvania, was a great uncle of Dr.
Beckett.
May 31, 1857, in Forest Grove, Washington
county, Ore., occurred the birth of Wesley
Wilber Beckett, whose later boyhood years
were spent principally in California, whither
his parents removed. His elementary educa-
tion was received in the public schools of the
state, after which he became a student in
Cooper Medical College, intent upon following
the line of work which he had mapped out
for himself. Later he matriculated in the
College of Medicine of the University of South-
ern California, graduating April 11, 1888. In
the meantime he went to New York City and
pursued a complete course of special studies
in the New York Post-Graduate School and
Hospital, receiving there the practical ex-
perience which so ably fitted him to take up
the practice of his profession, which he did im-
mediately upon his location in Los Angeles
in February, 1889, following his graduation.
His work as physician and surgeon has won
for him merited fame and financial returns and
brought him a constantly widening circle of
influence and usefulness. As a surgeon he
ranks exceptionally high in Southern Califor-
nia and has successfully performed many diffi-
cult and dangerous operations. In the prime
and vigor of progressive manhood, he takes
the keenest interest in the advancement of his
profession and is accounted one of the most
thorough students in his line of work, devot-
ing much time to the study of various medi-
cal journals which always form a large part
of his library. He has also won a position
of prominence as a contributor of valuable
articles to the Southern California Practitioner
and to eastern publications, while as a mem-
ber of the State Medical Society, in which he
has served as vice-president, the Los Angeles
County Medical Association, and the Southern
California Medical Association, in both of
which he was formerly president, his opinions
are highly esteemed.
Not alone for his work as a professional
man, however, is Dr. Beckett held in high
esteem, but also through his identification with
many of the most important movements in
public affairs. He is associated as director
with various enterprises, among them the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, the
Broadway Bank & Trust Company, the Cali-
fornia Hospital Company, and others of equal
prominence. He holds the chair of gynecology
in the medical department of the University
of Southern California, in which institution he
is also officiating as trustee, and has also
served for one term as a member of the board
of health of the city of Los Angeles. He is
a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce. He is specially active along edu-
cational lines, his early training, which was
that of a school teacher for six years in San
Luis Obispo county. Cal.. and also as deputy
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superintendent of schools in that county for
two years, having served to keep his interest
alive to advancement along this line. As a
Republican in politics he gives his support
to the men and measures of this party, al-
though he is broad-gauged in his views and
always interested in the maintenance of good
municipal government. He is held in high
regard by the Masons, of which organization
he is a member, while in the work of religious
advancement he is just as active. He belongs
to the Westlake Methodist Episcopal Church,
in which he officiates as trustee, and as has
truly been said of him his hand is always
giving support and help to those in need about
him. His genial nature and genuine sym-
pathy have combined to make of him a char-
acteristic physician — successful but never de-
spoiled of the gentler qualities of manhood ;
firm but never harsh in the treatment he
gives his patients; honest, liberal and optimi-
stic in the face of much that might have
changed his early views of life.
Dr. Beckett's residence is architecturally one
of the most beautiful in Los Angeles. It is
on Harvard Boulevard, commanding a magni-
ficent view of mountains, valley and city. It
is presided over by his wife, formerly Miss
Iowa Archer, whom he married on New Year's
1 lay in 1882. She is the daughter of William C.
and Mary M. Archer, early pioneers of Cali-
fornia, who came to the state when their
daughter was but four years old, her birth
having occurred in Iowa. She is a woman of
education and refinement and has impressed
upon her sons, W'ilber Archer and Francis H.,
the qualities of manhood which have given to
this family their place among the representa-
tive citizens of Los Angeles.
RUFUS LANDON HORTON. Noteworthy
among the younger generation of influential men
in Los Angeles is Rufus L. Horton, one of the
leading attorneys and counsellors at law in this
city. The record shows the Horton family to be
of English origin, the immigrating ancestor to
the new world establishing the family name in
tin beautiful Mohawk valley. X. Y., during the
early days of thai now prosperous commonwealth.
A son of William Horton. the father of our sub-
ject, Richmond Horton, was a native of the
Empire state, but the pioneer spirit of his fore-
fathers was strong within him and led him to
seek a home in the newer surroundings in Mich-
igan during his early manhood. He was ac-
companied on this removal by his wife, who
prior to her marriage was Anna M. Smith, a
native of New Jersey. In Berrien county Mr.
Horton became well known in commercial circles,
having established a large flour and lumber busi-
ness there which netted him a good income and
placed him among the financially strong men of
his community. Throughout his life he was a
strong supporter of Masonic principles, and both
in Michigan and in California, whither he came
in 1887, he took a prominent part in the work of
the order, especially in Los Angeles. Here as
well as in Michigan he also became an integral
part of the business community.
During the residence of his parents in Michi-
gan Rufus L. Horton was horn in Xiles, Sep-
tember 2, 1861. He received his common and
high school education in Ohio and attended
college in Dallas, Tex., where he lived for ten
years before he removed to Los Angeles in 1887.
As his father was in comfortable circumstances
he was free to follow his studies unincumbered
by the thought of self-support, a condition which,
coupled with the fact that he realized his privi-
leges and made the most of his opportunities, re-
sulted in his gaining a good education in the
public and select schools. A predilection for
the study of the law having early manifested
itself he took up its mastery in earnest, passing
the examinations with honors and being admitted
to the bar in 1887. Opening an office for the
practice of his profession in this city during the
same year, his practice has since had a steady and
continuous growth, with the result that today he
is classed among the highest legal authorities in
Los \ngeles. His office is located in the Henne
building.
Aside from his profession there is probably no
subject in which Mr. Horton takes such a keen
interest as in the matter of education, an in-
terest which has been practically demonstrated in
his service on the school board of this city. While
a member of that body he was chairman of the
high school course of study and purchasing com-
mittee. It is safe to say that the Republican party
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has few if any more stanch defenders than Mr.
Horton, whose campaign speeches ring forth
party principles with no uncertain sound, and
being an emphatic and convincing speaker natur-
ally, his words have weight not only with those
of like faith, but those of the opposite party are
also led to adopt his views. Though he is actively
interested in both local and state political affairs
he is in no sense a politician, as that word is
usually interpreted, and aside from his position
on the school board has never consented to hold
public office. He is a member of the University
Club, the Chamber of Commerce and is also
affiliated with the Masonic bodies.
Mr. Horton was married July 15, 1890, to
Millie Kurtz, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Kurtz,
one of the pioneer physicians of Los Angeles.
On the 10th of December, 1893, a son was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Horton, to whom they have
given the name of Joseph Kurtz, in honor of
his maternal grandfather. The family home is
pleasantly located at No. [633 West Twenty-
fifth street.
GEORGE W. LASHER, M.D. There are
many who claim that no city in the United
States can vie with Los Angeles in respect to
the ability and skill of its physicians and sur-
geons. Certainly it is true, that as a class,
they are unsurpassed in intelligence and broad,
professional knowledge. In the list of these
men the name of Dr. Lasher occupies a promi-
nent position. During the long period of his
residence in Los Angeles he has established
a valuable practice and a reputation for skill
in his profession. Not only is he held in high
esteem by permanent residents of the city, but
there are frequent demands made on his time
and professional services by visitors from the
east, who have sought our genial clime in the
hope of regaining health.
The doctor is a descendant of an old and
honored eastern family. The first American
representative probably came from Germany
prior to 1710. This was Sebastian Loscher
the spelling of the name afterward being
changed to its present form : he located in New
York state, where he reared his family. Con-
rad B., who represented the fifth generation.
married and spent his entire life in that state.
He was a participant in the Revolutionary
war, serving in the Eleventh New York regi-
ment. By occupation he was a farmer, fol-
lowing this calling throughout his active years.
At the time of his death he had reached the
ripe age of ninety years, longevity being a
distinguishing characteristic of the family.
His son George C. married Catherine Decker,
the daughter of German parents. In their
family was a son, Robert W., who in young
manhood followed his early training and en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits in his native
state, where he now resides. He married Miss
Eva Phillips, who was of Scotch-Irish and
German parentage and transmitted the best
qualities of these sturdy nations to her de-
scendants. Born of this union were eleven
children, five sons and six daughters, all of
whom attained maturity. Two sons, Madison
and Harmon, served in the Civil war, the for-
mer being deceased, while the latter is now a
resident of Germantown-on-the-Hudson.
Born in Columbia count}, N. Y., May 15,
[845, George W. Lasher passed the years of
his boyhood on the paternal farm on the banks
of the Hudson river. He received the rudi-
ments of an education in the nearby district
school, while at the same time he was the re-
cipient of a practical training which has been
no small factor in the success of his years of
maturity. His common school course was
supplemented by attending Hartwick Semi-
nary, Otsego county, N. Y.. three miles south
of Otsego lake, and in one of the most beauti-
ful localities of the state. Grounded in the
principles of his studies he finally took up
teaching, following this for several terms,
after which he read medicine with Dr. J. B.
Hamilton, professor of surgery in Rush Medi-
cal College, of Chicago, and ex-surgeon-gen-
eraj of the LTnited States Marine service. In
1872 he completed the course of stud}- in Rush
Medical College and was graduated therefrom
with honors, when he began the practice of
his profession in Carrollton, 111. For ten years
he remained in that location and became
widely known throughout Greene county as
one of the most successful physicians and sur-
geons it afforded. In 1883 he was attracted
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to the west and accordingly came to Los An-
geles, Cal., where he has ever since remained.
He at once established a practice which with
the passing years has grown to remunerative
proportions, bringing him large financial re-
turns and at the same time extending his circle
of acquaintances and friends until he is one of
the best known of the medical men of South-
ern California. He is identified with various
medical societies, among them the American
Medical Association, California State Society,
District and County Medical Associations,
and was one of the founders of the school of
medicine of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, in which he has been a professor of
surgery since its organization.
The doctor is a courteous gentleman, an up-
right and progressive citizen and a man of
such firm principles and honorable course of
living that he deservedly enjoys the confidence
of all who know him, and holds a high place
in the citizenship of Los Angeles.
FRANK RALEIGH STRONG. Everywhere
throughout the state of California may be found
the descendants of the pioneers of 1849 ar >d
almost invariably they occupy positions of honor
and high esteem among their associates, while in
every instance chief among their characteristics
is a deep affection for their home state and a
loft) pride in its constant progress. None is
more loyal to his city and commonwealth than
Frank R. Strong, who is a native son of Califor-
nia and one of the leading real-estate operators
of Los Angeles. Descended from Vermont an-
cestry, he is a son of Dr. Daniel Strong, a
■ of [849 via Cape Horn to the Pacific
coast. In common with the large majority of
pioneers he tried his fortune in the mines and,
like them too, he gained little save experience
from his mining ventures, yet in other lines of
activity he met with gratifying success. As early
as [869 he became interested with Thomas Scott
in the development of San Diego and there he
remained a citizen until his death in 1888, mean-
while accomplishing much in the interests of the
city's permanent growth. At the time of the
building of the Central mow the Southern) Pa-
cific Railroad lie was interested in the project,
bought stock in the company and served as a
member of its board of directors. Other move-
ments of like importance received the benefit of
his encouraging sympathy and practical aid.
After coming to the west Dr. Strong met and
married Miss Mary Cadien of Stockton, a native
of Milwaukee, Wis., and in later years a resident
of San Diego, where she died two years before
his demise. Two daughters and one son were
born of their union, namely : Mildred, deceased ;
Lottie, wife of Warren F. McGrath of Los An-
geles ; and Frank R., who was born in San
Diego, January 5, 1871. The last-named received
his education in the grammar and high schools of
San Diego and in a commercial college. On
starting out to earn his own livelihood he turned
his attention to the real-estate business and se-
cured employment with the Easton-Eldridge Com-
pany of San Diego, under whom during the four
years of his service he gained a thorough knowl-
edge of local land values as well as the laws re-
garding titles, sales and deeds of sale.
After a brief experience as a real-estate broker
in San Diego, under the firm title of Strong &
Arms, in 1895 Mr. Strong gave up his office in
that city and came to Los Angeles, which with
shrewd foresight he believed to be the best open-
ing for operators in real estate. For five years
he conducted a partnership with F. 1!. Wilde, one
of the originators of the Easton-Eldridge Com-
pany and when their relationship was discontinued
he formed a partnership with George W. Dickin-
son as Strong & Dickinson. In his well-equipped
office on Second and Broadway he superintends
large interests and negotiates important transfers
of property, also engages in the handling and sub-
division of large tracts of suburban real estate,
and fills the office of president of the Los An-
geles Abstract and Title Company. Few men
have wider interests than he in real-estate opera-
tions, and his name is now on the directors' list
of twenty-five different land corporations, which
indicates the wide range of his activities and in-
terests. Indeed few men have gained greater suc-
cess than he in the management of real-estate
affairs and while selling and buying for others
he has also bought to a large extent for him-
self, so that he now owns considerable valuable
city property. While living in San Diego in 1892
he married Miss Pari Flagg of that city, by
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whom he has one daughter, Mildred. Reared in
the Republican faith, he has always allied himself
with that party and has been actively identified
with its local affairs. The only fraternal or-
ganization with which he is identified at this writ-
ing is the Ramona Parlor, Native Sons of the
Golden West, while socially he is a member of the
Union League and Los Angeles Country Clubs.
Movements for the development of his home city-
receive his stanch support. Loyal to the city,
optimistic regarding its future, keen and dis-
criminating as to investments, he finds in his
chosen occupation a congenial field for his
energies.
narily I deem it well for a person to leave his
biography to be written by others after he
has completed his career.
Yours very truly,
John D. Bicknell.
JOHX D. BICKXELL, answering our re-
quest for the data for a brief sketch of his life,
wrote us as follows:
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 5, 1907.
Historic Record Co.. Los Angeles, Calif.
Gentlemen : Answering your request that I
furnish you a sketch of my life to be used by
you in your History' of Los Angeles and Envi-
rons, will state that I was born in Chittendon
county, Vermont, June 25th, 1838. About the
year 1850 my parents removed to Wisconsin.
Was educated in the public schools, Albion
Academy, and the State University of Wiscon-
sin. Moved to Howard county, Missouri, early
in 1859. In the spring of i860 joined a company
of immigrants and crossed the plains from
Missouri river to California with an ox train.
I had charge of the train. Was five and one-
half months making the trip to Sacramento.
In 1862 was prospecting in the wilderness lying
north and east of Fort Walla Walla, in the
State of Washington. Returned to Wisconsin
in the year 1863 and entered the University of
that state. Was admitted as an attorney at law
in the Supreme Court of the State of Wiscon-
sin in 1865. Commenced practice of law in
Dade county, Missouri, in the spring of 1867,
and remained there until 1872. when I moved
to Los Angeles, and ever since that time until
very recently have been in the active practice
of my profession in this city. Whatever record
I have made as an attorney at law is incor-
porated and forms a part of the records of the
courts of this state. While it is true I have had
more or less to do in helping our citizens in
building up Los Angeles, from a town of about
eight thousand inhabitants in 1872, to its pres-
ent population, yet it does not occur to me that
there are any facts other than above stated
which would be of anv general interest. Ordi-
JOHN HYDE BRALY. In the colonial days
of our history John Braly, a Scotch-Irish Presby-
terian, left the land of the Covenanters and found-
ed a home among the pines of North Carolina.
He reared a family of four sons, of whom the
youngest, James, was born during the war of the
Revolution. He grew to manhood in his native
state and in 1799 married Ruth McCullough, a
daughter of one of the first families of the Caro-
linas, and like himself reared in the Presbyterian
faith. The spirit of immigration was strong up-
on them, and in 181 1 they became pioneers of the
territory of Missouri, then the frontier, event-
ually locating in St. Louis county, where they
spent the remainder of their lives. They reared
a family of seven children, namely : Frank, John
E., James, Finis, Carolina, Ann and Ruth. The
second son, John Eusebius Braly. was born in
North Carolina January 28, 1805, and was there-
fore a little more than six years old when the
family removed from the Atlantic coast to the
Mississippi valley. Among the primitive sur-
roundings of a beginning civilization he grew to
manhood, and May 6, 1829, was united in mar-
riage with Susan Hyde. She was also a native
of North Carolina, her birth occurring July 3,
1805. Her father. John Hyde, born in South
Carolina, was a descendant of Lord Hyde, of
England. He married Elizabeth Shuck, of Penn-
sylvania, and in 1816 they moved with their fam-
ily of ten children to the territory of Missouri,
and settled in Franklin county, where Mr. Hyde
was shortly afterward assassinated by Indians,
The life of the pioneer mother in the rearing of
her large family, in the midst of trial, privation
and danger, was one which surely tried her soul,
but as surely proved her right to be enrolled
among the beginners of a nation. Both herself
and husband were strong Methodists and reared
their children in this faith.
Their heritage of pioneer instinct proved
stronger than the comforts of a well-established
home, and in 1847 John E. Braly and his wife,
with their seven children, followed the westward
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trend of civilization for the land that then was
but little known — California. They began the
journey in the spring of the year, equipped with
ox-teams and all necessary provisions; at Fort
Hall they met General Harney, who told them of
the California revolution and the Donner dis-
aster and persuaded them to change their course
toward ( (regon. The trials of that journey can
never be realized by the present generation, who
cross the continent in less than three days, en-
throned in the luxury unsurpassed by all the
comforts and elegance of home, — Pullman, din-
ing and observation cars. They might be said
to have crept westward, covering a small portion
of their journey each day, traveling across bar-
ren tracts of land, under a burning, pitiless sun,
with danger always with them and a constant
outlook required to guard against a surprise
from the Indians; however, they reached Dr.
Whitman's mission in October, all surviving the
strain and hardships of the wearisome trip. After
resting they went on to The Dalles, and there
learned of the dreadful massacre by the Indians
of the mission they had just left. Everything but
beds and clothing were left at The Dalles, while
the party worked their way in Indian boats under
the pelting rains and snows down the Columbia
river to the present site of Portland, arriving on
Christmas Day, 1847, after a journey of nearly
nine months.
Oregon did not remain their home long, for
on Christmas of 1850 they were permanently
located in the Santa Clara valley, where the
father and mother passed the remainder of their
lives. Mr. Braly was a Cumberland Presbyte-
rian preacher and one of the organizers of the
first church of that faith in Oregon in 1848, also
"Hi of the three ministers that organized the
first Cumberland Presbyterian presbytery of Cal-
ifornia at his own home in Santa Clara in 1851.
Throughout his entire life he was a devoted ex-
ponent of his religious beliefs, and better even
than his precepts was the exemplification in his
the highest Christian ideals. Vie was
nniversall) honored for the qualities of his man-
h 1. dei lonstrated in all his walks of life, —
his patience and courage in the midst of a pioneer
civilization ; his persistence in the face of all
obstacles; the triumphant culmination of his life
— June 10, 1898, — "falling asleep in Jesus." In
his wife he had a worthy helpmate and one who
never failed him in all their years of union, — a
tender, gracious, womanly woman, a faithful
Christian, and unselfish in her wifehood, mother-
hood, and the sisterhood which she gave to all
mankind. She was spared to bless the younger
generation for an unusual number of years, pass-
ing away in 1898, when nearly ninety-three years
old. Her seven children were all natives of
Franklin county. Mo., and named in order of
birth were as follows: Sarah Ann, James Co-
lumbus, John Hyde, Margaret Elizabeth. Frank
Clark, Susan Isabella and Eusebius Alexander.
Some years prior to their passing away both her-
self and husband made their home with their eld-
est daughter, Sarah, who married Dr. Benjamin
Cory, of San Jose.
The third child in the family of his parents,
John Hyde Braly was born in Franklin county,
Mo., January 24, 1835, and as a lad of twelve
years accompanied his parents across the plains
to the section of country which has ever since re-
mained the scene of their activities. The trip,
which to the elder members of the family meant
grave responsibilities and burdensome duties, was
to him one long summer of novelty and interest
— the camping places, the gorgeous scenery, the
gayly decorated tribes of Indians who forced them
to pay tribute in the shape of flour and bacon, all
remain in his memory as links in a chain which
led to their far-away home in the Mississippi
valley. Their arrival at the mission in Oregon
was not so much an event in their journey as
their leaving it, a movement impelled by the
premonition of the mother of the family, who, al-
though ill with the mountain fever, was so im-
portunate in her desire to go that she was placed
on a bed in a wagon, and the march was resumed
toward The Dalles, which place was reached in
about three weeks. There the news had preceded
them of the terrible massacre at the mission,
which meant the beginning of the Cayuse war.
Leaving their wagons, cattle and nearly all of
their effects at The Dalles, they took Indian
canoes and moved down the Columbia river,
finally reaching the Cascade Falls. There the
men built a flat boat on which they floated down
below the falls to the mouth of the Willamette
river, and worked their way up to where Port-
land now stands. It was then a dense forest. On
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Christmas eve, for the first time in nearly nine
months, the Braly family found themselves under
the shelter of a roof, and the pattering of the
rain above them must surely have sounded like
the sweetest music in their ears, knowing they
were safe from its discomforts. The early spring
of '49 found them en route once more for Cali-
fornia, and in July they reached a little settle-
ment on the Sacramento river called Fremont,
where they stopped, built a log house and called
the place their home until December of the fol-
lowing year. The Santa Clara valley held out
attractions which made them seek that spot for
a permanent home and near the old mission of
Santa Clara was established the family home-
stead, which so remained up to the death of the
father. While living in Fremont the two sons,
James and John H, freighted provisions and all
kinds of miner's supplies to the mining camps
of Roses Bar, Nevada, Grass Valley, etc., finding
it a lucrative occupation. On one six days' trip
one wagon and team earned $600, while a driver,
hired for one trip, was paid at the rate of $16
per day, or one ounce of gold dust.
Mr. Braly was seventeen years old before he
acquired the rudiments of an education, beyond
such instruction as that received in the home, as
there were no school facilities in those early
pioneer days. About that time a county sub-
scription school was organized and the elder Mr.
Braly subscribed for five scholars. John H.
Braly became a student and there acquired the
thirst for knowledge which led him eventually
into the paths of an educator. Until attaining
the age of twenty-one he availed himself of the
opportunities presented by the schools of the
Pacific coast, among them the University of the
Pacific, when he gained the consent of his parents
to return east to complete his education. In
November, 1856. he took passage on the John
L. Stevens to Panama, crossed the Isthmus, and
on another steamer made the journey to New
Orleans via the beautiful bay of Havana. At
New Orleans he took passage on one of the mag-
nificent steamers on the Mississippi river to
Tennessee, where in Lebanon he spent the en-
suing three years of his life as a student of Cum-
berland University. Diligence and persistence
won him the honors of his class in his graduation,
and in the summer of 1859 he once more found
himself a resident of California. Shortly after
his return to the state he was called to the man-
agement of a little college in Old Sonoma Town,
in Sonoma county, known as Cumberland Col-
lege, where he presided as president for two
years. Mr. Braly had not contemplated follow-
ing this occupation upon his return to California,
having planned to take up the study of law, but
finding himself without means and with the abil-
ity to enter this field of labor he felt impelled to
take this step. It is certain that he could never
regret the active, earnest service of the ensuing
twenty-five years, for his usefulness could not
have been surpassed in any other field of labor.
He brought to bear in his work of instructor a
characteristic enthusiasm and energy, a conscien-
tious preparation and oversight, which accom-
plished results that placed him among the suc-
cessful educators of the state. Resigning his po-
sition in 1861 he was married in the fall of that
year to Miss Martha Jane Hughes, of Hayward,
Alameda county, Cal. Together they established
a boarding and day school in the beautiful little
valley of San Ramon, Contra Costa county, in
which location Mr. Braly continued for two or
three years. Disposing of these interests he then
returned to his farm in Santa Clara county and
at the same time that he carried on agricultural
pursuits taught the neighborhood school. In
1865 he rented his farm and assumed charge of
the St. Helena schools in Napa county, in which
occupation he continued for two years, when he
once more returned to Santa Clara county, where
he was elected county superintendent. He was
one among the first trustees of the State Normal
School when it was located in San Francisco, and
also became a member of the board of trustees
when it was located in San Jose, being one of the
building committee that erected the first normal
building. In the spring of 1873 he was elected
vice-president of the San Jose Normal School,
which position he held for eleven years, resign-
ing December 20, 1883.
Mr. Braly's retirement from educational work
was for the purpose of taking up some line of
business which would enable him to give his chil-
dren better advantages. He had met with con-
stant success as a teacher, his enthusiasm and en-
ergy as well as ability, a motive power in many of
the noteworthv achievements in the county. He
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loved his work and gave himself to it, retiring
before enthusiasm was lost. In 1883 he located
with his family in Fresno, organized the first bank
there, the First National, and also planted an
orchard and raisin vineyard just outside the town.
Success accompanied both efforts and Air. Braly
found himself well launched upon the business
life which he had essayed. During his residence
in Fresno he organized the Selma Bank and the
Bank of Tulare, and had the management of all
three banks until his removal to San Diego in
the winter of 1887-8. In the latter city he or-
ganized the Bank of San Diego and soon con-
solidated it with the First National of that place,
of which he had the management for two years,
during the terrible tumbling of values and de-
pression following the bursting of the boom.
Perhaps the most trying part of Mr. Braly's
life was passed in San Diego. In April of 1888
he lost a daughter and the following spring Mrs.
Braly's mother, Mrs. Hughes, who was making
her home with the family, also passed away. His
health became impaired and he found it necessary
to give up all business. After resigning his posi-
tion in the bank and selling out his interest in
San Diego, he returned t6 the old home in San
Jose. There they spent the winter of 1890 in the
midst of the scenes of his early activities and
brightest days. In the following spring they re-
turned to Southern California and in Los An-
geles became identified with business interests,
chief of which was Mr. Braly's connection with
the Southern California Savings Bank. Through
this movement great tilings have been accom-
plished, the bank growing from a modest begin-
ning to one of the most substantial banks of this
character on the Pacific coast. This bank was
organized on the [6th day of January, 1885, and
was first located on the corner of Spring and
Court streets, in a small room 20x40 feet. In
1891 Mr. Braly and his son, Arthur H. Braly,
became actively identified with its affairs, two
years later Mr. Braly becoming president and his
son cashier. Through the trying times of '93
Mr. Braly gave hi- strongest efforts to sustain-
ing the bank and succeeded in keeping its doors
open, continuing in business and at the same time
enlarging its quarters and adding equipment.
Nearly one year passed before the bank felt safe
in risking a small mortgage loan. Gradually con-
fidence was restored, business improved and the
future assumed a brighter outlook. Prosperity
returned in full measure and with it the for-
tunes of the Southern California Savings Bank
were assured. The business continued to grow
until in March, 1902, the directors, believing in
the future of the city of Los Angeles and South-
ern California, concluded on the erection of a
substantial building. Today one of the most
beautiful business blocks in the city is the result
of this decision. It stands at the corner of Fourth
and Spring streets, a twelve-story, fire and earth-
quake proof building and is owned by the Union
Trust Company, until recently bearing the name
of the Braly Building, in honor of the man who
was a prime factor in its erection. The first floor
of this building is occupied by the bank which has
for its home one of the finest rooms west of the
Mississippi river; the public space is wainscoted
in oriental marble, the counter fronts being of the
same ; the screens above the counters are of solid
bronze metal of beautiful design and workman-
ship, while the interior fittings are of solid ma-
hogany. A waiting room, equipped with cozy
seats, desks and telephones, is a feature of note.
Lighting and ventilation have received particular
attention and are among the most noteworthy
features of the building. The offices above are
especially handsome, roomy, light and well venti-
lated, and both attractive and convenient for the
conduct of business.
Mr. Braly's home is located at No. 38 St. James
Park and well indicates the refinement and cul-
ture of its occupants. Mrs. Braly is a woman of
gracious dignity and kindliness and during the
years of their married life has proven a faithful
helpmate in all her husband's undertakings. She
was born in Washington county, Mo., November
23, 1842, a daughter of Zachariah Hughes. He
was a native of Blount county, Tenn., born in
1795, a high-grade, Protestant, Irish gentleman,
in quality and character a great and good man.
He was twice married and was the father of thir-
teen children. His second marriage, with Per-
melia Edgar Jamison, occurred in April, 1832, he
being a widower with six children and she a
widow with two. She was a niece of the Rev.
Finis Ewing. founder of the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church. She was born in Gallatin county,
Kv.. Ma\ 26. 1806, and in her eighteenth year
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585
was married to John Jamison, by whom she had
two children. Left a widow when twenty-four
years old, she married Mr. Hughes two years
later and became the mother of seven children :
Jabez, Fisk, George, Wesley, Martha Jane, Lucy
and Frank. Mr. Hughes died at his beautiful
home at Eden Vale, Alameda county, September
22, 1867. Mrs. Hughes shortly afterward be-
came a member of her daughter's home, where
she remained until her death at San Diego, before
mentioned. She was a woman of rare worth of
character, revered and beloved by husband, chil-
dren and neighbors. It has been beautifully said
of her, "love controlled her heart and love con-
trolled her tongue." With her husband she had
become a pioneer of California in 1852, he hav-
ing previously made a trip in 1849, re-
turning home in 1851, and bringing his
family across the plains a year later. In
Eden Vale they established one of the
most beautiful homes in Alameda county, where
he and his wife lived and toiled for their children
until the day he passed to the still brighter home
beyond.
The name of John Hyde Braly swells the roll
call of men who build for all time, and whose in-
terest^ are of such practical and essential nature
that their successors must follow closely in their
footsteps or lag behind in the march of progress
and civilization. The superstructure of his life is
founded upon the resources of a great, new state,
and upon those universal principles of toleration
and humanity which man, from the age of civil-
ization, has cherished as his highest ideals. He
has always been devoted to the cause of education,
encouraging a high standard and personally in-
teresting himself in the erection of many schools
in both Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties.
It has been said of him that no appeal for assist-
ance in behalf of a worthy public enterprise of
whatever nature was ever made to him in vain.
He is a man of great generosity of heart, con-
tributing liberally and cheerfully of his means
toward the relief of suffering wherever he sees
it. In religion he is a member of the Emanuel
Presbyterian Church. His religion is a part of
his life, living and giving the two principles up-
on which he has done business. He is widely
known as a man of unimpeachable honor, and all
his transactions in business are free from that
narrow and selfish spirit so characteristic of the
modern commercial world. He is liberal in char-
acter, broad in his friendships, and in spite of en-
grossing cares has never allowed business to be
the chief and only aim of his life; he is a promi-
nent Mason, being a Knight Templar and a thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite Mason ; is a valued
member in social circles ; and a husband and
father whose happiest hours have been passed in
the sacred atmosphere of home. He has two sons
and one daughter living (having lost two daugh-
ters and one son) : Arthur H, vice-president and
cashier of the Southern California Savings Bank;
Harold H, a mining and civil engineer ; and
Emma Louise, who is now the wife of H. G.
Bundrem, a harness merchant of Los Angeles.
They have been faithfully reared in the belief of
their ancestors, all being members of Emanuel
Church. From whatever point of view Mr.
Braly 's career be regarded it may safely be said
that he is one of the representative men of Los
Angeles. The record of his well-spent and nobly
inclined life is one to which his descendants may
revert with feelings of pride, conscious of the
knowledge that he is entitled to a conspicuous
place in the historical literature of the state of
California, in whose early development he took
an active and important part.
HON. HENRY H. MARKHAM. The
Markham family, represented in California by
Hon. Henry H. Markham, former congress-
man and governor of the state, was established
in America during the colonial period of our
history. In Connecticut the name flourished
for many generations, a motive power in polit-
ical, professional and business life of New
England. In Brookfield, Conn., March 2, 1738,
occurred the birth of Brazilla Markham, to
whom manhood brought the responsibilities of
business life. He settled in Pittsford, Vt.,
and later in Essex county, N. Y., his death
occurring in the latter state, in the town of
Wilmington, June 1, 1824. His wife, formerly
Ann Whittaker, was born September 1, 1758,
and died in Wilmington in 1804. In their
family was a son, Nathan B., who was born
in Pittsford, Vt., April 27, 1796, and who in
manhood followed the training of his youth
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
and engaged in a business career. For many-
years he was located in Wilmington, N. Y., as
an iron manufacturer. Later in life he re-
moved to Manitowoc. Wis., where his death
occurred January 22, 1882. He was a man of
strong integrity and honor and became one
of the most prominent citizens in the com-
munity he made his home. Fraternally he
was a Royal Arch Mason ; politically he was
a Whig during the existence of that party,
and afterward became a stanch Republican.
He was early taught the principles of patriot-
ism, and as a lad of eighteen years served as
a minute man in the war of 181 2, participating
in the battle of Plattsburg, in 1814. The mus-
ket he carried is now in the possession of his
son, Hon. H. H. Markham, who values it
highly. The fortunes of Nathan B. Markham
were allied by marriage with those of an old
Scotch family long established on American
soil. Susan McLeod, to whom he was united
in Wilmington, New York, May 10, 1827, was
born in Sullivan, N. H., September 22, 1801,
a daughter of Deacon Thomas and Patty
(Wilder) McLeod, natives respectively of
Boston, Mass., and Sullivan. N. H. In 1790
Mr. MeLeod located in Sullivan, where he re-
mained for some years, later removing to
Essex county, N. Y., where he engaged in
farming until his death. He was an influential
man in the county and held a prominent place
in the Presbyterian Church. His wife, born
in 1794, was the representative of an old co-
lonial family of New England. On October
15, 1882, less than a year after her husband's
death Mrs. Markham passed away. She was
the mother of ten children, six sons and four
daughters, all of whom lived to manhood and
womanhood. Four of the sons became law-
yers and were prominent in their profession.
J. D. is a practicing attorney in Manitowoc,
Wis.; Alice married John Killen and died in
Manitowoc, Wis.; Byron, deceased, was a
business man of New Lisbon, Wis. ; Perley
in Benzonia, Wis.; Elisha Alden re-
sides in Groton, Mass.; Clarissa became the
wife of Nelson Darling and died in New Lis-
bon; Delia died in New York; Henry H. is
the subject of this review; Earl died in Nee-
nah, Wis.; and George C. is an attorney and
first vice-president of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee.
Henry H. Markham was born in Wilming-
ton, N. Y., November 16, 1840, and was there
reared to young manhood. A common school
education was supplemented by a course in
Wheeler's Academy, Vermont, from which in-
stitution he was graduated in the spring of
1862. Removing to Manitowoc about this
time, in the same year he enlisted in Company
G, Thirty-second Wisconsin Infantry, for
service in the Civil war, and from Madison
was ordered into camp in Tennessee. His
services following were those of hardship and
danger, but were borne with the courage and
fortitude which were a part of his inheritance.
He marched with Sherman to the sea, and
thence started north through the Carolinas,
receiving a wound at River's Bridges, Salt
Kahatcha river, S. C, February 3, 1865, which
incapacitated him. He was sent to Beaufort,
S. C, whence upon his recovery he went north
and was mustered out of service in Milwaukee
July 23, 1865, with the rank of second lieuten-
ant.
Immediately following his return to civic
life Mr. Markham entered the law office of
Waldo, Ody & Van, of Milwaukee, and pur-
sued his studies with such persistence that he
was admitted to the bar of the state and the
United States supreme court in 1867. He at
once began the practice of his profession in
Milwaukee and two years later took into part-
nership his brother, George C. Markham.
They were successful in building up a large
and constantly increasing clientele, whose de-
mands upon the time and attention of Mr.
Markham told seriously upon his health.
Much against his desire he was compelled to
relinquish his practice in 1879 and on the 22d
of February of that year he came to Pasadena,
Cal., where he hoped to recover his strength
and vigor. Shortly after his arrival he pur-
chased twenty-two and a half acres between
Fair Oaks and Orange Grove avenues. In
1887 he erected a magnificent residence on
Pasadena avenue, and has since then beauti-
fied the grounds and surroundings until he
has made of his home one of the most delight-
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587
ful and attractive places in Southern Cali-
fornia.
It was almost impossible for Mr. Markham
to do otherwise than take a prominent part in
political affairs of his community, as he was
peculiarly equipped by education and expe-
rience to become a leader among men. In
1884, chosen by his party as a candidate for
congress from the Sixth District (which in-
cluded the counties from San Mateo to San
Diego, fourteen in all), he threw himself act-
ively into the canvass and visited all but three
of the counties. He was elected by a majority
of five hundred votes, his predecessor, a Dem-
ocrat, having received thirty-two hundred plu-
rality. Significant of his success was the fact
that upon the expiration of his term his own
party held the convention open two days wait-
ing for his acceptance and the Democrats tele-
graphed him that they would put no one in
nomination and the election would be his with-
out opposition. He declined the honor, how-
ever, and returned to his California home. Al-
though as a congressman Mr. Markham ac-
complished much for his district the greatest
feature of his work was the recognition he
secured for Southern California, which up to
that time had scarcely been regarded as a
community of any size or power. Through
his efforts a United States court was estab-
lished in Southern California and also as a
member of the committee on rivers and har-
bors he was instrumental in starting a move-
ment in favor of a harbor here. Loyal to the
cause of the soldiers who served with him in
the Civil war he was active in securing the
establishment of one of the National homes in
Santa Monica, which has since become known
as the Pacific Branch of the National Home
for Disabled Soldiers, and he was afterward
elected by congress as a manager of these
homes and devoted much time to their direc-
tion, exercising supervision of the one at Santa
Monica. Upon being elected governor he re-
signed his office as manager. Through Mr.
Markham was secured the transfer of the head-
quarters of the regular army from Arizona to
Los Angeles, and in this city they remained
until the second administration of Cleveland,
which meant the bringing into the state of
about $3,500,000 annually. In order to assist
the old soldiers in securing pensions he hired
?.n assistant and paid him $75 per month out
of his own pocket. In the meantime, finding
the appropriation for the Home to be insuffi-
cient, he went to Washington, D. C, at his
own expense and secured an appropriation of
$187,000 for its completion.
He became candidate at the earnest de-
mands of the citizens of Southern California,
and in opposition to ex-Mayor Pond, of San
Francisco (Democratic), he was elected gov-
ernor in 1890, receiving a majority of eight
thousand votes, and on the 7th of January of
the following year took the oath of office. In
January, 1895, his term of service completed,
he retired once more to private life. During
his administralion occurred the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago and for this he secured
an appropriation of $300,000, which was the
largest raised by any state, with the exception
of Illinois, and selected a board of commis-
sioners, to whom he gave entire charge. This
exhibit was a motive power in the attraction
of thousands to the state of California. Among
other important movements he secured the
adoption of the Australian ballot system in
the state, which is now a part of every party
platform. He compelled the Southern Pacific
Railroad to pay back-taxes amounting to $1.-
300,000, and in countless ways gave to the
upbuilding of the state and the development
of its best interests. One important pledge
made by him in the executive position was
carried out — that the state tax should not ex-
ceed fifty cents on the valuation of $100.
In Chicago, 111., Governor Markham was
united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Dana,
who was born in Wyoming, 111., and educated
in Rockford Female Seminary, from which
institution she was graduated. Her father,
Giles C. Dana, a business man of Waukesha,
Wis., traced his ancestry to an old eastern
family, among other colonial men of power
and prominence claiming relationship with Is-
rael Putnam. Mr. and Mrs. Markham became
the parents of the following children: Marie,
a graduate of Leland Stanford University in
the class of 1900; Alice A., educated at Throop
Institute ; Gertrude ; Hildreth ; and Genevieve,
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who died in Sacramento in 1891, at the age of
seven years. In his fraternal relations Mr.
Markham is identified with the Masonic or-
ganization, being a member of Corona Lodge,
F. & A. M.; Pasadena Chapter, R. A. M. ;
Pasadena Consistory, Pasadena Commandery,
K. T.; and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N.
M. S., of Los Angeles. In memory of his
"days and nights on the battlefield" he is a
member of John F. Godfrey Post, G. A. R.,
and the California Commandery Loyal Le-
gion. In local affairs no citizen has taken
greater interest in the upbuilding of the city
of Pasadena and the general welfare of South-
ern California. He was instrumental in or-
ganizing the First National Bank of Pasa-
dena, in which he served as a director, while
he was also identified with the movement
which resulted in securing the street railways
for Pasadena, and the building of the Santa
Fe Railroad. Fie was most active in his ef-
forts to secure a harbor for Southern Califor-
nia, realizing keenly the need of one, and in
this connection it is impossible to estimate the
value of his labors. In April, 1904, he was
again elected by congress as manager of the
National Home for the period of six years.
It is not necessary to eulogize on the life of
Governor Markham, for wherever his name is
known it is honored. His life has been one of
prominence, and through it all he has main-
tained the high standard of excellence which
has made it possible for him to stand fear-
lessly in the light of public scrutiny. He
seemed endowed by nature with those quali-
ties essential to leadership — a keen, forceful,
logical mind, an unusual executive ability, and
added to this an unswerving integrity and
honor which have given him a wide and last-
ing influence. No public man of California
has retired to private life with more of honor
or esteem by his fellow citizens, whether of
his party or another; so strong lias been the
impression made by him that his deepest in-
terest lay in an advancement of the state's
• ■ Ifare rather than his own.
<H XKI.i'S CASSAT DAVIS. Among the
ys of Los Angeles is Charles Cas-
vh, who is prominent in legal, financial
and social circles. Of a strong personality, great
force of character, and rare mental attainments,
he is justly entitled to the honorable position that
he holds as one of the most brilliant lawyers of
the city ; through persistency of purpose and zeal,
intelligently and unerringly directed, he has
achieved success at the bar and in financial cir-
cles. He is and has always been an inveterate
worker, deep thinker and great traveler; has a
high sense of honor and integrity ; belongs to a
good family ; is of a genial and hospitable nature ;
extremely cool, self possessed and calculating un-
der trying conditions ; and a gentleman under all
circumstances. His caution is large, but it is
offset by a large hope ; his moral faculties are
stnmg and active ; his intuitions and first impres-
sions and presentiments have almost invariably
been correct and have been his guide in a large
measure in his successful dealings with strangers
and with men in general. He is possessed of
unbounded benevolence, is philanthropic, large-
minded, liberal and public-spirited and has always
been in advance of his times in all matters re-
lating to public welfare. He is a natural critic
and has an analytic mind : is a high idealist
and a man of great order, a lover of art, books
and nature. There is an undercurrent of thought
and philosophy permeating his nature ; he spares
neither time nor labor in any cause or other busi-
ness in which he is engaged.
Mr. Davis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in
1851, of Welsh and Huguenot stock; his parents
were Timothy J. and Caroline M. (Cassat)
Davis, both natives of Ohio. His paternal grand-
parents came from Wales, where the estate has
been in the family for more than five hundred
years ; they located in Ohio during President
Madison's administration. On the maternal side
the family can be traced back to the Guizot fam-
ily in France, Huguenots who were forced to flee
to Holland at the time of the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes ; later the family immigrated to
America, where they changed the name to Cassat.
Mr. Davis' grandfather, David Cassat, was a tan-
ner in Ohio; he married Miss See of an old Vir-
ginia family, who. when they became pioneers of
( >hio, freed their slaves. Mr. Davis is the oldest
of a family of five children and was educated in
the public schools until he entered the Ohio Wes-
leyan University at Delaware, where he was
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graduated in 1873 with the degree of A. B. and
in 1876 received the Alaster's degree. Entering
Columbia College Law School he was graduated
in 1875 with the degree of LL. B., and at once
began the practice of his profession in Cincinnati.
He rose rapidly to public notice and in 1880 was
elected to the Ohio state legislature, and also for
five years of the time that he was located in his
native city he served as attorney for the Ohio
State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
In 1885 Air. Davis removed to Los Angeles,
since which time he has been actively and suc-
cessfully engaged in the practice of law. For
six years he was a director of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In 1897,
1898, 1899 ar *d J 900 he was a member of the
Los Angeles Board of Education, serving for
the last three years as president of that body ;
upon his election to the school board he found
affairs so corrupt that with Judge N. P. Conrey
he started an investigation which resulted in the
removal of Webb and Adams and broke up the
. unlawful ring. In 1904 he was elected on the
Non Partisan ticket as a member of the Board
of Education, resigning in the spring of 1906.
He served efficiently as president of the Los An-
geles Highway Commission in 1904 and 1905 ;
was director of the Municipal League from 1900
to 1905 and attorney for the League in the Dav-
enport "Recall" suit : also president of the Eco-
nomic League for two years ; director of the
Landmarks Club ; member of the advisory board
of the Southwestern Archaeological Society ; and
socially belongs to the Sunset, Jonathan, Univer-
sity and Sesame clubs.
Mr. Davis has taken an active and prominent
part in every reform movement that has been
started in Los Angeles. Since the time when he
was prime mover in the cleansing of the Board
of Education from its corrupting influences he
has been ready to give of his time and means
towards any purpose that tends to raise the moral
status of the social and political world. Though
comparatively young in years his strong personal
attributes have long since been generally recog-
nized, and these characteristics, taken in conjunc-
tion with his manifest public spirit, his breadth
of mind in viewing all public affairs, and his
generosity of heart, have given him a place in
the esteem of thoughtful and discriminating men
which few attain at his time of life. His work
is making a marked impress upon the trend of
events in Southern California, and the record of
his life is entitled to a place of distinction in the
annals of the state.
COL. JOHX M. C. MARBLE. Among the
prominent financiers of Los Angeles mention
belongs to Col. John M. C. Marble, who has
been a resident of the city and an upbuilder
for nearly twenty years. Mr. Marble is the
descendant of two old Eastern families, among
the earliest settlers of New England. The pa-
ternal ancestor, his great-grandfather, was
born in Boston and married Sally Bullard.
They had a son, Eleazer, born May 4, 1762,
who became a resident of Vermont, and re-
moved from that state to Wyoming Valley,
Pa., and married a widow Thomson, whose
maiden name was Mary Richards. Their
youngest son was Ebenezer Marble, born in
Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1805. He married Han-
nah Carey, of Careytown. now a part of
Wilkesbarre ; their second child, the subject
of this sketch, was born July 27. 1833, and hav-
ing lost his father in infancy, was then raised
by his mother's family until the death of his
mother's grandfather. John Carey, of Carey-
town, in 1844.
The Carey family is of English origin; good
authority in the mother country says they have
nothing to oppose that the family was founded
in England by the son of the Roman general,
Carus. who was a general in Briton in A. D.
282. The pedigree of the family was drawn up
by the Royal College of Heralds by command
of Queen Anne Boleyn, commencing with date
1 170, Adam de Kari.
The emigrating ancestor was John Carey, a
descendant of Sir Robert Carey, a cousin of
Queen Elizabeth of England, who upon the
completion of his education in France sailed
for the new world to try his fortune. He
landed in Massachusetts in 1634 and soon aft-
er joined the Plymouth colony, where he be-
came active in public affairs, was highly re-
spected and influential. He married Elizabeth
Godfrey, daughter of Francis Godfrey, and ear-
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ly acquired large land holdings at Bridgewa-
ter. He reared a large family of sons and
daughters, of whom Francis, his second son,
was born in Duxbury. Mass.. January 19. 1649,
and was reared in Bridgewater, where he mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of William Brett. Born
of this union were two sons and four daugh-
ter-, of whom Samuel, the eldest, a native of
Bridgewater, married Mary Poole in 1704.
\\ ith the removal of his son, Eleazer (next to
the youngest in a family of nine children) to
Dover, Dutchess county, N. Y. (Eleazer mar-
ried Miss Stnrdevant), the name was carried
westward, for from Dutchess county he went
on to Wyoming Valley, Pa., in 1769. The
family suffered in common with all the pio-
neers of that valley, so awfully stricken by pri-
vations and by Indian atrocities during the
Pennemyte and Revolutionary wars. One of
the family, Samuel, was captured at the 'Wyo-
ming massacre; was first adopted in the family
of a chief, later bartered back and forth and
held in bondage by his savage captors; finally
turned over to the British as a prisoner of war
and at the close of the war liberated as such.
The second son, John, was born at Bonds
Bridge, Dutchess county, X. Y., in 1756, came
with his father to Wyoming Valley in 1709.
enlisted in boyhood in the Continental service,
serving during the entire Revolutionary war.
He was with Washington at Valley Forge and
participated in many of the important engage-
ments of the struggle. He was in the com-
panies that were ordered to the relief of the
Wyoming Valley settlers and although they
made forced marches, still arrived too late to
prevent the massacre. He owned considerable
land in Luzerne county and was a man and
citizen widely respected and esteemed. He
reared a family of children, one son, John, mar-
rying in young manhood and passing away at
an early age. He left a daughter, Hannah,
who was reared by her grandfather; she mar-
ried F.benezer Marble and was left a widow in
early womanhoi d.
Their son. John Minor Carey Marble, as has
been previousl) stated, was reared in the home
of his great-grandfather until he was in his
twelfth year, when the latter passed to his re-
ward. With his mother he then removed to
Putnam county, Ohio, where two of his un-
cles had located ; his education was received in
the private schools of the period and Wilkes-
barre Academy, later supplementing this
training with a course in the Wyoming Sem-
inary at Kingston, and the public schools of
Ohio. In Ohio he accepted a position as clerk'
in a mercantile establishment, after which, at
the age of seventeen years, he became a part-
ner in the business at Kalida, and the follow-
ing year went to New York City and purchased
his first stock of goods. His first marriage
occurred in 1861 and united him with Mary L.
Coleman, daughter of Dr. G. D. Coleman, of
Maysville. Ky., her grandparents being resi-
dents of Lebanon. Ohio. At her death in Del-
phos. she left one son, Guilford, who became a
prominent attorney and politician of Ohio,
and died at the age of forty years.
Mr. Marble's civic pursuits were interrupted
by the Civil war. when he enlisted for service
in the One Hundred Fifty-first Regiment, Ohio
Infantry, in which he was commissioned
colonel, and which took a prominent part in
the defense of Washington. He continued ac-
tively in the mercantile business until 1864,
when with others he organized the First Na-
tional Bank of Delphos. he being cashier and
later president. In 1872 he removed to V T an
Wert, Ohio, when he purchased an interest in
the First National Bank of that city and suc-
ceeded his father-in-law. Dr. Charles Emerson,
who had removed to Colorado, in the presi-
dency. He continued at the head of this insti-
tution until he disposed of his interests, when
he organized the Van Wert National Bank, in
which he served as president. Because of his
wife's health (he having in the meantime mar-
ried a daughter of Dr. Emerson) he made a
trip to California, and so impressed was he with
the climate and the opportunities he believed
the country had in the future, that he decided
to locate here permanently. He returned home
and in October, 1888, having disposed of con-
siderable of his property, he returned with his
family to the Pacific coast. In Los Angeles
he began at once the organization of the Na-
tional Bank of California, and opened busi-
ness on the corner of Second and Spring streets
in September, 1889. He continued as presi-
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dent of this institution until 1906, when he
resigned and disposed of his interests. In the
meantime he had also been instrumental in the
organization of the Home Telephone Company,
and served as its president from the time of
inception to 1906, when he resigned ; was like-
wise one of the organizers of the Union Home
Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, in which
he acted as president until his resignation in
September. 1907. His entire life in manhood
has been passed in active business affairs and
through his efforts has come a large develop-
ment of natural resources. While a resident
of Ohio he assisted in the organization of the
Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinac Railway Com-
pany, built the first five miles of road, and re-
mained with the enterprise until it was suc-
cessfully completed to a system of three hun-
dred and forty-six miles. He then declined the
presidency, which was accepted by his old
friend, Hon. Calvin Brice. In Los Angeles he
has lent his aid freely to the advancement of
public interests and no man is more depended
upon to give his support as a liberal, public
spirited citizen.
.Mr. Marble's second marriage occurred in
1870, in Van Wert, and united him with Eliza-
beth Emerson, who was born in Ohio; her
father, Charles Emerson, was born in Mariet-
ta, Ohio, August 6, 1812, a son of Caleb and
Mary (Dana) Emerson, early settlers of Ohio
from Massachusetts. The great-great-grand-
father, William Dana, was captain of artillery
during the Revolutionary war. Caleb Emer-
son was a prominent attorney and journalist
of Marietta, while Charles Emerson was a
physician and merchant, first in Gallatin, Ohio,
and from that point he went to Van Wert,
where he was active in banking circles for
many years, being president of the First Na-
tional Hank. In 1870 he removed to Greeley,
Colo., where he organized the pioneer bank of
the city, and conducted same until his retire-
ment to Denver, in which city his death oc-
curred August 23, 1896. His wife was in maid-
enhood Margaret Bayman Grier, a widow
when she married Dr. Emerson ; she died in
1869. Mrs. Marble received her education in
the ( )hio Female College at College Hill. Ohio,
and is now the mother of three children, name-
ly: Elizabeth Dana, John Emerson and Will-
iam Care}', the two sons engaging with their
father in The John M. C. Marble Company.
Mr. Marble is a member of the California
Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Le-
gion, Sons of the Revolution, and Grand Army
of the Republic, and in religion both himself
and wife are members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. He is an ardent supporter of
Republican principles in his political convic-
tions.
CHARLES F. HARPER. One of the most
enterprising citizens of Los Angeles is Charles
F. Harper, whose association with the busi-
ness interests of this city have resulted in the
development of one of the largest hardware
concerns of the section. Mr. Harper is of
southern birth and lineage, having been born
in North Carolina in 1832, a son of John Suggs
and Nancy (Gibbons) Harper, both also na-
tives of that state. The father died many
years ago. survived by the mother, who made
her home in Los Angeles until 1871, when
her death occurred. She had two children, of
whom only Charles F. is now living. The
family eventually became residents of Missis-
sippi, in which state Mr. Harper entered the
service of the Confederate army, intending to
join the Fourteenth Regiment Mississippi In-
fantry, but was at once put on detached serv-
ice, being in the arsenal for a year and a half.
Later he was transferred to the navy works,
remaining there until the close of the war.
Among the engagements in which he partici-
pated was that of Selma, Ala.
Upon the declaration of peace, Mr. Harper
returned to Columbus, Miss., and again took
up the hardware business he had established
in 1854, and which he conducted successfully
for three years. Attracted to the Pacific coast
by the glowing reports of opportunities there,
Mr. Harper brought his family to California
in 1868 after disposing of his business inter-
ests in Mississippi. In Los Angeles he at once
established a hardware enterprise in the Allen
block, at the corner of Spring and Temple
streets, then the center of the business district.
This modest beginning of nearly forty years
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ago bore little promise of attaining its present
large proportions, but its growth has been
commensurate with the advancement and pro-
gress of the city, and in proportion to his ef-
forts in behalf of the latter the same measure
of prosperity has been meted out to Air. Har-
per. This enterprise was incorporated about
1880 as the Harper-Reynolds Company, of
which Mr. Harper still retains the leadership,
although until recently the active management
of the company has been in charge of his son,
Arthur C. Harper.
Since 1895 Mr. Harper has been a resident
of Hollywood, where he owns a beautiful es-
tate of four hundred and eighty acres known
as Ceilia Vista (named by Bishop Fitzgerald,
and meaning sky view), lying on the mount-
ainside, from whose base to the summit ex-
tends one of the finest orchards to be found in
the state. Wide driveways, lined on either
side by stately palms of large size, add grace
and beauty to the landscape. Here with his
wife, Mr. Harper is enjoying the evening of
his days. Before marriage Mrs. Harper was
Miss Martha W. Mullen, she too being of
southern birth, born in Mississippi, June 17,
1838. They became the parents of ten chil-
dren, of whom only five attained maturity :
Edward J., who was born in Mississippi, is a
minister in the Presbyterian denomination,
and now is pastor of the Knox church of Los
Angeles ; Arthur C, who was also born in Mis-
sissippi, had charge of his father's interests in
the hardware store until elected to fill the
office of mayor of the city; Albert G., whose
birth occurred in Los Angeles, is interested in
the Consolidated Pipe Company, of which his
br< ther, Arthur C, was president, and of which
Augustus I)., the next child in order of birth,
is manager; the youngest of the children, is
Benjamin W., who was also born in Los An-
geles, and is now a practicing dentist of Hol-
lywood.
In his political convictions Mr. Harper is a
stanch advocate of Democratic principles, and
lias always taken an active interest in the ad-
vancement of his party. The only fraternal
organization with which he is identified is the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while his
wife belongs to the Rebekahs. He is a mem-
ber of the Pioneer Society of Los Angeles
County and a member of the Confederate Vet-
erans, Camp No. ~j. Mr. Harper occupies a
high place in the esteem of his fellow citizens,
appreciated alike for his splendid business
qualities and his personal character.
HON. BENJAMIN W. HAHN. Illinois has
been generous in her supply of notable residents
to Pasadena, and among these Mr. Hahn takes
high rank. He was born in Chicago August 28,
1868, and is a son of Samuel and Barbara Hahn.
During his earlier years the father was a car-
penter and builder, a trade which he followed in
Chicago with splendid success for many years.
Benjamin W. Hahn attended the common
schools of his native city, and from the time
of leaving school until he reached his majority
he was employed with the Chicago White Lead
and Oil Company, gaining versatile knowledge
during this time. Coming to California in 1887,
he located in Pasadena and some time later began
the stud\' of law under the direction of Messrs.
Metcalfe and McLachlan. The latter, Hon.
James McLachlan, is now a member of congress
from Los Angeles county, Cal. On April 3,
1891, Mr. Hahn was admitted to the bar of the
superior court, later to the supreme court, and
finally to the United States supreme court. It
was with this prestige that he opened an office in
Pasadena and began the practice of his profes-
sion, first alone, but later in patnership with
his brother, Edwin F. Hahn, under the firm
name of Hahn & Hahn. The firm conduct a
corporation practice almost exclusively, having
interests all over California and Arizona. Ben-
jamin Hahn has charge of the Los Angeles
office, in the new Citizens National Bank build-
ing, where he has a large private law library
and a fine suite of rooms, and numbered among
his clients are many of the influential and wealthy
corporations and residents of this western metrop-
olis. The brother, Edwin F. Hahn, has charge
of the Pasadena office.
Mr. Hahn has always been a stanch defender
of Republican principles, and it was on the ticket
of his chosen party that, in 1902, he was nom-
inated state senator from the Thirty-sixth sena-
torial district of California, in which bodv he
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was a recognized leader. He served on several
important committees, notable among them be-
ing the committees on finance, judiciary, corpora-
tions, banks and banking, and code revision. In
addition to his public life Mr. Hahn has filled an
important place in the private affairs of his home
city, and among other interests directed the or-
ganization of the Metropolis Trust and Savings
Bank, Bankers Savings Bank, the Sierra Land
and Cattle Company, as well as the Universal
Order of Foresters. He is also well known in
the realm of journalism as the founder of the
Pasadena Daily News, which is now one of the
leading news sheets of the city.
In San Bernardino, Cal., November 9. 1892,
Mr. Hahn was united in marriage with Miss
Grace Virginia Gahr, of that city, a daughter of
R. P. Gahr, who is well and favorably known
there. One son, Herbert L., has been born to
Mr. and Mrs. Hahn.
ELI P. CLARK. One of the most impor-
tant movements contributory to the growth
and development of Los Angeles has been that
fostered by Eli P. Clark, whose association
with the promotion of railroad enterprises in
this city for the past fifteen years has given
to him a prominent place among the repre-
sentative men of Southern California. A re-
sume of his life is in brief a history of the
progress of the city, for the enterprise with
which he has been connected is one of the
strongest factors in its upbuilding, and as
such is interesting to read by those who know
either the man or the city.
The Clark family were among the pioneers
of Iowa, where, in Iowa City, on the 25th of
November, 1847, Eli P. Clark was born. When
he was eight years old his parents removed
to Grinnell, Iowa, then but the beginning of
a city, and there he attended the public schools
and later Iowa College, which was established
there. His first experience in the battle of life
was teaching one term of school in his eight-
eenth year, and in this work he acquired the
discipline and self-control which have marked
his success in other lines. About 1867 the
family removed to southwestern Missouri to
escape the rigors of Iowa winters, and follow-
ing this Mr. Clark remained at home engaged
in farming with his father during the sum-
mers, while he taught school in the winter
months. Becoming interested in the possibili-
ties held out to the man of courage and hardi-
hood by the newer sections of the southwest
he decided to locate in Arizona for a time, and
accordingly, in the spring of 1875, became one
of a party to cross the plains for that terri-
tory. This experience was one which required
courage in as great measure as in the earlier
days of the country, because travel was
fraught not only with danger from the Indians,
but as well from lawless white bands. They
came through safely, however, and after a
three months' journey, made by way of the
old Santa Fe and Fort Wingate trail, arrived
at Prescott.
The associations Mr. Clark formed in that
city proved the foundation for his operations
later in Los Angeles, as one of his first ac-
quaintances was his present partner, M. H.
Sherman,. who was then principal of the Pres-
cott high school, the first public school or-
ganized in the territory. He met with suc-
cess, also, in his ventures in that city, follow-
ing mercantile enterprises for a short time,
and also serving as postmaster for nearly a
year. In the winter of 1877, under the firm
name of Clark & Adams, he began the manu-
facture of lumber, operating three sawmills
and selling his product extensively throughout
the territory. The prominence of Mr. Clark
was not only a commercial one, for he quickly
rose to a position of importance in political
affairs, as a stanch Republican being chosen
territorial auditor in 1877, succeeding himself
four terms and serving for ten years. It was
during these years that he formed the ac-
quaintance of Genera! Fremont, while he was
governor of Arizona, and counts the friend-
ship which grew out of their official relations
as one of the most pleasant in his life.
Through his association with the interests of
the territory as ex officio state assessor (made
so by territorial enactment) he was instru-
mental in bringing about many improve-
ments which are now the law of the land. It
was in that city also, on the 8th of April,
1880, that he was united in marriage with
Miss Lucv Sherman, a sister of his friend,
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M. H. Sherman, and tliere he made his home
until January, 1891.
In the month and year just mentioned he
joined General Sherman in Los Angeles, in
answer to the latter's oft-repeated requests
that he do so, and became the vice-president
and manager of the newly organized Los An-
geles Consolidated Electric Railway Company.
Mr. Clark had already established prestige for
himself in the matter of promoting railroad
facilities for Arizona, having been active in
procuring favorable legislation to encourage
the building of a road from Prescott to Mari-
copa, and afterward was instrumental in hav-
ing a bill passed in the legislature of 1885,
granting a subsidy of $4,000 per mile for a
road to be built from Prescott to connect with
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. He helped
to organize the first company and became its
first treasurer and secretary, and finally turned
over the organization to Thomas S. Bullock,
who financed and built the Prescott & Arizona
Central Railroad, which afterward gave way
to the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad,
one of the best railroad properties in the west.
After locating in Los Angeles Mr. Clark co-
operated with General Sherman in the build-
ing of the present street railway system,
known as the Los Angeles Railway, their sale
of a half interest in their property to the bond-
holders having taken place in 1895, after its
successful financial establishment. To them
is due much credit for this enterprise, because
at the time of the foundation of the work Los
Angeles was only a small city and to all in-
tents and purposes gave no evidence of a fu-
ture which could make this venture a safe
investment. In face of hostile opposition and
discouraging obstacles they carried the enter-
prise to completion and but a little later were
justified in their gigantic undertaking. In the
year 1895 Mr. Clark conceived the idea which
has resulted in the famous "Balloon Route,"
his first stej) being the purchase of the old
steam road known as the Los Angeles & Pa-
cific Railroad, and following this with the con-
struction of the Santa Monica, Ocean Park,
Playa del Rev. Hermosa, and Redondo lines,
via the beautiful city of Hollywood, compris-
ing a system of nearly two hundred miles
which traverse one of the finest, if not the
finest, section of Southern California. With
the completion of further improvements now
in prospect the Los Angeles Railway will be
known as the finest electric road system on
the Pacific coast. The dominant character-
istics of Mr. Clark are in a large measure re-
sponsible for the success of this enterprise,
which has probably meant more to Los An-
geles as an attraction for tourists than any
other one feature of the section. Mr. Clark
well merits the position he holds among the
prominent men of Southern California, all pro-
moters and financiers instinctively looking to
him and others of his class for an upholding
of the prestige which has made Los Angeles
famous wherever the name is known.
HOX. WALTER R. LEEDS. Although
young in years Hon. Walter R. Leeds has al-
ready won for himself a position among the rep-
resentative citizens of Los Angeles and Southern
California, establishing himself as a successful
exponent of the law and proving so able an
advocate of Republican principles that he was
elected to the state legislature and served effi-
ciently during the session of 1907. He is a na-
tive of Ohio, his birth having occurred in Cin-
cinnati September 19, 1876. His preliminary
education was received in the public and high
schools of Los Angeles, whither he was brought
by his parents in childhood, and after his grad-
uation from the latter he began the study of law
(1895) in the offices of Davis & Rush. Two
years later he was admitted to the bar, being
then just twenty-one years old. In 1900 he was
appointed secretary of the Republican county
central committee, was reappointed for three
terms and served steadily until May, 1906, when
he resigned. In the fall of 1906 he received the
nomination on the Republican ticket to the state
legislature, as representative from the Seventieth
district.
In Los Angeles, November 25, 1903, Mr.
Leeds was united in marriage with Miss Anna
Fay, a native of Muskegon. Mich., and the
granddaughter of the late T. D. Stimson, a prom-
inent capitalist and lumberman of Michigan,
Washington and Southern California. She is a
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woman of rare worth and culture, finely edu-
cated, having graduated from Notre Dame Col-
lege in Indiana. One son, Walter R., Jr., has
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Leeds. Fraternally
he is a member of East Gate Lodge No. 290, F.
& A. M., Signet Chapter No. 57. R. A. M.,
Southern California Commanderv No. 9. K. T.,
and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
He is also a member of the County Bar Asso-
ciation and the California Club.
CHARLES W. SMITH. Preceded by over
forty r years of activity in railroad circles in
the central and eastern states, Charles W.
Smith came to Pasadena in 1897 with the ex-
pectation of retiring to private life, but as on
a previous occasion he again acceded to the
importunities of friends to once more asso-
ciate himself with the work, with the result
that he was made president of the Pasadena &
Los Angeles Electric Railway, later known as
the Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway
Company, of which he is still the president.
Prior to 1902 he was vice-president of the
Pasadena & Mount Lowe Railway Company,
and general manager of the Los Angeles Rail-
way Company.
At the time the colonists settled in New
England a representative of the Smith family
left Litchfield, England, and locating in Con-
necticut, there founded a settlement to which
he gave the same name of his home town in
England. A son of this immigrant, William
D. Smith, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in
1805 ! l ater he removed to Berkshire county,
Mass., where he grew to manhood and fol-
lowed carriage manufacturing. Still later in
his career he made his home in Homer, Union
county, Ohio, where, in March of 1848, he and
two of his children died of cholera. During
young manhood he had married Almira Gott,
who was born in Austerlitz, Columbia county,
N. Y., the daughter of Story Gott, born in
Connecticut of English and Scotch descent.
After his service in the Revolutionary war he
took up farming in Columbia county, N. Y.
Of the nine children born of the marriage of
William D. and Almira Smith, six grew to
mature years and three of the number are now
living, those besides Charles W. being Mrs.
Mary A. Fairbanks, mother of Charles W.
Fairbanks, vice-president of the United States,
and Mrs. Cecilia J. Ritchie. One son, Will-
iam Henry, became well known in the literary
field, his initial training along this line gain-
ing a great impetus while making verbatim re-
ports of the proceedings in the Ohio legislature
during the early '60s. Later he became an
editor and publisher in Cincinnati, and in 1869
originated the WTstern Associated Press of
the United States, of which he was manager
until within two years of his death, which oc-
curred in 1896. At the time of his death he
was engaged in the compilation of a History
of American Slavery, which was almost com-
pleted ; as was also the biography of ex-Presi-
dent Rutherford B. Hayes, a work which he
had undertaken in compliance with a request
found in the latter's will. These have both
been completed since his demise.
Austerlitz. N. V.. was the birthplace of
Charles W. Smith, and September 5, 1831, the
date of his birth. When he was eleven vears
old he removed with his parents to Union
county, Ohio, and there until he was eighteen
years old he studied under difficulties in the
primitive schools of pioneer days. At this
latter age he began to turn his education to
some account by teaching during the winter
months, and later he learned the trade of har-
ness-maker and saddler in Woodstock, Ohio.
The completion of his trade was almost iden-
tical with his introduction into a field which
had no connection whatever with his previous
years of training, namely, the beginning of
his railroad career. This was brought about
by the building of railroads into the section of
country around his home. On March I, 1855,
he was appointed agent at Woodstock for the
Columbus, Piqua & Indiana Railroad, from
there went as their agent at Columbus, and a
year later became general freight agent of the
road with headquarters at the same place. Be-
tween the years 1857 and 1870 numerous
changes and consolidations were recorded in
connection with the company, but through
them all he was retained in his position. The
opening of the Union and Central Pacific led
to his acceptance of the position of general
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freight agent of the Central Pacific Railway
Company, with headquarters in Sacramento,
but on account of failing health he was obliged
to resign his position two years later and re-
turn east. Subsequently he was general man-
ager of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & West-
ern Railroad, with headquarters in Indianapo-
lis, a position which he later resigned to ac-
cept a position with the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad as traffic manager, with
headquarters in Chicago. For one year, dat-
ing from May I, 1880. he held the office of
traffic manager of the New York, Lake Erie &
Western Railroad, with headquarters in New
York, resigning this to become general man-
ager of the Gtesapeake & Ohio Railroad, with
headquarters in Richmond, Ya. January 1,
1886, he was elected vice-president and gen-
eral manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad, headquarters in Topeka, Kans., in
addition to which in 1888 he also acted as
general manager of the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad. The great physical and mental
strain which he had been under for so many
years began to make inroads upon his health
to such an extent that a change was impera-
tive, and accordingly in 1890 he resigned his
positions.
It had been Air. Smith's intention to discon-
tinue railroad work permanently when he re-
signed from the Santa Fe employ, but late in
1895 he was persuaded to act as receiver for
the Atlantic & Pacific road, which in the mean
time had failed and was in the hands of a re-
ceiver distasteful to the bondholders. Under
the careful management of Mr. Smith the af-
fairs of the company were brought to a satis-
factory conclusion and July 1. 1897, the road
was absorbed by the Santa Fe system. It
was at this juncture that he came to Pasadena
with no thought of ever again taking up rail-
roading, but once again he was persuaded to
enter the field, through the importunity of
friends who owned the bonds of the Pasadena
& Los Angeles Electric Railway, his election
to the presidency following. On February 1.
he was made general manager of the
Los Vngeles Railway Company, and at once
assumed the duties of the office, with head-
quarters in I.os Angeles. After holding the
position for about eighteen months he re-
signed, August 1, 1 901, and was elected vice-
president of the company, a position for which
his extensive knowledge and excellent judg-
ment well qualify him, and he still occupies
this worthy position. He also held the same
office in the Pasadena & Mount Lowe Rail-
way, which by purchase became a part of the
Los Angeles system June 1. 1901. In Febru-
ary, 1902. all of these roads except the Los
Angeles Railway were consolidated into the
Pacific Electric Railroad Company. His son,
William Henry, was formerly manager of the
northern division.
The multiplicity of interests in railroad cir-
cles which have made such large demands
upon Mr. Smith's time and energies have in
no way impaired his interest in the welfare of
his home locality, and the Pasadena Board of
Trade and the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce have received much encouragement and
benefit from his membership therein. At the
time of the Civil war he was a member of the
Union League, and a stanch believer in the
principles of abolition, while in politics he is
now a stanch Republican. In his religious in-
clinations he is a believer in Universalism, and
while in Chicago became a member of St.
Paul's Universalist Church, from which his
membership has as yet not been transferred.
He belongs to the California Club and is a
Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. In
1852 he was made an Odd Fellow and has
passed all the chairs, becoming a member of
the Grand Lodge of the State of Ohio.
In Woodstock. Ohio, Mr. Smith married
Miss Marceline M. Sprague, who was born in
Woodstock. Vt., the descendant of a family
which had been represented in New England
for many generations. They became the par-
ents of three children : Kate, who became the
wife of Chauncey Kelsey and wdio died in
Richmond, Ya. ; Ella, who died at the age of
five years ; and William Henry, who is a resi-
lient of Pasadena. Tn taking a retrospective
glance at Mr. Smith's life it will be admitted
that the success which has followed him
throughout his business career has been little
short of marvelous. When only a boy in years,
at the age of fifteen, he was compelled to de-
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pend on his own resources, working as a farm
hand for a shilling a day at first. His rise
from this humble position to his present stand-
ing in railroad circles tells more effectively
than can words of his fitness for the career
which he has followed, and California may be
congratulated upon claiming as a resident one
of the successful railroad men of the country.
me with a letter to the New York newspapers.
He said, "We all came here as helpless as you.
You are sure to strike into the swim some-
time." I met the newspaper moguls on Park
Row— The World. The Herald. The Sun. All
took my address. The managing editor of The
World gave me some desultory work for a lit-
tle while. When the little work at The World
was over. I had only $2 left and was absolutely
JOSEPH SCOTT. Strickland W. Gillilan,
the famous humorist, now on the Baltimore
Sun. was doing newspaper work in Los An-
geles, and referring to Mr. Scott, had the fol-
lowing characteristic comment to make :
"To arrive friendless in a strange land, to
fail in finding newspaper employment even
though armed with a letter from John Boyle
O'Reilly ; to reach one's last $2 bill and take
a job of hod-carrying, and to resign the posi-
tion as deputy hodman to accept a position as
professor of English and rhetoric in a college
— sounds romantic, doesn't it? Sounds as if
it were fiction rather than real life. But it
isn't, and the man who had this career, full
of pluck, perseverance and pathos, lives in Los
Angeles today. You probably know him. He
is a successful lawyer, and he is called 'Joe
Scott.'
"No matter how many years ago. he landed
at Xew York. He was a stocky, sturdy, ath-
letic chap, twenty-one years old. a graduate
of Ushaw College in the north of England, and
modestly bearing the honor of having matricu-
lated with a gold medal in London Univer-
sity. He had been a leader in athletic sports
in his college, had specialized in history and
literature, and had left with the idea that he
would come to this country and be a great
journalist. He went to Boston soon after his
arrival, and there met John Boyle < >'Reilly.
the poet-refugee, who gave him letters to the
newspapers of the 'Hub.'
" 'The managing editors,' said Mr. Scott, 'to
whom I presented this raft of letters, all took
my name and earnestly assured me that they
would let me know when there was an open-
ing. I was so verdant I believed them. I said
tn myself, "It's coming: Its coming." They
haven't sent for me yet. O'Reilly then armed
R. H. H. Chapman, formerly managing edi-
tor of The Herald. Los Angeles, draws the fol-
lowing pen picture of Mr. Scott:
"That a sound mind is master of a sound
body is well evidenced by the subject of this
sketch. To the keenness with which he pur-
sued athletics in hi^ youth, Joseph Scott at-
tributes that physical vigor which today en-
ables him to get through a vast amount of
work and preserve excellent health. Sturdy
ancestors who feared God and loved their fel-
lows are responsible for this fine specimen of
muscular Christianity. His father's people
have lived in Cumberland for many genera-
tions, and form a line of what is known as Bor-
der Scotch. His mother. Mary Donnelly, is
pure Irish, from the country of Wexford, of
Vinegar Hill stock. And judging not only by
the distinctive Hibernian traits in Joseph
Scott's character, but also by a charming
photograph of his mother, his son and himself,
which was taken during his trip to the old
country several years ago, he 'favors' his
mother.
"When just twenty years of age, possessing
only rugged health, an excellent education,
and a few letters of introduction, Mr. Scott
sailed for Xew York. Ambitious as he was,
no toil was too lowly for him to try, and for
ten months his energies were spent in shovel-
ing coal and carrying a hod.
"At last his opportunity of deliverance came,
and the transition was as sudden as it was ex-
traordinary. ( )ne Tuesday in February. 1890,
he was carrying a hod: on the following
Thursday he was instructing the senior class
of rhetoric at Allegany College. For three
years he occupied the chair of professor of
rhetoric and English literature in that institu-
tion, pursuing his work with the same dili-
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gence and enthusiasm as he had used in shov-
eling coal. In his spare moments he studied
law, too, and in June. 1893. came to California.
Ten months later he was admitted to the bar
by the supreme court, and commenced to
practice his profession in Los Angeles."
Joseph Scott has risen to a position, both in
his profession and in public affairs, of which
any man might well lie proud. He was born
in Penrith, Cumberland county. England, July
16, 1867. Mr. Scott is essentially a self-made
man, and his indomitable traits of character —
honesty and integrity — have made him one of
the most prominent figures in the state of
California. At the time when Joseph Scott
entered upon his labors at the bar of Los An-
geles, it comprised many of the ablest lawyers
of California, among whom was the late
Stephen M. White; but the young man rapidly
fought his way to the front, for his honest
countenance, straightforwardness of speech
and forceful oratory made him a power before
a jury. He won his cases and grew in favor
and popularity until he stands today as one of
the must successful practitioners at the bar,
for he has the reputation of being a lawyer
whose presence in a case means honesty and
fair dealing. In his intercourse with his
brethren at the bar he is manly, kind and con-
siderate, and before the court he is modest and
courteous, but marked by a dignity which
makes him a leader among men.
Withal. Joseph Scott is a man among men
and is very much beloved by his fellow towns-
men, lie is now serving his second term as a
member of the non-partisan board of educa-
tion, being the president of the present board.
IE- is the president of the Newman Club, a
director of the Chamber of Commerce, director
of the Equitable Savings Bank and a member
of the California Club. He was a member of
the Charter Revision Committee, which shaped
the present charter. Joseph Scott has served
this community well and it is probable that in
the future lie will have opportunities to serve
it better. Me i- a man of domestic tastes and
a firm believer in the Rooseveltian theory. He
was married Jim, o. [898, to Miss Bertha Roth,
a native daughter of the Golden West, and six
beautiful, sturdy children, viz. : Joseph, Jr.,
Mary, Alfonso. George. Cuthbert and John
Patrick, grace their home.
HON. ABBOT KINNEY. The genealogy of
the Kinney family is traced to England, whence
some of the name came to America as early as
1634. In religious faith they were Nonconform-
ists and possessed the zeal, fervor and enthusiasm
characteristic of those who refused to conform to
the established church. Seeking freedom of re-
ligious thought and worship they naturally were
attracted to New England, and there and in New
York the descendants of the original emigrants
ever since have been prominent in the most se-
lect social circles. One branch of the family be-
came established in New, Jersey and at Brookside,
that state, Abbot Kinney was born in 1850. Not
only is he a descendant of colonial ancestors
through his father, but his maternal progenitors
also were pioneers of the new world, having
crossed the ocean to this country in 1636. As
a boy he was singularly favored. It was his
privilege to pass several years in the home of
his uncle, United States Senator James Dixon,
at Washington, D. C, where he became acquaint-
ed with the families of Lincoln. Grant, Sherman
and other men illustrious in the annals of the
nation. After having availed himself of the edu-
cational advantages of Washington he was sent
abroad to study and for a time was a student in
Heidelberg, also had the privilege of a Parisian
education. The chief benefit accruing from his
studies abroad was the acquisition of ability as a
linguist, yet there was another advantage scarce-
ly less important, viz. : the gaining of a thorough
knowledge of European races and customs. At
the completion of his language and scientific
studies he made a walking tour of parts of the
continent and by this mode of travel he gained an
insight into the daily life of the people, their
habits, peculiarities, pleasures and toils.
Returning to the United States with a mind
broadened by the highest culture and by cos-
mopolitan experiences, Mr. Kinney engaged in
translating for President Grant a history of the
Civil war written by the Comte de Paris, and
the time devoted to this congenial work proved
as delightful as any period of his youth. After-
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ward he engaged in commercial activities with an
energy as noticeable as that characteristic of his
literary pursuits. As a member of the tobacco
house of Kinney Brothers, he made his office
headquarters in New York City, and for a time
was a buyer for the firm in the south, but ulti-
mately went abroad for the firm. While procur-
ing the famous brands of Turkey for the New
York establishment, in 1875 he witnessed the
massacre of the Bulgarians and was the last man
to leave Salonica, in Macedonia, before the gen-
eral slaughter took place in that city. In 1877
he relinquished the work of wholesale buyer and
began upon a tour of the world, which lasted for
three years. During one year of the time he re-
mained in Egypt, where he acted as commissioner
to ameliorate the condition of an Egyptian prov-
ince, whose people were suffering from a fearful
plague of small-pox and famine. After leaving
Egypt he traveled in other countries and mads
a special study of their government, progress and
prosperity.
The progress of Air. Kinney's world wide tour
brought him in due time to Southern California,
which he speedily decided was the most attractive
country visited in all of his travels, and he deter-
mined to establish his home in the midst of an
environment so picturesque. It was during 1880
that he became a permanent resident of the state
and since then he has engaged extensively in hor-
ticultural pursuits. Among his first purchases
was that of five hundred acres near Sierra Madre,
of which tract he planted two hundred acres in
citrus fruits. More recently he has acquired
other holdings, his principal orange grove being
known as Kinneloa rancho near Pasadena. Since
coming to the state he has been deeply interested
in the welfare of the Indians. During 1883 he
and Helen Hunt Jackson were appointed com-
missioners to report upon the needs of the South-
ern California Indians, and his report induced the
government to endeavor to ameliorate their
needs. Largely through his efforts the reserva-
tion plan was abandoned and lands were allotted
in severalty to heads of Indian families, with time
limit, to insure the preparation of the red men
for civilization.
The interest constantly maintained by Mr. Kin-
ney in the preservation of the forests of Califor-
nia has led him to accept positions of an official
nature connected with that work. From 1884
until 1887 he acted as chairman of the state board
of forestry and had charge of the first surveys
for forest reservations. The beautiful valley of
Yosemite, with its remarkable natural beauties,
he believes to be one of the wonders of the
world, and it has been his persistent aim to rid
the park of the abuses of overcharge, poor roads,
the herding of stock on the lands, and the in-
adequate stage accommodations. Cnder appoint-
ment from Governor Budd he became a member
of the Yosemite commission in June, 1897, and
immediately afterward was chosen presiding offi-
cer of the body, in which capacity he labored with
rare intelligence and unwearying energy to effect
reforms needed in the management of the park.
At the time of his appointment there was only one
regular stage service to the park. The road over
which this ran was improved and two other roads
were fitted out with regular service via stage-
coach. All of the old indebtedness was paid, and
for the first time in many years the park was out
of debt. The herding of stock on the land was
forbidden, and prices for the entertainment of
visitors were reduced to reasonable rates. While
the commission did not attain all of its ambitions,
its work was performed with zeal, discrimination
and executive ability, and was the means of arous-
ing the people from the indifference regarding
the valley and awakening in them a pride in its
beauties.
Fond of the best literature, Mr. Kinney has
been interested in securing good reading matter
for the people. For two years he maintained a
reading room at the Soldiers' Home, and he also
established public libraries in Santa Monica and
Pasadena. While advocating the acquisition by-
all of the broad culture gained from the best
books and from travel, lie is nevertheless intense-
ly practical and has little sympathy for the mere
"book-worm," who remains blind to the practical
affairs of everyday. His love for literature has
not been allowed to shut him out from sympathy
with his fellowmen, but on the other hand he is
keen to promote any reform for the benefit of
the people and quick to aid any movement for
the upbuilding of the race. While he has accom-
plished much as an author and litterateur, he has
also been a prominent figure in affairs of his
city and state, and has thus gained a rounded
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character devoid of eccentricities. The title ot
his works indicate the wide range of his mind.
Among them may be mentioned "The Conquest
of Death," which he wrote especially for his
children and which deals with the attainment and
perfection of the best of the race; "Tasks by
Twilight," a plea to save the children from the
attempt to make their minds perforin what their
bodies cannot hear up; "Money," "Under the
Shadow of the Dragon," "Protection vs. Free
Trade." "Australian Ballot," "Forestry," "Euca-
lyptus," etc. All of these works are written after
deen study upon their varied subjects and they
prove the author to be a deep thinker as well as
the possessor of a fine command of language.
For two years Mr. Kinney devoted much of his
time to assisting in the enactment of the Austra-
lian ballot law. During that time he wrote many
pamphlets and newspaper articles on the subject
and made frequent addresses to public assemblies
in order to familiarize the people with the Aus-
tralian system of voting. Through membership
in the Citizens' League as well as in other organ-
izations, he has aided numerous movements for
the general welfare. One of his projects was to
secure the removal of local and state taxes on
ocean-going ships owned by Californians, his
position being that, as the state cannot protect
property on the open ocean, it cannot justly im-
pose taxes on the same. In order to relieve the
drought crisis he favored the issuing of permits
to stock owners. Each permit-holder by law
would be responsible for a specified district and
would be obliged to guard against fire. By adopt-
ing a system of that kind constant fighting over
public- pastures would end.
Four years after coming to California Mr.
Kinney married the daughter of Judge James D.
Thornton, and their union has been blessed with
five sons. Mrs. Kinney traces her ancestry in a
collateral line to Thomas Jefferson and is a direct
danl of Mildred Washington, a niece of
George Washington. Both in this country and
abroad Mr. Kinney lias been acquainted with
many men of renown. During his travels in the
old world he nut Von Moltke, Victor Emanuel,
Napoleon 111. Emperor of Austria, Abdul Aziz.
