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A  History 

OF 

CALIFORNIA 

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AND  AN  EXTENDED  HISTORY  OF 

LOS  ANGELES  AND 
ENVIRONS 

BIOGRAPHICAL 

VOLUME  III 


ILLUSTRATED 


HISTORIC  RECORD  COMPANY 

LOS  ANGELES,  CAL. 

19  15 


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Abascal,  Joaquin 286 

Adams,  George  B 264 

Allen,  Matthew  T 159 

Allen,  William  H.,  Jr 880 

Ambrose,  Wiley  V 797 

Anderson,  Charles  B 752 

Anderson,  Charles  S 449 

Andrews,  Josias  J 695 

Arnold,  George  L 581 

Arnold,  Ralph 738 

Arnott,  Willard 686 

Austin,  Aubrey  E 850 

Averill,  George  E 877 

Avery,  William  H 91 

Ayers,  Edward  85 

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Baker,  Dona  Arcadia 913 

Baker,  Fred  L 304 

Baker,  Milo  A 305 

Baldwin  Park 678 

Ball,  William  F 198 

Bandini,   Don  Juan 911 

Banning,  James  F 293 

Banning,  Phineas  29 

Bard,  Cephas  L 84 

Bard,  Thomas  R 468 

Barham,  Guy  B 233 

Barker,  Francis  W 844 

Barnard,  Edwin  L.. 600 

Barrow,  Ireby 186 

Bartle,  John  H 274 

Beales.  George  F 581 

Beardsley,  Volney  S 815 

Behrendt,  Gaspare   124 

Behymer,  Lynden  E 317 

Bell,  W.  Lewis 547 

Bent,  Arthur  S 517 

Bent,  Henry  K.  W 37 

Bentley,  Edward  H 117 


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Benton,  Arthur  B 827  III 

II     Bergin,  Charles  B 822  III 

II     Bergstrom,  George  E 698  III 

II      Bettinger,  Marcus  C 876  III 

III     Bettis,  Horace  1 686  III 

III     Beveridge,  Mrs.  Daeida  W. . . .    , 458  II 

III     Beveridge,  John  L 828  III 

II     Beveridge,  Philo  J 829  III 

III     Beyrle,  Andrew 177  II 

III     Bicknell,  John  D 61  II 

III     Biggart,  Thomas 608  III 

III     Bisbee,  Charles  L 512  III 

III     Bishop,  Ruf us  F 196  II 

III     Bixby,  Fred  H 539  III 

II     Bixby,  John  W 172  II 

II     Bixby,  Jotham 17  II 

Bixby,  Lewis  H 587  HI 

Blackstock,  Nehemiah 30  II 

Blanchard,  James  H 246  II 

III     Bloeser,  John 158  II 

II     Blondeau,  Louis 832  III 

II     Bluett,  William  C 139  II 

HI     Blythe,  James  T 462  II 

II     Boesch,  Mrs.  Frances 648  III 

HI     Bohnhoff,  Charles  W 740  HI 

II     Boothe,  Charles  B 701  HI 

II     Boquist,  Charles  V 287  II 

II     Bosbyshell,  William 902  HI 

II     Bouton,  General  Edward 914  III 

II     Bovard,  George  F 251  II 

III     Bowen,  John  M 746  HI 

III     Bowers,  Harry  C 511  HI 

II     Bowers,  Uriah  R 510  HI 

II     Boyle,  Willis  J 899  III 

III     Brauer,  Adolph  K 732  HI 

HI     B&FRanch.  The 576  HI 

II     Braun,  Frederick  W 857  III 

II     Bridge,  Norman,  M.D 817  HI 

HI     Briswalter,  Andres 796  HI 

HI     Brodtbeck,  Otto 306  II 

II     Brombacher,  Julius 739  III 

II     Brooks,  James  R 714  III 


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Brooks,  Thomas 209 

Brossmer,  August 112 

Brown,  Chester   W 614 

Brown,  George  T 222 

Brown,  Harrington 593 

Brown,  Thomas  B 297 

Browne,  Frank  E 227 

Bryson,  Hugh  W 710 

Buley,  Amos  M 901 

Burcham,  Charles  A 558 

Burck,  Lawrence  B 864 

Burkhart,  Isaac 889 

Burns,  James  F 220 

Burns,  John 303 

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Cadwallader,  Austin  S 750 

Campbell,  George  W.,  M.  D 146 

Carlson,    Milton 402 

Carter,  Frederick  W 685 

Cashin,  John 145 

Cass,  Alonzo  B 518 

Cass,  Bruce  H 819 

Castera,   John 390 

Caswell,  William  M 364 

Champion,  Earl  M 740 

Chandler,  L.L 898 

Chapman,  Alfred  B 413 

Chapman,  Charles  C 563 

Chapman,  Christopher  C 923 

Chapman,  Col.  Frank  M 904 

Chapman,  Samuel  J 707 

Charnock,  George 770 

Chase,  Frank  W 599 

Chauvin,  Augustus  C 133 

Cheever,  Edward  A 88 

Cheney,  William  A 394 

Church  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament 849 

Clampitt,  Edward  A 887 

Clapp,  Albert  A 191 

Clark,  EH  P 689 

Clark,  J.  Ross 904 

Clark,  WilHam  V 227 

Clow,  James  H 897 

Cochran,  George  1 642 

Coffman,  Edgar  R 288 

Coffman,  Frank  A 872 

Cole,  Charles  E 381 


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Cole,  George  W 387 

Cole,  George  W.,  Sr 382 

Colver,  Capt.  Frank  B 378 

Conaty,  Bishop  Thomas  J 903 

Connell,  Mrs.  Madge  H 226 

Conner,  James 808 

Conradi,  Simon 437 

Cooper  Brothers 257 

Cox,  Harvey  H, 523 

Cox,  John  R 375 

Coyne,  D.  Joseph 862 

Craig,  John 177 

Craig,  Mrs.  R.  L 515 

Grain,  Mrs.  Diadama  L 660 

Crawford,  James  S 130 

Creighton,   Telfair 376 

Crimmins,   John 369 

Cunningham,    Daniel 393 

Cunningham,  Thomas  J 461 

Curlett,   William 363 

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Davis,  Alonzo  E 151 

Davis,  Charles  Cassat 656 

DeGarmo,  Henry 100 

De  La  Monte,  J.  H 704 

Deming,  Ralph  R 851 

Denman,  Abram  C,  Jr 826 

Derocher  Nurseries,  Inc 784 

De  Van,  William  S 239 

Didier,   Louis 605 

Dillon,  Richard Ill 

Dodd,  Allen 864 

Dodson,  A.  McK 930 

Dol,  Victor 189 

Dolland,  John 340 

Donavan,  James  G 831 

Donegan,  Daniel  F 443 

Dorsey,  Stephen  W 683 

Dorsey,  Mrs.  Susan  M 588 

Double,  Edward 846 

Douglass,  Frank  M 726 

Downie,  William 276 

Dozier,  Melville 228 

Drake,  James  C 506 

Ducommun,  Charles  A 329 

Dupuy,  Joseph  P 837 


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Durant,  Edward  M 727 

Durfy,  Peter  T 192 

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Earl,  Edwin  T 887 

Eberle,  Francis  X 327 

Ebinger,  Lewis 323 

Eddy,  Col.  J.  W 584 

Edgar,  William  F.,  M.  D 55 

Edwards,  David  K 281 

Eichenhofer,  Frederick 611 

Eichenhofer,  Mrs.  Rosa 611 

Eisenmayer,  Emil  J 72>7 

Eisenmayer,  George  F 716 

Electa  Kennels 763 

Elf tman,  Owen  E 548 

Elliott,  John  M 19 

Ellis,  H.  Bert,  M.  D 399 

Emery,  Grenville  C 565 

Engelhardt,  A.  E.,  M.  D 234 

Engelhardt,    Henry   D 399 

England,  George  C 798 

Evans,  Herbert  J : 630 

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Fargo,  Duane  W 405 

Farish,  Oscar  E 536 

Fesler,    Martin 606 

Flatau,  Herman 450 

Fothergill,  Alexander  B 790 

Francis,  John  H 895 

Frank,  Herman  W 419 

Franklin,  Fleming 789 

Freeman,  Daniel 214 

French,  Loring  W 357 

Friedricks,  Henry  A 665 

Fulwider,  George  W 588 

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Gaffey,  John  T 432 

Gallagher,  Rev.  H.  P 850 

Galpin,  Cromwell 401 

Ganahl,  Christian 215 

Gardner,  I.  W 88 

Garrett,  Robert  L 515 

Gartling,  George 358 


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HI     Gates,  Lee  C 632 

II     Gephard,   George 240 

Getty,  George  F 880 

Gibbon,  Thomas  E 545 

Gibson,  Frank  A 464 

III     Gilchrist,  James  D 351 

II     Gilmer,  John  P.,  M.  D 733 

II     Girls'  Collegiate  School 571 

III     Glass,  Henry 868 

II  Glass,  Rev.  Joseph  S 516 

II  Glassell,  Andrew,  Sr 115 

III  Godde,  Ferdinand 411 

III  Goestenkohrs,  Joseph 330 

III  Golden  State  Plant  and  Floral  Co 758 

III  Gordon,  George  B 680 

HI  Gordon,  J.  G.,  Jr 852 

III  Graham,  Dolland  M 406 

II  Grannis,  Rollin  W 841 

II  Green,  EHsha  K 345 

III  Greenbaum,  Joseph 541 

II  Greene,  Charles  G 548 

II  Greever,  Vincent  M 557 

III  Grier,  Arthur  W 734 

III  Griffith,  Alfred  P 677 

Griffith,  George  W.  E 542 

Guasti,  Secondo 202 

Guinn,  James  M 77 

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II  Haben  Hospital 667 

HI     Haggarty,  John  J 671 

HI     Halstead,  Willard  G 142 

II  Ham,  George  1 743 

III  Hammel,  Henry 129 

II  Haneman,  Theodore  H 551 

II  Hanna,  Rev.  D.  W 183 

III  Hanna,  George 360 

III     Hanna,  Ross 282 

Hannon,   Patrick 141 

Hardison,  Edwin  A 856 

Hardison,  Wallace  L 474 

II     Harris,  George  A 262 

III     Harris,  Leopold  H 371 

II     Harris,  Levi 348 

II     Harrison,  Arthur  M 808 

II     Harvard  School,  The 607 

III  Hatch,  Hon.  David  P 749 

II     Haupt,  Edward  P 894 


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Hauser,  Julius 213 

Hawe,  Rev.  Patrick 370 

Hawks,  Emma  L 288 

Hayden,  John  A 679 

Haynes,  John  R.,  M.  D 25 

Hayward,  Henderson,  M.  D 659 

Hayward,  William 810 

Healey,  Charles  T 110 

Hellman,  Herman  W 219 

Hellman,  Marco  H 892 

Henry,  William  A 157 

Hewes,  David 309 

Hewitt,  Leslie  R 636 

Hickox,  Lory 788 

Hildebrand,  Charles 300 

Hiller,  A.  W.,  M.  D 771 

Hiller,  George 771 

Hiller,  Horace 423 

Hillman,  Roy  P 590 

Hinckley,   Alexis 751 

Hitchcock,  Harry  S 743 

Hoechlin,  Carl  C 186 

Holabird.  William  H 359 

Holbrook,  John  F 127 

Hollenbeck  Home 878 

Hollingsworth,  C.  L 674 

Hollingsworth,  W.  1 853 

Holly  Poultry  Ranch 782 

Hoist,  Charles  C.  F 339 

Holton,  George  L 480 

Holtzclaw,  John   B 839 

Hovey,  Frank  W 696 

Howard,  Fred  H 863 

Hoyt,  Thomas   J 803 

Hubbard,  Henry  C 152 

Hubbell,  O.  B 692 

Hubbell,  Stephen  C 35 

Hubert,  Philip  G 623 

Hunsaker,  William  J 837 

Hunter,  David  W..  ." 470 

Hutchins,  Francis  S 118 

Hutton,  Aurelius  W 134 

Hyatt,  Mrs.  Mary  J 801 

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Irvin,  Edward  S 745 

Ivins,  James  C.  H 582 


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Jackson,  Hon.  Grant 879 

Jarchow,  Joachim  H.  F 807 

Jaynes,  James 417 

Jenison,  John  E 346 

Jess,  Stoddard 430 

Jewel  City  Undertaking  Co.,  The. .  .  .655 

Johansen,  Rudolph  L 341 

Johnson,  Albert  H 665 

Johnson,  Benjamin 450 

Johnson,  George  C 354 

Johnson,  Ivan  T 649 

Johnson,  William  R 680 

Jones,  Elmer  E 825 

Jones,  John  J 463 

Jones,  John  P 388 

Jones,  Johnstone 617 

Jordan,  Joseph 232 

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Kellam,  Edward  A 883 

Kellam,  Milton  Y 869 

Keller,  Will  E 625 

Kellerman,  J.  M 539 

Kennedy,  Isaac 464 

Kennedy,  Karl  K 601 

Kennedy,  William  H 746 

Kent,  Charles  S 728 

King,  Howard  S 685 

Kinney,  Abbot 121 

Klein,  Arthur  M 891 

Kleinpeter,  Louis 769 

Klokke,  Ernst  F.  C 629 

Koebig,  Adolph  H 534 

Koll,  August  J 333 

Krempel,  John  P 237 

Kressly,  Paul  E 583 

Kubach,  C.  J 444 

Kuster,  Charles  E.,  M.  D 469 

Kuster,  Edward  G 371 

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Lacy,  William 396 

Lamb,  William  A 881 

Lambert,  Elwood 789 

Lambert,  Reece  S 790 

Landreth,  Louis 626 


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Lankershim,  James  B 106 

Last,  Gen.  Carl  F.  A 834 

Laughlin,  Homer 503 

Leahy,  Thomas 335 

Lee,  Bradner  W 905 

Letts,  Arthur 891 

Levy,  Michael 449 

Lewis,  Edward  W 715 

Lewis,  Grayson 809 

Lewis,  Willis  0 755 

Lickley,  Ernest  J 595 

Lindeman,  H.  J 654 

Lindley,  Mary  E 393 

Lindley,  Milton 372 

Lindley,  S.  K 92 

Lindley,  Walter,  M.  D 384 

Lindsay,  John  A 602 

Little,  D.  P.  N 843 

Lloyd,  Edward 417 

Lobingier,  Andrew  S 761 

Locher,  John  J 679 

Lockwood,   Jasper 479 

Lett,  Mrs.  Melvina  A 157 

Lowe,  William 769 

Luhring,  Ferdinand  C 341 

Lusk,  Hon.  Robert  M 553 

Luther,  Daniel  E 884 

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McAllister,  James  P 690 

McArthur,  John 231 

McArthur,  Mrs.  Kate 231 

McCallum,  Harry  S 816 

McClure,  John 613 

McDonald,  Mrs.  Catherine 178 

McDonald,  Mrs.  Luella  M 244 

McDonald,  Patrick  J 858 

McElheney,  John  F 245 

McGarry,  D.  M 99 

McGarvin,  Robert 257 

McGaugh,  Philip  G 342 

McKain,  Edward 636 

McKellar,  Daniel  H 130 

McKevett,  Charles  H 874 

McLachlan,  Hon.  James 836 

McLeod.  John  M 821 

McMillan,  Joseph 859 

McNutt,  Cyrus  F 725 

MacDonald,  J.  Wiseman 866 


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MacGowan,  Granville,  M.  D 402  II 

Machado,  Jose  D 216  II 

Mackerras,  Robert  H.,  M.D 902  III 

Maechtlen,  Jacob 667  III 

Marble,  John  M.  C 854  III 

Marsh,  Norman  F 637  III 

Marsh,  Robert 882  III 

Marshall,  Edwin  J 844  III 

Marshall,  William  F 462  II 

Martin,  Albert  C 842  III 

Martin,  William  M 594  III 

Mason,  Dean 635  III 

Mason,  Orson  H 352  II 

Matthews,  Robert  D 782  III 

May,  George  W 833  III 

Mayberry,  Edward  L 578  III 

Meade,  John 177  II 

Melius,  James  J 81  II 

Melzer,  Louis 195  II 

Mercereau,  John  D 533  III 

Meredith,  Reuben  A 336  II 

Mergell,  William  R 252  II 

Merritt,  Lewis  J 927  III 

Mesmer,  Joseph 923  III 

Metcalf.  Simeon  M 190  II 

Michelsen,  JuHus 358  II 

Michener.  Park 722  III 

Millard.  James  H 423  II 

Mills,  Edward  L 630  III 

Millspaugh,  Jesse  F 534  III 

Milner  &  Lindeman 654  III 

Mines,  Harry  G 861  III 

Mines,  William  W 619  III 

Mitchell,  Alexander 602  III 

Mockenhaupt,  Robert  J 298  II 

Moffett,  Thomas  J 237  II 

Mohr.  Richard  J.,  M.  D 407  II 

Monlux,  John  B 542  III 

Monnette.  Orra  E 830  III 

Moreland,  Watt  L 589  III 

Morgan,  Vincent 867  III 

Morian,  Arthur  F 523  III 

Mott,  Thomas  D 62  II 

Mulford.  Shobal  P 763  III 

Mulholland,  William 432  II 

Mullen,  Andrew 521  III 

Mullen,  Arthur  B 824  III 

Munn,  Relly  G 720  III 


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Murray,  T.  W 654 

Myers,  Orville 353 

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Nadeau,  George  A 153 

Neidig,  Emma  R 540 

Newmark,  Harris 163 

Niederer,  Jacob 848 

Northam,  Leotia  K 879 

Northup,  E.  D 668 

Norton,  Albert  M 329 

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O'Connor,  Patrick  J 835 

O'Melveny,  Henry  W 408 

O'Sullivan,  John 306 

Occidental  Poultry  Farm 758 

Off,  Charles  F 328 

Oliver,  William  E 536 

Olmsted,  H.  A 898 

Olsen.A.  C 713 

Orcutt,  William  W 900 

Orme,  Henry  S.,  M.  D 57 

Ormsby,  Edwin  S 900 

Overeli,  Joseph  M 719 

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Page,  Benjamin  E 572 

Page,  Samuel  L 127 

Parmelee,  Charles  A 418 

Pascoe,  Thomas 429 

Patton,  George  S 509 

Pease,  Niles 93 

Peebles,  James  M 527 

Pegler,  John  C 672 

Pepper,  Enoch 225 

Perkins,  Albert  A 890 

Perry,  William  H 51 

Petermichel,  Joseph  J 897 

Pike,  George'H 479 

Pike,  J.  C 757 

Plummer,  John  L 185 

Polkinghorn,   William  A 731 

Pomeroy,  Abram  E 249 

Pomeroy,  Charles  W 250 

Pottenger,  Francis  M.,  M.  D 559 

Potter,  Alonzo  C 243 


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Pourroy,  Eugene 552  III 

Powell,  Thomas,  M.  D 860  III 

Powers,  P.  W 756  III 

PulHam,  Claud  0 577  III 

Pupka,  Martin 208  II 


Ouillian,  C.  Fletcher 887         III 

Quint,  Sumner  J.,  M.  D 522         III 


Radford,  Joseph  D 839  III 

Ralphs,  George  A 201  II 

Reavis,  Walter  S 64  II 

Redpath,  Frederick  H 795  III 

Reed,  Boardman,  M.  D 775  III 

Rees,  Samuel 103  II 

Reilly,  George  W 721  III 

Remick,  Gen.  David 207  II 

Renwick,  George 721  III 

Rheinschild,   George 147  II 

Rich,  James 608  III 

Richardson,  George  S 847  III 

Richardson,  William  C.  B 109  II 

Riedeman,  John  H 582  III 

Riley,  Levi  W 354  II 

Rindge,  Frederick  H 268  II 

Rivera  State  Bank 595  III 

Rivers,  Ernest  B 324  II 

Roberts,  Wesley 198  II 

Robey,  William  L 745  III 

Robinsnest  Poultry  Ranch. 764  III 

Robv,  John  B 720  III 

Roche,  John  D 734  III 

Rogers,  Ralph 282  II 

Rollins,  Warren  E 517  III 

Root,  Mrs.  W.  D 853  III 

Rose,  Henry  H 873  III 

Roseberry,  Louis  H 820  III 

Ross,  Mrs.  Ida  Hancock 97  II 

Roth,  August 867  III 

Roth,  Edmund  D 299  II 

Rowan,  George  D 473  II 

Rowan,  Robert  A 703  III 

Russell  &  Murray  Poultry  Ranch 654  III 


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St.  Vincent's  Church 516  II 

Sabichi,   Frank 169  I 

Sackett,  Horace  D 835  II 

Sandefur,  Allan 190  I 

Santa  Monica  Bay  Catholic  Parishes 

and  Institutions 370  I 

Sargent,  Edwin  W 23  I 

Sartori,  Joseph  F 697  II 

Savage,  George  M 635  II 

Scarborough,  Wilham  B 258  I 

Schaefer,  John  G 641  II 

Schilling,   John 601  II 

Schlegel,    Leonard 478  I 

Schloesser,  Alfred  G.  R.,  M.  D 814  II 

Schmidt,  Edward  B 255  I 

Schmidt,  Gottfried  L 159  I 

Schoder,  Joseph 477  I 

Schofield,  Maurice  A 661  II 

Scholl,  John  T.,  M.  D 261  I 

Schumacher,  John 285  I 

Schumacher,  Paul 733  II 

Schuyler,  James  D 647  II 

Schwarz,  Louis 874  II 

Scott,   John 351  I 

Scott,  Joseph • 504  II 

Scott,  William  B 625  II 

Sepulveda,  Ygnacio 76  I 

Sharp,  Charles  H 851  II 

Sharp,  Robert 180  I 

Shekels,  Noah  C 781  II 

Sherman,  Moses  H 893  II 

Shields.  Henry  K 787  II 

Shorb,  Andrew  S.,  M.  D 43  I 

Shoup,  Paul 709  II 

Shuler,  EH  W 870  II 

Shultis,  Duane  J 803  II 

Sierra  Paper  Co 898  II 

Silent,  Hon.  Charles 456  I 

Silver,  Herman 65  I 

Slaughter,  Thomas  C 841  II 

Slauson,  Jonathan  S 31  I 

Slosson,  Charles  E 653  II 

Smith,  Andrew  M 147  I 

Smith,  D.  Cornelius 666  II 

Smith,   Samuel  J 328  I 

Smith,  Sidney 849  II 

Smith,  Thomas  A 813  II 


PAGE  VOL. 

Snyder,  Meredith  P 921  III 

Somers,  William  F 191  II 

Sory,  Walter  G 262  II 

Spence,  Jay 510  III 

Spires,  Joseph  H 435  II 

Stamps,  Charles  F.,  Jr 569  III 

Stanton,  Erastus  J 619  III 

Stanton,  LeRoy  H 623  III 

Starr,  Joseph  L 448  II 

State  Normal  School 534  III 

Stearns,  Don  Abel 913  III 

Stearns,  E.  Roger 524  III 

Stearns,  Frank  L 376  II 

Steere,    Robert 929  III 

Stephens,  Albert  M 395  II 

Stetson,  Franklin  F 406  II 

Stevens,  Will  P 744  III 

Stewart,  Lyman 442  II 

Stick,  John  C 813  III 

Stith,  Frederick  W 638  III 

Stoll,  E.  Robert 365  II 

Stone,  Jack  L 589  III 

Story,  Walter  P 896  III 

Stowell,  Nathan  W 291  II 

Stratton,  Charles  E 650  III 

Sullivan,  Dennis 441  II 

Summers,  Mrs.  Emma  A 275  II 


Taggart,  J.  W 279 

Thorn,  Cameron  E 44 

Thomas,  John  M 447 

Thomas,  Owen  E 596 

Thompson,  Frederick 461 

Thompson,  Newton  W 87 

Thompson,  Thomas 83 

Thorpe,  Spencer  R 926 

Throop  College  of  Technology 772 

Tieskoetter,  Frank  H 595 

Tifal,  G.  R 644 

Toll,  Charles  H 366 

Torrance,  Lewis  C 863 

Townsend,  Stephen 932 

Trask,  Walter  J 506 

Tripp,  James  S 673 

True,  George  A 713 


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U 

Union  Oil  Company  of  California. . .  .436  II 

V 

Valla,   Antonio 91  II 

Van  Ness,  Henry 631  III 

Vawter,  Williamson  D 868  III 

Vermilion,  Artemisia  S 840  III 

Vesper,  Charles  R 781  III 

Vestal  &  Hubbell 692  III 

Von  Hofgaarden,  Hans 662  III 

Vosburgh,  J.  J 559  III 

Votaw,  E.  J 888  HI 


W 


Wackerbarth,   August 82  II 

Wade,  Robert  D 139  II 

Walker,   Frank 473  II 

Wardall,  Thomas 334  II 

Warner,  Dennis  A 865  III 

Warren,  James  G 575  III 

Washburn,  William  J 862  III 

Watkins,  Edward  L 294  II 

Watson,  Thomas  W 871  III 

Weaver,  C.  B 716  III 

Weaver,  Charles  G 776  III 

Webster,  Daniel 570  III 

Wegener,  Capt.  Gustav  P 347  II 

Weid,  Ivar  A 263  II 


PAGE  VOL. 

Wernigk,  Eduard,  M.  D 256  II 

Weyse,  Henry  G 426  II 

Whitaker,  Alonzo 210  II 

White,  Ephraim  E 455  II 

White,  Dr.  Clarence  H 934  III 

Whitsett,  W.  P 560  III 

Wigdal,  O.  J 86  II 

Wiggins,    Frank 94  II 

Wiley,  Edwin  H 722  III 

Wilkins  Poultry  Yards 783  III 

Williams,  Henry  S 420  II 

Willis,  Frank  R.. 412  II 

Wills,  John  A 930  III 

Wilson,  Atlas  L 467  II 

Wilson,  Benjamin  D 49  II 

Wilson,  E.  C 727  III 

Winter,  Leopold 166  II 

Wintroath,  John  A 852  III 

Wirsching,  Robert  E 267  II 

Withey,  Henry  F 752  III 

Wolfskin,  Joseph  W 407  II 

Wolf  skill,  Milton 24  II 

Wood,  Preston  K 365  II 

Woods,  William  W 828  III 

Worden,  Perry 599  III 

Workman,  William  H 79  II 

Works,  John  D 425  II 

Works,  Lewis  R 643  III 

Wright,  Edward  T 171  II 

Wright,  Francis  M 148  II 

Wright,   George 273  II 

Young,  Robert  B 183  II 

Young,  William  S 878  III 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association. .  .884  III 


HOMER  LAUGHLIN 


HOMER  LAUGHLIN.  A  useful  career 
closed  when  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  of  Los 
Angeles  answered  the  last  call  after  a  long  life 
that  had  brought  him  commercial  prominence  both 
in  the  east  and  the  west.  His  had  been  an  inter- 
esting, eventful  existence,  whose  dawning  man- 
hood at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  afforded 
him  an  opportunity  to  serve  the  Union  at  the 
front  and  whose  purposeful  energies  laid  the 
foundation  for  solid  success  in  an  industry  then 
in  the  infancy  of  development  in  America.  While 
his  remarkable  progress  in  business  resulted  large- 
ly from  traits  developed  through  self-culture,  edu- 
cation and  heredity  also  contributed  to  his  force- 
ful personality.  Patriotism  had  been  a  leading 
characteristic  of  the  family  from  the  advent  of 
the  immigrating  ancestor  during  the  colonial  era 
of  our  country's  history.  Steadfastness  of  pur- 
pose made  each  generation  a  power  in  its  com- 
munity and  a  factor  in  the  growth  of  the  new 
nation.  The  genealogical  records  show  that 
James  and  Nancy  (Johnson)  Laughlin  were 
natives  respectively  of  Maryland  and  Pennsyl- 
vania and  died  respectively  in  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio.  The  next  generation  was  represented  by 
Matthew  Laughlin,  who  was  born  in  Beaver 
county,  Pa.,  March  31,  1799,  and  died  in  East 
Liverpool,  Ohio,  in  1876,  after  having  engaged 
for  forty-five  years  as  postmaster,  miller  and 
merchant  at  Little  Beaver  Bridge,  Columbiana 
county.  June  19,  1888,  twelve  years  after  his 
demise,  there  passed  from  earth  his  widow,  Maria 
(Moore)  Laughlin,  who  was  born  in  Columbiana 
county,  Ohio,  in  1814,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Nancy  (Lyon)  Moore,  the  former  born  near  Bel- 
fast, Ireland,  the  latter  a  native  of  Beaver  county. 
Pa.  When  Ohio  was  yet  known  as  the  North- 
western territory,  Mr.  Moore  was  sent  by  the 
government  to  that  region  to  take  charge  of  an 
engineering  corps.  Being  pleased  with  the  coun- 
try, he  established  a  permanent  home  in  Colum- 
biana county  and  there  he  and  his  wife  reached 
advanced  years  in  comfort  and  prosperity. 

Born  at  Little  Beaver,  Columbiana  county, 
Ohio,  March  23,  1843 ;  sent  by  his  parents,  Mat- 
thew and  Maria  Laughlin  to  local   schools  and 

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Neville  Institute ;  thus  briefly  may  be  summarized 
the  existence  of  Homer  Laughlin  up  to  the  time 
of  his  enlistment  July  12,  1862,  as  a  private  in 
Company  A,  One  Hundred  Fifteenth  Ohio  In- 
fantry. Into  the  next  three  years  was  crowded 
a  lifetime  of  exciting  events.  July  7,  1865,  he 
received  his  final  discharge  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
being  mustered  out  as  a  sergeant.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  he  successively  bored  twelve  wells  in 
the  oil  regions  of  Pennsylvania.  Next  going  to 
New  York  City,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Shakespeare,  and  began  to  import  china- 
ware  from  England  to  be  sold  in  this  country. 
After  three  years  in  the  metropolis  he  returned  to 
Ohio  and  with  his  brother  built  the  first  white- 
ware  pottery  in  the  United  States,  establishing  the 
plant  at  East  Liverpool.  In  1877  he  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  brother.  The  Homer  Laughlin 
China  Company  developed  into  the  largest  con- 
cern of  its  kind  in  the  country.  Upon  establish- 
ing his  home  in  Los  Angeles  in  1897,  he  organ- 
ized a  stock  company,  so  that  the  business  might 
be  unaffected  by  his  absence  from  headquarters. 
Under  his  supervision  the  factory  produced  a  fine 
quality  of  ware.  Every  facility  was  adopted 
whereby  the  grade  of  the  product  might  be  ad- 
vanced. That  the  ambitions  of  the  founder  and 
promoter  were  realized  appears  from  the  fact 
that  a  diploma  and  medal  were  awarded  him  in 
1876  as  first  prize  at  the  Centennial;  in  1879  he 
received  a  gold  medal  at  the  Cincinnati  Exposi- 
tion, and  in  1893  he  was  awarded  three  diplomas 
and  a  medal  at  the  World's  Fair  for  both  plain 
and  decorated  chinaware.  To  attain  such  perfec- 
tion demanded  of  him  the  utmost  concentration 
of  purpose,  modernity  of  equipment  and  the 
training  of  employes  to  the  highest  degree  of  skill 
in  the  potter's  art.  That  he  should  have  mastered 
the  business  so  thoroughly  and  developed  it  to 
such  magnitude  indicates  not  only  tenacity  of 
purpose,  but  also  marked  commercial  talent 
amounting  almost  to  genius. 

As  president  of  the  LTnited  States  Potters'  As- 
sociation for  many  years  and  as  chairman  of  its 
executive  committee;  as  a  member  of  the  board 
of  managers  for  more  than  thirty  years   (begin- 


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ning  in  1882  and  continuing  until  his  death")  of 
the  -\merican  Protective  Tariff  League;  as  an 
intimate  friend  of  Wllham  ^IcKinley.  the  martyr 
president,  for  thirt\'  years;  as  a  member  of  the 
Republican  Club  of  Xew  York,  the  California  and 
I.OS  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs ;  and  as  a  member  of 
the  Chambers  of  Commerce  of  Los  Angeles.  Long 
Beach  and  Hollywood.  Mr.  Laughhn  exerted 
an  influence  upon  diversified  lines  of  acti\-it\-  and 
became  widely  known  for  ci\-ic  enterprise  and 
patriotic  zeal.  Along  lines  of  fraternal  associa- 
tion he  was  particularly  interested  in  the  Masonic 
Order.  In  company  with  fort>-  representative 
Masons  in  1871  he  became  a  member  of  the  First 
Crusaders'  party  of  Knights  Templar  in  Europe, 
where  he  was  entertained  at  a  succession  of  forty 
banquets  in  England  and  \\-a5  made  an  honoran.- 
life  member  of  Gan-in  Encampment  of  Glasgow 
Knights  Templar  in  Scotland. 

On  a  pleasure  trip  to  Los  .\ngele5  during  1894 
Mr.  Laughlin  made  his  first  investment  in  real 
estate  in  this  city.  In  1897  he  established  his 
home  here,  bringing  west  with  him  his  family, 
which  consisted  at  that  time  of  his  wife.  Mrs. 
ComeUa  (Battenberg)  Laughlin.  and  their  t\vo 
children.  Homer  Laughlin.  Jr..  and  Miss  Guen- 
dolen  \"irginia.  Another  daughter.  Xanieta.  had 
passed  away  at  the  age  of  five  years.  The  family 
home  continued  to  be  at  the  beautiful  West  Adams 
street  properly  and  in  that  home  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Laughlin  occurred  four  years  prior  to  the  demise 
of  Mr.  Laughlin.  From  the  shock  of  that  be- 
reavement he  never  fully  recovered.  His  last 
illness  of  two  weeks  rendered  a  surgical  operation 
necessary.  Although  everj-thing  known  to  medical 
skill  was  done  in  his  behalf  at  the  California 
hospital,  he  gradually  lost  in  his  fight  for  hfe  and 
the  end  came  Januan.-  13.  1913.  as  the  heart  of 
mid-day  was  throbbing  in  the  pulses  of  the  city 
whose  progress  owed  so  much  to  his  optimistic 
faith  and  large  personal  investments.  In  the 
chosen  cit>-  of  his  home  there  stands  on  Broadway 
the  Homer  Laughlin  building,  the  first  fireproof 
structure  erected  in  Southern  California.  A  few 
doors  to  the  south  stands  the  Jacoby  building,  a 
substantial  brick  and  steel  structure  which  he 
erected  in  1901.  In  1905  the  annex  to  the  Homer 
Laughlin  building  was  built,  this  being  the  first 
reinforced  concrete  building  to  be  erected  in  Cali- 
fornia. These  business  blocks  cover  a  large  area 
and  extend  through  to  Hill  street,  affording  the 
most  modem  facilities  for  the  large  interests  of 


the  mercantile  houses  of  Jacoby  Brothers  and  the 
Ville  de  Paris.  Both  buildings  were  in  advance 
of  the  times  when  built,  but  the  citj'  in  its  onward 
march  of  development  has  not  allowed  them  to 
remain  sole  examples  of  their  class,  but  has  wit- 
nessed the  erection  of  a  notable  succession  of 
substantial  fireproof  structures,  each  embodying 
the  most  modem  features  of  its  typt. 


JOSEPH  SCOTT.  In  the  qualities  that  en- 
abled ^Ir.  Scott  to  surmount  adversit>"  and  at- 
tain to  eminence  among  the  attorneys  of  Los  An- 
geles may  be  discerned  the  value  of  ancestral 
heritage,  for  eloquence  and  mental  equipment  in- 
dicate pre-eminent  Hibernian  characteristics, 
while  rugged  integrit}-  and  stalwart  physique  come 
from  paternal  Cumberland  ancestors  forming  a 
line  of  what  is  known  as  Border  Scotch.  At  Pen- 
rith. Cumberland.  England,  he  was  bom  July  16, 
1867,  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Man,'  (Donnelly) 
Scott,  natives  respectively  of  England  and  \\'ex- 
ford,  Ireland.  The  efforts  of  the  son  were  di- 
rected toward  mental  development  rather  than 
manual  toil,  yet  he  was  encouraged  in  a  devotion 
to  athletics  with  a  \'iew  to  physical  vigor  and  the 
preserv'ation  of  health.  The  fact  that  he  now 
accomplishes  an  enormous  amount  of  law  work 
without  physical  exhaustion  furnishes  abundant 
evidence  concerning  the  value  of  his  athletic 
course  and  proves  the  importance  of  that  phase 
of  educational  development.  From  1880  until 
1888  he  attended  Ushaw  College.  Durham,  and 
upon  graduating  from  that  institution  he  matri- 
culated in  honors  in  London  L'niversity  as  the 
gold  medalist  of  his  class. 

Misfortunes  such  as  come  to  many  newcom- 
ers in  America,  who  without  friends  or  money 
endeavor  to  rise  above  obstacles,  confronted  Mr. 
Scott  upon  his  arrival  in  Xew  York  Cit\-  in  1889. 
Going  to  Boston  he  met  John  Boyle  O'Reilly,  the 
poet,  who  gave  him  letters  to  newspaper  men  of 
that  cit\-.  but  no  opening  was  found.  Next  he 
tried  letters  to  New  York  editors,  but  with  no 
better  luck.  The  work  ceased  and  the  money 
problem  became  ver\-  serious  when  he  was  re- 
duced to  S2.  Meanwhile  he  had  applied  for  the 
position  of  senior  professor  of  rhetoric  and  Eng- 
lish literature  at  St.  Bonaventure's  College.  Alle- 
gany. N.  Y..  but,  receiving  no  reply,  he  turned 
to  manual  work.    One  Tuesday  in  Februarj'.  1890, 


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he  was  carrying  a  hod.  On  the  next  Thursday 
he  was  instructing  the  senior  class  in  rhetoric 
at  the  institution  which  had  acted  favorably  upon 
his  application.  For  three  years  he  remained  an 
instructor  in  the  college,  which  in  1893  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  of  A.  M..  and  later,  in  1914, 
the  degree  of  LL.D.,  while  the  degree  of  PhT). 
came  to  him  in  1907  from  Santa  Clara  CoD^e  in 
CaHfomia. 

He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  supreme 
court  of  CaUfomia  during  April  of  1894,  later  ad- 
mitted to  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States 
and  still  later  (owing  to  large  litigation  demanding 
bis  presence  in  Arizona )  to  the  supreme  court  of 
that  state.  As  an  attorney  his  rise  was  almost 
phenomenal.  Soon  he  became  well  known  to 
bench  and  bar.  Temperamentally  he  is  well  quali- 
fied for  law  work.  In  the  profession  he  seems 
well  adapted  to  any  department  whether  office  de- 
tails, the  duties  of  counselor  or  the  heavy  re- 
sponsibiliiies  of  the  courtroom.  Commenting  upon 
his  abilities  as  an  attorney,  H.  D.  \Mieeler.  a 
writer  of  San  Francisco,  gives  this  pen  picture: 
■■"He's  the  two-nsiedest.  fightin'st  Irishman  that 
ever  stepped  as  a  lawyer  into  a  California  court. 
Give  a  man  an  average  mental  equipment  and  a 
superb  physical  make-up;  put  him  through  a 
course  of  book-learning,  hod-carrying,  teaching, 
law-practicing  and  prominent  dtizening  among 
the  real  elite  of  a  big  city,  and  when  you  shoot 
him  out  at  the  other  end.  it's  a  bet  that  you'll 
find  something  different  Ever  ready  to  join  an 
issue,  he  strikes  boldly,  fearlessly,  confidently — ■ 
his  weapon  the  passionate,  compelling  eloquence 
that  Gsd  gave  the  Irish."  An  article  by  Strick- 
land \V.  GiUilan.  the  famous  humorist,  gives  this 
pen  picture  of  Mr.  Scott:  "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  two- 
dollar  bill  and  take  a  job  of  hod-carrying,  and  to 
resign  as  deputy  hodman  to  accept  a  position  as 
professor  of  English  and  rhetoric  in  a  college — 
sounds  romantic,  doesn't  it  ?  Soimds  as  if  it  were 
fiction  rather  than  real  fife.  But  it  isn't  and  the 
man  who  had  this  career,  full  of  pluck,  perse- 
verance and  pathos,  lives  in  Los  Angeles  today, 
"^'ou  probably  know  him  He  is  a  successful  law- 
yer and  he  is  called  'Toe'  Scott" 

Those  who  tinderstand  the  extent  of  the  law 
practice  of  ^Ir.  Scott  are  amazed  at  the  interest 
with  which  he  enters  other  lines  of  acti\-itv  and 


at  the  leisure  he  finds  for  partiapaticm  in  dvic 
affairs.  Well  rounded  abilities  and  mental  alert- 
ness adapt  him  to  varied  pursuits.  So  eloquent  is 
he  in  his  defense  of  the  resources  of  the  west,  so 
convincing  in  his  description  of  c^jportunities  and 
so  firm  in  his  allegiance  to  his  chosen  place  of 
residence  that  he  won  from  President  Taft  the 
compliment  of  being  "California's  greatest 
booster."  \Mien  that  executive  visited  Los  An- 
geles in  1909  Mr.  Scott  was  the  principal  speaker 
at  the  banquet  in  his  honor  and  during  tie  same 
year  he  presided  as  toastmaster  at  the  banquet 
given  in  honor  of  the  admirals  and  omcers  of  the 
battleship  ffeet  cm  its  voyage  around  the  world. 
^\Tiile  officiating  as  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  in  1910.  Mr.  Scott  was  sent  to  Wash- 
ington to  act  in  the  interests  of  San  Francisco 
in  its  endeavor  to  secure  the  Panama-Pacific  Ex- 
position in  1915.  In  recc^nition  of  his  saccessfol 
work  he  was  elected  honorary  vice-president  of 
the  Panama-Pacific  International  Expositioa 
Company.  Xot  only  that  great  enterprise,  but  in 
addition  all  movements  for  the  expansion  of  the 
west  and  particularly  for  the  developmeit  of  the 
state  receive  his  cordial  support  To  such  citi- 
zens as  he  may  be  attributed  the  remarkable 
prepress  made  by  California  in  the  past  and  its 
hopeful  outlook  upon  the  future. 

The  importance  of  educational  work  has  ap- 
pealed to  Mr.  Scott  who  as  president  of  the  board 
of  education  for  five  years  and  as  a  member  for 
a  considerably  longer  period  proved  most  helpful 
in  divorcing  the  schools  from  politics  and  in  mak- 
ing efficiency  the  sole  tests  for  teachers.  The 
City  Teachers'  Oub  elected  him  to  hanorary  i 
bership  as  a  tribute  of  appreciation 
the  value  of  his  services.  In  1911  he  was  invited 
to  address  the  general  conventicHi  of  the  Xaticmal 
Educational  Association  on  the  subject  of  ade- 
quate remuneration  for  teachers.  The  result  of 
his  forceful  address  was  so  pronounced  that  a 
committee  was  ajqx)inted  to  determine  the  best 
means  of  promoting  the  purposes  emphasized  in 
his  address.  Along  the  line  of  his  professiOTi  he 
is  prominaitly  connected  witii  the  Los  Angeles. 
California  State  and  American  Bar  Associaiicms, 
while  diverse  interests  are  indicated  by  menber- 
ship  in  the  Archseological  Institute  of  America,  the 
executive  comminee  of  the  Southwest  Society  and 
the  vic^presidency  of  the  Southwest  Museum. 
.\5  a  member  of  the  charter  revision  committee 
he  assisted  in  framing  the  present  charter.     His 


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marriage  took  place  June  6,  1898,  and  united  him 
with  Miss  Bertha  Roth  of  Los  Angeles,  by  whom 
he  has  had  a  family  of  eight  children,  namely: 
Joseph,  Jr.,  Mary.  Alfonso,  George,  Cuthbert, 
John  Patrick,  Helen  and  Josephine.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Newman  Club,  a  director  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Celtic,  California  and  Sun- 
set Clubs. 


JAMES  CALHOUN  DRAKE.  A  wide 
range  of  interests  and  successful  endeavor  is  re- 
vealed in  a  study  of  the  career  of  James  Cal- 
houn Drake,  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Trust 
&  Savings  Bank  and  the  leading  factor  in  the 
organization  of  that  well-known  financial  con- 
cern. By  men  familiar  with  his  profound  knowl- 
edge of  the  field  of  finance,  accustomed  to  hib 
quick  decisions  in  banking  affairs  and  accepting 
his  leadership  in  all  problems  pertaining  to  trusts, 
loans  and  savings,  it  is  commonly  presumed  that 
he  has  been  trained  to  the  banking  business  from 
boyhood  and  that  there  has  been  no  interruption 
to  his  steadfast  identification  with  financial  insti- 
tutions. Such,  however,  is  far  from  being  the 
case;  natural  ability  as  much  as  experience  is 
responsible  for  his  almost  unerring  judgment  in 
afifairs  of  a  banking  character.  Much  of  his  life 
has  been  given  to  a  pursuit  radically  distinct 
from  his  present  business,  which  dates  back  to 
his  acceptance  in  1896  of  a  position  on  the  direc- 
torate of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles. 
From  that  date  to  the  present  he  has  continued 
his  association  with  that  popular  institution,  but  in 
addition  thereto  he  has  officiated  as  president  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  ever  since 
its  organization.  The  high  standing  of  the  con- 
cern may  be  attributed  largely  to  his  wise  leader- 
ship and  efficient  management,  supplemented  by 
the  efficiency  of  trained  assistants  and  the  co- 
operation of  capable  co-workers. 

It  was  not  to  banking  but  to  naval  affairs  that 
the  ambitions  of  James  Calhoun  Drake  turned  in 
the  aspiring  period  of  his  early  youth.  A  son  of 
Wesley  and  Martha  (Kellum)  Drake,  he  was 
born  at  Cincinnati,  Washington  county.  Ark., 
July  26,  1858,  and  received  an  excellent  public- 
school  education  in  his  native  commonwealth. 
Having  passed  the  required  examination  with  a 
high  standing  he  was  admitted  to  the  United 
States  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  where 


he  took  the  regular  course  of  training  and  was 
graduated  in  1880  at  the  age  of  about  twenty- 
two.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  was  as- 
signed to  a  war  vessel  that  subsequently  cruised 
in  ail  parts  of  the  world.  Upon  his  return  to 
the  United  States  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Fanny  Wilcox  April  23,  1893.  and  in  1896 
he  resigned  from  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the 
navy,  in  order  that  he  might  establish  a  home  in 
Los  Angeles.  From  that  time  to  the  present  he 
has  devoted  himself  closely  to  banking  affairs, 
civic  activities  and  to  the  directorship  in  the  Pa- 
cific Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  and  the 
Southern  California  Edison  Company.  Availing 
himself  of  the  privileges  of  the  California,  Los 
Angeles  Country  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs, 
he  has  held  an  honored  place  in  the  membership 
of  each  and  has  promoted  their  progressive  pro- 
jects through  his  tactful,  efficient  assistance.  In- 
deed it  would  be  difficult  to  mention  any  organiza- 
tion for  the  benefit  of  the  city  that  has  failed 
of  his  sympathy  or  been  refused  his  generous  aid, 
and  he  easily  ranks  among  the  most  progressive 
men  in  a  city  whose  proud  boast  is  that  every 
citizen  is  loyal  to  her  welfare  and  solicitous  to 
promote  her  permanent  growth. 


WALTER  JONES  TRASK.  Sturdy  New 
England  ancestry,  dating  back  to  the  seventeenth 
century,  contributed  to  the  late  Walter  Jones 
Trask  those  sterling  traits  of  character  which 
shaped  his  splendid  career.  These  progenitors 
were  in  nearly  every  case  residents  of  South 
Jefferson,  Lincoln  county,  Me.,  where  Mr.  Trask 
was  born  July  6,  1862,  son  of  Kiah  B.  and 
Mary  Jane  (Dunton)  Trask.  He  received  his 
elementary  schooling  in  the  public  schools  of 
Lincoln  county,  this  being  supplemented  by  a 
course  at  Nicholas  Latin  School  of  Lewiston,  and 
the  Waterville  (Me.)  Classical  Institute.  When 
he  completed  these  studies  he  went  to  Boston, 
took  a  position  in  the  Waltham  Watch  factory, 
and  for  a  year  studied  law  at  night.  This  proved 
the  foundation  of  a  broad  legal  information,  and 
when  at  the  end  of  this  year  he  removed  to  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  he  entered  the  office  of  Judge  Ste- 
vens, where  in  a  short  time  he  was  enabled  to 
take  the  examination,  and  in  1884  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  that  state.  While  practicing  in  St. 
Paul  Mr.  Trask  was  associated  with  W.  D.  War- 


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ner,  one  of  the  leading  mercantile  lawyers  of  the 
state,  and  then  was  with  Judge  John  Lovely,  the 
latter  an  ex- Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Min- 
nesota. 

In  1890  Mr.  Trask  came  to  Los  Angeles  and 
became  a  law  clerk  in  the  office  of  Judge  John  D. 
Bicknell,  where  he  so  established  his  record  as 
a  trial  lawyer  that  he  soon  became  a  member  of 
the  firm,  which  was  known  first  as  Bicknell  & 
Trask,  later  as  Bicknell,  Gibson  &  Trask;  Bick- 
nell, Gibson,  Trask,  Dunn  &  Crutcher;  Gibson, 
Trask,  Dunn  &  Crutcher,  respectively,  the  last 
form  of  business  title  being  retained  until  his 
death,  which  took  place  May  9,  1911,  in  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  Trask  was  married  in  St.  Paul  March  6, 
1885,  and  one  daughter,  Carolyne,  was  born  to 
this  union.  Later,  March  19,  1892,  he  married  in 
Los  Angeles  Miss  Victoria  Harrell.  Independent 
in  politics,  he  ever  evinced  the  public-spirited  citi- 
zen's interest  in  the  common  welfare  and  loyally 
filled  his  place  as  a  good  citizen.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association  in  1910, 
and  socially  affiliated  with  the  Jonathan,  Cali- 
fornia and  Craig  Country  Clubs. 


GEORGE  SMITH  PATTON.  Tracing  his 
genealogy  back  in  a  direct  line  to  before  the 
Revolutionary  period  in  America,  and  being 
directly  descended  from  Mildred  Washington, 
an  own  aunt  of  George  Washington,  George 
Smith  Patton  claims  among  his  forebears  some 
of  the  most  illustrious  of  Americans.  The  male 
members  of  the  family  are  especially  patriotic 
and  have  a  strong  tendency  to  the  military 
service  of  the  country,  Mr.  Patton  himself  hav- 
ing received  a  military  education,  and  his  only 
son,  George  Smith  Patton  III.  being  a  graduate 
of  West  Point  Military  Academy,  and  now 
serving  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fifteenth  United 
States  Cavalry.  Mr.  Patton  is  a  lawyer  by 
profession  and  was  for  many  years  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Glassell,  Smith  &  Patton.  attor- 
neys at  law,  in  Los  Angeles.  In  1894  he  retired 
from  practice,  and  has  since  resided  at  San 
Gabriel,  where  he  has  a  beautiful  country  home. 

Mr.  Patton  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  born  at 
Charleston,  September  30,  1856,  the  son  of 
George  Smith  and  Susan  Thornton  (Glassell) 
Patton.  His  father  was  a  colonel  in  the  Twenty- 


second  Virginia  Infantry,  serving  with  distinc- 
tion in  the  Civil  war,  and  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Winchester,  September  19,  1864. 
George  Smith  II  was  educated  in  the  Virginia 
Military  Academy,  at  Lexington,  Va..  and  later 
studied  law  in  that  city.  In  1878  he  came  to 
California,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Los 
Angeles  two  years  later,  and  ever  since  locating 
in  the  state  has  made  his  home  in  Los  Angeles 
or  San  Gabriel.  Prominent  in  his  profession 
for  many  years,  he  was  acknowledged  to  be  a 
man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  an  attor- 
ney of  great  power,  and  served  as  district 
attorney  of  Los  Angeles  county  in  1884.  In  his 
political  views  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  taken 
an  influential  part  in  the  affairs  of  his  party  in 
this  cotmty. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Patton  and  Aliss  Ruth 
Wilson  took  place  in  San  Gabriel,  December 
10,  1884.  Mrs.  Patton  is  the  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin D.  and  Margaret  Wilson,  her  father 
being  one  of  the  first  Americans  to  come  to 
Los  Angeles,  and  for  many  years  was  one  of 
the  most  influential  citizens  of  this  part  of  the 
state,  and  an  extensive  land  owner  of  the 
county,  owning  property  in  various  portions, 
from  the  mountains  to  the  sea.  She  bore  her 
husband  two  children,  both  of  whom  are  well 
and  favorably  known  in  Los  Angeles  county, 
of  which  they  are  natives.  Of  these,  the  elder 
is  George  Smith  Patton  III,  before  mentioned, 
who  graduated  from  the  L'nited  States  j\lilitary 
Academy  at  West  Point  with  the  class  of  1909; 
he  is  married  to  Miss  Beatrice  Ayer,  of  Boston, 
Mass.  Anne  Wilson  Patton  is  unmarried  and 
resides  at  the  family  home  in  San  Gabriel. 

Mr.  Patton  claims  among  other  distinguished 
ancestors.  Gen.  Hugh  Mercer,  who  commanded 
the  Virginia  troops  under  Washington,  and 
who  was  killed  at  Princeton.  Both  General 
Mercer  and  Mildred  Washington  are  characters 
of  national  repute  and  their  biographies  have 
been  so  often  recorded  that  they  need  no  more 
than  a  mention  here.  Mr.  Patton  has  never 
been  engaged  in  military  service  himself,  but 
has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  his  country.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church,  and  has  been  a  vestry- 
man at  the  Church  of  Our  Savior  at  San  Gabriel 
for  more  than  twenty-five  years.  He  is  also 
a  charter  member  of  the  California  Club,  in  Los 
Angeles. 


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JAY  SPENCE.  Cashier,  secretary,  treasurer 
and  director  Los  Angeles  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank.  Residence,  No.  445  South  Serrano  avenue ; 
office,  Los  Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank 
Bldg.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  Born  in  Chicago,  III, 
January  5,  1869;  son  of  James  Andrew  and  Cor- 
nelia Ann  (Soule)  Spence.  Married  to  Estelle 
Minier  in  1895.  Educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.  Messenger  German- 
America  Savings  Bank,  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  1882- 
86;  bookkeeper  Wisconsin  Land  &  Lumber  Co., 
Hermansville,  Mich.,  1886-88.  Moved  to  Pomona, 
Cal.,  in  1888  and  became  bookkeeper  and  teller 
for  First  National  Bank,  which  office  he  held  until 
1897,  when  he  was  appointed  assistant  cashier; 
cashier  Bank  of  Oxnard,  Oxnard,  Cal,  1899-1902  ; 
president  same,  1902-1905;  president  Oxnard 
Savings  Bank,  Oxnard,  Cal.,  1904-05;  cashier 
and  secretary  Metropolitan  Bank  and  Trust  Com- 
pany, Los  Angeles,  1905  to  date;  secretary  Los 
Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  1909-1910; 
cashier  and  secretary,  1910  to  date.  Served  as 
member  first  board  of  trustees,  Oxnard,  Cal., 
1903-05  ;  trustee  and  clerk  board  of  trustees  Union 
High  School  district,  Oxnard,  Cal.,  1902-05; 
member  Jonathan  Club ;  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce ;  Masonic  fraternity ;  Shrine  ;  Automo- 
bile Club  of  Southern  California. 


URIAH  R.  BOWERS.  The  descent  of  Uriah 
R.  Bowers  is  from  two  of  the  oldest  German  fam- 
ilies of  America,  coming  from  German-American 
pioneer  settlers  on  the  mother's  side,  as  well  as  the 
father's.  The  progenitor  of  the  Bowers  family  in 
this  country  was  Michael  Bowers,  who  was  born 
in  Germany  and  who  came  to  America  in  colonial 
times.  The  paternal  grandfather  of  Uriah  R. 
Bowers  was  Jacob  R.,  born  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  then 
called  Maryland,  near  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line 
as  established  by  governmental  survey  at  a  later 
date ;  he  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  fought 
for  the  cause  of  independence,  and  became  the 
father  of  John  Bowers,  born  in  Bedford  county. 
Pa.,  who  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  later 
moved  West  and  owned  a  dry  goods  and  general 
supply  store  at  Uniontown,  Ohio.  This  John  Bow- 
ers was  married  to  Barbara  Myers,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  ten  children,  of  whom  Uriah 


R.,  born  near  Canton,  Stark  county,  Ohio,  on 
P'ebruary  5,  1837,  was  the  seventh  in  number. 
The  father  was  an  ardent  supporter  of  President 
Andrew  Jackson,  and  even  though  he  met  his  own 
financial  ruin  in  the  panic  following  Jackson's 
annihilation  of  the  old  United  States  Bank,  John 
Bowers  yet  remained  the  loyal  supporter  of  Pres- 
ident Jackson.  He  died  when  his  son  Uriah  was 
a  lad  of  only  fourteen  years. 

The  son  learned  his  first  lessons  in  carpentry 
from  his  father  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years 
was  apprenticed  to  his  brother-in-law,  Andrew 
Richard,  a  joiner  of  note,  soon  becoming  a  first- 
class  carpenter.  At  twenty-three  years  of  age, 
Uriah  R.  Bowers  enlisted  in  Company  E,  One 
Hundred  and  Fifteenth  Ohio  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, soon  being  detailed  to  do  hospital  duty, 
where  he  saw  much  of  the  wounded  and  suffer- 
ing in  the  Federal  military  hospitals  at  Cincin- 
nati, Louisville,  Murfreesboro  and  Nashville  for 
three  years,  being  honorably  discharged  in  1865, 
at  the  close  of  the  war,  after  which  he  returned  to 
Ohio  for  a  short  time.  By  his  long  experience  in 
the  hospital  service,  he  had  gained  considerable 
knowledge  of  medicine,  and  going  to  Plainfield, 
111.,  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business.  Returning 
to  Ohio,  he  remained  there  eighteen  years,  where 
he  was  a  trusted  employe  of  the  Aultman  & 
Miller  Company,  manufacturers  of  reapers,  mow- 
ers and  threshing  machines.  In  1883  he  moved  to 
Iowa  and  lived  at  Le  Mars  until  1887,  when  he 
went  to  Chicago  and  remained  until  July  of  1888. 
At  that  time  he  with  his  family  removed  to  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  and  thereafter  the  family  was  con- 
nected with  the  paint  and  varnish  business  on  an 
extensive  scale  until  recently. 

Mr.  Bowers'  younger  son  William,  who  died 
in  1905,  was  the  real  founder  of  the  well-known 
firm  of  U.  R.  Bowers  &  Sons  in  Los  Angeles. 
Soon  after  coming  to  this  city  in  1888,  the  son 
William  engaged  as  a  clerk  for  a  Mr.  Blackburn, 
who  conducted  a  retail  paint  store  at  No.  418 
South  Spring  street,  Los  Angeles.  When  Mr. 
Blackburn  decided  to  sell  out  his  business,  young 
Bowers  prevailed  upon  his  father  to  furnish  the 
money  to  purchase  the  business,  which  he  did,  and 
the  business  was  continued  under  the  name  of 
U.  R.  Bowers  &  Sons  at  the  same  address  for 
several  years.  At  first  small,  the  business  pros- 
pered and  expanded,  largely  by  reason  of  the 
ability  and  energy  of  the  two  sons  of  Mr.  Bowers, 
until  they  established  a  paint  manufactory,  with 


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wholesale  and  jobbing  departments,  and  ran  a  big 
business  at  their  new  address,  Nos.  942  and  944 
South  Main  street.  On  January  1,  1909,  Mr. 
Bowers  sold  to  his  elder  son  his  interest  in  the 
large  wholesale  and  retail  paint  store  and  paint 
manufacturing  business,  and  retired  from  busi- 
ness, the  son  continuing  the  same  until  April, 
1914,  when  he  sold  out  to  W.  P.  Fuller  &  Co., 
and  is  now  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Los  Angeles. 

The  first  marriage  of  Uriah  R.  Bowers  took 
place  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1865,  uniting 
him  with  Alma  J.  Clay,  to  whom  he  had  been 
engaged  while  a  soldier,  and  their  two  sons  were 
born  at  Akron,  Ohio,  namely,  Harry  Clay  Bow- 
ers, now  a  real  estate  man  of  Los  Angeles,  and 
William  H.  Bowers,  who  died  in  1905,  leaving 
a  wife  but  no  children  and  having  been  the  real 
founder  of  the  large  paint  company  known  as 
U.  R.  Bowers  &  Sons.  The  death  of  Mr.  Bowers' 
first  wife  occurred  in  1894,  she  being  then  fifty- 
four  years  old,  and  in  1901  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Ralston,  daughter  of  James 
Ralston,  she  being  a  native  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Mr.  Bowers  is  now  seventy-eight  years  old,  well 
known  and  highly  respected  in  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  has  built  several  fine  resi- 
dences and  has  for  ten  years  lived  retired  from 
active  business  life.  He  has  built  a  commodious 
residence  at  No.  1708  South  Wall  street,  where 
he  and  his  wife  reside,  their  home  being  cheerful 
and  well  ordered,  one  of  its  greatest  treasures  be- 
ing his  grandmother's  Bible,  a  large  book  printed 
in  Germany  in  1720  in  the  German  type. 

Mr.  Bowers  has  lived  a  clean,  active  and  use- 
ful life,  is  a  strict  Presbyterian  and  a  consistent 
Christian,  and  throws  his  influence  on  the  side 
of  right  and  of  good  government.  He  is  an  en- 
thusiast for  Southern  California  and  Los  Angeles, 
and  active  in  the  councils  of  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church  of  this  city,  of  which  he  is  an 
elder. 


HARRY  CLAY  BOWERS.  The  son  of  the 
well-known  Uriah  R.  Bowers,  a  business  man  of 
Los  Angeles,  Harry  Clay  Bowers  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  large  paint  and  varnish 
company  known  as  the  U.  R.  Bowers  &  Sons 
Company.  Born  at  Akron,  Ohio,  July  16,  1867, 
Harry  Clay   Bowers  was  one  of  two  sons,  the 


younger,  William,  who  was  also  a  member  of  the 
said  firm,  having  died  in  Los  Angeles  in  1905. 
The  education  of  Mr.  Bowers  was  received  at  the 
public  schools  of  Akron,  Ohio,  and  Le  Mars, 
Iowa,  where  he  graduated  in  1886.  Coming  to 
Los  Angeles  in  1888,  he  worked  for  two  years  as 
a  drug  clerk,  and  later,  with  his  father  and  brother 
as  partners,  started  in  the  paint  business  at  No. 
418  South  Spring  street,  where  they  had  bought 
out  the  business  of  J.  M.  Blackburn,  with  whom 
the  brother  William  had  been  employed.  The 
business,  though  a  small  one  at  that  time,  devel- 
oped into  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  paint  and 
varnish  business  under  the  name  of  U.  R.  Bow- 
ers &  Sons.  This  company  was  the  first  to  man- 
ufacture paint  in  Southern  California,  estabhsh- 
ing  that  branch  of  the  business  in  1898.  On  Jan- 
uary 1,  1909,  the  father  sold  out  his  interest 
therein  to  the  son,  who  then  organized  the  West- 
ern Paint  Grinding  Company,  merging  it  with  the 
former  company  in  1911,  also  becoming  president 
of  the  Bowers  Sign  Company,  outdoor  advertis- 
ers who  handled  bulletin  painting  and  bill  posting. 
In  April,  1914,  Mr.  Bowers  sold  out  the  paint 
business  to  W.  P.  Fuller  &  Co.,  and  in  Novem- 
ber of  that  year  disposed  of  the  advertising  bus- 
iness to  T.  H.  B.  Varney.  He  has  since  devoted 
himself  to  the  real  estate  business  in  Los  Angeles, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Horton  &  Bowers,  with 
offices  at  No.  640  I.  N.  Van  Nuys  building. 

By  his  marriage  in  1896,  Mr.  Bowers  was 
united  with  Miss  Mattie  Davis,  and  they  have  one 
child,  Harry  Bowers.  Mr.  Bowers  is  connected 
with  various  clubs  and  associations  in  Los  An- 
geles, of  both  business  and  social  interest,  among 
them  being  the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers' 
Association,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Credit  Men's  Association  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  and  Auto  Clubs. 

Our  country  has  no  more  loyal  citizens  and 
supporters  than  those  of  foreign  birth  or 
parentage,  and  it  is  gratifying  to  note,  even  in 
early  days,  the  loyalty  displayed  by  the  sons  of 
other  lands  who  had  made  their  homes  in  Amer- 
ica. Thus  it  has  been  with  the  Bowers  family, 
whose  earliest  representative  in  this  country  was 
Michael  Bowers,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  came 
to  America  in  its  colonial  days.  Jacob  R.  Bowers, 
the  great-grandfather  of  Harry  Clay  Bowers,  was 
born  in  a  section  of  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  then 
called  Maryland,  near  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line 
as  it  was  later  established,  and  became  a  Revolu- 


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tionary  soldier  fighting  for  the  cause  of  inde- 
pendence. At  the  time  of  the  Civil  war,  Uriah  R. 
Bowers,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years,  enlisted 
in  the  army,  and  was  detailed  to  hospital  work, 
where  for  three  years  he  rendered  valuable  ser- 
vice, being  honorably  discharged  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  and  the  interest  which  he  and  his  sons  have 
displayed  in  the  advancement  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia and  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles,  where  they  have  chosen  to  make 
their  home,  has  rendered  them  valued  and  re- 
spected citizens  of  this  western  metropolis. 


CHARLES  L.  BISBEE.  As  the  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  well-known  firm  of  Bisbee  &  Fishburn, 
manufacturers  of  sash  and  doors  and  other  in- 
terior house  and  store  furnishings,  C.  L.  Bisbee 
is  one  of  the  best  known  lumber  men  in  South- 
ern California,  having  been  variously  associated 
with  this  industry  in  this  part  of  the  state  since 
1887,  when  he  first  came  to  the  Pacific  coast, 
locating  in  San  Diego.  During  the  almost  thirty 
years  that  have  intervened  since  that  time  he  has 
been  associated  with  the  lumber  business  in  one 
capacity  or  another,  either  in  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  has  resided  for  many  years,  or  in  San  Diego. 
All  his  life  Mr.  Bisbee  has  been  identified  with 
the  lumber  interests  of  the  country,  either  here  or 
in  his  native  state  of  Iowa,  and  is  thoroughly  con- 
versant with  all  its  details.  In  his  own  inde- 
pendent venture  he  has  been  particularly  success- 
ful, and  today  he  ranks  high  among  both  whole- 
sale and  retail  men,  as  well  as  with  the  builders 
and  contractors,  with  whom  he  is  constantly  in 
contact,  being  acknowledged  to  be  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  integrity  and  business  standing. 

Mr.  Bisbee  was  born  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  in 
August,  1863,  son  of  the  late  C.  P.  and  Frances 
Bisbee.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Massachu- 
setts, born  at  Worthington,  July,  1837,  and  receiv- 
ing his  education  in  his  native  city.  He  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  there  until  his  removal 
to  Iowa,  where  he  continued  that  business  until 
1868.  He  then  removed  to  Lee  county.  111., 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  near  Mendota  until 
1870,  when  he  went  back  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and 
again  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  Eventually  he  disposed  of  his  in- 
terests to  accept  the  position  of  city  weigher, 
which  he  filled  until  1887.    At  that  time  he  deter- 


mined to  come  west  and  accepted  a  position  with 
the  San  Diego  Lumber  Company  as  foreman,  re- 
maining as  such  until  1895,  when  he  resigned  to 
become  yard  man  for  the  West  Coast  Lumber 
Company,  with  headquarters  at  San  Diego,  later 
being  with  the  Benson  Lumber  Company  in  the 
same  capacity.  In  1911  he  resigned  his  position 
with  the  Benson  Lumber  Company  and  came  to 
Los  Angeles  to  make  his  home,  living  here  in 
quiet  retirement  until  his  death,  February  26, 
1915,  at  the  home  of  his  son. 

C.  L.  Bisbee  passed  his  boyhood  days  in  Keo- 
kuk, attending  the  public  and  high  schools  there 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  became 
bookkeeper  for  the  Evans  &  Sheppard  Lumber 
Company  of  that  place,  remaining  with  them  in 
this  capacity  for  some  eight  years,  or  until  1887, 
when  with  the  family  he  removed  to  San  Diego, 
Cal.  Here  he  accepted  a  position  as  order  clerk 
with  the  San  Diego  Lumber  Company,  of  which 
his  father  was  foreman,  remaining  with  them 
until  1890,  when  he  accepted  a  similar  position 
with  the  West  Coast  Lumber  Company,  also  of 
San  Diego,  serving  there  until  1892.  He  then 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  engaged  as  bookkeeper 
with  the  H.  Raphael  Company,  manufacturers  of 
sash  and  doors,  for  a  year,  when  he  accepted  a 
position  as  bookkeeper  for  the  California  Door 
Company,  later  becoming  their  assistant  manager, 
which  responsible  position  he  held  for  fourteen 
years.  During  this  long  term  of  faithful  ser- 
vice Mr.  Bisbee  did  much  for  the  general  wel- 
fare of  the  company,  and  also  established  for 
himself  an  enviable  reputation  for  straightfor- 
ward business  methods,  making  as  well  many 
warm  personal  friends.  When  he  severed  his 
connection  with  the  California  Door  Company 
it  was  to  engage  in  business  for  himself  in  the 
manufacture  of  sash  and  doors,  as  the  Bisbee- 
Fishburn  Company,  in  which  undertaking  he  has 
been  very  successful.  The  business  is  well  known 
through  the  channels  of  the  trade  in  Los  An- 
geles and  vicinity,  and  the  personality  of  Mr. 
Bisbee  and  his  high  standing  among  his  asso- 
ciates and  business  acquaintances  at  once  placed 
the  new  firm  on  an  established  footing  with  the 
public  generally. 

Aside  from  his  business  associations  Mr.  Bis- 
bee is  well  known  in  social  circles  throughout  the 
city,  and  is  everywhere  highly  regarded.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  and  the  Los  An- 
geles Athletic  Club.     In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 


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lican  and  a  strong  party  man.  Throughout  the 
years  of  his  residence  in  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Bisbee 
has  been  identified  with  various  movements  for 
the  betterment  of  the  city,  socially,  politically  and 
educationally.  Together  with  his  wife,  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  regu- 
lar attendant  upon  its  services.  The  marriage  of 
Mr.  Bisbee  occurred  in  San  Diego,  in  December, 
1906,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Margaret  Fishbum, 
a  native  of  Joliet.  111.,  but  a  resident  of  San 
Diego.  Mrs.  Bisbee  is  also  well  and  favorably 
known  to  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances. 


ROBERT  L.  GARRETT.  Although  a  na- 
tive of  Arkansas,  Robert  L.  Garrett  was  one 
of  the  early  pioneers  of  Los  Angeles  county, 
having  crossed  the  plains  from  Texas  in  an 
early  day,  when  he  was  still  a  young  man. 
For  many  years  he  resided  in  Wilmington, 
and  in  1885  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and 
opened  an  undertaking  establishment,  which 
he  conducted  until  his  death  in  1905,  and 
which  still  bears  his  name,  being  now  con- 
ducted by  his  wife  and  two  of  his  sons.  Dur- 
ing his  twenty  or  more  years  of  residence  in 
Los  Angeles  Mr.  Garrett  was  closely  asso- 
ciated with  the  affairs  of  the  city,  and  formed 
a  wide  circle  of  admiring  friends,  by  whom 
he  is  still   remembered  with  kindly  affection. 

Born  near  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  March  10, 
1844,  the  son  of  Robert  and  Hanna  M.  Garrett, 
both  of  whom  are  now  deceased,  R.  L.  Garrett 
was  taken  to  Texas  by  his  parents  when  he 
was  a  lad  of  ten  years.  His  primary  education 
was  received  in  the  public  schools  of  Arkansas 
and  later  he  took  a  course  in  the  schools  of 
Texas.  After  leaving  school  he  worked  for  a 
short  time,  and  then  determined  to  come  to 
California.  With  his  mother  and  three  sisters 
he  joined  a  party  that  was  about  to  set  out 
to  cross  the  plains  to  California,  and  made  the 
perilous  journey  in  the  old  "prairie  schoon- 
ers" of  that  day.  The  Indians  along  the  route 
were  very  hostile  and  made  much  trouble  for 
the  travelers,  and  this  condition,  taken  in  con- 
junction with  the  dangers  from  the  thirsts  of 
the  desert,  made  the  trip  an  exceedingly  haz- 
ardous one. 

On  arriving  in  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Garrett 
went   at   once    to    Wilmington,   where   he    se- 


cured employment  with  General  Banning,  an 
association  that  continued  for  a  long  period. 
From  then  until  1885  he  was  engaged  in  the 
contracting  business  for  himself  at  Wilming- 
ton, meeting  with  much  success.  At  that  time 
(1885)  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles  and  en- 
tered the  undertaking  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Garrett  &  Neitzke,  the  partnership 
continuing  for  two  years,  when  Neitzke  sold 
his  interest  and  the  firm  of  Garrett  &  Samp- 
son then  carried  on  the  business  for  a  period 
of  five  years.  From  that  time  until  his  death 
Mr.  Garrett  conducted  the  business  indepen- 
dently under  the  name  of  Robert  L.  Garrett, 
and  since  his  death,  in  1905,  the  business  has 
been  continued  as  the  Robert  L.  Garrett  Com- 
pany, with  Mrs.  Garrett  as  president  and  two 
of  the  sons  as  officers. 

Aside  from  his  business  associations  Mr. 
Garrett  was  widely  and  favorably  known.  He 
was  prominent  in  fraternal  circles,  being  a 
thirty-second  degree  Mason,  an  Odd  Fellow,  a 
member  of  the  Foresters,  and  of  the  Fraternal 
Brotherhood,  and  also  a  member  of  the  local 
Pioneer  Association.  In  politics  Mr.  Garrett 
was  a  Democrat,  a  well-informed  man  and  an 
independent  thinker,  but  was  never  closely 
allied  with  the  affairs  of  his  party,  although 
at  all  times  deeply  interested  in  all  questions 
which  involved  the  civic  welfare. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Garrett  occurred  in 
Wilmington,  June  1,  1871,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Sarah  E.  McBride,  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Jane  McBride,  and  a  native  of  New  York. 
She  is  the  mother  of  three  children,  all  sons, 
and  all  well  and  favorably  known  in  Los 
Angeles,  where  they  have  grown  to  manhood. 
They  are  Dr.  E.  H.  Garrett,  a  prominent  sur- 
geon, who  married  Josephine  Eberle :  Banning 
C.  Garrett,  married  to  Evelyn  McKenzie ;  and 
Robert  B.  Garrett,  who  married  Bertha  Rich. 
The  two  sons  last  mentioned  are  members 
of  the  firm  of  Robert  L.  Garrett  Company. 


MRS.  R.  L.  CRAIG  (Nancy  Tuttle  Craig). 
No  phase  of  development  in  the  twentieth  cen- 
tury has  been  more  significant,  important,  or  in- 
teresting, than  the  growing  ascendancy  of  women 
in  commercial  and  educational  activities.  The 
west,  with  its  greater  freedom  from  conventional 


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form  and  ceremony,  offers  a  field  of  triumph  for 
the  growth  of  women  in  business  and  in  the  pro- 
fessions. 

Perhaps  no  woman's  experience  in  the  west  has 
been  more  noteworthy  than  that  of  Nancy  Tuttle 
Craig.  Her  husband,  R.  L.  Craig,  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Los  Angeles,  in  1888  founded  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  which  bears  his  name. 
His  sudden  demise  made  it  necessary  that  Mrs. 
Craig  take  her  place  at  the  head  of  the  corpora- 
tion, and  though  inexperienced  in  the  business 
world,  through  patient  and  conscientious  applica- 
tion, she  has  not  only  succeeded  in  maintaining  the 
business,  but  has  been  gratified  from  year  to  year 
to  witness  its  steady  growth.  She  has  the  honor 
of  being  the  only  woman  member  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Grocers'  Association,  in  which  she 
takes  an  active  part  and  a  keen  interest. 

Descended  from  English  and  Scotch  ancestry, 
though  perhaps  of  the  fifth  generation  in  Amer- 
ica, Mrs.  Craig  is  essentially  a  western  woman, 
having  moved  with  her  parents,  Owen  and  Mary 
E.  (Burns)  Tuttle,  from  Van  Buren  county. 
Iowa,  to  Santa  Cruz  county,  Cal.,  in  the  year  1873. 
She  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Watson- 
ville,  Cal.,  and  in  the  State  Normal  School  of 
San  Jose,  Cal.,  where  she  was  graduated  in  the 
year  1885.  She  immediately  entered  the  profes- 
sion of  teaching,  and  modestly  claims  a  modicum 
of  success,  and  a  great  love  for  the  educational 
work.  Her  marriage  terminated  her  experience 
as  a  teacher,  but  her  interest  in  school  work  never 
waned,  and  notwithstanding  her  heavy  responsi- 
bilities as  president  of  R.  L.  Craig  &  Company, 
she  consented  to  become  a  candidate  for  member- 
ship on  the  Board  of  Education  in  1911,  and  was 
twice  elected  to  this  office  by  her  fellow  townsmen 
with  a  handsome  majority. 

The  welfare  of  the  children  in  the  public  schools 
has  been  Mrs.  Craig's  first  concern  as  a  member 
of  the  Los  Angeles  City  Board  of  Education, 
while  her  educational  qualifications,  combined 
with  her  business  experience,  have  fitted  her  to 
serve  intelligently  and  helpfully  on  the  various 
committees. 


REV.  JOSEPH  SARSFIELD  GLASS.  Rep- 
resented in  the  life  of  Rev.  Joseph  Sarsfield 
Glass,  pastor  of  St.  Vincent's  Catholic  church, 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  are  many  years  of  faithful  and 
enthusiastic   study   along   the    lines    of    religious 


thought  and  the  traditions  of  the  Catholic  church, 
whereby  he  has  become  one  of  the  leaders  in  his 
faith,  as  well  as  a  prominent  educator  in  South- 
ern California.  The  birth  of  Dr.  Glass  took  place 
in  Bushnell,  111.,  March  13,  1874,  his  parents  being 
James  and  Mary  Edith  (Kelly)  Glass.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  parochial  schools 
of  Sedalia,  Mo.,  and  in  1887  entered  St.  Vincent's 
College,  Los  Angeles,  where  he  studied  four  years, 
after  which  he  continued  his  education  at  St. 
Mary's  Apostolic  College  of  Perryville,  Mo.  From 
there  he  entered  the  Novitiate  of  the  Congrega- 
tion of  the  Mission  in  1891,  later  taking  a  course 
in  philosophy  and  theology  at  St.  Mary's  Semi- 
nary in  Perry  county,  Mo.  On  August  15,  1897, 
he  was  ordained  a  priest  by  the  bishop  of  St. 
Vincent's  church,  Los  Angeles.  Still  continuing 
his  studies  along  his  chosen  line.  Dr.  Glass  went 
to  Rome,  where,  in  the  religious  and  historic  at- 
mosphere of  that  ancient  city,  he  pursued  his  re- 
searches in  philosophy  and  theology,  attending  the 
University  of  the  Propaganda  and  being  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  the  Minerva  with 
the  degree  of  D.D.  in  1899. 

Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States.  Dr.  Glass 
at  once  commenced  teaching,  making  a  specialty 
of  dogmatic  theologv  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary  at 
Perryville  during  the  term  of  1899  and  1900, 
teaching  moral  theology  at  the  same  institution  the 
following  year,  and  holding  the  office  of  Director 
of  Seminarians.  At  the  time  of  his  appointment 
to  the  presidency  of  St.  Vincent's  College,  Los 
Angeles,  in  June,  1901,  he  at  the  same  time  be- 
came pastor  of  St.  Vincent's  church  in  the  same 
city,  both  of  which  offices  he  continues  to  fill  at 
the  present  time. 

Dr.  Glass  stands  high  educationally  in  the  West, 
and  is  well  known  as  a  writer  on  religious  and 
educational  topics.  The  standard  of  St.  Vin- 
cent's College,  since  he  became  its  president,  has 
risen  to  an  unprecedented  degree.  Dr.  Glass  hav- 
ing inaugurated  therein  a  full  university  course 
with  branches  in  both  civil  and  mechanical  en- 
gineering, with  the  result  that  the  attendance  has 
increased  wonderfully  and  the  college  today  holds 
its  own  among  the  most  distinguished  institutions 
of  the  kind  in  the  West.  Since  June,  1911,  when 
the  college  was  taken  over  by  the  Jesuits,  Father 
Glass  has  continued  to  exercise  his  influence  for 
the  further  development  of  its  interests.  He  takes 
a  practical  interest  in  the  concerns  of  the  various 
organizations  in  which  he  holds  membership,  they 


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being  of  religious  and  educational,  as  well  as 
social  and  fraternal  character.  Among  the  so- 
cieties with  which  he  is  connected  may  be  men- 
tioned Bishop  Conaty's  Diocesan  Council,  the 
Alumni  Society  of  St.  Vincent's  College,  of  which 
he  is  honorary  president,  the  Central  Council  of 
the  Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul,  of  which  he  is 
chaplain,  and  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Public  Library.  His  social  and  fraternal 
societies  are  the  University  Club,  the  Catholic 
Order  of  Foresters,  the  Young  Men's  Institute, 
the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  and  the  Knights 
of  Columbus. 

In  May,  1915,  Father  Glass  was  appointed  by 
the  Pope  in  Rome  to  the  high  office  of  Bishop  of 
Salt  Lake,  to  succeed  the  late  Bishop  Laurence 
Scanlan.  This  elevation  comes  as  a  tribute  to 
the  splendid  work  Father  Glass  has  accomplished 
for  the  Catholic  Church  in  Los  Angeles.  The 
diocese  over  which  he  will  preside  includes  all  of 
Utah  and  a  portion  of  Nevada. 


WARREN  E.  ROLLINS.  It  seems  appro- 
priate that  Southern  California  should  be  chosen 
by  many  artists  for  their  home  when  one  consid- 
ers the  beauty  of  the  everchanging  mountains  and 
cloud  effects,  the  foothills,  valleys,  deserts,  cliffs 
and  ocean,  the  blossoming  trees  and  roadsides, 
and  the  interesting  adobe  ruins  of  the  vanished 
Spanish  era.  There  is  Monterey,  where  artists 
come  to  sketch  the  quaint  streets  and  adobe  walls 
and  red  tile  roofs  ;  and  there  is  Carmel-by-the-Sea, 
a  veritable  artists'  colony,  situated  in  a  little 
grove  above  the  beach  and  white  sand  dunes  and 
blue  bay.  Mr.  Rollins,  a  painter  of  the  West,  of 
Indian  life  and  the  desert,  has  chosen  as  his  home 
the  little  old  Spanish  town  of  San  Gabriel  in  the 
fruitful  valley  of  that  name,  beside  the  Sierra 
Madre  mountains;  and  amid  the  orange  groves 
with  their  golden-fruited  trees,  and  in  the  sleepy 
little  town  with  its  severe  old  mission  building,  its 
crumbling  adobe  houses,  and  its  dusty  roads  where 
lie  the  lace-like  shadows  of  the  soft-foliaged 
pepper  trees,  even  those  who  are  not  artists  can 
appreciate  the  charm  of  that  place.  Mr.  Rollins' 
paintings,  which  have  been  exhibited  in  Boston, 
New  York,  Brooklyn,  Washington,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Seattle,  Portland,  San  Diego  and  Los  An- 
geles, and  of  which  there  is  a  fine  collection  on 
exhibition  at  the  Panama-California  Exposition 


at  San  Diego,  deal  principally  with  Indian  life  and 
the  desert  in  the  Southwest,  many  of  his  subjects 
being  taken  from  the  Indians  of  Arizona,  with 
which  country  he  is  very  familiar,  he  having 
traveled  all  over  that  state  and  spent  much  time 
among  the  native  Indians  there. 

As  a  schoolboy  in  Nevada,  where  he  was  bom 
August  8,  1861,  in  Carson  City,  Mr.  Rollins 
showed  much  interest  in  drawing,  and  his  father, 
wishing  to  encourage  his  talent,  sent  him  to  San 
Francisco  to  study  art,  where  he  became  a  stu- 
dent in  the  San  Francisco  School  of  Design,  and 
during  the  years  of  his  student  life  he  had  the 
satisfaction  of  winning  several  gold  medals. 
Later  he  was  elected  assistant  director  in  the 
same  school  where  he  had  studied,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  taught  drawing  and  painting  in 
that  institution,  going  East  at  a  later  date  to  study 
painting  in  Boston  and  New  York.  For  some 
time  he  had  studios  in  San  Francisco  and  Oak- 
land, Cal.,  and  upon  coming  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia in  1910  established  his  home  and  studio 
in  San  Gabriel,  not  far  from  the  old  Spanish 
mission.  Mr.  Rollins  is  a  man  who  has  met  with 
much  success  in  his  chosen  line  of  work,  and 
his  pictures  are  to  be  seen  in  many  of  the  finest 
homes  in  Los  Angeles  as  well  as  in  San  Francisco 
and  Oakland.  He  is  a  member  of  numerous  art 
clubs  in  different  cities,  among  them  being  the 
Southern  California  Art  Club  in  Los  Angeles, 
the  San  Francisco  Art  Association.  San  Fran- 
cisco; the  Nile  Club  and  the  Lyre,  Palette  and 
Pen  Club  of  Oakland,  as  well  as  various  associa- 
tions in  Arizona  where  he  has  spent  many  years. 
Mr.  Rollins  was  united  in  marriage  in  Visalia. 
Cal.,  April  21,  1887,  with  Miss  Berdella  R 
Bracken,  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  they  have  two 
daughters,  Ramona  (Mrs.  Ralph  Wylie)  and 
Ruth  Girham  Rollins,  the  former  recognized  as  a 
leading  soprano  singer  and  the  latter  a  promising 
student  of  Shakespearean  drama. 


ARTHUR  S.  BENT.  The  eldest  son  of 
Henry  Kirke  White  Bent,  Arthur  S.  Bent  was 
bom  in  Downieville,  Cal.,  April  25,  1863.  He  is 
the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Bent  Brothers, 
engineering  contractors.  His  business  life  has 
been  devoted  to  engineering  contracting,  chiefly 
in  the  line  of  concrete  construction  throughout  the 
west  and  Mexico,  with  branch  offices  in  Colorado, 


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Arizona  and  Washington.  His  specialty  has  been 
hydro-electric  projects,  dams,  reservoirs,  con- 
crete pipe  lines  and  large  irrigation  systems,  with 
a  department  devoted  to  concrete  and  macadam 
road  building. 

In  1888  Mr.  Bent  married  Miss  EHza  J.  Mc- 
Kee  of  Dallas,  Tex.,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
two  children,  Ellen  and  Crawford  H.  Among 
his  social  and  occupative  connections  may  be  men- 
tioned membership  in  the  Jonathan  and  Gamut 
Clubs,  the  Municipal  League,  of  which  he  is  a 
director;  the  Engineers  and  Architects'  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  is  vice-president ;  the  American 
Society  of  Engineering  Contractors,  of  which  he 
is  a  director;  the  National  Cement  Users'  Asso- 
ciation, the  Southwest  Museum  Association  and 
the  National  Geographic  Society. 


ALONZO  B.  CASS.  Since  his  advent  into  the 
commercial  life  of  Los  Angeles  something  more 
than  twenty-five  years  ago,  Alonzo  B.  Cass  has 
been  a  central  figure  around  which  large  and  im- 
portant enterprises  have  revolved,  and  his  influ- 
ence on  municipal  and  business  affairs  in  the  city 
of  his  adoption  cannot  be  overestimated.  He  has 
constantly  conducted  an  independent  business  of 
his  own,  but  at  the  same  time  he  has  also  been  a 
prominent  factor  in  the  establishment  of  pros- 
perous undertakings  of  a  varied  nature,  includ- 
ing banks,  telephone  companies  (he  is  now  pres- 
ident of  two  of  the  largest  telephone  companies 
on  the  coast),  real  estate  development  projects, 
and  similar  enterprises.  In  addition  to  all  this  he 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  municipal  affairs,  hav- 
ing served  as  president  of  several  of  the  most 
efficient  organizations  for  good  government  and 
the  promotion  of  the  commercial  interests  of  the 
city,  and  has  been  prominently  associated  with 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  other 
welfare  and  uplift  movements.  His  undertakings 
have  prospered  and  have  thus  wrought  much 
good  both  to  himself  and  his  associates,  and  today 
he  is  classed  foremost  in  the  ranks  of  the  men 
who  have  done  most  for  the  progress  and  up- 
building of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Cass  is  a  native  of  New  York  state,  bom 
at  Albion,  July  4,  1856,  and  being  a  true  Fourth- 
of-July  son  in  the  strength  and  devotion  of  his 
patriotism.  He  is  the  son  of  P.  C.  and  Amanda 
M.    (Herrick)    Cass,  who  were  well  known  in 


their  section  of  New  York  state.  The  young 
Alonzo  passed  his  boyhood  days  in  Albion,  re- 
ceiving his  education  there,  first  in  the  public 
schools,  and  later  at  Albion  Academy.  His  first 
business  venture  was  in  1879,  when  he  went  to 
Ash  Grove,  Mo.,  and  opened  a  general  merchan- 
dise store  under  the  firm  name  of  Green  &  Cass. 
At  the  end  of  the  year  he  engaged  in  a  similar  en- 
terprise at  Muskogee,  Okla.,  remaining  here  from 
1880  to  1887.  During  the  first  year  of  this  under- 
taking two  brothers  were  associated  with  him 
(Frank  H.,  and  B.  H.  Cass),  but  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  time  he  operated  independently. 
The  enterprise  prospered  greatly,  and  branch 
stores  were  opened  at  Atoka,  Okla.,  in  1883,  at 
South  Canadian,  Okla.,  in  1884,  and  at  McAlester, 
Okla.,  in  1887.  Mr.  Cass  was  also  interested  in 
the  drug  business  and  a  member  of  the  drug  firm 
of  Gavigan  &  Cass,  at  Muskogee. 

The  lure  of  the  California  country  had  for 
many  years  been  a  magnet  which  was  steadily 
drawing  Mr.  Cass  toward  his  final  determination 
to  come  to  the  coast,  and  in  1888  he  disposed 
of  his  extensive  interests  in  the  several  Oklahoma 
cities  and  together  with  his  brother,  B.  H.  Cass, 
who  had  first  been  associated  with  him  in  his 
enterprises,  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  Here  they 
engaged  in  the  hardware  business  under  the 
name  of  the  Cass  Bros.  Stove  Company  until 
1890.  From  then  until  1893  the  firm  was  known 
as  Crandall  &  Cass ;  from  1893  to  1896  it  was  the 
Cass  &  Smurr  Stove  Company,  and  from  then 
until  the  present  time  as  the  Cass-Smurr-Damerel 
Company.  This  business  has  been  a  growing  one, 
and  its  scope  and  patronage  have  steadily  in- 
creased since  its  organization  by  Mr.  Cass. 

While  his  personal  ventures  have  absorbed 
much  of  the  time  and  attention  of  Mr.  Cass  there 
have  been  a  multitude  of  other  interests  which 
have  laid  their  claim  to  his  co-operation  and  sup- 
port. He  was  one  of  the  original  founders  of  the 
Central  Bank,  now  the  Security  National  Bank, 
and  has  from  its  organization  been  one  of  the 
directors.  Probably  the  undertaking  that  has 
given  him  the  greatest  prominence  among  finan- 
ciers, however,  has  been  his  association  with  the 
telephone  interests  of  the  coast.  In  1906  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Home  Telephone  and 
Telegraph  Company,  and  in  1910  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Bay  Cities  Home  Telephone  Com- 
pany of  San  Francisco.  In  both  of  these  organ- 
izations he  is  a  leading  spirit  and  a  heavy  stock- 


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holder,  and  their  present  financial  standing  is 
largely  due  to  his  capable  management  of  their 
affairs.  Mr.  Cass  is  vice-president  of  the  Cass- 
Smurr-Damerel  Company  also. 

Aside  from  his  heavy  business  responsibilities, 
Mr.  Cass  has  always  found  time  and  strength  and 
energy  to  devote  to  the  welfare  of  his  home  city, 
and  he  has  given  freely  of  his  best  efforts  to 
further  the  municipal  and  educational,  social  and 
moral  life  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was  president  of 
the  local  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1901,  and 
served  as  first  vice-president  of  the  Municipal 
League.  For  four  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  for  the  state  normal  school  lo- 
cated here,  and  is  now  vice-president  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  in  whose  work 
he  is  practically  and  intensely  interested.  In  the 
social  organizations  of  the  city  he  is  both  promi- 
nent and  popular,  favorite  clubs  being  the  Cali- 
fornia, Jonathan  and  Sunset  Clubs,  while  he  gives 
much  time  and  effort  to  the  work  of  the  Federa- 
tion of  City  Clubs. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Cass  and  Miss  Emily  F. 
Tufts  occurred  June  21,  1885,  at  Muskogee,  Okla. 
Of  this  union  eight  children  were  born,  Frank 
T.,  Philip,  Louis,  Donald,  Quincy,  Emily,  Harold 
and  Alonzo  B.,  Jr.  The  first  Mrs.  Cass  died 
many  years  ago,  and  the  second  marriage  of  Mr. 
Cass  took  place  in  Los  Angeles,  August  23,  1909, 
with  Mrs.  Martha  T.  Muir.  The  second  Mrs. 
Cass  was  the  mother  of  three  children  by  her  first 
marriage,  John,  William  and  Robert.  These  three 
sons  have  been  legally  adopted  by  Mr.  Cass  since 
his  marriage  and  are  being  educated  as  his  own 
children. 

The  real  estate  and  other  business  investments 
of  Mr.  Cass  have  been  made  with  such  good 
judgment  that  they  have  made  more  than  the 
customary  increase  in  value,  and  his  holdings 
are  at  present  of  great  valuation,  and  with  the 
growth  and  future  development  of  the  city  are 
certain  to  continue  to  increase  in  value  and  worth. 


ANDREW  MULLEN.  Many  years  ago 
there  might  have  been  seen  in  a  humble  Irish 
home  in  county  Mayo,  and  later  in  a  more  sub- 
stantial American  home  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  a 
family  of  ten  sons,  who  supplemented  the 
Celtic  temperament  with  American  enterprise. 
Concerning  the   next   to   the   youngest   of  the 


ten,  Andrew  Mullen,  a  stranger  even  then 
might  have  predicted  a  bright  future  for  a 
lad  so  quick  in  perception,  so  intelligent  in 
thought  and  so  favored  with  sterling  qualities 
of  mind,  yet  perhaps  few  would  have  prog- 
nosticated that  for  the  child  in  the  lowly 
home  fortune  waited  to  bestow  gifts  rare  and 
precious  and  greatly  to  be  desired.  A  forceful 
intellect  found  avenues  of  development  and 
growth  notwithstanding  the  handicap  of  pri- 
vation. The  coming  of  the  family  to  America 
when  he  was  quite  small  (he  was  born  in 
county  Mayo  October  4,  1832)  proved  a  dis- 
tinct forward  step,  as  it  gave  him  the  advan- 
tage of  an  American  training  and  an  early 
experience  in  the  commercial  lines  of  enter- 
prise that  have  made  our  country  great.  Hav- 
ing endowed  him  with  the  Celtic  temperament 
and  favored  him  with  an  American  training, 
destiny  still  further  assisted  him  by  implant- 
ing within  his  mind  a  powerful  commercial 
instinct,  a  pronounced  business  ability,  which 
during  early  life  he  developed  by  practical  ex- 
perience in  mercantile  pursuits.  Self-reliance, 
always  a  most  conspicuous  trait  in  his  char- 
acter, impelled  him  to  embark  in  a  wholesale 
woolen  business  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  when 
his  capital  was  so  small  that  his  chief  asset 
was  the  confidence  of  bankers  and  business 
men.  In  due  time  he  removed  his  headquar- 
ters to  Chicago  and  there  with  a  brother  he 
engaged  in  the  importing  of  woolens. 
Through  energy  and  capability  he  rose  to 
substantial  prominence  among  leaders  in  com- 
merce and  finance,  and  nothing  less  serious 
than  the  failure  of  his  health  would  have  im- 
pelled him  to  sever  connections  so  congenial 
and  profitable.  Seeking  the  climate  of  Los 
Angeles  from  considerations  of  health  alone, 
he  soon  regained  his  former  strength  and  then 
associated  himself  with  the  upbuilding  of 
what  he  believed  would  become  ultimately 
the  metropolis  of  the  Pacific  coast. 

From  the  incorporation  of  the  Mullen- 
Bluett  Clothing  Company  in  1890  until  the 
death  of  Mr.  Mullen  March  4,  1899,  he  re- 
mained its  president  and  was  to  be  found  each 
day  at  his  business  headquarters,  on  the  cor- 
ner of  First  and  Spring  streets.  Other  large 
business  enterprises  claimed  his  attention  and 
enlisted  his  co-operation.  Not  only  was  he  an 
organizer  and  promoter  of  the  California   Clay 


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Manufacturing  Company,  but  in  addition  he  con- 
tinued to  be  a  member  of  its  directorate  until 
his  death.  As  an  organizer  and  director  he  also 
was  associated  with  the  Columbia  Trust  Company 
and  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  Be- 
lieving that  the  welfare  of  the  city  would  be  pro- 
moted by  a  Chamber  of  Commerce,  he  worked 
tirelessly  for  such  an  organization  and  when 
it  had  been  organized  he  officiated  as  treasurer 
for  some  years.  Governor  Markham  chose 
him  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Whittier  state  school  and  later  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  board.  This  service 
was  distinctly  non-partisan,  for  he  was  a 
Democrat  politically,  while  the  administration 
was  Republican.  His  choice  for  the  responsi- 
ble position  was  primarily  a  recognition  of  his 
executive  ability  and  exceptional  business 
qualifications. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Mullen  was  sol- 
emnized in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  united  him 
with  Miss  Mary  Teresa  Deane,  who  was  born 
in  county  Galway,  daughter  of  Hon.  Edward 
Deane,  for  years  a  prominent  jurist  in  that 
part  of  Ireland.  Eight  children  were  born 
of  their  union.  Only  three  are  now  living: 
Edward  Francis,  No.  4927  Rosewood  avenue ; 
Miss  Marie  Rose  Mullen ;  and  Mrs.  George 
Allan  Hancock,  No.  3189  Wilshire  boulevard, 
all  of  Los  Angeles. 


SUMNER  J.  QUINT,  M.  D.  Descended 
from  the  old  New  England  family  of  Went- 
worths,  the  first  member  of  which  came  from 
England  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and 
from  other  ancestors  who  fought  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  Dr.  Sumner  T.  Quint,  now  of  Los 
Angeles,  was  born  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  April  28, 
1872,  the  son  of  Charles  M.  and  Maria  (Bur- 
roughs) Quint.  The  early  education  of  Dr.  Quint 
was  received  in  the  high  school  at  Sanford,  Me., 
and  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  night  school  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.  From  1893  to  1895  he  also  at- 
tended the  New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary, 
and  removing  to  Pomona,  Cal.,  in  1895  he  entered 
Pomona  College  and  in  the  following  year  com- 
menced his  course  at  the  College  of  Medicine 
of  the  University  of  California,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1899  with  the  degree  of  M,  D. 


Immediately  after  graduation  Dr.  Quint  be- 
came an  interne  in  the  California  Hospital  of 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  remained  until  1900,  at 
which  time  he  became  associated  with  the  United 
States  Marine  Hospital,  and  in  1901  received  the 
appointment  to  the  office  of  assistant  health  officer 
of  Los  Angeles,  which  position  he  held  until 
1905.  In  that  year  he  became  junior  chief  police 
surgeon  of  Los  Angeles,  being  appointed  soon 
after  to  the  post  of  senior  chief  police  surgeon,  in 
which  position  he  made  a  remarkable  record,  it 
being  due  to  his  influence  that  the  receiving  hos- 
pital was  separated  from  the  police  station  and 
a  new  building  erected  for  it.  He  resigned  the 
post  of  chief  surgeon  in  1910,  after  about  five 
years  of  important  and  successful  work,  and  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  chief  surgeon  of  the  French 
Hospital  of  Los  Angeles,  also  acting  as  medical 
examiner  for  the  Provident  Savings  Life  As- 
surance Company  of  New  York  and  for  the  Oc- 
cidental Life  Insurance  Company  of  California. 
During  his  university  career  he  held  the  office 
of  official  druggist  of  the  college  and  in  1901  was 
appointed  instructor  in  materia  medica,  which 
position  he  resigned  in  1907  to  accept  the  post 
of  instructor  in  surgery.  He  is  still  regarded  as 
one  of  the  most  valuable  members  of  the  faculty  of 
the  University  of  California,  with  which  college 
the  medical  college  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California  has  been  united. 

Dr.  Quint  has  been  a  prolific  writer  on  sur- 
gery for  the  Los  Angeles  County  Medical  Society 
and  his  opinions  on  medical  matters  stand  high 
in  this  state,  he  being  a  charter  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Clinical  and  Pathological  Society  as 
well  as  a  member  of  a  number  of  other  medical 
societies,  namely :  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  Los  Angeles  County  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia and  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California.  During  his  col- 
lege days  he  became  a  member  of  Nu  Sigma  Nu 
and  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  and  has  later  become 
a  member  also  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  the  Royal  Arch 
Masons  (thirty-second  degree)  and  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  His  love  of  outdoor  sports  has 
led  him  to  join  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California  and  the  American  Automobile  Asso- 
ciation, and  his  social  clubs  include  the  University, 
Union  League,  Knickerbocker,  Pomona  College 
and   San  Gabriel   Country   Clubs.     At  the  Los 


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Angeles  aviation  meets  and  at  many  of  the  auto- 
mobile races  he  has  been  chief  surgeon  and  is 
also  connected  with  the  Red  Cross  and  numer- 
ous charitable  organizations. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Quint  in  Los  Angeles, 
June  11,  1902,  united  him  with  Miss  Stella  Mar- 
garet Wilson,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  two 
children,  George  Waldo  and  Sumner  Wilson 
Quint. 


ARTHUR  F.  MORLAN.  As  secretary,  gen- 
eral manager  and  a  director  of  the  Title  Guar- 
antee and  Trust  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  which 
position  he  has  held  since  1913,  Arthur  F.  Mor- 
lan  occupies  a  high  place  in  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  the  leading  business  men  of  this  city. 
For  many  years  he  was  associated  with  the  ab- 
stract business  in  Los  Angeles,  first  being  identi- 
fied with  the  Los  Angeles  Abstract  Company  as 
a  searcher  of  records,  and  later,  when  that  com- 
pany merged  with  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust 
Company,  Mr.  Morlan  served  in  various  capac- 
ities, rising  eventually  to  the  position  of  manager 
of  the  searching  department,  in  which  capacity  he 
was  occupied  when  he  resigned,  February  15, 
1913,  to  accept  his  present  position  with  the  Title 
Guarantee  and  Trust  Company.  The  reputation 
which  Mr.  Morlan  has  builded  for  himself  during 
the  long  years  of  his  residence  in  the  City  of  the 
Angels  is  one  of  which  he  may  justly  be  proud, 
and  which  gives  him  an  enviable  position  among 
his  fellow  citizens. 

Mr.  Morlan  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  in  Salem, 
April  10,  1861,  the  son  of  N.  A.  and  Emily  F. 
Morlan.  He  attended  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  his  native  state  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of 
age,  and  then  worked  at  the  plumbing  trade  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  for  two  years,  after  which  he 
became  salesman  for  a  wholesale  grocery  firm. 
This  he  followed  for  two  years  and  then  engaged 
in  the  retail  grocery  business  for  himself  for  a 
year,  selling  at  the  end  of  that  time,  and  for 
three  years  engaging  with  Watts  &  Curtin,  pri- 
vate detectives.  He  then  came  to  Los  Angeles 
and  assumed  the  management  of  the  retail  grocery 
interests  of  George  W.  Kenyon,  continuing  in  this 
capacity  until  1888,  when  he  returned  to  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  and  two  years  later  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Buffalo  Hammer  Company  as  superintendent 
of  their  factory.  It  was  in  1890  that  Mr. 
Morlan  returned  to  Los  Angeles  to  make  his  per- 


manent home  here,  having  since  that  time  resided 
continuously  in  this  city.  He  at  once  entered  the 
service  of  the  Los  Angeles  Abstract  Company  as 
searcher  of  records,  remaining  in  this  same  ca- 
pacity when  this  company  merged  with  the  Title 
Insurance  and  Trust  Company,  from  which  he  re- 
signed in  1913  to  accept  his  present  position  as 
secretary  and  general  manager  of  the  Title  Guar- 
antee and  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  is  also  one 
of  the  directors. 

Mr.  Morlan  is  well  known  throughout  the  city 
in  a  social  and  fraternal  way,  quite  apart  from  his 
business  associations.  He  is  a  member  of  a  num- 
ber of  exclusive  social  organizations,  including 
the  Jonathan  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country 
Club,  also  a  member  of  the  California  Society 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  in  his  political  affilia- 
tions is  a  Republican,  although  he  has  never  been 
especially  active  in  the  affairs  of  his  party.  His 
marriage  occurred  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  July  20, 
1887,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Margaret  W. 
Nicholls,  of  that  city.  Of  their  union  has  been 
born  one  child,  a  daughter,  now  Mrs.  Stanley  A. 
^'isel,  of  Los  Angeles. 


HARVEY  H.  COX.  Few  men  were  better 
known  in  the  real  estate  circles  of  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles  than  the  late  Harvey  H.  Cox,  who 
for  more  than  twenty  years  had  been  interested 
in  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  the  city.  He 
was  born  in  Lafayette,  Ind.,  March  30,  1867,  the 
son  of  Edward  E.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Smock) 
Cox.  The  latter  came  from  an  old  New  York 
family,  and  one-third  of  the  estate  of  Trinity 
Church  in  that  city  belonged  to  the  family.  Harvey 
H.  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  La- 
fayette, and  soon  after  he  had  completed  the 
high  school  course  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and 
became  identified  with  the  firm  of  A.  Hamburger 
&•  Sons  as  manager  of  their  shoe  department.  He 
soon  became  interested  in  real  estate  enterprises 
and  after  several  years  secured  a  position  with 
Althouse  Bros.,  remaining  in  their  employ  for 
almost  twelve  years.  During  this  time  he  had 
saved  some  money  and  had  become  familiar  with 
values,  and  foreseeing  the  great  possibilities  of 
the  city,  with  a  partner,  E.  F.  Koster,  he  em- 
barked in  the  real  estate  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Koster  &  Cox,  being  connected  with  the 
office  of  W.  I.  Hollingsworth,  an  association  that 


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continued  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Cox.  During 
the  many  years  he  was  in  the  real  estate  business 
he  put  through  many  very  important  deals  and 
he  was  always  interested  in  every  movement  that 
had  for  its  ultimate  object  the  furthering  of  the 
best  interests  of  the  city  and  its  people,  and  gave 
of  his  time  and  means  toward  worthy  measures. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  hav- 
ing served  five  years  as  chief  ranger  of  Court 
Morris  Vineyard  No.  152,  of  Los  Angeles.  On 
account  of  his  cheery  nature  and  jovial  disposition 
he  was  known  among  his  associates  as  "Happy 
Harvey." 

Mr.  Cox  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Jennie  Reese,  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Elenor 
(Horton)  Reese,  the  latter  of  London,  England. 
The  ceremony  was  celebrated  October  30,  1888, 
in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Reese  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  serving  as  city  treas- 
urer for  a  number  of  years,  and  also  followed  the 
contracting  business  in  that  city  for  twenty-five 
years.  Two  children  were  born  of  the  union  of 
Harvey  H.  Cox  and  his  wife :  Charlotte  May,  now 
the  wife  of  James  Donahue,  and  Shirley,  attend- 
ing school  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Cox  had  never  known  what  it  was  to  be 
ill,  and  when  the  last  sickness  came  upon  him 
he  made  light  of  it  to  his  friends,  and  always  had 
a  cheery  smile  and  joyful  greeting  for  all.  His 
wife  and  daughter  had  planned  a  trip  to  Alaska 
for  a  two  months'  stay  and  had  reached  their 
destination  when  Mrs.  Cox  felt  uneasy  about  her 
husband's  condition,  he  having  been  taken  ill  in 
the  meantime,  and  immediately  returned  to  his 
bedside  and  was  with  him  at  the  end.  Shortly 
before  his  death  he  was  converted  to  the  Catholic 
faith.  At  the  passing  of  Harvey  Cox  Los  Angeles 
lost  one  of  her  best  and  foremost  citizens  and  his 
family  a  loving  husband  and  father. 


E.  ROGER  STEARNS.  There  is  scarcely  a 
business  at  the  present  time  which  is  attracting 
to  itself  men  of  greater  ability  and  commercial 
strength  than  is  the  automobile  business  in  its 
several  departments.  The  opportunities  offered 
are  such  as  to  give  wide  scope  for  the  exercise  of 
many  faculties  and  men  of  the  highest  type  are 
engaging  both  in  the  manufacturing  and  selling 
end  of  the  enterprise.     One  such  who  was  for  a 


number  of  years  a  well-known  and  influential 
citizen  of  Los  Angeles  was  E.  Roger  Stearns, 
who  was  for  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  vice- 
president  and  general  manager  of  the  Pacific 
Kissel  Kar  Company,  whose  headquarters  are  in 
this  city.  Previous  to  that  he  had  been  associated 
with  several  different  automobile  companies,  both 
here  and  in  the  east,  and  was  known  as  one  of 
the  best  informed  and  most  thoroughly  reliable 
automobile  men  in  the  west.  He  was  active  in 
all  lines  of  interest  to  motorists,  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  July  29,  1913,  was  a  severe  loss 
to  the  industry  on  the  coast  and  especially  in 
Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Stearns  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts, 
born  in  Newton,  June  25,  1883,  the  son  of  Walter 
H.  and  Jessie  L.  (Bowker)  Stearns,  both  well 
known  in  Newton  and  Boston,  the  father  being 
engagefl  in  the  automobile  business  in  the  latter 
city  for  many  years.  The  son  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  Boston  and  after 
completing  his  schooling  began  working  for  his 
father,  learning  all  the  details  of  the  business  in 
which  he  afterward  proved  such  an  important 
factor.  After  a  year  spent  in  the  business  with 
his  father  in  New  York  City  he  later  became 
associated  with  the  Ford  people,  taking  charge  of 
their  business,  which  was  then  located  in  the 
basement  of  Wanamaker's  store.  Six  months 
later  he  opened  the  Ford  agency  on  Broadway  in 
New  York  and  sold  cars  for  them  for  three  years, 
when  he  went  to  Buffalo  and  took  charge  of  their 
branch  there,  meeting  with  splendid  success  dur- 
ing the  year  that  he  filled  that  position. 

It  was  in  1909  that  Mr.  Stearns  came  from 
Buffalo  to  Los  Angeles  as  manager  of  the  Ford 
agency  here.  At  that  time  the  company  handling 
the  Ford  cars  here  was  known  as  the  Standard 
Motor  Car  Company,  and  they  also  handled  the 
Baker  Electric.  Later  they  relinquished  the  Ford 
agency  and  took  up  the  Stoddard-Dayton  with  the 
Baker  Electric.  Six  months  after  Mr.  Stearns 
took  over  the  management  of  the  Ford  concern 
they  took  the  agency  for  the  Kissel  Kar  and  the 
name  was  changed  to  the  Pacific  Kissel  Kar  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  elected  vice-president  and 
general  manager,  and  continued  as  such  until  the 
time  of  his  death. 

Aside  from  his  sterling  business  qualities,  Mr. 
Stearns  was  in  the  broadest  sense  of  the  word  a 
citizen  of  worth  and  was  popular  with  a  wide 
circle  of  friends.    He  was  especially  interested  in 


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all  questions  of  value  to  the  motorist  and  for  some 
time  was  president  of  the  Automobile  Dealers' 
Association  of  Southern  California.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Athletic  Club  and  of  the  Jona- 
than Club,  was  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and 
a  member  of  Al  Malaikah  Shrine  of  Los  Angeles. 
The  marriage  of  Mr.  Stearns  took  place  in  New 
York  City,  March  22,  1903,  uniting  him  with 
Madeline  E.  Gerhardt,  a  native  of  that  city  and 
the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Louise  (Hubert)  Ger- 
hardt. She  is  the  mother  of  two  children,  a 
daughter.  Madeline,  aged  nine  years,  and  a  son, 
E.  Roger,  Jr.,  aged  five.  Since  the  death  of  her 
husband  Mrs.  Stearns  has  continued  to  make  her 
home  in  Los  Angeles,  where  she  is  widely  known 
in  social  circles  and  a  general  favorite  with  many 
friends. 


JAMES  MARTIN  PEEBLES,  M.  D.,  M.  A.. 
Ph.  D.  The  ancestry  of  this  remarkable  man  is 
as  interesting  and  unusual  as  his  life  itself. 
Since  the  fourteenth  century  the  Peebles  clan 
has  been  identified  with  Scottish  history.  Those 
who  wore  the  colors  of  the  clan  made  their 
rallying  place  at  Peebles  castle  on  the  Tweed. 
Sir  Walter  Scott  depicts  Earl  John  Peebles 
as  a  doughty  warrior,  while  Burns,  the  favorite 
poet  of  Dr.  Peebles,  alludes  in  musical  terms 
to  the  brave  clan  of  Peebleshire.  It  was  in 
the  ancient  town  of  Peebles  in  the  shire  of  the 
same  name  that  the  first  records  of  the  family 
history  emerge  from  traditional  lore  into  au- 
thenticity and  that  the  members  received  titles 
making  them  eligible  to  seats  in  the  national 
parliament.  There  is  reason  to  believe  that, 
prior  to  recorded  history  and  even  as  far  back 
as  the  era  of  Julius  Caesar,  the  family  had  its 
habitat  in  Italy.  The  name  (from  the  Roman, 
meaning  "mingling  of  the  bloods")  was  a 
prophecy  of  the  restless  activity  of  the  family, 
which  in  every  generation  has  given  to  the 
world  a  large  number  of  independent  thinkers, 
social  reformers  and  revolutionary  leaders. 

As  early  as  1718  some  who  bore  the  name 
crossed  the  ocean  to  the  Massachusetts  colony 
and  under  Rev.  Mr.  Abercrombie  bore  a  part  in 
establishing  a  settlement  at  Pelham.  Later 
generations  became  identified  with  Vermont, 
where,  at  Whitingham,  Windham  county. 
March  23,  1822,  James  Martin  Peebles  was  born 
into  the  home  of  James  and  Nancy   (Brown) 

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Peebles.  That  same  village  was  the  birthplace 
of  Brigham  Young,  for  years  the  president  of 
the  Mormon  church.  The  Peebles  home  at 
Whitingham  was  a  log  cabin,  wherein  the 
mother  of  seven  children  did  all  of  her  house- 
work, spun  the  flax  for  the  household  linen 
and  helped  raise  the  flocks  from  whose  backs 
the  wool  was  clipped  that  with  her  own  hands 
she  made  into  cloth,  then  cut  and  sewed  into 
garments  for  the  entire  family.  At  night  the 
only  light  was  the  glow  of  candles  dipped  by 
her  own  hands.  When  the  children  were  ill 
the  only  medicine  used  came  from  her  herbs, 
drying  in  bunches  over  the  fireplace,  where  also 
hung  strings  of  red  peppers  and  dried  apples 
as  well  as  ears  of  com  for  seed  and  (most  import- 
ant of  all)  the  old  flint-lock  rifle  of  Revolutionary 
fame,  with  the  powder  horn.  The  mother  was 
a  woman  of  noble  character  and  stern  but 
kindly  temperament,  rearing  her  five  sons  and 
two  daughters  to  be  obedient,  industrious  and 
honest,  teaching  them  less  by  precept  than  by 
the  example  of  her  own  blameless  life.  Her 
children  never  saw  her  with  idle  hands.  Al- 
though she  lived  to  be  eighty-eight,  to  the  last 
she  was  capable  and  energetic ;  her  only  day  of 
rest  was  on  Sunday,  when  with  a  rose  in  her 
hand  she  went  to  church  and  led  the  choir. 
With  the  aid  of  her  little  tuning  fork  and 
her  own  excellent  ear  for  music,  she  led  in  the 
singing  of  the  great  old  hymns  of  faith  and 
worship.  In  the  neighborhood  Aunt  Nancy  (for 
by  that  title  she  was  lovingly  called)  was  sum- 
moned to  the  bedside  of  the  suffering  and  to 
aid  in  the  last  offices  for  the  dead.  In  sickness 
her  herbs  were  administered  with  judgment, 
but  even  more  helpful  was  the  power  of  her 
capable  assistance  and  personal  sympathy.  Her 
husband,  a  farmer  and  for  some  years  a  captain 
of  militia  in  the  southern  division  of  Vermont, 
held  several  town  offices  and  was  liked  as  an 
honest  and  good-natured  man,  but,  lacking  in 
judgment,  at  last  his  land  slipped  away  from 
him.  The  mother  and  the  growing  children 
made  another  home  and  eventually  became  in- 
dependent under  their  own  rooftree.  While 
aiding  them  to  escape  from  poverty  the  mother 
taught  her  children  to  be  self-reliant,  ambitious 
and  purposeful  in  life,  and  as  she  had  been  an 
excellent  disciplinarian  as  a  schoolteacher  in 
her  girlhood  days,  so  also  she  was  most  efficient 
in  the  rearing  of  her  own  children.     Much  of 


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their  later  success  they  owed  to  her  stern  but 
affectionate  upbringing  and  to  the  inculcation 
of  sound  moral  tenets  in  their  character.  It  was 
her  desire  that  they  should  early  learn  the 
Bible  and,  with  them  at  her  side,  she  daily  read 
from  her  large  black-letter  Scriptures,  follow- 
ing text  after  text  with  her  first  finger,  while 
reading  aloud  the  words  of  wisdom. 

When  scarcely  more  than  ten  years  of  age 
Dr.  Peebles  began  to  attend  anti-slavery  meet- 
ings, where  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of 
William  Lloyd  Garrison,  later  an  intimate 
friend  and  co-worker.  It  was  during  the  '30s 
indeed  that  he  began  to  form  positive  convic- 
tions concerning  the  abolition  of  slavery  and 
from  these  opinions  he  never  wavered,  even 
when  they  brought  him  the  most  intense  criti- 
cism and  personal  danger.  Advancing  mentally 
far  more  rapidly  than  others  of  his  age,  he  was 
able  to  teach  school  with  success  at  the  age 
of  sixteen.  The  schools  of  that  period  were 
quite  dissimilar  from  those  of  the  present  era. 
Each  morning  it  was  the  custom  to  devote  con- 
siderable time  to  the  mending  of  the  quills 
used  for  pens.  The  standard  text-books  were 
Daboll's  arithmetic,  Gould-Browne's  grammar 
and  Greenleaf's  speller.  Many  of  the  pupils 
were  older  and  larger  than  the  teacher,  who 
conquered  usually  by  kindness  instead  of  the 
ferule  and  won  the  ardent  friendship  of  the 
young  people  in  his  charge.  The  money  earned 
by  teaching  was  utilized  in  the  advancement 
of  his  own  studies  and  after  studying  in  a  select 
school  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  in  Oxford 
Academy  in  the  same  state,  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versalist  ministry  at  the  age  of  twenty.  The 
decision  to  enter  the  ministry  of  a  denomination 
alien  to  the  orthodox  faith  of  that  day  came 
about  through  a  number  of  circumstances, 
chief  among  these  being  the  death  and  funeral 
of  his  chum,  Jerry  Brown,  a  youth  of  excellent 
character  and  irreproachable  conduct,  but  not 
identified  with  any  church.  The  preacher  de- 
livered a  terrifying  sermon  that  so  wrought 
upon  the  heart  of  the  bereaved  and  anguished 
mother  that  she  suddenly  shrieked  out,  "Will  I 
never  see  my  darling  boy  again?"  "Perhaps,  for  a 
few  minutes  only,  on  the  day  of  judgment," 
thundered  forth  the  elder  from  the  pulpit,  "but 
then  you  will  go  one  way  and  Jerry  another, 
for  the  boy  is  eternally  damned  because  he 
died  without  religion  !"  On  hearing  these  dread- 


ful words  the  poor  mother  lost  her  mind  and 
never  regained  her  senses  to  the  day  of  her 
death,  some  years  afterward. 

The  first  sermon  of  the  young  Universalist 
preacher  was  delivered  at  McLean,  N.  Y.,  and 
he  held  pastorates  at  Kelloggsville,  Elmira, 
Oswego  and  other  points.  Adopting  as  his 
motto,  "The  world  is  my  parish  and  truth  my 
authority,"  and  taking  as  his  creed  the  phrase 
"Freedom  of  thought  is  the  birthright  of  the 
soul,"  he  became  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  re- 
ligious, temperance,  anti-slavery,  suffrage  and 
social  reformations  that  began  to  sweep  over 
the  land  and  that  brought  him  into  intimate 
friendship  with  Theodore  Parker,  Phillips, 
Foster,  Rev.  Samuel  J.  May,  Henry  C.  Wright, 
Lucretia  Mott,  John  Brown,  Dr.  Chapin, 
Horace  Mann  and  Thomas  K.  Beecher,  a  half- 
brother  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher.  While  T.  K. 
Beecher  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  he  became  much  attracted 
by  the  profound  mind  of  Dr.  Peebles,  then  pas- 
tor of  the  Universalist  Church  in  the  same  city, 
while  the  latter  in  turn  appreciated  the  great- 
hearted charity  of  the  other  minister  and  his 
progressive  spirit  in  fitting  up  an  institutional 
church  with  library,  g3'mnasium,  free  baths  and 
meals,  as  well  as  a  free  employment  bureau 
that  found  work  for  the  temporary  recipients 
of  its  benefactions.  These  reformers  in  re- 
ligion, education  and  anti-slavery  were  far  from 
popular  in  their  day,  but  their  unconquerable 
determination  and  invincible  force  of  character 
V'/ere  largely  effective  in  changing  the  history 
of  our  nation.  Of  them  all  Dr.  Peebles  most 
resembled  Theodore  Parker  in  type  of  mind  and 
clearness  of  thought.  The  two  were  intellectual 
brothers,  alike  in  their  desire  to  serve  humanity. 
In  later  years  Dr.  Peebles,  during  one  of  his 
live  trips  around  the  world,  made  a  special  trip 
to  the  grave  of  his  one-time  co-worker  and 
breathed  a  prayer  over  the  reformer's  last  rest- 
ing place,  in  Florence,  not  far  from  the  broad 
smooth  stone  marked,  "E.  B.  B.,"  the  tomb  of 
Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 

When  filling  a  pastorate  at  Baltimore  Dr. 
Peebles  took  such  a  pronounced  stand  against 
slavery  that  the  enmity  of  slave-holders  was 
aroused,  placing  his  life  in  danger  and  making 
his  tenure  of  service  brief.  There  followed  a 
ministry  of  seven  years  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
where  he  had  as  parishioners  meeting  in  Stew- 


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art's  hall  a  goodly  number  of  Quakers,  Uni- 
versalists,  dissenters  and  freethinkers,  people 
who  were  earnestly  seeking  the  truth,  although 
not  in  sympathy  with  old-fashioned  orthodoxy. 
Among  the  members  of  the  congregation  was 
Sojourner  Truth,  for  forty  years  a  slave.  Oth- 
ers were  scarcely  less  interesting.  While  most 
earnestly  seeking  the  truth,  the  congregation 
labored  unweariedly  to  relieve  suffering,  satisfy 
the  needs  of  the  hungry  and  ameliorate  the  con- 
dition of  the  destitute  in  the  community.  Mean- 
while Dr.  Peebles  was  becoming  known  to 
people  of  every  creed  and  every  political  faith 
throughout  the  LTnited  States.  Such  was  his 
prominence  that  in  1868  he  was  chosen  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Northwest  congressional  Indian 
peace  commission  and  became  consul  at 
Trebizond,  Turkey,  Asia,  in  1869.  While  in 
that  leading  commercial  city  of  Asiatic  Turkey 
he  went  without  fear  to  comfort  wretched  hu- 
man beings  dying  of  the  plague.  There  he  tried 
to  teach,  as  he  has  indeed  in  every  part  of  the 
world,  the  truth  of  the  fatherhood  of  God  and 
the  brotherhood  of  man,  the  unerring  justice 
of  "whatsoever  a  man  soweth  that  shall  he  also 
reap,"  that  all  divine  punishments  are  reforma- 
tory, and  that  ultimately,  through  the  Christ 
principle  of  love  and  wisdom,  all  human  beings 
will  be  restored  to  final  harmony  and  happiness. 
Before  such  a  broad  view  of  religion  the  nar- 
rowness of  sectarianism  must  fall,  according  to 
the  opinion  of  many  scholars,  and  it  has  been 
his  privilege  to  see,  in  his  own  experiences,  the 
casting  off  by  Americans  of  the  worn-out  shells 
of  theology  in  the  effort  to  bring  greater  re- 
ligious and  social  equality.  Still  larger  changes 
await  the  religious  history  of  future  genera- 
tions. 

Receiving  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the 
Philadelphia  University  of  Medicine  and  Sur- 
gery in  1876,  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  the  same 
institution  in  1877  and  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from 
the  Medical  University  of  Chicago  in  1882, 
Dr.  Peebles  for  a  time  had  charge  of  a  medical 
ward  in  the  Philadelphia  city  hospital  and  in 
1881  accepted  a  professorship  in  the  Eclectic 
Medical  College  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  In  1886 
he  represented  the  United  States  Arbitration 
League  at  the  International  Peace  Commission 
of  Europe,  held  in  Paris.  During  1852  he  had 
married  at  Canton,  St.  Lawrence  county,  N.  Y., 
Miss    Mary    Mahala     Conkey,     who    was     a 


daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Conkey  and  a  teacher 
in  the  Clinton  (N.  Y.)  Liberal  Institute.  The 
family  home  was  maintained  at  San  Diego  from 
1892  to  1896,  the  Doctor  meanwhile  conducting 
a  sanitarium  besides  acting  as  president  of  the 
Los  Angeles  College  of  Science.  In  1896  he 
removed  to  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  where  he  be- 
came editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Temple  of 
Health  and  Psychic  Review  and  the  Better 
Life,  both  monthlies,  with  a  combined  circula- 
tion of  almost  sixty  thousand.  Having  been 
the  editor  of  several  newspapers  and  magazines, 
his  literary  work  has  naturally  been  extensive. 
While  his  newspaper  contributions  run  in  the 
thousands,  his  pamphlets  and  larger  volumes, 
reproduced  in  many  countries,  number  about 
forty.  His  most  popular  works  are :  The  Seers 
of  the  Ages  (1861),  twenty  editions;  Immor- 
tality and  our  Future  Homes  (1880),  fifteen 
editions ;  Five  Journeys  Around  the  World, 
Demonism  of  the  Ages,  Spirit  Mates,  Death 
Defeated,  or  the  Psychic  Secret  of  How  to 
Keep  Young,  Ninety  Years  Young  and  Healthy 
— How  and  Why,  Buddhism  and  Christianity, 
The  Pathway  of  the  Human  Spirit,  Compulsory 
Vaccination  a  Curse  and  Menace  to  Health  and 
Personal  Liberty,  and  The  Christ  Question 
Settled,  a  symposium  to  which  he  largely  con- 
tributed in  connection  with  Rabbi  I.  M.  Wise, 
Robert  G.  Ingersoll  and  Prof.  J.  R.  Buchanan. 
Biographies  of  Dr.  Peebles  by  Rev.  J.  O.  Bar- 
rett and  Prof.  E.  Whipple  were  published  in 
Boston  in  1871  and  in  Battle  Creek  in  1901,  be- 
sides an  interesting  character  sketch  that  con- 
tained the  ideas  and  observations  of  John  Hu- 
bert Greusel,  in  his  biographical  portraits  of 
leaders  whose  creative  work  has  made  for  na- 
tional progress. 

To  recount  in  full  the  activities  of  Dr.  Peebles 
would  be  to  dwell  upon  the  progress  made  by 
the  United  States  for  more  than  half  a  cen- 
tury. It  has  not  been  enough  for  him  to  wit- 
ness marvelous  transformations ;  by  virtue  of 
his  great  mental  energy  he  had  to  assist  in 
such  progressive  enterprises.  More  than  fifty 
years  ago  he  visited  California,  where  he 
pleaded  for  temperance  and  better  ways  of  liv- 
ing among  the  raw,  rough  mining  men.  The 
distinction  of  helping  to  create  the  Independent 
Order  of  Good  Templars  and  of  serving  as  its 
first  right  worthy  grand  chaplain  belongs  to 
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with  the  Free  Masons,  Sons  of  Temperance  and 
other  fraternal  or  progressive  movements.  He 
is  a  fellow  of  the  Anthropological  Society  of 
London,  the  Psj^chological  Association  of  Lon- 
don and  the  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  in 
Naples ;  member  of  the  International  Climatic 
Association,  American  Institute  of  Christian 
Philosophy,  the  Victoria  Institute  and  the 
Philosophical  Society  of  Great  Britain.  His 
friends  have  been  leaders  in  many  lines  of 
thought  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  including 
Brigham  Young  of  the  Mormon  Church  ;  Elder 
Frederick  Evans,  the  Shaker,  of  Mount 
Lebanon,  N.  Y. :  Lord  Lytton  ;  Hamilton  Fish  ; 
Bishop  Chalmers;  Mrs.  Max  Mueller;  Profes- 
sor De  Morgan;  Baron  Guldenstubbe ;  "Brick" 
Pomeroy,  the  noted  journalist;  Joshua  Gid- 
dings  ;  William  Tebbs  and  Dr.  W.  Scott  Tebbs  ; 
Colonel  Ingersoll,  whom  he  worsted  in  an  ar- 
gument on  the  question  of  religion ;  Victor 
Hugo,  who  sat  at  his  side  in  a  psychic  seance  in 
Paris  and  shed  tears  of  joy  upon  receiving  a 
spirit  message  from  his  son ;  Rabbi  Wise,  pres- 
ident of  the  Cincinnati  Hebrew  College,  who 
considered  with  him  in  correspondence  certain 
difficult  phases  of  the  Talmud;  Walt  Whit- 
man, with  whom  he  often  read  poems  and  dis- 
cussed the  great  things  of  life ;  Dr.  Chapin,  the 
silver-tongued  anti-slavery  orator;  the  "gray 
eagle  of  oratory".  Col.  E.  D.  Baker,  the  Oregon 
patriot ;  and  Thomas  Starr  King,  with  whom 
he  tented  side  by  side  during  vacations  on  the 
New  England  coast. 

As  an  accomplished  debater  through  scores 
of  debates  with  prominent  lecturers,  Dr. 
Peebles  has  waged  a  relentless  war  with  pen 
and  tongue  upon  the  curses  of  vaccination  and 
vivisection.  A  large  volume  is  devoted  to  this 
work.  The  efifects  of  his  early  fighting  is 
bearing  much  fruit  in  his  later  days. 

The  investigations  of  Dr.  Peebles  into  differ- 
ent religions  and  particularly  into  psychic 
phenomena  brought  him  into  contact  with 
many  of  the  most  notable  scientists  and  think- 
ers of  the  world.  Through  his  studies  he  be- 
came a  master  in  psychic  research  along  with 
such  men  as  Dr.  Alfred  R.  Wallace,  Sir  Wil- 
liam Crookes,  Sir  Oliver  Lodge,  Lombroso  and 
Professor  James.  The  results  of  his  studies 
appear  in  his  large  book  which  contains,  among 
other  records,  extracts  from  the  thoughts  of  the 
greatest  minds  from  Socrates  to  Tolstoi.    The 


whole  forms  a  gigantic  index  to  expressions 
of  belief  in  psychical  phenomena.  In  the  course 
of  his  travels  in  different  parts  of  the  world 
Dr.  Peebles  has  been  a  witness  to  unusual 
psychical  researches,  such  as  those  begun  in 
Australia  by  Hon.  T.  W.  Stanford,  brother  of 
the  late  Senator  Leland  Stanford  and  a  man 
noted  for  his  interest  in  science.  Among  other 
scientists  he  was  intimate  with  Professor  Hare 
of  the  Pennsylvania  University,  Judge  Ed- 
monds of  the  New  York  supreme  court.  Gari- 
baldi's chaplain  in  Naples,  John  Bright  of  Eng- 
land, Sir  Henry  Holland,  Gerald  Massey  and 
Chevalier  James  Smith  of  Melbourne.  In  Cey- 
lon he  came  in  contact  with  the  ancestral  Ved- 
dahs.  In  Egypt  he  studied  the  arts  of  the  ma- 
gicians. In  Asia  he  interviewed  Mohammedan 
hermits  and  studied  with  Megettuwatte,  the 
Buddhist  reformer  who  held  the  famous  debate 
in  Ceylon  with  Rev.  D.  de  Silva,  a  Christian 
missionary.  He  visited  the  ruins  of  Sarnath 
near  Benares,  where  Gautama  Buddha  deliv- 
ered his  first  public  address  after  entering  his 
Nirvanic  condition.  At  Calcutta  he  met  Babu 
Shishir  Kumar  Ghose,  the  noted  educator  and 
editor,  and  lectured  often  in  the  palace  while 
the  guest  of  the  Maharajah  of  Tagore.  It  was 
his  privilege  to  study  the  forms  of  worship 
accepted  by  the  Brahmins  in  India,  the 
Buddhists  in  Ceylon,  the  Parsees  in  Bombay 
and  the  Mohammedans  in  Asia  and  Africa;  to 
witness  the  burning  of  the  dead  by  the  Hindus 
and  the  praying  of  the  Persians  in  their  fire- 
temples.  The  study  of  humanity  always  has 
been  of  the  deepest  interest  to  him  and  par- 
ticularly has  he  been  interested  in  the  religions 
of  various  races.  Studying  all  creeds  and  ven- 
erating the  martyrs  of  all  faiths,  he  still  insists 
that  the  final  authority  upon  religious  questions 
must  be  within  the  conscious  spirit  of  each 
person. 

From  the  years  of  his  early  service  as  a  Uni- 
versalist  minister  dates  the  first  interest  of  Dr. 
Peebles  in  psychic  research,  a  movement  be- 
gun by  the  Davenport  brothers,  the  Fox  sis- 
ters and  Andrew  Jackson  Davis.  Everywhere 
men  were  inquiring  in  new  directions  for  old 
truths,  but  the  orthodox  churches  opposed  all 
investigations  of  psychic  phenomena  as  tam- 
pering with  the  very  laws  of  Nature.  Deciding 
to  trace  the  pathway  of  the  spirit  to  the  spir- 
itual world,  Dr.  Peebles  devoted  his  active  life 


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largely  to  psychic  research  and  many  of  his 
expositions  long  antedated  similar  achieve- 
ments on  the  part  of  W.  T.  Stead,  whose  life 
was  lost  with  the  Titanic.  With  William 
James,  Sir  Oliver  Lodge,  Count  Tolstoi  and 
Victor  Hugo  he  holds  that  man  has  many  pow- 
ers not  charted  in  the  science  of  the  day ;  that 
there  is  a  life  beyond  the  grave ;  that  it  is 
possible  to  know  the  life  beyond  the  grave ; 
that  the  dead  do  return,  as  in  the  days  of 
Christ;  and  that  life  itself  is  at  once  pre- 
existent  and  perpetual.  With  Victor  Hugo  he 
believes :  "When  I  go  down  to  the  grave  I  can 
say  like  many  others,  I  have  finished  my  day's 
work;  but  I  cannot  say  I  have  finished  my  life. 
My  day  will  begin  again  the  next  morning. 
The  tomb  is  not  a  blind-alley ;  it  is  a  thorough- 
fare. It  closes  on  the  twilight  and  it  opens  on 
the  dawn."  With  that  same  great  author  he  be- 
lieves that  those  who  pass  over  still  remain  with 
us.  "They  are  in  a  world  of  light,  but  they  as 
tender  witnesses  hover  about  our  world  O'f 
darkness.  Though  invisible  to  some,  they  are 
not  absent.  Sweet  is  their  presence ;  holy  is 
their  converse  with  us." 

At  present.  Dr.  Peebles,  though  quite  near 
the  century  mark,  is  vigorous  and  healthy,  with 
the  full  possession  of  all  his  faculties.  In  fact 
he  believes  that  sickness  is  a  bad  habit  and  that 
dying  early  is  a  worse  one.  He  has  been  a 
rigid  vegetarian  for  sixty  years,  avoiding  to- 
bacco, liquors  and  stimulants  of  all  kinds.  He 
now  writes  for  over  thirty  magazines  in  this 
and  foreign  countries,  keeps  up  an  extensive 
correspondence  all  over  the  world  and  dis- 
courses learnedly,  logically  and  with  much  en- 
thusiasm before  large  audiences  upon  hygiene, 
philosophy  and  religion.  His  favorite  pastime 
is  digging  around  the  rose  trees  that  literally 
cover  his  bungalow  home.  His  constant  com- 
panion and  associate  is  Robert  Peebles  Sudall, 
whom  he  met  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  upon 
whom  he  intends  to  leave  the  mantle  of  his 
future  work. 

Choosing  Los  Angeles  as  possessing  the  most 
equable  and  health-giving  climate  in  the  world, 
Dr.  Peebles  has  permanently  resided  at  5719 
Fayette  street  for  many  years  and  intends  to 
spend  the  rest  of  his  days  in  this  "City  of  the  An- 
gels." He  says  "There  is  nothing  like  the  turn- 
ing, whirling  grindstone  of  toil  to  put  an  edge 
on  the  steel  of  humanity.     Laziness   I   abhor 


and  consider  industry  the  best  stuff  for  the 
making  of  saints.  Personally  I  am  too  busy 
to  think  about  dying — there  is  too  much  fuss 
made  about  it.  I  expect  to  work  on  the  morn- 
ing of  my  departure  and  sleep  into  the  better 
land  of  immortality  at  sunset  of  the  same  even- 
ing. With  the  poet  I  can  say: 
"  'Up  and  away  like  the  dew  of  the  morning. 

That  soars  from  the  earth  to  its  home  in  the 
sun, 
So  let  me  steal  away  gently  and  lovingly, 

Only  remembered  by  what  I  have  done'  " 


JOHN  DRAKE  MERCEREAU.  Descended 
on  his  father's  side  from  a  historic  New  York 
family  who  landed  at  Staten  Island  and  were 
identified  with  its  progress  from  the  first,  and  on 
his  mother's  side  the  descendant  of  an  old  Scotch 
family,  John  Drake  Mercereau,  late  of  Los  An- 
geles, the  organizer  of  and  the  president  of  the 
Mercereau  Bridge  and  Construction  Company 
until  his  death  October  25.  1912,  was  born  at 
Union,  N.  Y.,  November  6,  1862,  the  son  of 
Joshua  (2d)  and  Julia  (La  Monte)  Mercereau, 
and  was  educated  in  Kingston  Seminary  at 
Wilkesbarre,  Pa.  His  first  employment  was  with 
the  Paterson  Bridge  Company,  at  Paterson,  N.  J., 
as  assistant  superintendent,  where  he  remained 
for  eight  years,  following  which  he  was  a  few 
years  associated  in  the  leaf  tobacco  business  with 
his  brother,  Henry  C.  Mercereau,  at  Waverly, 
N.  Y. 

On  first  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1887,  he 
invested  his  money  in  oil  and  land  here,  with  the 
intention  of  retiring  from  active  business  life, 
but  lost  heavily  with  the  sudden  decline  of  pros- 
perity here  soon  after  his  arrival.  He  then  went 
into  the  bridge  contracting  business,  which  he 
later  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Mer- 
cereau Bridge  and  Construction  Company,  and  in 
this  business  he  continued  until  the  time  of  his 
death.  For  several  years  he  carried  on  his  busi- 
ness personally,  but  later,  when  it  had  attained 
large  proportions,  he  incorporated  the  business 
and  took  in  as  partners  men  who  had  assisted  him 
in  early  years  when  the  business  was  in  the  mak- 
ing. He  was  also  the  owner  of  shares  in  several 
important  companies  and  a  man  of  wealth.  The 
marriage  of  Mr.  Mercereau  occurred  October  12, 
1871,  uniting  him  with  Geraldine  Wagner,  the 


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daughter  of  Adam,  a  Pennsylvania  farmer,  and 
May  (Bailey)  Wagner,  a  native  of  the  state  of 
Connecticut.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mercereau  became 
the  parents  of  three  children,  namely,  Julia  L., 
now  Mrs.  F.  Irwin  Herron;  Clara  M.,  now  the 
wife  of  Robert  Swigart;  and  Agnes,  who  is  de- 
ceased. Mr.  Mercereau's  religious  affiliations 
were  with  the  Christian  Science  Church.  As  a 
man  he  was  an  inspiration  to  everyone  with  whom 
he  came  in  contact,  either  in  business  or  in  social 
matters,  and  was  a  tower  of  strength  in  his 
adopted  city.  He  was  unostentatious  in  his 
tastes  and  manner  and  was  beloved  by  all  who 
knew  him.  The  social  clubs  with  which  he  was 
connected  were  the  California,  the  Jonathan  and 
the  San  Gabriel  Country  Clubs,  while  fraternally 
he  was  a  Mason,  belonging  to  the  Blue  Lodge, 
Chapter,  Commandery  and  Shrine. 


ADOLPH  H.  KOEBIG,  SR.  One  of  the 
well-known  citizens  of  Southern  California,  and 
a  man  of  much  influence  in  public  affairs,  Adolph 
H.  Koebig,  Sr.,  a  native  of  Germany,  has  become 
an  important  and  active  citizen  of  the  country 
which  he  has  made  his  new  home.  Mr.  Koebig 
was  born  in  Prussia,  May  17,  1852.  the  son  of 
Christian  and  Julia  Koebig,  both  of  whom  died 
in  their  native  country.  He  received  his  education 
in  Germany,  attending  the  public  schools  and 
gymnasium,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1869,  and  serving  seven  years  in  the  army  before 
completing  his  education  at  the  University  of 
Karlsruhe  and  the  University  of  Berlin,  from 
which  last  he  was  graduated  in  1877  from  a 
course  in  civil  engineering.  This  profession  he 
practiced  for  the  German  government  until  1880, 
when  he  made  his  first  trip  to  the  United  States, 
coming  first  to  New  York  and  thence  to  Lead- 
ville,  Colo.,  where  he  engaged  in  mining  until 
1882.  Removing  to  Denver,  Colo.,  he  was  as- 
sistant engineer  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Rail- 
road until  1883,  when  he  returned  to  Germany 
for  a  nine  months'  stay  in  his  native  land. 

In  1884  Mr.  Koebig  returned  to  the  United 
States,  this  time  to  make  his  permanent  home 
here,  and  settled  first  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where 
he  acted  as  general  manager  of  a  large  manufac- 
turing company  during  the  illness  of  the  general 
manager  until  the  autumn  of  1884.  In  that  year 
he  came  to  the  Mojave  desert  in  California,  and 


became  chief  engineer  and  general  manager  of 
the  California  Mining  and  Reduction  Company, 
continuing  in  this  capacity  until  the  following 
year.  At  that  time  he  removed  to  San  Bernar- 
dino, Cal.,  engaging  there  as  assistant  chief  en- 
gineer of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  until  his  resigna- 
tion in  1888  to  enter  into  the  private  practice  of 
civil,  hydraulic  and  hydro-electrical  engineering 
in  the  early  development  of  irrigation  and  hydro- 
electrical  enterprises.  In  1900  he  removed  to  Los 
Angeles  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  same  line 
of  work  in  this  city  ever  since. 

Mr.  Koebig  has  taken  a  great  interest  in  and 
is  very  active  in  the  City  Planning  Association,  of 
which  he  is  chairman  of  the  advisory  board  and 
executive  committee.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  in  this  city,  and  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Engineers'  and  Architects'  As- 
sociation, and  holds  membership  in  a  number  of 
prominent  clubs,  namely,  the  California,  Univer- 
sity, Los  Angeles  Country  and  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Clubs,  his  interest  in  his  native  land  and 
her  sons  being  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  he  is 
the  president  of  the  "Deutsche  Club,"  and  presi- 
dent and  organizer  of  the  German,  Austrian  and 
Hungarian  Relief  Society.  In  politics  Mr. 
Koebig  upholds  the  interests  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  his  religious  affiliations  are  with  the 
Episcopal  Church. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Koebig  to  Helena  Marie 
Kieffer  occurred  in  Metz,  Germany,  January  31, 
1880,  and  by  her  he  is  the  father  of  three  children, 
namely :  Dr.  Walter  C.  Koebig,  of  Riverbank, 
Cal. ;  Adolph  H.  Koebig,  Jr.,  a  partner  of  his 
father  in  the  firm  of  Koebig  &  Koebig,  Engineers  ; 
and  Curt  J.  Koebig,  employed  with  the  Security 
National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles. 


JESSE  FONDA  MILLSPAUGH.  The  presi- 
dent of  the  Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School 
was  born  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  June  18,  1855, 
and  is  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary  A.  (Decker) 
Millspaugh.  The  ambition  to  obtain  a  thorough 
education  inspired  his  efforts  from  an  early  age. 
Determination  of  character  and  devotion  to  study 
brought  their  merited  results.  During  1875  he 
was  graduated  from  the  high  school  of  Ann 
Arbor,  Mich.,  and  four  years  later  he  received 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  the  University  of  Michi- 
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course,  the  degree  of  A.  M.  being  granted  by  his 
alma  mater  in  1904.  A  resolution  formed  in  youth 
took  him  to  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  from  which  in  1883  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  without,  however, 
any  subsequent  identification  with  the  medical 
profession.  Destiny  turned  his  efforts  into  the 
educational  field,  for  which  he  was  admirably 
qualified  by  temperament  and  intellectual  prepara- 
tion. As  early  as  1879  he  had  engaged  as  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  of  Frankfort,  Ind.,  and 
his  resignation  two  years  later,  in  order  that  he 
might  complete  his  medical  course,  was  received 
with  regret  by  associates  in  that  small  but  cul- 
tured city.  A  larger  field  of  service  was  offered 
to  him  in  connection  with  the  Salt  Lake  Collegiate 
Institute  of  Salt  Lake,  Utah,  with  which  he  be- 
came connected  as  an  instructor  in  1883  and  as 
superintendent  in  1885.  In  that  city  in  1886  he 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary  Clark 
Parsons,  by  whom  he  has  two  children,  Winne- 
fred  and  Helen. 

An  opportunity  to  organize  and  develop  the 
public  school  system  of  Salt  Lake  City  led  Dr. 
Millspaugh  to  resign  as  superintendent  of  the 
institute  and  accept  the  superintendency  of  the 
city  schools,  a  position  that  he  filled  for  eight 
years  with  such  tact,  skill,  wise  judgment  and 
keen  intelligence  that  the  work  was  upon  a  sub- 
stantial and  permanent  footing  prior  to  his  resig- 
nation. In  leaving  Salt  Lake  City  it  was  for  the 
purpose  of  entering  a  field  of  even  higher  service 
and  larger  usefulness.  The  attention  of  the  trus- 
tees of  the  Minnesota  State  Normal  School  at 
Winona  having  been  attracted  to  his  signal  success 
as  an  educator,  he  was  invited  to  fill  the  chair 
of  president  in  that  institution  and  his  acceptance 
marked  the  beginning  of  a  new  era  in  that  school, 
with  which  he  was  connected  as  its  chief  execu- 
tive from  1898  until  his  removal  to  California  in 
1904.  In  each  instance  of  change  of  position 
there  was  the  same  thought  of  enlarged  service 
and  a  broader  sphere  of  usefulness,  and  this  hope 
directed  him  in  accepting  the  invitation  to  serve 
as  president  of  the  California  State  Normal 
School  at  Los  Angeles.  Undoubtedly  many  of 
his  friends  feel  that  his  greatest  life's  work  has 
been  accomplished  in  Los  Angeles.  From  the 
first  the  school  has  shown  the  results  of  his  wise 
leadership  and  splendid  educational  ideals.  The 
leputation  of  the  school  increased  so  rapidly  that 
soon  it  outgrew  the  large  building  in  which  from 


the  first  it  had  been  housed.  It  became  necessary 
to  limit  the  attendance.  Students  applied  for 
admission  many  terms  before  it  was  possible  to 
accept  them.  This  directed  the  thoughts  of  all 
interested  parties  toward  larger  quarters,  where  a 
more  thorough  work  could  be  accomplished  and 
a  greater  number  of  students  admitted  to  the 
benefits  of  the  institution. 

The  first  public  ceremonial  in  connection  with 
the  reconstruction  of  the  school  on  its  new 
campus  on  Vermont  avenue,  Los  Angeles,  was 
celebrated  November  18,  1913,  in  the  laying  of 
the  comer-stone  of  the  group  at  the  entrance  of 
the  administration  building.  The  ten  buildings 
exhibit  an  architecture  reminiscent  of  Northern 
Italy  and  are  artistically  arranged  on  the  campus 
of  twenty-five  acres.  The  block  of  ground,  rec- 
tangular in  shape,  is  surrounded  by  four  streets, 
with  a  frontage  of  over  twelve  hundred  feet  on 
Vermont  avenue  and  eight  hundred  feet  on  Mon- 
roe street.  Heliotrope  drive  forms  the  western 
boundary  and  Willowbrook  avenue  lies  on  the 
north.  The  auditorium  seats  over  sixteen  hun- 
dred persons.  Every  equipment  is  provided  that 
will  aid  the  students  in  their  task  of  preparation 
for  life's  duties.  The  remarks  of  President  Mills- 
paugh on  the  day  of  the  first  public  ceremonial 
indicate  the  thought  in  his  mind  and  the  ambition 
in  his  heart  relative  to  the  new  institution,  and 
we  quote  a  few  sentences  to  impress  upon  the 
reader  that  thought  and  that  ambition:  "The 
corner-stone  laid  that  day  thirty-two  years  ago  is 
not  the  real  corner-stone.  That  material  structure 
has  been  but  the  tenement  in  which  has  dwelt  the 
living,  growing  structure,  which  is  the  true  corner- 
stone. The  school  feels  no  special  pride  in  its 
size.  It  does  not  boast  that  the  classes  of  the  past 
few  years  have  been  the  largest  that  have  gone 
out  from  any  normal  school  in  America.  Of  all 
the  satisfaction  we  feel  today  the  greatest  comes 
from  the  knowledge  that  we  shall  all  have,  in  a 
measure  we  never  realized  before,  the  opportunity 
to  develop  a  higher  manhood  and  womanhood." 

During  his  residence  in  Utah,  President  Mills- 
paugh served  as  a  member  of  the  State  Board 
of  Education  from  1896  to  1898,  and  from  the 
time  of  his  arrival  in  California  up  to  the  present 
time  he  has  been  connected  with  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  a  wise  contributor  to  its  important 
work  in  the  educational  field.  From  1899  to  1904 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Minnesota  State  Library 
Board  and  from  1895  to  1908  he  served  on  the 


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National  Council  of  Education,  being  its  secretary 
in  1902-04.  For  years  he  has  been  associated 
with  the  National  Educational  Association. 
Numerous  addresses  on  educational  subjects  and 
many  papers  in  school  journals  have  brought  him 
into  national  prominence  in  his  profession.  In 
religion  he  is  of  the  Congregational  faith.  The 
California  Academy  of  Science  has  had  the  benefit 
of  his  intelligent  co-operation  and  he  has  been 
further  allied  with  the  University  Club,  the  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  and  Delta  Upsilon,  as  well  as  other 
organizations  social,  fraternal  and  professional  in 
purpose. 


WILLIAM  E.  OLIVER.  From  a  boy  of 
twelve  years  selling  newspapers,  William  E. 
Oliver  has  risen  by  his  own  merit  and  endeavor 
to  his  present  office  of  vice-president  of  the  Home 
Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  of  which  he 
has  been  a  director  since  its  organization,  and 
since  the  year  1912  has  been  active  in  that  com- 
pany as  appraiser  and  in  looking  after  the  real 
estate  interests  of  the  bank. 

Born  in  New  York  city,  in  February,  1859, 
Mr.  Oliver  is  the  son  of  Percy  and  Jane  Oliver, 
and  until  the  age  of  twelve  years  attended  the 
public  schools  and  out  of  school  hours  he  sold 
newspapers.  Subsequently  he  was  cash  boy  in 
a  large  department  store  for  two  years  and  later 
was  clerk  in  a  grocery  and  provision  house.  After 
coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  was  employed  as  a 
general  delivery  clerk  in  the  postoffice,  where  he 
was  promoted  to  the  position  of  clerk  in  the 
register  division  and  later  was  superintendent  of 
that  department,  an  office  which  he  resigned  in 
1891  to  enter  the  stationery  business  with  a  Mr. 
Gardner  under  the  firm  name  of  Gardner  & 
Oliver,  which  later  became  the  Oliver  &  Haines 
Company.  After  acting  as  president  of  the  firm 
for  some  time  Mr.  Oliver  sold  his  interest  in  the 
business  in  1911  and  for  the  two  years  following 
was  retired  from  active  business  life.  Fraternally 
Mr.  Oliver  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  Golden  West 
Commandery,  and  a  Shriner,  and  socially  is  a 
member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  of  this  city.  For 
one  term  he  served  as  Normal  school  trustee,  and 
in  his  political  interests  is  allied  with  the  Repub- 
lican party. 

Mr.  Oliver  is  married  and  has  a  family  of  three 
children :  William  E.,  Jr.,  aged  fourteen ;  Jane. 
aged  eight ;  and  Gordon,  five  years  old. 


OSCAR  EUGENE  PARISH.  The  descend- 
ant of  a  splendid  old  Southern  family,  whose 
fortunes  had  waxed  and  waned  in  the  Carolinas 
for  generations,  Oscar  Eugene  Parish  came  first 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1895  and  has  since  that  time 
been  vitally  associated  with  the  affairs  of  the 
city  and  an  important  factor  in  all  matters  of 
municipal  interest.  He  is  a  man  of  wide  interests 
and  splendid  judgment  and  is  thoroughly  in  sym- 
pathy with  all  movements  which  stand  for  the 
forward  movement  of  the  city  and  its  general 
progression  and  upbuilding.  He  has  acquired 
large  financial  interests  which  he  has  administered 
in  such  a  manner  as  to  greatly  increase  their 
value,  and  now  owns  some  of  the  most  valuable 
real  estate  in  and  near  the  city. 

Mr.  Parish  is  a  native  of  North  CaroHna,  born 
in  Chatham  county,  July  20,  1868,  the  son  of 
John  W.  and  Mary  Ann  (Harris)  Parish,  his 
birth  occurring  on  the  old  family  plantation,  scene 
of  the  family  activities  for  many  years.  While 
he  was  still  a  child,  however,  his  father  deter- 
mined to  seek  to  improve  the  family  fortunes  in 
the  west,  and  removed  to  Arkansas,  where  Oscar 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  later 
entering  the  service  of  the  Southern  Express 
Company.  Rising  rapidly  in  the  confidence  of 
the  company,  he  was  advanced  to  positions  of 
trust  and  responsibility  at  Little  Rock.  Ark. ; 
Lynchburg,  Roanoke  and  Norfolk,  Va. ;  Memphis, 
Knoxville  and  Bristol,  Tenn. ;  and  Ocala,  Fla. 

It  was  in  1895  that  Mr.  Parish  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home,  and 
where  his  extensive  interests  now  center.  For 
two  years  after  coming  to  this  city  he  held  a 
position  of  trust  with  the  Los  Angeles  Electric 
Company,  but  at  that  time  the  possibilities  in  the 
real  estate  business  so  appealed  to  him,  that  he 
resigned  his  position  with  the  electric  company 
and  opened  an  office  of  his  own,  specializing  in 
real  estate  and  oil  interests.  In  1902  he  formed  a 
co-partnership  with  W.  W.  Mines,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Mines  &  Parish,  conducting  a  general 
real  estate  and  rental  business.  This  arrangement 
continued  until  April,  1912,  when  Mr.  Parish 
organized  the  California  Realty  Corporation,  of 
which  he  was  elected  president  and  in  which 
capacity  he  still  serves. 

The  striking  business  ability  of  Mr.  Parish  and 
his  keen  interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare 
of  Los  Angeles  have  made  his  services  on  various 
committees  and  civic  commissions  much   in   de- 


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mand,  and  he  has  thus  been  associated  with 
several  movements  whose  results  have  been 
marked  and  of  more  than  ordinary  importance. 
Probably  the  most  prominent  of  these  was  the 
consolidation  committee  of  fifteen  under  whose 
guidance  Los  Angeles,  Wilmington  and  San 
Pedro  became  the  seaport  of  Los  Angeles.  He 
was  also  for  a  number  of  years  president  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  and  was  vice-presi- 
dent for  one  term  of  the  State  Realty  Federation. 
Another  public  service  rendered  by  Mr.  Parish 
was  in  the  city  council,  of  which  body  he  was  a 
member  during  1903-04.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  California  Club,  Federation  Club,  City 
Club,  Municipal  League,  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Chamber  of  Mines.  Fraternal  organizations 
have  always  claimed  their  share  of  the  ability  and 
time  of  this  energetic  man,  and  he  is  associated 
with  several  of  the  prominent  local  orders,  in 
whose  councils  he  stands  high.  Among  these  are 
the  Masons  (he  having  taken  the  thirty-second 
degree).  Knights  of  Pytliias,  Foresters  and 
Fraternal  Brotherhood. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Parish  took  place  in  Pasa- 
dena, December  4,  1895,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Alice  Aspinall  Grindrod.  They  are  the  parents 
of  two  daughters,  Muriel  Estelle  and  Gwendolen. 


J.  M.  KELLERMAN.  The  oil  industry  has 
been  a  profitable  one  to  many  a  man  in  South- 
ern California,  and  the  tall  derricks  and  clumsy 
machinery  which  detract  from  the  beauty  of  the 
green  fields  and  vacant  lots  have  brought 
wealth  to  many  of  California's  adopted  sons. 
Such  a  one  is  J.  M.  Kellerman,  who  was  born 
in  western  Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1860,  the 
son  of  Joseph  Kellerman,  now  deceased,  and 
Mary  A.  (Ginter)  Kellerman.  He  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  that  state,  and  until  1881  was 
employed  in  the  oil  fields  of  Pennsylvania, 
leaving  there  for  Wyoming  in  1881,  and  about 
the  middle  of  January,  1882,  coming  to  Los 
Angeles.  For  three  years  he  worked  for  the 
Pacific  Coast  Oil  Company  at  Pico  Canyon, 
Newhall,  Cal.,  going  thence  to  Trinity  county, 
Cal.,  where  he  engaged  in  mining  for  a  year. 
He  was  then  attracted  to  the  southernmost  part 
of  the  state,  locating  for  a  time  at  San  Diego 
and  Coronado  Beach,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
sinking  a  well  for  water  for  the  Coronado 
Beach  Company.     On  his  return  to  Los  An- 


geles he  re-entered  the  oil  industry,  contract- 
ing for  Stewart  &  Hardison,  and  drilling  for 
oil.  Of  late  years  he  has  retired  from  active 
business  life,  being  now  free  to  enjoy  the  genial 
and  health-giving  climate  of  his  adopted  home. 
Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the  P.  B.  O.  Elks 
No.  99. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Kellerman  was  Maud  Wil- 
son, the  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Virginia 
(Butler)   Wilson. 


FRED  HATHAWAY  BIXBY.  Born  of 
pioneer  parents,  Fred  Hathaway  Bixby  is  a  native 
of  Wilmington,  Cal.,  where  he  first  saw  the  light 
of  day  April  20,  1875.  His  father,  John  W. 
Bixby,  came  to  Southern  California  in  an  early 
day  and  through  management  and  pertinacity  of 
purpose  won  for  himself  and  his  descendants  a 
competence  as  well  as  a  name  and  place  among 
the  men  who  made  the  western  commonwealth. 
For  more  complete  details  concerning  John  W. 
Bixby's  life,  refer,  to  his  personal  biography, 
which  appears  in  Volume  II. 

