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Los  Angeles 

From  the  Mountains  to  the  Sea 


lOHN  STEVEN  McGROARTY 


WITH     SELECTED    BIOGRAPHY    OF    ACTORS    AND    WITNESSES 
OF  THE   PERIOD  OF  GROWTH   AND   A'CHIEVEMENT 


ILLUSTRATED 


VOLUME  II 


THE   AMERICAN    HISTORICAI,  SOCIETY 
CHICAGO   AND    NEW    YORK 

1921 


Copyright,  1921, 

'  BY 

AMERICAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 


\  1131983 

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LOS  ANGELES 

From  the  Mountains  to  the  Sea 


William  Henry  Workman.  Statued  against  the  background  of 
early  Los  Angeks  history  is  a  figure  that  stands  out  prominenily  as  tliat 
of  a  pioneer  city  builder,  a  promoter  of  constructive  enterprises,  a  leader 
in  civic  activities,  a  benefactor  of  his  fellovvmen — William  Henry  Work- 
man. 

Angclenos  are  just  beginning  to  realize  what  William  H.  Workman 
did  for  them,  for  the  city,  for  California.  Under  the  influence  of  strong 
personality,  they  knew  him  and  remember  him  best  as  "Uncle  Billy,"  the 
kindly  character,  the  staunch  friend.  Through  the  hallowed  memories  of 
years  "Uncle  Billy"  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  those  contemporaries 
yet  living;  and  many  those  of  more  recent  years  ghan  some  concept 
from  this  brief  sketch  of  the  life  and  works  of  this  wonder  man. 

W.  H.  Workman,  shorn  of  the  personal  halo  which  followed  him 
in  life,  stands  out  in  Los  Angeles  history  with  ever-increasing  prom- 
inence. The  man,  the  historical  figure,  the  city  father  is  assuming  the 
place  that  eventually  the  world  accords  the  great  in  sifting  th;  wo  th- 
while  doings  of  mankind.  Some  day,  ere  long,  it  is  not  too  much  to  ex- 
pect that  to  his  memory  and  for  the  things  he  did  for  Los  Angeles  will 
be  erected  a  fitting  monument  of  recognition  and  esteem. 

Constructor  of  the  first  street  railway,  builder  of  Boyle  He'ghts, 
donor  of  many  church  sites  and  parks,  organizer  of  banks,  founder  of 
schools,  public  official  of  wide  capacities,  pioneer  of  many  enterprises  and 
works  of  civic  welfare — these,  in  composite,  tell  the  story  of  the  William 
Henry  Workman  which  will  go  down  in  the  chronicles  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Workman's  activities  were  initiative.  He  had  no  models  to  go 
by  in  carving  out  his  career  and  in  erecting  the  structures  h;  built ;  he 
had  no  precedents  to  follow.  He  saw  the  needs  of  the  growing  city  of 
Los  Angeles  and  he  created  the  means  of  relief;  he  builded  from  m:ntal 
perspective ;  he  completed  his  works  through  sheer  executive  ability  and 
dynamic  energy. 

It  is  said  that  men  of  noted  works  are  not  really  appreciated  until 
the  lapse  of  fifty  years.  Let  us  not  wait  so  long  to  relate  the  good  deeds, 
the  great  things  accomplished  by  William  Henry  Workman. 

As  did  many  another  pioneer,  Mr.  Workman  crossed  the  plains  in 
an  ox  cart,  migrating  with  his  parents  from  Booneville,  Missouri,  to  San 
Francisco,  and  thence  by  water  to  San  Pedro  and  Los  Angeles,  requir- 
ing six  months  for  the  trip.  The  family  reached  Los  Angeles  on  October 
17,  1854,  and  from  that  date  became  a  powerful  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Los  Angeles  and  Southern  California. 

The  Workmans  descended  from  hardy  stock,  forefather  Thomas 
Workman  being  a  native  of  England,  and  John  Hook  of  Virginia  serv- 
ing as  a  soldier  under  General  Washington.  David  Workman  and  >Jancy 
Hook  were  married  in  Missouri,  and  in  New  Franklin  their  son,  W.  H. 
Workman,  was  born  January  1,  1839. 

Young  Workman  received  his  education  in  the  Booneville  public 
schools  and  the  F.  T.  Kemper  Collegiate  Institute.  He  then  learned  the 
printers'  trade,  and  when  he  reached  California  he  immediately  took  a 


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position  with  the  Southern  Californian,  and  later  with  the  Los  Angeles 
Star. 

Opportunity  gave  him  a  place  as  a  clerk  with  the  Banning  Trans- 
portation Company,  and  later  as  a  mounted  messenger  for  the  company 
between  Los  Angeles  and  San  Bernardino,  on  which  trips  he  frequently 
carried  large  sums  of  payroll  money. 

The  business  venture  upon  the  foundation  of  which  he  built  his 
fortune  was  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Elijah  H.  Workman,  in  a 
manufacturing,  harness  and  saddlery  business  at  76  Main  street.  Hides 
and  harness,  with  accessories,  were  the  substantial  articles  of  trade  in 
early  days,  there  being  a  time  when  hides  were  used  as  mediums  of  ex- 
change— as  "money,"  in  fact. 

As  a  merchant  young  Workman  was  a  success  and  he  found  time 
to  enter  other  lines  of  activity  of  a  political,  civic  and  development  nature. 
With  a  tenacity,  industry  and  cheerfulness  almost  beyond  belief,  he 
carried  through  each  new  venture  to  success.  He  initiated  many  projects 
and  was  more  responsible,  perhaps,  than  any  other  one  man  for  the 
speedy  growth  of  the  city. 

It  is  hard  to  say  whether  in  business  building,  traffic  development  or 
civic  duties  Mr.  Workman  accomplished  more  for  Los  Angeles.  In 
whichever  line  he  became  active,  he  looked  far  into  the  future  for  his 
aspirations  and  worked  with  a  view  to  the  needs  of  the  city  in  the  years 
to  come,  rather  than  for  the  requirements  of  thj  moment.  He  was  far 
in  advance  of  his  day  in  his  visions,  and  he  initiated  many  things  that 
at  the  time,  perhaps,  were  not  appreciated  so  much  as  in  the  years  that 
followed,  when  they  proved  of  immense  value  to  the  city. 

Mr.  Workman  was  a  pioneer  in  street  railway  transportation  m  Los 
Angeles  and  was  also  directly  instrumental  in  securing  or  aiding  the  con- 
struction of  every  steam  line  which  entered  the  city. 

In  1875  Mr.  Workman  built  the  single-horse  car  line  which  ran 
from  the  junction  of  Main,  Spring  and  Temple  streets,  then  the  business 
center  of  the  city,  east  on  Aliso  street  to  Pleasant  avenue,  in  Boyle 
Heights,  crossing  the  river  on  a  surface  bridge. 

In  1886  he  secured  a  franchise  and  built  at  his  own  expense  a  broad- 
gauge  street  q,ar  line  from  First  and  Spring  streets  east  on  First  to  Ever- 
green Cemetery.  It  remained  a  two-horse  line  until  purchased  by  the 
Los  Angeles  Cable  Company,  which  made  it  into  a  cable  road. 

In  1888,  when  mayor,  Mr.  Workman  operated  the  first  electric  car 
of  the  Pico  Heights  Electric  Railway  Company  on  the  day  service  was 
inaugurated.  In  1894  he  constructed  the  Cummings  street  extension  in 
Boyle  Heights.  In  1896  he  secured  the  franchise  for  the  East  Fourth 
street  line  to  Evergreen  Cemetery,  in  Boyle  Heights.  He  procured 
$50,000  to  aid  in  financing  the  construction  of  the  Fourth  street  bridge, 
donating  $25,000  of  it  himself.  , 

In  1909  he  bid  in  the  franchise  for  the  East  Seventh  street  line,  which 
ran  out  Stephenson  avenue  east  of  the  river,  and  he  induced  the  Los 
Angeles  Railway  Company  to  assume  the  franchise  and  build  the  line. 

Mr.  Workman  was  even  more  active  in  steam  railroad  develop- 
ment. In  1872  he  aided  the  Southern  Pacific  to  enter  the  county  and 
city  of  Los  Angeles,  with  a  depot  at  River  Station.  Later  he  aided  the 
Southern  Pacific  to  conduct  its  traffic  along  Alameda  street,  through 
Wolfskin  orchards,  and  secured  the  donation  of  the  site,  provided  the 
road  would  build  the  Arcade  station — which  it  did. 

In  1875  he  aided  in  the  construction  of  the  Los  Angeles  and  Santa 


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Monica  independent  line  to  combat  the  interests  then  in  control  of  freight 
hauling  between  Los  Angeles  and  San  Pedro  Harbor. 

In  1888  Mr.  Workman  obtained  for  the  Santa  Fe  tlie  right  to  enter 
the  city  provided  it  would  construct  a  levee  along  the  west  bank  of  the 
Los  Angeles  River  to  the  present  station. 

Mr.  Workman's  crowning  transportation  feat  was  securing  the  Salt 
Lake's  entry  into  Los  Angeles.  Realizing  during  his  career  as  mayor 
that  the  dtv's  future  depended  on  getting  more  transcontinental  facilities 
and  business,  he  made  a  trip  from  Los  Angeles  to  Salt  Lake  City  by 
buckboard,  scouting  out  the  route,  noting  the  traf^c  possibilities  and  pre- 
paring the  people  to  aid  in  securing  a  railroad. 

Then  he  went  on  to  St.  Louis  and  laid  his  data  and  plan  before  the 
late  U.  S.  Senator  Richard  C.  Kerens  and  those  associated  with  him  in 
the  big  terminal  deal  in  St.  Louis,  and  presented  the  facts  so  convinc- 
ingly that  Kerens  and  his  associates  put  the  road  through. 

Mr.  Workman  assisted  the  road  to  get  into  Los  Angeles  on  the  same 
terms  given  the  Santa  Fe — to  levee  the  east  bank  of  the  Los  Angeles 
River.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  road's  first  board  of  directors, 
and  was  of  great  help  in  developing  the  road's  facilities,  which  also  aided 
Los  Angeles. 

As  a  business  man  Mr.  Workman  not  only  was  a  successful  mer- 
chant, but  he  promoted  all  manner  of  development  projects,  all  of  which 
had  much  to  do  with  the  upbuilding  of  Los  Angeles.  He  amassed  quite 
a  fortune  at  this,  but  missed  his  greatest  personal  opportunity  to  become 
a  multi-millionaire  when  as  mayor,  in  1887  and  1888,  he  deliberately 
sacrificed  his  personal  aflfairs  to  attend  to  his  civic  duties  in  the  days  of 
the  big  real  estate  boom.  Fortunes  were  turned  over  and  over  again,  a 
large  share  of  the  prosperity  being  due  to  Mr.  Workman's  own  efforts, 
but  in  which  he  could  not  participate. 

His  largest  contribution  to  the  city's  success  was  in  purchasing  and 
subdividing  Boyle  Heights,  a  section  that  comprises  about  one-fifth  of 
the  area  and  population  of  the  whole  city. 

In  the  earlv  days  the  Plaza  was  the  geographical  center  of  the  city, 
which,  under  the  Pueblo  grant,  had  secured  title  to  a  tract  six  miles 
square  (thirty-six  square  miles,  with  the  plaza  in  the  center),  which  ex- 
tended across  the  river  and  far  beyond  the  settled  section. 

After  ])roviding  for  all  business  and  residence  sites,  the  municipality 
sold  ofif  a  large  part  of  its  land  holdings  to  encourage  development  and 
provide  a  civic  income  in  taxes  on  improvements  and  increased  popula- 
tion. The  land  was  divided  into  thirty-five-acre  tracts,  which  sold  for 
twenty-five  cents  an  acre  to  the  east  and  north,  and  for  fifty  cents  an 
acre  in  the  west  and  southwest,  including  the  Westlake  district. 

Mr.  Workman  foresaw  the  possibilitirs  of  the  subdivision  plan  and 
also  the  success  of  farming  the  hill  section,  provided  water  could  be 
secured.  A  limited  number  of  "close-in"  farms  had  been  sold  near  the 
river  where  water  could  be  obtained,  but  the  ranchers  feared  to  pioneer 
the  back  sections. 

Having,  with  his  father-in-law,  Andrevv  A.  Boyle,  purchased  the 
land  east  of  the  river  on  the  bluffs,  comprising  what  is  the  whole  of 
Boyle  Heights,  Mr.  Workman  prepared  to  subdivide  the  property  in 
1876.  He  named  the  subdivision  Boyle  Heights  in  honor  of  his  fa'her- 
in-law.  So  as  to  secure  water  for  domestic  purposes,  he  p^id  the  City 
Wat-r  Company  $30,000  to  extend  their  mains  across  the  Los  Angeles 
River  to  the  new  subdivision.' 


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Here  another  epoch-making  scheme  was  devised  by  this  resourceful 
man — an  irrigation  aqueduct  that  carried  water  from  far  in  the  hinter- 
land to  the  large  tracts  which  he  proposed  to  cultivate.  Los  Angeles' 
first  large  aqueduct,  thereupon,  became  a  reality,  but  not  before  Mr. 
Workman  engaged  in  long  arguments  with  other  members  of  the  council 
of  fifteen,  who  were  finally  persuaded  to  make  the  investment  for  the 
returns  in  water  rentals  and  increased  taxes. 

The  aqueduct  was  built  from  a  point  fourteen  miles  up  the  river, 
where  a  sufficient  gravity  fall  could  be  obtained  to  carry  the  flow  into 
the  high  ground  behind  the  hills  of  East  Los  Angeles.  The  high  line 
canal  route  may  still  be  traced  in  its  torturous  windings  between  the 
hills;  and  the  main  r.servoir,  No.  9,  still  makes  a  depression  in  the  land 
back  of  the  zoo  near  Eastlake  Park. 

After  securing  water  it  was  necessary  for  Mr.  Workman  to  prove 
that  the  lands  were  fertile  in  the  high  country.  Theretofore  people  had 
the  impression  that  only  the  lands  along  the  river  were  cultivable.  He 
planted  the  first  vineyards  and  orchards  in  the  neighborhood  and  on  the 
site  of  the  present  Hollenbeck  Park.  At  large  expense  he  secured  cut- 
tings of  all  varieties  of  grapes  and  other  vines  and  experimented  with 
them  to  determine  their  value  to  this  climate  and  soil.  He  did  likewise 
with  other  plants  and  deciduous  fruits.  He  put  in  a  private  reservoir 
and  pipe  line  system  and  cultivated  his  land. 

All  that  Mr.  Workman  had  predicted  proved  true;  his  experiments 
were  successful.  Boyle  Heights  became  a  garden  spot  under  the  magic 
of  water  and  cultivation,  and  a  large  population  was  established.  An- 
drew A.  Boyle  had  built  the  first  house ;  Mr.  Workman  followed  with 
a  mansion,  which  his  widow  and  other  members  of  the  family  still  oc- 
cupy. His  children  were  born  there,  grew  up  and  prospered.  Boyle 
Heights  became  rich  and  grew  with  the  years — a  monument  to  a  man 
of  resource  and  energy. 

Among  other  things,  in  later  years,  Mr.  Workman  became  interested 
in  banking  and  organized  the  American  Savings  Bank  at  Second  and 
Spring  streets,  which  is  now  a  branch  of  the  Home  Savings  Bank. 

Mr.  Workman's  political  and  civic  life  are  so  interwoven  that  they 
can  not  be  separated.  He  took  political  office  merely  to  aid  in  civic  de- 
velopment, and  not  for  the  honor  or  salary.  He  won  the  complete  con- 
fidence of  his  fellow-townsmen  and  the  many  offices  to  which  they  elected 
him  attested  to  their  ideas  of  his  worth. 

From  1872  to  1879,  inclusive,  Mr.  Workman  was  a  city  councilman 
for  eight  successive  terms.  He  was  chosen  mayor  in  1887-88,  was  city 
treasurer  for  three  terms,  1901-07,  and  served  as  a  park  commissioner 
and  member  of  the  board  of  education  for  a  number  of  terms.  He  also 
was  a  member  and  officer  of  many  civic  bodies. 

When  Mr.  Workman  became  mayor,  Los  Angeles  was  a  city  with 
some  30,000  inhabitants,  whose  form  of  government  was  regulated  by 
the  state  law.  There  were  no  paved  streets,  no  electric  cars  or  lights, 
no  parks ;  there  was  no  city  charter,  no  city  hall  worthy  the  name,  no 
chamber  of  commerce,  and  little  that  a  city  of  that  size  should  have. 

When  he  completed  his  two-year  term  Los  Angeles  had  all  these 
things — and  more — largely  through  the  initiative  and  executive  ability 
of  Mr.  Workman. 

To  secure  the  proper  government  for  the  city,  Mr.  Workman  started 
the  movement  which  resulted  in  the  election  of  the  first  Board  of  Free- 
holders, of  which  he  himself  was  a  member.     The  charter  was  formu- 


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lated  for  a  city  which  mi§:ht  develop  to  50,000,  it  was  thought,  and  it  still 
governs  Los  Angeles,  which  has  grown  twelve  times  as  large  as  expected 
in  a  little  more  than  thirty  years. 

Mr.  Workman  also  institut  d  the  campaign,  and  signed  the  contract, 
for  the  construction  of  the  present  City  Hall,  in  those  days  a  magnificent 
structure.  He  was  one  of  the  group  which  started  the  present  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  and  was  its  first  vice  president  during  his  term  as  mayor. 
He  was  instrumental  in  or':;anizing  the  Sixth  District  Agricultural  Park 
Association,  being  on  the  first  board  of  directors. 

He  was  the  first  to  institute  the  park  improvements.  He  donnte.d 
two-thirds  of  the  land,  and  secured  the  gift  of  the  remainder,  for  HoUen- 
beck  Park,  on  Boyle  Heights.  He  foresaw  that  in  time  the  people  would 
need  "breathing  spots,"  as  he  called  it. 

Westlake  Park  was  then  a  desert  with  alkali  cones  dominating  it. 
Mr.  Workman  and  others  interested  caused  these  to  be  levelled  and.  to 
get  anything  to  grow,  it  was  necessary  to  cover  the  entire  park  with  a 
layer  of  soil.  This  required  an  expenditure  of  money  and  he  induced  the 
council  to  set  aside  a  regular  amount  to  be  devoted  to  the  care  of  parks. 
He  was  active  in  the  laying  out  of  South  Park,  Central  Park,  Easllake 
Park   (now  Lincoln)   and  Echo  Park. 

Street  work  had  always  been  a  hobby  with  Mr.  Workman.  In  the 
early  seventies  he  induced  the  board  of  supervisors  to  build  the  first 
bridge  over  the  Los  Angeles  River,  at  Macy  street.  It  was  covered  and 
was  constructed  in  two  spans,  totaling  some  300  feet  across.  He  also 
secured  the  construction  of  a  wooden  bridge  at  Aliso  street,  and  another 
at  First .  street.  He  secured  the  opening  of  First  street  east  to  Boyle 
Heights  in  1875. 

Later  he  induced  the  Santa  Fe,  the  Los  Angeles  Cable  Company 
and  the  city  to  build  the  first  viaducts  over  the  river  at  First  street  and 
Downey  avenue,  each  bearing  one-third  of  the  expense. 

When  he  became  mayor,  Mr.  Workman  started  proceedings  to  pave 
streets,  the  first  in  the  city.  He  continued  active  in  this  line  all  of  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  as  he  had  many  properties  in  front  of  which  he 
wanted  good  paved  streets  and  was  willing  to  bear  his  share  of  the 
assessments. 

As  city  treasurer  Mr.  Workman  strongly  backed  the  Owens  River 
aqueduct,  routed  from  Inyo  County  to  Los  Angeles.  In  conjunction  with 
the  city  attorney  he  went  to  New  York  City  and  sold  the  bonds.  Dunng 
the  time  he  held  this  office  he  withdrew  from  circulation  $2,500,000  and 
guarded  it  in  the  city's  vaults  at  his  own  expense  because  the  law  did 
not  pennit  its  deposit  in  banks.  He  took  up  the  matter  with  the  State 
•Legislature  and  secured  the  passage  of  a  law  permitting  the  city  to  de- 
posit its  funds  at  interest  with  banks  giving  proper  security. 

Mr.  Workman  might  have  had  higher  political  honors.  While 
mayor  his  friends  mentioned  him  for  governor,  but  he  said :  "I'd  rather 
be  mayor  of  Los  Angeles  than  governor  of  California."  He  also  refused 
to  permit  his  name  to  be  used  as  a  candidate  for  United  States  senator. 

As  a  citizen  ]\Ir.  Workman  was  interested  in  every  worthy  work 
that  was  proposed.  He  donated  five  church  and  many  school  sites,  in 
addition  to  Hollenbeck  Park.  He  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the 
first  high  school  in  the  early  seventies,  when  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  and  aided  in  the  construction  of  the  building. 

Mr.  Workman  was  married,  in  1867,  to  Miss  Maria  E.  Boyle,  who 
(in  1920)  lives  hale  and  hearty.    There  are  seven  children:  Boyle  Work- 


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man,  president  of  the  Council  of  the  City  of  Los  Angeles  (1919-21)  ; 
Mary ;  Elizabeth ;  William  H.  Workman  Jr.,  secretary  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  Los  Angeles  Morris  Plan  Company;  Charlotte,  Gertrude  and 
Thomas  E. 

Mr.  Workman  died  on  February  21,  1918.  His  body  lay  in  state  in 
the  City  Hall,  and  his  memory  is  honored  by  all  Los  Angeles. 

Boyle  Workman.  Considered  apart  from  his  prominent  family 
relationship  in  Los  Angeles,  Boyle  Workman  has  had  an  active  experi- 
ence in  business  and  public  affairs  that  is  the  best  sort  of  justification 
for  the  reputation  he  enjoys  as  one  of  the  city's  most  useful,  energetic 
and  public  spirited  men. 

A  son  of  the  late  William  H.  Workman,  whose  life  and  family  are 
sketched  elsewhere,  Boyle  Workman  was  born  September  20,  1868.  His 
birthplace  was  the  first  modern  house  constructed  on  Boyle  Heights.  The 
builder  of  this  home  was  Andrew  A.  Boyle,  his  maternal  grandfather. 
Andrew  A.  Boyle  was  the  first  American  to  locate  in  that  community, 
while  Boyle  Workman  was  the  first  American  born  th?re. 

Other  houses  then  occupying  the  site  were  all  adobe  after  the  man- 
ner of  the  Spanish  regime.  Tha  Boyle  house  was  built  of  brick.  As 
a  boy  in  that  locality  Boyle  Workman  could  look  over  to  the  east  and 
see  not  a  single  habitation  nor  tree  to  obstruct  his  vision  as  far  as  the 
hills,  a  vast  tract  of  land  now  cut  up  in  ranches  and  oil  fields.  These 
lands  were  acquired  by  his  grandfather  and  his  father  and  subdivided, 
with  many  generous  donations  of  sites  for  schools  and  churches. 

Boyle  Workman  attended  St.  Vincent's  College,  which  then  stood 
at  Seventh  street  and  Broadway.  From  his  home  out  on  the  Heights 
he  rode  horseback  to  school.  Where  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club 
stands  today  was  an  orange  orchard  owned  by  the  college.  Mr.  Work- 
man in  1884  entered  Santa  Clara  College  for  a  time,  but  returned  to  St. 
Vincent's  College  and  graduated  in  1887.  At  that  time  his  father  was 
mayor  of  Los  Angeles. 

The  hall  where  the  graduation  ceremonies  were  held  was  upstairs  on 
Main  street,  between*  First  and  Second  streets.  Boyle  Workman's 
graduatiris:  essay  was  on  the  subject  of  Southern  California,  and  in  the 
course  of  his  survey  he  predicted  many  improvements  which  have  since 
been  more  than  realized. 

From  school  he  entered  his  father's  office,  part  of  the  time  acting 
as  mayor's  clerk.  Offices  in  that  day  were  not  equipped  with  type- 
writers, and  he  wrote  the  mayor's  messages  and  documents  in  longhand, 
and  some  of  his  writing  is  today  in  the  archives  of  the  city. 

From  school  days  to  the  present  Boyle  Workman  has  been  a  deep 
student  of  municipal  government.  It  is  a  subject  that  appealed  to  him, 
and  he  also  had  the  invaluable  advantage  of  association  with  his  father, 
and  even  while  a  boy  gained  a  mature  insight  of  some  municipal  sub- 
jects that  are  scarcely  understood  during  the  lifetime  of  the  average 
citizen.  To  this  early  training  under  his  father  Mr.  Workman  attributes 
much  of  the  municipal  knowledge  which  has  made  him  a  valued  public 
servant  in  later  years. 

In  1889,  when  his  father  retired  from  office,  Boyle  Workman  joined 
the  local  interests  at  that  time  changing  the  horse  car  to  a  cable  system 
of  street  transportation.  He  became  assistant  to  E.  L.  Lewis,  then 
cashier  of  'he  company.  Later  he  engn^ed  independently  in  the  fire  in- 
surance business  as  manager  for  Southern  California  of  the  Home  Mutual 
Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  Company  of  California. 


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In  1895  Mr.  Workman  married  Miss  Frances  Widney,  daughter  of 
Judge  and  Mrs.  R.  M.  Widney.  Mrs.  Workman  is  a  native  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  her  family  came  to  Southern  California  the  same  year  that 
Boyle  Workman  was  born.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Workman  have  two  children, 
Eleanor  and  Audrey,  both  residents  of  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Workman  is 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch  of  the  Needlework  Guild  of  America, 
a  charitable  organization  having  a  membership  of  five  thousand  in  Los 
Angeles  and  more  than  four  hundred  thousand  members  in  the  United 
States. 

After  his  marriage,  Mr.  Workman  took  up  manufacturing  at  Boyle 
Heights,  organizing  a  brick  yard  and  installing  modern  machine  pro- 
cesses. L'p  to  that  time  all  the  local  brick  was  hand  made  by  Chinamen. 
It  was  the  first  important  industry  in  the  Boyle  Heights  section.  The 
Hollenb:ck  Home  for  Old  People  was  built  entirely  from  brick  manu- 
factured here  by  the  Monarch  Brick  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Workman 
was  secretary.  The  business  was  continued  with  much  success  for  sev- 
eral years,  notwithstanding  the  active  competition  of  yards  operated  Dy 
Chinese  labor.  One  innovation  introduced  in  the  brick  yard  was  fuel 
oil  for  the  kilns  instead  of  wood,  the  usual  fuel. 

After  disposing  of  the  brick  business,  Mr.  Workman  became  a 
draftsman  in  the  city  engineer's  office.  In  1900  his  father  was  elected 
city  treasurer,  and  Boyle  became  assistant  city  treasurer,  and  for  three 
consecutive  terms  had  practically  entire  charge  of  the  office.  Here  he 
showed  his  administrative  ability.  One  of  the  first  reforms  he  suggested 
to  his  father  practically  amounted  to  placing  the  city  government  on  a 
cash  basis.  Up  to  that  time  tax  monies  bad  been  collected  twice  a  year, 
and  in  the  intervals  the  city  treasurer  had  no  funds  to  meet  current  de- 
mands. Mr.  Workman  began  building  up  a  system  of  surplus  funds  so 
that  bills  could  be  paid  q*-  anv  time  of  the  year.  He  also  introduced  a 
system  of  daily  balances,  checking  with  the  auditor's  office,  and  that  sys- 
tem is  still  in  use. 

On  leaving  the  treasurer's  office  in  1907,  Mr.  Workman  organized 
the  American  Savings  Bank  at  Los  Angeles.  He  was  chosen  assi-tant 
cashier,  while  his  father  was  the  first  president.  When  William  H. 
Workman,  on  account  of  the  growing  interests  of  his  real  estate  hold- 
ings, resigned  as  president,  Boyle  Workman  became  vice  president,  serv- 
ing until  1913,  when  the  Home  Savings  Bank  and  the  ^American  Savings 
Bank  were  consolidated. 

The  first  branch  bank  in  Los  Angeles  was  established  by  Mr.  Work- 
man on  Boyle  Heights,  known  as  the  Boyle  Heights  Branch  of  the  Amer- 
ican Savings  Bank.  Eventually  other  branches  were  established  in  other 
sections  of  the  city.  Later  the  American  Savings  Bank  had  seven 
branches,  and  Mr.  Workman  continued  as  vice  president  of  the  con- 
solidated institution. 

When  Judge  H.  H.  Rose  was  elected  mayor  of  Los  Angeles,  his 
first  appointment  was  to  call  Boyle  Workman  to  the  Public  Service 
Commission,  in  July,  1913.  Some  big  improvements  in  Los  An^^eles 
transpired  during  his  incumbency.  Mr.  Workman  and  his  associates 
handled  the  task  of  absorbing  a  number  of  small  water  distributing  con- 
cerns, the  largest  of  which  was  the  Hollywood  Water  Company.  The 
great  aqueduct  supplying  Los  Angeles  from  the  mountains  was  finished 
and  the  water  turned  on  while  he  was  a  member  of  the  commission. 

Some  important  hydro-electric  development  was  also  done,  par- 
ticularly the  installation  of  Power  House  No.   1   in   San  Francisquito 


10  LOS  ANGELES 

Canyon,  that  being  the  first  unit  in  a  proposed  municipally  owned  hydro- 
electric system.  The  current  from  this  plant  was  distributed  through 
th;  East  Side,  particularly  Lincoln  Heights,  and  was  the  beginning  of  a 
program  of  promising  development  to  the  advantage  of  consumers, 
though  subsequent  extension  of  the  plan  was  forestalled  by  the  World 
war. 

Mr.  Workman  retired  from  the  Public  Service  Commission  January 
I,  1917,  and  in  October  of  that  year  sold  all  his  banking  interests.  Since 
his  father's  death,  in  1918,  he  has  managed  the  extensive  estate. 

During  1919  rnany  groups  of  thoughtful  Los  Angeles  citizens  pointed 
out  the  availability  of  Boyle  Workman  as  candidate  for  mayor.  He  de- 
clined the  candidacy,  though  he  consented  to  run  for  member  of  the 
Council.  There  were  forty  candidates  before  the  voters,  and  in  the  elim- 
inating process  .Mr.  Workman  stood  second  highest,  and  among  the 
eighteen  presented  to  the  voters  for  final  ratification  he  received  the 
largesf  vote  of  all. 

On  July  7,  1919,  Mr.  Workman  became  a  member  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil and  was  chosen  president  of  that  body,  an  office  where  his  long  expe- 
rience in  municipal  afifairs,  his  tact  and  ability  makes  his  service  one  of 
real  distinction. 

Mr.  Workman  is  president  of  the  United  States  "Gesel-Plan"  Cor- 
poration, which  was  organized  September  24,  1919,  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $5,000,000.  The  plan  on  which  this  institution  is  conducted  seems 
destined  to  have  a  great  growth  and  popularity  in  America,  since  it  com- 
bines the  features  of  the  savings  bank  account  with  the  protection  of  life 
insurance.  Mr.  Workman  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  Aug  les  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  City 
Club  and  Union  League  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 

Edward  L,\ueence  Doheny.  The  last  word  in  supjrfluity  would 
be  to  explain  who  Edward  L.  Doheny  is  or  "introduce"  him  to  the  pres- 
ent or  the  next  generation.  But  as  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  the 
past  thirty  years  some  of  the  more  important  incidents  in  his  dramatic 
career  deserve  record  in  this  publication. 

He  was  born  in  a  family  of  respectable  and  hard  working  people 
in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  August  10,  1856,  son  of  Patrick  and 
Eleanor  Elizabeth  (Quigley)  Dcheny.  He  grew  up  in  the  best  kind  of  a 
home  to  develop  sound  character,  one  equally  removed  from  extreme 
poverty  and  from  the  luxury  of  wealth.  He  hns  always  owed  much  to 
the  superior  intelligence  and  influence  of  his  good  mother.  His  early 
years  were  distinguished  chiefly  by  a  keen  intelligence  that  enabled  him 
to  graduate  from  high  school  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  Mental  arithmetic 
was  his  favorite  subject.  He  graduated  in  1872  and  almost  immedi- 
ately began  a  life  of  adventure  and  strenuous  outdoor  activity.  Some 
years  ago  Mr.  Doheny  confessed  that  he  had  lived  so  many  years  in 
the  open  that  he  found  it  difficult  to  accommodate  himself  to  th;  con- 
ventionnl  steam  heat  and  soft  beds  of  modern  civilization. 

Joining  a  surveying  party  under  the  United  States  Government  he 
went  to  Kansas,  assisting  in  surveying  government  land,  the  following 
year  was  in  New  Mexico,  then  returned  to  Kansas  and  during  tne  year 
1873-75  had  an  interesting  experience  among  the  blanket  Indians  of 
what  is  now  ^^'estern  Oklahoma,  assisting  in  subdividing  the  K'owa  and 
Comanche  reservations.  In  1876  he  joined  an  expedition  to  the  mming 
district    of   the    Black    Hills.      The    Federal    Government    dispersed    the 


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party  and  drove  them  out  of  the  then  Indian  Reservation.  Mr.  Doheny 
was  also  frustrated  in  his  next  venture,  an  attempt  to  find  a  fortune  in 
the  mining  district  of  the  San  Juan  country  in  sonthwestern  Colorndo. 
From  Silverton,  Colorado,  h:  and  some  associates  wandered  mto  the 
southwest,  arriving  at  Prescott,  Arizona,  and  during  the  next  fourteen 
years  he  held  his  own  among  the  keen  and  resourceful  gold  prospectors 
in  Arizona  and  New  Mexico.  He  discovered  and  helped  develop  some 
of  the  most  promising  claims  in  tliose  two  southwestern  territories. 

Probably  the  chief  characteristic  of  Mr.  Doheny  is  thit  found  in 
Kipling's  character  of  "Tbe  Pioneer,"  whose  desire  and  vision  are  al- 
ways "over  the  passes,"  and  once  the  interest  of  discovery  .and  newness 
has  worn  oiT  the  rewards  of  wenlth  hold  no  charm  to  detain  him.  Sev- 
eral tim.es  it  is  said  that  Mr.  Doheny  was  within  reach  of  considerable 
wealth  when  he  sold  his  claims  and  resumed  the  more  interesting  role 
of  prospector. 

During  the  seventies  and  eighties  Mr.  Doheny  was  always  in  con- 
tact with  the  raw  and  elem  ntal  factors  of  the  southwestern  country. 
He  fought  Indians  and  he  fought  wild  animals,  and  accepted  daily  danger 
as  a  commonplace  of  his  work.  In  one  encounter  his  hand  was  mangled 
by  a  mountain  lion.  Again  as  the  result  of  a  fall  in  a  mine  his  legs  were 
broken,  and  while  recuperating  he  bent  the  resources  of  an  active  m'nd 
to  the  study  of  law,  and  was  qualified  for  admission  to  practice  in  six 
months.  For  a  year  or  so  he  contented  himself  with  the  routine  of  a 
practicing  attorney.  By  similar  study  Mr.  Doheny  also  acquired  a 
knowled?e,  surpassing  that  of  manv  graduates  of  technical  colleges, 
in  the  sciences  of  geology  and  metallurgy. 

Mr.  Doheny  is  widely  known  among  his  friends  as  an  exemplar 
of  the  simple  life.  He  yielded  nothing  to  his  partners  in  willingness  to 
accept  hardship  and  danger,  but  was  free  from  practically  all  the  vices 
associated  with  westerners,  and  has  never  used  alcoholic  liquor  or  to- 
bacco. 

One  of  his  prominent  associates  both  in  New  Mexico  and  also 
in  his  early  days  in  California  was  C.  A.  Canfield.  They  tried  to  develop 
a  gold  mining  claim  in  San  Bernardino  County,  California,  but  finally 
abandoned  it  and  not  long  afterward  Mr.  Doheny  came  to  Los  Angeles. 

A  few  years  ago  he  told  the  story  of  the  first  drilled  well  in  the 
Los  Angeles  oil  field.  He  and  his  fellow  prospector  in  1892  had  ob- 
served certain  signs  which  convinced  them,  of  the  presence  of  oil  sand 
within  the  city  limits  of  Los  Angeles.  They  possessed  limited  capital 
and  practically  no  experience  in  oil  well  operations.  Buying  a  small 
lot  at  the  corner  of  West  State  and  Cotton  streets,  instead  of  a  well 
they  began  sinking  a  shaft  in  November,  1892.  They  had  laboriously 
excavated  to  a  depth  of  about  fifty  feet  when  they  struck  a  small  pocket 
of  oil  and  gas,  and  were  nearly  asphyxiated  before  they  could  reach  the 
surface.  They  continued  the  slow  progress,  but  eventually  took  into  con- 
sideration the  danger  they  ran  and  also  cast  about  to  find  better  machin- 
ery and  eventually  the  well  was  sunk  to  a  depth  of  six  hundred  feet 
and  yielded  forty-five  barrels  a  day.  That  was  the  pioneer  operation  in 
the  Los  Angeles  oil  field,  and  the  success  of  Doheny  attracted  thousands 
to  the  district.  Even  after  becoming  an  oil  producer  Mr.  Doheny's 
career  was  not  without  vicissitudes.  In  1896  at  the  age  of  forty  he 
was  still  a  poor  man.  Then  followed  the  development  of  the  Fullerton 
oil  district  of  California,  and  later  his  operations  in  the  Bakersfield 
district,  and  since  then  for  twenty  years  there  has  been  no  more  impos- 


12  I.OS  AXGELES 

ing  figure  in  all  the  history  of  petroleum  than  Edward  L.  Doheny.  In 
this  later  and  familiar  period  of  his  life's  activities,  he  has  been  dominated 
by  the  same  ambition  for  achievement  as  in  earlier  years.  From  Cali- 
fornia he  turned  his  attention  to  Mexico  and  with  his  associates  bought 
several  hundred  thousands  of  acres  of  land  in  the  vicinity  of  Tampico 
near  the  Gulf  coast  and  in  1900  organized  the  Mexican  Petroleum  Com- 
pany, which  sunk  the  w.Us  and  started  the  development  that  have  made 
the  Mexican  petroleum  field  probably  the  greatest  in  the  world. 

Mr.  Doheny  is  president  of  the  Mexican  Petroleum  Company,  Lim- 
ited, and  also  president  of  the  Pan- American  Petroleum  and  Transport 
Company,  owning  the  extensive  pipe  lines  and  a  large  fleet  of  tank 
steamers  through  which  during  the  World  war  a  large  part  of  the  fuel 
oil  used  by  the  British  and  allied  navies  was  supplied.  Mr.  Doheny  is 
also  president  of  the  Huasteca  Petroleum  Company  and  the  Petroleum 
Transport  Company.  In  July,  1917,  he  became  a  member  of  the  first 
committee  on  oil  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense. 

Mr.  Doheny  is  a  member  of  the  California  and  Jonathan  Clubs  of 
Los  Angeles,  the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco,  and  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Chicago.  His  home  is  at  8  Chester  Place  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr. 
Doh.ny  confesses  that  the  greatest  find  in  his  entire  life  was  his  wife, 
Carrie  Estelle  Betzold,  of  ?\Iarshalltown,  Iowa.  The)'  have  a  son,  E.  L. 
Doheny,  Jr. 

Edward  L.  Doheny  Jr.,  prominent  in  Los  Angeles'  business  an(;l 
social  circles,  is  the  able  lieutenant  of  his  father,  Edward  L.  Doheny  St., 
one  of  the  most  prominent  petroleum  producers  in  America.  The  career 
of  his  father,  who  has  been  active  in  the  oil  districts  of  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century,  is  sketched  on  other  pages. 

The  son  was  born  at  Los  Angeles  November  6.  1893.  Frail  health 
interfered  with  his  early  education  and  training.  He  attended  Norwood 
Street  Grammar  School  until  1907.  then  entered  St.  Vincent's  College, 
where  he  spent  one  year,  and  graduated  from  high  school  in  1911.  For 
three  successive  years  he  attended  university,  but  on  account  of  ill  health 
his  total  period  of  work  aggregated  only  eight  months.  Subsequently 
he  completed  his  education  with  the  A.  B.  degree  at  the  University  of 
Southern  California  in  June,  1916. 

From  early  boyhood  he  was  brought  in  contact  with  the  oil  industry 
under  his  father,  and  after  leaving  university  he  spent  a  month  at  Tam- 
pico, Mexico,  in  the  district  where  his  father  has  been  one  of  the  most 
prominent  oil  operators.  He  also  attended  a  military  training  camp  at 
Monterey,  California,  and  after  returning  to  Los  Angeles  worked  in  his 
father's  office  until  November,  1916.  At  that  date  he  enrolled  as  an 
apprentice  seaman  in  the  Naval  Militia,  and  in  January,  1917,  was  com- 
missioned a  lieutenant  on  the  cruiser  "Huntington."  He  served  for 
three  months  and  was  then  transferred  to  Washington  in  the  office  of 
the  judge  advocate  general  in  charge  of  all  summary  court-martial.  Mr. 
Doheny,  in  September,  1918,  was  given  orders  by  Rear  Admiral  Philip 
A.  Andrews  to  report  to  Cardiff,  Wales.  The  night  before  he  was  to 
sail  he  fell  a  victim  to  the  influenza,  and  soon  afterward  was  sent  back 
home  to  Los  Angeles  on  a  two  months'  sick  leave.  Upon  recovery  he 
was  stationed  for  duty  at  the  submarine  base  at  San  Pedro,  in  Los  An- 
geles Harbo'-,  and  January  24.  191S,  was  given  orders  for  inactive  duty. 

Since  resuming  civil  life  Mr.  Doheny  has  found  his  time  and  energies 
fully  taken  up  with  his  many  executive  duties  in  connection  with  oi!  and 
other  business  corporations. 


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He  is  a  director  and  treasurer  of  the  following  corporations :  The 
I'an  American  Petroleum  and  Transport  Company,  The  Mexican  Petro- 
leum Company  (Ltd.),  Mexican  Petroleum  Corporation  of  Louisiana, 
Mexican  Petroleum  Corporation,  Huasteca  Petroleum  Company. 

Among  the  social  organizations  with  which  he  is  identified  in  Los 
Angeles  are  the  University  Club,  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club  and  Los  Angeles  Country  Club.  Mr.  Doheny  married  Miss  Lucy 
Smith  at  Los  Angeles  June  10,  1914.  Her  grandfather,  C.  W.  Smith, 
was  one  of  the  first  vice-presidents  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company. 
Three  children  have  been  born  to  their  marriage:  Lucy  Estelle,  born 
Tune  21,  1915:  Edward  Lawrence  III,  born  February  8,  1917.  and  Wil- 
liam Henry,  born  March  12,  1919. 

General  Piiine.ks  Bak.xing.  Wilmington,  now  Los  Angeles  Har- 
l)or,  as  the  ocean  gateway  of  greater  Los  Angeles  is  popularly  considered 
and  frecpiently  spoken  of  as  a  part  of  the  great  modern  era  and  a  dis- 
tinctive chapter  in  the  recent  historj'  of  progress.  As  a  matter  of  fact 
this  development  was  anticipated  nearly  fifty  years  ago  by  the  late  Gen- 
eral Phineas  Banning,  founder  of  the  town  of  Wilmington  on  the  shores 
of  San  Pedro  liay.  It  was  a  long  cherished  ideal  of  General  Banning  to 
see  that  harbor  linked  up  with  the  great  commerce  centering  in  Los 
.Vngeles,  and  while  the  broad  realization  of  his  plan  was  delayed  for 
over  thirty  years  after  his  death,  it  is  proper  to  say  that  no  one  of  the 
old  time  generation  around  Los  .\ngeles  contributed  more  directly  to  the 
result  than  General  Banning. 

General  Banning,  who  was  one  of  the  earliest  American  pioneers  of 
Scjuthern  California,  was  born  in  Newcastle  County.  Delaware,  Septem- 
ber 19,  1831.  He  was  the  ninth  among  eleven  children  of  John  A.  and 
IClizabeth  (Lowber)  Banning,  and  though  his  early  life  w^as  not  encom- 
])assed  by  wealth  he  inherited  the  substantial  worth  of  some  of  the  best 
colonial  American  stock.  He  was  descended  from  Phineas  Banning  who 
crossed  the  ocean  from  England  and  became  one  of  the  early  farmers 
in  Kent  County,  Delaware.  I*'or  several  successive  generations  members 
of  the  family  enjoyed  considerable  prestige  in  public  affairs  both  in  their 
locality  and  state.  John,  a  .son  of  the  pioneer  Phineas,  was  a  mer- 
chant at  Dover  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Safety  during 
the  Revolutionary  War.  He  was  also  one  of  the  three  electoral  delegates 
from  Delaware  "to  choose  the  first  president  of  the  United  States,  and 
cast  his  vote  for  General  Washington.  His  son,  John  A.  Banning, 
father  of  General  Banning,  was  one  of  the  early  graduates  of  Princeto^i 
College,  a  man  of  ripe  scholarship,  and  a  life-long  resident  of  Delaware. 

An  independent  spirit  as  well  as  his  presence  in  a  large  household 
with  limited  means  sent  Phineas  Banning  out  to  seek  his  ow^n  fortune 
at  the  age  of  twelve  years.  He  walked  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  joined 
an  older  brother,  A\illiam,  who  had  recently  begun  the  practice  of  law. 
He  worked  in  his  brother's  law  office  for  his  Ixiard.  and  afterward  was 
employed  in  a  wholesale  establishment. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen,  in  1851,  Phineas  Banning  sailed  for  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  came  up  the  Pacific  Coast  on  a  vessel  that 
cast  anchor  in  the  harbor  of  San  Diego.  For  more  than  thirty  years  he 
w  as  one  of  the  men  of  leading  enterprise  in  the  Los  Angeles  district.  He 
engaged  in  the  freighting  business  betw^een  Los  Angeles  and  San  Pedro 
in   November,   1852,   and  this  enterprise  in  transportation   brought   him 


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a  vivid  realization  of  the  importance  of  the  San  Pedro  harbor.  Close  to 
the  vvaterironc  he  established  a  village  which  in  honor  of  the  chief  city 
of  his  native  state  he  named  Wilmington.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  manager  of  the  Los  Angeles  and  Wilmington  Railroad  which  had 
been  consiructed  by  him.  He  twice  appeared  before  congressional  com- 
mittees at  Washington  to  secure  necessary  appropriation  for  development 
of  the  San  Pedro  harbor  and  never  lost  an  opportunity  at  the  command 
of  his  resources  to  control  and  direct  the  shipping  business  that  would 
link  San  Pedro  with  the  larger  city  of  Los  Angeles.  General  Banning 
bought  and  improved  six  hundred  acres  near  W  ilmington  and  with  the 
aid  of  a  steam  pump  large  reservoirs  and  the  largest  wells  in  the  county 
furnished  an  abundance  of  water  for  Wilmington  and  San  Pedro  and 
for  the  vessels  that  anchored  in  the  harbor.  Other  undertakings  of 
direct  public  benefit  were  credited  to  his  great  energy  and  judgment. 
General  Banning  was  a  very  generous  man,  and  his  generosity  stood  as 
a  bar  to  the  accumulation  of  individual  fortune,  though  the  property  he 
left  has  become  the  basis  of  a  fortune  since  his  death. 

He  served  as  brigadier-general  of  the  First  Brigade,  California  State 
Militia,  and  was  a  republican  ihou'rh  never  active  in  politics.  General 
Banning  died  at  San  Francisco  March  8,  1S85.  His  first  wife  was 
Rebecca  Stanford,  by  whom  he  was  the  father  of  eight  children,  three 
of  whom  are  still  living.  On  February  14,  1870,  he  married  Mary  E. 
Hollister,  daughter  of  a  California  pioneer.  Mrs.  Banning  passed  away 
on  South  Commonwealth  Avenue,  in  Los  Angeles.  She  was  the  mother 
of  three  daughters. 

Hancock  B.\nning.  A  son  of  one  of  the  Southern  California's  most 
conspicuous  pioneer  characters,  the  late  General  Phineas  Banning,  Han- 
cock Banning  has  to  his  credit  more  than  thirty-seven  years  of  business 
activity  in  and  around  Los  Aneeles.  A  practical  business  man  and  large 
property  owner,  his  influence  has  been  a  helpful  factor  in  a  number  of 
modern  developments  in  the  life  and  progress  of  the  greater  city. 

He  was  bom  at  Wilmington,  Los  Angeles  County,  May  12,  1865. 
He  acquired  his  early  education  in  public  schools  and  on  his  father's 
vessels  and  has  held  a  master  mariner's  license  from  the  United  States 
Government  since  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  After  completing  a 
business  college  course  he  undertook  his  first  business  venture  at  Pasa- 
dena, where  he  established  the  Pasadena  Transfer  and  Fuel  Company, 
and  afterwards  moved  to  Los  .\ngeles,  where  in  1889  he  established  a 
wholesale  coal  department.  The  Pasadena  branch  was  sold  in  1891,  and 
later  his  business  was  operated  under  the  name  Banning  Company,  he 
being  manager  of  its  fuel  department.  Mr.  Banning  was  an  equal 
stockholder  with  two  brothers  in  the  Banning  Company,  his  brothers 
being  J.  B.  and  William  Banning.  This  corporation  owned  extensive 
real  estate  holdings  in  Los  Angeles  and  on  the  Wilmington  water  front, 
now  part  of  Los  Angeles  harbor. 

Hancock  Banning  was  for  more  than  twenty-five  years  vice-president 
of  the  Santa  Catalina  Island  Company.  His  brother,  William  Banning, 
organized  and  was  president  of  this  company.  Hancock  had  an  equal 
interest  with  William  and  his  other  brother,  J.  B.  Banning,  in  the  owner- 
shi])  of  Santa  Catalina  Island  until  1919,  when  they  disposed  of  their 
interests  in  this  famous  resort  to  the  Chicago  capitalist,  William  Wrigley. 


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Jr.  Prior  to  that  time  the  Bannings  had  completed  the  Hotel  St.  Cath- 
erine, which  together  with  the  company  steamers  Cabrillo  and  Hermosa 
and  other  improvements  represented  an  investment  by  them  of  over  two 
million  dollars. 

Mr,  Banning  now  makes  his  home  at  the  old  Banning  mansion  at 
Wilmington,  where  he  was  born.  That  home  had  also  sheltered  his 
grandn. other,  and  Mr.  Banning's  granddaughter  has  lived  there,  thus 
giving  it  the  associations  of  five  generations.  Mr.  Banning  is  a  member 
of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  the  California,  Jonathan,  Los 
Angeles  Country  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and 
the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  a  Hoover  republican  in  politics. 

In  November,  1890,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Anne  Ophelia  Smith, 
daughter  of  former  Judge  George  H.  Smith  of  the  Appellate  Court  of 
California.  Since  her  marriage  Mrs.  Banning  has  been  very  active  in 
man\-  social  and  patriotic  movements.  During  the  war  she  originated  the 
plan  and  established  what  was  called  the  "Red  Cross  Shop"  serving  as 
president  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch.  This  shop  idea  was  afterward  car- 
ried out  in  many  cities  of  the  United  States,  and  not  only  the  Red  Cross 
but  other  charitable  institutions  have  adopted  the  idea.  During  the 
jvar  the  Red  Cross  Shop  did  a  business  aggregating  millions  of  dollars, 
and  the  plan  is  still  yielding  great  returns  to  various  charitable  organi- 
zations. * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Banning  have  a  daughter  and  two  sons.  The  daughter, 
Eleanor  Anne,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Marlboro  School  for  Girls  at  Los 
Angeles,  attended  the  Miss  Spence  School  of  New  York  City  and  the 
State  University  of  California.  She  was  married  to  J.  C.  MacFarland, 
nephew  of  Judge  MacFarland  of  the  State  Supreme  Court.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  MacFarland  have  a  daughter,  Anne  Banning. 

The  older  son,  Hancock  Banning,  Jr.,  born  in  1893,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  and  Cornell  University.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  war  with  Germany  he  abandoned  his  work  as  an  apprentice 
at  electrical  engineering  in  the  General  Electric  Company's  plant  at 
Schnectady,  New  York,  to  enlist  in  the  navy.  He  was  serving  on  the 
U.  S.  Battleship  "New  York"  at  the  time  of  the  armistice  and  served 
until  discharged  after  the  signing  of  the  same  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant 
of  the  junior  grade.  He  has  since  resumed  his  work  with  the  General 
Electric  Company. 

The  second  son,  George  Hugh,  born  in  1896,  held  rank  as  a  second 
lieutenant  when  discharged  from  the  Aviation  Corps.  He  had  studied  and 
taught  flying  at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  San  Diego  and  Sacramento.  Since 
the  war  he  has  graduated  from  the  University  of  California.  George 
Hugh  possesses  distinctive  literary  gifts.  With  a  fellow  student  he 
collaborated  a  comedy  which  was  selected  in  competition  with  other 
aspiring  dramatists  of  the  university,  and  was  successfully  produced  at 
Berkeley.  He  is  also  a  navigator  of  sailing  and  steam  vessels,  having 
served  his  time  at  sea  before  the  mast,  and  having  studied  navigation 
both  at  college  and  during  his  practical  apprenticeship  at  sea.  He  is 
at  this  writing  on  the  "Chronicle"  newspaper  force. 

The  Red  Cross  Shop  as  a  distinctive  feature  of  the  auxiliary  war 
work  originated  in  Los  Angeles,  and  the  mind  and   heart   from  which 


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proceeded  the  great  and  fertile  idea  were  those  of  Mrs.  Hancock  Ban- 
ning. It  is  due  the  shop  as  an  institution,  to  Mrs.  Banning  and  her 
associates,  to  make  some  particular  reference  to  the  institution  and  its 
work.  The  best  account  is  found  in  an  article  written  in  the  summer 
of  1918,  when  the  war  was  at  its  height. 

"More  than  a  year  ago,"  says  Ruth  Burke  Stephens,  "I  had  the 
pleasure  of  learning  something  of  Mrs.  Banning's  original  plans  for 
the  Red  Cross  Shop.  Even  then  the  contagion  of  her  idea,  illuminated 
with  her  own  enthusiastic  faith  in  its  ultimate  success,  spread  to  the 
little  group  of  friends  to  whom  her  plans  in  detail  were  confided.  With 
one  exception,  this  original  plan  has  been  carefully  adhered  to,  and  so 
complete  was  the  conception  in  its  initial  details  that  but  few  new 
ideas  have  been  incorporated. 

"The  Red  Cross  Shop  in  all  its  many  ramifications  is  nothing  short 
of  wonderful,  and  particularly  is  this  so  when  one  considers  that  it  is 
essentially  a  big  commercial  business,  successfully  conducted  by  women 
who  before  the  war  scarcely  knew  the  value  of  money,  and  nothing  what- 
ever of  business  principles.  Without  the  co-operation  and  the  enthusiastic 
interest  of  her  copatriots,  Mrs.  Banning's  plan  could,  however,  never 
have  developed  to  the  advanced  state  of  realization  that  it  has  now 
reached.  It  is  the  very  spirit  behind  the  plan,  the  great  integral  factors 
of  self-sacrifice  and  democracy  which  has  carried  the  idea  along  like 
a  swiftly  propelled  boat  in  the  surge  of  a  well  directed  current. 

"When  Mrs.  Banning  first  planned  the  Red  Cross  Shop  I  think 
she  herself  nearer  realized  than  did  any  other  just  how  far-reaching  would 
be  its  scope,  for  her  hope  even  then  was  for  a  nation-wide  emulation  of 
the  Red  Cross  Shop.  The  plan,  as  it  is  now  in  force,  was  evolved 
from  a  before-the-war  idea  of  Mrs.  Banning  for  the  establishment  of 
an  organization  which  should  carry  on  'relief  work  in  the  various  centers 
of  the  United  States,  under  the  name  of  the  'Grey  Sisterhood,'  and 
working  hi  a  manner  somewhat  similar  in  plan  to  that  of  the  'Misera- 
cordia  Society"  of  Italy.  It  is  significant  that  while  Mrs.  Banning's 
original  idea  became  through  her  enthusiastic  interest  a  co-operative  part 
of  the  Red  Cross,  that  the  designating  costume  worn  by  the  women  is  a 
soft  grey  gown  with  white  collars,  cufifs  and  apron. 

"Briefly  outlined  by  Mrs  Banning  at  the  time  she  first  set  forth  to 
Harvey  D.  Gibson,  manager  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  her  original 
Red  Cross  Shop  plan,  the  dominating  idea  was  to  be  one  of  democracy 
and  sacrificial  giving — of  time,  of  money  and  of  gifts  from  which  benefit 
to  the  Red  Cross  funds  would  accrue.  With  tireless  and  unstinted 
energy  the  women  who  have  become  interested  in  the  project  have 
given  of  their  time  and  strength.  There  are  no  salaries  paid  except  to 
the  Japanese  boy  helpers  and  the  janitor.  Through  the  patriotic  gener- 
osity of  Mrs.  J.  M.  Danziger,  the  beautiful  Canfield  home  at  Eighth  and 
Alvarado  Streets  has  been  turned  over  to  the  cause  and  the  commodious 
garage  converted  into  headquarters  for  the  shop.  Disbursements  from 
the  gross  receipts  are  of  infinitesimal  amount,  practically  everything  being 
donated,  even  to  the  postage  stamps  and  stationery,  which  are  personall\ 
given.  Bookkeeping,  stenography  and  publicity  are  given  gratis  by  women 
whose  talents  are  adaptive  to  such  special  lines  of  work,  while  the  many 
needs  for  repair  work  in  the  reconstruction  of  broken  furniture,  clocks, 
toys,  the  mending  of  clothing,  millinery,  etc.,  are  met  by  patriotic  volun- 


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teers  who  are  happy  to  give  of  their  time  and  skill  to  the  worthy  cause. 
It  is  this  democracy  of  spirit  which  illuminntes  the  success  of  the  shop. 
And  it  is  this  great  conception  of  sacrifice  and  giving  that  has  so  unified 
the  women  of  the  city  in  the  one  splendid  purpose.  Many  of  the  girls 
who  labor  in  the  downtown  stores  eight  hours  in  the  day,  six  days  a 
week,  have  assumed  the  responsibility  of  devoting  a  part  of  their  precious 
spare  time  to  the  Red  Cross  Shop  work.  Nimble  finsjers  of  many  an 
humble  artisan  are  doing  their  bit  with  glad  patriotism,  and  it  is  by  this 
means  that  the  expenditures  of  the  shop  are  kept  down  to  the  minimum. 

''Merchants  of  the  city  have  been  equally  as  generous  in  their  co- 
operation, this  despite  the  fact  that  from  a  purely  business  standpoint 
they  might  consider  the  project  an  infringement  upon  their  own  com- 
mercial enterprises.  Not  only  are  the  merchants  generously  responsive 
to  the  specific  calls  made  upon  them,  but  they  have  aided  immeasurably  by 
instructing  the  women  workers  of  the  shop  in  the  basic  principles  of 
salesmanship,  all  of  which  has  been  of  vast  benefit. 

"While  naturally  the  credit  for  the  Red  Cross  Shop  plan  reflects 
directly  back  upon  Mrs.  Hancock  Banning,  whose  brilliant  and  compre- 
hensive idea  was  its  origin,  yet,  with  all  due  modesty,  Mrs.  Banning 
attributes  the  success  of  the  shop  to  the  wonderful  spirit  of  the  women 
who  are  allied  in  the  great  work,  not  only  those  who  are  devoting  them- 
selves to  the  actual  operation  of  the  shop,  but  to  each  and  every  individual 
who  donates  something  to  the  cause,  whether  it  be  an  article  of  intrinsic 
or  sentimental  value,  talents  and  artisanship,  or  just  one's  time,  which 
to  many  men  and  women  involved  in  the  fatiguing  struggle  for  a  liveli- 
hood is  a  priceless  gift.  And  those  who  patronize  the  shop  are  like- 
wise 'doing  their  bit'  in  contributing  to  the  success  of  the  institution. 

"Mrs.  Hancock  Banning  as  general  manager  of  the  Red  Cross  Shop 
has  as  her  'right  hand  bower"  Airs.  J.  M.  Danziger,  assistant  manager, 
who  in  addition  to  the  loaning  of  her  home  for  the  duration  of  the  war 
has  devoted  her  entire  time  with  unflagging  zeal  to  the  work  and  has 
aided  in  many  material  ways  to  the  success  of  the  project.  Mr.  George 
Fusenot,  assistant  shop  official,  has  lent  an  invaluable  aid  to  the  women, 
giving  of  his  own  experience  as  former  proprietor  of  the  Ville  de  Paris. 
Mrs.  R.  A.  HefTner  and  Mrs.  A.  G.  Faulkner,  secretary  and  treasurer, 
respectively,  are  fulfilling  their  executive  offices  with  utmost  credit.  Mrs. 
Charles  Jeffras,  chairman  of  the  floor  committee,  who  has  responsibili- 
ties of  manifold  character,  has  recently  brought  into  her  work  a  new 
and  splendid  plan — that  of  enlisting  the  active  interest  and  co-operation 
of  the  women  of  the  various  department  stores  of  the  city,  each  of  which 
will  assume  complete  charge  of  a  Saturday  program  at  the  shop  during 
the  summer  months.  ' 

■'Mrs.  Edwin  R.  Collins,  aside  from  her  office  as  director  of  the 
entertainment  committee,  which  involves  the  work  of  securing  famous 
stage  and  screen  stars  as  participants  and  staging  other  crowd-drawing 
attractions  for  the  Tea  Room,  has  also  undertaken,  successfully,  the 
work  of  publicity  director,  w^hich  means  the  daily  'peddling'  of  shop 
news  items  to  the  various  newspapers  for  publication. 

"Mrs.  Clarence  Hoblitzelle,  chairman  of  the  art  department ;  Mrs. 
H.  B.  MacBeth,  in  charge  of  the  automobile  service ;  Mrs.  J.  Arthur 
Wright,  manager  of  the  Tea  Room ;  Mrs.  R.  E.  Wells,  in  chai"ge  of  the 
Red  Cross  Shop  l:)ranch  at  Tenth  and  Main  streets,  are  all  fillins:^  depart- 
ments equally  as  important  to  the  success  of  the  shop  as  a  whole. 


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"The  stockroom,  occupying  a  spacious  part  of  the  second  floor  of 
the  building,  is  in  charge  of  Mrs.  Franklyn  Booth,  and  it  is  here  that 
surplus  stock  is  stored,  and  where  all  articles  upon  receipt  are  sorted 
out,  priced,  and  if  in  unsalable  condition  are  sent  out  to  be  repaired, 
cleaned  and  in  other  manner  converted  into  desirable  commodities  for 
sale. 

"Mrs.  Jaro  von  Schmidt  is  in  charge  of  the  children's  clothing  de- 
partment, while  the  women's  apparel  is  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Mrs. 
Harry  Dana  Lombard,  and  the  men's  wearing  apparel  department  is 
under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  G.  Martyn. 

"Mrs.  Frank  Griffith  is  at  the  head  of  the  fancy  work  committee, 
Mrs.  Homer  Laughlin,  Jr.,  is  in  charge  of  the  jewelry  department,  and 
Mrs.  C.  R.  Bradford  directs  the  Kinema  Tea  Room.  Jams  and  jellies 
and  their  allies  are  in  charge  of  Mrs.  S.  Dunlop;  Mrs.  S.  J.  Meyberg 
surpervises  the  work  of  the  toy  department;  Mrs.  W.  A.  Foreman  has 
charge  of  the  uniforms,  while  Mrs.  Hallett  Johnson  presides  over  the 
shoe  department. 

"These  represent  only  the  larger  divisions  of  the  work,  each  of 
which  is  augmented  by  many  branches  and  an  enthusiastic  corps  of 
workers.  The  reconstruction  bureau,  under  the  management  of  Mrs. 
F.  W.  Poore,  is  an  important  branch  of  the  work ;  the  outside  sewing, 
under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  James;  the  Lilliputian  work  shop  in  charge 
of  Miss  Winifred  Ballard ;  the  art  shop  under  direction  of  Mrs.  Robert 
Farquhar — all  of  these  are  component  parts  of  the  Red  Cross  Shop. 

"This  is  perhaps  an  opportune  place  to  touch  upon  the  salvage  branch 
and  to  differentiate  between  this  phase  of  the  Red  Cross  work  and  that 
of  the  Red  Cross  Shop.  The  salvage  plan,  distinctly  separate  from  the 
Red  Cross  Shop,  originated  by  Mrs.  Banning,  is  accredited  to  Mrs.  Oth- 
man  Stevens,  who  conceived  the  idea  of  collecting  such  waste  as  tinfoil, 
old  automobile  tires,  old  papers  and  typewriter  metals  and  marketing 
them.  As  succinctly  e.xpressed  by  a  friend  the  other  day,  the  Red  Cross 
Shop  exemplifies  the  idea  of  giving  from  unwholesome  hoarding,  of 
generosity  of  spirit,  of  giving  from  the  sense  of  wishing  to  share,  of 
self-denial  and  sacrifice.  While  on  the  other  hand,  the  salvage  idea 
educates  along  the  lines  of  unselfish  thrift.  Individually  it  means  noth- 
ing, but  collectively,  backed  by  the  Red  Cross  spirit,  it  is  the  source 
of   an   appreciable   income. 

"From  a  money-making  point  of  view  the  Red  Cross  Shop  takes 
rank  with  'big  business,'  since  within  a  period  of  nine  months  it  has 
netted  a  profit  of  a  hundred  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  with  the  prospect 
of  going  over  the  quarter  of  a  million  mark  before  the  close  of  the 
fiscal  year.  The  net  receipts  for  the  months  of  May  were  $n,355.11, 
which  against  the  gross  receipts  of  $12,125.80  gives  an  idea  of  the  cor- 
respondingly small  amount  disbursed  for  expenses.  The  June  receipts 
mounted  even  higher,  the  profits  reaching  $12,000  for  the  month^repre- 
senting  plain,  straightforward  sales,  since  there  were  no  entertainments 
or  special  benefit  features  given  during  this  period. 

"It  is  a  colossal  enterprise — the  Red  Cross  Shop — and  one  which 
reflects  the  spirit  of  the  American  women — a  spirit  that  arises  far  above 
the  pettiness  of  class  distinction  and  unifies  womankind  in  one  great 
democratic  purpose,  the  big  vital  issue  of  GIVING  to  relieve  the  distress 
which  follows  in  the  wake  of  this  great  surging  world  conflict." 


O.  W.  CHILDS 


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OzRO  W.  Childs.  For  all  its  other  advantages,  Los  Angeles  is  a 
real  "City  of  Angels,"  and  famed  in  every  part  of  the  world  because  of 
its  semi-tropical  environment.  Nature  endowed  it  with  a  semi-tropical 
climate,  but  it  was  the  hand  and  ingenuity  of  man  that  permitted  the  cli- 
mate to  grow  and  produce  the  fruits  and  flowers  that  redeemed  an  almost 
original  desert  into  one  of  the  most  picturesque  spots  on  the  globe. 

These  well  known  historical  facts  are  thus  suggested  to  indicate 
more  clearly  the  debt  that  the  modern  generation  owes  to  the  late  Ozro 
W.  Childs,  who  by  his  work  and  splendid  abilities  both  as  a  floriculturist 
and  business  man  helped  lay  the  foundation  of  Southern  California's  won- 
derful productiveness  of  fruits  and  flowers.  He  introduced  many  rare 
species  of  trees  and  plants,  and  for  years  local  citizens  and  tourists  found- 
in  the  Childs'  farm  and  nursery  one  of  the  chief  spots  of  interest.  Those 
grounds,  much  of  which  has  since  been  covered  by  the  expanding  city, 
was  once  a  scene  of  well  kept  lawns,  rare  and  beautiful  trees  and  flowers, 
and,  while  properly  esteemed  for  their  beauty,  were  really  a  source  of 
much  of  the  commercial  wealth  that  Southern  California  enjoys  today. 

Ozro  W.  Childs  was  one  of  the  earliest  American  pioneers  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  was  born  June  5,  1824,  at  Sutton,  Caledonia  County,  Ver- 
mont, son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Richardson)  Childs.  He  was  a  young 
man  of  twenty-six  when  in  1850  he  came  west  to  California,  and  in  No- 
vember of  the  same  year  located  at  Los  Angeles,  at  that  time  a  place  of 
about  five  thousand  inhabitants  most  of  whom  were  relics  of  the  old 
Spanish  and  Mexican  regime.  Mr.  Childs  for  many  years  was  a  success- 
ful hardware  merchant  and  manufacturer,  and  he  was  a  typical  New 
England  merchant,  one  who  made  a  success  in  practically  every  venture 
he  undertook.  Similar  success  followed  his  enterprise  as  a  nurseryman, 
and  he  showed  the  greatest  wisdom  and  foresight  in  his  varied  real 
estate  improvements. 

His  wonderful  gardens  and  nurseries  had  eventually  to  give  way 
before  the  spread  of  the  city  and  increasing  population.  In  188^  he 
subdivided  his  farm  into  city  lots,  retaining  only  the  grounds  immediately 
around  his  home  from  Main  to  Hill  and  11th  to  12th  streets,  which  con- 
tinued to  reflect  the  artistic  taste  of  the  owner  in  its  fruit  and  flower 
gardens. 

Mr.  Childs  was  a  trustee  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch  of  the  Home 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  California,  was  president  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Electric  Company,  was'  a  director  and  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank,  and  during  his  time  was  identified 
with  a  number  of  the  biggest  enterprises  undertaken  in  the  city.  His 
liberality  was  as  marked  as  was  his  success  in  business  affairs.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  to  which 
he  contributed  part  of  the  land.  He  also  gave  ten  acres  as  the  site  of 
old  St.  Vincent's  College  and  that  gift  more  than  anything  else  insured 
the  permanence  of  that  institution  of  Catholic  education.  Los  Angeles 
people  of  modern  times  are  familiar  with  the  Childs  Opera  House,  which 
he  built  and  opened  in  1884  on  Main  Street  between  1st  and  2nd  streets. 
It  was  one  of  the  largest  theaters  in  the  west  at  the  time,  had  a  seating 
capacity  of  about  twelve  hundred,  and  even  then  was  engaged  by  some 
dramatic  company  almost  every  night  in  the  year.  It  .is  now  being 
operated  as  a  movie  house  and  is  still  owned  by  the  Childs'  estate. 

Ozro  W.  Childs  died  April  17,  1890.  at  the  age  of  sixty-six.  In 
1860  he  married  Miss  Emeline  Huber,  a  native  of  Louisville,  Kentucky. 
They  were  the  parents  of  six  children,  five  of  whom  are  still  living: 


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Ozro  W.,  manager  of  the  O.  W.  Childs'  estate  at  Los  Angeles ;  Mrs. 
John  W.  Dwight,  of  Washington.  D.  C. ;  Mrs.  Frank  S.  Hicks,  of  Los 
Angeles;  Mrs.  A.  W.  Redn.an,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mrs.  Reynolds,  wife 
of  Col.  F.  P.  Reynolds,  of  Washington. 

Lee  Allen  Phillips,  who  became  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  in 
1894,  has  become  known  to  the  public  as  a  very  able  and  successful  law- 
yer, an  organizer  and  executive  in  a  number  of  reclamation  projects, 
active  as  a  banker  and  business  man,  and  for  a  number  of  years  as  an 
official  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Cahfornia,  one 
of  the  most  progressive  insurance  companies  of  America  and  with  two 
hundred  and  fifty  millio  i  dollars  of  insurance  in  force.  Early  in  1919 
Mr.  Phillips  succeeded  the  late  Gail  Borden  Johnson  in  the  office  of 
vice-president  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Phillips  was  born  at  Ashton,  Illinois,  August  24,  1871,  son  of 
Milton  Eaves  and  Magdelina  Phill.ps.  His  father  for  many  years  was 
a  prominent  educator  and  became  well  known  throughout  the  central 
western  states.  After  many  years  of  earnest  and  self  sacrificing  work 
there  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  four  years  was  dean  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California,  and  finally  took  the  pastorate  of  a  Con- 
gregational church  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  where  he  died  in  1909. 

Lee  Allen  Phillips  received  liis  higher  education  in  the  University 
of  Kansas  and  in  DePauw  University  at  Greencastle,  Indiana,  where  he 
graduated  A.  B.,  in  1892  and  then  taking  the  law  course  received  in 
18y4  the  LL.  B.  degree  and  the  A.  M.  decree.  He  was  thereiore  a 
briefless  attorney  when  he  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  in  the  late  summer  of 
that  year.  Then  and  ever  since  Mr.  Phillips  has  been  known  among  his 
associates  as  a  man  of  modest  and  unpretentious  worth,  and  has  won 
success  on  the  merit  of  his  work  and  not  by  any  influences  outside  his 
ewn  character.  In  October,  1894,  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  the 
office  of  Cochran  &  WUliams,  the  senior  member  of  which  firm  was 
George  I.  Cochran,  now  president  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  California.  The  firm  became  Cochran,  Williams  &  Phillips, 
and  so  continued  until  1902.  In  1907  Mr.  Phillips  became  associate 
counsel  for  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  in  1912 
was  chosen  third  vice-president  in  charge  of  the  investments  of  the 
company.  In  1919  he  was  unanimously  promoted  to  vice-president  and 
treasurer  and  is  still  in  charge  of  the  company's  investments,  aggre- 
gating over  forty-five  millions  of  dollars. 

There  is  usually  a  fundamental  motive  and  driving  force  in  the 
careers  of  men  of  large  aft'airs.  In  the  case  of  Mr.  Phillips  that  motive 
is  discerned  through  h,s  interests  in  a  line  of  work  which  has  not  yet  been 
described.  He  has  served  the  Pacific  Mutual  and  many  other  interests 
as  a  masterful  and  skillful  financier  and  has  done  a  great  work  in  safe- 
guar.!ing  and  promoting  the  security  and  profit  of  many  properties  en- 
trusted to  his  care.  However,  he  has  been  more  than  a  "guardian  of 
vested  interests,"  and  the  phase  of  his  career  which  furnishes  him  most 
intimate  satisfaction  wns  his  part  in  the  constructive  development  of 
his  home  state,  through  the  reclamation  of  swamp  and  overflow  lands 
in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley. 

From  1902  to  1907,  in  order  to  give  his  personal  supervision  to 
these  interests,  Mr.  Phillips  made  his  home  at  Stockton.  Between  the 
years  of  1902  and  1912  he  organized,  for  the  purpose  of  reclaiming 
tracts  of  land  in  the  delta  of  the  San  Joaquin  and  Sacramento  Rivers, 


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the  following  corporations,  each  for  the  purpose  of  reclaiming  a  given 
acre  ge :  Middle  River  Farming  Company,  six  thousand  acres ;  Middle 
River  Navigation  &  Canal  Company,  6  thousand  acres;  Rindge  Land 
&  Navigaaon  Company,  ten  thousand  acres ;  Orwood  Land  Company, 
three  thousand  acres;  Holland  Land  and  Water  Company,  ten  thou- 
sand acres ;  Empire  Navigation  Company  eight  thousand  acres ;  Equita- 
ble Investmant  Company,  seven  thousand  acres ;  Mandeville  Land  Com- 
pany, seven  thousand  acres ;  Island  Land  Company,  three  thousand 
eight  hundred  acres;  California  Delta  Farms,  Incorporated,  a  conaoli- 
datiop  of  the  above  companies  and  reclaiming  an  additional  seven 
thousand  acres ;  Bouldin  Land  Company,  seven  thousand  acres ;  Hol- 
land Land  Company,  which  was  a  reorganization  of  the  unsuccessful 
Netherlands  Farms  Company,  for  the  reclamation  of  twenty-six  thou- 
sand acres.  He  also  organized  the  Empire  Construction  Company, 
co!itrolling  a  fleet  of  dredgers  use  in  construction  of  levees  for  the 
purpose  of  recbmation  of  various  properties. 

Mr.  Phillips  gained  his  first  experience  in  the  development  of 
agricultural  lands  through  the  organization  of  the  Artesian  Water 
Company  and  the  development  of  the  old  Cienega  Swamps  adjoining 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  fronting  on  West  Adams  street.  Here  in 
the  year  1900  he  changed  this  swamp  into  a  wonderfully  productive 
area,  which  up  to  date  is  producing  a  very  large  proportion  of  the 
fresh  vegetables  used  in  Los  Angeles.  At  the  same  time  he  developed 
what  is  known  as  the  Artesian  Water  Company,  taking  the  water 
from  artesian  wells  on  these  lands  and  conveying  it  to  the  dry  lands 
lying  along  Washington  stre'et  between  the  town  of  Palms  and  Santa 
Monica. 

The  total  acreage  reclaimed  under  Mr.  Phillips'  direct  supervision 
and  management,  by  summing  up  the  above  figures,  seem  to  be  a  hun- 
dred thousand  eight  hundred.  Some  additional  facts  should  be  stated 
to  indicate  what  significance  this  work  has  had  as  a  factor  of  California 
agricultural  production.  Until  the  reclamation  work  was  begim  the 
properties  had  been  only  nominally  assessed,  and  produced  nothing 
of  value.  After  reclamation,  the  average  assessment  rose  to  seventy-five 
dollars  an  acre,  and  the  value  of  the  land  at  normal  market  figures 
runs  from  two  hundred  fifty  to  three  hundred  dollars  an  acre.  More 
important  still,  the  production  is  the  largest  per  acre  of  the  various 
crops  grown,  including  potatoes,  beans,  asparagus,  onions,  corn,  barley 
and  wheat,  of  which  there  is  any  record  over  similarly  large  areas. 
Since  1903  two-thirds  of  all  the  potatoes  grown  in  the  state  of  Cali- 
fornia have  been  raised  on  these  various  properties.  In  truth,  in  recent 
years  there  have  been  many  destructive  agencies  let  loose  against  civili- 
zation and  the  world's  prosperity,  and  it  serves  a  good  purpose  to  con- 
trrst  these  magnificent  constructive  enterprises  that  have  been  carried 
out  by  this  Los  Angeles  lawyer  and  business  man.  Mr.  Phillips'  inter- 
est did  not  end  with  the  completion  of  the  reclamation  projects  them- 
selves but  has  continued  through  the  practical  distribution  and  settle- 
ment of  the  reclaimed  land  to  actual  owners  and  cultivators.  He  feels 
that  the  complete  fruition  of  his  hopes  and  plans  will  only  be  realized 
when  this  great  body  of  land  is  not  only  productive  of  crops  but  fur- 
nishes homes  and  hnppy  environment  to  the  numerous  families  which  ii 
can  properly  support. 

Mr.  Phillips  is  president  of  the  California  Delta  Farms,  Incor- 
porated, vice-president  of  the  Bouldin  Lan(d  Company,  president  of  the 
Beverly   Hills  Corporation,  president  of  the   Pecos  Valley   Investment 


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Company,  president  of  the  Central  Business  Properties,  director  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  the  Security  National  and  Home 
Savings  Bank. 

Only  recently  through  the  public  press  it  is  learned  that  Mr.  Phil- 
lips' ideals  in  regard  to  the  settling  of  the  Delta  lands  is  about  to  be 
fully  consumated,  27,000  acres  of  the  land  having  been  sold  to  settlers 
in  the  short  period  of  fourteen  weeks. 

Mr.  Phillips  has  not  confined  his  activities  in  agricultural  develop- 
ment to  the  state  of  California,  but  under  the  name  of  the  Pecos  Valley 
Investment  Company  has  developed  3,400  acres  of  land  in  the  Pecos  Val- 
ley, New  Mexico,  which  land  was  taken  from  the  desert  and  by  means  of 
wells  and  pumping  plants  has  been  converted  into  large  alfalfa  fields  and 
apple  orchards,  700  acres  of  this  property  being  put  to  the  latter  use. 

Particularly  in  recent  years  Mr.  Phillips  has  been  active  in  in- 
vestments and  real  estate  in  Los  Angeles,  and  has  done  much  to  aid 
the  development  of  the  newer  section  of  the  business  district. 

He  is  at  present  actively  engaged  in  perfecting  plans  for  a  new 
twelve-story  office  building  to  be  erected  by  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company,  and  also  plans  for  a  new  fireproof  building  to 
be  built  on  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Olive  streets,  this  latter  building  to 
be  owned  by  the  Central  Business  Properties,  Inc. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Library  Board  from  1900 
to  1902,  also  of  the  State  Normal  School  Board  from  1900  to  1902. 
During  the  war  he  was  chairman  of  Exemption  Board  No.  9  for  the 
City  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Phillips  is  a 'republican,  a  member  of  the 
Phi  Gamma  Delta  and  Delta  Chi  fraternities,  the  California  Club,  Bo- 
hemian Club  of  San  Francisco,  Yosemite  Club,  of  Stockton,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club, 
Brentwood  Country  Club,  and  Los  Angeles  Press  Club.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church. 

December  19,  1895,  at  Winfield,  Kansas,  Mr.  Phillips  married 
Catherine  Louise  Coffin,  daughter  of  Tristram  Sanborn  and  Susan  Wink- 
ler Coffin.  To  their  marriage  were  born  two  daughters,  Lucile  Gertrude 
and  Katharine  Louise.  Lucile  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Wayland  A.  Mor- 
rison. 

Russell  Judson  W.vters.  Among  the  thousands  of  men  who  have 
sought  the  mild  and  beneficent  climate  of  Southern  California  as  a 
restorative  and  ideal  condition  in  which  to  live,  and  among  the  many 
who  transferred  and  projected  their  former  business  and  professional  in- 
terests to  this  state,  probably  none  made  his  activities  and  influence  more 
thoroughly  constructive  in  every  sense  than  the  late  Russell  Judson 
Waters.  One  achievement  alone,  summed  up  in  the  phrase,  "father  of 
Redlands,"  would  be  sufficient  to  satisfy  the  ambitions  of  a  more  than 
average  man.  However,  Mr.  Waters,  who  lived  in  Southern  California 
from  1886  until  his  death  in  1911,  was  identified  with  a  great  number  of 
commercial  organizations,  not  only  in  Redlands,  but  in  all  the  territory 
comprised  in  Greater  Los  Angeles,  and  every  one  of  these  enterprises 
was  indebted  to  him  for  many  of  the  primary  sources  of  their  success, 
.md  prosperity. 

Of  New  England  ancestry,  a  son  of  Luther  and  Mary  (Knowlton) 
Waters,  Russell  Judson  Waters  was  born  at  Halifax,  Vermont,  June  6, 
1843,  being  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  thirteen,  eight  daughters  and 
two  sons  reaching  mature  years.    When  he  was  four  years  old  his  father 


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died.  His  mother  then  removed  to  Coleraiii,  Franklin  county,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  at  the  age  of  eight  years  the  boy  was  put  in  a  cotton  mill 
to  contribute  to  the  necessities  of  a  large  and  impoverished  household. 
He  worked  there  two  years  at  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  a  week.  As  there 
were  no  child  labor  laws  to  violate,  the  work  violated  nature's  law,  and 
he  had  to  leave  the  mill,  and  was  next  put  to  work  on  a  farm  at  Deer- 
field,  Massachusetts,  where  he  quickly  regained  his  vigor.  During  the 
two  years  on  the  farm  he  managed  to  attend  a  few  brief  terms  of  public 
school.  This  schooling  was  important,  because  it  instilled  in  him  an 
ambition  for  more  knowledge,  and  he  never  ceased  to  be  a  student  the 
rest  of  his  Hfe.  He  studied  at  home  and  at  every  leisure  opportunity, 
and  earned  and  paid  for  all  his  higher  education.  Then  he  went  to  work 
in  a  cutlery  factory  at  Deerfield,  working  as  a  machine  operator.  The 
family  in  the  meantime  had  located  at  Richville,  New  York,  whither  he 
removed,  and  then  resumed  employment  on  a  farm  at  sixty  cents  a  day. 
During  the  winter  he  chopped  wood  at  fifty  cents  a  cord.  It  was  this 
outdoor  life  which  developed  the  splendid  physique  enabling  him  to  apply 
his  mental  and  physical  energies  without  rest  to  study  and  work  for 
many  years.  Going  back  to  Massachusetts,  he  learned  the  machinists' 
trade,  taught  two  terms  of  school,  and  eventually  completed  his  studies 
at  Franklin  Institute.  He  graduated  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  and  was 
at  once  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  professor  of  Latin  and  mathe- 
matics in  Franklin  Institute.  He  remained  there  one  year.  In  1868  he 
removed  to  Chicago  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  with  such  diligence 
that  he  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar  after  two  years.  He  practiced 
law  in  Chicago  until  1886.  He  made  a  name  and  reputation  as  a  lawyer 
in  that  city,  and  it  was  only  as  a  result  of  ill  health  that  he  gave  up  his 
profitable  business  as  a  lawyer  to  come  to  Southern  California.  He 
was  never  a  member  of  the  California  bar. 

On  coming  to  California  he  became  associated  with  the  California- 
Chicago  Colonization  Association  as  chairman  and  commissioner.  In 
that  capacity  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land,  in  the  center  of  which 
is  the  famed  city  of  Redlands,  a  community  which  recognizes  him  as  its 
founder  and  upbuilder.  He  was  a  resident  of  Redlands  about  seven 
>ears,  and  during  that  time  and  also  afterward  no  enterprise  to  promote 
its  interest  was  ever  calculated  complete  without  his  name  and  influence. 
He  was  attorney  for  the  city  one  year.  It  was  through  his  efforts  that 
the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company  extended  its  lines  from  San  Bernardino 
to  Redlands.  One  of  the  important  features  of  the  city,  making  it  well 
known  to  tourists,  was  the  "kite-shaped  track,"  in  the  construction  of 
which  he  had  a  leading  part.  He  was  also  at  various  times  a  director 
of  the  Union  Bank,  the  First  National  Bankthe  Crafton  Water  Com- 
pany, the  East  Redlands  Water  Company  and  the  Redlands  Hotel  Com- 
pany, which  built  the  Windsor  Hotel.  He  built  and  operated  the  Red- 
lands  Street  Railway  and  was  president  of  the  company.  He  was  also 
identified  with  the  Bear  Valley  Irrigation  Company  as  its  manager,  and 
during  his  administration  the  stock  of  the  company  almost  doubled  in 
value. 

When,  in  1894,  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  his  business  prestige  was 
not  dwarfed  in  the  larger  city.  He  became  widely  known  as  a  banker, 
was  a  leading  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  was 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Park  Commissioners,  and  while  in  no  sense 
a  politician  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  term,  he  was  prevailed  upon  by 
his  friends  to  become  a  candidate  for  Congress  from  the  Sixth  District 
and  was  nominated  by  acclamation  at  the  Congressional  Convention,  the 


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nominating  speech  being  made  by  his  old  time  friend,  ex-Governor  John 
L.  Bevericlge  of  Illinois.  He  carried  his  district  after  a  vigorous  cam- 
paign by  3,542  votes.  He  represented  the  district  in  the  Fifty-sixth  Con- 
gress from  1899  to  190L  As  a  member  of  Congress  he  proved  an  ardent 
friend  of  conservation,  and  introduced  measures  approved  by  the  South- 
ern California  Forestry  Commission  whereby  it  was  made  a  criminal 
offense  to  leave  campfires  burning  and  endanger  the  public  forests.  He 
also  mtroduced  a  bill  appropriatmg  over  half  a  million  dollars  for  the 
improvement  of  San  Pedro  Harbor.  He  was  a  defender  of  the  Nicaragua 
Canal  bill,  when  that  measure  was  regarded  of  equal  merit  with  the 
Panama  project,  and  was  especially  defended  by  the  interests  of  South- 
ern California.  His  influence  also  secured  the  order  issued  by  the  com- 
missioner general  of  the  Land  Office  suspending  the  filing  of  lien  scrip 
upon  land  until  after  a  full  and  complete  investigation  by  special  agents 
of  the  department  had  been  made.  He  also  introduced  a  bill  to  authorize 
the  entry  and  patenting  of  lands  containing  petroleum  and  other  mineral 
oils  under  placer  mining  laws.  Shortly  before  he  entered  Congress  the 
first  rural  mail  route  had  been  put  in  operation,  and  he  did  much  to  ex- 
tend the  service  over  the  Sixth  California  District,  and  also  secured  the 
establishment  of  eleven  additional  postoffices. 

After  his  return  from  Congress  he  was  elected  in  1903  president  of 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  following  year  be- 
came president  of  the  Home  Savings  Bank. 

A  short  time  before  his  death,  Mr.  Waters,  besides  being  president 
of  the  Citizens  Bank,  was  president  of  the  Broadway  Trust  Company 
of  Los  Angeles,  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Alhambra,  of  the  Home 
Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Columbia  Commercial  Company  of 
Los  Angeles,  the  California  Cattle  Company  and  the  San  Jacinto  Valley 
Water  Company.  He  had  also  been  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Di- 
rectory Company,  was  president  of  the  Pasadena  Consolidated  Gas  Com- 
pany, was  a  director  of  the  American  Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles, 
was  president  of  the  Citizens  Security  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Equit- 
able Security  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Las  Vegas  &  Tonopah  Railroad, 
a  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Redlands,  treasurer  of  the 
Continental  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  president 
of  the  Bay  Island  Club  of  Newport. 

It  was  through  these  various  activities  and  institutions  that  he  de- 
veloped his  business  reputation  and  his  prestige  as  a  man  of  affairs.  Dur- 
ing the  years  of  his  early  practice  as  a  lawyer  in  Chicago  he  had  also 
used  his  pen  as  a  contributor  to  newspapers  and  magazines.  He  also 
began  his  first  book  in  Chicago,  entitled  "Lyric  Echoes."  In  California 
he  became  author  of  a  dozen  good  short  stories,  and  less  than  a  year 
before  his  death  published  a  California  novel,  "El  Estranjero,"  which 
was  one  of  the  best  sellers  of  the  holiday  books.  The  dominating  in- 
terests of  his  life  were  practical  business,  literature  and  home  affections. 
He  never  belonged  to  clubs  or  lodges,  and  though  a  lover  of  the  country, 
was  neither  a  hunter  nor  fisherman.  His  country  place  in  the  foothills 
at  Azusa  consisted  of  a  fine  lodge  and  a  quarter  of  a  section  of  land,  in 
the  improvement  of  which  he  was  never  wearied.  His  city  home  was 
at  900  West  Adams  street,  Los  Angeles,  where  the  peaceful  end  came  to 
his  life  and  activities  on  September  25,  1911,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight. 

His  wife  had  died  at  the  Los  Angeles  city  home  February  5,  1903. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Adelaide  Mary  Ballard.  She  was  born  at  Charle- 
mont,  Massachusetts,  April  16,  1848.  They  were  married  November  25, 
1869,  and  as  a  bride  she  went  to  Chicago  with  her  husband.     Three  of 


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their  living  children  were  born  in  Chicago.  The  children  are:  Arthur 
J.,  president  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles;  Mabel,  Flor- 
ence and  Myrtle,  all  of  Los  Angeles.    Florence  is  the  wife  of  Eli  P.  Fay. 

Arthur  J.  Waters,  only  son  of  the  late  Russell  Judson  Waters, 
whose  career  has  been  sketched  on  other  pages,  has  been  at  different 
times  associated  with  many  enterprises  in  Southern  California,  but  for 
the  most  part  his  business  career  has  been  centered  in  the  Citizens  Na- 
tional Bank,  which  he  entered  more  than  a  c|uarter  of  a  century  ago  as 
a  messenger  boy,  and  in  which  he  succeeded  his  father  in  1911  as  pres- 
ident. 

The  Citizens  National  Bank  is  one  of  the  largest  financial  institutions 
of  Los  Angeles.  In  1919  its  resources  aggregated  over  twenty-eight  mil- 
lion dollars.  It  was  established  in  1890  at  Third  and  Spring  streets,  was 
subsequently  moved  to  Third  and  Main  street,  and  with  increasing  busi- 
ness and  prestige,  it  was  finally  housed  in  its  magnificent  new  bank  and 
office  building  at  Fifth  a-id  Spring  streets.  The  Citizens  National  Bank 
Building,  completed  in  1914,  is  a  twelve-story  structure  in  the  \ery  heart 
of  the  financial  district.  It  represents  an  investment  of  over  two  million 
dollars. 

Arthur  J.  Waters  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  March  4.  1871,  and 
was  about  fifteen  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  received  his  early  educatioi  in  the  Eastern  cities  and  is  a 
graduate  of  the  old  University  of  Chicago.  He  hns  been  identified  with 
the  Citizens  National  Bank  since  1893,  and  served  it  successively  as  mes- 
senger boy,  bookkeeper,  teller,  assistant  cashier,  cashier  and  vice  pres- 
ident.' Owing  to  the  death  of  his  father  in  1911,  he  assumed  the  pres- 
idency. He  was  recently  elected  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Clearing 
House  Association. 

In  1899  Mr.  Waters  married  Miss  Charlotte  C.  Miller.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  California  Club,  Jonathan  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club, 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order. 

Henry  William  O'Melveny  is  one  of  the  oldest  active  members 
of  the  bar  of  Los  Angeles.  Ne-^rly  forty  y  ars  in  pr  ctice,  his  reputation 
has  grown  with  the  years,  and  his  standing  as  a  lawyer  is  second  to 
none,  and  his  influence  as  a  citizen  has  always  been  greater  than  any 
of  his  individual  achievements  in  the  profession,  notable  though  they 
have  been. 

Mr.  O'Melveny,  to  whom  there  came  a  specially  grateful  profes- 
sional distinction  when  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Bar  Association  in  1919,  was  born  in  Illinois,  August  10,  1859,  but 
came  to  Los  Angeles  in  childhood  with  his  parents,  H.  K.  S.  and 
Anna  Wilhelmina  (Rose)  O'Melveny.  He  acquired  a  liberal  educa- 
tion. After  graduating  from  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  in  1875, 
he  entered  the  University  of  California  and  completed  his  law  co'rse 
in  1879.  Upon  his  admission  to  practice  he  at  once  opened  an  office 
in  Los  Angeles,  where  from  1883  to  1885  he  served  as  deputy  under 
Stephen  M.  White,  then  district  attorney.  In  the  latter  year  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  J.  A.  Graves  under  the  firm  name  of  Graves  & 
O'Melveny.  The  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  in  1888  to  Graves, 
O'Melveny  &  Shankland.  Through  association  with  Henry  J.  Stev- 
ens in  1906,  the  firm  of  O'Melveny  &  Stevens  was  established,  and 
this  in  turn  by  the  addition  of  Mr.  Millikin  in  1907  expanded  into 
the  present  co-partnership  of  O'Melveny,  Stevens  &  Millikin. 


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For  thirty  years  Mr.  O'Melveny  has  been  a  moving  force  in  the 
professional  history  of  Los  Angeles,  and  his  vigorous  mind  has  been 
felt  continually  as  an  important  factor  in  legal  circles.  He  has  been 
prominent  both  as  a  counsellor  and  as  an  advocate,  and  his  opinions 
have  acquired  great  weight  not  only  in  the  courts  but  among  the  pro- 
fession generally.  His  suggestions  are  received  with  deference  since 
they  are  based  on  long  and  mature  experience  and  a  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  the  law. 

Mr.  O'Melveny  has  many  business  interests,  being  a  director  of 
the  Azusa  Ice  &  Cold  Storage  Company,  Farmers  &  Merchants  Na- 
tional Bank,  the  Security  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  Los 
Angeles  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  Title  Insurance  &  Trust  Company, 
Dominguez  Water  Company,  Dominguez  Estate  Company  and  other 
well  known  business  or  financial  concerns  of  southern  California. 
Along  lines  of  civic  service  he  has  been  for  two  terms  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Los  Angeles  Public  Library,  and  also  acted 
as  a  member  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission  and  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Park  Commissioners.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sunset  Club, 
California  Club,  and  Los  Angeles  Country  Club.  He  married  at  Los 
Angeles  in  1887  Marie  Antionette  Schilling,  of  Los  Angeles. 

MiLo  S.  B.MvER,  founder  of  the  Baker  Iron  Works  of  Los  Angeles, 
was  a  conspicuous  character  in  the  life  of  the  Far  West  and  also  in  the 
state  of  Michigan.  M'here  he  lived  until  permanently  settling  at  Los 
Angeles  in  1874. 

He  was  born  in  Genesee  county.  New  York,  March  20,  1828,  mem- 
ber of  a  prominent  New  England  family.  His  great-grandfather,  Re- 
member Baker,  was  a  relative  of  Ethan  Allen,  the  celebrated  leader  of 
the  Mountain  Brigade  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  was  captain  of  a 
company  when  General  Allen  stormed  and  captured  Fort  Ticonderoga, 
one  of  the  outstanding  exploits  of  the  Revolution.  This  patriot  soon 
after  those  exploits  was  captured  by  the  Indians  and  murdered  by  them, 
and  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  officer  killed  in  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. Capt.  Remember  Baker  was  one  of  the  original  surveyors  of  New 
Hampshire,  and  was  succeeded  in  the  profession  of  surveying  by  his  son 
Ozi,  who  established  the  boundary  lines  between  the  states  of  New  York 
and  Vermont.  Ozi  in  turn  was  assisted  in  surveying  by  his  son.  Remem- 
ber Baker,  the  latter  being  the  father  of  Milo  S.  Baker.  Remember 
Baker  was  also  a  sea  captain  and  had  the  distinction  of  piloting  the 
Robert  Fulton  on  its  first  trip  up  the  Hudson  in  1807.  He  served  as  ;i 
soldier  in  the  War  of  1812  with  a  captain's  commission.  He  had  the 
pioneer  instinct  and  in  1836  went  to  the  wilds  of  Michigan,  settling 
where  the  State  Capitol  now  stands  at  Lansing.  He  died  in  that  state 
about  1845. 

Milo  S.  Baker  grew  up  on  the  Michigan  frontier,  and  at  the  death 
of  his  father,  though  only  eighteen  years  of  age,  took  charge  of  the 
business.  In  March,  1815,  he  and  four  companions  set  out  for  Cali- 
fornia, traveling  overland  and  encountering  many  hardships  and  dangers. 
Milo  Baker  had  many  experiences  in  the  mining  district  of  California, 
where  he  remained  about  three  years  and  where  he  was  prosperous 
probably  beyond  the  average.  He  returned  to  the  States  by  the  Panama 
route,  going  on  the  steamer  "Winfield  Scott.'.' 

On  his  return  to  Michigan  he  took  up  the  business  for  which  he 
was  best  adapted,  machinery,  and  soon  had  a  prosperous  foundry  and 
machine  shop  at  Portland,  in  Ionia  county.  In  1860  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Michigan  Legislature,  and  both  in  that  capacity  and  as  a 


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private  citizen  he  rendered  his  stanchest  support  to  the  government  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war.  About  that  time  he  sold  his  business  at 
Portland  and  directed  a  large  plant  at  Lansing,  known  as  Baker's 
Eureka  Iron  Works,  manufacturing  machinery  and  architectural  iron. 
Subsequently  he  added  a  flouring  mill  and  saw  mill.  When  they  were 
burned  he  rebuilt  the  mills  and  also  established  a  planing  mill.  He  built 
for  his  brother,  Gen.  Lafayette  C.  Baker,  the  Lansing  House,  one  of  the 
largest  hotels  in  Michigan  at  that  time. 

Some  reference  should  be  made  to  his  brother,  Lafayette  C.  Baker, 
who  was  born  in  1826,  came  West  to  California  in  1853,  was  prominent 
among  the  Vigilantes  in  the  pioneer  days  of  that  city,  and  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Civil  war  did  some  highly  important  work  for  the  govern- 
ment as  a  Secret  Service  agent  and  was  soon  placed  at  the  head  of 
the  Secret  Service  Bureau  and  commissioned  colonel  and  subsequently 
brigadier  general.  When  President  Lincoln  was  assassinated  he  organ- 
ized the  pursuit  of  the  murdered  and  was  present  at  his  capture  and 
death.  He  died  in  Philadelphia  July  2,  1868,  about  the  time  of  the 
publication  of  his  work,  "History  of  the  United  States  Secret  Service," 
which  settled  authoritatively  some  disputed  points  of  the  war. 

Milo  S.  Baker  was  three  times  married.  His  first  two  wives  died 
within  a  year  or  two  after  their  marriage.  January  19,  1863,  he  mar- 
ried Harriet  L.  Lawrence,  daughter  of  William  H.  Lawrence,  a  business 
man  of  Yonkers,  New  York.  She  was  a  niece  of  Capt.  James  Lawrence, 
whose  record  figures  so  prominently  in  the  early  history  of  the  American 
Navy,  first  as  commander  of  the  "Hornet,"  and  later  as  commander  of 
the  frigate  "Chesapeake"  in  its  engagement  with  the  "Shannon."  Every 
American  schoolboy  knows  his  famous  exhortation,  as  he  fell  mortally 
wounded,  "Dont  give  up  the  ship." 

Being  in  poor  health,  Milo  S.  Baker  sold  his  Michigan  business  a 
few  years  after  the  war,  and  on  January  1,  1874,  arrived  in  Los  Angeles, 
where  he  lived  a  few  months.  For  about  one  year  he  lived  at  Indiana 
Colony  (now  Pasadena),  then  moved  his  family  to  Santa  Monica.  Be- 
ing restored  to  health,  he  built  in  1877  a  foundry  and  machine  shop  on 
Spring  street,  opposite  the  old  Court  Ho\ise.  A  small  machine  shop 
had  been  established  there  by  a  Frenchman  in  1872.  The  business  was 
so  small  that  Mr.  Baker  was  able  to  fill  all  orders  without  any  assistance 
except  an  extra  man  in  busy  seasons.  But  tinder  his  enterprising  direc- 
tion the  establishment  grew  and  prospered  and  moved  to  larger  quarters 
at  Second  and  Main  streets,  and  in  1886  the  Baker  Iron  Works  was 
incorporated  and  a  new  plant  built  on  Buena  Vista  Street,  now  North 
Broadway,  and  College  street.  At  the  present  time  seven  acres  arc 
occupied  by  the  different  departments  and  buildings.  The  develop- 
ment of  such  an  industry  proves  the  possibilities  of  Los  Angeles  for 
manufacturing  in  every  line,  since  the  results  achieved  by  the  Baker 
Company  might  be  duplicated  by  other  men  of  equal  capability  and 
efficiency.  The  product  of  the  Baker  Iron  Works  through  forty  years 
has  met  every  test  of  efficiency  and  quality.  This  company  furnished  the 
structural  iron  and  steel  work  for  such  well-known  buildings  as  the 
Security  Bank,  Union  Trust,  Douglas,  Johnson,  Grosse  and  Auditorium 
Buildings,  the  VanNuys  and  Alexandria  Hotels  and  hundreds  of  others. 

When  Milo  S.  Baker  brought  his  wife  and  children  to  Los  Angeles 
county  in  1873  they  were  the  first  outside  family  to  join  the  Indiana 
colony  now  known  as  Pasadena,  a  settlement  that  hitherto  had  been 
composed  of  seventeen  families,  all  from  the  state  of  Indiana. 

Milo  S.  Baker  continued  actively  as  president  of  the  Baker  Iron 


28  LOS  ANGELES 

Works  until  his  death  in  1894.  He  and  his  wife  had  two  sons  and  a 
daughter,  Fred  L.,  now  president  of  the  Baker  Iron  Works;  Milo  A., 
vice-president,  who  has  also  been  identified  with  the  business  for  many 
years,  and  Belle. 

Feed  Lawrence  Baker.  Any  of  half  a  dozen  organizations  or 
institutions  in  Southern  California  might  be  taken  as  a  text  to  illustrate 
the  enterprise  and  influence  of  Fred  Lawrence  Baker  as  a  Los  Angeles 
citizen.  However,  his  primary  and  longest  continued  work  has  ueen 
with  the  Baker  Iron  Works,  the  first  and  greatest  industry  of  its  kind 
in  California.  The  career  of  its  founder,  the  late  Milo  S.  Baker,  has 
been  sketched  on  preceding  pag.s. 

Fred  Lawrence  Baker  is  a  son  of  Milo  S.  Baker  and  was  born  at 
Lansing,  Michigan,  February  10,  1865.  Though  of  a  notable  family  in 
the  history  of  Michigan  and  the  American  nation,  Fred  Lawrence  Baker 
as  a  result  of  several  circumstances  never  attended  school  more  than  six 
months  altogether.  His  individuality  has  been  such  that  apparently  he 
has  needed  none  of  the  conventional  sources  of  education  and  training, 
and  has  hewed  out  his  own  way  and  has  always  dominated  his  circum- 
stances. 