Ismael Pasha and others, while in our own land
he knew Lincoln, McClellan, < irant. Hancock,
Farragut, Seward, Sherman. Thurman, Bavard,
Randall, as well as many statesmen of later fame.
With some of these he was intimately acquainted
and their memory is enshrined within his heart
among the priceless recollections of earlier years.
During his half-century or more of life he has
traveled in many lands, won the friendship of
many of the greatest intellect of the day. tasted
of life's joys and successes, and with patriotic
fervor has labored to promote the welfare of his
countrv and his fellowmen.
EDWARD H. GROENENDYKE. The
Union Savings Bank of Pasadena, of which Mr.
Groenendyke is the efficient cashier, was launched
on the financial sea January 3, 1895, under the
guidance of H. M. Gabriel and Robert Eason.
With a board of directors composed of men no
less capable than themselves they weathered the
storms of ten years, in the meantime increasing
their original capital stock from $50,000 to
$100,000. At the end of this time the stock-
holders disposed of their interest to the present
owners, who came into possession March 1, 1905.
The officers of the institution are now, Holloway
I. Stuart, president; C. W. Smith, vice-president;
and Edward H. Groenendyke, cashier, all of whom
are men of known financial ability. The present
capital stock of the bank is $100,000, the same
as at time of purchase, and the surplus and undi-
vided profits amount to $75,000. The location of
the bank in the center of the business district
makes it easy of access for all patrons of the
commercial and savings departments, as well as
the safety vaults. This latter department is the
most complete and up-to-date of which any bank
in the city can boast. Everything connected
with the vaults is of the latest manufacture, and
all of the finishings and furnishings are of the
most improved character.
Edward H. Groenendyke. the cashier of the
Union Savings Bank, is a native of Indiana, bora
in La Fayette in December. 1877, and is a son
of John and Ellen Groenendyke. While he was
still a youth his parents removed to the west,
his primary and common-school education being
received in the schools of Pasadena. This train-
ing was followed by a course of three or four
years in Throop Polytechnic Institute. Upon
leaving college he went to Los Angeles and
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there put into practice his years of business train-
ing as a clerk in a real-estate office. Subse-
quently he branched out into business on his own
account, in J902 organizing the Los Angeles
Trust Company. For three years, or until March.
1905. he filled the position of secretary in the
latter company, resigning on the date last men-
tioned, however, to accept his present position a^
cashier of the Union Savings Bank of Pasadena.
In April, 1894, Mr. Groenendyke was married
to Miss Vera M. Morehous, a daughter of Col.
C. P. Morehous, who is a well-known and much
respected citizen of Pasadena. A thorough busi-
ness training and complete understanding of the
intricacies and details involved in banking have
been the secret of Mr. Groenendyke's success,
and when to this is added his charm of person-
ality, which makes a friend of every acquaintance,
the reason for his rise in the business and social
world is explained.
GEORGE D. ROWAN was born in Corfu,
X. Y.. in 1844. He was reared in Batavia, N.
Y., where his father, James Rowan, was en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits. At the age of
twenty he went into business in partnership
with his brother-in-law, E. B. Millar, at Lan-
sing, Mich., where they conducted a wholesale
grocery.
In 1873 Mr. Rowan married Miss Fannie
Arnold, a native of Sand Lake, Rensselaer
county, N. Y., where her father, George Ar-
nold, was engaged as a woolen manufacturer.
A few years later the firm of E. B. Millar &
Co. moved to Chicago, where they are still one
of the largest concerns of the kind in that city.
The city interests were looked after by Mr.
Millar while Air. Rowan went to the Orient,
and in Yokahoma made his home for a little
over a year.
In 1876, owing to his health, Mr. Rowan
came to Los Angeles and opened a grocery
store on North Main street, which he conduct-
ed until 1884. He then moved to San Francis-
co, and for a short time was engaged as a com-
mission merchant with the firm known as Jen-
nings & Rowan. In 1885 he returned to Los
Angeles, and went into the real estate busi-
ness, which he conducted until 1888, during
which time he became associated with Col. J.
B. Lankershim and O. H. Churchill in a num-
ber of transactions. In 1889 he retired from
active business and became a resident of Pasa-
dena. In 1893 the partnership with Col. J. B.
Lankershim was dissolved. In 1898 Mr. Row-
an returned to Los Angeles, where he made
his home until his death, which occurred Sep-
tember 7, 1902.
Politically Mr. Rowan was an adherent of
Republican principles. He also was one of the
early members of the Chamber of Commerce.
He left a family of eight children, Robert A.,
Fred S., Earl Bruce, Paul, Philip D., Benja-
min, Fannie F. and Flossie, all of whom are
now living.
ROBERT A. ROWAN was born in Chi-
cago, August 27, 1876. At the age of three
months he came to Los Angeles with his par-
ents, and his education was received in the
public schools of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
His first business experience was in New
York City, where for about a year he was em-
ployed by the firm of Ward & Huntington, ex-
porters of hardware to South America.
In 1897 Mr. Rowan went into the real estate
business, and in 1905 the business was reor-
ganized and incorporated under the name of
R. A. Rowan & Co., real estate brokers, with
R. A. Rowan as president, F. S. Rowan secre-
tary and P. D. Rowan treasurer, with offices
on the second floor of the Herman W. Hell-
man building. In partnership with A. C. Bil-
icke, the Hotel Alexandria was built during
the years 1905-1906.
Mr. Rowan was married February 28, 1903,
to Miss Laura Schwarz, of Los Angeles, a
daughter of Louis and Lena Schwarz.
PROF. GEORGE R. CROW. The life of
Prof. George Rush Crow reflects the highest
ideals and strongest principles that animate man-
kind toward a plane of better morals, a kindlier
brotherhood, a broader living, and in the evening
of his days it is possible for him to look back
over a fast-fleeting vista of years without regret,
and forward without fear to that which awaits
him in the Providence of God. For over twenty
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years be lias been a resident of Southern Cali-
fornia, in the "land of sunshine and flowers" re-
newing bis youth and adding by the power of
the genial clime, the fragrant-laden winds of the
sun-kissed Pacific, to his mental and physical
being, until today he is not known among his
friends as a man of advancing years, but rather
as one who has within him the perpetual foun-
tains of springtime.
Professor Crow is a native of Ohio, in which
state his grandfather, William Crow, a native
of Virginia and a member of a distinguished
family of the Old Dominion, settled in the early
days of the Northwest territory. He became a
pioneer farmer of Pickaway county and besides
acquiring financial independence for his family,
early assumed a place of importance among the
upbuilding factors of that portion of the state.
His death occurred January 15, 1814, his wife,
Susanna, having passed away five years earlier,
the last resting place of both being in Pickaway
county. The professor's father, David Crow,
was also a native of Virginia and was only a
lad in years when he accompanied his parents to
Ohio in 1802. Ten years later he served in the
War of 1812, after which he married and estab-
lished a home among the pioneer conditions of
Pickaway county. Like his father he engaged in
farming and like him, also, was successful in his
labors and became known as one of the prosper-
ous citizens of his community. His wife, Mary
Connelly, was a native of Maryland, from which
state she accompanied her parents to Ohio, and
there married, in the vicinity of Salem Church,
and passed the remainder of her life. Mr. Crow
died October 31, i860, and his wife passed away
on the 2 1st of January three years later. They
became the parents of ten children, five sons and
five daughters.
George Rush Crow was born near Circleville,
Pickaway county, September 26, 1832, and on his
father's farm spent the years of his boyhood.
His preliminary education was received in the
district school in the vicinity of his home ; this
amount of training was sufficient for the average
farmer lad, but, endowed by inheritance from
strong, colonial ancestors, with pronounced lit-
erary ability and studious habits, he was never
satisfied until able to take the course at the Ohio
Wesleyan University, from which institution he
was graduated with honors in the year 1861.
His studies were shortly afterward interrupted
by his enlistment in 1862 for service in the Civil
war ; he participated in all of the important en-
gagements of the Army of the Cumberland, and
for distinguished services at the battle of Mur-
freesboro was raised to the rank of captain. On
account of his special qualifications he was as-
signed to the corps of engineers, and suffice it
to say he acquitted himself with the honors which
had become recognized thus early as the result
of the personal excellence he always sought in
whatever he undertook. After the close of the
war he located in Illinois and in Logan county
engaged in agricultural pursuits for several years.
In the meantime, four years after his graduation,
his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of
Master of Arts for merit in literary work. These
interests he had kept up and had gradually come
to be known as a man of erudition and one
who was always in close touch with advancement
in every line. In August, 1870, he was elected
to the chair of Latin language and literature in
the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington,
III, and for ten years rendered exceptional serv-
ice toward the advancement of educational work
in this institution.
The resignation of Professor Crow from his
position in the Illinois Wesleyan University was
induced by his desire to locate on the Pacific
coast; in 1883, after severing business connec-
tions in the east, he came to Los Angeles and
since that date has been largely identified with the
progress and development of this section of the
state. As president of the Long Beach Land &
Water Company he took a prominent part in the
erection of the first hotel and the building of
the first steam railroad to that resort. Here in
1885 he inaugurated the Chautauqua Assembly
of Southern California, which has ever since
held annual assemblies at Long Beach. Great
praise is due Professor Crow for his wise man-
agement in freeing the assembly from a burden-
some debt and placing its affairs on a solid
financial basis. A summer school has also been
established at Long Beach, to which enterprise
in numerous ways the professor largely con-
tributed.
In bis religious life Professor Crow has given
the added impulse of active living, relying not
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alone upon his own faith, but exemplifying every
day his belief in the religion of the Apostle James
that "faith without works is dead." During his
entire life he has been a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, and for almost the life
of the average man he has proven a factor in its
development and upbuilding. For a number of
years he has served as a member of the board
of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Los Angeles, and as president of the
same for a large part of this time was instru-
mental in advancing the best interests of the de-
nomination in Southern California. Pre-emi-
nently of an aggressive spirit, it has been the
part of Professor Crow to be actively identified
in all movements with which his name is con-
nected ; and characteristic of his strongest traits
is also the success which has attended his efforts
in all lines, for he gives to everything that claims
his attention the same energy and thought which
have distinguished his entire career. He is
broad-gauge, thoroughly in touch with modern
methods and thought, and still found foremost
among the men seeking to advance the country's
best interests. His aims and ambitions have al-
ways been high, and however far short he may
fall of a perfect attainment he has still steadily
bent his steps toward the standard of excellence
chosen by him in the early morning of life as the
most priceless possession the world could give
him. Such men cannot fail to have their influ-
ence and the world cannot but be better for their
having lived.
In Topeka, Kans., October 14, 1869, Professor
Crow was married to Elizabeth M. Kanaga, a
native of Urbana, Ohio. Four children have
been born of their marriage, Marie, Chauncey,
Florence Elizabeth and G. Maurice. The second
daughter, Florence E., became the wife of Bert
F. Mull, of Columbus, Ohio, their marriage be-
ing celebrated August 24, 1898. The youngest
son, G. Maurice, was married in June, 1903 to
Edna Davenport, of Los Angeles, and the 'fol-
lowing children have been born to them, Virginia
Florence and Elizabeth Davenport Crow.
ANDREW OLIPHANT PORTER. Al-
though many years have elapsed since the
death of Andrew Oliphant Porter, he is still
remembered by the pioneers of Pasadena and
revered by those who knew him personally in
his citizenship, as well as by those who knew
only his name as connected with the upbuild-
ing and development of this section of South-
ern California. Mr. Porter was a native of
Indiana, his birth having occurred in Law-
renceburg July 17, 1819; he was there reared
and educated and launched in a business ca-
reer. In the early '50s he was attracted to
California by the discovery of gold, engaged
in mining for some years, and then in 1857
returned to his Indiana home. Later he lo-
cated in Shelbyville, Ind., and was there en-
gaged as local agent for the Indianapolis, Cin-
cinnati & Louisville Railroad, now the "Big
Four." A man of business judgment and en-
ergy, he also engaged in the grain business and
invested in real estate, purchasing land for
$25 an acre which he later sold for $90. Later
he associated himself with William Elliott and
others in the conduct of the Shelby Mills,
much of the management devolving upon him,
his splendid integrity and trustworthiness be-
ing relied upon to protect his partners' inter-
ests. The reputation he early established in
business remained with him throughout life,
and never was his trust misplaced or betrayed.
After fifteen years spent in his eastern home,
in 1873 Mr. Porter came again to California,
being one of the twenty-eight pioneers of Pas-
adena who formed a company and purchased
four thousand acres of land upon which the
town now partly stands. The colony estab-
lished by these men was called the Indiana
colony. Many of them are still living in Pasa-
dena and have reason to look with pride upon
the results of their early efforts. Mr. Porter
had great confidence in the future of Southern
California and without hesitation invested his
means in real estate, which as time passed rose
in value and eventually made him a wealthy
man. In 1875 he built one of the first substan-
tial and beautiful homes on Orange Grove
avenue, in what is now South Pasadena, lo-
cated on elevated ground which afforded a
magnificent view of the city below, the valley
and mountains. He originally owned quite a
large tract here, but as property increased in
value for residence purposes he sold the land
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until he had left but three acres surrounding
hi.s home, and which was cultivated and im-
proved with all the trees, shrubbery and flow-
ers native to the state. The death of Mr. Por-
ter occurred January i", 1888.
Mr. Porter was twice married, a son by his
first marriage, Omer T. Porter, having died in
Los Angeles. He married in 1865 Miss Anna
Green, and they became the parents of three
children, one a son, William, having died in
California at the age of eight years, and Don
Carlos is now a prominent lawyer of Pasadena
and Los Angeles, connected with the firm of
Porter, Sutton & Cruickshank, with offices in
both the above named cities. Mr. Porter was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
a consistent Christian, and a citizen of worth
and works. He was universally known as the
peacemaker because of his pacific disposition
and was often called upon to settle disputes;
he was public-spirited, kind and generous to
a fault and unostentatious in all his gifts. He
gave his best efforts toward the advancement
of public interests of Pasadena, being instru-
mental in securing the water supply of Pasa-
dena in the early days, and was also interested
in the organization of the First National Bank
of that city.
PROF. THADDEUS S. C. LOWE. The
name of Prof. T. S. C. Lowe is well known
anions the scientific men of the United States,
he being the inventor of the Water Gas System,
on which has been built up some of the largest
industries of the world, and also the original
inventor of the Compression System of artificial
ice making and refrigeration, now in general
use. He is a native of New Hampshire, his
birth having occurred in Jefferson, August 20,
1832. He received a preliminary education
which was only the foundation for the informa-
tion which In- afterward acquired through read-
observation and experience. As a very
young man In- was named among the scientists
who would effect changes beneficial in the eco-
nomic life of the nation, and as early as 1856 he
constructed balloons in order to study atmos-
pheric phenomena. During the Civil war he was
chief of the Aeronautic Corps, which he himself
organized, and in 1862 devised a system of sig-
nalling of much value to the cause. Later he
invented valuable instruments for atmospheric
investigation. He constructed and operated the
largest aerostat ever built, same having an at-
mospheric displacement of more than sixteen
tons. He invented also the compression ice
machine system and with it made the first arti-
ficial ice and fitted out the first steamship with
his refrigerating machinery for food preserva-
tion and transportation, which has marked a
revolution in the world's food supply. The
patent of the water gas revolutionized the gas
industry, and for some time he has been putting
into use his discoverv of a new system for the
production of coke and gas of high quality from
petroleum oil products. This led to the organi-
zation of the Lowe Anthracite Gas and Power
Company. This oil-coke will take the place of
charcoal for all purposes, in fact there is no use
either domestic or manufacturing where coke or
anthracite coal is employed, for which this will
not prove far superior. The Lowe system can
produce gar as a by-product, free of cost in any
portion of the United States, from oil where it
is the cheapest, and from bituminous coal while
making metallurgical coke and other smokeless
fuel as a substitute for anthracite.
Professor Lowe has also given to the world
the beauties of the famous Lowe railway, which,
climbing a dizzy height of about three thousand
feet by means of a double cable and known as
the " inclined railway," the line then winds sev-
eral thousand feet higher amid the grandeurs
of a scene unsurpassed among even the beauties
of scenic Italy. This inclined railway was the
first ever operated by water power and gas en-
gines. It is also the first instance of an all up-
grade railway operated by rail, which has now
become common on all mountain scenic roads.
In honor of his achievement the peak was named
Alt. I. owe by government officials. He has also
perpetuated his name by the erection of the Lowe
Observatory, slightly above the head of the in-
clined railway.
Personallj Professor Lowe has not allowed
his intellectual qualities to supplant those of a
warmer nature, and although he has of necessity
given the greater part of his time and attention
to scientific pursuits, yet he possesses a kindli-
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ness of character, and simplicity of manner which
have won him many friends, especially among
those who have visited the observatory and seen
him at his work.
WILLIAM FRANCIS EDGAR, M. D.
The life history of Dr. Edgar is one of unusual
interest. Fnil of incidents, stirring and ad-
venturous, it possesses that fascination which
attaches to all lives that present the spectacle
of small beginnings and large achievements,
and of success wrested from adverse circum-
stances. Through a career which began in
1823 and ended in 1897 he was a witness of
much of the remarkable development of the
United States, no part of which was more in-
teresting to him than the Golden state, where
the happiest years of his life were passed.
A surgeon among surgeons, few there are if
any who saw more active service than did he
during the twenty years passed on the fron-
tiers of Oregon and California and in the Civil
war.
( )n both sides of the family Dr. Edgar was
descended from military antecedents, one
grandfather being a captain of light artillery
in the Revolutionary war, and the other a
captain of infantry in the war of 1812. The
martial spirit of the paternal grandfather was
strongly implanted in his son, for at the age
of seventeen years William Hamilton Edgar
enlisted from his native state, Virginia. After
his honorable discharge from the service and
when peace once more reigned, he settled for
a time in Kentucky, but later went to Mis-
souri. A man of unusual strength of char-
acter, honest and industrious, he impressed
all with whom he came in contact, and none
more so than his own children, who honored
and revered him to the end of his days. The
last years of his life were spent under Cali-
fornia skies, and it was while living in San
Bernardino in 1866 that he answered the final
roll-call. In death he was not long separated
from the wife of his youth, for two years
later she too passed away. After the death
of her husband she made her home with her
son William in Drum Barracks, near Wilming-
ton. Five children were originally comprised
in the parental family, but all arc now deceased.
The only daughter died in infancy ; one of
the sons, who was a soldier, died in Santa Fe
in 1846; another, who was a lawyer by pro-
fession, died in Los Angeles in 1862; still
another died in 1874 at the Edgar rancho at
San Gorgonio, Cal. ; the eldest child in the
family and the last survivor was William F.
William Francis Edgar was born on a farm
in Jassamine count}-, Ky., in March. 1823.
Nothing worthy of note occurred in his life
until he was eight years old, when he became
a pupil in the log schoolhouse about three
miles from his father's home. The path was
cut through a heavy dark forest, and this the
child traveled over twice a day alone in pur-
suit of his early schooling. When the family
located in Missouri he enjoyed better priv-
ileges, completing his non-professional course
in Bonne Femme College in Boone county.
After the panic which swept over the country
in 1837 the family removed to St. Joseph, and
there he made his first step toward self-sup-
port. The thought paramount in his mind
however was to secure the means with which
to pursue his studies, for ere this he had made
up his mind to become a physician. While
working in a drug store as clerk he devoted
every spare moment to the study of medicine
and chemistry and in this way prepared him-
self both financially and mentally to enter
the medical department of the University of
Louisville, from which in 1848 he graduated
with high honors under Prof. Samuel Gross.
At the beginning of the second session of his
college career he with two fellow students was
appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy,
an appointment which he held until he entered
the army. Life on the frontier in Missouri
gave him an excellent opportunity to get an
insight into army life and after making the
acquaintance of several army surgeons the
trend of his professional training had been
decided. After taking his degree he presented
himself before the army examining board in
New York and out of scores of candidates he
was one of four who successfully passed the
the rigid test.
The public life of Dr. Edgar began with his
appointment as assistant surgeon in the United
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States army in the spring of 1849. At Jeffer-
son Barracks he was assigned for duty first
at Fort Leavenworth, but was later trans-
ferred to Oregon, traveling by steamer to old
Fort Kearny. While en route Asiatic cholera
broke out among the passengers, and both on
board ship and on the well-trodden path to
the gold fields the doctor tended many a sick
and discouraged wayfarer, giving his services
gratuitously. Subsequently he was ordered to
Vancouver, later to The Dalles, and while at
the latter place, in the spring of 1851, orders
from the government brought about changes
which finailv placed Dr. Edgar under com-
mand of Major Philip Kearny, with head-
quarters at Sonoma, Cal. There he was as-
sociated with men who years afterward be-
came famous for their gallant services in the
Civil war, notably Joseph Hooker and George
Stoneman. From Sonoma Dr. Edgar was sta-
tioned successively for a short time at Fort
.Miller, the Yosemite valley, and toward the
close of 1853 was ordered to Fort Reading,
where now stands the town of Redding,
Shasta county. The severe physical strain
which he had been under during the past
years had begun to tell on his constitution and
made him an easy prey to the malarial ten-
dencies by which he was surrounded in camp.
One chill December night while suffering
with malarial fever he arose from his sick
bed in answer to summons to attend a com-
rade who had met with a severe accident, and
upon his return to his own quarters at day-
break he was seized with vertigo and fell un-
conscious, stricken with paralysis. At this time
he was a young man of only thirty years.
In response to orders from his commandant
he was relieved from duty and taken to the
home of a friend in Tejon valley, where he
received careful nursing and by the last of
March following was able to walk. The
three months leave of absence which was
granted him was spent for the most part in
Kentucky and Missouri, and upon its expira-
tion lie reported for duty at Jefferson liar-
racks, mar St. Louis. Assigned to the Sec-
ond United States Cavalry corps he there be-
associated with such men as Robert E.
Lee, Mbert Sidne) John-ton. William J. Mar-
dee and George H. Thomas, who were later
to shine with such brilliancy in the Civil con-
flict. After a brief stay in Texas, whither
the command had been ordered, Dr. Edgar
was sent to Fort Meyers, in Florida, where
there was a scarcity of medical men. In the
latter part of 1856 he was ordered to New
York, and the year following he was once
more at his post at Fort Miller, Cal., under
command of Captain Ord.
The breaking out of the Civil war was re-
sponsible for the events in the next epoch in
the career of Dr. Edgar. In November, 1861,
he was ordered to report at Washington, be-
ing among the last of the regular troops to
leave the Pacific coast. As surgeon with the
rank of major he was assigned to General
Buell's command in Kentucky, reorganizing
and taking charge of the general hospital at
Louisville. Once more his health failed un-
der the pressure of professional duties, ex-
posure and fatiguing travel, and against his
wishes he was retired from active service, be-
ing assigned to duty in the medical director's
office in the department of the east, with head-
quarters in New York. It was in the latter
city, March 8, 1866, in the Church of the
Nativity, that he was united in marriage with
Miss Catherine L. Kennifer. a lady of many
excellent qualifications. Memories of the de-
lightful climate and sunny skies of Califor-
nia made Dr. Edgar a willing victim, when,
after the close of war, he was once more or-
dered to this state, a pleasure which was en-
hanced by the fact that his parents had located
here to spend their remaining days. With
the exception of a few years of private prac-
tice in Los Angeles Dr. Edgar spent the re-
maining years of his professional career at
Drum Barracks. In the meantime he had pur-
chased a large ranch at San Gorgonio, San
Bernardino county, which until 1874 was man-
aged by his brother Francis Marion, but upon
the death of the latter in that year he himself
assumed charge of the property. Selling a
portion of it in 1881. he finally disposed of
the remainder, in 1886 selling it to the San
Gorgonio Investment Company. Los An-
geles never had a more true-hearted, devoted
citizen than Dr. Edgar, his love for his adopt-
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625
ed city expressing itself in endless ways. Be-
sides being a member of the County Medical
Society he was a member of the Southern Cal-
ifornia Historical Society, the Library Asso-
ciation of Los Angeles, the first agricultural
society of this city and also its successor the
Sixth District Agricultural Association, and
the Main Street and Agricultural Park Rail-
road Company. Not only was he a member
of the foregoing organizations, but in nearly
all he served in some official capacity, being a
director of the last-named for more than fif-
teen years. The death of Dr. Edgar, August
23, 1897, closed a career filled with noble deeds
and self-sacrificing devotion to his fellowmen,
and was a complete fulfillment of the motto
which he had adopted as his guide in early
college days:
"Honor and shame from no condition rise ;
Act well your part ; there all the honor lies."
JOSEPH KURTZ, M. D. It has been the
privilege of Dr. Kurtz to witness the develop-
ment of the west during the more than forty
years of his identification with its history.
With a robust constitution and a good educa-
tion in the university of Giessen as his chief
assets he left the Fatherland in young man-
hood determined to make a name and place for
himself in the new world. The history of his
life in the years which have intervened attests
more plainly than can words that his ambi-
tion has been realized, for today he ranks high
in the medical circles of Southern California,
being known as one of the most able and one
of the oldest practitioners in this section of
country.
As has been intimated Dr. Kurtz is a native
of Germany, born in Oppenheim, Hesse-Darm-
stadt, in 1842, the son of parents who were also
natives of the Fatherland. His boyhood train-
ing was not unlike that of the average Ger-
man youth and as is customary in that coun-
try he attended the gymnasium. During his
school days he recognized a predilection for
the medical profession and following his gym-
nasium course he attended the medical col-
lege at the University of Giessen for two years.
In 1862. when twenty years of age, he came
to the United States, and for about a year
was employed as a pharmacist in Pottsville,
Pa. The year following he served as a stew-
ard in the Jarvis army hospital in Baltimore,
and in 1864 went to Chicago, where for sev-
eral years he was engaged in the drug busi-
ness. A desire to see the far west prompted
him to make the trip by way of Panama in
1867, landing at San Francisco, but early in
the following year he came to Los Angeles,
a city which was destined to be his future
home and the scene of his brilliant career.
Soon after reaching this city he resumed his
interest in the drug business, following this
until he was once more enabled to take up his
medical studies. Going to San Francisco he
matriculated in Toland Medical College and
upon the completion of the course, in 1872,
graduated with the degree of M. D. It was
with this preparation that he returned to Los
Angeles and opened an office for the practice
of medicine and surgery and from the first
his practice has continued to grow until he is
now ranked as one of the brightest lights in
the medical profession in Southern California.
Of late years, however, he has made more of
a specialty of surgery. In 1889 he went to
Europe to take a special course in medicine
and surgery, studying in Munich, Berlin and
Heidelberg, and again in 1903 he went abroad,
this time to attend the clinics of Dr. Lorenz,
the celebrated orthopedic surgeon in Vienna,
at the same time continuing his researches in
Berlin, Munich and Paris. To Dr. Kurtz is
due not a little of the credit for the establish-
ment of the medical college carried on in con-
nection with the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, he being one of the most active advo-
cates and workers in its organization, and ever
since its founding he has held the chair of
surgery. In addition to this he is president of
the Los Angeles College Clinical Association.
For fifteen years he was surgeon for the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and is
now consulting physician for the Santa Fe
Railroad Company.
In Chicago in 1866, Dr. Kurtz was united in
marriage with Miss Ida Felbert, who like
himself was a native of Germany, her birth
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occurring in Carlsruhe. Baden. Five children,
two sons and three daughters, have been born
of their marriage and all are worthily filling
their respective places in the world. The eld-
est son, Carl, who graduated from the Belle-
vue Hospital Medical College, Xew York City,
is a practicing physician in Los Angeles, and
is professor of gynecology in the medical col-
lege connected with the University of Southern
California. The other son, William, is in the
employ of the Home Telephone Company in
San Francisco. Millie is the wife of R. L.
Horton. of Los Angeles ; Christine is the wife
of J. M. McGary, also of this city; and Cath-
erine, the youngest member of the family, is
still at home with her parents. Mrs. Kurtz
and her daughters are members of the Epis-
copal Church, taking an active part in all the
activities connected therewith. As is natural
to suppose Dr. Kurtz is actively interested in
whatever tends to advance the science of medi-
cine, and he holds membership in the Ameri-
can Medical Association, State Medical Asso-
ciation, Los Angeles County Medical Associa-
tion and the Southern California Medical Asso-
ciation. The organization of the German hos-
pital of this city is due to the earnest efforts
of Dr. Kurtz, who has been its manager ever
since, and he was also one of the organizers of
the Turn-Verein of this city, the meetings
which finally brought about the organization
being held in his office over thirty-seven years
ago. Another social order with which he is
connected is the University Club. The sub-
ject of education for the young is one which
appeals very strongly to him and for about ten
years he served on the board of education of
either the city or county, and for four years
of this time was president of that body. He
also served a- coroner of Los Angeles county
for three terms of two years each, a position
for which he was well qualified, and one which
he filled creditabl) to all concerned. Though
nominally Dr. Kurt/ i- a Democrat he is not a
partisan, and in the casting of his ballot the
fitness of the candidate for the position has
ni-i. weighl than party name. During his
long connection with the city of Los Angeles
Dr. Kurtz has gained and maintained a high
position in medical annals, and in business
and social affairs he is also well known and
highly respected.
JOHN XEWELL HUNT. Among the pub-
lic officers of Los Angeles county who have
distinguished themselves for their faithfulness
to the duties imposed upon them by their ac-
ceptance of official position, is John Newell Hunt,
the present incumbent of the office of county
treasurer. He was born in Dewitt county. III,
near Clinton, February 20, 1863, the youngest in
a family of ten children. The paternal family
were residents of New Jersey, from which state
the grandfather immigrated to Springfield, Ohio,
and there engaged as a hotel man until his
death, which occurred in 1845. His son, John B.,
born in Springfield, Ohio, became a physician in
young manhood and in the year of his father's
death located in Illinois, where he pursued his
profession for some years. In 1882 he came to
the Pacific coast and as a retired citizen located
in Los Angeles, where his death occurred in
1891. lie is survived by his wife, formerly Sa-
rah Barnett, a native of Springfield, Ohio, and
daughter of Samuel Barnett ; she still makes her
home in Los Angeles.
One of two living children, John Newell Hunt
was reared in his Illinois home and educated in
its public schools. He accompanied his parents
to Southern California, where his first occupa-
tion was as a horticulturist in South Pasadena.
A part of the property upon which he was em-
ployed he sold in 1886 as acreage and a part
as a subdivision to the city, and in the follow-
ing year he entered the Southern California Sav-
ings Bank as teller. He rose to the position
of cashier, remaining connected with the insti-
tution for seven years. In the meantime he had
established himself among the citizens of worth
and ability and was taking an active part in the
affairs of the Republican party, of wdiose prin-
ciples he was always a stanch adherent. In Janu-
ary, 1895, he accepted a position in the office of
the county tax collector, the incumbent at that
time being A. H. Merwin, acting as cashier until
January, 1899, when he received the appoint-
ment to the position of chief deputy tax col-
lector under John H. Gish. Re-appointed in
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
January, 1903, by Col. W. O. Welch, he served
in this positon until January, 1907. In the mean-
time, in the fall of 1906, he was nominated on
the Republican ticket and endorsed by the other
parties, for the office of county treasurer, and
being elected took the oath of office in January,
1907. Although but a brief time has elapsed,
the preparation that Mr. Hunt had received for
the office along the splendid line of business
training, and the manner in which he has grasped
affairs, speak well for a successful tenure of
office.
In Los Angeles Mr. Hunt was united in mar-
riage with Miss Hattie Collins, a native of Pon-
tiac. TIL. and they are the parents of the fol-
lowing children : Harry, Grace and Edward.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Hunt is identified
with the Masonic organization, having been
made a member of the order in South Pasadena
Lodge No. 367, F. & A. M., in which he is now
acting as secretary, and socially is identified with
the Union League Club. He is prominent in
politics and active in the advancement of the
principles he endorses. In religion both himself
and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church,
and are liberal in their support of all its char-
ities.
BRADNER W. LEE. The records of the
Lee family since its location in America dur-
ing the colonial period of our history form
an interesting account of one of the most
prominent names of the western world. The
emigrating ancestor was Nathaniel Lee, who
was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, of
English ancestry, in the year 1695. He was
a commissioned officer in the British army, and
at the time of the Rebellion and accession
of George the First, he sided with the "Re-
volt ;" his property was confiscated, and while
yet a single man. in 1725. he emigrated to
America and settled on the banks of the Hud-
son, near the village of Fishkill, in Dutchess
county, N. Y., where he soon married Mar-
garet De Long. Of this union were born
three sons, Thomas, Joshua and John (who
died at the age of twelve years), and four
daughters, Margaret, Patience, Polly and
Sally. The father attained the advanced age
of ninety-eight years, and both himself and
wife were interred in the cemetery at Dover,
Dutchess county, N. V.
Thomas Lee was born at the family resi-
dence November 15, 1739, and before attaining
his majority — on the 22nd of July, 1760, he
married Watey Shearman (or Sherman,
as it is variously spelled), born December 9,
1743. Shortly afterward Mr. Lee purchased a
farm near Fishkill, at a point called Quaker-
town, and there made his home for some years.
At the outbreak of the War of the Revolution
he was among the first to respond to his coun-
try's call, and in the years of that long, and
at times well-nigh hopeless struggle, his name
appears frequently in the published military
records of the part taken by New York. IE-
was commissioned second lieutenant in Capt.
Jacob Rosecrans' Dutchess County Company,
Col. lames Holmes. Fourth Regiment, New
York Continental Line, June 30. 1775. This
was one of the first four regiments of the Con-
tinental Line organized in the Colony of New
York upon the Establishment of 1775. by act
of the Provincial Congress at its session of
June 30. 1775. He was promoted to first lieu-
tenant, same company and regiment. August
3, 1775, serving in this command until No-
vember, 1776. At the session of the Provin-
cial Congress, November 21. 1776, four
additional battalions of the Continental
Line of the State of New York were
authorized, and a list of the officers
and their rank arranged. In this list
appears, in the Fourth Battalion. Col. Henry
B. Livingston. William Jackson's Company,
Thomas Lee. first lieutenant, ranking tenth in
the battalion. The minutes of this session
further show that Col. Lewis Du Bois was
being urged for appointment as colonel of one
of the four battalions, but was left out of the
arrangement, the records saying: "That from
the quota of this state being assessed so low
as four battalions many good officers will be
unprovided for. That sundry applications
have been made to your Committee for Com-
missions by Young Gentlemen of Fortune and
Family whose services your Committee are
under the disagreeable necessity of declining
to accept."
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It resulted finally in a fifth battalion or
regiment of the Continental Line for the state
of New York being authorized and Col. Lewis
Du Bois appointed colonel thereof with the
"rank of fourth colonel of the New York
forces." In this regiment Thomas Lee was
commissioned captain of the Eighth Company
of date November 21, 1776, and following this
participated in the battles of Forts Montgom-
ery and Clinton. White Plains and other en-
gagements along the Hudson. The muster roll
of his company is preserved in the New York
archives at Albany, X. Y., and is published in
Vol. I. New York in the Revolution, Albany,
1887. He was a member of a general court
martial held by order of General Washington
near White Plains. This court was composed
of Brigadier-General McDugall, president, a
colonel, a lieutenant-colonel, a major and ten
captains. Col. Morris Graham was tried be-
fore this court on the charge of cowardice at
the Battle of White Plains, preferred against
him by Col. Joseph Reed, General Washing-
ton's secretary, and was acquitted, the evi-
dence showing that his movement of troops
from which the charge arose was directed by
his superior officer. Captain Lee was also a
member of a general court martial held at
Fort Montgomery, April 30, 1777, by order of
Gen. George Clinton, composed of Col. Lewis
Du Bois. president, fifteen captains and two
lieutenants. Nine men were tried before this
court, charged with treason, convicted and sen-
tenced to death. This court again met May 2,
1777. and proceeded to try sixteen additional
men charged with treason, convicted them,
and sentenced them to death, but recom-
mended seven of them for mercy. Gen. George
Clinton, however, disapproved the recommen-
dation, urging a severe example to deter oth-
ers from like crime. His recommendation was
followed, and the prisoners ordered executed.
The weekly returns of forces at Fort Mont-
gomery for the months of May, June and July,
1777. show the presence there of Captain Lee
and his company, and he continued at this
post and participated in the battles of Fort
Montgomer) and Clinton. After this latter
engagement the regiment went into camp at
the Heights of New Windsor. On October
14. 1777. at this place, Captain Lee served
as a member of a general court martial ap-
pointed by Gen. George Clinton. The court
was composed of Colonel Du Bois, president,
two majors and ten captains. Daniel Tavlor,
charged with being a spy. was tried before
the court, convicted and sentenced to death.
This sentence was approved and ordered car-
ried into execution. In a letter dated Novem-
ber 24. 1777, from Gen. George Clinton to
Gen. Israel Putnam, from New Windsor, state-
ment is made that "Captain Lee was per-
mitted to return with his Family & Effects
to New York agreeable to your first letter."
On March 1, 1778, returns of the regiment
show Captain Lee at New Windsor. On. May
19, 1778, Captain Lee resigned. On Febru-
ary 18, 1779, at Fort Ranger, Capt. Thomas
Lee served as president of a court martial of
inquiry for the purpose of trying Melkiah
Grout, a justice of the peace, who had at-
tempted to exercise jurisdiction within New
York in the disputed territory known as the
New Hampshire grants, when he had been
appointed to office in New Hampshire. He
was found innocent and set at liberty. On
the 19th of October, 1779, Captain Lee was
transferred to Col. Zephania Piatt's regiment,
New York Militia, Dutchess County Associ-
ated Exempts, in which command he served
for some time. The returns from the regiment
November 9. 10, 14 and 17, of the year 1779,
show Captain Lee and company at Camp
Fishkill. Subsequently he was commis-
sioned and served as captain in Col.
Lewis Du Bois' Regiment, New York Militia
Levies of the State to re-inforce the Armies
of the United States, July 1, 1780.
After the close of his services in the army
Captain Lee removed to Hudson, Columbia
county, N. Y. In the spring of 1790, with
his large family, together with a few of his
friends, he emigrated to western New York,
settling upon the western shore of Seneca lake,
in the then county of Ontario, in what is now
the town of Milo, near the present village of
Perm Yan, now in Yates county. He pur-
chased a tract of three hundred acres of land,
erecting thereon a log house and a flour mill,
near the falls of the outlet of Crooked lake.
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or Lake Keuka. The following spring he
built a large residence of Colonial architecture
upon another portion of his farm, in which he
resided until his death, when it passed to his
son, Dr. Joshua Lee, who later rebuilt it and
lived there until his death, and it continued
for many years a prominent landmark. It was
destroyed by fire a few years since. Captain
Lee was one of the most prominent of the
early settlers of western New York, and his
name is frequently mentioned in the history
of Yates county. He served as supervisor of
the town of Jerusalem in 1792, being its first
one. He died January 22, 1814, at the age of
seventy-five years, and his wife on October
14, 1833, at the age of ninety. Their last rest-
ing place is in the cemetery at Penn Yan„
N. Y. They had reared a family of six daugh-
ters and four sons, namely : Abigail, Nancy,
Mary, Patience, Elizabeth, Thomas, Jr.,
Watey, James, Joshua and Sherman. All of
these children attained years of maturity, mar-
ried and reared large families, and resided in
Yates county, X. Y., in the vicinity of Penn
Yan, and the sons of Captain Lee became
prominent in the early civil and military his-
tory of their state, and all acquired comfort-
able competences. Abigail married Joseph
Ross and while a widow removed, with her
family, to "Illinois, where her sons, Joseph,
Ossian M., Nathan, and Thomas, became
prominent among the early pioneers of that
state. Her grandsons. Hon. Lewis \Y. Ross
and Gen. Leonard Fulton Ross, attained dis-
tinction and prominence in the political and
military history of Illinois. Among others of
her descendants who have attained distinction
are Commander William Kilburn, of the navy.
a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annap-
olis; his son. Capt. Dana Willis Kilburn, of
the Army, a graduate of the West Point Mili-
tary Academy ; Gen. Charles L. Kilburn, also
a graduate of West Point, now deceased ; and
Hon. Paris Kilburn, formerly Surveyor of Cus-
toms, Port of San Francisco, and president of
the State Board of Harbor Commissioners.
Hon. John Wesley Ross, LL. D., was formerly
postm?ster of Washington. D. C. and presi-
dent of the Board of Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and lecturer in the law de-
partment of Georgetown University. Nancy
married Hezekiah Keeler. Mary married Joshua
Andrews, and her grandson, Charles Asa Bab-
cock, was educated at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, holding the rank of commander in
the Navy at his death. 1'atience married Lewis
Birdsall, a son of Col. Benjamin Birdsall,
prominent in the Revolutionary and early po-
litical history of New York. Her grand-
daughter. Sophia Birdsall. daughter of Dr.
Lewis A., formerly director of the mint in
San Francisco, became the first wife of Hon.
Milton S. Latham, formerly governor of Cali-
fornia and United States Senator therefrom.
Elizabeth married Lambert Van Alstyne.
Dr. Joshua became a distinguished phy-
sician and surgeon, and was one of the
popular men of his day in Yates county.
He was surgeon of the One Hundred and
Third New York Regiment in the war of
1812, was at the battle of Queenstown, and
was one of the first who crossed the river on
that occasion in the discharge of his duties.
He was a member of the New York Assembly
for 1816, 1817, 1833, and a member of the
Twenty-fourth United States Congress in
1835-1837. He was elected to the assembly
in 1817. defeating his brother, Thomas, Jr.,
who was the opposing candidate. Thomas
Lee, Jr., was a man of great force of charac-
ter and engaged in large business enterprises.
He was a colonel in the war of 1812. and after-
wards served as a colonel in the New York
militia. He also held many town and county
offices, and served in the New York Assembly
in 1816, finally emigrating in 1822 to Detroit,
in the territory of Michigan, where he was a
member of its first Constitutional Convention.
He afterwards resided at Dexter. Mich. Sher-
man Lee was a major in the war of 1812, and
afterwards colonel of the One Hundred and
Third New York Militia Regiment. James
Lee was commissioned by Governor Morgan
Lewis as an ensign in the New York Militia
in 1805. This commission is now in the pos-
session of his grandson, Bradner Wells Lee,
of Los Angeles, Cal. Many of the descend-
ants of Captain Lee and his children have
served with distinction in the civil and mili-
tary departments of the government, adding
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honor to the name bequeathed to them by the
Revolutionary hero.
James Lee, the second son of Captain
Thomas Lee, was born January 15. 1780. and
in young manhood married Sarah Smith,
who was born August 3. 1784, daughter of
Richard Smith, of Groton, Conn., who re-
moved to Penn Yan, X. Y., in 1790. He was
one of a committee of three sent out from
Connecticut in 1787 who purchased a large
tract of land near Penn Yan for a Society of
Friends. He became one of the most promi-
nent of the early settlers of that county, and
was a man of large property interests. His
son. Col. Avery Smith, was colonel of the
One Hundred and Third New York Regiment
in the War of 1812, and also served in the New
York Assembly several terms. James Lee died
in Milo, N. Y., in 1868, his wife having passed
away January 11, 1858, in her seventy-fourth
year. They reared a family of ten children, viz. :
Elizabeth A., Daniel S.. Mary, Avery Smith,
Sarah Jane, David Richard, Susanna Wag-
ner. James Barker, Russell Joshua and Sophia
P., all of whom married and reared large fam-
ilies. Their sixth child, David Richard Lee.
was born at Milo, X. Y., January 2~, 1815, and
in young manhood became a farmer and mer-
chant. He settled at East Groveland, Liv-
ingston county. X. Y., in 1849, ar, d made that
place his home until his death, which oc-
curred March 11, 1886. By marriage, June
14, 1849, he allied himself with an old and
prominent family of America, Elizabeth
Northrum Wells becoming his wife. She was
a daughter of Isaac Titchenor and Charity
(Kenyon) Wells, and her paternal ancestry
can be traced back to the time of William
iln ( 1 mqueror.
The Roll of Battle Abbey contains the name
of this ancestor of the Wells family, "R. de
Euille" or \\ elles. Euille or Welles bore the
same arms with slight variation. The
name ramifies in many directions, and among
man} different families, Vallibus, Welles. Lee,
Millburn, Molbeck, Mollineaux (or Miller),
D'Everaux, Wassa, Washbourn (afterwards
Washington), Burn, Hurtburn, Heburn, etc.
The ancestor was named Euille (a spring or
water) in Xormandy, and originated also the
root of Vernon.
The origin of the dc Welles family of Lin-
colnshire, Barons by summons to parliament.
was in the Yaux (or Baux, or Bayeux. or de
Vallibus) family of France, one of the illus-
trious families known to history. The deri-
vation is traced to the year 794, from which
period they held the highest rank, personally
and by royal inter-marriages. It was founded
in England after the Conquest, by Harold de
Yaux (a near relation of William the Con-
queror) and his three sons. Barons Hubert,
Ranulph and Robert, all surnamed de Valli-
bus. The descent is through the younger son,
Robert, whose grandson. William, had four
sons. Robert de Dalston, Baron ; Adam and
William de Welles, of Lincolnshire, 1194, and
Oliver de Vallibus, prior of Pentnev Abbey.
Adam de Welles died without issue and his
brother, William, thus became founder of that
long line of noblemen of Lincolnshire. The
family of Vaux derived its surname from a
district in Xormandy, where it was originally
seated. In 794 of the Christian era a branch
is found in Provence.
The English branch of the Wells family
from which Mrs. Elizabeth X. Lee is descend-
ed, contains among its progenitors Bishop
Hugo de Welles. He became one of the most
important men in England, being advanced to
the See of Lincoln as archdeacon and Lord
Chancellor of England, was chief of the ba-
rons, instrumental in obtaining from King
John, in 1215, the great Magna Charta, pre-
pared by his own hand in 1207, and being
Lord Chancellor, was the most confidential
advisor to the king. His very numerous and
important official acts and history are given
in Rymers' "Foedera," "Parliamentary Rolls,"
Hume's and other English histories. The
progenitor of the Wells family in America,
from whom .Mrs. Lee is a direct de-
scendant, was Hugh Welles (as the name
was then spelled), born in Essex coun-
ty, England, in 1590. He emigrated from
Essex county to America in 1035, with
his brothers Richard, Joseph. George ami
William, coming in the ship Globe, which
-ailed from Gravesend August 6. 1635. and
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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landed at Boston the same season. Thence
he removed in 1636 to Hartford, Conn., where
he was one of its first settlers. Soon after the
autumn of 1636 he removed to Wethersfield,
Conn., being one of its first settlers and the
first of the name of Welles there. He lived
there the residue of his life, dying in 1645.
He was appointed and served as an ensign
in the Colonial service, and was a kinsman
and contemporary of Thomas Welles, the first
governor of Connecticut. Three descendants
of Hugh Welles served in King Philip's War,
one of these, Capt. Thomas Welles, serving in
the Falls fight. The line of descent is traced
from Hugh Welles to Thomas, Noah, Jona-
than, Jonathan 2nd, Colonel Daniel, Ira, and
Isaac Titchenor, who was born in Vermont.
Jonathan Wells 2nd served in the Revolu-
tionary war as lieutenant-colonel of the Nine-
teenth Connecticut Regiment, while various
other members of the family were associated
with the affairs of the colonies, serving in
colonial wars as commissioned officers.
Mrs. Lee survives her husband and still re-
sides on the old homestead at East Groveland,
where her family was reared. They were the
parents of four children, namely : Bradner
Wells, born May 4, 1850; Franklin Scott, born
February 2, 1852; James Avery, born July 31,
i860; and Charles Bedell, born November 7,
1854, the latter dying January 14, 1862.
Bradner Wells Lee is now one of the most
prominent lawyers of Los Angeles, where he
has been located since 1879. In his birthplace,
East Groveland, Livingston county, N. Y., he
received his early education, and later took up
a private course of study. In 1871 he went
to Holly Springs, Miss., where under the in-
struction of his uncle. Col. G. Wiley Wells, he
prepared for the legal profession. His uncle
at this time was United States district attor-
ney of the Northern District of Mississippi,
and was subsequently a member of congress
from that state, and later United States con-
sul-general to Shanghai, China. Mr. Lee was
admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1872,
after which he held the position of assistant
United States attorney until 1879, resigning
therefrom in the last named year in order to
come to Los Angeles. He here associated
himself with Judge Brunson and Col. G. Wiley
Wells in the law firm known as Brunson,
Wells & Lee, having been admitted April 30,
1879, in the Supreme Court, to practice in all
the courts of the state of California. The old
business then organized is still in existence,
the firm name having been successively
changed to Wells, Van Dyke & Lee; Wells.
Guthrie & Lee; Wells, Monroe & Lee; Wells
& Lee; Wells, Works & Lee; Works & Lee;
and Works, Lee & Works, who now have
their offices in suite 820 in the H. W. Hellman
building. The old firm had their offices in the
Baker block for eighteen years, then in the
Henne building for eight years, and then re-
moved to their present location in one of the
finest office buildings in the city of Los An-
geles. Here they have one of the largest pri-
vate law libraries in the state, collected by
Col. G. Wiley Wells.
During almost the entire period of his resi-
dence in Los Angeles Mr. Lee has participated
in its prominent legal contests and has been
connected with some of the most noted liti-
gations in the history of the state. A stanch
Republican, he has served continuously since
1896 as chairman of the Republican county
central committee, and still holds that posi-
tion ; and from 1902 to 1904, inclusive, served
as a member of the executive committee of
the Republican state central committee. In
1898 he was elected trustee of the state li-
brary at a joint session of the senate and as-
sembly and was re-appointed by Governor
Gage in 1902, and again by Governor Pardee
in 1906. He is a charter member of a number
of societies, among them the California So-
ciety of Colonial Wars, serving as its first
historian and present chancellor ; the Califor-
nia Commandery of Foreign Wars, of which
he is vice-commander, the late General Shafter
being commander; and has been a member of
the Los Angeles Bar Association since its or-
ganization ; and in the Chamber of Commerce
has served on the law committee and is now
a member of the Harbor committee. Since
1894 he has served as a director and treas-
urer of the California Society Sons of the
Revolution. Fraternally he is a member of
Southern California Lodge, No. 278, F. & A.
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
M.; Signet Chapter. Xo. ?j, R. A. M.; Los
Angeles Commandery, No. 9, K. T., and Al
Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. His
public honors have been equal to the success
he has achieved in his chosen profession, but
he has not cared for official recognition. He
has served frequently as a delegate in the
various state, county and city conventions of
his party, and was chairman of the Repub-
lican county convention of 1906. Governor
Pardee tendered him the appointment of su-
perior judge when the legislature increased
the number for Los Angeles, in 1905, but he
declined. He has also been urged by his
friends to be a candidate for the office of su-
perior judge, but has steadfastly refused, how-
ever, never shirking the duty or using his in-
fluence and working faithfully for the success
of the Republican party. Socially he enjoys
the esteem of his fellow citizens, and as a
charter member of the Jonathan Club since its
organization has been active for two terms as
a director, and is a member of the Union
League Club. He gives his support to the
charities of the Emanuel Presbyterian Church,
of which he is a member.
The marriage of Air. Lee occurred in Phila-
delphia. Pa., October 16, 1883. and united him
with Miss Helena Farrar, who was born in
that city and reared in Washington, D. C,
receiving her education in Notre Dame, Mary-
land, and at Mount De Sales Academy, in Bal-
timore. Born of this union were three sons,
Bradner Wells. Jr., who was born January
20. 1886; Kenvon Farrar, born February 2S,
1888; and Guilford Richard, born October 20,
1890, and died August 5. 1891. Both sur-
viving sons are being educated in the
Harvard Military School at Los Angeles,
and preparing to enter Leland Stanford, Jr..
University. The ancestry of the Farrar fam-
ily is traced back to Gualkeline or YValkeline
de Ferrariis, a Norman of distinction attached
to William, Duke of Xnrmandy, before the
Invasion of 1066. From him the English and
American branches of the family are de-
scended. Henry de Ferrars, his son, is on the
roll of Battle Abbey (a list of the principal
commanders and companions in arms of Will-
iam the Conqueror), and was the first to settle
in England, which he did immediately after
the Conquest, and became a citizen of much
eminency for both knowledge and integrity.
Among the noted Farrars in New England
were Stephen Farrar, who was delegate to
the proposed Congress at Exeter; Timothy
Farrar, justice of the peace of Hillsboro, and
later a member of the convention to frame a
constitution for New Hampshire, was also a
member of the committee to petition the pres-
ident for the repeal of the Embargo Act, and
with Stephen Farrar and others was a founder
of the New Ipswich Academy. Deacon Sam-
uel Farrar was chairman of the first commit-
tee of correspondence in November, 1773, and
was afterward a member of the great Middle-
sex Convention of August 30, 1774, which led
off in the Revolution, and a member of the
first Provincial Congress which met October
11, 1774, and at sixty-six years took part in
the battle of Concord ; Major John Farrar,
whose three sons were Minute Men in the
Revolutionary war ; Jonathan Farrar, who was
lieutenant and commander of the Guard at the
North Bridge, Concord, at the time of the
British attack on Concord, April 19. 1775;
and Hon. Timothy Farrar. of New Ipswich,
N. H.. who served as a judge of the courts
in New Hampshire from 1775 to 1816, in-
clusive, in the course of which time he
occupied every seat from that of junior jus-
tice of the county court in 1775, to that of
chief justice of the Supreme Court, to which
he was appointed February 22, 1802. Over
twenty by the name of Farrar were graduates
of Harvard University. A complete genealog-
ical record of the family is contained in Vol.
VI of the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register of October, 1852. Mrs.
Lee's direct ancestor was Jacob Farrar. who
was born in England, there reared and married,
and with his wife and four children emigrated to
America about 1040. He located in Lancaster,
Mass., and became a prominent citizen, and
after the burning of the town by the Indians,
during King Philip's war, he removed to Wo-
luirn, Mass., where his death occurred in Au-
gust, 1677. The town of Lancaster was in-
corporated May 18. 1653, and among the
original proprietors were John and Jacob
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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Farrar. A son of Jacob Farrar, also called
Jacob, was born in England about 1642, came
to Lancaster with his parents, here attained
manhood and married Hannah, daughter of
George Hayward. He was killed by the In-
dians during King Philip's war, August 22,
1675, and soon after his death the widow re-
moved with her children to Concord, N. H.
Their son, George Farrar, was born in Lan-
caster, Mass., August 16, 1670, and was taken
by his mother to Concord when about five
years old. He was reared in the town now
known as Lincoln and tradition relates that
when he was twenty-one he had twenty-five
cents in money, which he gave away in order
to start with absolutely nothing. He became
very successful in business, and before his
death in Lincoln, May 15, 1760, owned large
tracts of valuable land. His wife was, in
maidenhood, Miss Mary Howe. They had a
son, also called George, who was born in Lin-
coln, N. H, February 16, 1704, married
Mary Barrett, of Concord, and engaged as a
farmer until his death in 1777. His son,
Humphrey Farrar, was born February 23,
1741, and in manhood married Lucy Far-
rar, later removed to Hanover, and finally to
Colebook, N. H., where he died. His son,
William Farrar, was born in Hanover, N. H,
September 13, 1780, graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1801, and settled in Lancas-
ter, N. H, where he died in March, 1850. His
son, Col. William Humphrey Farrar, was born
in Lancaster, N. H„ in 1828, educated in Dart-
mouth College, after which he took up the
study of law in the office of the distinguished
statesman, Hon. Daniel Webster, then with
Hon. Caleb Cushing, who became attorney
general of the United States. Under President
Pierce's administration he was appointed
United States district attorney for Oregon, be-
coming then a practitioner in Portland, and
standing high in his profession. He served as
mayor of Portland and was also in the Oregon
state legislature. He was also a member of the
first Constitutional Convention of Oregon.
Later he returned east and resided, practicing
law in Washington, D. C, where he married
Miss Cora Stansbury, of Baltimore, and Mrs.
Lee is the only child of this marriage. While
in Oregon, Mr. Farrar served as a colonel in
the Indian war, and justly earned, by his irre-
proachable citizenship, the high esteem in
which he was held. His death occurred in
Washington, D. C, in 1873.
DON JUAN BANDINI, who was one of
the most able men of early California, was the
son of Capt. Jose Bandini and his wife, Ysi-
dora Blanca y Rivera. Don Jose Bandini,
founder of the family in America, was a native
of Andalucia, Spain. At an early r age he en-
tered the navy, and as lieutenant on the Span-
ish vessel Nymphia he was present at the
battle of Trafalgar. He afterward became
captain and acting commander, with title of
almirante, over a squadron in South American
waters. In his flag ship La Reina he twice
visited California. The ship's lantern, some
silver curtain-rings, and a rare old painting
called the "Madonna of the Moors," taken
from the cabin of La Reina, are still in pos-
session of the family. Capt. Jose Bandini
made several voyages from Spain to the new
world. For a time his home was at Lima,
Peru. He was married in 1796 to Ysidora
Blanca y Rivera, a Spanish lady of good fam-
ily. He had seven children, only one of whom
ever came to North America. Having left the
navy on account of ill health, being a sufferer
from gout, Captain Bandini, now a widower,
accompanied by his youngest son, Juan, came,
in 1822, to San Diego, Cal., where he took up
his residence. Later he moved to his son's
home on the Jurupa rancho, where he died in
April, 1841. He was buried under the flag
stones in the church of the San Gabriel Mis-
sion. Among the Spanish manuscripts, now
the property of the University of California,
are several from the pen of Captain Bandini,
which, when they are made public, will no
doubt throw further light upon the history
of this brave officer.
There is some doubt as to the birthplace of
Don Juan Bandini. The testimony of his
elder children is to the effect that he was a
native of Castile, Spain. Don Jose, father of
Don Juan, although a commander in the Span-
ish navy, had a home and owned much prop-
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erty in Lima, Peru, and it is, perhaps, for this
reason that some of the records have it that
his son was born in Peru. With his father,
Don Juan came to California just about the
time he attained his majority. His first ap-
pearance in public life was as a member of the
assembly or deputation which met at Monte-
rev in 1827-28. From 1828 to 1832 he was
commissioner of revenue for San Diego. In
1832 he was a leader in an uprising, some-
times called the Bandini Rebellion, against
the tyranny and incapacity of Governor Vic-
toria, whom Mr. Bandini and his associates
succeeded in displacing. In 1833 Mr. Bandini
was sent to the City of Mexico as a member
of Congress. Among other acts, he offered
a resolution urging the founding of an acad-
emy in California, showing the great need
there was for such an institution. In 1834 he
was appointed inspector of customs for the
southern province of California, and in 1838
administrator of the San Gabriel Mission.
From 1842 to 1844 he held various public offi-
ces.
Like many of the leading Californians, Don
Juan Bandini had been for a long time thor-
oughly dissatisfied with the misrule of the offi-
cials appointed by the Mexican government
for the territory. For this reason, upon the
coming of the Americans, he decided to assist
them, believing that the government of the
United States would be much superior to that
of Mexico. He gave liberally of horses, cattle
and supplies to Commodore Stockton and. his
troops. He also gave possession of a wing of
his house in San Diego, which was a very
large one, to the American commodore for
himself and staff. For these acts Mr. Bandini
lost his vast Mexican possessions, the Guada-
lupe, Tecati. and other ranchos, which are to-
day veritably "no man's land," since, without
the signature of the Bandini heirs, no man can
hold title, and that family are still debarred
from their rights. In 1847 Mr. Bandini was
oni of the seven leading men of the state,
Spanish and American, appointed by John C.
Fremont under orders of Commodore Stock-
ton to meet as an assembly to arrange laws
for the new territory. On account of the de-
parture 1 I Stockton and the disagreement be-
tween General Kearney and Fremont which
resulted in the removal of the latter from his
position as governor, this assembly was never
convened.
Mr. Bandini was a lawyer of ability and a
ready writer. His articles upon the land ques-
tions published shortly after the war were con-
sidered a most able exposition of the subject. In
the so-called "Bancroft Library" now. happily,
in the hands of the State University, and soon
to be opened to the public, there are some
twenty-eight of his manuscripts, one of them
a history of California from its discovery to
the time of the Mexican war. Beside his Mex-
ican possessions Don Juan had large holdings
in Southern California. Among these was the
Jurupa rancho, the present site of Riverside,
and a large portion of the land where San
Diego now stands. At the latter place was
the Bandini homestead. The house was very
large, being two-story and surrounding a large
court. Here for many years was dispensed
that hospitality for which the Californians
were noted. Bancroft says of Mr. Bandini
that he must be regarded as one of the most
prominent men of his time and place. Gen-
eral Fremont, between whom and himself
there existed a warm friendship, spoke of him
in the highest terms, and says that he was a
native of Spain.
Don Juan Bandini was twice married. In
1823 he was married to Dolores, daughter of
Capt. Jose Estudillo, a distinguished citizen
of the province, who for many years held the
position of commandante at Monterey, later
occupying a like position in San Diego. The
second wife of Don Juan was Refugio, daugh-
ter of Capt. Santiago Arguello, and grand-
daughter of the pioneer Capt. Jose Dario Ar-
guello, one of the foremost men in the settle-
ment of the territory. As the representative
of Spain he it was who conferred upon the
twenty-four families which founded Los An-
geles title to their lands. He was for some
time acting governor of California, leaving that
position to become governor of the peninsula.
Dona Refugio, by virtue of her noble pres-
ence and character, her youth and beauty, as
well as her position as wife of Don Juan Ban-
dini, was, perhaps, the most prominent woman
o
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Stearns would have been considered so cred-
itable as his earnest endeavor, during the
rears preceding the Mexican war, to win the
misgoverned, neglected province of Califor-
nia to consent to a peaceful annexation to the
United States. As the confidential agent of
the government at Washington, Mr. Stearns
worked in the south, as did Mr. Larkins in the
north, toward this end. They had almost suc-
ceeded, when the untimely ebullition of Com-
modore Jones of the American navy in assum-
ing that there was a state of war and taking
possession of Monterey, made the Califor-
nians suspicious of the brotherly intentions of
the United States. The American commodore,
when he discovered what a grave mistake he
had made, did all that was in his power to
undo the harm. Patiently Mr. Larkins and
.Mr. Stearns went on with their plans for a
peaceful solution of the difficulties that were
troubling California. So wise were their plans,
so strong their influence over the prominent
men of the territory, that the}' began 'to have
hopes of success, when the episode of the Bear
Flag and the events which followed that
movement precipitated war.
Mr. Stearns was devoted to the interests of
the Californians. He was a member of the
famous convention which drafted the consti-
tution of 1849, representing the district of Los
Angeles; later he was assemblyman, super-
visor and councilman. In 1868 he built the
Arcadia block on the Los Angeles street front
of his property. It was the largest business
block in town, and around it centered the in-
terests of the city for many years. In its sec-
ond story was Stearns hall, where took place
many social and political events of interest
in the history of the pueblo. Mr. Stearns was
one of the largest land owners in California,
and at his death, which occurred in 1871, left
a large estate to his widow.
No account of the life of Don Abel Stearns
or of the history of the city of Los Angeles
would be complete without mention being
made of his wife, who is now Arcadia Bandini
de Baker. One spring morning many years
ago the ceremony took place at the San Ga-
briel ^lis-ion, which united this lovelv young
girl of sixteen to a man older than her father.
whose features were considered by the people
of his time to be unusually homely. One
might naturally exclaim, "What a sacrifice!"
but, although Mrs. Stearns became the social
leader of Los Angeles and vicinity, acknowl-
edged by Americans and Californians to be
one of the most beautiful women in a country
renowned for its lovely women, yet the match
was a happy one. Through his life Don Abel
was proud of the attention paid his wife,
whose beauty it was his delight to adorn,
while Mrs. Stearns was fond and proud of her
genial and clever husband. Mr. Stearns' herd-
ers made up a little song over which their
master often chuckled ; translated it was some-
thing as follows :
"Two little doves sang on a laurel.
How lovely Dona Arcadia, how homely Don
Abel."'
After the unfortunate flag raising of Com-
modore Jones he hastened to San Pedro and
there waited on his ships while he sent a mes-
senger up to his countryman, Don Abel, urg-
ing him to mediate between him and Governor
Micheltorena, who was at that time living in
Los Angeles. Mr. Stearns succeeded in ar-
ranging a meeting at his house, and the fo'-
lowing is the account given by Dona Arcadia
of the historic event :
"We gave a dinner to the governor, the
commodore and their attendants; everything
was very friendly; they seemed to enjoy them-
selves and the uniforms of the two countries
were most beautiful. On the next day but one
the governor gave a ball, which was to be at
his house, the only two-story house in Los
Angeles. To show the Americans how patri-
otic were the people of California, the gov-
ernor requested, in the invitations, that all
the ladies wear white with a scarf of the Mexi-
can colors, red, green and white. Of course
we gladly complied, though some of us had to
work hard to get our costumes ready.
"The day of the ball came, but with it came
rain, such a storm as I had never seen. As
it drew toward evening the water came down
faster and faster. The governor had the only
carriage in California, and this he was to send
for the Commodore, Mr. Stearns, Ysidora, and
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myself, but the poor young officers had to
walk, and their faces were long when they
looked at the rain, then at their fine uniforms
and shiny boots.
"Our California horses were unused to pull-
ing loads, and in the storm refused to work, so
the cholo soldiers of the governor served as
horses ; they took us as safely, and we had a
delightful time. Everybody was happy ; the
commodore and the governor sat together and
exchanged courtesies and compliments."
Some years after the death of Mr. Stearns
his widow married R. S. Baker, a native of
Rhode Island, who had large sheep interests
in Southern California. Mr. and Mrs. Baker
built the Baker block at the corner of Main
and Arcadia streets, which is a model of sub-
stantial construction. Mr. and Mrs. Baker
and Senator Jones gave the land, three hun-
dred and fifty acres, for the Soldiers' Home,
near Santa Monica. Mr. Baker is deceased.
Mrs. Baker lives in Santa Monica. She is one
of the largest land owners in Southern Cali-
fornia. She enjoys the best of health, and is
a most delightful and correct relator of the
events of early California which go to make
historv.
CHARLES M. SKILLEX. Like many an-
other of the brave defenders of the Union dur-
ing her Civil strife Giarles M. Skillen (famil-
iarly known as "Major") returned from the bat-
tlefield with the full conviction that from hence-
forward the plan of his life must lie along lines
which he had little anticipated when he entered
the service. In young manhood his tastes and
ambition led him to take up the study of law,
and to fit himself for the profession he had ma-
triculated as a student in the University of Mich-
igan in Ann Arbor in 1861. It was not long
after this that the whole country was thrown
into confusion by the breaking out of the war,
and among those who enlisted in the country's
service from Ohio was Mr. Skillen, who after
one year's term in college had become the pride
of his instructors, who found in him an ambitious
and promising student. Entering as a private
in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first
Ohio Infantry, he was later promoted to ser-
geant of his regiment, his superior officer being
Colonel Reed, of Delaware, ( >hio. The rigors
of warfare and camp life soon began to make
inroads upon Mr. Skillen's health and while on
a forced march from Louisville to Perryville he
was stricken with progressive paralysis, a malady
which had been threatening for some time. Go-
in^ into camp at Louisville he there received
ever) attention possible, but all seemed of no
avail and in 1863 he was honorably discharged.
Although his service had been short he had nev-
ertheless proved himself worthy of promotion,
and without his knowledge, while his regiment
was on dress parade in Louisville, he was chosen
and later commissioned a captain. Returning
to his Ohio home, being unable to resume his
law studies he instead became interested in a
manufacturing business in Mount Vernon, that
state. After following this with a fair degree of
success for some time, in 1874 he came to the
west in the hope that a change of climate and
surroundings might hasten the recovery of his
health. In this he was not disappointed, and the
thirty years and more that -he has been a resident
of Pasadena have been the happiest and most
useful years of his life.
The ancestry of the Skillen family is traced to
the Highlands of Scotland. The grandfather,
John Skillen, married a lady from the Lowland
country, a Miss Douglass. The first immigrant
of the family was George Skillen, the father of
our subject, who came to the United States
during young rhanhood and settled in Xew York
City, where he was subsequently married.. By
trade he was a painter and grainer in imitation
of woods and marble, an expert workman in his
line, and in the eastern metropolis where he made
his home for a time he executed many large
contracts. Subsequently he removed to Knox
county. Ohio, where his wife, who was formerly
Hannah Davies. a native of Wales, passed away.
He survived a number of years, passing the
evening of his days in the Land of Sunshine and
Flowers, and died at the home of his son in
Pasadena, when over ninety-three years of age.
Of the four children born to his parents Giarles
M. Skillen was the second in order of birth and
is now the only survivor. His birth occurred
while the family were residing in Xew York-
City, December 28, 1838. As his parents re-
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moved to Ohio while he was still young his early
life was associated almost wholly with that state,
and especially with Knox county, where his pa-
rents settled and where he attended school. From
his father he learned the painter's trade, but
as his tastes inclined him more toward a pro-
fessional career he did not follow it. but instead
began to read law under the direction of Sapp &
Simon of Mount Vernon. Subsequently he ma-
triculated as a student in the law department
of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
as previously stated. The breaking out of the
Civil war and his subsequent illness put a stop
to further progress in the line of his profession,
and indeed for several years after 1863 he was
unable to carry on any business. Shortly before
coming to Pasadena however he was engaged
in the manufacturing business in Mount Vernon.
Since locating in Pasadena Mr. .Skillen has
become interested in the real-estate business, a
number of large subdivisions bearing his name.
In [880 he purchased fifteen acres, including the
land between Los Robles and east Colorado
streets, which he platted into Skillen's subdi-
vision. This land, which had previously been
used only as a sheep pasture, was laid out into
fine ranches, which with the securing of water
made the raising of oranges a very lucrative
venture. The main thoroughfare through this
subdivision was made to run parallel with Los
Robles street and this he named Euclid avenue.
a name of which all Ohioans are proud. Still
later Mr. Skillen divided the property into lots,
from the sale of which he realized handsomely.
In partnership with Samuel Stratton he also pur-
chased property on the corner of Colorado street
and Marengo avenue, which was subdivided and
known as Skillen and Stratton's subdivision. The
these lots also netted the owners a good
income on their investment. Resides his con-
nection with real estate matters Mr. Skillen's
name has become well known in affairs which
affect even more directly the city's welfare, lie
was one of tin- organizers of the electric light
i\ and served as one of its directors until
the plant was -old. lie was also instrumental
in having easl Colorado street widened from a
it streel to its present width of one hun-
dred feet. At first the idea met with considerable
opposition on the part of landowners, who were
opposed to it on account of the heavy expenditure
which it would involve. As proof of his sin-
cerity in promoting the undertaking, for $5,000
Mr. Skillen purchased fifty feet frontage on the
street from the last and only owner who would
not sign the petition, and on this one act of
business depended the widening of the now one
hundred foot thoroughfare of Pasadena. All
are now grateful to Mr. Skillen for his per-
sistency in carrying the measure through, for
collectively and individually all have been bene-
fited thereby.
In 1865 Charles M. Skillen was united in
marriage with Miss M. Jennie Stephens, a native
of Pennsylvania, and later a resident of Mount
Vernon, Ohio, where her father, William Ste-
phens, was an old resident and much-esteemed
citizen. Her brother, Capt. Harrison Stephens,
was also well known in educational circles in that
part of Ohio. One son has blessed the mar-
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Skillen, Dr. Ralph G.
Skillen. who graduated from the Pennsylvania
College of Dental Surgery in April, 1897. Be-
fore his graduation, in 1896, he was demonstrator
in the Pennsylvania Dental College; in 1897-98
was chief demonstrator of crown and bridge work
and dental anatomy in the Medico-Chirurgical
College of Philadelphia, Pa.: and from 1898 to
1900 held the chair of crown and bridge work
and oral surgery in the dental department of the
University of California. He is not following
the practice of his profession, however, but as
a member of the firm of Skillen & Skillen is
engaged in a confectionery business in Pasadena.
Mr. Skillen's early religious training was re-
ceived in the Episcopal Church, and since coming
to this city he has been a contributor to various
denominations here represented. Mrs. Skillen
is a member and liberal supporter of the Meth-
odist Gutrch. Though he has always been in-
terested in Republican politics Mr. Skillen has
never been induced to accept public office, not-
withstanding many flattering offers. In Monte-
zuma. Iowa, he was made a Mason in 1864, his
membership subsequently being transferred to
Mount /ion Lodge Xo. 9 of Mount Vernon,
( )hio, and still later he was one of the organ-
izers of Pasadena Lodge No. 272. He is now
a member of Corona Lodge of Pasadena and is
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a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and
also belongs to Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N.
M. S., of Los Angeles.
HON. MEREDITH P. SNYDER. There
are names so closely associated with the per-
manent development of Los Angeles that the
mention of the city's growth brings to the old
residents thoughts of the personality of these
citizens and their important contribution to
local progress. None has been more active
than Mr. Snyder in promoting measures for
the welfare of the city ; none has been more
deeply interested in municipal affairs, and
few have been more influential in fostering
enterprises necessary to the city's material,
commercial and educational growth. Hence
al annals his name is worthy of perpetu-
ation, and a complete history of the place could
''ten without giving due mention to
iship of this prominent man.
r, er family is of southern origin,
North C lina becoming the scene of their
labors during the colonial period of our coun-
try. At Lexington Court House, in that state,
October 22, 1859, Meredith P. Snyder was
born, the son of K. D. and Elizabeth (Heiher)
der. Both parents passed away when their
(1 in years, and the estate be-
hless by the devastating ef-
ir he was compelled to seek
lood . -. n life. Of a studious na-
ture through inheritance he devoted all the
time he could possibly spare to securing an
education, accumulating sufficient means to
give him considerable collegiate training, al-
though he did not g . luate. In 1880 he be-
came a resident of Los ' ngeles, where he has
since made his home and successfully estab-
lished for himself a place among the repre-
sentative men of this city. His first occupa-
tion was as clerk in a furniture store, after
which he engaged in like capacity for B. F.
Coulter Dry Goods Company and had charge
for four years of the drapery department.
Following this clerkship he engaged in the
real-estate business for eight years, when, for
a similar period, he was at : .he head of the
M. P. Snyder Shoe Company, a business which
is still successfully carried on although un-
der different management.
A Democrat in his political convictions Mr.
Snyder early became associated with this party
in Los Angeles and was chosen to represent
the people in various positions of trust and
responsibility. For tweive years he was the
leader of the Democratic party in the city and
practically controlled their movements. Elect-
ed in 1891 a member of the police commission
he served acceptably until the expiration of
his term, when he was re-elected. Two years
later he was elected to represent the second
ward in the city council, where he took an ac-
tive part in all movements tending toward the
upbuilding of the town. Careful and dis-
criminating in his public office as he has al-
ways been in business life, he considered the
worth of all measures introduced before giv-
ing them his support, and after having once
made up his mind nothing could swerve him
from his point. An evidence of his standing
as a citizen and his prominence in the Demo-
cratic party was his nomination in the fall of
1896 for the office of mayor. His election by
a large majority followed and in January,
1897, he took his seat and began an adminis-
tration which has meant no little in the wel-
f re of the city. Although exercising a con-
illing influence in local affairs this influ-
ence was used only for the best purposes and
for the distinct good of the municipality. Be-
tween the expiration of this term and his re-
election in 1899 he engaged in the real-es-
tate business, his interests being confined to
acreage subdivisions, in which he met with
success. Again chosen to the office in 1899
he began his administration in 1900, and was
re-elected in 1902, closing his third term as
mayor of the city of Los Angeles in 1905. His
record is one which may well be emulated by
aspirants to this office, because he had always
in mind the welfare of the municipality, its
growth and upbuilding, ami with this his aim
made a success of his work. His reasons for
political actions have always been based upon
sound judgment and common sense, a careful
study of the point in question from all view
points, after which he has taken decisive ac-
tion. He is universally esteemed by thought-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
ful men whether of his party or another, and
justly named among the men who have done
much for the upbuilding of the city.
Like all men who work for the good of a
municipality .Mr. Snyder's hobby was and is
municipal ownership of the water supply.
Before his entrance into official politics he
served as secretary of a municipal water works
club and very strongly advocated a supply of
pure water, firmly believing that the city
would need an unlimited supply. Not liking
the methods employed by the old water com-
pany he fought them for twelve years, en-
deavoring to induce them to sell out to the
city. He was elected to the office of mayor on
the platform of municipal water works owner-
ship. Tie finally induced the old company to
set a figure of $2,000,000, at which time he
opened a campaign, taking the platform and
working to have the city bonded for that
amount. When success attended his efforts
and the bonds were floated in New York City
by attorneys Dillon and Hubbard it was found
they were faulty and could not be disposed of
until they were out of the hands of the water
company. After considerable discussion the
water company agreed to deed the works to a
trustee and the city selected the same man
and even though Mr. Snyder had fought them
for years, yet the water company chose him
as the party and for fifteen days he was sole
owner, without bond, of that all-important
source of the city's development. By this
means the bonds could be negotiated and from
this the present system has developed. He
appointed the first commission which was the
one that brought about the present Owens
river project. In 1904 Mr. Snyder organized
the California Savings Bank and became its
president. A company had secured the char-
ter for a bank but were unable to effect its
organization, finally giving the entire matter
into the hands of Mr. Snyder. They began
with a capital stock ol $300,000 and in the
brief time that has elapsed have become one
of the strong banking institutions of this city.
Their growth has been phenomenal and they
now find their building, located at the corner
of Fifth and Broadway, inadequate for their
needs. In the near future they contemplate
the erection of a new building, Mr. Snyder
is vice-president and director of the Gardena
Bank & Trust Company and one of the original
stockholders in the Central Bank.
The home of Mr. Snyder is presided over
by his wife, formerly Miss May Ross, with
whom he was united in 1888. She is a daugh-
ter of William W. Ross, who served in the
body guard of President Lincoln during the
Civil war and later became a prominent citi-
zen of Topeka, Kans., where he served as
mayor and in other prominent positions. Her
uncle, Hon. Edmund G. Ross, was governor
of New Mexico and also served as United
States senator. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have
one son, Ross. In his fraternal relations Mr.
Snyder is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of
the Elks, Knights of Pythias, and various
others, being very prominent in these circles.
In his business transactions he has been open
and always in favor of a square deal. While
a prominent Democrat his election as mayor
was upon a much broader basis ; it was "For
the people and by the people." While in of-
fice he gave his undivided attention to the peo-
ple's interests with the same fidelity that he
would give to his own. Such men as he build
for all time and leave a monument to their
memory in substantial form, as well as a heri-
tage to their posterity and an example worthy
of emulation.
LAMON V. HARKNESS, a resident of
Pasadena, is a native of Ohio, his birth occurring
in June, 1S52. He is the representative of an
old New York family prominent in the history
of that state, where his father, Stewart Y., was
horn, there reared to manhood, educated and
launched in business life. The elder man was
one of the original incorporators of the Stand-
ard Oil Company and took a prominent part in
the early history of the company, being one of
the large stockholders. In Ohio, where he es-
tablished his home 111 mature years, he became
a citizen of worth. His son, Lamon Y. Hark-
ness, attended the public schools in pursuit of
an education up to his eighteenth year, at which
time he put aside his studies to enter upon a
business career, inheriting to a large degree the
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sound business judgment and acumen which had
brought success to his father. He established
himself in New York City and there maintained
a profitable business for many years, at the same
time dealing extensively in the stock of the
Standard Oil Company.
Like the greater part of the population of
Southern California, Air. Harkness first visited
this section during the winter months, and after
spending one season here was loath to pass an-
other amid the rigors of his eastern home. Sev-
eral years were thus passed — spending his sum-
mers in his eastern home and the winters in
Southern California — and so charmed was he
with the conditions that he finally concluded to
purchase property in Pasadena, and he now
spends much time at his magnificent residence at
No. 1 20 1 South Orange Grove avenue. He also
owns valuable properties, among them the old
Reed place of thirteen acres, familiarly known
as Carmelita Ranch. Here he is building a
beautiful residence on a sightlv location known
as Oak Knoll. He has retained his eastern in-
terests, however, owning extensive farms in
Kentucky, where he breeds the world-famous
Kentucky horses. In spite of his many business
interests Mr. Harkness is an ardent sportsman,
enjoying the gun and rod and being a valued
member of various similar organizations of
Southern California.
FRANCIS OUARLES STORY, for many
years a resident of Southern California, was
born in Waukesha, Wis., July 18, 1845: his
parents were John P. and Elizabeth (Quarles)
Story. He was reared in his native place and
educated in its public schools, graduating from
the High school before his sixteenth birthday.
His first independent employment was as a
teacher in the common schools, engaging at
this work for one term, when he entered East-
man's Business College, of Poughkeepsie, N.
Y.. and later was graduated therefrom. He
then entered a commercial life as bookkeeper
in a large importing and commission house in
Boston, and the second year was given entire
charge of his department at a fair salary. De-
riding to enter more fully into a commercial
life by dealing in' wools himself, he resigned
his position, and for the following six months
was engaged in the sorting department of a
large woolen mill, working twelve hours each
day, and learning the various qualities of all
kinds of wool. He received no remuneration
for this work or for the following six months,
which were passed in grading wools by the
fleece for mercantile purposes.
Entering the work upon his own responsi-
bility. Air. Story engaged first as a broker and
dealer, and the following year purchased a
mill for preparing wools for the market, the
main object being to perfect his knowledge as
to the shrinkage of wools. In the same year
he began the importation of wools and con-
tinued to increase his business. At the time
of the great Boston fire of 1872 he was occu-
pying the lofts of one of the most substantial
granite buildings in the city, largely filled with
imported wools. The granite was reduced to
fine pebbles and sand; the wool utterly de-
stroyed. The failure of the local insurance
companies necessarily caused the failure of
other enterprises, and among these Mr.
Story's enterprise was named. However, he
was undaunted by the catastrophe which left
him $10,000 in debt, and through the help of
his uncle, with whom he was living, and Sam-
uel H. Rindge, father of the late Frederick H.
Rindge, of Los Angeles, he was enabled to meet
his liabilities as they fell due. Mr. Story him-
self speaks of this time with more satisfaction
than of any other period of his life, for in the
upbuilding of his fortunes on the ashes of his
first effort he developed traits of character that
have brought him personal success and estab-
lished his manhood.
However, the steady night and day work
gradually told upon Mr. Story's health and
finally led to his permanent location in South-
ern California. The winters of 1875. 1876.
1877, 1878 and 1879 were spent in traveling
throughout Southern California, and in the
spring and summers of the years from 1876 to
1879 he engaged in the wool business with B.
P. Flint & Co., of San Francisco. He then
returned to Massachusetts and passed a part
of the year 1879 and all of 1880 in Salem and
Boston. In 1881 he again located in San Fran-
cisco and made that city his home until March
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two years later, when he removed perma-
nently to Southern California, in Alhambra,
establishing his home and setting out an
orange orchard.
The identification of Mr. Story with the ma-
terial development of this section of Southern
California dates from the time of his location
in Alhambra. He at once gave his time and
attention to all movements tending toward the
promotion of the interests of the community,
being largely instrumental in the building of
the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway
to Monrovia and Pasadena and acting as its
treasurer and for a part of the time its man-
ager, up to the time it was sold to the Pacific
Improvement Company of the Southern Pa-
cific Railway. In 1891 he joined the Chamber
of Commerce, and in 1896 was elected a di-
rector, and in 1902 its president. He has
served on its directory continuously since his
election, in 1896, and during this period, be-
sides the duties pertaining to the regular stand-
ing committees, assisted in the following en-
terprises more or less connected with the
Chamber's work : Chairman of the Citrus
Tariff Executive Committee, which secured a
duty of a cent per pound on all citrus fruits,
in 1897. and preserved the citrus industry to
this state ; as chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Nicaraguan Canal Association,
which stayed in the fight until Congress passed
a bill to build the Panama Canal in 1899; in
1898 was appointed chairman of the local Na-
tional Educational Association convention,
which, after months of arduous labor, brought
to Los Angeles in July, 1899, over twenty-
three thousand people, a very large proportion
of whom were teachers, and very probably
gave the state the best advertising it had re-
ceived up to that time. The Chamber of Com-
merce passed the following resolution, com-
mending "the pre-eminent services of Director
Francis Ouarles Story":
"Whereas. It is known to the members of
this hoard that Director Story accepted the
appointment somewhat reluctantly, but having
accepted, he addressed himself to the vexing
problems presented with such industry, skill
and fidelity as t < > meet and receive the volun-
tary acknowledgment from the officers and
members of the National Educational Associa-
tion that all promises made by this Board of
the Executive Committee, when that commit-
tee visited this city last October, have been
more than fulfilled, and that they had never
before found such thorough preparations made
by a local committee in their behalf.
"Therefore, Be it resolved : That we hereby
tender to Director Story the sincere thanks
of this Chamber of Commerce for his success
in guiding, as its chairman, the deliberations
and actions of the Executive Committee, and
hereby express the appreciation of this board
of the compliment conferred upon it by his
extraordinary services as its representative on
this important occasion."