Fred  Hathaway  Bixby  was  reared  in  his  native 
county,  receiving  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Long  Beach  and  Los  Angeles,  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  years  entering  the  Belmont  Mili- 
tary School  of  San  Mateo  county,  Cal.  Finally 
matriculating  in  the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley,  he  graduated  therefrom  in  1898  with 
the  degree  of  Ph.  B.  Returning  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, he  then  assumed  the  management  of  the 
home  ranch  as  well  as  property  owned  by  his 
father  in  the  Santa  Ana  canyon,  and  since  that 
date  has  engaged  extensively  in  stock-raising  and 
general  farming  pursuits.  On  the  home  place 
there  are  approximately  thirty-seven  hundred 
acres  all  farmed  to  alfalfa,  hay,  grain,  sugar  beets, 
celery  and  other  vegetables.  In  his  stock-raising 
he  breeds  Shorthorn  and  Hereford  cattle  and 
draught  horses,  Governor,  at  the  head  of  his  stud, 
having  been  imported  from  England.  This  beau- 
tiful bay,  which  weighs  two  thousand  pounds, 
was  purchased  from  George  E.  Brown,  importer. 
Among  his  other  fine  horses  are  Charlemagne 
and  Louis,  a  Tennessee  jack.  Mr.  Bixby  has  ably 
demonstrated  his  ability  in  this  line  and  occupies 
a  high  place  among  the  western  breeders  of  fine 
stock. 

Systematic  in  all  his  details,  Mr.  Bixby  has  con- 
stantly added  to  his  equipment  until  he  has  every 


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facility  for  carrying  on  his  business,  all  arrange- 
ments being  made  for  convenience  and  excellence 
in  every  department  on  the  ranch.  His  place 
is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  this  section,  the 
buildings  being  located  on  the  heights  overlooking 
the  mountains,  valley  and  sea,  an  ideal  spot  for  a 
home,  the  land  extending  six  miles  along  the  coast 
and  being  in  itself  a  small  principality.  The  old 
adobe  house  that  was  built  over  one  hundred 
years  ago  with  walls  from  three  and  a  half  to 
four  feet  in  thickness,  has  been  improved  and 
modernized  and  yet  retains  the  appearance  and 
necessarily  its  historical  interest  that  clings  to  the 
days  when  the  Spanish  dons  reigned  supreme. 
The  other  buildings  of  the  ranch  are  large  and  in 
keeping  with  the  progressive  spirit  of  the  owner. 
Besides  managing  this  property  since  January, 
1907,  Mr.  Bixby  has  operated  the  ranch  in  the 
Santa  Ana  canyon  in  partnership  with  his  sister, 
and  is  also  manager  of  the  I.  W.  Hellman  ranch 
of  eight  thousand  acres,  this  ranch  lying  back  of 
Seal  Beach  and  north  of  Westminster  and  farmed 
mostly  to  sugar  beets.  He  also  owns  the  Rancho 
EI  Cajon  at  Point  Concepcion,  a  ranch  of  five 
thousand  acres,  most  of  which  is  grazing  land. 
Here  is  where  he  breeds  his  thoroughbred  cattle 
and  heavy  horses.  He  is  also  vice-president  and 
manager  of  the  El  Nacimiento  Rancho  Company 
at  San  Miguel,  San  Luis  Obispo  county.  This 
ranch  has  approximately  thirty-six  thousand 
acres,  of  which  about  five  thousand  acres  are 
annually  planted  to  wheat  and  the  balance  used 
for  cattle,  horse  and  hog  pasture.  Mr.  Bixby  is 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Warehouse  Com- 
pany and  director  of  the  Enterprise  Construction 
Company,  Alamitos  Land  Company,  the  National 
Bank  of  Long  Beach  and  Hotel  Virginia,  Long 
Beach.  He  also  owns  a  half  interest  in  the  Three 
Bar  Ranch  Company  at  Roosevelt,  Ariz.,  this 
being  purely  a  cattle-raising  proposition. 

In  Berkeley,  Cal,  August  31,  1898,  Mr.  Bixby 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Florence  Eliza- 
beth Green,  of  that  city,  and  born  of  this  union 
are  five  children,  namely:  Katharine,  Florence 
Elizabeth,  Deborah,  John  Hathaway  and  Fred- 
erick H.  Mr.  Bixby  is  a  member  of  Delta-Kappa 
Epsilon  and  the  Skull  and  Keys  Society ;  socially 
he  holds  a  high  place  among  the  rising  young 
men  of  Southern  California,  appreciated  alike  for 
his  business  ability  and  the  integrity  and  fairness 
which  have  characterized  his  business  career. 


EMMA  R.  NEIDIG.  For  many  years  promi- 
nently associated  with  the  fraternal  life  of  Cali- 
fornia, Mrs.  Emma  R.  Neidig  made  a  unique 
departure  from  all  precedent  when  she  was 
elected  in  March,  1914,  as  supreme  president  of 
the  Fraternal  Brotherhood,  a  beneficial  and  fra- 
ternal organization  whose  national  home  is  in 
Los  Angeles.  This  is  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  fraternal  organizations  that  a  woman  has  been 
elected  to  the  head  of  an  order  which  admits  both 
men  and  women  to  membership,  and"  in  making 
her  campaign  Mrs.  Neidig  blazed  the  way  along 
a  pioneer  trail.  The  membership  of  the  order  is 
about  equally  divided,  and  Mrs.  Neidig's  majority 
was  sufficiently  large  to  give  evidence  that  she 
had  received  the  support  of  a  large  percentage  of 
men,  men  who  appreciated  her  worth  and  ability 
and  whose  desire  for  the  well  being  of  the 
organization  caused  them  to  give  her  their  en- 
dorsement. Mrs.  Neidig  was  elevated  to  the  posi- 
tion of  supreme  president  from  that  of  vice- 
president,  which  she  had  held  since  1898,  suc- 
ceeding in  the  supreme  office  the  late  James  A. 
Foshay,  who  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Fraternal  Brotherhood.  Other  fraternal  offices 
of  importance  which  have  been  held  by  this 
capable  woman  are  those  of  state  commander  of 
the  Ladies  of  the  Maccabees  of  the  World,  for 
California,  1894  to  1897;  and  supreme  lieutenant 
commander,  L.  O.  T.  M.  O.  W.,  1895  to  1897. 

Mrs.  Neidig,  who  in  her  girlhood  was  Miss 
Emma  Rice,  is  a  native  of  New  York  state,  born 
at  Havana,  July  4,  1852.  She  is  the  daughter 
of  Jonas  Allen  Rice,  the  son  of  a  Revolutionary 
drummer  boy,  and  Charlotte  E.  Chapin,  a  native 
of  New  York  state  and  granddaughter  of  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution.  Mrs.  Neidig  received  her  edu- 
cation in  the  Upper  Iowa  University,  at  Fayette, 
Iowa,  graduating  in  the  commercial  course  in 
the  class  of  1867,  and  later  taking  Normal  School 
training.  She  early  determined  to  make  teaching 
her  life  work,  and  was  first  engaged  in  country 
schools,  later  securing  a  position  as  primary 
teacher  in  graded  schools  and  eventually  becom- 
ing principal  of  the  Bancroft  school  at  Omaha, 
Neb.  After  coming  to  Los  Angeles  she  became 
clerk  to  the  superintendent  of  schools,  which  posi- 
tion she  occupied  for  some  time  with  great 
success. 

In  her  political  views  Mrs.  Neidig  is  a  Repub- 
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cerns  the  public  welfare,  being  especially  keen  on 
all  local  matters.  Her  great  work,  however,  is 
now  along  fraternal  lines,  and  since  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood  she  has  been 
one  of  the  most  ardent  workers  in  the  field  and 
much  of  the  present  success  of  the  order  is  due 
to  her  untiring  labor,  capable  management  and 
skillful  judgment.  She  is  a  woman  of  much 
personal  charm,  and  is  regarded  by  her  friends 
and  acquaintances  as  one  of  the  truest  types  of 
American  womanhood,  comprising,  as  she  does, 
all  the  pleasing  personal  attractiveness  of  the 
woman  of  the  old  school,  and  at  the  same  time 
giving  evidence  of  the  business  ability,  poise  and 
clear-headedness  of  the  modem  woman.  Under 
her  management  the  affairs  of  the  Fraternal 
Brotherhood  are  in  a  very  flourishing  condition. 


JOSEPH  GREENBAUM.  The  development 
of  an  artistic  atmosphere  marks  the  outgrowth 
of  Los  Angeles  from  provincial  narrowness  into 
cosmopolitan  breadth  of  vision.  Distinctively  con- 
tributory to  such  advancement  has  been  the  work 
of  a  number  of  local  artists,  foremost  among 
whom  ranks  Joseph  Greenbaum,  a  genius  in 
portraiture  possessing  the  advantage  of  profes- 
sional originality  promoted  through  study  under 
the  famous  masters  of  Europe  and  exhibiting  at 
his  studio  in  Blanchard  hall  specimens  of  his 
talent  that  augur  well  for  the  future  of  art  in 
Southern  California.  While  attaining  his  great- 
est fame  in  portrait  work  he  has  been  successful 
in  many  lines  of  effort,  as  indicated  by  his  original 
paintings  of  Arizona  and  New  Mexico  desert 
landscapes  and  the  important  pictures,  Les  Bre- 
tonnes.  La  Priere  and  Catalina  (called  the  En- 
chanted Isle),  the  last-named  winning  the  gold 
medal  at  the  Exposition  in  Seattle.  Others  of 
his  paintings  have  been  hung  on  the  walls  of  the 
Salon  in  Paris  and  received  favorable  mention  in 
various  exhibitions  in  Munich  and  other  cities. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  November  17,  1864,  a 
son  of  Herman  and  Rosalie  (Caufmann)  Green- 
baum, and  primarily  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  eastern  metropolis,  Mr.  Greenbaum 
was  a  high  school  student  in  San  Francisco  and 
has  considered  California  his  home  since  early 
youth,  although  the  study  of  his  art  has  taken  him 


to  Europe  for  long  periods  of  interesting  and 
profitable  professional  activity.  His  was  the 
privilege  of  studying  in  the  Royal  Academy  of 
Fine  Arts,  Munich,  under  Carl  Marr ;  at  Julian's 
in  Paris  under  Lefebre  and  Robert-Fleury ;  also 
under  Professor  Humbert  Lindenschmidt  and  H. 
Zugel,  the  famous  animal  painter,  with  these 
gifted  men  developing  the  talent  which  had  re- 
ceived initial  instruction  in  the  Hopkins  Institute 
of  San  Francisco.  On  returning  to  the  United 
States  he  took  up  the  painting  of  portraits  in  San 
Francisco,  where  he  spent  two  and  one-half  years 
of  active  professional  labor.  It  was  not,  however, 
his  temperament  to  be  satisfied  with  anything 
short  of  the  best,  and  we  find  him  going  back  to 
Paris  to  resume  his  studies  under  the  foremost 
portrait  artists  of  that  great  center.  Four  years 
of  marked  progress  accentuated  his  second  as- 
sociation with  the  French  capital,  whence  he  re- 
turned to  San  Francisco  to  resume  his  chosen 
theme  of  portraiture.  Among  the  best  specimens 
of  his  work  of  that  period  were  the  portraits  of 
Mrs.  F.  Kohl  and  Mrs.  Frank  Deering.  After 
the  great  fire  in  San  Francisco  he  gave  up  his 
studio  in  that  city  and  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  maintains  a  studio  in  Blanchard  hall 
and  where  he  has  painted  portraits  of  Mrs. 
Hancock  Banning,  Mrs.  William  E.  Dunn,  Mrs. 
Maurice  Albee,  Prof.  C.  F.  Holder,  Phil  Stanton, 
"Lucky"  Baldwin,  General  Otis  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Wellington  Rand.  Conspicuous  among  his  recent 
successes  is  a  life-size  painting  of  Mrs.  Anita 
Baldwin-McClaughry  standing  by  the  side  of  her 
favorite  horse.  This  and  indeed  all  of  the 
portraits  of  the  artist  reveal  a  facile  technique 
and  harmonious  coloring.  In  each  he  has  given 
of  his  best,  so  that  the  character  of  the  sitter  is 
revealed  in  its  strength  of  expression  or  gentle- 
ness of  charm.  A  touch  absolutely  sure  and  a 
scheme  of  color  always  effective  mark  him  the 
master  of  his  art.  So  intense  has  been  his  devo- 
tion to  his  chosen  life  work  that  he  has  had  neither 
leisure  nor  inclination  for  social  functions  or 
public  activities,  although  popular  in  the  Gamait 
and  University  clubs,  of  both  of  which  he  is  a 
prominent  member.  In  an  exceptional  degree  his 
art  is  his  life  and  no  happier  hours  come  to  him 
than  those  in  which  dreams  of  beauty  or  faces  of 
power  are  reproduced  on  canvas  in  all  of  their 
original  strength  of  expression  and  beauty  of 
technique. 


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GEORGE  W.  E.  GRIFFITH.  A  man  of 
first-class  judgment  in  regard  to  financial  matters, 
and  though  of  advanced  age,  yet  enjoying  sound 
health  in  body  and  mind,  and  still  active  in  busi- 
ness affairs,  George  W.  E.  Griffith,  the  manager 
of  the  Highland  Park  Investment  Company,  or- 
ganized by  him,  is  held  in  high  esteem  at  Highland 
Park,  Cal.,  and  indeed  everywhere  that  he  has 
transacted  business. 

Born  near  La  Fayette,  Tippecanoe  county,  Ind., 
December  22.  1833,  Mr.  Griffith  is  the  son  of 
James  Griffith,  a  native  of  New  York  state,  a 
Whig,  and  a  minister  of  the  United  Brethren 
Church,  which  vocation  he  followed  during  his 
entire  life.  The  mother  was  Nancy  Hunt,  also  a 
native  of  the  state  of  New  York,  and  of  her 
family  of  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  George 
W.  E.  Griffith  was  the  third  youngest.  The 
Griffith  family  in  this  country  originated  with 
three  brothers  of  the  name,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1675.  and  settled  on  the  Susquehanna 
river  in  Maryland.  Until  the  age  of  fifteen  years 
Mr.  Griffith  lived  in  Indiana,  growing  up  with 
strong  anti-slavery  sentiments,  and  receiving  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools,  but  at  the 
age  of  sixteen  he  became  a  student  at  Mount 
Pleasant  College,  Westmoreland  county.  Pa., 
where  his  brother,  William  R.  Griffith,  was  a 
professor,  and  it  was  in  that  county  that  the 
younger  brother  met  and  married  his  bride,  Miss 
Priscilla  Horbach.  In  the  fall  of  1855  Mr.  Grif- 
fith went  to  Kansas,  where  he  pre-empted  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  in  Franklin  county,  which 
he  improved,  building  upon  it  his  home.  He  lived 
in  Franklin  county  five  years,  and  was  its  county 
clerk  and  recorder  at  the  time  of  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  war,  and  was  also  elected  to  the 
legislature  of  the  state.  Mr.  Griffith  has  lived  a 
very  strenuous  life,  having  been  in  the  midst  of 
the  Kansas  troubles,  residing  at  Lawrence.  Kans., 
at  the  time  of  Quantrell's  raid,  when  his  house 
and  store  were  burned,  and  having  been  person- 
ally acquainted  with  John  Brown,  though  unable 
to  take  the  fanatical  views  of  that  leader.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  served  under  Captain  Shore  in  the 
Home  Guards  for  local  defense,  and  in  1863 
moved  to  Lawrence,  Kan.,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business.  Later,  about  1870,  he 
entered  the  banking  business  there,  in  which  line 
he  met  with  phenomenal  success,  organizing  and 
being  connected  with  several  large  banks  in  the 
cities  of  Lawrence,  Kans.,  Portland,  Ore.,  and 


Seattle,  Wash.,  before  coming  to  Los  Angeles, 
Cal,,  in  which  city  also  he  has  become  well  known 
in  financial  circles.  He  was  cashier  of  the  Second 
National  Bank  and  later  organized  and  became 
president  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank.  The 
time  of  his  residence  in  Denver  was  between  the 
years  1890  and  1896,  where  he  aided  in  organizing 
the  Western  Farm  Mortgage  Trust  Company,  a 
Kansas  Institution  with  an  office  in  Denver,  being 
also  the  organizer  of  the  Seattle  National  Bank 
in  Seattle  in  1890,  and  of  the' United  States  Na- 
tional Bank  at  Portland,  Ore.  After  coming  to 
Highland  Park,  Cal.,  in  1900,  Mr.  Griffith  organ- 
ized the  South  Pasadena  Bank  and  later  the 
Bank  of  Highland  Park,  as  well  as  the  Highland 
Park  Investment  Company,  to  which  most  of  his 
business  aft'airs  are  at  present  confined,  and  be- 
fore the  settlement  of  the  town  he  bought  and 
platted  ten  acres  of  land  where  Highland  Park 
is  now  situated.  In  his  political  preferences  he  is 
a  Republican  and  believes  that  the  doctrine  of 
protection  is  a  sound  doctrine  for  America. 

Mr.  Griffith  has  brought  up  a  family  of  four 
children,  three  of  whom  are  now  living,  of  whom 
he  is  justly  proud.  His  wife's  death  occurred  in 
California,  September  26,  1914.  Their  eldest  son 
also  is  deceased,  Charles  E.  Griffith,  a  graduate 
of  Princeton  University,  his  death  having  oc- 
curred in  Panama,  where  he  took  the  yellow 
fever;  his  daughter  Helen,  who  survives  him, 
being  the  wife  of  Dr.  Alderson,  of  Highland 
Park.  The  three  living  children  of  Mr.  Griffith 
are:  Mary,  who  keeps  house  for  her  father  at 
Highland  Park  and  is  the  widow  of  Robert  M. 
Osmond  and  mother  of  one  daughter,  Edith,  a 
teacher  at  the  State  University  of  Illinois,  at 
Urbana ;  Alida,  the  widow  of  Rev.  Mr.  Van  Pelt, 
a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  the  mother  of  three 
children,  Reuben,  Robert  and  Ruth,  who  is  a 
student  at  Stanford  University,  the  family 
making  their  home  in  Los  Angeles ;  and  George 
W.  Griffith,  who  resides  near  Frenchtown,  N.  J., 
and  is  engaged  in  business  in  New  York  City. 


JOHN  B.  MONLUX.  There  is  no  more 
important  work  in  any  city  than  that  entailed  by 
the  supervision  and  direction  of  its  educational 
system,  and  none  whose  influence  on  the  future 
welfare  of  a  municipality  is  more  strongly  felt. 
In  this  respect  Los  Angeles  stands  pre-eminently 


Z  ^--^i^r-^. 


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took  charge  of  his  father's  plantation  during  that 
time.  On  January  3,  1883,  he  entered  what  was 
called  the  Little  Rock  Law  Class,  at  Little  Rock, 
an  organization  of  young  men  who  were  desirous 
of  studying  law  and  were  unable  to  defray  the 
expense  of  a  college  course.  He  there  took  up 
the  study  of  the  law,  with  the  result  that  on  the 
22nd  day  of  May  of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of 
Arkansas,  and  the  District  and  Federal  Courts  of 
that  state.  The  Federal  District  Court  was  at 
that  time  presided  over  by  Judge  Henry  C.  Cald- 
well, who  was  one  of  Mr.  Gibbon's  preceptors 
as  a  law  student  and  who  later  became  the  very 
well  k-nown  Judge  of  the  Eighth  United  States 
Circuit  Court  and  after  his  retirement  became  a 
citizen  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  After  Mr. 
Gibbon  received  his  license  to  practice  law  he  went 
back  to  his  old  home  and  taught  a  three  months' 
summer  school,  and  returned  to  Little  Rock  in 
the  autumn  of  1883  and  there  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  In  the  autumn  of  1884  he 
was  elected  to  the  lower  house  in  the  legislature 
of  Arkansas  and  served  in  that  body  during  the 
term  of  1884-5.  He  continued  practicing  his  pro- 
fession in  Little  Rock  until  1888,  when  he  removed 
to  Los  Angeles  for  his  health  and  upon  its  restora- 
tion took  up  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  this 
city,  where  he  has  continued  to  reside  to  the  pres- 
ent time. 

Aside  from  the  legal  profession,  Mr.  Gibbon 
has  been  active  in  many  other  lines  during  his 
residence  in  California,  always  having  at  heart  the 
welfare  and  advancement  of  his  adopted  home.  In 
1891  he  organized  the  Los  Angeles  Terminal  Rail- 
way Company  for  a  group  of  St.  Louis  capitalists, 
of  which  company  he  was,  until  its  absorption  by 
the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Rail- 
road Company,  the  vice-president  and  general 
counsel.  This  company  purchased  the  lines 
of  railway  extending  from  Los  Angeles  to 
Glendale  and  Los  Angeles  to  Pasadena  and 
built  a  line  of  road  between  Los  Angeles  and 
San  Pedro  harbor.  During  his  connection  with 
the  Los  Angeles  Terminal  Railway  Company 
Mr.  Gibbon  for  a  number  of  years  devoted  a 
great  deal  of  time  and  effort  to  securing  the 
establishment  and  development  by  the  United 
States  Government  of  the  deep  water  harbor  at 
San  Pedro.  After  that  harbor  became  an  as- 
sured fact  and  work  was  begun  by  the  govern- 
ment  upon    it,    Mr.    Gibbon    interested    Senator 


William  A.  Clark  of  Montana,  in  the  enterprise 
of  building  a  railway  from  Los  Angeles  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  for  Senator  Clark  and  his  asso- 
ciates in  January,  1901,  organized  the  San  Pedro, 
Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Railway  Company, 
of  which  he  became  one  of  the  vice-presidents 
and  general  counsel,  which  position  he  held  for 
several  years  until  the  completion  of  the  line  to 
Salt  Lake.  His  labors  in  connection  with  the  de- 
velopment of  this  railroad  had  impaired  his  health 
to  such  an  extent  that  he  resigned  his  position 
with  the  Salt  Lake  company  and  spent  some 
time  traveling  for  the  restoration  of  his  health. 

In  the  autumn  of  1907  Mr.  Gibbon  and  his 
associates  purchased  the  Los  Angeles  Daily  Her- 
ald and  for  three  years  he  was  the  president  of  the 
Herald  Publishing  Company  and  the  managing 
editor  of  that  paper.  During  the  years  1898  and 
1899  Mr.  Gibbon  was  a  member  of  the  police  com- 
mission of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  while 
holding  that  office  he,  with  the  Hon.  M.  P.  Snyder, 
mayor,  originated  the  rule  limiting  the  number  of 
saloons  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  to  two  hundred 
and  refusing  to  issue  or  renew  any  saloon  licenses 
outside  of  the  policed  area  of  the  city.  This 
rule  has  since  become  a  regulation  of  the  city 
charter  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  effect 
of  this  extreme  limitation  on  the  number  of  retail 
licenses  in  the  city  has  been  one  of  the  features  of 
the  Los  Angeles  city  government  which  has  very 
generally  attracted  attention  throughout  the 
United  States. 

When  the  Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners  of 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles  was  organized,  Mr.  Gib- 
bon, at  the  request  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
of  the  city,  was  appointed  by  the  mayor  a  mem- 
ber of  that  body,  of  which  he  later  became  presi- 
dent, and  with  which  he  was  connected  for  about 
four  years.  While  a  member  of  the  commission 
Mr.  Gibbon  proposed  and  had  adopted  a  resolu- 
tion requesting  the  city  counsel  of  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles  to  bring  action  for  the  recovery  of 
the  tide  lands  surrounding  a  considerable  portion 
of  San  Pedro  harbor  and  as  a  result  of  this  the 
city  has  since  acquired  title  to  several  hundred 
acres  of  property  around  the  harbor  valued  at 
many  millions  of  dollars.  During  his  connection 
with  the  harbor  commission  Mr.  Gibbon  was  also 
instrumental  in  having  Mr.  Goodrich,  the  well- 
known  harbor  engineer  of  New  York,  employed 
for  the  purpose  of  making  a  comprehensive 
scheme  for  the  development  and  improvement  of 


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Los  Angeles  harbor,  which  scheme  is  at  the 
present  time  being  carried  out  by  the  city  in  its 
harbor  improvements.  As  a  result  of  a  report 
made  to  the  board  of  harbor  commissioners  by 
Mr.  Gibbon  upon  a  municipal  terminal  railroad 
system,  and  later  by  direction  of  the  board  of  har- 
bor commissioners,  presented  to  the  city  council, 
Bion  J.  Arnold,  the  well-known  municipal  trans- 
portation expert  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  was  em- 
ployed by  the  city  to  make  a  complete  scheme  for 
a  municipal  terminal  railroad  system  for  serving 
the  harbor  and  city. 

Mr.  Gibbon  is  a  member  of  the  National  Geo- 
graphic Society,  The  American  Academy  of 
Political  and  Social  Science,  The  American  Asso- 
ciation for  Labor  Legislation,  The  National  Child 
Labor  Committee,  The  National  Municipal 
League,  The  Commonwealth  Club  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  the  Jonathan,  University,  Bolsa  Chico 
Gun,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Los  Angeles  Country, 
City,  Federation  and  Economic  Clubs  of  the  city 
of  Los  Angeles.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  is 
independent  in  municipal  and  state,  and  Demo- 
cratic in  national  politics,  and  his  religious  asso- 
ciation is  with  the  Methodist  church. 

At  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  December  9.  1891,  Mr. 
Gibbon  was  united  in  marriage  with  Ellen  Rose, 
the  daughter  of  Judge  U.  M.  Rose,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  two  sons,  William  Rose,  a 
student  in  Cornell  University,  and  Thomas  Ed- 
ward, Jr.,  a  high  school  student.  The  death  of 
Mrs.  Gibbon  on  Monday,  March  29,  1915,  after 
a  brief  illness,  was  a  great  shock  to  family  and 
friends.  She  was  a  woman  of  splendid  traits  of 
character,  and  was  known  to  her  friends  for  her 
devotion  to  her  home  and  family  and  to  good 
works.  Funeral  services  were  held  at  the  family 
residence.  No.  2272  Harvard  boulevard,  and  the 
body  was  laid  to  rest  in  Hollywood  cemetery. 


W.  LEWIS  BELL.  Although  bom  in  Lon- 
don, England,  December  4,  1859,  the  son  of 
Alexander  D.  (who  was  one  of  the  pioneer  news- 
paper men  in  San  Francisco,  being  at  one  time 
editor  of  the  Bulletin  of  that  city)  and  Elizabeth 
(Dovey)  Bell,  W.  Lewis  Bell,  now  the  president 
of  the  Fulton  Engine  Works  of  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  may  almost  be  called  a  "native  son"  of  this 
state,  having  come  to  San  Francisco  with  his 
parents  in  1868  at  the  early  age  of  eight  years 


and  received  his  education  at  public  and  private 
schools  of  that  city  until  the  age  of  seventeen 
years.  Upon  leaving  school  Mr.  Bell  turned  his 
attention  to  the  business  world,  serving  as  an 
apprentice  with  the  Pacific  Iron  Works,  at  the 
same  time  receiving  a  technical  education  for  his 
life  work  by  attending  the  Vander  Nailen  School 
of  Engineering  at  night  until  1882.  After  the 
completion  of  his  engineering  course  Mr.  Bell 
was  construction  engineer  for  the  Pacific  Rolling 
Mills  for  a  period  of  eighteen  months,  being  then 
employed  for  seven  years  by  the  Dow  Pumping 
Engine  Company  as  designer.  Coming  to  Los 
Angeles  he  engaged  as  manager  for  the  Fulton 
Engine  Works  of  this  city,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  until  1914,  when  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  company.  This  firm  had  been  started  in 
1887  by  A.  J.  McCone,  James  Chapman  and  Levi 
Booth  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Alameda  streets 
and  employed  twelve  men,  in  1890  removing  to  a 
new  location  at  the  corner  of  Chavez  and  Oueirolo 
streets,  at  which  time  Mr.  Chapman  sold  his 
interest  in  the  company  to  Mr.  McCone,  who  in 
1891  also  bought  out  Mr.  Booth.  Mr.  Bell  going 
into  the  business  with  Mr.  McCone,  the  firm 
was  thereafter  known  as  McCone  &  Bell  until  in 
1893  it  was  changed  to  the  Fulton  Engine  Works, 
the  former  filling  the  office  of  president  until  the 
year  1895,  when  J.  P.  McAllister  became  presi- 
dent and  Mr.  McCone  vice-president.  About 
1901  the  company  enlarged  their  plant  and  moved 
to  their  present  location,  facing  North  Main  street 
at  the  junction  of  Alhambra  avenue.  Upon  the 
death  of  Mr.  McAllister  in  June,  1914,  Mr.  Bell 
became  president  of  the  company,  Mr.  McCone 
continuing  as  vice-president,  with  F.  A.  McAl- 
lister as  secretary  and  manager.  The  company 
manufactures  a  general  line  of  hoisting  machin- 
ery, derricks,  mining  machinery,  as  well  as  taking 
miscellaneous  contract  machinery  work,  and  from 
a  small  concern  at  first  employing  twelve  men  it 
has  grown  to  a  large  company  with  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  men  in  its  employ. 

In  April,  1883,  Mr.  Bell  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Maud  Walker  in  San  Francisco,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  two  sons,  Adrian  B.,  a 
draftsman  with  the  Fulton  Engine  Works,  and 
Laurence  L.,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  in  the 
Imperial  Valley,  Cal.  Mr.  Bell  is  a  member  of 
the  LTnion  League  Club  and  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  in  his  political  preferences  he  is  a 
Republican. 


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CHARLES  G.  GREENE.  For  many  years  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county, 
and  for  the  greater  part  of  his  residence  here 
having  been  engaged  in  railroad  associations  and 
in  banking  enterprises  of  a  prominent  character. 
Charles  G.  Greene  is  now  devoting  his  time  to  the 
care  and  management  of  his  private  interests, 
being  interested  in  real  estate  throughout  the  city 
and  county,  and  also  in  local  bonds  and  securities. 
He  is  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  leading  men 
of  the  city,  and  his  influence  has  always  been 
exerted  on  the  side  of  progress  and  for  the  up- 
building of  the  country  along  sane  and  permanent 
lines.  His  connections  with  the  banking  business 
of  the  county  have  placed  him  in  close  touch  with 
the  financial  affairs  of  the  country,  and  his  judg- 
ment has  always  been  acknowledged  to  be  espe- 
cially sound  and  reliable. 

Mr.  Greene  is  a  native  of  Vermont,  having  been 
bom  at  Wells  River,  October  4,  1868,  the  son 
of  Charles  G.  and  Anna  N.  Greene.  He  received 
his  education  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  attending  the 
public  and  high  schools  and  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  1886.  After  this  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Concord  Railroad  as  a  messenger  in  the 
freight  department,  from  which  position  he  rose 
rapidly,  until  at  the  time  of  his  resignation,  in 
1895,  he  was  filling  the  responsible  position  of 
secretary  to  the  president  of  the  Concord  & 
Montreal  Railroad,  afterwards  a  part  of  the 
Boston-Maine  Railroad  system.  He  then  accepted 
a  position  as  assistant  traveling  auditor  for  the 
Maine  Central  Railroad,  with  headquarters  at 
Portland,  Me.,  continuing  there  only  six  months, 
however,  when  he  returned  to  Concord,  N.  H., 
and  engaged  with  the  Durgin  Manufacturing 
Company  as  cashier  and  bookkeeper.  Three 
years  later  he  resigned  this  position  to  come  to 
California,  locating  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has 
since  made  his  home.  Fortune  favored  him  here, 
in  that  he  readily  found  employment,  being  made 
chief  clerk  for  Chief  Engineer  Harry  Howgood, 
of  the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake  Rail- 
road, serving  in  this  capacity  for  two  years.  It 
was  at  the  termination  of  this  service  that  he 
entered  upon  his  splendid  career  in  the  banking 
business,  being  first  with  the  Los  Angeles  Trust 
and  Savings  Bank  in  the  trust  department.  In 
December,  1906.  he  resigned  this  position  to  en- 
gage with  the  Adams-Phillips  Company  as  a  bond 
salesman,  continuing  this  association  until 
October,  1907.  when  he  resigned  to  become  vice- 


president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Long 
Beach.  Upon  resigning  that  office  in  1909  he 
assumed  the  duties  of  cashier  of  the  Merchants' 
National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  filling  this  position 
until  1911,  at  which  time  he  was  appointed  bank 
examiner  of  California.  Three  months  later  he 
resigned  to  assume  the  vice-presidency  of  the 
Citizens'  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  1913.  Mr.  Greene  is  now  en- 
gaged in  the  bond  business,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Frank  L.  Miller  &  Co.,  handling  only  securities 
of  a  reliable  character. 

Mr.  Greene  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
financial  affairs  of  the  Southland,  and  has  done 
much  for  the  welfare  of  his  city  and  county.  In 
social  and  fraternal  circles  he  is  well  known,  being 
a  member  of  the  Jonathan  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Clubs,  and  Southern  California  Lodge, 
F.  &  A.  M..  while  in  his  political  views  he  is  a 
stanch  Republican  of  the  old  school. 

Mr.  Greene  was  twice  married,  the  first  time 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Fletcher,  at  Concord,  N.  H., 
in  1891 ;  his  second  marriage,  in  May,  1905,  was 
to  Miss  Grace  R.  Hersee.  of  this  city.  There 
have  been  born  two  children,  one  of  each  mar- 
riage, both  well  and  favorably  known  in  this  city, 
where  they  are  receiving  their  education.  The 
elder,  Marion  S.,  is  now  a  student  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California,  while  the  younger, 
Carroll  H.,  is  attending  a  private  school.  Mr. 
Greene  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Epis- 
copal church. 


OWEN  E.  ELFTMAN.  The  birthplace  of 
Owen  E.  Elftman,  a  prominent  rancher  and 
farmer  of  Los  Angeles  county,  was  Winona, 
Minn.,  where  he  was  born  May  2,  1871.  When 
he  was  three  years  old  he  came  with  his  parents 
to  California  in  1874,  the  family  settling  on 
Banning  street,  Los  Angeles,  where  the  father 
worked  in  one  of  the  first  lumber  yards  for  some 
time,  removing  later  to  Clearwater  Canyon,  where 
the  father  took  up  a  claim,  paying  $175  for  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land.  Here  he  raised 
barley  for  several  years,  the  first  barley  planted 
in  that  district. 

Young  Elftman  attended  school  until  seventeen 
years  of  age.  Then,  in  1888,  he  left  school  and 
immediately  began  farming  on  the  Dominguez 
ranch,  near  Compton,  but  lost  his  first  crop  by 
the  winter  floods.    Not  discouraged,  however,  by 


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where  he  rai 


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California.  curred  ii. 

In  1898  Mr.  Elftman  bought  his  present  prop-     cided  maj 
erty,  consisting  of -one  hundred  anH  •^-  -"»  -    •< .  i  -, 

at  Elftman   Station,   which   was 
honor,  and  is  farming  the. same  tn 
com.    He  holds  the  ' 
ing  of  sugar  beets, 
-and  tons  '.'f  be^  i> 


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raids  of  the  Mexican  bandit,  V'asqi 
the  last  of  the  organized  bands 
i>rought  terror  to  the  soutliern  ; 
after  the  coming  of  the  Yankee 
original  owners  of  ti 
the  robber  bands  w  r 
comers  during  yeai 
and  of  the  most  daring  liighwd)  i, 
Aside  from  his  farming  intere^ 
is  the  proud  possessor  of  a  Frencl'  ...a 
and  has  raised  some  fine  colts.    The  ser\ : 
he  render'!  tn  the  rormmnitv  \A'heT-e  he  •■ 


leman  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  bon 

"tv    An.criir.t  n,  1I'42.    Hi>  mrl-.   ' 


o.   llic  cily'a  Icaiiing  in 
been  a  Republican,  an 


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in  the  real  estate  business  in  Los  Angeles,  and 
also,  in  partnership  with  his  sons  B.  Harry  and 
Albert  S.  Haneman,  he  engaged  in  the  mercan- 
tile business  for  six  years.  He  made  many  real 
estate  investments  in  the  city  and  also  pur- 
chased valuable  property  at  Corona.  In  1903 
he  came  to  Hermosa  Beach,  and  since  that  time 
has  been  actively  identified  with  the  growth  and 
development  of  that  resort. 

The  history  of  the  Haneman  Realty  Com- 
pany dates  back  to  the  year  1902,  when  his 
sons,  Albert  S.  and  B.  Harry  Haneman,  joined 
forces  and  opened  a  real  estate  office  in  Los 
Angeles,  making  a  specialty  of  property  in  and 
near  this  city.  The  undertaking  proved  a  suc- 
cess, indeed  it  exceeded  their  expectations,  and 
in  a  few  years  they  felt  warranted  in  extending 
their  field  of  operations.  It  was  in  1905  that  they 
opened  an  office  in  Hermosa  Beach,  and  there- 
after made  a  specialty  of  handling  property  in 
this  flourishing  town.  Altogether  they  dis- 
posed of  seven  subdivisions  of  their  own  in  the 
vicinity  of  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco,  be- 
sides handling  many  other  large  deals,  the 
transactions  passing  through  the  Los  Angeles 
office  as  well  as  that  at  Hermosa  Beach.  For 
the  splendid  business  which  the  sons  gathered 
about  them  much  credit  is  due  B.  Harry  Hane- 
man, a  man  of  optimistic  spirit  and  determina- 
tion, whose  early  death,  June  8,  1910,  was  a 
deep  loss  to  the  communities  which  had  bene- 
fited by  his  efforts.  After  the  death  of  this  son 
T.  H.  Haneman  stepped  into  the  breach  and  has 
since  been  identified  with  the  business,  having 
in  the  meantime  relinquished  his  mercantile  in- 
terests. Albert  S.  Haneman,  who  is  still  inter- 
ested in  the  business,  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Realty  Board  and  the  California  State 
Realty  Federation.  He  owns  several  valuable 
tracts  of  Hermosa  Beach  property,  some  of 
which  has  recently  been  improved  with  a  busi- 
ness block  at  the  corner  of  Pier  and  Manhattan 
avenues,  with  bungalows  in  the  rear. 

The  marriage  of  T.  H.  Haneman  occurred  in 
Indianapolis  in  1871,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Flora  E.  Ludlow,  a  native  of  Springfield,  Ohio. 
Mrs.  Haneman,  like  her  husband,  is  progressive 
and  public  spirited  and  takes  an  active  part  in 
the  development  and  social  life  of  her  home 
city.  She  is  a  member  of  the  library  board 
and  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Hermo.sa 
Beach  Woman's  City  Club,  of  which  she  was 


one  of  the  founders,  and  is  a  director  of  the 
same.  This  club  is  one  of  the  active  features 
in  the  life  of  the  city,  and  has  been  instrumental 
in  securing  many  valuable  improvements,  in- 
cluding the  public  library  and  the  life-saving 
apparatus  on  the  beach.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Haneman  were  born  three  sons,  the  eldest  of 
whom,  B.  Harry,  passed  away  June  8,  1910; 
Oliver  T.  died  when  six  months  old;  and  Al- 
bert S.  is  in  partnership  with  his  father,  under 
the  name  of  the  Haneman  Realty  Company. 

Mr.  Haneman  is  public  spirited  and  progres- 
sive, and  has  given  freely  of  time,  ability  and 
means  for  the  furtherance  of  the  welfare  of 
Hermosa  Beach.  He  possesses  a  rare  judg- 
ment and  foresight  which  make  him  a  valuable 
asset  to  any  movement  with  which  he  sees  fit 
to  join  forces  and  in  the  case  of  his  home  city, 
has  always  been  with  the  movement  for 
progress  and  public  improvement.  In  this  par- 
ticular he  is  especially  far-seeing,  realizing  at 
an  early  stage  in  the  life  of  Hermosa  Beach 
that  the  city  was  destined  to  be  a  popular 
resort,  and  understanding  the  importance  of 
making  all  improvements  of  such  a  nature  that 
they  would  answer  the  demands  of  a  city  many 
times  larger  than  the  one  that  then  existed. 
In  this  he  has  been  proven  pre-eminently  right, 
for  already  the  resort  is  taking  on  metropolitan 
airs  and  its  improvements  are  well  to  be  in 
accord  with  its  promise. 


EUGENE  POURROY.  One  who  has  seen 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles  grow  from  small  begin- 
nings to  its  present  size  and  prosperous  condition, 
who  has  himself  had  a  hard  struggle  in  the  early 
days  but  is  now  a  progressive  and  successful  citi- 
zen of  the  western  city,  is  Eugene  Pourroy,  who, 
tliough  a  native  of  the  eastern  part  of  France,  has 
associated  himself  distinctively  with  the  interests 
of  Southern  California. 

Born  September  23,  1856,  Mr.  Pourroy  re- 
ceived but  a  limited  schooling  and  when  twelve 
years  of  age  he  started  out  for  himself,  receiving 
forty  cents  a  day  and  board  himself.  For  a  time 
he  engaged  in  railroad  construction  in  his  native 
land,  then  came  to  the  United  States  in  the  year 
1881,  making  his  way  directly  to  Los  Angeles. 
For  fifteen  years  he  was  associated  actively  with 
the  sheep  industry  on  our  western  coast,  being 


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engaged  in  herding  sheep  in  the  San  Fernando 
Valley,  the  east  side  of  Los  Angeles,  in  the  towns 
of  Garvanza,  Puente,  Riverside,  San  Bernardino 
and  Mojave,  Cal.,  and  also  in  and  around 
Eugene  and  Pendleton,  Ore.,  Pampa,  Colfax,  Spo- 
kane and  Walla  Walla,  Wash.,  and  in  Idaho.  In 
the  days  when  but  a  few  houses  stood  where  the 
city  of  Pasadena  is  now  situated,  Mr.  Pourroy 
was  engaged  in  herding  sheep  in  that  vicinity,  the 
fruitful  San  Gabriel  Valley,  when  but  a  few 
orange  groves  were  started  where  now  many  are 
to  be  seen,  and  when  the  foothills  about  the  valley 
had  not  been  cleared  of  underbrush,  rattlesnakes 
and  even  wildcats,  and  were  not  adorned  with 
lawns  and  villas  in  the  style  of  the  Swiss  chalet, 
as  at  present.  Sheep  herding  brought  many  try- 
ing experiences  in  the  early  days,  for  in  the  desert 
country  there  was  drought  to  be  overcome,  and  in 
the  high  mountains  cold  and  blizzards  to  be  en- 
countered, but  Mr.  Pourroy  persisted  in  his 
chosen  work,  and  after  being  employed  a  few 
years  by  others,  became  the  owner  of  large  bands 
of  sheep,  ranging  from  two  thousand  to  five  thou- 
sand in  number. 

Three  trips  to  his  native  country  have  been 
made  by  Mr.  Pourroy  during  his  residence  on 
the  Pacific  coast,  and  on  April  14,  1903,  while  in 
New  York,  he  was  married  to  Rosena  Rambaud, 
also  a  native  of  France.  Returning  with  his  bride 
to  Los  Angeles  in  the  same  year,  he  invested  his 
savings  in  east  side  real  estate,  showing  good 
judgment  in  his  purchases,  and  has  now  retired 
from  active  business  life,  and  devotes  his  time  to 
attending  to  his  large  real  estate  holdings  in  Los 
Angeles.  A  list  of  the  property  which  he  bought 
and  still  owns  comprises  two  lots  at  the  corner 
of  Fifth  and  Crocker  streets,  whereon  a  business 
block  now  stands  ;  an  unimproved  lot  at  the  corner 
of  Sixth  and  Ceres  streets ;  sixty  feet  on  Stanford 
avenue  (formerly  Ruth  avenue),  on  which  stand 
two  cottages,  near  Fifth  street;  and  thirty-five 
feet  of  frontage  on  Stanford  avenue,  a  corner 
lot  where  he  has  erected  the  Eugene  hotel,  a  four- 
story  modern  brick  structure  consisting  of  sixty 
three  rooms.  Aside  from  his  real  estate  interests, 
which  have  brought  to  Mr.  Pourroy  a  large  meas- 
ure of  prosperity,  the  fact  that  he  is  actively  con- 
cerned in  forwarding  the  welfare  of  the  western 
city  where  he  has  chosen  to  make  his  home  is 
evidenced  by  his  membership  in  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  which  is 
proud  to  number  among  her  sons  self-made  men 


of  foreign  birth  who,  like  Mr.  Pourroy,  exert 
themselves  to  add  materially  to  the  advancement 
of  her  welfare  and  prosperity. 


HON.  ROBERT  M.  LUSK.  If  any  degree 
of  success  rewarded  the  efforts  of  Judge  Lusk, 
and  if  any  prominence  came  to  him  in  civic  life 
(and  there  are  many  who  regard  his  prominence 
and  success  as  exceptional),  it  may  be  attributed 
to  his  own  force  of  character  and  determination 
of  will.  Of  southern  birth  and  a  member  of  an 
honored  old  family  that  lost  its  possessions  in  the 
terrible  tragedy  of  interstate  strife,  the  fall  of 
the  confederacy  found  him  on  the  threshold  of 
youth,  with  ruined  plantations  and  desolate  homes 
around  him  on  every  hand.  Only  a  character  of 
unusual  force  could  have  come  through  such  an 
ordeal  stronger,  firmer  and  more  efficient,  as  did 
this  southern  lad,  whose  persistence  enabled  him 
to  surmount  obstacles,  secure  an  education  and 
rise  by  slow  but  steady  degrees  out  of  obscurity 
into  professional  power  and  permanent  prestige. 
In  early  life  he  became  familiar  with  that  isolated 
but  interesting  mountain  region  lying  near  the 
borders  of  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  North  Caro- 
lina. The  house  where  he  was  born  in  1851 
stood  within  a  stone's  throw  of  the  state  line  of 
Georgia,  but  was  located  in  Bradley  county,  Tenn., 
and  the  old  plantation  of  his  youthful  memories 
stretched  its  broad  acres  through  a  valley  shel- 
tered by  the  mountains. 

The  poverty  of  the  south  at  the  close  of  the 
Civil  war  did  not  daunt  the  resolution  of  Mr. 
Lusk  to  acquire  a  thorough  education.  For  a 
time  he  attended  a  college  at  Hiawassee  in 
Georgia  near  the  state  line  of  North  Carolina. 
Upon  discontinuing  the  study  of  the  classics  for 
that  of  the  law,  he  matriculated  at  Cumberland 
LTniversity  at  Lebanon,  Tenn.,  where  he  com- 
pleted the  regular  course  and  obtained  his  degree. 
Seeking  a  favorable  location  for  the  practice  of 
the  law  he  was  induced  to  go  to  Texas  and  there 
opened  an  office  at  Bonham,  where  he  married 
Miss  Clara  Pope.  In  1876,  three  years  after  he 
had  opened  his  office  at  Bonham,  he  was  elected 
mayor  of  the  town.  A  service  of  four  years  in 
the  mayoralty  was  followed  by  election  to  the  office 
of  prosecuting  attorney.  During  1885  he  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature  without  making  a 
single  speech  in  his  own  favor  or  taking  part  in 


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the  campaign.  In  1888  he  was  appointed  judge 
of  the  superior  court.  A  year  later  he  retired 
from  the  office,  declining  to  serve  another  term. 
An  almost  continuous  service  in  public  office, 
including  the  positions  before  named  as  well  as 
that  of  county  judge  and  minor  posts  of  responsi- 
bility, would  seem  to  have  precluded  Judge  Lusk 
from  active  identification  with  the  bar  of  Bon- 
ham,  but  such  did  not  prove  to  be  the  case.  On 
the  other  hand,  for  years  he  stood  at  the  head 
of  his  profession  in  his  county  in  Texas.  A  com- 
prehensive knowledge  of  Texas  laws,  as  well  as 
the  general  laws  of  the  country,  caused  his 
counsel  to  be  sought  continuously  in  matters  of 
grave  importance,  often  involving  amounts  of 
great  magnitude  and  enterprises  of  wide  im- 
portance. In  1902  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  to 
make  his  home  and  engage  in  practice.  In  this 
city  he  became  a  pioneer  in  the  reform  political 
movement.  On  the  occasion  of  the  first  non- 
partisan campaign  in  1906,  when  most  of  the 
reform  candidates  were  defeated  (himself  in- 
cluded), he  was  a  candidate  for  city  tax  collector. 
Three  years  later,  as  a  good  government  candi- 
date for  the  city  council,  he  was  elected  for  a 
term  of  two  years.  When  Judge  Works,  who  was 
president  of  the  council,  resigned  to  become  a 
candidate  for  the  United  States  senate.  Judge 
Lusk  was  chosen  to  serve  in  that  important  posi- 
tion. During  1911  he  was  again  elected  to  the 
city  council  for  a  term  of  four  years.  A  true 
patriot,  loyal  to  the  welfare  of  the  community, 
when  his  health  failed  he  persisted  in  devotion  to 
the  work  of  the  office,  feeling  that  he  owed  more 
to  the  welfare  of  the  city  than  to  himself.  At  all 
times  he  was  diligent  in  the  service  of  the  city. 
No  measure  was  neglected  that  would  promote 
the  general  interests.  His  self-sacrifice  sapped 
his  waning  vitality  and  after  suffering  more  than 
five  months  he  passed  away  February  23,  1913,  at 
his  home,  No.  147  North  Soto  street,  Boyle 
Heights.  The  funeral  services  were  conducted 
by  the  pastor  of  the  Boyle  Heights  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  which  he  had  been  a  generous  sup- 
porter, and  the  burial  ritual  at  Evergreen  ceme- 
tery was  in  charge  of  the  Masonic  bodies  of  Los 
Angeles.  For  years  the  Judge  had  been  a  promi- 
nent Mason  and  while  livmg  in  Texas  had  served 
as  grand  master  for  the  state,  in  which  position 
he  disbursed  the  funds  sent  by  Masonic  bodies 
from  all  parts  of  the  world   for  the  relief  of 


destitute  Masons  in  Galveston  after  the  destruc- 
tion of  that  city. 

Surviving  Judge  Lusk,  besides  his  widow,  are 
three  daughters  and  three  sons,  namely :  Mrs. 
Frank  Taylor,  of  Los  Angeles ;  Mrs.  C.  M.  Mills, 
of  Pasadena;  Miss  Ruth  Lusk,  who  resides  with 
her  mother  at  Boyle  Heights ;  Henry,  an  elec- 
trician;  Lieut.  Oscar  S.  Lusk,  an  officer  in  the 
United  States  army ;  and  Paul  Lusk,  an  engineer 
on  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad.  It  is  a  source 
of  gratification  to  all  lovers  of  Los  Angeles  that 
the  city  has  attracted  to  its  citizenship  men  of 
learning,  true  patriotic  spirit  and  the  highest 
ideals  of  life,  and  among  these  perhaps  none  dis- 
played a  deeper  devotion  to  the  civic  welfare, 
while  certainly  none  labored  more  earnestly  in 
behalf  of  permanent  advancement,  than  did  Judge 
Lusk,  whose  name  is  recorded  in  the  city  records 
as  councilman  and  in  the  hearts  of  his  friends  as 
self-sacrificing  citizen,  efficient  attorney  and  true 
philanthropist. 

Following  are  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the 
city  council  upon  the  death  of  Judge  Lusk,  who 
was  at  that  time  an  associate  member  of  the 
council : 

IN   MEMORI.XM 

It  is  with  profound  sorrow  that  we  are  called 
upon  to  chronicle  the  death  of  Robert  Martin 
Lusk,  an  associate  member  of  the  council,  which 
occurred  at  his  home  in  this  city  on  Friday,  Feb- 
ruary 2Z,  1913. 

Judge  Lusk  was  a  native  of  Tennessee.  He 
was  bom  January  25,  1851,  on  a  plantation  near 
the  border  line  of  Georgia.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  his  native  state  and  ob- 
tained his  degree  in  law  at  Cumberland  Univer- 
sity. Later  he  removed  to  Bonham,  Texas,  where 
he  married  Miss  Clara  Pope.  Of  this  union  were 
born  eight  children,  of  which  three  sons  and  three 
daughters,  with  the  widow,  survive  him.  He 
became  county  judge,  district  attorney  and  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature.  Eleven  years  ago  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  with  his  family  to  make  this  city 
his  future  home.  Here  he  became  active  in  civic 
affairs  and  in  1909  was  elected  to  the  council, 
where  he  served  until  the  expiration  of  the  term 
as  president  of  this  body.  In  December,  1911,  he 
was  re-elected  for  a  four-year  term. 

While  it  is  a  sad  task  to  perform,  yet  it  affords 
distinct  and  genuine  satisfaction  to  bear  witness 
to  the  noble  and  exemplary  character  of  our  fel- 
low member.     As  a  citizen  his  name  stands  for 


Angeles,  that  thi- 
minutes  and  a  coji 

■libers  ot  tne  lai 

! -ther 

,  That  as  a  toT: 
i:!;.ii,or3'    of    this    !i 
servant,  the  City  i '. 
and  so  remnin  n 
without    f  1 
Conncil  do  i 


during  \vh 

activities  o: 

today   one   oj,    iht    nii-.s'.    ;.!ilaeut.iA; 

gressive  citizens  of  Los  Angeles  oc 

a  power  for  good  in  his  home  '  ■  < 

is  he  one  of  the  irfost  successfiji 

of  the  valley,  but  he  is  also 

the  First  National   Ban: 

taken  an  active  part  in  <i 

Mr.  Grecver  \'- as  '■■>-:■  ,■ 
January  8,  i 
passed  hi'. 


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The  marriage  of  Mr.  Greever  took  place  in 
Monrovia,  June  25,  1902,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Marguerite  Porter,  who  was  born  in  Butler 
county,  Pa.,  September  29,  1876,  the  daughter 
of  Kerr  and  Ellen  Porter.  Her  primary  educa- 
tion was  acquired  in  Butler  county  and  later 
she  graduated  from  the  Grove  City  (Pa.)  Col- 
lege. Subsequently  she  came  to  California  to 
visit  her  half-brother.  Rev.  J.  P.  Stoops,  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Monrovia,  and 
this  continued  thereafter  to  be  her  home.  Be- 
fore her  marriage  she  taught  school  for  two 
terms  in  Los  Angeles  county.  At  her  death, 
October  19,  1911,  she  left  one  daughter,  Vir- 
ginia. Mr.  Greever  is  today  recognized  as  one 
of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Azusa  and 
also  throughout  the  valley  is  known  as  a  man 
of  sterling  worth  and  unfaltering  integrity. 


CHARLES  A.  BURCHAM.  It  was  given  to 
the  discoverer  of  the  Yellow  Aster  mine  to  pro- 
mote materially  the  development  of  the  resources 
of  the  commonwealth  in  which  he  was  a  native 
son  and  lifelong  resident.  Life  is  measured  not 
by  years,  but  by  intensity.  Were  the  record  of 
Mr.  Burcham  measured  by  duration  of  existence 
it  would  not  be  called  long,  for  there  was  given 
to  him  little  more  than  five  decades  in  which  to 
experience  all  the  changes  of  life.  But  viewed  by 
accomplishment,  his  life  was  indeed  long  and 
eventful.  Within  its  span  he  saw  much  of  dis- 
couragement and  much  of  success,  he  spent  many 
a  weary  day  with  shovel  and  pick  prospecting  in 
remote  mountains  or  lonely  valleys  and  many  a 
night  the  sky  was  his  roof  and  the  stars  his 
candles.  On  the  other  hand  destiny  also  gave 
to  him  the  cup  of  success  filled  to  the  brim. 
Honors  came  to  him  and  prosperity  and  achieve- 
ment. So  high  was  his  reputation  as  a  mining 
operator  that  his  judgment  upon  a  prospect  be- 
came the  last  word  for  thousands  of  investors. 

Eventful  as  was  the  closing  decade  of  the  life 
of  Mr.  Burcham  the  first  decade  was  remarkable 
only  for  the  quiet  and  even  flow  of  the  stream  of 
existence.  Vallejo  was  his  native  city  and  No- 
vember 6,  1859,  the  date  of  his  birth.  Schools  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  state  gave  him  a  work- 
ing knowledge  of  the  three  R's  and  in  1876  he 
was  graduated  from  a  San  Francisco  business 
college,  but  experience  and  observation  were  his 


principal  instructors  and  self-culture  aided  him 
in  acquiring  a  rounded,  comprehensive  knowledge 
of  the  world  of  thought  and  action.  During 
young  manhood  he  came  to  the  southern  part  of 
the  state  and  embarked  in  the  cattle-raising  busi- 
ness near  San  Bernardino,  where  he  remained 
until  the  lure  of  the  mines  led  him  into  the  occu- 
pation that  gave  him  fame  and  fortune.  All  un- 
expectedly, too,  came  the  turn  in  the  tide  of  fate. 
Chance  seemed  to  direct  his  steps  toward  the 
land  of  the  hidden  ore.  In  the  spring  of  1895,  ac- 
companied by  John  Singleton  and  Fred  M. 
Mooers,  he  started  upon  a  prospecting  trip  into 
Kern  county,  with  the  expectation  of  remaining 
on  the  desert  for  some  time.  After  days  of  wan- 
dering, on  the  25th  of  April  the  party  suddenly 
and  unexpectedly  found  free  gold  in  paying  quan- 
tities at  the  foot  of  some  low  hills.  Farther  up 
they  discovered  the  wonderful  quartz  deposits 
of  the  Yellow  Aster. 

In  a  moment  weariness  of  body  and  discour- 
agement of  mind  were  forgotten.  The  elation  of 
the  party  can  only  be  imagined,  but  not  de- 
scribed. With  practical  business  shrewdness 
they  returned  to  Randsburg  and  organized  the 
company  which  remains  a  close  Los  Angeles  cor- 
poration. Since  then  over  two  million  tons  of 
ore  averaging  $3  per  ton  have  been  taken  from 
the  mine  and  about  eight  million  tons  already 
blocked  out  remain  to  be  mined  and  milled.  The 
fame  of  the  Yellow  Aster  is  not  limited  to  Cali- 
fornia, but  extends  the  world  over.  Its  shares 
liave  always  been  held  at  a  high  price  and  have 
lacked  the  speculative  tendency  of  such  mining 
stock,  for  such  has  been  the  steady  development 
and  such  the  riches  of  the  mine  that  dividends 
have  been  a  regular  feature  of  the  business.  Dur- 
ing 1887  Mr.  Burcham  had  married  Dr.  Rose 
La  Monte,  who  lives  on  Mount  Washington,  and 
maintains  offices  in  Los  Angeles  and  has  charge 
of  the  business  management  of  the  mine.  A 
woman  of  remarkable  acumen  and  executive  abil- 
ity, she  was  a  sagacious  co-operator  with  Mr. 
Burcham  in  his  enterprises  and  at  his  death  was 
able  to  assume  the  entire  management  of  the 
large  estate.  While  his  interests  were  not  con- 
fined to  mines,  they  represented  his  most  im- 
portant investment  and  occupied  the  greater  part 
of  his  time,  although  in  addition  he  was  an 
officer  in  several  other  companies.  The  Elks  and 
Odd  Fellows  numbered  him  among  their  mem- 
bers, and  socially  he  was  prominent  in  the  Jona- 


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than  and  California  Clubs.  He  passed  away  sud- 
denly August  15,  1913,  at  Westlake  hospital,  Los 
Angeles,  after  an  illness  of  several  weeks  which, 
although  so  serious  as  to  keep  him  from  his  of- 
fices in  the  Coulter  building,  gave  little  indication 
of  so  speedy  and  fatal  a  termination.  Thus  ended 
a  career  inseparably  associated  with  the  history 
of  the  Yellow  Aster  and  worthy  of  perpetuation 
in  the  annals  of  the  state. 


J.  J.  VOSBURGH.  Though  now  a  resident  of 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Mr.  Vosburgh  con- 
tinues his  association  with  the  cattle  business  in 
Arizona,  in  which  state  he  is  the  owner  of  a 
great  deal  of  land.  The  larger  part  of  his  business 
life  has  been  taken  up  with  the  cattle  industry  in 
Arizona,  Kansas  and  Missouri,  both  as  sales  man- 
ager for  a  livestock  company  and  as  an  inde- 
pendent raiser  and  trader  of  cattle. 

New  York  state  was  the  birthplace  of  Mr.  Vos- 
burgh, he  having  been  born  in  Chittenango,  that 
state,  on  June  15,  1844,  the  son  of  John  and  Mar- 
garet Vosburgh.  His  education  was  received  at 
the  grammar  and  high  schools  until  the  age  of  six- 
teen years,  at  which  time  he  went  to  Titusville, 
Pa.,  and  was  employed  by  his  uncle  who  was 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business  there.  After  two 
years  in  his  uncle's  employ,  Mr.  Vosburgh  re- 
moved to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  became  sales 
manager  for  Greer-Mansfield  Company,  livestock 
dealers  of  that  city,  and  having  spent  another  two 
years  with  this  firm  he  undertook  cattle  trading 
independently  in  the  state  of  Kansas,  where  he 
remained  until  1872.  At  that  time  he  went  to 
Silver  City,  Idaho,  engaging  in  general  merchan- 
dise business  there  with  his  uncle,  which  he  left 
in  1876  to  go  to  Globe,  Ariz.,  where  he  became 
one  of  the  first  locators,  serving  also  as  the  first 
postmaster  of  the  place,  and  agent  for  Wells 
Fargo  Company.  Later  he  went  into  the  cattle 
business  again,  this  time  in  Arizona,  and  though 
removing  with  his  family  to  Los  Angeles  in  1888, 
he  continued  his  interest  and  ownership  in  that 
business  in  Arizona. 

Mr.  Vosburgh  was  married  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  to  a  Miss  Tipton  in  October.  1883.  He  is  a 
director  in  three  companies,  namely,  the  Farm- 
ers' and  Merchants'  Bank,  the  Provident  Pledge 
Corporation  and  the  Wharf  and  Storage  Com- 
pany. In  his  political  preferences  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  party. 


DR.  FRANCIS  MARION  POTTENGER. 
As  the  first  ethical  physician  on  the  Pacific  coast 
to  limit  his  work  to  the  study  and  treatment  of 
tuberculosis.  Dr.  Francis  Marion  Pottenger  has 
been  a  pioneer  in  a  field  where  he  has  been  able 
to  render  invaluable  aid  to  suffering  humanity,  and 
has  blazed  the  way  for  splendid  work  in  the  study, 
prevention  and  cure  of  this  terrible  scourge,  the 
white  plague.  His  training  in  the  beginning  was 
along  broad  lines  of  general  practice,  with  an 
avowed  intention  to  specialize  in  obstetrics  and 
the  diseases  of  children,  but  the  death  of  his 
first  wife  from  tuberculosis  caused  him  to 
awaken  to  the  crying  needs  in  this  line,  and  he 
determined  to  make  this  his  life  work.  As  a  part 
of  this  work  he  opened  at  Monrovia,  in  1903,  the 
Pottenger  Sanatorium  for  Diseases  of  the  Lungs 
and  Throat,  and  is  there  working  faithfully  to 
master  this  dread  disease.  The  institution  has 
grown  from  a  very  small  beginning,  at  the  time 
of  its  establishment  having  accommodations  for 
only  eleven  patients,  and  now  housing  one  hun- 
dred. The  Pottenger  Sanatorium  is  known 
throughout  the  world  as  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful of  its  kind.  Dr.  Pottenger  has  literally 
lived  with  his  patients  at  the  sanatorium  and  by 
this  close  association  he  learned  to  know  them  and 
their  peculiar  needs,  and,  being  an  original  ob- 
server, has  been  able  to  add  many  new  facts  to 
the  knowledge  of  this  disease. 

Dr.  Pottenger  was  born  at  Sater,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1869.  His  father,  Thomas  Pottenger, 
was  also  a  native  of  that  place,  born  February  16, 
1840,  while  his  mother  was  Miss  Hannah  Ellen 
Sater.  His  father  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  city  and  later  engaged  in  farming,  un- 
til the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war,  when  he 
enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-ninth 
Ohio  Infantry,  on  the  one  hundred  day  service, 
and  then  returned  to  Sater  and  again  engaged  in 
farming.  He  remained  there  until  1904.  when  he 
disposed  of  his  interests  and  came  to  California, 
locating  at  Monrovia,  where  he  has  since  lived  in 
quiet  retirement.  Francis  Marion  Pottenger  also 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Sater  until  he  was 
sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  entered  the  pre- 
paratory department  of  the  Otterbein  University, 
at  Westerville,  Ohio,  attending  during  1886-88. 
He  then  entered  the  collegiate  department  of  Ot- 
terbein, graduating  in  1892  with  the  degree  of 
Ph.  B.  In  1907  he  obtained  the  degree  of  A.M., 
and  in  1909  was  awarded  the  honorary  degree  of 


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LL.D.  Following  his  graduation  from  Otterbein 
he  matriculated  at  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio, 
where  he  attended  for  a  year,  following  this  with 
another  year  at  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Medicine 
and  Surgery,  where  he  received  his  degree  of 
M.D.,  graduating  with  the  highest  honors  of  his 
class  and  winning  the  first  gold  medal. 

On  April  5,  1894,  two  days  after  his  graduation. 
Dr.  Pottenger  was  married  to  Miss  Carrie  Burt- 
ner,  of  Germantown,  Ohio,  and  left  immediately 
for  study  abroad  in  the  hospitals  of  Europe, 
much  of  his  time  being  spent  in  Vienna.  Return- 
ing in  December,  1894,  he  opened  a  practice  at 
Norwood,  Ohio,  and  later  became  assistant  to 
Dr.  Charles  A.  L.  Reed,  a  noted  surgeon  of  Cin- 
cinnati, and  was  shortly  after  made  Assistant  to 
the  Chair  of  Surgery  in  the  Cincinnati  College  of 
Medicine  and  Surgery.  In  1895  Mrs.  Pottenger 
developed  tuberculosis  and  Dr.  Pottenger  gave 
up  his  practice  and  came  to  California,  locating  at 
Monrovia,  where  he  opened  a  practice.  His  wife's 
health,  however,  failed  to  improve,  and  he  again 
gave  up  his  practice  and  returned  to  her  home  in 
Germantown,  Ohio,  where  he  devoted  his  time 
to  her  care  until  her  death  in  1898.  It  was  at  this 
time  that  he  determined  to  make  the  study  and 
treatment  of  this  dread  disease  his  life  work,  and 
returned  to  Monrovia  to  resume  his  practice 
there.  In  1900  he  went  to  New  York,  where  he 
did  post-graduate  work  along  this  line,  returning 
in  1901  to  open  his  offices  in  Los  Angeles  as  the 
first  ethical  physician  on  the  western  coast  to 
limit  his  work  to  tuberculosis.  Two  years  later 
he  opened  his  sanatorium  at  Monrovia,  and  since 
that  time  has  given  untiring  personal  effort  to 
this  work.  He  has  been  abroad  several  times, 
visiting  the  most  famous  sanatoriums  of  Europe 
as  well  as  of  America,  studying  with  the  world's 
greatest  scientists  in  an  efifort  to  the  better  fit 
himself  for  the  work  he  has  outlined,  namely, 
the  waging  of  an  unfaltering  war  against  the 
white  plague.  He  has  written  three  books  dealing 
with  different  phases  of  tuberculosis,  and  has 
also  compiled  about  seventy-five  papers  and  nu- 
merous lectures  on  the  subject. 

It  was  through  Dr.  Pottenger's  efforts  that  the 
Southern  California  Anti-Tuberculosis  Society 
was  formed,  and  for  three  years  he  was  its  presi- 
dent. He  is  keenly  interested  in  all  scientific  sub- 
jects and  has  given  his  support  and  co-operation 
to  various  societies  whose  efforts  are  for  the  con- 
serving of  human  health  and  life.    Among  these 


may  be  mentioned  the  following:  The  Los  An- 
geles County  Medical  Association  (of  which  he 
has  been  president),  the  Los  Angeles  Clinical  and 
Pathological  Society,  the  Southern  California 
Medical  Society  (of  which  he  has  also  been  pres- 
ident), the  Medical  Society  of  California,  the 
American  Medical  Association,  the  American 
Academy  of  Medicine,  the  American  Therapeutic 
Society  (of  which  he  has  also  been  president), 
the  American  Climatological  Association,  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley  Medical  Association,  the  Los  An- 
geles, California,  National  and  International  As- 
sociations for  the  Study  and  Prevention  of  Tu- 
berculosis, and  the  American  Sanatorium  Asso- 
ciation. Other  scientific  organizations  of  note 
with  which  Dr.  Pottenger  is  associated  are  the 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Sci- 
ence, the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  and 
the  International  Geographical  Society.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  wars. 

The  second  marriage  of  Dr.  Pottenger  oc- 
curred in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  August  13,  1900, 
uniting  him  with  Miss  Adelaide  Gertrude  Bab- 
bitt. By  this  union  there  are  three  children,  two 
sons  and  a  daughter,  all  now  students  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Monrovia.  They  are:  Francis  Mar- 
ion, Jr.,  aged  fourteen  years ;  Robert  Thomas, 
aged  eleven,  and  Adelaide  Marie,  aged  seven. 
Dr.  Pottenger  is  a  member  of  several  clubs,  in- 
cluding the  University  Club,  California  Club  and 
the  Gamut  Club,  of  Los  Angeles.  In  August, 
1911,  he  was  honored  by  the  appointment  as  first 
lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  of  the 
United  States  Army. 


W.  P.  WHITSETT.  The  town  of  Van  Nuys, 
Cal.,  owes  its  growth  to  the  enterprise  of  W.  P. 
Whitsett,  who  purchased  a  one-half  interest  in 
January  and  opened  the  town  for  settlement  on 
February  22,  1911,  and  since  that  time  has  con- 
tinued to  be  a  large  factor  in  its  development. 
Mr.  Whitsett  maintains  his  offices  and  his  home 
in  Van  Nuys,  where,  when  he  first  purchased  his 
property,  the  land  was  merely  a  barley  field, 
eight  miles  from  the  street  car  line.  He  at  once 
organized  a  selling  campaign  with  a  large  force 
of  real  estate  agents,  and  personally  saw  to  get- 
ting the  right  kind  of  people  to  invest  and  build 
up  the  town.     One  million  tags  were  distributed 


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^■peroiled  coai  ii'iiiica  in  x'tiUis;  Ivaibs 
died  when  the  boy  was  only  nine 


known 


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temporary  ease  at  the  expense  of  deep-rooted 
beliefs.  To  his  descendants  he  left  the  heritage  of 
a  life  that  was  a  model  of  uprightness  and  simple 
devotion  to  duty. 

In  1848  S.  S.  Chapman  married  Rebecca  Jane 
Clarke,  eldest  daughter  of  David  and  Eliza  (Rus- 
sell) Clarke,  both  natives  of  Kentucky,  where  the 
daughter  also  was  born.  The  family  of  Mr. 
Chapman  by  this  marriage  numbered  ten  chil- 
dren, seven  of  whom  attained  years  of  maturity 
and  five  are  now  living,  viz. :  Charles  C,  whose 
name  introduces  this  narrative;  Christopher  C, 
of  Los  Angeles ;  Samuel  James,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  in  Los  Angeles ;  Dolla, 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Harris,  whose  husband  is  a  well- 
known  builder  and  successful  architect  of  Los 
Angeles  ;  and  Louella,  Mrs.  J.  Charles  Thamer,  of 
Placentia,  Cal.  The  eldest  son.  Col.  Frank  M., 
died  in  Covina,  this  state.  Emma  E.,  Mrs.  L.  W. 
B.  Johnson,  died  in  Illinois  in  1888,  leaving  a  son 
and  daughter.  The  wife  and  mother  passed  away 
at  the  family  home  in  Chicago  January  2,  1874, 
and  later  her  youngest  sister  became  the  wife  of 
S.  S.  Chapman,  their  union  resulting  in  the  birth 
of  three  children,  Ira,  Earl  and  Nina.  After  the 
death  of  her  husband  the  widow  remained  in  Chi- 
cago for  several  years,  but  subsequently  removed 
to  Los  Angeles,  where  she  and  her  children  still 
make  their  home. 

During  the  residence  of  the  family  at  Macomb, 
111.,  Charles  C.  Chapman  was  born,  July  2,  1853. 
and  in  that  city  hife  education  was  secured,  but 
he  owes  more  to  self-culture  than  to  text-books, 
more  to  determination  and  will-power  than  to 
youthful  opportunities.  His  first  employment 
was  that  of  messenger  and  he  recalls  carrying  the 
message  that  announced  the  assassination  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln.  Later  he  clerked  in  a  store  and  in 
1869  joined  his  father  at  Vermont,  111.,  where  he 
learned  the  trade  of  bricklayer.  On  the  19th  of 
December,  1871,  he  went  to  Chicago  and  imme- 
diately secured  employment,  first  working  as  a 
bricklayer  and  in  1873  superintending  the  erection 
of  several  buildings,  after  which  he  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business.  During  1876-77  he  en- 
gaged in  canvassing  in  the  interests  of  a  local  his- 
torical work  in  his  native  county  and  during  1878 
he  embarked  in  a  similar  enterprise  for  himself  at 
Galesburg,  111.,  whence  the  office  in  1880  was 
moved  to  Chicago.  The  business  was  first  con- 
ducted under  his  own  name  and  after  his  brother, 
Frank  M.,  became  a  partner  the  firm  name  was 


changed  to  Chapman  Bros.,  and  later  to  Chapman 
Publishing  Company. 

As  the  business  of  the  firm  increased  the  plant 
was  enlarged  until  it  had  embraced  extensive 
quarters  and  large  equipment.  In  addition  to  the 
management  of  a  printing  and  publishing  business 
the  firm  erected  numerous  buildings,  including 
business  structures,  apartments,  hotels  and  more 
than  twenty  substantial  residences.  During  the 
World's  Fair  they  conducted  the  Vendome  hotel 
for  the  accommodation  of  leading  capitalists  of 
the  country.  The  financial  panic  of  that  year 
caused  very  heavy  losses  to  the  firm. 

At  Austin,  Tex.,  October  23,  1884,  Mr.  Chap- 
man married  Miss  Lizzie  Pearson,  who  was  born 
near  Galesburg,  111.,  September  13,  1861,  being  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  C.  S.  and  Nancy  (Wallace) 
Pearson.  Two  children  blessed  the  union,  name- 
ly: Ethel  Marguerite,  born  June  10,  1886,  now 
the  wife  of  Dr.  William  Harold  Wickett;  and 
Charles  Stanley,  January  7,  1889.  During  Janu- 
ary of  1894  Mr.  Chapman  went  to  Texas,  hoping 
that  the  southern  climate  might  benefit  his  wife, 
who  was  ill  with  pulmonary  trouble.  Later  in  the 
same  year  he  came  to  California  with  the  same 
hope,  but  here,  as  elsewhere,  he  was  doomed  to 
disappointment.  While  the  family  were  occupying 
their  beautiful  home  on  the  corner  of  Adams  and 
Figueroa  streets,  Los  Angeles,  Mrs.  Chapman 
passed  away  September  19,  1894.  Noble  traits 
of  heart  and  mind  made  Mrs.  Chapman  pre- 
eminent in  family  and  church  circles,  while  her 
accomplishments  fitted  her  to  grace  the  most  aris- 
tocratic social  functions.  Her  charming  personal 
appearance,  combined  with  a  rarely  lovable  nature 
and  a  tactful  manner,  won  the  lasting  aflfection  of 
associates.  Earth  held  so  much  of  joy  in  an  ideal 
home  happiness  that  she  could  not  covet  the  boon 
death  proffered,  yet  she  accepted  it  with  the  forti- 
tude that  characterized  her  sweet  Christian  resig- 
nation to  intense  suffering  through  a  long  illness. 

The  present  wife  of  Mr.  Chapman  was  Miss 
Clara  Irvin,  daughter  of  S.  M.  and  Lucy  A.  Irvin, 
and  a  native  of  Iowa,  but  from  childhood  a  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles  until  her  marriage,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1898.  They  have  one  child.  Irvin  Clarke. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  have  traveled  extensively 
both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  Both  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church,  with  which  Mr. 
Chapman  united  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  in 
which  he  has  held  all  the  important  local  positions, 
including  deacon,  elder  and  Sunday-school  super- 


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intendent.  For  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Cook  County  Sunday-school  board,  a  member  of 
the  general  board  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Chicago,  also  an 
organizer  of  the  board  of  city  missions  of  the 
Christian  churches  of  Chicago.  His  identification 
with  these  various  activities  was  severed  upon 
his  removal  from  Chicago,  but  he  has  been  equally 
active  in  the  west.  He  has  been  for  more  than  a 
dozen  years  president  of  the  California  Christian 
Missionary  Society  and  has  taken  part  in  the 
dedication  of  forty  churches,  being  the  speaker 
and  making  the  appeal  for  money,  and  in  a  special, 
as  well  as  a  general,  way  assisted  many  churches. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Christian  Board  of  Pub- 
lication of  St.  Louis.  The  largest  of  his  philan- 
thropic enterprises  is  the  building  of  a  hospital 
at  Nantungchow,  China.  For  years  he  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  state  executive  committee 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  in  1914  was  president 
of  the  state  convention  and  in  April,  1915, 
was  elected  chairman  of  the  state  executive 
committee.  He  has  served  as  president  of  the 
State  Sunday  School  Association  and  in  1911  was 
elected  to  represent  Southern  California  on  the 
International  Executive  Committee  and  vice- 
chairman  of  the  committee.  In  1914  he  was  re- 
elected to  both  positions.  In  1903  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Pardee  a  trustee  of  the  State 
Normal  School  at  San  Diego,  was  reappointed  by 
him  and  later  by  Governor  Gillett  and  still  later 
by  Governor  Johnson,  resigning  after  a  service 
of  ten  years.  In  1907  he  was  elected  a  trustee  of 
Pomona  College,  serving  until  1915. 

Since  coming  to  California  Mr.  Chapman  has 
devoted  much  attention  to  building  up  the  Santa 
Ysabel  rancho  near  Fullerton,  which  under  his 
close  supervision  has  been  developed  into  one  of 
the  most  valuable  orange  properties  in  the  entire 
state.  The  Old  Mission  brand,  under  which 
name  the  fruit  is  packed,  has  a  reputation  second 
to  none  in  the  best  markets  of  the  country,  and 
prices  commanded  have  been  the  record  prices 
for  California  oranges  since  1897.  He  also  has 
other  valuable  orange  ranches  near  Fullerton. 

In  politics  Mr.  Chapman  is  a  Republican.  He 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the  state  central  com- 
mittee and  in  1912  made  an  unsuccessful  race  for 
nomination  for  state  senator,  and  in  1914  was 
favorably  mentioned  for  nomination  for  gover- 
nor of  California.  He  was  elected  one  of  the 
first  trustees  of  Fullerton,  served  as  chairman  of 
the  board  and  was  re-elected  for  a  second  term. 


He  is  a  director  of  the  Commercial  National  Bank 
of  Los  Angeles  and  of  the  Farmers  and  Mer- 
chants Bank  of  Fullerton,  of  which  institution 
he  served  as  president  for  some  years.  He  is 
president  of  two  mining  companies,  interested  in 
the  oil  business,  and  has  large  realty  holdings  in 
Los  Angeles  and  elsewhere. 

Mr.  Chapman  has  been  closely  identified  with 
the  irrigation  interests  that  lie  at  the  foundation 
of  success  in  fruit  culture.  He  served  as  director 
and  president  of  the  Anaheim  Union  Water  Com- 
pany for  several  years.  He  has  made  the  fruit 
industry  a  success,  has  encouraged  others  to 
greater  efforts  in  the  same  business  and  has 
proved  a  power  for  good  in  the  development  of 
horticulture  in  Southern  California.  He  has 
borne  his  share  in  public  affairs,  in  religious 
work  and  in  social  circles,  as  well  as  in  his 
chosen  occupation  of  grower  and  shipper  of  fruit. 
Activities  so  far-reaching,  aspirations  so  broad 
and  influences  so  philanthropic  have  given  his 
name  prominence,  while  he  has  become  endeared 
to  thousands  of  citizens  through  his  humanitarian 
views,  his  progressive  tendencies,  his  gentle  cour- 
tesy and  his  unceasing  interest  in  important  moral, 
educational,  religious  and  political  questions. 


GRENVILLE  C.  EMERY,  A.B.,  LITT.  D. 
Mr.  Casson  in  The  Romance  of  Steel  and  Iron, 
in  Munsey's,  says,  quoting  from  a  remark  of 
Carnegie :  "Thomas  and  Gilchrist,  two  young 
English  chemists,  were  the  inventors  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  phosphorous  ore  and  trans- 
formed it  into  steel — a  greater  miracle."  Davies 
and  Bunsen  and  Bessemer  and  Edison  and  hosts 
of  other  miracle  workers  at  once  spring  to  mem- 
ory, 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  ef- 
forts in  the  early  training  of  such  master  minds 
have  made  the  wonderful  march  in  progress  of 
this  twentieth  century  possible. 


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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  intelligent  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.  There- 
after, and  especially  after  his  father's  return,  it 
was  determined  that  he  become  a  teacher  in  this 
land  of  promise.  Nearly  half  a  century  was  to 
pass  before  its  fulfillment.  Meantime  the  loss  of 
parents  necessitated  self-support,  and  he  became 
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  single- 
handed,  depending  upon  teaching  as  his  only 
source  of  income  for  his  expenses  at  the  prepara- 
tory schools  of  Corinna  Union  Academy  and 
Maine  State  Seminary  and  in  Bates  College  itself. 
He  was  an  assistant  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  superin- 
tendent of  schools  of  the  same  city,  and  later  be- 
came 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  Boston  in  1872. 
After  a  nine  years'  service  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  Goettingen,  Germany.  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  collabora- 
tion with  William  F.  Bradbury,  head  master  of 
the  Cambridge  Latin  school,  he  edited  a  series  of 
algebras  which  are  still  used,  not  only  in  Boston 
schools,  but  in  many  other  important  educational 


centers  of  the  east,  as  also  in  the  Harvard  school 
of  Los  Angeles. 

The  history  of  the  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  possibilities  and  beau- 
ties of  the  state  for  the  pleasure  and  enchantment 
of  his  family  on  his  return  to  the  east  two  years 
later. 

The  corner  stone  was  laid  in  1900.  The  founder, 
cherishing  and  treasuring  up  this  boyhood  knowl- 
edge, 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  Angeles,  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  superiority. 

A   more   suitable   completion   of   this    historic 

sketch  the  writer  could  hardly  hope  to  prepare 

than    the    following    fitting    and    discriminating 

tribute  to  the  school  and  its  founder,  appearing 

in  the  Graphic  of  August  25,  1907 : 

"  '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  proscenium 
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  inspec- 
tion of  Harvard  school. 

"Most  of  us  know  some  of  the  Harvard  boys, 
and  we  must  have  been  impressed  by  their  manli- 
ness and  by  their  gentlemanly  bearing.  The  tone 
of  a  school  is  found  more  surely  in  the  boys 
themselves  than  in  the  buildings,  however  fine  the 
latter  may  be.  But  undoubtedly,  surroundings 
have  an  incalculable  influence  upon  the  upbuild- 
ing of  youthful  character,  and  Dr.  Emery's  in- 
spiration 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  Harvard 
school.  Doubtless  he  will  be  surprised  to  realize 
the  extent  to  which  this  institution  has  grown, 
quite  keeping  pace  with  the  phenomenal  growth 


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Tropico  and  built  up  with  fine  homes.  Retaining 
the  land  at  the  northeast  comer  of  Central  and 
Park  avenues,  Mr.  Webster  built  his  home  there- 
on, improving  the  property  with  lawns,  palms, 
flowers,  etc. 

The  interests  of  Mr.  Webster  in  California  are 
not  confined  to  the  locality  about  the  city  of 
Tropico,  for  in  1900  he  went  into  Imperial 
county  and  pioneered  there,  taking  up  a  one- 
quarter  section  of  land  under  the  desert  act, 
situated  west  of  what  is  now  the  city  of  Im- 
perial, selling  the  same  after  two  years,  as  he 
found  the  land  not  very  satisfactory  for  farm- 
ing purposes.  Later  he  homesteaded  another 
one-quarter  section,  six  miles  west  of  El  Centro, 
in  the  Imperial  Valley,  where  he  lived  for  five 
years,  proving  up  on  the  same.  He  developed 
this  property  extensively,  raising  alfalfa  there, 
and  establishing  a  fine  dairy  of  seventy  cows. 
This  property  also  Mr.  Webster  sold,  on  his  two 
land  investments  clearing  a  net  profit  of  $30,000. 
Recently  he  has  bought  twelve  acres  of  land  near 
Corona,  Cal.,  which  he  is  setting  to  oranges,  and 
has  kept  the  ownership  of  a  house  and  two  lots  in 
El  Centro.  Mr.  Webster  is  a  man  who  believes 
in  keeping  busy,  and  aside  from  his  pioneer  work 
in  both  California  and  Kansas,  and  his  duties  as 
mayor  and  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  in 
Tropico,  he  was  for  four  years  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Verdugo  Canyon  Water 
Company. 

Mr.  Webster  has  two  sons :  Fred  S.,  a  resident 
of  Burbank,  Cal.,  who  was  active  with  his  father 
in  the  development  of  the  Imperial  county  ranch, 
and  a  member  of  and  chairman  of  the  first  board 
of  trustees  of  Imperial  county,  as  well  as  the 
owner  of  a  ranch  in  that  county ;  and  Joseph  H., 
of  Tropico.  There  are  also  five  grandchildren 
and  six  great-grandchildren,  one  of  the  grand- 
sons of  Mr.  Webster  being  cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Holtville,  Cal. 


GIRLS'  COLLEGIATE  SCHOOL— Miss 
Alice  K.  Parsons,  Miss  Jeanne  W.  Dennen,  prin- 
cipals. The  Girls'  Collegiate  School,  universally 
recognized  as  a  leading  educational  institution  in 
Southern  California,  and  one  at  which  many  of 
the  daughters  of  the  best  known  families  have 
been  educated,  was  established  here  in  1892  by 
Miss  Alice  K.  Parsons  and  Miss  Jeanne  W.  Den- 


nen, who  are  still  principals  and  proprietors.  Both 
Miss  Parsons  and  Miss  Dennen  are  women  of 
rare  ability,  progressive,  and  sincere  of  purpose, 
and  the  school  has  rightly  been  called  "an  ideal 
school  amid  ideal  surroundings." 

Miss  Parsons  is  a  native  of  New  York,  born  in 
Brooklyn,  and  the  daughter  of  Samuel  M.  and 
Virginia  (Whitwell)  Parsons.  Her  father  was 
a  prominent  attorney  and  for  fifty  years  was 
located  in  Wall  street.  He  was  descended  from  a 
distinguished  New  England  family,  while  the 
mother  was  a  member  of  an  old  Virginian  family. 
Miss  Parsons  was  educated  in  New  York,  grad- 
uating from  Wells  College  with  the  degree  of 
B.  A.  Her  inclination  turned  to  teaching,  and 
she  accepted  a  position  in  Colonel  Stevens'  School 
at  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  where  she  remained  for 
two  years.  She  then  went  abroad  for  several 
years,  studying  in  Switzerland,  France  and  Ger- 
many. Later  she  returned  to  New  York,  and 
in  1885,  with  Miss  Jeanne  W.  Dennen,  estab- 
lished there  a  private  school  for  girls.  They  met 
with  instant  and  decided  success,  and  after  sev- 
eral years  disposed  of  their  interests  and  came 
to  Los  Angeles,  establishing  their  present  insti- 
tution in  the  fall  of  1892.  Their  first  location 
was  on  Tenth  street  between  Olive  street  and 
Grand  avenue,  moving  in  1895  to  Grand  avenue, 
near  Washington  street.  Here  they  remained  for 
five  years,  and  in  1900  purchased  their  present 
handsome  property  on  West  Adams  and  Hoover 
streets. 

The  school  now  consists  of  several  buildings, 
the  main  one  of  which,  the  "Casa  de  Rosas,"  is 
justly  famed  for  its  beauty.  A  new  building  for 
resident  pupils,  constructed  on  the  same  lines, 
with  patios  and  arcades,  adjoins  it,  and  a  beau- 
tiful gymnasium  is  in  accord  with  the  general 
plan  of  Spanish  Renaissance  architecture.  Two 
other  houses  adjoin  on  Hoover  street. 

Enrollment  averages  one  hundred  and  fifty 
young  ladies,  this  number  being  the  limit,  while 
there  is  always  an  appreciable  waiting  list.  Of 
these  some  thirty  or  forty  are  resident  students, 
while  the  remainder  are  day  pupils. 

The  school  has  a  reputation  for  high  scholar- 
ship, recognized  throughout  the  country,  its  cer- 
tificates being  accepted  by  colleges  and  universi- 
ties, east  and  west. 

The  courses  planned  are  generous  and  com- 
prehensive, beginning  with  the  sub-freshman 
class,  extending  to  one  or  two  years  beyond  re- 


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quirements  for  graduation.  This  post-graduate 
work,  besides  the  usual  advanced  Hterary  courses, 
now  embraces  practical  courses  in  business  meth- 
ods and  applied  arts,  meeting  the  increasing  need 
of  such  study  for  young  women.  Domestic  sci- 
ence and  domestic  arts  have  long  been  a  part 
of  the  curriculum.  Special  attention  is  also  given 
to  music,  expression  and  physical  culture. 

Miss  Dennen  and  Miss  Parsons  were  among  the 
organizers  of  the  Ebell  Club  and  Miss  Parsons 
was  its  first  vice-president,  serving  in  that  capac- 
ity for  five  consecutive  years. 

Miss  Jeanne  W.  Dennen  is  a  native  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  was  born  in  Boston,  the  daughter 
of  Rev.  Stephen  and  Clara  (Ludwig)  Dennen. 
Both  of  the  parents  were  descended  from  well- 
known  old  New  England  ancestry,  the  mother 
being  of  the  famous  Whitney  family.  The  daugh- 
ter received  her  early  education  in  Bradford  Acad- 
emy, and  later  attended  Mrs.  Cady's  school  in 
New  Haven,  where  she  continued  her  studies 
along  advanced  lines,  specializing  in  Latin.  Later 
she  taught  at  the  noted  Packer  Institute,  Brook- 
lyn, remaining  there  until  in  1885,  when,  together 
v.'ith  Miss  Parsons,  she  founded  the  New  York 
school.  Since  this  time  they  have  been  continu- 
ously associated  in  their  educational  work. 


BENJAMIN  E.  PAGE.  Descended  from  old 
New  England  stock,  his  ancestors  on  each  side 
of  the  family  having  been  residents  of  that  part 
of  the  country  for  generations,  Benjamin  Edwin 
Page  was  born  at  North  Haven,  Conn.,  October 
16,  1877,  the  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Maltby  and 
Cornelia  (Blakeslee)  Page.  His  grandfather  was 
a  graduate  of  Yale  Theological  School  and  a 
well-known  clergyman,  and  his  great-grandfather 
was  a  prominent  merchant  and  later  a  manufac- 
turer in  New  England.  The  father  of  Mr.  Page, 
a  physician  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  removed  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1873  on  account  of  his  health,  and  here 
Mr.  Page  has  spent  the  larger  part  of  his  life,  re- 
ceiving his  early  education  in  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  of  Pasadena,  Cal,  graduating  from 
the  latter  in  1895.  In  1899  he  graduated  from  the 
Leland  Stanford  University  with  the  degree  of 
B.  A.,  and  in  1902  from  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  In  the  year  of  his 
graduation  from  the  law  school,  Mr.  Page  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York,  and  in  the  fol- 


lowing year  in  California,  later  being  admitted  to 
practice  before  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
His  first  business  association  was  with  the  firm 
of  Bicknell,  Gibson  &  Trask  in  Los  Angeles,  in 
whose  office  he  began  the  practice  of  law,  and 
during  the  years  1904  and  1905  was  in  partnership 
with  Clarence  A.  Miller,  whose  death  early  in 
1906,  terminated  the  partnership,  Mr.  Page  form- 
ing a  partnership  at  the  close  of  that  year  with 
Joseph  R.  Patton,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  from 
San  Jose,  Cal.,  the  partnership  continuing  until 
the  death  of  Mr.  Patton  in  1910,  since  which  time- 
Mr.  Page  has  practiced  law  independently,  his 
specialties  being  banking,  corporation,  insurance 
and  mining  law.  He  has  also  acted  as  legal  ad- 
viser for  numerous  well-known  financial  insti- 
tutions in  the  West,  including  the  Occidental  Life 
Insurance  Company,  the  interests  of  the  North- 
western Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  several  banks,  he  also  being  counsel 
for  the  Civic  Center  Association,  the  Los  Angeles 
Realty  Board  and  numerous  real  estate  firms,  and 
by  his  successful  association  with  the  companies 
above  mentioned  Mr.  Page  has  won  for  himself 
a  high  standing  in  the  legal  profession  in  the 
West.  In  the  leading  branches  of  mining  law, 
he  is  also  regarded  as  an  authority,  his  mining 
practice  having  been  extensive  and  successfully 
carried  on. 

From  his  long  residence  in  California,  Mr. 
Page  takes  an  interest  in  the  progress  of  this 
state  which  is  second  to  none,  and  in  the  city  oi 
Pasadena,  where  he  makes  his  home,  he  is  well 
known  as  a  loyal  and  active  citizen  in  all  that 
tends  to  the  betterment  of  the  city,  especially 
along  educational  lines,  and  the  fact  that  he  ha; 
for  several  years  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  Pasadena,  and  on  four  successive 
occasions  its  chairman,  proves  the  influence 
and  high  esteem  which  he  enjoys  in  that  city  in 
educational  interests.  In  Los  Angeles,  likewise, 
he  has  made  his  presence  felt  in  practical  ways  for 
the  development  of  the  city,  he  having  been  in- 
strumental in  the  investing  of  funds  of  financial 
institutions  with  which  he  has  been  connected. 
In  several  companies  of  importance  in  Los  An- 
geles and  neighboring  cities  he  holds  important 
offices,  being  director  in  the  Hellman  Trust  and 
Commercial  Savings  Bank,  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Alhambra,  the  State  Bank  of  San  Pedro 
and  the  Occidental  Life  Insurance  Company.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Asso- 


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famous  "Merry  Maiden"  who  was  the  grand 
champion  at  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition, 
where  the  longest  and  most  exacting  dairy  test 
and  show  that  has  ever  been  held  in  America  took 
place.  The  dairy  of  the  B  &  F  Ranch  is  modern 
and  sanitary  in  every  detail,  and  is  conducted  in 
the  most  approved  scientific  manner.  The  milk  is 
a  high-class  product  and  in  every  phase  of  its 
handling  every  precaution  and  care  are  taken  to 
keep  it  scientifically  pure.  The  dairy  has  an  en- 
viable reputation  with  the  health  authorities  and 
the  users  of  the  product,  and  it  is  claimed  that 
they  furnish  the  best  and  cleanest  milk  that  is 
sent  into  Los  Angeles.  Fifteen  men,  all  white, 
are  employed  and  they  are  all  deeply  interested 
in  the  welfare  of  the  ranch,  taking  an  interest 
far  beyond  any  mere  question  of  wages.  The 
milk  sold  to  all  classes  of  customers  tests  five  per 
cent,  butter  fat.  It  is  delivered  in  Los  Angeles 
in  double-capped  bottles  within  five  hours 
after  being  drawn.  There  are  two  silos  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  tons  capacity  each 
on  the  ranch  that  are  filled  each  year  with 
green  corn  silage,  and  in  other  ways  modern  im- 
provements have  been  installed  and  others  are 
being  constantly  added.  These  men  think  that  to 
make  good  wholesome  milk  it  is  necessary  to  give 
the  animals  producing  it  clean  wholesome  feed, 
and  their  cows  get  no  "prepared"  feed  of  any 
sort,  the  owners  being  especially  averse  to  the 
use  of  beet  pulp,  either  "green"  or  dried.  In 
their  early  experience  they  tried  different  kinds 
of  "made"  feeds  and  became  fully  convinced 
that,  for  the  best  health  of  the  cows  and  for  the 
production  of  milk  of  real  quality,  nothing  but 
clean  alfalfa  hay  and  grains  in  as  nearly  the 
natural  state  as  possible  should  be  used ;  and  in 
spite  of  many  opinions  to  the  contrary  they  do 
not  think  "pasteurized"  milk  as  good  for  the 
health  of  users  as  clean  milk  untampered  with  and 
delivered  while  it  is  fresh.  The  owners  have  used 
their  own  methods  of  development,  often  going 
against  the  advice  of  experienced  men,  making  a 
careful  study  of  conditions  and  working  out  de- 
tails along  logical  lines  of  their  own.  Their  suc- 
cess has  been  almost  phenomenal,  and  today  they 
have  an  investment  worth  some  $125,000  as  the 
property  stands,  which  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 
additions  to  the  community  that  can  be  found. 

Mr.  Bresee  and  Mr.  Frazier  are  lifelong 
friends,  having  been  schoolboys  together.  They 
were  both  beyond  the  half-century  mark  when 


they  started  upon  this  last  enterprise  and  their 
success  is  the  fruit  of  maturity  and  good  judg- 
ment. In  addition  to  their  dairy  and  stock  farm, 
they  are  utilizing  every  phase  of  their  ranch,  and 
conduct  a  splendid  poultry  ranch  in  connection 
therewith.  They  have  upwards  of  three  thousand 
birds  and  are  meeting  with  the  same  success  in 
this  line  as  their  dairy  enjoys.  They  have  both 
fancy  fowls  and  utility  stock,  and  see  to  it  that 
none  but  pure-bred  birds  are  in  their  yards,  al- 
though they  have  some  fifteen  different  breeds. 
They  have  hatching  and  brooding  capacity  of 
three  thousand  per  month,  and  do  an  extensive 
business  in  hatching  eggs,  baby  chicks  and  breed- 
ing stock.  The  products  of  their  chicken  ranch 
are  delivered  in  Los  Angeles  and  Covina,  together 
with  their  dairy  products,  by  means  of  auto 
trucks.  They  supply  in  both  lines  two  of  the 
largest  hospitals  and  one  of  the  leading  hotels  in 
Los  Angeles,  besides  numerous  private  cus- 
tomers. 

E.  H.  Bresee,  who  is  the  partner  in  this  splen- 
did enterprise,  is  well  known  in  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  has  resided  for  many  years,  he  being 
the  head  of  the  well-known  firm  of  undertakers 
known  as  Bresee  Brothers.  Both  Mr.  Bresee  and 
Mr.  Frazier  are  progressive  and  broad-minded 
citizens,  and  in  their  undertaking  they  take  quite 
as  much  pride  in  the  achievement  because  they 
have  accomplished  the  so-called  impossible  and 
have  "made  the  desert  blossom  as  the  rose,"  as 
they  do  in  any  financial  success  attained.  They 
have  demonstrated  in  a  thoroughly  practical 
manner  just  what  may  be  done  under  given  con- 
ditions and  so  have  been  real  benefactors  of  man- 
kind. 


CLAUD  O.  PULLIAM.  Associated  with  all 
the  movements  to  improve  the  city  of  Glendale, 
and  prominent  as  one  of  the  first  men  to  sign 
the  petition  to  pave  Broadway  in  that  city  and 
to  install  ornamental  electric  lights  thereon,  Claud 
O.  Pulliam,  proprietor  of  the  Pulliam  Under- 
taking Company,  Nos.  919-921  West  Broadway, 
Glendale,  is  known  as  one  of  the  most  public- 
spirited  residents  of  the  place. 

Born  December  18,  1869,  at  Columbia,  Mo., 
he  was  for  twenty  years  engaged  in  the  under- 
taking business  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  for  two 
years  being  deputy  coroner  of  the  county,  and 
for   five  years   the  manager  of  the  business  of 


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Eugene  Carlat  &  Sons,  Undertakers,  which  he 
left  to  devote  the  following  five  years  with  the 
Carroll-Davidson  Undertaking  Company.  Mr. 
Pulliam  was  actively  engaged  with  the  Park  De- 
partment of  Kansas  City,  in  the  perfecting  of 
that  city's  famous  system  of  parks,  upon  which 
the  sum  of  $15,000,000  was  expended.  Later  he 
was  for  some  time  in  the  auditor's  office  of  the 
Nelson  Morris  Packing  Company,  after  which  he 
returned  to  the  employ  of  the  Carroll-Davidson 
Company,  with  whom  he  remained  until  his  re- 
moval to  California,  where  he  arrived  on  May  3, 
1906,  and  commenced  work  the  next  week  with  the 
well-known  undertaking  firm  of  Bresee  Brothers, 
Los  Angeles,  with  whom  he  remained  for  a  year. 
In  April,  1907,  removing  with  his  family  to  Glen- 
dale,  he  there  opened  an  undertaking  establish- 
ment at  Third  and  Everett  streets,  and  has  con- 
tinued in  that  business  in  Glendale  ever  since.  Pur- 
chasing lots  near  the  corner  of  Broadway  and 
Louise  streets,  Mr.  Pulliam  erected  thereon  his 
well  equipped  undertaking  establishment  where, 
since  January,  1908,  he  has  carried  on  his  business, 
this  company,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bank  of 
Glendale,  being  the  oldest  business  firm  in  the 
city.  The  work  is  done  under  his  personal  super- 
vision, all  details  being  up-to-date  in  every  re- 
spect, and  Mr.  Pulliam  was  the  first  man  in  this 
part  of  the  county  to  provide  his  business  with  a 
full  line  of  automobile  equipment.  His  influence 
has  been  felt  in  the  city  of  Glendale  during  the 
eight  years  of  his  residence  there,  he  having  been 
secretary  of  the  Water  Commission  to  investigate 
the  water  situation  of  the  town,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Glendale  Union 
High  School,  in  1912  having  been  elected  to  the 
presidency  of  the  same.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Glendale  Merchants'  Association  and  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  permanent  water  commit- 
tee. In  Masonic  circles,  also,  he  is  well  known, 
being  a  member  of  Unity  Lodge  No.  368,  F.  & 
A.  M.,  Unity  Chapter  No.  116,  R.  A.  M.,  Knights 
Templar  Commandery  No.  53,  Glendale,  and  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Consistory  of  the  Scottish  Rite 
and  Al  Malaikah  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  and 
with  his  wife  is  a  member  of  Glen  Eyrie  Chapter 
237,  O.  E.  S.,  Glendale.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
Glendale  Lodge  No.  1289,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and  of  the 
Pacific  Homestead  Brotherhood  of  American 
Yeomen,  which  latter  organization  he  joined 
many  years   ago  in  Kansas   City.     He   was   for 


several  years  secretary  of  the  Fraternal  Brother- 
hood, and  is  at  present  past  noble  grand  of  Glen- 
dale Lodge  No.  388,  I.  O.  O.  F. 

Mr.  Pulliam  was  married  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Johnson,  in  Kansas  City,  prior  to  coming  to  Cali- 
fornia. They  have  two  daughters.  Myrtle  and 
Emma,  and  they  reside  at  the  family  home  which 
Mr.  Pulliam  built  at  No.  148  Kenwood  street. 


EDWARD  LEODORE  MAYBERRY.  A 
true  Native  Son  of  the  Golden  West,  Edward 
Leodore  Mayberry  is  also  one  of  the  best  known 
architectural  engineers  in  the  Southland,  and  has 
been  in  charge  of  some  of  the  most  noteworthy 
structures  that  have  been  built  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia during  the  past  half  dozen  years  or  more, 
and  is  today  doing  his  full  share  in  the  upbuild- 
ing of  his  community. 

Mr.  Mayberry  was  born  in  Sacramento,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1871,  and  is  the  son  of  Edward  L. 
and  Emily  Jane  (Gray)  Mayberry,  who  are  well 
known  in  Los  Angeles  county,  where  they  have 
resided  for  many  years.  Young  Mayberry  re- 
moved to  Los  Angeles  county  with  his  parents 
when  he  was  but  six  years  of  age,  and  has  since 
that  time  made  this  city  his  home.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  grade  and  high  schools, 
and  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles  high  school 
in  1888.  Following  that  he  spent  one  year  in  the 
University  of  Southern  California,  and  one  year 
in  a  local  business  college.  In  1890  he  entered  the 
employ  of  Sehoder,  Johnston  &  Co.  (now  the 
Union  Hardware  &  Metal  Company),  resigning 
after  two  years  to  enter  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia, from  which  he  graduated  in  1896  with 
a  degree  of  B.  L.  After  his  graduation  he  re- 
entered the  service  of  his  former  employers,  re- 
maining until  1902,  when  he  went  east  to  enter 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  In 
that  institution  he  pursued  his  studies  diligently, 
with  engineering  as  the  desired  goal,  and  was 
graduated  in  1906  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Science. 

Following  his  graduation  Mr.  Mayberry  re- 
turned to  Los  Angeles  and  became  designing  en- 
gineer for  Carl  Leonardt  and  has  had  charge  of 
the  engineering  work  on  many  important  struc- 
tures, among  these  being  the  U.  S.  Grant  Hotel 
and  the  Union  building  at  San  Diego.     In  1907 


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Mr.  Ivins  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  in  Lake 
county,  January  7,  1864,  the  son  of  Jacob  C.  and 
Katherine   Ivins.     His   father  was   a   native   of 
New   Jersey,   born   at   Bordentown   October   22, 
1824,  and  was  educated  there.     He  received  ex- 
cellent educational  advantages,  and  after  graduat- 
ing from  college  he  came  to  California,  locating 
in   Los   Angeles,   where  he  engaged  in   the   real 
estate  business.     In  1875  he  owned  a  thousand 
acres  of  land  at  Petaluma,  Cal.,  where  he  had 
thousands  of  head  of  cattle  and  was  engaged  in 
the  dairy  business,  being  a  pioneer  cheesemaker 
of    California,    and    making    San    Francisco    his 
market.     SeUing  these  interests  in   1880,  he  re- 
turned to  Los  Angeles,   where   he  continued   to 
reside  until  his  death  in  1910.    In  1900  he  retired 
from  active  business  and  his  remaining  years  were 
passed  in  quiet  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of  his 
toil.     The   son,   James   C.   H.    Ivins,  passed   his 
boyhood  in  Derry,  N.  H.,  where  he  attended  pub- 
lic and  high  school,  graduating  from  the  latter 
when  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age.     He  then 
went  to  New  York  to  learn  the  hotel  business, 
engaging  with  the  Grand  Rapids  Hotel,  and  in 
1890  he  purchased  this  hotel,  which  he  conducted 
for  five  years.     He  then  disposed  of  these  in- 
terests   and    moved    to    Philadelphia,    where    he 
organized  the  American  Novelty  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  which  he  was  president.    The  hotel 
business  continued  to  lure  him,  however,  and  in 
1895  he  purchased  the  Cross  Keys  Hotel,  which 
he  conducted  until  1899,  still  retaining  his  inter- 
ests  in   the   American    Novelty    Manufacturing 
Company.     Mr.  Ivins  was  closely  identified  with 
the  best  interests  of  Philadelphia  during  the  years 
of  his  residence  there,  and   especially  active   in 
municipal   affairs.     He    is   a    RepubHcan    in   his 
political  preferences  and  rendered  valuable  serv- 
ice to  his  party  in  many  ways.    For  several  terms 
he  served  on  the  city  council  and  was  otherwise 
identified  with  the  affairs  of  his  party  and  of  the 
city  generally.     In  1899  he  sold  out  his  hotel  in- 
terests and  in  1902  retired  from  active  business, 
devoting  his   time   and  attention   to   his   private 
enterprises.      He    owned    extensive    property    in 
Los    Angeles,    as    also    did    his    father,    and    he 
eventually  came  to  this  city  and  opened  offices  in 
the  Lankershim  building  and  engaged  in  selling 
his  own  real  estate.     In   1908  he  gave  up  these 
offices  and  retired  from  the  real  estate  business, 
although  he  still  manages  his  own  private  affairs. 
The   marriage  of   Mr.    Ivins  and   Mrs,    M.    I. 


Lamson  took  place  in  Los  Angeles,  June  17, 
1909.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ivins  are  well  known 
in  exclusive  circles  of  the  social  set,  where  they 
have  many  warm  friends.  Mr.  Ivins  is  a  mem- 
ber of  a  number  of  exclusive  clubs,  including  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  the  San  Gabriel 
Country  Club.  He  is  also  associated  with  a  num- 
ber of  the  best  known  fraternal  orders  of  the  city, 
in  all  of  which  he  is  an  influential  figure.  In  local 
municipal  affairs  he  takes  a  keen  interest,  being 
still  a  stanch  Republican  as  he  has  always  been. 
He  is  progressive,  and  his  splendid  judgment  and 
foresight  are  a  valuable  asset  to  any  cause  with 
which  he  may  see  fit  to  ally  himself.  He  is  a 
firm  believer  in  the  future  of  Los  Angeles  and 
is  doing  his  full  share  for  the  growth  of  the  city 
along  permanent  lines. 


PAUL  E.  KRESSLY.  Inglewood  was  the 
first  city  in  Southern  California  to  inaugurate  the 
city  manager  form  of  government,  and  one  of 
the  youngest  and  first  men  to  hold  this  office  in 
this  part  of  the  state  is  Paul  E.  Kressly,  who  in 
1911,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  years,  became 
city  engineer  of  Inglewood  and  on  March 
2,  1914,  the  city  manager  of  the  same  city,  both 
of  which  offices  he  holds  at  the  present  time.  Mr. 
Kressly  is  now  the  head  of  the  city,  all  depart- 
ments being  under  his  control,  and  has  met  with 
great  success,  having  cut  expenses  and  thereby 
saved  much  money  to  the  city,  the  revenues, 
during  his  period  of  office,  having  been  increased 
considerably  by  the  enforcing  of  ordinances  and 
by  greater  vigilance  with  peddlers,  etc.  All  the 
arches  and  bridges  in  the  new  city  park,  "The 
Japanese  City  Park,"  one  of  the  show  places  of 
the  county,  were  designed  by  him. 

Allentown,  Lehigh  county.  Pa.,  was  Mr.  Kress- 
ly's  birth-place,  the  date  of  his  birth  being  De- 
cember 22,  1882.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
until  fourteen  years  of  age,  at  sixteen  being 
graduated  from  the  Keystone  State  Normal 
School  with  first  honors,  as  valedictorian  of  his 
class,  his  per  cent,  being  ninety-nine  and  two- 
ninths.  In  1902  he  was  graduated  as  civil  en- 
gineer from  Lehigh  University  at  South  Bethle- 
hem, Pa.  He  had  already  had  much  practice  in 
this  line  of  work,  for  three  summers  during  his 
college  course  had  been  spent  in  the  office  of  the 
well  known  firm  of  consulting  engineers,  Grossart 


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&  Spengler  of  Bethlehem.  After  graduation  he 
practiced  his  profession  in  the  ordnance  depart- 
ment of  the  Bethlehem  Steel  Company  two  and 
one-half  years,  and  was  with  the  Lorain  Steel 
Company  of  Johnstown,  Pa.,  for  a  short  time, 
subsequently  holding  the  position  of  assistant 
chief  engineer  in  the  ordnance  department  of  the 
Driggs-Seabury  Company  of  Sharon,  Pa.  For  a 
few  years  following,  he  practiced  alone  in  South 
Bethlehem,  during  which  time  he  was  special 
municipal  engineer  for  the  towns  of  Fountain 
Hill,  Freemansburg  and  Nazareth,  Pa.,  maintain- 
ing a  branch  office  at  the  last-named  place.  These 
interests  he  sold  out  to  come  to  California,  where 
he  arrived  in  the  autumn  of  1910. 

At  the  seventeenth  annual  convention  of  the 
League  of  California  Municipalities,  held  at  Hotel 
Del  Monte,  Del  Monte,  Cal.,  October  12  to  16, 
1914,  Mr.  Kressly  gave  a  long  and  interesting 
address  on  the  success  and  general  scope  of  his 
work  as  city  manager  of  Inglewood,  where  his 
efficient  service  ever  since  his  coming  to  Califor- 
nia is  shown  by  the  percentage  of  reduction  in 
the  expenditures  in  the  various  departments  for 
six  months  compared  with  the  same  period  during 
past  years,  which  is  as  follows :  Printing  and 
supplies,  saving  31%;  city  hall  maintenance, 
24%;  fire  department,  21%;  street  cleaning, 
TiTjc  ;  recorder's  department,  30%  ;  street  main- 
tenance and  repairs,  28%. 

Fraternally,  Mr.  Kressly  is  connected  with  the 
Masons  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias.  By  his  marriage  with  Miss  Newbold, 
also  of  Pennsylvania,  he  has  one  son,  Kenneth. 


COL.  J.  W.  EDDY.  After  many  years  of  use- 
fulness in  educational,  legal,  military  and  political 
lines,  Col.  J.  W.  Eddy,  who  has  been  a  member 
of  the  legislature  and  the  senate  of  the  state  of 
Illinois,  and  a  personal  friend  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, has  retired  from  active  business  life  and 
resides  at  his  home  in  Eagle  Rock,  one  of  the 
pretty  suburbs  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles. 

A  native  of  the  state  of  New  York,  Colonel 
Eddy  was  born  at  Java,  that  state,  on  May  30, 
1832,  and  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  the  Genesee  Wesleyan  Seminary 
and  Genesee  College  at  Lima,  N.  Y.  He  taught 
school  for  a  while  in  western  New  York  until 
going  to  Illinois  in   1853,  when  he  took  up  the 


study  of  the  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Chicago  in  1855.  From  early  years  Colonel 
Eddy  was  active  in  many  lines  of  practical  in- 
terest, for  besides  carrying  on  the  practice  of 
law  at  Batavia,  111.,  he  became  superintendent  of 
the  school  board  at  Batavia,  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  legislature  in  1866  and  to  the 
state  senate  in  1870  from  Kane  county.  111.,  and 
was  the  first  district  assessor  of  internal  revenue 
in  Illinois  in  his  district  appointed  by  President 
Grant.  Active  in  Lincoln's  campaign  for  presi- 
dent, and  a  personal  friend  of  Lincoln,  Colonel 
Eddy  was  in  Washington  at  the  time  war  was 
declared,  and  enlisted  in  Cassius  M.  Clay  and 
Gen.  James  H.  Lane's  battalion  which  was  formed 
for  the  protection  of  Washington  during  the  first 
month  of  the  rebellion,  receiving  a  certificate  of 
thanks  for  his  services  rendered,  signed  by  Abra- 
ham Lincoln,  president,  and  Simon  Cameron, 
secretary  of  war.  Coming  west,  Colonel  Eddy 
spent  three  years  in  railroad  construction  in  Ari- 
zona, where  he  built  a  branch  of  the  Santa  Fe 
road  south  from  the  town  of  Flagstaflf.  In  1895 
he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  set- 
tled and  surveyed  the  first  transmission  line  for 
water  power  from  Kern  river  to  Los  Angeles, 
which  was  afterwards  obtained  and  is  now  used 
by  the  Pacific  Electric  Railroad  Company  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  also  built  the  inclined  railway  in 
this  city  known  as  the  Angels'  Flight  in  1900, 
operating  the  same  for  ten  years,  when  he  sold  it 
to  its  present  owners.  A  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  he  was  also  on 
the  first  board  of  directors  of  the  California  Chil- 
dren's Home  Society,  which  he  has  served  as 
vice-president,  and  still  holds  membership  on  its 
executive  committee. 

The  first  marriage  of  Colonel  Eddy  united  him 
with  Isabella  A.  Worsley,  of  Batavia,  111.,  who 
accompanied  him  to  Los  Angeles  in  1895,  and 
died  here  soon  afterwards.  They  were  the 
parents  of  two  children,  namely,  Mrs.  Carrie 
Eddy  Sheffler,  of  Coldwater  Canyon.  Beverly 
Hills,  Cal.,  and  George  E.  Eddy,  a  civil  engineer 
by  profession,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-three 
A-ears,  after  finishing  the  engineering  work  of  the 
Aurora,  111.,  Electric  railroad  system. 

In  1900  Colonel  Eddy  was  united  in  marriage 
a  second  time  with  Mrs.  Jane  M.  Wis  well  (nee 
Fisher),  a  native  of  Vermont,  who  was  taken  by 
her  parents  when  a  child  to  western  New  York. 
There  she   was   reared   and  educated  at   Albion 


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unusual  success  until  1913.  when  she  resigned  to 
take  up  her  duties  as  assistant  superintendent. 
The  election  of  Mrs.  Dorsey  as  president  of  the 
southern  section  of  the  California  Teachers' 
Association  in  1914  was  a  natural  tribute  to  her 
ability  and  personal  charm,  paid  by  the  many 
hundreds  of  teachers  who,  either  as  students  at 
the  Los  Angeles  high  school,  or  as  teachers  under 
her  supervision,  have  been  aided  and  encouraged 
by  her  official  help  and  her  strong  personal  friend- 
ship. 

Mrs.  Dorsey  has  also  been  closely  interested 
with  many  of  the  best  progressive  interests  of  the 
city  for  many  years,  and  is  recognized  as  a  leader 
among  the  women  who  have  accomplished  so 
much  for  the  city  and  the  state.  She  is  a  Pro- 
gressive in  her  political  affiliations,  and  is  a  loyal 
believer  in  the  tenets  of  her  faith.  She  is  identi- 
fied with  leading  women's  organizations  of  the 
city,  especially  those  that  are  doing  a  great  pro- 
gressive and  educational  work,  including  the 
Woman's  College  Club,  the  Evening  City  Club, 
the  Collegiate  Alumnae,  Vassar  College  Club 
and  the  Federated  College  Clubs.  She  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church  and  is  especially  inter- 
ested in  the  work  of  the  young  people. 


WATT  L.  MORELAND.  The  general  man- 
ager of  the  Moreland  Motor  Truck  Company, 
Watt  L.  Moreland,  is  a  man  who  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  the  automobile  busi- 
ness. The  son  of  John  B.  and  Alethea  (Grice) 
Moreland,  he  was  born  February  11,  1879,  in 
Munsey,  Ind.,  and  received  his  early  education 
in  the  grammar  and  high  schools.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  commenced  to  learn  the  machinist's 
trade,  working  with  the  Republic  Iron  and  Steel 
Company  for  three  years,  beginning  at  fifty  cents 
per  day,  and  during  that  time  completing  a 
mechanical  engineering  course  with  the  Interna- 
tional Correspondence  Schools.  He  then  went  to 
Toledo,  Ohio,  and  engaged  with  the  Toledo  Ma- 
chine and  Tool  Company  as  diemaker,  remaining 
with  them  for  three  months,  after  which  he  was 
employed  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  by  the  Winton 
Motor  Carriage  Company  in  the  assembling  and 
testing  department,  later  being  transferred  to 
their  New  York  branch,  where  he  had  charge  of 
the  mechanical  department.  Resigning  his  posi- 
tion in  New  York,  Mr.  Moreland  went  next  to 


Kokomo,  Ind..  and  engaged  with  the  Haynes- 
Apperson  Auto  Company  as  assistant  in  design- 
ing and  building  racing  cars  which  took  part  in 
the  first  endurance  race  in  America.  In  1902  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  on  a  vacation,  and 
liked  California  so  well  that  he  decided  to  remain 
here.  He  therefore  organized  the  Magnolia  Auto 
Company  at  Riverside,  Cal.,  for  the  manufacture 
of  automobiles,  and  was  for  a  year  and  a  half 
the  general  manager  of  the  company,  at  the  end 
of  that  time  coming  to  Los  Angeles  on  account 
of  suits  being  brought  against  them  over  Selden 
patents.  Here  he  engaged  with  the  Auto  Vehicle 
Company  as  superintendent  of  construction.  In 
June,  1908,  he  organized  the  Durocar  Company, 
manufacturers  of  automobiles,  of  which  concern 
he  became  vice-president  and  general  manager. 
Later  he  sold  his  interest  there  to  take  the  posi- 
tion of  chief  engineer  of  the  Auto  Vehicle  Com- 
pany, and  subsequently  was  with  various  automo- 
bile companies  in  Los  Angeles  until  April,  1911, 
v/hen  he  started  the  Moreland  Motor  Truck  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  became  general  manager,  the 
other  officers  being  R.  H.  Raphael,  president ;  C. 
J.  Kubach,  vice-president,  and  J.  L.  Armer,  sec- 
retary and  treasurer.  This  company  manufac- 
tures a  general  line  of  motor  trucks,  their  busi- 
ness interests  extending  all  along  the  coast,  and 
into  South  America,  Australia  and  Canada. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Moreland  with  Margaret 
Elkins  took  place  in  Riverside,  Cal.,  in  May,  1902, 
and  he  is  the  father  of  three  children,  Margaret, 
Harriett  and  Watt.  In  his  political  interests  Mr. 
Moreland  is  a  Republican,  and  he  holds  member- 
ship in  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic Club,  the  Gamut  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Press  Club. 


JACK  L.  STONE.  One  of  the  most  promi- 
nent industries  of  modern  times,  and  the  one 
possibly  in  which  more  spectacular  fortunes  have 
been  made  than  in  any  other,  is  that  of  the 
manufacture  and  distribution  of  motor  driven 
vehicles.  As  is  always  the  case  where  the  oppor- 
tunities for  profit  are  large,  this  field  of  endeavor 
has  attracted  to  its  standard  men  of  more  than 
ordinary  ability,  and  today  the  ranks  of  automo- 
bile men,  in  the  various  departments  of  the  busi- 
ness, include  some  of  the  brightest  and  brainiest 
men  of  the  nation.  Prominent  among  the  man- 
agers of   sales   departments   in   this  part  of   the 


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state  is  J-  L.  Stone,  Southern  California  manager 
for  the  kelly-Springfield  Motor  Truck  Company, 
who  makes  his  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles.  One 
of  the  largest  deals  of  recent  date  was  the  sale  by 
Mr.  Stone  of  one  hundred  and  five  motor  busses 
to  the  Pacific  Motor  Coach  Company,  for  use  in 
city  and  interurban  service  in  Los  Angeles,  San 
Francisco  and  other  coast  cities.  This  sale 
amounted  in  value  to  something  over  half  a  mil- 
lion dollars,  the  busses  being  of  a  very  high 
grade,  far  superior  to  those  used  in  New  York 
and  London,  both  in  size  and  structure. 

Mr.  Stone  is  a  native  of  New  York  City,  and 
was  bom  September  4,  1870,  the  son  of  John  A. 
and  Susan  J.  (Stafford)  Stone.  His  boyhood 
was  passed  in  his  native  city,  where  he  attended 
the  public  and  high  schools,  graduating  from  the 
latter  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  He  then  se- 
cured employment  as  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  establishment  of  Park  &  Tilford,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  three  and  a  half  years. 
At  the  end  of  that  time  he  yielded  to  the  lure 
of  the  West  and  came  to  California,  locating  at 
Eureka,  where  he  took  charge  of  a  department 
store,  remaining  in  this  capacity  until  the  time 
of  the  Spanish-American  war.  In  July,  1898, 
he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Battalion  of  Engineers, 
ranking  as  corporal.  Following  his  discharge  he 
went  to  San  Francisco  with  the  Southern  Pacific 
railway  as  clerk  in  their  freight  department,  re- 
maining for  four  years.  He  then  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Crocker  National  Bank  as  col- 
lection teller,  filling  this  responsible  position  un- 
til 1911,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  Soon 
afterward  he  became  identified  with  the  First 
National  Bank  of  this  city  in  the  capacity  of  col- 
lection teller,  and  remained  with  this  institution 
until  January  of  1913,  when  he  resigned  to  accept 
his  present  position  as  Southern  California  man- 
ager for  the  Kelly-Springfield  Motor  Truck  Com- 
pany, manufacturers  of  motor  trucks,  exclusively. 
In  this  new  field  Mr.  Stone  has  been  pre-eminently 
successful,  and  under  his  able  direction  the  busi- 
ness interests  of  the  company  have  been  pushed 
forward,  the  scope  of  their  enterprise  in  this  sec- 
tion having  been  decidedly  extended. 

Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  to  make  his 
home  Mr.  Stone  has  become  one  of  the  most 
loyal  supporters  of  the  southland  and  also  has  be- 
come deeply  interested  in  the  possibihties  offered 
for  investment  in  real  estate,  and  accordingly  has 
made  purchases  of  realty  whenever  possible.   His 


principal  possession  in  this  field  is  a  ten  acre 
orange  grove  near  Porterville,  in  which  he  takes 
much  pride.  He  is  also  keenly  alive  to  the  pos- 
sibilities for  business  in  this  section  of  the  state, 
and  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  splendid  future  that 
awaits  the  city  of  his  adoption.  In  his  political 
affiliations  Mr.  Stone  is  a  Republican,  and  a 
strong  party  man.  He  has  never  been  interested 
in  politics  from  the  viewpoint  of  official  prefer- 
ment for  himself,  but  rather  from  the  broad  stand 
of  better  government  and  the  welfare  and  pros- 
perity of  the  state  and  nation  through  wise  admin- 
istration of  the  public  affairs.   He  is  a  Mason. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Stone  was  solemnized  in 
San  Francisco,  June  6,  1900,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Anna  F.  Ward,  of  that  city.  Mrs.  Stone 
has  borne  her  husband  five  children,  viz:  Lilian 
M.,  Harry  J.,  Webster  A.,  and  Herbert  E.  and 
Frances  A.,  twins,  all  of  whom  are  attending  the 
public  schools  of  this  city. 


ROY  PALMER  HILLMAN.  The  recorded 
bank  clearings  of  Los  Angeles  are  such  as  to  fill 
the  hearts  of  the  Angelenos  with  pride,  and  the 
hearts  of  the  citizens  of  rival  cities  with  envy. 
And  it  is  also  a  matter  of  pride  to  the  men  and 
women  of  this  city  that  the  men  who  are  engaged 
in  this  splendid  business  are  themselves  worthy 
of  the  confidence  and  respect  of  their  fellow 
townsmen.  Prominent  among  those  who  are 
associated  with  the  growth  of  the  banking  busi- 
ness in  Los  Angeles  is  Roy  Palmer  Hillman.  at 
present  secretary  and  cashier  of  the  German 
American  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  he  having 
been  associated  with  this  institution  for  more 
than  ten  years.  The  rise  of  Mr.  Hillman  in  the 
banking  world  is  interesting  and  at  the  same  time 
typical  of  the  business.  He  commenced  his 
career  as  a  messenger  boy  and  from  this  posi- 
tion climbed  steadily  upward  until  he  was  elected 
to  his  present  responsible  position  in  1913.  He 
is  well  known  throughout  the  city  and  county 
and  enjoys  the  esteem  of  the  patrons  of  the  bank 
and  the  admiration  and  affection  of  his  fellow 
workers. 

Mr.  Hillman  is  a  native  of  Mantorville,  Minn., 
having  been  born  there  January  21,  1879,  the  son 
of  Wilham  F.  and  Emma  (Palmer)  Hillman.  In 
1888  he  came  to  California  with  his  mother  and 
here  he  attended  the  public  schools,  graduating 


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another  property  of  twenty  acres  which  he 
developed  into  a  producing  orange  ranch  and  sold 
at  a  handsome  profit. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Martin  occurred  in  1883, 
at  Prince  Edward  Island,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Mary  Ann  McLean,  like  himself  a  native  of  that 
island.  They  have  one  daughter,  Marion  Ruth, 
now  the  wife  of  J.  C.  Bowen  of  South  Pasadena, 
and  the  mother  of  one  child,  a  son.  Mr.  Martin 
is  well  known  in  San  Dimas  and  vicinity,  and 
takes  an  active  part  in  local  affairs.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  San  Dimas  Orange  Association 
and  of  the  San  Dimas  Lemon  Association.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  United  Workmen,  and 
attends  the  Union  church  in  San  Dimas. 


RIVERA  STATE  BANK.  One  of  the  most 
prosperous  and  reliable  banking  institutions  of 
the  county  is  the  Rivera  State  Bank,  located  at 
Rivera,  and  organized  during  the  summer  of  1910. 
The  most  prominent  and  influential  men  of  the 
community  are  interested  in  the  welfare  of  this 
bank,  and  it  is  managed  on  the  strictest  and  most 
progressive  modern  lines.  The  growth  in  the 
volume  of  business  that  passes  through  its  doors 
is  very  great,  rising  from  $24,000  in  1910  to 
$144,000  in  1914.  It  has  paid  a  yearly  dividend 
of  8  per  cent,  since  1912,  and  there  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  this  will  soon  be  increased. 
The  bank  occupies  its  own  brick  building,  which 
was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $5000,  with  an  additional 
$2500  for  fixtures. 

It  was  on  May  10,  1910,  that  the  new  bank  was 
organized,  and  on  August  10  of  that  year  the 
doors  were  opened  for  business,  the  following 
men  being  the  organizers :  Frank  A.  Coffman, 
L.  W.  Houghton,  G.  W.  Goodell,  Osburn  Burke, 
E.  S.  Johnson,  George  E.  Triggs  and  H.  L.  Mont- 
gomery. The  capital  stock  was  $25,000,  with  a 
surplus  up  to  $2000,  and  undivided  profits  of 
$25,000.  The  present  officers  are:  Frank  A. 
Coffman,  president;  L.  W.  Houghton,  vice-presi- 
dent; G.  W.  Goodell,  secretary;  Frank  H.  Ties- 
koetter,  treasurer  and  cashier,  while  the  additional 
directors  include  T.  E.  Nevvlin,  E.  J.  Johnson, 
Osburn  Burke  and  George  F.  Triggs.  There  are 
some  four  hundred  depositors  and  forty  stock- 
holders. The  increase  in  deposits  has  been  steady, 
although  the  greatest  increase  was  in  1913  and 
1914.    This  has  been  (taking  October  6  of  each 


year)  as  follows:  1910,  $24,000;  1911,  $49,000; 
1912.  $85,000;  1913,  $88,000;  1914,  $144,000. 

The  cashier  of  this  thriving  institution  is  one 
of  the  very  popular  men  of  Rivera  who  has  won 
a  high  place  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow  citizens, 
and  it  is  a  known  fact  that  he  has  done  much  for 
the  prosperity  of  the  bank.  A  native  of  Nebraska, 
Mr.  Tieskoetter  was  born  in  Platte  county  Janu- 
ary 31,  1881,  and  was  reared  in  that  locality.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  common  and  high 
schools  of  Humphrey,  that  state,  and  later 
learned  telegraphy,  becoming  an  operator  on  the 
line  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railway  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years.  Soon  after  this  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Ottis  &  Murphy  Bank  of  Hum- 
phrey. Neb.,  starting  at  the  bottom  and  working 
his  way  steadily  upward.  He  remained  in  this 
connection  for  eleven  years,  and  during  the  last 
six  years  of  this  time  was  cashier.  In  1911  he 
came  to  California  and  soon  thereafter  became 
cashier  of  the  Rivera  State  Bank,  which  position 
he  has  since  filled,  with  much  credit  to  himself 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  directors  and 
patrons  of  the  bank. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Tieskoetter  was  solemn- 
ized in  Humphrey,  Neb.,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Elizabeth  A  Steffes,  of  that  place.  They  have 
become  the  parents  of  a  son,  Millard.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Tieskoetter  are  well  known  socially  in 
Rivera,  where  they  have  many  warm  friends. 


ERNEST  JAMESON  LICKLEY.  As  su- 
perintendent of  compulsory  education  and  even- 
ing schools  in  Los  Angeles,  Ernest  Jameson 
I.ickley  has  been  closely  identified  with  the  educa- 
tional interests  of  the  city  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  is  one  of  the  leading  educators  in  the  state 
today.  He  is  a  native  of  New  York  state,  born 
at  Carmel,  April  22,  1880,  the  son  of  Owen 
Glendower  and  Emma  (Smalley)  Lickley,  both 
of  his  parents  being  directly  descended  from 
Revolutionary  ancestry.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  Putnam  county,  N. 
Y.,  the  high  school  at  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  June,  1900,  and  later  he  entered 
the  Jamaica  State  Normal  School,  at  Jamaica, 
N.  Y.,  graduating  in  February,  1903.  Subse- 
quently he  matriculated  at  the  University  of 
Southern  California  in  the  College  of  Law, 
graduating   in   June,    1906,    with    the   degree   of 


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LL.B.,  and  taking  the  degree  of  LL.M.  in  June, 
1909.  Mr.  Lickley  taught  one  year  in  New  York 
City  before  coming  to  CaHfornia  in  1903,  and  on 
his  arrival  here  was  made  vice-principal  of  one 
of  the  grade  schools  of  the  city.  He  has  been 
very  successful  in  his  educational  work,  and  is 
well  known  throughout  the  city  and  county  as  a 
man  of  ability  and  accomplishments. 

Aside  from  his  connection  with  the  public 
schools  of  the  city  Mr.  Lickley  has  also  taken 
an  active  part  in  many  other  interests,  being 
especially  active  in  humanitarian  and  philan- 
thropic work.  He  is  the  president  of  the  Council 
of  Social  Agencies,  vice-president  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Humane  Society,  and  one  of  the  directors 
of  the  Florence  Crittenton  Home.  In  his  political 
associations  he  is  a  Prohibitionist  and  one  of  the 
most  active  workers  for  the  cause  of  temperance, 
bringing  to  bear  on  this  great  subject  the  power 
of  his  splendid  training  and  judgment.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  this 
,  city  and  is  one  of  the  elders  of  that  organization, 
here  again  giving  of  his  best  efforts  for  a  worthy 
cause. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Lickley  and  Miss  Maude 
Genevieve  Finch  took  place  in  New  York  July  7, 
1903.  Mrs.  Lickley  is  the  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
James  Byron  Finch,  D.  D.  Her  family  is  an 
old  and  honored  one  in  America,  her  forbears 
having  settled  in  Freehold,  Long  Island,  N.  Y., 
in  1638.  Since  then  they  have  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  political  and  social  life  of  the  state. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lickley  have  many  warm 
personal  friends  in  Los  Angeles  and  take  an 
active  part  in  the  social  and  religious  life  of  the 
city,  as  well  as  in  educational  affairs.  Mr.  Lickley 
is  a  member  of  several  social  and  fraternal  or- 
ganizations, including  the  Masons,  being  a  Knight 
Templar  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the 
Sierra  Madre  Club. 


OWEN  E.  THOMAS.  Born  and  brought  up 
on  a  California  ranch,  a  portion  of  the  old 
Dominguez  Ranch  in  Los  Angeles  county,  Owen 
E.  Thomas  may  truly  be  called  a  "native  son" 
of  this  state.  His  father  was  James  and  his 
mother  Adelaide  (Jenkins)  Thomas,  the  daughter 
of  Isaac  Jenkins,  one  of  the  forty-niners  who 
crossed  the  plains  to  California  at  the  time  of  the 
discovery  of  gold  which  brought  such  an  influx 


of  gold-seekers  from  many  parts  of  the  world 
in  those  early  days  when  travel,  even  in  one's  own 
country,  was  an  occasion  of  inconvenience  and 
discomfort.  From  the  eastern  states  the  gold- 
hunters  came  by  slow  ox-wagons  in  such  num- 
bers that  their  processions  stretched  for  long  dis- 
tances across  the  plains ;  others  made  the  jour- 
ney by  sailing-vessel  around  Cape  Horn;  and 
others  still  went  by  boat  to  the  Isthmus  of  Pan- 
ama, which  they  crossed  on  mule-back  to  continue 
their  journey  by  boat  up  the  coast  of  Mexico  and 
California. 

Born  August  17,  1883,  Owen  E.  Thomas  grew 
up  in  Compton  and  since  eight  years  of  age  he 
has  lived  on  the  same  ranch  of  three  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  near  Compton  which  he  now  him- 
self rents.  His  family  put  the  first  plow  into  the 
land,  which  was  then  barren  and  grown  up  with 
willow  trees,  and  it  lends  a  certain  sense  of  reality 
to  those  pioneer  days  in  California  when  we  see 
preserved  in  museums  today  the  rusted  spurs  and 
bits  then  in  use  and  the  iron  plow  points  used 
by  the  settlers  at  a  time  when  wooden  plows 
were  employed  upon  the  ranches. 

Starting  with  a  capital  of  only  $800,  Mr. 
Thomas  has  made  good,  and  now  employs  twelve 
men  to  manage  the  thirty-five  head  of  horses  and 
mules,  the  caterpillar  traction  engine  and  the  two 
gas  engines  and  silos  of  ninety-six  tons  capacity 
each  in  use  upon  his  ranch.  Where  once  lay  un- 
cultivated fields  half  covered  with  willows  he  has 
now  established  one  of  the  largest  and  best 
equipped  Holstein  dairies  in  the  county,  begin- 
ning in  1906  with  forty-four  head  of  the  best 
breed  of  Holstein  cows.  With  that  as  a  start 
he  has  sold  one  hundred  and  ten  head  and  now 
owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  head  of  stock  and  a 
full-blooded  bull  of  high  grade  stock.  There  is 
an  average  of  ninety  cows  milked  on  the  ranch, 
the  milk  all  being  sold  to  the  Los  Angeles  Cream- 
ery Company.  Mr.  Thomas  also  farms  seven 
hundred  acres  in  the  Redondo  section  on  which 
he  raises  barley,  oats  and  corn.  He  is  a  man  who 
does  things  on  a  large  scale,  and  has  at  one  time 
farmed  over  twelve  hundred  acres  of  land,  and 
made  a  record  in  beet  raising,  one  piece  of  land 
producing  thirty  tons  of  sugar  beets  to  the  acre, 
his  average  beet  production  being  as  high  as  fif- 
teen tons  to  the  acre  yearly.  Mr.  Thomas  has 
proved  himself  one  of  the  most  successful  farmers 
in  this  part  of  the  state  and  can  boast  a  fine  water 
system  and  pumping  plant  on  his  ranch. 


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hundred  and  eighty-five  acres,  being  worth  ap- 
proximately $1,000  per  acre.  Later  Mr.  Barnard, 
as  before  said,  extended  his  interests  to  the  rais- 
ing of  lima  beans  on  an  extensive  scale  which  has 
proved  a  most  prosperous  undertaking. 

In  political  interests  Mr.  Barnard  is  a  Republi- 
can, fraternally  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  his  religious  lean- 
ings are  with  the  Presbyterian  church,  though  he 
is  not  a  member  of  any  denomination.  His  mar- 
riage in  February,  1890,  united  him  with  Miss 
Hattie  Mandeville  of  Chico,  Cal,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  one  son,  Austin  Mandeville  Barnard. 


KARL  K.  KENNEDY.  The  genealogy  of 
Karl  K.  Kennedy,  vice-president  of  the  Fifty  As- 
sociates of  California,  is  traced  back  over  three 
hundred  years.  He  comes  of  Scotch  and  Irish 
ancestry,  and  an  early  member  of  the  family  is 
said  to  have  been  James  Kennedy,  Bishop  of  St. 
Andrews  during  the  reign  of  James  II  of  Eng- 
land, a  great-great-grand-uncle  of  Mr.  Kennedy 
having  been  Lord  North,  Prime  Minister  of  Eng- 
land during  George  Ill's  reign,  the  husband  of 
Lord  North's  sister  being  a  prominent  Scotchman 
of  that  day,  and  the  great-great-grandfather  of 
the  present  Mr.  Kennedy.  The  birth  of  Karl  K. 
Kennedy  occurred  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  January 
1,  1876,  his  parents  being  Josiah  Forest  and  Mary 
Catherine  (Reigart)  Kennedy.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  received  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  Des  Moines,  his  graduation  from  the  latter 
being  with  the  class  of  1895.  Three  years  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee  completed  his  education, 
and  in  1898  he  commenced  his  business  career  as 
assistant  secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical 
Examiners  of  which  his  father  was  secretary. 
After  a  year  and  a  half,  Mr.  Kennedy  resigned 
and  in  1900  went  to  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  where  for  a 
short  period  he  was  employed  by  the  Valley 
Bank  of  Phoenix.  His  first  visit  to  Los  Angeles 
was  in  1901,  after  which  he  spent  two  years  in  the 
insurance  business  in  Des  Moines,  his  home 
city,  and  traveled  extensively  through  the  West, 
making  his  headquarters  at  Portland,  Ore.  One 
of  the  most  important  business  enterprises  in  the 
state  of  Washington,  the  Occidental  Oyster  Com- 
pany, at  Bay  Center,  Wash.,  was  founded  by  Mr. 
Kennedy  in  1903,  and  he  still  holds  an  interest  in 


the  business,  though  other  duties  have  caused  him 
to  give  up  the  active  management. 

It  was  in  1906  that  Mr.  Kennedy  left  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  coast  and  formed  the  Occidental 
Life  Insurance  Company  at  Los  Angeles,  which, 
though  having  a  rather  discouraging  beginning  on 
account  of  the  fire  at  San  Francisco,  is  now  one 
of  California's  best  established  insurance  com- 
panies. Mr.  Kennedy  was  chosen  the  first  secre- 
tary, director  and  superintendent  of  agents  for 
this  concern,  and  Hon.  Edward  H.  Conger,  for- 
merly American  Minister  to  China,  was  its  first 
president.  In  less  than  a  year,  however,  Mr. 
Kennedy  resigned  his  interests  in  the  company  in 
order  to  enter  the  brokerage  business,  making  a 
specialty  therein  of  Mexican  lands,  and  visiting 
wild  regions  of  the  western  coast  of  Mexico  be- 
fore the  railroad  had  been  constructed  there,  ex- 
periencing some  thrilling  encounters  with  Yaqui 
Indians  and  native  robbers  in  the  mountains.  On 
his  return  to  the  United  States  in  1908  he  formed 
the  Walker-Heck  Oil  Company,  and  devoted  his 
attention  to  oil  operation  in  California  and  mining 
at  Goldfield,  Nev.,  for  a  period  of  about  three 
years,  in  1911  resigning  these  interests  to  aid  in 
the  formation  of  the  Pyramid  Investment  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  a  director,  the  company 
being  organized  for  the  erecting  and  selling  of 
homes  in  Los  Angeles.  Besides  these  business 
interests,  Mr.  Kennedy  in  1911  became  secretary 
and  director  of  the  Pierce-Kennedy  Company, 
which  later  sold  out  to  the  Fifty  Associates  of 
California.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Lancas- 
ter Land  and  Loan  Company,  and  a  member  of 
the  harbor  committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Kennedy  is  a  Mason  of  the 
thirty-second  degree  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Sierra  Madre  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 


JOHN  SCHILLING.  Born  in  Wurtemberg, 
Germany,  August  10,  1855,  John  Schilling,  now  a 
resident  of  Hynes,  Cal.,  received  his  education  in 
his  native  land,  attending  the  Agricultural  College 
at  Baden  two  terms.  His  father  was  a  wagon- 
maker,  and  the  son  learned  the  trade  of  painter, 
but  becoming  dissatisfied  with  the  work,  turned 
his  attention  to  farming.  For  a  short  time  he 
served  in  the  German  army,  but  because  of  a 
broken  leg  was  discharged.    At  the  age  of  twenty- 


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one  he  engaged  in  raising  horses,  cattle  and  sheep, 
an  occupation  to  which,  together  with  farming, 
his  later  life  in  California  has  been  devoted. 

In  1882  Mr.  Schilling  came  to  America  to  make 
his  way  in  the  new  country  alone,  a  poor  boy. 
He  found  employment  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  at 
first  receiving  only  $15  per  month,  but  upon  be- 
coming more  valuable  to  the  firm  his  wages  were 
raised  a  number  of  times.  Saving  his  money,  he 
sent  for  his  wife,  Theodora  (Russ)  Schilling,  of 
Baden,  Germany,  and  engaged  in  stock  raising 
near  Cincinnati.  Thence  he  went  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  continuing  in  the  raising  of  cattle  on  a 
farm  of  seventy-seven  acres,  which  was  stocked 
with  from  seventy-five  to  one  hundred  cows  for 
dairy  purposes,  from  two  hundred  to  three  hun- 
dred beef  cattle  and  from  one  hundred  and  fifty 
to  five  hundred  hogs.  He  also  ran  a  butcher  shop 
in  Memphis  and  for  five  years  was  engaged  in  the 
saw-mill  business  there.  Selling  a  part  of  his  land 
and  stock,  in  1906,  Mr.  Schilling  came  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  bought  seventeen  acres  of  land 
at  Hynes,  in  Los  Angeles  county,  at  which  place 
he  still  lives.  He  has  always  had  the  reputation, 
wherever  he  has  lived,  of  being  a  first-class  stock- 
man and  farmer,  for  he  has  always  believed  in 
having  fine  blooded  stock.  He  has  a  dairy  of 
from  twenty  to  forty  cows  of  the  Holstein  breed 
and  a  thoroughbred  Holstein  bull,  and  has  raised 
fine  beef  cattle  which  he  has  sold  at  a  good  price. 
Besides  his  interest  in  cattle  he  has  raised  fine 
Percheron  horses,  at  present  owning  six  mares 
for  some  of  which  he  has  refused  $900.  Mr. 
Schilling  is  also  farming  seventy  acres  of  rented 
land  to  sugar  beets,  in  which  he  has  been  suc- 
cessful, and  on  his  own  land  he  has  produced 
thirty-four  tons  to  the  acre. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schilling  are  as 
follows :  Joseph,  a  butcher  of  Hynes,  who  is 
married  and  has  two  sons ;  Mary,  of  Long  Beach ; 
Josephine,  the  wife  of  V.  Christenson,  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  the  mother  of  three  sons ;  and  John 
David,  who  is  a  machinist  by  trade. 


acreage  to  oranges.  Although  Mr.  Lindsay  has 
traveled  all  over  the  world,  he  has  not  found  any 
place  where  he  would  rather  establish  a  home  than 
in  Southern  California.  He  is  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, bom  in  Pittsburg  April  16,  1887,  and 
there  he  was  reared  and  educated.  After  attend- 
ing the  public  schools  he  later  entered  Mercers- 
burg  Academy,  near  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  honors.  He  then  joined 
the  Pennsylvania  Naval  School  and  became  at- 
tached to  the  United  States  Cruiser  Saratoga,  a 
government  training  ship,  and  for  two  years 
cruised  around  the  world,  visiting  many  of  the 
great  world  ports  and  seeing  many  interesting 
phases  of  life.  At  the  close  of  this  time  he  became 
associated  with  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  and 
for  three  years  served  as  assistant  relief  clerk  in 
the  Pittsburg  division. 

Since  coming  to  California  Mr.  Lindsay  has 
been  married  to  Miss  Elva  A.  King,  a  native  of 
California,  her  parents  having  crossed  the  plains 
in  an  early  day  with  ox  teams.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lindsay  are  progressive  and  public  spirited  and 
take  much  interest  in  the  general  welfare  of  their 
home  community. 


JOHN  A.  LINDSAY.  One  of  the  attractive 
country  homes  near  Rivera  is  that  owned  by 
John  A.  Lindsay,  who  came  to  California  from 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  in  1909,  and  located  on  a  tract  of 
some  eight  acres  near  Rivera,  which  he  at  once 
proceeded  to  improve  and  beautify,  planting  the 


ALEXANDER  MITCHELL.  The  new  land 
office  receiver  in  the  Los  Angeles  district,  the 
largest  district  in  the  country,  with  receipts  of 
more  than  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  per  year, 
is  Alexander  Mitchell,  a  popular  federal  appointee 
and  one  who  has  been  an  enthusiastic  and  efficient 
worker  for  the  Democratic  party. 

Scotland  was  the  birthplace  of  Mr.  Mitchell. 
The  son  of  George  and  Barbara  Jane  Mitchell,  he 
was  born  in  1859  in  Aberdeen,  where  he  was 
educated,  graduating  from  Kings  College.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen,  in  1877,  he  came  to  the  United 
States  with  an  uncle,  Alexander  Mitchell  of  Mil- 
waukee, Wis.  His  first  employment  in  Milwau- 
kee was  as  clerk  in  tne  Wisconsin  Marine  and 
Fire  Insurance  Bank,  where  he  remained  for 
three  years.  Another  three  or  four  years  were 
occupied  with  the  lands  of  the  Chicago,  Milwau- 
kee &  St.  Paul  Railway  Company  in  the  north- 
western part  of  Iowa,  for  which  company  he  be- 
came traveling  passenger  agent  in  1884,  devoting 
in  all  sixteen  years  to  this  firm,  during  the  last 
ten  of  which  he  held  the  position  of  commercial 
agent  in  charge  of  all  the  freight  and  passenger 


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in  the  public  schools,  and  later  learning  the  trade 
of  plasterer  and  cement  worker.  He  followed 
this  occupation  for  many  years  in  various  cities 
of  the  west,  including  Denver,  Salt  Lake  City  and 
Los  Angeles.  Since  taking  up  the  culture  of 
oranges  at  Covina  he  has  been  very  successful  and 
prosperous,  the  result  of  careful  study  of  the  sub- 
ject as  well  as  a  thorough  understanding  of  soil 
and  climatic  conditions.  His  home,  which  is  an 
especially  attractive  one  and  a  credit  to  the  city, 
is  marked  by  an  approach  of  beautiful  cement 
pillars  and  walks,  and  a  large  horseshoe  of  cement 
stands  at  the  gate  bearing  the  inscription  "Good 
Luck  Ranch."  In  addition  to  his  handsome 
orange  grove  Mr.  Fesler  is  also  one  of  the  own- 
ers of  the  Bonita  Avenue  Nursery,  of  Covina, 
which  is  one  of  the  best  and  most  reliable  nur- 
series in  the  valley,  only  the  best  grade  of  stock 
being  carried. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Fesler  was  solemnized  in 
Indiana,  and  united  him  with  Miss  Mintie  Gray, 
of  Indiana.  They  have  two  children,  both  daugh- 
ters. The  elder,  Pearl,  later  Mrs.  Mathias,  is  now 
deceased,  while  Alice  makes  her  home  with  her 
parents.  In  addition  to  his  general  interests  Mr. 
Fesler  is  much  interested  in  all  local  questions, 
especially  when  the  welfare  of  the  community  is 
in  any  way  involved.  He  is  interested  in  all  edu- 
cational matters,  and  while  he  resided  in  Salt  Lake 
City  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board, 
rendering  valuable  service  on  many  occasions.  He 
is  popular  with  his  business  associates,  and  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 


THE  HARVARD  SCHOOL.  Built  in  the 
mission  style  of  architecture  which  is  so  peculiarly 
appropriate  for  the  cities  of  Southern  California, 
and  favored  at  all  times  with  a  fine,  health-giving 
atmosphere  from  its  location  at  the  outskirts  of 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  only  twelve  miles 
from  the  sea,  the  Harvard  School  possesses  an 
ideal  location  for  a  school  for  boys. 

The  purpose  of  the  school  is  to  prepare  boys 
for  college,  for  technical  and  government  schools 
and  for  business  life.  Pupils  of  the  ages  of  from 
nine  to  twenty  years  are  admitted,  the  course, 


which  is  planned  to  extend  over  six  years,  be- 
ginning with  the  seventh  and  continuing  through 
the  twelfth  grades.  No  pupil  below  the  fourth 
grade  is  accepted,  and  those  below  the  seventh 
grade  are  prepared  as  quickly  as  possible  for  that 
grade.  The  work  of  the  higher  classes  is  done  in 
Harvard  Hall,  the  younger  pupils  thus  being 
separate  from  the  older  ones. 

The  founders  of  the  Harvard  School  are  Gren- 
ville  C.  Emery  and  Mrs.  Ella  R.  Emery,  who  in 
1900  opened  the  school  for  the  education  of  boys 
whose  parents  desire  for  them  the  best  that  is 
to  be  obtained  in  the  way  of  instruction  under 
men  teachers  chiefly,  in  an  institution  which  pro- 
vides wide  companionship  for  the  students  and 
extensive  grounds  for  amusement  and  recreation. 
The  buildings  are  situated  upon  handsome 
grounds  covering  ten  acres,  with  a  fine  view  of  the 
valley  and  the  Sierra  Madre  mountains  in  the 
distance.  There  are  four  tennis  courts  of  cement, 
also  basket  ball  and  handball  courts,  as  well  as 
excellent  tracks  and  two  finely  equipped  gymna- 
siums ;  and  besides  the  provisions  made  for  all 
kinds  of  athletic  sports,  there  are  physical  and 
chemical  laboratories  and  manual  training  shops. 
An  important  addition  being  made  to  the  hand- 
some group  of  school  buildings  is  the  chapel 
which  follows  out  the  mission  style  of  architec- 
ture represented  in  the  other  buildings,  the  in- 
terior finish  being  in  redwood  with  heavily 
beamed  ceiling.  A  natatorium  is  also  in  prepara- 
tion, to  be  built  near  the  gymnasium,  and  to  con- 
tain a  swimming  tank  30x75  feet  in  dimensions, 
this  building  also  to  follow  the  mission  style  used 
in  the  chapel  and  the  various  halls. 

The  school  is  a  distinctly  religious  institution, 
being  under  the  auspices  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
which  fact,  however,  does  not  oppose  the  tradi- 
tional convictions  of  the  pupils,  every  privilege 
of  whose  religion  being  readily  accorded  them. 
Founded  in  1900  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emery,  the 
school  was  incorporated  in  1911  as  The  Harvard 
School  upon  the  Emery  Foundation.  The  trus- 
tees of  the  institution  are  as  follows:  Rt.  Rev. 
Joseph  Horsfall  Johnson,  D.D.,  S.T.D.,  J.  M. 
Elliott,  Andrew  M.  Chaffey,  Wesley  Clark,  Dr. 
Walter  J.  Barlow,  James  Slauson,  J.  B.  Miller, 
Dr.  A.  L.  Macleish,  A.  W.  Morgan,  Hugh  C. 
Stewart,  Charles  H.  Toll,  Shirley  C.  Ward,  J.  O. 
Downing,  T.  B.  Brown,  Sayre  Macneil,  Rev.  C.  H. 
Hibbard,  D.D.,  Rev.  W.  F.  Hubbard,  and  Rev. 
Robert  B.  Gooden. 


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THOMAS  BIGGART.  A  resident  of  Cali- 
fornia for  almost  thirty  years,  and  of  Los  An- 
geles for  more  than  twenty  years,  Thomas  Big- 
gart,  now  residing  near  Gardena,  in  the  Moneta 
district,  is  a  pioneer  of  the  truest  type,  and  has 
been  a  prominent  figure  in  the  agricultural  devel- 
opment of  two  counties,  having  first  located  in 
Ventura  county.  He  followed  dry  farming  on  a 
large  scale  for  a  number  of  years,  making  a  de- 
cided success  of  his  undertakings,  and  often  hav- 
ing as  many  as  nine  hundred  acres  under  culti- 
vation. He  also  raised  fine  horses  and  mules, 
being  especially  well  known  for  many  years  for 
the  latter,  of  which  he  handled  an  especially  good 
strain.  Mr.  Biggart  is  very  prominent  in  his 
home  community  at  this  time,  and  for  many  years 
has  given  his  best  efforts  for  the  upbuilding  of  the 
town  and  community.  He  is  vice-president  and 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Gardena, 
and  director  of  the  Citizens  Savings  Bank  of 
Gardena,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Bank  of  Moneta,  and  is  a  director  of  the  same. 
He  stands  very  high  in  Masonic  circles,  being  a 
member  of  the  Blue  Lodge  at  Gardena,  and  of  the 
Scottish  Rite  and  Shrine  in  Los  Angeles.  He 
now  owns  a  handsome  ranch  of  sixty  acres  near 
Gardena,  where  he  makes  his  home,  besides  much 
other  valuable  property. 

Mr.  Biggart  is  a  native  of  the  North  of  Ire- 
land, born  January  1,  1851.  When  he  was  a 
young  man  he  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
New  York  state,  where  he  found  work  on  a 
farm.  Removing  to  Faulk  county,  S.  Dak.,  he 
there  tried  grain  farming  for  a  time,  with  small 
success.  In  1888  he  determined  to  come  to  Cali- 
fornia, locating  near  Springville,  Ventura 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  dry  farming,  raising 
grain  and  beans.  In  1892  he  came  to  Los  An- 
geles county,  locating  at  Gardena,  in  the  Moneta 
district,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  At 
first  he  rented  land  and  engaged  in  dry  farming, 
raising  grain  and  hay,  and  doing  general  farming 
on  an  extensive  scale.  Later  he  purchased  eighty 
acres  where  he  now  resides,  but  recently  he  has 
disposed  of  twenty  acres  of  this,  thus  leaving 
sixty  acres  in  the  home  place.  Here  he  was  en- 
gaged for  many  years  in  stock  raising,  but  is  at 
this  time  practically  retired  from  all  business  in- 
terests. He  owns  much  valuable  property,  in- 
cluding a  twenty  acre  tract  in  Orange  county  near 
Santa  Ana,  and  some  valuable  business  property 
in  Moneta. 


Mr.  Biggart  has  been  twice  married,  the  first 
time  to  Miss  Jennie  Walker,  of  New  York,  who 
died  in  1887,  leaving  one  daughter,  now  Mrs. 
Sarah  Baum,  of  Inglewood,  and  the  mother  of 
three  children.  The  second  marriage  occurred  in 
1893,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Alice  M.  Murdy,  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  who  has  borne  him  one 
daughter,  Eythel.  Mr.  Biggart  is  one  of  the  most 
progressive  citizens  of  the  Moneta  district  and  is 
wide  awake  to  all  that  is  for  the  well-being  of  his 
community  and  gives  his  unqualified  support  to 
all  measures  that  stand  for  the  upbuilding  and 
development  of  the  community  along  sane  and 
permanent  lines. 


JAMES  RICH.  One  of  the  former  mayors 
of  Tropico,  Cal.,  was  James  Rich,  a  native  of 
Morgan  county,  Tenn.,  where  his  birth  occurred 
August  24,  1853,  and  since  his  death  in  Tropico, 
on  January  16,  1915,  he  has  been  missed  by  all 
classes  in  the  little  city  which  he  has  done  so 
much  to  improve. 

The  education  of  Mr.  Rich  was  received  in 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  whither  his  family  had  re- 
moved when  he  was  but  six  years  of  age.  After 
graduating  from  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Knoxville  he  practiced  law  in  that  city 
for  twelve  years,  taking  an  active  part  in  all 
municipal  affairs,  also  teaching  school  for  the 
long  period  of  twenty-eight  years  in  his  home 
state  of  Tennessee,  serving  as  county  commis- 
sioner and  joining  the  Masonic  fraternity  in  that 
state.  His  marriage  occurred  in  Knoxville,  unit- 
ing him  with  Mary  J.  Wells,  a  companion  of  his 
schooldays,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  eight 
children,  namely:  Eliza,  who  became  the  wife  of 
W.  C.  Seal;  EHzabeth,  now  Mrs.  T.  C.  Haynes; 
John  M.,  who  married  Katherine  Myner,  a  native 
of  Dakota ;  Minnie  Mae,  now  Mrs.  John  Dixon ; 
Jessie,  who  became  the  wife  of  H.  Miller ;  Jamie, 
who  married  Charles  Little;  Samuel  H.  and 
Irene,  the  two  last-named  making  their  home  in 
Tropico,  Cal.,  with  their  mother. 

In  the  year  1906  Mr.  Rich  removed  with  his 
family  to  California,  locating  in  the  town  of 
Tropico,  one  of  the  pretty  foothill  suburbs  of 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  purchased  seven  lots  in  the 
center  of  the  town  and  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business,  later  establishing  a  feed  and  fuel  busi- 
ness, which  since  his  death  is  being  conducted 


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Los  Angeles  home,  April  21,  1909,  Mr.  Eichen- 
hofer  managed  the  Enderlin  ranch  near  the 
city,  giving  about  six  years  to  this  undertaking. 
Just  before  his  death  the  property  was  disposed 
of  at  a  satisfactory  profit  and  he  gave  up  farm- 
ing. 

The  family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eichenhofer 
numbers  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter, all  residents  of  Los  Angeles,  where  they 
are  popular  members  of  their  social  circle. 
Walter,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  law  student,  while 
Clarence  is  also  studying  law,  being  at  the  same 
time  an  employe  of  the  Harper  &  Reynolds 
wholesale  hardware  company.  The  daughter, 
Margaret  Rosa,  is  an  accomplished  musician  and 
is  pursuing  her  studies  on  the  piano  under 
the  best  masters  that  the  city  aiifords.  The 
family  circle  at  Manhattan  place  is  unbroken 
save  for  the  loss  of  the  father,  and  Mrs.  Eichen- 
hofer is  exceedingly  proud  of  her  talented  chil- 
dren, especially  of  the  daughter,  who  has  in- 
herited the  musical  ability  of  her  own  talented 
father. 