As  a  result  of  the  death  of  his  father  in  1894,  the  responsibilities 
of  the  management  of  the  great  Baker  Iron  Works  fell  upon  him.  He 
had  grown  up  in  the  atmosphere  of  these  works  and  was  well  qualified  ro 
make  of  them  an  even  greater  industry  than  his  father  had  ever  antici- 
pated. Of  this  corporation,  whose  products  are  distributed  throughout 
California,  Arizona  and  Northern  Mexico,  Mr.  Baker  has  for  a  number 
of  years  been  president,  while  his  brother,  Milo  A.,  is  vice  president ;  W. 
C.  Kennedy  is  secretary,  Harry  S.  Hitchcock,  treasurer,  and  J.  Foster 
Rhodes  a  director. 

The  Baker  Iron  Works,  during  the  early  years  of  Milo  Baker's 
ownership  known  as  the  City  Foundry,  did  a  great  amount  of  business 
in  providing  building  material  for  construction,  irrigation  and  agricul- 
tural enterprises  thirty  years  or  more  ago.  Incorporated  under  the 
present  title  in  1886,  the  Baker  Iron  Works  has  in  all  the  years  b  en 
relied  upon  for  an  output  used  in  nearly  all  the  larger  enterprises  in  the 
mining  and  irrigation  fields  in  the  Southwest.  The  business,  now  located 
in  a  pknt  covering  an  area  of  more  th^n  ten  acres,  provides  structural 
steel  for  every  class  of  buildings,  designs  and  manufactures  passenger 
and  freight  elevators,  dumb  elevators,  builds  sterm  boilers,  manufactures 
machinery  of  every  description  for  mining  and  petroleum  operators,  and 
provid.s  water  pipe  for  city  and  irrigating  corporations.  The  construc- 
tion of  powerful  traveling  cranes,  steam  and  electric  hoists,  and  the 
manufacture  of  gas  plants  are  among  other  special  features  of  the  Baker 
Iron  Works  product.  When  this  country  became  involved  in  the  great 
European  war  the  Baker  Iron  Works  was  among  the  first  of  the  patriotic 
industrial  corporations  to  offer  to  provide  steel  ships  for  the  United 
States  government.  Mr.  Baker  helped  organize  the  Los  Angeles  Ship- 
building and  Dry  Dock  Company,  and  with  remTkable  speed  built  a 
big  plant  at  the  harbor  and  secured  contracts  with  the  government  for 
the  construction  of  steel  ships  valued  at  about  seventy  million  dollars. 
Throughout  the  war  period  practically  the  entire  organization  of  the 
Baker  Iroi  Works  was  enlisted  in  some  phase  of  government  service. 

Mr.  Baker  is  vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the  Pacific  Gasoline 
Company,  a  director  of  the  Sierra  Vista  Ranch  Company,  treasurer  and 
director  of  the  Brea  Gasoline  Company,  director  and  treasurer  of  the 
Harbor  View  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Wallace  Refineries,  and 


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president  and  treasurer  of  the  Los  Angeles  Shipbuilding  and  Dry  Dock 
Company,  president  now  and  has  been  for  the  past  twelve  years  of  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  is  president  of  the  Insurance 
Exchange  of  the  Automobile  Club,  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  a  member  of  the  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Associa- 
tion. 

flis  influence  hae  been  imparted  to  much  of  the  very  spirit  and  life 
of  l-os  Angeles  industry  and  also  to  broader  movements  of  civic  progress. 
From  1904  to  1913  he  was  president  of  the  Founders'  and  Employers' 
Associ-t'on,  an  organization  standing  for  the  open  shop  in  Los  Angeles. 
From  1892  to  1896  he  represented  the  Second  Ward  in  the  City  Council. 
For  four  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners, 
one  of  his  fellow  commissioners  being  William  Mulholland.  That  was 
a  service  made  conspicuous  in  the  history  of  Southern  California  by 
reason  of  the  fact  that  Mr.  Baker  was  one  of  the  primary  leaders  in 
advocating  and  consummating  the  plan  for  the  construction  of  the 
twenty-seven  million  dollar  aqueduct  by  which  Los  Angeles  is  now 
supplied  with  an  inexhaustible  supply  of  pure  water.  During  one  term 
as  vice-president  and  one  term  as  president  of  the  Merchants'  and 
Manufacturers'  Association,  he  made  his  chief  ambition  the  upbuilding 
of  Los  Angeles. 

No  public  cause  makes  a  stronger  appeal  to  him  than  that  of  good 
roads.  The  splendid  highways  stretching  out  in  every  direction  from 
Los  Angeles  might  be  considered  a  monument  to  Mr.  Baker  and  some 
of  his  associates  more  prominent  in  their  construction.  Much  influence 
in  behalf  of  good  roads  has  been  rendered  through  the  Automobile  Club 
of  Southern  California.  Mr.  Baker  is  director  of  the  California  Club, 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  the  Midwick  Country  Club 
and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club. 

November  28,  1887,  Mr.  Baker  married  Miss  Lillian  May  Todd, 
daughter  of  Oscar  Todd  of  Los  Angeles.  They  have  three  children: 
Earlda  A.,  wife  of  W.  J.  Wallace;  Marjorie  M.,  Mrs.  Guy  C.  Boynton, 
and  Lawrence  Todd  Baker. 

MiLo  A.  Baker,  whose  active  business  connection  in  Los  Angeles 
for  over  thirty  years  has  been  with  the  Baker  Iron  Works,  is  a  son  of 
the  late  Milo  S.  Baker  and  was  born  at  Lansing,  Michigan,  March  14, 
1868,  being  about  six  years  of  age  when  brought  to  Los  Angeles. 

He  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  California  and  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  went  to  work  in  his  father's  iron  foundry  as  an  assistant. 
During  the  next  four  or  five  years  he  worked  in  every  department  and 
acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  every  branch  of  the  industry.  In 
1895,  the  year  after  his  father's  death,  he  was  made  vice-president  and 
superintendent,  the  office  he  holds  today. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  republican,  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  life 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Country  Club  and  California  Club. 

Isidore  Bernard  Dockweiler,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  United 
States  Indian  Commissioners  and  officially  identified  with  a  number  of 
public  institutions  in  California,  has  been  a  Los  Angeles  lawj'er  for 
thirty  years  and  is  a  native  son  of  that  city. 

He  was  born  December  28,  1867,  son  of  Henry  and  Margaretha 
(Sugg)  Dockweiler.  His  father  was  bom  in  the  Rhine  Phalz,  then  be- 
longing to  Bavaria,  and  his  mother  in  Alsace. 


30  LOS  ANGELES 

Mr.  Dockweiler  acquired  a  liberal  education.  He  received  his  com- 
mercial diploma  from  St.  Vincent's  College  at  Los  Angeles  in  1883,  and 
during  the  next  two  years  worked  as  a  bookkeeper.  In  1887  he  was 
graduated  A.  B.  from  St.  Vincent's,  and  the  same  institution  conferred 
upon  him  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  1889,  and  further  honored  him 
in  1905  with  the  degree  LL.  M.  and  in  191 1  LL.  D. 

During  1887-88  Mr.  Dockweiler  worked  as  a  surve3'or  and  qualified 
for  the  bar  with  Anderson,  Fitzgerald  &  Anderson  at  Los  Angeles.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  California  bar  in  1889  and  later  to  the  h'ederal 
Courts  of  California  and  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  bars  of  Arizona  and  Nevada. 

Mr.  Dockweiler  has  long  been  recognized  as  a  leader  in  the  demo- 
cratic party  in  California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic  National 
Committee,  1916-20,  and  on  its  executive  committee.  He  was  a  candi- 
date for  lieutenant  governor  on  the  democratic  ticket  in  1902,  and  in 
1908  was  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at  Den- 
ver. By  appointment  from  President  Wilson  he  has  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  United  States  Indian,  Commissioners  since  Decem- 
ber 22,  1913.  Mr.  Dockweiler  has  a  large  practice  and  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Dockweiler  &  Mott. 

He  has  been  a  trustee  of  St.  Vincent's  College  since  October  1,  1890. 
In  December,  1898,  he  was  commissioned  a  trustee  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  San  Diego,  and  still  fills  that  office.  From  1897  to  1911,  with 
the  exception  of  one  term,  he  was  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Public 
Library  and  part  of  the  time  president  of  the  board.  Mr.  Dockweiler  is 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County,  California,  and  American  Bar 
Associations,  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  California, 
Gamut,  Los  Angeles  Country  and  Newman  Clubs,  and  is  affiliated  with 
the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Young  Men's  Institute,  Native  Sons  of  the 
Golden  \A'est  and  the  Elks.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church. 
June  30,  1891,  he  married  Miss  Gertrude  Reeve  at  San  Francisco  They 
have  eleven  children. 

William  Charles  Bluett.  A  business  man  of  enterprise  and 
energy,  yet  of  caution  and  good  judgment,  was  the  late  William  Charles 
Bluett,  who  for  many  years  was  prominent  in  commercial  life  at  Los 
AngeLs,  to  which  city  he  came  when  it  was  almost  in  its  infancy.  Mr. 
Bluett  was  born  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  but  was  brought  to  the  United  States 
in  childhood.  He  was  educated  here  and  very  early  disclosed  a  marked 
aptitude  for  business. 

It  was  inxthe  city  of  Chicago,  that  Mr.  Bluett  built  up  his  first 
great  clothing  business,  and  there,  in  1871,  he,  like  thousands  of  others, 
saw  his  possessions  reduced  to  ashes  in  the  great  fire.  In  1883,  hav- 
ing assisted  in  the  commercial  rebuilding  of  Chicago,  he  determined  to 
take  advantage  of  the  genial  climate  of  Southern  California  and  came  to 
Los  Angeles,  which  remained  his  home  until  his  death  on  October  28, 
1906.  From  1883  until  1885  he  was  associated  in  business  as  the  senior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Bluett,  Daly  and  Sullivan,  the  location  of  the 
firm's  clothing  store  being  in  the  old  Nadeau  Hotel  block.  In  1885, 
when  the  location  was  changed  the  business  was  conducted  on  the 
corner  of  First  and  Spring  streets,  the  firm  name  becoming  Bluett  & 
Sullivan.  In  1889  the  firm  of  Mullen  &  Bluett  entered  upon  its  long 
and  prosperous  business  career,  its  history  being  a  part  of  the  history 
of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Bluett  retired  from  the  firm  in  March,  1905.  He 
was  always  credited  with  unusual  business  sagacity,  and  he  carried  his 
efficiency  into  public  affairs,  becoming  a  valued  and  trustworthy  citizen. 


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Mr.  Bluett  married  Miss  Elizabetii  Mulvey,  wiio  died  in  the  old 
family  home  on  Union  avenue,  between  Seventh  and  Eighth  streets, 
in  February,  1908.  The  only  survivor  is  the  one  daughter,  Miss  Alice 
Bluett,  who  remembers  many  interesting  things  about  the  Los  Angeles 
of  her  girlhood.  She  recalls  that  their  first  home  was  next  to  the  old 
Bradley  home  on  Fourth  street.  An  old  restaurant,  where  the  lamily 
sometimes  went  to  dine,  bore  the  pretentious  name  of  Delmonico.  It  was 
situated  next  door  to  a  blacksmith  shop  and  separated  from  the  same 
by  a  curtain.  On  one  occasion,  caught  in  a  storm,  she  had  difficulty  in 
wading  through  the  flood,  for  the  old  horse  cars  only  operated  as  far 
as  Sixth  and  Pearl  street,  now  Figueroa. 

Mr.  Bluett  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Catholic  Church.  Al- 
though inclined  to  adopt  the  principles  of  the  republican  party,  he  never 
entirely  identified  himself  with  it.  Being  an  excellent  judge  of  men, 
he  frequently  supported  for  offices  of  political  importance,  those  who 
met  with  the  approval  of  his  own  conscience.  He  was  one  of  the  char- 
ter members  of  the  California  Club,  a  member  of  the  Newman  Club  and 
of  the  National  Irrigation  Association,  belonged  to  the  Los  Angeles 
Board  of  Trade  and  was  a  director  and  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Joseph  F.  Sartoei  is  president  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Security  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  which  with  nearly  four  millions  of 
capital  and  surplus,  and  with  total  resources  of  nearly  sixty  millions, 
has  been  for  more  than  a  decade  the  largest  depository  of  money  in 
the  southwest,  and  one  of  the  notably  large  banks  of  the  United  States. 
The  growth  of  the  bank  has  been  contemporaneous  with  the  growth 
and  development  of  Los  Angeles  and  southern  California. 

Joseph  F,  Sartori  was  born  at  Cedar  Falls,  Iowa,  Christmas  day, 
1858,  son  of  Joseph  and  Theresa  (Wangler)  Sartori.  The  young  man 
grew  up  in  eastern  Iowa  at  a  time  when  that  part  of  the  country  was 
advancing  in  a  period  of  very  rapid  but  none  the  less  substantial  growth. 
He  was  liberally  educated,  in  Iowa  Cornell  College  and  abroad,  studied 
law  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  practiced  for  a  time  in  the  office  of  Leslie  M. 
Shaw,  who  later  became  a  leading  lawyer-banker  of  Iowa,  and  secretary 
of  the  treasury  of  the  United  States.  From  1882  to  1887  Mr.  Sartori 
practiced  law  with  Congressman  I.  S.  Struble  as  a  partner.  In  June, 
1886,  at  LeMars,  Iowa,  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Rishel. 

In  March,  1887,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sartori  arrived  in  southern  Cali- 
fornia, seeking  a  home  in  the  then  village  of  Monrovia.  He  brought 
to  the  new  environment  a  sound  knowledge  of  real  values,  and  an  ap- 
preciation of  the  great  future  which  the  very  obvious  advantages  and 
resources  of  southern  California  offered.  He  joined  heartily  in  the 
general  uplxiilding  movement.  Monrovia  needed  a  bank,  so  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Monrovia  was  organized,  with  Mr.  Sartori  as  cashier, 
of  which  institution  he  is  still  a  vice-president.  In  1889  the  superior 
advantages  of  Los  Angeles  had  impressed  themselves  upon  him,  and 
he  removed  to  this  city,  and  was  the  principal  factor  in  the  founding  of 
the  Security  Savings  Bank,  of  which  he  became  cashier.  In  1895  he 
became  its  president. 

Mr.  Sartori  has  been  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Committee  of 
the  California  Bankers'  Association  since  its  inception,  and  has  taken 
a  prominent  part  in  the  drafting  of  the  California  Bank  Act.  In  the 
year  1914  he  was  president  of  the  Savings  Bank  Section  of  the  Amer- 
ican Bankers'  Association,  and  since  1913  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Currency  Commission  of  that  association. 


32  LOS  ANGELES 

Mr.  Sartori  is  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Shipbuilding  and  Dry 
Dock  Lompany.  He  is  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  a 
former  president  of  the  California  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Jonathan, 
Midwick,  Crags  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs. 

Samuel  M.  Haskins,  whose  work  as  a  lawyer  has  brought  him  spe- 
cial prestige  in  corporation  practice,  is  an  old-time  Calitorniau,  and 
has  seen  Los  Angeles  grow  from  a  small  city  when  it  was  almost  pos- 
sible for  one  man  to  know  every  person  of  consequence  within  its 
boundaries. 

Mr.  Haskins  was  born  at  Salt  Lake  City  January  20,  1872,  and  is 
a  son  of  Thomas  Wilson  and  Frances  Emily  (Austin)  Haskins.  His 
father,  a  distinguished  Episcopalian  minister,  well  known  in  southern 
California,  was  born  at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  July  5,  1837.  He  at- 
tended St.  Stephen's  College  near  Albany,  New  York,  and  after  gradu- 
ating became  assistant  to  his  uncle.  Rev.  Samuel  Moody  Haskins.  This 
uncle  was  for  si.xty-seven  years  pastor  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  at  Bedford  street  and  Fourth  avenue.  He 
took  charge  of  that  church  when  the  edifice  was  surrounded  by  a  grain 
field.  After  his  death  the  church  was  torn  down  and  the  east  pier  of 
"  one  of  the  East  River  bridges  was  erected  on  the  site. 

The  late  Thomas  Wilson  Haskins  did  a  great  deal  of  missionary 
work  in  the  far  west  in  the  Episcopal  church  in  the  early  days.  In  1866 
he, was  stationed  at  Salt  Lake  City  as  a  missionary  and  also  as  chaplain 
of  Fort  Douglas.  In  1873  he  took  his  family  east  to  St.  Albans,  Ver- 
mont, where  he  was  pastor  of  a  church,  and  later  filled  numerous  pulpits 
in  Connecticut  and  Illinois.  In  1885  he  removed  to  Tucson,  Arizona, 
for  his  health,  becoming  pastor  of  a  local  church,  and  in  the  spring  of 

1887  came  to  Los  Angeles  as  assistant  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church.     In 

1888  he  founded  Christ  Episcopal  Church  and  was  its  rector  until  he 
retired  in  1892,  after  an  active  service  of  over  thirty  years.  He  died  in 
1895.  He  was  gifted  as  a  writer  as  well  as  a  minister  and  contributed 
to  a  number  of  publications.  He  married  Frances  Emily  Austin  at 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  January  21,  1869.  Of  their  eleven  children  three 
are  now  living.  The  younger  daughter  is  the  wife  of  W.  H.  Joyce,  for- 
merly manager  of  the  Globe  Mills  at  Los  Angeles  and  now  president  of 
the  Federal  Land  Bank  at  Berkeley,  California.  The  older  daughter  is 
Mrs.  Almeric  Coxhead,  wife  of  a  San  Francisco  architect. 

Samuel  M.  Haskins  spent  his  early  life  in  eastern  states.  He  came 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1887,  and  in  1889  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles 
High  School.  He  then  entered  the  University  of  California,  receiving 
his  A.  B.  degree  in  1893.  Mr.  Haskins  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Thomas  L.  Winder  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1895.  He  left  Mr. 
Winder  in  1896  and  served  six  years  as  clerk  of  the  City  Council.  He 
then  became  associated  with  Dunn  &  Crutcher,  lawyers,  and  in  1908 
was  made  a  partner,  the  firm  in  the  meantime  having  become  Bicknell, 
Gibson,  Trask,  Dunn  &  Crutcher.  For  many  years  Mr.  Haskins  has 
specialized  in  corporation  law. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  college  fraternity, 
the  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country 
Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
Colonial  Wars.  His  father  was  a  direct  descendant  of  John  Haskins 
of  Boston,  one  of  whose  daughters  was  the  mother  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson.  Mr.  Haskins  is  a  democrat  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  church. 


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April  15,  1902,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Elisa  ijonsall.  Her 
father,  William  H.  Bonsall,  was  an  old  settler  in  Los  Angeles  and  at 
one  time  president  of  the  City  Council.  The  three  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Haskins  are  Samuel  M.,  Jr.,  Ijorn  in  1905,  a  student  in  the  public 
schools;  Barbara  llonsall,  born  in  1910,  attending  Miss  Reilly's  School 
for  Girls;  and  Janet,  born  in  1914. 

Albert  C.  M.vrtin.  Nowhere  in  the  world  has  the  profession  of 
architecture  such  magnificent  opportunities  as  in  southern  California.  It 
is  not  strange  that  some  of  the  most  eminent  members  of  that  profession 
have  done  their  work  here,  and  concerning  the  standing  of  Albert  C.  Mar- 
tin as  an  architect,  it  is  only  necessary,  therefore,  to  refer  to  some  of  the 
better  known  examples  of  construction  to  which  he  has  furnished  his 
skill  and  service. 

Perhaps  the  most  widely  appreciated  of  these  buildings  is  known 
as  the  Edison  Building,  the  home  of  Grauman's  Million  Dollar  Theater, 
at  Third  and  Broadway.  This  building  rises  150  feet  above  the  level 
of  the  street,  twelve  stories  high,  is  imposing  in  size  and  impressive  by 
the  beauty  of  its  arrangements  and  form.  It  exemplifies  in  a  remark- 
able manner  the  most  distinctive  ideals  and  ideas  of  the  architectural 
profession  as  applied  to  theater  and  business  architecture.  It  is  a 
combination  office  and  theater  building  and  embodies  several  new  and 
novel  features  of  construction,  especially  the  use  of  a  concrete  arch 
instead  of  the  usual  steel  truss  for  the  support  of  the  balcony. 

While  a  large  part  of  the  Los  Angeles  public  has  learned  to  ap- 
preciate and  admire  this  conspicuous  building,  Mr.  Martin's  further 
work  may  be  witnessed  in  the  Higgins  Building,  ten  stories,  at  Second 
and  Main  streets ;  the  Ventura  County  Court  House,  the  Catholic  Chapel 
at  Camarillo,  the  Loyola  College  Building,  the  Catholic  Church  at  Bis- 
bee,  Arizona,  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  examples  of  church  archi- 
tecture in  the  west,  while  of  minor  importance,  though  representing 
an  enormous  total  in  aggregate,  Mr.  Martin's  work  as  architect  is 
exemplified  in  four  hundred  buildings  in  and  around  Los  Angeles, 
comprising  factories,  warehouses,  churches  and  schools. 

Mr.  Martin  was  born  at  LaSalle,  Illinois,  September  16,  1879,  a 
son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Carey)  Martin.  He  attended  the  Brothers 
of  Mary  Academy  at  LaSalle,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1895,  and 
then  took  his  technical  work  in  the  University  of  Illinois,  graduating 
Bachelor  of  Science  in  1902.  After  leaving  the  tmiversity  he  was  in 
charge  of  certain  technical  departments  in  the  steel  mills  and  shops  of 
Pennsylvania  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railway  in  the  Pittsburgh  district 
until  1904.  Mr.  Martin  then  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  became  asso- 
ciated with  A.  F.  Rosenheim  in  the  construction  of  the  H.  W.  Plellman 
P>inlding,  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  and  the  Hamburger 
Store  Building. 

Since  1908  Mr.  Martin  has  been  practicmg  architecture  for  him- 
self, and  has  been  in  a  position  to  render  more  than  the  ordinary 
services  of  the  architect  on  account  of  his  extensive  experience  in 
modern    construction. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the  Newman  Club, 
Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Catholic 
Church,  and  in  politics  is  an  independent  voter.  At  Oxnard,  California, 
in  October,  1908,  he  married  Miss  Carolyn  E.  Borchard.  Her  father, 
John  Edward  Borchard,  is  one  of  the  oldest  living  pioneers  of  Ventura 
County.     They  have  six  children:     Evaline,  born  in  1909,  and  a  student 


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in  a  parochial  school;  Margaret,  born  in  1911,  also  in  school;  Albert 
C.  Jr.,  born  in  1913;  Carolyn,  born  in  1915;  John  Edward,  born  in 
1917,  and  Lucille,  bom  in  1918. 

William  George  Kerckhoff.  At  different  points  in  the  narrative 
and  personal  history  of  Southern  California  the  name  William  G.  Kerck- 
hoff' appears  prominently  in  connection  with  the  great  industrial,  par- 
ticularly the  power,  development  in  California.  His  associates  are 
prominent  men  in  the  life  of  Southern  California,  and  Mr.  Kerckhoff 
is  of  equal  eminence.  His  services  could  not  be  described  in  full  except 
through  a  complete  history  of  half  a  dozen  or  more  great  public  utilities, 
banking  and  commercial  enterprises  that  in  themselves  are  of  the  great- 
est significance  in  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  March  30,  1856, 
a  son  of  George  and  Philippine  (Newhart)  Kerckhoff.  Besides  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city,  he  attended  a  gymnasium  in  Hanover, 
Germany,  and  on  returning  from  abroad  went  into  business  with  his 
father,  who  conducted  a  wholesale  jobbing  saddlery  and  hardware  busi- 
ness at  Terre  Haute.  In  the  fall  of  1878  he  came  to  California,  and 
after  a  year  of  travel  and  investigation  located  at  Los  Angeles,  vyhich 
then  contained  only  ten  thousand  people.  In  1879,  with  two  associates, 
he  organized  the  firm,  of  Jackson,  Kerckhoff  &  Cuzner,  which  later  be- 
came the  Kerckhoff-Cuzner  Mill  and  Lumber  Company.  This  is  one 
of  the  largest  enterprises  of  California,  having  built  up  through  a  period 
of  years  a  chain  of  yards  and  docks  along  the  Southern  coast,  owning 
a  fleet  of  lumber  vessels  and  carrying  an  immense  amount  of  lumber 
and  timber  products  from  the  Northwestern  states  to  Los  Angeles 
harbor. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  had  established  an  enviable  fame  as  a  Western  lum- 
ber man  before  he  became  interested  in  electric  power  development.  In 
1897  he  was  associated  with  A.  C.  Balch  in  organizing  the  San  Gabriel 
Electric  Company.  The  history  of  this  concern  has  been  referred  to 
elsewhere  as  the  pioneer  in  Southern  California  water  power  develop- 
ment for  electrical  purposes.  Out  of  it  has  grown  one  of  the  greatest 
light  and  power  systems  in  the  world,  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Cor- 
poration, of  which  Mr.  Kerckhoff  was  president  until  1913. 

He  is  also  actively  identified  with  the  San  Joaquin  Light  and  Power 
Corporation  and  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company  as  president, 
and  the  imposing  scope  of  his  influence  is  broadened  by  other  official 
connections  with  the  Midway  Gas  Company,  Midland  Counties  Public 
Service  Corporation,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake  Railroad, 
the  Farmers  and  Merchants  National  Bank  and  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Kerman,  the  Fresno  Farms  Company  and  the  South  Coast  Land 
Company.  He  is  also  very  largely  interested  in  realty-improved  property 
in  Los  Angeles,  including  the  Kerckhoff  Building,  among  the  verv  l^rge 
office  buildings,  and  has  large  holdings  of  acreage  both  in  Southern 
California  and  also  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  served  by  appointment  of  the  governor  two  terms 
as  a  commissioner  to  manage  the  Yosemite  National  Park.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Bohemian  and  Pacific  Union  Clubs  of  San  Francisco, 
Los  Angeles  Country  and  California  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and  the 
Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club. 

November  13,  1883,  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  he  married  Louise 
Eshman.    Their  two  daughters  are  Gertrude  and  Marion. 


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John  Henry  Quinton,  senior  member  of  Quinton,  Code  &  Hill, 
consulting  engineers  at  Los  Angeles,  is  one  of  the  highest  engineering 
authorities  in  the  West,  where  he  has  lived  for  over  forty  years,  and 
for  a  long  period  was  associated  as  a  consulting  engineer  with  many 
of  the  monumental  enterprises  undertaken  by  the  Government  Reclama- 
tion Service. 

He  was  born  at  Enniskillen,  Ireland,  October  19,  1850,  son  of 
William  and  Anne  (Thompson)  Quinton.  From  1860  to  1866  he  at- 
tended Portora  Royal  School  at  Enniskillen,  from  1866  to  1868  was  in 
Queen's  College  at  Belfast,  and  from  1868  tq  1871  in  Queen's  College 
at  Galway.  He  received  his  A.  B.  degree  from  Queen's  University  of 
Ireland  in  1871,  and  his  B.  E.  degree  in  1872.  His  first  practical  ex- 
perience was  six  months  spent  as  leveler  rai  ccmstruct^n  of  a  railway 
in  Sligo,  Ireland.  lU198c> 

Mr.  Quinton  came  to  the  United  States  in  1873  and  for  tiiree 
months  worked  as  a  leveler  on  the  Fresno  River  Canal  in  California. 
From  1874  to  June,  1876,  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railway,  and  in  1877  did  surveying  and  leveling  in  the  San  Joaquin 
Valley.  In  1878-80  he  was  assistant  engineer  in  charge  of  location  and 
construction  on  the  South  Pacific  Coast  Railway;  1880  was  in  charge 
of  construction  of  eighty  miles  of  the  Oregonian  Railway;  1881-84  was 
assistant  engineer,  principal  assistant  engineer  and  acting  chief  engineer 
of  the  Pacific  Branch  of  the  Mexican  Central  Railway ;  during  1884-88 
was  in  private  practice  as  a  civil  and  hydraulic  engineer  in  southern 
California  :  in  1888-89  was  assistant  engineer  in  War  Department  at 
Portland,  Oregon;  1890-92  was  field  engineer  for  Hoffman  &  Bates, 
bridge  builders  of  Portland,  and  1892-93  was  principal  assistant  en- 
gineer in  charge  of  location  and  construction  of  the  Santa  Ana  Canal 
in  California. 

In  1894  Mr.  Quinton  engaged  in  private  practice  as  a  consulting 
engineer  at  Los  Angeles,  continuing  until  1897.  In  1898  he  was 
engineer  in  charge  of  construction  of  the  San  Gabriel  Power  Canal, 
including  thirty-six  tunnels  and  other  works.  In  1899-1900  he  was 
deputy  city  engineer  in  charge  of  construction  of  Third  street  and 
Broadway  tunnels  at  Los  Angeles,  and  from  1900  to  1902  was  again 
in  private  practice.  During  the  following  year  he  was  consulting  en- 
gineer with  the  United  States  Geological  Survey. 

From  1903  to  1915  Mr.  Quinton  was  consulting  or  supervising 
engineer  with  the  United  States  Reclamation  Service,  and  also  con- 
sulting engineer  for  the  United  States  Indian  Service.  He  filled  the 
office  of  consulting  engineer  until  June  15,  1908,  when  he  was  appointed 
supervising  engineer  on  a  yearly  salary  to  act  as  consulting  engineer 
when  called  upon,  and  later  at  his  own  request  he  had  the  terms  of  his 
service  changed  to  a  per  diem  basis.  In  this  capacity  he  has  been  con- 
nected with  some  of  the  greatest  irrigation  projects  in  the  west.  He 
was  consulting  engineer  for  the  Truckee  Carson  project  in  Nevada, 
making  all  the  original  plans,  including  the  concrete  dam  in  the  Truckee 
River,  and  having  general  supervision  of  the  project.  For  three  years 
he  had  supervision  of  the  Uncompahgre  project  in  Colorado,  including 
the  six-mile  Gunnison  tunnel.  At  the  same  time  he  had  supervision 
of  the  Strawberry  project  in  Utah.  For  a  time  he  had  supervision  of 
the  Pathfinder  Dam  and  Interstate  Canal  in  Nebraska,  both  parts  of 
the  North  Platte  project.  He  made  the  original  design  for  the  dam, 
one  of  the  two  highest  concrete  arch  dams  in  the  world,  and  was  one 
of  the  board  of  consulting  engineers  who  passed  upon  the   feasibility 


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and  practicability  of  the  scheme.  He  also  made  all  the  plans  for  struc- 
tures on  the  Minidoka  project  in  Idaho,  including  the  great  dam  in 
Snake  River  at  Minidoka.  He  was  one  of  the  board  of  consulting 
engineers  who  passed  upon  plans  for  the  Laguna  Dam  in  the  Colorado 
River,  part  of  the  Yuma  project,  this  being  one  of  the  great  diversion 
weir  dams  of  the  world,  and  the  only  one  of  its  kind  in  the  United 
States.  He  made  a  four  months'  study  and  elaborate  report  on  the 
best  method  of  reclaiming  Klamath  marshes  in  Oregon-California.  For 
a  time  he  had  charge  of  the  Belle  Fourche  projects  in  South  Dakota, 
including  probably  the  highest  earthen  dam  in  the  world,  and  made 
designs  for  the  concrete  diversion  dam  in  the  Belle  Fourche  River.  He 
was  one  of  the  board  who  passed  upon  the  feasibility  of  the  Shoshone 
project  in  Wyoming,  making  the  original  plan  for  the  Shoshone  Dam, 
325  feet  high  from  the  foundation,  the  highest  purely  concrete  arch 
dam  in  the  world. 

Other  projects  upon  which  he  was  consulted  were  the  Orland 
project  in  California,  Grand  Valley  project  in  Colorado,  Huntly  project 
in  Montana,  Milk  River  project  in  Montana,  Lower  Yellowstone  project 
in  Montana  and  North  Dakota,  Hondo  project  in  Mexico.  For  the 
United  States  Indian  Service  he  drew  up  the  plans  for  the  reclamation 
of  a  large  acreage  of  the  Upper  Klamath  marshes  in  Oregon. 

Mr.  Quinton  remained  as  consulting  engineer  with  the  Reclama- 
tion Service  until  May  12,  1915,  when  he  resigned  at  the  request  of  the 
director  in  order  to  comply  with  the  new  method  of  administration 
adopted  for  that  service.  He  was  also  employed  by  the  state  of  Colo- 
rado to  report  upon  the  Piute  Reservoir  and  Dam  on  the  Sevier  River, 
and  was  employed  to  make  a  report  and  give  an  opinion  upon  the 
plans  for  a  high  masonry  dam  by  the  Twin  Falls  Salmon  River  Land 
and  Water  Company  of  Idaho.  From  1911  to  1914  he  was  also  con- 
sulting engineer  for  the  Casa  Grande  Reclamation  project,  the  River- 
side Groves  and  Water  Company,  the  Southwestern  Fruit  and  Irriga- 
tion Company,  in  Arizona ;  the  Mocking  Bird  Dam  at  Arlington  Heights, 
Riverside,  California :  the  San  Joaquin  Valley  farm  lands  in  Fresno 
County ;  made  a  report  for  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  on  the  distribution 
of  surplus  water  of  the  aqueduct,  and  has  had  other  professional  en- 
gagements involving-  surveys,  reports  and  investigations  on  projects 
from  Western  Canada  to  South  America.  Altogether  his  professional 
services  have  been  acquired  in  the  reclamation  of  several  millions  of 
acres  of  land  in  the  west. 

Mr.  Quinton  is  a  member  of  the  xVmerican  Society  of  Civil  En- 
gineers, the  Engineers'  and  Architects'  Association  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order. 

At  Los  Angeles,  May  22,  1888.  Mr.  Quinton  married  Miss  Sophia 
Inglis  Donnell. 

William  FIenry  Code  is  the  second  member  of  the  widely  known 
firm  of  consulting  engineers,  Quinton,  Code  &  Hill,  with  offices  in  the 
Hollingsworth  Building,  Since  1890  his  work  as  an  engineer  has  been 
in  the  mountain  states  and  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  involving  connection 
with  some  of  the  greatest  projects  under  the  auspices  of  the  govern- 
ment or  private  corporations. 

Mr.  Code  was  born  at  Saginaw,  Michigan,  November  22,  1865,  a 
.son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Code.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Sa.ginaw   and   Harrisville,   Michigan,   and   received  his  degree   Bachelor 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  17 

of  Science  in  Civil  Engineering  from  the  University  of  Michigan.  Be- 
fore going  to  college  and  during  college  vacations  he  spent  several  years 
as  rod  man,  instrument  man  and  inspector  of  street  paving  and  sewers. 

In  1890-91  Mr.  Code  was  assistant  engineer  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  at  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  in  charge  of  work  in  connection  with 
expenditures  approximating  a  million  dollars  for  railroad  shops,  yard 
system,  etc.  In  1891-92  he  was  assistant  state  engineer  of  Wyoming 
under  Ehvood  Mead. 

From  1893  to  1902  Mr.  Code  was  chief  engineer  for  the  Con- 
solidated Canal  System  in  the  Salt  River  Valley  of  Arizona,  a  large  and 
comprehensive  project  covering  a  considerable  portion  of  the  irrigated 
section  in  that  valley.  During  1901-02  Mr.  Code  was  also  special  agent 
for  the  Department  of  Agriculture  in  Arizona  on  irrigation  investiga- 
tions, and  wrote  several  department  bulletins  on  the  duty  of  water  in 
Arizona. 

From  1902  to  1911  he  served  as  chief  irrigation  engineer  for  the 
United  States  Indian  Bureau,  Department  of  the  Interior,  having  been 
appointed  by  President  Roosevelt  in  1902,  and  reappointed  in  1904,  and 
again  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  in  1910.  He  resigned  in  1911  to 
enter  private  practice.  During  the  last  years  of  his  government  work 
he  had  general  supervision  over  expenditures  approximating  a  million 
dollars  annually.  This  work  comprised  the  construction  of  canal  sys- 
tems, reservoirs  and  pumping  plants,  covering  several  hundred  thousand 
acres  of  irrigable  land  in  various  states  and  territories  west  of  the 
Mississippi.  During  1910  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  advisory  board 
of  engineers  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  in  the  matter  of  the  disposal  of 
the  surplus  waters  from  the  new  aqueduct.  That  subject  was  also  part 
of  the  professional  business  of  the  firm  of  Quinton,  Code  &  Hill  from 
its  organization  in  1911.  As  a  member  of  this  firm  Mr.  Code  has  been 
engaged  in  many  important  engineering  projects,  including  hydraulic 
work  in  the  United  States,  Mexico  and  Canada.  One  of  the  most  ex- 
tensive projects  in  which  Mr.  Code  has  been  interested  as  a  member  of 
this  firm  was  the  project  for  reclaiming  72,000  acres  in  Fresno  County 
for  the  San  Joaquin  Farm  Lands,  the  initial  cost  of  which  was  three 
million  dollars.  The  firm's  services  were  also  required  for  the  Pine 
Flat  Reservoir  and  Dam,  Fresno,  and  the  Millerton  Dam,  Reservoir  and 
Irrigation  System  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Another  project  was  that 
undertaken  by  the  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Company  in  Arizona  to 
reclaim  land  for  the  growing  of  Egyptian  cotton. 

Mr.  Code  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
the  Southern  California  Engineers'  and  Architects'  Association,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  California  and  Gamut  Clubs.  September  14,  1893, 
he  married  Martha  E.  Devlin,  of  Bay  City,  Michigan. 

Louis  C.  Hill,  who  since  March  1,  1914,  has  been  a  member  of  the 
firm  Quinton,  Code  &  Hill,  consulting  engineers,  is  on  the  basis  of  his 
experience  and  achievement  one  of  the  foremost  construction  and  elec- 
trical engineers  in  America. 

He  was  born  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  February  22,  1865,  son  of 
Alva  Thomas  and  Frances  (Bliss)  Hill.  He  is  a  graduate  Bachelor  of 
Science  in  Civil  Engineering  and  Electric  Engineering  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  and  in  1911  received  the  honorary  degree  Master 
of  Engineering.  He  began  the  practical  work  of  his  profession  in  1886. 
During  1887  he  was  with  the  Duluth,  Redwing  &  Southern  Railroad, 
and  also  assistant  engineer  in  the  St.  Paul  ofifice  of  the  United  States 


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Engineer  Corps,  and  in  1888  resident  engineer  of  the  Great  Northern 
Railroad  at  St.  Paul.  From  1890  to  1903  he  was  professor  of  hydraulic 
and  electrical  engineering  in  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines. 

During  1903-04  Mr.  Hill  was  engineer  for  the  United  States  Geo- 
logical Survey  in  charge  of  the  Roosevelt  Dam  in  New  Mexico,  and  in 
January,  1905,  entered  the  United  States  Reclamation  Service  as  super- 
vising engineer,  and  was  gradually  placed  in  charge  of  all  the  work  in 
the  southern  district,  including  Arizona,  southern  California,  New 
Mexico,  Texas  and  Utah. 

His  specially  important  assignments  while  with  the  reclamation 
service  were  on  the  Salt  River  project,  in  which  he  had  full  charge  of 
the  design  and  construction  of  the  power  canal,  also  the  diversion  d^m 
and  diversion  works  at  the  head  of  the  canal  and  the  location  and  con- 
struction of  the  147  miles  of  mountain  road. 

In  connection  with  the  Roosevelt  Dam  he  had  charge  of  the  con- 
struction and  operation  of  the  cement  mill,  the  design  and  construction 
of  the  dam  itself  and  allied  works ;  also  had  charge  of  construction  and 
operation  and  assisted  in  the  design  of  the  power  plant  at  Roosevelt. 

In  the  spring  of  1906  he  took  general  charge  of  the  Yuma  project, 
and  for  a  time  had  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  Laguna  Dam, 
which  is  built  on  the  quicksand  bottom  of  the  Colorado  River,  and 
since  completion  has  successfully  withstood  two  unprecedented  floods. 
He  also  had  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  very  difficult  inverted 
siphon  under  the  Colorado  River  at  Yuma.  Mr.  Hill  was  a  member 
of  the  American  commission  on  the  division  of  the  waters  of  the  Rio 
Grande  between  the  United  States  and  Mexico,  and  tlie  division  of  the 
water  of  the  Colorado  River.  In  1908  the  Strawberry  Valley  project 
was  added  to  the  southern  district  under  his  supervision.  He  had 
general  charge  of  the  design  and  construction  of  the  distribution  sys- 
tem for  the  Rio  Grande  project,  and  on  March*  1,  1914,  by  promotion, 
he  became  consulting  engineer  in  special  charge  of  the  famous  Elephant 
Butte  Dam  on  the  Rio  Grande  River.  Mr.  Hill  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  engineers  which  made  the  report  to  the  city  of  Austin,  Texas, 
on  the  plans  for  the  building  of  a  new  dam  in  the  Colorado  River  of 
Texas.  While  with  the  reclamation  service  he  was  also  supervising 
engineer  on  several  well-known  CaHfornia  projects,  including  the  Pine 
Flat  Reservoir  and  Dam  at  Fresno,  the  Madera  Reservoir  and  Dam  on 
San  Joaquin  River,  and  was  consulting  engineer  for  the  contractor  in 
the  building  of  the  Otay  Dam  in  San  Diego  County.  For  the  past  five 
years  he  has  also  been  identified  with  the  many  important  projects 
with  which  the  firm  Quinton,  Code  &  Hill  have  been  connected. 

Mr.  Hill  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Scientific  Society,  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  American  Forestry  Association,  the  Na- 
tional Geographic  Society,  and  during  the  war  he  was  consulting  en- 
gineer for  the  United  States  Army  for  Camp  Kearney.  August  26, 
1890,  he  married  Gertrude  B.  Rose,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan.  Their 
home  is  at  Hollywood. 

John  C.  Cline.  There  are  many  reasons  why  John  C.  Cline  is 
probably  the  best  known  public  official  of  Los  Angeles  County.  While 
now  in  his  second  term  of  service  as  county  sheriff  he  held  the  same 
office  twenty-five  years  ago,  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  half  a 
century  since  early  boyhood,  is  a  former  collector  of  customs  for  the 
Los  Angeles  district,  and  in  both  business  and  public  affairs  he  has 
associated  with  the  leading  men  of  both  the  old  and  the  newer  genera- 
tion of  Southern  California. 


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Though  born  a  British  subject,  a  native  of  Australia,  Sherifif  Cline 
is  member  of  an  old  Maryland  family  of  thoroughly  patriotic  Ameri- 
can antecedents.  His  paternal  grandfather  Casper  Cline  was  a  native 
of  Maryland,  an  extensive  planter  and  land  owner,  served  with  the 
rank  of  captain  in  the  American  forces  during  the  War  of  1812,  and 
by  character  as  well  as  practical  work  stood  as  one  of  the  first  citi- 
zens of  his  community.  His  wife  was  Catherine  Evans.  Her  father 
was  Colonel  Robert  Evans,  an  ancestor  of  the  late  "Fighting  Bob" 
Evans,  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  picturesque  figures  in  the  Ameri- 
can navy.  The  Evans  family  came  originally  from  Wales  and  for  many 
years  lived  on  the  Howard  Woods  tract  of  Baltimore,  ground  that  is 
now  embraced  in  the  Druid  Hill  Park.  One  of  the  sons  of  Casper 
Cline  was  George  T.  Cline,  who  became  a  lumber  manufacturer  and  a 
millionaire  property  owner  in  Chicago  where  he  died  in  1906.  The 
father  of  Sheriff  Cline  was  John  A.,  who  was  born  at  Frederick,  Mary- 
land. From  some  of  his  ancestors  he  doubtless  inherited  the  pioneer 
spirit  of  adventure,  and  in  1848  he  left  his  ancestral  home  and  the  com- 
forts and  other  advantages  of  social  position  to  seek  his  fortune  in  new 
lands.  He  went  to  Australia,  engaged  in  mining  at  Ballarat,  and  later 
at  Melbourne  became  proprietor  of  the  Spreadeagle  Hotel,  the  largest 
house  of  entertainment  at  that  time  in  Melbourne.  He  also  conducted 
a  hotel  at  Ballarat  and  operated  a  stage  line  between  the  two  cities. 
His  business  affairs  were  prospered  in  Australia  but  eventually  he 
returned  to  Maryland,  and  later  joined  his  brother  George  T.,  in  lum- 
ber operations  around  Lake  Michigan.  In  1869  he  turned  over  his 
lumber  business  to  his  brother  arid  brought  his  family  to  Southern 
California  with  the  intention  of  making  Los  Angeles  his  home.  After 
that  he  lived  retired  and  was  a  resident  of  California  nearly  thirty 
years.  He  died  in  July,  1896.  He  was  prominent  in  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows and  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternities,  was  a  stanch  republican  in 
politics,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church  and  widely  known 
for  his  charity  and  good  fellowship. 

In  Australia  John  A.  Cline  married  Miss  Agnes  Neven.  She  was 
born  in  Aberdeenshire,  Scotland.  Her  father,  William  Neven,  was  a 
landed  proprietor  in  Scotland.  He  also  indulged  in  extensive  travels, 
and  while  in  Australia  at  Melbourne  his  daughter  and  John  A.  Cline 
became  acquainted.  John  C,  William  H.,  George  T.  and  Casper  W. 
are  the  four  sons  of  John  A.  Cline  and  wife,  and  all  are  residents  of 
Los  Angeles. 

John  C.  Cline  was  bom  at  Ballarat,  Australia,  May  2,  1860,  and 
was  taken  from  that  country  too  early  for  him  to  have  any  impressions 
of  the  land  of  his  birth.  He  spent  part  of  his  childhood  in  Maryland, 
in  the  Middle  West,  and  was  nine  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles.  He  acquired  a  good  education  in  grammar  and  high  schools, 
and  also  completed  a  course  in  the  La  Fetras  Business  College.  After 
leaving  school  he  was  employed  for  a  time  with  a  railroad  surveying 
party  under  Chalmer  Scott  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  between 
Yuma  and  Port  Ysabel,  Mexico.  On  returning  to  California  he  was 
appointed  deputy  to  City  Surveyor  H.-^nsen,  and  subsequently  served 
as  deput)'  county  assessor,  and  in  1883  was  elected  township  constable. 
At  the  close  of  this  term  he  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  under  Sheriff 
Kays,  and  held  that  ofiice  for  six  years.  Mr.  Cline  has  always  been  a 
steadfast  Republican,  and  was  an  effective  leader  and  organizer  in  his 
party  when  it  represented  the  minority  of  membership  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia.   When  he  was  first  elected  sheriff  of  Los  Angeles  county  in  1892, 


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his  election  by  a  large  majority  was  counted  as  a  signal  triumph  for  the 
republican  forces  and  his  individuality  combined  against  the  concen- 
trated democratic  forces.  He  was  sheriff  of  Los  Angeles  county  from 
January,  1893,  to  January,  1895.  Mr.  Cline  was  one  of  the  original 
McKinley  supporters  in  California  and  began  the  work  of  building  up 
support  for  that  Ohio  statesman  in  the  Sixth  and  Seventh  Congressional 
districts  a  year  and  a  half  before  the  general  campaign  of  1896  was 
started.  In  1896  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  State  Convention.  In  1899 
he  received  the  appointment  of  Collector  of  Customs  in  the  district  of 
Los  Angeles  under  President  McKinley,  and  was  chief  of  the  office 
supervising  the  collection  in  three  ports  of  entry,  Los  Angeles,  San 
Pedro  and  Santa  Barbara.  He  handles  the  afifairs  of  his  office  with  a 
rare  degree  of  business  ability,  and  with  the  tact  and  judgment  required 
of  the  office,  and  after  four  years  was  reappointed  for  a  second  term  by 
President  Roosevelt.  At  the  clo.se  of  his  second  term  he  voluntarily 
retired  from  official  life  for  several  years.  Mr.  Cline  was  elected  sheriff 
of  Los  Angeles  County  in  the  fall  of  1914,  beginning  his  first  term 
of  office  in  January,  1915.  He  was  re-elected  m  1918,  getting  a  majority 
Over  four  opponents  at  the  primaries,  and  his  present  term  expires  in 
January,   1923. 

Besides  his  prominent  part  in  official  affairs  Mr.  Cline  is  owner 
of  much  valuable  property  in  Los  Angeles,  and  has  busied  himself  with 
its  improvement  and  with  an  active  part  in  every  movement  calcu- 
lated to  advance  the  welfare  of  Los  Angeles.  He  contributed  much  to 
the  success  of  the  annual  fiesta  by  organizing  the  first  club  of  Cabal- 
leros,  which  later  became  the  feature  of  the  parade.  At  the  time  of 
President  McKinley's  visit  to  Los  Angeles  Sheriff  Cline  acted  as  grand 
marshal  of  the  Fiesta  Parade,  and  was  also  grand  marshal  of  the  Free 
Harbor  jubilee  and  of  the  Fiesta  Parade  at  the  time  of  President  Roose- 
velt's visit  in  1903.  He  was  a  leader  in  the  organization  known  as 
"Teddy's  Terrors,"  a  political  club  of  Roosevelt  times.  Sheriff  Cline 
is  affiliated  with  Lodge  No.  99  of  the  Elks  at  Los  Angeles,  Lodge  No. 
42  of  the  Masons,  with  Los  Angeles  Scottish  Rite  Consistory,  Al  Malai- 
kah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Union  League  Club,  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  and  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California. 

Octobe-  12,  1885,  at  Los  Angeles  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Lee 
Terry,  a  native  of  Lafayette,  Indiana.  To  their  marriage  were  born 
three  sons,  J.  Banning  and  George  C,  deceased,  and  Harry  W.  Harry 
■W.  is  deputy  under  his  father  and  chief  of  the  criminal  department 
of  the  office.  Mrs.  Cline  is  a  daughter  of  George  and  Louisa  (Stout) 
Terry.  Her  father  was  a  decendant  of  the  Terry  and  Mills  families 
of  New  Orleans,  who  later  became  early  settlers  in  Indiana.  The 
grandfather  of  George  Terry  had  a  factory  operated  by  water  power 
for  the  manufacture  of  the  large  "Grandfather"  cabinet  clocks,  with 
wooden  wheel  mechanism,  of  which  he  was  the  inventor.  The  Stout 
family  for  many  years  had  their  home  in  New  Jersey  and  were  also 
early  settlers  in  Indiana. 

Gilbert  S.  Wright.  There  are  few  men  whose  fortunes  and  activi- 
ties have  been  more  closely  linked  with  the  development  of  property  in 
and  around  Los  Angeles  during  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  than  Gilbert 
S.  Wright.  Mr.  Wright  is  more  than  a  skillful  real  estate  operator, 
knowing  land  values  from  the  standpoint  of  the  practical  farmer  and 
owner  long  before  he  was  a  broker  and  dealer. 


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Mr.  Wrig-ht  was  born  at  Vevay,  in  soutliern  Indiana,  August  21, 
1869,  son  of  William  Patten  and  Elizabeth  Bonner  (Ungels)  Wright. 
Five  years  after  his  birth  his  parents  removed  to  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
and  soon  afterward  located  at  Cairo,  Illinois.  Gilbert  S.  Wright  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  Cairo  up  to  his  twelfth  year.  In  1881  he 
entered  the'  Chickering  Institute  at  Cincinnati,  but  in  1883  came  to 
California  with  his  parents.  His  father  first  located  at  Colton  while 
prospecting  for  a  ranch,  and  then  secured  a  twenty-acre  tract  at  Duarte, 
in  Los  Angeles  County,  which  he  developed  as  an  orange  grove  and 
eventually  made  one  of  the  show  pL-jces  of  that  vicinity.  While  ^there 
Gilbert  ,S.  Wright  continued  his  education  in  the  local  schools  and  also 
worked  on  the  home  ranch  for  two  years. 

His  first  business  experience  was  at  Los  Angeles  as  office  boy  with 
Ben  E.  Ward,  a  well-known  real  estate  man  of  the  time,  with  offices  on 
Court  street,  then  the  center  of  business  activities.  Mr.  Wright  was 
with  Mr.  Ward  until  the  collapse  of  the  boom  of  1887,  and  during  the 
next  three  or  four  years  he  busied  himself  with  the  improvement  of  two 
ranches  owned  by  his  father,  one  at  Clearwater  and  one  at  Glendale. 
In  1890  his  father  gave  iiim  the  Glendale  ranch.  This  land  was  pur- 
chased originally  at  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  an  acre.  Mr.  Wright 
developed  it  by  setting  it  into  oranges  and  made  it  one  of  the  highly 
improved  estates  of  that  community.  In  1890  Glendale  had  a  popula- 
tion of  not  more  than  one  hundred  people.  Mr.  Wright  kept  the  ranch 
until  1905,  and  then  broke  it  up  into  lots  and  sold  it,  realizing  twenty- 
five  hundred  dollars  an  acre. 

Long  before  this  he  had  resumed  active  connections  with  real 
estate  circles  in  Los  Angeles.  In  1894  Mr.  Wright  became  associated 
with  an  important  real  estate  office  of  Los  Angeles,  where  he  built  up 
the  rental  department  to  splendid  proportions,  the  first  rental  depart- 
ment in  Los  Angeles.  In  1897  he  left  this  position  to  become  asso- 
ciated with  Harry  R.  Callender  as  the  Wright  &  Callender  Company, 
with  offices  at  215  West  Third  street.  Their  business  was  exclusively 
rentals.  In  1899  their  clientage  had  grown  so  as  to  necessitate  their 
taking  larger  quarters  at  Fourth  and  Broadway,  where  the  O.  T.  John- 
son Building  now  stands.  In  1901  they  moved  again,  this  time  into 
the  Wright  &  Callender  Building,  a  three-story  pressed  brick  and  plate 
glass  structure  which  was  erected  for  them  by  their  client,  C.  J.  Fox, 
now  of  Lamande  Park. 

In  1906  Wright  &  Callender  bought  the  southwest  corner  of  Fourth 
and  Hill  streets,  and  the  Wright  &  Callender  Building  Company,  wnich 
they  organized  and  of  which  Mr.  Wright  is  vice  president,  erected  an 
eleven-story  fireproof  building,  which  is  the  most  conspicuous  structure 
in  that  immediate  victiiity.  .The  attractiveness  of  the  building  for  busi- 
ness purposes  is  well  illustrated  in  the  fact  that  during  the  first  five 
years  after  its  erection  the  vacancies  did  not  exceed  one-half  of  one 
per  cent.  The  ground  covered  by  this  building  is  61x140  feet  and  was 
formerly  owned  by  General   Mansfield. 

In  1909  a  reorganization  of  the  firm  occurred  when  Mr.  Andrews 
entered  a  partnership,  the  title  of  which  is  now  the  Wright-Callender- 
Andrews  Company.  Mr.  Wright  is  president  of  the  company,  which 
handles  general  real  estate  transactions,  loans,  insurance  and  rentals. 
It  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  substantial  firms- in  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Wright  is  well  known  socially,  a  member  of  the  California 
Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  he  has  been  liberal  of  his  time  and  eflforts  in  civic  movements  and 


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the  general  upbuilding  of  his  home  city.  He  is  a  Republican  voter  and 
a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  August  19,  1897,  at  Goderich, 
Ontario,  Canada,  he  married  Miss  Mary  Atrill.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren. Mary  Elizabeth  is  now  attending  the  Marlborough  School  for 
Girls  of  Los  Angeles.  Gilbert  Atrill,  born  in  1903,  is  a  student  in  the 
Claremont  School  for  Boys  at  Claremont,  California. 

Dennis  Sullivan.  The  memory  of  hardly  any  Los  Angeles  pioneer 
is  now  more  clearly  defined  in  material  lines  and  institutions  of  the  city 
than  that  of  the  late  Dennis  Sullivan.  It  was  the  fortune  of  Dennis  Sul- 
livan to  live  nearly  forty  years  in  a  district  and  community  which  when 
he  first  homesteaded  there  was  far  away  from  the  town  of  Los  Angeles 
and  a  strictly  ranching  community,  but  which  before  his  death  had  be- 
come incorporated  in  the  city  itself,  and  is  now  a  district  of  beautiful 
homes,  churches  and  schools,  and  with  property  constantly  increasing  in 
value. 

Dennis  Sullivan  was  born  at  Bantry,  County  Cork,  Ireland,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1832.  His  parents  were  Timothy  and  Catherine  (Harrington) 
Sullivan,  both  now  deceased.  When  he  was  nineteen  years  old  Dennis 
Sullivan  determined  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  Western  Hemisphere. 
His  first  location  was  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and  he  became  a 
farmer  near  that  great  textile  manufacturing  center.  He  lived  there 
until  1870,  and  in  the  meantime  married  and  some  of  his  children  were 
born. 

Dennis  Sullivan  was  a  passenger  on  the  first  train  that  came  over 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  into  San  Francisco  in  1870.  From  San 
Francisco  he  came  south  to  Los  Angeles,  arriving  in  March  of  that 
year,  and  soon  afterward  homesteaded  and  bought  a  section  of  land  in 
the  Cahuenga  Valley,  where  his  was  practically  the  first  white  family  to 
locate.  At  that  time  the  valley  had  only  a  few  Mexican  ranchers.  On 
the  ranch  he  established  the  home,  and  it  was  in  that  community  that 
he  spent  the  rest  of  his  industrious  years. 

The  limits  of  the  Sullivan  homestead  may  be  traced  today  by  the 
city  streets  extending  from  Vermont  avenue  to  Normandie  avenue  on 
the  east  and  west,  and  from  Santa  Monica  boulevard  to  Melrose  avenue 
on  the  north  and  south.  His  home  was  well  out  in  the  country,  but  year 
after  year  the  city  encroached  upon  him,  gradually  absorbing  his  ranch, 
and  finally  all  was  taken  into  the  metropolis  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  Much 
of  this  was  sold  in  acreage  and  was  platted  and  improved  by  the  second 
purchaser,  but  the  Sullivan  estate  still  owns  an  appreciable  amount  of 
very  valuable  property  in  that  district. 

Dennis  Sullivan  died  October  25,  1908,  at  his  home  where  he  had 
lived  for  thirty-eight  years.  The  property  he  acquired  by  patent  from 
President  Grant.  The  old  homestead  is  now  the  site  of  the  new  State 
Normal  School,  said  to  be  the  finest  normal  school  in  the  United  States. 

Dennis  Sullivan  was  a  man  of  fine  business  judgment,  industrious 
and  capable  in  all  his  affairs,  and  withal  was  exceedingly  generous  and 
free  handed.  He  donated  an  acre  of  land  for  the  Immaculate  Heart  of 
Mary  Church,  and  also  the  grounds  for  the  parish  house. 

In  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  March  5,  1859,  he  married  Miss  Mar- 
garet Murphy,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Ellen  (O'Neil)  Murphy.  She 
was  born  at  Castletowii,  Ireland,  February  3,  1843.  She  died  March  16, 
1917.  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  three  sons  and  six  daugh- 
ters, all  of  whom  are  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity.  These 
children  grew  up  and  most  of  them  lived  at  the  old  homestead  until  1912. 


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The  late  Dennis  Sullivan  and  wife  were  prominent  members  of  the 
Catholic  Church  and  generous  supporters  of  its  various  causes  and 
philanthropies. 

Henry  E.  Huntington.  If  there  is  "a  name  to  conjure  with"  in 
California  it  is  that  of  Huntington.  Collis  P.  Huntington  was  the  master 
mind  in  consolidating  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway,  and  rivaled  the  late 
J.  J.  Hill  as  an  empire  builder.  Collis  Huntington  had  many  able  lieu- 
tenants and  associates,  but  probably  not  one  better  fitted  to  wield  the 
scepter  of  power  which  he  forged  than  his  own  nephew,  Henry  E.  Hunt- 
ington, whose  work,  whether  considered  in  connection  with  that  of  his 
uncle  or  individually,  gives  him  a  place  among  the  dominant  great  figures 
in  American  finance  and  constructive  enterprise. 

Henry  E.  Huntington  was  born  at  Oneonta,  New  York,  February 
27,  1850,  a  son  of  Solon  and  Harriet  (Saunders)  Huntington.  His 
father,  Solon  Huntington,  was  born  in  Connecticut  in  1821.  The  Hunt- 
ingtons  came  to  Connecticut  Colony  as  early  as  1632  and  throughout 
American  history  have  been  notalile  for  their  strong,  sturdy  qualities, 
and  not  a  few  of  them  have  been  distinguished  for  their  abilities.  Solon 
Huntington  was  educated  in  Connecticut  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
left  home  and  found  employment  with  a  merchant  at  Boston.  In  1842 
he  established  a  store  of  his  own  in  central  New  York,  and  subsequently 
took  into  partnership  his  brother  Collis  and  for  a  number  of  years  after- 
wards the  brothers  were  associated  as  owners  of  lands  and  in  other  en- 
terprises, in  the  family  of  Solon  and  Harriet  Saunders  Huntington 
were  seven  children :  Mrs.  B.  W.  Foster,  of  Huntington,  West  Vir- 
ginia ;  Ploward  and  George  D.,  now  deceased ;  Henry  E. ;  Harriet  and 
W.  B.,  both  deceased ;  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  HoUiday,  of  San  Marino,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Henry  E.  Huntington  attended  private  and  public  schools  in  his 
native  town  and  acquired  his  first  business  experience  in  a  hardware  store 
there.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  with  one  of  the  large  hardware 
houses  in  New  York  city.  From  1871  to  1876  he  was  engaged  in  lum- 
bering and  lumber  manufacture  at  St.  Albans  in  West  Virginia.  It  is 
said  that  his  successful  experience  in  the  lumber  industry  recommended 
him  to  his  uncle,  Collis  Huntington,  who  made  him  superintendent  of 
construction  of  the  Huntington  lines,  then  building  from  Louisville  to 
New  Orleans  under  the  title  Chesapeake,  Ohio  &  Southwestern.  He 
was  superintendent  of  construction  with  this  railroad  from  1880  to 
1884.  In  1884  he  was  made  superintendent,  in  1885  was  receiver,  and 
from  1886  to  1890  was  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Ken- 
tucky Central  Railway.  From  that  point  no  consecutive  account  could 
be  given  of  his  rapidly  accumulating  interests  as  a  railroad  builder  and 
financier.  He  was  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Elizabeth, 
Lexington  and  Big  Sandy  &  Ohio  Valley  Railways  in  1890-92,  and  in 
the  latter  year  joined  his  uncle  in  the  Southern  Pacific,  serving  as  assist- 
ant to  the  president  from  1892  to  1900,  as  second  vice  president  during 
1900,  and  later  as  first  vice  president  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company. 
He  was  also  president  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railways  of  Arizona  and 
New  Mexico,  the  Carson  &  Colorado  Railway,  the  Market  Street  Cable 
Railway  of  San  Francisco.  \\'hile  in  San  Francisco  he  acquired  the 
San  Francisco  Street  Railway,  but  in  1898  sold  that  property  and  be- 
gan acquiring  street  railroads  at  Los  Angeles.  With  the  development 
of  the  great  urban  and  interurban  system  of  transportation  in  and 
around   Los   Angeles   his  name   is   most   conspicuously   identified.     He 


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became  sole  owner  of  the  street  railway  system,  bought  connecting  lines 
and  established  the  Pacific  Electric  Company,  and  did  the  pioneer  work, 
both  planning  and  building,  until  Los  Angeles  became  the  center  of  a 
radiating  interurban  system  with  thousands  of  miles  of  track.  Without 
doubt  this  system  of  transportation  has  been  the  chief  element  in  mak- 
ing Los  Angeles  the  city  it  is.  He  extended  the  system  to  the  ocean 
beaches  and  up  through  the  inland  country  over  the  orange  belt,  and 
when  the  system  had  passed  the  stage  of  experiment  he  sold  out  to  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company. 

Since  1910  Mr.  Huntington  has  considered  himself  retired,  but 
there  are  few  men  in  the  fullness  of  their  strength  and  powers  who 
offer  counsel  to  no  larger  a  number  of  important  corporations,  and  he 
is  still  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Newport  News  Ship- 
Iniilding  and  Dry  Dock  Company,  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Safety  Installation  Wire  and  Cable  Company,  director  of  the  Chesa- 
peake &  Ohio  Railroad,  the  Hocking  \'alley  Railroad,  Southern  Pacific. 
Minneapolis  &  St.  Louis  and  many  other  railroad  organizations,  and  a 
director  of  the  Equitable  Trust  Company  of  New  York,  the  National 
Surety  Company,  and  of  animposing  list  of  other  companies,  the  naines 
of  which  are  in  the  nature  of  a  catalog  of  railroad  properties  in  the 
United  States  and  of  railway,  land  and  commercial  institutions  in 
California. 

It  is  a  matter  of  special  significance  that  Mr.  Huntington  held  the 
post  of  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Newport  News  Ship- 
building and  Dry  Dock  Company  during  the  great 'war.  This  company 
is  one  of  the  largest  shipbuilding  concerns  in  America,  has  built  many 
battleships  for  the  government  and  its  facilities  were  enormously  in- 
creased to  meet  the  urgent  demands  of  the  war  and  in  1919  the  company 
had  contracts  for  four  United  States  battleships,  forty-one  destroyers, 
two  troop  ships  and  eight  oil  ships  for  the  government.  Records  of 
the  company  have  been'entirel)'  free  from  labor  disturbances.  It  is  Mr. 
Huntington's  policy  to  pay  men  living  wages,  and  he  has  always  taken 
a  personal  interest  in  seeing  that  men  in  his  employ  are  properly  ad- 
vanced. Some  years  ago  he  said  that  he  always  had  three  or  four  men 
ready  to  occupy  the  post  of  president  whenever  it  was  necessary  for 
the  incumbent  of  that  office  to  step  out. 

Mr.  Huntington  is  credited  with  being  one  of  the  greatest  builders 
of  resorts  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Probably  no  one  individual  through  the 
resources  and  enterprise  at  his  command  has  done  more  to  make  of  Los 
Angeles  a  great  and  powerful  metropolis  than  Mr.  Huntington. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club, 
California  Club,  San  Gabriel  Country  and  Anandale  Country  Club  of 
Pasadena  ;  the  Metropolitan  Club  and  the  Union  League  Club  of  New 
York  City;  and  of  his  numerous  club  memberships  he  doubtless  regards 
the  one  affording  greatest  distinction  as  that  in  the  Hobby  Club  of  New 
York  City.  This  club  is  limited  to  fifty  members,  and  at  present  there 
are  thirty-five  members.  The  essential  principle  of  the  club  is  that  each 
member  must  have  a  hobby.  Mr.  Huntington's  hobby  is  books  and 
paintings.  Some  of  his  interests  outside  of  business  are  represented  by 
his  membership  in  the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  the  Con- 
cordance Society,  the  Southwest  Museum  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Pasadena 
Music  and  Art  Association,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  the  Bibli- 
ophile Club  of  Boston.  Mr.  Huntington  owns  the  finest  private  col- 
lections  of   English   literature   and   Americana   in    the   world,    including 


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the  original  manuscript  of  Benjamin  Franklin's  autobiography,  the  first 
collection  of  Washington  manuscripts,  the  largest  private  collection  of 
Lincoln  letters  and  manuscripts.  The  home  where  he  delights  to  spend 
his  time  and  where  he  has  most  of  his  treasures  is  near  Pasadena,  a 
magnificent  country  estate,  the  de\elopment  of -which  has  Deen  made 
to  express  Mr.  Huntington's  versatile  interests  as  a  lover  of  beauty 
and  nature. 

The  Huntington  library,  whicli  will  soon  he  erected,  will  give  the 
name  of  Henrv  E.  Huntington  a  tloniinant  ]ilace  anning  .American  bene- 
factors. The  magnitude  of  this  undertaking  has  been  describei'  in  a 
local  publication  and  is  here  reproduced : 

"Henry  E.  Huntington,  millionaire  shipbuilder  and  owner  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Street  Railway,  shortly  will  begin  work  on  the  con.struction 
of  a  magnificent  private  library  building,  to  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Si25,00O,  near  his  palatial  residence  at  San  Marino. 

"The  structure  will  house  the  finest  collection  of  paintings  in  Ameri- 
ca and  the  most  important  i)rivate  collection  of  books  in  the  world.  The 
big  institution,  once  com])leted  and  set  in  good  running  order,  will  be 
presented  as  a  public  benefaction  to  the  people  of  the  Southland,  re])re- 
senting  a  gift  valued  intrinsically  at  more  than  $20,000,000. 

"Plans  for  the  building  have  been  in  process  of  preparation  by  Archi- 
tect Myron  l^Iunt  of  this  city  for  several  years,  but  the  erection  of  the 
institution  has  been  postponed  from  time  to  time  owing  to  the  prohibi- 
tive prices  of  labor  and  material. 

"The  Huntington  ])rivate  lil)rary  will  be  20U  feet  s(|uare  an  I  hoUl 
about  200,000  volumes,  as  well  as  jirovide  amjik'  sjiace  for  a  large  pic- 
torial exhibit.  It  will  be  built  after  the  fashion  of  a  great  vault,  with 
large  exhibit  rooms  and  cataloguing  dejiartment.  It  will  require  twenty 
years,  it  is  said,  for  a  thorough  cataloguing  of  the  rare  volumes,  manu- 
scripts and  early  editions  that  Mr.  Huntington  nciw  has  stored  in  his 
residence  on  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

"The  assemblage  of  the  books  and  manuscrijjts  comprising  the  pres- 
ent Huntington  library  covers  a  period  of  ten  years,  and  it  is  said  that 
the  British  museum  is  his  only  com])etitor  in  number  and  rarity  of  ex- 
hibits. He  has  bought  nj)  the  ancient  collections  of  a  number  of  mem- 
bers of  the  En.glish  nobility,  selecting  from  them  the  choicest  volumes 
and  selling  the  remainder  at  auction,  lie  is  said  to  ])r)sscss  first  efJinOns 
of  all  the  great  writers  of  the  Elizabethan  period. 

"It  is  understood  to  be  Mr.  Huntington's  plan  ultimately  to  gi\e  his 
rare  and  beaiitiful  collections,  together  with  the  jjalace  in  which  he  will 
house  them,  to  the  iniblic.  He  is  sixty-eight  years  of  li.ge  and  is  be- 
lieved to  fear  that  further  ])ostponenient  in  carrying  out  his  long-cher- 
ished beneficiary  plan  might  lead  to  failure  to  bring  about  its  comjiletion. 
so,  despite  the  still  prevalent  high  jjrices,  work  will  l)e  liegun  on  the 
librarv'  in  the  very  near  future. 

"The  building  will  be  of  stone  and  concrete.  Sixteen  men  arc  now- 
cataloguing  the  books  in  the  New   York  home." 

In  1873  Mr.  Huntington  married  Mary  E.  Prentice.  July  16.  1913. 
he  married  Mrs.  Arabella  D.  Huntington.  His  children  are :  Howard  E. 
Huntington.  Pasadena :  Mrs.  Clara  Perkins,  San  Francisco ;  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth  Metcalf.  Berkeley:  and  Miss  Marian  Huntington,   San  Franci.sco. 


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Frank  A.  Mennillo.  Probably  the  chief  commercial  authority  on 
olive  culture,  packing  and  marketing  in  California  is  Frank  A.  Mennillo. 
He  learned  the  olive  industry  in  his  native  land  of  Italy,  and  he  is  a 
veteran  in  the  business  though  a  comparatively  young  man. 

Mr.  Mennillo  was- born  in  Naples,  Italy,  April  10,  1882,  son  Oif 
Pasquale  and  Viola  Mennillo.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
and  a  technical  school,  graduating  at  the  age  of  thirteen.  After  an- 
other year  and  a  half  in  a  commercial  college  he  went  to  work  for  his 
father,  a  prominent  dealer  and  exporter  in  olive  oil,  tomato  sauce,  and 
also  proprietor  of  the  largest  castor  oil  factory  in  Naples. 

After  a  long  and  thorough  apprenticeship  Mr.  Mennillo  in  1904 
came  to  America  and  landed  at  New  York  City,  where  he  opened  a 
branch  house  for  his  father's  business.  He  later  opened  another  house 
in  Boston.  He  was  interested  in  the  export  business  until  it  practically 
ceased  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  Mr.  Mennillo  came  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1915  and  here  established  a  tomato  sauce  packing  department  for 
the  American  Olive  Company.  He  was  instrumental  in  devising  and 
perfecting  more  sanitarj'  methods  of  packing  this  sauce.  Machinery 
made  after  his  especial  supervision  was  introduced  into  the  depart- 
ment. Since  1917  Mr.  Mennillo  has  been  a  director  in  the  company 
and  since  1915  has  done  a  large  business  in  buying  and  selling  of  olives 
grown  in  California,  and  also  in  introducing  the  Italian  and  Greek  methods 
of  curing  among  the  local  packeries.  He  is  now  operating  six  olive  can- 
neries in  California.  During  1918  two  thousand  tons  of  olives  were 
handled  by  his  organization,  and  about  one  hundred  ten  thousand  dollars 
worth  of  California  olive  oil  was  bought  by  him  and  sold  in  the  eastern 
market.  Mr.  Mennillo  has  done  much  to  stimulate  and  stabilize  the  olive 
industry  through  the  liberal  features  of  his  contracts  and  a  co-operative 
principle  between  the  packers  and  growers.  His  organization  has  arranged 
for  contracts  on  a  period  of  years  basis,  assuring  fair  market  prices, 
and  also  furnishes  the  expert  services  of  an  agricultural  chemist  to  the 
growers  who  have  contracts  with  Mr.  Mennillo  for  his  company.  Besides 
the  technical  service  furnished  to  the  olive  growers  through  this  plan 
the  growers  also  have  another  benefit  in  forms  of  cash  advances  made 
on  the  basis  of  their  crop  before  marketing. 

Some  interesting  facts  concerning  the  olive  industry  in  California 
and  his  own  connection  therewith  were  quoted  by  the  Fig  and  Olive 
Journal.  In  an  interview  Mr.  Mennillo  was  quoted  as  saying:  "The  ripe 
olive  is  California's  special  and  unique  product  and  the  future  of  the 
industry  here  depends  largely  upon  its  maintenance  in  the  markets.  For 
some  years,  before  coming  to  California,  to  establish  myself  in  the  olive 
business  I  took  a  particular  interest  in  the  California  ripe  olive,  and  I 
may  say,  with  due  modesty,  that  I  first  established  the  ripe  olive  among 
the  foreign  elements  in  the  markets  of  New  York  and  Boston,  where  I 
was  then  and  am  still  engaged  in  the  business. 

"Later  I  helped  to  build  up  at  their  request  the  Italian  department 
of  F.  H.  Leggett  &  Company,  of  New  York,  one  of  the  largest  wholesale 
firms  in  the  United  States.  Soon  after  I  left  F.  H.  Leggett  &  Company 
I  engaged  myself  directly  with  the  American  Olive  Company  for  the 
inirpose  of  developing  their  business  among  the  Latin  people  in  the  east, 
and  the  success  of  that  work  can  be  verified  by  the  said  company.  I  think 
this  will  show  my  interest  in  the  ripe  olive  and  its  future,  and  I  will 
say  at  this  time  that  though  we  will  handle  a  considerable  amount  of 
olives  put  up  in  the  Greek  and  Italian  form,  cured  in  salt,  to  meet  the 


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present  needs  of  our  foreign  born  trade  in  the  large  eastern  cities,  we 
will  also  process  and  pack  in  cans  California  ripe  olives  in  large  quantities, 
for  which  we  have  developed  a  good  market  throughout  the  Atlantic 
seaboard  cities." 

In  November,  1917,  Mr.  Mennillo  organized  the  Ruddle  &  Mennillo 
Company,  of  which  he  is  a  partner.  This  firm  has  the  sole  agency  for 
the  Frageol  Truck  and  Tractors  in  southern  California.  The  Frageol 
farm  tractor  has  commended  itself  to  many  users  in  the  orchards  of 
California,  and  its  unique  feature  is  its  traction  method,  eliminating  the 
familiar  caterpillar  form  and  depending  upon  a  drive  wheel  with  legs, 
thirty-two  in  number,  which  experience  has  demonstrated  are  inestimably 
practicable  even  when  used  in  soft  soil. 

In  October,  1918,  Mr.  Mennillo  bought  the  controlling  interest  in 
the  Marine  Products  Company  at  Terminal,  California.  This  is  a  large 
fish  cannery.  In  other  ways  he  has  identified  himself  with  southern  Cali- 
fornia and  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  Los  Angeles  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  He  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
Church.  At  Long  Island,  New  York,  in  October,  1906,  Mr.  Mennillo  mar- 
ried Miss  Z.  E.  Lignente.  Their  one  child,  Arnaldo,  born  in  1910,  is  a 
pupil  at  the  Hollywood  School  for  Boys  and  Girls. 

William  Edmund  Youle.  It  would  be  a  confirmed  pessimist  in- 
deed who  could  not  derive  encouragement  and  inspiration  from  the 
career  and  achievements  of  William  Edmund  Youle  of  Los  Angeles. 
Some  narrow  minded  philosophers  contend  that  the  world  and  civiliza- 
tion are  on  their  last  legs,  that  the  resources  of  the  earth  are  about  ex- 
hausted, and  that  the  wit  and  ingenuity  of  mankind  have  attained  their 
climax.  The  experiences  of  Mr.  Youle  constitute  a  human  document 
that  would  serve  to  refute  and  confound  such  opinions.  Mr.  Youle  is  a 
very  practical  man  and  though  now  past  three  score  and  ten  is  busy  every 
day,  and  it  would  serve  a  splendid  purpose  if  he  might  be  induced  to 
write  the  story  of  his  life.  It  would  be  not  only  a  most  instructive  his- 
tory of  the  American  petroleum  industry,  but  however  modestly  told  it 
would  also  have  that  broader  significance  that  is  involved  in  any  account 
of  the  struggles  of  masterful,  determined  and  far-sighted  men  against 
the  inertia  of  physical  and  human  forces.  In  this  sketch  it  is  possible  to 
suggest  only  the  bold  outlines  of  Mr.  Youle's  career. 

He  was  born  at  Pontiac,  Michigan,  August  21,  1847,  son  of  William 
and  Bridget  Youle,  the  former  a  native  of  England  and  the  latter  of 
Ireland.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  left  the  schools  of  his  native  city. 
The  following  year  he  went  to  the  oil  fields  of  Pennsylvania.  That  was 
in  1863,  and  those  casually  acquainted  wuh  the  history  of  the  petroleum 
industry  do  not  need  to  be  informed  that  the  oil  business  even  in  west- 
ern Pennsylvania  was  still  in  its  pioneer  phases.  Though  very  young 
Mr.  Youle  became  a  driller  and  contractor  and  for  thirteen  years  was 
one  of  the  most  active  in  developing  and  exploiting  the  oil  territory  of 
Pennsylvania  and  West  Virginia.  He  not  only  mastered  the  technical 
processes  of  oil  production,  but  almost  from  the  first  stood  out  as  a 
leader  of  men,  a  business  executive,  and  with  a  vision  that  led  him  to 
constantly  enlarging  enterprises.  He  deserves  his  niche  of  fame  with 
the  group  of  men  who  did  most  to  develop  and  stabilize  the  oil  industry 
in  the  eastern  states.  But  the  importance  of  his  work  there  has  always 
been  overshadowed  by  his  achievements  in  California.  It  is  not  merely 
proper  to  refer  to  Mr.  Youle  as  "the"  veteran  of  the  oil  industry  in 


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California  since  he  has  more  to  his  credit  than  forty  odd  years  of  con- 
tinuous work  in  these  fields.  Before  he  came  west  geologists  and  other 
scientists  had  declared  that  there  was  no  oil  to  be  found  in  commercial 
quantities  in  California.  Mr.  Youle  and  his  associates  demonstrated  by 
drilling  that  it  was  here,  and  therefore  in  every  real  sense  he  was  a  dis- 
coverer. But  he  did  more  than  point  out  the  promised  land  as  many 
discoverers  have  done ;  he  showed  how  to  take  possession  of  it  and  has 
always  been  in  the  forefront  of  the  developments  which  have  returned 
untold  riches  from  the  petroleum  deposits  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

When  some  California  capitalists  determined  to  inaugurate  practi- 
cal tests  for  proving  the  oil  resources  of  California,  they  naturally 
looked  to  the  East  for  the  proper  man  to  handle  the  problem.  They 
were  attracted  to  Mr.  Youle  not  only  by  his  long  career  as  a  success- 
ful drilling  contractor  and  operator,  but  also  by  the  profitable  results 
which  have  attended  his  efforts  as  superintendent  of  the  United  States 
Oil  Company  at  Oil  City,  Pennsylvania.  After  some  negotiation  Mr. 
Youle  came  west  in  1877,  and  after  some  preliminary  investigation 
directed  his  force  of  expert  workmen,  to  put  down  the  first  test  well  in 
Moody's  Gulch,  in  Santa  Clara  County,  and  here  was  brought 
in  the  first  paying  oil  well  in  the  Golden  State.  As  that  was  the  begin- 
ning of  the  California  oil  industry,  likewise  was  it  only  the  beginning 
of  Mr.  Youle's  0]3erations  which  have  extended, over  a  period  of  more 
than  forty  years,  and  have  included  the  drilling  of  upwards  of  two 
hundred  wells.  Li  1877  he  proved  the  field  in  Moody's  Gulch  in  Santa 
Clara  County,  and  in  1884  started  operations  in  the  famous  Puente  oil 
regions.  In  1890  he  was  the  first  contracting  well  driller  to  appear  in 
the  noted  Sunset  fields  in  Kern  County.  For  eleven  years  he  was  almost 
ceaselessly  active  in  that  district,  and  developed  not  only  the  Sunset 
but  also  the  ]\lcKittrick  and  Midway  oil  fields,  the  latter  being  regarded 
as  one  of  the  richest  oil  districts  ever  found  on  the  American'continenl. 

Thus  summary  of  his  achievements  does  little  justice  to  the  stu- 
pendous obstacles  that  were  frequently  overcome  and  the  difficulties 
that  tried  the  skill  and  patience  even  of  such  a  veteran  oil  worker  as 
Mr.  Youle.  It  is  well  known  that  he  frequently  had  other  problems 
than  those  presented  by  nature  alone.  He  had  to  sway  and  convince 
men's  stubborn  opinions  to  his  own  faith  and  conviction.  Frequently 
he  was  condemned  for  persisting  in  sinking  his  drill  hundreds  of  feet 
below  what  was  then  considered  the  oil  level,  his  critics  declaring  that 
it  was  impossible  to  drill  to  the  depth  contemplated  by  liim.  He  went 
on  with  the 'work,  however,  and  his  judgment  was  finally  vindicated 
by  striking  oil  at  extreme  depths. 

Moreover,  he  deserves  great  credit  for  extending  the  use  of  oil, 
especially  crude  oil  for  fuel  purposes.  He  handled  the  first  car  load 
of  oil  that  was  handled  for  fuel  purposes  in  Los  .\ngeles,  this  being 
delivered  to  the  Lankershim  flour  mills  of  that  city.  His  personal  in- 
fluence converted  many  manufacturers  and  business  men  to  the  use  of 
crude  oil  at  a  time  when  its  use  was  not  considered  practicable. 

For  years  Mr.  Youle  has  been  regarded  as  a  very  dependable 
authority  on  oil  matters,  particularly  in  the  far  west.  He  has  been 
identified  with  every  new  oil  field  in  California.  It  is  said  that  through 
him  many  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  have  been  safely  invested 
in  the  business,  and  at  the  same  time  many  other  thousands  have  been 
saved  to  those  who  otherwise  might  have  embarked  in  losing  proposi- 
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As  an  oil  geologist  Mr.  Youle  has  developed  marked  ability  and  his 
judgment  of  oil  land  possibilities  ranks  with  the  best. 

Some  years  ago  in  one  of  the  most  important  oil  land  suits  ever 
brought,  up  to  that  time,  by  the  United  States  government — a  suit 
involving  land  values  of  from  fifteen  million  to  twenty  million  dollars 
— Mr.  Youle  and  many  of  the  most  celebrated  geologists  of  the  coun- 
try were  called  to  testify  as  experts.  Among  them  were  such  men  as 
Dr.  John  Casper  Branner,  Arthur  C.  Veach  (chief  geologist  for  the 
Lx)rd  Cowdray  &  Pearson  interests),  J.  A.  Taff,  Frank  M.  Anderson 
and  others. 

Mr.  W.  N.  Mills,  assistant  to  the  attorney  general  of  the  United 
States,  who  conducted  the  suit,  said  "No  more  powerful  and  convinc- 
ing testimony  was  given  in  the  entire  case,  on  either  side,  than  that  of 
Mr.  Youle,  and  the  government's  success  in  the  litigation  referred  to 
was  largely  due  to  the  confidence  and  reliance  placed  by  the  trial  court 
upon  Mr.  Youle's  ability  and  experience  as  a  practical  geologist.  From 
my  knowledge  of  the  man,  extending  over  a  period  of  five  years,  I  had 
rather  have  his  opinion  upon  untested  oil  territory  as  a  basis  for  in- 
vestment than  the  opinion  of  any  geologist  of  my  acquaintance." 

Mr.  T.  Spellacy,  a  well-known  oil  operator  of  Los  Angeles,  after 
an  acquaintance  of  nearly  thirty  years,  said :  "Mr.  Youle  is  a  man  of 
highest  character  and  reliable,  and  I  have  always  found  him  con- 
scientious." 

Many  such  testimonials  could  be  given,  for  his  friends  are  many  and 
his  reputation  and  character  are  of  the  highest  standing.  During  the 
past  five  or  six  years  Mr.  Youle  has  given  much  attention  to  oil  pros- 
pects in  Wyoming.  He  bought  two  thousand  acres,  organized  the 
Wyoming  Consolidated  Oil  Company,  and  this  company  has  already 
carried  forward  considerable  development  work,  having  one  well  down 
two  thousand  feet  and  with  a  satisfactory  outlook.  He  also  organized 
another  company  on  adjacent  lands. 

Mr.  Youle  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  forty  years,  and 
while  he  has  never  been  drawn  into  politics,  is  not  a  member  of  any 
clubs,  he  is  quietly  interested  in  civic  movements  and  has  been  generous 
of  time  and  means  in  behalf  of  the  patriotic  program.  He  has  traveled 
widely,  and  in  1913  returned  to  Los  Angeles  after  ten  months  spent  in 
Europe.  On  January  10,  1870,  at  Pontiac,  Michigan,  he  married  Mary 
Murphy,  who  passed  away  some  years  ago.  They  have  two  children, 
Charles,  well  known  in  the  oil  business  and  now  residing  in  Wyoming, 
and  May,  the  wife  of  John  Box  of  Los  Angeles,  with  the  Standard  Oil 
Company. 

LeCompte  Davis.  Probably  no  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar 
is  more  frequently  referred  to  and  in  terms  of  respect  and  admiration 
by  his  fellow  associates  as  LeCompte  Davis,  who  has  been  a  resident 
of  Southern  California  for  over  thirty  years.  LeCompte  Davis  is  a 
scholarly  lawyer,  takes  delight  in  literature  and  a  broad  range  of  studies, 
not  least  in  the  book  of  human  life  itself,  and  has  achieved  distinction 
all  over  the  West  as  a  criminal  lawyer. 

He  was  born  in  Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  May  1,  1864,  a  son  of 
Henry  Clay  and  Josephine  (LeCompte)  Davis.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Kentucky,  graduated  with  the  Law  degree  from 
Centre  College,  at  Danville,  Kentucky,  in  1887,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  his  native  state,  and  in  the  same  year  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  began 
practice.    He  served  one  term  of  two  years  as  assistant  district  attorney 


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of  Los  Angeles  county,  and  left  that  office  in  1895  to  form  a  partner- 
ship with  Judson  R.  Rush.  The  firm  of  Davis  &  Rush  has  been  in 
existence  now  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  It  has  been  e.'ipecially 
distinguished  for  its  successful  work  in  criminal  trials.  The  firm  has 
been  represented  in  over  sixty  murder  cases.  Mr.  Davis  was  associated 
in  the  defense  of  the  celebrated  McNamara  dynamiting  cases,  and  later 
was  associated  in  the  defense  of  the  noted  Chicago  lawyer,  Clarence 
Darrow,  accused  of  bribery  in  those  cases.  In  1908  Mr.  Davis  de- 
fended three  prominent  men  accused  in  the  Oregon  land  fraud  cases 
and  secured  acquittals  in  two  instances.  He  was  also  a  lawyer  in  the 
defense  in  the  Imperial  Valley  land  fraud  cases  in  1909.  Undoubtedly 
he  is  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and  forceful  pleaders  who  have  appeared 
in  the  courts  of  the  Pacific  Coast  during  the  last  three  decades. 

Mr.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association.  His 
hobby  is  books,  and  his  private  library  contains  more  than  6,000  volumes, 
besides  a  rare  collection  of  old  engravings  and  paintings.  April  18,  1908, 
at  Ventura,  California,  Mr.  Davis  married  Edythe  Oilman. 

Judson  Randolph  Rush.  One  of  the  oldest  legal  partnerships  in 
Southern  California  is  that  of  Davis  &  Rush  with  offices  in  the  Bryson 
Building.  Judson  Randolph  Rush  and  LeCompte  Davis  as  young  lawyers 
were  deputies  in  the  district  attorney's  offices  a6  Los  Angeles.  They 
resigned  January  7,  1895,  establishing  a  partnership  the  same  day,  and 
it  is  said  that  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day  they  tried  their  first  cases. 
Their  first  offices  were  in  a  building  on  the  site  of  the  present  Hall  of 
Records.  These  well  known  lawyers  had  one  other  associate,  Frank  R. 
Willis  for  six  years,  until  Mr.  Willis  was  elected  to  the  Superior  Bench. 
Many  of  the  prominent  cases  in  the  courts  of  Southern  California  have 
been  handled  by  Davis  &  Rush,  and  their  practice  has  also  extended  to 
the  states  of  Oregon  and  Washington. 

Mr.  Rush,  who  is  an  old  time  Californian  and  a  man  of  wide  and 
varied  business  experience,  was  born  in  Greene  County,  Pennsylvania, 
March  9,  1865,  son  of  John  L.  S.  and  Dorcas  (Parcell)  Rush.  The 
Rush  family  have  been  residents  of  Pennsylvania  through  five  genera- 
tions, the  immigrant  ancestor  having  distinguished  himself  as  an  Indian 
fighter.     Mr.  Rush  was  born  in  the  same  house  as  his  grandfather. 

In  early  boyhood  his  parents  removed  to  Iowa  where  he  attended 
common  schools  and  in  1881  he  came  to  Santa  Ana,  California,  and 
spent  three  years  as  a  cowboy  and  hunting  in  the  mountains,  living  the 
typical  life  of  the  western  frontiersman.  In  1886  he  engaged  in  the  dairy 
business  with  his  father  at  Pasadena,  and  also  played  a  pioneer  part  in 
the  oil  industry  of  California,  working  on  the  first  well  in  the  Fuller- 
ton  district.  Three  years  he  also  conducted  a  prosperous  meat  market 
business  at  Monrovia  and  El  Monte. 

The  turning  point  of  his  career  came  with  his  election  as  justice  of 
the  Peace  for  El  Monte,  an  office  he  held  from  1890  to  1892.  When  his 
official  calendar  was  not  filled  he  spent  his  leisure  in  studying  law  under 
his  own  direction,  and  worked  to  such  good  purpose  that  he  passed  the 
bar  examination  in  1893,  and  a  few  months  later  was  appointed  one  of 
the  deputy  district  attorneys.  Mr.  Rush  has  always  been  interested  in 
good  government  and  in  1908  ran  far  ahead  of  his  ticket  as  democratic 
candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Southern  California  District.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk  and  a  member  of  the  Gamut  Club.  Mr. 
Rush  married  Miss  Augusta  D.  Salzen  March  18,  1918,  in  Glendora, 
Cahfornia. 


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Thomas  Edward  Gibbon.  The  usefulness  of  the  average  man  is 
limited  to  a  rather  narrow  channel.  He  docs  his  work,  carries  his  respon- 
sibilities and  discharges  his  obligations,  but  the  end  of  his  life  is  usually 
not  far  from  the  stage  that  was  set  for  him  at  the  beginning  of  his  man- 
hood. It  is  all  the  more  surprising  therefore  what  some  men  do  and 
achieve  and  how  many  movements  and  institutions  come  within  the  range 
of  "their  influence.  Los  Angeles  has  a  number  of  these  more  than  ordi- 
nary if  not  extraordinary  men,  and  no  one  could  doubt  the  propriety  of 
including  Thomas  Edward  Gibbon  in  the  list.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  bar  for  thirty  years,  but  his  routine  accomplishments 
as  a  lawyer  are  less  well  known  than  those  numerous  enterprises  in 
which  he  has  been  a  conspicuous  figure  and  which  have  been  fraught 
with  consequences  that  are  vital  to  the  present  and  future  welfare  of 
all  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Gibbon  has  had  a  very  interesting  career  not  only  since  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles  b^it  in  his  early  life.  He  was  born  in  Prairie  county, 
Arkansas,  May  28,  1860,  a  son  of  William  R.  and  Mary  Jane  (Wylie) 
Gibbon.  His  father  was  born  in  Brunswick  county,  Virginia,  March 
19,  1832.  He  was  liberally  educated  in  the  Virginia  Military  Institute 
and  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1855.  After  two  years  of  practice  at  LaGrange, 
Tennessee,  he  moved  to  Prairie  county,  Arkansas.  That  Arkansas  county 
was  his  home  the  rest  of  his  life,  except  the  four  year  period  of  the  Civil 
war,  during  which  his  family  lived  in  Texas  and  he  himself  had  a  place 
in  the  ranks  of  the  Confederate  army.  His  range  of  usefulness  was  not 
altogether  confined  to  his  work  as  a  skillful  practitioner  of  medicine. 
Both  before  and  after  the  war  he  owned  and  supervised  an  Arkansas 
plantation.     He  died  at  his  Arkansas  home  in  1891. 

Thomas  Edward  Gibbon,  only  child  of  his  parents,  had  his  boy- 
hood in  a  period  which  senses  to  indicate  what  terrific  drains  are  made 
upon  a  country  and  people  as  a  result  of  a  long  continued  war.  The 
entire  South  during  and  for  some  years  after  the  Civil  war  had  its 
energies  completely  absorbed  by  the  task  of  reconstruction,  and  it  was 
almost  inevitable  that  institutions  of  education  should  be  neglected  and 
meagerly  provided  for.  Under  such  circumstances  Mr.  Gibbon  gained 
most  of  his  early  training  at  the  direction  of  his  cultivated  parents.  He 
attended  a  private  school  about  a  year,  for  a  few  months  was  a  student 
in  the  Austin  Academy  at  Austin,  Arkansas,  and  then  after  some  experi- 
ence as  a  teacher  himself  he  took  special  studies  in  a  high  school  at  Lone 
Oak,  Arkansas.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  began  teaching,  and  for  a 
couple  of  years  did  this  work  during  a  portion  of  the  season,  and  other- 
■  wise  had  charge  of  his  father's  plantation. 

His  limited  means  did  not  enable  him  to  go  away  to  college  or  uni- 
versity. But  on  January  3,  1883,  he  joined  what  was  known  as  the  Little 
Rock  Law  Class,  an  organization  of  young  men  who  were  determined  to 
study  law  but  were  unable  to  defray  the  expenses  of  a  college  course. 
On  May  22,  1883,  Mr.  Gibbon  was  admitted  to  practice  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Arkansas  and  the  District  and  Federal  Courts.  The  Federal 
District  Court  was  presided  over  at  that  time  by  Henry  C.  Caldwell,  who 
was  one  of  Mr.  Gibbon's  law  preceptors.  Judge  Caldwell  later  became 
prominent  as  judge  of  the  Eighth  Circuit  Court.  With  his  license  as  a 
lawyer  Mr.  Gibbon  went  back  home  and  taught' three  months  of  summer 
school  and  in  the  fall  of  1883  began  practice  at  Little  Rock.  His  ability 
soon  brought  him  the  promise  of  success.    In  1884  he  was  elected  a  mem- 


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ber  of  the  Lower  House  of  the  State  Legislature,  serving  during  1884-85. 
He  continued  private  practice  at  the  State  Capital  until  18.i6,  wlien  on 
account  of  failing  health  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  here  after  recuper- 
ating resumed  his  position  in  the  legal  proiession,  and  is  sail  a  lawyer 
with  all  of  the  demands  made  upon  his  time  and  attention  in  other  affairs. 

Air.  Gibbon  in  1891  organized  the  Los  Angeles  Terminal  Railway 
Company  for  a  group  of  St.  Louis  capitalists.  He  became  vice-president 
and  general  counsel  of  this  road.  The  company  bou.ht  the  railway 
lines  extending  from  Los  Angeles  to  Glendale  and  from  Los  Angeles  to 
Pasadena,  and  also  constructed  a  new  road  from  Los  Angeles  to  San 
Pedro.  This  railroad  was  one  of  the  initial  enterprises  which  attracted 
attention  to  and  eventually  culminated  in  the  consolidation  of  Los  Angeles 
and  San  Pedro  and  the  development  of  the  latter  as  the  Harbor  City  of 
the  Los  Angeles  district.  In  addition  to  the  routine  duties  of  his  office 
as  general  counsel  for  the  Railway  Company  Mr.  Gibbon  gave  much  of 
his  time  and  effort  to  influencing  the  United  States  government  to  take 
over  and  create  a  deep  water  harbor  at  San  Pedro. 

After  the  movement  had  reached  a  point  where  the  harbor  was 
assured  and  work  had  already  been  undertaken  by  the  government,  Mr. 
Gibbon  succeeded  in  interesting  Senator  William  A.  Clark  of  Montana 
in  the  enterprise  of  building  a  railway  from  Los  Angeles  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  In  behalf  of  Senator  Clark  and  his  associates  Mr.  Gibbon  in  Janu- 
ary, 1901,  organized  the  present  Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Company, 
which  took  over  and  acquired  the  property  and  interests  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Terminal  Railway  Company.  Mr.  Gibbon  was  promoted  to  the 
same  official  responsibilities  in  this  company — vice-president  and  general 
counsel — which  he  had  held  with  the  older  organization  and  continued 
in  those  offices  until  the  completion  of  the  line  to  Salt  Lake.  Mr.  Gibbon 
never  gives  a  half-hearted  support  to  any  enterprise  in  which  he  is 
embarked,  and  his  long  continued  labors  with  these  transportation  lines 
eventually  brought  a  breakdown  in  health,  so  that  he  resigned  his  offices 
andjor  several  months  gave  up  his  business  and  profession  altogether 
and  traveled  in  Japan. 

In  the  fall  of  1907  Mr.  Gibbon  and  associates  bought  the  Los  Angeles 
Daily  Herald,  and  for  three  years  he  was  its  president  and  managing 
editor. 

The  municipal  history  of  Los  Angeles  during  the  last  twenty  years 
could  not  well  be  written  without  reference  to  Mr.  Gibbon's  activities. 
In  1898  99  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Police  Commission.  While  in 
that  office  he  with  the  co-operation  of  M.  P.  Snyder,  then  mayor, 
originated  the  rule  limiting  the  number  of  saloons  in  Los  Angeles  to  two 
hundred,  and  refusing"  to  issue  or  renew  any  saloon  licenses  outside  the 
police  area  of  the  city.  This  rule  has  since  become  an  integral  part  of 
the  city  charter.  It  afforded  an  interesting  experiment  in  the  restriction 
and  segregation  of  the  liquor  business  in  American  cities,  and  this  feature 
of  saloon  regulation  has  been  one  of  the  most  widely  discussed  elements 
of  the  Los  Angeles  city  government  and  the  plan  has  been  studied  by 
city  experts  all  over  the  country. 

When  the  P.oard  of  Harbor  Commissioners  of  Los  Angeles  was 
organized,  the  local  Chamber  of  Commerce  directly  requested  the  appoint- 
ment of  Mr.  Gibbon  as  a  member  of  the  body.  He  was  so  anpointed  by 
the  mayor,  and  later  for  four  years  served  as  president  of  the  commis- 
sion.    As  a  commission  member  he  proposed  and  had  adopted  a  resolu- 


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tion  requesting  the  City  Council  of  Los  Angeles  to  bring  action  for  the 
recovery  of  the  tide  lands  surrounding  a  considerable  portion  of  San 
Pedro  harbor.  This  litigation  and  its  consequences  are  also  a  prominent 
item  in  modern  progress  and  ilevelopment  of  the  Los  Angeles  district, 
as  elsewhere  described,  and  through  Mr.  Gibbon's  foresighted  efforts 
the  city  now  has  title  to  several  hundred  acres  surrounding  the  iiarbor, 
a  property  valued  at  millions  of  dollars.  Thus  Los  Angeles  is  one  of 
the  fLW  cities  in  the  country  that  have  taken  steps  to  assure  publicly 
owneil  terminal  facilities  at  the  waterfront,  and  with  ability  to  control 
what  has  frequently  been  a  vexatious  monopoly.  During  his  term  with 
the  harbor  commission  Mr.  Gibbon  was  also  instrumental  in  having  Mr. 
Goodrich,  the  well  known  harbor  engineer  of  New  York,  employed  for 
the  pur,  ose  of  making  a  comprehensive  plan  for  the  development  and 
improvement  of  the  Los  Angeles  harbor.  That  plan  is  now  in  process 
of  being  carried  out  by  the  city.  Another  report  prepared  by  Mr.  (iibbon 
through  the  Board  of  I-larbor  Commissioners  upon  a  municipal  terminal 
railroad  system,  and  subsequently  presented  to  and  approved  by  the  Los 
Angeles  City  Council,  led  to  the  employment  of  Bion  J.  Arnold,  the 
eminent  municipal  transportation  expert  of  Chicago,  to  prepare  a  com- 
plete scheme  for  a  municipal  terminal  railway  system  that  would  ade- 
quately serve  both  the  harbor  and  city. 

Mr.  Gibbon  has  been  associated  with  many  of  the  foremost  men 
of  our  time  in  business,  professional  and  civic  affairs.  He  is  a  member 
of  a  number  of  interesting  organizations,  including  the  American  Academy 
of  Political  nnd  Social  Science,  the  American  Association  for  Labor 
Legislation,  the  National  Child  Labor  Committee,  the  National  Municipal 
League,  the  Commonwealth  Club,  the  National  Geographic  Society,  the 
Jonntban  University,  Bolsa  Chico  Gun,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Los  Angeles 
Country,  City  and  Federation  clubs  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Gibbon  is  a 
democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church. 

December  9,  1891,  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  he  married  Ellen  Rose, 
daurhter  of  Judge  U.  M.  Rose,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  of  Arkan- 
sas lawyers,  and  a  former  president  of  the  American  Bar  Association. 
Mrs.  Gibbon  died  March  29,  1915,  after  a  brief  illness.  She  left  two 
childr'-n ;  Lieutenant  William  Rose  Gibbon,  a  student  of  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, and  Thomas  Edward,  Jr. 

Leo  Minzer,  one  of  the  active  young  business  men  of  Los  Angeles, 
has  had  a  career  of  varied  experience  and  interest. 

He  was  born  in  the  famous  old-time  mining  district  of  Deadwood, 
South  Dakota,  August  19,  1890,  a  son  of  Louis  and  Nettie  (Holstein) 
Minzer.  He  began  his  education  in  the  public  schools  there,  and  when 
he  was  twelve  years  old  his  parents  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  at- 
tended school  two  years  longer.  His  real  business  career  began  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  as  clerk  in  a  drug  store  at  Vermont  avenue  and  Jeffer- 
son street.  After  a  year  he  was  with  Neuner  &  Company,  printers  and 
bookbinders,  as  delivery  boy  six  months,  with  the  Los  Angeles  Pacifiq 
Railway  as  clerk  in  the  accounting  department  two  years,  was  employed 
at  Co^Iinga  by  the  Kern  Trading  and  Oil  Company  in  charge  of  its 
commissary  department  three  years,  was  bookkeeper  at  Kingman,  Ari- 
zon-i.  six  months,  and  on  returning  to  Los  Angeles  became  solicitor  for 
the  Hollywood  Laundry.  With  that  business  he  has  found  probably 
his  permanent  connection.    After  six  years  as  solicitor  he  was  in  charge 


54  LOS  ANGELES 

of  the  deliver)-  route  for  two  and  a  half  years,  then  was  foreman  two 
years,  and  since  that  time  has  been  manager  of  this  laundry,  one  of  the 
largest  in  Southern  California.  The  company  employs  a  hundred  seventy- 
five  people,  operates  seventeen  wagons,  takes  care  of  fifty-six  hundred 
patrons,  and  has  a  large  and  modernly  equipped  plant  in  a  building 
90x210  feet. 