Again, in February, 1907, Mr. Story was
made chairman of the local Executive Commit-
tee of the National Educational Association,
and during that summer about thirty-five thou-
sand educators visited Southern California. At
the time of the great San Francisco disaster of
1906 he was elected chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce Citizens' Relief Committee, in
behalf of the sufferers, and by a great effort
of personal time and attention they succeeded
in raising $250,000 for the purpose. In 1901
Mr. Story was made chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce Building Committee, which suc-
ceeded -in raising subscriptions to the bonds
necessary to build the new Chamber of Com-
merce building, which cost, with the lot,
nearly $350,000. In January, 1903, he was ap-
pointed chairman of the Chamber's General
Methodist Conference Committee, which
raised the funds necessary to bring the Inter-
national Methodist Conference to this city.
( )n the 12th of March, 1906, he was made
chairman of the Executive Committee of the
Citrus Protective League of California, which
organization he assisted in effecting, and
which, on the 20th of February, 1907, succeed-
ed in reducing the rate on citrus fruits to the
east ten cents per hundred and making a sav-
ing to the growers of over $700,000 per year.
In addition to his engrossing interests through
his connection with the Chamber of Commerce
he has been one of the most active citizens in
the advancement of the orange industry, in
1896 being made president of the Alhambra
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Orange Growers' Association, and the follow-
ing year was elected president of the Semi-
Tropic Fruit Exchange, and has held both
offices continuously since. He had also served
as vice-president of the Southern California
Fruit Exchange since 1898, and was a similar
officer in the California Fruit Agency during
its existence, and upon its dissolution was
elected president of the California Fruit
Growers' Exchange. The entire handling
of exchange affairs is marked by the
finest executive ability, the keenest finan-
cial thought and a high character of pro-
cedure that gives it respect in America and
Europe. Everyone in the directorate feels
that this is a life work, and attends to his du-
ties accordingly. At the head is F. Q, Story,
the president, who is one of those responsible
lor the organization of the exchange, and who
made its probabilities and possibilities so pre-
eminent that all interested saw the advantage.
His personal probity, earnestness and ability
place him in the front rank of the captains of
industry, only in his case the profits are not
all for himself but are shared equally by all
exchange growers — according to the amount of
fruit furnished by each. The gross sales of
the California Fruit Growers' Exchange for
the season of 1006-7 amounted to between
$18,000,000 and $19,000,000. In October, 1907,
Mr. Story was elected president of the Grow-
ers' Supply Company, a company of $500,000
capacity. For many years Mr. Story has
served as a director in the First National
Bank, has served as its vice-president, and is
now a member of its financial and executive
committee.
In 1876 Mr. Story was united in marriage
with Miss Charlotte Forrester Devereux. a
daughter of Gen. George H. Devereux, of
Salem, Mass. She was a woman of rare worth
of character, educated and cultured, and was
prominent in the social life of Alhambra. She
passed away on the 10th of August, 1897. Mr.
Story is a man of many parts, socially enjoy-
ing an association with his fellow-men and as
a member of the California Club a power in
the organization. He has built upon an in-
heritance of sterling qualities a character of
undoubted worth, trained in childhood to a
reliance upon himself and a demonstration of
his abilities. He has never placed undue stress
upon family heritage, but nevertheless he is
proud of the name which he bears, being a
grand-nephew of the noted jurist, Joseph
Story, while in his own immediate family his
eldest brother is Major General John P. Story,
of the United States army, who was chief of
artillery for a number of years, and his second
brother is William Story, of Colorado, who
was the youngest United States circuit judge
ever appointed. In personal character Mr.
Story is a genial, broad nature, with a kindly
hospitality which has won him a wide circle
of friends ; an entertaining companion because
of his wide fund of information ; a loyal citizen
whose liberality in the matter of contributions
to the general upbuilding of his adopted state
and community are unsurpassed ; and all in all
is held in high appreciation by those who have
known him during his long residence in the
Pacific state.
H. BERT ELLIS. A. B., M. D. Univer-
sally recognized as one of the leading physi-
cians of the state. Dr. H. Bert Ellis occupies
a merited position of prominence among his
contemporaries and enjoys the highest con-
fidence of those who have sought his advice
professionally. In Los Angeles, where he has
made his home many years, he is regarded as
a citizen of more than ordinary importance,
for he has so thoroughly interested himself
in questions concerning the physical welfare
of the community that he has brought about
results of incalculable benefit. He is unques-
tionably a man of much native ability and
with this has brought to bear in the prose-
cution of his profession an application and
earnestness and an intense love of the work
which have given to him a merited success.
A descendant of stanch English ancestry,
Dr. Ellis was born in Lincoln. Me., May 17,
1863, a son of James Henry Ellis, who traced
his antecedents to one of the lord mayors of
London. His mother, Annie M. (Bullard)
Ellis, descended in a direct line from William
Bradford, second governor of Massachusetts
and the head of the little colony of Puritans
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at Plymouth. J. H. Ellis, who was born in
Middleboro, Mass., April 23, 1836, became one
of the leading dental surgeons of the maritime
provinces and from 1867 to 1883 was located
in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His wife was
also a native of the Bay state, and was born
August 21, 1838. H. Bert Ellis received his
primary instruction in the public school near
his home, and later attended and graduated
from the high school, where he prepared for
more advanced work. Entering Acadia Uni-
versity, YVolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1881, he
was graduated from this institution three years
later, after which he came to California and for
one year was engaged in agricultural pursuits
and business enterprises in Los Angeles and
Pasadena. Following this he became a student
in the medical department of the University of
Southern California, from which institution he
was graduated in April, 1888. Having served
for a portion of this time as interne at the Los
Angeles County Hospital, he was equipped
with both a thorough knowledge of his profes-
sion and some practical experience, and in ad-
dition to this he went at once to Europe,
where he pursued a post-graduate course at
the universities of Gottingen, Germany, and
Vienna, Austria. Returning to his home in
Los Angeles he began a practice of his profes-
sion, which has continued up to the present
time. He has met with unusual success and
has built up a large and constantly increasing
practice. Since 1893 he has devoted himself
exclusively to the treatment of diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and threat, and has won wide
distinction in this important and difficult field
of labor.
Many positions of trust and responsibility
have been filled by Dr. Ellis, among them that
of lecturer on physiology in the College of
Medicine of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, to which he received appointment in
October, 1889. shortly after establishing his
practice. In October of the following year he
was elected professor of the same department
and continued to act in that capacity until
January, 1896, when he was elected to the
chair of ophthaimotology, and in November,
[898, was further honored by being made
treasurer of the college of medicine. He is
prominently identified with medical organiza-
tions, having served officially in many of them.
As president of the Southern California Med-
ical Society in 1899 an< 3 1900 he took an active
part in its affairs. He was senior vice-presi-
dent of the American Medical College Asso-
ciation, and has served constantly as secretary
or assistant secretary of the Los Angeles
County, Southern California, State and Amer-
ican Associations, the American Medical Ed-
itors Association and of the Doctors Social
Club of Los Angeles. Socially he is prominent
as a member of the California, Jonathan, Uni-
versity and Union League Clubs, and of the
Science Association of Southern California.
In his political affiliations Dr. Ellis adheres
to the principles advocated in the platform of
the Republican party and gives his support to
its men and measures. During the years 1903
and 1904 he was a member and president of the
Board of Education of the city of Los An-
geles. Fraternally he is prominent among the
Masons and Elks. In personal character the
doctor is such a man as one of his profession
should be, possessing the rare qualities of good
cheer and sympathy, a patience born of long
experience in an alleviation of the ills of man-
kind, and confidence which instinctively wins
the trust of those about him. He has many
friends professionally and socially, and is just-
ly considered one of the able men of the city.
MAJOR ERNST F. C. KLOKKE was born
in Holland July 21, 1834, and in his native city
of Utrecht he attended a select school and ac-
quired a thorough commercial education, apply-
ing himself with the persistence which has been
a noteworthy feature in his career. He was but
sixteen years old when he followed the westward
trend of civilization, taking passage on a vessel
bound for New York City, and bringing with
him the strongest auguries for future success, not
by an inheritance of wealth or business oppor-
tunities aspiring to a position in the western
world, but depending instead upon the qualities
with which nature had so liberally endowed him.
He remained a resident of New York City until
[856, when he came as far west as Chicago and
in the ensuing five years began the upbuilding of
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his financial and political fortunes. At the first
call for troops upon the breaking out of the Civil
war he with countless other stanch patriots en-
listed in the Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry,
which regiment formed a part of the Army of
the Cumberland, and participated in its battles
and minor engagements. His faithful service was
attested by the fact that he received constant pro-
motion until at the end of his enlistment he was
brevetted major for gallantry and meritorious
services. In the fall of 1864 he was honorably
discharged after a service of three years and
three months.
Returning to Chicago Major Klokke engaged
in the fur business in which he had been formerly
interested. His absence from the city during his
days of warfare had not diminished the respect
with which associates were beginning to view
him, but had rather served to strengthen it, and
his rise in public importance rapidly followed
his return to civic life. As a Republican in his
political affiliations he was prominent in the coun-
cils of his party, and through its influence was
called upon to fill various positions of trust and
responsibility. In 1872 he was elected a member
of the board of police commissioners, and the
many reforms which were instituted during his
tenure of office were largely due to his efforts.
In 1877 he was nominated and elected county
clerk of Cook county, and for the ensuing five
years discharged the duties incumbent upon him
in a manner reflecting credit upon himself and
with great economy to the county.
Upon the expiration of his term as county
clerk Major Klokke went abroad and spent some
time in traveling through Europe, during which
trip he passed considerable time in his old home.
Later, after returning to Chicago, he decided to
locate in California and accordingly in 1888 came
to Los Angeles, which city has ever since re-
mained his home. He has invested largely in real
estate holdings here and much of his time is
occupied in looking after these interests. He
owns a fine orange ranch, which is conducted
under his personal direction and supervision. His
home is located at No. 2105 South Figueroa
street, and is one of the beautiful residences of
the city, modern in all its appointments and rep-
resenting the spirit of hospitality possessed by
its owner. Outside of his personal interests
Major Klokke has not engaged actively in busi-
ness affairs in Los Angeles. The municipal life
of the city, however, has felt the force of his
influence, for his loyalty as a citizen prompts
him to give his best efforts toward an upright.
clean city government, and throughout his entire
residence in Southern California his name has
ranked foremost among those men regarded as
the support of our civic welfare. As a director
of the Chamber of Commerce for twelve consecu-
tive years he was a power in its upbuilding and
advancement. At the present writing ( 1906) he
occupies the presidency of the Municipal Art
Commission of Los Angeles.
Although busy with business and political af-
fairs Major Klokke has also found time for the
social side of life. He is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic and of the military order
of the Loyal Legion Association of Southern
California, of which for two terms he was the
president. Fraternally he is a Master Mason.
Major Klokke is a man of parts, all of the vari-
ous avenues of life in which he has sought dis-
tinct inn yielding returns in response to his mas-
terful touch. At the same time he has retained
a genial, courteous disposition, a broad hospi-
tality and kindliness, giving the best of his life
in his daily associations — in friendship, business
and political affairs.
GEN. CHARLES FORMAN. The Forman
family descends from Scotch and English an-
cestry and has been identified with the new
world ever since the period of our colonial
history. One of their representatives in the
Revolutionary war was Miles Forman, whose
son, Sands, engaged in agricultural pursuits
in Tioga county, N. Y., for many years and
until his death. The wife of Sands Forman
was Mary Mathews, a native of Tioga coun-
ty and the daughter of Isaiah S. Mathews, a
Revolutionary soldier. Among their children
was a son, Edward, who was a member of
an Illinois regiment during the Civil war. An-
other son, Charles, whose name introduces
this narrative, and who is the only member
of the family on the coast, was born and
reared near Owego, Tioga county, N. Y., and
in 1853 came via Panama to California, arriv-
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ing at the Golden Gate with many other east-
erners on board the famous old ship, John L.
Stevens. At that time his uncle, Col. Ferris
Forman, was postmaster at Sacramento and
he was given employment in the postoffice,
later, at the close of the term, going- to Wash-
ington, D. C, in order to close the accounts
with the government. Not only was Colonel
Forman a veteran of the Mexican war and a
colonel in the Civil war, but he also was hon-
ored with office as secretary of state, and his
nephew on returning from the east became
deputy for one term in the secretary's office.
From there he went to Nevada and became
connected with the Eclipse Mill and Mining
Company, the Piute Mill and Mining Com-
pany, and other similar enterprises near Vir-
ginia City and at Gold Hill. While there he
served as major-general of the Nevada Vol-
unteers under Governor John H. Kinkead.
As early as 1865 General Forman had made
investments in Los Angeles property and in
1882 he removed his family to this city, al-
though he did not take up his permanent resi-
dence here until five years later. At that time
he became interested in the City and Cen-
tral Railway Company, of which he was gen-
eral manager as well as vice-president. Af-
ter eighteen months the title was changed to
the Los Angeles Cable Railway Company and
in 1X90 he disposed of his interest in the plant.
On account of somewhat impaired health he
relinquished active business affairs for a time,
but was still able to superintend his invest-
ments and mining interests. On the recovery
of his health he again took up commercial and
ether activities. At this writing he is presi-
dent of the Kern River Company, which be-
gan construction work in 1902 and has built
canals, tunnels and flumes extending over
twelve and one-half miles. The water is taken
from the river at Kernville and at the end of
the flume at Borel there are five water-wheels
yielding eighteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty horse-power, conveyed to Los Angeles
with hut a small loss in transmission. In ad-
dition 1.1 tlic presidency of this company he
aided in organizing and acts as secretary of
the Pacific Light and Power Company, which
is the parent company of eight similar organi-
zations, including the Kern River Company,
Mentone Power Company, San Gabriel Elec-
tric Company, Sierra Power Company and
San Bernardino Gas and Electric Company.
In Los Angeles occurred the marriage of
General Forman to Mi^s Mary Gray, member
of an old family of Southern California, and
by this union there are two children, Charles
and Eloise. In politics General Forman was
a Democrat until the silver craze, and since
then supports Republican measures and can-
didates, while socially he holds membership
with the Jonathan Club. Besides his city
real estate he is the owner of a ranch of three
hundred and twenty acres on the Los Ange-
les river four miles from the city, where he has
one hundred and fifty acres under cultivation
to walnuts.
JUDGE WILLIAM FREDERICKSOX.
A prominent attorney and police judge of Los
Angeles, William Frederickson is associated
with the public interests of the city in such a
way as to bring out the highest qualities of his
character and advance the welfare of those about
him. He was horn in Hackensack, X. J., a son
of Erasmus and Johanna H. (Thorn) Frederick-
son, both natives of Denmark. The father was
a sailor and in 1849 came around Cape Horn to
San Francisco and like hundreds of others
rushed to the gold fields, where he was very
successful. He returned to Denmark the follow-
ing year and was there married. Immediately
afterward he returned to the United States with
his bride and, locating in Hackensack, N. J., en-
gaged in steamboating. He became the owner
of a line of boats plying the Hudson river be-
tween New York City and Albany. In 1866 he
removed to Giampaign county. 111., and there
followed farming until his death, which occurred
in [884. He is survived by his wife, who now
makes her home in Oklahoma City.
Horn March 5. 1865, William I- rederickson
was taken by his parents to Illinois when a vear
old, and in Champaign county was reared to
young manhood. He received a preliminary
education through the medium of the public
schools, graduating from the Giampaign high
school and then entering the Universitv of
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Illinois, which he attended until the close of his
junior year. He then took up the study of law,
with H. M. Beardsley, of Kansas City, Mo., and
was admitted to the bar in 1890. He practiced
law there in partnership with his preceptor,
afterwards mayor of Kansas City, until 1892,
when he located his law office in Chicago. In
1898 he volunteered in Company C, of the First
Illinois Regiment, for the Spanish-American
war. and. was sent to Santiago, Cuba, where he
remained until the close of hostilities, when he
was mustered out of service with his regiment
in Chicago. In 1900 he came to Los Angeles
and for two years was on the editorial staff of
the Los Angeles Herald, and was then appointed
prosecuting attorney by City Attorney Mathews,
in which position he served for four years. In
1906 he was elected police judge of Los Angeles
on the Republican and Nonpartisan ticket and in
January. 1907, took the oath of office and is now
presiding over Department No. 2.
Mr. Frederickson was united in marriage in
Los Angeles, in July. 1904. to Miss Jane Sheaff,
and born of this union is one daughter, Han-
sena. Mr. Frederickson is a member of the Los
Angeles Bar Association, the Union League and
Countrv Clubs.
JOSEPH MESMER. The name of Mesmer
is well known among the business men of Los
Angeles, where both father and son have taken
a promiment part in the material advancement
of the city's best interest. The pioneer. Louis
Mesmer, brought his family to Southern Cali-
fornia in August, 1859, and since that date
he has not only accumulated personal inde-
pendence along financial lines, but has as well,
given his best efforts toward the general up-
building of the city. A native of Germany,
born in Surburg, Canton Sulz, in what was
then the province of Alsace, France, on the
20th of February, 1829, he was still a youth in
years when he left the paternal home in the
village of Surburg and went to the city of
Hagenau, nearby, where he served a four
years' apprenticeship to learn the trade of
bread baker. Following this he met with suc-
cess in various parts of his native country, but
with an ambition beyond his opportunities he
steadfastly turned his face toward the west-
ern world. Ultimately he embarked at Havre
for New York City, thence he went to Syra-
cuse and from there to Buffalo, in the last-
named city accepting employment at his trade
as a journeyman. After acquiring proficiency
in the English language, he removed to Ohio
and in Tippecanoe City established a bakery
which he conducted successfully for a period
of three years.
Attracted to the remote west he left his fam-
ily in Tippecanoe City (having in the mean-
time married Miss Katherine Forst), and in
the spring of 1858 sailed from New York City
via the Isthmus of Panama for San Francisco.
The gold fields throughout the entire Pacific
coast held his attention for some time, but not
meeting with the success anticipated, he aban-
doned mining and went to Victoria. British
Columbia, and opened a baker)'. Here his op-
portunities for making money were most
abundant, but desiring at this time to send for
his family he disposed of his interests and
returned to San Francisco. Upon the arrival
of his wife and his son, Joseph, he severed
his business connections in that city and came
to Southern California and located at Los An-
geles, which at that time was a small frontier
town containing about thirty-two hundred in-
habitants, consisting principally of Mexicans,
Digger Indians and about seven hundred
Americans and foreigners. The main portion
of the city then extended from First street
north to College street, and from the edge of
the hills on the west to Alameda street on the
east, comprising an area of about twenty-five
of the present city blocks. There were no
through cross streets running east and west
from Aliso street on the north to Ninth street
on the south, the latter named street at that
time being a lane twenty-five feet wide. First
street extended from Fort street (now Broad-
way) on the west to Los Angeles street on the
east, and Los Angeles street was but three
blocks long, extending from Arcadia and Ali-
so streets to First street. San Pedro street
was just as. it is now except that it has been
widened. There were a number of residences
on Main street south of First to what was
then called Ogier's lane and is now Winston
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street ; also on San Pedro to Third streets,
on Aliso street east to Lyon, and on Macy
street east to Los Angeles river. This also
was the only avenue to the eastern portions of
the county. There was a small group of
houses located on the southwest corner of
Spring and Sixth streets, a few on the Mis-
sion road just north of Macy, and others scat-
tered among the orchards, vineyards and gar-
dens.
The principal business district was bounded
by Commercial street, which was only one
block long and was located between Main and
Los Angeles streets ; Los Angeles street, one
block north from Commercial to Arcadia and
Aliso street ; and Xegro Alley, which ex-
tended north from Aliso to Plaza streets.
Nearly all of the houses were built of adobe
blocks, which are made of earth and straw
molded and dried in the sun, of a size twenty
inches long, fourteen inches wide and five
indies thick. There were about a dozen brick
houses and a few frame dwellings. L T pon his
arrival in the city Air. .Mesmer went with his
family to the Lafayette hotel (now St. Elmo),
Louis Eberhardt proprietor, and after looking
about for a short time in search of a promis-
ing business opening, decided to purchase the
Ulyard bakery which was located on the south-
west corner of Main and First streets where the
Xatick house now stands. On the opposite
corner lived Dr. Frechmann, whose daughter,
Bertha (now the widow of Fred Morsch),
attended the public school on the northwest
corner of Spring and Second streets, where
the Bryson block now stands, often taking
young Joseph Mesmer to school with her. Mr.
Mesmer conducted the Ulyard bakery for two
years, meeting with great success. In 1861
he undertook (the first and only time it has
been attempted in this city) to make matzas
(Passover bread eaten by the Jewish people
durnig Passover), which he sold to Jews all
over Southern California. The same year he
disposed of this business to the father of ex-
Mayor Thomas E. Rowan, and purchased the
Xew York bakery, near the southwest cor-
ner of Third and Main streets, the former pro-
prietors having been Peter Baltz and Henry
Kuhn. from this bakery bread was supplied
not only to a large number of city patrons,
but also to the government troops at Camp
Leighton, which was located about where the
Playa del Rey car tracks now cross First
street, near the town of The Palms. Los An-
geles county. Later the business at and sur-
rounding Camp Leighton became so extensive
that he found it advisable to build a bake oven
and temporary building on the camp premises.
This oven stood for many years after Camp
Leighton had been abandoned, a solitary mark
of the place which had once been the scene of
important military activities.
After conducting the Xew York bakery for
about a year Mr. Mesmer sold that business
and established another near the southwest
corner of Los Angeles and Commercial streets,
just north of John Coder's wagon shop, con-
tinuing also the business at Camp Leighton.
The location at Los Angeles and Commercial
streets was occupied for six months, then the
bakery was removed to where the old First
National Bank building now stands on Main
street south of Commercial street. From
there he continued to supply his city custom-
ers and the federal troops who had meanwhile
changed their quarters from Camp Leighton to
Highland Park, about where the Occidental
College grounds are now located. After con-
ducting the bakery at the Main street location
for fifteen months Mr. Mesmer decided that
he could make more money by establishing a
trading expedition into Arizona than he could
in the bakery business and so he, in partner-
ship with a very good friend by the name of
Yander, purchased two big prairie schooners
and loaded them with provisions to sell to the
miners and campers of Arizona. They suc-
ceeded in disposing of their stock at satisfac-
tory prices and were much elated over their
success. However, when homeward bound,
sand storms arose, covering up the springs
along the road and as a result their horses died
of thirst on the Mojave desert and the men
were forced to abandon their wagons. Crest-
fallen and discouraged and financially much
worse oft' than before they started, they re-
turned to Los Angeles on the over-land terri-
torial stage. During Mr. Mesmer's absence
Mrs. Mesmer conducted the bakery business,
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also a boarding house. Shortly after his re-
turn Mr. Mesmer purchased the United States
hotel from Otto Stressforth and during the
following five years built up a large and lucra-
tive business. At the same time he purchased
all of the present Main street frontage and
built thereon the United States hotel building.
After this period of good business prosperity
Mr. and Mrs. Mesmer sold their business and
rented the property to Hammel & Bremer-
mann and decided that their well earned lab-
ors entitled them to a visit to their native land.
Taking their three children, Joseph, Louis An-
thony and Mary Agnes Christina (the latter
two having been born in Los Angeles), they
went to New York via the Panama route.
From March. 1869, to May, 1870, was spent
visiting friends and relatives in the east and in
the old country and the return trip was made
from New York by rail to San Francisco,
the Union & Central Pacific Railroad having
been just completed at that time. Shortly after
his return to Los Angeles Mr. Mesmer pur-
chased the Dr. R. T. Hayes home on Fort
street, the site which is now occupied by the
Mason Opera House building, and the family
resided there for over twenty years.
Joseph Mesmer, who was the oldest son of
his parents, was born in Tippecanoe, Miami
county, Ohio, November 3, 1855, and was
brought by his father to Los Angeles in 1859.
During the years that his parents conducted
the United States hotel he was known by, and
knew more people than any other person in
the city, and as a boy attended the weddings of
the parents of many of the men and women
now prominent in Los Angeles business, social
and professional circles. Among them were:
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Newell in i860; Mr. and
Mrs. J. Henry Dockweiler in 1862; Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Meyer in 1862 or 1863: Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Burkhardt and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Lehman in 1863; Mr. and Mrs. John Rumph.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roeder and Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Breer all about the years 1864 and 1865.
At the weddings of the last two couples named,
relatives and friends drove out to the Boni-
face Hoffman place at San Gabriel, opposite
the old Mission Church, where under the large
sycamores the marriages were celebrated in
the usual festive picnic way, dancing, singing
and playing games in regular old German fash-
ion. He also attended the weddings of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Heinsch, Mr. and Mrs. Lo-
renz Leek, Air. and Mrs. Jacob Kuhrts, Mr.
and Mrs. John Benner, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
E. Rowan. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac R. Dunkelber-
ger, Mr. and Mrs. Hen C. Trueman, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Jean
Cazaux, Mr. and Mrs. James Craig, and Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Smith, all of which took place
between [864 and 1868. In his boyhood days,
while roaming around the country or deliver-
ing bread to customers, Mr. Mesmer traveled
nver almost every yard of territory now with-
in the confines of this city. He could at that
time speak the Spanish language as fluently as
a native born.
Tlie education of Mr. Mesmer was received
in the public schools of Los Angeles and while
in Furope he attended college at Strassburg,
Germany. After his return from Europe he
entered the employ of Ralph Leon and re-
mained with him until his father required his
services in the wine business, in which he was
then engaged, ami after working at that em-
ployment for about five years he then estab-
lished a business of his own, opening The
Queen Shoe Store. On March 22, 1879, he was
married to Miss Rose Elizabeth Bushard, the
wedding taking place in St. Yibiana Cathedral ;
the large edifice was crowded with friends of
the contracting parties anxious to witness the
ceremony. They are now the proud parents
of five children : Louis Francis. Mary Jose-
phine, Junietta Elizabeth, Beatrice Evalynne
and Aloysius James Joseph.
In 1887 Mr. Mesmer was elected a member
of the Board of Freeholders to frame a charter
for the city of Los Angeles: in 1893 he was
appointed a park commissioner. He has al-
ways been most active in all public matters
and has been conspicuously active in the open-
ing, widening and improving of the streets,
nrnn- than a dozen of our public thorough-
fares owing their opening and widening to his
efforts. To him also is due the credit of secur-
ing the $280,000 in subscriptions toward the
purchase of the free site for the postoffice and
federal building. He also assisted in secur-
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ing subscriptions to the amount of $32,000 to-
wards assisting the Chamber of Congress in
the purchase of a building site. It was mainly
through his efforts that the Alcatraz Paving
Trust was broken up. This act alone has
saved to the property owners in the paving of
the streets fully twenty-five per cent, besides
allowing the purchase of a local product in-
stead of sending money away for Alcatraz
bitumen. He was also largely instrumental in
securing the locating of the Public Market at
Third and Central avenue.
On January 30, 1906, Mr. Mesmer sold out
The Queen Shoe Store after a successful busi-
ness career of twenty-seven years. He is now
president of the St. Louis Fire F.rick and Clay
Company; also as vice-president of the West-
ern Lock and Hardware Company, both of
which manufacturing establishments give
promise of future greatness. Although solicited
in the past by several of the large banking
institutions of this city to become a bank direc-
tor Mr. Mesmer has repeatedly declined until
quite recently, when he allowed the use of his
name as a director in the Home Savings Bank.
He is a member of the California and Jona-
than Clubs and belongs to the fraternal order
of Elks, Knights of Columbus, the Young
Men's Institute and several other charitable
and beneficial societies. He has also been
many times honored with the presidency of
numerous political, social and improvement
clubs. Accompanied by his family Mr. Mes-
mer recently returned from an extended trip
of over thirteen months, visiting many of the
important cities of the United States, Canada
and Europe, and over twelve countries. The
entire trip was replete with pleasure.
LEON LOEB. The firm of H. Newmark
& I o., in which Mr. Loeb has been a partner since
the year 1892, is one of the largest exporter- of
hides and allied commodities in Southern Califor-
nia, with office and salesroom at No. 414 to 428
Commercial street, Los Angeles,
A native of France, Leon Loeb was horn in
Strasburg June 13. [845, the eldest of ten chil-
dren born to his parents, Jacob and Rosalie
(Levi) Loeb, both of whom were also born in
Strasburg. Up to the time of the Franco-Prus-
sian war they had known no other home than
their birthplace, but when Strasburg fell into the
hands of the Germans after one month's bom-
bardment they removed to Paris, there spending
the remainder of their lives. In Strasburg, where
his father was known as one of the foremost busi-
ness men, Leon Loeb gave the first sixteen years
of his life towards acquiring an education, attend-
ing a gymnasium there. At this early age and
alone so far as relatives were concerned, he left
home and friends in 1861, going direct to St.
Imier, Switzerland, where he secured a position
as bookkeeper in a watch factory. Five years
in this position gave him the necessary courage
and experience to venture further, and in 1866
he was among the passengers who debarked at
Grey Town, Nicaragua, from the ship Santiago
de Cuba. Reaching the Pacific coast, he there
took passage on the Moses Taylor, which in due
time reached the harbor of San Francisco. After
looking about in that metropolis for three weeks
he came on the ship Oriziba to Wilmington, from
there coming to Los Angeles, which has ever
since been his home. As he was thoroughly
proficient in his line it was not long before he
had secured a position, this being as bookkeeper
and clerk for S. Lazard & Co. Some years later
this firm was succeeded by the firm of Eugene
Mever & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in dry-
goods, then located on Spring street. Mr. Meyer
retired from the firm in 1884, after which
business was carried on under the name of Stern,
Calm & Loeb until 1888, Mr. Calm at that time
withdrawing from the firm. Business was con-
tinued under the name of Stern, Loeb & Co., until
1892. at which time Mr. Loeb retired from the
dry-goods business, shortly after which he be-
came associated with his father-in-law, Harris
Newmark, in the exporting of hides. Under the
firm name of H. Newmark & Co. (which is
composed of Harris Newmark, Leon Loeb and
A. Brownstein) hides and leather are shipped
to all parts of the country, no other house in a
similar line on the Pacific coast enjoying a patron-
age of equal proportions.
Harris Newmark. the senior member of the
firm of II. Newmark & Co., was a native of
Germany, born in the village of Lobau July 5,
[834, a son of Philip and Esther (Meyers) New-
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mark. At the age of fourteen he became self-
supporting, and when less than twenty years old
set sail for the United States, sailing from Liver-
pool on the Star King July 10, 1853. He saw
Los Angeles for the first time October 22, 1853,
and without loss of any time secured a position
as clerk with his brother Joseph, who was already
established in business here. Although on com-
ing here he was without means in a financial
sense, he possessed a fund of determination and
ambition that was of more real value to him
than a bank account, and in the course of ten
months he had accumulated sufficient to enable
him to open a small store on Commercial street.
Giving this up in 1862, for three years he was
interested in the commission business, and from
1865 until 1886 was connected with the whole-
sale grocery house which has borne his name and
which under his able management grew within
a few years from a small, unpretentious enterprise
to its present proportions. Though he has been
retired from the firm since 1886, business being
carried on under the name of M. A. Newmark
& Co.. he still stands at the head of the firm of
H. Newmark & Co., besides which he has
numerous outside investments which yield him
handsome returns. By his marriage with Sarah
Newmark in 1858 eleven children were born, one
of whom, M. H., is prominently connected with
the wholesale grocery house of M. A. Newmark
& Co., founded by his father. For many years
Mr. Newmark served as president and trustee of
the Hebrew Congregation, and since 1856 has
been identified with Lodge No. 42, F. & A. M.,
of Los Angeles. In manner he is courteous and
affable, readily making friends, and what is better,
he has the happy faculty of retaining them.
By the marriage of Leon Loeb and Fstelle
Newmark, who was born in Los Angeles the
daughter of Harris Newmark, three children were
born, Rose. Joseph Philip and Edwin J. From
his earliest association with the city Mr. Loeb
has been interested in the Independent Order of
( )dd Fellows, and is one of the oldest members
of Los Angeles Lodge No. 35, with which he is
still identified As would be natural to expect
from a man of Mr. Loeb's interest in commercial
affairs he is a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, to whom the city is indebted in a great
measure for the rapid advancement which the
city has enjoyed in the past few years. For
fifteen years he served as the consular agent for
France, and upon his retirement he received from
the French government for his services, the decor-
ation of Knight of Agricultural Merit and Officer
of Academy. Politically his sympathies are in
accord with Republican principles, towards the
endorsement of which he may always be de-
pended upon. Although Mr. Loeb is a very busy
man, he still finds time for social intercourse and
recreation, all of which he finds in the Concordia
Club, of which he is an active member. To an
exceptional degree Mr. Loeb possesses the
genuine esteem and admiration of a host of
friends and acquaintances, who are drawn to
him not alone for his upright business methods,
but for the charm of personality which is peculiar
to his make-up and which all who meet him feel
instinctively. The family have a commodious
residence at No. 837 Westlake avenue, Los An-
geles.
CLINTON P. MOREHOUS. At an early
period in the history of our country the pa-
ternal great-grandfather of Mr. Morehous im-
migrated to the United States and settled as
a pioneer of New York state. At the time of
the Revolutionary war he took sides against
the Mother country from whence he came and
was one of the most active defenders of the
young colonists' cause. Among his children
who also came to the new world at the same
time was Philo Morehous, he also becoming
an early settler in the Empire state. In his
family was another Philo Morehous, who was
born in Monroe county, N. Y., and in later
j ears became a prominent figure in financial
and railroad affairs throughout the east and
middle west. A man of keen judgment and
foresight, and possessing the necessary com-
plement of large executive ability, he finally
concentrated his efforts in a line for which he
had special adaptation, namely, the construc-
tion of railroads, and at one time was promi-
nently connected with the Vanderbilts in the
building of the Lake Shore road, and after-
wards in the Lake Shore and Michigan South-
ern Railroad. In fact, his best years were
spent in railroading and banking in the east
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and also in Illinois, and at the time of his
death, in 1881, he had been a resident of Chi-
cago for a number of years. His marriage
united him with Miss Katherine Winegar,
who, like himself, was a native of the Em-
pire state.
While his parents were residents of Indiana,
Clinton P. Morehous was born in Elkhart
January 4, 1845, and he received his first
school training in the temples of learning in
his birthplace. There also he prepared for
entry into college, and thereafter took up and
completed a four-year course in Hillsdale
College, in Michigan. His college days over,
he returned to his home in Indiana, and with-
out loss of time, he enlisted his services in the
cause of the north, the whole country then
being in a state of turmoil incident to the
Civil war. As a member of Company I he
enlisted in the Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, Colonel Acker commanding the regi-
ment. At the close of the term for which he
enlisted he was honorably discharged and
again returned to his Indiana home. His first
experience of a business nature was received
in his father's bank in Elkhart, and later he
became connected with the Lake Shore Rail-
road, being one of the stockholders of the
company for a number of years. His identi-
fication with California, and with Pasadena in
particular, dates from the year 1875, when, in
the prime of life, he came to the growing west
to share in its prosperity. He has lived to
realize his expectations, but the years which
have intervened have chronicled their share of
the fluctuations which come to every newly
settled country, all of which he has safely
weathered. His business interests since locat-
ing here have been principally in stocks and
in real estate, and aside from the duties con-
nected therewith he is now living practically
retired.
In 1880 -Mr. Morehous was married to Miss
Ida Cook, a native of Rhode Island, and their
only child. Vera May, is now the wife of E.
H. Groenendyke, cashier of the Union Savings
Bank of Pasadena. Mr. Morehous is fratern-
ally associated with the Knights of Pythias,
and is socially identified with the City Valley
Hunt Club, one of the oldest clubs in South-
ern California, and the Balso Chico Gun Club,
one of the wealthiest social organizations of
the state. The latter club owns a tract of three
thousand acres on the Huntington electric rail-
road, at Newport and Long Beach. The style
of architecture employed in the club buildings
is peculiarly artistic, and the interior plan is
on the order of a first-class hotel, making it
possible for members and their families to
spend their summers together there. During
the winter season the club is occupied by its
members who delight in shooting small game,
ducks abounding in that vicinity during cer-
tain seasons. In 1896 Mr. Morehous erected
the fine residence in which he and his wife
now live. The many dependable qualities
which have distinguished the life of Mr. More-
hous during his residence in Pasadena have
called forth the esteem and respect of his
fellow-townsmen, and he has attained an en-
viable position as a citizen of Los Angeles
countv.
REV. EDWARD J. HARPER. This es-
teemed clergyman, pastor of the Knox Presby-
terian Church of Los Angeles, is a man of edu-
cation and culture and bears fitly and well the
name of Giristian. He is a deep thinker, an
eloquent preacher, and as broad and liberal in
his spirit as he is sincere and devout in his con-
victions. A native of the south, he was born in
Columbus, Miss., September 13, 1863, a son of
Charles F. and Martha (Wheeler) Harper, of
whom a more extended account may be found on
another page. In the spring of 1868, when Ed-
ward J. was a lad of five years, the family re-
moved to California, settling in Los Angeles,
which at that time bore little promise of attain-
ing its present size and commercial importance.
His first school training was received in the pub-
lic schools of this city, where he displayed un-
usual ability as a student. Subsequently he
entered the high school and here, as in the gram-
mar school, he showed remarkable aptitude and
upon his graduation in 1883 he delivered the
valedictory of his class. Later he entered the
University of Southern California, remaining
until the close of his junior year, when he en-
tered Yanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn.,
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graduating from the latter institution in 1889
with the degree of S. T. B.
Returning to California after his graduation,
Mr. Harper entered the ministry of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, his first charge
being in San Luis Obispo. Subsequently he was
appointed pastor of the church in San Ber-
nardino, having been ordained as a minister of
the denomination in 1891 in that city. From San
Bernardino he went successively to Downey and
Redlands, in the latter city organizing the con-
gregation and building the church edifice. After
giving up this charge he was not actively asso-
ciated with the ministry for a time, having been
called south to assume the position of financial
secretary of the Wesleyan College for Ladies,
a position which he held for two years. This
is the oldest woman's college in the world and
the first college ever chartered for women. Re-
turning to California at the end of two years,
Mr Harper was appointed to a pastorate in San
Francisco, filling the same for two years, and
thereafter located once more in Los Angeles.
Here, as in his former charges, he continued the
work of upbuilding and spreading the gospel of
peace and good-will, and as an evidence of his
accomplishments may be seen the Woodlawn
Church at the corner of Woodlawn avenue and
Fortieth street. Thus far in his career he had
espoused the belief and doctrines of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, but owing to a
change in his belief in favor of the Presbyterian
Church he joined the latter denomination in Sep-
tember, 1906, and is now pastor of the Knox
Presbyterian Church of this city, located on
Thirtieth street near Main.
In Nashville, Tenn., Mr. Harper was married
to Miss Myrtie Roberts, who was born in Ken-
tucky and received her training in the south,
having been educated in Price's College for
young ladies at Nashville. March 25, 1907, Mr.
Harper received the appointment of city forester
for Los Angeles, a position recently created and
one for which the applicants were required to
pass the civil service examination. Mr. Harper
passed the test with the highest percentage and
as a result was appointed to the position, and
April 1 took the oath of office. In national
politics he espouses Democratic principles, but
in local affairs he puts man ahead of party, vot-
ing for the candidate best qualified for the posi-
tion in question. Under the administration of
Mr. Harper the church of which he is pastor
has prospered in all of its departments, and
throughout the community his influence for good
has been felt and appreciated.
JAMES A. FOSHAY. The services ren-
dered by Prof. James A. Foshay in an educa-
tional line in Los Angeles have been such as
to ineradicably associate his name with this
work, although he has recently resigned his
position as superintendent to enter upon the
responsible duties which are his as president
of the Fraternal Brotherhood. Since 1895 he
has served as superintendent of the schools in
the city of Los Angeles and with each passing
year has contributed more and more to their
improvement, his peculiar fitness for the work
serving to bring out the highest capabilities of
the teachers under his supervision. He is a
native of Cold Spring, N. Y., born November
25, 1856, a son of Andrew Jackson and Eme-
line (Griffin) Foshay. The father was born
January 21, 1830, on a farm in Kent, N. Y.,
where his parents, Lynes and Ruhannah
(Smalley) Foshay, spent their entire lives.
The professor's great-grandfather, John Fo-
shay, served in the Revolutionary war with
distinction, as did also the maternal great-
grandfather, John Smalley.
Reared to young manhood in his native
state, James A. Foshay received a preliminary
education in the district school in the vicinity
of his home, after which, in 1875, ne entered
what is now known as the State Normal Col-
lege at Albany, N. Y.. from which he was
graduated with honors. For the ensuing three
years he taught in the public schools, at the
close of that time being elected school commis-
sioner of Putnam county, N. Y. Re-elected to
the office, he combined with the discharge of
his duties those of secretary of the New York
State Association of School Commissioners
and Superintendents. He gave to each the at-
tention and characteristic energy which have
distinguished every phase of his career, and in
1885 was re-elected to that important trust.
Mr. Foshay came to California in 1887 and
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located in Monrovia, Los Angeles county,
where he secured a position in the grammar
schools, and in the following July was elected
principal. A year later he was appointed a
member of the Board of Education of Los An-
geles county, and in 1891-92 served as presi-
dent. In all public capacities he gave evidence
of his unusual ability and also of the thorough-
ness of his work, gradually assuming a promi-
nence which called him to higher positions
than any he had yet filled. In 1893 he became
deputy superintendent of the schools of the
city of Los Angeles under Professor Brown,
and was re-elected the following year. In 1895
he was chosen superintendent, entering upon
his important duties before reaching his thirty-
ninth birthday. The marked success of his
first eight years in California was but a pro-
phecy of his future career, for he has in every
way lived up to the promise of his young man-
hood. Eleven years have passed since he as-
sumed the responsibilities of this position and
each term has witnessed his resumption of the
duties incumbent upon him as superintendent,
and to his efforts are due the great progress
and development which have characterized the
public schools of this city. When he took
charge of the work there were only ten thou-
sand, one hundred forty-four pupils, while
there are to-day thirty-four thousand, seven
hundred and ninety-five: the school property
at that time was valued at $740,670 and to-day
al S_\h7o,ooo.
The educational work of Dr. Foshay has
been far-reaching, its influence keenly felt
throughout Southern California, and indeed
thoroughly appreciated all over the state. In
1898 he attended the convention of the Nation-
al Educational Association (of which he was
second vice-president), and against considera-
ble opposition secured the next meeting in Los
Angeles, where the following year a most en-
tertaining and successful session was held. He
has proven an upbuilding factor in the South-
ern California Teachers' Association, having
served efficiently as president. He was also
elected a member of the California Council of
Education, the National Council of Education,
and a director of the Southern California Acad-
emy of Sciences, lie lias also taken an active
part in musical culture and literary societies.
He has made many addresses upon important
educational topics indicative of his mental at-
tude and thought, and these have proven a
source of study and development of inestimable
value to the teachers under him. The crown-
ing work of Dr. Foshay was his successful ad-
vocacy of the scheme of bonding the city in
1905 for $780,000 for the purpose of raising
funds to add to the public school buildings and
equipment : through some defect in the bonds
this matter was taken to the supreme court
and in February, 1906, was approved, when
the bonds sold for $7,000 premium. He also
labored zealously at this time to have the
building power transferred from the council to
the Board of Education, and succeeded in ac-
complishing this end. As advisor of the board
all plans for building and remodeling were
submitted to him for approval before being
carried out. Significant of the high esteem in
which Professor Foshay is held was the ccn-
ferring upon him of the degree of Doctor of
Pedagogy by his alma mater; this is a degree
that cannot be earned by the passing of exam-
inations, but is given to those only who have
distinguished themselves as educators.
Dr. Foshay's prominence in fraternal circles
(being a Knight Templar Mason and hav-
ing served as eminent commander of Los
Angeles Commandery No. 9, and also as grand
master of the Grand Lodge of California) has
given him a wide acquaintance throughout the
state and the entire Pacific coast, as well as
the United States, and this was the means of
his being elected to the presidency of the Fra-
ternal Brotherhood at a large salary. Dr. Fo-
shay takes a broad interest in all questions of
the day and a personal stand that leaves no
room for doubt as to his convictions. In poli-
tics he endorses the principles advocated in the
platform of the Republican party and votes
that ticket, although in the smaller sense of
the word he is not a partisan. He is a mem-
ber and director of the University Club.
Dr. Foshay's home, located at No. 1023
West Sixth street, is presided over by his wife,
formerly Miss Phebe Powell Miller, with
whom he was united in marriage March 18,
1885. She was born in Carmel, Putnam coun-
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ty, N. Y., May 2, 1856. a daughter of John
Griffin and Phebe Powell (Carpenter) Miller,
both of whom were natives of Amavvalk,
Westchester county, same state. Both Dr. Fo-
shay and his wife are members of the Baptist
church and are prominent in social circles.
A resume of the salient points in the career
of Dr. Foshay bring out forcibly his natural
traits of character and the ability which is his
both through inheritance and years of study
and training. These have made it possible for
him to grasp the opportunity which his keen
perception recognized, and have brought to
him a thorough understanding of the situation.
The ability, tact and power of decision might
in themselves never have accomplished their
ends ; to those who know him these seem but
subordinate qualities, for that which makes
them forceful is the sincerity of the man, his
honesty of purpose, and the fearless manhood
which has stood for the right against every ob-
stacle during the course of his splendid career.
JOHN CHARLES FREMONT. Through-
out American history and story no name is
more familiarly known than that of John C.
Fremont, the Pathfinder of the Rocky Mount-
ains. School children of all ages read and reread
with renewed delight and interest his encoun-
ters with the dusky foe on the plains and ex-
ploits of thrilling adventure throughout his en-
tire career on the western frontier. His fear-
less and daring spirit was no doubt an inher-
ited tendency, for it is known that the founder
of the family in America was a man of large
undertakings and indomitable courage. Born
in France at a time when the edict of Nantes
was still in effect, he lived there contented
with his surroundings and privileges until the
revocation by Louis XIY, when he was sent to
Canada as an officer in the troops, and there
he eventually settled with his family. There
the family became well known, the famous Dr.
Charles James Fremont being a member of this
branch of the family. The grandson of this
immigrating ancestor. Louis Rene, was the
founder of the family in the United States, his
later years being spent in Giarleston, S. C.
his death occurring: there in 1818. In Virginia
he married Anne Beverly Whiting, whose
aunt, also a Miss Whiting, became the wife of
John Washington, and held George Washington
in her arms at the time of his christening.
Born in Savannah, (ia., January 21, 1813, John
Charles Fremont, of this sketch, was a lad of
five years when the death of his father cast the
first shadow over his young life. Remaining
with his widowed mother in Charleston, he there
became a pupil in the public schools, where he
displayed an aptitude and receptivity which made
him a delight to his teachers. One especially,
Professor Robertson of the University of South
Carolina, took a keen interest in him ami gave
him outside assistance in his studies that was
of untold advantage to him. Circumstance over
which he had no control, however, put an end
to his school days, and at the age of nineteen
the support of his mother, brother and sister fell
upon his young shoulders. From his earliest
school days he showed a fondness for mathe-
matics, and it was along this line that he bent
his keenest energies. Naturally he sought em-
ployment which would make use of his train-
ing, and this he had no difficulty in finding. His
first practical work was as a surveyor in the rice
lands of South Carolina, a task which involved
considerable risk to life, and was paid for ac-
cordingly. From 1833 to 1835 he was a teacher
of mathematics on the sloop-of-war Natchez, and
later became assistant to Capt. W. G. Williams
of the United States topographical engineers.
Subsequently he was appointed an assistant to
Mr. Nicollet, who under the direction of Gen-
eral Sibley, with headquarters at old Fort Snell-
ing, explored the country north of the Missouri
river, at the same time discovering its source.
In May, 1842. he set out on another expedition,
his object this time being to survey beyond the
Rocky Mountains by the south pass, one of the
members of his party being Kit Carson, the noted
trapper and scout. On this occasion, on Au-
gust 15. he scaled the peak that is now known
as Fremont's Peak.
With a band of thirty-nine trusty men Mr.
Fremont set out in May of 1843 ior tlle P ur -
pose of finding a path to the Pacific ocean. In
his equipment he had the first India rubber boat
ever constructed, and this was also the first boat
that ever floated on Salt Lake, the explorers
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sighting this body of water for the first time
September 6, 1843. It is a fact worthy of note
that the maps which Mr. Fremont made of the
country at this time were the same ones which
Brigham Young used in making his way to
that garden spot. Proceeding toward the coast,
Mr. Fremont reached California in the middle
of the following December, and in March of 1844
reached Sutter's Fort, near Sacramento. Hav-
ing accomplished the purpose for which he came
he began to retrace his steps on the 24th of the
same month, reaching Kansas July 1, 1844.
Starting on his third expedition in 1845 ne
finally reached Monterey, the old capital of Cal-
ifornia, there raising the first American flag on
Gaviota Peak, when threatened with attack by
Castro's men. From Monterey he went to Kla-
math lake. Working under the direction of orders
received from Washington to defend the interests
of the United States in California and to pro-
tect American settlers, with Stockton and Sloat
he soon wrested northern California from Mexi-
can rule, and July 4, 1846, was elected governor
of California. By the treaty of Cahuenga, on
January 13. 1847, ' le concluded articles of capit-
ulation which left the territory in the possession
of the United States. During the memorable
year of 1849 he was elected United States senator
from California, taking his seat September 10,
1850, the day after the state was admitted into
the Union. He and his wife though southerners
were advocates of a free state and it was largely
through his influence that it was admitted as
such.
In September, 1853, Mr. Fremont made his
fifth expedition across the continent, and three
years later became the recognized leader of a
new political party whose slogan was "Free soil,
free speech, freedom and Fremont." The Re-
publican convention of June, 1856, witnessed
his nomination for president. Returning to Cal-
ifornia in 1858, a few lears later, at the outbreak
of the Civil war. lie was made major-general
of the regular army, commanding the western
department, with headquarters in St. Louis. At
the hands of President Lincoln in March of
[862 be was given command of the mountain
district nf Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee,
and in 187S was appointed governor of Arizona.
Further promotion and honor awaited him, for
by act of congress he was made major-general
of the regular army in 1890, and put on the re-
tired list. He was not long spared to enjoy his
new honors, however, for death came to him a
few months afterward, July 13, 1890, while on a
temporary visit in New York City.
In Washington, D. C, October 19, 1841, oc-
curred the marriage of John C. Fremont and
Jessie Benton, daughter of Thomas H. Benton,
United States senator from Missouri. Opposi-
tion to the marriage on the part of Mr. Benton
proved no bar to the consummation of the plans
of the young people, for they were quietly mar-
ried without his knowledge or blessing. Sub-
sequently Mr. Benton became reconciled to their
marriage and in later years he became Mr. Fre-
mont's stanchest friend. Five children blessed
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fremont, but of
these two died young. The eldest, Elizabeth Mc-
Dowell Benton Fremont, was born in Washing-
ton, D. C, in 1842. and as long as her parents
lived continued to make her home with them.
She has been a resident of California since June,
1849. living first in San Francisco, later in Los
Angeies, and in 1904 came to Long Beach, al-
though she still retains her home in Los Angeles.
The next child, John Charles, named for his illus-
trious father, was born in San Francisco in
April. 1851, one of the first American children
born in the state. As an officer in the United
States navy he participated in the Spanish-Amer-
ican war and later was made commander of the
U. S. Ship Florida. His marriage was with
Sallie Anderson, who is a daughter of Gen.
Adna Anderson, who laid out the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Their three children are : John
Charles (who is the third of that name and the
second to serve in the United States navy) :
Jessie Benton and Julia Van Wyck. Francis
Preston Fremont was horn in Washington, D.
C, in May. 1855. and is a major in the United
States Army. His marriage united him with
Caroline Townsend, a daughter of John D.
Townsend, a prominent attorney of New York
City, and they have one son, Benton Fremont.
During the same vear in which General Fre-
mont died congress granted a special pension
to his widow, following which the women of
California united in giving her a beautiful res-
idence in Los Angeles. She was born in May,
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1824, and died at the home just mentioned De-
cember 27, 1902. General Fremont's remains
were interred on the beautiful banks of the
Hudson in New York, and at her death her
ashes were taken east and placed beside his re-
mains. A woman of many charming traits of
character, she was an inspiration to all with
whom she came in contact, and though dead she
yet speaks, for she was a writer of considerable
note. Not only are her writings entertaining,
but they claim the greater merit of truth, and are
based on her experiences in this western frontier.
Notable among the productions from her pen
are : "A Year of American Travel ;" "Souvenirs
of My Time ;" "A Sketch of Senator Benton ;"
"Stories of the Guard." and "Will and Way
Stories." At the time of her death she was en-
gaged in the preparation of her autobiography.
Colonel Fremont was in Paris with his wife
and daughter in 1851 and '52, during which time
Napoleon declared himself emperor, and they
were honored guests at the last birthday dinner
given in honor of the duke of Wellington. They
were also presented at court. In 1869, General
Fremont, wife and daughter again went abroad,
this time visiting in Copenhagen and Denmark
particularly. Mrs. Fremont owned the first car-
riage that was even seen in California, it having
been built for her in the east and brought around
the Horn. It was so arranged that she could
use it as a bed at night, and in this conveyance
she and her eldest daughter made many trips
throughout the state with Colonel Fremont.
JONATHAN SAYRE SLAUSON. A rec-
ord of the life of the late Jonathan Sayre Slau-
son is in brief a history of the progress and de-
velopment of Los Angeles and Southern Califor-
nia during the past thirty years. Without eulogy
cr embellishment it shall stand in fee simple of
all that his living meant in all departments of
activity — financial, political and moral, — and give
to him a place among the honored names of our
western commonwealth. Born in Westtown,
Orange county, N. Y., December 11, 1829, he
was one of a family of thirteen children, his
parents. David H. and Elizabeth (Sayre) Slau-
son, being natives of Connecticut. The paternal
ancestors came from Hampshire, England, three
brothers immigrating to the western world during
the colonial period of our history. They became
earnest, patriotic and loyal citizens and served
valiantly in the Revolutionary war, in which two
of the brothers perished. The remaining brother
located in Connecticut after the close of hostili-
ties and there reared his family and engaged in
pursuits which brought him a competence. David
H. Slauson removed to Orange county. N, Y.
where he became known as a prosperous and
successful farmer, rearing his children to ways
of usefulness and inculcating habits of thrift
and industry which spoke largely in their suc-
cess in later life.
The childhood and youth of Jonathan Sayre
Slauson was passed upon his father's farm, where
he became familiar with the first duties of life,
before reaching his teens learning to plow a
straight furrow, milk the cows, and perform other
labors of more responsibility. In fact, responsi-
bility was the watchword of the earlier years of
his life, for that which did not fall to his lot in
the natural course of events he sought with a
persistence that gave him the most beneficial
training of his life. Like the other farmer lads
of his home vicinity he attended the public schools
and like them also was supposed to have ac-
quired sufficient education at the age of sixteen
to enable him to pursue the graver responsibili-
ties without further study. However, he was of
too ambitious a turn of mind to be satisfied, and
after clerking until 185 1 in a store in Middle-
town, Orange county (where his mother located
with her family after the death of the father),
he took up the study of law. For a time he
was engaged in reading in the office of a local
lawyer, after which he entered the New York
State Law School at Poughkeepsie, and was
graduated therefrom in the fall of 1854. The
following year found him located in New York
City, where he opened an office and began the
practice of his profession. Success was a part
of the man, a logical outcome of his efforts, and
that he won a place of prominence among the legal
fraternity of New York City was never a matter
of surprise to those who had known him best
and could fitly appreciate his persistence and his
courage and unconquerable determination to
overcome all obstacles. Failing health induced
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him 'to abandon his practice and at the same time
he sought a change of climate.
Deciding to follow the westward trend of emi-
gration, Mr. Slauson came to Nevada in 1804,
and in Austin, a city in the central part of the
state, he engaged actively in mining pursuits for
several years. The last year of his residence
there he resumed his law practice in partnership
with Hon. C. E. De Long, who in the latter part
of 1868 was appointed United States Minister
to Japan by President Grant. While a resident
of Austin Mr. Slauson was thrice honored by the
mayoralty of the town, and left a record that
was gratifying to his constituency. The success
with which Mr. Slauson met while in Nevada
brought him satisfactory financial returns and
in the year 1868 he decided to retire from his
labors in that locality, and accordingly settled
in San Francisco.
Coming to Los Angeles in 1874 Mr. Slauson
was content to make this city his home for the
balance of his life. His association with public
movements of importance began at once and con-
tinued unabated up to the time of his death, his
first efforts being given to the founding of the
old Los Angeles County Bank. He devoted ten
years to the upbuilding of this institution, and at
the end of that period, in 1885, when he sold to
John E. Plater, it was recognized as one of the
strongest banking houses in the state. As a di-
rector of the railroad and wharf built at
Santa Monica nearly thirty years ago by Senator
John P. Jones he was prominent in its upbuilding,
and was also actively indentified with the first
>treet railroad lines of this city.
One of the most important movements of Mr.
Slauson was his purchase prior to 1885 of the
Azusa ranch, comprising some fifty-eight hun-
dred acres of choice foothill land lying about
twenty-three miles east of this city. At about the
same time he purchased the San Jose Addition
ranch, adjoining the ether property, making a
total of thirteen thousand six hundred acres of
land, the market value of which was little ap-
preciated at that time. The first purchase of
fift\ eight hundred acres (with the exception of
five hundred acres which he reserved for his
"\mi private use) was sold to J. D. Bicknell,
1. W. Hellman and others. ( (rganizing the Azusa
Land and Water Company for the improvement
of this immense property he became and re-
mained its president and its motive power during
the life of the corporation. With characteristic
energy he threw himself into the task of sub-
dividing and settling up the famous old ranch.
The town of Azusa was laid out and the follow-
ing year the completion of the Santa Fe Railroad
gave an added impetus to the work which was
being prosecuted under his direction. In the
same year the San Jose Addition ranch was also
disposed of and Mr. Slauson having relieved him-
self of these cares prepared to give his attention
to the improvement and cultivation of the five
hundred acres. From his efforts has grown up
the most extensive and finest citrus estates in
California, known as the Azusa Foot-Hill Citrus
Company, oranges and lemons being produced
in quantity and quality that exceed every other
individual effort in the state. This company was
composed of Mr. Slauson and his children, their
united effort bent to bring about the success in
this venture. In addition to this large property
Mr. Slauson had extensive landed interests in the
city of Los Angeles and adjoining it, while with
his children he was active in the improvement and
cultivation of a two hundred and fifty acre
orange grove situated in the same foothill belt
with his Azusa property.
Public enterprises had in Mr. Slauson a stanch
supporter and one who made his personal inter-
ests parallel with those of his adopted city and
fellowmen. He served efficiently as a director in
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and some
of Mr. Huntington's electric lines, and as a mem-
he r of the Chamber of Commerce he was active
in all its movements from the time of its organi-
zation, serving successively as president, and dur-
ing the ceremonies incidental to the laying of the
corner stone of the new building in March, 1904,
he made the speech in honor of the event. A
few of the institutions that owe their origin and
success to him are the Boys' Home at Garvanza,
established by the matron, Mrs. Watson, and Mr.
Slauson. He assisted materially in establishing
the Young Men's Christian Association and was
always a liberal contributor to that institution.
The orphan asylum owes its origin to Mr. Slau-
son, who together with his son-in-law, Mr. H. L.
Macneil, gave $1,000 each and together they were
instrumental in obtaining $19,000 toward that
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end. The Salvation Army Rescue Home was
purchased and turned over to them free of debt.
To commemorate those brave soldiers who died
for their country in the Spanish-American war
he assisted in raising a fund for the erection of
the monument in Central Park. It is eminently
fitting at this point to speak of Mr. Slauson's re-
ligion, not in a separate paragraph nor in a place
remote in the history of his life, for it was the
mainspring and motive power of his existence.
In the early years of his life he became a member
of the Presbyterian Church and wherever he
made his home was active in the support of this
denomination, although giving liberally to all
others. When he first came to Los Angeles
there were but five weak Protestant churches be-
tween San Jose and the Mexican line, and up to
the year 1887 there were but five churches in
this county that he had not assisted in starting.
Into the organization of churches and kindred
institutions in Southern California he put $45,-
000 of his own private fortune in the twelve-
years between 1875 and 1887. He was a man of
broad gauge and earnest and sympathetic by na-
ture, and he was thus able to be in touch with
many whose lives knew nothing but sin. No
help was more generously given to the Salvation
Army than that of Mr. Slauson and he came to
be known as "Sergeant Nellie Truelove's best
private." What he has done will never be
known, not only that his lips are still, but be-
cause the influence of his living can never be
calculated. True-hearted and sympathetic in the
midst of his busy cares, he thought no time lost
that was spent in a word of cheer, a hand-shake
of friendliness, a material evidence of encourage-
ment. Up to his last illness he retained the per-
sonality which had endeared him to countless
hosts of friends and made him universally loved
wherever known. In social life he occupied to
the verv last an unexcelled position, remaining
one of the most popular and effective toastmast-
ers and responders at banquets in the city. He
served efficiently as president of the Sunset Club,
and was a motive power in the advancement of
its interests and popularity among the exclusive
set who are its members.
Thus the life that ended December 28. 1905,
removed from all avenues of activity a man of
unexcelled strength and power, whose influence
shall be felt long after he has become but a
memory. He was one of those men the poet
meant when he wrote
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime ;
And departing, leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of Time."
This brief history of his life could not more
fitly be closed than with a quotation whose
imagerv calls to mind the fairest in nature, and
the most godly in mankind:
"But December is upon us. The midnight of
tin- year is nigh. The days grow shorter, with
an added touch of cold to the air, and now and
again a storm adds to the impulse to withdraw
ourselves indoor. You draw near the hearth
upon which fire is kindled and throw on the oak
logs. You watch the flying of the sparks as they
hit the coals. You see the flames leap up spite-
fully to the attack. You note how long and ac-
tively the old oak withstands the onset. It is
a titanic fight between Nature's forces ; the
toughened sinews of the oak, knit and strength-
ened by years of struggle against the wind, yield
not to the subtler stirrings of the heat without
much explosion and rending of fiber. Then it
seems to enter into the spirit of the game and
the fiber burns with fiercer intensity, more than
accomplishing what it was intended for. Grad-
ually the flame dies out and there is left our
oak intact, transformed into a glowing ember,
quickly and gently dispensing the garnered sun-
shine of a century to the well-being and comfort
of us all.
"So it is with the life of our friend. In him
the fires of youth have died out. His soul, like
the glowing embers of the rugged oak, looks out
through his kindly eyes and he dispenses naught
but comfort and good cheer to all who come
within his presence."
CHARLES C. CHAPMAN was born in
Macomb, McDonough county. 111.. July 2, 1853.
His father, Sidney S., was a native of < )hio,
and his mother, Rebecca J. Chapman, of Ken-
tucky. Her parents. David and Eliza Clarke.
removed to Illinois when she was a child two
vears of age. They were pioneers of that sec-
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tion, where they spent the remainder of their
lives, both living to a ripe old age.
The parents of our subject were married in
Macomb in 1848. To them were born ten chil-
dren, seven of whom reached mature years,
and of this number all are now living save
Emma E., who became the wife of L. W. B.
Johnson. The mother of our subject passed
away January 2, 1874, in Chicago; his father
in that city in October of 1893. after having
led an active life, following for years the bus-
iness of contractor and builder. Both were
members of the Christian Church, having
united with it shortly after marriage.
Charles C. passed his boyhood in Macomb,
where he received only a common school edu-
cation. At eleven years of age he became a
messenger boy, and while in this service car-
ried the dispatch announcing the assassination
of President Lincoln. The following three or
four years he was employed as a clerk in his
uncle's store, attending school part of the time.
In 1868 the family moved to Vermont, a
neighboring village, where Charles worked
with his father in the building business, learn-
ing the bricklaying trade. Shortly after the
Chicago fire he went to that city and joined the
great army of workmen in its rebuilding. In
1873 he erected over twenty brick residences
in that city. His father, who had the contract,
being sick, the entire responsibility fell upon
our subject, who was then only twenty. After
this he engaged in the mercantile business in
Chicago, but in 1876 returned to Macomb to
join his uncle in the compilation and publica-
tion of a history of McDonough county. This
completed, he went to Galesburg and began in
the same line for himself. This was the begin-
ning of the business of publishing local histor-
ical and biographical works, which was subse-
quently not only extensively followed by our
subject, associated with his brothers, under the
firm name of Chapman Brothers, and Chap-
man Publishing Company, but by many other
companh s.
The firm built up a large printing and pub-
lishing business in Chicago, Charles filling all
departments of the work, from canvassing
through the country to general manager.
While going about the country, either upon a
borrowed horse or in an old rig which he had
purchased for a few dollars, his ambition
reached the point that he desired to have his
name upon a large business building in Chi-
cago. Within ten years this ambition was
gratified. Chapman Brothers erecting several
large buildings in that city, all of which they
occupied at different times.
In 1894, on account of his wife's poor health,
Mr. Chapman came to Los Angeles, since
which time he has been actively engaged in
the culture of the orange. His Santa Ysabel
Ranch at Fullerton is one of the most highly
improved and valuable orange properties in
California. He has made a close study of
growing and marketing this fruit, and is rec-
ognized as authority upon the subject. His
Old Mission Brand oranges have become fa-
mous, and for ten years have stood at the head,
making the record for prices each year. He
has been a favorite speaker at horticultural
conventions and farmers' institutes for years.
He has written much that is valuable to grow-
ers and shippers upon the growing and mar-
keting of the orange.
Mr. Chapman is a Republican and has taken
some interest in politics. He was elected one
of the first trustees of Fullerton. serving as
chairman of the board, and re-elected for a
second term. He was appointed by Governor
Pardee in 1903 as a trustee of the State Nor-
mal School of San Diego, was reappointed by
him and later by Governor Gillette. In 1907
he was elected a trustee of the Pomona College
at Claremont, Cal.
Aside from attending to his ranches, Mr.
Chapman has engaged in other lines of bus-
iness. He is a director of the Commercial Na-
tional Bank, Los Angeles, the Riverside Na-
tional Bank of Riverside, and of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Fullerton. He served
as president of the latter institution for some
years. He is president of two mining com-
panies and interested in other corporations,
besides luuing large real estate interests in
1 ,os Angeles and elsewhere.
When a young man of sixteen, Mr. Chapman
united with the Christian Church, since which
time he has been more or less active in vari-
ous departments of church work, and for some
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three years filled the pulpit in the Christian
Church at Anaheim. He is at present, and has
been for some years, president of the Southern
California and Arizona Christian Missionary
Society. He has taken part in the dedication
of twelve or fifteen churches, being the speak-
er and making the appeal for money, and in a
special as well as general way assisted many
churches. While in Chicago he served for sev-
eral years on the General Board of Managers
of the Y. M. C. A., and also on the Board of
the West Side Department. He is now filling
the same position in Orange county. The larg-
est of his philanthropic enterprises is the build-
ing of a hospital at Xantungchow, China.
In 1884, at Austin, Texas, Mr. Chapman and
Miss Lizzie Pearson were united in marriage.
To them were born two children, Ethel M.,
June 10, 1886, and Charles Stanley, January
7, 1889. Mrs. Chapman departed this life at
Los Angeles, September 19, 1894. September
3, 1898, in that city, he was united in marriage
to Miss Clara Irvin.
Mr. Chapman is what is commonly spoken
of as a self-made man. While having but mea-
ger opportunities in the school room he may be
regarded as fairly well informed along the or-
dinary lines of human activity. Having no
other legacy than a sound body, a disposition
to deal fairly and honestly with his fellowmen,
a distaste for liquors, gambling and dissipa-
tion, he has made for himself a name respected
among his fellows and accumulated a com-
petency.
WILLIAM K. COWAX. The pioneer in
the automobile business in Southern Califor-
nia is W. K. Cowan, who has represented the
Rambler on the Pacific coast since 1890, first
having the agency for the Rambler bicycles
in Southern California and then the Rambler
automobiles as soon as their first model ap-
peared. The admirable traits of character
which have distinguished the career of Mr.
Cowan are a direct inheritance from southern
lineage, the name having been established in
Virginia during the colonial period of our
country's history. His paternal grandfather,
Alfred Cowan, was a native of that state and
a pioneer settler of Tennessee, where, in
Blount county, he established his home. He
became a commanding figure in Tennessee
politics and served his county in the state
legislature. Later in life he removed to Green-
field, Mo., and there passed the evening of his
days. Air. Cowan's father. H. G. Cowan, was
born in Blount county, Term., and became
a farmer near Greenfield, Mo., from which state
he went to the Mexican war as a member of
a Missouri regiment. Throughout the Civil
war he served as a non-commissioned officer
in a Missouri regiment, and his name is there-
fore enrolled among the veterans of two wars.
About 1S68 he located near Fort Scott. Kans.,
and homesteaded and improved a claim, mak-
ing this his home until his removal to Douglas,
Kans.. in 1876. He later farmed near Baldwin
City, Kans., and was still later a resident of
Lawrence, and in 1888 came to Los Angeles,
which has ever since remained his home. In
comparative retirement from business and
other cares he is passing his latter days among
delightful surroundings, and though eighty
years of age, is in possession of those faculties
which have placed him in the front ranks of
noble and patriotic citizens. In his youth he
married Eliza Garrison, a native of Indiana,
and a daughter of Mark Alexander Garrison,
who was born in the eastern section of the
country and became a pioneer of Missouri and
Kansas, his death occurring near ( Mathe, in
the latter state.
The eldest child in a family of six children,
all of whom are living. W. K. Cowan was born
in Greenfield, Dade county. Mo.. March
17. 1863. His preliminary education was re-
ceived through an attendance of the public
schools in the vicinity of his home; later he
became a student in Baker University at Bald-
win City and attended this institution for two
and a half years. He then entered Park Col-
lege in Missouri, and remained for two years
and a half, but left during the junior year to
learn the jewelry business under William
Rowe, in Lawrence, Kans. After mastering
the craft he removed to Los Angeles in 1887
and found employment with Mr. Harris, the
jeweler, for a year. He then established a
business of his own in this line, being located
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■ in South Spring street, and continued here for
two years when he went to Chicago in order
to take a course in the watch-making school.
This finishing touch to his already extensive
knowledge of the jewelry business made him
a peer of the master mechanics in his line.
L'pon returning to California he located in
Riverside and engaged in business on Main
street until 1892. While in that city he be-
came interested in the sale of bicycles and was
the first man there to carry a stock of bicycle
goods, his stock being disposed of in 1892 in
order i<> start a similar enterprise in Los An-
geles.
Arriving in Los Angeles once more he
opened a bicycle shop on the corner of Spring
and Fifth streets and carried the Rambler as
a leader. He is the oldest Rambler agent on
the coast, and at one time had the agency for
entire Southern California and Arizona, but
after 1896 had charge only of Southern Cali-
fornia. Mr. Cowan was also the first man in
Southern California to engage in the automo-
bile business, as he was agent for the Rambler
bicycles taking the agency for the Rambler
automobile as soon as its first model appeared.
He went east to their factory and ordered five
automobiles from the first model. In 1903
he saw the need of a garage and at once
planned and built the present garage at No.
830-834 South Broadway, which was the first
large garage in the city. Since then he has
established a very large sale of automobiles,
as the Rambler is a very popular machine, hav-
ing stood the test in every possible way. He
has the exclusive agency for Southern Cali-
fornia and has appointed agencies for the ma-
chine in other important cities of this section.
In connection with his garage he has a well-
equipped machine shop, and is also engaged
in manufacturing what is known as Cowan's
storage batteries, which not only have a large
sale in Southern California, but are shipped to
different points on the Pacific coast. This
manufactory is the only cue of its kind in
Southern California.
In Los Angeles Mr. Cowan was united in
marriage with Martha Hare, a native of New
Y'irk City, but who came at an early age to
California, where she was reared and educated.
They became the parents of two children, but
the little daughter, June, died at the age of
six years. William K., Jr., is three years old.
Mr. Cowan is fraternally associated with the
Masons, having been made a member of the
organization in Southgate Lodge, No. 320, F.
& A. M., and is a member of Los Angeles
Consistory No. 3, 32 Mason, and is
also identified with the United Moderns. He
was one of the organizers of the Automobile
Dealers' Association of Southern California
and acted as its first president, and is also
prominent in the Merchants' & Manufacturers'
Association and in the Chamber of Commerce.
Socially he belongs to the Jonathan Club. On
all national issues he is an advocate of Re-
publican principles; in religion he is a mem-
ber of the Congregational Church and a lib-
eral contributor to its charities. Since his lo-
cation here Mr. Cowan has demonstrated per-
sonal qualities of character which have justly
placed him among the representative citizens
of Los Angeles. His stanch integrity in all
matters of business, his uniform courtesy and
frank friendliness have combined to win for
him both the respect of his business associates
and their friendship as well.
JOHN S PENCE PITMAN. On the paternal
side Mr. Pitman descends from Quaker an-
cestors, both his grandfather and grandmother
adhering to the teachings of George Fox, who
founded the Society of Friends in the middle of
the seventeenth century. For many years Xehe-
miah and Mary (Rodman) Pitman lived the
peaceful, law-abiding life of that sect in their
native surroundings in New Jersey. In that
state John Pitman was born, September 16, 1815,
growing to manhood there, and there also formed
domestic ties by his marriage with Elizabeth
Spence, she being a native of Elizabethtown, N.
J., and a daughter of John Spence. He removed
to New York City and later to Philadelphia, and
in 1857 carried out a plan which had been form-
ing in his mind for some time, and that year
found him a settler in Cedar county. Iowa. In
Tipton, that county, he engaged in farming
throughout the remainder of his life, his death
occurring in Boone county in 1880, throughout
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his long and useful life having followed the
teachings of his noble parents.
While John and Elizabeth (Spence) Pitman
were still residents of the Empire state their son
John Spence was born in New York City August
8, 1845. He was a lad of about twelve years
when his parents settled in Cedar county, Iowa,
and it might be said with truth that his life really
began from this period, for after attending school
for a time he began to provide for his own sup-
port by working as a farm hand on the near by
farms. The firing on Fort Sumter aroused his
patriotic zeal to take a hand in quelling the dis-
turbance which that shot created, but it was not
until the following year, when he was seventeen
years old, that he finally enlisted in the service.
As a member of Company B, Twenty-fourth
Iowa Infantry, under command of Col. E. C.
Byarri, he went with his regiment to the front,
participating in many of the hard-fought battles
of the war. At the battle of Winchester, Sep-
tember 19, 1864. he suffered the penalty of his
patriotism, receiving a gun-shot wound that
disabled him from further service, and from then
until his discharge, in January, 1865, he was con-
fined in the hospital.
As soon as his health would permit after he
had spent some time in recuperating, having in
the mean time returned to his Iowa home, he
took up his studies once more, taking up a course
in Mount Vernon College. Upon leaving col-
lege he went to Boone county and accepted a
position as deputy recorder under A. J. Barklev,
an office which he held for three years and two
months, at the expiration of this time going- into
the mercantile business in partnership with W. C.
Budrow, under the firm name of Budrow & Pit-
man. Two years later this partnership was dis-
solved, Mr. Pitman thereafter carrying on a simi-
lar business alone in Ogden, Iowa, for a number
of years, and at the same time served as post-
master for twelve vears.
Disposing of his interests in Iowa in 1889 Mr.
Pitman came during the same year to California,
locating in Santa Ana, and remained there for
three years and a half, during which time he
served as deputy county recorder and was elected
a member of the board of city trustees, which
he resigned to come to Los Angeles. The family-
home at No. 1330 Wright street was graciously
presided over by his wife until her death, which
occurred May 1, 1906. Prior to her marriage
in 1868 she was Sarah A. Brown, a native of
Pennsylvania and a daughter of Thomas and
Esther Brown. Her grandfather Gregg was a
major in the Revolutionary war. Various mem-
bers of the Gregg family have been prominent
in the political life of Pennsylvania from the
early days of that commonwealth. The only
daughter born of this marriage, Mary E. Dennis,
is a well-known physician of this city, while the
only son, Homer K., is pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Modesto, Cal. Mr. Pitman built the
United Brethren Church at the corner of Hope
and Pico streets and for four years served as its
pastor. In 1897 ne was elected by the annual con-
ference of the church as the superintendent of
their churches of the state, serving four years.
He resigned in the fall of 1900 and removed to
Catalina, where for three years he carried on a
mercantile business. Selling out he returned to
Los Angeles and for two years lived retired.
Since 1905 he has been serving as secretary and
treasurer of the Eldorado Consolidated mines, in
which he is a heavy stockholder, the company
having thirty-four claims in Riverside county
which are being rapidly developed.
Politically he is a Republican, and active in the
workings of the party. He served for one term
as a member of the school board from the Fourth
ward. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic
body at Los Angeles, and is also identified with
Stanton Post, G. A. R.
WILLIAM J. McCALDIN. A compara-
tively brief time in the life of William J. Mc-
Caldin was passed as a citizen of Pasadena,
yet he is remembered by early residents of that
city as an upbuilder and a progressive spirit
which added no little toward the advancement
and development of this section of Southern
California. The exigencies of an eastern cli-
mate forced him to leave the scenes of his
business activities and the success which had
always accompanied his efforts enabled him
to bring with him to Southern California a
fortune which was at once invested in real
estate, and its consequent improvement and
development gave to Mr. McCaldin a place
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among the citizens whose work contributed
toward the permanent prosperity of the city.
.Mr. McCaldin benefited by an inheritance
of the sterling traits of character which were
noticeable features in his successful career,
being the descendant of a Scotch-Irish family
of worth and ability. He was born in Belfast,
Ireland, in 1847, a son of William and Sarah
(Bell) McCaldin, natives respectively of Ire-
land and Scotland; the father died at the age
of thirty-seven years, while the mother at-
tained the ripe age of ninety-four. They had
five sons, of whom William J. was the first to
come to America, the others following him
later and engaging in business with him. He
had received a good education through an at-
tendance of the public schools and a college
there, and in young manhood he sought a new
home and wider opportunities on this side of
the Atlantic. Soon after his arrival in New
York City he engaged in the coal business,
later drifting into the shipping business, when
he began building and buying vessels, tugs and
canal boats, and eventually working up an ex-
tensive business in this line — used principally
in the merchant marine trade. His interests
were on the East river, where he owned tugs,
canal boats and schooners used in the coal
trade, as well as transatlantic and West Indian
trade. He owned the South Portland for many
years, but finally sold her to San Francisco
parties, and this boat was afterward lost on
the Pacific coast. Notwithstanding he was al-
ways actively engaged in business affairs he
was a progressive and liberal citizen in every
respect and gave liberally of both time and
means toward the furtherance of any plan ad-
vanced for the betterment of his community,
being one of the most active of the business
men in the establishment of a produce ex-
change in Xew York City, as well as countless
other enterprises of public import.
His health breaking in [885, Mr. McCaldin
sought a milder climate, and in Southern Cali-
fornia established his home. He was located
for a time ill Sierra Madre Villa and then re-
moved to Pasadena, where he invested about
$200,000 in real estate. Here he made his
home up to the time of his death, which oc-
curred in 1892. He made a place for himself
among the enterprising and progressive citi-
zens of Pasadena and Los Angeles, and at the
same time built up a wide circle of friends,
w-ho appreciated him for the sterling traits of
character always manifested in all his dealings
with the public. He voted the Republican
ticket, but did not aspire to official recogni-
tion ; in religion he was a member of the Pres-
byterian Church. Fraternally he was a Mason
of Knight Templar degree.
In New York City, in 1871, Mr. McCaldin
was united in marriage with Miss Alice Ledi-
ard, who now survives her husband. They
had two daughters, Alice, now the wife of
Senator H. S. G. McCartney, of Los Angeles,
and Sarah, who died in Pasadena in 1894. Mrs.
McCaldin is the descendant of an old French
family, the name being originally Le Diard,
but it was changed to its present spelling by
her father, Charles Redmond Lediard. The
latter was born in Bristol, England, and there
graduated in medicine and pharmacy. At the
age of twenty-five years he served as the
youngest member of Parliament. Afterward
he removed to St. Vincent's, West Indies, and
there Mrs. McCaldin was born. He became
the owner of a valuable estate abounding in
forests of mahogany and rosewood, and also
engaged in the drug business and the practice
of dentistry in New York City, where he after-
ward located. His death occurred in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., in November, 1892, at the age of
seventy-six years. He was also prominent in
public affairs and interested in the develop-
ment of whatever community he made his
home, giving liberally toward this end. He
was associated with the Masonic organization,
having taken the thirty-second degree, and in
religion was a member of the Episcopal
Church. His wife was in maidenhood Mary
Pollard, who was born in London, England,
and died in Brooklyn. She was the daughter
of Dr. Pollard, who died in France. Mrs.
McCaldin was educated in the Morris Female
Institute, of IVIorristown, N. J., after which
she was married, and twelve years later be-
came a resident of Southern California, where
her home has been ever since. She is, how-
ever, an extensive traveler, having made the
trip across the continent twenty-three times.
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Since her husband's death she has devoted her
time to the management of her estate and has
displayed unusual business ability and judg-
ment along this line.
GIDEON TABOR STEWART, a retired citi-
zen of Pasadena, brought with him to Southern
California when he came here the magnificent
record of a successful lawyer and man of affairs.
He was born at Johnstown, N. Y., August 7,
1824, and was named for Judge Gideon Tabor,
his parents being Thomas Ferguson and Petreshe
(Hill) Stewart, descendants of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry. His father was a contractor and builder
at Schenectady, N. Y., where his grandmother,
Elizabeth (Ferguson) Stewart, daughter of Dr.
Thomas Ferguson, of Stewart Town, Ireland,
opened the first English school and academy,
which continued under her auspices until it was
merged in Union College. She was well edu-
cated and a very successful teacher, among the
pupils attracted to her instruction being Richard
Yates, afterward governor of Illinois. Mr. Stew-
art's mother was a daughter of the distinguished
divine and Revolutonary patriot, Rev. Nicholas
Hill, whose family located in Schenectady from
Londonderry, Ireland, near the beginning of the
eighteenth century. The maternal great-grand-
father, Henry Hill, was a prominent citizen of
Schenectady and a loyal patriot to the cause of
the colonies, and because of his fearlessness in
upholding the cause was arrested by the British
soldiers and so cruelly tortured that he died in
less than a year thereafter, this being about the
commencement of the Revolution. Two of his
sons, Nicholas and Harry, inspired by his patriot-
ism and loyalty, enlisted in the cause of the col-
onies, in the Second New York Regiment, and
were with Washington at Valley Forge and
Yorktown and remained until his army was dis-
banded in 1783. Then, for the first time since
leaving their home for the dangers and hard-
ships of camp life, they returned to Schenectady,
where Nicholas completed his studies and entered
the Christian ministry, rounding out the years of
a well-spent life on his beautiful farm by the
Mohawk, opposite the city of Amsterdam, where
he passed away at the advanced age of ninety
years. He reared a family of children who per-
petuated the honorable name, Nicholas Hill, Jr.,
being celebrated as the owner of the largest pri-
vate law library in the United States as well as
the most lucrative practice ; and John L. Hill, an
eminent lawyer, and leading counsel for defend-
ant in the famous Tilton vs. Beecher case. Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart had four sons who sought the
legal profession, while a fifth, Alexander A. Stew-
art, was a prominent merchant of Columbus and
during the Civil war was a government con-
tractor, furnishing uniforms for the soldiers. He
was a strong temperance advocate, and father of
Rev. George B. Stewart, president of Mt. Auburn
( N. Y. ) Theological Seminary. Of the four sons
who studied law Merwin Hill graduated with
honors at Union College, but died when preparing
for the bar; James Ferguson graduated from
Oberlin College, went with early settlers to Cali-
fornia and was one of the oldest lawyers of San
Francisco when he died in 1893, leaving a son
and grandson as worthy members of the bar of
that city ; Nicholas Hill, Jr., was both scholar and
lawyer, and acquired fame as an educator, being
at the head of the principal institution in the state
of Florida, at Ouincy, where he died in 1858;
and Gideon Tabor, of this review, completes the
list.