JOHN  McCLURE.  A  resident  of  Los  An- 
geles from  1875  until  his  death  on  April  9,  1915, 
marked  a  period  of  special  importance  in  the  life 
of  John  McClure  (who  was  born  in  County 
Antrim,  Ireland,  in  March,  1852)  by  the  fact 
of  his  being  the  pioneer  in  the  growing  of  wine 
grapes  without  irrigation  in  Los  Angeles  county. 

The  early  part  of  Mr.  McClure's  career  was 
passed  in  his  native  county,  where  he  enjoyed  the 
advantage  of  other  youths  of  his  age  and  position. 
He  reached  his  majority  in  Antrim  and  then  made 
up  his  mind  that  opportunity  for  advancement 
was  to  be  found  in  the  New  World  and  accord- 
ingly embarked  for  America.  His  first  stopping 
place  was  New  York  City,  from  there  going  to 
Paterson,  N.  J.,  and  while  a  resident  of  that  city 
became  a  close  friend  of  Major  Hinchclifife.  Two 
years  spent  in  the  east  convinced  him  that  the 
western  section  of  the  country  afforded  greater 
opportunities  for  a  willing  worker  and  in  1875 
we  find  him  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  at  once 
secured  employment  with  the  dry  goods  firm  of 
Dillon  &  Kenealy.  A  little  later  he  became  a 
partner  in  a  company  composed  of  his  employ- 
ers and  himself,  under  the  name  of  Dillon, 
Kenealy  &  McClure,  to  reclaim  one  hundred  and 


sixty  acres  of  government  land  that  had  been 
taken  up  by  them  in  Tuni  canyon,  near  Roscoe, 
and  upon  which  they  decided  to  plant  a  vineyard. 
Under  the  direct  management  of  Mr.  McClure 
this  arid  land  was  cleared  and  set  to  grapes,  the 
tract  being  given  the  name  of  Roscoe  Vineyard, 
and  was  the  first  vineyard  to  be  developed  without 
irrigation,  an  undertaking  due  entirely  to  the  care- 
ful study  and  practical  application  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Clure. This  venture  proved  successful  and 
brought  good  returns  to  the  projectors.  Some 
time  later  Mr.  McClure  bought  the  Ramona 
Winery  at  Shorb  station  and  conducted  it  for 
many  years.  In  1900  he  bought  some  foothill  land 
near  Burbank,  cleared  it  and  set  out  a  three  hun- 
dred acre  vineyard,  built  a  modern  winery  and 
maintained  the  business  successfully  for  several 
years. 

During  the  years  that  Mr.  McClure  was  build- 
ing up  a  substantial  fortune  he  gave  of  his  time 
and  means  to  all  projects  brought  to  his  notice 
that  had  for  their  object  the  development  of  the 
Southland  and  bringing  greater  prosperity  to  the 
citizens.  He  was  prominent  in  the  councils  of 
the  Democratic  party,  though  he  never  would  ac- 
cept office,  having  several  times  refused  to  be- 
come a  candidate  for  the  office  of  supervisor  ten- 
dered him  by  his  friends.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Pioneer  Society,  of  East  Gate 
Lodge  No.  290,  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  other  organizations  that  appealed 
to  him  as  necessary  to  further  the  fame  of  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  McClure  invested  his  savings  in  real  estate 
and  became  well  to  do,  and  just  before  his  death 
had  begun  the  erection  of  eight  bungalows  on  his 
North  Broadway  property  which  have  been  com- 
pleted by  his  widow  into  a  modern  "bungalow 
court." 

Mr.  McClure  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Nellie  Quayle,  a  native  of  Michigan,  on  July  8, 
1891,  and  they  have  the  following  children:  Mona 
E.,  John  O..  Edmund  H.,  Robert  G.  and  Marcus 
A.,  who  with  the  widow  are  left  to  mourn  his 
death.  His  burial  was  held  under  the  auspices 
of  East  Gate  Lodge  of  Masons  and  interment 
was  made  in  Evergreen  Cemetery.  Thus  ended 
a  career  of  forty  years  of  successful  endeavor  in 
the  city  of  his  adoption,  and  his  passing  was 
mourned  by  his  friends,  who  were  legion.  Mrs. 
McClure  is  active  in  civic  affairs  in  this  city, 
a  member  of  the  Wednesday  Morning  Club,  for 


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the  past  ten  years  a  member  of  the  Parent- 
Teachers  Association  and  for  two  years  president 
of  Gates  Street  Association,  a  branch  of  the 
former,  and  is  an  active  member  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church. 


CHESTER  W.  BROWN.  Associated  with 
the  oil  industry  of  the  coast  for  many  years, 
and  with  a  vast  amount  of  interesting  experience 
in  the  gold  fields  of  South  America,  Chester  W. 
Brown,  for  the  past  five  years  manager  of  the 
field  department  of  the  Union  Oil  Company,  with 
headquarters  in  Los  Angeles,  has  made  for  him- 
self a  place  among  the  men  who  have  made,  and 
are  still  making,  the  great  oil  industry  of  the  state 
one  of  its  greatest  financial  institutions  that  is 
indeed  enviable.  He  has  been  associated  with  the 
oil  interests  since  he  was  a  lad  of  sixteen  years, 
having  become  interested  in  this  line  shortly  after 
coming  to  California,  when  the  industry  was  in 
its  infancy.  He  has  watched  it  grow  from  a  few 
scattered  fields,  which  were  little  more  than  pros- 
pects, to  its  splendid  proportions  of  today,  and  is 
proud  of  the  fact  that  so  long  ago  he  foretold  the 
future  greatness  of  the  California  fields. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  native  of  Maine,  having  been 
born  in  Washburn,  Aroostook  county,  October 
29,  1868.  When  about  eighteen  he  came  to  Cali- 
fornia with  his  mother,  Mrs.  Ida  Brown,  a  brother 
Fred,  and  a  sister,  now  Mrs.  S.  C.  Graham,  of 
Los  Angeles.  The  family  located  at  Santa  Paula, 
and  it  was  there  that  Mr.  Brown  first  became 
interested  in  the  oil  industry.  From  the  first  he 
was  unusually  successful  in  his  undertakings  and 
exhibited  a  marked  aptitude  for  the  details  of  the 
work  involved,  progressing  rapidly  in  any  phase 
of  the  work  that  he  undertook.  It  was  about 
this  time  that  rumors  of  exceptionally  good  pros- 
pects of  oil  were  current  regarding  the  fields  of 
South  America,  and  for  the  purpose  of  ascertain- 
ing the  truth  regarding  these  rumors  Mr.  Brown 
and  an  uncle,  Wallace  L.  Hardison,  went  to  Peru 
in  1894.  They  did  not  find  sufficient  encourage- 
ment along  the  line  of  exploitation  to  justify  them 
in  taking  hold  of  anything  that  they  found,  and 
consequently  both  men  turned  their  attention  to 
the  better  developed  field  of  gold  mining.  They 
located  and  purchased  a  rich  property,  incor- 
porating under  the  name  of  the  Inca  Mining  Com- 
pany of  Peru,  with  headquarters  at  Bradford,  Pa. 


Chester  W.  Brown  was  made  manager  of  this 
property,  and  for  several  years  he  resided  in 
Arequipa,  Peru,  the  life  there  being  filled  with 
many  adventures  and  hazards,  with  an  air 
of  constant  excitement.  The  large  mining  in- 
terests which  he  represented  called  for  much 
diplomacy  in  their  relation  with  the  Peruvian 
government,  and  this  matter  was  one  that  rested 
almost  entirely  on  the  shoulders  of  the  young 
general  manager.  To  better  discharge  the  various 
duties  devolving  upon  him  he  learned  to  speak 
the  Spanish  language,  becoming  very  fluent  there- 
in, and  he  also  soon  acquired  a  knowledge  of  the 
political  and  industrial  conditions  of  the  country 
that  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  Americans  in 
that  part  of  the  world.  The  transportation  of 
gold  from  the  mine  above  Arequipa,  in  the  high- 
est ranges  of  the  Andes  mountains,  to  a  point 
of  shipment  was  always  a  dangerous  and  respon- 
sible task,  and  in  charge  of  this  work  for  several 
years  was  Mr.  Brown's  brother,  Fred  Brown,  now 
residing  in  Santa  Paula. 

It  was  during  one  of  his  infrequent  trips  home 
that  Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  Miss  Helen  H. 
Louis,  of  Los  Angeles,  who  returned  with  him 
to  his  South  American  mine  and  thereafter  shared 
his  perilous  life  until  his  final  return  to  the  land 
of  his  nativity.  This  occurred  some  five  or  six 
years  ago,  when  Mr.  Brown  resigned  his  position 
as  general  manager  of  the  Inca  Mining  Company, 
and  with  his  family  came  back  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  Immediately 
he  turned  his  attention  to  his  first  love,  the  oil 
industry,  and  was  soon  made  field  manager  of  the 
Union  Oil  Company. 

Although  the  years  spent  in  South  America 
were  full  of  interest  and  neither  Mr.  nor  Mrs. 
Brown  regret  them,  they  are  both  glad  to  be  again 
in  the  United  States,  especially  for  the  welfare  of 
their  children,  of  whom  there  are  four,  a  son  and 
three  daughters.  Of  these  the  two  eldest,  James 
and  Elizabeth,  were  born  in  Arequipa,  Peru,  while 
the  youngest,  Freda  and  Ruth,  are  natives  of  Los 
Angeles. 

In  the  field  of  his  chosen  work  Mr.  Brown  is 
more  than  ordinarily  efficient.  He  knows  the  oil 
business  in  every  detail,  and  added  to  this  is  a 
knowledge  of  men  and  conditions  which  is  un- 
usually thorough.  He  is  also  possessed  of  a 
marked  executive  ability  which  enables  him  to 
discharge  a  great  amount  of  work  with  a  com- 
paratively small  expenditure  of  energy. 


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Los  Nietos  valley,  Norwalk,  Whittier,  Santa 
Ana  and  San  Bernardino,  and  tendered  their 
services  to  the  president  and  governor,  but 
the  quota  being  filled  from  eastern  regiments, 
his  troops  were  not  called  to  the  front. 
Whether  in  v^'ar  or  in  peace.  General  Jones 
has  been  loyal  to  the  convictions  he  believed 
to  be  right  and  has  sturdily  espoused  what- 
ever cause  appealed  to  his  intelligence  and 
judgment.  In  California,  as  in  the  southeast, 
he  has  wielded  a  wide  influence  and  has 
proved  a  liberal  and  earnest  citizen,  looking 
toward  the  general  welfare  rather  than  per- 
sonal advancement,  and  being  in  every  respect 
worthy  of  his  distinguished  lineage. 


WILLIAM  WALES  MINES.  As  president 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  to  which  honor 
he  was  elected  in  May,  1914,  and  also  vice- 
president  of  the  National  Association  of  Real 
Estate  Exchanges,  to  which  position  he  was 
elected  in  July,  1914,  William  Wales  Mines  is  to- 
day one  of  the  most  prominent  figures  in  the  real 
estate  interests  in  the  nation.  He  has  represented 
Los  Angeles  at  several  conventions  of  prominence 
since  his  election,  and  has  been  brought  into  direct 
contact  with  the  leading  real  estate  men  and  in- 
vestors of  the  country,  and  also  has  been  the  host 
to  any  number  of  visiting  celebrities.  He  came 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1896,  and  in  1901  started  in  the 
real  estate  brokerage  business  under  the  firm  name 
of  Mines  &  Parish.  This  partnership  was  dis- 
solved in  1911,  and  since  that  time  the  firm  has 
been  known  as  W.  W.  Mines  &  Co.,  real  estate 
brokers.  This  firm  is  one  of  the  best  known  in 
the  state  and  does  a  vast  amount  of  business  of 
a  very  high  order,  and  Mr.  Mines  is  now  the 
owner  of  some  of  the  most  valuable  property  in 
the  city  and  vicinity. 

A  native  of  Canada,  Mr.  Mines  was  born  at 
Massawippi,  province  of  Quebec,  May  30.  1876, 
being  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  William  Wales  Mines, 
of  Montreal,  Quebec,  and  his  wife,  Amelia  Mines. 
Dr.  Mines  was  a  graduate  of  the  McGill  Uni- 
versity Medical  College,  class  of  1874.  The  son 
was  educated  at  St.  Francis  College,  Richmond, 
Canada,  and  afterwards  became  associated  with 
the  Montreal  Gas  Company,  and  with  W.  T. 
Benton  &  Co.,  of  Montreal.  Since  coming  to  Cali- 
fornia he  has  assumed  a  prominent  place  in  the 


financial  life  of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county,  and 
is  today  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  influential  men  of  the  state.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  his  political  associations,  and  stands  high 
in  the  confidence  of  his  party,  being  especially 
active  in  all  local  municipal  issues,  and  standing 
at  all  times  firmly  for  progress  and  general  im- 
provement along  permanent  lines.  He  has  given 
much  aid  to  such  movements  as  the  good  roads 
movement,  and  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
local  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  other  civic  and 
municipal  organizations. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Mines  and  Miss  Pearl 
Vollmer,  daughter  of  H.  F.  Vollmer,  was  solem- 
nized in  Los  Angeles,  September  29,  1908,  and 
they  have  one  child,  a  daughter,  Patricia,  born 
April  9,  1911.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mines  are  well 
known  socially,  and  are  members  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  Mr.  Mines  is  also  a  member  of  several 
well  known  social  clubs,  among  which  may  be 
mentioned  the  California  Club,  Midwick  Country 
Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  and  the  Bohemian  Club,  of  San 
Francisco.  He  is  also  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason. 


ERASTUS  JAMES  STANTON.  For  twenty 
years  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  and  a  pioneer  in 
many  phases  of  the  lumber  business  of  California, 
Erastus  James  Stanton  was  a  man  of  great  ability 
and  sterling  worth,  and  his  death  in  1913  deprived 
the  city  of  his  adoption  of  one  of  her  foremost 
citizens.  His  achievements  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness were  almost  phenomenal,  his  many  years  of 
experience  making  him  especially  proficient  in 
every  detail  of  that  industry,  while  his  splendid 
foresight  and  business  acumen  enabled  him  to 
swing  large  deals  with  ease  and  safety.  As  presi- 
dent of  various  companies  interested  in  lumber- 
ing industries  Mr.  Stanton  is  well  known  through- 
out the  coast,  as  is  also  his  son,  Leroy  H.  Stanton, 
who  has  succeeded  his  distinguished  father  as 
head  of  the  firm  of  E.  J.  Stanton  &  Son,  dealers 
in  wholesale  and  retail  lumber. 

Mr.  Stanton  was  a  native  of  New  York  state, 
born  at  Angelica,  in  1856.  His  father,  Erastus  H. 
Stanton,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1816,  and  was 
the  son  of  a  pioneer  of  that  state,  who  served  in 
the  War  of  1812.  Mr.  Stanton's  father  removed 
to  Rockton,  111.,  when  a  young  man  and  there 


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became  heavily  interested  in  land.  Later  he  also 
became  a  banker  and  merchant  in  the  Illinois- 
Wisconsin  country,  and  in  1868  moved  to  Ionia, 
Mich.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness and  also  had  large  interests  in  the  lumbering 
business  at  Sheridan  and  Stanton,  Mich.,  this 
latter  town  being  named  for  him.  He  also  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  political  affairs  of  the 
state,  and  was  several  times  elected  a  senator  to 
the  state  legislature  from  Ionia  and  Montcalm 
counties.  Mr.  Stanton's  mother  was  born  in 
Greene  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1820.  She  was  a 
member  of  a  very  distinguished  family,  one  of 
her  brothers  being  Lyman  Sanford,  a  justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York,  and  another, 
Truman  S.  Sanford,  was  attorney  general. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Mr.  Stanton  were  passed 
at  Ionia,  Mich.,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools  until  he  was  sixteen,  and  then  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  lumber  business, 
being  in  a  position  of  responsibility  and  trust 
when  the  business  was  closed  in  1880.  In  1884 
he  went  to  Saginaw,  Mich.,  then  the  largest  lum- 
ber center  in  the  world,  where  he  took  charge  of 
the  sales  department  for  the  Saginaw  Lumber  and 
Salt  Company,  then  one  of  Michigan's  largest  con- 
cerns. Up  to  that  time  most  of  the  lumber  was 
transported  by  water,  being  handled  principally  at 
the  docks.  This  year  Mr.  Stanton  sorted  the 
lumber  for  commercial  uses  and  shipped  it  by 
rail.  Failing  health  compelled  him  to  seek  change 
of  climate  in  1893,  and  he  went  to  Williams,  Ariz., 
where  he  assisted  with  the  development  of  the 
properties  of  the  Saginaw  Lumber  Company  at 
that  point.  There  was  but  one  sawmill  in  Ari- 
zona at  that  time,  and  Mr.  Stanton  shipped  the 
first  lumber  to  California  and  the  coast,  having 
secured  competitive  rates  from  the  Santa  Fe 
Railroad.  He  organized  the  sales  department  of 
this  company  and  developed  the  first  box  busi- 
ness in  Arizona,  shipping  into  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, and  establishing  an  extensive  trade  with 
this  state  and  Mexico.  This  is  now  one  of  the 
chief  industries  of  Flagstaff  and  Williams. 

It  was  in  1894  that  Mr.  Stanton  finally  came 
to  California,  locating  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he 
made  his  home  until  his  death,  January  24,  1913. 
Upon  coming  here  he  engaged  in  the  box  and  lum- 
ber business  and  began  the  use  of  California 
products  for  the  making  of  fruit  boxes,  using 
the  native  woods,  sugar  and  white  pine.  He  was 
one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the  organization  of 
the  California   Pine   Box  Company  in    1897,  an 


association  of  mills  formed  for  the  purpose  of 
promoting  the  box  business  for  the  absorption  of 
the  inferior  grade  lumber  and  the  manufacture 
of  fruit  boxes  on  a  uniform  basis.  This  industry 
has  now  grown  to  enormous  proportions  and  is 
one  of  the  largest  in  the  state,  utilizing  millions  of 
feet  of  lumber  yearly  and  giving  employment  to 
thousands  of  men. 

The  California  Sugar  and  White  Pine  Agency 
was  formed  in  1900  for  the  grading  of  lumber  for 
the  eastern  and  foreign  trade.  Most  of  the  large 
mills  were  in  the  association,  and  through  their 
combined  efforts  many  millions  of  feet  of  Cali- 
fornia lumber  were  exported  and  sold  to  the 
eastern  states.  Mr.  Stanton  was  one  of  the  or- 
ganizers of  this  company  and  the  agent  for  the 
southern  territory.  In  1896  yards  were  started 
in  Los  Angeles,  which  was  then  a  city  of  some 
sixty-five  thousand  inhabitants.  This  pioneer 
yard  is  the  largest  and  most  complete  in  the  west 
and  its  exports  and  imports  are  very  heavy. 

Mr.  Stanton  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
ability,  and  although  the  business  established  by 
him  grew  very  rapidly,  he  continued  to  handle  it 
exclusively  until  in  1912,  when  he  took  into 
partnership  his  son,  Leroy  H.  Stanton,  the  firm 
becoming  known  as  E.  J.  Stanton  &  Son.  They 
handled  a  wide  variety  of  products,  but  made  a 
specialty  of  maple,  birch,  beech,  mahogany  and 
other  woods  of  a  superior  grade,  their  stock  being 
the  best  on  the  coast.  They  also  are  heavy  im- 
porters of  foreign  cabinet  woods,  including  Afri- 
can walnut,  mahogany  and  rosewood,  these  com- 
ing largely  from  the  Philippine  Islands,  Peru, 
Santo  Domingo,  Mexico  and  Africa.  Mr.  Stan- 
ton was  accredited  as  the  best  informed  man  in 
the  details  of  the  lumber  business,  both  domestic 
and  foreign,  in  the  country,  and  as  a  natural  result 
the  service  he  was  able  to  render  was  of  a  high 
grade.  Among  the  well  known  structures  with 
the  building  of  which  this  company  was  con- 
cerned may  be  mentioned  the  Potter  Hotel,  at 
Santa  Barbara,  Cal. ;  Lankershim  Hotel,  Los 
Angeles  ;  Hotel  Wentworth,  Pasadena  ;  Spreckels 
Theater,  San  Diego,  and  many  others  equally  well 
known.  Mr.  Stanton  was  associated  with 
various  companies  at  the  time  of  his  death,  among 
which  were  the  Klamath  River  Lumber  Company, 
of  which  he  was  a  director;  and  the  California 
Sugar  and  White  Pine  Agency,  of  which  he  was 
agent  for  the  southwestern  territory. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Stanton  took  place  in 
Albion,  Mich.,  in  October,  1880,  uniting  him  with 


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99,  B.  P.  O.  E. 

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father  in  the  management  of  their  large  intere- 
is  a  native  of  Michigan,  hnrr;  in  St.  Lotii^,  Dcr -^ 
ber  7,  1889,    Her 
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the  man,  while  many  clever  and  interesting 
■  ary   worke   show   his   facility   with   the  pen. 


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recently  added  a  flooring 

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manufacture  of  a  high  grade  ot  oak  flooring. 
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the  "Duplex"  and  "Triplex"  apartments,  intro- 
duced in  these  buildings.  The  subway  court  for 
delivery  wagons  and  many  other  features  adding 
to  the  comfort  and  elegance  of  the  apartment 
house  home,  were  originated  by  Mr.  Hubert  and 
first  seen  in  this  magnificent  group  of  buildings. 
In  The  Sevillia,  on  Fifty-eighth  street,  he  intro- 
duced many  new  features,  including  the  first  use 
of  stone  floors  throughout  an  apartment  house. 
Mr.  Hubert  also  originated,  in  1880,  the  co-opera- 
tive apartment  house,  in  which  the  apartments  are 
owned  individually  by  the  stockholders.  They 
were  known  as  "The  Hubert  Home  Clubs,"  and 
the  first  one — erected  by  a  club  of  artists — was 
"The  Rembrandt"  on  West  Fifty-seventh  street. 
This  proved  so  successful  that  he  built  many 
others ;  among  the  most  imposing  are  "The  Chel- 
sea," on  West  Twenty-third  street;  "The  Haw- 
thorne," and  "The  Hubert,"  both  on  Fifty-ninth 
street  facing  the  park;  No.  80  Madison  avenue 
and  No.  121  Madison  avenue.  The  old  Lyceum 
Theatre  on  Fourth  avenue  and  Twenty-fourth 
street  was  originally  built  by  Mr.  Hubert  as  a  co- 
operative club  theatre,  intended  for  the  use  of  the 
members  in  the  evening  for  amateur  theatricals, 
and  in  the  daytime  as  a  home  for  a  dramatic 
school.  This  was  the  beginning  of  the  Lyceum 
School,  which  under  the  able  management  of 
Franklin  H.  Sargent,  developed  into  the  present 
Academy  of  Dramatic  Arts. 

Mr.  Hubert  was  the  inventor  of  the  method  of 
storing  furniture  and  goods  in  fireproof  vans 
which  are  transferred  directly  to  the  comjDart- 
ments  provided  for  them  in  the  storage  houses 
and  remain  there  undisturbed  until  sent  for,  thus 
doing  away  with  the  damage  from  several 
handlings  and  risk  of  theft.  Although  such  an 
ardent  advocate  for  shortening  the  laboring  hours 
of  the  working  people,  Mr.  Hubert  himself 
worked  incessantly  early  and  late,  and  at  eighty- 
one  years  of  age  was  superintending  the  making 
of  models  for  inventions  in  Los  Angeles,  from  half 
past  eight  in  the  morning  until  five  in  the  after- 
noon, often  doing  with  his  own  hands  what  his 
workmen  failed  to  execute.  His  chief  purpose  in 
this  strenuous  work  of  his  later  years,  since  retir- 
ing from  his  architectural  profession  in  1893,  was 
to  invent,  and  supply  at  a  trifling  expense,  contri- 
vances to  facilitate  domestic  work,  that  he  might 
in  this  way  ease  the  burden  of  the  overtaxed 
women  who  do  their  own  work — the  young  clerk's 
wife  and  the  poor  laundry  woman  alike.    It  seems 


singular  that  a  man  who  himself  overworked  all 
his  life  from  choice  should  feel  so  much  pity  for 
those  other  workers  who  had  no  time  for  play 
or  rest.  Several  patents  were  pending  at  the 
time  of  Mr.  Hubert's  death.  Few  men  retain 
such  vigor,  mental  and  physical,  into  their  eighties 
as  did  Mr.  Hubert.  It  might  be  well  to  note  here 
that  he  was  a  great  advocate  for  simplicity  and 
moderation  in  food,  and  would  personally  have 
preferred  a  purely  vegetarian  diet.  He  never  used 
tobacco  in  any  form  and  seldom  touched  wine. 
Holding  over  sixty-five  patents  for  useful  inven- 
tions, having  won  a  place  as  a  writer,  an  educator 
and  philanthropist,  and  as  an  architect  having  been 
the  pioneer  in  transforming  the  city  of  New  York 
from  the  town  of  rows  of  small  brownstone 
dwellings,  which  it  used  to  be,  into  the  marvelous 
city  of  magnificent  apartment  houses  which  it  is 
today,  Mr.  Hubert  might  well  claim  distinction 
for  many  achievements;  but  the  title  given  him 
some  years  ago,  at  a  public  dinner,  was  the  one 
which  pleased  him  more  than  any  other  and  the 
one  by  which  he  would  best  like  to  be  remembered 
— that  of  "The  Home-maker." 


WILLIAM  B.  SCOTT  was  born  in  War- 
rensburg,  lohnson  county.  Mo.,  November  15, 
1868.  In  i875  his  parents,  William  T.  and  Vir- 
ginia L.  Scott,  removed  with  their  family  to 
California,  and  settled  in  Santa  Paula,  Ventura 
county,  where  the  son  attended  the  public  schools 
until  the  age  of  sixteen,  when  he  began  to  learn 
the  carpenter  trade.  Coming  to  Los  Angeles  in 
June,  1894,  he  went  into  the  business  of  drilling 
oil  wells.  Mr.  Scott  was  married  in  June,  1896, 
to  Luna  M.  Hardison,  in  Los  Angeles,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  two  children,  Josephine  and 
W.  K.  Scott,  who  are  both  pupils  in  the  public 
schools  of  Los  Angeles. 


WILL  E.  KELLER.  To  have  seen  a  business 
grow  from  a  small  one  employing  fifteen  men  to 
a  large  one  using  four  hundred  employes,  its 
starting  capital  of  $15,000  mounting  to  $3,300,000, 
its  factories  counted  in  six  cities  and  its  elevators 
in  two,  must  indeed  be  a  source  of  tremendous 
satisfaction  to  a  man  who  has  been  a  leader  in 
such  great  business  and  financial  progress.    Such 


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an  honor  is  enjoyed  today  by  Will  E.  Keller, 
president  of  the  Globe  Grain  and  Milling  Com- 
pany, to  which  position  he  was  elected  in  1902. 

Born  in  Woodville,  Miss.,  January  30,  1868, 
Will  E.  Keller  is  the  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Agnes 
(Phares)  Keller.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  Dallas,  Texas,  attending  the  public  schools 
there  until  the  age  of  fourteen.  He  was  first 
employed  in  the  teaming  business,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  two  years,  being  engaged  later  as  a 
railway  postal  clerk  for  a  year.  Following  the 
line  of  interests  pursued  by  his  father,  Mr. 
Keller  went  into  street  paving  and  grading  con- 
tracting in  Dallas  and  Waco,  Texas,  which  he 
forsook  in  1888  to  come  to  San  Diego.  Septem- 
ber, 1889,  saw  his  return  to  Dallas,  where  he  then 
found  occupation  in  the  banking  business  as  book- 
keeper for  a  year  and  teller  for  two  years. 

But  California  drew  Mr.  Keller  westward  once 
more,  this  time  to  Wilmington,  where,  together 
with  E.  N.  McDonald,  he  went  into  the  feed  and 
grain  business  with  a  capital  of  $15,000,  under 
the  firm  name  of  the  McDonald  Company,  a  firm 
which  started  in  with  a  business  of  $100,000  a 
year,  but  which  has  increased  today  to  $12,000,- 
000  per  year.  Later  this  company  made  their 
headquarters  at  Los  Angeles,  where  they  built  a 
feed  mill  at  the  corner  of  Molino  and  Palmetto 
streets  and  were  organized  as  the  McDonald  Grain 
and  Milling  Company  with  a  capital  of  $200,000, 
Mr.  McDonald  being  the  president  and  Mr.  Keller 
the  secretary  and  manager.  As  the  business  in- 
creased they  also  went  into  flour  milling,  putting 
up  their  first  mill  at  No.  913  East  Third  street 
in  1898.  At  Mr.  McDonald's  death  Mr.  Keller 
was  elected  president  and  in  1902  the  name  of 
the  company  was  changed  to  the  Globe  Grain  and 
Milling  Company,  with  a  paid-up  capital  of 
$1,000,000.  which  has  today  increased  to  $3,300,- 
000.  Since  1902  they  have  established  a  mill  at 
San  Francisco  with  a  capacity  of  sixteen  hundred 
barrels  per  day.  This  is  their  largest  mill,  that  in 
Los  Angeles  ranking  second,  with  a  capacity  of 
one  thousand  barrels  per  day.  The  other  mills  of 
this  company  are  those  located  at  Colton,  Cal., 
which  has  a  capacity  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
barrels;  San  Diego,  Cal.,  three  hundred  and  fifty 
barrels;  El  Paso,  Texas,  four  hundred  barrels; 
and  Woodland,  Cal.,  two  hundred  barrels.  Their 
two  elevators  are  situated  at  Portland,  Ore.,  and 
San  Pedro,  Cal.,  respectively,  that  at  Portland, 
which  is  the  larger,  having  a  capacity  of  sixteen 


thousand  tons.  The  company  also  run  their  own 
steamer  for  carrying  bulk  grain,  its  capacity  being 
thirty-two  hundred  tons. 

Besides  being  president  of  the  Globe  Grain  and 
Milling  Company,  Mr.  Keller  is  president  of  the 
Valley  Ice  Company  at  Fresno  and  Bakersfield, 
Cal.,  which  does  all  the  car  icing  for  the  Southern 
Pacific  and  the  Santa  Fe  Railroads ;  president  of 
the  Globe  Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Company  at  El 
Paso,  Texas ;  president  of  the  San  Joaquin  Valley 
Farm  Lands  Company,  controlling  sixty-five 
thousand  acres  known  as  the  James  ranch ;  direc- 
tor of  the  Ralston  Iron  Works,  San  Francisco, 
and  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank,  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  Keller  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  South- 
ern California  Lodge,  Signet  Chapter,  Golden 
Gate  Commandery,  San  Francisco,  and  also  be- 
longs to  the  Shrine  in  Los  Angeles.  Socially  he  is 
identified  with  the  California  Club,  the  Los  An- 
geles Athletic  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country 
Club,  his  residence  being  at  West  Sixth  street  and 
Shatto  place,  Los  Angeles.  Politically  he  espouses 
Republican  principles. 


LOUIS  LANDRETH.  The  beautiful  little 
foothill  city  of  Whittier  owes  much  to  the  enter- 
prise, industry  and  splendid  judgment  of  Louis 
Landreth,  who  has  been  one  of  her  most  promi- 
nent citizens  since  1888,  when  he  removed  to  that 
point  from  Downey,  where  he  had  been  engaged 
in  fanning.  Mr.  Landreth  has  been  engaged  in 
real  estate  and  building  enterprises  principally, 
but  has  also  taken  a  general  interest  in  all  that  has 
been  for  the  welfare  of  his  home  city,  and  has 
always  been  found  well  in  the  forefront  of  any 
progressive  and  upbuilding  movement  that  has 
been  launched,  giving  of  his  strength  and  ability 
freely  at  all  times  for  the  public  weal.  He  has 
erected  business  blocks  on  Greenleaf  and  Phila- 
delphia streets  and  at  present  owns  much  valuable 
property  in  and  near  Whittier. 

Mr.  Landreth  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  born  in 
Owen  county.  May  21,  1844.  When  he  was  a 
lad  of  five  years  his  parents  removed  to  Mercer 
county.  111.,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated. 
His  father  was  a  farmer  and  the  boy  early  as- 
sumed his  share  of  the  responsibilities  of  the 
labor  on  the  home  place,  remaining  in  association 
with  his  father  until  he  was  twenty-four  years 


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Whittier.     He  h%  ^ely  engaged  in 

the  real  estate  business  -mucc  then,  buying  and 
selling  both  city  property  and  farm  hinds,  and 


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631 


Iron  Works  at  Williamsport,  Pa.,  at  wages  suf- 
ficient to  support  himself.  Having  finished  his 
trade  there,  he  secured  a  position  as  machinist 
with  the  Emporium  Machine  Company,  at  Em- 
porium, Pa.,  and  soon  after  accepting  the  position 
was  appointed  foreman,  an  office  which  he  held 
for  several  years,  when  a  better  position  was 
ofifered  him  as  foreman  for  the  J.  H.  McEwen 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  Ridgway,  Pa.,  which 
position  he  resigned  after  some  time  in  order  to 
secure  employment  which  would  enable  him  to 
see  the  country  and  at  the  same  time  gain  more 
knowledge  in  a  mechanical  line.  Going  to  Erie, 
Pa.,  he  secured  employment  with  the  Erie  City 
Iron  Works,  as  traveling  engineer,  which  brought 
him  in  contact  with  a  great  number  of  business 
men,  the  experience  being  of  great  value  to  him. 
At  the  expiration  of  about  two  years  the  same 
company  appointed  him  designer  in  their  draught- 
ing department,  with  an  increase  in  salary,  which 
office  he  filled  for  about  five  years,  when  he  was 
ofifered  the  superintendency  of  the  Bufifalo  Forge 
Company,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  at  much  higher 
wages,  which  he  accepted,  and  was  with  them 
about  two  years,  resigning  to  take  the  position  of 
superintendent  for  the  Bovaird  &  Seyfang  Manu- 
facturing Company,  at  Bradford,  Pa.,  on  May  30, 
1896,  and  while  residing  in  that  city  Mr.  Mills 
became  a  member  of  the  city  council,  also  of 
the  police  and  fire  commissions.  In  the  fall  of 
1900  he  resigned  his  position  in  Bradford  in  order 
to  come  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  accept  a  posi- 
tion as  foreman  with  the  Baker  Iron  Works.  In 
the  East  he  had  met  Fred  L.  Baker,  who  had 
convinced  him  that  Los  Angeles  was  an  excellent 
place  in  which  to  live,  and  he  has  never  had  cause 
to  change  that  opinion  during  his  residence  of 
many  years  here. 

Since  early  in  the  year  1905,  the  business  in- 
terests of  Mr.  Mills  have  been  carried  on  inde- 
pendently, he  having  organized  and  incorporated 
the  Mills  Iron  Works  in  Los  Angeles  on  January 
31,  1905,  of  wbich  he  was  elected  president.  Be- 
ginning business  on  March  1  of  that  year  with 
three  men  who  constituted  the  working  force  and 
stockholders,  after  about  two  years  he  purchased 
all  the  stock,  thus  becoming  sole  owner  of  the  com- 
pany. As  the  business  increased  rapidly,  new 
tools  were  from  time  to  time  installed,  the  year 
1910  seeing  the  erection  of  new  and  larger  build- 
ings and  the  installation  of  more  and  heavier 
tools,  which  increased  the  capacity  of  the  com- 


pany vastly  in  the  output  of  oil  and  water  well 
tools,  placing  them  in  a  position  to  manufacture 
the  heaviest  tools  demanded  by  the  trade.  While 
working  to  the  full  capacity,  they  employ  from 
fifty  to  sixty  men.  their  product  being  mostly  sold 
in  the  state  of  California,  shipments  also  being 
frequently  made  to  Nevada,  Arizona,  Mexico  and 
occasionally  to  Europe. 

Mr.  Mills  is  not  a  member  of  any  church,  secret 
society  or  club,  but  in  his  political  interests  is  a 
member  of  the  Republican  party.  His  marriage 
with  Verna  M.  Hart  was  solemnized  in  Williams- 
port,  Pa.,  on  November  2,  1896,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  one  daughter,  Edith  V.,  who  is  at 
present  a  pupil  at  the  Manual  Arts  High  School 
in  Los  Angeles. 


HENRY  VAN  NESS.  The  father  of  Henry 
Van  Ness  of  Compton,  Cal.,  was  born  in  Ger- 
many, a  country  which  is  well  represented  in  this 
part  of  the  state  by  the  names  of  its  sons  and 
grandsons;  and  his  mother,  Lucy  (Martinez) 
Van  Ness,  a  native  of  Arizona,  bore  one  of  the 
old  Spanish  names  that  tell  of  the  former  Spanish 
occupation  of  the  Southwest  before  the  Ameri- 
cans took  possession  of  the  land.  Leaving  his 
childhood's  home  in  Germany,  the  father  came 
to  California  as  a  poor  boy,  where  he  was  for  a 
while  in  business  in  Los  Angeles,  later  devoting 
himself  to  mining  in  Arizona,  but  returning  to 
California  to  settle  in  Compton  in  the  late  '90s. 
Here  he  bought  thirty  acres  of  land  and  engaged 
in  dairying,  a  pursuit  which  he  followed  until  his 
death  in  1904,  aged  about  sixty-two  years. 

The  son  Henry,  born  in  Los  Angeles,  June  3, 
1891,  was  one  of  eight  children,  namely:  Alice 
(now  Mrs.  Lemon),  Ruby,  Frank,  Charles, 
Henry,  Joseph,  Madge  and  Lucy.  He  began  in 
the  dairy  business  at  the  early  age  of  thirteen 
years,  eventually  taking  entire  charge  of  his 
father's  ranch,  which  place  he  continued  to  carry 
on  until  1912.  In  that  year  he  rented  his  present 
place  of  twenty  acres,  where  he  runs  a  fine  modern 
dairy  farm  of  fifty-three  cows  and  keeps  two 
thoroughbred  Holstein  bulls.  The  milk  from  his 
dairy  is  all  bought  by  the  Casso  Cheese  factory  at 
Compton. 

Henry  Van  Ness  is  one  of  the  rising  young 
men  of  Compton,  and  it  is  by  his  own  endeavors 
and  perseverance  that  he  has  come  to  his  present 


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prosperous  condition  in  life.  His  wife  is  Ade- 
laide (Jenkins)  Van  Ness  of  California,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Jenkins,  a  pioneer  of  this  state,  at 
present  residing  at  Huntington  Park,  Cal.  Fra- 
ternally Mr.  Van  Ness  is  connected  with  the 
Odd  Fellows. 


LEE  CHANNING  GATES.  Ohio  has  sent 
many  worthy  sons  to  California,  none  of  whom 
has  won  greater  honor  for  himself,  or  rendered 
higher  service  to  the  state  and  city  of  his  adop- 
tion than  has  Lee  Channing  Gates,  who  for  more 
than  twenty-five  years  has  been  an  esteemed  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles,  and  an  active  participant  in 
municipal  affairs  as  well  as  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  legal  and  commercial  life  of  the  southwest. 

Mr.  Gates  was  born  in  Preble  county,  Ohio, 
April  4,  18.S6,  the  son  of  Laborius  Andrew  and 
Maria  (Brumbaugh)  Gates.  His  parents  removed 
from  Ohio  to  Wayne  county,  Ind.,  when  he  was 
four  years  of  age,  and  in  the  latter  state  he 
received  his  early  education  in  the  district  schools 
near  his  father's  farm.  At  an  early  age  young 
Gates  determined  to  become  a  teacher,  and  when 
he  was  eighteen  he  passed  the  teacher's  examina- 
tion and  for  four  years  was  engaged  in  teaching 
in  the  country  schools  of  Indiana.  This  work 
proved  but  a  stepping  stone,  however,  to  higher 
education  and  another  professional  calling,  for  in 
1879  he  went  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  began  reading 
law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle,  Lee  Brumbaugh, 
and  later  with  the  firm  of  Nevin  &  Krumler.  His 
admission  to  the  bar  of  Ohio,  May  5,  1881,  was 
the  result  of  close  study  and  faithful  application. 
Opening  an  office  in  Dayton,  he  carried  on  a  suc- 
cessful practice  for  four  years,  when  ill  health 
compelled  him  to  seek  an  active,  out-of-door  life, 
and  he  removed  to  Butler  county,  Kans.,  and 
engaged  in  stock  raising. 

For  five  years  Mr.  Gates  followed  the  fortunes 
of  the  cattleman,  pioneering  in  the  truest  sense  of 
the  word,  and  incidentally  regaining  his  health. 
He  then  opened  an  office  in  Eldorado,  Kans.,  and 
again  practiced  law,  until  in  1891  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  the 
Angel  City  he  first  became  attorney  for  the  Los 
Angeles  Abstract  Company,  which  was  afterward 
merged  with  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Com- 
pany, and  the  services  of  Mr.  Gates  were  retained 
by  the  larger  organization.     In  1894  he  was  ap- 


pointed its  chief  counsel  and  has  since  held  that 
important  and  influential  position. 

Other  interests  also  have  claimed  the  attention, 
support  and  co-operation  of  Mr.  Gates.  Since 
1908  he  has  been  a  prominent  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Land  Title  Association,  and  three  times 
has  been  elected  its  president.  He  is  also  con- 
nected with  the  American  Association  of  Title 
Men  and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee 
for  the  association.  The  most  important  public 
work  that  has  been  allotted  to  Mr.  Gates  has 
been  in  the  service  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  south- 
west in  the  upper  house  of  the  state  legislature, 
to  which  he  was  elected  in  1910.  Here  he  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  a  number  of  splendid  efforts 
for  direct  legislation,  the  most  eminent  service 
rendered  his  constituency  and  his  state,  however, 
being  his  introduction  into  the  Senate  of  the 
Initiative,  Referendum  and  Recall  measure,  and 
his  active  and  aggressive  work  in  securing  its 
passage.  The  resultant  good  from  this  measure 
and  the  adoption  of  similar  measures  by  cities 
and  states  throughout  the  country  have  been  sin- 
cere tributes  to  the  progressive  spirit  of  Mr. 
Gates. 

The  marriage  of  Mr  Gates  took  place  at  Rich- 
mond, Ind.,  April  14,  1883,  when  he  was  united 
with  Miss  Bessie  B.  Caldwell,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Sanford  Caldwell,  of  that  city.  Two 
children  have  been  born  to  them,  Hazel  and  June, 
of  whom  the  latter  is  now  the  wife  of  Harold  A. 
Baker.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gates  are  popular 
with  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  Mr.  Gates  being 
actively  identified  with  the  most  progressive  civil 
and  social  clubs  of  the  city,  and  also  of  the  lead- 
ing commercial  organizations.  He  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  the 
Municipal  League,  the  Union  League,  Jonathan, 
L'niversity  and  Sunset  Clubs,  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Automobile  Association,  the  Gamut  Club 
and  the  various  city  clubs  interested  in  civic 
questions  and  engaged  in  the  promotion  of  better 
government  for  the  city  and  the  state.  He  is  also 
a  Mason. 

Mr.  Gates  has  a  vigorous,  energetic  mind.  His 
perception  in  questions  of  law,  logic  or  morals  is 
keen.  His  command  of  language  is  such  that  he 
expresses  his  ideas  with  remarkable  clearness  and 
beauty.  He  is  recognized  as  an  authority  in  real 
estate  law  in  California  and  as  a  speaker  is  one 
of  the  most  eloquent. 

Altogether,  the  position  occupied  by  Mr.  Gates 


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as  city  attorney  in  order  to  accept  an  appointment 
as  special  counsel  for  the  harbor.  As  a  member 
of  the  consolidation  commission  in  1909  he  and 
James  A.  Anderson  had  the  honor  of  drawing  up 
the  consolidation  act  and  he  also  acted  as  counsel 
for  the  city  in  the  aqueduct  project.  It  had  been 
his  intention  to  return  to  private  practice  at  the 
end  of  1913  or  as  soon  as  a  decision  was  rendered 
by  the  supreme  court  in  the  famous  tide-land 
cases,  involving  the  claim  of  the  city  to  twelve 
hundred  acres  of  tide-lands  valued  at  $50,000,000. 
However,  his  intentions  relative  to  private  prac- 
tice were  changed  when,  without  having  become 
a  candidate  for  the  office,  he  was  chosen,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1913,  as  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Los 
Angeles  county,  to  succeed  Hon.  N.  P.  Conrey, 
who  had  been  appointed  presiding  justice  of  the 
appellate  court.  Eminently  qualified  for  the 
bench  by  reason  of  his  fair  and  impartial  mind 
and  thorough  knowledge  of  the  law,  it  may  be 
predicted  that  his  success  at  the  bar  will  be  sup- 
plemented by  an  even  greater  distinction  as  a 
jurist  and  that  any  decisions  rendered  involving 
intricate  questions  will  be  regarded  by  higher 
courts  as  entitled  to  very  great  weight. 

Aside  from  any  consideration  of  Judge  Hewitt 
from  the  standpoint  of  bench  or  bar  or  public 
service,  but  regarding  him  exclusively  from  the 
standpoint  of  social  and  personal  attributes,  it 
may  be  stated  that  he  is  eminently  worthy  of  re- 
gard as  private  citizen,  friend  or  neighbor.'  In 
his  comfortable  home  on  South  Alvarado  street, 
presided  over  with  graciousness  by  his  wife,  Mrs. 
Mabel  (Eastwood)  Hewitt,  he  finds  pleasure  in 
the  society  of  family  and  friends  and  in  the 
enjoyment  of  good  books  and  current  periodicals. 
In  reading,  as  in  every  phase  of  life,  he  is  critical, 
satisfied  with  nothing  less  than  the  best  and  eager 
to  broaden  his  mind  by  contact  with  the  writings 
of  men  of  deep  thought.  His  clubs  are  the  San 
Gabriel  Valley  Golf  Club  and  the  Union  League, 
while  fraternally  he  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  a 
Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree,  besides  which 
he  is  well  known  among  the  Shriners  of  Al 
Malaikah  Temple. 


NORMAN  FOOTE  MARSH.  One  of  the 
leading  architects  of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county, 
and  in  fact  of  the  state,  is  Norman  Foote  Marsh, 
a  resident  of  the  beautiful  suburb  of  South  Pasa- 


dena, with  offices  in  the  city.  Mr.  Marsh  has 
been  in  business  in  Los  Angeles  since  he  came 
to  California  some  fifteen  years  ago,  and  during 
that  time  has  designed  many  handsome  structures 
here  and  elsewhere,  receiving  in  the  course  of  his 
work  several  large  commissions  from  Oakland 
and  other  of  the  Bay  cities. 

Mr.  Marsh  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  born  at  Upper 
Alton  July  16,  1871,  the  seventh  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Kate  (Provost)  Marsh.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  schools  of  Upper  Alton, 
graduating  from  the  high  school  in  1886.  Follow- 
ing this  he  studied  art,  literature  and  science  at 
Shurtleff  College,  Upper  Alton,  for  a  period  of 
three  years,  later  attending  the  University  of 
Illinois,  where  he  remained  for  five  years,  gradu- 
ating in  1897  from  the  school  of  architecture  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  He  is  one 
of  three  men,  graduates  of  the  school  of  archi- 
tecture of  the  University  of  Illinois,  who  were 
made  honorary  members  of  the  Illinois  Chapter 
of  the  National  Students  Architectural  Fraternity 
Alpha  Rho  Chi. 

After  completing  his  work  at  the  University 
Mr.  Marsh  went  to  Chicago,  III,  as  engineer  for 
the  American  Luxfer  Prism  Company.  He 
remained  with  this  firm  for  three  years,  represent- 
ing them  in  various  cities,  including  New  York, 
Chicago  and  Philadelphia. 

It  was  in  1900  that  Mr.  Marsh  determined  to 
come  to  California.  Upon  resigning  his  position 
with  the  American  Luxfer  Prism  Company  he 
came  directly  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  began  his 
career  as  an  architect,  and  in  the  meantime  has 
risen  rapidly  to  prominence  in  his  profession.  He 
first  formed  a  partnership  with  J.  N.  Preston 
under  the  firm  name  of  Preston  &  Marsh,  and 
during  the  year  that  this  lasted  they  made  a 
specialty  of  handsome  residences,  and  won  for 
themselves  an  enviable  standing  in  the  city.  At 
the  end  of  the  year  the  partnership  was  dissolved, 
and  Mr.  Marsh  became  associated  with  C.  H. 
Russell  under  the  firm  name  of  Marsh  &  Russell. 

This  association  continued  for  nearly  six  years, 
during  which  period  they  engaged  in  some  of  the 
most  important  architectural  work  in  the  south- 
west. The  designing  of  the  city  of  Venice  was 
the  work  of  this  firm,  and  is  probably  the  most 
unique  effort  of  its  kind,  for  Venice  is  known  as 
a  place  of  unusual  originality  of  design  and  of 
distinctive  beauty.  It  is,  supposedly,  patterned 
after  the  Italian  city  whose  name  it  bears,  and  is 


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penetrated  in  every  direction  by  quaint  canals 
which  are  spanned  by  artistic  bridges  of  clever 
design.  It  is  the  only  city  of  its  kind  on  the 
Western  Continent  and  stands  a  monument  to 
its  architects. 

The  partnership  between  Messrs.  Marsh  and 
Russell  was  dissolved  in  1907,  Mr.  Russell  going 
to  San  Francisco,  while  Mr.  Marsh  continued  his 
business  career  in  Los  Angeles,  and  has  since 
that  time  been  working  alone.  He  occupies  a 
leading  place  among  the  local  architects,  and  for 
the  past  few  years  has  been  making  a  specialty 
of  public  buildings,  including  schools,  churches, 
libraries,  etc.,  and  some  of  the  most  beautiful 
and  distinctive  buildings  in  Southern  California 
have  been  designed  by  him.  Among  these  may 
be  mentioned  the  Pasadena  high  school,  of  which 
Harlan  Updegraff  (specialist  of  school  adminis- 
tration, Bureau  of  Education  in  Washington,  D. 
C.)  said  that  it  is  the  finest  school  structure  in 
the  whole  United  States.  Another  equally  notable 
example  is  ofifered  in  the  Hollywood  high  school 
buildings,  which  constitute  the  first  group  high 
school  to  be  built  in  this  part  of  the  country. 
Other  buildings  designed  by  Mr.  Marsh  are  the 
First  Methodist  Church  Long  Beach,  the  First 
Baptist  Church  Pomona,  the  First  Methodist 
Church  Oakland,  the  University  of  Redlands,  all 
of  which  are  handsome  modern  fire-proof  build- 
ings. 

Probably  the  most  noteworthy  production  of 
Mr.  Marsh's  entire  career,  as  it  is  one  of  the  most 
recent,  is  the  Columbia  Hospital,  in  Los  Angeles, 
which  has  been  acknowledged  to  be  the  finest 
structure  of  its  kind  west  of  New  York  City,  and 
which  compares  favorably  with  anything  in  the 
metropolis.  This  hospital  is  modern  in  every 
detail  and  is  equipped  with  every  modern  device 
known  to  science,  including  a  system  for  washing 
the  air  as  it  enters  the  building,  thus  rendering 
it  absolutely  clean  and  scientifically  pure. 

There  is  scarcely  a  section  of  Los  Angeles  that 
does  not  hold  some  structure  that  is  the  handi- 
work of  Mr.  Marsh,  and  throughout  the  sur- 
rounding territory  he  is  equally  well  represented. 
His  designs  are  noted  for  their  simple  purity  of 
outline,  and  their  splendid  atmosphere  of  digni- 
fied strength  and  stability.  Many  of  the  hand- 
somest homes  in  the  city  have  been  designed  by 
him,  while  not  a  few  of  the  latest  business  blocks 
and  office  buildings  are  also  of  his  design. 

Mr.  Marsh  is  not  a  clubman,  but  he  is  intimately 


associated  with  all  interests  which  tend  toward  the 
upbuilding  of  the  community,  and  is  a  favorite 
with  a  wide  circle  of  friends.  He  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason.  In  South  Pasadena,  where 
he  makes  his  home,  he  is  actively  associated  with 
all  civic  movements  and  is  recognized  as  a  pro- 
gressive citizen.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  for  the  local  public  library  and  chairman 
of  the  board  of  trustees  for  the  Memorial  Baptist 
Church,  of  which  he  is  an  influential  member. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Marsh  to  Miss  Cora  Mae 
Cairns  took  place  in  Polo,  111.,  January  23,  1901. 
To  them  have  come  two  children,  Norman  LeRoy 
and  Marion  Elizabeth  Marsh. 


FREDERICK  WALKER  STITH.  Among 
the  young  men  who  contributed  towards  enhanc- 
ing the  business  and  commercial  importance  of 
Los  Angeles  and  Southern  California  we  find  the 
name  of  Frederick  W.  Stith,  who  from  the  time 
of  his  arrival  in  this  city,  in  1904,  until  his  death 
on  October  5,  1913,  was  accounted  one  of  the 
most  progressive  men  of  the  city.  He  was  born 
in  Carleton,  111.,  July  21,  1869,  the  son  of  David 
and  Mary  Jane  (Gorin)  Stith.  The  father  was 
one  of  the  largest  and  best  known  cattlemen  in 
the  Panhandle  district  in  Kansas  and  was 
descended  from  old  Virginian  families  and  some 
of  them  were  the  founders  of  William  and  Mary 
College.  Like  the  founders  of  the  name  of  Stith 
in  the  United  States  the  later  generations  fol- 
lowed the  westward  trend  of  emigration  from  the 
Atlantic  coast  until  the  western  shore  of  the  con- 
tinent had  been  reached,  and  in  each  locality 
where  they  settled  the  name  was  a  synonym  for 
integrity  and  honesty. 

Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  and 
Kansas,  F.  W.  Stith  shouldered  the  responsibili- 
ties of  life  at  an  early  age.  His  first  business 
venture  was  in  Medicine  Lodge,  Kan.,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  wheat  business  one  year. 
With  this  experience  to  demonstrate  his  ability  to 
handle  larger  undertakings  he  went  to  Attica, 
Kan.,  and  became  cashier  of  the  Attica  Exchange 
Bank,  a  position  which  he  retained  for  the  follow- 
ing three  years.  From  this  place  he  went  to 
Pekin  and  Peoria,  111.,  to  accept  a  position  as  sales 
manager  for  the  Acme  Harvester  Company,  re- 
maining there  and  building  up  the  business  of  the 
concern  as  well  as  making  a  financial  start  for 


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upon  his  time,  being  a  director  in  various  organ- 
izations, prominent  among  which  are  the  Los 
Angeles  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  the  Mortgage 
Guarantee  Company,  the  Citizens'  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Bank,  the  Southern  Cahfornia  Edison  Com- 
pany and  the  California  Delta  Farms,  Incor- 
porated ;  a  trustee  of  the  State  Normal  School, 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  the 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association  of  I>os 
Angeles,  and  the  Los  Angeles  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission ;  also  both  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the 
University  of  Southern  California,  director  of  the 
Rosedale  Cemetery  Association  and  of  the  Ar- 
tesian Water  Company. 

Mr.  Cochran  was  active  in  the  organization  of 
the  Broadway  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  holding 
the  position  of  vice-president  in  that  firm  since 
its  beginning,  and  was  at  one  time  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Cochran,  Williams,  Goudge,  Baker  & 
Chandler.  For  many  years  he  filled  the  positions 
of  secretary  and  director  of  the  United  Gas, 
Electric  and  Power  Company,  having  been  largely 
influential  in  its  consolidation  with  the  Edison 
Electric  Company.  He  was  concerned  with  the 
Seaside  Water  Company,  and  with  the  opening  of 
the  West  Adams  Heights  tract  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  also  has  interests  in  the  city  of  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Cal. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Cochran  was  with 
Miss  Alice  M.  McClung,  a  native  of  Canada, 
August  6,  1890,  whose  death  occurred  June  16, 
1906.  On  April  3,  1907,  he  married  Miss  Isabelle 
M.  McClung  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  now  re- 
sides at  No.  2249  Harvard  boulevard,  his  busi- 
ness address  being  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Build- 
ing, Los  Angeles.  His  religious  affiliation  is  with 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  he  having  been 
influential  in  the  founding  of  the  Westlake  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  of  Los  Angeles,  and  he 
holds  membership  in  the  following  clubs :  The 
California,  Jonathan,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Uni- 
versity, Los  Angeles  Country,  Midwick  Country 
and  Virginia  Country  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  and 
the  Bohemian  and  Pacific  Union  Clubs,  San 
Francisco. 


JUDGE  LEWIS  REED  WORKS.  The  son 
of  an  illustrious  father,  Judge  Lewis  Reed  Works 
is  nevertheless  known  for  the  strength  of  his  own 
character  and  for  the  splendid  work  he  has  done 


in  the  legal  profession  and  for  the  public  welfare 
of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county,  rather  than  as 
his  father's  son.  He  is  a  man  of  sterling  worth 
and  great  integrity  of  purpose,  a  worthy  citizen 
and  a  true  friend.  His  ability  in  the  legal  pro- 
fession has  placed  him  in  the  front  ranks  among 
the  men  who  are  accomplishing  much  in  that 
especial  line,  while  it  has  also  made  him  an  in- 
valuable public  servant,  and  on  more  than  one 
occasion  he  has  served  with  distinction  and  last- 
ing benefit  to  his  constituency,  which  is  at  all 
times  the  general  public  and  his  fellow  citizens. 

Judge  Works  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  born  in 
Vevay,  Switzerland  county,  December  28,  1869, 
the  son  of  John  Downey  Works,  United  States 
Senator  from  California  since  1911  and  a  man  of 
power  and  influence  in  the  state  and  nation,  and 
Alice  (Banta)  Works,  who  is  well  known 
throughout  California  as  the  companion  and  help- 
meet of  her  husband.  Judge  Works  received  his 
early  education  in  Indiana,  and  in  1883  removed 
with  his  parents  to  San  Diego,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  public  school  studies,  completing  them 
later  in  San  Francisco.  In  1887  he  was  graduated 
from  the  San  Diego  Commercial  College.  From 
1882  to  1890  he  worked  as  a  practical  printer, 
the  greater  part  of  that  time  being  during  vaca- 
tions, but  the  last  year  he  gave  his  entire  time  to 
the  work  and  was  half  owner  of  a  job  printing 
business. 

It  was  not  until  1890,  when  he  was  twenty 
years  of  age,  that  Judge  Works  began  to  read  law, 
and  a  year  and  a  half  later  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  California  and  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  San  Diego  until  1901,  when 
he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  made 
his  home  continuously  since  that  time,  being 
appointed  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cali- 
fornia for  Los  Angeles  county  by  the  governor 
in  1912,  to  serve  imtil  January,  1915.  At  the  fall 
election  of  1914  he  was  elected  by  the  people  to 
a  six-year  term  in  the  same  office,  to  commence 
at  the  expiration  of  his  term  under  the  appoint- 
ment. During  the  time  of  his  legal  practice  Judge 
Works  appeared  as  counsel  in  many  important 
cases,  including  the  San  Diego  and  National  City 
water-rate  cases  and  the  .Salem  Charles  will  case. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  state 
legislature  in  1899-1901,  and  in  1907-1909  was 
first  assistant  city  attorney  of  Los  Angeles.  In 
1910-1911  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  charter  revision  committee,  framing  the 


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charter  amendments  that  were  voted  on  by  the 
people,  March  6,  1911.  He  was  also  president  of 
the  Los  Angeles  board  of  public  utihties  in  1911, 
and  in  1912  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of 
freeholders  to  frame  a  new  charter  for  Los  An- 
geles, in  the  same  year  also  being  a  member  of 
the  board  of  freeholders  to  frame  the  charter 
for  Los  Angeles  county,  under  which  the  county 
is  now  governed. 

Aside  from  his  political  and  governmental 
activities.  Judge  Works  has  been  and  is  still 
associated  with  a  multitude  of  other  interests 
which  bring  him  into  constant  and  close  contact 
with  his  fellow  citizens.  He  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Company  A,  California  Naval  Militia 
(Naval  Reserve),  which  was  the  first  battalion 
organized  in  California,  where  he  served  three 
years  and  from  which  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. He  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science;  the 
National  Geographic  Society;  the  Southwest 
Society ;  the  National  Municipal  League ;  the  Los 
Angeles  Municipal  League;  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce ;  the  Los  Angeles  City 
Club  and  the  Severance  Club,  being  president  of 
the  last  named,  and  once  a  president  of  the  City 
Club.  Pie  is  also  a  member  of  several  social  clubs, 
and  is  a  past  exalted  ruler  of  San  Diego  Lodge 
No.  168,  B.  P.  O.  E. 

The  marriage  of  Judge  Works  and  Miss  Har- 
riet L.  Wilson  occurred  in  Los  Angeles  in  1903. 
Mrs.  Works  is  the  daughter  of  the  late  William 
Wilson,  and  is  a  native  of  Ontario,  Canada,  born 
January  6,  1877.  She  is  well  known  socially  in 
Los  Angeles,  where  together  with  her  distin- 
guished husband  she  enjoys  the  friendship  of  a 
wide  circle.  Judge  Works  is  also  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Christian  Science  Church  and 
active  in  its  affairs.  Judge  Works  is  the  father 
of  one  son,  Pierce,  born  in  1896  of  a  prior  mar- 
riage, and  a  student  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. 


G.  R.  TIFAL.  A  native  of  Germany  and  a 
resident  of  California  only  since  1907,  G.  R. 
Tifal  has  nevertheless  been  an  important  factor  in 
the  development  and  upbuilding  both  of  Los  An- 
geles and  Monrovia,  and  much  valuable  residence 
and  business  property  has  been  owned  and  im- 


proved by  him.  With  his  home  located  in  the 
beautiful  little  city  of  Monrovia,  and  with  offices 
there  and  in  Los  Angeles  for  the  conduct  of  his 
business  of  designing,  contracting  and  building 
residences  and  business  blocks,  and  for  the  pro- 
motion of  various  real  estate  enterprises,  Mr. 
Tifal  is  well  known  in  both  cities  and  is  ac- 
credited as  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  the 
county. 

The  native  city  of  Mr.  Tifal  is  Posen,  Germany, 
he  having  been  born  there  December  18,  1878. 
At  an  early  age  he  came  to  the  United  States  with 
his  parents  and  settled  in  Monticello,  Wis.,  where 
he  was  reared  and  educated.  Later  he  went  to 
Beaumont,  Tex.,  where  he  learned  the  planing- 
mill  business  and  after  a  time  engaged  in  this 
line  for  himself,  owning  his  own  mill.  At  a  still 
later  period  he  went  to  Mexico  City,  Mexico, 
where  he  was  employed  in  a  planing  mill  for  some 
time,  but  his  health  failing  in  1907  he  came  to 
Monrovia,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home. 
Two  years  were  spent  in  recuperating  and  in 
looking  over  the  conditions  of  the  country,  and  in 
1909  he  opened  his  present  business  of  contract- 
ing and  building,  making  a  specialty  of  fine  resi- 
dences, bungalows  and  office  buildings.  Later  his 
younger  brother,  C.  H.  Tifal,  joined  him  and  since 
that  time  the  firm  has  been  known  as  Tifal  Broth- 
ers, with  offices  at  No.  5204  South  Park  avenue, 
Los  Angeles,  and  at  No.  628  Myrtle  avenue.  Mon- 
rovia. 

In  addition  to  their  contracting  and  building 
business  the  Tifal  Brothers  also  have  a  variety  of 
other  interests.  They  own  and  conduct  a  planing 
mill  at  Monrovia,  and  have  been  heavily  inter- 
ested in  real  estate.  They  subdivided  the  Tifal 
Brothers  East  Fifty-second  street  tract  of  nine 
acres  in  Los  Angeles,  which  consisted  of  fifty- 
eight  residence  lots  and  seven  business  lots  and 
was  put  on  the  market  in  1911.  At  the  present 
time  it  is  built  up  and  most  of  the  lots  are  sold. 
The  brothers  have  constructed  some  three  hun- 
dred residences  in  Los  Angeles  and  more  than 
eighty  in  Monrovia.  Prominent  among  the  latter 
are  the  homes  of  P.  E.  Hatch,  Charles  Ainley, 
Fred  Ainley,  Mrs.  Eva  Busch,  P.  Bachert,  C.  H. 
Holmes,  Frank  Miller,  O.  N.  Bryant,  and  many 
other  handsome  residences.  They  also  have 
erected  for  sale  some  thirty  houses  in  Monrovia, 
ranging  in  value  from  $2300  to  $8000,  and  in 
Los  Angeles  they  have  built  and  owned  more  than 
sixty-four  houses  and  business  blocks.   They  also 


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son  and  two  daughters,  Qaester.  Adela  and 
Beatrice. 

The  jupior  member  of  the  firm  of  Tifal  Broth- 
ers, C.  H.  Tifal,  is  a  young  man  of  great  promise. 
He  does  the  designing  for  the  firm  and  is  one  of 
the  leading  bungalow  designers  in  Southern  CaH- 
fornia,  which  is  equal  to  saying,  in  the  world,  for 
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service  to  the  country. 

The  son  of  Philip  Church  and  Lucy  M.  (Dix) 
Schuyler,  of  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  James  Dix  Schuyler 
was  born  in  that  city  May  11.   I5i48,  and  re- 
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gineer  in  the  United  States,  British  Columbia, 
Mexico  and  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  and  as  the 
author  of  technical  works,  including  "Reser- 
voirs for  Irrigation  and    Water    Power    and 
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than  a  child.  They  located  first  in  Pennsylvania, 
but  eight  years  later  went  to  New  Ulm,  Minn., 
where  Mrs.  Boesch  received  her  education  and 
grew  to  young  womanhood.  Her  parents,  Lewis 
and  Amelia  Schuetze,  resided  for  many  years  near 
Berlin,  where  the  daughter  Frances  was  born.  In 
Minnesota  she  met  and  married  Jacob  Mueller, 
the  issue  of  this  marriage  being  three  children, 
namely:  Fred  J.  Mueller,  a  graduate  of  Cornell 
University  and  now  in  the  fruit  raising  business 
at  Corona,  Riverside  county,  Cal. ;  Olga,  now 
married  to  Edmond  Mayer,  residing  in  San  Diego, 
and  the  mother  of  three  children  (Lorle,  Vera 
and  Norma)  ;  and  Frances,  married  to  A. 
Metzger  and  living  in  Indianapolis.  Mr.  Metzger, 
who  is  a  man  of  some  prominence  in  Indiana, 
entertained  Governor  Johnson  of  California 
when  the  western  statesman  was  on  a  recent  visit 
there.  They  have  four  children,  namely :  Mar- 
garet, Alexander,  Norman  and  Louise. 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Mueller  the  widow 
married  Werner  Boesch  in  1893,  and  six  years 
later  she  was  again  left  a  widow.  In  1902  she 
came  to  California  to  make  a  permanent  home  and 
has  since  resided  here.  She  had  spent  many  win- 
ters here  previously  with  Mr.  Boesch  and  was 
especially  fond  of  Los  Angeles  and  quite  natur- 
ally chose  this  city  for  her  home,  erecting  a  beau- 
tiful residence  on  Westlake  avenue.  Since  lo- 
cating here  she  has  spent  much  time  in  travel, 
both  in  America  and  abroad,  and  she  is  also  often 
to  be  found  at  San  Diego  with  her  daughter  and 
grandchildren,  Mrs.  Boesch  being  especially  fond 
of  the  latter.  She  has  many  friends  in  Los  An- 
geles and  is  a  favorite  with  a  wide  circle. 


IVAN  T.  JOHNSON.  One  of  the  leading 
men  of  San  Gabriel  today  is  Ivan  T.  Johnson, 
proprietor  of  the  East  San  Gabriel  Egg  Ranch, 
one  of  the  best  known  and  most  reliable  egg  and 
chicken  ranches  in  California,  as  well  as  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  profitable.  The  ranch  is 
located  in  East  San  Gabriel  and  consists  of  nine 
acres  of  land,  with  the  attendant  improvements, 
and  is  stocked  with  White  Leghorn  fowls  of  a 
superior  strain.  The  growth  of  this  great  in- 
dustry and  the  rise  of  Mr.  Johnson  from  a  very 
small  beginning  to  his  present  position  of  promi- 
nence in  the  poultry  world  is  almost  phenomenal, 
and  speaks  volumes  for  the  integrity  of  purpose, 


patient  application  to  details  and  general  business 
ability  of  the  proprietor.  In  1904,  in  partnership 
with  S.  A.  Swanson,  Mr.  Johnson  rented  a  tract 
of  twenty-five  acres  at  Temple  street  and  West- 
ern avenue,  Los  Angeles,  where  he  started  in  busi- 
ness with  forty  chickens.  With  him  to  make  a 
start  in  any  given  line  was  to  immediately  make  a 
close  and  careful  study  of  all  phases  of  the  indus- 
try and  to  follow  every  possible  avenue  that 
might  lead  to  success.  This  was  his  plan  in  this 
new  venture,  and  so  successful  was  he  that  at 
the  end  of  two  years  he  moved  out  to  East  San 
Gabriel,  having  at  that  time  nine  hundred  hens. 
There  he  purchased  five  acres  of  land  which  has 
since  been  increased  by  the  purchase  of  four 
additional  acres,  while  at  this  time  he  has  six 
thousand  laying  hens.  The  improvements  on  this 
property  are  of  the  very  newest  design  and  are 
so  arranged  as  to  give  every  possible  scientific 
advantage  to  the  fowls.  In  fact  the  ranch  is 
acknowledged  to  be  the  best  appointed,  as  well  as 
one  of  the  largest,  in  Los  Angeles  county. 

Starting  with  an  ordinary  White  Leghorn 
stock  Mr.  Johnson  has  developed  a  strain  of  his 
own  which  he  has  found  especially  satisfactory 
both  from  the  point  of  view  of  hardiness  and 
from  the  general  productiveness  of  the  hens,  they 
having  proven  exceptionally  good  layers.  The 
ranch  is  well  known  all  over  the  state  and  the 
proprietor  has  an  appreciable  business  outside  of 
the  county,  and  has  shipped  chicks  as  far  as 
Phoenix,  Ariz.  The  sale  of  chicks  is  one  of  the 
most  profitable  features  of  this  ranch,  an  average 
of  25,000  baby  chickens  being  sold  each  year. 
These  are  shipped  when  a  day  old,  and  large  or- 
ders have  been  sent  as  far  as  Tucson  and  Phoenix, 
Ariz.,  and  Santa  Barbara  and  Bakersfield,  Cal., 
with  very  small  loss,  although  as  many  as  four 
hundred  have  been  shipped  at  a  time,  and  on  one 
occasion  a  shipment  to  Santa  Barbara  was  de- 
layed for  thirty-six  hours.  The  incubator  capac- 
ity of  the  hatchery  is  ten  thousand  eggs  at  one 
time.  Eggs  are  also  sold  for  hatching  purposes, 
as  many  as  forty  thousand  having  been  sold  in  a 
season.  Another  feature  is  the  sale  of  two- 
year-old  breeding  stock,  for  which  there  is  always 
a  big  demand.  The  eggs  are  sold  to  Los  Angeles 
firms  by  contract  and  are  always  guaranteed  to  be 
absolutely  fresh. 

The  care  of  the  chickens,  their  housing  and 
feeding  is  a  question  to  which  Mr.  Johnson  has 
given  unlimited  care  and  study,  and  there  is  never 


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any  relaxing  on  this  point.  As  a  result  the  fowls 
are  healthy  and  strong,  free  from  disease  of  any 
sort.  They  are  fed  with  a  mash  made  from  Mr. 
Johnson's  own  formula,  and  grain  is  bought  by  the 
car  load.  All  this  conspires  to  produce  a  high 
grade  stock  and  is  well  worth  the  time  and  effort 
required.  Mr.  Johnson  has  exhibited  at  poultry 
shows  and  fairs  all  over  California  and  has  taken 
many  prizes.  In  the  local  and  county  exhibitions 
and  fairs  he  has  taken  an  average  of  seventy-five 
per  cent,  of  the  first  prizes.  One  year  in  the  Los 
Angeles  Poultry  Show  he  took  all  the  first  prizes 
for  his  strain,  and  on  another  occasion  (in  1913) 
he  carried  off  three  out  of  five  such  honors.  Re- 
cently he  shipped  eight  hens  and  four  cocks  to 
Sweden,  and  while  there  took  four  prizes  at  the 
Fair. 

In  the  spring  of  1914  Mr.  Johnson  bought  the 
interests  of  his  partner  in  this  enterprise  and  since 
that  time  has  been  the  sole  owner  and  proprietor 
of  this  splendid  business.  The  interest  on  their 
original  investment  has  been  very  great  and  the 
business  as  it  stands  today  is  very  valuable.  Just 
how  valuable  may  be  estimated  in  some  measure 
from  the  fact  that  in  1913  the  receipt  from  the 
sale  of  eggs  alone  was  $15,000,  while  the  profits 
from  other  sources  were  very  large. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  a  native  of  Sweden,  born  in  the 
central  part  of  that  country,  November  2,  1871, 
his  parents  residing  on  a  farm,  where  he  was 
reared.  He  attended  school  and  worked  on  the 
farm  until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  when  he 
responded  to  the  call  of  the  West  and  came  to  the 
United  States.  For  two  years  he  worked  on  a 
ranch  in  Minnesota,  and  following  this  was  simi- 
larly employed  in  Indiana  for  three  years.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  variously  employed  in  Chicago 
for  two  years,  then  in  1901  came  to  California. 
For  a  time  he  worked  on  a  small  fruit  ranch  at  the 
corner  of  Melrose  and  Western  avenues,  until  he 
made  his  splendid  venture  in  the  poultry  business 
in  1904. 

During  the  ten  years  that  he  has  been  building 
up  his  present  enterprise  Mr.  Johnson  has  had 
little  time  for  the  lighter  side  of  life  and  for  its 
social  features.  Nevertheless  he  has  many  friends 
and  is  well  and  favorably  known  as  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  business  ability,  honorable,  upright 
and  just.  He  takes  a  keen  interest  in  all  that 
concerns  his  community  and  has  his  fingers  on 
the  pulse  of  the  commercial  life  of  the  city,  state 
and  nation.    He  is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of 


the  World,  and  is  well  known  among  the  various 
members.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Johnson  oc- 
curred in  1912,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Mary 
Johnson,  of  Sweden.  Of  their  union  has  been 
born  one  daughter,  Mary,  a  native  of  San  Gabriel. 
Although  his  success  seems  phenomenal  to  the 
interested  spectator  Mr.  Johnson  declares  that 
it  is  not  so,  but  that  it  is  merely  the  natural  re- 
sult of  careful  and  intelligent  application,  industry 
and  persistence.  He  points  to  the  fact  that  many 
others  are  making  a  success  of  the  poultry  in- 
dustry, and  while  the  growth  of  his  particular 
enterprise  has  been  marked,  he  attributes  it  rather 
to  additional  care  and  attention  than  to  any  ele- 
ment of  luck,  and  merely  advises  others  to  follow 
the  same  lines  of  procedure  if  they  wish  to  suc- 
ceed. He  avers  that  all  too  many  persons  engage 
in  the  poultry  business  with  the  idea  that  it  is  an 
occupation  in  which  there  is  little  need  of  intelli- 
gent thought,  and  that  all  they  have  to  do  is  to 
feed  the  chickens  and  gather  the  eggs,  while  in 
reality  it  requires  as  much  care  as  any  other  in- 
dustry, and  perhaps  more,  for  the  physical  wel- 
fare of  the  fowls  is  a  prime  requisite  to  success. 


CHARLES  E.  STRATTON.  The  assistant 
general  manager  of  the  Union  Tool  Company,  Los 
Angeles  and  Torrance,  Cal.,  is  Charles  E.  Stratton, 
who  was  born  in  Evansburg,  Pa.,  May  10,  1865, 
the  son  of  Henry  C.  and  Jennie  Stratton.  The 
father,  also  a  native  of  Evansburg,  where  he  was 
born  in  1842,  received  a  college  education  and 
was  first  engaged  as  manager  of  the  Star  Oil 
Company,  now  the  Standard  Oil  Company,  at 
Erie,  Pa.,  a  position  which  he  held  until  1882, 
when  he  resigned  to  remove  to  Franklin,  Pa., 
there  to  conduct  a  lumber  business  until  he  sold 
out  the  same  in  1893  and  returned  to  Erie,  where 
he  took  charge  of  his  son's  business,  the  Strat- 
ton Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  he  still  re- 
mains in  charge. 

The  son,  Charles  E.  Stratton,  was  educated  in 
the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  the  city  of  Erie, 
Pa.,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1880,  at  which 
time  he  engaged  as  clerk  with  the  Jarecki  Manu- 
facturing Company,  in  which  concern  he  worked 
up  to  the  position  of  sales  manager  and  price 
clerk.  This  he  continued  until  the  year  1909, 
when  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  becoming  as- 
sistant general  manager  of  the  Union  Tool  Com- 


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have  brought  success  of  this  kind  to  more  than 
one  energetic  and  faithful  worker  in  the  out-of- 
doors.  The  poultry  ranch  of  Roy  V.  Milner  and 
H.  J.  Lindeman  at  Van  Nuys  shows  what  can  be 
accomplished  in  that  line  upon  twenty  acres  of 
land.  This  property  was  bought  and  its  develop- 
ment commenced  in  1912,  the  ground  at  that  time 
being  covered  with  tule  grass,  etc.,  but  planted 
by  Mr.  Milner  and  Mr.  Lindeman  with  fruit  trees, 
such  as  the  Alberta  peach,  the  royal  apricot,  and 
the  Nellis  pear.  They  selected  the  highest-priced 
land  in  the  tract,  where  they  set  out  their  fruit 
trees,  over  twenty-one  thousand  in  number,  also 
planting  watermelons  and  casabas  between  the 
rows  of  trees,  netting,  by  December,  $100  per 
acre  on  the  casabas  alone.  A  barn  was  put  up  at  a 
cost  of  $300,  also  a  brooder  house  which  was 
then  stocked  with  three  thousand  baby  chicks  of 
the  Richardson  stock  of  White  Leghorns.  These 
later  were  culled  to  nine  hundred  laying  hens, 
which  began  to  lay  when  only  four  months  and 
four  days  old,  a  truly  wonderful  record,  and  from 
these  nine  hundred  hens  a  percentage  of  about 
seventy-eight  was  reached,  in  October  five  cases 
of  eggs  being  produced,  in  November  from  eight 
to  nine  cases,  in  December  ten  cases,  in  January 
from  ten  to  eleven,  in  February  eleven,  in  March 
twelve,  on  March  3rd,  six  hundred  and  twenty- 
four  eggs  having  been  collected  and  since  the 
above  date  the  highest  number,  six  hundred  and 
fifty-six,  have  been  collected,  which  is  certainly  a 
record  worthy  of  mention.  There  are  five  hen 
houses,  10x48  feet  each,  with  a  capacity  of  two 
hundred  and  forty  hens  each,  while  the  brooder 
house,  24x58  feet,  has  a  capacity  of  three  thou- 
sand chicks.  Each  house  has  a  covered  scratching 
pen  and  patent  drinking  fountain,  the  roosts  being 
removable  and  cleaned  from  the  outside,  and  the 
feed  pens  placed  at  the  back  of  the  houses,  as 
are  also  the  nests,  both  being  accessible  from  the 
outside.  The  yards,  which  are  large  and  open, 
can  be  plowed  by  a  horse,  and  a  separate  alfalfa 
patch  connects  with  each  yard  where  the  hens 
are  turned  in  once  a  day.  Petaluma  brooding 
stoves  are  used  for  heating  the  brooder.  Mr. 
Lindeman  has  made  a  special  study  of  the  care 
and  feeding  of  his  fowls,  and  the  feed  he  pro- 
vides them  is  Egyptian  corn  and  barley  and  a 
private  mash  mixture  invented  by  himself.  The 
eggs  are  marketed  in  Los  Angeles  by  the  Ameri- 
can Poultry  Company,  the  hens  paying  a  net  profit 
of  $2  each  yearly,  and  it  is  the  intention  of  the 


owners  that  the  fall  of  1915  will  show  an  increase 
of  two  thousand  laying  pullets,  and  that  their 
establishment  shall  become  a  four  thousand 
chicken  ranch. 

Mr.  Lindeman,  the  man  actively  in  charge  of 
the  ranch,  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Minnesota, 
having  come  to  California  in  1904,  where  he 
found  employment  on  farms  in  Los  Angeles 
county,  and  started  on  his  independent  chicken  in- 
dustry in  a  small  way  in  Antelope  Valley.  Be- 
sides his  poultry  ranch,  Mr.  Lindeman  is  also  at 
the  present  time  farming  sixty  acres  of  rented 
land  in  the  Van  Nuys  district,  which  he  devotes 
to  the  raising  of  watermelons,  casabas,  melons, 
potatoes,  Egyptian  corn  and  hay,  and  in  1915  had 
five  acres  of  corn  which  produced  thirteen  thou- 
sand pounds  when  threshed. 

Mr.  Milner,  the  partner  of  Mr.  Lindeman,  is  a 
native  son  of  California,  and  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man  of  Los  Angeles,  having  been  connected 
with  the  Los  Angeles  Suburban  Homes  Company 
since  its  organization.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  home 
in  Van  Nuys,  where  he  has  planted  an  orchard 
covering  twenty-five  acres,  and  the  poultry  ranch 
of  himself  and  his  partner  is  one  of  the  most 
flourishing  in  that  section  of  the  state. 


THE  JEWEL  CITY  UNDERTAKING 
COMPANY,  at  No.  246  Brand  boulevard.  Glen- 
dale,  Cal.,  is  a  modern  institution  with  superior 
service  in  every  respect,  the  building  occupied  by 
the  company  being  built  in  the  handsome  mission 
style  and  having  been  formerly  the  headquarters 
of  the  Country  Club.  Endeavor  has  been  made  to 
remove  all  objectionable  features  usual  in  con- 
nection with  undertaking  establishments,  and  as 
far  as  possible  the  surroundings  have  been  made 
homelike  in  appearance,  the  motto  of  the  company 
being  "The  Home  Beautiful,"  to  which,  in  every 
respect,  they  strive  to  live  up,  with  noteworthy 
success.  The  service  parlors  of  the  Jewel  City 
Undertaking  Company  are  artistically  furnished 
with  grass  and  reed  furniture,  and  by  the  use  of 
palms  and  flowers  in  decoration  all  harsh  or  crude 
eflfects  are  eliminated.  For  the  services  of  such 
associations  as  the  Masons,  the  Elks,  the  Odd 
Fellows,  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  etc.,  beautiful  and  appropriate 
emblems  are  used,  which  add  much  to  the  im- 


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pressiveness  of  the  ceremonies.  Adjoining  these 
service  parlors,  which  will  seat  two  hundred  and 
fifty  people,  is  the  family  room,  where  the  family 
of  the  deceased  can  be  alone  during  the  funeral 
services.  The  music  room,  adjacent  to  both,  is 
equipped  with  organ,  music  and  furniture  suitable 
for  a  room  of  this  nature,  while  in  the  display 
room  is  a  large  and  varied  assortment  of  caskets. 
The  preparation  rooms  are  finished  in  white,  with 
tiled  walls  and  cement  floors,  and  are  equipped 
with  all  modern  and  sanitary  appliances,  a  lady 
assistant  being  in  attendance,  who  is  in  every  way 
competent  and  skilful.  Connected  with  the  ambu- 
lance service  is  a  modern  invalid  coach,  used  ex- 
clusively for  the  sick  or  injured,  and  superior  to 
the  ordinary  funeral  ambulance. 

The  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Jewel  City  Undertaking  Company  is  James  Ed- 
ward Phillips,  the  other  officers  being  J.  C. 
Emery,  vice-president,  and  Mrs.  Jessie  C.  Miller, 
secretary  and  treasurer.  Mr.  Phillips,  the  presi- 
dent, is  a  native  of  Van  Buren  county,  Mich., 
where  he  was  born  in  1862.  There  he  grew  up, 
receiving  his  education  and  learning  the  trade  of 
carriage  builder,  which  he  followed  for  some  time 
at  Paw  Paw,  Mich.  Later  he  conducted  a  fur- 
niture and  undertaking  business  for  fifteen  years 
in  Paw  Paw,  where  he  was  also  a  member  of  the 
City  Council.  Removing  to  Carbon  county,  Wyo., 
for  five  years  he  followed  both  mining  and  the 
undertaking  business  there,  in  the  spring  of  the 
year  1906  coming  to  California,  where  he  estab- 
lished the  firm  of  Phillips  &  Allen,  Undertakers, 
at  Alhambra.  Selling  out  his  interests  there,  Mr. 
Phillips  came  to  Glendale  in  1910,  establishing 
here  the  Jewel  City  Undertaking  Company,  which 
continues  to  hold  a  high  place  among  institutions 
of  the  kind.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phillips  are  emi- 
nently fitted  for  the  carrying  on  of  such  a  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Phillips  being  a  graduate  of  the  Clark 
School  of  Embalming,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
the  Massachusetts  School  of  Embalming,  at  Bos- 
ton, Mass.  His  wife,  whom  he  married  in  Los 
Angeles  March  11,  1915,  was  formerly  Mrs.  Jen- 
nie A.  Lewis,  of  Michigan,  a  professional  nurse, 
and  also  having  had  a  number  of  years'  expe- 
rience in  the  undertaking  business. 

Besides  being  a  member  of  the  Merchants'  As- 
sociation of  Glendale,  Mr.  Phillips  is  also  con- 
nected with  numerous  fraternal  organizations,  be- 
ing a  Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Los  Angeles  Consistory,  of  the  Scot- 


tish Rite,  the  Elks  Lodge  No.  1289  of  Glendale 
and  the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  Glendale,  as  well 
as  past  noble  grand  of  the  Odd  Fellows  at  Paw 
Paw,  Mich.,  and  past  chief  patriarch  of  the  en- 
campment there,  also  past  master  of  the  Masonic 
Lodge  of  Carbon,  Wyom. 


CHARLES  CASSAT  DAVIS.  The  legal  pro- 
fession has  ever  attracted  to  itself  the  leading  men 
of  every  age  and  generation,  and  will  doubtless 
continue  to  do  so.  The  splendid  opportunities  of- 
fered for  men  of  unusual  capabilities,  and  the 
ever  increasing  need  for  men  of  superior  abil- 
ity, strength  of  purpose  and  unfaltering  loyalty 
to  truth  and  right,  make  this  field  one  of  the 
most  desirable,  as  high  types  of  men  to  fill  its 
exalted  positions  are  in  themselves  desirable. 
Prominent  among  the  men  who  for  more  than 
thirty  years  have  been  giving  of  their  best  to 
make  the  Los  Angeles  county  and  city  bar  noted 
throughout  the  state  and  nation  may  be  named 
Charles  Cassat  Davis,  whose  service  to  his  city 
has  not  been  confined  to  the  pursuit  and  honorable 
discharge  of  his  legal  duties  and  responsibilities  by 
any  means,  but  who  has  never  failed  to  grasp 
every  opportunity  that  has  presented  itself  for  the 
accomplishment  of  some  good  for  the  general 
public. 

Mr.  Davis  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  at  Cincin- 
nati, October  5,  1851,  the  son  of  Timothy  J. 
and  Caroline  M.  Davis.  His  father  likewise  was 
born  in  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  educated  and 
later  followed  the  insurance  business,  until  in 
1895,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business  until  the 
time  of  his  death  here  in  1899.  The  son  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati  and  later  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  university,  graduating  with  the  degree 
of  A.  B.,  in  1873,  and  in  1876  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  A.  M.  Later  he  studied  in  the  Cincinnati 
Law  School,  thence  going  to  the  Columbia  Col- 
lege Law  School  in  New  York  City,  graduating 
there  in  1875.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York  state  he  re- 
turned to  Cincinnati,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Ohio  by  the  Supreme  Court,  and  thereafter 
opened  an  office  at  Cincinnati.  He  met  with  suc- 
cess, gaining  both  legal  and  political  distinction, 
and  served  his  district  in  the  Ohio  legislature  for 
one  term. 


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ing  up  of  the  city  of  Evanston,  111.,  where  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  a 
land  owner  on  a  very  extensive  scale.  The  greater 
part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  that  city  and  there 
he  died  in  1896. 

The  same  pioneer  spirit  which  her  husband 
exerted  in  behalf  of  the  Illinois  city  in  early  days, 
Mrs.  Crain  has  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  one  of 
Southern  California's  prettiest  beach  towns  and 
summer  resorts  where  she  is  a  well-known  and 
esteemed  citizen. 


MAURICE  A.  SCHOFIELD.  As  proprietor 
of  the  Gardena  Chicken  Hatchery  and  president 
of  the  Poultrymen's  Co-operative  Association  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  frequent  contributor  to  leading 
poultry  magazines  throughout  the  country,  Mau- 
rice A.  Schoiield  is  one  of  the  best  known  poultry- 
men  in  the  state,  and  the  business  of  the  hatchery 
extends  over  Arizona,  Nevada,  New  Mexico, 
western  Texas,  and  parts  of  Oregon  and  Utah. 
They  make  a  specialty  of  hatching  a  high  grade  of 
White  Leghorn  chicks,  hatching  more  than  twice 
as  many  of  this  variety  as  of  any  other.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  White  Leghorns  they  also  hatch 
Brown  Leghorns,  Barred  Rocks,  White  Rocks, 
Black  Minorcas,  Rhode  Island  Reds,  and  a  lim- 
ited number  of  White  Orpingtons.  The  hatchery 
has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  thousand  eggs  at 
one  time  and  is  the  largest  in  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Schofield  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  born  in 
Marion  county  in  1873.  When  he  was  a  child  his 
parents  removed  to  Crawford  county,  that  state, 
and  there  he  was  reared  and  educated,  the  home 
place  being  a  farm  where  livestock  and  poultry 
v/ere  raised  extensively  in  addition  to  general 
farming.  It  was  in  1898  that  young  Mr.  Scho- 
field came  to  California,  locating  for  a  time  at 
Corning,  Tehama  county,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  raising  of  turkeys,  chickens  and  geese  on  a 
small  scale.  Later  he  went  to  Santa  Cruz,  where 
he  engaged  in  hatching  and  shipping  baby  chicks. 
In  this  enterprise  he  was  associated  with  S.  F. 
Bihn,  and  from  this  small  beginning  of  ten  years 
ago  has  resulted  a  string  of  hatcheries  with  a  total 
output  of  a  million  and  a  half  chicks  per  year, 
among  them  being  found  some  of  the  largest 
hatcheries  in  the  United  States.  The  question  of 
incubation  was  studied  from  the  ground  up,  and 
nothing  in  either  time,  effort  or  expense  has  been 
spared  to  make  this  enterprise  a   success  along 


safe  and  sane  business  lines.  It  is  possible  that 
there  have  been  no  more  extensive  experiments 
made  anywhere  in  the  United  States  than  those 
in  which  Mr.  Schofield  has  taken  part.  A  special 
machine  has  been  designed  and  since  used  for 
incubation,  which  has  produced  splendid  results. 
The  conditions  at  Santa  Cruz  not  being  satisfac- 
tory, at  the  end  of  a  year  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved, and  in  1906  Mr.  Schofield  came  to  Gar- 
dena and  established  his  large  hatchery  there.  The 
business  was  commenced  with  a  capacity  of  six- 
teen thousand  eggs,  and  has  since  been  increased 
until  it  now  has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  thou- 
sand at  one  time.  The  Gardena  hatchery  puts 
out  more  than  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
chicks  a  year,  and  these  are  generally  contracted 
for  far  in  advance.  There  is  also  capacity  for  the 
brooding  of  five  thousand  chicks  and  a  special 
brooder  for  testing  chicks  for  infection.  Year 
by  year  the  management  becomes  more  and  more 
exacting  in  the  selection  of  the  stock  for  the  pro- 
ducing of  chicks.  The  White  Leghorn  is  essen- 
tially the  commercial  chicken  of  California,  and 
so  especial  stress  is  laid  upon  this  breed;  there 
is  co-operation  between  the  Gardena  chicken 
raisers  and  the  hatchery  in  the  question  of  pro- 
ducing eggs  for  the  hatchery,  the  hardiest  stock 
and  the  most  prolific  breeders  being  selected.  In 
this  way  the  strain  of  White  Leghorns  in  the 
vicinity  has  been  materially  raised.  Practically 
all  their  eggs  are  purchased  from  the  ranches  in 
the  vicinity,  as  Mr.  Schofield  declares  that  running 
a  hatchery  is  a  "full  sized  man's  job"  and  it  is 
therefore  best  to  let  others  produce  the  stock. 

Especial  care  is  taken  in  the  selection  of  the 
eggs  for  hatching  and  Mr.  Schofield  is  so  adept  in 
this  that  he  can  tell  from  the  feel  of  an  egg  what 
its  hatching  possibilities  are.  Another  department 
in  which  special  care  is  exercised  and  unusual  suc- 
cess achieved  is  that  of  shipping  the  chicks.  Only 
the  strongest  and  best  stock  is  shipped  and  care- 
fully prepared  crates  and  boxes  are  used.  That 
the  Gardena  Hatchery  management  is  sincere  in 
its  effort  to  make  these  shipments  successful  is 
clearly  attested  by  their  guarantee  of  delivering 
the  full  number  of  chicks  at  the  point  of  receipt, 
alive  and  able  to  stand.  They  have  had  almost 
phenomenal  success  with  their  shipments,  having 
sent  one  lot  of  twenty-three  thousand  to  Tucson, 
Ariz.,  with  the  loss  of  only  eighteen  chicks. 

Mr.  Schofield,  needless  to  say,  has  made  a  care- 
ful and  exhaustive  study  of  the  poultry  business 


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and  is  an  acknowledged  expert  in  this  line.  He 
is  a  frequent  contributor  to  leading  poultry  jour- 
nals, and  his  advice  is  eagerly  sought  by  those  in- 
terested in  this  line.  He  has  a  flock  of  two  thou- 
sand hens  of  his  own  on  property  that  he  possesses 
at  Gardena,  where  he  puts  into  effect  the  knowl- 
edge that  he  has  acquired,  with  the  result  that  in 
1913  each  of  these  hens  netted  him  about  $2.37. 
He  has  co-operated  with  the  Agricultural  High 
School  at  Gardena  in  experiments  to  see  if  the 
increase  of  green  feed  will  increase  the  ash  con- 
tents of  the  egg,  and  thus  to  determine  if  certain 
feeds  will  produce  better  hatching  eggs. 

Mr.  Schofield  is  intensely  interested  in  all  that 
pertains  to  his  chosen  line  of  industry,  and  is 
taking  an  active  part  in  many  movements  which 
tend  toward  the  development  of  the  poultry  busi- 
ness. He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Poul- 
trymen's  Co-operative  Association  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  is  president  of  the  association.  He 
also  takes  an  active  interest  in  municipal  and 
commercial  affairs  in  his  home  city,  and  is  one 
of  the  most  influential  men  in  Gardena.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Citizens  State  Savings  Bank  of 
Gardena,  and  also  a  director  of  the  Spanish  In- 
dustrial Institute  of  Gardena,  and  member  of  the 
local  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

It  is  a  known  fact  that  there  is  no  other  industry 
at  Gardena  which  has  attracted  more  widespread 
interest  than  has  this  hatchery,  and  much  credit 
is  due  to  Mr.  Schofield  for  the  manner  in  which 
it  has  been  established  and  developed.  In  the 
beginning  he  gave  many  shipments  of  chicks  to 
prominent  concerns,  or  sent  them  on  trial,  as  ad- 
vertisements, and  in  every  instance  so  great  was 
the  satisfaction  that  the  experiment  was  well 
worth  while.  Now  the  plant  runs  for  ten  months 
in  the  year,  and  is  kept  going  at  full  capacity  from 
February  1  to  May  1.  Mr.  Schofield  has  many 
important  devices  and  formulas  to  his  credit, 
although  it  is  not  generally  known  that  he  is  their 
author.  The  feed  formula  used  by  the  Associa- 
tion was  compiled  by  him,  and  contains  but  seven 
ingredients. 


HANS  VON  HOFGAARDEN.  Ever  since 
his  boyhood  days  at  his  father's  home  in  Ham- 
burg, Germany,  where  he  was  born  September  10, 
1883,  Mr.  von  Hofgaarden  has  taken  a  keen  in- 
terest in  horticultural  pursuits.  As  a  child  he 
was  interested  in  trees  and  flowers,  and  when 


only  a  small  boy  worked  in  his  father's  fine  garden 
and  orchard,  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  knowing 
all  about  the  trimming  of  fruit  trees.  At  fourteen 
he  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  nurseryman  and 
horticulturist,  and  attended  the  University  of 
Koethen,  Dukedom  Anhalt,  where  he  devoted 
himself  for  three  years  to  manual  labor,  and 
spent  a  year  in  the  Royal  Horticultural  School  at 
Geisenheim,  his  college  course  costing  him  $1,000. 
His  education  has  been  so  thorough  and  complete 
in  all  details  that  he  is  exceptionally  competent 
along  his  chosen  line,  in  which  he  has  become  an 
expert. 

Although  commencing  in  business  life  at  the 
small  salary  of  but  seventy-five  cents  per  day, 
Mr.  von  Hofgaarden  advanced  rapidly,  follow- 
ing his  chosen  profession  for  six  years  in  Austria 
and  Italy,  and  in  the  cities  of  Berlin  and  Ham- 
burg in  his  native  land.  In  August,  1905,  he 
came  to  the  United  States,  where  he  was  employed 
for  six  months  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and  also  at 
Charter  Oak,  Cal.,  removing  in  the  autumn  of 
the  same  year  to  Long  Beach,  Cal.,  where  he  has 
remained  since  that  time  and  established  for  him- 
self the  reputation  of  an  expert  nurseryman  and 
horticulturist.  On  first  coming  to  the  last-named 
city  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  employ  of  the  Long 
Beach  Nursery  Company,  but  soon  decided  to  go 
into  business  for  himself.  Having  cabled  his 
father  for  the  necessary  means.  $2,000,  he  was 
able  to  purchase  two  acres  of  land  three  miles 
east  of  Long  Beach  and  to  set  himself  up  in  his 
desired  trade  of  raising  flowers.  He  was  joined 
by  F.  Falkenhayn  as  partner,  and  the  two  con- 
tinued in  business  together  until  1911,  when  Mr. 
von  Hofgaarden  bought  out  the  entire  interest  in 
the  business  and  has  become  the  leading  nursery- 
man of  Long  Beach,  with  store  and  show  gardens 
located  at  No.  322  American  avenue,  and  green- 
houses covering  five  and  one-half  acres  of  ground, 
at  the  corner  of  East  Tenth  street  and  Terminal 
avenue.  At  this  fine  establishment,  known  as  the 
Mira  Mar  Nursery  (which  signifies  "facing  the 
sea,"  since  it  is  located  not  far  from  the  beach), 
flowers  of  many  rare  varieties  are  grown,  and  in 
which  Mr.  von  Hofgaarden  specializes  in  roses 
and  carnations,  as  well  as  ferns,  palms,  evergreens 
and  other  trees.  Many  lawns  and  gardens  of  the 
finest  homes  in  the  city  were  laid  out  by  him, 
among  which  may  be  mentioned  the  lawns  of  the 
Robert  Nelson  and  the  Anderson  estates,  both 
show  places  of  Long  Beach,  and  the  lawn  of 


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HABEN  HOSPITAL.  This  modem  and 
fully  equipped  hospital  was  established  by  the 
Haben  sisters — three  in  number — at  Monrovia  in 
the  fall  of  1912.  The  sisters  are  all  trained  nurses 
and  were  well  prepared  for  such  an  undertaking 
before  they  formed  their  plans.  Miss  Sophia 
Haben  is  a  graduate  of  the  Clara  Barton  Hospital 
of  Los  Angeles,  class  of  1909 ;  Miss  Mamie  Haben 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  county  hospital, 
class  of  1912 ;  and  Miss  Lillian  Haben  is  a  trained 
nurse,  having  received  her  instruction  and  train- 
ing in  Los  Angeles  hospitals,  but  not  completing 
her  course  for  graduation. 

The  hospital,  which  is  modern  in  every  respect 
and  fully  equipped  with  the  latest  appliances  of 
science  in  every  department  and  detail,  was 
started  from  a  very  modest  beginning,  and  has 
grown  to  its  present  splendid  proportions  with 
almost  phenomenal  rapidity.  It  was  first  opened 
in  a  small  five-room  cottage  on  Olive  street,  and 
soon  grew  to  such  proportions  that  larger  quar- 
ters were  a  necessity.  A  lot  at  the  corner  of 
Heliotrope  drive  and  Lime  street  was  purchased 
and  a  modern,  fifteen-room  hospital  building  was 
erected  in  May,  1913,  less  than  a  year  after  the 
opening  of  the  first  institution.  Here  may  be 
found  all  the  latest  in  surgical  appliances,  and  the 
most  sanitary  conditions  are  maintained.  There 
are  high  pressure  sterilizing  appliances  for  water, 
dressings  and  instruments,  and  the  operating 
rooms  are  designed  on  the  very  latest  lines  and 
fitted  with  the  newest  products  of  science. 

Miss  Sophia  Haben  has  made  a  specialty  of 
surgical  nursing,  and  held  the  position  of  special 
surgical  nurse  at  the  Clara  Barton  Plospital  for 
some  time,  and  it  was  under  her  direct  super- 
vision that  the  new  building  was  designed  and 
erected. 

The  sisters  deserve  much  credit  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  such  an  institution,  and  their  splendid 
success  is  a  tribute  to  their  ability  and  also  to  the 
confidence  and  esteem  in  which  they  are  held  by 
the  people  of  the  community.  They  are  all  natives 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  have  grown  to  womanhood  in 
this  county.  They  have  been  especially  happy  in 
their  selection  of  a  site  for  their  hospital  and  their 
work  of  healing  is  greatly  aided  by  the  bounty  of 
nature.  Their  location  is  especially  suited  for 
hospital  purposes — it  is  high  and  dry,  being  one 
thousand  feet  above  sea  level,  and  is  surrounded 
by  orange  groves,  flowers  to  rest  the  eye,  and 
fresh  air  and  quiet  to  soothe  tired  and   fretted 


nerves.  They  make  a  specialty  of  surgical  cases, 
and  of  cases  where  a  rest-cure  is  required,  their 
broad  veranda  being  especially  designed  for  such 
cases  as  these. 

The  Haben  Hospital  is  the  pioneer  hospital  of 
Monrovia,  there  being  no  similar  institution  nearer 
than  Pomona.  The  sisters  take  a  pardonable  pride 
in  their  establishment,  and  are  especially  careful 
to  keep  abreast  of  the  progressive  times  in  the 
matter  of  new  and  modern  equipment  and  ap- 
pliances. 


JACOB  MAECHTLEN.  A  native  of  Ger- 
many, but  a  resident  of  the  United  States  since 
he  was  a  lad  of  fourteen  years,  Jacob  Maechtlen, 
now  of  Covina,  is  one  of  the  most  highly  re- 
spected and  substantial  orange  growers  of  the 
citrus  belt,  and  owns  one  of  the  most  productive 
and  highly  improved  properties  in  his  locality. 
Having  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  county 
since  1894  he  has  had  opportunity  to  make  a 
careful  study  of  citrus  culture  and  is  therefore 
successfully  and  extensively  engaged  in  the  grow- 
ing of  oranges  of  several  varieties,  lemons  and 
grape  fruit.  On  his  arrival  here  he  purchased  a 
ten-acre  tract  at  Ontario  and  two  years  later 
bought  his  present  place  at  Covina,  which  con- 
tains forty  acres.  At  that  time  the  property  was 
badly  run  down,  but  is  now  one  of  the  show 
places  of  the  San  Gabriel  valley.  The  orange  and 
lemon  groves  are  in  especially  fine  condition, 
and  the  yearly  yield  is  surprisingly  large.  Mr. 
Maechtlen  takes  great  interest  in  the  culture  and 
study  of  cacti  and  has  a  very  beautiful  cactus 
garden.  The  improvement  of  his  home  place  has 
had  a  decided  influence  on  the  value  of  the  sur- 
rounding property,  raising  the  value  thereof  ap- 
preciably, and  many  new  groves  are  being  planted 
in  his  neighborhood.  He  has  also  been  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  development  of  the  country, 
and  with  others  was  influential  in  having  the  Pa- 
cific Electric  Railway  Company  extend  their  line 
into  Pomona  and  the  upper  part  of  the  San  Ga- 
briel valley. 

In  addition  to  his  handsome  property  at  Co- 
vina Mr.  Maechtlen,  in  partnership  with  his  son, 
Julius  J.  Maechtlen,  also  owns  a  splendid  forty- 
acre  ranch  at  San  Dimas,  where  they  are  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  raising  oranges,  lemons  and 
grape  fruit.  Since  purchasing  this  property  in 
1910  they  have  installed  two  fine  pumping  plants 


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and  otherwise  improved  the  ranch.  They  have  two 
acres  in  tangerines,  two  in  grape  fruit,  and  of  the 
remainder  one-third  each  in  navel  oranges,  Valen- 
cia oranges  and  lemons.  In  1914  the  tangerines 
produced  five  hundred  and  fifty  packed  boxes  to 
the  acre,  and  the  grape  fruit,  four  hundred  packed 
boxes  to  the  acre,  while  the  navels  yielded  four 
hundred  and  twenty-five  and  the  Valencias  five 
hundred  and  fifty  packed  boxes  to  the  acre.  Some 
of  the  largest  tangerine  trees  in  California  are  on 
this  property. 

Mr.  Maechtlen  is  a  native  of  Wurtemberg, 
Germany,  born  March  3,  1843.  Coming  to  the 
United  States  in  1857,  he  learned  the  printer's 
trade  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.  On  the  first  call  for 
volunteers  for  three  months  he  enlisted, 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war,  in  the  First 
Wisconsin  Infantry  and  at  the  expiration  of  the 
three  months  again  enlisted,  this  time  in  the  Ninth 
Wisconsin  Infantry,  serving  three  years  in  West 
Virginia,  Kansas,  Missouri  and  Arkansas.  After 
the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  his  trade  as  a 
printer  and  followed  this  vocation  through  the 
larger  cities  of  Ohio,  Missouri  and  Tennessee. 
For  twenty-five  years  he  lived  in  Highland,  Mad- 
ison county,  111.,  and  for  twenty-one  years  of  that 
time  was  manager  of  a  German  weekly  printed  in 
the  German  language  and  known  as  The  High- 
land Union.  He  built  up  this  paper  along  clean 
and  businesslike  lines,  and  it  was  widely  known 
among  the  German  speaking  people  of  that  part 
of  the  state.  He  also  took  an  active  part  in  the 
local  affairs  of  Highland,  being  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education,  and  for  four  years  was  also 
postmaster  of  Highland.  In  his  political  prefer- 
ences he  was  allied  with  the  Republican  party, 
then  as  now,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs 
of  his  party,  being  especially  alive  to  all  that 
was  of  local  import.  He  was  a  charter  member 
and  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Grand  Army  Post 
at  Highland,  and  is  now  a  member  of  Vicksburg 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  at  Pomona.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  San  Dimas  Lemon  Association  and  of  the 
Covina  Citrus  Association. 

Mr.  Maechtlen's  wife  passed  away  in  1894, 
leaving  two  sons,  William  L.  and  Julius  J.,  both 
of  whom  are  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  county. 
William  L.,  of  Los  Angeles,  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Earl  V.  Lewis  &  Company.  He  married 
Malvina  Hull,  and  has  two  sons,  Lawrence  and 
Walter.  Julius  J.  was  for  a  number  of  years 
engaged  in  the  grading  and  contracting  business 


with  J.  W.  Rice,  also  owned  the  Union  Brick 
Company  of  San  Diego,  and  farmed  two  thou- 
sand acres  of  grain  in  San  Diego  county,  near 
Fallbrook.  In  connection  with  his  partner,  J.  W. 
Rice,  he  did  much  valuable  grading  work  in  Los 
Angeles,  including  that  done  on  Chapman  Park 
tract  and  Normandie  Square  tract,  and  others. 
Since  the  purchase  of  the  San  Dimas  citrus  ranch 
he  has  given  his  time  and  attention  to  the  care  of 
that  property  and  has  disposed  of  his  grading 
interests.  His  wife  was  formerly  Miss  Pearl 
Bradford,  of  San  Jose,  Cal.,  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  three  children,  two  daughters  and  a 
son,  Dorothy,  Alice  and  Jacob. 


E.  D.  NORTHUP.  A  man  of  enterprise  and 
ability,  capable  and  practical  beyond  the  average, 
E.  D.  Northup,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  Duarte 
for  about  twenty-five  years,  has  done  much  to- 
ward the  upbuilding  and  development  of  his  local- 
ity, and  is  regarded  today  as  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  that  section.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  fine 
orange  grove,  with  a  beautiful  residence  site 
thereon,  and  is  intimately  identified  with  many 
social  and  business  interests  in  his  home  commu- 
nity. One  of  his  many  noteworthy  contributions 
to  the  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  was  his 
gift  of  a  plot  of  land  80x250  feet  to  the  Santa  Fe 
Railroad,  on  which  their  present  station  stands. 

Mr.  Northup  is  a  native  of  Herkimer  county, 
N.  Y.,  born  March  22,  1850.  His  father  was  a 
merchant,  but  he  himself  was  always  deeply  in- 
terested in  farming  and  worked  at  that  occupa- 
tion there  until  1868,  when  he  went  to  Dakota. 
During  the  time  he  remained  there,  until  1871, 
he  worked  on  a  farm,  then  returned  to  New  York 
state  for  a  short  time.  It  was  in  the  spring  of 
1874  that  he  came  to  California  for  the  first  time, 
coming  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and 
making  the  journey  from  Illinois,  where  he  had 
spent  the  previous  year.  In  the  Sacramento  val- 
ley, near  Courtland,  he  was  employed  on  a  farm 
for  six  years,  after  which  he  passed  the  same 
length  of  time  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  During  his 
residence  in  the  latter  city  he  was  employed  as 
messenger  on  the  Santa  Fe,  from  1882  to  1884, 
running  from  Kansas  City  to  Albuquerque.  From 
Kansas  City  Mr.  Northup  went  to  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  where  for  a  short  time  he  was  employed 
in  a  woolen  mill,  after  which  he  came  to  California 


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well  in  this  district. 

Mr.  Northup  is  vitally  interested  in  the  citrus 
industry  and  is  president  of  the  Duarte  and  Mon- 
rovia Fruit  Growers  Exchange,  and  was  for  sev- 
eral years  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Duarte 
Mutual  Irrigation  &  Canal  Company.  He  is  also 
greatly  interested  in  educational  matters  and  !<- 
clerk  of  the  local  school  h<.-.r,i  ^t  dn-  i  :, 
is  also  a  director  of  th. 


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William  Bryer  &  Comnnm 
establishment  in.  Kinj.; 
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in  the  study  of  developmental  c  i 
out  the  country,  and  in  1874  he  ; 
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horse  back,  taking  thirty  days  to  make  the  trip. 
fn  1^13  1-ir  again  took  a  trip  which  covered  a  part 
■   territory,  and  was  filled  with  wonder 
improvements  that  had  taken  place  in 
of  time. 

>n  to  his  business  prestige  Mr.  Northup 

■  quaintance  and  friendship  of  a  wide 

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rights  by  the  city  of  Sierra  Madre,  as  well  as 
the  acquisition  of  a  site  for  the  new  city  hall. 

Mr.  Pegler  was  born  in  Gloucestershire, 
England,  November  30,  1846,  on  a  farm,  and 
received  his  education  in  private  boarding, 
schools  of  that  vicinity.  In  1880  he  came  to 
the  United  States,  first  locating  near  Cedar 
Falls,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In 
1884  he  removed  to  Pocahontas  county,  that 
state,  where  he  purchased  four  hundred 
acres  of  land,  which  has  increased  in  value 
from  $4  per  acre,  as  the  original  purchase 
price,  to  $175,  its  present  value.  There  he  en- 
gaged in  raising  cattle  and  hogs,  meeting  with 
much  success.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  that  part 
of  Iowa,  there  being  neither  roads  nor  fences 
at  the  time  of  his  location  there. 

It  was  in  1892  that  Mr.  Pegler  first  came  to 
the  Pacific  coast,  visiting  California  first  and 
later  going  to  Salem,  Ore.,  where  he  remained 
until  1893.  In  1894  he  came  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia and  purchased  nineteen  acres  of  raw 
land  at  Sierra  Madre,  which  he  planted  to 
orange  and  lemon  trees,  and  such  has  been  his 
success  that  he  is  considered  one  of  the  best 
local  authorities  on  questions  of  citrus  culture. 
He  is  prominently  associated  with  the  citrus 
interests  of  the  county,  and  was  formerly  a 
director  of  the  Lamanda  Fruit  Association,  and 
also  was  a  member  of  the  Duarte  Fruit  Asso- 
ciation. In  1908  he  disposed  of  his  acreage 
and  retired  from  active  participation  in  busi- 
ness afi'airs,  since  which  time  he  has  lived  in 
the  enjoyment  of  his  many  years  of  successful 
industry.  He  was  the  first  man  in  that  sec- 
tion to  develop  water  on  his  ranch,  he  sinking 
a  well  for  irrigation  purposes,  two  hundred  and 
thirty-six  feet  deep.  During  one  of  the  past 
dry  seasons  he  supplied  part  of  the  residents  of 
Sierra  Madre  with  drinking  water  from  this 
well. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Pegler  occurred  in  his 
native  shire  in  England,  where  he  was  united 
with  Miss  Mary  Bullock,  also  a  native  of 
Gloucestershire.  Of  this  union  were  born 
three  sons,  only  one  of  whom,  Carlton  J.  Peg- 
ler, is  now  living.  He  is  married  and  the 
father  of  three  sons,  Harold,  Ernest  and  Don- 
ald, of  whom  their  grandfather  is  exceedingly 
fond  and  proud.  Although  now  almost  seventy 
years  of  age,  Mr.  Pegler  is  keenly  alive  to  all 
that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the  city,  and  is 


particularly  well  informed  on  all  matters  of 
municipal  progress  and  improvement,  the  well- 
being  of  his  home  city  now  being  his  principal 


JAMES  SMITH  TRIPP.  For  almost  forty 
years  a  resident  on  the  Pacific  coast,  which  he 
has  traveled  from  the  Mexican  line  to  Alaska 
and  back,  is  the  record  of  James  Smith  Tripp, 
now  residing  on  his  beautiful  home  place  at 
Covina,  in  the  midst  of  one  of  the  finest  and 
most  profitable  orange  groves  in  the  county. 
It  was  in  1891  that  he  purchased  his  present 
property,  where  he  has  since  resided,  and 
during  the  intervening  years  has  made  for  him- 
self a  place  in  the  life  of  the  community,  both 
socially  and  as  a  factor  in  the  commercial 
field,  that  might  well  be  the  envy  of  many  resi- 
dents of  much  longer  standing. 

Mr.  Tripp  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  Novem- 
ber 16,  1841,  in  Noble  county,  where  he  was 
reared  on  a  farm,  receiving  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  district.  When  he 
was  but  nineteen  he  responded  to  President 
Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers,  and  served  for 
four  years  as  a  member  of  the  Twenty-seventh 
Ohio  Infantry,  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland, 
participating  in  all  the  great  battles  fought  by 
that  army,  and  ending  with  the  famous  March 
to  the  Sea.  He  has  kept  alive  the  associations 
through  his  membership  in  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  in  whose  local  meetings  he  takes 
an  active  interest.  In  1865,  following  the  close 
of  the  war,  Mr.  Tripp  went  to  southern  Illinois, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years,  engaging 
in  farming.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  went 
to  Osage  county,  Kan.,  where  he  again  engaged 
in  farming,  remaining  in  this  locality  for  seven 
years. 

It  was  in  1876  that  Mr.  Tripp  first  came  to 
the  Pacific  coast,  taking  up  a  government  claim 
near  Seattle,  Wash.,  in  Snohomish  county, 
where  for  six  years  he  followed  his  former 
occupation  as  a  tiller  of  the  soil.  While  there 
he  served  for  a  time  as  deputy  sheriff.  Later 
he  spent  two  seasons  in  Alaska,  being  engaged 
in  gold  mining  at  Nome  and  other  northern 
points,  and  enduring  many  hardships  and  pri- 
vations during  his  stay  there.  In  1891  he  came 
to  Southern  California  and  located  at  Covina, 
where    he    purchased    twenty    acres    of    unim- 


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HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD 


proved  land,  which  he  has  since  planted  to 
Orange  trees,  and  today  has  one  of  the  finest 
and  most  productive  groves  in  the  citrus  belt. 
In  1914  he  took  twenty-eight  hundred  boxes  of 
fruit  from  his  trees,  all  of  a  high  class  product. 
He  has  made  a  careful  study  of  soil  and  condi- 
tions, and  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  all 
details  of  horticulture. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Tripp  was  solemnized 
in  1891  and  united  him  with  Miss  Addie  Pres- 
ton, of  Wisconsin.  The  eldest  of  their  four 
living  children  is  Harvey,  an  engineer  on  the 
Santa  Fe  Railroad,  who  married  Miss  Nellie 
Parker  of  Highlands,  and  is  the  father  of  two 
children,  Edna  and  Carle ;  Edith,  who  gradu- 
ated from  the  musical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California,  is  now  the  wife 
of  George  Howard  of  Los  Angeles;  Fred,  an 
expert  horticulturist,  of  Covina.  does  budding 
and  takes  care  of  orchards;  and  Marie  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles.  All  of  the  children  are 
accomplished  musicians,  having  been  carefully 
trained  under  competent  masters.  One  child, 
Carle  Preston,  passed  away  when  two  years 
old. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tripp  have  many  friends 
in  Covina,  where  they  are  well  known.  Mr. 
Tripp  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church, 
while  his  wife  attends  the  Christian  Science 
church. 


C.  L.  HOLLINGSWORTH.  One  of  the 
most  substantial  and  energetic  residents  of 
Baldwin  Park,  and  one  who  has  done  much  for 
this  thriving  little  town,  is  C.  L.  Hollings- 
worth,  grocer,  farmer,  and  owner  and  manager 
of  a  prosperous  cannery,  where  the  new  break- 
fast food,  "Shuster  Wheat,"  is  prepared  for  the 
market.  Mr.  Hollingsworth  has  lived  in  Los  An- 
geles county  several  years.  He  came  first  in  1884, 
but  soon  returned  to  his  former  home  in 
Kansas,  where  he  was  prominently  identified 
with  his  home  town  for  twelve  years.  In  1911 
he  returned  to  California  and  located  at  Bald- 
win Park,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home. 
He  is  one  of  the  enthusiastic  boosters  for  this 
section  of  the  county  and  is  giving  of  his  best 
effort,  his  time  and  his  energy  for  the  general 
promotion  and  development  of  his  home  com- 
munity. 

Mr.  Hollingsworth  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  born 
in  Cedar  county,  April  4,  1865.     When  he  was 


fourteen  years  of  age  he  removed  to  Kansas 
with  his  parents,  locating  in  Montgomery 
county.  When  he  was  nineteen  he  came  to 
California,  joining  an  uncle,  Stephen  Towns- 
end,  at  Long  Beach  and  working  for  him  in 
the  beach  city,  where  Mr.  Townsend  was  a 
grading  contractor.  At  that  time  Long  Beach 
contained  only  about  a  dozen  houses,  all  of  a 
very  primitive  character,  and  the  first  work  on 
the  grading  of  Ocean  avenue  was  done  by  Mr. 
Hollingsworth.  He  also  assisted  in  the  laying 
out  of  the  town.  For  two  years  he  remained 
in  the  county,  engaging  in  grading  work,  and 
then  returned  to  Coffeyville,  Kas.,  where  he 
engaged  in  dairying  and  farming.  He  soon 
assumed  a  place  of  prominence  in  the  com- 
munity, taking  an  active  part  in  public 
affairs.  For  a  period  of  twelve  years  he  was 
a  member  of  the  school  board,  and  did  much 
for  the  welfare  of  the  public  schools.  One 
of  his  most  thrilling  experiences  was  the  raid 
on  the  First  National  Bank  of  Coffeyville 
by  the  Dalton  gang,  Mr.  Hollingsworth  hap- 
pening to  be  in  the  bank  at  the  time. 

It  was  in  1911  that  Mr.  Hollingsworth  re- 
turned to  California  to  make  his  permanent 
home.  He  bought  a  small  tract  of  land  at 
Baldwin  Park,  and  also  an  acre  near  the  school 
house,  both  of  which  are  very  valuable  pieces 
of  property.  In  1912  he  opened  a  grocery 
store  in  Baldwin  Park  and  has  since  conducted 
a  flourishing  business  there,  meeting  with  much 
success  and  giving  splendid  service  and  satis- 
faction to  his  patrons.  Here  again  he  has  as- 
sumed his  rightful  place  in  the  community  and 
takes  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  school  board,  having  rendered 
valuable  service  as  chairman  of  that  body.  He 
owns  and  operates  the  Baldwin  Park  Cannery, 
in  which  a  specialty  is  made  of  handling 
peaches  and  tomatoes,  and  where  also  the  new 
breakfast  food  known  as  "Shuster  Wheat"  is 
canned.  This  is  a  novelty,  being  the  first 
breakfast  food  to  be  put  up  in  cans.  It  is  made 
from  the  whole  wheat  and  is  ready  to  serve 
when  taken  from  the  cans.  The  cannery  has  a 
capacity  of  two  thousand  cans  per  day. 

Aside  from  his  business  connection  Mr.  Hol- 
lingsworth is  well  known  in  social  and  frater- 
nal circles,  where  he  is  deservedly  popular. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  public- 
spirited  men  in  the  community. 


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Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the  San  Gabriel 
valley,  and  has  been  well  in  the  forefront  in 
all  movements  for  local  improvement  and  gen- 
eral welfare.  The  greatest  growth  of  Baldwin 
Park  has  taken  place  since  1910,  and  in  spite 
of  the  so-called  hard  times  the  growth  during 
these  years  has  been  steady  and  rapid. 

Another  industry  that  is  very  profitable  at 
Baldwin  Park  is  that  of  dairying.  Seven  crops 
of  alfalfa  are  usually  raised  in  a  year  and  this 
is  of  great  advantage  to  the  dairy  farmer.  The 
B  &  F  Dairy  Ranch  is  located  in  the  section, 
this  being  one  of  the  finest  and  best  equipped 
dairies  in  the  county. 

The  social  and  religious  life  of  the  town  is 
far  above  that  of  the  average  place  of  its  size. 
The  Baldwin  Park  Women's  Club  is  one  of  the 
civic  organizations  which  is  growing  con- 
stantly in  membership  and  which  is  accom- 
plishing real  good  for  the  betterment  of  the 
community.  They  have  a  building  of  their 
own  in  which  they  meet  weekly,  and  the 
women  of  the  town  are  bearing  their  full  share 
of  the  municipal  responsibility.  H.  G.  Com- 
fort is  editor,  owner  and  proprietor  of  the 
Weekly  Bulletin,  the  local  newspaper. 


JOHN  A.  HAYDEN.  One  of  the  early  set- 
tlers in  the  district  which  is  now  Hollywood,  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  residential  sections  of  Los 
Angeles.  John  A.  Hayden  has  always  taken  a  keen 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  community 
and  has  done  much  for  the  development  and  up- 
building of  that  section  of  the  city.  A  native  of 
Ireland,  born  December  28,  1844,  he  is  the  son 
of  Andrew  and  Julia  (Dyer)  Hayden,  who  re- 
moved to  America  when  this  son  was  but  three 
years  of  age  and  located  in  St.  Louis.  There  he 
was  reared  and  educated,  and  there  also  he  made 
his  first  venture  into  the  business  world.  After 
completing  school  he  entered  the  slate  and  tile 
manufacturing  business  and  in  this  was  very  suc- 
cessful. In  1904  he  came  to  California  and  lo- 
cated in  the  Hollywood  district,  purchasing  ten 
acres,  and  expecting  to  retire  from  active  business 
life.  This  portion  of  the  city  was  then  unsettled 
and  there  was  no  expectation  that  within  ten 
years  there  would  be  handsome  residences  and 
cosy  bungalows  scattered  all  over  the  then  farm. 
At  the  time  of  his  location  here  he  erected  a  com- 
fortable residence,  but  has  since  built  a  handsome 


home  next  to  this  where  he  now  resides.  He  has 
been  actively  interested  in  the  platting  and  sub- 
dividing of  his  ranch  and  has  realized  a  handsome 
profit  from  the  sale  of  this  property.  He  is  well 
known  through  Hollywood  as  a  man  of  energy 
and  thrift,  progressive,  public  spirited  and  wide 
awake  to  the  advantages  of  the  city. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Hayden  occurred  in  Nau- 
voo.  111.,  December  31,  1884,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Isabelle  G.  Rogers,  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Williamson)  Rogers  of  that  city.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hayden  are  the  parents  of  five  children, 
three  daughters  and  two  sons,  all  of  whom  are  well 
known  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity.  They  are : 
Edward  P.,  Hazel,  Isabelle  (the  wife  of  Harry 
von  Meter),  Marcella  (attending  Stanford  Uni- 
versity), and  Thomas. 


JOHN  JACOB  LOCHER.  At  present  en- 
gaged in  the  real  estate  business  in  Baldwin  Park, 
where  he  owns  extensive  property.  Dr.  Locher  is 
one  of  the  most  efficient  chemical  engineers  in  the 
state,  and  a  man  of  high  repute  and  deep  learn- 
ing. He  is  a  native  of  Switzerland,  born  in  1863, 
and  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native  land.  In  his 
younger  days  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
embroideries,  dyeing  and  finishing  silks  and  cot- 
ton goods.  His  natural  inclination  was  along 
scientific  lines,  however,  and  he  soon  forsook 
commercial  pursuits  for  the  learned  professions. 
After  attending  college  in  Switzerland  he  pur- 
sued his  studies  in  Germany  and  France,  making 
a  special  study  of  chemistry  and  graduating  as  a 
chemical  and  consulting  engineer. 

For  a  number  of  years  Dr.  Locher  followed 
his  profession  in  the  old  country,  and  then  came 
to  California,  locating  in  Los  Angeles  in  1900. 
Here  he  opened  a  laboratory  and  again  followed 
a  professional  career  for  a  number  of  years,  meet- 
ing with  much  success.  In  1912  he  became  in- 
terested in  Baldwin  Park  real  estate,  readily 
recognizing  the  opportunities  which  the  town 
offered  the  investor.  He  at  once  began  making 
purchases  of  land  there,  buying  small  tracts  as 
they  were  available,  until  he  now  is  one  of  the 
largest  land  owners  of  the  community,  his  hold- 
ings including  many  small  parcels  and  a  ranch 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  town.  Dr.  Locher 
has  been  an  active  factor  in  the  development  and 
upbuilding  of  the  town  and  is  one  of  the  stanch 
supporters    of    the    best    local    interests.      He 


HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD 


opened  the  first  drug  store  in  the  town,  later 
disposing  of  this  interest.  He  also  owned  the 
land  on  which  the  First  National  Bank  stands, 
was  one  of  the  promoters  of  this  institution,  and 
is  still  a  stockholder.  Besides  conducting  his  real 
estate  business  he  is  also  maintaining  a  model 
bakery  and  butcher  shop. 


WILLIAM  R.  JOHNSON.  The  most  im- 
portant factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  a  town  or 
community  is  the  quality  of  its  citizenship,  and  in 
this  particular  the  thriving  little  city  of  Baldwin 
Park  appears  to  have  been  blessed,  for  it  claims 
a  goodly  share  of  clever,  capable,  energetic  citi- 
zens, whose  every  effort  is  unselfishly  turned  to- 
ward making  their  home  town  a  center  of  useful 
activities  and  toward  the  development  of  its  splen- 
did resources.  One  of  the  best  known  and  most 
active  of  the  leading  citizens  of  this  little  city  is 
William  R.  Johnson,  who  since  coming  to  Califor- 
nia in  1909  has  made  his  home  here.  He  is  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business  and  owns 
a  valuable  property  where  he  makes  his  home.  In 
all  the  best  interests  of  the  town  Mr.  Johnson  may 
be  found  well  in  the  front  of  the  most  progressive, 
and  he  gives  very  freely  of  both  his  time  and 
ability  for  the  general  public  welfare.  He  has 
rendered  valuable  service  in  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  and  for 
the  past  four  years  he  has  served  that  body  as 
clerk.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Bald- 
win Park  Chamber  of  Commerce,  taking  an  active 
part  in  the  affairs  of  that  organization. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  a  native  of  Oswego  county, 
N.  Y.,  and  when  he  was  four  years  of  age  his 
parents  removed  to  Olmsted  county,  Minn., 
where  he  lived  until  he  was  si.xteen  years  of  age, 
passing  his  boyhood  on  a  farm  and  attending  the 
district  school.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he 
went  to  St.  Paul  and  was  closely  identified  with 
the  city's  activities  for  many  years.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  after  making  that  city  his  home  he 
was  engaged  as  a  bookkeeper,  and  later  he  became 
secretary  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  this  order  having 
extensive  property  interests  in  that  city,  and  the 
care  of  all  this,  as  well  as  the  customary  lodge 
routine,  fell  upon  the  shoulders  of  this  young 
man.  During  the  eighteen  years  that  he  filled 
this  position  he  became  known  as  one  of  the 
most  prominent  Odd  Fellows  in  St.  Paul.  Mr. 
Johnson  has  always  been  a  Republican  in  his 


political  affiliations  and  from  an  early  age  took  an 
active  part  in  the  local  affairs  of  his  party.  For 
six  years  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  St.  Paul 
city  council,  and  following  this  served  as  county 
auditor  for  four  years.  Later  he  became  clerk  of 
the  juvenile  court,  holding  this  position  for  two 
years,  when  he  resigned  to  come  to  Cahfornia  in 
1909. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Johnson  occurred  in  St. 
Paul  in  1876,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Julia  Glea- 
son  of  that  city.  They  have  three  children,  two 
sons  and  a  daughter:  Charles  W.,  Frank,  and 
Mrs.  A.  A.  Watson,  the  last-mentioned  a  resident 
of  Ramona  Park,  this  county.  Mr.  Johnson  has 
always  been  especially  active  in  fraternal  affairs 
and  has  many  friends  among  the  members  of 
various  beneficial  organizations.  He  joined  the 
Odd  Fellows  in  St.  Paul  in  1882,  and  is  past 
grand  master  of  the  state  of  Minnesota.  He  is 
also  a  prominent  Mason,  being  a  life  member  of 
St.  Paul  Lodge  No.  3,  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  also  be- 
longs to  the  Scottish  Rite. 


GEORGE  B.  GORDON.  The  citrus  indus- 
try of  Southern  California  has  claimed,  and  is 
still  claiming,  the  best  men  of  the  community, 
men  of  brains  and  ability;  and  oftentimes,  after 
making  a  hard  fight  in  some  less  attractive  field, 
and  winning,  a  man  turns  for  his  own  pleasure 
to  the  citrus  belt  and  spends  his  leisure  days 
among  his  orange  and  lemon  groves.  This  is,  in 
a  sense,  the  case  with  G.  B.  Gordon,  of  Glen- 
dora,  although  it  was  not  leisure  time  that  Mr. 
Gordon  had  to  spend,  but  rather  the  growing 
demands  of  his  large  horticultural  interests  that 
made  it  necessary  for  him  to  give  up  his  growing 
legal  practice  just  when  he  had  won  distinction 
in  his  profession.  He  is  now  accredited  as  one  of 
the  leading  citizens  of  Glendora,  taking  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  affairs  of  the  municipality,  and 
also  figuring  largely  in  the  matters  that  pertain  to 
the  citrus  industry,  being  manager  at  this  time 
for  the  Glendora  Orange  and  Lemon  Growers 
Association. 

Mr.  Gordon  is  a  native  of  Tennessee,  having 
been  born  in  Columbia,  August  7,  1881.  His 
father,  Hugh  T.  Gordon,  came  with  his  family  to 
California  in  1888  and  practiced  law  in  Los  An- 
geles until  1894,  when  he  came  to  Glendora  and 
took  up  eighty  acres  of  government  land.     The 


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interested  in  the  operation  and  development  oi 
all  these  properties,  and  from  his  home  in  Los 
Angeles  has  kept  in  close  touch  with  every- 
thing pertaining  to  his  various  companies. 

Senator  Dorsey  is  a  man  of  an  unusually 
wide  range  of  interests,  and  his  commercial 
pursuits  and  political  activities  have  by  no 
means  engaged  his  entire  time  and  attention. 
He  is  remarkably  well  informed  on  a  variety 
of  topics  quite  beyond  the  range  of  the  usual 
business  man,  and  is  associated  with  a  number 
of  scientific  societies  of  international  reputation 
and  influence.  Among  these  are  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society,  the  Royal  Archseological 
Society,  the  Society  of  Engineers  and  Metal- 
lurgy, the  International  Club,  and  the  Phillis 
Court  Club  (Henley),  all  of  London,  England; 
the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  of  New  York,  and 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 
Locally  he  is  connected  with  the  California 
Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  and  the 
San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club. 


HOWARD  SHIELDS  KING.  The  manager 
of  the  great  Bixby  Ranch,  near  Compton,  Cal., 
is  Howard  Shields  King,  a  native  of  Cherokee 
county,  Iowa,  where  he  was  born  March  3,  1874, 
the  son  of  Abraham  King  of  Boston  and  Mary 
(Thompson)  King,  a  native  of  Wisconsin.  How- 
ard King  was  one  of  eight  children,  namely: 
Abraham  L.  (now  residing  at  Palms,  Cal.), 
Edith,  Mamie,  Frank,  Fred,  Howard,  Oscar  and 
Walter.  In  1881  the  family  removed  to  Santa 
Monica,  Cal.,  then  a  town  of  only  three  houses, 
and  there  the  father  purchased  forty  acres  of 
land  whereon  he  engaged  in  farming  for  many 
years.  One  who  sees  the  Santa  Monica  of  today, 
a  pretty  town  upon  a  clifif,  with  a  line  of  hand- 
some hotels  and  summer  cottages  along  the  paved 
beach,  would  not  guess  that  forty  years  ago  the 
little  city  was  subdivided  from  the  old  Rancho 
San  Vicente,  a  name  perpetuated  today  in  the 
beautiful  and  rapidly  growing  residence  section. 
Mr.  King  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  in  the 
early  days  of  Santa  Monica,  and  he  and  one  of 
his  brothers  plowed  the  ground  for  the  Soldiers' 
Home  at  Sawtelle  a  few  miles  distant  and  raised 
the  first  flag  over  the  site  for  the  institution. 
Governor  Brown  and  Colonel  Trade,  who  were 
in  charge  of  the  Home,  gave  them  the  honor  of 


the  first  flag,  and  it  was  run  up  on  an  old  syca- 
more tree  on  the  grounds,  the  boys  being  prom- 
ised a  medal  from  Congress  for  their  co-opera- 
tion. That  was  almost  twenty  years  ago,  and  the 
comfortable  buildings  of  the  Soldiers'  Home 
stand  today  surrounded  by  orange,  lemon  and 
other  fruit  trees.  Time  has  brought  many 
changes  at  Mr.  King's  early  home  also.  The 
farm  land  is  now  known  as  the  Lobier  place ;  the 
father,  a  minister  by  profession,  is  now  preach- 
ing at  the  United  Brethren  church  at  Modesto, 
Cal. ;  and  Howard  King,  the  son,  is  engaged  at 
the  Bixby  Ranch  near  Compton,  proving  himself 
a  first-class  man  for  the  place. 

In  1902  Mr.  King  had  a  fine  dairy  of  two  hun- 
dred Holstein  and  Durham  cows  near  Long 
Beach,  Cal.,  which  he  sold  out,  however,  to  take 
the  management  of  about  two  thousand  acres  of 
the  famous  Bixby  Ranch,  which  is  one  of  the  best 
kept  and  largest  in  the  county.  The  original 
owner  of  this  ranch,  Jotham  Bixby,  purchased  it 
in  1865  and  stocked  it  with  sheep,  it  being  the  old 
Los  Cerritos  Ranch,  a  portion  of  which  is  com- 
prised within  the  limits  of  the  modern  city  of 
Long  Beach.  Mr.  King  keeps  this  vast  estate  in 
first  class  order,  having  under  his  supervision 
two  hundred  and  twenty  head  of  high-grade  Hol- 
stein cows,  as  well  as  five  hundred  acres  devoted 
to  the  growing  of  sugar  beets,  two  hundred  acres 
of  corn  and  three  hundred  of  alfalfa,  an  estate 
whereon  twenty-one  men  are  employed  and  do  a 
business  of  $100,000  yearly. 

Mr.  King  married  Miss  Mina  Andrews  of  this 
state,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  six  children, 
namely:  Nellie,  Pauline,  Gloria,  Florence,  Paul 
and  Sedley.  Mr.  King  is  a  member  of  the  Elks 
of  Long  Beach. 


FREDERICK  W.  CARTER.  Although  a 
resident  of  California  only  since  1906,  during 
that  time  Frederick  W.  Carter  has  met  with  splen- 
did success  in  his  various  business  undertakings 
and  is  today  one  of  the  most  loyal  and  enthus- 
iastic boosters  that  the  Southland  possesses.  At 
present  he  is  the  owner  of  a  fine  five-acre  orange 
ranch  at  Covina,  from  which  in  1914,  he  took  one 
of  the  finest  crops  of  oranges  harvested  in  the 
entire  citrus  belt. 

Mr.  Carter  is  a  native  of  lUinois,  having  been 
bom  in  De  Kalb  county  April  2,  1859.  In  1870, 
when  he  was  eleven  years  of  age,  the  family  re- 


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moved  to  Kansas,  locating  in  Wilson  county, 
where  his  father  again  engaged  in  farming,  this 
having  been  his  occupation  in  Illinois  as  well. 
Here  the  son  grew  to  young  manhood,  receiving 
his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  the  district 
and  working  on  the  farm  with  his  father.  Later 
he  engaged  in  farming  on  his  own  account,  rais- 
ing and  shipping  cattle  for  the  markets.  It  was 
in  1906  that  Mr.  Carter  came  to  California,  locat- 
ing at  Glendale,  where  he  remained  for  a  year 
and  a  half.  During  this  time  he  purchased  a  lot 
upon  which  he  erected  a  commodious  house,  and 
here  he  engaged  in  the  carpenter  business.  In 
1907  he  exchanged  this  property  for  a  five-acre 
ranch  at  Covina,  on  Vincent  street,  which  he  im- 
proved, setting  out  orange  trees  and  beautifying 
the  place  generally.  At  the  end  of  two  and  a  half 
years,  he  sold  this  property  at  a  profit  of  $3500 
on  his  investment  of  $1000.  Later,  in  1910,  he 
purchased  his  present  place,  likewise  of  five  acres, 
on  Puente  street,  then  a  barley  field,  and  for 
which  he  paid  $600  per  acre.  This  he  improved 
by  the  erection  of  a  modern  bungalow  and  by 
setting  out  an  orange  grove,  and  he  now  values 
it  at  $2000  per  acre.  For  six  years  he  was  super- 
intendent of  picking  for  the  Irwindale  Citrus  As- 
sociation and  had  charge  of  large  crews  of  orange 
pickers,  this  being  a  position  similar  to  the  one  he 
now  fills  with  the  Riley  Citrus  Packing  Company. 
Mr.  Carter  has  many  friends  and  acquaintances 
outside  of  his  business  association.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Masons,  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
Fredonia  (Kansas)  Constellation  Lodge,  No.  95. 
He  was  married  to  Miss  A.  Hayes  of  Kentucky, 
who  died  in  1914,  leaving  two  sons,  Frederick  W. 
and  Arthur  G.  Mr.  Carter  has  also  become  in- 
terested in  many  of  the  most  substantial  business 
enterprises  of  Covina  and  vicinity  and  is  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Covina  National  Bank. 


WILLARD  ARNOTT.  Though  a  native  of 
the  state  of  Michigan,  where  he  was  born  at 
Grand  Rapids,  February  2,  1876,  Willard  Arnott, 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  firm  of  Arnott  & 
Company,  wholesalers  of  agricultural  implements, 
has  spent  the  greater  portion  of  his  life  in  South- 
ern California,  having  removed  to  Los  Angeles  in 
1892.  Mr.  Arnott's  father,  George  Arnott,  was 
born  in  Cambridge,  N.  Y.,  in  1848.  and  received 
his  education  at  the  State  University  at  Ann  Ar- 


bor, Mich.  Shortly  after  he  removed  to  Dallas, 
Texas,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  business  until  1876,  when  he  returned  to 
Michigan  and  went  into  the  manufacture  of  vari- 
ous woodenware  products  at  Grand  Rapids.  Con- 
tinuing in  this  occupation  until  March,  1893,  he 
then  disposed  of  his  Grand  Rapids  interests  and 
removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  established  the 
firm  of  Arnott  &  Sumner,  handling  agricultural 
implements,  and  later  consolidated  his  business 
with  that  of  Newell  Mathews,  forming  the  Math- 
ews &  Arnott  Company,  which  was  later  dis- 
solved, Mr.  Arnott's  business  then  being  under 
the  name  of  Arnott  &  Company,  the  firm  being 
composed  of  George  Arnott  and  his  son  Willard. 

After  his  graduation  Willard  Arnott  engaged 
in  business  with  his  father  and  after  receiving  a 
thorough  training  in  all  departments  was  admitted 
as  a  partner  in  1899,  and  after  the  death  of 
George  Arnott,  July  8,  1906,  succeeded  him  as 
president  of  the  company,  which  at  the  present 
time  is  carrying  on  a  large  business  throughout 
Central  and  Southern  California. 

Willard  Arnott  was  married  to  Miss  Bessie 
May  Rowntree  in  Los  Angeles  on  October  25, 
1905,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  two  children, 
Mary  Helen,  aged  three  years,  and  Willard,  Jr., 
aged  one  year.  Willard  Arnott  is  a  member 
of  various  commercial,  civic  and  social  organiza- 
tions in  Los  Angeles  and  politically  is  identified 
with  the  Republican  party. 


HORACE  I.  BETTIS.  There  is  no  activity 
of  state  or  nation  more  vital  to  the  general  pros- 
perity and  public  welfare  than  the  railroad,  and 
developments  along  this  line  have  always  been 
and  always  will  be  conducive  to  improvements 
along  a  multitude  of  other  lines  which  tend  to- 
ward the  upbuilding  of  city  and  country  and  the 
peace  and  prosperity  of  mankind.  To  the  men 
whose  lives  have  been  given  to  this  work  the 
nation  therefore  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  which 
it  does  not  always  express,  but  which  is  none  the 
less  vital.  Horace  I.  Bettis,  whose  home  was  in 
Los  Angeles  for  many  years  just  preceding  his 
death,  which  occurred  November  14,  1913,  was 
throughout  his  lifetime  closely  associated  with 
various  forms  of  railroad  development  in  both 
the  east  and  the  west,  and  during  his  entire 
residence  here  was  auditor  of  the  Salt  Lake  Rail- 


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at  that  time.  Thus  left  alone  in  the  world,  his 
struggles  for  a  livelihood  began  at  an  age  when 
most  boys  are  care-free.  However,  he  managed 
to  secure  some  education,  for  it  is  recorded  that 
he  attended  the  National  schools  of  Ireland  until 
he  was  fifteen.  The  fact  that  he  had  no  home 
ties,  however,  seemed  to  create  a  wandering  spirit 
in  the  youth,  and  it  was  thus  that  his  travels 
finally  brought  him  to  America. 

Sailing  from  Liverpool  in  February,  1857,  he 
landed  in  New  York  with  thirty  shillings  in  his 
pocket.  He  had  no  friends  or  acquaintances  in 
this  country,  nor  any  definite  idea  of  what  he  was 
to  do  for  a  living,  but  was  fortunate  in  obtaining 
employment  on  a  farm  in  Orange  county,  N.  Y. 
Better  still,  his  employers  proved  to  be  true  friends 
and  provided  him  with  a  good  home.  At  a  wage 
of  $4  a  month  he  remained  on  the  farm  for  about 
a  year. 

In  1858  Mr.  McAllister  bade  farewell  to  these 
friends,  whom  he  ever  regarded  as  fine  types  of 
Americans,  and  went  out  in  search  of  employ- 
ment which  would  pay  him  better  for  his  services. 
He  halted  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  for  a  season  and 
worked  on  the  river  boats,  but  in  the  spring  he 
left  this  life  and  obtained  employment  as  a  driver 
in  the  Pittsburgh  Fire  Department.  He  was  then 
only  seventeen  years  of  age.  This  place  he  filled 
only  a  few  months,  however,  for  in  the  fall  of 
1860,  he  started  for  the  Pacific  coast  and  landed 
in  San  Francisco  in  December.  He  was  not  of 
the  body  of  men  lured  by  the  stories  of  the  golden 
harvest  in  California,  but  was  moved  by  a  boy's 
curiosity  to  see  the  "Big  Trees"  of  Calaveras 
county.  After  gazing  upon  the  great  natural  cu- 
riosities he  turned  his  attention  to  placer  mining, 
but  barely  made  a  living. 

After  mining  for  several  years  in  California 
Mr.  McAllister  left  in  November,  1863,  for  Vir- 
ginia City,  Nev.,  with  his  blankets  on  his  back 
and  $2.50  in  gold  dust  in  his  pockets,  a  journey  of 
two  hundred  miles  over  snow-clad  mountains  be- 
fore him.  Desiring  to  hoard  his  small  supply  of 
money  as  much  as  possible,  at  Stanislaus  river  he 
endeavored  to  work  his  way  across  the  ferry,  but 
the  ferryman  refused  to  permit  him  to  do  so,  and 
Mr.  McAllister,  ignoring  the  fact  that  the  water 
was  ice  cold,  tied  his  outfit  on  his  back  and  swam 
across.  After  reaching  the  other  side  he  rested 
for  a  time,  then  donned  snowshoes  and  resumed 
his  journey  across  the  mountains.  At  Silver  Val- 
ley, in  the  Sierra  Nevada  mountains,  he  obtained 


employment  on  a  ranch,  receiving  for  his  labor 
$1  a  day.  He  chopped  trees  all  day  and  at  night 
slept  in  a  buffalo  robe,  with  the  snow  for  his  bed. 
At  the  end  of  two  weeks  he  left  this  place  and 
took  up  his  walk  to  Virginia  City,  arriving  there 
in  the  early  part  of  1864. 

Mr.  McAllister's  first  position  in  Virginia  City 
was  with  the  Fulton  Foundry  of  that  place.  He 
began  as  an  apprentice  boy  and  remained  with 
the  company  for  nineteen  years,  resigning  in  1882 
the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  plant. 
Leaving  Virginia  City  he  went  to  Tombstone, 
Ariz.,  to  take  employment  as  a  machinist  in  a 
foundry  there,  but  before  the  deal  was  closed  he 
had  purchased  the  plant  in  which  he  intended  to 
work  and  thereupon  began  the  operation  of  the 
Tombstone  Foundry  and  Machine  Shop.  For 
eleven  years  he  was  thus  engaged  and  during  that 
time  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  town.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors 
for  one  term,  and  it  was  while  he  held  office 
that  an  attempt  was  made  to  rid  the  country  of 
Geronimo  and  his  savage  followers.  A  large 
reward  was  offered  for  the  Chief  and  a  lesser 
amount  for  each  member  of  his  tribe,  but  the 
whites  were  unable  to  capture  or  kill  the  red- 
skins and  the  rewards  were  never  claimed.  Dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  his  residence  in  Arizona 
Mr.  McAllister  experienced  the  dangers  and 
depredations  caused  by  the  uprisings  of  the 
Apaches. 

In  1893  Mr.  McAllister  established  his  manu- 
facturing business  in  Los  Angeles  and  from  that 
year  until  his  death  was  identified  with  the 
substantial  growth  of  the  city's  industries.  Be- 
ginning in  a  small  way,  with  an  unpretentious 
factory,  in  1900  he  built  a  modern  plant,  known 
as  the  Fulton  Engine  Works,  and  today  this  ranks 
with  the  leading  establishments  of  the  kind  in  the 
United  States.  He  incorporated  his  company 
several  years  ago,  increasing  its  capital  and  scope, 
and  through  his  direction  of  its  affairs,  as  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  directors,  he  made  it  one 
of  the  most  successful  enterprises  in  the  South- 
west. 

Although  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
public-spirited  men  in  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  McAl- 
lister never  took  an  active  part  in  politics.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Nevada  and  Arizona,  how- 
ever, he  was  a  worker  for  the  Republican  party 
and  on  various  occasions  held  public  office.     He 


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served  two  years  as  school  trustee  in  \'irginia 
City,  and  also  held  the  same  office  for  two  years 
in  Tombstone,  after  which  he  was  elected  super- 
visor. He  served  four  years  as  treasurer  and  tax 
collector  of  Cochise  county,  Ariz. 

Mr.  McAllister  was  prominent  in  Masonic 
circles,  having  taken  all  the  degrees,  and  also  be- 
longing to  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  was  identified 
with  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
the  Gamut  Club.  In  Virginia  City,  Nev.,  on  June 
4,  1873,  he  married  Elizabeth  McAllister,  and  the 
two  children  born  to  them  are  Lillian  (Mrs.  C. 
A.  King)  and  Frank  Allister  McAllister. 


VESTAL  AND  HUBBELL.  The  poultry 
ranch  of  T.  C.  Vestal  and  O.  B.  Hubbell,  estab- 
lished in  Van  Nuys,  Cal.,  in  September,  1913, 
comprises  twenty  acres  and  includes  twelve  poul- 
try houses,  three  brooders,  eighteen  incubators, 
and  the  owners  have  also  built  two  beautiful  resi- 
dences on  the  place.  When  they  bought  the  prop- 
erty this  was  uncultivated  land,  but  they  have 
developed  it  and  introduced  a  fine  water  system 
with  pipes  for  irrigation,  so  that  now  they  have 
one  of  the  show  places  of  the  district.  In  addi- 
tion to  their  principal  interest  of.  poultry  raising 
the  owners  have  set  out  an  orchard  of  walnut 
and  fig  trees  on  the  place.  Vestal  and  Hubbell 
make  a  specialty  of  full-blooded  barred  Plymouth 
Rock  fowls,  having  also  one  pen  of  White  Leg- 
horns and  expecting,  by  the  fall  of  1915,  to  have 
three  thousand  White  Leghorn  laying  hens, 
which  number  they  intend  to  increase  to  five 
thousand  by  the  year  1916.  They  also  deal  in 
day-old  baby  chicks,  and  have  a  pen  of  Cornish 
Indian  Game  Cocks.  The  brooder  houses  are 
heated  by  a  hot  water  system,  and  are  three  in 
number,  with  a  capacity  of  seventeen  hundred 
chicks  each,  the  incubators  used  being  Schofield, 
Buckeye,  Pioneer  and  Jubilee,  with  a  capacity  of 
ten  thousand  eggs. 

Coming  to  California  in  1890  as  a  young  man, 
a  native  of  Randolph  county,  N.  C,  T.  C.  Vestal 
settled  in  Shasta  county,  after  two  years  remov- 
ing to  Sonoma  county,  where  he  remained  four- 
teen years,  engaged  in  the  raising  and  marketing 
of  poultry,  in  which  business  he  made  his  start 
in  Two  Rock  Valley,  five  miles  west  of  Petaluma, 
Cal.,  with  a  capital  of  only  $80,  buying  his  eggs 


for  hatching  from  Mr.  Hubbell,  now  his  partner, 
and  being  trusted  for  same  one  year.  While 
raising  chickens,  he  also  milked  from  twenty-five 
to  thirty-five  cows  for  a  neighbor  in  order  to  get 
enough  money  to  carry  on  his  poultry  ranch. 
Though  having  a  hard  time  at  the  start,  Mr.  Ves- 
tal is  now  reaping  the  benefits  of  his  early  strug- 
gle, and  is  a  self-made  man  in  the  highest  sense 
of  the  term.  For  four  years  prior  to  coming  to 
Van  Nuys,  he  and  Mr.  Hubbell  carried  on  a  large 
hay  and  grain  establishment  in  Petaluma,  and  sell- 
ing this  out,  they  invested  in  Van  Nuys  lands,  be- 
sides their  twenty-acre  ranch  there,  owning  other 
valuable  property  in  Van  Nuys. 

Mr.  Vestal  was  married  in  1898  in  Sonoma 
county  to  Belle  Gaston,  a  native  daughter,  and 
three  children  were  born  to  them:  Wilburn  (de- 
ceased), Genevieve  and  Eleanor  Marie.  Mr.  Ves- 
tal is  a  member  of  Petaluma  Lodge  No.  30,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  and  of  the  Canton. 

Mr.  Hubbell  is  a  native  of  Michigan,  where  he 
was  born  August  31,  1863,  when  only  four  months 
old  coming  with  his  parents  across  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama  to  California,  where  his  father,  Orton 
Hubbell,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Marin 
county,  coming  to  the  state  in  1856.  Mr.  Hubbell 
has  had  twenty-five  years  of  experience  in  the 
poultry  business,  and  is  now  an  expert  in  that 
line,  his  name  being  well  known  in  the  Petaluma 
section,  where  he  was  considered  one  of  the  best 
informed  men  on  the  subject  and  received  the 
name  of  "the  Petaluma  expert."  His  establish- 
ing a  business  in  Van  Nuys,  with  his  reputation 
and  experience  as  a  poultry  expert,  has  been  a 
decided  boom  to  the  chicken  industry  of  that  dis- 
trict, and  he  has  planned  the  chicken  ranches  for 
the  North  Van  Nuys  Acre  Tract  of  land.  He 
was  married  in  1888  to  Phebe  Ames,  a  native  of 
Sonoma  county,  and  they  have  had  two  chil- 
dren, Carlyle  (deceased)  and  Howard.  For 
five  years  Mr.  Hubbell  was  associated  with  the 
California  Fruit  Canners'  Association  of  Santa 
Rosa,  and  both  he  and  his  partner  are  members 
of  the  Federation  of  Poultrymen  of  Van  Nuys. 
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fowl,  a  cross  of  the  Black  Minorca  and  the 
White  Leghorn.  Both  Mr.  Vestal  and  Mr.  Hub- 
bell are  men  of  long  experience  in  the  poultry 
business,  and  will  soon  have  the  largest  number  of 
laying  hens  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley. 


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697 


During  the  years  that  Mr.  Hovey  resided  at 
Pittsfield  he  was  closely  associated  with  the  affairs 
of  his  city  in  many  ways.  He  was  for  six  years  a 
member  of  the  school  board  in  Pittsfield,  and  was 
also  a  trustee  for  the  Maine  Central  Institute,  of 
which  institution  he  was  a  graduate.  He  repre- 
sented his  district  in  the  State  Legislature  in 
1889-1890,  was  district  attorney  for  Somerset 
county  from  1891  to  1895,  and  during  1895  and 
1896  he  was  a  member  of  the  Maine  Senate.  He 
removed  to  Biddeford,  Me.,  in  1900,  and  was  city 
attorney  there  during  1901  and  1902. 

It  was  in  1902  that  Mr.  Hovey  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  arriving  here  May  1.  Opening  offices 
for  the  practice  of  his  profession,  he  soon  built 
up  a  large  and  successful  practice,  gained  through 
painstaking  and  conscientious  care  in  the  discharge 
of  all  legal  duties.  For  several  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Republican  district  committee  and 
also  of  the  Republican  state  committee.  He  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Union  League  and  a 
charter  member  of  the  Hollywood  Lodge,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  Enterprise  Encampment,  and  the  Veteran 
Odd  Fellows  Association,  and  on  numerous  occa- 
sions was  a  delegate  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  he  being 
a  past  grand.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hovey  were 
always  interested  in  church  work.  On  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  they  united  with  the  Union  Avenue 
Methodist  Church,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
Mr.  Hovey  was  president  of  the  official  board  of 
that  body. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hovey  occurred 
at  Pittsfield,  Me.,  June  3,  1887.  Mrs.  Hovey  was 
formerly  Miss  Gertrude  Sawyer,  a  native  of 
Maine,  and  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Charles  H.  and 
Etta  H.  (Farnham)  Sawyer.  She  was  a  class- 
mate of  her  husband  at  the  Maine  Central  Insti- 
tute during  their  student  days.  She  bore  her 
husband  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  Of 
these  the  daughter,  Ruth,  died  in  childhood,  while 
the  son,  Byron  Price  Hovey,  is  at  present  a  stu- 
dent in  the  Hollywood  high  school. 

Although  loyal  and  affectionate  citizens  of  Cali- 
fornia, both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hovey  retained  their 
affection  for  their  former  home-state,  and  kept 
alive  these  treasured  associations  through  their 
membership  in  the  Pine  Tree  State  Association  of 
Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Hovey  being  vice-president  of 
the  association  at  the  time  of  his  death. 


JOSEPH  F.  SARTORI.  Los  Angeles  has 
been  brought  forward  as  a  financial  center 
through  the  sagacious  leadership  of  the  men  who, 
at  the  head  of  its  vast  banking  interests,  have 
wisely  guided  affairs  to  the  end  that  the  welfare 
of  the  community  may  be  best  promoted  and  the 
prosperity  of  the  people  conserved.  With  the 
coming  to  the  city  of  Mr.  Sartori  and  the  organ- 
ization by  himself  and  associates  in  1889  of  the 
Security  Savings  Bank  (now  the  Security  Trust 
&  Savings  Bank )  a  most  important  factor  entered 
into  the  banking  history  of  the  metropolis  of  the 
southwest.  From  that  date  to  the  present  Mr. 
Sartori  has  been  largely  instrumental  in  outlining 
and  carrying  forward  those  policies  which  have 
made  the  "Security"  the  largest,  as  well  as  the 
oldest  savings  bank  in  the  southwest,  and  the 
fact  that  the  institution  has  attained  its  present 
magnitude  may  be  attributed,  in  no  small  meas- 
ure, to  his  far-sightedness  and  sound  financial  pol- 
icies. The  building  in  which  its  business  is  con- 
ducted is  also  the  product  of  the  same  minds  and 
energy  that  have  so  successfully  controlled  the 
destinies  of  the  bank  since  its  inception  and  fit- 
tingly conveys  the  impression  of  strength  and  sta- 
bility which  make  it  a  proper  home  for  this  great 
institution. 

The  president  of  the  Security  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank  comes  from  an  honored  German  family 
whose  record  for  honesty  and  integrity  is  unim- 
peachable, and  upon  entering  the  field  of  bank- 
ing he  received  an  unexpected  and  hearty  support 
from  a  great  number  of  persons  who  were  ac- 
quainted with  the  family  on  the  continent  and 
with  their  reputation  for  probity  and  business 
acumen.  While  of  European  parentage  and  fam- 
ily, he  himself  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  and  was  born 
at  Cedar  Falls  on  Christmas  day  of  1858,  being 
the  son  of  Joseph  and  Theresa  (Wangler) 
Sartori.  After  he  had  graduated  from  Cor- 
nell College  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa,  in 
1879,  he  matriculated  in  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  con- 
tinued his  studies  until  graduation  in  1881. 
Meanwhile  he  had  spent  one  year  (1877-78)  in 
the  University  of  Freiburg,  in  Baden,  Germany. 
Upon  the  completion  of  his  college  course  he  en- 
tered the  office  of  Hon.  Leslie  M.  Shaw,  at  Den- 
nison,  Iowa,  where  he  studied  for  eight  months. 
Upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1882  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Congressman  I.  S.  Struble,  of 
Iowa.     In  June  of   1886  he  married  Margaret 


HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD 


Rishel,  of  Lemars,  Iowa,  and  on  the  19th  of 
March,  1887,  they  came  to  California,  locating  in 
the  then  new  town  of  Monrovia.  From  1887  un- 
til 1889  he  was  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Monrovia,  which  he  assisted  in  organizing  and 
of  which  he  is  now  a  vice-president  and  director. 