H.  B.  TiTCOMB.  It  has  long  been  recognized  that  the  Southern  Paci- 
fic Railway  has  always  enlisted  in  its.  service  some  of  the  resourceful  en- 
gineers and  executives  in  the  West.  H.  B.  Titcomb  was  for  twenty-seven 
year.s  in  the  service  of  that  company  before  he  entered  upon  his  present 
work,  September  1,  1918,  as  vice  president  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway. 
He  is  now  vice  president  in  charge  of  maintenance  and  traffic,  construc- 
tion and  general  operation  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Company.  He  is  also 
vice  president  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Land  Company. 

Mr.  Titcomb  is  an  old  Californian,  though  he  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  December  10,  1871.  In  1873  his  parents  came  to 
California,  locating  on  a  farm  near  Modesto,  and  eighteen  months  later 
moving  to  Atwater,  Merced  County,  where  Mr.  Titcomb  attended  the 
public  schools,  and  lived  a  typical  farmer  boy  until  1887.  He  then 
entered  the  Indianapolis  High  School,  and  later  Cogswell  Polytechnic 
College,  at  San  Francisco,  graduating  in  1891. 

Upon  leaving  college  he  entered  upon  his  long  service  with  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company,  in  the  capacity  of  a  draftsman  at  San 
Francisco.  His  record  of  service  is  briefly  reviewed  as  follows:  Pro- 
moted to  assistant  engineer,  construction  division,  in  1898;  appointed 
roadmaster  of  the  western  division  in  1899 ;  was  successively  road- 
master  of  the  Shasta  and  Sacramento  divisions,  1900  and  1904 ;  assist- 
ant resident  engineer  from  1904  to  1905,  resident  engineer  at  Bakers- 
field  from  1905  to  1906,  and  at  Los  Angeles,  1906  to  1909;  appointed 
district  engineer  of  Los  Angeles,  serving  from  1909  to  1914;  and  main- 
tenance of  way  assistant  to  the  assistant  chief  engineer  at  San  Fran- 
cisco from  1915  to  October  15,  1917,  when  he  became  superintendent 
of  the  Stockton  Division. 

Some  facts  concerning  this  long  service  deserve  more  than  routine 
mention.  He  was  engineer  of  planning  and  consummating  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  station  in  Los  Angeles  while  division  engineer  from 
1909  to  1914.  But  his  resourcefulness  was  best  exhibited  during  the 
heavy  floods  of  the  Colorado  River  in  the  Imperial  Valley.  During  that 
time  Mr.  Titcomb  was  in  charge  of  maintenance  of  that  section  of  the 
railroad.  "The  position  he  has  come  to  occupy  in  industrial  activity 
has  been  earned  step  by  step  through  his  own  individual  eflfort,  and 
from  this  one  is  ])erforce  led  to  believe  that  he  has  a  very  thorough 
knowledge  of  every  phase  of  a  railroad  man's  life  and  appreciates  many 
of  the  rough  places  as  well  as  the  pleasant  paths  that  all  of  us  pass 
over." 

Mr.  Titcomb  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  and  Athletic  Clubs  of 
Los  Angeles.  He  owns  a  beautiful  bungalow  at  208  South  Ardmore 
street,  Los  Angeles.  He  married,  at  San  Francisco,  Mabel  Havens. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Mildred,  a  student  in  the  public  schools  of 
Los   Angeles. 

William  M.^nsfield  Buffum.  The  life  of  William  Mansfield 
Buffum  impressed  itself  conspicuously  on  the  affairs  of  the  territory  of 
Arizona  during  its  early  history,  and  was  equally  notable  as  a  builder  of 
the  modern  city  of  Los  Angeles.     He  achieved  a  position  of  wealth,  but 


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much  more  important  than  his  wealth  was  the  work  he  did  and  the  in- 
fluence he  directed  in  so  many  ways  to  insure  the  permanent  welfare  and 
substantial  character  of  this  section  of  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Buffum  was  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  May  10,  1832,  and 
his  ancestry  had  in  it  all  the  fundamental  virtues  of  the  pure  and  un- 
diluted American  stock.  He  was  a  son  of  James  R.  and  Susan  (Mans- 
field) Buflfum.  Some  of  his  ancestors  were  among  the  real  founders 
of  New  England.  They  were  especially  prominent  in  Rhode  Island, 
the  first  of  the  family  locating  there  soon  after  Roger  Williams  estab- 
lished the  first  settlement.  Several  of  J\Ir.  Buffum's  forefathers  were 
soldiers  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  His  great-grandfatlier,  Benjamin 
Bates,  was  in  1778  commissioned  a  lieutenant  by  the  Continental  Con- 
gress in  the  newly  formed  American  Navy.  He  was  one  of  the  gallant 
fighters  who  helped  to  make  glorious  the  annals  of  the  American  Navy. 
His  original  commission  is  still  one  of  the  prize  documents  and  heirlooms 
in  the  archives  of  the  Buffum  family.  On  the  maternal  side  William 
M.  Buffum  was  descended  from  the  Mansfields  of  New  Hampshire, 
who  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  that  state,  and  one  of  the  family 
later  became  governor  of  the  commonwealth. 

Until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age  Mr.  Buft'um  attended  public  schools 
in  the  historic  old  town  of  Salem.  In  1850  his  brother  George  was 
appointed  postmaster  of  Stockton,  California,  by  President  Taylor. 
George  Buffum  soon  afterward  sent  for  his  young  brother  and  the  latter 
made  the  long  voyage  to  San  Francisco  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama.  He  assisted  his  brother  in  organizing  the  Stockton  postoffice, 
and   later  they  were  fellow  prospectors  for  gold  in   Calaveras   County. 

William  M.  Buft'um  became  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  in  1859. 
M  that  time  he  represented  as  agent  one  of  the  large  concerns  of  San 
Francisco.  In  1871,  when  the  territory  of  Arizona  was  organized,  he 
went  to  Prescott,  and  with  John  G.  Campbell  established  the  partner- 
ship of  Campbell  &  Buffum,  which  became  one  of  the  largest  mercantile 
enterprises  of  the  territorj-.  In  1873  Mr.  Buff'um  moved  his  family  to 
Prescott  and  for  twelve  or  fifteen  years  was  one  of  the  leading  spirits 
in  Arizona  affairs.  His  prominence  as  a  business  man  and  his  integrity 
of  character  attracted  to  him  men  of  all  classes  and  particularly  the 
leaders  and  makers  of  pioneer  history  in  the  territory.  Among  other 
men  wnth  whom  he  was  associated  at  Prescott  were  E.  P.  Clark  and 
General  M.  H.  Sherman,  who  later  inaugurated  the  modern  transpor- 
tation systems  in  Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Buffum  served  as 
one  of  the  members  of  the  early  legislature  of  Arizona.  One  of  his 
colleagues  was  Tom  Fitch,  who  later  achieved  fame  as  an  orator.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  school  trustees  of  Prescott,  and  was  head  of  the 
board  when  General  M.  H.  Sherman  was  invited  there  to  inaugurate 
the  school  system.  In  1877  General  Fremont  appointed  Mr.  Buft'um  as 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  Prison  Commission,  and  his  presence  on 
that  commission  acted  as  a  check  to  the  loose  and  extravagant  methods 
which  threatened  to  make  the  administration  a  public  scandal.  Mr. 
Buffum  while  living  in  Arizona  was  one  of  the  first  to  become  interested 
in  the  Arizona  Verde  mines,  which  since  then  have  become  one  of  the 
most  famous  copper  properties  in  the  world. 

In  1889  Mr.  Buffum  gave  up  his  business  interests  in  Arizona  and 
returned  to  Los  Angeles.  Here  he  became  actively  associated  with  Gen- 
eral M.  H.  Sherman  and  E.  P.  Clark,  who  were  at  that  time  financing 
and  promoting  an  adequate  street  railway  system  for  Los  Angeles 
and  Pasadena.  Mr.  Buffum  became  treasurer  of  the  company  and  was 
its  active  official  for  twentv  vears. 


56  LOS  ANGELES 

From  the  first  he  had  complete  faith  in  the  future  of  Los  Angeles 
and  his  foresight  enabled  him  to  make  investments  which  have  s  nee 
become  fortunes  in  themselves.  He  owned  some  of  the  most  important 
parcels  of  local  real  estate  at  dififerent  times.  Most  of  his  investments 
were  in  the  business  district  of  Los  Angeles,  though  his  foresight  enabled 
him  to  place  these  investments  in  the  line  of  development  so  that  some 
of  them  went  outside  the  current  of  business  and  are  now  in  the  very 
heart  of  the  commercial  metropolis.  When  the  old  Temple  estate  was 
subdivided  Mr.  Buffum  was  one  of  the  largest  purchasers,  and  property 
that  he  ihen  acquired  has  since  become  almost  priceless.  He  once  owned 
the  land  where  the  Coulter  dry  goods  store  is  now  located.  He  also 
owned  the  corner  of  Franklin  and  New  High,  the  corner  of  8th  and 
Spring,  a  lot  on  12th  Street  between  Hill  and  Olive  streets.  This  last 
is  now  one  of  the  strategic  points  in  the  developing  business  center. 
At  Jefferson  and  Main  streets,  then  on  the  outskirts  of  Los  Angeles,  he 
owned  forty  acres,  and  this  has  since  become  the  most  densely  populated 
section  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Buffum  was  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  and  member  of  the  California 
Society.  His  death  occurred  June  12,  1905,  and  he  was  laid  to  rest 
by  the  Masonic  Ordsr.  At  Los  Angeles,  September  17,  1864,  he  married 
Miss  Rebecca  Evans,  formerly  of  Smithfield,  Fayette  County,  Penn- 
sylvania. Mrs.  Buffum  survives  her  husband,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
beloved  pioneers  of  California.  Two  chfldren  were  born  to  their  marriage, 
Asa  Mansfield,  now  deceased,  and  one  child  that  died  in  infancy. 

Asa  Mansfield  Buffum.  A  .worthy  life  too  early  closed  brings 
regret  and  sadness,  but  the  influence  of  such  a  life  as  that  of  the  late 
Asa  Mansfield  Buffum  abides,  and  through  it  men  are  made  more  con- 
scious of  the  value  sterling  integrity  and  fidelity  to  duty  bear  in  rounding 
out  a  successful,  useful  life. 

Asa  Mansfield  Buffum  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  California,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1865.  His  parents  were  William  Mansfield  and  Rebecca  (Evans) 
Buffum.  His  father  was  one  of  the  early  California  pioneers,  a  descend- 
ant of  a  distinguished  New  England  family,  and  his  mother  was  a  Penn- 
sylvaninn,  whose  ancestors  immigrated  to  that  colony  in  the  early  days 
of  George  III  of  England. 

Mr.  Buffum  received  his  early  education  at  Prescott,  Arizona,  then 
a  military  post  on  the  frontier,  whither  his  father  had  gone  and  established 
the  principnl  merchandising  business  in  the  territory.  The  youth's  first 
principal  and  teacher  was  General  M.  H.  Sherman,  who  later  helped  make 
history  in  .Arizona,  and  later  still  created  the  transit  system  of  Los 
Angeles,  Pasadena  and  Santa  Monica  Bay  district.  When  Mr.  Buff'um 
was  fifteen  years  old  his  parents  returned  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  con- 
tinued school  attendance  and  later  entered  the  University  of  California 
under  the  tutelage  of  ProfesFor  Bovard,  one  of  the  distinguished  efluca- 
tors  of  the  state.  The  long  journey  to  and  from,  however,  had  to  be  m-'d; 
on  foot  or  in  the  slow-moving  vehicles  of  those  days,  and  this  d'fficulty 
finally  com'^elled  Mr.  Buffum  to  give  up  his  work  in  the  university.  He 
then  matriculated  at  St.  Vincent's  College,  Los  Angeles,  then  under 
the  direction  of  the  noted  Father  McGill.  From  St.  Vincent's  he  entered 
a  select  school  for  boys  maintained  by  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Cathedral 
in  Los  Angeles.  At  this  period  in  his  life  Mr.  Buffum  decided  to  fo'low 
in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  and  seek  a  commercial  career.  To  fit 
himself  for  this  he  began  a  course  in  the  Woodbury  Business  College, 
where  he  secured  a  diploma  after  a  year  of  strenuous  study.    Soon  after 


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graduating  from  that  institution  he  took,  without  the  shghtest  prepara- 
tion, an  examination  for  the  United  States  postal  service,  and  from  a 
large  number  of  specially  prepared  candidates  he  finished  third  and  soon 
after  was  appointed  to  a  position  of  trust  at  the  general  post  office,  Los 
Angeles.  Ihis  appointment  was  the  beginning  of  a  career  that  lasted 
throughout  j\lr.  iJuffum's  life,  and  which,  as  his  passing,  won  for  him 
the  eulogies  of  government  heads  and  colleagues. 

j\lr.  Buffum  continued  in  the  general  post  office  for  some  years 
thereafter,  until  he  was  appointed  to  the  management  of  one  of  the 
branches  which  was  then  being  opened  to  take  care  of  the  business  caused 
by  the  rapidly  increasing  population  of  the  city.  Under  his  direction 
was  a  large  force  of  clerks  and  carriers.  In  assisting  in  establishing 
new  routes  and  in  perfecting  the  system  of  mail  deliver}'  Mr.  Buffum  was 
considered  one  of  the  most  able  aids  in  the  department  of  Los  Angeles. 
He  was  later  appointed  to  the  management  of  the  branch  office  on  Spring 
Street,  Los  Angeles,  which  office  was  mainly  conducted  for  the  handling 
of  large  money  order  and  registered  letter  business  that  came  from  the 
mercantile  district  of  the  city.  The  responsibilities  of  this  post  were 
probably  the  largest  in  the  city  branch  postal  service.  The  coniidence 
which  i\lr.  Buff'um's  departmental  head  imposed  in  him  was  given  sub- 
stantial expression  in  this  important  appointment.  He  remained  in  charge 
of  this  branch  for  several  years,  when  he  was  recalled  to  the  general 
post  office,  but  later  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Stahl  &  Thayer  branch, 
where'  he  remained  until  the  time  of  his  death,  building  up  the  business 
and  caring  for  the  rapidly  multiplying  duties  with  an  honesty  of  purpose 
and  regard  for  duty  that  won  him  time  and  again  the  praise  of  his 
superiors. 

j\lr.  Buffum's  tragic  death  abruptly  ended  one  of  the  most  promising 
governmental  careers  in  Southern  California,  and  is  believed  to  have 
hastened  the  death  of  his  father,  who  was  one  of  the  best  known  and 
most  beloved  pioneers  of  the  old  west.  In  October,  1904,  Mr.  Butfum 
accompanied  his  mother  on  a  trip  to  White  Sulphur  Springs  in  Ventura 
County,  California.  \Miile  there  the  abundance  of  small  game  attracted 
Mr.  Buffum,  who  was  an  ardent  sportslnan  and  fond  of  hunting,  and 
this  led  to  his  accompanying  a  number  of  companions  into  the  wilds  of 
the  neighborhood  in  search  of  pigeons.  The  accidental  discharge  of 
one  of  his  companion's  guns  emptied  the  gun's  contents  into  the  body  of 
Mr.  Buffum.  llife  lingered  six  hours  afterwards,  during  which  time  every 
possible  effort  was  made  by  hastily  summoned  physicians,  but  their  work 
was  unavailing.  He  was  but  thirty-nine  years  old  at  the  time  of  death. 
His  sterling  qualities  had  marked  him  throughout  his  younger  life  and 
during  his  early  manhood  as  one  of  the  most  promising  young  m.en  of 
Los  Angeles.  His  even  disposition  and  lofty-minded  views  on  life  and 
social  relations  had  won  the  esteem  of  a  large  host  of  friends,  who 
regrrded  him  as  a  worthy  descendant  of  a  distinguished  father.  He  was 
a  member  of  Ramona  Parlor,  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  and  not 
only  took  great  interest  in  the  rising  generation  of  Californians,  but  in 
the  welfare  of  the  superannuated  survivors  of  the  early  days  on  the 
frontier.  His  devoted  mother  yet  survives,  but  his  father  survived  him 
only  a  short  time. 

Sayre  Macneil,  a  scholarly  young  lawyer,  also  well  known  because 
of  his  associations  with  various  phises  of  the  public  welfare  in  Los 
Angeles,  is  a  son  of  one  of  the  pioneer  ranch  and  town  developers  in 
southern  California. 


58  LOS  ANGELES 

His  father,  the  late  Hugh  Livingstone  Macneil,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Wick,  Ontario,  Canada,  August  9,  1850.  He  received  a  high 
school  education  and  soon  afterward  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was 
immediately  appointed  cashier  and  auditor  of  Ingraham,  Corbin  &  May. 
In  1876,  in  Los  Angeles,  he  became  connected  with  the  Los  Angeles 
County  Bank  as  cashier.  In  1887  he  left  the  bank  and  spent  four 
years  in  association  with  his  father-in-law,  Jonathan  Sayre  Slauson, 
in  various  land  developments.  As  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Maclay 
Rancho,  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley,  he  took  an  active  part  in  develop- 
ing and  selling  the  land  of  the  Rancho."  The  town  of  San  Fernando 
stands  on  this  land.  He  acquired  a  large  acreage  where  the  towns  of 
Ontario  and  Upland  are  located,  soon  after  the  Chaffeys  had  organized 
the  Ontario  colony,  and  assisted  in  promoting  and  establishing  both 
these  now  flourishing  little  cities.  Hugh  L.  Macneil  was  also  asso- 
ciated with  J.  S.  Slauson,  James  Slauson  and  others  in  organizing  the 
Azusa  Land  and  Water  Company,  which,  in  April,  1887,  established 
the  town  of  Azusa.  Mr.  Macneil,  in  1891,  took  up  his  residence  there 
and  for  the  next  few  years  devoted  himself  to  planting  orange  and 
lemon  lands,  the  development  and  transportation  of  water  from  the 
San  Gabriel  Canon,  and  the  early  organization  of  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Fruit  Exchange.  He  died  in  Los  Angeles  October  21,  1901, 
after  achieving  a  high  place  among  southern  California  pioneers.  He 
was  the  first  president  of  the  Caledonian  Club,  one  of  the  early  pres- 
idents of  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  a  charter  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Creel  Club 
and  of  the  Sunset  Club.  He  was  for  four  years  a  state  fish  and  game 
commissioner.  He  was  a  republican  and  a  Presbyterian.  In  Los 
Angeles,  on  September  17,  1884,  he  married  Louise  Slauson.  Of  their 
two  children,  the  daughter,  Marion,  is  the  wife  of  Captain  Bertnard 
Smith  of  Los  Angeles. 

Sayre  Macneil,  who  was  born  April  1,  1886,  received  a  public 
school  education  in  Los  Angeles,  Azusa  and  Pasadena,  graduating  from 
the  high  school  in  the  latter  city  in  1903.  The  following  year  he  spent 
abroad  in  travel,  and  then,  returning  to  California,  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  from  which  he  received  his  degree  A.  B.  in  1908. 
Mr.  Macneil  took  his  law  course  in  Harvard  University  Law  School, 
where  he  was  graduated  LL.  B.  in  1911.  He  is  now  associated  with  the 
law  firm  of  O'Melveny,  Millikin  &  Tuller,  with  offices  in  the  Title  In- 
surance Building. 

December  1,  1917,  Mr.  Macneil  was  appointed  chairman  of  the 
Department  of  Conservation  of  Food  Supplies  of  the  United  States 
Food  Administration  for  California  and  in  June,  1918,  head  of  the  En- 
forcement Division  of  the  United  States  Food  Administration  for  Cali- 
fornia, and  served  in  that  connection  until  January.  1919.  Mr.  Mac- 
neil is  a  trustee  of  Harvard  Military  School  of  Los  Angeles,  is  local 
corresponding  secretary  for  the  Harvard  Law  School  Association,  and 
while  at  Harvard  was  an  assistant  editor  of  the  Harvard  Law  Reviezv 
in  his  second  year,  and  editor  in  chief  of  the  magazine  in  his  third 
year.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club.  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  and  from  May,  1915,  to  November, 
1916,  served  as  secretary  of  the  Municipal  Charities  Commission  of 
Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church. 

November  10,  1915,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Daphne  Dr;ikf. 
Their  two  children  are  Maria  Antonia  and  Hugh  Livingstone  Macneil. 


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William  James  Palethorpe.  In  liis  business  and  profession  as  cer- 
tified public  accountant  William  James  Palethorpe  has  achieved  as  a  result 
of  many  years  experience  and  widely  diversified  service  a  leading  position 
on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Mr.  Palethorpe  has  been  a  resident  of  California 
over  thirty  years,  and  since  1905  his  home  and  business  headquarters  have 
been  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  in  London,  England,  August  30,  1860.  His  father, 
John  Palethorpe,  spent  twenty  years  in  the  diplomatic  service  of  Great 
Britain  in  France,  Italy,  Spain  and  Russia.  His  mother,  Sarah  Floyd 
Palethorpe,  was  a  great-granddaughter  of  the  Earl  of  Fairfa.x,  and  was 
noted  as  an  author  and  poet. 

William  James  Palethori^e  attended  the  Auckland  School  in  Lon- 
don, and  did  his  undergraduate  work  in  King's  College  in  that  city.  On 
account  of  failing  liealth  he  left  England  in  1887  and  visited  San  I'Van- 
cisco.  In  Ejigland  he  had  come  to  be  regarded  as  an  expert  in  account- 
ing and  in  America  he  has  specialized  in  mining  practice,  his  reports 
and  audits  having  widely  accepted  authority  both  east  and  west. 

After  coming  to  San  I'rancisco  Mr.  Palethorpe  located  at  San  Ma- 
teo, and  for  many  years  taught  at  St.  Matthew's  School  there.  He  then 
resumed  the  practice  of  accounting  in  San  Francisco.  While  making 
reports  on  the  Imperial  Valley,  representing  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
road Company  and  allied  interests,  the  fire  and  earthc|uake  in  April, 
1906,  caused  him  to  change  his  residence  to  Los  Angeles.  His  account- 
ing practice  has  been  carried  on  at  Los  Angeles  since  that  year,  but  his 
clientele  is  so  broad  that  his  practice  really  extends  to  the  state  of 
Washington  and  as  far  east  as  Pittsburg. 

Mr.  Palethorjie  is  a  Republican,  is  a  member  of  the  Los  .Angeles 
Chamber  of  C(.)mmerce.  the  .\utoniobile  Club  of  Southern  California, 
and  IS  afiiliated  with  the  Flks,  the  Knights  of  Columlius,  and  is  a 
Catholic  in  religion.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Ac- 
countants. June  22,  1890,  at  San  h'rancisco,  he  married  Mary  Frances 
Dorrity,  a  daughter  of  Anthony  and  Mary  Dorrity.  She  was  born  at 
Belfast,  Ireland.  Her  father,  .Anthony  Dorrity,  was  a  marine  engineer 
and  in  1870  brought  his  family  from  Ireland  to  New  York.  After  a 
few  years  he  left  X'ew  York  for  .San  Francisco  on  the  maiden  voyage 
of  the  steamship  George  W.  Elder  around  the  Horn.  The  family  fol- 
lowed him  by  way  of  Panama.  Anthony  Dorrity  at  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1912  was  the  oldest  marine  engineer  in  age  and  service  on  the 
Pacific  Coast.  He  was  noted  for  his  ability  and  devotion  to  detail  and 
regarded  as  the  "safest"  man  in  engineering  circles.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Palethorpe  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  Harold  John,  Anthony 
IHoyd,  Ruth  Dorothy  and  Alarie  Dolores. 

George  Ira  Cochr.\n.  While  he  began  his  career  as  a  young  lawyer 
in  Los  Angeles  thirty  years  ago,  and  was  identified  v.ith  a  busy  law 
liractice  for  nearly  two  decades,  it  is  as  a  manager  and  director  of  large 
financial  and  business  corporations  that  George  Ira  Cochran  is  best 
known. 

In  him  have  been  developed  and  have  come  to  fruitage  many  fine 
traits  and  qualities  inherited  from  his  ancestry.  His  father.  Rev.  George 
Cochran,  D.  D.,  was  a  prominent  Methodist  minister  and  missionary. 
Mr.  Cochran's  mother,  Catherine  Lynch  Davidson,  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Wesleys,  founders  of  Methodism. 

George  Ira  Cochran  was  born  at  Oshawa,  Ontario.  Canada,  July  1, 
1863.    When  he  was  se\en  years  old  his  father  went  to  lapan,  and  lived 


60  ,         LOS  ANGELES 

in  the  Orient  engaged  in  missionary  and  other  church  work  for  six  years. 
While  at  Tokyo,  George  Ira  Cochran  attended  private  schools.  After 
his  father  returned  to  Toronto  he  completed  his  education  in  the  Col- 
legiate Institute  and  the  University  of  Toronto,  and  studied  law  in  Osgood 
Hall.  He  was  admitted  as  Barrister  at  Law  .shortly  after  his  graduation, 
and  in  1888  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
Sufjreme  Court  of  California  in  Februaiy  of  th;it  year.  Mr.  Cochran 
practiced  law  until  1906. 

Since  then  the  responsibilities  of  many  business  organizations  have 
claimed  practically  all  his  attention.  In  1906  he  becaine  president  of 
the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  one  of  the  oldest  and 
largest  insurance  organizations  in  the  West.  The  Pacific  Mutual  is 
today  listed  among  the  foren:ost  old  line  American  companies,  and  its 
business  has  been  extended  practically  across  the  continent.  Mr.  Cochran 
has  supervised  and  directed  the  investment  of  millions  of  dollars  of  this 
company's  assets,  and  to  a  large  degree  has  been  responsible  for  the 
enviable  record  the  company  has  made. 

Many  other  organizations  claim  soine  share  of  his  ability  and  time. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company,  Los 
Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  Rosedale  Cemetery  Association,  Home 
Fire  and  Marine  Company  and  Anglo  California  Trust  Company  of  San 
Francisco,  Citizens  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  Seaside  Water  Company, 
Long  Beach  Bath  House  and  Amus  ment  Company,  California  Delta 
Farms  (Incorporated),  and  many  others.  Mr.  Cochran  is  a  regent  of 
the  University  of  California  Jtnd  a  trustee  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Aug  les  City  Charter 
Commission  of  1893.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Republican 
County  Central  Committee,  as  a  trustee  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  and  is  a  member  of  the  California,  Jonathan,  University, 
Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Midv/ick  Countr}',  Los  Angeles  Country  and  Union 
League  Clubs,  and  the  Pacific  Union  and  Bohemian  Clubs  of  San  Fran- 
cisco.    He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church. 

August  6,  1890,  Mr.  Cochran  married  Miss  Alice  Maud  McClung  of 
Canada.  April  7,  1907,  he  married  for  his  second  wife  her  sister,  Isa- 
bella May  McClung. 

G.ML  Borden  Johnson.  In  these  modern  days  whene  there  are,  un- 
fortunately, so  many  individuals  who  prove  unworthy  to  the  trust  re- 
posed in  them,  it  is  gratifying  to  review  the  career  of  one  who  always 
kept  his  life  free  from  contaminating  influences,  no  matter  what  his  sur- 
roundings, and  was  fearless  in  his  support  of  what  he  d  emed  was  right. 
Unfortunately  for  his  community,  the  late  Gail  Borden  Johnson,  of  Los 
Angeles,  was  never  called  to  high  office  in  the  public  service.  Had  he 
been  given  the  opportunity  to  bring  to  bear  upon  the  administration  of 
civic  affairs  his  keen  conviction  of  justice  and  high  moral  sense,  those 
coming  under  his  influence  would  have  benefited  and  politics  would  h  've 
been  purified.  However,  the  life  of  such  a  man  is  never  lived  in  vain. 
Although  his  sphere  was  largely  confined  to  the  field  of  life  insurance,  he 
did  his  full  duty  and  gave  his  world  a  saner,  clean:r  viewpoint. 

Gail  Borden  Johnson  was  born  near  Richmond,  Texas,  the  eldest 
of  six  children,  November  11,  1859.  He  is  survived  by  his  aged  father, 
the  other  children,  his  widow  and  three  dau-'hters.  In  young  manhood 
he  removed  to  Houston,  Texas,  where  in  1878  he  became  the  founder 
of  the  Houston  Post,  and  published  that  paper  for  several  years.  Sub- 
sequently he  removed  to  Elgin,   Illinois,  where  he  became  secretary  of 


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the  Illinois  Condensing  Company,  now  known  as  the  Borden  Condensed 
Milk  Lonipany.  Gail  Uordcn,  who  invented  the  process  of  condensing 
milk  and  was  the  founder  of  the  company  which  has  made  this  product 
known  the  world  over,  was  his  maternal  grandfather  and  gave  him  his 
name.  'Air.  Johnson  first  came  to  California  in  1S88,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  was  engaged  very  successfully  in  the  real  estite  and  building 
business  at  Los  Angeles.  In  1900  he  became  vice-president  of  the  Ger- 
man American  Savings  Bank,  now  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank, 
which  position  he  resigned  when  he  became  vice-president  and  treasurer 
of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in  1906. 

During  the  last  twelve  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Johnson  labored  most 
assiduously  and  with  great  ability  in  and  for  his  company.  He  was 
wrapped  up  in  its  work  and  look  the  greatest  pleasure  therein.  When 
President  George  I.  Cochran  took  in  hand  the  consolidation  of  the  Con- 
servative Life  Insurance  Company  and  the  Pacific  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany and  the  reorganization  of  the  enlarged  company  in  1906,  Mr. 
Johnson  was  closely  associated  with  him.  Together  they  assumed  the 
responsibility  involved,  and  made  and  put  through  all  the  necessary  plans 
for  the  successful  consummation  of  the  undertaking.  Neither  one  aspired 
to  the  presidency,  and  while  only  one  could  be  president  of  the  company, 
in  a  very  real  sense  the  Pacific  Mutual  had  two  heads.  The  perfect 
harmony  in  which  these  two  leaders  worked  together  was  of  the  greatest 
benefit  to  the  institution,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  a  parallel  can  be  found 
in  the  history  of  life  insurance  where  two  men  of  such  decided  individu- 
ality, strong  convictions  and  marked  ability  have  together  headed  a 
corporation  and  worked  in  such  perfect  concord. 

The  one  department  to  which  Mr.  Johnson  gave  special  attention 
was  the  agency  department.  While  he  never  assumed  the  title,  he  was 
superintendent  of  agencies,  and  in  this  office  came  into  direct  contact 
with  the  men  in  the  field.  How  well  he  discharged  the  duties  of  his 
office  the  field  men  welj  know.  He  had  a  keen  sense  of  justice,  and 
when  he  felt  that  he  was  in  the  rio-ht  exemplified  the  courage  of  his 
own  convictions  by  refusing  to  be  dislodged  from  any  position  which  he 
took.  As  a  good  executive  he  never  lost  sight  of  the  interests  of  the 
company,  yet  also  he  never  forgot  the  best  interests  of  the  agents  and 
was  always  thinking  and  planning  for  their  good.  He  injected  such  a 
wholesome  spirit  into  all  that  he  did  that  business  deliberations  between 
man  and  man  seemed  rather  the  kindly  dealings  between  friend  and 
friend.  This  was  always  evidenced  at  the  Home  Ofifice,  where  he  kept 
in  close  touch  with  much  of  the  detail  of  the  life  business,  as  effecting 
the  agents  and  agency  matters.  He  was  continually  sought  in  consul- 
tation and  his  careful  attention  was  given  to  matters  of  seemingly  trifling 
importance  as  readily  as  to  those  of  the  gravest  concern.  His  office  was 
always  open  to  anyone  who  sought  his  advice  and  his  cordial  greeting 
and  kindly  manner  made  all  feel  at  home  in  his  presence.  In  all  his 
bearing  he  was  more  an  intimate  friend,  a  big-hearted  brother,  than  a 
head  executive  of  the  company. 

Mr.  Johnson's  years  of  successful  experience  in  the  real  estate  and 
banking  business  gave  him  a  peculiar  fitness  for  assisting  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  financial  interests  and  investments  of  the  company,  to  which 
he  gave  a  good  deal  of  attention.  He  was  a  wise  and  safe  counselor 
and  his  judgment  was  valued  highly  by  the  other  executives  of  the  com- 
pany. He  made  the  appraisements  and  placed  the  company's  loans  in 
certain  sections,  particularly  in  his  native  state  of  Texas.    As  an  evidence 


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of  his  ability  and  good  judgment  in  that  connection,  of  the  several 
millions  of  dollars  invested  by  him  in  Texas  not  a  single  loan  gave  the 
company  any  trouble. 

While  primarily  and  distinctively  a  business  man.  Air.  Johnson  had 
literary  gifts  of  no  mean  character,  his  work  in  this  connection  being 
principally  done  in  adding  to  the  literature  of  the  company  wfith  which 
he  was  identified.  An  indication  of  his  gifts  in  this  direction  may  be 
presented  as  an  example:  "Building  the  Pacific  Mutual.  Out  of  a  vision 
of  usefulness  came  the  Pacific  Mutual  fifty  years  ago.  High  ideals 
caused  those  great  men  to  lay  the  foundation  deep  and  strong — befitting 
the  superstructure  which  was  to  stand  for  all  time, — a  tower  of  strength, — 
protecting  fortress  for  coming  generations.  A  building,  even  the  most 
stately  cathedral,  can  be  completely  finished,  every  arch  and  column 
architecturally  perfect,  but  ours  is  a  building  that  is  never  finished, — a 
building  not  made  with  hands.  Each  successive  management  must  add 
its  stone — a  stone  cut  from  the  cjuarry  of  service  and  polisher!  with 
aspiration  toward  perfection.  Twelve  years  ago  the  present  management 
was  called  to  that  quarry  and  at  once  determined  to  serve  its  generation 
well  and  faithfully.  Our  ambition  is  that  others  who  come  after  us, 
when  they  look  at  the  stone  we  leave,  may  find  that  it  squares  with :  A 
profound  sense  of  responsibility,  reaching  not  only  to  policy  holders,  but 
to  agents,  employes  and  the  public ;  an  effort  to  give  the  greatest  amount 
of  protection  for  the  least  amount  of  money ;  only  a  few  rules,  with  in- 
sistence upon  those  few,  including  the  one  called  Golden;  honesty, 
courtesy,  efficiency,  with  a  sincere  desire  to  serve ;  hearty  approval  of 
state  supervision ;  loyalty  to  our  country  and  its  laws." 

The  following  Resolutions,  adopted  by  Air.  Johnson  and  exemplified 
by  him  in  his  everyday  life,  strike  one  of  the  strong  notes  of  his  character : 
"This  day  shall  be  my  best  if  honest  effort  will  make  it  so.  I  expect  to 
meet  disappointment,  annoyances  and  possibly  rebuffs,  but  I  shall  try 
to  look  upon  all  hindrances  as  a  part  of  the  day's  work,  put  there  to  be 
overcome.  I  expect  also  to  meet  success,  because  I  am  out  after  it.  I 
shall  be  cheerful,  earnest  and  persevering,  honestly  representing  Pacific 
Mutual  policies  to  men  who -need  them.  Whatever  may  be  the  result 
of  this  day's  work  I  shall  seek  my  bed  at  night  with  the  consciousness 
that  not  one  hour  was  wasted  and  that  I  did  the  best  I  could." 

Mr.  Johnson's  work  was  of  a  nature  that  kept  him  busily  engaged, 
yet  he  always  found  time  to  assist  in  outside  interests.  He  was  for 
more  than  twenty  years  a  trustee  of  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, an  advisory  director  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
of  Los  Angeles  from  its  organization,  a  trustee  of  the  McKinley  Boy's 
Home,  a  director  in  several  banks,  a  member  of  the  Capital  Issues  Com- 
mittee of  the  Twelfth  Federal  District,  and  actively  connected  with  various 
other  organizations  and  interests.  While  always  willing  to  do  his  full 
share  in  every  worthy  form  of  work  where  he  could  assist,  he  never 
sought  office  and  was  too  modest  to  aspire  to  numerous  other  high 
offices  easily  within  his  reach.  He  was  a  great  lover  of  his  home  and 
the  family  circle,  and  was  not  a  clubman  in  the  sense  that  some  men  are, 
yet  he  enjoyed  the  companionship  of  his  fellows  and  held  membership 
in  several  leading  clubs,  including  the  California  Club,  Midwick  Country 
Club  and  the  Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club,  which  are  located  at  or  near  Los 
Angeles,  and  the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  church,  in  which  he  did  much  work  during  his  life 
and  to  which  he  gave  his  liberal  support.    His  benefactions  were  numerous 


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and  totaled  a  large  sum,  but  were  always  given  without  ostentation  and 
were  usually  known  only  to  himself  and  the  recipient. 

In  September,  1918,  Mr.  Johnson  went  to  New  York  City  to  attend 
the  annual  convention  of  the  National  Association  of  Life  Underwriters, 
apparently  in  the  best  of  health.  He  was  in  excellent  spirits  and  en- 
thusiastic in  his  numerous  plans  for  the  agency  work  of  the  company, 
and  looked  forward  with  much  pleasure  to  his  trip  and  to  the  opportunity 
to  associate  again  for  a  few  days  with  many  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  agents, 
who  were  always  close  to  his  heart.  The  day  following  the  close  of 
the  convention,  September  7,  1918,  while  returning  to  his  hotel  from 
breakfast,  he  was  seized  with  an  attack  of  heart  trouble  and  expired 
in  about  ten  minutes  without  regaining  consciousness.  The  remains 
were  brought  back  to  Los  Angeles  by  his  friends,  and  funeral  services 
were  held  at  the  home,  September  12,  interment  being  made  at  San 
Gabriel  Cemetery,  among  the  orange  groves  and  not  far  from  Alhambra, 
where  Mr.  Johnson  once  resided.  On  the  day  of  the  funeral  the  follow- 
ing tribute  was  paid  to  Air.  Johnson  in  an  editorial  which  appeared  in 
the  Los  Angeles  Daily  Times: 

" 'The  time   demands   strong  minds,   great   hearts,   true 

faith  and  willing  hands.'  Uf  these  was  Gail  B.  Johnson,  who  is  borne 
to  his  last  resting  place  today ;  and  it  is  difficult  for  those  who  knew  him 
best  to  understand  why  he  was  taken.  God's  over  all;  and  we  must 
have  faith — and  we  do — but  we  shall  miss  Gail  B.  Johnson.  We  shall 
iniss  him  in  the  work  the  time  demands — miss  the  strong,  great-hearted, 
willing,  kindly  man  of  the  hour,  whose  joy  it  was  to  be  of  service  to  his 
fellows.  He  was  one  of  the  makers  of  Los  Angeles  and  one  of  the  type 
of  men  the  nation  relies  on  today  in  its  period  of  stress.  He  was  honored 
in  life  and  long  will  his  memory  be  an  inspiration  to  his  associates  and 
friends.  The  good  he  has  done  will  surely  live  after  him — that  is  the 
message  the  last  rites  over  his  mortal  remains  will  convey  to  those 
who  pause  to  think  of  him  and  his  busy  life  today." 

William  Francis  Ireland.  To  call  William  Francis  Ireland  a  ver- 
satile man  is  hardly  to  do  justice  to  the  earnest  and  efficient  service  he  has 
rendered  in  many  forms  of  social,  religious  and  community  work  and 
various  business  organizations.  Mr.  Ireland  is  an  ordained  minister  of 
the  Gospel,  one  time  on  the  stage,  is  well  versed  in  the  law,  though  he  has 
never  been  formally  admitted  to  practice  in  California,  and  has  a  consum- 
mate ability  as  an  organizer  and  in  handling  the  complicated  interests  of 
business  men  acting  in  groups  and  in  association  movements. 

Mr.  Ireland  was  born  at  Chatham  in  extreme  eastern  Massachu- 
setts, on  the  Cape,  August  9,  1876.  He  is  a  son  of  Nathan  B.  and  Rhoda 
Ella  (Rogers)  Ireland.  Both  parents  were  born  on  the  Massachusetts 
Cape.  His  mother  traced  her  ancestry  directly  to  Thomas  and  Joseph 
Rogers,  who  came  over  on  the  Mayflower.  The  Ireland  tamily  came 
to  the  United  States  from  Scotland,  first  landing  at  Egg  Harbor  in 
New  Jersey.  William  F.  Ireland  has  the  relationship  of  third  cousin 
to  the  late  Bishop  Ireland  qf  St.  Paul.  His  grandfather,  John  Ireland, 
was  born  ,at  Egg  Harbor.  Nathan  B.  Ireland  was  born  at  East  Har- 
wick,  Massachusetts,  while  his  wife  was  born  at  South  Orleans  in  the 
same  vicinity,  and  they  were  married  there  and  Mrs.  Nathan  Ireland 
still  lives  at  South  Orleans.  Nathan  Ireland  spent  most  of  his  life  in 
the  real  estate  business,  and  his  business  career  required  his  residence 
at  different  intervals  at  Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia  and  Chicago, 
and  he  died  while  on  a  business  trip  to  Milwaukee.     As  a  boy  he  learned 


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the  life  of  the  sea  under  his  father,  who  was  captain  and  owner  of  sev- 
eral fishing  schooners.  The  boy  himself  commanded  a  fishing  schooner 
for  his  father.  Nathan  Ireland  was  a  very  active  man  in  the  repub- 
lican party  m  the  different  cities  where  he  lived,  but  never  aipired  for 
public  office.  He  and  his  wife  had  three  children,  William  F.  being  the 
second.  The  older  daughter,  Mrs.  Harold  Scott,  lives  with  her  mother, 
and  the  younger  daughter  is  Mrs.  Harry  Palmer  of  Valley  Stream, 
Long  Island. 

William  F.  Ireland  was  educated  in  Massachusetts  and  also  at- 
tended public  school  in  Philadelphia.  After  school  he  went  on  the  stage 
as  a  vaudeville  actor,  also  took  some  part  in  drama,  and  at  one  time  had 
a  minor  role  with  Henry  Irving.  For  three  and  a  half  years  ne  gave  all 
his  time  to  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  New  York  Medical  School,  but 
before  completing  his  course  and  beginning  practice  became  diverted 
into  religious  lines,  and  in  October,  1899,  was  ordained  a  minister  of 
the  Baptist  church  in  New  York  City.  His  special  forte  was  evange- 
listic work,  and  as  the  "actor  evangelist"  became  known  all  over  the 
country.  Mr.  Ireland  located  at  Los  Angeles  in  January,  1905,  and 
continued  his  religious  work  for  several  years.  For  about  three  years 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Union  Church  at  La  Canada  in  Los  Angeles 
county,  holding  regular  services  there  each  Sunday  for  a  year,  and  also 
building  a  parsonage  and  establishing  the  church  in  a  sound  financial 
condition.  He  also  took  the  lead  in  the  movement  which  brought  about 
the  building  of  the  Highland  Park  Baptist  Church.  As  a  speaker  on 
religious  and  secular  themes  Mr.  Ireland  has  been  heard  all  over  south- 
ern California.  At  the  request  of'  Bishop  Mclntire  and  the  pastors  of 
other  denominations  and  California  business  men  he  took  upon  himself 
the  responsibility  of  organizing  what  was  known  as  the  Sunday  Rest 
League.  This  brought  Mr.  Ireland  into  a  new  profession  when  they 
secured  his  services  for  legal  and  collection  work.  Since  the  close  of 
1915  he  has  been  secretary  of  the  Los  Angeles  Cafe  and  Restaurant 
Men's  Protective  ssociation.  When  the  food  administration  came 
about  as  a  result  of  the  war,  Mr.  Ireland  and  Vernon  Goodwin  of  the 
Alexandria  Hotel  were  appointed  local  food  administrators  over  the 
hotels  and  restaurants  of  southern  California,  the  state  administrator, 
Ralph  Merritt,  leaving  practically  all  the  responsibilities  in  the  hinds  of 
Mr.  Ireland.  Some  change  of  duties  were  subsequently  made,  but  Mr. 
Ireland  continued  during  the  war  as  direct  representative  of  the  Food 
Administration  over  the  hotels  and  restaurants. 

Mr.  Ireland  is  secretary-chairman  of  the  Southern  California 
Wholesale  and  Retail  Bakers'  Association,  whose  jurisdiction  covers  ten 
southern  California  counties.  In  July,  1918,  Mr.  Ireland  called  a  con- 
vention of  retail  bakers  in  Chicago  and  was  elected  second  vice  president 
of  the  Retail  Bakers'  Association  of  America,  representing  the  interests 
of  these  business  men  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  He  is  also  an 
advisor  on  nearly  all  the  committees  of  this  organization.  He  is  now 
secretary  of  the  Restaurant  Men's  Association  of  Los  Angeles,  is  ad- 
visory chairman  of  the  Restaurant  Men's'  Association  of  San  Diego, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and  Kern  counties,  and  acts  in  an  advisory  capacity 
for  the  organization  of  similar  associations  in  other  counties  of  south- 
ern California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Conference  Committee  of  the 
Bakers'  Industry  and  is  district  secretary  of  both  the  S^n  DieL'o  and 
Los  Angeles  divisions  of  the  California  section  of  the  National  Bakers' 
Service  Committee.  In  addition  to  all  these  duties  he  writes  for  three 
bakers'  papers  and  three  restaurant  publications. 


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Mr.  Ireland  was  appointed  chaplain  of  a  regiment  organized  for 
service  in  the  Spanish-American  war,  but  the  command  was  never  called 
into  active  service.  In  1918  he  was  candidate  for  city  councilman  at 
large  in  Los  Angeles.  In  politics  he  is  strictly  independent.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Union  League,  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  has  the  honor  of  being  the  first  Police  Court  public  defender 
in  the  United  States.  For  four  years  by  appointment  he  served  as  city- 
public  defender  without  pay,  at  the  end  of  which  time  the  City  Council 
created  the  office  of  City  Police  Court  Defender. 

June  6,  1901,  at  Bridgetown,  New  York,  Mr.  Ireland  married  Jean 
W.  Campbell,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  Bridgetown.  They  have 
two  children:  William  Francis,  Jr.,  born  July  23,  1903,  at  Bridgetown, 
and  Helen  B..  who  was  born  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  Mr.  Ireland  and 
family  reside  at  4030  Dalton  avenue. 

Erwin  Wilson  Widney,  city  prosecutor  of  Los  Angeles,  has  enjoyed 
uuich  prominence  in  the  bar  and  in  politics  during  his  comparatively 
brief  career. 

Mr.  \Vidney  was  born  in  Los  Angeles,  at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and 
Olive  streets,  December  31,  1888.  His  father,  William  W.  Widney, 
and  his  mother,  Elizabeth  Serrot,  were  both  pioneers  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia. His  father  was  born  in  Pickaway,  Ohio,  and  his  mother  in 
Springfield,  Illinois.  It  was  in  1861,  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war, 
that  the  Serrot  family  and  William  W.  Widney  came  to  California.  The 
Serrots  made  their  first  efforts  to  cross  the  plains  in  a  prairie  schooner. 
On  account  of  the  hostility  of  Indians  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil 
war  they  turned  back  and  finally  reached  California  by  the  Panama 
route.  On  the  same  boat  which  brought  the  Serrot  family  William  W. 
Widney  was  a  passenger,  but  he  did  not  make  the  acquaintance  of  the 
daughter  Elizabeth  at  that  time.  During  the  voyage  to  California  the 
boat  was  chased  by  a  Confederate  cruiser.  William  W.  Widney  was 
about  seventeen  years  old  when  he  came  to  California,  where  he  joined 
his  brother.  Dr.  ].  P.  Widney,  who  had  previously  established  himself 
in  practice  at  Santa  Qara.  Soon  afterward  he  was  stricken  with  ty- 
phoid fever  at  the  old  Bella  Union  Hotel,  and  it  was  during  that  critical 
(jeriod  in  his  life  that  he  met  Elizabeth  Serrot.  W.  W.  Widney  and 
wife  are  still  living  in  Los  Angeles.  They  were  the  parents  of  five 
children:  Mrs.  Paul  Pauly,  of  Los  Angeles:  Mrs.  Sidney  N.  Reeve, 
wife  of  Judge  Sidney  N.  Reeve  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Los  Angeles'; 
Mrs.  Shirley  E.  Brewer,  of  Chicago;  Erwin  W. ;  and  Joseph  P.,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  seventeen. 

Erwin  W.  Widney  attended  the  public  schools,  being  in  the  old 
30th  School  when  Bettinger  was  principal.  He  graduated  from  the  Los 
Angeles  High  School  with  the  class  of  1908  and  took  his  law  course 
in  the  University  of  southern  California.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Cali- 
fornia bar  September  27.  1911.  By  appointment  from  Judge  Sidney 
N.  Reeve  he  served  as  clerk  of  the  Justice  Court  two  years  and  then 
took  up  active  private  practice  with  Spencer  Thorpe,  under  the  name 
of  Thorpe  &  Widney,  for  two  years.  Warren  Williams  then  appointed 
him  deputy  city  prosecutor  and  later  made  him  assistant  city  prosecu- 
tor. May  22,- 1917,  Mr.  W^idney  became  city  prosecutor  under  appoint- 
ment from  Mayor  Woodman. 

Mr.  Widney  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  influential  members  of 
the  Republican  party  in  Los  Angeles.  He  is  affiliated  with  Arlington 
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legal  fraternity,  and  Ramona  Parlor,  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West. 
He  and  his  family  reside  at  963  Menlo  avenue.  November  12,  1912,  he 
married  Miss  Marjorie  E.  Utley,  of  Los  Angeles,  daughter  of  Dr.  J.  H. 
Utley,  who  was  one  of  the  pioneer  physicians  of  the  city.  Mrs.  Widney 
is  a  native  daughter,  born  and  educated  in  Los  Angeles,  being  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Marlboro  School  for  Girls.  They  have  one  son,  William 
Hathaway,  named  for  his  two  grandfathers.  He  was  born  April 
18,  1914. 

Captain  Spencer  Roane  Thorpe.  Southern  California  was  the 
home  during  the  last  twenty  odd  years  of  his  life  of  one  of  the  true  sons 
of  the  south,  a  gallant  Confederate  soldier  and  officer,  who  exemplified 
all  the  fine  qualities  of  the  real  southern  gentleman  in  the  person  of  the 
late  Captain  Spencer  Roane  Thorpe.  For  a  number  of  years  he  lived  in 
Los  Angeles,  but  had  interests  outside  the  city,  particularly  in  the  fruit 
growing  district  of  Ventura  county. 

He  was  born  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  January  20,  1842.  He  was 
the  great-great-grandson  of  Patrick  Henry,  of  Hanover  county,  Virginia, 
who  served  as  captain  of  the  first  company  organized  for  service  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  Captain  Thorpe  acquired  his  education  in  St. 
Joseph's  College  at  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen, 
at  the  very  outset  of  the  war  between  the  states,  he  volunteered  his 
services  to  the  Confederate  government.  He  enlisted  at  Corinth,  Miss- 
issippi, in  April,  1861,  in  the  16th  Mississippi  Infantry.  He  was  wounded 
in  the  battle  of  Drainsville,,  Virginia,  December  20,  1861.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  service  he  re-enlisted  in  a  company  of  the  Second 
Kentucky  Cavalry,  of  which  General  John  H.  Morgan  was  colonel  and 
Basil  VV.  Duke,  lieutenant-colonel.  He  held  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant 
in  Morgan's  forces  in  the  raid  through  Lidiana.  He  was  seriously 
wounded  at  Corydon  July  9,  1863,  was  left  on  the  field  for  dead  and  as 
a  prisoner  of  war  was  exchanged  at  Johnson's  Island  in  October,  1864. 
He  then  returned  to  his  regiment,  under  the  command  of  General  Duke, 
and  was  a  captain  when  his  command  surrendered  at  Woodstock, 
Georgia,  May  10,  1865.  Of  his  service  General  Duke  says :  "As  the  com- 
mander of  that  regiment  for  nearly  two  years  and  subsequently  of  the 
brigade  of  which  it  was  a  part,  and  having  an  intimate  personal  acquaint- 
ance with  Captain  Thorpe  from  the  time  he  joined  it,  I  can  testify  to 
the  character  of  his  service  therewith.  He  took  part  in  almost  every 
important  raid  and  expedition,  and  in  nearly  every  battle  in  which  the 
regiment  was  engaged.  He  served  with  conspicuous  gallantry  and  intelli- 
gence and  was  twice  wounded.  He  was  promoted  to  lieutenant  of  his 
comp-iny  and  upon  the  promotion  of  Captain  Messick  near  the  close  of 
the  war  he  became  virtually  captain  of  the  company  and  was  in  command 
of  it." 

After  the  war  Captain  Thorpe  located  at  Marksville,  Louisiana,  where 
he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867.  He  quickly  acquired 
a  professional  practice  consistent  with  his  unusual  attainments  and  ability. 
He  also  served  a  term  as  district  attorney  for  the  Seventh  Judicial  Dis- 
trict. He  w?s  in  the  active  practice  of  law  at  Louisiana  until  18S3.  He 
was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Louisiana  State  University. 

In  1877  Captain  Thorpe  had  become  fascinated  with  the  possibilities 
of  investment  and  development  of  southern  California,  and  after  closing 
up  his  .-^ff^irs  in  Louisiana  returned  to  the  state  to  make  it  his  permanent 
home  in  1883.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  California  but  never 
engaged  in  practice,  giving  his  time  to  his  investments  and  fruit  culture 


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For  several  years  he  lived  on  one  of  his  properties  near  Ventura,  and  in 
1889  established  a  home  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  a  resident  of  Los 
Angeles  the  rest  of  his  life,  though  he  died  in  Ventura  county  September 
1,  1905. 

Captain  Thorpe  never  aspired  to  any  public  ofifice  during  his  resi- 
dence in  California.  However,  he  served  as  brigadier  general  of  the 
Pacific  Division  of  the  United  Confederate  Veterans  for  three  terms 
and  was  one  of  the  best  loved  members  of  the  Sam  Davis  Camp  of 
that  order  from  the  date  of  its  organization  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars. 

Captain  Thorpe  married  Helena  Barbin,  at  Marksville,  Louisiana, 
January  20,  1868.  She  survives  him,  with  home  at  971  Menlo  avenue, 
Los  Angeles,  and  all  of  their  children  are  still  living:  Mrs.  Edwin  J. 
Riche  and  Mrs.  Harry  L.  Dunnigan,  and  Andrew  Roane,  Spencer  G.  and 
Carlyle  Thorpe. 

Robert  M.  Clarke.  A  former  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  Robert 
M.  Clarke  has  had  a  busy  professional  and  public  career  since  early  man- 
hood. 

A  native  of  California,  he  was  born  near  Santa  Paula  in  Ventura 
county  March  5,  1879.  His  father,  Robert  M.  Clarke,  Sr.,  was  born  at 
Cape  Cod,  Massachusetts,  in  1825,  and  came  to  California  around  the 
Horn  to  San  Francisco  in  1850,  thence  going  to  Suisun,  where  he  was 
a  miner  and  lumberman.  In  1876  he  moved  into  Ventura  county  and 
engaged  in  sheep  raising  and  bee  culture  until  his  death  in  1883.  He 
married  in  1871  Cynthia  A.  Corey.  Their  children  were:  Mrs.  Clar- 
ence Beckley,  of  Santa  Paula ;  Mrs.  J.  R.  Cauch,  of  Santa  Paula ;  and 
Robert  M.  Clarke. 

The  son  attended  grammar  and  high  school  at  Santa  Paula,  gradu- 
ating from!  the  latter  in  1897,  and  studied  law  in  private  offices  there 
until  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1900.  The  same  year  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  was  the  youngest  member  in  the  fol- 
lowing session.  He  began  practice  at  Santa  Paula  and  was  its  first  city 
attorney.  He  moved  from  there  to  Ventura,  and  in  1908,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine,  was  elected  judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  Judge  Clarke 
gave  every  satisfaction  as  a  jurist,  but  in  1914  declined  re-election  and 
returned  to  private  practice,  with  offices  in  Los  Angeles.  As  a  judge 
he  had  an  exceptional  record  for  cases  affirmed  on  appeal,  and  since  his 
retirement  from  the  bench  he  has  actively  participated  in  much  im- 
portant litigation.  He  is  a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States. 

He  is  a  Mason  and  is  past  grand  trustee  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the 
Golden  West.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  the  Union  League  Club  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
At  Carpinteria  in  Santa  Barbara  county  December  27,  1900,  he  married 
Edna  Thurmond.  They  have  four  children :  Thurmond,  aged  sixteen, 
a  student  in  the  Los  Angeles  High  School ;  Robert  and  Rosamond, 
twins,  born  in  1908,  both  students  in  the  public  schools ;  and  Sue,  born 
in  1913. 

A.  C.  Balch  has  been  an  electrical  engineer  for  thirty  years,  a  pe- 
riod almost  covering  the  history  of  modern  electrical  development.  For 
over  twenty  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles,  and  has  fur- 
nished  both   technical    and    administrative    services   in    the   organization 


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and  development  of  some  of  the  best  known  utility  corporations  in  this 
part  of  the  state. 

Allan  Christopher  Balch  was  bom  at  Valley  Falls,  New  York, 
March  13,  1864,  a  son  of  Ebenezer  Atwood  and  Hannah  (Hoag)  Balch. 
His  early  education  was  supplied  by  the  Valley  Falls  schools  until  he 
was  ten,  after  which  he  attended  school  at  Cambridge,  New  York,  and 
from  there  entered  Cornell  University.  He  graduated  with  the  degree 
Mechanical  Engineer  in  electrical  engineering  in  1889.  Mr.  Balch  at 
once  transferred  his  field  of  effort  to  the  northwest.  At  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, he  was  engaged  in  general  engineering  practice  and  was  general 
manager  for  the  Union  Electric  Company  until  1891.  From  1891  to 
1896  he  was  general  manager  and  then  lessee  of  the  Union  Power  Com- 
pany of  Portland,  Oregon. 

Coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1890,  Air.  IJalch  in  1897  joined  Mr.  W. 
G.  Kerckhotf  in  the  organization  of  the  San  Gabriel  Electric  Company. 
Mr.  Balch  occupied  the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  San  Gabriel 
Electric  Company  and  of  the  Pacific  Light  &  Power  Company.  He  had 
the  distinction  of  installing  the  first  long-distance  electric  power  line  in 
Los  Angeles.  Other  achievements  to  his  credit  were  putting  in  ihe  Big 
Creek  Power  Plant  at  Fresno,  the  Kern  River  plant,  Redondo  steam 
plant  and  a  number  of  others.  He  was  instrumental  in  developing 
electric  power  for  pumping  for  irrigation,  and  for  drilling  and  pumping 
oil  wells. 

In  1902  Mr.  Balch,  with  William  G.  Kerckhofif,  Kaspare  Cohn  and 
A.  Haas,  acquired  the  San  Joaquin  Electric  Plant  at  Fresno  and  or- 
ganized the  San  Joaquin  Power  Company,  which  company  was  reorgan- 
ized in  1905  under  the  name  of  the  San  Joaquin  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany and  again  in  1910  reorganized  under  the  name  of  the  San  Joaquin 
Light  &  Power  Corporation. 

Mr.  Balch,  with  the  same  associates,  in  1909  organized  the  Coalinga 
Water  &  Electric  Company,  which  was  changed  later  to  the  Midland 
Counties   Public  Service  Corporation. 

With  his  associates,  after  withdrawing  from  the  Pacific  Light  & 
Power  Corporation  in  1913,  Mr.  Balch  took  over  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Gas  Company,  and  with  his  associates  installed  the  Midway  Gas 
Company,   owning  a   controlling  interest   in   the   same. 

Mr.  Balch  is  president  of  the  Midland  Counties  Public  Service  Cor- 
poration, Lerdo  Land  Company,  Fresno  City  Water  Company,  Bakers- 
field  &  Kern  Electric  Railway  Company,  Kearney  Boulevard  Heights 
Company,  Power  Transit  &  Light  Company  and  San  Joaquin  Holding 
Company,  and  vice  president  of  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company, 
Midway  Gas  Company,  San  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Corporation  and 
Summit  Lake  Investment  Company. 

He  is  an  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rile  and 
Knights  Templar  Mason,  a  Shriner,  a  Republican  and  a  member  of 
the  California,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Los  Angeles  Country,  Midwick 
Country  and  Crags  Country  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Sequoia  Club  of 
Fresno,  the  Pacific  LTnion  and  Bohemian  Clubs  of  San  Francisco,  is  a 
director  of  the  Southern  California  Auto  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sleepy  Hollow  Country  Club  of  New  York.  April  29,  1891, 
Mr.  Balch  married  Miss  Janet  Jacks,  daughter  of  David  Jacks  of  Mon- 
terey, California. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  69 

William  A.  Paris  is  one  of  the  men  who  has  earned  a  conspicuous 
success  in  mercantile  affairs  at  Los  Angeles.  He  had  made  hnr.self  a 
trusted  and  efficient  assistant  to  several  other  local  merchants  before  he 
started  upon  his  independent  career,  and  in  the  past  fourteen  years  has 
developed  the  Faris-Walker  Company  into  one  of  the  greatest  mer- 
cantile firms  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mr.  Paris  was  born  at  Darien,  Connecticut,  November  1,  1872,  son 
of  Alexander  C.  and  Annie  J.  Paris.  His  father,  a  native  of  the  north 
of  Ireland,  caine  at  an  early  age  to  the  United  States,  locating  at  Darien, 
Connecticut,  where  he  was  in  the  grocery  and  dry  goods  business  until 
his  death.  After  his  decease  his  widow  managed  the  store  and  business 
until  1903,  when  she  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  make  her  home  with  her  son. 

William  A.  Paris  graduated  from  high  school  at  the  age  of  sixteen, 
and  the  following  five  years  he  was  employed  in  the  accounting  depart- 
ment and  cost  department  of  the  Yale  and  Towne  IManufacturing  Com- 
pany, lock  manufacturers,  at  Stanford,  Connecticut.  That  early  training 
with  one  of  the  best  known  organizations  of  the  country  served  him 
well  in  his  later  career. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Paris  was  for  several  years  asso- 
ciated with  two  of  the  largest  dry  goods  merchants  in  the  city  as  book- 
keeper and  later  as  financial  manager.  In  1905  he  resigned  and  in  con- 
junction with  Mr.  R.  M.  Walker  formed  the  Paris-Walker  Company 
and  established  the  5th  street  store  at  5th  and  Broadway,  Los  Angeles, 
California. 

Their  first  store  was  60x120  feet.  They  started  with  a  hundred 
employes,  and  the  volume  of  business  the  first  year  ran  close  to  a  million 
dollars.  Soon  after  they  acquired  an  adjoining  store,  20x120  feet,  and 
gradually  increased  the  floor  space  until  today  the  organization  occupies 
four  buildings  with  a  total  selling  space  of  over  125,000  feet.  From  seven 
hundred  to  one  thousand  people  are  employed  in  the  business,  which  runs 
into  several  millions  of  dollars  annually. 

Mr.  Paris  is  well  known  in  the  social  and  civic  afifairs  of  Los  Angeles. 
He  is  a  member  of  South  Gate  Lodge,  P.  and  A.  M.,  Pacific  Chapter, 
O.  E.  S.,  Los  Angeles  Commander}^  No.  9,  K.  T.,  all  the  Scottish  Rite 
bodies  and  the  Shrine.  He  is  also  an  Elk,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Gamut  Club,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Mer- 
chants and  Manufacturers'  Association,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
At  Los- Angeles  May  29,  1915,  he  married  Alice  E.  Hynes.  He  occupies 
a  spacious  home  in  Laurel  Canon  during  the  summer  months  and  resides 
at  one  of  the  large  city  hotels  in  winter. 

William  P.  Butte  was  one  of  the  founders  and  is  secretary  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Pacific  Portable  Construction  Company.  This 
company  is  probably  the  most  prominent  on  the  Pacific  Coast  manu- 
facturing and  selling  the  widely  popular  "Ready-Cut  and  Factory-Built" 
houses,  bungalows,  garages  and  other  types  of  buildings.  The  develop- 
ment of  this  type  of  standard  construction  is  regarded  by  experts  as 
one  of  the  longest  steps  forward  in  reducing  building  cost,  making  for 
economy  in  the  construction  of  lumber  products,  and  solving  many  of 
the  problems  of  housing,  one  of  the  most  vital  needs  of  our  coun- 
try today. 

The  following  statement  concerning  the  development  and  an  ex- 
planation of  the  business  has  a  particular  interest  and  is  appropriately 
included  in  this  publication. 


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About  fifteen  years  ago  the  Pacific  Portable  Construction  Company 
was  established  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  sectional  or  portable 
houses,  and  before  many  years  a  large  business  was  built  up  for  this  class 
of  structure. 

About  three  years  ago  however,  the  Pacific  Portable  Construction 
Company  felt  that  their  scope  of  business  should  be  enlarged  to  include  the 
manufacture  of  houses  of  a  permanent  type  as  well  as  those  of  a  portable 
type.  The  outcome  of  their  early  efforts  has  been  the  perfecting  of 
what  is  known  as  the  Ready-Cut  System,  and  at  the  present  time  three- 
quarters  of  the  demand  for  houses  is  for  the  Ready-Cut  type. 

Ready-Cut  means,  as  the  phrase  implies,  lumber  ready-cut  at  the 
mill,  notched,  marked  and  prepared  ready  for  nailing  into  place.  When 
Ready-Cut  material  is  ordered  the  pieces  are  not  nailed  together  at 
the  mill  in  sections,  as  is  the  case  when  a  portable  house  is  ordered,  but 
instead  the  pieces  are  sent  in  finished  lengths  to  destination.  It  is 
claimed  that  from  ten  per  cent  to  fifty  per  cent  carpenter  labor,  ten  per 
cent  to  twenty-five  per  cent  lumber  and  several  weeks'  time  can  be  saved 
by  buying  Ready-Cut  material.  The  Pacific  Portable  Construction  Com- 
pany has  systematized  the  manufacture  of  houses  much  in  the  same  way 
as  the  manufacturers  of  automobiles  have  carried  out  their  plans.  The 
lumber  is  ordered  in  cargo  shipments  direct  from  the  forest  cutters. 
Hardware,  paints,  roofing,  etc.,  are  purchased  in  carload  quantities  at 
costs  which  are  as  low  as  any  broker  of  material  could  secure.  In  this 
way  several  intermediate  profits  are  eliminated  to  the  customer's  benefit. 
Big  batteries  of  machinery  cut  the  material  at  lightning  speed  with  a 
resultant  big  saving  in  labor,  and  by  a  process  of  critical  inspection  every 
bit  of  material  that  is  shipped  is  the  finest  grade  possible  to  obtain. 

At  the  present  time  there  are  more  than  five  thousand  Pacific  Ready- 
Cut  Houses  standing  in  the  southwest,  and  there  are  perhaps  as  many 
more  Pacific  Factory-Built  Houses,  the  latter  being  of  portable  type. 
Full  details  about  the  Ready-Cut  system  are  given  in  a  ten-thousand 
dollar  book  of  designs  issued  by  the  company.  This  book  illustrates 
close  to  a  hundred  modern  day  designs,  and  each  design  is  accompanied 
by  a  miniature  blue  print  floor  plan.  / 

Mr.  Butte  when  he  first  came  to  southern  California  was  in  the 
roofing  business.  He  was  born  at  Steubenville,  Ohio,  May  3,  1881,  a 
son  of  John  C.  Butte.  He  was  in  public  schools  to  the  age  of  fourteen, 
then  spent  three  years  learning  the  upholstering  trade,  and  after  attend- 
ing business  college  for  a  year  became  assistant  superintendent  of  Hartje 
Brothers'  paper  mill.  He  vras  with  that  concern  eight  years  and  then 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  was  superintendent  for  the  Pioneer  Paper 
Company  two  years. 

Resigning,  he  and  F.  W.  Barker  organized  the  Pacific  Portable  Con- 
struction Company,  which  is  incorporated,  and  its  home  offices  are  at 
1330  South  Hill  street.  Mr.  Barker  is  president,  and  Mr.  Butte  secretary, 
treasurer  and  general  manager.  The  business  started  with  only  six  em- 
ployes. At  the  present  time  the  organization  requires  the  services  of  a 
hundred  eighty-two  people.  During  the  company's  first  year  the  output 
was  one  house  per  week.  Today  they  make  the  houses  complete  or  the 
materials  therefor  for  five  to  fifteen  houses  per  day. 

Mr.  Butte  is  a  York  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Rotary  Club,  is  a  republican  and  a  Metho- 
dist. He  married  at  Toronto,  Ohio,  on  September  27,  1904,  to  Jennie 
F.  Myers.  They  have  four  children :  Myers  Persohn,  born  in  1905, 
attending  high  school:  William  F.,  born  in  1912,  in  the  grammar  school; 
Robert  J.,  born  in  1915;  and  Donald  Neil,  born  in  1917. 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  71 

Frank  Wiggins.  Connected  with  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce  since  its  infancy,  and  its  secretary  for  twenty-two  years,  dur- 
ing this  period  there  has  been  no  more  valuable  or  more  indefatigable 
worker  in  behalf  of  the  industries  and  institutions  of  the  city  and  state 
than  Frank  Wiggins.  To  the  duties  of  his  important  position  he  has 
brought  executive  ability  of  the  highest  constructive  character,  combining 
splendid  organizing  capacity  with  enthusiasm  which  has  its  foundation  in 
a  sincere  belief  in  his  city,  and  his  entire  career  has  been  one  which  has 
reflected  credit  upon  Los  Angeles  and  the  movements  and  enterprises 
which  have  contributed  to  its  greatness. 

Mr.  Wiggins  was  born  JNovember  8,  1849,  at  Richmond,  Indiana, 
a  son  of  Charles  O.  and  Mary  (Marshall)  Wiggins.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  his  parents 
were  members,  and  his  early  business  training  came  as  a  result  of  his 
connection  with  his  father's  extensive  saddlery  industry  at  Richmond. 
After  assuming  the  management  of  this  business  he  conducted  it  suc- 
cessfully until  1886,  in  which  year  failing  health  made  it  advisable  that 
he  seek  another  climate,  and  he  accordingly  came  to  Los  Angeles,  which 
city  has  continued  to  be  his  home.  By  February,  1889,  he  had  recovered 
his  health  sufficiently  to  re-enter  business,  and  at  that  time  became  iden- 
tified with  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  then  in  its  infancy. 
His  abilities  were  soon  recognized  by  his  fellow-members,  and  in  1890 
he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  Chamber,  this  appointment  being 
followed  two  years  later  by  his  election  as  secretary,  a  position  which 
he  has  since  held.  He  was  first  in  charge  of  the  exhibits  for  the  Cham- 
ber, a  position  in  which  he  became  a  recognized  expert,  and  some  of  the 
exhibits  which  he  handled  were:  The  Orange  Carnival,  Chicago,  1891; 
Southern  California  display.  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  Cliicago, 
1893;  Midwinter  I'air.  Atlanta.  1894;  Los  Angeles  exhibit  at  Omaha, 
1896;  and  Los  Angeles  exhibit  at  Bufifalo,  1901.  Mr.  Wiggins  and 
James  A.  Filcher  were  California  Commissioners  to  the  St.  Louis 
World's  Fair  in  1904,  and  held  the  same  commissions  to  the  Alaska- 
Yukon  Exposition  in  1909.  Mr.  Wiggins  was  state  commissioner  to 
the  Lewis  &  Clark  Exposition,  and  at  the  Jamestown  Exposition  repre- 
sented the  Los  Angeles  county  exhibit.  He  also  estabhshed  the  perma- 
nent Southern  California  exhibit  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  in  1905, 
and  played  an  important  part  in  the  exposition  at  San  Francisco  in  1915. 

On  May  5,  1886,  Mr.  Wiggins  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Amanda  P.  Wiggins,  of  Los  Angeles. 

Raymond  M.  Stagg.  In  former  years  a  well-known  staff  photog- 
rapher with  some  of  the  leading  newspapers  of  the  coast,  Raymond  M. 
Stagg  has  developed  a  flourishing  business  as  a  commercial  photographer 
at  Los  Angeles,  and  has  furnished  illustrative  material  for  commercial 
purposes  and  the  movie  stage  covering  practically  everything  of  interest  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Stagg  was  born  at  Stockton,  California,  January  9,  1886,  son 
of  Thomas  and  Julia  (Robbins)  Stagg.  Hi?  father  was  born  at  Santa 
Cruz,  California,  in  1849.  This  indicates  that  the  family  were  among 
the  true  California  pioneers.  Thomas  Stagg  was  educated  in  his  birth 
town  and  for  several  years  worked  in  his  father's  harness  shop.  He 
was  in  business  in  that  line  at  Modesto,  and  finally  established  a  harness 
business  at  Manteca,  where  he  is  still  living  and  active. 

Raymond  M.  Stagg  attended  public  school  to  the  age  of  fifteen  and 
spent  the  next  two  years  herding  cattle  in  Merced  County.    From  there 


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he  entered  Mark  Hopkins  Art  Institute  at  San  Francisco.  He  also 
attended  Best's  Art  Institute  at  San  Francisco  for  a  year.  He  was 
with  the  art  department  of  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle  one  year,  then 
was  photographer  with  the  Bulletin  two  years,  and  in  a  similar  capacity 
with  the  Examiner  three  years.  This  experience  was  varied  by  one 
year  of  work  in  the  mines  at  Kennett,  California,  and  from  there  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles,  spending  three  months  as  photographer  for  the 
Times.  After  an  absence  of  three  months  at  Denver,  he  returned  to 
Los  Angeles  and  worked  in  a  lumber  yard,  carrying  lumber  for  three 
months.  For  six  months  he  was  a  photographer  with  the  Times,  and 
was  employed  in  a  similar  capacity  by  the  Herald  for  three  years.  With 
that  experience  behind  him,  Mr.  Stagg  engaged  as  a  commercial  pho- 
tographer for  himself,  and  has  acquired  a  large  and  well-equipped 
studio  and  has  made  a  splendid  success  of  the  business.  He  furnishes 
commercial  photographs  for  all  lines  of  industry. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Ad  Club  and  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California.  At  Los  Angeles,  April  16, 
1910,  he  married  Ruth  Davidson.  They  have  two  children:  Dick,  born 
in  1912,  and  a  student  in  the  pubHc  schools,  and  Brett,  born  in  1917. 

Thomas  Samuel  Reynolds.  Necessarily  the  business  of  life  goes 
on  even  though  hearts  may  break  and  friends  mourn  over  the  early  pass- 
ing of  one  seemingly  so  indispensable,  so  buoyant  and  vigorous,  so  kind, 
generous  and  gentle,  as  was  the  late  Thomas  Samuel  Reynolds,  of  Los 
Angeles.  Within  the  short  circle  of  his  life  of  but  thirty  years  he  had 
accomplished  much  in  an  honorable  profession  and  won  confidence  in 
public  office,  while  a  particularly  sunny  disposition  invited  affection  and 
sterling  characteristics  cemented  friendship. 

Thomas  Samuel  Reynolds  was  bom  at  San  Francisco,  California, 
December  12,  1888,  and  passed  out  of  life  at  his  home  on  South  Ardmore 
street,  Los  Angeles,  November  16,  1918.  His  parents  were  Thomas  A. 
and  Kate  M.  (Greene)  Reynolds.  His  father,  who  died  May  11,  1919, 
came  to  San  Francisco  in  1868,  where  he  became  well  known  in  the 
leather  business,  having  established  one  of  the  first  tanneries  for  light 
leather.  He  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1891.  where  he  bought  a  tannery. 
The  mother  of  Mr.  Reynolds  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  afterward  was  a  teacher  there. 

Mr.  Reynolds  practically  spent  his  entire  life  at  Los  Angeles.  His 
early  education  was  secured  in  the  public  schools  and  in  1909  he  was 
graduated  as  a  civil  engineer  from  St.  Vincent's  College,  for  eight  years 
subsequently  being  connected  with  the  Pacific  Electric  Company.  En- 
dowed with  robust  health  and  cheery,  optimistic  temperament,  he  was 
a  favorite  at  college,  where  he  was  a  leader  in  athletics,  as  he  was  also' 
in  scholarship.  He  was  particularly  eloquent  in  debate  and  easily  won 
the  .Stephen  M.  White  medal  presented  by  William  White,  son  of  Stephen 
M.  White,  of  the  second  generation  of  native  sons.  In  1918  Mr. 
Reynolds  was  appointed  deputy  internal  revenue  officer,  and  was  attend- 
ing to  his  official  duties  when  stricken  with  influenza,  which  developed 
into  pneumonia.     He  died  after  an  illness  of  but  eight  days. 

Mr.  Reynolds  was  married  July  8,  1915,  to  Miss  Hazel  Connors,  who 
came  to  this  city  in  1911  from  South  Dakota,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  Connors,  who  reside  on  Roosevelt  street,  Los  Angeles. 
Mrs.  Reynolds  survives  with  their  little  daughter.  Romayne  Antoinette 
Reynolds,  also  the  mother  and  grandmother,  Mrs.  Hannah  Greene. 

Mr.  Revnolds  was  always  interested  in   football  and  was  an  active 


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member  uf  the  Southern  California  Football  Association.  He  was  often 
called  on  to  umpire  school  and  college  games  and  umpired  a  game  three 
weeks  before  taken  ill.  He  was  a  democrat  in  politics,  and  more  or  less 
active  as  an  intelligent,  wide  awake  citizen  of  a  country  in  which  he 
took  unmeasured  pride.  He  belonged  to  the  Young  Men's  Institute,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Ramona  Parlor  of  the  organization  of  Native  Sons. 
He  had  been  reared  in  the  Catholic  faith  and  his  religion  was  a  part 
of  his  life. 

Wii.i.  E.  Keller.  The  most  important  men  in  the  world  todaj'  are 
those  who  stand  in  some  vital  position  with  respect  to  the  production  and 
distribution  of  indispensable  material,  especially  foodstuffs.  There  is 
probably  no  man  in  California  who  directs  and  influences  a  larger  volume 
of  business  in  the  grain  and  milling  industries  than  Will  E.  Keller,  whose 
career  has  been  well  described  as  one  of  the  most  notable  among  the 
successful  men  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Keller  was  born  at  Woodville,  Mississippi,  January  30,  1868, 
son  of  Charles  E.  and  Agnes  M.  (Phares)  Keller.  He  was  only 
twenty-four  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1892,  and 
from  the  first  has  been  identified  with  the  wholesale  grain  business. 
It  is  possible  to  note  only  a  few  of  his  major  operations  in  that  field. 
About  twenty-one  years  ago  he  organized  the  McDonald-Graham  Mill- 
mg  Company,  at  913  East  Third  street,  the  capital  of  which  was 
$200,000.  The  company  erected  a  mill  with  a  daily  capacity  of  two 
hundred  fifty  barrels,  and  employed  thirty  men.  In  1902  the  name  was 
changed  to  the  Globe  Grain  and  Milling  Company,  and  the  capital  in- 
creased to  $1,000,000,  and  Mr.  Keller  has  been  president  of  this  cor- 
poration ever  since.  At  the  same  time  the  plant  was  enlarged  to  a 
five  hundred  barrel  mill.  In  1902  they  also  erected  a  mill  of  three 
hundred  barrels  capacity  at  Colton ;  in  1903  an  eight  hundred  barrel 
mill  at  San  Francisco ;  in  1904  a  two  hundred  fifty  barrel  mill  at  Wood- 
land. When  the  San  Francisco  mill  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1906,  it 
was  at  once  replaced  by  a  mill  with  a  daily  capacity  of  sixteen  hundred 
barrels.  A  three  hundred  and  fifty  barrel  mill  was  erected  by  these 
interests  in  1909  at  El  Paso,  Texas,  which  marks  the  extreme  eastern 
limit  of  Mr.  Keller's  operations  in  the  milling  business.  In  1910  the 
Globe  people  built  a  three  hundred  barrel  mill  at  San  Diego,  and  in 
1912  the  Los  Angeles  plant  was  torn  down  and  a  larger  mill  of  a 
thousand  barrels  daily  capacity  erected  in  its  place.  In  1916  the  mill 
at  Woodland  was  converted  into  a  rice  milling  plant,  with  a  daily 
capacity  of  twenty-four  hundred  bags. 

Mr.  Keller  has  the  honor  of  having  constructed  the  first  fireproof 
flour  mills  in  the  west.  From  California  his  interests  extended  into 
the  Pacific  northwest.  In  1911  his  company  erected  a  grain  elevator 
at  Portland,  Oregon,  it  being  a  large  and  model  plant,  with  a  four 
hundred  thousand  bushel  concrete  bulk  storage  and  a  ten  thousand  ton 
grain  warehouse,  with  docks  and  otheir  facilities  for  loading  both  ships 
and  railroad  cars.  They  also  have  a  grain  elevator  just  completed  at 
Ogden,  Utah,  constructed  of  concrete,  with  a  capacity  of  seven  hun- 
dred thousand  bushels,  and  so  arranged  that  10,000  bushels  of  grain 
can  be  unloaded  from  cars  per  hour,  and  a  like  amount  loaded  out  into 
cars  for  shipment  at  the  same  time,  making  a  total  of  20,000  bushels 
of  grain  that  can  be  handled  per  hour.  At  San  Pedro,  on  the  water 
front,  is  a  four  thousand  ton  steel  elevator  erected  by  this  company  in 
1912.  Besides  handling  grain,  the  various  plants  manufacture  enor- 
mous quantities  of  flour  and  feed  stuffs,  they  also  having  a  number 


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of  feed  mills  and  warehouses  in  the  Imperial  Valley  and  in  numerous 
other  parts  of  the  country,  extending  as  far  north  as  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington. In  the  last  fiscal  year  the  volume  of  business  of  the  Globe 
Grain  and  Milling  Company  reached  a  total  of  over  thirty-six  million 
dollars,  and  their  capital  and  undivided  profits  amount  to  over  ten 
million  dollars  at  the  present  time. 

In  1916  Mr.  Keller  and  associates  formed  the  Globe  Oil  Mills  and 
erected  an  oil  mill  at  Vernon,  California.  This  mill  manufactures  great 
quantities  of  cotton  seed  oil,  cake,  meal  and  linters,  having  a  capacity 
of  a  hundred  twenty  tons  of  cotton  seed  daily.  In  January,  1917,  ihey 
bought  the  cotton  seed  oil  mill  at  Calexico,  giving  an  added  capacity  of 
sixty  tons  a  day.  In  June,  1918,  this  company  took  over  all  the  plants 
of  the  Imperial  Oil  and  Cotton  Company,  comprising  a  forty-ton  mill 
at  Calexico,  and  a  seventy-five-ton  mill  at  El  Centro,  making  a  total 
capacity  of  295  tons  per  day  of  cotton  seed  crushed.  They  now  have 
thirty  cotton  gins  in  the  Imperial  Valley,  six  of  them  being  located  on 
the  Mexican  side  at  Mexicola,  and  the  others  on  the  American  side  of 
the  boundary.  They  also  have  two  gins  in  the  Palo  Verde  Valley,  and 
six  in  the  Yuma  Valley,  also  one  at  Durham,  in  the  Sacramento  Valley, 
and  one  at  Colorado  Siding,  on  the  Indian  Reservation,  just  across  the 
river  from  Yuma,  making  a  total  of  thirty-eight  gins.  At  Hobart,  Cali- 
fornia, the  company  operates  stock  yards,  where  during  the  season 
1918-1919  they  fattened  over  five  thousand  head  of  cattle  on  cotton 
seed  meal  and  hulls.  The  cattle  yards  are  all  paved  with  concrete, 
there  being  about  thirteen  acres  of  pavement,  and  a  portion  of  each 
pen  is*  covered  with  corrugated  iron  sheds,  thus  the  feeding  troughs 
being  kept  dry  in  rainy  weather.  Five  thousand  head  of  stock  can  be 
fed  at  one  time.  This  feeding  yard  has  been  acknowledged  to  be  the 
finest  and  most  complete  in  America. 

It  is  in  the  very  nature  of  a  successful  business  and  the  same  is 
true  of  a  successful  business  man  to  grow  and  expand  and  attract  and 
accumulate  outside  interests.  Thus  Mr.  Keller  for  a  number  of  years 
has  also  been  identified  with  ice  manufacturing,  and  is  today  president 
of  the  Valley  Ice  Company,  whose  three  plants  in  California,  at  Bakers- 
field,  Fresno  and  Modesto,  have  a  combined  capacity  of  fifteen  hundred 
tons  per  day,  the  most  of  which  is  used  to  ice  the  fruit  cars  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  and  Santa  Fe  Railroads.  These  are  by  far  the  largest 
ice  plants  in  the  west.  Mr.  Keller  is  also  president  of  the  Globe  Ice 
and  Cold  Storage  Company  of  El  Paso,  Texas.  The  enterprises  named 
above  furnish  employment  to  over  a  thousand  people. 

Besides  being  president  and  in  active  control  of  the  great  chain  of 
industries  above  described,  Mr.  Keller  is  a  director  in  the  Merchants 
National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Ralston  Iron  Works  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, the  Southwestern  Portland  Cement  Company,  having  large  plants 
at  El  Paso,  Texas,  and  Victorville,  California,  and  the  International 
Packing  Corporation,  operating  large  fish  canneries  at  San  Diego  and 
San  Pedro,  California,  and  his  interests  as  a  business  man  have  long 
since  taken  him  out  of  the  class  of  a  local  leader  and  brought  him  into 
touch  with  the  big  men  of  the  entire  nation.  During  the  past  year  he 
and  associates  formed  the  Federal  Ice  Refrigerating  Company  and 
have  erected  and  now  have  in  operation  in  Chicago  an  artificial  ice  plant 
that  is  probably  the  largest  in  the  world.  However,  he  claims  and  has 
long  been  proud  of  Los  Angeles  as  his  home  city,  his  residence  being 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Sixth  street  and  Shatto  Place.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  California,  Los  Angeles  Countr>',  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
and  Westminster  Gun  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles. 


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Charles  Forman.  Of  the  careers  that  could  properly  be  made  a 
vehicle  for  telling  the  history  of  the  real  old  West,  one  of  the  last  to 
terminate  was  that  of  General  Charles  Forman,  who  first  came  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1853,  and  who  for  over  thirty  years  was  a  resident  and  prom- 
inent figure  in  business  affairs  in  Los  Angeles.  He  di^d  January  9,  1919, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  and  his  d;ath  served  to  recall  many  interesting 
memories  of  events  and  conditions  with  which  the  modern  generation  is 
familiar  only  through  the  printed  page.  General  Forman's  personality 
and  achievements  were  frequently  made  the  subject  of  interesting  stories 
published  in  the  press,  and  of  numerous  biographies  written  of  him 
one  that  contained  a  great  deal  of  history  was  one  prepared  by  Charles 
F.  Lummis  and  Charles  Amadon  ]\Ioody  and  published  in  "Out  West" 
in  April,  1909. 

General  Forman  was  born  near  Owego,  Tioga  county,  New  York, 
January  14,  1835,  son  of  Sands  and  Mary  (Matthews)  Forman.  His 
grandfather,  Miles  Forman,  was  an  officer  in  the  War  of  1812.  His 
uncle,  Colonel  Ferris  Forman,  was  a  participant  in  both  the  Mexican 
and  Civil  wars.  Mr.  Forman  had  three  brothers:  Stephen,  a  farmer: 
Sands,  a  machinist  and  inventor,  and  Edward,  who  for  many  years  was 
secretary  and  manager  of  Spaulding  &  Company,  the  old  reliable  jewelry 
house  in  Chicago.  These  brothers  are  all  dead.  There  were  two  sis- 
ters: Mary  Elizabeth,  who  married  Edwin  S.  Woodbridge,  of  Bing- 
hampton.  New  York,  and  died  in  1912,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  and 
Miss  Ellen  A.,  who  is  still  living  at  Binghampton,  New  York,  aged 
seventy-nine  years. 

General  Forman  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  gradu- 
ating from  the  Owego  Academy  in  1854,  and  the  following  year,  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  began  to  satisfy  his  lifelong  thirst  for  adventure  and 
the  romance  of  the  west.  He  came  to  California  by  the  Isthmus  route 
and  for  a  time  worked  in  the  postoffice  at  Sacramento,  where  his  uncle, 
Colonel  Ferris  Forman,  the  postmaster,  had  located  four  years  previ- 
ously. On  business  connected  with  the  postofifice  department  he  made 
the  overland  trip  to  Washington  with  a  small  party.  He  visited  relatives 
in  the  state  of  New  York,  and  then  returned  to  Sacramento  by  way  of 
the  old  Santa  Fe  trail.     For  two  years  he  was  deputy  secretary  of  state. 

Mr.  Forman  was  a  pioneer  of  Nevada,  going  to  that  territory  in 
1860.  For  a  time  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Wells  Fargo  &  Company  at 
Gold  Hill  and  Virginia  City,  and  later  engaged  in  mining  on  the  Corn- 
stock,  being  connected  with  the  Eclipse  Mill  and  Mining  Company.  One 
of  his  most  successful  mining  adventures  was  in  Pioche,  Nevada,  where 
he  was  superintendent  of  the  Meadow  Valley  Mining  Company  during 
the  strenuous  days  of  the  early  seventies.  While  he  was  in  Virginia 
City  the  town  had  a  population  of  about  two  thousand.  Shortly  after 
his  arrival  he  became  a  member  of  the  volunteer  military  company  or- 
ganized to  protect  the  communitv  against  Indian  attacks.  He  took  part 
in  many  skirmishes  and  was  in  one  fixed  battle  where  ninety-seven 
white  men  fought  five  hundred  Indians  and  only  twenty-one  of  the 
whites  survived.  General  Forman  went  through  the  five  hour  battle 
without  a  scratch.  The  title  of  general  by  which  he  was  generally 
known  came  as  a  result  of  his  appointment  in  1881  by  Governor  John 
H.  Kinkead  as  major  general  of  the  Nevada  Volunteers. 

In  1872  General  Forman  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  at  Salt 
Lake  City  with  T.  R.  Jones.  Much  of  the  lumber  for  the  "Amelia 
Palace"  was  sold  to  Brigham  Young  by  this  firm.  In  1874  he  returned 
to  Virginia  City,  and  with  the  exception  of  one  or  two  years  spent  in 
Chihuahua,  Mexico,  remained  in  Nevada  engaged  in  mining  until  1887. 


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111  the  meantime  the  glories  of  Virginia  City  as  a  mining  center 
had  begun  to  wane,  and  in  1887  General  Forman  permanently  esiab- 
lished  his  home  in  Los  Angeles.  He  became  interested  in  the  street 
railway  business,  and  was  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
old  Los  Angeles  Cable  Company,  which  later  was  sold  to  a  group  of 
Chicago  capitalists.  Owing  to  ill  health  he  was  obliged  to  retire  from 
active  business  for  a  few  years.  In  the  early  nineties  he  established  the 
Kern  River  Company,  a  power  company  promoted  for  the  purpose  of 
bringing  electricity  from  Kern  River  to  Los  Angeles.  It  was  one  of 
the  pioneer  eliforts  in  America  to  solve  the  problem  of  long  distance 
transmission  of  electric  current,  and  the  fact  that  General  Forman  was 
one  of  the  active  promoters  of  the  company  when  in  advanced  years 
shows  his  vigor  of  mind  and  progressiveness,  which  were  inseparable 
characteristics  of  his  entire  life.  The  Kern  River  Company  eventually 
was  merged  with  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Company  of  Los  Angeles. 
General  Forman  was  president  of  the  Kern  River  Company  and  secre- 
tary of  the  Pacific  Light  &  Power  Company  until  July,  1912,  when  he 
resigned.  In  the  closing  years  of  his  life  he  devoted  most  of  his  time 
to  the  development  of  his  ranch  near  Lankershim. 

General  Forman  was  a  typical  representative  of  the  best  of  that  flood 
of  virile  manhood  which  poured  into  California  in  the  fifties  and  spread 
over  the  entire  far  west.  He  possessed  courage,  enterprise  and  initia- 
tive, good  judgment  and  energy,  and  with  all  these  traits  he  was  quiet 
and  unassuming  and  was  unspoiled  by  good  fortune.  Through  all  his 
years  he  retained  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens. 
Again  and  again  he  demonstrated  his  faith  in  Los  Angeles,  and  made 
extensive  investments  there  when  no  one  could  reahze  the  brilliant  fu- 
ture that  has  since  unfolded.  General  Forman  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  for  years  was  a  member  of 
its  Board  of  Directors  and  its  president  in  1899,  and  the  Chamber  was 
represented  at  his  funeral  by  a  special  committee.  He  was  also  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  California  Club  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a 
member  of  the  Engineers  and  Architects  Association,  the  Jonathan  Clbb 
and  the  Gamut  Club.  He  was  eminent  commander  of  DeWitt  Clinton 
Commandery  of  the  Knights  Templar  in  Virginia  Citv  in  1879.  1880 
and  1881. 

On  October  15,  1862,  General  Forman  was  married  at  the  old 
Rancho  de  la  Puente,  in  Los  Angeles  county,  to  Miss  Mary  Agnes 
Gray,  a  step-daughter  of  John  Rowland,  one  of  the  original  owners  of 
the  Rancho.  Mary  Agnes  Gray  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky, 
September  19,  1843,  and  came  to  California  across  the  plains  with  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Charlotte  M.  Gray,  and  two  small  brothers  in  1851.  Her 
father,  John  Gray,  was  killed  by  the  Indians  on  the  way.  Mrs.  Gray 
later  married  John  Rowland,  who  received  the  grant  of  the  Rancho  de 
la  Puente  in  1841.  Mary  Gray  was  educated  at  Notre  Dame  Convent 
in  San  Jose  and  at  Miss  Atkins  School  in  Benicia.  After  her  marriage 
she  went  to  live  in  Nevada  with  General  Forman,  but  in  1882  the  fam- 
ily moved  from  Virginia  City  to  Los  Angeles.  A  few  years  ago  an 
interesting  story  was  printed  concerning  the  dismantling  of  a  picturesque 
home  in  Los  Angeles,  known  as  the  General  Forman  home.  This  house 
had  originally  been  erected  in  Virginia  Cit}',  Nevada,  by  General  For- 
man at  a  cost  of  twelve  thousand  dollars.  His  family  had  lived  in  it 
for  seven  years,  from  the  time  it  was  erected  in  1875.  When  the  family 
removed  to  Los  Angeles  General  Forman  was  loathe  to  allow  his  resi- 
dence, endeared  to  him  by  many  associations,  to  become  a  prey  to  the 


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process  of  decay  then  at  work  in  Virginia  City,  and  after  some  nego- 
tiation he  had  the  house  taken  to  pieces,  shipped  by  the  Southern  Pacific 
l-iailway  in  ten  carloads  and  set  upon  a  new  site  in  Los  Angeles  on  a 
twenty  acre  tract  near  Pico  and  Figueroa  street.  That  land  was 
hought  at  an  original  cost  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  an  acre,  but 
can  be  identified  with  some  of  the  highest  priced  frontage  in  the  Eos 
Angeles  of  today.  It  is  said  that  it  cost  General  Forman  six  thousand 
dollars  to  transport  and  rebuild  his  residence,  and  he  felt  well  satis- 
tied  with  the  deal.  For  many  years  it  was  one  of  the  show  places  of 
the  city,  but  gradually  business  interests  encroached  and  early  in  1913 
the  residence  was  wrecked  to  make  room  for  some  tracks  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Railway  system.  For  years  this  home  on  West  Pico  street 
stood  in  the  midst  of  an  orange  grove,  and  was  the  scene  of  many 
pleasant  social  gatherings.  Mrs.  Forman  had  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
and  her  chief  delight  was  entertaining  them.  One  of  the  social  events 
of  the  city  was  the  New'  Year  Watch  held  in  the  Forman  residence. 
In  1901  the  family  moved  to  South  Flower  street.  Mrs.  Forman,  who 
represented  the  fine  spirit  of  old  time  hospitality  in  Los  Angeles,  and 
was  also  a  benefactor  to  many  of  the  unfortunate,  died  November  3, 
1918,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  General  and  Mrs.  Forman  are  sur- 
vived by  two  children,  Miss  Eloise  Forman  and  Charles  Forman,  Jr. 

Mr.s.  Charlotte  ]\1.  Rowland  was  born  on  February  5,  1826,  at 
.Marietta,  Ohio.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Isaiah  Gavitt  and  Elizabeth 
Murphy,  his  wife. 

Elizabeth  Murphy's  grandmother,  Mary  Perry,  was  an  own  cousin 
of  Commodore  Perry,  the  hero  of  Lake  Erie.  Her  father,  Martin  Mur- 
phy, of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  enlisted  and  served  six  years  in  the 
Revolutionary  army. 

Charlotte  married  John  B.  Gray,  of  Covington,  Kentucky,  a  son  of 
John  and  Deborah  Gray.  They  had  three  children,  Mary  Agnes.  James 
Andrew  and  John.  In  1850  Mr.  Gray  left  Covington  with  his  familx 
and  came  as  far  west  as  El  Paso.  Te.xas.  The  following  year  they  startetl 
from  El  Paso  for  California.  There  were  eighty  persons  in  the  party, 
including  eight  children  and  they  had  eight  covered  wagons,  horses  and 
mules,  some  oxen  and  three  cows  which  were  milked  on  the  way.  Mr. 
Gray  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  the  Guadeloupe  Mountains,  between 
El  Paso  and  Santa  Cruz.  The  party  was  eight  months  on  the  road  and 
arrived  at  San  Bernardino  in  the  summer  of  1851.  In  this  party  were 
Dr.  Obed  Macy,  his  wife  and  several  children;  Ira  Thompson,  with  his 
wife,  Rebecca,  and  their  children,  and  David  Lewis,  a  pioneer  of  El 
Monte,  who  married  Susan  Thom|)son.  So  far  as  known,  Mrs.  Susan 
Thompson  Parrish,  still  li\ing  at  El  Monte,  at  an  advanced  age,  Mrs. 
Lucinda  Macy  Fu\-  of  San  Rafael  Heights,  Pasadena;  her  brothers, 
William  and  Obed,  an<l  a  lister.  Mrs.  Evans  of  ( )ak1and.  who  was  an 
infant  at  the  time. 

Mrs.  Gray  bouglit  a  small  home  near  the  present  town  of  El  ]Monte, 
where  she  lived  with  her  three  small  children  until  her  marriage  to  John 
Rowland,  on  September  16,  1852.  l\lr.  Rowdand  was  a  native  of  Mary-- 
land,  who  came  to  California  from  Taos,  New  Mexico,  with  his  wife. 
Encarnacion  Martinez  de  Rowland,  and  located  upon  the  Rancho  de  la 
Puente.  twenty  miles  east  of  Los  Angeles,  with  William  Workman.  Mr. 
Rowland  located  on  the  Rancho  in  1841,  and  received  a  Mexican  grant 
to  the  land  from  Governor  Pio  Pico  July  22,  1845.  Mr>.  Encarnacion 
de  Rowland  died  about  1850,  leaving  a  large  family.     The  only  one  living 


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now  is  a  son,  William  R.  Rowland  of  Los  Angeles.  To  Mr.  John  Row- 
land and  his  second  wife  were  born  three  children,  Albert,  Lillian  and 
Victoria.    All  are  now  dead. 

Of  the  Gray  children,  Mary  Agnes  married  Charles  Forman  of 
Gold  Hill,  Nevada,  in  1862.  She  died  on  November  3,  1918.  Mr.  For- 
man died  on  January  9,  1919.  Of  their  children,  James  Andrew  died 
on  May  12,  1875,  and  John  died  in  early  childhood.  Albert  Rowland 
married  Abbie  Lewis  in  1879,  and  he  died  March  8,  1891.  Lillian  Row- 
land died  in  infancy.  Victoria  Rowland  married  Josiah  Whitcomb  Hud- 
son in  1879.    Mr.  Hudson  died  in  1914,  and  Mrs.  Hudson  August  9,  1916. 

It  is  impossible  to  do  justice  to  the  admirable  character  of  Mrs. 
Charlotte  M.  Rowland.  This  noble  and  beloved  woman  was  one  of  the 
first  American  women  to  reach  this  section,  a  real  pioneer.  The  sweet- 
ness of  her  disposition,  and  her  native  refinement  won  for  her  the  esteem 
of  the  entire  community,  Spanish  at  the  time.  In  those  days,  when  all 
transportation  was  on  horseback  or  by  wagon,  life  was  much  simpler. 
The  hurry  and  bustle  of  the  present  day  was  unknown.  Every  one  found 
leisure  to  cultivate  acquaintance.  The  hospitality  of  the  Rowlands  be- 
came a  household  word.  Mrs.  Rowland  was  soon  known  throughout  the 
country  for  her  gentleness  and  kindliness  of  character.  The  poor  and 
unfortunate  found  in  her  an  unfailing  friend.  She  encouraged  them 
when  despondent,  consoled  them  in  sorrow,  and  rejoiced  with  them  in 
their  success  and  happiness.  She  it  was  who  sat  oftenest  by  the  cradle 
of  the  new  born,  and  who  softly  closed  the  eyes  of  many  who  had  fallen 
into  the  last  long  sleep.  But  it  was  to  her  own  family  and  household  that 
she  was  most  dear.  An  active,  ever  busy  woman,  with  many  and  great 
responsibilities  as  the  years  passed,  she  was  never  too  busy  to  answer  the 
eager  questions  of  childish  lips ;  she  was  never  too  tired,  no  matter  how 
heavy  the  cares  of  the  day  had  been,  to  tell  a  story  to  her  grandchildren. 
She  has  left  to  them  a  golden  memory.  After  an  illness  of  three  years, 
Mrs.  Rowland  passed  away  on  June  10,  1895,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years. 

The  surviving  grandchildren  are  Miss  Eloise  Forman  and  Charles 
Forman  Jr.  of  Los  Angeles,  children  of  Mary  Agnes  Gray  and  Charles 
Forman;  Mrs.  Josephine  Rowland  Cross,  wife  of  George  E.  Cross,  a 
prominent  business  man  of  Puente,  Frank  Rowland  of  Puente,  and 
Charles  William  Rowland  of  Santa  Maria,  children  of  Albert  Rowland 
and  Abbie  Lewis,  his  wife ;  Miss  Lillian  Hudson  of  Puente,  William 
Rowland  Hudson  of  Puente,  and  J.  Whitcomb  Hudson  of  Puente,  chil- 
dren of  Victoria  Rowland  and  Josiah  Whitcomb  Hudson.  To  these 
grandchildren,  all  men  and  women  now,  the  memory  of  their  grand- 
mother, Charlotte  M.  Rowland,  has  been  a  constant  benediction  through 
the  years. 

Mrs.  Mabel  Walker  Willebrandt.  The  professional  career  of 
Mrs.  Mabel  Walker  Willebrandt  has  embraced  a  period  of  but  five  years, 
all  of  which  have  been  passed  at  Los  Angeles,  but  during  this  time  she 
has,  by  assiduous  attention  to  her  professional  duties  and  by  profound 
knowledge  of  her  vocation  and  skill  in  its  practice,  won  a  place  among 
the  reputrble  practitioners  of  law,  and  at  the  same  time  has  done  much 
to  open  the  doors  of  professional  preferment  to  deserving  and  properly 
trained  women. 

Mrs.  Willebrandt  was  born  May  23,  1889,  in  Woodsdale,  Kansas, 
a  daughter  of  David  W.  and  Myrtle    (Eaton)   Walker.     Her  father,  a 


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pioneer  of  western  Kansas,  was  first  a  newspaper  man,  associated  with 
some  of  the  early  journalistic  efforts  of  his  day  and  locality,  and  later 
went  to  Buckley,  Michigan,  where  he  was  identified  with  banking  en- 
terprises. Both  he  and  Mrs.  Walker  survive  and  are  residents  of  Los 
Angeles.  Mrs.  Willebrandt  had  normal  training  in  the  high  school  at 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  following  which  she  enrolled  as  a  student  at 
Park  College,  Parksville,  Missouri.  Subsequently  she  pursued  a  course 
at  Ferris  Institute,  Big  Rapids,  Michigan,  where  Governor  Ferris  was 
her  instructor,  and  this  period  of  study  was  followed  by  a  short  period 
of  teaching  at  Phoenix,  Arizona.  Later  she  took  a  post-graduate  course 
at  Tempe,  Arizona.  On  February  7,  1910,  she  was  married  to  Arthur 
Willebrandt,  who  is  now  in  France,  having  been  a  member  of  the 
famous  Ninety-first  Division,  which  covered  itself  with  glory  on  the 
battlefields  of  Flanders. 