Orphaned by the death of his mother in his
infancy, Gideon Tabor Stewart received parental
training from his father, who placed him in Ober-
lin Institute at an early age. However, he left
the studies of this institution to read law in the
office of Jairus Kennan, of Norwalk, Ohio, re-
maining with him from the spring of 1842 for the
period of a year, when he went to Columbus and
entered the law office of Hon. N. H. Swayne,
afterwards a justice of the United States su-
preme court. Going to Florida a year and a half
later, he spent two winters with his brother,
Nicholas, and after returning to Norwalk he was
admitted to the bar August 14, 1846. He became
a partner of Jairus Kennan, with whom he prac-
ticed for some time. January 26, 1866, he was
admitted to practice in the supreme court of the
United States, being at that time a resident of
Iowa. He had located in the latter state shortly
after the outbreak of the Civil war and there
purchased the Dubuque Times, the only daily
Union paper in the north half of the state at
that time. Mr. Stewart was a stanch Union man
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and being physically disqualified for field service
resolved to give his time and attention to interests
which might operate in favor of the cause he
espoused. The Confederate forces then held the
greater part of the lower Mississippi river and
its valley, and were fast moving in the direction
of Dubuque, then a very important military point
on the Mississippi river, anticipating its speedy
capture and the reduction of Iowa to slave terri-
torv. Dubuque county and city were in the cen-
ter of the lead mining industry, which attracted
there a large foreign-born element in its popu-
lation. This, from its anti-negro antipathies,
found no difficulty in attaching itself to the pro-
slavery side of politics, and by its vote largely
controlled the elections. It was therefore for
the purpose of bringing before the minds of this
population the true condition of affairs and not
as stated by the radical Democrat paper of the
place, the Dubuque Daily Herald, whose editor
was arrested and placed in prison by the National
government because of treasonable acts and pub-
lications. Soon after the close of the war Mr.
Stewart sold the Dubuque Times and its printing
office for the same price that he bought them,
although he had nearly doubled the paper in size
and much increased its market value, for the rea-
son that he wished to return to Norwalk and
resume his law practice. Its purchaser was a
prominent Republican and from that time it re-
sumed its former party control.
Returning to Norwalk in the latter part of the
vear 1866 Mr. Stewart resumed his law practice
and continued it successfully until December,
1901, when by advice from his physician he came
to Southern California. Since that year he has
continued to make his home in Pasadena, leaving
his business and property at Norwalk in the care
of his sons. He is eighty-three years old, hale
and hearty in appearance, and retaining the cheer-
ful manner and charm of personality which have
won him a host of friends wherever he is known.
1 If the children born to himself and wife (who
was formerly Abbv X". Simmons, of Greenfield,
Huron county, where their marriage occurred in
1857), all are living, one daughter and three sons.
Mrs. Stewart passed away in February, 1899, at
their home in Norwalk.
In addition to the engrossing interests entailed
by his large law practice, which has included
many important cases in Ohio (the printed law
records and briefs of his supreme court cases
alone making four large volumes), Mr. Stewart
has taken an active part in public affairs, both*
state and national. He was one of the organizes
of the first east and west railroaa through Nor-
walk. named the Cleveland, Norwalk & Toledo
Railroad, and which now forms a part of the main
line of the railway from New York to Chicago.
He was three times elected by Whigs and Free
Soilers as auditor of Huron county, and zeal-
ously opposed the extension of slavery. When
news came of the influx of slaveholders and their
slaves, with the consequent fighting and blood-
shed, in Kansas, Mr. Stewart organized a com-
pany of about a hundred settlers from Huron
county, and going to the garret of the court
house, brought down a supply of guns and equip-
ment of the old militia training system, with con-
sent of the commissioners, to arm the men. By
his contribution and that obtained by him from
others, these arms were well cleaned and re-
paired. His deputy auditor went with the com-
pany, their wives and. children for permanent
settlement there. By their attitude they were
allowed to settle there and live in peace until the
outbreak of the Civil war. Originally Mr. Stew-
art belonged to the old Whig party and at the
commencement of the war he became a Repub-
lican, but at its close passed into the Prohibition
party, where he has ever since remained one of
its most devoted advocates. For fifteen years
he was a member and for four years chairman of
its national committee, and was unanimously nom-
inated by three state conventions of the party
in ( )hio for president of the United States, but
each time declined to be a candidate for that
office. At one time he was candidate of the party
for vice-president of the United States, was three
times its candidate for governor of Ohio, and
nine times its candidate for judge of the supreme
court of the state. He was grand worthy patri-
arch of the Sons of Temperance, and three times
elected grand worthy chief Templar of the Good
Templars of Ohio; and was prominent in the
Maine law and other temperance movements. He
was president of the Law Library Association of
Huron county at Norwalk, and one of its organ-
izers. He has been engaged in many business
and commercial enterprises, in the early years of
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his practice having edited the Norwalk Reflector,
the Whig organ of Huron county, and was for
several years half owner of the Toledo Blade.
He is a life member of the American Bible So-
ciety; has been for many years president of the
Firelands Historical Society, of which he was
one of the founders over forty years ago and
which has published over three thousand pages
of historic collections. He was one of the found-
ers and first officers of the Whittlesey Academy
of Arts and Sciences at Norwalk (and is its only
surviving charter member), which has maintained
a large library and reading room with valuable
courses of lectures. He was also one of the
pioneers of the Scotch-Irish Society of America
and director of the Western Reserve Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution, and is now
vice-president of the California Humane Society.
In addition to all the activities mentioned, he has
written and published a volume of poems and
also a historic booklet on ex-presidents John and
John Ouincy Adams. As a speaker he is fluent
and ready and has been called upon for many
political speeches and numerous finished addresses
on other subjects, during his long and useful
life. It is something to have lived as Mr. Stew-
art has done ; to have steadily and conscientiously
erected the structure which indicates his aims
and purposes in life; to have won success finan-
cially and in the eyes of his fellowmen ; and with
all to have retained to the evening of his days
the personality which has distinguished him in
bis career.
JOHN H. JONES. One of the most es-
teemed and helpful citizens of Los Angeles
was the late John H. Jones, who as a pioneer
of the state of California and an early settler
of this city gave liberally of time and means
toward its upbuilding and development. Mr.
Jones was the son of an Englishman, and was
born in Greenbush, N. Y., March 31, 1834; his
parents, James and Sarah (Olds) Jones, grew
to maturity in England, where they married
and acquired a competency which enabled
them to retire from active business pursuits
on coming to America. Their two other chil-
dren, a son and daughter, were both born in
England, and both died when past middle age.
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James Jones died in Massachusetts, where he
bad made his home in retirement, typical of
the best in an English gentleman's life; held
in high esteem by those who knew him best,
for the sterling traits of character which dis-
tinguished his citizenship.
John H. Jones was but a lad in years when
he lost his father, his early training thus de-
volving upon the mother, who gave to him
by inheritance and precept the unswerving
principles which were always his most notice-
able characteristics in both public and private
life. He received his early education in the
public schools of Massachusetts, and in. that
state spent the first years of his manhood.
Shortly after his marriage he decided to seek
his fortune in California, the land of his boy-
hood's dreams, and accordingly took passage
on a vessel commanded by a friend of his.
This brought to the Pacific coast a cargo of
goods via Cape Horn. The journey was made
in safety, and soon after his arrival Mr. Jones
found employment as a clerk in Los Angeles.
Later he went to Santa Barbara and engaged
extensively in trading, and at the same time
began to speculate in lands. Considerable of
the down-town property of Los Angeles was
owned by Mr. Jones at one time, his first
home being at the corner of Fifth and Main
streets, where he lived for more than twenty-
eight years, while he also lived for a brief
time on Broadway, between First and Second
streets. He had the utmost confidence in the
future possibilities of the city of Los Angeles
and indeed of all Southern California, and the
greater part of the property that he purchased
was at once improved under his direction,
Chester block being erected by him, also two
flat buildings on Ottawa street and one on
Twenty-seventh street. At the time of his
death he had under construction a large ware-
house on Los Angeles and Fifth streets. He
was very successful in his business ventures
and acquired a large fortune, but despite the
affluence and its consequent influence which
came to him, he remained ever the same ge-
nial, helpful friend to his associates, the same
practical and liberal citizen, the simple, kindly,
courteous gentleman which was his due
through inheritance and training. He was lib-
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eral but unostentatious in his giving, the Golden
Rule remaining his maxim throughout his en-
tire life. In politics he was a Republican, and
as a member of the city council for one term
he was a power for the advancement of the
city's interests. His death occurred suddenly
at his home, No. 258 East Adams street, Feb-
ruary 12, 1903. removing a citizen who had
won the high position he held in the esteem of
his fellow townsmen, and who left behind him
a record of quiet, honest and earnest integrity
which has placed his name on the roll of hon-
ored pioneers of the city.
Mr. Jones* wife was formerly Miss Carrie
M. Otis, a native of Massachusetts and a
daughter of the Boston family of that name.
She was reared in her native state and edu-
cated in its schools, after which, November 24,
1854, she was united in marriage with Mr.
Jones. She remained in Massachusetts when
her husband came to California, joining him
in 1858, making the journey by the Isthmus
of Panama and the trip from San Pedro to Los
Angeles was made by stage. It may be- imag-
ined that the little pueblo with its adobe
houses and its uncivilized, foreign appearance
struck the Boston-bred girl unpleasantly and
did not speak eloquently of the pleasures of
her future home. In the years that followed
she made many trips back to the eastern home,
being a passenger on one of the first trains
eastward after the completion of the transcon-
tinental railroad. However, she too became
imbued with the future greatness of the coun-
try and has come to love the sunny skies of
Southern California, where she still makes her
home. She has developed business ability
which has enabled her to look after her own
affairs in an efficient manner, and her judic-
ious management has resulted in a material
increase of the property left her by her hus-
band. Like her husband, she is liberal and
public spirited, and like him also is unosten-
tatious in her giving, although her name can-
not but be associated with many charitable en-
terprises. Sin- assisted in building the first
Episcopal Church on Temple street and was
associated with the early-day leaders in ben-
evolences. She is a Unitarian in her church
affiliations. Recently she gave to the Young
Women's Christian Association the sum of
$20,000 to assist in the erection of their new
home building, and in numberless other enter-
prises of similar character she has been and is
likewise interested. She takes a keen inter-
est in the development and upbuilding of Los
Angeles, and is always found foremost among
the citizens who are seeking to promote the
general welfare. Among her holdings mention
may be made of the three valuable corner
properties located as follows : two on Fifth
and Spring and one on Fifth and Main streets,
which she has leased for a term of vears.
RALPH HAGAN, M. D. The medical pro-
fession in Los Angeles has many members who
have achieved prominence in their chosen field of
labor, and of these the subject of this sketch is
one of the foremost. In the prime of life, he
possesses that enthusiasm, energy and vitality
which are essential to the highest success, and
being an earnest student, his mind is ever open
to conviction and progress. He is a son of Mar-
tin Hagan, M. D., who was born in Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, in 1832, and in that state grew to
manhood. During young manhood he prepared
himself for the medical profession by taking a
course in Starling Medical College at Columbus,
Ohio, and soon after his graduation therefrom
became assistant surgeon in the One Hundred
and Fifty-first Ohio Regiment, and was later
made surgeon of the Sixty-first Ohio Regiment.
The war ended, he returned to his home in Tus-
carawas county, where for two terms he served
as county treasurer. At the end of this public
service he once more resumed his medical studies,
taking -a course in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York City. Having obtained
the degree of M. D. in the latter institution he
located in St. Paul, Minn., for the practice of
Ins profession, building up a fine private practice,
in addition to acting in the capacity of surgeon
for several railroads in that city. The severe
strain of constant application soon began to tell
on his own health and in 1 881 he took a trip to
Honolulu, intending to remain one year. So
pleased was he with the salubrious climate of
that country that he was loath to leave, and the
one vear lengthened into three. During this time
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he had not been idle, but on the other hand
found considerable opportunity to practice his
profession, having been appointed physician to
the insane, and also acting as physician to the
royal family.
Upon leaving the island in 1884. instead of re-
turning to Minnesota, Dr. Hagan located in Los
Angeles, where for about thirteen years he car-
ried on a lucrative practice. He gave this up
however in 1897, from that time until his death,
in 1902, when in his sixty-ninth year, living re-
tired. During his residence here he served as
health officer several years and was also county
physician for some time. Prominent in Grand
Army and Masonic circles, he was also well
known in Republican gatherings, but in none of
these was he more interested than in the medical
societies to which he belonged, and in all of which
his opinion and judgment had great weight. His
marriage united him with Rose Armstrong, who
was born in Port Washington, Ohio, a daughter
of William Armstrong, one of the most promi-
nent merchants in the latter city. Mrs. Hagan
is still living and makes her home in Los An-
geles.
Of the three children who originally comprised
the parental family two are living, and of these
Ralph Hagan is the youngest. Porn in St. Paul,
Minn., May 13, 1872, he was there reared and
educated until he was nine years old. when with
his parents he spent three vears in Honolulu.
Upon coming to Los Angeles in 1884 he resumed
his studies in the public schools of this city, fol-
lowing this training by taking a high school
course. Supplemented by a careful and thought-
ful observation of the practice of medicine as fol-
lowed by his talented father this preparation
well fitted him to become a pupil in the medical
department of the University of California, which
he entered in 1892, and from which he gradu-
ated in 1895. For one year thereafter he acted
as house surgeon in the Los Angeles county hos-
pital, giving this up to fill his appointment as
police surgeon, a position which he held from
January, 1897, until January, 1901. Since the
latter date he has given his attention almost ex-
clusively to his private practice, making a spe-
cialty of surgery, and is also on the staff of
physicians in charge of the Pacific hospital, the
Sisters' hospital, and Los Angeles Hospital, be-
sides which he acts as medical director of the
Los Angeles Life Association and examiner
for several fraternal societies.
Dr. Hagan's home at No. 758 Lake street is
presided over by his wife, to whom he was mar-
ried in Los Angeles in 1897. am ' wno was i° r ~
merly Mamie A. Berke. a native of Faribault,
Minn. Her father. Ferdinand Berke, who par-
ticipated in the Civil war. died in Los Angeles
in 1902. While professionally Dr. Hagan is a
very busy man. he yet finds time for relaxation,
and indeed he considers it a necessity to his well-
being, thoroughly believing in the saying that
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
For two years he was secretary of the Los An-
geles Driving Club, of which he is still a member.
His love for man's best friend, the horse, is one
of his strongest characteristics, and he owns a
number of fine animals. His fraternal associa-
tions are numerous and include membership in
the Woodmen of the World. Knights of the Mac-
cabees, Red Men, Eagles and Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks. His membership in the
last-mentioned order is in Lodge No. 99, at Los
Angeles, of which he is past exalted ruler, and
now has charge of the southern jurisdiction of
California m the capacity of district deputy grand
exalted ruler. Politically he allies himself with
the Republican party, and in the interest of good
citizenship is a member of the board of police
commissioners of this city. Taken all in all. Dr.
Hagan is a man of the times, progressive and
public-spirited, helpful to his city, and one whom
it is a pleasure and honor to know.
COL. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, of Covina,
Cal.. is a native of Illinois, having been born
in Macomb, McDonough county, in that state,
on the first day of the year 1849. He is the eld-
est of a large family of children born to Sid-
ney S. and Rebecca Jane Chapman. His fa-
ther was born in Ashtabula county. Ohio, in
1826, and was a descendant of one of three
brothers who came from England to Massa-
chusetts about 1650. He came to Macomb
when a young man and in 1848 was united in
marriage with Rebecca Jane Clarke, the eld-
est daughter of David and Eliza (Russell)
Clarke, natives of Kentucky and early pioneers
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of central Illinois. Colonel Chapman's boy-
hood was passed at Macomb. There he attended
the common schools ami engaged in various
occupations until he answered the last call
made by President Lincoln for soldiers. He
enlisted in Company C. One Hundred and
Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry. Though a
mere boy in years he was accepted and with
his regiment went south, where he remained
until after the close of the war, when he was
honorably discharged.
Upon his return home our subject engaged
at clerking in a store until 1868, when he went
to the neighboring town of Vermont and en-
gaged in business for himself. After the fire
in Chicago in 1871, there being a great de-
mand for bricklayers in that city, and having
learned that trade with his father, who was a
builder, lie went there and for a while was
foreman for a large building firm. For a while
he engaged in building and contracting in that
city for himself, when he again drifted into
mercantile life. This he followed with vary-
ing success until he began the study of medi-
cine. He entered Bennett Medical College,
Chicago, and was graduated with the class of
1877. The following year Mr. Chapman, with
his brother Charles C. embarked in the pub-
lishing business. Prosperity attended this en-
terprise and the business grew until Chapman
Brothers (as the firm was known) erected their
own building and owned a large printing plant
in Chicago. For many years the firm did an
extensive and prosperous printing and publish-
ing business, and at the same time engaged
extensively in the real estate business, and also
erecterl many large buildings in Chicago.
On the second day of December, 1894,
Colonel Chapman, with his family, landed in
California, taking up his residence in Los An-
geles, lb-re he lived for a year, when he re-
moved to Palmetto Ranch, at Covina, at which
place he is extensively engaged in orange
growing. Since taking up his residence here
he has been identified with almost every local
enterprise inaugurated by its people, and is
regarded a- one of the substantial and highly
respected citizens of the community.
Colonel Chapman was united in marriage
with Miss Wilhelmina Zillen, September 9.
1886. To them have been born four children:
Frank M.. Jr.. born at Chicago. 111.. July 17.
1888; Grant, also at Chicago, June 11. 1891 ;
Grace, born in Los Angeles, October 18, 1895:
and Clarke, born at Covina, February 21, 1898.
Mrs. Chapman was born in Friedrichstadt,
Schleswig-Holstein, German}-, July 2, 1861.
She is the daughter of Wilhelm Ferdinand and
Louise (Fencke) Zillen. and came with her fa-
ther to the United States in 1866.
Politically Colonel Chapman has been a life
long Republican and has taken more or less
active part in politics. He has been a dele-
gate to many conventions. He represented the
twenty-fifth ward in the city council of Chi-
cago, and while chairman of the committee
on railroads he was author of the ordinance
demanding the elevating of steam railways,
thereby doing away with grade crossings.
The subject of our sketch was appointed
lieutenant-colonel of the National Guards by
Governor Henry Gage, and reappointed by
Governor George C. Pardee, and Governor
James N. Gillette, having served on the staff of
these three governors.
Colonel Chapman and family are members
of the Christian Church, and not only take an
active part in church work, but are identified
with every movement for the betterment of
their communitv.
CAPT. J. PEMBROKE JONES. The line-
age of the Jones family is traced to Wales,
whence the first of the name in America
crossed the ocean to Virginia during the colonial
period of our nation's history. Among the de-
scendants of this immigrant was Thomas Jones,
the grandfather of Captain Jones, who among
other children reared a son John on the old Vir-
ginia plantation. Following the traditions of his
predecessors he too became a large land holder,
at one time owning six hundred acres well
stocked with cattle, horses and mules, in the
raising of which and in the care of his large prop-
erty he kept a large number of slaves. The pro-
verbial southern hospitality had been meted out
to him in generous measure, to the end that he
was known far and wide and had friends and ac-
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quaintances innumerable. Throughout his ma-
ture life he enjoyed the close companionship and
sympathetic co-operation of his wife, who prior
to her marriage was Mary Booker, she like him-
self being a descendant of Welsh ancestors.
Among the seventeen children born into the
home of John and Mary (Booker) Jones was J.
Pembroke, born on the Virginia plantation near
Hampton, February 28, 1825. Every advantage
for his care and training was bestowed upon him
with a generous hand by his parents, and for
nine years he received instruction from the same
private tutor. Thereafter he prepared for entry
into William and Mary College, a non-sectarian
educational institution in Williamsburg, Va.,
founded in 1693. He pursued his studies in that
institution for some time, and upon leaving col-
lege in 1842 entered the navy and went to sea,
where he received his nautical training. Before
he was twenty-one years of age he had circled
the globe. In the meantime war had been de-
clared and waged between Mexico and the United
States and he was one of the navy officers who
participated in that struggle. He graduated from
the naval academy where he received his promo-
tion and from that time served in the navy until
the cloud of the Civil war spread its blighting
gloom over both north and south. Loyal to the
section of country which was his own home as
well as that of innumerable ancestors in times
past he returned to the south in her hour of need
and engaged in the service, having command of
various ships, besides at one time having com-
mand of the torpedo defenses. Following the
war he engaged in the mercantile marine serv-
ice, after which he accepted the chair of mathe-
matics in the University of Georgia. Subsequent-
ly he gave up that position to take up farming
in Fauquier county, Va., where he remained
seven years, when he was selected by the South
American government to take charge of their
torpedo defenses, his fame having preceded him.
After spending two years in Argentine he re-
turned to Virginia and in Albemarle county re-
sumed agricultural operations, following this for
about six years.
It was during this time that Mr. Jones' life
was saddened by the death of his wife, who was
formerly Mary Willis. One son, Pembroke, was
born of this marriage ; he is now a well-to-do
resident of New York City. After the death of
his wife Captain Jones traveled for a time, visit-
ing many of the southern countries. The present
wife of Captain Jones was formerly Miss Geor-
gia Newton, of Norfolk, Va., and together they
are spending their declining years amid happy
surroundings in Pasadena, having a palatial resi-
dence at No. 127 North Madison avenue. Though
in his eighty-second year Captain Jones enjoys
a fair degree of health and it is the wish of his
friends that he may be spared to them for many
years. The reputation of the south for hospitali-
ty is sustained in his home. Hosts of friends
testify to his unfailing cordiality, genial tempera-
ment and broadminded fellowship, while temper-
ate habits, lofty principles of honor and keen
sagacity have united to form a personality of re-
markable strength and power. He is next to the
oldest graduate of the naval academy, now living.
FRANCIS MARION POTTENGER, A. M.,
M. D. There are few physicians in Los An-
geles county who have enjoyed greater oppor-
tunities for medical research, both at home and
abroad, than has Dr. Pottenger, and few who
have obtained a greater degree of success in
the accomplishment of his undertakings,
namely, the mastery of a new field of scien-
tific investigation and its practical application.
Dr. Pottenger's work in the field of tubercu-
losis has been that of a pioneer on the western
coast. His establishment of the Pottenger
Sanatorium for Diseases of the Lungs and
Throat conducted on ethical lines, his efforts
to arouse interest in the prevention of tuber-
culosis throughout the state by organization
and teaching, his numerous contributions to
various medical journals in the scientific in-
terest of this cause, have rendered him well
known as a leader in this great work not only
on the Pacific coast, but throughout the United
States, and his name is not unknown in for-
eign countries. His writings on tuberculosis
have often been quoted in the continental
medical journals, and through his writings and
his travels he has become known to and made
acquaintance with many of the world's lead-
ing men who are interested in tuberculosis.
The records of the Pottenger family show
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it to be of English origin, the first representa-
tive on American soil coming over at the time
Cecil Calvert made the journey and settling in
Maryland. It became one of the substantial
families in the vicinity of Baltimore, flourish-
ing there for many generations. Later on we
find a branch of the Pottenger family among
the early pioneers of Hamilton county, Ohio,
where they developed large farming interests
and started a settlement which they named
New Baltimore. Thomas Pottenger, the father
of Dr. Pottenger. was born there and in after
life engaged in farming near this place. With
true patriotic zeal, at the time of his country's
need, he abandoned his own interests to serve
in the northern army, becoming a member of
the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Ohio Vol-
unteer Infantry. After the war he returned
to his former peaceful pursuits and carried on
his farm for many years. As on the paternal
side, so on the maternal side the doctor is of
English lineage, being a descendant of Crom-
well. His mother, Hannah Ellen Sater. was
also born at New Baltimore, and in honor of
her familv when the government established
a postoffice at New Baltimore, the name of
Sater was given to it. The children resulting
from this union are all living: two married
daughters, Nellie M. Fonts and Elda P. Scheer-
ing, residing in Indiana and Ohio respectively ;
three sons, Milton Spenser, a graduate of the
literary department of Otterbein University
(Westerville, Ohio), a practicing attorney in
Cincinnati : Francis Marion, the subject of
this biography ; and Joseph Elbert, who after
graduating from the University of Southern
California in both academic and medical de-
partments, continued his medical studies
abroad, and is now associated with his brother
in the Pottenger Sanatorium at Monrovia.
Both parents are still living and make their
home with their sons at Monrovia.
Dr. Pottenger was born near New Balti-
more, Hamilton county, Ohio, September 27,
[869. A farmer's son, his education was be-
gun in the district schools of his own neigh-
borhood. Later on he attended Otterbein Uni-
versity, and graduated from the academic de-
partment in [892 with the degree of Ph. B. In
1804 he graduated from the Cincinnati Col-
lege of Medicine and Surgery, receiving the
degree of M. D., and also the gold medal for
highest standing in his class. Immediately
following his graduation from the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery he married
Carrie Burtner. whom he first became ac-
quainted with while both were students and
class-mates at Otterbein University, and ac-
companied by her he spent nearly a year in
graduate work in Vienna, Berlin, Munich and
London. Thereafter he returned to Hamil-
ton county. Ohio, taking up the practice of
medicine in Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Soon afterward he was appointed assistant to
the chair of surgery in his alma mater, the
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery.
Owing to the ill-health of his wife Dr. Pot-
tenger came to the west in 1895 in the hope
that under the sunny skies of California she
might regain her normal strength and vigor.
After remaining in Monrovia for eighteen
months, however, during which time every-
thing possible was done for her recovery, he
finally returned with her to Germantown,
Ohio, her childhood home, and there her death
occurred two years later. During the two
years spent in Germantown Dr. Pottenger
temporarily gave up the practice of medicine
and devoted his time to the care of his wife
and the study of tuberculosis. In his spare
moments, however, he interested himself in
history and political economy, and obtained
from Otterbein University by the presenta-
tion of a thesis dealing with certain phases of
the tariff question, his degree of Master of
Philosophy which was later changed to that
of Master of Arts (1905). After the death of
his wife Dr. Pottenger returned to Monrovia
and again took up the practice of medicine,
giving special attention to diseases of the nose,
throat and chest. For the purpose of more
thorough training along these lines he returned
east the following year, and for some time did
graduate work in New York and other eastern
cities. Returning to Monrovia once mure he
again took up his practice there, and in Octo-
ber, 1901, he established an office in Los An-
geles, limiting his practice to diseases of the
chest, being the first physician on the western
coast to limit his practice to this special line.
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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At this writing he has an office in the O. T.
Johnson building.
On the 29th of August, 1900. Dr. Pottenger
married Adelaide Gertrude Babbit, a native of
Keeseville, X. Y.. a graduate of the State Uni-
versity of Vermont, and teacher of Greek and
Latin in the Monrovia high school at the time
they first met. Two children have been burn
to them. Francis Marion, Jr.. and Robert
Thomas.
It was in 1903 that Dr. Pottenger inaugur-
ated the plans for his sanatorium for the treat-
ment of lungs and throat. The beginning was
small, showing accommodation for only eleven
patients, but in three short years it has grown
to be the largest private sanatorium for tuber-
culosis in the United States, far exceeding the
founder's most sanguine expectations. It now
furnishes accommodations for ninety patients,
but even this capacity has been outgrown as
is shown by the long waiting list.
The sanatorium is located in a natural park
of forty acres which occupies an eminence
above the city of Monrovia in the foothills of
the Sierra Madre mountains, and which com-
mands an extensive view of the San Gabriel
valley with its world-famed orange groves.
The buildings are so constructed that the pa-
tients' rooms face the south with bay window-
frontage, and in addition to the main buildings
there are numerous tent houses and bungalows
for the accommodation of patients. The build-
ings are equipped with all modern conven-
iences, such as steam heat and electric light,
and the kitchen is thoroughly up-to-date, being
equipped for steam cooking and sterilizing of
dishes. The purest of water is supplied from
springs in the near-by mountains. In March,
1905, Dr. Pottenger incorporated the institu-
tion under the name of the Pottenger Sanato-
rium for Diseases of the Lungs and Throat.
During the year 1905 Dr. Pottenger was
sent as a delegate from California to the Inter-
national Tuberculosis Congress which met in
Paris October 2 to 7. While abroad he con-
tinued his studies and investigations along the
line of his specialty, visiting for this purpose
the leading sanatoria of Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, France and England, and
meeting many of the recognized authorities on
tuberculosis in the world.
The scientific work which Dr. Pottenger has
accomplished, together with his contributions
to the literature of tuberculosis, has made him
a recognized authority on the subject of dis-
eases of the lungs and throat. He also enjoys
the honor of being the author of the movement
for the prevention of tuberculosis in California,
his interest in the subject resulting in the or-
ganization of the Southern California Anti-
Tuberculosis League in 1903. of which he
served as president until 1906. He is chief of
the medical staff of the Helping Station of the
Southern California Anti-Tuberculosis League,
and is professor of clinical medicine in the
University of Southern California, delivering
a course of lectures on the subject of tubercu-
losis. His love of and devotion to his profes-
sion are shown by his activity in the various
Ideal and national medical societies. He holds
membership in the following: American Med-
ical Association. American Climatological As-
sociation, American Academy of Medicine,
American Therapeutic Society, the National
Society for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis, Medical Society of the State of
California, the Los Angeles County Medical
Society, Southern California Medical Society,
the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological So-
ciety, and the Los Angeles Academy of Medi-
cine, of which he is ex-president. He is also
founder and ex-president of the Southern
California Anti-Tuberculosis League, and is a
corresponding member of the International
Central Bureau for the Prevention of Tubercu-
losis.
Although deeply interested in medical pur-
suits this does not exclude him from other in-
terests. He is connected with various busi-
ness enterprises, among other things being a
director of the American National Bank of
Monrovia. Tn his religious belief Dr. Potten-
ger is a Unitarian. The only social club to
which he belongs is the University Club of
Los Angeles. Politically he is independent,
not being an adherent of either of the political
parties, although this must not be construed
as indicating a lack of interest in the welfare
of his nation or municipality. On the other
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hand he takes a keen interest in questions of
political, social and historical interest. He
holds membership in the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, in the Califor-
nia State Society for Charities and Correc-
tions, also in the Southwest Society, a branch
of the Archaeological Society of America. In
his own town he has served as city council-
man. He can always be counted on to assist
any movement for the betterment of the com-
munity.
In this review of the life and work of Dr.
Pottenger it will be seen that he is a man of
deep research and careful investigation and is
eminently gifted with the capabilities of mind
which are indispensable to the success of a
physician. Personally he is a pleasant, genial,
kindly man, of high social qualities, and much
beloved by his patients and associates, and
highly respected by the medical profession and
an extensive circle of friends.
JACOB JEPSEN. The business life of Los
Angeles received a vital stimulus when Mr. Jep-
sen established the nucleus of the present flour-
ishing business now being carried on by his sons.
When he came tn this city in 1891 he started in
business in an unpretentious way, but year by
year added to his stock and enlarged his quar-
ters until at the time of his death, December 12,
1895, he commanded one of the largest retail
and wholesale harness and saddlery establish-
ments in the city. Since his death the business
has been continued, first under the name of the
Jepsen Saddlery Company, and now as the Main-
W'inchester-Jepsen Company. Throughout its
existence the business founded by the elder Mr.
Jepsen has been synonymous with square deal-
ings and honest goods. The establishment of a
prosperous business was but one of the accom-
plishments of Mr. Jepsen's life, for in the quiet
routine of his daily duties he was unconsciously
rearing a monument to his name in the many
1 kindness rendered to the less fortunate,
lending encouragement to the discouraged, in
fact, impoverishing himself that his fellow-man
might not lack creature comforts if it lay in his
power to supply them.
Jacob Jepsen was the representative of a fine
old Danish family, and his father, also Jacob
Jepsen, was well known in the vicinity of Hover,
Denmark, as a manufacturer of harness and
saddles. Before her marriage the mother was a
Miss Mommsen, she being closely related to the
noted historian of that name. Of the children
born into the parental family three became resi-
dents of the United States, Jacob and Fred, the
latter formerly a resident of Yonkers, N. Y.,
now of Santa Monica, Cal, and Marie, Mrs.
Adam Miller, who lived for many years in San
Francisco and died in 1901. Jacob was born in
Hoyer, Denmark, January 25, 1838, and grew
up to a sturdy manhood under native skies. As
his parents were fairly well-to-do he received
good educational advantages. After his school
days were over he became an apprentice under
his father, learning the saddlery business in all
of its details. As a member of the Danish army
he served in the Schleswig-Holstein war, where
he became known as one of the best shots in the
Danish army.
It was about the year 1866 that Mr. Jepsen
left the familiar scenes of his native land and
embarked for Australia, settling in Brisbane,
Queensland. It was not long afterward, in the
same year in fact, that he formed domestic ties
by his marriage with Miss Emma A. Goeldner,
who though a resident of Australia was a native
of Geipsdorf, near Berlin, Germany. She was
a daughter of Carl Goeldner, a well-known busi-
ness man of Geipsdorf, who became one of the
earlv German settlers of Queensland, whither he
went to follow mining at the time of the rush
to Ballarat. After continuing at mining for
some time he gave it up and settled down to the
peaceful life of farmer and cattle-raiser. His
marriage united him with Eleanor Arlt, who
was born in Geipsdorf, Germany, and who died
in that country prior to the removal of the hus-
band and children to Australia.
Of the two children born to Air. and Mrs.
Goeldner Mrs. Jepsen was the eldest. She went
to Australia with her father and sister in the
sailing vessel Diana, going around Cape Horn,
and during the six months they were en route
they saw England, Ireland and Brazil, putting
in at Bahia, where for a time they enjoyed the
beautiful tropical climate of that country. The
only cloud over the otherwise pleasant visit was
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the sight of slavery, which was still in vogiie.
On their arrival at Brisbane it was necessary to
travel inland through the camps of the black
natives in order to get to the German station
or missionary settlement which had been estab-
lished by Queen Augusta. The year following
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jepsen with her
sister, Auguste (later Mrs. John Menzel) came
to San Francisco. On the trip from Sydney to
San Francisco they came on the sailing vessel
San Juan, landing at their destination after a
voyage of three months. This boat went down
on the return trip, but fortunately the passengers
were all saved. Mr. Jepsen's first impression of
San Francisco was not altogether pleasing, in
fact more than once he regretted that they had
ever left Australia. Mrs. Jepsen distinctly re-
calls the family migrations, for at the time she
left her native land for Australia she was a child
of thirteen years and a half.
After carrying on a successful saddlery busi-
ness in San Francisco and Oakland for a time
Mr. Jepsen removed his home and business in-
terests to Napa, continuing there for fourteen
years, or until 1891, which year witnessed his
removal to Los Angeles, and the establishment
of the business that now bears his name, as pre-
viously mentioned. From the modest beginning
that was started on the bay has since grown one
of the largest wholesale and retail harness and
saddlery establishments on the Pacific coast, and
altogether they own and manage several large
stores. Since the death of Mr. Jepsen the busi-
ness has been conducted by his sons, Jacob and
Carl, who inherit their father's business acumen,
and in continuing his wise policy and methods
are meeting with great success.
Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jep-
sen : Jacob, Carl, George, Esther, Edward, and
Emma ; the two last mentioned are deceased.
Mrs. Jepsen is an active member of the Emanuel
Presbyterian Church, as was also Mr. Jepsen.
His religion was a part of his daily life and per-
meated every thought and act. None appealed
to him in vain for sympathy and help, and both
were given with a lavish hand. He thoroughly
believed in a practical religion and exemplified
this belief in his daily life. Fraternally he was
identified with the Masons, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, for many years being the
local head of the latter body. In all of his phil-
anthropical work Mr. Jepsen had the cheerful
co-operation of his wife, who is loved and re-
vered for the noble qualities of her character.
WILLIAM SPENCER HOOK. In the
growth of a city, no factor is more potent than
its street railways. Outlying tracts of fine
land, commanding sweeping vistas of mount-
ain, valley and ocean remain ranch property,
or lie in fallow fields until touched by a car
line, when there soon follows a speedy trans-
formation into graded streets, green lawns,
spacious grounds and all that goes to make a
desirable residence district and the ranch land
becomes valuable suburban real estate. No-
where has there been a more striking illustra-
tion of this statement than in Los Angeles,
with its almost unprecedented growth and the
rapid expansion of its boundary lines, owing
unquestionably in a large measure to its splen-
didly equipped electric railway lines.
The impetus to improved street car service
in this city was given by the late William S.
Hook, when he, in company with his brother,
Thomas J. Hook, obtained franchises and con-
structed the traction car system, with its hand-
some coaches and superior equipment. The
traction lines ran through the southwestern
part of the city, which had been previously
scantily supplied with transportation facilities
and was so sparsely settled that only a far-
seeing business acumen would have ventured
on such an outlay of capital. Mr. Hook's
foresight was justified by the results ; for the
growth that followed in the southwest, in
sightly residence tracts, traversed by wide
boulevards, lined with elegant residences, was
almost magical. Los Angeles felt a thrill of
new life, real estate values advanced and it
was not long until other capitalists, seeing the
trend of the pace set by the traction lines, in-
augurated similar improvements in the general
street car system of the city, extended old lines,
built new ones and contracted a net-work of
inter-urban tracks.
William Spencer Hook was a true son of the
progressive middle west, born in Jacksonville,
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111.. .March 20, 1840. His educational advan-
tages -were limited, for at the early age of
twelve years he left school and began the con-
flict with the world of affairs, as an employe
in the private bank of M. P. Avers. He re-
mained with this bank until he worked his
way up to a partnership and became a silent
partner in the firm of M. P. Avers & Co.
About this time Mr. Hook, looking for other
business investments, became interested in
street railways. He purchased the horse car
line of Jacksonville, converted it into an elec-
tric system and remained in its management
until 1895. when he removed to Los Angeles.
Never a robust man. Mr. Hook's failing
health was the incentive for his first visit to
this city in 1894. Seeing the rapid growth of
Los Angeles and discerning its future possibil-
ities, he purchased the traction franchise and
began building the road in the spring follow-
ing, and at that time became a permanent
resident. He was the principal owner of the
traction company stock and the general man-
ager until 1903, when he sold out and the
road passed into other hands.
Mr. Hook was entirely a self-made man, ris-
ing to a commanding position in the world's •
activities solely by his own efforts. He was a
man of excellent judgment and fine executive
ability, thorough and systematic in business
affairs and withal very retiring in disposition,
finding his greatest happiness in his home and
family. In politics Mr. Hook was a stanch
Republican, but never aspired to office nor
cared for public preferment. In 1896, Mr.
Hook built a handsome residence at the corner
of Adams street and Vermont avenue, where
his widow and the two sons who survive him
reside. His death occurred June 24. 1904, in
Philadelphia, Fa. ; his remains were interred
in his native town, Jacksonville, 111.
JOHN A. FAIRCHILD. The Fairchild fam-
ily, represented in Los Angeles by John A.
Fairchild, a pioneer upbuilder of the resources
of Southern California, was established in this
country prior to the Revolution, in which his-
toric struggle the paternal ancestor achieved
prominence as a soldier.. lie survived the perils
of warfare and returned to civic life, in the
upbuilding of which he gave the same unselfish
effort and energy- which had characterized his
military career. He reared a family of children,
of whom a son, John, married Tryphena Arm-
strong, the representative of another distin-
guished family of colonial prominence, and be-
came an early settler of New York. His inter-
ests were identified with the military affairs of
the state, where he was familiarly known as Cap-
tain Fairchild.
In Cattaraugus county, N. Y., July 20, 1849,
occurred the birth of John A. Fairchild, one of
the children born to John and Tryphena Fair-
child. He was fortunate in the possession of
high traits of character, receiving both through
inheritance and the training which his parents
were able to give him. His preliminary educa-
tion was received in the common schools of his
native state, after which he prepared and entered
Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., where
he pursued his studies for a time. Laying aside
the means of theoretical knowledge he came to
California in the fall of 1867 and here took up
the practical side of life. For four years he was
interested in the drug business in Nevada City,
hut later he removed to San Jose and followed
the same business for another four years. While
a resident of San Jose he also became interested
in the banking business, assisting in the organi-
zation of what is now known as the First Na-
tional Bank, and later he accepted the position
of cashier of the Commercial Bank of San Diego.
Deciding to locate in Los Angeles, in 1883 he
came to this city, where he has ever since re-
sided. Various business interests have felt the
force of his ability and energy, among them the
Los Angele> Railway Company, whose cars were
then operated by horses. He was a promoter
of the enterprise and one of the principal stock-
holders of the company, retaining his connection
with it for nine years. Meanwhile, two years
prior to severing his connection with this enter-
prise, he had become interested as a contractor
on public works. Upon his withdrawal from the
Los Angeles Railway Company he organized a
company for the purpose of carrying on this
work, interesting F. W. Gilmore and George R.
Wilton, the firm becoming known as the Fair-
child-Gilmore-Wilton Company. Their growth
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from that date has been continuous and rapid,
and in 1902 they incorporated under the above
style, with a capital stock of $50,000, with Mr.
Fairchild as president, Mr. Wilton vice-president,
and Mr. Gilmore secretary and treasurer. The
business of the firm was originally the construc-
tion of asphalt pavements, but it has since in-
cluded public works in general; so successful has
been the conduct of their business that they are
known all over the Pacific coast and also as far
east as Salt Lake City, Utah, where they have
had extensive contracts for improvements. In
Los Angeles they are the best known company
of this character, employing from five to six
hundred men and one hundred teams, and enjoy-
ing an enviable reputation as to promptness, in-
tegrity and thorough responsibility.
In addition to the engrossing interests of his
contracting business, Mr. Fairchild is connected
with various other enterprises of note, now serv-
ing as president of the Consolidated Sheep Ranch
Mining Company, of Calaveras county, Cal. He
has the highest ideas as to the duties of a citi-
zen, and although far too busy in business pur-
suits to seek or accept official recogniton, has
always given his strongest efforts to advance
the interests of the Republican party, whose
principles he heartily endorses. He takes a keen
interest in a clean municipality and gives his
influence toward this end. He has an enthusi-
astic belief in the future of Southern California
and especially of Los Angeles and has invested
his means liberally. His home, a model resi-
dence in all its appointments, is located at No.
837 Burlington avenue, and is presided over by
his wife, a woman of refinement and culture.
She was formerly Miss Augusta Barker, of Wal-
worth county. Wis., where her father. Frank
Barker, was a pioneer resident. Mr. and Mrs.
Fairchild are the parents of three children : Ray
L., located on one of his father's ranches as
manager; Lila J., wife of John G. Mott, an at-
torney of Los Angeles; and Helen M.. wife of
Nathaniel W. Myrick. Mr. Fairchild is a promi-
nent Mason, being a member of Southern Cali-
fornia Lodge No. 278, F. & A. M., Signet Chap-
ter No. 57, R. A. M., Los Angeles Commandery
No. q. K. T. ; and is also a Shriner. Socially
he holds membership in the Jonathan Club.
As a pioneer of California Mr. Fairchild ex-
perienced the hardships and trials of a beginning
civilization. Without means he began at the
foot of the ladder upon his arrival in the state,
from San Francisco, where he arrived on the 27th
of October, 1867, going at once to Nevada City,
where he spent nearly four years in the drug
business. That he succeeded in the accumula-
tion of means with which to engage in business
enterprises was never a matter of surprise to
those who knew him and the characteristic qual-
ities of his manhood. In his enterprises in Los
Angeles he has again succeeded and has risen
to a position of financial and business import-
ance, recognized as a citizen of enterprise and
ability, and is held in the highest esteem by a
large circle of friends and acquaintances.
JUDGE H. A. PIERCE. No name is bet-
ter known in the official life of Los Angeles
than that of Judge Pierce, who as an attorney-
at-law and justice of the peace has adminis-
tered to the needs of the public for many
years. He is the descendant of an old New
England family, his birth having occurred in
Derby, Orleans county, Vt., March 2, 1839 '<
his grandfather, John F. Pierce, was a farmer
in New Hampshire and served seven years
under Washington in the Revolutionary war.
He was prominent in local affairs and died at
the advanced age of one hundred and four
years. His father, John F., Jr., was born in
Swansea, N. H., in 1795. In manhood he be-
came a fine cabinet maker, being a man of
unusual brilliancy and ability along mechani-
cal lines. He served in the war of 1812,
emulating the patriotic example of his sire.
He located in Vermont and there his death
occurred in 1884, at the age of eighty-nine
years. He was a cousin of Franklin Pierce,
a president of the United States. By mar-
riage Mr. Pierce allied himself with an old
Massachusetts family, his wife being, in
maidenhood, Abigail Fisk. of Templeton,
Mass., who also passed away in Vermont at
the age of eighty-four years. They became
the parents of five sons and two daughters,
all of whom attained maturity, and two sons
and one daughter are now surviving: II. A.,
of this review ; Horace A., a miner of Nome,
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Alaska: and Mrs. Emma L. Jordon, of James-
town, N. Y.
H. A. Pierce was the fourth child in the fam-
ily of his parents. He received his preliminary
education in the public schools of Derby, and
then became a student in the Newberry Colleg-
iate Institute, where before he was nineteen
years old he held the chair of elocution. It was
just about that time that he felt so strongly
attracted to California that he gave up all his
interests at home, and at once embarked on
the George Law to Aspimvall, thence on the
Golden Gate to San Francisco, where he ar-
rived in February of that year (1857). His
tastes being all literary, mining did not prove
so strong an attraction to him as pedagogical
work, and he was shortly after his arrival en-
gaged in teaching in Contra Costa county.
Later he went to Cacheville, Yolo county, and
established a private school, with tuition
placed at $5 per month for each pupil. The
need of such an institution was quickly proved
by the number of pupils enrolled, as he soon
had one hundred in attendance. For a time
following that he was interested in mining
operations.
The breaking out of the Civil war proved
the mettle of many men, and especially of
those who were located on the Pacific coast,
far away from the seat of difficulties, and with
news so long in reaching them that it re-
quired a stanch and patriotic soul to compre-
hend the struggle soon to be begun. Mr.
Pierce, with a Mr. Lippett, at once set about
raising a regiment of men, and soon had a
thousand who were willing to return east and
take part in the struggle. However, the ex-
pense of transporting them to New York City
was so great, and as so many more than were
at first needed responded to the first call of
the president, it was thought better by the
government to disband them than to attempt
their transportation. This was done, but Mr.
Pierce returned east and enlisted for service.
In the meantime- he studied law, and on the
29th of January, 1866, was admitted to prac-
tice in the supreme court of the United States,
in Washington, I). C. He has been a member
of that bar longer than any other lawyer west
of the Rocky mountains. He began the prac-
tice of his profession in Washington, and con-
tinued in that location until 1869, when in the
spring of that year he went to Dakota, where
he was appointed adjutant-general of the ter-
ritorial government, with offices at Yankton.
After two years he went to Arkansas, and in
Pine Bluff practiced his profession, and also
engaged in journalistic work, owning and edit-
ing the Jefferson Republican and the Arkansas
Patriot. For three years he was next located
in Fort Smith, where he served as circuit su-
perintendent of public instruction, which in-
cluded five counties in northwestern Arkansas.
He remained in this location until 1874, when
he removed to Chicago, 111., there practiced
law for a time, and then was again established
in Pine Bluff, thence removing in the spring
of 1879 to Topeka, Kans. After eleven years
in that city Mr. Pierce came to Southern Cali-
fornia, practiced his profession in Santa Ana
for two years, and then located in Los An-
geles, where he has since remained. While
a resident of Topeka he had a large and lucra-
tive law practice, and was in every way
equipped for the position of justice of the
peace, to which he was appointed in 1903. In
the fall of 1906 he was nominated on the Re-
publican ticket to this office and was elected
by a large majority.
Throughout his entire career Judge Pierce
has been a public speaker, being forceful and
eloquent and unafraid of argument or issues.
In i860 he stumped California for Abraham
Lincoln, and for his second nomination in 1864
canvassed the states of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York, as he was then in the
east for service in the Civil war. He first en-
listed in the Thirty-second Massachusetts
Regiment and was at that time (1864) detailed
to the headquarters of General Grant, where he
served until the close of the war. During the
campaign for Grant in 1868 he spoke one hun-
dred and nine times. He has been active in
every national campaign from the time of
John C. Fremont to Theodore Roosevelt, and
has spoken in twenty-seven different states of
the Union. He was a national delegate to the
convention of 1868 and was chairman of the
Virginia delegation at the nomination of Gen-
eral Grant. He has been stanch in his adher-
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ence to the principles of the Republican party,
and is accounted one of the strong men of
Southern California in his efforts to advance
these interests.
Judge Pierce has been twice married, the
first union occurring in Washington, 111., and
uniting him with Mrs. Helen (Corwin) Fisher,
whose name is familiar to readers of fiction, as
for many years she wrote for the New York
Weekly, the New York Ledger, Harper's and
Saturday Night. In 1873 she entered into a
contract with Street & Smith with a remuner-
ation of $5,000 a year, at that time the highest
salary paid a woman writer in America.
Among her works of fiction are "The Curse of
Everleigh," "Lady Violet," "A Woman's
Master." etc. Her death occurred in Los An-
geles April 4, 1900. On the 24th of May, 1905,
the judge married Miss Nellie May Allee, a
native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a woman of
rare worth and character. Judge Pierce is
identified with the Masonic organization, hav-
ing joined the order in 1861 in Mt. Moriah
Lodge No. 44, of San Francisco, where he held
membership for forty-four years, being now a
member of Los Angeles Lodge No. 42. He
is also identified with the Odd Fellows, being
past officer of the Encampment and Canton ;
the Knights of Pythias, and was commander
of Division No. 8 of the Uniform Rank in To-
peka, Kans. ; and the Ancient Order of United
Workmen. In memory of his "days and nights
on the battlefield" he is prominent in the
Grand Army of the Republic. He enjoys a
large circle of friends who have been won by
his personal attributes of character — his quiet
yet unswerving integrity, his frank friendli-
ness and cordiality, and the liberality and loy-
alty of his citizenship. He keeps in touch with
every forward movement of the day and is
thus an entertaining companion, and is espe-
cially interested in furthering all movements
tending toward the advancement and upbuild-
ing of his adopted city and state.
ROBERT KARR McGUE. Among the
names of honored pioneers who have come and
gone in the march of progress of the beauti-
ful commonwealth of California, that of Rob-
ert Karr McGue is remembered as one who
braved the perils of the early days and amid
a beginning civilization established a home
and a heritage, building up for himself a place
among the helpful citizens. He was a native
of the state of New York, his birth having
occurred in Princetown, Schenectady county,
in 1820. The family was of Scotch origin, the
paternal grandfather, John, having emi-
grated from Scotland prior to the Revo-
lutionary war. in which conflict he par-
ticipated. The father, James, was born in
New York and engaged as a farmer until his
death, which occurred in 1832. The family
name had always been known as MacGough
until after his death, when the children changed
it to the present spelling. The mother was, be-
fore marriage, Agnes Smealie, of Scotch de-
scent. She was born in Princetown, N. Y., the
daughter of John Smealie, who was born near
Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to New York
state when twenty-one years of age. After the
close of the Revolutionary war. in which he
participated, he settled down to the life of a
farmer. In the parental family there were
four sons and thiee daughters, of whom James
became a pioneer of Kansas, in which state
his death eventually occurred ; he had two
sons, John J. and William E.. both of whom
served in the Civil war. John died in Chariton
county, Mo. Kelly was born in 1824, in young
manhood became a farmer at Princetown, N.
Y., and was actively interested in Republican
politics. In religion he was a member of the
Presbyterian Church. He came to Los Angeles
in 1883 and died in February, 1884; he mar-
ried Catherine Nancy Ingersoll. who was
born in Princetown and died in Los Angeles
in 1893, leaving four children, namely: Wil-
lian James, who died in Schenectady, N. Y.,
in 1900: Agnes, who married Nicholas Myers
and died in Schenectady. N. Y.. in 1883:
Tohn P., of Los Angeles, who married Emily
Elizabeth Ingersoll, of Ottawa. 111., and
Abraham L.. a resident of Los Angeles. Rob-
ert Karr was the youngest son of the McGue
family, while the daughters were Jane, who
married John Morrison and died in De Kalb,
111., in 1888; Ellen, who married William
Radlev and resides in Rockford. 111., and
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Mary, who married Daniel Brewer and died
in Chariton county. Mo.
Robert Karr McGue received his education
through the medium of the public schools of
Princetown. X. V.. where he passed the first
years of his manhood. In 1846 he decided to
try his fortunes in the more remote west, and
accordingly started overland. In Michigan he
spent two weeks in the home of his brother,
James, then he went to De Kalb county. 111.,
and there entered a farm of one hundred and
sixty acres of land that is still owned by the
family. In 1852 he started across the plains
bound for California, equipped with four yoke
of oxen and necessary supplies for a journey
that lasted from May 1 to November. With-
out serious mishap he arrived in the state, and
like the countless others who sought the west
about that time, he at once engaged in min-
ing. From northern California he drifted into
Arizona, intending to follow a similar occu-
pation, but was driven out by the Indians ; he
then went to New Mexico and mined for a
time, thence going to Montana and Idaho, and
from there to the Frazer river. He continued
mining until 1867, and during the year fol-
lowing he came to Southern California, and
here prepared to indulge his taste for raising
fine stock. He had met with success in his
long years of mining enterprises and had ac-
cumulated a fortune and this he invested in
Southern California. He purchased a tract of
one hundred and sixty acres of land at the
corner of Vermont and Vernon avenues and
there developed a ranch. This property, which
at his death contained one hundred and fifty-
nine acres, was willed to his nephews. John
P. and Abraham L. McGue, and at that time
was officially appraised at $20,000. In 1905 it
was sold by them for $210,000, and was laid
out as a subdivision of the city known as
Vermont Avenue Square, which has since been
rapidly built up with handsome homes. Mr.
McGue died in August, 1884. In his fra-
ternal relations he was identified with the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and polit-
ically was a stanch adherent of the principles
advocated in the platform of the Republican
party. At the time of the Civil war. when it
required courage to give support to the Union
in the western states. Mr. McGue was fearless
in his utterances of loyalty, proving the pa-
triotism which was his by inheritance. He
took an active interest in educational affairs,
and gave an acre of his property for school
purposes and also assisted materially in the
erection of the building.
He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church all his life and was always found ready
to support any charity brought to his atten-
tion. His death removed from his community
a citizen of unusual worth and ability, a man
of recognized breadth of mind and the most
humane qualities of heart, a friend to the
friendless and one who never failed to hold
out his hand to all in need. He had won a
place for himself in the hearts of his friends
and neighbors, wdio revere and honor his mem-
ory for the good he tried to do, often referring
to him as the Good Samaritan. Modest and
retiring in disposition, amiable under all cir-
cumstances and with nothing but kindness and
goodwill for his fellow citizens, he was no less
admired and loved for these qualities than for
the stanch integrity of his character and the
unswerving honor which was manifest in all
his business dealings.
GEORGE HOWARD HUTTON, judge of
the Superior Court of the state of California in
and for Los Angeles county, elected in Novem-
ber. 1906, is a direct product of the frigid north,
where his childhood was spent as a ward of his
uncle. Rev. George H. Bridgman, president of
Hamline University, St. Paul. Minn., at which
institution he received his academic education.
At the State University of Minnesota he re-
ceived his legal education and was from there
admitted to practice in 1893. and the same year
became the assistant attorney or general trial
lawyer fur the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad.
which position he held until his removal to Cali-
fornia in 181)7, when he located and engaged in
the practice of his profession at Santa Monica.
Up to the time of his elevation to the bench he
had been actively engaged in his profession and
attained more than ordinary success as a lawyer.
being widely known in Los Angeles county and
throughout Southern California. For seven
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vears he was the attorney-general for the vast
and varied interests of ex-Senator John P. Jones,
and attorney and trustee under the will of the
late Andrew J. W. Keating, who left a fortune,
which during Judge Hutton's trusteeship has in-
creased in bulk from less than a quarter-million
to nearly two million dollars.
Judge Hutton has been an extensive traveler,
and knows the American continent better than
most men, and is at home anywhere from Alaska,
where he caught trout, to Washington, D. C,
where he has appeared as attorney before the
United States Supreme Court. He believes in
the great west, its present and future, and has
contributed to various well-known western mag-
azines and other publications, among which may
be mentioned Out West, The West Coast. Pacific
Monthly, his favorite themes being "California
Missions," "Early Religions," "Education." and
"Agriculture." He is a public speaker of note,
and his oration at the funeral of Senator Patton
at Ocean Park in December of 1906 was a classic
in all that the word implies.
FraternalH- Judge Hutton is a prominent
member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of
Pythias, and the Elks. Of a religious and public-
spirited nature, he is ever ready to give his ener-
getic support to any movement tending to the
betterment or improvement of the religious,
moral and municipal conditions of the commu-
nity.
Judge Hutton possesses ability, dignity, firm-
ness and courage, and is clear and direct in his
statements, his decisions are well considered and
he has bv these qualities and his uniform cour-
tesy and patience earned the good will and con-
fidence of the members of the Los Angeles bar;
while on the bench he is quiet and reserved, ami
conducts his court with dignity. In chambers
he is genial, cordial and approachable, anil in
private life social and friendly. He was thirty-
seven years old August 5th of this year (1907).
During his career Judge Hutton has repeat-
edly demonstrated a depth of wisdom that is
deeper than the law and a kindness of heart that
is seen all too seldom. Nowhere were these
qualities more clearly shown than in the case of
Mrs. Mary Blanchard, who was brought before
him on the complaint of insanity, sworn to by
her husband. After listening to the halting
testimony of the witness. Judge Hutton ex-
pressed the opinion that the woman was not in-
sane, but that she was merely hungering for a
little kindness. The case had not seemed strange
or extraordinary to those gathered in the court
room until Judge Hutton spoke. That his point
was well taken is best shown in the fact that
when her case came up before the insanity com-
missi, m a few days later she was discharged as
sane and went home with her husband. In com-
menting on the case the Los Angeles Times
speaks as follows : "Judge Hutton had seen a
deeper question than a woman's sanity in the
case of Mrs. Mary Blanchard. He had recog-
nized a woman's need, which is universal and
eternal. The universal suggestion of the case,
in which a woman with a temporarily unbalanced
mind sobbed out a bitter truth without reserve,
was shown in instant response to that sugges-
tion.
"Letters poured in upon the judge, who was
impelled to be more human than judicial in that
striking moment, congratulating him on a rare
judgment which reached deeper into life than
written laws can ever go. Women called up
Mrs. Hutton on the telephone and told her she
should be proud of her husband, and she said
she was. And men. who perhaps themselves
have been forgetful of the little amenities of
life which women crave, but never ask for till
their nerves and minds are shattered, told him
he had done well.
"Men and women wrote to others about the
case, startling in its simplicity and its awful sig-
nificance. One woman wrote to her attorney,
enclosing a check and directing him to learn if
Mrs. Blanchard's material needs were met. and
to use the money, if required, to pay for her
care in a sanatorium till peace and quiet and ' a
little kindness ' should restore her nerves and
mind to health."
In 1897 Judge Hutton was united in marriage
with Dolores Egleston, a daughter of S. J. Egles-
ton, one of the founders of the city of Spencer,
Clav county, Iowa. They have one son. George
Robert Egleston Hutton, eight vears old, the
pride of his parents and the central attraction
of a home that Judge Hutton finds to be the
brightest spot on earth and where he spends his
leisure hours to the exclusion of societv and
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politics. He is a man of stem and strict habits,
whose life is dominated by two leading desires
— first to enjoy his home and family, and second
to succeed in his profession. He is possessed
of a most unusual memory and rarely forgets the
doctrine of any case he has once studied. Since
his elevation to the bench he has impressed the
bar and the public with his persistent and un-
tiring diligence, with his keen analysis of facts,
his clear perception of the truth and his tireless
search for every possible legal principle that
might aid him in reaching a correct and accu-
rate conclusion.
WILLIAM T. ("LAPP. The beautiful city
of Pasadena, or as it has been aptly called
"Crown of the Valley." was entirely unknown
as early as 1873, in the latter part of which year
land to the extent of four thousand acres was
purchased in that vicinity by the Indiana Colony,
an organization which had its inception in In-
dianapolis, Ind. The leaders of this enterprise,
D. M. Berry and others, assumed the great re-
sponsibility of the purchase of the San Pasqual
rancho, which was one of the old Spanish grants
and comprised some of the choicest land in this
part of the state. The land was deeded to a
Mr. Croft, who in turn deeded all of his right,
title and interest therein to the San Gabriel
• Irange Grove Association, the latter assuming
all obligations, according to previous agreement.
( )n January 27, 1874, the colonists assembled
"ii Reservoir Hill and each made selection of his
own choice of lots in the tract as platted by the
colony's surveyor, equal to his number of shares
of stock in the association. The land which
Mr. (Japp selected consisted of sixty acres in
Division E, and extended from the Arroyo Seco
to Fair Oaks avenue on California. A part of
this acreage he has since disposed of, although
he still owns four hundred feet on Huntington
terrace, and two hundred and eighty feet on
California street. In [905 he erected a fine resi-
dence on Huntington terrace, in the W. T. Clapp
tract, in which he is now spending his declining
years.
The earliesl ancestor of the Clapp family of
whom we have any definite knowledge is the
grandfather, Charles Clapp, a native of North-
ampton, Mass., who during his earlier years was
a manufacturer of hats ; he died in South Deer-
field, Mass.. when in his ninety-third year. The
history of the maternal ancestors can also be
traced to that state, the grandfather, Simon
Huntington, carrying on a farm in Hinsdale,
Mass., where he died at the age of seventy-five
years. In Worthington, that state, the father,
Levi Clapp, was born in 1796, and in addition
to manufacturing hats, an art which he learned
from his father, he carried on a men's furnish-
ing store in Worcester, Mass., his death occur-
ring in that city at the age of sixty years. His
marriage united him with Sarah Huntington,
\\1k> was born in Hinsdale, Mass., and they be-
came the parents of three sons, as follows : Lewis
H. ; A. Huntington, who at the time of his death
in New York City in 1900 was filling the office
of secretary of the Home Missionary Board of
the Congregational denomination ; and William
T., the latter born in Worthington, Hampshire
county, Mass.. January 17, 1821. Considering
his early surroundings he obtained a good edu-
cation, attending at first the common schools,
and later the local academies. The same thor-
oughness which was a distinguishing character-
istic in his school life was later exhibited, when,
at an early age, he prepared himself for business
life by learning the tanner's trade. From 1845
until 1868 he owned and operated a tannery in
Massachusetts, and for a time owned and op-
erated two plants. For a number of years after
closing out his business he traveled throughout
the United States, visiting California among
other states, and in 1873 he located here perma-
nentlv. His first wife, Miss Ophelia E. Billings,
a native of South Deerfield, Mass.. died in that
state leaving three children, Frederick Arthur,
Jennie Huntington and William Billings, who
accompanied him to the west. The first church
and the first schoolhouse erected in Pasadena
were built on Mr. Clapp's property, and the
school was taught by his daughter, Jennie H.
She is now the wife of Rev. F. J. Culver, a Con-
gregational minister. In Pasadena Mr. Clapp
was united in marriage with Mrs. R. E. Burn-
ham, a native of London, England, who came
to America with her parents and settled in New
York. By her former marriage she has two
-oils, Fred R. ami Howard, the latter a mining
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engineer in the gold fields of Johannesburg,
Africa ; his brother also having a wide reputa-
tion as a mining engineer, as well as for his
remarkable explorations in the wilds of that
interesting country. Mrs. R. E. Clapp passed
away in Pasadena in 1 905.
During his early voting days Mr. Clapp was
a loyal Whig, and upon the absorption of that
partv by the Republicans he continued to up-
hold the principles of the latter. In his religious
belief he is a Congregationalist, and in his fra-
ternal associations he is a Knight Templar Ma-
son, having attained the thirty-second degree.
Though his step is less elastic than formerly
and the frost of many years has tinged his locks
Mr. Clapp still enjoys excellent health and it
is the wish of his friends that he may be spared
to them for many vears to come.
GEORGE I. COCHRAN. Few names have
been more prominently identified with the devel-
opment of natural resources in Southern Cali-
fornia than that of George I. Cochran, profes-
sional, financial and industrial factor during the
period of his seventeen years' residence in the
city of Los Angeles. Credit is due him for the
efforts he has put forth in his association with
important movements ; the success achieved is
a part of the man — native ability, perseverance
and energy — combined with the conservatism
made progressive by decision of character, and
by the demonstration of these qualities he holds
the position he has thus won.
Mr. Cochran fortunately brought to bear upon
his lifework qualities inherited from a family
whose name has been made honorable by deeds
of various members. His father, the Rev.
George Cochran, D. D., of Toronto, Canada,
was a prominent minister in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, by which he was sent as a mis-
sionary to Japan in 1873. George I. Cochran
was then ten years old, his birth having occurred
in the vicinity of Toronto July 1, 1863, and there-
after he spent six years in the eastern country.
Upon the return of the family to Toronto in
1879 tne elder man resumed his work in that
city and his son entered the Toronto University,
and was later called to the bar at Osgoode Hall,
Toronto, where he began the practice of his
profession under the favorable circumstances
engendered by his native qualities, and education
acquired by application and will, and the position
of esteem and respect which he had already won
among the younger generation of the citizens of
that city. In March, 1888, he came to California,
and with the decision of character which has
ever distinguished his career made his interests
at once parallel with those of his adopted state
and city. Opportunity is for the man of action
and hence when the time came for Mr. Cochran
to assume a prominent place in the affairs of
Los Angeles he unhesitatingly faced the respon-
sibilities and fulfilled the trust which be had
won during the preceding five years. This wa-
in 1893, at the time of the financial crisis, when
Air. Cochran was attorney for the Los Angeles
Clearing House and directed its legal affairs and
counseled its business interests through the panic
which prevailed in all business circles. Since
that time no citizen of Los Angeles has been
more prominently identified with its growth and
upbuilding. In the organization of the Broad-
way Bank and Trust Company he was a most
important factor and has held continuously the
office of vice-president since its inception. This
institution has become one of much importance
in the monetary affairs of the city, its growing
demands calling for an enlargement of the
counting room, which occupies the larger part
of the Broadway side of the imposing Bradbury
building.
Mr. Cochran was formerly a member of the
firm of Cochran. Williams. Goudge, Baker &
•/handler. He gives much of his time and atten-
tion to the concerns of the corporation known
as the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
of California, the largest life insurance company
in the west, with an income of over $4,000,000
per year, and serves as its president, in active
charge of its business. Mr. Cochran is also in-
terested as a director in the Los Angeles Trust
Company, Edison Electric Company, First Na-
tional Bank of Los Angeles and the Rosedale
Cemetery Association ( vice-president of the lat-
ter), which owns one of the most beautiful
plots of ground in the city of Los Angeles;
was for many years secretary and director of
the United Gas, Electric & Power Company and
was largely instrumental in its consolidation with
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the Edison Electric Company ; and was also one
of the chief factors in the enterprise known as
the Seaside Water Company, which supplies water
for Long Beach, San Pedro and Wilmington for
irrigation and domestic purposes, while recently
he has taken a prominent part in the opening up
of the addition to Los Angeles known as the West
Adams Heights tract. This achievement has been
of such vast importance in the opening up of a
beautiful residence district to the people of the
city that Mr. Cochran has once more won for
himself the unqualified commendation of the
populace. He also has some interests in Santa
Barbara, "the city by the sea," where he acted
as director in the street railway company, while
the Artesian Water Company, a local organiza-
tion that has prospered exceedingly by the rise
in real-estate values in the neighborhood of Los
Angeles, is indebted to Mr. Cochran, its presi-
dent, for legal and business advice at all board
meetings.
Soon after his arrival in California Mr. Coch-
ran was united in marriage with Miss Alice Mc-
Clung, a native of Canada and a friend of
several years' standing. She died June 16, 1905.
Mrs. Cochran presided with gracious dignity in
the beautiful home which they established on
Harvard boulevard, a residence reflecting with-
in and without the cultured and refined tastes
of the family. Their home life was permeated,
not with the spirit of self-seeking, but with a
spirituality which had come through long asso-
ciation with high ideals. Their membership was
enrolled in the Westlake Methodist Episcopal
Church, which Mr. Cochran, with a few asso-
ciates, was instrumental in founding, and since
then he has been one of the most important factors
in its progress and upbuilding. He was a member
of a commission of fifteen appointed by the Gen-
eral Methodist Conference to consider and report
a plan, if feasible, to consolidate the big benevol-
ences of the church, and the report was almost
unanimously adopted by the succeeding General
Conference. He also takes a keen and active in-
terest in all educational matters, seeking to ad-
vance the best interests of the educational in-
stitutions in Southern California. He is one of
the trustees and also treasurer of the University
of Southern California, and one of its most
liberal supporters. He has been far too busy
a man to seek political prominence and although
a stanch advocate of Republican principles has
confined his interests along these lines to the
support he could give the men and measures of
his party. He has always been, however, a
strong advocate of the necessity of the moral
obligation of citizenship and has never shirked
a responsibility placed before him, a part of his
work being done as a member of the executive
committee of the county central committee for
many years. On April 3, 1907, Mr. Cochran was
united in marriage with Miss Isabelle M. Mc-
Clung, a sister of his first wife.
In the truest sense of the word Mr. Cochran
is a Californian, for his interests are one with
those of the beautiful state he has made his
home, and in the past years he has spared neither
time, expense nor personal attention in his efforts
to advance the general welfare. And Los
Angeles has few citizens who have done more
for the general weal than he. Few progressive
or moral movements inaugurated in recent years
have lacked his support, nor has any enterprise
to which he has given his consideration failed of
success. He is truly a representative of the type
of men who have made Los Angeles what it is
to-day, strong in mentality, forceful in the dom-
inant qualities of manhood, and withal so far
removed in thought and deed from self seeking
and self aggrandizement that he has been en-
abled to wield more than a passing influence in
contemporary affairs.
MRS. ANNA LANSING BRIGGS. To
women, no less than to men, of heroic character
and unflinching purpose, is due the unprecedented
growth and development of Southern California
during the past few years, and prominent among
these is the head of a successful real estate firm
— Mrs. Anna L. Briggs. She is a native of
Denver, and in maidenhood was Anna McKay.
Her father, William J. McKay, was born in
Canada, in the province of Ontario, while her
grandfather, X. J. McKay, was born in Eng-
land, a descendant of the McKay clan famed as
the most northern clan of Scotland. The elder
man came to America in an early day and lo-
cated in Ontario, where he engaged as a fanner
until his death. In young manhood William J.
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McKay crossed the plains to Denver and in the
vicinity of Golden followed agricultural pur-
suits. While a resident of this state the Civil
war broke out and he enlisted for service as a
soldier in a Colorado regiment. In 1891 he de-
cided to locate on the Pacific coast and accord-
ingly came to Southern California and is now
living retired in San Diego. By marriage he
allied himself with a descendent of one of the
first governors of Massachusetts, his wife being
Miss S. J. Sewell, who was born in Chillicothe,
Ohio ; she is also living and is spending the even-
ing of her days in peace and plenty in this south-
ern clime.
The younger of two children, Anna L. Mc-
Kay received her education in the public schools
of Denver and the Denver University, from
which institution she was graduated in 1887 with
the degree of B. S. The following year she
came to California and engaged in teaching in
the Pacific Beach College, holding the chair of
art and languages. She resigned this position
the following year to enter the San Francisco
School of Design, thence going to Hoyt's Oak
Grove School as a teacher. It was in 1894 that
she first came to Los Angeles and here she at
once engaged in real estate operations, which she
continued for two years, when she became one
of the organizers of the Briggs-Spence Fruit
Company, wholesale shippers of California
fruits. This enterprise was closed out in 1898,
since which time she has devoted her time en-
tirely to the real estate business. In the mean-
time she had married George M. Briggs and the
real estate business became known as the Anna
L. Briggs Co., with offices at Nos. 409 and 410
Fay building ; she carries on a general real estate
business, having laid out Vermont Place and
several other tracts. Her other interests are
varied, one of which was to assist in the organi-
zation of the Women's Goldfield Mining Ex-
change, she serving as secretary and treasurer,
while she is also a member of the Pacific Coast
Women's Press Club and the Chamber of Com-
merce.
George M. Briggs is a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y., born of an old Connecticut family, and
made his first trip to California in 1880. He
located in the state in 1887 and for many years
was engaged in the fruit business, being now
associated with the California Canners Associa-
tion. He is prominent in public affairs, and
politically is a stanch advocate of the principles
of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs
are the parents of one son, Russell M.
LOUIS ROEDER. The citizens of Los
Angeles whom Destiny has attracted hither
during the recent era of remarkable develop-
ment cannot form an adequate conception of
the environment under which the pioneers
were thrown. Spanish supremacy was at an
end, but American enterprise had not yet be-
come interested in the sleepy little hamlet and
to a man whose habits of observation were
merely superficial the possibilities of the place
seemed meagre and limited. Among the home-
seekers arriving here during the '50s, few re-
main to the present day, and one of the few
is Louis Roeder, who came to Southern Cali-
fornia during the latter part of 1856, only a
few years after he had left his native land, to
carve out a fruitful future in the undeveloped
regions of the new world.
On the farm in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany,
where he was born January 28, 1832, Louis
Roeder passed the uneventful years of early
youth, and aided his father, Nicolaus, in the
care of the land. He also learned the trade
of wagon maker, at which he served a full
apprenticeship, between fourteen and nineteen
years of age. At the expiration of his time he
decided to settle in the United States and at
once left the old home to make a livelihood
upon the shores of an unknown world. On the
2nd of July, 185 1, he landed in New York City,
joining an uncle and soon securing work at his
trade. In the spring of 1856 he took passage on
the steamer Jonathan to Nicaragua, and, land-
ing there, was obliged to wait for three days
before it was possible to continue the journey
to California. May 10, 1856, be landed in the
harbor of the Golden Gate. Work was scarce
in San Francisco. Man}' men were vainly
seeking for employment. While he sought
work he not only had to pay his own board,
but did the same for a friend, a cabinet-maker,
destitute and out of employment. After a time
he was hired for $28 a month and board, and
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continued in the same position for six months,
meanwhile saving his earnings in order to se-
cure the amount necessary to defray his ex-
penses to the southern part of the state. The
steamer from which he debarked at San Pedro
on the 28th of December, 1856, brought the
news of the election of James Buchanan as
president of the United States, and it was thus
Mr. Roeder's privilege to witness the celebra-
tion of an election in true western style. In
Los Angeles he secured employment with the
only wagon-maker in the town, the owner of
a small shop on Los Angeles street, between
Commercial and Laguna streets. While still
tilling this position he made his first invest-
ment in city property, for he had abundant
faith in the future of the place and felt no hesi-
tancy in investing his earnings in real estate.
Buying a lot with sixty-foot frontage on Main
street for $700, he built a shanty of primitive
architecture and meagre dimensions, and this
lie rented, at the same time rooming there.
After having worked as a salaried employe
for a considerable period, Mr. Roeder felt jus-
tified in embarking in business for himself.
Accordingly, in 1863, he rented a site on the
corner of Main and First streets, and in 1865
formed a partnership with Louis Lichtenber-
ger in the wagon-making business, the part-
ners in 1866 purchasing a lot at No. 128 South
Main street and erecting a small shop. Three
years later a two-story wagon shop was erect-
ed at the northwest corner of Second and Main
street, and this was also utilized as a black-
smith shop. After a partnership of five years,
Mr. Roeder sold his interest to his partner for
$13,000 cash. Shortly afterward he erected a
building opposite the site of the German Bank,
on the corner of Main and First streets. His
next step was a trip to San Francisco, where he
invested So.ooo in tools and stock, and return-
ing embarked in business on a large scale. Dur-
ing the five years of his connection with the
business at that point he became the owner of a
lot, 150x100 feet, on the corner of First and
Spring streets, where now he owns a two-
story building. After a long and arduous busi-
ness career in 1885 he sold out his equipment
and retired from the wagon-manufacturing
business.
Some years after coming to Los Angeles
Mr. Roeder established domestic ties. During
May of 1863 he was united with Miss YVil-
helmina Hoth, who was born in New York
and in 1856 came to San Francisco, thence ac-
companying her father to Los Angeles in
1861. Six children were born to the union of
Mr. and Mrs. Roeder, namely: Henry, who is
engaged in business in Los Angeles as a dec-
orator and paper hanger; Elizabeth, wife of
Charles Dodge of Ocean Park ; Carrie, Mrs.
Frank Johansen, of Los Angeles ; Minnie, Mrs.
John Joughin ; Anna C, at home ; and Louis
Jr., who is manager of a drug store in Los An-
geles. The family have a pleasant home at
No. 1 137 West Lake avenue and are surround-
ed by the comforts rendered possible by Mr.
Roeder's long and active business life. As early
as 1858 he became connected with Lodge
No. 35, I. O. O. F., in Los Angeles, and he is
also a member of the Turn-Verein. Since be-
coming a citizen of the United States he has
voted both the Democratic and Republican
tickets and maintained a warm interest in the
welfare of his adopted country and the pro-
mulgation of its principles, but always de-
clined office, with the exception of a service of
four years in the city council during an early
period in the city's history. During his service
the franchise was granted to the Los Angeles
City Water Company, an important movement
in the development of the city, although it was
many years before there was anything like an
adequate supply of this much-needed commod-
ity. Though his life has been one of great ac-
tivity and though he has now reached an age
and position when retirement and total release
from business cares would be expected, such
is his temperament we find him still lingering
in the commercial and civic activities of his
municipality, still keeping in touch with every
phase of local progress, and still lending his
generous assistance to movements for the pub-
lic welfare.
JUDGE JOSEPH F. CHAMBERS. The
official life of Los Angeles has in Judge Cham-
bers a practical and efficient citizen, whose best
efforts are given toward the advancement of law
and order in his capacity of justice of the peace
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of the city. He is a native of Clinton count}-,
111., born April 3.. 1862, the elder of two chil-
dren in the family of his parents. Samuel and
Lucy (Dodge) Chambers. His father was born
in Genesee, N. Y„ a son of James, who removed
to Macon county, Mich., and engaged in farm-
ing. Samuel Chambers removed to Clinton
county. 111., and engaged in farming for a time,
then returned to Michigan and located in Lowell,
where he is now residing. His wife, who was
born in New York and reared in Michigan, died
while they were residents of Illinois.
Joseph F. Chambers attended the public
schools of his native state in pursuit of a pre-
liminary education, after which he entered the
state normal at Ypsilanti, Mich. After two years
he returned to Illinois and made that place his
home for a time, and then again returned to
Ypsilanti and studied law in the office of Capt.
E. P. Allen, but gave it up to go to Trinidad,
Colo., thence removing to Deming, N. Mex., and
from there to Roseburg, Ore., where he spent
one year. In 1884 he came to Los Angeles and
entered the law offices of Canfield & Dameron.
George Holton was then serving as district at-
torney and soon after his arrival here Mr. Cham-
bers was appointed clerk in Judge Austin's
court; he continued the study of law and was
admitted to the bar in 1890. He continued as
clerk in Judge Austin's court until he opened a
law office in Los Angeles and began the practice
of his profession. Appointed to the office of
deputy district attorney he discharged the duties
of that position until he received an appointment
to the office of deputy city attorney, his duty-
then being the prosecution of all city cases. Later
he became prosecuting attorney for the police
court, which position he held until the fall of
1902, when he was elected city justice of the
peace and in January, 1903, took the oath of
office. He was re-elected in the fall of 1906, and
is now discharging the duties of this office in
Department 1 of the city court. He is a widely
informed lawyer, in touch with all progress and
advancement, and in the position he is now occu-
pying capable of doing much for the betterment
of humanity.
In Los Angeles Judge Chambers was united
in marriage with Miss Euphemie Moffet, a na-
tive of Iowa, and they are the parents of two
children, Rofena and Josephine. In his frater-
nal relations Judge Chambers is a Mason, having
been made a member of the organization in
Palestine Lodge Xo. 351. F. & A. M., of Los
Angeles, and also belongs to the Modern Wood-
men of America and the Knights of Honor, in
the latter being past director. Politically he is
a stanch adherent of the principles advocated in
the platform of the Republican party, and be-
longs to the Union League Club and the Count)
Republican League.
WALTER JARVIS BARLOW, M. D.
Among the names of distinguished physicians
holding prominent place in the medical pro-
fession is that of Dr. W. J. Barlow. Though
born of a long line of eastern ancestry, the
west has claimed him and welcomed him, as
the west always welcomes the brain and the
strength of the sons of the east and is proud to
enroll them as her own. The homely but oft-
heard expression that "blood tells" has be-
come axiomatic, and if the saying is as true
as believed to be the Barlow family may just-
ly lay claim to whatever distinction lies in be-
ing well descended. The American branch
of the Barlow family, from which Dr. Barlow
is descended, dates from colonial days when
Samuel Barlow, the founder of the family in
America, was among the early colonists who
emigrated from England in 1620 and settled
in Massachusetts. Those were days of trial
and tribulation and the men who unflinch-
ingly faced them were worthy progenitors of
a race to be that should point with pride to
the line from whence they sprang. Among
the numerous descendants of Samuel Barlow
was Joel Barlow, the distinguished author and
philanthropist, and also of the immediate
family of which Dr. Barlow is a member.
Dr. Barlow's great -great-grandfather, John
Barlow, was a native of Fairfield, Conn., and
a merchant by trade. He married Sarah Whit-
nev, of the well known New England family.
Their son John married Larana Scott, and the
son of the latter, also John, married Julia Ann
larvis, whose family name is prominent in the
history of Connecticut. Though of English
descent they were true American patriots, her
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grandfather being a soldier in the Revolution.
She was also a niece of Bishop Jarvis, the first
bishop consecrated in America, and the sec-
ond bishop of Connecticut.
Dr. Barlow's father was 'William H. Bar-
low. He was born in Connecticut, afterwards
removing to Ossining, N. Y.. where he en-
gaged in business as a hardware merchant.
He was a man of sterling qualities, a devout
member of the Episcopal Church, and a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity. He married
Miss Catherine Stratton Lent, also a native
of Connecticut, a daughter of Robert and
Catherine (Stratton) Leut. Her mother was
a Van Weber, descendant of Aneka Jans of
Xew York City, whose vast estate was the
subject of litigation for many years, and be-
came a cause celebre in the annals of the New
York State bar. The Leut family were orig-
inally from Holland. The proper name. Van
Leut. became in time shortened to Leut.
Catherine Stratton Barlow, who died in 1891,
became the mother of nine children.
Dr. Walter Jarvis Barlow was born at Os-
sining, Westchester county, N. Y., January
22, 1868. and his early boyhood years were
passed at his home on the banks of the pictur-
esque Hudson. Graduating from Mt. Pleas-
ant Military Academy in 1885, he entered Co-
lumbia University and received his degree of
B. A. in 1889. In 1892 he graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons and re-
ceived his degree of M. D., which was fol-
lowed by three years as interne in a New York
City hospital. Too close attention to study
had somewhat undermined his health and he
sought to regain it through traveling and a
year's sojourn in the mountains of Southern
1 lalifornia. As ^oon as his health was restored
he located in Los Angeles and engaged in the
practice of his ] rofession. His specialty is in-
ternal medicine.
In 189S Dr. Barlow married Miss Marion
Brooks Patterson, of Los Angeles, and a na-
tive of Dunkirk, X . Y. They have three
children. Walter Jarvis, Jr., Catherine Leut
and Ella Brooks.
Dr. Barlow has achieved an enviable posi-
tion in his chosen profession, and is held in
high esteem among the fraternity of which he
is an honored member. His culture, refine-
ment and worth are well established and uni-
versally recognized in the community. He
holds the chair of clinical medicine in the Medi-
cal College of Southern California; is a
member of the American Medical Association ;
member of the Clinicalogical Association;
member of the Chamber of Commerce ; and
vice president and director of the Merchants'
Trust and Savings Bank. In 1902 he founded
and incorporated the Barlow Sanitarium for
the poor consumptives of Los Angeles county,
which has proven more than a success.
CHARLES SILENT. The city of Los An-
geles, while surrounded by the advantages with
which a prodigal nature has endowed this sec-
tion, owes the greater part of its growth and
prosperity to the indomitable will and tenacity of
the far-seeing and persevering men of business
and finance who have made their personal inter-
ests one with the advancement and development
of the resources of Southern California. Promi-
nent among this class of citizens is Charles Silent,
one of the pioneers of the early '50s, and a man
whose life has been marked by the hardships and
privations characteristic of the first days of state-
hood. Undaunted by all such obstacles, cour-
ageous in the face of all difficulties, he steadily
rose to a position of affluence and influence and
is to-day numbered among the representative men
of Los Angeles.
From German ancestry Judge Silent inherited
the traits of character which laid the foundation
for his success. He was born in Baden. Ger-
many, in the year 1843, and five years later was
brought to America by his parents, who estab-
lished their home in Columbus, Ohio. In that
section he spent the following eight years of his
life and there accepted the responsibilities of life
when only twelve years old, being forced by
necessity to take up the burden of self-support.
In [856 he left home and started for California
alone, the journey being made by way of the
Isthmus of Panama. He was but thirteen years
old when he landed in San Francisco, but, un-
daunted by the prospect of holding his own in the
new country which was attracting men of all
elates and conditions, he went at once to the
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mines of Amador county and began the struggle
for a foothold.
Although but scant scholastic training had been
the portion of this lad, yet he had early deter-
mined to make his success in the line of profes-
sional work, and during these years of struggle
and adversities he kept this aim constantly in
view. At the age of seventeen years he success-
fully passed the teacher's examination and se-
cured a certificate which gave him the right to
conduct a school and for the following three
years he was so occupied. At the same time he
continued his studies with a view to entering col-
lege before completing his law work, which he
had some time before taken up, and in i8<>_' he
became a student in the University of the Pa-
cific, at Santa Clara, Cal. Following his com-
pletion of the course he became principal of the
Santa Clara public schools, which position he
held until 1866, discharging the duties with an
efficiency which won for him the commendation
of pupils and parents. In the meantime he had
been devoting all his spare time to the study of
law and upon the termination of his work in
Santa Gara he entered the law office of S. F. & J.