At  the  time  of  his  removal  from  Monrovia  to 
Los  Angeles  and  the  organization  of  the  Security 
Bank  the  remarkable  "boom"  of  the  preceding  few 
years  was  beginning  to  collapse,  prices  were  fall- 
ing, money  was  scarce  and  financial  conditions 
generally  unsettled.  The  new  bank,  organized  in 
February,  1889,  not  only  weathered  the  storms 
of  financial  depression  and  business  failures,  but 
constantly  gained  strength  and  prestige  until  at 
the  present  time  it  has  a  capital  and  surplus  of 
more  than  $3,700,000  and  resources  exceeding 
$43,000,000.  The  high  ideals,  untiring  energy, 
and  superior  executive  ability  of  Mr.  Sartori,  to- 
gether with  the  loyal  co-operation  and  support  of 
his  co-workers,  have  developed,  in  the  Security 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  an  institution  remarkable 
not  only  for  its  financial  stability  and  strength, 
but  also  for  the  universal  feeling  among  its  cus- 
tomers that  they  will  at  all  times  be  accorded  fair, 
honest  and  courteous  consideration.  This  con- 
fidence has  never  been  violated  and  no  one  of  its 
vast  army  of  depositors  has  ever  suffered  a  loss 
through  his  dealings  with  this  great  banking 
house. 

The  remarkable  insight  of  Mr.  Sartori  into 
banking  and  economic  conditions  was  never  better 
illustrated  than  in  his  fight  before  the  state  legis- 
lature in  1911  for  real  reforms  in  the  state  bank- 
ing laws  and  proper  supervision  of  state  finan- 
cial institutions.  As  the  leader  for  improved  bank- 
ing conditions  he  was  repeatedly  before  the  com- 
mittee on  banks  and  banking,  the  effect  of  his 
arguments  appearing  in  the  resultant  legislation. 
His  knowledge  of  national  financial  and  industrial 
conditions  also  received  recognition  in  his  ap- 
pointment as  a  member  of  the  currency  commis- 
sion of  the  American  Bankers  Association,  and  in 
his  election  as  president  of  the  Savings  Bank  sec- 
tion of  the  same  Association  for  the  year  1913-14. 
In  addition  to  his  important  banking  interests  he 
is  a  director  of  the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and 
Salt  Lake  Railroad.  Growing  business  enterprises 
have  enlisted  his  co-operation  and  he  has  served 
as  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Brick  Company, 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Central  Fireproof 
Building  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 


Century  Building  Company,  and  secretary-treas- 
urer of  the  Commercial  Fireproof  Building  Com- 
pany. The  fields  of  finance  and  commerce  have 
not  engrossed  his  attention  to  the  exclusion  of  all 
participation  in  social  functions  and  recreative 
organizations.  On  the  contrary,  he  has  been  the 
leader  in  a  number  of  clubs,  notably  the  Los  An- 
geles Country  Club,  of  which  he  is  a  charter 
member  and  in  which  he  has  been  honored  with 
the  presidency;  the  California  Club,  of  which  he 
has  served  also  as  president ;  and  of  the  Los  An- 
geles Athletic,  the  Jonathan,  Annandale  Golf,  and 
Crags  Country  Clubs. 


GEORGE  EDWIN  BERGSTROM.  From 
1905  until  the  spring  of  1915  one  of  the  leading 
and  well  known  architectural  firms  of  Los  An- 
geles and  Southern  California  was  that  of  Parkin- 
son &  Bergstrom,  but  in  May,  1915,  the  firm  dis- 
solved their  ten-year  partnership  agreement  by 
mutual  consent,  Mr.  Parkinson  continuing  at  their 
old  location,  and  George  Edwin  Bergstrom  is  now 
located  in  the  Citizens  National  Bank  building. 
Mr.  Bergstrom  is  one  of  the  leading  young  archi- 
tects of  the  Southwest  and  a  man  of  great  ability 
and  splendid  promise.  His  early  inclination  for  a 
technical  education  was  favored  by  his  parents 
and  he  was  given  every  advantage  possible  to 
further  his  career.  After  graduating  from  the 
high  school  at  Neenah,  Wis.,  his  native  city, 
in  1892,  he  entered  Phillips  Academy  at  Andover, 
Mass.,  graduating  in  1893,  and  then  entered  Yale 
University,  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  class 
of  1896.  This  was  followed  by  a  course  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  at  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  from  which  he  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1899. 

Mr.  Bergstrom  is  the  son  of  George  O.  and 
Alice  (Smith)  Bergstrom,  and  was  born  in 
Neenah,  Wis.,  March  12,  1876.  Since  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in  mu- 
nicipal affairs,  rendering  valuable  service  on  va- 
rious public  boards  and  commissions,  prominent 
among  which  may  be  mentioned  the  Los  Angeles 
housing  commission,  of  which  he  is  president; 
the  Los  Angeles  building  ordinance  commission, 
and  the  Los  Angeles  charter  revision  commission. 
Mr.  Bergstrom  is  also  well  known  socially  and  is 
a  member  of  several  exclusive  clubs,  including 
the  California  Club,  the    Los    Angeles  Athletic 


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703 


recognized  by  his  election  and  re-election  to  the 
presidency  of  the  National  Irrigation  Congress, 
and  by  his  presidency  of  The  National  Irriga- 
tion Association  from  October,  1907,  until  Jan- 
uary, 1913,  when  that  association  became  the 
National  Reclamation  Association,  of  which  he 
continued  to  be  president  until  he  passed  from 
this  life. 

No  greater  good  can  be  done  by  any  man  for 
humanity  than  to  set  in  motion  self-perpetuat- 
ing forces  which  will  continue  through  the  gen- 
erations that  are  to  come  their  influence  for 
human  advancement.  Such  was  the  character 
of  the  service  of  Charles  B.  Boothe  to  his  fel- 
low men  and  to  his  country.  It  matters  nothing 
that  his  name  is  not  graven  on  them.  The  mon- 
uments to  his  memory  are  none  the  less  the 
great  reservoirs  that  harness  the  floods  and 
conserve  the  waste  waters,  and  the  great  aque- 
ducts and  irrigation  canals  built  by  the  National 
Government.  The  rippling  of  the  waters  as  they 
flow  through  these  canals,  bringing  with  each 
recurring  season  a  new  life  to  fields  and  gar- 
dens and  a  new  promise  of  reward  for  human 
labor,  will  continue  through  the  centuries  of  the 
future  to  voice  Nature's  appreciation  of  his 
work  with  a  prayer  for  rest  and  peace  for  his 
soul. 

(The  foregoing  memorial  was  adopted  by 
Resolution  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
National  Reclamation  Association,  ■May  31, 
1913.) 

Warren  B.  Reed. 
Vice  President  and  Acting  President. 
Attest :   Walter  Parker, 
Secretary. 


ROBERT  ARNOLD  ROWAN.  The  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  leading  factor  in  large  building 
enterprises  in  Los  Angeles  belongs  to  Mr.  Rowan, 
whose  earliest  recollections  are  associated  with 
this  city,  then  a  town  of  but  a  few  thousand  in- 
habitants, now  transformed  into  a  metropolis  of 
beautiful  homes  and  great  business  blocks  largely 
through  the  optimistic  efforts  of  such  citizens  as 
Mr.  Rowan.  The  family  of  which  he  is  a  mem- 
ber and  whose  commercial  talents  he  inherits  has 
aided  in  the  upbuilding  of  different  portions  of  the 
United  States,  beginning  with  their  initial  settle- 
ment in  New  York  state  long  before  the  develop- 


ment of  the  middle  west  had  been  attempted.  At 
Batavia  in  that  state  James  Rowan  was  a  pioneer 
merchant,  while  his  wife,  Rebecca,  was  the 
daughter  of  a  large  woolen  manufacturer  in 
Rensselaer  county,  of  the  same  state.  George 
Doddridge  Rowan,  son  of  James  and  Rebecca 
Rowan,  was  born  at  Corfu,  N.  Y.,  September  7, 
1844,  and  died  in  Los  Angeles  September  2,  1902. 
A  man  of  remarkable  insight  into  business  prob- 
lems and  civic  undertakings,  he  is  remembered  as 
one  of  the  pioneer  citizens  who  started  Los  An- 
geles on  the  path  to  its  present  greatness.  When 
twenty  years  of  age  he  had  associated  himself 
with  a  brother-in-law,  E.  B.  Millar,  in  the  whole- 
sale grocery  business  at  Lansing,  Mich.,  under  the 
firm  name  of  E.  B.  Millar  &  Co.  During  the 
early  '70s  the  business  was  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  Mr.  Millar  had  charge  of  the  great  estab- 
lishment, Mr.  Rowan  meantime  extending  the 
trade  to  the  west  and  even  to  the  Orient,  making 
his  home  at  Yokohama,  Japan,  for  more  than  a 
year.  The  house  is  still  in  existence  and  con- 
ducted under  the  same  firm  name,  but  he  with- 
drew from  the  partnership  in  1876,  having  de- 
cided to  remove  to  Los  Angeles  in  the  hope  that  a 
change  of  climate  might  restore  the  health  of  his 
wife. 

A  grocery  business  on  North  Main  street  was 
the  first  undertaking  of  George  D.  Rowan  in 
Los  Angeles,  but  this  store  he  sold  in  1884  at  the 
time  of  embarking  in  the  commission  business  in 
San  Francisco.  After  a  year  as  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Jennings  &  Rowan,  commission  merchants, 
in  1885  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles.  During  1889 
he  transferred  his  residence  to  Pasadena,  but  four 
years  later  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  here 
passed  the  remaining  years  of  his  useful  exist- 
ence. Throughout  a  long  period  he  was  identified 
with  realty  affairs.  As  a  judge  of  valuations  he 
had  few  superiors.  Back  in  the  old  days  when 
Broadway  was  known  as  Fort  street  he  selected 
it  as  the  logical  center  of  the  city's  commerce. 
Acting  on  that  belief  he  acquired  considerable 
property  on  the  street  and  refused  to  part  with  a 
foot  of  it.  Another  of  his  early  predictions  was 
that  Los  Angeles  would  be  built  solid  from  the 
mountains  to  the  sea.  Among  his  early  asso- 
ciates in  landed  affairs  were  Col.  J.  B.  Lanker- 
shim,  O.  H.  Churchill,  I.  N.  Van  Nuys  and  M.  Y. 
Kellam,  all  men  of  great  vision  who,  like  himself, 
saw  the  sleepy  little  Spanish  town  develop  into  a 
world-famous  metropolis.     With  all  the  fluctua- 


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tions  caused  by  alternate  booms  and  depressions, 
such  as  form  the  invariable  experiences  of  newly 
developed  communities,  his  judgment  remained 
calm  and  conservative,  his  optimism  was  un- 
changed and  his  faith  in  the  future  undiminished. 
He  helped  to  lay  the  foundations  of  the  present 
metropolis,  and  in  the  midst  of  changing  condi- 
tions and  a  rapidly  increasing  population  he  is  still 
remembered  with  respect  as  a  gentleman  of  the  old 
school,  who  placed  honor  above  all  other  con- 
siderations and  furnished  to  others  the  example 
of  an  honest  character,  true  as  steel  to  principles 
of  integrity  and  fair-dealing.  By  his  marriage  to 
Miss  Fannie  F.  Arnold,  the  daughter  of  a  widely 
known  pioneer  manufacturer  in  Rensselaer 
county,  N.  Y.,  he  became  the  father  of  eight 
children,  namely:  Robert  Arnold,  Frederick  S., 
Earl  Bruce,  Paul,  Ben  G.,  Philip  Doddridge,  Fan- 
nie F.  and  Florence. 

During  the  residence  of  the  family  in  Chicago 
the  birth  of  Robert  Arnold  Rowan  occurred  Au- 
gust 20,  1875,  but  from  infancy  he  has  lived  in 
Southern  California  with  the  exception  of  the 
years  1894-97,  when  he  engaged  in  business  in 
New  York  City  as  a  merchandise  broker.  Upon 
his  return  to  Los  Angeles  he  embarked  in  real 
estate  operations  and  his  subsequent  career  affords 
a  remarkable  instance  of  successful  building  en- 
terprises. After  having  been  associated  with  oth- 
ers (notably  with  William  May  Garland)  in  1901 
he  embarked  in  business  alone.  The  R.  A. 
Rowan  Company  was  organized  in  1905  with  him- 
self as  president  and  Philip  Doddridge  Rowan  as 
treasurer.  Since  the  organization  of  the  con- 
cern it  has  been  instrumental  in  the  erection  of  a 
number  of  modern  skyscrapers  in  Los  Angeles. 
Operations  have  been  continuous,  one  building 
being  started  before  another  had  been  completed. 
At  times  two  or  three  buildings  have  been  simul- 
taneously in  course  of  construction  in  the  center 
of  the  business  district.  Some  of  the  more  im- 
portant structures  are  the  Alexandria  hotel,  the 
Security  building,  the  Title  Insurance  building, 
the  Merchants'  National  Bank  building.  Title 
Guarantee  building  and  the  Citizens  National 
Bank  building,  all  fireproof,  of  most  attractive 
style  of  architecture  and  offering  many  gratifying 
innovations  in  constructural  work.  The  Alexan- 
dria Hotel  Company  is  composed  of  A.  C.  Bilicke 
and  R.  A.  Rowan,  joint  owners  of  one  of  the 
most   modern   and   elegant   hotels    in    the    entire 


country,  a  factor  in  attracting  visitors  from  every 
part  of  the  country  to  Los  Angeles.  While  de- 
voting himself  largely  to  the  improvement  of  busi- 
ness property,  Mr.  Rowan  also  has  opened  up  sev- 
eral important  residence  sections,  among  them 
Windsor  Square,  an  exclusive  and  restricted  dis- 
trict embracing  two  hundred  acres.  He  has  exten- 
sive property  holdings  and  is  a  stockholder  or  di- 
rector in  various  business  concerns. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Rowan  and  Miss  Laura 
Schwarz  was  solemnized  in  Los  Angeles  Febru- 
ary 28,  1903.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren: Lorraine,  Robert  A.,  Jr.,  George  D.  and 
Louis  S.  Among  all  classes  Mr.  Rowan  enjoys 
a  popularity  that  attests  to  his  fine  qualities  of 
mind  and  heart.  Besides  belonging  to  many  com- 
mercial and  civic  organizations  he  is  president  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  and  identified  with  the 
California,  Jonathan,  Los  Angeles  Country,  San 
Gabriel  Valley  and  Pasadena  Country  Clubs. 
Each  of  these  societies  contributes  in  its  own  way 
to  social  pleasures  or  commercial  advancement 
and  he  has  been  one  of  the  most  enterprising 
supporters  of  their  projects.  Along  every  line 
of  progress  his  influence  has  been  felt,  but  par- 
ticularly in  the  real  estate  and  building  business, 
whose  rapid  and  scientific  yet  practical  develop- 
ment during  recent  years  has  astonished  the  entire 
world.  Daring  as  have  been  his  business  ventures, 
they  have  been  founded  on  an  almost  unerring 
judgment  and  their  splendid  results  are  appar- 
ent in  the  rapid  development  of  Los  Angeles  and 
its  tributary  territory.  Through  a  residence  in 
Southern  California  that  is  practically  lifelong 
he  has  come  to  be  known  as  one  of  its  most  en- 
thusiastic advocates,  as  a  tireless  worker  in  the 
interests  of  the  country  and  as  a  most  optimistic 
believer  in  its  continued  growth. 


J.  H.  De  La  MONTE.  Coming  to  California 
alone  when  he  was  a  lad  of  but  sixteen  years  and 
forging  his  own  way  through  the  succeeding  years, 
meeting  with  the  customary  ups  and  downs  of 
the  self-made  man,  but  in  the  end  winning  more 
than  the  customary  meed  of  success,  J.  H.  De  La 
Monte  is  today  one  of  the  very  successful  prac- 
ticing attorneys  of  Los  Angeles,  making  a  spe- 
cialty  of   criminal   law   practice.      He   has   been 


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January  2,  1874.  On  December  30,  1875,  S.  S. 
Chapman  was  again  married,  his  wife  being  Ann 
Eliza  Clarke,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  and  who 
with  her  three  children,  Ira,  Earl  and  Nina,  re- 
sides in  Los  Angeles. 

The  marriage  of  Samuel  James  Chapman  in 
Chicago  on  April  12,  1888,  united  him  with  Anna 
E.  Stover,  who  was  born  December  29,  1867,  in 
Ladoga,  Ind.,  a  daughter  of  Abram  H.  and  Mar- 
garet (Alcock)  Stover.  The  latter  was  born 
near  Verners  Bridge,  County  Armagh,  Ireland, 
July  10,  1841,  and  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Stover 
occurred  May  16,  1861.  He  was  born  March  15, 
1836,  in  Montgomery  county,  Ind.,  and  is  descend- 
ed from  a  family  long  identified  with  America, 
dating  back  to  1680,  when  the  progenitor  came 
from  Saxony,  Germany,  and  settled  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. Dr.  George  Stover,  born  in  Franklin 
county.  Pa.,  in  1732,  is  the  first  of  whom  there  is 
any  authentic  record.  In  1757  Dr.  Stover  mar- 
ried Hannah  Price,  whose  father  had  been  forced 
to  flee  from  Berlin,  Prussia,  to  the  United  States 
on  account  of  political  persecution.  One  of  the 
sons  of  Dr.  Stover,  also  named  George,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  in  1785  and  was  taken  by  his 
parents  to  Virginia,  where  in  1810  he  married 
Anna  Rader,  who  was  born  there  in  1790.  In 
1832  George  Stover  moved  with  his  wife  and  ten 
children  to  a  farm  near  Ladoga,  Ind.,  where  two 
more  children  were  born,  the  youngest  being 
Abram  H.,  who  was  named  for  an  uncle  who  was 
the  originator  of  the  term  Hoosier  as  applied  to 
the  inhabitants  and  the  state  of  Indiana.  Abram 
H.  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  parents  until 
he  was  twenty-one,  then  took  up  the  trade  of 
carpenter,  which  he  followed  for  years.  He 
joined  the  Christian  Church  in  1863  and  his  wife 
in  1859.  For  a  number  of  years  they  lived  in 
Chicago,  but  in  1902  located  in  Los  Angeles, 
where  they  now  reside.  They  had  three  children, 
William  N.,  who  was  born  August  15,  1862,  and 
died  May  27,  1885 ;  George  Alcock,  born  May  30, 
1866;  and  Anna  Elizabeth,  who  married  S.  J. 
Chapman. 

Of  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  two 
children  were  born,  Florence  Stover,  who  was 
born  July  16,  1889,  and  died  April  30,  1894,  and 
George  Arthur,  born  January  13,  1891,  now  com- 
pleting his  last  year  in  the  University  of  Southern 
California.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  are  members 
of  the  Christian  Church,  which  he  joined  in  early 
manhood  and  ever  since  has  been  active  in  the 


development  of  that  religious  organization.  He 
is  a  Knight  Templar,  Thirty-second  Degree 
Mason  and  a  Shriner,  and  is  a  Republican  in 
politics. 


PAUL  SHOUP.  Some  there  are  on  whose 
steps  Destiny  waits  to  gently  lead  along  paths  of 
ease.  Others  pluck  success  from  that  master 
arbiter,  Fate,  by  sheer  force  of  their  own  forceful 
personalities  and  to  the  latter  class  belongs  Paul 
Shoup,  president  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway 
Company,  the  Peninsular  Railway  Company,  the 
Fresno  Traction  Company,  the  Stockton  Electric 
Railroad  Company,  the  \^isalia  Electric  Railroad 
Company,  the  San  Jose  Railroads  ;  and  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Clark  Oil  Company,  the  Newport 
Beach  Company,  the  Los  Angeles  Pacific  Land 
Company,  and  the  Pacific  Electric  Land  Com- 
pany. At  the  time  of  becoming  the  executive 
head  of  practically  all  the  interurban  lines  of 
Southern  California,  which  took  place  with  his 
promotion  from  vice-president  to  the  office  of 
president  of  the  Pacific  Electric  lines,  the  South- 
ern Pacific  electric  properties  in  the  San  Joaquin 
valley  and  the  San  Jose  and  Peninsular  lines,  he 
was  credited  with  being  the  )'oungest  railway 
president  in  the  United  States.  Almost  phenome- 
nal lias  been  his  rise  from  a  minor  capacity  in  the 
mechanical  department  of  the  Santa  Fe  at  San 
Bernardino  to  the  general  supervision  of  one  of 
the  most  important  electric  systems  in  the  country. 
Only  great  ability  could  have  forged  its  way  to 
the  front  with  such  marvelous  speed  ;  only  tireless 
energy  could  have  surmounted  obstacles  neither 
few  nor  small.  Necessarily  such  a  man  must  be 
intensely  vigorous  in  mind  and  body,  with  a  pro- 
digious activity  that  makes  him  a  power  to  be 
reckoned  with  in  every  department  of  business. 
Necessarily  there  must  be  something  stern  in 
purpose,  something  tenacious  in  will  power  and 
much  quickness  of  mental  assimilation  in  such  an 
executive,  and  these  qualities  give  a  brief  word 
picture  of  the  Pacific  Electric's  president. 

Activities  so  far  reaching  and  aspirations  so 
comprehensive  mark  Mr.  Shoup  as  a  true  son  of 
California.  San  Bernardino  is  his  native  city 
(born  in  1874),  his  parents,  Timothy  and  Sarah 
S.  (Sumner)  Shoup,  having  lived  there  for  many 
years,  and  in  its  schools  he  was  prepared  for  the 
responsibilities  of  business  life.  To  a  large  ex- 
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school  of  experience  has  learned  lessons  far  more 
important  than  those  to  be  gleaned  from  the  most 
modern  text-books.  When  he  entered  the  rail- 
road service  in  1891  he  was  an  inexperienced 
youth  of  about  seventeen  years.  In  1896  he  was 
transferred  from  San  Bernardino  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  take  the  position  of  clerk  in  the  Southern 
Pacific  offices.  That  he  made  good  is  shown  by 
his  rapid  advancement.  From  1899  to  1904  he 
engaged  as  a  district  freight  and  passenger  agent, 
and  in  the  latter  year  he  was  appointed  assistant 
general  freight  agent  of  the  Harriman  lines  at 
Portland,  Ore.  The  following  year  he  was  made 
assistant  general  passenger  agent  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  system  at  San  Francisco  and  a  few  years 
later  was  put  in  charge  of  the  electric  lines  of  the 
Southern  Pacific.  In  1911  he  was  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway  Com- 
pany. After  having  been  virtually  in  control  in 
Southern  California  as  managing  director  of  the 
Pacific  Electric,  he  was  chosen  president  of  the 
company  August  1,  1912.  A  program  of  exten- 
sion and  improvement  marked  the  inauguration 
of  his  duties.  Important  changes  indicate  the 
expansion  of  the  company's  lines  into  territory 
not  previously  covered  by  its  network  of  radiating 
tracks.  Withal  there  has  been  an  incessant  de- 
mand upon  his  time  in  the  management  of  the 
lines  in  operation. 

Mr.  Shoup  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan,  Cali- 
fornia, Knickerbocker  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Clubs  in  Los  Angeles,  besides  being  associated 
with  the  Transportation  and  Bohemian  Clubs  of 
San  Francisco.  He  is  still  a  young  man,  and  great 
as  has  been  his  success  in  the  past,  his  future  holds 
promise  of  still  greater  progress  and  triumph. 


HUGH  W.  BRYSON.  As  general  manager 
and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  F.  O.  Engstrum 
Company,  contractors,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  also 
as  the  builder  and  owner  of  the  Bryson  and  Ram- 
part apartments,  in  the  Wilshire  district,  Hugh 
W.  Bryson  is  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the 
city,  and  also  one  of  the  most  progressive  and 
energetic  men  in  Southern  California.  He  is 
possessed  of  splendid  executive  ability,  and  his 
success  in  the  handling  of  large  interests  and  large 
numbers  of  men  is  very  marked.  He  is  also  a 
pioneer  in  many  lines  of  investment,  the  erection 
of  the  Bryson  and  the  Rampart  apartments  being 


one  of  his  ventures  into  a  new  field,  these  being 
the  finest  apartment  houses  west  of  Chicago,  and 
far  ahead  of  anything  in  Los  Angeles  at  that  time. 
That  they  met  with  the  approval  of  the  citizens 
and  traveling  public  is  attested  by  their  popularity 
and  also  by  the  fact  that  property  in  their  vicinity 
increased  from  four  hundred  to  six  hundred  per 
cent,  on  account  of  their  erection.  Other  pioneer 
ventures  have  been  made  along  other  lines  in  a 
business  way,  and  have  always  met  with  the  great- 
est of  success,  Mr.  Bryson  being  possessed  of  a 
rare  and  valuable  gift  of  foresight  and  judgment. 

A  native  of  Tennessee,  Mr.  Bryson  was  born 
in  Memphis,  August  31,  1868,  his  father  being 
Davis  Bryson  and  his  mother  formerly  Miss  Katie 
Wyatt.  The  son  attended  grammar  and  high 
schools  in  Memphis,  graduating  from  the  latter 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  and  following  this 
with  a  business  course.  He  then  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  clerk  with  Sledge  &  Norfleet,  cotton 
brokers,  remaining  in  their  employ  for  four  years. 
He  then  spent  five  years  in  the  banking  business 
in  various  capacities,  later  engaging  in  the  real 
estate  business  as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  George 
H.  Glascock  &  Co.,  remaining  in  this  connection 
for  five  years,  and  then  disposing  of  his  interests 
to  come  to  California.  He  located  at  once  in 
Los  Angeles  and  became  the  manager  for  the 
F.  O.  Engstrum  Company,  general  contractors, 
and  met  with  splendid  success  in  his  work.  His 
position  with  the  company  was  such  that  in  1904 
he  was  offered  and  purchased  a  one-third  interest 
in  the  company,  and  since  that  time  has  been 
general  manager  and  director.  He  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Concrete  Appliances  Company. 

The  F.  O.  Engstrum  Company  was  established 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  and  is  the  largest  con- 
struction firm  west  of  Chicago.  Its  operations 
cover  all  of  Southern  California,  and  more  than 
two  thousand  men  are  constantly  employed  by 
it,  a  large  number  of  these  having  been  with 
the  company  for  fifteen  years  continuously.  The 
organization  is  thoroughly  systematized  for  build- 
ing construction,  including  re-enforced  concrete, 
steel,  brick,  plaster,  plumbing,  steam  fitting,  drawn 
metal,  ornamental  and  structural  iron,  staff, 
stucco,  painting,  and  electrical  work.  They 
operate  the  largest  planing  mill  in  the  city,  with 
headquarters  at  Fifth  and  Seaton  streets,  where 
their  plant  is  also  located,  with  lumber  yards,  and 
all  other  departments.  They  are  the  world's 
pioneers  in  the  use  of  the  modern  gravity  "G.  Y." 


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ported  from  Europe,  and  has  made  thirty  violins, 
some  of  which  have  sold  for  the  high  price  of 
$100,  and  many  violinists  who  are  expert  judges 
have  given  highest  praise  to  the  instruments  made 
by  him.  In  all,  Mr.  Brooks  has  made  thirty-four 
stringed  instruments,  among  which  are  violins, 
violas  and  ukeleles,  having  had  to  study  out  the 
art  largely  for  himself,  through  reading  every 
authentic  work  published  on  the  subject,  and  by 
the  study  of  the  construction,  dimensions,  etc.,  of 
one  of  the  violins  of  the  celebrated  Joseph 
Guarnerius,  secured  for  him  through  the  kindness 
of  a  friend,  this  having  served  as  the  model  for 
all  the  later  instruments  constructed  by  Mr. 
Brooks.  In  addition  to  this  work,  he  also  repairs 
violins  and  stringed  instruments. 

The  home  life  of  the  violin  maker  with  his 
lirother  and  sister  upon  a  portion  of  the  old  home 
ranch  is  of  the  happiest.  The  brother  William, 
a  horticulturist  of  note,  attends  to  the  outside 
work,  and  the  sister  Emma  is  the  housekeeper, 
rhe  remaining  fifty-five  acres  of  their  father's 
property  also  being  cared  for  by  them.  Much  of 
the  land  they  rent  to  Japanese  market  gardeners, 
the  soil  being  rich  and  well  irrigated  and  finely 
adapted  to  market  gardening  and  fruit  culture,  the 
estate  being  located  on  good  roads  and  in  prox- 
imity to  the  Los  Angeles  markets. 

It  is  families  such  as  these  which  America  is 
proud  to  welcome  to  her  shores  and  which,  by 
industry,  thrift  and  natural  ability,  add  immeas- 
urably to  the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  new 
sections  of  our  country  where,  as  pioneer  settlers, 
they  make  their  homes  and  rear  their  families. 


EDWARD  WILLIAM  LEWIS.  Of  Welsh 
descent,  Edward  William  Lewis,  now  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  of  Compton,  Cal.,  was  born  in  Bloss- 
burg,  Tioga  county,  Pa.,  May  1,  1845.  The 
greater  part  of  his  youth,  however,  was  spent  in 
Wisconsin,  for  when  a  small  boy  his  family  re- 
moved to  Iowa  county.  Wis.,  where  the  son  grew 
up  on  the  farm  until  the  age  of  twenty-one,  at 
which  time  he  moved  to  Saunders  county.  Neb. 
For  twenty-two  years  he  remained  in  Nebraska, 
raising  cattle,  hogs  and  corn  and  becoming  one  of 
the  leading  farmers  in  his  district.  In  1893  he 
sold  his  property  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres 


at  $45  an  acre,  and  removed  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia in  the  spring  of  the  next  year,  settling  near 
Compton  in  Los  Angeles  county.  Here  he  in- 
vested in  sixty-two  acres  of  land,  twelve  acres  of 
which  he  soon  sold,  however,  making  $25  per  acre 
on  the  sale.  When  the  boulevard  was  put  through 
his  land  in  1911  he  lost  two  acres,  and  he  is  now 
the  owner  of  a  fine  ranch  of  forty-eight  acres, 
improved  with  residence,  barns,  pumping  plant 
and  well,  there  being  a  twelve-inch  well  of  flowing 
water.  Here  he  raised  alfalfa  and  green  barley, 
and  later  installed  a  fine  dairy  of  thirty-two  cows 
of  Jersey  and  Holstein  breeds,  after  selling  which 
he  now  devotes  his  attention  to  raising  sugar  beets 
which  net  him  about  $40  per  acre,  clear,  each  year. 
He  has  nine  head  of  horses  and  mules  upon  his 
place,  and  is  the  proud  owner  of  a  fine  bay  driving 
mare,  four  years  old,  of  Young,  Hall  and  Hamble- 
tonian  breed.  He  also  owns  fifty  acres  of  well 
improved  land  two  miles  southeast  of  Downey. 

A  keen  interest  is  felt  by  Mr.  Lewis  in  the 
welfare  of  his  district  and  he  has  long  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  management  of  school  matters 
in  the  vicinity,  for  the  past  fifteen  years  having 
been  a  member  of  the  Lugo  District  School 
Board,  a  part  of  which  time  he  served  also  as 
president  of  the  board.  He  believes  in  securing 
the  best  of  teachers,  and  was  the  first  to  advance 
the  wages  of  the  teachers  to  $100  and  $85  per 
month,  respectively.  His  political  interests  are 
with  the  Republicans,  and  in  this  capacity  he 
serves  as  a  member  of  the  County  Central  Com- 
mittee, and  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention  that 
nominated  Governor  Gage  for  governor  of  Cali- 
fornia. Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to 
the  subordinate  York  Lodge  of  Watts,  and  also 
to  the  Council  No.  11  and  Sigma  Chapter  No.  57 
of  Los  Angeles. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Lewis  was  a  descendant  of 
the  family  of  the  late  President  McKinley,  Mary 
Cadman  of  Nebraska,  whose  mother  was  a  Miss 
McKinley,  cousin  of  the  late  president,  who,  with 
his  father,  was  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  Lewis 
home  in  Nebraska,  in  which  state  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Lewis  occurred.  Mr.  Lewis  is  the  father 
of  five  children :  Celia.  now  the  wife  of  Joseph 
McGinty ;  Joseph,  who  is  in  charge  of  the  Downey 
ranch  and  past  master  of  the  Watts  Lodge  of 
Masons;  Edward,  who  makes  his  home  with  his 
father;  Mary,  now  Mrs.  Fletcher;  and  William, 
who  is  deceased. 


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GEORGE  F.  EISENMAYER.  The  president 
of  the  Pacific  Mineral  Products  Company  is 
George  F.  Eisenmayer,  a  man  whose  wide  ex- 
perience and  research  work  along  the  line  of 
mineralogy  render  him  peculiarly  adapted  to  the 
leadership  of  a  company  such  as  this  which  he 
has  organized.  Mr.  Eisenmayer's  native  place  is 
Summerfield,  St.  Clair  county,  111.,  where  he  was 
born  April  5,  1868,  his  parents  being  Philip  Henry 
and  Emma  E.  (Wise)  Eisenmayer.  The  public 
schools  provided  his  early  education  until  he  had 
reached  the  age  of  fifteen,  after  which  he  con- 
tinued his  studies  at  Washington  University,  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1886, 
having  made  a  special  study  of  mechanical  en- 
gineering. 

The  business  career  of  Mr.  Eisenmayer  com- 
menced with  an  apprenticeship  with  the  Dehner- 
Wuerpel  Mill  Building  Company  for  a  period  of 
three  years,  terminating  in  1889,  when  he  engaged 
as  construction  engineer  with  the  St.  Louis  Stamp- 
ing Company,  which  later  became  the  National 
Enameling  and  Stamping  Company.  The  erection 
of  this  company's  plants,  occupying  respectively 
forty-three  and  twenty-seven  acres,  wherein  more 
than  four  thousand  people  were  employed,  was 
in  charge  of  Mr.  Eisenmayer,  who  superintended 
the  maintenance  and  operations  of  this  large  con- 
cern until  in  1907  he  came  to  California,  having 
been  with  the  firm  for  eighteen  years.  In  Granite 
City,  111.,  he  held  the  positions  of  councilman  and 
superintendent  of  public  works,  being  actively  in- 
terested in  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  which  during 
the  fifteen  years  of  his  efficient  service  grew  from 
a  small  country  place  to  a  city  with  a  population 
of  more  than  fifteen  thousand  and  supporting  a 
number  of  large  and  important  industries. 

For  seven  years  Mr.  Eisenmayer  has  studied 
and  worked  among  California's  mineral  resources, 
developing  and  putting  to  extensive  use  the  great 
deposits  of  lesser  though  important  minerals 
which  the  pioneers,  in  their  search  for  gold,  passed 
by  as  being  then  impractical  to  put  on  the  market. 
Now  things  are  changed,  and  the  Pacific  Mineral 
Products  Company,  with  Mr.  Eisenmayer  at  its 
head,  is  making  practical  use  of  California's  varied 
mineral  wealth,  which,  in  the  immediate  vicinity 
of  Los  Angeles  where  the  factory  stands,  com- 
prises a  great  variety  of  valuable  deposits.  Among 
these  materials  are  found  red  jasper,  oxides, 
manganese,  iron,  ochres,  umbers,  siennas,  whiting, 
kaolin,   talc,   soapstone,   chalk,   silica,   magnesite, 


feldspar,  fluorspar  and  baryta,  which  are  used 
extensively  in  the  manufacture  of  paint,  paper 
fillers,  electrical  insulators,  in  tanning  leather,  also 
for  foundry  purposes,  etc.  The  company,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $200,000,  owns  its  factory,  which 
has  recently  been  beautifully  remodeled,  the  land 
on  which  it  stands  comprising  forty-two  thousand 
square  feet,  as  well  as  a  valuable  deposit  of  kaolin 
in  the  vicinity  of  Victorville,  Cal.,  probably 
amounting  to  millions  of  tons.  The  demand  from 
the  Atlantic  coast  for  this  and  other  mineral  sub- 
stances is  great,  and  the  freight  rate  assured 
through  the  Panama  canal  makes  the  price  to  the 
eastern  states  not  excessive.  There  is  also  a  de- 
mand for  marble,  granites  and  other  miscellaneous 
minerals,  including  clays,  mica,  manganese,  paint 
colors,  etc.,  and  with  its  new  machinery  installed 
the  company  finds  itself  able  to  pay  dividends  of 
increasing  amount  each  year  and  is  glad  to  wel- 
come visitors  to  inspect  its  mill. 

Mr.  Eisenmayer,  its  president,  is  a  Mason  of 
the  Royal  Arch  degree,  and  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party.  In  August,  1892,  he  was  mar- 
ried in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  to  Miss  Lillie  Neidering- 
house,  who  died  in  April,  1903.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  with  Marcy  L.  Kirk  in  Los  Angeles, 
March  16,  1913.  The  two  sons  by  the  first  mar- 
riage are  Charles  and  Clarence,  the  elder  em- 
ployed in  the  estimating  department  of  the  Ham- 
mond Lumber  Company,  and  the  younger  a 
student  at  the  Universitv  of  California. 


C.  B.  WEAVER.  Perhaps  no  builder  in  Los 
Angeles  has  come  to  the  front  faster  or  more 
prominently  than  has  C.  B.  Weaver,  who  came  to 
this  city  in  1905  and  is  now  considered  one  of 
the  leading  contractors  and  builders  here.  His 
father,  Jonathan  Weaver,  was  a  well  known  mill- 
wright and  mill-owner,  who  built  mills  at  Water- 
loo and  Angola,  Ind.  The  son,  C.  B.  Weaver,  was 
born  at  Waterloo,  Ind.,  June  21,  1859,  and  re- 
ceived a  common  school  education.  While  yet  a 
youth  he  began  work  in  and  about  his  father's 
grist  and  sawmills  in  Indiana,  and  his  educa- 
tion and  training  have  been  along  practical  lines 
in  the  great  school  life,  so  that  now  he  is  thor- 
oughly familiar  with  every  phase  of  construction 
work.  A  natural-born  mechanic,  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years  he  went  to  work  as  a  carpenter  and 
builder  for  the  firm  of  Carpenter  &  Beard  in  his 


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ness  life.     His  death  occurred  in  1900,  while  on 
a  visit  at  Santa  Monica,  Cal. 

The  son,  John  B.  Roby,  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Ohio,  and  upon  the  removal  of  his 
family  to  Ludington,  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness there  with  his  father  until  1887,  when  his 
father  sold  out,  then  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
where  he  has  since  lived  in  retirement  from  the 
cares  of  business.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Los  Angeles,  his  political  interests 
being  with  the  Republican  party  and  his  religious 
affiliations  with  the  Unitarian  denomination. 


His  marriage  took  place  in  Santa  Ana,  Cal, 
December  18,  1904,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Juniatta  Peterson. 


GEORGE  RENWICK.  A  native  of  Canada, 
where  he  was  born  in  Ontario,  September  7,  1868, 
the  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Findlater)  Renwick, 
George  Renwick  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools,  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  leaving 
school  to  work  on  his  father's  farm  until  nineteen 
years  of  age.  Leaving  home  at  that  time,  he  came 
to  California,  settling  in  San  Bernardino,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  water  and  oil  well  drilling  con- 
tracting business  until  1901,  when  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles  and  organized  the  Los  Angeles  Manu- 
facturing Company  in  association  with  H.  L. 
Krown  and  H.  F.  Gansner.  When  the  business 
was  incorporated  Mr.  Gansner  was  elected  presi- 
dent, Mr.  Brown  vice-president,  and  Mr.  Renwick 
secretary,  Mr.  Renwick  later  becoming  president 
and  treasurer  of  the  company  and  Mr.  Brown 
vice-president  and  secretary.  The  Los  Angeles 
Manufacturing  Company  produces  a  general  line 
of  riveted  pipes  and  tanks,  both  steel  and  iron, 
their  business  extending  over  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, Arizona,  Nevada  and  New  Mexico.  When 
they  started  in  business  it  was  with  only  twenty 
assistants,  while  today  there  is  an  average  of 
seventy-five  men  in  their  employ,  and  their  plant, 
which  is  equipped  with  the  very  latest  of  riveting 
machinery,  covers  a  space  of  three  and  one-half 
acres. 

Aside  from  his  interests  in  the  Los  Angeles 
Manufacturing  Company,  Mr.  Renwick  also  holds 
the  important  position  of  secretary  of  the  Com- 
monwealth Homebuilders,  and  is  prominent  in 
fraternal  circles,  holding  membership  in  the 
Masons.  Elks,  Eagles  and  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  In  his  political  interests  he  is 
allied  with  the  Republican  party,  and  his  religious 
associations  are  with   the   Presbyterian   Church. 


GEORGE  W.  REJLLY.  Descended  from  a 
long  line  of  Irish  and  English  ancestry,  and  him- 
self a  native  of  Canada,  born  at  Prescott,  province 
of  Ontario,  April  15,  1862,  George  W.  Reilly  is 
today  one  of  the  prominent  real  estate  and  oil 
brokers  of  Los  Angeles,  having  established  him- 
self here  in  1911.  He  possesses  the  racial  char- 
acteristics of  his  forebears,  having  the  geniality 
and  charm  of  the  Irish  and  the  cool-headed  busi- 
ness acumen  of  the  English,  while  the  subtle  wit 
of  the  Emerald  Isle  lightens  all  his  ways,  and 
makes  him  a  companion  for  idle  hour  as  well  as 
for  wearying  business  days. 

Mr.  Reilly  is  the  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Knapp)  Reilly,  his  father  being  of  the  north  of 
Ireland  parentage,  while  his  mother  is  of  EngHsh 
extraction.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Adam 
Reilly,  a  native  of  Ireland  and  a  loyal  subject  of 
the  British  crown,  having  served  when  a  very 
young  man  in  the  battle  of  Waterloo  under  Wel- 
lington, where  he  was  distinguished  for  deeds  of 
rare  Irish  daring,  and  won  both  honorable  scars 
and  an  emblem  of  honor.  He  died  in  Canada  at 
the  age  of  ninety-nine  years,  being  in  mental  vigor 
at  that  time  equal  to  the  average  man  of  sixty. 
His  wife  was  Elizabeth  Reilly,  like  her  husband 
a  native  of  Ireland.  They  left  Ireland  for  Canada 
in  1831,  and  three  days  out  from  Quebec,  on  the 
high  seas,  she  gave  birth  to  a  male  child,  whom 
they  named  John,  and  who  became  the  father 
of  the  present  honored  citizen  of  Los  Angeles. 
After  his  marriage  with  Mary  Knapp,  John  Reilly 
moved  to  the  United  States,  locating  at  Ashton, 
111.,  and  after  a  number  of  years  removed  to 
Superior,  Neb.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death, 
in  1912,  when  he  was  eighty-one  years  of  age.  He 
and  his  wife  were  largely  instrumental  in  making 
Superior  a  home  city,  and  Mr.  Reilly  endowed 
and  established  the  first  church  there,  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal.  He  was  prominent  in  all  religious 
v/ork  and  also  in  municipal  and  political  affairs, 
always  being  on  the  side  of  social  uplift  and 
betterment.  He  occupied  a  public  office  for  many 
years,  and  was  so  engaged  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

George  W.  Reilly  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Ashton,  111.,  and  was  for  many  years 


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engaged  in  railroading,  being  employed  in  various 
capacities,  and  meeting  with  much  success.  His 
beginning  in  the  real  estate  business  was  not 
made  until  1908,  when  he  found  himself  in  Den- 
ver, Colo.,  where  the  real  estate  opportunities  at 
that  time  were  very  good.  He  mounted  rapidly 
in  his  new  enterprise  and  soon  owned  much  val- 
uable property  in  that  city.  Among  this  may  be 
mentioned  the  Carlton  Hotel,  which  he  both 
owned  and  operated  in  connection  with  his  realty 
business.  Feeling  the  need  of  rest  after  an  ex- 
ceptionally severe  strain  in  the  business  world, 
Mr.  Reilly  came  to  California,  remaining  for  three 
months  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity,  and  during 
that  time  became  convinced  that  both  as  a  home 
city  and  business  center  he  preferred  this  city  to 
Denver.  Accordingly  he  returned  to  his  Colo- 
rado home  and  disposed  of  his  holdings  there, 
returning  to  Los  Angeles  in  1911  to  make  his 
permanent  home  here.  He  is  engaged  in  real 
estate  enterprises  and  in  the  oil  brokerage  busi- 
ness and  is  now  the  owner  of  much  valuable 
property  in  the  county. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Reilly  took  place  at  Elk 
Creek,  Neb.,  in  1885,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Mar- 
garet May  Tack,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Duncan)  Tack.  The  father  of  Mrs.  Reilly  was 
for  many  years  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  Illinois  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  means. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reilly  have  one  child,  a  daughter, 
Florence  Mildred,  now  married  to  Edward  Mor- 
ris, of  Kansas  City,  Mo.  Mr.  Reilly  is  well  known 
in  many  circles  in  Los  Angeles,  and  is  a  favorite 
wherever  he  is  to  be  found.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  but  is  an  independent  thinker  and  is 
inclined  to  follow  the  man  and  his  principles 
rather  than  strict  party  lines.  In  local  matters  he 
is  progressive  and  a  booster  for  all  that  is  for  the 
improvement  of  his  home  city.  He  is  a  social 
member  of  the  Ellis  Club,  and  is  also  associated 
with  several  other  social  and  fraternal  organiza- 
tions of  the  city,  and  is  an  active  member  of  a 
number  of  municipal  organizations. 


years,  at  which  time  he  took  a  course  at 
Berkeley  Gym,  preparatory  for  the  University 
of  California,  and  graduated  therefrom  in  1894. 
Upon  the  completion  of  his  education  he  entered 
commercial  life,  commencing  his  business  career 
at  San  Francisco,  where  he  continued  for  the 
space  of  ten  years,  going  thence  to  New  York 
City  and  traveling  for  a  large  wholesale  house 
for  eight  years.  After  that  time  Mr.  Michener 
returned  to  his  native  city,  where  he  engaged  as 
salesman  for  the  Fifty  Associates  Company, 
stocks  and  bonds,  on  September  18,  1912,  pur- 
chasing an  interest  in  the  company  of  which  he 
then  became  stiperintendent  and  director,  in 
which  business  he  has  met  with  exceptional  suc- 
cess. 

In  his  political  interests  Mr.  Michener  is  a 
Republican,  and  his  religious  connections  are 
with  the  Christian  Science  Church.  He  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Sadie  Bird  in  Los 
Angeles  on  July  2,  1911. 


PARK  MICHENER.  One  of  the  "native 
sons"  of  California  is  Park  Michener,  who  was 
born  in  Los  Angeles  May  30,  1871,  the  son  of 
Dr.  J.  C.  and  Ellen  Michener.  He  was  educated 
in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  the  same 
city  until   he   had   reached   the  age   of   eighteen 


EDWIN  H.  WILEY.  In  1910  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles  erected  the  present  building  occu- 
pied by  its  receiving  hospital,  and  now  employs  a 
police  surgeon,  three  assistants,  three  male  and 
three  female  nurses  and  one  assistant  at  the  East 
Side  station.  The  man  who  fills  the  office  of 
police  surgeon  of  the  receiving  hospital  is  Dr. 
E.  H.  Wiley,  a  native  of  Charleston,  111.,  where 
he  was  born  September  4,  1877.  He  attended  the 
grammar  and  high  schools,  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  1895,  two  years  later  graduating  from 
Williston  Seminary  at  Easthampton,  Mass.  Then 
commencing  his  medical  training,  he  attended  the 
medical  department  of  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, graduating  in  the  year  1901,  and  act- 
ing as  interne  for  eighteen  months  at  the 
Cook  County  Hospital.  From  there  he  went 
to  Bessemer,  Ala.,  where  he  became  assistant 
surgeon  for  the  Tennessee  Iron  Mountain 
Railroad  Company,  and  after  two  years  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles,  where  since  he  has  carried  on  the 
practice  of  medicine.  He  was  here  elected  as- 
sistant police  surgeon  in  1907,  and  rose  to  his 
present  office  of  police  surgeon  in  January,  1913. 
The  receiving  hospital  with  which  he  is  connected 
was  started  by  Dr.  Bryant,  paying  no  salary  and 
occupying  one  room  over  the  old  city  jail,  later 
being  removed  to  the  present  jail  building,  where 


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Club.  Los  Angeles.  In  politics  he  is  Republican 
in  interests,  and  in  his  religious  affiliations  he  is 
associated  with  the  Methodist  church. 


EDWARD  M.  DURANT.  The  immense 
amount  of  work  done  by  the  Pacific  Sewer  Pipe 
Company,  of  which  Edward  M.  Durant  is  presi- 
dent, is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  six  other  plants 
were  bought  out  by  the  company,  all  of  which  it 
is  operating  at  the  present  time.  The  plants 
bought  out  by  this  firm  are  the  California  Clay 
Manufacturing  Company,  started  in  1885  and 
located  at  Slauson  and  McKinley  avenues,  Los 
Angeles ;  the  Pacific  Clay  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany of  Corona,  Cal. ;  the  Douglass  Clay  Products 
Company,  which,  starting  in  1891,  was  in  1897 
changed  to  the  Los  Angeles  Stoneware  and  Sewer 
Pipe  Company,  at  which  time  the  factory  was 
equipped  for  the  manufacture  of  sewer  pipes ;  the 
Corona  Pressed  Brick  and  Terra  Cotta  Company, 
organized  in  July.  1903,  with  Nathan  W.  Stowell 
as  president ;  and  the  California  Fireproof  Con- 
struction Company,  which  was  organized  in  1902. 

The  man  who  is  president  of  the  great  company 
that  has  taken  over  all  these  plants  is  the  son  of 
Edward  G.  and  Caroline  (Darling)  Durant,  and 
was  born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  July.  1867.  His 
parents  moved  to  Racine,  Wis.,  and  there  the  son 
attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  until  six- 
teen years  of  age.  Upon  leaving  school  he  was 
employed  in  the  office  of  a  furniture  manufac- 
turing concern  for  two  years,  after  which  he  was 
engaged  with  the  Racine  Cement  and  Pipe  Com- 
pany as  clerk  for  one  year.  Coming  to  Los  An- 
geles in  1887,  he  began  as  clerk  with  the  Pacific 
Clay  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  firm  he 
later  became  superintendent.  Ill  health  caused 
him  to  resign  his  position  and  to  seek  outdoor  life 
upon  his  cattle  ranch  in  Los  Angeles  county, 
where  he  remained  until  1893,  when  he  moved  to 
Los  Angeles  and  conducted  the  ranch  while 
residing  here.  In  1906  he  took  over  the  Western 
Art  Tile  Works  at  Tropico,  Cal.  This  he  operated 
until  1909,  when  he  sold  out.  and  in  1910  he 
organized  the  Pacific  Sewer  Pipe  Company,  of 
which  he  has  been  the  president  and  manager  ever 
since. 

Mr.  Durant  is  a  Republican  in  his  political 
leanings,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club 
he  enjoys  the  association  with  many  prominent 


business  men  of  this  city.  In  May,  1893,  he  was 
married  to  Mary  Case  in  Los  Angeles,  and  they 
have  three  children:  Harlan  E.,  a  graduate  of 
the  Polytechnic  High  School;  Raymond  C,  a 
student  at  the  school  just  mentioned ;  and  Alice 
C,  who  attends  St.  Catherine's  private  school. 


E.  CLEM  WILSON.  The  Wilson  &  Willard 
Company,  of  Los  Angeles,  was  established  in 
1907  by  E.  C.  Wilson  and  A.  G.  Willard  for  the 
purpose  of  manufacturing  their  own  patents  in  oil  • 
well  tools  and  machinery.  They  manufacture  the 
Wilson  reamer,  which  is  used  for  enlarging  holes 
below  the  casing  when  drilling  with  standard 
cable  tools  in  the  making  of  oil  wells,  and  have 
patented  the  Wilson  casing  elevators  for  oil  wells, 
the  Wilson  casing  spears,  the  Willard  circulating 
heads,  the  Sweitzer  ratchet  rope  sockets,  the  Wil- 
lard-Wilcox  rotary  device,  the  Wilson  steel  pit- 
man, the  Wilson  double-acting  water  well  pumps 
and  the  Baker  casing  shoes.  When  the  company 
started  in  business  they  employed  only  six  men, 
while  today  they  have  sixty  employes.  In  1913 
Mr.  Wilson  bought  out  his  partner,  Mr.  Willard, 
and  is  today  sole  owner  of  the  business  with  his 
brother,  W.  W.  Wilson. 

The  son  of  Andrew  P.  and  Josephine  Wilson, 
E.  C.  Wilson  was  born  in  Darke  county.  Ohio,  in 
July,  1870.  Removing  with  his  parents  to  Colo- 
rado Springs,  Colo.,  he  attended  the  public  schools 
of  that  city,  later  removing  to  Parsons,  Kans., 
where  he  studied  in  the  public  schools  until  he 
reached  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  when  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  and  continued  his  education  at 
the  high  school  in  this  city.  At  the  age  of  eighteen 
he  entered  business  life  as  clerk  in  the  Brown  & 
Foster  Hardware  Company,  and  after  remaining 
with  them  for  three  years  took  a  business  course 
for  a  year  at  the  Woodbury  Business  College.  He 
then  bought  a  one-third  interest  in  the  firm,  and 
was  elected  its  treasurer.  After  two  years  he  sold 
out  and  attended  Stanford  University,  when  he 
returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  engaged  as  book- 
keeper and  salesman  with  the  Baker  Iron  Works, 
later  being  put  in  charge  of  the  oil  well  tool  de- 
partment. After  continuing  in  that  capacity  until 
1904,  he  then  removed  to  Bakersfield,  Cal.,  to 
become  manager  of  the  Bakersfield  Iron  Works, 
superintending  all  their  supply  stores  until  the 
year  1909.    During  that  time  he  had  organized  the 


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Wilson  &  Willard  Company,  of  which  in  1909  he 
became  president. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club  and  the  Sierra  Madre  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  of  the  Bakersfield  Club  in  that  city. 
Politically  he  is  a  Republican,  and  his  religious 
associations  are  with  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
His  marriage  with  Eva  Pearl  Thurston  was 
solemnized  in  Bakersfield  on  April  17,  1906,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  one  child,  Adelaide  Wilson. 


CHARLES  SUMNER  KENT.  One  of  the 
many  great  industries  that  have  developed  in 
Los  Angeles  through  the  stupendous  growth  of 
the  city  in  particular,  and  of  the  state  generally, 
is  represented  by  The  California-Arizona  Con- 
struction Company,  which  institution  has  ab- 
sorbed the  great  business  which  grew  up  in  the 
southwest  under  the  name  and  management  of 
The  Barber  Asphalt  Paving  Company,  the  men 
responsible  for  the  birth  of  the  newer  organiza- 
tion being  former  employes  of  the  eastern  com- 
pany. As  the  moving  spirit  of  this  aggregation 
of  splendid  men  may  be  named  Charles  Sumner 
Kent,  who  as  prime  mover  in  the  organization  of 
this  company  and  holder  of  a  controlling  interest 
in  its  affairs,  may  be  rightly  called  the  "father 
of  the  infant  industry."  This  is  made  especially 
true  by  the  fact  that  Mr.  Kent  is  also  president 
of  the  company  and  closely  identified  with  its 
growth  and  general  affairs.  Before  the  forma- 
tion of  the  new  organization  he  had  been  for  many 
years  associated  with  this  line  of  work  on  the 
coast  through  his  connection  with  The  Barber 
Asphalt  Paving  Company,  and  so  is  pre-emi- 
nently fitted  to  conduct  a  great  independent  en- 
terprise and  steer  its  affairs  into  the  harbor  of 
success. 

Mr.  Kent  is  a  native  of  New  York  state,  having 
been  born  at  Buffalo,  February  26,  1873,  the  son 
of  William  and  Susan  Kent.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  at  Crawford,  in 
1843,  and  educated  there.  In  1863  he  enlisted 
in  the  Northern  army  to  fight  for  the  Union, 
serving  his  country  until  1865,  when  he  was 
honorably  discharged.  He  then  returned  to  Buf- 
falo, where  he  became  associated  with  the  George 
A.  Prince  Organ  Company  as  foreman,  his  father 
having  a  like  position  in  one  of  the  many  de- 
partments at  the  same  time.    They  continued  in 


this  connection  until  1880,  when  they  succeeded 
the  former  company  and  thereafter  conducted  the 
business  as  the  Kent  Organ  Company  (father  and 
son  being  partners  in  the  undertaking).  In  1892 
they  sold  their  business  and  William  Kent  came  to 
Los  Angeles  to  make  his  home,  retiring  from  ac- 
tive business  at  that  time.  He  died  in  Utica, 
N.  Y.,  February  25,  1913.  Charles  Sumner  Kent 
spent  his  youth  in  Buffalo,  where  he  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools,  graduating 
from  the  high  school  when  he  was  nineteen  years 
of  age.  Later  he  studied  architecture,  com- 
pleting his  course  by  six  months  of  study  and 
travel  in  Europe.  On  his  return  to  Buffalo  he 
accepted  a  position  as  timekeeper  for  The  Barber 
Asphalt  Paving  Company,  being  later  advanced 
to  the  position  of  superintendent  of  western  New 
York  and  Canada,  and  in  1905  became  district 
manager  of  the  states  of  California,  Arizona,  New 
Mexico  and  Nevada,  and  in  1906,  a  year  later, 
was  made  manager  of  the  entire  Pacific  coast  west 
of  the  Rocky  Mountains  and  as  far  north  as 
British  Columbia.  The  success  of  this  vast  ter- 
ritory under  the  able  management  of  Mr.  Kent 
became  an  established  fact  and  his  familiarity 
with  the  business  details  made  it  an  easy  step 
for  him  to  engage  in  the  same  line  of  enterprise 
for  himself.  Accordingly,  on  July  30,  1914,  Mr. 
Kent,  together  with  two  other  well  known  local 
men,  L.  L.  Chandler  and  C.  W.  Sparks,  both  old 
employes  of  The  Barber  Asphalt  Paving  Com- 
pany, bought  out  all  the  business  and  equipment 
of  that  company  in  Southern  California  and 
Arizona,  and  formed  the  California-Arizona 
Construction  Company,  with  C.  S.  Kent  as  presi- 
dent, L.  L.  Chandler  as  vice-president  and  gen- 
eral manager,  and  C.  W.  Sparks  as  secretary- 
treasurer. 

During  the  ten  years  that  Mr.  Kent  was  man- 
ager of  the  western  business  of  The  Barber  As- 
phalt Paving  Company  they  laid  more  than  two 
thousand  miles  of  pavement  west  of  the  Rockies, 
this  representing  a  vast  expenditure  of  money 
and  the  employment  of  many  men.  The  Califor- 
nia-Arizona Construction  Company  have  now  un- 
der contract  more  than  half  a  million  dollars 
worth  of  work,  although  still  in  their  earliest  in- 
fancy. Mr.  Kent  is  a  loyal  believer  in  the  future 
greatness  of  Los  Angeles,  and  declares  that  as 
rosy  as  are  the  prophesies  for  the  future,  he 
firmly  believes  that  the  Los  Angeles  of  tomorrow 
is  as  much  underestimated  today  as  the  city  has 


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Aside  from  his  business  interests,  Mr.  Brauer 
is  connected  with  many  clubs  and  associations  of 
both  social  and  civic  importance,  he  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Associa- 
tion, of  which  last  he  was  for  two  terms  a  di- 
rector, a  trustee  of  the  Public  Welfare  Fund, 
and  a  member  of  the  Municipal  League,  the  Turn- 
verein  Germania  and  the  Jonathan,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic,  Tuna,  City  and  Cazedores  Gun  Clubs, 
his  fraternal  affiliations  being  with  the  Al  Malai- 
kah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  the  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Masons,  the  Knights 
Templars  and  the  Golden  West  Commandery 
No.  43. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Brauer  in  1896  united  him 
with  Serena  D.  Gerdts,  and  they  reside  at  No. 
2129  West  Twenty-first  street,  Los  Angeles. 


DR.  JOHN  P.  GILMER.  Prominent  for  the 
past  ten  years  as  a  leading  physician  in  Los  An- 
geles, Dr.  John  P.  Gilmer  brought  with  him  a 
long  record  of  achievement  and  honorable  ser- 
vice toward  his  fellow  men  that  places  him  in  the 
front  rank  in  his  profession.  He  served  in  the 
Spanish-American  war  as  a  volunteer  nurse  with- 
out pay,  being  with  the  Tenth  United  States  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  this  regiment  being  known  as 
the  "Immunes."  He  is  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Society  of  Surgeons  of  the  Confederate  Army 
and  Navy,  and  has  served  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment in  high  places  in  a  professional  capacity. 
Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  has  assumed 
a  prominent  place  in  the  general  affairs  of  the 
city  and  county,  and  in  1913  was  appointed  as 
harbor  commissioner.  He  is  also  especially  in- 
fluential and  well  known  throughout  the  Masonic 
circles  of  the  city,  in  which  he  stands  high  in 
official  service. 

Dr.  Gilmer  is  a  native  of  Mississippi,  having 
been  born  in  Macon,  Noxubee  county,  June  30, 
1876,  the  son  of  John  P.  and  Martha  Epes 
(Oliver)  Gilmer,  both  of  prominent  Southern 
families.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Georgia, 
born  February  26,  1846,  and  was  educated  in 
the  private  schools  of  that  state.  Later 
he  entered  the  Confederate  army  and  served 
with  distinction  throughout  the  Civil  war. 
After  the  close  of  the  war  he  practiced  law 
at    De    Kalb,    Miss.,    until    his    death  in    1877. 


The  son  attended  public  schools  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  until  he  was  thirteen,  and  then 
entered  college,  remaining  until  he  was 
eighteen.  He  then  took  up  the  study  of  medicine 
at  the  Kentucky  School  of  Medicine,  at  Louisville, 
Ky.,  graduating  in  1899.  He  then  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Louisville  until  1902, 
meeting  with  appreciable  success.  From  1900 
until  1902  he  was  examining  surgeon  for  the 
United  States  Pension  Bureau  at  Louisville,  and 
at  that  time  went  to  Mexico  City  as  medical 
director  for  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  So- 
ciety. He  continued  in  that  capacity  until  1905, 
when  he  was  obliged,  by  the  ill  health  of  his  son, 
to  resign  his  position  and  seek  a  change  of  climate 
and  conditions.  Accordingly  he  came  with  his 
family  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  since  been 
engaged  in  general  practice,  having  met  with  much 
success. 

Dr.  Gilmer  has  always  been  interested  in  Ma- 
sonry, and  is  a  member  of  the  York  Rite.  He 
served  as  master  of  Arlingfon  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
during  1910  and  1911,  as  high  priest  of  Los 
Angeles  Chapter,  R.  A.  M..  in  1912,  and  also  as 
Chancellor  Commander  of  Irving  Lodge,  K.  P., 
in  1914.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Elks.  In 
his  political  affiliations  Dr.  Gilmer  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  a  strong  party  man.  He  has  always 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  his  party, 
giving  his  unqualified  support  to  its  men  and 
measures  because  he  believes  firmly  that  they 
are  right.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  and  together  with  his  family  attends  the 
services  of  that  denomination. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Gilmer  took  place  in 
Louisville,  Ky.,  October  10,  1900,  uniting  him 
with  Miss  Margaret  G.  Goodloe,  of  that  city.  Of 
their  union  have  been  born  two  children,  a  son 
and  a  daughter,  both  of  whom  are  attending  the 
public  schools  of  this  city.  They  are  John  Le 
Barnes  Gilmer,  aged  thirteen  years,  and  Angelyn 
Morton  Gilmer,  aged  ten.  Both  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Gilmer  have  made  many  friends  since  coming  to 
Los  Angeles. 


PAUL  SCHUMACHER.  A  native  of  Vien- 
na, although  of  German  descent,  Paul  Schu- 
macher was  born  in  1842,  and  his  boyhood  days 
were  passed  in  his  native  city,  where  he  received 
his  education,  which  was  very  thorough.  He  came 
to  the  United  States  when  he  was  a  young  man 


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and  was  employed  by  the  government  as  an  anti- 
quarian and  mineralogist.  After  several  years  of 
this  work  he  became  identified  with  Smithson- 
ian Institution  in  research  work  and  archaeology. 
On  these  subjects  he  is  recognized  as  an  author- 
ity and  many  books  have  been  written  along  these 
lines  by  him.  While  in  the  service  of  the  govern- 
ment he  worked  on  the  coast  survey  of  Southern 
California,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
engaged  in  mining  in  Mexico,  where  he  discov- 
ered and  was  manager  of  the  San  Antonio  and 
San  Pablo  mines,  and  where  his  death  occurred 
May  22,  1883.  His  marriage  occurred  in  Los 
Angeles  on  March  16,  1880,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Caroline  Schumacher,  and  was  solemnized 
in  St.  Paul's  Pro-Cathedral,  opposite  Central 
park,  which  was  then  a  new  edifice.  Mrs.  Schu- 
macher still  resides  in  Los  Angeles,  where  she  has 
many  friends. 


JOHN  D.  ROCHE.  The  son  of  a  family  that 
for  generations  has  been  active  in  politics,  John  D. 
Roche,  register  of  the  United  States  Land  Office 
at  Los  Angeles,  brings  to  that  office  an  enthusiasm 
for  Democratic  interests  and  a  vast  amount  of 
practical  experience  along  political  lines  that 
cannot  fail  of  success. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  Mr.  Roche  was  born  in 
Evansville,  November  6,  1870,  the  son  of  John  D. 
Roche,  and  comes  of  Irish-American  stock  which 
has  bravely  upheld  Democracy  in  the  state  of 
Indiana  through  periods  of  political  unrest.  His 
education  was  received  at  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  of  his  native  city  and  of  Mount  Vernon, 
Ind.,  until  the  age  of  seventeen,  when  he  com- 
menced to  make  his  own  living,  his  first  position 
being  that  of  assistant  postmaster  in  Mount  Ver- 
non for  four  years.  Becoming  interested  in  news- 
paper work,  Mr.  Roche  was  engaged  as  printer's 
devil  for  the  Mount  Vernon  Democrat,  where  he 
worked  himself  up  to  the  position  of  editor, 
which  he  continued  to  hold  until  his  resignation  in 
1907,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  Here  he 
established  a  general  merchandise  business  in  East 
Los  Angeles  which  he  sold  out  in  1910,  taking  the 
civil  service  examination  prior  to  his  appoint- 
ment as  inspector  of  the  Los  Angeles  Board  of 
Public  Works.  This  was  followed  in  1914  by  his 
appointment  by  President  Wilson  to  his  present 
office  of  United  States  Land  Register. 


Mr.  Roche's  political  life  has  been  one  of  thor- 
ough practical  training  and  able  service  to  his 
party.  Having  been  state  senator  for  two  Indiana 
counties,  upon  his  arrival  in  Los  Angeles  he  in- 
terested himself  at  once  with  the  Democratic  or- 
ganization here,  and  later  held  the  positions  of 
county  committeeman  at  large,  assistant  secretary 
of  the  Jefferson  Club  and  inspector  for  the  Los 
Angeles  board  of  public  works,  also  serving  as 
delegate  to  many  conventions,  where  he  was  of 
great  service  to  the  Democratic  cause.  He  is  loyal 
in  upholding  the  views  of  Secretary  Lane  with 
regard  to  the  appreciation  and  better  development 
of  the  needs  and  possibilities  of  the  West  whose 
affairs,  says  Secretary  Lane  in  his  report,  "have 
not  been  given  that  consideration  at  the  hands  of 
the  national  government  which  they  merit."  The 
use  of  the  land  for  the  purposes  to  which  it  is 
best  adapted ;  the  prospecting  for  oil  which  may 
be  used  as  an  economical  substitute  for  coal  in 
the  navy  since  it  would  do  away  with  the  build- 
ing of  colliers,  the  support  of  coaling  stations, 
etc. ;  the  better  operation  of  the  homestead  law 
regarding  timber  lands;  the  reclaiming  of  desert 
lands — these  are  some  of  the  subjects  raised  by 
Secretary  Lane  which  are  of  great  interest  to 
Register  Roche  in  his  new  and  important  office. 

By  his  marriage  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  October  24, 
1895,  to  Miss  Rose  M.  Harris,  Mr.  Roche  is  the 
father  of  five  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  high  school  and  the 
three  next  in  age  pupils  in  the  Los  Angeles  public 
schools.  The  names  of  the  children  are :  John  D., 
Jr.,  Winston,  Rosemary,  Margaret  May  and  Hen- 
rietta. 


ARTHUR  W.  GRIER.  The  secretary  of  the 
Southern  California  Iron  and  Steel  Company  is 
Arthur  W.  Grier,  who  was  born  in  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
May  16,  1882,  the  son  of  Matthew  W.  and  Sarah 
Grier,  his  father  having  been  born  in  Wilkes- 
barre,  Pa.,  June  18,  1859,  and  educated  in  Pitts- 
burg, where  he  later  engaged  as  salesman  for  a 
large  wholesale  grocery  company  until  the  year 
1907,  when  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  in  which 
city  he  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  same  line  of 
business. 

The  son,  Arthur  W.  Grier,  attended  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools,  graduating  from  the  latter 
in  the  class  of  1900,  after  which  he  engaged  with 


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Society  (Executive  Committee),  the  California 
Academy  of  Sciences,  the  National  Geographic 
Society,  Washington,  D.  C,  the  Geological  So- 
ciety of  Washington  (Secretary,  1907-1909),  the 
Biological  Society  of  Washington,  the  Seismo- 
logical  Society  of  America  (vice-president,  1915- 
1916),  the  Cooper  Ornithological  Club,  the  Mala- 
cological  Society  of  London  and  the  Le  Conte 
Geological  Club.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Section 
of  Petroleum,  International  Jury  of  Award, 
Panama-Pacific    International    Exposition,    1915. 

The  social  affiliations  of  Mr.  Arnold,  as  well 
as  his  professional  connections,  are  numerous,  he 
being  a  member  of  the  Cosmos  Club,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  the  same  city  until  his  resignation 
when  he  left  Washington ;  also  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  the  Engineers' 
Club,  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  Arnold  was  formerly  Frankie  Winninette 
Stokes,  the  daughter  of  Frank  and  Oraletta 
(Newell)  Stokes,  of  South  Pasadena,  her  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Arnold  occurring  July  12,  1899. 


JULIUS  BROMBACHER.  The  native  home 
of  Julius  Brombacher,  a  prominent  Los  Angeles 
manufacturer,  was  the  Canton  of  Basel,  Switzer- 
land, where  he  was  born  May  23,  1861,  the  son  of 
Fred  Brombacher.  He  attended  the  trade  schools 
of  his  country  until  ten  years  of  age,  when  his 
family  removed  to  Baden,  Germany,  where  he 
continued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  until 
fourteen  years  old,  when  he  returned  to  his  native 
canton  and  for  three  years  devoted  himself  to 
learning  the  house-smith  trade.  For  two  months 
he  then  worked  at  this  trade  in  Neufchatel,  Switz- 
erland, then  going  to  Paris,  France,  where  he  fol- 
lowed the  same  occupation  for  nine  months.  His 
next  employment  was  at  Karlsruhe,  Germany, 
where  for  two  months  he  worked  at  his  chosen 
trade,  then  coming  to  the  United  States  and 
settling  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  found  em- 
ployment with  the  Pennsylvania  Iron  Works, 
being  in  charge  of  that  company's  globe  marine 
gas  engine  department  for  ten  years.  Los  An- 
geles was  the  next  city  that  attracted  the  attention 
of  Mr.  Brombacher,  and  coming  west  he  engaged 
with  Smith,  Booth  &  Usher  of  Los  Angeles  as 
expert  on  engines  for  a  year.  At  the  end  of  that 
time  he  went  into  business  independently,  devot- 


ing himself  entirely  to  the  ornamental  iron  busi- 
ness, starting  with  but  two  assistants  where  he 
now  has  thirty  men  in  his  employ.  His  business 
is  that  of  general  structural  and  ornamental  brass, 
and  bronze  work  and  machine  work,  and  the  or- 
namental iron  work  on  the  following  buildings 
was  manufactured  by  his  company,  the  Brom- 
bacher Iron  Works,  Los  Angeles  :  Bank  fixtures  at 
the  Bank  of  Hemet,  Cal. ;  brass  grillwork  at  the 
Bank  of  Southern  California;  elevator  cabs  at 
the  postoffice  in  Seattle ;  elevator  cabs  and  en- 
closures in  the  postoffice  in  the  Scripps  building, 
San  Diego  ;  Marquise  and  elevator  enclosure  work 
in  the  Auditorium  hotel,  Los  Angeles ;  elevator 
work  and  stair  rail  in  the  Baltimore  hotel,  the 
Hofifman-Meyer  building  and  the  Zobel  build- 
ing, all  in  Los  Angeles ;  cast  iron  stairs,  entrances 
and  window  frames  on  the  New  State  Bank,  San 
Pedro,  Cal. ;  entrance  doors  at  the  International 
Bank,  Los  Angeles ;  ornamental  iron  and  bronze 
work  on  the  San  Pedro  lighthouse;  stair  work 
on  the  First  National  Bank,  Glendale,  Cal. ;  orna- 
mental and  structural  work  on  the  Elks  buildings 
at  Redlands  and  Long  Beach,  Cal. ;  the  same  on 
three  engine  houses  of  Los  Angeles;  jail  work  at 
W^illiams,  Ariz.,  and  various  contracts  in  the  Cali- 
fornia towns  of  San  Pedro,  Blythe.  Banning, 
Glendale,  Orange,  Redlands,  San  Diego,  Santa 
Ana,  Beaumont,  Indio,  Hemet  and  El  Centro,  as 
well  as  many  others ;  the  steel  work  on  the  Ripley 
job  at  ^^enice,  Cal.,  at  the  school  at  Sixty-first 
and  Figueroa  streets,  Los  Angeles,  the  Arenz 
theatre  and  apartments,  Pico  and  Lake  streets, 
Los  Angeles,  the  Overland  garage,  Olive  street, 
Los  Angeles,  and  the  steel  and  ornamental  iron 
work  on  a  number  of  apartments.  In  addition  to 
the  above  he  furnished  the  bronze  work  and  fix- 
tures in  the  Riverside  post  office,  erecting  two 
thousand  transmission  towers  between  Bishop  and 
San  Bernardino. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Brombacher  with  Miss 
Emily  Balderman  was  solemnized  in  Philadelphia, 
January  1,  1890,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one 
son,  C.  Fred,  who  attended  the  grammar  and  Poly- 
technic high  schools  and  is  now  assistant  man- 
ager of  his  father's  business.  Mr.  Brombacher 
is  a  member  of  the  Builders'  Exchange,  Chajii- 
ber  of  Commerce  and  Merchants  and  Manufac- 
turers Association,  the  German  Hospital  Asso- 
ciation the  Turn  Verein,  as  well  as  of  the  Rotary 
Club,  and  fraternally  he  is  a  Mason.  His  political 
interests  are  with  the  Republican  party. 


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EARL  M.  CHAMPION.  The  Southern  Cah- 
fornia  Hardwood  and  Manufacturing  Company, 
located  at  No.  1430  South  Alameda  street,  and 
No.  1200  East  Eighth  street,  Los  Angeles,  was 
organized  in  1902  as  the  H.  Raphael  Company, 
and  incorporated  a  year  later  as  the  Southern 
California  Hardwood  and  Lumber  Manufactur- 
ing Company.  In  1905  the  name  was  changed  to 
its  present  form,  and  today  from  five  hundred 
to  six  hundred  men  are  employed  in  the  business 
where  at  the  commencement  but  fifty  were  em- 
ployed. The  site  of  the  original  factory  occupied 
a  space  of  280x600  feet  in  proportions,  on  Kohler 
street,  between  Eighth  and  Ninth.  In  1913  the 
company  bought  out  the  Hughes  Manufacturing 
and  Lumber  Company,  which  covered  eleven 
acres,  and  is  now  running  both  factories,  being 
the  largest  firm  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States. 
They  do  a  general  hardwood  business,  manufac- 
turing fixtures  for  banks,  offices  and  department 
stores  as  well  as  all  kinds  of  church  and  school 
furniture.  Their  representatives  are  in  all  the 
principal  cities  on  the  coast,  and  in  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles  they  have  show  case  and  furniture 
display  rooms  at  Nos.  310  to  314  South  Los  An- 
geles street,  and  display  rooms  for  their  wall  and 
concealed  beds  at  Nos.  620  South  Main  street 
and  1811  South  Main  street.  A  large  amount  of 
interior  finishing  in  office  buildings  has  been  done 
by  this  company,  among  them  being  the  Federal 
building,  the  I.  W.  Hellman  building,  and  the 
Kerckhoflf,  Hollingsworth,  Haas,  Story  and  Van 
Nuys  buildings,  as  well  as  the  Grant  hotel  at  San 
Diego,  Cal.,  and  the  Barbara  Worth  hotel  at  El 
Centro.  Interior  fixtures  have  also  been  supplied 
by  them  for  Bullock's  original  store;  Harris  & 
Frank;  the  Central  Department  Store,  a  $45,000 
job  which  they  completed  in  seventeen  days ;  one 
floor  in  the  new  J.  W.  Robinson  store  building; 
and  six  floors  in  the  big  department  store  of  the 
Meier  &  Frank  Company,  of  Portland,  Ore.  The 
company  has  furnished  wall  beds  to  nearly  all 
the  high-class  apartment  houses  in  Los  Angeles, 
having  the  agency  for  the  Murphy  door  bed,  the 
most  up-to-date  bed  on  the  market.  Some  of  their 
branch  houses  are  the  Independent  Sash  and 
Door  Company  at  San  Diego,  and  the  T.  J.  Cos- 
ton  Company  at  Phoenix,  Ariz.  The  company 
does  a  business  of  $150,000  a  month,  their  pay- 
roll, which  in  1903  was  only  $600  a  week,  today 
being  $8000  per  week. 


Because  of  the  fact  that  this  company  manu- 
facture all  of  their  product  in  Los  Angeles  and 
employ  only  local  workmen,  they  have  been 
awarded  large  contracts  by  the  local  architects 
and  owners,  who  know  the  work  will  be  kept  at 
home ;  and  they  also  pride  themselves  on  paying 
the  highest  wages  and  salaries  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, thereby  securing  the  best  skilled  labor  in 
the  market. 

The  officers  of  the  Southern  California  Hard- 
wood and  Manufacturing  Company  are  as  fol- 
lows :  R.  H.  Raphael,  president ;  Mark  Turnbull, 
first  vice-president;  Earl  M.  Champion,  second 
vice-president  and  general  superintendent ;  D. 
Woodhead,  secretary  and  director,  who  was  for- 
merly with  the  Beaumont  Lumber  Company,  at 
Beaumont,  Tex. ;  Louis  Machol,  treasurer  and 
director,  who  began  with  this  company  in  1903 
as  cashier  and  bookkeeper,  and  was  elected  to 
his  present  offices  in  1905. 

Mr.  Champion,  who  fills  the  offices  of  second 
vice-president  and  general  superintendent  in  the 
company,  was  born  at  Aiken.  S.  C,  and  came  to 
Los  Angeles  in  1903,  when  he  engaged  with  the 
J.  M.  Griffith  Mill  Company  as  superintendent 
and  remained  until  December,  1905.  At  that  time 
he  became  general  superintendent  of  the  South- 
ern CaHfornia  Hardwood  and  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  which  in  1913  he  was  elected  second 
vice-president. 


CHARLES  W.  BOHNHOFF.  A  native  of 
Germany,  where  he  was  born  September  9,  1870, 
the  son  of  Frederick  Bohnhoff,  C.  W.  BohnhofiF, 
now  a  wholesale  lumber  dealer  in  Los  Angeles, 
came  to  this  country  with  his  parents  in  1872  and 
settled  in  Saginaw,  Mich.,  where  he  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of 
fifteen  years  Mr.  Bohnhoff  engaged  with  the  Ger- 
main Sash,  Door  and  Box  Company  as  an  appren- 
tice, at  the  small  sum  of  fifty  cents  per  day,  re- 
maining with  this  firm  for  three  years,  when  he 
was  employed  as  shipping  clerk  by  the  Walter 
A.  Avery  Lumber  Company,  where  he  also  acted 
as  salesman,  leaving  that  company  in  1899.  which 
was  the  year  of  his  removal  to  Los  Angeles. 
Arriving  in  this  city,  he  found  employment  for 
two  months  with  the  Alta  Planing  Mill  as  grader, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  became  general  man- 
ager for  a  large  Los  Angeles  lumber  company,  an 
office  which  he  filled  until  the  vear  1911.  when  he 


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olent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  By  his  mar- 
riage in  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  June  20,  1886,  Mr. 
Stevens  was  united  with  Miss  Cora  E.  Willey, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  four  children,  namely : 
Loren  E.,  Leon  J.,  Irene  Gertrude  and  Will  P., 
Jr.,  the  three  sons  being  in  business  with  their 
father,  the  daughter  making  her  home  with  her 
parents. 


EDWARD  S.  IRVIN.  In  1903  the  Los  An- 
geles Can  Company  was  started  by  F.  F.  Stetson 
and  T.  J.  Spencer,  under  the  name  of  the  Stetson- 
Spencer  Can  Company,  being  incorporated  in 
1904,  at  which  time  F.  F.  Stetson  was  elected 
president,  T.  J.  Spencer  vice-president,  E.  S. 
Irvin  secretary  and  F.  B.  McCrosky  treasurer. 
When  they  started  in  business  the  company  em- 
ployed only  twenty-five  people,  while  today  they 
employ  one  hundred  and  fifty,  and  the  industry, 
which  comprises  the  manufacture  of  a  general 
line  of  tin  cans,  is  well  known  all  over  Southern 
California. 

The  secretary  of  the  Los  Angeles  Can  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Irvin,  was  born  at  Valparaiso,  Ind., 
January  19,  1860,  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Catha- 
rine (Keller)  Irvin,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools,  at  the  age  of  seventeen  com- 
mencing to  teach  school,  which  pursuit  he  fol- 
lowed until  twenty  years  of  age,  when  he  became 
engaged  as  a  clerk  in  a  drug  store.  After  follow- 
ing this  profession  for  five  years,  Mr.  Irvin  en- 
tered the  dry  goods  business,  being  for  three  years 
employed  as  a  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store.  Remov- 
ing to  Los  Angeles,  he  continued  in  the  dry  goods 
business,  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  H.  C.  Worland 
for  three  years,  after  which  he  was  for  two  years 
a  chainman  in  the  city  engineer's  department.  At 
the  close  of  that  period  he  became  associated  with 
the  business  of  the  manufacture  of  cans,  being 
first  engaged  in  the  cost  department  of  the  Ameri- 
can Can  Company  until  the  year  1903,  when  he 
associated  himself  with  the  Los  Angeles  Can 
Company,  of  which  firm  he  was  the  succeeding 
year  elected  secretary. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Irvin  with  Hattie  Bryant 
was  solemnized  in  Hebron,  Ind.,  in  January,  1884, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  son  and  daughter, 
namely,  Samuel  B.  and  Ruth  H.  Irvin.  In  his 
political  interests  Mr.  Irvin  is  allied  with  the 
Democratic  party,  and  in  his  fraternal  associations 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Masons. 


WILLIAM  LEONARD  ROBEY.  William 
Leonard  Robey,  the  superintendent  of  the  Pa- 
cific Metal  Products  Company  at  Torrance, 
Cal.,  was  born  June  26,  1870,  in  Ardington, 
Berkshire,  England,  the  only  son  of  the  late  Wil- 
liam Robey;  was  educated  at  Ardington  school 
and  the  Wantage  High  School.  At  the  age  of 
fifteen  years,  finding  employment  with  Gibbons 
&  Robinson,  Limited,  general  engineers,  manu- 
facturers of  steam,  oil  and  gas  tractors,  at 
Wantage,  Berkshire,  England,  Mr.  Robey  re- 
mained with  this  company  seven  years,  being  first 
an  apprentice,  and  later  a  machinist.  At  the 
close  of  his  employment  with  this  firm  he  went  to 
Hampshire,  England,  and  engaged  with  Wallis 
&  Steevens,  Ltd.,  engineers  and  machinists,  manu- 
facturers of  motor  wagons  and  tractors,  both 
steam  and  oil,  in  a  line  of  work  similar  to  his 
first  employment.  Mr.  Robey  remained  one  year 
as  a  machinist,  going  thence  to  Devizes,  Wilt- 
shire, England,  in  the  employ  of  Brown  &  May, 
Ltd.,  general  engineers,  manufacturers  of  gas,  oil 
and  steam  motor  wagons  and  traction  engines,  re- 
maining with  this  company  for  ten  years ;  leaving 
them  to  enter  the  employ  of  John  Spencer,  Ltd., 
engineers  and  machinists,  Melksham,  Wiltshire, 
England,  where  Mr.  Robey  remained  two  years. 

Thence  going  to  Bishop's  Stortford,  Herts, 
England,  in  the  employ  of  George  Featherby 
Company,  manufacturers  of  deep  well  machinery, 
general  engineers,  motor  wagons  and  motor  cars, 
holding  the  position  of  superintendent ;  leaving  this 
company  after  a  period  of  three  years.  Mr.  Robey 
came  to  California  in  the  year  1909.  Arriving  in 
Los  Angeles,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Pio- 
neer Commercial  Auto  Company,  agents  for 
White  and  G.  M.  C.  motor  trucks.  At  the  end 
of  one  year  he  was  employed  by  F.  L.  Moore  to 
assist  him  to  design  and  build  the  first  Moore 
jnotor  truck.  At  the  end  of  one  year  Mr.  Robey 
returned  to  the  employ  of  the  Pioneer  Commer- 
cial Auto  Company  as  superintendent.  At  the 
end  of  another  year  he  accepted  the  position  of 
superintendent  of  automobiles  for  the  Pacific 
Light  and  Power  Corporation.  After  a  year's 
service  with  this  company  F.  L.  Moore,  then  man- 
ager of  the  Pacific  Metal  Products  Company, 
secured  the  services  of  Mr.  Robey,  to  take  the 
position  of  factory  superintendent,  to  supervise 
the  manufacture  of  the  Moore  motor  truck,  which 
position  he  now  holds. 


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While  residing  in  Devizes,  Wiltshire,  England, 
Mr.  Robey  was  united  in  marriage,  August  4, 
1896,  with  Eva,  the  youngest  daughter  of  the 
late  William  Pitt  of  Garsdon,  Wiltshire,  England. 
They  are  the  parents  of  three  children :  Dorothy 
Eva,  William  Leonard  and  Ernest  Arthur. 


JOHN  M.  BOWEN.  Of  the  many  able  young 
lawyers  of  the  Los  Angeles  county  bar  John  M. 
Bowen  stands  out  prominently  as  one  who  has 
made  rapid  strides  towards  the  top,  both  politically 
and  professionally.  He  is  engaged  in  general  law 
practice,  having  recently  resigned  a  good  position 
as  a  special  attorney  in  the  Department  of  Justice 
of  the  federal  government  in  order  to  be  free  to 
take  up  the  broader  field  of  the  regular  prac- 
titioner. 

J.  M.  Bowen  was  born  at  Boston,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1881,  the  son  of  Marcus  and  Josephine 
M.  Bowen.  His  early  education  was  received  in 
the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native  city. 
Graduating  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  held  the 
office  of  secretary  to  Congressman  John  A.  Keli- 
her  of  Boston  for  a  year  and  a  half,  after  which 
he  turned  his  attention  to  the  law,  taking  a  course 
in  the  law  department  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, from  which,  he  was  graduated  in  1905.  Re- 
turning to  Boston,  he  resumed  his  position  as 
secretary  to  Congressman  Keliher,  in  the  mean- 
time taking  an  additional  degree  at  the  George- 
town University  Law  School.  In  1909  he  gave 
up  the  secretaryship  and  undertook  the  practice 
of  law  in  Boston,  after  one  year  being  appointed 
special  agent  in  the  Department  of  Justice  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  with  stations  at  Pittsburg, 
Philadelphia,  New  York,  Cleveland,  Cincinnati 
and  many  other  large  cities  of  the  United  States. 
In  1911  Mr.  Bowen  assumed  charge  of  the  Middle 
Western  District  of  the  same  bureau,  with  head- 
quarters at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  which  he  left  in  July, 
1913,  to  take  charge  of  the  Southwestern  District, 
the  fourth  largest  and  most  important  district  in 
the  United  States,  and  making  his  headquarters 
at  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Bowen  did  valuable  work  under  the  direct 
supervision  of  A.  B.  Bielaski,  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Investigation  of  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment, which  bureau  was  organized  in  1908  for 
the  purpose  of  investigating  violations  under  the 
federal  anti-trust,  white  slave,  fugitive  and  neu- 


trality laws.  It  was  from  this  important  position 
that  he  resigned  in  1915  in  order  to  take  up  a 
more  general  law  practice  as  hereinbefore  stated. 
Recently  he  has  secured  office  connection  with 
Oscar  Lawler,  formerly  assistant  attorney-general 
at  Washington  under  President  Roosevelt.  Mr. 
Bowen  engages  in  a  general  law  practice  and  is 
meeting  with  good  success.  The  office  is  located 
at  518  Security  building. 

Mr.  Bowen's  record  has  been  one  of  steady 
advancement.  His  continued  study  of  the  law 
during  the  years  of  his  secretaryship  won  his  de- 
gree in  that  profession  and  laid  the  foundation 
upon  which  his  present  splendid  work  is  built.  In 
political  life,  his  interests  are  with  the  Democratic 
party ;  fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Knights 
of  Columbus ;  and  his  religious  affiliations  are 
with  the  Catholic  church.  He  was  married  on 
April  17,  1908,  to  Miss  Alice  C.  Farrell  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 


WILLIAM  HOWE  KENNEDY.  Before 
coming  to  Los  Angeles,  William  Howe  Kennedy 
had  won  his  spurs  as  a  man  of  large  affairs, 
having  been  variously  connected  with  "big  busi- 
ness" and  capitalists  in  New  York,  Boston,  Phila- 
delphia and  other  eastern  centers,  and  being  also 
well  known  in  the  West,  having  been  located  at 
Denver,  Colo.,  for  some  time.  Mr.  Kennedy  has 
been  especially  active  in  the  mortgage  business, 
insurance,  stocks  and  bonds,  and  in  extensive  real 
estate  transactions  throughout  the  country.  Since 
coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  has  assumed  a  promi- 
nent place  in  the  financial  life  of  the  city  and  state 
and  is  recognized  as  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
ability  and  worth.  He  is  at  present  vice-president 
and  manager  of  the  Fifty  Associates  of  Cali- 
fornia, formerly  the  Pierce-Kennedy  Company, 
and  is  interested  with  wealthy  Pasadena  men  in 
the  development  of  several  large  mineral  deposits. 

Mr.  Kennedy  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  is 
a  native  of  Iowa,  having  been  born  at  Des  Moines, 
February  12,  1872,  the  son  of  Josiah  Forest  and 
Mary  (Riegart)  Kennedy,  his  father  being  a 
prominent  physician  in  Des  Moines.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  and  later  also 
attended  the  Highland  Park  College  and  the 
Baptist  College  at  Des  Moines.  At  an  early  age 
he  displayed  an  aptitude  for  financial  matters,  and 
was  scarcely  out  of  college  when  he  was  assuming 
a  prominent  place  in  the  business  life  of  his  home 


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pany,  of  which  he  was  immediately  elected  presi- 
dent, in  which  capacity  he  has  since  served.  The 
business  is  a  prosperous  one,  and  is  conducted  on 
a  strictly  high  grade  basis,  and  its  success  is  due 
almost  entirely  to  the  good  judgment  and  business 
ability  of  the  president.  It  employs  about  thirty- 
five  people  continually  and  manufactures  a  splen- 
did line  of  window  screens,  screen  doors,  win- 
dow shades,  wall  beds,  etc.,  and  also  has  the 
agency  for  the  Watson  metal  screens  and  the 
Athey  metal  weather  strips.  The  scope  of  its 
business  is  very  wide  and  extends  all  over  Cali- 
fornia and  Arizona. 

Mr.  Cadwallader  was  born  at  Milton,  Pa., 
October  8,  1871,  the  son  of  Albert  and  Annie  F. 
Cadwallader.  He  attended  the  public  and  high 
schools  of  his  native  city  until  he  was  eighteen 
years  of  age,  when  he  went  to  Philadelphia  and 
engaged  with  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Com- 
pany as  stenographer.  Industrious  and  energetic, 
he  worked  his  way  upward  with  such  rapidity 
that  he  soon  became  manager  of  the  searching 
department.  Here  he  remained  until  the  fall  of 
1900,  when  he  severed  his  connection  with  that 
company  on  account  of  ill  health  and  moved  to 
California.  Coming  direct  to  Los  Angeles  county, 
he  soon  was  engaged  in  putting  in  the  equipment 
of  the  Long  Beach  bath  house  and  for  a  year 
resided  at  the  beach  city.  He  then  came  to  Los 
Angeles  and  accepted  a  position  as  salesman  with 
the  Pacific  Screen  Company,  remaining  with  them 
until  1907,  when  he  resigned  to  organize  the  Stan- 
dard Screen  Company,  from  which  has  grown  his 
present  splendid  enterprise. 

Mr.  Cadwallader  was  married  in  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.,  December  7,  1897,  to  Miss  Harriett  M. 
Wheeler.  They  have  one  child,  Wesley  Wheeler, 
a  high  school  student.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cad- 
v/allader  have  many  warm  friends  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  are  especially  active  in  church  and  general 
religious  work.  They  are  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  and  Mr.  Cadwallader  is  one  of  the 
deacons  of  that  denomination.  In  his  political 
associations  he  is  a  Republican  and  takes  a  live 
interest  in  political  questions,  and  especially  in 
those  that  aiifect  the  welfare  of  the  state  and 
municipality.  He  is  broad  minded  and  progressive 
and  stands  squarely  for  all  that  is  for  the  up- 
building and  improvement  of  the  city,  such  meas- 
ures receiving  his  unqualified  support  and  co- 
operation. 


ALEXIS  HINCKLEY.  When  Mr,  Hinckley 
first  came  to  Southern  California  it  was  for  a  visit 
during  the  winter  of  1888,  and  after  returning  to 
his  home  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  remaining 
there  four  years,  in  the  autumn  of  the  year  1892 
he  came  to  Southern  California  to  make  his  home 
here  permanently.  In  South  Pasadena  he  bought 
the  home  he  now  occupies  on  Meridian  avenue, 
where  he  has  continued  to  live  for  twenty-three 
years,  and  for  ten  years  he  held  the  position  of 
city  clerk. 

The  birth  of  Mr.  Hinckley  took  place  in  Lewis, 
Essex  county,  N.  Y.,  on  September  4,  1835,  and 
when  he  was  eleven  years  old  the  family  removed 
to  North  Elba,  in  the  same  county.  He  grew  up 
on  a  farm,  but  when  eighteen  years  of  age  became 
clerk  in  a  store  in  Whitehall,  N  Y.,  returning 
thereafter  to  North  Alba  to  complete  his  educa- 
tion at  the  Keeseville  Academy,  after  which  he 
taught  school  for  three  terms,  spending  the  sum- 
mers in  work  upon  the  farm.  His  first  marriage 
occurred  in  1858,  uniting  him  with  Helen  H.  Holt, 
of  Keene,  N.  Y.,  who  died  in  1868.  In  1862  Mr. 
Hinckley  went  to  Keene,  N.  Y.,  and  enlisted  in 
Company  K,  Ninety-sixth  New  York  Infantry, 
and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  or 
Seven  Pines,  and  also  several  smaller  engage- 
ments, but  being  taken  sick  with  fever  was  sent 
to  Washington  and  discharged.  Thereafter  he 
returned  to  Keene,  N.  Y.,  where  for  a  year  he 
continued  in  farm  work,  going  thence  to  North 
Elba,  where  he  bought  the  John  Brown  farm  of 
two  hundred  and  ninety-two  acres,  which  prop- 
erty he  continued  to  farm  until  1874,  when  he 
sold  the  same  to  Henry  Clews  &  Co.,  bankers,  of 
New  York,  Kate  Fields  being  also  interested  in 
the  purchase.  After  selling  the  farm  Mr.  Hinck- 
ley soon  returned  to  Essex  county,  N.  Y.,  where 
in  1878  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Addie 
A.  Jones,  of  Chesterfield,  N.  Y.,  who  since  their 
removal  to  California  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  affairs  of  South  Pasadena,  being  a  charter 
member  and  formerly  treasurer  of  the  Woman's 
Improvement  Association,  and  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Church.  While  in  Essex 
county,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Hinckley  served  as  deputy 
county  clerk  for  three  years,  and  was  also  keeper 
of  the  county  farm  for  six  years.  Following  this 
he  removed  to  Minneapolis  in  1888.  His  only 
surviving  son,  Harvey  H.,  became  known  as  a 
prominent  business  man  of  Minneapolis,  besides 
which  he  had  important  zinc  and  lead  mines  at 


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Joplin,  Mo.,  being  superintendent  of  the  mines. 
At  his  death  in  July,  1914,  he  left  a  widow  and 
two  children. 

Alexis  Hinckley  is  a  member  of  John  F.  God- 
frey Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Pasadena. 


CHARLES  B.  ANDERSON.  The  scion  of 
an  old  Southern  family  on  his  father's  side,  while 
his  mother  descended  in  a  direct  line  from  the 
same  tree  as  did  James  Buchanan  and  Mark 
Hanna,  Charles  B.  Anderson,  general  manager  of 
the  Rodeo  Land  &  Water  Company,  is  yet  a  self- 
made  man,  having  won  his  way  to  the  top  of  the 
ladder  through  careful  attention  to  the  details  of 
business  and  through  unfaltering  honesty  and  in- 
tegrity of  purpose  and  deed.  He  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity  for  more  than 
twenty  years,  at  present  making  his  home  in  the 
beautiful  little  suburb  of  Beverly  Hills,  where  he 
is  active  in  public  affairs  in  more  ways  than  one, 
being  general  manager  of  the  land  company  which 
owns  much  of  the  acreage  and  other  property  in 
that  vicinity,  and  also  a  member  of  the  board  of 
city  trustees,  and  trustee  and  clerk  of  the  school 
board  of  Beverly. 

Mr.  Anderson  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  having 
been  born  at  Lexington,  August  30,  1869.  His 
father,  James  D.  Anderson,  also  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia, born  at  Cedar  Grove,  July  7,  1836,  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  later  was 
engaged  as  clerk  in  a  general  store  until  1865, 
when  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  Rockbridge 
county,  Va.,  which  position  he  held  for  thirty 
consecutive  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  lived  in  retirement  until 
his  death,  August  8,  1913.  The  mother  was  Mar- 
garet Hanna  Buchanan,  a  first  cousin  of  Mark 
Hanna,  and  an  own  niece  of  James  Buchanan, 
president  of  the  United  States.  She  was  bom 
August  23,  1838,  and  died  April  25,  1895. 

Charles  B.  Anderson  attended  Prof.  Jacob 
Fuller's  Classical  school  at  Lexington,  Va.,  until 
of  the  age  of  twelve,  when  he  entered  the  Ann 
Smith  Academy,  from  which  he  graduated  at  the 
age  of  fifteen.  He  then  attended  Washington 
and  Lee  University,  graduating  with  honors  at 
the  age  of  twenty.  While  a  student  at  Washing- 
ton and  Lee  University  he  was  very  prominent  in 
athletics,  having  been  a  member  of  the  baseball 
and  football  teams  and  the  boat  crew.    After  leav- 


ing college  he  at  once  entered  business  life,  taking 
charge  of  the  sporting  goods  department  of  a 
large  hardware  company  until  1894,  when  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  and  became  associated  with  Haw- 
ley  King  &  Co.,  dealers  in  agricultural  implements 
and  carriages,  as  their  head  bookkeeper,  remain- 
ing in  this  connection  for  a  year.  He  then  en- 
gaged with  H.  Jevne,  grocer,  as  confidential  book- 
keeper for  ten  months,  then  accepted  a  position 
with  the  Union  Oil  Company  as  their  treasurer, 
which  position  he  occupied  for  eight  years.  He 
then  accepted  a  position  with  the  Amalgamated 
Oil  Company  as  secretary  and  treasurer,  remain- 
ing with  this  company  until  in  1910,  when  he  was 
elected  general  manager  of  the  Rodeo  Land  and 
Water  Company^  owners  of  the  tract  of  land 
known  as  Beverly  Hills.  In  addition  to  his  con- 
nection with  the  Rodeo  Land  and  Water  Company 
he  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  San  Francisco 
Osage  Oil  and  Gas  Company,  and  the  Osage  58 
Oil  Company,  both  of  Oklahoma.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Titicaca  Oil  Company  of  Peru, 
South  America. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Anderson  took  place  in 
Columbus,  Ohio,  June  28,  1894,  the  bride  of  his 
choice  being  Miss  Blanche  B.  Smith,  of  that  city. 
Of  their  union  have  been  born  two  sons,  James 
Buchanan  and  Charles  Smith,  both  of  whom  are 
students  in  the  Beverly  Hills  public  schools.  Mr. 
Anderson  and  family  are  prominently  associated 
with  the  religious  work  of  the  city,  he  being  an 
elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Hollywood, 
and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school. 


HENRY  F.  WITHEY.  Los  Angeles  and 
Southern  California  are  noted  throughout  the 
world  for  the  beauty  of  the  architecture  of  their 
buildings,  from  the  simplest  cottage  or  bungalow 
to  the  most  stately  structure  or  towering  office 
building,  and  for  this  distinction  much  credit  is 
due  the  splendid  corps  of  architects  who  have 
made  such  a  careful  study  of  conditions  and 
environment  and  have  thus  been  able  to  produce 
designs  that  are  in  keeping  with  the  natural 
beauties  of  the  landscape.  Prominent  among  the 
younger  members  of  this  noble  profession  may 
be  mentioned  Henry  F.  Withey,  now  of  the  firm 
of  Withey  &  Davis,  the  other  partner  in  the  com- 
bination being  Francis  Pierpont  Davis,  likewise 
well  and  favorably  known  throughout  Southern 


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Mr.  Powers  has  also  been  extensively  interested 
in  the  mining  business  and  has  large  interests  in 
Arizona  and  elsewhere,  being  president  of  the 
Juanita  Mining  Company  of  Parker,  Ariz.  He 
is  also  vice-president  of  the  Short  Line  Beach 
Company,  at  Venice,  Cal.,  and  takes  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  affairs  of  that  resort,  while  at  the 
same  time  he  is  interested  in  various  other  devel- 
opment projects  pertaining  to  the  growth  and 
prosperity  of  the  county  generally. 

Municipal  affairs  have  always  enlisted  the  keen 
interest  of  Mr.  Powers,  and  good  government  has 
been  one  of  his  hobbies.  He  is  a  stanch  member 
of  the  Republican  party  and  has  taken  a  promi- 
nent part  in  its  affairs  for  many  years.  He  has 
rendered  the  city  efficient  service  as  a  member  of 
the  council,  and  during  the  period  from  1904  to 
1906  was  president  of  that  body,  making  therein 
a  splendid  record  for  himself  and  his  party. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Powers  took  place  in 
German,  N.  Y.,  in  1872,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Ida  Bowen,  of  that  place.  Of  their  union  have 
been  born  seven  sons  and  daughters,  all  of  whom 
are  residents  of  this  state  except  the  second  son, 
Hale  P.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  cattle  business  in 
Kansas.  Of  the  other  members  of  the  family,  the 
eldest  born,  Benjamin  N.,  is  at  present  Los  An- 
geles county  game  warden ;  Grace  is  now  Mrs. 
Hannas,  of  Los  Angeles;  John  R.  is  engaged  in 
the  real  estate  and  investment  business  in  Los 
Angeles ;  Clifford  is  ranching  in  Kern  county,  as 
is  also  Earl  D.,  while  the  youngest  daughter, 
Gloria  Mae,  still  resides  at  home.  Mr.  Powers 
and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Christian 
Science  Church. 


J.  C.  PIKE.  When  a  boy  of  sixteen  years  in 
New  York  state,  Mr.  Pike  made  his  start  in  the 
poultry  business,  and  since  that  time  his  chief 
interest  has  been  in  the  raising  of  fowls,  and 
although  a  carpenter  by  trade,  which  occupation 
he  followed  for  some  years  in  New  York  state 
and  in  Colorado,  he  started  once  more  in  the 
chicken  business  in  1904  when  he  came  from 
Denver,  Colo.,  to  Los  Angeles.  Although  at  that 
time  beginning  in  a  small  way,  with  one  hen  and 
a  setting  of  eggs,  with  only  a  small  lot  of  land, 
Mr.  Pike  gradually  increased  his  flock,  and  in 
1910  removed  to  his  present  ranch  of  three  acres 
in  Garvanza,  Cal.,  where,  on  his  finely  equipped 
poultry  ranch,  with  its  thirty-six  separate  yards, 


he  has  the  largest  strictly  line  bred,  heavy-laying 
and  exhibition  flock  of  single-comb  Rhode  Island 
Reds  on  the  Pacific  coast,  one  thousand  in  number 
and  all  raised  and  bred  by  himself. 

The  Red  Plume  Poultry  Yards,  as  Mr.   Pike 
has  named  his  chicken  ranch  in  Garvanza,  con- 
tains three  large  houses,  twelve  by  fifty  feet  each, 
a  brooder  house  with  a  capacity  of  two  thousand 
chicks  and  heated  by  the  Pride  of  Petaluma  stove, 
and    five    Standard    Cyphers    incubators    with    a 
capacity   of    two    thousand    eggs.     He    makes    a 
specialty  of   day-old   chicks   and   hatching  eggs, 
which  he  ships  all  over  California  and  also  to 
Arizona,  New  Mexico,  Nevada  and  British  Co- 
lumbia.    The   first   aim   of   his   establishment  is 
egg  producers,  for  which  consideration  he  will,  if 
necessary,  sacrifice  exhibition  requirements ;  the 
next  aim  is  that  of  weight,  color  and  type.    By  a 
wise  course  of  selection  he  has  succeeded  in  pro- 
ducing early  and  persistent  layers,  one  of  his  cus- 
tomers reporting  an  average  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty  eggs  each  in  twelve  months,  from  thirty 
pullets  hatched  from  eggs  purchased  from  Mr. 
Pike.     He  makes  a  specialty  of  one  strain  origi- 
nated by  Frank  D.  Reed,  of  Fall  River,  Mass., 
who  has  won  on  his  Rhode  Island  Reds  at  all 
the   large   eastern   poultry   shows,   he   being   the 
second  oldest  living  exhibitor  of  this  variety,  and 
the  greatest  breeder  during  the  longest  period  of 
years.     Mr.  Pike  has  succeeded  in  breeding  this 
strain  exclusively  for  nine  years,  and  his  yards 
contain  birds  that  were  awarded  the  first  prize 
silver  cup  at  the  Los  Angeles  show  in  1913,  cocks 
and  hens  ideal  in  shape  and  color,  and  dark  Reds 
specially  mated  to  please  fanciers.    His  standard 
bred  cockerel.  Campaigner,  has  been  exhibited  at 
fifteen  poultry  shows  and  has  won  eleven  ribbons, 
while  he  has  one  hen,  seven  years  old  and  still  a 
good  layer,  which  took  three  blue  ribbons  at  the 
Boston  Poultry  Show  in  1908,  his  Rhode  Island 
Reds  at  the  Los  Angeles   Show  in  1912  having 
won  fifteen  out  of  sixteen  ribbons  and  cups.    Mr. 
Pike   is   an   authority   on    this    special   breed   of 
fowls,  of  which  he  has  made  a  thorough  study, 
years  of  experimenting,  after    commencing    the 
breeding  of  Rhode  Island  Reds  in  1906,  having 
convinced  him  that  this  is  the  most  profitable  fowl 
to  raise  in  California.     His  poultry  are  fed  with 
his  own  specially  prepared  mixture,  and  his  hatch- 
ing eggs,  as  well  as  the  day-old  chicks,  bring  good 
prices,  since  they  are  standard  bred  and  good  egg 
producers.     He  also  sells  a  limited  number  of 


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Mammoth  Bronze  turkey  eggs.  From  the  profits 
of  chicken  raising  in  seven  months  Mr.  Pike  has 
purchased  nine  cows,  as  the  beginning  of  a  dairy 
farm  which  he  intends  to  manage  in  connection 
with  his  poultry  ranch,  which  is  open  to  visitors 
every  day  of  the  year.  Mr.  Pike  is  a  member 
of  the  State  and  National  Rhode  Island  Red 
Clubs,  also  a  member  of  the  State  Poultry  Breed- 
ers' Association. 

Mr.  Pike  was  bom  in  Concord  township,  Erie 
county,  N.  Y.,  in  1852,  a  descendant  of  pioneers 
of  that  state,  who  were  prominent  in  the  War 
of  1812.  He  was  married  in  David  City,  Neb., 
in  1874  to  Miss  Cornelia  Doty;  they  have  two 
living  children,  Leonard  D.  and  Inez,  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Brown. 


OCCIDENTAL  POULTRY  FARM.  Al- 
though Frank  B.  Smith  has  been  in  the  poultry 
business  only  four  years,  he  has  made  himself 
one  of  the  best  known  and  most  successful  men 
in  that  line  in  Southern  California  since  coming 
here  in  July,  1910,  and  spending  a  year  looking 
into  the  poultry  situation  in  the  state.  Learning 
at  that  time  that  the  raising  of  thoroughbred  fowls 
as  a  commercial  proposition  could  be  made  a  pay- 
ing business,  if  rightly  managed,  Mr.  Smith  began 
at  first  in  a  small  way  in  Highland  Park,  Cal., 
with  fancy  stock,  purchasing  in  1911  his  present 
place  of  two  acres  on  Sunset  boulevard,  at  San 
Gabriel,  Cal.,  making  his  beginning  here  with 
White  Orpingtons,  which  he  soon  changed  for 
Rhode  Island  Reds  and  Sicilian  Buttercups.  This 
latter  is  a  strain  not  common  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, having  been  imported  into  America  from 
Sicily  in  1910,  being  of  the  game  order,  in  weight 
one  and  one-half  pounds  heavier  than  the  Leg- 
horn variety,  the  color  of  the  male  being  orange 
red,  and  that  of  the  female  buff  with  black 
spangles,  the  name  of  the  variety  being  derived 
from  their  cup-shaped,  double  comb.  Mr.  Smith 
has  great  faith  in  this  breed  of  fowl,  and  has 
taken  over  seventy  ribbons  at  five  Los  Angeles 
poultry  shows,  and  shows  at  Riverside,  San 
Diego,  Santa  Barbara  and  Sacramento.  He  has 
seven  hundred  laying  hens,  which  number  he  will 
double  in  the  year  1915,  and  commands  high 
prices  for  his  stock,  which  he  ships  to  Mississippi, 
Canada,  Mexico  and  Australia.  His  receipts  each 
year  are  from  $2.50  to  $3  per  hen,  aside  from  his 
sales  of  baby  chicks,  eggs  for  setting,  and  stock. 


and  there  are  in  use  upon  his  poultry  faiTn  six 
Cyphers  incubators  of  two  thousand  egg  capacity 
and  a  Maltby  brooder  of  twelve  hundred  and  fifty 
chick  capacity. 

The  early  home  of  Mr.  Smith  was  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  was  born  in  Allegheny  county, 
December  8,  1872,  and  brought  up  in  Carnegie, 
receiving  a  fine  education  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburg,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1894  with 
the  degrees  of  Ph.  D.  and  Phar.  M.  An  expert 
chemist,  he  was  instructor  in  that  branch  at  the 
University  of  Pittsburg  for  three  years,  as  as- 
sistant professor,  and  for  a  period  of  two  years 
held  the  office  of  assistant  bacteriologist  for  the 
city  of  Pittsburg.  Removing  then  to  lola,  Kans., 
Mr.  Smith  became  chief  chemist  and  metallurgist 
for  the  Lanyon  Zinc  Company,  one  of  the  largest 
of  its  kind  in  the  country,  and  was  employed  in 
consultation  work  for  two  years.  In  the  interests 
of  this  company,  he  took  several  trips  through  the 
West,  inspecting  property  and  prospects  for 
smelters  in  Utah  and  Colorado,  arriving  in  South- 
ern California  July  10,  1910,  at  which  time  he 
investigated  the  poultry  situation  in  this  state, 
with  the  result  that  he  made  his  permanent  home 
here  and  built  up  a  business  which  has  brought 
him  to  the  top  in  the  chicken  industry.  He  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  various  associations 
connected  with  his  chosen  line  of  business,  and 
holds  membership  in  the  California  State  Poultry 
Association,  the  American  Buttercup  Club,  the 
Rhode  Island  Red  Club  of  California  and  the 
American  Rhode  Island  Red  Club,  being  president 
of  the  San  Gabriel  Poultry  Association  and  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  Federation  of  Poultry- 
men  of  Southern  California.  Mr.  Smith  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Bessie  I.  Landis,  a  native 
of  the  state  of  Illinois,  and  they  are  the  parents 
of  one  daughter,  Landis  H.   Smith. 


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COMPANY.  The  greenhouses  and  nurseries  of 
the  Golden  State  Plant  and  Floral  Company,  in- 
corporated in  April,  1903,  comprise  five  acres  of 
land  on  Santa  Monica  boulevard  and  Twenty-first 
street,  Santa  Monica,  Cal.,  where  trees  and  plants 
are  sold  both  at  wholesale  and  retail,  a  specialty 
being  made  of  palms,  of  which  the  company  shows 
seven  varieties,  which  is  a  larger  number  than 
that  in  any  other  nursery  in  Southern  California. 


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SHOBAL  P.  MULFORD.  One  of  the  older 
members  of  the  Los  Angeles  county  bar  and  a 
man  who  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  legal 
affairs  of  Southern  California  is  S.  P.  Mulford. 
senior  partner  of  the  law  firm  of  Mulford  & 
Dryer,  with  offices  in  the  I.  N.  Van  Nuys  build- 
ing. In  1883  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  on  account 
of  ill  health,  from  which  he  recovered  in  three 
years,  and  since  1886  has  been  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  building  for  himself 
an  enviable  reputation. 

Mr.  Mulford  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
August  26,  1850,  the  son  of  David  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Vail)  Mulford,  both  born  in  Butler  county, 
Ohio,  the  former  in  1812;  he  died  in  Los  Angeles 
in  1906,  at  the  age  of  ninety-four  years;  the 
latter  died  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1850,  when  her 
son  S.  P.  was  but  six  weeks  old.  His  maternal 
grandparents  were  Quakers  and  among  the  early 
settlers  in  Middletown,  Ohio,  where  his  father  and 
mother  were  married. 

Although  born  in  Ohio,  the  greater  part  of  the 
boyhood  of  S.  P.  Mulford  was  passed  on  a  farm 
in  Henry  county.  111.,  where  he  resided  from  the 
time  he  was  six  years  of  age  until  he  was  eighteen. 
He  was  reared  in  the  family  of  his  mother's  sis- 
ters, Mrs.  Andrew  Patton  and  Mrs.  Adam  C. 
Deem,  and  received  his  early  education  in  a  coun- 
try school.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  returned 
to  Ohio,  where  he  took  a  two  years'  course  in  a 
Normal  school  at  Lebanon,  after  which  he  taught 
two  years  and  then  finished  his  education  in  the 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University  at  Delaware,  graduat- 
ing with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  the  class  of  1876, 
as  did  also  the  lady  whom  he  afterwards  married. 
Subsequently  he  read  law  with  Col.  M.  C.  Law- 
rence, of  Union  county,  Ohio,  and  in  1878  was 
admitted  to  practice  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  that 
state.  Two  years  later  he  was  also  admitted  to 
practice  in  the  United  States  courts. 

In  1880  Mr.  Mulford's  health  failed  and  for  a 
few  years  he  traveled  in  an  effort  to  regain  it, 
and  for  the  time  gave  up  entirely  his  law  prac- 
tice. In  1883  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  for 
about  three  years  was  engaged  with  Porter 
Brothers  Company,  a  wholesale  commission 
house.  During  this  time  he  regained  his  health 
in  the  genial  climate  of  the  Southland,  and  in 
1886  again  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  which 
he  has  continuously  followed  since.  In  1904  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  George  W.  Dryer  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  Mulford  &  Dryer. 


After  two  years'  residence  in  California,  on 
August  26,  1885,  Mr.  Mulford  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Helen  B.  Farrar,  a  native  of  Cam- 
bridge, Ohio,  and  a  daughter  of  Capt.  William  M. 
and  Anna  E.  (Brown)  Farrar.  Captain  Farrar 
was  a  member  of  General  Garfield's  staff  in  the 
Civil  war  and  a  prominent  lawyer  in  Cambridge 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1893. 

Aside  from  his  legal  associations,  Mr.  Mulford 
has  been  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Los  Angeles 
since  he  took  up  his  residence  here.  He  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  First  National,  Commercial 
National,  and  German  American  Trust  &  Savings 
Banks  of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  stanch  Repub- 
lican, and  has  been  closely  identified  with  many 
of  the  important  undertakings  of  his  party  in 
years  past.  He  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Pen- 
talpha  Lodge  No.  202,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Signet  Chap- 
ter No.  57,  R.  A.  M.,  Los  Angeles  Commandery 
No.  9,  K.  T.,  and  Al  Malaikah  Temple,  A.  A.  O. 
N.  M.  S.  Mr.  Mulford  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Los  Angeles  and 
has  been  active  in  all  the  affairs  of  the  church 
since  his  settlement  in  the  city,  having  been  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  during  much  of  that  time  acting  as  its  secre- 
tary. He  is  also  one  of  the  directors  of  the  local 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  erected 
his  first  home  in  1888  at  the  corner  of  Eleventh 
and  Hill  streets  in  which  he  and  his  family  re- 
sided for  twenty-six  years.  This  property  was 
sold  in  1913,  and  the  family  now  resides  in  the 
beautiful  home  since  erected  by  Mr.  Mulford  at 
Fifth  and  Westmoreland. 


ELECTA  KENNELS.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brad- 
dock,  who  are  joint  partners  in  the  Electa  Ken- 
nels, at  Venice,  Cal.,  have  had  many  years  of  ex- 
perience in  the  breeding  of  thoroughbred  dogs. 
In  1905  they  came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.,  where  they  were  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  and  in  the  raising  of  dogs.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  they  managed  the  kennels  of  Ella  F. 
Morgan  of  Walgrove.  Cal.  In  December,  1913. 
they  established  the  Electa  Kennels,  the  first  of 
the  kind  started  in  Venice,  in  connection  with 
which  they  also  maintain  a  veterinary  establish- 
ment. 

All  the  dogs  of  the  Electa  Kennels  are  thor- 
oughbreds  and   are   registered   in   the   American 


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HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD 


Kennel  Club  of  New  York.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brad- 
dock's  Wire  Hair  Fox  Terriers  are  all  English 
bred,  a  male  of  this  species,  Simonds  Hot  Pot,  by 
name,  being  worthy  of  special  mention,  having 
been  imported  from  England,  where  his  grandsire 
was  the  highest  priced  dog  ever  sold.  His  mate, 
Simonds  Little  Girl,  has  been  a  great  prize  win- 
ner, at  the  Baltimore  exhibit  having  taken  the 
first  prize  for  puppy  and  for  novice;  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  the  first  prize  for  puppy  and. also 
for  novice  and  reserve  winner,  and  at  Norfolk, 
Va.,  the  same.  The  parents  of  this  dog  were  both 
prize  winners  likewise,  the  father.  Art  Critic, 
having  been  the  longest-headed  dog  of  his  breed 
in  England,  and  the  puppies  never  sell  for  less 
than  $100  each.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Braddock's  col- 
lection of  Airedales  has  never  been  excelled  in 
dog  shows.  Two  male  Airedales,  Pike's  Peak 
Benedict,  twenty-one  months  of  age,  and  Electa 
Nedman,  ten  months  old,  are  fine  specimens,  the 
latter  having  taken  the  first  prize  as  the  best  puppy 
at  the  Los  Angeles  Dog  Show  in  November,  1914. 
Electa  Lady  and  Electa  Lightfoot,  female  Aire- 
dales, have  also  been  the  winners  of  prizes.  BifT 
the  Fifth,  their  full-blooded  Boston  Terrier,  is 
absolutely  perfect  in  coloring  and  marking,  an 
undefeated  heavyweight  Boston  Terrier,  which 
has  taken  seven  cups  and  two  medals.  He  is 
four  years  old,  having  been  raised  by  his  owners 
from  a  pup,  and  all  his  puppies  have  been  blue 
ribbon  dogs,  and  he  is  considered  one  of  the  best 
bred  dogs  on  the  Pacific  coast.  His  father  sold 
for  $1250  and  his  grandfather  for  $2500.  For 
Bifif  the  Fifth  $500  has  been  refused,  and  he  has 
taken  the  first  prize  at  Venice,  as  the  best  dog 
of  his  breed  at  the  show,  and  the  first  prize  in 
his  class  at  the  Los  Angeles  Dog  Show  in  Novem- 
ber, 1914,  one  of  his  puppies  taking  the  first  prize 
as  the  best  puppy.  Two  medals  which  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Braddock  value  highly  are  one  awarded  by 
the  Societe  Canine  de  Savoie  Aix  les  Bains,  dog 
breeders  of  Paris,  to  Biff  the  Fifth,  and  another 
from  the  Airedale  and  Bull  Dog  Breeder  Associa- 
tion of  England,  won  by  Pike's  Peak  Benedict  as 
the  best  dog  at  the  Venice  show  of  1914. 

The  Electa  Kennels  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Braddock 
have  a  large  demand  and  sale  for  their  stock  all 
over  the  Southwest.  Visitors  are  welcome  at  the 
establishment,  and  many  lovers  of  dogs  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  opportunity  to  inspect  the  fine  col- 
lection of  thoroughbred  animals. 


ROBINSNEST  POULTRY  RANCH.  After 
a  number  of  years  spent  in  a  stirring  and  very 
different  line  of  occupation  from  that  which  he 
at  present  follows,  George  Robins,  a  pioneer 
poultry  raiser  of  Los  Angeles  county,  has  been 
for  seventeen  years  engaged  in  the  business  of 
poultry  raising  in  Southern  California  with  re- 
markable success. 

Born  in  Cornwall,  England,  November  5,  1860, 
Mr.  Robins  was  for  some  time  a  marine  engineer 
by  trade,  sailing  all  over  the  world  in  this  capacity, 
and  coming  to  America  in  1885,  where  his  last 
position  at  sea  was  as  engineer  of  the  palatial 
steam  yacht  Norma,  built  and  owned  by  Norman 
Monroe,  of  New  York.  Removing  to  the  western 
part  of  the  country,  Mr.  Robins  engaged  in  the 
hotel  business  in  Denver,  Colo.,  and  Seattle, 
Wash.,  for  some  time,  and  on  coming  to  Los 
Angeles  county,  in  1896,  started  in  the  poultry 
business  at  Long  Beach,  at  first  in  a  small  way, 
at  the  same  time  conducting  a  restaurant  in  Los 
Angeles.  Selling  out  his  business  interests  in  the 
city  after  a  couple  of  years,  he  was  enabled  to 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  the  raising  of 
poultry,  in  which  he  began  with  Plymouth  Rock 
fowls,  after  two  years  selling  these,  however,  and 
devoting  himself  to  the  raising  of  White  Leg- 
horns, starting  with  a  flock  of  one  thousand  laying 
hens.  In  1907  Mr.  Robins  removed  to  his  present 
ranch  of  five  acres,  on  Sunset  boulevard,  located 
in  the  Sunnyslope  district,  near  the  town  of  San 
Gabriel,  where  he  now  has  a  finely  appointed 
establishment  comprising  two  thousand  chickens, 
which  number  it  is  his  intention  soon  to  increase 
to  thirty-five  hundred.  Having  bred  and  inter- 
bred the  stock,  he  has  now  evolved  his  high-class 
Robins  strain  of  White  Leghorns,  and  figiu'es  that 
the  profit  per  year  from  each  hen  is  from  $1  to 
$1.50.  On  his  estate  he  has  twenty-one  poultry 
houses  for  laying  hens,  each  with  a  capacity  of 
one  hundred  hens ;  he  uses  the  small  colony 
brooder  system,  having  in  use  twenty-four  brood- 
ers of  one  hundred  chick  capacity  each,  wherein 
the  baby  chicks  are  kept  up  to  the  time  when  they 
begin  to  lay ;  and  he  runs  six  Cyphers  incubators, 
of  twenty-eight  hundred  egg  capacity,  it  being 
his  plan  to  hatch  ten  thousand  chicks  during  the 
year  1915.  An  important  part  of  his  business  is 
the  selling  of  baby  chicks  and  of  eggs  for  hatch- 
ing. Although  when  he  started  in  the  poultry 
business  he  was  advised  that  it  would  not  prove  a 
profitable  one,  Mr.  Robins  was  not  discouraged ; 


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business,  delivering  milk  to  the  town  of  Sawtelle 
and  at  the  Soldiers'  Home,  as  well  as  making 
and  selling  butter.  Previous  to  his  coming  to 
Sawtelle,  Mr.  Lowe  had  been  associated  with  his 
father  on  the  home  farm  until  he  reached  the 
age  of  thirty  years,  his  father  having  been  en- 
gaged in  farming  in  Minnesota,  where  the  son  was 
born,  and  also  in  Iowa  until  the  fall  of  the  year 
1884,  when  he  removed  to  California  and  bought 
seventy-five  acres  of  land  on  La  Ballona  ranch  in 
Los  Angeles  county,  of  which  he  first  set  out  five 
acres  to  an  apple  orchard  and  five  acres  to  a 
vineyard,  but  these  not  proving  successful,  he 
farmed  the  land  to  barley.  In  1910  the  father 
sold  his  ranch  and  bought  a  small  place  at  Palms, 
Cal.,  where  he  lived  until  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1913. 

The  father  of  William  Lowe,  of  Sawtelle,  was 
Henry  Lowe,  a  native  of  England,  who  came  to 
this  country  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  settled  in 
Iowa.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  three  years 
in  an  Iowa  regiment,  being  engaged  in  the  siege 
of  Vicksburg  and  in  several  important  battles  of 
the  war.  He  was  the  father  of  eight  children  liv- 
ing, namely,  Simeon  Jethro,  Sarah,  Louise, 
Emma  (Mrs.  Charles  Kiggins),  William,  Robert, 
Arthur,  and  Agnes ;  three  having  died.  The  son 
William  was  born  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  November 
10,  1870,  and  after  being  engaged  in  farm  work 
with  his  father  at  their  homes  in  Minnesota,  Iowa 
and  California,  went  into  business  for  himself  at 
his  present  Jersey  dairy  farm  at  Sawtelle.  By  his 
marriage  with  Miss  Alma  H.  Frederick,  a  native 
of  Michigan,  he  is  the  father  of  four  children, 
Rua  E.,  Melba  R.,  Sarah  F.  and  William  Cody 
Lowe.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lowe  are  members  of  the 
Maccabees. 

Mrs.  Lowe's  parents,  Cody  John  and  Sarah  L. 
(Purdy)  Frederick,  came  to  California  in  April, 
1893;  the  latter  passed  away  near  Venice  in  1907 
and  the  former  still  resides  at  his  home  place. 
There  were  but  two  children  in  this  family,  Mrs. 
Lowe  and  Ray,  the  latter  now  deceased. 


GEORGE  CHARNOCK.  The  owner  of  a 
two-hundred  acre  ranch  near  Palms,  Cal.,  devoted 
to  the  raising  of  lima  beans,  is  George  Charnock, 
whose  life  has  been  spent  in  three  diflferent  coun- 
tries, England,  Canada  and  the  United  States, 
the  last  fifteen  years  being  given  up  to  the  man- 
aging of  his  large  ranch  in  California. 


Of  English  parentage,  Mr.  Charnock  was  born 
in  Lancastershire,  England,  December  18,  1835, 
the  son  of  John  and  Anna  Sophia  (Pearce)  Char- 
nock, who  were  natives  respectively  of  Preston 
and  Liverpool,  England.  The  maternal  grand- 
father had  been  a  man  of  wealth,  possessing  lands 
and  slaves  in  the  West  Indies,  and  Mr.  Char- 
nock's  father,  who  was  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits  and  the  hotel  business,  lost  much  money 
in  the  latter  occupation,  having  conducted  the 
Clifton  Arms  at  Lytham,  England,  and  a  hotel  at 
Preston,  England,  at  both  of  which  places  he  suf- 
fered heavy  losses.  Coming  to  America  with  his 
family  in  1843,  in  the  hope  of  bettering  his  for- 
tunes in  the  new  world,  the  father  devoted  him- 
self to  farming  for  ten  years  in  Canada,  remov- 
ing thence  to  a  farm  not  far  from  Madison,  Wis., 
and  later  to  Minnesota,  where  he  took  up  govern- 
ment land  and  again  was  employed  in  farming. 
He  was  of  a  sturdy  constitution,  and  lived  to  the 
age  of  eighty-six  years,  a  firm  upholder  of  the 
Republican  party  and  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  the  father  of  ten  children.  George  Charnock 
was  but  a  small  boy  when  his  family  came  to 
Canada  from  England,  and  after  ten  years  of  life 
there  he  removed  with  his  family  first  to  Wiscon- 
sin, then  to  Minnesota.  He  helped  to  survey  the 
line  of  the  Chicago  and  St.  Paul  Railroad  through 
Wisconsin,  and  in  Minnesota  took  up  a  claim  in 
Brown  county,  but  on  account  of  Indian  hostili- 
ties life  in  that  unsettled  locality  was  far  from 
safe,  so  he  returned  to  his  father's  farm  in  an- 
other county,  purchasing  the  property  and  culti- 
vating it  for  a  long  time,  at  last  selling  out  in  1882 
tc  go  to  Nevada  where  his  brother  had  already 
settled.  Here  the  two  brothers  raised  sheep  in 
Antelope  Valley,  near  Eureka,  for  three  years, 
having  a  large  flock  numbering  many  thousand. 
This  occupation  he  continued  after  removing  to 
Arizona,  but  again  found  the  Indians  trouble- 
some in  unsettled  districts,  and  so  decided  to  come 
to  the  Pacific  coast,  where  for  many  years  he  has 
been  successful  in  the  raising  of  lima  beans,  un- 
discouraged  by  his  first  crop  which  sold  at  the 
low  price  of  one  and  one-half  cents  per  pound. 

Like  his  father,  Mr.  Charnock's  political  inter- 
ests are  with  the  Republican  party,  though  his 
views  are  liberal  in  many  matters  of  local  inter- 
est and  importance.  On  April  2,  1868,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Esther  Irene  Marcy,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania  and  the  granddaughter  of  a  captain 
in  the  Revolutionary  war,     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Char- 


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nock  are  the  parents  of  two  sons,  Nathan  Snow, 
who  resides  at  Pasadena,  Cal.,  and  George  Ban- 
croft Charnock,  who  assists  his  father  in  the 
management  of  the  ranch  at  Palms. 


DR.  A.  W.  HILLER.  Among  the  pioneer 
settlers  of  Humboldt  county,  Cal.,  were  the  par- 
ents of  Dr.  A.  W.  Hiller,  the  father  having  been 
born  in  France  in  1832  and  having  been  a  resident 
of  the  state  of  California  since  the  year  1852, 
where  he  became  an  extensive  land  owner  and 
was'  well  known  both  politically  and  fraternally 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1914. 

The  birth  of  the  son.  Dr.  A.  W.  Hiller,  took 
place  in  Eureka,  Cal.,  September  15,  1879,  he 
being  one  of  a  family  of  six  children,  namely: 
Philip  Alexander,  Theodore  Ferdinand,  Henry 
George,  Charles,  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  Albert 
W.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Dr.  Hiller  re- 
ceived his  early  education  at  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  in  San  Jose,  Cal.,  after  which  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  attended  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  was  graduated  in  1909.  He 
then  became  an  interne  at  the  Los  Angeles  County 
Hospital,  in  which  office  he  remained  until  1910, 
when  he  went  to  Clifton,  Ariz.,  and  there  prac- 
ticed medicine  for  two  years,  returning  at  the  ex- 
piration of  that  time  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he 
commenced  his  practice  in  the  year  1913.  He 
received  the  office  of  assistant  police  surgeon  in 
Los  Angeles,  which  position  he  still  holds,  in  ad- 
dition to  his  private  medical  practice,  in  which 
he  makes  a  specialty  of  surgery. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Hiller  in  Los  Angeles  to 
Mrs.  Kathryn  Asche  was  solemnized  in  March, 
1912.  In  his  political  interests  Dr.  Hiller  is  a 
member  of  the  Republican  party.  He  also  holds 
membership  in  the  County  Medical  Society  of 
Los  Angeles  county. 


GEORGE  HILLER.  No  more  loyal  citizens 
are  to  be  found  among  the  people  of  California 
than  those  of  foreign  birth,  and  this  truth  is  well 
illustrated  by  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  the 
county  of  Humboldt,  Georger  Hiller  by  name,  a 
native  of  France,  where  he  was  born  in  the 
province  of  Alsace-Lorraine  on  January  1,  1832, 


receiving  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  the 
province.  With  an  elder  brother  and  sister,  he 
came  to  America  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year 
1846  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years.  Arriving  in 
New  York  City,  they  went  at  once  to  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  where  Mr.  Hiller  became  apprenticed  to 
the  shoemaker's  trade,  continuing  his  apprentice- 
ship for  three  years  and  following  the  trade  inde- 
pendently for  a  year  thereafter.  In  the  autumn 
of  1852  he  came  to  California,  where  his  brother 
had  preceded  him,  and  for  the  twelve  years  suc- 
ceeding was  engaged  in  mining  in  Shasta  county, 
Cal.  Visiting  in  Humboldt  county  in  1859,  he 
purchased  a  tract  of  land  from  John  C.  Conners 
which  comprised  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres, 
for  which  he  paid  the  price  of  $2500,  this  estate 
being  now  his  home  site,  and  adjoining  the  city 
of  Alton,  it  having  become  a  very  valuable  piece 
of  property.  In  the  early  days  it  had  but  few  im- 
provements, a  shack  serving  as  residence,  and  the 
greater  part  of  the  land  being  in  an  uncultivated 
state,  but  later  Mr.  Hiller  added  to  the  original 
purchase,  so  that  the  estate  now  comprises  two 
hundred  and  forty  acres,  most  of  which  lies  in  the 
Van  Dusen  valley.  Aside  from  this,  he  owned 
three  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  near  Ar- 
eata, Cal.,  one  hundred  and  twelve  acres  beyond 
the  Eel  river  which  he  leased,  and  fourteen  hun- 
dred acres  of  fine  land  for  stock  raising  on  the 
South  Fork,  all  of  which  property  is  excellent 
farming  land  and  is  under  a  high  state  of  culti- 
vation. 

Politically,  Mr.  Hiller  was  a  Democrat,  active 
in  the  interests  of  his  party,  though  never  hav- 
ing sought  office.  He  was  well  known  fraternally, 
being  a  Mason  of  the  Eel  River  Lodge  No.  147, 
which  he  joined  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years, 
and  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  Eel  River  Lodge  No.  210,  being  at  one 
time  the  only  living  charter  member  of  this  lodge. 
In  November,  1864,  Mr.  Hiller  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Charlotte  C.  Joerrs,  a  native  of 
Hanover,  Germany,  where  she  was  born  in  1838, 
the  year  of  her  coming  to  America  being  1863. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiller  were  the  parents  of  six  sons, 
namely :  Philip  Alexander,  who  lives  on  the  home 
ranch  near  Alton,  and  owns  a  fine  grain  and  stock 
farm;  Theodore  Ferdinand,  a  bookkeeper  in  San 
Francisco;  Henry  George,  who  also  lives  on  the 
ranch;  Charles,  a  machinist  by  trade,  who  makes 
his  home  with  his  mother;   Benjamin  Franklin, 


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of  Ferndale,  Cal.,  and  Albert  W.,  a  physician  of 
Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Hiller  and  his  wife  were  well  known  and 
highly  respected  residents  of  Humboldt  county, 
where  they  were  actively  interested  in  the 
progress  of  that  section  of  the  state  from  its 
early  days.  Mrs.  Hiller  holds  membership  in  the 
Rohnerville  Chapter  No.  76,  O.  E.  S.,  having 
passed  all  the  chairs,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Rebekahs,  in  which  society  she  has  served  as 
treasurer  of  the  local  lodge  for  several  years. 
Mr.  Hiller,  by  his  persevering  industry,  met  with 
success  financially,  his  splendid  ranches  in  Hum- 
boldt county  standing  as  monuments  to  his  en 
deavors.   His  death  occurred  June  27,  1914. 


THROOP  COLLEGE  OF  TECHNOLOGY 
Founded  in  1891  by  Amos  G.  Throop,  this  insti- 
tution, located  in  Pasadena,  Cal.,  was  the  first 
school  of  manual  arts  west  of  Chicago,  being 
known  as  "Throop  Polytechnic  Institute."  In 
1910  it  became  devoted  exclusively  to  higher  edu- 
cation, in  1913  becoming  known  as  Throop  Col- 
lege of  Technology,  the  new  title  well  defining  the 
scope  of  the  work  of  the  institution,  indicating 
the  transition  of  the  school  from  a  polytechnic 
academy  to  a  college  of  technology.  Its  former 
buildings  having  been  leased  to  the  city  of  Pasa- 
dena for  use  as  a  polytechnic  high  school,  Throop 
is  now  established  in  its  new  quarters,  which  in 
their  architecture  follow  the  Spanish  style  of  the 
old  missions  along  the  California  coast,  the  ma- 
terial being  reinforced  concrete,  and  the  great 
live  oak  trees,  among  which  the  buildings  stand, 
adding  to  the  California  aspect  of  the  establish- 
ment. 

In  this  state  the  need  of  technical  education 
is  exceptional,  eastern  institutions  being  too  re- 
mote and  those  of  the  north  as  yet  undeveloped, 
so  that  it  devolves  upon  Throop  College  to  fill 
the  growing  need  of  education  in  electrical  en- 
gineering, hydraulic  engineering  and  allied  sci- 
ences. As  the  only  college  of  technology  this 
side  of  the  Mississippi,  it  endeavors  to  accomplish 
for  educational  interests  in  the  West  what  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  does  for 
the  eastern  coast.  With  Dr.  Norman  Bridge, 
physician,  teacher  and  business  man  of  Los  An- 
geles, as  the  president  of  its  board,  and  James 
A.  B.   Scherer,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  president  of  the 


college,  it  is  bringing  to  students  in  the  West 
the  educational  advantages  which  heretofore  have 
been  confined  to  the  eastern  states. 

The  selective  process  which  gleans  from  the 
graduates  of  high  schools,  desirous  of  admis- 
sion to  the  college,  those  endowed  with  qualities 
of  determination  and  industry,  establishes  for  the 
institution  a  promising  class  of  young  people  in 
its  freshmen,  and  the  fact  that  many  of  the  stu- 
dents work  their  way  through  the  college  course 
speaks  well  for  their  purposeful  character.  The 
constant  growth  of  Throop,  evidenced  by  its  in- 
creasing enrollment,  proves  the  high  esteem  in 
which  it  is  held  by  those  desirous  of  the  advan- 
tages of  higher  education.  Admitting  as  students 
only  high  school  graduates  of  high  standing,  the 
college  confers  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science 
at  the  end  of  the  four  years'  course,  and  awards 
scholarship  prizes  for  travel  both  in  the  United 
States  and  abroad.  Students  come  from  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  state  as  well  as  the  southern,  and 
also  from  the  east. 

The  health  of  the  students  is  made  a  matter 
of  scientific  care  at  Throop  College,  under  the 
supervision  of  Dr.  Andrew  J.  Smith  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  who  is  an  accredited  Doctor 
of  Medicine,  as  well  as  an  able  supervisor  of  ath- 
letics ;  all  students  being  accorded  thorough  physi- 
cal examination  and  a  recommendation  of  out- 
door exercise  in  accordance  with  their  individual 
needs,  a  sound  body  being  rightly  regarded  as  the 
foundation  for  a  sound  mind  and  consequent  suc- 
cess in  a  prescribed  course  of  studies  as  well  as 
in  all  future  undertakings  of  life. 

Through  a  co-operative  arrangement  with  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  Dr.  Ar- 
thur A.  Noyes  devotes  the  months  of  February 
and  March  to  work  at  Throop  College,  as  Pro- 
fessor of  general  chemistry  and  research  asso- 
ciate, and  a  new  course  in  chemical  engineering 
has  been  prepared  under  his  direction.  Among 
the  well  known  members  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  college,  until  her  resignation  in  1913, 
was  Mrs.  Clara  B.  Burdette,  wife  of  the  late 
lecturer,  preacher  and  writer,  Dr.  Robert  J.  Bur- 
dette, the  association  of  Mrs.  Burdette  with  the 
board  having  been  of  sixteen  years'  duration. 
Teachers  and  students  from  the  high  schools  fre- 
quently visit  the  college  in  large  numbers,  attend- 
ing especially  the  annual  engineering  and  labora- 
tory exhibit,  the  schools  being  thus  in  close  re- 
lationship with  the  college,  while  the  extension 


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courses  effectively  serve  to  unite  the  interests  of 
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BOARDMAN  REED.  There  is  no  nobler 
calling  among  men  than  that  of  healing  the 
ills  of  humanity,  and  there  is  no  profession 
which  enables  a  man  to  come  closer  to  the 
hearts  of  his  patrons  than  does  a  physician  to 
his  patients.  If  he  is  a  true  physician  he  is  as 
much  a  healer  of  minds  as  he  is  of  bodies,  and 
often,  without  the  patient  being  aware  of  the 
fact,  he  is  treated  for  a  sore  and  diseased  mind 
quite  as  much  as  for  a  sore  and  diseased  body, 
the  true  doctor  studying  one  with  the  other. 
Such  an  one  as  this  was  Dr.  Boardman  Reed, 
who  for  many  years  was  closely  identified  with 
the  work  of  the  medical  profession  in  the  great 
eastern  cities,  having  for  many  seasons  an 
office  in  Atlantic  City,  where  he  spent  a  part 
of  each  year,  and  also  being  one  of  the  best 
known  physicians  in  Philadelphia,  where  he 
was  connected  with  a  number  of  prominent  in- 
stitutions. He  also  is  particularly  well  known 
among  the  profession  as  a  writer  of  rare  ability 
on  professional  topics,  and  as  a  lecturer  of  more 
than  ordinary  interest.  Some  nine  years  ago 
Dr.  Reed  gave  up  his  practice  in  the  east  and 
came  to  California  to  make  his  home.  Almost 
immediately  he  purchased  a  home  in  Alhambra, 
v.here  he  now  resides,  having  located  here  on 
June  13,  1906.  This  place,  "The  Evergreens," 
is  a  part  of  a  twenty-acre  tract  set  to  orange 
trees,  and  is  one  of  the  show  places  of  the  San 
Gabriel  valley.  It  is  beautifully  improved, 
being  set  to  palms,  trees  and  flowers  of  many 
kinds ;  and  here  the  noted  healer  of  human  ills 
is  passing  his  declining  years. 

Dr.  Reed  is  a  native  of  New  York  state,  hav- 
ing been  born  at  Scottsville,  April  30.  1842.  the 
son  of  William  N.  and  Hylinda  L.  (Harmon) 
Reed.  When  he  was  a  lad  his  parents  removed 
to  Lancaster,  Wis.,  where  he  passed  his  boy- 
hood, receiving  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  there.  Later  he  attended  college  at 
Beaver  Dam,  Wis.,  but  left  his  studies  to  an- 
swer the  call  of  President  Lincoln  for  volun- 
teers, during  the  early  period  of  the  Civil  war. 
He  was  first  a  member  of  the  Second  Wiscon- 
sin Volunteer  Infantry,  and  was  afterward  made 
a  captain  in  the  Fiftieth  Wisconsin  Infantry. 


He  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Gainesville, 
Va.,  August  28,  1862,  but  was  not  finally  dis- 
charged until  June,  1866,  his  last  service  having 
been  among  the  Sioux  Indians  in  North  Dakota. 
On  account  of  this  latter  service  Dr.  Reed  has 
been  elected  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Indian 
Wars.  After  the  close  of  the  war,  and  his  final 
discharge  from  the  service  of  his  country,  he 
returned  to  his  studies,  entering  Beloit  (Wis.) 
College  and  remaining  from  1866  to  1867,  and 
then  transferring  to  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, studying  in  the  department  of  Fine  Arts 
during  1867-68.  He  was  always  a  splendid 
student  and  made  a  remarkable  record  in  his 
classes.  During  his  freshman  year  at  Beloit  he 
received  the  Lewis  prize  for  the  greatest  ad- 
vancement in  his  studies  for  the  year  made  by 
any  student  in  that  institution,  and  in  his  junior 
year  in  college  he  won  the  prize  for  the  best 
essay  on  metaphysics. 

After  leaving  college,  for  several  years  Dr. 
Reed  was  an  editorial  writer  for  the  Philadel- 
phia Press  and  the  Philadelphia  Times,  but 
abandoned  this  career  to  take  up  the  study  of 
medicine,  graduating  from  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
March,  1878.  In  addition  to  his  regular  course 
he  took  two  courses  at  the  Philadelphia  Lying- 
in  Charity,  one  before  and  one  after  his  gradua- 
tion, and  served  for  several  months  as  assistant 
to  Dr.  R.  G.  Curtin,  at  the  Medical  Dispensary 
of  the  University  Hospital.  Later  he  assisted 
Dr.  Charles  T.  Hunter  at  the  surgical  dispen- 
sary of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  in  Phila- 
delphia. Early  in  the  summer  of  1878  Dr.  Reed 
opened  an  office  in  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  con- 
tinuing to  practice  there  every  season  up  to 
and  including  1897.  While  there  he  served  as 
attending  physician  to  the  Mercer  Memorial 
House  for  Invalid  Women,  and  later  as  consult- 
ing physician  for  the  Jewish  Seaside  Home.  He 
was  president  of  the  Atlantic  City  Board  of 
Health  from  1882  until  1885,  and  for  one  year 
was  president  of  the  Atlantic  City  Medical  So- 
ciety. By  numerous  writings  upon  the  effect 
of  the  sea  air  and  climate  of  Atlantic  City  upon 
the  sick,  Dr.  Reed  did  much  to  acquaint  the 
medical  profession,  as  well  as  the  lay  public, 
with  the  advantages  of  that  locality  as  a  health 
resort.  He  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  anl  influential  men  of  the  city  and 
a  leader  in  the  medical  world. 


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ployed  in  the  ship  yards,  for  which  the  Clyde  is 
noted,  and  there  he  began  his  early  training  in 
engineering. 

Coming  to  the  United  States,  for  several  years 
Mr.  Craig  worked  in  machine  shops  in  and  around 
Boston,  Mass.  At  this  time  he  was  offered  the 
position  of  engineer  yeoman  in  the  United  States 
navy,  and  on  accepting  same  he  spent  three  years 
on  board  ship  in  the  Orient,  the  most  of  this  time 
being  spent  around  China,  Japan,  Korea  and  Si- 
beria. Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States  after 
this  three  years'  cruise  in  foreign  waters  he  was 
appointed  to  the  United  States  Coast  and  Geo- 
detic Survey  as  an  observer,  later  being  promoted 
to  the  position  of  hydrographer.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Spanish-American  war  Mr.  Craig 
volunteered  to  serve  his  adopted  country,  and 
was  appointed  chief  yeoman  of  the  United  States 
flag  ship  New  York,  and  served  during  the  Span- 
ish-American war  under  Rear  Admiral  Sampson. 

After  the  Spanish-American  war  Mr.  Craig 
again  took  up  his  shore  vocation,  entering  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Cincinnati  Milling  Machine  Company 
at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  filled  an  executive 
position,  and  was  the  first  man  to  introduce  the 
premium  system  of  paying  wages  to  mechanics  in 
that  city.  He  spent  four  years  with  this  company, 
and  during  this  time  was  considered  an  authority 
on  system  as  applied  to  machine  shop  practice,  his 
advice  being  asked  by  leading  manufacturers,  and 
his  articles  on  this  subject  being  published  by  the 
National  Metal  Trades  Association. 

From  Cincinnati  Mr.  Craig  moved  to  Indian- 
apolis, Ind.,  where  for  some  two  years  he  was 
production  engineer  of  the  Atlas  Engine  Works,  at 
that  time  the  largest  builders  of  engines  and 
boilers  in  the  United  States.  He  left  Indianap- 
olis with  a  six  months'  contract  to  systematize 
and  organize  the  new  Pierce  automobile  factory 
in  Buffalo,  after  which  he  went  to  Toronto,  Ca- 
nada, with  a  similar  contract  from  the  Canada 
Foundry  Company,  one  of  the  largest  engineering 
corporations  in  Canada.  Upon  completion  of  this 
work  for  the  latter  company  he  was  appointed 
works  accountant  of  their  large  interests,  continu- 
ing for  almost  two  years  in  this  position,  when  the 
Maxwell-Briscoe  Motor  Car  Co.  of  New  Castle, 
Ind.,  induced  him  to  come  and  spend  six  months 
with  them  for  the  purpose  of  systematizing  and 
organizing  their  factory. 

Upon  completion  of  this  work  in  New  Castle 
Mr.  Craig  returned  to  Toronto,  Canada,  as  gen- 


eral superintendent,  or  works  manager,  of  the 
Canada  Foundry  Company,  continuing  in  this  po- 
sition until  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  during  the 
fall  of  1912.  Mr.  Craig  came  to  California  with 
his  family  for  the  purpose  of  spending  a  winter 
here,  but  during  his  stay  he  was  engaged  by  the 
Union  Tool  Company  to  fill  an  executive  position 
and  continued  in  that  capacity  until  the  summer  of 
1914,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Pacific 
Metal  Products  Company. 

The  large  company  with  which  Mr.  Craig  is 
now  connected  has  a  building  with  a  floor  space 
of  450x125  feet,  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of 
trucks  and  to  the  assembly  and  machinery  de- 
partments, using  five  Gridley  automatic  machines 
for  manufacturing  cap  screws,  set  screws  and 
pump  crowns.  In  their  auto  truck  department 
they  use  Sheldon  worm  drive  axles,  Timken  axles 
and  Wisconsin  and  Continental  motors,  manufac- 
turing all  necessary  parts  themselves,  their  capac- 
ity being  fifty  trucks  per  month,  a  number  that 
could  be  increased  to  one  hundred,  and  they  are 
the  manufacturers  of  five  hundred  motor  trucks 
that  are  now  in  use  in  California. 

The  company  manufactures  its  steel  barrels  and 
refrigerators  in  a  separate  building,  which  is  al- 
most as  large  as  that  for  the  production  of  their 
trucks. 

The  Molesworth  refrigeration  plant,  manufac- 
tured by  them,  provides  the  most  practical  method 
of  producing  refrigeration  in  small  quantities  for 
use  in  homes,  restaurants,  etc.,  an  operation  which, 
by  this  new  invention,  is  rendered  so  simple  that 
it  can  be  managed  by  a  child,  the  only  expense, 
after  installation,  being  that  of  the  gas  or  other 
fuel  used.  The  Molesworth  plant  is  one  that  has 
no  competition,  it  being  the  first  and  the  only 
plant  developed  which  has  proved  practical  for 
the  farmer  or  miner,  or  anyone  who  lives  beyond 
the  reach  of  daily  delivery  of  ice.  By  a  contract 
for  a  term  of  several  years  the  Pacific  Metal 
Products  Company  of  Los  Angeles  manufactures 
these  Molesworth  refrigeration  plants  at  their 
factory  at  Torrance,  Cal.,  and  every  plant  sold 
is  sold  under  guarantee. 

Besides  being  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Pacific  Metal  Products  Company,  Mr.  Craig  is 
also  a  stockholder  in  a  Canadian  Motor  Truck 
Company,  a  member  of  several  fraternal  asso- 
ciations, and  of  the  Southern  California  Rod  and 
Reel  Club,  in  his  political  preferences  being  an 
independent. 


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part  of  his  lifetime.    Young  Shekels  was  icatcd 
on  the  farm,  attending  school  until  he  was  ten 

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His  marriage  with  Marie  J.  von  Leuchsenring 
was  solemnized  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  January, 
1899,  his  wife  being  the  daughter  of  a  late  promi- 
nent officer  in  the  German  arm.y.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Craig  became  the  parents  of  five  sons,  namely : 
Thomas,  John  Jr.,  Robert,  James  Pollock,  and 
Norman  David  Craig. 


NOAH  C.  SHEKELS.  The  life  story  of 
Noah  C.  Shekels  is  closely  linked  with  that  of  the 
history  of  both  California  and  Arizona,  both 
states  having  claimed  the  services  and  loyal  de- 
votion of  this  splendid  man  for  many  years  when 
civilization  was  battling  with  the  wilderness  and 
the  savages  to  gain  a  permanent  foothold.  Mr. 
Shekels  first  came  to  California  in  1861,  cross- 
ing the  plains  from  Indiana,  where  he  had  been 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  number  of  years,  in 
association  with  his  father.  The  journey  across 
the  plains  was  made  with  teams  and  occupied  some 
six  months  in  all.  He  located  at  Oroville,  Butte 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  and  the 
raising  of  grain  and  fruit.  When  the  excite- 
ment attendant  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
war  became  intense  on  the  coast  he  enlisted  in  the 
Union  army,  serving  with  Company  I,  Fourth 
California  Regiment,  and  remaining  in  active  ser- 
vice until  1865.  Upon  receiving  his  discharge  he 
returned  at  once  to  his  farm  at  Oroville  and  again 
took  up  his  former  occupation  of  farming,  re- 
maining there  until  1870.  He  then  disposed  of  his 
Oroville  property  and  went  to  Prescott,  Ariz., 
where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  until 
1875,  being  also  heavily  interested  in  mining 
properties  in  that  vicinity,  that  being  a  time  when 
the  mining  industry  was  in  much  favor  in  that 
locality.  In  1875  Mr.  Shekels  sold  out  his  mer- 
cantile interests  and  traveled  for  three  years,  re- 
turning to  Prescott  in  1878  and  engaging  in  the 
lumber  business  for  a  number  of  years,  or  until 
disposing  of  these  interests  in  1886  to  give  his 
entire  time  and  attention  to  mining,  having  been 
elected  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Crown  King  Mining  Company,  in  which  he  was 
heavily  interested.  The  mining  business  contin- 
ued to  occupy  him  until  1899,  when  he  sold  out 
much  of  his  extensive  holdings  and  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  has  since  lived  in  quiet  re- 
tirement. 

Although  it  was  not  until  1899  that  Mr.  Shekels 
came  to  Los  Angeles  to  reside,  it  was  not  his  first 
visit  here  by  any  means.    He  had  for  many  years 


made  frequent  trips  to  the  Angel  City  and  at  an 
early  date  his  faith  in  the  city  was  such  that  he 
began  making  investments  from  time  to  time  in 
down-town  property.  His  judgment  and  fore- 
sight were  such  as  to  enable  him  to  make  his 
purchases  so  wisely  that  the  increase  in  valuation 
was  decided  and  his  profits  on  his  various  deals 
was  very  appreciable.  He  has  continued  to  in- 
vest in  city  property  since  coming  here  to  make 
his  permanent  home,  and  has  been  associated  with 
many  land  deals  of  importance  during  that  time. 

Mr.  Shekels  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  having  been 
born  in  Stark  county,  June  19,  1842,  the  son  of 
John  W.  and  Katherine  (Yant)  Shekels,  his 
father  being  engaged  in  farming  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  lifetime.  Young  Shekels  was  reared 
on  the  farm,  attending  school  until  he  was  ten 
years  of  age,  at  which  time  it  was  necessary  for 
him  to  leave  school  and  begin  working  regularly 
with  his  father  on  the  farm.  They  remained  on 
the  original  property  until  1859,  when  they  re- 
moved to  Elkhart,  Ind.,  and  again  engaged  in 
farming  there,  remaining  in  this  location  until 
1861,  when  young  Mr.  Shekels  determined  to 
seek  his  fortune  in  the  Golden  West.  Since  that 
time  he  has  continued  to  reside  in  California  and 
Arizona,  and  has  been  actively  interested  in  the 
growth  and  development  of  both  states,  being 
especially  interested  in  the  great  mining  activities 
of  Arizona  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Shekels  was  first  married  to  Margaret 
Hutchinson,  and  his  daughter  by  this  marriage, 
Minnie  May,  is  now  the  wife  of  Mr.  Gray  of 
Oroville,  son  of  Judge  Gray.  The  second  mar- 
riage of  Mr.  Shekels  was  to  Belle  Skinkle,  one 
son  being  born  of  this  union,  Harry  C.  of  Gar- 
dena.  His  third  marriage  occurred  in  San 
Francisco,  in  July,  1894,  uniting  him  with  Mrs. 
Bertha  Amundsen,  of  that  city.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Shekels  are  well  known  in  Los  Angeles, 
where  they  have  many  friends  and  acquaintances. 


CHARLES  RICHARD  VESPER.  It  was  in 
1904  that  Mr.  Vesper  first  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
having  taken  a  six  months'  leave  of  absence  from 
his  occupation  of  station  agent  in  Footville,  Wis., 
where  he  had  been  located  seven  years,  and  falling 
in  love  with  California,  he  returned  and  settled 
up  his  aflFairs  in  Wisconsin  and  took  a  course  at 
the  Carl  I.  Barnes  School  of  Embalming.  After 
completing  the  course  he  settled  in  California  in 
April,  1905,  buying  a  one-half  interest  in  an  un- 


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single  comb  White  Leghorns  and  barred  Plymouth 
Rocks,  and  is  now  breeding  to  establish  her  own 
variety — the  Wilkins  strain.  Her  poultry  yards 
are  finely  appointed,  many  of  the  conveniences 
found  therein  being  of  her  own  invention.  The 
brooder  and  incubator  houses,  which  were  planned 
by  her,  are  equipped  with  everything  modern  for 
carrying  on  the  growing  business.  She  has  had 
wonderful  success  in  hatching,  ninety  per  cent, 
being  the  highest  average,  the  lowest  being  only 
seventy  per  cent.  The  feed  used  is  her  own  pri- 
vate mash.  She  makes  a  specialty  of  baby  chicks 
and  eggs  for  setting,  and  it  is  her  intention  to 
increase  the  number  of  fowls  in  her  yards  to  one 
thousand  laying  hens. 

Mrs.  Wilkins  deserves  great  credit  for  the 
success  she  has  made  in  her  chosen  line  of  work, 
she  having  made  a  thorough  study  of  conditions 
attendant  upon  that  business,  with  the  result  that 
she  took  three  prizes  at  the  1915  Tropico  and 
Glendale  Poultry  Show,  these  being  for  the  pul- 
lets, hen  and  cock  of  her  barred  Plymouth  Rock 
strain.  A  member  of  the  Co-operative  Poultry- 
men's  Association  and  the  California  Poultry 
Breeders'  Association.  Mrs.  Wilkins  keeps  in 
touch  with  all  progressive  ideas  along  the  line  of 
poultry  raising,  adapting  them  to  her  own  needs, 
and  adding  to  them  by  her  own  ingenuity  and 
ability. 