From  1912  to  1914  Mrs.  Willebrandt  served  as  principal  of  schools 
at  South  Pasadena,  California,  but  in  the  meantime  had  continued  her 
law  studies,  and  in  1915  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  During  that  year 
she  had  the  unique  distinction  of  being  the  first  woman  city  public  de- 
fender in  any  city  in  the  United  States.  She  studied  law  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California,  where  she  received  her  bachelor's  de- 
gree in  1916,  and  her  master's  degree  in  1917.  In  the  meantime  she 
had  engaged  actively  in  the  practice  of  her  profession  at  Los  Angeles, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1916  opened  her  present  offices  at  No.  257  South 
Spring  street.  Her  work  has  been  largely  of  a  probate  character,  and 
her  practice  has  been  singularly  free  from  cases  taking  her  clients  into 
the  divorce  courts.  From  the  start  of  her  professional  career  her  prac- 
tice has  been  a  successful  one,  showing  a  constant  and  steady  growth 
both  in  size  and  importance,  and  at  this  time  she  occupies  a  prominent 
place  in  the  ranks  of  the  fraternity.  She  has  real  estate  holdings  of 
considerable  value  and  is  accounted  a  clever  and  well-informed  business 
woman. 

Mrs.  Willebrandt's  activities  in  club  life  have  engaged  a  large 
part  of  her  attention  and  various  honors  have  been  bestowed  upon  her. 
She  is  chairman  of  the  committee  on  legislation  of  the  Friday  Morning 
Club,  secretary  of  the  Professional  Women's  Club,  secretary  of  the 
Women  Lawyers'  Club  and  a  member  of  the  Women's  City  Club.  She 
is  likewise  past  master  of  the  Phi  Delta  Delta  legal  women's  fraternity, 
a  stalwart  republican  in  her  political  allegiance,  she  did  considerable 
campaigning  for  Miss  Orfa  Jean  Shontz,  the  first  woman  to  run  for 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  During  the  period,  of  the  war  Mrs.  Wille- 
brandt subjugated  her  interests  to  those  of  the  country  and  rendered 
services  of  the  most  valuable  character.  As  chairman  and  secretary  of 
the  legal  advisory  board  of  District  No.  11,  the  second  largest  board 
in  Los  Angeles,  she  had  charge  of  all  the  legal  work  in  her  district,  and 
superintended  the  work  of  fifty  attorneys  in  handling  questionnaires 
and  registration,  and  in  the  settling  of  all  legal  questions  that  arose  in 
connection  with  the  presentation  of  claims  for  exemption  and  change 
of  classification.  Personally  she  handled  some  10,000  questionnaires.  A 
large  part  of  her  time  was  also  devoted  to  the  work  of  the  Red  Cross, 
where  her  fine  legal  talents  were  used  in  adjusting  differences  and 
settling  controversies  in  regard  to  the  work  of  relief. 

It  is  but  natural  that  Mrs.  Willebrandt  should  be  interested  in 
suffrage,  a  field  of  endeavor  in  which  she  has  been  very  active.  Her 
comparatively  short  career  has  been  largely  devoted  to  constant  effort 
for  the  equal  advancement  of  both  men  and  women  in  all  educational 


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and  progressive  activities.  To  this  work  she  has  given  freely  of  all 
that  she  has  gained  through  a  constant  study  of  fundamental  principles 
and  their  application  to  the  everyday  life  of  the  people. 

Major  Henry  Hancock,  during  a  residence  in  southern  California 
of  over  thirty  years,  was  a  man  distinguished  by  many  experiences  and 
by  participation  official  and  civil  in  the  early  history  of  Los  Angeles 
and  vicinity. 

He  was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  February  22,  1822,  and  died  in 
his  sixty-first  year  in  January,  1883.  He  served  in  the  Mexican  war, 
and  in  1849  came  to  California,  arriving  here  with  few  more  possessions 
than  he  carried  about  his  person.  He  went  to-  mining,  and  in  a  short 
time  took  out  twenty  thousand  dollars  worth  of  gold.  Much  of  this 
he  invested  in  the  Mexican  grants,  paying  two  and  three  dollars  an 
acre.  Chief  of  these  grants  which  came  under  his  ownership  was  the 
Rancho  La  Brea,  west  of  Los  Angeles.  On  a  portion  of  lands  formerly 
owned  by  Major  Hancock  were  built  the  suburbs  of  Hollywood,  Sher- 
man and  Colegrove.  Much  of  this  original  rancho  is  still  intact,  and 
constitutes  one  of  the  largest  and  most  valuable  land  holdings  in  south- 
ern California. 

Major  Hancock  located  in  Los  Angeles  in  1852.  He  was  both  an 
attorney  and  a  surveyor.  He  surveyed  many  private  ranches  in  differ- 
ent parts  of  California  and  for  a  number  of  years  served  as  United 
States  sur\'eyor.  He  made  the  second  official  survey  of  the  city  of  Las 
Angeles.  He  represented  Los  Angeles  county  in  the  Legislature.  Of 
the  talented  and  noble  woman  who  became  his  wife,  and  who  survived 
him  many  years,  a  separate  sketch  has  been  prepared  and  published 
in  this  volume. 

When  Major  Hancock  died  a  committee  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar 
Association  prepared  a  memorial  indicating  in  official  language  some 
of  the  facts  already  stated,  and  from  which  the  following  sentences 
are  taken :  "God  in  His  Wisdom  has  called  to  his  final  rest  our  brother, 
the  late  Major  Henry  Hancock,  long  a  member  of  this  court  and  the 
courts  of  this  state.  We,  his  brothers  in  the  profession  in  which  he,  by 
his  integrity  and  ability,  made  himself  a  conspicuous  ornament,  and  by 
his  services  to  his  country  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  in  the  late  war 
between  the  states,  gave  evidence  of  his  devotion  and  patriotism,  there- 
fore, 

"Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  the  late  Major  Henry  Hancock,  the 
bar  of  this  city  and  the  state  loses  a  pure  and  upright  man,  able  and 
energetic  in  his  profession,  one  who  at  a  loss  to  himself  was  ever  will- 
ing to  devote  his  time,  energy  and  learning  to  redress  the  wrongs  and 
injuries  of  others:  that  in  the  death  of  Major  Henry  Hancock  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lived,  the  State  and  Nation,  have  lost  the  services 
of  a  pure  and  upright  citizen,  an  able  lawyer  and  a  patriotic  soldier." 

Ida  Hancock  Ross.  Among  California  women  whose  lives  have 
been  significant  through  character,  richness  of  purpose,  and  extent  of 
influence  and  charity,  that  of  the  late  Ida  Hancock  Ross  has  an  interest 
that  is  still  vital,  though  she  was  taken  from  the  living  more  than  five 
years  ago. 

She  was  a  real  California  pioneer,  and  she  lived  through  and  was 
impressed  by  the  romance,  the  hardships  and  all  the  glamor  which  sur- 
rounded and  invested  the  California  of  the  past  and  the  epic  days  of 
the  west. 


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She  was  born  at  Imperial,  Illinois,  in  1843,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy  at  Los  Angeles,  March  15,  1913.  Her  father  was  Count  Agos- 
tin  Haraszthy,  whose  life  and  history  have  special  interest  for  the  pres- 
ent time.  He  was  one  of  the  figures  who  made  glorious  the  early  strug- 
gle of  Hungary  against  the  despotic  forces  which  manacled  that  coun- 
try for  generations.  On  account  of  his  active  efforts  in  behalf  of  free- 
dom he  was  exiled  from  his  native  land  in  1840.  Coming  to  America, 
he  cast  his  fortunes  in  the  land  of  liberty.  His  wife  was  Elenora  de 
Dediniskyi,  a  noblewoman  of  Polish  ancestry.  Their  daughter  Ida  was 
born  soon  after  they  came  to  America.  They  had  six  children  before 
they  started  for  California.  The  oldest  son  remained  in  the  east,  at 
the  Annapolis  Naval  Academy.  Count  Haraszthy's  father  also  accom- 
panied the  party  to  California. 

They  came  to  this  state  over  the  Santa  Fe  trail  during  the  summer  of 
1849.  The  late  Mrs.  Ross  was  old  enough  to  appreciate  many  of  the 
circumstances  of  that  romantic  and  dangerous  exodus.  After  many 
weeks  of  traveling,  suffering  from  hunger  and  thirst,  and  with  good  for- 
tune escaping  hostile  Indians,  the  party  arrived  in  San  Diego,  where 
Count  Haraszthy  established  his  home.  Here  his  character,  superior 
ability  and  broad  intelligence  brought  him  into  local  prominence.  He 
was  chosen  to  offices,  being  elected  first  sheriff  of  the  county,  and  also 
marshal  of  the  city,  while  his  father  became  first  justice  of  the  peace 
and  president  of  the  first  City  Council.  In  1852  Count  Haraszthy  was 
sent  to  the  Legislature  from  San  Diego.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  at  the  same  time  with  Major  Henry  Hancock,  the  future 
husband  of  his  daughter.  Eventually  Count  Haraszthy  removed  to 
Sonoma  county  and  planted  a  vineyard,  the  original  stock  of  which  was 
imported  from  Europe  and  formed  the  first  vines  ever  grown  in  the  state 
for  industrial  purposes.  In  1860  Governor  Downey  sent  Count  Haraszthy 
to  Europe  to  collect  cuttings  of  the  finest  wine  grapes  to  use  in  develop- 
ing the  California  industry.  He  made  this  important  and  interesting  trip 
at  his  own  expense.  In  1867  Count  Haraszthy  went  to  Central  America, 
and  died  there  the  following  year. 

Ida  Haraszthy  was  six  years  old  when  her  parents  came  to  Cali- 
fornia. In  1851  she  and  some  of  her  brothers  and  sisters  and  her 
mother  went  back  east  and  remained  five  years,  completing  her  educa- 
tion in  select  institutions  of  the  eastern  states.  In-  1860  she  and  her 
mother  went  to  Paris,  in  which  city  she  lived  two  years  and  became  in- 
timate with  all  the  culture  and  social  advantages  of  that  great  capital. 
Then  upon  her  return  to  California  she  entered  upon  her  social  duties, 
and  soon  afterward  became  the  bride  of  the  gallant  Major  Hancock. 

After  his  death  in  1883  she  was  left  alone  with  her  two  sons  to 
rear  and  educate,  and  with  the  property  heavily  encumbered.  Then  and 
there  she  showed  the  nobility  of  her  temper  and  the  nobility  of  her  an- 
cestry. With  great  courage  and  devotion  she  took  her  boys  to  the  little 
old  ranch  house  and  for  two  years  struggled  and  did  much  of  the  rough 
labor  of  the  ranch  with  her  own  hands.  At  the  same  time  she  kept 
her  boys  in  school  near  San  Francisco.  Her  splendid  business  judgment 
eventually  lifted  the  mortgage  from  the  land,  and  from  that  time  for- 
ward she  lived  in  comfort,  but,  like  the  queen  of  classic  mythology,  hav- 
ing experienced  suffering  she  was  always  sympathetic  with  those  who 
suffered,  and  understood  the  privations  of  the  human  lot.  It  was  this 
charity,  born  partly  of  experience  and  partly  from  the  generosity  of  her 
character,  that  did  so  much  to  distinguish  Madame  Ross,  as  she  was 
known.    Few  have  succeeded  so  well  in  the  master  principle  of  charity, 


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covering  up  the  deeds  from  the  knowledge  of  those  benefited.  It  is  only- 
possible  to  say  that  the  results  of  this  private  charity  were  enormous  in 
the  aggregate,  but  concerning  its  details  the  record  can  live  only  in  the 
hearts  of  the  recipients.  Of  one  public  benefaction  people  knew  only,  a 
semi-annual  treat  of  ice  cream,  cake  and  candy  to  every  orphan  diat 
could  be  found  to  partake  in  Los  Angeles.  One  of  these  occasions 
occurred  on  her  birthday  and  the  other  either  at  Christmas  or  Easter. 

By  her  first  marriage  with  Major  Hancock  she  had  one  son  to 
grow  up,  George  Allan  Hancock,  mentioned  in  separate  paragraphs. 
In  1909  Mrs.  Hancock  became  the  wife  of  Hon.  Erskine  M.  Ross,  who 
served  as  a  useful  officer  on  the  Confederate  side  in  the  Civil  war,  and 
came  to  Los  Angeles  fifty  years  ago  and  has  long  been  one  of  the  dis- 
tinguished lawyers  and  jurists  of  California.  Forty  years  ago  he  was 
elected  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  state,  and  has  also  served  as  a 
judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the  Southern  District  of 
California. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  of  Los  Angeles  is  the  place  at  Wil- 
shire  Boulevard  and  Vermont  avenue,  where  Mrs.  Ross  lived  until  her 
demise.  It  is  architecturally  a  replica  of  the  Villa  Medici  at  Florence, 
which  was  greatly  admired  by  Mrs.  Ross.  The  music  room  in  this 
Los  Angeles  mansion  is  a  marvel  of  art,  and  in  it  was  installed  by  Mrs. 
Ross  one  of  the  largest  pipe  organs  in  the  state.  It  was  also  enriched 
with  many  rare  art  treasures,  including  pictures  collected  by  Mrs.  Ross 
during  her  European  travels.  For  a  number  of  years  she  spent  about 
six  months  annually  abroad,  and  her  wealth  enabled  her  to  give  full 
scope  to  the  tastes  acquired  in  early  life  and  long  subsequent  study  of 
the  greatest  masters  of  painting  and  other  fine  arts.  She  was  richly 
endowed  with  critical  appreciation  of  all  the  best  in  music  and  art,  and 
also  of  those  talents  which  find  expression  in  practical  beneficence  and 
charity.  Such  a  life  becomes  a  resource  to  a  community,  and  it  was 
thus  regarded  when  Mrs.  Ross  passed  away.  She  had  lived  the  greater 
part  of  a  half  century  in  Los  Angeles,  had  delighted  in  the  growth  of 
that  Spanish  cormnunity,  as  she  first  knew  it,  into  the  unique  city  of  the 
western  continent,  and  she  took  a  corresponding  pride  in  all  that  fur- 
thered that  growth.  More  than  a  thousand  persons  gathered  at  the 
Cathedral  for  the  solemn  requiem  mass  by  Bishop  Conaty  and  Mon- 
signor  Harnett,  their  presence  testifying  to  the  popularity  of  Mrs.  Ross 
and  all  the  beauty  of  her  character. 

George  Allan  Hancock,  a  son  of  Major  Henry  Hancock  and  Ida 
Hancock  Ross,  both  distinguished  pioneers  of  the  old  Los  Angeles,  was 
born  at  San  Francisco,  July  26,  1875.  He  attended  the  Brewers  private 
school  at  San  Mateo  and  Belmont  School  at  Belmont,  California,  to  the 
age  of  eighteen.  After  taking  a  business  course  at  Los  Angeles  he 
went  on  his  father's  famous  Rancho  La  Brea  adjoining  Los  Angeles,  and 
was  immersed  in  the  practical  duties  of  this  great  property  up  to  the 
age  of  twenty-six.  After  that  he  was  employed  in  the  oil  field  on  the 
same  ranch,  and  acquainted  himself  with  every  phase  of  the  oil  industry 
during  the  next  four  years. 

At  that  time  Mr.  Hancock  organized  the  Rancho  La  Brea  Oil  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  is  owner.  He  individually  owns  two  thousand  acres 
of  this  famous  rancho.  Under  his  personal  supervision  seventy-one 
oil  wells  have  been  sunk,  and  there  is  a  total  of  a  hundred  and  eighty 
wells  on  the  land.  At  the  present  time  the  daily  production  of  gas 
from  this  field  amounts  to  two  and  a  half  million  cubic  feet,  all  of 


FROM  THE  MOUNiTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  83 

which  except  a  small  portion  used  for  operating  purposes  on  the  prop- 
erty is  supplied  to  domestic  consumers  in  Los  Angeles.  The  oil  pro- 
duction is  only  part  of  the  vast  resources  Mr.  Hancock  superintends. 
He  has  fifteen  hundred  acres  in  cultivation,  a  thousand  acres  in  beans, 
and  five  hundred  acres  in  barley. 

In  the  south  room  of  the  Museum  of  History,  Science  and  Art 
of  Los  Angeles,  there  is  on  exhibition  a  collection  of  animal  skeletons 
from  the  Rancho  La  Brea  deposit.  These  animals  belong  to  the  period 
immediately  preceding  recent  times,  the  geological  epoch  known  as  the 
"Pleistocene,"  in  which  occurred  the  last  glacial  advance  and  when  the 
earlier  forms  of  life  were  disappearing,  replaced  by  the  more  modern 
types  which  now  inhabit  the  earth.  ()n  June  23,  1918,  Mr.  George 
Allan  Hancock,  the  present  owner  of  Rancho  La  Brea,  granted  to  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  of  Los  Angeles  the  exclusive  privilege  of  excavat- 
ing for  a  period  of  years.  This  work  is  being  done  under  the  auspices 
ot  the  Museum  of  History,  Science  and  Art,  the  specimens  to  remain 
in  the  possession  of  the  institution.  The  specimens  thus  acquired  are 
to  be  segregated  and  exhibited  at  the  Museum  as  the  Hancock  Collec- 
tion— a  memorial  erected  by  Mr.  George  Allan  Hancock  in  memory 
of  his  parents.  Major  Henry  Hancock  and  Mrs.  Ida  Hancock  Ross, 
The  institution  is  to  have  eventually  a  room  devoted  solely  to  this  ex- 
hibit, to  be  known  as  the  Hancock  Room. 

Mr.  Hancock  is  vice-president  of  the  Hibernian  Savings  Bank  of 
Los  Angeles,  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic Club,  the  Gamut  Club,  the  Uplifters,  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco  and  of  a  number  of  yacht  clubs.  He 
is  a  republican  voter  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church.  Mr.  Han- 
cock has  his  own  extensive  hobby,  which  gives  him  real  pleasure — 
his  yacht,  on  which  he  spends  his  Saturdays  and  Sundays,  usually  en- 
tertaining a  number  of  guests.  This  yacht  was  designed  and  planned 
by  its  owner,  and  is  unusual  in  the  fact  that  boatmen  and  builders  pre- 
dicted that  it  would  prove  a  failure.  Severe  tests  have  demonstrated  it 
the  safest  and  soundest  of  craft.  Mr.  Hancock  is  his  own  captain  and 
always  takes  full  charge  of  the  handling  of  his  boat  and  its  navigation. 

Mr.  Hancock  has  many  of  the  artistic  traits  of  his  honored  mother 
"and  is  especially  well  known  in  musical  circles  in  southern  California. 
His  favorite  musical  instrument  is  the  cello,  and  it  is  hardly  fair  to  call 
him  an  amateur,  though  he  is  an  amateur  in  spirit  and  ranks  with  the 
leading  professionals  in  skill  and  technique  on  that  instrument.  He  has 
one  of  the  finest  instruments  in  existence,  one  made  in  1772  by  Nicolus 
Gagliano.  His  mother  spent  much  time  and  took  a  great  deal  of  care 
in  selecting  this  instrument  while  she  was  abroad.  Mr.  Hancock  has 
played  with  the  Los  Angeles  Symphony  Orchestra  for  six  years,  and 
his  personal  time  and  resources  do  much  to  keep  up  that  splendid  organ- 
ization. He  served  as  its  treasurer  from  1914  to  1916,  and  its  president 
for  the  years  1917-18^19.  Mr.  Hancock,  through  his  untiring  efforts, 
has  been  successful  in  bringing  the  Los  Angeles  Symphony  over  a  most 
trying  era  in  its  history.  Last  year  it  emerged  from  a  very  successful 
season,  leaving  the  orchestra  to  commence  its  future  work  clear  of  all 
past  debts. 

In  Los  Angeles,  November  12,  1901,  Mr.  Hancock  married  Gene- 
vieve Mullen.  They  have  two  children:  Bertram  Deane,  born  in  1902, 
who  attended  Notre  Dame  University,  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  one 
year,  and  is  now  a  student  in  Santa  Clara  College,  Santa  Clara,  Cali- 
fornia. Rosemary,  the  second  child,  is  a  student  in  the  Ramona  Con- 
vent, at  Alhambra,  California. 


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Spencer  Langdon  Blodget,  of  Huntington  Beach,  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Calilornia  since  Ibso  and  is  well  known  in  banking  and  business 
circles.  He  and  his  wife,  Carra  Myrtle  Belnap  Blodget,  represent  some 
of  the  oldest  American  New  England  families.  Of  Puritan  English 
stock,  their  ancestors  fought  in  every  American  war.  The  first  Ameri- 
can ancestor  of  Mr.  Blodget  was  Thomas,  who  spelled  his  name  Blogget. 
He  came  from  Norfolk,  England,  in  1635.  Mrs.  Blodget's  first  an- 
cestor was  Abraham  Belnap,  who  came  from  County  Kent  in  the  same 
year.  Twelve  of  the  Blodget  and  Belnap  families  were  soldiers  in  the 
Revolutionary  war. 

Spencer  Langdon  Blodget  was  born  at  Sugar  Grove,  Pennsylvania, 
May  7,  1859.  He  is  a  son  of  William  Oren  Blodget,  born  at  Gorham, 
New  York,  in  1824,  a  school  teacher  and  merchant  at  Sugar  Grove, 
Pennsylvania,  who  served  as  first  lieutenant  in  the  151st  Pennsylvania 
Infantry  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg ;  a  grandson  of  Arba  Blodget,  a 
soldier  of  the  War  of  1812 ;  and  great-grandson  of  Solomon  Blodget,  a 
direct  Revolutionary  ancestor  of  Brimfield,  Massachusetts.  Other  an- 
cestral lines  represented  in  William  Oren  Blodget  were  Thomas  Maule, 
known  in  history  as  the  first  defender  of  Free  Press,  who  lived  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts :  Isaac  Sternes,  Gregory  Stone,  Walter  Haynes, 
Sergeant  John  Tidd  and  other  Puritan  pioneers. 

The  mother  of  Spencer  L.  Blodget  was  Esther  Ann  Spencer,  who 
was  descended  from  Squire  Benjamin  Spencer,  whose  controversy  with 
Ethan  Allen  of  V'emiont  resulted  in  riots  and  the  outlawry  of  Allen. 
Benjamin  Spencer  and  his  five  sons  were  United  Empire  Loyalists  and 
moved  to  Canada,  where  the  family  lived  for  generations. 

Spencer  Langdon  Blodget  finished  his  education  as  a  student  in  the 
Annapolis  Naval  Academy,  but  resigned  to  engage  in  business.  He 
was  a  merchant  in  Pennsylvania,  and  on  coming  to  California  i)i  1885 
settled  at  Bakersfield.  For  a  number  of  years  his  home  has  been  at 
Huntington  Beach,  and  he  was  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
that  town  from  1906  to  1913  and  is  still  a  director.  He  served  as 
colonel  of  the  California  Sons  of  Veterans  in  1888,  and  for  ten  years 
ending  in  1898  was  lieutenant  in  the  California  National  Guards,  Com- 
pany G  of  the  Sixth  Regiment  at  Bakersfield.  Mr.  Blodget  is  a  repub- 
lican, a  Knights  Templar  Mason  and  Shriner  and  past  master  of  Bak- 
ersfield Lodge  and  Huntington  Beach  Lodge  and  past  commander  of 
Bakersfield  Commandery  of  the  Knights  Templar. 

He  and  Carra  I\Iyrtle  Belnap  were  married  December  17,  1878. 
She  was  descended  from  Jesse  Belnap,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  who 
forged  the  chain  to  obstruct  the  passage  of  the  Hudson  at  West  Point. 
Her  father,  A.  M.  Belnap,  came  to  California  in  the  gold  rush  of  the 
fifties,  crossing  Nicaragua  in  Central  America.  Later  he  returned  to 
Youngsvilie,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  postmaster  there  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  returned  to  California  in  1886,  and  died  at  Bakersfield  in 
1910,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five.  His  wife  was  Ellen  Fletcher,  descended 
from  Robert  Fletcher,  and  from  Ezekiel  Cheever,  the  "Boston  School- 
master." Carra  Myrtle  Belnap  was  born  at  Youngsvilie,  Pennsylvania, 
February  12,  1860,  and  died  in  1893.  S.  L.  Blodget  married  in  1895 
Florence  Langdon, 

Mr.  Blodget  by  his  first  wife  had  five  sons  and  one  daugb.ter,  all 
now  grown.  The  oldest,  Claude  R.  Blodget,  is  in  business  at  Bakers- 
field. The  second,  Percy  L.  Blodget,  is  a  mining  engineer.  The  third, 
Rush   M.   Blbdgett,  is  an  attorney.     The   fourth.  Ward   B.   Blodget,  is 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  85 

chief  geologist  of  the  Sante  Fe  oil  properties.  The  youngest,  Lewis 
W.  Blodget,  is  city  attorney  of  Huntington  Ueach.  The  one  daughter, 
Marian  B.,  is  the  wife  of  C.  C.  Ramsey,  of  Bakersfield,  California.  All 
the  sons  are  Leland  Stanford  men  except  Lewis.  Four  of  them  have 
military  records.  Claude  served  as  a  sergeant  in  Company  G,  Sixth 
Regiment,  California  Volunteers,  in  the  Spanish-American  war.  The 
other  three  had  their  military  experience  during  the  World  war.  Percy 
was  captain  of  the  United  States  Engineers;  Ward,  a  private  in  the 
23rd  Regiment  of  Engineers,  and  Lewis,  a  first  lieutenant  in  Headquar- 
ters Company,   13th  Regiment  Infantry. 

Rush  M.  Blodget,  senior  member  of  Blodget  &  Blodget,  lawyers 
at  Los  Angeles  and  Huntington  Beach,  has  lived  in  California  for  over 
thirty-five  years  and  since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1907  has  made 
an  enviable  record  as  an  attorney  and  counselor. 

Mr.  Blodget  was  born  at  Youngsville,  Pennsylvania,  December  3, 
1881,  a  son  of  Spencer  Langdon  and  Carra  Myrtle  (Belnap)  Blodget. 
He  came  out  to  California  with  his  parents  in  1884.  His  mother  died 
in  1893  and  his  father  is  a  resident  of  Huntington  Beach  and  an  expert 
accountant  by  profession.  Rush  Al.  Blodget  acquired  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  Bakersfield,  graduated  from  the  Kern 
County  High  School  with  the  class  of  1899,  and  took  his  law  work 
in  Leland  Stanford  University,  graduating  LL.  B.  in  1907.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  California  bar  in  July  of  that  year,  and  in  1908  became 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Watkins  &  Blodget  at  Los  Angeles.  In 
1912  he  took  up  an  individual  practice,  and  has  since  been  associated 
with  his  brother  under  the  name  of  Blodget  &  Blodget,  handling  all  the 
business  of  that  firm  at  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Blodget  was  city  attorney  of  Huntington  Beach  from  1909  to 
1911,  served  in  a  sinular  capacity  at  Stanton  in  1911-12,  and  since  his 
appointment  in  1918  has  been  city  attorney  of  Venice,  where  he  resides. 
He  is  independent  in  politics.  Mr.  Blodget  served  seven  years  as  a 
member  of  the  National  Guard,  is  a  member  of  the  Delta  Chi  fraternity, 
Huntington  Lodge  No.  380,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  is  a  member  of  Los  An- 
geles Chapter  of  the  California  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association. 

May  29,  1911,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  Beryl  Lorena  French, 
a  native  daughter  of  California  and  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  Nor- 
mal School  in  1907.  Her  parents  were  James  Edward  and  Mary 
(Prosser)  French.  Both  the  Prossers  and  Frenches  were  among  the 
early  day  California  pioneers.  Her  father,  who  died  in  1896,  was  for 
many  years  a  fruit  grower  at  Loomis,  California,  where  Mrs.  Blodget 
was  born.  Mary  Prosser  French  is  still  living  at  the  old  homestead  in 
Loomis.  Her  father,  Robert  Prosser,  was  a  Virginian,  hating  the  insti- 
tution of  slavery-,  and  left  the  south  and  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
where  he  was  a  carriage  manufacturer,  and  in  the  early  fifties  crossed 
the  plains  to  California.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blodget  have  one  son.  Rush  M. 
P>lodget  II,  born  at  Los  Angeles  November  3,  1918. 

Lewis  William  Blodget  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Blodget  & 
lilodget,  of  Huntington  Beach  and  Los  Angeles,  and  handles  the  prac- 
tice of  the  firm  at  Huntington  Beach.  Mr.  Blodget  is  well  versed  in 
the  law  and  is  a  young  man  whose  past  record  gives  signal  promise  of 
brilliant   performance   in   coming   years. 


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He  was  born  at  Bakersfield,  California,  November  27 ,  1893,  a  son 
of  Spencer  Langdon  and  Carra  (Belnap)  Blodget.  His  father,  a  resi- 
dent of  Huntington  Beach,  is  an  expert  accountant  in  the  motor  vehicle 
department  of  Los  Angeles*  Lewis  William  was  the  youngest  of  a 
family  of  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  his  mother  died  at  Bakersfield 
soon  after  his  birth.  He  was  educated  in  the  grammar  schools  of  Bak- 
ersfield, the  high  school  at  Huntington  Beach,  graduated  in  1911,  and 
received  his  degree  Bachelor  of  Laws  from  the  University  of  Southern 
California  in  1915.  After  a  few  weeks  of  practice  alone  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  his  brother.  Rush  Af.  Blodget,  as  Blodget  &  Blodget, 
with  offices  in  Los  Angeles  and  Huntington  Beach.  Lewis  looks  after 
all  the  business  at  Huntington  Beach,  while  his  brother  takes  charge 
of  the  practice  at  Los  Angeles,  and  they,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  carry  on 
an  individual  practice,  being  associated  when  their  interests  require  it. 

Mr.  Blodget  was  in  the  United  States  Army  a  year  and  a  half, 
serving  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  and  being  stationed  at  Camp 
Fremont,  Camp  Mills,  Long  Island,  Camp  Merrit,  New  Jersey,  and  also 
at  Washington.  He  was  one  of  many  officers  denied  the  privilege  of 
getting  into  overseas  duty,  his  legal  experience  calling  him  to  special 
work  in  Washington.  He  was  commissioned  a  first  lieutenant  of  the 
Regular  Army,  and  much  of  his  time  was  spent  in  drilling  and  instruct- 
ing troops.  The  day  that  the  armistice  was  signed  he  was  on  board 
Transport  No.  42  preparatory  to  going  overseas,  but  left  that  transport 
at   Hoboken,   New  Jersey,  the  next   morning. 

While  he  was  in  the  army  he  was  appointed  city  attorney  of  Hunt- 
ington Beach,  and  by  means  of  telegrams  from  leading  citizens  of  that 
community  he  was  discharged  from  the  army  and  reached  home  the  lat- 
ter part  of  January,  1919.  Mr.  Blodget  is  a  republican  and  has  been 
prominent  in  politics  and  civic  affairs  at  Huntington  Beach  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  He  is  senior  deacon  of  Huntington  Lodge  No.  380,  A.  Y . 
and  A.  M.,  a  member  of  the  Delta  Chi  college  fraternity,  the  Orange 
County  Bar  Association,  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  California  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  Mr. 
Blodget  was  married  September  2,  1919,  at  Huntington  P)each,  Cali- 
fornia, to  Miss  May  Ball,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey. 

Frank  E.  Dunlap  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Stockton,  California, 
thirty  years  ago,  and  since  1907  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles. 
Here  with  offices  in  the  Union  Oil  Building  he  has  built  ixp  one  of  the 
largest  individual  organizations  in  the  legal  circles  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia. He  has  an  extensive  corporation  and  land  title  practice,  and 
has  his  business  thoroughly  systematized  with  six  competent  lawyers 
under  him,  each  assigned  to  a  different  branch  of  the  work.  Mr.  Dun- 
lap  is  a  Californian  of  long  residence  and  many  varied  interests  and 
associations  with  the  state.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  ex- 
tensively interested  in  oil  development. 

He  was  born  November  6,  1859,  on  a  farm  near  Trenton  in  Grund\- 
county,  Missouri,  (ieneral  E.  H.  Crowder,  who  so  ably  administered 
the  draft  organization  during  the  recent  war,  was  born  in  jMissouri  in 
the  same  year,  and  General  John  Pershing  was  born  the  year  following. 
Mr.  Dunlap  knew  both  of  them  as  boys  in  Missouri  while  they  were 
nursing  their  first  ambitions  for  a  military  career.  All  three  are  good 
friends  today,  and  General  Pershing  has  promised  Mr.  Dunlap  a  visit 
when  he  gets  back  to  the  United  States.  Mr.  Dunlap  is  a  son  .-,f  Wil- 
liam and  Elizabeth  (Foutz)  Dunlap.     His  people  were  well  to  do  Mis- 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  87 

-ouri  farmers,  moving  there  from  Ohio.  They  were  active  members 
of  the  Baptist  church,  and  his  father  served  as  a  deacon  and  largely 
through  his  influence  a  church  of  that  denomination  was  built  on  the 
Dunlap  farm.  William  Dunlap  and  wife  had  eleven  children,  si.x  sons 
and  five  daughters,  all  of  whom  grew  to  maturity.  Three  sons  and  two 
daughters  are  living  today  and  all  of  them  residents  of  California. 

Frank  E.  Dunlap  attended  the  public  schools  of  Missouri  and  fin- 
ished his  literary  education  in  the  Grand  River  College,  a  Baptist  institu- 
tion at  Edinburg,  in  Grundy  county.  He  graduated  A.  B.  with  the  class 
of  1880.  Up  to  that  time'  he  had  lived  as  a  Missouri  farm  boy,  and 
had  received  his  first  instruction  in  country  schools.  In  1881  he  came 
to  California,  locating  at  Stockton,  where  he  taught  and  studied  law 
alternately.  His  law  studies  were  carried  on  under  the  direction  and 
in  the  offices  of  the  la'te  Governor  James  H.  Budd  and  his  father, 
Joseph  H.  Butld,  at  Stockton.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  from  their 
office  in  June,  1888.  Mr.  Dunlap  practiced  law  at  Stockton  until  May, 
1907,  when  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles.  While  at  Stockton  he  was  in 
partnership  with  Judge  Paul  W.  Bennett  under  the  name  of  Bennett  & 
Dunlap,  and  also  with  Judge  J.  A.  Plummer,  now  on  the  Superior  Court 
Bench,  under  the  firm  name  of  Dunlap  &  Plummer.  He  has  had  no 
partnership  relation  in  Los  Angeles,  though,  as  abov^  noted,  his  busi- 
ness is  an  extensive  one  requiring  the  services  of  many  other  lawyers 
working  under  him 

While  at  Stockton  Mr.  Dunlap  became  prominent  in  politics  as  n 
republican.  He  served  one  term  as  city  attorney,  as  assistant  district 
attorney  one  term,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  from 
1899  to  1905.  For  seven  years  he  was  identified  with  the  National 
Guard  of  California,  being  adjutant  of  the  Sixth  Regiment  five  years 
He  was  formerly  master  of  Morning  Star  Lodge  No.  68,  V.  and  .\.  M., 
at  Stockton,  and  is  now  affiliated  with  Highland  Park  Lodge  No.  382 
and  still  retains  his  affiliation  with  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  at  Stockton. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  Stockton  Lodge  No.  11,  Independent  Order  of 
(  )dd  Fellows,  and  of  Charter  Oak  Lodge  No.  20,  Knights  of  Pythias,  at 
Stockton.  Mr.  Dunlap  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans  at  Stock- 
ton. His  father  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  L^nion  Army  during  the  Civil 
war,  serving  all  through  that  struggle  with  the  Twenty-first  Infantry 
Regiment  of  Missouri.  He  had  a  horse  shot  under  him  in  one  engage- 
ment. Mr.  Dunlap  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

December  11,  1889,  he  married  Miss  Althea  E.  Hickman,  a  native 
daughter  of  California,  born  and  educated  at  Stockton.  Her  parents 
were  Edward  and  Hepsabeth  B.  (Fisher)  Hickman,  both  now  deceased. 
Her  father  for  many  years  was  a  Stockton  dry  goods  merchant.'  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dunlap  had  two  sons,  both  born  at  Stockton.  Willard  E.  was 
educated  in  Los  Angeles,  graduating  from  Occidental  College  of  this 
city,  and  from  Leland  Stanford  University,  and  is  a  geologist  for  the 
General  Petroleum  Oil  Company  of  San  Francisco  in  the  Los  Angeles 
offices.  He  married  Miss  Marian  Bristol,  of  Los  Angeles.  The  other 
son,  Percival  H.,  was  educated  in  Occidental  College,  from  which  he 
graduated,  and  attended  Leland  Stanford  one  year.  He  was  in  charge 
of  the  Paul  N.  Boggs  Oil  Well  Supply  Company  at  Coalinga,  Cali- 
fornia, and  while  there  was  stricken  with  the  influenza  and  died  De- 
cember 15,  1918.     He  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  Mausoleum  at  Hollvwood. 


88  LOS  ANGELES 

Patrick  J.  McGarry,  a  son  of  the  late  Daniel  M.  McGarry,  whose 
career  as.  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  resident  has  been  reviewed  on  other 
pages,  is  a  pharmacist  by  profession  and  early  education,  but  since  his 
father's  death  has  been  active  in  real  estate  and  insurance  circles  and 
is  a  member  of  the  AlcGarry  Realty  Company. 

Like  his  other  brothers  he  was  born  in  Chicago,  July  27,  1879,  and 
was  an  infant  when  brought  by  his  parents  to  Los  Angeles.  He  re- 
ceived his  primary  education  in  the  Cathedral  School  and  then  entered 
St.  Vincent's  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  A.  B.  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1896  and  in  1898  received  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  from  the 
same  institution.  Later  he  entered  the  University  of  California  and  was 
graduated  from  the  pharmacy  department  in  1900.  He  practiced  phar- 
macy for  several  years,  but  in  1903,  upon  the  death  of  his  father,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  latter's  realty  interests,  and  has  since  continued  the  realty 
and  fire  insurance  business.  Later  his  brother,  D.  F.  McGarry,  became 
associated  with  him  under  the  title  McGarry  Realty  Company. 

Mr.  McGarry  is  also  a  man  of  many  civic  and  social  interests  and 
activities.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Municipal  Charities  Commis- 
sion from  June  10,  1913,  to  December  1,  1915,  and  was  commissioner 
in  charge  of  the  Municipal  Employment  Bureau  from  its  incepiion  in 
the  fall  of  1913  until  it  merged  with  the  State  Employment  Bureau.  For 
several  years  he  has  been  a  director  and  secretary  of  The  Tidings,  the 
official  organ  of  the  Catholic  church  in  this  diocese.  In  politics,  though 
registered  as  a  republican,  Mr.  McGarry  has  the  liberal  views  that  char- 
acterized his  father  and  the  McGarry  family  in  general.  He  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  Los  Angeles  Council  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  served 
as  its  grand  knight  two  terms,  1913-14,  and  is  now  master  of  the  Fourth 
Degree  Knights  of  Columbus  in  Southern  California.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Newman  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club, 
and  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Council  Newman  Club  of  the  University 
of  California.  He  is  president  of  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society  in 
Southern  California  and  is  a  former  president  of  the  Federation  of 
Catholic  Societies  of  Los  Angeles  County. 

At  Los  Angeles  November  22,  1913,  he  married  Miss  Cecile  Hoff- 
mann, daughter  of  Emile  and  Alice  (Mullen)  Hoffmann.  Her  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  the  late  Andrew  Mullen  of  Los  Angeles.  Emile  Hoff- 
mann's father  came  from  Lorraine  and  was  a  pioneer  in  San  Francisco, 
arriving  there  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  in  the  early  sixties. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  McGarry  have  three  young  children,  Emile  Daniel,  Alice 
Patricia  and  Patrick  James  McGarry,  Jr. 

Timothy  Spellacy  is  the  author  of  this  well-written  autobiography. 

I  was  born  in  the  beautiful  little  village  of  Conneautville,  Craw- 
ford County,  Pennsylvania.  Was  born  of  rich  but  honest  parents ;  rich 
as  counted  in  those  days;  the  evidence  of  which  was  the  fact  that  my 
father  cut  his  own  ice. 

I  have  no  remembrance  of  the  first  year  of  my  existence,  and  that 
history  comes  entirely  from  tradition,  which  informed  me  thnt  at  my 
birth  my  father  was  not  well  pleased,  and  (after  taking  one  look)  .his 
face  indicated  disappointment.  In  the  early  years  of  life  some  of  our 
wealthy  relatives  insisted  that  we  were  descended  from  royal  ancestry. 
My  father  and  mother  were  both  born  in  Ireland  and  naturally  claimed 
descent  from  the  last  king,  Brian  Boru,  and  mads  efforts  to  establish 
the  claim,  but  upon  the  ancestral  tree  there  always  appeared  the  mud 
cabin  which  convinced  that  we  were  from  common  stock  or  from  that 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  89 

tioble  class  that  Lincoln  claimed  the  Lord  loved,  proven  by  creating  so 
many. 

My  education  consisted  in  graduation  from  the  Conneautville  High 
School,  and  I  am  frank  to  admit  that  I  did  not  graduate  from  the  top 
of  the  class,  and  during  life  I  found  much  trouble  in  conforming  with 
the  great  majority  in  spelling.  I  had  a  system  of  my  own,  when  I 
found  that  a  specialist  in  orthography  by  the  name  of  Webster  had 
induced  people  to  follow  his  plan,  and  this  interfered  with  my  personal 
liberty.  1  tried  to  adopt  his,  but  even  up  to  twenty-eight  or  thirty  years 
of  age  I  still  insisted  on  spelling  sugar  with  an  "h."  I  left  home  at 
a  rather  early  age  and  became  interested  in  the  production  of  oil.  After 
one  year  at  the  University  of  Edenburg,  Clarion  County,  Pennsylvania, 
I  graduated  as  a  full-fledged  driller  and  most  of  my  life  followed  that 
occupation.  I  succeeded  at  times  as  an  oil  producer,  but  found  it  rather 
a  hard  game,  as  the  profits  were  not  always  sufficient  to  satisfy  a 
vicious  appetite  and  the  bankers — especially  the  latter.  I  found  with 
them  flying  was  easy,  but,  like  Dryas,  the  great  trouble  I  encountered 
was  when  I  was  compelled  to  alight.  The  only  time  and  place  with  my 
fellow  countrj'men  where  I  cut  much  ice  was  the  winter  of  '98  and  '99, 
which  I  spent  in  Alaska.  There  being  no  market  for  ice,  and  failing 
to  find  gold  in  sufficient  quantities,  I  returned  and  anchored  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  I  am  pleased  to  say  that  in  this  glorious  state  I  have  been 
shown  much  honor,  no  doubt  beyond  my  real  worth.  I  served  two 
terms  as  chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee,  and  at 
one  time  was  nominated  and  ran  for  railroad  commissioners,  in  which 
race  I  was  defeated.  Later  on  I  was  nominated  for  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor, and  this  was  the  glorious  epoch  of  my  life.  Owing  much  to  the 
magnificent  campaign  of  the  candidate  for  Governor,  the  voters  came 
nearly  putting  me  over,  but  I  was  defeated  by  a  small  majority.  I  am 
still  here  and  hope  that  I  may  remain  for  the  balance  of  life  and  have 
the  pleasure  of  enjoying  the  beautiful  climate  and  the  fine  associations 
of  the  good  people  of  this  state. 

I  have  up  to  the  present  time  refused  to  give  my  age,  but,  con- 
fidentially, will  say  that  I  was  born  in  the  year  1854,  and  some  of  the 
old  young  men  insist  that  I  have  passed  my  prime,  but  one  thing  is 
sure,  the  real  joy  of  living  will  prompt  me  to  stay  as  long  as  the  Lord 
is  willing,  and  while  I  know  that  I  have  not  always  followed  the  Golden 
Rule,  I  hope  that  when  I  pass  to  the  other  side,  that  I  may  be  admitted 
to  the  celestial  band  and  would  be  happy  to  play  upon  any  instrument. 

I  was  married  in  the  year  1893  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Doty,  of  St. 
Marys,  Ohio.  For  over  twenty-five  years  we  have  journeyed  along 
the  pathway  of  life,  encountering  some  storms,  but,  taken  all  in  all, 
have  enjoyed  much  sunshine,  not  always  having  the  good  things  that 
money  buys,  but,  compared  with  others,  we  have  no  complaint. 

I  have  been  what  might  be  called  a  temperance  man,  but  not  a 
bigoted  one.  In  politics  I  am  a  democrat,  and  sincerely  hope  that  the 
effort  for  a  world  combination  may  succeed  in  eliminating  the  great 
curse  of  war  and  may  bring  a  real  democracy  w-hich  means  genuine 
peace  and  comfort  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  world. 

I  am  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

The  photograph  accompanying  this  sketch  will  be  criticised  by  those 
knowing  me  best  as  not  a  fair  copy.  I  have  by  special  contract  rewarded 
the  photographer  for  removing  the  many  defects  that  might  change  the 
present  handsome  appearance. 

Timothy  Spellacy. 


90  LOS  ANGELES 

Edwin  S.  Rowley  has  been  a  factor  in  Los  Angeles  financial  affairs 
for  thirty  years,  and  has  had  his  home  in  the  city  since  1893.  It  is  said 
that  he  made  twelve  distinct  visits  to  southern  California  before  perma- 
nently locating. 

One  of  the  institutions  of  greatest  integrity  and  strength  in  south- 
ern California  is  the  Guaranty  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  with  resources 
of  over  twenty-eight  million  dollars  and  whose  home  at  Spring  and 
Seventh  streets  is  one  of  the  landmarks  of  the  Los  Angeles  district. 
The  name  of  Edwin  S.  Rowley  has  always  appeared  in  a  modest  rela- 
tionship to  this  bank,  but  he  shares  the  credit  with  M.  N.  Avery,  its 
president,  in  the  founding  of  the  institution  and  as  a  member  of  its 
Hoard  of  Directors  Mr.  Rowley  has  contributed  much  to  its  growth  and 
prosperity. 

Edwin  S.  Rowley  was  born  nt  ( )shkosh,  Wisconsin,  February  18, 
1857,  son  of  Edwin  A.  and  Sarah  James  (Sears)  Rowley.  His  father, 
who  was  born  at  Shorheim  in  Addison  county,  Vermont,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  Middlebury  College  of  his  native  state,  became  a  lawyer  and 
for  many  3'ears  had  a  successful  practice  at  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin,  to 
which  state  he  removed  in  1848,  when  Wisconsin  was  still  a  territory. 
Sarah  James  Sears  was  born  in  the  Berkshire  Hills  of  Massachusetts, 
and  spent  her  early  life  until  the  time  of  her  marriage  at  Chelsea.  Michi- 
gan. Edwin  S.  Rowley  is  the  only  son  of  four  children.  He  has  one 
sister  living,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Sheldon,  at  Palo  Alto. 

Mr.  Rowley  spent  ten  years  of  his  early  life  at  Oshkosh  and  ten  years 
at  Niles,  Michigan,  and  completed  his  education  in  those  two  cities. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  to  South  Dakota  and  there  became  identi- 
fied with  banking.  During  ten  years  spent  in  Dakota  Territory  he  or- 
ganized and  was  managing  head  of  a  number  of  banks,  making  his  home 
while  there  at  Woonsocket  and  Canton,  South  Dakota.  For  about  seven 
years  Mr.  Rowley  was  a  resident  of  Omaha  and  connected  with  the 
L'nion  National  Bank  of  that  city. 

He  is  a  member  of  all  the  local  Masonic  bodies.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  was  on  its  Board  of  Directors 
five  years,  during  which  time  the  club  building  was  constructed.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  California  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 

Mr.  Rowley  married  Miss  Kate  L.  I'endexter,  of  Conway.  New 
Hampshire.  Their  daughter  is  Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Ridg\vay.  Mr.  Ridg- 
way  is  a  Los  .'\ngeles  lawyer  with  offices  in  the  ITnion  Oil  lluilding, 
wliere  Mr.  Rowley  also  has  his  business  headc|uarters. 

Michael  Joseph  McGarky.  During  his  twenty-five  years  active 
membership  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar,  Michael  Joseph  ^Ic- 
Garr>'  has  practiced  as  a  general  practitioner,  and  at  the  same  time  has 
represented  many  diverse  and  important  interests,  and  his  name  needs 
no  heralding  as  one  of  the  prominent  members  of  the  bar  of  Southern 
California.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Daniel  M.  McGarry,  a  prominent 
business  man  and  benefactor  of  Los  Angeles,  whose  record  appears  on 
other  pages  of  this  publication. 

Michael  Joseph  McGarry  was  born  in  Chicago  April  Li,  1872,  and 
was  about  nine  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  Los  Angeles.  He 
bad  attended  a  parochial  school  in  Chicago,  and  in  Los  Angeles  entered 
St.  Vincent's  College,  from  which  institution  he  received  the  honoraiy 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1911.  On  leaving  St.  Vincent's  and  in 
pursuance  of  the  plan  of  his  parents  to  give  their  sons  a  thorough  and 
careful  education,  he  went  abroad  and  entered  Clongowes  Wood   Col- 


FROM  THE  MOUNlTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  91 

lege,  in  Dublin,  Ireland.  In  1890,  having  returned  to  this  country,  he 
entered  Notre  Dame  University,  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  and  was 
graduated  from  tl:e  law  department  with  the  degree  LL.  B.  June  21, 
1894.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Indiana  bar,  and  on  October  9,  1894, 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  California.  From  that  date  to  the  present 
Mr.  McGarry  has  been  busy  with  a  growing  law  practice.  He  is  a 
director  in  a  number  of  commercial  and  mining  corporations. 

Mr.  McGarry  has  never  permitted  his  name  to  be  considered  in 
connection  with  any  elective  pubHc  office,  but  has  rendered  valuable 
and  highly  appreciated  services  in  positions  that  ofi'er  opportunity  for 
a  great  deal  of  hard  work  out  of  proportion  to  all  the  personal  honor. 
He  served  four  years  as  a  park  commissioner  and  two  years  as  a  fire 
commissioner,  and  in  both  cases  instituted  a  number  of  improvements 
that  were  essential  to  the  proper  growth  and  development  of  the  city  at 
the  time.  Mr.  McGarry  is  independent  of  partisan  control  so  far  as 
politics  is  concerned,  and  is  governed  entirely  by  the  best  interests  of 
the  community,  state  and  nation.  He  has  been  a  student  of  politics 
and  economics  for  many  years,  and  has  seldom  been  interested  in  any 
of  the  faddist  organizations  for  improving  some  item  of  government, 
but  is  ready  to  support  any  broad  and  well  considered  program  for 
good  government  as  applied  to  all  interests  concerned. 

He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Newman  Club,  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  the  County,  State  and  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciations, has  been  an  officer  in  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  is  past  exalted 
ruler  of  Lodge  No.  99,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and 
is  past  state  president  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians. 

At  Chicago,  May  10,  1898,  he  married  Mary  Evelyn  Quinlan," 
daughter  of  T.  A.  Quinlan  Sr.  and  Alice  Ladd,  of  Chicago.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  McGarry  have  four  children,,  named  Florence,  Paul.  Madeleine 
and  Evelyn. 

Paul  Ovf.rtoj;,  general  counsel  for  the  Los  Angeles  Gas  &  Electric 
Corporation,  studied  law  under  the  instruction  of  two  of  the  most  emi- 
nent justices  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  at  Washington,  and 
has  had  an  unusualh-  wide  range  of  duties  in  his  profession,  having 
spent  one  year  in  the  Philippine  Islands,  though  the  greater  part  of  his 
])rofessional  career  has  been  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Willis,  Texas,  March  18.  1879,  son  of  Colonel 
James  Frank  and  Mary  L.  (Sturgeon)  (.)verton.  In  his  native  slate  he 
had  a  public  school  e.hv^ition,  but  during  18').=^-9('i  lived  in  Washnigton, 
D.  C,  and  at  that  tinit  lunl  as  his  preceptor^  in  law  Justices  Harlan  and 
Urewer.  in  I'XH)  lie  i:irailuated  LL.  1'..  from  the  Law  Department  of 
Cornell  Uni\er^ily,  and  in  the  same  year  was  admitted  to  the  Texas 
bar.  Lie  [jracliced  alMuit  two  years  in  San  Antoiiio  and  in  1902  re- 
moved to  Califtjrnia  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  October  of  that 
year.  He  has  since  been  admitted  to  the  Circuit  and  l^istrict  I'ederal 
Courts  of  California.  In  Los  .\ngeles  he  was  first  associated  with  Dun- 
ning &  Craig,  attorneys  for  the  Wholesalers  Board  of  Trade.  In  1903 
he  accepted  the  ap]wintment  of  Assistant  Attorney  (jeneral  of  the  Phil- 
ippine Islands,  and  was  al)sent  in  the  Orient  iierforming  his  official  du- 
ties until  1904.  Returning  to  Los  .\ngeles,  Mr.  ( )verton  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  Los  Angeles  Gas  &  Electric  Corporation,  at  first  as 
assistant  general  counsel  and  since  1915  as  general  counsel  in  charge  of 
the  entire  legal  department.  As  counsel  for  this  corporation  he  has 
lieen    engaged    in    important   litigation    involving    intricate    constitutional 


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questions  concerning  the  regulation  and  control  of  public  utilites  gen- 
erally as  well  as  the  conflict  between  municipalities  and  public  utilities. 
Mr.  Overton  is  a  past  president  of  Cornell  University  Club  of 
Southern  California,  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Los  Angeles 
County  Bar  Association,  California  State  Bar  Association,  and  is  a 
thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner.  He  is  a  past 
master  of  West  Lake  Lodge  No.  392,  F.  and  A.  M. 

Ferdinand  Randall  Bain.  As  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  Mr. 
Bain  is  best  known  as  president  of  the  Southern  Counties  Gas  Com- 
pany, in  which  he  acquired  a  large  interest  some  years  ago.  He  first 
served  as  vice-president  and  general  manager.  Mr.  Bain  had  been  a 
successful  financier  and  business  man  in  New  York  and  Poughkeepsie, 
where  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the  large  interests  and  the  reputation 
which  followed  him  to  the  West. 

He  was  born  at  Chatham,  New  York,  May  3,  1861,  son  of  Milton 
and  Charlotte  M.  (Nash)  Bain.  His  father,  a  native  of  Columbia  county, 
New  York,  who  was  educated  in  the  Claverick  institute,  became  a  New 
York  state  farmer,  but  in  1849  joined  a  party  of  twenty-four  men  who 
chartered  a  boat  at  Hudson,  New  York,  commanded  by  Captain  Waldo, 
and  made  a  six  months  voyage  to  California  around  the  Horn.  F'rom 
San  Francisco  the  party  went  to  Dutch  Gulch  and  were  engaged  in 
mining  there  until  1854.  They  made  their  return  by  way  of  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama,  the  journey  only  requiring  two  months.  After  that  Milton 
Bain  engaged  in  farming  in  Dutchess  county,  New  York,  until  his  death. 

F"erdinand  R.  Bain  attended  private  schools  at  Dover  Plains,  and 
in  1878  graduated  from  Bishop's  Preparatory  School  at  Poughkeepsie. 
His  parents  died  in  that  year,  and  he  gave  up  his  plans  for  a  college 
education.  For  about  twenty-five  years  he  was  in  the  real  estate  and 
investment  business  at  Poughkeepsie  and  New  York  and  in  that  time 
became  a  prominent  figure  in  the  financial  and  political  life  of  the  city. 
One  of  his  first  large  transactions  was  the  purchase  of  the  street  railway 
system  of  Poughkeepsie.  For  two  years  he  was  its  president  and 
general  manager.  After  selling  that  property  to  a  syndicate  he  became 
associated  with  Benjamin  B.  Odell,  one  of  New  York's  best  known  gover- 
nors, and  bought  the  Electric  Light  and  Gas  Companies  of  Newburgh 
and  Poughkeepsie.  He  was  president  of  that  corporation  one  year.  After 
that  his  interests  rapidly  broadened  and  expanded  and  he  became  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading  figures  in  backing,  railroad  and  public  utility 
circles  in  New  York  state.  For  two  years  he  was  president  of  the  Pough- 
keepsie Gas  and  Electric  Company.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Varick 
Realty  Company,  owners  of  a  square  Ijlock  of  property  in  the  heart  of 
New  York  City's  business  district.  A'Ir.  Bain  was  also  a  director  in  the 
Farmers  and  Afanufacturers  National  Bank  of  Poughkeepsie.  After  1904 
he  disposed  of  most  of  his  Poughkeepsie  holdings,  except  his  interest 
in  the  Gas  Company  and  the  bank,  and  had  his  headquarters  in  New 
York  City,  at  35  Wall  street.  For  about  seven  years  he  was  out  of  active 
touch  with  Inisiness  affairs,  and  spent  most  of  the  time  traveling. 

Mr.  Bain  served  as  a  city  alderman  at  Poughkeepsie  in  1886-90, 
and  was  then  elected  a  supervisor  of  Dutchess  county  for  two  years.  In 
1894  he  was  appointed  city  assessor  for  the  purpose  of  reorganizing  the 
assessment  system,  and  filled  that  office  two  years.  For  fourteen  years 
he  was  secretary  of  the  Dutchess  County  Agricultural   Society. 

In   1912  the  southern  counties  surrounding  Los  Angeles  were  but 


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poorly  supplied  with  gas,  the  business  small  and  conditions  very  poor. 
Mr.  Bain  took  over  the  plants  and  business  then  existing  at  I^'ullerton, 
.Anaheim,  Orange  and  Santa  Ana  and  began  improvements.  He  furnished 
the  capital  and  gave  the  business  the  benefit  of  his  personal  care  and 
experience,  with  the  result  that  the  Southern  Counties  Gas  Compi^ny  of 
today  is  one  of  the  remarkable  institutions  of  southern  California. 
The  great  growth  is  shown  in  the  following  comparisons:  June  1,  1912, 
tlie  company  was  started.  At  that  time  they  supplied  gas  to  but  six 
towns,  while  at  the  present  50  towns  are  supplied.  At  first  they  supplied 
6,000,000  feet  per  month,  while  now  the  supply  is  500,000,000  feet  per 
month.  The  original  3,200  meters  have  been  increased  to  60,000,  and 
the  receipts  hive  been  increased  from  $90,000  per  year  to  $2,250,000. 
They  now  extend  to  the  outlying  towns,  the  benefits  and  savings  of 
natural  gas  which  had  previously  been  wasted.  They  have  over  1,200 
miles  of  "distributing  mains.  The  single  oflke  that  did  duty  at  the  begin- 
ning has  given  place  to  two  entire  floors  in  the  Corporation  Building. 
The  Southern  Counties  Gas  Company  supplies  over  55,000  consumers, 
and  serves  a  population  of  over  3,000,000. 

Mr.  Bain  is  a  member  of  Triune  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  at 
Poughkeepsie,  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Countrv  Club,  the  Santa  Bnrbara  Country  Club,  the  Downtown  Club  of 
New  York  City,  the  Midday  Club  of  Chicago  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

At  Poughkeepsie  December  9.  1885,  ]\Ir.  Bain  married  Miss  Hattie 
T.  Kenworthy.  They  had  three  children:  Mrs.  Ethel  M.  Sherwood, 
of  New  York  city ;  Mrs.  Roy  Davids,  of  Albany,  New  York ;  and  Mrs. 
Eliot  Atwater,  of  New  York  City.  February  1,  1911,  Mr.  Bain  married 
Gertrude  M.  Benchley-Miller,  who  died  in  June,  1916,  at  Santa  Barbara. 

Charles  Rittersbacher,  who  died  at  Los  Angeles  April  26,  1919, 
was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  of  the  pioneer  oil  operators  in  what 
is  known  as  the  Mid-Continent  Oil  Field  and  also  in  fields  in  Cali- 
fornia. He  was  a  pioneer  producer  of  petroleum,  and  though  he  ex- 
perienced the  vicissitudes  and  fortunes  incident  to  an  oil  operator's  life, 
he  died  leaving  a  generous  fortune. 

He  was  born  at  Wilkesbarre,  Pennsylvania,  October  3,  1857,  a  son 
of  David  and  Eleanor  Rittersbacher.  His  father  had  been  a  Kansas 
pioneer.  Charles  Rittersbacher  acquired  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Wilkesbarre,  but  from  boyhood  had  to  depend  largely  upon 
his  own  exertions.  He  was  a  machinist  by  trade,  and  some  years  after 
leaving  home  he  and  his  two  partners,  H.  G.  Johnson  and  E.  A.  Aikin, 
established  a  machine  shop  at  Corsicana,  Texas.  Corsicana  was  then 
a  rapidly  developing  oil  center.  During  the  early  eighties  Mr.  Ritters- 
bacher, associated  with  his  partners,  and  with  a  modest  capital,  secured 
a  rig  and  drilled  an  oil  prospect  in  Corsicana.  Mr.  Rittersbacher  always 
regarded  this  as  fortunate  that  his  first  attempt  was  successful.  They 
struck  oil,  and  that  was  one  of  the  first  oil  strikes  in  Texas  and  was 
the  beginning  of  the  development  which  has  made  the  Mid-Continent 
field  the  greatest  source  of  petroleum  in  America.  Mr.  Rittersbacher 
and  his  associates  formed  the  American  Well  Prospecting  Company. 

While  the  pioneer  well  produced  oil,  there  were  attendant  difficul- 
ties that  might  well  have  discouraged  veterans  in  the  industry.  The 
operators  had  none  of  the  modern  machinery  and  appliances  for  drill- 
ing and  perfecting  a  well,  and  before  the  casing  was  completed  oil  ooz- 
ing from  the  well  trickled  down  the  side  of  a  hill.     A  drayman  who 


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was  on  the  scene  yielded  to  the  curiosity  to  see  if  the  oil  would  burn 
and  touched  a  match  to  the  ground,  and  in  an  instant  the  flames  shot 
up  the  hill  to  the  well.  The  machinery  was  lost  and  considerable  dif- 
ficulty was  encountered  in  quenching  the  fire. 

After  this  pioneer  exploit  Mr.  Rittersbacher  gave  much  of  his 
time  to  oil  development  and  for  eight  years  was  one  of  the  prominent 
operators  in  the  noted  fields  at  Bartlesville,  Oklahoma.  After  selling 
his  interests  there  he  came  to  California  in  1908.  He  had  been  in  the 
oil  business  thirty-five  years  when  he  died.  He  had  drilled  wells  in 
Louisiana  and  also  had  leases  on  vast  tracts  near  Taft,  in  Kern  County, 
California,  in  what  is  known  as  the  Mid  West  Field. 

Mr.  Rittersbacher  was  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Otder,  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  and  was  a  Lutheran  in  religion. 

He  married  Laura  Kraft  at  Salina,  Kansas,  thirty  years  ago.  She 
was  nineteen  years  old  when  married  and  was  born  near  Johnstown, 
Pennsylvania.  Her  people  moved  to  Salina,  Kansas,  when  she  was 
five  years  of  age.  Mrs.  Rittersbacher  has  a  vivid  memory  of  life  on 
the  Kansas  prairies  when  she  was  a  girl.  The  home  of  her  parents  was 
destroyed  by  a  cyclone,  the  entire  north  wall  having  been  nipped  away. 
Mrs.  Rittersbacher  and  four  children  survive  her  husband:  Elmer, 
Etta,  Edgar  and  Elsie.  They  are  now  planning  the  erection  of  a  per- 
manent home  in  southern  California. 

The  late  Mr.  Rittersbacher  was  vice  president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  American  Ventura  Oil  Company.  During  the  war  with 
Germany  his  resources  were  generously  used  for  supporting  various 
war  causes,  a  large  amount  being  invested  in  Liberty  Bonds.  The 
family  were  all  personally  active  in  the  war,  the  children  serving  either 
in  the  army  and  navy  or  in  Red  Cross  work. 

Benjamin  E.  Page.  The  many  important  connections  of  Mr.  Page 
as  a  lawyer  and  executive  official  emphasizes  the  truth  of  the  assertion 
that  he  is  one  of  the  versatile  members  of  his  profession  in  soutnern 
California.  He  has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  and  around  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  as  prominent  socially  as  he  is  professionally.  Mr.  Page  has 
specialized  in  banking,  mining  and  corporation  law,  and  as  financial  and 
legal  adviser  to  several  large  financial  corporations  it  is  said  that  millions 
of  dollars  have  been  invested  in  southern  California  under  his  advice  and 
supervision. 

Benjamin  Edwin  Page  was  born  at  North  Haven,  Connecticut, 
October  16,  1877,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Maltby  and  Cornelia  (Blakeslee) 
Page.  -He  represents  old  New  England  stock  on  both  sides.  His  great- 
grandfather was  a  West  India  merchant  and  later  a  New  England  manu- 
facturer. His  grandfather,  Rev.  Benjamin  St.  John  Page,  a  graduate 
of  Yale  Theological  School,  was  for  many  years  prominent  as  a  minister 
of  the  Congregational  and  Presbyterian  chui-ches.  Dr.  Benjamin  M. 
Page  had  a  successful  career  as  a  physician  'n  Cleveland,  Ohio,  but  on 
account  of  ill  health  gave  up  his  practice  and  came  to  California  in  1873. 

Benjamin  E.  Page  attended  the  public  schools  of  Pasadena,  graduat- 
ing from  high  school  in  1895,  and  in  1899  received  his  degree  A.  B. 
from  Leland  Stanford  University.  He  studied  law  in  the  Columbia 
Law  School  of  New  York,  graduating  LL.  B.  in  1902.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  New  York,  soon  afterward  to  that  of  California,  and  has 
also  been  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  He 
began  practice  at  Los  Angeles  in  the  firm  of  Bicknell,  Gibson  &  Trask, 
and  a  few  months  later  formed  a  partnership  with  Qarence  A.  Miller, 


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which  was  terminated  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Miller  in  1906.  At  Mr.  Page's 
request  Joseph  R.  Patton  came  from  San  Jose  to  Los  Angeles  and  they 
practiced  together  until  the  death  of  Air.  Patton  in  1910.  Since  then  Mr. 
Page  has  practiced  alone,  giving  practically  all  his  time  to  corporation, 
banking,  mining  and  insurance  law. 

P'or  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  the  linancial  representative  of 
the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Milwaukee  in  its 
California  business.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Southwestern 
Shipbuilding  Company,  and  is  its  general  counsel  and  a  director.  He 
was  formerly  general  counsel  for  the  Merchants  Bank  and  Trust  Com- 
pany and  helped  reorganize  it  as  the  Hellman  Commercial  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Bank,  of  which  he  is  president,  director  and  general  counsel.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  is  a  director  of  the  Occidental  Life  Insur- 
ance Company,  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Aronson  &  Company, 
a  director  of  the  State  Bank  of  San  Pedro,  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Alhambra,  counsel  for  the  Merchants'  National  Bank 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  has  represented  a  number  of  important  copper  com- 
panies of  Arizona  and  Nevada.  He  has  also  been  counsel  for  the  Los 
Angeles  Realty  Board,  the  Civic  Center  Association  and  a  number  of 
real  estate  firms. 

For  several  years  Mr.  Page  was  a  member  of  the  Pasadena  Board 
of  Education,  and  was  chairman  of  the  board  for  over  four  years.  He 
has  been  especially  interested  in  his  home  city  of  Pasadena,  but  has 
also  lent  public-spirited  co-operation  to  all  the  larger  movements  affect- 
ing southern  California  in  general.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California 
Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  Valley  Hunt  Club,  Cerritos  Gun  Club, 
Squirrel  Inn  Club,  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association,  and  is  a  re- 
publican and  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

March  1,  1906,  he  married  Marie  Markham,  eldest  daughter  of 
former  Governor  Henry  H.  Markham  of  California.  They  have  four 
children:  Eleanor,  a  student  in  the  Westridge  School  for  Girls;  Ben- 
jamin Markham,  bom  in  1911;  Henrv,  born  in  1913,  and  Robert,  born 
in  1919. 

Rev.  Michael  O'Gorman,  who  was  educated  and  ordained  to  the 
priesthood  of  the  Catholic  church  in  Ireland,  came  to  California  and  all 
his  active  work  has  been  done  in  the  Los  Angeles  district.  He  now  has 
one  of  the  large  afid  prosperous  churches  in  Pasadena. 

He  was  born  in  Cavan,  Province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  August  I.t, 
1883,  son  of  Andrew  and  Anne  (Collins)  O'Gorman.  To  the  qge  of 
fourteen  he  was  a  pupil  in  the  national  schools  of  Ireland  and  after  that 
for  five  years  took  his  classical  course  in  St.  Patrick's  Seminary  at 
Cavan.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  entered  upon  his  theological  and 
philosophical  courses  in  St.  Patrick's  College  at  Carlow,  where  he  was 
ordained  June  13,  1909. 

Almost  immediately  after  his  ordination  Father  O'Gorman  set  out 
for  the  United  States,  and  at  Los  Angeles  on  October  27,  1909,  was  ap- 
pointed assistant  pastor  at  the  Cathedral.  Three  months  later  he  be- 
came assistant  pastor  of  Our  Lady  of  Loretto  parish,  and  remained  there 
diligent  and  faithful  to  his  duties  eight  and  a  half  years.  Then  caine  his 
appointment  as  pastor  of  the  Holy  Family  Church  in  South  Pasadena. 
This  parish  has  had  a  rapid  growth  under  Father  O'Gorman  and  now 
contains  a  hundred  thirty-two  families,  and  property  beside  the  church 
is  to  be  improved  with  a  parochial  school,  to  be  conducted  by  the  Sis- 
ters of  the  Holy  Name.     Father  O'Gorman  has  recently  added  to  his 


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responsibilities  by  establishing  a  new  parish  at  Monterey  Park,  for- 
merly Ramona  Acres.  Eighty-two  families  are  in  that  parish,  and  in  a 
temporary  building  Mass  is  said  every  Sunday  morning.  At  the  close 
of  the  war  it  is  planned  to  erect  a  permanent  church  building  in  that 
parish  in  1918. 

Father  O'Gorman  is  a  third  degree  Knight  of  Columbus  and  is  a 
mjember  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians. 

Frank  C.  Collier  has  been  a  well-known  lawyer  in  the  southwest 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  his  own  services  and  abilities  have  contributed 
much  to  the  general  prestige  of  the  name  Collier  in  the  law,  business  and 
public  affairs.  His  father,  David  C.  Collier  was  one  of  those  interested 
in  the  Kansas  Border  troubles,  removing  to  Colorado  where  he  was  one 
of  the  first  white  men  in  the  Territory,  and  later  becoming  judge  of 
the  Gilpin  County  Court.  He  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  lawyer 
at  San  Diego.  Frank  C.  Collier  is  a  brother  of  Colonel  D.  C.  Collier, 
who  has  been  active  as  a  lawyer,  banker,  railroad  builder  and  was  di- 
rector general  and  later  president  of  the  Panama-California  Exposition 
at  San  Diego  in  1915. 

Frank  C.  Collier  was  born  in  a  mining  camp  at  Central  City,  Cali- 
fornia, September  14,  1878,  a  son  of  David  C.  and  Martha  Maria  (John- 
son) Collier.  In  1884  his  parents  moved  to  San  Diego,  where  he  grew 
up,  graduating  from  the  high  school  of  that  city  in  1896.  He  took  his 
law  work  jn  the  University  of  Michigan,  graduating  LL.  B.  in  1901.  He 
was  admitted  the  spme  year  to  the  bar  of  California  and  Michigan,  was 
admitted  to  the  District,  Circuit  and  Federal  Courts  in  1903  and  in 
1908  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  He  began  practice  with  the 
firm  of  Collier  &  Smith  at  San  Diego,  the  senior  partner  being  his 
brother.  During  1902  he  established  his  office  at  Prescott,  Arizona.  Mr. 
Collier  returned  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  and  for  three  years  followed  a 
general  practice,  his  clientage  involving  many  interests  in  the  south- 
west. During  1906-08  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Kemp  &  Collier, 
his  partner  being  John  W.  Ivemp.  Mr.  Collier  spent  the  greater  part  of 
the  year,  1909,  abroad  with  residence  at  London,  doing  some  special 
work  in  England.  In  the  latter  part  of  1909  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
and  then  became  associated  with  Oliver  O.  Clark  under  the  firm  name 
of  Collier  &  Clark.  Since  then  Mr.  Collier  has  steadily  practiced,  with 
offices  in  the  H.  W.  Hellman  Building.  He  and  his  firm  have  repre- 
sented as  attorneys  the  Los  Angeles  Wholesale  Jewefers  Board  of  Trade, 
the  Baltimore  Oil  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Collier  was  assistant  secre- 
tary, the  Los  Angeles  Record,  the  Anaconda  Petroleum  Company,  of 
which  he  is  secretary,  the  Edmund  G.  Peycke  Company,  the  Bekins  Van 
&  Storage  Company,  the  Freconee  Company,  of  which  he  was  secre- 
tary, and  the  Peerless  Pneumatic  Clutch  Company,  of  which  he  was  for 
several  years  the  secretary  and  is  now  counsel. 

He  is  a  knight  commander  of  the  Court  of  Honor,  a  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  and 
the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce.  December  11,  1905,  he  mar- 
ried Lucy  Kate  Pinkerton. 

W.  A.  BoNYNGE  during  the  past  thirty  years  has  been  identified  with 
a  number  of  important  business  and  financial  undertakings  at  Los  An- 
geles, and  in  insurance  and  banking  circles  his  name  is  probably  as  well 
known  as  that  of  any  other  man  in  southern  California. 

He   was   born   in    Lancashire,    England,   January   22,    1855,    son   of 


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Thomas  and  Louisa  (Taylor)  Bonyngc.  He  was  privately  Uitoretl  and 
also  attended  Alston  College  until  the  age  of  seventeen.  He  spent  one 
year  in  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons  at  Dub- 
lin, but  abandoned  the  profession  to  come  to  America.  He  located  at 
one  of  the  most  interesting  points  in  the  west  at  the  time,  Virginia  City, 
Nevada,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mining  at  the  famous  Comstock  Lode 
until  1880.  Mr.  Bonynge  then  removed  to  San  .\ntonio,  Texas,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  the  fire  insurance  business,  and  also  organized  the 
.Merchants'  and  JMechanics  Building  and  Loan  .Association,  which  he 
served  as  secretary. 

Froni  San  Antonio  .Mr.  Bonynge  turned  to  Los  .Vngeles  in  1888. 
Here  he  resumed  the  fire  insurance  business  and  in  1903  established  the 
Bonynge  &  Girdleson  Company,  a  well  known  and  prominent  fire  insur- 
ance agency  in  wliich  he  still  owns  a  half  interest.  That  is  only  one  of 
a  number  of  important  connections  he  formed.  In  1889  he  organized 
the  Home  Investment  Building  &  Loan  Association,  and  has  ever  since 
been  its  secretary  and  director.  In  1903  he  organized  the  Commercial 
National  Bank,  of  which  he  is  also  president  and  a  director.  Mr. 
lionynge  is  a  director  in  the  National  Bank  of  Riverside,  and  a  director 
of  the  Golden  State  Bank  of  Anaheim. 

Fraternally  he  has  been  especially  prominent  in  Odd  Fellowship, 
has  filled  all  the  chairs  in  the  order,  and  was  grand  master  of  the  state 
in  1899-1900.  He  is  a  member  of  South  Gate  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
and  also  a  Scottish  Rite  ]\Iason  and  Shriner.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Jonathan  Club,  Los  .Angeles '  Country  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
Municipal  League.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Episcopal  Church. 

At  Virginia  City.  .Vevatla,  in  January,  1878,  Mr.  Bonynge  married 
Miss  Mary  Da\is.  .Mrs.  Bonynge,  who  died  in  October,  191.^,  was  the 
mother  of  two  children,  Charles  W.,  now  a  lieutenant  in  the  Medical 
Department  of  the  United  States  N^avy ;  and  W.  A.,  Jr.,  assistant  cashier 
of  the  Commercial  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  In  January,  1917, 
Mr.  Bonynge  married  at  Los  Angeles  Margaret  W.  Douthit. 

St.  Joseph's  Ca.tholic  Parish.  The  founding  of  St.  Joseph's  par- 
ish may  be  dated  from  December  29,  1888,  under  which  date  the  Rt. 
Rev.  Bishop  Francisco  Mora  appointed  the  Rev.  Joseph  Florian  Bartsch, 
a  secular  priest,  as  rector  pro  tem.  Under  his  direction  the  frame  church 
fronting  on  Santee  street  between  Twelfth  and  Pico  w^as  built  and  fur- 
nished at  an  expense  of  over  nine  thousand  dollars. 

Father  Bartsch  was  succeeded  in  August,  1890,  by  the  Rev.  A.  Reid- 
haar,  and  he  in  turn  in  October,  1892,  by  Rev.  John  B.  Metzler,  who 
built  the  parish  house.  He  closed  his  accounts  on  August  11,  1893, 
leaving  a  debt  of  $1,080  and  a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  two  cents.  The 
parish  had  been  entrusted  to  the  Franciscan  Fathers  of  the  St.  Louis, 
Alissouri,  Province,  and  the  well-known  Rev.  Victor  Aertker.  O.  F.  M., 
was  sent  to  become  the  next  pastor.  He  was  a  zealous  and  good  priest, 
and  his  energy  soon  brought  forth  results.  Early  in  1894  he  added  to 
'he  frame  church,  built  a  commodious  school  in  1895,  which  is  the  pres- 
ent Santee  rooming  house.  The  enlarged  frame  church  becoming  in- 
adequate Father  Victor  made  systematic  preparation  for  the  building  of 
a  large  brick  structure.  The  necessary  property  was  acquired  at  Tv.-elfth 
and  Los  Angeles  streets.  The  plans  were  drawn  by  the  Franciscan 
architect  for  a  church  in  pure  Gothic  style.  The  cornerstone  was  laid 
on  July  16,  1901,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  George  Montgomery^,  and  the 


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structure  was  completed  early  in  1903  without  the  slightest  mishap.  It 
was  dedicated  on  May  3,  1903,  by  the  Apostolic  Delegate  Diomede  Fal- 
conio,  O.  F.  M.,  Archbishop  of  Larissa  and  later  Cardmal,  who  had  been 
invited  to  Los  Angeles  for  the  purpose  by  Rev.  Father  Victor.  That 
day  a  gala  day  not  only  for  St.  Joseph's  parish  and  the  Catholics  of  the 
town,  but  for  all  Los  Angeles.  Very  appropriately  the  mayor  of  the 
city,  together  with  the  Very  Rev.  Patrick  Harnett,  administrator  of  the 
vacant  diocese,  were  on  the  reception  committee.  A  public  reception 
was  tendered  the  Apostolic  Delegate  on  May  4th  in  the  old  Hazard's 
Pavilion.  At  the  dedication  services  Monsignor  Falconio  officiated, 
Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  Grace,  Bishop  of  Sacramento,  sang  the  Pontifical  Mass, 
Archbishop  Montgomery,  then  of  San  Francisco,  assisted  in  the  sanctu- 
ary and  preached  the  dedicatory  sermon.  About  twenty-five  other  pre- 
lates and  priests  both  of  the  secular  and  regular  clergy  were  in  at- 
tendance. 

During  the  same  administration  the  old  frame  church  was  con- 
verted into  a  school  and  the  residence  of  the  Fathers  was  built  at  the 
same  time  as  the  church.  When  Father  Victor  left  Los  Angeles  in  1904 
the  church  was  practically  paid  for,  and  no  greater  debt  remained  than 
he  had  found  when  coming  here  eleven  years  previous.  In  August,  1904, 
Rev.  Raphael  Fuhr  was  appointed  pastor.  He  acquired  for  the  parish 
the  building  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Pico  and  Santee,  erected  by  the 
St.  Josephs  Society.  In  1905  he  resolved  to  build  a  brick  school  with 
basement  and  an  auditorium  with  a  seating  capacity  of  about  a  thousand. 
The  cornerstone  was  blessed  and  laid  by  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  J.  Conaty  in 
May,  1905.  The  large  building  was  completed  early  in  1907.  It  stands 
south  of  the  church  and  faces  Los  Angeles  street.  Up  to  this  time  the 
school  had  been  in  the  hands  of  the  Dominican  Sisters.  Father  Raphael 
secured  the  services  of  the  Franciscan  Sisters,  whose  mother  house  is  at 
Stella  Niagara,  near  Buffalo,  New  York. 

In  1909  Rev.  Cassian  Tritz  became  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's.  With 
much  energy  he  set  about  the  herculean  task  of  reducing  the  oppres- 
sive load  of  debt,  and  his  success  in  that  was  perhaps  the  most  notable 
achievement.  Specifications  were  also  made  and  contracts  let  for  the 
great  and  beautiful  pipe  organ,  the  last  thing  required  to  make  the 
church  and  school  perfectly  equipped  in  every  line.  Failing  health  made 
the  retirement  of  Father  Cassian  Tritz  necessary  and  in  August,  1912, 
the  present  incumbent  Father  Theophilus  Richardt  took  charge.  The 
organ  was  installed  about  Christmas,  1912,  and  was  soon  paid  for.  The 
able  services  of  Professor  John  L.  Jung  as  organist  and  choir  director 
were  secured,  and  he  also  teaches  the  two  upper  grades  of  boys  in  the 
school  and  directs  the  singing  of  all  the  children. 

Conditions  being  now  very  normal,  the  principal  task  of  the  pastor 
was  to  keep  things  running  along  smoothly,  to  maintain  the  large  group 
of  buildings  in  repair  and  to  reduce  the  debt.  The  house  on  Pico  and 
Santee  was  converted  into  an  apartment  house.  Street  assessments  for 
the  widening  of  Los  Angeles  street,  for  the  paving  of  Pico,  Santee  and 
Twelfth  streets,  cost  the  parish  upwards  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars. 
Costly  and  beautiful  vestments  were  secured  and  the  statuary  of  the 
church  was  polychromed  anew.  For  some  years  the  School  Societv  had 
by  monthly  contributions  assisted  in  paying  the  largely  increased  sal- 
aries of  the  teaching  staff.  As  soon  as  the  debt  of  the  parish  was  within 
easv  control  Father  Theophilus  Richardt  laid  the  foundation  for  a  per- 
manent school  fund  to  be  brought  to   such   generous   proportions  that 


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from  the  interest  the  salaries  may  be  defrayed  and  school  books  fur- 
nished all  the  children  free  of  cost. 

The  assistant  priests  of  St.  Joseph's  during  the  last  six  years  have 
been:  Father  George  Wehmeyer,  O.  F.  M.;  Father  Ferdinand  Kenny, 
O.  F.  M. ;  Father  Julius  Gliebe,  U.  F.  M.,  and  Father  John  G.  Koerner, 
O.  F.  M. 

Something  should  now  be  said  concerning  the  territorial  limits  of 
St.  Joseph's  parish.  Specifically  defined  they  are :  In  the  west  from 
Ninth  and  Hill,  south  on  Hill  to  I'^onrteenth,  east  to  Main,  south  to  Six- 
teenth, east  to  Los  Angeles,  south  to  Washington.  In  the  south  along 
Washington  to  the  Los  Angeles  River,  in  the  east  along  the  river  to 
Seventh,  in  the  north  from  river  west  on  Seventh  to  Central,  south  to 
Ninth,  west  to  Hill,  the  starting  point.  This  territory  is  inhabited  by 
people  of  the  laboring  class  and  has  many  poor,  among  whom  the  parish 
conference  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  has  done  much  good.  A  crying  need 
of  the  territory  is  a  public  playground  site  for  the  great  number  of  poor 
children.  This  territory  is  gradually  being  invaded  by  public  markets, 
storae;e  houses,  wholesale  houses,  laundries,  carbarns ;  it  is  cut  up  by 
the  tracks  of  the  railroad  yards,  by  trunk  lines  of  the  Pacific  Electric 
and  by  spur  tracks.  The  attendance  at  St.  Joseph's  is  to  a  great  extent 
made  up  of  transients  from  rooming  and  apartment  houses.  The  streets 
in  the  territory  are  very  irregularly  laid  out  and  their  care  and  mainte- 
nance are  an  unusual  case  of  municipal  neglect  in  this  great  and  beau- 
tiful city. 

Father  Theophilus  Richardt,  pastcfr  of  St.  Joseph's,  is  not  only  a 
man  of  great  ability  as  a  pastoral  leader,  but  a  man  of  most  unusual  tal- 
ents and  of  broad  and  liberal  association  gained  from  extensive  experi- 
ence in  different  parts  of  the  world.  He  was  born  in  the  Province  of 
Saxony,  Germany,  January  31,  1869,  son  of  George  and  Christina  Rich- 
ardt. Beginning  his  education  in  parochial  schools,  at  the  age  of  eleven 
he  came  to  America  and  entered  St.  Joseph's  College  at  Teutopolis,  Illi- 
nois, from  which  he  graduated  in  1886.  He  then  took  the  Franciscan 
habit,  and  was  a  student  of  philosophy  in  the  monastery  at  Ouincy,  Illi- 
nois, until  1890,  and  took  his  course  in  theology  in  the  Franciscan  Semi- 
nary at  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  He  was  ordained  in  1893,  and  after  1894 
became  professor  at  St.  Francis  Solano  College  at  Ouincy,  Illinois, 
where  he  remained  eight  years.  He  then  went  abroad  to  Rome,  and  at- 
tended the  International  College  of  San  Antonio  until  1903.  On  return- 
ing to  America  Father  Richardt  was  stationed  at  Santa  Barbara,  Cali- 
fornia, and  for  nine  years  taught  theology  in  the  Old  Mission.  In  1912, 
as  above  noted,  he  was  made  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church  in  Los 
Angeles. 

Bertram  D.  Lackey,  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  financial  circles, 
started  out  in  life  to  become  an  artist,  for  which  he  had  no  incon- 
siderable qualification  and  talent,  but  now  for  a  number  of  years  has 
found  all  his  time  and  energies  absorbed  in  directing  and  managing  in- 
dustrial and  sales  departments  for  several  corporations,  and  in  Los 
Angeles  as  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Wilson,  Lackey  & 
Comnany. 

Mr.  Lackey  was  born  at  Akron,  Ohio,  May  13,  1882,  a  son  of  Rev. 
Raymond  and  Julia  (Delaney)  Lackey.  His  father,  also  a  native  of 
Akron,  was  a  graduate  of  Heidelberg  University  at  Tiffin,  Ohio,  entered 
the  Methodist  ministry,  and  for  many  years  was  head  of  a  large  and 
prosperous  congregation  in  Akron.  He  retired  in  1914  and  has  since 
made  his  home  at  Los  Angeles. 


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Bertram  D.  Lackey  graduated  from  the  Akron  High  School  in 
1900  and  soon  afterward  went  to  Philadelphia  and  found  employment 
in  the  Art  Department  of  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal,  doing  general 
drawing  and  also  studying  art  for  a  period  of  four  years.  He  then 
abandoned  art  for  business,  and  became  connected  with  the  American 
Agricultural  Company  as  salesman,  and  later  was  sales  manager  of 
that  large  organization.  In  1909  he  went  to  Jacksonville,  Florida,  as 
vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Southern  Menhaden  Com- 
pany, a  subsidiary  of  the  Dupont  Powder  Company  of  Wilmington, 
Delaware.  While  in  the  South  Mr.  Lackey  erected  the  plant,  bought 
the  steamers,  and  otherwise  outfitted  and  equipped  the  company  for 
business.  In  1913,  having  resigned,  he  returned  to  Philadelphia  and 
took  charge  of  the  Bond  Department  of  Newport,  Wilson  &  Company, 
members  of  the  Philadelphia  Stock  Exchange.  Mr.  Lackey  came  to 
Los  Angeles  in  1915  and  joined  Mr.  Wilson  in  organizing  the  Wilson, 
Lackey  &  Company,  of  which  he  is  secretary  and  treasurer.  They  have 
a  large  and  prosperous  business  as  bond  brokers  and  dealers  in  listed 
securities.  Mr.  Lackey  is  secretary  of  the  Conejo  Country  Club,  a 
member  of  the  Brentwood  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club 
and  the  Press  Club.  Recently  he  bought  the  beautiful  Earl  Rogers 
home  in  the  Wilshire  section  of  Los  Angeles.  He  married  at  Jackson- 
ville, Florida,  May  1,  1912,  Betty  Farrell. 

Watt  L.  Moreland.  Twenty  years  would  about  cover  the  history 
of  the  automobile  industry,  and  that  period  has  been  coincident  with  the 
active  term  of  Watt  L.  Moreland's  career.  He  is  one  of  the  older  auto- 
mobile men  in  the  country,  and  his  experience  makes  him  familiar  with 
every  phase  of  the  development  of  American  automobiles.  Mr.  Moreland 
has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  over  fifteen  years,  and  is  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Moreland  Motor  Truck  Company,  one  of  the 
larger  manufacturers  of  motor  trucks  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mr.  Moreland  was  born  at  Muncie,  Indiana,  February  11,  1879,  a 
son  of  John  B.  and  Alethea  (Grice)  Moreland.  He  attended  grammar 
and  high  school  there,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  directed  his  energies 
into  the  machinist's  trade.  For  three  years  he  was  with  the  Republic 
Iron  and  Steel  Company,  beginning  at  wages  of  fifty  cents  a  day.  Be- 
sides what  his  work  brought  him  in  the  way  of  skill  and  experience  he 
carried  on  and  completed  a  course  of  mechanical  engineering  with  the 
International  Correspondence  School.  His  next  service  was  as  diemaker 
with  the  Toledo  Machine  and  Tool  Company  at  Toledo,  Ohio.  Three 
months  later  he  removed  to  Cleveland,  and  went  to  work  for  one  of  the 
pioneer  concerns  in  the  automobile  industry,  the  Winton  Carriage  Com- 
pany. He  was  in  the  assembling  and  testing  department,  and  later  was 
transferred  to  the  New  York  branch,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  me- 
chanical department.  From  New  York  Mr.  Moreland  returned  to  his 
home  state  and  at  Kokomo  became  assistant  in  designing  and  building 
racing  cars  for  the  Haynes-Apperson  Automobile  Company.  Those 
familiar  with  the  automobile  industry  will  recall  that  it  was  some  of  the 
racing  cars  put  out  by  the  Haynes-Apperson  Automobile  Company  that 
took  part  and  made  such  a  splendid  showing  in  the  first  endurance  race 
in  America. 

As  a  vacation  Mr.  Moreland  spent  some  time  in  Los  Angeles  in 
1902  and  became  so  fascinated  with  the  country  that  he  determined  to 
remain.  Soon  afterward  the  Magnolia  Automobile  Company  was  or- 
ganized by  him,  with  plant  at  Riverside,  for  the  manufacture  of  auto- 


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mobiles.  He  remained  there  a  year  and  a  half  as  general  manager  of 
the  company.  About  that  time  the  company  became  involved  in  some 
law  suits  over  patents  which  obstructed  their  business,  and  Mr.  More- 
land  accordingly  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  a  time  was  identified 
with  the  Auto  Vehicle  Company,  and  later  with  other  similar  concerns. 
In  April,  1911,  he  established  the  Moreland  Motor  Truck  Company,  of 
which  he  is  general  manager,  while  the  other  executive  officers  are  R. 
H.  Raphael,  president;  C.  J.  Kubach,  vice  president,  and  J.  L.  Armer, 
secretary  and  treasurer.  The  Moreland  Motor  Truck  Company  manu- 
factures a  general  line  of  trucks,  which  are  now  found  employed  in  in- 
dustries and  with  many  individual  owners  all  up  and  down  the  Pacific 
Coast,  from  South  America  to  Canada,  while  many  of  them  have  been 
exported  to  Australia. 

In  May,  1902,  at  Riverside,  California,  Mr.  Moreland  married  Miss 
Margaret  Elkins.  They  have  three  children,  Margaret,  Harriet  and 
Watt.  Mr.  Moreland  is  a  republican,  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  and 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs,  the  Gamut  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Press 
Club,  and  in  business  circles  is  also  well  known  as  president  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  vice  president  of  the  California 
State  Manufacturers'  Association. 

Henderson  Hayward,  M.  D.  A  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  the 
past  twenty-five  years,  Henderson  Hayward  is  a  retired  physician,  prac- 
ticed for  many  years  after  the  Civil  war  in  the  East,  but  in  Los  Angeles 
has  been  chiefly  identified  with  business  affairs. 

He  was  born  in  York  County,  Pennsylvania,  November  18,  1844, 
son  of  Dr.  Joseph  and  Sally  (Brearley)  Hayward.  From  1855  to  1858 
he  attended  the  Cumberland  Valley  Institute  at  Mechanicsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  in  Georgetown  University  at 
Washington.  Previous  to  graduation  he  had  entered  government  service, 
and  from  October,  1864,  until  April,  1865,  was  hospital  steward  in  the 
United  States  Army,  under  Colonel  L.  A.  Edwards.  When  his  superior 
was  called  away  to  other  duties  he  left  Dr.  Hayward  as  chief  clerk  of 
the  Medical  Department  of  the.  Bureau  of  Refugees,  Freedmen  and 
Abandoned  Lands. 

After  a  period  of  semi-retirement  and  recuperation  during  1869-71, 
Dr.  Hayward  located  in  Delaware  County,  near  Philadelphia,  and  prac- 
ticed medicine  steadily  for  over  twenty  years.  Impaired  health  com- 
pelled him  to  give  up  his  profession,  and  in  December,  1894,  he  came  to 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  since  been  a  permanent  resident.  For  a  time 
he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Coalinga  Oil  Company,  and  subse- 
quently served  as  director  in  the  Reed  Crude  and  the  Rice  Ranch  Oil 
Company.  From  1898  for  seven  years  Dr.  Hayward  gave  most  of  his 
time  to  his  real  estate  investments,  but  for  ten  years  has  had  no  interests 
to  interfere  seriously  with  his  retirement.  However,  he  has  served  as 
director  of  the  Security  Savings  Bank  and  Hellman  Bank.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Country  and  University  Clubs. 

Dr.  Hayward  has  been  twice  married.  For  his  second  wife  he  mar- 
ried in  San  Francisco,  April  22,  1897,  Julia  Dibble.  He  had  eight  chil- 
dren by  his  first  wife  and  one  daughter  by  his  present  marriage. 


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Edgar  S.  Dulin  is  a  native  of  southern  California,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  has  been  prominent  in  financial  and  business  circles  at 
Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles,  being  one  of  the  active  executives  in  the 
well-known  organization  of  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company,  invest- 
ment bankers. 

He  was  born  at  San  Diego,  California,  November  4,  1892,  son  of 
Edgar  G.  Dulin.  His  father,  who  was  born  at  Liberty,  Missouri,  Octo- 
ber 21,  1852,  was  educated  there,  and  later  became  associated  with  his 
uncles,  the  famous  Studebaker  brothers  of  South  Bend,  Indiana,  as 
manager  of  the  Kansas  City  branch  of  the  Studebaker  Brothers  Car- 
riage Factory.  Later  he  was  a  rancher  at  Russell,  Kansas,  until  1888, 
when  he  removed  to  San  Diego,  where  he  was  instrumental  in  organiz- 
ing the  Pacific  Wood  and  Coal  Company.  Later  he  was  in  business 
in  San  Francisco  in  connection  with  the  Pacific  Coast  Syrup  Company 
and  other  large  enterprises.  He  retired  in  1908  and  is  now  a  resident 
of  Los  Angeles.  At  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  he  married  Jennie  Garrett- 
son,  daughter  of  E.  A.  Garrettson,  a  prominent  banker  in  the  middle 
west. 

Edgar  S.  Dulin  attended  school  in  San  Diego  until  1899,  later  in 
San  Francisco  for  two  years,  was  in  a  private  school  one  year,  and  then 
in  the  grammar  and  high  school  of  Los  Angeles  until  1912.  For  two 
years  he  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  California.  Since  leaving 
college  Mr.  Dulin  has  been  almost  continuously  associated  with  the 
Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company,  at  first  as  salesman  in  the  bond  de- 
partment at  Pasadena.  In  1915  he  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  corporation,  and  has  been  largely  responsible  for  the  large  busi- 
ness developed  by  this  firm  in  the  handling  of  high-class  bonds  and 
other  securities.  In  September,  1918,  Mr.  Dulin  left  business  afifairs 
to  enter  the  naval  aviation  station  at  Seattle,  Washington,  and  remained 
there  until  honorably  discharged  in  December,  1918.  He  then  returned 
to  Pasadena  as  vice  president  of  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company, 
and  on  March  1,  1919,  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter-Dulin  Company  was 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  taking  over  the  bond  and  stock  business  of 
the  older  organization.  Ofifices  are  maintained  in  Los  Angeles,  Pasa- 
dena and  San  Francisco.  Mr.  Dulin  is  now  vice  president  and  a  director 
of  both  companies. 

He  is  also  well  known  in  social  affairs,  being  a  member  of  the 
California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club, 
Overland  Club,  the  last  two  being  in  Pasadena;  is  a  member  of  the 
college  fraternity.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  of  the  high  school  fra- 
ternity. Gamma  Eta  Kappa.  Mr.  Dulin  is  a  republican  voter.  In  Los 
Angeles,  November  10,  1915,  he  married  Sneadele  Miles.  Her  father 
is  J.  H.  Miles,  a  well-known  middle  west  banker.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Marjorie  Jane. 

The  Hoover  Art  Company  originated  in  Hollywood  in  1913.  Two 
men  well  versed  in  the  technical  and  artistic  phases  of  their  business, 
Mr.  Hoover  and  Mr.  Sartov,  established  it  as  an  art  exhibition  and  for 
the  reproduction  of  oil  and  water  paintings.  Gradually  the  business  was 
specialized  as  exclusive  photography  until  now  the  company  is  without 
question  first  and  foremost  in  this  line  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  no 
other  organization  can  compare  with  their  facilities  and  the  experience 
and  skill  represented  by  the  technical  organization. 

Mr.  Hoover  sold  his  interest  in  the  business  in  May,  1918,  and  in 
the  same  month  the  Hoover  Art  Company  was  incorporated,  with  Mr. 


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Hendrick  Sartov  as  president,  and  William  P.  Harmon  secretary  and 
treasurer. 

Mr.  Sartov,  whose  experience  in  photography  and  the  allied  arts 
has  brought  him  well-earned  international  fame,  is  the  professional  head 
of  the  studios.  The  work  of  these  studios  has  been  exhibited  at  the 
American  Photographers  Association's  exhibitions,  at  the  Pittsburg  Salon 
of  Pictorial  Photography,  and  also  at  the  London  Salon  of  the  Royal 
Photographic  Society.  Many  awards  and  honors  have  been  paid  the 
work. 

Hendrick  Sartov  was  born  in  Denmark  March  18,  1885,  son  of  M. 
E.  and  Nelsine  Sartov.  When  he  was  two  years  old  his  parents  moved 
to  Kolding,  Denmark,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  to  the  age 
of  fourteen.  Following  that  came  a  five  years'  course  of  apprentice- 
ship to  learn  the  photographic  art.  During  the  next  three  years  he  had 
charge  of  a  photographic  studio  and  was  then  in  charge  of  a  studio  at 
Copenhatjen,  Denmark,  three  years.  Another  year  was  spent  in  the  em- 
ploy of  a  large  photographic  studio  at  Kiel,  Germany.  He  then  re- 
sumed his  work  at  Copenhagen  and  from  there  came  to  America,  spend- 
ing the  first  six  months  in  Minneapolis  in  the  studio  of  Sweet  Brothers, 
photographers.  He  then  went  into  business  for  himself,  and  at  the  end 
of  three  years  sold  out  and  moved  west  to  Hollywood,  where  he  became 
associated  with  Mr.  Hoover. 

Mr.  William  P.  Harmon,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company, 
and  in  charge  of  its  business  details,  was  born  at  Princeton,  Wisconsin, 
March  31,  1865,  son  of  H.  H.  Harmon.  He  attended  public  school  and 
for  three  years  worked  as  an  apprentice  printer  in  the  office  of  the 
Princeton  Republican.  Going  from  there  to  Milwaukee  he  was  em- 
ployed in  various  capacities  with  the  Evening  Wisconsin  for  five  years, 
after  which  he  was  a  printer  in  Minneapolis  until  1894.  In  that  year 
he  returned  to  Princeton,  Wisconsin,  and  bought  the  Princeton  Repub- 
lican, publishing  it  for  two  years.  Returning  to  Minneapolis  he  formed 
the  partnership  of  Hahn  &  Harmon,  printers,  and  sold  out  his  business 
there  in  February,  1918,  to  come  to  I^os  Angeles.  Here  in  May  of  the 
same  year  he  bought  an  interest  in  the  Hoover  Art  Company. 

Louis  Sentous,  Jr.,  French  consul  at  Los  Angeles,  has  spent  nearly 
all  his  life  in  this  city,  and  is  a  member  of  a  prominent  old  French 
family  of  southern  California. 

His  father,  Jean  Sentous,  was  born  in  the  Department  of  Haute 
Garonne,  France,  January  1,  1837.  He  was  schooled  there  and  was 
employed  in  his  father's  general  store  to  the  age  of  eighteen.  Coming 
to  the  United  States  after  a  long  voyage  on  a  sailing  vessel  around  Cape 
Horn,  he  arrived  at  San  Francisco.  He  was  six  months  on  the  ocean. 
He  went  to  the  mines  in  Tuolumne  county,  but  in  1860  came  to  Los  An- 
geles and  established  a  dairy  on  West  Jeflferson  street  near  Western 
avenue.  In  1874  he  moved  to  a  stock  farm  at  Calabasas  in  Los  An- 
geles County.  He  moved  his  family  back  to  Los  Angeles  in  1877,  but 
retained  his  farm  until  1884,  when  he  sold  out  and  thereafter  lived  re- 
tired at  his  home  on  Olive  street  between  Fifth  and  Sixth  streets,  op- 
posite Central  Park.  He  died  April  28,  1903.  His  wife  was  a  native 
of  Costa  Rica  and  died  May  26,  1918.  This  well-known  old  couple  had 
seven  children :  Narcisse.  of  Los  Angeles :  Louis ;  Frank,  who  is  re- 
tired and  lives  at  Newhall,  California;  Camille,  who  is  associated  with 
his  brother  Louis  in  business ;  Mrs.  Heloise  B.  Lewis ;  Emely,  deceased ; 
and  Mrs.  Adele  Truitt,  of  Glendale,  California. 


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The  late  Jean  Sentons  was  president  of  the  French  Benevolent  So- 
ciety for  many  years.  He  was  a  democrat  in  politics  and  a  member 
of  the  Catholic  Church. 

Louis  Sentous,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  September  25,  1869. 
He  was  liberally  educated  both  in  California  and  abroad.  His  early 
training  was  the  product  of  the  public  schools  and  St.  Vincent's  College. 
In  1880  his  father  sent  him  to  France,  back  to  the  old  home  in  Haute 
Garonne,  where  he  attended  the  Seminary  of  Pohgnan  and  the  Govern- 
ment College  at  St.  Gaudens.  After  five  years  of  foreign  residence  he 
returned  to  Los  .Angeles  in  1885  and  re-entered  St.  Vincent  College, 
where  he  graduated  in  1887. 

Mr.  Sentous  has  been  a  Los  Angeles  business  man  for  thirty  years. 
He  was  first  bookkeeper  with  his  uncle  Louis  Sentous,  Sr.,  proprietor 
of  the  New  Orleans  Market  for  three  years.  He  then  acquired  a  part- 
nership in  the  firm  of  T.  Vache  and  Company,  wholesale  wine  mer- 
chants. Ten  years  later  he  sold  his  interests  there  and  entered  the 
wholesale  produce  business  with  his  brother  Camille.  Li  1904  the  Sen- 
tous brothers  sold  that  business  and  formed  the  Sentous  Realty  Com- 
pany, of  which  Louis  is  president.  They  have  a  large  business  in  loans, 
insurance  and  real  estate. 

Mr.  Sentous  was  also  president  of  the  Franco-American  Baking 
Company  and  president  of  the  French  Benevolent  Society,  having  filled 
that  ofifice  in  that  organization  altogether  thirteen  years.  During  his 
presidency  the  society  more  than  doubled  its  membership.  He  was  treas- 
urer of  the  society  at  one  time  and  was  its  vice  president  in  1898-99.  In 
1910  Stephen  Pichon,  minister  of  Foreign  Affairs  of  France,  named  Mr. 
Sentous  as  French  consul  of  Los  Angeles,  and  he  has  ably  discharged 
the  duties  of  that  ofifice  ever  since.  He  was  decorated  ofificer  of  the 
French  Academy  in  1912  by  the  French  government  for  faithful  serv- 
ices.    Mr.  Sentous  is  a  Catholic  and  a  republican. 