Reynolds, of San Francisco, as a student. Upon
his return to Santa Clara he was appointed one
of the deputy county clerks, in which position he
familiarized himself with pleading and practice
and with the public records of the county. Being
admitted to the bar in 1868, he immediately be-
came a member of the law firm of Moore &
Laine, one of the leading firms of the legal fra-
ternity of San Jose. For ten years he remained
a resident of San Jose and engaged in a highly
successful and remunerative practice. About this
time he went to Arizona, where he had just been
appointed a judge of the supreme court, and for
two years he continued to perform the duties of
this position. At the expiration of that time he
resigned to establish a general practice in Tucson,
Ariz., which in the three years of his residence
there grew to remunerative proportions. On
account of impaired health he was forced to re-
linquish his law practice in 1883, following which
he spent about two years in rest and travel. De-
ciding to locate in Los Angeles, he came to this
city in 1885 and has ever since made it his home,
building up a general practice in his profession,
to which he returned with renewed energy and
vigor with returning health. He has won for
himself a place of importance and prominence at
the Los Angeles bar and is one of the best-known
and most successful lawyers of Southern Cali-
fornia.
In addition to his professional interests Judge
Silent has always identified himself with move-
ments calculated to advance the general welfare
of the community in which he has made his home.
While a resident of San Jose he was instrumental
in the building of the railroad between San Jose
and Santa Clara, which was one of the first rail-
roads constructed south of San Francisco. In
educational affairs he was equally active and was
one of the foremost men in the establishment and
construction of the State Normal School, the first
in the state, while he gave much time and atten-
tion toward the promotion of movements to im-
prove and beautify all public school buildings
as well a- the city itself. He devised the plan
and secured the passage of a law by which the
city of San Jose constructed a beautiful drive a
distance of six miles to its great public park. He
was the head of a corporation which, under his
supervision, constructed a railroad from Santa
Cruz along the San Lorenzo river to the town
of Felton, and is now a part of the railroad
running from Santa Cruz across the mountains
to Oakland. It was through his far-seeing judg-
ment that the Santa Cruz mammoth trees, which
lie along this road, were saved from the sawmill
and were preserved as a pleasure resort.
In Los Angeles the judge has been equally
public spirited and has been identified with innu-
merable enterprises which have given t<> the
city its prestige among other attractions of South-
ern California. As a member of the Chamber
of Commerce he has taken a keen and active
interest in all movements of that organization. It
was through his efforts largely that the army of
unemployed men in 1897 were set to work in the
improvement of Elysian Park, and in recognition
of his services in this direction the Merchants'
and Manufacturers' Association made him an hon-
orary life member. One of the residence show
places of Los Angeles also owes its existence to
Judge Silent, that of Chester Place, where he has
his home, a stately old mansion reflecting the cul-
ture and taste of by-gone days. With numerous
other enterprises his identification has also been
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such as to influence largely the trend of advance-
ment, and to no one man is more credit due for
the progress and upbuilding of the city. He is
held in the highest esteem by all who have known
him during the years of his residence in Cali-
fornia, honored alike for the qualities of mind
and heart which have distinguished his profes-
sional and business career.
In his political preference Judge Silent is a
stanch advocate of the principles of the Repub-
lican party, and although eminently broad minded
and liberal in his views, has conscientiously sought
to advance the interests he endorses. He has
always taken a prominent part in public affairs
and would have been chosen to high places of re-
sponsibility if his consent could have been gained
by those desirous of so honoring him. By the life
he has led, however, he has wielded a wider influ-
ence and a more lasting one, for he has shown
himself to be a liberal and earnest citizen, looking
toward the advancement of the general welfare
first and always without thought of personal re-
ward ; a sincere and helpful friend ; and an im-
partial and discriminating judge. He merits the
position he holds as a representative citizen of
Los Angeles.
WILLIAM LACY. One of the pioneer busi-
ness men of Southern California who left his
imprint upon the community was William Lacy,
a native of England, born in London, June u,
1835, and there he was reared to years of ma-
turity. In young manhood he decided to seek
his fortune among the larger opportunities of
the western world, and accordingly located in
I Hindis, and near the city of Chicago met and
married Isabella Rigg, also a native of England.
born and reared in Northumberland. It was in
1S64 that they first became numbered among the
pioneer citizens of California, in that year mak-
ing the journey to the Pacific coast via the Isth-
mus of Panama, and locating in Marin county,
where in Bolinas Mr. Lacy established a general
merchandise business. Four years later he dis-
posed of these interests and going to San Diego
became interested in the upbuilding and develop-
ment of that place as one of its pioneer resi-
dents. ( Ipportunities presenting themselves in
Los Angeles, he came to this city in 1874, and
until the time of his death, August 7, 1897, at
the age of sixty-two years, was foremost in the
advancement of all projects which had for their
end the upbuilding and development of the best
interests of the general community. He was first
and for some years engaged as cashier of the
Commercial, now the First National Bank, dis-
charging the duties of this office in an efficient
manner, while he at the same time gave thought
and enterprise to other lines. Giief among these
was the organization of the Puente Oil Company,
in which he was the prime mover, and after the
completion of the enterprise they at once began
prospecting and developing wells in the great
Puente oil field, the second oil field to be de-
veloped in Southern California. The responsibil-
ities of the presidency of this company proving
too engrossing with his other interests, he finally
resigned the cashiership in order to devote his
time and attention to the other project and to the
close of his career remained actively identified
with the oil interests of this section. Later he
also became interested in the real estate of the
city and in the passing years laid out several
additions to East Los Angeles, which have ma-
terially extended the corporate limits. In the
municipal advancement of the city he was always
active and no citizen took a keener interest in
the upbuilding of the general welfare.
In his political affiliations Mr. Lacy was a
stanch adherent of the principles advocated in
the platform of the Democratic party, and al-
though never desirous of personal recognition
always gave his aid in the advancement of these
interests. His wife survived him some years,
passing away in Los Angeles in February, 1905.
They were the parents of six children, namely:
William, Jr.. president of the Lacy Manufactur-
ing Company ; Richard H, secretary and treas-
urer of the Lacy Manufacturing Company; Ed-
ward, engaged in the mines of Old Mexico;
Fred G., who died at the age of twenty-eight
years ; Sophia and Isabelle, of Los Angeles.
RICHARD H. LACY, a native Californian and
one of the successful manufacturers of Los An-
geles, was born in Marin county, August 14,
1866, a son of William Lacy. During his youth
Richard H. Lacy was educated in the public and
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high schools of Los Angeles, after which he took
a commercial course in one of the business col-
leges of the city. He was only a young man
when he became interested with his father in the
organization of the Puente Oil Company, in
which he became a director and is still occupy-
ing that position. It was in 1885 that the exten-
sive manufactory owned by the Lacy brothers
was established, the plant being located on Al-
pine street and consisting only of an equipment
for the manufacture of oil tanks and water pipes.
During the next twelve years, or up to the time
of their incorporation as the Lacy Manufacturing
Company, they constantly increased the business
capacity and at the present writing own a plant
on Main and Date streets which covers an entire
block, and where they turn out everything in
plate and sheet steel work. This is one of the
most extensive manufactories of the city and has
added no little to the business upbuilding of the
place through the employment of a large force
of men and a constant output of product. Will-
iam Lacy acts as president of the company, while
Richard H. is secretary and treasurer. They have
demonstrated their ability among the business
men of Southern California, have built up a luc-
rative business, and have added to the general
prosperity of the section.
The marriage of Mr. Lacy occurred in Los
Angeles and united him with Miss Maude Sul-
livan. As did his father, Mr. Lacy takes an
active interest in all matters of public import
and can always be counted upon to further any
movement advanced for the general welfare of
the community. He is active in financial affairs,
being a director in the United States National
Bank of Los Angeles, and also belongs to the
Merchants & Manufacturers Association, in the
advancement of whose interests he takes an
active part. Personally he is esteemed by all
who know him. and is universally placed among
the representative citizens of Los Angeles and
of Southern California.
JAMES D. GRAHAM. The greatest pos-
sible good to the community of which he is
a resident comes through the efforts and abil-
ities of James D. Graham, a well-known and
popular educator of Southern California, who
for seventeen years was connected with the
schools of Pasadena, first as principal, then as
supervising principal, and for five years as
superintendent. Preceded by many years of
valuable experience in the educational field
he took up the work in Pasadena with a full
understanding of the duties which lay before
him, and that he made a complete success of
the undertaking may be readily seen by a re-
sume of his career. From the ten public
schools of the city about fifty-five hundred
pupils came under his special care and train-
ing, and with the support and assistance of the
one hundred and fifty teachers under his charge
a permanent and ennobling work was accom-
plished, gratifying in the extreme to those
immediately involved, but no less so to par-
ent- and citizens. In June, 1907, Mr. Graham
was elected superintendent of the schools of
Long Beach, and resigning his position in
Pasadena he assumed his new duties in the
September following. Here he has the assist-
ance and co-operation of one hundred teach-
ers in the training of the four thousand pupils
under their care.
A descendant of Scotch ancestors. James D.
( iraham was born in Peterborough, Ontario,
November 22, 1858. and until he was six years
of age was reared in his birthplace. Even at
this early age he had been initiated into the
school room, and upon the removal of the fam-
ily to Lakefield in 1864 he continued his studies.
Afterward he prepared for college at the Peter-
borough Collegiate Institute, earning the
wherewithal for this course by teaching for
three and a half years. Subsequently he en-
tered the literary department of Toronto Uni-
versity, studying there for three years, when
he accepted a position as principal of the Lake-
field public school, later returning to the uni-
versity and finishing his course. In 1888 he
graduated with the degree of A. B.. and three-
years later the degree of A. M. was conferred
upon him by his alma mater. It was with the
above training that Professor Graham came to
California in 1888 and entered into educational
work in a field that was waiting for a man of
his breadth of knowledge and executive abil-
ity. During: his first year in the west he be-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
came an instructor in the department of
science and mathematics at the University of
Southern California. For eighteen months he
acted as private tutor in the family of Daniel
Freeman. It was in the latter part of 1890
that he went to Pasadena and accepted the po-
sition of principal of the high school, and so
satisfactory were his services that at the end
of two years he was elected supervising prin-
cipal of the school system, a position for which
he had special qualifications. During the long
period of his association with educational work
there the standard of the curriculum was ele-
vated, new methods of instruction were intro-
duced and the whole tone of the school work
raised to a point which has made the schools
of Pasadena rank second to none in the state.
In addition to his duties as principal Professor
Graham served a term of two years as a mem-
ber of the Los Angeles county board of educa-
tion, and for one year was president of that
body.
After locating in California Professor Gra-
ham formed domestic ties by his marriage
with Miss Elizabeth E. Rust, a daughter of
Horatio X. Rust, a well-known resident of
South Pasadena. Five children have blessed
their marriage, Donald R.. Katherine M.,
James D.. Jr., Robert H. and Malcolm E.
While in Pasadena the family had a pleasant
home at No. 500 Ellis street, and since coming
to Long Beach they have resided at No. 1123
Cedar avenue, which Mr. Graham owns. Every
project which tends to broaden or strengthen
educational facilities has in Professor Graham
a stanch supporter. He was a member of the
hoard of freeholders who prepared the charter
adopted by Pasadena, being especially inter-
ested in the educational department. In 1905
In- was elected president of the Southern Cali-
fi rnia Teachers Association, serving one term.
1'olitically he is a Republican, and fraternally
he is a member of Pasadena Lodge Xo. 272.
I-. i\: A. M.. and Pasadena Consistory Xo. 4.
From tlie date of its organization he was a
member of the Hoard of Trade of Pasadena.
Socially he belongs to the Twilight Club and
i~ also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of
Long Beach, for many years he has been ac-
tively identified with the National Educational
Association and is also a member of the State
Teachers Association. In his religious affilia-
tions he is a member of the Presbyterian
Church of Long Beach and for many years he
was superintendent of the Sunday school with
which he was associated in Pasadena. Pro-
fessor Graham's father, Robert Graham, is a
well-known citizen of Lakefield, Ontario,
where he has been engaged in a general mer-
cantile business since 1864. Before her mar-
riage his wife was Miss Jessie Menzies, a na-
tive of Perthshire. Scotland, which was also
the birthplace of Mr. Graham. The mother
passed away September 3, 1906. Four sons
and one daughter were born to these worthy
parents, ami three sons are in business with
their father.
HARRY R. CALLEXDER. Among the
men who possess a strong faith in the future of
Los Angeles and who give evidence of that faith
through their large business transactions and
extensive investments, mention properly belongs
to Harry R. Callender, of Wright & Callender
Company, real-estate dealers, through whose
office a large share of the business of this city
and outlying territory passes. Mr. Callender is
a native of Illinois, born in Chicago April 13,
1871. the son of William Henry and Martha
I Clarke) Callender, the former horn in Pitts-
field, Mass., and the latter also a native of that
state. Mr. Callender has no personal knowledge
of his father, for when he was only a year and
a half old his mother was left a widow, thus
his training and care fell entirely to his mother.
His earlier years were associated with the mid-
dle west, and there also he received his initiatory
school training. For some time he attended a
private school in Dayton, Ohio, and about 1886
went east to complete his education, becoming a
student in Chauncey Hall, in Boston, Mass.
Later he entered the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, becoming a member of the class of
1803. but ill-health interfered with his gradua-
tion and in reality brought his school life to a
cli ise.
Believing that complete restoration to health
awaited him in the west, he went to Xew Mex-
ico and for eight months lived on the plains.
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745
This temporary isolation from friends and fa-
miliar scenes was not without its compensation,
for at the end of that time he was sufficiently
lecovered to consider returning home. How-
ever, before returning to Boston he decided to
visit California, and in October. 1892, came to
Los Angeles as a tourist. Quick to see the pos-
sibilities of the growing metropolis, he decided
to remain and cast in his lot with the business
interests of the town, a decision which has re-
sulted in large financial returns to himself and
has been of untold advantage to the city which
he has since called home. In 1894 he engaged in
the insurance and real-estate business with E. D.
Silent, and during the following two years he
was interested in the oil-producing business.
It was in 1897 tnat Mr. Callender turned his
attention more exclusively to the real-estate busi-
ness, associating himself at that time with Gil-
bert S. Wright, under the name of Wright &
Callender. In [906 the business was incor-
porated as the Wright & Callender Company, of
which Air. Wright is president and Mr. Callen-
der secretary and treasurer. Numerous tracts
have been laid out and sold by the company in
home lots, besides which they do an extensive
business in handling both residence ami business
property, making a specialty, however, of the
latter. They now have in course of erection one
of the finest office buildings in Los Angeles,
known as the Wright & Callender building, lo-
cated on the southwest corner of Hill and Fourth
streets. This is what is known as the class A
type of building, modern in construction and
finish, ten stories in height, and is strictly fire-
proof. The exterior finish is of Roman pressed
brick and terra-cotta, the entrance lobby is
walled with marble, with solid marble stairway
to second story and basement, and the floors are
of mosaic tiling. Special thought has been given
to the artistic value of both construction ami
finish, so when completed the building will be
pleasing and homelike as well as safe and com-
fortable.
.Mr. Callender was married in Los Angeles.
January 11. igoo, to Miss Ada Patterson, a na-
tive of Ohio, and two children have been bora to
them, Harry Rea. Jr., and Virginia Patterson.
Mr. Callender finds needed relaxation from busi-
ness responsibilities in the various fraternal and
social organizations which claim his membership,
among the latter being the California Club, Uni-
versity Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los
Angeles Country Club and the Automobile 1 lub
of Southern California. He is a Mason of the
thirty-second degree and also belongs to the
Shrine. Politically he is a hearty supporter of
Republican principles. As is natural for one as
keenly in touch and sympathy with his home
city as is Mr. Callender he is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, now serving as a direc-
tor, and is also a director and the treasurer of
the Municipal League. As a business man of
Los Angeles Mr. Callender takes high rank, and
if his success in the years which have passed can
be taken as a criterion, a brilliant future lies be-
fore him in the business world.
R< A' STANLEY LANTERMAN, M. D.
As a successful physician and county coroner.
Dr. Roy Stanley Lanterman has risen to a
high place in the esteem and respect of his
fellow citizens of Los Angeles — city- and
county. A native of Lansing, Mich., he was
born Jul} - 20, 1869: his father, J. L. Lanter-
man. was born in Blairstown, X. J., thence re-
moved in young manhood to Lansing, Mich.,
and there engaged as a dentist. In 1874 he
gave up his practice and coming to California
located his family in Oakland. Later he came
to Southern California and purchased La Ca-
nada rancho. which comprised six thousand
acres, upon which at first he engaged in rais-
ing cattle, but later engaged as a horticultur-
ist, having seventy-five acres in fruit. He has
sold a large part of the ranch and is now re-
tired from the active cares of life, and is mak-
ing his home in Los Angeles. His wife,
Amoretta Chrisman, also a native of New
Jersey, died in 1903, leaving three children:
Stella, wife of L. X. La Fetra, of Glendora ;
F. D.. of Los Angeles; and Roy S., of this
review.
A child of five years. Roy Stanley Lanterman
was brought to California and in the public
schools of the state he received his first educa-
tional training. Later he attended McPherron's
Academy, still later was a student in the Uni-
versity of Southern California, and graduated
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
from the medical department of the University
of Maryland in Baltimore in 1893. He then
assisted in the Bayview Hospital for a time
and gave his attention to nervous diseases,
after which he took a special course in gyne-
cology and general surgery with Drs. Kelley
and Cameron. Returning to Los Angeles in
1895 he began the practice of his profession in
Santa Monica and continued so occupied for
four years. He then located on La Canada
rancho and improved one hundred acres, put-
ting it all under irrigation and raising fruits.
Later he subdivided about sixty acres of the
property. In 1903 he resumed the practice of
medicine, locating in Los Angeles at the cor-
ner of Fourth and Spring streets, and now has
offices in the Grosse building. In 1906 he was
nominated on the Republican ticket to the of-
fice of county coroner, was elected, and in
January, 1907, took the oath of office for a
term of four years.
In Santa Monica Dr. Lanterman was united
in marriage with Miss Emily C. Folsom, a
native of Washington. D. C, and daughter of
Dr. Edward C. Folsom, a practicing physician
of Santa Monica, who served in the Civil war
and was afterward an officer in one of the de-
partments in Washington. Dr. Lanterman
and his wife have two children. Lloyd and
Frank. Mrs. Lanterman is a member of the
Congregational Church. The doctor is asso-
ciated fraternally with the Knights of Pythias,
Woodmen of the World, and the Eagles, is a
member of the State Medical Association, and
is also enrolled among the enterprising citi-
zens who make up the Chamber of Commerce.
The high position Dr. Lanterman holds among
the citizens of Los Angeles has been won by
personal effort and the demonstration of fear-
less, upright characteristics. At the time of
the great earthquake and fire of San Francisco
he left on the first relief train from Los An-
geles for that distressed city and established
the relief hospital located in the Jefferson
Square building at the corner of Octavia and
Golden date avenue, and this he kept in opera-
tion for nineteen days, treating about two
thousand patients. So important was this
work done by Dr. Lanterman when first estab-
lished that General Funston requested that. he
continue it as long as possible. This spirit of
devotion to his profession and the cause of
humanity has been evident in all that Dr.
Lanterman has done since locating here, and
it is through such demonstration that the pub-
lic has come to regard him as one of the safe,
conservative and yet progressive men among
its citizens.
WILLIAM J. BRODRICK. With the pass-
ing of William J. Brodrick, another pioneer of
the state crossed the unknown desert separating
the valley of toil and suffering from the land of
gold by the side of the ocean of eternal peace.
October 18, 1898, he laid aside the responsibilities
of life, which, it is said by those who knew him
best, were borne with the courage and fortitude
which distinguished his entire career. Mr. Brod-
rick was not an American by birth, having been
horn in Cambridge. England, January 2, 1847,
but the loyalty with which he upheld the insti-
tutions of his adopted country proved his title
true to the best strains of English blood and
American citizenship. As the son of an army
officer he received a good education, and in [865,
then a youth of eighteen years, crossed the Atlan-
tic to New York City, where he sought to obtain
a livelihood. After a few years spent in that lo-
cation he made a trip to South America, visiting
1 Vru and Chili ; returning to the United States,
he came to California in the year 1869 and in the
city of Los Angeles made his home for the re-
mainder of his life. As soon as the laws permitted
he became a naturalized citizen of the country
he had learned to respect for its liberal institu-
tions, his loyalty and support ever afterward be-
ing given with his citizenship.
Mr. Brodrick entered into the insurance busi-
ness as a li ical agent for old-line companies, estab-
lishing his office in this city and proceeding to
build up a liberal patronage. Through a pleas-
ing personality he won friends before demon-
strating his business ability; he retained the es-
teem thus won by an exercise of tact and the
sagacious judgment with which nature hail so
liberally endowed him. I lis methods were laid
strictly on business lines and could not but in-
spire respect among his associates. He gradually
assumed a place of importance in the public
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affairs of the city and up to the time of his death
remained actively identified with many of the
most important movements in its development.
Upon the organization of the Main Street and
Agricultural Park Railway Company he became
an officer and shortly afterward was chosen pres-
ident, which position he retained to the time of
bi> demise; he was also vice-president and audi-
tor of the Los Angeles City Water Company, in
which he had served as a member of the board
of directors since its organization. For several
years he was identified in like capacity with the
Crystal Spring Land & Water Company ; and as
a director in the Metropolitan Building & Loan
Association his ripened judgment meant valu-
able assistance in the promotion of its interests,
as it did also in the Puente Oil Company, in
which he was very active.
Regardless of his engrossing personal affairs
Air. Brodrick was ever found ready to lend him-
self heartily to all public enterprises of the city,
county cr state. As a member of the Chamber
of Commerce and Board of Trade he was active
in his efforts to advance their interests, and was
also prominent in various social clubs of the city,
among them the California and Jonathan Clubs.
For over four years lie served on the board of
fire commissioners of Los Angeles, being recom-
mended to the position by the comptroller of
currency, who had just had reason to compli-
ment him upon the performance of his duties as
receiver of the First National Bank of San Ber-
nardino; properly estimating the executive quali-
ties as demonstrated by Mr. Brodrick and realiz-
ing the need of adequate protection from fire and
the presence of such men on the board, he was
generous in his praise and recommendation. That
Mr. Brodrick fulfilled the high expectations of his
friends was evidenced by the reforms which were
instituted during his tenure of office.
On the 8th of May, 1877, Mr. Brodrick was
united in marriage with Miss Laura E. Carlisle.
She is a native of Los Angeles and a daughter of
Robert S. and Francisca (Williams) Carlisle, the
former of whom was born in Kentucky, the repre-
sentative of a Virginia family of English ancestry.
As a boy he went to Mexico and later came to
Los Angeles, where in 1857 he married Fran-
cisca Williams. Later he became the owner of
the Chino ranch of fifteen thousand acres, upon
which he engaged in stock-raising until his death,
which occurred in 1865. He is survived by his
widow, who now makes her home in Los Ange-
les, at the corner of Flower and Washington
streets. Mrs. Brodrick was educated at Laurel
Hall, in San Mateo county. Of the seven chil-
dren born to her four are living, namely : Fran-
cisca, Anita, Lucy and Eugene Carlisle. Her
home, located at 1936 South Figueroa street and
numbered among the most beautiful residences of
the city, is presided over with gracious dignity,
the appointments without and within bespeaking
the culture and refinement of its occupants. She
enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends
who appreciate her womanly qualities and in
social life she exercises a wide influence.
Mr. Brodrick was a member of St. Vincent's
Church, of Los Angeles, and his interment is in
Calvary Cemetery. With his death was lost to
the city one of its best citizens, both in a personal
and a wider sense, because he acquired not only
a financial success, but enjoyed as well the un-
bounded confidence of all who knew him. He
was far-sighted and discriminating in judgment
and unerringly invested his means in that which
would bring him increased financial returns ;
and in an unexcelled spirit of generosity this
ability was freely used for the benefit of whoever
sought his advice. Although of English birth
he was American in the broad sense implied by
that term, in life and character displaying the
best traits of this citizenship ; he was a typical
Californian in his hospitality and a westerner
when viewed in the light of his energy and en-
terprise. His ideals were high and governed all
his actions ; his motives were never questioned
by those who knew him best and appreciated him
most for the qualities of character so rarely met
with, so steadfastly disciplined, so honestly mani-
fested. It is enough to say that he was rep-
resentative of the type of men who have made
California what it is to-day.
REUBEN SHETTLER. In the making of
his choice of a permanent location as
well as in his identification with a grow-
ing industry Mr. Shettler feels that he
has been especially fortunate. His in-
terest in Los Angeles dates from the year
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1895. when for the first time he came
hither to spend a season where the climate
was less trying than in the middle west, where
the greater part of his life had been spent.
Alter a number of seasons similarly spent he
decided to take up his permanent residence
here, a decision which has proven of mutual
benefit to Mr. Shettler and to Los Angeles as
well. Born in London, England, in 1853, he
was a lad of seven years when with his parents
he came to the United States and settled on
a farm near Canandaigua, Ontario county. X.
Y. He was educated principally in the public
schools of that vicinity and at the age of
twenty years he took up the burden of self-
support. Of a mechanical turn of mind natur-
ally he looked for employment in that line and
was more than ordinarily successful in his ef-
forts. Going to Battle Creek, Mich., in 1873
lie took up mechanics, having a natural in-
clination for that line of work, and in his ex-
perience in running threshing machines made
observations which led to the manufacture of
the Shettler thresher. The machine was at
first manufactured at Battle Creek by the
Upton Manufacturing Company, but later the
plant was moved to Port Huron, Mr. Shettler
becoming largely interested in the company,
and until 1885 was superintendent of the plant.
In the mean time Mr. Shettler invented the
friction clutch for use in the mechanism of
traction engines and threshers, a basic patent
which marked the beginning of the great suc-
cess in the running" of rapid moving machinery.
Prior to this the positive clutch had been the
embodiment of the highest knowledge along
this line. The friction clutch is now used uni-
versally the world over and it can be safely
said that automobiling would not be a success
were it not for the basic principle which it in-
volves. It was in t886 that Mr. Shettler lo-
cated in Lansing. Mich., and established him-
self in the jobbing business, representing the
Huber Manufacturing Company, manufactur-
ers of threshers and heavy machinery. The
business grew to large proportions and gave
greal promise of continued success, but not-
withstanding this Mr. Shettler finally with-
drew his interest in the business, having in the
meantime become largely interested in the
manufacture of automobiles. Coexistent with
his invention of the friction clutch was the pos-
sibility of its application to the running gear
of the automobile, and his interest in the manu-
facture of this machine may be said to date
from this time. In 1886 he rode in a steam
automobile, made by R. E. Olds, a car which
was afterwards sold in Australia. Two years
afterwards, in 1888, Mr. Shettler became as-
sociated wilh Mr. Olds in the manufacture of
gas engines and gasoline automobiles, Mr.
Shettler being the first person interested with
Mr. ( Hds in what later became the Olds motor
works. In 1903 Mr. Shettler organized the
Reo Motor Car Company, of which he is still
vice-president, and during that year the com-
pany erected shops in Lansing and began the
manufacture of the Reo automobile. The sale
of the Reo in the Lnited States has eclipsed
that of any other automobile, a statement
which is borne out by the fact that in 1907
they manufactured forty-two hundred and
fifty cars, the business amounting to $4,500,-
000. As an index of the business which they
expect to do during the year 1908 it may be
said that they have increased the size of the
plant to an extent that will enable them to
turn out one-third more business than during
the previous year, or over six thousand cars.
As an indication of the appreciation in which
t'ne employes of the company are held it may
not be out of place to here mention that dur-
ing the year 1907 the company paid to them a
dividend of five per cent on the amount of
their yearly wages, this applying to each and
every employe.
Mr. Shettler's marriage united him with
Sarah B. Thorpe, who was born in Tecumseh,
Mich., a descendant of Governor Winslow of
Massachusetts. She is a woman of rare liter-
ary qualities and is well known in club circles
in Los Angeles, being a member of the Ebell,
Friday Morning and Ruskin Art Clubs, as well
as of the Young Woman's Christian Associa-
tion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shettler are mem-
bers of the Episcopal Church, and politically
Mr. Shettler is a Republican. Their only son,
Leon T., is tlie Pacific coast agent for the Reo
automobile. In addition to the business in-
terests already mentioned Mr. Shettler was an
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751
important factor in financial circles in his for-
mer home city, being one of the organizers of
the Capitol National Bank of Lansing, and he
is now a director of the American National
Bank of Los Angeles. Personally no one is
held in higher esteem than Mr. Shettler.
Qualities of a high order endear him to a large
circle of friends, both in business and social
life. No worthy undertaking is carried for-
ward without his support, in fact no one ap-
peals to him in vain for sympathy and help,
and much of his means is given for the uplift-
ing of his fellowmen. Though at one time he
was very actively identified with business af-
fairs, he is now living practically retired.
MILTON D. PAINTER. To mention the
name of Air. Painter suggests at once one which
is synonymous with it, La Pintoresca, the famous
winter resort of which he is the proprietor. Its
commanding position, being located between
Pasadena and the base of the Sierra Mad re
mountains, on an elevation one thousand feet
above sea level, gives an outlook over the
San Gabriel valley, the ocean thirty miles distant,
the lowlands and foothills and towering mount-
ain peaks, to say nothing of the thriving orange
and lemon groves, and fields and gardens irides-
cent with Nature's handiwork in the many ex-
quisite flowers which flourish in this climate.
What was known as the Painter hotel was found-
ed in 1887 by the father, John H. Painter, and
his two sons, Alonzo J. and Milton D.. the build-
ing then having a capacity of sixty sleeping
rooms, but in 1807 it was enlarged and re-
furnished throughout, and from the latter date
has been known by the euphonious name La
Pintoresca. In connection with his hostelry Mr.
Painter also carries on a livery business, chiefly
for the accommodation of his guests, however,
and not for financial gain.
The earliest ancestor of the Painter family
of whom we have any authentic knowledge is the
great-grandfather. Jacob, a son of John and
Susanna Painter, who was born August 21. 1764,
and died Mav 9, 1851. His marriage united him
with Mary, daughter of Robert and Abigail
Hunt, who was born July 25, 1768, and died
September 7, 1818. The son of Jacob and Mary
Painter, David was born February 4, 1792, and
on October 2j, 1813, he married Ann Webb,
who was born June 12, 1787, of Pennsylvania
parentage. Some time after his marriage David
Painter removed to Salem, Ohio, where he set-
tled down to agricultural pursuits, and there
he died in August, 1866, his wife following him
one year later. On the old homestead in Col-
umbiana county their son, John H., was born
September 3. 1 8 1 9. From Ohio he removed to
what was considered the far west in 1844, taking
up land in Cedar county, Iowa, where his fam-
ily joined him the following year. With the
growth and upbuilding of that commonwealth
no name is perhaps any better known than that
of Painter, and during the twenty-one years he
made his home in Cedar county he entered into
all phases of its life — political, social and com-
mercial — and at one time served as justice of the
peace. Subsequently he made his home in Mus-
catine, Iowa, for fourteen years. His identifica-
tion with California began in 1880, when he
came to Pasadena, where he soon became as
well known for business sagacity and judgment
as he had been in the middle west. Besides buy-
ing and selling land quite extensively he assisted
in the building of the old original Painter house
in 1887. His earth life came to a close April 9,
1891, eleven years after coming west, and his
wife died July 20, 1899. She was formerly
Edith Dean, born in Ohio August 5. 1821, a
daughter of James H. Dean, who was born in
New York state April 14, 1799. His marriage,
September 27. 1820, united him with Eleanor M.
Winder, who was born in Virginia March 17,
1799, and died in February, 1891. while he him-
self passed away in Columbiana county, Ohio.
March 28, 1885. Jonathan R. Dean, his father,
was born May 26, 1776, and July 12, 1798, mar-
ried Hannah Tuttle, who was born June 9. 1778,
and died in October, 1851 ; his death occurred in
September, 1840. Of the eight children born to
John H. Painter and his wife six grew to years
of maturity, as follows: Louis M.. who served
in the Civil war and died when in his twenty-
fifth vear; Ellen, Mrs. J. C. Michener; Esther,
Mrs. L. H. Michener; Milton D. ; Alonzo J.,
deceased; and Mrs. Imelda A. Tebbetts.
It was while the family was residing in Cedar
county, Iowa, that Milton D. Painter was born
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
in Springdale March 29, 1852. Until he was
fourteen years old he attended the district schools
near his home, and then entered the Muscatine
schools, graduating from its high school five
years later. His first work was as clerk with a
lumber firm, then for five years he was in a
wholesale grocery, and for the same length of
time worked as a bookkeeper in Marshall county.
Iowa. It was with this practical knowledge that
he came to Pasadena in 1883, his father having
located here three years previously. As has been
previously stated he was associated with his
father and brother in establishing the Painter
hotel, a connection which existed until the death
of the father and brother, when the management
of the property fell into his hands. He is other-
wise interested in real-estate, and is prominently
connected with railroad interests in this city. In
1885 he organized the North Pasadena Water
Company and at the time of its incorporation
was chosen secretary, and is now also the presi-
dent.
.Mr. Painter's marriage, which was celebrated
in Muscatine, Iowa, May 4, 1876, united him
with Miss Mary E. Joy, who was born in Evans,
N. Y. The history of the Joy family can be
traced back to the time of King Henry VII I.
of England, where the records mention one
George Joy, who in 1517 was admitted as a
fellow to Peterhouse College at Cambridge. Old
manuscripts also mention that he was a "'learned,
pious and laborious reformer in the reign of
Henry VIII." In the Herald's College, London,
may be seen the grant of a coat of arms to the
descendants of Thomas Joy. The crest is a vine
stump, with a dove standing between two
branches, while the motto is "Vive la Joie.*' The
earliest record of Thomas Joy in America bears
date of 1634, and it is thought that he emi-
grated from Hingham, Norfolk county, Eng-
land, with a colony of about eight hundred per-
sons who crossed the Atlantic in 1630, under the
leadership of Governor Winthrop. The latter
thus speaks of Mr. Joy: "There was a young
fellow, Thomas Joy, whom they had employed
to get hands fur the petition. He began to be
very busy, but was laid hold on and kept in
in "is four or five (lavs, and then he humbled
himself, confessed what he knew, and blamed
himself fur meddling in matters not his. and
blessed God for the irons upon his legs, hoping
they would do him good while he lived. So he
was let out upon bail." In 1646, with his wife
and four children, Thomas Joy moved from Bos-
ton to Hingham, Mass., where he erected a mill
which he conducted the remainder of his life, his
death occurring October 21, 1678. He married
Joan Gallop, the daughter of John Gallop, a
celebrated Indian fighter and trader, who, with
a son, served in the Pequod war and received
large grants of land from the government. His
wife was Hannah Lake, a niece of Governor
Winthrop. John Gallop was killed in the fight
with the Indians at Narragansett, December 19,
1675. Of the eight children born to Thomas
Joy and his wife the fourth son was Joseph Joy,
born January 2, 1645, an d who married Man-
Prince, August 29, 1667. L T pon May 26, 1690,
their son, Joseph. Jr., married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Capt. James Andrews. Their son David
and his wife, Ruth, who were married in 1718,
had a son. David, Jr., who married Elizabeth
Allen. The next in line of descent was David
the third, who in 1776 married Hannah Part-
ridge, of Guilford, Vt. One of their children
was Ira Joy, the grandfather of Mrs. Mary E.
Painter, who in 1815 married Clarissa Ludlow.
In 1S00 he went with his father to Onondaga
county, N. Y.. and later went to Erie county,
that state, where he accumulated considerable
property, in fact Buffalo stands on a portion of
his old homestead. As a contractor he assisted
in the construction of the Erie Canal. In 1854
he removed from Buffalo to Michigan, and his
death occurred in Galesburg, that state. Will-
iam H. Joy, his son and the father of Mrs.
Painter, was born in Tompkins county, N. Y.,
October 24, 1819, and on October 24, 1843, he
married Marion W. Ingersoll, at Evans, N. Y.,
their marriage resulting in the birth of thirteen
children, of whom nine are still living. From
Buffalo, which was then a small town. William
H. Joy removed to Muscatine, Iowa, there be-
coming agent for the United States Express
Company, a position which he held until he was
fifty-six years of age. He died when in his
fifty-eighth year, his wife having died in 1870,
about five years previous to his demise. Their
daughter, Mrs. Painter, was born at Evans. X.
Y. August 12, 1854, growing to womanhood in
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Muscatine. Iowa, which was her home until the
removal of the family to California. Her eldest
child, Joy Painter, was born in Iowa March i,
1879, and died in infancy. The living children
are Charles Wilfred, horn in Muscatine, Iowa;
Robert Alden and Marion, who were born in
Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Painter took an im-
portant part in the organization of the First
Congregational Church of Pasadena, and were
no less influential in founding the North Con-
gregational Church, with which congregation
they now worship. Personally Mr. Painter is
a man of earnest, positive nature, of absolute
fearlessness in matters of right and wrong, and
of noble characteristics, all of which attributes
bind him to his manv friends.
GEN. EDWARD BOUTON, one of the
representative citizens of Los Angeles, and a
pioneer in its development and upbuilding, is
the descendant of an ancestry which has given
to the world many eminent men as warriors,
statesmen and financiers, and — not the least
among them — patriots who in the time of need
have freely sacrificed everything of a personal
nature to give to the cause of their country.
They are one of the oldest families of America
and previous to their location on American
soil trace their genealogy back to the fifth cen-
tury, where they were identified with the
Visigoth clan, and the head of the Salian tribe,
under King Hilderia, A. D. 481, who at his
death left his son. Clovis, king of the tribe.
This king as is well known in history eventu-
ally embraced the Christian faith, which ex-
ample was followed by many of his people,
among whom were the ancestors of the Bou-
ton family. The ancient Bouton shield or
coat-of-arms had the following motto on a
groundwork on perpendicular lines, "De
Gules a la Fasce d'Or," which is old French.
and its translation means a force as of a leop-
ard when its attacks with its red mouth open.
This coat of arms is still borne by the Count
Chamilly, at present residing in Rome.
Members of the Bouton family distinguished
themselves in French history for many gen-
erations, the military and court records
abounding with their name and the valor of
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their deeds for two centuries. Nicholas Bou-
ton, born about 1580, bore the title of Count
Chamilly, he being the direct ancestor of Gen.
Edward Bouton ; he was a Huguenot, and
with his three sons, Herard and John (twins),
and Xoel Bouton, was a refugee during the
violent persecution of the Protestants by the
Roman Catholics' during the predominance of
the Guises in France. Later, the intolerance
of the Catholics being over, Noel Bouton
further advanced the honors of the family and
was made Marquis de Chamilly, and in 1703
became the marshal of all France, a life-size
portrait of himself being placed in the gallery
of French nobles at Versailles, France, where
it is still to be seen. The Irish branch of the
family was founded by a descendant of a
brother of the marquis, who, in the reign of
Louis XIV of France, rose to the rank of
Premier Valette de Chambre, and died upon
the scaffold in the prison of the Luxembourg
in 1794, for his opposition to priest and king.
This was Herard Bowton, who with his twin
brother, John, received his education in the
family of a priest in Ireland. Upon the revo-
cation of the Edict of Nantes Herard Bowton
returned to Ireland, still following the for-
tunes of Marshal Tehomborge, under whom
he served in the Protestant army under 'Wil-
liam III, risking life and fortune in behalf of
civil and' religious liberty. He particularly
distinguished himself as a fearless and valiant
soldier at the battle of the Boyne, July 1,
1690, and was rewarded for his services with
a share of the confiscated lands situated in the
county of Ballyrack. The present Lord Mon-
tague Bowton is a lineal descendant of Her-
ard Bowton, who presumably returned to
France after the battle of the Boyne.
There is a tradition in the Bouton family
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
regarding the origin of the name, which re-
lates that in the twelfth century an ancestor
serving as chorister in the chapel of the duke
of Burgundy founded his name and fortune
and that of his family by striking down with
his official baton an assassin who made an at-
tempt on the life of his master. This act
raised him in the ducal chapel to the position
of page of honor to the duke of Burgundy,
and his gallant achievement was properly
commemorated by heraldic inscription on a
shield which the family have ever since borne,
viz.: De Gules a la Fasce d'Or. with the
surname of Baton (since corrupted into Bou-
ton) bestowed upon him by the duke. The
change of Baton to Bouton was, it was said,
in allusion to the brightness of the buttons
with which as a page his coat was adorned.
Despite this tradition, however, there were
officers by the name of Bouton in William
the Conqueror's army in 1060, a century ear-
lier than the incident related of the chorister
in the duke of Burgundy's chapel, this being
the first advent of the Boutons into England.
Honors came to the family in their new
environment and in the civil, political and re-
ligious life of England they early played a
prominent part ; under the names of Boughton,
Rouse and Broughton, two members were
at the same time peers of England and six
others represented seats in the English Par-
liament. Rouse Boughton's ancestors were of
very high antiquity in the counties of Surrey,
Worcester, Warwick, Gloucester and Here-
ford; in a history of Worcester it is men-
tioned that its patriarchs of that shire accom-
panied the Conqueror to England, and the
statement is confirmed by the Battle Abbey
Roll. The name of Boughton became merged
into Rouse by Thomas Philip Rouse Bough-
ton, who assumed the name of Rouse and took
up his residence at Rouse Leach. This gen-
tleman, as Thomas Rouse, Esq., served as high
sheriff of Worcester in 1733. Charles Wil-
liam Boughton, Esq. (second son of Schuck-
burgh Boughton, Esq., of Poston Court,
County Hereford, and grandson of Sir Wil-
liam Boughton, fourth baronet of Lawford,
County Warwick), assumed the surname of
Rouse and represented the boroughs of Ever-
sham and Bramber as Charles William
Boughton Rouse, Esq. Boughton Rouse was
chief secretary of the board of control and
was created a baronet June 28, 1791, but soon
afterward he inherited the baronetage of his
own family, the Boughtons. Sir Edward
Boughton, of Barchester, County Warwick,
was created a baronet August 4, 1641. The
Boughtons held baronetcies in England for
eleven generations. To go back to an early
descendant of the first English Bouton, we
find William Bouton, who, according to tra-
dition and history, was a Burgundian soldier
of fortune who served in the army of Edward
III of England when he invaded France in
1356. He attained the title of Sir William
Boughton, having won the personal favor of
King Edward at the battle of Portiers, ever
afterward followed his fortunes, and at the
close of the campaigns returned with him to
England. His estates were situated on the
banks of the river Avon, and the manor house
was known as Lawford hall, and was built by-
Edward, son of Sir William, during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. Edward Boughton was
high sheriff of the county and member of the
shire, and after death his body was consigned
to the family vault under the church at New-
bold.
The ancestor who located the name on
American soil was John Bouton, a lineal de-
scendant of Count Chamilly. In July, 1636,
at the age of twenty years, he embarked at
Gravesend, England, in the barque Assurance,
and landed at Boston, Mass., in December of
the same vear. Earlv in the settlement of
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757
Hartford, Conn., he moved to that place, and
in 1671 and for several years subsequent, he
was a representative in the general court of
the colony of Connecticut. Several succeed-
ing generations were born in Connecticut, a
son of the English emigrant, John Bouton, Jr.,
being a native of Norwalk, born September
30, 1659. He married and reared a family,
among his children being a son, Nathaniel,
who was also born in Norwalk, in 1691, while
his grandson, Daniel, son of Nathaniel, was
born at New Canaan, township of Stratford,
Conn., October 24, 1740. Daniel Bouton be-
came captain of a company of Connecticut
volunteers during the Revolutionary war and
distinguished himself in the long and ardu-
ous struggle, while his son, Russell Bouton,
served his country well in the war with Eng-
land in 1812. Russell Bouton was also a na-
tive of Connecticut, born at Danbury, Octo-
ber 31, 1790; at Reading, Conn., May 16, 1814,
he married Mary Hinsdale, a daughter of
Moses Hinsdale, who rendered valuable serv-
ice in the Revolutionary war by the manu-
facture of one hundred cannon for the co-
lonial troops, from metal, mined, smelted and
cast by himself, and for which he received
nothing, simply because of the inability of the
infant government to pay. Russell Bouton and
his wife remained residents of Connecticut
until 1821, and then moved to the township
of Howard (now Avoca), Steuben county, N.
Y., where Edward Bouton, the subject of this
sketch, was born April 12, 1834.
The years of youth and young manhood of
Edward Bouton were passed upon the pa-
ternal farm, where he interspersed an attend-
ance of a country school at Goff's Mills with
the duties incident to his home life, as his
elder brothers had left home to start in life
for themselves and his father was an invalid.
He was thus early trained in self reliance and
habits of industry, working in his father's
fields from the age of thirteen years to the
age of seventeen. He subsequently studied in
Rodgersville Academy, where, as an evidence
of his industry as a scholar, it may be cited
that during a full term there were but two
recitations that were not marked perfect, and
also at Haverling Union School, at Bath,
N. Y.
Commercial activity, however, attracted the
young man, and his twentieth birthday found
him head clerk in the extensive dry goods
store of Joseph Carter at Bath ; this interest
was later consolidated with the store owned
by Martin Brownwell, and this immense stock
of goods was sent to LeRoy, N. Y., there to
be placed in a store and closed out. Mr. Bou-
ton was given entire charge of this enterprise
and so well did he execute the task that it was
completed the first of March, 1855, when he
returned to Bath. There, with his former
employer, he entered into partnership and es-
tablished an extensive grocery, provision and
produce business, buying and shipping wool,
grain and produce of all kinds. Two years
later he purchased his partner's interest in the
business and built the largest store in Steuben
county, locating purchasing agents at all the
stations on the main line of the Erie Railway
from Corning to Dunkirk, and on the Buffalo
branch from Corning to Buffalo. For two
years the superintendent of the Erie Railway
reported that over half of the wool, grain and
produce passing Corning eastbound on the
road belonged to Ed. Bouton, as he was fa-
miliarly called. When the great panic of 1857
struck New York, closing every bank in the
state except the Chemical Bank and John Ma-
gee's Steuben County Bank at Bath in twenty-
four hours, Mr. Bouton had about $1,250,000
invested in wool stored in Pine street, the de-
cline in the price of which in one day amount-
ed to fully $100,000. The Erie Railway re-
quired consignees to pay freight and remove
goods in twenty-four hours, but at this time
Mr. Bouton's shipments filled and blocked
the entire Duane street pier in two days, and
there was not a commission merchant in New
York City who could receive the goods and
pay the freight. Air. Moran, the president of
the Erie Railway, authorized Mr. Bouton to
move his goods and pay the freight at his con-
venience. He rented and quickly filled a large
storehouse on Dey street. All business was
paralyzed and nearly all shippers but Mr.
Bouton ceased trying to do business. Soon
the hotels, boarding houses and private fami-
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lies were seeking supplies of butter, eggs,
cheese and kindred articles, of which Mr. Bou-
ton held the principal available supply in the
citv. John Magee, who left an estate valued
at $80,000,000. had such implicit confidence in
Mr. Bouton's great energy and strict integ-
rity, and deemed his business so beneficial to
the community that he promptly rendered
financial aid, requiring no security except that
all advances should be paid in a reasonable
time. In 1859 Mr. Bouton sold out his busi-
ness in Bath, and going to Chicago, engaged
in the grain commission business, owning ves-
sel property on the lakes, and doing a grain
and lumber shipping business.
Mr. Bouton had in his family records num-
berless examples for his action in 1861, when
he closed up and sacrificed his newly estab-
lished business to engage in the War of the
Rebellion, for it is said that of the many Bou-
tons throughout New England during the
Revolutionary war there was not an able-
bodied man who was not serving his country,
and the records of the War department show
that every northern state and over half of the
southern states were represented by Boutons
in the Union army during the War of the Re-
bellion, three of them attaining the rank of
brigadier-general. It is undoubtedly a his-
torical fact that for some fourteen centuries
members of this family have proven them-
selves valiant soldiers on many of the impor-
tant battlefields of the civilized world, and al-
ways on the side of loyalty, religious liberty
and better government. Mr. Bouton at once
raised a battery for service in the Civil war,
familiarly known as Bouton's battery, its offi-
cial designation being Battery I, First Regi-
ment. Illinois Light Artillery. At the
time he organized this famous battery it was
costing the state of Illinois $154 per capita to
recruit, transport and maintain troops previ-
ous to being mustered into the United States
service. Bouton's battery cost the state only
$13.20 per capita, the balance of the expense
being paid out of the private purse of General
Bouton. 'This battery rendered important
service throughout the entire struggle, from
the battle of Shiloh to those of Nashville and
Franklin, three years later, in the first named
conflict performing deeds of valor which
meant no little in the winning of the Union
forces. A detailed account of the participa-
tion of Bouton's battery is herewith given, in-
asmuch as its action during the first day of the
conflict was one of the most potent factors in
giving the victory on the following day : At
about three in the afternoon of the first day
the Union forces were compelled to retire
from a timbered ridge about a third of a mile
out from Pittsburg Landing. Some eight hun-
dred yards in front of this ridge was the green
point where the Hamburgh and Purdy Retails
formed a junction. Here was concentrated a
large Confederate force. When the Union
forces fell back from this ridge, Bouton's Bat-
tery, having a commanding position, held its
ground and a detachment of the Fifty-third
Ohio Infantry remained in supporting distance
in the rear. If the Confederates gained the
ridge their guns could sweep the Landing and
the intervening space, and necessarily the fate
of the Union army depended upon the pos-
session of this ground, until night, or until
Buell came. A Rebel battery of six six-
pounder guns took position well in front and
opened fire at about six hundred yards distant
on Bouton's left front, which was promptly
answered. It seemed that all other firing in
the vicinity for the time was suspended, and
the two opposing batteries occupied all atten-
tion. For a half hour the combat raged furi-
ously, when a Mississippi battery of four
twelve-pounder howitzers took position and
opened fire on Bouton's right front at short
range, thus bringing him under a heavy cross
fire. The latter then wheeled his right section
of two guns under First Lieutenant Harry
Rogers, and brought it to bear on the Missis-
sippi battery. The failure of both batteries to
drive him from the ridge called for Jackson's
Brigade of Mississippi Infantry, which charged
his battery in front, advancing between the
two batteries on the right and left. This
charge was met with guns double shotted with
canister, which sent them back in broken dis-
order. The fight between the batteries went
on until the approach of night, just as Bouton
fired his last round of ammunition. Then he
fell hick to the main line in front of the Land-
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ing, taking off two guns (one disabled) by
hand, with the aid of men from the Fifty-third
Ohio, the horses on these guns having been
killed. Bouton's Battery had been reported
captured some two hours before, and when
he turned up all right and it was ascertained
that he had held the ridge against such odds,
such a cheer of triumph was given as made the
welkin ring. It meant victory for the morrow.
The next day, with five guns re-supplied with
ammunition, Bouton's Battery made a dash
across an old cotton field, under a terrific fire
of both infantry and artillery and occupied and
held a position from which two batteries had
been driven, and with canister at short range
materially aided in driving Breckenridge from
nearly the same ground occupied by Sher-
man's division at the commencement of the bat-
tle. In this famous artillery duel Bouton's
Battery fired five hundred and forty rounds of
ammunition, being more than reported by any
other Union battery during the entire battle.
It has been stated by General Halleck that in
his opinion one thousand men saved the day
at Shiloh, most conspicuous in the number
being Bouton's Battery of Chicago.
Captain Bouton, commanding his battery in
person, first attracted the attention of his su-
perior officers and brought to him another
honor of distinction. In consultation with
General Thomas on the one hand and his six
division commanders on the other. Gen.
Stephen A. Hurlburt, commanding Depart-
ment of West Tennessee and Northern
Mississippi, made choice of Captain Bouton,
at that time chief of artillery of the Fifth Di-
vision of the Sixteenth Army Corps, Sher-
man's old Shiloh Division, to command one of
six colored regiments which had been or-
ganized in May, 1863. It was a happy choice
that placed Captain Bouton in this position,
for he brought to bear the same thoroughness,
capacity for discipline and general ability
which had distinguished him thus far in his
military career. Less than two years later
General Marcy. inspector-general of the United
States army, after a thorough personal inspec-
tion, pronounced three of the colored regi-
ments in General Bouton's command, "in drill,
discipline and military bearing equal to any
in the service, regular or volunteer." Another
instance of his courage on the field was an
occurrence of July 13, 1864, a month after the
disaster to the Union troops at Guntown,
Miss., when in command of about four thou-
sand, five hundred men, white and colored, he
made a inarch of twenty-two miles in one day,
from Pontotoc to Tupelo, Miss., guarding a
heavy train of three hundred wagons and
fighting at the same time four distinct battles,
each successful and against superior odds.
Generals A. J. Smith and Joseph Mower, com-
manding corps and division, respectively, de-
clared this achievement unsurpassed within
their knowledge.
During his army career General Bouton was
several times mentioned in terms of commen-
dation, especially for strict integrity, by both
President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stan-
ton, on one occasion Secretary Stanton saying
that he was one of the few army officers who
had been able to handle Confederate cotton
without being contaminated. In recommend-
ing General Bouton's promotion to brigadier-
general General Grant said : "I consider Gen-
eral Bouton one of the best officers in the
army, and there is not one whose promotion I
can more cheerfully recommend." Generals
Halleck and Sherman pronounced him the best
artillery officer in the army, General Halleck
saying that he had never seen a better bat-
tery than Bouton's either in Europe or Amer-
ica, and that less than a thousand men had
saved the day at Shiloh, most conspicuous
among the number being Bouton's battery of
Chicago. General Sherman said on one occa-
sion : "Bouton was as cool under fire and as
good an artillery officer as I ever knew, and
there is no living man whom I would rather
have handle my artillery in a hard fight." Gen-
eral Washburn said that General Bouton'- de-
fense of the rear of the vanquished Union
forces, under General Sturgis, on their retreat
from Guntown, Miss., to Germantown, Tenn.,
for two days and nights, a distance of eighty-
one miles, with but a handful of men against
the incessant and impetuous attacks of Gen-
eral Forrest's victorious army, constituted one
of the most heroic deeds recorded in history.
Generals A. J. Smith and Joseph Mower both
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pronounced him the best brigade commander
they had ever seen. When General Smith's
veterans of the Sixteenth Corps were, for the
third time, repulsed before the Spanish Fort
at Mobile, he said to Colonel Kendrick : "I
wish to God Bouton were here, he would go
in there like a whirlwind."
To show how the general was regarded by
the Confederates, the following incident may
be narrated : Soon after his promotion to be a
brigadier-general, and when thirty years of
age, he had some pictures taken at Oak gal-
lery in Memphis, Term. One of these was ob-
tained by the Confederate General N. B. For-
rest from one of Bouton's officers, who was
taken a prisoner of war. This picture General
Forrest sent to Mobile, where hundreds of
copies were made and distributed among the
Confederate soldiers in the southwest. When
Mobile was captured, both Gen. A. J. Smith,
commanding the Sixteenth Corps, and Colonel
Kendrick, formerly of General Bouton's com-
mand, reported finding many of the pictures
with the order endorsed upon them to kill or
capture this officer at any cost or hazard.
General Bouton's business ability, however,
was not lost during his service in the war,
and it was brought into play at a time when
his country had most need for it. Memphis, an
important river port, and geographically cen-
tral to a large and wealthy cotton growing
country, was a point not easily controlled sat-
isfactorily to the general government and in
the interest of the people. After many fail-
ures and losses, and when confusion and dis-
trust had long run riot. General Bouton was
appointed provost-marshal of the city, which
made him, for the time, dictator in affairs mili-
tary and civil, including all trade privileges
and care of abandoned property, of which
there was much ; prisons, scouts, detectives,
the police and sanitary regulation of the city,
in short, everything in and immediately adja-
cent to the city. With the most careful man-
agement an expenditure of $9,000 a month was
necessary to efficient government. In the ex-
ercise of his usual fidelity and the appoint-
ment of only the most trustworthy subordi-
nates in every department, he soon introduced
order ; collected and disbursed moneys ; paid
all past indebtedness, heavy as it was, and
current expenses ; and at the end of six months
handed the government of the city over to the
newly elected municipal officers and turned
over several thousand dollars to the special
fund of the War department. Another serv-
ice which marked General Bouton as a man
of unusual business sagacity was an act of his
while serving as provost-marshal. Col. Sam
Tate, of the Rebel army, came in to take the
prescribed oath of allegiance, and having done
this he expressed a desire to recover control
of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, of
which he was president. The government, no
longer needing the road for military purposes,
General Bouton drew up a plan or agreement
at the suggestion of Gen. John E. Smith, by
which not only this but other southern roads
in this section, were finally returned to their
owners. One of the first and principal stipu-
lations in the agreement was that no claim
should ever be made against the government
for the use or damage to said roads while
they were being used for military purposes.
All parties in the interest of the company hav-
ing signed the agreement. General Bouton
proceeded in person to New Orleans and to
Nashville and secured the approval of Gener-
als Canby and Thomas, department command-
ers. Colonel Tate then went to Washington
to complete with General Grant, the secretary
of war, and the quartermaster-general, all ar-
rangements for the transfer of the property.
No sooner had he done this than he presented
a claim against the government which Presi-
dent Johnson, an old friend of his, ordered
paid. Enemies of President Johnson charged
that he received a part of this, and during the
impeachment trial desired General Bouton's
evidence on the contract. But, at the sug-
gestion of General Grant, he never appeared.
After Johnson's death it developed that he had
never received a dollar of Tate's money.
On February 28, 1866, on the voluntary
recommendation of Generals Grant, Sherman
and Rollins, General Bouton was offered a
colonelcy in the regular army, which he de-
clined. This was over five months previous
to Gen. Nelson A. Miles' appointment to a
colonelcy in the regular army, so that the ac-
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ceptance of this position would have enabled
General Ronton at the present time to occupy
the position of retired commander-in-chief of
the army.
It was in August, 1868, that General Bouton
first came to Southern California, to make his
home here ever since and assist materially in
the development and upbuilding of the sec-
tion. He first engaged in the sheep raising in-
dustry, and the following year his ranges cov-
ered the Boyle Heights country, while in 1870
he had a camp on the ground now occupied by
the thriving little city of Whittier. In 1874
he purchased land in the San Jacinto valley
and ranged his sheep over the present sites of
Hemet and San Jacinto. Among his other
possessions he for many years owned the
ocean front at Alamitos bay from Devil's Gate
to the inlet of the bay, while the famous arte-
sian wells north of Long Beach were bored
by him, and what is generally known as the
Bouton water introduced into Long Beach
and Terminal Island. It was in the early '70s
that General Bouton experimented with and
succeeded in producing on his old place, at the
corner of College and Yale streets, what be-
came known as the Eureka lemon, a fruit of
superior growth and quality, the buds of which
he at that time distributed to several nursery-
men. For a number of years General Bouton
has been extensively engaged in mining in
Arizona and that portion of San Bernardino
county bordering on the Colorado river, and
in this line has met with the success which has
characterized all his other efforts. He has,
too, remained a potent factor in the develop-
ment of the city of Los Angeles ; has perfect
confidence in its future; and in his efforts
gives freely of time and money to further
every movement advanced for its welfare. The
general has been twice married, his first wife
being Miss Margaret Fox, whom he married
January 20, 1859; she was born in Avoca, N.
Y., and died in California August 14, 1891. In
San Diego, Cal., March 22, 1894, General Bou-
ton was united in marriage with Miss Elsa
Johnson, who is connected with some of the
best families in Sweden. One child, a son, has
been born to them.
The characteristics of a warrior are to a
certain extent those of a pioneer, and both
these opportunities have been in large meas-
ure General Bouton's to exercise. When he
came to Southern California there were but
two houses on Boyle Heights where he ranged
his sheep ; throughout this portion of the state
was the same wilderness lands. To him and
others of like calibre is owed the present-day
greatness of this section, for no burden was
too heavy, no undertaking too difficult for
these hardy pioneers, and in their achievement
is the unparalleled development of Southern
California. A story which illustrates the dar-
ing of General Bouton is the following, which
appeared in the St. Louis Republican January
8, 1891, in an article entitled, "Stories of
Pioneer Daring:" "An equally remarkable dis-
play of pure nerve was the exploit of Gen.
Edward Bouton in a lonely pass in Southern
California in 1879. A quiet, gentle-voiced,
mild-mannered man, one would hardly sus-
pect in him the reckless daring which won him
distinction in some of the most desperate en-
gagements of the Civil war. It was he of whom
General Sherman said in my hearing: 'He was
the most daring brigadier we had in the west.'
The terrific artillery duel • between General
Bouton's Chicago battery and two rebel bat-
teries at Shiloh, and the desperate three hours
at Guntown. Miss., when he and his brigade
stood off the savage charge of nearly ten
times as large a force, with the loss of nearly
two-thirds of their number, will be remem-
bered as one of the most gallant achievements
of the great war. And the courage which
does not depend on the inspiration of conflict
and of numbers is also his.
"In July, 1879, he had occasion to visit his
great sheep ranch in the wild San Gorgonio
Pass, California. The country was then in-
fested with notorious Mexicans and American
bandits, and travelers always went armed.
General Bouton and his partner were driving
along the moonlit forest road, when three
masked men sprang suddenly from the bushes
and thrust in their faces a double-barreled
shotgun and two six-shooters, at the same
time seizing their horses. It was understood
that the general was carrying $18,000 to buy
a band of nine thousand sheep, and this the
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highwaymen were after. They made the trav-
elers dismount and fastened their arms behind
them with chains, closing the links with a pair
of pinchers. Another chain was similarly fast-
ened about General Bouton's neck, and one of
the desperadoes, a cocked revolver in hand,
led him along by this, while the other two
held shotgun and revolver ready to shoot at
the slightest resistance from the prisoner. So
the strange procession started off, the high-
waymen desiring to march their prisoners
away from the road to some secluded spot
where their bodies could be safely concealed.
Their intention to rob and then murder, fully
established by later developments, was per-
fectly understood by the captives, and the gen-
eral decided if he must die he would die try-
ing. As they trod the lonely path in silence,
he felt along the chain which secured his
wrist, with utmost caution, lest the bandit
behind with a cocked shotgun should perceive
his intent. Slowly and noiselessly he groped
until he found a link which was not perfectly
closed, and, putting all his strength into a
supreme effort (but a guarded one) he
wrenched the link still wider open and man-
aged to unhook it. Without changing the po-
sition of his hands perceptibly he began to
draw his right cautiously up toward his hip
pocket. Just as it rested on the grip of the
small revolver concealed there, the highway-
man behind saw what he was at, and with a
shout threw the shotgun to his shoulder. But
before he could pull the trigger. Bouton had
snatched out his pistol, wheeled about, and
shot him down. The desperado who was lead-
ing Bouton by the chain whirled around with
his six-shooter at a level, but too late, a ball
from the general's revolver dropped him dead.
The third robber made an equally vain attempt
to shoot the audacious prisoner, and was in
turn laid low by the unerring aim. It was
lightning work and adamantine firmness, three
shots in half as many seconds, and every shot
a counter."
Thus it will be seen that the traits which
have made of General Bouton a soldier, pion-
eer and the founder of a western civilization,
are an inheritance, and not the accident of
nature. The career of the Bouton familv has
ever been synonymous with civilization. When
it spread abroad among the nations it carried
with it a higher grade of civilizing influences,
which have left their impress upon the people
with whom they came in contact, and the name
has always been the harbinger of civil and
religious liberty. Their descendants are by
comparison numerous as the leaves of the for-
est, and dispersed in almost every clime. It
has taken deep root, and its fruits are found
in other as well as in their own native Bur-
gundian soil. For the principle of civil and
religious liberty Sir William Boughton in 1356
joined the standard of Edward III of England,
when he invaded France, and for the same
principle Herard Bowton followed the fortunes
of William III of England, who, under Tehom-
borge at Portiers and at the battle of the
Boyne fought nobly for liberty. Again in the
western world and amid a new civilization the
name became distinguished in patriotism, and
loyalty from the Revolution to the close of
Civil strife, and when the days of warfare are
ended the name becomes equally distinguished
in the simple, practical duties of an American
citizen's life. Such is Gen. Edward Bouton
to-day, and as such he occupies a prominent
place in the esteem of his fellow citizens — ■
honored for the magnificent record he has
given to the world and for the example of
manhood he has left for his coming genera-
tion, and again honored for the part he has
plaved in the civic life of the nation.
JUDGE ALBERT LEE STEPHENS. Iden-
tified with many important movements connected
with the development of Los Angeles, Judge Al-
bert Lee Stephens is named among the promi-
nent citizens of this city and held in high esteem
for the position he has taken in the life of the
community. He is a native of Indiana, having
been born in Warren county January 25, 1874;
his father, E. E. Stephens, was born in Cincin-
nati, of an old Virginia family, the great-grand-
father having served in the Revolutionary war
under General Washington and endured the
hardships of Valley Forge, while he also served
in the war of 181 2. E. E. Stephens engaged in
the pork packing enterprise in Cincinnati for
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some time, later removed to Indiana, and in
1884 he decided to locate in Southern California.
After coming to the city of Los Angeles he fol-
lowed a mercantile business for some time. He
was appointed government meat inspector in 1895
and has held the position ever since. His wife,
who is also living, was formerly Araminda Rice,
a native of Ohio, born near Cincinnati. They
are the parents of two sons and four daughters,
all of whom are living.
Albert Lee Stephens was the second child in
the family of his parents. He was brought to
Los Angeles when about ten years old, and here
in the public schools he received a preliminary
education. His business training was received
in his father's store, while at the same time he
took up the study of law in the effort to equip
himself for a professional career. Admitted to
the bar in 1899, two years later he began the
practice of his profession and at the same time
became a student in the law department of the
University of Southern California, where he also
acted as an instructor. He graduated in 1903
with the degree of LL. B. and has since continued
both his practice and teaching, at the present time
acting as instructor in the conduct of cases in
court in the University of Southern California.
Since 1906 he has practiced law in partnership
with his brother, Jess E. Stephens, who was ad-
mitted to the bar in that year. Mr. Stephens
early became identified with public affairs and
was looked upon by the conservative element
among the citizens as a man of sound judgment
and executive ability and although a Democrat
in his political convictions he has never been un-
duly narrow or partisan. It was on the Nonpar-
tisan and Democratic ticket that he was nomi-
nated in 1906 to the position of justice of the
peace for Los Angeles township, and in the elec-
tion that followed he was elected by a plurality
of about fifteen hundred votes. He took the oath
of office January 7, 1907. and has since con-
ducted the affairs of this office in an eminently
capable manner.
Mr. Stephens takes time to associate himself
with fraternal organizations, having been made a
Mason in Hollywood Lodge, F. & A. M., and
has since become a member of the Los Angeles
Consistory and Al Malaikah Temple. He be-
longs to the Los Angeles County Bar Associa-
tion and the Chamber of Commerce, and takes
a prominent part in all movements advanced for
the welfare of the general community.
ERNEST A. BRYANT, M. D. It is cer-
tain that skilled physicians and surgeons, like
the subject of this article, are in great demand
wherever they elect to make their place of
abode, and it is only the mediocre who are
left behind in the race towards success and
prominence. Although not a native of the
United States, so much of Dr. Bryant's life
has been passed on this side of the border that
his strongest interests are here, and the loy-
alty of his citizenship is a part of his life.
He was born in Woodstock, Ontario, in 1867,
a son of Dr. J. H. Bryant, a successful physi-
cian, who left his native state of New York
to practice his profession in Ontario. In 1868
he removed with his family to St. Paul, Minn.,
where he practiced his profession for many
years, when he came to California and made
Los Angeles his home until his death in 1901.
His wife was Mary Louise Dunn, born in New
York and died in St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Bryant's
grandparents on the paternal side came from
England, and on the maternal side from Ire-
land.
Ernest A. Bryant spent his boyhood days in
the middle west, his parents having located in
St. Paul, Minn., where he received his educa-
tion. This was augmented by a medical course
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadel-
phia, he having previously studied under a
preceptor in St. Paul. He was graduated in
1890, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine, and following this event became interne
in St. Agnes Hospital, Philadelphia, where he
remained for a period of eighteen months.
In 1891 he came to California and locating
in Los Angeles, at once established a general
practice of medicine, which speedily grew to
one of remunerative proportions. For six y r ears
he was police surgeon and surgeon-in-charge
of the Emergency Hospital, besides which he
continued the general practice of his profes-
sion until he was appointed superintendent of
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the Los Angeles County Hospital. He re-
mained so occupied for a period of four years,
and during this time rose to prominence among
the physicians of Southern California, which
resulted in his appointment as chief surgeon
of the Pacific Electric Railway Company,
while he also serves in the same capacity for
the Los Angeles Railway Company, the Inter-
urban Railway Company, the Redondo Rail-
way Company and the Los Angeles Pacific
Company. He is also consulting surgeon
for the Southern Pacific Railway Company,
and surgeon in charge of the Sisters Hos-
pital. The many responsibilities which have
fallen to him in the various positions he has
been called upon to fill are borne by the doctor
in a creditable manner, neither lightly, as one
who cannot understand responsibility, nor with
a gravity which impels gloom in the midst of
illness or accident ; but with cheeriness born of
his confidence in his own skill and an optim-
ism which invests him with all the attributes
a patient could desire. He is very popular
among those with whom his duties lie, and is
highly esteemed both as a physician and as a
man.
In 1904 Dr. Bryant was united in marriage
with Miss Susanna Bixby, a daughter of John
Bixby, a prominent citizen of Los Angeles
county, and born of this union are two child-
ren. Susanna P. and Ernest A.. Jr. Dr. Bryant
is identified with various medical associations,
among them being the Clinical and Patholog-
ical Society of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles
County Medical Society, the Southern Cali-
fornia Medical Association, the State Medical
Society, the American Medical Association,
the Pacific Coast Association, Railway Sur-
geons and the International Association of
Railway Surgeons. He holds the chair of pro-
fessor (if clinical surgery in the Medical Col-
li ;ge of the University of Southern California,
and is a competent expounder of the science.
I >r. Bryant, politically, is a stanch Republican,
and socially is prominent in club life, being a
member of the Jonathan, California, Los An-
geles Country and Union League Clubs. As
an enthusiastic automobilist, he is a member
of the American Automobile Association and
the I. os Angeles Automobile Club. Through
constant research the doctor keeps in touch
with modern methods and at all times brings
them to bear in his practice.
WILLIAM ORMOND WELCH. As the
nominee of the Republican party at the elec-
tion of 1902 Air. Welch was chosen to fill the
office of county tax collector for a term of four
years, receiving at the polls a majority of
about ten thousand votes. Since he took the
oath of office in January of 1003, to the pres-
ent time, having been re-elected to the same
office in 1906, he has given his entire time and
attention to the details of his official position
and superintends the work of the sixteen men
employed to assist in his department, besides
taking charge of the eighty extra men secured
during the months of October and November.
Prior to entering upon official life he had been
variously interested and had gained a wide ex-
perience throughout the west while working at
railroading and telegraphy.
A native of Kendallville, Noble county, Ind.,
William Ormond Welch was born January 20,
1863, being a son of David S. and Sarah Buf-
fum (Hayward) Welch, born near Lockport,
N. Y. The father, who was a merchant by oc-
cupation and a stanch Republican in politics,
settled at Kendallville in early life and there
died about 1871. His widow makes her home
in Pomona, Cal., and one of their sons, Charles
Sumner, resides at Wichita, Kans., where he
holds a position as trainmaster with the Mis-
souri Pacific Railroad Company. The only
daughter is now deceased. The other son,
William O., was reared in Indiana until 1878,
when he removed to Paola, Miami county,
Kans., and there attended the high school, lat-
er taking a commercial course in the Paola
Normal. The first work which he secured as
telegraph operator and station agent was in
the employ of the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Gulf Railroad Company. After two years with
them he entered the Topeka office of the su-
perintendent of the Santa Fe system. In 1882
he went to Tucson, Ariz., as operator for the
Western Union Telegraph Company. Later
he was employed as assistant dispatcher for
the Texas Pacific Railroad at Marshall, Tex.,
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769
and next secured employment as operator and
agent at Deer Lodge and Melrose, Mont., with
the Utah Northern Railroad. Returning to the
employ of the Western Union Telegraph
Company he was with them in Deming, N.
Mex., and during this time occurred the strug-
gle with the Apaches and the capture of Gero-
nimo.
Upon coming to California during the year
1886 Mr. Welch embarked in horticultural pur-
suits at Pomona, where he set out and im-
proved an orange grove of twenty acres, re-
taining the ranch until 1904, when he sold it at
a fair profit. Meanwhile he had become inter-
ested in the business of buying, drying and
shipping fruit, and for three years had carried
on a growing business with a partner, but at
the expiration of that time he sold his interest.
On coming to Los Angeles in 1894 Mr. Welch
was employed for a year as deputy county re-
corder under Arthur Bray. For four years he
was deputy tax collector under A. H. Merwin
and for a similar period he held the same posi-
tion under John H. Gish, meanwhile acquiring
a thorough knowledge of the work of assessing
and collecting, so that he was well qualified to
fill the position of collector when elected to
the office. Always stanch in his allegiance to
the Republican party, he is one of the influen-
tial members of the Republican League of Los
Angeles and in other ways has aided in local
party affairs. While living in Pomona he was
initiated into Masonry and now holds mem-
bership with South Gate Lodge in Los An-
geles, also with Signet Chapter of this city,
and is a 32 Scottish Rite Mason. His mar-
riage was solemnized in Los Angeles and unit-
ed him with Miss Eva Dell Roberts, who was
born in Otoe county, Neb., her father, John
Roberts, having migrated from Ohio to Ne-
braska in a very early period of that state's de-
velopment ; eventually he closed out his inter-
ests there and came to California, becoming
prominent in civic affairs in Long Beach,
where at one time he was honored with the
office of mayor.
In 1887 Mr. Welch became identified with
the National Guard of California, having been
promoted while in Pomona to the captaincy
of Company D. Upon coming to Los Angeles
he was appointed to the office of assistant ad-
jutant general on the brigade staff with the
rank of lieutenant colonel. During the Span-
ish-American war he served as major of the
Seventh Regiment California Infantry, and af-
ter being mustered out at the close of the war
he resumed the office of assistant adjutant
general. He is now serving as a member of
the examining board for the First Brigade,
having in charge the examining of officers as
to their fitness for office in the National Guard.
The personal character of Mr. Welch has
been such as to win for him a wide esteem
wherever known, and the manner in which he
has discharged all official duties in the years
of his experience in Southern California has
given him a position of importance among the
citizens of this section. His success to the
present time is an augury of what may be ex-
pected for him in the future, for he is a citizen
of worth and works and can always be count-
ed upon to uphold public honor in whatever
position he may be placed.
CORNELIUS G. HARRISON. About nine
years previous to his death, Cornelius G. Har-
rison had retired from the business activities
which had so long engrossed his attention, and
in the city of Pasadena rounded out the years
of his busy life. He was a native of Illinois,
having been born in Belleville in April, 1829,
a son of James and Lucinda (Gooding) Har-
rison, who were pioneers of the Prairie state
when it was the home of the Indian. The
son received his early education through the
medium of the common school in the vicinity
of his home, later entering a select school, and
finally McKendree College at Lebanon, where
he pursued his studies and graduated. The
gold excitement of California induced him to
try his fortunes in the Pacific state, and ac-
cordingly he crossed the plains in 1851. For
two and a half years he was successfully en-
gaged in the mines of Placerville (then Hang-
town). Returning to Illinois he invested his
means in a flour mill in Belleville, an enter-
prise which soon grew to profitable propor-
tions. In spite of this fact, the memories of
California induced his emigration once more,
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and in 1864 he disposed of his effects and
crossed the Isthmus of Panama, thence going
to San Francisco, and located in Healdsburg,
Sonoma county, where he remained about
eighteen months. He then removed to Los
Gatos, Santa Clara county, and operated a mill
for about three years. From there he removed
to San Jose, and for a time engaged in real
estate operations, later becoming identified
with the First National Bank of San Jose as
a director, vice-president and later president.
After remaining in that city for sixteen years
he finally moved to Los Angeles in 1886 and
dealt to some extent in real estate. Still later
he assisted in the organization of the Title, In-
surance & Trust Company, becoming its first
president and remaining identified with that
institution until his retirement in 1895. when
he gave up business activities and established
his permanent home in Pasadena. He spent
his time thenceforth in looking after his pri-
vate interests until his death, which occurred
in September, 1904. Mr. Harrison was a man,
of ability and energy, an entertaining compan-
ion through his wide information acquired
from reading, and a man and citizen held in
high esteem by his numerous friends. In all
things he was public spirited, giving liberally
of his means to advance the interests of his
home state and city.
In 1857 Mr. Harrison married Miss Sarah
Spruance, a native of Illinois, and a daughter
of Benjamin and Rachel ( Mines) Spruance,
and born of this union were four children,
only one son, Lewis G., now surviving, he be-
ing a resident of San Francisco. Mrs. Harri-
son resides in the beautiful home on Pasadena
avenue, which has been the home of the family
for more than a decade. In his political affil-
iations Mr. Harrison was a pronounced Re-
publican, but never cared for official recogni-
tion, preferring instead the quiet contentment
of his home circle.
( I \IUI \V. MURPHY, M. D. Inheriting
the qualities which have distinguished him in
his line of work. Dr. Claire \Y. Murphy is
named among tin- successful physicians and sur-
geons of Los Angeles, where he has been en-
gaged in the practice of his profession ever since
the completion of his studies. The doctor may
be said to be a life-long resident of Los Angeles,
as he was only a lad in years when brought to
this city by his parents, his father. Dr. W. W.
Murphy, becoming a prominent physician and
surgeon here, where he is still engaged in prac-
tice. (His life-history will be found on another
page of this volume.) Claire W. Murphy was
born in Decatur county. Iowa, July 20, 1870,
and in his native city received the rudiments of
an education, after which he completed his
studies in the public and high schools of Los
Angeles. Inheriting the taste which led to his
selection of medicine and surgery for his life-
work, he read medicine with Dr. George W.
Lasher, a noted physician of this city, after com-
pleting the course in St. Vincent College. Later
he became a student in the medical department
of the University of Southern California, from
which institution he was graduated in 1891.
Following this he went to Boston, Mass., and
matriculated in Harvard Medical College, doing
post-graduate work in 1894. Returning to Los
Angeles, he began a practice of his profession,
which has resulted in more than ordinary suc-
cess. He has risen steadily in the ranks of
physicians and surgeons, significant of his abil-
ity and his place among the men of this pro-
fession being the position of consulting surgeon
of the Los Angeles College, which he held for
six years. For sixteen years he has also held
the position of professor of anatomy in the col-
lege of medicine. University of Southern Cali-
fornia, and a like position in the dental college
in the same institution, where he proved himself
master of the situation. For a man of his age-
he has had a wide and successful experience,
while actual practice has enriched the knowl-
edge constant!} gleaned from all sources afforded
by medical journals, associations, etc. He is
prominent as a member of the American Medical
Association, State Medical Society, Southern
California Medical Society, Los Angeles County
Medical Association and the Academy of Medi-
cine of Los \ngeles.
The home of Dr. Murphy is presided over by
his wife, formerly Miss Blossom Williamson, of
Lincoln, Neb., whom he married in 1899. They
have one son, Warner Williamson Murphy. In
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his fraternal relations the doctor is identified
with the Masonic organization, being a member
of Hollenbeck Lodge Xo. 319, F. & A. M. ;
Signet Chapter, R. A. M. ; Los Angeles Com-
mandery, K. T. ; Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O.
N. M. S. ; Los Angeles Consistory, and he lias
taken the thirty-second degree. He is also a mem-
ber of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks,
and belongs to the University Club. As a phys-
ician Dr. Murphy takes first rank and is held in
the highest esteem by all who have known him,
both in a professional way and socially. He has
many friends who appreciate his qualities of
manhood and honor him for his citizenship,
which means the co-operation in all movements
pertaining to the advancement of the city's best
interests.
DR. THOMAS BALCH ELLIOTT, who
was one of the founders of Pasadena and gave
to the city its beautiful name, was born July
20, 1824, at Brockport. X. Y. He came of a
long line of sturdy Xew England ancestors,
several of whom were officers in the Conti-
nental army and navy. Of these his mother's
father. Rev. Thomas Balch, had a most inter-
esting career. As a young lad he served as
"powder monkey" under John Paul Jones dur-
ing his celebrated encounter with the Serapis.
Later he was taken prisoner and carried to
Ireland, where he spent many months on board
a prison ship and suffered great privations.
At the close of the war he returned home and
graduated from Harvard, and later from the
Dedham (Mass.) Theological Seminary, which
was founded by his father and was the first
theological school in America. In the war of
1812 he resigned his pastorate and entered the
navy as chaplain. He was an officer on the
Constitution at the capture of the Gurriere.
John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, was a
great-grand uncle of Dr. Elliott. Deacon
George Sumner, that beacon light of old Xew
England, was also an ancestor. His father,
Dr. John Brown Elliott, was a physician well
known and beloved throughout central New
York. He had two sons ; of these Ezekiel
Brown Elliott, the elder, was, like his brother.
a graduate of Hamilton College. He early
entered the treasury department at Washing-
ton. He soon rose to be the foremost math-
ematician of the United States. For many
years and until the close of his life he held
the position of government actuary, all bills
of congress in the department of finance pass-
ing through his hands for investigation and
approval. His rectitude in this important and
dangerous position was absolute.
Dr. Elliott, who was the younger brother,
after graduating from Hamilton College in the
class of 1844, began the study of medicine.
During this period he taught in a seminary
in Xew York, spending his leisure hours in
literary work. He soon proved to be a ver-
satile writer and was connected with several
leading journals of Xew England. His writ-
ings over the signature of "Col. Muzzy" were
widely read. During his residence in In-
diana he wrote and published much in regard
to the preservation of the native trees and the
need of replanting the forests. After graduating
from Jefferson Medical College Dr. Elliott ac-
cepted a position as assistant physician in the
Indiana hospital for the insane, and moved to
Indiana, where he remained until he again
moved westward, this time to California.
From the first an ardent abolitionist, he
was the onlv man in the state of Indiana,
who.
win
th
Frei
soil ticket.
While still physician at the Insane Asylum
Dr. Elliott married Miss Helen Agnes Brown,
of Goshen, Ind. Miss Brown was the youngest
daughter of Ebenezer Brown, one of the
builders of the Erie canal. After this great
project was completed Mr. Brown moved
with his family to Xorthern Indiana, where
he remained until his death. After leaving
the hospital for the insane Dr. Elliott pur-
chased a farm on the western outskirts of
Indianapolis. This was improved by a land-
scape gardener into a lovely home. Preced-
ing the war Dr. Elliott was physician on the
famous Underground Railway, a station of
which was located near his house and many
a wear\ r despairing slave was blessed by his
skilful attentions. Apropos of this, when,
shortly after the war. the doctor ami his fam-
ily entered one of the leading hotels of Mon-
treal, he was recognized by some of the col-
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ored servants, most of whom were escaped
slaves, and the devotion and gratitude be-
stowed upon him by these poor creatures was
pathetic if a little embarrassing. During the
war Dr. Elliott was appointed by Governor
Morton as special surgeon to look after the
welfare of the Indiana soldiers. This duty
he faithfully performed, visiting the armies of
the Potomac and Cumberland. He was an
actor in the chaos which reigned at the time
of the first Battle of Bull Run and was with
Grant's army at the siege of Vicksburg.
About 1861 Dr. Elliott gave up the practice
of medicine and opened a commission busi-
ness in grain and flour, building in Indianap-
olis on the banks of the Pogues run the first
grain elevator in Indiana. During this period
he was for some time president of the Board
of Trade, and was also commercial editor of
the Indianapolis Journal, but it is for the build-
ing up of its superb school system that the
people of Indiana's capital hold him in grate-
ful remembrance. For twelve years he gave
the best of his strength and time to the school
interests and the result is a common school
system which is, in many respects, second to
none in the world.
In 1872. discouraged by the severity of the
climate of the middle west, Airs. Elliott pro-
posed to her husband that they remove to a
region where the changes of temperature were
less extreme. California was her choice, as
all her life she had desired to see the land
of gold and oranges. This proposition Dr.
Elliott discussed with his brother-in-law. D.
M. Berry, who was enthusiastic over the
scheme. Many of their business associates
became interested and an association was
formed called the California Colony of In-
diana with an enrollment of a hundred names,
of which some sixty were then heads of fam-
ilies, leading business men of the Hoosier me-
tropolis.
In the summer of 1873 this colony sent out
to the Pacific coast Mr. Berry and Gen. Nathan
Kimball as agents employed to purchase land.