DEROCHER  NURSERIES,  INC.  For  gen- 
erations the  family  of  Louis  Derocher  has  been 
engaged  in  the  nursery  business  in  France,  so  it 
is  very  natural  that  he  should  follow  this  pursuit 
in  California,  a  land  which  has  done  much  to 
bring  about  his  high  degree  of  success.  Born  at 
Avon,  Mass.,  April  11,  1880,  Louis  Joseph  De- 
rocher, now  the  proprietor  and  manager  of  the 
Derocher  Nurseries,  located  at  No.  4332  Finley 
avenue,  Hollywood,  Cal.,  is  of  French  descent, 
and  the  family  returning  to  France  soon  after 
his  birth,  the  boy  grew  up  at  Germain,  in  that 
country,  until  the  age  of  eight  years,  when  he 
came  to  America  to  make  his  home  here.  The 
first  success  he  met  with  in  the  nursery  business 
was  in  Clarksville  county,  Texas,  at  the  age  of 
fourteen,  making  $10,000  in  three  years  by  raising 
cucumbers,  but  he  later  lost  this  money  in  bad 
investments,  after  which  he  became  a  soldier  of 
fortune,  and  traveled  throughout  the  country.  He 
took  a  three  years'  course  in  landscape  gardening 


in  New  York  state,  and  while  there  was  employed 
by  some  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  country  in 
laying  out  large  estates,  etc.  Returning  to  Texas 
he  was  for  a  time  engaged  in  ranching,  going  next 
to  Canada,  vhere  he  became  an  actor,  first  on  the 
stage,  then  with  the  moving  picture  business,  and 
it  was  with  a  company  of  the  latter  actors  that 
Mr.  Derocher  first  came  to  California  with  $10 
in  money  and  three  trunks  of  clothes  and  the  de- 
termination to  start  a  nursery  and  thus  retrieve 
the  lost  fortunes  of  his  boyhood  days  in  Texas. 
In  August,  1913,  he  established  his  nursery  in 
Los  Angeles,  and  by  the  middle  of  October  was 
able  to  make  the  first  payment  of  $200  on  a  new 
lot,  where  the  next  month  he  erected  a  glass  house 
20x40  feet  in  dimensions.  By  the  first  of  the 
next  year  his  $10  had  increased  to  $1,000,  in 
February  a  partnership  was  formed,  and  in  May 
and  June  of  that  year  they  decided  upon  and 
bought  the  present  property  of  about  three  and 
one-half  acres  in  Hollywood.  By  September  the 
office  buildings,  greenhouses  and  pumping  plant 
had  been  established,  a  change  in  the  partnership 
had  been  made  and  Derocher's  Inc.,  was  incor- 
porated under  the  laws  of  California. 

When  he  moved  to  the  present  location,  Mr. 
Derocher  had  twenty  thousand  chrysanthemums, 
the  sale  of  which  paid  two-thirds  of  the  cost  of 
his  greenhouse  which  was  27x100  feet  in  dimen- 
sions, and  now  he  has  a  fine  office  building,  two 
glass  houses,  a  mushroom  cellar  seven  feet  below 
the  surface  of  the  ground  and  unexcelled  in  Cali- 
fornia, a  complete  pumping  plant  and  a  printing 
establishment  where  his  magazine  and  other  print- 
ing is  done.  Mr.  Derocher  has  been  a  hard  v/orker, 
and  for  eighteen  months  worked  from  eighteen 
to  twenty  hours  per  day.  He  delivers  lectures 
and  writes  articles  on  plant  culture,  and  his  maga- 
zine, The  Knowledge  of  Plant  Life,  is  issued 
every  month  by  his  own  printing  office.  He  be- 
lieves in  helping  others  as  well  as  himself,  and 
has  a  school  for  mushroom  growing,  with  a  three 
months'  course.  At  his  place  any  poor  boy  or 
girl  may  learn  the  nursery  business  at  small  cost, 
his  class  of  eleven  pupils  meeting  every  Tuesday 
evening.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  he  runs  the 
business  on  educational  lines,  and  all  his  assistants 
have  their  own  homes  on  the  place,  while  he  has 
three  men  who  make  a  house  to  house  canvass 
for  his  goods.  Mr.  Derocher  is  constantly  im- 
proving his  plant,  at  present  having  over  forty 
thousand  plants,  among  which  are  fifteen  thousand 


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)se  bushes  of  eighty-six  varieties,  and  has  de- 
veloped a  new  carnation  and  <.iirv^  .nthcnuim,  also 
selling  all  kinds  of  fruit    t  king    a 

specialty  of  growing  veget.>  n.   He 

has  put  in  sixty  la\vr  irn 

wood  whrrc  lu-  live--, 
landscape  garrif  nir.' 
and  stuck  an- 
is  incorporai' 


111-. AKV    i\.    Mill'. I,(  ,ilways 

said  by  the  man  who  is  '  ihe  lack 

of  "opportunity"  and  his  ■  but  tu 

a  certain  other  class  of  men  c\c.  .  il;iy  seems  to 
present  an  opportunity  and  every  wind  to  blow 
a  streak  of  perfectly  good  luck,  while  all  that 
they  touch  appears  to  turn  into  gold.  Such  an 
one  as  this  is  Henry  K.  Shields,  a  promin<>'it 
citizen  of  Monrovia  since  '"" 
years  a  resident  of  Los  Ar 
He  is  a  >:c1fnKi  '     ri.i-      . 


■   '.rty  in  several  Lob  Angcit. 
is  very  valuable  and  so  loca 
;ls    .........i^.n    is   steadily   on   the   incre;i. -.    - 

though  it  was  originally  purchased  at  a  com- 
paratively small  cost. 

Mr.  Shields  is  a  native  of  Pen;      '  '     ,- 

in^  been  born  in  Philadelphia 

His  early  edixcation  was  obtaincn 

.schools   of   Montgomery   county,    near    i'!;.i.i 

delphia,  and  the  Mount  Kirk  Academy,  near 

\',,:ristr,\vn.  Pa.,  which  institution  he  attended 

IS     When  he  was  a  young  man  lie 

'  with  hi«;  father  in  the  market  ii:'^ 

ir  Philadelphia,  and  in  IX*^, 

ry-six  years  of  age,  he  re- 

(■   Ti'V,  1,  where  he  engaged 

Chicago 

springs. 

,         ...  .     ..^fland. 

years  engaged   m   farmmg.     He 
'  to  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  where  he 


bought  several  tracts  of  land  and  continued  his 
farming  pursuits.  It  wa.s  on  November  30, 
1890,  that  Mr.  ShiekLs  came  to  California,  locat- 
ing first  at  Upland,  where  he  purchased  twenty 
acres  of  land,  all  unimpi-  ■     '  -  f--,i\i 

of  it   to  oranges   and  ui 

deciduous  fruits.     He  ■,  «n 

years,  at  the  end  of  wliir!i  •,'  -  !  i  u,a.i-_i  this 
property  for  Los  Angeles  rea!t>'  and  moved 
into  the  city  to  reside.  Here  he  made  many 
real  estate  investments  of  a  remarkably  profit- 
able nature.  He  owned  property  in  West 
.Arlington  Heights,  and  also  on  Bush  and  <  jteen 
streets,  arid  he  still  owns  property  in  Long 
Beach. 

It  was  on  October  1,  1910,  that  Mr.  Shields 
and  his  family  took  up  their  permanent  resi- 
dence in  Monrovia.  Here  he  bmiirlu  a  fu  e-acre 
tract  for  a  home  place,  and  ar  ige 

grove  <./!!  West  White  Oak  r  .  st- 

him 
',  and 
,tys 
-  he  been 
s,  but  be 
his  orange 
-.      In   addition    to  his   large 
Mr.  Shields  has  a  most  in- 
in   the   nature   of  an   aviary, 
.enteen  varieties  of  domestic 
'  Is,  of  fancy  coloring,  all  good 
birds  form  a  very  large  part 
1  he  takes  an  especial  delight 
and  care. 
The  marriage  of  Mr.  Shields  occurred  May 
24,  1873,  at  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Frances  Ziegler,  a  native  of  Bethel,  Mo., 
and  reared  near  Muscatine,  Iowa.     She  is  the 
sister  of  the  baking  powder  king.  William  Zieg- 
ler of  New  York  City,  who  gave  her  in  1897  a 
'..renerous  gift  consisting  of  railroad  bonds  and 
stocks.     Mrs.  Shields  has  borne  her  husband 
five  children,  three  daughters  and  two  sons. 
They  are  William  F  ,  Clara  L..  Emma  E.,  Fred 
C.  and  Frances  E.     Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shields 
have   many   friends   throughout    Los   Angeles 
county,  with  whom  they  are  de'!<"''v«»d1y  popu- 
lar.    Mr.  Shields  is  generalI^  -  a 
man  of  great  ability  and  of                           ties 
of  mind  and  heart.     He    is                            md 
public  spirited  and  has  done  niuvii  for  the  up- 
building of  his  locality,  giving  freely  of  his 


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rose  bushes  of  eighty-six  varieties,  and  has  de- 
veloped a  new  carnation  and  chrysanthemum,  also 
selling  all  kinds  of  fruit  trees  and  making  a 
specialty  of  growing  vegetables  out  of  season.  He 
has  put  in  sixty  lawns  in  the  section  of  Holly- 
wood where  he  lives,  and  has  over  $5000  worth  of 
landscape  gardening  contracts  on  hand.  His  plant 
and  stock  are  valued  at  $12,000,  and  the  business 
is  incorporated  for  $25,000,  paying  ten  per  cent, 
interest. 


HENRY  K.  SHIELDS.  Much  is  always 
said  by  the  man  who  is  "down"  about  the  lack 
of  "opportunity"  and  his  own  "ill  luck ;"  but  to 
a  certain  other  class  of  men  every  day  seems  to 
present  an  opportunity  and  every  wind  to  blow 
a  streak  of  perfectly  good  luck,  while  all  that 
they  touch  appears  to  turn  into  gold.  Such  an 
one  as  this  is  Henry  K.  Shields,  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Monrovia  since  1910,  and  for  many 
years  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county. 
He  is  a  selfmade  man  of  the  highest  type,  and 
his  energy  and  industry,  his  clear-headed  judg- 
ment and  business  sagacity  have  often  been 
mistaken  for  a  "Midas  touch."  He  has  pros- 
pered in  everything  to  which  he  has  turned  his 
hand,  and  especially  has  this  been  true  of  his 
real  estate  deals.  He  has  invested  with  such 
wisdom  and  foresight  that  he  has  reaped  large 
profits  from  his  various  transactions,  and  today 
holds  property  in  several  Los  Angeles  county 
cities  that  is  very  valuable  and  so  located  that 
its  valuation  is  steadily  on  the  increase,  al- 
though it  was  originally  purchased  at  a  com- 
paratively small  cost. 

Mr.  Shields  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  hav- 
ing been  born  in  Philadelphia  May  28,  1841. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  Montgomery  county,  near  Phila- 
delphia, and  the  Mount  Kirk  Academy,  near 
Norristown,  Pa.,  which  institution  he  attended 
for  two  years.  When  he  was  a  young  man  he 
was  engaged  with  his  father  in  the  marketing 
of  farm  produce  near  Philadelphia,  and  in  1868, 
when  he  was  twenty-six  years  of  age,  he  re- 
moved to  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged 
in  farming  and  feeding  cattle  for  the  Chicago 
markets.  He  later  removed  to  Blue  Springs, 
Neb.,  where  he  purchased  a  half  section  of  land, 
and  for  four  years  engaged  in  farming.  He 
then  returned  to  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  where  he 


bought  several  tracts  of  land  and  continued  his 
farming  pursuits.  It  was  on  November  30, 
1890,  that  Mr.  Shields  came  to  California,  locat- 
ing first  at  Upland,  where  he  purchased  twenty 
acres  of  land,  all  unimproved,  and  set  one-half 
of  it  to  oranges  and  the  remaining  half  to 
deciduous  fruits.  He  resided  here  for  seven 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  traded  this 
property  for  Los  Angeles  realty  and  moved 
into  the  city  to  reside.  Here  he  made  many 
real  estate  investments  of  a  remarkably  profit- 
able nature.  He  owned  property  in  West 
Arlington  Heights,  and  also  on  Bush  and  Green 
streets,  and  he  still  owns  property  in  Long 
Beach. 

It  was  on  October  1,  1910,  that  Mr.  Shields 
and  his  family  took  up  their  permanent  resi- 
dence in  Monrovia.  Here  he  bought  a  five-acre 
tract  for  a  home  place,  and  an  eight-acre  orange 
grove  on  West  White  Oak  avenue  for  invest- 
ment purposes,  of  which  seven  acres  netted  him 
$2,832.41  in  cash  in  1914.  He  has  bought  and 
sold  considerable  property  in  Monrovia,  always 
to  a  good  advantage.  Not  only  has  he  been 
successful  in  real  estate  transactions,  but  he 
has  also  made  a  decided  success  of  his  orange 
growing  ventures.  In  addition  to  his  large 
business  interests  Mr.  Shields  has  a  most  in- 
teresting hobby  in  the  nature  of  an  aviary, 
where  he  has  seventeen  varieties  of  domestic 
and  imported  birds,  of  fancy  coloring,  all  good 
singers.  To  him  birds  form  a  very  large  part 
of  the  world,  and  he  takes  an  especial  delight 
in  their  breeding  and  care. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Shields  occurred  May 
24,  1873,  at  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Frances  Ziegler,  a  native  of  Bethel,  Mo., 
and  reared  near  Muscatine,  Iowa.  She  is  the 
sister  of  the  baking  powder  king,  William  Zieg- 
ler of  New  York  City,  who  gave  her  in  1897  a 
generous  gift  consisting  of  railroad  bonds  and 
stocks.  Mrs.  Shields  has  borne  her  husband 
five  children,  three  daughters  and  two  sons. 
Iliey  are  William  F.,  Clara  L.,  Emma  E.,  Fred 
G.  and  Frances  E.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shields 
have  many  friends  throughout  Los  Angeles 
county,  with  whom  they  are  deservedly  popu- 
lar. Mr.  Shields  is  generally  recognized  as  a 
man  of  great  ability  and  of  superior  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart.  He  is  progressive  and 
public  spirited  and  has  done  much  for  the  up- 
building of  his  locality,  giving  freely  of  his 


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of  Montebello,  and  Charles  is  deceased.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Spanish-American  War,  serving 
for  two  years,  and  being  one  of  the  participants 
at  the  Battle  of  Manila. 

Reece  S.  Lambert  is  one  of  the  prominent  and 
successful  walnut  growers  of  Whittier.  He  was 
born  in  Washington  county,  Ohio,  February  6, 
1864,  and  joined  with  his  father  in  farming  en- 
terprises in  Missouri.  When  he  was  twenty-two 
years  of  age  he  homesteaded  a  half  section  of  land 
in  Kansas,  proved  up  on  the  same  and  sold  it  at 
an  appreciable  profit.  On  coming  to  California 
with  his  father  in  1893  he  purchased  twenty-three 
acres  of  unimproved  land,  which  he  planted  to 
walnuts,  developing  a  splendid  grove  of  highly 
productive  trees.  He  also  owns  a  valuable  forty- 
acre  alfalfa  ranch  near  Modesto,  Stanislaus 
county,  this  state.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Lambert 
and  Lucy  Clark  of  Ohio  took  place  in  Morgan 
county,  that  state,  in  1905.  Of  their  union  has 
been  born  one  child,  a  son,  Ross  C.  Mr.  Lambert 
takes  a  prominent  part  in  the  aflfairs  of  the  com- 
munity and  is  a  member  of  several  fraternal  and 
social  orders,  among  them  being  the  Sons  of 
Veterans.  He  is  a  member  of  the  United  Brethren 
Church. 


ALEXANDER  B.  FOTHERGILL.  That 
"truth  is  stranger  than  fiction"  has  never  been 
more  graphically  demonstrated  than  in  the  case 
of  Alexander  B.  Fothergill,  who  within  the  short 
space  of  ten  years  builded  a  business  from  a 
simple  start  and  an  investment  of  some  $40  to  a 
point  where  he  very  recently  received  therefor 
the  magnificent  sum  of  a  quarter  of  a  million  dol- 
lars. It  is  a  tale  of  modern  business  romance  that 
is  full  of  interest,  and  which  carries  always  the 
strong  undercurrent  of  honorable  service,  straight- 
forward methods,  fair  dealing,  and  sober  industry 
and  application.  In  1902  Mr.  Fothergill  came  to 
Los  Angeles  from  Pueblo,  Colo.,  where  he  had 
been  in  business  for  several  years,  and  opened  a 
little  bakery  on  Avery  street.  He  invested  about 
$40  in  the  venture,  and  gradually  the  business 
grew  in  scope  and  patronage.  After  a  short  time 
the  proprietor  gave  it  the  name  of  the  Buffalo 
Baking  Company  and  began  to  make  a  specialty 
of  bread.  He  had  a  substantial  savings  account 
and  within  a  short  time  he  determined  to  put  out 
a  special  brand  of  bread  known  as  "Holsum." 
Having  secured   the  necessary   rights   from   the 


''Holsum"  people  (for  be  it  known  that  in  the 
undertaking  Mr.  Fothergill  was  allying  himself 
with  a  nation-wide  movement  for  the  production 
of  a  superior  brand  of  clean,  wholesome  bread), 
the  proprietor  of  the  Buffalo  Baking  Company 
entered  upon  a  campaign  which  soon  gave  him  a 
place  in  the  front  rank  of  his  business  in  Los 
Angeles.  He  installed  new  and  modem  equip- 
ment, with  splendid  ovens  of  the  latest  pattern, 
automatic  and  sanitary  devices  for  the  handling 
of  the  bread  at  its  various  stages,  and  also  the 
best  means  of  placing  it  before  the  patrons.  The 
name  soon  became  familiar  and  the  demands 
therefor  made  an  enlargement  of  the  plant  a 
necessity.  In  1910  a  larger  establishment  was 
secured  on  Tennessee  street  and  additional 
changes  and  additions  were  made  in  the  equip- 
ment, always  the  latest  and  most  sanitary  devices 
being  installed,  and  neither  time  nor  expense 
being  spared  to  make  the  bakery  a  model  of  sani- 
tation. The  returns  entirely  justified  the  steps 
taken  by  Mr.  Fothergill,  and  his  profits  continued 
to  increase  in  amazing  proportions.  The  demand 
for  the  new  product  was  so  great  that  the  output 
of  the  plant  was  increased  from  3500  to  30,000 
loaves  a  day,  which  has  necessitated  an  almost 
constant  increase  in  help  and  equipment.  Within 
the  past  two  years  an  even  greater  change  has 
taken  place.  A  new  building  has  been  erected, 
modern  in  every  appointment,  within  and  with- 
out, and  the  devices  for  the  handling  of  their 
product  are  such  as  to  fill  a  housewife  with  envy. 
The  output  continued  to  increase,  and  at  the  time 
that  Mr.  Fothergill  disposed  of  his  interests  it 
had  reached  the  enormous  amount  of  75,000 
loaves  per  day,  with  a  patronage  that  extended 
not  only  all  over  the  city,  but  also  throughout  the 
entire  district  tributary  to  Los  Angeles,  and  the 
bakery  itself  had  become  known  as  the  largest  and 
finest  equipped  in  Southern  California,  if  not  in 
the  entire  west.  On  April  15,  1914,  he  sold  out 
his  business  and  retired  from  active  life,  since  that 
time  having  lived  in  quiet  enjoyment  of  the  fruits 
of  his  splendid  efforts,  which  in  ten  years  had 
brought  such  a  splendid  result  that  the  business 
that  originally  called  for  an  investment  of  $40 
was  sold  for  $250,000.  The  business  was  taken 
over  by  the  Pacific  Baking  Company  under  the 
personal  management  of  W.  F.  Long,  and  is  being 
conducted  along  the  same  lines  of  sanitation  and 
high  grade  principles  as  its  former  owner  found 
so  profitable,  while  the  same  brand  of  bread  that 


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near  Whittier.  The  property  was  then  raw  land, 
but  Mr.  Briswalter  has  improved  it  and  planted 
walnut  and  lemon  trees,  and  now  has  one  of  the 
handsomest  groves  in  the  region.  There  are  now 
twenty-eight  acres  in  bearing  walnuts,  he  having 
paid  $150  per  acre  for  this  land,  the  increased 
valuation  of  which  would  net  a  handsome  profit 
if  it  were  sold. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Briswalter  and  Miss 
Lillie  H.  Bouchard  was  celebrated  in  Los  Nietos. 
Mrs.  Briswalter  is  a  native  of  California,  born  at 
Livermore,  the  daughter  of  Frank  Bouchard,  one 
of  the  early  settlers  in  California,  he  having  lo- 
cated at  Whittier  when  it  was  a  pioneer  locality 
and  engaged  in  the  raising  of  grapes  and  oranges. 
Mrs.  Briswalter  received  her  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  high  schools  of  the  county,  and 
is  well  known.  She  has  borne  her  husband  seven 
ciiildren,  one  son,  Andres,  now  deceased,  and  six 
daughters,  all  of  whom  are  living.  They  are  all 
natives  of  Whittier  and  are  popular  members  of 
the  younger  social  set.  They  are :  Sarah,  Elsie, 
Victoria,  Mildred,  Florence  and  Alice. 

Mr.  Briswalter  is  one  of  the  public  spirited 
and  progressive  men  of  the  county  and  his  sup- 
port is  always  forthcoming  for  any  project  which 
typifies  progress  and  development  and  the  general 
upbuilding  of  the  community.  He  is  especially 
interested  in  the  questions  of  interest  to  horticul- 
turists and  has  made  a  careful  and  scientific  study 
of  the  culture  of  the  walnut  and  is  making  a  splen- 
did success  of  his  groves. 


WILEY  V.  AMBROSE.  It  is  customary  to 
revert  to  the  opportunities  which  Los  Angeles  and 
Southern  California  offered  to  pioneers  of  reso- 
lute spirit  and  optimistic  faith  in  the  future  of  the 
country ;  less  often  mention  is  made  of  the  oppor- 
tunities of  the  present,  which  while  perhaps  much 
less  attractive  from  the  standpoint  of  possible 
increases  in  land  valuations,  are  greater  than  ever 
before  in  industrial  lines,  in  business  circles  and 
in  manufacturing  enterprises.  As  an  example  of 
a  young  man  who  has  forged  his  way  to  the  front 
within  the  past  decade,  mention  belongs  to  Mr. 
Ambrose,  whose  mental  attributes  include  an 
unusual  com^bination  of  qualities,  with  a  tempera- 
ment of  such  force  and  personality  that  any  busi- 
ness of  his  connection  responds  quickly  to  Ihe 
thrill  of  his  energy  and  the  impelling  vitality  of 


his  masterly  mind.  Possessing  talents  in  busi- 
ness, diligent  in  application  to  any  work  under  his 
charge,  practical  and  receptive  of  new  ideas  in 
the  lines  of  industry  to  which  he  is  devoting  him- 
self, his  sagacity  and  far-sighted  discrimination 
qualify  him  for  a  success  which  undoubtedly  will 
expand  and  develop  with  the  passing  of  the  years. 

While  Los  Angeles  is  not  the  native  city  of 
Mr.  Ambrose  (who  was  born  in  Urbana,  Ohio, 
March  2,  1880),  he  has  lived  here  since  the  age 
of  six  years,  his  parents  Francis  and  Mary  F. 
(Dye)  Ambrose,  having  come  from  the  east  in 
1887  and  established  associations  locally  that  were 
severed  only  by  their  death.  Primarily  educated 
in  grammar  schools  and  later  a  student  in  the 
Commercial  high  school,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1898,  he  entered  the  business  world 
at  eighteen  years  of  age,  ready  to  take  his  place 
in  any  unimportant  post  that  promised  oppor- 
tunities for  advancement.  He  was  fortunate  in 
finding  such  a  position  with  the  Union  Hardware 
&  Metal  Company,  a  concern  that  had  his  best 
energies  and  undivided  attention  for  fifteen  years. 
Meanwhile  he  rose  to  be  one  of  the  company's 
salesmen  and  when  he  left  their  concern  in  June, 
1913,  it  was  to  take  hold  of  larger  interests  else- 
where. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Ambrose  and  Miss  Annie 
Louisa  Wade,  only  daughter  of  the  late  Robert 
David  Wade,  was  solemnized  in  Los  Angeles  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1907,  and  has  been  blessed  with  three 
children,  Florence  Vance,  Wade  and  Carolyn  Rae. 
Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Wade  the  administration 
of  the  estate  became  the  duty  of  Mr.  Ambrose 
and  its  vast  responsibilities  have  since  occupied 
considerable  attention,  in  addition  to  which  he  has 
accepted  the  presidency  of  the  Santa  Maria  Crude 
Oil  Company,  the  Keystone  Loan  Company  and 
the  Southern  California  Fish  Company,  all  of 
these  being  concerns  of  great  importance  and 
representing  widely  diverging  interests.  The  last 
named,  packers  of  the  Blue  Sea  brand  of  tuna 
fish,  famous  throughout  the  world  for  high  qual- 
ity, owes  its  inception  to  an  organization  by  Mr. 
Wade  in  1892  for  the  purpose  of  canning  sar- 
dines, but  has  developed  far  beyond  the  original 
thought  or  highest  anticipations  of  the  projector. 
While  the  sardine  industry  has  been  continued, 
the  great  feature  of  the  industry  is  the  canning  of 
tuna,  and  this  is  responsible  for  the  remarkable 
expansion  of  the  company's  manufacturing  plant. 
During  most  seasons  of  the  year  the  albicore  tuna 


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fish  is  plentiful  in  the  waters  between  the  main- 
land and  Catalina  Island.  The  Los  Angeles  har- 
bor at  San  Pedro  has  a  fleet  of  gasoline  launches 
whose  only  business  is  to  catch  this  variety  of 
fish.  Every  morning  this  fleet  casts  off  their  buoy 
lines  and  before  day  has  dawned  in  the  east  is 
chugging  down  the  Inner  harbor,  out  around  Dead 
Man's  Island,  across  the  Outer  harbor  to  the  end 
of  the  great  pile  of  solid  rock  known  as  the  gov- 
ernment breakwater,  thence  scattering  north  and 
south  in  quest  of  a  school  of  fish. 

At  times  a  boat  will  sail  until  late  in  the  after- 
noon before  the  churning  of  the  water  indicates 
that  the  albicore  tuna  are  working  among  the  sar- 
dines ;  but  other  times  the  lucky  fisherman  has  his 
catch  and  is  back  before  noon.  When  a  school 
of  fish  has  been  found  the  fisherman  rides  in 
among  them  and  throws  overboard  handfuls  of 
sardines  previously  caught.  In  a  few  moments 
the  excited  fish  will  leap  from  the  water  within  a 
few  feet  of  the  boat  in  their  anxiety  to  catch  the 
sardines.  This  gives  to  the  fisherman  his  hoped- 
for  opportunity  and  with  short,  heavy  lines  he 
baits  the  hook  with  sardines,  throws  the  hook  and 
catches  the  tuna.  This,  however,  is  not  the  sole 
method  used  in  catching  the  fish.  Some  fishermen 
troll  for  them  with  heavy  lines,  on  which  is 
fastened  a  bone  jig  hook;  some  make  outriggers 
from  each  side  of  the  boat  with  heavy  canepoles 
and  string  the  lines  to  them,  the  latter  being  a 
favorite  method  with  Japanese  fishermen.  After 
the  boats  are  filled  they  sail  up  the  Inner  harbor 
to  unload  at  the  wharves  of  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Fish  Company.  The  albicore  tuna  is  one 
of  the  very  few  varieties  of  fish  having  warm 
blood,  a  fact  for  which  science  is  unable  to 
account.  The  blood  is  drained,  to  ensure  white 
meat;  then  the  fish  are  placed  on  wire  trays  and 
stacked  on  the  rolling  racks  ready  for  the  cookers, 
large  steam-tight  chests,  holding  about  one  ton. 
When  taken  from  the  cookers  to  the  coolers  they 
are  left  until  entirely  cold,  after  which  skin  and 
bones  are  removed,  the  meat  cut  into  correct  sizes 
and  then  passed  on  to  packing  tables  with  endless 
chains  bearing  cans  with  pure  salad  oil,  the  latter 
containing  ninety-two  per  cent,  nutriment.  Auto- 
matic sealers  with  sanitary  tops  prepare  the  cans 
for  the  retort,  steam-tight  drums  permitting  the 
fish  and  the  oil  to  properly  cook  together.  When 
taken  out  the  cans  are  swollen  from  the  evapora- 
tion of  the  moisture;  they  are  then  vented  with 
sharp  instruments  and  after  the  steam  has  escaped 


they  are  soldered,  cleaned  and  labeled.  The  task 
is  thus  completed  and  the  packing  of  the  cans  into 
the  cases  alone  remains  to  be  done  before  loading 
in  cars  that  bear  the  shipments  to  the  city  markets 
or  placing  them  in  great  ocean  vessels  that  bring 
the  flags  of  all  nations  into  the  harbor  of  Los 
Angeles. 

The  development  and  expansion  of  the  South- 
ern California  Fish  Company  has  been  a  source 
of  deep  interest  to  Mr.  Ambrose,  who  appreciates 
the  value  of  the  plant  in  the  industrial  growth  of 
the  harbor  and  in  the  affording  of  profitable  em- 
ployment to  a  corps  of  intelligent  workers.  With 
such  an  industry  under  his  executive  manage- 
ment as  president  and  with  other  responsibilities 
scarcely  less  vital  in  importance,  identification 
with  public  aff^airs  might  not  be  expected  of  him, 
but  we  find  him  popular  and  prominent  in  the 
Union  League  and  in  East  Gate  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
willing  always  to  discharge  every  moral  obliga- 
tion of  citizenship,  progressive  in  his  views  con- 
cerning national  and  civic  policies,  and  keenly 
alert  to  the  importance  of  every  achievement  that 
advances  Southern  California,  truly  a  type  of  the 
class  of  young  men  notable  in  the  Los  Angeles  of 
today  and  with  the  dominant  qualities  of  manhood 
that  prepare  for  the  great  city  of  the  tomorrow. 


GEORGE  C.  ENGLAND.  Ever  since  child- 
hood George  C.  England  of  Inglewood,  Cal.,  has 
been  interested  in  the  raising  of  chickens.  He  has 
realized  his  ambition  and  is  now  a  poultry  expert, 
an  authority  on  egg  production  and  one  of  the 
few  men  to  use  successfully  the  trap  nest  system. 
When  he  started  in  his  present  business  he  sold 
his  eggs  from  a  small  basket ;  now  he  delivers 
them  in  Los  Angeles  in  case  lots  from  his  own 
automobile. 

Mr.  England's  education  was  received  in  the 
grammar  schools  of  Lynn  county.  Mo.,  where  he 
was  bom  in  February,  1888.  At  the  age  of  ten 
he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Pueblo,  Colo., 
where  he  attended  night  school  and  commenced 
his  business  life  by  entering  the  office  of  the 
Pueblo  Street  Railway,  remaining  in  their  employ 
for  five  years,  during  which  time  he  worked  his 
way  up  to  the  position  of  head  cashier.  Resign- 
ing this  position,  he  came  to  California  in  May, 
1907,  where  he  was  employed  as  bookkeeper  with 
firms  in  Los  Angeles  until  1911,  when  he  estab- 


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lished  himself  on  his  present  ranch  of  one  and 
one-half  acres  and  began  his  chicken  industry, 
which  was  the  real  interest  of  his  life. 

It  was  while  a  young  man  in  Pueblo  that  Mr. 
England  commenced  his  career  in  the  poultry 
business  with  Game  Bantams.  At  sixteen  years 
of  age  he  was  a  director  of  The  Pueblo,  Colorado, 
Poultry  Association,  and  for  four  years  edited 
The  Bantam  Department  of  the  Pacific  Poultry 
Craft  of  Los  Angeles.  He  has  written  numerous 
articles  on  poultry  care  and  has  delivered  ad- 
dresses before  poultry  breeders  and  others  at 
various  conventions,  among  them  being  his  talk 
on  Bantams  illustrated  by  specimens  of  different 
varieties,  delivered  at  the  meeting  of  the  Poultry 
Breeders'  Association  of  Southern  California 
held  December  24,  1914,  in  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce Building.  He  was  judge  on  Bantams  at 
the  Santa  Ana  and  Petaluma  Poultry  Shows,  and 
has  thirteen  silver  cups  and  over  one  thousand 
blue  ribbons  taken  on  Bantams.  For  fifteen  years 
he  has  raised  Game  Bantams,  having  paid  $7.50 
for  the  first  pair  and  later  as  high  as  $75  for  a 
single  bird  of  that  breed.  In  the  summer  of  1914 
he  sold  his  entire  flock  of  Bantams  in  order  to 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  the  Utility  Breed  of 
White  Leghorns. 

When  he  bought  his  present  ranch  it  was  Mr. 
England's  intention  to  develop  an  up-to-date, 
sanitary  chicken  ranch,  and  in  this  he  has  suc- 
ceeded. His  White  Leghorn  flock  has  increased 
gradually  from  1911  when  he  hatched  six 
hundred  chickens;  the  next  year  he  had  thirteen 
hundred,  in  1914  two  thousand,  and  his  aim  for 
1915  is  to  have  three  thousand.  Mr.  England  trap 
nests  one  hundred  hens  each  year  to  determine  the 
laying  qualities,  with  the  satisfactory  result  that 
one  of  his  flock  has  made  the  wonderful  record 
of  two  hundred  and  forty-two  eggs  in  a  year,  her 
pullets  also  making  records  in  laying.  Twelve 
Jubilee  Incubators  are  used  by  Mr.  England,  of 
five  thousand  egg  capacity;  four  modern  chicken 
houses,  each  16x200  feet,  divided  into  twenty-foot 
sections,  and  keeping  one  hundred  birds  to  a  flock. 
The  brooder  house,  which  is  12x130  feet  in  dimen- 
sions, contains  six  sections,  is  heated  by  gas  and 
provided  with  sanitary  feeding  pens  and  auto- 
matic fountains,  everything  being  modern  and 
complete.  He  has  worked  a  long  time  on  experi- 
mental feeds,  and  uses  now  a  mash  feed  of  his 
own  invention. 


Mr.  England  is  a  member  of  the  Poultrymen's 
Co-operative  Association  of  Los  Angeles  and  has 
been  a  director  in  the  Poultry  Breeders'  Associa- 
tion for  five  years  and  state  vice-president  of  the 
National  Bantam  Association  three  years.  He 
married  Miss  Blanche  Phillips,  who  was  born  in 
Ohio  but  was  brought  up  in  California  from  in- 
fancy, and  they  have  one  child,  Dorothy  E.  Eng- 
land. 


MRS.  MARY  JANE  KEITH  HYATT. 
Descended  from  a  long  line  of  soldier  ancestry 
on  both  sides  of  her  family,  Mrs.  Keith  Hyatt 
has  inherited  all  the  splendid  patriotism  of  her 
forebears,  with  its  attendant  love  for  her  coun- 
try and  its  flag,  the  breadth  of  sympathy  and 
love  for  humanity  which  has  made,  and  is  still 
making,  her  a  power  in  the  lives  of  hundreds  of 
the  old  Boys  in  Blue,  who  owe  many  a  thought- 
ful kindness  to  her  tender  ministrations.  The 
family  of  which  she  is  a  worthy  daughter 
originated  in  Scotland  and  descends  in  a  direct 
line  from  the  illustrious  Marshall  Keith.  Those 
who  migrated  to  America  have  kept  up  the 
fame  of  the  ancient  name  and  have  been  promi- 
nent in  social  and  commercial  life  and  in  the 
service  of  their  new  country.  Mrs.  Hyatt  is 
the  daughter  of  William  and  Christian  (Smith) 
Keith,  her  mother  being  a  sister  of  Capt.  James 
Smith,  of  the  Chicago  Light  Artillery,  the  Home 
Guards,  of  Civil  War  fame.  The  head  of  this 
particular  branch  of  the  Smith  family  was  for 
many  years  George  Smith,  a  successful  banker 
and  railroad  man  of  Chicago,  and  an  influential 
member  of  the  Reform  Club  of  Pall  Mall,  Lon- 
don. He  was  a  man  of  splendid  abiHty 
and  gained  thereby  an  unusual  degree  of  suc- 
cess, being  for  many  years  a  notable  figure  in 
the  aifairs  of  Chicago.  He  erected  the  third 
house,  started  the  first  lumber  yard  and  the  first 
bank  of  that  city. 

The  girlhood  of  Mrs.  Hyatt  was  spent  in 
Chicago,  where  she  received  the  best  educa- 
tional advantages  that  the  period  offered.  Her 
marriage  with  Capt.  C.  W.  Hyatt  occurred 
February  10.  1865,  the  bridegroom  having  ob- 
tained a  leave  of  absence  from  his  company  in 
order  to  go  to  Chicago  for  the  wedding  cere- 
mony. Of  their  union  were  born  two  sons, 
George  Smith  and  Chauncey  Alanson  Hyatt,  of 
whom  George  S.  died  in  infancy.     Mrs.  Hyatt 


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has  also  reared  and  educated  two  children; 
Claude  A.  Wilbur,  the  son  of  a  veteran,  is  now 
himself  a  veteran  of  the  Spanish-American  War 
and  a  respected  resident  of  Nebraska.  The 
other  child  whom  Mrs.  Hyatt  raised  was 
Louise  Maude,  now  the  wife  of  Mr.  Briggs  in 
Covina,  and  a  business  man  of  Camp  Rincon,  Cal. 

Mrs.  Hyatt  is  noted  throughout  the  state  ot 
California  for  her  splendid  services  in  fraternal 
work  and  in  the  various  organizations  connect- 
ed with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  the 
several  auxiliaries  and  associate  organizations. 
In  the  work  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  she 
has  been  especially  prominent  for  many  years. 
She  assisted  in  the  organization  of  two 
branches  of  this  order  in  Fremont,  Neb.,  and 
also  aided  in  the  organization  of  the  Ladies  of 
the  G.  A.  R.  in  the  same  town.  In  both  of 
these  organizations  she  is  past-president  and 
department  aide,  and  fqr  two  years  she  served 
as  chairman  of  the  council  of  administration. 
Upon  coming  to  Los  Angeles  Mrs.  Hyatt  at 
once  associated  herself  with  the  same  line  of 
work  in  this  city  and  within  a  very  short  time 
was  accredited  as  one  of  the  leading  women  in 
the  city  in  Grand  Army  circles.  She  organized 
two  tents  of  the  Daughters  of  Veterans,  and  in 
Los  Angeles  she  officiated  as  president  of  the 
Ladies  of  the  G.  A.  R.  She  is  a  member  of 
Stanton  Corps,  having  joined  in  1897,  and  was 
chairman  of  the  relief  committee  for  seven 
years,  having  served  under  seven  different 
presidents.  She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans.  Rosecrans 
Camp,  which  she  has  served  as  senior  vice- 
president,  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  relief 
committee. 

In  addition  to  her  great  interest  in  the  work 
of  the  Grand  Army  and  its  various  auxiliaries, 
Mrs.  Hyatt  is  also  prominent  in  fraternal 
circles.  She  is  past  lady-commander  of  Hive 
No.  1,  Ladies  of  the  Maccabees  of  the  World, 
and  is  identified  with  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood 
and  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters ;  also 
a  member  of  the  Degree  of  Honor,  an  auxiliary 
of  the  Ancient  Order  United  Workmen  of 
Fremont,  Neb.  The  State  Grand  Coun- 
cilor of  Chosen  Friends  conferred  upon  her 
a  justly  deserved  honor  by  appointing  her 
past-councilor  in  recognition  of  meritorious 
services  rendered  this  splendid  order.  This 
appointment  was  made  in  her  own  lodge  and 


also  in  the  various  lodges  of  the  state,  the 
tribute  thus  paid  to  her  successful  work  being 
called  to  the  attention  of  all  members  of  this 
order  in  the  state.  National  work  of  a  high 
order  has  also  come  to  Mrs.  Hyatt  through  her 
faithful  discharge  of  the  smaller  duties  that 
fell  to  her  lot.  For  two  years  she  was  assistant 
national  instituting  and  installing  officer  of  the 
Ladies  of  the  Union  Veterans'  Legion,  and  also 
president  and  treasurer  of  this  order  in  Los 
Angeles. 

The  patriotism  of  this  splendid  woman  is  a 
constant  prayer  for  the  privilege  of  service  and 
is  a  benediction  to  all  who  come  within  the 
radius  of  her  influence.  She  devotes  much  time 
to  visiting  the  sick,  especially  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  old  soldiers,  sending  them  to  the 
Soldiers'  Home,  or  to  the  hospital.  There  is 
no  service  which  she  may  render  these  old 
"comrades"  that  she  does  not  accept  as  a  privi- 
lege and  discharge  with  true  inward  thankful- 
ness. All  who  come  in  contact  with  her  daily 
life  and  her  work  feel  the  impulse  of  patriotism 
of  a  high  order,  and  go  forth  to  serve  more 
willingly  a'nd  loyally. 

Mrs.  Hyatt's  son,  Chauncey  Alanson  Hyatt, 
received  his  education  in  military  schools.  He 
first  attended  the  Harvard  Military  Academy 
in  Los  Angeles  for  eight  years,  starting  when  he 
was  only  eight  years  old,  then  was  for  a 
year  at  a  military  school  at  Coronado,  later 
going  to  Lexington,  Mo.,  where  he  graduated 
from  the  Wentworth  Military  Academy  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  years.  About  this  time  U.  S. 
Senator  Frank  P.  Flint  appointed  him  for 
West  Point.  Shortly  after  this  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Grace  Booth,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  one  child,  a  daughter,  Mary 
Jane,  so  named  in  honor  of  her  paternal  grand- 
mother. Major  Hyatt  is  associated  with  the 
Theodore  Neilson  Company  on  South  Hill 
street,  their  home  being  in  the  city.  The 
daughter,  Mary  Jane,  is  the  pride  and  delight 
of  her  grandmother's  heart,  and  already  Mrs. 
Hyatt  has  taught  her  the  true  patriotism.  For 
the  past  two  years  these  two  have  gone  to- 
gether to  decorate  the  graves  of  the  soldier 
dead  on  Decoration  Day,  the  tiny  fingers  plac- 
ing the  flowers  on  the  mounds  that  cover  the 
men  who  fought  to  defend  the  honor  of  the 
flag  in  days  long  past,  while  the  grandmother 
tells  the  child  tales  of  honor  and  integrity  and 


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man  at  Fullerton,  Orange  county;  and  Lucas  B., 
living  at  Hollywood.  The  other  children,  two 
sons,  Frank  and  William,  are  both  deceased. 

Mrs.  Hoyt  is  a  wonderful  old  lady,  full  of  the 
grace  and  charm  that  have  made  the  women  of 
her  family  famous  in  history  for  many  genera- 
tions. Her  reminiscences  of  her  own  life  are 
filled  with  keen  interest,  sparkling  wit  and  subtle 
humor,  as  are  also  the  stories  she  delights  to  tell 
of  her  distinguished  forbears. 


JOACHIM  H.  F.  JARCHOW.  The  life 
history  of  a  self-made  man  is  always  full  of  in- 
terest, and  when  there  is  added  to  such  a  story 
the  fact  that  he  came,  poor  and  alone,  to  our 
shores,  and  carved  out  for  himself  a  name  and 
a  place  in  the  modern  civilization  of  the  West, 
keeping  for  many  years  well  in  advance  of  the 
westward  progress  of  immigration,  and  being 
a  pioneer  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word,  the 
tale  becomes  doubly  interesting  and  valuable. 
Such  an  one  as  this  is  Joachim  H.  F.  Jarchow, 
of  San  Gabriel,  where  he  has  made  his  home 
for  almost  forty  years,  being  an  important 
factor  in  the  growth  and  development  of  what 
is  now  one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  productive 
portions  of  this  great  state,  but  which  was  at 
that  time  mostly  waste  land.  It  is  more  than 
sixty  years  since  he  first  came  to  American 
shores,  arriving  in  New  York  with  one  lone 
dollar  in  his  possession,  one-half  of  which  he 
spent  for  his  first  breakfast  in  the  strange  land. 
From  such  an  inauspicious  beginning  he  has 
climbed  surely  and  steadily  upward,  by  the 
force  of  his  industry,  integrity  and  application, 
and  now,  in  his  declining  years,  he  is  enjoying 
the  fruits  of  these  many  years  of  application  and 
honest  efifort,  at  his  attractive  home  at  Mis- 
sion Road  and  Main  street,  San  Gabriel,  where 
amid  his  orange  groves  and  flowers,  surrounded 
by  friends  and  neighbors,  the  days  go  swiftly 
by. 

Mr.  Jarchow  is  a  native  of  Germany,  having 
been  born  in  the  northern  portion  of  the  em- 
pire, some  fifty  miles  from  Hamburg,  January 
13,  1825.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  at  an 
early  age  learned  to  assume  his  share  of  the 
farm  duties,  aiding  with  such  tasks  as  milking 
the  cows  when  he  was  but  a  very  small  boy. 
When  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  his  father 


died  and  he  was  then  obliged  to  assume  a  part 
of  the  responsibility  for  the  support  of  a  family 
of  seven  all  younger  than  himself.  He  re- 
mained on  the  farm  until  he  was  nearly  thirty 
years  of  age,  when  he  determined  to  seek 
greater  opportunities  in  America,  and  on  October 
20,  1853,  he  set  sail  from  Hamburg  on  a  sailing 
vessel,  three  months  being  consumed  in  the  jour- 
ney to  New  York,  where  he  arrived  January  10, 
1854.  There  Mr.  Jarchow  met  a  friend  who  sup- 
plied him  with  transportation  to  Bufifalo,  where 
he  secured  employment  cutting  wood.  Later  he 
found  work  on  a  small  farm,  receiving  $10  a 
month  and  his  board  for  milking  the  cows,  tend- 
ing stock,  and  caring  for  the  farm  generally.  The 
second  year  his  wages  were  raised  to  $12  per 
month.  His  next  employment  was  on  a  large 
ranch,  milking  twenty  or  more  cows  daily. 
Finally  tiring  of  this  employment  he  went  to  Still- 
water, Minn.,  where  for  a  year,  1856-57,  he 
worked  in  a  lumber  yard,  also  taking  up  a  claim 
of  government  land.  Subsequently  he  left  with 
his  three  brothers  for  a  point  twenty  miles  below 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  they  engaged  in  cutting 
wood.  The  Civil  war  then  being  in  progress  and 
the  trend  of  the  fighting  being  in  their  direction, 
the  brothers  determined  to  return  north,  and  ac- 
cordingly made  their  way  back  to  Minnesota, 
where  they  again  took  up  farming  on  their  gov- 
ernment claims.  They  owned  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres,  which  they  cleared  and  improved, 
and  engaged  in  farming  and  raising  stock,  prin- 
cipally cows.  They  were  among  the  first  settlers 
in  that  locality  and  were  in  every  sense  of  the 
word  genuine  pioneers,  blazing  the  trails  for  the 
civilization  that  came  after  them. 

It  was  in  1876  that  Mr.  Jarchow  finally  came  to 
California.  Tales  of  the  splendid  opportunities 
to  be  found  in  the  great  southwest  were  continu- 
ally told,  then  as  now,  and  finally  he  determined 
to  find  out  for  himself.  Accordingly  he  sold  his 
Minnesota  lands  and  set  his  face  toward  the  Pa- 
cific, arriving  in  San  Gabriel  on  February  28  of 
that  same  year.  At  first  he  rented  a  small  tract, 
but  soon  purchased  his  present  home  place  of  ten 
acres,  then  all  raw  land.  This  he  at  once  com- 
menced to  improve,  planting  it  to  orange  trees, 
and  generally  beautifying  it  for  a  home  place. 
He  has  been  very  successful  in  his  orange  cul- 
ture and  is  one  of  the  best  informed  men  in  this 
line  in  the  valley.  In  an  early  day  he  sold  his 
oranges  for  as  high  as  $5  per  box,  and  at  one  sea- 


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son  he  took  the  prize  at  the  Pasadena  fair,  this  be- 
ing a  gold  medal,  and  the  only  one  awarded.  Many 
other  medals  also  have  been  awarded  to  Mr. 
Jarchow  at  other  orange  fairs  and  exhibits,  all 
of  which  he  has  taken  an  especial  pride  in. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  grange  in  an  early  day, 
and  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  the  af- 
fairs of  the  community,  being  progressive  and 
wide  awake  on  all  questions  of  public  welfare, 
and  standing  always  firmly  on  the  side  of  right 
and  progress.  The  water  interests  of  his  dis- 
trict have  also  received  his  active  and  intelligent 
support  and  he  has  aided  materially  in  many 
ways  in  the  development  of  the  present  system. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  water  superin- 
tendent for  his  district.  Educational  matters 
also  have  claimed  their  share  of  the  ability  and 
time  of  this  hardy  pioneer,  and  he  has  served 
his  school  district  very  capably  as  a  member 
of  the  board  of  school  trustees. 

Mr.  Jarchow  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Miss  Sophia  Bruck,  their  mar- 
riage being  solemnized  in  1862,  in  Minnesota. 
Her  death  occurred  at  San  Gabriel  in  1900. 
Two  years  later,  also  in  San  Gabriel,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mrs.  Johanna  Kretsch- 
mer,  the  widow  of  Otto  Kretschmer  and  the 
daughter  of  Henry  Lahl.  Mrs.  Jarchow  was 
born  in  Germany  and  came  to  the  United  States 
February  16,  1882.  Although  now  almost 
ninety  years  of  age  Mr.  Jarchow  is  still  active 
and  interested  in  all  that  concerns  the  welfare 
of  the  community. 


ARTHUR  M.  HARRISON.  The  success  of 
Mr.  Harrison  in  the  line  of  chicken  farming  is  a 
good  example  of  what  can  be  done  on  a  small 
piece  of  ground  in  Southern  California  by  a  man 
with  no  previous  experience  in  that  direction. 
Arthur  M.  Harrison  is  a  booster  for  Van  Nuys, 
the  California  town  where  he  has  established  his 
ranch  of  five  acres,  where  besides  the  raising  of 
poultry  he  has  interested  himself  in  fruit  culture, 
having  set  out  on  his  property  three  hundred  trees 
of  peaches,  apricots  and  walnuts. 

A  native  of  New  Brunswick,  Mr.  Harrison  was 
born  March  10,  1871,  and  received  a  business 
education,  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  leaving 
school,  after  which  he  followed  a  mercantile  life 
for  a  number  of  years,  in  1893  removing  to 
Chicago,  where  he  soon  secured  employment  in  a 


bank,  his  association  with  the  banks  of  Chicago 
continuing  thereafter  for  a  period  of  fifteen  years. 
Ill  health  caused  him  to  leave  that  city  for  Cali- 
fornia, and  in  1910  he  came  to  this  state,  settling 
in  Monrovia,  where  he  remained  one  year,  there 
making  his  start  in  the  poultry  business  with  a 
flock  of  five  hundred  White  Leghorns.  In  July, 
1911,  he  moved  to  Van  Nuys,  Cal.,  where  he  pur- 
chased his  present  property  of  five  acres,  and  in- 
creased the  number  of  his  flock  which  now  com- 
prises fifteen  hundred  laying  hens  of  the  White 
Leghorn  strain,  and  ships  his  eggs  to  Los  Angeles 
twice  a  week.  Mr.  Harrison  has  met  with  success 
in  his  new  venture,  profits  for  the  year  1914 
amounting  to  $1500,  or  $2  apiece  from  seven  hun- 
dred and  fifty  laying  hens.  Every  two  years  he 
turns  off  stock,  thus  using  only  young  hens,  and 
it  is  his  aim  to  raise  one  thousand  pullets  yearly. 
The  three  chicken  houses,  15x180  feet,  upon  his 
property,  were  built  by  Mr.  Harrison  himself,  and 
he  operates  three  Jubilee  Incubators  of  five  hun- 
dred capacity  each. 

Mr.  Harrison  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  Van  Nuys,  the  Federation  of  Poul- 
trymen  of  Southern  California  and  the  Van  Nuys, 
Owensmouth  and  Marion  Fruit  Growers'  and 
Canners'  Association.  He  was  married  in  Mon- 
rovia, July  28,  1910,  to  LiOian  M.  Davis,  a  native 
of  Lockport,  111. 


JAMES  CONNER.  Situated  in  the  midst  of 
a  fine  lemon  grove  of  twelve  and  one-half  acres 
is  the  pretty  California  home  of  James  Conner, 
in  the  little  city  of  Glendale  among  the  foothills, 
and  on  his  estate  range  the  Brown  Swiss  and 
Jersey  cattle  which  comprise  the  sanitary  farm 
dairy  of  which  Mr.  Conner  is  the  owner  and 
proprietor.  A  native  of  County  Antrim,  Ireland, 
where  he  was  born  March  28,  1874,  Mr.  Conner 
came  to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
years,  and  his  experience  since  that  time  has  been 
entirely  in  the  dairy  business,  so  that  he  is  emi- 
nently fitted  for  the  management  of  his  California 
farm,  the  milk  from  which  is  recommended  by 
[ihysicians  especially  for  use  by  invalids  and 
infants. 

In  his  early  life  Mr.  Conner  was  engaged  in  the 
dairy  business  near  Stamford,  Conn.,  being  one 
of  the  first  to  supply  the  famous  Gail  Borden  with 
milk  for  his  Eagle  Brand  of  condensed  milk.  From 
tbnnecticut    Mr.   Conner   went   to    Birmingham, 


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back  for  many  centuries  and  well  known  in  the 
Fatherland  as  noted  tobacco  importers.  Mrs. 
Hayward  bore  her  husband  three  children,  two 
daughters  and  one  son,  Charles,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-five  years.  Ruth  is  the  wife  of 
Jesse  J.  Tilley,  a  business  man  of  Los  Angeles, 
while  Ray  is  married  to  William  Ergman,  an 
employe  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  Both  daugh- 
ters are  well  known  in  Los  Angeles,  where  they 
have  resided  for  many  years.  Since  the  death 
of  her  husband  Mrs.  Hayward  has  continued  to 
make  her  home  in  Los  Angeles,  where  she  has 
many  friends. 


JOHN  C.  STICK.  One  of  the  leading  young 
attorneys  of  Los  Angeles  today  is  John  C.  Stick, 
whose  oiifices  are  in  the  Wesley  Roberts  building, 
where  he  conducts  a  large  and  growing  practice. 
Mr.  Stick  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  California 
in  1908  and  at  once  commenced  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  met  with 
much  deserved  success.  He  is  attorney  for  a 
number  of  prominent  corporations  and  business 
firms  and  makes  a  specialty  of  corporation  and 
probate  law.  Mr.  Stick  started  his  business  career 
as  a  school  teacher,  following  this  hne  of  occu- 
pation while  he  pursued  his  legal  studies.  In 
this  way  he  not  only  made  his  way  to  the  goal  of 
his  desire,  but  also  garnered  much  valuable  in- 
formation about  human  nature  by  the  way. 

A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Stick  was  born 
in  Hanover,  January  29,  1883,  the  son  of  W.  C. 
and  Lamanda  (Rohrbaugh)  Stick,  who  now  re- 
side in  Manchester,  Md.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Manchester, 
Md.,  attending  there  from  1889  to  1897.  When 
he  was  fourteen  years  of  age  he  entered  Glenville 
Academy,  at  Glenville,  Pa.,  where  he  continued 
until  1900,  when  he  entered  St.  John's  College, 
at  Annapolis,  Md.,  graduating  in  the  class  of 
1904  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  He  then  taught 
school  in  New  York  and  Pennsylvania  during 
1904,  1905  and  1906,  after  which  the  came  to  Cali- 
fornia. Here  he  completed  his  law  studies  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  the  state  of  Arizona,  on  motion,  May  5, 
1915,  and  to  the  United  States  District  court  and 
United  States  Circuit  Court  February  10,  1908. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Stick  was  solemnized  in 
South  Pasadena,  June  1,  1911,  the  bride  of  his 
choice  being  Miss  Ethyl  B.  Kohl,  the  daughter  of 


Martin  Kohl,  of  that  city.  Of  their  union  one 
son  has  been  born,  John  C.  Stick,  Jr.,  born  in 
1912.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stick  have  many 
friends  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity.  Mr.  Stick 
is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  is  also  a  Mason.  In  pohtics  he  is  a 
Republican  and  is  taking  a  keen  interest  in  local 
affairs  and  stands  high  in  party  confidence. 


THOMAS  A.  SMITH.  Although  himself  a 
native  of  Missouri,  Thomas  A.  Smith,  esteemed 
citizen  of  Azusa,  and  resident  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia for  almost  forty  years,  is  the  descendant 
of  an  ancient  German  line  of  ancestry,  his 
father  being  a  native  of  the  Fatherland.  Mr. 
Smith  has  resided  at  various  points  in  Southern 
California  since  making  this  state  his  home,  and 
is  well  known  for  his  religious  work,  having  been 
associated  with  the  Holiness  church  for  many 
years,  and  being  at  this  time  pastor  of  a  church 
of  that  denomination  in  Pasadena.  His  father, 
Conrad  A.  Smith,  emigrated  from  the  land  of  his 
birth  to  the  United  States  in  1834,  going  first  to 
St.  Louis,  and  later  to  Warrenton,  Warren 
county.  Mo.,  where  he  established  himself  in 
business,  and  where  the  son,  Thomas  A.,  was 
born.  The  elder  Smith  was  a  pioneer  of  Warren- 
ton, engaging  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business 
there,  and  conducting  this  enterprise  with 
success  for  more  than  forty  years.  He  occupied 
a  place  of  prominence  in  the  town,  being  elected 
mayor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  three  times,  and 
he  served  the  public  welfare  in  other  ways  also.  He 
married  Rhoda  Davis,  of  Missouri,  a  first  cousin 
of  the  late  Bishop  E.  M.  Marvin,  a  celebrated 
divine  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South. 
She  died  in  1844,  leaving  two  children.  The  second 
marriage  of  Mr.  Smith  united  him  with  Miss 
Polly  Chiles,  a  native  of  Alabama,  who  passed 
away  in  1877,  leaving  three  children:  Rhoda, 
now  deceased ;  Phoebe  M.,  now  Mrs.  William 
Roberts,  of  Azusa ;  and  Thomas  A. 

Thomas  A.  Smith  was  born  in  Warrenton, 
Warren  county.  Mo.,  April  11,  1853.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  his  native  city,  where  he  re- 
ceived a  good  education,  first  in  the  public  schools 
and  later  he  attended  Central  Wesleyan  College 
for  four  years.  Lender  his  father  he  learned  the 
boot  and  shoe  trade,  becoming  a  skilled  workman, 
and  later  also  mastered  the  trade  of  tobacconist. 


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became  a  capable  photographer  and  also  a  tele- 
graph operator.  His  principal  occupation,  how- 
ever, was  in  the  boot  and  shoe  line.  In  1878  he 
came  to  California,  locating  first  at  Downey,  and 
later  he  purchased  five  acres  near  Azusa  and  en- 
gaged in  his  trade  as  boot  and  shoe  maker,  in  the 
meantime  planting  his  ranch  to  oranges.  In  1881 
his  father  joined  him  and  purchased  an  additional 
ten-acre  tract,  upon  which  he  also  engaged  in 
orange  growing. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Smith  occurred  in  1875, 
at  Columbus,  Mo.,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Eva  I. 
Smith,  the  daughter  of  Rev.  L.  A.  and  Mary 
(Dickinson)  Smith,  of  that  place.  Mrs.  Smith 
has  borne  her  husband  five  children,  as  follows : 
C.  Leslie,  Delta  Cornelius,  Cornwell  E.,  Polly 
and  Guy,  all  of  whom  are  well  known  in  Azusa 
and  vicinity. 

Although  he  has  owned  property  at  Azusa  for 
many  years,  Mr.  Smith  has  not  made  his  home 
there  continuously.  In  1883  he  took  up  a  govern- 
ment claim  at  Gladstone,  improved  the  place, 
erected  a  comfortable  home,  and  there  conducted 
a  boot  and  shoe  making  business  for  some  time. 
In  1889  he  was  again  at  Azusa,  and  secured  a 
government  contract  to  carry  the  United  States 
mail  from  that  point  to  Covina,  remaining  in  this 
service  for  four  years.  In  1914  he  moved  into 
town  and  built  a  home  there,  although  he  still 
owns  his  original  orange  grove,  which  now  num- 
bers ten  acres,  all  in  bearing  trees. 

In  his  religious  associations  Mr.  Smith  has  for 
many  years  been  a  member  of  the  Holiness 
Church.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  elder  and 
recorder  of  the  branch  at  Azusa,  and  later  became 
pastor  of  the  Pasadena  church. 


ALFRED  GUIDO  RUDOLPH  SCHLOES- 
SER.  Castles  in  Spain  and  other  countries  of 
Europe  are  not  the  only  magnificent  homes  pre- 
serving ancestral  interests ;  for  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Dr.  A.  G.  R.  Schloesser,  who  comes  from 
a  prominent  German  family  and  whose  ancestors 
frequented  the  royal  court  of  that  country,  has 
built  for  himself  two  castles  in  the  city  of  Holly- 
wood, where  the  snow-capped  mountains  and 
blue  sky  form  perhaps  as  beautiful,  if  not  as 
historic,  a  setting  as  the  storied  rivers  and  moun- 
tain fastnesses  of  European  countries.     Here  in 


his  Castle  Sans  Souci,  which  is  built  in  Tudor- 
Gothic  style  and  contains  a  baronial  hall  and  a 
Louis  XV  drawing  room,  Flemish-Gothic  dining 
room  and  Louis  XVI  bed  chamber,  the  castle 
entrance  guarded  by  two  lions  of  Carrara  marble 
one  hundred  and  fifty  years  old,  which  formerly 
guarded  the  palace  of  the  Doges  at  Venice,  Italy, 
and  now  upholds  the  Schloesser  coat-of-arms, 
Dr.  Schloesser  has  collected  a  great  number  of 
valuable  paintings,  carvings  and  statuary  which 
lend  to  his  home  the  interest  of  an  art  gallery,  as 
well  as  tapestries,  three  Gothic  coats  of  mail  of  the 
fifteenth  century  and  the  family  coat-of-arms 
frescoed  upon  the  ceiling  of  the  baronial  hall, 
which  endow  the  place  with  the  true  spirit  of  a 
mediaeval  castle.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  Dr. 
Schloesser  has  been  a  great  traveler,  having  made 
several  tours  of  the  world,  during  which  he  has 
been  received  by  the  royal  houses  of  different 
lands  and  has  brought  home  many  of  the  inter- 
esting foreign  souvenirs  which,  together  with 
those  handed  down  from  his  ancestors,  make  his 
home  one  of  the  most  unique  as  well  as  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  in  Southern  California. 

The  family  of  Dr.  Schloesser  has  been  promi- 
nent both  in  Germany  and  America.  A  great- 
aunt,  who  was  a  singer  of  note,  became  the  wife 
of  Count  Paul  von  Hopffgarten,  Lord  Chamber- 
lain to  Frederick  William  III  of  Prussia  and  cap- 
tain of  the  regiment  which  was  the  favorite  body- 
guard of  Emperor  William  I.  A  cousin  was  the 
well-known  General  Victor  von  Vahlkamph,  per- 
sonally decorated  by  Emperor  William  I  with  the 
Order  of  the  Iron  Cross,  who  in  the  siege  of  Paris 
in  1871  served  under  Field  Marshal  Count  von 
Moltke,  who  was  related  by  marriage  to  the 
family  of  Dr.  Schloesser.  Though  of  noble  line- 
age on  both  sides  of  the  house,  Dr.  Schloesser  him- 
self was  born  in  the  United  States  and  began  his 
career  with  the  ordinary  public  school  education 
of  American  children.  Chicago  was  his  birth- 
place, where  he  was  born  April  19,  1851,  the  son 
of  Rudolph  and  Amalia  (Hoffmann)  Schloesser, 
his  mother  belonging  to  the  von  Groppe  family  of 
high  standing  in  Germany,  and  his  uncle,  Francis 
A.  Hoffmann,  serving  as  lieutenant-governor  of 
Illinois  during  the  Civil  war.  The  early  education 
of  Dr.  Schloesser  was  received  in  the  public 
schools  of  Chicago  and  the  Select  High  School  of 
Prof.  C.  J.  Belleke,  and  he  continued  his  educa- 
tion at  Concordia  College,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  and 


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NORMAN  BRIDGE,  M.  D.  With  one  of 
the  earliest  colonies  seeking  religious  freedom  in 
the  new  world  there  came  from  England  to 
Massachusetts  in  1632  an  earnest  Puritan,  Deacon 
John  Bridge.  Commanding  force  of  character  is 
indicated  by  his  successful  efforts  in  saving  the 
settlement  of  Cambridge  when  Hooker  seceded 
to  Connecticut  in  1636,  while  his  faith  in  the  value 
of  educational  institutions  appears  in  his  labors 
in  behalf  of  Harvard  College  and  his  gratifying 
success  in  planting  that  university  in  his  home 
town.  On  Cambridge  Common  may  now  be  seen 
a  bronze  statue  of  the  Deacon,  in  the  garb  of  a 
Puritan,  the  work  of  the  well-known  artists.  T.  R. 
and  M.  S.  Gould,  and  erected  in  1882.  One  of 
the  inscriptions  on  the  monument  reads  as  fol- 
lows :  "This  Puritan  helped  to  establish  here 
church,  school  and  representative  government, 
and  thus  to  plant  a  Christian  commonwealth." 
Another  inscription  on  the  monument  is :  "They 
that  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  renew  their 
strength."  As  might  have  been  expected  of  a 
man  so  loyal  to  his  adopted  country,  so  stanch 
in  his  religious  convictions  and  so  earnest  in  edu- 
cational affairs,  he  gave  to  the  nation  descendants 
of  true  value  in  citizenship,  men  of  fine  minds 
and  brave  hearts,  and  women  whose  gentle  virtues 
made  blessed  their  homes.  Among  the  most 
noted  of  these  descendants  was  Col.  Ebenezer 
Bridge,  an  officer  in  the  Revolution  and  a  man 
who  commanded  his  forces  gallantly  and  success- 
fully through  the  most  arduous  campaigns  and  in 
the  most  sanguinary  engagements. 

In  the  sixth  generation  of  descent  from  Deacon 
John  came  James  Madison  Bridge,  whose  life 
of  earnest  struggle  to  maintain  his  family  by  the 
tilling  of  the  soil  merited  a  greater  financial  rec- 
ompense than  was  his  to  enjoy.  For  years  he 
lived  on  a  small  and  rocky  farm  a  few  miles  from 
the  village  of  Windsor  in  the  Vermont  hills,  and 
on  that  unproductive  tract  he  managed  to  earn 
the  necessities  for  wife  and  children,  three  in 
number.  The  elder  son,  Edward,  became  a  soldier 
in  the  Fifty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry  during  the  Civil 
war,  was  injured  at  Shiloh,  but  recovered  and 
participated  in  many  later  important  battles, 
finally  dying  near  the  end  of  his  period  of  service. 
The  youngest  child,  a  daughter,  is  now  Mrs. 
Susan  B.  Hatch,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  The 
second  son,  Norman,  was  bom  on  the  little 
Vermont  farm  December  30,  1844,  and  accom- 
panied the  family  to  Illinois  in  1856,  settling  near 


Malta,  De  Kalb  county,  on  an  undeveloped  tract 
of  land  destitute  of  fence  or  buildings  or  im- 
provements of  any  kind.  The  struggle  for  a 
living,  that  had  been  so  keen  in  Vermont,  seemed 
scarcely  less  severe  in  those  early  days  of  Illinois 
life,  and  the  sons  gave  up  hope  of  schooling  in 
order  that  they  might  lighten  the  burden  for  their 
parents.  The  father  died  in  1879,  but  the  mother, 
who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Nancy  Ann  Bagley, 
survived  him  for  many  years,  passing  away  in 
1903  at  a  very  advanced  age. 

Without  any  collegiate  or  university  advan- 
tages and  lacking  even  academy  advantages, 
Norman  Bridge  left  high  school  and  during  the 
winter  of  1862-63  taught  a  country  school,  while 
in  1864  he  was  a  postoffice  clerk  at  Sycamore  and 
in  1865  a  fire  insurance  agent  in  Grundy  county. 
Meanwhile  he  had  studied  Latin  and  Greek  for 
two  years  and  had  taken  up  a  course  in  medicine 
through  private  study.  During  1866-67  he  at- 
tended the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan  and  in  1868  he  was  graduated  from 
the  Northwestern  University  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  The  same  degree  was  conferred  upon  him 
by  Rush  Medical  College  in  1879,  and  in  1889  he 
received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  Lake  Forest 
College.  With  the  spirit  of  self-help  manifest  in 
his  character  from  boyhood  he  devoted  his  vaca- 
tion months  to  the  harvesting  and  the  threshing 
of  grain  on  the  farm  of  his  father  near  Malta. 
Immediately  after  graduation  he  became  an  in- 
structor in  medicine.  It  seems  little  short  of  re- 
markable that  from  1868  to  the  present  time  his 
name  has  appeared  as  member  of  the  faculty  of 
some  medical  college,  first  for  two  years  with  his 
alma  mater,  then  for  three  years  with  the 
Woman's  Medical  College  of  Chicago,  and  since 
early  in  1874  with  the  Rush  Medical  College  (now 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Chicago),  in  which  he  is  now  emeritus  professor 
of  medicine.  For  nearly  twenty  years  he  was  an 
attending  physician  in  Cook  county  hospital  and 
in  the  Presbyterian  hospital  of  Chicago.  His 
first  position  in  Rush  came  as  the  result  of  a 
contest  in  lecturing  before  the  faculty  and 
students.  At  that  time  medical  colleges  were  on 
a  low  plane  of  professional  service.  Conditions 
of  admission  were  very  low  and  only  two  courses 
of  lectures  were  required  for  graduation.  The 
trustees  were  mostly  members  of  the  faculty. 
Realizing  the  great  need  of  improvement.  Dr. 
Bridge  devoted  himself  strenuously  to  the  secur- 


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ing  of  longer  courses,  higher  standards,  more 
laboratory  work  and  university  connection.  As  a 
result  of  his  progressive  policy  Rush,  now  a 
department  of  the  great  University  of  Chicago, 
has  a  course  of  study  formidable  in  comparison 
with  that  of  the  70s,  and  the  graduates  are  far 
better  qualified  for  success  than  those  of  the 
earlier  period.  Both  professional  men  and  the 
general  public  appreciate  the  importance  of  the 
change. 

Through  the  decade  of  the  '80s  Dr.  Bridge 
accepted  appointive  public  office  for  seven  years, 
first  as  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Educa- 
tion for  three  years  and  afterward  as  the  Repub- 
lican election  commissioner  for  four  years.  Each 
political  appointment  came  as  a  surprise  and 
without  solicitation.  Carter  Harrison,  Sr.,  ten- 
dered him  the  appointment  to  the  school  board 
and  Judge  Richard  Prendergast  offered  him  the 
commissionership.  As  soon  as  he  had  qualified 
on  the  school  board  he  was  chosen  vice-president 
and  soon  was  raised  to  the  presidency  to  fill 
out  the  fractional  year,  after  which  he  was  elected 
for  a  full  year.  As  he  was  stanchly  Republican 
and  the  board  consisted  of  twice  as  many  Demo- 
crats as  Republicans,  it  will  be  seen  that  politics 
did  not  enter  into  his  selection,  which  was  a 
tribute  to  his  fine  mental  endowments,  his  execu- 
tive ability  and  capacity  for  leadership.  The  law 
required  that  at  least  one  member  of  the  board 
of  election  commissioners  should  be  a  Republican, 
and  he  was  selected  as  representative  of  his  party. 
The  other  two  commissioners  were  Democrats 
and  the  county  court  also  was  Democratic.  His 
first  appointment  was  for  the  fractional  part  of 
a  year.  Near  the  end  of  the  period  the  Tribune, 
the  leading  Republican  organ,  began  to  attack  his 
Republicanism  because  he  had  a  personal  friend 
who  edited  a  rival  daily.  In  one  of  its  Sunday 
issues  the  Tribune  contained  a  severe  editorial 
attack  upon  him  because  of  his  alleged  failure  to 
accomplish  a  certain  result  in  the  canvassing 
board  on  the  previous  Friday.  It  happened  that 
the  Doctor  had  most  earnestly  endeavored  to 
accomplish  the  end  desired,  but  had  been  out- 
voted, as  the  Tribune  on  Saturday  had  truthfully 
reported.  On  Monday  both  the  Daily  News  and 
the  Inter-Ocean  printed  in  parallel  paragraphs  the 
two  articles  of  Saturday  and  Sunday,  exposing 
their  inconsistency.  This  led  to  renewed  attacks 
on  the  part  of  the  Tribune  and  renewed  retorts 
from  the  other  publications,  culminating  on  Sun- 


day in  a  libel  on  the  professional  character  of  Dr. 
Bridge  on  the  part  of  the  Tribune.  Accompanied 
by  his  attorney,  the  Doctor  visited  the  editorial 
office  of  the  attacking  paper  and  held  a  restrained 
conversation  with  the  editor.  The  following 
day  an  editorial  apology  and  correction  ap- 
peared on  the  editorial  page  of  the  Tribune,  and 
at  the  end  of  his  appointive  year,  which  occurred 
during  the  week  of  the  newspaper  war,  the  county 
judge  re-appointed  the  Doctor  for  a  full  term  of 
three  years,  which  he  served  without  further 
attacks,  and  with  satisfaction  to  all  and  much 
honor  to  himself. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Bridge  in  1874  united  him 
with  Miss  Mae  Manford,  daughter  of  the  late 
Rev.  Erasmus  and  Hannah  (Bryant)  Manford, 
the  former  a  Universalist  clergyman  of  the  old 
school  for  more  than  a  half  century  and  mean- 
time a  publisher  of  various  denominational 
periodicals.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bridge  visited  Europe 
in  1889  and  1896,  and  on  both  occasions  he  visited 
the  hospitals  of  Berlin,  Vienna,  Munich,  Dresden, 
Geneva,  Strassburg,  Heidelberg  and  Erlangen.  A 
subsequent  European  trip  in  1906  was  devoted  to 
business,  leaving  no  leisure  for  professional  re- 
search. 

Considerations  of  health  caused  Dr.  Bridge  to 
remove  from  Chicago  to  Southern  California  in 
January,  1891.  For  a  time  he  made  his  home  in 
Sierra  Madre,  but  in  1894  removed  to  Pasa- 
dena, and  from  there  came  to  Los  Angeles  during 
1910.  Upon  regaining  his  health  he  resumed  his 
professional  lectures  in  Rush  Medical  College. 
From  1893  until  1900  he  continued  autumn  work 
in  the  Presbyterian  hospital,  while  the  college 
lectures  were  not  discontinued  until  1905,  but  at 
that  time,  through  pressure  of  great  and  growing 
business  responsibilities,  he  permanently  con- 
cluded college  and  hospital  work  and  lessened  his 
professional  practice.  However,  he  has  not 
wholly  withdrawn  from  medical  writing  and  his 
articles  still  appear  on  occasion  in  leading  medical 
journals.  Four  books  represent  his  contribution 
to  the  permanent  literature  of  the  period,  namely: 
The  Penalties  of  Taste,  Rewards  of  Taste,  House- 
Health  and  Tuberculosis,  the  last-named  being  a 
re-cast  of  his  college  lectures  on  the  subject. 
Associations  benefiting  by  his  membership  include 
the  following :  American  Climatological  Associa- 
tion (of  which  he  served  as  president  for  a  year)  , 
Association  of  American  Physicians,  American 
Academy  of  Medicine,  Wisconsin  Academy  of 


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Science,  Arts  and  Letters,  Los  Angeles  Academy 
of  Sciences,  Los  Angeles  County,  California  State 
and  American  Medical  Associations,  the  Union 
League,  Hamilton  and  University  Clubs  of  Chi- 
cago, Sierra  Madre  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  California,  University  and  Sunset  Clubs  of 
Los  Angeles,  Annandale  and  Midwick  Country 
Clubs. 

Throughout  all  of  his  life  Dr.  Bridge  states 
that  he  has  been  a  debtor  to  the  joy  of  work. 
With  him  a  vacation  is  a  change,  not  a  cessation, 
of  activity.  The  leisure  hours  from  professional 
labors  have  been  filled  with  some  work  for  the 
educational  welfare  of  the  community  or  for  the 
general  public  good.  For  many  years  he  has 
served  as  a  trustee  of  Throop  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute in  Pasadena,  which  he  has  seen  develop  from 
a  small  academy  into  a  college  of  technology  of 
the  highest  standard.  As  president  of  the  board 
he  has  been  a  most  efficient  contributor  to  this 
gratifying  condition.  Interest  in  education  also 
has  led  him  to  take  an  active  part  in  the  growing 
development  of  the  Los  Angeles  State  Normal 
School  and  the  other  institutions  well-known 
throughout  the  southwest.  During  1900  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  freeholders  of 
Pasadena,  which  framed  a  new  charter  for  the 
city  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  its  adoption. 

Associated  with  E.  L.  Doheny  and  the  late 
Charles  A.  Canfield,  after  1906  Dr.  Bridge  became 
a  factor  in  oil  and  gas  development.  Much  of 
his  time  is  now  devoted  to  his  large  petroleum 
interests.  At  this  writing  he  is  vice-president  and 
treasurer  of  the  Mexican  Petroleum  Company 
and  the  Huesteca  Petroleum  Company,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  American  Petroleum  Com- 
pany and  the  American  Oilfields  Company,  also 
vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the  Mexican 
National  Gas  Company.  While  many  of  the  oil 
interests  lie  in  California,  not  a  few  have  been 
connected  with  Mexico,  and  as  business  frequent- 
ly takes  him  to  that  republic,  he  has  formed  a 
number  of  warm  friendships  with  prominent  men 
of  that  country,  where  notwithstanding  the  vicis- 
situdes and  changes  in  the  government  he  has 
suffered  few  losses  aside  from  such  as  are  en- 
tailed through  temporary  cessation  of  develop- 
ment work.  The  executive  ability  of  Dr.  Bridge 
appears  in  every  professional  and  business  pur- 
suit, but  is  nowhere  more  in  evidence  than  in  liis 
oil  companies,  and  it  is  typical  of  the  singular 
breadth  of  his  achievements  that  he  should  have 


entered  an  industry  to  which  men  had  devoted 
their  entire  lives,  yet  quickly  equalled  them  in 
knowledge  of  most  intricate  affairs  and  in  judg- 
ment concerning  profitable  fields  for  oil  develop- 
ment. To  such  citizens  is  the  great  region  by 
the  western  sea  indebted  for  its  rapid  advance- 
ment in  every  line  of  endeavor  and  in  every 
worthy  department  of  human  activity. 


BRUCE  H.  CASS.  For  more  than  twenty- 
five  years  Bruce  H.  Cass  has  been  a  resident  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  throughout  that  time  he  has 
been  closely  associated  with  the  business  life  of 
the  city  and  a  prominent  factor  in  its  development 
both  commercially  and  in  matters  of  civic  prog- 
ress. He  came  first  to  the  city  in  1888.  removing 
from  Oklahoma,  where  he  had  resided  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  where  he  was  well  and 
favorably  known.  Arriving  here  he  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business  in  conjunction  with  his 
brother,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cass  Brothers 
Stove  Company.  Later  there  were  several 
changes  in  the  membership  of  the  firm  and  the 
name  has  since  been  known  as  the  Cass-Smurr- 
Damerel  Company.  Of  this  new  company  Mr. 
Cass  was  elected  president  and  as  such  has  served 
since.  The  business  of  the  concern  has  grown 
and  expanded  under  the  able  management  of  the 
president,  and  is  now  one  of  the  most  substantial 
firms  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Cass  is  a  native  of  New  York,  born  in 
Albion,  September  16,  1858  He  is  the  son  of 
P.  C.  and  Amanda  M.  (Herrick)  Cass,  both  well 
known  in  Albion.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent 
in  his  native  village,  and  later  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Missouri,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  At 
that  time  he  engaged  in  the  cattle  business,  and 
ivas  a  United  States  licensed  trader  in  the  Indian 
Territory  at  Muskogee,  South  Canadian  and  Mc- 
Alester,  from  1878  to  1888,  when  he  disposed  of 
his  interests  there  and  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  has  since  made  his  home.  In  addition  to  his 
cattle  business  Mr.  Cass  also  owned  and  operated 
a  cotton  gin  at  South  Canadian,  where  he  made 
his  home  while  trading  with  the  Indians. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Cass  occurred  in  1890  in 
Los  Angeles,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Louise  F. 
Hunter,  of  this  city.  Three  children  were  horn 
to  them,  Ruth  T.,  Clarence  H.  and  Bernice.   Both 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cass  are  popular  with  a  wide  circle 
of  friends  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Cass  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Jonathan  Club,  and  also  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  and  of  a  number  of  the  civic 
clubs  whose  special  interests  are  the  uplift  and 
general  betterment  of  local  municipal  conditions. 


HON.  LOUIS  HEATON  ROSEBERRY. 
The  genealogy  of  the  Roseberry  family  is  traced 
back  to  the  ancient  history  of  Scotland.  In  those 
far-distant  days,  when  travelers  were  few  and 
means  of  transportation  the  most  crude,  a  love  of 
adventure  and  a  desire  to  seek  larger  opportuni- 
ties led  many  of  the  name  to  establish  themselves 
in  other  portions  of  the  world.  Thus  it  happened 
that  several  centuries  ago  the  family  had  repre- 
sentatives in  the  north  of  England,  in  Wales  and 
Germany,  and  even  in  Austria.  Sir  Archibald 
Primrose,  a  leading  Scotch  representative  of  the 
name,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  in  1700,  and 
three  years  later  took  the  title  of  the  Earl  of 
Roseberry.  As  might  be  expected  of  people  so 
progressive  in  impulses,  so  fond  of  pioneering  and 
so  far-reaching  in  vision,  the  various  old-world 
branches  had  representatives  in  America  in  the 
colonial  era,  the  first  migration  to  the  new  world 
occurring  in  1740.  Intimate  identification  with 
the  material  upbuilding  of  our  country  indicated 
their  patriotic  impulses.  The  different  branches 
became  associated  with  various  sections  of  the 
continent,  the  home  of  James  Swan  and  Emma 
Jane  (Adamson)  Roseberry  being  in  Oakland, 
Cal.,  where  February  5,  1880,  occurred  the  birth 
of  their  son,  Louis  Heaton  Roseberry,  a  lifelong 
resident  of  California  and  since  the  early  part  of 
1912  an  attorney  of  Los  Angeles,  acting  as  coun- 
sel for  the  Security  Trust  &  Savings  Bank. 

Attendance  at  the  Visalia  grammar  school,  at 
the  Oakland  high  school  1896-98  and  at  the 
Leland  Stanford  University  1899-1903,  indicates 
the  educational  advantages  received  by  Mr.  Rose- 
berry, whose  degree  of  A.  B.  came  from  the  uni- 
versity and  whose  law  studies  were  also  carried 
on  for  a  considerable  period  in  that  institution. 
During  August,  1904,  he  went  to  Santa  Barbara 
and  completed  his  law  readings  in  the  office  of 
Judge  B.  F.  Thomas  and  Henley  C.  Booth,  after 
which  he  went  before  the  state  supreme  court 
for  examination.  Upon  being  admitted  to  practice 
in  December,  1904,  he  opened  an  office  at  Santa 
Barbara   and   continued   in   that   place   until   his 


removal  to  Los  Angeles.  Meanwhile  he  had  be- 
come a  local  leader  in  the  progressive  branch  of 
the  Republican  party  out  of  which  sprang  the  new 
party  organization  of  Progressives.  Through  his 
efforts  the  Progressive  Republican  League  of 
Santa  Barbara  was  established  and  became  a 
powerful  factor  in  the  overthrow  of  the  old  Re- 
publican machine  organization.  During  1908  he 
was  elected  to  represent  the  thirty-third  district 
in  the  state  senate  for  a  term  of  four  years.  The 
year  after  his  election  he  supported  Hiram  John- 
son for  governor,  taking  the  stump  and  making 
numerous  notable  speeches  in  favor  of  Pro- 
gressive principles.  For  such  work  he  was  well 
qualified  by  fluency  of  speech,  ease  of  diction  and 
eloquence  of  oratory,  attributes  that  also  have 
made  him  popular  as  a  speaker  on  the  Fourth  of 
July  and  at  Memorial  day  celebrations  as  well  as 
other  public  occasions.  Besides  serving  as  chair- 
man of  the  county  convention  he  was  a  delegate 
to  the  state  convention  that  nominated  Mr.  John- 
son for  governor. 

As  a  member  of  the  state  senate  the  record  of 
Mr.  Roseberry  was  praiseworthy.  The  number 
of  measures  which  he  promoted  indicates  his 
energy  of  action  and  keenness  of  mind.  During 
1909  he  introduced  the  Roseberry  postal  primary 
law,  later  withdrawn  in  favor  of  the  present 
primary  law,  under  which  California  nominates 
all  candidates  for  public  offices.  In  1911  he  intro- 
duced the  Roseberry  employers'  liability  law  and 
the  constitutional  amendment  (adopted  by  the 
voters  in  1911)  providing  for  civil  service  in  all 
state,  county  and  city  offices.  Through  his  efforts 
Santa  Barbara  secured  the  State  Normal  School 
of  Manual  Arts  and  Home  Economics  for  the 
training  of  teachers  in  these  branches  of  educa- 
tion, the  only  institution  of  the  kind  in  the  entire 
country.  His  record  as  state  senator  stands  in 
fee  simple  of  all  that  patriotism  means  to  him 
and  all  that  ardent  devotion  to  his  native  common- 
wealth could  inspire  in  his  efficient  services.  The 
introduction  of  a  measure  did  not  satisfy  him; 
long  and  earnestly  he  would  battle  for  its  adop- 
tion, and  neither  time  nor  influence  was  withheld 
from  its  support.  Conscientiously  he  sought  to 
promote  the  measures  beneficial  to  district  and 
state.  The  records  reveal  the  value  of  his  serv- 
ices, but  cannot  wholly  disclose  the  wide  and 
aggressive  nature  of  his  work  as  senator. 

Since  the  expiration  of  his  service  as  senator 
other  lines  of  public  duty  and  private  enterprise 


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have  secured  his  efficient  co-operation,  notably  the 
California  State  Board  of  Health,  of  which  he 
was  appointed  attorney  in  September,  1911,  for 
a  term  of  four  years.  On  removing  from  Santa 
Barbara  to  Los  Angeles  early  in  1912  he  entered 
upon  the  duties  of  attorney  for  the  Security  Trust 
&  Savings  Bank,  in  connection  with  which  he  has 
supervision  of  all  matters  connected  with  trusts, 
estates  and  legacies  handled  by  the  institution. 
Gifted  with  a  broad  mind,  he  has  been  able  to 
identify  himself  with  many  dififerent  lines  of 
activity  and  in  each  has  risen  to  influence.  This 
is  indicated  by  his  membership  for  several  years 
on  the  advisory  board  of  Success  Magazine  and 
by  his  contributions  to  the  press  of  noteworthy 
articles  concerning  social,  civic,  professional  and 
commercial  subjects.  Many  who  are  gifted  with 
the  pen  find  themselves  ill  at  ease  on  the  lecture 
platform,  but  not  so  with  Mr.  Roseberry,  who 
is  even  more  effective  with  his  oratorical  talents 
than  with  his  writings  and  whose  place  is  assured- 
ly among  the  orators  and  thinkers  of  his  day. 
Versatility  of  mind  further  appears  in  his  identifi- 
cation with  the  National  Geographic  Society,  the 
International  Peace  Society  and  the  American 
Embassy  Association,  while  social  proclivities  are 
indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  Jonathan  Club. 
Along  the  line  of  his  profession  he  is  connected 
with  the  California  Bar  Association.  Whether 
viev/ing  his  career  from  the  standpoint  of  pro- 
found knowledge  of  the  law,  valuable  service  to 
the  state  or  a  high  appreciation  of  citizenship  that 
leads  to  the  efficient  discharge  of  civic  duties,  it 
must  be  conceded  that  the  life  of  this  native  son 
has  reflected  honor  upon  the  commonwealth  and 
has  added  prestige  to  his  chosen  city  of  residence. 
With  his  wife,  who  was  Miss  Jeannette  Morton 
of  Santa  Barbara,  he  has  won  an  established  posi- 
tion in  the  most  select  social  circles  of  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles  and  has  attained  a  standing 
that  true  culture  brings.  The  long  and  honorable 
history  of  the  Roseberry  family  in  this  country 
and  on  European  soil  has  achieved  an  added  lustre 
through  his  forceful  personality  and  rising  emi- 


JOHN  MUNRO  McLEOD.  One  of  the  most 
influential  and  extensive  oil  operators  in  South- 
ern California,  and  indeed  on  the  entire  coast,  is 
John  Munro  McLeod,  who  since  1900  has  made 
his  home  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  McLeod  is  the  son 


of  a  man  whose  oil  operations  in  Canada  almost 
half  a  century  ago  were  on  an  extensive  scale, 
and  his  interest  in  this  particular  enterprise  is 
only  a  natural  one.  His  operations  in  the  Cali- 
fornia fields  have  been  more  than  ordinarily  suc- 
cessful, and  he  is  at  present  in  control  of  prob- 
ably much  more  acreage  in  the  various  producing 
localities  than  any  other  man.  He  has  made  a 
careful  and  comprehensive  study  of  conditions 
in  the  oil  industry  of  the  state,  both  commercially 
and  from  the  geological  standpoint,  and  his  phe- 
nomenal success  is  the  result  of  intelligent  appli- 
cation rather  than  the  smile  of  the  fickle  goddess 
of  Fortune. 

Mr.  McLeod  is  a  native  of  Canada,  born  in 
Stratford,  November  3,  1871.  He  is  the  son  of 
the  late  John  Munro  and  Jessie  Hunter  (Brown) 
McLeod,  both  natives  of  Scotland,  and  descended 
from  sturdy  old  Scotch  families.  The  father  was 
a  noted  railroad  builder  and  operator  in  Canada, 
and  is  well  known  throughout  the  Dominion.  He 
built  the  Grand  Trunk  Line  from  Sarnia  to 
Toronto,  and  later  went  into  the  oil  business  at 
Petrolia,  Ontario,  Canada.  He  owned  one  of  the 
first  refining  plants  in  America,  and  much  of  his 
product  was  disposed  of  to  the  Grand  Trunk 
Railway. 

The  elder  McLeod  finally  located  in  New  West- 
minster, B.  C,  and  the  young  John  Munro  re- 
ceived his  early  education  there,  completing  the 
common  grades  and  preparing  for  entrance  to 
the  high  school,  when  he  determined  to  go  into 
business  and  opened  a  mercantile  store  in  his 
home  city,  he  being  then  but  eighteen  years  of 
age.  After  a  few  years  in  this  occupation  he  dis- 
posed of  his  interests  and  went  in  for  dairying 
and  farming  in  the  region  of  New  Westminster, 
where  he  met  with  much  success  during  the  fol- 
lowing few  years.  Then  tales  of  the  golden  oppor- 
tunities offered  in  Southern  California  found 
their  way  to  the  ears  of  the  future  oil  magnate, 
and  he  again  disposed  of  his  interests,  and  in  the 
summer  of  1900  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he 
has  since  made  his  home. 

At  that  time  Los  Angeles  was  just  entering  on 
an  era  of  great  prosperity  and  real  estate  was 
exceedingly  active.  His  attention  was  at  once 
directed  to  the  possibilities  in  the  oil  industry,  and 
he  began  at  once  to  make  a  careful  investigation 
of  the  general  conditions,  and  to  watch  for  an 
opening  for  profitable  investment.  His  first  ven- 
ture was  in  the  Kern  River  field,  and  was  on  a 


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small  scale.  After  four  years  he  determined  to 
give  his  attention  to  real  estate  and  in  1904  he 
opened  a  real  estate  office  in  Los  Angeles,  operat- 
ing independently.  Later  he  organized  the  firm  of 
Winton  &  McLeod,  operating  thereafter  on  a 
large  scale.  They  opened  up  a  number  of  sub- 
divisions, platting,  improving  and  placing  on  the 
market  much  valuable  real  estate  during  the  next 
few  years.  Among  these  tracts  may  be  mentioned 
the  Calkins  Figueroa  street  tract,  the  Winton  & 
McLeod  Figueroa  street  tract,  and  the  Winton  & 
McLeod  Figueroa  street  tracts,  Nos.  2,  3,  4, 
5  and  6. 

The  holdings  of  Mr.  McLeod  and  of  the  various 
companies  at  whose  head  he  stood  at  that  time 
were  very  extensive,  and  the  money  shortage  dur- 
ing the  panic  of  1907  caused  him  to  exert  every 
possible  eiTort  to  tide  over  their  several  affairs 
without  misfortune,  and  after  the  passing  of  the 
crisis  he  withdrew  from  the  real  estate  business 
and  gave  his  attention  again  to  the  oil  industry. 
At  this  time  he  made  a  complete  survey  of  the 
California  oil  fields  in  company  with  one  of  the 
most  competent  geologists  in  the  country, 
supplementing  this  with  advice  and  information 
secured  from  the  oldest  and  most  experienced  oil 
men  in  the  state.  In  the  course  of  this  investiga- 
tion he  visited  all  the  principal  fields  of  the  state, 
including  Santa  Maria,  Kern  River,  Coalinga, 
McKittrick  and  Midway.  Later  he  invested 
heavily,  and  against  the  advice  of  many  experts, 
so-called,  secured  leases,  which  owing  to  these 
adverse  reports  he  was  unable  to  secure  money 
to  develop  and  so  was  forced  to  abandon.  Prom- 
inent among  this  list  was  forty  acres,  part  of 
what  is  now  known  as  the  Hale-McLeod  prop- 
erty. Later  Mr.  McLeod  again  secured  the  lease 
on  this  property,  together  with  additional  adjoin- 
ing property,  and  it  has  since  proved  to  be  one 
of  the  best  producing  properties  in  the  district. 
In  the  Midway  field  he  also  made  careful  in- 
vestigation, and  here  again  went  against  the  opin- 
ion of  the  majority  by  declaring  that  oil  could 
be  found  below  the  salt  water  line,  which  had 
always  been  contended  by  the  best  operators  to 
be  the  "bottom-water"  below  which  oil  would 
never  be  found.  Mr.  McLeod  is  always  ready  to 
back  his  own  judgment,  and  in  this  instance  he 
has  been  fully  justified,  for  the  wells  of  this  local- 
ity are  among  the  best  producers  in  any  field,  and 
the  stockholders  in  his  various  companies  have 


reaped  handsome  profits  on  their  several  invest- 
ments. 

Today  Mr.  McLeod  is  one  of  the  most  exten- 
sive oil  operators  and  promoters  in  the  state.  He 
is  vice-president  of  the  Hale-McLeod  Company, 
president  of  the  Four  Investment  Company ;  di- 
rector of  the  32  Oil  Company ;  and  is  heavily  in- 
terested in  the  General  Petroleum  Oil  Company. 
Together  with  his  associates,  Mr.  McLeod  has 
handled  a  greater  number  of  oil  lands,  combining 
a  greater  acreage,  than  almost  any  other  company 
interested  in  the  California  fields.  The  acreage 
financed  and  operated  through  Mr.  McLeod 
amounts  to  more  than  seventeen  thousand  acres, 
and  includes  the  wells  of  over  twenty  companies, 
and  represents  a  combined  investment  of  more 
than  $5,000,000. 

The  splendid  success  with  which  Mr.  McLeod 
has  met  in  his  oil  investments  has  placed  him  in 
the  forefront  among  the  men  who  have  been 
instrumental  in  the  development  of  the  resources 
of  Southern  California.  He  has  added  materially 
to  the  wealth  of  the  state,  and  through  his  enter- 
prises has  been  the  means  of  making  many  other 
men  independently  wealthy,  while  many  hundreds 
have  received  lucrative  employment  through  the 
promotion  of  his  industries. 

The  commercial  pursuits  of  Mr.  McLeod  have 
kept  him  away  from  the  city  for  so  much  of  his 
time  that  he  has  never  become  intimately  identified 
with  the  various  civic  movements,  although  he  is 
well  posted  and  keenly  interested  in  all  good  gov- 
ernment movements,  and  alive  in  every  respect  to 
the  welfare  of  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Olympic  Club  of  San  Francisco,  where  he  is  well 
known,  and  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  is  also  identified  with  the  Scot- 
tish Rite  and  Al  Malaikah  Shrine  and  Arab  Le- 
gion of  Honor. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  McLeod  occurred  Octo- 
ber 26,  1898,  in  Vancouver,  B.  C,  with  Miss 
Eva  Ethel  Largen.  To  them  have  been  born  four 
children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  They  are 
Eva  Ethel,  John  Munro,  Jr.,  Alfred  Wellington, 
and  Norman  L.  McLeod. 


CHARLES  B.  BERGIN.  The  firm  known  as 
the  Los  Angeles  Soap  Company  is  one  of  the 
oldest  manufacturing  companies  in  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles,  having  been  established  the  year 
previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war.    Be- 


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ginning  in  a  small  way,  the  company  passed 
through  the  hands  of  several  different  owners, 
moving  from  its  first  location,  on  Second  street 
between  Main  and  Spring  streets,  to  its  present 
site,  covering  about  three  acres  extending  from 
East  First  to  Banning,  between  Alameda  and 
Vignes  streets,  a  location  which  in  early  days  was 
given  up  mostly  to  the  cultivation  of  oranges 
and  grapes  and  to  vegetable  gardens.  The 
stranger  at  the  present  day  would  not  realize  that 
this  locality,  now  alive  with  the  sound  of  numer- 
ous factories,  was  forty  years  ago  laid  out  in 
orange  groves  and  grape  vineyards,  distinctive 
features  of  the  early  days  of  Los  Angeles;  any 
more  than  one  would  realize  that  gardens  of 
oranges,  pomegranates  and  other  fruits  sur- 
lounded  by  a  typical  adobe  wall  once  encircled 
the  city's  old  Spanish  church  which,  as  now 
seen,  stands  close  to  the  busy  street  amid  nu- 
merous places  of  business,  the  one  reminder  of 
its  past  surroundings  being  the  little  Mexican 
park  or  Plaza  opposite. 

The  building  of  the  Los  Angeles  Soap  Com- 
pany which  was  completed  in  1874  was  not  very 
extensive,  comprising  only  one  two-story  struc- 
ture which  was,  however,  sufficient  to  supply 
the  demands  of  the  trade  at  that  time.  It  is  said 
to  be  the  first  industry  to  use  steam  power  in 
Los  Angeles.  Numerous  additions  were  made  as 
the  business  increased,  until  at  present  the  plant 
is  the  leading  one  of  its  kind  on  the  coast,  both  in 
regard  to  convenience  for  manufacturing  and 
the  amount  of  business  carried  on.  Its  goods  are 
now  known  in  practically  every  store  and  to 
thousands  of  householders  between  the  Pacific 
ocean  and  the  Mississippi  river.  The  new  fac- 
tory is  built  entirely  of  brick  and  is  complete  in 
every  detail.  As  one  enters  the  large,  finely- 
appointed  business  office  and  passes  through  the 
several  departments,  the  impression  becomes 
deeper  and  more  permanent  that  the  establishment 
is  modern  in  every  detail  that  goes  to  make  a 
great  soap  factory.  So  much  work  is  done  and 
the  output  is  so  large,  that  machinery  to  do  it  all 
is  an  absolute  necessity.  There  are  made  here 
fifteen  million  pounds  of  soap  of  different  kinds 
and  grades  in  one  year.  This  equals  seven  hun- 
dred and  fifty  carloads  of  twenty  thousand  pounds 
each,  or  close  to  three  carloads  a  day.  When 
full,  the  kettles  all  together  contain  thirty  car- 
loads of  soap.  Three  stamping  machines  are  in 
use  which  turn  out  two  hundred  and  fifty  cakes  a 


minute.  In  the  different  departments  of  the  fac- 
tory are  employed  upwards  of  one  hundred  peo- 
ple, and  the  rooms  for  all  purposes  are  ample, 
each  operative  having  plenty  of  elbow  room  with- 
out intrenching  on  his  neighbor,  a  fact  which 
greatly  expedites  the  work.  From  twelve  to  fif- 
teen trucks  are  in  use  for  the  dehvery  of  raw 
and  manufactured  goods.  It  is  needless  to  speak 
of  the  quality  of  goods  made  in  this  factory  or 
the  perfect  way  in  which  they  are  packed.  There 
are  so  many  departments  that  it  would  require 
a  book  to  tell  all  about  them.  There  are  color- 
ing materials  for  the  different  kinds  of  soap  that 
cost  their  weight  in  silver ;  there  are  extracts  and 
oils  for  perfuming  and  to  give  quality  which  cost 
as  high  as  $250  per  pound.  In  a  word,  nothing 
is  wanting  for  the  production  of  the  finest  soaps. 

A  large  proportion  of  the  material  used  by  this 
concern  is  supplied  by  home  people ;  this,  together 
with  the  wages  paid  to  employes,  amounts  to  no 
inconsiderable  sum,  all  of  which  being  paid  in 
Southern  California  is  an  object  lesson  to  our 
people,  demonstrating  the  fact  that  the  patroniz- 
ing of  home  industry  keeps  money  at  home  and 
hence  means  home  prosperity.  The  company 
purchase  every  kind  of  soap  stock  offered  for  sale 
in  Southern  California  and  consume  for  fuel 
twenty-five  barrels  of  Los  Angeles  petroleum  oil 
daily.  They  use  five  tons  of  paper  every  month, 
all  of  which  is  bought  in  their  own  city.  The 
printing  bills  are  over  $500  per  month,  and  they 
buy  and  pay  cash  for  all  tallow  and  other  in- 
gredients that  are  offered  for  sale.  It  will  there- 
fore be  seen  that  they  spend  their  money  at  home. 
By  increasing  their  trade  the  trade  in  return 
increases  its  business. 

The  first  owner  of  this  great  business  was  A.  M. 
Dodson,  who  later  sold  out  and  removed  to  San 
Pedro.  During  the  first  twelve  years  of  its  ex- 
istence the  business  had  several  different  owners, 
in  1872  being  owned  by  a  Mr.  Cobbler  and. later 
coming  into  the  hands  of  C.  W.  Gibson,  who  sub- 
sequently became  the  first  president  of  the  Board 
of  Trade  of  Los  Angeles.  Other  owners  were 
Mr.  Shaw  and  Mr.  Summers,  the  latter  now  a 
retired  Los  Angeles  capitalist  who  in  1874  sold 
his  half  interest  to  W.  V.  Rinehart  and  John  A. 
Forthmann,  who  about  that  time  came  from  San 
Francisco  to  make  his  home  in  Los  Angeles  and 
is  at  present  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm.  Mr. 
Rinehart,  after  a  year  or  two,  was  appointed  In- 
dian agent  by  the  government  which  necessitated 


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his  absence  from  the  state,  which  was  the  cause  of 
his  selhng  his  interest  in  the  soap  company  to 
W.  B.  Bergin,  the  negotiations  of  the  sale  being 
made  by  J.  A.  Forthmann,  a  friend  of  Mr.  Ber- 
gin, since  the  latter  was  then  residing  and  en- 
gaged in  soap  manufacture  in  San  Francisco.  Mr. 
Gibson  also  retiring  from  the  company,  the  busi- 
ness came  entirely  into  the  hands  of  W.  B.  Bergin 
and  J.  A.  Forthmann,  under  whose  excellent  man- 
agement it  has  made  repid  growth,  in  consequence 
also  of  the  increase  in  the  population  and  pros- 
perity of  this  part  of  the  country.  For  a  period 
of  about  seventeen  years  the  company  continued 
under  the  partnership  of  Mr.  Bergin  and  Mr. 
Forthmann,  until  the  year  1891,  when  Mr.  Ber- 
gin, returning  to  Ireland,  his  native  land,  which 
he  had  not  visited  for  forty  years,  was  overtaken 
by  a  short  illness  which  proved  fatal.  He  was 
succeeded  in  the  soap  business  in  Los  Angeles  by 
his  nephew,  John  J.  Bergin. 

In  1897  the  business  was  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  California.  John  J.  Bergin,  vice- 
president  and  secretary  of  the  company,  passed 
away  January  2d.  1912,  at  which  time  his  brother, 
Charles  B.  Bergin,  was  elected  to  the  same  of- 
fices. The  officers  of  the  company  are  today, 
John  A.  Forthmann,  president  and  treasurer; 
Charles  B.  Bergin,  vice-president  and  secretary; 
A.  C.  Brode,  second  vice-president;  Frank  H. 
Merrill,  general  manager  and  superintendent;  C. 
A.  Meyer,  assistant  superintendent;  and  Leo  P. 
Bergin,  assistant  secretary. 

The  man  who  is  vice-president  and  secretary  of 
this  great  and  prosperous  concern,  Charles  B. 
Bergin,  came  to  California  in  1893,  being  a  native 
of  Jefiferson,  Texas,  and  the  son  of  John  A.  and 
Mary  E.  Bergin.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
until  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  when  he  completed 
his  education  at  St.  Vincent's  College,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1897.  Since  that  time  he  has 
been  with  the  Los  Angeles  Soap  Company  con- 
tinuously, having  been  employed  in  several  dif- 
ferent departments  of  this  concern.  At  one  time 
he  held  the  office  of  private  secretary  to  his 
brother,  John  J.  Bergin,  who  was  then  one  of  the 
owners  of  the  company.  In  1900  he  was  elected 
assistant  secretary  of  the  firm,  which  position  he 
held  until  1912,  when,  at  his  brother's  death,  he 
succeeded  him  as  vice-president  and  secretary  of 
the  company.  Having  grown  up  with  the  busi- 
ness, with  its  interests  at  heart  continually  since 
boyhood,  it  is  easy  to  see  that  Charles  B.  Bergin 


brings  to  the  offices  he  holds  at  present  a  fund  of 
ability  and  understanding  in  the  work  which  ren- 
ders him  invaluable.  Fraternally  Mr.  Bergin  is 
connected  with  the  Elks  and  the  Knights  of  Co- 
lumbus, and  socially  he  is  a  member  of  the  Jona- 
than Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Louise  Eager  in  Los  Angeles, 
October  3,  1905. 


ARTHUR  BENEDICT  MULLEN.  Strik- 
ingly different  in  circumstance  and  environ- 
ment from  the  life  of  Andrew  Mullen  was 
that  of  his  son,  the  late  Arthur  B.  Mullen,  for 
hardships  and  privations  shadowed  the  early 
years  of  the  one,  while  prosperity  and  educa- 
tional advantages  brightened  the  youth  of  the 
other,  yet  both  careers  had  much  in  common, 
displaying  the  same  devotion  to  business,  the 
same  aptitude  for  affairs,  the  same  promptness 
in  decision  and  the  same  sagacity  of  judg- 
ment. The  senior  member  of  the  Mullen- 
Bluett  Clothing  Company,  having  risen  from 
poverty  to  financial  independence  through  his 
own  unaided  energy  and  ability,  was  enabled 
to  give  to  his  children  far  better  advantages 
than  any  it  had  been  his  privilege  to  enjoy, 
and  of  the  son  it  may  be  said  that  he  availed 
himself  of  these  opportunities  to  the  utmost, 
attending  school  at  St.  Vincent's  until  he 
had  completed  the  regular  course  of  study  and 
had  prepared  for  practical  experience  in  the 
business  world.  Upon  leaving  school  he  en- 
tered the  establishment  on  First  and  Spring 
streets  and  thereafter  devoted  his  time  and 
ability  to  the  promotion  of  the  business.  Into 
his  quiet,  purposeful  business  career  there 
entered  nothing  of  the  spectacular  or  unusual. 
There  was  a  steady  concentration  of  business 
hours  upon  business  duties,  but  these  did  not 
exclude  a  leisure  of  identification  with  promi- 
nent organizations  and  commercial  concerns. 
Upon  the  organization  of  the  Hibernian 
Bank  Mr.  Mullen  became  one  of  the  original 
stockholders  and  a  charter  member  of  the 
board  of  directors.  That  substantial  institu- 
tion of  finance  received  much  of  his  time  and 
thought  and  oversight.  During  the  twenty- 
four  years  of  his  residence  in  Los  Angeles  he 
was  a  member  of  St.  Vincent's  parish,  a  lead- 
er in  its  benefactions,  a  generous  contributor 
to  its  maintenance  and  a  munificent  assistant 


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in  the  support  of  hospitals  and  asylums  under 
its  charge.  For  many  years  he  was  a  leading 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  In  the 
local  lodge  of  Elks  he  enjoyed  the  widest 
popularity.  After  the  death  of  his  father  in 
1899  he  succeeded  to  a  post  of  greater  respon- 
sibility in  the  Mullen-Bluett  Clothing  Com- 
pany and  when  the  heirs  of  the  Mullen  estate 
bought  out  the  interests  of  W.  C.  Bluett  in 
1903,  one  year  prior  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Bluett, 
Arthur  B.  Mullen  took  charge  of  the  business 
as  general  manager.  From  that  time  he  con- 
ducted it  in  the  interest  of  the  family  cor- 
poration. While  still  in  the  midst  of  large 
commercial  enterprises,  having  won  a  name 
that  stood  for  the  highest  integrity  in  the 
business  world  and  having  become  a  progres- 
sive figure  in  the  onward  march  of  civic  ad- 
vancement, he  was  suddenly  stricken  at  a 
banquet  at  the  Alexandria  December  9,  1911, 
and  died  at  the  Sisters'  hospital  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  10th,  having  failed  to  rally  from 
the  unconsciousness  into  which  he  had  lapsed. 
From  St.  Vincent's  Church,  which  for  so  long 
had  been  the  recipient  of  his  generosity  and 
his  sincere  desire  to  promote  the  cause  of  re- 
ligion, the  body  was  conveyed  to  Calvary 
cemetery  and  there  interred.  Thus  suddenly 
passed  from  the  midst  of  large  business  en- 
terprises a  well-known  citizen  of  Los  Angeles, 
whose  life  had  been  intimately  identified  with 
civic  development  and  whose  excellent  busi- 
ness qualifications  added  luster  to  the  honored 
name   of   Mullen. 


ELMER  E.  JONES.  Great  progress  made 
by  one  man  in  the  business  world  should  lend  in- 
spiration to  others  who  are  striving  for  the  same 
magnificent  result.  The  thought  of  what  even  the 
humblest  can  make  of  his  life  by  faithful  en- 
deavor and  by  making  the  most  of  his  oppor- 
tunities is  what  the  "lives  of  great  men  all  remind 
us."  From  the  commonplace  life  of  a  bricklayer 
in  one  of  the  eastern  cities  of  the  United  States 
to  the  opulence  of  a  man  with  a  satisfactory  in- 
come sounds  indeed  like  a  fairy  tale,  but  that 
is  what  Elmer  E.  Jones,  a  prosperous  oil  operator 
of  Southern  California,  has  made  of  his  life. 

Less  than  fifteen  years  ago  Mr.  Jones,  who 
then  lived  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  his  native  city,  was 
engaged    in    the    building    contracting    business. 


Prior  to  that  he  had  been  with  his  father  in  the 
boating  and  coaling  business  on  the  Alleghany 
river,  which  he  had  taken  up  on  leaving  school  at 
the  age  of  eighteen,  having  been  a  pupil  in  the 
public  schools  and  at  the  Calvert  private  school. 
Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  1863,  the  son  of  John  and 
Margaret  Jones,  and  though  for  a  time  he  was 
employed  in  the  same  work  with  his  father  and 
was  later  in  business  in  his  home  city,  he  wished 
to  make  more  of  his  life.  He  had  not  a  large 
amount  of  money,  but  getting  together  enough  for 
the  journey  west,  and  taking  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren with  him,  in  1900  he  came  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, a  glorious  future  shining  before  him  just 
as  surely  as  it  lighted  the  hardships  of  daily  life 
for  the  brave  pioneers  who  had  come  west  in 
search  of  gold  many  years  before. 

A  year  was  spent  investigating  the  oil  situation, 
Mr.  Jones  thereafter  making  his  headquarters  at 
Bakersfield,  Cal.,  in  the  center  of  the  oil  district 
of  the  Kern  river.  Here  he  operated  in  oil,  at 
first  risking  much  on  promising  property  but  com- 
ing steadily  to  the  front  in  his  chosen  occupation 
so  that  he  became  the  owner  of  forty-five  per 
cent,  of  the  stock  in  the  Alcides  Oil  Company  and 
the  Producers'  Refining  Company,  with  a  one- 
quarter  interest  in  the  Big  Four  Oil  Company. 
He  now  found  himself  the  owner  of  a  great  and 
increasing  fortune.  Mr.  Jones  has  now  sold  the 
Jones  Land  and  Oil  Company  to  the  Standard 
Oil  Company,  and  since  1911  has  been  retired 
from  active  business,  though  still  keeping  interests 
in  oil. 

Fraternally  associated  with  the  Elks  of  Bakers- 
field,  Mr.  Jones  is  also  a  member  of  the  Jona- 
than Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the 
Sierra  Madre  Club  in  Los  Angeles,  and  the 
Union  League  Club  of  San  Francisco.  In  po- 
litical interests  he  is  allied  with  the  Republicans ; 
in  religious  belief  he  is  a  Protestant.  By  his  mar- 
riage in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  in  October,  1880,  to  Lillian 
Ireland,  he  had  three  sons,  Walter  E.,  aged 
twenty-nine  years,  who  has  charge  of  his  father's 
ranch  near  Whittier;  F.  Harmar,  aged  twenty- 
seven,  who  is  in  business  with  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  at  Whittier;  and  Charles  C,  who  died 
in  1914  at  the  age  of  thirty-two  years.  Now  that 
he  has  accumulated  a  competency  Mr.  Jones  is 
glad  to  return  sometimes  to  his  home  city  in  the 
east  where  he  enjoys  renewing  old  acquaintances 
and  visiting  his  birthplace.     At  his  home  in  La- 


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guna,  Cal.,  he  entertains  on  a  large  scale,  and  the 
generous  use  of  his  several  automobiles  and  the 
dinners  and  elaborate  banquets  given  at  his  home 
and  in  the  hotels  of  Los  Angeles  prove  to  his 
friends  the  genuine  interest  and  enjoyment  which 
Mr.  Jones  finds  in  their  companionship. 


ABRAM  C.  DENMAN,  JR.  The  Southern  Cal- 
ifornia Iron  and  Steel  Company  is  the  largest  es- 
tablishment of  its  kind  on  the  Pacific  coast,  em- 
ploying two  hundred  and  thirty  men  and  their 
business  extending  over  California,  Arizona,  Ore- 
gon and  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  Since  the  year 
1913,  Abram  C.  Denman,  Jr.,  has  been  associated 
with  this  company,  in  March  of  that  year  having 
been  made  its  assistant  treasurer,  and  in  Septem- 
ber of  the  same  year  being  elected  vice-president 
and  general  manager.  He  is  a  man  eminently 
fitted  for  the  responsibilities  thus  laid  upon  him, 
having  had  practical  experience  as  well  as  the 
superintendence  in  foundries  and  traction  compa- 
nies both  in  California  and  the  eastern  states,  be- 
fore assuming  his  duties  in  the  Southern  Califor- 
nia Iron  and  Steel  Company. 

The  son  of  Abram  Cross  and  Sarah  Hedenberg 
(Littell)  Denman,  Abram  C.  Denman  was  born 
in  Newark,  N.  J.,  December  26,  1875,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  public  and  private  schools, 
at  the  New  York  Military  Academy,  and  from 
1892  to  1895  at  Cornell  University.  Upon  the 
completion  of  his  education,  Mr.  Denman  re- 
turned to  Newark,  where  he  was  engaged  as 
apprentice  in  the  foundry  of  the  Benjamin  Atha 
Illingworth  Steel  Company  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
after  which  he  became  salesman  in  the  New  York 
office  of  the  same  firm,  which  position  he  retained 
until  1900,  the  year  of  his  coming  to  California, 
where  he  settled  in  the  city  of  Redlands  and  in 
1901  started  the  San  Bernardino  Traction  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  himself  was  both  vice-presi- 
dent and  general  manager.  This  company  built 
and  operated  forty  miles  of  electric  railway  from 
Redlands  to  San  Bernardino,  and  from  Colton 
to  Highland,  a  business  which  in  1910  Mr.  Den- 
man sold  out  to  H.  E.  Huntington  in  order  that 
he  might  go  into  the  orange  growing  and  pack- 
ing industry.  In  March,  1913,  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  here  becoming  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Southern  California  Iron  and  Steel  Company,  in 
September  of  that  year  being  elected  vice-presi- 


dent and  general  manager  of  the  same  company, 
which  offices  he  holds  at  the  present  time. 

At  first  known  as  the  California  Industrial 
Company,  this  firm  was  organized  November  25, 
1901,  its  officers  at  that  time  being  as  follows: 
Frederick  H.  Rindge,  president;  J.  S.  Torrance, 
vice-president;  Frank  A.  Garbutt,  second  vice- 
president;  and  Lyman  Stewart,  William  R. 
Staats,  W.  L.  Stewart  and  S.  L.  Merrill,  directors, 
the  last-mentioned  being  also  secretary  and  man- 
ager of  the  company.  The  factory  at  that  date 
occupied  a  space  of  two  and  one-half  acres,  and 
employed  only  four  men,  on  January  20,  1908, 
the  officers  being  changed,  as  follows :  S.  I.  Mer- 
rill, president ;  William  L.  Stewart,  vice-president ; 
Frank  Garbutt,  second  vice-president ;  J.  A.  Pen- 
dleton, secretary ;  and  Lyman  Stewart,  J.  S.  Tor- 
rance, W.  W.  Douglas,  William  R.  Staats, 
William  L.  Stewart,  Frank  Garbutt  and  S.  I. 
Merrill  as  directors.  On  September  30,  1913,  the 
name  of  the  company  became  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Iron  and  Steel  Company,  which  title  it 
still  retains,  and  the  officers  were  again  changed, 
these  gentlemen  filling  the  offices  at  the  present 
time :  W.  L.  Stewart,  president ;  Abram  C.  Den- 
man, Jr.,  vice-president  and  general  manager;  S. 
K.  Rindge,  treasurer ;  A.  W.  Grier,  secretary ;  and 
W.  L.  Stewart,  Giles  Kellogg,  R.  J.  Keown, 
Abram  C.  Denman,  Jr.,  S.  K.  Rindge,  William  R. 
Staats  and  A.  W.  Grier  directors.  In  1908  the 
company  added  a  large  nut  and  bolt  works,  which 
produced  for  them  twenty-four  tons  of  bolts  the 
first  month,  and  since  that  time  they  have  in- 
stalled more  buildings  and  machinery,  so  that  at 
present  they  hold  an  important  place  among 
manufacturing  industries  on  the  western  coast,  in 
the  production  of  nuts,  bolts,  line  hardware,  rein- 
forcing steel  bars,  and  all  kinds  of  steel  and  iron 
bars,  flat,  round  and  square.  They  are  now  just 
completing  a  $40,000  hearth  furnace  for  the 
making  of  soft  and  high  grade  steel,  and  have 
also  a  large  galvanizing  plant,  covering  four  and 
one-half  acres  of  space,  having  been  the  first  on 
the  coast  to  install  lifting  magnets,  and  having 
the  largest  shears  of  any  west  coast  company  for 
cutting  iron,  the  shears  in  use  by  this  firm  cutting 
bars  five  inches  square.  In  June,  1910,  they  com- 
menced the  manufacture  of  rolled  bars,  turning 
out,  at  that  time,  thirteen  tons  a  day,  while  at 
this  date  their  record  is  seventy-three  tons  per 
day,   and   they   produce   three   hundred   tons   of 


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nuts  and  bolts  a  month,  and  fifteen  hundred  tons 
of  bars  a  month. 

Mr.  Denman,  who  fills  the  important  offices  of 
vice-president  and  manager  of  this  great  com- 
pany, which  is  located  at  Fourth  and  Mateo 
streets,  Los  Angeles,  is  also  a  member  of  numer- 
ous clubs  and  associations,  among  them  being  the 
California  Club  and  Annandale  Country  Club, 
the  Cornell  University  Club  of  Southern  Califor- 
nia, the  University  Club  at  Redlands,  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Colonial  Wars  and 
the  War  of  1812.  In  his  political  associations  he 
is  allied  with  the  Republican  party,  and  his  re- 
ligious interests  are  with  the  Episcopal  Church. 
The  marriage  of  Mr.  Denman  with  Miss  Grace 
Davis  was  solemnized  in  Trinity  Church,  Newark, 
N.  J.,  June  17,  1897,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
three  children,  Frederick  Halsey,  Grachen  and 
John  Christopher,  all  of  whom  attend  the  public 
schools  of  Los  Angeles. 


ARTHUR  B.  BENTON.  For  many  the  path 
of  life  in  early  years  gives  no  indication  of  the 
avenues  into  which  later  activities  will  turn  their 
steps.  Destiny  but  slowly  calls  them  into  their 
own.  Such  was  the  experience  of  Arthur  B. 
Benton,  the  eminent  architect  whom  Los  Angeles 
is  proud  to  number  among  her  distinguished  citi- 
zens and  whose  creative  abilities,  as  e.xpressed  in 
much  of  the  greatest  architecture  of  Southern 
California,  have  brought  to  him  a  national  reputa- 
tion. In  him  the  fine  heritage  of  a  colonial  an- 
cestry, loyal  to  the  welfare  of  a  new  country,  bat- 
tling in  defense  of  her  institutions  and  contribut- 
ing to  the  common  good  both  in  times  of  war  and 
peace,  finds  expression  in  those  rare  mental  and 
professional  attainments  that  mark  the  genius  of 
the  man  and  the  spirit  of  his  workmanship.  The 
talent  that  on  the  one  hand  has  been  developed 
into  architectural  originality  and  skill,  in  another 
form  inspires  him  with  a  love  for  poetry  and  the 
arts  of  music  and  painting,  the  whole  blending  into 
a  well-rounded  character  symmetrical  of  spirit  and 
ardent  of  action.  The  early  years  of  agricultural 
enterprise  were  not  without  their  wholesome  effect 
in  the  development  of  both  brain  and  brawn,  but 
at  the  age  of  thirty  he  relinquished  permanently 
all  identification  with  farming  pursuits,  in  order 
to  develop  a  talent  for  drawing  and  designing. 
Subsequent  personal  history  indicates  that  change 


to  have  been  the  turning  point  of  his  career.  A 
native  of  Peoria,  111.,  bom  in  1858,  to  Ira  Eddy 
and  Caroline  A.  (Chandler)  Benton,  he  had  been 
graduated  from  the  Peoria  high  school  in  1877 
and  from  that  time  until  1888  had  engaged  in 
farming  in  Iowa  and  Kansas,  meanwhile  in  1883 
being  united  in  marriage  with  Harriet  P.  Von 
Schilling,  whose  faith  in  his  genius  had  not  a 
little  influence  in  bringing  about  the  change  from 
agriculture  to  architecture. 

Throughout  two  years  of  service  as  a  drafts- 
man in  the  office  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  at  Topeka, 
Kans.,  Mr.  Benton  pursued  his  studies  in  the 
School  of  Art  and  Design  in  that  city,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1890.  He  then  became  a 
draftsman  in  the  office  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad  at  Omaha,  but  in  1891 
resigned  the  position  and  removed  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  formed  a  partnership  with  W.  C.  Aiken 
for  the  practice  of  architecture.  In  1896  he  pur- 
chased the  interest  of  Mr.  Aiken  and  since  has 
continued  alone.  To  enumerate  his  designs 
would  be  to  present  a  list  of  many  of  the  most 
noteworthy  buildings,  public  and  private,  to  be 
found  in  Southern  California.  Although  possess- 
ing taste  in  every  line  of  architecture  his  talent 
for  the  planning  of  institutional  buildings  is  most 
marked.  In  that  respect  he  perhaps  has  few  su- 
periors in  the  entire  country.  It  is  said  that  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  together  with  the 
Mary  Andrews  Clark  Memorial  home,  are  not  sur- 
passed by  any  buildings  of  their  kind,  not  only  for 
outward  symmetry  and  attractiveness,  but  also  for 
interior  convenience  and  artistic  beauty.  Tour- 
ists who  have  traveled  throughout  the  world  often 
express  the  opinion  that  there  is  no  more  charm- 
ing hotel  anywhere  than  the  Mission  Inn  of  River- 
side, and  the  architecture  of  this  noted  building 
expresses  the  originality  of  Mr.  Benton,  as  well  as 
his  ability  to  design  a  structure  in  perfect  keep- 
ing with  its  attractive  environment  and  with  the 
style  of  architecture  typical  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

A  partial  list  of  the  buildings  designed  by  Mr. 
Benton  follows:  Arlington  hotel  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara; San  Marcos  hotel  in  Chandler,  Ariz.; 
County  Club  house  at  Montecito ;  Arrowhead  ho- 
tel near  San  Bernardino;  Friday  Morning  Club 
house  in  Los  Angeles;  Women's  Club  houses  in 
Covina,  Long  Beach  and  Redlands;  Episcopal 
churches   in   Los   Angeles,   Hollywood,    Covina, 


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Duarte,  Upland,  Montecito,  Oxnard  and  Hue- 
neme;  the  parish  building  of  the  Pro-Cathedral  in 
Los  Angeles;  the  elegant  country  home  of  Anita 
Baldwin-McClaughry  at  Santa  Anita;  the  dwell- 
ings of  John  T.  Gaffey  at  San  Pedro,  Lieut-Gov. 
Wallace  near  Glendale,  E.  J.  Brent,  Waller  Chans- 
lor,  A.  L.  Cheney  (in  Los  Angeles),  Rev. 
Charles  Hibbard,  Alexander  Drake  and  M. 
E.  Tolerton  (in  Pasadena)  ;  also  the  resi- 
dence of  George  B.  Linnard  at  Riverside;  the 
hospital  for  the  University  of  California  in  Los 
Angeles;  the  buildings  for  the  Harvard  and 
Thacher  schools ;  and  many  other  structures  each 
ideal  of  its  type  and  substantial  in  design.  That 
he  maintains  an  intense  devotion  to  all  lines  of 
effort  associated  with  his  chosen  profession  ap- 
pears in  his  membership  in  the  American  Insti- 
tute of  Architects,  whose  Southern  California 
chapter  he  assisted  in  founding  and  three  times 
served  as  president;  the  Engineers  &  Architects 
Association  of  Southern  California,  in  which  he 
has  been  honored  with  the  presidency,  besides 
serving  for  years  as  a  director;  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Academy  of  Science,  of  which  he  is  presi- 
dent and  a  director;  the  Landsmark  Club,  which 
he  assisted  in  founding;  the  Southwest  Archeolog- 
ical  Society  and  the  National  Geographic  Society. 
Along  the  line  of  investments  he  serves  as  a  di- 
rector in  the  West  Coast  Apartment  Company. 
That  he  might  evince  his  practical  interest  in  Los 
Angeles  he  became  a  member  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  For  years  he  has  been  connected 
with  the  Episcopal  Church  and  has  contributed 
in  a  most  practical  manner  to  religious  work  in 
the  community.  Indication  of  his  social  nature 
appears  in  his  association  with  the  Santa  Barbara 
Club,  the  University  Club  of  Redlands,  the  Jona- 
than, Athletic,  and  Union  League  Clubs  of  Los 
Angeles,  while  his  heritage  of  colonial  ancestry 
gives  him  membership  in  the  Society  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  and  the  California  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  in  which  he  is  a  life  member  and 
past  governor.  Politics  with  him  has  been  sub- 
sidiary to  good  citizenship,  but  he  keeps  posted 
concerning  national  issues  and  gives  allegiance 
to  Republican  principles. 


and  Savings  Banks  of  this  city  is  well  known 
throughout  this  part  of  the  state.  Mr.  Woods  is 
a  native  of  Indiana,  having  been  born  at  Hagers- 
town,  April  24,  1877,  the  son  of  William  Wallace 
Woods,  Sr.,  and  Anna  Mary  Woods.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  Colorado  and  New  Mexico,  and  later  was  em- 
ployed in  the  mercantile  business  with  the  Charles 
Ilfeld  Company,  at  Las  Vegas,  N.  Mex.  He  was 
married  in  El  Paso,  Texas,  April  10,  1901,  to 
Miss  Marguerite  Lucille  Ainsa.  a  native  of  San 
Francisco.  Her  family  removed  to  Texas  at  the 
time  the  first  Southern  Pacific  trains  were  op- 
erated between  San  Francisco  and  El  Paso,  and 
she  was  reared  and  educated  there.  She  has  borne 
her  husband  two  sons,  William  Wallace  Woods, 
Jr.,  aged  thirteen,  and  Richard  Ainsa  Woods, 
aged  seven  years. 

Mr.  Woods  is  well  known  in  fraternal  and  social 
circles  in  Los  Angeles,  being  a  member  of  the 
California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club, 
and  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  Shriner. 


WILLIAM  WALLACE  WOODS.  Another 
well  known  figure  in  banking  circles  in  Los  An- 
geles is  William  Wallace  Woods,  whose  associa- 
tion with  the  Citizens  National  and  Citizens  Trust 


JOHN  L.  BEVERIDGE.  Gen.  John  L.  Bev- 
eridge,  whose  life  came  to  a  close  in  his  Holly- 
wood (Cal.)  home,  May  3,  1910,  was  a  man  who 
had  made  his  mark  in  the  world  as  a  Civil  war 
officer,  a  member  of  Congress,  the  governor  of  a 
state  and  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  statesman. 

On  both  sides  of  the  family  General  P.evcridge 
was  descended  from  Scotch  ancestors,  the  paternal 
grandfather,  Andrew  Beveridge,  having  left  his 
home  in  Scotland  and  come  to  America  in  1770 
and  settled  in  Washington  county,  N.  Y.,  when 
only  eighteen  years  of  age.  The  maternal  grand- 
parents, James  and  Agnes  (Robertson)  Hoy, 
came  to  this  country  fifteen  years  later  and  set- 
tled in  the  same  county  in  New  York,  where  they 
are  now  buried.  The  father  of  General  Bever- 
idge, George  Beveridge,  was  one  of  eight  sons,  of 
whom  two  enlisted  in  the  War  of  1812,  but  the 
closing  of  the  war  obviated  the  necessity  of  their 
active  participation  in  the  struggle.  Born  in  Wash- 
ington county,  N.  Y.,  July  6,  1824,  General  Bev- 
eridge received  his  early  education  in  his  native 
state,  continuing  his  studies  in  Granville  Acad- 
emy and  Rock  River  Seminary,  Illinois,  when  the 
family  removed  to  that  state.  Having  completed 
his  studies  in  1845,  he  entered  the  teaching  profes- 


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sion  in  Tennessee,  meanwhile  studying  law,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Jackson  county  in 
November,  1850. 

In  December,  1847,  General  Beveridge  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Helen  M.  Judson  in  the  old  Clark 
Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Chicago, 
where  her  father  was  then  pastor.  In  1848  they 
went  to  Tennessee,  and  there  their  two  children 
were  born,  namely,  Alia  May  and  Philo 
Judson.  On  account  of  the  mismanagement 
of  an  associate,  General  Beveridge  found  him- 
self in  debt  in  1849,  and  as  soon  as  he  could 
clear  himself  of  this,  he  returned  to  Illinois, 
where,  in  Sycamore,  DeKalb  county,  he  began  to 
practice  the  profession  of  law.  On  account  of 
the  reverses  through  which  he  had  just  passed, 
he  also  did  extra  work,  such  as  keeping  books 
for  several  business  houses,  as  well  as  some  rail- 
road engineering,  and  upon  his  removal  to  Evans- 
ton,  III.,  in  1854,  brighter  prospects  dawned  for 
him  and  he  opened  a  law  office  in  Chicago,  where 
he  succeeded  in  gathering  about  him  an  influen- 
tial clientele.  The  epoch  of  his  life  upon  which 
he  looked  back  with  the  most  satisfaction  was 
that  of  his  four  years'  service  in  the  Civil  war. 
Enlisting  as  a  private  in  the  Eighth  Illinois  Cav- 
alry, he  became  captain  of  Company  F,  and  on  the 
28th  of  August,  1861,  was  elected  major  of  this 
cavalry  regiment,  which  became  a  part  of  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  with  which  it  took  part  in 
the  campaign  of  1862-1863.  He  was  in  command 
of  his  forces  during  the  battles  of  Williamsburg, 
Fair  Oaks,  Malvern  Hill,  Antietam,  Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville,  the  Seven  Days  Fight 
around  Richmond,  and  at  Gettysburg.  At  the 
request  of  the  governor  of  Illinois  he  resigned  in 
1863  and  was  honorably  mustered  out,  in  order 
to  effect  the  organization  of  the  Seventeenth 
Illinois  Cavalry,  he  being  commissioned  colonel 
of  the  same.  He  served  in  the  department  of 
Missouri,  taking  part  in  Price's  raid,  the  remain- 
der of  his  military  career  taking  place  in  the  states 
of  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Arkansas,  he  being  re- 
tained for  some  time  later  as  president  of  the  mili- 
tary commission  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where,  in  May, 
1865,  he  received  brevet  commission  as  brigadier 
general.  He  was  finally  mustered  out  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1866,  his  career  having  been  marked  by 
remarkable  ability  and  gallantry. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  General  Beveridge  re- 
turned to  Chicago  to  resume  the  practice  of  law. 
He  was  elected  sheriff  of  Cook  county  in  Novem- 


ber, 1866,  after  which  he  continued  his  legal  prac- 
tice until  November,  1870,  in  which  year  he  was 
elected  state  senator.  A  year  later  he  became 
congressman-at-large  and  in  1872  was  elected 
lieutenant-governor  on  the  ticket  with  Governor 
Oglesby,  which  resulted  in  his  becoming  governor 
of  Illinois,  which  office  he  assumed  January  21, 
1873.  At  the  close  of  his  term  as  governor  he 
went  into  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Bev- 
eridge &  Dewey,  as  bankers  and  dealers  in  com- 
mercial paper  in  Chicago.  In  1881  he  was  made 
assistant  United  States  treasurer,  which  position 
he  filled  until  1885.  Retiring  from  active  life  on 
account  of  poor  health,  he  made  his  home  in 
Evanston,  111.,  until  the  close  of  the  year  1895 
which  saw  his  removal  to  California,  where  he 
made  his  home  in  the  city  of  Hollywood  until  the 
time  of  his  death. 

General  Beveridge  was  a  member  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  was  elected  a  compan- 
ion of  the  first  class  in  the  Illinois  Commandery 
of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States  in  1882  with  insignia  No.  2411,  be- 
ing transferred  in  1896  to  the  Commandery  of 
California.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
denomination.  Of  his  two  children,  the  elder.  Alia 
May,  is  now  the  wife  of  Samuel  B.  Raymond  and 
resides  in  Chicago,  the  son,  Philo  Judson,  is  active 
in  the  advancement  of  the  city  of  Hollywood. 


PHILO  JUDSON  BEVERIDGE.  The  fam- 
ily of  Philo  J.  Beveridge,  a  retired  business  man 
and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Hollywood,  Cal.,  is  of 
Scotch  extraction,  the  great-grandfather,  Andrew 
Beveridge,  having  come  from  Scotland  to  Amer- 
ica in  1770  when  only  eighteen  years  of  age  and 
settled  in  Washington  county,  N.  Y.  Gen.  John 
Beveridge,  the  father  of  Philo  J.,  was  born  in 
Washington  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1824,  graduated 
from  Granville  Academy  and  Rock  River  Semi- 
nary in  Illinois,  and  entered  the  teaching  profes- 
sion in  Tennessee,  studying  law  meantime  so  that 
in  1850  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Jackson 
county,  Tenn.  At  the  commencement  of  the  Civil 
war  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Eighth  Illinois 
Cavalry  in  1861,  becoming  captain  of  Company  F, 
and  later  major  of  this  cavalry  regiment,  and  was 
commissioned  colonel  of  the  Seventeenth  Illinois 
Cavalry,  and  brigadier-general  in  May,  1865. 
After   the    war   he   was    elected    state    senator, 


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and  became  congressman  at  large  and  then  gov- 
ernor of  Illinois  and  assistant  United  States  treas- 
urer. In  1895  he  removed  to  California,  where 
he  made  his  home  in  the  city  of  Hollywood  until 
the  time  of  his  death. 

The  son,  Philo  Judson  Beveridge,  was  born 
in  Tennessee,  December  1,  1850,  his  mother  being 
Helen  Mar  (Judson)  Beveridge,  and  his  elder 
sister,  Alia  May,  now  the  wife  of  Samuel  B. 
Raymond  of  Chicago.  Philo  Beveridge  graduated 
from  the  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston, 
111.,  and  at  twenty  entered  business  life,  serving  in 
the  auditor's  office  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad 
Company,  at  Sacramento,  Cal.,  in  1871,  then  being 
employed  for  a  year  with  the  Geological  Survey  at 
Yellowstone  Park,  and  as  private  secretary  to  his 
father,  then  the  governor  of  Illinois,  from  1873 
to  1877.  For  about  five  years  he  was  a  sugar 
broker  in  Chicago,  and  for  a  few  months  the  sec- 
retary of  the  Illinois  Railway  Commission.  Then 
he  went  into  the  banking  business  in  Chicago,  as 
note  broker,  under  the  firm  name  of  Beveridge  & 
Dewey,  remaining  with  this  firm  three  years,  after 
which  he  was  engaged  as  mining  superintendent  in 
Nevada  a  year,  representing  the  interests  of  a  Chi- 
cago capitalist  at  Austin,  Nev.,  then  spending 
three  or  four  years  in  the  management  of  gas 
heating  appliances  on  his  own  account. 

In  November,  1893,  Mr.  Beveridge  came  to  Cal- 
ifornia and  settled  in  Hollywood,  interesting  him- 
self in  ranching  and  real  estate  operations  in  this 
state  from  that  time  onward.  His  marriage  oc- 
curred in  March  of  the  following  year,  uniting 
him  with  Mrs.  Ida  D.  Wilcox,  widow  of  H.  H. 
Wilcox,  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Hollywood, 
where  he  died  in  1891.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beveridge 
became  the  parents  of  two  children,  Marian  and 
Phyllis,  the  death  of  Mrs.  Beveridge  occurring  on 
August  7,  1914.  The  elder  daughter  is  now  the 
wife  of  Wilbur  W.  Campbell,  and  they  have  one 
son,  Philo  Beveridge  Campbell,  born  February 
24,  1915.  The  younger  daughter  is  a  pupil  at 
Bishop's  School.  Mr.  Beveridge,  who  is  now  re- 
tired from  active  business  life,  devotes  himself  to 
the  care  of  his  private  interests,  but  has  sub- 
divided and  sold  considerable  real  estate  in  Holly- 
wood, where  he  has  done  much  for  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  city,  and  spent  seven  months  in  getting 
the  old  Los  Angeles  Pacific  started.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Stephen's  Church  in  Hollywood,  and 
a  director  in  the  Hollywood  National  Bank  and 
the   Citizens    Savings   Bank   at   Hollywood,   and 


president  of  Connell  Company,  undertakers,  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  the  Auto  Funding  Company  of 
America.  He  holds  membership  in  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States  by  inheritance,  is 
identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  being  also 
a  Knight  Templar,  and  in  business  and  social 
affiliations  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  the  Hollywood  Board  of  Trade 
and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 


ORRA  EUGENE  MONNETTE.  Although  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles  only  since  April,  1907, 
when  he  came  west  from  Toledo,  Ohio,  where  he 
was  known  as  one  of  the  leading  attorneys  of  the 
city  and  state,  Orra  Eugene  Monnette  has  as- 
sumed a  position  in  the  business  affairs  of  the 
city  that  easily  ranks  him  as  one  of  the  first  citi- 
zens. He  has  invested  heavily  in  real  estate  and 
has  also  identified  himself  with  a  multitude  of 
other  progressive  interests,  prominent  among 
which  is  the  banking  business  of  the  city,  in  which 
he  is  a  more  than  ordinarily  prominent  figure.  He 
has  also  been  connected  with  several  well-known 
legal  cases  and  has  established  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion for  himself  before  the  bar  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Monnette  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  near 
Bucyrus,  April  12,  1873,  the  son  of  Mervin  Jere- 
miah and  Olive  Adelaide  (Hull)  Monnette,  who 
were  well  known  in  their  section  of  Ohio.  Mr. 
Monnette  received  his  primary  education  in  the 
schools  of  Ohio,  first  attending  the  public  and 
high  schools  of  Bucyrus,  and  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  1890.  Following  this  he  attended  the 
Bucyrus  Business  College,  and  later  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  B.  A.  after  taking  a  special 
course  in  law  in  1895.  He  received  his  first  busi- 
ness training  in  the  Second  National  Bank  of 
Bucyrus,  where  he  was  employed  for  some  time 
after  completing  his  college  courses.  In  1896  he 
passed  the  bar  examinations  and  was  admitted  to 
practice  law  in  all  the  courts  of  Ohio  and  in  the 
United  States  District  Courts.  In  1897  he  formed 
his  first  law  partnership,  this  being  with  Judge 
Thomas  Beer  and  Smith  W.  Bennett,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Beer,  Bennett  &  Monnette.  with 
offices  at  Bucyrus.  Two  years  later  (1899)  Mr. 
Bennett  retired  and  the  firm  was  known  as  Beer 
&  Monnette  until  1903,  when  Mr.  Monnette 
moved  to  Toledo,  Ohio.   Here  he  formed  a  part- 


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nership  with  Hon.  Charles  A.  Seiders  which  con- 
tinued until  1906,  when  Mr.  Monnette  withdrew 
and  continued  his  practice  alone. 

It  was  in  April,  1907,  that  Mr.  Monnette  re- 
moved to  Los  Angeles  to  make  his  permanent 
home.  Here  he  opened  his  law  offices  and  estab- 
lished a  thriving  practice,  working  alone  until 
January,  1912.  At  that  time  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Citizens  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  and 
has  since  then  given  much  of  his  time  to  the 
banking  interests  of  the  city,  with  which  at  this 
time  he  is  closely  identified.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  Citi- 
zens Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  Los  Angeles  Title 
and  Trust  Company,  and  Mortgage  Guarantee 
Company. 

Mr.  Monnette  possesses  much  literary  ability 
and  has  done  some  very  creditable  literary  work. 
In  1911  he  published  a  volume  entitled  Monnet 
Family  Genealogy,  consisting  of  thirteen  hundred 
pages,  one  hundred  seventy-one  illustrations,  large 
royal  octavo,  at  a  cost  of  $10,000  and  ten  years  of 
close  labor.  Mr.  Monnette  is  descended  from  a 
long  line  of  illustrious  ancestors,  of  whom  he  is 
justly  proud.  He  is  entitled  to  membership  in 
practically  all  of  the  famous  pioneer  and  patriotic 
societies  of  the  nation,  and  in  most  of  these  is  a 
prominent  worker.  Among  such  organizations 
may  be  mentioned  the  Society  of  Mayflower  De- 
scendants ;  Huguenot  Society  of  America ;  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  ;  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  ;  So- 
ciety of  the  War  of  1812 ;  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution;  and  the  Order  of  Washington.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  (hon- 
orary scholastic)  and  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternities, 
having  been  elected  national  president  of  the  lat- 
ter in  June,  1911.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite,  and  is 
also  a  Shriner,  and  is  a  prominent  member  of 
many  of  the  best  local  clubs,  including  the  Cali- 
fornia, Jonathan,  Union  League,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic,  Los  Angeles  Country,  and  Los  Angeles 
Ad  Clubs. 

Politically  Mr.  Monnette  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party.  He  is  well  posted  and  keenly 
alive  to  all  the  affairs  of  his  party,  local,  state 
and  national,  but  has  never  been  actively  asso- 
ciated with  the  party  activities  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  is  a  progressive  citizen  and  is  certain  to  be 
well  in  the  van  in  any  movement  for  the  civic 
welfare  and  social  betterment  of  the  city. 


The  marriage  of  Mr.  Monnette  with  Miss  Car- 
rie Lucile  Janeway  was  solemnized  in  1895  at 
Columbus,  Ohio.  Both  are  members  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church. 


JAMES  G.  DONA  VAN.  The  Donavan  & 
Seamans  Company,  jewelers,  started  in  business 
in  Los  Angeles  in  1894  when  Broadway  and 
Spring  street  were  residence  streets  and  their 
store  on  Spring  street,  near  Temple,  was  in  the 
heart  of  the  shopping  center.  Removing  later  to 
Third  and  Spring  streets,  they  remained  there  for 
twenty-one  years,  when  they  removed  to  their 
present  elegant  quarters  at  No.  743  South  Broad- 
Vv'ay,  where  the  tiled  floors,  mirrors,  balcony, 
marble  show  windows,  and  show  cases  of  ma- 
hogany and  rosewood  make  an  appropriate  set- 
ting for  the  company's  display  of  high  class  jew- 
elry, silverware  and  flawless  precious  stones. 

James  G.  Donavan,  vice-president  of  the  Dona- 
van &  Seamans  Company,  has  met  with  phenome- 
nal success  in  his  business,  as  appraiser  and  dealer 
in  diamonds  and  other  precious  stones,  and  has 
reached  the  top  in  his  line  of  business,  being  also 
a  financier  of  note.  He  was  born  in  Aurora,  111., 
June  19,  1866,  the  son  of  Daniel  Donavan,  a  con- 
tractor, and  Lienor  O'Connor  Donavan,  both 
members  of  pioneer  families  of  Aurora,  where  the 
mother  died  in  1913,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years. 
They  were  the  parents  of  five  children,  of  whom 
four  are  now  living,  one  of  the  daughters  being 
the  wife  of  S.  D.  Seamans,  Mr.  Donavan's  part- 
ner in  Los  Angeles.  The  education  of  Mr.  Dona- 
van was  received  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the 
old  Jennings  Seminary  at  Aurora,  and  at  the 
close  of  his  schooling  he  went  to  work  in  the 
Aurora  watch  factory,  where  he  evinced  a  deter- 
mination to  master  the  watch-making  business, 
and  served  an  apprenticeship  under  some  of  the 
best  master  watchmakers  in  this  country.  Later, 
Mr.  Donavan  was  employed  by  other  large  watch 
factories,  spending  fifteen  years  in  all  in  the 
manufacture  of  watches  and  becoming  an  expert 
and  master  of  the  trade.  Working  his  way  up 
from  apprentice  to  a  leading  mechanic,  he  filled  a 
four  years'  contract  at  a  large  salary,  and  having 
saved  his  money,  engaged  in  the  retail  jewelry 
business  at  Aurora  in  1890.  He  first  came  to  Los 
Angeles  on  a  thirty  days'  vacation,  in  company 
with  his  sister,  and  at  the  end  of  his  vacation 
decided  to  stay  two  weeks  longer,  at  the  end  of 


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that  time  determining  to  stay  three  months,  finally 
resolving  to  make  his  stay  here  permanent.  At 
that  time  he  owned  a  one-half  interest  in  a  jewelry 
store  at  Aurora,  111.,  and  after  disposing  of  his 
interests  he  decided  to  remain  permanently  in  Los 
Angeles.  On  new  Year's  Day,  1894,  he  was 
present  at  the  Rose  Carnival  at  Pasadena,  Cal., 
and  in  writing  to  his  friends  at  home  in  Illinois 
he  told  glowing  tales  of  the  oranges  and  roses  and 
snow-capped  mountains  about  him  in  January  in 
Southern  California. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Donavan  to  Miss  Rose 
Ganahl  united  him  with  one  of  the  pioneer  fami- 
lies of  Los  Angeles,  the  father  of  the  bride  being 
F.  J.  Ganahl,  a  wholesale  and  retail  lumber  dealer 
of  Los  Angeles  and  one  of  the  pioneer  business 
men  of  the  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donavan  are  the 
parents  of  four  children,  Elouise,  James  Jr., 
Frances  and  Daniel.  Their  home  is  in  a  com- 
modious residence  at  the  corner  of  Western  ave- 
nue and  Twenty-second  street,  built  by  Mr.  Dona- 
van when  that  section  was  only  a  wheat  field.  Mr. 
Donavan  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Mer- 
chants' and  Manufacturers'  Association,  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  and  the  Newman  Club,  and  is  interested 
in  the  Farmers'  and  Merchants'  Bank,  the  First 
National  Bank,  the  Security  Trust  and  Savings' 
Bank  and  the  United  States  National  Bank,  all  of 
Los  Angeles,  as  well  as  in  the  Hamilton  Watch 
Company,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.  In  his  political  in- 
terests he  is  a  Republican.  A  prompt  and  accurate 
business  man,  he  has  reaped  success  in  his  chosen 
occupation,  having  commenced  business  with 
one  eight-foot  show  case  in  1894,  the  nu- 
cleus of  the  present  large  business  of  Don- 
avan &  Seamans  Company,  incorporated  in 
1905,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $200,000  and 
employing  from  twenty  to  twenty-five  persons  in 
the  busy  seasons.  For  twenty  years  Mr.  Donavan 
has  come  down  to  his  store  at  exactly  ten  minutes 
of  eight  every  morning,  missing  only  one  day  on 
account  of  illness,  and  no  man  gives  stricter  at- 
tention to  his  business  than  he,  so  that  his  store 
in  the  fashionable  business  district  of  the  city  has 
become  known  as  a  house  of  reliability. 


LOUIS  BLONDEAU.  The  childhood  of 
Louis  Blondeau  was  spent  in  several  and  diverse 
lands.  In  earliest  infancy  he  lived  in  France, 
having  been  born  in  that  country  October  29, 


1880,  and  when  he  was  about  one  year  old  his 
parents  removed  to  South  America,  where  the 
boy's  primary  education  was  received  in  the 
schools  of  Argentina.  At  about  eleven  years  of 
age  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Hollywood, 
Cal.,  and  here  the  son  attended  the  old  Pass 
school,  a  building  that  was  deluged  by  a  cloud- 
burst in  the  rainy  season  which  sent  a  torrent  of 
water  down  from  a  neighboring  canyon  so  that 
the  pupils  in  the  school  had  to  be  carried  away, 
one  by  one,  on  horseback  through  the  water. 

Between  the  ages  of  fifteen  and  twenty-two 
years,  Mr.  Blondeau  was  engaged  in  farming  and 
raising  winter  vegetables  in  the  Cahuenga  Valley, 
which,  sheltered  from  cold  winds  by  the  high 
mountain  range,  is  a  fertile  orchard  and  garden 
for  the  farmer  and  fruit-raiser.  Besides  the  pros- 
perity to  be  attained  in  California  from  tilling 
the  surface  of  the  land,  even  more  is  to  be  real- 
ized by  appropriating  the  wealth  of  oil  contained 
underground,  by  which  occupation  many  a  man  in 
California  has  made  his  money,  the  forests  of  tall 
derricks  that  crop  up  in  such  abundance  in  some 
portions  of  the  country  attesting  to  the  value  of 
this  industry.  Mr.  Blondeau  was  for  a  year  en- 
gaged in  the  oil  business,  being  employed  at  the 
oil  fields  at  McKittrick  for  that  space  of  time, 
being  there  at  the  time  the  California  Standard 
Giant  No.  1  was  tapped. 

Returning  to  his  old  home,  Hollywood,  Mr. 
Blondeau  engaged  in  the  business  of  barber  at  the 
corner  of  Gower  street  and  Sunset  boulevard,  an 
occupation  which  he  followed  successfully  at  this 
location  for  two  years,  when  he  removed  to  more 
extensive  quarters  at  Cahuenga  avenue  and  Sun- 
set boulevard,  in  the  same  city.  Prospering  in  his 
chosen  occupation  which  increased  rapidly,  he  in- 
stalled, in  1911,  a  very  up-to-date  tonsorial  parlor 
at  Hollywood  boulevard  and  Cahuenga  avenue, 
and,  his  increased  business  warranting  it,  he  has 
recently  opened  a  second  parlor  located  at  Holly- 
wood boulevard  and  Highland  avenue,  with  baths 
and  all  up-to-date  equipment.  Since  establishing 
the  latter  he  has  disposed  of  store  No.  1.  On  the 
corner  of  Hollywood  boulevard  and  Cahuenga 
avenue  Mr.  Blondeau  purchased  property  that 
was  formerly  a  part  of  the  Paul  de  Longpre  gar- 
dens, and  on  this  he  erected  a  handsome  business 
block.  Mr.  Blondeau's  father  was  an  old  friend 
of  Paul  de  Longpre,  both  of  whom  were  French. 
On  May  1,  1915,  Mr.  Blondeau  engaged  in  the 


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automobile  business,  his  store  being  located  in  his 
own  building. 

Mr.  Blondeau  is  a  public-spirited  man  who  is 
glad  to  devote  much  of  his  attention  to  the  better- 
ment of  his  adopted  home  in  California,  and  no 
chronicle  of  the  town  of  Hollywood  would  be 
complete  without  mention  of  the  valuable  as- 
sistance he  has  rendered  in  the  advancement  of 
the  place.  When  the  lighting  system  on  Holly- 
wood boulevard  was  installed,  he  was  one  of  the 
originators  of  the  new  system,  and  filled  the  office 
of  chairman  of  the  committee  that  arranged  for 
the  big  celebration  held  when  the  lights  were 
installed.  The  great  changes  which  he  has  seen 
take  place  in  the  city  of  Hollywood  during  the 
more  than  twenty  years  of  his  residence  there  are 
indicative  of  the  growth  made  by  many  Southern 
California  towns.  What  were  once  large  farm 
lands  in  the  productive  valley  have  been  trans- 
formed into  beautiful  residence  property,  and 
paved  streets,  well-kept  lawns,  orange  groves  and 
handsome  modern  residences  take  the  place  of 
farms  and  simple  ranch  houses  of  an  earlier  day, 
while  the  green  foothills  and  the  high  mountains 
beyond  continue  to  add  beauty  to  the  scene  as 
they  have  always  done. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Blondeau  is  Frances  (Kleck- 
ler)  Blondeau  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  whom  he  was 
married  in  Los  Angeles,  June  29,  1909.  In  his 
religious  affiliations  Mr.  Blondeau  is  connected 
with  the  Catholic  Church.  Fraternally  he  holds 
membership  in  the  B.  P.  O.  E.  No.  99,  and  is 
member  No.  323,  being  also  a  valued  member  of 
the  Hollywood  Board  of  Trade. 


GEORGE  W.  MAY.  While  Los  Angeles  is 
in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word  a  city  of  golden 
opportunities,  it  is  also  equally  true  that  there 
are  many  men  here  waiting  to  take  advantage 
of  these  same  openings,  and  so  it  is,  here  as  else- 
where, the  man  who  is  capable  and  brainy,  the 
man  who  sees  the  opportunity  before  his  neighbor 
sees  it,  and  who  is  then  able  to  grasp  and  hold  it 
by  the  strength  of  the  honest  and  upright  service 
that  he  renders,  will  forge  ahead  and  make  his 
mark  in  the  race  for  wealth  and  preferment. 
There  are  many  such  in  Los  Angeles,  and  among 
these  may  be  named  George  W.  May,  prominent 
contractor  and  builder,  who  has  erected  many  of 
the  handsome  residences  and  apartments  in  the 


exclusive  districts  of  the  city  during  the  past 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  May  has  won  for  himself  a 
reputation  for  reliability  and  straightforward 
dealings  that  is  the  most  valuable  asset  that  he 
possesses  and  which  is  a  certain  guarantee  of 
plenty  of  contracts  for  many  years  to  come,  and 
in  fact  as  long  as  he  continues  in  his  present  line 
of  occupation  in  this  city. 

A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  May  was  bom 
at  Scranton,  June  12,  1872,  the  son  of  John  and 
Julia  May.  His  parents  continued  to  reside  in 
Scranton  after  his  birth  and  there  he  received  his 
early  education,  attending  the  public  and  high 
schools  until  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age.  He 
then  learned  the  trade  of  a  carpenter  and  for  four 
years  followed  it,  then  accepted  a  position  with 
the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Railway  as  carpenter, 
later  becoming  foreman  of  a  construction  gang, 
which  position  he  occupied  until  1899.  It  was 
then  that  Mr.  May  came  west,  locating  in  Los 
Angeles,  where  for  four  months  he  followed  his 
trade  of  carpenter,  then  becoming  foreman  for 
P.  A.  Mulford,  the  contractor,  remaining  in  his 
employ  for  a  year.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he 
engaged  in  the  building  and  contracting  business 
for  himself,  meeting  with  much  success,  especially 
in  the  erection  of  residences.  In  1909  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  H.  G.  Grimwood  under  the 
firm  name  of  May  &  Grimwood,  the  business 
being  still  conducted  by  them  under  this  name. 
They  have  met  with  more  than  customary  suc- 
cess. Many  handsome  residences  have  been 
erected  by  them  and  also  many  apartment  houses 
involving  the  expenditure  of  many  thousands  of 
dollars.  Among  the  residences  constructed  by 
them  are  those  of  Dr.  George  H.  Hunter,  Edward 
Trinkeller,  A.  G.  Stoll  and  H.  H.  Cox,  while 
among  their  list  of  apartment  houses  may  be 
mentioned  the  Barker,  located  at  Eleventh  and 
Beacon  streets,  and  costing  $30,000 ;  the  Shuster, 
costing  $36,000;  the  lone,  Thirtieth  and  Flower 
streets,  costing  $40,000;  the  Anise,  at  Venice, 
costing  $25,000;  and  the  May,  costing  $20,000. 
Another  well  known  building  erected  by  this  firm 
is  the  sanatorium  at  Fourth  and  St.  Louis  streets ; 
the  warehouse  for  John  R.  Smurr,  the  garage  for 
Warren  &  Kepler  and  the  St.  Elmo  cigar  factory, 
while  the  residence  of  Dodd,  the  contractor,  cost- 
ing $20,000,  is  now  under  construction. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  May  occurred  in  Scran- 
ton, Pa.,  in  October,  1897,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Grace  Yale,  of  that  city.    They  have  become  the 


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parents  of  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 
Of  these  the  son,  Cecil,  is  fourteen  years  of  age, 
and  the  daughter,  Viola,  is  a  charming  child  of 
seven.  They  are  both  attending  the  Los  Angeles 
public  schools.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  May  have 
many  friends  throughout  the  city.  Mr.  May  is  a 
Mason,  and  a  member  of  Los  Angeles  Lodge 
No.  42.  In  his  political  views  he  is  a  Democrat, 
and  while  never  striving  for  official  preferment, 
he  has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  all  the 
affairs  of  his  party  and  has  supported  their 
policies  unfalteringly.  He  is  active  in  all  ques- 
tions that  pertain  to  the  welfare  of  the  city  gen- 
erally, being  especially  keen  on  educational  ques- 
tions, and  matters  of  social  and  moral  betterment. 
His  faith  in  the  future  of  the  city  and  of  the 
southwest  generally  is  unqualified,  and  from  time 
to  time  he  invests  in  city  real  estate,  feeling  cer- 
tain that  the  values  are  sure  to  increase  steadily 
and  surely  throughout  the  coming  years  and  that 
every  cent  invested  in  realty  in  this  part  of  the 
state  is  absolutely  certain  to  return  to  the  investor 
many  fold  within  a  very  short  time. 


GEN.  CARL  F.  A.  LAST.  Although  born  on 
an  historic  island  in  the  Baltic  Sea,  belonging  to 
Germany,  which  was  held  by  the  Swedes  for  a 
number  of  years  at  the  time  of  the  Thirty  Years 
War  and  which  dates  yet  farther  back  into  history 
with  its  ancient  mounds  known  as  the  graves  of 
the  Hunds,  the  recollections  of  Gen.  C.  F.  A.  Last, 
now  of  Los  Angeles,  do  not  extend  back  to  his 
native  country,  he  having  come  to  the  United 
States  in  infancy.  General  Last  was  born  October 
17,  1861,  at  the  island  of  Riigen,  a  place  devoted 
to  fisheries  and  the  exporting  of  grain  and  cattle, 
where  his  father  was  a  gentleman  farmer.  The 
father  of  General  Last  was  born  in  Berlin  and 
received  his  education  in  his  native  land,  where  he 
served  ten  years  in  the  German  army,  and  served 
during  the  revolution  of  1848.  After  that  he  re- 
moved to  Riigen,  where  he  remained  until  1862, 
removing  then  to  the  United  States,  when  his  son 
was  only  a  year  old.  The  memories  of  General 
Last,  therefore,  do  not  go  back  to  Germany,  his 
own  birthplace  and  that  of  his  parents,  Carl  J.  C. 
and  Louise  (Lemmen)  Last,  but  are  confined  to 
his  new  home,  America,  where  the  family  first 


settled  near  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  the  father  continu- 
ing farming  there  until  the  year  1868. 