In  Los  Angeles  January  7,  1895,  he  married  Louise  Amestoy. 
Their  only  son,  Jean  Emile,  born  in  Los  Angeles  October  23,  1895,  is 
a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School,  was  with  his  father  in 
business  for  a  time,  but  during  the  present  war  has  been  in  the  United 
.States  army  with  the  85th  Spruce  Squadron. 

Albert  Clay  Bilicke.  The  toll  exacted  by  one  of  the  outstanding 
tragedies  of  the  great  war,  the  sinking  of  the  Lusitania,  on  May  7,  1915, 
demanded  as  one  of  its  sacrifices  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  business  man 
and  capitalist,  Albert  Clay  Bilicke,  whose  work  and  influence  have  more 
than  won  enduring  monuments  in  the  Los  Angeles  business  district. 

Mr.  Bilicke  spent  most  of  his  life  in  California.  He  was  born  in 
Coos  County,  Oregon,  June  22,  1861,  and  in  1868  his  parents  removed 
to  San  Francisco.  He  was  a  son  of  Carl  Gustavus  and  Caroline  (Sigis- 
mund)  Bilicke.  At  San  Francisco  he  attended  public  schools  until  1876, 
and  followed  that  with  a  course  in  the  Heald's  Business  College. 

Then,  forty  years  ago,  when  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  Mr. 
Bilicke  entered  upon  his  active  career  as  manager  of  the  Cosmopolitan 
Hotel  at  Florence,  Arizona.  It  was  as  a  hotel  manager  and  proprietor 
that  he  laid  the  foundation  of  his  substantial  fortune.  After  two  years 
he  took  the  management  of  the  Cosmopolitan  Hotel  at  Tombstone,  Ari- 
zona, and  was  also  superintendent  of  the  Pedro  Consolidated  Mining 
Company.  On  returning  to  California,  in  1885,  Mr.  Bilicke  became 
proprietor  of  the  Ross  House  at  Modesto,  and  in  1891  became  pro- 
prietor of  the  Pacific  Ocean  House  at  Santa  Cruz,  one  of  the  most 
noted  high-class  resorts  of  that  time. 


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However,  the  institution  with  which  his  name  is  most  familiarly 
associated  by  the  thousands  who  have  lived  in  California  temporarily  or 
permanently  is  the  noted  Hollenbeck  Hotel  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Biiicke 
became  proprietor  of  this  hotel  in  1893,  and  it  was  under  his  manage- 
ment as  president  of  the  owning  company  that  it  attained  the  height 
of  its  popularity  and  in  point  of  service  outrivaled  all  other  similar 
institutions  for  a  number  of  years. 

Along  with  hotel  management  he  accumulated  a  vast  amount  of 
property  as  an  investor  and  was  foremost  in  developing  this  property 
by  permanent  improvements.  In  1903  he  organized  the  Bilicke-Rowan 
Fireproof  Building  Company,  and  the  first  great  fruit  of  this  organiza- 
tion was  the  palatial  Hotel  Alexandria,  erected  in  1905,  and  at  the  time 
the  most  luxurious  hotel  in  its  accommodations  in  Los  Angeles.  He 
was  president  of  the  hotel  company  until  his  death.  He  was  also 
president  of  the  Bilicke-Rowan  Annex  Company  and  the  Century  Build- 
ing Company,  organized  in  1906;  of  the  Central  Fireproof  Building 
Company,  and  of  the  Chester  Fireproof  Building  Company.  The  last 
named  erected  the  Title  Insurance  Building  at  Fifth  and  Spring  streets, 
the  Security  Building  and  the  Citizens  Bank  Building,  the  latter  havmg 
been  completed  about  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Biiicke  foresaw  the 
spread  of  the  Los  Angeles  business  district  south  along  Broadway  and 
Spring  street,  and  showed  his  faith  in  that  district  by  investing  heavily 
in  many  tracts. 

Mr.  Biiicke  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  Los  Angeles  busi- 
ness men  and  had  business  and  social  connections  that  were  practically 
world  wide.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Countr>'  Club,  Annandale  Golf  Club,  the  Valley  Hunt  Club  of  Pasadena, 
and  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club.  On  September  10,  1900,  at  Niagara 
Falls,  he  married  Gladys  Huff.  Mrs.  Biiicke  was  a  passenger  on  the 
Lusitania  with  her  husband,  but  was  one  of  those  saved  from  that 
memorable  sea  disaster.  She  now  resides  in  South  Pasadena.  She  is 
the  mother  of  three  children,  Albert  Constant,  Nancy  Caroline  and 
Carl  Archibald. 

Melville  Torrance  Whitaker  has  been  one  of  the  best  known  in- 
surance men  in  this  city  for  the  last  thirty  years.  He  has  been  prominent 
in  the  organization  and  management  of  the  local  Board  of  Underwriters, 
and  is  president  of  M.  T.  Whitaker  &  Company   (Inc.)   of  this  city. 

Mr.  Whitaker  represents  an  old  New  York  State  family.  He  was 
bom  in  Penn  Yan,  Yates  county,  New  York,  April  26,  1851,  and  is  the 
son  of  Alexander  F.  and  Louise  Torrance  Whitaker.  His  family  has 
played  a  notable  part  in  the  affairs  of  that  section  from  earliest  times. 
His  great-grandfather,  Stephen  Whitaker,  was  one  of  the  first  settlers, 
coming  from  Albany  in  1799  with  oxen  teams,  after  trading  a  tract  of 
land  near  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  for  farming  land  in  the  new  country. 
Some  of  that  land  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  Whitaker  family. 
Another  ancestor,  Nathaniel  Whitaker,  returned  to  England  in  1756  to 
interest  the  Earl  of  Dartmouth  in  founding  an  Indian  school,  which  after- 
ward became  Dartmouth  College.  The  portrait  of  another,  Alexander 
Whitaker,  baptizing  Pocahontus,  hangs  in  the  rotunda  -of  the  Canitol  at 
Washington.  Mr.  Whitaker's  parents  came  to  California  in  1884  and 
made  their  home  with  their  daughter  Helen,  the  wife  of  Albert  Brigden, 
at  that  time  a  prominent  rancher  of  Los  Angeles  county.  They  are  both 
buried  in  the  Mountain  View  Cemetery  in  Altadena. 

Melville  T.  Whitaker  received  his  education  in  the  Oakfield  Military 
Academy,  an  Episcopal  school  near  Batavia,  New  York,  and  began  his 


106  LOS  ANGELES 

business  career  as  an  employe  in  the  Baldwin's  Bank,  a  private  institu- 
tion in  Penn  Yan.  He  was  there  four  years,  then  became  associated 
with  the  National  Life  Insurance  Company  of  United  States  of  America. 
When  the  offuces  of  the  company  were  removed  from  Philadelphia  to 
Chicago  he  went  with  them  and  became  the  cashier  of  the  company  in 
its  home  office  in  Chicago.  In  1887  he  resigned  after  fourteen  years 
connection  with  the  company  and  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  assuine  the 
management  of  a  real  estate  syndicate  formed  by  his  brother-in-law,  J.  F. 
Crank,  who  will  be  remembered  as  the  builder  of  the  Los  Angeles  cable 
roads  and  also  the  railroad  now  used  by  the  Santa  Fe  as  far  east  as 
Monrovia.  A  few  years  after  he  was  associated  with  the  late  John  W. 
Hinton  in  the  real  estate  business.  As  Hinton  &  Whitaker  they  enjoyed 
an  important  share  in  the  real  estate  transactions  of  Los  Angeles  during 
the  years  following  the  big  boom  and  the  early  revival  of  business.  After 
Mr.  Hinton's  death,  Mr.  Whitaker  dropped  the  real  estate  business  and 
continued  a  general  insurance  agency.  The  firm  of  M.  T.  Whitaker  & 
Company  was  incorporated  in  1909,  with  M.  T.  Whitaker  as  president 
and  W.  P.  Battelle  as  secretary.  Mr.  Whitaker  has  been  president  of 
the  Sierra  Madre  Vintage  Company  for  over  twenty-five  years.  Their 
winery  and  vineyards  are  at  La  Manda  Park,  where  they  have  been  grow- 
ing grapes  for  wine  making  for  nearly  half  a  century. 

Mr.  Whitaker  and  his  family  reside  at  815  West  Eighteen  street, 
this  city.  He  married  Miss  Carrie  Brigden,  of  Penn  Yan,  New  York, 
and  they  have  four  daughters,  Edith  C,  Pansy  Louise,  Belle  Brigden, 
wife  of  R.  M.  Galbreth,  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  and  Agnes  Helen,  wife 
of  Clyde  Martin,  of  this  city. 

Mr.  Whitaker  is  a  republican  in  politics,  and  his  own  career  is  fully 
in  accord  with  the  thorough  American  traditions  of  his  family.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  and  a  trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
church  of  this  city.    Mrs.  Whitaker  is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club. 

Rev.  Joseph  McManus  was  born  in  Ireland  June  8,  1881,  attended 
the  National  schools  to  the  age  of  fourteen,  and  then  began  training 
for  the  priesthood  in  St.  Patrick's  College  at  Cavan,  taking  the  classical 
course  for  five  years.  He  studied  psychology  and  theology  at  the  college 
and  seminary  at  Carlow,  Ireland,  and  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1905. 
Sent  to  America,  he  became  assistant  pastor  of  the  Cathedral  at  Los 
Angeles  and  in  1910  was  made  pastor  of  St.  Mary's  church.  He  entered 
upon  his  present  duties  as  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Cross  in  1918. 

This  parish  was  formed  by  the  late  Bishop  Thomas  J.  Conaty.  The 
cornerstone  of  the  present  church  edifice  was  laid  June  23,  1912.  The 
first  Mass  of  the  Parish  was  said  in  December,  1906,  in  the  small  Chapel 
now  adjoining  the  church,  by  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Fahey.  Father  Fahey 
continued  as  pastor  until  1916,  and  Rev.  Francis  D.  Benson  served  as 
administrator  of  the  parish  until  1918. 

Father  McManus  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  the  Young  Men's  Institute  and  the  Catholic 
Order  of  Foresters. 

Francis  Eugene  Bacon  is  one  of  the  many  men  of  mature  business 
achievements  who  have  sought  and  found  in  Los  Angeles  an  ideal  home 
for  their  retirement  and  years  of  comparative  leisure.  For  a  period 
of  about  thirty  years  Mr.  Bacon  was  one  of  the  foremost  merchants  of 
New  York  state,  and  the  city  of  Syracuse  regards  him  and  his  activities 
as  constituting  one  of  its  most  notable  factors  of  progress  and  achieve- 
ment. 


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Mr.  Bacon  was  born  at  Fulton,  New  York,  August  12,  1851,  son 
of  Dr.  Charles  G.  and  Mary  M.  (Whitaker)  Bacon.  He  is  of  English 
ancestry,  the  Bacons  having  been  in  New  England  from  colonial  times. 
His  great-grandfather  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  In 
the  different  generations  many  of  the  name  have  been  leaders  in  the 
medical  profession,  and  it  was  the  wish  of  his  father  that  Francis  E. 
Bacon  should  follow  that  line,  but  he  wisely  decided  that  his  talents  and 
inclinations  were  along  lines  of  practical  commerce.  His  father.  Dr. 
Charles  G.  Bacon,  died  in  1906,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two,  and  at  that 
time  was  the  oldest  resident  of  Fulton.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Falley  Seminary  at  Fulton,  had  served  as  president  of  the  Oswego 
County  Medical  Society,  and  was  probably  the  only  physician  in  America 
who  had  attended  every  semi-annual  meeting  of  a  medical  society  for 
fifty  years.  So  high  a  place  did  he  occupy  at  Fulton  that  at  the  tirne  of 
his  death  ail  business  houses  were  closed. 

When  about  fourteen  years  old  Francis  E.  Bacon  apprenticed  him- 
self to  a  merchant  at  Fulton.  Eighteen  months  later,  on  the  advice  of 
his  father,  he  gave  up  that  work  and  entered  Falley  Seminary,  where 
he  completed  the  regular  course.  For  a  term  he  taught  school,  but  after 
that  steadily  gave  all  his  time  and  study  to  business  affairs.  He  resumed 
his  business  career  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  B.  J.  Dyer  &  Company  at 
Fulton.  Within  less  than  two  years  he  had  mastered  all  the  details  of 
the  business  and  was  regarded  as  an  expert  in  many  departments.  After 
his  services  had  been  ultilized  by  another  store  at  Fulton  he  returned  to 
the  Dyer  establishment  as  part  owner  and  subsequently  bought  the  store 
where  he  had  worked  as, clerk  a  few  years  before,  and  under  the  name 
Francis  E.  Bacon  &  Company  made  this  one  of  the  most  flourishing 
commercial  houses  of  the  town.  He  gave  it  all  his  time  and  attention 
after  the  withdrawing  from  B.  J.  Dyer  &  Company.  Through  overwork 
his  health  became  impaired  and  he  had  to  give  up  the  management  of 
the  store  in  1894. 

In  the  meantime,  however,  he  had  acquired  many  other  interests  in 
Fulton.  He  was  interested  in  the  leather  and  lumber  business,  was  also 
president  of  the  Fulton  Machine  Works  and  vice-president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  that  city.  After  a  period  of  recuperation  Mr.  Bacon 
established  a  department  store  at  the  city  of  Syracuse.  With  a  former 
partner,  Mr.  Chappell,  he  organized  the  firm  Bacon,  Chappell  &  Com- 
pany. While  the  amount  of  capital  at  the  outset  was  not  large  and  the 
firm  was  content  with  modest  quarters,  the  business  expanded  and  pros- 
pered until  eventually  it  became  one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete 
stores  of  its  kind  in  western  New  York.  Mr.  Bacon  continued  his 
financial  interests  in  this  store  until  the  summer  of  1912,  when  he  sold 
out.  The  purchaser  was.  by  an  interesting  coincidence,  a  man  named 
Dyer,  though  he  was  in  no  way  related  to  the  first  employer  of  Mr.  Bacon. 
In  the  meantime,  on  account  of  ill  health  and  long  continued  activity, 
Mr.  Bacon  had  given  up  his  personal  supen'ision  of  business  affairs  in 
Syracuse  in  1910  and  had  come  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  had  visited 
several  years  previously.  Los  Angeles  has  since  been  his  home,  though 
he  has  sought  here  no  outlet  for  his  business  energies. 

Mr.  Bacon  became  a  resident  of  Syracuse  in  1895.  He  forthwith 
became  a  constructive  factor  in  developing  a  city  which  when  he  went 
there  had  only  two  paved  streets.  As  president  of  the  Syracuse  Chamber 
of  Commerce  he  led  in  many  movements  for  municipal  improvement  and 
the  increase  of  its  commercial  irhportance.    During  the  five  years  he  was 


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president  of  the  Chamber  there  was  a  continual  campaign  in  the  interest 
of  Syracuse,  and  that  city  became  the  home  of  many  manufacturing  in- 
stitutions and  today  it  is  one  of  the  big  industrial  centers  of  the  east. 
Mr.  Bacon  headed  the  delegation  of  local  citizens  who  went  to  Washington 
and  secured  the  appropriation  of  money  for  a  new  Federal  building. 
Through  his  administration  the  Syracuse  Chamber  of  Commerce  became 
one  of  the  most  effective  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  countrj'.  For  four 
years  he  was  its  representative  at  the  annual  meetings  of  the  National 
Board  of  Trade  and  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  latter  organi- 
zation. As  a  prominent  merchant  and  citizen  of  Syracuse  he  entertained 
at  his  home  many  distinguished  visitors,  including  Presidents  McKinley 
and  Roosevelt,  and  a  number  of  men  only  less  well  known  in  the  country's 
history.  Mr.  Bacon  brought  about  the  organization  of  the  Associated 
Charities  of  Syracuse,  was  its  president  and  was  also  president  of  the 
.Syracuse  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children.  He  twice 
declined  tlie  nomination  for  mayor  of  Syracuse.  \Yhile  a  resident  of 
Fulton  he  was  for  fifteen  years  a  member  of  its  Board  of  Education 
and  for  eight  years  president,  and  also  served  two  years  as  president 
of  the  Oswego  County  Sunday  School  Association.  He  was  very  active 
as  a  trustee  and  builder  of  the  First  ]\Iethodist  Episcopal  church  of 
Fulton  and  also  led  the  campaigns  for  building  funds  for  the  church  at 
Syracuse.  Mr.  Bacon  is  a  member  of  the  Citizens  Oub  of  Syracuse,  is 
affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order  and  belongs  to  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  and  to  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

In  1872,  at  Lyons,  New  York,  he  married  Miss  Gertrude  P. 
Andrews.  On  July  3,  1902,  at  Clifton  Springs,  New  York,  he  married 
Miss  Cora  May  Hiscox.  Mr.  Bacon  is  now  living  in  Berkely  Square,  Los 
Angeles. 

John  Joseph  Haggaety  is  the  creator  and  author  of  one  of  the  most 
conspicuous  successes  in  Los  Angeles  commercial  life.  Many  ^vealthy 
men  have  come  to  the  city  and  increased  their  holdings  by  judicious 
business  operations,  and  others  have  become  wealthy  in  the  speculative 
field.  John  J.  Haggarty  came  equipped  not  so  much  with  capital  as  with 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  business,  particularly  the  ladies'  garment  busi- 
ness, and  his  subsequent  success  has  been  almost  entirely  due  to  the 
rapid  development  of  a  great  mercantile  service. 

A  native  of  England,  he  was  born  in  London  May  25,  1864,  son  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Atkinson)  Haggarty.  As  a  youth  he  was 
given  a  good  education  in  the  public  schools  of  London  and  a  private 
boarding  school  at  Richmond  in  Yorkshire.  Leaving  school  at  the  age 
of  nineteen,  he  sought  .an  opportunity  to  develop  as  a  specialist  in  busi- 
ness. In  1883  he  apprenticed  himself  to  William  Bryer  &  Company,  a 
leading  dry  goods  establishment  in  King  William  street,  London.  The 
four  years  he  spent  there  were  exceptionally  busy  ones  and  had  much 
to  do  with  the  solid  foundation  of  experience  that  was  the  basis  of  his 
later  career.  Having  completed  his  apprentice  term  he  sailed  for  .Ameri- 
ca in  1887,  and  going  to  St.  Louis  found  employment  with  the  Nigent 
Brothers,  dry  goods  merchants.  He  was  with  them  about  four  years, 
chiefly  as  a  buyer  in  the  garment  department.  It  was  in  this  work  that 
he  had  specialized,  and  largely  as  a  buyer  he  has  made  his  mark  in  the 
commercial  world.  For  another  two  years  he  was  assistant  buyer  for 
Scruggs,  Vandervourt  &  Barney  of  St.  Louis,  and  in  1893  went  to  Du- 
luth,  Minnesota,  to  become  buyer  for  the  Silverstcin  &  Bondy  Company. 


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He  was  a  resident  of  that  northern  city  nine  years,  and  firmly  estab- 
lished himself  as  a  factor  in  its  business  affairs. 

Mr.  Haggarty  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1902  and  for  three  and  a 
half  years  was  buyer  and  manager  in  the  garment  department  of  Jacoby 
Brothers.  He  proved  a  valuable  man  to  that  house,  building  up  a  tre- 
mendous business  in  his  si)ecial  line,  and  on  resigning  he  took  the  money 
he  had  saved  to  start  on  a  small  scale  as  an  independent  merchant. 
While  he  had  limited  capital  he  had  unlimited  enterprise,  faith  in  the 
future,  and  it  was  not  difficult  for  a  man  of  his  ability  to  get  liberal  back- 
ing from  the  big  wholesale  and  jobbing  houses.  His  first  store  he  named 
the  New  York  Cloak  and  Suit  House,  an  incorporated  company,  of 
which  he  was  president  and  chief  stockholder.  Due  to  the  personality 
of  the  man  at  its  head  the  business  never  occupied  an  obscure  place  in 
the  Los  Angeles  business  district,  and  in  a  short  time  its  sales  aggre- 
gated over  a  million  dollars  a  year.  The  success  of  this  store  led  Mr. 
Haggarty  to  extend  its  activities  and  acquire  the  controlling  interest  of 
anotlier  large  house  known  as  the  Paris  Cloak  and  Suit  House.  This 
has  been  equally  successful  with  the  original  store. 

There  are  many  qualifications  that  enter  into  the  equipment  of  a 
big  and  successful  merchant,  and  Mr.  Haggarty  undoubtedly  possesses 
most  of  them,  and  some  of  them  without  a  rival.  He  has  a  wonderful 
faculty  for  detail,  and  there  are  few  items  in  the  management  of  the 
stores  that  do  not  come  within  his  purview.  For  all  that  he  remains  a 
great  buyer  and  it  has  been  his  custom  for  a  number  of  years  to  visit 
the  New  York  markets  four  times  annually,  besides  trips  abroad  to  the 
centers  of  design  and  creation  in  Europe.  Perhaps  it  need  not  be  added 
that  Mr.  Haggarty  has  exemplified  among  his  business  associates  an 
ideally  optimistic  temperament  and  a  belief  in  the  soundness  and  con- 
tinued prosperity  of  his  country.  He  is  a  man  of  wide  observation  and 
generous  knowledge  of  world  politics  and  business  affairs.  Outside  of 
business  he  is  devoted  to  home,  and  to  the  artistic  surroundings  which 
his  material  success  has  enabled  him  to  create.  A  number  of  years 
ago  he  planned  a  magnificent  home,  which  he  constructed  at  a  cost 
of  over  a  hundred  thousand  dollars  and,  representing  the  Norman 
Gothic  architecture  of  the  14th  century,  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  pri- 
vate homes  in  the  West  Adams  section  of  Los  Angeles.  It  is  called 
Castle  York.  The  home  is  surrounded  by  spacious  grounds,  with  sunken 
gardens  and  a  conservatory  of  rare  plants,  while  on  the  inside  the  ar- 
tistic tastes  and  inclinations  of  i\rr.  Haggarty  have  full  expression.  A 
devotee  of  music,  he  had  installed  in  his  home  one  of  the  most  perfect 
pipe  organs  found  in  a  private  residence  anywhere  in  the  country.  With 
his  interests  as  a  man  of  action  and  of  domestic  tastes  so  liberally  satis- 
fied, Mr.  Haggarty  is  a  member  of  few  outside  chilis,  contenting  himself 
with  membership  in  the  Caniut  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club.  Mr.  Haggarty  married  August  24.  1901.  at  St.  I'aul,  Minnesota, 
Miss  P.ertha  M.  Schnider. 

Philip  Forve  came  to  Los  Angeles  about  twenty  years  ago,  after  a 
long  experience  in  business  at  Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania.  In  Los 
Angeles  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  sale,  installation  and  manufacture 
of  lighting  fixtures,  and  is  president  of  one  of  the  largest  companies 
in  that  line  in  southern  California. 

Mr.  Forve  was  born  at  W^ilkes-Barre,  Penravlvania,  March  31,  1856, 
son  of  Jacob  and  Man-  Forve.  His  schooling  was  ended  at  the  age  of 
fourteen,  and  he  then  serv^ed  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  in  the  plumb- 


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ing  and  heating  business.  On  the  conclusion  of  his  apprenticeship  he 
joined  his  brother  Peter,  under  the  firm  name  of  Peter  Forve  &  Brother, 
in  the  general  plumbing  and  heating  business  and  continued  in  successful 
operation  for  upwards  of  a  quarter  of  a  century.  During  his  residence 
in  Wilkes-Barre  Mr.  Forve  served  for  four  years  as  a  member  of  the 
School  Board. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1900  he  went  into  partnership  with 
H.  W.  Pettebone,  under  the  name  Forve,  Pettebone  &  Company.  Their 
first  place  of  business  for  handling  general  lighting  fixtures  was  at  515 
South  Broadway,  but  in  1907  they  erected  a  five-story  building,  especially 
equipped  for  their  business,  at  512  South  Broadway,  known  as  the  Forve- 
Pettebone  Building.  They  occupy  the  entire  second  floor  as  a  salesroom, 
the  entire  fifth  floor  for  manufacturing  and  basement  as  a  store  room. 
Since  1902  the  business  has  been  incorporated  with  Mr.  Forve  as  presi- 
dent. They  employ  about  thirty  people  and  manufacture  a  special  line 
of  lighting  fixtures. 

Mr.  Forve  is  also  a  director  of  the  Commercial  National  Bank, 
secretary  and  director  of  the  Pure  Oil  Company  and  secretary  and  director 
of  the  Piru  Oil  and  Land  Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,  the  California  Club,  in  which  he  was  a  director  in  1908- 
1909,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 
During  1914-1915  he  was  a  director  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

E.  Collins  Quinby  is  the  man  responsible  for  the  famed  Quinby's 
California  "Chocolate  Shops."  There  are  many  thousands  of  people 
dwelling  in  homes  and  cities  remote  and  distant  whose  most  delightful 
reminiscences  of  Los  Angeles  center  around  the  Chocolate  Shops  and 
their  products.  Probably  nowhere  has  the  art  of  service  and  perfection 
of  quality  been  carried  out  more  completely  than  in  these  shops,  which 
are  distinctive  of  their  kind,  as  Los  Angeles  is  distinctive  among  all  the 
cities  of  the  Globe. 

About  ten  years  ago  Mr.  Quinby  and  his  associate  established  the 
first  shop,  and  from  the  beginning  emphasized  service  and  merchandise 
quality  rather  than  superficial  pretentiousness.  Beautiful  and  artistic 
surroundings,  furnishings  and  equipment  have  been  introduced  from  time 
to  time,  so  that  today  the  shops  are  as  delightful  to  the  eye  as  their  mer- 
chandise is  to  the  palate.  Competent  judges  and  connoisseurs  have  pro- 
nounced the  Chocolate  Shop  chocolates  unexcelled  by  any  anywhere,  and 
it  is  indicative  of  the  fine  taste  as  well  as  the  business  enterprise  of  the 
proprietors  that  they  have  utilized  the  unique  and  typically  Calif ornian 
setting  for  their  product.  Millions  of  boxes  of  Quinby's  California  Choco- 
late Shops  chocolates  are  shipped  all  over  the  country,  and  these  boxes 
win  new  friends  and  are  at  once  recognized  by  their  old  friends  through 
the  box  of  California  redwood  in  which  the  confections  are  contained. 
The  cabinet  work  on  these  boxes  gives  them  a  special  value,  and  thou- 
sands of  annual  California  visitors  carry  away  no  more  distinctive 
souvenir  of  Los  Angeles  than  one  of  these  boxes  of  native  redwood. 

Mr.  Quinby  established  the  Metropolitan  Ice  Cream  Company  in 
partnership  with  his  son  Paul  W.  The  next  year  they  opened  their 
first  chocolate  shop,  in  a  one-story  building  at  211  West  5th  Street.  It 
was  the  small,  obscure  store  from  which  their  business  has  been  developed 
to  one  of  national  importance.  In  1910  they  opened  a  chocolate  shop 
at  20  East  Colorado  Street  in  Pasadena.  The  third  shop  was  opened 
in  1913  at  731  South  Broadway,  and  in  1914  the  fourth  shop  was  estab- 
lished at  217  West  6th  Street.    In  1915  the  building  in  which  their  5th 


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street  store  was  located  was  torn  down  to  make  way  for  the  Citizens 
National  Bank  Building.  When  that  structure  was  completed  a  new 
chocolate  shop  was  reopened.  In  1916  the  firm  sold  the  Metropolitan  Ice 
Cream  Company  to  the  Crescent  Ice  Cream  Company. 

The  headquarters  of  the  business  are  at  217  West  6th  street,  where 
they  occupy  four  stories  and  basement.  The  wholesale  department  of 
the  business  was  established  in  August,  1917,  and  in  spite  of  the  obvious 
restrictions  and  handicaps  caused  by  the  war  it  has  had  a  wonderful 
growth  and  success.  The  manufacturing  plant  of  Quinby's  California 
Chocolate  Shop  chocolates  is  located  on  8th  and  Santee  streets,  Los 
Angeles,  in  a  modern  and  up-to-date  building.  The  business  is  one  that 
employs  four  hundred  and  fifty  people,  and  there  are  agents  for  Quinby's 
Chocolate  Shop  chocolates  in  over  2,200  cities  of  the  United  States, 
the  Philippine  Islands  and  the  entire  west  coast  of  South  America. 

The  business  is  incorporated  with  Mr.  Quinby  as  president  and  Paul 
W.  Quinby  vice-president  and  secretary. 

Charles  Seyler,  Sr.,  was  an  old  time  Californian,  coming  to  the 
state  soon  after  the  Civil  war,  and  for  many  years  was  identified  in 
official  capacities  with  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway,  and  later  was  a 
well  known  banker  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Dansville,  New  York,  October  12,  1843.  He  was 
schooled  in  his  native  state  and  in  1861,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  enlisted 
in  Company  D  of  the  13th  New  York  Infantry.  He  saw  two  years  of 
active  service.  He  lived  in  the  east  several  years  after  the  war,  but 
in  1870  came  to  California  and  was  employed  as  agent  at  various  points 
around  San  Francisco  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Company.  Later  he  was 
put  in  the  freight  office  at  San  Francisco,  and  in  1875  was  transferred 
to  Wilmington,  now  part  of  Los  Angeles,  as  station  agent.  In  1880  he 
returned  to  San  Francisco  as  traveling  auditor.  The  company  sent 
him  back  to  Los  Angeles  in  1885  as  district  freight  and  passenger  agent, 
and  he  continued  in  that  office  until  1902,  when  he  left  the  railroad 
company  to  become  cashier  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank  at  Los 
Angeles.  He  finally  retired  from  business  activities  in  1913,  and  died 
June  2,  1915.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club,  and  was  a  republican.  At  Wilmington,  California,  in  1876, 
he  married  Pauline  Bauer. 

Charles  Seyler,  Jr.,  the  only  child  of  his  parents,  was  born  at 
Wilmington,  January  14,  1878.  The  insurance  circles  in  southern  Cali- 
fornia know  him  as  one  of  the  most  successful  insurance  business  get- 
ters and  as  a  man  who  is  proficient  in  all  branches  of  general  insurance. 

He  was  educated  in  grammar  and  high  schools,  graduating  in  1896, 
and  in  1899,  after  receiving  his  degree  from  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia, he  returned  to  Los  Angeles,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  as 
freight  claim  adjuster  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway.  He  resigned 
this  office  in  1902  to  enter  the  general  insurance  work.  Mr.  Seyler's 
offices  are  in  the  I.  W.  Hellman  Building.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Phi  Delta  Theta  college  fraternity,  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club  and  Athletic  Club  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  August 
7,  1916,  at  David  City,  Nebraska,  he  married  Miss  Marie  Stoop. 

Jean  Etchemendy,  a  Los  Angeles  pioneer  whose  name  is  still  held 
in  honored  remembrance  and  whose  descendants  still  live  at  Los  An- 
geles, was  born  at  Hasparren,  Basses-Pyrenees,  France,  November  11, 
■  1830.     After  spending  his  youth  there  and  attending  school  he  set  out 


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for  South  America.  He  left  there  in  1847,  and  located  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, going  from  there  to  the  mines  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state. 
He  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  in  1851,  where  he  became  interested  in  one 
of  the  first  bakeries.  Later  lie  became  identified  with  the  sheep  in- 
dustry on  the  Rancho  San  Pedro  near  Wilmington,  and  was  a  man  of 
much  business  activity  there  until  his  death  on  ^larch  13,  1872. 

Mr.  Etchemendy  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles  married  in  1865 
juana  Egurrola.  She  was  born  at  Marquina,  near  Bilbao,  Spain,  Au- 
gust 29,  1835.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband  she  married  the 
late  Pierre  Larronde,  and  she  is  now  living  in  Los  Angeles,  at  HI 
North  Hope  street,  where  she  resides  with  her  three  daughters,  Made- 
leine, Marianne  and  Caroline  Etchemendy,  and  her  son,  John  M.  Lar- 
ronde. 

Pierre  Larronde.  In  and  around  Los  Angeles  are  several  pieces 
of  property  that  have  for  many  years,  in  fact  since  pioneer  times,  had  the 
title  of  ownership  invested  in  the  Larronde  family,  a  name  that  repre- 
sents some  of  the  oldest  Californians,  and  about  the  first  settlers  in  this 
state  from  France. 

One  of  them  was  Pierre  Larronde.  He  was  born  at  St.  Palais, 
County  of  Basses,  Pyrenees,  France,  October  9,  1826.  He  attended 
school  there  and  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  In  the  early  forties  he 
crossed  the  ocean  to  Buenos  Aires,  South  America.  He  left  there  in 
1847  and  from  San  Francisco  went  to  the  mines  in  the  northern  part  of 
California.  He  arrived  at  Los  .Vngeles  when  it  was  nothing  but  a 
Spanish  town  in  1851.  Here  he  bought  an  interest  in  a  sheep  ranch,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  a  sheep  rancher  on  the  old  Dominguez  ranch, 
known  as  the  Rancho  San  Pedro.  He  conducted  operations  on  :i  large 
scale,  but  in  1889  sold  out  and  thenceforward  looked  after  his  interests 
and  investments  in  Los  Angeles  and  surrounding  districts.  He  had 
much  real  estate,  and  some  of  it  is  still  in  the  family.  In  1879  he  bought 
the  northwest  corner  at  First  and  Spring  streets  from  Frank  Carpenter, 
and  that  propertv  is  still  owned  by  his  heirs.  Pierre  Larronde  died 
May  24,  1896.       ' 

In  Los  Angeles  September  14.  1874.  he  married  Mrs.  Juana  Etche- 
mendy. To  their  marriage  were  born  three  children :  Pierre  Domingo, 
a  native  of  Los  Angeles,  and  now  connected  with  the  Franco-American 
Baking  Company  ;  Antoinette,  Mrs.  James  J.  Watson,  of  Los  Angeles : 
and  John  M..  connected  with  the  Title  Insurance  Company  of  Los  An- 
geles. 

Philip  A.  Stakton,  who  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  February  4, 
1868,  son  of  Lewis  and  Rosalie  Stanton,  is  a  southern  California  pioneer 
in  two  important  respects.  Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Cleveland, 
he  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1887.  That  makes  him  a  pioneer  in  point 
of  residence. 

A  much  more  noteworthy  distinction  has  been  his  pioneer  work  in 
the  development  of  Southern  California.  He  early  entered  the  real 
estate  business  and  for  thirty  years  has  been  promoting  the  growth  of 
Los  Angeles  and  making  towns  grow  where  none  grew  before.  He 
subdivided  and  sold  many  tracts  in  Los  Angeles  city  and  Orange  county, 
including  several  thousand  acres  where  the  city  of  Stanton  now  stands, 
and  is  still  owner  of  several  hundred  acres  in  the  latter  locality. 

This  work  has  brought  him  into  close  association  with  some  of  the 
liiggest  business   men   and   financiers   of   southern   California,   including 


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i.  W.  Hellman,  for  whom  he  acted  as  agent  ten  years,  the  Stearns 
Rancho  Company,  the  late  R.  J.  Northam,  and  Mr.  H.  E.  Huntington. 

Three  flourishing  southern  CaHfornia  cities — Seal  Beach,  Hunting- 
ton Beach  and  Stanton — owe  their  founding  and  to  a  large  extent  their 
development  to  Philip  A.  Stanton.  All  these  are  in  Orange  county, 
"the  little  county  of  big  crops."  Mr.  Stanton  early  saw  their  possi- 
bilities and  the  results  have  well  vindicated  his  shrewdness  and  sound 
judgment.  His  chief  interests  at  present  are  centered  in  Seal  Beach,  the 
favorite  seaside  resort  of  the  rich  "back  country"  of  Orange  county,  and 
in  Stanton,  the  center  of  a  prosperous  ranching  and  truck  farming  dis- 
trict. 

Mr.  Stanton  is  president  of  the  Bayside  Land  Company  of  Seal 
Beach;  president  of  the  Benedict  Water  Company;  president  of  the 
Stanton  City  Improvement  Company;  president  of  the  South  Coast  Im- 
provement Association,  an  organization  which  has  done  much  to  ad- 
vance the  interests  and  development  of  the  South  Coast  from  Seal 
Beach  to  Balboa  and  Capistrano;  and  is  a  director  of  the  California 
Savings  and  Commercial  Bank. 

His  supreme  faith  in  the  resources  and  possibilities  of  the  South 
Coast  in  general  and  in  Orange  county  in  particular  has  been  justified 
by  the  remarkable  growth  of  that  section  and  the  outlook  for  its  future. 

In  this  brief  sketch  Mr.  Stanton's  important  public  and  political 
service  must  not  be  overlooked.  For  many  years  he  had  a  deep  interest 
in  politics  and  was  a  leader  in  the  regular  republican  party  of  the  state, 
and  one  of  its  mainstays  in  southern  California.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  State  Assembly  from  1902  to  1910.  In  1905  he  was  chairman 
of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee.  In  1909,  while  speaker  of  the 
Assembly,  he  bridged  over  a  critical  situation  and  rendered  the  nation 
a  distinctive  service  by  suppressing  anti-Japanese  legislation  at  the 
personal  request  of  Theodore  Roosevelt,  then  president.  Some  of  the 
most  important  state  laws  bear  Mr.  Stanton's  name.  He  was  also  largely 
responsible  for  legislation  abolishing  race  track  gambling  and  for  the 
enactment  of  the  direct  primary  law.  He  was  a  candidate  for  the  re- 
publican gubernatorial  nomination  in  1910  and  served  as  a  republican 
national  committeeman  from  California  from  1912  to  1916. 

Mr.  Stanton  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic, 
Jonathan  and  Union  League  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Union  League 
Club  of  San  Francisco,  and  of  the  Orange  County  Country  Club,  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Realty  Board  of  Los  Angeles. 

Judge  Sidney  N.  Reeve,  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Los 
Angeles,  came  to  southern  California  nearly  twenty  years  ago,  leaving 
some  prominent  professional  associations  in  Chicago,  and  has  been  an 
active  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar  and  a  public  ofificial  for  over  ten 
years. 

He  was  born  at  Sherbrooke,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  April  11, 
1877.  Four  years  later,  in  1881,  his  parents,  George  B.  and  Alice  (Jones) 
Reeve,  moved  to  Chicago,  where  he  attended  public  scl»ol  to  the  age 
of  fourteen.  He  gained  his  firs.t  knowledge  'f  the  law  in  the  law  office 
of  Samuel  B.  Foster,  and  in  September,  ]  ,  ,  graduated  LL.B.  from  the 
Law  Department  of  Lake  Forest  University.  He  ^vas  then  about  nine- 
teen and  a  half  years  old,  and  as  he  could  not  yet  qualify  for  practice, 
he  spent  the  time  pursuing  a  post-graduate  course  in  McGill  University 
at  Montreal.  Returning  to  Chicago  in  1899,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  and  first  engaged  in  practice  with 


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Charles  Deneen,  who  was  then  state's  attorney  and  afterward  governor 
of  IlHnois.  Judge  Reeve  was  making  promising  advancement  though 
under  the  handicap  of  ill  health,  and  finally  for  the  sake  of  his  health 
he  left  Chicago  and  in  1901  came  to  Los  Angeles.  For  several  years 
he  made  no  attempt  to  practice  and  found  employment  on  his  father's 
ranch  at  LaMirado.  In  1907  he  was  formally  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
California.  In  1906  he  accepted  the  place  of  clerk  in  the  township  court 
of  Los  Angeles  county.  In  1908  he  became  deputy  city  attorney  and 
assistant  prosecuting  attorney  and  in  1910  was  elected  and  served  until 
January,  1915,  as  justice  of  the  peace  of  Los  Angeles  township. 

Since  January,  1915,  Judge  Reeve  has  been  a  member  of  the  Su- 
perior Court  and  has  presided  over  Department  8,  usually  described  as 
the  juvenile  and  psychopathic  department.  In  this  branch  of  the  judi- 
ciary he  handles  about  ten  thousand  cases  every  year,  practically  all  of 
them  involving  children,  insane  and  feeble  minded,  or  matters  affecting 
child  welfare  and  the  unfortunate  class  generally. 

Judge  Reeve  is  a  Mason,  a  Woodman  of  the  World,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club,  the  Episcopal 
church  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  November  5,  1908,  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Widney,  daughter  of  W.  W.  Widney,  a  Los  Angeles  pioneer. 
They  have  two  children:  Sidney  N.,  Jr.,  born  in  1912,  now  attending 
public  school,  and  Mary  Virginia,  born  in  1917. 

Drew  Pruitt  is  a  lawyer  of  over  a  third  of  a  century's  experience, 
attained  his  early  successes  and  distinctions  in  Texas,  and  since  1906 
has  been  one  of  the  strong  and  able  lawyers  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Selma  in  Drew  county,  Arkansas,  January  1,  1860, 
a  son  of  Jacob  M.  Pruitt.  His  father,  who  was  bom  at  Moulton,  Ala- 
bama, in  1819,  was  a  southern  planter,  spent  his  early  life  in  Alabama, 
moved  in  1843  to  Hernando,  De  Soto  county,  Mississippi,  where  he  had 
a  plantation  operated  by  slave  labor,  and  in  1850  went  to  Selma,  Drew 
county,  Arkansas,  and  owned  several  plantations  in  that  locality.  After 
the  war,  in  1869,  he  sold  out  his  Arkansas  properties  and  moved  to  what 
was  then  the  frontier  of  northern  Texas,  engaging  in  ranching  and 
cattle  raising  in  Coryell  county.  He  lived  there  until  his  death  in  1894. 
He  married  at  Moulton,  Alabama,  Nancy  P.  Johnson. 

Drew  Pruitt  was  one  of  twelve  children.  He  acquired  his  early 
education  in  the  district  schools  of  Coryell  county,  Texas,  until  fifteen, 
attended  a  preparatory  school  at  Waco  for  two  years,  and  took  his  uni- 
versity course  in  Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville,  Tennessee.  He 
graduated  with  the  degree  B.  P.  in  1881.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Herring,  Kelly  and  Williams  at  Waco  one  year,  and  after  his  admission 
to  the  Texas  bar  began  practice  at  Fort  Worth.  He  was  one  of  the 
leading  lawyers  of  north  Texas  for  many  years,  and  on  several  occa- 
sions served  by  appointment  as  judge  of  the  District  Court. 

Judge  Pruitt  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1906.  Here  also  he  has  been 
appointed  judge  in  special  cases,  and  makes  a  specialty  of  corporation 
and  probate  law.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  and  American 
Bar  Associations,  belongs  to  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  is 
affiliated  with  Moneta  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  South  Gate  Chapter,  R. 
A.  M.,  Los  Angeles  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  Al  Malikah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the 
Jonathan  Club. 

At  Waco,  Texas,  May  1,  1887,  Mr.  Pruitt  married  Wilhelmina 
Franklin.     Their  son.  Drew,  Jr.,  born  at  Fort  Worth  in  April,   1888, 


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was  educated  in  the  University  of  Texas  and  Stanford  Llniversity,  and 
early  in  the  World  war  entered  the  officers'  training  camp  at  American 
Lake.  He  joined  the  famous  Yankee  Division  26  and  was  assigned  to 
duty  in  Field  Hospital  Unit  No.  102  in  France,  spent  ten  months  with  the 
Expeditionary  Forces,  and  in  the  spring  of  1919  was  recovering  from  his 
wounds  sustained  in  the  battle  of  .Argonne  in  the  hospital  at  San  Diego. 
California. 

Charles  L.  Bundv,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Investment  Building  at 
Los  Angeles,  is  widely  known  for  his  operations  in  the  real  estate  field, 
and  has  been  especially  identified  with  development)  work,  banking 
and  other  enterprises  at  Santa  Monica. 

He  has  practically  lived  all  his  life  in  and  around  Santa  Monica, 
though  he  was  born  at  Ames,  Iowa,  November  16,  1875.  His  father, 
Nathan  Bundy,  who  was  bona  at  Chesterhill,  Ohio,  November  16,  1846, 
after  getting  his  education  moved  to  y\mes  Iowa,  and  in  1876  came  to 
Santa  Monica,  California,  where  he  became  extensively  interested  in 
real  estate  and  did  a  great  deal  of  development  in  and  around  that  city 
and  also  in  Los  Angeles.  He  died  in  November,  1913.  He  and  his 
wife  had  six  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living  but  one. 

Charles  L.  Bundy  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  Santa  Monica,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  entered  the  Bank  of  Santa 
Monica  as  bookeeper.  Eventually  he  was  promoted  to  the  office  of 
cashier,  and  after  ten  years  of  continuous  service  resigned  to  establish 
an  office  in  Los  Angeles  and  engage  in  the  real  estate  business.  Mr. 
Bundy  has  seldom  if  ever  handled  any  property  except  his  own,  and 
his  interests  are  sufficiently  large  to  require  all  his  time.  He  is  vice- 
president  and  director  of  the  Santa  Monica  Land  and  Water  Company 
and  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Santa  Monica  Land  Company. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Oub,  Brentwood  Country  Club  and  a 
republican  in  politics. 

May  20,  1897,  he  married  Hallie  Loomis.  They  have  two  very 
promising  young  sons.  Douglas,  who  was  born  in  1898,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Hollywood  High  School,  also  attended  the  famous  preparatory 
school  at  Ojai  known  as  the  Thatcher  School,  spent  one  year  in  the 
Officers  Training  School  for  the  Field  Artillery  at  Yale  University,  and 
is  now  a  student  in  Leland  Stanford  University.  Robert  Bundy,  born 
in  1901,  had  four  years  in  the  Thatcher  School,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Los 
Angeles  High  School  and  is  now  at  Leland  Stanford  University. 

Rev.  Patrick  Daly,  assistant  pastor  of  St.  John's  Catholic  church 
at  Hyde  Park,  has  been  identified  with  this  young  and  growing  parish 
since  he  came  a  newly  ordained  priest  from  his  native  Ireland. 

Father  Daly  was  born  in  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  August 
21,  1888,  son  of  Mortimer  and  Mary  (Relihan)  Daly.  His  father  was 
born  in  County  Kerry  in  1858,  and  spent  his  active  career  as  a  farmer. 
He  was  the  father  of  seven  children.  Two  of  his  brothers,  uncles  of 
Rev.  Patrick  Daly,  were  also  priests,  Father  John  Daly,  pastor  of  St. 
Brendan's  Church  at  Elkins.  West  Virginia,  and  Father  Patrick  Daly, 
who  recently  died  and  was  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church  at  Longsight. 
Manchester,  England. 

Father  Daly  attended  the  National  schools  of  County  Kerry  to  the 
age  of  fourteen.  He  was  then  in  St.  Michael's  College  at  Listowel 
a  year,  then  in  St.  Brendan's  Seminary  at  Killamey,  from  which  he 
graduated  after  a  three  year's  course.  He  studied  philosophy  and 
theology  in  St.  Kieran's  College  in  Kilkenny  and  was  ordained  there 


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June  13,  1915.    Father  Patrick  Daly  also  has  a  brother,  Mortimer,  who 
will  receive  ordination  as  a  priest  in  June,  1919. 

Father  Patrick  Daly  immediately  set  out  for  the  United  States  and 
since  arriving  has  been  assistant  pastor  of  St.  John's  parish  at  Hyde 
Park.  Tlie  church  was  established  in  1908,  and  the  church  home  v>'as 
dedicated  in  January,  1910,  by  the  late  Bishop  Conaty.  Father  Daly 
was  at  "first  assistant  to  Father  Jerry  Burke,  pastor  of  St.  John's,  and 
is  now  assistant  to  Father  Leo  G.  Garsse.  Father  Daly  is  a  member 
of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians. 

Norman  R.  Martin  is  a  widely  known  California  man,  a  veteran  of 
the  railroad  service,  spending  rnany  years  with  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company,  but  is  now  giving  his  time  to  public  work  as  superintendent 
of  Charities  of  Los  Angeles  County,  and  superintendent  of  the  County 
Hospital. 

Mr.  Martin  was  born  at  Brushton,  Franklin  county,  New  York, 
September  17,  1872,  but  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  he 
was  nine  years  of  age.  His  parents  were  Russell  Clinton  and  Sarah  A. 
(Gibson)  Martin.  His  father,  who  was  bom  at  Burlington,  Vermont, 
November  30,  1848,  was  educated  there  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  man- 
aged to  get  into  the  army  as  a  volunteer  in  the  First  Vermont  Cavalry, 
and  saw  a  year  and  a  half  of  active  service  in  putting  down  the  rebel- 
lion. Following  the  war  he  located  at  Brushton,  New  York,  and  was 
in  the  drug  business  there  until  1881.  In  that  year  he  brought  his  family 
west  to  Los  Angeles,  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railway  as  locomotive  engineer.  He  was  on  the  road  at  the  throttle 
over  thirty-four  years,  finally  retiring  in  1914.  He  married  at  Moira, 
Franklin  county,  New  York,  September  22.  1868,  Miss  Sarah  A.  Gibson. 
Of  their  three  children  two  are  living. 

Norman  R.  Martin  attended  school  in  New  York,  but  most  of  his 
education  was  acquired  after  his  parents  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  No- 
vember, 1881.  For  a  time. he  was  a  pupil  in  the  old  Bath  Street  School, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  three  white  children  among  sixty  students,  the 
rest  being  Mexicans.  In  June,  1890,  he  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles 
High  School,  then  located  in  the  old  Spring  Street  School,  where  Mer- 
cantile Place  is  now  a  business  center.  For  about  a  year  thereafter  Mr. 
Martin  studied  and  played  instrumental  music. 

His  real  business  career  began  in  December,  1891,  as  messenger  at 
the  freight  house  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  in  Los  Angeles,  under 
Charles  Seyler,  who  later  became  cashier  of  the  Farmers'  and  Mer- 
chants' Bank.  In  July,  1892.  Mr.  Martin  became  clerk  in  the  uptown 
freight  office  at  Second  and  Spring  streets,  was  sent  in  December.  1894. 
to  San  Diego  as  ticket  clerk :  in  June,  1895,  returned  to  Los  Angeles  as 
Pullman  and  ticket  clerk  in  the'Los  Angeles  office;  in  1896  was  pro- 
moted to  cashier  and  accountant;  August.  1899,  was  made  traveling 
passenger  and  advertising  agent;  in  1902  became  city  ticket  agent  at 
Los  Angeles,  and  in  1904,  was  given  the  responsibilities  of  district  pas- 
senger agent  over  the  territory  of  southern  California,  north  to  Santa 
Barbara  and  Bakersfield.  east  to  the  Colorado  River,  and  south  including 
the  Imperial  Valley.  All  these  promotions  were  made  on  merit  and  the 
value  of  his  service  to  the  company ;  in  1910  he  was  assigned  to  an  in- 
teresting task,  requiring  several  months,  during  which  he  explored  the 
west  coast  of  Old  Mexico  as  far  south  as  Tepic,  a  thousand  miles  below 
the  American  border.  These  investigations  were  for  the  purpose  of 
making    exhaustive    colonization    reports    for    Colonel    Epes    Randolph, 


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president  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  of  Mexico,  to  determine 
agricultural  possibilities  and  a  policy  of  colonization. 

Realizing  the  wonderful  possibilities  in  old  Mexico,  Mr.  Martin  re- 
signed from  the  Southern  Pacific  Company  in  May,  1911,  and  bought 
an  eleven  thousand  acre  ranch  in  Sinaloa.  He  gave  his  time  to  the  per- 
sonal supervision  of  this  immense  tract  until  the  outbreak  and  continu- 
ance of  revolutionar}'  trouble  put  a  quietus  to  all  ordered  activities  of 
an  agricultural  nature  in  the  southern  republic.  In  March,  1914,  Mr. 
Martin,  returning  to  Los  Angeles,  was  appointed  general  agent  for  the 
Lake  Tahoe  Transportation  Company.  He  was  also  secretary  of  the 
1915  General  Committee,  succeeding  Congressman  Henry  Z.  Osborne, 
and  under  the  chairmanship  of  Motly  H.  Flint,  Mr.  Martin  resigned 
these  dities  in  P'ebruary,  1915,  to  become  Superintendent  of  Charities 
of  Los  Angeles  county,  with  general  supervision  over  the  County  Hos- 
pital, Farm  and  Cemetery  and  the  outdoor  relief  for  city  and  county. 
In  June,  1917,  additional  duties  were  imposed  upon  him  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  County  Hospital. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  director  of  the  Southern  California  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  is  a  member  of  the  Immigration  Committee  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  an  Elk,  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  Republican, 
a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  of  the  Southern  California  Auto- 
mobile Club.  In  Los  Angeles,  at  St.  Paul's  Pro-Cathedral  June  1,  1898, 
he  married  Miss  Florence  Hayden  McLellan.  They  have  one  daughter, 
Marjorie  Eleanor,  a  student  in  the  Los  Angeles  public  schools. 

Arthur  Letts.  The  world  is  becoming  accustomed  to  the  marvel- 
ous results  accomplished  by  organized  efficiency,  otherwise  it  would  be 
difficult  to  explain  how  one  of  the  Los  Angeles  greatest  institutions,  the 
Broadway  Department  Store,  could  have  been  founded  twenty  odd  years 
ago  by  a  man  with  only  five  hundred  dollars  in  capital.  Little  notice  was 
taken  of  the  arrival  of  Arthur  Letts  in  the  business  community  of  Los 
Angeles  in  1895.  But  for  ten  years  or  more  his  store,  and  his  won- 
derful home  and  gardens  at  Hollywood,  has  attracted  millions  of  patrons 
and  visitors  every  year.  Mr.  Letts  represents  an  old  and  substantial 
English  family  of  the  upper  middle  class.  He  was  born  at  Holmby 
Lodge  in  Northamptonshire,  June  17,  1862,  son  of  Richard  and  Caroline 
(Coleman)  Letts.  Both  his  father  and  grandfather  were  named  Rich- 
ard, and  that  name  was  regularly  bestowed  upon  the  oldest  son  of  the 
family  for  nine  generations.  Four  hundreds,  years  ago  a  Richard 
Letts  owned  the  farm  where  Arthur  Letts  was  born. 

Up  to  1S74,  at  the  age  of  twelve,  Arthur  Letts  attended  a  private 
school  for  boys  near  his  old  home,  conducted  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hedges.  From 
1874  to  1877  he  attended  the  Creaton  grammar  school,  and  also  had  the 
instruction  of  a  private  coach  named  Mr.  Meredith.  His  early  life  was 
characterized  by  great  devotion  to  his  studies.  He  was  always  very  fond 
of  his  older  brothers.  He  stood  at  the  head  of  liis  class  in  school,  but  he 
chose  otherwise  than  a  studious  or  professional  career.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  was  articled  for  three  yenrs  to  a  good  man,  proprietor  of  a 
dry  goods  store  in  a  small,  thriving  English  town.  The  three  years  he 
spent  there  gave  him  a  good  foundation  for  a  business  career.  The 
fourth  year  he  was  engaged  by  the  same  house  on  a  salary.  About  that 
time  he  and  a  younger  brother  became  enthusiastic  over  the  opportuni- 
ties of  the  New  World.  When  they  were  snfely  embarked  on  a  steamer 
at  Liverpool  they  sent  word  to  their  parents  and  thus  avoided  the  com-" 
plications  of  leaving  home   without   express   permission.     For   several 


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years  Arthur  Letts  was  employed  in  Walker's  department  store  at  To- 
ronto, then  the  largest  mercantile  estabHshment  of  Canada.  During  that 
service  he  received  permission  to  volunteer  in  the  Queen's  Own,  and 
made  a  creditable  record  while  with  the  troops  engaged  in  putting  down 
the  Riel  Rebellion  in  the  northwest.  For  this  service  he  was  awarded  a 
silver  medal  and  clasp  and  also  a  grant  of  land  by  the  Canadian  gov- 
ernment. 

In  the  early  '90's  Mr.  Letts  went  west  to  Seattle.  Soon  after  his 
arrival  the  mercantile  house  that  had  employed  him  was  burned  in  a 
general  fire  that  devastated  the  business  section  of  the  city.  The  ashes 
were  hardiy  cool  when  he  put  up  a  tent  and  installed  a  stock  of  goods 
on  his  own  account.  Later  he  moved  his  stock  to  a  building,  and  con- 
tinued a  Seattle  merchant  for  several  years. 

His  next  move  brought  him  to  Los  Angeles  in  February,  1896.  At 
that  time  he  had  only  live  hundred  dollars  in  capital.  Perhaps  the 
most  significant  thing  about  Mr.  Letts'  early  activities  at  Los  Angeles 
was  his  foresightedness  and  his  choice  of  a  business  location.  At  that 
time  the  corner  at  Fourth  and  Broadway  was  considered  out  in  the 
country,  being  several  blocks  from  a  real  business  district.  A  firm 
at  Fourth  and  Broadway,  J.  A.  Williams  &  Company,  had  recently 
become  bankrupt,  its  stock  inventorying  at  a  little  more  than  eight 
thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Letts  apparently  was  the  only  man  who  con- 
sidered this  a  real  opportunity  for  investment.  With  the  aid  of  an 
influential  friend  he  secured  a  loan  of  five  thousand  dollars  from  the 
Los  Angeles  National  Bank,  and  the  stock  was  finally  purchased  from 
the  Board  of  Trade.  Thus  on  February  24,  1896,  the  Broadway  De- 
partment Store  of  Arthur  Letts  was  first  opened  to  the  public.  His 
stock  was  damaged  a  week  later  by  an  adjacent  fire,  but  that  handicap 
was  soon  overcome  and  his  business  grew  by  leaps  and  bounds.  Time 
and  again  it  has  been  necessary  to  enlarge  his  quarters.  In  1899  the 
Broadway  Department  Store  occupied  the  entire  ground  floor  of  the 
Pirtle  &  Hallet  Building.  In  1901  the  adjoining  Hellman  Building  was 
bought,  and  in  1905  the  upper  floors  of  the  Pirtle  and  Hallet  Building 
were  acquired.  In  the  next  year  the  Slauson  Building  was  occupied. 
Still  later  a  magnificent  new  structure  was  erected,  and  today  there  is 
no  larger  and  better  known  department  store  in  southern  California 
than  the  Broadway  Department  Store. 

Some  of  the  qualities  of  character  that  have  impelled  Arthur  Letts 
to  his  present  business  position  are  indicated  in  the  foregoing  brief  de- 
scription. But  it  is  significant  that  Mr.  Letts  himself  has  always  re- 
garded the  Broadway  Department  Store  as  an  institution  and  an  or- 
ganization rather  than  a  one-man  business.  He  seemed  to  exemplify 
a  policy  laid  down  by  another  eminent  financier  a  number  of  years  ago 
of  never  doing  anything  which  someone  else  could  do.  He  has  been 
content  to  Ijlaze  the  trail,  show  the  way,  and  give  his  complete  con- 
fidence and  co-operation  to  his  associates,  whether  those  associates  are 
tlepartment  managers  or  the  humblest  employes. 

In  recent  years  the  public  generally  has  been  made  familiar  with  a 
so-called  new  idea  in  education,  the  "Continuation  School"  and  voca-  ■ 
tional  training.  It  is  noteworthy  that  Mr.  Letts  introduced  ;i  plan  of 
"Continuation  School"  seventeen  years  ago.  In  his  store  he  arranged 
for  and  established  instruction  given  free  to  his  younger  employes,  and 
since  then  all  the  junior  members  of  the  store's  working  force  under 
eighteen  years  have  the  opportunity  of  getting  a  good  education  while 
earning  their  living.    This  school  has  been  studied  and  commented  upon 


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by  many  educators,  and  frequently  the  results  attained  by  the  Broad- 
way Department  Store  pupils  have  been  equal  to  those  attained  where 
pupils  have  attended  the  regular  public  schools  without  the  interruption 
of  a  daily  vocation.  Another  important  institution  of  the  store  was  the 
organization  in  1904  of  a  mutual  benefit  association  that  provides  relief 
to  members  who  are  kept   from  their  duties  through  illness. 

Mr.  Letts  was  one  of  the  most  liberal  givers  to  the  Los  Angeles 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  for  nine  years  was  president  of  the  local  association,  and 
in  that  time  the  association  acquired  the  largest  membership  of  any 
individual  body  of  the  association  in  the  world.  In  1909  Mr.  Letts  was 
a  delegate  to  the  World's  Convention  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association. 

Mr.  Letts  was  at  one  time  vice-president  of  the  California  Savings 
Bank  and  a  director  of  the  Broadway  Bank  and  Trust  Company,  but  his 
growing  interests  as  a  business  man  caused  him  eventually  to  retire 
from  all  outside  responsibilities.  He  is  a  republican  but  has  never  con- 
sented to  serve  in  more  than  one  political  position,  as  trustee  of  the 
State  Normal  School. 

Mr.  Letts  is  a  member  of  the  Hollywood  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
is  a  Knight  Templar,  and  a  member  of  the  California  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco,  the  Los  Angeles  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  Realty  Board,  Los  Angeles  Country-  Club,  Athletic 
Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  Municipal  League,  City  Club,  Hollywood 
Board  of  Trade.  Federation  Club  and  the  Automobile  Club.  He  is  also 
vice-president  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  and  president  of  the  local 
Boy  Scouts. 

His  hobby  is  horticulture.  His  estate  at  Hollywood  covers  a  hun- 
dred acres  of  ground  and  contains  besides  his  beautiful  residence,  known 
as  Holmby  House,  an  unrivaled  collection  of  trees,  plants  and  shrubs 
gathered  from  all  parts  of  the  world.  To  one  who  has  known  the  beau- 
tiful residences  and  estates  of  other  lands,  there  is  an  especial  charm 
about  the  approach  and  entrance  to  the  home  of  Arthur  Letts — Holmby 
House.  No  lodge  beside  locked  gates  here,  with  liveried  servants  keep- 
ing guard,  but  on  the  contrary  as  one  approaches  on  Kenmore  avenue 
he  is  impressed  with  the  open  welcome  of  the  unguarded  gateways  and 
drives.  The  formal  garden,  with  its  warmth  of  color  shown  in  the 
many  symmetrical  designs  of  arrangements  of  brilliant-hued  foliage 
plants,  seem  to  speak  of  a  warm  hearted  host  awaiting  one  in  the  mansion 
on  the  hill. 

The  graceful  branches  of  the  many  deodars  seem  to  beckon  to  one 
to  come  closer  and  yet  closer,  while  from  row  upon  row  of  carefully 
chosen  specimen  trees  that  plant  the  garden  comes  a  burst  of  melody 
from  a  thousand  tiny  throats,  the  sweet  songsters  giving  welcome  as  they 
wing  their  way  from  tree  top  to  tree  top.  The  beautiful  statuary 
grouped  on  the  terraces,  the  playing  fountain,  the  restful  Italian  marble 
seats,  all  lend  their  aid  to  the  development  of  this  idea,  that  here  is  to 
be  found  a  largesse,  a  bounteous  generosity  and  hospitality,  in  a  home 
the  master  of  which  is  a  citizen  of  the  world. 

There  are  literally  miles  and  miles  of  beautiful  winding  roads  and 
walks  and  picturesque  pathways  in  the  grounds  about  Holmby  House, 
and  in  some  of  these  one  might  linger  for  hours,  resting  now  and  then 
beneath  some  stately  tree,  or  dropping  down  to  enjoy  at  leisure  some 
fine  vista  of  distant  ocean  or  purple  tipped  mountains. 

Architectural  efifect  has  not  been  neglected  either,  and  here  and 
there  are  dignified  pergolas  overhung  with  glorious  tropical  vines,  and 


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with  tiled  or  gravel  walks  beneath  their  shelter,  leading  perhaps  to  a 
rippling  fountain  or  to  the  edge  of  a  terrace  where  one  may  sit  cosily 
at  afternoon  tea,  or  perhaps  in  the  summer  evening  linger  to  look  out 
over  the  moonlit  valley,  or  watch  a  few  miles  away  the  twinkling  lights 
of  the  busy  city  of  Los  Angeles. 

The  trellised  walks  about  the  great  glass  and  lath  conservatory  are 
especially  beautiful,  for  they  shelter  wondrous  waxen  begonias  and  rare 
ferns,  and  some  of  the  lattices  are  woven  from  the  natural  branches  of 
trees  still  covered  with  bark  in  rustic  fashion,  some  of  these  screening 
cosy  rustic  seats  and  lending  much  to  the  beauties  of  the  plant  houses, 
which  overflow  with  rare  plant  life  gathered  from  all  parts  of  the  world. 

In  the  palm  plantation  there  is  an  unusually  fine  grouping  on  a  gently 
sloping  side  hill,  with  a  ground  covering  of  French  cannas,  dwarf  palms, 
grasses  and  other  plants  that  add  to  the  luxuriant  tropical  effect  of  the 
arrangement  which  is  at  once  unique  and  beautiful.  The  poets  of  the 
world  have  written  freely  and  fully  of  the  music  of  the  tree  tops,  and 
especially  have  the  pines  had  their  soft  minor  songs  translated  for  us 
into  rythmical  words,  but  as  yet  no  musical  interpreter  has  been  found 
for  the  wonderful  songs  of  the  palm  tree.  To  sensitive  ears  there  is  a 
harp-like  quality  to  the  tones  as  if  the  fingers  lingered  on  the  silken 
strings,  and  the  notes  of  melody  die  away  like  the  whispers  of  baby 
voices. 

Each  of  the  palms  has  its  own  song,  but  that  of  the  graceful  cocos 
plumosa  has  a  peculiarly  musical  tone,  and  one  might  sit  for  hours  in 
the  great  pergola  on  the  terrace  listening  to  the  music  that  floats  up- 
ward from  the  waving  branches. 

Mr.  Letts'  collection  of  cacti  and  succulents  is  considered  to  be  the 
finest  private  collection  in  the  world.  The  government  has  created  his 
cactus  garden  a  United  States  sub-station.  It  was  his  interests  and 
attainments  as  a  horticulturist  that  caused  his  selection  to  represent 
America  on  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  committee  having  in  charge 
the  International  Horticultural  Exhibit  at  London  in  1912.  Mr.  Letts 
has  expended  a  large  amount  of  money  in  developing  his  gardens  and 
grounds,  but  has  always  declined  to  estimate  the  cost  of  this  work,  feel- 
ing that  in  his  own  words:  "this  garden  is  the  one  thing  in  my  life  that 
is  going  to  measure  up  to  my  ideal  now  and  for  a  hundred  years  to 
come,  and  I  do  not  propose  to  place  a  money  value  on  it."  Among  the 
durable  satisfactions  of  life  there  is  perhaps  none  greater  than  that  of 
an  intimate  kinship  and  love  of  nature,  flowers  and  all  growing  things, 
and  in  the  exquisite  expression  of  that  taste  which  wealth  and  long 
study  have  afforded  Mr.  Letts  he  is  surely  one  of  the  most  enviable 
men  in  southern  California.  He  is  also  a  lover  of  art  of  other  kinds, 
and  his  Hollywood  home  shelters  a  number  of  precious  marbles  and 
other  rare  treasures. 

Mr.  J^etts  has  had  an-  ideal  home  life.  On  August  25,  1886,  at 
Toronto,  Canada,  he  married  Miss  Florence  Philp,  daughter  of  a  Method- 
ist Episcopal  minister.  They  are  the  parents  of  three  children :  Florence 
Edna,  born  September  24,  1887,  now  Mrs.  Malcolm  McNaghten ;  Gladys, 
born  September  9,  1889,  Mrs.  Harold  Janss,  and  Arthur  Letts  Jr.,  born 
April  21,  1891. 

George  H.  Peck  for  many  years  was  prominent  as  a  banker  at  San 
Pedro  and  is  active  head  of  two  companies  which  have  handled  more 
iand  in  and  around  San  Pedro,  including  the  great  harbor  improve- 
ments, than  any  other  organization. 


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The  Pecks  are  original  Californians,  dating  from  the  days  of 
forty-nine.  George  H.  Peck  is  a  son  of  George  H.  Peck,  Sr.,  who  was 
born  at  BurHngton,  Vermont,  in  October,  1822.  He  was  well  educated, 
studied  law  and  practiced  in  the  east  until  1849,  when  he  came  to  Cali- 
fornia by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  For  a  time  he  mined  at  Dutch 
Flat,  later  was  principal  of  schools  at  San  Francisco,  and  in  1868  moved 
to  El  Monte,  and  was  engaged  in  the  business  of  raising  castor  oil 
beans  until  1876.  He  then  retired  and  moved  to  Pasadena,  where  he 
lived  quietly  until  his  death  in  1906.  He  was  a  Republican  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal  church.  At  San  Francisco  he  married  Mary  Chater. 
Their  four  children  are :  John  H.  F.,  of  Long  Beach ;  George  H.,  Mrs. 
Kate  W.  Gibbs,  of  Pasadena;  and  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Jardine,  of  Los 
Angeles. 

George  H.  Peck,  Jr.,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  October  15,  1856. 
He  attended  public  school  in  that  city  until  1868,  and  after  his  parents 
moved  to  El  Monte  continued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  San 
Gabriel.  His  first  serious  employment  was  with  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railroad  Company,  beginning  in  a  minor  capacity  and  rising  to  the 
position  of  conductor.  After  nine  years  he  resigned  from  the  operat- 
ing department  and  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  San  Pedro. 
He  was  from  the  first  an  active  spirit  in  all  of  San  Pedro's  afifairs.  He 
established  a  general  commercial  bank,  and  also  the  Citizens  Savings 
Bank,  and  was  president  of  these  two  institutions  for  twenty-five  years. 
Mr.  Peck  is  still  president  of  G.  H.  Peck  &  Company,  which  handles 
San  Pedro  harbor  property,  and  is  president  of  the  San  Pedro  Land 
Company,  through  which  a  great  bulk  of  the  lands  in  and  around  San 
Pedro  have  been  bought  and  sold.  Mr.  Peck  is  affiliated  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
In  politics  he  is  independent. 

At  Los  Angeles  in  February,  1884,  he  married  Olive  Betz,  now 
deceased.  There  are  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  Wil- 
liam, Leland,  Rena,  Mrs.  Herbert  Culler  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Alma. 
The  son  William,  born  in  Los  Angeles,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  associated  with  his  father 
in  business  and  is  now  vice  president  of  the  San  Pedro  Land  Company. 

George  W.  Walker  is  on  the  board  of  a  number  of  Los  Angeles' 
leading  financial  and  business  institutions,  is  a  member  of  its  leading- 
clubs,  and  all  his  associations  are  those  of  a  most  substantial,  prosperous 
and  influential  business  man  and  citizen.  Everyone  likes  to  know  how 
such  a  man  got  his  start.  Some  of  the  older  acquaintances  and  friends 
of  Mr.  Walker  can  answer  this  query  by  recalling  the  period,  now  twenty- 
eight  years  in  the  past,  when  he  was  winning  friends  and  building  up 
business  in  his  cigar  and  tobacco  store  on  the  corner  of  First  and  Main 
streets. 

The  width  of  a  continent  separates  him  from  his  birthplace.  George 
W.  Walker  was  born  at  Albany,  New  York,  October  7,  1861,  son  of 
Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Moore)  Walker.  His  early  boyhood  was  spent 
in  the  city  of  Washington,  where  he  attended  the  grammar  and  high 
schools,  graduating  in  1878,  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  He  at  once  sought 
change  and  adventure  in  the  life  of  the  southwest.  At  Tombstone,  Ari- 
zona, he  became  identified  with  the  cigar  and  tobacco  business,  and  re- 
mained liiere  until  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1S91,  then  establishing 
the  store  above  mentioned.  He  developed  his  business  rapidly,  both' 
wholesale  and  retail.     In    1906   he   removed   the  wholesale    cigar  and 


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tobacco  business  to  109-111  North  Main  street,  and  in  1912  the  whole- 
sale business  was  moved  to  306-308  South  Los  Angeles  street.  When  he 
sold  the  business  in  1912  he  had  built  it  up  until  in  volume  it  was  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Walker  in  1911  was  made  president  of  the  Citizens  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank.  He  continued  to  act  in  that  capacity  until  1912,  when, 
resigning,  he  in  company  with  his  family,  made  a  trip  around  the  world, 
during  which  they  visited  all  the  principal  countries  and  cities  abroad. 
On  returning  to  Los  Angeles  in  1913  he  was  soon  again  in  the  active 
tide  of  business  affairs,  serving  as  vice-president  and  director  of  the 
Citizens  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  and  as  director  of  the  Citizens  National 
Bank  and  a  member  of  its  Executive  Committee. 

Mr.  Walker  is  president  of  the  Olig  Crude  Oil  Company  and  the 
Ulig  Land  Company,  president  of  the  Monroe  Oil  Company  and  the 
West  Side  Oil  Company,  is  vice-president  of  the  U.  S.  Realty  Company 
and  an  officer  and  director  in  many  other  corporations.  He  owns  the 
Walker  Theatre  Building  and  much  other  valuable  real  estate  along 
Broadway,  Grand  avenue  and  Seventh  street. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Municipal  League  and  other  civic  and  social 
organizations,  and  in  politics  votes  as  a  republican.  .  At  Tombstone,  Ari- 
zona, in  1883,  he  married  Miss  Margaret  S.  Holmes,  of  Nevada  City, 
California,     fhey  have  one  daughter,  Ethelwyn  Gertrude. 

Frederick  Palmer,  president  of  the  Palmer  Photoplay  Corporation, 
was  born  in  Belmont,  New  York,  on  Friday  the  thirteenth  of  May.  1881, 
and  his  success  has  been  a  living  exemplification  of  the  fallacy  of  the 
superstition  founded  upon  this  calendar  combination. 

Educated  in  the  schools  of  Rochester  and  New  York  Cily,  Mr. 
Palmer  took  up  newspaper  work,  starting  as  a  cub  reporter  on  the  Roches- 
ter Post  Express  and  making  rapid  progress  under  the  kindly  guidance  of 
John  Northern  Hilliard,  now  famous  as  a  novelist  and  short  stors-  writer. 

Having  been  an  adept  at  sleight-of-hand  since  boyhood,  Mr.  Palmer 
became  acquainted  with  Alexander  Herrmann,  the  famous  magician,  and 
after  a  course  of  training  under  this  great  master  of  digital  dexterity, 
entered  vaudeville  under  the  title  of  "Palmer,  The  Man  of  Mystery"  and 
toured  this  and  other  countries  successfully   for  a  number  of  years. 

In  an  emergency  arising  from  the  sudden  illness  of  a  member  of  a 
dramatic  company,  Mr.  Palmer  junrped  in  and  played  the  part  and  met 
with  such  success  that  he  spent  several  years  in  the  legitimate  drama 
and  musical  comedy. 

Seeing  great  story  possibility  in  the  various  branches  of  tlie  show 
business,  Mr.  Palmer  spent  several  seasons  with  circuses,  carnivals  and 
fair  ground  shows,  also  making  a  trip  down  the  Mississippi  in  a  river 
show  boat.  During  this  time  he  contributed  many  stories  and  special 
articles  to  magazines  and  newspai)ers  and  wrote  several  volumes  of 
verse. 

Ten  years  ago,  adopting  Los  Angeles  as  a  permanent  home,  Mr, 
Palmer  turned  his  attention  to  a  study  of  motion  pictures.  During  four 
years  of  this  time  he  published  the  largest  theatrical  magazine  of  the 
west,  "The  Rounder."  After  selling  this  publication  he  decided  to  devote 
his  entire  time  to  screen  production.  After  free-lancing"  for  a  time  he 
became  a  staff  writer  with  the  old  Keystone  Company,  rising  to  the 
position  of  assistant  managing  editor  under  Mack  Sennett  and  Hampton 
Del  Kuth.     Later  he  became  managing  editor  of  Vogue  Films,  resignini; 


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that  iH)sition  to  become  special  writer  for  Universal.  During  nine  months 
Mr.  I'almer  wrote  fifty-two  stories  which  were  produced  and  exhibited. 
.Subsequently  lie  was  a  special  writer  for  Triangle  and  the  William  l<"o.x 
Corporation. 

Realizing  that  producers  were  facing  a  serious  scarcity  of  screen 
stories,  Mr.  Palmer  together  with  Roy  L.  Manker  organized  the  Palmer 
I'hutoplay  Corporation,  which  was  incorporated  under  the  direction  of 
the  following  officers:  Frederick  Palmer,  president;  Harry  E.  Teter, 
vice-president:  Sam  i{.  Warmbath,  secretary  and  treasurer;  and  Roy  L. 
Manker,  business  manager.  Starting  with  three  offices  and  five  employes 
the  Palmer  Photoplay  Corporation  has  grown  to  an  organization  coiii- 
l)rising  thirty  offices  and  nearly  two  score  employes  and  serving  as  a 
national  clearing  house  for  photoplay  scenarios. 

The  Palmer  plan  of  scenario  writing  has  been  widely  advertised  and 
has  heljjed  many  aspiring  writers  to  success,  as  creators  of  photoplay 
.-lorn- 

The  Manuscript  Sales  Department  is  a  constant  source  of  supply 
for  screen  material  anil  some  of  the  largest  productions  of  the  past  year 
have  passed  through  this  department  from  author  to  producer. 

Frederick  Palmer  is  one  of  the  men  of  genius — though  he  disclaims 
any  of  it — who  have  made  l.os  .\ngeles  the  world's  greatest  center  in 
tlie  i)rt)duction  of  ])hoto])lays.  It  is  only  for  the  purpose  of  permanent 
record,  and  not  to  furnish  information  that  would  be  superflous.  that 
this  brief  article  is  incorjioratcd  here. 

D.\NiEL  Freeman.  j\  number  of  the  experiences  of  the  late  Daniel 
Freeman,  especially  during  his  early  residence  in  Los  Angeles  county, 
are  pertinent  and  indispensable  facts  in  the  understanding  of  the  real 
history  of  this  section.  Daniel  Freeman  was  a  man  of  interesting  per- 
sonality, and  his  achievements  rank  him  as  one  of  the  foremost  of  the 
pioneers  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  in  .Xorfolk  count},  I  )ntario,  June  30.  1837,  of  English 
and  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  In  the  paternal  line  his  first  American  an- 
cestor, l-'dward  Freeman,  located  at  Woodbridge,  Xew  Jersey,  as  early 
as  1658.  Many  t)f  the  l-Veemans  in  subsecjuent  generations  were  jiromi- 
nent  in  public  and  business  aft'airs.  Daniel  Freeman's  grandfather  was 
also  named  Daniel  and  was  a  Methodist  preacher  and  missionary  who 
went  in  the  interests  of  the  church  from  Xew  Jersey  to  Canada,  and 
devoted  a  number  of  years  to  the  extension  of  the  church  and  the  jiropa- 
gation  of  Christianity.  It  is  said  that  he  preached  the  first  Protestant 
sermon  in  the  city  of  Detroit.  He  organized  many  .congregations 
through  the  province  of  Ontario  and  in  the  state  of  Michigan.  He  had 
a  farm  in  Ontario,  and  there  his  son,  father  of  Daniel  Freeman,,  was 
born  and  gave  his  entire  life  to  agriculture.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Scotch-Irish  immigrants.  Daniel  Freeman  was  reared  on  a  farm  and 
his  early  life  was  remote  from  those  special  advantages  that  are  part  of 
a  liberal  education.  However,  he  had  that  ambition  for  a  higher  edu- 
cation which  made  its  attainment  oidy  a  matter  of  minor  difficultv.  He 
graduated  from  a  private  academy  and  studied  law  in  Osgoode  Hall  at 
the  University  of  Ontario.  He  graduated  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1865.  He  .soon  attained  much  prominence  in  his  profession  at  .Sim- 
coe.  Ontario,  and  he  also  was  interested  in  a  shipyard  on  Lake  Erie. 
P>ut  for  one  thing  he  might  have  remained  in  Canada  and  achieved  pro- 
fessional eminence  and  great  business  success.  He  had  married  in  1S66 
.•i  Mis'i  Christie,  whose  health  early  1)ecame  a  matter  of  concern  to  Afr. 


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Freeman.  They  spent  several  winters  together  traveling  in  the  south, 
where  the  milder  climate  was  of  benefit  to  her,  and  in  February,  1873, 
while  on  a  train  Mr.  Fre'eman  was  ofifered  by  the  newsboy  a  book  entitled 
"Nordhoff's  California."  He  bought  a  copy,  began  a  casual  examina- 
tion, and  eventually  was  so  absorbed  in  all  the  glowing  descriptions 
that  he  hastily  convinced  himself  that  it  was  his  duty  to  visit  California, 
and  accordingly  the  very  next  day  arrangements  had  been  made  and 
accommodations  secured  for  the  long  railway  journey  to  the  Pacific 
coast. 

Mr.  Freeman  first  went  to  San  Francisco,  and  from  that  city  spent 
nine  months  in  investigating  all  sections  of  the  state  with  a  view  to  the 
purchase  of  property  and  permanent  residence  and  business  connections. 
In  the  course  of  his  investigations  he  visited  the  Centinela  Rancho, 
which  with  the  Sansal  Redondo  comprised  something  like  twenty-six 
thousand  acres  of  land,  then  devoted  to  grazing  purposes  by  the  owner, 
Sir  Robert  Burnett,  who  was  then  living  on  the  rancho,  but  later  re- 
turned to  Scotland.  In  September,  1873,  Mr.  Freeman  leased  the  rancho 
for  five  years  with  the  privilege  of  buying  it  within  that  time  at  six  dol- 
lars an  acre.  Mr.  Freeman  also  bought  from  the  immense  herds  owned 
by  Sir  Robert  Burnett  ten  thousand  sheep.  The  rancho  was  supposedly 
useful  only  for  grazing  purposes.  Mr.  Freeman  developed  his  herd  and 
had  considerable  fortune  with  it  until  the  extremely  dry  winter  of 
1875-76,  when  nearly  half  of  his  sheep  were  destroyed.  In  the  mean- 
time, however,  he  had  carried  out  a  successful  experiment  for  the  raising 
of  grain,  having  planted  six  hundred  forty  acres  in  barley.  The  fields 
harvested  a  crop  averaging  twelve  sacks  to  the  acre,  and  that,  too,  with 
a  season's  rainfall  of  only  four  and  a  half  inches.  This  success  with 
grain  raising,  coupled  with  the  heavy  losses  incurred  in  his  flocks,  deter- 
mined him  to  abandon  the  sheep  industry,  and  he  therefore  sold  about 
sixteen  thousand  head  to  Lucky  Baldwin,  owner  of  the  Santa  Anita 
Rancho.  After  that  Mr.  Freeman  steadily  devoted  his  energies  to  the 
growing  of  grain  and  never  lost  a  crop.  He  also  studied  and  worked 
out  many  notable  improvements  on  his  vast  property,  and  was  particu- 
larly successful  in  making  available  a  splendid  natural  water  supply 
throuch  artesian  wells,  so  that  hundreds  and  thousands  of  acres  became 
a  source  of  steady  production  by  irrigated  farming. 

With  the  incoming  of  a  large  number  of  easterners  in  1885  Mr 
Freeman  found  it  expedient  to  dispose  of  a  portion  of  his  vast  ranch. 
The  soyth  half  was  sold  and  later  divided  into  small  tracts.  The  present 
site  of  Inglewood  is  part  of  the  old'  rancho. 

At  the  height  of  his  grain  raising  experience  Mr.  Freeman  raised 
in  1880  a  million  bushels  of  grain,  and  sent  an  entire  shipload  of 
wheat  to  Liverpool. 

He  was  a  man  of  great  generosity,  gave  liberally  to  public  institu- 
tions and  causes,  was  very  active  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Los 
Angeles,  serving  as  its  president  two  terms,  and  was  a  director  in  the 
Southern  California  Railway  for  many  years,  it  being  a  branch  of  the 
Santa  Fe  system.  Mrs.  Freeman  died  in  1874.  She  was  the  mother 
of  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  daughter  is  Mrs.  Charles  H.  How- 
land  of  Los  Angeles. 

Major  Charles  H.  Rowland  came  to  southern  California  thirty- 
five  years  ago.  He  was  then  in  the  flush  of  yonn^-  manhood,  and  came 
here  rot  to  retire  but  to  work  and  to  serve.  While  in  lat^r  years  he  has 
had  much  leisure  for  the  contemplative  life.  Major  Howland  for  the 


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greater  part  has  been  extremely  busy  as  an  engineer  and  manager  of 
large  property  interests  in  and  around  Los  Angeles,  and  is  one  of  the 
notable  men  in  this  section  of  the  state. 

He  was  born  near  Toronto,  Canada,  March  25,  1863,  son  of  Fred- 
erick A.  and  Matilda  Margaret  (,Musson)  Howland.  His  father  was 
descended  from  Henry  Howland,  who  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  1624, 
a  brother  of  John  Howland,  one  of  the  hundred  and  one  passengers  of 
the  Mayflower  who  landed  at  Plymouth  in  1620.  His  mother  was  from 
an  old  Huguenot  family. 

Up  to  the  age  of  twelve  Major  Howjand  attended  private  school 
and  after  that  the  Upper  Canada  College  at  Toronto  to  the  age  of  six- 
teen. With  that  experience  and  equipment  he  started  for  the  Canadian 
Northwest  as  assistant  to  the  chief  of  the  astronomical  section  of  the 
Special  Sur\'ev  for  the  Canadian  government.  The  corps  was  employed 
in  establishing  initial  points  and  meridians  from  which  lines  were  run 
for  the  laying  out  of  the  public  lands  in  what  are  now  the  provinces  of 
Alberta  and  Saskatchewan.  After  a  year  Mr.  Howland  was  appointed 
inspector  of  lands  for  the  Hudson  Bay  Company,  and  his  duties  required 
much  driving  and  traveling  over  the  country  that  lies  between  Manitoba 
and  the  Rockies.  That  was  before  the  first  railway  lines  were  built 
through  the  Canadian  Northwest  and  the  country  was  inhabited  only 
by  Indians. 

After  two  more  years  of  this  varied  and  eventful  experience  Mr. 
Howland  came  to  Los  Angeles.  As  a  surveyor  and  engineer  he  worked 
all  through  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  He  ran  the  preliminary 
survey  line  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  from  Los  Angeles  to  Port  Bal- 
lona  and  Santa  Monica.  After  three  years  he  became  manager  for 
Daniel  Freeman's  twenty-five  thousand  acre  ranch,  extending  from  the 
Baldwin  Hills  to  the  northern  limits  of  Redondo  City.  Major  Howland 
married  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Freeman,  and  for  many  years  has  had  the 
executive  control  of  the  extensive  interests  of  the  estate.  From  the  old 
ranch  have  since  been  carved  the  sites  for  the  following  cities:  Ingle- 
wood,  Playa  del  Rev,  El  Segundo,  Manhattan  Beach,  Hermosa  Beach, 
Hawthorne  and  a  part  of  Venice.  The  Freeman  interests  owned  an 
office  building  in  Los  Angeles,  a  continuous  brick  kiln  at  Inglewood 
which  furnished  bricks  for  most  of  the  older  business  blocks  in  Los  An- 
geles, and  at  one  time  they  had  a  steamer  in  operation  hauling  coal  from 
British  Columbia  to  San  Pedro.  There  is  still  two  thousand  acres  of  the 
ranch  undivided  near  Inglewood,  and  Major  Howland  farms  that  ex- 
tensive property. 

Major  Howland  was  formerly  a  director  in  the  Broadway  Bank 
and  Trvist  Company  at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Seaside 
Water  Company,  which  is  the  holding  company  of  the  Virginia  Hotel  at 
Long  Beach.  He  is  also  a  director  in  the  Long  Beach  Bath  House  and 
Amusement  Company,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Agricul- 
ture and  Horticulture  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce, 

In  the  Adjutant  General's  office  at  Sacramento  can  be  found  the 
militan-  record  of  Major  Howland.  In  brief  it  is  as  follows:  Enlisted 
in  Troop  D,  Cavalrs'  National  Guard  of  California,  August  30,  1895: 
promoted  corporal  and  sergeant  of  the  same  troop,  commissioned  first 
lieutenant  October  12,  1896:  commissioned  captain  of  the  same  troop 
November  22,  1897:  commissioned  first  heutenant  and  aide  de  camp. 
First  Brigade,  October  23,  1905 :  commissioned  major  and  engineer  of- 
ficer, First  Brigade.  September  3,  1907;  placed  on  the  retired  list  Oc- 


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tober  14,  1909,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  approved  March  22,  1909 ;  and 
commissioned  major,  Urdnance  Department,  Alay  17,  1909.  His  last 
duties  were  as  Major  Urdnance  Department,  Inspector  of  Small  Arms 
Practice,  First  Brigade,  and  as  such  he  built  the  State  Rifle  Range  in 
Sholl  Canyon.  He  was  placed  on  the  retired  list  and  withdrawn  from 
active  service  with  the  rank  of  major  on  April  13,  1916. 

Major  Howland  is  an  independent  voter  in  politics.  He  married 
at  Los  Angeles  September  2Z,  1888,  Grace  Elizabeth  Freeman,  daughter 
of  the  late  Daniel  Freeman,  a  sketch  of  whose  career  is  found  elsewhere 
in  this  publication.  Major  and  Mrs.  Howland  erected  the  beautiful 
Episcopal  church  at  Inglewood  known  as  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Faith 
as  a  memorial  to  their  mothers.  The  cornerstone  of  the  church  was 
laid  by  Bishop  Johnson  April  26,  1913,  and  the  building  was  conse- 
crated November  8,  1914.  It  is  a  beautiful  memorial  and  a  splendid 
addition  to  the  churches  and  church  buildings  of  the  diocese.  The 
building  grpup  consists  of  the  church,  the  rectory  and  the  parish  hall. 
The  church  is  a  beautiful  structure  of  the  English  Gothic  style  modified 
to  suit  southern  California  conditions,  and  well  justifies  the  architect's 
"attempt  to  realize  a  permanent  and  monumental  structure  that  shall 
stand  for  centuries  as  a  work  of  art  and  shall  fitly  express  the  Ejjiscopal 
church  in  southern  California."  The  parish  house,  corresponding  in 
style  with  the  church,  also  has  a  large  auditorium,  guild  hall  and  kitchen, 
and  the  rectory  is  an  eleven-room,  modern  home. 

On  the  bronze  tablet  at  the  entrance  of  the  church  is  the  follow- 
ing inscription,  words  from  Bishop  Johnson's  dedicatory  address : 
"Through  this  church  two  mothers  will  throughout  the  ages  plead  with 
every  generation  to  come  and  rest  awhile  and  pray.  Think  of  the  weary 
ones  who  will  find  rest  here ;  think  of  the  sorrowful  ones  who  will  here 
find  peace ;  think  of  the  wayward  ones  who  will  find  guidance :  think 
of  the  yearning  ones  whose  earnest  desires  will  be  satisfied.  You  who 
know  what  is  in  every  mother's  heart,  can  you  think  of  a  memorial  for 
a  mother  more  fitting  than  this  one,  that  is  to  bring  rest  and  peace,  and 
guidance  and  joy,  to  generation  after  generation  yet  unborn?  I  cannot. 
And  as  1  bear  these  sainted  ones  in  mind,  in  whose  memory  it  has  been 
erected,  I  pray  that  they  may  invoke  God's  blessing  upon  us  and  ours 
through  all  time  to  come  until  the  day  dawns  anrl  the  shadows  flee 
away." 

John  B.  Bushnell  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  sustained  a  vital 
relationship  to  the  growing  and  expanding  institutions  and  affairs  of 
southern  California,  particularly  at  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Bushnell  has  been 
especially  prominent  in  financial  circles  for  many  years. 

He  was  born  at  Peru  in  LaSalle  county,  Illinois,  November  23,  1865. 
His  father,  William  Bushnell,  who  was  born  at  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
in  1816,  was  educated  in  New  England  and  became  a  contractor.  On 
coming  west  he  located  at  Princeton,  Illinois,  which  many  people  then 
thought  was  destined  to  be  a  large  and  important  city.  As  a  contractor 
he  did  much  state  and  county  work  in  the  central  west,  and  later  specialized 
his  business  in  the  erection  of  government  lighthouses  and  life  saving 
stations,  and  his  organization  put  up  most  of  those  stations  around  the 
Great  Lakes.  For  twenty-five  y^ars  he  was  very  active  as  the  principal 
contractor  in  the  state.  For  many  years  he  made  his  home  at  Evanston, 
Illinois,  where  he  died  in  1890.  In  New  York  City  he  married  Mary 
Fowler  McKean,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children. 


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John  B.  Bushnell,  youngest  of  the  family,  attended  granunar  and  higli 
schools  at  Evanston,  graduating  from  the  latter  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 
He  had  a  busy  career  as  secretary  of  the  Chicago  Newspaper  Union  until 
1890,  when  ill  health  forced  him  out  of  that  occupation  and  from  that 
part  of  the  country.  Coming  to  the  southwest,  he  worked  on  a  cattle 
ranch  at  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  and  was  then  in  the  employ  of  the 
Atlantic  &  Pacific,  now  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  until  1892.  Since  the 
latter  year  Mr.  Bushnell  has  been  identified  as  a  resident  and  business 
man  with  Los  Angeles.  He  was  engaged  in  the  loan  business  under  the 
name  John  B.  Bushnell  Company  for  many  years,  and  since  1909  it  has 
been  one  of  the  leading  firms  for  handling  stocks  and  bonds,  being  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Stock  Exchange. 

Mr.  Bushnell  organized  the  Jonathan  Club,  one  of  the  best  known 
social  organizations  of  southern  California,  in  1894,  and  was  honored  as 
its  first  vice-president.  In  1897  he  organized  and  became  president  of 
the  Columbia  Club,  which  brought  out  Henry  T.  Gage  and  was  chiefly 
instrumental  in  electing  him  governor  of  California.  This  club  afterward 
merged  with  the  Union  League  Club.  Mr.  Bushnell  has  been  a  leader  in 
the  organization  of  many  other  California  institutions.  He  is  a  York 
Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  Knight  of  Pythias  and  Odd  Fellow,  enjoys  a 
membership  in  the  Jonathan  Club,  is  a  member  of  the  Gamut  Club,  San 
Gabriel  Country  Club,  -\.utomobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  a  life 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  is  an  associate  member  of 
the  Ellis  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican.  Mr.  Bushnell  has  two 
children;  Margaret,  a  graduate  of  the  Marlborough  School  for  Girls,  is 
the  wife  of  William  E.  Shields  of  Yokohama,  Japan.    The  son,  George  E., 

■  graduated  from  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  and  is  now  a  successful 

•  merchant  at  Pocatello,  Idaho. 

Harry  E.  Teter,  stocks  and  bonds,  has  been  identified  with  a  num- 
ber of  successful  enterprises  which  he  has  assisted  in  financing  and  pro- 
moting. He  is  one  of  the  younger  men  in  the  financial  district  of  south- 
ern California. 

He  was  born  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  February  7,  1884,  son  of 
Alvin  J.  and  Eva  E.  (Barker)  Teter.  When  he  was  twelve  years  old  his 
parents  moved  from  Mount  Pleasant,  where  he  had  attended  public 
school,  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  where  his  education  was  finished  with  two 
years  in  high  school.  His  first  business  employment  was  in  the  general 
offices  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company  at  Topeka.  He  was  there 
tvTO  years.  During  that  time  he  had  an  opportunity  to  make  a  visit 
west  to  Los  Angeles,  and  it  was, not  long  afterward  that  he  resigned  his 
position  at  Topeka  and  established  himself,  permanently  as  it  has  proved, 
in  California.  For  two  years  he  was  secretary  to  the  Board  of  Examiners 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Company.  Since  then  he  has  been  in 
business  for  himself.  For  a  time  he  was  in  the  mining  and  brokerage 
business  at  Ogden,  Utah,  and  became  vice-president  of  the  Interstate 
Brokerage  Company  there.  Having-  sold  out  his  Ogden  interests  he 
returned  to  Los  Angeles  in  1910  and  established  the  present  H.  E.  Teter 
&  Company,  Stocks  and  Bonds,  of  which  he  has  since  been  president. 

In  1915  Mr.  Teter  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Big  Jim  Gold 
Mining  Company,  which  in  1917  sold  that  part  of  their  property  upon 
which  the  mine  was  located  for  approximately  a  million  dollars.  In  1910 
he  assisted  in  financing  the  Midway  Northern  Oil  Company,  which  is 
one  of  the  successful  of  the  smaller  oil  companies  of  California.     He 


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was  also  one  of  the  organizers  and  from  1912  to  1914  was  president  of 
the  Standard  Corrugated  Pipe  Company  of  San  Francisco  and  Los 
Angeles.  In  1918  Mr.  Teter  assisted  in  organizing  and  financing  the 
Palmer  Photoplay  Corporation,  the  only  institution  teaching  photoplay 
writing  that  is  recognized  and  endorsed  by  the  motion  picture  industry. 
Mr.  Teter  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Stock  Exchange,  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club,  and  is  a  republican  voter. 
At  San  Francisco  July  23,  1909,  he  married  Pauline  Recktenwald.  They 
have  one  son,  H.  E.,  Jr.,  born  in  1911,  now  a  student  in  the  Urban  Mili- 
tary Academy. 

James  Calhoun  Drake  is  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Trust  & 
Savings  Bank,  an  institution  which  with  over  three  millions  of  capital  and 
surplus  stands  in  the  front  rank  of  financial  houses  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Mr.  Drake  became  president  of  this  institution  in  1903,  soon  after  it  was 
founded,  and  in  many  otker  ways  he  has  been  influentially  identified 
with  the  growth  and  history  of  Los  Angeles  since  about  twenty  years 
ago  he  retired  from  service  in  the  United  States  Navy,  which  he  had 
entered  as  a  boy  cadet. 

Mr.  Drake  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Washington  county,  Arkansas, 
July  26,  1858,  son  of  Wesley  and  Martha  (Kellum)  Drake.  As  a 
schoolboy  he  received  an  appointment  to  the  United  States  Naval  Acad- 
emy, and  in  1880  graduated.  As  a  midshipman  and  ensign  he  cruised 
several  years  in  the  Mediterranean  and  in  the  West  Indies  and  Central 
?nd  South  American  coasts,  and  Was  then  assigned  to  duty  in  the  United 
States  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey,  and  for  two  years  had  command  of 
government  vessels  on  the  coast  of  North  Carolina  and  Georgia.  In 
1890  he  began  a  three  years'  cruise  around  the  world  in  the  Alliance, 
spending  most  of  the  time  in  Asiatic  waters.  In  1893  he  was  appointed 
inspector  of  ordnance  at  San  Francisco,  and  while  there  the  duty  fell  to 
him  of  equipping  the  Olympia  and  Oregon,  which  a  few  years  later 
played  such  a  brilliant  part  in  American  naval  history  of  the  Pacific. 

Mr.  Drake  retired  from  the  navy  and  took  up  civil  life  at  Los  An- 
geles in  1896.  Besides  his  long  service  as  executive  head  of  the  Los  An- 
geles Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  he  has  been  for  many  years  director  of  the 
First  National  Bank^  has  served  as  waterworks  commissioner,  and  is  a 
director  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance,  the  Southern  California, 
the  Edison  Company,  the  California  Delta  Farms,  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Telephone  Company  and  various  other  concerns. 

April  26,  1893,  he  married  Miss  Fanny  Wilcox,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  two  children.  The  Drake  home,  erected  a  few  years 
ago,  is  one  of  the  magnificent  private  residences  of  Los  Angeles. 

John  S.  Cravens  has  been  a  conspicuous  figure  in  financial  and  busi- 
ness afi^airs  in  southern  California  for  over  twenty  years.  A  long  list 
of  business,  social  and  civic  organizations  honor  him  as  a  member  and 
participant. 

Mr.  Cravens  was  born  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  March  5,  1871, 
a  son  of  John  Kenny  and  Frances  Catlett  (Frame)  Cravens.  He 
graduated  from  the  Kansas  City  High  School  in  1888,  and  from  Yale 
University  with  the  class  of  1893.  On  December  28,  1893,  Mr.  Cravens 
married  Miss  Mildred  Myers,  of  St.  Louis,  daughter  of  George  S.  Myers, 
founder  of  the  Liggett  &  Myers  Tobacco  Company. 

After  his  university  career  Mr.  Cravens  was  engaged  with  the  Liggett 
&   Myers   Tobacco   Company  in   various   capacities,   and  was   an   active 


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participant  in  the  negotiations  which  culminated  the  sale  of  that  company 
on  January  1,  1900,  to  the  American  Tobacco  Company. 

Mr.  Cravens  I)egan  spending  his  winters  at  Pasadena  in  1897  He 
has  been  a  prominent  resident  of  southern  California  since  1900,  in 
which  year  he  acquired  interests  in  the  Edison  Electric  Company  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  was  chosen  first  president  of  that  corporation.  In  1901 
he  helped  organize  the  Southwestern  National  Bank,  and  resigning  as 
[^resident  of  the  Edison  Electric  Company  was  made  executive  head  of 
the  bank  in  October,  1902.  This  bank  and  the  Los  Angeles  National  Bank 
and  the  First  National  I'.ank  were  subsequently  merged,  taking  the  name 
of  the  First  National  Bank,  of  which  Mr.  Cravens  has  since  been  vice- 
president  and  director. 

Mr.  Cravens  is  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Trust  &  Savings 
l'>ank,  is  president  of  the  American  Conduit  Company  of  Los  Angeles, 
manufacturers  of  fiber  conduits,  is  a  director  of  the  Dominquez  Land 
Corporation,  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Extension  Company,  and  a 
director  of  the  Chino  Land  &  Water  Company. 

He  is  president  of  the  Barlow  Sanitarium;,  a  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club,  Mid- 
wick  Country  Club,  Yale  Club  of  New  York  City,  Englewood  Country 
Club  of  Englewood,  New  Jersey,  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco, 
Bankers  Clul)  of  New  York  City,  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  Metro- 
politan Club  of  Washington.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church. 

Mr.  Cravens  was  formerly  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Southwest  Division  of  the  Military  Training  Camp  Association.  Out 
of  the  plans  and  work  of  that  organization  as  a  national  affair  grew 
the  ofificers  training  camp  at  the  beginning  of  the  great  war.  Mr.  Cravens 
is  devoted  to  southern  California  as  a  place  of  residence  and  business, 
but  he  sacrificed  his  convenience  and  pleasure  for  the  greater  part  of  the 
period  in  which  America  was  engaged  in  the  war  to  devote  himself  to 
the  strenuous  task  of  war  work  at  Washington  as  a  "dollar  a  year  man." 
He  was  in  Washington  from  October,  1917,  to  April,  1919,  as  chief  of 
the  Federal  agencies  section  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense.  At 
the  time  he  resigned  he  was  the  recipient  of  an  official  letter  from  the 
director  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  a  document  that  speaks 
for  itself: 

"It  is  with  far  from  a  prefunctory  feeling  that  I  respond  to  your 
letter  in  which  you  take  leave  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense.  As 
you  know  I  was  extremely  reluctant  to  have  you  go,  for  in  many  respects 
these  are  more  trying  days  in  an  administrative  sense  than  were  those 
of  the  actual  war  period.  But  your  reasons  for  returning  to  California 
were  so  unanswerable  that  the  Council  could  no  longer  in  justice  to  your- 
self ask  you  to  postpone  your  departure. 

"This  brings  me  to  the  point  of  telling  you,  if  I  can  do  so  adequatelv 
in  the  brief  space  of  a  letter,  how  very  genuinely  appreciative  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  as  chairman  of  the  Council,  and  the  other  five  cabinet 
members  forming  the  Council,  as  well  as  its  director,  are  of  the  highly 
important  and  faithful  contribution  \\-hich  you  made  to  the  government 
of  the  United  States  during  your  long  and  untiring  service  here.  Not 
only  as  perhaps  the  most  potent  figure  in  the  Council's  field  organization, 
the  antennae  of  which  stretched  out  through  the  states  into  almost  even,' 
hamlet  of  the  land,  and  which  during  the  war  formed  a  mighty  national 
system,  but  in  your  dual  capacity  as  chairman  of  the  Council's  Highwavs 


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Transport  Committee,  which  is  performing  a  most  vital  task  in  the  interest 
of  the  people  of  the  country,  you  have  left  an  impress  upon  the  history  of 
the  Council  and  in  the  life  of  the  nation  that  will  be  ineiifaceable 

"It  is  difficult  to  analyze  a  man's  qualities,  but  I  think  that  those 
responsible  for  the  striking  success  of  your  work  here  were  your  entire 
absence  of  self-interest,  your  tact,  your  industry,  and,  above  all,  your  per- 
ception that  our  war  making  was  in  essence  simply  co-ordinated  action 
on  the  part  of  all  elements  of  the  public.  Particularly  with  regard  to 
the  last  thought,  I  do  not  think  that  anybody  has  left  Washington  with  a 
more  powerful  and  sentient  grasp  of  the  civilian  factors  in  the  Nation,  the 
welding  together  of  which  forged  the  unity  which  made  America's  war 
effort  a  surprise  even  to  itself. 