While these gentlemen were traveling over
Southern California examining various ranches
the panic of that period overwhelmed the
business centers of the cast and only a few
of the original subscribers to the colony were
able to carry out their part of the scheme, so
the colony was dissolved. After many dis-
appointments and much delay Mr. Merry,
Thomas H. Croft, of Indianapolis, Judge B.
S. Eaton, of Los Angeles, and others, succeed-
ed in re-forming the colony in Los Angeles
under the name of the San Gabriel Orange
Grove Association. Half of this syndicate was
formed by five of the surviving members of
the original colony, one of whom was Dr.
Elliott. Three thousand nine hundred and
sixty-two acres of land lying north of Los
Angeles at the foot of the Sierras was imme-
diately purchased at the price of about $12.50
per acre. This land is included in the present
limits of Pasadena and South Pasadena. The
first payment was made December 27, 1873,
and the final one December 27, 1874.
On the first day of December, 1874, Dr. El-
liott and family reached Los Angeles. He im-
mediately began to build on his property on
the San Pasqual rancho, as the purchase was
then called. His selection for his home was
at a point on the banks of the Arroyo Seco
nearly opposite the Scoville grade, then called
the Fremont trail and later improved and
owned by Mr. Scoville. The doctor built a
large square, two-story frame house with
double gallery and wings, much like the homes
to be found south of the Mason and Dixon line.
Here he entered with enthusiasm into the life
of a rancher. A hard life it was, indeed, call-
ing for an unlimited output of money, time
and strength, but his delight in his semi-trop-
ical home, his faith in California and its future
never wavered.
To the colonist in those days land was val-
uable only in proportion to the number of
oranges it would raise per acre. It was not
long before Dr. Elliott began to realize that
this was a mistaken point of view. He saw
that the country's chief asset was its climate.
"Not in oranges," he prophesied, "will its
wealth be in the future, but as a health re-
sort, the land will become famous and the
homes of health-seekers will cover its plains
and valleys." Thinking this he would have
formed an association to buy more land, all
now incorporated in the city of Pasadena, but
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the}' called him visionary and said that it
would be fifty years before he would get a
return from his investment. After a year or
two, during which time the settlement had
been known in Los Angeles as the Indiana
Colony, it was decided that the place must
have a name. Foreseeing this Dr. Elliott had
written to a college mate of his who was mis-
sionary to the Indians in the northern Mis-
sissippi valley asking for some Indian name
signifying Crown or Key of the valley, the
site of the little village being practically the
key to the beautiful San Gabriel valley. In
answer a number of Indian names with this
signification were received, but Pasadena, a
Chippewa name, was the one chosen by Dr.
Elliott and later by the colonists at their year-
ly meeting.
In all things relating to the highest good of
Pasadena Dr. Elliott was ever deeply inter-
ested. He was alert to preserve the oak trees,
to lay out wide streets, and to retain the
musical Spanish names. He and Thomas H.
Croft were the first board of trustees of the
first church of Pasadena, the Presbyterian,
numbering in 1906 over seven hundred mem-
bers. Dr. Elliott's death occurred August 13.
1881, at the age of fifty-seven years. There
survive him his wife, Helen A. Elliott, and
four children: Mrs. Arturo Bandini, Mrs.
Arthur Ayres, Whittier Elliott, and Agnes
Elliott. Mrs. Ayres' home is in Berkeley, Cal.,
while the remainder of Dr. Elliott's children
still live in Pasadena.
SAMUEL CALVERT FOY was born in
Washington, D. C, under the shadow of the
Capitol, September 23, 1830. His father was
Capt. John Foy, a native of Ireland, and for
many years superintendent of the Capitol
grounds. His mother was Mary Calvert, a
native of the state of Kentucky, and daughter of
Christopher Calvert, a Virginian, claiming de-
scent from George Calvert, first Lord Balti-
more. Capt. John Foy and Mary Calvert were
married at her father's house near Lexington,
Ky., November 11. 1817, by the Rev. W. Bad-
den, a French Catholic missionarv. and they re-
sided in Washington until the death of Captain
Foy in July. 1833.
Samuel Calvert Foy was not quite three
years of age at the time of his father's death.
His mother returned to her people in Ken-
tucky and there her three sons, James Calvert,
John Moran, and Samuel Calvert, grew to man-
hood. Samuel was educated at Morgan Aca-
demy, Burlington, Ky., a school famous in its
day. and boasting such well-known teachers
as McGuffey and Ray. On leaving school, he
went to Covington, Ky.. where his mother,
who had married again, was then residing. He
learned the harness trade in Cincinnati, with
the founder of the house of Perkins, Campbell
& Co. In 1841; he left Kentucky and moved to
Natchez, Miss., where he followed his trade
until 1852. In that year he caught the gold
fever and sailed for California, going by way of
Havana and the Isthmus of Panama. Land-
ing in San Francisco, he stored his trunk and
set out for the mines. Footsore and weary, he
reached Douglas Flat, and was walking half
heartedly through the camp, when a hearty
voice called out, "Why. hello, Sam," and there
were his two brothers, Jim, afterwards Colonel
James Foy of the Twenty-third Kentucky In-
fantry, and John, well known to all the early
residents of Los Angeles and San Bernardino
counties.
In 1854 Mr. Foy left the mines. He came
to Los Angeles and finding a good opening,
sent to San Francisco to the firm of Main &
Winchester for goods and established the bus-
iness which has long been advertised as the
"oldest business house in Los Angeles." In
1855 his brother John came south and the
brothers formed a co-partnership which was
managed for about ten years by John M. Foy,
while Samuel C. Foy looked after extensive
cattle interests in the northern portion of the
state.
In October, i860, Samuel Calvert Foy and
Lucinda Macy, daughter of Dr. Obed and Lu-
anda Folk Macy. were married in Los Ange-
les. They made their home in San Joaquin
county until 1865, when they returned perma-
nently to Los Angeles. The brothers then dis-
solved partnership, Samuel C. Foy continuing
the Los Angeles house, and John Foy establish-
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ing- himself in the same line of business in San
Bernardino.
In politics Mr. Foy was a splendid example
of an old-line Democrat. Never a politician,
but always a close and sharp observer, he had
the clearest understanding of the meaning and
value, the full significance of the political prin-
ciples he professed. He was a man who knew
no fear, and during the troubled months fol-
lowing the assassination of President Lincoln
he paced the streets of Los Angeles at night to
preserve order, the city's first peace officer.
He was a zealous member of the Masonic fra-
ternity until failing health forced him to leave
the work to others.
After a life well spent he died at his home
in Los Angeles in 1901. His wife and six
children survived him. These children were
one son, James Calvert Foy. and five daugh-
ters, Mary, Cora, Edna and Florence Foy, and
Mrs. Alma Foy Woolwine. Mr. Foy passed
on to his children the heritage of his good
name, as had his father and his father's fa-
thers. He was a thoroughly honest man,
whose name was as good as his bond. His
chief joy was his family and he was proud to
give his children the best educational advan-
tages. He was a useful citizen and a patriot;
one of the pioneers of California, whom her
native sons should be proud to emulate.
ANDREW McNALLY. The name of An-
drew McNally is well known in Southern Cali-
fornia as well as on the other side of the con-
tinent, for in this sunny clime he established one
of the most beautiful homes of Altadena, and in
the great city of the middle west he contributed
his time, energy and ability to the development
of a successful business enterprise. The traits
which distinguished his character were an inher-
itance from Scotch ancestry, his grandfather
being known in Scotland because of his ability
to improve and intelligently cultivate his farm.
His father was also born in Scotland, and there
married a daughter of Holland, combining the
sturdy qualities of that hardy nation with those
of his own land. They had a large family and
Andrew McNally, the eighth in order of birth,
was early forced to seek his own livelihood. He
received his early education in the common
schools and was then apprenticed to learn the
trade of printer. He mastered the details and
continued to work at the trade in Chicago, and
from the humble beginning of a youth rose to
the position which was his as a partner in the
world-known firm of Rand, McNally & Co.,
whose atlases of the world are used in every
schoolroom on the globe. His success in this
line was not due to accident or good fortune,
but resulted wholly from the application of his
own natural ability, coupled with his indefatig-
able, energy and perseverance. It is not to be
presumed that there were no difficulties in his
pathway, but that the obstacles were overcome
is indisputable proof of the latent qualities of
the man. Suffice it to say he did succeed and
rose to a position of unusual esteem among the
business men of Chicago, being universally com-
mended for his straightforward dealing in all
matters of business, the stanch integrity of all
his methods, and the genuine business ability
which brought the large financial returns for
the efforts of the firm.
This perhaps was the lifework of Mr. Mc-
Nally. And yet in no less degree a part of his
success was that which he named as his recrea-
tion. He was a man of versatile ability and
throughout his entire life left no effort unmade
to broaden his own life and character and make
more complete the lives of those about him.
Home life appealed to him forcibly, even at
the time that he was seeking to build up a suc-
cessful business enterprise. In Chicago he owned
various residences which he beautified in every
possible way. He was burned out in the great
fire of 71, finally purchased a farm of eighty
acres at Elmhurst and found some pleasure in
the cultivation of the land. He returned to Chi-
cago, however, and eventually erected five stone-
front houses on Park avenue, opposite Lincoln
Park, one of which he occupied himself, and
the others he gave to his married son and daugh-
ters. This remained his Chicago home. It was
about 1880 that he came to California and near
Pasadena purchased four hundred acres of land,
now in what is known as Altadena. a place named
by himself. He built a modest house on one
side of the tract, at the same time planting on
about ten acres of the ground orange and lemon
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trees and many kinds of shade and ornamental
trees and laying out flower beds and setting out
shrubbery. The next winter he occupied his
own house and enjoyed his improving ranch.
Other easterners of financial means wintering
in the beautiful climate and seeing the results
of a little intelligent culture purchased individ-
ually parcels of the original four hundred acre-.
each making liberal improvements and erecting
handsome buildings until Altadena has become
far famed in its perennial beauty. For six years
prior to his death Mr. McNally had left the
management of his business entirely to others
and devoted himself to the culture of flowers and
the raising of song birds, which were imported
by him from nearly all lands ami climes, ac-
climated and turned loose with their broods. His
conservatory was a place of beauty, the tropics
having been searched for exotics — palms and
ferns from Japan and the East Indies, and in-
deed from almost every country of the world.
He also became the owner of a twenty-five hun-
dred acre ranch known as La Mirada, and here
he had large lemon groves and grain field, hav-
ing given it every possible attention until one
thousand acres were cultivated.
The connection of Mr. McNally with all pro-
gressive and enterprising movements for the ben-
efit of the community in which he lived — Chicago
or Southern California — was well known, both
enjoying his assistance, whether material or only
a word of advice. Age did not lessen his in-
terest in everything that appealed to the intelli-
gent and the progressive. Practical, thorough
and receptive of the new ideas in the industry
to which he devoted his life, he was also a far-
sighted and sagacious man in all the wider fields
of business energv in which he was engaged.
As chairman of the finance committee of the
World's Fair in 1903 he exercised considerable
influence in the raising of ten million dollars
among the merchants of the city. He was a
member of the Old Time Printers' Association,
the Knights Templar and the Union League
Club.
In his home life, however, Mr. McNally's
greatest enjoyment was found. His w^ife. a
woman of rare qualities of character, cultured
and refined, was before marriage Miss Adelia
M. Highland, a native of Chicago and the rep-
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resentative of an old family of prominence. Their
union w^as blessed by the birth of four children,
one son and three daughters, namely : Frederick
G., now a prominent business man of Chicago;
Helen P.., Mrs. Belford ; Nannie M.. wife of
E. P. Xert, president of the Pasadena Tourna-
ment of Roses Association and secretary of the
Southern California Horse Show; and Elizabeth
P., Mrs. Henry P. Clow, of Chicago.
Mr. McNally's character was an unusual com-
bination of qualities; possessing great talents for
business, diligent in whatever labor he under-
took, and yet combined with a temperament of
such, force and personality, a nature of amiabil-
ity, patience and sympathy, it was but natural
that he should have an extensive acquaintance
and that his reputation should have been world-
wide. Pie possessed rare qualities of character
and throughout his entire life had sought only
to develop that which was best and highest within
him. living up to his ideals to the time of his
death, which occurred on the 7th of May, 1904.
JOSHUA H. ALDERSON. It is always
interesting to chronicle the life history of the
pioneer who endured the privations of this
new country and passed through the hard-
ships and dangers incident to crossing the
plains in the days following the gold discov-
ery in California. Mr. Alderson was born in
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 9, 1836. He was the
son of John and Margaret (Wilson) Aider-
son, natives of England, who were farmers in
Luzerne county, Pa., where he was reared and
educated in the public schools. He learned
the mason's trade under his brother, and in
1852 he started for California, coming by rail
to Iowa, the end of the line, and thence by ox
teams across the plains to California. He fol-
lowed mining a few years and then returned
east by way of the Tsthmus of Panama. The
next year he again crossed the plains to Cali-
fornia, and this time the train was attacked by
Indians, when they had a serious time. The
train just in advance of them was attacked
by the Indians, and all of the party were killed
with the exception of one man, who made
his way back and warned the train of which
Mr. Alderson was a member, and thus enabled
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them to be prepared and resist the onslaught
of the red men. The train continued on to the
coast, but Mr. Alderson remained in Nevada,
where he followed mining in the vicinity of
Austin, White, Price and Eureka. Returning
to New York state he married in Owego. and
immediately brought his bride to Eureka, Nev.,
and there engaged in the livery, teaming and
freighting business on a large scale. At the
same time he was in the timber business and
the burning of charcoal. He also had valuable
mining interests, owning the Woo Hop mine
on Treasurer Hill, and was interested in the
Tern Piute and Banner mines. During all of
these years he engaged in stock ranching.
In 1884 Mr. Alderson removed to Colorado
and followed mining and prospecting in Rico
and Durango. In 1887 he located in Los
Angeles, and with Mr. Kincaid built the stores,
livery and business houses on the corner of
Figueroa and Pico streets, which enterprise
showed them to be men of far-seeing judg-
ment, as many at that time considered it an
impracticable venture because of being so far
from the then center of town.
Three years later Mr. Alderson was among
the first developers of the local oil field and
put down nine wells, all of which are produc-
ers, and from that time on until his death, on
the 22nd of January, 1902, he was actively en-
gaged in this enterprise, being at the time of
his demise president of the Newhall Oil Com-
pany. He was also connected with other im-
portant enterprises, serving as president of the
Banner Mining Company.
Mr. Alderson's marriage occurred in Owego,
N. Y„ March 12, 1874. and united him with
Mi-- Mary E. Wood, who was born in Eu-
phrata, that state, a daughter of William and
Hester (Horning) Wood, also natives of that
state. Her father was a builder in Tioga
county and there he reared his family. Since
her husband's death Mrs. Alderson has re-
sided at her home on South Hoover street
with her only child, Edith W., a graduate of
the Los Angeles State Normal school. Mr.
Alderson was a very energetic and public-
spirited man, ever ready to aid in the develop-
im ni and building up of the community where
he lived. He was well and favorablv known
and was much esteemed by those who were
his associates, both socially and in a business
way. Fraternally he was a Master Mason, and
politically always voted the Republican ticket.
ANDREW STEPHEN SHORE. M. D. As
a representative of the homeopathic school of
medicine there is perhaps no physician of Los
Angeles more deserving of mention than Dr.
Shorb. Years of painstaking and thorough
preparation, together with subsequent practical
experience, qualify him to fill a high position in
the medical profession and to maintain a de-
served reputation for skill and proficiency. His
identification with California dates from the year
1 87 1, at which time he located in Los Angeles,
and at this writing his office is in the Grant
building. The Shorb family is directly descend-
ed from the reigning house of Prussia, the wife
of Jacob M. Shorb (the immigrating ancestor
of the family in the new world) being a daugh-
ter of the royal line of Hohenzollerns. This
ancestor settled in the upper part of Maryland,
where the family became well and favorably
known. He was a man of considerable wealth,
owning a large fleet of trading vessels which
were marked with the royal coat of arms. Some
of the personal possessions of this ancestor are
now heirlooms in the family. One of the dis-
tinguishing marks of the royal descent of the
family is seen in the marking of the hair, which
is a distinct dark stripe in white on the lower
part of the head. Prince Henrv while on a visit
to this country noted this distinguishing mark in
a lady whom he met at the White House, thus
tracing her relationship to the family.
A native of Ohio, Dr. Shorb was horn in
Canton, Stark county. April 12, 1837. into the
home of Adam L. and Maria L. (Rowen) Shorb.
His family being in comfortable circumstances,
it was possible for him to secure advantages
denied those of humbler birth and surroundings,
and it is but fair to say that he made the most
of his opportunities and advantages. His earli-
est years were associated with Stark county,
where he first attended public school, later at-
tending a select school in the same locality. From
an early age his studies were directed witli the
medical profession in view as their objective
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point, hence his higher training in Canton Acad-
emy, which he entered in 1854. His medical
training was begun in the city of Canton, where
he read medicine under the direction of Drs.
Mathews and Estep, well-known physicians and
surgeons of that city. Subsequently he entered
Pulte Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio,
graduating with honors from that institution
with the class of 1879. Wisely divining that the
newer west extended greater opportunity for
establishing a growing practice than his home
locality he lost no time in carrying out his plans.
His selection of Topeka, Kans.. proved a wise
one, for from the first his practice grew and his
reputation as a well-qualified physician gave him
a standing in the community which was well
deserving of his untiring zeal as a practitioner.
Believing that an even greater outlook awaited
him in the far west he came to Los Angeles in
1871, the wisdom of the change being demon-
strated in increased popularity in the line of his
profession, the homeopathic school having no
more astute follower in this city than is found
in Dr. Shorb.
In Xewark, Ohio, in 1868, Dr. Shorb was
united in marriage with Miss Martha L. Blanch-
ard, a native of that city and a daughter of
George A. Blanchard. a man of considerable
means and well known as a capitalist there. Al-
ways a student of his profession the doctor loses
no opportunity to keep in touch with advanced
thought in the medical world, and among other
strictly professional organizations is a member of
the Homeopathic State Medical Society and the
Southern California Medical Society. Aside from
his profession the doctor finds time for recrea-
tion and social intercourse, nowhere more enjoy-
able than in the gatherings of the Masonic
brethren, he being a member of Pentalpha Lodge
Xo. 202. F. & A. M., Acacia Chapter No. $2,
R. A. M., and he is a thirty-second degree
Mason, all of his associations being in Los An-
geles. Local interests of a commercial character
also claim the doctor's attention, he being a
stockholder in the Security Trust Bank, and he
also owns considerable real estate in the city, as
well as a choice piece of ranch property, the
latter of which is now occupied by a tenant. The
familv home in at Xo. i2(> r j North Flower
street. Progressive and liberal, the doctor can
always be depended upon to take a helpful part
in all movements that will mean improvement
or better facilities for the comfort and conve-
nience of the public, and in many ways he ex-
hibits a praiseworthy loyalty to the city of his
adoption.
CHARLES C. BROWNING, M. D. The
experience gained by active professional work,
first in a small Illinois town near the Missis-
sippi river, later in hospitals and asylums of
New York, and ultimately in the far west on
the shores of the Pacific ocean, has given to
Dr. Browning a broad and humanitarian out-
look upon the science of materia medica and,
supplemented by thorough study and post-
graduate work, has brought him a high rank
among the physicians of Southern California.
Fate brought him to the west when he had
high hopes of success in his eastern home.
Already he had won a distinct position in hos-
pital and asylum practice and had made a
study of alienation to such an extent that he
was offered an influential place at the head of
an asylum on the Sound. All his hopes and
ambitions he had to lay aside, for he had con-
tracted tuberculosis and a change of climate
was imperative. The misfortune of ill-health
which brought him to the western coast
proved, however, to be his greatest fortune,
for he regained health, established himself in
practice, took up citrus-fruit raising, acquired
lands and other holdings, and has risen to
high rank as a specialist in the treatment of
tuberculosis.
The life which this narrative depicts began
in the home of Rev. E. C. and Sophia ( Pen-
nock) Browning, natives, respectively, of Illi-
nois and Indiana, and in 1861, at the time of
the birth of their son, residents in the vicinity
of Denver, Hancock county. 111. At the close
of the war the family removed to northeastern
Missouri, where the father became a leading
minister of the Christian Church and org--
nized the Missouri State Board of Home Mis-
sions, of which he was chosen the first secre-
tary, and served in that office for man}- years.
Later he was called to Arkansas to take up
pastoral and home missionary work in the
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interests of the church. Meanwhile the son
had been sent to the Christian University at
Canton, Mo., one of the early educational in-
stitutions of the Christian Church. From
there he went to the University of Missouri
as a student in the medical department, from
which he was graduated in 1883 with the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine.
From boyhood it had been Dr. Browning's
ambition to become a physician. While at-
tending the public school at the age of nine
years he organized a physiology class, that
study not being taught regularly in the school.
His tastes and inclinations drew him into the
profession and constant study brought him
earl}- success in its practice. After complet-
ing his university course he returned to Han-
cock county, 111., and took up professional
work. Possessing the confidence of old ac-
quaintances as to character and integrity, it
was not long before he also gained their con-
fidence as to professional ability, and he prac-
ticed for five years in Hancock county with
growing success. In order to take up post-
graduate work he went to New York City,
where he studied in the University of the City
of New York. For one term he was con-
nected with the New York House of Relief,
and later was retained on the medical staff
of the New York City Asylum for the Insane
at Blackwell's Island.
Upon coming to California in 1891 Dr.
Browning traveled through the country in
order to find a desirable location and eventu-
ally settled at Highland, San Bernardino
county, where he began to make a special
study of tuberculosis, at the same time carry-
ing on a general practice. His pleasant home
was in the midst of a grove of citrus trees,
which he planted, and later he bought other
lands suitable for fruit-growing. On the in-
corporation of the First Bank of Highland
he was chosen a director and elected vice-
president, and continued in that office until
his removal from the town. In the organiza-
tion of the Highland Fruit Growers' Asso-
ciation he was actively interested, and for a
time held office as vice-president, his able
services being of value in the upbuilding of
the concern. He was one of the incorporators
and secretary of the Highland Domestic
Water Company. During March of 1905 he
removed to Monrovia and became associated
with Dr. Pottenger in the incorporation of
the Pottenger Sanatorium for the treatment
of diseases of the chest and throat. Of this
company he is vice-president, and his entire
attention is given to its development, for
which work he has an office in the O. T. John-
son building in Los Angeles.
After taking up medical practice in Illinois,
Dr. Browning married Miss Helen Tillapaugh,
who was born near Denver, Hancock county,
and received a public school and collegiate
education, supplemented by special training in
music at Jacksonville, 111. They have an only
child, Helen Gilberta. Mrs. Browning is a
daughter of Gilbert Tillapaugh, who removed
from New York to Illinois in a very early day,
settled upon an unimproved tract of land and
developed a valuable farm. Eventually he
disposed of some of his Illinois holdings and
came to California, since which time he and
his wife have made their home in Los An-
geles.
Fraternally, Dr. Browning is identified with
the blue lodge and chapter of Masonry in Red-
lands, the Commandery of San Bernardino,
Council and Shrine in Los Angeles, and he
also is a charter member of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks at Redlands. Along
the line of his profession his associations are
extended and important, including member-
ship in the American Medical Association, the
California, Southern California and Los An-
geles County Medical Societies, the Los An-
geles Academy of Medicine and the Los An-
geles Medical and Pathological Association,
also the National Association for the Advance-
ment of Sciences, the National Association for
the Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis, the
Southern California Anti-Tuberculosis League
(of which he acts as secretary) and the Amer-
ican Archeological Association. On various
occasions articles from his pen have ap-
peared in medical and scientific journals
anil frequently he has delivered lectures
on subjects pertaining to his special-
ties. Both the lectures and the arti-
cles prove him to be a close student of his
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profession, a keen inquirer after truths, and
the possessor of extended knowledge as a spe-
cialist, — a type of those earnest, studious,
forceful and logical physicians to whose re-
searches is due the progress of the profession
EUGENIQ HOUGH KINCAID. Among
the old settlers of Los Angeles and its promi-
nent business men mention belongs to E. H.
Kincaid, who has won for himself a com-
petency since coming to Los Angeles and has
also added materially to the growth and up-
building of the city. He was a pioneer of the
state in the "days of old, in the days of gold";
he experienced the ups and downs of life in
those early and primitive days, the hardships,
privations and perils incident to the miner's
career ; he saw the western land when it lay
a desert with nothing to presage its great pos-
sibilities, its wonderful development and un-
surpassed beauty in "fields of grain and golden
fruit"; he has witnessed, too, and participated
in the efforts which have made California what
it is to-day — one among the greatest of the
states of the nation. And to these pioneers
belong the credit of the achievement and the
consequent gratitude of the present generation.
Born in Caledonia, Elk county, Pa., March
2, 1833, Eugenio Hough Kincaid was the sec-
ond in a family of five daughters and three
sons born to his parents, Eusebius and Sa-
mantha (Pasco) Kincaid. His father was born
in Canada in May, 1808, a son of Dr. Noah
Kincaid, who served in the war of 1812. The
latter emigrated from Scotland to Canada and
there engaged in the practice of medicine,
later locating in Elk county. Pa., where he
spent the remaining years of his life. He mar-
ried Lydia Hough, whose eldest son. Rev.
Eugenio Kincaid, was for many years a Baptist
missionary in Burmah, India. During a revo-
lution in that country he was captured and
held prisoner, condemned to be beheaded, but
a kind Providence intercepted the plans and
he escaped, thereafter continuing his work in
the missionary field. Eusebius Kincaid en-
gaged as a lumberman and farmer in Elk
county, of which he was the first high sheriff,
being a popular and prominent citizen of that
section. In 1850 he removed to Portage, Wis.,
where his death occurred in the early '60s.
His wife was born in New Jersey in June,
1808, a daughter of Zophar D. Pasco, the rep-
resentative of an old eastern family; she died
in Los Angeles in 1882.
E. H. Kincaid received his education in the
common schools of Pennsylvania, after which,
when seventeen years old, he accompanied his
parents to Wisconsin, traveling by team to
Buffalo, thence on the lakes to Detroit, then
on the Michigan Central Railroad to New
Buffalo, then by boat to Chicago, finally by
steamer to Milwaukee, where they hired teams
and drove to Portage. There he helped his
father clear the land upon which they made
their home. Later he attended the University
of Wisconsin, then took a commercial course
in a business college in Madison, after which
he taught school for a short time. In 1857 he
came to California via New York City, where
he took passage on the Illinois to Aspinwall,
and on the Pacific side sailed on the Golden
Age to San Francisco. Following his arrival
he went to the mines of Calaveras county,
where he spent two years, and having secured
a profit for his work he returned to his home
in Wisconsin, making the journey the way he
had come. After a short stay in Wisconsin
he went south and traveled over the states
of Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas; he was in Mississippi in January, 1861,
just before the war broke out. Pie returned
then to Wisconsin and in the spring of that
year started across the plains, traveling by
horse-teams to Salt Lake City. He there se-
cured employment in the building of the first
overland telegraph lines from Salt Lake City
to Ruby valley, a distance of three hundred
miles, and after the completion of this work-
he came on to Sacramento, Cal., with the same
company, having charge of the telegraph out-
fit. This company afterward became the
Western Union. Mr. Kincaid remained with
them eighteen months, and then went to Ne-
vada. There he engaged in teaming between
Virginia City and Austin, and at the same time
was interested in mining, and finally in the
cattle business. This last-named occupation
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proved a successful one and he remained on a
ranch until 1872. In this year he sold his
ranch and coming to Los Angeles purchased
fifteen acres on the corner of Pico and Fi-
gueroa streets and set out what became one
of the finest orange ranches in this section,
property which he continued to cultivate for
some years. Associated with Mr. Alderson,
Mr. Kincaid started a business center at the
above, building business houses there, in what
was then considered the country and before
the horse-car lines had been extended out that
far. They were much ridiculed for their vent-
ure, but time has proven that they were not
mistaken in the city's possibilities, for that lo-
cation is now the center of population and in
a score of years bids fair to be the business
center of this great city. In 1887 Mr. Kincaid
laid out in city lots his fifteen acre ranch pre-
viously mentioned, this being known as the
Kincaid tract. He disposed of the most of
this property with the exception of twelve lots
on Pico between Figueroa and Trenton streets,
which he has since improved with a handsome
business block. In addition to the property
just mentioned Mr. Kincaid also purchased a
hundred acre ranch at Lugo. Outside of look-
ing after his property interests he is retired
from active business cares and is enjoying the
evening of his days in well-earned retirement.
Mr. Kincaid's home is located at Xo. 1189
East Fifty-third street and is presided over by
his wife, formerly Miss Charity S. Mills, who
was born in Peru, LaSalle county. 111., the
daughter of Freeman and Minerva Grace Mills,
natives of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts re-
spectively. In 1852 Mr. Mills came to Cali-
fornia, and five years later, in 1857, was joined
by his family at Woodbridge, San Joaquin
county. Mr. Mills was sheriff of the county
and a farmer in that locality, and there both
himself and wife passed away. They became
the parents of seven children, four sons and
three daughters, of whom Charity S.. Mrs.
Kincaid, was the fourth in order of birth. She
was a graduate of the State Normal, and her
marriage occurred in Woodbridge, Cal., in
1S67. ten years after coming to the State.
Born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid
are the following children: Allie, a graduate
of the Los Angeles Normal, and an artist;
Freeman M., a graduate of the University of
California, and now in the postal service of
this city ; Claude E., a mining man of Rhyo-
lite ; Elmer L., a stenographer in Los Angeles ;
Ralph, a merchant and rancher at Lugo; Wal-
ter, an assayer at Los Angeles ; and Mary, a
pianist, at home. Mr. Kincaid is identified
fraternally with the Masonic organization, hav-
ing been made a member of this order in Bel-
mont, Nev., and in Austin, same state, was
raised to the degree of Royal Arch. He is now
a member of Pentalpha Lodge No. 202. F. &■
A. M., of Los Angeles. Politically he has been
a stanch advocate of Republican principles
since the time of John C. Fremont, casting his
first vote for him in 1856.
HON. ALEXANDER McCOY. The name
of the late Hon. Alexander McCoy, of Pasadena,
was also widely and favorably known throughout
Illinois, where from 1850 until his removal to
California in 1888 his legal accomplishments won
him the reputation of being one of the most bril-
liant lawyers of the middle west. He was a man
of strong personality, great force of character
and rare mental attainments, to which were also
added a persistency of purpose and zeal, intelli-
gently and unerringly directed, which led to his
notable achievements at the bar, the influence of
his masterful intellect being felt by judge and
jury as well as by his associates and clientele.
Even larger honors came to him when, in the
fall of 1864, his constituents made him their can-
didate to the legislature of Illinois. During the
session of 1865 he was awarded the chairmanship
of the committee on judiciary, an honor which
gave him the first place upon the floor as a legis-
lator. There as in his private legal practice he
was a recognized leader, and no matters of im-
portance were ever considered settled that had
not been brought before his consideration. While
in the legislature his achievements were of great
value to the state, and particularly that portion
represented by him.
( )f Scotch descent. Alexander McCoy was
born n<-ar West Alexander. Washington county.
Pa.. October 26, 1818. the son and grandson of
John and Daniel McCoy respectively, the lat-
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ter a captain in the Revolutionary war. His
mother, Jane (Brice) McCoy, was a daughter
of Rev. John Brice, who organized and was the
first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
what was formerly known as Three Ridges, but
is now West Alexander, Pa. To a primary edu-
cation gleaned in the schools of his birthplace
Alexander McCoy later added preparation for
Washington College through a preceptorship
under Rev. Dr. McClusky and other eminent men,
entering that institution in 1842. For some time
after his graduation he taught school in his home
vicinity and later became a teacher of languages
in the Vermilion Institute at Haysville, Ohio.
Thus far his efforts had been but stepping-stones
toward the plan which he had marked out as his
future career, the entering wedge of which was
taking up the study of law in the office of Given
& Bancroft at Millersburg, Ohio. Always a great
student and possessing a comprehensive mind, he
naturally made rapid progress in his studies, and
after a thorough preparation was admitted to the
bar by the supreme court of Ohio in the winter
of 1850. Immediately thereafter he removed to
Peoria, 111., where he opened an office for the
practice of his profession. This was a time when
a great contest was being waged in the court of
Peoria and adjoining counties between parties
holding lands under tax titles accruing under the
state authorities and parties claiming the same
under patent given to soldiers for said lands by
the general government. In order to obtain a
clear understanding of the facts in the case Air.
McCoy spent nearly a year in the county clerk's
office of Peoria county, where the tax titles origi-
nated.
In Peoria, February 1, 1851, Mr. McCoy en-
tered into partnership with Henry Grove, under
the firm name of Grove & McCoy, and from the
first they were accorded patronage from the best
and most influential residents of that city. After
about six years of unbroken and ever increasing
practice Mr. McCoy was, in the fall of 1856,
elected state's attorney for what was then the
sixteenth judicial district, for a term of four
years. The strain of added duties in connec-
tion with his heavy private practice finally proved
too much for his physical endurance and in 1858
the partnership was annulled. However, return-
ing health finallv enabled him to resume his du-
ties as prosecutor in his district, and at the close
of his term, so thoroughly were his ability and fi-
delity appreciated, that he was nominated and
elected his own successor for another term of
four years. In 1861, with continued improvement
in health, the desire to take up private practice
once more led to his association with Hon. N. H.
Purple, ex-judge of the supreme court of Illi-
nois, and under the name of Purple & McCoy
the}' carried on an excellent practice in all of the
courts for about two years, or until the death of
Judge Purple in August of 1863. As has been
previously stated, it was in the fall of 1864 that
Mr. McCoy became a candidate for the legisla-
ture, his career in that body adding still greater
honors to his brilliant achievements. With the
close of his term in the legislature, in the spring
of 1867, he formed a partnership with Judge M.
Williamson and John S. Stevens, a partnership
which existed under the name of Williamson, Mc-
Coy & Stevens until the death of Judge William-
son in 1868, after which it became McCoy &
Stevens. A large and lucrative practice was
accorded them, including not only practice in
the surrounding counties, but in the supreme
court of the state and the circuit and district
courts of the United States at Giicago. Yielding
to the persuasions of friends, in May of 1871 he
took up Its residence in the latter city and sub-
sequently formed a partnership for legal practice
with George F. Harding. They had been estab-
lished in business but a few months when the
great conflagration of October, 1871, crossed
their path and Mr. McCoy's valuable and exten-
sive law library was completely destroyed. Un-
dismayed by their losses, however, they once
more established themselves in business at an-
other location and the following year admitted
Lorin G. Pratt into the partnership, the firm of
Harding, McCoy & Pratt carrying on a lucrative
practice until Mr. Harding's retirement from the
firm in 1875. Under the name of McCoy &
Pratt business increased with rapid strides, in-
cluding litigation in all of the courts, and dur-
ing the last five years included considerable rail-
road litigation. The sudden death of Mr. Pratt
of heart disease September 23. 1881. once more
left Mr. McCoy alone in business. An inveterate
worker, he undertook the care of the large prac-
tice alone, working early and late in handling the
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large volume of business which his clients were
loath to place elsewhere. The strain of over-
work, however, began to tell upon his constitution
to such an extent that his retirement from prac-
tice was advised. Subsequently he removed to
California, in the winter of 1888, and his death in
Pasadena February 10, 1893, ended a career of
usefulness from a professional standpoint, and
left to mourn his loss a widow and a son, besides
innumerable friends and associates. The son,
Alva D. S. McCoy, is a graduate of the Califor-
nia State University at Berkeley and the Cooper
Medical College of San Francisco. Since his
graduation he has been located in Pasadena as
a practicing physician. He married Helen, a
daughter of Rev. L. P. Crawford, of Pasadena,
and they have one son, Donald.
Mr. McCoy formed domestic ties by his mar-
riage, October 7, 1857. to Miss Sarah J. Math-
ews, of Lee, N. H.. a woman of excellent mental
qualities and a graduate of the female seminary
at Mount Holyoke, Mass. At her death in 1863
she left a daughter Sarah, who died in 1892. Mr.
McCoy's second marriage occurred June 23,
1869, and united him with Miss Lucinda E. Dut-
ton. a native of Xew York, one who in every
way, mentally and socially, was a fitting com-
panion. Immediately thereafter, with his wife
and daughter, he went abroad, making a complete
tour of England and the continent, and upon his
return to Peoria in 1870 once more resumed his
legal practice. Though passed to that bourne
whence no traveler returns, the influence of Mr.
McCoy's life will ever remain an inspiration to
those who were privileged to know him. A gen-
erosity of heart and highmindedness of motive
in all acts, public or private, displayed a person-
ality that was broad and deep and one that cir-
cumstances or ulterior influences could not alter
one iota.
CONRAD HAFEX. Across the vista of
passing years the thoughts of this old pioneer
often revert to the year 1868. with its exciting
journey across the plains and its train of expe-
riences in the far west. The ranks of the pio-
neers are fast thinning out, but fortunate it is
that some still remain to receive the appreciation
of a younger generation and to enjoy the bless-
ings of a twentieth-century civilization. The
past and the present seem to be brought nearer
together when it is remembered that these men,
still active factors in our development, were wit-
nesses of our history. Born in Scherzingen,
Canton Turgau, September 11, 1824, Conrad
Hafen was a child of six years at the death of
his father, Casper Hafen, who was a shoemaker
by trade. Five children were born of his mar-
riage with Barbara Venk, and Conrad was next
to the youngest of the number. Under the sunny
skies of his native land he passed his boyhood
and youth, interspersing attendance at the public
schools with such work as he could find to do.
Living in an agricultural community it was
quite natural that in selecting a calling he should
give his preference to farming, and this he did,
and in addition to raising the products common
to the average farm he also raised grapes in
large quantities. As long as he remained in his
native land he continued to follow this life, dis-
continuing it however in i860 to make his home
in the new world, concerning which he had
heard very favorable reports as a place where
a young man with push and energy could ad-
vance rapidly and make a name and place for
himself. His hopes and aspirations at that time
were not in vain, for with the passing of the
years he has been enabled to win success in spite
of difficulties, and today is one of the best be-
loved citizens of Los Angeles, which he has
seen develop from a small town of five thousand
inhabitants to its present size and standing
among the cities of the world.
Landing on the shores of the new world at
Castle Garden, N. Y., Mr. Hafen went from there
by rail to Omaha, Neb., where he outfitted with
ox-teams and wagons and the other necessities
essential for a trip across the plains. Three
months of hard travel, interspersed with numer-
ous attacks from hostile Indians, finally brought
the party to their journey's end at Salt Lake
City. In that locality Mr. Hafen remained for
two years, following fanning in the mean time,
and later carried on a similar business near
Santa Clara, Utah. After making his home in
Utah for eight years, or until 1868, he once
more took up the westward march and with a
six-horse team made his way to Southern Cali-
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Pass and reaching Los Angeles December 16.
Here the climate and conditions were such as to
remind him of his experiences as a vineyardist
in his native land, and for two years he rented
a vineyard in this locality. The undertaking
proved a success, judged from the fact that he
afterward purchased land on what is now the
corner of Central avenue and Fourteenth street
and set out a vineyard of his own, in time having
one of the largest and most productive vine-
yards in the locality. Finally, in 1878, he dis-
posed of the property and has since lived re-
tired, now making his home in a comfortable
residence at No. 1156 San Julian street. Not
only as a vineyardist is Mr. Hafen well known,
but his name has been perpetuated in the Hafen
house, which he erected in 1876, and some years
later, in 1899, he built the new Hafen house on
South Hill street. This latter hostelry he dis-
posed of in 1905. Many residences scattered
throughout the city have also been erected by
Mr. Hafen.
During young manhood and while still a resi-
dent of Switzerland, Mr. Hafen formed domes-
tic ties by his marriage with Miss Margaret
Hafen, who like himself was born in that coun-
try. She died in Los Angeles. January 7, 1901,
having become the mother of five children, of
whom three are still living, as follows : Louis,
Elisa, the wife of William Brice ; and Ida, Mrs.
Dedrich, all residents of Los Angeles. Politically
Mr. Hafen is a Republican. Personally he is a
man who stands high in the estimation of those
who know him, all appreciating his fine qualities
of manhood and generosity of heart. Liberal to
a fault, he gives of his means with a lavish hand,
and many have reason to bless him for benefac-
tions and kind, friendly advice.
MAJOR DAVID ROE BURNHAM. Pa-
triotism has ever been a prominent character-
istic of the Burnham family, but in none of its
representatives has the expression of this
quality had better opportunity than in the life
of Major David R. Burnham. When the first
gun that opened the conflict between the north
and the south was fired he was a young man of
twenty-six years, full of vigor and patriotic
ardor, and when the call came for able-bodied
men he was among the first to offer his serv-
ices. From Carbondale. Pa., where he was
born November JO, 1835, he enlisted in his
country's service August 28. 1861, and was
made first lieutenant of the Sixty-seventh
Pennsylvania Volunteers. From time to time
he was honored with promotion by his su-
periors, who recognized in him qualities of
leadership and a knowledge of military tactics
not possessed by the average soldier. June 20.
1863, he was made ordnance officer of the
Third Division. Third Army Corps of the Po-
tomac, and on November 6 of the same year
was made captain of his regiment. During his
service of four years he had encountered many
hard-fought engagements, and was a partici-
pant in the following battles: Winchester,
Maryland Heights, Mine Run, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and
Monocacy, and also participated in the mili-
tary operations in the Shenandoah Valley.
After the close of the war Mr. Burnham be-
came second lieutenant of the Thirty-fifth In-
fantry, Regular Army of the United States,
where as in his previous service, he was ad-
vanced for meritorious deeds, his commission
bearing date June 18. 1867. August 12. 1869.
this regiment was consolidated with the Fif-
teenth Infantry and became the Fifteenth
United States Infantry, in which he served as
second lieutenant, and it was while in this
command that he was promoted to first lieu-
tenant January 1. 1875. His promotion to the
captaincy of his regiment occurred October
31, 1884, a commission which he held through-
out the remainder of his service. For some
time he had been failing in health, but was
unwilling to resign from the army. Con-
tinued ill health, however, finally made a
change necessary and he retired from the
service Tune 15. 1891. In recognition of his
faithful service in years past he was promoted
to major on the retired list April 23, 1904.
After the failure of his health Major Burnham
sought the mild climate of California in the
hope of regaining his former strength, a hope
which has been realized to its fullest expecta-
tion, for since coming to Pasadena in 1896
he has practically renewed his youth.
Major Burnham was united in marriage
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February 22, 1859. with Olive E. Powers.
who. like himself, is a native of Pennsylvania,
her birth occurring in Milford, where her
father, Edmond Powers, was a well-known
citizen. Two sons, William P. and Ralph B.,
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burnham, a sketch
of the former appearing elsewhere in this vol-
ume. The family home is one of the finest
residences in Pasadena, and here with his wife
Major Burnham is passing his later years i-
the rest from care which his many years of
meritorious service make possible. He is a
member of California Commandery, Military
Order Loval Legion of the United States.
THEODORE SUMMERLAXD. Not only
through prominence in the commercial circles of
Los Angeles, but also by reason of identification
with civic progress and local politics. Air. Sum-
merland ranks among the well-known men of the
city. Many years have passed since he came to
the then small town of Los Angeles and since
then he has associated himself with every move-
ment tending toward the development of local
resources and the increased prosperity of the peo-
ple. As earlv as 1888 he was first chosen a mem-
ber of the city council from the eighth ward,
serving two terms of two years each, and during
this time he gave much attention to the duties of
the office, favoring every project for the intro-
duction of modern improvements and for the ad-
vancement of business interests. From 1894 un-
til 1808 he served as county assessor. During
[902 he was elected councilman for one term from
the fourth ward, and following his re-election in
1904 he served as president of the council until
1906. Under his executive leadership the coun-
cil accomplished much for the benefit of the city
and instituted many improvements rendered
nece^ary by the town's rapid upbuilding into a
commercial metropolis. Not tin- least of these
improvements was the inauguration of the < )wens
river project, laying the plans now on the eve
of success which will bring to Los Angeles an
abundant supply of pure mountain water for all
time to come. At the convention held in Santa
Cruz in September. H;:><>, he received the nomi-
nation of the Republican party as railroad corn-
ier of the third district anil was , lei ted
by a very large majority. In January, 1907, he
entered upon the duties of the position, to which
he gives the required time and attention.
Shortlv after the marriage of Isaac Summer-
land and Eliza Fellows, which was solemnized in
their native England, they crossed the ocean to
the United States and settled in Pennsylvania,
where their two children, a daughter and son,
were born. For a time they lived in Cumberland
county, Pa. The father came to California in
1852. and ten years later he was joined by his
family, they making the journey by the water
route. At first they made their home in Yuba
and Plumas counties, hut eventually settled in
Lake county, where the mother died in 1883,
and the father and sister three years later. The
only surviving member of the family is Theo-
dore, a native of Cumberland county. Pa., born
September 6. 1852, and the recipient of a public-
school education in the home neighborhood.
After coming to the Pacific coast he was a stu-
dent for a short lime at the Xapa Collegiate In-
stitute. On taking up life's activities he assisted
his father in a store in Greenville. Plumas
county, and later was employed by the Wells-
Fargo Express Company in Marysville.
An appointment as agent of the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Company brought Mr. Summer-
land to Los Angeles in 1877. from which point
he had charge of the company's policies and busi-
ness covering a very large territory. Later he
established an independent life, fire and accident
insurance business, of which he was the local
agent, and since then he has continued doing a
general insurance business in this city. For three
years he served as special agent of the Liverpool,
London and Globe Fire Insurance Company of
Southern California. The demands of his busi-
ness affairs and the discharge of his official duties
occupy hi- tune and attention, yet he finds leisure
to promote outside movements and to identify
himself with the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce. For some years he has been a leading
local worker in the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, being first past exalted ruler of Lodge
No. 99, in I. os \.ngeles. A firm believer in the
high principles for which Masonry stands, he has
been a member since he was of age and is now
associated with Los Angeles Lodge No. 42, F. &
A M., as well as the chapter in this city, and is
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also a member of the Knights of Pythias. So-
cially he is a member of the Union League Club,
and politically he has always been a very active
worker in Republican ranks. Alike in fraternal
relations, business affairs and official positions
he has proved energetic, resourceful and capable,
and his citizenship has been an honor to himself
and to his city.
Mrs. Summerland was formerly Mrs. Estelle
(Sallady ) Unger, widow of the former city audi-
tor, Elijah I nger. She was born in ( )hio and
came to California with her parents when a child.
CALLAGHAX BYRNE. Probably there
is no one in all Los Angeles county who is
not familiar with the name and location of the
Byrne building in Los Angeles. This was one
of the first instances of the use of light-colored
brick south of San Francisco, and so pleasing
has it become to the eye that the precedent
thus established has since been followed by
all erecting modern office buildings.
.Mr. Byrne is a native of the sunny south,
having been born in Xew Orleans, La. Dur-
ing his boyhood years his parents came to
California and established their home in San
Francisco, so that practically his entire life
has been passed in this state. His education
was received in the parochial schools of that
city, and he was graduated from St. Ignatius
College. During his early boyhood years he
was associated with men of large real estate
interests, and although he did not enter that
field at first, he soon drifted into it. and with
resulting credit to himself and to the city
to which he later moved. Soon after leaving
college he became assistant passenger ami
ticket agent and cashier of the San Francisco
& North Pacific Railroad, otherwise known
as the Donahue line, and also auditor for the
same company. He has held large tru^t- o'
honor and retains the confidence of all who
know him for his unquestioned integrity.
It was in 1882, while on his way to the
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, that Mr. Byrne
first saw the city of Los Angeles. From
that time on he did not cease to persuade
his relatives and friends to invest in this city,
so favorable had been his first impressions.
and he, his mother, Mrs. Margaret Irvine, and
his brother, began investing in real estate
here as early as 1886. It was in 1892 that
Mr. Byrne located in the city permanently,
and has since thrown his whole life into the
upbuilding and advancement of its best in-
terests. Wisely foreseeing the need of a mod-
ern office building in a city that was making
such rapid strides in population he set about
drawing the plans for such a structure, the
classical front and general plan being the
joint design of himself and his brother. James
W. Byrne, of San Francisco. The building
is admirably located on the corner of Third
and Broadway, covering a ground space
120x105 feet, and is five stories in height. It
is his present intention to enlarge the build-
ing by the erection of two additional stories.
( )f classical design and architecture, it is con-
structed of what is called Roman brick,
shipped from Lincoln, Placer county, this
state, a brick which is more expensive than
that used in the construction of any other
building in Los Angeles. As has been pre-
viously stated, the Byrne building was the
first light-colored building erected in this city,
and furthermore was the first modern office
building to appear on Broadway. The struct-
ure has been a model for most of the office
buildings that have since been erected in this
city. If there is one feature more than an-
other that makes the Byrne building attract-
ive to tenants it is the fact that it is so ar-
ranged as to be well lighted at all times, in
fact the light problem was one of the prime
considerations with Mr. Byrne in drawing
the plans of the building.
Quality and not quantity has been a prin-
ciple that Mr. Byrne has rigidly adhered to
throughout his life. He did more than any
other man to impart the irreproachable char-
acter to Broadway that it now enjoys by
awaiting tenants of stores who would create
a fashionable shopping district and give the
locality a metropolitan tone from the start.
This was never better illustrated than at the
time tenants were seeking admission into the
Byrne building after its _ completion: only
those were admitted who bore the highest
reputation ; as a consequence a number of the
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stores remained idle for a time. From the
first Mr. Byrne has endeavored to raise or
rather keep high the standard of Broadway as
a high-class commercial street, and the fore-
going incident is a practical demonstration of
his sincerity in the matter. At one time there
was an attempt to prevail upon property
owners to permit a saloon on the block, and
when the matter was placed before Mr. Byrne
for his opinion he made the most of the op-
portunity to plead for the maintenance of a
clean thoroughfare, one in which ladies would
feel free to transact business without embar-
rassment. This influence had the desired re-
sult, as is seen in the fact that from Second
street to Fifth on Broadway, a distance of
more than two thousand feet, not a single
saloon is to be seen, something unequaled in
a non-prohibition city. The effect of this is
that property on that street rents and sells
for a higher price than on any other street in
the city, and the location of the Byrne build-
ing is the choicest shopping corner in the city.
Air. Byrne initiated removing poles from the
streets by having owners consent to the pres-
ent system of running the trolley wires to
the buildings.
In addition to his property interests in Los
Angeles, Mr. Byrne owns valuable land in
Santa Barbara, most of which is on the ocean
front ; lemon groves in Montecito, and oil
lands, as well as valuable property in Orange
county, Santa Clara valley, and in San Fran-
cisco, also property interests in other states.
From the foregoing it is easily seen that Mr.
Byrne is a public-spirited man in the best
sense of that word. He is one of the mem-
bers of the Chamber of Commerce of Los
Angeles, has been chairman and on commit-
tees of the Fiesta, and is a stockholder in
numerous financial institutions both in Los
Angeles and San Francisco. Socially he is a
member of the Jonathan Club. He is a
widower, and his only child, a son. Callaghan
Byrne. Jr.. is now a bright lad of six years.
Mr. Byrne is of a retiring, kindly nature,
with literary and artistic ability. He enjoys
traveling, a pleasure which has taken him over
the greater part of the world, he having been
several times to Europe, and in every state
in the Union. He and his mother and brother
lost a very valuable collection of paintings,
marble and bronze statuary, brie a brae and
library in the San Francisco conflagration. He
has declined political offices and directorships
of institutions, even the presidency of a bank,
preferring to be free to travel, as he has a
sufficiency of worldly goods.
MRS. EMMA A. SUMMERS. That the
highest qualities of womanhood and the strong
capabilities necessary to a business life may go
hand in hand has been demonstrated in the career
of Mrs. Emma A. Summers, one of the most suc-
cessful operators in oil lands and real estate of
Southern California. Born and bred in Ken-
tucky, she spent the earlier years of her life in
Hickman, where her father. Capt. \Y. L. Mc-
Cutcheon, engaged as a merchant and banker.
He was a native of Tennessee and was descended
from an old southern family, originally of
Scotch-Irish extraction ; he spent the last years
of his life in Kentucky, where he rose to promi-
nence in the business world, as well as winning
a large circle of friends who held him in the
highest appreciation because of his sterling traits
of character. His wife, formerly Jennie E. Gar-
rison, was a native of Tennessee, and a daughter
of Major J. E. Garrison, a large planter of that
state ; she still survives and makes her home in
Kentucky. A relative of the McCutcheons is
Gen. John Thomas McCutcheon, of Virginia,
while other members of the family have risen to
prominence in various walks of life.
Emma A. McCutcheon received a preliminary
education in the select schools of Kentucky, after
which, having developed unusual musical tastes,
she was sent to Boston, Mass., where she took a
complete course in the New England Conserva-
tory of Music. The talent then developed has
remained an important one throughout her entire
life, and after she came to Los Angeles she util-
ized it b\ organizing a large class of music pupils,
some of whom have been verv successful in the
work. Shortly after returning to her home in
Kentucky .Mis-. McCutcheon became the bride of
A. C. Summers, and together they located their
home in the western country. In the same year
that they removed to Fort Worth, Tex., they
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came on to Southern California, this being in
i NX i. and it was here that Mrs. Summers began
the development of the business ability which has
distinguished her among the financiers of this
part of the Pacific coast. She at once began deal-
ing in real estate, in which she was very suc-
cessful. At the time of the first oil activity in
this section (1892). when oil was discovered in
the vicinity of her home on California street,
Mrs. Summers secured a good location for her
first well, which is evidenced when it is known
that the well is still producing ( 1907). It is lo-
cated on Court street, near Temple, in what was
formerly the very heart of the oil belt. Since that
day Mrs. Summers has sunk many wells in vari-
ous parts of the oil field and to-day is the larg-
est individual operator in crude oil in California
and is frequentlv referred to as the "oil queen."
a title that she has earned by virtue of her ex-
tensive and stupendous operations in the oil fields.
She maintains a suite of handsome offices in the
Herman W. Hellman building, where she con-
ducts her extensive affairs, having held contracts
at different times with such oil-consuming plants
as those operated by the Los Angeles Railway
Company, the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt
Lake Railroad, the Redondo Railway Company,
the Pacific Light & Power Company, the Ice &
Cold Storage Company, besides a number of oil
refineries and practically every large hotel, laun-
dry and machine shop in the city.
Having always acted independently in her oper-
ations Mrs. Summers is entitled to the full meas-
ure of credit for her unparalleled success. Her in-
heritance of business ability and judgment has
been supplemented by a wide training in the busi-
ness world, contact with financial enterprises and
business men. and It is thus that she has broad-
ened into the practical, thorough business woman
she is, despite the fact that she is of an artistic
temperament and well developed along those
lines. She occupies her old home on California
street, where she has lived ever since coming to
Los Angeles, and here gives free rein to her
artistic tastes. She has built up for herself a
wide circle of friends, wdio appreciate her for her
womanly characteristics rather than for the un-
usual ability which has brought her success in
the financial world. She is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce and active in all move-
ments brought forward for the advancement of
the city's interest. In religion she is a member of
the Episcopal Church.
LE< >X T. SHETTLER. While yet a young
man, Leon T. Shettler has won a reputation
111 the business world which might do credit
to a man many years his senior. This is due to
no reflected influence from his father, Reuben
Shettler, at one time an active business man in
Lansing. Mich., but who is now living retired
in Los Angeles. For a more extended account
of the life of Reuben Shettler the reader is re-
ferred to his sketch, which appears elsewhere
in this volume. Leon T. Shettler was born in
Tecumseh, Lenawee county, Mich., December
27, 1879, and in his home city he attended the
common schools, later attending the high
school at Lansing. At the close of the junior
year, however, he discontinued his studies and
at the same time began an apprenticeship in
the ( >lds gas engine works, a step which he
was led to take through inherited mechanical
tastes.
At the close of his apprenticeship he be-
came private secretary to Mr. Peer, who rep-
resented the Huber Manufacturing Company,
of Lansing, Mich. After holding this position
for some time he resigned the office in 1902
and came to Los Angeles, believing that in the
west larger opportunities awaited him than in
the middle west. With a capital of $500 he
established himself in the automobile business
on Sixth street near Spring, at first handling
the Oldsmobile exclusively, having the agency
for this machine throughout Southern Califor-
nia. During the time which he held this
agency, from October 4, 1902, until January 1,
1905, he built up an excellent business, but
notwithstanding this he sold out his business
on the date last mentioned and returned to
Lansing in order to familiarize himself with
the mechanism of the Reo automobile. This
he accomplished by entering the factory,
which had been in operation only a few months.
and after applying himself for six months he
was thoroughly familiar with every part of the
machine. With the knowledge which he had
acquired and with a full line of Reo automo-
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biles he returned to Los Angeles July I, 1905,
opening a garage at Xo. 415 South Hill street.
From this beginning has developed a large
sale of Reo cars on the Pacific coast, in fact
it is conservatively estimated that he has
placed over one thousand cars of that make
on the road during this time. To such an ex-
tent did the business grow that during the year
1905. the same year in which he established
the business, he was justified in erecting a
garage of his own at No. 633 South Grand
avenue. This is a structure 65x165 feet, built
according to plans prepared by Mr. Shettler
for his special purpose, which provides ac-
commodation for the largest stock of auto-
mobiles in Los Angeles. Some idea of the
magnitude of the business transacted by Mr.
Shettler may be gained when it is known that
he employs twenty salesmen to represent the
Reo automobile throughout Southern Califor-
nia, besides which he maintains a facsimile of
his Los Angeles garage in San Diego, the lat-
ter having been established in 1907. A num-
ber of men now prominent in automobile cir-
cles on the Pacific coast owe their position
either directly or indirectly to Mr. Shettler,
Laving been brought to the west by him or
through his influence. Among them may be
mentioned H. M. Hanshue, at one time em-
ployed in the Olds factory in Lansing, and now
the manager of the San Diego branch above
mentioned. Mr. Hanshue has the reputation
of being the best driver on the Pacific coast.
Another representative from the Olds factory
is F. E. Hughes, who is now filling an impor-
tant position as one of the sales managers of
the Western Motor Car Company of Los An-
geles. Jack Stoner, who came to the coast in
[902, is now the Pacific coast manager for the
Standard Automobile Company of San Fran-
cisco, and I*". A. Bennett, now located in Port-
land, is well known as one of the largest auto-
mobile dealers on the Pacific coast.
In Lansing, Mich., Mr. Shettler formed do-
mestic ties by his marriage with Miss Frances
Lemon, who was born in Byron, Shiawassee
county, Mich. Tiny have a pleasant and com-
modious residence at Xo. 1718 Lennox avenue,
where they both dispense a gracious hospi-
tality tn their many friends. Few men are bet-
ter versed in the automobile business than Mr.
Shettler, and as secretary and treasurer of the
Automobile Dealers Association of Southern
California he is filling a position for which he
is in every way qualified. He is also a mem-
ber of the Chamber of Commerce of Los An-
geles, and in his political inclinations he is in
sympathy with Republican principles. Proba-
bly no one in automobile circles on the Pacific
coast is held in higher esteem than Mr. Shet-
tler, who has reached his present success
through the exercise of high principles of
honor in all of his dealings and he may justly
be proud of the success which has come to
him. Xot unlike his father, he too is lavish
of his gifts to the deserving and unfortunate,
but all of his benevolences are bestowed in such
an unostentatious manner that none but the
recipients know of the good he accomplishes.
HAMPTON L STORY. Among the first
families of New England was that of the Storys,
established on American soil by an Englishman
who crossed the ocean about 1640 and reared a
family amid the privations and hardships of a
frontier country. Succeeding generations re-
mained residents of New England and in Ver-
mont became prosperous farmers. Elijah Story,
a native of Pennington, Yt., married a Miss
Beaman and reared a family, among whom was
a son, Andrew. Fie became a prosperous farmer
and married Adaline Read, a native of A r ermont
and likewise the representative of an old New
England family. Born among the mountains of
Vermont, in the township of Cambridge, June
17, 1835, Hanmton L. Story was a son of An-
drew and Adaline Story, and on the parental
farm he attained years of maturity. He attended
the public schools in pursuit of an early educa-
tion, later a select school, then the Vermont
Academy at Bakersfield, and still later the acad-
emy at Fairfax, same state.
Well equipped for the battle of life as far as
education was concerned, Hampton L. Story-
then left his native state and coming as far west
as Illinois taught school for four winter terms.
He had previously taught one year in Vermont,
and after completing his fourth term in the
Prairie state he returned to his native state and
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there engaged in the music business in the ca-
pacity of salesman. Wishing to try his ability
along independent lines, he then opened a store
and stocked it with musical instruments and met
with a success which encouraged him later to
engage in the manufacture of instruments in a
modest way. His business career was interrupt-
ed by his enlistment in 1863 in the Twelfth
Regiment Vermont Infantry, when he was at
once ordered to the front and participated in
many important engagements, among them Get-
tysburg and Chancellorsville. After his honor-
able discharge he returned to Vermont and en-
gaged again in his commercial enterprise, finally
entering into a partnership to do business in
Chicago under the firm name of Story & Camp,
which connection continued successfully from
1867 to 1882. In the last-named year Air. Story
sold his interest and formed a partnership with
Mr. Clark in the manufacture of pianos and or-
gans, and later with his three sons began the
enlargement of their enterprise. This is now
one of the most noted concerns of the United
States, the plant, which is located at Grand
Haven, Mich., covering over four blocks and
being one of the largest concerns of its kind in
the world. It is thoroughly equipped with the
most modern and improved machinery and pro-
duces pianos and organs of a superior quality
and tone, which are shipped to all parts of the
globe. The business offices are in Chicago,
where its active affairs are transacted. Mr.
Story passes his winters in his beautiful home at
Altadena, while his summers are spent in Chi-
cago and at the factory with his three sons.
Mr. Story's first trip to California was made
in 1882, when he interested himself in several
upbuilding enterprises in San Diego, among
them the building of the Coronado hotel, one
of the most noted resorts in the extreme part of
Southern California ; was also president of and
built the Coronado railroad, some twenty-five
miles in length, and was similarly connected with
the first street railway of San Diego ; he was the
promoter of the ferry system from San Diego
to Coronado and the installation of the water
system ; was instrumental in getting the Santa
Fe Railway built into the city ; as well as being
identified with numerous other enterprises which
had for their end the development and upbuild-
ing of the place. During this period he became
connected with the interests of Escondido, assist-
ing in the building of that town and at the pres-
ent writing is serving as a director in the Escon-
dido Land & Water Company. The greater part
of his San Diego interests he disposed of in 1888.
Five years later he came to Altadena and pur-
chased a tract of ten acres, which was known
as the Woodbury homestead. He at once re-
modeled the house, laid out the grounds in a
most artistic manner, set out trees and shrubs
and various plants, and planted a portion of the
land to lemons. This is now one of the most
beautiful homes in Altadena. and when Mr.
Story comes to the coast for the winters it is a
time of recreation and pleasure for him. How-
ever, all of his time is not given over to pleasure,
for ever since his location here he has taken an
active interest in the development of the section,
the water system of Altadena finding in him a
practical promoter, and also served as president
of the company known as the Rubio Land &
Water Association, and during his incumbency
of ten years the greater part of its development
was made. He was active in the organization of
the Altadena Improvement Association and for
two years served as its president.
Mr. Story has been twice married, his first
wife being a Miss Fuller, by whom he had two
sons, Edward H. and Frank F. In 1876 he was
united in marriage with Miss Adella B. Ellis,
and born of this union are James E. and Ada,
the latter the wife of R. H. Ripley. Mr. Story
is associated with several important social clubs
of the section, among them the Valley Hunt
Club of Pasadena, the Sierra Club of the state
and the California Club of Los Angeles, while
he belongs to the Grand Arm}- of the Republic
of San Diego, the Knights of Pythias, the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic
lodge of Burlington, \'t. He is recognized as
one of the enterprising citizens of Altadena. a
successful business man. and a cultured and
scholarly gentleman.
JAMES F. T. JENKINS, C. M„ M. D. The
medical profession in Los Angeles has no more
brilliant exponent than Dr. Jenkins, whose abil-
ities come to him as an inherited tendency
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through several generations, his father, uncles
and grandfather following this profession in the
British army and navy medical service and in
private practice. The family originally flour-
ished in England, where the name was well
known as one of the old country families, dat-
ing back many centuries, and the emigrating
ancestor established the name in Canada, here
as on the other side of the water producing men
who added luster to a name already held in high
repute. Four sons of Grandfather Jenkins fol-
lowed the medical profession in England, and
all their sons chose the same calling, preparing
for their life work in hospitals and medical col-
leges in London and on the Continent. Among
the sons was F. D. Jenkins, the father of Dr.
Jenkins, who after completing his medical train-
ing in England came to America and entered the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from
which institution he also graduated. For some
time he practiced as a physician and surgeon
in Michigan, but the last twenty years of his life
were spent in Riverside, Cal., where he lived an
ideal retired life among his orange groves until
his death. He held membership in several
European scientific associations and was an au-
thority in analytical chemistry. He possessed
the highest medical and surgical qualifications
of Great Britain.
On the maternal side Dr. Jenkins is of Irish
descent; his mother, in maidenhood Miss M. E.
Hale, was born in Ireland, a direct descendant
of the noted Sir Mathew Hale. She is still liv-
ing and makes her home in Riverside.
The only son in a family of three children, Dr.
J. F. T. Jenkins was born in Toronto, Canada,
April 19. 1854, and received his early training
in the schools of his home city. Supplementary
to hi^ preliminary education he took a course in
the Upper Canada College, and later entered the
medical department of the University of Louis-
ville. Ky.. graduating with first honors from
that institution in 1878 with the degree of M. I)..
receiving a gold medal. He then spent one year
in the Toronto General Hospital and in Trinity
Medical College, Toronto, after which he be-
came a student of the medical faculty of the
University fit Bishop's College, Montreal, now
amalgamated with McGill University of the
same city, graduating the following year as
valedictorian of his class with the degrees of
C. M., M. D. Under the terms of amalgamation
between the two universities. Dr. Jenkins as a
graduate of Bishop's College will receive the
degrees of M. D., C. M., from McGill Univer-
sity, ad eundem statum. Even this preparation
did not satisfy his ambition and to further qual-
ify himself for his profession he continued his
studies, becoming a member of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Quebec, and then went
to London, England, and Paris, France, study-
ing in the hospitals and colleges there. While
abroad he made a tour of the continent and
after visiting all the principal cities he returned
to his home and engaged in the practice of medi-
cine in Montreal, following this uninterruptedly
until he came to California. The year 1893 wit-
nessed his arrival in Los Angeles, and in that
section of the city now known as Union Square
he opened an office for the practice of his pro-
fession at the junction of Union, Hoover and
Twenty-fourth streets. Dr. Jenkins has the dis-
tinction of being the pioneer physician in that
part of the city, for at that time Hoover street
formed the western boundary of the city, and
in the intervening years he has seen the city
limits extend many miles beyond and the space
built up with beautiful residences.
In Louisville, Ky.. Dr. Jenkins was married
to Miss M. E. Pelot, who was born in Charles-
ton, S. C, and was educated in Louisville, Ky.
Dr. and Mrs. Jenkins have two children who are
in every way a credit to their parents. The
eldest, Dr. J. Evan, has followed in the foot-
steps of his father in the selection of a profes-
sion and is now one of the rising young sur-
geons of Los Angeles, having graduated from
the medical department of the University of
Southern California in 1903 and passed the
State Board of Medical Examiners the same
year ; he was appointed by the board of super-
visors interne at the County Hospital, which
position he filled for one year, leaving it at the
expiration of that time to fill a similar position
in the California Hospital for another term.
Liter he took a post-graduate course in the
larger eastern hospitals and is now associated
with his father in general practice. The other
child. Shirley, graduated from the Los Angeles
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high school and was recently married to Ralph
Getchell Dow of Los Angeles.
No opportunity for furthering his knowledge
in his chosen profession is neglected by Dr. Jen-
kins, as is attested by his membership in a num-
ber of medical societies at home and abroad, of
which we might mention the State Medical
Association, American Medical Association and
the Los Angeles County Medical Society. Prob-
ably no one in the profession in Los Angeles
holds a higher position in the esteem of pro-
fessional men and laymen than Dr. Jenkins, and
the productions of his scholarly pen have had
wide circulation in American and foreign med-
ical journals. Both Dr. and Mrs. Jenkins are
much loved and respected by their many friends
and no service which they can render their fel-
low-men is withheld for lack of sympathy or
good-will. In Louisville, Ky.. in 1877, Dr. Jen-
kins was made a Mason in Robinson Lodge No.
266. He has passed through all the chairs in
Odd Fellowship and is a member of Los Angeles
Tent No. 2 of the Knights of the Maccabees,
also examining physician for the life insurance
department of that order. During his more than
thirty years' continuous practice he has held
various appointments as medical teacher, prac-
titioner and medical journalist. With his wife
he is an attendant at St. John's Episcopal Church,
and politically he espouses Republican principles.
VINCENT A. HOOVER. The Hoovers
are among the earliest American pioneer fam-
ilies of Los Angeles, coming here in 1849,
when it was a small pueblo with a few adobe
buildings clustered around the plaza. The
father of the family was Dr. Leonce Hoover,
born in Canton Argau, Switzerland ; he gradu-
ated from a medical college and was a surgeon
in the army of Napoleon. Later he came to
the United States and became a practicing
physician in New Albany, Ind. The name in
Switzerland was Huber and was changed to
Hoover by the doctor when he took out his
naturalization papers. In 1849 ne started with
his family, consisting of his wife and four chil-
dren, for California, crossing the plains with
ox teams and wagons. Vincent was then
twenty-three years of age ; another son, John,
aged twelve, died of cholera en route. From
Salt Lake they came by the southern route to
the Chino ranch, and then came on to the
pueblo of Los Angeles. Dr. Hoover was al-
ready advanced in years and wished to retire
from practice, but this he was not allowed to
do, for he was soon forced to visit the sick,
and being a very able and successful practi-
tioner his desires in the matter were not con-
sidered and he continued the practice of medi-
cine until his death, in 1862. Dr. Hoover was
a cultured and refined gentleman of scholarly
attainments and a fine linguist. His wife,
Eva. died in Los Angeles in 1852. The oldest
in the family was Charles Hoover, a wholesale
druggist in New Albany, Ind., where he died.
Of the two daughters, Anna M. died in Los
Angeles in 1856. Mary A. became the wife of
Samuel Briggs, a native of Claremont, N. H.,
who came to California in 1861 and to Los
Angeles in 1863, and was for many years agent
for the Wells Fargo Express Company. His
demise occurred in 1884.
Vincent A. Hoover was born in Pennsyl-
vania in 1826 and received his education in
the schools of New Albany, Ind. In 1849 ne
accompanied his parents to California, driving
an ox team, and in 1850 he and his father went
to the placer mines in northern California,
wdiere they found very rich placers, but were
driven out by the hostile Indians. During this
time the family lived at the old Wolfskill vine-
yard, and orange grove, the present site of the
Southern Pacific depot. On his arrival in Los
Angeles he went to work and in 1851 he had
accumulated sufficient funds to purchase
twelve acres of land on Mesa street, which he
at once began to improve. He was one of the
first to engage in horticulture in Los Angeles
and he set out and developed the valuable
orchard which he sold in 1870. Thereafter he
engaged in dealing in real estate in the city
and building up and developing his property,
in time becoming one of the leading business
men and capitalists of the place. His busi-
ness judgment was frequently sought and he
was for many years, or until his death in 1883,
an appraiser for banks. After his death Mrs.
Briggs administered the estate and has since
invested and reinvested in Los Angeles city
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property, having been exceptionally success-
ful and demonstrated her executive and busi-
ness ability. The result is she owns valuable
inside property in this city that has grown
from the little Mexican pueblo she saw in
1849 unt il ^ is now a large metropolitan city.
In 1898 she built her present comfortable
residence at Xo. 739 Garland avenue. Her
only child, Lilly, is the wife of Dr. Granville
McGowan, a prominent physician of Los An-
geles, who in 1906 accompanied her on a seven
months' tour to Europe, visiting Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, Hol-
land and England. She is a most liberal and
charitable woman, ever ready to aid in building
up and beautifying the city of her adoption.
She is an active member of the Episcopal
Church.
Vincent A. Hoover was one of the true pio-
neers of Los Angeles, always having faith in
the future of the city. With Colonel Baker,
William Ferguson and Mr. Haley he purchased
thirty-two acres on Twenty-third and Hoover
streets and laid out what is now Union Square.
Like his father he was an exemplary and noble
man of fine feelings, ever ready to help those
win 1 were less fortunate. He was honored
and respected by his friends for his honesty,
integrity and great moral worth, and is often
spoken of as one of the most enterprising citi-
zens of his time. He was temperate in all his
habits, was a true Christian, and was a mem-
ber of the Episcopal Church. While not an
aspirant for office he was a stanch Republican
and active in the councils of the party.
GEORGE ZOBELEIX. It was in 1867 that
Mr. Zobelein first came to California and the
following year that he located in Los Angeles,
and it may Ik- truly said of him that he has never
regretted his choice of a home. He has been
very successful in his enterprises and is now the
owner of extensive and valuable real estate,
which has increased in value many times since
he first acquired it.
Mr. Zobelein inherits his sterling traits of
character from German ancestors, his own birth
having occurred in Bavaria, Germany, August
12, 1845. His father, Conrad Zobelein, was a
brewer in the Fatherland, where his death oc-
curred when his son George was a child of five
years. The latter acquired his first knowledge
of business affairs in his uncle's mercantile estab-
lishment and when sixteen years of age he en-
tered upon an apprenticeship to learn the busi-
ness systematically. In 1867, at the age of
twenty-two, he came to the United States, land-
ing in New York City, then by way of the Isth-
mus of Panama he came to California. For one
year he was engaged in the mercantile business
in San Francisco and then, in 1868, came to Los
Angeles, where with the passing years he has be-
come one of the city's enterprising and progres-
sive citizens. He followed mercantile enter-
prises here for a time, and then went to Inyo
county and followed a similar enterprise. Re-
turning to Los Angeles in 1876 he filled a posi-
tion as bookkeeper in the New York brewery for
five years and at the expiration of that time he
purchased an interest in the Philadelphia brew-
ery, which was then known as the D. Mahlsted
& Co. brewery. In 1882 Joseph Maier bought
out the interest of Mr. Mahlsted and the firm
then became known as Maier & Zobelein, under
which name it was incorporated in 1893. Air.
Maier served as president of the company until
1904, when Mr. Zobelein was elected to the of-
fice, a position which he held until June, 1907,
at which time he sold his interest in the company.
This step was immediately followed by the pur-
chase of the controlling interest in the Los An-
geles Brewing Company, of which he is now
president and manager. This is one of the larg-
est and best appointed breweries on the Pacific
coast and dates its origin from the year 1897.
From an unpretentious beginning, covering a
comparatively small space, the plant has grown
steadily from vear to year and now covers eleven
acres of land, with an abundance of the best
brewery water. The exceptional facilities for
procuring good water has been a large factor in
the production of a superior article, and hence
is accountable for the steady increase of the
brewery's output.
Mr. Zobelein's time and attention have not
been wholly absorbed in the business just men-
tioned, but on the other hand he has been inter-
ested to a considerable extent in the improve-
ment of his real estate in Los Angeles, which
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has become very valuable. His ninety-acre tract,
known as the Zobelein tract, on South Jefferson
between Figueroa and Main streets, is one of the
sightly additions to the city and has proven a
source of large profit to all concerned.
Early in life Mr. Zobelein formed domestic
ties, marrying Brigida Alvarez, who was born in
Sonora, Mexico, and they are the parents of the
following children: John G., Edward, George,
Philip and Rose, the latter still at home with her
parents. In the midst of his busy cares Mr.
Zobelein has taken time to interest himself in
social and political affairs, and is associated with
the Turn-verein of the city; he votes the Demo-
cratic ticket ; and as a member of the Chamber of
Commerce seeks the advancement of his adopted
city. A straightforward, liberal and progres-
sive citizen, he possesses traits which have won
for him a place in the municipal life of Los An-
geles.
STEPHEN W. DORSEY. The interests
of a general public have always lain parallel
with those of a personal nature in the career
of Hon. Stephen W. Dorsey, one of the most
substantial and enterprising citizens of Los
Angeles, where he is held in the highest es-
teem for the characteristics which have dis-
tinguished his citizenship. The descendant
of French antecedents, he was born February
28, 1844, in Vermont and inherited the sterling
qualities of the natives of that section. His
boyhood years were passed upon the paternal
farm, his home duties alternating with an at-
tendance of the public schools, in which he re-
ceived a substantial education. To this train-
ing he later added by taking a course in the
college at Oberlin, Ohio, in which state he
answered the call of his country by enlisting
as a private in the First Ohio Light Artillery,
accompanying his regiment to the front and
serving with distinction throughout the entire
war. He took part in over twenty of the
bloodiest battles, being wounded four times.
Step by step he advanced until he had held
every rank in his regiment, and as a colonel
at twenty-two he returned to civil life. Dur-
ing his army service Mr., Dorsey formed the
acquaintance of Hon. Thomas A. Scott, one of
the assistant secretaries of war, whose duties
were the control of the transportation of troops
and supplies, and through his association in
this work Air. Dorsey became interested in the
possibilities of a railroad career. Through Mr.
Scott, then president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, he became actively identified with rail-
road work in the southwest, assisting in tin-
reorganization and construction of the lines
which had been demoralized during the font-
years of devastating war. Following this he
took an active part in the incorporation and
construction, as chief engineer, of the Texas
and Pacific, Little Rock and Fort Smith, and
Arkansas Central Railroads, locating his home
in the state in order to more fully devote his
time and attention to the work in hand. He
was one of the most successful men of the
day in this line of work and is widely known
among the enterprising railroad men of the
country.
Mr. Dorsey's interest in Republican politics
had in the mean time made him a well-known
figure in the gatherings of the party and as
early as 1868 he was made a member of the
Republican National Convention. The same
honor came to him in the years 1872, 1876,
1880 and 1884, thus proving his ability to take
a hand in the important affairs which come
before that body. He was also a member of
the Republican National Committee during all
those years. In 1872 he was made assistant
secretary of the Republican National Commit-
tee, in 1876 was made vice-chairman and in
1880 was made chairman of that body, conduct-
ing the famous Garfield campaign. In the
mean time, in 1875, he was elected to the
United States senate from Arkansas as a Re-
publican, receiving all the votes of the legis-
lature, including forty-two votes from Demo-
cratic members. While in the senate he was
chairman of the District of Columbia Com-
mittee, a member of Appropriation and Rail-
road Committee and served his constituency
well and faithfully, winning a lasting com-
mendation from those who had been influen-
tial in placing him in this important position.
The senate knew Dorsey was there.
In the mean time Mr. Dorse}' had become
interested in mining, in 1873 acquiring an in-
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terest with the late Senator Chaffee of Colo-
rado in the mines at Central City. Five years
later they were again associated in the mines
at Leadville. Colo., where they met with more
than ordinary success. Mr. Dorsey was also
interested in the Silver Cliff and Aspen mines,
the latter the great Colorado silver camp,
and in 1 89 1 . at the time of the Cripple Creek
discoveries, he acquired property in which he
still retains a controlling interest. Becoming in-
terested in the mines of the southwest he came
to California and began an investment which
has resulted in large financial returns. He was
first interested in the California King, a prop-
erty which has developed with the passing
years into one of the best producing in the
state. He has since disposed of his interests
for a handsome sum and has been acquiring
large holdings in various portions of South-
ern California, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico,
and is expending generous sums in their de-
velopment. His interests in Arizona include
among other valuable property a connection
with the Gold Roads Extension Company,
which owns claims on the vein adjoining those
now being so successfully operated by the
Gold Roads Mines and Exploration Company
of this city and the copper mines at Clifton.
Mr. Dorsey's identification with the mining
interests of this country have materially ad-
vanced the welfare of this section, contribut-
ing immeasurably to its growth and develop-
ment. He holds a position of unexcelled rank
among mining men of the southwest, who hon-
or him for the business ability, sagacity and
judgment displayed throughout his long asso-
ciation in this line of work.
Mr. Dorsey 's home is located on Figueroa
street, one of the most beautiful residence
highways of the city of Los Angeles, and is
111 every way a credit to the taste of its owner,
being located in the midst of well-cultivated
grounds which speak eloquently of the tropi-
cal climate of the section and reflect both in
exterior and interior the refinement and cul-
ture of tin family. Mr. Dorse}' is an earnest
citizen am 1 , contributes to the advancement of
the city's government to the best of his abil-
ity, lie lias always been a man of power and
ability, his personality winning him many
friends, while his business ability has built up
for him a place of importance among the
financially successful men of Southern Califor-
SAMUEL McKINLAY, remembered through-
out Los Angeles county as one of the early pio-
neers of the section, was a native of Ireland, his
birth having occurred in County Antrim May
12, 1836. His boyhood years were spent in his
native country, and there he received his edu-
cation. At the age of nineteen years he immi-
grated to the western world, locating in Canada
West, where he studied civil engineering and
surveying under the instruction of an uncle who
had previously settled there. It was in 1863 thai
he first came to California, making the journey
by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He spent
one week in San Francisco, thence went to Gold
Hill. Nev., and engaged in mining and prospect-
ing in the vicinity of Belmont and White Pine.
Seven years of the miner's life was sufficient for
Mr. McKinlay and in 1870 he gave it up, going
first to Sacramento, where on the 14th of March
he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Logan
Orr, then together they came to Southern Cali-
fornia. Mr. McKinlay had heard much about
the possibilities of this section, its equable cli-
mate, etc.. and he decided to make this his per-
manent home. Accordingly he purchased a tract
of eighty acres, then remote from the city's
limits, but now a part of the municipality. The
house erected after his purchase is still standing,
having been moved ten feet from its original lo-
cation because of the putting through of a street.
The land was entirely uncultivated and unim-
proved and to this effort he gave all his time
and attention throughout the remainder of his
life. He engaged in raising nursery stock and
also carried on general ranching and brought
his property to rank with the best improved and
most highly cultivated in the community.
The death of Mr. McKinlay occurred October
29. 1898. He was survived by his wife, who
now resides on the home place. She was also
horn in Ireland, in County Londonderry. She
came to Philadelphia, Pa., with her older sister
July 31. 1847, lived with friends there until
[866, when she journeyed to California and made
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her home with a brother-in-law in Sacramento
until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. McKinlay
became the parents of one child, Samuel, Jr.,
whose death, June 24, 1894, preyed upon the
father's mind until his own passing away four
years later. He was a young man of much
promise, a graduate of the Los Angeles high
school in 1889, and at the time of his death a
practicing attorney in this city. Mr. McKinlay
was a stanch Republican in his political convic-
tions and although never desirous of official rec-
ognition personally yet gave his efforts toward
advancing the interests of the principles he es-
poused. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church and helped build the first church of that
denomination here. He was a man of much
worth and held in the highest esteem by all who
knew him, either sociallv or in a business way.
JOSEPH E. MARSH. Many generations
of the Marsh family had lived and died in Eng-
land prior to the removal of the immigrating
ancestor to the shores of the New World.
Locating in New Hampshire, he became an
integral factor in all of the stirring events of
colonial times, and was known as one of the
upbuilders of that commonwealth. Subse-
quent generations followed in his footsteps,
and in that state the grandfather of Joseph E.
Marsh, John Marsh by name, became a man
of influence and prominence, commercial, so-
cial and political matters alike receiving an
impetus as a result of his superior knowledge
and judgment. Politically he was an old-line
Whig. His son, Joseph, was also a native
of New Hampshire, born in 1799, and spend-
ing his entire life in that state. The mental
qualities for which his progenitors were well
known were bequeathed to him in a generous
degree, and not unlike them also he was very
prosperous as a tiller of the soil. He married
Rhoda R. Gage, who was also a native of
New Hampshire and a daughter of Daniel
Gage, an early resident of the state, and a
general merchant in the town of Pelham,
N. H.
Joseph E. Marsh was born in Pelham. N.
H., September 2, 1836, on his father's farm
in that localitv, and it is needless to say that
he became familiar with the duties connected
therewith at a very early age. A great shadow
darkened an otherwise happy childhood when
he was a child of twelve years, the death of his
mother, January 10, 1848, leaving a blank
which could never be filled, and though this
occurred nearly sixty years ago, so indelibly
was it stamped on his young mind that the
passing of years has not eradicated it. His at-
tendance at the district school was followed
by a course in Phillips Academy, in Andover,
Mass., there preparing for the higher training
in Dartmouth College, which he entered in
1856, graduating therefrom in 1858. Return-
ing then to his New Hampshire home he spent
two years on the farm, in the meantime mak-
ing plans and preparations to engage in a dif-
ferent line of endeavor. Leaving the locality
which had been the home of so many genera-
tions of the family, he went to the Mississippi
valley and in Charleston, Coles county. 111.,
he worked in a flour mill. Disposing of his
interests in Coles county in 1876, he removed
to Little Rock. Ark., where he and a partner
purchased a flour mill which they remodeled
and carried on with excellent results for ten
years. This mill was equipped for the old
burr process of milling, but before long they
had the entire plant overhauled and remod-
eled, installing new machinery and a complete
roller process. As they had anticipated be-
fore making these improvements, the business
was soon doubled and trebled, and they be-
came recognized as the leading millers in the
state.