In  the  year  last  mentioned  the  family  removed 
to  San  Francisco,  and  thence  to  Santa  Cruz 
Island,  Cal.,  where  the  father  was  in  charge  of 
the  island  for  six  months,  after  which  he  was 
engaged  in  ranching  in  San  Mateo  county,  Cal., 
until  1871,  at  which  time  he  removed  to  San 
Francisco,  where  he  lived  in  retirement  from 
business  cares  until  his  death  in  1886.  The  educa- 
tion of  the  son,  C.  F.  A.  Last,  was  received  in 
the  public  schools  of  Wisconsin  and  of  San  Fran- 
cisco until  the  age  of  thirteen,  when  he  took  up 
the  study  of  engraving  and  worked  at  that  trade 
for  four  and  a  half  years.  He  then  turned  to 
clerking,  being  employed  a  year  in  a  wholesale 
tea  house  and  seven  years  in  a  wholesale  liquor 
house.  Coming  to  Los  Angeles,  he  continued  in 
the  liquor  business,  buying  out  Joe  Bayer  &  Co. 
and  re-establishing  the  firm  under  the  name  of 
Joe  Bayer  &  Co.,  Bayer  remaining  as  his  partner 
until  1891,  when  his  interest  was  bought  out  by 
F.  E.  Fisk  and  the  firm  name  changed  to  Last 
&  Fisk.  After  a  year  General  Last  bought  out 
Mr.  Fisk  and  in  1908  incorporated  the  business 
under  the  name  of  C.  F.  A.  Last  Company,  of 
which  he  has  been  the  president  ever  since,  the 
company  dealing  in  both  general  wholesale  and 
retail  liquor.  It  is  also  worthy  of  note  that  with 
his  partner,  Joseph  Bayer,  General  Last  sunk  the 
first  oil  well  in  Los  Angeles  in  1893. 

The  marriage  of  General  Last  took  place  in 
San  Francisco,  December  30,  1886,  uniting  him 
with  Miss  Agnes  W.  Menzies,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  one  son,  Stewart  Menzies  Last,  twenty- 
three  years  of  age  and  the  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  C.  F.  A.  Last  Company.  In  his  political 
interests  General  Last  espouses  the  Republican 
cause,  and  his  religious  affiliations  are  with  the 
Lutheran  church.  Besides  being  a  Mason,  in 
which  order  he  has  held  the  office  of  master  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Lodge  No.  42  for  four  years, 
which  is  very  unusual,  and  a  past  high  priest  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Chapter  No.  33,  he  is  also  fra- 
ternally connected  with  the  Elks  and  the  Eagles, 
and  is  a  member  of  several  social  clubs,  namely, 
the  California  Club,  the  Jonathan  Club,  Los 
Angeles,  the  Recreation  Gun  Club,  Venice,  and 
the  Army  and  Navy  and  Union  League  Clubs, 
San  Francisco.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
Greenway  Land  and  Water  Company  of  Orange 
county,   Cal.,   and   the   Lux   Land   Company    of 


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San  Diego  county,  Cal,  and  was  in  1895  ap- 
pointed Brigadier-General  of  the  First  Brigade  of 
National  Guard  of  California. 


HORACE  D.  SACKETT.  Coming  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1887  and  locating  at  Hollywood  when 
that  now  beautiful  portion  of  Los  Angeles  was 
a  country  village  without  lights,  telephones,  paved 
streets,  or  other  modern  improvements,  Horace 
D.  Sackett  has  since  made  his  home  there,  watch- 
ing the  marvelous  growth  made  by  the  vicinity, 
and  taking  an  active  and  influential  part  in  this 
same  growth  and  development,  contributing  his 
full  share  of  strength,  energy  and  abihty  toward 
making  Hollywood  what  it  is  today.  He  located 
in  the  very  heart  of  the  present  business  district, 
at  Hollywood  boulevard  and  Cahuenga  avenue. 
He  built  the  first  modern  business  block  in  Holly- 
wood, a  three-story  structure,  with  twenty-eight 
rooms  and  three  stores  on  the  ground  floor.  There 
he  himself  engaged  in  the  merchandise  business 
until  1909,  conducting  a  first-class  general  store 
and  meeting  with  more  than  customary  success. 
His  interests  prospered,  his  property  increased 
greatly  in  value,  and  other  real  estate  was 
purchased  from  time  to  time.  Since  dispos- 
ing of  his  mercantile  interests  in  1909  Mr. 
Sackett  has  devoted  himself  to  the  care  and 
management  of  his  private  interests.  He  has 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  public  affairs  of  Holly- 
wood and  Los  Angeles  for  many  years  and  is 
recognized  as  a  man  of  ability  and  worth.  He  is 
a  stanch  Democrat  and  is  keenly  interested  in 
questions  of  political  import,  and  especially  those 
that  have  any  bearing  on  local  matters. 

Mr.  Sackett  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  born 
at  Blandford,  December  29,  1843,  the  son  of 
Leverett  and  Mary  (Culver)  Sackett.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town, 
and  when  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  he  went 
to  Sufiield,  Conn.,  and  there  engaged  in  the  gen- 
eral merchandise  business  and  in  farming  for 
several  years,  meeting  with  much  success.  The 
mercantile  lines,  however,  appealed  more  strongly 
to  him,  and  when  he  came  to  California  in  1887 
he  returned  to  his  former  occupation,  and  con- 
tinued therein  until  his  retirement  from  general 
commercial  activities. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Sackett  occurred  January 
15,  1873,  his  wife  being  Miss  Ellen  M.  Lyman, 


at  Suffield,  Conn.,  where  their  marriage  was 
solemnized.  They  have  become  the  parents  of 
five  children,  three  daughters  and  two  sons,  the 
older  of  whom,  William  Henry,  is  now  deceased. 
The  other  children  are:  Mary  M.,  formerly 
assistant  postmistress  at  Hollywood;  Zella,  now 
Mrs.  George  H.  Dunlop ;  Emily  L.,  now  Mrs. 
F.  Nutting;  and  Warren  L. 


PATRICK  JOSEPH  O'CONNOR.  Born  in 
Kilfenora,  County  Clare,  Ireland,  February  2, 
1860,  Patrick  Joseph  O'Connor  was  the  son  of 
Patrick  and  Mary  (Fitzpatrick)  O'Connor.  He 
was  educated  in  his  native  country  until  the  age 
of  fourteen  years,  and  worked  on  the  stock  farm 
of  his  father,  who  was  a  farmer.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  left  his  native  land  and  came  to  the 
United  States,  locating  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  which 
was  his  home  for  eight  years.  Of  this  time  six 
years  were  devoted  to  the  undertaking  business, 
which  later  became  his  lifework. 

In  1889  Mr.  O'Connor  came  to  Los  Angeles 
and  for  eight  years  was  employed  by  the  Los 
Angeles  Street  Railway  Company,  he  being  one 
of  the  original  fourteen  men  employed  by  the 
company.  He  then  established  himself  in  the 
undertaking  business  at  Fifth  and  Main  streets, 
Los  Angeles,  in  partnership  with  T.  J.  Cunning- 
ham, under  the  firm  name  of  Cunningham  & 
O'Connor.  In  1906  they  moved  to  handsome  new 
quarters  at  No.  1031  South  Grand  avenue,  where 
they  erected  one  of  the  most  modern  undertaking 
establishments  in  the  United  States. 

In  1892  Mr.  O'Connor  built  the  first  modern 
cottage  between  Eleventh  and  Twelfth  streets  on 
Grand  avenue,  and  here  he  has  resided  ever  since. 
He  was  married  in  Los  Angeles,  June  14,  1893, 
to  Margaret  Daly,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
five  children,  namely:  Joseph  Allen  and  Robert 
Emmett,  both  of  whom  are  taking  the  general 
business  and  regular  collegiate  courses  at  St. 
Mary's  College,  Oakland,  Cal. ;  Mary  and  Mar- 
garet, who  attend  the  Sisters'  School,  Los  An- 
geles ;  and  Patrick  Edward.  Besides  being  suc- 
cessful in  the  undertaking  business,  Mr.  O'Connor 
has  done  considerable  business  in  real  estate  since 
coming  to  California.  In  his  religious  affiliations 
he  is  a  Catholic,  being  a  member  of  St.  Vincent's 
church,  and  politically  he  is  allied  with  the  Re- 
publican party.    In  the  line  of  his  profession  he 


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holds  membership  in  the  Funeral  Directors'  As- 
sociation of  California,  which  he  served  for  a 
term  as  state  president,  and  is  at  present  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  transportation.  Fraternally 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibern- 
ians, Lodge  No.  99,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  the  Knights  and 
Ladies  of  Security,  and  the  Catholic  Order  of 
Foresters,  and  is  an  officer  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Assembly  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 


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 
has  risen  we  find  that  he  owes  much  to  a  "sound 
mind  in  a  sound  body,"  for  he  inherited  from  a 
long  line  of  Scotch  ancestors  a  robust  constitution, 
remarkable  power  of  will,  and  a  mind  responsive 
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  America 
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  expenses  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  prac- 
tice 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  successors,  but  also  it  brought  him  before 
the  public  in  such  a  favorable  light  that  his  name 
was  deemed  worthy  of  consideration  for  higher 
offices.  In  1894  the  seventh  district  chose  him 
to  be  its  representative  in  the  Fifty-fourth  Con- 
gress, 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  received  nineteen  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  seven  votes,  while  the  Democratic  can- 
didate, Carl  Alexander  Johnson,  received  eight 
thousand  and  seventy-five;  the  Socialist  candi- 
date, 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  was  re-elected  to  the  Sixtieth  Congress, 
and  was  later  honored  by  election  to  the  Sixty- 
first.  During  his  ten  years'  service  on  the  River 
and  Harbor  Committee  he  worked  indefatigably 
to  obtain  the  harbor  at  San  Pedro,  for  which  he 
secured  an  appropriation  of  $6,000,000,  and  an 
appropriation  of  $1,000,000  for  a  postoffice  at  Los 
Angeles.  In  1910  he  gave  a  telling  speech  in  Con- 
gress entitled  "Our  Unpreparedness  for  War," 
which  has  been  styled  the  keynote  speech  on  this 


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subject.  It  provoked  considerable  discussion  at 
the  time,  but  in  view  of  present  conditions  it  has 
become  prophetic.  In  every  association  of  states- 
manship his  uprightness  and  sincerity  of  purpose 
have  never  been  questioned,  even  by  those  whose 
opinions  bring  them  into  affihation  with  other 
parties  than  his  own. 

On  the  26th  of  December,  1887,  Mr.  McLachlan 
was  married  to  Minnie  J.  Jones  of  Groton,  N.  Y., 
and  they  came  to  California  on  their  wedding  trip. 
They  had  no  intention  of  remaining,  but  finally 
concluded  to  make  Pasadena  their  permanent 
home.  Mr.  McLachlan  did  not  return  east  again 
until  seven  years  later,  when  he  went  to  Wash- 
ington as  representative  to  Congress.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Lachlan died  of  pneumonia  January  30,  1907, 
while  Mr.  McLachlan  was  hastening  home  from 
Washington  to  be  at  her  bedside.  Four  children 
were  born  of  the  union  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Lachlan: Anita  J.  is  now  the  wife  of  Ralph 
Reynolds,  manager  of  the  Los  Angeles  Automo- 
bile Club;  Gladys  K.  is  the  wife  of  Gardner  B. 
Towne,  who  is  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business 
in  Los  Angeles ;  and  Marjorie  J.,  the  widow  of 
Harvey  S.  Bissell,  resides  at  La  Crescenta.  The 
only  son  is  Douglas  J.  The  family  occupy  a  com- 
fortable residence  on  the  corner  of  Marengo  and 
California,  Pasadena,  set  in  the  midst  of  a  well- 
kept  lawn  and  attractive  surroundings. 


WILLIAM  J.  HUNSAKER.  A  history  of 
Los  Angeles  would  be  incomplete  without  includ- 
ing the  name  of  William  J.  Hunsaker,  who  ranks 
among  the  leading  attorneys  of  the  state  and  who 
for  almost  twenty-five  years  has  been  closely 
identified  with  legal  aiTairs  of  import,  handling 
many  cases  involving  great  issues.  Eminently 
qualified  for  the  profession  by  reason  of  his  im- 
partial, inherent  qualities,  his  keen  judgment  and 
knowledge  of  the  law,  he  has  served  long  and 
well,  his  achievements  justly  meriting  the  appro- 
bation which  he  has  enjoyed  throughout  his 
career. 

Into  the  home  of  Nicholas  and  Lois  E.  (Hast- 
ings) Hunsaker  at  Contra  Costa  county,  Cal., 
was  born  William  J.  Hunsaker  in  1855.  His 
father,  who  crossed  the  plains  in  1847,  settled 
along  the  eastern  shore  of  San  Francisco  Bay, 
where  the  family  remained  until  1869,  at  which 
time  they  removed  to   San  Diego,  then  but  a 


small  village.  There  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
received  most  of  his  education,  attendance  at  the 
public  schools  being  supplemented  by  the  study 
of  law  under  Major  Leon  Chase  and  A.  C.  Baker, 
afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  Arizona.  That  even 
at  that  early  period  of  his  career  Mr.  Hunsaker 
showed  ability  and  application  far  above  that  of 
the  average  boy  may  be  safely  judged  from  the 
fact  that  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876,  when 
be  was  just  twenty-one.  Here  the  young  attorney 
made  splendid  progress,  winning  the  confidence 
of  his  fellow-citizens,  who  in  1882  chose  him  for 
district  attorney.  In  this  capacity  he  served  two 
years,  declining  renomination. 

In  1892  Mr.  Hunsaker  removed  from  San 
Diego  to  Los  Angeles  in  order  to  broaden  his 
interests  and  take  up  a  more  active  career.  He 
was  soon  appointed  solicitor  for  the  Santa  Fe 
Railroad  Company,  which  position  he  filled  for  a 
number  of  years,  subsequently  relinquishing  these 
duties  to  engage  in  the  general  practice  of  the 
law.  During  the  past  decade  and  more  Mr.  Hun- 
saker has  handled  many  notable  cases  in  state 
and  federal  courts,  some  of  which  were  concerned 
with  civic  affairs. 

Mr.  Hunsaker's  home  is  situated  in  the  San 
Gabriel  valley,  on  a  part  of  the  Sunnyslope  ranch, 
formerly  the  property  of  the  late  L.  J.  Rose,  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  portions  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  was  married  early  in  life  to  Florence 
Virginia  McFarland.  Four  children  were  born  of 
this  union,  viz.,  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Brill,  Mrs.  Rose 
H.  Lashbrooke,  Daniel  M.  and  Miss  Florence 
King  Hunsaker. 

Mr.  Hunsaker  is  an  active  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  in  social  circles  being  af- 
filiated with  the  California,  the  Jonathan  and  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs.  He  has  served  as 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association, 
California  Bar  Association  and  Los  Angeles  City 
Club. 


JOSEPH  P.  DUPUY.  That  Los  Angeles  is 
the  great  musical  center  of  the  Pacific  coast,  and 
one  of  the  great  musical  centers  of  the  world,  is 
an  acknowledged  fact,  and  no  small  part  of  this 
distinction  is  due  to  Joseph  P.  Dupuy,  who  came 
first  to  this  city  when  he  was  only  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  in  1887,  as  soloist  for  St.  Paul's 
Pro-Cathedral.  He  has  not  been  constantly  in 
the  city  since  that  time,  having  spent  some  time 


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abroad  in  study  and  also  having  taught  in  the 
University  of  New  Mexico  for  a  time,  but  never- 
theless he  has  been  especially  active  in  the  devel- 
opment of  musical  affairs  in  this  city  and  has 
given  a  constant  impetus  to  the  artistic  life  of  the 
western  metropolis.  He  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1897  and  since  that  time  has  made  his  perma- 
nent home  here  and  has  been  constantly  on  the 
alert  for  an  opportunity  to  serve  the  cause  to 
which  he  has  devoted  his  great  talents.  He  was 
instrumental  in  securing  the  first  subscription  for 
the  first  Symphony  Orchestra,  which  has  since 
proven  such  a  great  success,  and  was  one  of  the 
committee  for  the  re-organization  of  the  Ellis 
Club.  He  was  on  the  committee  that  founded  the 
California  Music  Teachers'  Association  and  is 
now  state  director  of  this  organization.  He  is 
also  a  charter  member  of  the  Gamut  Club,  and 
was  the  founder  and  first  director  of  the  Orpheus 
Club.  He  has  pioneered  in  the  musical  fields  of 
Los  Angeles  for  many  years  and  his  ability  and 
devotion  are  recognized  by  the  music  teachers  and 
artists  of  the  state,  as  is  evidenced  by  his  election 
as  director  of  the  state  association. 

Mr.  Dupuy  is  a  native  of  France,  having  been 
born  in  Bordeaux,  in  February,  1865,  the  son  of 
Leon  and  Elise  (La  Boix)  Dupuy,  both  natives  of 
France.  Mr.  Dupuy  attended  the  private  schools 
of  his  native  province  until  he  was  seven  years 
of  age,  when  his  parents  removed  to  the  United 
States,  locating  in  Chicago.  There  again  he  at- 
tended private  schools  until  he  was  sixteen.  Then 
he  returned  to  France  and  studied  music  and 
languages  until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age.  Re- 
turning to  Chicago  he  sang  in  church  choirs  and 
appeared  in  many  concerts  until  the  time  of  his 
coming  to  Los  Angeles,  two  years  later.  He  re- 
mained as  soloist  at  St.  Paul's  Pro-Cathedral  until 
1892,  when  he  went  east,  singing  in  opera  and 
concert  for  two  years,  and  then  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  head  of  the  musical  department  of  the 
University  of  New  Mexico.  He  remained  in  this 
position  until  in  1897,  when  he  returned  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home,  teach- 
ing, doing  concert  and  choir  work,  and  generally 
promoting  the  musical  life  of  the  city  of  his 
adoption. 

Mr.  Dupuy  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors of  the  Los  Angeles  branch  of  the  American 
Opera  Association,  and  a  vice-president  of  the 
National  Federation  of  Musical  Clubs,  and  it  was 
through  the  herculean  efforts  of  said  board  (F. 


W.  Blanchard,  president;  Mrs.  W.  H.  Jamison, 
secretary;  L.  E.  Behymer,  J.  P.  Dupuy,  Dr. 
Norman  Bridge  and  Mrs.  Gertrude  Parsons)  that 
the  Ninth  Biennial  Convention  and  Festival  of 
the  said  National  Federation  of  Musical  Clubs 
was  secured  for  Los  Angeles  for  1915.  This  con- 
vention and  festival  was  held  at  Los  Angeles 
from  June  24  to  July  3,  1915,  at  which  was  given 
the  premiere  production  of  the  $10,000  prize 
American  opera,  "Fairyland,"  by  Horatio  W. 
Parker  and  Brian  Hooker.  This  was  America's 
greatest  musical  event  during  the  year.  There 
was  a  chorus  of  five  hundred  trained  voices, 
eighty  vocal  artists  and  soloists  and  an  orchestra 
of  sixty  pieces,  all  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Hertz,  for  fifteen  years  past  director  of  the  Metro- 
politan Grand  Opera  in  New  York  city. 

This  effort  cost  Los  Angeles  $50,000,  $10,- 
000  of  which  was  paid  as  a  prize  for  the  best 
opera  in  the  English  language  submitted  by  an 
American  composer  residing  in  the  United  States. 
This  great  sum  was  raised  entirely  by  Los 
Angeles  musicians  and  public  spirited  citizens,  a 
fact  which  shows  that  Los  Angeles  is  becoming 
a  great  American  music  center,  particularly  so 
when  it  is  remembered  that  Los  Angeles  offers  a 
prize  of  $10,000  every  four  years  for  the  best 
American  opera  by  an  American  composer. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Dupuy  occurred  in  Albu- 
querque, N.  M.,  while  he  was  at  the  state  uni- 
versity, the  bride  being  Miss  Ruth  Jenks,  of  that 
city,  the  marriage  being  solemnized  in  the  year 
1895.  Of  this  union  have  been  born  two  sons, 
both  of  whom  are  giving  rare  promise  of  musical 
ability.  The  elder,  Leon,  now  eighteen  years  of 
age,  is  a  student  at  Manual  Arts  High  School, 
where  he  stands  high  in  musical  circles.  He  is  a 
member  of  three  musical  clubs  and  sings  in  the 
Manual  Arts  Glee  Club.  The  younger  son, 
Reginald,  aged  eleven  years,  is  a  pianist  of  ability, 
and  is  still  a  student  in  the  grammar  schools. 

Mr.  Dupuy  has  formed  a  wide  circle  of  personal 
friends  and  is  a  general  favorite  with  the  musical 
lovers  of  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masons, 
being  affiliated  with  the  Valle  de  France  Lodge. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  and  has 
been  prominent  in  musical  circles  in  that  denomi- 
nation. In  his  political  preferences  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat, and  while  forming  his  opinions  on  the 
broad  basis  of  ability  and  worth,  he  has  given 
his  support  to  all  that  he  deems  best  for  the  ulti- 
mate welfare  of  the  city. 


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JOHN  BARNETT  HOLTZCLAW.  Though 
starting  in  a  small  way  in  the  decorating  and 
house  furnishing  business  in  the  Johnson  block, 
Los  Angeles,  with  one  small  store  room  facing  on 
Hill  street,  the  business  of  John  Barnett  Holtzclaw 
increased  to  such  an  extent  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  seek  larger  quarters,  the  new  location 
being  at  No.  347  South  Hill  street,  where  he 
occupied  a  space  of  three  floors  and  basement 
with  adjoining  workshops  in  the  rear.  At  this 
time  a  partnership  was  formed,  the  firm  name 
being  Holtzclaw,  Allen  &  Co.  The  business  was 
conducted  under  this  name  for  four  years,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  Mr.  Holtzclaw  disposed  of 
his  interests  in  said  business,  and  later  on  entered 
into  the  same  line  of  business  with  offices  and 
studios  at  No.  632  Metropolitan  building,  at 
Fifth  street  and  Broadway,  Los  Angeles.  Having 
associated  himself  with  some  of  the  finest  firms 
in  the  east  and  abroad,  Mr.  Holtzclaw  represents 
them  as  manufacturers'  agent  for  their  lines  of 
hand-made  furniture,  imported  rugs,  wall  papers 
and  upholstery  fabrics.  His  plan  for  securing 
large  decorating  contracts  is  unique,  in  that  he 
does  not  carry  large  stocks  of  the  various  lines, 
but  only  samples  and  examples  of  the  finest  things 
to  be  had.  Special  plans  and  drawings  for  in- 
terior furnishings  are  submitted  exactly  as  an 
architect  submits  plans  for  the  building  of  the 
house  proper.  Mr.  Holtzclaw  holds  a  very  en- 
viable position  in  the  decorative  trade  in  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country,  and  has  to  his  credit  the 
decorating  and  furnishing  of  many  of  the  finest 
residences,  banks,  theaters  and  hotels  on  this 
coast. 

A  native  of  Indiana,  Mr.  Holtzclaw  was  bom 
at  Bloomfield  May  10,  1870,  his  father  being 
Dr.  Z.  T.  Holtzclaw.  His  early  education  was 
received  in  Indiana,  after  which  he  began  his 
career  in  the  decorating  line  with  Eastman, 
Schleicher  &  Lee,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.  Later  he 
became  decorator  and  buyer  for  the  Badger 
Furniture  Company  of  that  city.  In  the  year  of 
1903  Mr.  Holtzclaw  disposed  of  his  interests  in 
the  east  and  came  to  Los  Angeles,  at  which  time 
he  engaged  in  the  decorating  and  house  furnishing 
business,  which  occupation  he  has  continued. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Holtzclaw  to  Miss  Jessie 
E.  Dunn  was  solemnized  in  Chicago,  June  3,  1901, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters,  Vir- 
ginia and  Marjorie,  both  of  whom  attend  the 
public  schools  of  this  city.    In  his  political  inter- 


ests Mr.  Holtzclaw  is  allied  with  the  Progressive 
party,  and  his  religious  association  is  with  the 
Fifth  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  of  Los  Angeles. 


JOSEPH  D.  RADFORD.  Commencing  his 
banking  career  when  he  was  a  boy  of  eighteen 
years,  and  having  been  associated  with  this  line 
of  work  continually  since  that  time,  Joseph  D. 
Radford  is  today  recognized  as  one  of  the  fore- 
most bankers  in  Los  Angeles,  if  not  in  California. 
At  various  times  since  taking  up  his  permanent 
residence  here  he  has  been  associated  with  the 
different  leading  banks  in  an  official  capacity  of 
trust  and  power,  and  has  won  the  high  esteem 
both  of  his  business  associates  and  of  the  patrons 
of  the  banks. 

Mr.  Radford  is  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  having 
been  born  at  Fond  du  Lac,  April  14,  1857.  He 
is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Frances  (Taylor)  Rad- 
ford, well  known  residents  of  the  community.  His 
youth  was  spent  in  his  native  village,  where  he 
received  his  education,  attending  the  public  and 
high  schools  and  graduating  in  1875.  Immediate- 
ly after  this  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Fond  du  Lac  as  a  messenger, 
this  being  his  first  introduction  to  commercial  life, 
and  the  commencement  of  a  long  and  honorable 
career  in  the  banking  business.  His  service  was 
such  that  later  he  was  given  the  position  of  book- 
keeper for  the  bank,  where  he  remained  for  a 
number  of  years.  In  1883  he  went  to  Bozeman, 
Mont.,  where  he  was  bookkeeper  and  assistant 
cashier  for  Nelson  Storey  Bank  until  1896. 

It  was  in  1896  that  Mr.  Radford  came  to  Los 
Angeles  and  became  assistant  cashier  of  the 
National  Bank  of  California,  which  position  he 
held  until  1899.  At  that  time  he  moved  to  San 
Jose,  Cal.,  where  he  had  accepted  the  position 
of  cashier  of  the  Garden  City  Bank  and  Trust 
Company.  He  acted  in  this  capacity  until  1902, 
when  he  was  elected  cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  San  Jose,  remaining  in  this  position  until 
1904,  at  which  time  he  was  made  president,  re- 
maining until  1907.  At  this  time  he  resigned  his 
position  and  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  becoming 
vice-president  of  the  German-American  Savings 
Bank.  Resigning  from  this  position  in  1911,  he 
became  vice-president  of  the  Hibernian  Savings 
Bank,  which  office  he  filled  until  1915,  then  be- 


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came  vice-president  of  the  Traders  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  Radford  has  risen  steadily  and  surely  in 
the  line  of  his  chosen  work  and  today  occupies 
an  enviable  position  among  the  bankers  of  the 
state.  He  has  served  as  president  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Bankers  Association  and  is  widely  known 
throughout  the  state  as  a  man  of  sterling  worth, 
and  also  for  his  comprehensive  grasp  of  the  bank- 
ing situation  throughout  the  state  and  the 
nation. 

Locally  Mr.  Radford  is  associated  with  many 
of  the  movements  for  the  betterment  of  civic  con- 
ditions and  has  always  been  decidedly  pro- 
gressive in  his  attitude  on  municipal  affairs.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Playground  Com- 
mittee (now  serving  his  third  term  as  president), 
which  has  through  its  efforts  made  this  city  the 
most  progressive  in  the  west  in  the  matter  of 
public  playgrounds,  and  a  model  in  this  line.  An- 
other public  service  which  has  been  rendered  by 
him  was  through  his  work  as  chairman  of  the 
committee  for  celebrating  the  opening  of  the 
Owens  River  Aqueduct  in  the  fall  of  1913,  which 
was  one  of  the  historical  events  of  the  city,  wit- 
nessed and  applauded  by  many  thousands  of 
people  from  all  over  Southern  California. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Radford  occurred  in  Los 
Angeles  in  1908,  when  he  was  united  with  Mrs. 
Florence  (Rivers)  Stowell,  of  this  city.  Both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Radford  are  well  known  socially 
throughout  the  more  exclusive  circles  of  the  city, 
and  both  are  members  of  a  number  of  the  more 
prominent  clubs.  Mr.  Radford  is  associated  with 
the  work  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  with 
other  municipal  and  federated  city  clubs,  and  is  a 
director  of  the  State  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Mrs.  Radford 
is  a  member  of  the  Temple  Baptist  Church,  while 
Mr.  Radford  is  a  member  of  the  Emmanuel  Pres- 
byterian. 


ARTEMISIA  S.  VERMILION.  For  the 
past  twenty-five  years  Mrs.  Artemisia  Vermilion 
has  lived  in  Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  the 
first  ten  years  of  her  residence  in  this  state  having 
been  spent  in  Pasadena,  after  which,  together 
with  her  son,  Harry  W.,  she  improved  their  prop- 
erty on  Chester  place,  Los  Angeles,  and  planned 
the  splendid  mansion  there  where  they  since 
lived,  and  where  the  death  of  her  son  occurred  in 
1914. 


Born  in  southern  Ohio,  Mrs.  Vermilion  was 
the  daughter  of  David  Sinton,  a  wealthy  hardware 
merchant  of  that  state,  and  Morgan  McElfrish, 
the  mother  dying  when  the  daughter  was  but 
three  years  old.  Mrs.  Vermilion  received  her  edu- 
cation at  the  Methodist  Ladies'  School  near 
Columbus,  Ohio,  and  became  the  wife  of  Town- 
send  Brady  Vermilion,  a  native  of  Virginia,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  years,  in  Evansville, 
Ind.,  after  an  extensive  business  experience  in 
Ohio  and  Missouri,  and  was  buried  with  Masonic 
honors,  he  having  been  a  member  of  the  Royal 
Arch  Masons.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vermilion  were  the 
parents  of  four  children,  all  now  deceased,  two 
of  whom  lived  to  grow  up,  namely,  Harry  W., 
who  throughout  life  made  his  home  with  his 
mother,  and  was  a  railway  man  of  note,  with 
hundreds  of  friends  among  railway  men ;  and 
Lillys  H.,  who  married  into  the  Gottschalk  fam- 
ily, and  whose  son  David  was  adopted  by  his 
grandmother,  under  the  name  of  David  Vermilion, 
upon  the  death  of  his  mother  several  years  ago. 

Mrs.  Vermilion  has  traveled  extensively,  hav- 
ing been  all  over  the  United  States,  and  nearly 
always  accompanied  by  her  son  Harry,  whose  re- 
cent death  proved  almost  her  death  also,  she  car- 
ing for  little  else  than  her  son.  Harry  W.  Ver- 
milion came  to  this  city  twenty-five  years  ago 
as  a  representative  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Rail- 
way, and  was  well  known  as  a  local  representa- 
tive of  the  Gould  railway  system,  as  well  as  being 
a  member  of  the  California  and  Los  Angeles 
Country  Clubs.  At  his  death  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
two  years,  at  the  home  on  Chester  place,  Mrs. 
Vermilion  received  many  letters  of  condolence 
from  railway  officials,  from  the  president  of  the 
road  as  well  as  from  those  in  lower  offices,  ex- 
pressions of  the  high  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Ver- 
milion was  held  by  his  associates.  When  her  only 
daughter  died  several  years  ago,  leaving  one  son, 
David  Gottschalk,  a  grand  nephew  of  Judge  Gott- 
schalk, late  of  Los  Angeles,  Mrs.  Vermilion 
adopted  the  boy,  and  has  given  him  a  careful  edu- 
cation, he  being  now  especially  well  versed  in 
history  and  philosophy.  Assuming  his  grand- 
mother's name,  Vermilion,  he  makes  his  home 
with  her  in  her  beautiful  residence.  The  library 
contains  the  large  collection  of  books  left  by  the 
son,  Harry  W.  Vermilion,  among  them  being  ex- 
pensive editions  of  the  most  famous  English  and 
American  authors. 


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ROLLIN  W.  GRANNIS.  The  firm  of  Gran- 
nis  &  Son,  contractors  and  builders  of  Hermosa 
Beach,  Cal.,  has  for  its  head  a  man  who  has  had 
wide  experience  along  the  line  of  contracting  and 
building  in  many  cities  of  the  United  States  and 
her  possessions,  among  the  latter  being  Honolulu, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  construction  work  for 
five  years. 

The  early  life  of  Rollin  W.  Grannis,  the  head 
of  the  firm  of  Grannis  &  Son,  was  spent  in  Chi- 
cago, where  he  moved  with  his  parents  at  the  age 
of  three  months,  having  been  born  in  New  York 
state  in  May,  1836.  Mr.  Grannis'  education  was 
received  in  Chicago,  where  his  father  was  a  large 
land  owner,  at  one  time  owning  and  ranching  on 
the  land  where  the  Chicago  World's  Fair  was 
held  later.  The  son  learned  the  trade  of  carpen- 
ter, later  becoming  a  contractor  and  builder  in 
Chicago,  where  many  of  the  business  blocks  now 
standing  on  Michigan  and  Wabash  avenues  and 
Madison  and  Randolph  streets  were  erected  by 
him. 

In  October,  1872,  Mr.  Grannis  came  to  Califor- 
nia and  settled  in  Oakland,  where  he  engaged  in 
building  and  erected  the  homes  of  General  Hou- 
ten,  Professor  Moe,  Mr.  Meyers  and  many  others 
in  the  bay  cities,  and  also  engaged  in  construction 
work  on  the  Oakland  Bank  of  Savings  block.  Re- 
moving to  Bakersfield,  Cal.,  he  built  the  first 
court  house  in  that  city,  after  which  he  spent  five 
years  in  construction  work  in  Honolulu,  erecting 
there  the  home  of  Chief  Justice  Harris  and  many 
other  fine  residences,  the  first  fireproof  iron  front 
building  and  also  two  ice  plants. 

Coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1888,  Mr.  Grannis 
made  his  home  on  the  east  side  of  the  city,  where 
he  built  many  residences.  He  devoted  much  time 
to  work  at  San  Fernando,  Cal.,  and  looked  up  a 
government  claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
at  Calabasas,  Cal.,  developing  one  hundred  acres 
of  the  same  in  farm  land.  This  he  sold  and  in 
1912  settled  with  his  son,  Frank  M.  Grannis,  at 
Hermosa  Beach,  where  he  is  engaged  in  construc- 
tion work  under  the  firm  name  of  Grannis  &  Son, 
contractors  and  builders.  Numerous  buildings  at 
this  beach  town  were  built  by  him,  among  them 
being  the  business  block  which  bears  his  name, 
the  Mission  Apartments  and  a  fine  home  for  Mr. 
Wilson. 

Mr.  Grannis  was  married  to  Miss  Noon  of  Chi- 
cago, and  is  the  father  of  three  sons  and  one 
daughter,  Rollin  W.  Jr.,  Walter  A.,  Frank  M., 


who  is  in  business  with  his  father  at  Hermosa 
Beach,  and  Delia  May.  He  holds  membership  in 
several  societies,  being  a  Mason  of  the  thirty- 
second  degree,  which  society  he  joined  while  liv- 
ing in  Chicago ;  a  charter  member  of  the  North- 
western Masonic  Aid,  Chicago ;  and  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Red  Men,  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  through  all  the  chairs. 


THOMAS  COLLY  SLAUGHTER.  South- 
ern California,  by  virtue  of  her  superior  climate 
and  general  desirability  as  a  residence  section, 
has  attracted  many  men  from  various  parts  of 
the  world  who  have  made  their  mark  in  their  va- 
rious lines  of  endeavor,  and  come  here  for  a  home 
and  the  pleasant  environments  to  be  found  in 
such  abundance  nowhere  else.  Among  such  may 
be  mentioned  Thomas  Colly  Slaughter,  who  since 
1911  has  been  a  resident  of  Gardena,  where  he 
owns  a  splendid  ranch  of  seventeen  acres.  He  at 
first  engaged  in  the  raising  of  thoroughbred  Hol- 
stein  cows  and  owned  a  dairy  herd  of  forty  cows, 
but  in  1914  he  disposed  of  his  cattle  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  hog  raising.  In  this  latter  line 
Mr.  Slaughter  is  an  expert  of  national  authority, 
having  been  engaged  in  hog  raising  in  Texas  on  a 
large  scale,  and  making  a  scientific  study  of  the 
subject.  He  has  addressed  the  Farmers  National 
Congress  in  Boston,  Mass.,  on  this  subject,  and 
IS  a  speaker  of  note  on  this  and  other  lines.  He 
has  also  contributed  frequently  to  the  various 
standard  agricultural  journals  of  the  country  on 
the  raising  and  care  of  live  stock,  and  his  articles 
are  eagerly  sought  and  their  advice  acknowledged 
to  be  of  the  best. 

Mr.  Slaughter  is  a  native  of  Alabama,  born  at 
Talladega,  Talladega  county,  February  5,  1859. 
His  father,  Miles  M.  Slaughter,  was  a  druggist 
and  newspaper  man  and  a  writer  of  note.  He 
followed  his  profession  at  Dodgeville  and  Opelika, 
Ala.,  serving  as  mayor  of  the  latter  city.  Later  he 
went  to  Pilot  Point,  Tex.,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  for  many  years.  The  mother 
was  Miss  Eliza  Colly  in  her  girlhood,  both  parents 
being  natives  of  Alabama,  and  both  now  deceased. 
Thomas  Colly  Slaughter  was  reared  and  educated 
at  Opelika,  Ala.,  and  his  first  business  experience 
was  in  the  freight  ofiice  of  the  Savannah  &  Mem- 
phis  Railroad,   at   Opelika.    Later  he  settled  at 


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Pilot  Point,  Tex.,  where  for  twenty-five  years 
he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  in  the  mercantile 
business.  In  1899  he  went  to  Washington  state 
and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Belling- 
ham  and  Sumas,  meeting  with  much  success.  It 
was  in  1907  that  Mr.  Slaughter  first  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  remained  for  a  time.  Later  he 
located  at  Corcoran,  Kings  county,  where  he  again 
followed  the  mercantile  business,  owning  and  op- 
erating a  department  store  there  for  two  years,  and 
also  being  engaged  in  farming.  Following  this  he 
went  to  Taft,  Kern  county,  where  he  promoted 
the  Lakeside  Oil  Company.  The  lure  of  Los  An- 
geles and  its  environs  was  always  with  him,  how- 
ever, and  in  1911  he  returned  to  establish  a  perma- 
nent home  near  this  city,  choosing  Gardena  as  the 
favored  spot. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Slaughter  occurred  in 
Texas,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Olhe  B.  Newman, 
of  that  state,  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Alex  New- 
man, a  pioneer  of  Texas,  and  for  many  years 
engaged  in  farming  and  cattle  raising  on  a  large 
scale.  Mrs.  Slaughter  has  borne  her  husband 
four  sons :  Leslie  L.,  a  graduate  of  Polytechnic 
High  School,  Los  Angeles ;  Jean  A.,  a  graduate 
of  the  same  school  and  a  printer  by  trade ;  Miles 
M.,  a  graduate  of  the  Gardena  Agricultural  High 
School ;  and  Thomas  C,  Jr.  Mr.  Slaughter  is 
well  and  favorably  known  in  Gardena,  where  he 
takes  an  active  part  in  local  affairs.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Odd  Fellows. 


ALBERT  C.  MARTIN.  One  of  the  leading 
architects  and  engineers  of  Los  Angeles,  and  a 
man  whose  work  throughout  the  west  is  standing 
the  test  of  comparison  with  the  best,  is  Albert  C. 
Martin,  who  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  members  of  his  profession.  He  has 
been  in  Los  Angeles  since  1904  and  during  that 
time  he  has  been  associated  with  the  construction 
of  some  of  the  largest  and  most  splendid  struc- 
tures in  the  city,  and  has  also  constructed  build- 
ings in  practically  every  section  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, and  even  as  far  north  as  Vancouver,  Brit- 
ish Columbia.  Mr.  Martin  combines  in  his  work 
the  qualities  of  engineer,  architect  and  structural 
expert,  in  all  of  which  he  is  thoroughly  pro- 
ficient, and  thus  has  an  advantage  over  a  com- 
petitor who  must  leave  any  of  these  vital  details 
to  another.    He  is  sought  in  the  planning  and  con- 


struction of  large  buildings  in  nearly  every  city 
in  the  west,  and  at  the  present  time  has  numerous 
large  contracts. 

Mr.  Martin  was  born  at  LaSalle,  111.,  September 
16,  1879,  a  son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Carey) 
Martin.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  LaSalle, 
where  he  received  his  education,  attending  St. 
Patrick's  parochial  school  and  graduating  in  1894. 
In  1897  he  entered  the  Architectural  and  Engi- 
neering department  of  the  University  of  Illinois, 
at  Champaign,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1902  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  Mr.  Martin  accepted  a  position  as 
draftsman  with  the  Brown-Ketcham  Iron  Works, 
of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  continuing  in  their  employ 
for  more  than  a  year,  when  he  resigned  to  enter 
another  branch  of  his  profession — that  of  testing 
steel  and  iron.  He  became  inspector  of  steel  for 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  in  the  mills 
and  shops  in  and  around  Pittsburg,  remaining  in 
this  position  for  about  a  year  and  qualifying  as  an 
expert.  Having  now  learned  all  about  the  manu- 
facture of  steel  and  iron  in  the  great  mills,  he  next 
turned  his  attention  to  steel  construction,  resigned 
his  position  with  the  railroad  company,  and  ac- 
cepted another  with  the  Cambria  Steel  Company, 
at  Johnstown,  Pa.,  now  a  branch  of  the  United 
Steel  Corporation,  and  for  a  time  was  a 
designer  and  estimator  in  steel  construction  work. 

It  was  on  January  6,  1904,  that  Mr.  Martin 
came  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  since  made  his 
home,  and  where  he  has  won  for  himself  much 
distinction  and  honor  in  his  profession.  His  de- 
cision to  come  west  was  the  result  of  a  position 
offered  him  as  superintendent  of  construction  for 
Carl  Leonardt  &  Company,  one  of  the  largest  con- 
tracting firms  of  the  west.  He  remained  with  this 
company  for  about  a  year,  and  during  that  time 
supervised  the  construction  of  some  of  the  largest 
buildings  in  Los  Angeles.  Later,  resigning  from 
that  company,  he  became  engineer  of  construction 
for  A.  F.  Rosenheim,  an  architect  of  Los  Angeles, 
remaining  with  him  for  four  years. 

It  was  in  September,  1908,  that  Mr.  Martin, 
having  resigned  from  his  position  with  Mr.  Rosen- 
heim, opened  offices  for  himself  as  an  architect 
and  engineer,  and  since  that  time  has  continued  to 
conduct  a  rapidly  increasing  business  of  his  own. 
He  has  received  many  large  commissions,  and 
during  the  past  seven  years  he  has  constructed 
several  of  the  most  noteworthy  structures  erected 


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in  Los  Angeles.  The  Higgins  office  building,  in 
Los  Angeles,  is  an  excellent  example  of  his  work, 
while  the  handsome  and  unique  court  house  at 
Ventura,  Cal.,  recently  completed,  is  another  of 
equal  merit,  both  in  design  and  construction. 

The  scope  of  Mr.  Martin's  knowledge  is  such 
that  he  is  able  to  give  personal  supervision  to 
every  detail  of  his  work,  from  the  original  designs 
to  the  placing  of  the  last  finishing  touches,  and 
including  the  expert  testing  of  every  piece  of 
steel  or  iron  that  enters  into  the  construction. 
Close  application  to  such  detail  and  originality  of 
design  have  won  him  the  confidence  and  admira- 
tion of  property  owners  and  prospective  builders, 
and  his  ideas  are  making  a  decided  impression  on 
the  building  development  of  the  Southwest. 

Aside  from  his  splendid  business  ability,  Mr. 
Martin  is  deservedly  popular  with  a  wide  circle  of 
friends.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Architects  and 
Engineers  Society  of  Los  Angeles,  president  of 
the  Southern  California  Chapter,  A.  I.  A.,  asso- 
ciate member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects, and  of  the  Los  Angeles  Architectural  Club. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Newman  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Martin  took  place  in  Ox- 
nard,  Cal.,  October  15,  1907,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Carolyn  Borchard,  a  native  of  Ventura 
county,  and  they  have  four  children:  Evelyn 
M.,  Margaret  M.,  Albert  C,  Jr.,  and  Carolyn. 


D.  P.  N.  LITTLE.  Almost  the  entire  business 
career  of  D.  P.  N.  Little,  president  of  the  Union 
Iron  Works,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  has  been  spent 
in  machinery  and  construction  work,  he  having 
been  engaged  in  these  lines  of  business  in  Massa- 
chusetts several  years  before  his  coming  to  Cali- 
fornia. 

The  son  of  Solomon  and  Rebecca  (Nye)  Little, 
D.  P.  N.  Little  was  born  in  Marshfield,  Mass., 
July  11,  1861,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
grammar  and  high  schools  of  that  state  and  at 
Derby  Academy,  Hingham,  Mass.,  until  the  age 
of  fifteen  years,  when  he  returned  home  and 
devoted  four  years  to  work  upon  his  father's 
farm.  Later  he  went  to  Boston,  where  he  engaged 
with  the  Hancock  Inspirator  Company  for  a  year, 
learning  the  machinist  trade  with  this  firm,  his 
next  employment  being  as  machinist  and  pattern 


maker  for  three  years  with  J.  G.  Buzzell  &  Com- 
pany, during  which  time  he  took  a  course  in 
mechanical  drawing  at  a  night  school,  to  fit  him 
more  thoroughly  for  his  life  work.  Coming  then 
to  Needles,  Cal.,  he  spent  one  year  in  the  hotel 
business  with  his  brother,  going  thence  to  San 
Francisco  to  enter  into  partnership  with  C.  L. 
Bigelow,  under  the  firm  name  of  Bigelow  &  Lit- 
tle or  the  Bay  City  Iron  Works.  Selling  out  his 
interest  in  this  company  in  1892,  Mr.  Little  re- 
moved to  Los  Angeles,  going  into  business  inde- 
pendently here  in  bridge  building  and  structural 
steel  construction  work.  In  1899  he  bought  out 
the  Union  Iron  Works  of  this  city,  which  he  incor- 
porated, and  of  which  he  became  president,  with 
H.  G.  Miller  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  busi- 
ness was  at  that  time  located  at  First  and  Ala- 
meda streets,  but  in  a  few  years  was  moved  to 
Palmetto  and  Molino  streets,  and  in  the  year 
1914  the  company  built  the  present  plant  at 
Fifty-second  street  and  Santa  Fe  avenue,  in  Ver- 
non, an  all-steel  building  with  the  latest  equip- 
ment and  covering  a  space  of  four  acres,  the 
company  also  owning  the  additional  surrounding 
ten  acres. 

Under  ordinary  conditions  the  company  gives 
employment  to  from  one  hundred  to  one  hundred 
and  fifty  men  and  the  output  is  shipped  to  all 
points  in  Nevada  and  Utah  as  well  as  throughout 
Southern  California.  Of  the  buildings  and 
bridges  constructed  by  this  company  we  mention 
the  following:  in  Los  Angeles,  at  Agricultural 
Park,  the  Armory,  Exposition  and  Museum  build- 
ings, German  Lutheran  church,  St.  Mary's  Acad- 
emy, Manual  Arts,  Lankershim  hotel  and  addi- 
tion, Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Polytechnic  high  school,  Boyle 
Heights  high  school.  Knights  of  Columbus  Club, 
Scottish  Rite  cathedral.  Union  Tool  Company's 
buildings  at  Mateo  and  Palmetto  streets  and  ad- 
ditions at  Torrance.  In  Pasadena,  the  Raymond 
hotel.  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  Citizens  Bank ; 
the  Glenwood  hotel  at  Riverside.  Fullerton  high 
school.  First  National  Bank  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of 
Long  Beach ;  complete  plant  of  the  Golden  State 
Portland  Cement  Company  at  Oro  Grande,  and 
part  of  the  plant  of  the  Riverside-Portland  Ce- 
ment Company  at  Crestmore,  as  well  as  many 
important  bridges  in  San  Bernardino,  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Ventura  and  Los  Angeles  counties. 

Mr.  Little,  the  president  and  manager  of  this 
corporation,  holds  membership  in  the  Independent 


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Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  is  a  member  and  a  director 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  member  of  the 
Municipal  League,  Merchants  and  Manufacturers 
Association,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  and  the 
City  Clubs,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He 
was  married  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  on  November 
1,  1896,  to  Harriet  L.  Ham,  and  they  have  three 
children:  Luther,  Dorothy  and  Wallace  H. 


FRANCIS  W.  BARKER.  The  president  of 
the  Pacific  Portable  Construction  Company  which 
manufactures  factory  built  houses  of  all  descrip- 
tions, as  well  as  garages,  is  Francis  W.  Barker,  a 
native  of  Concord,  Vt.,  where  he  was  born  August 
20,  1855,  the  son  of  John  C.  Barker.  The  educa- 
tion of  Mr.  Barker  was  received  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools  and  at  St.  Johnsbury  Academy, 
St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  attending  the  academy  during 
the  winter  months  and  working  in  a  planing  mill 
during  the  rest  of  the  year,  beginning  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  years  and  continuing  for  three  years. 
For  two  years  thereafter  he  was  engaged  with 
what  is  now  the  Boston  and  Maine  Railroad  as 
fireman,  at  the  close  of  which  time  he  came  west 
to  California,  working  for  three  years  as  engineer 
in  borax  mines  in  the  Mojave  desert.  After  this 
he  returned  to  New  England,  where  for  the  suc- 
ceeding eighteen  years  he  filled  the  office  of  su- 
perintendent of  the  P.  H.  Potter  Lumber  Manu- 
facturing Company  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  at  that 
time  the  largest  company  of  its  kind  in  New 
England.  At  the  close  of  his  association  with  this 
firm  Mr.  Barker  organized  the  Springfield  Con- 
struction Company,  of  which  he  himself  was  pres- 
ident until  March,  1908,  when  he  sold  out  his  in- 
terest and  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  He  then 
commenced  the  manufacture  of  portable  houses 
and  the  following  year  he  organized  the  Pacific 
Portable  Construction  Company,  of  which  he  be- 
came president.  The  other  member  of  the  com- 
pany is  William  P.  Butte,  secretary  and  manager. 
Starting  in  business  with  only  six  men  in  its  em- 
ploy, the  company  employs  from  fifty  to  seventy- 
five  experienced  workmen,  besides  eight  engaged 
at  their  El  Centro  branch  of  the  business.  The 
Pacific  Portable  Construction  Company  manu- 
factures a  large  line  of  "factory  built"  houses 
which  are  shipped  to  all  parts  of  California,  as 
well  as  Arizona,  New  Mexico,  Nevada  and  Utah, 
having  a  fully  equipped  plant  and  special  varieties 


of  machinery  particularly  adapted  to  this  line  of 
work,  located  at  the  corner  of  Vernon  avenue  and 
Alameda  street. 

Mr.  Barker  is  the  father  of  three  children : 
Wallace  W.,  who  is  a  Harvard  graduate  and  now 
holds  the  position  of  professor  of  languages  at 
Morristown  Academy,  Morristown,  N.  J. ;  Mal- 
vern, assistant  manager  of  the  E.  A.  Feather- 
stone  Company  of  Los  Angeles;  and  Berne,  who 
is  assistant  manager  of  his  father's  business. 
Fraternally,  Mr.  Barker  is  a  Mason,  and  in  poli- 
tics supports  men  whom  he  considers  best  quali- 
fied for  public  office.  While  a  resident  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
city  council  in  1896  and  in  1897  was  made  presi- 
dent of  that  body. 


EDWIN  JESSOP  MARSHALL.  This  well- 
known  financier  and  ranch  owner  was  born  in  Bal- 
timore, Md.,  March  18,  1860,  son  of  Henry  Vin- 
cent and  Amanda  C.  (Jessop)  Marshall.  He 
comes  from  a  long  line  of  distinguished  ancestors, 
to  which  belonged,  in  America,  Humphrey  Mar- 
shall, the  botanist,  and  John  Marshall,  first  chief 
justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  The 
earliest  American  ancestor  was  Abraham  Mar- 
shall, a  native  of  Gratton,  Derbyshire,  England, 
who  came  to  America  in  1682,  and  settled  in  Ches- 
ter, Pa.  From  him  the  line  of  descent  is  traced 
through  his  son,  John,  who  married  Hannah  Cald- 
well ;  their  son,  Abraham,  who  married  Alice  Pen- 
nock  ;  their  son,  Abraham,  who  married  Ann  Rob- 
erts, and  their  son,  H.  Vincent  Marshall,  the 
father  of  our  subject.  The  Abraham  Mar- 
shall who  lived  at  the  time  of  the  revolu- 
tion organized  a  company  and  joined  Gen- 
eral Braddock  on  the  Brandywine  river.  But 
the  protests  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  to 
which  he  belonged,  decided  him  to  resign  after 
a  time.  Abraham  Marshall,  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  was  a  lawyer.  In  order  to  settle  an 
estate  for  which  he  was  attorney,  he  rode  on  horse- 
back from  Philadelphia  to  Illinois,  and  as  a  fee 
received  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Illinois.  He  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  figures  in  the  new  coun- 
try, and  Marshall  county  was  named  after  him. 
During  the  war  between  Texas  and  Mexico  he 
joined  the  Texans  with  a  company  of  men  and 
fought  in  the  famous  battle  of  San  Jacinto.  He 
was  entrusted  by  General  Houston  with  the  charge 
of  Santa  Ana,  the  Mexican  general,  who  was  taken 


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prisoner.  A  few  weeks  later  Captain  Marshall,  in 
the  delirium  of  fever,  wandered  into  the  desert 
and  was  never  seen  or  heard  of  again.  Notwith- 
standing their  Quaker  faith  there  was  a  very 
strong  adventurous  strain  in  the  Marshall  family. 
George  Marshall  a  grand-uncle  of  our  subject, 
lived  an  adventurous  life  in  the  service  of  Spain, 
married  the  daughter  of  the  Captain-General  of 
Cuba,  and  died  a  romantic  death  in  his  prime. 
Others  of  the  family  had  similarly  adventurous 
lives.  The  old  Marshall  farm,  with  the  original 
Marshall  homestead,  a  two-story  house  of  stone, 
is  still  in  the  possession  of  a  member  of  the  family, 
and  among  the  interesting  documents  preserved 
there  is  the  deed  to  the  farm,  signed  by  William 
Penn.  Chester  county,  Pa.,  has  been  the  home  of 
many  prominent  Marshalls  and  Sharplesses,  with 
whom  they  were  closely  intermarried,  for  over 
two  hundred  years.  The  directors'  room  of  the 
old  Chester  County  National  Bank  contains  por- 
traits of  Marshalls  and  Sharplesses,  who  were 
presidents  of  the  bank  during  the  more  than  two 
hundred  years  of  its  existence.  Mr.  Marshall's 
father,  H.  Vincent  Marshall,  was  a  chemist,  who 
at  one  time  was  associated  with  the  well  known 
chemical  manufacturing  house  of  Sharp  &  Doane 
of  Baltimore. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  afifords  a  striking  ex- 
ample of  the  success  achieved  by  taking  advan- 
tage of  the  opportunities  that  are  presented  in 
almost  every  career.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Baltimore  and  Illinois,  and  received 
an  appointment  to  West  Point  from  President 
Grant.  But  the  Quaker  traditions  of  the  family 
interfered  with  his  ambitions  and,  in  disgust,  he 
ran  away  from  home  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  re- 
solved to  seek  his  own  fortune.  He  secured  a 
clerkship  in  the  railroad  office  in  St.  Louis;  was 
employed  on  a  passenger  steamer  on  the  Great 
Lakes,  and  after  serving  as  Pullman  palace  car 
conductor,  running  out  of  St.  Louis,  became  pri- 
vate secretary  to  the  general  manager  of  the  Gulf, 
Colorado  and  Santa  Fe  road,  and  subsequently 
assistant  master  of  transportation  of  the  same 
road,  all  before  he  attained  his  majority.  He  then 
invested  his  savings  in  a  farm  near  Lampasas, 
Tex.,  and  became  associated  with  a  partner  in 
raising  sheep.  During  the  years  he  devoted  to 
the  raising  of  live  stock  he  made  a  scientific 
study  of  all  the  details  of  the  subject,  and  became 
recognized  as  an  expert  and  an  authority  both  on 
the  various  breeds  of  cattle  and  the  best  methods 


of  breeding  and  raising  them.  Meanwhile  he  be- 
came cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Lam- 
pasas, and  was  that  institution's  president  for 
twelve  years.  In  1900  the  great  oil  field  was  dis- 
covered at  Beaumont,  Tex.  At  the  invitation  of 
an  old  business  associate  he  made  an  examination 
after  the  field  was  well  opened  up,  and  was  in- 
duced to  invest  in  oil  lands.  Together  they 
formed  the  famous  Hogg-Swayne  syndicate,  con- 
sisting of  Marshall,  Campbell,  Hogg  and  two 
others,  each  of  whom  possessed  a  fifth  interest  in 
a  tract  of  fifteen  acres.  About  half  of  this  tract 
was  sold  within  a  few  weeks  at  a  net  profit  of  over 
$300,000. 

Subsequently  Mr.  Marshall  interested  John  W. 
Gates  of  New  York  and  others  in  the  Texas  Com- 
pany, which  he  and  his  associates  had  formed,  and 
which  is  now  the  second  largest  oil  company  in 
the  world,  with  a  capital  of  $50,000,000,  and  with 
pipe  lines  covering  Texas,  Oklahoma  and  Kansas. 
While  he  was  eminently  successful  in  the  handling 
of  these  oil  properties,  Mr.  Marshall's  preference 
and  inclination  were  for  banking  and  the  develop- 
ment of  agricultural  land,  and  in  1904  he  made 
arrangements  to  close  out  his  oil  interests.  In  the 
same  year  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  to 
accept  the  vice-presidency  of  the  Southwestern 
National  Bank,  and  two  years  later  he  sold  out 
his  last  block  of  Texas  Company  stock  to  John 
W.  Gates.  Shortly  after  settling  in  the  state  of 
California  he  acquired  title  to  a  large  ranch  of 
42,000  acres  in  Santa  Barbara  county,  known  as 
the  Rancho  de  Jesus  Maria.  Here  he  has  estab- 
lished a  magnificent  herd  of  between  4,000  and 
5,000  thoroughbred  Hereford  cattle,  and  has  put 
15,000  acres  under  cultivation.  In  1905  he  bought 
the  Rancho  Santa  Ana  del  Chino,  located  between 
Pomona,  Riverside  and  Corona,  Cal.,  consisting 
of  46,000  acres.  Part  of  this  property  has  been 
divided  up  into  small  farms  which  have  been  sold, 
and  what  a  few  years  ago  was  a  large  waste  of 
unproductive  land  has  been  transformed  into  val- 
uable farms  under  irrigation,  producing  a  great 
diversity  of  products,  such  as  deciduous  fruits, 
alfalfa,  cereals,  orange  and  walnut  groves  and 
sugar-beets.  The  property  supports  a  flourishing 
town  of  2,000  inhabitants,  containing  a  high 
school,  banks  and  a  newspaper. 

Mr.  Marshall  is  likewise  the  principal  owner  of 
what  is  probably  the  largest  ranch  in  the  world, 
the  "Palomas"  in  Mexico,  consisting  of  some 
2,000,000  acres,  entirely  fenced.     The  northern 


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line  of  this  property  stretches  entirely  across  the 
southern  boundary  of  New  Mexico,  west  of  El 
Paso,  Tex.,  and  it  contains  great  possibilities  for 
both  cattle  raising  and  irrigation.  Mr.  Marshall 
is  also  president  of  the  Sinaloa  Land  Company,  a 
company  owning  1,500,000  acres  in  the  state  of 
Sinaloa,  Mexico,  which  is  waiting  to  be  thrown 
open  to  colonization  upon  the  completion  of  the 
Panama  canal.  With  15,000  acres  under  cultiva- 
tion in  the  Santa  Barbara  ranch,  20,000  acres  in 
the  Chino  ranch,  and  6,000  acres  in  Mexico,  Mr. 
Marshall  is,  beyond  all  question,  the  largest 
operator  of  farm  property  in  the  United  States. 
His  remarkable  success  is  the  result  of  a  com- 
bination of  rare  judgment,  expert  knowledge  of 
the  possibilities  of  ranch  properties,  and  indi- 
vidual effort.  He  will  be  ranked  among  America's 
empire  builders,  with  such  names  as  Commodore 
Vanderbilt,  Collis  P.  Huntington,  Henry  W. 
Flagler,  Frederick  Weyerhaeuser,  James  J.  Hill 
and  others,  who,  by  their  great  genius  and  won- 
derful foresight,  have  created  untold  wealth  from 
virgin  lands  for  the  countless  thousands  who  are 
to  follow  and  reap  the  benefit  from  their  far- 
reaching  activities.  If  a  man  who  makes  two 
blades  of  grass  grow  where  but  one  grew  before 
is  a  benefactor  to  his  fellow  men,  what  must  be 
the  estimate  of  one  who  clears  the  waste  places, 
carries  water  to  land  that  for  centuries  has  been 
awaiting  development,  and  who  brings  hundreds 
of  new  settlers  to  occupy  the  cleared  spaces,  form- 
ing the  nucleus  of  prospering  towns,  and  starts 
growing  an  endless  era  of  progress? 

Personally,  Mr.  Marshall  is  a  man  of  simple 
tastes  and  quiet  and  unassuming  demeanor,  but 
whose  dignified  bearing  and  strong  personality  im- 
press themselves  upon  all  with  whom  he  comes 
in  contact.  Even  to  people  outside  the  innermost 
circle  of  intimacy  there  is  something  peculiarly 
attractive  in  his  singular  mixture  of  gentleness 
and  dignity.  In  financial  transactions  of  magni- 
tude his  judgment  is  sought  and  valued  by  his 
associates.  Mr.  Marshall  is  president  of  the 
Chino  Land  and  Water  Company,  Sinaloa  Land 
and  Water  Company,  Palomas  Land  and  Cattle 
Company,  Grand  Canyon  Cattle  Company,  and 
Jesus  Maria  Rancho ;  vice-president  of  Torrance, 
Marshall  &  Co.,  of  Los  Angeles,  one  of  the  strong- 
est bond  houses  in  the  United  States ;  director  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Trust  Company,  First  National 
Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company,  Home  Telephone  and  Telegraph 


Company  of  Los  Angeles,  Home  Telephone  Com- 
pany of  San  Francisco,  and  over  thirty  other  cor- 
porations. In  addition,  he  is  part  owner  of  the 
Central,  Security,  Title  Insurance  and  Commer- 
cial buildings,  four  of  the  largest  office  blocks  in 
Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California, 
Jonathan,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Los  Angeles 
Country,  Pasadena  Country,  and  Bolsa  Chica 
Gun  Clubs,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Bohemian 
Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  was  married  June  7, 
1892,  to  Sally,  daughter  of  Marcus  McLemore  of 
Galveston,  Tex.,  and  has  one  son,  Marcus  Mc- 
Lemore Marshall. 


EDWARD  DOUBLE.  At  the  head  of  one  of 
the  largest  manufacturing  companies  of  the  West, 
the  Union  Tool  Company,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
stands  Edward  Double,  who,  as  president  and 
general  manager  of  that  great  institution,  brings 
with  him  many  years  of  experience  in  mechanical 
lines  of  interest. 

Born  at  Titusville,  Pa.,  October  15,  1871,  the 
son  of  Hamilton  and  Mary  (Smith)  Double,  Mr. 
Double  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
home  state  and  at  an  early  age  became  interested 
in  the  oil  industry.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
employed  in  the  oil  fields  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
various  capacities,  the  oil  business  being  at  its 
height  in  that  state  at  that  time,  but  as  the  in- 
terests of  Mr.  Double  were  mostly  in  the  mechan- 
ical side  of  the  business,  he  soon  applied  himself 
to  the  production  of  tools  and  appliances  to  be 
used  in  that  industry,  and  in  this  line  soon  took 
a  high  place  in  Pennsylvania.  Desiring  to  enter 
into  the  business  independently,  he  decided  upon 
California  as  the  best  field  for  his  endeavor,  as 
the  oil  industry  was  at  that  time  just  becoming  of 
importance  in  the  western  state,  and  in  1898  Mr. 
Double  removed  to  Santa  Paula,  Cal.,  a  town 
which  was  then  an  important  center  of  the  oil 
business.  Associating  himself  there  with  the  lead- 
ing men  in  his  chosen  business  and  with  several 
enterprises  along  that  line,  he  established  at  Santa 
Paula  a  plant  for  the  manufacture  of  oil  tools  and 
machinery,  which,  during  the  next  five  years,  be- 
came the  leading  institution  of  the  kind  in  that 
part  of  the  state.  In  1901  he  moved  his  plant  to 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  remained  in  business 
since  that  date,  recognizing  this  city  to  be  the 
headquarters  of  the  oil  industry,  and  here  his 
business  prospered  until  he  became  known  as  one 


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of  the  chief  manufacturers  in  his  chosen  line  in 
this  part  of  the  country.  After  a  time  Mr.  Double 
associated  himself  with  the  Union  Tool  Company 
of  this  city,  wherein  he  soon  rose  to  the  offices  of 
president  and  general  manager,  being  also  one  of 
the  largest  stockholders.  This  company,  which 
was  organized  in  the  summer  of  1908  by  the 
merging  of  the  American  Engineering  and  Foun- 
dry Company  with  the  Union  Oil  Tool  Company, 
two  firms  which  had  been  in  existence  for  about 
fifteen  years  previous  to  the  time  of  their  con- 
solidation and  had  been  rated  among  the  most  im- 
portant of  their  kind  on  the  Pacific  coast,  has  ac- 
quired its  large  measure  of  success  through  the 
exertions  of  Mr.  Double,  its  capable  president. 
Among  the  largest  enterprises  of  California,  it 
now  provides  oil  well  tools  and  machinery  to  the 
entire  world,  having  branches  in  the  towns  of 
Orcutt,  Brea,  Midway  and  Coalinga,  Cal,  as  well 
as  an  extensive  plant  in  West  Chicago,  111.,  the 
specialty  of  this  company  being  the  production  of 
supplies  for  oil  wells,  mining  machinery,  iron 
castings,  and  gas,  gasoline  and  distillate  engines. 
Numerous  important  inventions  have  been  made 
by  Mr.  Double  along  the  line  of  oil  well  tools, 
which  have  helped  to  raise  the  company  to  its 
present  high  standing,  and  its  president  is  ranked 
with  the  most  important  business  men  of  the 
West.  The  location  of  the  firm,  which  was  for 
many  years  in  the  heart  of  the  manufacturing 
district  of  Los  Angeles,  has  been  removed  to  Tor- 
rance, Cal.,  on  account  of  the  marvelous  growth 
of  the  business,  and  at  the  new  location  the  plant 
of  the  company  covers  a  space  of  twenty-five 
acres,  and  comprises  nine  buildings  built  of  con- 
crete and  fitted  with  modern  machinery  and  facil- 
ities of  every  kind,  an  investment  of  nearly  a 
million  dollars  being  represented  in  the  land, 
buildings  and  machinery  combined. 

Although  much  of  his  time  is  necessarily  occu- 
pied by  his  business  interests,  Mr.  Double  is  yet 
deeply  interested  in  the  advancement  of  the  city 
of  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  made  his  home,  and 
has  proved  himself  one  of  the  most  active  workers 
for  its  welfare  in  many  respects.  Besides  holding 
membership  in  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  Union  League  and  the  Jonathan  Club, 
he  is  also  fraternally  associated  with  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  His  marriage 
to  Alice  Harbard  was  solemnized  at  Santa  Paula, 
January  4,  1900,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one 
daughter,  Helen  Double. 


GEORGE  S.  RICHARDSON.  One  of  the 
bright  legal  minds  of  Los  Angeles  is  George  S. 
Richardson,  who  was  elected  police  judge  at  a 
recent  election  in  this  city.  He  is  a  man  of  great 
force  of  character  and  a  lawyer  of  marked  ability. 
Upon  his  election  he  was  assigned  to  Department 
4,  a  position  which  his  innate  sense  of  justice  and 
profound  learning  in  the  law  enable  him  to  hold 
with  credit  and  honor. 

Mr.  Richardson  is  a  native  of  California,  born 
in  Ventura  county,  April  17,  1877,  the  son  of  Fred 
and  Edith  Richardson.  The  father  is  a  native  of 
Michigan,  born  at  Grand  Rapids  in  1849.  In  1853 
he  came  to  California  and  located  in  Sonoma 
county,  where  his  parents  lived  for  many  years, 
and  where  he  received  his  education.  When  he 
was  eighteen  he  came  to  Ventura  county  and  en- 
gaged in  lemon  growing,  making  a  pronounced 
success  of  this  branch  of  the  citrus  industry.  His 
boyhood  days  were  passed  in  Ventura  county  and 
his  early  education  was  secured  at  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  Santa  Paula.  He  then  entered 
the  University  of  Southern  California,  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  for  two  years  studied  electrical  and 
mechanical  engineering.  At  the  end  of  that  time 
he  became  superintendent  of  the  Sterling  Manu- 
facturing Company,  and  for  two  years  traveled 
all  over  the  United  States  installing  steam  plants. 
He  then  accepted  a  situation  with  the  Los  Angeles 
Railway  Company,  in  the  electrical  department, 
remaining  with  said  company  until  1910.  During 
this  time  he  studied  law  at  the  University  of 
Southern  Cahfornia,  and  in  January,  1910,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  his  native  state,  and  since 
that  time  has  been  practicing  in  Los  Angeles, 
meeting  with  more  than  ordinary  success. 

Judge  Richardson  is  also  popular  in  fraternal 
circles  in  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  a 
number  of  prominent  lodges,  in  several  of  which 
he  has  been  signally  honored.  He  is  past  chief 
ranger  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters, 
grand  counselor  of  the  S.  M.  A.,  and  is  identified 
with  the  Modern  Woodmen,  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  the  Native  Sons.  He  is  also  taking 
an  active  part  in  various  movements  for  the 
beautification  of  his  home  city,  and  is  president 
of  the  Normandie  Square  Improvement  Associa- 
tion, and  an  influential  member  of  the  Federated 
Improvement  Association.  He  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  the  aft'airs  of  the  Republican  party  since 
he  was  old  enough  to  vote  and  is  considered  one 
of  the  strong  men  of  that  organization.     He  is 


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progressive  and  broad-minded  in  his  views  on  all 
public  questions,  and  is  pre-eminently  fair  in  his 
opinions  and  judgments.  In  his  religious  views 
Mr.  Richardson  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Richardson  and  Miss 
Nina  Beeson  was  solemnized  in  Ventura  county 
June  4,  1899.  Of  their  union  have  been  born 
three  children,  two  daughters  and  a  son,  all  at 
present  attending  the  public  schools  of  Los  An- 
geles. They  are :  Ardys,  aged  thirteen  years ; 
Myrtle,  aged  eleven,  and  Curtis,  a  sturdy  lad  of 
seven  summers. 


JACOB  NIEDERER.  A  prominent  citizen, 
pioneer  business  man  and  large  property  owner 
in  Los  Angeles  is  Jacob  Niederer,  founder  and 
president  of  the  J.  Niederer  Company,  located  at 
No.  3409  South  Main  street.  He  was  born  in 
Lutzenberg,  Canton  Appenzell,  Switzerland, 
August  26,  1858,  the  third  child  born  to  his 
parents,  Bartholome  and  Katherine  (Zellweger) 
Niederer,  from  Au,  Canton  St.  Gallen.  The  other 
children  were:  David,  in  Switzerland;  Emil,  in 
Idaho ;  Bertha  in  Utah ;  Rosa  and  Johan,  both 
deceased.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Lutzenberg 
and  at  an  early  age  engaged  in  the  gunsmith  busi- 
ness for  himself.  He  was  known  as  "Scheutze" 
Niederer,  meaning  "Niederer,  the  Marksman,"  all 
over  Europe  from  the  fact  that  he  had  distin- 
guished himself  for  his  marksmanship  and  won 
many  trophies  at  shooting  matches  throughout 
Europe.  He  died  in  1867  and  his  wife  passed 
away  in  1876. 

Jacob  Niederer  was  reared  and  educated 
in  his  native  canton.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
v/as  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  cabinet  maker, 
and  after  he  had  completed  his  apprenticeship 
went  to  the  city  of  Zurich,  where  he  worked  at 
his  trade  and  studied  architectural  drawing.  He 
also  served  in  the  Swiss  army.  In  1881  he  decided 
to  come  to  the  United  States  and  locating  at  New 
Orleans  after  his  arrival  he  worked  two  years  at 
his  trade.  Becoming  familiar  with  the  customs 
of  this  country  he  engaged  in  business  for  him- 
self, continuing  with  success  until  1888,  when  he 
came  to  California  and  located  in  Los  Angeles. 
At  once  establishing  himself  in  business,  begin- 
ning on  a  small  scale,  he  gradually  forged  ahead 


and  the  business  kept  increasing  with  the  growth 
of  the  city  until  in  1903  he  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  J.  Niederer  Company,  of  which  he  be- 
came president  and  general  manager,  the  other 
officers  being  George  H.  Lockwood  vice-president, 
and  Walter  J.  Niederer  secretary  and  treasurer. 
The  company  has  gradually  built  up  a  successful 
business  which  now  stands  at  the  forefront  of  like 
enterprises  in  the  southwest  and  is  the  pioneer  in 
the  manufacture  of  interior  fittings  of  the  very 
highest  grade.  As  practical  proof  of  this  claim 
many  of  the  most  prominent  business  establish- 
ments and  residences  in  Los  Angeles  and  other 
cities  of  the  southwest  give  evidence  of  their 
handiwork.  After  the  bursting  of  the  boom  of 
1887,  and  when  business  depression  was  felt  all 
over  Southern  California,  it  was  an  uphill  pull  to 
start  into  and  maintain  a  business  under  the 
existing  conditions,  but  this  was  accompHshed  by 
the  perseverance  of  Mr.  Niederer,  and  as  he  has 
succeeded  he  has  wisely  invested  in  real  estate, 
which  he  is  continually  improving. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Niederer  and  Mathilde 
ApflFel,  a  native  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  but  for  many 
years  a  resident  of  New  Orleans,  occurred  in  the 
latter  city  on  June  5,  1883.  Of  this  union  six 
children  have  been  born,  five  of  whom  are  living: 
Walter  J.,  born  in  New  Orleans  September  30, 
1884,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  J.  Niederer 
Company,  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  a 
Shriner,  was  married  September  30,  1909,  to 
Norma  M.  Weifenbach,  a  native  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  has  two  children,  Dorothy  and  Marjorie; 
Emma  E.,  born  in  New  Orleans  January  15,  1886, 
died  in  Los  Angeles  aged  six  and  one-half  years ; 
Lucille  U.,  born  in  New  Orleans  September  19, 
1887,  became  the  wife  of  John  F.  Hiltscher  Jan- 
uary 1,  1907,  and  has  two  children,  Frances  and 
Madeleine;  Bertha  E.,  born  in  Los  Angeles 
October  4,  1888,  married  Will  F.  Gieselman 
November  19,  1908,  and  has  one  child  living. 
Jack;  Adele  J.,  born  in  Los  Angeles  October  5, 
1890,  became  the  wife  of  Fred  E.  Hagen  June  5, 
1913;  and  Jeannette  C.  was  born  in  Los  Angeles 
October  1,  1892. 

Mr.  Niederer  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club, 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Merchants  & 
Manufacturers  Association  of  Los  Angeles.  He 
became  a  naturalized  citizen  of  this  country  five 
years  after  coming  to  the  United  States  and  in 
many  ways  has  expressed  his  confidence  in  the 
future  of  Los  Angeles. 


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SIDNEY  SMITH.  After  a  number  of  years 
spent  in  practical  experience  in  mercantile  and 
manufacturing  lines,  as  well  as  foreman,  superin- 
tendent and  manager  of  different  firms  in  South- 
ern California,  Sidney  Smith  is  now  the  proprie- 
tor of  the  Adams  Pipe  Works  in  Los  Angeles. 
This  company  was  incorporated  April  29,  1908, 
as  the  Adams  Pipe  Works,  and  in  February,  1913, 
Mr.  Smith  bought  an  interest  in  the  business,  but 
the  associations  and  conduct  of  the  business  being 
unsatisfactory  to  him,  in  October  of  that  year  he 
purchased  the  interests  of  the  other  shareholders 
and  since  that  time  has  given  his  personal  atten- 
tion to  building  it  up  and  putting  it  on  a  firm 
financial  basis,  until  today  it  ranks  with  the  lead- 
ing business  concerns  of  the  city.  Since  taking 
over  the  business  he  has  made  a  specialty  of  rent- 
ing pipe  to  contractors  building  the  state  highway, 
thus  facilitating  the  making  of  good  roads  and 
relieving  the  builders  of  a  heavy  item  of  expense. 
In  the  conduct  of  the  business  the  company  em- 
ploys from  ten  to  one  hundred  men  and  does  an 
extensive  business  throughout  Utah,  New  Mexico, 
Arizona  and  Nevada  as  well  as  California,  carries 
on  a  general  wholesale  and  retail  business  in  new 
and  second-hand  pipe,  being  also  engaged  in  irri- 
gation contracting  and  in  the  manufacture  of  pipe 
fittings  and  the  laying  of  water,  oil  and  gas  pipe 
lines,  making  a  specialty  of  water  pipe. 

The  present  owner  of  the  company,  Mr.  Smith, 
was  born  at  Luling,  Tex.,  May  30,  1884,  the  son 
of  Sidney  Smith  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  until  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  when  he 
worked  for  three  years  upon  his  father's  farm. 
When  seventeen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Smith  came 
to  California,  where  he  was  employed  for  four 
months  in  the  marking  department  of  the  Wein- 
stock  Lubin  Company's  dry  goods  store  in  Sacra- 
mento, removing  thence  to  Lincoln,  in  the  same 
state,  where  he  engaged  with  the  Gladden-Mc- 
Bean  Company,  terra  cotta  manufacturers,  work- 
ing in  the  pit  where  they  mined  the  clay.  After 
a  year  spent  in  this  occupation,  Mr.  Smith  went  to 
Stockton,  Cal.,  and  was  for  seven  months  em- 
ployed as  a  laborer  by  the  water  company,  his 
next  employment  being  five  months  spent  with 
the  gas  company,  after  which  he  removed  to  Santa 
Monica,  Cal.,  and  for  five  months  was  in  the 
employ  of  the  Austin  Paving  Company  as  a 
laborer.  In  the  same  city  he  later  was  for  a  year 
and  a  half  foreman  of  the  Santa  Monica  Land  and 
Water  Company,  coming  thence  to  Los  Angeles 


to  engage  with  the  Adams  Pipe  Works  as  superin- 
tendent where  he  rose  to  the  office  of  general 
manager.  Resigning  this  office  in  1911,  Mr. 
Smith  went  into  the  water  piping  and  irrigating 
contracting  business  independently  for  two  years, 
after  which  he  bought  out  the  Adams  Pipe  Works 
of  which  he  had  formerly  been  superintendent  and 
general  manager,  now  becoming  proprietor  of  the 
same,  which  holds  a  high  place  in  its  line  of  busi- 
ness in  Los  Angeles.  In  1914  he  secured  a  fran- 
chise, which  is  now  known  as  the  Walnut  Grove 
Water  Works,  from  Los  Angeles  county  to  build 
pipe  lines  for  supplying  water  for  domestic  pur- 
poses to  a  section  lying  adjacent  to  Huntington 
Park,  putting  in  the  lines,  tanks  and  pumps,  and 
securing  his  permit  from  the  State  Railroad  Com- 
mission under  the  public  utility  act,  covering  a 
period  of  forty  years. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Smith  to  Miss  Elsie  K. 
Vogt  was  solemnized  in  Los  Angeles,  in  February, 
1911,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  daughter. 
Fay  Louise  Smith. 


CHURCH  OF  THE  BLESSED  SACRA- 
MENT. Previous  to  the  erection  of  the  Church 
of  the  Blessed  Sacrament  at  Hollywood  boulevard 
and  Cherokee  street,  in  Hollywood,  mass  was 
said  in  this  parish  once  a  month,  the  service  being 
held  in  Drouet's  Hall,  the  priests  coming  from 
the  Cathedral  in  Los  Angeles.  Father  D.  W.  J. 
Murphy,  Father  John  S.  Clifford  and  Father 
AVilliam  F.  Quinlan  alternated  in  this  service. 
Through  the  efforts  of  energetic  parishioners, 
Father  Murphy  and  His  Grace  Bishop  Conaty, 
ground  for  a  church  was  bought  in  February, 
1904;  in  May,  three  months  later,  the  ground  was 
broken  for  this  work,  and  on  this  occasion  the 
service  of  the  Feast  of  Holy  Wood  of  the  Cross 
was  celebrated  by  Father  Murphy.  On  July  4, 
1904,  the  cornerstone  of  the  Church  of  the  Blessed 
Sacrament  was  laid  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop 
Conaty.  Work  progressed  rapidly  under  the 
direction  of  Father  Murphy  and  the  beautiful 
church  was  completed  in  a  few  short  months.  The 
first  mass  was  said  in  the  new  edifice  September 
12,  1904,  there  being  fourteen  adults  and  twenty- 
one  children  present  on  this  occasion,  a  striking 
contrast  to  the  big  parish  of  today.  Bishop 
Conaty  dedicated  the  Church  of  the  Blessed  Sac- 
rament on  the  first  Sunday  in  October,  1904. 


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The  priests  in  charge  of  the  parish  at  present 
are :  Rev.  .WilHam  J.  Denney,  S.  J.,  Superior 
of  the  Jesuits  of  Los  Angeles ;  Rev.  Dominic 
Giacobbi,  S.  J.;  Rev.  James  Taylor,  S.  J.;  and 
Rev.  H.  P.  Gallagher,  S.  J.  Rev.  Father  H.  P. 
Gallagher,  the  head  of  the  priests  at  Hollywood, 
is  a  native  of  Loretta,  Pa.,  was  ordained  at  St. 
John  Lateran,  in  Rome,  and  spent  four  years  of 
study  in  Paris  and  two  in  Rome.  An  old  Califor- 
nian,  he  came  to  this  state  for  the  first  time  in 
1859,  and  during  the  years  between  1887  and 
1907  was  located  in  Santa  Clara  county,  where 
for  three  years  he  was  the  first  prefect  at  what 
is  now  Santa  Clara  University  in  Santa  Clara,  as 
well  as  being  for  a  time  connected  with  the 
Catholic  school  at  San  Jose.  Removing  from 
Santa  Clara  county  to  the  state  of  Washington, 
he  was  in  charge  of  a  parish  in  Seattle  and  presi- 
dent of  Seattle  College  for  three  years  and  for  the 
following  four  years  was  connected  with  St. 
Joseph's  Church  at  North  Yakima,  three  years  of 
this  time  having  charge  of  the  Indians  at  the 
North  Yakima  reservation. 

It  was  in  November,  1914,  that  Father  Galla- 
gher came  to  Hollywood,  Cal,  to  take  charge  of 
the  parish  which  now  (1915)  has  a  membership 
of  five  hundred  families  and  a  church  that  is 
filled  every  Sunday,  and  bids  fair  to  prosper 
equally  as  well  under  the  guidance  of  Father 
Gallagher  as  have  the  churches  that  formerly 
were  in  his  care.  The  church,  with  its  attractive 
grounds  containing  many  varieties  of  trees, 
shrubs  and  flowers,  offers  a  pleasing  prospect  as 
well  as  a  busy  field  of  labor. 

The  parochial  school,  which  was  opened  to  the 
children  of  the  parish  February  1,  1915,  was  due 
to  the  efforts  of  the  Jesuit  Fathers,  assisted  by 
the  able  and  energetic  people  of  the  parish,  and  is 
in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  the  Immaculate  Heart, 
whose  work  along  educational  lines  has  become 
widely  known  for  its  efficiency.  The  parish  feels 
greatly  indebted  to  Rev.  D.  O.  Crowley,  of  San 
Francisco,  for  his  great  interest  in  the  school. 


AUBREY  E.  AUSTIN.  Amos  M.  Austin, 
the  father  of  Aubrey  E.  Austin,  although  a 
Canadian  by  birth,  was  active  in  forwarding  the 
interests  of  California  towns  in  the  early  days  of 
the  progress  of  the  state.  Removing  to  the  United 
States  in  1863  from  Canada,  where  he  was  born 


August  15,  1844,  and  educated  in  Hamilton  Col- 
lege, Amos  M.  Austin  first  settled  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  where  for  a  while  he  taught  school,  later 
making  his  home  near  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming  until  1878,  in  which  year 
he  removed  to  Monterey,  the  old  capital  of  Cali- 
fornia. There  he  engaged  in  railroad  contracting, 
building  the  first  railway  between  Salinas  and 
Monterey,  which  he  completed  in  1881,  thereafter 
being  engaged  in  the  grain  business  until  in  1885 
he  sold  out  his  business  and  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  engaging  here  in  paving  contracting  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1907. 

The  son,  A.  E.  Austin,  was  born  November  10, 
1880,  during  the  residence  of  his  parents,  Amos 
M.  and  Amy  Jean.  (Strachan)  Austin,  in  Monte- 
rey, and  received  his  education  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  with  the  firm 
of  Drew  &  Lapworth  as  salesman,  remaining  with 
them  until  1900.  In  that  year  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Edward  D.  Silent  &  Co.,  real  estate  deal- 
ers, continuing  as  salesman  with  this  firm  until 
1903,  at  the  time  of  his  resignation  having  risen 
to  the  position  of  manager  of  the  real  estate 
department  of  the  company.  Mr.  Austin  next 
associated  himself  with  the  real  estate  firm  of  C. 
J.  Hyler  &  Co.,  of  which  he  became  vice-president, 
in  1905  entering  into  partnership  with  a  Mr. 
Dolton  in  the  same  business,  under  the  name  of 
Dolton  &  Austin,  a  partnership  which  continued 
until  1907.  In  that  year  Mr.  Austin  sold  his 
interest  and  went  into  the  paving  contracting  busi- 
ness with  William  F.  Bryant,  the  firm  being 
known  as  the  Bryant  &  Austin  Company.  Under 
this  partnership  they  carried  on  the  business  left 
by  Amos  M.  Austin  at  his  death,  the  latter's  son 
being  vice-president  of  the  company,  and  after 
the  death  of  his  partner,  in  April,  1915,  Mr. 
Austin  became  president  of  the  firm.  From  a 
small  beginning,  with  only  thirty  men  in  its 
employ,  the  Bryant  &  Austin  Paving  Company  has 
become  a  large  concern,  employing  today  an  aver- 
age of  from  three  to  four  hundred  men,  and  is 
the  owner  of  its  asphalt  plant,  the  yards  covering 
four  acres.  Besides  the  presidency  of  this  firm, 
Mr.  Austin  is  also  prominently  connected  with 
other  large  business  interests,  being  president  of 
the  Austin,  Bryant  &  Carter  Oil  Company,  vice- 
president  of  the  Holloway  Paving  Company,  of 
Pasadena,  Cal.,  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Braun,  Bryant  &  Austin  Company,  of  Venice,  Cal. 


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He  holds  membership  in  the  Los  Angeles  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  the  Municipal  League,  Union 
League,  the  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club  and 
the  Native  Sons  of  California.  In  his  political 
interests  he  is  a  member  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  his  religious  associations  are  with  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  By  his  marriage  to  Miss  Ada  H. 
Henry  in  Los  Angeles,  January  30,  1911,  he  is 
the  father  of  one  child,  Audrey  Bell  Austin. 


CHARLES  H.  SHARP.  One  of  the  promi- 
nent railroad  contractors  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  is 
Charles  H.  Sharp,  president  of  the  Sharp  &  Fel- 
lows Company,  who  has  been  in  the  railroad  busi- 
ness since  the  age  of  twenty-three  years.  Born 
in  Athens,  Ohio,  March  3,  1859,  the  son  of  John 
and  Martha  (Arbaugh)  Sharp,  he  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Washington,  D. 
C,  until  the  age  of  ten  years,  and  at  a  district 
school  in  Vinton  county,  Ohio.  During  his  school 
years  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm,  and  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  drove  a  team  for  a  few  months, 
hauling  ore.  For  five  years  thereafter  he  was 
clerk  in  a  general  merchandise  store  in  Valesville, 
Ohio,  returning  then  to  Vinton,  in  the  same  state, 
where  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Samuel 
Smith  in  the  same  line  of  business,  selling  out  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one  to  go  to  Hope,  N.  D.,  there 
working  for  the  Canadian  Pacific.  After  a  few 
weeks  he  purchased  a  team  and  continued  in  the 
same  work  for  two  years,  when  he  removed  to 
Anoka,  Minn.,  and  worked  on  the  construction  of 
the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  for  six  months, 
being  engaged  for  the  year  following  at  Chadron, 
Neb.,  in  the  construction  of  the  Elkhorn  Railroad. 
For  another  six  months  he  was  employed  in 
Western  Nebraska  in  work  on  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Ouincy  Railroad,  after  which  he  was 
engaged  in  sub-contract  work  on  different  rail- 
roads until  1888,  making  his  headquarters  at 
Billings,  Mont.,  while  employed  on  contract  work 
for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Ouincy  road.  In 
1902  Mr.  Sharp  removed  to  Kansas  City.  Mo. 
opening  offices  there  and  doing  most  of  the  rail- 
road construction  work  for  the  Santa  Fe  road,  as 
well  as  repair  work.  Still  maintaining  his  offices 
in  that  city,  in  1904  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  opened  a  branch  office,  taking  in  a  Mr.  Lantry 
as  partner  in  this  city, under  the  firm  name  of  Lan- 
try &  Sharp.    Buying  out  his  partner  in  1905,  he 


continued  the  business  as  the  C.  H.  Sharp  Con- 
tracting Company,  the  California  branch  being 
incorporated,  in  1909  associating  himself  with  a 
Mr.  Hauser,  the  business  then  being  known  as 
the  Sharp  &  Hauser  Contracting  Company.  In 
1912  the  firm  name  changed  to  Sharp  &  Fellows, 
under  which  title  it  is  at  present  known,  its  loca- 
tion being  in  the  Central  building,  Los  Angeles. 
Mr.  Sharp  is  still  sole  owner  of  the  Kansas  City 
company  organized  by  himself,  which  was  con- 
sidered the  largest  individual  firm  in  that  business 
at  the  time  that  they  completed  the  line  between 
Belin  and  Texico  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  a 
distance  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles.  For  that 
piece  of  work  they  had  as  equipment  eleven 
steam  shovels,  three  hundred  standard  cars,  two 
hundred  small  cars,  twenty-nine  locomotives  and 
five  rock-crushing  plants.  Mr.  Sharp  is  the  owner 
of  thirty  miles  of  railroad  between  Ore  Bed  and 
Long  View,  Tex.,  known  as  the  Port  Bolivar  and 
Iron  Ore  Railroad,  which  is  leased  to  the  Santa 
Fe  Railroad. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Sharp  took  place  in 
Omaha,  Neb.,  November  8,  1896,  uniting  him 
with  Miss  Catherine  Showers.  Mr.  Sharp  is  a 
Scottish  and  York  Rite  Mason  and  a  Shriner, 
while  the  social  clubs  with  which  he  is  associated 
are  the  Jonathan,  Los  Angeles  Country,  Los  An- 
geles Athletic,  Midwick  Country  and  the  Gamut 
Clubs,  and  the  Mid-Day  and  Kansas  City  Clubs, 
the  two  latter  being  organizations  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.   Politically  Mr.  Sharp  is  a  Republican. 


RALPH  RICHARD  DEMING.  Although  a 
native  of  Louisiana,  born  at  Shreveport,  January 
11,  1882,  Ralph  Richard  Deming  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles  since  he  was  a  youth,  and 
is  well  known  throughout  the  southwest  at  this 
time.  He  has  been  associated  with  the  Los 
Angeles  Gas  Company  for  many  years,  and  is 
also  interested  in  the  theatrical  business  in  South- 
ern California.  His  wife,  who  was  the  widow 
of  the  late  John  A.  Mason,  founder  of  the  Mason 
Opera  House  building,  on  South  Broadway,  is 
now  the  sole  owner  of  that  building.  John  A. 
Mason's  father,  Charles  G.  Mason,  was  the  dis- 
coverer and  owner  of  the  famous  Silver  King 
mine  in  Arizona,  which  produced  for  him  a  hand- 
some fortune,  which  his  son  afterwards  inherited. 
The  Mason  opera  house  was  erected  in  1902,  and 


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is  now  one  of  the  best  known  theaters  in  the 
country,  and  is  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  on  the  coast. 

Mr.  Deming  is  the  son  of  Ralph  Richard  and 
Jennie  (Howell)  Deming,  his  father  having  been 
a  prominent  banker  at  Shreveport,  La.,  for  many 
years.  His  early  education  was  received  at 
Shreveport,  and  later  he  attended  school  at  San 
Antonio,  Tex.,  and  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles 
with  his  parents  in  1888,  he  completed  his  educa- 
tion in  this  city.  He  has  been  prominent  in  local 
afifairs  for  many  years  and  is  known  as  one  of 
the  progressive  and  energetic  young  men  of  the 
Southwest.  He  is  Republican  in  his  political 
preferences,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club  and  other  prominent  organizations. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Deming  took  place  in 
San  Rafael  February  16,  1911,  uniting  him  with 
Kate  (Wynn)  Mason,  the  daughter  of  J.  F. 
Wynn,  who  for  many  years  was  a  large  Southern 
planter,  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  South- 
ern planter  families  of  an  early  day. 


Besides  his  business  interests,  Mr.  Gordon  is 
a  member  of  two  fraternities,  the  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon  and  the  Tau  Beta  Pi.  His  marriage  with 
Miss  Mauro  took  place  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  on 
February  11,  1910,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
one  son,  J.  G.  Gordon,  the  third  of  the  name. 


J.  G.  GORDON,  JR.  An  engineer  and  one  of 
the  directors  in  the  Layne  &  Bowler  Corporation, 
located  at  No.  900  Santa  Fe  street,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  J.  G.  Gordon,  Jr.,  was  born  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  December  15,  1885,  and  received  his  early 
education  in  the  grammar  and  manual  training 
schools,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1902,  after 
which  he  attended  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines 
at  Golden,  Colo.,  graduating  therefrom  in  1906 
with  the  degree  of  Engineer  of  Mines. 

The  first  business  association  of  Mr.  Gordon 
was  with  the  Oliver  Iron  Mining  Company  at 
Hibbing,  Minn.,  where  for  eight  months  he  was 
assistant  engineer  on  the  Mesabi  Iron  Range, 
after  which  he  went  to  Cananea,  Mex.,  as  assistant 
engineer  for  the  Cananea  Consolidated  Copper 
Company  for  another  eight  months,  his  next  en- 
gagement being  at  Elliston,  Mont.,  where  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Beatrice  Mining  and  Milling 
Company.  Returning  to  Mexico  after  a  year  and 
a  half,  he  spent  the  next  two  years  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  Peregrine  Mining  and  Milling 
Company  at  Guanajuato,  coming  thence  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  entered  into  his  present  en- 
gagement with  the  Layne  &  Bowler  Corporation, 
as  engineer  and  director  of  that  large  manufac- 
tory of  oil  well  machinery. 


JOHN  A.  WINTROATH.  The  son  of  Mar- 
tin and  Lydia  Wintroath,  John  A.  Wintroath, 
now  the  superintendent  and  director  of  the  Layne 
&  Bowler  Corporation,  was  born  at  Oil  City,  Pa., 
April  5,  1882,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
grammar  and  high  schools  of  Siverly,  Pa.,  until 
the  age  of  eighteeii  years,  when  he  engaged  with 
his  father  for  a  year  and  a  half,  taking  charge 
of  pumping  oil  wells.  The  next  three  years  were 
spent  as  apprentice  machinist  with  the  Condron 
Machine  Company,  after  which  he  was  employed 
for  a  year  as  a  machinist  with  the  Simons  Ma- 
chine Company,  engaging  thereafter  with  the 
Westinghouse  Electric  Company,  at  East  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.,  as  machinist  for  a  year,  and  for  a  year 
and  a  half  with  the  American  Steel  and  Wire 
Company,  at  Sharon,  Pa.,  in  the  same  capacity, 
and  also  as  night  foreman.  Removing  thence  to 
Houston,  Tex.,  Mr.  Wintroath  found  employment 
as  machinist  for  the  Dixon  Car  Wheel  Company 
for  a  year,  during  which  time  he  took  a  course  in 
mechanical  engineering  in  the  International  Cor- 
respondence Schools.  Continuing  the  occupation 
of  machinist,  he  was  next  employed  by  the  Union 
Iron  Works  for  a  year  and  later  with  the  Layne 
&  Bowler  Corporation,  where  he  rose  to  the  posi- 
tion of  foreman,  resigning  this  office  in  1909  to 
come  to  Los  Angeles  and  to  found  here  the  Layne 
&  Bowler  Company,  a  separate  corporation,  of 
which  he  became  general  mechanical  superin- 
tendent and  director.  In  connection  with  his 
work,  Mr.  Wintroath  has  put  out  four  very  im- 
portant patents,  namely:  The  Patented  Oil  Bear- 
ing Head,  used  on  deep  turbine  centrifugal  pumps  ; 
the  Automatic  Aligning  Bearings,  for  use  on 
pumping  machinery ;  the  Patented  Bottom  Bear- 
ing, for  turbine  and  centrifugal  pumps;  and  the 
Patented  Well  Drilling  Tool  Joint. 

Aside  from  his  business  interests,  Mr.  Win- 
troath is  a  member  of  two  fraternities,  the 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  while  in  his  political  preferences  he  up- 
holds the  principles  of  the  Republican  party.   His 


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marriage  to  Miss  Bertha  Lutenbacher  took  place 
in  Houston,  Tex.,  on  February  14,  1904,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  four  children,  namely,  Gladys, 
Agnes,  Mary  and  Frances  Wintroath. 


W.  I.  HOLLINGSWORTH.  Among  those 
interested  in  the  development  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia during  the  last  twenty-five  years,  the  name 
of  W.  I.  Hollingsworth  should  be  mentioned. 

Mr.  Hollingsworth  was  born  in  the  year  1862, 
near  Lafayette,  Tippecanoe  county.  Ind.,  his 
parents  being  members  of  the  Quaker  band  who 
left  Manchester,  England,  in  1662  under  the 
leadership  of  William  Penn  and  settled  in  Chester, 
Pa.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hollingsworth  were  married 
in  Lexington,  Ky.,  Mrs.  Hollingsworth's  maiden 
name  being  Hattie  G.  Hord. 

Mr.  Hollingsworth  came  to  Los  Angeles  in 
the  year  1888  and  has  been  active  in  its  develop- 
ment ever  since  that  date.  He  is  president  of  the 
firm  of  W.  I.  Hollingsworth  &  Co.,  real  estate 
operators,  and  has  been  interested  in  many  large 
and  successful  projects,  not  only  in  the  city  of 
Los  Angeles,  but  in  Southern  and  Central  Cali- 
fornia. He  also  has  constructed  a  number  of 
buildings,  the  best  known  of  which  is  the  Hol- 
lingsworth Building,  located  at  the  corner  of  Sixth 
and  Hill  streets,  which  is  recognized  as  being  one 
of  the  finest  office  buildings  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
He  has  made  real  estate  a  study  and  his  judgment 
in  values  is  recognized  everywhere. 

Besides  being  a  member  of  a  number  of  the 
city  and  country  clubs,  Mr.  Hollingsworth  finds 
time  to  give  some  attention  to  music  and  art.  He 
has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  Los  Angeles  Sym- 
phony, and  has  enjoyed  the  benefit  of  extensive 
travel,  not  only  in  this  country,  but  abroad. 


MRS.  W.  D.  ROOT.  The  quest  for  health 
brought  Mrs.  W.  D.  Root  to  Southern  California 
in  1907,  when  she  made  her  start  in  the  poultry 
business  which  has  proved  such  a  great  success, 
her  plant  alone,  aside  from  the  real  estate,  being 
at  present  worth  $3000,  and  she  being  well  known 
as  a  breeder  of  Single  Comb  Black  Minorcas  and 
Mammoth  White  Holland  Turkeys. 

The  life  of  Mrs.  Root  has  been  a  varied  and 
an  interesting  one.  A  native  of  New  York  city, 
when  a  child  she  removed   with    her    familv    to 


South  Dakota,  and  there  on  the  farm  she  re- 
ceived her  initial  experience  in  poultry  raising  by 
assisting  her  mother.  After  nine  years  spent  as 
a  business  woman  in  South  Dakota,  she  devoted 
a  period  of  four  years  to  missionary  work  in 
Japan,  in  1907  coming  to  California,  where  for 
four  years  she  was  located  at  Newman,  in  Stani- 
slaus county.  There,  in  a  small  way,  she  made 
her  start  in  the  poultry  business,  removing  in 
1911  to  Glendale,  one  of  the  suburbs  of  Los 
Angeles,  where  her  present  fine  ranch  is  situated. 
Having  commenced  the  business  without  money 
and  in  debt,  much  praise  is  due  Mrs.  Root  for 
what  she  has  accomplished.  Beginning  on  a  small 
town  lot,  with  a  dozen  and  a  half  Single  Comb 
Black  Minorcas,  she  had  eight  years  of  experience 
in  the  raising  of  this  variety  of  fowl,  as  well  as 
experimenting  with  six  other  breeds,  and  she 
has  come  to  the  decision  that  the  Minorcas  are 
the  best  all-round  bird  for  this  part  of  the  country. 
During  her  first  year  in  the  business  she  took  in 
$5  over  the  feed  bill,  the  second  year  she  trebled 
the  business  with  no  added  expense,  and  the  third 
and  fourth  years  trebled  the  preceding  years,  with 
very  little  added  expense. 

Mrs.  Root  has  three  branches  in  her  industry, 
commercial,  utility  and  show  fowls,  and  by  com- 
bining the  three,  has  made  her  success  in  the  busi- 
ness, but  it  is  by  the  Minorcas  that  she  has  made 
her  reputation.  She  now  has  five  hundred  laying 
hens  and  the  same  number  of  pigeons,  as  well  as 
the  White  Holland  Turkeys  for  which  she  is  also 
noted.  The  hens  in  her  breeding  pens  weigh  from 
six  and  one-half  pounds  to  eight  pounds  and  are 
mated  to  first-class  males.  The  pullets  begin  lay- 
ing at  the  age  of  six  months,  eggs  from  the  laying- 
pens  averaging  twenty-eight  ounces  to  the  dozen, 
some  of  the  hens  having  laid  eggs  that  averaged 
thirty-four  ounces  to  the  dozen.     In  September, 

1914,  Mrs.  Root  shipped  two  dozen  Black 
Minorca  pullets  six  months  old  to  H.  F.  Fisher, 
Hilo,  Hawaiian  Islands,  without  the  loss  of  a 
bird,  Mr.  Fisher  being  so  much  pleased  with  the 
same  that  he  gave  her  a  large  order  on  March  1, 

1915,  for  three  hundred  pullets  and  twenty-six 
breeders,  at  a  cost  of  $600,  these  to  be  hatched  in 
April  and  shipped  in  July.  Her  eggs  and  stock 
have  also  been  shipped  to  all  parts  of  California, 
Arizona,  Washington  and  Oregon,  and  she  has 
filled  orders  from  New  York,  Utah,  British 
Columbia  and  Mexico.  She  has  also  been  very 
successful  in  raising  heavy  turkey  females  weigh- 


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ing  eighteen  pounds  and  males  weighing  as  high 
as  thirty-eight  pounds,  the  females  having  sold 
for  $12  each,  the  males  for  from  $15  to  $25.  For 
four  years  Mrs.  Root  has  had  experience  with 
White  Holland  turkeys,  the  business  for  the  past 
two  years  requiring  four  or  five  breeding  pens, 
and  she  has  recently  furnished  nearly  two  hun- 
dred turkey  eggs  of  this  variety  for  hatching  pur- 
poses to  one  of  the  largest  Bronze  turkey  breeders 
on  the  west  coast.  The  equipment  at  her  ranch, 
which  comprises  large  yards,  breeding  houses,  a 
brooder  house,  lighted  with  electricity  and  with 
a  system  that  is  her  own  invention,  and  eight 
Jubilee  and  Cyphers  incubators  with  a  capacity 
of  two  thousand  eggs  and  operated  eight  months 
of  the  year,  is  valued  at  $1500.  In  March,  1914, 
she  added  to  her  stock  two  hundred  and  fifty 
pigeons,  of  the  Homer  and  Carneau  varieties, 
which  have  now  increased  in  number  to  five  hun- 
dred, and  she  grows  barley,  alfalfa,  clover  and 
several  kinds  of  vegetables  for  the  use  of  her 
chickens  and  turkeys. 

One  of  the  best  known  poultry  women  of 
Southern  California,  Mrs.  Root  is  one  of  the  few 
women  who  have  made  a  financial  success  of  the 
industry^  her  monthly  receipts  having  gone  as 
high  as  $900.  Her  stock  has  taken  blue  ribbons 
at  several  poultry  shows,  and  she  has  won  prizes 
on  every  one  of  her  turkeys  exhibited  at  the 
shows.  A  writer  and  speaker  of  note,  she  has  lec- 
tured before  the  Women's  Congress  of  Reform  at 
Berkeley,  and  in  1914  addressed  the  colony  of 
the  Little  Landers,  near  Glendale,  on  the  subject 
of  poultry  raising,  her  start  and  experience  in 
the  business  furnishing  much  practical  advice  and 
information  for  the  members  of  that  colony  who 
devote  themselves  to  market  gardening  and  the 
raising  of  poultry.  Besides  furnishing  articles 
for  many  other  of  the  poultry  journals  of  the 
country,  Mrs.  Root  contributes  an  article  each 
month  to  the  Pacific  Poultrycraft,  many  of  which 
have  been  copied  by  Eastern  papers,  some  of  her 
topics  being  Sense  and  Nonsense  in  Poultry, 
Poultry  as  a  Vocation  for  Women  and  What  Some 
of  Them  are  Doing  in  It,  Hints  on  Incubating, 
Brooding  and  Raising  Turkeys,  Feed  and  Care 
of  Baby  Chicks,  and  How  a  Novice  Raised  In- 
cubator Turkeys  by  Hand,  and  in  a  clear  and 
entertaining  way  she  gives  many  of  her  own  early 
experiences  and  misfortunes,  as  illustrations  of 
the  points  she  wishes  to  emphasize  in  her  articles. 
With  her  actual  care  and  work  in  poultry  raising 


and  her  prolific  writings  on  the  same  subject,  Mrs. 
Root  yet  finds  time  for  membership  and  active 
participation  in  several  associations  in  the  inter- 
ests of  poultry  raising,  she  being  a  member  of  the 
American  Black  Minorca  Club,  the  Poultry 
Breeders'  Association  of  Southern  California,  the 
Pacific  Minorca  Club  and  the  California  State 
Poultry  Association. 


COL.  JOHN  M.  C.  MARBLE.  Among  the 
prominent  financiers  of  Los  Angeles  mention 
belongs  to  the  late  Col.  John  M.  C.  Marble,  who 
was  a  resident  of  the  city  and  an  upbuilder  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  Mr.  Marble  was  the 
descendant  of  two  old  Eastern  families,  among 
the  earliest  settlers  of  New  England.  The 
paternal  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  removed  from  that 
state  to  Wyoming  Valley,  Pa.,  and  married  a 
widow  Thompson,  whose  maiden  name  was  May 
Richards.  Their  youngest  son  was  Ebenezer 
Marble,  born  in  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  in  1805;  he 
went  to  the  Indian  wars  and  was  never  afterward 
heard  from.  He  married  Hannah  Carey,  of 
Careytown,  now  a  part  of  Wilkesbarre ;  their 
second  child,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born 
July  27,  1833,  and  having  lost  his  father  in  in- 
fancy, was  then  reared  by  his  mother's  family 
until  the  death  of  his  mother's  grandfather,  John 
Carey,  of  Careytown,  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  1170,  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  com- 
pletion of  his  education  in  France  sailed  for  the 
new  world  to  try  his  fortune.  He  landed  in 
Massachusetts  in  1634  and  soon  after  joined  the 
Plymouth  colony,  where  he  became  active  in 
public  affairs,  was  highly  respected  and  influential. 
He    married    Elizabeth    Godfrey,    daughter    of 


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Francis  Godfrey,  and  early  acquired  large  land 
holdings  at  Bridgewater.  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  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  William 
Brett.  Born  of  this  union  were  two  sons  and 
four  daughters,  of  whom  Samuel,  the  eldest,  a 
native  of  Bridgewater,  married  Mary  Poole  in 
1704.  With  the  removal  of  his  son,  Eleazer  (next 
to  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  nine  children),  to 
Dover,  Dutchess  county,  N.  Y.  (Eleazer  married 
Miss  Sturdevant),  the  name  was  carried  west- 
ward, for  from  Dutchess  county  he  went  on  to 
Wyoming  Valley,  Pa.,  in  1769.  The  family  suf- 
fered in  common  with  all  the  pioneers  of  that 
valley,  so  awfully  stricken  by  privations  and  by 
Indian  atrocities  during  the  Pennemyte  and  Revo- 
lutionary wars.  One  of  the  family,  Samuel,  was 
captured  at  the  Wyoming  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,  N.  Y., 
in  1756,  came  with  his  father  to  Wyoming  Valley 
in  1769,  enlisted  in  boyhood  in  the  Continental 
service,  serving  during  the  entire  Revolutionary 
war.  He  was  with  Washington  at  \'alley  Forge 
and  participated  in  many  of  the  important  en- 
gagements 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,  marrying  in  young  man- 
hood and  passing  away  at  an  early  age.  He  left 
a  daughter,  Hannah,  who  was  reared  by  her 
grandfather;  she  married  Ebenezer  Marble  and 
was  left  a  widow  in  early  womanhood. 

Their  son,  John  Minor  Carey  Marble,  as  has 
been  previously  stated,  was  reared  in  the  home  of 
his  great-grandfather  until  he  was  in  his  twelfth 
year,  when  the  latter  passed  to  his  reward.  With 
his  mother  he  then  removed  to  Putnam  county, 
Ohio,  where  two  of  his  uncles  had  located ;  his 
education  was  received  in  the  private  schools  of 
the  period  and  Wilkesbarre  Academy,  later  sup- 
plementing  this   training   with   a   course    in    the 


Wyoming  Seminary  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  partner  in  the  business  at  Kalida,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  went  to  New  York  City  and  pur- 
chased his  first  stock  of  goods.  His  first  mar- 
riage occurred  in  1861  and  united  him  with  Mary 
L.  Coleman,  daughter  of  Dr.  G.  D.  Coleman,  of 
Maysville,  Ky.,  her  grandparents  being  residents 
of  Lebanon,  Ohio.  At  her  death  in  Delphos,  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  In- 
fantry, in  which  he  was  commissioned  colonel, 
and  which  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  defense 
of  Washington.  He  continued  actively  in  the 
mercantile  business  until  1864,  when  with  others 
he  organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  Delphos, 
he  being  cashier  and  later  president.  In  1872  he 
removed  to  Van  Wert,  Ohio,  when  he  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  that  city 
and  succeeded  his  father-in-law.  Dr.  Charles 
Emerson,  who  had  removed  to  Colorado,  in  the 
presidency.  He  continued  at  the  head  of  this 
institution  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  married 
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  considerable 
of  his  property,  he  returned  with  his  family  to 
the  Pacific  coast.  In  Los  Angeles  he  began  at 
once  the  organization  of  the  National  Bank  of 
California,  and  opened  business  on  the  corner  of 
Second  and  Spring  streets  in  September,  1889. 
He  continued  as  president  of  this  institution  until 
1906,  when  he  resigned  and  disposed  of  his  in- 
terests. In  the  meantime  he  had  also  been  in- 
strumental in  the  organization  of  the  Home  Tele- 
phone Company,  and  served  as  its  president  from 
the  time  of  inception  to  1906,  when  he  resigned ; 
was  likewise  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Union 
Home  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Corporation,  in 
which  he  acted  as  president  until  his  resignation 


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in  September,  1907.  His  entire  life  in  manhood 
had  been  passed  in  active  business  affairs,  and 
his  efforts  resulted  in  a  large  development  of 
natural  resources.  While  a  resident  of  Ohio  he 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Cincinnati, 
Jackson  &  Mackinaw^  Railway  Company,  built  the 
first  five  miles  of  road,  and  remained  with  the 
enterprise  until  it  was  successfully  completed  to 
a  system  of  three  hundred  and  forty-six  miles. 
He  resigned  the  presidency  when  he  came  to  Cali- 
fornia and  was  succeeded  by  his  old  friend,  Hon. 
Calvin  Brice.  In  Los  Angeles  he  lent  his 
aid  freely  to  the  advancement  of  public  interests 
and  no  man  was  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  Elizabeth 
Emerson,  who  was  born  in  Ohio ;  her  father, 
Charles  Emerson,  was  born  in  Marietta,  Ohio, 
August  6,  1812,  a  son  of  Caleb  and  Mary  (Dana) 
Emerson,  early  settlers  of  Ohio  from  Massa- 
chusetts. The  great-great-grandfather,  William 
Dana,  was  captain  of  artillery  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  Caleb  Emerson  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  bank- 
ing circles  for  many  years,  being  president  of  the 
First  National  Bank.  In  1870  he  removed  to 
Greeley,  Colo.,  where  he  organized  the  pioneer 
bank  of  the  city,  and  conducted  same  until  his 
retirement  to  Denver,  in  which  city  his  death 
occurred  August  23,  1896.  His  wife  was  in 
maidenhood  Margaret  Dayman  Grier,  a  widow 
when  she  married  Dr.  Emerson ;  she  died  in  1869. 
Mrs.  Marble  received  her  education  in  the  Ohio 
Female  College  at  College  Hill,  Ohio,  and  became 
the  mother  of  three  children,  namely:  John 
Emerson,  Elizabeth  Dana  and  William  Carey,  the 
two  sons  engaging  with  their  father  in  The  John 
M.  C.  Marble  Company  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  and  still  continue  the  business.  Mr.  Marble 
was  a  member  of  the  California  Commandery 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and 
the  California  Club,  and  in  religion  was  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  with  which 
organization  his  widow  is  still  actively  identified. 
Mr.  Marble  was  an  ardent  supporter  of  Repub- 
lican principles  in  his  political  convictions. 


EDWIN  A.  HARDISON.  Having  been 
variously  associated  with  the  development  of  the 
oil  industry  for  more  than  thirty-five  years  and 
in  Southern  California  for  more  than  twenty-five 
years,  Edwin  A.  Hardison  is  well  known  through- 
out the  various  oil  fields  of  the  southern  district, 
and  is  classed  as  one  of  the  most  proficient  drillers 
on  the  coast.  He  has  been  engaged  on  practically 
every  field  from  Bakersfield  south  and  has  done 
his  full  share  in  forwarding  this  vast  industry. 

Mr.  Hardison  is  a  native  of  Maine,  having  been 
born  at  Caribou,  February  20,  1861,  the  son  of 
O.  A.  and  Mary  Hardison.  His  father  was  born 
in  China,  Me.,  and  educated  there.  Later  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  the  lumbering  business,  and 
continued  in  these  occupations  until  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1900.  The  son  attended  the  public 
schools  in  his  native  state  until  he  was  nineteen, 
when  he  went  to  Pennsylvania.  For  a  short  time 
he  worked  on  a  farm,  but  an  opportunity  being 
offered  him  in  the  oil  business,  he  went  to  Duke 
Center,  Pa.,  where  he  was  employed  by  various 
oil  companies  as  driller  until  1882.  In  that  year 
he  went  to  Allegany  county,  N.  Y.,  and  engaged 
in  the  oil  well  contracting  business,  continuing 
this  until  1885,  when  he  again  ventured  into  the 
oil  fields,  this  time  in  Kinzua,  Pa.,  where  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Collins  &  Morse  Oil  Com- 
pany for  a  period  of  six  months.  He  then  went 
to  Lima,  Ohio,  with  the  Trenton  Oil  Company  as 
driller,  remaining  until  1886,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  for  six  months  in  the 
same  capacity.  From  Nashville  he  went  to  May- 
field,  Ky.,  and  engaged  as  a  driller  with  Carrol 
Brothers  until  1889,  at  which  time  he  came  to 
California.  Here  he  was  employed  by  the  Hardi- 
son &  Stewart  Company,  now  the  Union  Oil 
Company,  as  driller  for  a  year,  and  then  went 
over  to  another  of  the  companies  of  these  men, 
the  Torrey  Canyon  Oil  Company,  as  division 
superintendent,  occupying  this  position  until  1891. 
He  then  organized  the  Eureka  Oil  Company,  in 
Ventura  county,  and  was  superintendent  and  part 
owner  of  this  company  until  1896.  when  he  went 
to  Peru,  South  America,  drilling  wells  for  Jack- 
son &  Seward  of  London,  and  remaining  for  six 
months. 

Returning  to  Ventura,  Mr.  Hardison  again 
took  charge  of  the  Eureka  Oil  Company,  con- 
tinuing until  1899,  when  he  disposed  of  his  inter- 
ests therein  and  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  become 
superintendent  of  the  Yukon  Oil  Company,  which 


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position  he  occupied  until  1900.  He  then  went  to 
Bakersfield  as  superintendent  of  the  Reed  Oil 
Company,  a  position  which  he  resigned  at  the 
end  of  four  months  to  engage  in  the  manufacture 
of  the  Hardison  Perforator,  which  he  himself 
had  invented  and  patented  and  which  he  operated 
for  several  years.  In  1904  he  sold  out  his  inter- 
ests in  this  business  and  became  the  general  fore- 
man of  the  water  department  of  the  Santa  Fe 
Railway  Company,  under  Chief  Engineer  R. 
B.  Burns.  At  the  end  of  three  years  he 
again  went  to  Bakersfield  as  chief  inspector 
of  construction  of  the  pipe  line  to  Port  Costa, 
Cal.,  for  the  Associated  Company,  remaining  until 
1907.  The  said  pipe  line  is  of  peculiar  construc- 
tion, and  is  known  as  the  rifled  line.  The  pipe  is 
spirally  corrugated  like  the  inside  of  a  rifle-barrel 
and  gives  the  substances  forced  through  it  a 
rapidly  whirling  motion.  When  it  was  found  that 
this  pipe  could  not  be  successfully  laid  with  com- 
mon tongs,  Mr.  Hardison's  inventive  genius  was 
brought  into  requisition,  and  he  invented  the 
tongs  that  could  do  this  difficult  work.  As  evi- 
dence of  the  satisfaction  which  the  Hardison 
tongs  give  it  may  be  said  that  they  have  been  in 
common  use  ever  since  their  invention.  In  the 
year  last  mentioned  Mr.  Hardison  bought  back 
the  Hardison  Perforator  business  and  conducted 
it  until  1909,  when  he  again  sold  his  interests  and 
went  to  Timor  Island,  four  hundred  miles  off  the 
coast  of  Australia,  on  a  business  trip  lasting  one 
year  in  the  interests  of  a  Hong  Kong  company. 
Since  his  return  (1912)  he  has  lived  in  retirement 
at  his  home  in  Los  Angeles,  at  No.  1422  Ridge 
Way. 

Many  years  of  active  participation  in  the  oil 
business  in  California  have  given  Mr.  Hardison 
an  unusually  broad  view  of  the  situation  and  also 
given  him  an  extensive  acquaintance  among  oil 
men,  both  the  promoters  and  the  actual  operators. 
His  knowledge  of  the  details  of  the  business  is 
very  valuable  and  his  service  in  the  development 
of  the  industry  cannot  be  over-estimated.  He  is 
a  Mason,  having  been  raised  in  China. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Hardison  was  solemnized 
at  Santa  Paula,  Cal.,  in  1891,  the  bride  being  Miss 
Mary  Walker,  of  St.  Louis.  They  are  the 
parents  of  four  children,  all  of  whom  are  well 
known  in  Los  Angeles,  where  they  have  received 
their  education.  They  are:  Esa,  a  graduate  of 
the  State  Normal  School,  and  now  engaged  in 
teaching;  Fred,  with  the  Union  Oil   Company; 


Waldo,  a  student  in  high  school;  and  Marion, 
student  in  grammar  school. 


FREDERICK  WILLIAM  BRAUN.  An  im- 
portant feature  in  the  commercial  development  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  one  which  contributes  largely  to 
its  general  prosperity,  has  been  the  establishment 
of  manufacturing  industries  in  the  city,  and  it 
will  continue  so  to  be.  In  this  field  of  endeavor 
Frederick  William  Braun  has  been  a  prominent 
factor,  having  developed  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  assay  and  chemical  laboratory  machinery 
and  supplies,  and  also  several  special  laboratory 
appliances  which  have  a  nationwide  sale. 

Mr.  Braun  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  born  at  Peru, 
October  6,  1858,  the  son  of  John  and  Katherine 
M.  Braun.  His  boyhood  days  were  passed  in 
Illinois,  and  he  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Peru,  and  later  attended  the 
College  of  Pharmacy,  at  Chicago,  111.  After 
graduating  he  removed  to  Denton,  Texas,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  retail  drug  business,  later  fol- 
lowing the  same  line  in  Roanoke,  that  state.  He 
sold  his  interests  in  Roanoke  in  1883,  and  the 
same  year  opened  a  wholesale  and  retail  drug 
business  in  Colorado  City,  Texas,  remaining  there 
for  five  years  and  meeting  with  decided  success. 

It  was  in  1888  that  Mr.  Braun  first  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  and  in  that  year  he  established  a  whole- 
sale drug  business  in  this  city,  the  first  of  its  kind 
to  be  opened  south  of  San  Francisco  in  California. 
For  the  succeeding  nineteen  years  he  continued 
in  this  enterprise  with  success,  disposing  of  his 
interests  in  1907  to  engage  in  a  special  line  of 
manufacturing. 

This  latest  undertaking  of  Mr.  Braun  has 
proven  as  profitable  a  venture  as  have  previous 
enterprises,  and  is  today  one  of  the  best  estab- 
lished concerns  of  its  kind  in  Los  Angeles  or 
vicinity.  He  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
assay  and  chemical  laboratory  machinery  and 
supplies,  scientific  instruments  and  apparatus  for 
educational  laboratories,  as  well  as  the  importa- 
tion and  sale  of  industrial  chemicals  and  com- 
modities. Plants  for  these  enterprises  are  located 
both  at  San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles,  and  their 
products  are  known  throughout  the  world. 

Aside  from  his  business  prominence,  Mr. 
Braun  is  well  known  to  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
in  a  social  and  fraternal  way.    He  is  one  of  the 


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original  organizers  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  and  has  been  an  influential  member 
of  that  body  for  many  years.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Mines,  Mer- 
chants and  Manufacturers  Association,  and  of 
the  Associated  Jobbers  of  Los  Angeles.  Of  the 
purely  social  organizations  of  which  Mr.  Braun 
is  a  member  may  be  mentioned  the  California, 
Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Los  Angeles  Country  and 
Annandale  Golf  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the 
Chemists'  Club  of  New  York. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Braun  occurred  in  San 
Francisco  in  1892,  uniting  him  with  Mrs.  Kathryn 
E.  Standiford,  the  daughter  of  John  W.  and 
Mary  Bear. 


PATRICK  J.  McDonald.  Many  of  the 
handsome  residences  and  public  buildings  of  Los 
Angeles  are  representative  of  the  enterprise  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Planing  Mill  Company,  of  which 
Patrick  J.  McDonald,  a  manufacturer  and  con- 
tractor of  this  city,  is  president  and  general  man- 
ager, his  wife  being  vice-president  of  the  com- 
pany. In  1900  this  business  was  bought  by  Mr. 
McDonald,  who,  with  many  years  of  experience 
to  his  credit,  has  brought  the  firm  up  to  its  present 
high  standing,  reincorporating  it  in  1905  and 
completing  in  that  year  a  new  mill  fitted  out  with 
modern  machinery  and  occupying  sixty  thousand 
square  feet  of  land.  Under  the  efficient  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  McDonald  the  business  has  now 
assumed  an  important  place  among  concerns  of 
this  kind  in  Southern  California,  and  is  owned 
entirely  by  Mr.  McDonald  and  his  family. 

Born  in  Ireland,  on  St.  Patrick's  day,  1863,  Mr. 
McDonald  was  christened  with  the  name  of  the 
patron  saint  of  his  country.  He  was  the  son  of 
Lawrence  and  Margaret  (Foley)  McDonald  and 
was  educated  in  the  National  School  of  Ireland 
and  St.  Michael's  College,  at  New  Ross,  County 
Wexford,  spending  in  all  eight  years  at  the  last- 
named  institution.  Having  completed  his  educa- 
tion, Mr.  McDonald  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the 
carpentering  and  contracting  business,  in  which 
he  remained  four  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time 
receiving  his  license  as  a  competent  workman,  he 
began  to  work  independently  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years.  Not  long  after  starting  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  Mr.  McDonald  removed  to  the 
United  States,  to  seek  his   fortune  in  the  New 


World.  His  first  employment  in  this  country  was 
in  1881  in  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  was  engaged 
by  Hennessy  Brothers,  a  firm  of  builders, 
remaining  with  them  for  three  years,  and 
leaving  their  employ  to  learn  work  in  a  mill.  For 
three  years  thereafter  he  was  employed  in  the 
mill  of  Campbell  Brothers,  Chicago,  during  the 
last  year  of  his  stay  with  them  being  foreman  of 
the  cabinet  department.  Mr.  McDonald  next  set 
out  for  the  southwest,  in  1887  settling  in  San 
Diego,  Cal.,  where  he  was  employed  by  the  L. 
A.  Fitch  Company,  a  firm  of  builders  with  which 
he  remained  two  years,  acting  as  foreman  and 
superintendent  in  different  departments  of  the 
work.  Removing,  to  Fresno  in  1889,  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald assumed  the  offices  of  foreman  and  esti- 
mator in  the  Mechanics'  Planing  Mill  Company, 
which  position  he  continued  to  fill  for  three  years. 
To  Madera,  Cal.,  was  his  next  move,  and  there 
he  filled  the  position  of  superintendent  of  the 
Madera  Flume  and  Trading  Company  for  two 
years,  in  1895  being  chosen  to  the  post  of  superin- 
tendent and  estimator  for  the  San  Pedro  Lumber 
Company  at  San  Pedro,  Cal..  where  Mr.  McDon- 
ald became  well  known  during  the  five  years  that 
followed.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  he  brings  with 
him  to  the  management  of  his  present  business  in 
Los  Angeles  many  years  of  practical  experience 
and  responsibility  along  lines  eminently  fitted  to 
adapt  him  to  the  great  work  he  is  now  conducting, 
and  to  which  he  has  of  late  years  added  a  general 
building  and  contracting  business. 

Aside  from  his  business  interests,  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald is  connected  with  associations  that  are  in 
line  with  the  active  industries  of  the  part  of  the 
country  where  he  makes  his  home,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  As- 
sociation, the  Builders'  Exchange,  the  Master 
Builders'  Association,  the  Credit  Men's  Associa- 
tion, the  Southern  California  Mill  Owners'  As- 
sociation and  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce ;  his  social  and  fraternal  associations  being 
with  the  Jonathan  and  the  Newman  Clubs,  the 
Elks,  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  the  Ancient 
Order  of  Hibernians.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald with  Carrie  Louise  Mann,  a  native  of 
Ohio,  took  place  at  Fresno,  Cal.,  on  January  28, 
1891,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  four  children, 
namely :  Lawrence  Earl,  Ethel  May,  Jennie  Beal 
and  David  Eugene  McDonald.  Lawrence  E.,  a 
graduate   of   St.   Vincent's   College,   took   a  two 


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years'  course  in  engineering  and  construction  at 
Notre  Dame  and  is  now  assisting  iiis  father  in  the 

business. 


JOSEPH  McMillan,  since  he  first  started 
in  business  Hfe  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years, 
Joseph  McMillan,  now  the  general  manager  of 
the  Pacific  Electric  Railway  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
has  been  connected  with  railroad  interests  in 
various  capacities,  from  that  of  messenger  boy, 
rising  gradually  to  his  present  important  ofiice. 

The  father  of  Mr.  McMillan,  Dr.  William 
Ryall  McMillan,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina 
and  a  graduate  of  Bellevue  College,  Philadelphia, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  and  he 
practiced  medicine  in  Texas  from  the  time  of  his 
graduation  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
1885.  His  wife  was  Nancy  Broomfield  (Lively) 
McMillan,  and  their  son  Joseph  was  born  at 
Winnsboro,  Tex.,  and  received  his  education  at 
the  public  schools  until  the  age  of  fourteen  years, 
when  he  became  a  messenger  boy  in  the  office  of 
the  Houston  &  Texas  Central  Railroad  at  Kosse, 
Tex.,  at  the  small  salary  of  $10  per  month.  After 
about  a  year  his  wages  were  advanced  to  $1  per 
day  for  acting  in  various  capacities,  such  as 
station  porter,  general  utility  man  about  the  sta- 
tion, etc.  He  spent  about  three  years  thus,  during 
which  time  he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of 
telegraphy  and  station  office  work,  so  that  at  the 
end  of  about  three  years  he  was  enabled  to  take 
a  position  with  the  same  railroad  company  as  tele- 
graph operator  and  station  clerk  at  various  sta- 
tions, work  which  he  continued  for  about  two 
years.  He  then  left  the  service  of  the  H.  &  T.  C. 
R.  R.,  to  engage  with  the  G.  H.  &  S.  A.  Railway 
as  station  clerk  and  operator  at  Weimar,  Tex., 
remaining  with  the  latter  for  nearly  two  years. 
Afterward  he  was  night  ticket  clerk  and  operator 
at  Harrisburg,  Tex.,  for  nine  or  ten  months,  and 
was  then  made  agent  at  Rosenburg,  Tex.,  where 
he  remained  for  eighteen  months.  For  two  years 
he  filled  the  office  of  terminal  or  frontier  agent 
over  the  territory  from  San  Antonio,  Tex.,  to  the 
Rio  Grande,  and  then  for  about  seven  years  more 
was  agent  at  Flatonia,  Tex.,  after  which  he  was 
transferred  to  San  Antonio  as  train  dispatcher, 
remaining  about  a  year.  Following  this  he  was 
freight  agent  at  San  Antonio,  at  that  time  the 


most  important  freight  station  on  that  line  of 
road  in  Texas.  For  a  year  and  a  half  he  had 
under  his  supervision  more  than  forty  freight 
clerks  and  office  men,  nearly  seventy  warehouse- 
men and  five  switch  engines  and  crews;  his  next 
position  was  that  of  commercial  agent,  in  the 
same  city  and  territory,  which  he  held  for  about 
four  years,  then  being  made  district  freight  and 
passenger  agent  of  the  territory  between  Houston 
and  El  Paso,  Tex.,  and  Mexico  south  of  Chi- 
huahua, with  headquarters  at  San  Antonio.  In 
1910  the  work  of  the  freight  and  passenger  de- 
partments was  divided,  Mr.  McMillan  having 
charge  of  the  passenger  business  in  the  same  ter- 
ritory until  he  left  Texas  in  1903  to  come  to 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  to  enter  the  service  of  the 
Pacific  Electric  Railway.  Arrived  in  this  city,  he 
became  chief  clerk  to  the  vice-president  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway  Com- 
pany, in  1904  becoming  traffic  manager,  which 
department  was  organized  by  Mr.  McMillan  him- 
self. In  the  year  1908  he  was  advanced  to  the 
office  of  general  manager  of  the  entire  Pacific 
Electric  Railway  Company,  which  position  he 
has  competently  filled  since  that  time.  The  fact 
that  Mr.  McMillan's  name  has  never  been  omitted 
from  a  month's  pay-roll  since  he  started  to  work 
as  a  boy  speaks  well  for  his  ability  and  per- 
sistence along  his  chosen  line  of  occupation,  and 
is  one  of  the  factors  which  have  led  up  to  his 
success  in  his  career. 

In  fraternal  circles,  as  well  as  in  the  business 
world,  Mr.  McMillan  is  well  and  favorably 
known,  being  past  master  and  a  life  member  of 
Anchor  Lodge  No.  421,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Texas ; 
past  high  priest  and  life  member  of  Burleson 
Chapter  No.  21,  R.  A.  M.,  Texas;  past  eminent 
commander  of  San  Antonio  Commandery  No  7, 
K.  T. ;  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Master 
Masons  of  Texas ;  the  Grand  Chapter  R.  A.  M.. 
and  the  Grand  Commandery  K.  T.,  Texas  ;  also  of 
the  Scottish  Rite  and  the  Shrine  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  a  social  club  of  the 
same  city.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  McMillan  with 
Miss  Susan  Grace  was  solemnized  in  Weimar, 
Tex.,  December  20,  1882.  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  one  son,  Jesse  McDaniel,  who  died  in 
Los  Angeles  in  1904,  aged  nineteen  years,  and 
two  datighters,  now  Mrs.  Borden  Johnson  and 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Grace  Stone,  both  of  whom  reside 
in  Los  Angeles. 


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HISTORICAL    AND    BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD 


THOMAS  POWELL,  M.  D.  The  good  that 
men  do  lives  after  them,  is  a  fitting  adage  when 
applied  to  Dr.  Thomas  Powell,  whose  accomplish- 
ments along  his  chosen  work  will  ever  be  a  splen- 
did monument  to  his  memory,  the  whole  world 
being  the  beneficiary  of  his  labors,  his  efforts 
and  his  untiring  zeal  for  better  conditions  and 
standards  in  his  profession.  Distinguished  for 
his  original  investigations  and  writings  in  ex- 
planation of  the  activities  of  life,  normal  and 
abnormal,  Dr.  Powell  has  never  failed  in  the 
solution  of  the  problems  in  which  he  became  in- 
terested, and  his  achievements  in  the  field  of 
original  research  have  won  for  him  world-wide 
recognition. 

Born  September  21,  1837,  in  Montgomery 
county,  Tenn.,  Thomas  Powell  was  the  son  of 
William  Solomon  and  Sallie  (Holloway)  Powell. 
Receiving  the  regular  elementary  education  of  the 
public  schools,  he  entered  and  was  graduated 
from  the  New  York  Medical  College  of  New 
York  City,  the  first  institution  in  the  United 
States  to  establish  a  higher  standard  of  medical 
education.  He  entered  upon  his  chosen  career  in 
the  latter  part  of  1859,  locating  in  Trigg  county, 
Ky.  In  1884,  when  modern  medicine  was  rapidly 
approaching  the  zenith  of  its  world-wide  reg- 
nancy.  Dr.  Powell  determined  to  take  a  post- 
graduate course,  with  the  hope  of  meeting  a  long- 
felt  want — a  better  understanding  of  medical 
problems  than  he  had  been  able  to  obtain  from 
the  medical  literature  of  the  period.  He  chose 
the  then-existing  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  Nebraska,  an  institution  that 
appealed  to  him,  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  all 
three  of  the  then  prevailing  systems,  regular, 
eclectic  and  homeopathic,  were  embraced  therein. 
This  institution  was  to  all  appearances  well- 
manned  and  up-to-date  in  its  equipment  and 
teachings,  and  yet  it  served  not  to  gratify,  but  to 
intensify  Dr.  Powell's  professional  craving,  be- 
cause it  failed  to  supply  the  missing  links  of  the 
current  teaching.  For  this  reason  he  set  out  with 
the  determination  to  solve  if  possible  both  the 
confessedly  and  obviously  unsolved  problems  of 
modern  medicine.  The  most  important  of  the 
former  class  were  those  pertaining  to  the  suscep- 
tibility of  the  body  to  morbific  agencies,  climatic, 
sporadic  and  bacteriologic.  Authorities  had  gone 
no  further  than  to  realize  and  admit  that  both 
congestion  and  infection  depend  upon  a  pre-exist- 


ing condition  of  which  a  lowered  vitality  is  the 
most  conspicuous  feature. 

In  short,  Dr.  Powell  has  spent  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century  in  the  attempt  to  remedy  the 
deficiencies  of  the  current  teaching,  and  with  the 
result  of  the  production  of  a  new  and  prac- 
tically complete  medical  philosophy,  the  details 
of  which  he  published  in  1909  in  the  shape  of  a 
medical  work  of  six  hundred  pages,  entitled 
"Fundamentals  and  Requirements  of  Health  and 
Disease."  His  first  achievement  was  effected  in 
1885  and  comprised  a  most  complete  and  logical 
solution  of  the  problems  of  nutrition  and  muscu- 
lar contraction,  negating  the  current  teaching  by 
showing:  First,  that  nutrition  consists,  not  in 
the  rebuilding  of  wornout  tissues,  as  authorities 
had  asserted,  but  in  the  filling  and  refilling  of  the 
cells  of  which  the  motor  mechanism,  nervous  and 
muscular,  are  composed ;  second,  that  the  living 
machine  owes  its  energies,  mental,  nervous, 
thermal  and  propulsive,  to  the  oxidation,  not  of 
its  tissues,  as  authorities  have  declared,  but  of 
the  carbon  of  the  food  stored  in  the  cells  thereof  ; 
third,  that  it  owes  its  every  motion  to  the  vito- 
motive-power,  a  form  of  energy  which  evinces  its 
capability  by  possessing  as  its  maximum  efficiency 
a  dynamic  equivalent  of  forty  atmospheres  or  six 
hundred  pounds  to  the  square  inch ;  fourth,  from 
what  element  of  the  food  it  is  derived,  and  how 
it  sets  the  vital  machinery  in  motion. 

In  the  January,  1886.  number  of  the  Kansas 
City  Medical  Index,  Dr.  Powell  published  an 
illustrated  article  on  this  subject.  In  1888  he 
discovered  the  great  underlying  cause  of  disease, 
the  thing  that  renders  the  body  "susceptible"  to 
"colds"  and  infections ;  that  gives  rise  to  con- 
gestion, inflammation  and  tissue  starvation,  cap- 
ping the  climax  of  its  essential  virulence  by  taking 
the  shape  of  milliary  tubercles  and  cancer  cells. 
Because  of  its  wondrous  virulence  and  versa- 
tility this  substance  has  been  given  the  fairly 
distinctive  name  of  Pathogen,  a  term  which  Dr. 
Powell  ventured  to  construct  from  the  Greek 
roots:  path,  which  means  to  suffer,  and  gen, 
which  means  to  generate  or  produce.  In  the 
latter  part  of  1896  he  demonstrated  on  three 
separate  occasions,  in  the  presence  of  many 
reputable  physicians,  and  by  experiments  made 
upon  his  own  body,  that  he  had  discovered  how 
to  render  the  human  body  immune  to  infective 
organisms.  A  little  later,  in  December,  1896,  he 
was  induced  by  persons  who  had  heard  of  his 


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discoveries  to  adopt  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  as  tlie 
basis  of  his  future  operations.  Soon  after  his 
arrival  in  Los  Angeles  he  repeated  the  tests  above 
referred  to,  demonstrating  under  the  supervision 
of  many  physicians,  and  by  experiments  made, 
as  before,  upon  his  own  body,  that  when  a  man 
has  been  freed  from  what  he  had  found  to  be  the 
basic  and  pre-disposing  cause  of  disease.  Patho- 
gen, he  is  perfectly  immune,  the  vilest  germs 
then  known  to  science,  malignant  pustule,  tuber- 
culosis, glanders,  diphtheria  and  typhoid  fever, 
having  been  introduced  into  his  body  by  every 
available  route,  from  ingestion  to  hypodermic  in- 
oculation, without  producing  the  slightest  discern- 
ible injury. 

In  1900  Dr.  Powell  originated  the  electro- 
dynamic  method  of  eradicating  deep-seated  dis- 
orders, comprehending  a  combination  of  agencies, 
mechanical  and  electrical,  whereby  the  requisite 
remedies  are  forced  from  the  surface  of  the  body, 
where  they  must  of  necessity  be  applied,  through 
the  skin  and  into  the  deep-seated  areas  where  the 
basic  cause  of  the  trouble,  Pathogen,  is  embedded, 
as  it  is  in  a  multitude  of  maladies,  the  result  of 
a  timely  and  duly  faithful  effort  of  the  kind  being 
the  cure  of  a  great  variety  of  problematic  dis- 
orders, including  several  of  the  so-called  incur- 
able diseases,  diabetes,  Bright's  disease,  dropsy, 
heart  disease,  apoplexy,  paralysis,  nervous  de- 
bility and  locomotor  ataxia. 

There  is  much  in  Dr.  Powell's  theories  to 
justify  the  conclusion  that  he  has  made  an  epoch- 
making  discovery,  that  he  has  obtained  a  definite 
knowledge  both  of  the  power  that  rules  on  the 
vital  plane,  as  gravitation  does  on  the  physical, 
and  of  the  rules  by  which  it  is  governed,  the 
principia,  it  would  seem,  of  the  domain  of  ani- 
mated nature. 

Dr.  Powell  was  twice  married,  his  first  mar- 
riage being  to  Margaret  lanthe  Rife,  the  wedding 
taking  place  December  18,  1859,  at  her  mother's 
country  home  in  Logan  county,  Ky.  The  eight 
children  born  of  this  union  follow:  Charles 
Thomas,  lanthe  Florence,  William  Rife,  Arthur 
Leon,  Effie  May,  Nellie  Caroline,  George  Fideles 
and  \'erne  O.  Powell.  Dr.  Powell's  second  wife 
was  before  her  marriage  Clarissa  Jeannette  Pond, 
the  ceremony  taking  place  June  25,  1893.  One 
child  came  to  this  union,  Ruth  Jeannette.  The 
doctor  is  a  member  of  several  social  and  scientific 
organizations,  among  which  are  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, the  Celtic  Club,  American  Public  Health 


Association,  American  Health  League,  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
American  Association  for  the  Study  of  and  Pre- 
vention of  Infant  Mortality,  and  the  Southern 
California  Academy  of  Sciences.  In  recognition 
of  his  contributions  to  medical  science  he  has 
recently  been  made  an  honorary  member  of  the 
National  Health  Guard  of  New  York  City,  New 
York,  and  also  the  Royal  Societies  Club  of  Lon- 
don, England,  while  one  of  the  largest  sana- 
toriums  in  Germany  has  adopted  Dr.  Powell's 
teaching  and  practices. 


HARRY  GARNET  MINES.  In  1910  H.  G. 
Mines  became  identified  with  the  California 
Macaroni  Company,  when  the  plant  was  located 
on  Lyon  street,  becoming  president  and  manager. 
Later,  as  the  business  was  increased,  the  com- 
pany moved  to  more  commodious  quarters  on  Los 
Angeles  street,  and  when  that  place  burned  down 
in  1913  the  company  moved  to  its  present  location 
at  No.  1560  Industrial  street,  where  ample  room 
is  provided  for  the  manufacture  and  handling 
of  macaroni  under  sanitary  conditions.  It  was 
Mr.  Mines  who  originated  the  name  "Calmaco" 
brand,  which  is  so  well  known  and  extensively 
advertised  throughout  the  southwest.  Since  1914 
this  company  has  been  doing  a  large  and  growing 
business  in  imported  olive  oils.  To  the  president 
and  manager's  persistency  of  purpose  and  close 
attention  to  detail  are  due  the  success  and  growth 
of  the  business. 

Mr.  Mines  was  bom  in  Montreal,  Canada, 
August  1,  1879,  a  son  of  Dr.  W.  W.  and  Amelia 
Mines,  both  of  whom  are  now  deceased,  the 
former  having  been  a  prominent  physician  in 
Montreal  for  many  years.  After  receiving  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Montreal, 
Harry  G.  Mines  struck  out  for  himself,  later  com- 
ing to  California,  where  he  was  associated  in  the 
real  estate  business  for  a  number  of  years  with 
his  brother,  in  the  meantime  becoming  thoroughly 
conversant  with  values  throughout  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  continued  in  the  real  estate  business 
with  a  marked  degree  of  success  until  deciding  to 
embark  in  the  manufacturing  business,  to  which 
he  now  gives  his  undivided  attention. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Mines  with  Marie  L. 
Pratt  occurred  in  Los  Angeles  in  1903 ;  they  have 
three  children,  Elizabeth,  Lillian  and  Harry  G., 


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Jr.  Mr.  Mines  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a 
Shriner,  and  is  a  member  of  the  California,  Jona- 
than and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs  of  this  city. 


D.  JOSEPH  COYNE.  Prominent  among  the 
attorneys  of  Los  Angeles  is  D.  Joseph  Coyne,  who 
since  1905  has  made  his  home  in  this  city,  and 
during  that  time  has  been  continuously  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Though  still 
a  young  man,  he  has  made  an  enviable  record  for 
himself  before  the  bar  of  the  state,  and  he  has 
as  well  been  prominent!)'  before  the  people  on 
various  political  questions. 

Mr.  Coyne  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  having  been 
born  in  Chicago,  July  11,  1882,  the  son  of  Martin 
J.  and  Catherine  (McMahon)  Coyne.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  his  native  city,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  education,  graduating  first  from  the 
public  schools  and  later  from  the  Atheneum  Busi- 
ness College  and  Lewis  Institute.  His  law  studies 
were  pursued  at  the  law  department  of  Lake 
Forest  University,  from  which  institution  he  was 
graduated  in  June,  1905,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws.  During  that  same  month  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Illinois,  and  in  the 
following  December  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  courts  of  California. 

Immediately  after  coming  to  California  Mr. 
Coyne  located  in  Los  Angeles  and  became  as- 
sociated with  the  law  office  of  Earl  Rogers  and 
Luther  G.  Brown,  remaining  with  this  firm 
throughout  1906.  In  January,  1907,  he  formed 
a  co-partnership  with  John  P.  Coyne,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Coyne  &  Coyne,  under  which  name 
business  has  since  been  carried  on. 

In  religion  Mr.  Coyne  is  a  Catholic,  and  is  a 
member  and  past  grand  knight  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus.  During  the  year  1915  he  was 
president  of  the  local  division  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  Hibernians.  He  is  also  associated  with 
the  Young  Men's  Institute,  Catholic  Order  of 
Foresters  and  the  Newman  and  Celtic  Clubs,  and 
is  especially  well  known  among  the  Elks,  of  which 
he  is  a  member.  During  the  years  1906-7-8  he 
served  as  a  member  of  Company  A,  Seventh 
Regiment,  National  Guard  of  California. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Coyne  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  well  read  and  thoroughly  in- 
formed on  all  party  questions,  is  a  clear  thinker 
and  an  able  talker,  and  is  deeply  interested  in  all 


governmental  questions.  He  is  also  in  high  stand- 
ing with  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  of 
which  he  is  a  member. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Coyne  occurred  in  Los 
Angeles,  September  14,  1910,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Johanna  Slaney,  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Johanna  (Hartnelt)  Slaney,  a  native  of  Cali- 
fornia, born  at  Los  Angeles,  March  1,  1884.  Of 
this  marriage  have  been  born  a  son  and  daughter, 
Bernard  P.  and  Blanche  J.  Coyne. 


WILLIAM  JOHNSON  WASHBURN. 
Born  in  Springwater,  Livingston  county,  N.  Y., 
September  30,  1852,  William  Johnson  Washburn 
was  the  son  of  Capt.  William  and  Mary  R. 
(Johnson)  Washburn.  His  father,  the  descendant 
of  an  old  New  England  family,  was  for  many 
years  engaged  in  merchandising  in  his  native 
state,  which  pursuit  he  followed  for  a  number  of 
years  later  in  St.  Louis.  At  the  time  of  the 
Civil  war  he  enlisted  in  the  army  and  served  as 
captain  of  Company  G,  One  Hundred  and  Eighty- 
ninth  Regiment,  New  York  State  Volunteers, 
belonging  to  the  division  that  received  the  sur- 
render of  General  Lee's  army.  His  death  oc- 
curred November  5,  1898,  in  Pasadena,  Cal.,  he 
having  made  his  home  in  California  since  the 
year  1889.  Of  his  three  sons  and  one  daughter, 
but  one  son,  W^illiam  J.,  is  now  living.  The  others 
were  as  follows  :  Charles  A.,  who  was  engaged  in 
the  general  insurance  business  in  Denver,  Colo. ; 
Frank  E.,  who  was  interested  with  his  brother 
William  J.  in  the  banking  business  in  Los  An- 
geles ;  and  Jennie  B.,  who  died  when  a  child. 

The  education  of  William  J.  Washburn  was 
received  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the  Genesee 
Wesleyan  Seminary  at  Lima,  N.  Y.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  left  school  and  engaged  as  clerk 
in  a  general  merchandise  store  in  Cohocton,  N. 
Y.,  until  the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he  went  to 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and  afterwards  to  St.  Louis.  In 
1874  he  went  into  the  general  produce  and  com- 
mission business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
William  Washburn  &  Sons  and  became  known  as 
one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  St.  Louis.  Dis- 
posing of  his  interests  in  that  city  in  1888  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  in  1890  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  which  position  he 
retained  until  1903,  when  it  was  merged  with  the 
American  National  Bank. 


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In  1903  Mr.  Washburn  organized  the  Equitable 
Savings  Bank  and  served  as  its  president  until 
its  consolidation  with  the  Security  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank,  January  1,  1912,  since  which  time 
he  has  been  a  member  of  its  board  of  directors 
and  its  loan  committee. 

A  man  prominent  in  business  and  educational 
circles  in  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Washburn  has  held 
other  important  business  connections,  among 
them  being  the  receivership  of  the  City  Bank 
which  failed  in  1893,  and  also  of  the  Bankers' 
Alliance.  He  was  foreman  of  the  grand  jury  of 
Los  Angeles  county  in  1897  and  again  in  1914, 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce in  1906,  a  member  of  the  city  council  and 
chairman  of  the  financial  committee  in  1911  and 
1912,  and  in  1914-15  one  of  the  government  rep- 
resentatives of  the  National  Currency  Association 
of  Los  Angeles  under  the  Aldrich  &  Vreeland 
act.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion from  1899  to  1903,  again  in  1905  and  1906, 
and  president  of  the  same  board  in  1902  and  1903 
and  from  1905  to  1906,  many  school  improve- 
ments having  been  made  under  his  direction.  His 
fraternal  and  social  interests  also  are  wide,  he 
being  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  a  member  of  the  California,  University,  Sun- 
set and  Los  Angeles  Country  Clubs,  of  Los  An- 
geles. His  political  affiliations  are  with  the 
Republicans. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Washburn,  which  ocr 
curred  in  St.  Louis,  May  30,  1878,  united  him 
with  Miss  Helen  E.  Rowell,  a  native  of  Littleton, 
N.  H.,  and  a  sister  of  Clinton  Rowell  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.  Mrs.  Washburn  is  a  most  cultured 
woman,  who  has  been  president  of  the  Ruskin 
Art  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  and  a  member  of  the 
Juvenile  Court  Commission  and  of  the  Municipal 
Art  Commission. 


LEWIS  C.  TORRANCE.  A  native  of  the 
Empire  state,  Mr.  Torrance  was  born  at  Go- 
wanda,  Cattaraugus  county,  in  1855,  and  is  a  son 
of  C.  C.  and  Mary  Torrance.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  there  and  later  De  Veaux  College 
at  Niagara  Falls.  After  graduating  from  college 
he  entered  the  flour  milling  business  and  con- 
tinued in  it  for  several  years,  or  until  1887,  when 
he  came  to  Pasadena,  Cal.,  and  finally  decided  to 
locate  here.  Soon  thereafter  he  became  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  the  Pasadena  Elec- 


tric Light  and  Power  Company,  which  position 
he  retained  for  about  ten  years,  when  the  prop- 
erty was  disposed  of  to  the  Edison  Company,  and 
for  a  year  thereafter  he  traveled  abroad. 

Following  his  return,  Mr.  Torrance  located  in 
Los  Angeles  and  entered  the  stock  and  bond  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  Torrance  &  Dicken- 
son, and  continued  in  this  line  of  business  for 
some  years,  when  he  decided  to  withdraw  anc\ 
enter  the  oil  business.  He  assisted  in  the  forma- 
tion of  the  United  Oil  Company  and  thereafter 
organized  the  Rock  Oil  Company  and  became  its 
president  and  manager,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  Among  the  enterprises  which  today  claim 
his  attention  more  than  any  others  is  the  Santa 
Monica  Bay  Home  Telephone  Company,  of  which 
he  is  chief  stockholder,  president  and  manager. 
This  enterprise  is  noted  for  the  efficiency  of  its 
service,  a  quality  which  can  only  be  attained 
through  careful  personal  effort.  He  at  one  time 
owned  and  occupied  a  ranch  in  Sierra  Madre, 
and  during  his  residence  there  was  city  treasurer 
and  also  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
that  city. 

At  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Torrance  was  married 
to  Miss  Minnie  Henderson,  the  daughter  of  Judge 
WilHam  H.  Henderson,  of  Randolph,  N.  Y.,  and 
they  now  have  two  children.  The  daughter,  Miss 
Katherine  T.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Marlborough 
School  for  Girls  of  this  city,  and  of  Mrs.  Finch's 
Private  School  for  Girls  of  New  York  city.  The 
son,  Lewis  C,  is  at  present  a  student  of  the 
Harvard  Military  School,  this  city.  Mr.  Tor- 
rance and  his  family  reside  in  the  Wilshire  dis- 
trict, and  he  is  identified  with  a  number  of  clubs, 
such  as  the  Calfornia  and  Sierra  Madre  Clubs. 


FRED  H.  HOWARD.  The  corporation 
known  as  Howard  &  Smith,  florists,  nurserymen 
and  landscape  artists,  of  which  Fred  H.  Howard 
is  the  president,  with  his  brothers,  O.  W.,  Paul 
J.  and  Arthur  P.  Howard,  associated  with  him, 
is  the  largest  nursery  devoted  to  ornamental 
horticulture  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Besides  their 
main  offices  and  display  rooms  at  Ninth  and  Olive 
streets  in  Los  Angeles  they  maintain  seventy-five 
acres  of  nurseries  at  Montebello,  Cal.,  of  which 
forty  acres  are  devoted  entirely  to  the  culture  of 
roses.  Their  business  extends  to  all  parts  of  the 
world,  their  seeds  and  bulbs  being  shipped  to  all 


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foreign  countries.  They  conduct  the  largest 
landscape  department  on  the  western  coast,  this 
branch  of  the  business  being  under  the  super- 
vision of  O.  W.  Howard.  The  success  of  this 
department  has  been  one  of  the  main  forces  in 
making  the  company  so  well  known  throughout 
Southern  California  during  the  past  twenty  years 
by  the  laying  out  of  and  beautifying  the  grounds 
surrounding  a  majority  of  the  finest  homes  to  be 
found  in  the  Southland. 

A  native  of  Los  Angeles,  Fred  H.  Howard 
was  born  September  1,  1873,  a  son  of  Dr.  F.  P. 
and  Caroline  E.  Howard.  Dr.  Howard  was  a 
native  of  Devonshire,  England,  born  in  1836. 
After  graduating  from  a  medical  college  he  be- 
came an  interne  in  Guys  Hospital,  London.  In 
1865  he  removed  to  the  United  States,  settling  in 
San  Francisco,  and  entered  the  government  serv- 
ice as  army  surgeon.  Fred  H.  Howard,  as  well 
as  his  brothers,  was  educated  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  Los  Angeles.  In  1892  he 
became  interested  in  the  nursery  business  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  has  continued  in  that  occupation 
ever  since.  He  was  united  in  marriage  in  1908, 
at  Ventura,  Cal.,  with  Minnie  P.  Jones. 

In  1914  the  business  was  incorporated.  F.  H. 
Howard  and  his  brothers  becoming  sole  owners, 
and  by  working  together  harmoniously  they  have 
brought  the  company  to  its  high  standing  in  the 
state.  They  are  Republicans  and  stand  for  the 
advancement  of  the  people's  interests  rather  than 
strict  adherence  to  party  lines. 


ALLEN  DODD.  Coming  to  California  for 
his  wife's  health  in  1895,  for  two  years  Mr.  Dodd 
engaged  in  ranching  near  Elsinore,  Riverside 
county,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles 
since  1897.  He  was  associated  with  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  in  various  capacities  until  1912, 
when  he  resigned  to  go  into  the  business  of  load- 
ing and  unloading  automobiles,  calling  his  organ- 
ization the  Auto  Handling  Company,  and  main- 
taining offices  in  the  Wilcox  building.  In  this 
venture  he  has  met  with  success  and  employs 
regularly  from  five  to  seven  expert  men  unload- 
ing automobiles.  From  time  to  time  he  adds 
facilities  for  the  greater  convenience  of  his  men 
and  also  for  the  greater  safety  to  the  cars. 

Mr.  Dodd  is  a  native  of  Arkansas,  born  at 
Little  Rock,  November  14,  1875,  the  son  of  David 


A.  and  Abbie  I.  Dodd,  and  an  own  cousin  of 
David  O.  Dodd,  known  in  Civil  war  history  as  the 
martyr  boy  of  Arkansas  and  a  distinguished  mem- 
ber of  the  Southern  Confederate  Chapter.  He 
attended  public  and  high  school  in  his  native  city 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  and  then  became 
private  secretary  to  the  governor  of  the  state, 
occupying  this  position  for  two  years.  Follow- 
ing this  he  engaged  with  the  Cotton  Belt  Railroad 
as  rate  clerk  and  stenographer  for  two  years,  and 
then  entered  the  employ  of  the  St.  Louis,  Iron 
Mountain  and  Southern  Railway  as  private  secre- 
tary to  the  superintendent,  remaining  in  this  con- 
nection until  1895.  His  wife's  health  being 
seriously  impaired  at  this  time,  he  determined  to 
come  to  California  for  a  rest  and  change,  and  two 
years  of  ranch  life  in  the  mountains  restored  her 
health.  For  a  time  Mr.  Dodd  was  stenographer 
with  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad,  and  later 
became  Pullman  ticket  clerk,  and  then  coupon 
ticket  clerk,  and  finally  claim  agent  for  the  south- 
ern territory.  Lastly  he  was  contracting  freight 
agent  and  handled  all  the  automobile  business  of 
the  road  until  1912,  when  he  resigned  to  engage 
in  his  present  line. 

Mr.  Dodd  is  well  known  throughout  many 
fraternal  and  club  circles  in  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  has  a  host  of  friends.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Elks  for  sixteen  years,  and  is  a  Republican 
in  his  political  preferences,  although  he  has  never 
been  actively  associated  with  the  affairs  of  his 
party.  In  his  religious  belief  he  is  a  Methodist 
and  a  member  of  that  church.  The  marriage  of 
Mr.  Dodd  and  Miss  Marguerite  Shelton  was 
solemnized  in  Springfield,  Mo.,  August  3,  1894. 
and  they  have  one  son,  Allen,  Jr.,  who  is  corporal 
of  Company  F,  Seventh  California  State  Militia. 


LAWRENCE  B.  BURCK.  The  marvelous 
growth  of  Southern  California,  and  especially  of 
Los  Angeles  and  vicinity  during  the  past  two 
decades,  has,  of  necessity,  oft'ered  vast  opportuni- 
ties in  the  real  estate  field  for  financial  profits,  as 
well  as  a  fascinating  scope  for  the  exercise  of 
executive  ability  and  business  acumen.  This 
combination  never  fails  to  attract  to  its  standard 
men  of  great  ability,  integrity  and  worth,  and 
they,  in  turn,  give  of  their  brain  and  strength  to 
the  upbuilding  of  the  community  where  they  find 
their  greatest  interests.    One  such  citizen  of  Los 


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Angeles  is  Lawrence  B.  Burck,  president  of  the 
California  Real  Estate  and  Building  Company,  its 
organizer  and  principal  stockholder,  and  one  of 
the  most  prominent  and  influential  real  estate  men 
in  the  city  today,  as  well  as  one  of  those  who  have 
been  most  vitally  concerned  with  the  substantial 
growth  and  development  of  the  city  of  his  adop- 
tion. Since  coming  here  to  make  his  home  he  has 
been  constantly  interested  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness, although  not  always  under  his  present  firm 
name.  His  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  munici- 
pality has  always  been  keen  and  well  poised,  and 
he  has  always  stood  for  progress  along  the  best 
lines  and  for  social  and  civic  advancement  of  the 
highest  order. 