"We  shall  all  miss  you,  but  you  have  richly  earned  your  return  to 
civilian  life,  and  I  offer  you  every  good  wish  therein." 

Capt.mn  Robert  E.  Hunter,  a  graduate  mechanical  engineer,  is  vice 
president  and  director  of  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter-Dulin  Company,  one  of 
the  most  successful  investment,  stock  and  bond  houses  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  Captain  Hunter  only  recently  returned  from  France,  where  he 
commanded  a  battery  of  field  artillery  on  the  fighting  front  during  the 
great  allied  drive  of  1918. 

Captain  Hunter  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  20,  1886, 
son  of  Edward  S.  and  Elizabeth  jM.  Hunter.  His  father  was  born  in 
Troy,  New  York,  and  in  his  childhood  the  family  moved  to  Chicago, 
where  he  was  reared  and  educated  and  where  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade  since  1884.  He  is  one  of  the  veteran  grain 
operators  in  Chicago,  and  his  name  is  one  of  the  best  known  in  Board 
of  Trade  and  financial  circles  of  that  city. 

Robert  E.  Hunter  attended  public  schools  in  Chicago,  the  University 
High  School,  and  in  l'X)3  entered  the  Throop  College  of  Technology  at 
Pasadena,  California.  On  graduating  in  1906  he  entered  Yale  University, 
where  he  specialized  in  mechanical  engineering  and  was  graduated  with 
a  degree  in  that  school  in   1911. 

For  one  year  Captain  Hunter  practiced  his  profession,  especially 
along  the  line  of  structural  engineering  in  Chicago,  and  then  returned 
to  Pasadena  and  soon  afterward  formed  a  partnership  with  David  Blank- 
enhorn  in  the  corporation  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company.  Mr.  Hunter 
is  vice-president  and  director  of  this  business.  The  company  represents 
many  large  interests,  and  for  several  years  have  handled  the  financial 
investments  of  William  Wrigley,  Jr.,  in  southern  California,  and  the  com- 
pany was  the  chief  intermediary  in  the  purchase  of  Catalina  Island  by 
Mr.  Wrigley  in  1919.  Mr.  Hunter  is  one  of  the  executive  officials  in 
the  new  organization  for  handling  the  property  of  Catalina  Island,  being 
vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the  Santa  Catalina  Island  Company  and 
vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the  Wilmington  Transportation  Company. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Corona  h'oothill  Lemon  Company  and  is 
president  of  the  Hunter  Fireproof  Storage  Company. 

Captain  Hunter  enlisted  in  August,  1917,  and  was  assigned  to  duty 
in  France  attending  the  artillery  school  at  Saumur  and  joining  the  119th 
Field  Artillery  of  the  32  Division  on  graduation.  He  was  in  that  battle 
which  stands  out  perhaps  most  prominently  among  those  in  which  the 
American  troops  participated,  Chauteau  Thierry,  to  the  Vesle  River,  and 
was  also  in  the  operations  around  Soissons.  He  received  his  honorable 
discharge  December  8,  1918. 

Captain  Hunter  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Midwick 


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Country  Club  and  the  University  Club  of  Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Episcopal  church.  September  17 ,  I'M 3,  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin, 
he  married  Gwendolyn  Mitchell.  They  have  two  daughters,  Helen  and 
Louise. 

RAr.PH  B.  Lr.oYD.  While  Mr.  Lloyd's  name  is  identified  with  a 
number  of  important  business  enterprises,  manufacturing,  lands  and  live 
stock,  he  has  also  contributed  his  share  to  the  development  of  California 
resources  as  an  oil  man.  He  deserves  lasting  credit  as  the  locator  of  the 
oil  resources  in  the  Ventura  oil  field,  and  as  the  man  who  possessed  the 
faith,  the  courage  and  the  enterprise  to  promote  the  development  of  the 
region. 

Mr.  Lloyd  was  born  at  Neosho,  Missouri,  February  28,  1875,  son 
of  Lewis  Marshall  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  Lloyd.  He  first  attended  pri- 
vate school,  and  in  1887,  when  his  parents  moved  to  Ventura,  California, 
he  was  in  the  public  schools  there  to  the  age  of  fourteen.  He  received 
a  high  school  education  at  Berkeley,  California,  and  in  1895  entered  the 
University  of  California,  class  of  1899,  having  specialized  in  social 
science. 

After  his  university  career  Mr.  Lloyd  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and 
became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  cattle  business,  handling  large 
herds  of  live  stock  between  Mexico,  Arizona,  LOs  Angeles  and  Ven- 
tura Counties.  In  1904  Mr.  Lloyd  became  vice  president  and  general 
manager  of  the  National  Tank  and  Pipe  Company,  his  chief  associate 
being  William  E.  Hampton  of  Los  Angeles.  This  company  manufac- 
tured pipe  and  tanks  for  mining,  irrigation  and  city  water  works.  Wliile 
with  that  business  Mr.  Lloyd  bought  land  and  built  a  manufacturing 
plant  at  Portland,  Oregon,  and  remained  there  as  manager  until  1911. 

Having  sold  his  Pipe  Company  interest,  Mr.  Lloyd  invested  in 
Portland  real  estate,  which  he  now  holds,  and  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
and  at  once  took  an  active  hand  in  oil  development.  Some  years 
previously,  in  1898,  he  had  convinced  himself  by  his  own  investigations 
of  the  promise  of  oil  in  the  Ventura  district,  and  for  ten  or  fifteen 
years  he  tried  to  interest  others  in  that  district.  However,  he  failed 
to  convince  any  of  the  knowing  capitalists,  and  when  he  returned  from 
Portland  he  determined  to  risk  his  capital  and  his  personal  enterprise 
on  the  project.  He,  with  others,  bought  and  leased  about  fourteen 
thousand  acres  of  land  on  the  apex  of  the  Ventura  d9me,  made  some 
preliminary  explorations,  and  eventually  succeeded  in  interesting  the 
Shell  Company  of  California  in  the  project.  The  Ventura  dome  is  now 
one  of  the  promising  fields  of  California.  The  Shell  Company,  the 
General  Petroleum  Corporation  and  the  State  Consolidated  Oil  Com- 
pany are  all  engaged  in  its  development.  In  much  of  his  oil  operations 
Mr.  Lloyd  has  been  closely  associated  with  Joseph  B.  Dabney. 

Mr.  Lloyd  is  secretarj'  and  treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the 
Ventura  Land  and  Water  Company,  a  company  that  was  incorporated 
by  his  father  on  September  28,  1887,  and  has  always  remained  a  family 
corporation.  Mr.  Lloyd  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Delta 
Upsilon  College  Fraternity,  the  University  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  from  college  times  has  maintained  a  close  interest  in  out- 
door sports.  While  in  university  he  excelled  in  track  athletics,  and  has 
some  forty  medals  which  were  awarded  his  prowess.  He  established 
some  records  in  track  events  in  the  intercollegiate  contests  between 
Stanford  University  and  the  University  of  California. 

At  Los  Angeles,  January  28,  1904,  Mr.  Lloyd  married  Miss  Lulu 
Hull.    They  have  four  daughters. 


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Wellington  Charles  Burke,  M.  D.  The  late  Dr.  Wellington 
Charles  Burke,  of  Los  Angeles,  although  not  long  a  resident  of  the  city, 
during  the  period  he  was  located  here  established  himself  as  one  of  the 
distinguished  men  of  his  profession,  and  had  his  career  not  been  cut 
short,  would  have  gained  a  fame  that  probably  would  have  been  inter- 
national on  account  of  his  special  work  with  reference  to  rectal  diseases, 
upon  which  he  was  an  admitted  authority.  He  was  born  at  Fishkill, 
New  York,  May  30,  1866,  of  Scotch  and  Protestant  Irish  ancestry.  After 
attending  the  village  schools  of  his  native  place,  when  only  eight  years 
of  age  he  entered  the  grammar  school  of  Newburg,  New  York,  and  com- 
pleted its  courses.  His  parents  then  moving  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  he, 
in  1877,  entered  the  high  school  of  his  ward  and  after  being  graduated 
from  it  took  a  business  college  course,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
honors  in  1885. 

From  childhood  it  was  his  ambition  to  become  a  physician,  and  after 
reading  medicine  for  three  years,  in  1889  he  became  a  student  of  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  Missouri  State  University,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1892  as  president  of  his  class  and  missing  first  honors 
by  one-sixth  of  one  per  cent.  Immediately  after  graduation  Doctor 
Burke  was  elected  to  the  faculty  of  the  University  Medical  Club  and  was 
given  the  chair  of  first  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy.  One  year 
later  he  was  elected  co-demionstrator  of  anatomy  and  associate  professor 
of  operative  surgery  in  the  post  graduate  faculty,  visiting  surgeon  to 
the  university  dispensary,  president  of  the  Alumni  Association,  second 
vice-president  of  the  Twin  City  Medical  Society,  and  a  member  of  other 
medical  societies.  Later  he  was  made  an  honorary  member  of  the  Kansas 
State   Medical  Association  and  the  Grand  River   Medical   Society. 

Until  1895  Doctor  Burke  remained  at  Kansas  City,  but  in  that  year 
came  to  Los  Angeles,  forming  a  partnership  here  with  Dr.  W.  G. 
Cochran.  Two  years  later  he  severed  this  connection  and  established 
himself  in  offices  in  the  Lindley  Building,  continuing  alone  until  his  death. 
He  had  a  chair  in  the  University  Medical  College  of  Los  Angeles,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  County,  State  and  National  Medical  Associations. 
When  overtaken  by  his  last  illness  Doctor  Burke  was  just  completing  an 
exhaustive  work  on  rectal  surgery,  on  which  he  specialized.  He  was  much 
beloved  by  his  patients  and  associates  in  the  medical  profession.  A  ready 
and  pleasing  speaker,  he  was  very  popular  and  much  sought  after  as  a 
public  speaker  and  toastmaster  of  banquets  of  physicians  and  surgeons. 
Bringing  with  him  the  most  advanced  ideas  of  more  eastern  practitioners. 
Doctor  Burke  found  ready  recognition  at  Los  Angeles,  and  from  1900 
to  1903  was  special  surgeon  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  A  man  of  more 
than  average  height,  he  being  six  feet,  four  inches  tall.  Doctor  Burke 
commanded  attention  everywhere,  and  this  presence,  combined  with  his 
handsome  features  and  delightful  personality,  made  him  one  never  to 
be  forgotten.  His  untimely  demise  was  mourned  as  a  public  loss,  and 
his  memory  is  tenderly  cherished  by  many  outside  of  his  immediate 
family. 

In  1892  Doctor  Burke  was  united  in  marriage  with  Harriet  Eggers 
Carlstrom,  sister  of  Professor  John  T.  Eggers,  M.  D.,  of  Kansas  City. 
Missouri.  Mrs.  Burke  was  taken  by  her  parents  when  seventeen  years 
old  from  Fairfield,  Iowa,  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  she  was  educated 
at  the  Female  Seminary  of  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa.  Doctor  and  Mrs 
Burke  had  two  children,  namely:  Norman  and  Ruth.  During  the 
long  illness  of  Doctor  Burke  prior  to  his  demise  the  family  exchequer 


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was  depleted  and  Mrs.  Burko  felt  impelled  to  become  a  producer  in  order 
to  meet  the  living  expenses  of  her  family.  A  cultured  lady,  she  naturally 
turned  toward  literary  work,  and  for  years  was  a  special  writer  and 
society  editor  for  the  leadin^sj^  papers  of  Los  Angeles.  She  is  now  one 
of  the  most  experienced  newspaper  women  of  this  part  of  the  state. 

Inheriting  her  mother's  literary  ability,  Mrs.  Ruth  Burke  Stephens, 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Stephens  &  Sterry,  publicity  bureau  and 
news  service,  with  offices  at  Nos.  337-338  Blanchard  Building,  Los 
Angeles,  has  become  one  of  the  leading  publicity  writers  of  southern 
California.  Although  still  in  her  teens  when  she  was  graduated  from 
the  Los  Angeles  schools,  she  began  her  newspaper  career,  handling  the 
difficult  departments  devoted  to  railroads  and  the  stock  exchange  in  addi- 
tion to  handling  society  items.  In  1912  she  was  married  to  Stubert  B. 
Stephens,  a  son  of  Chancellor  David  S.  Stephens  of  the  University  of 
Kansas  City,  and  resided  in  Kansas  City  until  1914,  when  she  returned  to 
Los  Angeles  and  re-entered  the  newspaper  field.  Early  in  1916  she  began 
specializing  on  publicity  work,  and  when  this  country  entered  the  world 
war  Mrs.  Stephens  developed  into  the  most  efifective  worker  in  the  city. 
She  handled  all  the  publicity  work  for  the  Women's  Liberty  Loan  Com- 
mittee, of  which  she  was  a  member,  during  the  last  four  loan  drives,  and 
also  of  the  War  Savings  campaign.  So  efifective  did  she  prove  herself 
that  she  was  transferred  to  the  State  War  Savings  Organization,  and 
was  publicity  director  of  that  organization  for  southern  California  and 
editor  and  business  manager  of  the  War  Savings  Stamp  News.  At  one 
time  Mrs.  Stephens  was  editor  of  the  magazine  known  as  "Baby's  World." 

Rev.  Philip  Williams,  of  the  Order  of  St.  Benedict,  and  pastor  of 
All  Souls  Catholic  church  at  Alhambra,  is  a  priest  whose  constructive 
work  and  leadership  made  him  widely  known  in  several  southern  Cali- 
fornia parishes. 

He  was  born  at  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  May  12,  1869,  son  of  John 
B.  and  Mary  (Prendergast)  Williams.  To  the  age  of  ten  his  education 
was  directed  by  the  Catholic  parochial  schools.  He  then  attended  public 
school,  and  in  1882  entered  St.  Benedict's  College  at  Atchison,  Kansas, 
He  pursued  both  his  classical  and  theological  studies  in  that  institution, 
and  was  ordained  a  priest  July  26,  1893.  During  four  )'ears  of  his 
seminary  course  he  was  teacher  of  oratory  at  St.  Benedict's  and  continued 
in  that  capacity  for  four  years  after  his  ordination.  His  book  on  that 
subject  is  used  in  many  Catholic  colleges.  His  first  regular  pastorate 
was  in  Sacred  Heart  church  at  Atchison,  Kansas,  where  he  spent  four 
and  a  half  years  and  five  years  as  the  founder  and  pastor  of  St.  Benedict's 
parish  at  Kansas  City,  Kansas.  While  stationed  there  he  erected  the 
church,  school,  parish  house  and  Sisters'  house.  Altogether  his  record  of 
achievement  is  one  that  caused  the  people  of  southern  California  to  enter- 
tain the  highest  expectations  of  his  efficiency,  and  in  that  they  were  not 
disappointed. 

His  transfer  to  California  brought  him  at  first  to  the  parish  of 
St.  Catherine's  at  Avalon  on  Catalina  Island.  While  there  he  erected 
a  church  building  and  had  a  prosperous  pastorate  of  four  years.  From 
there  he  came  to  Alhambra  and  built  All  Souls  Church  and  Rectory, 
where  he  has  been  the  beloved  minister  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was 
pastor  of  the  parish  when  the  handsome  new  church  was  dedicated  on 
November  16,  1913.  The  ceremony  of  dedication  had  as  its  most  con- 
spicuous figure  Very  Rev.  Monsignor  Harnett,  vicar  general  of  the 
diocese.     In  his  sermon  Dr.  Harnett  complimented  both  the  pastor  and 


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people  upon  their  energy  and  devotion  in  raising  in  the  brief  period  of 
their  coming  together  so  creditable  a  structure  to  the  worship  of  God. 

Andrew  Mullen  was  one  of  the  stalwart,  dignified  and  very  suc- 
cessful business  figures  in  Los  Angeles  life,  and  it  is  significant  of  his 
character  that  the  business  with  which  he  was  so  long  identified  as  a 
merchant  is  still  continued  and  is  one  of  the  most  perfectly  appointed 
clothing  stores  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Andrew  Mullen  was  born  in  County  Mayo,  Ireland,  October  4, 
1832,  but  was  only  three  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  the  United 
Slates  and  settled  at  Albany,  New  York.  The  public  schools  of  that 
town  gave  him  a  limited  education.  He  was  very  young  when  he  went 
west  to  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  and  his  best  training  and  his  broadening 
outlook  on  affairs  and  men  were  acquired  by  actual  contact  with 
business.  He  was  associated  with  his  brother  under  the  firm  name  of 
Mullen  Brothers  &  Company  in  the  wholesale  woolen  business  at  Mil- 
waukee for  a  number  of  years.  Later  they  moved  their  headquarters 
to  Chicago,  and  were  at  one  time  known  as  one  of  the  leading  importers 
of  woolens  in  this  city. 

It  was  because  of  ill  health  that  Andrew  Mullen  finally  sold  out 
his  interest  in  the  Chicago  establishment,  and  on  January  1,  1888,  came 
to  Los  Angeles. 

Not  long  afterward  he  bought  a  large  interest  in  the  firm  of  Bluett 
i:  Sullivan.  This  was  a  business  which  had  been  established  some 
years  before  by  W.  C.  Bluett,  J.  C.  Daly  and  J.  B.  Sullivan.  W.  C. 
Bluett  is  now  deceased,  and  Mr.  Mullen  acquired  the  interest  of  Mr. 
Daly.  J.  B.  Sullivan  has  long  been  identified  with  the  business  and  is 
now  secretary  of  the  corporation.  With  the  coming  of  Mr.  Mullen  the 
firm  name  was  changed  to  Mullen  &  Bluett,  and  in  1890  incorporated  as 
the  Mullen  &  Bluett  Clothing  Company.  Andrew  Mullen  was  president 
of  the  corporation  until  his  death  on  ]\Iarch  4,  1899. 

For  many  years  the  store  was  at  First  and  Spring  streets,  but  on 
March  10,  1910,  it  was  moved  to  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Spring  and 
Broadway,  where  it  occupies  the  entire  ground  floor  of  the  Story 
Building.  This  great  business,  while  still  continued  as  the  Mullen  & 
Bluett  Clothing  Company,  has  as  its  active  managers  only  members  of 
the  Mullen  family  and  Mr.  Sullivan,  secretary  of  the  corporation.  Miss 
Marie  Mullen  is  president  of  the  corporation,  and  Edward  F.  Mullen  is 
vice  president. 

It  will  be  appropriate  to  quote  a  paragraph  that  appeared  in  a 
local  publication  several  years  ago  pertaining  to  the  two  older  men  in 
the  business:  "The  two  older  men  who  conducted  the  business  for  a 
great  many  years  were  conspicuous  figures  in  the  business  and  social 
life  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Bluett  brought  with  him  a  habit  contracted 
in  Ireland.  He  came  in  from  his  home  to  his  business  every  morning 
and  returned  every  evening  on  horseback.  He  invariably  rode  a  very 
handsome  saddle  horse.  Mr.  Mullen  was  a  tall  figure,  bent  somewhat 
when  he  arrived  here  by  the  accumulating  years.  They  were  both 
gentlemen  of  the  old  school  type,  always  most  courteous  in  their  deal- 
ings with  the  public  and  always  most  considerate  of  every  person  in 
their  employ.  Yet,  in  spite  of  this  dignified  mien  and  lacking  as  they 
v.-ere  in  all  the  breeziness  that  characterizes  the  typical  western  Amer- 
ican business  man,  they  were  just  the  same  exceedingly  American  in 
all  their  sentiments,  and  excellent  citizens  in  every  relation  of  life.  The 
real  head  of  the  house  today,  Edward  F.  Mullen,  lacks  somewhat  of 


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FROAI  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  135 

the  towering  stature  of  his  father,  but  lacks  nothing  of  the  suavity  of 
manner  and  courtesy  of  conduct  in  his  relations  with  the  public  which 
marked  the  two  elder  men  now  gone  from  among  us." 

Andrew  Mullen,  though  a  Democrat,  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Markham  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Wliittier  State 
School  and  was  president  of  the  board.  He  was  also  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  was  for  some 
years  its  treasurer.  After  his  death  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Chamber,  in  a  meeting  held  March  15,  1899,  drew  up  special  resolutions 
of  respect  to  his  memory,  and  these  resolutions  were  engrossed  and 
sent  to  his  family. 

Andrew  Mullen  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  director  of  the 
Columbia  Trust  Company,  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank,  and  of  the 
California  Clay  Manufacturing  Company.  In  the  development  of  the 
clay  working  industry  of  the  state  he  deserves  to  be  especially  remem- 
bered, as  well  as  his  active  associates,  W.  H.  Perry  and  other  pioneer 
business  men. 

Andrew  Mullen  married,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  i\Iary  Teresa 
Deane.  She  was  born  in  County  Mayo,  Ireland,  and  died  in  Los  An- 
geles May  29,  1910,  a  daughter  of  Judge  Edward  and  Esnima  (O'Fla- 
herty)  Deane.  He  was  an  Irish  jurist  and,  after  retiring  from  office, 
moved  to  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Both  the  Deane  and  O'Flaherty 
families  were  of  the  old  and  prominent  residents  of  Ireland.  The  Deane 
estate  in  County  Mayo  was  called  "Carrygowan"  and  was  between 
Swine  ford  and  Castlebar.  Judge  Deane  died  in  the  eastern  states 
years  ago,  and  the  widow  died  years  later  in  Oakland,  California. 
Andrew  Mullen  and  wife  had  eight  children,  including:  Edward  Fran- 
cis, Marie  Rose,  Arthur  Benedict,  now  deceased,  and  Genevieve,  Mrs. 
George  Allan  Hancock  of  Los  Angeles. 

Edward  Francis  Mullen  w-as  born  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin, 
August  8,  1864,  and  was  educated  in  parochial  schools  and  in  Notre 
Dame  University  at  Notre  Dame,  Indiana.  In  1883,  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen, returning  to  Chicago,  he  went  to  work  in  the  wholesale  woolen 
business  of  Mullen  Brothers  &  Company.  When  his  father  sold  out 
his  interest  in  that  establishment  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  a 
time  was  bookkeeper  in  the  First  National  Bank.  He  then  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  purchase  of  the  Bluett  &  Sullivan 
concern,  changing  the  name  to  Mullen  &  Bluett  Clothing  Company,  of 
which  he  has  since  been  vice  president.  The  growth  and  development 
of  this  business  has  occupied  all  of  Mr.  Mullen's  time  and  care,  and 
he  acknowledges  hardly  any  other  interest  besides  his  store  and  his 
home,  and  consequently  is  allied  with  no  societies.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Catholic  Church.  June  1,  1887,  at  Chicago,  he  married  Mary  Stella 
Smith.  They  have  two  children,  Andrew  J.,  born  at  Los  Angeles  Sep- 
tember 7,  1888,  educated  in  St.  Vincent's  College  of  this  city,  and  a 
graduate  of  Santa  Clara  College,  and  is  now  clothing  buyer  for  the 
Mullen  &  Bluett  Clothing  Company.  The  daughter,  Catherine,  is  Mrs. 
Daniel  F.  Murphy,  of  San  Francisco. 

David  M.  Thomson  is  the  Los  Angeles  representative  and  manager 
of  the  Balfour-Guthrie  Company,  a  firm  known  all  over  the  world,  with 
ramifications  in  the  transportation,  grain  and  merchandise,  insurance  and 
other  branches  of  finance  and  commerce  that  well  justify  the  claim  made 
that  it  is  the  largest  private  institution  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 

The  home  offices  of  the  company  are  in  England,  and  David   M. 


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Thomson  is  himself  a  Scotchman,  though  most  of  his  business  training 
has  been  acquired  in  America.  He  was  born  at  Edinburgh,  August  6, 
1873,  son  of  Graham  and  Margaret  McKenzie  (Murray)  Thomson.  He 
was  educated  in  public  and  private  schools  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
entered  a  stock  brokerage  business  and  followed  that  line  continuously 
for  fifteen  years. 

When  the  Balfour-Guthrie  Company  sent  him  to  America  Mr. 
Thomson  spent  one  year  in  training  at  San  Francisco,  and  v/as  then 
sent  to  Los  Angeles  as  manager  of  the  local  branch.  The  Los  Angeles 
office  of  the  concern  was  opened  in  1892,  primarily  in  the  land  business 
and  loaning  on  land.  The  first  local  manager  was  Mr.  Fortune,  who 
was  succeeded  a  few  years  later  by  Mr.  Pettigrew,  who  expanded  the 
business  to  the  buying  and  selling  of  general  merchandise.  In  1902  J. 
B.  Lumgair  became  manager,  and  was  succeeded  b}^  Mr.  Thomson  in 
1910. 

The  company  handles  many  diflferent  lines  of  merchandise,  operat- 
ing in  food  stuffs,  building  materials,  and  doing  a  general  shipping  and 
commission  business.  At  the  present  time  they  are  taking  over  two  of 
the  largest  fire  insurance  companies  in  the  United  States.  The  company 
also  acted  as  agents  for  the  Australian  Wheat  Board  and  .Australian 
Government  Line  Steamers.  The  Los  Angeles  territory  under  the  direct 
management  of  Mr.  Thomson  comprises  all  of  California  south  of  the 
Tehachap  Mountains.  For  many  years  the  business  of  the  Balfour- 
Guthrie  Company  (local)  was  small  properties,  but  in  the  last  two  3'ears 
it  has  developed  to  a  very  large  extent  radiating  in  scope  from  the 
Tehachap  to  the  Mexican  border.  Mr.  Thomson  is  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Grain  Exchange,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  Order  and  is  a  Congregational! st  in  religion.  He 
married  at  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  Miss  Annie  McKenzie  Morrison,  on 
December  13,  1904. 

Samuel  E.  Burke  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1900, 
is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  capable  dental  surgeons  of  the  city 
and  is  also  a  man  of  high  standing  in  Masonic  circles  in  this  state. 

A  native  of  Ontario,  Canada,  where  he  was  born  February  13,  1868, 
he  is  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Matilda  Edith  (Edgerton)  Burke,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  the  north  of  Ireland.  Dr.  Burke  attended  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  in  Ontario  until  1899,  and  following  that  spent 
two  years  clerking  with  McCrimmon  Brothers  at  Lindsay,  Ontario. 
After  that  he  was  head  of  the  dress  silk  goods  department  of  Carsley 
&  Company  at  Toronto  until  1893.  His  next  business  connection  was 
with  the  Duplex  School  Seat  Company  at  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  but  in 
1893  he  left  that  work  and  for  three  months  was  a  student  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  and  then  attended  the  dental  department  of  Lake 
Forest  University,  now  the  Chicago  College  of  Dental  Surgery.  He 
graduated  April  17,  1896,  and  was  in  practice  at  Bloomington,  Illinois, 
until  1900,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles. 

Dr.  Burke  is  a  past  master  of  Sunset  Lodge  No.  352,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
having  served  as  master  during  1906-07.  He  is  past  principal  sojourner, 
scribe,  king  and  high  priest  of  Signet  Chapter  No.  57,  R.  A.  M.,  has 
held  all  the  chairs  of  Los  Angeles  Council  No.  11,  R.  &  S.  M.,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Los  Angeles  Commandery  No.  43,  K.  T.,  and  is  also  a  Scottish 
Rite  Mason.  April  5,  1918,  he  was  elected  most  illustrious  grand  master 
of  the  Grand  Council  of  California,  and  on  October  10,  1918,  was  elected 
junior  grand  warden  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  state.  Dr.  Burke  is  a 
member  of  the  University  Club,  and  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


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April  5,  1909,  he  married  in  Los  Angeles  Hazel  Rosenberg.  By  a 
former  marriage  he  has  one  child:  Frazie,  aged  nineteen,  a  graduate  of 
the  grammar  schools  and  the  Manual  Arts  Fligh  School,  and  on  June 
19,  1919,  graduated  in  the  law  department  of  the  Southern  California 
University.     His  daughter  Edith  is  attending  the  public  schools. 

William  H.  Workman  Jr.,  whose  special  interests  for  the  greater 
part  have  been  electrical  engineering,  and  who  has  many  important 
achievements  to  his  credit  in  that  field,  is  also  a  financial  expert  and 
was  the  man  chiefly  instrumental  in  organizing  the  Morris  Plan  Bank 
in  Lbs  Angeles. 

Mr.  Workman  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  March  21,  1874,  and  is 
still  living  in  the  house  where  he  was  bom.  This  residential  landmark 
was  built  by  his  grandfather  in  1865.  Mr.  Workman  is  a  son  of  Wil- 
liam H.  Workman  Sr.,  and  the  details  of  the  history  of  this  interesting 
and  prominent  family  of  southern  California  are  found  on  other  pages 
of  this  publication. 

Mr.  Workman  Jr.  graduated  A.  B.  from  St.  Vincent's  College  in 
1893,  and  in  1895  received  the  degree  Master  of  Arts.  He  received  his 
technical  training  at  Stanford  University,  completing  a  four  years' 
course  in  electrical  engineering  in  two  years'  time.  After  obtaining 
his  diploma  from  Stanford  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  became 
assistant  to  the  superintendent  and  in  charge  of  the  testing  of  insulators 
on  poles  for  the  Southern  California  Power  Company,  vi^hich  was  then 
undertaking  the  rather  daring  proposition  of  transmitting  electric  power 
a  distance  of  eighty-three  miles  from  Santa  Ana  Canyon  above  Red- 
lands  to  Los  Angeles.  A  year  later  this  property  was  absorbed  by  the 
Southern  California  Edison  Company,  with  which  Mr.  Workman  con- 
tinued in  charge  of  insulation  of  underground  systems  with  the  title 
of  assistant  superintendent.  Later  he  was  made  superintendent,  and 
finally  assistant  to  the  president,  John  B.  Miller. 

In  1903  Mr.  Workman  gave  up  his  professional  work  and  spent  a 
year  traveling  around  the  world.  He  resumed  his  profession  as  an 
expert  on  electric  properties,  his  services  being  retained  in  that  capacity 
by  N.  W.  Harris  &  Company  of  Chicago,  bankers.  At  the  request  of 
this  firm,  in  December,  1904,  Mr.  Workman  became  first  vice  president 
and  managing  director  of  the  Seattle-Tacoma  Power  Company  at 
Seattle,  Washington.  This  property  under  Mr.  Workman's  direction 
was  given  a  high  degree  of  efficiency,  and  in  1908  it  was  sold  at  a  profit 
to  the  stockholders.  Mr.  Workman  was  invited  to  remain  by  the  new 
owners,  but  he  declined  and  returned  to  Los  Angeles,  where,  after  a 
brief  rest,  he  took  charge  in  the  spring  of  1909  of  the  manufacturing 
department  of  the  Union  Oil  Company,  with  headquarters  at  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

,  While  in  San  Francisco  Mr.  Workman  met  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gowen 
Haskins,  whose  husband,  Thomas  Haskins,  had  died  while  secretary  of 
the  United  States  Legation  at  Pekin,  China.  Mr.  Workman  and  Mrs. 
Haskins  were  married  September  3,  1909,  and  at  once  took  a  trip 
abroad,  spending  most  of  their  honeymoon  in  the  Chateau  country  of 
the  Loire  in  France.  Three  months  later,  having  returned  to  Los 
Angeles,  Mr.  Workman  engaged  in  the  stock  and  bond  business  with 
D.  A.  McGilvray  under  the  firm  name  McGilvray,  Workman  &  Com- 
pany. The  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1914,  Mr.  Workman  then  be- 
coming secretary  to  his  father  in  managing  the  large  Workman  estate. 

Several  years  ago  Mr.  Workman  assumed  the  chief  responsibility 


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in  interesting  local  capital  and  in  directing  a  campaign  of  education 
preparatory  to  the  organization  of  a  Morris  Plan  Bank.  This  bank 
was  opened  for  business  at  Los  Angeles  September  1,  1917,  and  it 
was  the  only  important  institution  outside  of  war  industries  or  org^aniza- 
tions  directly  related  to  the  war  which  came  into  existence  that  year. 
Mr.  Workman  is  secretary,  manager  and  director  of  the  bank.  The 
ideals  and  purposes  of  the  Morris  Plan  Bank  are  probably  too  well 
known  to  need  any  reference  here.  It  is  essentially  a  bank  for  the  bor- 
rower of  good  character  without  assets  and  securities  normally  accepted 
by  commercial  banks.  Its  primary  object  is  perhaps  to  combat  the 
"loan  shark  system"  and  furnish  the  same  emergency  service  for  which 
loan  sharks  charge  extortionate  interest  rates.  In  the  fourteen  months 
prior  to  January  1,  1919,  the  Morris  Plan  Bank  of  Los  Angeles  loaned 
$1,010,550.00  to  eight  thousand  people,  and  it  had  also  served  an  im- 
portant purpose  as  a  medium  for  the  sale  and  distribution  of  hundreds 
of  Liberty  Bonds,  especially  in  denominations  of  fifty  and  a  hundred 
dollars. 

Mr.  Workman  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club.  He  and  his 
wife  have  three  young  children:  Mary,  born  in  1911,  a  student  in  St. 
Mary's  School  for  Girls :  William  H.  Ill,  born  in  1915,  and  Betsy, 
born  in  1917. 

Rev.  Patrick  J.  McGratii,  pastor  of  Our  Lady  of  Angels  church, 
of  San  Diego,  had  seven  years  of  service  as  pastor  of  Mary  Star  of  the 
Sea  church  at  San  Pedro.  This  is  one  of  the  older  churches  of  the 
Southern  California  diocese.  The  present  church  edifice  wis  erected 
in  i\Iarch,  1889,  under  Rt.  Rev.  Francis  Mora,  D.  D.  The  first  pastor 
of  the  parish  was  Rev.  D.  C.  Tanguerey. 

Father  McGrath  was  educated  and  trained  for  the  priesthood  in 
the  east,  and  has  been  zealously  promoting  the  work  of  his  church  in 
California  for  twelve  years.  He  was  born  in  County  Kilkenny,  Ireland, 
November  6,  1873,  son  of  Michael  McGrath  and  Ann  Bowe.  His  early 
education  was  supplied  by  the  National  schools  of  Ireland.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen  he  came  to  New  York  City,  and  for  five  years  was  a  student 
in  St.  Francis  College  at  Brooklyn.  He  studied  theology  and  philosophy 
in  St.  Michael's  College  at  Toronto,  Canada,  for  nine  years,  and  on 
June  9,  1906,  was  ordained  a  priest  for  the  Los  Angeles  ancl  Monterey 
diocese. 

He  received  his  first  appointment  July  14,  1906,  as  assistant  at 
the  Cathedral  in  Los  Angeles.  March  6,  1907,  he  was  appointed  assist- 
ant of  St.  Patrick's  parish  m  Los  Angeles,  and  November  19,  1908,  be- 
came pastor  of  St.  Aloysius  and  St.  Anthony's  parishes  at  Florence  and 
Downey  in  Los  Angeles  county.  One  of  his  interesting  services  was 
as  chaplain  in  the  Shciman  Indian  School  at  Riverside  frcri  July  2, 
1909,  to  March  20,  1912.  Father  McGrath  took  up  his  work  as  pastor 
of  Mary  Star  of  the  Sea  church  in  San  Pedro,  March  20,  1912.  He  was 
transferred  to  Our  Lady  of  Angels  church,  San  Diego,  Januaiy  1,  1919. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  the  Young  Men's  In- 
stitute. 

William  Edward  McVay.  While  widely  known  in  Los  Angeles 
financial  circles  as  one  of  the  most  progressive  bankers  and  citizens, 
William  E.  McVay  has  a  very  interesting  distinction  in  the  fact  that 
throughout  his  thirty-one  years'  residence  he  may  be  said  at  least  figura- 
tively never  to  have  changed  his  desk  or  employment.     Changes  have 


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gone  on  around  him,  and  he  has  served  several  financial  corporations  of 
different  names,  but  all  essentially  one  and  the  same,  since  each  ivas 
merely  consolidation  or  reorganization  of  predecessors.  He  is  now  vice 
president  and  director  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  which  is 
the  lineal  successor  of  the  first  organization  he  joined  on  coming  to 
California. 

Mr.  McVay  was  born  at  Dixon,  Illinois,  October  25,  1864,  son  of 
William  J.  and  Sarah  M.  (Moore)  McVay.  His  father  is  deceased  and 
his  mother  is  living  in  Los  Angeles.  He  acquired  a  high  school  educa- 
tion at  Dixon  and  also  took  a  short  course  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton 
Business  College  at  Chicago.  His  experience  before  coming  to  Cali- 
fornia may  be  briefly  summed  up  as  bookkeeper  and  cashier  for  a  gen- 
eral merchandise  store,  employment  for  a  year  or  more  in  the  local 
postoffice,  and  then  as  bookkeeper  in  the  National  Bank  of  his  home 
town. 

Mr.  McVay  arrived  in  California  in  1887,  and  first  became  secre- 
tary of  the  Security  Loan  and  Trust  Company.  This  was  succeeded 
by  the  Union  Bank  of  Savings,  in  which  he  was  cashier,  and  that  sub- 
sequently was  merged  with  what  is  now  the  Guaranty  Trust  &  Savmgs 
Bank.  This  is  one  of  the  leading  financial  institutions  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia, with  resources  of  over  twenty-four  million  dollars  and  with 
capital  of  one  and  a  half  million  dollars  and  surplus  of  seven  hundred 
fifty  thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  McVay  has  given  the  best  years  of  his  life  and  all  his  talents 
and  energies  to  this  institution.  He  has  formed  no  other  important 
business  connections  outside  of  the  bank.  However,  he  is  interested 
in  public  affairs  and  is  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Whit- 
tier  State  School,  director  and  treasurer  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Union  Rescue  Mission  of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  republican, 
a  member  of  the  Immanuel  Presbyterian  church,  and  belongs  to  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  San  Gabriel  Country  Club  and  the  Automobile 
Club  of  southern  California. 

At  Princeton,  Illinois,  March  12,  1889,  Mr.  McVay  married  Miss 
Kate  Bryant.  The  Bryant  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent 
in  that  section  of  northern  Illinois.  Mrs.  McVay  is  a  granddaughter  of 
John  Howard  Bryant,  for  many  years  a  resident  of  Princeton,  and  a 
brother  of  the  famous  poet,  William  Cullen  Bryant.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
McVay  are  the  parents  of  five  children :  Laura  E.,  who  is  unmarried 
and  is  now  in  France,  serving  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  organization ;  Helene 
S.,  wife  of  H.  D.  Paulin,  of  Imperial,  California:  Silence  K.,  wife  of 
Howard  W.  Reynolds,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Frances  A.  and  William 
Bryant. 

Elias  Jackson  Baldwin.  Any  publication  devoted  to  Americans 
of  remarkable  experience  and  achievement  during  the  last  century  would 
reasonably  include  the  name  of  FJias  Jackson  Baldwin.  One  of  Cali- 
fornia's most  famous  characters,  his  name  and  work  are  of  particular 
interest  to  southern  California  as  founder  of  the  great  Santa  Anita 
Rancho,  which  for  a  generation  has  been  one  of  the  show  places  around 
Los  Angeles,  and  which,  under  its  present  proprietor,  Anita  M.  Baldwin, 
is  one  of  the  most  important  sources  of  production  of  high-grade  live 
stock  in  California. 

The  Santa  Anita  Rancho  was  established  by  the  late  Mr.  Baldwin 
in  1873.  It  was  while  traveling  to  his  Bear  Valley  mining  property  that 
he  first  saw  the  San  Gabriel  Valley.  He  soon  afterward  bought  the 
original  Santa  Anita  tract,  containing  some  eight  thousand  five  hundred 


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acres,  the  purchase  price  being  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Later 
he  acquired  other  tracts  until  he  had  iifty-four  thousand  acres  in  the 
ranch.  For  all  his  other  extensive  properties,  Air.  Baldwin  probably 
took  more  pride  in  this  rancho  than  in  anything  else.  His  holdings 
were  so  great  that  he  could  drive  in  a  direct  line  on  his  own  property 
for  eighteen  miles.  He  planned  and  built  the  water  system  for  his 
land,  and  in  1879  laid  out  a  part  of  it  through  Walnut  Grove,  at  ont 
time  owned  the  largest  orange  orchard  in  the  state,  estimated  to  be 
worth  ten  millions  of  dollars,  and  developed  nearly  all  the  varieties  of 
semi-tropical  and  deciduous  fruits,  including  oranges,  lemons,  walnuts, 
almonds,  peach,  pear,  apricot,  prune,  fig  and  Japanese  persimmon  trees, 
besides  large  plantations  of  olives,  pepper,  coffee  and  tea  plants.  The 
vineyard  and  winery  produced  annually  about  thirty  thousand  gallons 
of  brandy  and  a  hundred  thousand  gallons  of  wine.  From  other  por- 
tions of  the  ranch  were  harvested  yearly  twenty-five  hundred  tons  of 
alfalfa  and  twenty-eight  thousand  sacks  of  grain. 

The  rancho  has  been  described  again  and  again  in  press  and  litera- 
ture and  of  it  the  late  H.  H.  Bancroft,  the  historian,  said:  "It  is  a  spot 
whose  attractions,  both  natural  and  artificial,  it  would  be  difficult  to 
exaggerate,  and  we  know  not  whether  most  to  admire  its  vast  extent, 
the  magnitude  and  diversity  of  its  interests,  the  beauty  of  its  situation, 
the  skill  with  which  its  various  operations  have  been  planned,  or  the 
well  nigh  perfect  generalship  with  which  they  have  been  executed." 

During  Mr.  Baldwin's  lifetime  the  fame  of  his  rancho  was  largely 
due  to  his  efforts  and  unparalleled  success  as  a  breeder  and  developer 
of  thoroughbreds.  At  one  time  the  pastures  of  the  foothills  afforded 
grazing  grounds  for  about  twenty  thousand  head  of  sheep  and  two 
thousand  dairy  cows,  while  the  stables  and  paddocks  were  the  breeding 
and  training  ground  of  some  of  the  greatest  running  horses  in  America. 
Under  its  present  ownership  the  Santa  Anita  Rancho  and  its  Anoakia 
Breeding  Farm  has  a  number  of  the  real  "thoroughbreds,"  distinguished 
from  the  purebteds,  including  many  winners  on  eastern  and  western 
tracks,  also  Arabian,  Percheron,  purebred  horses,  a  notable  stud  of 
Jacks  and  Jennets,  and  a  large  list  of  record-breaking  Poland  China  and 
Berkshire  hogs  and  Holstein-Friesian  cattle.' 

The  late  Mr.  Baldwin  was  always  loth  to  part  with  portions  of  his 
holdings,  though  the  demand  for  small  farms  became  quite  insistent. 
He  sold  off  at  various  times  small  tracts,  and  in  1885  a  portion  of  his 
rancho,  comprising  ninety  acres,  was  subdivided  and  is  the  present  site 
of  the  town  of  Monrovia,  and  since  then  the  townsites  of  Sierra  Madre, 
El  Monte  and  Arcadia  have  been  founded.  At  present  the  Santa  Anita 
Rancho  contains  about  thirty-five  hundred  acres  in  the  vicinity  of  and 
immediately  surrounding  the  old  Baldwin  homestead.  The  railroad 
station  and  postoffice  of  Santa  Anita  is  on  the  Santa  Fe  Railway,  and 
five  miles  away  is  the  city  of  Pasadena,  and  fourteen  miles  distant  is 
Los  Angeles. 

Anita  M.  Baldwin,  the  present  proprietor,  has  much  of  the  genius 
of  her  father  as  a  business  woman,  especially  in  the  management  and 
direction  of  her  live  stock  interests.  She  is  also  chairman  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Branch  of  the  American  Red  Star  Animal  Relief,  and  is  spe- 
cial representative  and  field  inspector  for  southern  California. 

The  late  Elias  Jackson  Baldwin  was  born  in  Butler  County,  Ohio, 
April  3,  1828,  son  of  Elias  Clark  and  Charlotte  (Davis)  Baldwin.  His 
father  was  bom  in  Butler  County,  Ohio,  in  1802,  the  same  year  Ohio 
was  admitted  to  the  Union,  and  the  Baldwins  were  part  of  the  first 


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pioneer  settlement  in  that  locality.  The  Baldwin  family,  seven  in  num- 
ber, came  to  America  in  colonial  times.  The  ancestrj'  in  remote  genera- 
tions is  traced  back  to  Baldwin  de  I'lsle,  Count  of  Flanders,  whose 
daughter,  Marianne  Alatilda,  married  William  of  Normandy,  afterward 
William  the  Conqueror. 

When  Elias  Jackson  Baldwin  was  six  years  of  age  his  parents 
moved  to  a  farm  in  northwestern  Indiana,  ten  miles  from  South  Bend. 
He  attended  school  there  in  winter  and  worked  on  a  farm  in  summer. 
For  a  year  his  parents  lived  at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  in  order  to 
give  their  children  the  benefit  of  higher  education.  At  the  age  uf 
twenty  Elias  Jackson  Baldwin  married  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Unruh. 
For  a  year  he  continued  as  a  farmer,  but  in  1846,  after  accumulating 
two  thousand  dollars  through  his  genius  as  a  horse  trader,  he  estab- 
lished a  grocery  store  at  Valparaiso,  Indiana.  He  inherited  his  ad- 
miration and  skill  in  handling  and  judging  horses  from  his  father,  and 
from  boyhood  was  skilled  in  trading  and  was  an  ardent  participant  in 
lhat  kingly  sport  of  horse  racing.  It  has  been  declared  that  he  was 
one  of  the  best  judges  of  horseflesh  the  country  ever  knew.  From 
Valparaiso  Mr.  Baldwin  moved  to  New  Buffalo,  Michigan,  a  land  then 
of  great  promise  because  of  its  prospects  as  the  Lake  Michigan  terminus 
of  some  of  the  first  transcontinental  railway  lines.  He  opened  there 
a  hotel  and  general  store  and  was  soon  enjoying  a  prosperous  business. 
He  invested  his  profits  in  other  enterprises.  He  built  several  canal  boats 
I'.nd  loaded  them  with  grain  for  St.  Louis.  After  two  jears  he  sold  his 
interests  at  New  Buffalo  and  moved  to  Racine.  Wisconsin,  where  he 
liought  a  large  hotel. 

In  March.  1853,  having  sold  his  property  in  Wisconsin,  Elias  Jack- 
son Baldwin  started  for  California.  He  bought  a  number  of  horses,  fitted 
out  a  train  of  four  wagons  and  loaded  them  with  the  stock  of  goods 
which  he  thought  could  be  sold  profitably  at  the  western  mines  or  at 
some  intermediate  point.  One  wagon  he  had  loaded  with  brandy,  an- 
other with  tobacco  and  tea.  As  usual,  he  judged  correctly,  for  on  reach- 
ing Salt  Lake  City  he  disposed  of  most  of  his  cargo,  and  reinvested  the 
profits  in  a  string  of  horses,  which  he  brought  with  him  to  California. 
After  a  brief  stay  at  San  Francisco,  he  went  to  Placerville,  arriving  in 
that  historic  mining  town  August  10,  1853.  He  did  some  mining  there, 
but  soon  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  bought  the  Pacific  Temperance 
House  on  Pacific  and  Battery  streets.  Within  thirty  days  he  sold  out 
at  a  profit  of  five  thousand  dollars.  He  then  bought  and  fitted  up  the 
Clinton  House  on  Jackson  street,  and  soon  afterward  sold  that  property. 
About  that  time  he  met  a  Mr.  Wormer,  brother  of  a  girl  he  brought 
to  California  with  his  family,  and  they  formed  a  partnership  for  the 
manufacture  of  brick.  After  the  firm  dissolved  Mr.  Baldwin  went  to 
Fort  Point  and  superintended  the  making  of  brick  for  the  government. 
The  brick  he  made  is  still  to  be  seen  at  that  fortress,  and  it  was  declared 
he  made  the  best  product  -ever  seen  in  the  west.  After  two  years  of  this 
he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  stock  and  bond  brokerage  business, 
but  soon  concentrated  all  his  attention  upon  the  stock  and  bond  part  of 
his  work. 

At  that  time,  during  the  '60s,  San  Francisco  was  going  wild  over 
stock  speculations,  particularly  on  the  Comstock  mining  stocks.  When 
Mr.  Baldwin  entered  the  arena  his  plunging  soon  made  him  a  leader 
among  the  speculators.  He  had  as  his  attorney  and  confidential  ad- 
viser Reuben  H.  Lloyd,  president  of  the  Park  Board.  His  operations 
were  on  a  large  scale,  and  one  particular  day  he  was  credited  with  "clean- 


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ing  up"  over  eight  million  dollars.  He  dealt  heavily  in  Ophir,  Crown 
Point,  Belcher,  Savage  and  other  stocks. 

Never  will  the  people  of  San  Francisco  forget  the  black  Friday  of 
August  26,  1875,  when  it  was  whispered  about  in  tremulous  breath  that 
the  Bank  of  California  had  closed  its  doors.  At  first  men  would  not 
believe  the  report,  for  the  bank  had  long  been  considered  the  most  stable 
of  all  monetary  institutions,  and  that  it  should  collapse  was  no  more 
thought  possible  than  that  the  skies  should  fall  or  the  mountains  be  cast 
into  the  seas.  But  the  rumor  was  only  too  true,  and  on  the  following 
afternoon  of  this  day  the  panic  fear  that  spread  through  the  city  was 
further  intensified  by  the  death  and  was  supposed  suicide  of  the  cashier, 
by  whose  indiscretion,  to  use  no  harsher  phrase,  the  catastrophe  had  been 
brought  about.  The  streets  were  filled  with  a  surging  multitude,  a  dense, 
black  mass  of  terrified  and  despairing  men,  for  all  were  aware  that  a 
dire  calamity  had  befallen  the  commerce  and  industries  of  the  city,  the 
state  and  the  coast.  It  was  truly  a  grewsome  spectacle,  such  as  never 
before  had  been  witnessed  in  this,  our  western  metropolis,  and  never, 
let  us  hope,  shall  be  witnessed  again.  But  let  us  hear  what  part  Mr. 
Baldwin  played  in  the  rehabilitation  of  the  Bank  of  California,  for  his 
was  a  leading  part  and  by  him  and  a  few  other  public-spirited  men  was 
averted  a  financial  crisis  such  as  would  have  paralyzed  the  entire  com- 
munity for  many  a  year  to  come. 

For  two  or  three  years  he  had  been  among  its  largest  depositors, 
having  at  one  time  $3,600,000  to  his  credit,  bearing  interest  at  nine  per 
cent.  When  the  bank  closed  its  doors  he  v/as  its  heaviest  creditor,  with 
a  balance  of  more  than  $2,000,000.  He  was  then  in  the  eastern  states, 
and  the  fact  that  the  bank  was  paying  such  a  large  interest  had  long 
caused  him  uneasiness.  After  largely  reducing  his  account  he  telegraphed 
for  $400,000  more,  but  this  he  never  received,  for  an  hour  later  a  mes- 
sage from  his  attorney  was  placed  in  his  hands  advising  him  of  the 
bank's  suspension.  Li  his  answer  at  once  dispatched  by  wire  he  said: 
"Protect  my  interests,  but  do  nothing  to  hurt  Ralston."  Thereupon  he 
immediately  returned  to  San  Francisco.  R.  H.  Lloyd  relates :  "I  asked 
Ralston  what  was  the  actual  condition  of  the  bank,  and  he  replied:  'You 
and  I  have  had  several  transactions,  and  I  always  told  you  the  truth, 
didn't  I  ?'  I  said :  'Yes,  sir,  I  think  you  always  did.'  He  then  said : 
'There  is  dollar  for  dollar  in  this  bank  for  depositors  if  properly  man- 
aged, but  very  little  for  stockholders.'  Believing  that,  I  went  to  Sharon 
and  suggested  the  idea  of  subscribing  money  and  putting  the  bank  on 
its  feet.  He  eagerly  seized  the  idea.  We  went  to  work  at  it,  and  when 
Baldwin  came  back,  he  said:  'You  did  just  right,'  and  took  hold  of  it. 

"Mr.  Mills  and  his  attorney  wanted  to  put  the  bank  in  insolvency,  but 
we  strenuously  objected  and  succeeded  in  stopping  it.  A  heroic  effort 
was  made  to  repair  the  disaster,  and  I  am  doing  no  injustice  to  others 
when  I  say  that  but  for  Mr.  Baldwin's  co-operation  this  effort  would 
have  been  in  vain.  Night  after  night  he  passed  at  the  residence  of  Wil- 
liam Sharon  and,  in  company  of  his  attorney  Reuben  H.  Lloyd,  and 
Michael  Reese,  often  working  until  daylight,  surprised  them  at  the  task, 
while  devising  means  for  bringing  order  out  of  the  chaos. 

"None  others  were  present  either  among  depositors  or  directors,  and 
by  Mr.  Baldwin  and  his  colleagues  was  assumed  the  load  of  the  bank's 
responsibilities  and  obligations.  Every  argument  was  used,  every  in- 
ducement was  offered  to  secure  the  forbearance  and  aid  of  other  capital- 
ists to  enlist  their  sympathies  in  a  project  which  has  been  acknowledged 
as  among  the  greatest  financial  achievements  of  the  age.     Nor  was  it 


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until  after  a  severe  and  protracted  strain,  a  strain  not  only  on  their  re- 
iources,  but  on  their  vital  powers,  taxed  as  they  were  to  the  utmost  limit 
of  human  edurance,  that  their  purpose  was  finally  accomplished.  At 
length,  however,  it  was  accomplished,  a  fund  being  subscribed  to  reor- 
ganize the  bank  to  pay  the  depositors  and  to  resume  its  business  with  a 
new  and  sufficient  capital.  To  this  fund  Baldwin  and  Sharon  contributed 
each  $1,000,000,  Lloyd  $100,000,  and  others  as  means  and  inclination 
dictated." 

In  bringing  about  this  result  it  is  the  opinion  of  those  best  informed 
in  the  matter  that  Mr.  Baldwin  has  not  received  his  due  share  of  recogni- 
tion. Not  only  did  he,  as  the  heaviest  creditor  of  the  bank,  refrain  from 
attaching  its  property  for  the  $2,000,000  at  his  credit,  but  risked  another 
$1,000,000  in  the  project  for  its  rehabilitation,  a  project  which  by  the 
community  at  large  was  deemed  well  nigh  impossible  of  achievement. 
Nor  did  he  stop  here,  but  long  continued  to  give  the  institution  the  benefit 
of  his  moral  support.  On  the  very  day  when  its  doors  were  reopened, 
while  timid  creditors  were  withdrawing  their  deposits,  he  placed  on  the 
counter  all  the  money  he  could  carry,  some  $40,000  in  double  eagles,  and 
otherwise  aided  in  restoring  confidence  among  the  faint  hearted,  many 
of  whom  were  prevented  fron^  closing  their  accounts.  Whatever  may 
have  been  the  motives  of  other  far-seeing  men  whose  forbearance  may 
have  been  exercised  and  their  responsibilities  assumed  to  avert  financial 
ruin,  or  in  the  expectation  of  benefits  which  might  accrue  to  them  later, 
no  such  motives  can  justly  be  attributed  to  Mr.  Baldwin.  Rather  w-as  he 
actuated  by  sympathy  for  the  fallen,  by  a  becoming  sentiment  of  pride, 
a  pride  that  would  have  shown  to  the  world,  to  enemies  as  well  as 
friends,  what  a  deed  these  men  of  California  were  capable  of  accomplish- 
ing, a  deed  that  had  for  its  object  the  salvation  of  his  adopted  state,  that 
should  prevent  a  collapse  which  would  have  shaken  the  community  to  its 
center,  a  catastrophe  which  years  would  not  have  effaced. 

In  the  early  '70s  he  took  an  option  on  the  corner  of  Market  and 
Powell  streets,  and  in  1873  erected  the  Baldwin  Hotel.  The  property 
at  that  time  was  a  sand  hill,  and  he  was  roundly  laughed  at  for  what  was 
termed  a  foolhardy  scheme.  But,  as  was  his  custom  in  all  his  business 
affairs,  Mr.  Baldwin  paid  no  attention  to  what  anybody  said,  but  finished 
his  building.  He  invested  three  million  dollars  in  the  hotel  and  theater, 
and  the  result  was  the  most  famous' building  of  its  kind  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  at  that  time.  In  the  hotel  he  endeavored  to  supply  San  Francisco 
with  an  urgent  need  for  a  family  hotel,  and  he  gave  San  Francisco  one 
of  the  first  of  the  many  institutions  of  a  similar  kind  that  have  since  been 
founded.  His  theater  was  opened  in  1875  with  the  production  of  Richard 
III,  by  Harry  Sullivan,  the  cast  including  such  latter  day  stage  celebri- 
ties as  Louis  James  and  James  O'Neill.  This  building  was  destroyed  in 
November,  1898,  by  fire,  and  Mr.  Baldwin  himself  had  a  narrow  escape 
from  death.  Later  he  sold  the  property,  but  retained  possession  of  the 
Market  street  property  east  of  the  hotel,  upon  which  the  Baldwin  Annex 
stood  until  the  great  fire  of  1906.  The  hotel  property  was  the  subject 
of  one  of  Mr.  Baldwin's  most  famous  law  suits.  He  was  never  known 
to  compromise  any  litigation,  but  always  fought  through  to  the  bitter 
end.  In  the  case  of  the  hotel  property  he  won  a  clear  title  after  the 
suit  was  carried  through  all  the  courts  until  1892. 

A  great  degree  of  the  fame  associated  w-ith  his  name  was  due  to  his 
operations  on  the  turf.  It  was  during  an  eastern  trip  that  he  first  entered 
the  racing  arena  in  a  substantial  way,  and  in  the  years  that  followed  he 
became  one  of  the  most  famous  and  certainly  the  most  unique  and  spec- 


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tacular  turf  operator  in  recent  history.  He  was  one  of  the  few  who 
really  profited  by  his  operations,  and  for  a  number  of  years  the  winnings 
of  his  horses  in  purses  amounted  to  about  a  hundred  thousand  dollars 
annually.  While  in  the  east  he  went  to  Saratoga  with  a  friend  and  took 
a  liking  to  the  horse  Grinstead,  who  by  no  means  was  a  favorite  at  the 
track.  But  he  knew  horses  better  than  most  men  and  wagered  heavily 
in  the  auction  pools.  There  was  no  book-making  in  those  days.  He  won 
a  large  amount  of  money  and  promptly  bought  the  horse.  Grinstead 
afterward  became  the  sire  of  many  famous  racers.  Mr.  Baldwin  did 
likewise  with  the  horse  Rutherford,  and  shipped  his  two  purchases  to 
the  west.  Then  he  went  into  the  racing  business  in  real  earnest.  A  few 
years  later  he  invaded  the  east  with  a  string  of  horses  and  was  laughed 
at  for  his  pains.  Four  times  were  the  Baldwin  colors  first  at  the  wire  in 
the  classic  American  Derby,  an  achievement  standing  alone  in  the  annals 
of  the  turf,  no  other  ranch  or  breeder  boasting  of  even  two  winners. 
The  Baldwin  horses  captured  fifteen  of  the  twenty-five  races  participated 
in  at  Saratoga.  The  blood  of  some  of  those  famous  thoroughbred  win- 
ners is  still  on  the  Santa  Anita  Rancho,  and  its  present  owner  is  doing 
much  to  perpetuate  the  fame  of  the  achievements  of  her  honored  father. 
When  Mr.  Baldwin  completed  the  Santa  Anita  race  course  on  his  own 
]5roperty  he  sold  off  a  number  of  his  racing  horses,  as  he  did  not  believe 
an  owner  should  race  his  horses  on  his  own  track.  That  was  character- 
istic of  the  man.  He  played  every  game  he  entered  vehemently,  but 
always  fairly. 

Mr.  Baldwin  owned  the  Tallac  property  at  the  world's  famous  re- 
sort. Lake  Tahoe,  and  since  his  death  the  Tallac  Hotel  has  been  com- 
pleted in  the  midst  of  a  picturesque  woodland  of  a  thousand  acres.  He 
also  owned  the  Oakwood  Hotel  at  Arcadia,  in  the  highlands  of  Los 
Angeles  County,  and  owned  much  valuable  business  and  residence  prop- 
erty both  in  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Baldwin  married  four  times.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  two 
daughters,  one  of  whom  died  in  infancy,  and  the  other  married  Mr. 
Harold,  son  of  a  prominent  Philadelphia  physician.  For  his  second  wife 
he  married  Miss  Cochrane,  of  New  Orleans.  His  third  wife,  mother  of 
Miss  Anita  Baldwin,  her  only  child,  was  Jane  Virginia  Dexter,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Peter  A.  and  Mary  Ann  (Bryan)  Dexter.  Mary  Ann  Bryan 
was  of  famous  Irish  lineage,  going  back  to  the  noted  Brian  Boru.  For 
his  fourth  wife  Mr.  Baldwin  married  Lillie  C.  Bennett,  whose  father 
was  an  architect. 

A  concise  and  happy  summan-  of  Mr.  Baldwin's  life  career  cannot 
be  better  expressed  than  in  the  following  quotation : 

The  histor}'  of  California  bears  record  of  no  more  picturesque,  albeit 
no  more  useful,  energetic  and  praiseworthy  character  than  Elias  Jackson 
(Lucky)  Baldwin.  His  career  graces  California's  annals  with  a  whirl- 
wind of  spectacular,  original  and  daring  exploits,  unique  and  resultful 
expeditions  into  the  world  of  high  finance,  intermingled  with  good  deeds 
antl  acts  of  kindness  toward  others,  lie  gave  California  gratuitous  ad- 
vertisement when  such  advertisement  was  needed  and  could  be  obtained 
perhaps  in  no  other  way.  He  made  several  fortunes  and  lost  them,  but 
when  he  died  a  millionaire  it  was  truthfully  said  of  him  that  he  came 
by  it  all  honestly — that  he  "filched  from  no  man's  store." 

Elias  Jackson  Baldwin  contributed  to  the  annals  of  California  many 
stirring  chapters,  and  the  memon-  of  his  constructive  genius  and  daring 
expeditions  into  the  field  of  development  is  part  of  the  record  of  a  unique 
and   brilliant    career.     Unto  himself   he    lived,   taking  little   counsel   of 


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others ;  certain  in  his  judgment  and  quick  in  action.  When  the  angel  of 
death  came  to  him  on  March  1,  1909,  at  his  Santa  Anita  Rancho  and 
closed  the  eyes  of  this  wonderful  character  in  his  last  sleep,  it  was  at 
the  close  of  a  life  long  in  years  and  as  eventful  as  any  in  the  state's 

history. 

Hon.  Benjamin  W.  Hahn.  As  a  lawyer  who  has  devoted  himself 
to  his  professional  duties  in  southern  California  nearly  thirty  years,  the 
record  of  Benjamin  W.  Hahn  is  easily  one  of  the  most  important  in 
the  annals  of  the  local  bar.  He  has  handled  many  large  and  important 
interests,  especially  as  a  corporation  lawyer,  but  like  many  other  lawyers 
who  have  found  satisfaction  and  success  in  their  profession  his  political 
and  public  career  is  brief. 

Mr.  Hahn  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illmois,  August  28,  1868,  son  of 
Samuel  and  Barbara  Hahn.  His  father  went  to  Chicago  in  early  life 
and  for  many  years  followed  his  trade  as  a  carpenter  and  builder.  Ben- 
jamin W.  Hahn  attended  the  public  schools  in  his  native  city.  He  was  in 
his  nineteenth  year  when  he  came  to  California  in  1887,  locating  at 
Pasadena,  and  later  entering  as  a  student  the  law  offices  of  Metcalf  & 
McLaghlan.  On  December  24,  1895,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Supreme 
Court  of  California  and  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  February 
26,  1900.  Much  of  his  practice  in  later  years  has  been  in  courts  of 
federal  jurisdiction,  including  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  Mr. 
Hahn  first  began  practice  at  Pasadena,  and  after  a  year  or  so  became 
associated  with  his  brother  Edwin  Hahn  under  the  firm  name  of  Hahn 
&  Hahn.  This  is  now  one  of  the  chief  firms  of  corporation  lawyers  in 
the  west.  They  handle  almost  exclusively  a  corporation  and  probate 
practice, 

Mr.  Benjamin  Hahn  has  charge  of  the  Los  Angeles  office,  located 
in  the  Central  Building  at  Sixth  and  Main  streets.  Mr.  Hahn  main- 
tains a  large  private  law  library  in  those  offices.  His  brother  Edwin 
has  charge  of  the  Pasadena  office  in  the  Boston  Building.  This  is  the 
oldest  firm  in  Los  Angeles  county. 

Mr.  Hahn  has  always  been  a  republican,  and  on  that  ticket  was 
chosen  to  his  only  important  office  in  1902,  when  elected  state  senator 
from  the  36th  District.  Because  of  his  recognized  attainments  as  a 
lawyer  he  was  accepted  into  the  leadership  of  the  Senate  and  served 
as  a  member  of  the  committee  on  finance,  judiciary,  corporations,  banks 
and  banking  and  code  revision.  At  different  times  he  has  used  an  influ- 
ence in  behalf  of  many  civic  movements  in  his  home  city  of  Pasadena. 
He  founded  the  Pasadena  Daily  News,  now  one  of  the  leading  papers 
of  that  city,  now  consolidated  with  the  Star  News  of  Pasadena.  He  is 
a  director  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank  of  Long  Beach  and 
organized  that  bank.  He  is  a  life  member  of  the  B.  P.  O.  E.,  Silver 
Trowel  Lodge  of  Los  Angeles  No.  415,  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish 
Rite  Mason,  belonging  to  Masonic  bodies  of  Los  Angeles,  is  author  of 
Halin's  Corporate  Parliamentary  Rules,  the  only  work  on  that  subject 
ever  published,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation. 

At  San  Bernardino,  November  9,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Grace  Vir- 
ginia Gahr,  daughter  of  R.  P.  Gahr,  a  well  and  favorably  known  citizen 
of  San  Bernardino.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hahn  have  one  son,  Herbert  L.,  who 
was  a  lieutenant  in  the  First  Infantry  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
the  Pacific  Coast  tennis  star  of  Leland  Stanford  University,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  1916,  with  the  A.  B.  degree.     He  was  admitted 


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to  the  bar  of  California  in  May,  1917,  and  is  now  in  the  Pasadena  office. 
The  favorite  pursuit  of  Mr.  Hahn  is  flower  cultivation.  He  has  a 
twenty  acre  ranch,  where  he  resides,  and  has  several  acres  devoted  to 
dahlias,  having  in  two  years  created  five  hundred  varieties  of  that  flower, 
some  of  them  measuring  nine  inches  in  diameter  and  representing  roses. 
On  this  ranch  he  also  has  the  largest  grape  arbor  in  the  world.  He 
owns  his  own  water  and  pumping  plant.  This  beautiful  estate  is  located 
one-half  mile  east  of  the  city  limits  of  Pasadena  in  the  foothills. 

Rev.  Clement  Molony  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  April  12,  1874, 
son  of  Richard  and  Nellie  Molony.  His  early  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  public  schools  and  St.  Vincent's  College.  In  1892  he  entered 
Kenrick  Seminary  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  completed  his  course 
in  theology,  and  returning  to  Los  Angeles,  was  ordained  priest  in  St.  Vi- 
biana's  Cathedral  by  the  late  Archbishop  Montgomery  on  April  19,  1897. 
He  was  the  bishop's  secretary  until  1903,  when  he  was  assigned  to  a 
work  which  afforded  an  opportunity  for  the  full  exercise  of  his  energy 
and  constructiveness  as  a  church  builder,  and  in  the  mature  accom- 
plishments thereof  he  still  remains  as  pastor  of  St.  Agnes'  Catholic 
church. 

Father  Molony  organized  St.  Agnes'  parish  August  1,  1903.  Prior 
to  that  portions  of  St.  Paul's  parish  had  been  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
St.  Agnes'  and  his  parish  originally  comprised  all  of  the  present  par- 
ishes of  St.  Cecilia,  St.  Michael,  Inglewood  aVid  Hyde  Park. 

Father  Molony  began  his  work  in  a  temporary  church  building  dedi- 
cated October  4,  1903.  Ground  was  broken  for  the  present  magnificent 
granite  church  on  the  corner  of  West  Adams  street  and  Vermont  avenue 
December  8,  1905.  The  cornerstone  was  laid  by  the  late  Bishop  Conaty 
on  the  feast  of  St.  Agnes,  January  21,  1906.  The  edifice  was  completed 
and  dedicated  Thank,sgiving  Day,  1907.  The  marble  altars  of  the  church 
were  consecrated  by  Bishop  Cantwell  on  the  feast  of  St.  Agnes  in  1918, 
and  the  following  Sunday  the  bishop  blessed  the  pipe  organ,  which  is  the 
finest  instrument  in  any  of  the  Catholic  churches  of  Los  Angeles.  Both 
the  main  altar  and  the  pipe  organ  were  offerings  of  Mrs.  Emeline  H. 
Childs  of  Los  Angeles,  who  has  been  the  greatest  benefactor  not  only 
of  St.  Agnes'  church  but  of  every  Catholic  institution  and  most  of  the 
Catholic  churches  in  the  city. 

With  the  growth  of  the  parish  there  came  the  necessity  of  a  pa- 
rochial school,  which  was  blessed  by  the  late  Bishop  Conaty  on  the  first 
Sunday  of  October,  1914.  The  school,  which  is  accredited  to  the  State 
University,  is  under  the  direction  of  sixteen  sisters  of  the  Congregation 
of  the  Holy  Cross  from  Notre  Dame,  Indiana.  This  school  has  all  the 
grammar  grades,  also  a  full  course  of  high  school  instruction  and  a 
commercial  curriculum.  These  different  grades  provide  the  educational 
needs  for  five  hundred  pupils. 

Mrs.  M.\rgaret  Fr.vnces  Slusher.  Since  the  field  of  big  business 
management  was  first  opened  to  women  many  of  the  representatives  of 
this  sex  have  attained  distinction,  proving  that  in  all  requirements  they 
are  equal  to  the  masculine  mind  and  efficiency.  Los  Angeles  has  long 
been  distinguished  in  this  connection,  and  among  the  more  prominent 
business  women  of  the  city  is  Mrs.  Margaret  Frances  Slusher,  pro- 
prietress of  one  of  Los  Angeles'  largest  laundries.  For  twenty  years 
she  has  devoted  her  excellent  talents  to  this  line  of  endeavor,  and  has 
maintained   throughout   the   entire   period   a   high    standard   of   business 


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ethics.  She  is  a  woman  of  marked  activity,  and  her  career  in  a  number 
of  ways  has  been  a  remarkable  and  interesting  one. 

Mrs.  Slusher  was  born  at  Livermore,  California,  May  9,  1879,  a 
daughter  of  J.  C.  and  Mary  Ellen  (Langenkamp)  Campbell,  the  former 
a  native  of  Virginia,  and  for  years  the  owner  of  a  large  plantation  near 
Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  the  latter  born  at  Springfield,  Illinois. 
One  of  her  sisters,  Mrs.  Clara  Hall,  is  the  manager  of  a  successful  tea 
room,  "The  Tea  Cup,"  at  San  Francisco  ;  another  sister,  Mrs.  James  E. 
Morgan,  is  the  wife  of  a  retired  capitalist  of  Los  Angeles;  a  brother, 
George  W.  Campbell,  is  engaged  in  business  in  Paris,  France;  a  cousin, 
Walter  J.  Bartinett,  is  a  wealthy  business  man  of  San  Francisco,  and 
formerly  was  vice  president  of  the  Gould  Railway  System;  and  a  niece, 
Miss  Sadie  Morgan,  is  in  charge  of  a  Los  Angeles  dancing  academy. 

Mrs.  Slusher  began  her  career  at  an  early  age,  leaving  home  at  the 
age  of  twelve  years  to  make  her  own  way  and  create  her  own  oppor- 
tunities. Circumstances  may  in  a  measure  develop  an  individual,  but 
unless  there  is  an  underlying  stability  of  character,  combined  with  native 
ability  and  a  determination  to  make  the  most  of  whatever  opportunities 
life  affords,  all  the  circumstances  in  the  world,  no  matter  how  advan- 
tageous, will  not  produce  a  person  of  whom  associates  can  be  proud.  In 
many  instances  circumstances  crush  out  ambition,  render  ineffective 
what  might  otherwise  be  well-sustained  effort.  In  the  case  of  Mrs. 
Slusher  circumstances  were  such  that  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  she 
became  interested  in  the  laundry  business,  and  began  to  work  at  the  old 
Excelsior  Laundry.  She  had  attended  the  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles 
and  later,  when  she  realized  the  necessity  of  further  training,  took  a 
course  at  and  graduated  from  the  Bromberger  Business  College.  At  the 
Excelsior  she  was  rapidly  promoted  until  given  charge  of  several  de- 
partments, but  it  was  her  constant  and  unfaltering  ambition  to  become 
proprietress  of  an  establishment  of  her  own,  where  she  could  work  out 
her  ideas  and  plans,  and  an  opportunity  for  the  realization  of  her  aims 
came  in  1899,  in  which  year  she  founded  her  present  business,  h'rom 
the  start  she  made  a  success  of  her  venture,  but  it  was  not  until  March 
7,  1907,  that  her  present  laundry  was  completed  and  occupied. 

Mrs.  Slusher  devoted  her  activities  to  the  building  up  of  an  exclu- 
sive patronage,  and  at  the  time  of  the  entrance  of  the  L'nited  States  into 
the  great  war  her  business  consisted  chiefly  in  handling  the  elite  work  of 
the  city,  delivery  being  made  by  private  cars.  The  elect  of  the  social 
world,  prominent  actresses  and  opera  singers,  formed  the  principal  part 
of  her  customers,  and  in  handling  this  kind  of  lingerie  Mrs.  Slusher  did 
a  business  approximating  some  $4,000  per  week.  Her  quick  perception 
told  her  at  the  outset  of  this  country's  participation  in  the  conflict  that 
the  opportunity  to  do  big  business  was  at  hand,  and  without  assistance 
she  contrived  to  secure  contracts  for  all  the  army  and  navy  work  at 
San  Pedro,  Fort  McArthur  and  the  Naval  Reserve.  Immediately  the 
volume  of  business  done  jumped  to  huge  proportions,  and  in  1918  alone 
she  did  $130,000  worth  of  Unite'd  States  government  business.  What  an 
undertaking  she  assumed  may  be  imagined  when  it  is  stated  that  at  one 
time  she  had  for  laundering  in  her  place  of  business  182,000  pair  of 
SOX,  for  which  the  Red  Cross  did  the  darning;  10,000  suits  of  khaki  and 
22,000  blankets. 

In  the  landing  of  the  above-mentioned  contracts  Mrs.  Slusher  had 
stolen  a  march  on  other  laundries,  managed  by  men.  who  endeavored 
to  make  up  for  their  delinquency  and  tardiness  in  action  by  acquiring 


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control  of  her  business.  She  was  deluged  with  offers  to  buy  her  plant, 
but  her  price  of  $150,000  was  beyond  what  the}-  desired  to  pay,  and  they 
accordingly  adopted  tactics  designed  to  put  her  out  of  busmess.  They 
found,  however,  that  Mrs.  Slusher's  capabilities  included  a  marked  ten- 
dency to  grimly  hold  on  to  what  she  had  worked  so  hard  and  fairly  to 
obtain  and  to  determinedly  and  skillfully  fight  back,  with  the  result  that 
the  controversy  led  to  considerable  publicity,  terminating  in  the  publish- 
ing of  the  valiant  litle  woman's  picture  in  the  leading  newspapers  of 
the  city,  April  17,  1919.  The  reaction  was  immediate,  Mrs.  Slusher  re- 
ceiving bushels  of  letters  of  sympathy  and  congratulation  and  being 
forced  to  yield  to  innumerable  interviews.  The  results,  on  the  whole, 
were  satisfactory,  for  while  the  notoriety  was  unpleasant,  she  was  able 
to  view  the  matter  in  a  philosophic  light  in  that  hers  was  the  victory 
and  that  the  advertising  thus  gained  brought  her  much  additional 
business. 

Mrs.  Slusher  gives  much  of  the  credit  for  her  success  to  the  fact 
that  she  has  been  able  to  select  good  employes.  She  built  her  own 
buildings,  which  are  thoroughly  equipped  with  their  own  electric  plant, 
paint  shop  and  water  system,  and  the  entire  plant  is  complete  and  mod- 
ern in  every  appointment.  She  has  invested  her  earnings  sensibly  and 
practically,  and  is  the  owner  of  several  orange  groves,  one  being  at 
Santa  Ana,  and  another  of  forty-five  acres  being  located  at  Santa  Fe 
Springs,  where  she  resides  in  a  large  and  imposing  modern  home.  In 
addition  she  owns  much  desirable  city  property  at  Los  Angeles,  all  ob- 
tained through  her  own  efforts.  Not  only  is  she  a  splendid  business 
woman,  but  is  also  possessed  of  marked  intellectual  attainments  and  has 
had  considerable  successful  experience  as  a  newspaper  woman.  She  is 
active  in  club  life  of  the  city  and  has  various  important  connections  in 
this  direction. 

On  July  23,  1902,  Mrs.  Slusher  marrfed  Silas  F.  Slusher,  a  native 
of  Floyd  county,  Virginia,  but  now  of  Los  Angeles.  They  have  no 
children. 

Charles  Hulbert  Toll.  Thirty-five  years  of  his  business  life  Mr. 
Toll  has  spent  in  Los  Angeles.  He  has  achieved  prominence  in  financial 
circles  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  identified  with  the  oldest  and 
largest  savings  bank  in  Southern  California,  the  Security  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Bank,  of  which  he  is  a  vice-president  and  a  director.  He  is  also  a 
director  of  the  Security  National  Bank,  which  is  owned  by  the  stock- 
holders of  the  Security-Trust  &  Savings  Bank. 

Mr.  Toll  was  born  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  November  24,  1858,  a  son  of 
Hon.  Charles  Hulbert  and  Elizabeth  (Lusk)  Toll.  His  parents  were 
both  natives  of  New  York  state.  His  father  was  an  Iowa  pioneer  and 
one  of  the  men  who  really  built  up  and  developed  Clinton  as  a  city.  He 
was  a  manufacturer  there,  also  held  the  office  of  postmaster,  and  repre- 
sented his  district  in  the  State  Legislature.  At  the  time  of  the  Civil 
war  he  enlisted  in  the  Tenth  Iowa  Infantry,  and  was  in  service  until  the 
close  of  hostilities.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  and  had 
charge  of  the  Commissary  Department.  Major  Toll  spent  his  last  two 
years  in  California  and  died  in  Los  Angeles. 

Charles  H.  Toll,  the  youngest  of  five  children,  grew  up  in  Qinton, 
Iowa,  acquired  a  public  school  education  and  finished  in  Cornell  Col- 
lege at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa.  For  a  time  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  Clinton 
postoffice,  later  was  deputy  clerk  of  courts  of  Clinton  county.  Mr.  Toll 
moved  to  Los  Angeles  in  1885.     He  was  credit  man  for  several  large 


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firms  of  the  city  and  gradually  became  identified  with  business  and 
finance  in  an  increasing  scope,  and  as  a  banker  has  met  with  accustomed 
success  and  is  a  recognized  power  in  the  local  money  market. 

Mr.  Toll  was  elected  without  opposition  and  served  as  a  member 
of  the  City  Council  of  Los  Angeles  from  1896  to  1900.  He  is  a  repub- 
lican, a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California. 
He  and  his  wife  are  both  prominent  socially.  Mrs.  Toll  was  educated 
in  the  Oakland  High  School  and  is  now  president  of  the  Grammar  School 
Board  of  Glendale  and  first  vice-president  of  the  Ebell  Club  of  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  Toll  was  one  of  the  sponsors  of  Mr.  McGroarty's  Mission  Play 
during  its  successful  season  at  San  Gabriel,  ending  May  4,  1919. 

Mr.  Toll  married  September  4,  1901,  Miss  Eleanor  M.  Joy,  of  Los 
Angeles.  Their  children,  all  natives  of  Los  Angeles,  are  Charles  Hul- 
bert,  Jr.,  Gerald  Sidney,  Maynard  Joy  and  Carroll  Costello.  Charles 
H.,  Jr.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Glendale  High  School,  class  of  February, 

1919,  and  Gerald  S.  is  a  member  of  the  graduating  class  of  February, 

1920,  in  the  same  school,  each  graduating  in  their  sixteenth  year.  The 
family  home  is  at  Glendale. 

St.  Thomas  the  Apostle  Church,  at  West  Pico  and  Mariposa 
Boulevard,  is  one  of  the  strong  and  flourishing  parishes  that  exemplify 
the  extension  and  increasing  power  of  the  Catholic  church  in  keeping 
with  the  general  development  and  expansion  of  Los  Angeles  itself. 

The  parish  was  established  August  1,  1903,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas 
J.  Conaty.  The  new  parish  comprised  that  portion  of  the  city  between 
Hoover,  Washington,  West  9th  and  City  Limits,  and  was  placed  under 
the  charge  of  the  Rev.  John  J.  Clifford  as  its  pastor. 

The  church,  built  after  the  style  of  the  Old  Missions  of  California, 
with  a  touch  of  the  Fourteenth  Century  Spanish  Renaissance  architec- 
ture, was  completed  for  worship  December  25,  1904,  and  was  dedicated 
February  19,  1905.  Since  then  the  buildings  of  the  parish  have  been 
supplemented  by  a  school  and  rectory. 

The  first  and  only  pastor  of  this  parish,  Rev.  John  J.  Chflford,  was 
born  in  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  December  22,  1871,  a  son  of  James  and 
Mary  (Houlihan)  Clifford.  He  was  educated  in  the  Christian  Broth- 
ers College  until  the  age  of  fifteen,  then  in  Carlow  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1894,  and  at  the  same  time  received  his  diploma  from 
the  Royal  University  of.  Ireland.  As  he  was  destined  for  work  in  the 
American  field  he  then  came  to  this  country  and  finished  his  studies  in 
the  Catholic  University  at  Washington,  where  he  was  ordained  a  priest 
in  1895. 

Father  Cliflford  was  stationed  as  assistant  pastor  of  the  Cathedral 
of  Los  Angeles  until  August  1,  1903,  when  he  was  made  pastor  of  St. 
Thomas  the  Apostle  church.  His  work  has  not  been  entirely  confined 
within  his  own  parish.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Brown- 
son  House,  which  has  done  wonderful  work  for  the  poor  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  is  chaplain  of  the  Newman  Club  of  the  Los  Angeles  State 
Normal  School.  He  is  also  a  Knight  of  Columbus  and  a  member  of 
the  Young  Men's  Institute. 

Frank  Hervey  Pettingell,  who  in  1919  enjoyed  the  honor  of  his 
fifth  consecutive  term  as  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Stock  Exchange, 
has  been  in  the  stock  and  bond  business  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century 
and  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1912. 


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Mr.  Pettingell  represents  some  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent 
colonial  American  families,  and  for  many  years  has  been  deeply  inter- 
ested in  genealogical,  patriotic,  historical  and  various  civic  and  social 
institutions. 

He  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  January  2,  1868,  and 
is  in  the  eighth  generation  of  the  American  family  of  Pettingell.  Its 
fomider  was  Richard  Pettingell,  who  was  born  in  1620  in  England, 
came  to  America  about  1640  and  was  made  a  freeman  at  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, June  2,  1641.  Later  he  settled  at  Newbury  and  died  there  in 
1695.  He  married  Joanna  Ingersoll,  who  was  born  about  1625,  and  died 
several  years  before  her  husband.  The  second  generation  was  repre- 
sented by  Matthew  Pettingell,  born  in  1648  and  died  about  1714.  He 
lived  at  Newbury  and  was  a  felt  maker.  Nathaniel  Pettingell,  of  the 
third  generation,  was  born  January  21,  1675-6,  at  Newbury,  and  also 
followed  the  trade  of  felt  maker  at  that  place.  Cutting  Pettingell,  of 
the  fourth  generation,  whose  descendants  are  eligible  to  membership  in 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  was  born  January  17,  1721-2,  and  died  in 
1793.  He  was  a  fisherman  and  coaster,  and  served  as  a  private  in  the 
train  band  of  Colonel  John  Greenleaf's  Company.  He  was  one  of  the 
petitioners  for  the  founding  of  the  old  South  Church  at  Newbury. 
Josiah  Pettingell,  of  the  fifth  generation,  was  born  in  1753,  in  Newbiiry- 
port,  and  died  there  June  30,  1826.  He  was  the  revolutionary  ancestor. 
He  was  a  fisherman,  and  was  in  Captain  Stephen  Kent's  Company, 
raised  for  coast  defense  in  Essex  county,  Massachusetts,  in  November 
and  December,  1775.  Cutting  Pettingell,  of  the  sixth  generation,  was 
born  in  May,  1785,  and  died  at  Newburyport  September  1,  1865,  was 
in  the  War  of  1812  as  a  member  of  Captain  John  Woodwell's  Company, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Ebenezer  Hale's  Regiment,  Second  Brigade,  Second 
Division,  service  at  Newbury,  between  September  30  and  October  4, 
1814.  Nathaniel  Henry  Pettingell,  father  of  the  Los  Angeles  citizen, 
was  born  at  Newbury  September  11,  1835,  and  died  at  Newmarket,  New 
Hampshire,  November  12,  1874.  September  6,  1863,  he  married  Mary 
Anna  Feltch.  She  w^as  in  the  seventh  generation  from  Henry  Felch, 
who  was  born  about  1590  and  came  to  Massachusetts  about  1640.  The 
successive  generations  of  the  Felch  family  w«re :  Henry ;  Henry ;  Dr. 
Daniel;  Samuel;  Jacob:  Joseph  Harris,  who  was  born  in  1804  and  was 
father  of  Mary  Anna  Feltch,  who  was  born  at  Newbury  September  10, 
1843,  and  died  at  Newburyport  August  6,  1894. 

Frank  Hervey  Pettingell  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city  and  in  1889  left  Massachusetts  and  removed  to  Colorado 
Springs,  Colorado,  where  for  about  three  years  he  was  connected  with 
the  First  National  Bank  of  that  city.  Since  1892  he  has  been  engaged 
in  the  stock  and  bond  business.  In  1895-96,  while  a  resident  of  Colo- 
rado Springs,  he  was  elected  vice  president  and  subsequently  president 
of  the  Colorado  Mining  Stock  Exchange  of  Denver,  then  an  organiza- 
tion of  considerable  importance.  He  became  a  charter  member  in  1894 
and  is  still  a  member  of  the  Colorado  Springs  Mining  Stock  Association. 
During  1904-05,  Mr.  Pettingell  maintained  an  offtce  on  Wall  street  in 
New  York  City.  He  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  December,  1912,  and  has 
almost  continuously  held  the  honorary  ofifiice  of  president  of  the  Stock 
Exchange. 

January  19,  1898,  at  Independence,  Missouri,  he  married  Mary 
Agnes  Morgan,  daughter  of  Robert  K.  and  Mary  (Smith)  Morgan. 
She  was  born  at  Independence,  Missouri,  February  27,  1876.     The  two 


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children  of  that  union  are  Frank  Hervey,  Jr.,  born  November. 27,  1898, 
at  Colorado  Springs;  and  Mary  Agnes,  born  January  27,  1901,  at  De- 
troit, Michigan. 

At  Denver,  Colorado,  September  5,  1905,  Mr.  Pettingell  married  for 
his  second  wife  Medora  Anna  Wilson,  daughter  of  John  Mitchell  and 
Rosabel  (Cantril)   Wilson.     She  was  born  at  Denver  February  27,  1881. 

Mr.  Pettingell  is  governor  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the 
state  of  California  ;  first  vice  president  and  a  life  member  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  in  the  state  of  California;  first  vice  president,  Cali- 
fornia Genealogical  Society  of  San  Francisco  ;  honorary  vice  president 
of  the  General  National  Society  Americans  of  Royal  Descent;  senior 
vice  president.  National  Mining  and  Stock  Brokers'  Association ;  was 
president  in  1915  of  the  International  Congress  of  Genealogy  at  San 
Francisco;  and  a  suretie  of  the  Baronial  Order  of  Runnemede  (de- 
scendants of  the  Sureties  of  the  Magna  Charta,  1215  A.  D.)  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  is  also  a  member  of  ihe^  Board  of  Library  Directors  of  Los 
Angeles;  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachu- 
setts ;  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Massachusetts  Society,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution ; 
New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society  of  Massachusetts ;  Society 
for  the  Preservation  of  New  England  Antiquities  of  Massachusetts ;  So- 
ciety of  the  War  of  1812  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts ;  So- 
ciety of  Old  Plymouth  Colony  Descendants ;  New  Hampshire  Historical 
Society  at  Concord ;  life  member.  Historical  Society  of  Old  Newbur}', 
at  Newburyport ;  Order  of  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Horseshoe  of  Bal- 
timore:  member  of  the  Paul  Jones  Club  at  Portsmo'uth,  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  the  Pike  Family  Association  of  America ;  Chevalier  Commander 
for  California,  Order  of  Lafayette ;  charter  member,  Lafayette  Society 
of  California ;  honorary  life  member,  St.  Ananias  Club  of  Topeka,  Kan- 
sas ;  member  of  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  and  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  No.  99,  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Thomas  Higgins.  In  several  of  the  greatest  mining  districts  of 
the  Southwest  Thomas  Higgins  was  the  pioneer  operator.  Mr.  Higgins 
is  a  man  ofvhalf  a  century  of  experience,  has  been  through  all  the  ups 
and  downs  of  the  profession,  and  some  years  ago  he  came  to  Los  Angeles 
to  invest  his  means,  and  is  owner  of  some  of  the  city's  most  conspicuous 
property. 

Mr.  Higgins  was  born  at  Boyle,  County  Roscommon,  Ireland.  July 
12,  1844,  a  son  of  Patrick  Higgins.  Up  to  the  age  of  fourteen  he  attended 
national  schools  and  then  contented  himself  with  the  quiet  routine  of 
his  father's  farm  until  he  came  to  America.  After  coming  to  this  country 
he  lived  in  Troy,  New  York,  and  was  employed  in  iron  works  a  short 
time.  He  then  invaded  the  wilderness  of  the  middle  west  and  became 
a  woodsman  and  lumberman  at  Mosinee,  Wisconsin.  Two  years  later 
he  went  south  along  the  lower  Mississippi,  and  for  several  years  was 
foreman  in  the  construction  of  river  levees.  Later  he  worked  on  con- 
struction for  the  Iron  Mountain  Railway. 

The  next  change  in  scene  and  occupation  took  him  to  the  far  north- 
west, and  through  the  territories  of  Washington  and  Oregon  he  prospected 
for  gold  until  the  Indians  became  so  troublesome  as  to  drive  him  out. 
Going  to  San  Francisco  he  continued  his  journeys  through  the  locality 
known  as  Tombstone,  Arizona,  and  was  probably  one  of  the  first  white 


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men  to  prospect  in  that  mining  district.  Sometime  later  he  went  on  to 
the  Mule  Pass  Mountains,  close  to  the  Mexican  line,  where  Bisbee  is 
now  located,  and  was  also  one  of  the  pioneers  in  that  locality.  In  these 
and  other  districts  of  Arizona  Mr.  Higgins  continued  his  work  as  a 
miner  and  mine  developer  until  long  after  his  fortune  had  been  assured. 
He  still  retains  extensive  interests  at  Bisbee,  but  since  1900  has  been  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles. 

At  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity  he  has  invested  heavily  in  real  estate 
and  other  properties.  In  1910  he  erected  the  ten  story  office  building, 
120x160  feet,  at  the  corner  of  Second  and  Main  streets,  known  as  the 
Higgins  Building.  In  1914  he  organized  the  Higgins  Estate,  and  became 
its  president.  Mr.  Higgins  has  never  married,  and  has  generously  dis- 
pensed his  means  for  various  charitable  causes  and  institutions.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Catholic  church  and  is  a  republican  in  politics. 

Robert  Arnold  Rowan,  whose  sudden  death  July  25,  1918,  brought 
a  general  sense  of  bereavement  and  loss  to  the  entire  city  and  the 
many  friends  and  business  associates  all  over  California,  was  identified 
as  a  responsible  factor  with  that  part  of  Los  Angeles  development  which 
has  resulted  in  a  lofty  sky-line  and  the  creation  of  great  and  end'iring 
edifices  in  the  business  district.  As  a  real  estate  owner,  developer  and 
financier  he  has  exemplified  and  extended  the  splendid  talents  he  in- 
herited from  his  late  father,  George  D.  Rowan,  one  of  the  pioneers  in 
Los  Angeles  real  estate  development.  Of  his  father  more  is  said  on 
other  pages. 

Robert  A.  Rowan  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  20,  1875, 
and  a  year  later  his  parents  came  to  California.  He  attended  public 
schools  at  Pasadena  and  in  1893,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  gave  up  his 
school  work  to  begin  his  business  career.  For  several  years  his  home 
was  in  New  York  City,  and  his  first  employment  there  was  with  Ward 
&  Huntington,  exporters  of  hardware  to  South  America.  In  1894  he 
entered  business  for  himself  as  a  merchandise  broker. 

In  1897  Mr.  Rowan  entered  the  real  estate  business  in  Los  Angeles. 
In  that  field  his  career  has  presented  some  of  the  most  remarkable  suc- 
cesses in  the  business  annals  of  Los  Angeles.  From  1898  to  1901  he 
was  associated  with  William  May  Garland.  In  1901  he  became  an  in- 
dependent operator,  and  in  1905,  with  several  of  his  brothers,  organized 
the  firm  of  R.  A.  Rowan  &  Company,  of  which  he  was  president  at 
the  iime  of  his  death. 

R.  A.  Rowan  &  Company  is  an  organization  of  expert  men,  and 
while  capable  of  highly  specialized  work  it  has  not  confined  itself  to 
one  restricted  field.  Its  operations  have  included  both  residrntial  tracts 
and  business  property,  though  it  is  in  the  downtown  district  that  the 
most  important  achievements  are  credited  to  the  company. 

Mr.  Rowan  was  associated  with  A.  C.  Bilicke  in  organizing  the 
Alexandria  Hotel  Company  and  the  construction  of  the  Alexandria 
Hotel.  Mr.  Rowan  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  that  company.  The 
Alexandria  Hotel  is  a  peer  of  the  many  magnificent  establishments  of 
the  kind  in  America,  and  is  one  of  the  institutions  that  have  served  to 
spread  the  fair  fame  of  Los  Angeles  abroad.  Mr.  Rowan  and  associates 
also  erected  the  Security  Building,  the  Merchants  National  Bank  Build- 
ing, the  Title  Insurance  Building,  and  the  Title  Guarantee  Building. 
These  solid  fireproof  structures  have  not  only  served  to  meet  the  grow- 
ing demands  of  Los  Angeles  commercial  life,  but  through  their  archi- 
tecture are  peculiarly  appropriate  to  the  growing  ideals  of  a  communit)' 


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where  the  spirit  of  beauty  joins  hands  with  utiHtarianism.  Among  vari- 
ous residence  districts  into  which  the  Rowan  Company  has  extended  its 
activities  should  be  mentioned  Windsor  Square  district  of  approximately 
two  hundred  acres. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Rowan  was  credited  with  being  one 
of  the  largest  individual  property  owners  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  also 
a  stockholder,  and  director  in  a  number  of  business  concerns.  His  name 
was  usually  found  in  connection  with  every  large  public  movement  of  the 
city  and  as  a  member  of  its  leading  commercial  and  civic  organizations. 
He  belonged  to  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  which  he  had  served  as 
president,  to  the  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  the  California  Club,  Jona- 
than Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club 
and  Pasadena  Country  Club. 

February  28,  1903,  at  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Rowan  married  Laura 
Schwarz,  daughter  of  Louis  Schwarz,  a  pioneer  Los  Angeles  business 
man.  tour  young  children  were  left  to  mourn  their  father's  death,  the 
oldest  thirteen  and  the  youngest  six  years.  Their  names  are  Lorraine, 
George  D.  and  Robert  A.,  Jr.,  twins,  and  Louis. 

The  death  of  such  a  man  naturally  called  forth  expressions  of  esteem 
from  all  his  old  friends  and  associates,  and  a  significant  part  of  tnese 
tributes  which  cannot  be  quoted  in  detail  was  the  emphasis  they  placed 
not  upon  his  spectacular  financial  success,  but  the  bigness  and  nobility 
of  his  nature  and  the  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  that  dominated  him  and 
made  him  one  of  the  city's  master  builders.  He  was  called  "the  best  of 
sons,  of  husbands,  of  brothers,  of  fathers  and  of  friends,"  and  one  who 
knew  him  well  said:  "His  integrity,  his  energy,  his  initiative  and  his 
lack  of  all  malignity  even  towards  those  who  imposed  on  him  made  him 
a  splendid  type  of  the  American." 

Some  of  the  special  qualities  that  stood  out  in  his  life  were  described 
in  one  of  the  local  papers  as  follows :  "To  write  of  Mr.  Rowan  is  to 
write  of  the  building  of  the  city.  For  while  it  was  the  noble  traits  of  his 
character  that  he  impressed  more  deeply  on  the  community  than  any  of 
his  great  material  achievements,  it  was  Mr.  Rowan  who  really  made  Los 
Angeles  a  city  in  its  structures. 

"When  the  father  died  in  1903  it  was  found  that  all  of  his  large  prop- 
erty had  been  left  to  Mrs.  Rowan  and  "Bob'  as  trustees.  Since  then  Mr 
Rowan  administered  the  estate,  which  is  still  intact  and  under  his  skill  is 
quintupled  in  value.  His  old  friends  describe  Mr.  Rowan  as  a  bom 
business  man.  He  took  to  business  naturally  and  soon  left  school  to 
assist  his  father. 

"His  essentially  notable  traits  were  amiability,  accompanied  by  po- 
tency and  capacity.  He  was  never  known  to  say  an  ill  word  of  anyone. 
Often  he  would  be  deceived  in  men,  in  that  those  he  took  close  to  his 
regard  would  disappoint  him  or  impose  on  him  and  for  the  moment  he 
would  show  a  little  irritation,  but  immediately  he  would  offer  excuses 
for  them  and  never  in  his  entire  career  was  he  ever  found  seeking  revenge 
or  trying  to  get  even,  no  matter  what  injury  had  been  done  him.  Never 
was  there  any  pettiness,  any  shadow  of  maliciousness  in  word  or  deed  of 
'Bob'  Rowan.  He  was  too  big  souled,  too  immersed  in  big  affairs,  too 
loyal  to  the  city  he  loved  to  be  capable  of  smallness.  His  soul  was  big 
with  its  power  for  good,  but  there  was  no  place  in  his  being  for  the 
little.  In  his  hands  were  the  affairs,  the  vital  affairs,  of  innumerable 
people;  in  no  instance  was  there  any  wavering,  any  defect  of  integrity 
coupled  with  ability  that  imperiled  one  penny." 


154  LOS  ANGELES 

John  Farrell  Powers.  Los  Angeles  has  been  the  home  of  many 
well-known  former  Chicagoans.  One  of  the  more  recent  additions  from 
that  source  is  John  Farrell  Powers.  Mr.  Powers  in  a  few  years  has 
done  much  to  increase  the  prestige  and  elevate  the  standards  of  Pacific 
Coast  baseball.  He  came  to  Los  Angeles  not  like  his  fellow  Chicagoan, 
A.  G.  Spalding,  long  after  the  climax  of  his  career,  but  in  the  fullness  of 
his  enthusiasm  and  power  as  a  baseball  promoter,  and  is  known  all  up 
and  down  the  coast  as  one  of  the  controlling  owners  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Baseball  Club. 

Mr.  Powers  was  born  in  Chicago  March  14,  1881,  a  son  of  John 
and  Mary  (Farrell)  Powers.  His  father  was  born  in  Ireland  and  was 
well  educated  for  the  demands  of  an  executive  career.  For  many  years 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Chicago,  and  the  gifts  of 
humor  and  e.xecutive  ability  which  distinguished  him  have  been  freely 
endowed  upon  John  Farrell  Powers. 

The  latter  was  educated  in  St.  Patrick's  School  in  Chicago  and 
from  there  entered  St.  Ignatius  College,  where  he  became  verj'  much 
interested  in  athletic  sports.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  baseball  player,  and 
even  while  there  showed  special  ability  in  managing  school  athletics. 
Later  he  entered  Notre  Dame  University,  and  while  there  was  as  much 
a  factor  in  the  promotion  of  college  sports  as  he  had  been  at  St.  Ignatius. 
In  Notre  Dame  he  pursued  a  civil  engineering  course,  but  all  the  time 
he  could  spare  from  his  studies  he  devoted  to  the  betterment  of  Notre 
Dame's  baseball  nine,  which  for  years  has  had  a  high  reputation  among 
college  and  university  nines  of  the  middle  west. 

After  leaving  Notre  Dame  Mr.  Powers  was  for  four  years  a  civil 
engineer  with  the  Illinois  Tunnel  Company,  and  assisted  in  constructing 
the  tunnel  under  the  Chicago  River.  In  1904  he  gave  up  a  good  posi- 
tion with  that  company  to  enter  business  for  himself  and  located  at  Dan- 
ville, Illinois,  where  he  became  member  of  the  firm  of  Powers  &  Supple 
Company,  dealers  in  general  building  material.  They  soon  had  an  ex- 
tensive business,  both  wholesale  and  retail.  As  a  business  man  of  that 
Illinois  city  Mr.  Powers  lost  no  opportunity  to  support  and  build  up  a 
good  baseball  club.  In  1907  he  became  owner  and  president  of  the  Dan- 
ville Club.  Danville  belonged  to  what  was  then  one  of  the  best  organi- 
zations of  minors  in  the  middle  west,  the  Three  I  League,  embracing 
a  number  of  the  larger  cities  of  the  three  states  of  Illinois,  Indiana  and 
Iowa.  For  three  years  Mr.  Powers  was  at  the  head  of  the  Danville  or- 
ganization, and  he  put  his  club  among  the  leaders  of  the  league.  In  1910 
Danville  was  a  contender  for  the  pennant  to  the  very  last,  and  it  was 
only  after  a  hard-fought  contest  in  three  games  that  the  title  went  to 
another  club. 

In  1910  Mr.  Powers  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  found  a 
city,  a  climate  and  a  spirit  of  enterprise  that  thoroughly  appealed  to 
him.  He  acquired  some  valuable  real  estate  in  the  city,  and  on  one  of 
these  properties  erected  one  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  in  southern 
California.  Fie  also  became  financially  interested  in  a  number  of  busi- 
ness projects,  but  the  interests  which  make  him  best  known  to  the  public 
at  large  are  baseball.  February  2,  1915,  he  acquired  the  controlling  in- 
terest in  the  Los  Angeles  Baseball  Club,  was  elected  president,  becoming 
associated  with  Tom  Darmody,  one  of  the' brainiest  men  in  baseball.  It 
was  largely  this  combination  that  revived  the  confidence  and  enthusiasm 
of  the  supporting  public  in  the  Los  Angeles  organization,  and  under 
its  leadership  the  national  pasttime  on  the  coast  has  made  larger  strides 
than  ever  before. 


JOHN  F.  POWERS 


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Mr.  Powers  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Ckib,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  the  Knights 
of  Columbus.  June  26,  1905,  he  married  Miss  Nelle  Kelly  of  Danville, 
Illinois.     They  have  one  child,  Michael  Kelly  Powers. 

General  P.\trick  H.  Barry  is  governor  of  the  Soldiers'  Home  at 
Sawtelle.  He  was  appointed  in  December,  1912,  taking  up  his  duties 
January  17,  1913,  as  acting  governor,  and  since  the  first  of  March,  1913, 
he  has  been  governor  of  this  institution. 