In 1886, while making his home in Little
Rock, Mr. Marsh came to California on a visit.
and the result was that he became less satis-
fied with his surroundings and prospects in
the south. Prompted by his better judgment,
he sought to dispose of his holdings in Little
Rock and locate in this state, a plan he was
enabled to carry out in 1887. Coming direct
to Los Angeles he purchased an orange grove
of twenty-eight acres not far from this city,
and until 1902 was very successful as a horti-
culturist. In the year last mentioned, how-
ever, he sold his ranch and began dealing in
real estate in Los Angeles, being associated
in the business with his son. Robert. The
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combined efforts of father and son have re-
sulted in the establishment of an immense
business, and it is safe to say that even though
Los Angeles gives a home to more real estate
dealers than to any one other class of trades-
men, the office of Robert Marsh & Co., in the
Hellman building, shows the largest amount
of business done in one office in the city.
In 1862 in Pelham, N. H., Mr. Marsh was
united in marriage with Martha J. Atwood,
who, like himself, was born in Pelham, N. H.
Of the five children born to them, only two
are now living: Robert, who is associated
with his father in the real estate business
under the name of Robert Marsh & Co. ; and
Florence A., the wife of Col. A. Andrews, who
is a prominent coal merchant in New Orleans,
La. The political issues of the day form a
matter of considerable interest to Mr. Marsh,
who is an uncompromising Republican, al-
though his interest in the party has never led
him to desire public office. Fraternally he is
identified with the Masons. He is a member
of Emanuel Presbyterian Church, to whose
maintenance he contributes generously. Per-
haps the most distinguishing characteristic in
the make-up of Mr. Marsh is a quiet dignity
which one recognizes at a glance as the mark
of a true gentleman. In his intercourse with
his fellows he is considerate, courteous and
kind, and in his home he is everything that a
husband and father should be. The family
home is a neat substantial residence at No.
672 South Bonnie Brae street.
MELVILLE DOZIER. When the massacre
of St. Bartholomew's day forced many Hugue-
nots to flee from France and seek refuge in other
lands the Dozier family found a haven of safety
in America, the opening of the new world to
colonization giving them an opportunity to trans-
plant their race into a country where toleration
of religion might be anticipated. The early emi-
grants settled first in Virginia, and later genera-
tions established the name in South Carolina,
where it flourished for many years. The first
member of the family of whom we have any
definite knowledge is the great-grandfather, John
Dozier, who was born in South Carolina. He
grew to manhood and became well known in that
commonwealth as a planter of considerable
wealth. As a defender of the young colony he
fought gallantly in the Revolutionary war. He
spent his entire life in the south, and among the
children born into his family was another John,
who was also born in South Carolina. Emulat-
ing the example of his father, he, too, became a
large cotton planter in that state, where his en-
tire life was spent and where he reared his chil-
dren, among whom was Anthony White Dozier.
He too was a native of Black Mingo, S. C, in
which state he also became a large cotton planter,
having a plantation of six thousand acres and
two hundred and fifty slaves. From the earliest
days members of the family had been prominent
in the civil life of the community, being repre-
sented in the legislature of the state, and other
members becoming lawyers and physicians of
note. Anthony White Dozier was not an ex-
ception to the precedent established by his father
and grandfather and he too represented his com-
munity in the state legislature and was a mem-
ber of the Secession convention. In 1869, four
years after the close of the Civil war (in which
conflict six of his sons participated) he came to
California and located at Rio Vista, Solano
county, where he spent the remainder of his life.
His marriage united him with Mary Catherine
Cuttino, a native of Georgetown, S. C, and the
daughter of Peter Cuttino, a prominent merchant
of that city. Peter Cuttino's marriage with
Martha Gaillard united him with a family equal-
ly prominent with his own in France, from which
country members of both families fled on ac-
count of the persecution which the Huguenots
were forced to suffer. Mrs. Mary Dozier passed
away in California in 1873, about four years
after the removal of the family to the west,
having become the mother of thirteen children,
ten of whom were sons, and, as has been pre-
viously stated, six of them took part in the Civil
war.
The seventh son in this large family was Mel-
ville Dozier, born in Georgetown, S. C, May
22, 1846, and reared on his father's large plan-
tation. Following his preparatory school train-
ing he entered the State Military Academy at
Charleston, S. C, and it was while a student
there, in the spring of 1864, that the whole school
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entered the Confederate service as a part of
General Jenkins' brigade, Air. Dozier being a
non-commissioned officer. With the rest of the
battalion of cadets Mr. Dozier served until the
close of the war and then resumed his studies,
entering Fr.rman University at Greenville, S. C,
from which he graduated in 1867 with the de-
gree of Ph. B. The following year he came to
California by way of Panama and went direct
to Solano county, where as a teacher in the
grammar schools he began a training which has
since developed steadily, until today he is known
as one of the most prominent educators in
Southern California. In 1874 he became prin-
cipal of the Santa Rosa high school, a position
which he filled with great credit to himself for
ten years, resigning at that time to accept a
position in the Los Angeles State Normal, which
had been organized just two years previously.
He first filled the position of professor of sci-
ences and mathematics, but later when the school
had increased considerably in size, he assumed
the chair of mathematics and filled this position
until July I, 1906, when he resigned, after twen-
ty-two years of faithful service in the Normal
school ; or thirty-eight years of educational work
in California. He served as vice-principal of
the Normal, being elected to that position after
the resignation of Prof. C. J. Flatt. Through-
out his life Professor Dozier has been a con-
tributor to scientific journals, and both as a
teacher and writer has contributed largely to-
ward elevating the educational standard of
Southern California. Probably no member of
the Southern California Academy of Sciences
has taken a more interested part in its advance-
ment than has Professor Dozier, who became one
of its earliest members and for several years was
president of the organization. At this writing
( 1907) he is secretary of the academy. In
March of this year he was appointed by the
board of public works as auditor of the Los
Angeles Aqueduct, and having assumed the
duties of the position is now engaged in prose-
cuting the work in hand.
1 >n the first of June, 1874, Professor Dozier
was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth
Edwards, their union being celebrated in Green-
ville, S. C. She was born in Alabama, of Welsh
descent, the daughter of Prof. P. C. Edward-.
instructor of Greek and Latin in Furman Uni-
versity. Professor and Mrs. Dozier have one
child living, Melville, Jr., who is a graduate of
the University of California, from which he re-
ceived the degree of B. S. During the building
of the Long Reach electric line, the Whittier
line and the Glendale line he was constructing
engineer in charge of the work, and is now chief
engineer in charge of the Vallejo & Northern
electric railroad, which is being constructed in
the Sacramento Valley. With his wife Professor
Dozier is a member of the Baptist Church, in
which he has been a deacon for over thirty-
three years. Socially he belongs to the Univer-
sity Club and the City Club and is also a mem-
ber of the Los Angeles board of education. As
an educator probably no one has done more to
advance the standard of education in Southern
California than Professor Dozier. Personalis he
is a man of noble impulses and all in all may be
counted an acquisition in whatever community
he mav choose to enter.
HENRY CLAYTON WITMER. The city
of Los Angeles has had in Henry Clayton Witmer
one of its strongest upbuilders, both in a financial
and social line, for parallel with his numerous
successful business enterprises has always been
his best efforts toward a helpful and loyal citizen-
ship. Mr. Witmer is a native of the middle west,
his birth having occurred in Rock Grove in the
northern part of Illinois, August 25, 1856. His
parents were natives of the state of Pennsylvania
and his father a descendant of Swiss ancestry.
When their son was two years old they removed
to Juda, Green county. Wis., in which small
town he was reared to manhood, receiving his
education in the public school and later taking a
five months course in a commercial college in
Milwaukee. In beginning his business career Mr.
Witmer had several natural advantages, among
them inherited traits of character and the system-
atic training received throughout the years of his
minority. The death of his father in 1876 placed
a burden of management upon this youth, not
only the care of several farms devolving upon
him, but the responsibilities of keeping the books
and money and paying the bills of the largest
grain and stock dealer in the county. He dis-
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charged the duties with efficiency and at the time
of attaining his majority was recognized as a
business man of enterprise and ability. He be-
came notary public for the village, was elected a
member of the school board, and at the same
time published a paper called the "Latest News,"
himself acting as editor, type-setter and printer,
and gathering some of his news by means of a
wire connected with his office. Later, with his
brother, Joseph Witmer, he organized a private
bank at Juda, under the name of Witmer Broth-
ers. In 1882 they with others established the
Citizens Bank at Monroe, Wis., and Henry C.
Witmer became vice-president of this institution.
Deciding to locate on the Pacific coast Mr.
Witmer came to California in 1884 and locating
at once in Los Angeles became interested in the
development of the city. With others he took
up the project of constructing a cable railroad up
Second street over Bunker Hill, which enterprise
opened up the western hills to settlement. In
connection with Walter S. Newhall and the late
Edward A. Hall, Mr. Witmer helped organize
the Los Angeles Improvement Company, which
exi>ts to-day as one of the upbuilding factors in
the city, throughout the years of its continuance
in business having given an impetus to numerous
enterprises potent in the prosperity of the city.
Among such was the organization of the Califor-
nia Bank in 1887, in which Mr. Witmer served as
president for a number of years. January 1, 1903,
this institution was converted into the Amer-
ican National Bank, the vice-presidency of which
.Mr. Witmer resigned in July, 1904. In the man-
agement of this enterprise he was always a mov-
ing spirit, his interest and enthusiasm continuing
unabated in times of stringency as well as finan-
cial prosperity, his first thought and effort
being for the advancement of those enterprises
which represented so large a part of his life. In
his bank relation to-day he occupies a place on the
directorate of the First National Bank and the
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company.
Mr. Witmer was among the first members en-
rolled in the Chamber of Commerce and remains
to the present time connected with this organiza-
tion. During the first three years of its existence
he was one of the directors and at times when
the funds ran low, paid its bills out of his own
pocket. To Mr. Witmer is largely due the credit
for the widening of Broadway, from Second to
Ninth, the street in the early days being known
at Fort street ; this project met with opposition
ami it was only after a long and hard struggle
that it was accomplished. It was a step absolutely
necessary at that time in the development of the
city, for business had even then outgrown the
limitations of Main and Spring streets, where up
to this time it had been confined. Mr. Witmer
was the chairman of the committee and worked
persistently toward the end he had desired. This
was done by individual effort, as at that time
there was no law for doing the same. He was
also associated with the project of cutting a
tunnel through to Hope under Bunker Hill,
west on Third from Hill street. This great public
work has opened up the western hills to the
business center of the city and has greatly en-
hanced the value of property on Hill street near
Third. He has continued to take an interest
in all public enterprises, having been appointed
a member of the committee (of which he was
chairman) to investigate matters relating to the
Owens river project and to submit a report,
which was favorably passed upon later.
In the midst of his engrossing business re-
sponsibilities Mr. Witmer has still found time to
devote some attention to outdoor pursuits, which
appeal irresistibly to a man of his temperament.
In the vicinity of Lordsburg, at La Yerne, is
located a beautiful orange and lemon grove, the
result of his persistent efforts to produce a
superior article and the prices he has received
have more than justified his plan of efforts. He
has ably developed the property and made of it
one of the beautiful spots of Southern California.
He has a beautiful home in Los Angeles, presided
over by his wife, formerly Miss Alice Petterson, a
native of San Francisco, Cal., their union having
taken place in 1898. At the time this residence
was built there were only a few residences on the
hills a mile west of the City Hall. Mr. and Mrs.
Witmer have one son, Joseph P. Witmer.
In his personal characteristics Mr. Witmer is
a man of strength and power. Inheriting from
sturdy Swiss ancestry the qualities noticeable in
the government of that people, he has added to
these self-restraint and discipline learned through
contact with the business world and a broad
knowledge of human nature. His life-work is
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based upon underlying principles of greatness —
absolute fairness to himself and to all men, an un-
swerving integrity in all dealings. He is distinctly
public-spirited and takes a lively interest in all
matters pertaining to the advancement of the
general welfare. Independent in politics and
strong in his convictions against the liquor traffic,
he seeks to advance the principles he endorses.
While a resident of Green county he served as
a member of the County Republican Central Com-
mittee during the Garfield-Arthur campaign, and
during the course of the summer placed a flag
bearing the names of these candidates on the top
of a peak over Devil's lake so high that no one
had the temerity to try to pull it down. It has
been thus with all his undertakings in life since
arriving at manhood's estate — a desire to excel,
to hold high rank among those with whom he
worked, and his ability to lead has been ably
demonstrated during his long residence in Los
Angeles. Physically he is slight of build, but the
active outdoor life which he has led as much
as possible outside of his business pursuits has
given him strength and endurance. Bicycling,
mountain climbing, and long tramps over the
country have formed the greater part of his
recreation in the vacations he has allowed him-
self, and it was during one of these tramps over
the Sierras, at Lake Tahoe, that he first met
the lady who afterward became his wife. It is
enough to say that he has been a successful man,
acquiring liberal means, financially, constantly
enlarging his circle of friends by a winning per-
sonality and his adherence to friendship, and
building up for himself a place of prominence in
the citizenship of Los Angeles.
ROBERT MARSH. When a man's fathers
for generations back have taken a prominent
part in the history of affairs the sons come
naturally into the inheritance of a gift for
leadership in whatever line of activity their
tastes may lead them to engage. When we
say that Robert Marsh stands for all that is
progressive and upbuilding, a glance into his
ancestry will reveal that these are inborn
characteristics. His great-grandfather, John
Marsh, was an influential and prominent citi-
zen of New Hampshire, and in that state his
grandfather, Joseph Marsh, was born, resid-
ing there throughout his life. The father, Jo-
seph E. Marsh, was born at Pelham, N. H.,
in 1836, on a farm and received a college edu-
cation at Dartmouth ; but becoming restive
after his return to the farm from college, he
decided to go west, making his first move to
Charleston, 111. Several years later he went
to Little Rock, Ark., and engaged in flour
milling, at which employment he was en-
gaged while in Charleston. In 1886 a visit to
California determined him to make this state
his home, and upon his return to Little Rock
he immediately disposed of his property there
and came to Los Angeles, where he has since
resided. In 1862 he was married to Martha
J. Atwood of Pelham, N. H. Of the five chil-
dren born to them but two survive, Florence
A., the wife of Col. A. Andrews of New Or-
leans, La., and Robert Marsh, the subject of
the sketch.
Robert Marsh was born in Charleston, Coles
county. 111., was taken witli the rest of the
family by his father to Little Rock, Ark., and
in 1887 came to California, which state has
ever since been his home, with the exception
of two years spent in New Orleans, La., where
he was engaged in the wholesale coal business.
His education was in the public and high
schools and when but sixteen years of age he
started out on his business career. The first
three or four years he clerked in a book and
stationery store, but working for others at a
salary b\ r no means satisfied the young man's
ambitions, and his desire to become independ-
ently established led him into a partnership
with Mr. Bumiller, the firm of Bumiller &
Marsh soon attaining a leading place among
the hatters and furnishers retail establish-
ments in Los Angeles. It was after dispos-
ing of this business that Mr. Marsh went to
New Orleans and conducted a wholesale coal
business. Two years at this convinced him
that neither the location nor business was
giving scope to his best talents, and returning
to Los Angeles he began the real estate busi-
ness in which he has been so very successful.
It was no sudden trick of fortune that en-
abled Mr. Marsh to reach the present high
place in the business which has the sharpest
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competition of any in the city, for the list of
enterprising real estate firms in Los Angeles
is a long one. Starting out in a small way,
by cautious moves, a close study of situations,
and fair and honest treatment of customers,
Mr. Marsh has made a minimum of unprofit-
able deals, has been enabled to see the best
points for initial exploitation, and inspired
the public with confidence in those ventures
which his firm supports, through a clean rec-
ord during the years in which his business has
been growing to its present proportions. To-
day he is undoubtedly one of the largest real
estate dealers and among the leading men of
the city. Among the city tracts he has suc-
cessfully handled are the Country Club Park,
Country Club Terrace, Westchester Place,
Western Heights, Arlington Heights, Arling-
ton Heights Terrace, Mt. Washington, and
Central Industrial Tract, which latter was one
of the first industrial tracts put on the market
here. It was Mr. Marsh who first saw the
possibilities for the improvement of the lands
bordering on the Pacific at the mouth of the
San Gabriel river, and he was the original
promoter in the organizing of the syndicates
that improved Alamitos Bay, West Naples,
East Naples, as well as being the chief mover
in the San Gabriel Improvement Company.
He also took initiative steps in the handling
of Venice, Venice Canal Subdivision, and the
Short Line Beach. All of these sections have
had phenomenal sales, and in their exploita-
tion and sale are embraced a large part of the
remarkable property of the city of Los An-
geles, to which they are tributary.
Mr. Marsh does not confine his real estate
operations to these outlying districts, how-
ever, but has played quite as prominent and
important a part in the handling of inside
business property, being a large owner of city
holdings. Banking and commercial enter-
prises receive a share of his attention, and in
both it is considered a distinct element of
strength to have his name connected with the
various undertakings. Being so closely iden-
tified with a business which gains so much
advantage from the general advertising of the
southern part of California, his membership
in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is
a natural sequence. A popular club man, he
holds membership in the California Club,
Athletic Club, and the Los Angeles Country
Club. Lodges, too, have his interest, and a
list of those to which he has sworn allegiance
includes the Southern California, F. & A. M.,
Signet Chapter, R. A. M., Los Angeles Com-
mandery, K. T., Los Angeles Consistory, and
Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. In
religious affiliation he is a Presbyterian, being
a member of Emanuel Church, to the support
of which he is a generous contributor, as well
as to the various benevolences and charitable
interests which are brought to his attention.
In the home life of Mr. Marsh there is noth-
ing lacking. He was married in 1898 at Al-
hambra to Miss Ceceil Lothrop, a native of
Galveston, Tex., and a graduate of Mills Col-
lege, Oakland. They have one child, a daugh-
ter, Florence Louise, and their home residence
is one of the most comfortable and hospitable
in Westchester Place. Their beach home is at
Alamitos Bay. Upright in business, affable
socially, Mr. Marsh makes many friends and
keeps them. Politically he is a stanch Repub-
lican.
STEPHEN ARNOLD REND ALL. Among
the esteemed and honored pioneers of Los An-
geles mention belongs to Stephen Arnold Ren-
dall. one of the upbuilders of the city and a
prominent factor in its development. He was
a native of England, his birth having occurred in
Somersetshire March 6, 1837, an d was a kd of
nine years when he accompanied his parents to
the United States. His home was in Joliet, 111.,
until he attained manhood, and there he received
his education. Partaking largely of the spirit
which had induced his father's emigration to a
western country, in 1861 Mr. Rendall came to
the Pacific coast and here became a part of the
civilizing element. He remained in Los Angeles,
the city which had been his objective point, for
a time, and then went to San Francisco and
there followed mining for some years. In May,
1866, however, he returned to Los Angeles and
engaged in business, the city at that time giving
but little promise of becoming the metropolis of
the southern coast, but Mr. Rendall with a rare
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faith, when considered in the light of the time
and conditions, began at once to invest in real
estate, which in later years became very valuable
indeed. In 1870 he again went north and estab-
lished his home in Santa Rosa, putting up a resi-
dence on the corner of B and Fourth streets,
and improved it with flowers and shade trees.
The place was conspicuous in the early days by
a magnificent climbing rose, which covered the
entire side of the house. Eventually the com-
mercial interests of the city brought Mr. Ren-
dall's home within the business district and a
brick business block now occupies the site. At
the time of his location in the north Mr. Rendall
undertook the management of a large ranch near
Santa Rosa. In 1867 he introduced into the
state the first Angora goat industry, importing
from Asia a billy goat which cost him $250x3
and two ewes. Within a few years he had a
magnificent herd numbering between three and
four thousand head and for that time he was the
largest breeder in California.
In 1884 Mr. Rendall returned to Los Angeles
with the intention of making this city his per-
manent home. He at once devoted his entire
time and attention to the real estate business and
became the owner of valuable property, at one
time being the owner of forty-five acres extend-
ing from Second street and fronting on Main
street, and also owned one hundred and forty-
five acres in the Westlake district. A part of
this he subdivided and sold, and this is now the
most desirable high-grade residence section in
Los Angeles. He built a comfortable home at
Ninth and Alvarado streets, and there passed the
evening of his days. His death occurred Decem-
ber 15, 1905, at Phoenix, Ariz., where he had
gone in the hope of finding relief from asthma,
from which he had been a sufferer for many
years. His death removed from Los Angeles a
citizen who was justly esteemed for his many
admirable traits of character, his integrity of
purpose and unswerving honesty in all dealings,
the kindly hospitality of his nature and its at-
tendant liberality endearing him to a large circle
of friends. His name will ever occupy a place
in the annals of the city as a pioneer of worth
and works.
May 24, 1870, Mr. Rendall was united in mar-
riage with Miss Cecelia Murrav Barnes of Salem.
111. They became the parents of the following
children: Mrs. Julia Roberts; Robert Stephen
Rendall, and Nellie Rendall (who died in in-
fancy) ; Cecelia ; and Daisy Rendall. The family-
are identified with the Episcopal Giurch, of
which Mr. Rendall was also a member. In con-
nection with the interest of the Rendall family
in Los Angeles it is not out of place to mention
the fact that Stephen A. Rendall made the first
and only large picture of Los Angeles ; this is
now the only picture in existence which shows
the city as it looked in 1867. This picture was
taken in sections, is complete in every detail, and
is undoubtedly a most valuable aid in preserving
the earlv history of Los Angeles.
HON. HERBERT S. G. McCARTNEY. The
success which has come to Hon. Herbert S. G.
McCartney has been entirely the result of his
own efforts, for with nothing but personal
attributes he has faced the world and made for
himself a place among its most honorable citizens.
He has been three times elected to the state legis-
lature and as the people's choice for senator has
worked faithfully and well for his constituents
and has advanced their interests in every possible
avenue. The senator is a native of one of the
most progressive states of the middle west —
Illinois — and was born near Springfield, Octo-
ber 26, 1865. His grandfather, Robert McCart-
ney, a native of Ireland, immigrated to America
when a boy of sixteen years. He first located in
Pennsylvania, thence came to Youngstown, Ohio,
in which state he passed the greater portion of his
manhood. He rose to a position of respect among
his fellow citizens, accumulating property as a
canal and railroad contractor, and taking an active
interest in the upbuilding and development of that
section of the country. He was a Presbyterian in
his religious belief and gave liberally to the char-
ities of his denomination. His son, Robert J., born
in Youngstown, Ohio, removed to Illinois in
voung manhood and followed farming near
Springfield ; he married Margaret Greenwood, of
Sangamon county, III, and a daughter of Thomas
Greenwood, a farmer and early settler of that
section. They were descendants of the Green-
wood family which came from England in 1782
and located in Virginia. Mr. McCartney finally
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removed to Taylor county, Iowa, and located in
the vicinity of Bedford, then returned to Illinois,
where his wife passed away ; he then again located
in Iowa, and from there went to Nodaway coun-
ty. Mo., in 1886, making this last-named place his
home until 1906, when he retired from the
activities of a farmer and came to Los Angeles,
where he is now living. He is hale and hearty
and takes a keen interest as he has always done
in public affairs. He has always been liberal
and patriotic and at the time of the Civil war
with a partner he raised a company of men for
service, but the quota being full they were re-
jected.
The eldest of seven children born to his parents,
Herbert S. G. McCartney was reared on the
paternal farm in Illinois and Iowa and received
a preliminary education through the medium of
the public schools. He graduated from the
Marysville high school in 1887, and at once be-
gan teaching in the public schools of Missouri,
where he was then a permanent resident. It was
two years later he decided to come to the Pacific
coast and accordingly he located in Glenn coun-
ty, Cal., and there followed grain farming for
about five years. In 1894 he came to Pasadena
and in the meantime, having studied and com-
pleted the prescribed course in law, he was ad-
mitted to the bar in October of the following
year and at once began the practice of his pro-
fession in Los Angeles. He rose steadily to a
high position among the attorneys of this city.
and in 1902 was nominated on the Republican
ticket to the state assembly and elected by a large
majority. During the session he served as chair-
man on the committee for the constitutional
amendment in 1903, and also helped to elect
George C. Perkins to the United States senate.
He was otherwise active in legislative affairs,
securing the passage of several important bills.
Re-elected in 1904 by an increased vote of con-
fidence he was instrumental in the passage of
twenty-six bills, helped elect Senator Flint to the
United States Senate, and served efficiently as
chairman of the committee on rules and regula-
tions. In November, 1906, he was elected State
Senator, and during this session secured the
passage of thirty-one bills, among them the State
pure food law, which hears his name, and laws
of taxation and revenue, and much needed legis-
lation in domestic affairs. He also served as
chairman of the committee on revenue and taxa-
tion. Since 1905 he has been a member of
the state commission on revenue and taxation.
Senator McCartney has an excellent reputa-
tion as a legislator for the many beneficial laws
he has secured in the interest of society. He is
at present deputy district attorney of Los An-
geles county.
In Pasadena Mr. McCartney was united in
marriage with Miss Alice McCaldin, a native of
Brooklyn, N. Y., and they are the parents of
three children, Florence, William H. and Albert J.
In his fraternal relations Mr. McCartney was
made a Mason in Monrovia, Cal. ; he is also as-
sociated with the Odd Fellows and is a member
of Los Angeles Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. E. He
is an ardent Republican, a member of the Union
League Club, and in the line of his profession
belongs to the Los Angeles County Bar Associa-
tion. For three years he was a member of the
Eighth California National Guards, of Glenn
county, and later was transferred to Company I,
Seventh Regiment, this being from 1892 to 1895.
BYRON L OLIVER. Though not a native
of the state, Mr. Oliver has been a resident of
California from his earliest recollection, and
hence is a typical Californian in his tastes and
ideas. At the time of his birth, January 12,
1872, his parents were residents of Champaign,
111., but while their son was a mere child, they
located in Los Angeles, Cal. Upon reaching the
proper age he became a pupil in the public
schools of this city, later entered upon a high-
schools course, and finally, after his graduation
from the high school, went to Ann Arbor. Mich.,
ami entered the law department of the University
of Michigan, from which he was graduated in
)unv, 1894. A predilection for the legal pro-
fession was recognized at an early age, and in-
deed his entire training had been with the idea
of taking up a legal course at the end of his
preliminary work.
L'pon his graduation from Ann Arbor in 1894
Air. Oliver returned to Los Angeles and opened
an office in the Byrne building preparatory to
establishing a law practice. From the first his
efforts met with a gratifying degree of success,
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and step by step his business has grown until his
clientele now numbers many of the prominent
and representative citizens of Los Angeles and
vicinity. He has confined his efforts to civil
practice exclusively. While he has won renown
as a legal practitioner he is equally well known
in Republican politics, and in 1898 was men-
tioned as a candidate for congress ; he was de-
feated in the nomination by a small majority in
favor of Hon. James McLachlin, the present
member of congress from his district. As a
speaker his arguments are clear and forceful.
and as a stump speaker he has taken an active
part in campaigns throughout the state.
In fraternal circles Air. Oliver is no less promi-
nent than in the political arena, holding member-
ship in Pentalpha Lodge No. 202, F. & A. M.,
Signet Lodge No. 57. R. A. M., and Los An-
geles Lodge No. 99. B. P. O. E., in which latter
body he is now serving as past-exalted ruler.
He is a member of the Jonathan Club, ex-presi-
dent of the Union League Club, a member of
the Chamber of Commerce, and of the Los An-
geles County and State Bar Associations. As
will be seen from the foregoing, Mr. Oliver is
interested in a number of matters outside of his
profession, none of which, however, have ab-
sorbed his attention to the detriment of his
clients, but his peculiar and happy make-up, in-
cluding versatility and concentration in generous
proportions, make it possible for him to pass
from one problem to another with perfect ease
and harmony. When a boy he determined to
become a lawyer and he has that love for the
profession without which there can be no success.
GREXVILLE C. EMERY. A. B., LITT.
D. Mr. Casson in The Romance of Steel and
Iron, in Munsey's, says, quoting from a re-
mark of Carnegie: "Thomas and Gilchrist,
two young English chemists, were the in-
ventors of the basic process by means of which
steel could be made from ores that were high
in phosphorus. Those two young men did
more for England's greatness than all her
kings and queens put together. Moses
struck the rock and brought forth water, but
they struck the useless phosphorus ore and
transformed it into steel— a greater miracle."
Davies and Bunsen and Bessemer and Edison
and hosts of other miracle workers at once
spring to the memory, master minds of the
ages.
To the true schoolmaster may we rarely
point, perhaps, as belonging to this company,
but his contribution to the cultivation and
growth of such minds can be placed second
to no other influence. In the onrush of the
centuries he is lost sight of, but his silent,
plodding, fostering, painstaking efforts in the
early training of such master minds have made
the wonderful march in progress of this twen-
tieth century possible.
The full sweep and greatness of the work
of the true schoolmaster possibly may have
never possessed the minds of the parents of
Dr. Emery, but they were enterprising and in-
telligent people, and at least were impressed
with the usefulness and nobility of the
teacher's calling, and early determined upon
this profession for their son.
One of the earliest and most vivid incidents
in his early life was the witnessing, at the
age of six. the climbing up of his father on
top of the old-fashioned stage coach en route
with other 49ers to the El Dorado of the
Pacific. California. Thereafter, and especially
after his father's return, it was determined
that he become a teacher in this land of prom-
ise. Nearly half a century was to pass be-
fore its fulfillment. Meantime the loss of
parents necessitated self-support, and he be-
came a teacher in the public schools of Maine
at the age of sixteen, and thereafter, until his
graduation from Bates College at the age of
twenty-five with the degree of A. B., he fought
his way singlehanded, depending upon teach-
ing as his only source of income for his ex-
penses at the preparatory schools of Corinna
Union Academy, and Maine State Seminary
and in Bates College itself. He was an as-
sistant for a time in Corinna Union Academy
during his preparatory work, and in Maine
State Seminary after his graduation. He also
organized and was principal of The Edward
Little high school. Auburn. Me., and super-
intendent of schools of the same citv. and
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later became principal of the Grand Rapids
high school, Michigan.
But his greatest work in the east, a work
in which he has great pride and extending
through a quarter of a century, was begun as
usher in the Lawrence grammar school in Bos-
ton in 1872. After a nine years' sen-ice in
this school among impressionable, bright boys
of Irish descent, he was given a year's leave
of absence for study abroad, which he spent
mainly in the University of Gottingen, Ger-
many. On his return he was elected master
in the Boston Latin school, where for the
next fifteen years he helped prepare boys for
Harvard University and other universities and
colleges of the east. His department in the
Latin school was mathematics, and in colla-
boration with William F. Bradbury, head mas-
ter of the Cambridge Latin school, he edited
a series of algebras which are still used, not
only in the Boston schools, but in many other
important educational centers of the east, as
also in the Harvard school of Los Angeles.
The history of this school really began in
'49. when the father of the founder mounted
the stage coach, as already related, and finally
reached California around the Cape to mine
for gold, and to drink in the wonderful pos-
sibilities and beauties of the state for the pleas-
ure and enchantment of his family on his re-
turn to the east two years later.
The corner stone was laid in 1000. The
founder, cherishing and treasuring up this boy-
hood knowledge, had come at last from the
oldest and most renowned school in the United
States, the famous Boston Latin school,
founded in 1635, to build up here in Los An-
geles, this magically growing and marvelous
city of the west, a school, the Harvard school,
which profiting by the past, might have the
right to claim not only equality with the old
school in general, but in many things supe-
riority.
A more suitable completion of this historic
sketch the writer could hardly hope to pre-
pare than the following fitting and discriminat-
ing tribute to the school, and its founder, ap-
pearing in the Graphic of August 25, of the
current vear :
"To thine own self be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
These are the words carved on the pro-
scenium arch of the handsome assembly hall
which is as it were the heart of the Harvard
school. Dr. Emery sets before himself, his
faculty and his boys the highest ideals. How
well those ideals have been reached can only
be realized by a personal inspection of Har-
vard school.
Most of us know some of the Harvard boys
and we must have been impressed by their
manliness and by their gentlemanly bearing.
The tcne of a school is found more surely in
the boys themselves than in the buildings,
however fine the latter may be. But un-
doubtedly, surroundings have an incalculable
influence upon the upbuilding of youthful
character, and Dr. Emery's inspiration in
founding and developing Harvard school has
been that only the best is good enough— to
make good workmen good tools are essential.
Any Angeleno interested in the subject of
education — and who is not' — will find he will
be more than repaid by an inspection of Har-
vard school. Doubtless he will be surprised
to realize the extent to which this institution
has grown, quite keeping pace with the phe-
nomenal growth of Los Angeles during the
last six years. There can be. indeed, very
few men who have built better, more wisely,
and with a higher aim than Dr. Emery. And
he has done it without flourish of trumpets
or a sign of vainglory. The modesty of the
head-master will impress you equally with his
quiet force. He will tell you, "My aim was
to found a decent school. I like that word
'decent' : it means a great deal and is a favorite
adjective of President Roosevelt." And
surely, the noble buildings of Harvard school,
and. more, the mental and moral atmosphere
of the place, impress the visitor that "what-
ever things are comely and of good report"
are faithfully observed in the class rooms, in
the dormitories and in the campus.
Harvard school is intended to fit boys for
college, for the technical schools, for the gov-
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general equipment and the special provisions
for special studies are unsurpassed by any
school anywhere. The faculty is carefully se-
lected, consisting of fourteen resident mas-
ters, drawn from the foremost universities of
the country.
The completion of Harvard hall about a
year ago marked a new era in the history of
the school. It was built at an expense of
$60,000 and is a model structure in every re-
spect. The upper and lower schools are now
divided, the former occupying Harvard hall
and the latter has all to itself the old Har-
vard, now Junior, hall. The Lower school
also has its own gymnasium, tennis courts and
baseball field.
The central feature of Harvard hall is its
magnificent assembly hall, a lofty and impos-
ing room, 60x50 feet, with stage and gallery,
and a seating capacity of four hundred and
fifty. The assembly hall has a marked dig-
nity both in architecture and decoration. ( In
the first floor also is a large study hall, a
finely equipped library, the headmaster's of-
fice, the editorial room of the Sentinel, ami
several recitation rooms ; on the second floor
the commercial department and typewriting
rooms are located, the mechanical and free-
handed drawing rooms, a lecture room that
would be a credit to any university, flanked
by the chemistry and physical laboratories.
In the basement are most commodious locker
rooms, a splendid gymnasium, shower baths,
the armory, the bicycle room, lavatories that
are a model of convenience and sanitation,
and the heating and ventilating systems. The
recitation rooms, large and airy as they are,
are supplied constantly with fresh air by the
most perfect system ever invented.
The school owns a magnificent campus of
ten acres, on which the best advantages are
furnished for the pursuit of all wholesome ath-
letics.
In six years Harvard school has grown be-
yond its founder's most sanguine expectations,
and no man can foretell its future. One thing
is certain, that the influence of the school
upon this community is for the very best. It
is a sure foundation, inspired by high ideals
and built on a noble plan.
HON. CURTIS D. WILBUR. The versatile
ability as displayed by Judge Wilbur, among the
most prominent of the rising men of Los An-
geles, has enabled him to practice law with
gratifying results and further to fill the position
of judge of the superior court with the same im-
partiality of judgment and keenness of dis-
crimination characteristic of him in all the
affairs of life. Horn in Boonesboro. Iowa.
May 10, 1807, he is the descendant of a family
long established in America, later members lo-
cating in ( )hio, where, in Cumberland, his
father, Dwight L. Wilbur, was horn. The elder
man was reared to young manhood in his na-
tive state, and upon the opening of the Civil war
lie enlisted 111 the Eighty-seventh Ohio Infan-
try, serving until the surrender to Stonewall
Jackson, when he received honorable discharge
and returned to his home in Ohio. Following,
he took up the study of law, which he completed
in the University of Michigan and in 1866 lo-
cated in Boonesboro, Iowa, and began a practice
of his profession. He remained in that location
until 1882, when he removed to Jamestown. X.
Dak., and combined the real estate and loan busi-
ness with the law. Five years later he came to
California and located at Riverside, where he
engaged in the real estate business, meeting with
a success which placed him among the promi-
nent citizens of that section. A Republican in
politics, he gave his support to the men and
measures of that party, and in fraternal circles
was known among the Masons and the Ancient
Order of L : nited Workmen. His death occurred
August 10, 1903, removing from the community
a citizen of worth and works. While in Ohio he
married Miss Edna M. Lyman, whose ancestors
came to America in the latter part of the seven-
teenth century. Her mother was a sister of Rev.
Franklin W. Fisk. D. D.. president of the Chi-
ca:_;< 1 Theological Seminary from its organiza-
tion to 1900.
Curtis D. Wilbur spent his boyhood years in
his native town and in Jamestown, in the latter
city attending the high school for one year, after
which, on account of his excellent scholarship,
lie was selected by a committee as appointee to
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Md. Upon the completion of the four years'
course he was graduated in 1888, at the age of
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twenty-one years, being; third in a class that
originally numbered ninety-three, thirty-five of
whom were successful in graduation. During his
last year he was appointed cadet lieutenant of a
company. In the meantime his parents had lo-
cated in Riverside, Cal.. and following his gradu-
ation he came to the Pacific state, where he has
since made his home. He resigned from the
navy and at once began the study of law. getting
in from eight to ten hours a day in his home for
about sixteen months, after which, in October,
1890, he was examined before the supreme court
of the state of California' and was admitted to
the bar. In Los Angeles he was for three years
in the office of Brunson, Wilson & Lamme. In
January, 1899, he accepted the position of chief
deputy district attorney of Los Angeles county
tendered him at that time. This office he filled
with distinction until he was elected to the
bench, which occurred in 1903, since which time
as judge of the superior court he has been one of
the strongest men in the legal fraternity of this
city. The responsibilities of a juvenile court fell
upon Judge Wilbur with his election to the bench,
this law having been passed in 1903, his first
work being the inauguration of the system which
has since meant so much to the youth of Los
Angeles. His name is inseparably associated
with the juvenile court, for in his work he has
brought to bear a patience and tact, an insight
into human nature, and a helpful friendliness,
which have won for him the affection of all chil-
dren and the stronger esteem of the parents and
those interested in such work. Since 1905 he
has had charge only of the juvenile court and
general litigation, having previously combined
with these efforts probate work. Judge Wilbur
also caused the grand jury to investigate the
placing of public moneys in private institutions.
The result of this action was an amendment to
the constitution, permitting the depositing in
public banks of about $50,000,000, the interest
on which means a revenue of $1,000,000 from
this source alone.
Not only is Judge Wilbur honored for his
splendid ability, hut is as well held in the highest
esteem for his personal character, which marks
him as a man apart from the great majority of
those about him. lie is a member of the First
Congregational Church of Los Angeles, in which
he officiates as deacon, and ever since his loca-
tion in the city has been prominent in the Chris-
tian Endeavor Society of his church, having
served for several terms as president. His deep
interest in boys has always been one of his
strongest characteristics and it is with them that
he has met with the greatest success in his career.
In the Sunday School he has a class of one hun-
dred and twenty between the ages of fifteen and
twenty years, and his influence over them is un-
bounded. For some time he served as com-
mander of the Boys' Brigade of Southern Cali-
fornia and during his administration he organ-
ized thirty companies and in other ways was
instrumental in adding to the growth and devel-
opment of this society. At the last California
State Conference of Charities and Corrections,
Judge Wilbur was elected state president for
the year 1907. His capacity for work and inter-
est in all movements tending toward the moral
uplift of the community are unlimited, and no
one ever appeals in vain to him for sympathy or
material help.
Judge Wilbur has been twice married, his first
wife being Ella T. Oiilson, a native of Massa-
chusetts. After her death he married Miss Olive
Doolittle, and they are the parents of one daugh-
ter and three sons : Edna May, Lyman Dwight,
Paul Curtis, and Ralph Gordon. The judge is
identified with the Ancient Order of United
Workmen fraternallv.
JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS. No more beauti-
ful, quiet and restful spot could be found than
the Mountain View Cemetery of Pasadena. The
original plot, comprising twenty-two and a half
acres, was selected, purchased, platted and incor-
porated in 1882 by Levi W. Giddings, and artist-
ically arranged into lots 20x20 feet each. He
himself was the first president of the organiza-
tion, a position which he held for some time or
until followed by E. H. Royce. Since 1898
I. R. Giddings has filled the position of president.
The original acreage of the cemetery has been
mine than doubled since its organization, now
comprising fifty acres.
A native of Ohio, Joshua R. Giddings was horn
in Ashtabula county October 10. 1858, a son of
Levi W. and Luna A. (Wilder) Giddings, na-
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tives of Ohio and New York respectively. When
their son was about two years of age the family
removed to Marshalltowri, Iowa, where they made
their home for fourteen years. Coming to Cali-
fornia in 1874. they located first in Pasadena,
later made their home in Los Angeles for a
short time, going from there to San Jose, and
again in 1878 located in Pasadena. Here they
both passed away, the father in 1892 and the
mother in 1905. While in Iowa Joshua R. Gid-
dings received a fair common school education
and upon coming to California he attended the
Los Angeles high school and the state normal at
San Jose. The large undertaking inaugurated by
his father in platting and laying out the Mountain
Mew Cemetery made an opening for him when
his school days were over, and until the death
of the father the two were associated in its man-
agement. As president and manager of the cor-
poration he is conducting affairs along the policy
adopted by his father, with the result that Moun-
tain View Cemetery cannot be equalled from an
artistic point of view. He has also dealt quite
extensively in real estate, much of which he still
owns. Perhaps his largest and most important
undertaking along this line was the purchase of
twenty acres on east Colorado street, which he
subdivided, and from the sale of lots he received
handsome returns on his investment. He also
owns the old home place of sixty acres in Alta-
dena.
In Pasadena, in 1879, Joshua R. Giddings was
married to Miss Jennie Hollingsworth, a native
of Iowa, and a daughter of Lawson D. and Lu-
cinda (Maudlin) Hollingsworth, natives of Ohio
and Indiana respectively. From Peoria. 111.,
where they were pioneer settlers. Mr. and Mrs.
Hollingsworth located in Iowa City. Iowa, and
in 1876 came to California, settling in Pasadena.
After residing here nearly thirty years both
passed away on the same day, January 2~j, 1903.
They were affectionately known throughout the
surrounding country as Grandpa and Grandma
Hollingsworth. Mr. Hollingsworth built and
conducted the first grocery store here, and a son,
Dr. H. T. Hollingsworth, now of Los Angeles,
was the first postmaster. The parents belonged
to the Society of Friends. Mr. Hollingsworth
took an active part in the growth and develop-
ment of Pasadena, the public school, water com-
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pany and all matters of moment receiving his
stanch support. He owned fifty acres of land in
the heart of the city. To him was due credit for
introducing a number of new fruits into this
locality.
Six children have been born to the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Giddings, Lawson, Levi, Joseph,
Blanche, Paul and June, two of the sons assisting
their father in the management of the cemetery.
Mr. Giddings takes an intelligent interest in local
affairs, endeavoring by all means within his power
to promote the welfare of the town and county
with which his name has been associated for so
many years. He is a namesake of Joshua Reed
Giddings, who was elected to the legislature of
Ohio in 1826, and in 1838 was made a member
of congress, where he became prominent as an
opponent of slavery. In 1 8f> 1 he was appointed
consul-general to British North America, and
he died in Montreal May 27, 1864. He was a
brother of Joseph R. Giddings, the grandfather
of our subject.
WILLIAM E. DE GROOT. Not long since
there passed from the citizenship of Los An-
geles one of the most earnest and forceful
men identified with the business interests of
the city — William E. De Groot, wdio had been
established in this state since 1887, from then
until his death prominent in local movements
for the development of Southern California.
Mr. De Groot was a native of New York, and
was born November 26, 1858. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native state
until the age of fourteen, when he started out
on his life work. He remained a resident of New
York until 1880, when he located in the mid-
dle west, choosing Chicago for his first lo-
cation. Shortly afterward he went to St.
Paul, Minn., and engaged in business as a
merchant tador. Attracted to the Pacific coast
about this time he came to Los Angeles in
1887, and from that date up to the time of his
death he remained an important factor in pub-
lic enterprises. Although various enterprises
occupied his time, his first work of importance
was the laying out of Knob Hill tract, prop-
erty located just north of Westlake Park, and
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disposal of the lots. A little later he be-
came interested in the local oil industry, and
still later was one of the foremost promoters
of this enterprise during the Bakersfield ex-
citement. He was the sole promoter of the
immense enterprise known as the Reid Oil
Company, and was active for many years in
its management and upbuilding. Success ac-
companied his efforts and during his connec-
tion with this business he accumulated a fort-
une.
The greater portion of Mr. De Groot's time
was spent in Los Angeles and from this point
he exercised a controlling interest in move-
ments calculated to upbuild and develop the
southern coast. In East San Pedro he became
interested in the Crescent Wharf and Ware-
house Company and was president of the same
up to the time of his demise, continuing prom-
inent in the development of this enterprise.
Chief among his latest ventures in Los An-
geles was his erection and furnishing of the
Hinman, one of the most luxurious and tho-
roughly modern of the magnificent apartment
houses which this city affords for the comfort
of the countless guests that flock to Los An-'
geles. The building was something over a
year in the course of construction, being com-
pleted in December, 1903, and elegantly fur-
nished by a New York house, in which city
Mr. De Groot spent considerable time in at-
tending to the details of the business. Al-
though so recently established, the enterprise
was proving a financial success, as had all
others that had felt the master touch of Mr.
De Groot, — a man of strong and unerring
judgment, executive ability, and withal a nat-
ure of such strength of purpose and power,
that he could not help but win an enviable
place for himself among the citizens of this
western commonwealth. May 18, 1904, with
no warning as to the nearness of death, he
died of heart failure, being then just in the
prime of life and the power and vigor of man-
hood. Many friends felt his loss and his pres-
ence was missed in the business circles of the
city. He left a widow, formerly Miss Adalena
Hinman, a native of Michigan and a daughter
of A. B. Hinman. They were the parents of
two children, a son and daughter.
FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK. The in-
fluences which tended to mould the character of
Mr. Gottschalk in his youth were such as cluster
around the Rhine country in Germany, for there,
near the city of Solingen, he was born July 31,
1819. There also his father, Frederick John A.
Gottschalk, was born December 28, 1795, his
mother's birth occurring in the Fatherland also.
She was Miss Margaret Roenchen, the daughter
of a government official in that country.
When a lad of twelve years Ferdinand Gotts-
chalk accompained his parents to America, the
vessel on which they took passage from Rotter-
dam casting anchor on this side of the Atlantic
at Baltimore, in October, 1831, after eighty-
two days spent in transit. Two years and a half
after their settlement there they removed to St.
Louis, Mo., and there it was that the father's
earth life came to a close December 18, 1865.
His wife died on June 29, 1849. An excellent
training in the schools for which the Fatherland
is noted was the equipment with which Ferdinand
Gottschalk came to this country, supplementing
this by attending a private school in Baltimore
and the only public school of St. Louis. Ap-
proaching an age when the masculine mind natur-
ally turns to thoughts of a business career, it was
while in the schools of the latter city that an
opportunity was offered him to become clerk in
a general store in that city, an offer which he
seized with avidity, for he was ambitious to get
a start in the business world. The same per-
sistency and concentration of purpose which he
had learned during his school years entered into
his new duties, and the four years which he
spent in the mercantile business not only gave
him a practical training in methods, but enabled
him to lay by the means with which to learn a
trade. Having in the mean time determined to
master the carpenter's trade he devoted his means
and the time to its accomplishment, attending
private night schools to learn designing and
architectural drawing, at the same time working
in his father's shop. After he had mastered this
he began working at the carpenter's trade with
reference to house construction in St. Louis, later
engaging in contracting and building there on his
own account, a calling which he followed with ex-
cellent results as long as he continued in that
city. During the early part of the '70s he made a
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trip to California with his wife, and liking the
climate he made another trip and the third time,
in 1 88 1, located permanently to avoid the cold
winters and hot summers, at the same time set-
tling in Los Angeles, which has since been his
home. He was the first St. Louis man to locate
in Los Angeles.
January 7, 1840, Mr. Gottschalk was united in
marriage with Maria L. Gill, a native of Jack-
son county, 111., in which state the family name
was well known, her father, James Gill, having
settled there as a pioneer from Kentucky during
the very early days. Of the three children born
to Mr. and Mrs. Gottschalk, Nancy L. became
the wife of Judge Gottschalk of St. Louis, both
now deceased ; Sarah H. is now the wife of
Charles H. Matthay, and the mother of one child,
Ferdinand L. ; and Charles makes his home with
his parents. Mrs. Nancy L. Gottschalk was the
mother of four children, of whom three are now
living: Louis F., in New York; Ferdinand C,
of Los Angeles ; and Mrs. J. Bond Francisco also
of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Gottschalk take
great pride in their great-grandchildren. Politic-
ally Mr. Gottschalk has always favored Repub-
lican principles, and cast his first presidential ballot
for Benjamin Harrison. It was upon the Benton
Anti-Slavery ticket that in 1852 he was elected
to represent his district in the Missouri legis-
lature and as soon as the Republican party was
organized joined its ranks, subsequently repre-
senting his constituents in the senate of that
state. He served in the legislature from 1852
to 1881, during which time many important
measures yet in existence were enacted as laws.
Since coming to Los Angeles Mr. Gottschalk
has accumulated considerable valuable property
and is counted one of the well-to-do residents of
this prosperous city. Although now in his eighty-
seventh year he is hale and hearty, ami in the
enjoyment of all his life-long faculties is spend-
ing bis last years in quiet contentment, free from
remorse which too often accompanies the ac-
cumulation of wealth.
CLARENCE WARNER PIERCE, M. D.
The supreme medical director for the Frater-
nal Brotherhood and surgeon-general of the
Uniform Rank, is Dr. C. W. Pierce, one of
the able physicians of Los Angeles and a pop-
ular and highly esteemed citizen, whose ef-
forts have brought him personal success as
well as added to the material upbuilding of the
city. His father, James Washington Pierce,
was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., there
grew to y r oung manhood, and then became a
farmer in Delaware county, that state. His
pursuits were interrupted by the breaking out
of the Civil war, in which he enlisted. His
last days were spent in retirement in Los An-
geles, where he was a prominent figure in the
circles of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Dr. Pierce's mother was Frances Clark, daugh-
ter of Charles Clark, a successful farmer of
New York. She survived her husband and
now makes her home in Los Angeles. For
more complete details refer to the sketch of
Hon. F. E. Pierce, which appears elsewhere
in this volume.
Clarence Warner Pierce was born in Dela-
ware county, N. Y., May 29, 1871, and after
receiving a preliminary education through the
medium of the common schools, attended Col-
gate Academy in Hamilton, N. Y., for more
advanced instruction. He came to Los An-
geles in 1892 and engaged in the mercantile
business with his brother under the name of
the Pierce Furniture Company, after two years
taking up the study of medicine. He finally
entered the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Southern California and was graduated
therefrom in 1898 with the degree of M. D.
He first engaged as the resident physician at
the California Hospital for a year, then went
east and for a season was in Bellevue Hospi-
tal College. Returning to Los Angeks, he
practiced for several years, and in 1902 was ap-
pointed police surgeon for a term of two years.
Upon the expiration of his term he again took
up a general practice, and in December, 1905,
was made supreme medical director of the Fra-
ternal Brotherhood by its executive council.
January 5, 1906, he was elected to this office
at the special meeting of the Supreme Lodge
in Los Angeles, and in addition to the im-
portant duties which this entails upon him he
has still carried on his general practice, which
is fast growing to large proportions. He is
thoroughly progressive and keeps in touch
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with every forward step taken by his profes-
sion, and is affiliated with many societies,
among them the Alumni Association of the
Medical Department of the University of
Southern California, the American Medical and
State Medical Associations, the Southern Cal-
ifornia and Los Angeles County Medical So-
cieties, and the Clinical and Pathological So-
ciety of Los Angeles.
In Boston, Mass., Dr. Pierce was united in
marriage with Miss Florence Cook, a native
of Chelsea, that state, and they have one daugh-
ter, Lorna Catherine. Fraternally the doctor
is associated with various organizations, hav-
ing become a member of La Grande Lodge
No. 9, of the Fraternal Brotherhood, and
served on its examining board until election
to the present position he holds. He is a
charter member of the Uniform Rank of the
Fraternal Brotherhood, which he helped to or-
ganize, and of which he is now surgeon-gen-
eral. He was made a Mason in Pentalpha
Lodge No. 202, F. & A. M., of Los Angeles,
and now belongs to Signet Chapter No. 57,
R. A. M., Los Angeles Commandery No. 9,
K. T„ and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N.
M. S. He was made an Odd Fellow in Amer-
ica Lodge, of Los Angeles, and is also a mem-
ber of the encampment, and is also identified
with the Woodmen of the 'World. He belongs
to the Jonathan and University Clubs, two of
the prominent social organizations of Los An-
geles. In religion he is a member, of the
.Memorial Baptist Church, and liberally sup-
ports all its charities. Politically he is a stanch
advocate of Republican principles. Dr. Pierce
is public-spirited and enterprising and brings
to his chosen work an intelligent study and re-
search which places him in the front ranks of
those similarly occupied.
FRANK BRYSON. The public interests of
Los Angeles have in Frank Bryson an earnest
and loyal supporter, his personal affairs always
lying parallel with those of general growth. Al-
though young in \rars he has the advantage of
a connection with Southern California interests
through his grandfather and father, both of
whom were prominent citizens of Los Angeles,
upbuilders and promoters, and left the name of
Bryson indelibly stamped upon the progress and
advancement of the city and section. The grand-
father was John Bryson, Sr., a name familiar
in the annals of the city; he inherited the splen-
did traits of character which made his career
successful from Scotch-Irish ancestors, who set-
tled in Lancaster county, Pa., where he was born
June 20, 1819. He was one of the eldest in a
large family of children and early became de-
pendent upon his own resources. He became a
cabinet maker and followed this occupation for
more than twenty years. He lived in Ohio for
a time, then went to Iowa, and made his home in
Washington, the county seat of Washington
county. There, after years of effort, he suc-
ceeded in acquiring a fortune, with which he
came to Los Angeles in 1879 and invested in
various avenues which contributed no little to-
ward the material development of the city and
also the upbuilding of his personal fortunes.
Tlie Bryson block stands to-day as a monument
to his faith in the city which had just passed
through the perils of a "boom,"' this being erected
in 1888. a year after the close of activities here.
He served efficiently as mayor and brought to
hear in his administration the same qualities
which had given him personal success, while
other official honors could have been his had he
been disposed to accept them. He was both
brawn and brain in the advancement of the
city, the power behind the apparently hopeless
condition of affairs. As such his name to-day
holds a prominent place among the citizens of
Southern California. His son, John Bryson, Jr.,
was born in Iowa, and in manhood engaged in
the lumber business in Red Oak, where he made
his home until 1877. ^ n tms > car ' le brought
his family to Los Angeles and here established
a lumber business which was known as Bryson
& Sons Lumber Co.. and continued in this busi-
ness until his final retirement from the active
cares of life. His wife, formerly Mary Washam,
was born in Missouri of an old southern family,
and died in Los Angeles.
The only child of his parents. Frank Bryson
was born in Red Oak, Montgomery county, Iowa,
May 21, 1872. He was only five years old when
brought to Los Angeles, and here in the public
schools and also private institutions he received
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his preliminary education, attending Professor
Henderson's school in Los Angeles, and Pro-
fessor Stoneman's school at San Gabriel. He
was then sent east to attend high school in Ham-
burg, Iowa, from which he was graduated, then
attended Tabor College, in Tabor, Iowa. In his
senior year he left college and going to Wyom-
ing engaged in the cattle business in the employ
of the Middlesex Live Stock Company, of Bos-
ton, remaining with them for about three year-.
Going at the expiration of that time to Seattle,
Wash., he became purser on the steamer Has-
salau running out of that city ; at the time of the
fire in that city in 1889 he came to Los Angeles.
Here he entered the employ of the Los Angeles
Hat Company, later became manager of the
Harris & Frank Clothing Company, continuing
with them for six years. The ensuing four years
were spent as manager for Mullen & Bluett,
after which he established the firm of Bryson &
Logan, hatters and haberdashers. Eighteen
months later he sold out to his partner and then
assumed the management of the new store opened
by Harris & Frank on South Spring street, con-
tinuing with them until January 1, 1907. In the
meantime he was nominated by acclamation on
the Republican ticket to the office of public ad-
ministrator and was later elected by the second
largest majority on that ticket. On the 7th of
January he took the oath of office and is now
devoting his entire time and attention to these
interests, his office being in the Bullard block.
In Los Angeles, March 4, 1894, Mr. Bryson
was united in marriage with Miss Margaret
Beaver, a native of Toronto, Canada; she is a
member of the Episcopal Church. In his fra-
ternal relations Mr. Bryson is a Mason, having
been made a member of the order in Southern
California Lodge No. 278. F. & A. M. ; and is
also a member of Signet Chapter Xo. 57, R. A.
M. ; Southern California Commandery Xo. 9, K.
T.; and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. X. M. S..
being a member of the patrol. He also belongs
to Marathon Lodge Xo. 182. K. of P.. to the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, being past
exalted ruler of Lodge Xo. 99, and a delegate
to the Grand Lodge at Denver in 1906; and the
Knights of the Maccabees, being past commander
of Los Angeles Tent No. 2. For six years, from
1887 to 1893, he served in Company F, Seventh
Regiment of the California National Guards.
Politically he is a stanch advocate of Republican
principles. In his personal traits of character,
Mr. Bryson is a noteworthy citizen — gifted with
business ability which is winning him financial
returns, stanch in friendship which has given him
many friends, and loyal in the discharge of all
duties which have come to him in a public or
private capacity.
FRANK ANDREW McDONALD. Among
the young men of affairs who are contributing
towards enhancing the business and commer-
cial importance of Los Angeles, we find F. A.
McDonald, who is the son of Alexander B.
McDonald, president of the Occidental Trust
and Savings Bank, ami whose biography ap-
pears elsewhere in this work. He was born
at Sauk Center, Minn.. December 8. 187'). and
received his education in the public schools
and at Fargo College. At the age of seventeen
he left college while in his senior year to ac-
cept the position of managing editor of the
Fargo Daily Argus. During this time he be-
came interested in politics and took an active
part in forwarding the interests of the Repub-
lican party and with great credit to himself.
After three years he resigned as managing
editor of the Argus and he and his father were
among the first to begin the settlement of the
Mouse River Valley in North Dakota. In-
ducing settlers to locate there they established
a mail route and laid out the town of Ren-
ville. This occupied a period of three years,
when, on account of his health and needing a
business respite, he entered the law depart-
ment of Northwestern University, where he
attended until March. 1903. His parents lo-
cating in Los Angeles permanently at that
time, he decided to cast his lot here, too, and
soon became largely interested in real estate.
He was well and favorably known and was
successful in his operations. In the spring
of 1906 the mines of Nevada attracted his at-
tention to such a degree that he concluded to
engage in mining and established an office in
the Bradbury building, where he is now ex-
tensively engaged in handling stocks and
bonds, having incorporated the F. A. McDon-
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aid Company with a capital stock of $250,000.
He is president of the company. He is also
engaged in developing mines in South Ne-
vada, having organized the Mohawk Junior,
of which he is secretary. He is also secretary
of the Goldfield Gold Elk and the Daisy Ex-
tension. Mr. McDonald is also interested in
copper mines at Yerington, New, and in Ari-
zona.
In Los Angeles Mr. McDonald married Miss
Clara Milner, who is a native daughter of Los
Angeles and the daughter of the late John
Milner, who was cashier of the Farmers' and
Merchants' Bank from the foundation of that
institution until his death, and who receives
no small credit for the success of that institu-
tion.
Mr. McDonald organized the Los Angeles
Mining Exchange and is an active member.
He is a member of the Fargo Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., also the Consistory and Al Zagal Tem-
ple, X. M. S., and was the youngest thirty-
second degree Mason and Shriner in the
United States at the time of his admission.
He is a member of Fargo Lodge, B. P. O. E.
Mr. McDonald is just completing a $25,000
residence on Alvarado Terrace, one of the ele-
gant residences in the city. He has one of
the finest private art collections, including
many paintings of the old masters. Though
young in years, his strong personal attributes
are generally recognized and these character-
istics, taken in conjunction with his manifest
public spirit, his breadth of mind and his gen-
erosity of heart, have given him a place in the
esteem of his associates which few men attain
at his age of life.
JOHN PALLADY. The years that have
elapsed since the death of John Pallady have not
effaced from the minds of those who knew him
the splendid characteristics and qualities of man-
hood shown in his career in the middle west,
principally in Illinois and Iowa, where he was
well known as a merchant and farmer. He was
the representative of an old French family, his
father, John Pallady, having been born in France
in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
While still a voting man he came to the new-
world and finally settled at Malone, Franklin
county, N. Y. The second war with England
made demands upon the service of those able to
take up arms in defense of the young country,
and among those who responded to the call was
John Pallady, Sr.
It was while the family were making their
home in Plattsburg, Clinton county, N. Y., that
John Pallady, Jr., was born July 10, 1822. He
removed with the family to Franklin county, and
in Malone Academy received the finishing touches
to his educational training. His school days
over, he entered enthusiastically upon the busi-
ness life which lay before him, engaging in the
boot and shoe business in Malone. The attrac-
tions and inducements of the middle west, how-
ever, subsequently induced them to locate in
Springfield, III, there, as in the east, Mr. Pal-
lady continuing in the boot and shoe business, to
which he also added dealing in harness. Still
later they removed to Atlanta, Logan county,
111., he continuing the same line of business,
which had grown in magnitude and warranted
the erection of a large store building to accom-
modate his stock. There also they erected a
commodious residence, in which the family re-
sided as long as they made their home in Illinois.
Upon disposing of their interests in that state
Mr. and Mrs. Pallady removed to Wayne coun-
ty, Iowa, and near Corydon improved a fine farm
and built a large brick residence and farm build-
ings in keeping. Upon this farm of three hun-
dred and twenty acres they made a specialty of
stock-raising, and in this as in previous under-
takings they made a success. His death on his
Iowa farm May 31, 1893, brought to a close a
life of usefulness, one which reflected credit not
only upon himself, but one which had done much
for the upbuilding and betterment of his fellow-
citizens, for in whatever community he made his
home his interests and influence were always on
the side of the better element and no worthy
cause was allowed to lag for want of his support.
During young manhood he united with the Meth-
odist Episcopal Giurch, and throughout life he
adhered to the teachings of the faith to which
he gave allegiance. Fraternally he was a Mas-
ter Mason, and in his political preferences he
espoused Republican principles.
In Malone, N. Y., November 28. 1842, John
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Pallady was united in marriage with Miss Mary
J. Spencer, a native of that city, born February
6, 1825, the daughter of James C. and Mary
(Thomas) Spencer, natives of Massachusetts and
Brattleboro, Yt., respectively. Mr. Spencer was
a farmer and stock dealer in the vicinity of Ma-
lone, and his death occurred in Albany. Mrs.
Pallady is of English descent on the maternal
side, her grandfather, John Thomas, having been
born in London, England. After the old family
home in London was destroyed by fire the Metho-
dists purchased the property and subsequently
erected the first church of that denomination in
London. Under the altar of this primitive struc-
ture repose the mortal remains of John and
Giarles Wesley, the founders of Methodism.
Upon coming to the United States Mr. Thomas
settled in Brattleboro, Vt, where he rounded out
a creditable career as vineyardist and farmer.
Following in her religious faith the teachings of
her parents, Mrs. Pallady is a Methodist, having
been converted at the age of ten years. At that
early age, too. she united with the church, and
throughout her life she has exemplified the sincer-
ity of her belief. Nature gifted her with a fine
voice, and throughout her life her singing has
been greatly appreciated in the communities
where she has made her home. She was the eld-
est of seven children, of whom four are living,
and she was educated in Malone Academy.
Of the seven children born to the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Pallady six grew to years of ma-
turity as follows : Emma E., Mrs. Capt. Bos-
well, of Oregon ; Melville J., who died in Kan-
sas ; Loyal, a resident of Oklahoma, as is also
Albert, the youngest child ; Flora, at home ; and
George, who still makes his home in Wayne
county, Iowa. Some years after the death of
her husband Mrs. Pallady removed to California
and settled in Pasadena, and for a number of
years has owned and occupied the residence at
No. 827 W. Washington street. Wherever cir-
cumstances have placed her Mrs. Pallady has
radiated an influence that purifies and uplifts
those about her, her kindness and rare worth of
character endearing her to all. Mrs. Pallady and
her daughter Flora, who has been very active
and useful in the church, are members of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los An-
geles.
ANSEL E. GAMMON. Pasadena is the
home of a number of octogenarians who have
come here primarily for their health, and in se-
curing the prize for which they came have thus
added years to their lives. In 1899, at the age
of seventy-five, Mr. Gammon came to Pasadena
in the hope of restoring his lost health, and the
fact that he is now well and strong for a man
of nearly eighty-three years speaks volumes for
what the climate has accomplished in his case.
The records do not state in what year the Gam-
mon family became established on American soil,
but it is known beyond a doubt that the family
is of Scotch-Irish origin and that its appearance
in America ante-dated the Revolutionary war.
The grandfather, Daniel Gammon, who was born
in Gorham, Me., was a participant in that strug-
gle when only sixteen years of age, and took part
in the memorable battle of Bunker Hill. The
second war with England found his son. Samuel
Gammon, among the defenders of the colonies,
rendering a creditable service, for which he re-
ceived a pension throughout the remainder of his
life. Samuel Gammon was also born in Gor-
ham, Me., his wife, formerly Malinda Quint,
also being a native of that state.
Ansel E. Gammon was born in Somerset
county, Me.. March 1, 1824, and considering
the difficulties and disadvantages under which all
children of that early period labored in secur-
ing an education he became fairly well informed
and subsequently was privileged to attend a se-
lect school at Lexington, Me. His first effort
at gaining a livelihood was as a helper in the
logging camps of his native state. When he was
nineteen years old, in 1843, ms parents removed
to what was then considered the west, locating
on a farm in DeKalb county, 111., and Mr. Gam-
mon vividly recalls the hardships they had to
endure from the lack of necessities. He was an
adept with the axe, however, and with this he
started for Chicago, about sixty miles distant,
and through the winter of 1843-44 he chopped
cord wood west of what is now Lincoln Park,
in that city. In the spring he returned to De-
Kalb county and engaged in farming near Shab-
bona Grove until 1852. when he went to Living-
ston countv and remained. Upon the outbreak
of the Civil war he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-
second Illinois Infantrv. Colonel (later Briga-
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dier-General) Sweney commanding the regiment.
With his regiment Mr. Gammon went south and
was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee, be-
sides many other battles participating in the bat-
tle of Fort Donelson. After this memorable
struggle he lay sick in the hospital for some time
and was finally discharged on a physician's cer-
tificate of disability. Returning to Illinois, he
located first in Odell and engaged in the hard-
ware business and later, in 1875, went to Chi-
cago, where he engaged in a general teaming
business. Notwithstanding the fact that the
business was remunerative he disposed of it in
1883 and with his son, John P., went to Wyo-
ming and engaged in the stock business, making
a specialty of handling horses and cattle, and
built up one of the finest ranches of the country
at that time, remaining there from 1883 until
1893. Thereafter he returned to Chicago and
lived retired until he came to California.
Throughout his life Mr. Gammon thus far had
worked unceasingly and the constant strain had
made inroads upon his constitution to such an
extent that he was advised to try the climate of
California in order to recuperate his strength.
It was this advice that brought him to Pasa-
dena in 1899, and the fact that he is now hale
and hearty and in the possession of all of his fac-
ulties at over eighty-three years is proof con-
clusive that he made no mistake in locating in
this garden spot.
In 1852 Mr. Gammon married Miss Sophia
Wilber, and they had four children, as follows :
John P., who is now conducting a large horse
ranch in Wyoming; Malinda, who died aged
seventeen years, and Marinda, a twin, who with
her husband, Allen W. Greenman, resides in
Idaho; and Jennie G., who is the wife of W. S.
Metz, of Sheridan, Wyo., who is engaged in
the stock business in the adjoining state of
Montana. In 1877 ^ r - Gammon was again mar-
ried, Maria Wise of Pittsburg, Pa., a lady of
culture and refinement, becoming his wife. Mr.
Gammon is the proud grandfather of thirteen
children and has five great-grandchildren. Both
himself and his wife are members of the Con-
gregational Church, to whose support they both
give liberally. Politically he is a Republican,
supporting its principles from the time of cast-
ing his vote for J. G. Birney, the anti-slavery
candidate for president in 1844. He is a mem-
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic, belong-
ing to John F. Goddard Post of Pasadena, and
is a member of the lodge, chapter and com-
mandery in Masonary, all of Pasadena.
Rev. E. H. Gammon, a brother of Ansel E.
Gammon, was for many years prominently con-
nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church and
at the time of his death was a member of the
Rock River Conference. He was also the founder
of Freedman's Theological College at Atlanta,
Ga., devoting a large part of his means for the
construction of the buildings. On account of
trouble with his throat he resigned from the
ministry and engaged in the hardware and
agricultural implement business, which with other
business investments resulted in the accumula-
tion of a large fortune, and at his death he left
about $500,000 to Freedman's College.
JOHN MILNER. Prominent among the
men to whom the city of Los Angeles is deeply
indebted for its wonderful development, rapid
progress and present prosperity, was the late
John Milner. During his residence here of a
quarter of a century he was identified with the
establishment of various beneficial measures, by
his enthusiastic and able support contributing to-
ward their success. He was recognized as a man
of unquestioned integrity, straightforward and
honest in all of his transactions, and as one of
the most successful and competent financiers of
his time. A native of Germany, he was born,
February 5, 1834, in the city of Hanover, where
he received a collegiate education.
Leaving the Fatherland at the age of nineteen
years, John Milner immigrated to the United
States, and for about five years resided in the
city of New York. In 1858 he made his first
trip to California, coming via the Isthmus, and
for about two years was employed in mining.
In i860 he returned to the east, and upon the
breaking out of the Civil war entered the quar-
termaster's department, in which he served until
the close of the conflict. Mr. Milner then came
again to Los Angeles county, and, under Cap-
tain Swazey, served in the quartermaster's de-
partment in Wilmington for a number of years.
Resigning from the army, he entered the em-
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ploy of General Banning, becoming business
agent for the Los Angeles & Wilmington Rail-
road Company, with headquarters in Wilming-
ton. In 1874, giving up that position. Mr. Milner
became associated with the management of the
newly organized Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Los Angeles, first as secretary, and then as
cashier of the institution. Showing marked
financial ability, he retained this responsible
position until his sudden death, April 2j, [895.
For twenty-one years Mr. Alilner was connected
officially with the bank, and by his superior busi-
ness tact and judgment did much toward plac-
ing it among the strong and substantial financial
institutions of Southern California. A man of
rare ability, quick and accurate in discernment,
he was ever equal to all emergencies, and exerted
a good influence in business circles. Inherent
in him were the qualities of a noble manhood, his
unselfishness, amiability, broad views, and high-
minded principles winning him the esteem and
love of all with whom he was brought in con-
tact. His death was a public loss.
Mr. Milner was a stanch Republican in poli-
tics, a member of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, a devoted Episcopalian, and belonged to the
Masonic order. Mr. Milner was happy in his
social home life. Mrs. Milner came to Califor-
nia in 1861, and since 1864 has been a resident
of Los Angeles.
A. E. POMEROY. The association of A.
E. Pomeroy with business affairs of Los An-
geles during the past twenty-five years has
contributed materially to the development and
advancement of various enterprises which
have resulted in the commercial supremacy of
this city. He became a resident of Southern
California in 1881, removing at that time from
Santa Clara county, where, in San Jose, he
had taken a prominent part in public affairs
for a number of years, having served officially
as county clerk and commercially as cashier
of the San Jose "Savings Bank. His executive
ability, received both through inheritance and
training, was such as to enable him to acquire
a high position among the enterprising citizens
of Los Angeles by reason of his efforts to ad-
vance its interests commercially.
Born in New England of ancestry long
established on American soil and participants
in her movement for independence and suprem-
acy, Mr. Pomeroy inherited the traits of
character which have long distinguished the
citizens of this section of our country. His
education was received in the public schools
of California, and he is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of the Pacific, San Jose, Cal. After
his school days were over he engaged in an
independent effort to gain a livelihood. He
became a pioneer of California in 1853 and
since that date has given his efforts toward the
advancement of the commonwealth, believing
firmly in the future of the state and manifest-
ing his faith in a substantial manner. While
in San Jose he took an active part in the city's
advancement, rising to a position of promi-
nence among the business men, as county clerk
of Santa Clara county discharging his duties
in an able and efficient manner. In his ca-
pacity of cashier of the San Jose Savings Bank
he was instrumental in furthering the bank-
ing interests of that city and won for himself
a high reputation fur his sagacity and judg-
ment in financial matters.
The change of location for Mr. Pomeroy,
while it was a loss to the city of San Jose,
was a distinct gain for Los Angeles, for with
his residence he has given a loyalty that could
not but make him a helpful citizen. His in-
terests have been mainly along the real estate
line since his location here, his success being
such as to place him prominently among the
business men.- He has been associated with
manv of the most important movements in the
development of Southern California, being a
member of a syndicate that laid out various
tracts, among them the Temecula and San Ja-
cinto ranches; the towns of Puente, Gardena,
Alhambra and Long Beach ; the Iowa tract,
San Bernardino: the Burbank and Providencia
ranches upon which the town of Burbank
stands ; and was also active in the development
of Hermosa and Sunset beaches. Although
eminently progressive Mr. Pomeroy is also
conservative and never allows his enthusiasm
to blind his judgment, holding persistently to
the line which has been proven successful by
years of experience.
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Mr. Pomeroy holds various positions of
trust and responsibility, among which is the
vice-presidency of the State Mutual Building
and Loan Association, to which office he was
elected by the board of directors in 1893. This
association was organized in 1889 under the
laws of California and has since assumed a
place of importance in the business life of the
city, being managed by men of pronounced
ability whose private careers have manifested
the fitness of their present appointments. He
was also one of the organizers of the Union
Savings Bank of Los Angeles and has served
as a director and taken an active interest in its
advancement.
In 1871, in San Jose, Cal., Mr. Pomeroy was
united in marriage with Miss Florence A.
Wilcox, a native of Connecticut and their
home is now located at No. 217 West Adams
street. They have one son, Walter V. Pome-
roy. The family are members of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr.
Pomeroy has served for many years as trustee,
while his wife is active in the various ladies'
societies and both are uniformly liberal in their
support of all charities. In his fraternal rela-
tions Mr. Pomeroy is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and socially is a member
of the Union League Club and the City Church
Federation Club. Educational matters have
also claimed a large share of the attention of
Mr. Pomeroy and as trustee of the University
of Southern California he has taken an active
interest in its upbuilding. For three years he
served as president of the board of education
of Los Angeles and for eight years was one. of
the trustees of the state normal school, offi-
ciating for a part of that time as president of
the board of trustees. Thoroughly in touch
with modern methods and thought, Mr. Pome-
roy holds a place among the progressive and
broadminded men of this city and is always to
be found in the rank of citizens seeking the
mental, moral and physical welfare of its resi-
dents.
P. MAX KUEHNRICH. A high position in
the financial life of Los Angeles has been won
by Mr. Kuehnrich, one of the most enterprising
citizens of this section, and one who is deeply
interested not only in the personal upbuilding
of his fortune, but in the advancement and wel-
fare of his adopted home. Mr. Kuehnrich was
born in Erlau, Saxony, Germany, February 29,
1868, a son of Robert and Clara (Lauger)
Kuehnrich, honored residents of that section,
the father being a successful agriculturist of
Saxony. He received an excellent education in
the gymnasium and the L T niversity of Leipsic.
When but nineteen years old he came to the
United States and after remaining a short time
in New York City went to Milwaukee, Wis.,
and there engaged in newspaper work. Later
he was similarly occupied on the Bcllcstrictic
Journal, of New York City, and several brewer's
trade journals, remaining so occupied until 1897,
when he came to Southern California, and in
Los Angeles organized the Los Angeles Brew-
ing Company, of which he has ever since re-
mained president and active manager. The plant
was completed in 1898 and the manufacture of
beer begun at that time ; since then the enterprise
has been largely increased, and has now a cap-
ital stock of $500,000 with $300,000 paid in.
Thev own eleven acres of land on East Main
and Moulton streets, three acres being covered
with brick buildings of modern architecture,
fully equipped for their manufacture, which has
been increased to a capacity of six hundred bar-
rels per day. They have two ice machines, each
with a capacity of seventy-five tons, and have
on their property several wells with an abun-
dance of water whose excellence aids greatly in
the manufacture of a brew of superior quality.
This was the first company in California to ship
beer to the Orient, the first shipment being made
in [899, since which time they have built up a
large trade across the water, and also ship to
Nevada, Arizona. Xew Mexico and Old Mexico,
as well as all over the state of California. Their
exhibits won medals at both the St. Louis and
Portland expositions. The enterprise is one of
the most prominent of Los Angeles and is an
active force in the upbuilding of manufacturing
interests of this section, and to Mr. Kuehnrich
is largely due the credit for the success the com-
pany has won. He is a man of undoubted busi-
ness ability, shrewd and practical in judgment,
and knows and grasps an opportunity for the
advancement of his enterprise.
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In Chicago, 111.. Mr. Kuehnrich was united
in marriage with Miss Fannie Oppenheimer, a
native of Nuremberg, Germany, and born of this
union are two children, Elsa and Flora. The
social organizations of Los Angeles have in Mr.
Kuehnrich an active and helpful member, as he
is associated with the California, University and
Jonathan Clubs, as well as the Turn-Verein
and several singing societies, himself being a
musician of much ability. Fraternally he is a
prominent member of the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks. He takes a practical interest in
the development of public interests, and as a
member of the Chamber of Commerce is a power
in its upbuilding. Politically he gives his sup-
port to the Republican party, of whose principles
he is a stanch advocate.
WILLIAM HARVEY SUMMERS. A re-
tired capitalist of Los Angeles, William Har-
vey Summers has taken a prominent part in
the upbuilding and development of this section
of the country, and thus holds a place of im-
portance among the representative citizens.
He is a native of the middle west, his birth
having occurred in L 7 pper Alton, 111., Decem-
ber 16, 1830. He is the descendant of an old
Virginia family, whence the paternal grand-
father, William Summers, immigrated to Ken-
tucky in the days of its early settlement. He
reared a family, among whom was a son, Har-
vey Simpson, who was born in the Blue Grass
state, August 20, 1800. there reared to man-
hood and taught the trade of saddler and har-
ness-maker. This occupation he followed for
some years in his native state, finally removing
to Upper Alton, 111., where he continued in
the saddler and harness business. He was
elected justice of the peace, which position he
held up to about the time of his death, which
occurred in his eighty-third year. He married
Elizabeth Beam, who was born in Ohio, the
daughter of James Beam, a pioneer of that
state.
The boyhood of William Harvey Summers
was passed in the place of his birth, where he
received an education in the common schools.
He did not care to follow the trade of his
father, but early evinced an aptitude for busi-
ness life which enabled him to retain success-
fully his first position as clerk in a general
store. In 1852, in the employ of William J.
Gage & Co., he went to Greene county, 111.,
where he conducted the affairs of the com-
pany. In connection with this branch store
the company also operated a grist and saw
mill, which proved a factor of importance in
the upbuilding of this enterprise, as patrons
came from many miles in every direction to
this mill. Mr. Summers became a part owner
in the merchandise business and continued
with this firm until the business changed
hands, when he returned to his home at Upper
Alton. 111. That winter he read Charles Nord 1
hoff's book on California which told so many
glowing stories of that state and especially of
San Diego, that lie decided to come to Califor-
nia to see the country. Accordingly, in 1870,
he made the journey by way of the Central
Pacific Railroad to San Francisco and then
by boat to San Diego. Preceding his return
to Illinois in 1873, he was located for a short
time in Los Angeles, and coming back to this
state in 1874, he returned to Los Angeles,
where he purchased a half interest in a candy
business, the firm being known as Penoyer &
Summers. Disposing of his interest in this
business the following year, he removed to
Sonoma county and purchased three hundred
and fifty acres of land and engaged in farm-
ing and stock-raising. Xot meeting with the
expected success in this undertaking, he re-
turned to Los Angeles in 1876 and engaged in
buying and selling real estate, his means ac-
cumulating until he became owner of valuable
property consisting of the Summers block on
Spring street, the Cleveland hotel between
Grand avenue and Olive on Third street in
this city and five hundred and sixty acres of
farming land in Greene county. 111., which
brings him in a good income.
Mr. Summers has been four times married,
his first wife being Miss Miranda Wheeler, a
native of Ohio, who came with him a bride to
bis western home. His second wife was Miss
Lottie De Groot, and the third Miss Emma De
Groot. a sister, both of Los Angeles. He was
fortunate in having lovely wives, but unfor-
tunate in their untimely deaths. May 31. 1900,
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he married Miss Kittie Keating, of Litchfield,
111., his present wife, who was the daughter of
a very dear gentleman friend of his early days.
Mr. Summers is interested in various charita-
hle enterprises, regardless of denomination, to
which he liberally gives his support. His
home is located at No. 407 South Grand ave-
nue, where he is surrounded by the comforts
which his early years of industry have made
possible. In his political convictions he is a
stanch adherent of the principles advocated in
the platform of the Republican party and for
a time, when he had charge of the Illinois
stores, served in the capacity of postmaster.
Otherwise his life has been too busy to seek
or accept official recognition.
In reviewing the life of Mr. Summers an im-
pression is gained not of the opportunities
which presented themselves in his career, but
rather of the rugged and unswerving charac-
ter of the man. He has met with obstacles —
perhaps greater than those that fall to the lot
of the average man, for through a misfortune
in nowise the result of his own mistakes he
was compelled twice to begin a career, — but
he has allowed nothing to discourage him,
nothing to defeat his object which was to gain
the competence the world owes every citizen.
He has risen steadily to a position of financial
success, and at the same time has won the
esteem and confidence of all who know him as
a recognition of his integrity, his citizenship,
and the practical use of the talents which were
his both by inheritance and training.
JULIUS A. JACOBS. Preceded by years of
conservative commercial experience, Julius A.
Jacobs came to Pasadena in 1888, and in the
years that intervened between that time and his
death, August 29, [901, he formed an integral
part of the business and social life of his home
city. As a dealer in fuel and feed he established
and maintained a commendable business, and by
his upright methods and straightforward dealings
won what was of even greater value from a per-
sonal standpoint, the confidence and respect of
his fellow citizen-. Since his demise the business
has been continued under the management of
Mrs. Jacobs, with the assistance of her elder son,
Julius R.
Julius A. Jacobs was a native of the Father-
land, born in Freienwalde March 30, 1844. While
he was still a young lad he was influenced by
some relatives who had visited their home to
make his home with them in the new world, and
when only thirteen years old he embarked on a
vessel which in due time landed its passengers in
the port of New Orleans. As may be expected
he had some difficulty in adjusting himself to
the conditions and customs of his new home, not
the least of which was mastering the language,
but youth and perseverance bridge over many
obstacles, which was the case in Mr. Jacobs' ex-
perience. From New Orleans he went to Shreve-
port. La., where he secured a clerkship in a gen-
eral store. Upon relinquishing this position he
was taken into partnership in a general merchan-
dise business conducted by his relatives, this be-
ing one of the largest and most flourishing stores
in the city and one well known throughout the
south. Soon afterward Mr. Jacobs established a
wholesale and retail fancy dry-goods business
which grew to large proportions and which he
conducted until his removal to California. He
was the first merchant to introduce lady clerks
in northern Louisiana and the first to use the
penny in change. While in Shreveport he became
an important factor in the public life of the city.
and during the last year of the Civil war served
efficiently as assistant postmaster; prior to this
he had been a soldier in a Confederate regiment.
Upon disposing of his interests in Shreveport
Mr. Jacobs came directly to Pasadena, Gal., and
as in the south he entered the commercial life
of his adopted home, the change in commodities
handled marking the only difference, for the same
enterprise which had been the keynote of his suc-
cess in the south was visible here also.