Mr.  Burck  is  a  native  of  Texas,  born  in  Gal- 
veston, September  1,  1872,  the  son  of  Samuel  B. 
and  Henrietta  A.  (Lawrence)  Burck.  His  boy- 
hood was  passed  in  his  native  city,  where  he 
attended  the  public  and  high  schools,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  June,  1887.  He  then  attended 
the  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College  and 
University  of  Texas,  graduating  as  a  civil  en- 
gineer with  the  class  of  1889.  His  father  was 
largely  interested  in  cotton  in  Galveston  at  that 
time,  and  the  large  business  of  the  enormous 
wholesale  supply  houses  there  (receiving  annu- 
ally two-thirds  of  the  entire  crop  of  Texas,  dis- 
tributing in  exchange  to  that  extent  all  that  the 
people  of  the  state  ate,  wore  or  used)  interested 
him  so  that  he  entered  that  field.  In  1892  he 
resigned  to  engage  in  a  wholesale  brokerage  busi- 
ness for  himself  as  The  Lawrence  B.  Burck  Co. 
Early  in  1900  he  disposed  of  his  interests  in  this 
company,  and  incorporated  the  Southern  Coffee 
Company,  becoming  its  secretary  and  treasurer. 
This  company  engaged  in  an  extensive  business 
in  the  importation  of  teas,  coffees  and  spices  from 
all  over  the  world,  and  was  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  prosperous  of  its  class  in  the  South, 
when  the  great  Galveston  flood  came,  September 
8,  1900.  Their  losses  were  extremely  heavy,  their 
factory  and  warehouses  being  totally  destroyed 
by  the  storm,  together  with  all  their  contents. 
The  spirit  of  courage  and  progress  was  not  des- 
troyed, however,  and  within  a  short  time  the 
company  was  rehabilitated  under  the  able  direc- 
tion of  Mr.  Burck,  he  giving  his  personal  atten- 
tion to  the  outside  sales,  especially  to  the  open- 
ing up  of  new  territory,  and  like  important  mat- 
ters, and  within  four  years  the  business  was  again 
in  splendid  condition,  with  all  indebtedness  dis- 


charged. Mr.  Burke's  personal  losses  had  also 
been  wiped  out,  and  in  January,  1905,  he  disposed 
of  his  interests  in  Galveston  and  came  to  Cali- 
fornia to  make  his  home. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Los  Angeles,  which  was 
his  objective  point  from  the  beginning,  Mr.  Burck 
organized  the  real  estate  firm  known  as  the 
Burck-Gwynn  Company,  which  was  dissolved  in 
1908,  Mr.  Burck  continuing  in  business  as  the 
Lawrence  B.  Burck  Company.  In  1910  he  in- 
corporated and  became  president  and  sole  pro- 
prietor of  this  company,  and  in  1912  the  name 
was  changed  to  the  California  Real  Estate  and 
Building  Company,  with  a  subscribed  paid-in  cap- 
ital of  $250,000.  During  his  ten  years  residence 
in  Los  Angeles  this  able  and  energetic  man  has 
done  his  full  share  in  the  development  of  the 
city  and  county,  has  been  instrumental  in  the 
erection  of  more  than  twenty-two  hundred  build- 
ings and  has  participated  in  many  millions  of 
dollars  worth  of  real  estate  transactions.  He 
has  put  twenty-five  or  more  tracts  on  the  market 
as  subdivisions,  aggregating  more  than  five 
thousand  lots,  and  many  miles  of  our  city  streets, 
with  their  improvements  and  buildings,  owe  their 
existence  to  him. 

Aside  from  his  business  prominence,  Mr. 
Burck  is  popular  socially  with  a  wide  circle  of 
friends  and  acquaintances.  He  is  a  Mason  and 
is  also  a  member  of  a  number  of  prominent 
clubs,  including  the  California,  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic, Midwick  Country,  Los  Angeles  Country  and 
the  Bolsa  Chico  Gun  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  and 
the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco.  In  his 
political  affiliations  he  is  a  Republican,  and  while 
never  participating  actively  in  politics  with  any 
desire  for  official  preferment,  he  has  nevertheless 
been  recognized  as  a  power  in  local  party  affairs. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Burck  took  place  in  Los 
Angeles,  September  6,  1906,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Phila  B.  Johnson,  of  this  city,  the  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gail  B.  Johnson.  Of  this  union 
have  been  born  three  children,  two  sons  and  a 
daughter,  all  natives  of  the  Angel  City.  They  are 
Gail  J.,  Barbara  L.,  and  Lawrence  B.,  Jr. 


DENNIS  A.  WARNER.  One  who  has  seen 
Los  Angeles  grow  from  an  insignificant 
town  to  its  present  magnificent  proportions, 
and  with  it  has  come  up  through  hard  times 
and  persistent  struggle  to  ease  and   retirement 


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from  active  business  life,  is  Dennis  A.  Warner,  a 
native  of  Ohio,  where  he  was  born  in  Lake 
county,  July  27,  1849,  the  son  of  Oliver  and  Nina 
C.  (Church)  Warner.  His  father  was  a  very  suc- 
cessful farmer,  owning  two  large  farms.  Dennis 
A.  grew  up  on  a  farm  and  later  farmed  inde- 
pendently on  two  hundred  and  ten  acres.  Through 
unfortunate  speculations  Mr.  Warner  lost  every- 
thing he  had  accumulated,  and  it  was  after  this 
that  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  the  year  1888.  In 
the  spring  of  1889  he  settled  upon  a  small  place 
at  Glendale  and  while  there  lost  his  left  foot, 
which  had  to  be  amputated  above  the  ankle  as  the 
result  of  an  accidental  discharge  of  his  gun  while 
out  hunting.  Mr.  Warner's  outlook  upon  life  at 
this  time  was  about  as  gloomy  as  it  could  be.  His 
good  wife,  however,  stood  by  him  bravely  and 
they  rented  a  small  rooming  house  at  No.  113 
South  Broadway,  near  the  spot  where  the 
Mason  Opera  House  now  stands.  This  was  con- 
ducted by  Mr.  Warner's  wife,  while  he  himself 
bought  a  small  fruit  stand  near  by,  carrying  on 
a  light  luncheon  counter  in  connection  with  it. 
Selling  this  out,  he  decided  to  go  into  the  restau- 
rant business  on  a  larger  scale,  and  as  this  was 
during  the  hard  times  of  1893,  when  money  was 
scarce,  he  hired  a  room  on  Second  street,  below 
San  Pedro  street,  establishing  there  a  restaurant, 
the  price  for  a  regular  meal  being  five  cents,  and 
besides  that  he  served  two  meals  a  week  free  to 
all  needy  persons  for  a  period  of  about  three 
months,  during  the  hardest  part  of  the  panic.  This 
was  casting  bread  upon  the  waters,  but  it  proved 
a  success,  and  his  business  consequently  grew  and 
prospered. 

Mr.  Warner  continued  there  for  three  years, 
from  there  going  to  First  and  Spring  streets,  and 
later  to  Fifth  street,  between  Spring  and  Main 
streets,  where  he  erected  three  small  brick  build- 
ings. His  business  increasing,  he  moved  across 
the  street  and  conducted  a  restaurant  near  the  site 
of  the  present  Security  Bank  building,  where  he 
remained  until  1910.  In  that  year  he  sold  out  the 
business,  this  being  his  last  stand  in  the  restaurant 
business,  wherein  he  had  become  well  known  to 
the  early  settlers  as  one  of  the  pioneer  caterers  of 
Los  Angeles.  Having  accumulated  some  money 
in  that  line,  Mr.  Warner  then  entered  the  real 
estate  business  with  the  purchase  of  land  on  Bon- 
sallo  avenue,  whereon  he  erected  an  apartment 
house,  which  he  sold  out  in  1912  to  build  his  two 


new  apartment  houses  on  Western  avenue,  near 
Pico  street.  Having  now  retired  from  active 
business  life,  he  spends  his  time  attending  to  his 
real  estate  investments,  and  although  in  early 
times  he  had  a  hard  struggle  to  get  ahead,  he 
nevertheless,  with  the  help  of  his  wife,  persevered 
faithfully  so  that  he  is  now  reaping  the  benefits 
of  his  early  endeavors.  Before  her  marriage, 
Mrs.  Warner  was  Miss  Millie  Banning,  a  native 
of  Kinsman,  Trumbull  county,  Ohio,  and  the 
daughter  of  Timothy  and  Sarah  Peabody  Ban- 
ning. 


J.  WISEMAN  M.^cDONALD.  A  prominent 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association, 
James  Wiseman  MacDonald  was  born  in  Mazo- 
manie.  Wis.,  January  17,  1866,  the  son  of  Allan 
and  Eleanor  (Wiseman)  MacDonald.  He  is  a 
descendant  of  the  famed  MacDonalds  of  Clan 
Ranald,  of  the  Western  Highlands  of  Scotland, 
whose  name  is  frequently  mentioned  in  song  and 
story.  An  interesting  fact  in  the  history  of  the 
MacDonald  family  is  that  for  several  generations 
its  members  were  under  the  displeasure  of  the 
present  royal  family  on  account  of  their  ad- 
herence to  the  Stuart  cause  and  the  part  they  took 
in  the  Jacobite  wars  of  1715  and  1745.  Mr.  Mac- 
Donald married  Jane  Boland,  a  native  of  Ireland, 
in  San  Francisco,  June  23,  1902.  They  have 
three  children,  Allan,  Eleanor  and  James  Wise- 
man MacDonald,  Jr.,  all  born  in  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  MacDonald,  although  born  in  America, 
spent  his  boyhood  and  part  of  his  early  manhood 
in  England.  His  father  died  in  1869,  and  the 
mother  look  the  children  back  to  England,  to  the 
home  in  which  she  was  born.  The  son  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Grant  School,  a  private  institution 
at  Burnly,  Lancashire.  England,  conducted  by  the 
late  W.  M.  Grant,  one  of  the  best  known  edu- 
cators of  England.  On  the  death  of  his  mother 
he  immediately  returned  to  America,  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  in  1891.  In  1892  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  Cali- 
fornia. He  has  served  two  terms  as  trustee  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  and  was  lec- 
turer on  corporations  for  the  University  of 
Southern  California.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Bank  of  Italy  and  of  the  Hibernian  Savings  Bank 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  president  of  the  Dimond 
Estate  Company  of  San  Francisco,  a  close  cor- 


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poration  having  large  real  estate  holdings  in  and 
near  that  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  and  of  the  California  Club. 


VINCENT  MORGAN.  A  native  of  Los 
Angeles,  born  November  20,  1882,  Vincent  Mor- 
gan is  a  son  of  the  late  John  C.  and  Cecelia 
(Finn)  Morgan,  one  of  the  pioneer  famihes  of 
Southern  California,  the  father  having  practiced 
law  successfully  in  Los  Angeles  for  many  years. 
Vincent  Morgan  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles 
High  School,  after  which  he  entered  the  law 
department  of  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, graduating  therefrom  in  1909  with  the 
degree  of  B.  A.  He  immediately  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  establishing  the 
law  firm  of  Morgan,  Allen  &  Richardson,  which 
association  continued  only  one  year,  after  which 
he  became  a  member  of  the  present  firm  of 
Porter,  Morgan  &  Parrot  with  offices  in  the  Ex- 
change building. 

Mr.  Morgan  has  won  recognition  by  his  ap- 
pointment to  the  faculty  of  his  Alma  Mater  as 
instructor  in  elementary  law,  code  reading,  domes- 
tic relations  and  real  property.  He  served  as 
president  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  law 
department  of  the  university  in  1910.  In  1913- 
14  he  served  efficiently  as  a  member  of  the  police 
commission  of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of 
Ramona  Parlor,  N.  S.  G.  W.,  of  the  Phi  Alpha 
Delta  fraternity  and  the  Sierra  Madre  and  Union 
League  Clubs.  In  all  matters  pertaining  to  the 
advancement  of  the  state,  county,  city  and  the 
people's  interests  Mr.  Morgan  is  never  to  be 
found  wanting. 


AUGUST  ROTH.  Though  of  foreign  birth, 
August  Roth  has  been  connected  with  the  ad- 
vancement of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  since  1886, 
has  seen  the  place  grow  from  a  small  town  to  its 
present  proportions,  and  has  done  his  share  toward 
its  upbuilding. 

The  native  land  of  Mr.  Roth  is  Germany, 
where  he  was  bom  in  Prussia  November  8,  1841, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  cabinet-maker,  attain- 
ing the  high  grade  of  skill  in  this  line  character- 
istic of  the  craftsmen  of  central  Europe.   In  1861 


he  removed  to  the  United  States,  settling  in 
Litchfield,  111.,  where  an  uncle  had  preceded  him. 
For  two  years  Mr.  Roth  worked  at  his  trade  in 
Illinois,  the  furniture  which  he  produced  being 
hand  made.  At  the  end  of  two  years,  in  com- 
pany with  his  uncle,  he  took  a  one-third  interest 
in  a  flour  mill  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
flour  at  Butler,  111.  This  being  at  the  time  of  the 
Civil  war,  when  prices  were  high,  the  venture 
proved  a  profitable  one  to  the  two  men.  After 
eight  years  in  this  business  they  sold  out  their 
interests,  and  some  years  later,  in  1886,  Mr.  Roth 
removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  at  once  began 
to  invest  money  in  real  estate,  purchasing  a  lot  on 
Seventeenth  and  Hope  streets,  whereon  he 
erected  two  houses,  one  of  six,  the  other  of  eight 
rooms,  which  buildings  are  standing  and  both  of 
which  he  still  owns.  On  Main  and  Washington 
streets  he  bought  a  feed  mill,  which  he  operated 
for  three  years,  after  which  he  took  up  the  car- 
penter's trade,  at  a  later  date  being  instrumental 
in  the  construction  of  the  machinery  for  the  oil 
well  plant  on  Second  street,  of  which  plant  he 
for  seven  years  thereafter  was  engineer.  Con- 
tracting and  building  then  occupying  his  atten- 
tion, Mr.  Roth  erected  a  number  of  fine  dwellings 
in  Los  Angeles,  and  in  1903  bought  an  acre  of 
ground  on  Lucile  avenue,  where  he  erected  three 
cottages  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  valley  and 
the  sea,  and  one  of  these  houses  is  at  present  his 
home. 

Although  now  retired  from  business,  Mr.  Roth 
has  in  late  years  dealt  extensively  in  Los  Angeles 
real  estate  and  still  has  valuable  holdings  in  this 
city,  having  also  owned  lots  in  the  city  of  Bur- 
bank,  which  he  bought  in  the  early  days  and  was 
able  to  sell  at  a  good  profit.  He  has  known  Los 
Angeles  since  its  early  days  when  its  street  car 
system  consisted  of  but  one  line  of  horsecars, 
and  recalls  many  interesting  incidents  of  the  for- 
mer days  of  the  now  prosperous  city. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Roth  was  solemnized  in 
Litchfield,  111.,  uniting  him  with  Emma  Zuermue- 
len,  also  a  native  of  Germany,  she  having  come  to 
the  United  States  when  a  small  child.  She  died  in 
Los  Angeles  in  1913,  leaving  a  daughter  and  son, 
namely,  Mrs.  Rosa  Gates,  of  Banning,  Cal.,  and 
Walter  A.  Roth,  of  Los  Angeles.  Aside  from 
his  real  estate  interests  which  have  made  him 
well  known  in  the  city  during  his  long  residence 
here,  Mr.  Roth  is  also  prominent  in  Masonic  cir- 
cles, being  a  member  of  South  Gate  Lodge. 


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WILLIAMSON  DUNN  VAWTER.  The 
descendant  of  a  distinguished  old  Virginia  family, 
Mr.  Vawter  was  born  at  Mt.  Glad,  on  Madison 
Hill,  Ind.,  August  28,  1815,  and  removed  with 
his  family  to  Vernon,  Ind.  Tiring  of  farm  life 
at  home,  the  young  man  went  to  live  with  his 
uncle,  Col.  John  Vawter,  who  was  the  proprietor 
of  a  grocery  store  at  "Vawter's  corner,"  in  Ver- 
non, where  the  nephew  became  clerk  and  later 
partner  with  his  cousin  in  the  business.  For  many 
years  Mr.  Vawter  was  postmaster  in  the  town,  a 
leader  in  temperance  work  there,  and  custodian 
of  the  local  branch  of  the  American  Bible  Society. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Vawter  occurred 
July  15,  1834,  uniting  him  with  Mary  Charlotte 
Tilghman  Crowder,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  who  died 
September  22,  1851,  leaving  six  children,  namely, 
Mary  Ellen,  May,  Jane-Cravens,  Aramantha 
Charlotte,  William  Smith  and  Edwin  James 
Vawter.  In  November,  1852,  Mr.  Vawter  mar- 
ried Charlotte  Augusta  Knowlton,  a  native  of 
Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  by  whom  he  became  the 
father  of  two  children,  Emma  K.  and  Charles 
Knowlton  Vawter,  who  is  now  deceased.  The 
death  of  the  second  Mrs.  Vawter  occurred  De- 
cember 27,  1893,  in  Santa  Monica,  Cal.,  the 
family  having  come  west  in  the  year  1875. 

Mr.  Vawter  was  associated  with  the  early  de- 
velopment of  two  of  the  most  beautiful  smaller 
cities  of  Southern  California.  Pasadena,  "the 
crown  of  the  valley,"  the  pride  of  the  southern 
part  of  the  state,  was  originally  laid  out  for  the 
cultivation  of  oranges  and  grapes,  and  was  the 
property  of  "the  Indiana  colony,"  as  the  owners 
were  called.  Mr.  Vawter  was  prominent  among 
them  and  one  of  the  original  stockholders  when 
he  first  came  to  California,  and  the  owner  of  a 
sixty-acre  ranch  in  a  locality  now  occupied  by 
the  business  portion  of  the  city  of  Pasadena.  The 
little  town  in  the  valley  overshadowed  by  the 
velvet  mountain  range  grew  rapidly  into  the  "city 
of  homes,"  which  is  one  of  the  names  applied  to 
Pasadena  at  the  present  time;  but  many  orange 
orchards  are  still  found  there  and  add  to  the 
beauty  of  the  place,  their  acres  of  conventional 
green  trees  hung  with  golden  fruit  like  Japanese 
lanterns,  having  for  a  background  the  snow- 
capped mountain  range  against  the  blue  sky. 
From  Pasadena  Mr.  Vawter  removed  to  Santa 
Monica,  Cal.,  and  opened  the  first  general  store  in 
that  town,  in  a  building  on  Fourth  street,  later 
establishing    lumber    yards    and    a    planing    mill 


there  which  proved  a  boon  to  home  builders.  In 
1886  he  secured  a  franchise  and  with  his  sons 
built  the  first  street  railway  which  was  for  a  time 
operated  at  a  loss,  but  later  the  line  was  extended 
to  the  Soldiers'  Home  at  Sawtelle,  and  Mr.  Vaw- 
ter lived  to  see  his  undertaking  become  a  paying 
enterprise.  With  his  sons  he  organized  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Santa  Monica,  opening  the 
same  in  the  brick  building  on  the  southeast  corner 
of  Third  street  and  Oregon  avenue  which  they 
built  in  1888.  He  was  also  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  that  city,  and 
throughout  his  life  remained  one  of  its  stanch 
supporters.  When  we  look  at  the  pretty  town  of 
Santa  Monica  set  high  upon  its  curious  palisaded 
sea  clififs,  it  is  interesting  to  remember  that  this 
city,  like  many  others  in  California,  was  laid  out 
upon  a  portion  of  one  of  the  enormous  ranchos 
of  old  days,  which  formerly  covered  a  part  or 
even  all  of  certain  counties.  Sheep  and  cattle 
once  grazed  and  fields  of  grain  waved  where 
streets  and  buildings  have  now  been  established. 
Mr.  Vawter  was  an  active  worker  for  the  de- 
velopment of  the  town  of  Santa  Monica,  where 
the  memory  of  his  noble  and  useful  life  will  long 
remain.  He  was  a  man  of  high  ideals  and  active 
service,  pre-eminently  just  in  all  things,  and 
though  at  no  time  making  any  great  pretense  to 
importance  or  ability,  could  always  be  depended 
upon  to  do  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time.  Al- 
ways deeply  interested  in  politics,  he  was  a  stanch 
Whig  during  the  life  of  that  party,  and  a  member 
of  the  Republican  party  from  the  time  of  its 
birth.  His  death,  which  occurred  in  July,  1894, 
was  the  cause  of  general  mourning  among  those 
who  had  become  attached  to  him  through  long 
association. 


HENRY  GLASS.  Another  of  the  pioneers 
of  Los  Angeles  who  left  behind  him  a  legacy  of 
work  well  done  was  the  late  Henry  Glass,  who 
was  born  July  3,  1853,  at  St.  Goar  on  the  Rhein 
in  Germany.  His  father,  Herman  Glass,  was  a 
bookbinder  by  trade,  following  that  occupation 
during  his  lifetime.  He  married  Elisabeth 
Karsch.  The  grandparents  were  Peter  and  Elisa- 
beth (von  Herf)  Glass,  born  at  Rheinfels,  St. 
Goar  on  the  Rhein. 

Henry  Glass  was  educated  in  his  native  town 
and  afterwards  entered  into  his  father's  business. 
When  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age  he  accom- 


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panied  an  aunt,  Mrs.  Gentsh,  to  the  United  States, 
locating  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  where  in  1871  he 
began  business  as  a  bookbinder.  In  1875  he  sold 
out  and  journeyed  still  further  west,  stopping  in 
San  Francisco  for  a  short  time.  Desiring  to  see 
more  of  the  state  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  arriv- 
ing in  June,  1875.  Finding  a  field  here  for  his 
chosen  vocation  of  binder,  the  bookbinding  here- 
tofore having  had  to  be  sent  by  steamer  to  San 
Francisco,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Times- 
Mirror  Printing  and  Binding  House  as  foreman. 
In  1881  he  started  in  business  for  himself  on  a 
small  scale,  but  the  close  confinement  and  long 
hours  undermined  his  health,  and  in  1890  he  sold 
out  to  Cook  &  Wiseman  of  San  Francisco.  Re- 
linquishing business  cares  he  went  to  Arizona  to 
rough  it  on  a  ranch  with  the  cowboys,  hoping  in 
the  out-of-door  life  to  regain  his  health.  In  this 
he  succeeded  and  returned  to  his  home.  Upon 
the  sudden  death  of  Mr.  Cook  he  bought  his  old 
business  back  again,  taking  as  a  partner  James 
W.  Long.  It  was  his  habit,  however,  from  the 
thorough  knowledge  of  every  branch  of  the  busi- 
ness, to  watch  closely  every  detail  in  the  various 
departments,  and  the  close  confinement  of  years 
of  indoor  work  again  impaired  his  health  and 
forced  him  to  seek  an  outdoor  life.  Accordingly 
he  sold  out  to  Mr.  Long  in  1901  and  engaged  in 
the  insurance  business  and  as  agent  for  the 
German  Hospital,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
directors  and  a  charter  member.  In  1902  he  took 
a  six  months'  trip  to  visit  his  old  home  in  Ger- 
many to  recover  his  health  and  came  back  much 
improved.  He  continued  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness and  as  agent  for  the  hospital  until  the  mar- 
riage of  his  son  Herman  T.  once  more  launched 
him  in  the  bookbinding  business  under  the  present 
title  of  the  Glass  Bookbinding  Company.  In  May, 
1908,  Mr.  Glass,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and 
daughter  Norma,  started  on  a  trip  to  Europe, 
where  Mr.  Glass  died  at  Wiesbaden,  November 
29,  1908. 

Always  ready  to  assist  his  less  fortunate  fellow 
man  and  do  his  part  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
city's  welfare,  Mr.  Glass,  on  account  of  impaired 
health,  never  would  accept  public  office,  though 
importuned  many  times  to  become  a  candidate. 
He  was  a  Mason,  member  of  the  Lodge,  Chapter, 
Commandery  and  a  Shriner.  He  was  for  years 
president  of  the  Turn  Verein  Germania,  and  it 
was  mainly  due  to  his  efforts,  assisted  by  other 
prominent  German  residents  of  Los  Angeles,  that 


during  his  term  as  president  of  this  organization 
physical  culture  and  the  German  language  were 
introduced  into  the  public  schools.  The  Turn 
Verein  Germania  furnished  their  physical  culture 
teacher  gratuitously  for  a  time  to  convince  the 
public  of  the  benefits  derived  therefrom,  "God's 
greatest  blessing,  a  strong  body  for  a  clean,  noble 
soul  to  dwell  therein." 

In  his  early  political  views  Mr.  Glass  was  a 
Democrat,  but  before  Garfield's  election  changed 
to  Republican  and  remained  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principles  of  that  party,  although  in  local  matters 
the  man  most  capable  in  his  estimation  received 
his  support.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rifle  Club, 
the  Turn  Verein  Germania  and  the  Pioneer 
Society  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church. 

The  marriage  of  Henry  Glass  and  Lydia  Heile- 
man  was  celebrated  in  Los  Angeles  September  12, 
1877.  She  was  the  tenth  child  and  seventh 
daughter  in  a  family  of  twelve  children  born  to 
David  and  Caroline  (Breden)  Heileman,  and 
was  reared  to  a  life  of  usefulness.  In  regard  to 
their  marriage  the  following  is  taken  from  the 
Times-Mirror  of  September  15,  1877: 

"We  are  always  in  favor  of  temperance,  but 
there  are  rare  instances  in  which  we  think  a  lady 
is  justified  in  taking  a  Glass.  For  instance,  last 
Wednesday  Miss  Lydia  Heileman  took  Mr. 
Henry  Glass,  the  foreman  of  the  Mirror  Book 
Bindery,  for  better  or  for  worse.  We  make  no 
objection,  but  on  the  contrary  we  wish  them  long 
life  and  happiness,  and  may  none  of  the  little 
Glasses  ever  be  broken." 

The  following  children  were  born  to  this 
worthy  couple :  Norma  Elizabeth,  bom  Novem- 
ber 30,  1878,  died  November  28,  1913;  Herman 
T.,  born  October  15,  1880,  was  united  in  marriage 
at  Richmond,  Va.,  with  Willie  Belle  Taylor  and 
is  continuing  the  bookbinding  business  started  by 
his  father;  Irma  Adelma,  born  May  25,  1882,  is 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Royal  Arthur  Ritz  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


MILTON  Y.  KELLAM.  One  of  the  pio- 
neers in  the  settlement  and  advancement  of  the 
young  city  of  Los  Angeles  is  Milton  Y.  Kellam, 
who  was  born  in  Newcastle  county,  Del.,  January 
1,  1839.  In  the  spring  of  1849  he  went  to  Illinois 
with  his  father  and  two  of  his  brothers,  all  of 
whom  became  active  in  the  development  of  Ma- 


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coupin  county,  opening  up  the  prairie  land  and 
building  for  themselves  a  cabin  home  on  the  two 
hundred  acres  of  property  purchased  by  the 
father,  which  comprised  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  prairie  land  and  forty  of  timber  land. 
Here  they  engaged  in  farming  and  in  the  raising 
of  cattle  and  hogs,  as  well  as  grain,  making  for 
the  family  a  comfortable  home  to  which  the 
mother  and  other  brothers  came  a  short  time  after- 
ward. The  five  brothers  then  engaged  in  farming 
as  partners,  but  this  arrangement  was  discontin- 
ued in  1865,  after  which  time  they  worked  inde- 
pendently. For  thirty-five  years  Milton  Kellam 
continued  to  live  in  this  new  land,  experiencing 
trying  times  and  much  hard  labor,  having  driven 
three  yoke  of  oxen  while  breaking  the  land  for 
farming  purposes. 

In  the  spring  of  1883  Mr.  Kellam  made  a  trip 
to  Los  Angeles,  and  appreciating  the  future  pos- 
sibilities of  California,  he  returned  to  the  western 
city  the  following  year,  where  he  has  since  made 
his  home  and  in  whose  upbuilding  he  has  played 
an  important  part,  showing  much  good  judgment 
in  his  real  estate  dealings.  His  first  purchase  of 
property  was  that  of  eighteen  acres  at  Fruitland, 
where  he  carried  on  farming,  also  raising  peaches, 
apples,  grapes  and  watermelons,  some  of  the  lat- 
ter weighing  as  high  as  eighty-two  pounds,  while 
clusters  of  his  grapes  sometimes  attained  a  weight 
of  six  pounds  and  his  crops  of  corn  averaged  fifty 
bushels  to  an  acre.  Besides  his  Fruitland  prop- 
erty, which  he  traded,  after  a  time,  for  nineteen 
town  lots,  Mr.  Kellam  also  owned  land  in  the 
cities  of  Long  Beach,  Alhambra  and  Azusa.  With 
the  acquirement  of  lots  in  the  city,  he  entered  into 
the  buying  and  selling  of  Los  Angeles  lots  with 
much  success ;  those  purchased  by  him  on  Grand 
avenue  advanced  $100  a  month  per  lot  for  ten 
months,  after  which  time  he  sold  them,  thereby 
realizing  great  profit,  while  the  three  which  he 
owned  on  Hope  street  near  Tenth  street  he  sold 
in  ten  days'  time  at  a  profit  of  $1500.  With  his 
partner,  George  D.  Rowan,  he  bought  the  north- 
west corner  of  Spring  and  Fourth  streets,  build- 
ing a  two-story  block  thereon,  after  fourteen  years 
selling  for  $1500  per  front  foot  this  property 
which  he  had  purchased  at  the  price  of  only  $150 
a  front  foot.  Having  sold  this  land,  the  partners 
purchased  sixty  feet  and  ten  inches  between  Fifth 
and  Sixth  streets,  on  the  west  side  of  Broadway, 
which  was  then  just  coming  into  ptominence  as  a 
business  street,  the  price  paid  for  the  property  be- 


ing $750  per  front  foot,  Mr.  Kellam  still  being  a 
half  owner  in  the  same.  A  block  was  built  there, 
with  a  hotel  bearing  the  name  of  Hotel  ISIilton,  in 
honor  of  Mr.  Kellam,  and  another  bore  the 
names  of  the  partners,  being  known  as  the  Kel- 
lam and  Rowan  block.  Mr.  Kellam  is  now  retired 
from  active  business  life,  and  with  his  family 
resides  at  their  comfortable  home  at  No.  926 
South  Olive  street,  the  grounds  of  which  are 
beautified  by  a  fine  magnolia  tree  planted  by  him- 
self. In  his  religious  associations  he  is  identified 
by  membership  with  the  First  Methodist  Church 
of  the  city. 

In  1911,  with  his  eldest  daughter,  Anna  J.,  Mr. 
Kellam  made  an  extended  trip  around  the  world 
and  greatly  enjoyed  the  journey.  The  wife  of 
Mr.  Kellam,  formerly  Anna  M.  Beeson,  whom 
he  married  February  5,  1866,  and  who  was  born 
February  5,  1842,  is,  like  himself,  a  native  of  the 
state  of  Delaware,  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
four  children,  namely,  Edward  R.,  the  proprietor 
of  the  Diamond  Coal  Company  of  Los  Angeles, 
Anna  J.,  Lydia  A.  and  Milton  Y.  Kellam,  Jr. 


ELI  WEED  SHULER.  Owner  of  a  large 
ranch  at  San  Dimas,  where  he  is  engaged  in  citrus 
culture,  general  farming  and  stock  raising,  Eli 
Weed  Shuler  is  today  one  of  the  most  influential 
citizens  of  his  communit)',  and  recognized  as  a 
man  of  more  than  ordinary  worth  and  ability.  He 
is  public  spirited  and  progressive  and  gives  of 
both  time  and  ability  for  the  general  welfare. 
His  place  is  one  of  the  most  attractive  and  valu- 
able in  the  vicinity  and  is  managed  in  such  a 
manner  that  it  is  also  very  profitable. 

Mr.  Shuler  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  having  been 
born  in  Vinton  county,  February  6,  1848,  the  son 
of  John  M.  and  Margery  (Weed)  Shuler,  his 
father  being  a  native  of  Ohio  and  his  mother  a 
Pennsylvanian.  His  father  was  descended  from 
old  German  ancestry,  while  the  mother  was  of 
English  extraction  and  connected  with  the  promi- 
nent Weed  family  of  New  York  and  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  related  directly  to  Thurlow  Weed.  Her 
father  was  Dr.  Dennis  E.  Weed,  a  native  of 
Connecticut,  who  moved  to  Green  county.  Wis., 
where  he  was  for  many  years  postmaster  and  a 
leading  physician.  Mr.  Shuler's  father,  a  mill- 
wright and  bridge-builder  by  trade,  came  first  to 
California  in  1852  and  was  one  of  the  original 


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locators  of  the  Blue  Lead  mine  above  Downie- 
ville,  where  he  remained  for  two  years,  mining 
and  prospecting.  He  then  returned  to  Iowa, 
making  his  home  in  Van  Buren  county  until  1864, 
when  he  again  crossed  the  plains  to  California. 
For  six  years  he  was  in  San  Joaquin  and  Sonoma 
counties,  dying  in  the  latter  county.  He  had  been 
prominent  in  political  affairs  in  his  Iowa  home 
and  was  a  man  of  force  and  ability. 

When  a  small  child  Eli  Weed  Shuler  moved 
with  his  parents  to  Van  Buren  county,  Iowa, 
where  he  remained  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of 
age.  In  1864  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California 
with  his  parents,  there  being  many  exciting  ex- 
periences by  the  way,  including  serious  trouble 
with  the  Indians.  The  train  accompanied  Mrs. 
John  Brown,  of  Harper's  Ferry  fame,  for  a 
thousand  miles  on  the  way,  and  Mr.  Shuler  recalls 
her  as  a  lady  of  great  culture  and  courage.  Arriv- 
ing in  San  Joaquin  county  he  engaged  in  teaming 
there  and  in  Sonoma  county,  following  this  occu- 
pation and  general  mill  work  for  fourteen  years. 
He  was  also  interested  in  mining  and  was  one  of 
the  original  prospectors  in  the  great  Mojave 
desert.  He  was  a  member  of  Company  A,  Second 
California  Volunteer  Cavalry,  under  General 
Canby,  doing  scout  duty  during  many  Indian 
frays.  He  retired  with  the  commission  of  cap- 
tain, and  still  possesses  the  sword  which  he  used 
in  service.  During  the  siege  of  the  Modoc  In- 
dians (who  were  under  Captain  Jack  and  Shag- 
nasty  Jim)  he  fought  in  the  lava  beds  in  Modoc 
county,  this  state,  a  horse  being  killed  under  him 
during  the  campaign. 

Mr.  Shuler  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in 
Covina  and  he  moved  into  the  first  house  erected 
there.  He  took  possession  of  his  present  ranch 
of  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  acres,  a  mile 
north  of  San  Dimas,  in  1881,  and  has  since  then 
made  this  his  home.  Besides  raising  fruit  he  is 
engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock  raising  and 
is  prosperous  and  progressive  in  his  ideas  of  the 
conduct  and  management  of  such  a  ranch.  In 
the  early  days  Mr.  Shuler  owned  and  operated 
a  threshing  machine.  He  has  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  local  affairs  of  his  community,  and 
has  played  an  influential  part  in  the  history  of 
the  San  Gabriel  valley.  As  a  Republican  he  has 
been  given  many  evidences  of  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  his  constituents,  having  been  elected 
to  serve  as  deputy  sheriff,  and  as  deputy  United 


States  marshal,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
RepubHcan  county  central  committee  many  times. 
In  local  commercial  affairs  Mr.  Shuler  is  no  less 
prominent,  being  a  heavy  stockholder  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  San  Dimas,  a  member  of  the 
Glendora  Mutual  Water  Company,  the  Citrus  Belt 
Water  Company  and  the  Glendora  Water  Com- 
pany, and  also  of  the  Pioneer  Society  of  Southern 
California. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Shuler  and  Isalena 
Dohoerty,  a  native  of  Illinois,  was  solemnized  in 
Sonoma  county  in  1878.  Mrs.  Shuler  came  across 
the  plains  with  her  parents  when  she  was  but 
two  years  of  age,  and  was  reared  and  educated 
in  California.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shuler  have 
many  friends  in  San  Dimas  and  vicinity. 


THOMAS  W.  WATSON.  Although  not  a 
native  of  California,  Thomas  W.  Watson  has 
resided  in  this  state  practically  all  of  his  life, 
having  come  to  Los  Angeles  county  with  his 
parents  when  he  was  but  four  months  old.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  county  and  since  attaining  manhood  has  been 
closely  associated  with  the  development  of  his 
community  and  a  vital  factor  in  its  life.  He  was 
formerly  mayor  of  the  pretty  little  suburb  of 
Glendale,  situated  eight  miles  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  at  present  city  manager,  having  resigned 
the  office  of  mayor  prior  to  accepting  the  newly 
created  office. 

Mr.  Watson  is  a  native  of  Texas,  having  been 
born  in  Houston,  June  8,  1878.  Soon  after  his 
birth  his  father,  W.  G.  Watson,  moved  with  his 
family  to  California,  locating  at  Pasadena,  where 
he  opened  a  meat  market.  His  was  the  only  shop 
in  town  and  he  prospered  exceedingly,  remaining 
there  until  1885,  when  he  moved  to  Glendale, 
where  for  ten  years  he  engaged  in  the  butcher 
business.  At  the  end  of  that  period  he  retired 
from  active  business  life,  but  continued  to  make 
his  home  in  Glendale.  When  he  first  located  there 
the  little  city  contained  only  a  few  straggling 
houses.  He  was  quite  active  in  the  development 
of  the  vicinity  and  became  the  owner  of  valuable 
real  estate.  The  son,  Thomas  W.,  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Glendale  and 


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after  he  had  completed  his  education  he  was 
associated  with  his  father  in  business.  Their  first 
association  was  in  the  butcher  business,  follow- 
ing which,  under  the  name  of  W.  G.  Watson  & 
Son,  they  carried  on  a  nursery  and  seed  store. 
They  also  invested  in  real  estate  and  improved 
several  pieces  of  property  in  the  city  limits  of 
Glendale.  Among  these  was  a  lot  at  the  corner 
of  Broadway  and  Glendale  avenue,  on  which  they 
erected  a  handsome  business  block  containing 
eight  stores  on  the  ground  floor  with  offices  above. 

Mr.  Watson  has  been  an  important  factor  in 
the  development  of  Glendale  and  has  been  in- 
timately associated  with  every  vital  movement  in 
the  city  for  many  years.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  town  trustees  continuously  since  the  time 
of  incorporation  in  1905,  giving  freely  of  his  time 
and  ability  through  the  succeeding  years  to  ad- 
vance the  interests  of  the  community.  He  was 
the  second  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  and 
held  that  office  for  three  different  terms.  He  was 
mayor  of  the  town  when,  in  1914,  the  office  of 
city  manager  was  created,  carrying  with  it  a 
reasonable  salary,  and  by  special  request  he  re- 
signed from  the  office  of  mayor  to  accept  the 
newly  created  office.  Glendale  has  kept  pace  with 
modern  advancement  along  all  lines,  and  the 
citizens  take  commendable  pride  in  the  fact  that 
her  affairs  are  run  on  a  strictly  business  basis. 
Modern  street  lights  have  been  installed  similar 
to  those  in  Los  Angeles,  and  many  of  the  streets 
have  been  paved  with  asphalt.  Another  advance 
step  which  the  city  has  made  in  late  years  has 
been  the  taking  over  of  the  lighting  plant,  and  the 
lighting  system  has  since  been  extended  to  all 
parts  of  the  residence  district.  The  water  system 
has  also  come  under  municipal  control  and  is 
giving  to  the  citizens  the  larger  and  better  service 
which  is  expected  from  municipal  supervision. 

Aside  from  his  business  and  municipal  activi- 
ties Mr.  Watson  is  interested  in  a  multitude  of 
other  affairs,  all  of  which  are  for  the  social  and 
civic  betterment  of  his  home  city.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Glendale  Methodist  church  and  for  the 
past  nine  years  has  been  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  school. 

The  first  marriage  of  Mr.  Watson  took  place 
in  Los  Angeles,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Anna 
Helm,  and  one  son,  William  Watson,  was  bom 
to  them.  Five  years  after  the  death  of  his  first 
wife  Mr.  Watson  was  married,  in  September, 
1914,  to  Belle  Helm,  who  is  a  native  of  Kansas. 


FRANK  ALFRED  COFFMAN.  A  native 
son  of  California,  Frank  A.  Coffman  was  born  in 
Marysville,  Yuba  county,  November  24,  186L  the 
son  of  Charles  A.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Hampton) 
Cofifman.  When  he  was  about  eight  years  old 
the  family  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1869,  and 
here  he  received  his  education  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools,  the  high  school  which  he  at- 
tended standing  on  the  present  site  of  the  county 
court  house.  From  the  time  he  was  sixteen  until 
he  was  twenty-one  he  worked  on  his  father's  ranch 
at  Rivera,  and  then  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and 
for  three  years  conducted  a  livery  stable  here. 
At  the  close  of  that  time  he  returned  to  the 
ranch  at  Rivera  and  for  two  years  was  engaged  in 
the  nursery  business,  then  taking  over  the  active 
management  of  this  property,  which  consisted  of 
four  hundred  acres.  This  continued  until  1898, 
when  the  death  of  his  father  occurred,  and  for 
the  following  two  years  he  had  charge  of  the 
management  of  the  estate.  In  1901  he  moved 
onto  his  present  place  of  one  hundred  acres,  pur- 
chased in  1890,  most  of  which  is  in  walnuts.  The 
trees  were  set  out  piecemeal  by  Mr.  Coffman  him- 
self, and  their  development  has  been  his  especial 
pride. 

Mr.  Coflfman  has  taken  a  more  than  ordinarily 
active  part  in  the  development  of  the  horticul- 
tural interests  of  the  Rivera  community  and  is 
acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  best  posted  and 
most  efficient  horticulturists  in  this  section  of  the 
state,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  enterprising  and 
progressive  of  men.  He  has  made  a  scientific 
study  of  his  chosen  occupation,  and  for  some  time 
served  as  state  horticulturist  inspector  of  the 
Ranchito  district,  his  father,  Charles  A.  Coffman, 
having  previously  served  in  the  same  capacity  for 
three  years.  Mr.  Coffman  is  also  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  various  business  activities  of  his 
home  community  and  takes  a  prominent  part  in 
all  that  promotes  the  best  interests  of  the  public. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Rivera  Walnut  Growers 
Association ;  is  president  of  the  Rivera  State 
Bank,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  this 
institution ;  he  has  been  secretary  of  the  Gates 
Ditch  Company  for  fifteen  years,  and  has  also 
served  as  a  trustee  for  the  Union  High  School  at 
Whittier. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Coffman  and  Miss  Eliza- 
beth A.  Standefer,  a  native  of  Texas,  was  sol- 
emnized in  1897,  and  of  their  union  have  been 
born  seven  children,  all  natives  of  Rivera,  where 


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the  elder  members  of  the  family  are  now  receiv- 
ing their  education.  They  are :  Marshall  B., 
Frances,  Marion,  Virginia,  Grace,  and  twin 
daughters,  Louise  and  Lucy.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Coffman  are  well  known  socially  in  Rivera,  and 
Mr.  Coffman  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Los 
Nietos  Valley  Pioneer  Association,  being  one  of 
the  first  to  become  identified  with  this  movement. 
In  his  political  preferences  he  is  a  Democrat,  but 
has  never  sought  official  recognition,  preferring 
to  serve  his  county  and  state  as  a  private  citizen. 


HENRY  HOWARD  ROSE.  The  record  for 
efficient  public  service  in  Los  Angeles  city  and 
county  held  by  Henry  Howard  Rose,  present 
mayor  of  Los  Angeles,  covers  a  period  of  some 
twenty-five  years  (of  which  seventeen  years  were 
spent  in  public  service),  and  is  one  of  which  he 
may  be  justly  proud.  For  several  years  he  re- 
sided in  Pasadena,  where  he  was  prominently  as- 
sociated with  municipal  affairs  and  held  positions 
of  trust  and  responsibility  within  the  gift  of  the 
people.  Later  he  was  called  into  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles,  here  to  assume  duties  of  public  weal, 
which  eventually  led  him  to  his  present  honored 
position  as  mayor  of  the  largest  city  on  the  Pa- 
cific coast,  and  one  of  the  best  governed  cities  in 
the  United  States,  and  so  universally  acknowl- 
edged. 

Mayor  Rose  is  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  born  at 
Taycheedah,  Fond-du-Lac  county,  November  27, 
1856.  He  is  the  son  of  Henry  Fontaine  and 
Mary  Ward  (Howard)  Rose,  the  father  a  man 
of  ability  and  an  attorney  of  note  in  Wisconsin. 
The  mayor  of  Los  Angeles  received  his  early 
education  in  the  St.  Paul's  Parish  schools  and  in 
the  high  school  of  Fond-du-Lac.  Following  his 
graduation  from  high  school  he  entered  his  fath- 
er's office,  where  he  studied  law,  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Wisconsin  July  8,  1881.  He  did  not, 
however,  immediately  commence  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  preferring  to  devote  several  years 
to  business  and  to  acquiring  a  practical  knowledge 
of  the  commercial  life  of  the  country.  Accord- 
ingly he  accepted  a  position  as  traveling  auditor 
for  Warder,  Bushnell  &  Company  of  Chicago, 
remaining  with  them  for  a  year,  and  then  accept- 
ing a  similar  position  with  the  Wheel  &  Seeder 
Company,  of  Fond-du-Lac,  and  still  later  entering 
the  employ  of  Fuller  and  Johnson,  of  Madison. 


In  all  of  this  time  Mr.  Rose  met  with  much  success 
and  was  given  complete  confidence  by  his  em- 
ployers, being  intrusted  with  commissions  and 
business  of  much  importance. 

Tiring  at  last  of  life  on  the  road,  Mr.  Rose 
determined  to  engage  in  business  for  himself,  and 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Briggs  &  Rose,  in 
Fond-du-Lac,  Wis.,  for  the  handling  of  farm  ma- 
chinery. This  association  continued  with  profit 
from  1885  to  1888.  Mr.  Rose  was  desirous  of 
returning  to  the  practice  of  law,  however,  and 
also  anxious  to  locate  in  Southern  California,  and 
accordingly  disposed  of  his  interests  in  Fond-du- 
Lac  in  1888  and  removed  to  Pasadena,  where  he 
opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  law,  meeting 
with  almost  instant  success. 

Always  keenly  interested  in  civic  and  municipal 
problems,  Mr.  Rose  at  once  became  prominent  in 
governmental  affairs  in  Pasadena,  and  his  ability 
as  an  organizer  and  leader,  as  well  as  his  legal 
ability,  soon  won  him  recognition.  He  became 
justice  of  the  peace  for  Pasadena  township  in 
1890,  and  in  1891  was  elected  city  recorder,  which 
position  he  occupied  for  two  years. 

In  that  city  he  was  a  member  of  the  first  com- 
mission of  freeholders  and  introduced  into  the 
proposed  charter  the  initiative  and  referendum. 
The  charter,  however,  was  defeated  by  the  people. 

Mr.  Rose's  influence  was  not  confined  to  the 
suburban  city  by  any  means,  and  in  1903  he  was 
made  deputy  district  attorney  of  Los  Angeles 
county,  where  he  served  for  two  years.  Deserved 
promotion  again  found  him  at  the  close  of  his 
term  of  office,  and  in  1905  he  was  made  city 
justice  of  Los  Angeles,  which  position  he  occu- 
pied until  1913,  when  he  was  elected  mayor  in  a 
hotly  contested  election,  and  in  which  capacity 
he  still  serves.  He  has  received  his  share  of 
praise  and  censure  during  his  present  term  of 
office,  but  he  has  proven  fearless  and  unbiased  in 
all  matters  of  public  welfare,  and  has  followed 
his  convictions  with  a  quiet  courage  that  has  won 
the  respect  of  even  his  political  opponents.  He  is 
progressive  and  broad  minded  in  his  manner  of 
handling  public  questions,  believing  that  the  mu- 
nicipality should  be  governed  for  the  good  of  the 
many  rather  than  for  the  favored  few. 

Socially,  Mr.  Rose  is  popular  with  a  wide 
circle  of  friends.  He  is  prominently  associated 
with  many  of  the  best  known  of  the  local  clubs 
and  fraternal  and  social  organizations,  among 
which  may  be  mentioned  the  Masons,  his  affilia- 


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tion  being  with  Arlington  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M. ; 
Crown  Chapter  No.  72,  Pasadena;  Knight 
Templar  Commandery  No.  43 ;  the  Elks,  being  a 
charter  member  of  No.  57,  Fond-du-Lac,  where 
he  still  maintains  his  membership ;  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution,  Colonial  Wars,  Los  An- 
geles Bar  Association,  American  Bar  Association, 
the  Southern  California  Rod  and  Reel  Associa- 
tion, and  the  California  Club,  Caledonia  Club  and 
the  Celtic  Club. 

Mayor  Rose  has  been  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Gertrude  Colden  Ruggles,  of  Fond- 
du-Lac,  Wis.,  at  which  place  they  were  married 
August  20,  1884.  She  died  in  Los  Angeles,  May 
28,  1909.  The  second  marriage  occurred  June 
12,  1910,  at  Ventura,  Cal.,  with  Miss  Leonie 
Klein.  There  is  one  son  by  the  first  wife, 
Augustus  Ruggles  Rose,  a  popular  member  of  the 
National  Guards,  taking  an  active  part  in  all  their 
affairs,  and  being  especially  active  in  their  recent 
encampment  at  Calexico,  when  they  were  on  guard 
duty  on  the  Mexican  line.  In  this  interest  in  mili- 
tary affairs  he  but  follows  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
father,  who  was  himself  a  member  of  the  Fond- 
du-Lac  company  of  the  National  Guards  of  Wis- 
consin from  1880  to  1888. 

[Mr.  Rose's  term  as  mayor  expired  July  5, 
1915.] 


LOUIS  SCHWARZ.  A  native  of  Germany, 
Louis  Schwarz  was  born  at  Neuburg,  October  2, 
1847,  the  son  of  Louis  and  Louise  Schwarz,  also 
natives  of  Germany.  His  childhood  was  passed 
in  his  native  village,  where  he  attended  the  public 
school,  and  later  he  graduated  from  Wurtzburg 
College.  In  1872  he  came  to  America  and  the 
following  year  located  in  Los  Angeles.  However, 
love  for  the  Fatherland  was  always  warm  in  the 
heart  of  Mr.  Schwarz,  and  in  1892  he  returned 
to  Europe  and  remained  in  Germany  for  two 
years,  returning  in  the  end  to  Los  Angeles  with 
renewed  allegiance  to  the  Angel  City. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Schwarz  occurred  in  this 
city  in  1876,  uniting  him  with  Mrs.  Lena  Henne, 
the  widow  of  Christopher  Henne.  She  was  also 
a  native  of  Germany,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1868.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schwarz  became 
the  parents  of  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  well 
and  favorably  known  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity, 
where  they  were  born  and  educated.  Of  these 
Louise  is  the  widow  of  N.  F.  Wilshire ;  Laura 


is  married  to  R.  A.  Rowan;  Marie  is  now  Mrs. 
Charles  Reed;  Adolph  is  also  a  resident  of  Los 
Angeles ;  and  Richard  is  deceased.  Since  the 
death  of  her  husband  Mrs.  Schwarz  has  continued 
to  reside  at  the  family  home  in  San  Marino. 

Mr.  Schwarz  had  a  fine  military  record  in 
Germany,  through  the  prominent  part  which  he 
took  in  the  war  of  1871.  He  passed  away  at  the 
family  home  in  San  Marino  February  22,  1913. 


CHARLES  H.  McKEVETT.  One  of  the 
most  prominent  oil  men  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  state,  and  one  who  was  especially  active  in 
the  development  of  new  properties  and  new  fields, 
was  the  late  Charles  H.  McKevett,  whose  resi- 
dence from  1886  until  the  time  of  his  death, 
June  7,  1907,  was  at  Santa  Paula,  Ventura 
county,  Cal.  Although  Mr.  McKevett  made  his 
home  in  the  Ventura  county  city  much  of  his 
business  interest  centered  in  and  about  Los  An- 
geles, and  he  was  a  well  known  and  powerful 
factor  in  local  affairs.  The  Fullerton  oil  fields 
were  the  scene  of  many  of  his  oil  operations, 
and  he  was  frequently  in  charge  of  the  work 
there  himself.  In  Santa  Paula  he  was  recognized 
as  a  power  that  had  done  more  for  the  welfare 
of  the  town  than  any  other,  and  as  such  he  was 
honored  and  respected  as  the  leading  man  of  the 
community.  He  was  a  man  of  unimpeachable 
honor,  upright,  honest  and  just  in  all  his  dealings 
with  his  fellow  men,  building  his  business  pros- 
perity on  the  firm  foundation  of  absolute  integ- 
rity. 

Mr.  McKevett  was  descended  from  an  ancient 
Scotch  lineage  of  which  he  was  justly  proud. 
The  progenitor  of  the  American  branch  of  the 
family  was  the  paternal  grandsire  of  the  late  hon- 
ored citizen  of  Santa  Paula,  Alexander  McKevett, 
who  came  to  America  when  a  boy  and  settled  in 
New  York  state.  There  he  married  and  reared 
his  family,  and  there  also  was  born  his  grandson, 
Charles  H.,  in  Cortland  county,  October  3,  1848. 
Young  McKevett  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  district  and  when  old 
enough  to  assume  responsibility  he  became  inter- 
ested in  the  oil  industry  in  Pennsylvania,  begin- 
ning as  an  operator,  then  rising  to  a  contractor, 
and  later  being  an  independent  operator.  He 
made  a  careful  study  of  the  conditions  and  details 
of  the  Pennsylvania  fields,  and  also  of  the  gen- 


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eral  conditions  throughout  the  country,  and  for 
fifteen  years  he  continued  to  manipulate  oil  affairs 
in  Butler,  Clarion,  Warren  and  McKean  counties. 
At  that  time  he  determined  to  make  a  complete 
change  of  base  of  operation,  desiring  a  change  of 
climate  and  also  of  occupation,  and  accordingly 
in  January,  1886,  he  came  to  California  in  search 
of  a  location.  He  immediately  selected  Santa 
Paula  as  the  scene  of  his  future  home,  although 
at  that  time  there  were  scarcely  two  hundred  in- 
habitants in  the  village  and  there  were  no  rail- 
road connections  at  all.  He  purchased  four  hun- 
dred and  twenty-four  acres  of  the  Bradley  and 
Blanchard  rancho,  his  land  extending  from  near 
the  center  of  the  town  out  into  the  country.  Part 
of  this  has  been  subdivided  and  sold  as  town 
property,  but  some  three  hundred  acres  (planted 
to  oranges,  lemons  and  apricots,  and  devoted  to 
general  farming)  still  remain  of  the  original  pur- 
chase. 

The  general  affairs  of  the  little  city  of  Santa 
Paula  at  once  interested  Mr.  McKevett  and  he  was 
soon  forming  plans  for  the  development  of  the 
best  interests  of  the  community.  In  1887  he  or- 
ganized the  Santa  Paula  Lumber  Company,  of 
which  he  was  president  until  its  consolidation  with 
the  Ventura  Lumber  Company,  after  which  he 
was  for  many  years  general  manager  of  the  com- 
bined companies.  In  1888  he  organized  the  Santa 
Paula  State  Bank,  with  George  H.  Bonebrake  as 
president,  himself  as  vice-president,  and  J.  R. 
Haugh  as  cashier.  This  bank  was  converted  into 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Santa  Paula,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1889,  Mr.  McKevett  being  elected  the 
first  president  of  the  new  organization,  a  position 
which  he  retained  until  his  death.  The  oil  indus- 
try of  the  west  was  also  calling  him,  and  about 
this  time  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Graham-Loftus  Oil  Company,  which  organization 
has  seventeen  wells  in  the  Fullerton  field,  Orange 
county.  Later  he  became  the  owner  of  a  large 
part  of  the  stock  of  this  company,  and  also  be- 
came heavily  interested  in  several  other  compa- 
nies, having  interests  in  various  fields  throughout 
the  state. 

The  record  that  Mr.  McKevett  has  left  in  Santa 
Paula  is  such  as  to  insure  his  memory  a  place 
in  the  hearts  of  the  people  for  many  years  to 
come.  He  was  keenly  alive  to  all  that  pertained 
to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city,  and  did  much  along 
this  line  for  which  he  could  not  possibly  have 
expected  to  receive  any  direct  returns.    He  was 


especially  interested  in  education,  and  the  Acad- 
emy, now  the  Union  High  School  building,  one 
of  the  most  prominently  located  structures  of 
education  in  the  entire  district,  would  never  have 
been  built  but  for  the  unflagging  efforts  of  Mr. 
McKevett,  who  made  the  building  and  the  beau- 
tifully located  grounds  possible  by  his  influence 
and  liberal  gifts.  A  few  years  later  Mrs.  Mc- 
Kevett donated  outright  the  magnificent  site  for 
the  Santa  Paula  grammar  school,  upon  which  has 
been  erected  one  of  the  handsomest  buildings  in 
Southern  California,  a  fitting  tribute  to  the  name 
of  McKevett.  During  the  years  of  his  presidency 
of  the  First  National  Bank,  Mr.  McKevett  was 
closely  identified  with  many  movements  for  the 
development  of  the  city  and  surrounding  country 
and  it  was  seldom,  if  ever,  that  he  put  his  hand 
on  the  helm  that  an  undertaking  was  not  pushed 
to  a  successful  issue.  Among  the  local  institu- 
tions that  he  fostered  may  be  mentioned  the  Santa 
Paula  Electric  Company,  now  the  Ventura 
County  Power  Company ;  the  great  Limoneira 
Company,  of  which  he  was  director  and  treasurer 
at  the  time  of  his  death ;  the  Santa  Paula  Water 
Company,  of  which  he  was  vice-president  for 
many  years ;  and  the  Santa  Paula  Lumber  Com- 
pany, now  the  People's  Lumber  Company,  with 
branch  plants  and  yards  throughout  the  county, 
in  addition  to  those  specially  mentioned  already. 
The  home  life  of  Mr.  McKevett  and  his  family 
was  always  delightful  and  the  hospitality  dis- 
pensed at  their  charming  home  is  one  of  the  most 
valued  memories  of  their  many  friends.  His 
marriage  occurred  in  1873,  uniting  him  with  Miss 
Alice  Stowell,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  who  was 
his  close  companion  and  friend  down  through  the 
years  until  the  time  of  his  death.  Of  their  union 
were  born  three  children,  two  being  natives  of 
Pennsylvania,  while  the  youngest,  a  daughter,  was 
bom  at  Santa  Paula.  Of  these  the  son,  Allan  C. 
McKevett,  is  in  charge  of  the  large  family  estate, 
making  his  home  in  Santa  Paula.  He  is  also  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Santa 
Paula,  and  is  otherwise  connected  with  the  activ- 
ities of  his  home  city.  He  is  a  man  of  brilliant 
mind  and  promise,  a  worthy  son  of  his  distin- 
guished father.  The  elder  daughter,  now  Mrs. 
Charles  C.  Teague,  whose  husband  is  the  vice- 
president  of  the  Limoneira  Company,  president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Santa  Paula,  and 
otherwise  prominent  in  Santa  Paula,  is  a  woman 
of  much  charm  and  ability,  a  leader  of  the  social 


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life  of  the  city  and  prominent  in  church  and  club 
work.  The  younger  daughter,  Helen,  the  wife 
of  A.  Lester  Best,  now  makes  her  home  in  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  McKevett,  quite  apart  from  his  splendid 
business  ability  and  his  consequent  popularity 
among  his  business  associates,  was  also  well 
known  in  fraternal  and  social  circles.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Santa  Paula  Lodge  No.  291,  F.  & 
A.  M. ;  Ventura  Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  Knights 
Templar  Commandery  of  Ventura ;  Al  Malaikah 
Temple,  N.  M.  S.  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican,  but  never  sought  public  oifice, 
preferring  rather  to  give  his  support  to  the  men 
and  principles  of  his  party,  feeling  that  thereby 
he  was  doing  his  best  for  his  country. 


MARCUS  CLARK  BETTINGER.  Thirty 
years  as  an  educator  in  the  pubHc  schools  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  for  the  past  twelve  years  assistant 
superintendent  of  city  schools,  is  the  splendid 
record  that  Marcus  Clark  Bettinger  brings  to  the 
annals  of  the  history  of  Los  Angeles  county. 
That  the  work  of  education  among  the  boys  and 
girls  of  the  state  is  the  noblest  and  best  is  his 
firm  conviction,  and  Mr.  Bettinger  has  declined 
many  flattering  opportunities  to  engage  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  where  the  financial  remuneration 
would  greatly  exceed  the  salary  which  his  posi- 
tion in  the  schools  paid  him,  feeling  that  kind 
Providence  has  cast  his  lines  in  pleasanter  places 
among  the  young.  That  the  service  has  been  of  a 
high  order  is  attested  by  the  length  of  time  that 
he  has  been  retained,  and  also  by  the  steady  ad- 
vancement which  he  has  made,  and  also  by  the  tes- 
timony of  hundreds  of  men  and  women  who  are 
now  prominent  throughout  this  and  other  states, 
who  remember  with  gratitude  their  days  in  school 
under  his  tutelage. 

Mr.  Bettinger  is  a  native  of  New  York,  born  at 
Chittenango,  Madison  county,  March  3,  1855. 
His  parents,  John  and  Sarah  Bettinger,  were  for 
many  years  residents  of  New  York,  the  father 
tracing  his  lineage  directly  back  to  stanch  old 
German  stock  of  Alsace,  while  the  mother's  fam- 
ily is  of  Connecticut  Colonial  stock.  There  were 
eleven  children  in  their  family,  nine  of  whom  are 
now  engaged  in  farming  in  the  eastern  states,  and 
are  men  of  ability  and  worth.     The  present  as- 


sistant superintendent  of  schools  in  Los  Angeles 
had  to  struggle  for  his  education,  beginning  with 
the  district  schools  of  Madison  county  and  later 
attending  Chittenango  Academy,  in  the  city  of  his 
birth.  Following  the  completion  of  this  course  he 
attended  the  State  Normal  School  at  Cortland, 
N.  Y.,  and  also  at  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  graduating 
from  the  normal  course  in  1881.  He  then  en- 
tered Syracuse  University  but  was  obliged  to 
leave  on  account  of  illness  in  his  family,  during 
his  senior  year,  and  nineteen  years  later  he  re- 
turned and  completed  his  course,  graduating  in 
1904,  instead  of  with  the  class  of  1885.  Mr.  Bet- 
tinger commenced  his  work  as  a  teacher  when  he 
was  still  a  student  in  normal  school,  teaching 
in  three  different  schools  in  New  York  and  thus 
working  his  way  through  both  normal  schools  and 
university.  It  was  in  1885  that  he  came  to  Cali- 
fornia on  account  of  the  ill  health  of  his  wife,  and 
was  at  once  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  city 
schools,  being  in  charge  of  a  little  one-room  build- 
ing. The  second  year  he  was  made  principal, 
and  from  time  to  time  was  promoted  to  a  larger 
building,  with  more  teachers  under  his  charge 
and  greater  responsibilities  on  his  shoulders.  His 
position  as  assistant  superintendent,  to  which  he 
was  elevated  in  1903,  has  been  the  direct  out- 
growth of  his  splendid  service  in  the  rank  and 
file,  and  is  a  well-deserved  honor. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bettinger  to  Miss  Nellie 
M.  Backus  occurred  in  Unadilla,  Mich.,  in  1884, 
and  her  death  followed  soon  after  their  coming  to 
California.  In  1888  he  was  again  married,  this 
time  to  Mrs.  Laura  A.  Gaige,  the  daughter  of 
Jesse  Hollingsworth,  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  the  mar- 
riage taking  place  at  Artesia,  this  county.  There 
are  three  sons  in  the  family,  all  natives  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  well  and  favorably  known  in  Los 
Angeles  and  vicinity.  They  are  John  M.,  Arthur 
B.  and  George  E. 

In  his  political  connections  at  this  time  Mr. 
Bettinger  is  a  progressive,  although  he  was 
trained  a  Democrat.  He  has  not,  however,  ever 
followed  party  lines  with  any  degree  of  fidelity, 
being  an  independent  thinker  and  choosing  rather 
his  own  men  and  measures,  and  giving  his  sup- 
port and  co-operation  to  those  things  which  he 
deemed  most  worthy  and  best  fitted  to  serve  the 
public  welfare.  This  is  the  reason  that  he  is  now 
a  Progressive  and  giving  his  support  to  the  meas- 
ures forwarded  by  this  organization.  Mr.  Bet- 
tinger is  affiliated  with  several  fraternal  orders  of 


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a  high  class,  being  a  Mason  of  influence,  having 
joined  that  order  in  1900,  and  the  Royal  Arcanum 
in  1883.  In  his  religious  connections  he  is  a 
Presbyterian,  as  is  also  his  wife.  In  addition  to 
his  professional  work  Mr.  Bettinger  owns  a  ranch 
of  sixty-three  acres  at  Artesia. 


GEORGE  EDWARD  AVERILL.  Some  thir- 
ty-five years  ago  George  Edward  Averill  came  to 
Los  Angeles  with  his  parents,  he  being  then  but 
a  lad  of  sixteen  years  of  age.  Since  that  time 
his  fortunes  have  for  the  most  part  been  cast  in 
with  the  city  of  his  choice,  and  he  has  been  suc- 
cessful both  in  matters  financial  and  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  name  and  reputation  that  are  in 
themselves  the  most  valuable  possession  that  a 
man  may  have.  He  has  for  many  years  been  well 
known  in  the  local  business  world,  and  has  held 
various  positions  of  responsibility  and  trust,  al- 
ways rendering  splendid  service.  During  the 
past  eight  years  he  has  been  engaged  as  an  oil 
broker  and  real  estate  dealer,  and  here  again  he 
has  met  with  much  success,  and  has  added  new 
strength  to  his  standing  as  a  man  of  more  than 
ordinary  reliability  and  business  integrity. 

Mr.  Averill  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  born  at  Fair- 
field October  22,  1864.  His  parents  were  Norman 
S.  and  Anna  S.  (Wells)  Averill,  both  of  whom 
were  exceptionally  well  known  in  Los  Angeles. 
They  removed  to  California  from  Iowa  in  1879, 
locating  first  at  Garden  Grove,  and  in  1880  mov- 
ing to  Los  Angeles,  where  they  have  since  made 
their  home.  The  son  attended  the  Los  Angeles 
High  School  up  to  1882,  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Pacific  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company,  and  later  became  the  second  manager 
for  the  company  in  Los  Angeles.  Later  he  left 
the  employ  of  the  telephone  company  to  enter  the 
service  of  the  W.  C.  Furrey  Company,  hardware 
merchants,  then  located  at  No.  159-169  North 
Spring  street,  where  he  learned  bookkeeping  un- 
der the  tutelage  of  P.  H.  Lemmert.  In  1885  he 
became  associated  with  the  Germain  Fruit  Com- 
pany, and  in  November  of  the  same  year  was 
made  head  bookkeeper,  with  entire  charge  of  the 
books  of  the  concern,  and  as  their  bookkeeper  and 
cashier  remained  with  this  company  until   1894. 


In  that  year  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  office 
work  of  the  Porter  Brothers  Company  of  Chi- 
cago, in  their  Los  Angeles  and  Sacramento  offices, 
remaining  in  this  capacity  for  five  years. 

The  Earl  Fruit  Company  of  Sacramento  and 
Los  Angeles  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  Averill 
in  1898,  and  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  their 
material  department,  purchasing  all  supplies  of 
box  and  packing  material  and  distributing  them  to 
the  various  shipping  agencies. 

Failing  health  on  the  part  of  his  wife  induced 
Mr.  Averill  to  remove  to  San  Francisco  in  1902, 
and  there  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  J.  K. 
Armsby  Company,  remaining  for  three  years. 
Later  he  was  made  sales  agent  for  the  Associated 
Oil  Company,  his  territory  being  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, with  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles,  his 
offices  being  in  the  Pacific  Electric  building.  In 
1905  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  This  work  brought  Mr.  Averill 
into  close  contact  with  the  various  phases  of  the 
oil  industry,  and  he  soon  became  thoroughly  ac- 
quainted with  the  various  oil  fields,  and  also  with 
the  conditions  of  the  industry,  which  information 
he  is  now  capitalizing  in  his  business  as  oil  lands 
broker  and  dealer  in  real  estate.  His  authority  is 
recognized,  and  by  careful  adherence  to  his  Hfe- 
long  principle  of  straightforward  truth,  he  has 
builded  a  reputation  in  this  line  that  is  proving 
very  valuable,  both  to  himself  and  his  clients. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Averill  with  Miss  Mamie 
E.  Williams  took  place  in  Los  Angeles,  April  26, 
1896.  One  child,  a  son,  Norman  W.,  has  been 
born  to  them.  Both  Mrs.  Averill  and  their  son 
are  well  known  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Averill  is 
distinctly  proud  of  his  family  name,  and  of  the 
position  that  his  father  and  mother  held  in  the 
city  for  so  many  years.  His  father,  for  fourteen 
years  prior  to  his  death,  in  January,  1911,  was 
secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  city, 
and  in  this  capacity  was  one  of  the  best  known 
men  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  highly  esteemed 
by  all  who  knew  him,  and  was  especially  popular 
with  the  teaching  force  of  the  city.  His  wife  had 
also  been  closely  associated  with  the  schools  and 
various  educational  and  literary  institutions  of  the 
city  for  many  years,  having  served  as  teacher, 
principal,  superintendent,  and  finally  as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Education.  She  is  an  honorary 
member  of  almost  all  the  principal  clubs  of  the 
city,  and  was  one  of  the  original  founders  of  the 
local  Young  Women's  Christian  Association. 


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THE  HOLLENBECK  HOME.  Overlook- 
ing on  the  west  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  on 
the  east  Hollenbeck  park  with  its  lake  and  at- 
tractive drives,  and  occupying  a  terraced  tract 
known  as  Boyle  Heights  bluffs,  stands  the  Hol- 
lenbeck Home  for  the  Aged,  founded  Decem- 
ber 1,  1890,  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hollenbeck  as  a 
memorial  to  her  husband;  opened  September  6, 
1896,  enlarged  and  re-opened  in  May  of  1908, 
since  which  time  it  has  had  a  history  of  in- 
creasing service  in  its  line  of  philanthropy.  After 
the  death  of  John  Edward  Hollenbeck,  which 
occurred  September  2,  1885,  it  became  the  most 
cherished  hope  of  his  wife,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hol- 
lenbeck, to  establish  a  memorial  that  would  per- 
petuate his  honored  name  through  kindly  chari- 
ties, and  she  chose,  as  a  most  practical  form  of 
philanthropy,  a  home  for  worthy  aged  people, 
residents  of  Southern  California,  left  without 
means  of  support  for  their  declining  days.  Pur- 
suant upon  her  intent  she  conveyed  by  deed 
to  John  D.  Bicknell,  James  M.  Elliott,  Frank  A. 
Gibson,  Charles  L.  Batcheller  and  J.  S.  Chap- 
man, thirteen  and  one-half  acres  on  Boyle 
Heights  bluffs,  also  the  Hollenbeck  block  on 
the  corner  of  Second  and  Spring  streets,  and  the 
Elizabeth  Hollenbeck  building  on  South  Broad- 
way near  Seventh,  also  other  property  in  trust, 
the  object  of  the  conveyance  being  to  provide  for 
the  maintenance  of  the  institution.  Under  the 
deed  of  trust  Mrs.  Hollenbeck  retained  a  life  in- 
terest in  the  property  conveyed,  and  she  pro- 
ceeded to  erect  a  building  adapted  to  the  intended 
use,  which  building  was  dedicated  as  a  Home  for 
the  Aged  on  the  6th  of  September,  1896,  the 
eleventh  anniversary  of  the  funeral  of  the  one 
whose  gracious  life  and  manly  character  had  in- 
spired the  gift. 

For  a  time  there  was  no  change  in  the  board 
of  trustees,  but  with  the  death  of  Frank  A.  Gibson 
October  13,  1901,  a  vacancy  occurred  which  at 
the  request  of  Mrs.  Hollenbeck  was  filled  by  Rev. 
William  S.  Young,  D.  D.,  the  selection  of  Dr. 
Young  having  been  duly  approved  by  the  court, 
June  14,  1902.  Another  trustee,  John  S.  Chap- 
man, resigned  November  27,  1907,  and  Curtis  D. 
Wilbur  was  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1907.  John  D.  Bicknell,  who  was  the 
author  of  the  original  trust  deed,  passed  away 
July  7,  1911,  and  on  the  3d  of  August  following 
Hon.  Frank  P.  Flint  was  duly  appointed  and  con- 
firmed   to    fill    the    vacancy.    March  27,   1912, 


Charles  L.  Batcheller  resigned  as  trustee,  and  on 
the  23d  of  April,  1912,  Hon.  Newton  W.  Thomp- 
son was  duly  appointed  and  confirmed  to  fill  the 
vacancy.  Dr.  Young  was  elected  secretary  pro 
teni  March  12,  1907,  and  on  the  20th  of  February, 
1909,  he  was  duly  elected  as  secretary  of  the 
Hollenbeck  Home  Trust.  At  present  the  officers 
of  the  Trust  are  as  follows :  Chairman,  J.  M. 
Elliott ;  vice-chairman,  Frank  P.  Flint ;  and  secre- 
tary, William  S.  Young;  depository  of  funds. 
First  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  The  board 
of  managers  consists  of  the  following  women: 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hollenbeck,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Hollen- 
beck, Mrs.  W.  S.  Young,  Anne  W.  Nixon,  M.  D., 
and  Miss  Mary  S.  Wilson.  Mrs.  Emma  L.  Cusic 
officiates  as  matron.  One  floor  of  the  north,  wing 
is  equipped  as  a  modern  hospital,  with  a  trained 
nurse  in  constant  attendance,  and  the  Home  also 
owes  much  to  the  thoughtful  attention  of  its 
physician,  C.  W.  Evans,  M.  D.  During  the  first 
year  of  the  existence  of  the  Home  twelve  men 
and  thirty-four  women  were  received  and  two 
passed  away  during  the  year.  These  were  the 
first  to  be  laid  away  in  the  beautiful  grounds  at 
Evergreen  cemetery,  provided  by  the  founder  of 
the  institution.  Since  the  opening  of  the  Home 
there  have  been  received  thirty-eight  men  and  one 
hundred  and  thirty-one  women. 

The  mission  style  of  architecture,  adapted  to 
modern  conditions,  was  followed  in  the  erection 
of  the  buildings,  which  are  of  concrete  and  brick, 
plastered  over  with  cement,  and  covered  with  tile 
roofing.  The  main  building  contains  the  admin- 
istration quarters,  dining  room,  kitchen,  parlors 
and  hospital.  The  dormitory  affords  comfortable 
accommodations  for  the  members,  who  also  have 
the  privileges  of  the  library,  an  attractive  building 
with  beamed  ceilings,  oak  floor  and  large  fire- 
place. A  modern  laundry,  with  every  desired 
equipment,  adds  to  the  conveniences  of  the  Home. 
The  atmosphere  of  religion  devoid  of  sectarian- 
ism lends  the  influence  of  peace  and  contentment 
to  the  place.  Prayer  services  on  Thursday  even- 
ing and  preaching  services  on  Sunday  afternoon 
are  held  in  the  chapel,  a  structure  in  the  form  of 
a  Greek  cross  with  a  concrete  dome,  its  classic 
design  and  artistic  interior,  with  beautiful  win- 
dows and  rich-toned  organ,  aflfording  a  rare  com- 
bination of  beauty  and  of  art  aiding  devotion. 
Friends  often  provide  musical  entertainments  and 
stereopticon  views  or  in  other  ways  promote  the 


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enjoyment   of   the  members   through   interesting 
social  events. 

To  protect  the  welfare  of  the  members  of  the 
Home  it  has  been  deemed  advisable  to  limit  appli- 
cants to  persons  of  good  moral  character,  not  less 
than  sixty-five  years  of  age,  who  have  been  resi- 
dents for  at  least  three  years  of  that  portion  of 
California  lying  south  of  the  north  line  of  San 
Bernardino,  Kern  and  San  Luis  Obispo  counties. 
Persons  financially  able  to  care  for  themselves 
will  not  be  received,  nor  those  deranged  in  mind 
or  afflicted  with  incurable  or  contagious  disease. 
An  admission  fee  of  $300  is  charged,  on  receipt 
of  which  and  after  other  requirements  have  been 
met,  the  Home  receives,  boards  and  lodges  the 
aged  persons  throughout  the  balance  of  their 
lives,  subject  to  regulations  definitely  understood 
by  all  concerned.  While  necessarily  the  Home  is 
operated  strictly  upon  business  principles  and  the 
maintenance  of  rules  must  be  insisted  upon,  the 
social  feature  is  made  very  prominent,  and  it  is 
deemed  best,  for  the  health  and  happiness  of  the 
members,  that  the  members  should  regard  them- 
selves as  an  integral  part  of  a  large  family,  whose 
welfare  may  be  conserved  by  the  rendering  of 
kindly,  helpful  services  on  the  part  of  each  and 
by  those  quiet,  gracious  courtesies  that  wonder- 
fully enhance  the  joy  of  life. 


born  in  February,  1848,  and  died  in  October, 
1912,  since  which  time  his  widow  has  given  her 
attention  to  the  management  of  the  business  left 
by  him  and  has  become  well  known  throughout 

the  southwest. 


LEOTIA  K.  NORTHAM.  Among  the 
women  of  Southern  California  who  have  become 
well  known  in  various  lines  of  activity  may  be 
mentioned  Leotia  K.  Northam,  who  has  been  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  many  years. 

Mrs.  Northam  was  born  in  Galena,  Kan.,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1881,  a  daughter  of  George  A.  and 
Mary  D.  Stoney,  both  natives  of  Missouri,  and 
both  now  deceased,  the  mother  meeting  her  death 
in  the  wreck  of  the  Pacific  Electric  train  at  Vine- 
yard station  on  July  13.  1913. 

When  one  year  of  age  Mrs.  Northam  was  taken 
to  Arizona  by  her  parents  and  later  brought  to 
California,  where  she  was  reared  and  educated, 
graduating  from  the  Los  Angeles  High  school, 
after  which  she  took  up  newspaper  work  for  the 
Los  Angeles  Herald,  then  a  morning  paper. 

On  July  23,  1901,  in  San  Jose,  Cal.,  occurred 
the  marriage  of  Col.  Robert  J.  Northam  and 
Miss  Leotia  K.   Stoney.    Colonel   Northam   was 


HON.  GRANT  JACKSON.  The  genealogy 
of  the  Jackson  family  shows  a  long  line  of  south- 
ern ancestors.  Patriotism  was  evinced  in  the 
participation  in  the  numerous  wars  of  the  na- 
tion's earlier  history.  During  the  war  of  1812 
Robert  Jackson  was  commissioned  captain  of  a 
company  that  brought  honor  to  their  native  com- 
monwealth, Tennessee,  by  gallant  service.  A 
grandson  of  the  Captain,  Major  William  Jackson, 
lived  in  Missouri  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war 
and  helped  to  save  that  state  to  the  Union,  not- 
withstanding the  fact  that  his  cousin,  the  then 
governor,  called  together  a  constitutional  conven- 
tion for  the  purpose  of  passing  a  secession  ordi- 
nance. With  the  courage  of  his  convictions  the 
Major  assisted  in  deposing  the  state  officers  and 
electing  officers  loyal  to  the  Union.  His  service 
at  the  front  lasted  throughout  the  entire  war  and 
brought  him  honor  as  an  officer.  Shortly  after 
the  close  of  the  conflict  he  moved  to  California 
and  settled  at  Petaluma,  Sonoma  county,  where 
of  his  union  with  Miss  Mary  C.  Francis  there  was 
born  a  son.  Grant,  June  13,  1869.  The  family 
afterward  lived  at  Lompoc,  Santa  Barbara  county, 
and  the  son  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  that 
little  town,  later  continuing  his  studies  in  the  city 
of  Santa  Barbara,  where  in  1887  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  W.  C.  Stratton, 
a  pioneer  attorney  of  high  standing  and  consid- 
erable prominence. 

Having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  supreme 
court  of  California  October  11,  1891,  Mr.  Jack- 
son immediately  took  up  professional  work  in  his 
home  town  of  Santa  Barbara.  Since  his  removal 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1902  his  influence  has  been  felt 
in  professional  and  political  circles.  June  1,  1905, 
he  became  associated  with  Theodore  Martin  and 
Lloyd  W.  Moultrie,  conducting  a  general  civil 
practice  until  his  elevation  to  the  bench  in  the 
superior  court  of  Los  Angeles,  in  which  capacity 
he  is  now  serving.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Municipal 
League,  the  Chamber  of  Mines,  and  the  Native 
Sons  of  the  Golden  West.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Gamut  Club,  Union  League,  in  the  latter  of 


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which  he  serves  on  the  directorate,  and  the  City 
Club,  and  in  the  hne  of  his  profession  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association. 


GEORGE  F.  GETTY.  The  president  of  the 
Minnehoma  Oil  Company,  whose  property  is 
located  in  Oklahoma,  principally  around  Tulsa, 
Gushing,  Cleveland  and  Bartelsville,  is  George  F. 
Getty,  who,  since  1906,  has  made  his  home  in  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.  A  native  of  Maryland,  Mr.  Getty 
was  born  at  Grantsville,  October  17,  1855,  the  son 
of  John  and  Martha  A.  (Wiley)  Getty,  and  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Eastern  Ohio.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he 
took  a  term  at  Smithville  (Ohio)  Academy,  after 
which  he  was  graduated  from  the  Ohio  Northern 
University,  at  Ada,  Ohio,  July  10,  1879,  with  the 
degree  of  A.  B.  During  his  college  life  he  took 
a  very  active  part  in  literary  work  and  debating 
societies  and  organized  and  still  maintains  the 
Getty  debating  contest  in  his  college  city,  and  each 
year  gives  two  prizes  for  the  Philomathean 
Getty  Debate.  On  his  graduation  day  Mr.  Getty 
bore  the  honor  of  being  salutatorian  of  his  class. 
Subsequently  he  took  a  law  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  in  that 
city  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1882.  He  first 
practiced  his  profession  in  Caro,  Mich.,  continu- 
ing there  from  1882  to  1884,  in  the  year  last  men- 
tioned removing  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he 
practiced  until  1906.  While  in  Caro,  Mich.,  he 
held  the  office  of  circuit  court  commissioner  for 
Tuscola  county.  During  his  residence  in  Minne- 
apolis he  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice,  consisting 
largely  of  insurance  law,  on  which  he  was  an 
authority,  and  which  practice  extended  over  a 
large  part  of  the  United  States.  He  was  also  at 
one  time  secretary  of  the  State  Prohibition  party 
and  editor  of  the  "Review,"  a  party  organ  of  that 
state. 

The  year  1906  saw  the  removal  of  Mr.  Getty 
to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  has  been  engaged 
principally  in  the  oil  business,  being  interested  in 
several  corporations,  chief  among  which  is  the 
Minnehoma  Oil  Company,  organized  by  himself 
in  1903,  and  of  which  he  was  elected  president. 
Judge  William  A.  Kerr  being  secretary.  This 
company  owns  one  hundred  wells,  which  are  pro- 
ducing five  thousand  barrels  of  oil  per  day,  and 
one  hundred  men  are  in  its  employ. 


On  October  30,  1879,  Mr.  Getty  was  married 
in  Marion,  Ohio,  to  Sarah  C.  Risher,  and  they 
have  one  son,  Jean  P.,  who  is  interested  with  his 
father  in  the  oil  property  in  Oklahoma.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Los  An- 
geles, Mr.  Getty  also  holds  membership  in  the 
Gamut  Club  and  the  Municipal  League,  while  in 
his  fraternal  relations  he  is  a  York  Rite  Mason 
and  a  Shriner.  The  religious  associations  of  Mr. 
Getty  are  with  the  Christian  Science  Church. 


WILLIAM  H.  ALLEN,  JR.  The  president 
of  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company,  Los 
Angeles,  is  William  H.  Allen,  Jr.,  who  was  born 
at  Grafton,  111.,  October  12,  1853,  the  son  of 
William  H.  and  Martha  M.  (Mason)  Allen. 
After  attending  the  public  schools  until  the  age 
of  fifteen  years,  Mr.  Allen  was  employed  in  his 
father's  bank  until  he  was  twenty-eight  years  of 
age,  receiving  valuable  training  and  experience 
in  all  practical  lines  in  the  banking  business,  and 
becoming  owner  of  the  bank,  which  he  sold  out 
after  thirteen  years  of  experience  in  the  business. 
During  that  time  Mr.  Allen  was  also  engaged  in 
raising  livestock  and  in  the  transfer  business,  and 
was  a  director  in  the  Grafton  quarry,  besides  hav- 
ing interests  in  the  timber  industry. 

Upon  his  removal  to  California  in  February, 
1892,  Mr.  Allen  made  his  home  in  the  city  of 
Pasadena,  where  he  was  a  director  of  the  San 
Gabriel  Valley  Bank.  In  1894  he  embarked  in 
the  manufacture  of  office  and  bank  fixtures  in 
Los  Angeles,  a  business  which  he  sold  out  the 
following  September,  at  that  time  becoming  presi- 
dent of  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company, 
which  office  he  has  continued  to  hold  ever  since, 
having  also  been  a  director  in  the  Security  Trust 
and  Savings  Bank,  and  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
finance  committee  of  the  Mortgage  Guarantee 
Company.  The  interest  taken  by  Mr.  Allen  in 
matters  of  municipal  importance  and  progress  is 
evidenced  by  his  membership  in  sUch  associations 
as  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Municipal 
League  and  the  Good  Roads  Club,  while  he  is  also 
a  member  of  the  California,  Country  and  Press 
Clubs. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Allen  with  Miss  Elsie 
Petti  John  took  place  in  Pasadena,  April  6,  1893, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of   two   children,   W. 


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Herbert,  a  student  at  Harvard  University,  and 
Ruth  P.  Allen,  a  pupil  at  the  Marlborough  School 
in  Los  Angeles. 


WILLIAM  A.  LAMB.  Since  the  year  1895, 
when  he  first  came  to  Los  Angeles,  William  A. 
Lamb  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
development  and  civic  improvements  of  this  part 
of  the  state  of  California,  having  real  estate  and 
oil  interests  here,  and  being  active  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  parks  and  public  playgrounds,  as 
well  as  serving  in  the  State  Legislature  for  the 
Seventy-Fifth  District  during  the  years  1910 
and  1911. 

A  New  Englander  by  birth,  Dr.  Lamb  was 
born  in  Mystic,  Conn.,  and  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  Norwich,  that  state.  For  ten  years  he 
followed  the  machinist's  trade  in  the  cities  of 
New  Briton,  Norwich,  and  Meriden,  Conn.,  and 
later,  after  having  prepared  for  the  ministry  at 
Andover  Seminary,  Andover,  Mass.,  he  was  or- 
dained a  minister  of  the  Congregational  denom- 
ination in  1874.  He  was  the  founder  and  first 
pastor  of  the  church  of  Peabody,  Mass.,  and  had 
parishes  also  at  Holden  and  Newton,  Mass.,  and 
Milford,  N.  H.  After  his  removal  to  Los  An- 
geles he  preached  in  this  city  for  two  years.  He 
then  became  interested  in  civic  affairs,  serving  on 
the  Park  Commission  and  the  Playground  Com- 
mission and  assisted  in  organizing  the  Echo  Park 
Playground.  His  prominence  in  politics  led  to 
his  election  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature, 
serving  in  1910  and  1911.  Dr.  Lamb  invested  in 
real  estate  in  this  city  and  many  pieces  he  im- 
proved, among  them  being  the  Ionia  flats  on 
Flower  street,  as  well  as  a  block  of  stores  on 
Temple  and  Belmont  streets,  and  he  was  the 
first  person  to  build  a  residence  on  Ocean  View 
avenue,  where  his  beautiful  home  now  stands. 
In  the  oil  industry,  Dr.  Lamb  is  well  known  as  one 
of  the  developers  of  the  Yukon  Oil  Company  of 
Los  Angeles,  of  which  company  he  has  served  as 
president,  being  also  a  '  director  and  one  of 
the  developers  of  the  Santa  Ynez  Development 
Company,  an  organization  which  owns  thirty 
thousand  acres  of  land  in  Santa  Barbara  county. 
In  the  Florence  Crittenton  Home  in  this  city,  of 
which  Dr.  Lamb  is  a  director,  a  room  has  been 
furnished  and  named  in  honor  of  his  wife,  whose 
death  occurred  July  13,  1914. 

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The  wife  of  Dr.  Lamb  was  Mary  Proctor  be- 
fore her  marriage  and  she  was  born  in  Peabody, 
Mass.,  being  descended  from  the  distinguished 
New  England  families  of  Putnams  and  from  the 
family  of  the  Concord  philosopher,  Emerson, 
and  she  inherited  to  an  enviable  degree  the  in- 
tellectual ability  of  her  distinguished  forbears. 
Her  father,  Abel  Proctor,  was  a  brother  of 
Thomas  E.  Proctor,  a  Boston  rmllionaire  leather 
manufacturer,  and  the  writer,  Edna  Dean  Proc- 
tor, was  a  cousin.  At  the  time  of  her  death,  Mrs. 
Lamb  was  a  director  of  the  Florence  Crittenton 
Home,  the  McKinley  Home  for  Boys  and  the 
Strickland  Home,  to  which  special  gifts  have  been 
made  by  her  family  in  her  memory.  She  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Psychopathic  Society,  and  had 
for  ten  years  been  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school 
of  the  Westlake  Methodist  Church  of  Los  An- 
geles. She  is  survived  by  her  husband,  son  and 
daughter  and  four  grandchildren ;  the  son  being 
Judge  Porter  Emerson  Lamb,  of  Burlingame, 
Cai.,  and  the  daughter  Miss  Ellen  Augusta  Lamb, 
who  is  prominent  in  women's  clubs  and  served  as 
corresponding  secretary  of  the  Ebell  Club  for  two 
years.  In  philanthropic  work  in  Los  Angeles 
where  the  enterprise  of  her  father  has  done  and 
is  still  doing  much  in  the  furthering  of  civic  im- 
provements she  is  likewise  prominent. 

Commenting  on  the  death  of  Mrs.  Lamb,  the 
following  appeared  in  an  editorial  of  the  Los  An- 
geles Times : 

"In  the  death  of  Mrs.  W.  A.  Lamb  there 
passed  from  Los  Angeles  one  of  California's 
blessed  women.  She  was  an  answer  to  the  charge 
that  the  Puritanism  of  New  England  is  intolerant. 
Never  did  heart  hold  more  tender  charity  than 
hers.  Never  was  charity  expressed  more  prac- 
tically than  by  her.  Her  heart  went  out  with 
abundant  love  to  every  child  of  misfortune.  Most 
of  all  was  her  kindness  extended  to  the  girl  who 
had  made  a  mistake  and  whose  affections  had  been 
outraged  and  deceived.  Sympathy  was  not  a 
theory  with  her  and  not  mere  sentimentality.  She 
was  not  afraid  to  take  these  girls  into  her  own 
home.  In  recent  years  she  always  had  one  or 
two  such  girls  about  her,  giving  them  such  light 
work  as  they  were  fit  to  do  until  the  great  hour 
of  love  and  tragedy  took  them  away.  She  let 
them  make  baby  things  at  their  leisure  and  taught 
them  to  welcome  the  supreme  event  without 
shame  and  with  courage  of  heart.  This  is  a  les- 
son not  easy  for  humanity  to  learn.   In  theory  all 


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of  us  have  charity  for  the  erring,  but  few  of  us 
are  wilHng  to  make  the  practice  intimate  and  per- 
sonal. Mrs.  Lamb  was  one  who  Hved  what  she 
beheved." 


ROBERT  MARSH.  The  Marsh  genealogy 
indicates  the  colonial  identification  of  the  family 
with  New  England,  where  several  successive 
generations  lived  and  labored,  each  in  turn  becom- 
ing a  potent  factor  in  the  material  upbuilding  of 
that  section  of  the  country.  A  study  of  their 
connection  with  early  history  proved  that  they 
were  quiet,  unostentatious  but  forceful  and 
permanent  contributors  to  community  advance- 
ment. During  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century  Robert  Marsh  held  high  place  in  New 
Hampshire,  while  in  the  earlier  half  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  his  son  Joseph  was  a  leading  factor 
in  community  progress  in  the  same  state.  In  the 
next  generation  there  became  apparent  a  desire 
to  seek  newer  lands  and  it  was  Joseph  E.,  son 
of  Joseph,  who  transplanted  the  name  to  the  then 
frontier  of  Illinois.  A  man  of  college  education, 
excellent  mental  capacity  and  keen  insight  into 
the  possibilities  of  the  west,  he  was  yet  quite 
young  when  he  decided  that  New  England  offered 
fewer  opportunities  than  the  undeveloped  regions 
of  the  Mississippi  valley.  The  first  important 
move  took  him  to  Charleston,  111.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  milling  of  flour.  The  second  move 
of  consequence  took  him  to  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
where  also  he  operated  a  mill.  A  visit  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1886  brought  to  him  a  realization  of  the 
vast  opportunities  offered  by  the  west,  which 
with  its  splendid  climate,  its  fertile  soil  and  its 
growing  population  of  desirable  settlers  presented 
an  admirable  opening  to  a  man  of  the  tempera- 
ment of  Mr.  Marsh.  As  soon  as  possible  he  dis- 
posed of  his  holdings  in  Little  Rock  and  came 
to  Southern  California,  where  he  lived  at  San 
Diego  from  1888  to  1891  and  since  then  has 
made  Los  Angeles  his  home.  Bom  at  Pelham, 
N.  H.,  in  1836,  in  1862  he  married  Miss  Martha 
J.  Atwood,  of  the  same  town.  Of  their  five  chil- 
dren only  two  survive,  namely:  Florence  A., 
wife  of  Col.  C.  Andrews,  of  New  Orleans ;  and 
Robert,  whose  name  introduces  this  article  and 
whose  work  as  an  upbuilder  of  Los  Angeles  has 
made  his  name  familiar  throughout  this  section 
of  the  state. 


Born  in  Charleston,  111.,  January  20,  1874,  and 
primarily  educated  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  Robert 
Marsh  completed  his  high  school  course  in  Los 
Angeles  in  1892  and  entered  the  book  store  of 
E.  T.  Cook,  with  whom  he  continued  for  about 
four  years.  Next  for  perhaps  two  years  he  en- 
gaged in  the  men's  furnishing  goods  business, 
as  one  of  the  owners.  During  1898  and  a  part 
of  1899  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
coal  business  in  New  Orleans,  but  returned  to 
Los  Angeles  with  the  conviction  that  this  city 
offered  opportunities  unexcelled  by  any  com- 
munity in  the  United  States.  Since  1900  his  name 
has  been  intimately  identified  with  realty  develop- 
ment and  particularly  with  large  enterprises,  such 
as  downtown  business  property  and  in  the  open- 
ing of  residence  tracts  and  exclusive  home  dis- 
tricts. Through  his  efforts,  in  co-operation  with 
other  upbuilders  equally  enterprising,  ranch  lands 
have  been  transformed  into  suburban  areas  of 
handsome  homes  environed  by  beautiful  parks 
and  other  modern  improvements.  Notable  among 
the  residence  tracts  which  he  laid  out  and  devel- 
oped are  the  Country  Club  Park,  Western 
Heights,  Westchester  Place,  Country  Club  Ter- 
race, Arlington  Heights  Terrace  and  Mount 
Washington.  Each  of  these  is  a  monument  to 
the  foresight  and  artistic  vision  of  Mr.  Marsh, 
who  planned  and  developed  them,  not  merely 
with  the  thought  of  financial  returns,  but  with 
the  hope  that  their  permanent  attractions  and  sub- 
stantial improvements  would  lend  value  to  his 
home  city  and  expansion  to  its  residential  dis- 
tricts. Such  has  been  his  prominence  as  an 
efficient  and  trustworthy  promoter  that  the  busi- 
ness handled  in  the  office  of  Robert  Marsh  &  Co. 
perhaps  equals  that  of  any  of  the  greatest  realty 
corporations  in  the  southwest. 

Identification  with  the  development  of  real 
estate  has  placed  Mr.  Marsh  in  touch  with  all 
other  movements  for  the  advancement  of  South- 
ern California  and  has  interested  him  in  the 
personal  acquisition  of  property  so  that  he  now 
has  valuable  holdings.  For  more  than  a  decade 
his  name  has  been  linked  with  almost  every  large 
proposition  connected  with  local  progress.  It  was 
he  who  first  saw  the  possibilities  of  the  lands 
bordering  the  mouth  of  the  San  Gabriel  river. 
Through  his  efforts  syndicates  were  organized 
for  the  improvement  of  Alamitos  Bay,  West 
Naples,  East  Naples  and  indeed  that  entire 
stretch  of  country  fostered  and  developed  by  the 


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San  Gabriel  Improvement  Company.  The  phe- 
nomenal sales  in  Venice,  the  Venice  Canal  Sub- 
division and  the  Short  Line  Beach  were  accom- 
plished largely  through  his  ability  to  handle  great 
enterprises.  Real  estate  activities  indeed  are  well 
adapted  to  his  enthusiastic  temperament.  To  him 
action  is  life.  To  accomplish  nothing  or  to  rest 
on  the  laurels  of  past  accomplishments  would  be 
retrogression  as  such  intensely  distasteful  to  him. 
Few  things  are  more  gratifying  to  him  than  the 
remarkable  growth  of  Los  Angeles,  and  he  de- 
lights in  the  way  the  city  forges  to  the  front  as 
a  center  of  commerce,  of  industrial  enterprises 
and  of  a  contented  tourist  population  from  the 
east.  Meanwhile  he  labors  with  intelligent  zeal 
to  promote  movements  for  civic  welfare  and  com- 
munity progress.  During  1908  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce  appointed  him  a  member 
of  the  committee  to  promote  the  Union  depot 
project,  and  since  then,  with  his  associates,  he 
has  labored  efficiently  and  strenuously  to  attain 
the  desired  end.  An  improvement  so  greatly 
needed  would  seem  to  be  a  probability,  yet  at  this 
writing  the  end  of  the  fight  has  not  come.  Less 
difficult  and  tedious  was  the  work  of  securing  the 
annexation  of  San  Pedro,  so  that  Los  Angeles 
was  given  a  municipal  harbor  and  placed  in  a 
position  of  importance  as  an  outlet  to  the  Panama 
canal.  Much  credit  for  the  result  is  due  to  Mr. 
Marsh,  whose  efforts  were  timely  and  sagacious. 
At  one  time  he  officiated  as  vice-president  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board  and  he  still  occupies  a 
leading  position  among  its  members. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Marsh  and  Miss  Ceceil 
Lothrop  was  solemnized  at  Alhambra,  Cal.,  April 
12,  1898.  They,  with  their  daughters,  Florence 
Louise  and  Martha  J.,  have  a  comfortable  home 
in  Westchester  Place  and  a  summer  cottage  at 
Alamitos  bay.  The  fraternal  and  social  relations 
of  Mr.  Marsh  bring  him  into  membership  with 
the  Masons  (in  which  he  is  a  Shriner),  the 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  Jon- 
athan and  California  Clubs,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country,  Crags 
Country,  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  and 
Bolsa  Chico  Gun  clubs.  For  years  he  has  been  a 
leading  member  of  the  Emanuel  Presbyterian 
Church  and  a  large  contributor  to  its  missionary 
movements.  The  Republican  party  has  received 
his  ballot  in  all  general  elections  occurring  since 
he  attained  his  majority.  Although  eminently 
broad-minded  and  liberal  in  his  views,  he  has 


sought  conscientiously  to  advance  the  interests  he 
endorses.  Strong  in  mind  and  body,  with  tenacity 
of  purpose  and  a  prodigious  activity  that  makes 
him  a  power  to  be  reckoned  with  in  every  phase 
of  business,  he  is  a  fitting  type  of  the  men  who 
have  developed  "The  City  of  Superlatives,"  and 
whose  civic  pride  has  been  a  strong  factor  in 
making  Los  Angeles  what  it  is  today,  the  western 
metropolis  and  a  city  of  world-wide  fame. 


EDWARD  A.  KELLAM.  The  life  of  Mr. 
Kellam,  from  early  years,  has  been  associated  with 
the  pioneer  interests  of  different  parts  of  our 
country,  he  having  known  prairie  life  in  Illinois 
as  well  as  the  development  of  Los  Angeles  in  the 
early  days  of  its  growth. 

Born  in  Newcastle  county,  Del.,  February  10, 
1835,  he  went  with  his  mother  and  brother  in 
1850  to  join  his  father  and  brothers  in  IHinois, 
where  they  had  preceded  him.  There  the  boy  as- 
sisted his  father  and  older  brothers  in  developing 
their  ranch  of  two  hundred  acres,  which  was 
situated  in  a  wild  prairie  country,  the  home  being 
but  a  log  cabin.  After  they  had  cut  the  timber 
and  broken  the  land  with  oxen  the  five  brothers 
farmed  there  in  partnership,  raising  cattle  and 
hogs,  and  also  growing  their  own  grain.  In  1865 
this  partnership  was  dissolved,  and  the  son  Ed- 
ward continued  farming  independently,  in  1887 
following  his  brother  Milton  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
Here  in  the  West  the  brothers  became  Interested 
in  real  estate  transactions  and  played  an  import- 
ant part  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  of  Los  An- 
geles. The  first  purchase  in  this  city  made  by 
Edward  Kellam  was  a  home  and  lot  on  Boyle 
Heights,  and,  as  he  followed  the  carpenter's  trade 
for  some  time,  he  built  numerous  houses  and  cot- 
tages. Other  tracts  of  land  bought  by  him  were 
eighty  feet  of  property  located  at  St.  Louis  and 
Second  streets  and  lots  situated  in  the  Fisher 
subdivision  on  Brooklyn  avenue,  both  of  which 
purchases  were  made  in  the  same  quarter  of  the 
city  as  his  first  venture,  the  present  home  of  him- 
self and  his  brother  having  been  built  by  him  at 
No.  926  South  Olive  street,  a  portion  of  the  city 
much  nearer  the  downtown  district.  Mr.  Kellam 
still  has  valuable  real  estate  holdings  in  Los  An- 
geles, and  at  one  time  was  also  the  owner  of  out- 
side land  in  the  smaller  towns  of  Alhambra  and 


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Azusa.  His  religious  associations  are  with  the 
Methodist  denomination,  he  being  a  member  of 
the  First  Methodist  Church  of  Los  Angeles. 


DANIEL  E.  LUTHER.  Nationally  recog- 
nized as  a  leader  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  and  since 
1905  the  practical  upbuilder  and  general  secretary 
of  the  Los  Angeles  association,  D.  E.  Luther  was 
born  in  Paris,  Ontario,  January  7,  1859,  a  son  of 
Upton  Henderson  and  Aurilla  (Maus)  Luther. 
His  education  was  received  at  Medina  Academy, 
Medina,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the  Genesee  Wesleyan 
Seminary  in  Lima,  that  state,  from  which  he 
graduated  June  18,  1879. 

His  education  completed,  Mr.  Luther  entered 
the  mercantile  business  in  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  con- 
tinuing for  five  years,  after  which  he  became  the 
southern  representative  of  Cassell  &  Co.,  Limited, 
of  London,  Melbourne  and  New  York,  with  cen- 
tral headquarters  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  which  city 
he  located.  In  1895  he  established  the  D.  E. 
Luther  Publishing  Company  of  that  city  and  pub- 
lished the  lives  of  the  three  great  southerners, 
Henry  W.  Grady,  Stonewall  Jackson  and  Robert 
Toombs;  also  "The  United  Negro:  His  Prob- 
lems and  His  Progress."  This  publishing  house 
made  a  specialty  of  the  sale  of  Bibles  and  sold 
more  Bibles  throughout  the  southern  states  than 
any  other  company  has  ever  done. 

While  a  resident  of  Atlanta  Mr.  Luther  served 
for  ten  years  as  a  director  and  chairman  of  sev- 
eral very  important  committees  of  the  Atlanta 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  was 
urged  by  the  other  directors  to  take  charge  of  the 
institution.  Soon  afterward  he  was  elected  Gen- 
eral Secretary  of  the  Association,  serving  for 
eight  years,  and  during  that  time  made  a  record 
that  will  ever  remain  one  of  triumph.  He  was 
also  prominently  connected  as  a  member  and  an 
officer  in  the  Methodist  church,  as  well  as  being  a 
leader  in  religious  work  with  all  denominations  in 
Atlanta. 

In  1905  Mr.  Luther  received  a  call  to  take 
charge  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
in  Los  Angeles.  The  city  had  been  growing  rap- 
idly and  it  became  necessary  to  secure  a  leader 
capable  of  building  up  the  association  work  suit- 
able to  the  needs  of  the  city.  Mr.  Luther,  realiz- 
ing the  opportunities  in  this  western  field,  gave  up 
his  work  in  Atlanta  and  was  elected  general  sec- 


retary of  the  association  here.  When  he  took 
charge  the  membership  numbered  but  1200,  and 
under  his  able  leadership  it  increased  rapidly  un- 
til in  1913  it  had  reached  6498,  and  held  for  some 
years  the  record  of  being  the  largest  membership 
in  the  world  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work.  Surrounded  by 
able  directors,  Mr.  Luther  conducted  the  build- 
ing campaign  in  1906  and  the  extension  campaign 
in  1911.  These  two  campaigns  resulted  in  three- 
quarters  of  a  million  dollars  being  subscribed  for 
the  work  of  the  association.  Mr.  Luther  has 
repeatedly  represented  the  local  association  in 
state  and  international  conventions,  and  was  a 
delegate  to  the  world's  conference  in  1909  at 
Barmen,  Elberfeld,  Germany.  So  closely  has  he 
been  connected  with  the  work  that  hundreds  of 
young  men  look  to  him  with  gratitude  for  opening 
to  them  new  possibilities  in  life. 

On  October  22,  1879,  in  Wales,  N.  Y.,  oc- 
curred the  marriage  of  D.  E.  Luther  with  Sadie 
J.  Burroughs,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann  E. 
Burroughs.  Mrs.  Luther  is  a  graduate  of  Genesee 
Wesleyan  Seminary,  class  of  1879.  For  six  years 
she  has  been  president  of  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  of 
the  McKinley  Boys'  Home,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Ebell  and  several  other  women's  clubs.  Mr. 
Luther  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  San  Gabriel  Golf 
and  the  Rotary  Clubs. 


THE  YOUNG  MEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSO- 
CIATION OF  LOS  ANGELES,  INCORPO- 
RATED, 1889.  President,  A.  B.  Cass;  General 
Secretary,  D.  E.  Luther. 

Society  has  no  yardstick  for  measuring  char- 
acter. It  is  therefore  difficult  to  find  terms  which 
indicate  the  worth  of  a  character-making  institu- 
tion. 

The  place  a  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion holds  in  any  community  is  determined  by  the 
value  given  to  its  raw  material — boys  and  young 
men,  and  its  finished  product — character. 

The  far-seeing  citizens  of  Los  Angeles  have 
so  placed  emphasis  on  their  "greatest  asset"  that 
the  local  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
stands  high  in  the  public  estimate. 

Appreciation  of  these  "unmeasured  values"  is 
testified  to  by  certain  measurable  evidences.  For 
example,  the  Los  Angeles  Association  reports  a 
real  property  and  equipment  valuation  of  over 


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one  million  dollars,  with  a  total  cash  expenditure 
of  $279,325.62  in  its  general  fund  in  1914. 

The  fact  that  there  was  a  deficit  of  nearly  $13,- 
000  after  $16,000  in  receipts  had  been  secured 
from  current  expense  subscriptions,  shows  con- 
clusively that  the  directors  placed  the  greater 
emphasis  on  the  object  rather  than  the  expense  of 
the  work,  thereby  keeping  within  reach  of  the 
most  needy  young  men  and  boys  the  cost  of 
privileges  which  make  for  efficiency  and  character. 

While  the  home  base  is  in  the  thirteen-story 
Central  building  and  two-story  Technical  school 
at  715-33  South  Hope  street,  the  association  owns 
and  operates  an  eight-acre  athletic  field  and  club 
house  at  2834  Stephenson  avenue ;  operates  a  col- 
ored department  at  831  South  San  Pedro  street, 
and  owns  lots  bought  for  extension  work  in  Holly- 
wood and  East  Los  Angeles,  and  for  a  colored 
building  of  its  own  at  the  comer  of  Ninth  and 
Hemlock  streets. 

Over  eight  thousand  members  during  1914 
came  within  short  range  of  the  various  advan- 
tages open  only  to  members.  Many  times  that 
number  were  compassed  by  the  association  mes- 
sage and  influence  in  such  direct  ways  as  at  shop, 
school  and  many  other  extension  gatherings  of 
various  kinds. 

Throbbing  with  life  is  the  report  of  the  voca- 
tional, educational,  physical,  religious  and  social 
work  done  for  both  men  and  boys,  when  one 
realizes  that  back  of  each  figure  given  there  is  the 
face  and  life  of  some  individual  man  or  boy. 

President  Wilson  recently  said:  "You  can  test 
the  modern  community  by  the  degree  of  its  in- 
terest in  its  Young  Men's  Christian  Association." 
This  interest  in  Los  Angeles  can  be  well  measured 
by  the  personnel  of  men  who  represent  the  com- 
munity in  directing  the  afifairs  of  the  local  asso- 
ciation. The  City  of  the  Angels  does  not  suflfer 
by  this  test,  for  it  has  committed  the  destiny  of 
this  institution  to  its  leading  citizens. 

Inseparably  connected  with  the  growth,  pros- 
perity and  moral  well-being  of  the  City  of  Los 
Angeles  are  the  following  officers  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association:  President,  A.  B. 
Cass;  first  vice-president,  A.  J.  Wallace;  second 
vice-president,  J.  G.  Warren ;  recording  secretary, 
A.  P.  Fleming;  treasurer,  W.  E.  McVay;  assist- 
ant treasurer,  T.  H.  Woods  ;  directors.  Judge  Wal- 
ter Bordwell,  Julius  A.  Brown,  J.  E.  Carr,  E.  P. 
Clark,  J.  Ross  Clark,  George  I.  Cochran,  S.  M. 
Cooper,  J.  E.  Cowles,  D.  K.  Edwards,  Charles  L. 


Hubbard,  Arthur  Letts,  S.  P.  Mulford,  Gregory 
Perkins,  Jr.,  C.  M.  Staub,  and  Weymouth 
Crowell.  Committee  of  Management:  E.  C. 
Lyon,  chairman;  R.  W.  Bailey,  first  vice-chair- 
man ;  Arthur  Cardwell,  second  vice-chairman ; 
"W.  H.  Metzger,  secretary ;  Charles  E.  Bent,  B.  H. 
Dyas,  E.  A.  K.  Hackett,  I.  C.  Louis,  G.  J.  Lund, 
Seeley  W.  Mudd,  Orem  Newcomb,  Harry  Philp, 
H.  W.  Sjostrom,  John  M.  Sands,  R.  F.  Skellen- 
ger,  H.  B.  Tuttle  and  Frank  Welton.  Advisory 
board:  Messrs.  W.  W.  Beckett,  A.  B.  Benton, 
George  F.  Bidwell,  W.  F.  Cronemiller,  E.  A.  For- 
rester, O.  T.  Johnson,  F.  B.  Kellogg,  Giles  Kel- 
logg, M.  J.  Monnette,  Z.  L.  Parmelee,  A.  E. 
Pomeroy,  J.  D.  Radford,  Charles  M.  Stimson,  A. 
H.  Voight,  Judge  C.  D.  Wilbur,  Edward  S.  Field, 
W.  E.  Howard,  Robert  Hale  and  T.  E.  Gibbon. 

President  Cass,  well-known  also  as  president  of 
the  Home  Telephone  Company,  rendered  note- 
worthy service  to  the  association  as  first  vice-pres- 
ident, and  as  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
for  some  ten  years  previous  to  his  election  as 
president  in  January,  1915.  He  is  well  equipped 
to  be  head  of  this  great  public  institution  by 
reason  of  his  intimate  acquaintance  with  associa- 
tion work  and  in  many  other  ways. 

His  state-wide  duties  while  lieutenant  governor 
did  not  prevent  Mr.  Wallace  from  giving  much 
valuable  time  to  the  association,  which  he  has 
ably  served  for  ten  years  as  vice-president. 

While  frequent  state  and  national  demands  are 
made  upon  the  second  vice-president,  J.  G.  War- 
ren, by  his  denomination  and  by  the  Interdenomi- 
national Sunday  School  movement,  yet  he  gives  a 
large  margin  of  time  to  the  association,  particular- 
ly as  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  and  of  the 
educational  committee.  Under  his  chairmanship 
there  was  in  1914  an  enrollment  in  the  educational 
department  of  1705  diflferent  students  registered 
in  fifty-two  different  classes  under  fifty  different 
instructors. 

The  character  of  its  educational  work  and  the 
policy  of  Mr.  Warren's  committee  to  cordially  co- 
operate with  the  public  schools  is  attested  in  the 
following  letter  to  Mr.  Warren  from  the  super- 
intendent of  schools : 

Los  Angeles  City  Schools. 
June  19,  1915. 
Mr.  J.   G.  Warren, 
359   N.   Main   Street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 
My  dear  Mr.  Warren: 

I  am  greatly  interested  in  the  educational  work 
of  the  local  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.     T 


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believe  the  association  has  met  the  needs  of  working 
men  and  boys  in  a  very  efficient  manner  and  I  have 
been  influenced  somewhat  by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.- plan 
in  opening  similar  courses  in  our  evening  schools 
and  vacation  schools. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  continued  success  of  your 
work,  I  am, 

Yours  very  truly, 

J.  H.   FRANCIS,   Superintendent. 

Varied  responsible  offices  in  public  life  in  Los 
Angeles  and  elsewhere  have  served  to  assist  rather 
than  to  prevent  Secretary  Fleming  in  helping  to 
make  the  association  a  great  complementary  force 
in  the  public  and  civic  affairs  of  the  city. 

The  trust  of  expending  over  a  quarter  million 
dollars  annually  in  current  expense  is  vested  in 
Mr.  McVay,  fitted  for  this  responsibility  not  only 
by  temperament  but  by  training  as  vice-president 
for  years  of  the  German  American  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Bank. 

Associated  with  him  in  this  work  is  the  assistant 
treasurer,  J-  H.  Woods,  well  qualified  by  banking 
and  business  experience  of  many  years,  who  gives 
several  hours  of  actual  time  daily  at  his  desk  at 
the  building. 

To  write  of  any  aggressive,  modern  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  without  telling  of 
the  general  secretary  would  be  as  fatal  an  omis- 
sion as  to  present  Hamlet  with  the  Prince  of 
Denmark  left  out.  The  general  secretary  is  the 
executive  officer  of  the  board  of  directors  in  car- 
rying out  their  policies  with  respect  to  the  mem- 
bership and  to  the  public  at  large. 

The  usual  importance  of  the  unique  place  thus 
occupied  by  the  general  secretary  has  in  the  case 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Association  been  greatly  en- 
hanced during  the  past  decade  of  its  history.  This 
has  been  due  in  part  to  the  period  of  transition 
and  construction  which  began  in  1905  and  also 
to  the  strength  of  personality  and  purpose  of  the 
general  secretary  whose  leadership  has  marked 
the  past  ten  years. 

Inwrought  in  the  history  of  the  Los  Angeles 
association  the  discerning  observer  will  find  the 
faith  and  works  of  D.  E.  Luther,  general  secre- 
tary, from  August  5th,  1905,  to  the  present  time. 
A  member  of  the  board  of  directors  for  ten  years 
and  general  secretary  for  eight  years  in  the  At- 
lanta Association,  Mr.  Luther's  ability  and  ex- 
perience were  at  once  challenged  when  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  to  find  the  association  occupying 
entirely  inadequate  quarters  in  a  small  frame 
structure  at  No.  614  South  Hill  street. 


A  successful  membership  campaign  demonstrat- 
ing the  desire  of  young  men  for  an  association 
building  was  followed  by  a  building  campaign 
resulting  in  $328,000  being  secured  by  May  30, 
1906.  On  the  morning  of  the  eighteenth  day  came 
the  news  of  the  earthquake  and  fire  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, rudely  interrupting  the  thirty  day  campaign. 
At  the  noon-day  luncheon  that  day  the  unselfish- 
ness of  the  Los  Angeles  campaign  committee 
showed  itself  in  the  prompt  raising  of  funds  for 
relief  to  the  stricken  associations  in  San  Fran- 
cisco and  in  San  Jose,  as  well  as  the  tender  of  the 
entire  organization  of  the  building  campaign  com- 
mittee made  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  relief 
committees. 

That  same  fateful  afternoon  of  April  18th, 
1906,  President  Arthur  Letts  left  for  the  north 
with  a  purse  of  $1500  for  relief,  while  for  just 
thirty  days  the  association  devoted  its  organiza- 
tion and  energies  to  relief  work  for  the  unfor- 
tunate refugees. 

With  special  permit  from  Governor  Gillett 
Mr.  Letts  spent  three  days  within  the  stricken 
zone  in  co-operation  with  the  authorities  in  the 
work  of  fighting  fire  and  of  relieving  suffering. 
He  delivered  in  person  $500  to  the  association  at 
San  Jose  and  $1,000  to  the  association  at  San 
Francisco  at  a  time  which  veteran  Secretary  H.  J. 
McCoy  described  in  his  letter  of  appreciation  as 
"the  very  darkest  hour  of  our  lives." 

This  little  chapter  stands  bright  in  the  Los 
Angeles  association  history  as  exemplifying  the 
spirit  of  helpfulness  which  has  continuously  char- 
acterized its  efforts. 

The  sale  at  splendid  enhancement  in  value  of 
property  previously  purchased  at  619-23  South 
Hill  street,  together  with  the  satisfactory  collec- 
tion of  subscriptions  made  by  the  general  public, 
enabled  the  directors  to  open  on  September  1st, 
1908,  the  new  building  of  eleven  stories  at  715 
South  Hope  street.  This  building  was  declared 
at  that  time  by  Dr.  John  R.  Mott  to  be  the  "finest 
association  building  on  earth."  He  further  said 
that  "in  point  of  adaptation  for  carrying  out  the 
purposes  of  the  Association"  there  were  no  other 
buildings  out  of  five  hundred  which  he  had  seen 
"all  over  the  world  which  can  be  put  in  the  same 
class  with  this  one." 

A.  B.  Benton,  architect,  and  C.  B.  Weaver, 
builder,  wrought  out  well  in  plan  and  stone  the 
ideas    of    the    general    secretary,     which     were 


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the  product  of  years  of  mature  study  of  associa- 
tion buildings  and  activities  all  over  the  United 
States. 

In  1911.  under  the  chairmanship  of  E.  T.  Earl, 
an  extension  campaign  secured  subscriptions  of 
$400,000  to  enlarge  and  broaden  the  work.  The 
next  year  the  Central  building  was  completed  with 
the  addition  of  two  stories  as  originally  planned. 
A  club  house  was  also  erected  on  the  eight-acre 
athletic  field  purchased  at  2834  Stephenson  ave- 
nue. Three  sites  were  purchased  for  the  exten- 
sion of  the  work  as  follows :  In  Hollywood,  East 
Los  Angeles,  and  for  a  building  to  house  the  good 
work  for  colored  men  prosecuted  in  rented  quar- 
ters since  1906. 

C.  Fletcher  Ouillian,  associate  general  secre- 
tary, has  been  intimately  related  to  the  general 
administration  of  the  association  since  May  5th, 
1905,  except  for  a  two  years'  leave  of  absence  for 
research  work  in  the  graduate  school  at  Prince- 
ton University.  He  has  for  over  eight  years  been 
continuously  by  the  side  of  the  general  secretary 
in  various  membership,  building  and  extension 
campaigns,  and  in  the  intensive  development  of 
the  organization. 

Much  credit  for  the  successful  work  of  the 
Los  Angeles  association  is  due  the  able  corps  of 
executive  heads  of  departments  and  assistants 
with  whom  the  general  secretary  has  surrounded 
himself. 

The  death  of  W.  S.  Bartlett  in  October,  1914, 
terminated  his  brief  term  as  president.  During 
his  short  incumbency  he  well  conserved  and  in- 
creased the  love  and  respect  of  the  entire  associa- 
tion constituency  which  he  had  richly  won  as 
treasurer  for  nine  years. 

The  presidency  of  Arthur  Letts  from  Septem- 
ber, 1905,  to  January,  1914,  marked  a  period  of 
constructive  progress  memorable  for  its  achieve- 
ments. The  membership  increased  from  1174  in 
1905  to  its  high  water  mark  of  6498  in  1913.  In 
the  financial  campaigns  of  1906  and  1911  he  set 
the  pace  in  each  instance  with  his  own  personal 
subscription  of  $25,000.  Mr.  Letts  resigned  as 
president  in  1914  to  devote  himself  to  a  program 
of  humanitarian  work  carried  out  by  him  in  North 
America  as  president  of  the  National  Retail  Dry 
Goods  Merchants  Association. 

The  faithful  work  of  those  who  served  as  offi- 
cers and  directors  before  Mr.  Letts'  election  as 
president  laid  the  foundation  for  what  was  later 
accomplished.      "They  builded  better  than  they 


knew."  Frederick  H.  Rindge  was  president  from 
January  to  September  of  1905 ;  J.  Ross  Clark 
from  1900  to  1905 ;  E.  A.  Forrester  from  1890  to 
1900;  Dr.  F.  A.  Seymour,  1889;  H.  W.  Mills, 
1888;  Lyman  Stewart,  1886  and  '87,  and  S.  I. 
Merrill,  the  first  president,  from  February  21, 
1882,  until  1886. 

The  Los  Angeles  public  has  been  generous  in 
giving  splendid  equipment  for  this  work  in  be- 
half of  their  present  and  future  citizens.  Those 
directly  benefited  pay  in  large  measure  the  cur- 
rent expenses  of  operating  the  plant  provided  for 
them.  It  is,  however,  necessary  that  a  compara- 
tively small  amount  be  raised  annually  to  supple- 
ment what  the  immediate  beneficiaries  themselves 
pay  in  tuitions  and  fees. 

It  is  respectfully  suggested  to  those  seeking  to 
know  philanthropies  to  which  they  may  wisely 
make  bequests  that  they  consider  carefully  the 
merits  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
It  is  a  public  institution  of  established  standing 
and  value,  whose  aff'airs  are  ably  administered  by 
responsible,  well  known  citizens. 


EDWARD  A.  CLAMPITT.  The  oil  industry 
of  California  has  proved  a  source  of  wealth  to 
many  a  business  man  who  has  come  from  the 
eastern  states  to  make  his  home  in  the  west.  A 
man  who  has  for  nearly  twenty  years  been  in- 
terested in  the  oil  business  and  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  California  since  1889,  is  E.  A.  Clampitt, 
owner  of  the  E.  A.  Clampitt  Company,  of  Los 
Angeles.  The  son  of  James  A.  and  Elma 
(Badgley)  Clampitt,  he  was  born  in  St.  Clair 
county.  111.,  December  14,  1869,  and  attended 
the  public  schools  in  eastern  Kansas,  where  he  had 
accompanied  his  parents  in  1874,  between  the 
ages  of  four  and  five  years.  Mr.  Clampitt  was 
reared  upon  his  father's  farm  until  the  age  of 
eighteen,  after  which  he  was  engaged  in  drill- 
ing water  wells  in  Kansas,  gradually  drifting 
into  contracting.  In  1889  he  left  that  state  and 
came  to  Los  Angeles  county,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged for  a  year  as  driller.  In  1890  he  removed 
to  San  Diego  county,  where  for  a  time  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  drilling  of  water  wells ; 
afterwards  removing  to  Los  Angeles  and  was  for 
some  time  engaged  with  J.  H.  Kellerman  in  the 
oil  business,  working  as  tool-dresser.  His  next 
employment  was  as  a  pumper  for  an  oil  com- 
pany, with  whom  he  remained  for  a  few  months, 


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devoting  the  following  years  to  well-pulling  and 
repairing  of  oil  well  pumps,  and  taking  up  the  oil 
well  contracting  business  in  1902. 

Mr.  Clampitt  was  also  engaged  in  the  buying 
and  selling  of  oil  well  machinery,  casing  and 
pipe,  and  the  following  year  purchased  machin- 
ery and  drilled  the  first  oil  well  for  himself,  near 
Temple  street,  in  the  Los  Angeles  oil  field.  The 
oil  well  was  brought  in  at  a  depth  of  about  1000 
feet  and  produced  about  forty  barrels  a  day ;  at 
which  time  oil  was  selling  at  $1.25  per  barrel;  he 
then  bought  five  additional  producing  oil  wells  in 
the  same  field,  which  made  him  six  wells  at  that 
time.  The  next  year  he  sold  the  six  oil  wells  to 
the  Dividend  Oil  Company  and  continued  buying 
and  drilling  oil  wells,  and  in  1904  purchased 
several  acres  of  land  located  in  the  central  part 
of  Los  Angeles,  on  which  his  shops  and  pipe 
yards  are  now  located.  He  is  also  owner  of  a 
number  of  other  valuable  pieces  of  property  scat- 
tered throughout  the  city,  and  owns  and  operates 
twenty-seven  oil  wells  in  the  Los  Angeles  oil 
field,  which  produce  several  thousand  barrels  per 
month ;  also  owns  other  oil  properties  in  diflFerent 
fields  in  California,  besides  farming  lands. 

Mr.  Clampitt  is  a  director  and  a  large  stock- 
holder in  the  Columbia  Oil  Producing  Company 
which  owns  and  controls  some  four  or  five  thou- 
sand acres  of  land,  and  from  forty  to  fifty  oil 
wells,  and  he  also  owns  valuable  oil  properties  in 
the  Newhall  district,  and  is  president  of  the 
Eureka  Crude  Oil  Company. 

Mr.  Clampitt  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret 
Wright  in  Los  Angeles,  September  8,  1900,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters,  Leah  Mar- 
garet, a  pupil  in  the  public  schools,  and  Barbara 
Hallem.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  fra- 
ternally is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  and  a  member 
of  the  B.  P.  O.  E.  He  served  as  a  member  of 
the  city  council  in  Los  Angeles  during  the  years 
1907-1908-1909-1910. 

Mr.  Clampitt's  business  affairs  became  so  nu- 
merous and  called  so  much  upon  his  time  that  he 
retired  from  political  life  through  his  own  wishes, 
and  is  at  present  attending  to  his  own  business 
affairs. 


E.  J.  VOTAW.  The  Mexico  Immigration 
Land  and  Fibre  Company,  which  has  for  its 
purpose  the  subdividing  of  land  and  the  establish- 
ing of  an  American  colony  in  the  northern  part 


of  the  state  of  Vera  Cruz,  Mexico,  was  organ- 
ized in  Wichita,  Kans.,  by  E.  J.  Votaw,  and  in- 
corporated under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  Kansas, 
with  a  capital  of  $300,000,  the  other  officers  of  the 
company  being  J.  T.  Giles,  vice-president,  and 
E.  L.  Foulke.  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  offi- 
cers and  directors  of  the  company  are  themselves 
financially  interested  in  the  enterprise  and  in 
seeing  the  colony  assume  a  leading  place  both  as 
a  city  and  as  a  fruit-growing  district  on  the  east 
coast  of  Mexico,  where  they  have  purchased 
twelve  thousand  acres  near  Tampico. 

The  climate  of  that  section  of  Mexico  where 
the  colony  is  situated  is  well  adapted  to  the  pro- 
duction of  tropical  fruits  as  well  as  many  kinds  of 
vegetables,  the  even  rainfall  throughout  the  year 
supplying  the  necessary  moisture  for  the  growth 
of  the  crops,  irrigation  being  rendered  unneces- 
sary by  the  unfailing  supply  of  water  found  at  a 
short  distance  from  the  surface  of  the  ground. 
Excessive  heat,  as  well  as  heavy  storms  or  winter 
weather,  are  unknown  in  this  district,  and  the 
rich  soil  is  proving  all  that  could  be  desired  for 
the  raising  of  such  fruits  as  bananas,  oranges, 
lemons,  limes,  grape  fruit  and  pineapples,  from  the 
last  named  of  which  fruits  the  American  colony 
takes  its  name.  Pineapple  City.  The  raising  of 
cane  for  making  sugar  is  also  a  thriving  industry 
of  the  new  settlement,  and  Mr.  Votaw,  besides 
being  president  of  the  Mexico  Immigration  Land 
and  Fibre  Company,  is  vice-president  and  general 
manager  as  well  of  the  Pineapple  City  Sugar  Com- 
pany, the  home  offices  of  which  are  located  in  the 
Marsh-Strong  building,  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
where  Mr.  Votaw  established  his  headquarters  in 
the  year  1913.  The  oil  interests  of  that  section 
of  Mexico  where  Pineapple  City  is  situated  must 
not  be  overlooked,  it  being  in  the  center  of  what 
is  bound  to  become  a  most  active  oil  field,  one  of 
the  world's  greatest  gushers  being  located  a  little 
to  the  south  of  it,  and  the  development  of  oil  on 
the  property  of  the  company  is  in  the  hands  of  a 
man  thoroughly  competent  in  every  respect  to 
deal  with  the  enterprise,  while  to  Mr.  Votaw's 
brother  has  been  given  the  charge  of  the  agri- 
cultural work  of  the  colony. 

Previous  to  his  interests  in  Mexico,  E.  J.  Votaw 
had  been  engaged  in  the  banking  business,  his 
first  experience  in  that  line  of  business  having 
been  the  organizing  in  1905  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Cherokee,  Okla,,  of  which  he  was  for  a 
year  the  president,  at  the  end  of  that  time  selling 


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his  interest  and  buying  out  the  Cherokee  State 
Bank,  of  which  he  was  both  president  and  man- 
ager for  a  year.  Removing  to  Morgan  Hill,  Cal., 
he  then  organized  the  State  Bank  of  Morgan  Hill 
and  was  for  about  four  years  its  president  and 
manager.  He  then  sold  his  interests  there,  and 
went  to  Wichita,  Kans.,  where  he  established  the 
Mexico  Immigration  Land  and  Fibre  Company, 
after  which,  in  1913,  he  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  has  made  his  home  ever  since.  Born 
near  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  on  December  16,  1869,  Mr. 
Votaw  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Votaw,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  at  a  district  school  and  at 
Penn  College,  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  until  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  at  which  time  he  engaged  in  farming 
until  1905,  the  year  in  which  he  entered  the 
banking  business.  His  marriage  to  Ruth  A. 
Smith  took  place  in  Oskaloosa,  on  December  31, 
1891,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  five  children, 
namely:  Vera  M.  and  \^ernon  J.,  both  of  whom 
attend  the  Friends'  College  at  Whittier,  Cal. ;  E. 
Clayton,  a  student  in  the  high  school ;  and  Albert 
Harold  and  Joseph  Howard  Votaw,  who  are  pu- 
pils in  the  public  schools  of  Whittier,  of  which 
city  Mr.  Votaw  is  a  well-known  and  valued  resi- 
dent. 


ISAAC  BURKHART.  Among  the  immi- 
grants who  came  to  this  country  from  Germany 
in  1796  was  Tobias  Burkhart,  who  made  settle- 
ment in  Pennsylvania  near  Williamsport.  His 
wife,  Christena  Kiess,  was  also  of  German  birth 
and  parentage  and  received  a  good  education  in 
the  schools  of  Stuttgart,  Germany.  Born  to 
these  parents  were  four  sons  and  two  daughters, 
all  of  whom  were  born  at  Williamsport,  Pa.,  and 
of  whom  the  two  daughters  and  one  son  are  now 
Hving  in  Ohio;  one  son,  George,  died  in  1913. 

Isaac  Burkhart  was  born  November  28,  1840, 
and  was  therefore  about  seven  years  of  age  when 
the  family  home  was  transferred  from  Pennsyl- 
vania to  Ohio.  To  this  youthful  traveler  the 
journey  was  interesting  indeed,  and  he  well  re- 
members the  loading  and  unloading  of  the  two 
covered  wagons  that  held  the  family  possessions. 
Settlement  was  made  on  a  farm  two  miles  east 
of  Bucyrus,  Crawford  county,  and  there  the  fam- 
ily lived  contentedly  for  ten  years.  After  this, 
however,  the  children  left  home  one  by  one  to 
establish  themselves  elsewhere,  until  only  Isaac 
and  Jacob  remained  with  the  parents.     Tobias 


Burkhart  finally  disposed  of  his  property  in  Craw- 
ford county  and  settled  in  Williams  county,  also 
in  Ohio,  and  purchased  three  hundred  and  forty 
acres  of  land  which  he  gave  to  the  two  sons  just 
mentioned. 

In  1867  Isaac  Burkhart  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Elisabeth  Kaiser,  who  like  himself  claimed 
German  antecedents,  although  she  was  born  in 
Ohio.  It  was  about  twenty  years  after  his  mar- 
riage, and  after  the  death  of  both  his  father  and 
mother,  that  Mr.  Burkhart  made  his  first  trip  to 
the  west  in  1888.  Among  other  places  visited 
was  Los  Angeles,  which  city  impressed  him  very 
favorably  for  large  business  opportunity.  Asso- 
ciated with  his  brother  W.  H.  he  erected  an  apart- 
ment house  on  Temple  street  60x80  feet  with  forty 
rooms.  After  the  completion  of  the  building 
Isaac  Burkhart  returned  east  for  the  purpose  of 
disposing  of  his  holdings  there,  and  on  April  17, 
1890,  entered  Los  Angeles  for  the  second  and  last 
time,  and  made  his  home  in  the  apartment  house 
on  Temple  street.  It  was  during  that  year  also 
that  Isaac  and  W.  H.  Burkhart  put  in  operation 
the  Nickel  Plate  Railroad,  a  dummy  line  running 
from  the  end  of  Temple  street  to  Hollywood. 
The  undertaking  was  carried  on  successfully  for 
several  years,  when  the  brothers  became  owners 
of  the  Santa  Fe  avenue  horse  car  line.  This  also 
was  operated  with  good  returns  for  several  years, 
the  brothers  then  purchasing  from  Abbot  Kinney 
a  tract  of  land  on  Dayton  avenue.  The  interests 
of  the  brothers  in  this  property  were  divided 
later,  each  taking  his  share  and  thus  ending  part- 
nership associations  covering  many  years. 

It  was  about  1895  that  Isaac  and  Elisabeth 
Burkhart  bought  ninety  foot  frontage  on  Los  An- 
geles and  Seventh  streets  and  upon  it  erected  an 
apartment  house  of  forty-five  rooms,  on  its  com- 
pletion removing  to  it  from  the  Temple  street 
property.  In  the  following  year,  1896,  Mr.  Burk- 
hart built  a  number  of  cottages  on  Dayton  avenue, 
still  later  putting  up  a  three-story  block  on  the 
corner  of  Temple  and  Figueroa  streets. 

Mrs.  Elisabeth  (Kaiser)  Burkhart  passed  away 
March  31,  1900,  and  on  January  1,  1902,  Mr. 
Burkhart  married  Elisabeth  Basler,  a  native  of 
Germany.  After  holding  the  property  on  Los 
Angeles  street  for  about  ten  years  Mr.  Burkhart 
sold  it  to  H.  E.  Huntington  in  1905.  A  few 
weeks  afterward  he  purchased  property  at  the 
corner  of  Main  and  Jefferson  streets,  upon  which 
he  built  a  two-story  business  block  and  also  a 


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residence  at  No.  Ill  West  Jefiferson  street,  which 
has  been  his  home  ever  since.  In  addition  to  the 
properties  already  mentioned  he  built  a  two-story 
business  block  at  No.  2614  Pasadena  avenue,  with 
garage,  and  also  purchased  and  improved  the 
corner  of  Vernon  avenue  and  Figueroa  street,  be- 
sides improving  about  forty  other  places,  and  is 
still  interested  in  building. 

The  entire  hfe  of  Isaac  Burkhart  has  been 
molded  and  influenced  by  religious  convictions, 
for  at  an  early  age  he  was  converted  to  a  belief  in 
the  teachings  of  Christ,  under  the  preaching  of 
Mr.  Shireman  and  George  Haley  in  Ohio.  He  is 
identified  with  Salem  Evangelical  Church,  at  the 
corner  of  Twelfth  and  Hope  streets,  in  which 
he  has  filled  every  office  except  that  of  pastor  and 
at  present  is  treasurer  and  a  trustee.  Although 
Mr.  Burkhart  had  no  children  of  his  own  several 
children  have  come  under  his  protecting  care 
and  received  educations  that  but  for  him  would 
never  have  been  possible.  Two  of  these  children 
married  and  died  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind.  Another, 
Keziah  Favorite,  makes  her  home  in  Eaton  Rap- 
ids, Mich.  Two  others  live  in  California,  Frank 
in  Los  Angeles,  and  Fred  in  Pomona.  It  is  need- 
less to  say  that  Mr.  Burkhart  has  been  a  keen 
observer  of  conditions  and  possibilities  in  Los 
Angeles  during  his  residence  of  nearly  thirty 
years  here,  and  his  investments  voice  his  senti- 
ments more  favorably  than  could  words. 


ALBERT  A.  PERKINS.  California  may 
well  be  proud  to  claim  among  her  citizens  a  man 
with  the  inventive  genius  of  Albert  A.  Perkins, 
the  inventor  of  the  Perkins  Patent  Process  for 
cementing  oil  wells,  which  offsets  the  deteriora- 
tion of  oil-producing  ground  by  the  gradual  en- 
croachment of  water  therein.  The  preservation 
of  oil  property  has  been  a  problem  for  California 
oil  operators  for  some  time,  and  various  devices 
for  overcoming  the  harmful  presence  of  water  in 
the  oil-bearing  sands  have  been  tried,  of  which 
the  most  successful  is  the  process  invented  by  Mr. 
Perkins,  president  of  The  Perkins  Oil  Well  Ce- 
menting Company  which  owns  five  outfits  and 
operates  between  Fullerton  and  Coalinga,  Cal., 
and  the  reliability  and  practical  value  of  the 
method  is  testified  to  by  the  number  of  the  com- 
pany's outfits  and  the  extent  of  its  operations. 


The  inventor  of  this  valuable  method  of  pre- 
serving the  oil  interests  of  the  state,  was  born  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  3,  1852,  the  son  of 
James  H.  and  Lavina  C.  Perkins,  and  received  his 
education  at  the  public  schools  and  Graff's  Col- 
legiate Military  School,  at  the  age  of  nineteen 
years  engaging  in  business  with  his  father,  who 
was  interested  in  oil  wells  in  the  city  of  Petro- 
leum Center,  Pa.  When  he  was  twenty-five  years 
of  age,  Albert  A.  Perkins  removed  to  Butler 
county.  Pa.,  engaging  in  oil  well  drilling  and 
contracting  independently  until  the  year  1880, 
when  he  formed  a  partnership  in  Bradford,  Pa., 
under  the  name  of  Perkins  and  Oliver,  oil  well 
drilling  and  contracting  being  carried  on  by  the 
partners  together  until  1885,  when  the  interests  of 
his  business  took  Mr.  Perkins  to  Peru,  South 
America,  there  to  look  over  some  oil  property  and 
drill  a  well.  The  year  1886  saw  his  return  to 
Bradford,  Pa.,  where  he  continued  in  the  busines 
of  well  drilling  with  his  partner  until  1901,  at 
which  time  he  came  west,  locating  at  Fullerton, 
Cal.,  where  for  a  year  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
Olinda  Crude  Oil  Company.  His  next  move  was 
to  Evanston,  Wyo.,  where  he  assumed  charge  of 
the  Michigan-Wyoming  Oil  Company,  remaining 
with  that  company  until  1904,  when  he  returned 
to  California,  this  time  going  to  the  town  of 
Coalinga  and  engaging  in  the  drilling  of  oil  wells 
until  1905.  Going  thence  to  Santa  Maria,  in  the 
same  state,  he  was  in  charge  of  the  wharf  and  of 
the  building  of  a  pipe  line  for  the  Graciosa 
Oil  Company  until  1907,  when  for  two  years  he 
supervised  the  building  of  a  pipe  line  for  the 
Associated  Oil  Company.  Returning  to  Santa 
Maria,  he  was  for  six  months  at  the  head  of 
the  Palmer  Oil  Company  there,  engaging  next 
with  the  Standard  Oil  Company  as  assistant  man- 
ager of  their  Midway  fields  until  January,  1910. 
In  the  meantime  he  had  invented  the  Perkins 
Patent  Process  for  cementing  oil  wells,  which  is 
meeting  a  need  of  long  standing  in  the  oil  indus- 
try of  the  state,  and  at  the  time  of  his  leaving  the 
employ  of  the  Standard  Oil  Company,  he  formed 
The  Perkins  Oil  Well  Cementing  Company,  of 
which  he  is  the  able  president. 

In  fraternal  circles  Mr.  Perkins  is  well  known 
as  a  Mason  of  the  York  Rite  and  Scottish  Rite 
degrees  and  a  Shriner,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Bakersfield  Club  in  the  California  city  of  that 
name.  His  marriage  with  Miss  McCandleff  took 
place  in  Oil  City,  Pa.,  in  December,  1878,  and 


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they  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  namely: 
Beatrice,  now  Mrs.  L.  J.  Whitney,  of  Sagamore, 
Mass. ;  J.  C,  manager  of  the  Perkins  Oil  Well 
Cementing  Company  for  the  district  of  Fullerton  ; 
and  Edna  C.  Perkins,  who  is  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  same  company.  The  main  office  of 
the  company  is  situated  at  No.  509  Union  Oil 
building,  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles. 


Politically,  Mr.  Klein  is  allied  with  the  interests 
of  the  Republican  party,  while  fraternally  he  is  a 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner.  His  marriage 
to  Miss  Viereck  took  place  in  Altadena,  on  June 
24,  1900,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  daughter, 
Rosilyne  Klein. 


ARTHUR  M.  KLEIN.  The  early  life  of  Ar- 
thur M.  Klein  was  spent  in  Hungary,  where  he 
was  born  November  6,  1872,  and  attended  the 
public  schools  of  that  country  until  reaching  the 
age  of  sixteen  years,  at  which  time  he  removed  to 
the  United  States.  Coming  to  New  York  City,  he 
went  from  there  to  Paterson,  N.  J-.  where  he 
soon  found  employment  with  the  Edison  Electric 
Light  Company,  with  whom  he  remained  for 
four  months  engaged  in  making  globes  for  electric 
lights.  From  there  Mr.  Klein  went  to  Schenec- 
tady, N.  Y.,  engaging  with  the  General  Electric 
Company  there  as  mechanic  for  three  years,  after 
which  time  he  came  west  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
in  1893  securing  employment  on  a  ranch  near 
Altadena  for  two  months.  Removing  to  the  city, 
he  went  into  the  wholesale  fruit  business  on  the 
Plaza,  in  the  old  part  of  Los  Angeles,  in  the  year 
1898  leaving  that  location  and  establishing  him- 
self at  Ninth  and  Los  Angeles  streets,  where  he 
formed  the  Klein  Fruit  Company,  of  which  he  be- 
came president.  At  the  same  time  he  also  as- 
sisted in  organizing  the  Los  Angeles  Public  Mar- 
ket Company,  becoming  its  president,  an  office 
which  he  resigned  in  the  year  1910.  From  his 
location  at  Ninth  and  Los  Angeles  streets  he 
moved  his  fruit  business  in  1904  to  Third  street 
and  Central  avenue,  and  seven  years  later  bought 
out  the  Frank  Simpson  Fruit  Company  at  No. 
1338  Produce  street,  becoming  president  of  the 
same  and  changing  its  name  to  the  Klein-Simpson 
Fruit  Company.  This  firm  carries  on  a  general 
wholesale  fruit  business,  shipping  its  products  to 
all  eastern  points,  and  is  the  largest  company  en- 
gaged in  this  business  in  Los  Angeles,  its  record- 
breaking  day  having  been  July  3,  1912,  when  there 
were  fifty-four  carloads  of  produce  on  its  tracks. 
The  extent  of  the  business  is  shown  in  part  by  the 
fact  that  the  company  now  has  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  people  in  its  employ. 


ARTHUR  LETTS.  The  native  country  of 
Arthur  Letts  is  England,  where  he  was  born  June 
17,  1862,  on  his  father's  farm,  which  had  been  in 
the  family  for  four  hundred  years.  He  was  the 
son  of  Richard  and  Caroline  (Coleman)  Letts, 
both  members  of  honored  old  English  families. 
The  education  of  Mr.  Letts  was  received  in  the 
private  school  of  a  Rev.  Mr.  Hedges  and  at  the 
Creaton  Grammar  School,  both  in  England,  and 
his  experience  in  business  life  began  in  a  dry 
goods  store  in  a  town  not  far  from  his  home, 
where  he  remained  several  years.  With  his  elder 
brother  he  set  sail  for  Amercia,  and  in  Toronto, 
Canada,  Mr.  Letts  found  employment  in  a  large 
dry  goods  store,  he  being  then  about  twenty  years 
of  age.  In  1885,  when  the  Reil  rebellion  broke 
out  in  the  northwestern  part  of  Canada,  he  en- 
listed as  a  volunteer,  and  for  his  valuable  service 
was  presented  with  a  silver  medal  and  clasp  and 
a  grant  of  land  by  the  Canadian  government. 

In  1887  Mr.  Letts  removed  to  Seattle,  Wash., 
where  he  remained  for  seven  years,  coming  to 
California  in  1895  and  establishing  his  home  in 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  soon  made  a  reputation 
for  himself  as  a  progressive  and  prosperous  busi- 
ness man.  Here  he  bought  out  the  bankrupt  stock 
of  J.  A.  Williams  &  Co.,  at  Fourth  and  Broadway, 
then  at  the  southern  end  of  town,  and  although 
receiving  a  setback  by  fire,  Mr.  Letts'  business  has 
grown  and  prospered  with  marvelous  results,  his 
buildings  have  been  enlarged,  and  he  has  be- 
come one  of  the  rich  men  of  Los  Angeles.  In 
1899  his  store  covered  the  entire  ground  floor  of 
the  Pirtle  &  Hallet  building;  two  years  later  an 
adjoining  building  was  purchased,  four  years 
after  that  the  upper  floors  of  the  original  building 
were  acquired,  and  in  1906  the  Slauson  building 
also  was  annexed  to  the  business.  Since  that  time, 
entirely  new  buildings,  of  magnificent  proportions 
and  appointments,  have  been  erected  on  the  same 
site,  so  that  the  Broadway  Department  Store's 
motto,  "Watch  Us  Grow,"  has  proved  a  most  ap- 
propriate one.  Mr.  Letts'  great  interest  in  educa- 
tion and  the  welfare  of  the  young  has  brought 


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about,  besides  his  presidency  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  of  Los  Angeles  and  his 
trusteeship  in  the  State  Normal  School  of  the 
same  city,  the  establishment  of  an  evening  school 
at  his  great  department  store  for  the  benefit  of 
the  younger  of  his  employes.  Other  offices  which 
Mr.  Letts  has  filled  are:  Director  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Savings  Bank  and  of  the  Broadway  Bank 
&  Trust  Company  and  also  of  the  Sinaloa  Land 
Company,  and  in  1912  he  acted  as  a  representative 
of  America  of  the  advisory  board  to  the  commit- 
tee in  charge  of  the  International  Horticultural 
Exhibit  in  London,  the  special  hobby  of  Mr.  Letts 
being  the  study  and  culture  of  flowers  and  trees. 
The  grounds  of  his  beautiful  residence  at  Hol- 
lywood, Cal.,  well  illustrate  his  appreciation  of 
landscape  gardening  and  the  scientific  interest  he 
takes  in  his  flowers  and  shrubs  and  trees,  all  of 
which  are  labeled  with  their  names  for  the  benefit 
of  the  public,  to  whom  the  grounds  are  open  one 
day  each  week.  His  collection  of  palms  is  beyond 
price,  and  his  Cactus  Garden  is  famous  the  coun- 
try over,  the  marble  statuary  of  his  Italian  garden 
being  an  education  as  well  as  a  source  of  delight 
to  the  visitor.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Letts,  April 
25,  1886,  at  Toronto,  Canada,  united  him  with 
Miss  Florence  Philp.  and  they  are  the  parents  of 
three  children,  Florence  Edna,  Gladys,  now  Mrs. 
Harold  Janss,  and  Arthur  Letts,  Jr.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  California  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club,  Automobile  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Los  Angeles  Realty 
Board,  Municipal  League,  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  Hollywood  Board  of  Trade,  Federation 
Club,  all  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Bohemian  Club 
of  San  Francisco :  and  has  held  the  office  of  pres- 
ident of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  still  holds  that  office  in  the 
National  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  International  Committee  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  the  Hol- 
lywood Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  a  Knight  Templar. 


MARCO  H.  HELLMAN.  The  banking  in- 
terests of  Los  Angeles  include  no  name  carrying 
greater  weight  or  accorded  higher  prestige  than 
that  of  Hellman,  for  the  Farmers  &  Merchants 
Bank  was  founded  by  I.  W.  Hellman  and  under 
the  wise  management  of  Herman  W.  Hellman 
weathered  many  a  financial  storm  including  the 


serious  panic  of  1893-94.  The  latter  gentleman 
in  addition  was  an  officer  of  the  Los  Angeles  Sav- 
ings Bank,  a  director  of  the  Main  Street  and 
Security  Savings  Banks,  and  also  a  director  in 
numerous  financial  institutions  in  the  smaller 
towns  of  Southern  California.  Many  of  his  in- 
terests have  descended  to  his  son,  Marco  H.,  who 
as  an  executor  of  the  vast  estate,  necessarily  has 
become  a  participant  in  many  large  corporations 
and  is  now  acting  as  president,  vice-president  or 
a  director  of  twenty-one  banks  and  nine  indus- 
trial institutions,  his  principal  connections  being 
those  of  vice-president  of  the  Merchants  National 
Bank,  president  of  the  Herman  W.  Hellman 
building  and  president  of  the  Hellman  Commercial 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank.  Aside  from  the  large  in- 
dividual interests  which  he  has  personally  ac- 
quired, the  extensive  interests  of  the  estate  cover 
banking,  building  and  unimproved  properties 
scattered  over  the  greater  part  of  California  and 
numerous  other  possessions  in  various  parts  of 
the  country.  The  Hellman  temperament  is  notable 
for  shrewd  insight  into  financial  intricacies,  for 
ability  to  cope  with  the  teeming  difficulties  of 
times  of  moneyed  stress  and  for  remarkable  acu- 
men in  the  development  of  substantial  banking 
institutions.  Evidence  of  this  family  characteris- 
tic appeared  at  the  time  of  the  building  of  the 
Owens  river  aqueduct,  when  money  was  needed 
and  an  eastern  syndicate  accepted  only  its  allot- 
ment. Under  stress  of  this  emergency  Marco  H. 
Hellman  came  to  the  relief  of  the  city  authorities 
and  promptly  sold  the  remaining  portion  of  the 
bonds,  with  excellent  advantage  to  the  city. 

Marco  H.  Hellman  was  born  in  Los  Angeles 
September  14,  1878,  received  a  fair  education  in 
the  city  schools  and  Leland  Stanford  University 
at  Palo  Alto  and  from  the  age  of  nineteen  years 
has  been  identified  with  the  banking  business.  Dur- 
ing six  years  with  the  Farmers  &  Merchants 
National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles  he  filled  various 
positions  up  to  and  including  that  of  assistant 
cashier,  but  resigned  from  that  institution  to  be- 
come assistant  cashier  of  the  Merchants  National 
Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  Later  he  was  promoted  to 
be  cashier  and  from  that  to  vice-president,  which 
office  he  still  fills.  In  Los  Angeles  June  10,  1908, 
he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Reta  Levis, 
of  Visalia,  by  whom  he  is  the  father  of  one  son, 
Herman  Wallace,  and  one  daughter,  Marcorita. 
Aside  from  being  one  of  the  leaders  among  the 
younger  set  of  financiers  in  the  state,  he  is  very 


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popular  in  social  and  club  circles  and  is  identified 
with  the  Jonathan,  Union  League,  Concordia,  Fed- 
eral and  San  Gabriel  Valley  clubs,  as  well  as  the 
Masons  of  the  thirty-second  degree  and  Mystic 
Shrine,  and  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of 
Elks.  Concerning  his  service  to  the  city  in  his 
capacity  of  financier  and  banker  the  public  well 
knows.  His  vigorous  mind  and  keen  ability  have 
been  at  the  service  of  the  municipality  and  have 
been  appreciated  as  an  important  factor  in  the 
progress  of  the  entire  region  near  the  shores  of  the 
southwestern  sea.  The  successful  financier  is  the 
ripened  product  of  the  wide-awake  youth  who 
was  never  content  to  rest  upon  laurels  won  by 
others  of  the  name,  but  strove  to  add  to  the  fam- 
ily prestige  and  enlarge  its  influence  throughout 
the  locality  of  his  lifelong  residence. 


GEN.  MOSES  H.  SHERMAN.  California 
is  forced  to  share  with  Arizona  her  proud  interest 
in  the  achievements  of  Gen.  Moses  H.  Sherman, 
that  territory  having  been  the  fertile  field  of  his 
splendid  endeavor  previous  to  his  coming  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1889.  There  is  no  need  of  jealousies, 
however,  for  there  is  enough  and  to  spare  for  each 
state  to  write  into  her  annals  a  record  of  much 
accomplished  for  the  public  welfare,  and  great 
lasting  good  which  has  been  the  result  of  this 
man's  toil  and  tireless  application. 

General  Sherman  was  born  in  West  Rupert. 
Bennington  county,  Vt.,  December  3,  1853.  of 
sturdy  old  New  England  stock  which  dates  from 
early  colonial  days.  He  early  determined  to  de- 
vote his  life  to  educational  work,  and  graduated 
from  the  Normal  school  at  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  after- 
wards teaching  in  New  York  state.  When  he 
was  nineteen  years  of  age  he  decided  to  seek  his 
fortunes  in  the  far  west,  and  accordingly,  in  1872, 
came  to  Los  Angeles.  He  remained  here  but  a 
short  time,  going  on  to  Prescott,  Ariz.,  where 
he  secured  a  position  in  the  public  schools  and 
taught  until  1876.  His  ability  as  an  organizer 
and  leader  was  already  becoming  recognized,  and 
he  was  at  this  time  selected  by  Gov.  A.  F.  K. 
Stafford  to  represent  Arizona  territory  at  the  Cen- 
tennial Exposition.  Returning  to  Arizona  after 
his  services  in  Philadelphia  were  ended,  he  was  ap- 
pointed superintendent  of  public  instruction  of  the 
territory  by  Gov.  John  C.  Fremont.  It  was  in  this 
capacity  that  General  Sherman  accomplished  some 
of   the   most  noteworthy   work   of   his   eventful 


career.  The  educational  conditions  in  Arizona 
were  in  a  very  unsettled  state,  there  being  little 
or  no  organization  of  a  permanent  character,  and 
therefore  but  little  concerted  action  throughout 
the  educational  forces  of  the  state.  The  new  su- 
perintendent immediately  set  to  work  to  organize 
a  complete  system  for  the  schools  of  the  terri- 
tory, and  most  of  his  plans  and  resulting  regula- 
tions are  incorporated  in  the  school  law  of  the 
commonwealth  today.  That  his  work  was  more 
than  satisfactory  was  exemplified  at  the  close 
of  his  appointive  term,  when  he  was  re-elected 
by  an  overwhelming  majority. 

When  his  term  as  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction was  over.  General  Sherman  was  ap- 
pointed Adjutant  General  of  the  Territory  by 
Gov.  F.  A.  Tuttle,  and  re-appointed  by  Gov.  C. 
Meyer  Zulic.  In  this  capacity  he  again  achieved 
distinction,  a  notable  work  being  the  placing  of  the 
National  Guard  of  the  territory  on  a  solid  basis. 

Business  enterprises  had  claimed  the  interest 
and  attention  of  General  Sherman  from  the  be- 
ginning of  his  residence  in  Arizona,  and  he  was 
associated  from  time  to  time  with  prominent  men 
in  undertakings  of  public  importance.  In  1884  he 
organized  the  Valley  Bank  of  Phoenix,  and  was 
elected  its  first  president.  This  bank  now  has  the 
largest  resources  of  any  bank  in  the  state  of 
Arizona,  it  having  prospered  from  the  first.  Gen- 
eral Sherman  is  no  longer  interested  in  it,  how- 
ever, he  having  disposed  of  his  holdings  in  1889, 
when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles. 

In  his  business  undertakings  in  Los  Angeles, 
General  Sherman  has  always  been  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  Eli  P.  Clark,  his  brother-in-law,  and 
intimate  friend  for  many  years.  Their  first  ven- 
ture in  Los  Angeles  was  in  the  electric  railway 
field.  In  1891  the  Los  Angeles  Consolidated  Rail- 
way Company  was  founded,  with  General  Sher- 
man as  president  and  Clark  as  vice-president  and 
general  manager.  The  consolidation  of  all  local 
street  car  lines  followed  in  1894,  and  the  two  part- 
ners secured  control  of  a  horse-car  line  in  Pasa- 
dena, and  later  constructed  the  Pasadena  &  Los 
Angeles  Interurban  Line,  which  was  opened  for 
operation  in  1895.  This  was  followed  immediately 
by  the  construction  of  the  Los  Angeles  Pacific 
Railway  between  Los  Angeles  and  Santa  Monica, 
which  line  was  opened  for  operation  April  1, 
1896.  The  opening  of  this  line  was  the  occasion 
of  much  rejoicing  in  Los  Angeles,  and  a  gala  af- 
fair, in  which  all  Los  Angeles  joined,  marked  the 


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event.  This  was  but  natural,  as  the  fertile  terri- 
tory lying  between  the  beach  city  and  Los  An- 
geles was  thus  opened  to  the  central  market,  and 
a  new  harbor  was  given  to  the  city,  which  meant 
added  facilities  for  communication  with  the  com- 
mercial world  at  large.  The  resulting  increase  in 
property  valuation  in  Santa  Monica  and  vicinity 
and  along  the  line  of  the  new  road  gave  evidence 
of  the  appreciation  of  those  who  were  most  di- 
rectly benefited  by  the  enterprise  and  progressive 
spirit  of  General  Sherman  and  Mr.  Clark.  This 
road  was  successfully  operated  until  the  fall  of 
1909,  when  it  was  taken  over  by  the  Southern 
Pacific.  Other  railroad  ventures  have  continued 
to  claim  the  support  and  co-operation  of  this 
pioneer  builder  of  transportation  ways,  and  he 
has  invested  heavily  from  time  to  time  in  railroad 
securities,  and  is  at  present  a  director  in  all  of 
the  Harriman  electric  lines  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

The  first  railroad  building  of  General  Sherman 
was  in  Arizona,  and  in  1884  he  built  the  Phoenix 
Railroad,  which  today  extends  from  Phoenix  to 
Glendale,  Ariz.,  connecting  there  with  the  Santa 
Fe  lines.  He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  the 
organization  of  the  company,  and  the  work  of 
promoting  and  constructing  the  line  was  almost 
entirely  due  to  his  personal  effort. 

In  the  early  '80s  General  Sherman  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Harriet  E.  Pratt,  the  daughter  of 
R.  H.  Pratt,  one  of  the  distinguished  builders  of 
the  Central  and  Southern  Pacific  Railways.  They 
have  three  children,  Robert,  Hazeltine  and  Lucy, 
all  well  known  in  Los  Angeles. 