While  a  lover  of  California  and  occupied  in  the  congenial  duties 
of  supervising  an  institution  for  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  comrades  who 
saw  active  service  in  the  Civil  war.  General  Barry  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  the  middle  west  and  in  the  far  east.  He  was  born  in 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  August  23,  1844,  and  as  a  boy  was  brought  to 
the  United  States  by  his  parents,  who  lived  in  Boston.  He  had  all  the 
enthusiasm  and  patriotism  of  the  typical  Irishman,  and  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  war  attempted  to  enlist  in  the  army,  but  was  rejected 
on  account  of  age.  He  determined  to  become  a  soldier,  and  leaving  home 
and  going  to  a  locality  where  he  was  unknown  he  was  accepted  as  a 
private  in  Company  E  of  the  Sixty-third  New  York  Regiment  in  Septem- 
ber, 1861.  Pie  had  just  past  his  seventeenth  birthday.  The  Sixty-third 
New  York  was  part  of  Meagher's  Irish  Brigade,  one  of  the  hardest 
fighting  and  most  brilliant  organizations  in  the  Union  army.  With  the 
Sixty-third  New  York  General  Barry  participated  in  the  siege  of  York- 
town,  the  battles  of  Fair  Oaks,  Gaines'  Mills,  Bottom's  Ridge,  Savage 
Station,  Cold  Harbor,  Malvern  Hill,  Second  Bull  Run  and  Antietam. 
At  Antietam  he  was  wounded  in  the  ankle  and  discharged.  He  recovered 
and  re-enlisted  July  2,  1863,  in  Company  A,  12th  Massachusetts  In- 
fantry. With  this  regiment  he  was  a  participant  at  Mine  Run,  the  Wild- 
erness, Laurel  Hill,  Spottyslvania  Court  House,  Bowling  Green,  second 
battle  of  Cold  Harbor  and  Petersburg.  The  concluding  scenes  he  saw 
as  a  member  of  the  Thirty-ninth  Massachusetts,  to  which  he  had  been 
transferred.  He  was  in  the  thick  of  the  fighting  at  the  famous  Crater 
before  Richmond.  There  he  displayed  that  heroism  which  is  the  basis 
of  many  of  the  citations  and  medals  and  lienors  which  are  mentioned 
in  the  present  great  war.  Wliile  attempting  to  save  a  comrade  from  a 
building  that  had  been  set  on  fire  he  was  horribly  burned  about  the  face, 
but  refused  to  go  to  the  Field  Hospital,  and  a  few  moments  later  his 
right  arm  was  shattered  by  the  fragments  of  a  bursting  shell.  This 
wound  necessitated  amputation  above  the  elbow  and  he  came  home  from 
the  war  with  one  arm  in  his  sleeve,  yet  in  spite  of  this  handicap  he  proved- 
himself  no  mean  competitor  in  the  practical  afifairs  and  business  of  life. 

July  2,  1865,  the  second  anniversary  of  his  re-enlistment  in  the  army, 
he  married  in  Boston  Miss  Mary  Monahan,  a  native  of  Ireland.  They 
lived  in  and  near  Boston  until  the  spring  of  1880,  when  they  sought  the 
new  lands  of  the  middle  west.  General  Barry  took  a  homestead  and  tim- 
ber claim  in  Wheeler  county,  Nebraska,  and  lived  there  to  endure  all  the 
hardships  of  pioneer  experience.  In  1882  he  moved  to  another  locality 
in  Greeley  county,  to  a  tract  sold  to  settlers  by  the  Irish  Catholic  Asso- 
ciation. General  Barry  lived  there  until  1904,  and  became  highly  pros- 
perous as  a  farmer  and  stock  breeder.  On  leaving  the  farm  he  moved 
to  Greeley  Center,  where  his  wife  died  November  25,  1907. 

Of  his  active  connection  with  military  affairs  since  the  Civil  war  it 
is  best  to  rely  upon  an  article  written  and  published  in  the  Twentieth 
Century  Farmer  of  Omaha  in  1911.     Quoting  from  this  article:  "Wlien 


156  LOS  ANGELES 

Silas  A.  Holcomb  was  elected  governor  of  Nebraska  he  made  Patrick 
H.  Barry  adjutant  general  of  the  Nebraska  National  Guard.  General 
Barry  immediately  took  up  the  seemingly  hopeless  task  of  making  the 
Nebraska  National  Guard  an  effective  force.  Working  night  and  day 
he  whipped  it  into  some  semblance  of  a  fighting  force,  and  thus  it  was 
that  when  President  McKinley  called  for  troops  in  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can war  the  Nebraska  guardsmen  were  not  only  among  the  first  to  re- 
spond, but  were  among  the  best  drilled,  best  equipped  and  best  discip- 
lined volunteer  troops  sent  to  the  front.  General  Barry's  standing  among 
the  Nebraska  veterans  of  the  Spanish-American  and  Philippine  wars 
is  evidenced  by  the  ovation  given  him  every  time  he  attends  one  of 
their  reunions.  As  an  organizer,  as  a  disciplinarian  and  as  a  manager 
of  men  General  Barry  has  proved  his  efficiency,  and  these  are  the  quali- 
ties that  induced  the  governmental  authorities  to  take  him  from  the 
quiet  retreats  of  his  country  home  in  Nebraska  and  put  him  upon  the 
board  of  managers  that  has  to  do  with  the  management  of  one  of  the 
largest  and  finest  sanitariums  in  the  world,  that  maintained  by  the 
United  States  government  at  Hot  Springs,  South  Dakota,  for  the  care 
and  comfort  of  disabled  volunteer  soldiers." 

The  appointment  referred  to  in  this  quotation  was  the  selection  of 
General  Barry  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  in  charge  ot  the 
Battle  Mountain  Sanitarium  at  Hot  Springs,  and  it  was  from  the  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  that  oi^ce  that  he  came  to  California  to  take  up 
his  present  duties  at  the  Soldiers'  Home  at  Sawtelle. 

General  Barry,  like  most  men  of  progressive  thought  and  action,  has 
had  a  varied  political  experience  and  affiliation.  Even  while  living  in 
Massachusetts  he  became  identified  with  the  Greenback  movement,  and 
in  Nebraska  was  affiliated  with  the  Farmers  Alliance  and  the  People's 
party,  having  been  elected  and  served  two  terms  as  a  member  of  the 
Nebraska  Legislature.  In  later  years  he  has  chosen  a  rather  independent 
course  in  casting  his  ballot. 

General  Barry  had  an  ideally  happy  home  life.  He  and  his  wife 
enjoyed  an  uninterrupted  companionship  for  over  forty  years,  and  it 
has  been  his  privilege  to  see  five  sturdy  sons  grow  to  manhood  and  fill 
places  of  usefulness  in  the  world.  These  sons  are:  Judge  James  B.,  of 
Sawtelle,  California;  Patrick,  of  Greeley  Center,  Nebrask.i;  John.  P., 
who  lives  on  the  old  homestead  at  Greeley  Center;  Francis  A.,  also  a 
farmer  of  Greeley  Center,  and  Thomas  M.,  a  stockman  and  farmer  at 
Greeley  Center. 

Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  James  Conaty.  While  his  long  and  distinguished 
service  was  too  broad  to  be  credited  to  any  one  community,  Los  Angebs 
takes  proper  pride  in  the  fact  that  the  last  twelve  years  of  Bishop 
Conaty's  life  were  spent  in  Southern  California,  as  Bishop  of  Monterey 
and  Los  Angeles. 

He  represented  the  famous  Milesian  stock,  inhabitants  of  Ireland  for 
centuries,  and  was  born  at  Kilnaleck,  County  Cavan,  August  1,  1847. 
He  died  in  his  sixty-ninth  year,  September  18,  1915.  His  parents, 
Patrick  and  Alice  (Lynch),  Conaty,  brought  their  family  to  Massachu- 
setts May  10,  1850.  Bishop  Conaty  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  and  on  December  30,  1863,  entered  Montreal 
College  and  in  September,  1867,  became  a  member  of  the  junior  class  of 
Holy  Cross  College  at  Worcester,  Massachusetts.  He  graduated  A.  B. 
in  July,  1869,  and  took  his  theological  work  in  the  Grand  Seminary  at 
Montreal,  where  he  was  ordained  priest  December  21,  1872.  George- 
town University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  D.  D.  in  1889  and  he  also 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  157 

had  the  degrees  J.  C.  D.  and  D.  D.  from  the  Laval  University  of  Quebec 
in  1896. 

January  1,  1873,  he  became  assistant  pastor  of  St.  John's  church 
at  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  and  during  his  seven  years  labor  there 
distinguished  himself  by  his  strong  personality,  his  genial  disposition 
and  his  unlimited  capacity  for  work.  January  10,  1880,  he  became  pas- 
tor of  the  Sacred  Heart  church  of  Worcester.  For  fourteen  years  at 
Worcester  he  was  a  member  of  the  City  School  Board,  and  some  of  the 
best  educational  measures  of  the  city  are  credited  to  his  liberal  and  far 
reaching  policies.  He  was  also  elected  a  trustee  of  the  Worcester  Public 
Library  for  two  consecutive  terms. 

He  was  selected  by  the  American  Catholic  Bishops,  trustees  of  the 
University,  to  succeed  Bishop  Keane  as  registrar  of  the  Catholic  Uni- 
versity at  Washington,  and  was  appointed  to  that  office  by  Pope  Leo 
Xni  November  20,  1896.  June  19,  1897,  the  Pope  also  conferred  upon 
him  the  title  of  Domestic  Prelate  and  nominated  him  in  1901  as  Titular 
Bishop  of  Samos.  November  24,  1901,  he  was  consecrated  Bishop  by 
Cardinal  Gibbons  at  Baltimore.  March  27,  1903,  he  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Monterey  and  Los  Angeles,  and  took  active  charge  of  the 
diocese  in  June  of  the  same' year. 

Bishop  Conaty  was  long  identified  with  educational  and  social  move- 
ments. From  July,  1892,  until  1896  he  served  as  president  of  the  Catholic 
Summer  School  of  America  at  Plattsburg,  New  York.  He  was  president 
of  the  Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Union  of  America  from  1886  to  1888, 
and  lent  the  full  strength  of  his  position  and  his  personality  to  the  spread 
of  that  movement.  From  1900  to  1903  he  was  president  of  the  Confer- 
ence of  Catholic  Bishops  of  America.  He  also  founded  and  edited  for 
four  years  the  Catholic  School  and  Home  Magazine. 

While  such  severe  demands  were  made  upon  him  in  the  exercise  of 
his  administrative  functions,  he  also  found  much  time  for  literary  effort, 
and  his  literary  output  covered  a  large  field  of  religious,  educational  and 
civic  subjects.  He  also  ranked  among  the  foremost  pulpit  orators  and 
lecturers  of  the  country.  Among  his  numerous  writings  are  "New  Testa- 
ment Studies,"  published  in  1896.  He  was  identified  with  numerous 
movements  for  the  moral  and  civic  betterment  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Newman  Club,  Sunset  Club,  California  and  University 
Clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Municipal  League  and  the  Choral  Society, 
and  was  an  associate  member  of  Grand  Army  Post  No.  10  at  Worcester, 
Massachusetts. 

Rev.  Francis  J.  Conaty,  who  is  a  nephew  of  Bishop  Conaty,  was 
for  a  number  of  years  associated  with  his  honored  uncle  in  the  ecclesias- 
tical duties  of  the  diocese  and  is  pastor  of  the  Cathedral  Chapel  at  Los 
Angeles. 

Father  Conaty  was  born  at  Taunton,  Massachusetts.  March  19,  1880, 
son  of  Francis  P.  and  Nellie  (Linnane)  Conaty.  His  parents  were 
natives  of  the  same  Massachusetts  town.  Father  Conaty  attended  gram- 
mar and  high  schools,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1898,  and  then  en- 
tered Holy  Cross  College  at  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  A.  B.  degree  in  1902.  His  studies  for  the  priest- 
hood were  pursued  for  two  years  at  the  Grand  Seminary  in  Montreal, 
and  two  years  at  St.  Mar}''s  Seminary  at  Baltimore.  He  was  ordained 
priest  September  23,  1906,  and  at  once  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  serve  in 
the  Diocese  of  J\Ionterey.  He  was  chancellor  and  secretary  of  the  diocese 
until  January,  1918,  and  has  been  pastor  of  the  Cathedral  Chapel  since 


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1914.     Father  Conaty  is  a  member  of  the   Board  of   Directors  of   the 
Public  Library  and  has  held  that  office  since  September,  1915. 

Edward  R.  Snyder.  There  was  not  enough  oil  development  and 
production  in  Southern  California  thirty  years  ago  to  justify  hardly  a 
line  of  comment  in  the  histories  of  that  period.  Therefore,  when  it  is 
stated  that  Edward  R.  Snyder  was  connected  with  oil  operations  around 
Los  Angeles  twenty-five  years  ago,  the  statement  is  in  itself  conclusive 
of  his  veteran  association  with  this,  one  of  the  largest  and  most  im- 
portant industrial  activities  of  California. 

Mr.  Snyder,  who  has  been  an  executive  official  of  half  a  dozen  or 
more  oil  development  and  production  companies,  was  born  at  the  center 
of  the  original  oil  fields  of  America,  the  state  of  Pennsylvania.  His 
birth  occurred  in  Fayette  County,  August  14,  1866.  His  parents  were 
John  L.  and  Susan  (Neil)  Snyder,  both  natives  of  Pittsburgh.  A  tew 
years  after  his  birth  his  parents  moved  to  Beaver  County,  Pennsylvania. 
There  he  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  Wood- 
lawn  Academy.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  his  father  died,  and  that  event 
compelled  Edward  R.  Snyder  to  give  up  further  school  attendance  and 
assume  the  major  responsibilities  of  looking  after  the  home  farm.  Thus 
he  contributed  largely  to  the  support  of  his  widowed  mother  and  the 
family.  In  1886,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  he  got  his  first  experience  in  the 
oil  operating  and  developing  business,  though  he  still  continued  the 
management  of  the  farm.  Subsequently  he  was  made  superintendent  of 
the  pipe  lines  and  production  of  the  Mahoning  Gas  Company.  By  reason 
of  his  experience,  Mr.  Snyder  was  really  an  expert  in  nearly  all  phases 
of  oil  production  when  he  came  west  to  California,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1893  located  at  Pasadena,  where  he  still  resides.  He  then  went  to  Gila 
Bend,  Arizona,  and  was  employed  four  months  in  drilling  a  water  well 
for  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  Company.  On  returning  to  Los  An- 
geles, he  went  to  work  as  driller  and  tool  dresser  with  various  oil 
operators. 

In  1896  Mr.  Snyder  was  identified  in  putting  down  the  first  oil  well 
at  Coalingo,  California,  in  what  afterward  became  one  of  the  famous 
fields  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  A  year  later  he  took  up  leases  on  oil  lands, 
forming  a  partnership  with  H.  L.  Chadwick  and  J.  P.  and  J.  W.  Brunton. 
This  firm  drilled  twelve  wells,  which  they  later  sold.  Mr.  Snyder  then 
entered  the  contracting  business  on  his  own  account,  incorporating  the 
Kreyen-Hagen  Land  and  Oil  Company,  the  Black  Mountain  Petroleum 
Company  and  the  Directors  Oil  Company,  the  last  being  a  contracting 
land  holding  company.  Mr.  Snyder  was  president  and  manager  of  these 
three  corporations  until  1901.  In  that  year  the  charters  of  the  first  two 
were  surrendered,  but  Mr.  Snyder  still  continues  as  president  of  the 
last  company. 

In  1901  a  transfer  in  his  operations  were  made  to  Watsonville, 
California,  where  he  organized  the  Alberta  Oil  Company  and  was  its 
vice  president  and  manager  four  years.  He  then  drilled  a  well  for  the 
new  Moody  Gulch  Oil  Company  at  Alma,  California.  For  a  time  after 
that  he  was  practically  retired  and  lived  in  Los  Angeles.  In  1914  Mr. 
Snyder  became  identified  with  the  Trojan  Oil  Company,  which  com- 
pleted a  well  in  the  Maricopa  district.  Mr.  Snyder  was  vice  president 
and  director  of  this  company. 

In  1914  he  became  secretary,  general  manager  and  director  of  the 
C.  C.  Harris  Oil  Company,  the  largest  company  operating  in  the  old  Los 
Angeles  oil  field.     He  is  also  president  and  manager  of  the  Stanley  Oil 


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Company.  These  connections  and  activities  serve  to  indicate  his  well 
deserved  prominence  as  a  factor  in  the  oil  industry  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia from  its  pioneer  stages  to  the  present. 

Mr.  Snyder  is  a  Democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
In  Beaver  County,  Pennsylvania,  October  27,  1886,  he  married  Miss 
Jennie  M.  Shannon.  Their  one  child,  Florence,  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Pacific  Union  College  at  Napa,  California,  and  is  now  Mrs.  Arthur 
Hollenbeck. 

Rev.  John  J.  G.\ll.\gher.  Of  the  zealous  and  able  group  of  men 
who  have  the  executive  responsibilities  involved  in  many  Catholic 
churches  and  institutions  in  southern  California,  Rev.  John  J.  Gallagher 
is  conspicuous  as  pastor  of  St.  Thomas  Catholic  Church  at  Los  Angeles. 
Father  Gallagher  has  been  a  devoted  priest  in  California  for  the  past  ten 
years. 

He  was  born  at  Mass  Hill,  County  Sligo,  Ireland,  June  2,  1883,  son 
of  Michael  and  Mary  (Henry)  Gallagher.  To  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
attended  the  National  Schools  there,  took  his  classical  course  for  four 
years  at  St.  Nathy's  Seminary  at  Ballaghadareen,  and  studied  theology  in 
St.  Patrick's  College  at  Carlow.  He  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1908,  and 
the  following  year  he  spent  in  Washington,  D.  C,  at  St.  Patrick's  Uni- 
versity. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  Father  Gallagher  was  appointed  assist- 
ant pastor  of  the  Cathedral.  After  four  mouths  he  was  sent  to  Yuma, 
Arizona,  and  there  for  seven  weeks  served  as  assistant  pastor  of  the 
Indian  School.  Then  returning  to  Los  Angeles,  he  was  assistant  pastor 
of  the  Cathedral,  and  on  December  10,  1909,  was  made  assistant  pastor 
of  the  Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart.  July  26,  1912,  he  became  the  first 
pastor  of  St.  Mary's  Church  at  Fulton,  and  did  some  splendid  work  in 
that  parish  for  about  six  years.  He  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Mary's 
Church  at  Los  Angeles  in  March,  1918. 

St.  Mary's  Church  was  erected  in  1897  and  was  dedicated  by  Bishop 
Montgomery.  The  church  was  entirely  free  from  debt  before  its  doors 
were  opened.  The  first  pastor  was  Rev.  Joseph  Doyle,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Rev.  Joseph  Barron,  and  he  in  turn  by  Rev.  Joseph  Mc]\Ianus. 
The  following  societies  are  a  part  of  the  parish:  Young  Men's  Club, 
Holy  Name  Society,  Altar  Society  and  Young  Ladies  Sodality.  St. 
Mary's  parochial  school  in  connection  with  the  church  is  conducted  by 
the  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Name  and  has  an  enrollment  of  five  hundred 
scholars.     Father  Gallagher  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

Re.\  E.  Maynard,  vice  president  and  director  of  the  General  Pe- 
troleum Corporation,  is  one  of  the  ablest  engineers  in  the  west.  His 
career  has  been  one  of  most  interesting  experience  and  achievement, 
and  has  led  him  into  the  scenes  of  constructive  activity  and  over  a  large 
part  of  the  Globe. 

He  was  born  July  17,  1870,  at  a  little  town  in  Iowa,  Tipton,  where 
his  father.  Dr.  Henry  Hobart  Alaynard,  was  for  many  years  a  practicing 
physician.  His  father,  a  native  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  brought  to  Iowa 
by  his  parents  at  the  age  of  nine  years,  and  he  grew  up  and  received  his 
education  there,  finishing  in  the  State  University  of  Iowa.  He  took  his 
medical  course  in  the  Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago,  but  left  school 
in  1861  to  enhst  as  an  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Eighteenth  Iowa  Infantry. 
Later  he  was  made  surgeon  of  the  Second  Arkansas  Cavalry,  and  was 
finally  advanced  to  medical  director  of  southwest  Missouri.    At  the  close 


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of  the  Civil  war  he  located  at  Tipton,  Iowa,  and  was  in  practice  there 
until  1881.  In  that  year  he  brought  his  family  to  Los  Angeles,  and 
was  one  of  the  well-known  physicians  of  that  city  until  his  death  in  1908. 
Dr.  Maynard  was  a  Republican.  He  married,  at  Chariton,  Iowa,  Susan 
H.  Edwards,  and  their  three  children  are:  Miss  Maud,  still  at  home; 
Rea  E.  and  Frederick  G.,  of  San  Jose,  California. 

Rea  E.  Maynard  was  eleven  years  old  when  his  father  came  to  Los 
Angeles.  In  the  meantime  he  had  attended  the  public  schools  of  Tipton, 
and  was  a  pupil  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  Los  Angeles  to 
the  age  of  eighteen.  He  took  freshman  work  in  mechanical  engineering 
in  the  Rose  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.  Returning  west, 
he  did  some  engineering  work  with  the  old  Terminal  Railroad,  now 
part  of  the  Salt  Lake  Railroad,  for  two  years.  Mr.  Maynard  then  en- 
rolled as  one  of  the  first  students  of  Stanford  University,  where  he 
graduated  in  1894  as  a  mechanical  engineer.  One  year  following  he 
spent  with  the  City  Engineering  Department  of  Los  Angeles,  and  then 
entered  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  from  which  he  re- 
ceived a  diploma  as  mining  engineer  in  1896. 

Thus  his  professional  service  as  an  engineer  covers  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  and  has  been  filled  with  many  interesting  experiences.  For 
two  years  he  was  a  mining  engineer  in  different  localities  of  the  west. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American  war  he  went  to  the  Hawaiian 
Islands  and  was  in  that  interesting  republic  more  than  five  years.  At 
that  time  he  built  three  railroad  lines  and  also  some  of  the  noted  public 
highways  of  the  island.  One  of  these  highways  is  world  famous  and 
stands  out  as  one  of  Mr.  Maynard's  greatest  achievements.  It  is  the 
road  to  the  Pali  on  the  Island  of  Oahu.  The  railroads  he  built  were 
for  the  Honolulu  Sugar  Company,  the  Kona  Sugar  Company  and  the 
Hawaiian  Agricultural  Company. 

Mr.  Maynard  also  spent  about  a  year  surveying  and  developing  tin 
deposits  in  Southern  Asia.  Returning  to  San  Francisco,  he  was  superin- 
tendent of  construction  for  the  Centerville  plant  of  the  Pacific  Gas  and 
Electric  Corporation  until  1906,  the  year  of  the  earthquake,  when  con- 
struction was  temporarily  abandoned.  For  the  following  two  years  Mr. 
Maynard  was  interested  in  electric  power  projects  at  various  points  in 
eastern  California  and  Nevada.  Then,  after  a  trip  through  the  east  and 
his  return  to  Los  Angeles,  he  became  engineer  for  Captain  John  Barneson 
in  developing  the  immense  oil  interests  of  the  captain.  September  20, 
1910,  Mr.  Maynard  started  the  actual  survey  of  the  pipe  line  for  the 
General  Petroleum  Company,  of  which  Captain  Barneson  is  president. 
This  pipe  line  extends  from  the  Lost  Hills  Oil  Field  to  Los  Angeles. 
Ditching  work  was  begun  at  Pentland,  California,  July  31,  1912,  and 
was  finished  March  17,  1913.  Oil  was  brought  into  Los  Angeles  by 
pipe  line  May  10,  1913,  and  to  San  Pedro  on  June  8th  of  the  same  year. 
This  pipe  line  is  a  difficult  piece  of  engineering,  and  was  constructed  in 
record  time  at  a  cost  of  five  million  dollars.  It  has  eighteen  pumping 
stations  along  the  line,  and  one  interesting  distinction  is  that  at  one 
point  the  pipe  line  runs  at  an  altitude  of  4,230  feet  above  sea  level,  the 
highest  pipe  line  in  the  world. 

As  already  noted,  Mr.  Maynard  is  now  vice  president  and  director 
of  the  General  Petroleum  Corporation  and  is  chief  engineer  and  director 
of  its  pipe  line  transportation.  He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner, 
a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  of  the  California  and  University  Clubs, 
the  San  Gabriel  Country  Club,  and  the  Sigma  Nu  Fraternity.  He  is  an 
independent  in  politics. 


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Adrien  Loeb.  One  of  the  Los  Angeles  business  men  whose  lives 
are  stimulating  as  personal  experience  and  represent  a  high  degree  of 
achievement  in  the  commercial  world  is  Adrian  Loeb,  head  of  the  Adrien 
Loeb  Company,  one  of  the  largest  and  oldest  established  wholesale  pro- 
duce and  fruit  houses  in  southern  California. 

Mr.  Loeb  was  bom  at  Avenches,  Switzerland,  June  11,  1866,  son  of 
Bernard  and  Florentine  (Block)  Loeb.  He  acquired  a  liberal  education, 
graduating  from  high  school  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  from  Lausanne 
College,  in  Switzerland,  in  1884.  For  a  year  or  so  he  was  a  dealer  in 
horses  and  cattle,  but  in  1886  set  out  for  America,  arriving  in  Los 
Angeles  February  24.  Many  men  have  won  success  in  business  afifairs 
because  they  were  willing  to  take  what  was  apparently  a  very  humble 
position  and  make  it  a  stepping  stone  to  higher  things.  That  was  true 
of  Mr.  Loeb,  whose  first  employment  in  Los  Angeles  was  as  a  porter  for 
the  (iermain  I'^ruit  Com])any.  His  wages  were  thirty  dollars  a  month. 
i\.t  that  time  he  had  a  very  meager  knowledge  of  the  English  language, 
but  his  early  education  proved  useful,  since  it  included  a  knowledge  of 
bookkeeping.  He  soon  made  arrangements  with  the  bookkeeper  ot  the 
Germain  Company  to  afford  him  some  special  training  in  the  business  at 
night.  This  instruction  was  carried  on  after  the  pro|3rietor  had  gone 
home,  and  Germain  therefore  had  no  knowledge  of  his  porter's  capabili- 
ties beyond  the  fact  that  he  appeared  an  industrious  workman.  After 
about  six  months  Mr.  Germain  opened  a  fruit  packing  house  at  Riverside 
and  promoted  his  regular  bookkeeper  to  manager  of  that  establishment. 
It  was  at  that  time  he  learned,  much  to  his  surprise,  that  the  young  por- 
ter, Adrien  Loeb,  had  a  practical  knowledge  of  the  books  of  the  com- 
pany, and  from  that  time  Adrien  Loeb  had  a  new  position  in  the  offices 
of  the  concern.  Mr.  Germain  was  quite  willing  to  encourage  his  am- 
bitious employe,  and  kept  giving  him  additional  responsibilities,  until  in 
February,  1891,  Mr.  Loeb  became  vice  president  and  general  manager 
of  the  Germain  Fruit  Company. 

In  1896  Mr.  Loeb  and  Adolph  Fleishman  bought  out  the  Germain 
Company,  changing  its  name  to  Loeb,  Fleishman  &  Company.  In  1901 
Isadore  Fleishman,  a  brother  of  Adolph,  came  in  as  a  partner,  though 
without  making  a  change  in  the  title.  Isadore  Fleishman  died  March  8, 
1918,  and  on  July  1,  1918,  Mr.  Loeb  acquired  all  the  other  interests  and 
has  since  been  sole  owner  of  the  business,  changing  the  name  to  Adrien 
Loeb  Company.  Mr.  Loeb  conducts  his  business  on  the  co-operative 
plan,  giving  his  older  employes  share  in  the  profits  as  well  as  salaries, 
and  thus  he  is  giving  to  others  in  the  way  of  encouragement  what  Mr. 
Germain  did  for  him  some  thirty  years  ago.  The  Adrien  Loeb  Com- 
pany has  a  large  plant  and  .warehouses  and  other  facilities,  and  handles 
an  immense  volume  of  provisions,  the  trade  territory  being  California, 
Oregon,  Arizona,  New  Mexico  and  Colorado. 

On  account  of  his  long  and  enviable  prominence  in  produce  circles, 
Mr.  Loeb  was  honored  with  election  to  the  office  of  president  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Produce  Exchange  on  Januarj^  1,  1919.  He  served  as  president 
of  the  Wholesalers'  Board  of  Trade  of  Los  Angeles  in  1898.  Mr.  Loeb 
is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a 
member  of  the  Jewish  faith.  March  18,  1894,  he  married,  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, Emma  Steiner.     She  died  November  24,  1918. 


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Lionel  T.  Barneson,  a  son  of  Captain  John  Barneson,  noted  Cali- 
fornia capitalist  and  head  of  the  General  Petroleum  Company,  has 
earned  success  and  important  position  in  business  affairs  on  his  own 
account,  and  knows  the  oil  business  through  every  detail  of  practical 
experience. 

He  was  born  in  one  of  the  interesting  South  Sea  Islands,  Papeete, 
Tahiti,  September  14,  1890.  Most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  in  California 
and  he  attended  grammar  and  high  schools  at  Redwood  City,  graduating 
in  1909.  When  he  entered  the  oil  industry  he  chose  one  of  the  points 
of  contact  with  that  business  which  involved  hard  work.  He  became  a 
roustabout  with  the  Wabash  Oil  Company  in  the  Coalinga  Oil  Field. 
Though  his  father  was  president  of  the  company,  he  sought  no  favors 
on  that  account.  From  roustabout  he  became  tool  dresser,  and  in  the 
summer  of  1910  went  to  the  Lost  Hills  Oil  Field  at  Esperanza,  becoming 
connected  with  the  Esperanza  Consolidated  Oil  Company,  from  which 
the  General  Petroleum  Company  was  developed.  Li  September,  1911, 
Air.  Barneson  removed  to  Los  Angeles  and,  under  the  direction  of  the 
General  Petroleum  Company,  took  up  the  study  of  oil  refining  with  the 
Trumble  Refining  Company,  which  is  now  controlled  by  the  General 
Company.  In  1912  Mr.  Barneson  supervised  the  erection  of  the  refining 
plant  at  Vernon,  California,  and  was  its  superintendent  until  1913.  He 
then  became  superintendent  of  refineries  for  the  General  Petroleum  Com- 
pany, and  in  1915  was  put  in  charge  of  the  refining  department,  H.  H. 
Isaacs  succeeding  him  in  charge  of  the  Vernon  plant.  In  January,  1918, 
Mr.  Barneson  also  became  assistant  to  the  president  of  the  company,  his 
father.  He  is  a  director  of  the  General  Petroleum  Company,  of  the 
Trumble  Refining  Company  and  of  the  San  Vincente  Land  Company. 

Mr.  Barneson  is  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  socially,  a  member  of 
the  Athletic  Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club,  and  is  a  republican.  At 
Yreka,  California,  October  29,  1914,  he  married  Hazel  C.  Hamerson. 
They  have  two  children,  Janet  H.  and  Robert  L. 

Albert  L.  Gude,  proprietor  of  one  of  the  largest  retail  shoe  estab- 
lishments in  Los  Angeles,  began  his  career  here  a  number  of  years  ago 
as  a  clerk,  and  it  was  through  the  exacting  discipline  of  working  for 
others  and  a  growing  experience  and  alertness  for  opportunity  that 
eventually  enabled  him  to  embark  in  business  for  himself. 

Mr.  Gude  was  born  at  Birmingham,  Alabama,  November  21,  1878, 
a  son  of  William  Lawrence  and  Hatton  (Heidelberg)  Gude.  His  father 
was  born  at  Kallundborg,  Denmark,  was  educated  there  and  in  early 
youth  came  to  America.  He  was  connected  with  railroading  in  Canada 
for  a  time  and  later  moved  to  Alabama,  where  he  followed  railroading. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Tennessee  Coal 
and  Iron  Company  at  Birmingham,  the  largest  organization  of  its  kind 
in  the  south.     He  died  in  1893. 

Albert  L.  Gude  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  at 
Cullman,  Alabama.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  soon  after  his  father's  death, 
he  came  west  to  Los  Angeles.  For  two  years  he  clerked  for  the  M.  P. 
Snyder  Shoe  Company,  and  later  with  the  Hayden  B.  Lewis  wholesale 
leather  and  shoe  supply  house  as  a  salesman  for  one  year.  Going  to 
The  Dalles,  Oregon,  he  was  manager  of  the  shoe  department  of  a  dry 
goods  store  four  years.  On  returning  to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Gude  became 
salesman  in  the  shoe  department  of  the  Hamburger  Department  Store 
for  a  year,  and  then  invested  all  his  capital  and  experience  in  a  stock  of 
shoes,  and  Gude's,  Incorporated,  opened  at  its  place  of  business  at  the 


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corner  of  Fourth  and  Spring  streets.  He  was  located  there  for  eight 
years,  and  during  that  time  huilt  up  a  prosperous  business,  having  the 
agency  for  the  Burt  &  Packard  shoe.  He  then  removed  to  his  present 
store,  537  South  Broadway,  and  lias  developed  his  facilities  to  a  large 
scale,  represented  by  the  employment  of  fifty  people  in  the  different  de- 
partments.    He  sells  men's  and  women's  shoes. 

Mr.  Gude  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  An- 
geles Country  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  a  Mason  and  a 
Shriner,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Order  of  Elks.  November  23,  1903, 
at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miriam  Barnes.  They  are  the  parents  of 
three  children :  Kathryn  Frances  and  Elizabeth  Hatton,  both  students 
in  the  Berkeley  Hall  School  for  Girls,  and  William  Lawrence,  who  was 
born  in  1912. 

Sennet  W.  Gilfillan,  president  of  the  GilfiUan  Brothers  Smelting 
and  Refining  Company,  is  spoken  of  by  all  his  friends  and  associates  as  a 
special  genius  both  in  technical  industry  and  the  general  business  field. 
He  is  a  young  man,  and  for  all  that  may  be  said  properly  to  justify  the 
claim  of  the  older  generation  of  inventors  and  experts,  it  is  true  that 
the  astounding  marvels  of  the  present  day  industrialism  largely  reflect 
the  genius,  capacity  and  inexhaustible  energy  of  a  group  of  younger  men, 
among  whom  Sennet  W.  Gilfillan  is  by  no  means  the  least. 

Mr.  Gilfillan  has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
born,  however,  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  November  25,  1889,  son  of 
William  and  Cora  (Sennet)  Gilfillan.  His' father  was  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, was  educated  there,  and  later  moved  to  Carthage,  Missouri, 
where  he  became  a  contractor  in  the  flagstone  business.  He  furnished 
flagstones  for  many  large  contracts,  including  the  Union  Passenger  Sta- 
tion at  St.  Louis.  In  1895  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  with  his  family,  but 
retained  his  business  in  Carthage,  Missouri,  where  he  passed  away  in 
1898.  He  and  Cora  Sennet  were  married  in  Carthage,  Missouri,  in 
1887.  The  latter  was  born  in  that  town,  and  her  father  was  a  captain 
in  the  northern  army  during  the  Civil  war.  She  first  came  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1884  on  a  visit,  and  in  1895  moved  to  this  city  with  her  children.  There 
are  three  children,  Mrs.  lone  G.  Brown  of  Los  Angeles  and  Sennet  W. 
and  J.  G.,  who  make  up  the  Gilfillan  Brothers  firm. 

Sennet  W.  Gilfillan  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Los  An- 
geles, attended  St.  Vincent's  College  until  1902,  and  in  1906  graduated 
A.  B.  from  Santa  Clara  College  at  Santa  Clara,  California.  Later  he 
was  a  student  in  Leland  Stanford  University  and  graduated  from  that 
institution  in  1912. 

Almost  immediately  he  was  attracted  into  the  general  field  where 
he  has  since  specialized.  As  a  buyer  of  platinum  he  did  an  extensive 
business  for  eighteen  months,  buying  at  the  source  of  production  in 
Canada  and  selling  in  New  York.  He  then  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and, 
with  his  brother,  formed  the  partnership  of  Gilfillan  Brothers  Smelting 
and  Refining  Company,  for  the  smelting  of  gold,  silver  and  platinum. 
Their  first  headquarters  were  at  161  North  Spring  street.  Gradually 
the  business  developed  special  features,  particularly  the  manufacture  of 
platinum  pointed  ignition  parts  and  portable  electric  tools.  Since  the 
war  broke  out  they  have  been  manufacturing  metal  parts  for  the  Curtis 
aeroplanes  for  practice  purposes.  They  also  manufacture  "Bakelite"  in- 
sulating parts  for  wireless  telephones  as  used  in  naval  and  air  service. 
In  1916  they  erected  their  plant  at  Eleventh  and  Wall  streets,  in  Los, 
Angeles,  and  have  a  large  factory,  wath  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  people 


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working  night  and  day  in  three  shifts.  In  1916  they  also  opened  branch 
offices  in  New  York  City  and  Kansas  Cit}'.  Their  general  offices  are  at 
217  West  Sixth  street,  in  Los  Angeles.  The  business  was  incorporated 
June  10,  1917,  with  S.  W.  Gilfillan  president,  J-  G.  Gilfillan  vice  president, 
and  Miss  A.  W.  Kluseman  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Gilfillan  products  are  by  their  very  nature  highly  technical  and 
hardly  appropriate  for  general  description  in  this  brief  article.  How- 
ever, automobile  owners  have  a  practical  familiarity  with  the  many  igni- 
tion parts  manufactured  by  the  Gilfillans,  including  contact  points, 
brushes  and  other  equipment  used  in  practically  every  type  of  electrical 
equipment  used  in  automobile  constrviction. 

It  will  suffice  to  refer  to  the  general  ideals  and  spirit  which  govern 
ihe  business  and  which  have  been  set  forth  in  one  of  the  handsome  cata- 
logs that  advertise  Gilfillan  products.  "From  the  beginning  it  has  been 
the  aim  of  Gilfillan  Brothers  Smelting  and  Refining  Company  to  build  a 
business  that  would  never  know  completion,  that  would  advance  con- 
tinually to  meet  advancing  conditions ;  to  create  a  personality  that  would 
be  known  for  its  strength  and  friendliness ;  to  arrange  and  co-ordinate 
activities  to  the  end  of  winning  confidence  by  meriting  it ;  and  to  develop 
quality  and  service  to  a  notable  degree."  This  ideal  has  been  translated 
into  achievement,  and  it  is  an  achievement  of  which  the  Gilfillan  Brothers 
may  well  be  proud. 

Mr.  S.  W.  Gilfillan  married,  at  Los  Angeles,  February  20,  1918, 
Edna  Miles,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Toseph  Miles  of  Westmoreland 
Place. 

WiLLiTTS  J.  Hole.  A  number  of  the  larger  business  undertakings 
in  Southeni  California  have  been  successfully  piloted  and  directed  by 
Willitts  J.  Hole  during  the  past  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Hole  came 
to  Los  Angeles  after  a  successful  business  career  in  the  state  of  Indiana. 
While  his  early  business  experience  was  largely  along  the  lines  of  manu- 
facturing and  contracting,  he  has  shown  what  amounts  to  a  genius  in 
•the  handling  and  developing  of  immense  properties,  especially  ranches, 
in  California,  and  few  men  could  claim  a  greater  share  of  credit  for  the 
immense  fruit  and  agricultural  production  than  Mr.  Hole. 

He  was  born  at  Madison,  Indiana,  October  9,  1858,  son  of  William 
and  Matilda  (Hasley)  Hole.  His  paternal  ancestors  came  from  Devon- 
shire, England,  the  founder  of  the  American  branch  sailing  from  Plym- 
outh, England,  in  1740.  When  Willitts  J.  was  seven  years  old  his  parents 
moved  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  he  attended  public  and  high  schools 
to  the  age  of  eighteen.  He  completed  a  course  in  Bryant  &  Stratton 
Business  College  in  1880,  and  in  1884  graduated  from  Chattanooga  Uni- 
versity. He  then  went  to  Butlerville,  Indiana,  and  worker  in  a  chair 
factory  for  three  years.  At  North  Vernon,  Indiana,  he  established  a 
small  planing  mill,  lumber  yard  and  subsequently  a  chair  factor}',  and 
gradually  entered  the  general  construction  business,  erecting  numerous 
public  buildings,  churches  and  other  structures  over  a  wide  extended 
territory.  He  made  a  practical  study  of  architecture,  and  has  frequently 
designed  his  own  building  improvements. 

It  was  the  health  of  Mrs.  Hole  that 'brought  him  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia in  1893.  He  spent  the  first  three  months  at  Santa  Barbara  and 
gradually  divorced  himself  from  his  business  interests  in  the  east  and 
for  many  years  has  concentrated  all  his  efforts  in  the  west.  From  Santa 
•  Barbara  he  went  to  Whittier  and  soon  afterward  began  buying  land  in 
the  La  Habra  Vrdley.     He  is  known  as  the  father  of  La  Habra  Valley, 


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and  eventually  became  owner  of  all  the  good  land  in  that  section,  in- 
cluding the  Rancho  La  Habra  of  7,500  acres.  He  also  acquired  the 
San  Juan  Cajon  de  Santa  Ana  Rancho  of  t\fo  thousand  acres,  and  the 
Rancho  Los  Coyotes  of  twenty-five  hundred  acres.  This  land  he  bought 
at  prices  ranging  from  twenty-five  to  thirty-five  dollars  an  acre,  and 
some  of  it  today  is  worth  as  high  as  four  thousand  dollars  an  acre.  He 
sold  out  about  thirty-five  hundred  acres  of  this  tract,  and  it  is  now 
covered  with  orange  and  lemon  groves. 

In  1897  Mr.  Hole  became  resident  agent  at  Los  Angeles  for  the 
Stearns  Ranches  Company  of  San  Francisco,  owning  a  hundred  eighty 
thousand  acres,  which  Mr.  Flole  gradually  sold  off.  That  property  in- 
cluded the  Rancho  La  Sierra  at  Riverside,  seventeen  thousand  acres, 
which  is  now  part  of  the  individual  properties  of  Mr.  Hole.  He  also 
owns  a  ten-thousand-acre  ranch  in  Riverside  County  planted  to  sugar 
beets,  tomatoes,  oranges  and  lemons,  grapefruit,  peaches,  apricots  and 
alfalfa,  which  is  a  small  industrial  center  in  itself,  requiring  the  services 
of  about  fifty  people  on  the  ranch.  There  is  also  a  large  cannery,  and 
a  complete  irrigation  plant  has  been  installed  for  the  ranch,  including 
four  pumping  plants.  Together  with  I.  W.  Hollingsworth,  Mr.  Hole 
owns  a  sixteen-thousand-acre  ranch  near  Needles,  California,  devoted 
to  cotton  culture.  He  owns  a  fifth  interest  in  thirty-one  thousand  acres 
comprising  the  property  of  the  Belridge  Oil  Company,  of  which  he  is 
secretary.  He  is  also  president  and  manager  of  the  Arden  Plaster  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Western  Silica  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  and 
president  of  the  California  Industrial  Company  and  a  director  of  the 
Citizens  National  Bank.  Mr.  Hole  has  bought  and  subdivided  some  of 
the  largest  areas  in  California  and  has  become  personally  owner  of  ex- 
tensive tracts  both  in  this  state  and  in  Mexico.  For  several  years  he 
represented  a  large  financial  institution  of  Mexico.  The  Arden  Plaster 
Company  owns  the  largest  gypsum  mine  in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Hole  is  also  well  known  socially,  being  a  member  of  the 
Jonathan  Club,  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  California  Club  and  Los  Angeles  County 
Club,  Newport  Yacht  Club  and  the  San  Joaquin  Gun  Club.  He  is  a 
republican  in  politics,  and  in  religious  affiliation  is  a  birthright  Quaker. 

At  North  Vernon,  Indiana,  June  12,  1887,  Mr.  Hole  married  Miss 
Mary  Weeks,  daughter  of  Harvey  R.  Weeks.  Her  father  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  was  a  mechanical  engineer  with  the  Ohio  .&  Mississippi 
Railroad,  and  later  with  the  Queen  &  Crescent  Route.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hole  have  one  daughter,  Agnes  Marian,  now  Mrs.  S.  K.  Rindge  of  Los 
Angeles.  The  two  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rindge  are  named  Samuel 
Hole  and  Ramona. 

William  L.  Valentine  is  a  man  of  unusual  experience  and 
achievement,  and  especially  since  entering  the  oil  industry  has  had  rare 
success  in  developing  and  promoting  one  of  the  best  known  companies 
operating  in  California,  the  Fullerton  Oil  Company. 

Mr.  Valentine  was  born  in  Mendocino  County,  California,  March  8, 
1870,  a  son  of  William  and  Susan  (Lucas)  Valentine.  His  father 
was  a  California  forty-niner.  A  native  of  New  York,  soon  after  the 
discover}'  of  gold  in  California  he  organized  a  company  of  sixty  men, 
chartered  a  vessel  and  landed  at  the  mouth  of  the  Rio  Grande  River, 
up  which  they  traveled  in  a  flat-bottomed  steamer  until  the  channel  be- 
came impassable.  Thence  they  traveled  overland  through  the  states  of 
Chihuahua  and  Sonora,  Mexico,  through  Arizona  and  thence  into  Cali- 


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fornia.  William  Valentine  was  in  in  the  mines  of  California,  later 
located  in  Mendocino  Co^nt3^  and  was  connected  with  a  lumber  com- 
pany. He  was  a  civil  arfti  mechanical  engineer  and  practiced  his  pro- 
fession for  many  years.  In  1881  he  moved  to  San  Francisco,  and  lived 
there  until  his  death  in  1890. 

William  L.  Valentine,  the  only  child  of  his  parents,  graduated  from 
the  Lincoln  Grammar  School  at  San  Francisco  in  1885.  He  spent  an- 
other year  in  the  Commercial  High  School  of  that  city  and  found  his 
first  employment  at  the  age  of  fifteen  with  a  lumber  and  box  business. 
After  a  year  he  became  office  boy  for  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Company,  one 
of  the  largest  real  estate  firms  of  San  Francisco.  He  made  rapid  progress 
in  the  confidence  of  that  firm,  and  in  1893  was  sent  to  Los  Angeles  as 
manager  of  the  Los  Angeles  office. 

Mr.  Valentine  found  his  great  opportunity  in  business  when,  in 
1900,  having  resigned  from  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Company,  he  organized 
the  Fullerton  Oil  Company.  From  the  first  he  has  been  its  largest  stock- 
holder. The  company  began  with  fifty  acres  of  proven  oil  land,  and  only 
one  assessment  upon  the  capital  stock  was  required  to  develop  the  hold- 
ings. Out  of  the  profits  additional  acreage  was  bought,  and  during  the 
first  ten  years  the  company  paid  out  in  dividends  more  than  three  times 
its  original  authorized  capital  of  six  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Mr. 
Valentine  was  secretary  and  general  manager  of  the  company  until  1918, 
when  he  was  elected  president. 

He  is  also  identified  with  other  financial  organizations,  being  a 
director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  Security  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank  and  the  Globe  Grain  and  Milling  Company.  He  is  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar Mason,  affiliated  with  Los  Angeles  Commandery  No.  9,  and  is  a 
Shriner.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country 
Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club.  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club,  San  Isidro  Gun  Club, 
Tuna  Club,  and  is  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  a 
republican,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  is  also  a 
junior  member  of  the  Society  of  California  Pioneers. 

May  26,  1895,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Louie  Chandler  Robinson, 
daughter  of  the  late  J.  W.  Robinson,  one  of  the  early  merchants  of  Los 
Angeles.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Valentine  have  five  children :  Julia  S.,  a  senior 
in  the  University  of  California ;  Susan,  a  student  in  Ramona  Convent 
at  Alhambra ;  William  W.,  born  in  1907.  and  Edward  R.,  born  in  1908, 
both  pupils  in  the  public  schools,  while  the  youngest  is  Henry  W.,  born 
in  1914. 

Ri:v.  Andrew  Res.\,  C.  M.  F.,  pastor  of  the  Old  Plaza  Church  of 
Los  Angeles,  is  a  native  of  old  Spain,  where  he  was  liberally  educated 
and  trained  for  the  priesthood,  and  is  of  old  Castilian  stock.  He  was 
born  at  Calahoua  February  2,  1872,  son  of  Peter  and  Felicia  Solano. 

To  the  age  of  thirteen  he  attended  parochial  schools,  then  spent  two 
years  in  the  Seminary  at  Aragon,  Spain,  two  years  in  the  Barbastro  Sem- 
inary in  the  Province  of  Aragon,  was  a  student  of  philosophy  two  years 
in  the  University  of  Cervera  at  Cataluna,  and  finished  his  theological 
course  in  the  Santo  Domingo  de  la  Calzada  at  Old  Castilia.  He  was 
ordained  a  deacon  in  January,  189.\  and  in  November  of  the  same  year 
received  his  ordination  as  a  priest  at  the  University  of  Cervera. 

His  work  as  a  priest  and  missionary  covers  over  twenty  years  and 
has   been   done   altogether   in   the   Spanish-speaking  population    of   Old 


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Mexico  and  the  adjoining  states  of  Texas,  New  Mexico  and  California. 
He  was  fifst  sent  to  Toluca,  Mexico,  where  he  taught  in  the  college  there 
for  two  years.  At  Mexico  City  he  spent  four  years  doing  missionary 
work,  and  was  engaged  in  similar  employment  at  Guanajuato,  Mexico, 
four  years.  His  next  location  was  at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  as  assistant 
pastor  of  the  Cathedral  and  surrounding  missions  for  two  years.  He 
then  became  pastor  of  a  parish  at  San  Marcus,  Texas,  where  he  built 
several  small  churches.  Two  years  later  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  the 
San  Gabriel  Mission,  and  a  year  and  a  half  later  came  to  the  Old  Plaza 
Church,  in  Los  Angeles,  as  its  pastor.  His  first  connection  with  that 
church  continued  a  year  and  a  half,  and  during  that  time  he  made  some 
important  changes  in  the  church  building  and  construction.  He  was  again 
transferred  back  to  San  Antonio,  Texas,  where  for  six  years  Father  Resa 
had  charge  of  the  San  Fernando  Cathedral.  Since  that  service  he  has 
been  the  beloved  pastor  of  Old  Plaza  Church.  Father  Resa  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  of  the  Order  of  Immaculate  Heart 
Fathers. 


Oi^D  Plaza  Church,  of  Los  Angeles,  of  which  Rev.  Andrew  Resa  is 
pastor,  is  as  old  as  Los  Angeles  itself,  since  the  first  settlers  here  were 
of  the  community  whose  worship  was  later  centralized  in  the  church  of 
this  name. 

Until  the  formal  establishment  of  the  church  on  the  Plaza  the  set- 
tlers worshipped  at  San  Gabriel,  or  priests  came  from  that  church  to 
hold  worship  in  private  houses  at  Los  Angeles.  The  founding  of  the 
Pueblo  of  Los  Angeles,  under  the  solemn  auspices  of  the  church  occurred 
in  1781,  and  the  original  chapel  on  the  Plaza  was  begun  at  the  end  of 
1784' and  finished  about  five  years  later.  Its  dimensions  were  twenty-five 
by  thirty  varas.  It  was  made  of  adobe  and  somewhat  resembled  the 
Chapel  of  the  hospital  of  the  Old  Mission  at  San  Gabriel,  which  was 
built  in  1814.  The  plan  of  the  present  church  of  Our  Lady,  Queen  of 
Angels,  were  drawn  about  1811,  and  at  the  same  time  orders  came  from 
the  Governor  granting  permission  fo'-  the  proposed  enterorise.  and  urg- 
ing the  Poblanos  to  build  the  church.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
with  permission  of  President  Jose  Senan,  by  Padre  Luis  Gil  y  Taboada, 
then  rector  of  the  old  San  Gabriel  Mission.  For  various  reasons  the 
work  was  carried  on  very  slowly  and  with  long  intervals  of  almost  com- 
plete abandonment.  Old  Plaza  Church  was  finished  and  dedicated  De- 
cember 8,  1822.  As  the  complement  of  the  old  church  and  second  to  it 
in  historical  importance  comes  the  Old  Plaza  Church  Rectory.  This 
and  the  church  were  finished  about  the  same  time.  The  rectory  was 
built  exactly  on  the  same  style  as  the  Mission.  Like  the  church  it  had 
a  tile  roof  and  the  walls  were  made  of  adobe,  the  doors  and  windows 
opening  on  the  interior  court  or  patio.  In  the  midst  of  the  patio  there 
rose  the  stately  palm  which  remains  there  to  this  day.  In  the  .long 
period  of  nearly  a  century  the  Old  Plaza  Church  Rectory  has  undergone 
many  and  considerable  changes. 

The  Church  of  Our  Lady  after  a  century  of  vicissitude  remains  a 
landmark  of  the  forethought  and  wisdom  of  Spain,  and  is  cared  for 
by  those  of  the  same  nationality  as  founded  it  and  is  now  in  the  charge 
of  the  Immaculate  Heart  Fathers.  Without  losing  its  identity  it  has 
been  transformed  into  a  large  and  commodious  house  of  worship. 


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Joseph  D.  Radford.  .  Los  Angeles  lost  one  of  its  most  prominent 
bankers  and  public-spirited  citizens  in  the  death  of  Joseph  D.  Radford 
in  1918.  He  had  been  a  resident  of  California  over  twenty  years,  and 
was  a  banker  of  long  and  tried  experience  when  he  came  west. 

He  was  born  in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  April  14,  1857,  son  of 
Joseph  Radford.  He  graduated  from  the  Fond  du  Lac  High  School  in 
1875,  and  immediately  afterward  went  to  work  as  a  messenger  with  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Fond  du  Lac.  He  became  bookkeeper,  and  in 
1883  became  connected  with  the  private  bank  of  Nelson  Story  at  Boze- 
man,  Montana.  In  1896  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  for  two  years  was 
assistant  cashier  for  the  National  Bank  of  California.  He  located  at 
San  Jose  in  1898  and  became  cashier  of  the  Garden  City  Bank  and  Trust 
Company,  later  holding  the  same  position  with  the  First  National  Bank. 
Returning  to  Los  Angeles  in  1907,  he  became  vice  president  of  the 
German-American  Savings  Bank,  and  resigned  from  that  institution  to 
become  vice  president  of  the  Hibernian  Savings  Bank.  On  the  advice 
of  phvsicians,  he  retired  from  business  and  gave  up  his  position  in  the 
bank  'in  1914. 

The  welfare  of  the  city  in  every  w^ay  was  dear  to  him,  especially 
those  movements  and  undertakings  which  meant  a  broader  and  better 
city  for  those  who  live  in  it.  He  was  chairman  of  the  committee  to 
celebrate  the  opening  of  the  Owen's  River  Aqueduct.  He  served  at  one 
time  as  president  of  the  California  Bankers'  Association.  For  four  years 
he  was  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  City  Playground  Commission,  and 
Mayor  Woodman  named  a  new  municipal  summer  playground  at  Con- 
verse Flats  in  honor  of  Mr.  Radford.  He  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason 
and  Shriner,  a  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Federation  and  City  Clubs, 
of  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  San  Gabriel  Country  Club,  the  Municipal 
League,  and  was  an  elder  in  the  Emanuel  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  1881  he  married  Miss  Maria  M.  Pinney,  who  died  in  1901.  His 
only  daughter  is  Mrs.  Wilber  J.  Hall,  of  Los  Gatos,  California.  In  1908 
he  married  Mrs.  Florence  (Rivers)  Stowell. 

June  Rand.  Despite  the  action  of  certain  dignified  and  chivalrous 
senators  who  recently  defeated  the  bill  for  national  suffrage,  extending 
the  franchise  irrespective  of  sex,  America  is  accommodating  itself  so 
rapidly  to  the  new  work  and  the  new  sphere  of  woman  that  her  achieve- 
ments outside  the  old  conventional  realms  now  seldom  excite  surprise, 
much  less  criticism.  In  fact,  the  great  organs  of  publicity  no  longer  find 
"news  matter"  in  the  admission  of  a  woman  to  the  bar  or  to  membership 
in  any  of  the  learned  professions,  and  the  tribute  of  distinction  is  awarded 
her  not  at  all  for  her  choice  of  work  or  profession,  but  solely  because  of 
some  extraordinary  mark  she  has  made  in  her  particular  field. 

The  magazines  and  the  general  newspaper  press  had  much  to  say 
in  the  last  year  or  two  of  June  Rand  of  Los  Angeles.  Without  a  doubt 
June  Rand  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  young  woman,  interesting  as  a 
woman,  the  more  so  because  of  her  business  ability  and  the  business 
which  she  has  built  up  and  which  represents  today  the  flowering  of  a 
distinctive  purpose  and  ideal  of  her  own  mind.  It  is  hardly  conceivable 
that  any  mere  man  could  have  done  what  she  has  done,  but  if  it  were 
possible,  that  man  would  be  singled  out  for  distinction  quite  apart  from 
the  question  of  his  sex. 

June  Rand  was  born  at  Indianola,  Nebraska,  in  1896,  and  com- 
pleted her  education  at  Christian  College,  in  Missouri.  She  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  James  Rand  of  Denver.  She  is  also  a  niece  of 
William  F.  Carey,  a  great  American  engineer  and  railroad  builder,  who 


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is  vice  president  of  the  China  corporation  which  built  and  reorganized 
the  railroad  systems  of  China,  and  more  recently  has  become  head  of 
the  contractors  supplying  the  American  government  with  spruce  for 
aeroplane  construction  in  the  northwest. 

Since  girlhood  June  Rand  has  been  noted  for  her  independence  of 
judgment  and  action.  She  is  also  prompt  in  decision,  considered  one  of 
the  most  vital  elements  in  the  success  of  a  good  executive.  Almost  her 
first  important  decision  and  determination  was  to  come  to  California, 
and  once  here  she  opened  her  heart  to  all  the  charms  of  the  country  and 
has  never  gone  back  east.  Her  father  and  mother  have  visited  her,  but 
she  has  acknowledged  no  other  home  than  California  since  she  left  school 
in  Missouri. 

About  that  time  she  was  visiting  at  the  home  of  her  uncle,  William 
F.  Carey,  above  mentioned.  She  was  invited  to  go  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Carey  to  China,  an  invitation  she  accepted.  All  was  in  readiness  down 
to  the  packing  of  her  trunk.  The  day  before  departure  she  went  to  see 
"Daddy  Long  Legs,"  and  the  play,  coupled  with  a  lonesome  letter  from 
her  mother,  made  her  so  homesick  that  she  unpacked  her  trunks  and  told 
her  uncle  she  could  not  go.  Her  passports  all  had  been  secured  and  Mr. 
Carey  was  naturally  disappointed.  He  informed  her  that  she  was  old 
enough  to  know  her  mind,  and  if  she  was  ever  going  to  know  it,  it  must 
be  now,  and  added  "whatever  you  do,  take  up  something  definite  and 
make  a  success  of  it.  If  you  make  a  success  of  whatever  you  undertake 
now,  write  me  that  you  have  one  year  from  now  and  I  wilj  stand  with 
you." 

This  interview  with  her  uncle  doubtless  had  some  influence,  but  the 
influence  should  not  be  exaggerated,  since  June  Rand  undoubtedly  had 
the  fire  within  her  which  is  not  kindled  or  quenched  by  any  transient  or 
temporary  event  or  circumstance. 

Fortunately  for  the  world,  most  young  people  begin  life  with  high 
ideals  of  the  importance  of  the  service  they  can  render,  and  fortunately, 
too,  some  of  them  actually  realize  their  ideals.  June  Rand  had  a  desire 
to  be  useful  in  some  practical  way.  She  was  not  especially  fond  of  needle- 
work, except  in  the  planning  and  creating  side.  At  her  little  home  in 
Hollywood  she  made  a  few  dresses  of  gingham,  very  practical  and  de- 
signed to  be  worn  as  house  dresses.  The  first  ones  she  wore  herself, 
and  then  made  some  for  her  friends,  and  finally  some  of  the  shops  in 
Hollywood  were  buying  her  product.  This  initial  success  encouraged 
her  to  try  some  of  the  big  stores  in  Los  Angeles.  Robinson's  store  gave 
her  her  first  big  order,  for  twelve  dozen  dresses.  There  are  many  thous- 
ands of  women  all  over  this  country  who  have  worn  the  dresses  made 
by  June  Rand,  but  they  know  them  by  a  distinctive  name,  the  "Sassy 
Jane"  dresses.  Miss  Rand  as  a  girl  had  been  nicknamed  "Sassy  Jane," 
a  name  that  stayed  with  her  and  which  she  later  affixed  to  her  product. 
Her  first  dresses  she  not  only  planned,  but  made  by  hand,  though  the 
latter  part  of  the  work  was  rather  tedious  and  distasteful.  After  the 
popularity  of  her  dresses  was  established  and  with  numerous  orders 
coming  every  day,  she  rented  two  plain  foot  machines,  employed  some 
women  as  stitchers,  supervised  the  work  during  the  day,  and  at  night 
cut  her  patterns  on  the  floor  for  the  following  day's  work.  She  had 
never  heard  of  buttonhole  machines,  and  she  therefore  made  all  the 
buttonholes  by  hand,  much  to  the  surprise  of  the  shopkeepers,  who  had 
not  seen  hand-made  buttonholes  in  years.  One  day  she  went  through 
the  Fischer  factory,  Mr.  Fischer  showing  her  the  cutting  machines  and 
the  pressing  machines   and   the   entire   layout.     While   there   she   made 


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arrangements  by  telephone  with  the  Singer  Company  for  a  power  ma- 
chine. One  power  machine  could  do  the  work  of  four  foot  machines, 
and  with  only  one  operator.  About  that  time  she  rented  a  small,  room 
in  the  old  Hellman  Building,  at  Second  and  Broadway,  and  installed  in 
it  the  one  power  machine,  and  she  continued  cutting  and  designing  the 
dresses  at  night,  and  during  the  day  acted  as  general  salesman  for  her 
factory.  As  soon  as  other  stores  had  heard  of  the  "Sassy  Janes,"  orders 
began  coming  in  in  large  lots,  justifying  the  addition  of  more  machines, 
and  gradually  all  the  crude  and  laborious  features  of  her  olant  wen.; 
eliminated  and,  so  far  as  possible,  systematic  arrangement  and  machinery 
left  Miss  Rand  free  for  the  larger  work  of  supervision,  planning  and 
creation.  However,  for  fully  six  months  after  the  introduction  of  the 
first  machines  she  did  the  cutting  and  planning  at  night. 

There  were  other  features  of  her  business  which  were  applied 
gradually.  She  did  not  understand  at  first  the  vital  connection  between 
industrial  expansion  and  capital.  Her  limited  finances,  even  with  the 
big  growth  of  the  business,  handicapped  her  progress.  Finally  she  visited 
Mr.  Avery,  president  of  the  German-American  Bank,  and  after  he  had 
made  a  personal  inspection  of  her  factory  and  looked  over  her  order  book, 
he  loaned  her  half  of  the  value  of  the  five  thousand  dollars  worth  of 
orders  outstanding  at  that  time. 

This  brief  story  of  June  Rand  can  only  serve  to  suggest  many  of 
the  difficulties  and  experiences  she  had  as  a  Los  Angeles  business  woman. 
One  point  must  be  kept  in  mind,  that  she  is  -now  only  twenty-two  years 
of  age,  and  her  business  career  covers  only  two  or  three  years  at  most. 
Hence  the  developments  above  noted  came  rather  rapidly.  The  next 
important  one  was  when  she  formed  a  company.  The  Sassy  Jane  Com- 
pany is  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  California,  at  first  with  a  capital 
of  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  later  for  fifty  thousand  dollars.  June  Rand 
is  actual  head  of  the  business  and  president  of  the  company.  Her  asso- 
ciates are  Mr.  Victor  Levy,  of  the  firm  Jules  Levy  &  Son  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, lace  importers,  and  Mr.  Sidney  Chaplin,  representing  the  interests 
of  Charley  and  Sid  Chaplin.  Though  the  business  is  only  about  two  and 
a  half  years  old,  the  company  is  now  doing  six  hundred  thousand  dollars 
worth  yearly,  employs  in  the  model  and  sanitary  factory  on  the  sixth 
floor  of  a  modern  fireproof  building  a  working  force  of  a  hundred  eight- 
een persons,  besides  fifteen  salesmen  who  carry  the  "Sassy  Jane"  dresses 
all  over  the  United  States  and  to  Honolulu.  Instead  of  one  or  two 
power  machines,  there  are  now  one  hundred  fifty  machines  of  different 
types  and  for  different  purposes,  and  at  the  head  of  this  business, 
recognized  as  one  of  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  west,  and,  in  fact,  a 
large  institution  in  Los  Angeles,  irrespective  of  kind,  remains  June  Rand, 
active,  vigilant,  expert  in  detail,  and  with  a  mind  constantly  planning  and 
creating  new  ideas,  and  with  that  freshness  of  outlook  and  spirit  which 
is  of  course  natural  to  one  so  young,  but  which  is  the  more  remarkable 
because  througli  an  active  and  varied  experience  which  comes  to  few 
women  she  has  kepi  her  ideals  unimpaired  and  has  in  fact  seen  her 
dreams  come  true. 

And  the  dream  that  all  women  are  supposed  to  dream  has  also  been 
realized.  September  7,  1918,  June  Rand  and  Captain  D.  Marshall  Taylor 
were  married  at  San  Diego.  Captain  Taylor  at  this  writing  is  Judge 
Advocate  at  Fort  MacArthur.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
California  School  of  Jurisprudence  and  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant 
in  the  regular  army  soon  after  war  was  declared  with  Germany.  Cap- 
tain Taylor  is  a  son  of  ^Ir.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  O.  Taylor  of  Pasadena. 


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Henry  Wells  Petteuone,  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1897, 
has  been  an  important  factor  in  business  and  manufacturing  affairs,  and 
for  many  years  has  been  one  of  the  directing  heads  in  the  Forve- 
Pettebone  Company,  dealers  and  manufacturers  of  sas  and  electric 
fixtures. 

Mr.  Pettebone  was  born  at  Dorancetown,  Pennsylvania,  September 
4,  1860,  son  of  Jacob  Sharpes  and  Sarah  (Williamson)  Pettebone.  This 
branch  of  the  "Pettebone  family  was  established  in  America  by  John 
Pettebone,  a  French  Huguenot,  who  settled  in  England  and.  on  coming 
to  America,  located  at  Windsor,  Connecticut.  One  of  his  sons,  Noah, 
removed  to  Pennsylvania  in  1769,  settling  in  the  Wyoming  Valley.  He 
was  a  direct  ancestor  of  Henry  Pettebone. 

The  latter  had  a  pubhc  school  education  in  Pennsylvania,  and  in 
1878  graduated  from  the  Wyoming  Commercial  College.  Reasons  of  ill 
health  caused  him  to  come  west  to  Colorado,  where  for  about  ten  years 
he  was  traveling  salesman,  with  headquarters  at  Denver,  for  R.  Douglas 
&  Company.  In  1889  he  became  traveling  representative  for  the  St.  Louis 
Glass  and  Queensware  Company,  and  during  the  next  eight  years  de- 
veloped an  immense  business  for  this  firm  over  the  southv.-estern  terri- 
tory, to  which  he  was  assigned. 

Mr.  Pettebone  became  a  permanent  resident  of  Los  Angeles  June  17, 
1897.  For  several  years  he  was  connected  with  the  W.  G.  Hutchison 
Company,  manufacturers  of  gas  and  electric  fixtures.  Then,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1901,  he  helped  organize  the  Forve-Pettebone  Company.  For  sev- 
eral years  they  did  only  a  retail  business  in  gas  and  electric  fixtures,  but 
gradually  branched  out  as  manufacturers,  and  in  the  course  of  eighteen 
years  have  become  one  of  the  largest  firms  in  the  southwest  in  their  line. 
They  are  manufacturers  and  wholesalers,  and  also  maintain  a  retail  store 
in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Pettebone  was  president  of  the_  company  until 
August,  1910,  when,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he  assumed  lighter  re- 
sponsibilities, now  acting  as  vice  president.  His  firm  is  a  member  of 
the  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Association  of  Los  Angeles,  and  for 
twenty  years  he  has  manifested  a  commendable  interest  in  everything 
affecting  not  only  the  business  prosperity  of  the  community,  but  also  its 
social  and  civic  welfare.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  ^Municipal  League,  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  Shriner,  and 
a  life  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club.  From  his  own  experi- 
ence he  has  become  an  enthusiastic  advocate  of  outdoor  life  and  health- 
ful sports.  His  favorite  recreation  and  health  builder  is  surf  bathing. 
He  spends  a  large  part  of  the  year  at  his  summer  home  at  Venice,  the 
nearest  beach  to  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Pettebone  also  owns  other  valuable 
real  estate  interests  in  Los  Angeles. 

^larch  15,  1899,  he  married  Bertha  R.  Webber,  now  deceased. 

Right  Rev.  Joseph  Horsf.kll  Johnson  was  consecrated  Episcopal 
Bishop  of  Los  Angeles  in  1896,  and  has  endeared  himself  to  southern 
California  by  thousands  of  services  and  by  the  example  of  a  saintly  life. 

He  was  born  at  Schnectady.  New  York,  June  7,  1847,  a  son  of 
Stephen  Hotchkiss  and  Eleanor  (Horsfall)  Johnson.  He  is  of  the  same 
family  as  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson,  who  was  the  first  American  Episcopal 
clergyman  ordained  in  England  for  work  in  an  American  congregation. 
Dr.  Samuel  Johnson  was  the  first  president  and  his  son  the  third  pres- 
ident of  Columbia  College,  at  New  York. 

Bishop  Johnson  graduated  A.   B.   from  Williams   College   in    1870, 


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and  from  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  1873.  He  was  awarded 
the  degree  S.  T.  D.  by  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  1908.  He 
was  made  a  deacon  in  1873,  and  a  priest  in  1874,  and  his  first  work  in 
the  ministry  was  with  the  Holy  Trinity  Church  at  Highland,  New  York, 
which  he  served  from  1873  to  1879.  He  was  rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
at  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  during  1879-81,  and  in  St.  Peter's  Church  at 
Westchester,  New  York,  from  1881  to  1886.  In  the  latter  year  he  was 
called  to  the  rectorship  of  Christ  Church  in  Detroit,  and  served  there  the 
ten  years  prior  to  his  consecration  in  1886  as  Bishop  of  Los  Angeles. 
Bishop  Johnson  married,  on  June  14,  1881,  Isabel  Greene  Davis,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Davis  of  Worcester,  Alass.ichusetts.  They  liave  one  son, 
Reginald  Davis  Johnson,  an  architect,  with  residence  in  Pasadena. 

In  the  issue  of  March,  1919,  Pomona  College  Quarterly  Magazine 
contained  as  its  leading  article  an  appreciation  of  Bishop  Johnson,  writ- 
ten by  one  who  had  long  been  associated  with  him  in  the  work  of  his 
diocese.  From  this  article  is  taken  the  following  paragraphs,  since  they 
express  an  estimate  that  is  both  just  and  dignified : 

"No  one  can  appreciate  the  character  and  work  of  Bishop  Johnson 
who  does  not  know  that  from  his  point  of  view  the  service  of  consecra- 
tion represents  an  ideal  that  is  anything  but  obsolete ;  that  the  supreme 
interest  of  his  life  through  all  the  varied  and  exacting  details  of  ad- 
ministrative responsibility  is  the  spiritual  interest ;  that  the  only  success 
he  craves  in  his  Episcopate  is  to  be  able,  through  his  ministry,  to  make 
the  presence  of  God  more  real  to  those  for  whose  spiritual  welfare  he 
is  especially  responsible  and  to  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact.  No 
one  knows  better  than  he  that  a  bishop  is  placed  at  a  certain  disadvantage 
with  the  public  by  reason  of  the  necessity  of  devoting  so  much  time  to 
the  affairs  of  organizations  and  finance,  religious  and  social  conven- 
tionality. There  are  times  when  he  finds  the  religious  inefifectiveness  of 
much  that  he  has  to  do,  when  he  would  be  inclined  to  say  with  Mr.  Wells 
in  'The  Soul  of  a  Bishop,'  'Is  there  any  tub-rolling  in  the  world  more 
busy  and  exacting  than  a  bishop's  ?' 

"Bishop  Johnson  is  keenly  interested  in  Pomona  College,  being 
vice  president  of  the  trustees  of  that  institution  since  1912,  and  as  well 
in  the  educational  work  of  southern  California.  He  is  president  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Harvard  Military  School  in  Los  Angeles,  and 
has  established  the  School  for  Girls  at  La  Jolla.  The  Hospital  of  the 
Good  Samaritan,  the  Church  Home  for  Children  and  the  Neighborhood 
Settlement  in  Los  Angeles  are  also  under  his  direction. 

"With  the  more  or  less  direct  responsibility  for  the  management  of 
these  institutions,  the  care  of  any  one  of  which  would  constitute  a  man's 
work ;  with  the  supervision  of  ninety-eight  churches  of  various  sizes, 
scattered  over  a  territory  as  large  in  area  as  the  state  of  Pennsylvania; 
with  the  stream  of  requests  that  come  to  him  to  preside  at  meetings,  to 
serve  on  boards  of  benevolence,  to  lead  community  movements,  to  arbi- 
trate church  disputes ;  with  an  ofifice  that  is  the  mecca  for  seekers  of  all 
kinds,  from  the  man  who  comes  for  spiritual  advice  to  the  one  who 
wishes  to  sell  a  book  or  borrow  money.  Bishop  Johnson  really  has  little 
option  as  to  any  day's  schedule.  He  must  give  himself  to  the  duties  of 
the  day  as  they  pass  along,  regardless  of  their  relative  spiritual  sig- 
nificance. But  the  controlling  and  unifying  factor  in  his  work  is  the 
spiritual  perspective  that  regards  nothing  as  'common'  and  that  holds 
secular  things  as  sacred,  and  makes  sacred  and  secular  ministrations 
alike,  the  agency  of  spiritual  influence. 

"Bishop  Johnson  is  known  abroad  in  the  community  as  a  man  of 


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breadth  of  interests,  with  a  capacity  for  iiiaking  friends,  and  adaptabiHly 
to  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men  and  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  situa- 
tions. He  is  an  executive  of  ability,  a  public-spirited  citizen,  a  leader 
among  men.  Of  all  the  fjualities  that  cause  hiin  to  be  admired,  those  who 
are  intimately  associated  with  him  in  the  work  of  his  diocese  are  fully 
aware  and  justly  proud,  but  the  things  that  mean  the  most  to  those  who 
are  privileged  to  come  into  closest  contact  with  the  Bishop,  that  give 
him  a  place  apart  in  their  affections,  are  the  rare  simplicity  of  his  char- 
acter, the  humility  of  his  spirit,  the  leniency  of  his  judgments,  the  sunny 
optimism  of  his  dis])ositiou  that  finds  liim  at  the  end  of  the  hardest  day 
sometimes  cast  down  but  never  destroyed,  the  warmth  and  naturalness 
of  his  friendship  and,  above  all,  the  sincerity  of  his  religious  life. 

"When  Bishop  Johnson  was  consecrated  to  the  Episcopate  in  IS96, 
this  prayer  was  said  by  the  bishops  and  the  clerg}'  and  congregation  that 
was  present :  'So  replenish  him  with  the  truth  of  Thy  doctrine  and 
adorn  him  with  the  innocency  of  life  that,  both  by  work  and  deed,  he 
may  faithfully  serve  Thee  in  this  office,  to  the  glory  of  Thy  name,  and 
the  edifying  and  well  governing  of  Thy  Church."  It  seems  to  us  who 
know  him  from  the  intimacy  of  long  association  in  the  work  of  this 
diocese  that  in  I'.ishop  Johnson  this  prayer  has  been  singularh'  fulfilled." 

WiLLi.xji  C.  MusiiET,  former  city  auditor  of  Los  Angeles,  and  head 
of  the  Mushet  Audit  Company,  has  for  many  years  "been  a  man  of 
prominence  in  business  and  civic  affairs  and  has  been  a  resident  of  I^os 
Angeles  thirty  years. 

Mr.  Mushet  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  December  22,  1860, 
a  son  of  George  and  Mary  Cresswell  Mushet.  He  was  graduated  from 
an  English  high  school  at  the  age  of  twenty,  then  taught  school,  and  took 
a  thorough  business  and  law  training  at  the  Victoria  University.  ?Ic 
received  his  degree  A.  C.  P.,  and  in  1886  came  to  America  and  located 
at  San  Francisco,  where  he  practiced  public  accounting  until  1889.  .Vfter 
that  he  continued  his  profession  in  Los  Angeles,  and  built  up  a  large  and 
representative  clientage.  In  1900  he  was  made  secretary'  of  the  Whole- 
salers" Board  of  Trade  and  the  Los  Angeles  Credit  Men's  Association. 
He  is  still  secretary  of  the  Credit  Men's  Association.  In  1908  Mr. 
Mushet  was  elected  city  auditor.  In  1910  and  1912  he  was  candidate  for 
mayor,  and  in  1918  he  made  a  spirited  race  for  Congress.  He  has  l)ecn 
active  head  of  the  Alushet  Audit  Company  since  1910. 

Mr.  Musliet  is  one  of  the  leading  laymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
in  southern  California,  being  treasurer  of  the  Episcopal  Diocese  of  Los 
Angeles  for  the  past  twenty  years,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Missions, 
director  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  diocese  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  chairman  of  finance  of  the  diocese.  He  has  been  elected  four 
times  to  the  triennial  convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  at  Louisville, 
New  York,  St.  Louis  and  Detroit.  Mr.  Mushet  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  is  a  republican 
in  politics.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention 
held  in  Qiicago  in  1915  which  nominated  Hughes  for  president  of  the 
United  States.        * 

.At  San  Bernardino.  California.  October  27.  1889.  he  married  Miss 
Hattie  A.  Lobdell.  Mrs.  Mushet,  who  died  March  12,  1919.  after  nearlv 
thirty  years  of  happy  married  life,  was  born  at  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
August  27,  1864.  For  many  years  she  was  a  prominent  club  woman, 
being  past  vice  president  of  the  California  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs 
and  past  president  of  the  Los  .Angeles  District  Fer^or.-'tior?  of  Women's 


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Clubs,  was  president  for  two  terms  of  the  Wednesday  Morning  Club 
and  chairman  of  its  Building  Committee,  was  a  member  of  the  Friday 
Morning  and  Ebell  Clubs,  and  was  very  active  in  church  work.  Mr. 
Mushet  has  three  children.  The  oldest,  Mrs.  Galett  M.  Rindge,  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Girls'  Collegiate  School.  The  younger  child,  Isabel,  is 
now  attending  the  Girls'  Collegiate  School.  The  son,  William  Lobdell 
Mushet,  born  in  1898,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Harvard  Militai-y  School  and 
during  the  war  served  in  the  Navy,  receiving  his  honorable  discharge  in 
January,  1919.  He  is  now  on  his  three  hundred  twenty  acre  ranch  near 
Yictorville,  California. 

Rev.  James  A.  Reardun,  whose  services  in  the  Catholic  Church  has 
l)een  distinguislied  by  many  responsibilities,  has  been  the  faithful  and 
efficient  pastor  of  St.  Anthony's  parish  at  Long  Beach  since  April,  1907. 

Tliis  parish  was  established  in  1902  by  Father  Ferrer.  Prior  to 
that  time  the  Catholics  of  this  community  had  worshiped  at  Wilmington, 
Cahfornia.  The  first  church  was  erected  in  1902.  In  1913,  under  Father 
Keardcn,  the  cornerstone  was  laid  for  an  edifice  of  imposing  dimensions 
costing  a  hundred  thousand  dollars.  The  late  Bishop  Conaty  ofticiated 
at  the  cornerstone  laying.  The  church  was  dedicated  Novemlier  26, 
1914,  by  Archbishop  Francisco  Mendoza  of  Mexico,  who  happened  to 
be  in  California  at  that  time.  There  were  only  twenty  families  in  the 
parish  when  it  was  organized.  Most  of  the  prosperity  of  the  parish 
falls  within  the  time  of  Father  Reardon's  pastorate.  Today  there  are 
six  hundred  families,  and  the  church  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous  in 
Long  Beach. 

James  A.  Reardon  was  born  in  Tazewell  county,  Illinois,  June  16, 
1S81.  His  father,  John  Reardon,  was  born  in  Tipperary,  Ireland.  June 
13.  1840,  and  first  attended  the  national  schools  of  Ireland.  In 
1850  his  parents  came  to  America  and  settled  at  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  continued  his  education  in  the  public  schools.  In  1857 
the  family  moved  west  to  Tazewell  county,  Illinois,  where  John  Reardon 
took  up  farming.  He  was  one  of  the  sturdy  sons  of  Illinois  whose  loy- 
alty needed  no  arousing  and  early  in  the  Civil  war  he  enlisted  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Company  H  of  the  115th  Illinois  Infantry.  His  record  shows 
that  he  was  a  splendid  soldier.  He  was  promoted  to  sergeant,  second 
lieutenant,  first  lieutenant  and  captain,  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  was 
brevetted  major  for  gallantry  on  the  field.  After  the  war  he  served  as 
L^nited  States  store  keeper  at  various  points. 

He  left  the  army,  and  on  June  4,  1870,  married  Mary  A.  Murphy  at 
Delavan,  Tazewell  county.  After  his  marriage  he  farmed  in  that  county 
until  1883,  when  he  removed  to  Peoria  and  became  a  contractor,  most 
of  his  work  being  street  grading.  In  1888  John  Reardon  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  and  continued  as  a  contractor  in  the  same  line  in  this  city 
until  his  death  January  10,  1895.  He  was  the  father  of  six  children: 
Nellie  C,  of  Los  Angeles:  Genevieve,  who  died  in  1889;  John  S.,  of 
San  Francisco:  Frederick  L.,  who  died  in  1908:  James  A.  and  Marj'  G., 
of  Los  Angeles.  ' 

Father  Reardon  was  seven  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  Los 
Angeles.  He  attended  the  Cathedral  parochial  school,  also  the  public 
schools,  including  the  Los  Angeles  High  School,  and  in  1898  gradu- 
ated from  St.  Vincent's  College.  In  preparation  for  the  priesthood  he 
attended  St.  Mary's  Seminary  at  Baltimore,  I\Iar\-land,  taking  the  philo- 
sophical and  theological  courses,  and  finishing  his  studies  in  1904.     Re- 


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turning  to  Los  Angeles,  he  was  ordained  at  the  Cathedral  January  6, 
1905.  Father  Reardon  was  assistant  pastor  of  St.  John's  Church  at 
Fresno  until  June  2,  1905,  was  then  secretary  to  the  late  Bishop  Conaty 
a  year  and  a  half  at  Los  Angeles,  and  for  two  months  was  acting  pastor 
of  St.  Joseph's  Church  at  Pomona,  and  acting  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's 
Church  at  San  Diego  until  April,  1907,  when  he  entered  upon  his  pres- 
ent duties  in  St.  Anthony's  j^arish  at  Long  Beach.  Fatiier  Reardon  is 
a  fourth  degree  memher  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  and  a  meniher  of 
the  Sons  of  Veterans. 

William  R.  Fee.  The  community  of  San  Gabriel  welcomed  the 
advent  of  William  R.  Fee  not  only  because  of  his  position  in  the  busmess 
world,  but  for  the  obvious  advantages  of  his  personal  character  and 
resources.  Mr.  Fee  has  been  a  resident  of  California  only  a  few  years 
and  still  retains  many  of  his  personal  business  interests  in  Ohio,  where 
he  has  long  been  identified  with  the  ownership  and  management  of  large 
public  utilities  and  various  banks  and  other  instruments  of  capital. 

J\Ir.  Fee  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  was  educated  in  the 
grammar  and  high  schools  there.  He  also  attended  the  Cincinnati  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy.  He  passed  a  successful  examination  before  the  State 
Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  was  first  employed  in  a  minor  capacity  by  the 
Standard  Drug  Company.  He  worked  up  until  he  was  made  manager 
of  the  city  busmess  of  this  company,  during  which  time  he  operated 
three  retail  drug  stores.  In  1900  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Clere- 
mont  Telephone  Company,  and  thus  he  came  into  the  field  of  public 
utilities,  where  his  work  has  been  most  conspicuous  since  then. 

Mr.  Fee  was  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Cleremont 
County"  Telephone  Company  until  1909.  In  1903  he  organized  the 
Citizens  National  Bank  of  Milford,  Ohio,  of  which  he  was  president 
until  1906.  Alter  that  his  home  was  m  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  where  he  be- 
came president  and  general  manager  of  the  Portsmouth  Telephone  Com- 
pany. In  a  remarkably  short  time  he  had  built  up  the  business  of  that 
public  utility  from  fifteen  hundred  telephone  subscribers  to  torty-two 
hundred.  In  1910  he  organized  the  Ohio  Valley  Bank  of  Portsmouth 
and  remained  president  of  the  institution  until  1914. 

JNlr.  Fee  gave  up  all  his  executive  positions  in  these  various  con- 
cerns in  1913,  when  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles,  though  retaining  most  of 
his  stock.  In  1914  he  organized  the  Bank  of  San  Gabriel,  of  which  he 
is  now  president.  For  eight  years  Mr.  Fee  was  vice  president  of  the 
Ohio  State  Telephone  Association,  and  for  one  year  was  vice  president 
of  the  National  Telephone  Association.  He  was  also  vice  president  of 
the  Portsmouth  Board  of  Trade  and  an  officer  in  various  other  organiza- 
tions, commercial,  civic  and  social,'  in  Ohio. 

July  20,  1890,  at  Cincinnati,  he  married  Anna  Sutton.  Their  only 
child,  Anna  Louise,  is  now  the  wife  of  San  Gabriel's  city  attorney,  Mr. 
McFadden,  who  is  serving  as  captain  of  Company  M,  140th  Regiment 
of  Infantry,  35th  Division,  in  France. 

Homer  Laughlin  gained  a  high  position  in  American  industry  as 
the  founder  and  upbuilder  of  the  greatest  pottery  plant  in  the  United 
States,  and  when  he  retired  from  business  about  twenty  years  ago  and 
came  to  Los  Angeles,  his  interests  as  a  business  man  were  not  allowed 
to  lapse,  and  in  this  city  he  has  used  his  capital  and  his  personal  influence 
in  many  ways  for  the  upbuilding  of  Los  Angeles  as  a  city. 

Mr.   Laughlin  was  born  at   Little   Beaver,   in   Columbiana   County, 


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Ohio,  March  23,  1843,  son  of  Matthew  and  Maria  (Moore)  Laughlin. 
The  Laughhns  were  Scotch-Irish,  who  settled  in  colonial  times  in  west- 
ern Pennsylvania.  Grandfather  James  Laughlin  was  a  native  of  Mary- 
land, but  spent  many  years  of  his  life  in  Pennsylvania  and  eastern  Ohio. 
Matthew  Laughlin  was  born  in  Columbiana  County  in  1814,  and  for  half 
a  century  was  in  the  milling  business  on  the  Little  Beaver  River. 

Homer  Laughlin  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  in  the  Ne- 
ville Institute,  and  on  July  12,  1862,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  enlisted  at 
Liverpool,  Ohio,  in  Company  A  of  the  115th  Ohio  Infantry.  He  is  one 
of  the  interesting  veterans  of  that  great  war  for  freedom,  and  served 
almost  three  years,  until  mustered  out  as  sergeant  of  his  company  at 
Cleveland  July  7,  1865. 

He  soon  afterward  became  interested  in  the  pottery  industry  at 
New  York  City.  He  and  his  brother,  Shakespeare  Moore  Laughlin,  be- 
came wholesale  importers  of  English  earthenware.  The  firm  of  Laughlin 
Brothers  continued  from  1871  to  October,  1873.  In  the  latter  year  they 
built  a  pottery  plant  of  their  own  for  the  manufacture  of  fine  white 
earthenware  at  East  Liverpool,  Ohio.  The  deserved  fame  of  East  Liver- 
pool as  one  of  the  greatest  pottery  centers  of  America  is  in  no  small 
degree  the  result  of  the  enterprise  of  the  Laughlin  brothers.  In  1879 
Homer  Laughlin  bought  out  his  brother's  interest  and  continued  the 
Homer  Laughhn  China  Company  under  his  direct  and  personal  super- 
vision until  1897. 

In  the  latter  year  Mr.  Laughlin  sold  his  interests  in  an  industry; 
which  has  continued  to  grow  and  flourish  in  eastern  Ohio,  continuing 
under  the  name  Homer  Laughlin  China  Company.  On  coming  to  Los 
Angeles  JNlr.  Laughlin  immediately  supplied  a  large  fund  of  capital  and 
business  enterprise  to  the  needs  of  the  city  for  high-class  buildings.  His 
first  monument  was  tlic  Homer  Laughlin  Building  on  Broadway,  re- 
garded as  the  first  fireproof  office  building  in  southern  California.  In 
fact,  it  set  a  standard  for  fireproof  construction  which  was  not  reached 
generally  for  several  years.  In  1901  he  erected  another  building  a  few 
doors  south  of  the  Laughlin  Building,  on  the  site  of  the  old  First  Meth- 
odist Church.  In  1905  was  begun  the  construction  of  the  annex  to  the 
Homer  Laughlin  Building.  This  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  first 
reinforced  concrete  Ijuilding  in  southern  California. 

Mr.  Laughlin  has  been  a  figure  and  influence  in  the  larger  business 
aft'airs  of  America  for  many  years.  He  was  for  a  long  time  president 
of  the  United  States  Pottery  Association,  chairman  of  its  executive  com- 
mittee for  twenty  years,  and  the  products  of  his  plants  received  medals 
from  the  Centennial  Exposition  in  Philadelphia  in  1876,  the  Cincinnati 
Exposition  of  1879,  and  from  the  Columbian  Exposition  of  Chicago  in 
1893.  Since  1882  he  has  been  continuously  a  member  of  the  "Board  of 
Managers  of  the  American  Protective  Tarifi'  League.  Mr.  Laughlin 
was  for  over  thirty  years  an  intimate  friend  of  William  McKinley,  and 
was  president  of  the  reception  committee  when  President  McKinley  and 
cabinet  visited  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Laughlin  is  a  prominent  Mason,  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Crusaders  party  of  Knights  Templar  to  Europe  in  1871,  is  an  honorary 
life  meml)er  of  Girvan  Encampment  of  Glasgow,  Knights  Templar  of 
Scotland,  a  member  of  Allegheny  Commandery  No.  35,  K.  T.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Republican  Club  of  New  York  and  the  California  Club 
of  Los  Angeles.  June  18,  1875,  Mr.  Laughlin  married  Cornelia  Batten- 
berg  of  Wellsvifle,  Ohio.  They  had  three  children,  Homer  Jr.,  Nanita 
(deceased)  and  Gwendolen  V. 


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Edwin  W.  Sargent  is  known  as  the  "father  of  the  land  title  business 
in  Los  Angeles,"  and,  very  appropriately,  is  vice  president  of  the  Title 
Guarantee  and  Trust  Company,  being  one  of  the  founders  of  this  cor- 
poration and  also  of  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company. 

Mr.  Sargent  is  a  lawyer  of  forty-five  years'  experience,  and  for 
more  than  thirty  years  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
born  at  Oregon,  in  Dane  County,  Wisconsin,  August  15,  1848,  son  of 
Croydon  and  Lucy  W.  (Hutchinson)  Sargent.  He  was  reared  in  Wis- 
consin, attended  the  public  schools,  and  from  1868  to  1870  was  a  student 
in  the  literary  department  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  In  1873  he 
entered  the  law  department  of  the  University  of  Iowa,  receiving  his 
LL.  B.  degree  in  1874.  After  being  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Iowa,  he  practiced  five  years  at  Denison,  Iowa,  and  from  1879 
to  1886  was  a  lawyer  at  Atchison,  Kansas.  While  at  Atchison  he  became 
known  as  an  expert  in  land  titles,  and  that  experience  he  brought  with 
him  to  California  and  it  became  the  basis  of  the  great  and  enduring 
reputation  that  he  now  enjoys. 

Mr.  Sargent  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1886,  just  before  the  great 
real  estate  boom.  Almost  immediately  his  services  were  in  demand  by 
the  real  estate  interests  as  a  title  expert.  Up  to  that  time  no  guarantees 
of  title  had  ever  been  given  in  southern  California,  and  Mr.  Sargent 
recognized  the  opportunity  for  the  establishment  of  a  land  title  guarantee 
business  such  as  he  had  become  familiar  with  in  the  middle  west. 

This  business  in  its  earliest  form  was  created  by  Mr.  Sargent  in 
establishing  as  evidence  of  title  in  Los  Angeles  city  and  county  the  "cer- 
tificates of  title"  practically  in  the  form  in  which  it  is  used  today  in  real 
estate  transfers,  and  has  been  so  used  for  thirty  years. 

During  the  real  estate  boom  of  1887  many  persons  engaged  in  the 
abstract  business  drove  a  thriving  trade  by  searching  the  records  by  the 
name  index  for  the  investigation  of  title,  making  expensive  abstracts  and 
obtaining  expensive  legal  opinions  of  lawyers  upon  the  same.  In  order  to 
put  an  end  to  this  extortionate  practice,  Mr.  Sargent  brought  about  the 
organization  of  the  Los  Angeles  Abstract  Company,  conceived  in  a  spirit 
of  fair  dealing  and  on  a  comprehensive  scale,  with  Mr.  Sargent  and 
several  wealthy  men  of  Los  Angeles  as  its  organizers.  This  company 
adopted  what  is  known  as  the  "Property  System"  by  following  the  title 
to  each  individual  piece  of  land  by  the  different  references  that  are  made 
by  all  instruments  affecting  the  title.  The  company  merely  completed  an 
abstract  plant  in  the  fall  of  1887,  and  then  began  making  full  and  un- 
limited certificates  of  title  at  a  moderate  price  upon  any  and  all  real 
estate  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  and  Los  Angeles  County. 

It  was  the  unusual  legal  ability  brought  to  this  company  by  Mr.  Sar- 
gent that  enabled  it  to  issue  certificates  of  title.  The  community  soon 
learned  that  for  a  moderate  price  they  could  obtain  the  most  competent 
legal  opinion  that  could  be  given  on  titles  to  real  estate.  These  unlimited 
certificates  of  title  soon  commanded  the  confidence  of  real  estate  dealers, 
money  lenders  and  banks,  and  in  a  few  years  there  was  a  complete 
change  in  the  business  of  furnishing  evidence  of  title,  done  quickly  and 
at  a  great  deal  less  expense  than  under  the  former  system.  More  credit 
is  due  Mr.  Sargent  for  these  unlimited  certificates  than  to  any  other  one 
person. 

The  Los  Angeles  Abstract  Company  soon  absorbed  other  firms,  and 
in  1894  it  was  reorganized  as  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company. 
In  1895  Mr.  Sargent  retired  from  that  institution  and  organized  the 
Title  Guarantee  and  Trust  Company.     Both  companies  are  still  in  exist- 


178  LOS  ANGELES 

ence  and  their  homes  are  hi  two  of  the  largest  office  structures  in  Los 
Angeles.  Mr.  Sargent  is  still  active  in  his  distinctive  branch  of  the  law 
profession,  is  considered  a  past  authority  on  land  ownership  and  titles  in 
southern  California,  and  his  professional  services  alone  have  been  a  big 
contributing  factor  to  the  permanent  growth  and  prosperity  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  has  been  not  less  deeply  interested  in  every  movement  for 
the  civic  welfare,  the  promotion  of  institutions  and  the  broad  and  bene- 
ficient  growth  and  power  of  the  greater  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Sargent  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  is  a  Knight  Templar 
Mason  and  Shriner,  and  his  name  properly  belongs  among  the  builders 
and  makers  of  southern  California. 

Marsh.xll  L.  Carter,  who  was  born  in  Iowa  and  received  his  early 
business  training  there  as  a  banker,  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles 
since  1901,  and  is  an  important  factor  in  the  general  loan  and  investment 
business  as  secretary  and  manager  of  the  Carter  Investment  Company. 

Mr.  Carter  is  a  son  of  Julius  Carter,  a  veteran  cattle  man  of  the 
old-time  west,  now  living  in  California,  and  though  past  eighty  years  of 
age,  still  enjoying  an  occasional  scouting  trip  around  the  cattle  ranches. 
The  Daily  Drovers  Journal,  the  great  live  stock  paper  of  Chicago,  in  the 
fall  of  1918,  published  an  interesting  article  on  J.  E.  Carter,  particularly 
with  regard  to  his  experiences  as  a  feeder  and  shipper  of  cattle  for  forty 
years.  He  was  born  in  Ravenna,  Portage  County,  Ohio,  November  12, 
1834,  and  spent  his  boyhood  in  the  time  of  tallow  candles  and  other 
primitive  facilities.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  old  his  father  trusted 
him  with  a  thousand  dollars  to  go  into  the  western  counties  a  hundred 
miles  from  home  and  buy  cattle.  He  was  highly  commended  by  his 
father  when  he  returned  from  the  three  weeks"  trip,  and  from  that  time 
on  he  was  engaged  in  buying  and  driving  cattle.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen he  and  an  older  brother  drove  a  large  herd  of  cattle  from  western 
Illinois  to  Dutchess  County,  New  York.  In  1854  he  and  his  brother 
began  their  operations  as  cattle  buyers  in  Missouri,  and  they  took  their 
first  herd  to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1855,  where  they  found  only  two 
packers  in  business.  They  sold  their  cattle  for  three  and  a  half  cents  a 
pound,  but  made  a  profit  even  at  that  low  price.  The  approach  of  the 
Civil  war  put  an  end  to  their  operations  in  1859,  and  from  that  time 
forward  they  made  their  headquarters  and  home  in  Iowa,  where  they 
bought  a  section  of  land.  Every  year  for  twenty  years  he  and  his 
brother  fed  from  two  hundred  to  five  hundred  cattle.  They  continued 
a  congenial  and  profitable  partnership  until  the  death  of  his  brother  in 
1889,  and  there  was  a  large  property  to  divide,  consisting  of  three  thous- 
and acres  of  land,  a  bank,  store,  lumber  yard  and  elevator,  all  in  Jones 
and  Clinton  Counties,  Iowa.  In  1900  Mr.  J.  E.  Carter  closed  out  his 
Iowa  business  and  brought  his  family  to  California.  Here  he  became 
interested  with  his  sons  in  real  estate  and  land  development,  and  has  also 
spent  much  time  in  travel,  having  visited  Japan,  China,  the  Panama 
Canal,  England,  France  and  Germany.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Octo- 
genarian Club  and  is  still  a  man  of  much  physical  vigor.  He  married,  at 
Kewanee,  Illinois,  November  12,  1867,  Miss  Anna  Hutchinson.  Three 
of  their  children  died  in  infancy  and  the  other  three  are  married  and 
living  in  California.  The  mother  died  at  Oxford  Junction,  Iowa,  in 
1891.    Mr.  J.  E.  Carter  now  lives  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  F.  C.  Langdon. 

Marshall  L.  Carter  was  born  at  Oxford  Junction,  in  Jones  County, 
Iowa,  July  2,  1877.  He  was  liberally  educated,  attending  higli  school  to 
the  age  of  eighteen,  then  entering  Shattuck  Military  Academy  at  Pari- 


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bault,  Minnesota,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1897.  He  then  became 
cashier  of  his  father's  bank,  the  Oxford  Junction  Bank,  but  in  1901  fol- 
lowed his  parents  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  a  year  was  a  salesman  and 
part  owner  in  the  Hoffman  hardware  store.  Selling  his  interests  with 
that  firm,  he  engaged  in  the  dental  supply  business  with  Dr.  F.  C.  Lang- 
don,  his  brother-in-law,  under  the  firm  name  of  Carter  Dental  Supply 
Company,  at  1195^  South  Spring  street.  Three  years  later  he  disposed 
of  that  business  to  engage  in  the  loan  and  real  estate  business  as  secre- 
tary and  manager  of  the  Carter  Investment  Company.  Llis  father  for 
several  years  was  president  of  that  company,  but  the  president  is  now 
the  other  son,  J.  E.  Carter  Jr.  Mr.  Marshall  L.  Carter  is  also  secretary 
of  the  Linen  Laundry  and  Supply  Company. 

He  is  well  known  socially,  being  a  York  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner, 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
the  Advertising  Club  and  is  a  member  of  the  Westlake  Methodist  Church. 
Politically  he  is  a  republican.  At  Los  Angeles,  December  15,  1903,  he 
married  Mary  Elizabeth  Inch.  They  have  one  son,  Marshall  L.  Jr.,  born 
in  1907,  and  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Military  School. 

Victor  H.  Rossetti.  The  Los  Angeles  financial  and  civic  com- 
munity chose  Victor  H.  Rossetti  as  a  successful  banker,  a  man  of  dis- 
tinctive leadership  and  personality,  who  has  accepted  many  opportunities 
and  responsibilities  for  broad  and  patriotic  service.  Not  many  years 
ago  he  was  a  hard-working  minor  clerk  in  a  San  Francisco  bank,  and  he 
knows  as  well  as  the  next  man  what  it  means  to  live  independently, 
though  on  a  scale  of  modest  and  self-respecting  poverty. 

He  was  born  in  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  February  19,  1877,  son  of 
Alexander  and  Madeline  (Bassetti)  Rossetti.  As  the  place  of  his  birth 
would  indicate,  his  father  was  at  one  time  connected  with  some  of  the 
centers  of  mining  activity  in  the  far  west.  Alexander  Rossetti  was  born 
at  Biasca,  Switzerland,  July  15,  1837.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
there,  and  on  March  12,  1858,  left  his  native  land  and  came  to  California 
by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  He  reached  San  Francisco  June  5th 
of  the  same  year,  and  for  three  years  was  a  miner  in  Matt  Canyon,  in 
Calaveras  County.  In  1861  he  removed  to  Placerville,  where  he  con- 
tinued mining,  and  in  1862  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  new  mining 
district  of  Virginia  City,  Nevada.  For  several  years  he  operated  a  hotel 
there  and  then  resumed  mining.  He  finally  retired  in  1898  and  lived  in 
San  Francisco  until  1914,  then  at  Santa  Barbara  until  January  1,  1919, 
and  has  since  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles.  At  Virginia  City,  Septem- 
ber 8,  1870,  Alexander  Rossetti  married  Madeline  Bassetti.  She  was 
born  at  Locarno,  Switzerland,  October  12,  1850.  She  left  her  native  land 
August  17,  1868,  reached  San  Francisco  the  3rd  of  October,  and  on  the 
6th  of  the  same  month  arrived  in  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  where  about  a 
year  and  a  half  later  she  became  a  bride.  She  and  her  husband  were 
the  parents  of  eight  children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living. 

Victor  H.  Rossetti  graduated  from  the  high  school  of  Virginia  City 
in  1893.  A  youth  of  sixteen,  he  sought  opportunity  in  San  Francisco, 
where  he  was  employed  as  messenger  boy  for  the  Wells-Fargo  &  Com- 
pany Bank.  He  attracted  attention  by  his  eagerness  and  enthusiasm  and 
diligence  and  was  promoted  to  various  responsibilities  until  he  became 
chief  clerk.  In  1905  the  Wells-Fargo  &  Company  Bank  was  consolidated 
with  the  Nevada  National  Bank  under  the  name  Wells-Fargo  Nevada 
National  Bank.  Mr.  Rossetti  then  continued  with  the  consolidated  in- 
stitution in  the  same  capacity  until  1907,  when  he  was  elected  assistant 
cashier. 


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Mr.  Rossetti  became  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  financial  com- 
munity when  he  accepted  the  post  of  cashier  of  the  Farmers  &  Merchants 
National  Bank  on  July  1,  1911.  July  1^  1917,  he  was  made  cashier,  di- 
rector and  vice  president  of  this,  one  of  the  largest  financial  institutions 
of  southern  California.  He  is  also  vice  president  and  director  of  the 
Sun  Drug  Company,  a  director  of  the  Ville  de  Pans  Store,  a  director  of 
the  National  Chemical  Company,  treasurer  and  director  of  the  Yellow 
Aster  Mining  and  Milling  Company,  a  director  of  the  Frank  Graves 
Sash,  Door  and  Mill  Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Morris  Plan  Com- 
pany of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Securities 
Committee  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  of  San  Francisco  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  Committee  of  Group  Five,  California  Bankers' 
Association. 

In  addition  to  his  work  as  a  private  citizen  in  behalf  of  patriotic 
movements  during  the  war,  he  was  an  executive  for  the  Fuel  Administra- 
tion of  California  and  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Division  of  the 
Council  of  Defense.  Mr.  Rossetti  is  a  member  of  the  California  CluD,  is 
a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church.  On  June 
20,  1906,  at  San  Francisco,  he  married  Irene  Silvestri.  Mrs.  Rossetti 
was  born  at  San  Francisco.  .  They  have  one  daughter,  Eleanor  Mae, 
born  at  Lo^  Angeles  February  1,  1919. 