In [871, in Shreveport, La.. Mr. Jacobs was
united in marriage with Miss Lillian M. Dawes,
a daughter of Richard and Rosaline (Yenni)
Dawes, her parents being old-time residents of
that southern city. Four children blessed the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, named as fol-
low- : Maude A., the wife of Thaddeus A. Win-
ter, and a resident of Colville, Wash. ; Julius R.,
who also at one time lived in that northern state,
hut since the death of his father has been a resi-
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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dent of Pasadena, where with his mother he is
continuing the business established by the senior
Mr. Jacobs ; and Aileen and Rodney A., both at
home with their mother. Though the victim of
a lingering illness, having suffered with Bright's
disease for a number of years, the immediate
cause of Mr. Jacobs' death was heart trouble.
Several months before his death, with his wife
and younger son, Rodney, he took a trip north
to visit his two eldest children, Maude and Julius
R. He spent the summer on the Sound and died
at the home of his daughter in Washington, his
remains being brought to his home in Pasadena
for burial. His funeral was conducted by the
Knights Templar, being the first to be held under
their auspices in Pasadena. He was an attendant
of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs.
Jacobs is a member. Fraternally he was a Mason,
belonging to blue lodge, chapter and comman-
dery, also to the Scottish Rite and Shrine, all of
Southern California. One of the influences which
led Mr. Jacobs to select Pasadena as his future
home was the moral tone of the town. He gave
iiberallv towards its upbuilding, this also being
true of all places where he had interests. As
did her late husband, Mrs. Jacobs takes a keen
interest in all matters affecting the welfare of
her home city. She is also a prominent factor in
the social life of the city, and is a lady of much
culture and refinement. Among other organiza-
tions which claim her membership may be men-
tioned the Shakespeare Club. In 1904 she erected
her present residence at No. 168 North Marengo
avenue, a structure which is a model architec-
turally, and which in its fittings and appointments
reflects great credit upon its owner.
SPENCER ROANE THORPE. The south
has given to the Pacific coast many men of
culture and broad mental attainments and
among them few have excelled the late Spen-
cer Roane Thorpe, whose versatility of mind
and force of personality impressed every mem-
ber of his circle of acquaintances and every
locality of his residence. The traits which
made him a leader among men came to him as
an endowment from a long line of gifted an-
cestors both on the paternal and maternal
sides. Through his father, Thomas James
Thorpe, he traced his lineage to England and
to a long line of barristers and counselors-at-
law. Through his mother, who was Sarah
Ann Roane, a daughter of Lafayette Roane,
he was a descendant in the third generation
of Judge Spencer Roane, a Revolutionary hero,
who later became one of the jurists of Vir-
ginia. The wife of Judge Roane was Ann
Henry, daughter of Patrick Henry of Vir-
ginia. The statue of Patrick Henry and the
portrait of Judge Spencer Roane in the state
house at Richmond show the important place
these two patriots held in the early history of
the Old Dominion. One of the counties in
what is now West Virginia received its name
from the Thorpe family.
P)Orn in Louisville, Ky.. in 1842. Spencer
Roane Thorpe received his education prin-
cipally in St. Joseph's College at Bardstown,
Ky. At the opening of the Civil war. fired
with an enthusiastic devotion to the land of
his birth and the home of his ancestors, he
gave himself to the cause of the south. For
one year Re served as a member of the Second
Regiment of Kentucky Infantry. Upon the
disbanding of that regiment he joined Mor-
gan's Cavalry, in which he was promoted to
I;e a lieutenant and later commissioned cap-
tain. In the battle of Condon, Ind., he was
three times wounded and left on the field for
dead. In that way he fell into the hands of
Federal troops and was sent to a hospital, but
was soon transferred to Johnson Island, where
he suffered the fearful hardships of a cold win-
ter, insufficient nourishment and other priva-
tions. When released from the island he was
a physical wreck and never afterward did he
fully recover from the effects of that time of
suffering.
Going to Louisiana and seeking an opening
for the earning of a livelihood. Mr. Thorpe
taught school until he was physically and fi-
nancially able to take up the study of law,
which he pursued under the preceptorship of
Judge E. N. Cullom of Marksville. La. After
having been admitted to the bar he took up
professional practice and continued in the
same until he left the south. Meanwhile he
devoted much time to the acquisition of a thor-
ough knowledge of the French language, with
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which he became thoroughly conversant. In-
deed, his command of the language was so per-
fect that the United States government re-
tained his services as attorney in all the
French cases that arose on account of the
Civil war, and in all of these cases he was
successful. As soon as he had accumulated
sufficient money he began to invest in lands
and city property and became the owner of a
fine plantation. For some time he was a
member of the board of trustees of the Louisi-
ana State University, and for one term he held
the office of district attorney.
During 1877 Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe made
their first trip to the Pacific coast and spent
six months in California. In 1883 they re-
turned as permanent residents, settling in San
Francisco, but in 1886 they removed to Ven-
tura county and settled three miles east of
Ventura, buying lands in the Santa Clara val-
ley that have since become famous. The wal-
nut grove of one hundred and fifty acres which
Mr. Thorpe set out and improved is said to
be the finest orchard of the kind in the entire
county, and he also owned farms in various
parts of the valley on both sides of the river.
In 1889 he established his residence in Los
Angeles, although afterward he continued to
spend considerable time in Ventura county in
the supervision of his extensive landed in-
terests, and he died on his Moorpark ranch
September 1, 1905, at the age of sixty-three
years. Of genial and companionable person-
ality, he enjoyed intercourse with his fellows
and maintained a warm interest in the various
organizations of which he was a member,
namelv: the Masons, the United Confederate
Veterans, the Sons of the Revolution and the
Society of Colonial Wars.
The marriage of Mr. Thorpe was solemnized
at Marksville, La.. January 20, 1868, and
united him with Miss Helena Barbin, who
was born and reared in that town, and re-
ceived an excellent education in private
schools supplemented by study in the Convent
of Presentation at Marksville. She was one
of nine children, five of whom survive, she
being the only member of the family in Cali-
fornia, Her father, Ludger, the first white
child born at Marksville, was the son of an
attorney who was sent to Marksville as the
judge of the parish. The first member of the
Barbin family in America came from Paris to
New Orleans and held a commission from the
king of France as a custom-house official. The
mother of Mrs. Thorpe was a native of the
parish of Avoyelles and bore the maiden name
of Virginia Goudeau, her father, Julian, being
an extensive planter of that parish and a de-
scendant of French ancestors early established
in New Orleans. Mrs. Barbin died some years
ago, but the father is still living and now
makes New Orleans his home.
Mrs. Thorpe is allied with movements for
the upbuilding of the race and is also promi-
nent in social circles and a member of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Since the
death of her husband she has made her home
in Santa Paula, but spends a considerable por-
tion of each year in Los Angeles. In her fam-
ily there are five children, namely : Helena,
wife of Dr. Edwin J. Riche, of Marksville:
Andrew Roane, attorney-at-law, of Eureka,
Cal. : Virginia Roane, wife of Harry L. Dun-
nigan, of Los Angeles; Spencer Guy, teller of
the Broadway Bank and Trust Company ; and
Carlyle. cashier of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Santa Paula. The eldest son received
his education in St. Vincent's College and
later entered the dental department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, from which he received
the degree of D. D. S. However, he did not
take up dental practice, but instead turned his
attention to the study of law and in due time
received admission to the bar in San Francisco,
since which time he has engaged in profes-
sional work at Eureka, this state, where he
ranks among the leading members of the pro-
fession.
WILLIAM J. SHERRIFF. Among the citi-
zens of Los Angeles who have aided materially
in the city's upbuilding and development during
the past seven years is William J. Sherriff, a
successful business man before locating here and
since his removal to the Pacific coast prominent
in commercial affairs. Mr. Sherriff first came
to California in 1887 from his native city, Pitts-
burg, Pa., where he was born February 20, 1841.
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His father, John H. Sherriff, was born in Law-
rence county. Pa., where he engaged as a cop-
persmith and manufacturer until his death. He
was of Scotch descent, the paternal ancestor be-
ing one of three brothers who immigrated to this
country at the time of the Revolutionary war
and participated in that historic struggle for in-
dependence, while his son fought gallantly dur-
ing the war of 1812. Air. SherrifFs mother was
formerly Sarah McGraw, also a native of Penn-
sylvania, and the descendant of another old
Scotch family. Of her three sons and three
daughters all but one son are now living ; besides
William J. two sons, Henry Clay and Charles
F., participated in the Civil war.
William J. Sherriff was reared to young man-
hood in Pittsburg, where he attended the public
schools in pursuit of an education. He learned
the trade of coppersmith and plumber, but his
civic pursuits were interrupted by his enlistment
in 1862 in the One Hundred and Forty-second
Pennsylvania Infantry, as a private in Company
I. Following his enlistment he served in the
Army of the Potomac and participated in the
battle of Gettysburg, being in the first army corps
that opened the fight. The first day he was
wounded three times, twice in the right leg and
once in the left ; three days later was captured
and later was retaken by his own regiment. He
received an honorable discharge in June, 1864,
being at that time a cripple from the effects of
his wounds. He returned to Pittsburg and there
looked after his father's wholesale hardware
business. In 1865 he succeeded his father in
business, an enterprise which had been established
in 1820, and following this he engaged in the
manufacture of copper, brass and iron goods,
managing the foundry, machine shops and the
finishing of the articles. While thus occupied
Mr. Sherriff patented twenty inventions which
proved of invaluable help in the manufacture of
his goods. A little later he organized and in-
corporated what became known as the J. B. Sher-
riff Manufacturing Company, with himself as
president, and he and his father the principal
stockholders. This enterprise continued under
his management until 1896, when they sold out.
In the meantime, in 1887, Mr. Sherriff had come
to California and becoming interested in the
country and its future he decided to make this
place his permanent home. Accordingly, in 1892,
he established the Keystone Mining & Manu-
facturing Company at Santa Paula, and while
looking after the management of this concern he
also engaged in stock-raising and farming on
a ranch of two thousand acres in the Santa Clara
valley. Sixty acres of this ranch were devoted
to orchards, while he also gave some attention
to the cultivation of beans. Until 1901 Mr.
Sherriff continued thus occupied, when he sold
out his interests with the exception of two hun-
dred acres which he still owns, and in that year
he located in Los Angeles. Here he purchased
land and laid out what is known as Sherriff place,
situated on Washington street, between Tober-
man and Union avenues, and which now has
fifteen residences on it. Besides this he also owns
other valuable property in this city. He has
taken a deep interest in other matters of public
interest, assisting in the organization of the
National Bank of Commerce, of which he is a
director, and is likewise identified with the Man-
hattan Savings Bank, of which he has served as
vice-president.
In Pittsburg, in 1865, Mr. Sherriff was united
in marriage with Miss Charlotte M. Seiferheld,
a native of Ohio; they became the parents of
one daughter, who died in 1886. They have
since adopted a daughter, Florence Sherriff. Mr.
Sherriff is a member of Stanton Post No. 55, G.
A. R., and politically is a stanch advocate of Re-
publican principles. He is a member of the
Christian Giurch and liberally supports all its
charities. In all his associations Mr. Sherriff
has proven himself a man of strong character and
integrity, helpful as a business man in the pros-
perity of the general community, a practical
friend to all who enjoy his friendship, and an
earnest, liberal and public-spirited citizen, whose
best efforts are always given toward the upbuild-
ing and development of public interests.
ED W. HOPKINS. The present county
assessor of Los Angeles county has made his
home in the city of Los Angeles for seventeen
years or more and meanwhile has formed a cir-
cle of business and social acquaintances extend-
ing throughout his home city and county. He is
a native of the middle-west, born in Oskaloosa,
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Mahaska county. Iowa, March 25, 1863, the son
of Dr. John Y. Hopkins, the latter a native of
Ohio and the descendent of English antecedents.
After preparing for the medical profession in his
native state he became a pioneer physician and
surgeon in Iowa, locating in Oskaloosa. During
the Civil war he volunteered his services, becom-
ing surgeon of the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry.
Some years after the close of the conflict, in
1869, he removed from Oskaloosa to Guthrie
Center, and there continued to follow his pro-
fession until his death. His marriage united
him with Miss Mary Needham, she, too, being
a native of Ohio and the daughter of David
Needham. Mr. Needham descended from a long
and noble line of New England ancestors and
he himself became an early pioneer of Ohio and
later of Iowa. The mother died in St. Louis,
Mo., in 1894.
Seven children were born into the parental
household and five are still living, as follows :
F. M. is a resident of Iowa; W. C. is in San
Francisco ; H. L. is in Los Angeles ; E. W. is
the present county assessor of Los Angeles coun-
ty : and C. W. is a physician of this city. Next to
the youngest of the family, E. W. Hopkins was
a child of about six years when the family home
was transferred from Oskaloosa to Guthrie Cen-
ter, and consequently his education was received
in the latter place. As a supplement to his com-
mon-school training he took a course in Simp-
son College at Indianola, later returning to
Guthrie Center to devote his attention to the
study of law. He passed a creditable examina-
tion and was admitted to the bar in 1887. For
two years he practiced his profession in Seward
county, Kans., and in 1889 he went to Portland,
Ore., remaining there until 1891, when he came
to Los Angeles, which has since been his home
and the scene of his activities. Four years after
locating here, in 1895, he was appointed a deputy
county assessor and continued in the capacity of
a deputy in the assessor's, auditor's and collec-
tor's offices for Los Angeles county up to tin-
year 1903, when his efforts were concentrated
as deputy assessor, and in January, 1907, he was
made chief deputy. After the death of Ben E.
Ward he was appointed by the county board of
supervisors to the office of county assessor, his
appointment bearing date September 4, 1907.
Mr. Hopkins' marriage, which occurred in
Los Angeles, united him with Miss Martha Mc-
Yicker, a native of Ohio, and six children have
been born to them. Decidedly Republican in his
political opinions, Mr. Hopkins has always given
his support to the principles of the party which
he supports, and for years has been prominent in
local affairs, and has served as a member of the
Republican county central committee. His
father's service in the Civil war makes him eli-
gible to the order of Sons of Veterans, and his
name is enrolled among the members of that
society. Throughout his career as a public offi-
cial Mr. Hopkins has won a host of friends on
account of his unswerving devotion to his duty
and honesty of purpose, and all who know him
admire him for his pleasing personality.
CHARLES M. PARKER. A man of ability
and integrity, enterprising and practical, Charles
M. Parker is well known in the business circles
of Pasadena, with whose changing fortunes he
is well acquainted, his residence here dating back
to the year 1885. The fact that he had faith to
believe in the final supremacy of the settlement
of that day is proof positive of the possession of
an optimistic and persevering nature, to which,
more than to any other one quality, his success
may be attributed.
Charles M. Parker is a native of the rugged
state of Maine, born in Jay, Franklin county,
November 17, 1843, the son of parents who knew
the value of an education and hence gave their
son every opportunity in that direction which it
was in their power to bestow. His primary edu-
cation was gained in the schools of his home
town, and from there he went to Kent's Hill,
Kennebec county, Me., and matriculated as a stu-
dent in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Fe-
male College, and later attended AVesleyan Uni-
versity of Middletown, Conn., from which latter
institution he was graduated in 1868. There-
after he put his scholastic training to use by
taking up the teacher's profession, for a time be-
ing an instructor in Kent's Hill, Me., and from
there going to the Wesleyan Female College at
Cincinnati, Ohio. Returning to the New Eng-
land states from there, for fifteen years there-
after he was professor of Latin in the Wesleyan
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Academy at Wilbraham, Mass. It was at the
close of his term in this latter institution that
he came to the Pacific coast country and took up
work of a very different nature and in surround-
ings that in comparison to the established condi-
tions in the east were new and untried. Settling
in Pasadena when it was comparatively a small
town, he soon discerned the great possibilities
offered by the place and its surroundings and at
once began the work of promoting enterprises of
the greatest public utility. Among these may be
mentioned the Lake Vineyard Land and Water
Company, which was organized in 1883 by a
number of public spirited citizens, and which was
incorporated the following year for $250,000.
For nearly a score of years past its officers have
been : Giarles M. Parker, president ; George A.
Durrell. secretary ; the San Gabriel Bank acting
as treasurer; while the directors are J. N. Allin,
James Clarke, C. C. Brown, E. H. Royce. F. D.
Stevens, and William R. Staats. The Lake
Vineyard Land and Water Company supplies
water for irrigation and domestic use to a large
territory, including the greater portion of the
citv east of Fair Oaks and south of Mountain
street. Besides his important position as presi-
dent of the latter company Mr. Parker is also a
director and stockholder in the First National
Bank of Pasadena, director and stockholder in
the Pasadena Grocery Company, and is interested
in other business enterprises in the city also.
Considering his keen interest in matters of edu-
cation it is but natural to find him a member of
the school board of Pasadena, and in that body
his ideas are w r ell received and have considerable
weight with his co-laborers. He is also a mem-
ber of the board of trustees of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, of which he is a member,
and was the first president of the local Y. M. C.
A.
August 17. 1S71, Mr. Parker was married to
Miss Mary E. Hatch, like himself a native of
Maine, her birth occurring in Sanford, York
county. Mrs. Parker's father, Stephen Hatch,
was descended from an old established New Eng-
land family, and he himself was a well-known
figure in the town of Sanford. Four children,
three daughters and one son, have blessed the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Parker, as follows :
Emma E., Mary M., Edith B. and Carl H. All
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are well educated and are graduates of Pomona
College. The son is preparing for a profession-
al career and is now a student in Rush Medical
College, Chicago. 111. With their three daughters
Mr. and Mrs. Parker form a happy home circle,
and in their pleasant residence at No. 476 South
Los Robles avenue they entertain their many
friends in a royal and hospitable manner. Be-
sides his association with the Lake Vineyard
Land and Water Company for the past sixteen
years many other enterprises have benefited by
Mr. Parker's clear and penetrating judgment,
nowhere more essential, perhaps, than in settling
up estates, and as executor or administrator his
services have been of inestimable value upon a
number of occasions. Apart from his business
capability Mr. Parker is admired for his fine
personality, for in him is found that strong
mental and moral timber which, more than any
other agency, has contributed its telling strokes
toward the supremacy of the state of California.
JOHN HENDERSON The mining inter-
ests of the southwest have in John Henderson,
one of its most successful advocates, for with-
out means he began life and is now comfort-
ably established and secure in the possession
of that competence which is the aim of every
man. Mr. Henderson inherits the sterling
traits of character which have distinguished
his career, being a native of Scotland, born in
the city of Edinburgh February 17, 1856. He
was the fifth son in the family of his parents,
Alexander and Katherine (McGuire) Hender-
son, and grandson of Morris Henderson; the
two elder men engaged in the coal mines of
Scotland throughout their entire active lives.
The father, now quite advanced in years, is
visiting his son in Pasadena, the mother hav-
ing died in 1899 m Mexico.
John Henderson was educated in the com-
mon schools of Scotland and later attended
the South Sidney Academy in Canada, where
his parents had located. After leaving school
he engaged in the copper mines of Newfound-
land for the period of four years, when he
came to the United States, and in Tucson,
Ariz., engaged in the gold and copper mines
of that section. In 18S5 he went to Sonora,
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Mexico, and became actively identified with
several of the most prominent companies ope-
rating in that section, and at present is act-
ing as a stockholder and general manager in
four companies, namely : the Porvenir de So-
nora, S. A., the Reina de Cobre, S. A., the San
Felipe Mining Company and the El Oro. He
is also interested in the internal development
of the southwest and is actively associated
with the new railroad, Arizona and Gulf, he
having secured the concession for the build-
ing of same.
In 1S82 Mr. Henderson married Miss Eliza-
beth B. Marshall, of Newfoundland, and they
are now residing at No. 335 South Los Robles.
in a handsome residence modern in all its ap-
pointments. They are the parents of the fol-
lowing children: John R., Alexander, Mary
S., Harry S., Florence Elena, Louise H. and
Lawrence M. Mr. Henderson is esteemed as
a citizen and ranked among the progressive
spirits of Pasadena.
JOSEPH WASHINGTON FREY. A quar-
ter of a century has passed since Mr. Frey located
in the city of Los Angeles and during that time
he has witnessed and participated in the wonder-
ful development which has marked this beautiful
southern city. A native of the middle west, Mr.
Frey was born in Battle Creek, Mich., February
22, 1846. Two brothers served in the Civil war
— Andrew, in the United States navy, aboard the
flagship Black Hawk, and James in Company C,
Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, the latter
being wounded and captured at Fort Saunders
and spending eighteen months in Confederate
prisons. He now resides in East Leroy. Mich.
Their father, Joseph Frey, was born in Switzer-
land, and in young manhood he immigrated to
America and located in West Alexandria, Ohio,
thence going to Michigan, where he was one of
the early pioneer settlers.
Joseph Washington Frey was reared in Michi-
gan and educated in the public and high schools of
Battle Creek, after which he attended Albion Col-
lege. Although only a hoy he volunteered twice
for service during the Civil war and was rejected
both times. Reared in an atmosphere of business
affairs, it was natural that he should seek this
work for his first independent employment, ac-
cepting a position as traveling salesman for Burn-
ham & Co., of Battle Creek. This took him
throughout all the states east of the Mississippi
river and added immeasurably to his business
training. In Battle Creek he engaged in the
manufacture of furniture for nine years, mak-
ing a specialty of manufacturing tables. In
1883 he decided to make a change of location and
accordingly sold out his interests in Battle Creek
and came at ence to the Pacific coast, establish-
ing himself in Los Angeles, which was then a
city of twelve thousand inhabitants. He began
work as a manufacturer of mantels and as a
carver in wood, his being the first business of the
kind in Southern California and the second on
the coast. He established his business first at
Kerckhoff & Cuzner's mills, and later removed to
a location on North Main street, near the Plaza,
and here he conducted a constantly increasing
business for sixteen years. In his work Mr. Frey
has shown the sagacity and unerring judgment of
a successful business man, believing firmly in the
future of the city in which he located so many
years ago, and at a time when there was absolutely
no promise of its coming prosperity. He has used
California woods in the manufacture of mantels,
thus utilizing home products anil encouraging
home industries to such an extent that he is justly
named among the leading manufacturers of the
city and one of the men to whom much credit
is due for the promotion of such upbuilding en-
terprises. Besides manufacturing and selling his
own goods, he imports carved mantels from 1 taly
and France. He continued to build up his busi-
ness, finally locating on South Broadway between
Fifth and Sixth streets, where he had both
factory and store for about eight years, and then
in 1903 he built a factory on Los Angeles street
near Twelfth, a brick building 50x150 feet in
dimensions and two stories in height, and here
he turns out the finest work of the kind in South-
ern California, having furnished ninety per cent
of the best houses in Southern California with
mantels.
Mr. Frev was one of the men who assisted in
the organization of one of the greatest develop-
ing influences of Los Angeles — the Chamber of
Commerce, — and he has since remained a stanch
supporting member. From the time of its or-
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ganization up to within a brief time he was also
an active member of the Merchants & Manu-
facturers Association. He has not allowed his
business occupations, however, to so engross his
attention that he has found no time for pleasure
pursuits, and for eighteen years he has been a
member of the Recreation Gun Club, of which
he is now acting as commissary. Politically he is
a stanch advocate of the tenets of the Republican
party.
FRANK WALKER. The industrial calen-
dar of Los Angeles contains the name of no
citizen whose abilities have resulted in more
lasting good to the city than that of Frank-
Walker, who, since early manhood, has found
an outlet for his unusual adaptability in sev-
eral avenues of activity throughout the west,
aside from his chosen occupation of building.
He is the son of Francis and Elizabeth (Hud-
son) Walker, who were hardy pioneers of
Canada and who reared six boys to years of
usefulness, Frank Walker being the youngest
of the family and the only one in California.
Born on March 2<j. 1843, within eighteen miles
of Niagara Falls, Mr. Walker is a native of
the town of Kincardine, Canada West, where
he spent his childhood and young manhood,
but the greater portion of his life since he
was twenty years of age has been passed in
business activities west of or in the Rocky
mountain districts.
The year 1864 witnessed the arrival of Mr.
Walker in California, the journey west being
accomplished via Panama, on the steamer
Ocean Queen to Aspinwall. and aboard the
Golden Age to San Francisco, arriving in the
latter city May 7, twenty-four days after leav-
ing New York City. Soon after coming to this
state he went to Eureka. Humboldt county,
and engaged in lumbering for a time, after-
wards going to Big Bend, near the headwaters
of the Columbia river in British Columbia, but
filled with the desire to see more of the coun-
try, he went to Idaho, where he helped to
build the first mill on the famous Poor Man
mining claim at Silver City, and later had
charge of mills on the Carson river in Nevada
for about three years. In 1870 'he returned to
San Francisco and engaged in building and
contracting, three years later changing his loca-
tion to Santa Barbara, where he erected some
of the first brick blocks in that town. Among
the buildings he erected in Santa Barbara may
be mentioned the Odd Fellows' building, the
city hall, the Stearns building, and many pri-
vate residences. Fie also constructed the first
street railway in Santa Barbara, that from the
wharf to the Arlington hotel. Journeying to
Old Mexico in 1879 in search of more prolific
fields, Mr. Walker engaged in mining in San
Antonio and also built and operated a mill for
the San Antonio Mining and Milling Com-
pany. Not content, however, with Mexico as
a permanent abiding place, he removed to
Tombstone, Ariz., a year later, where he be-
came prominent in the upbuilding of this then
wild mining center, building the first water
works in the town, furnishing plans for and
taking charge of the construction of the court
house, one of the finest in the territory, and
the city hall. He erected numerous business
houses and furnished the architectural plans
for several other buildings, both public and
private.
Led by climatic as well as business consid-
erations to cast his lot with the people of Los
Angeles, he became identified with this city in
1885 and engaged in building and contracting
until 180.2. meeting with fair success, and at
the end of that time removed to San Francisco,
where he remained five years. Returning to
Los Angeles, where he has since been located,
he looked after his previously acquired inter-
ests here and continued in the general con-
tracting and building business. Mr. Walker
has erected many residences and flats in dif-
ferent parts of the city, though his activities
have by no means been confined to this one
line of business. He patented the solar heater,
that device used so extensively in Southern
California, and which has proved such a con-
venience and comfort to so many families.
This solar heater is manufactured by the Cali-
fornia Water Heater Company of Los Angeles.
Mr. Walker has one son. Frank H., whose
birth occurred in Santa Barbara. He received
his education in Stanford University, and is
now engaged in the wholesale handling of
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stoves and ranges in San Francisco. He was
formerly private secretary to the president and
general manager of the Frisco Road, with
headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. Up to 1895
Mr. Walker shewed commendable activity in
the Republican party, in the principles and
issues of which he then had great faith, but
undergoing a change in his political views, he
later affiliated with the Democrats, by which
party he was elected to the city council in
1900 as representative of the Third ward, tak-
ing his oath of office in January of that year.
He has also been chairman of the zanja com-
mittee, a member of the land committee, and
of the water supply committee. Of late years
Mr. Walker has affiliated with no political
party, preferring to be independent in politics.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Los Angeles Pioneers, and is associated
with the Santa Barbara lodge and chapter of
Masons, and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, both lodge and encampment. Per-
sonally he is a man of sound commercial
astuteness, irreproachable integrity, esteemed
by all who know him and occupies a promi-
nent place as a citizen. While in the council
he opposed and was the means of preventing
the street railway corporations from getting
the celebrated freight-carrying franchise,
which would have allowed freight cars to run
on some of the principal streets of the city.
JOHN LANG. One of the old settlers and
prominent pioneers of Los Angeles was John
Lang, whose death, December 9, 1900, removed
from the community a practical and helpful citi-
zen whose best efforts had always been given fi >r
the upbuilding and development of the city and
section. He was a native of England, his birth
having occurred in Devonshire December 9,
1826. He received his education through the
medium of the common schools, after which he
learned the trade of blacksmith. The discovery
of gold in California led to his immigration to
the state in 1840, but after spending a year there
went to Australia. After a short stay in the lat-
ter cotmtrj be returned to California, and from
here went to < Iregon, where he participated in
the Rogue River Indian war. A trip to Cali-
fornia was followed by a time spent in the mines
of the Fraser river, when he again returned to
California and engaged in placer mining. He
was last located in this occupation at Caribou
mines, and there he established a hardware busi-
ness, with blacksmithy attached, besides hand-
ling wagon makers' supplies.
While a resident of British Columbia, in Vic-
toria, in 1866. Mr. Lang married Mrs. Rosina
Everhardt, who was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
She came to California in i860, having come with
a sister. Mrs. Louisa Messer, to New York City
In 1854. She made the trip to the Pacific coast
by way of the Isthmus of Panama and upon her
arrival in San Francisco was there married to
Joseph Everhardt. He was also a native of Ger-
many, born in Kur-Hessen ; in young manhood
he immigrated to America and in New York City
established one of the finest restaurants of that
day. In 1849 l ie came to San Francisco, where
he opened the first restaurant, after which he con-
ducted the Russ Garden restaurant in that city.
Coming to Los Angeles in 1854 he conducted the
Ballonia hotel — the first of this city, and was
then proprietor of the La Fayette hotel until
i860, when he sold out and returned to San
Francisco. After his marriage there in i860 he
went to Sonoma, bought and ran the Sonoma
hotel for one year, then went to Victoria. British
Columbia, where he conducted the hostlery
known as the Everhardt hotel until his death,
which occurred in 1864. They had two sons,
Louis, of Portland, Ore., and Joseph, who died
in Victoria.
Until 1872 Mr. Lang continued engaged in
the mining business, and then came to Los An-
geles and purchased nine acres of raw land,
located on Twelfth between San Pedro and Main
streets, and at once began its improvement by
setting out an orchard. This property was later
sold as a ranch, but other property which he pur-
chased at that time has since become valuable in
their possession as business blocks. Among
these was a lot on South Broadway, extending
from Broadway to Hill, a depth of sixty feet.
This Mrs. Lang sold in December, 1906, on Hill
street for $120,000, while she still retains the
frontage on Broadway, where she built a cottage
in 1N72. They also owned property on Main
street and on South Spring, where she put up the
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Wilcox annex a few years after her husband's
death. Mr. Lang was always prominent in the
development of the city in which he made his
home, was very liberal in all his dealings, was
public-spirited in every way, and all in all was
accounted one of the foremost citizens of Los
Angeles. He was a member of the California
Pioneers in San Francisco, and in religion at-
tended the Unitarian Church, of which his wife
is a devoted member. Mr. Lang was very strict
in his adherence to the highest principles of life,
was possessed of unswerving integrity, and was
justly esteemed among those who knew him best.
Besides his wife, who resides at No. 915 South
Alvarado street, he left two sons, Albert George,
a graduate of the high school of Los Angeles
and University of California, and now a whole-
sale commission merchant of San Francisco ; and
Gustav John, a diamond setter in Chicago until
his father's death, when he returned to Southern
California to look after the interests of the fam-
ily. Mrs. Lang is prominent socially and in re-
ligious affairs, and as an officer in the German
Benevolent Society assists materially in the ad-
vancement of those interests. She takes a keen
interest in the development of Los Angeles and
has a firm faith in its future progress and ad-
vancement.
ELIZABETH A. FOLLANSBEE, M. D.
To be descended from ancestors who assisted
in the establishment of American independence
and in framing the laws that became the foun-
dation of the new national life, is a distinc-
tion of which any true patriot may be justly
proud. To the prestige of such ancestry Dr.
Follansbee has added the honors of a broad
and liberal professional education and as-
sured success, so that both by reason of dis-
tinguished lineage and personal prominence
she is entitled to the influential position she
occupies in the citizenship of Los Angeles.
The line of her maternal genealogy is traced
back to that gallant soldier of the army of
patriots, Col. William Mackintosh, whose his-
tory with the record of his brave services is
preserved in the archives of the State House
at Boston. Born at Dedham, Norfolk county,
Mass., June 17, 1722, Colonel Mackintosh was
a son of William and Johanna (Lyon) Mac-
kintosh, and a grandson of William and Ex-
perience Mackintosh. His public service be-
gan during the French war, and he was pres-
ent at Crown Point, Lake Champlain and
Lake George, receiving a commission as en-
sign September 9, 1755, at Lake George. Dur-
ing the war, and in recognition of his faithful
services, he was promoted to be first lieuten-
ant, the commission to the office bearing date
of March 13, 1758. At the expiration of the
war he returned to his home.
Some years afterward, when the struggle
with England commenced, Lieutenant Mac-
kintosh was qualified by experience in mili-
tary tactics to be of distinct service to his
adopted country, whose cause he espoused
with all the ardor of his enthusiastic nature.
The memorable engagements at Lexington,
Concord and Bunker Hill gave him his first
baptism of blood in the cause of independence.
With his sons he was present at Dorchester
Heights. On the same night there were pres-
ent, with their horses and oxen, Dr. Follans-
bee's great-great-grandfather, Henry Dewing,
Esq., with his sons, and another great-great-
grandfather, James Tucker, Esq., also accom-
panied by his sons. On the 14th of February,
1776, by the council of the state of Massa-
chusetts, Lieutenant Mackintosh was appoint-
ed colonel of the first regiment of militia in
the county of Suffolk. Under this appointment
he went into the army and was engaged in
many of the important battles of the Revolu-
tion. By General Washington he was desig-
nated as "an efficient officer and a brave man."
Hanging in the library of Charles Gideon
Mackintosh of Peabody, Mass., an uncle of
Dr. Follansbee, is a personal letter from the
General to Colonel Mackintosh.
But it was not only in the field that Col-
one! Mackintosh rendered valuable service to
the country. In 1779 he was a member of the
convention which framed the constitution of
the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in
1788 he was a member of the convention that
framed the constitution of the United States.
After an unusually active and influential ca-
reer he passed into eternity January 3, 1813,
at his home in Needham, Mass. It had been:
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his privilege to participate in two of the early
wars of our country and to contribute to the
glory of American arms. When the second
struggle with England arose he was an aged
man, no longer able to endure the vicissitudes
of the camp and the battlefield, and death came
to him ere his country had gained its second
victory in the conflict with the mother coun-
try.
The line of descent is traced through Col-
onel Mackintosh and his wife, Abigail Whit-
ing, to their son, Gideon, who married Me-
hitable Dewing. Their son, Gideon, Jr., mar-
ried Nancy Sherman, and among their chil-
dren was a daughter, Nancy Sherman Mac-
kintosh, who became the wife of Capt. Alonzo
Follansbee. The Sherman ancestry is dis-
tinguished in the annals of New England, and
is traced to England, where Dedham, Essex,
was the seat of the family even before the
opening years of the sixteenth century. There
Edmond Sherman founded a school, Sher-
man Hall, which is still in existence. In the
same town there stands a church that was
"restored" by a friend of Edmond about the
same time that the latter built, endowed and
presented to the town the hall above-men-
tioned. One of the conspicuous adornments
of the church is a stained-glass memorial win-
dow dedicated to Edmond. By his second
wife, Anne Cleve, Edmond Sherman had sev-
eral sons, from one of whom the present Earl
of Rosebery is descended.
Another member of the family, John, had a
son of the same name, who about 1634 emi-
grated from England to the new world with
his cousins, Rev. John and Samuel Sherman.
The last-named was the ancestor of Gen. Will-
iam Tecumseh Sherman and United States
Senator John Sherman. John, the ancestor
of Roger Sherman, served as a captain of the
militia. In 1635 he settled at Watertown,
Mass., with his wife, Martha, daughter of
Roger Palmer, of Long Sutton, Southampton,
England. The lands granted him were ad-
jacent to those owned by the ancestors of
President Garfield. He was a surveyor as
well as a farmer and aided Governor Win-
throp in fixing the northern boundary of Mas-
sachusetts. For a time he served as clerk of
Watertown, which he also represented in the
general court, and in addition he held the office
of steward of Harvard College. His son, Jo-
seph, married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut.
Edward Winship, of Cambridge. Born of
their union were eleven children, the ninth
being William, father of Roger Sherman.
Soon after his marriage to Mehitabel Well-
ington he removed to Newton, Mass., and from
there to what is now Canton, Norfolk county
(then a part of Stoughton). The record shows
that their marriage was solemnized at Water-
town, Mass., September 3, 1715 ; the bride,
who was his second wife, was a daughter of
Benjamin Wellington, Esq., of that place, and
was baptized March 4, 1688. While they were
residing at Newton, Middlesex county, their
son, Roger, was born April 19, 1721, he being
the third child of their union.
In Roger Sherman the earlier generations
of the family had their most distinguished rep-
resentative. Mention of his service as jurist
and statesman appears in numerous historical
works, among them being Lamb's Biographi-
cal Dictionary, the National Cyclopedia of
American Biography, Universal Cyclopedia,
Genealogical Dictionary of New England,
Town Records of Stoughton (Canton), Mass.,
also those of Watertown and Milton. Dur-
ing 1743 Roger Sherman moved to New Mil-
ford, Conn., and in June, 1761, became a resi-
dent of New Haven, that state, where he died
July 23. 1793. His public service began in
1755, when he represented New Milford,
Conn., in the general assembly, to which po-
sition he was later again elected, serving from
1758 to 17(11. In 1764 he was elected to rep-
resent New Haven in the legislature, and two
years later he was honored by being chosen as
a member of the senate, serving as such until
1785. Meanwhile he was a judge of the su-
perior court from 1766 until 1789. His activity
as a patriot began with the effort of the
crown to enforce the stamp act, which he op-
posed with all the energy of his forceful mind.
On the repeal of the act in 1766 he was a
member of the committee of three appointed by
the legislature to prepare an address of thanks
to the king. In 1774 he was chosen a mem-
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ber of the committee to consider the claims of
the settlers near the Susquehanna river. From
1774 to 1 78 1 he was a delegate from Connec-
ticut to the Continental Congress, also in
1783-84. serving on the most important com-
mittees. With Jefferson, Adams, Franklin
and Livingston, he was chosen, June 11, 1776,
to draft the Declaration of Independence, of
which he was one of the signers. He assisted
in preparing the Articles of Confederation
and those of the Connecticut Council of Safe-
ty in 1777-79. The convention of 1787, of
which he was a member, became famous for
its Connecticut Compromise, and all histor-
ians agree that Mr. Sherman was solely re-
sponsible for that plan of action, by which
was made possible a union of the states, also
a national government. Roger Sherman was
the only delegate in the Continental Congress
who signed all of the four great state papers
which were signed by all of the delegates of
all of the colonies, namely: the Declaration of
1774, the Declaration of Independence, the
Articles of Confederation and the Federal
Constitution. Together with Judge Richard
Long he revised the statute laws of Connecti-
cut in 1783. To prevent a Tory from becom-
ing mayor of New Haven, he was chosen the
first incumbent of that office in the. city and
continued in the office until his death, also
was serving as senator when he passed from
life's activities. From 1765 until 1776 he held
office as treasurer of Yale College, from which
institution in 1768 he received the degree of
Master of Arts.
In the town of Stoughton (now Canton),
Mass., Roger Sherman was united in marriage
by Rev. Samuel Dunbar with Elizabeth Hart-
well, eldest daughter of Deacon Joseph Hart-
well of Stoughton. Her death occurred in
New Haven, Conn., October 19, 1760. The
eldest son of the union, Capt. John Sherman,
was born in New Milford, Conn., September
5, 1750: married at Milton, Mass., October 7,
1793, Annie Tucker, daughter of James
Tucker, Esq., and a native of Milton, born
September 27, 1763. The captain died at Can-
ton, Mass., August 8, 1802. Among his chil-
dren was a daughter, Nancy, who was born
at Canton, Mass., November 28, 1794, and
died in the same town September 19, 1836.
In her home town, November 5, 1812, she was
united in marriage with Gideon Mackintosh,
Jr., who was born May 13, 1789, and died
September 19, 1859. Their daughter, who bore
her mother's name, was born at Canton, July
10, 1813, and is still living, making her home
at Dedham, Mass. Nancy Sherman Mackin-
tosh became the wife of Capt. Alonzo Follans-
bee at Canton, Mass., October 2^, 1836. The
captain was born at Pittston, Me., August 19,
1809, and died January 6. 1857. Born in Pitts-
ton, Me., Elizabeth Ann Follansbee was taken
to Brooklyn, N. Y., by her parents, where
they resided until the death of her father. For
four years she spent her time abroad in school,
and after her return continued her studies in
Boston. For a time she taught in the Green
Mountain Institute and later in Hillside Sem-
inary at Montclair, N. J., but resigned her
work in the east on account of delicate health.
Coming to California in 1873 she taught in
Napa City, studied for one term in the Uni-
versity of California, and then matriculated
in the medical department of the University
of Michigan. Just prior to the date of her
graduation she accepted a position as interne
in the New England Hospital for Women and
Children in Boston. In 1S77 she was gradu-
ated from the Woman's Medical College of
Philadelphia and won the prize of $50 for the
best essay of the graduating class, her sub-
ject being "Review of Medical Progress."
After her graduation Dr. Follansbee began
to practice in San Francisco, but was obliged
by reason of health to seek a different climate,
and in February, 1883, came to Los Angeles,
where under the influence of a beneficent cli-
mate she was soon restored to strength and
entered actively upon professional work. Upon
the organization of the medical department of
the University of California she was called to
the chair of diseases of children, in which
specialty she has won a widely extended repu-
tation. Organizations connected with the pro-
fession enlist her warm interest, and she has
been actively associated with the Los Angeles
Countv, Southern California, California State
and American Medical Associations. While
her chosen profession has commanded her time
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and strength, it has not done so to the exclu-
sion of other avenues of mental activity ; on
the other hand, she is familiar, to an unusual
extent, with literature and art. She has given
deserved honor to her ancestors through her
association with the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution and the Colonial Dames of the
State of Connecticut.
DAVID H. REYNOLDS. Since taking up
his residence in Pasadena Mr. Reynolds has sub-
stantially impressed his merit upon the com-
munity and as one of the settlers of the early
'80s has naturally witnessed many changes, and
has contributed in no slight degree to the well-
being of his surroundings.
A native of Pennsylvania, he was born near
Hollidaysburg, Blair county, January 18, 1852,
and is a son of Holliday and Nancy (Sneath)
Reynolds, they too being natives of Pennsylvania.
The father died when he was two years of age,
and his mother subsequently became the wife of
Henry H. Visscher, but his death in 1900 left
her a widow a second time, and she now resides
in Pasadena with her son David H., she hav-
ing settled here in 1882. Mr. Reynolds' oppor-
tunities for acquiring an education were of the
meager sort, and at first consisted of common-
school privileges only, such as were provided
in Nebraska as early as 1858, his parents having
removed to that frontier state when he was a
child of seven years. The instruction of the
early subscription school left much to be desired
and those who were ambitious sought other ways
of increasing their information. Among this
number was Mr. Reynolds, who was later privi-
leged to attend Russell's military school at New
Haven, Conn., pursuing his studies there for
some time.
Upon leaving school and returning to the west
Mr. Reynolds once more took up life in Ne-
braska, engaging in the cattle business on the
North Platte river, an undertaking in which he
met with success from the first, and which con-
tinued as long as he remained in the business in
that location. In 1875 ne disposed of the greater
part of his cattle in that state and transferred
his interests to the adjoining state on the west,
Wyoming, where for some time he was con-
nected with an English company engaged in the
cattle business. His business associations with
the latter company were mutually pleasant and
profitable and existed for about nine years, or
until 1884, in which year he severed his connec-
tions with the company and has since made his
home in Pasadena. He has never married, and
now resides with his mother. They have a very
pleasant and commodious residence at No. 289
South Madison street, which they own, besides
which they have other valuable property in the
city. Mr. Reynolds' efforts as a cattle raiser in
Nebraska and his later efforts in Wyoming were
fortunate financially, so much so in fact that since
coming to California he has not engaged in any
active business, his time being occupied in look-
ing after his real-estate holdings.
REV. WILLIAM S. YOUNG, A. B., A. M.,
D. D. The superintendent and a trustee of the
Hollenbeck Home for the Aged, Rev. William S.
Young, was born on a farm near Parkersburg,
Chester county, Pa., July 11, 1859. He received
his early education in the public schools of his
home town, later attending Parkersburg Classi-
cal Institute, West Philadelphia Academy, West
Chester State Normal School, and in June, 1876,
entered Lafayette College at Easton, Pa., grad-
uating from the classical course of that institu-
tion in 1880. Subsequently he entered upon a
course in Union Theological Seminary, New
York City, graduating from the same in 1883.
During the year last mentioned (May 11,
1883) Mr. Young formed domestic ties by his
marriage with Miss H. Jannette Lewis. From
July of that year until November, 1884, he en-
gaged in home missionary work in Turner and
other small towns near Salem, Ore. The ill-
health of his wife, however, made a change of
climate necessary, and November 15, 1884, he
arrived in Los Angeles, where Mrs. Young
passed away October 26, 1887. In 1884 Mr.
Young took charge of the Presbyterian church
at Glendale, and at the same time organized the
work of the Boyle Heights Presbyterian Giurch
of Los Angeles. After one year of divided ef-
forts he discontinued the Glendale charge and
gave all of his time to the Boyle Heights Church,
continuing there until 1896, during which time
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two church buildings and the manse were erected.
From 1896 until January, 1907, was spent in or-
ganized work, developing and building up Knox
Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles.
In the meantime, in November, 1906, Mr.
Young accepted the superintendency of the Hol-
lenbeck Home for the Aged, of which he has
been trustee since 1902. For many years he has
been identified with the broader church exten-
sion work of his denomination. September 11,
1890, he was elected permanent clerk of the
presbytery of Los Angeles for a term of three
years, and again, on April 14, 1897, he was
elected to the same position, which he held until
September 2j, 1899. At tnat time he was
elected stated clerk, a position which he has con-
tinued to hold up to the present time. Since
1892 he has also been stated clerk of the synod
of California. Mr. Young has also been greatly-
interested in higher education, and he it was who
called the first meeting which resulted in the or-
ganization of Occidental College of Los Angeles,
from the organization of which he has been a
member of the board of trustees and the secre-
tary of the board. In the year between Dr. G.
W. Wadsworth and Dr. John Willis Baer he
filled by appointment of the board of trustees the
office of president pro tern of the institution.
During this time he was permitted to see the suc-
cessful consummation of the effort to provide
the first block of $200,000 endowment on the
scheme of the reverse bond, of which he was
the author, and the chairman of the endowment
committee. ,
Mr. Young received the honorary degree of
doctor of divinity from Wabash College, Indiana,
in 1902. On June 25, 1889, he was married to
Miss C. Adele Nichols, who was graduated in
1882 from Mount Holyoke College, and at the
time was teaching in the Los Angeles city
schools. Dr. and Mrs. Young have traveled ex-
tensively in this country and abroad. Five chil-
dren have been born of their marriage.
WALTER F. HAAS, one of the most prom-
inent attorneys in the city of Los Angeles at
the present time, has for the past ten years
been so closely identified with the official life
of the city, and so instrumental in the settling
of its important legal cases, that it would be
impossible to write a civil history of the city
without frequent mention of his name. Early
trained in matters political by a father, who
was prominent in Missouri politics, he is well
versed in the tenets of the Republican party,
with which he has always affiliated, and his
comprehensive education and experience in the
expounding of law gives to his opinions on
legal and economic subjects particular weight.
While he has efficiently filled the office of city
attorney for one term, his preferences are for
the regular practice of his profession, so he
declined a renomination and since his retire-
ment from the office has become more promi-
nent than before.
As his name indicates, Mr. Haas is of Ger-
man descent. His grandfather, who was born
in Landau, Palatinate, Germany, was a suc-
cessful business man and at one time mayor of
his native town ; he came to America in 1845,
settled in St. Louis, Mo., and died there. His
father, John B. Haas, was also born in Ger-
many, and was brought with the rest of the
family to St. Louis in 1845. He engaged in
mercantile pursuits there for a time, and in
1853 crossed the plains by ox-team to Eldo-
rado county, Cal., where he engaged in mining
and merchandising. He contracted mountain
fever, however, and returned to Missouri in
1868, married Miss Lena Bruere of St. Charles,
then settled at California, Mo., where the son,
Walter F., was born in 1869. The mother was
a daughter of Jean Bruere, a native of Co-
logne, and a member of an old French Hugue-
not family, who owned large shipyards at
Cologne. Mr. Haas, the father of our subject,
was greatly interested in political affairs in
his state and was a member of the Missouri
legislature for one term, being sent from Moni-
teau county. Again coming to California in
1884 he made his home in Los Angeles, where
now, at the age of seventy -four, he lives with
his wife, who is sixty-seven years old. retired
from active business life. During the Civil
war he was president of the Union League, El-
dorado county, Cal.
Walter F. Flaas was fifteen years old when
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he came to this state, and after the completion
of his course at the Los Angeles high school
in 1889 he entered the office of Houghton, Si-
lent & Campbell, with whom he read law until
his admission to the bar of the state in 1891.
During the following years he was engaged in
building up a lucrative general law practice,
gaining an enviable reputation for legal knowl-
edge, and on the strength of this and his per-
sonal popularity was nominated by the Repub-
lican party to the office of city attorney. His
opponent was a man whom the Democrats
picked as the strongest lawyer in the city in
"their ranks, and while the fight was a hard one
during the campaign, Air. Haas received the
flattering majority of fourteen hundred and
fifty-six votes. Declining a renomination in
1900 he and Mr. Garrett formed a partnership
for the practice of law in Los Angeles; in
April, 1906, Mr. Dunnigan was added to the
firm which is now Haas, Garrett & Dunnigan.
November 12, 1900, Mr. Haas was employed
to bring action and suit in the case of the city
of Los Angeles vs. the West Los Angeles
Water Company, being instructed by the city
to complete and try the case, which lasted
until May 30, 1901 — just seventy-six days.
Eleven days were occupied in the argument
alone, but he won the city's cause, which re-
sulted in saving to the municipality all the
water of the San Fernando valley for the badly
needed water supply. This was the greatest
case ever tried here, having cost the city $42,-
000, the testimony covering ten thousand
pages. The service alone was sufficient to
insure him the grateful appreciation of the
citizens had he done them no further service.
He has, however, ever since been active in
looking after their welfare in various capaci-
ties and is still rendering important work in
other causes of public weal. In 1902 he served
on the charter revision committee, which pre-
pared amendments to the charter, including
those on initiative, referendum and recall. In
1904 he was appointed on the first city and
county consolidation committee for the con-
solidation of certain city and county offices,
such as assessors, tax collectors, auditors,
treasurers, etc. A complete report was made
by the committee, including the drafting of
the necessary statutes, but they were killed in
the legislature of 1905. In 1906 he was ap-
pointed on the present city and county consoli-
dation committee and is chairman of the com-
mittee on public utilities, is a member of law
and other committees, and in addition to all
these duties he finds time for the practice of
civil law, filling at the same time the office of
city attorney for Monrovia.
Public and professional duties do not re-
ceive all the time and talent of Mr. Haas, as
will be understood when it is known that he
is a director in the German-American Savings
Bank, vice-president of the C. J. Kubach Com-
pany, president of the Tampico Land, Lumber
& Development Company, which is interested
in improving and developing lands at Tampico,
Mexico, and he also finds opportunity for at-
tention to other important enterprises. In
1903 he was made a Mason, becoming a mem-
ber of Palestine Lodge No. 351, F. & A. M.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and the Union League Club, and last, but not
least in importance, lectures on public corpor-
ations and municipal law in the law depart-
ment of the University of California. Walter
F. Haas is still a young man, hardly in his
prime, and judging from the character of serv-
ice he has rendered in public and private life
his friends are certainly warranted in looking
for still greater things from him.
JOHN C. BENTZ. One of the unique and
interesting enterprises which adds activity to the
business life of Pasadena is the establishment
presided over by Mr. Bentz, his stock of Japan-
ese and Chinese art goods attracting many ap-
preciative patrons. It was in 1895 that the
nucleus of the present successful business was
inaugurated by himself and his brother in part-
nership, an association which continued two
years, at the end of which time John C. Bentz
purchased the interest of his brother and has
since conducted the business alone. The build-
ing now occupied by Mr. Bentz was erected ac-
cording to his own plans and ideas and is well
arranged and conveniently located for the pur-
poses to which it is devoted. It is a brick struc-
ture. 50x85 feet, two stories in height with base-
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merit, and in the conduct of his business he uses
the first floor and the basement. The stock
which he carries is large, varied and well select-
ed, and consists of pictures and relics, records,
bronze statues and an exquisite assortment of
silks from the Orient.
A native of the Empire state, John C. Bentz
was born in Erie county, near Buffalo, in [868,
a son of Rev. Henry Bentz, who owned a farm
in that vicinity. In connection with its manage-
ment he also filled the pulpit of the Presbyterian
Church in that vicinity, and as soon as his sons
were old enough to take charge of the farm he
relinquished farming and gave his time exclu-
sively to his ministerial duties, devoting the best
years of his life to this vocation. John C. Bentz
was primarily educated in the schools in the
vicinity of his home and also attended and grad-
uated from the high school. This served as an
excellent preparation for his future college train-
ing, and thereafter he matriculated as a student
in the college at Hastings. Neb. With the close
of his college life in 1892 he came to California,
and for two vears was variously engaged. As
has been previously stated, it was in 1895 that-
in company with his brother he opened a curio
shop in Pasadena from which the present busi-
ness owned by John C. Bentz has been evolved.
His success may be attributed to the careful
studv which he makes of the demands of his
patrons, who appreciate the dependable, high-
class goods which he carries, to secure which he
makes annual trips to Japan and China. Fra-
ternally Mr. Bentz belongs to the Woodmen of
the World, and in his political sentiments is a
Republican, although at no time has he ever had
any desire for public recognition. Besides the
fine residence occupied by Mr. Bentz's family he
also owns other valuable property in Pasadena,
the fact of his large investments proving unde-
niably his faith in the supremacy of the west in
general, and of Pasadena in particular.
A. JOSEPH RICHARDSON was born in
Bramton, Canada, in 1854. a son of Andrew
and Catherine ( Knox) Richardson, the father
a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the
mother of Cumberland, England. Andrew
Richardson was engaged in the hotel business
on 1 he < '.rand Trunk Railroad, but later lo-
cated on a farm twenty mile-, from Guelph,
Ontario, where he cleared the timber from the
lands, built a home, and began the cultivation
of the soil. He remained in this location
throughout the remainder of his life with the
exception of the last five years, when he re-
moved to Tacoma, Wash., where both himself
and wife died. He was a man of sterling traits
of character, of unswerving integrity and hon-
esty of purpose, and wherever he made his
home was held in the highest esteem by all
who knew him, either socially or in a business
way.
Brought up on the paternal farm in On-
tario, A. Joseph Richardson received his edu-
cation through the medium of the public
schools, whose Sessions were held in log houses
in wdiat was then a new country. He remained
at home as was the custom in those days until
attaining his majority, when he went to work
on adjoining farms and thus continued for the
ensuing four years. By 1879 he had saved up
$500 and with this as his capital he purchased
his father's farm and implements, agreeing to
pay the balance of $4,000 in the next few years.
After two years he discovered that he could
make only enough to pay the interest on the
debt, so he sold out and in 1881 came to the
Pacific coast, and having previously learned
the framing of buildings he secured employ-
ment with the Pacific Bridge Company, whose
headquarters were in Portland. He was asso
ciated with this company in Oregon for the
ensuing three years, acting as foreman of their
work, and at the end of that time he had accu-
mulated $3,500. With this he engaged in a
general contracting business and met with a
gratifying success, working from fifty to one
hundred men and in the ten years he was thus
occupied clearing $50,000. The panic which
1 ccurred about this time swept away his for-
tune, and for the next four years he steadily
lost the foothold he had gained. At the end
of that time he sold his outfit, paid his liabili-
ties, and with $45 as his total assets again
started out in the business world. He went up
the Columbia river to Cascade Locks and as
he alighted from the train he was accosted by
a man who asked him for two bits with which
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to buy a meal. Mr. Richardson invited him to
come and dine with him, and during the meal
the man. — Mr. Giles by name, and a miner by
occupation — told him his experiences and that
he was going back to the Cceur d'Alene mines,
where he had received good wages the year
before. Mr. Richardson became interested and
wanted to know if there was any likelihood of
his being able to secure work as a builder, and
upon being assured that he could earn $i a
day more than a miner he decided to try his
fortunes in that section of the northwest. Mr.
Giles was without money and had intended to
ride the trucks to the mines, but Mr. Richard-
son bought a ticket for him also and the two
made the trip together. The day following
his arrival at Wallace Mr. Richardson secured
employment as a carpenter on the Masonic
Temple at $4 per day. When he had saved
$100 he bought one thousand shares of the
Mammoth Mining Company's stock and in
sixty days sold it for $1,000. This gave him
the capital he needed and he at once began
mining and continued uninterruptedly at this
occupation for the ensuing ten years, develop-
ing and operating various mines. Among
these was the Snowstorm, which advanced
from fifteen cents to $4 ; the Tamorac ; Chesa-
peake ; Snowstorm Extension ; Benton and
others too numerous to mention.
In 1901 Mr. Richardson located in Los An-
geles, since which time he has continued ac-
tively engaged in the developing and operating
of mines. He maintains a suite of offices at
No. 610, du and 612 Chamber of Commerce
building, and here with others he incorporated
the Whipple Mountain Gold & Copper Min-
ing Company, of which he is vice-president
and secretary, and they are now actively en-
gaged in the development of the mines which
are located in San Bernardino county. He
was also active in the organization of the
Idaho Lead Silver Mining Company, of which
he is vice-president and the principal pro-
moter. He is one of the best-posted mining
men in this section of the country and keeps
thoroughl) in touch with aH progress and ad-
vancement along these lines. After his first
winter in Southern California Mr. Richardson
was >o pleased with climatic conditions that
he determined to make this his permanent
home. With John Flink he purchased forty-
fi\ e acres of land near Venice and this has
since become known as Cceur d'Alene Place — ■
laid out in large lots with $5,000 building re-
strictions, — and is now largely built up with
fine residences which are the homes of many
mining men. Mr. Richardson has erected a
beautiful home in which he takes his rest and
comfort, enjoying the sea breezes which reach
his home.
Mrs. Richardson was born in Portland, Ore.,
and presides with grace over her beautiful
home, where the family entertain their many
friends. Mr. Richardson was made a Mason
in Southern California Lodge No. 279, F. &
A. M.. and also belongs to the Woodmen of
the World. He takes a keen interest in busi-
ness affairs of the city, being a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, and gives his aid lib-
erally toward its support and advancement.
Politically he is a stanch adherent of Republi-
can principles and supports the candidates of
this party. Personally he is held in high es-
teem by all who know him, honored for his
sterling traits of character demonstrated in
both public and private life. He has made a
success in his business career, surpassing his
ambition as a younger man which was to ac-
cumulate a competency of $50,000 by the time
he had reached the half century mark in years ;
he had made it and lost it some years before
reaching that age, and since that time has again
accumulated a fortune. His influence is far-
reaching along the lines in which he has been
occupied during the past years and also in
other lines of business, where his judgment is
valued.
CAVE J. COUTTS, for many years one of
the leading men of San Diego county, was a
native of Tennessee. He was a graduate of West
Point in the famous class of '43, which gave us
Grant, Hancock, Hill, and many other notable
and gallant men. Between Mr. Coutts and his
distinguished classmates there was maintained a
warm friendship. He was also a close friend of
President James K. Polk.
Lieutenant Coutts entered California in An-
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gust, 1848, coming from Mexico by the way of
Chihuahua and Tucson, in command of Com-
pany A, First Dragoons, his superior officer be-
ing Maj. L. P. Graham. Although arriving too
late to take part in the hostilities attending the
American occupation, Lieutenant Coutts' com-
pany was detailed to escort the boundary com-
missioners 111 their difficult investigations.
In 1851, Lieutenant Coutts having decided to
become a citizen of California, he resigned bis
commission in the army and married Isadora,
third daughter of Don Juan Bandini. The lovely
senorita received as a wedding present from her
brother-in-law, Don Abel Stearns, the Guajane
rancho in San Diego county. Here Mr. Coutts
erected the famous Guajane ranch house, which
was unsurpassed by any residence from Monte-
rey to San Diego. It was built of adobe, sur-
rounding three courts, the outer, the interme-
diate and the inner or family court. It contained
twenty-three rooms and a beautiful family chapel.
Guajane was for many years distinguished for
its profuse hospitality, which was of the old
southern type. Its memory lives in legend and
story, still those who made it what it was would
certainly prefer it should be remembered simply
for the ideal home life which was its chief charm,
casting a spell on all who were privileged to
share in it.
Mr. Coutts died in 1875. leaving a widow, the
Dona Isadora, since deceased, and eight children,
of whom the daughters are Mrs. Chalmers Scott.
Mrs. Elena Dear, Mrs. George E. Fuller and
Mrs. John I!. Winston; and the sons, Cave J.
(owner of Guajane), Robert, William and John.
JOSEPH MAIER. In naming the promi-
nent business men and upbuilding factors of
Southern California in general and of Eos An-
geles in particular, mention belongs to Joseph
Maier, who came here as early as 1875, ail( l
from that time until his death. July II, 1905,
was deeply interested in its welfare. Born in
Bavaria, Germany, in 1851, he grew to a sturdy
young manhood under native skies, and at the
age of twenty, in company with his brother,
Simon, he came to the United States to make
his future home. After reaching our shores
he resided for a time in the eastern states, but
finally began to work bis way toward the west
and settled in Leavenworth, Kan., there taking
up work at the brewer's trade, the detaiK of
which he thoroughly mastered before coming
to this country. He soon won for himself an
excellent reputation on account of his expert
knowledge of the business, in consequence of
which his services were in great demand. Com-
ing still further west in 1875. be settled for a
time in San Francisco, but during the same
year he came to Los Angeles and entered the
employ of the New York brewery, located on
Third street, between Main and Spring. A
desire to enter the business on his own ac-
count led him to purchase Mr. Malmstedt's
interest in the old Philadelphia brewery, and
he at once assumed the management of the
plant. Being thoroughly in touch with all
departments of the brewer}- business, he soon
had the plant in excellent running order, build-
ing it up from a small, insignificant business
until it was second to none on the Pacific coast.
Another advance in Mr. Maier's business
plans occurred in 1893, when the copartnership
firm of Maier & Zobelein was incorporated as
the Maier & Zobelein brewery and continued
as such until May 16, 1007, when the Maier
estate purchased the entire plant and incor-
porated it anew as the Maier Brewing Com-
pany, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The
eldest son, J. F. Maier, is president of the new
company : Edward R. Maier is secretary and
treasurer, while the directors are Simon Maier,
Philip Forve, and L. J. Christopher. The
brewery occupies more than a block of build-
ings, thus bearing slight resemblance to the
small plant with which the father started a
number of years ago. The large cold storage
plant and stock houses are equipped with three
large ice machines, having a combined capac-
ity of three hundred tons, while the boiler ca-
pacity of the plant is fifteen hundred horse and
engine capacity. From this is generated the
electricity used for lighting and motive power
throughout the plant, which is equipped in all
departments with the most modern and im-
proved brewery apparatus and bottling ma-
chinery. Probably no one in Los Angeles has
made the signal success in the brewery busi-
ness that fell to the lot of Mr. Maier. but at
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the same time no one took a keener interest
in the welfare and upbuilding of the city than
he, giving both of his time and means to
further projects for the well-being of the com-
munity. As president of the Los Angeles
Countv Improvement Company he planned
and laid out Chutes Park, one of the recreation
stops of the city, this being but one of the ac-
complishments recorded during his incum-
bency of the office, a position which he filled
acceptably up to the time of his death.
In 1875, while residing in Leavenworth,
Kan.. Mr. Maier was united in marriage with
Miss Mar}- Schmidt, and the two sons born of
their marriage are now carrying on the brew-
ery business established by their father. Fra-
ternally Mr. Maier was a Mason, having joined
the order in Los Angeles Lodge, No. 42, and
was also a member of the Consistory and of
Al Malaikah Temple. A. A. O. N. M. S. He
also belonged to the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks, and Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, while socially he belonged
to the Recreation Gun Club, the Turnverein
and the Germania Club. He also belonged to
the National Association of Stationary Engi-
neers, being a member of Los Angeles Local,
No. 2. Personally he was a man much be-
loved for his generous impulses, and many in
less fortunate circumstances have had reason
to bless his memory for the innumerable acts
of kindness shown them. During the last ten
years of his life he and his family resided at
their beautiful residence on the southwest
corner of Sixteenth and Figueroa streets. Dur-
ing the year 1903 he took a respite from the
cares of business, and with his family made a
seven-months' tour in Europe.
Following in the footsteps of their honored
father, the sons are giving the best of their
energies to the prosecution of the business left
them by the father, and both individually and
collectively, they bear an important part in
the business life of Los Angeles. The eldest
son. J. F. Maier, learned the brewer's trade
from his father, after which he took a course
•n the Wahl X- Henius Brewery Academy of
Chicago, a training which makes him thor-
oughly competent to fill the position of presi-
dent of the Maier Brewery Company. Fra-
ternally he is a Mason, belonging to Los An-
geles Lodge, No. 42, F. & A. M.. and in 1902
was master of his lodge. He also belongs to
the Consistory, K. T., Al Malaikah Temple,
\. \. ( ). X. Al. S.. and socially belongs to the
Jonathan Club and the Chico Gun Club. Ed-
ward R. Maier is secretary and treasurer of the
company, a position which he is well qualified
to fill through his previous years of training
under his father. The only fraternal order
of which he is a member is the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks, while socially he be-
longs to the Jonathan Club. California Club,
Recreation Gun Club and the Chico Gun Club.
HARRINGTON BROWN With a lineage
of which he may well be proud. Harrington
Brown of Los Angeles is a representative of a
family old and prominent in the history of the
country since the establishment of its indepen-
dence. Mr. Brown was born January 1, 1856. in
Washington, D. C, this also being the native
home of his father. The grandfather. Rev. Oba-
diah Bruen Brown, a native of Newark, X. J..
was prominent not only in church work, but was
a generous philanthropist and filled important
official positions at the national capital. He es-
tablished the First Baptist Church of Washing-
ton and m addition to giving his services as
pastor free, contributed large sums of money
to the support of benevolent and charitable lines
of work carried on by that denomination. He
was an eloquent speaker and considered one of
the finest entertainers in the brilliant coterie re-
siding in Washington at that time. He was an
intimate friend of Andrew Jackson, who ap-
pointed him as postmaster-general during his ad-
ministration, and it was while filling this office
that Rev. Obadiah Brown inaugurated the Star
mail route and gave to the southern states then-
first regular mail service. His wife was also a
great church worker and she it was who founded
the Protestant Orphans Home at Washington
and when she laid down her work it was succes-
sively taken up by a daughter and a grand-
daughter-in-law.
The father of Harrington Brown was Dr.
William Van Horn Brown, who was also promi-
nent in official life at Washington, at one time
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filling' a position as chief clerk of the land de-
partment and later connected with the patent de-
partment. When a young, man he spent a few-
years in Missouri, but returned to Washington,
and lived there until the time of his death. In
politics he was independent in his opinions on
public questions and voted for the men whom
he considered the best for the positions. His
wife was Adelaide Harrington in maidenhood,
a native of Troy, N. Y. They were the parents
of seven children, five of whom are now living.
One son, Thomas B.. was a pioneer in Los An-
geles, where he filled a prominent place in busi-
ness and professional life and was one of the
most benevolent men in the state. When his
death occurred in this city in 1892. every business
house closed its doors until after the funeral and
every member of the community mourned the
loss of a friend. He was a partner in the law-
firm of Hutton & Smith and served as district
attornev of Los Angeles county for two terms.
The education of Harrington Brown was re-
ceived first at Emerson Institute, and then at
Princeton College, from which he graduated be-
fore taking a law course at the Columbia College,
now called George Washington University, lo-
cated in Washington City. In 1878 he came to
Los Angeles and bought one hundred and thirty
acres of land on Vermont avenue, which ex-
tended to Normandie and Forty-seventh streets
and on into the country. This he subdivided and
improved, and with his own hands set out all of
the fine shade trees which now beautify that sec-
tion of the city. Since the time of his arrival here
he has also been interested in the oil business,
which has occupied the greater part of his time,
and is now president of the Southern Refining
Company. Yet he has found opportunity to take
a leading part in the general development of the
country and is prominent in all enterprises tend-
ing to its upbuilding.
In 1883 Mr. Brown was married to Minnie
Glassell, whose mother was the daughter of a
very distinguished surgeon. Dr. Toland, founder
of Toland Medical College. For one year fol-
lowing the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Brown trav-
eled all over the eastern states and Canada be-
fore settling in Los Angeles, where they now
have a beautiful home at No. 4875 Vermont
avenue. There are six children in the family :
Adelaide J., Lucy T. and Eleanor < L all gradu-
ates of Marlborough College, and Harrington,
Jr.. and A. Glassell, who are still in the public
schools. Mr. Brown is a member of the Baptist
Church and the daughters belong to the Episcopal
denomination. Politically he affiliates with the
Democratic party. He enjoys a very large ac-
quaintance in this part of the state and is highly
esteemed bv all who know him.
JAMES McADAM. Among the successful
business men of Pasadena mention may be made
of James McAdam, who has been a resident of
this city since 180.4 and during the intervening
time he has improved a fine orange ranch and
several lots in the business district. Mr. .Mc-
Adam is a native of Ireland, his birth having
occurred in County Mayo, March 17, 1849; his
parents. Samuel and Elizabeth (Henderson)
McAdam. immigrated to America in 1856 and,
locating in Canada West, followed farming until
the father's death, which occurred in Louisiana
while on a business trip. His wife died in early
life.
Reared in Canada West, in Huron count),
James McAdam received a common school edu-
cation, after which he learned the trade of car-
penter and followed the same for several years.
Finally coming to the United States he located in
North Dakota and there purchased one hundred
and sixty acres of land and began its improve-
ment and cultivation; eventually he purchased an-
other hundred and sixty acres adjoining, making
in all a half section, which he devoted principally
to the raising of wheat. He remained a resident
of Pembina county for about ten years, when,
in 1894, he sold his farm and stock, and coming
to Southern California purchased twenty acres
in East Pasadena for the sum of $f>.ooo and at
once set it out in oranges. He continued its im-
provement and development until 1906, making
his home upon the property in the meantime, and
then disposed of it for $27,000. having trans-
formed the land into one of the model orange
-roves of this section. In 1903 he purchased a
number of lots on Fast Colorado street, upon
which he has erected fine brick store building-,
which are now rented at a good figure. This
property was purchased for S24 per front foot
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and has rapidly increased in value, the land now
being worth from $125 to $150 per front foot.
Mr. McAdam is still busy improving his prop-
erty and is generally conceded to be one of the
most earnest promoters of business interests along
East Colorado street. He is otherwise inter-
ested in Pasadena business affairs, being a stock-
holder in the Crown City Bank, a promising in-
stitution of Pasadena.
In 1873 ^ Ir - Ale Adam was united in marriage
with Miss Mary Ann Musgrove, a native of
Canada West and daughter of Thomas Mus-
grove, a respected and prosperous citizen of that
place, and born of this union is one child. Pearl,
a student in the Pasadena schools. Politically
Mr. McAdam is a stanch advocate of Democratic
principles and gives his influence to bring out the
best men for official positions. Fraternally he is
a member of Pasadena Lodge No. 272, F. & A.
M. Besides being active in the business affairs
of the city, Mr. McAdam possesses social qual-
ities which have won him many friends.
GEORGE F. THOMPSON. As years are
counted Mr. Thompson may be called a com-
paratively new comer to California, but in point
of accomplishments he may be called an old set-
tler, for so thoroughly has he entered into west-
ern life and western interests that only those who
are acquainted with the facts would believe that
his present large business interests could have
been made possible in six short years. In part-
nership with his brother, Charles W. Thompson,
under the firm name of George F. Thompson &
Company. Mr. Thompson is at the head of one
of the largest and most flourishing real-estate en-
terprises in the city of Pasadena. In addition to
this he is also one of the stockholders in the
William R. Staats Company, who are similarly
engaged, although in addition to buying and sell-
ing real-estate they also deal in bonds and write
fire insurance.
During pioneer days in the history of the
middle west George W. and Katherine Jane
Thompson were among those who took up life
in what was then considered the frontier. Tt
was while living in Indianapolis. Ind., that their
son ainl the father's namesake was horn Febru
arv 27. 186:;. He recalls nothing of his birthplace,
however, for when he was less than a year old
his parents moved still further into the frontier,
settling in Minneapolis, Minn. The removal was
a decided advantage to the father from a business
standpoint, for he was a cooper by trade, and
there in the timber he added the manufacture
of lumber to a trade which in itself brought in
a good income. Whatever he entered into seemed
to thrive and prosper, so that in his later years
he was enabled to retire from active business
life. His last years were spent in the Land of
Sunshine and Flowers, his earth life coming to
a close in Pasadena April 7, 1906. His wife had
preceded him many years, dying July 12, 1872,
when in her thirty-sixth year.
The schools of Howard Lake, Wright county,
Minn., furnished Mr. Thompson's education. He
assisted his father in the lumber and hardware
business for a few years and then formed an
association with his brother, C. W. Thompson,
the two carrying on farming for a number of
years with very good success. Later our subject
took a position with the Great Northern Rail-
way, and during the twelve years he was with
the company held various positions, being ad-
vanced from time to time. Subsequently he be-
came an employe in the Bigstone County Bank
at Graceville, Minn., filling the position of book-
keeper for two years. With the knowledge and
experience which his business life had furnished
him thus far he felt competent to open and man-
age a bank on his own account, and going t>i
Chokio, Minn., he incorporated a private banking
institution under the laws of that state, which he
operated very successfully for three years. It
was during this time that he also added farming
to the management of his banking interests, stock-
ing his land with horses, hogs and cattle. In
1900 Mr. Thompson disposed of his entire hold-
ings in that state and in the same year came to
California, locating in Pasadena, which has ever
since been his home.
By his marriage with Miss Ida M. Wilson,
a native of Tacoma, Wash., Mr. Thompson has
two children, Georgia L. and Herbert Willard.
In his political preferences he is a Republican,
and fraternally he is a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. The same thorough-
ness and application which have always been dis-
tinguishing characteristics and which have been
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applied in whatever he has undertaken have not
been wanting in his western ventures, and as a
consequence he has met with the success which
is his just due. Whole-souled and energetic, he
is alive to all public interests and is generous
both with his time and means when thereby he
can further the happiness and comfort of his
fellowmen.
MARY E. DONALDSON DENNIS, A. M.,
M. D. Prominent in the medical fraternity of
Los Angeles, Dr. Mary E. Donaldson Dennis
has ably demonstrated her ability in this line
of work and merits the high position she holds
as a physician. A native of the middle west,
she was born in Boone, Iowa, a daughter of
John S. and Sarah A. (Brown) Pitman, whose
personal sketch appears elsewhere in this vol-
ume. Her only brother, the Rev. Homer K.
Pitman, is pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Modesto, Cal. Her preliminary education
was received through the medium of the public
schools of Boone county, after which she at-
tended Cornell College, at Mount Vernon,
Iowa, for two years, then entered Western
College, of Toledo, Iowa, which institution is
now known as Leander Clark College. She
continued her studies in this institution until
her first marriage, which occurred in 1889 in
Ogden, Iowa, uniting her with Charles V.
Donaldson. He was a graduate of West Point
and was a lieutenant in Company E, Twenty-
fourth United States Infantry, and was active
in the campaigns in Arizona against the
Apache Indians. While in California on a
furlough at Newport Beach he lost his life
in an attempt to rescue two young ladies from
drowning; they had ventured beyond their
depth in the surf and he plunged in after them,
rescuing one, then returning for the other,
Miss Lottie Spurgeon, of Santa Ana. He was
overcome with exhaustion and both were
drowned. This was on the 15th of July, 1890.
Mrs. Donaldson was then residing in Santa
Ana, where, after her bereavement, her daugh-
ter, Charlotte V., was born. Lieutenant Don-
aldson's name is now enrolled with the Na-
tional Heroes of Washington, D. C. The
daughter is now attending Occidental College.
Mrs. Donaldson taught school for about two
years in the Santa Ana High school, after
which she returned east and again became a
student in Leander Clark College. She was
there graduated in 1892 with the degree of A.
B., and upon her return to California she took
graduate work in the University of Southern
California, from which institution she received
the degree of A. M. in 1895. She then entered
the medical department of the University of
Southern California, and in 1897 graduated
with the degree of M. D., and since that time
has engaged in the practice of her profession
in the city of Los Angeles, and on Catalina
Island, being one of the pioneer physicians of
Avalon. She was located on the island be-
tween 1900 and 1903. in the last-named year
returning to Los Angeles, where she has since
been practicing exclusively. She is prominent
among the physicians of the city and is a
member of the Southern California Medical
Society, the County Medical Society and the
State Medical and American Medical Associa-
tions.
In Los Angeles, in 1899, she became the wife
of Willard W. Dennis, who was born in Peo-
ria, 111., a son of Dr. C. J. Dennis, of that city.
Mr. Dennis received his education in the
schools of Ohio and Utah, remaining in the
latter state until 1898, when he came to Los
Angeles. In this city he engaged in the mer-
cantile business and later followed the same
occupation in Avalon. He is now serving as
deputy sheriff of Los Angeles county under
Sheriff Hammel. Dr. Dennis is a member of
the Immanuel Presbyterian Church and a lib-
eral contributor to all its charities. In mem-
ory of her student days she belongs to the
Alumni Association of Leander Clark College
and also of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia.
JOSEPH WELSH, president of the Pasa-
dena Hardware Company, is a native of Scot-
land, his birth occurring in Newton Stuart Oc-
tober 15, 1864. His father, Joseph Welsh. Sr.,
a native of Scotland, was apprenticed to learn
landscape gardening, but he finally took up land-
scape and cattle painting instead and became
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
widely known for his superior knowledge and
skill in this line. His mother was in maidenhood
Elizabeth Erskine, also a native of Scotland, and
daughter of John Erskine. The son received
his early education in the public schools, after
which he attended Ewart Institute up to his
sixteenth year. He put aside his studies at that
early age to engage as a clerk in a hardware es-
tablishment owned by John Lawson, with whom
he remained for six years and during which time
he acquired a thorough knowledge of the business.
Leaving the employ of Air. Lawson he went to
Glasgow, and after one year came to America,
landing in New York City. Coming to Cali-
fornia he found employment with James O.
Methewson, his uncle, in Duarte, in an orange
grove. The industry and ability of the young
Scotchman soon won for him a place in the es-
teem of his employer and it was not long before
he became a partner in the enterprise. He re-
mained there for a time, then disposed of his in-
terests, and entering the employ of the Pasa-
dena Hardware Company, of Pasadena, contin-
ued with the company until he again established
connections with a successful enterprise as a part-
ner. In 1902 this company was incorporated
with a capitalization of $20,000, which was soon
afterward increased to $100,000. Mr. Welsh be-
ing elected president, with R. S. Roberts vice-
president, and W. S. Windham secretary and
treasurer. They have a building 24x120 feet in
dimensions for their main store, while their ex-
tensive warehouses extend from the store to
Union street. Their enterprise is one of the most
extensive of its kind in Pasadena and with the
passing years they have succeeded in building
up a wide and lucrative patronage. Mr. Welsh
is not only president, but also acts as general man-
ager of the concern, whose success is justly at-
tributed to the conservative yet progressive busi-
ness men who have fostered the project.
The marriage of Air. Welsh occurred in Pasa-
dena and united him with Miss Jennie M. Nay,
a daughter of Oscar T. Nay, and they are now
the parents of two sons, Stewart Donald and
Joseph Erskine. both of whom are students in
the Pasadena schools. Mr. Welsh, although a
careful and interested business man, does not
give all of his time to those interests, but enjoys
recreation which he takes as a member of the
Pasadena Duck Shooting Club and the Los An-
geles Shooting Club, delighting in the skillful
handling of the gun and rod. He is universally
recognized as one of the enterprising men of
Pasadena, always awake to the needs of the city
and ready to lend his aid in any enterprise which
tends toward the development of public interests.
He is not only a good business man, but also pos-
sesses unusual social qualities which have won
him many friends.
CHARLES LEWIS. The business interests
of Charles Lewis have occupied his attention
pretty thoroughly up to within a few years, his
home now being in Pasadena, where he is
practically retired from his many enterprises. Mr.
Lewis is a native of Pennsylvania, born in
Chester county, July 14, 1829, a son of Evan and
Rebecca ( Yicker) Lewis, both natives of the same
state. The father was a son of Thomas and
Martha (George) Lewis, both natives of Berks
county. Pa., and lifelong residents of their native
state. Evan Lewis engaged as a fanner and
stockman in Pennsylvania until 1839, when he
moved to Belmont county, Ohio, and later located
in Jefferson county, same state, where he con-
tinued farming until his death, which occurred
in 1859. His wife survived him for several years.
Charles Lewis attended the common schools of
Ohio in pursuit of an education, and remained on
the home farm until his eighteenth year, when
he became apprenticed to learn the trade of wheel-
wright. He followed this occupation for three
years, when he went to eastern Pennsylvania and
engaged in a mercantile business in a small town
in Northampton county. Later he located in
Chester county and there formed a partnership
with Joseph Yickers, under the firm name of
Vickers & Lewis, in a general merchandising busi-
ness in Londonderry. While a resident of
Londonderry he married Miss Jane Peirce, a
daughter of Isaac Peirce, of that place. After
three years, in 1855, Mr. Lewis disposed of his
business interests and immigrated to Linn county,
Iowa, near Marion, the county seat, there pur-
chasing a farm and engaging in general farming
and stock-raising. His farm consisted of two
hundred acres which he brought to a high state
of cultivation. In the year 1864 he entered the
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employ of the government as a clerk and went
south to Nashville, Term., where he made his
headquarters until the close of the Civil war. Re-
turning to Iowa at that time he became occupied
in stone quarrying at Anamosa, remaining there
until 1872. In the beginning of the ensuing year
he went to Sioux county, Iowa, and engaged in
the real-estate business with headquarters at the
county scat. In the fall of 1883 he was elected
treasurer of Sioux county, holding the office for
six years. At the expiration of his term of
service he resumed the real-estate business and
continued alone until 1893, when he took one
of his sons into partnership, organizing the con-
cern under the name of the C. & M. E. Lewis
Company. It was incorporated in 1902 with
headquarters at Moscow, Idaho, where they are
conducting a general real-estate business, Air.
Lewis being president of the company. During
the summer months he is interested in the affairs
of the business, while his winters are passed
quietlv in his pleasant home at No. 645 North
Los Robles avenue, in Pasadena.
In 1872 .Mr. Lewis' first wife died, and in 1892
he was united in marriage with Anna H. Coates.
By his first marriage he had the following chil-
dren: Henry P. and Maris E., the latter sec-
retary and manager of the real-estate business.
Fraternally Mr. Lewis is a Mason, having been
made a member of the organization in Lodge
No. 67 at Anamosa; he was raised to the Royal
Arch degree but is now demitted. In 1853 he
affiliated with the Odd Fellows. He is an enter-
prising and substantial citizen and respected and
esteemed bv all who know him.
JOHN HAUERWAAS. One of the most
enterprising citizens of Los Angeles was the
late John Hauerwaas, whose business pursuits
resulted not alone in the upbuilding of his
personal fortunes, but in the establishment and
maintenance of many activities instrumental in
the development of the city and surrounding
country. His death, in the prime of his man-
hood, on the 19th of December, 1906, removed
from the community a valuable citizen and
one who numbered his friends liberally wher-
ever he was known. A native of Bavaria,
Germany, he was born February 10, 1864, a
son of Conrad Hauerwaas, a merchant of that
country and an influential citizen. After com-
pleting his education in the puhlic schools of
the Fatherland he was apprenticed to learn the
trade of cabinetmaker. At the age of sixteen
years he came to America and in New York-
City entered the employ of a firm in the carv-
ing, cabinet and grill work department. Later
m Philadelphia, Pa., he followed a similar em-
ployment in car shops for a time, when, in
1882, he came to the Pacific coast and in San
Francisco engaged in the car shops. Two
years later he came to Southern California and
located in Long Beach, thence removed to
Los Angeles, and here established a cabinet-
maker's shop on East First street, carrying
this on for several years. Finally, with Mr.
Adloff, he took an agency for the Weiland
brewery, and began building up that business,
which has since grown to such large propor-
tions. They were first located in a small way
on North Main street, but as the business in-
creased so rapidly they felt justified in locat-
ing the enterprise in larger quarters at Nos.
112, 114, 116, 118 Central avenue, where they
are now carrying on an extensive trade. At
the same time Mr. Hauerwaas was interested
in mining and real estate operations, owning
some valuable property in Los Angeles, among
which was his home, located at Xo. 2703 South
Hoover street.
The various interests of Mr. Hauerwaas
identified his name with many projects of im-
portance in the upbuilding of Los Angeles.
Prominent socially he was an active member
of the Jonathan Club, the Recreation Gun
Club (of which he was at one time president),
and the Chamber of Commerce, and fraternally
was identified with several organizations, hav-
ing been made a Mason in Los Angeles 1 odge
No. 42, F. & A. M„ raised to the degree of
Royal Arch in the chapter here: also belongs
to the Odd Fellows' lodge and encampment :
the Foresters ; Herman Sons (of which he was
past president) : the Turn-Yerein. and the