General  Sherman  himself  is  deservedly  popu- 
lar in  the  city  of  his  adoption,  and  for  which  he 
has  done  such  great  things  in  the  development 
line.  His  faith  in  the  financial  future  of  the 
community  has  been  unfaltering,  and  it  quite  nat- 
urally followed  that  he  should  invest  heavily  in 
real  estate.  This  he  did  with  such  wisdom  that 
his  holdings  have  increased  in  value  until  they  are 
of  immense  worth.  Socially  he  is  an  universal 
favorite,  being  a  splendid  companion  and  a  friend 
to  be  at  all  times  highly  prized.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  California  Club,  Athletic  Club  and  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  while  other  favorite 
clubs  are  the  Balsa  Chico  Gun  Club  and  the  Bo- 
hemian Club  of  San  Francisco.  In  addition  to 
these  he  is  associated  with  various  fraternal  or- 
ganizations in  Los  Angeles,  as  well  as  with  the 
best  known  of  the  civic  and  political  organizations 


of  the  city,  and  with  the  leading  commercial  clubs. 
During  the  past  few  years  General  Sherman  has 
retired  from  active  participation  in  business  life 
and  is  spending  his  time  in  quiet  enjoyment  of  the 
fruits  of  his  toil.  He  has  a  handsome  residence 
and  a  one  thousand  acre  farm  in  the  San  Fernando 
Valley,  where  he  resides  much  of  the  time.  He 
has  not,  however,  lost  his  keen  interest  in  all  that 
goes  on  about  him,  and  continues  to  control  his 
extensive  business  interests  with  skill  and  mas- 
terly ability. 


EDWARD  PAUL  HAUPT.  Paul  Haupt, 
the  father  of  Edward  Paul  Haupt,  of  Los 
Angeles,  was  a  native  of  Dresden,  Germany, 
where  he  was  born  in  1853  and  received  his  early 
education,  removing  with  his  parents  to  the 
United  States.  They  settled  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
where  the  boy  continued  his  education  until  four- 
teen years  of  age.  The  first  business  ex- 
perience of  the  elder  Mr.  Haupt  was  in  railroad 
construction  work  on  some  of  the  first  railroads 
of  that  section  of  the  country,  he  later  removing 
to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and  engaging  in  the  same  line 
of  occupation  until  1895,  the  year  of  his  removal 
to  Los  Angeles.  Arrived  in  this  city,  he  was 
employed  in  building  construction,  which  com- 
prised principally  office  buildings,  among  which 
may  be  mentioned  the  Los  Angeles  Trust  and 
Savings,  the  Hibernian,  the  Delta,  the  Union  Oil, 
Central,  Hollingsworth  and  Homer  Laughlin 
buildings,  Bullock's  store,  and  many  other  large 
buildings  in  different  cities  on  the  coast.  Paul 
Haupt  was  a  Mason  and  a  Shriner,  the  first  mem- 
ber of  the  first  Board  of  Public  Utilities  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  Municipal  League  and  the  Merchants' 
and  Manufacturers'  Association.  His  death  oc- 
curred on  June  12,  1914,  and  he  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  formerly  Miss  Alma  Lyndahl,  whom  he  mar- 
ried in  Chicago,  and  three  children,  William, 
Norma  and  Edward  Paul  Haupt. 

The  youngest  child,  Edward  P.  Haupt,  was 
born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  September  20,  1890,  and 
graduated  from  the  Harvard  Military  School  at 
Los  Angeles  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years.  After 
his  graduation  he  was  for  a  time  engaged  as  his 
father's  secretary,  and  upon  his  parent's  death 
continued  the  business  of  building  construction, 
having  since  that  time  erected  the  Merritt  build- 
ing and  the  Pioneer  Truck  Company's  building  at 


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San  Diego,  Cal.,  as  well  as  many  others.  Mr. 
Haupt  is  the  owner  of  the  steamship  line  between 
Los  Angeles  and  Mexico,  the  only  line  that 
operates  on  regular  schedule,  and  also  owns  con- 
siderable real  estate  in  this  city  and  ranch  prop- 
erty in  other  parts  of  the  state.  Besides  being 
president  of  the  Martin-Haupt  Commercial  Com- 
pany, he  is  also  a  member  of  the  San  Diego  Yacht 
Club  and  the  Sunset  Yacht  Club.  His  marriage 
took  place  in  Pasadena,  Cal.,  on  December  23, 
1914,  uniting  him  with  Miss  Rosaline  Eunice 
Merritt  of  that  city. 


JOHN  HAYWOOD  FRANCIS,  A.M.  Com- 
ing grandly  to  the  front  in  all  lines  of  human 
activity,  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  is  attracting 
nationwide  attention.  Up-to-date  in  everything, 
the  metropolis  of  the  great  Southwest  is  fully 
abreast  of  the  times  when  it  comes  to  matters  of 
education,  and  its  history  would  be  incomplete 
without  a  brief  mention  of  its  excellent  city 
superintendent  of  schools,  whose  genius  has  found 
expression  in  the  establishment  of  the  Polytechnic 
High  School  of  Los  Angeles,  and  whose  pains- 
taking and  persistent  work  has  advanced  all  of  its 
schools  to  a  standard  of  exceptional  efficiency,  a 
fact  which  becomes  very  apparent  when  consider- 
ing the  thoroughness  of  its  high  schools,  which 
are  now  on  the  accredited  list  so  that  a  diploma 
from  any  one  of  them  will  admit  its  holder  to 
any  of  the  state  universities  in  the  nation. 

Professor  Francis  was  born  at  Greenbush, 
Preble  county,  Ohio,  May  18,  1866,  and  is  the 
son  of  George  and  Mary  (Fall)  Francis,  who 
came  from  a  family  of  hardy  Pennsylvania 
farmers  of  Scotch-Irish  blood.  As  a  boy  he 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state,  and 
obtaining  a  teacher's  certificate  he  engaged  in 
the  educational  profession  as  a  teacher  for  two 
years.  Being  filled  with  a  desire  for  higher  learn- 
ing, he  entered  Otterbein  University  at  Water- 
ville,  Ohio.  There  he  passed  one  year  in  the 
preparatory  and  three  years  of  his  college  course, 
and  in  1892  he  entered  the  San  Joaquin  College 
at  Woodbridge,  Cal.,  where  he  finished  his  senior 
year.  Graduating  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  he 
became  a  teacher  in  the  commercial  department 
of  the  college  from  which  he  graduated  after- 
ward, teaching  commercial  law,  economics  and 
accounting  for  one  year,  during  which  time  he 


rose  to  be  head  of  the  department.  In  1894  he 
went  to  Stockton  and  became  head  of  the  com- 
mercial department  of  the  Commercial  High 
School,  was  chosen  vice-principal  of  the  sarwe  in 
1895,  and  the  same  year  his  alma  mater  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  of  A.  M.  In  1896  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  and  was  engaged  as  the  head  of 
the  commercial  department  of  the  high  school 
for  a  period  of  five  years.  He  then  became  prin- 
cipal of  the  Commercial  High,  which  position  he 
held  with  great  credit  for  four  years.  During  this 
time  he  became  a  convert  and  strong  advocate  of 
the  idea  of  technical  education,  and  this  led  to 
the  founding  of  the  Polytechnic  High  School  of 
Los  Angeles.  He  became  its  first  principal  and 
served  as  such  from  1905  to  1910,  when  he  was 
chosen  superintendent  of  the  city  schools,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  continues  to  occupy.  Considering 
the  tremendous  growth  in  size  and  population  of 
the  city,  it  is  easy  to  understand  something  of  the 
greatness  of  his  work,  which  has  given  him  a 
nationwide  reputation.  The  total  enrollment  of 
all  the  schools,  both  elementary  and  high,  for  the 
school  year  of  1914-15,  now  just  ended,  was 
80,000,  while  the  average  daily  attendance  during 
the  same  time  was  60,519.  His  office  is  located 
at  716  Security  Building,  his  office  hours  being 
from  3 :30  to  5  :00  p.  m.  daily.  His  residence  is 
at  1117  Elden  avenue,  where  he  and  his  good  wife 
entertain  very  hospitably. 

As  has  been  said,  the  school  system  of  Los 
.A.ngeles  has  been  developed  greatly  during  Pro- 
fessor Francis'  administration.  The  following 
may  be  mentioned  as  some  of  the  steps  taken  in 
the  last  five  years :  First,  joining  of  the  kinder- 
garten and  first  grade  under  one  supervision; 
second,  the  organization  and  establishment  of 
neighborhood  schools ;  third,  the  organization  of 
the  intermediate  schools ;  fourth,  the  establish- 
ment of  continuation  schools ;  fifth,  the  establish- 
ment of  the  junior  college;  sixth,  the  organiza- 
tion of  vacation  schools;  seventh,  the  establish- 
ment of  the  department  of  nature  study  in  the 
elementary  schools ;  eighth,  the  establishment  of 
school  gardens  in  the  elementary  schools ;  ninth, 
the  establishment  of  the  night  high  schools ;  tenth, 
change  in  the  construction  and  type  of  school 
buildings  from  wood  and  lumber  to  cement,  brick 
and  stone,  so  that  they  are  now  fire-proof  with 
the  exception  of  the  floors;  eleventh,  material 
enlargement  of  school  playgrounds;  twelfth, 
organization    of    parents'    and    teachers'    clinic, 


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whereby  care  is  taken  of  thousands  of  cases  of 
eye,  ear,  nose,  throat  and  dental  trouble;  thir- 
teenth, the  organization  of  the  civic  center ;  four- 
teenth, the  establishment  of  school  farm  with 
horticultural,  live  stock  and  poultry  departments, 
which  are  open  Saturdays  and  during  the  summer 
months.  Machine  shops  are  maintained  in  this 
same  connection  and  practical  instruction  is  given 
in  automobiling  and  flying  machines.  Art  centers 
have  also  been  established  at  convenient  places, 
where  interior  decorating,  landscape  gardening, 
card  and  "ad"  writing,  cartooning,  and  the  illus- 
trating art  are  taught. 

Of  these  various  developments  the  neighbor- 
hood schools  are  particularly  worthy  of  mention. 
At  these  places  wholesome  and  nourishing  food 
is  served.  A  lunch  consisting  of  a  bowl  of  ex- 
cellent soup  and  a  half  loaf  of  bread  is  served 
for  a  penny,  and  if  the  pupil  has  not  the  penny 
it  is  given  free  of  charge.  This  branch  of  the 
system  was  started  as  a  philanthropy  by  private 
individuals,  and  was  later  undertaken  by  the 
public  school,  but  is  still  partly  supported  by 
philanthropy.  Another  branch  of  this  service  is 
the  day  nursery,  where  babies  from  three  months 
to  four  and  one-half  years  are  brought  and  taken 
care  of,  thus  relieving  the  mother  and  older  sister, 
giving  them  an  opportunity  of  engaging  in  pro- 
ductive work.  Three  cups  of  warm  milk  are  given 
daily  to  each  child,  and  sanitary  sleeping  apart- 
ments are  provided.  Five  hundred  shower  baths 
have  also  been  installed  in  this  connection,  while 
well  equipped  laundries  are  maintained  where 
women  may  bring  their  laundry;  there  are  also 
sewing  rooms  and  sewing  machines  for  domestic 
sewing.  "v 

Professor  Francis  is  at  present  advocating 
music  centers  where  vocal  and  instrumental  music 
can  be  properly  taught,  all  of  which  outlying 
centers  will  be  auxiliary  to  one  great  central  music 
hall,  where  all  that  is  best  in  music  will  be  ren- 
dered in  grand  concert.  With  Bergson,  Professor 
Francis  is  a  believer  in  an  activist  religion.  He 
believes  that  indolence  and  unemployment  are 
unpardonable  evils,  realizing  that  "inactivity  is  the 
symbol  of  death  if  it  is  not  death  itself."  If  his 
policies  are  carried  out  for  the  next  ten  years  Los 
Angeles  will  easily  become  one  of  the  foremost 
educational  centers  in  the  land. 

Professor  Francis  was  married  at  Woodbridge, 
Cal.,  June  4,  1892,  to  Miss  L.  Lou  Hott,  daughter 
of  Bishop  James  W.  Hott  of  the  United  Brethren 


Church.  They  are  the  parents  of  two  children, 
George  Haywood  and  James  Francis.  Mr. 
Francis  is  a  member  of  the  National  Educational 
Association  and  belongs  to  the  University  Club  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  the  Archasological  Institute  of 
America,  while  fraternally  the  Masons  and  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  claim  him  as  a 
brother.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  the  Gamut  Club,  and  socially  is 
affiliated  with  several  of  the  city  clubs. 


WALTER  PERRY  STORY.  Although  not 
a  native  of  California,  Walter  Perry  Story  has 
nevertheless  passed  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
this  state,  and  his  education  was  completed  in 
Los  Angeles  institutions.  He  has  been  engaged 
in  milling  interests,  banking  and  real  estate  and  is 
one  of  the  best  known  of  the  younger  financiers 
of  Southern  California,  who  have  by  their 
ability  and  judgment  been  brought  in  close 
association  with  the  general  upbuilding  and  devel- 
opment of  the  Southland.  He  is  the  owner  of  the 
Walter  P.  Story  building,  at  Sixth  and  Broadway, 
erected  in  1908,  and  completed  in  1910.  This  is 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  office  buildings  in  the 
city,  and  also  one  of  the  most  modern  and  con- 
venient. 

Mr.  Story  was  born  at  Bozeman,  Mont.,  De- 
cember 18,  1882,  the  son  of  Nelson  and  Ellen  T. 
Story,  his  father  being  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  in 
1838,  and  his  mother  a  Missourian,  born  in  1845. 
They  were  pioneer  settlers  of  Montana,  migrating 
there  from  the  eastern  home  in  1864,  and  Mr. 
Story  there  engaged  in  mining,  banking,  milling 
and  the  cattle  business.  The  family  came  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1894  to  establish  a  winter  home,  and 
Mr.  Story,  seeing  the  future  possibilities  of  the 
city,  invested  heavily  in  real  estate,  thus  forming 
the  nucleus  of  the  present  large  interests  of  the 
family  in  Southern  California.  Mr.  Story  and 
his  wife  still  reside  in  Bozeman,  Mont. 

W.  P.  Story  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Bozeman,  later  attending 
school  in  Los  Angeles,  and  also  Shattuck  Military 
Academy,  at  Faribault,  Minn.,  and  the  Eastman 
Academy  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  has  been 
prominently  associated  with  the  best  commercial 
interests  of  Los  Angeles  for  many  years. 


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Mr.  Story  is  commissioner  of  agriculture  for  the 
sixth  district,  and  is  well  informed  on  agricultural 
subjects  and  the  owner  of  much  valuable  real  es- 
tate throughout  Southern  California. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Story  was  solemnized  in 
Los  Angeles,  April  23,  1903,  uniting  him  with 
Miss  Geraldine  Rowena  Baird,  of  San  Francisco. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Story  are  very  popular  socially 
and  Mr.  Story  is  a  member  of  a  number  of  ex- 
clusive social  clubs,  including  the  California,  the 
Los  Angeles  Country,  the  Midwick  Country,  and 
the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs. 


JOSEPH  J.  PETERMICHEL.  A  native  of 
the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  born  in 
Alleghany  City,  May  10,  1872,  the  son  of  Joseph 
and  Barbara  Petermichel,  Joseph  J.  Petermichel 
has  been  a  resident  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  for  a  number  of  years.  Until  the  age  of 
eleven  years  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  place,  removing  then  with  his  parents  to 
Chicago,  111.,  where  he  continued  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  until  he  was  fourteen,  when  he 
commenced  his  business  experience  as  errand  and 
newsboy,  continuing  this  for  two  years,  when 
he  was  an  office  boy  in  a  law  office  for  a  year, 
and  for  two  years  messenger  boy  on  the  Board  of 
Trade.  For  a  year  and  a  half  thereafter  he  at- 
tended a  business  college,  with  a  view  to  broaden- 
ing his  abilities  and  opportunities  in  the  way  of 
self-support,  and  after  a  course  at  this  institu- 
tion Mr.  Petermichel  was  enabled  to  engage  as 
stenographer  with  various  companies  until  the 
year  1889,  at  which  time  he  removed  to  San 
Francisco  and  continued  there  in  the  same  line  of 
occupation  with  a  fruit  commission  merchant  for 
a  year.  After  a  year  spent  on  the  Pacific  coast  he 
returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  found  employment 
with  the  Griffin  Car  Wheel  Company  as  steno- 
grapher for  the  board  of  managers  of  that  firm, 
after  fifteen  months  with  them  again  coming 
west,  this  time  to  Southern  California,  where  he 
located  in  Los  Angeles  and  engaged  as  steno- 
grapher with  James  J.  Byrne,  the  general  passen- 
ger agent  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  for  a  year 
On  account  of  ill  health  Mr.  Petermichel  resigned 
this  position  and  spent  fifteen  months  in  the 
mountains  to  regain  health  and  strength,  upon  his 
return  engaging  as  stenographer  and  private  sec- 


retary with  A.  H.  Naftzger,  president  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Fruit  Growers'  Exchange,  an  office  which 
he  filled  for  some  years.  Later  he  was  appointed 
deputy  public  administrator,  serving  for  three 
years,  since  which  time  he  has  acted  as  official 
reporter  of  the  Superior  Court.  Mr.  Peter- 
michel is  an  active  and  efficient  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  Los  Angeles  Business  Col- 
lege, and  was  for  six  years  a  member  and  assist- 
ant secretary  of  the  Republican  County  Central 
Committee,  and  thereafter  for  the  same  length 
of  time  secretary  of  the  same.  Since  1911  he  has 
held  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Citizens' 
Committee  and  has  been  active  campaign  man- 
ager at  different  times  when  public  welfare  en- 
listed his  sympathies. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Petermichel  took  place  in 
Chicago,  on  November  30,  1893,  uniting  him  with 
Louise  Kalas,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  three 
children,  namely,  Grace,  Harry  and  Ruth,  of 
whom  the  two  youngest  are  pupils  in  the  public 
schools  of  Los  Angeles. 


JAMES  H.  CLOW.  The  president  of  the 
Black  Planing  Mill  Company  of  Los  Angeles 
is  James  H.  Clow,  who  was  born  in  Smithfield, 
Utah,  November  17,  1883,  the  son  of  William 
H.  Clow,  and  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  business  college  until  the  age  of 
eighteen  years.  He  then  engaged  as  carpenter 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  for  eight  years,  after 
which  he  went  into  the  contracting  business  in 
that  city.  Giving  up  the  business  in  1912,  he 
removed  to  California,  locating  in  Los  Angeles, 
with  which  city  his  business  interests  have  been 
associated  since  that  time.  On  first  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  Mr.  Clow  bought  an  interest  in  the 
Black  Planing  Mill,  of  this  city,  which  company 
he  bought  out  two  years  later,  and  on  June  6, 
1914,  it  was  incorporated,  he  being  elected  its 
president,  a  position  which  he  holds  today.  This 
company  was  established  in  the  year  1904  by 
A.  W.  Black,  and  did  a  general  planing  mill 
work,  including  that  of  carpentry  and  cabinet 
work,  and  under  the  efficient  management  of 
Mr.  Clow  is  coming  to  the  front  among  the 
Los  Angeles  firms  of  that  nature. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Clow  took  place  during 
his    residence   in    Salt   Lake   City,    uniting  him 


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with  Miss  Ella  M.  Cobbley  on  October  16,  1905, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  son,  Howard  J. 
Clow.  In  his  political  interests  Mr.  Clow  is 
a  member  of  the  Republican  party,  and  fraternally 
he  belongs  to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 


L.  L.  CHANDLER.  Occupying  various  posi- 
tions of  trust  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity  and  at 
all  times  discharging  the  duties  which  devolved 
upon  him  in  such  a  manner  as  to  win  the  approval 
and  confidence  of  his  associates,  L.  L.  Chandler 
is  today  a  prominent  factor  in  the  affairs  of  South- 
ern California,  being  recognized  as  a  man  of 
power  and  ability,  as  well  as  of  unimpeachable 
integrity  of  character.  Since  July,  1914,  he  has 
been  vice-president  and  general  manager  of  the 
California-Arizona  Construction  Company,  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers,  and  in  this 
new  venture  he  is  meeting  with  his  customary 
success,  the  company  having  been  already  placed 
on  an  enviable  basis  of  operations. 

A  native  of  Iowa,  Mr.  Chandler  was  born  in 
O'Brien  county,  June  20,  1874,  the  son  of  Charles 
and  Marie  S.  (Edwards)  Chandler.  Removing 
with  his  parents  to  Hiawatha,  Kan.,  he  there  at- 
tended the  public  and  high  schools,  graduating 
from  the  latter  when  he  was  seventeen  years  of 
age.  It  was  shortly  after  this  that  he  made  his 
first  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast,  coming  to  San  Jose, 
Cal.,  where  he  attended  the  University  of  the  Pa- 
cific for  a  year.  Later  returning  to  the  middle 
west,  he  accepted  a  position  as  shipping  clerk  with 
the  Turner-Frazer  Mercantile  Company,  at  St. 
Joseph,  Mo.  After  eight  months  in  this  work  he 
went  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  secured  a 
similar  position  with  the  Washburn  Flour  Mills, 
remaining  with  them  likewise  for  eight  months. 
It  was  at  the  close  of  this  time  that  Mr.  Chandler 
finally  returned  to  the  coast  to  make  his  perma- 
nent home.  He  came  first  to  Hood  River,  Ore., 
where  he  had  charge  of  the  shipping  department 
of  the  Oregon  Lumber  Company  for  a  year,  go- 
ing at  that  time  to  Portland,  Ore.,  where  he  en- 
gaged with  his  brother-in-law  as  a  clerk  in  the 
latter's  jewelry  store,  remaining  for  a  year.  Fol- 
lowing this  he  joined  his  mother  in  a  year's  travel, 
after  which  he  located  in  Orange,  Cal,  where  he 
was  associated  with  the  Santa  Ana  Valley  Irriga- 
tion Company  as  foreman  and  timekeeper  until 
April,  1898,  when  he  resigned  in  response  to  the 


e.xcitement  incident  upon  the  outbreak  of  the 
Spanish-American  war,  and  enlisted  in  the  army, 
being  assigned  to  Company  C,  Eighteenth  In- 
fantry, with  the  rank  of  sergeant,  and  serving 
until  December,  1901.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
period  of  enlistment  he  re-enlisted,  this  time  in 
Company  H,  Fourth  Infantry,  with  rank  as  first 
sergeant,  serving  until  1904.  At  the  expiration  of 
his  second  term  of  enlistment  Mr.  Chandler  re- 
turned to  the  life  of  a  civilian  permanently,  but 
remained  in  the  service  of  the  government,  com- 
ing to  San  Pedro  as  recorder  in  the  office  of  the 
United  States  engineering  department,  where  he 
served  for  a  year.  For  four  months  following 
this  he  was  inspector  of  the  Los  Angeles  city 
engineering  department,  then  for  three  years  he 
was  with  the  Barber  Asphalt  Company  as  fore- 
man, and  later  was  their  assistant  superintendent 
for  a  short  period.  Following  this  he  became  su- 
perintendent of  the  work  of  this  company 
throughout  the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  retaining  this 
position  until  1912,  when  he  was  elevated  to  the 
responsibility  of  district  manager  for  Southern 
California,  discharging  the  responsibilities  of  this 
office  until  in  July,  1914,  when  he  resigned  to  or- 
ganize the  California-Arizona  Construction  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  is  now  the  vice-president  and 
general  manager. 

In  addition  to  the  general  popularity  accorded 
Mr.  Chandler  as  a  man  of  affairs,  he  is  well 
known  in  fraternal  and  club  circles,  where  he  is 
a  universal  favorite.  He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Ma- 
son, a  Knight  of  Pythias,  and  a  member  of  the 
Spanish  War  Veterans,  taking  a  prominent  part 
in  the  affairs  of  these  various  organizations.  So- 
cially his  favorite  club  is  the  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic club.    In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Chandler  was  solemnized 
in  La  Habra,  Cal.,  January  11,  1907,  uniting  him 
with  Miss  Christina  M.  Brown,  of  that  place. 
They  make  their  home  in  Los  Angeles. 


H.  A.  OLMSTED.  Since  the  year  1912,  H.  A. 
Olmsted  has  been  the  president  of  the  distributing 
branch  of  the  J.  W.  Butler  Paper  Company,  the 
Sierra  Paper  Company  by  name,  which  was  estab- 
lished in  1905  by  J.  H.  McLafferty  and  associates, 
and  in  1907  was  bought  out  by  the  J.  W.  Butler 
Paper  Company  of  Chicago  and  now  constitutes 
one  of  their  many  distributing  branches.     The 


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Chicago  company  has  sixteen  such  branches,  and 
its  Los  Angeles  office,  which  is  known  as  the 
Sierra  Paper  Company,  employs  from  forty  to 
fifty  people,  handles  a  general  line  of  fine  print- 
ing paper,  wrapping  paper,  twine  and  bags,  and 
the  whole  of  Southern  California  and  Arizona  is 
comprised  in  the  territory  of  this  branch  of  the 
business.  Besides  Mr.  Olmsted,  the  president,  the 
other  officers  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch  are 
Fred  H.  French,  vice-president,  and  John  Bireley, 
secretary  and  treasurer. 

On  September  19,  1873,  Mr.  Olmsted  was  born 
in  Evanston,  111.,  the  son  of  H.  F.  Olmsted,  and 
attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  and 
Northwestern  University, after  which, at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  he  took  up  civil  engineering,  which 
he  followed  until  1903,  at  which  time  he  engaged 
with  the  J.  W.  Butler  Paper  Company  in  Chicago, 
working  in  their  stock  room,  from  which  position 
he  constanty  advanced  until  in  1912  he  was 
elected  manager  of  their  distributing  branches. 
Mr.  Olmsted  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Shrine, 
also  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  and  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club,  and  the 
Dallas  Country  Club,  of  Dallas,  Tex.  His  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Merryman  took  place  in  Marinette, 
Wis.,  in  September.  1903,  and  they  are  the  parents 
of  two  children. 


WILLIS  J.  BOYLE,  SR.  The  president  of 
the  Pinney  &  Boyle  Manufacturing  Co.,  W.  J. 
Boyle,  Sr.,  has  been  a  resident  of  California  since 
1893  ;  during  the  years  that  have  intervened  he  has 
been  closely  connected  with  the  manufacturing 
business  of  California,  and  in  Los  Angeles  has 
won  an  enviable  reputation  for  himself  and  his 
company. 

Mr.  Boyle  was  born  at  Sparta,  Wis.,  March 
16,  1856,  and  in  that  state  received  an  education 
in  the  country  schools  until  fourteen  years  of 
age,  at  which  time  he  was  taken  by  his  parents 
to  Holden,  Mo.,  where  he  worked  at  various 
occupations  for  a  couple  of  years.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  years  he  became  a  brakeman  on  the  M.  K. 
&  T.  Railroad,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  for 
about  one  year,  after  which  he  went  to  Osage 
Mission,  Kan.,  with  a  view  to  learning  the  tin- 
smith trade;  after  remaining  there  one  year,  how- 
ever, he  went  to  Sparta,  Wis.,  his  old  home  place, 
and  there  finished  the  tinsmith  trade.  His  next 
move  was  to  Lamed,  Kan.,  where  he  followed 


his  trade  until  1879,  going  then  to  Augusta,  Kan., 
where  he  engaged  in  the  hardware  and  tin  goods 
line  with  success,  until  selling  out  in  1881.  He 
then  removed  to  Humboldt,  Kan.,  where  he  was 
connected  in  the  hardware  business  for  the  fol- 
lowing three  years  with  Frank  L.  Dayton,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Dayton  &  Boyle.  After  selling 
out  he  became  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  Kan- 
sas City  Hardware  Co.  (afterwards  the  Gille 
Hardware  &  Iron  Co.,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.)  in 
which  capacity  he  remained  until  1893,  when  he 
left  the  road  and  came  to  California. 

In  the  above  year  Mr.  Boyle  arrived  in  Los 
Angeles  and  became  connected  with  the  Los  An- 
geles Iron  and  Steel  Co.  In  1895  this  concern 
failed  and  Mr.  Boyle  was  made  receiver  under 
Judge  Lucien  Shaw,  and  remained  in  this  capacity 
one  year.  In  1896,  with  Charles  L.  Pinney,  he 
began  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Charles  L. 
Pinney  Co.  This  company  incorporated  in  1899 
under  the  name  of  Pinney  &  Boyle  Company, 
which  continued  until  1913,  when  the  title  of  the 
firm  became  Pinney  &  Boyle  Manufacturing  Co. 
In  January,  1914,  Mr.  Boyle  bought  Mr.  Pinney's 
interest  and  became  president  of  the  corporation, 
the  other  officers  being  Lew  M.  Boyle,  vice-presi- 
dent; W.  J.  Boyle,  Jr.,  treasurer,  and  Milo  C. 
Boyle,  a  brother,  secretary. 

When  the  company  first  embarked  in  business 
Mr.  Boyle  and  Mr.  Pinney  did  the  work  them- 
selves, while  today  one  hundred  and  thirty-five 
employes  are  on  their  payroll.  Their  business  is 
located  on  five  and  one-half  acres  at  Fifty-first 
street  and  Santa  Fe  avenue,  Vernon,  in  a  fine 
steel  structure  covering  an  area  of  three  hundred 
feet  square,  erected  by  them  in  1914-15,  to  which 
they  moved  from  their  old  location  in  March, 
1915,  though  retaining  their  former  place  at  No. 
1325  Palmetto  street  for  their  department  of  tin 
lithographing.  The  company  manufactures  a  gen- 
eral line  of  sheet  metal  goods,  stoves,  ovens,  camp 
stoves,  canteens,  garbage  cans,  and  a  general  line 
of  pressure  tanks  and  underground  storage  equip- 
ment, conducting  one  of  the  most  complete  and 
up-to-date  metal  lithographing  plants  in  the  west, 
and  finding  a  sale  for  their  products  throughout 
California,  Arizona,  Nevada  and  Washington. 

In  politics  Mr.  Boyle  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
York  Rite  Mason  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member 
of  the  Jonathan  Club.  In  May,  1884,  at  Hum- 
boldt, Kan.,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Boyle 
and  Minnie  E.  Edwards.     They  have  two  sons, 


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Willis  J.,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  the  School  of  Mines 
of  Golden,  Colo.,  now  treasurer  of  the  Pinney  & 
Boyle  Manufacturing  Co.,  and  Lew  M.,  educated 
at  Stanford  University  and  now  vice-president  of 
the  corporation. 


COL.  EDWIN  S.  ORMSBY.  More  than 
thirty  years  spent  as  president  of  a  bank  which  he 
had  himself  founded  and  the  operation  of  nearly 
a  dozen  other  banks  throughout  the  state  furnish 
a  splendid  fund  of  experience  for  the  man  who 
holds  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Fifty  Asso- 
ciates of  California,  a  large  financial  corporation 
of  Los  Angeles. 

Such  is  the  background  of  the  business  life  of 
Col.  Edwin  S.  Ormsby,  the  son  of  Lysander  and 
Olive  Ormsby,  born  April  17,  1842,  in  Adrian, 
Mich.,  the  capital  of  Lenawee  county,  a  town 
which  since  that  date  has  become  the  seat  of  a 
college  under  the  direction  of  the  Methodists,  a 
denomination  to  which  Colonel  Ormsby  himself 
belongs.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  state,  and,  the  Civil  war 
breaking  out  about  the  time  he  had  finished  his 
schooling,  he  enlisted  at  the  age  of  eighteen  in  the 
First  Infantry  of  Michigan  Volunteers,  during 
his  service  being  brevetted  colonel.  At  the  close 
of  the  war  he  went  to  Detroit,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  for  three  years, 
going  thence  to  Emmettsburg,  Iowa,  an  agricul- 
tural city  and  capital  of  Palo  Alto  county,  sit- 
uated on  the  Des  Moines  river.  Colonel  Orms- 
by's  connection  with  the  city  of  Emmettsburg  was 
of  long  duration,  he  establishing  there  the  First 
National  Bank  and  holding  the  office  of  presi- 
dent of  the  same  for  many  years.  He  also 
owned  and  operated  a  chain  of  ten  other  banks 
throughout  the  states  of  Iowa,  Minnesota 
and  Dakota.  In  1906  he  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
and  even  during  the  eight  years  of  his  residence 
here  he  has  seen  great  and  important  improve- 
ments take  place  in  the  city's  growth.  New 
streets  have  been  laid  out  and  hills  leveled ;  elec- 
tric lighting  has  been  installed  on  many  more  of 
the  streets,  and  huge  hotels  and  apartment  build- 
ings have  gone  up  not  only  in  the  downtown  dis- 
trict but  also  on  the  newer  streets  further  from 
the  heart  of  the  city.  The  new  postoffice  has  been 
built,  great  store  buildings  put  up,  and  large 
handsome  banks  have  superseded  the  smaller  and 
less  commodious  structures  in  use  a  few  years 


ago.  Colonel  Ormsby  has  identified  himself  with 
municipal  interests  here,  at  present  holding  the 
important  position  of  secretary  of  the  Fifty  Asso- 
ciates of  California,  himself  prospering  with  the 
progress  of  the  new  city  which  he  has  chosen  as 
his  home. 

The  marriage  of  Colonel  Ormsby  with  Mary 
A.  Bateman  occurred  July  4,  1863,  in  Adrian, 
Mich.,  the  city  of  his  birth,  and  by  her  he  is  the 
father  of  three  children,  Myrtie,  now  Mrs.  George 
J.  Consigny,  Jr.,  Charles  and  Fannie.  Fraternally 
he  is  connected  with  the  Masons,  having  attained 
the  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite,  also  the 
York  Rite,  besides  which  he  belongs  to  the  Shrine, 
and  his  religious  affiliations  are  with  the  Metho- 
dist church,  he  being  a  member  and  one  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Westlake  Methodist 
church  in  Los  Angeles.  For  two  years  he  was 
president  of  the  Federation  of  State  Societies  and 
past  president  of  the  Iowa  Association  of  South- 
ern California  and  is  a  director  in  both. 


WILLIAM  WARREN  ORCUTT  is  a  native 
of  Minnesota,  born  in  Dodge  covmty,  February 
14,  1869.  His  father,  John  Hall  Orcutt,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  oldest  Puritan  and  Virginia  stock, 
came  with  his  family  to  California  in  1881,  and 
engaged  in  horticulture  at  Santa  Paula,  Ventura 
county,  until  his  death  in  1913.  Through  his 
mother,  Adeline  Warren,  Mr.  Orcutt  is  descended 
from  the  famous  Warren  and  Curtis  families  of 
New  England. 

The  boyhood  of  Mr.  Orcutt  was  spent  at  Santa 
Paula,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  and 
the  Santa  Paula  Academy.  In  1891  he  entered 
Stanford  University,  a  member  of  the  pioneer 
class,  whence  he  graduated  in  1895  with  the  de- 
gree of  A.  B.  While  in  Stanford,  Mr.  Orcutt 
specialized  in  geology  and  engineering,  which 
afterward  became  his  life  work. 

After  graduation  Mr.  Orcutt  engaged  in  busi- 
ness at  Santa  Paula  as  a  civil  and  hydraulic  engi- 
neer and  United  States  deputy  surveyor  until 
May,  1899,  when  he  became  superintendent  of  the 
San  Joaquin  Valley  Division  for  the  Union  Oil 
Company  of  California.  In  1901  he  accepted  the 
office  of  geologist  and  engineer  for  the  Union  Oil 
Company  of  California,  with  headquarters  at  Los 
Angeles.  A  few  years  later  Mr.  Orcutt  became 
manager  of  the  geological,  land  and  engineering 


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departments  of  the  Union  Oil  Company  of  Cali- 
fornia, which  office  he  still  retains. 

The  Union  Oil  Company  of  California  was  the 
first  oil  company  on  the  coast  to  organize  a  geo- 
logical department  for  research  work  and  the  dis- 
covery of  new  oil  fields.  The  success  of  the 
department  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Orcutt  in 
the  application  of  scientific  principles  to  the  solv- 
ing of  the  problems  in  the  oil  fields  has  probably 
been  the  greatest  factor  which  has  induced  Cali- 
fornia oil  men  to  recognize  the  value  of  geological 
work. 

Mr.  Orcutt  made  the  first  geological  maps  of 
the  Coalinga,  Lompoc  and  Santa  Maria  oil  fields, 
and  took  an  active  part  in  the  selection  and  pur- 
chase of  properties  for  the  Union  Oil  Company  of 
California  in  these  districts.  In  recognition  of  the 
work  of  Mr.  Orcutt  in  the  location  and  develop- 
ment of  the  Lompoc  and  Santa  Maria  districts, 
the  town  of  Orcutt  in  Santa  Barbara  county  was 
named  for  him. 

In  connection  with  his  geological  work,  it  is 
interesting  to  note,  that  in  1901  Mr.  Orcutt  made 
the  original  discovery  of  the  world  famous  La 
Brea  fossil  beds  in  the  western  limits  of  the  city 
of  Los  Angeles.  Realizing  the  great  scientific 
value  of  this  discovery,  Mr.  Orcutt  in  1906 
brought  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  the  paleon- 
tological  department  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. From  these  beds  have  been  taken  the 
most  remarkable  prehistoric  animal  remains  in 
the  world.  Complete  skeletons  of  the  giant  ground 
sloth,  mastodon,  sabre-tooth  tiger,  wolves  and 
other  extinct  canivora  have  been  secured  for  the 
great  museums  of  the  world. 

In  1908  Mr.  Orcutt  was  made  a  director  of  the 
Union  Oil  Company  of  California  and  a  member 
of  its  executive  committee,  which  offices  he  still 
retains.  Other  offices  held  by  him  are  as  follows  : 
President  of  the  Newlove  Oil  Company,  Bed 
Rock  Oil  Company,  Lake  View  Oil  Company, 
Brea  Townsite  Company  and  La  Merced  Heights 
Land  and  Water  Company ;  vice-president  of  the 
Midway  Royal  Petroleum  Company,  Standard 
Plaster  Company  and  Syndicate  Oil  Company; 
director  of  the  Outer  Harbor  Dock  and  Wharf 
Company  and  of  the  Santa  Maria  Oil  &  Gas 
Company. 

In  politics  Mr.  Orcutt  is  a  Democrat.  His  re- 
ligious affiliations  are  with  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic Club,  the  University  Club,  the  Santa  Maria 


Rod  and  Gun  Club,  the  Southern  California 
Academy  of  Sciences  and  the  Seismological  So- 
ciety of  America. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Orcutt  and  Miss  Mary 
Logan  took  place  at  Santa  Paula,  June  9,  1897. 
They  are  the  parents  of  two  children,  Gertrude 
L.  and  John  Logan  Orcutt. 


AMOS  M.  BLILEY,  a  diamond  expert,  came  to 
Los  Angeles  a  little  over  ten  years  ago  and  for  a 
number  of  years  filled  this  position  with  the  firm 
of  Brock  &  Feagans.  Shortly  after  his  arrival 
here  he  became  interested  in  the  oil  business,  and 
at  the  time  that  the  State  Oil  Company,  a  going 
concern,  decided  to  affiliate  with  other  companies 
he  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  new  com- 
pany, the  State  Consolidated  Oil  Company,  which 
took  over  valuable  oil  interests  in  the  Midway  and 
McKittrick  fields,  and  he  is  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  this  company.  The  company  was  organ- 
ized March  3,  1911,  and  Mr.  Buley  is  also  financial 
manager  and  a  director.  The  company  is  capital- 
ized for  a  million  and  a  quarter  dollars,  and  the 
stock  was  practically  all  placed  by  Mr.  Buley 
among  his  many  friends  both  here  and  in  Toronto. 
The  holdings  of  the  company  are  considered 
among  the  best  in  the  Midway,  McKittrick  and 
Belridge  Districts,  situated  in  Kern  county,  and 
Kern  county,  beyond  the  question  of  a  doubt,  is 
the  richest  developed  oil  field  in  the  world.  In  Ven- 
tura county  they  have  valuable  holdings  both  in 
the  Simi  and  Ventura  Districts,  aggregating  sev- 
eral hundred  acres  in  all.  This  company  holds 
a  record  for  bringing  in  eleven  producing  wells 
from  March,  1914.  to  the  end  of  August,  1914. 
They  have  never  drilled  a  dry  hole  on  any  of  their 
properties.  Their  present  monthly  production  is 
50,000  barrels,  and  their  product  is  sold  to  the 
Standard  Oil  Company,  their  income  being  about 
$20,000  monthly. 

Mr.  Buley  is  a  native  of  Toronto,  Canada, 
where  he  attended  school  until  he  was  sixteen 
years  of  age,  and  was  then  apprenticed  to  the 
largest  jewelry  house  in  Canada,  later  becoming 
manager  of  different  departments,  and  eventually 
becoming  the  general  manager  of  the  house,  which 
position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  resignation  in 
1904.  At  that  time  he  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  became  associated  with  the  well-known 
firm  of  Brock  &  Feagans,  jewelers,  being  in 
charge  of  their  diamond  department,  and  remain- 


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ing  with  them  for  six  years.  Quite  apart  from  his 
prominence  in  the  commercial  world,  Mr.  Buley 
is  also  well  known  socially  and  in  exclusive  club 
circles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  and  attends  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  of  which  he  is  also  a  member.  In 
his  political  views  Mr.  Buley  is  a  Republican,  but 
has  never  sought  political  preferment,  or  taken  a 
specially  active  part  in  party  affairs  save  as  he 
gave  his  support  to  measures  of  local  importance. 
He  is  progressive  and  wide  awake  to  the  needs 
of  the  city  and  county  and  favors  progress  along 
the  broad  line  of  permanent  growth  and  develop- 
ment. 


The  marriage  of  Dr.  Mackerras  in  Kingston, 
September  18,  1907,  united  him  with  Miss  J. 
Cybella  Craig,  a  native  of  Ontario,  Canada.  They 
have  three  children,  viz. :  Robert  H.  Jr.,  J.  Craig 
and  Maxwell  D. 


ROBERT  H.  MACKERRAS,  M.  D.  A  lead- 
ing physician  and  president  of  the  board  of  health 
of  Sierra  Madre,  Robert  Hamilton  Mackerras  was 
born  September  10,  1878,  at  Peterboro,  Ontario, 
Canada,  and  when  seven  years  of  age  was  taken 
by  his  parents  to  Kingston,  Ontario,  where  he 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools,  grad- 
uating from  the  latter,  after  which  he  entered 
Queens  University  at  Kingston,  taking  three 
years  work  in  arts.  He  graduated  from  the 
medical  department  of  that  university  in  1903 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Dr.  Mackerras  was 
house  surgeon  one  year  (1903-1904)  of  the 
County  of  Carleton  General  Protestant  Hospital 
at  Ottawa,  Can.,  then  came  to  California,  locating 
at  Pasadena.  After  taking  the  examination  before 
the  state  board  of  medical  examiners  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  his  profession  in  California  in 
1905.  He  at  once  opened  an  office  in  Sierra 
Madre,  where  he  has  since  become  the  leading 
physician,  having  built  up  a  successful  practice, 
and  by  his  thorough  knowledge  of  therapeutics 
has  won  the  confidence  of  his  patrons. 

In  1911  Dr.  Mackerras  took  a  post-graduate 
course  on  internal  medicine  in  the  medical  de- 
partment of  Harvard  University.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  attending  staff  of  Graves  Memorial 
Dispensary  of  Los  Angeles  in  1913-14,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  County,  State  and  National  Med- 
ical associations,  also  of  the  Southern  California 
Medical  Association.  He  is  a  member  and  master 
(1915)  of  Sierra  Madre  Lodge  No.  408,  F.  & 
A.  M.,  and  a  member  of  the  Valley  Hunt  Club  of 
Pasadena. 


WILLIAM  BOSBYSHELL.  A  prominent 
contractor  and  designer  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles, 
with  offices  located  at  No.  1021  Wright  &  Cal- 
lender  building,  is  William  Bosbyshell,  who  was 
born  in  Los  Angeles,  April  13,  1886,  the  son  of 
William  and  Margaret  J.  Bosbyshell.  He  is  de- 
scended from  Bohemian  ancestry  and  represents 
the  fourth  generation  of  the  family  in  America. 
Christian  Bosbyshell,  who  was  born  in  Bohemia, 
December  14,  1772,  settled  in  Philadelphia  in 
1782  and  died  at  Jenkintown  February  16,  1862. 
He  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Oliver,  by  whom 
he  had  nine  children.  One  of  his  sons,  William 
Bosbyshell,  was  the  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
and  his  son  in  turn  was  also  named  William 
Bosbyshell.  The  latter  was  well  known  in  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  settled  in  1888,  and  was  prom- 
inent in  Masonic  and  financial  circles.  He  was  a 
man  of  more  than  ordinary  note,  having  been  born 
in  Philadelphia  and  reared  there  until  fourteen 
years  of  age.  He  then  went  to  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
where  later  in  life  he  engaged  in  the  live  stock 
business,  in  which  he  accumulated  a  fortune,  and 
brought  some  means  with  him  when  he  came  to 
Los  Angeles.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Emily  Jane  Taylor,  who  died  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  September  23,  1885,  leaving  no  chil- 
dren. He  was  married  a  second  time  to  Margaret 
Fultineer.  who  was  born  at  Buchanan,  W.  Va., 
July  11,  1849,  and  now  resides  at  953  Gramercy 
Place,  Los  Angeles.  They  became  the  parents 
of  one  child,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The 
father  and  husband  died  in  Los  Angeles  January 
4,  1906.  aged  seventy-nine.  He  was  an  honored 
member  of  Signet  Chapter  No.  57,  R.  A.  M.,  of 
Los  Angeles,  from  whose  archives  we  extract  the 
following: 

"Companion  William  Bosbyshell  was  born  at 
Philadelphia,  January  7,  1827;  he  lived  many 
years  of  his  life  at  St.  Louis  and  the  last  eighteen 
years  in  Los  Angeles.  Thus  allied  with  three  typi- 
cal American  cities  through  seventy-nine  years, 
he  witnessed  the  giant  strides  of  American  prog- 
ress in  the  East  and  in  the  West,  and  was  himself 
a  part  of  what  he  saw. 


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"He  lived  the  life  of  a  citizen  who  is  not 
ashamed  to  take  part  in  public  affairs.  We  are 
informed  that  he  served  the  city  of  St.  Louis 
during  two  or  three  terms  in  the  city  council  and 
at  least  once  as  a  member  of  the  state  legislature. 
He  leaves  surviving  him  his  wife,  Margaret  J., 
and  his  son,  William  Bosbyshell." 

William  Bosbyshell,  the  son  and  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  a  pupil  in  the  pubHc  schools  of 
Los  Angeles,  his  native  city,  later  attended  Har- 
vard Military  Academy  in  Los  Angeles,  then  the 
University  of  Southern  California,  in  the  same 
city,  until  the  age  of  eighteen,  when  for  two  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  automobile  business.  At 
the  close  of  that  period  he  took  up  the  practice  of 
designing,  contracting  and  building,  doing  mostly 
high  class  residential  work,  in  which  he  has  been 
very  successful.  He  owns  a  large  and  valuable 
ranch  near  Compton  and  is  at  present  engaged  in 
improving  it  for  a  model  country  home. 

Mr.  Bosbyshell  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
his  religious  affiliations  are  with  the  Lutheran 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic Club.  His  marriage,  which  occurred  in  Los 
Angeles,  April  28,  1907,  united  him  with  Miss 
Eleanor  Holland,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one 
daughter,  Janet  Louise  Bosbyshell. 


BISHOP  THOMAS  JAMES  CONATY.  The 
country  of  Ireland  has  been  the  birthplace  and 
early  environment  of  many  of  the  worthy  leaders 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  worshipers  throughout  the 
United  States,  sturdy  strength  of  character,  un- 
conquerable will  and  supreme  loyalty  to  their 
convictions  being  the  stronghold  of  their  life's 
work.  Noble,  actuated  by  the  highest  moral 
principles,  worthy  of  the  highest  reverence,  they 
bravely  sustain  the  hardships  of  sacrifice  and  gen- 
erously administer  to  their  people  the  spiritual 
and  moral  influence  necessary  to  their  well-being. 
In  the  career  of  Bishop  Conaty,  whose  diocese  of 
Monterey  and  Los  Angeles  embraces  the  South- 
ern half  of  California  from  San  Diego  to  Santa 
Cruz,  many  traits  have  been  exemplified  to  em- 
phasize his  peculiar  fitness  for  the  duties  of  his 
position. 

Born  in  Kilnalek,  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  Au- 
gust 1,  1847,  Thomas  James  Conaty  was  but  three 
years  of  age  when  brought  to  America  by  his 
parents,  Patrick  and  Alice  (Lynch)  Conaty,  who 


allowed  him  splendid  educational  opportunities. 
After  attending  the  public  school  at  Taunton, 
Mass.,  he  studied  from  1863  to  1867  at  Montreal 
College,  and  later  was  a  graduate,  in  1869,  from 
the  Holy  Cross  College,  at  Worcester,  Mass., 
with  the  degree  A.B.  In  1872  he  graduated  from 
Grand  Seminary,  Montreal,  and  that  same  year 
was  ordained  priest.  His  earnest  desire  to  per- 
fect himself  and  acquire  a  thorough  educational 
training  influenced  him  to  continue  his  studies 
and  in  1889  he  received  his  D.D.  degree  from 
Georgetown  University;  in  1896  he  was  given 
J.  C.  D.  from  Laval  University,  Quebec. 

Upon  his  ordination  Bishop  Conaty  became,  in 
1873,  assistant  pastor  at  St.  John's  Church,  Wor- 
cester, Mass.,  his  service  there  extending  until 
1880,  when  his  efficiency  becoming  recognized  by 
his  superiors  he  was  made  pastor  of  the  Sacred 
Heart  Church  in  that  city,  whose  charge  he  took 
up  with  deep  faith  and  love,  associating  himself 
with  all  branches  and  endearing  himself  to  all 
who  came  to  him  for  spiritual  aid.  During  his 
fulfillment  of  these  duties  the  Bishop  found  time 
to  take  active  part  in  educational  matters  of  Wor- 
cester as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  a  position 
he  held  for  fourteen  years,  and  in  1896  he  was 
called  to  the  Catholic  University  of  America  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  to  officiate  as  its  rector,  his 
term  of  service  there  extending  to  1903.  In  1897 
he  was  honored  in  the  appointment  as  domestic 
prelate  by  Pope  Leo  XIII  and  in  November,  1901. 
as  titular  bishop  of  Samos.  This  was  the  crown- 
ing of  his  years  of  hard  work  and  duty  well  done. 
He  was  consecrated  bishop  by  Cardinal  Gibbons 
at  Baltimore,  Md.  In  March,  1903,  he  was  named 
Bishop  of  Monterey  and  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
installed  in  his  cathedral,  Los  Angeles,  June,  1903. 

It  is  of  interest  in  passing  to  note  the  several 
organizations  with  which  the  Bishop  has  been 
actively  associated.  He  served  as  president  of 
the  Catholic  Summer  School  of  America,  Platts- 
burg,  N.  Y.,  from  1892  to  1896;  as  president  of 
Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Union  of  America  from 
1886  to  1888;  and  as  president  of  the  Conference 
of  Catholic  Colleges  of  America  from  1900  to 
1903.  His  natural  powers  of  intellect  and  his 
splendid  literary  ability  have  evidenced  them- 
selves in  his  authorship  of  New  Testament  Stud- 
ies, published  in  1896.  and  in  his  editorship  of  the 
Catholic  School  and  Home  Magazine,  published 
from  1892  to  1896.  He  has  been  generous  of  him- 
self in  everv  direction  where  he  has  been  of  as- 


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sistance  and  his  church  and  its  followers  have 
been  benefited  to  a  degree  where  no  limit  can  be 
imagined.  Fraternal  orders  of  various  natures 
have  in  him  a  loyal  worker,  he  holding  member- 
ship actively  in  the  Newman,  Sunset,  California 
and  University  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Munici- 
pal League  and  Choral  Society,  and  he  is  also  an 
associate  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  Post  No.  10, 
Worcester,  Mass. 

As  monuments  of  his  exceptional  worth  and 
untiring  energy  there  are  edifices  dedicated  to 
glorify  the  great  character  Bishop  Conaty  has  so 
closely  sought  to  exemplify  in  his  every  day  life. 
Charitable  institutions  instigated  by  him  have 
spread  their  wings  in  all  directions  gathering  in 
the  poor  and  needy,  and  the  minds  of  the  chil- 
dren have  been  looked  after  by  his  labor  in  the 
educational  field  by  his  writings  and  by  his  ora- 
torical skill  which  has  so  far  been  recognized  by 
the  world  as  to  cause  him  to  be  sought  by  all  de- 
nominations for  enlightenment  and  aid  in  cele- 
brations and  special  services. 


J.  ROSS  CLARK.  The  Los  Alamitos  Sugar 
Company  is  one  of  the  prosperous  industries  of 
Southern  California  and  received  its  name  from 
the  location  of  the  plant,  which  is  at  Los  Alamitos, 
not  far  from  Los  Angeles,  where  the  offices  of 
the  company  are  situated.  The  company  was  es- 
tablished by  J.  Ross  Clark,  now  vice-president  and 
general  manager  of  the  same,  shortly  after  his 
coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1892. 

The  genealogy  of  Mr.  Clark  is  traced  back  to 
Scotland  through  is  great-grandfather  who  was  of 
Scotch  descent  but  a  native  of  Ireland  whence  his 
ancestors  had  emigrated  during  religious  persecu- 
tions in  Scotland.  When  a  young  man  the  great- 
grandfather removed  to  the  United  States  and 
located  in  Pennsylvania  where  the  family  grew 
up.  His  descendants  in  this  country  were  Pres- 
byterians and  prosperous  farmers,  as  his  ances- 
tors had  been  on  the  other  side  of  the  water.  One 
of  a  family  of  eight  children,  J.  Ross  Clark  was 
born  near  Connellsville,  Pa.,  April  10,  1850,  the 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Andrews)  Clark,  the 
Clark  Memorial  Home  in  Los  Angeles  having 
been  presented  to  the  Young  Women's  Christian 
Association  in  honor  of  his  mother.  The  eldest 
.son.  Hon.  William  A.  Clark,  junior  member  of 
the  United  States  Senate  from  Montana,  is  with- 
out doubt  the  best-known  of  the  sons,  and  the 


largest  individual  mine  owner  in  the  country. 

The  education  of  J.  Ross  Clark  was  received 
in  his  early  years  in  the  public  schools  of  Van 
Buren  county,  Iowa,  where  his  family  removed 
when  he  was  six  years  of  age,  and  later  in  an 
academic  course  at  Bentonsport  Academy,  but 
his  wide  business  experience  has  furnished  him 
with  a  breadth  of  knowledge  which  no  course  at 
school  could  have  provided.  In  company  with 
his  brother,  Joseph  K.,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
United  States  mail  contract  business  with  head- 
quarters at  Horse  Plains,  Mont.  In  1876  he 
engaged  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Dexter  Milling 
Company  in  Butte,  Mont.,  and  the  next  year 
accepted  a  position  as  cashier  in  the  bank  of  Don- 
nell,  Clark  &  Larabie,  where  he  continued  until 
1886,  having  in  1884  acquired  the  interest  of  Mr. 
Donnell  in  the  business,  and  Mr.  Larabie  retiring 
soon  after,  the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to 
W.  A.  Clark  &  Bro.  and  continuing  as  such  to  the 
present  time,  the  brothers  still  being  partners  in 
the  business. 

The  year  1892  saw  his  establishment  in  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  instituted  the  Los  Alamitos 
Sugar  Company  and  has  continued  to  make  his 
home  ever  since.  He  was  married  in  1878  to 
Miss  Miriam  A.  Evans,  a  native  of  Ohio,  but  at 
the  time  of  her  marriage  residing  in  Montana,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  two  children,  Ella  H.  and 
Walter  M.  Clark.  In  Los  Angeles  they  are  con- 
nected with  the  First  Congregational  Church,  and 
although  Mr.  Clark  prefers  to  devote  his  atten- 
tion entirely  to  his  private  business,  he  yet  has 
firm  political  opinions  and  in  a  stanch  Democrat. 
Aside  from  the  Los  Alamitos  Sugar  Company, 
Mr.  Clark's  business  associations  are  with  the 
Citizens'  National  Bank,  of  which  he  is  a  director, 
the  Columbia  Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  fills  the  same  office,  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  in  which  he  has  also  served  as  direc- 
tor, and  was  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


COL.  FRANK  M.  CHAPMAN,  who  passed 
away  at  his  home  in  Covina,  Cal.,  March  18.  1909, 
was  a  native  of  Illinois,  having  been  born  in 
Macomb,  McDonough  county,  in  that  state,  on 
the  first  day  of  the  year  1849.  He  was  the  eld- 
est of  a  large  family  of  children  bom  to  Sid- 
ney S.  and  Rebecca  Jane  Chapman.  His  father 
was  born  in  Ashtabula  county,  Ohio,  in  1827, 
and  was  a  descendant  of  one  of  three  brothers 


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who  came  from  England  to  Massachusetts  about 
1650.  Going  to  Macomb  when  a  young  man, 
in  1848  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Rebecca 
Jane  Clarke,  the  eldest  daughter  of  David  and 
Eliza  (Russein  Clarke,  natives  of  Kentucky  and 
early  pioneers  of  central  Illinois.  Colonel  Chap- 
man's boyhood  was  passed  at  Macomb.  There 
he  attended  the  common  schools  and  engaged  in 
various  occupations  until  he  answered  the  last  call 
made  by  President  Lincoln  for  soldiers.  He  en- 
listed 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  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  engaged  in 
business  for  himself.  After  the  fire  in  Chicago  in 
1871,  there  being  a  great  demand  for  bricklayers 
in  that  city,  and  having  learned  that  trade  with 
his  father,  who  was  a  builder,  he  went  there  and 
for  a  time  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  fol- 
lowed with  varying  success  until  he  began  the 
.study  of  medicine.  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  enter- 
prise and  the  business  grew  until  Chapman  Broth- 
ers (as  the  firm  was  known)  erected  their  own 
building  and  owned  a  large  printing  plant  in 
Chicago.  For  many  years  the  firm  did  an  exten- 
sive and  prosperous  printing  and  publishing  busi- 
ness, and  at  the  same  time  engaged  extensively 
in  the  real  estate  business,  and  also  erected  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  Angeles.  Here 
he  lived  for  a  year,  when  he  removed  to  Palmetto 
Ranch,  at  Covina,  at  which  place  he  was  exten- 
sively engaged  in  orange  growing  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  Throughout  the  entire  period  of  his 
residence  here  he  was  identified  with  almost  every 
local  enterprise  inaugurated  by  its  people,  and 
was  regarded  as  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  were  born  four  children :  Frank  M.,  Jr., 
born  at  Chicago,  111.,  July  17,  1888;  Grant,  also  at 
Chicago,  June  11,  1891  ;  Grace,  born  in  Los  An- 
geles, October  18,  1895 ;  and  Clarke,  born  at 
Covina,  February  21,  1898.  Mrs.  Chapman  was 
born  in  Friedrichstadt,  Schleswig-Holstein,  Ger- 
many, July  2,  1861.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Wil- 
helm  Ferdinand  and  Louise  (Fencke)  Zillen  and 
came  with  her  father  to  the  United  States  in 
1866. 

Politically  Colonel  Chapman  was  a  life  long 
Republican  and  was  always  more  or  less  inter- 
ested in  politics.  While  residing  in  Chicago  he 
represented  the  twenty-fifth  ward  in  the  city 
council,  and  while  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
railroads  was  the  author  of  the  ordinance  de- 
manding the  elevating  of  steam  railways,  thereby 
doing  away  with  grade  crossings. 

He  was  appointed  lieutenant-colonel  of  the 
National  Guard  of  California  by  Governor  Henry 
Gage,  and  reappointed  by  Governor  George  C. 
Pardee,  and  Governor  James  N.  Gillett,  having 
served  on  the  stafT  of  these  three  governors. 

Colonel  Chapman  was  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  and  not  only  took  an  active  part  in 
church  work,  but  was  identified  with  every  move- 
ment for  the  betterment  of  the  community. 


BRADNER  W.  LEE.  The  records  of  the 
Lee  family  since  its  location  in  America  during 
the  colonial  period  of  our  history  form  an  inter- 
esting 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  "Revolt;"  his  property  was  confiscated,  and 
while  yet  a  single  man,  in  1725,  he  emigrated  to 
America  and  settled  on  the  banks  of  the  Hudson, 
near  the  village  of  Fishkill,  in  Dutchess  county, 
N.  Y..  where  he  soon  married  Margaret  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  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-eight  years,  and  both  him- 


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self  and  wife  were  interred  in  the  cemetery  at 
Dover,  Dutchess  county,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  Lee  was  born  at  the  family  residence 
November  15,  1739,  and  before  attaining  his  ma- 
jority— on  the  22nd  of  July,  1760,  he  married 
Watey  Shearman  (or  Sherman,  as  it  is  variously 
spelled),  born  December  9,  1743.  Shortly  after- 
ward Mr.  Lee  purchased  a  farm  near  Fishkill, 
at  a  point  called  Ouakertown,  and  there  made  his 
home  for  some  years.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  War 
of  the  Revolution  he  was  among  the  first  to  re- 
spond to  his  country's  call,  and  in  the  years  of 
that  long,  and  at  times  well-nigh  hopeless  strug- 
gle, his  name  appears  frequently  in  the  published 
military  records  of  the  part  taken  by  New  York. 
He  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  in  Capt. 
Jacob  Rosecrans'  Dutchess  County  Company,  Col. 
James  Holmes,  Fourth  Regiment,  New  York  Con- 
tinental Line,  June  30,  1775.  This  was  one  of 
the  first  four  regiments  of  the  Continental  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  lieutenant,  same  company  and 
regiment,  August  3,  1775,  serving  in  this  com- 
mand until  November,  1776.  At  the  session  of  the 
Provincial  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  Com- 
pany, 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  Commissions 
by  Young  Gentlemen  of  Fortune  and  Family 
whose  services  your  Committee  are  under  the 
disagreeable  necessity  of  declining  to  accept." 

It  resulted  finally  in  a  fifth  battalion  or  regi- 
ment 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  Montgomery  and  Clinton,  White 
Plains  and  other  engagements  along  the  Hudson. 
The  muster  roll  of  his  company  is  preserved  in 
the  New  York  archives  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and 
is  published  in  Vol.  I,  New  York  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, Albany,  1887.  He  was  a  member  of  a  general 
court  martial  held  by  order  of  General  Washing- 
ton near  White  Plains.  This  court  was  com- 
posed of  Brigadier-General  McDugall,  president, 
a  colonel,  a  lieutenant  colonel,  a  major  and  ten 
captains.  Col.  Morris  Graham  was  tried  before 
this  court  on  the  charge  of  cowardice  at  the  Battle 
of  White  Plains,  preferred  against  him  by  Col. 
Joseph  Reed,  General  Washington's  secretary, 
and  was  acquitted,  the  evidence  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  lieu- 
tenants. Nine  men  were  tried  before  this  court, 
charged  with  treason,  convicted  and  sentenced  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  recommended  seven  of  them  for 
mercy.  Gen.  George  Clinton,  however,  disap- 
proved the  recommendation,  urging  a  severe  ex- 
ample to  deter  others  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  Mont- 
gomery and  Clinton.  After  this  latter  engage- 
ment 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  appointed  by  Gen.  George 
Clinton.  The  court  was  composed  of  Colonel  Du 
Bois,  president,  two  majors  and  ten  captains. 
Daniel  Taylor,  charged  with  being  a  spy,  was  tried 
before  the  court,  convicted  and  sentenced  to  death. 
This  sentence  was  approved  and  ordered  carried 
into  execution.  In  a  letter  dated  November  24, 
1777,  from  Gen.  George  Clinton  to  Gen.  Israel 
Putnam,  from  New  Windsor,  statement  is  made 
that  "Captain  Lee  was  permitted  to  return  with 


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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 
February  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  attempted  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  Associated  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  commissioned  and 
served  as  captain  in  Col.  Lewis  Du  Bois'  Regi- 
ment, 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  Penn  Yan,  now 
in  Yates  county.  He  purchased  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,  or  Lake  Keuka.  The  following 
spring  he  built  a  large  residence  of  Colonial  archi- 
tecture 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  de- 
stroyed 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  resting  place  is  in  the  cemetery 
at  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.    They  had  reared  a  family  of 


six  daughters  and  four  sons,  namely:  Abigail, 
Nancy,  Mary,  Patience,  Elizabeth,  Thomas,  Jr., 
Watey,  James,  Joshua  and  Sherman.  All  of  these 
children  attained  years  of  maturity,  married  and 
reared  large  families,  and  resided  in  Yates  county, 
N.  Y.,  in  the  vicinity  of  Penn  Yan,  and  the  sons 
of  Captain  Lee  became  prominent  in  the  early 
civil  and  military  history  of  their  state,  and  all 
acquired  comfortable  competences.  Abigail  mar- 
ried 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  W.  Ross  and  Gen. 
Leonard  Fulton  Ross,  attained  distinction  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  Annapolis ;  his  son,  Capt. 
Dana  Willis  Kilburn,  of  the  Army,  a  graduate  of 
the  West  Point  Military  Academy;  Gen.  Charles 
L.  Kilburn,  also  a  graduate  of  West  Point,  now 
deceased ;  and  Hon.  Paris  Kilburn,  formerly  Sur- 
veyor of  Customs,  Port  of  San  Francisco,  and 
president  of  the  State  Board  of  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners. Hon.  John  Wesley  Ross,  LL.  D.,  was 
formerly  postmaster  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
president  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  lecturer  in  the  law 
department  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.  Patience  married  Lewis 
Birdsall,  a  son  of  Col.  Benjamin  Birdsall,  promi- 
nent in  the  Revolutionary  and  early  political 
history  of  New  York.  Her  granddaughter,  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  California  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  Regi- 
ment 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 


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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  character  and  engaged  in 
large  business  enterprises.  He  was  a  colonel  in 
the  war  of  1812,  and  afterwards  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.  Sherman  Lee  was  a  major  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and  afterwards  colonel  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Third  New  York  Militia  Regiment. 
James  Lee  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Mor- 
gan Lewis  as  an  ensign  in  the  New  York  Militia 
in  1805.  This  commission  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  his  grandson,  Bradner  Wells  Lee,  of  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.  Many  of  the  descendants  of  Cap- 
tain Lee  and  his  children  have  served  with  distinc- 
tion in  the  civil  and  military  departments  of  the 
government,  adding  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  removed  to  Penn  Yan.  N.  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  Wagner,  James  Barker,  Russell 
Joshua  and  Sophia  P.,  all  of  whom  married  and 
reared  large  families.  Their  sixth  child,  David 
Richard  Lee,  was  born  at  Milo,  N.  Y.,  January 
27,  1815,  and  in  young  manhood  became  a  farmer 
and  merchant.  He  settled  at  East  Groveland, 
Livingston  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1849,  and  made  that 


place  his  home  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
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 
the  Conqueror. 

The  Roll  of  Battle  Abbey  contains  the  name 
of  this  ancestor  of  the  Wells  family,  "R.  de 
Euille"  or  Welles.  Euille  or  Welles  bore  the 
same  arms  with  slight  variation.  The  name  rami- 
fies in  many  directions,  and  among  many  different 
families,  Vallibus,  Welles,  Lee,  Millburn,  Mol- 
beck,  Mollineaux  (or  Miller),  D'Everaux,  Wassa, 
Washbourn  (afterwards  Washington),  Bum, 
Hurtburn,  Heburn,  etc.  The  ancestor  was  named 
Euille  (a  spring  or  water)  in  Normandy,  and 
originated  also  the  root  of  Vernon. 

The  origin  of  the  de  Welles  family  of  Lincoln- 
shire, Barons  by  summons  to  parliament,  was  in 
the  Vaux  (or  Baux,  or  Bayeux,  or  de  Vallibus) 
family  of  France,  one  of  the  illustrious  families 
known  to  history.  The  derivation  is  traced  to  the 
year  794,  from  which  period  they  held  the  highest 
rank,  personally  and  by  royal  inter-marriage.  It 
was  founded  in  England  after  the  Conquest,  by 
Harold  de  Vaux  (a  near  relation  of  William  the 
Conqueror)  and  his  three  sons,  Barons  Hubert, 
Ranulph  and  Robert,  all  surnamed  de  Vallibus. 
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  Pentney  Abbey.  Adam  de  Welles  died 
without  issue  and  his  brother,  William,  thus  be- 
came founder  of  that  long  line  of  noblemen  of 
Lincolnshire.  The  family  of  Vaux  derived  its 
surname  from  a  district  in  Normandy,  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  N.  Lee  is  descended,  con- 
tains 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  barons,  instrumental 
in  obtaining  from  King  John,  in  1215.  the  great 
Maa:na  Charta.  prepared  by  his  own  hand  in 
1207,  and  being  Lord  Chancellor,  was  the  most 
confidential  advisor  to  the  king.    His  very  numer- 


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ous  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  descendant,  was  Hugh 
Welles  (as  the  name  was  then  spelled),  born  in 
Essex  county,  England,  in  1590.  He  emigrated 
from  Essex  county  to  America  in  1635,  with  his 
brothers  Richard,  Joseph,  George  and  William, 
coming  in  the  ship  Globe,  which  sailed  from 
Gravesend  August  6,  1635,  and  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  re- 
moved 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,  Jonathan,  Jona- 
than 2nd,  Colonel  Daniel,  Ira,  and  Isaac  Titche- 
nor,  who  was  born  in  Vermont.  Jonathan  Wells 
2nd  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  as  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  Nineteenth  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  resides 
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,  1860;  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  instruction  of  his 
uncle,  Col.  G.  Wiley  Wells,  he  prepared  for  the 
legal  profession.  His  uncle  at  this  time  was 
United  States  district  attorney  of  the  Northern 
District  of  Mississippi,  and  was  subsequently  a 


member  of  congress  from  that  state,  and  later 
United  States  consul-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  there- 
from 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;  Works,  Lee  &  Works,  and  Bradner  W.  Lee, 
with  offices  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  removed  to  their  present 
location  in  one  of  the  finest  office  buildings  in  the 
city  of  Los  Angeles.  Here  they  have  one  of  the 
largest  private  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  con- 
nected with  some  of  the  most  noted  litigations  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  position ;  and  from  1902  to  1904, 
inclusive,  served  as  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Republican  state  central  com- 
mittee. In  1898  he  was  elected  trustee  of  the 
state  library  at  a  joint  session  of  the  senate  and 
assembly  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  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars,  serving  as  its  first  historian  and  later  as 
chancellor;  the  California  Commandery  of 
Foreign  Wars,  of  which  he  was  vice-commander, 
the  late  General  Shaffer  being  commander;  and 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar 
Association  since  its  organization;  and  in  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  has  served  on  the  law 
committee,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Harbor 
committee.  For  years  he  served  as  a  director 
and  treasurer  of  the  California  Society  Sons  of 


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the  Revolution.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of 
Southern  California  Lodge,  No.  278,  F.  &  A.  M. ; 
Signet  Chapter,  No.  57,  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  Republican  county  convention  in  1906.  Gov- 
ernor Pardee  tendered  him  the  appointment  of 
superior  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  superior  judge,  but  has 
steadfastly  refused,  however,  never  shirking  the 
duty  of  using  his  influence  and  working  faith- 
fully for  the  success  of  the  Republican  party. 
Socially  he  enjoys  the  esteem  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, 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  Emmanuel  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  which  he  is  a  member. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  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,  Maryland,  and  at 
Mount  De  Sales  Academy,  in  Baltimore.  Born 
of  this  union  were  three  sons,  Bradner  Wells,  Jr., 
who  was  born  January  20,  1886;  Kenyon  Farrar, 
bom  February  28,  1888;  and  Guilford  Richard, 
born  October  20,  1890,  and  died  August  5,  1891. 
Both  surviving  sons  were  educated  in  the  Harvard 
Military  School  at  Los  Angeles,  and  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Jr.,  University.  The  ancestry  of  the  Farrar 
family  is  traced  back  to  Gualkeline  or  Walkeline 
de  Ferrariis,  a  Norman  of  distinction  attached  to 
William,  Duke  of  Normandy,  before  the  Invasion 
of  1066.  From  him  the  English  and  American 
branches  of  the  family  are  descended.  Henry 
de  Ferrars,  his  son,  is  on  the  roll  of  Battle  Abbey 
(a  list  of  the  principal  commanders  and  com- 
panions in  arms  of  William  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  presi- 
dent  for  the   repeal   of   the   Embargo   Act,   and 
with  Stephen  Farrar  and  others  was  a  founder 
of  the  New  Ipswich  Academy.     Deacon  Samuel 
Farrar  was  chairman  of  the  first  committee  of 
correspondence    in    November,    1773,    and    was 
afterward  a  member  of  the  great  Middlesex  Con- 
vention 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  Ips- 
wich, N.  H.,  who  served  as  a  judge  of  the  courts 
in  New  Hampshire  from  1775  to  1816,  inclusive, 
in  the  course  of  which  time  he  occupied  every 
seat  from  that  of  junior  justice    of    the    county 
court  in  1775,  to  that  of    chief    justice    of    the 
Supreme  Court,  to  which  he  was  appointed  Feb- 
ruary 22,   1802.     Over  twenty  by  the  name  of 
Farrar  were  graduates  of  Harvard  University.    A 
complete   genealogical   record   of  the   family   is 
contained  in  Vol.  VI  of  the  New  England  His- 
torical  and   Genealogical    Register   of    October, 
1852.    Mrs.  Lee's  direct  ancestor  was  Jacob  Far- 
rar, who  was  born  in  England,  there  reared  and 
married,   and   with   his   wife   and    four   children 
emigrated  to  America  about  1640.    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  Wobum, 
Mass.,  where  his  death  occurred  in  August,  1677. 
The  town  of  Lancaster  was   incorporated   May 
18,  1653,  and  among  the  original  proprietors  were 
John  and  Jacob  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  removed  with 


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her  children  to  Concord,  N.  H.  Their  son,  George 
Farrar,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  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  maindenhood. 
Miss  Mary  Howe.  They  had  a  son,  also  called 
George,  who  was  born  in  Lincoln,  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  Farrar,  later 
removed  to  Hanover,  and  finally  to  Colebook, 
N.  H.,  where  he  died.  His  son,  William  Farrar, 
was  bom  in  Hanover,  N.  H.,  September  13,  1780, 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1801,  and 
settled  in  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  in 
March,  1850.  His  son.  Col.  William  Humphrey 
Farrar,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  in  1828, 
educated  in  Dartmouth  College,  after  which  he 
took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  the  dis- 
tinguished statesman,  Hon.  Daniel  Webster,  then 
with  Hon.  Caleb  Gushing,  who  became  attorney 
general  of  the  United  States.  Under  President 
Pierce's  administration  he  was  appointed  United 
States  district  attorney  for  Oregon,  becoming 
then  a  practitioner  in  Portland,  and  standing  high 
in  his  profession.  He  served  as  mayor  of  Port- 
land 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  Balti- 
more, 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  irreproachable  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,  Ysidora 
Blanca  y  Rivera.    Don  Jose  Bandini,  founder  of 


the  family  in  America,  was  a  native  of  Andalucia, 
Spain.  At  an  early  age  he  entered  the  navy,  and 
as  lieutenant  of  the  Spanish  vessel  Nymphia  he 
was  present  at  the  battle  of  Trafalgar.  He  after- 
ward became  captain  and  acting  commander,  with 
title  of  almirante,  over  a  squadron  in  South 
American  waters.  In  his  flagship  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  possession  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  family.  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,  Gal.,  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  Mission.  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  eff^ect  that  he  was  a  native  of 
Castile,  Spain.  Don  Jose,  father  of  Don  Juan, 
although  a  commander  in  the  Spanish  navy,  had 
a  home  and  owned  much  property  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  appearance  in  public  life  was  as  a  member 
of  the  assembly  or  deputation  which  met  at 
Monterey  in  1827-28.  From  1828  to  1832  he  was 
commissioner  of  revenue  for  San  Diego.  In  1832 
he  was  a  leader  in  an  uprising,  sometimes  called 
the  Bandini  Rebellion,  against  the  tyranny  and 
incapacity  of  Governor  Victoria,  whom  Mr.  Ban- 
dini 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 


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of  an  academy  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  CaHfornia,  and  in  1838 
administrator  of  the  San  Gabriel  Mission.  From 
1842  to  1844  he  held  various  public  offices. 

Like  many  of  the  leading  Californians,  Don 
Juan  Bandini  had  been  for  a  long  time  thor- 
oughly dissatisfied  with  the  misrule  of  the 
officials  appointed  by  the  Mexican  government  for 
the  territory.  For  this  reason,  upon  the  coming 
of  the  Americans,  he  decided  to  assist  them,  be- 
lieving 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  Am.eri- 
can  commodore  for  himself  and  statT.  For  these 
acts  Mr.  Bandini  lost  his  vast  Mexican  posses- 
sions, the  Guadalupe,  Tecati,  and  other  ranchos, 
which  are  today  veritably  "no  man's  land,"  since, 
without  the  signature  of  the  Bandini  heirs,  no 
man  can  hold  title,  and  that  family  are  still  de- 
barred from  their  rights.  In  1847  Mr.  Bandini 
was  one  of  the  seven  leading  men  of  the  state, 
Spanish  and  American,  appointed  by  John  C. 
Fremont  under  orders  of  Commodore  Stockton 
to  meet  as  an  assembly  to  arrange  laws  for  the 
new  territory.  On  account  of  the  departure  of 
Stockton  and  the  disagreement  between  General 
Kearney  and  Fremont,  which  resulted  in  the  re- 
moval 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.  Besides  his  Mexican  posses- 
sions 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  sur- 
rounding a  large  court.    Here  for  many  years  was 


dispensed  that  hospitality  for  which  the  Cali- 
fornians were  noted.  Bancroft  says  of  Mr.  Ban- 
dini that  he  must  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  of  his  time  and  place.  General 
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,  daughter  of  Capt.  Santiago 
Arguello,  and  granddaughter  of  the  pioneer  Capt. 
Jose  Dario  Arguello,  one  of  the  foremost  men 
in  the  settlement  of  the  territory.  As  the  repre- 
sentative 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  posi- 
tion to  become  governor  of  the  peninsula. 

Dona  Refugio,  by  virtue  of  her  noble  presence 
and  character,  her  youth  and  beauty,  as  well  as 
her  position  as  wife  of  Don  Juan  Bandini,  was, 
perhaps,  the  most  prominent  woman  in  Southern 
California  during  the  events  attending  the  Mexi- 
can war.  She  it  was  who  made  the  first  Ameri- 
can flag  manufactured  in  Southern  California. 
It  happened  in  this  way:  Her  husband  had 
accompanied  a  detachment  of  Commodore  Stock- 
ton's command  to  the  Bandini  ranchos  in  Lower 
California,  where  he  had  supplied  them  with 
horses,  cattle  and  other  necessities.  For  this  aid 
to  the  enemy  he  had  to  at  once  remove  his  family 
from  its  Mexican  home,  so  upon  the  return  Mrs. 
Bandini  and  her  little  ones  were  of  the  party.  On 
this  journey  Major  Hennesley,  commander  of 
the  American  troops,  discovered  that  he  had 
neglected  to  bring  with  him  a  flag,  without  which, 
in  the  disturbed  state  of  afl^airs,  it  would  be  un- 
wise to  attempt  to  enter  the  town.  Learning  of 
his  dilemma,  Mrs.  Bandini  offered  to  make  him 
a  flag.  The  sewing  bag  upon  her  arm  furnished 
thread,  scissors,  needle  and  thimble,  and  at  the 
noon  rest  she  took  from  the  clothes  of  her  little 
ones,  Margarita,  Dolores,  and  her  baby  boy,  the 
necessary  material,  and  under  the  direction  of 
the  Major  soon  fashioned  what  Dona  Refugio 
described,  when  telling  the  writer  of  this,   the 


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story,  as  a  "Muy  bonita  bandera"  (very  pretty 
flag).  "The  day  after  I  got  home,"  continued 
Mrs.  Bandini,  "Commodore  Stockton  and  all  his 
staff  in  beautiful  uniforms  called  to  thank  me  for 
the  flag,  and  the  band  of  the  Congress  (the  flag- 
ship of  the  squadron)  gave  me  a  serenade,  such 
music  I  have  never  heard  before."  The  flag  was 
sent  to  Washington  with  other  trophies  of  the 
war.  In  her  San  Diego  home  Mrs.  Bandini 
nursed  the  wounded  Kearney,  and  entertained 
many  of  the  officers  of  the  American  army,  among 
these  the  gay  Lieutenant  William  T.  Sherman, 
with  whom  a  firm  friendship  was  formed,  lasting 
through  his  life.  One  of  the  officers,  Lieut.  Cave 
J.  Coutts,  a  classmate  of  U.  S.  Grant's,  eventually 
won  Ysidora,  at  that  time  the  only  young  lady  of 
the  Bandini  family,  her  elder  sisters  being  mar- 
ried, and  her  younger  ones  yet  little  children.  Like 
all  the  daughters  of  Don  Juan,  she  was  noted  for 
her  beauty. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  the  family  of  Don 
Juan  Bandini  consisted  of  his  wife.  Dona  Re- 
fugio ;  his  five  sons,  Jose  M. ;  Juan  B. ;  Juande 
la  Cruz  ;  Alfredo,  and  Arturo  ;  and  his  five  daugh- 
ters, Josefa,  wife  of  Pedro  C.  Carillo;  Arcadia, 
wife  of  Don  Abel  Stearns;  Ysidora,  wife  of  Cave 
J.  Coutts ;  Dolores,  wife  of  Charles  R.  Johnson ; 
and  Margarita,  wife  of  Dr.  James  B.  Winston. 
At  this  time,  1915,  there  are  still  living  Jose  M., 
Mrs.  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Winston,  both  widows. 


DON  ABEL  STEARNS  and  DONA  AR- 
CADIA BAKER.  Don  Abel  Stearns,  as  he  was 
called  by  the  people  of  his  adopted  state,  was 
for  many  years  the  leading  American  in  Southern 
California.  He  was  a  native  of  Salem,  Mass., 
where  he  was  born  in  1799.  He  had  been  several 
years  a  resident  of  Mexico  and  had  become  a 
naturalized  citizen  before  entering  California.  In 
1829  he  came  to  Monterey,  where  he  remained 
about  four  years,  then  removed  to  Los  Angeles. 
Soon  he  became  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
influential  citizens  of  the  old  pueblo,  devoting 
himself  to  its  interests,  both  as  a  public  officer  and 
private  individual,  through  a  long  life. 

His  home  was  on  the  site  of  the  present  Baker 
block,  at  the  southeast  comer  of  Main  and  Ar- 
cadia streets.  Here  he  built  a  substantial,  wide 
spreading  adobe  surrounding  a  large  courtyard. 


When  the  gates  were  closed  this  was  a  citadel 
of  itself  capable  of  withstanding  a  siege.  On 
several  occasions  its  strength  was  put  to  the  test. 
In  this  commodious  house,  which  by  the  common 
people  was  denominated  "El  Palacio  de  Don 
Abel,"  his  beautiful  young  wife,  Arcadia,  daugh- 
ter of  Don  Juan  Bandini,  and  her  lovely  sisters, 
dispensed  a  noble  hospitality.  Don  Abel  Stearns 
had  the  honor  of  sending  the  first  gold  from  Cali- 
fornia's soil  to  the  United  States  mint.  It  came 
from  a  ranch  belonging  to  the  San  Fernando 
Mission,  and  was  sent  in  a  sailing  vessel  around 
the  Horn.  Altogether  about  one  million  dollars' 
worth  of  gold  was  taken  from  the  San  Fernando 
placer  mines. 

Had  it  met  with  success  no  action  of  Mr. 
Stearns  would  have  been  considered  so  creditable 
as  his  earnest  endeavor,  during  the  years  preced- 
ing the  Mexican  war,  to  win  the  misgoverned, 
neglected  province  of  California  to  consent  to  a 
peaceful  annexation  to  the  United  States.  As  the 
confidential  agent  of  the  government  at  Wash- 
ington, Mr.  Stearns  worked  in  the  south,  as  did 
Mr.  Larkins  in  the  north,  toward  this  end.  They 
had  almost  succeeded,  when  the  untimely  ebulli- 
tion of  Commodore  Jones  of  the  American  navy 
in  assuming  that  there  was  a  state  of  war  and 
taking  possession  of  Monterey,  made  the  Cali- 
fornians  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  they 
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  constitution 
of  1849,  representing  the  district  of  Los  Angeles ; 
later  he  was  assemblyman,  supervisor  and  council- 
man. 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  interests  of  the  city  for  many  years. 
In  its  second  story  was  Stearns  hall,  where  took 
place  many  social  and  political  events  of  interest 


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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  was  the  late  Arcadia  Bandini  de  Baker. 
One  spring  morning  many  years  ago  the  ceremony 
took  place  at  the  San  Gabriel  Mission,  which 
united  this  lovely  young  girl  of  sixteen  to  a  man 
older  than  her  father,  whose  features  were  con- 
sidered 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  re- 
nowned 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'  herders  made  up  a  little 
song  over  which  their  master  often  chuckled; 
translated  it  was  something  as  follows : 

"Two  little  doves  sang  on  a  laurel. 
How    lovely    Dona    Arcadia,    how    homelv 
Don  Abel." 

After  the  unfortunate  flag  raising  of  Commo- 
dore Jones,  he  hastened  to  San  Pedro  and  there 
waited  on  his  ships  while  he  sent  a  messenger  up 
to  his  countryman,  Don  Abel,  urging  him  to 
mediate  between  him  and  Governor  Micheltorena, 
who  was  at  that  time  living  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr. 
Stearns  succeeded  in  arranging  a  meeting  at  his 
house,  and  the  following  is  the  account  given  by 
Dona  Arcadia  of  the  historic  event : 

"We  gave  a  dinner  to  the  governor,  the  com- 
modore and  their  attendants ;  everything  was  very 
friendly;  they  seemed  to  enjoy  themselves  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  patriotic  were  the  people  of 
California,  the  governor  requested,  in  the  invita- 
tions, that  all  the  ladies  wear  white  with  a  scarf 
of  the  Mexican  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  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  pulling 
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  substantial  construction.  Mr. 
and  ATrs.  Baker  and  Senator  Jones  gave  the  land, 
three  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  for  the  Soldiers' 
Home,  near  Santa  Monica.  After  Mr.  Baker's 
death  Mrs.  Baker  resided  in  Santa  Monica  until 
she  passed  away. 


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  sacri- 
ficed 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  century,  where  they  were  identi- 
fied 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  eventually 
embraced  the  Christian  faith,  which  example  was 
followed  by  many  of  his  people,  among  whom 
were  the  ancestors  of  the  Bouton  family.  The 
ancient   Bouton   shield  or  coat-of-arms   had   the 


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following  motto  on  a  groundwork  on  perpendicu- 
lar lines,  "De  Gules  a  la  Fasce  d'Or,"  which  is  old 
French,  and  its  translation  means  a  force  as  of  a 
leopard  when  it  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  genera- 
tions, the  military  and  court  records  abounding 
with  their  name  and  the  valor  of  their  deeds  for 
two  centuries.  Nicholas  Bouton,  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  Noel  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  Luxembourg  in  1794,  for  his  opposition  to 
priest  and  king.  This  was  Herard  Bowton,  who 
with  his  twin  brother,  John,  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  family  of  a  priest  in  Ireland.  Upon 
the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  Herard 
Bowton  returned  to  Ireland,  still  following  the 
fortunes  of  Marshal  Tehomborge,  under  whom 
he  served  in  the  Protestant  army  under  William 
III,  risking  life  and  fortune  in  behalf  of  civil 
and  religious  Hberty.  He  particularly  distin- 
guished 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  con- 
fiscated lands  situated  in  the  county  of  Ballyrack. 
The  present  Lord  Montague  Bowton  is  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Herard  Bowton,  who  presumably 
returned  to  France  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne. 

There  is  a  tradition  in  the  Bouton  family  re- 
garding the  origin  of  the  name,  which  relates  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  attempt  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  prop- 
erly 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  Bouton)  bestowed 
upon  him  by  the  duke.  The  change  of  Baton  to 
Bouton  was,  it  was  said,  in  allusion  to  the  bright- 
ness 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 
earlier  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  en- 
vironment and  in  the  civil,  political  and  religious 
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  Parliament.  Rouse  Boughton's 
ancestors  were  of  very  high  antiquity  in  the 
counties  of  Surrey,  Worcester,  Warwick,  Glou- 
cester and  Hereford ;  in  a  history  of  Worcester 
it  is  mentioned  that  its  patriarchs  of  that  shire 
accompanied  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  Boughton,  who  assumed 
the  name  of  Rouse  and  took  up  his  residence  at 
Rouse  Leach.  This  gentleman,  as  Thomas  Rouse, 
Esq.,  served  as  high  sheriff  of  Worcester  in  1733. 
Charles  William  Boughton,  Esq.  (second  son  of 
Schuckburgh  Boughton,  Esq.,  of  Boston  Court, 
County  Hereford,  and  grandson  of  Sir  William 
Boughton,  fourth  baronet  of  Lawford,  County 
Warwick),  assumed  the  surname  of  Rouse  and 
represented  the  boroughs  of  Eversham  and  Bram- 
her  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  baronet- 
age of  his  own  family,  the  Boughtons.  Sir  Ed- 
ward 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 


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of  the  first  English  Bouton,  we  find  WilHam 
Bouton,  who,  according  to  tradition  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  campaign  returned  with  him  to  Eng- 
land. 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  Eliza- 
beth. Edward  Boughton  was  high  sheriflf  of  the 
county  and  member  of  the  shire,  and  after  death 
his  body  was  consigned  to  the  family  vault  under 
the  church  at  Newbold. 

The  ancestor  who  located  the  name  on  Ameri- 
can soil  was  John  Bouton,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Count  Chamilly.  In  July,  1636,  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years,  he  embarked  at  Gravesend,  Eng- 
land, in  the  barque  Assurance,  and  landed  at 
Boston,  Mass.,  in  December  of  the  same  year. 
Early  in  the  settlement  of  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.  Sev- 
eral succeeding  generations  were  born  in  Con- 
necticut, 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  became  captain 
of  a  company  of  Connecticut  volunteers  during 
the  Revolutionary  war  and  distinguished  himself 
in  the  long  and  arduous  struggle,  while  his  son, 
Russell  Bouton,  served  his  country  well  in  the 
war  with  England  in  1812.  Russell  Bouton  was 
also  a  native  of  Connecticut,  born  at  Danbury, 
October  31,  1790;  at  Reading,  Conn.,  May  16, 
1814,  he  married  Mary  Hinsdale,  a  daughter  of 
Moses  Hinsdale,  who  rendered  valuable  service 
in  the  Revolutionary  war  by  the  manufacture  of 
one  hundred  cannon  for  the  colonial  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  Con- 


necticut until  1821,  and  then  moved  to  the  town- 
ship 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  paternal 
farm,  where  he  interspersed  an  attendance  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  rehance  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  Haver- 
ling  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.  Bouton  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  partner- 
ship and  established  an  extensive  grocery,  pro- 
vision 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  familiarly  called.  When 
the  great  panic  of  1857  struck  New  York,  closing 
every  bank  in  the  state  except  the  Chemical  Bank 
and  John  Magee's  Steuben  County  Bank  at  Bath 
in  twenty-four  hours,  Mr.  Bouton  had  about 
$1,250,0CK)  invested  in  wool  stored  in  Pine  street, 
the  decline  in  the  price  of  which  in  one  day 
amounted  to  fully  $100,000.     The  Erie  Railway 


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required  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.  Mr. 
Moran,  the  president  of  the  Erie  Railway,  au- 
thorized Mr.  Bouton  to  move  his  goods  and  pay 
the  freight  at  his  convenience.  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 
families  were  seeking  supplies  of  butter,  eggs, 
cheese  and  kindred  articles,  of  which  Mr.  Bouton 
held  the  principal  available  supply  in  the  city. 
John  Magee,  who  left  an  estate  valued  at  $80,000,- 
000,  had  such  implicit  confidence  in  Mr.  Bouton's 
great  energy  and  strict  integrity,  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  business  in  Bath,  and  going  to  Chicago, 
engaged  in  the  grain  commission  bitsiness,  owning 
vessel  property  on  the  lakes,  and  doing  a  grain 
and  lumber  shipping  business. 

Mr.  Bouton  had  in  his  family  records  number- 
less examples  for  his  action  in  1861,  when  he 
closed  up  and  sacrificed  his  newly  established 
business  to  engage  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion, 
for  it  is  said  that  of  the  many  Boutons  through- 
out 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  LTnion  army  during  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion,  three  of  them  attaining  the  rank 
of  brigadier-general.  It  is  undoutedly  a  historical 
fact  that  for  some  fourteen  centuries  members  of 
this  family  have  proven  themselves  valiant  sol- 
diers on  many  of  the  important  battlefields  of  the 
civilized  world,  and  always  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  official  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,  trans- 


port and  maintain  troops  previous  to  being  mus- 
tered 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  participation 
of  Bouton's  battery  is  herewith  given,  inasmuch 
as  its  action  during  the  first  day  of  the  conflict 
was  one  of  the  most  important  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  Land- 
ing. Some  eight  hundred  yards  in  front  of  this 
ridge  was  the  green  point  where  the  Hamburgh 
and  Purdy  Roads  formed  a  junction.  Here  was 
concentrated  a  large  Confederate  force.  When 
the  Union  forces  fell  back  from  this  ridge, 
Bouton's  Battery,  having  a  commanding  position, 
held  its  ground  and  a  detachment  of  the  Fifty- 
third  Ohio  Infantry  remained  in  supporting  dis- 
tance 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  possession  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  furiously, 
when  a  Mississippi  battery  of  four  twelve-pounder 
howitzers  took  position  and  opened  fire  on  Bou- 
ton'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  Lieut. 
Harry  Rogers,  and  brought  it  to  bear  on  the 
Mississippi  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  disorder.     The   fight 


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between  the  batteries  went  on  until  the  approach 
of  night,  just  as  Bouton  fired  his  last  round  of 
ammunition.  Then  he  fell  back  to  the  main  line 
in  front  of  the  Landing,  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  Sherman's  division  at  the 
commencement  of  the  battle.  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.  In  has  been  stated  by  General  Hal- 
leck  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  superior 
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.  com- 
manding Department  of  West  Tennessee  and 
Northern  Mississippi,  made  choice  of  Captain 
Bouton,  at  that  time  chief  of  artillery  of  the 
Fifth  Division  of  the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps, 
Sherman's  old  Shiloh  Division,  to  command  one 
of  six  colored  regiments  which  had  been  organ- 
ized 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  dis- 
tinguished 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  inspection,  pro- 
nounced three  of  the  colored  regiments  in  General 
Bouton's  command,  "in  drill,  discipline  and  mili- 
tary 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 
thousand,  five  hundred  men,  white  and  colored, 
he  made  a  march  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,  commanding  corps  and  divi- 
sion, respectively,  declared  this  achievement  un- 
surpassed within  their  knowledge. 

During  his  army  career  General  Bouton  was 
several  times  mentioned  in  terms  of  commenda- 
tion, especially  for  strict  integrity,  by  both  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  and  Secretary  of  War  Stanton,  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  recommending  General  Bou- 
ton's promotion  to  brigadier-general.  General 
Grant  said:  "I  consider  General  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  battery  than  Bouton's  either  in 
Europe  or  America,  and  that  less  than  a  thousand 
men  had  saved  the  day  at  Shiloh,  most  con- 
spicuous among  the  number  being  Bouton's  Bat- 
tery of  Chicago.  General  Sherman  said  on  one 
occasion :  "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."  General 
Washburn  said  that  General  Bouton's  defense  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  im- 
petuous attacks  of  General  Forrest's  victorious 
army,  constituted  one  of  the  most  heroic  deeds 
recorded  in  history.  Generals  A.  J.  Smith  and 
Toseph  Mower  both  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  Ken- 


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drick :  "I  wish  to  God  Bouton  were  here ;  he 
would  go  in  there  hke  a  whirlwind." 

To  show  how  the  general  was  regarded  by  the 
Confederates,  the  following  incident  may  be  nar- 
rated :  Soon  after  his  promotion  to  be  a  brigadier- 
general,  and  when  thirty  years  of  age,  he  had 
some  pictures  taken  at  Oak  gallery  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.  One  of  these  was  obtained  by  the  Con- 
federate General  N.  B.  Forrest  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  command,  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  coun- 
try had  most  need  for  it.  Memphis,  an  important 
river  port,  and  geographically  central  to  a  large 
and  wealthy  cotton-growing  country,  was  a  point 
not  easily  controlled  satisfactorily  to  the  general 
government  and  in  the  interest  of  the  people. 
After  many  failures  and  losses,  and  when  con- 
fusion and  distrust  had  long  run  riot.  General 
Bouton  was  appointed  provost-marshal  of  the 
city,  which  made  him,  for  the  time,  dictator  in 
affairs  military  and  civil,  including  all  trade  privi- 
leges 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  adjacent  to  the 
city.  With  the  most  careful  management  an 
exDenditure  of  $9,000  a  month  was  necessary  to 
efficient  government.  In  the  exercise  of  his  usual 
fidelity  and  the  appointment  of  only  the  most 
trustworthy  subordinates  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  service  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  al- 
legiance, 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  south- 
ern roads  in  this  section,  were  finally  returned  to 
their  owners.  One  of  the  first  and  principal 
stipulations  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  having  signed  the 
agreement,  General  Bouton  proceeded  in  person 
to  New  Orleans  and  to  Nashville  and  secured  the 
approval  of  Generals  Canby  and  Thomas,  depart- 
ment commanders.  Colonel  Tate  then  went  to 
Washington  to  complete  with  General  Grant,  the 
secretary  of  war,  and  the  quarter-master-general, 
all  arrangements  for  the  transfer  of  the  property. 
No  sooner  had  he  done  this  than  he  presented  a 
claim  against  the  government  which  President 
Johnson,  an  old  friend  of  his,  ordered  paid.  Ene- 
mies of  General  Johnson  charged  that  he  received 
a  part  of  this,  and  during  the  impeachment  trial 
desired  General  Bouton's  evidence  on  the  con- 
tract. But,  at  the  suggestion  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  recom- 
mendation of  Generals  Grant.  Sherman  and  Rol- 
lins, General  Bouton  was  ofl^ered  a  colonelcy  in 
the  regular  army,  which  he  declined.  This  was 
over  five  months  previous  to  Gen.  Nelson  A. 
Miles'  appointment  to  a  colonelcy  in  the  regular 
army,  so  that  the  acceptance  of  this  position 
would  have  enabled  General  Bouton  at  the  pres- 
ent time  to  occupy  the  position  of  retired  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  army. 

It  was  in  August,  1868,  that  General  Bouton 
first  came  to  Southern  California  to  make  his 
home  and  ever  since  has  assisted  materially  in  the 
development  and  upbuilding  of  the  section.  He 
first  engaged  in  the  sheep  raising  industry,  and 
the  following  year  his  ranges  covered  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 


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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  artesian  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  became  known  as 
the  Eureka  lemon,  a  fruit  of  superior  growth  and 
quality,  the  buds  of  which  he  at  that  time  dis- 
tributed to  several  nurserymen.  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  move- 
ment 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  Bouton  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Elsa  Johnson,  who  is  con- 
nected 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  cer- 
tain extent  those  of  a  pioneer,  and  both  these 
opportunities  have  been  in  large  measure  General 
Bouton's  to  exercise.  When  he  came  to  South- 
ern 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  cal- 
ibre is  owed  the  present-day  greatness  of  this 
section,  for  no  burden  was  too  heavy,  no  under- 
taking too  difficult  for  these  hardy  pioneers,  and 
in  their  achievement  is  the  unparalleled  develop- 
ment of  Southern  California.  A  story  which  il- 
lustrates the  daring  of  General  Bouton  is  the  fol- 
lowing, which  appeared  in  the  St.  Louis  Repub- 
lican January  8,  1891,  in  an  article  entitled, 
"Stories  of  Pioneer  Daring:"  "An  equally  re- 
markable display  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 
suspect  in  him  the  reckless  daring  which  won 
him  distinction  in  some  of  the  most  desperate 
engagements  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  battery  and  two  rebel  batteries  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  remembered  as  one  of  the  most  gallant  achieve- 
ments 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  infested  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  sud- 
denly 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  under- 
stood that  the  general  was  carrying  $18,000  to 
buy  a  band  of  nine  thousand  sheep,  and  this  the 
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  slight- 
est resistance  from  the  prisoner.  So  the  strange 
procession  started  off,  the  highwaymen  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  mur- 
der, fully  established  by  later  developments,  was 
perfectly  understood  by  the  captives,  and  the  gen- 
eral decided  if  he  must  die  he  would  die  trying. 
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  shotgim  should  perceive  his  intent.  Slowly 
and  noiselessly  he  groped  until  he  found  a  link 


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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 
managed  to  unhook  it.  Without  changing  the 
position  of  his  hands  perceptibly  he  began  to  draw 
his  right  cautiously  up  towards  his  hip  pocket. 
Just  as  it  rested  on  the  grip  of  the  small  revolver 
concealed  there,  the  highwayman  behind  saw  what 
he  was  at,  and  with  a  shout  threw  the  shotgun 
to  his  shoulder.  But  before  he  could  pull  the  trig- 
ger, Bouton  had  snatched  out  his  pistol,  wheeled 
about,  and  shot  him  down.  The  desperado  who 
was  leading  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,  pioneer  and  the 
founder  of  a  western  civilization,  are  an  inheri- 
tance, and  not  the  accident  of  nature.  The  career 
of  the  Bouton  family  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  Burgundian  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  fol- 
lowed the  fortunes  of  William  III  of  England, 
who,  under  Tehomborge  at  Portiers  and  at  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne  fought  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  today,  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 
generation,  and  again  honored  for  the  part  he  has 
played  in  the  civic  Hfe  of  the  nation. 


HON.  MEREDITH  P.  SNYDER.  There 
are  names  so  closely  associated  with  the  per- 
manent development  of  Los  Angeles  that  the  men- 
tion of  the  city's  growth  brings  to  the  old  resi- 
dents 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  fos- 
tering enterprises  necessary  to  the  city's  material, 
commercial  and  educational  growth.  Hence 
in  local  annals  his  name  is  worthy  of  perpetua- 
tion, and  a  complete  history  of  the  place  could  not 
be  written  without  giving  due  mention  to  the  citi- 
zenship of  this  prominent  man. 

The  Snyder  family  is  of  southern  origin.  North 
Carolina  becoming  the  scene  of  their  labors  dur- 
ing the  colonial  period  of  our  country.  At  Lex- 
ington Court  House,  in  that  state,  October  22, 
1859,  Meredith  P.  Snyder  was  born,  the  son  of 
K.  D.  and  Elizabeth  (Heiher)  Snyder.  Both 
parents  passed  away  when  their  son  was  but  a 
lad  in  years,  and  the  estate  being  rendered  worth- 
less by  the  devastating  effects  of  the  Civil  war 
he  was  compelled  to  seek  a  livelihood  early  in  life. 
Of  a  studious  nature  through  inheritance  he  de- 
voted all  the  time  he  could  possibly  spare  to  secur- 
ing an  education,  accumulating  sufficient  means  to 
give  him  considerable  collegiate  training,  although 
he  did  not  graduate.  In  1880  he  became  a  resident 
of  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home 
and  successfully  established  for  himself  a  place 
among  the  representative  men  of  this  city.  His 
first  occupation  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  busi- 
ness for  eight  years,  when,  for  a  similar  period, 
he  was  at  the  head  of  the  M.  P.  Snyder  Shoe 
Company,  a  business  which  is  still  successfully 
carried  on  although  under  different  management. 
A  Democrat  in  his  political  convictions,  Mr. 
Snyder  early  became  associated  with  this  party 


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in  Los  Angeles  and  was  chosen  to  represent  the 
people  in  various  positions  of  trust  and  respon- 
sibility. For  twelve  years  he  was  the  leader  of 
the  Democratic  party  in  the  city  and  practically 
controlled  their  movements.  Elected  in  1891  a 
member  of  the  police  commission  he  served  accept- 
ably until  the  expiration  of  his  term,  when  he  was 
re-elected.  Two  years  later  he  was  elected  to  rep- 
resent the  second  ward  in  the  city  council,  where 
he  took  an  active  part  in  all  movements  tending 
toward  the  upbuilding  of  the  town.  Careful  and 
discriminating  in  his  public  office  as  he  has  always 
been  in  business  life,  he  considered  the  worth  of 
all  measures  introduced  before  giving  them  his 
support,  and  after  having  once  made  up  his  mind 
nothing  could  swerve  him  from  his  point.  An  evi- 
dence of  his  standing  as  a  citizen  and  his  promi- 
nence in  the  Democratic  party  was  his  nomination 
in  the  fall  of  1896  for  the  office  of  mayor.  His 
election  by  a  large  majority  followed  and  in  Jan- 
uary, 1897,  he  took  his  seat  and  began  an  adminis- 
tration which  has  meant  no  little  in  the  welfare  of 
the  city.  Although  exercising  a  controlling  influ- 
ence in  local  affairs  this  influence  was  used  only 
for  the  best  purposes  and  for  the  distinct  good  of 
the  municipality.  Between  the  expiration  of  this 
term  and  his  re-election  in  1899  he  engaged  in  the 
real-estate  business,  his  interests  being  confined  to 
acreage  subdivisions,  in  which  he  met  with  suc- 
cess. 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,  and  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 
action.  He  is  universally  esteemed  by  thought- 
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  sec- 
retary 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  company  he  fought  them  for  twelve 
years,  endeavoring  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. He  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  or- 
ganized the  California  Savings  Bank  and  became 
its  president.  A  company  had  secured  the  char- 
ter for  a  bank  but  were  unable  to  effect  its  organ- 
ization, finally  giving  the  entire  matter  into  the 
hands  of  Mr.  Snyder.  They  began  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $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,  in- 
adequate for  their  needs.  In  the  near  future  they 
contemplate  the  erection  of  a  new  building.  Mr. 
Snyder  is  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Gar- 
dena  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  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam W.  Ross,  who  served  in  the  body  guard  of 
President  Lincoln  during  the  Civil  war  and  later 
became  a  prominent  citizen  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 


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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  busi- 
ness transactions  he  has  been  open  and  always  in 
favor  of  a  square  deal.  While  a  prominent  Demo- 
crat his  election  as  mayor  w^as  upon  a  much 
broader  basis ;  it  was  "For  the  people  and  by  the 
people."  While  in  office  he  gave  his  undivided 
attention  to  the  people'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 
heritage  to  their  posterity  and  an  example  worthy 
of  emulation. 


CHRISTOPHER  COLUMBUS  CHAPMAN. 
The  records  of  the  Chapman  family  can  be  traced 
back  to  the  year  1650,  when  the  first  representa- 
tive, Benjamin  Chapman,  left  England  for  Amer- 
ica and  made  settlement  in  South  Carolina.  He 
was  followed  soon  afterwards  by  his  brother 
James,  and  some  years  later  came  John,  who  set- 
tled near  Salem,  Mass.  One  of  the  latter's  thir- 
teen children  was  Isaac,  the  great-grandfather  of 
Christopher  C.  Among  the  eight  children  in  the 
family  of  Isaac  Chapman  was  Jacob  Kimble  Chap- 
man, a  ship  carpenter  by  trade.  By  his  marriage 
with  Julia  Griffith  there  were  eight  children,  of 
whom  the  eldest  was  Sidney  S. 

Sidney  S.  Chapman  was  born  near  Amherst, 
Ohio,  November  12,  1827,  and  in  boyhood  re- 
moved to  Illinois  with  his  parents.  His  marriage, 
March  30,  1848,  united  him  with  Rebecca  Jane 
Clarke,  born  in  Kentucky  November  20,  1829,  the 
daughter  of  David  and  Eliza  (Russell")  Clarke. 

Of  the  ten  children  bom  to  these  parents 
Christopher  C.  was  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth. 
He  was  born  in  McDonough  county.  111.,  August 
23,  1858,  and  at  the  age  of  ten  years  removed  to 
the  village  of  Vermont,  in  Fulton  county.  111., 
with  his  parents.  In  1872  the  family  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  in  that  city  Mr.  Chapman  made  his 
home  until  his  removal  to  California  in  1895. 
During  his  residence  in  Chicago  he  was  connected 
with  various  enterprises,  and  for  some  years  had 
charge  of  the  lithographing  department  in  the 
publishing  house  of  Chapman  Brothers. 

In  Chicago,  on  November  9,  1887,  Mr.  Chap- 
man married  Miss  Anna  J.  Clough,  a  resident  of 


that  city.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  England 
and  her  mother  of  Providence,  R.  I.  Both  died  in 
Chicago  in  1866.  They  were  the  parents  of  three 
children,  Athelia  M.,  Anna  J.  and  Robert  W., 
the  last  mentioned  now  living  in  Indiana. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  are  the  parents  of  two 
children :  Llewellyn  Sidney,  born  in  Chicago,  May 
22,  1891 ;  and  Columbus  Clough,  bom  in  Fuller- 
ton,  Cal.,  February  11,  1899.  In  politics  Mr. 
Chapman  is  a  Republican. 


JOSEPH  MESMER.  The  name  of  Mesmer 
is  well  known  among  the  business  men  of  Los 
Angeles,  where  both  father  and  son  have  taken 
a  prominent  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  independence  along 
financial  fines,  but  has  as  well  given  his  best 
efforts  toward  the  general  upbuilding  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  success  in 
various  parts  of  his  native  country,  but  with  an 
ambition  beyond  his  opportunities  he  steadfastly 
turned  his  face  toward  the  western  world.  Ulti- 
mately he  embarked  at  Havre  for  New  York 
City,  thence  he  went  to  Syracuse  and  from  there 
to  Buffalo,  in  the  last-named  city  accepting  em- 
ployment at  his  trade  as  a  journeyman.  After 
acquiring  proficiency  in  the  English  language,  he 
removed  to  Ohio  and  in  Tippecanoe  City  estab- 
lished a  bakery  which  he  conducted  successfully 
for  a  period  of  three  years. 

Attracted  to  the  remote  west  he  left  his  family 
in  Tippecanoe  City  (having  in  the  meantime 
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  abandoned  mining  and 
went  to  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  and  opened  a 
bakery.  Here  his  opportunities  for  making  money 


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were  most  abundant,  and  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  connection  in  that  city  and  came  to 
Southern  California  and  located  at  Los  Angeles, 
which  at  that  time  was  a  small  frontier  town 
containing  about  thirty-two  hundred  inhabitants, 
consisting  principally  of  Mexicans,  Digger  Indians 
and  about  seven  hundred  Americans  and  foreign- 
ers. 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  Broadway)  on 
the  west  to  Los  Angeles  street  on  the  east,  and 
Los  Angeles  street  was  but  three  blocks  long, 
extending  from  Arcadia  and  Aliso  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  street  to  what  was  then  called  Ogier's  lane 
and  is  now  Winston  street;  also  on  San  Pedro 
to  Third  street,  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  Mission  road  just 
north  of  Macy,  and  others  scattered  among  the 
orchards,  vineyards  and  gardens. 

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 
Negro  Alley,  which  extended  north  from  Aliso 
to  Plaza  streets.  Nearly  all  of  the  houses  were 
built  of  adobe  blocks,  which  are  made  of  earth 
and  straw  and  molded  and  dried  in  the  sun,  of  a 
size  twenty  inches  long,  fourteen  inches  wide  and 
five  inches  thick.  There  were  about  a  dozen  brick 
houses  and  a  few  frame  dwellings.  Upon  his 
arrival  in  the  city  Mr.  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  promising 
business  opening,  decided  to  purchase  the  Ulyard 
bakery,  which  was  located  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Main  and  First  streets  where  the  Natick 
house  now  stands.  On  the  opposite  corner  lived 
Dr.  Frechmann,  whose  daughter,  Bertha  (now  the 
widow  of  Fred  Morsch),  attended  the  puWic 
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  during  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 
New  York  bakery,  near  the  southwest  corner  of 
Third  and  Main  streets,  the  former  proprietors 
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  govern- 
ment troops  at  Camp  Leighton,  which  was  located 
about  where  the  Playa  del  Rey  car  tracks  now 
cross  First  street,  near  the  town  of  Palms, 
Los  Angeles  county.  Later  the  business  at  and 
surrounding  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  im- 
portant military  activities. 

After  conducting  the  New  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  GoUer's  wagon  shop,  continuing  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  cus- 
tomers and  the  federal  troops  who  had  mean- 
while changed  their  quarters  from  Camp  Leighton 
to  Highland  Park,  about  where  the  Occidental 
College  grounds  were  located.  After  con- 
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for  fifteen  months  Mr.  Mesmer  decided  that  he 
could  make  more  money  by  estabhshing  a  trading 
expedition  into  Arizona  than  he  could  in  the 
bakery  business,  and  so  he,  in  partnership  with  a 
very  good  friend  by  the  name  of  Yander,  pur- 
chased two  big  prairie  schooners  and  loaded  them 
with  provisions  to  sell  to  the  miners  and  campers 
of  Arizona.  They  succeeded  in  disposing  of  their 
stock  at  satisfactory  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.  Crestfallen  and 
discouraged  and  financially  much  worse  off  than 
before  they  started,  they  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
on  the  over-land  territorial  stage.  During  Mr. 
Mesmer's  absence  Mrs.  Mesmer  conducted  the 
bakery  business,  also  a  boarding  house.  Shortly 
after  his  return  Mr.  Mesmer  purchased  the 
United  States  hotel  from  Otto  Stressforth  and 
during  the  following  five  years  built  up  a  large 
and  lucrative  business.  At  the  same  time  he  pur- 
chased 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  &  Bremermann  and 
decided  that  their  well  earned  labors  entitled  them 
to  a  visit  to  their  native  land.  Taking  their  three 
children,  Joseph,  Louis  Anthony  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  Fran- 
cisco, 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  An- 
geles business,  social  and  professional  circles. 
Among  them  were :  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jerry  Newell 
in  1860;  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  Boniface  Hofifman  place  at  San  Gabriel,  op- 
posite 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  fashion.  He 
also  attended  the  weddings  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Her- 
man Heinsch,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenz  Leek,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jacob  Kuhrts,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Ben- 
ner,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  E.  Rowan,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Isaac  R.  Dunkelberger,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ben 
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  1864  and  1868.  In  his  boy- 
hood days,  while  roaming  around  the  country  or 
delivering  bread  to  customers.  Mr.  Mesmer  trav- 
eled over  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. 

The  education  of  Mr.  Mesmer  was  received 
in  the  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles  and  while 
in  Europe  he  attended  college  at  Strassburg,  Ger- 
many. After  his  return  from  Europe  he  entered 
the  employ  of  Ralph  Leon  and  remained  with  him 
until  his  father  required  his  services  in  the  wine 
business,  in  which  he  was  then  engaged,  and  after 
working  at  that  employment  for  about  five  years 
he  then  established  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.  Vibiana  Cathedral ; 
the  large  edifice  was  crowded  with  friends  of  the 
contracting  parties  anxious  to  witness  the  cere- 
mony. They  are  now  the  proud  parents  of  five 
children  :  Louis  Francis,  Mary  Josephine,  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 


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appointed  a  park  commissioner.  He  has  always 
been  most  active  in  all  public  matters  and  has 
been  conspicuously  active  in  the  opening,  widening 
and  improving  of  the  streets,  more  than  a  dozen 
of  our  public  thoroughfares  owing  their  opening 
and  widening  to  his  efforts.  To  him  also  is  due 
the  credit  of  securing  the  $280,000  in  subscrip- 
tions toward  the  purchase  of  the  free  site  for  the 
postoffice  and  federal  building.  He  also  assisted 
in  securing  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of  $32,- 
000  toward  assisting  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  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  pur- 
chase of  a  local  product  instead  of  sending  money 
away  for  Alcatraz  bitumen.  He  was  also  largely 
instrumental  in  securing  the  locating  of  the  Pub- 
lic 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  Brick  and  Clay 
Company;  also  is  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  director  Mr.  Mesmer 
repeatedly  declined  until  he  allowed  the  use  of  his 
name  as  a  director  in  the  Home  Savings  Bank. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  California  and  Jonathan 
Clubs  and  belongs  to  the  fraternal  order  of  Elks, 
Knights  of  Columbus,  the  Young  Men's  Institute 
and  several  other  charitable  and  beneficial  socie- 
ties. He  has  also  been  many  times  honored  with 
the  presidency  of  numerous  political,  social  and 
improvement  clubs.  Accompanied  by  his  family 
Mr.  Mesmer  in  1905-6  made  an  extended  trip  of 
over  thirteen  months,  visiting  many  of  the  im- 
portant cities  of  the  United  States,  Canada  and 
Europe,  and  over  twelve  countries.  The  entire 
trip  was  replete  with  pleasure. 


SPENCER  ROANE  THORPE.  The  south 
has  given  to  the  Pacific  coast  many  men  of  cul- 
ture and  broad  mental  attainments  and  among 
them  few  have  excelled  the  late  Spencer  Roane 
Thorpe,  whose  versatility  of  mind  and  force  of 


personality  impressed  every  member  of  his  circle 
of  acquaintances  and  every  locality  of  his  resi- 
dence. The  traits  which  made  him  a  leader 
among  men  came  to  him  as  an  endowment  from  a 
long  line  of  gifted  ancestors  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  Spen- 
cer Roane,  a  Revolutionary  hero,  who  later  be- 
came one  of  the  jurists  of  Virginia.  The  wife  of 
Judge  Roane  wa;s  Ann  Henry,  daughter  of  Patrick 
Henry  of  Virginia.  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. 

Born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  1842,  Spencer  Roane 
Thorpe  received  his  education  principally  in  St. 
Joseph's  College  at  Bardstown,  Ky.  At  the  open- 
ing of  the  Civil  war,  fired  with  an  enthusiastic  de- 
votion to  the  land  of  his  birth  and  the  home  of  his 
ancestors,  he  gave  himself  to  the  cause  of  the 
south.  For  one  year  he  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  be  a 
lieutenant  and  later  commissioned  captain.  In  the 
battle  of  Corydon,  Ind.,  he  was  three  times 
wounded  and  left  on  the  field  for  dead.  In  that 
way  he  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Federal  troops 
and  was  sent  to  a  hospital,  but  was  soon  trans- 
ferred to  Johnson  Island,  where  he  suffered  the 
fearful  hardships  of  a  cold  winter,  insufficient 
nourishment  and  other  privations.  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  financially  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  acquis- 
ition  of   a   thorough   knowledge   of   the    French 


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language,  with  which  he  became  thoroughly  con- 
versant. Indeed,  his  command  of  the  language 
was  so  perfect  that  the  United  States  government 
retained  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 
Louisiana  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  returned  as  perma- 
nent residents,  settling  in  San  Francisco,  but  in 
1886  they  removed  to  Ventura  county  and  settled 
three  miles  east  of  Ventura,  buying  lands  in  the 
Santa  Clara  valley  that  have  since  become  fa- 
mous. The  walnut  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  An- 
geles, although  afterward  he  continued  to  spend 
considerable  time  in  Ventura  county  in  the  super- 
vision of  his  extensive  landed  interests,  and  he 
died  on  his  Moorpark  ranch  September  1,  1905, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.  Of  genial  and 
companionable  personality,  he  enjoyed  intercourse 
with  his  fellows  and  maintained  a  warm  interest 
in  the  various  organizations  of  which  he  was  a 
member,  namely:  the  Masons,  the  United  Con- 
federate 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  received  an  excellent  edu- 
cation 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  descendant  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  prominent  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  portion  of  each  year  in  Los  An- 
geles. In  her  family  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. 
Dunnigan,  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  at  St.  Vincent's  College  and  later 
entered  the  dental  department  of  the  University 
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  professional  work  at  Eureka,  this 
state,  where  he  ranks  among  the  leading  members 
of  the  profession. 


LEWIS  J.  MERRITT.  The  Merritts  are  de- 
scended from  French  Huguenot  stock  on  the  pa- 
ternal side,  ancestors  having  fled  from  France  at 
the  time  of  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes 
to  Kent,  England.  The  branch  of  the  family 
from  which  Mr.  Merritt  of  Pasadena  is  de- 
scended came  to  America  and  settled  in  Connecti- 
cut early  in  the  seventeenth  century ;  the  great- 
grandfather served  seven  years  in  the  Revolution- 
ary war  and  died  at  the  age  of  one  hundred  years. 
The  grandfather,  Thomas,  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Chautauqua  county.  N.  Y.,  where  he 
married  Hephzebeth  Jewitt.  Lewis  J.  Merritt  was 
born  in  Hanover,  Chautauqua  county,  N.  Y.,  No- 
vember 9.  1848,  and  the  following  year  his  parents 
removed  to  Warren  county.  Pa.,  thence  in  1853 
to  Ashtabula  county,  Ohio.  The  last  move  was 
made  in  order  to  secure  better  school  privileges 
for  the  children  of  the  family,  but  they  did  not 


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remain  in  that  location  long;  the  father,  in  1855, 
went  to  the  head  of  Lake  Superior  and  in  1856 
the  mother  and  eight  sons  followed  him  and  set- 
tled in  Oneota,  Minn.,  then  the  frontier.  They 
were  among  the  first  white  families  of  Minnesota 
in  the  vicinity  of  Lake  Superior  and  upon  the 
land  which  they  developed  into  a  farm  a  part  of 
the  city  of  Duluth  now  stands,  thriving  and  pros- 
perous with  its  harbor  teeming  with  commerce. 
In  those  early  days  the  mode  of  travel  was  by 
steamboats  on  the  lake  or  over  the  Indian  trails, 
the  mail  being  carried  on  the  backs  of  Indians 
over  the  trails  in  the  winter  and  by  steamboats 
during  the  summers. 

In  1858  and  '59  the  government  cut  a  military 
road  from  Superior  to  St.  Paul,  but  it  was  not 
until  1870  that  the  Lake  Superior  and  Mississippi 
Railroad  was  built ;  the  latter  was  later  known  as 
the  St.  Paul  &  Duluth  Railroad  and  now  as  the 
Northern  Pacific  Short  Line.  In  this  isolated 
country  Mr.  Merritt  reared  his  family,  engaging 
in  the  lumbering  business.  For  many  years  the 
only  doctor  and  nurse  at  the  head  of  the  lake  was 
Mrs.  Merritt,  who  often  went  through  storms  in 
winter,  by  dogsleigh  or  in  a  small  steamboat  in 
summer,  to  attend  the  sick,  her  name  being  remem- 
bered today  among  those  who  experienced  the 
hardships  of  that  pioneer  time.  Lewis  J.  Merritt 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  until  he 
was  thirteen  years  old  when  he  began  to  work 
in  sawmills,  contracting  for  the  sawing  of  laths 
in  the  summer  and  attending  school  during  the 
winter.  When  fifteen  years  old  he  shipped  as  a 
sailor  on  a  sailing  vessel  and  followed  this  life 
for  four  or  five  years.  December  26,  1869,  he 
was  married  to  Eunice  Annette  Wood,  a  native 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  they  being  the  first  white 
couple  married  in  St.  Louis  county,  Minn.  In 
1871  a  daughter,  Annice,  was  born  in  Oneota, 
and  August  17,  1872,  a  son,  Hulett  Clinton,  was 
born.  In  1873  Mr.  Merritt  went  west  to  aid  in 
building  Custer  Barracks  at  Fort  Lincoln,  N.  Dak., 
and  the  following  year  he  moved  his  family  to 
Atchison  county,  Mo.,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing for  about  thirteen  years  and  then  returned  to 
Duluth  and  in  company  with  his  brothers,  Leo- 
nidas,  Alfred  and  Cassius  C,  for  three  years  was 
occupied  in  prospecting  for  iron.  The  success  he 
achieved  may  be  seen  in  the  great  Missabe  Range, 
first  discovered  and  opened  up  by  the  Merritt 


brothers.  The  first  iron  discovered  was  Moun- 
tain Iron  mine  in  township  58,  range  18,  the  next 
being  Biwabik  in  township  58,  range  16  and  then 
the  Missabe  mountains,  township  58,  range  17. 
These  great  properties  hold  the  key  to  the  iron 
situation  in  the  Northwest. 

In  1889  Mr.  Merritt  and  his  son,  H.  C,  formed 
a  company  known  as  L.  J.  Merritt  &  Son  and  in 
the  years  that  followed  their  operations  placed 
them  among  the  most  successful  and  prominent 
business  men  of  the  Northwest.   Mr.  Merritt  was 
for  several  years  a  director  in  the  Lake  Superior 
Consolidated  Iron  Mines,  an  $80,000,000  corpora- 
tion, now  merged  into  the  United  States  Steel  cor- 
poration in  which  Mr.  Merritt  is  one  of  the  heavy 
stockholders.    The  manner  in  which  Mr.  Merritt 
amassed  a  fortune  shows  his  possession  of  more 
than  ordinary  business  ability,  as  well  as  inde- 
fatigable effort,  and  entitle  him  to  the  position  he 
holds  among  the  leading  financiers  of  the  North- 
west.   He  has  also  placed  his  name  among  the 
citizens  of   worth   and  ability,  having  given  no 
little   effort   toward   the  material   upbuilding   of 
Duluth,  the  Merritt  family  having  built  the  Du- 
luth   Missabe    &    Northern    Railroad,    now    the 
largest  dividend  payer  per  mile  of  any  railroad  in 
the   United   States,   netting  $22,000  per  mile   in 
1907.     In  fact,  the  general  development  of  Du- 
luth was  only  made  possible  by  the  opening  up  of 
the  great  iron  mines,  which  virtually  made  the  city 
of  the  lakes.    In  the  fall  of  1896  he  removed  to 
Pasadena  where  he  guides  his  business  interests 
in  the  east  by  occasional  visits  and  a  mind  trained 
to  the  understanding  of   details   even   at  a  dis- 
tance.    He  completed  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
homes  in  Pasadena,  the  city  of  beautiful  homes, 
finishing  many  of  the  rooms  in  solid  mahogany, 
a  part  of  which  came  from  Peru  and  some  from 
Guatemala,  others  in  weathered  oak,  and  still  oth- 
ers   in    myrtle    wood.     The    residence,    with    its 
grounds,  is  one  of  the  most  complete  and  attractive 
homes  in  the  city.    Mr.  Merritt  has  four  children 
living:   Hulett  C.,  also  a  large  stockholder  in  the 
United  States  Steel  Corporation,  and  who  resides 
in  a  magnificent  home  on  South  Orange  Grove 
avenue   in    Pasadena ;    Bertha ;     Lewis    N. ;   and 
Evelyn.     Both  himself  and  wife  are  members  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.     Politically  he 
is  a  stanch  adherent  of  Republican  principles. 


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ROBERT  STEERE.  As  a  merchant  of  Los 
Angeles,  Robert  Steere  was  connected  for  many 
years  with  the  commercial  interests  of  this  city 
and  while  acquiring  a  competence  won  a  place 
of  importance  among  the  business  men  and  rep- 
resentative citizens.  A  native  of  New  York,  he 
was  born  in  Laurens,  Ostego  county,  December 
27,  1833,  a  son  of  Rufus  and  Eliza  Ann  (Brown) 
Steere,  both  of  whom  were  descendants  of  old 
Rhode  Island  famiHes,  the  former,  born  in  1799, 
being  the  seventh  in  line  of  direct  descent  from 
Roger  Williams.  Rufus  Steere  was  reared  on 
his  father's  farm  near  Gloucester,  R.  I.,  but  in 
young  manhood  removed  to  Otsego  county,  N. 
Y.,  when  it  was  a  pioneer  country,  and  there  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  leather,  operating 
a  tan  yard  for  many  years. 

Robert  Steere  was  reared  in  his  native  county, 
receiving  a  primary  education  in  the  schools  in 
the  vicinity  of  his  home.  Upon  the  completion 
of  his  studies  he  gave  his  father  assistance  in  the 
tan  yard  for  several  years,  and  upon  the  death  of 
the  latter  in  1850  took  charge  of  the  business 
and  successfully  conducted  the  same  for  two 
years.  He  then  apprenticed  himself  to  learn  the 
tinner's  trade  in  Laurens,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  win- 
ter of  1854  he  removed  to  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  where 
he  remained  three  years  engaged  in  this  line  of 
work.  In  search  of  a  better  business  location  he 
went  to  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  where  he  found  em- 
ployment at  his  trade.  Later  going  to  Nebraska 
he  joined  a  government  surveying  party  and  for 
five  months  was  engaged  in  chain  carrying.  He 
then  resumed  his  trade  and  followed  the  same 
until  1859,  in  which  year  he,  with  two  others, 
built  a  yawl  at  Sioux  City,  running  down  the 
Missouri  river  to  Omaha,  Neb.  There  Mr.  Steere 
fitted  out  an  ox-team  with  a  party  of  seven  to 
cross  the  plains,  leaving  that  place  on  May  7. 
They  had  intended  to  locate  at  Pike's  Peak,  but 
en  route  met  many  returning  emigrants  who  gave 
them  discouraging  accounts  regarding  the  mines 
there,  and  accordingly  they  continued  their  jour- 
ney through  to  California  by  the  Lander's  cut-off. 
The  journey  was  one  of  hardship  and  trial,  the 
trip  across  the  forty-mile  desert  with  no  water 
and  no  stopping  place  being  particularly  trying 
and  also  disastrous,  as  the  heat  proved  so  intense 
that  they  lost  all  but  one  ox.  This  animal  they 
used  the  best  they  could,  each  man,  however, 
being  compelled  to  carry  the  greater  part  of  his 
luggage,  except  that  which  they  were  forced  to 


leave  behind  them  on  the  plains.  With  great 
effort  this  lone  ox  was  urged  across  the  Hum- 
boldt desert  and  lived  through  the  terrible  or- 
deal ;  they  disposed  of  him  for  $20  and  with  the 
money  brought  flour  at  fifty  cents  per  pound,  and 
with  the  bacon  they  had  on  hand  served  what 
they  called  a  camper's  meal,  which  was  highly 
relished  by  the  half  starved  men.  After  resting 
a  day  or  two  they  engaged  passage  with  a  freighter 
for  Placerville,  Cal.,  where  they  arrived  Septem- 
ber 6.  Being  short  of  means,  and  lodging  places 
being  scarce,  they  secured  a  room  in  what  seemed 
to  them  a  palace  after  their  long  and  wearisome 
trip  under  the  open  sky — the  loft  of  an  old  brew- 
ery, which  they  occupied  for  a  time.  Each  man 
soon  set  out  for  himself  in  an  effort  to  make  a 
livelihood,  Mr.  Steere  finding  as  his  only  employ- 
ment the  blacking  of  stoves,  taking  a  contract  for 
fifty  of  them  for  a  hardware  firm  of  Placerville. 
He  followed  his  trade  that  winter  and  in  the 
following  spring  located  at  Mud  Springs  (now 
Eldorado),  Cal.,  where  he  engaged  as  a  clerk 
in  a  store  for  three  years.  At  the  close  of  that 
time  he  purchased  the  business  and  successfully 
conducted  the  same  until  1868.  In  the  meantime 
he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  the  place  and  also 
agent  for  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  Express,  and  June  4, 
1864,  he  was  made  deputy  internal  revenue  col- 
lector of  the  fourteenth  division  of  the  Fourth 
district  of  California  and  held  the  last-named  office 
until  1868.  Being  taken  ill  about  that  time  he 
decided  to  return  east,  and  accordingly,  March  18, 
took  passage  on  a  steamer  bound  for  New  York, 
where,  in  his  old  home,  he  spent  the  following 
six  months;  thence  he  traveled  westward  to 
Bloomington,  111.,  where  he  had  a  brother  living. 
He  remained  in  that  locality  for  seven  years, 
when  he  again  made  the  journey  to  the  Pacific 
coast,  this  time,  however,  traveling  by  rail  over 
the  route  which  had  required  so  much  time,  pa- 
tience and  self-sacrifice  for  the  early  pioneers  of 
the  west. 

Arriving  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  in  June,  1875, 
he  accepted  a  position  in  a  furniture  store  of  that 
city,  where  he  remained  until  November,  when 
he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  in  this  city  his  home 
has  ever  since  remained.  For  five  years  he  en- 
gaged in  the  furniture  business,  carrying  a  line 
of  new  and  second  hand  goods,  in  partnership 
with  John  Baldy,  under  the  firm  name  of  Steere 
&  Baldy.  This  business  was  located  in  the  old 
adobe  on  the  west  side  of   Main   street,   where 


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the  McDonald  building  now  stands,  and  was  suc- 
cessfuly  conducted  until  the  disposal  of  the  en- 
terprise. Mr.  Steere  then  retired  to  private  life, 
and  until  his  death,  spent  his  time  in  looking  after 
his  investments,  which  were  principally  in  im- 
proved property  in  Los  Angeles.  He  accumulated 
a  comfortable  competence  and  lived  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  fruits  of  his  labors  in  young  manhood. 
June  4,  1864,  Mr.  Steere  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Anna  Higgins,  in  Sacramento, 
Cal.,  a  native  of  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  who 
came  to  the  United  States  with  her  parents  when 
about  six  years  of  age.  Her  father,  John  Hig- 
gins, was  a  pioneer  of  Michigan,  his  death  oc- 
curring in  Marshall,  the  home  of  the  family.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Steere  became  the  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren, Ada  and  Robert,  both  of  whom  are  now 
deceased,  the  eldest  dying  at  the  age  of  six  years. 
Both  himself  and  wife  were  members  of  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  Church  and  liberally  support  many 
charities.  Mr.  Steere  was  a  Republican  in  his  po- 
litical affiliations  and  although  he  never  cared  per- 
sonally for  official  recognition  yet  he  sought 
to  advance  the  interests  of  his  party.  In  the 
cause  of  the  municipal  government  he  served 
for  two  years  as  a  member  of  the  city  council. 
He  was  a  man  of  business  ability,  judgment  and 
energy,  and  while  he  acquired  a  financial  suc- 
cess held  the  more  honored  position  among  the 
citizens  of  Los  Angeles  as  a  man  of  integrity  and 
honor  and  a  reliable  citizen. 


ARTHUR  McKENZIE  DODSON.  The 
record  of  the  Dodson  family  in  California  is  a 
record  of  persevering  industry  and  untiring  en- 
ergy. Fathers  and  sons  unitedly  have  labored  to 
promote  their  mutual  welfare  and  have  counted 
no  labor  too  difficult  when  by  its  successful  ac- 
complishment the  general  prosperity  might  be  pro- 
moted.- The  history  of  the  family  in  this  country 
dates  back  to  the  colonial  times,  the  first  repre- 
sentative coming  over  on  the  Mayflower  and  estab- 
lishing the  name  in  New  England,  where  the 
Fletchers  and  McKenzies,  into  which  famihes  the 
Dodsons  married,  also  became  prominent  and  in- 
fluential citizens.  In  this  connection  it  is  worthy 
of  note  that  John  Fletcher  was  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Arthur  McKenzie  Dodson  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  in  1819,  remaining  in  the  east  until 


the  year  previous  to  the  finding  of  gold  in  Cali- 
fornia. The  year  1848  found  him  a  miner  in  this 
state,  but  from  the  fact  that  he  gave  up  this  life 
two  years  later  and  was  ever  after  engaged  in 
commercial  pursuits,  it  is  safe  to  presume  that  his 
efforts  in  this  direction  were  not  all  that  he  had 
anticipated.  Coming  to  the  old  pueblo  of  Los 
Angeles  in  1850,  he  opened  one  of  the  first  butcher 
and  grocery  establishments  in  the  place  and  was 
the  pioneer  soap  manufacturer  here  also.  A  later 
enterprise  was  the  establishment  of  a  wood  and 
coal  yard  at  what  is  now  the  corner  of  Sixth  and 
Spring  streets,  in  the  very  heart  of  the  city.  This 
in  fact  was  the  nucleus  of  a  little  town  to  which 
he  gave  the  name  of  Georgetown,  in  honor  of 
"round  house"  George,  then  a  prominent  char- 
acter in  that  locality.  At  a  later  date  Mr.  Dodson 
removed  to  the  San  Fernando  valley  and  began 
raising  wheat  and  barley,  this  being  the  first  at- 
tempt at  farming  in  the  valley.  Still  later  he  be- 
came superintendent  of  the  O'Neill  ranches  in  San 
Diego  county,  but  meeting  with  an  accident  there 
he  was  compelled  to  give  up  the  management. 
After  recovering  from  the  injury  he  went  to 
Tucson,  Ariz.,  and  engaged  in  the  cattle  business, 
and  it  was  while  there  that  his  death  occurred 
about  1886. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Dodson  united  him  with 
Reyes  Dominguez,  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families  of  the  state,  she  being  a  native  of  this 
county  and  a  daughter  of  Nazario  Dominguez, 
well  known  to  all  early  residents  in  this  part  of 
the  state.  He  and  his  brothers,  Pedro  and  Man- 
uel, owned  the  Rancho  San  Pedro,  which  ex- 
tended from  Redondo  to  Compton  and  on  to  Long 
Beach.  Mrs.  Dodson  died  in  Los  Angeles  in  1885, 
having  become  the  mother  of  twelve  children,  only 
three  of  whom  are  now  living.  James  H.  and 
John  F.  are  in  partnership  in  business  and  reside 
in  San  Pedro,  and  Emma,  now  Mrs.  Thompson, 
resides  in  Hobart  Mills,  Nevada  county,  Cal. 


JOHN  ALEXANDER  WILLS.  Remem- 
bered as  an  early  pioneer  of  California,  a  man 
of  erudition  and  scholarly  attainments,  and  a  citi- 
zen whose  efforts  were  always  given  toward  the 
advancement  of  public  interests,  John  Alexander 
Wills  is  named  among  the  representative  men  of 
the  state  as  well  as  among  the  successful  lawyers 
of  the  nation.    A  native  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  he  was 


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born  October  21,  1819,  a  son  of  John  and  Eliza 
(Hood)  Wills,  both  descendants  of  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry;  the  father  was  an  early  merchant  of 
that  day,  but  died  in  1822  leaving  a  widow  and 
three  sons.  The  mother  reared  her  sons  to  man- 
hood and  inculcated  in  them  the  strong  principles 
and  integrity  which  were  noticeable  in  their  busi- 
ness and  social  lives  thereafter.  John  Alexander 
Wills  received  his  early  education  through  the 
medium  of  the  public  schools,  after  which,  in  1833, 
he  entered  Washington  College,  located  at  Wash- 
ington, Pa.,  and  graduated  therefrom  with  honors 
in  1837  as  the  valedictorian  of  his  class.  He  was 
then  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age  and  shortly 
after  his  graduation  he  attended  the  Constitutional 
Convention  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  and  visited  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  that  he  might  gratify  his  love  of 
forensic  eloquence  and  hear  the  most  famous 
speakers  of  the  day,  among  whom  were  Clay, 
Webster,  Calhoun  and  Prentiss. 

Early  resolving  to  take  up  the  study  of  law, 
he  entered  the  law  department  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1838,  and  was  there  taught  by  the  dis- 
tinguished Judge  Story  and  Professor  Greenleaf. 
He  numbered  among  his  classmates  such  men  as 
William  C.  Deming,  William  M.  Evarts,  Ebenezer 
Rockwood  Hoar,  Richard  H.  Dana,  James  Russell 
Lowell,  William  W.  Story,  Jordan  M.  Pugh,  Elihu 
B.  Washburn  and  WilHam  Ingersoll  Bowditch. 
After  leaving  Harvard,  where  he  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  July,  1840,  he  entered 
the  law  office  of  Walter  H.  Lowrie,  of  Pittsburg, 
afterward  chief  justice  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1841  and  following  this 
practiced  in  the  courts  of  Pittsburg,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  and  the  United  States 
District  Court  until  the  fall  of  1853.  In  Novem- 
ber of  the  last-named  year  he  left  Pittsburg  and 
became  a  pioneer  of  California,  locating  in  San 
Francisco,  where  he  practiced  law  for  three  years. 
His  decision  to  return  east  in  the  month  of  May 
of  1856  led  to  his  appointment  as  one  of  the  dele- 
gates from  California  to  attend  the  approaching 
Republican  convention  to  be  held  in  Philadelphia 
in  June  of  that  year,  for  although  he  began  life  3 
Democrat  he  early  became  an  aggressive  opponent 
of  slavery,  joining  in  1842  the  Liberty  party,  in 
1848  the  Free  Soil  party,  and  in  1852  the  Repub- 
lican party.  Thenceforward  he  took  an  active 
part  in  all  the  political  campaigns  up  to  1872,  and 


also  made  several  speeches  in  Los  Angeles  dur- 
ing the  campaign  of  1888.  During  the  National 
convention  of  1856,  having  been  made  chairman 
of  the  California  delegation,  he  was  placed  on 
the  platform  committee  and  was  assigned  the  duty 
of  drafting  resolutions  in  favor  of  the  Pacific  Rail- 
road and  against  slavery  in  the  territories — two 
subjects  of  importance  to  California — Mr.  Wills 
originating  the  expression  which  has  since  be- 
come famous  in  history — "those  twin  rehcs  of 
barbarism— polygamy  and  slavery."  There  has 
since  risen  a  discussion  as  to  the  origin  of  this 
expression  and  Mr.  Wills  in  a  paper  upon  the 
subject,  written  by  request  for  the  Historical 
Society  of  Southern  Cahfornia,  says  with  truth: 
"If  it  can  be  shown  that  the  phrase  in  question 
was  used  in  congress  or  elsewhere  before  the 
18th  day  of  June,  1856,  then  others  may  have 
some  claim  to  concurrent  authorship;  but  if  not, 
then  it  can  only  be  one  of  those  cases  of  parallel- 
ism in  thought  and  expression  which  sometimes 
occur  when  the  idea  of  plagiarism  cannot  reason- 
able be  supposed." 

Mr.  Wills  located  in  Chicago  and  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  that  city,  where 
he  became  connected  with  the  famous  Sandbar 
case  vs.  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  which  he  finally 
argued  before  the  United  States  supreme  court, 
being  associated  with  Edwin  M.  Stanton  in  the 
case.  Removing  then  to  Washington,  D.  C,  he 
was  appointed  special  counsel  for  the  government 
because  of  his  studies  in  California  of  the  Spanish 
and  Mexican  land  laws  of  this  state.  This  position 
he  held  under  five  successive  attorney-generals : 
Speed,  Bates,  Stansberry,  Hoar  and  Evarts,  which 
covered  the  period  of  consideration  of  that  class 
of  cases  which  continued  from  1862  to  1878.  Here 
he  was  able  to  save  millions  of  acres  of  public  land 
for  the  nation  by  defeating  the  many  fraudulent 
land  grants  of  California  and  Colorado.  In  1870 
the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  upon 
him  by  his  alma  mater.  In  1862  he  became  one 
of  the  national  volunteers  to  defend  the  southern 
border  of  Pennsylvania  from  invasion  and  served 
as  a  private  soldier  in  a  company  formed  in  Wash- 
ington, Pa.,  commanded  by  Major  H.  Ewing, 
known  as  the  "Silver  Grays,"  which  belonged  to 
the  Sixth  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volunteers.  He 
was  recommended  by  James  G.  Blaine  and  others 
for  the  United  States  Supreme  Bench,  but  Grant, 


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owing  to  tremendous  pressure  from  Pennsylvania, 
especially  Philadelphia,  appointed  Judge  Strong. 

The  failure  of  Jay  Cooke  in  1873  swept  away  a 
large  part  of  Mr.  Wills'  fortune,  and  from  that 
year  to  1878  he  was  fully  occupied  in  the  settle- 
ment of  his  financial  affairs.  In  1880,  Mr.  Wills, 
with  his  wife  and  daughter,  spent  a  year  in  Euro- 
pean travel,  and  upon  their  return  he  retired  from 
the  bar  to  devote  himself  to  reading,  study  and 
the  composition  of  an  exhaustive  work  on  juris- 
prudence, which  he  hoped  to  make  the  crowning 
work  of  his  life.  This  great  project  of  his  later 
years  was  to  aid  in  the  "invention  of  some  method 
whereby  justice  shall,  ipso  facto,  be  made  law." 
It  was  in  1884  that  Mr.  Wills  first  came  to  South- 
ern California,  establishing  his  home  on  historic 
Fort  Hill,  where  he  spent  the  remaining  years  of 
his  Hfe,  passing  away  November  26,  1891.  Al- 
though a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  such  a  com- 
paratively brief  time,  yet  he  took  an  active  inter- 
est in  public  affairs  here  and  became  one  of  the 
helpful  citizens.  One  of  his  most  important 
works  in  this  city  was  the  part  he  took  in  the 
establishment  of  the  first  crematory  here,  remain- 
ing a  director  of  the  Cremation  Society  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  and  by  his  example  testifying 
to  his  belief  in  this  sanitary  reform  which  is 
rapidly  spreading  throughout  the  civilized  world. 
He  was  a  life-long  advocate  of  temperance,  lib- 
erty of  thought  and  action,  with  charity  for  all, 
willing  to  investigate  all  innovations  and  show- 
ing by  his  large  library,  covering  all  topics,  the 
breadth  and  scope  of  his  literary  attainments. 
During  the  years  he  spent  in  Washington  he  be- 
came a  student  of  modern  spiritualism  and  came 
to  be  a  firm  believer  in  it,  which  faith  continued 
to  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Wills'  wife  was  in  maidenhood  Miss  Char- 
lotte LeMoyne,  eldest  daughter  of  the  distin- 
guished physician  and  surgeon,  philanthropist  and 
reformer,  Dr.  Francis  Julius  LeMoyne,  of  Wash- 
ington, Pa.,  who  was  the  originator  of  cremation 
and  built  the  first  crematory  in  the  United  States. 
By  their  marriage,  which  occurred  in  1848,  they 
became  the  parents  of  two  children,  William  Le- 
Moyne Wills,  M.  D.,  a  practicing  physician,  and 
Madeline  Frances  Wills,  both  of  Los  Angeles. 
Both  are  following  in  the  footsteps  of  their  worthy 
parents  and  ancestors,  doing  all  they  can  in  philan- 
thropic work  and  reform  movements  which  tend 
to  purify  political  and  social  conditions. 


STEPHEN  TOWNSEND.  Foremost  in 
enterprises  which  have  for  their  end  the  up- 
building of  the  best  interests  of  the  city,  Ste- 
phen Townsend  is  named  among  the  representa- 
tive citizens  of  Long  Beach,  and  as  such  is  held 
in  the  highest  esteem  by  all  who  know  him.  He 
has  been  a  resident  of  California  since  1876,  first 
locating  in  Pasadena,  where  he  proved  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  development  and  upbuilding 
of  its  best  interests,  securing  its  first  franchise  and 
building  its  first  railway,  and  later  the  Altadena 
and  other  street  car  lines;  estabhshing  the  Pasa- 
dena Warehouse  and  Milling  Company  and  con- 
ducting the  same  successfully ;  and  as  a  member 
of  the  city  board  of  trustees  advancing  plans 
which  were  acceptable  to  both  the  conservative 
and  radical  element  and  were  acted  upon  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  the  people.  In  1895  he  be- 
came associated  with  the  interests  of  Long  Beach, 
in  which  city  he  foresaw  a  future  unsurpassed  by 
any  other  of  the  towns  of  Southern  California. 
His  efforts,  since  locating  here,  have  resulted  in 
the  material  upbuilding  of  the  city,  as  well  as  a 
financial  gain  for  himself,  and  has  at  the  same 
time  built  up  a  place  of  prominence  in  the  munici- 
pal and  social  life  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Townsend  is  the  descendant  of  English  an- 
cestry, the  first  members  of  both  paternal  and 
maternal  families  having  located  in  this  country 
during  its  colonial  period.  Descendants  drifted 
into  the  middle  west,  and  in  the  state  of  Ohio, 
David,  the  father  of  Stephen  Townsend,  was  born 
and  reared  to  manhood  as  a  farmer's  son.  He 
married  Sidney  Madalin,  also  a  native  of  Ohio, 
and  until  1855  they  remained  residents  of  that 
state  and  Indiana.  In  the  last-named  year  they 
immigrated  to  Iowa  and  in  Cedar  county,  near 
Iowa  City,  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  He  continued  in  that  location  until  the 
year  1876,  when  he  brought  his  family  to  Cali- 
fornia and  became  a  member  of  the  Indiana  Col- 
ony, now  Pasadena,  where  he  engaged  in  horti- 
culture up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  sur- 
vived twenty  years  by  his  wife,  who  passed  away 
in  1903,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  Of  their 
thirteen  children  four  are  now  living,  the  oldest 
son,  Stephen  Townsend,  having  been  born  in 
Hamilton  county.  Ind.,  October  19,  1848.  He 
was  but  seven  years  old  when  the  family  located 
in  Iowa,  where  he  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  later  the  Iowa  State  University. 
Upon  leaving  school  he  began  to  farm  on  his  own 


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responsibility  upon  land  purchased  in  Franklin 
county,  where  he  made  his  home  for  three  years. 
Following  this  he  was  similarly  occupied  in  Cedar 
county  for  two  years,  when  in  1876,  he  accom- 
panied the  family  to  California.  The  west  ap- 
pealed to  him  with  its  broader  opportunities  and 
responsibilities  and  he  readily  became  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  of  the  place,  developing  his 
latent  power  of  management  and  executive  abil- 
ity. Prior  to  his  location  in  Long  Beach  he 
purchased  twenty  acres  of  land  on  the  Anaheim 
road,  adjoining'the  city  limits  and  one  mile  from 
the  beach.  The  year  following  his  location  here 
he  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business,  laying  out 
various  subdivisions,  blocks  one,  ten,  fourteen  and 
twenty-four  and  twenty-five  as  well  as  the  Tutt 
tract  of  fifteen  acres ;  Heller  &  Hays  tract  of  fif- 
teen acres :  and  is  interested  in  the  subdivision 
of  Ocean  Pier  tract ;  West ;  Riverside  tract ;  and 
the  Mooreland  tract  of  fifty  acres,  also  Huntington 
Beach.  Since  his  location  here  he  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  various  real-estate  men,  the  firm  first 
being  known  as  Bailey  &  Townsend  ;  a  few  months 
later  as  Townsend  &  Campbell,  and  after  two 
years  he  engaged  with  his  brother,  W.  H. 
Townsend.  Following  this  he  was  alone  until 
1901,  when  he  became  associated  with  what  was 
known  as  the  Townsend-Robinson  Investment 
Company,  now  Townsend- Van  de  Water  Com- 
pany, in  which  connection  he  has  since  re- 
mained. This  is  an  incorporated  company,  with 
capital  stock  of  $50,000;  they  opened  a  subdivision 
to  the  city  of  Long  Beach  of  forty  acres,  this  being 
one  of  the  largest  additions  to  the  city.  Mr. 
Townsend  is  one  of  the  organizers  and  directors 
of  the  Orange  County  Improvement  Association 
of  Newport,  of  which  he  acted  as  president,  serv- 
ing in  the  same  capacity  for  the  La  Habra  Land 
&  Water  Company,  and  is  ex-president  of  The 
Sunset  Beach  Land  Company. 

In  addition  to  the  foregoing  Mr.  Townsend  is 
vice-president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Long 
Beach  and  president  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Huntington  Beach.  He  organized  and  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Land  &  Navigation  Company  that 
purchased  eight  hundred  acres  of  the  Seaside 
Water  Company,  where  is  now  being  dredged 
the  harbor  for  Long  Beach.  He  also  carries  stock 


in  many  other  companies  and  takes  an  active  in- 
terest in  all  movements  tending  to  promote  the 
welfare  of  this  section  of  Southern  California. 
The  real-estate  firm  which  he  organized  is  one  of 
the  most  substantial  of  its  kind  in  this  part  of 
California  and  carries  on  an  extensive  business, 
the  high  character  of  ability  enlisted  in  the  work 
making  it  one  of  the  most  successful  enterprises 
of  Long  Beach.  In  addition  to  his  engrossing  real- 
estate  interests  he  has  been  active  in  the  munici- 
pal life  of  Long  Beach,  in  1903  being  elected  pres- 
ident of  the  board  of  trustees,  which  office  he 
filled  with  efficiency.  In  Iowa,  October  19,  1869, 
Mr.  Townsend  was  united  in  marriage  with  Anna 
M.  Carroll,  a  native  of  Indiana.  They  became  the 
parents  of  five  children,  two  of  whom  died  in 
early  childhood  and  Frances  Maye  died  in  1901, 
aged  twenty-eight  years ;  in  1894  she  graduated 
from  the  College  of  Music  of  Southern  California 
University.  Ester  Belle  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  A.  T. 
Covert,  of  Long  Beach,  and  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Los  Angeles  State  Normal  class  of  1893.  Vinton 
Ray,  who  graduated  from  the  University  at  Ber- 
keley in  1903,  graduated  from  the  medical  de- 
partment of  Southern  California  University;  in 
1905  he  married  Ada  Campbell,  the  daughter  of 
W.  L.  Campbell. 

Mr.  Townsend  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  in  which  he  officiates  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  superintend- 
ent of  the  Sunday-school,  and  served  on  the 
building  committee  of  the  new  Long  Beach  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  served  as 
president  of  the  Long  Beach  Hospital  Association, 
of  which  he  was  one  of  its  organizers,  and  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Mrs. 
Townsend  is  a  prominent  and  earnest  worker  in 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Ladies'  Social  Circle,  is  associated 
with  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club.  It  can  truly  be 
said  of  Mr.  Townsend  that  he  is  representative 
of  the  best  in  American  citizenship,  living  up  to  a 
high  standard  in  public  and  private  life,  making 
his  influence  felt  throughout  the  community  for 
its  betterment  and  moral  uplift. 


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DR.  CLARENCE  H.  WHITE.  One  of  the 
prominent  men  in  the  oil  industry  which  has 
brought  wealth  to  Southern  California  is  Dr. 
Clarence  H.  White ;  a  graduate  from  the  medical 
department  of  several  universities,  a  practicing 
physician  for  many  years  and  the  organizer  and 
president  of  the  Lake  View  No.  2  Oil  Company. 

A  descendant  of  a  New  England  Puritan  fam- 
ily, who  settled  in  the  Plymouth  Colony  from  Eng- 
land in  1620,  Dr.  White  was  born  at  Wellsburg, 
Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  June  12,  1848.  He 
was  the  son  of  Welcome  Washington  and 
Abigail  (Hoard)  White,  and  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Erie  county  until  1863,  and  later  grad- 
uated from  Newton's  Academy,  Sherborne,  N.  Y. 
He  took  a  course  at  Stratton's  Business  College, 
Erie,  Pennsylvania,  from  1865  to  1866,  after 
which  he  began  his  medical  studies.  He  matricu- 
lated in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan  in  1868  and  studied  there  one  year. 
He  later  went  to  the  Detroit  Medical  College, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1872.  He  at- 
tended the  University  of  Buffalo  from  1874  to 
1875.  From  1875  to  1877  he  was  superintendent 
of  schools  in  Mecosta  county,  Michigan.  In 
1879  Dr.  White  again  took  up  his  medical  studies 
and  graduated  with  honors  at  the  Fort  Wayne 
Medical  College  (University  of  Indiana)  in  1881. 
In  1894  he  took  a  post  graduate  course  in  the 
Chicago  Polyclinic,  specializing  in  abdominal  sur- 
gery. He  also  completed  work  in  other  well 
known  post  graduate  schools.  In  1881  Dr.  White 
commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Reed  City, 
Michigan,  where  he  remained  from  1881  to  1895, 
being  chief  surgeon  and  manager  of  the  American 
Hospital  Association  of  Reed  City  from  1882  to 
1886,  and  surgeon  of  the  Pere  Marquette  Rail- 
road and  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad  be- 
tween the  years  1881  and  1895.  In  1895  Dr. 
White  removed  to  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  where 
he  practiced  medicine  until  the  year  1906.  He  was 
president  of  the  United  States  Pension  Examining 
Board  of  the  Ninth  Congressional  District  of 
Michigan  from  1881  to  1895,  and  of  the  White  & 
Brainard  Lumber  Company,  Benton,  Arkansas, 
from  1901  to  1906,  and  was  on  the  surgical  staff 
of  the  following  hospitals  :  Butterworth  Hospital, 
Union  Benevolent  Association,  the  Children's 
Home  and  Hospital,  St.  Mary's  Hospital  and 
Grand  Rapids  Detention  Home  and  Hospital,  all 
of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 


Dr.  White  is  still  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
medicine  since  coming  to  California,  his  office 
being  located  at  rooms  Nos.  532-3-4-5  Wesley 
Roberts  building.  West  Fourth  street,  Los  An- 
geles. Dr.  White  served  ably  as  mayor  of  Reed 
City,  Michigan,  from  1882  to  1886,  and  as  city 
physician  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  from  1898 
to  1899,  having  also  been  a  member  of  the  Health 
Board  of  Grand  Rapids  during  the  same  year, 
and  president  of  the  Osceola  Medical  Associa- 
tion from  1880  to  1881,  and  president  of  the  Med- 
ical Association  of  Northern  Michigan  from  1882 
to  1884. 

Dr.  White  was  president  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Medical  College  for  eleven  years,  during  which 
time  he  was  also  professor  of  the  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Medicine  in  that  institution.  He  was 
likewise  vice-president  of  the  Michigan  State 
Medical  Society  from  1894  to  1895,  a  member  of 
the  Peninsula  Club,  the  Lakeside  Club  and  the 
Lincoln  Club  of  Grand  Rapids. 

Dr.  White  first  visited  Los  Angeles  in  1906, 
and  in  1910  became  interested  in  the  original 
Lake  View  Oil  Company,  being  one  of  the  nine 
persons  who  furnished  the  necessary  capital  to 
bring  into  existence  the  original  Lake  View 
gusher.  When  this,  the  most  noted  oil  well  in 
California,  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Union 
Oil  Company,  upon  said  company's  buying  fifty- 
one  per  cent  of  the  stock.  Dr.  White,  in  1910 
organized  the  Lake  View  No.  2  Oil  Company,  of 
which  he  is  a  principal  stockholder  and  the  presi- 
dent, the  other  officers  of  the  company  being:  E. 
A.  Phillips,  vice-president ;  Floyd  G.  White,  a  son 
of  Dr.  White,  secretary  and  manager;  D.  W 
Wickersham,  treasurer,  and  Charles  R.  Sligh  and 
Charles  B.  Judd  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  di- 
rectors, the  offices  of  the  company  being  located 
at  1010-11-12  Wright  &  Callender  building,  Los 
Ansreles,  California.  Dr.  White  has  carefully 
arranged  that  the  principal  owners  in  this  new 
company  should  be  his  personal  friends  in  Los 
Angeles  and  Grand  Rapids,  and  his  son  Floyd  G. 
White  is  and  has  been  since  the  first  the  able  and 
successful  manager  and  secretary. 

Upon  the  lease  of  the  Lake  View  No.  2  Oil 
Company  located  in  the  Maricopa  flats,  in  the 
Midway-Sunset  oil  fields  of  Kern  county,  Cali- 
fornia, is  situated  a  second  celebrated  gusher. 
This  T  ake  View  No.  2  gusher  is  the  greatest  oil 
well  brought  in  during  the  year  of  1914,  and  is 
under   perfect   control,   gushing   thirty   thousand 


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barrels  of  oil  daily,  though  now  shut  off,  as  the 
company  has  four  million  barrels  of  oil  in  its 
sumps  for  a  market.  This  company  has  two 
wells,  both  gushers,  and  sells  its  products  to  the 
Standard  Oil  Company. 

Aside  from  the  presidency  of  the  Lake  View 
No.  2  Oil  Company  and  director  of  the  Lake  View 
Oil  Company,  Dr.  White  has  many  other  interests 
which  claim  his  attention,  prominent  among  them 
being  the  practice  of  medicine,  he  being  a  pro- 
found medical  student  and  a  well  known  prac- 


ticing physician.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the 
California-Michigan  Land  and  Water  Company 
and  president  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Society  of 
Southern  California.  He  is  known  as  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason,  belonging  to  both  the 
Knights  Templar  and  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  a 
member  of  the  City  Club  and  Sierra  Madre  Club 
of  Los  Angeles.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  up- 
holds the  principles  of  the  Republican  party.  He 
resides  with  his  family  at  No.  107  North  Union 
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