Antonio  Orfila  is  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  has  been  a 
member  of  the  bar  over  thirty  years,  and  has  earned  many  of  the  solid 
distinctions  of  his  profession  and  of  citizenship. 

He  comes  of  a  long  line  of  ancestors  prominent  both  for  their  in- 
tellectual attainments  and  social  standing.  Mr.  Orfila  was  born  in  Los 
Angeles  May  13,  1865.  His  father  was  Antonio  Orfila  Sr.,  a  native  of 
the  city  of  Mahon,  Balearic  Islands,  on  the  Mediterranean,  a  Spanish 
subject.  The  grandfather,  Bartolome  Mateo  Orfila,  achieved  fame  and 
scholarship  that  made  him  known  around  the  world.  He  was  author  of 
many  leading  medical  works,  particularly  on  medical  jurisprudence.  He 
was  liberally  educated,  attending  the  L^niversity  of  Paris,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  and  until  his  death  was  president  of  that  great  institu- 
tion. The  Orfila  homestead  adjoined  that  of  the  Serra  family,  where 
Padre  Junipero,  the  founder  of  the  California  Missions,  was  born.  Both 
families  were  closely  allied,  and  the  present  generations  remain  on  terms 
of  intimacy. 

Antonio  Orfila  Sr.  came  to  California  in  the  early  '50s,  locating 
first  in  San  Francisco  and  later  moving  to  Santa  Barbara,  where  he 
married  Maria  Antonio  Dominguez.  In  1862  they  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  they  have  since  lived.  Antonio  Sr.  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  for  a  long  period  of  years.  The  Orfila  family  is  distinguished 
by  its  longevity.  With  few  exceptions  all  the  members  of  several  genera- 
tions have  attained  ripe  age,  none  living  less  than  ninety  years. 

Antonio  Orfila  Jr.  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Los  An- 
.i;eles,  attending  hi,s,h  school,  and  later  enterino-  St.  Vincent  College, 
when  it  was  located  at  Sixth  and  Hill  streets.  He  concluded  his  studies 
there  in  1884  with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class,  graduating  cum  laude 
and  receiving  the  first  gold  medal  of  excellency.  While  in  high  school 
and  college  Mr.  Orfila  practically  paid  his  own  way,  working  at  any 
honorable  occupation  that  would  furnish  means  to  carry  out  his  ambitious 
scheme  for  a  higher  education.  After  graduating  he  studied  law  in  dif- 
ferent offices,  and  in  1886,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-one,  was  admitted 
to  practice  both  in  the  state  and  federal  courts.     He  practiced  law  in 


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Los  Angeles  for  several  years,  and  in  1897  removed  to  Tucson,  Arizona, 
where  he  had  his  home  and  offices  until  1907.  Since  then  he  has  been 
located  in  Los  Angeles  and  has  a  large  practice. 

Mr.  Orfila  is  past  grand  chief  ranger  for  the  state  of  California  in 
the  Order  of  Foresters  of  America,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Law 
Committee  of  the  Supreme  Session  at  Portland,  Maine,  and  Atlantic  City, 
New  Jersey.  He  is  affiliated  with  the  Native  Sons  of  California,  the 
United  Ancient  Order  of  Druids,  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters, 
the  Gamut  Club,  and  in  politics  is  independent.  At  Los  Angeles,  May  1, 
1887,  he  married  Miss  Eliza  Elwell  of  San  Buena  Ventura.  Eight  chil- 
dren were  born  to  their  marriage,  most  of  them  natives  of  Los  Angeles. 
Orestes  is  now  United  States  consul  at  Mazatlan,  Mexico.  Elinor,  wife 
of  Mr.  M.  Levy,  lives  in  Los  Angeles.  Antonio  Jr.  is  in  the  automobile 
business,  being  assistant  manager  of  the  Stutz  Company.  Mauricio  now 
lives  at  Tucson,  Arizona.  Ernest  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Southern  California  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1918,  but 
almost  immediately  entered  the  naval  service  of  the  United  States,  and 
in  December,  1918,  was  honorably  released  and  is  now  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  general  practice  of  law.  The  younger  children,  all  at 
home,  are :  Ella,  Azalia  and  Guadalupe.  Mrs.  Orfila's  grandmother, 
Senora  Cipriana  Llanos  de  Flores,  is  one  of  the  interesting  figures  of 
Santa  Barbara,  having  passed  the  age  of  one  hundred,  and  is  still  in 
possession  of  all  her  mental  faculties.  She  is  the  widow  of  General 
Flores,  distinguished  in  the  Mexican  era  of  California. 

Maximilian  Frederick  Ihmsen.  Sometimes  bankers  take  credit 
to  themselves  for  the  great  stream  of  money  that  flows  through  their 
hands,  and  publishers  might  similarly  pride  themselves  on  the  volume  and 
importance  of  another  form  of  wealth,  the  news  and  daily  record  of  life 
and  afifairs  in  the  world  which  runs  its  current  through  the  implements 
and  machinery  of  the  fourth  estate.  As  publisher  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Examiner  since  February,  1909,  Mr.  Ihmsen  has  directed  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  complete  news  gathering  and  distributing  organs  of  the 
southwest,  and  has  given  that  paper  many  exclusive  triumphs  that  serve 
to  distinguish  it  among  the  chain  of  Hearst  papers. 

Mr.  Ihmsen,  however,  is  more  than  a  publisher.  Thirty  years  ago 
he  was  doing  his  first  reportorial  work  on  a  paper  in  his  native  city  of 
Pittsburgh.  For  a  number  of  years  he  lived  the  dramatic  life  of  one 
close  to  the  big  events  of  the  world,  gained  distinction  after  distinction 
as  a  special  correspondent,  and  as  political  correspondent  and  editor  had 
a  place  all  his  own  in  the  east  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Ihmsen  was  born  at  Pittsburgh,  March  14,  1868,  son  of  Fred- 
erick Lorenz  and  Josephine  (Darr)  Ihmsen.  He  is  a  member  of  one  of 
the  oldest  families  of  western  Pennsylvania.  The  firm  of  Ihmsen  & 
Company  was  in  existence  more  than  a  century  and  established  and 
operated  the  first  glass  factory  west  of  the  Allegheny  Mountains,  founded 
by  his  great-grandfather,  Charles  Ihmsen,  in  1787. 

Mr.  Ihmsen  was  liberally  educated,  attending  the  schools  of  Alle- 
gheny, Pennsylvania,  graduating  from  high  school  in  1886  and  finishing 
his  college  work  in  the  Pittsburgh  Catholic  College. 

After  about  a  year  as  clerk  in  the  Pittsburgh  postoffice  he  went  to 
work  as  a  reporter  on  the  Pittsburgh  Leader  in  1888,  and  the  following 
.year  joined  the  staff  of  the  Pittsburgh  Post.  One  of  the  Greatest  Amer- 
ican tragedies  in  the  last  century  was  the  Johnstown  flood  of  May,  1889. 
Mr.  Ihmsen  was  the  first  newspaper  man  to  reach  the  source  of  that 


182  LOS  ANGELES 

disaster,  and,  as  the  first  observer  on  the  ground,  was  able  to  give  to  the 
world  an  authentic  report  as  to  the  cause  of  the  catastrophe.  By  the 
time  he  was  twenty-one  years  old  his  reporting  was  given  world-wide 
publicity  and  his  resourcefulness  had  attracted  the  attention  of  the  larger 
newspaper  worl^. 

In  1890  he  was  sent  to  Washington  as  correspondent  for  the  Pitts- 
burgh Post,  and  the  next  year  became  a  member  of  the  Washington  stafif 
of  the  New  York  Herald.  In  1893  he  was  transferred  to  New  York  as 
political  reporter  for  the  Herald,  and  in  a  short  time  had  a  personal 
acquaintance  with  all  the  big  political  leaders  and  was  showing  the 
greatest  skill  in  diagnosing  and  reporting  political  conditions. 

When  William  Randolph  Hearst  entered  the  New  York  newspaper 
field  in  1895,  he  engaged  Mr.  Ihnisen  to  represent  the  New  York  Journal 
at  Albany,  and  the  following  year  he  was  called  to  New  York  City  as 
city  editor  of  the  Journal.  In  1898,  after  the  Maine  was  blown  up,  Mr. 
Ihmsen  returned  to  Washington  in  charge  of  the  bureau  of  the  Hearst 
publications.  In  the  weeks  preceding  the  declaration  of  war  upon  Spain 
the  responsibilities  and  opportunities  of  his  office  at  Washington  were  of 
the  most  delicate  and  important  nature.  The  news  dispatches  which 
were  furnished  by  his  bureau  to  the  Hearst  papers  stood  in  a  class  by 
themselves.  Compared  with  other  correspondence  from  the  same  source, 
they  seemed  like  daring  prophecy,  but  their  accuracy  was  invariably  es- 
tablished, and  it  was  at  that  time  that  the  reputation  of  the  Hearst  news- 
papers for  profound  insight  into  international  diplomacy  was  achieved. 

Mr.  Ihmsen  was  in  charge  of  the  bureau  at  Washington  during  Mr. 
Hearst's  celebrated  fight  for  the  abrogation  of  the  Claj'ton-Bulwer  treaty 
and  the'  immediately  preceding  fight  for  the  right  of  the  United  States 
to  fortify  the  Panama  Canal  and  absolutely  control  it,  as  finally  voiced 
in  the  Hay-Pauncefote  treaty. 

Mr.  Ihmsen  has  always  regarded  as  the  most  gratifying  single  in- 
cident of  his  newspaper  life  his  dispatch  announcing  the  intention  of 
the  United  States  to  intervene  with  military  force  in  China  during  the 
Boxer  rebellion.  That  news  was  far  in  advance  of  apparent  develop- 
ments, and  its  accuracy  was  denied  in  many  responsible  quarters  both 
in  America  and  in  Europe  for  several  weeks. 

In  1901  Mr.  Ihmsen  went  back  to  his  duties  as  city  editor  of  the 
Journal,  and  a  year  later  became  political  editor  of  the  New  York 
American,  founded  at  that  time  by  Mr.  Hearst.  He  continued  active  as 
editor  and  as  a  valuable  associate  and  ally  of  Mr.  Hearst  in  politics  in 
the  east  until  1908,  when  Mr.  Hearst  sent  him  to  Los  Angeles  to  take 
charge  of  the  Examiner.  Since  then  he  has  been  managing  director  of 
every  department  of  this  great  newspaper. 

Mr.  Ihmsen  has  been  a  political,  newspaper  and  business  associate 
of  Mr.  Hearst  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  one  of  the  originators  of 
the  movement  for  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Hearst  for  president  of  the 
United  States  at  the  Democratic  National  Convention  of  1904,  and  was 
in  personal  charge  of  the  Hearst  interests  on  the  floor  of  the  convention. 
In  1905  he  organized  the  Municipal  Ownership  League  of  New  York, 
and  in  the  same  year  managed  Mr.  Hearst's  campaign  as  candidate  of 
that  party  for  mayor  of  New  York  City.  It  is  generally  conceded  that 
Mr.  Hearst  was  actually  elected  to  this  office,  though  he  was  counted  out 
by  the  Tammany  organization.  In  1906  Mr.  Ihmsen  aided  in  organizing 
the  Independence  League  and  was  chairman  of  its  state  committee  during 
the  New  York  campaign  for  governor  of  that  year.  While  directing 
political  forces  of  such  magnitude  it  was  perhaps  inevitable  that  some 


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of  the  voltage  of  politics  would  strike  Mr.  Ihmsen  himself.  Thus,  in 
1907,  he  reluctantly  accepted  the  urgency  of  the  Independent  League  and 
many  Republican  leaders  to  become  candidate  for  sheriff  of  New  i^ork 
County  on  a  fusion  ticket.  This  ticket  was  defeated  by  the  Tammany 
organization  as  a  result  of  similar  tactics  employed  in  the  election  of 
1905.  Mr.  Ihmsen  ran  considerably  ahead  of  his  ticket  and  polled  over 
a  hundred  twenty  thousand  votes.  From  1900  to  1904  Mr.  Ihuisen  was 
secretary  of  the  National  Association  of  Democratic  Clubs,  and  in  1902 
was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National  Democratic 
Congressional  Committee. 

During  the  last  ten  years  Los  Angeles  could  count  upon  no  better 
informed,  more  forceful  or  public  spirited  citizen  in  every  worthy  under- 
taking than  Mr.  Ihmsen.  He  is  interested  in  the  city  and  southern  Cali- 
fornia personally,  as  well  as  through  the  great  institution  of  which  he  is 
managing  director  He  is  a  member  of  the  California,  Jonathan,  Los 
Angeles  Country  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles.  March 
17,  1894,  Mr.  Ihmsen  married  Angelina  Arado  of  New  York  City. 

St.  \'incent"s  College,  now  known  as  Loyola  College,  was  the 
pioneer  institution  of  higher  education  in  southern  California,  and  has 
been  closely  associated  for  the  upbuilding  of  Los  Angeles  for  over  half 
a  century.  The  story  of  its  founding,  its  struggles,  and  the  stages  of  its 
growth  properly  belongs  in  this  publication. 

In  the  spring  of  1865  the  Visitor  of  the  Congregation  of  the  Mis- 
sion, Very  Rev.  S.  V.  Ryan,  afterward  Bishop  of  Buffalo,  sent  to  south- 
ern California  the  Revs.  John  Asmuth,  C.  M.,  M.  Rubio,  C.  M.,  and  J. 
Beaky,  C.  M.,  to  open  a  school.  After  investigating  the  condition  of 
affairs,  these  men  reported  unfavorably  upon  the  plan  and  departed.  But 
they  were  soon  to  return,  thanks  to  the  zeal  of  many  good  Catholics.  In 
the  summer  of  1865  these  pioneer  priests,  accompanied  by  Very  Rev.  J. 
McGill,  C.  M.,  returned  to  Los  Angeles.  By  the  Plaza, 'then  the  heart 
of  Los  Angeles,  they  planted  the  standard  of  Christian  education  in 
southern  California.  With  the  sturdiness  and  devotion  of  the  Franciscan 
of  old,  and  with  the  generous  help  of  a  benefactor,  they  bore  that  stand- 
ard aloft  amid  many  vicissitudes.  In  December,  1865,  Father  Asmiith 
passed  awa>-,  and  a  few  months  later  Father  Beaky.  Failure  seemed  to 
stare  the  remaining  priests  m  the  face,  until  Providence  laid  at  the  com- 
mand of  the  young  institution  the  generous  gift  of  a  noble  gentleman, 
the  late  O.  W.  Childs.  Mr.  Childs  presented  the  Fathers  with  a  splendid 
site  of  some  ten  acres  in  what  were  then  the  suburbs  of  Los  Angeles. 
For  the  improvement  of  this  site  the  Fathers  were  aided  by  funds  from 
many  of  the  prominent  families  of  that  day,  and  Los  Angeles  County 
contributed  a  thousand  dollars,  and  the  city  government  live  hundred 
dollars  to  the  fund.  Other  workers  were  also  sent  from  the  Congrega- 
tion of  the  jNIission  in  the  persons  of  Rev.  T.  O'Leary,  Rev.  M.  O'Brien, 
Rev.  J.  More  and  Rev.  F.  Guedry,  who  arrived  in  1867. 

August  15,  1867,  was  a  day  of  general  observance  in  Los  Angeles, 
when,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  concourse  of  people,  Bishop  Amat  laid 
the  cornerstone  of  the  new  building,  which  stood  until  a  few  years  ago 
at  the  southeast  corner  of  Sixth  and  Hill  streets.  In  March  of  the  fol- 
lowing year  the  solid  brick  structure,  one  of  the  finest  in  southern  Cali- 
fornia, was  ready  for  use,  and  on  the  17th  of  that  month  the  faculty  and 
students  moved  to  their  new  home.  August  15,  1869,  the  college  received 
its  charter  from  the  state  of  California,  being  granted  the  privileges  of  k 
university. 


184  LOS  ANGELES 

In  its  new  home  St.  Vincent's  throve  under  the  successive  adminis- 
trations of  Father  McGill  and  Rev.  M.  V.  Richardson,  C.  M.,  who  suc- 
ceeded him,  until  in  1883  the  demands  of  the  students  required  the  erec- 
tion of  an  additional  wing  to  the  first  building.  In  1884  Father  Rich- 
ardson was  succeeded  as  president  by  the  late  Very  Rev.  A.  J.  Meyer, 
CM.,  and  under  the  mastery  of  that  gentle  hand  old  St.  Vincent's  was 
recognized  as  a  potent  factor  in  the  educational  life  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia. Growth  and  expansion  were  the  order  of  the  day  under  his  ad- 
ministration. 

In  the  winter  of  1886  the  school  was  moved  from  its  old  location  on 
Sixth  street,  between  Broadway  and  Hill,  to  the  new  home  established 
at  Grand  avenue  and  Washington  street.  In  February,  1887,  the  new 
college  was  formally  opened,  but  even  so  its  capacity  was  soon  taxed  by 
the  increasing  number  of  students  who  were  attracted  by  its  faculty  and 
its  strong  and  gentle  president.  Thereafter,  keeping  pace  with  the  mar- 
velous growth  of  Los  Angeles,  adapting  itself  and  its  forces  to  the  situa- 
tion created  by  a  metropolis,  St.  Vincent's  constantly  aimed  to  bestow 
upon  youth  the  education  that  the  experience  and  accomplishments  of 
years  can  furnish.  Along  with  the  purely  secular  work  of  the  institution 
was  combined  religious  and  moral  teaching. 

The  death  of  Father  Meyer,  February  12,  1898,  brought  to  the 
presidency  Rev.  J.  A.  Linn,  C.  M.,  who  had  formerly  for  several  years 
been  a  member  of  the  college  faculty.  Father  Lmn  in  turn  was  suc- 
ceeded in  1901  by  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  S.  Glass,  C.  M.,  the  present  Bishop 
of  Salt  Lake  City.  After  an  administration  of  ten  years.  Dr.  Glass  and 
the  Vincentian  Fathers  relinquished  the  work  to  the  Jesuit  Fathers,  who 
opened  their  school  on  West  Avenue  52,  in  Highland  Park,  in  several 
bungalows  and  a  temporary  class  building.  Rev.  R.  A.  Gleeson,  S.  J., 
now  Provincial  of  the  California  Province  of  the  Society  of  Jesus,  was 
the  first  president  under  the  Jesuit  regime.  He  was  succeeded  in  1914 
by  Rev.  W.  J.  Deeney,  S.  J.,  who  in  turn  gave  place  in  1915  to  Rev. 
Frederick  A.  Ruppert,  S.  J. 

Under  the  presidency  of  Father  Ruppert  expansion  was  the  order 
of  the  day.  A  fine  tract  of  land  on  West  Sixteenth  street  was  secured, 
and  there  in  a  commanding  location  the  first  of  what  is  to  be  a  splendid 
group  of  college  buildings  was  erected  in  the  spring  of  1917.  The  war 
has  necessarily  delayed  further  work,  but  the  college  is  prepared  to 
continue  with  its  plans  when  conditions  shall  warrant. 

Emilio  C.  Orteg,\  is  a  prominent  and  well-known  Los  Angeles  busi- 
ness man,  founder  and  proprietor  of  the  pioneer  Chili  Packing  Com- 
pany, now  the  Ortega  Chili  Cannery,  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Santa  Fe 
avenue.  His  business  associates  him  closely  with  the  everyday  and 
modern  life  of  southern  California.  But  his  own  life  and  his  family 
history  goes  far  back  into  the  dim  past  of  this  part  of  the  state.  His 
relationship  to  the  old  days  of  southern  California,  ante-dating  the  Amer- 
ican occupation,  may  best  be  told  by  quoting  some  of  the  paragraphs 
that  appeared  in  the  Ventura  Weekly  Democrat  of  Friday,  May  28,  1909. 
The  main  article  concerned  the  death  and  funeral  of  his  venerable 
mother,  and  the  caption  of  the  article  read :  "Was  a  mother,  grandmother, 
great-grandmother  and  great-great-grandmother."  The  article  said  in 
part  as  follows:  "The  remains  of  the  late  Dona  Concepcion  Ortega  were 
laid  to  final  rest  in  hallowed  ground  in  the  Catholic  Cemetery  yesterday 
morning.  The  solemn  and  impressive  obsequies  were  held  at  the  Old 
Mission,  high  requiem  mass  being  celebrated.     The  services  were  con- 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  185 

ducted  by  Father  Grogan,  and  the  attendance  of  former  neighbors  and 
friends  was  large,  in  addition  to  the  mourning  relatives,  three  genera- 
tions being  represented.  The  Father  spoke  briefly,  but  earnestly  and  with 
much  feeling,  of  the  Christian  life  and  character  of  the  deceased. 

"In  compliance  with  a  request  made  some  time  previous  to  the  death 
of  the  aged  mother,  the  loving  hands  of  her  five  sturdy  sons,  Ramon, 
Juan,  Theodore,  Emilio  and  Victor,  with  a  grandson,  J.  D.  Reyes,  acted 
as  pallbearers,  bearing  the  remains  to  the  ancient  Mission  where  she  had 
faithfully  worshipped  for  more  than  half  a  century,  and  also  deposited 
all  that  was  mortal  in  the  narrow  house  of  clay  overlooking  the  city  and 
sea. 

"To  recount  the  historical  facts  associated  with  the  life  and  family 
of  this  good  woman  would  require  a  volume.  Back  through  the  long 
vista  of  years  in  the  march  of  time  covering  nearly  a  century  from  the 
cradle  to  the  grave,  there  have  been  hardships,  happiness  and  sorrow. 
Children,  grandchildren,  great-grandchildren  and  great-great-grandchil- 
dren have  brightened  her  life,  in  age  ranging  from  seventy-six  years  to 
the  prattling  babe  in  arms. 

"Deceased  was  the  daughter  of  Jose  Dominguez,  and  first  saw  the 
light  of  day  in  Santa  Barbara  December  8,  1811.  Her  father  was  the 
trusted  overseer  for  the  Mission  Fathers  of  the  ancient  Rancho  Todas 
Santos,  and  was  murdered  by  the  Indians  during  a  raid  in  1821. 

"At  the  age  of  twenty-one  she  was  united  to  Don  Miguel  Emigdio 
Ortega,  a  member  of  one  of  the  most  distinguished  families  of  the  earliest 
Miss' on  days,  whose  great-grandfather  was  Captain  Jose  Maria  Ortega, 
the  father  of  the  Santa  Barbara  branch  of  the  Ortega  family,  who  was 
commandante  of  a  company  of  cavalry  at  Loreta.  His  wife  was  Ignacia 
Carrillo,  to  whom  were  bom  seven  children,  one  of  whom,  Juan,  was 
the  father  of  the  husband  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  With  the  mar- 
riage union  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Jose  Maria  Ortega,  and  their 
descendants,  was  formed  relationships  with  all  the  leading  families  asso- 
ciated with  the  earliest  history  of  Santa  Barbara,  notable  among  the 
list  being  the  Olibera,  Arguello,  Dela  Guerra,  Ramirez,  Arrellanes,  Tico, 
Hill,  Den,  More  and  O'Neill  families,  all  of  whom  were  concerned  in 
the  history  surrounding  the  Mission  Fathers  and  the  vast  ranchos  of 
their  day  and  generation. 

"Probably  in  all  of  California  no  other  woman,  at  death,  was 
mourned  by  as  large  a  family  of  direct  descendants  as  Dona  Concepcion 
Ortega,  who  was  surrounded  by  three  generations.  She  was  the  mother 
of  thirteen  sons  and  daughters,  nine  of  whom  survive  her.  There  are 
now  living  (1909)  forty-five  grandchildren,  seventy-two  great-grand- 
children, and  five  grent-great-grandchildren,  a  family  total  of  131. 

"Many  years  of  her  life  in  this  city,  up  to  a  few  years  ago,  were 
passed  in  the  old  adobe  homestead  at  the  foot  of  Main  street,  on  the 
river  bank,  and  has  long  occupied  a  place  among  the  more  interesting 
landm-rks  of  Ventura.  Its  reproduction  on  paper  has  been  viewed  by 
thousands  throughout  the  United  States,  foreign  lands  and  the  islands  of 
the  sea,  as  it  is  the  accepted  trademark  of  E.  C.  Ortega,  founder  and 
sole  owner  of  the  Pioneer  Chili  Packing  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  the 
product  of  which  industry  reached  every  country  and  clime.  It  was  a 
home  of  openhanded  hospitality  and  good  cheer. 

"In  the  early  days  Mrs.  Ortega  was  much  alone,  her  husband  being 
the  chief  overseer  of  various  Mission  ranches  and  properties  of  the  south- 
ern portion  of  the  state.  She  reared  her  large  family  with  a  kind  and 
attentive  hand,  and  the  devoted  care  given  her  during  her  declining  years 


186  LOS  ANGELES 

in  return  by  them  proved  a  self-satisfying  reward,  and  is  also  a  testi- 
monial to  her  many  motherly  virtues.  May  her  soul  rest  in  peace  eternal, 
and  the  memory  of  her  life  long  cherished  in  the  hearts  and  minds  of 
those  left  behind,  till  the  final  call  of  the  Master." 

Emilio  C.  Ortega,  a  son  of  Miguel  Emidio  and  Concepcion  (Domin- 
guez)  Ortega,  was  born  at  Ventura  August  8,  1857.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  school,  also  the  Franciscan  Fathers  College  at  Santa  Bar- 
bara, from  which  he  graduated  in  1873,  and  for  one  year  attended 
Healds  Business  College  at  San  Francisco.  His  business  career  began 
as  a  clerk  in  Samuels'  silk  house  at  San  Francisco.  A  year  later,  return- 
ing to  Ventura,  he  bought  a  grocery  store,  and  was  its  proprietor  four 
years.  Selling  out,  he  became  manager  of  the  L.  Vignave  Company  at 
Bakersfield  four  years,  and  then  was  a  rancher  in  San  Diego  County 
until  1890.  Following  that  came  an  experience  as  manager  and  stock- 
holder in  the  Esmeralda  Rancho  in  Valencia  County,  New  Mexico.  Dis- 
posing of  his  interests  there  in  1893,  Mr.  Ortega  became  assistant  super- 
intendent to  the  general  superintendent  of  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Rail- 
way at  Alberquque  for  one  year.  Ill  health  caused  his  resignation  and 
retirement,  and  for  several  years  he  was  again  engaged  in  farming  at 
Ventura. 

It  was  in  1899  that  Mr.  Ortega  founded  the  chili  canning  business, 
through  the  growth  and  development  of  which  his  name  now  means 
so  much  to  Los  Angeles.  His  start  was  a  very  crude  one,  with  meager 
facilities.  The  chief  instrument  of  his  business  at  the  beginning  was  a 
roaster  worked  by  hand.  -Later  he  improved  a  roaster,  which  he  pat- 
ented. In  1900  he  moved  his  plant  to  Los  Angeles,  locating  at  811 
Stephens  avenue.  In  1901  he  removed  to  348  South  Alameda  street,  and 
in  1905  bought  the  corner  at  Sixth  and  Santa  Fe,  ground  280x140  feet. 
This  property  is  now  covered  with  one  and  two-story  buildings  com- 
prising his  plant,  probably  the  largest  in  the  western  United  States.  The 
plant  is  equipped  with  modern  machinery,  and  has  a  capacity  of  one 
hundred  fifty  cans  per  minute.  The  company  manufactures  a  general 
line  of  chili  products,  employs  about  four  hundred  people,  and  whereas 
the  first  year's  business  am'ounted  to  about  a  thousand  dollars,  th^  value 
of  manufactured  products  at  present  aggregates  two  hundred  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  a  year. 

Mr.  Ortega  is  a  member  of  the  Rotary  Club,  Merchants  and  Manu- 
facturers' Association.  Credit  Men's  Association,  National  Canners'  As- 
sociation, Southern  California  Canners'  Association,  and  the  Los  An- 
geles Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a 
member  of  the  Catholic  church.  February  22,  1901,  he  married  in  Los 
Angeles,  Angelina  Alexander. 

William  Fr.\ncis  Edgar,  M.  D.  Like  many  of  the  early  settlers 
of  California,  the  late  Dr.  Edgar  was  a  man  of  cosmopolitan  experiences 
and  tastes,  and  as  an  army  surgeon  spent  many  years  at  eastern  posts  of 
duty,  though  the  happiest  period  of  his  life  was  passed  in  southern 
California. 

Eminent  in  his  profession,  lie  was  naturally  drawn  into  the  army 
through  his  early  associations  with  the  frontier  and  with  army  officials, 
and  doubtless  also  because  of  the  military  antecedents  in  his  own  an- 
cestry. One  of  his  grandfathers  was  a  captain  of  hght  artillery  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  while  the  other  was  a  captain  of  infantry  in  the 
War  of  1812.  His  paternal  grandfather  passed  on  his  military  spirit  to 
his  son,  William  Hamilton  Edgar,  who  at  the  age  of  seventeen  enlisted 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  187 

from  his  native  state  of  Virginia  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812. 
He  then  settled  in  Kentucky,  later  went  to  Missouri,  and  distinguished 
himself  as  a  man  of  forceful  character  and  of  great  energy.  The  last 
j'cars  of  his  life  were  spent  under  California  skies,  and  he  died  in  San 
Bernardino  County  in  1866.  His  widow  then  made  her  home  with  her 
son  William  in  Drum  Barracks,  near  Wilmington,  until  her  death  two 
years  later.  There  were  four  children,  the  only  daughter  dying  in  in- 
fancy. One  son  was  a  lawyer  and  died  at  Los  Angeles  in  1862 ;  an- 
other died  in  1874  at  the  Edgar  Rancho,  at  San  Gorgonio,  California. 

Dr.  William  Francis  Edgar  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Jessamine  County, 
Kentucky,  in  March,  1823.  At  the  age  of  eight  years  he  began  making 
the  daily  journey  back  and  forth  between  his  home  and  the  log  cabin 
schoolhouse  three  miles  distant.  When  the  family  located  in  Missouri 
he  enjoyed  better  privileges,  completing  his  literary  education  in  the 
Bonne  Femme  College.  After  the  panic  of  1837  the  family  moved  to 
St.  Joseph,  then  a  pioneer  post  on  the  Upper  Missouri  River.  Early  in 
life  he  had  some  associations  with  army  surgeons,  which  determined  his 
choice  of  a  profession.  He  earned  his  own  living  while  at  St.  Joseph 
as  clerk  in  a  drug  store,  and  applied  every  spare  hour  to  the  study  of 
medicine  and  chemistry.  Later  he  entered  the  Medical  Department  of 
the  University  of  Louisville,  where  he  was  graduated  with  high  honors 
in  1848.  He  was  a  pupil  under  Professor  Samuel  Gross.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second  session  of  his  college  career  he  and  two  fellow 
students  were  appointed  assistant  demonstrators  of  anatomy,  an  appoint- 
ment he  held  until  he  entered  the  army. 

After  graduating  in  medicine  he  presented  himself  before  the  Army 
Board  in  New  York  and,  out  of  scores  of  candidates,  he  was  one  of  four 
to  successfully  pass  the  rigid  test.  He  was  appointed  an  assistant  sur- 
geon in  the  United  States  Army  in  the  spring  of  1849  at  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks, and  was  iirst  assigned  to  duty  in  Fort  Leavenworth.  He  went 
into  the  army  at  a  peculiarly  strenuous  and  romantic  period  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  west,  when  California  was  achieving  its  fame,  and  soon 
after  the  tide  of  settlement  had  begun  to  the  northwestern  states  and 
territories.  From  Fort  Leavenworth  he  was  transferred  to  Oregon, 
and  traveled  by  steamer  to  old  Fort  Kearney.  While  en  route  the  Asiatic 
cholera  broke  out  among  the  passengers,  and  Dr.  Edgar  had  little  leisure, 
devoting  himself  without  fear  of  personal  risk  to  the  needs  and  neces- 
sities of  his  fellow  travelers.  Later  he  spent  some  time  at  Vancouver, 
at  The  Dalles  in  Oregon,  and  in  the  spring  of  1851,  under  changes  in- 
stituted by  the  government,  came  under  the  command  of  Major  Philip 
Kearny,  with  headc|uarters  at  Sonoma,  California.  While  in  Sonoma 
Dr.  Edgar  became  associated  with  men  afterward  famous  in  history, 
especially  Joseph  Stooker  and  George  Stoneman.  He  was  also  stationed 
for  a  short  time  at  Fort  Miller,  in  the  Yosemite  Valley,  and  toward  the 
close  of  1853  was  ordered  to  Fort  Reading,  at  the  present  town  of  Read- 
ing, in  Shasta  County.  For  four  years  he  had  labored  and  exposed  him- 
self without  limit  in  his  profession,  and  his  weakened  constitution  made 
him  an  easy  prey  to  the  malarial  conditions  of  his  new  post.  One  night 
he  rose  from  his  bed,  ill  with  malaria  fever,  to  attend  a  professional  call, 
and  returning  to  his  quarters,  fell  unconscious,  stricken  with  paralysis. 
He  was  relieved  from  duty,  and  after  careful  nursing  at  the  home  of  a 
friend  in  the  Tejon  Valley  he  so  far  recovered  that  by  the  following 
March  he  was  able  to  walk.  After  three  months,  part  of  which  was 
spent  in  Kentucky  and  Missouri,  he  reported  for  duty  at  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks, Missouri,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Second  United  States  Cavalry 


188  LOS  ANGELES 

Corps.  With  that  organization  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  other  mih- 
tary  men  whose  names  shine  with  pecuhar  luster  in  American  history, 
including  Robert  E.  Lee,  Albert  Sidney  Johnston,  William  J.  Hardee  and 
George  H.  Thomas.  For  a  brief  time  he  was  on  duty  in  Texas,  was 
then  sent  to  Fort  Meyers,  Florida,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  1856  was 
ordered  to  New  York,  and  the  next  year  was  again  given  duty  at  Fort 
Miller,  California,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Ord. 

In  November,  1861,  Dr.  Edgar  was  ordered  to  report  to  Wash- 
ington, and  was  among  the  last  regular  troops  to  leave  the  Pacific  Coast. 
During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  surgeon  with  the  rank  of  major.  He  was 
assigned  to  General  Buell's  command  in  Kentucky,  and  reorganized  and 
had  charge  of  the  General  Hospital  at  Louisville.  No  branch  of  the 
service  in  an  army  in  a  great  war  entails  more  exhausting  duties  than 
that  of  the  medical  stafif.  Dr.  Edgar's  health  again  failed,  and,  against 
his  wishes,  he  was  relieved  from  duty  and  assigned  to  the  medical  di- 
rector's office  in  the  Department  of  the  East,  with  headquarters  at  New 
York. 

At  New  York,  March  8,  1866,  in  the  Church  of  the  Nativity,  he 
married  Miss  Catherine  Laura  Flennifick.  It  was  with  peculiar  pleasure, 
heightened  by  the  memories  of  earlier  associations,  that  Dr.  Edgar  ac- 
cepted his  next  orders  to  return  to  California,  where  his  parents  had 
also  located.  With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  of  private  practice  at 
Los  Angeles,  Dr.  Edgar  spent  the  remaining  years  of  his  professional 
career  at  Drum  Barracks.  While  there  he  purchased  a  large  ranch  at 
San  Gorgonio,  in  San  Bernardino*  County.  This  ranch  was  managed 
by  his  brother,  Francis  Marion,  until  his  death  in  1874,  at  which  time 
Dr.  Edgar  took  personal  charge  of  the  property.  He  sold  part  of  it  in 
1881,  and  in  1886  sold  the  remainder  to  the  San  Gorgonio  Investment 
Company.  For  many  years  Dr.  Edgar  was  a  familiar  and  greatly  be- 
loved citizen  of  Los  Angeles,  and  in  Los  Angeles  he  found  opportunities 
to  express  many  of  the  desires  of  his  public  spirit  and  native  generosity. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  County  Medical  Society,  the  Southern 
California  Historical  Society,  the  Library  Association  of  Los  Angeles, 
the  first  agricultural  society  of  the  county  and  its  successor,  the  Sixth 
District  Agricultural  Association,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Main  Street 
and  Agriculture  Park  Railroad  Association,  ser\-ing  as  a  director  of  the 
last  named  for  more  than  five  years. 

Dr.  Edgar  died  August  23,  1897,  when  in  his  seventy-fifth  year. 

John  F.  Vordermark.  The  business  activities  by  which  he  is  best 
known  in  southern  California  connect  Mr.  Vordermark  with  the  estab- 
lishment and  executive  direction  of  several  w  11-known  independent  gaso- 
line manufacturing  companies.  He  had  a  wide  range  of  business  service 
and  experience  before  coming  west,  and  a.mong  other  distinctions  is  a 
veteran  of  the  Spanish-American  war  and  son  of  a  veteran  of  the  Union 
Army. 

Mr.  Vordermark  was  born  at  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  November  6, 
1876.  His  grandfather,  Ernest  Vordermark,  was  an  American  frontiers- 
man, and  established  a  home  at  Fort  Wayne  when  it  was  only  an  Indian 
post,  more  than  a  century  ago.  Later  he  entered  the  shoe  business  at 
that  city,  and  continued  it  actively  for  fifty-two  years.  John  W.  Vorder- 
mark, father  of  John  F.,  was  born  at  Fort  Wayne  in  1838,  was  educated 
there,  and  during  the  Civil  war  served  in  the  11th  Indiana  Battery  of 
Light  Artillery.  Following  the  war  he  took  up  the  shoe  business  as 
successor  to  his  father  and  retired  in  1890.     He  died  in  1906.     He  was 


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a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order  and  a  republican.  At  Lafayette,  Indi- 
ana, in  1872,  he  married  Louise  Quint. 

John  F.  Vorderniark  attended  grammar  and  high  schools  at  Fort 
Wayne  to  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  then  worked  in  the  construction  depart- 
ment of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company,  but  in  1894,  at  the  age 
of  eighteen,  was  appointed  a  letter  carrier  to  the  Fort  Wayne  pcstoffice. 
He  left  that  service  in  the  spring  of  1898  to  enlist  in  the  28th  Indiana 
Battery  Light  Artillery,  and  served  as  senior  gunner  corporal.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  from  the  service  October  31,  1898,  and  resumed  his 
position  as  letter  carrier  at  Fort  Wayne,  but  only  for  six  months.  His 
first  independent  business  enterprise  was  as  a  restaurant  proprietor  for 
two  years.  He  sold  out  and  used  his  experience  as  a  dining  car  con- 
ductor with  the  Pennsylvania  for  three  years.  He  then  relocated  at 
Ft.  Wayne,  bought  a  restaurant,  and  while  still  proprietor  of  that  he 
opened  in  1907  the  Victoria  Hotel,  at  Gary,  Indiana,  one  of  the  early 
hotels  of  that  thriving  industrious  city. 

Mr.  Vordermark  sold  out  his  Indiana  interests  in  1909  and  came 
to  Los  Angeles  to  act  as  assistant  manager  of  the  Scranton  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.  He  retired  from  the  insurance  field  in  1910  and  organ- 
ized the  Pacific  Gasoline  Company,  of  which  he  became  secretary  and 
manager.  This  company  had  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  in  Cali- 
fornia to  manufacture  gasoline  out  of  natural  gas.  In  1912  Mr.  Vorder- 
mark sold  his  interests  with  the  Pacific  Company  and  organized  the 
Olinda  Gasoline  Company,  with  a  plant  in  Orange  County.  He  is  still 
president  and  manager  of  that  company,  and  in  1916  also  organized  the 
Sunset  Gasoline  Company,  with  plant  near  Taft,  and  he  is  president  and 
manager  of  this  corporation. 

Mr.  Vordermark  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Odd 
Fellow,  a  member  of  the  Spanish-American  War  Veterans,  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Altodena  Country  Club,  is  a  Republican  and 
a  member  of  the  Christian  Science  Church.  Mr.  Vordermark  has  an 
interesting  country  home  near  San  Gabriel,  where  his  grounds  are  divided 
between  orchard  and  a  poultry  farm.  He  married,  at  Los  Angeles, 
August  12,  1915,  Rachael  Elizabeth  Harper. 

Eli  p.  Clark.  Los  Angeles  citizens  of  the  present  generation 
hardly  need  any  reminder  of  the  numerous  big  works  and  achievements 
that  stand  as  credit  to  the  career  of  Eli  P.  Clark.  One  of  the  most 
conspicuous  and  recent  is  the  great  Clark  Hotel,  an  eleven-story  structure 
that  was  completed  in  1913,  and  is  regarded  as  the  largest  re-enforced 
concrete  hotel  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mr.  Clark  became  identified  with  Los  Angeles  at  a  critical  and 
vital  time  in  its  history.  In  1891  he  joined  his  brother-in-law.  General 
Sherman,  at  Los  Angeles  and  began  developing,  rehabilitating  and  ex- 
tending the  electric  railway  systems  in  and  around  the  city.  A.t  that 
time  Los  Angeles  had  forty  thousand  inhabitants,  aiid  was  on  the 
verge  of  civic  bankruptcy  due  to  the  great  financial  depression  follow- 
ing the  collapse  of  the  boom  of  1887. 

The  first  big  achievement  to  their  credit  was  the  organization  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Consolidated  Electric  Railway  Company,  now  the  Los 
Angeles  Railway,  with  General  Sherman  as  president  and  Mr.  Clark 
vice  president  and  active  manager.  All  the  local  lines  were  consolidated 
under  this  organization  in  1894.  Mr.  Clark  then  acquired  the  local  horse 
power  lines  in  Pasadena,  and  in  1895  the  Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles 
Interurban  was  in  operation.     The  same  year  saw  the  beginning  of  the 


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line  between  Santa  Monica  and  Los  Angeles,  known  as  the  Los  Angeles 
Pacific  Railway.  This  was  opened  for  traffic  April  1,  1896.  Mr.  Clark 
continued  as  its  president  and  manager  until  the  fall  of  1909,  when  the 
property  was  sold  to  the  Southern  Pacific  Company.  Under  Mr.  Clark 
and  General  Sherman  it  became  one  of  the  finest  suburban  railroads  in 
the  country,  and  served  to  build  up  the  entire  foothill  country  from  Los 
Angeles  to  the  sea.  Mr.  Clark  also  planned  and  secured  the  property 
and  rights  of  way  for  a  subwa>',  which  when  constructed  will  be  the 
first  in  Los  Angeles. 

It  was  the  building  of  the  first  electric  railway  that  started  Los 
Angeles  toward  a  new  goal  of  aspiration  and  prosperity.  It  is  not  too 
much  to  say  that  this  was  one  of  the  main  factors  in  producing  within 
less  than  a  quarter  of  a  centur}'  the  modern  Los  Angeles,  one  of  the 
leadihg  cities  of  the  United  States.  The  broad  results  of  rapid  transit 
facilities  inaugurated  by  Mr.  Clark  and  General  Sherman  are  to  be 
seen  in  the  greater  Los  Angeles,  occupying  three  times  the  original  area 
of  the  city  and  thickly  populating  the  entire  region  for  miles  around  the 
older  city. 

Aside  from  his  big  achievements  in  Los  Angeles  and  up  and  down 
the  Pacific  Coast  the  career  of  Eli  P.  Clark  is  interesting  for  manv  other 
reasons.  He  was  country  born  and  country  bred  and  came  to  manhood 
in  one  of  the  smaller  cities  of  the  state  of  Iowa.  He  was  born  near  Iowa 
City  November  25,  1847,  son  of  Timothy  B.  and  Elvira  E.  (Calkin) 
Clark.  When  he  was  eight  years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Grinnell, 
Iowa,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools  and  also  Iowa  College.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  taught  a  term  of  school.  In  1867  he  accompa- 
nied the  family  to  southwest  Missouri,  where  he  continued  teaching  in 
the  winter  and  farming  with  his  father  in  the  summer. 

Mr.  Clark  became  a  true  southwesterner  when  in  1875  he  ..-rossed 
the  plains  with  a  team  to  Prescott,  Arizona,  making  the  journey  in 
nearlv  three  months.  At  Prescott  he  first  met  his  brother-in-law,  Gen- 
eral M.  H.  Sherman.  At  Prescott  he  was  a  merchant  and  for  one  year 
was  acting  postmaster.  In  1878  he  became  associated  with  A.  D.  Adams 
under  the  firm  name  of  Clark  &  Adams,  lumber  merchants.  In  1877 
he  had  been  appointed  territorial  auditor  for  Arizona,  and  filled  that 
oflice  five  terms,  ten  years.  While  in  that  position  he  formed  a  friend- 
ship with  General  John  C.  Fremont,  then  governor  of  Arizona. 

The  experience  and  the  vision  which  subsequently  made  him  so  im- 
portant a  factor  in  the  railway  situation  around  Los  Angeles  were  ac- 
quired while  living  at  Prescott.  He  aided  materially  in  the  passage  of 
a  bill  by  the  Legislature  in  1885  granting  a  subsidy  for  a  railroad  to  be 
built  from  Prescott  to  connect  with  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railway  at 
Seligman,  Arizona.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  original  company.  Within  a  year  after  the  plans  had 
been  completed  the  Prescott  &  Arizona  Railroad  was  in  successful  op- 
eration, and  ten  years  later  it  was  succeeded  by  the  Santa  Fe,  Prescott 
&  Phoenix  Railway. 

A  more  recent  achievement  in  railway  construction  credited  to  Mr. 
Clark  was  organizing  in  1906  the  Mount  Hood  Railway  &  Power  Com- 
pany at  Portland.  Oregon-.  Under  his  management  as  president  of  the 
company  this  project  was  pushed  rapidly  to  completion,  and  after  seeing 
if  in  successful  operation  Mr.  Clark  sold  his  interests.  After  that  time 
Mr.  Clark  and  General  Sherman  separated  their  principal  properties  and 
retired  from  the  railroad  field,  and  ^Tr.  Clark  has  since  devoted  himself 


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to  liis  private  investments,  one  of  which  has  been  noted  at  the  be- 
ginning of  this  article.  He  has  also  been  president  of  the  Clark  &  Sher- 
man Land  Company,  a  holding  company,  vice  president  of  the  Main 
Street  Company,  and  president  of  the  Sinaloa  Land  Company. 

Some  of  his  social  and  civil  connections  are  as  a  memher  of  the 
California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  University  Club,  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Los  Angeles,  of  which  he  has  served 
as  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  has  been  a  trustee  for 
Pomona  College  and  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Los 
Angeles.  At  "Prescott,  Arizona,  April  8,  1880,  Mr.  Clark  married  Miss 
Lucy  H.  Sherman.  Thev  had  four  children:  Mrs.  Catherine  Clark 
Barnard,  Mrs.  INLnry  Clark  Eversole,  Miss  Lucy  Mason  Clark  and  Eu- 
gene Payson  Clark. 

Tou  C.  Thornton.  The  state  of  Texas  lost  one  of  its  ablest  law- 
yers when  Tom  C.  Thornton  moved  from  the  Lone  Star  commonwealth 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1900.  At  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Thornton  has  continued 
his  splendid  work  as  a  lawyer,  and  is  also  prominent  in  other  business 
affairs,  especially  as  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Title  Insurance  Com- 
pany. 

He  was  born  at  Huntsville,  Texas,  August  16,  1863,  son  of  Frank 
D.  and  Margaret  (Leigh)  Thornton.  His  father,  of  an  old  Virginia 
family,  a  native  of  Spottsylvania,  was  educated  for  the  navy.  In  1840  he 
went  to  Texas,  was  identified  with  that  Republic  in  its  early  history,  and 
in  the  vicinity  of  Huntsville  set  up  as  an  extensive  cattle  raiser  and 
planter.  During  the  Civil  war  he  served  in  the  Confederate  army  and 
later  was  a  cotton  planter  and  broker  at  Huntsville.  He  died  in  1882. 
As  a  resident  of  Huntsville  he  became  a  personal  friend  of  its  most 
famous  citizen,  Sam  Houston,  and  on  the  death  of  that  great  Texas 
statesman  early  in  the  Civil  war  was  one  of  his  personal  friends  who 
helped  bury  him. 

It  was  in  the  atmosphere  of  southern  Texas  and  among  some  of  its 
best  known  men  that  Tom  C.  Thornton  grew  to  manhood.  Until  he  was 
fourteen  he  attended  district  school,  and  then  for  several  years  worked 
as  a  laborer  driving  stock  at  ninety  cents  a  day.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  offices  of  Senator  A.  L.  Abercrombie. 
The  daughter  of  Judge  Abercrombie  is  now  the  wife  of  Judge  R.  S. 
Lovett,  formerly  chairman  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  and  now  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  country  in  the  management  of  great 
war  industries.  Mr.  Thornton  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1885  and 
soon  achieved  a  high  position  in  the  Hunt  County  bar.  He  was  also 
interested  in  state  politics,  and  before  leaving  Texas  was  personally 
associated  with  such  well-known  national  characters  as  C.  A.  Culberson, 
at  that  time  attorney  general  of  Texas,  but  now  senior  United  States 
senator  from  Texas.  Another  Texan  whom  he  frequently  met  is  the 
noted  Colonel  E.  M.  House,  known  as  personal  adviser  to  the  administra- 
tion of  President  Wilson.  Others  were  John  Shepard,  fatlier  of  the 
junior  United  States  senator  from  Texas,  and  Judge  Monta  J.  Moore  and 
T.  W.  Gregory. 

Mr.  Thornton  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1900  and  has  carried  and 
still  carries  a  large  volume  of  responsibilities  as  a  lawyer.  The  Los 
Angeles  Title  Insurance  Company,  of  which  he  is  president,  is  one  of 
the  oldest  institutions  of  its  kind  in  southern  California.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  and  State  Bar  Association,  is  a 
democrat,  and   is   affiliated  with   Unity   Lodge,   F.   &  A.    M.,   and   is   a 


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Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  Noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  an  Eastern  Star. 
March  9,  1896,  Mr.  Thornton  married  at  Greenville,  Hunt  County,  Texas, 
Leona  Turner,  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Turner. 

Harry  G.  R.  Philp,  now  manager  of  the  great  Broadway  Depart- 
ment Store,  comes  of  a  family  of  merchants  and  clothing  manufacturers, 
and  has  had  a  progressive  career  of  advancement  in  Los  Angeles  since 
early  manhood,  coming  step  by  step  to  the  responsibilities  which  he  now 
enjoys. 

Mr.  Philp  was  born  at  Paris,  Ontario,  Canada,  June  12,  1875,  son 
of  Rev.  John  and  Margaret  Rebecca  Grafton  Philp.  His  father  was  a 
Methodist  minister  and  occupied  pulpits  in  some  of  the  largest  and  most 
important  churches  of  that  denomination  in  Canada,  including  churches 
in  such  cities  as  London,  Hamilton,  Toronto  and  Montreal.  It  is 
through  his  mother  that  Mr.  Philp  is  most  closely  connected  with  the 
merchandise  business.  Her  family  were  merchants,  manufacturers  of 
men's  clothing,  and  operated  furnishing  goods  stores  in  a  number  of 
cities  in  Ontario. 

Harry  G.  R.  Philp  graduated  from  high  school  in  1893,  and  then 
became  a  member  of  the  class  of  1897  in  Victoria  College  of  Toronto 
University.  Midway  in  his  college  course  he  left  his  studies  and  in 
November,  1895,  arrived  in  Los  Angeles.  February  21,  1896,  he  be- 
came cashier  and  assistant  to  Arthur  Letts,  owner  of  the  Broadway 
Department  Store.  Six  months  later  he  was  made  manager  of  the 
notion  department,  and  thereafter  he  made  a  close  study  of  all  branches 
of  the  business.  In  June,  1897,  he  was  appointed  buyer  and  annually 
made  several  trips  to  New  York.  Later  he  became  merchandise  man- 
ager, and  in  1908  was  appointed  general  manager  of  the  entire  store. 

Mr.  Philp  is  a  member  of  Southgate  Lodge  No.  320,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  is  a  Knight  Templar,  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Ad- 
vertising Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Westlake  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
At  St.  Catherine's,  Ontario,  April  27,  1904,  he  married  Charlotte  Bo- 
gardus.  They  have  three  children :  Grafton,  born  in  June,  1905,  now 
a  high  school  boy;  Stewart,  born  in  January,  1909,  in  the  grammar 
school  and  Elizabeth  Mae,  who  is  also  attending  grammar  school. 

Lewellyn  Bixby.  The  history  of  many  large  and  ambitious  ranch 
and  cattle  holding  enterprises  and  also  the  development  of  the  city  of 
Long  Beach  has  kept  the  name  of  Lewellyn  Bixby  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  southern  California  for  over  sixty  years.  Many  of  the  enter- 
prises which  the  late  Lewellyn  Bixby,  Sr.,  set  in  motion  have  been  con- 
tinued and  brought  to  successful  issue  by  his  son  Lewellyn,  Jr.,  one  of 
the  best  known  citizens  of  Long  Beach. 

The  elder  Bixliy  was  born  at  Norridgewock,  Maine,  in  1825,  and 
had  such  advantages  as  the  public  schools  of  his  locality  could  bestow. 
His  life  was  spent  uneventfully  on  his  father's  farm  until  1851.  In 
that  year  he  came  to  California,  making  the  trip  around  the  Horn  and 
settling  in  Amador  county.  Here  he  entered  a  partnership  relation 
in  the  butcher  business  with  his  cousins,  Benjamin  and  Thomas  Flint, 
under  the  name  of  Flint,  Bixby  &  Company.  In  1853  all  the  cousins 
went  back  home  to  Maine,  traveling  via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  When 
they  came  west  again  it  was  by  the  overland  route,  and  a  large  herd  of 
sheep  which  they  had  gathered  ainong  the  farms  of  Iowa  they  drove 
over  the  plains.     This  time  their  headquarters  were  in  Monterey,  now 


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San  Benito  count.\-,  where  the  sheep  were  turned  loose  to  graze  on 
extensive  tracts  of  land  purchased  by  the  tirm.  It  is  claimed  ihat  at 
this  particular  time  the  firm  was  the  largest  land  owner  in  California, 
in  1866  they  extended  their  sphere  of  operations  to  Los  Angeles  county 
and  bought  the  famous  Los  Cerritos  Rancho,  consisting  of  twenty-five 
thousand  acres.  About  that  time  the  firm  of  Flint,  liixby  &  Company 
and  Jolham  Hixby  organized  the  J.  Bixby  &  Company,  which  took  over 
the  ownership  and  control  of  Los  Cerritos  Rancho,  and  for  several  years 
devoted  it  exclusively  to  sheep  husbandry. 

In  1876  or  1878  Lewellyn  Bixby,  Sr.,  took  up  his  residence  in  Los 
Angeles  and  looked  after  the  interests  of  his  firm  in  southern  California 
until  his  death  in  1896.  He  was  a  very  ardent  Republican,  and  was  a 
trustee  and  active  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  oi  Los 
Angeles. 

Lewellyn  Bixby  and  his  brother  Jotham  (elsewhere  referred  toj 
and  his  cou.sin  John,  all  married  sisters,  members  of  the  Hathaway  fam- 
ily of  Skowhegan,  Maine,  Lewellyn  Bixby  married  at  Skowhegan  for  his 
first  wife,  Sarah  Hathaway,  and  after  her  death  her  sister  Mary  became 
his  second  wife.  ]Mar>'  Bi.xby  died  in  February,  1881.  They  had  three 
children:  Mrs.  P.  J.  Smith  of  Claremont,  California;  Mrs.  Theodore 
Chamberlin,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts;  and  Lewellyn,  Jr.  Both  the 
daughters  were  born  on  the  Rancho  San  Justo  in  San  Benito  county, 
California. 

Lewellyn  Bixjjy,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  August  21,  1879, 
and  as  a  boy  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native  city. 
In  18%  he  entered  Pomona  Preparatory  School  and  from  that  Pomona 
College  at  Claremont,  from  which  he  graduated  Bachelor  of  Literature 
111  190).  Besides  his  literary  training  he  studied  cival  engineering  in 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated Bachelor  of  Science  in  1904,  and  after  returning  to  California  he 
acquired  a  general  knowledge  of  the  law  by  eight  months  of  study  in 
the  offices  of  Hahn  &  Hahn  at  Pasadena.  Since  then  Mr.  Lewellyn 
i')ixby  has  been  a  resident  of  Long  Beach,  and  has  been  giving  careful 
and  indefatigable  attention  to  the  extensive  real  estate  and  other  business 
proprieties  left  by  his  father.  He  is  vice  president  of  the  National  Bank 
at  Long  Beach,  president  of  the  Long  Beach  Savings  Bank  and  Trust 
Company,  president  of  the  Long  Beach  Dairy  Company,  president  of 
the  Soft  Water  Laundry  Company,  vice  president  of  the  Mutual  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association,  vice  president  of  the  Bixby  Land  Company, 
vice  president  'of  the  Palos  Verdes  Company  and  vice  president  of  the 
Alamitos  Land  Company. 

Mr.  Bixby  is  also  a  trustee  of  his  alma  mater,  Pomona  College,  a 
member  of  the  University  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Virginia  Country 
Club  of  Long  Beach,  and  is  a  republican  voter  and  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  Church.  At  Claremont,  California,  August  26,  1901, 
he  married  Miss  Avis  Smith.  They  have  two  children.  Avis  Hathawa\- 
and  Lewellyn,  Jr.,  the  former  bom  in  1905  and  the  latter  in  1908,  and 
both  students  in  the  public  schools  of  Long  Beach. 

The  Harvard  School  for  Boys  is  one' of  several  excellent  prepara- 
tory boys'  schools  of  southern  California,  and  has  some  special  and 
distinctive  advantages  all  its  own.  One  of  these  is  that  it  is  closely 
affiliated  with  the  educational  program  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  is 
known   as   the   Bishop's    School   for   Boys   under   the   auspices    of   that 


194  LOS  ANGELES 

church.  It  is  a  boarding  and  day  school,  and  while  not  primarily  a 
military  school  its  schedule  of  student  activities  is  conducted  with  mili- 
tary precision,  and  a  judicious  use  has  been  made  of  military  discipline 
and  instruction. 

The  Harvard  School  is  now  ni  its  20th  year  of  existence  and  work. 
It  was  founded  in  1900  by  Mr.  Grenville  C.  Emery  and  Mrs.  Ella  R. 
Emery.  Mr.  Emery  is  now  headmaster  emeritus  and  the  full  title  of 
the  school  is  "The  Harvard  School  Upon  the  Emery  Foundation."  The 
purpose  of  founding  this  school,  in  the  words  of  Mr.  Emery,  was  to 
educate  and  train  the  sons  of  those  who  are  opposed  to  mixed  schools 
in  the  early  st^es  of  their  sons'  growth  and  development,  who  are 
tired  of  the  one-sided  results  of  tutoring,  and  desire  a  school  large 
enough  to  embrace  the  educative  influence  of  numbers ;  who  are  appre- 
ciative of  a  school  surrounded  by  ample  playgrounds  and  conducted 
chiefly  by  men  teacher.-,;  a  school  self-supportmg,  independent,  Chris- 
tian, thoroughly  equipped  and  conducted  in  all  departments  on  the 
highest  plane  of  educational  efficiency. 

"The  Harvard  School  Upon  the  Emery  Foundation"  was  incor- 
porated in  1911.  The  standards  of  instruction  and  discipline  have  been 
so  carefully  maintained  in  past  years  that  the  student  graduates  are  now 
admitted  to  all  colleges  and  universities  which  admit  any  students  upon 
certificate  without  examination,  and  many  others  have  been  admitted 
by  examination  to  the  great  universities  of  the  country  and  have  attained 
honor  and  distinction  in   scholarship  and  in  other   student  activities. 

The  age  of  admission  is  from  nine  to  twenty-one,  and  the  utmost 
care  is  used  in  selecting  the  candidates  for  admission,  boys  of  incorri- 
gible habits  and  without  previous  good  associations  being  rigorously 
excluded.  The  school  is  both  a  grammar  and  high  school,  each  separate, 
though  the  school  :s  conducted  as  a  unit  with  as  little  break  as  possible 
between  the  eighth  and  ninth  grades.  It  is  a  school  large  enough  to 
furnish  the  inspiration  of  numbers,  without  the  defects  and  disadvant- 
ages that  are  inherent  in  most  of  the  public  institutions.  There  is 
healthy  rivalry  among  the  boys  in  the  different  classes,  and  the  num- 
bers are  not  so  great  that  the  teacher  is  unable  to  give  individual  atten- 
tion. A  thorough  program  of  studies  both  required  and  elective  is 
mapped  out  through  the  grammar  and  high  school  grades,  and  besides 
these  the  school  furnishes  opportunities  for  rfianual  training,  scientific 
military  instruction,  athletics,  social  and  other  organizations,  while  at 
all  times  emphasis  is  placed  upon  the  formation  of  good  and  regular 
habits  and  the  development  of  religious  life.  The  school  has  eight 
buildings  on  the  campus,  including  Harvard  Hall,  the  home  of  the  high 
school,  including  also  the  auditorium,  library  and  recitation  rooms. 
Junior  Hall,  home  of  the  grammar  school,  Arnold  Hall,  a  donnitory, 
Rugby  Hall,  a  dormitory,  a  modern  and  up-to-date  hospital  with  a 
trained  nurse  in  attendance  at  all  times.  Gymnasium  Hall,  Manual  Train- 
ing Building  and  the  School  Chapel.  Harvard  School  is  accredited  to 
West  Point  Military  Academy,  and  an  army  officer  is  detailed  by  the 
War  Department  for  the  military  discipline  and  instruction.  The  school 
is  designated  by  the  War  Department  as  a  unit  of  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  Junior 
Division. 

Harvard  School  has  graduated  nineteen  classes,  numbering  nearly 
three  hundred  boys,  and  how  well  the  school  has  fulfilled  its  purpose  is 
well  reflected  in  the  present  positions  enjoyed  by  many  of  these  gradu- 
ates, some  of  whom  are  aready  among  the  prominent  men  of  afifairs  in 
southern  California  and  in  many  other  cities  and  states.  ' 


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Rev.  Robert  B.  Gooden,  headmaster  of  the  Harvard  School  for 
Boys  at  Los  Angeles,  has  been  a  pastor  and  identified  with  the  educa- 
tional affairs  of  the  Episcopal  church  in  this  diocese  for  the  past  four- 
teen years. 

Mr.  Gooden  was  born  at  Bolton,  England,  September  18,  18/4, 
son  of  James  and  Hannah  (Burton)  Gooden.  His  early  education  was 
acquired  in  the  Shaw  Street  Institute  at  Liverpool,  England.  Soon 
after  leaving  school  in  1888  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  for 
about  ten  years  he  lived  near  Fresno,  California,  and  had  a  varied  ex- 
perience in  the  agricultural  and  horticultural  activities  of  that  section. 

He  began  his  preparation  for  his  present  calling  when  in  1898  he 
entered  Trinity  College  at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated A.  B.  in  1902  and  received  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  1903.  He 
also  attended  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  at  Middletown,  Connecticut, 
graduating  with  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Divinity  in  1904.  The  same 
year  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  by  Bishop  Brewster  of  Connecticut. 

Returning  to  California,  he  was  assigned  his  first  duties  at  St. 
Paul's  Episcopal  church,  at  Ventura.  In  1905  he  was  regularly  or- 
dained a  priest  by  Bishop  Johnson  of  Los  Angeles  in  the  Trinity  Church 
of  Santa  Barbara.  He  then  continued  his  duties  at  Ventura  until  1906, 
and  the  following  year  had  charge  of  the  churches  of  Escondido  and 
Fall  Brook.  In  1907  Rev.  Mr.  Gooden  became  rector  of  St.  Luke's 
Episcopal  church  at  Long  Beach,  and  resigned  that  office  in  1912  to 
become  headmaster  of  the  Harvard  School  for  Boys.  He  is  also  trustee 
of  the  school  and  is  secretary  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Episco- 
pal Diocese  of  Los  Angeles  and  examining  chaplain  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Diocese.  He  is  also  counselor  of  the  Eighth  District  for  the  General 
Board  of  Religious  Education  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Gooden 
is  affiliated  with  the  Elks  Lodge  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 

November  7,  1904,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  Alice  Moore. 
They  have  five  children,  all  attending  public  school,  named  Alice, 
Frances,  Robert,  Heber  and  Muriel. 

Gener.vl  Johnstone  Jones.  Of  distinguished  ancestry,  and  with 
his  lineage  distinguished  by  his  own  character  and  achievements.  General 
Johnstone  Jones  is  one  of  the  most  widely  known  citizens  of  southern 
California,  where  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has  done  his 
work  as  a  lawyer,  leader  in  public  affairs  and  as  a  soldier. 

His  first  American  ancestor  in  the  paternal  line  was  Cadwallader 
Jones,  who  came  from  Wales  to  X'irginia  in  1623,  when  twenty-two 
years  of  age.  A  later  generation  was  represented  by  Peter  Jones,  who 
was  an  Indian  trader  at  Peter's  Point,  now  City  Point,  Virginia,  and  in 
1675  commanded  Fort  Henry.  In  1689-92  the  governor  of  the  Bahamas 
was  Cadwallader  Jones,  also  an  ancestor  of  General  Jones  of  Los  An- 
geles. Peter  Jones,  who  founded  Petersburg,  X'irginia,  in  1734,  and 
Major  Cadwallader  Jones  of  Virginia,  who  in  1777,  at  the  age  of  twen- 
ty-two, was  commissioned  captain  of  the  Martha  Washington  Light 
Horse  under  General  Washington,  were  both  likewise  in  the  direct  line- 
age. Of  Major  Cadwallader  Jones  it  should  be  stated  that  he  was  also 
an  officer  on  the  staff  of  General  Lafayette,  from  whom  he  received  one 
of  those  famous  Toledo  swords  which  were  a  gift  from  the  King  of 
Spain  to  General  Washington,  and  through  the  latter  were  distributed 
among  the  American  army  officers.  This  sword  was  given  to  Major 
Cadwallader  Jones  about  1780,  and  has  been  worn  by  his  lineal  de- 
scendants of  the  same  name  in  all  the  subsequent  wars.     The  first  son 


196  LOS  ANGELES 

to  bear  it  was  Lieutenant  Cadwallader  Jones  of  Halifax  county,  North 
Carolina,  who  was  an  officer  in  the  Marines  during  the  battle  between 
the  Leopard  and  the  Chesapeake,  one  of  the  most  noted  naval  encounters 
of  the  War  of  1812.  The  next  to  wear  the  sword  was  Colonel  Cad- 
wallader Jones,  whose  mother,  Rebecca  Edwards  Jones,  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  General  Allen  Jones.  General  Allen  Jones  was  the  friend 
and  patron  of  the  illustrious  John  Paul  Jones,  who  took  the  family  name 
in  recognition  of  that  fact.  General  Allen  Jones  was  also  a  distinguished 
leader  in  the  North  Carolina  colony  both  before  and  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. Through  this  branch  of  the  Jones  family  General  Jones  of  Los 
Angeles  is  related  with  the  Polks  of  North  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  the 
Davie,  Epps,  Daniels,  Eaton  and  Cobb  families. 

The  mother  of  General  Johnstone  Jones  was  Annie  Isabelle  Iredell. 
Her  father,  James  Iredell,  served  as  attorney  general  and  afterward 
as  governor  of  North  Carolina,  and  sat  in  the  United  States  Senate  with 
Webster,  Clay  and  Calhoun  as  contemporaries.  Governor  Iredell  was 
descended  from  Judge  James  Iredell,  who  was  born  at  F>elfast,  Ireland, 
in  1751,  son  of  Francis  and  Margaret  (McCuUoch)  Iredell,  and  grand- 
son of  Rev.  Francis  Iredell.  Judge  Iredell  at  the  age  of  seventeen  was 
appointed  collector  of  the  port  at  Edenton,  North  Carolina,  and  quickly 
rose  to  distinction  in  the  colony,  studied  law,  and  in  1790  was  appointed 
an  associate  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  by  Presi- 
dent Washington.     He  died  at  the  age  of  forty-six. 

The  wife  of  Governor  James  Iredell  was  Frances  Treadwell.  Her 
father.  Dr.  Benjamin  Treadwell,  was  a  .skilled  physician  of  Long  Island. 
He  was  a  descendant  of  John  Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullen,  whose  roman- 
tic history  is  familiar  to  every  American  school  child.  In  the  same  an- 
cestry was  Bishop  Samuel  Seabury,  a  great-great-grandson  of  John  Al- 
den. Bishop  Seabury  was  the  first  Protestant  Episcopal  bishop  in  the 
United  States. 

These  historic  figures  constitute  the  ancestral  background  to  the 
career  of  General  Johnstone  Jones.  General  Jones  was  born  at  Hills- 
boro.  North  Carolina,  September  26,  1848.  His  Christian  name  was  in 
honor  of  his  ancestor.  Governor  Gabriel  Johnstone,  one  of  the  first  co- 
lonial governors  of  North  Carolina.  He  was  liberally  educated,  attend- 
ing Hillsboro  Military  Academy  and  the  South  Carolina  Military  Acad- 
emy at  Columbia.  In  November.  1864,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  he  enlisted  in 
White's  Battalion,  South  Carolina  Cadets  in  Brigadier  General  Stephen 
Elliott's  Brigade  of  Hardee's  Army.  He  was  with  that  command  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  Like  many  another  high-spirited  Southern  youth 
he  felt  impelled  to  take  a  practical  hand  in  the  work  of  rehabilitating 
the  devastated  country  at  the  end  of  the  Civil  war,  and  for  a  time  he 
was  clerk  in  a  store  at  Rock  Hill.  South  Carolina.  He  also  studied  law 
under  William  K.  Ruftin,  son  of  Chief  Justice  Thomas  Ruffin  at  Hills- 
boro. In  January,  1868.  General  Jones  was  appointed  deputy  clerk  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  North  Carolina.  The  clerk  of  that  court  was 
William  H.  Bagley.  father  of  Ensign  Bagley,  whose  death  early  in  the 
Spanish-American  war  is  well  remembered.  William  H.  Bagley  was 
also  father  of  Mrs.  Josephus  Daniels,  wife  of  the  present  secretary  of 
the  navy.  A  few  months  later,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  General  Jones  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  and  entered  upon  his  active  career  as  a  lawyer  at 
Baltimore.  In  1872  he  returned  south  and  for  two  years  was  editor  of 
the  Daily  Observer  at  Charlotte,  North  Carolina.  In  1874  he  was  elected 
secretary  of  the  State  Senate,  and  in  1875  served  as  secretary  of  the 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  197 

Constitutional  Convention.  He  was  thus  identified  with  and  has  a 
lively  memory  of  those  personalities  and  events  which  reflect  the  recon- 
struction era  of  his  home  state.  During  1876-78  General  Jones  edited 
the  Daily  News  at  Raleigh.  January  8,  1877,  Governor  Zebulon  B. 
Vance  appointed  him  adjutant  general  of  North  Carolina  with  the  rank 
of  brigadier  general,  and  in  this  position  his  services  were  retained  for 
three  consecutive  terms,  by  reappointment  from  Governor  Thomas  J. 
Jarvis  in  1881  and  by  Governor  Alfred  M.  Scales  in  1885.  General 
Jones  was  adjutant  general  in  North  Carolina  until  January,  1889. 

For  some  years  in  the  meantime  he  had  his  home  at  Asheville,  and 
in  1884  was  elected  to  represent  Buncombe  county  in  the  State  Legisla- 
ture. While  there  he  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  committee  on  military- 
affairs.  In  January,  1879,  while  at  the  convention  of  Militia  Officers 
in  New  York  City,  General  Jones  was  one  of  the  committee  of  three  that 
drafted  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  National  Guard  Associa- 
tion of  the  United  States.  Later  he  served  as  vice  president  of  this 
association,  succeeding  General   Beauregard  in  that  office. 

It  was  on  account  of  the  ill  health  of  his  wife  that  General  Jones 
gave  up  his  law  practice  and  resigned  his  active  associations  with  the 
militarj'  and  civic  aff'airs  of  North  Carolina  to  come  to  California  in 
August.  1889.  He  had  married  in  June,  1873,  at  Charlotte,  North  Caro- 
lina, &l''ss  Elizabeth  Waters  Miller.  Her  father  was  Thomas  C.  Miller, 
a  prominent  North  Carolina  attorney.  Among  her  ancestors  was  the 
noted  General  James  ]\loore,  who  served  with  the  rank  of  brigadier 
general  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  On  coming  to  California  General 
Jones  opened  an  office  at  San  Diego  in  partnership  with  James  E. 
Wadham,  who  has  since  served  as  mayor  of  San  Diego.  In  September, 
1890,  General  Jones  was  nominated  for  district  attorney  and  in  the 
following  November  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  eighteen,  being  the 
only  democrat  chosen,  in  the  county  that  year.  After  a  term  of  two 
years  he  was  again  nominated,  and  his  sen'ice  and  his  increasing  popu- 
larity drew  many  votes  to  him  outside  his  own  party,  but  owing  to  the 
presence  of  a  populist  candidate  and  a  three-cornered  fight  the  republican 
nominee  was  victor. 

In  November,  1893,  General  Jones  moved  to  Los  Angeles  and  now 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  practiced  law  in  that  city.  During  1896 
he  was  nominated  by  the  democrats  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  for 
state  senator  from  the  Thirty-seventh  Senatorial  District  and  defeated 
by  his  republican  opponent.  On  January  1,  1899,  General  Jones  was 
appointed  assistant  district  attorney  by  James  C.  Rives,  and  served 
four  years  in  that  position. 

Within  a  month  after  the  declaration  of  war  against  Spain  General 
Jones  had  raised  a  cavalry  regiment  of  twelve  troops  from  Los  Angeles, 
Pasadena,  Los  Nietos  Valley,  Norwalk,  W^hittier,  Santa  Ana  and  San 
Bernardino,  and  tendered  their  services  to  the  president.  Much  to  his 
disappointment  the  quota  from  California  had  been  filled  and  there  was 
no  subsequent  call  for  his  regiment  to  the  service.  But  he  has  done 
his  part  in  two  wars,  and  though  not  a  soldier  is  not  an  inactive  figure 
in  the  present  great  struggle  in  which  America  is  engaged,  and  it  can 
truthftilly  be  said  that  whether  in  war  or  in  peace  he  has  been  an 
American  citizen  whose  ideals  could  be  trusted  and  whose  influence  is 
valuable  to  the  safeguarding  of  the  Republic. 


198  LOS  ANGELES 

The  Westlake  School  for  Girls  was  founded  in  1904,  and  now 
in  its  sixteenth  year,  has  won  a  standing  and  appreciation  as  one  of 
the  best  institutions  of  its  kind  in  southern  California.  It  is  a  school 
that  appeals  to  cultivated  minds  by  the  dignity  of  its  claims  and  the 
wholesome  scope  of  the  advantages  it  olifers. 

The  founding  of  this  school  for  girls  at  Los  Angeles  was  the  result 
of  a  long  projected  plan  by  two  Stanford  graduates.  Miss  De  Laguna 
and  Miss  Vance,  who  up  to  the  summer  of  1904  were  members  of  the 
faculty  of  the  University  of  Southern  California.  The  Westlake  School 
for  Girls  was  therefore  opened  with  a  strong  college  preparatory  bias, 
and  in  the  first  year  of  its  work  asked  for  accrediting  by  the  State 
L'uiversity.  This  request  was  practically  granted  at  that  time,  and 
since  that  year  the  school  has  been  on  the  accredited  list  of  schools 
for  entrance  to  the  State  University  and  is  now  accredited  to  Stanford 
University  and  the  great  eastern  women's  colleges. 

The  school  was  first  opened  in  what  was  then  a  retired  section 
opposite  Westlake  Park  on  Alvarado  street.  The  two  original  build- 
ings were  soon  increased  to  six.  The  increase  in  buildings  due  to  the 
growth  of  the  school  presented  certain  inconveniences  and  increased  the 
difficulty  of  direct  management,  so  that  for  some  years  the  founders 
planned  and  worked  for  a  new  home.  This  new  home  was  realized 
in  the  fine  old  English  buildings  on  the  crest  of  the  Westmoreland  Hills. 
To  this  site  the  school  was  moved  in  the  Spring  of  1917,  thirteenth 
year  of  Tts  existence.  The  location  is  one  of  double  attractiveness. 
It  is  within  the  city  and  yet  is  sufficiently  secluded  to  give  unusual 
freedom  of  outdoor  life.  Nature  seems  to  have  created  the  snot  for 
the  very  purpose  to  which  it  has  been  put.  A  wonderful  panorama 
stretches  on  all  sides,  affording  an  unbroken  prospect  as  far  as  the 
Sierra  Madre  Mountains.  It  has  been  the  purpose  of  the  founders  of 
the  school  to  surround  the  students  during  their  most  impressionable 
years  with  those  influences  which  would  develop  a  sense  of  true  har- 
mony and  Cjuicken  their  perception  of  things  beautiful,  and  this  pur- 
pose has  been  abundantly  realized  in  the  present  site  and  also  in  the 
comfort  and  charm  of  the  buildings  which  adorn  it.  The  new  campus 
has  a  large  swimming  pool  in  the  open  and  the  girls  are  qualifying 
as  swimmers.  Bowling  on  the  green  is  also  a  favorite  sport.  The 
bracing  air  of  the  Westmoreland  Hills  is  conducive  to  health  and  dis- 
play of  energy,  and  outght  to  produce  a  race  of  vigorous  women. 

The  grounds  comprise  a  tract  something  over  two  acres  in  extent 
and  the  school  is  the  center  of  an  educational  community.  Its  location 
on  the  edge  of  a  deep  ravine  gives  the  school  the  advantages  of  a  posi- 
tion of  remoteness  that  aids  much  in  emphasizing  the  scholastic  nature 
of  the  spot. 

•The  school  has  continued  to  uphold  its  ideals  as  a  college  prepara- 
tory school,  and  offers  full  courses  in  all  the  subjects  required  for  en- 
trance to  the  colleges.  There  is  also  a  strong  art  department,  music 
school  and  school  of  expression.  A  lower  school  in  a  separate  building, 
thoroughly  equipped,  prepares  students  for  the  upper  school.  Students 
now  are  passing  on  to  the  colleges,  never  having  attended  any  other 
school  than  the  Westlake  School  for  Girls,  from  the  kindergarten  to  the 
senior  class  of  the  college  preparatory. 

The  Westlake  School  for  Girls  is  a  purely  private  enterprise  and 
the  associate  principals  and  joint  owners  are  Miss  Vance  and  Miss  De 
Laguna.  Miss  Frederica  De  Laguna  graduated  A.  B.  from  Stanford 
University   and   has   her    Master  of   Arts   degree    from   Columbia    Uni- 


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versity.  After  leaving  the  university  Miss  De  Laguna  was  professor  of 
English  Literature  at  the  University  of  Southern  California  at  Los 
Angeles  until  she  joined  Miss  Vance  in  1904  in  establishing  the  present 
school. 

Miss  Jessica  S.  Vance  is  a  graduate  of  Stanford  University  with 
the  degrees  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  Prior  to  taking  up  her  present  work  she 
taught  at  Mills  College  at  Oakland,  was  assistant  in  English  at  Stanford 
University,  and  later  Professor  of  Philology  and  Literature  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California. 

The  Westlake  School  for  Girls,  based  upon  the  solid  foundation 
of  usefulness  and  culture,  bringing  sweetness  and  light  into  the  lives 
of  the  young  women  of  California,  has  taken  its  place  in  the  educa- 
tional system  of  the  V'V'estern  Coast. 

George  Smedlev  Yarn.\ll  is  not  "a  mere  business  man."  Probably 
from  some  of  his  Quaker  ancestors  he  got  the  idea  that  to  enter  busi- 
ness was  not  altogether  an  opportunity  of-  making  money,  but  an  oppor- 
tunity to  exemplify  one's  best  talents  and  service.  Mr.  Yarnall  is  the 
dean  of  the  representatives  of  the  Provident  Life  and  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Philadelphia  in  California.  This  is  one  of  the  oldest  life 
insurance  companies  in  the  country,  having  been  founded  bj'  a  group 
of  Friends  and  financiers  in  Philadelphia  more  than  half  a  century 
ago.  Mr.  Yarnall  is  also  president  and  manager  of  the  Federal  Mort- 
gage and  Bond  Company,  and  now  gives  most  of  his  time  to  the  affairs 
of  that  company.  His  record  of  handling  its  affairs  is  one  of  the  out- 
standing facts  of  his  integrity. 

Mr.  Yarnall  was  born  in  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  near 
Philadelphia,  November  24,  1856,  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Smed- 
ley)  Yarnall,  both  now  deceased.  His  parents  were  born  in  the  same 
locality  of  Pennsylvania.  Both  the  Yarnall  and  Smedley  families  came 
to  America  as  colonists  with  William  Penn.  Isaac  Yarnall  and  wife 
had  a  family  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  living  except  one 
son,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  one  daughter  who  died  in  in- 
fancy. George  S.  is  the  only  one  in  California,  his  brothers  and  sisters 
living  near  Philadelphia. 

He  attended  a  private  school  in  Delaware  county  and  also  a  noted 
Friends  school,  the  Westtown  Boarding  School  in  Chester  county.  He 
remained  on  his  father's  farm  to  the  age  of  twenty-one,  and  his  educa- 
tion was  completed  at  .the  age  of  sixteen.  For  five  or  six  years  he 
was  in  the  coal,  feed  and  lumber  business  at  Glenmiils  and  Morton 
Stations  on  the  West  Chester  and  Philadelphia  Railroad.  Then  for 
eight  years  he  was  in  the  clerical  department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road at  the  Broad  Street  Station  in  Philadelphia.  On  account  of  ill 
health  he  took  a  six  months'  leave  of  absence  and  came  out  to  California, 
remaining  at  Pasadena  and  resigning  his  position  with  the  Pennsylvania 
Company.  He  lived  at  Pasadena  three  years  and  then  returned  east. 
For  three  years  he  was  associated  with  his  brother  William  S.  in  the 
optical  business  in  Philadelphia,  and  then  joined  the  field  force  of  the 
Provident  Life  and  Trust  Company.  For  eight  years  he  was  in  the 
home  office  at  Philadelphia,  and  in  1902  returned  to  California  and  has 
ever  since  been  representative  and  special  agent  of  that  company,  and 
it  is  his  intention  to  remain  with  the  organization  the  rest  of  his  active 
career.  He  also  does  a  general  brokerage  business  in  insurance  of  all 
kinds. 

Mr.  Yarnall's  courage  and  resourcefulness  as  a  business  man  were 


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put  to  the  test  when  in  April,  1916,  he  took  over  the  tangled  affairs 
of  the  Investment  Building  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  which  a  few 
months  previously  had  been  reorganized  as  the  Federal  Mortgage  and 
Bond  Company.  At  that  time  the  assets  of  the  company  were  largely 
on  the  debit  side,  and  the  records  of  the  previous  management  were 
such  that  only  a  man  conscious  of  his  own  rectitude  could  have  been 
induced  to  accept  the  responsibilities  which  Mr.  Yarnall  shows  as  presi- 
dent and  manager.  During  the  past  three  years  he  has  worked  steadily 
to  put  the  organization  on  a  paying  basis,  and  on  every  hand  has  come 
evidence  of  confidence  in  his  administration  and  the  general  integrity 
of  the  resources  of  the  business  itself.  The  company  has  a  large  amount 
of  improved  and  unimproved  property,  and  have  built  and  sold  a  large 
number  of  artistic  bungalows  and  are  developing  some  of  the  best  resi- 
dence sections  in  and  around  the  city. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Yarnall  has  been  a  prominent  factor  in  the 
prohibition  party.  In  his  native  state  he  was  chairman  of  the  Prohir 
bition  County  Committee  of  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  for  twelve 
years,  and  was  the  prohibition  candidate  for  Congress  in  the  campaign 
prior  to  the  election  of  the  present  congressman  Charles  H.  Randall. 
He  received  a  larger  vote  than  ever  previously  given  to  any  other  pro- 
hibitionist for  such  office  in  the  United  States.  He  has  been  similarly 
active  in  behalf  of  prohibition  in  California.  He  was  instrumental  and 
wrote  the  resolutions  for  the  dry  fight  and  carried  it  before  the  con- 
vention in  1914.  He  was  executive  secretary  of  the  California  Dry 
Campaign  Committee  in  that  year.  Afterward  he  was  president  of 
the  Pasadena  Dry  Federation,  handling  the  campaign  in  Pasadena, 
where  such  a  tremendous  dry  vote  was  cast.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
New  Century  Club,  a  literary  club  of  Pasadena,  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Realty  Board,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Automo- 
bile Club  of  Southern  California,  and  in  different  ways  has  made  his 
influence  count  for  good  roads.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Friendly 
Circle  of  Pasadena,  and  his  religious  associations  are  those  of  his  an- 
cestors, the  Society  of  Friends. 

November  6,  1879,  in  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Yar- 
nall married  Miss  Ella  Mendenhall.  Her  parents,  Henry  and  Deborah 
(Passmore)  Mendenhall,  lived  on  a  farm  adjoining  that  of  the  Yar- 
nalls  in  Delaware  county  and  she  was  reared  and  educated  in  the  same 
locality  as  her  husband.  Mrs.  Yarnell  is  a  member  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
of  Pasadena.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yarnall  first  came  to  California  in  1888, 
spending  three  years  at  that  time,  and  returned  in  1902.  They  have 
always  had  their  home  in  Pasadena,  their  residence  being  at  656  North 
Los  Robles  avenue,  Pasadena. 

Rev.  Patrick  O'Donoghue.  One  of  the  most  recently  established 
parishes  of  the  Catholic  church  in  Los  Angeles  is  the  Church  of  Our 
Lady  of  Loretto,  of.  which  Father  O'Donoghue  is  the  second  and  present 
pastor. 

This  parish  was  established  by  the  late  Bishop  Conaty  in  June,  1915. 
In  absence  of  a  regular  church  edifice  the  first  mass  was  said  at  the 
Temple  Street  Car  Barn  at  the  corner  of  Edgeware  and  Temple  streets. 
The  present  church  occupies  ground  at  the  corner  of  Union  and  Court 
streets.  The  cornerstone  of  the  edifice  was  laid  June  17,  1916,  and  the 
church  was  dedicated  in  November,  1917,  by  Bishop  Conaty.  A  recton' 
was  also  built  in  the  spring  of  1917,  and  a  parish  hall  and  parish  school 
complete  the  group  of  buildings  and  the  services  of  the  parish.     The 


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growth  of  ihe  parish  has  been  slow  but  steady,  beginning  with  twenty 
families,  and  there  are  now  three  hundred  and  fifty  families  constituting 
the  parish.  Father  George  Donahoe  was  pastor  from  the  establishment 
of  the  church  until  March,  1918,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Churcn 
of  Sacred  Heart. 

Rev.  Patrick  O'Donoghue,  the  present  pastor,  was  born  in  County 
Kerry,  Ireland,  August  4,  1885,  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Margaret  (Kennelly) 
O'Donoghue.  His  early  education  was  acquired  in  the  National  schools 
of  Ireland  until  fourteen,  and  then  being  destined  for  the  priesthood 
he  studied  at  St.  Michael's  College  at  Listowel  in  County  Kerry,  graduat- 
ing in  1902,  and  took  his  theological  work  in  St.  Patrick's  College  at 
Carlow.     He  was  ordained  priest  June  14,   1908,  by  Bi.shop  Foley. 

Practically  all  his  active  career  of  ten  years  has  been  spent  in  the 
Los  Angeles  Diocese.  For  several  years  he  was  assistant  pastor  of  St. 
Patrick's  church  at  Los  Angeles,  and  in  1915  was  appointed  pastor  of 
St.  Joseph's  church  at  Bakersfield,  California,  St.  Mary's  church  .it  Taft, 
and  St.  Brendan's  church  at  Maricopa.  He  was  burdened  with  the 
responsibilities  of  these  three  missions  until  February,  1918,  when  he 
was  inducted  into  his  present  duties. 

Albert  B.  Conrad,  a  former  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  City  Coun- 
cil and  long  identified  with  the  official  life  of  this  city  and  county,  is  a 
native  son  of  California  and  has  drunk  deep  of  the  romance  and  ex- 
perience of  the  west  and  far  north.  He  is  the  son  of  a  forty-niner,  and 
much  of  his  own  life  has  been  spent  on  the  frontiers  of  civilization. 

Mr.  Conrad  was  born  at  Folsom  in  Sacramento  county  September 
20,  1856,  a  son  of  Charles  Claren  and  Elizabeth  E.  (Ager)  Conrad. 
Her  father  was  a  Baptist  minister,  came  to  California  at  the  age  of 
eighty-four,  but  afterward  returned  to  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York, 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight.  This  Baptist  minister's  mother 
lived  to  the  remarkable  age  of  a  hundred  one.  Charles  C.  Conrad  and 
wife  came  across  the  plains  in  1849  with  an  old  ox  team,  building  floats 
to  get  across  the  rivers,  and  experienced  all  the  ups  and  downs  of  fron- 
tiering.  Their  first  location  was  in  the  celebrated  gold  diggings  of 
Hangtown,  near  Colomo.  Charles  C.  Conrad  died  at  Folsom  in  Sac- 
ramento county  about  1860,  when  his  son  Albert  was  three  or  four 
years  old.  After  his  death  the  family  traveled  for  two  years  in  the 
east,  and  while  there  the  mother  died  and  as  buried-  at  Redwood  City 
in  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York.  In  the  meantime  she  had  married 
Benjamin  C.  Quigley  at  Folsom.  Mr.  Qiiigley  was  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Vallejo,  in  Solano  county,  and  in  1876  moved  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  was  street  inspector  under  L.  M.  Manzer.  He  after- 
ward returned  to  Vallejo  and  married  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Nellie 
Hodge.  He  lived  in  San  Francisco  until  after  the  fire  and  then  came 
to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  died  about  three  months  later.  His  widow 
is  still  living  at  San  Francisco.  Mr.  Quigley  was  also  a  California 
forty-niner,  coming  from  Allegheny  county,  Pennsylvania.  Albert  B. 
Conrad  had  one  brother,  older  than  himself,  Charles  C.  He  was  lib- 
erally educated,  his  people  spending  about  twenty  thousand  dollars  in 
giving  him  the  advantages  of  the  best  institutions  of  the  east.  He  spent 
his  life  as  a  teacher  and  died  in  Arizona. 

Albert  B.  Conrad  acquired  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
California  and  the  best  part  of  his  education  came  from  travel  and 
experience.  In  1879  he  left  San  Francisco  and  went  to  Tombstone, 
Arizona,  where  he  engaged  in  mining,  smelting  and  assaying,  working 


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in  the  Toughnut  and  Empire  Mines.  He  also  did  some  mining  in 
Sonora,  Mexico.  In  1884  he  came  to  Los  x-\ngeles,  and  after  several 
employments  was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  county  tax  collector's 
office.  During  the  smallpox  epidemic  of  1887-8  he  was  a  volunteer 
nurse,  taking  charge  of  many  patients  until  the  Catholic  Sisters  came 
to  his  aid.  He  did  sacrificing  work  for  about  nine  weeks.  He  was 
then  a  deputy  in  a  county  office  and  later  was  an  attache  in  the  State 
Senate  during  two  sessions  as  bookkeeper  to  the  sergeant-at-arms  and 
one  session  as  clerk  of  the  Judiciar}'  Committee,  and  was  secretary  of 
the  Republican  County  Central  Committee  undpr  Charles  W.  Silent,  Fred 
W.  Wood  and  Bradner  W.  Lee. 

The  most  thrilling  chapter  of  Mr.  Conrad's  life  experience  was 
the  two  and  one-half  years  he  spent  in  the  far  north  in  the  famous 
gold  regions  around  the  Yukon  in  Alaska.  In  1897  he  started  alone 
with  four  dogs  as  companions,  with  twenty-eight  hundred  pounds  of 
provisions,  bedding  and  other  supplies  and  two  sleds.  On  the  way  he 
was  joined  by  a  man,  a  stranger,  with  the  understanding  that  he  was 
to  reach  Dawson,  Mr.  Conrad  to  provide  him  with  money  and  pro- 
visions until  he  got  work  in  Dawson.  They  pulled  over  the  snow 
along  the  northern  trails,  and  went  over  the  lakes  by  the  aid  of  sails 
on  their  sleds,  letting  the  dogs  follow  behind.  They  put  buckskin 
shoes  on  the  dogs.  Finally  they  arrived  at  a  sheep  camp  in  the  Chil- 
koot  Pass.  He  was  the  only  man  v.'ho  fought  his  way  to  the  sheep 
camp  and  escaped  the  slide  in  which  a  party  of  sixty-four  men  were 
buried  in  the  snow,  only  four  escaping  alive,  he  having  left  before 
the  rest.  Four  days  later  Mr.  Conrad  and  his  companion  started  on 
and  arrived  at  Marsh  Lake,-  where  they  whipsawed  lumber  from  the 
standing  trees,  built  a  boat,  put  the  boat  on  the  sleds  and  loaded  all 
their  goods  and  dogs,  set  sail  and  started  across  the  ice  on  tlie  lakes. 
When  half  way  down  they  struck  open  water  and  then  transferred 
the  sleds  to  the  boat  and  partly  rowing  and  partly  sailing  attained  the 
head  of  the  Yukon  River.  There  they  unloaded  and  recalked  the  boat 
and  the  next  day  started  down  the  river.  Many  boats  were  ahead  and 
behind,  some  of  the  parties  having  been  trying  for  a  whole  year  to 
get  through.  At  the  White  Horse  Rapids  Mr.  Conrad  lost  his  boat, 
and  spent  a  week  walking  up  and  down  stream  picking  up  everything 
that  would  float.  His  partner  got  hold  of  some  San  Francisco  papers 
and  taking  them  went  on  to  Dawson  in  a  canoe,  selling  the  papers  for 
a  dollar  and  a  half  apiece.  Mr.  Conrad,  left  behind,  joined  a  couple 
of  boys  from  Iowa  to  assist  him  to  Dawson,  and  they  took  turns  with 
the  boat  day  and  night.  When  he  reached  Dawson  eight  hundred 
boats  had  preceded  him  but  many  more  were  behind  and  a  large  part 
of  them  never  reached  Dawson  at  all.  As  soon  as  he  landed  at  Daw- 
son he  made  a  run  for  Bonanza  Creek,  located  a  valuable  claim  there, 
but  through  the  connivance  of  a  Canadian  official  was  prevented  from 
realizing  anything  from  it.  He  next  started  by  boat  for  Fort  Cudahy 
on  the  Forty  Mile  River,  went  up  to  Franklin  Gulch,  located  several 
claims,  built  a  log  cabin  with  a  dirt  roof  and  named  the  locality  Con- 
rad Gulch.  Modern  map  makers  still  recognize  that  name.  He  spent 
about  a  year  there  prospecting  and  sinking  shafts  but  found  nothing  of 
value,  and  becoming  disgusted  started  back  to  Dawson.  He  then  went 
up  Bonanza  Creek  to  Gold  Hill,  and  was  employed  shaking  a  rocker 
at  a  dollar  and  a  half  an  hour.  He  remained  there  until  the  district 
was  cleared  up  and  then  on  returning  to  Dawson  was  taken  ill  and  soon 
took   a  boat  to    St.    Michaels   in   order   to  get  medical   atttention.      He 


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reached  St.  Michaels  about  the  time  the  first  pan  of  dust  was  sent 
in  from  Nome.  He  started  for  Nome,  but  everything  had  been  located 
ahead  of  him.  He  therefore  remained  on  board  the  steamer,  which 
brought  him  to  San  Francisco.  He  reached  San  Francisco  the  latter 
part  of  1900,  after  having  been  away  two  and  one-half  years. 

Mr.  Conrad  was  soon  appointed  clerk  of  the  Judiciary  Committee 
of  the  Senate  at  Sacramento  and  at  the  close  of  the  session  returned  tp 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  was  employed  as  extra  deputy  in  the  City 
assessor's  office  until  appointed  chief  deputy  of  that  department,  a  place 
he  filled  until  the  election  of  H.  H.  Rose  as  mayor,  and  was  then  ap- 
pointed by  Mayor  Rose  as  city  tax  and  license  collector.  He  was  in 
that  position  until  the  office  and  that  of  the  city  assessor  were  con- 
solidated in  1916.  Mr.  Conrad  then  entered  city  politics  as  candidate 
for  the  City  Council  and  was  elected  and  took  his  seat  the  first  Mon- 
day in  July,  1917,  serving  faithfully  the  interests  of  all  his  constitueftts 
and  the  city  at  large  until  July,  1919. 

Mr.  Conrad  is  a  member  of  Ramona  Parlor  of  the  Native  Sons  of 
the  Golden  West,  is  a  republican  and  attends  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia and  the  City  Club,  and  resides  at  835  Garland  Avenue.  He 
married  Mrs.  Anna  E.  Clarke,  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mervin  J.  MoNNETTE.  While  during  his  residence  in  Los  Angeles 
Mervin  J.  Monnette  has  had  the  dignified  associations  of  a  prominent 
banker  and  financier,  the  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been  spent  as  a 
practical  man  of  affairs  in  close  touch  with  the  working  realties.  He 
has  been  a  farmer,  live  stock  dealer,  rancher,  gold  miner,  as  well  as 
banker. 

He  was  born  at  Marion,  Ohio,  August  24,  1847,  son  of  Abraham 
and  Catherine  (Braucher)  Monnette,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  the  latter  of  Pennsylvania.  The  Monnettes  are  an  old  French 
Huguenot  family,  the  ancestry  being  traced  back  in  direct  line  for  six 
or  seven  centuries.  They  were  early  Colonial  Americans,  and  members 
of  the  family  participated  in  Colonial  wars  and  also  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  and  many  subsequent  wars. 

Mervin  Jeremiah  Monnette  had  only  such  educational  advantages 
as  were  supplied  by  the  country  schools  near  his  boyhood  home.  He 
remained  at  home  farming  and  stock  raising  to  the  age  of  twenty-one, 
and  in  1868  went  to  the  Chicago  Stock  Yards  as  a  dealer.  Later  he 
returned  to  Oliio  and  located  at  Bucyrus,  where  he  was  president  of  the 
Second  National  Bank  from  1888  to  1898.  His  interests  were  attracted 
to  the  gold  fields  of  the  west,  and  during  1897-98  he  was  a  stock  broker 
at  Cripple  Creek,  Colorado.  From  1898  to  1905  Mr.  Monnette  was  an 
extensive  ranch  owner  and  cattle  feeder  in  Nebraska.  When  the  famous 
gold  field  mines  of  Nevada  were  opened  up  he  was  one  of  the  men  early 
on  the  ground,  and  shares  the  credit  for  the  discovery  and  development 
of  the  famous  Mohawk  mine,  of  which  he  was  a  part  owner. 

Mr.  Monnette  has  had  his  home  at  Los  Angeles  since  1907.  He 
became  president  of  the  American  National  Bank,  and  later  vice  presi- 
dent and  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  and  the  Citizens  Trust 
&  Savings  Bank.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Mining 
Stock  Exchange.  His  present  active  business  connections  are  as  vice 
president  and  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank,  Citizens  Trust  & 
Savings  Bank,  and  secretary-treasurer  and  director  of  the  Bankers  Oil 
Company. 


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Mr.  Monnette  is  a  republican,  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  is  affiliated  with  the  Elks,  the  California  Club,  is  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars.  Janu- 
ary 5,  1869,  he  married  Olive  Adelaide  Hull,  now  deceased.  Their  only 
living  child  is  Orra  E.  Monnette,  president  of  the  Citizens  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Monnette  was  married  to  Ethel 
M.  Reed,  in  Los  Angeles,  October  21,  1915. 

Orra  Eugene  Monnette.  The  interests  and  associations  that  lend 
quiet  distinction  to  Orra  Eugene  Monnette  are  those  of  a  successful 
lawyer,  a  banker,  member  of  many  scholarly,  patriotic  and  social  organi- 
zations, and,  to  his  intimate  friends,  a  cultured  personality  to  which  no 
large  human  undertaking  makes  an  uncertain  appeal. 

Mr.  Monnette,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1907 
and  is  president  of  the  Citizens  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  was  born  near 
Bucyrus,  Ohio,  April  12,  1873,  son  of  Mervin  Jeremiah  and  Olive  Ade- 
laide (Hull)  Monnette.  Of  his  father,  also  well  known  in  Los  Angeles, 
more  is  said  on  the  preceding  page  of  this  publication.  Mr.  Monnette 
graduated  from  the  Bucyrus  High  School  in  1890,  attended  a  business  col- 
lege there,  and  took  his  college  work  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University  at 
Delaware,  where  he  was  graduated  A.  B.  in  1895.  He  also  took  a 
special  course  in  law  in  the  same  institution.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Ohio  bar  in  1896  and  in  the  meantime  had  received  some  training  in 
business  as  an  employe  of  the  Second  National  Bank  at  Bucyrus.  He 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  Judge  Thomas  Beer  and  Smith  W. 
Bennett,  under  the  name  Beer,  Bennett  &  Monnette,  at  Bucyrus  in 
1897.  After  Mr.  Bennett  retired  in  1899  the  partnership  continued  as 
Beer  &  Monnette  until  October,  1903.  At  that  date  Mr.  Monnette 
removed  to  Toledo,  and  as  a  partner  with  Hon.  Charles  A.  Seiders 
enjoyed  an  extensive  clientage  until  1906,  when  he  opened  an  office 
of  his  own.  On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1907  Mr.  Monnette  con- 
tinued his  individual  law  practice,  but  since  1912,  when  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Citizens  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  has  given  almost  his 
undivided  attention  to  the  affairs  of  this  splendid  institution,  one  of  the 
best  known  and  strongest  banks  of  southern  California. 

Mr.  Monnette  is  also  a  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  of 
Los  Angeles,  the  Los  Angeles  Title  and  Trust  Company,  and  the  Mort- 
gage Guarantee  Company.  By  appointment  of  the  mayor  he  served  as 
a  member  of  the  Municipal  Annexation  Commission  of  Los  Angeles 
and  is  president  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Los  Angeles  Public 
Library. 

Many  people  unfamiliar  with  his  career  as  a  lawyer  and  banker 
know  his  name  in  connection  with  considerable  literary  work,  especially 
through  articles,  poems  and  various  prose  works  contributed  to  maga- 
zines. He  has  long  been  a  student  of  genealogy  and  history,  and  pub- 
lished "California  Chronology"  in  1915.  His  Magnum  Opus,  however, 
is  "Monnet  Family  Genealogy,"  published  in  1911,  upon  which  he  ex- 
pended ten  years  of  labor  and  ten  thousand  dollars.  The  work  has 
thirteen  hundred   pages   and   one  hundred   seventy-one   illustrations. 

Mr.  Monnette  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descend- 
ants, of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  America,  Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Order  of  Washington,  Society  of 
the  War  of  1812.  He  is  a  member  of  the  honorary  scholarship  fra- 
ternity Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  of  the  social  fraternity  Phi  Kappa  Psi,  of 


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which  he  was  elected  national  president  in  June.  1911.  He  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  J\Jason  and  .^hriner.  In  politics  he  is  a 
republican,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Local 
societies  of  which  he  is  a  member  are  the  California  Club,  Jonathan 
Club,  Union  League  Club,  Los  .Xngeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club,  Knickerl)ocker  Club,  "The  Scribes,"  "'The  Uplifters,"  Los 
Angeles  Rotary  Club,  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  and 
the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association.  November  6,  1895,  Mr. 
Monnette  married  Carrie  Lucile  Janeway,  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  On  De- 
cember 15,  1917,  he  married  Helen  Marie  KuU,  of  Los  Angeles. 

Rev.  George  Donahue,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart, 
has  been  a  consecrated  worker  in  the  diocese  of  Los  Angeles  ever  since 
he  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood.  « 

The  Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart  originally  formed  a  portion  of  the 
Old  Plaza  parish.  Its  first  mission  was  opened  under  the  pastorate  of 
Father  Peter,  afterward  IHshop  of  Brownsville,  Texas.  In  1889  the 
Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart  was  formed  into  a  separate  parish.  Its 
first  pastor  was  I'^ather  Harnett,  appointed  by  Bishop  Francis  r^lora. 
In  1900.  Rev.  ilichael  McAuliffe  succeeded  him.  and  served  until  his 
death,  Noveml)er  23,  1907.  The  next  incumbent  was  Rev.  P.  Gerald 
Gay,  who  in  February,  1918,  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  George  Donahoe. 

Father  Donahoe  was  born  at  Loretto,  Pennsylvania,  September  4, 
1876,  a  son  of  Thomas  and  L}dia  Donahoe.  He  was  educated  in  public 
and  parochial  schools  in  his  native  state,  attended  the  Holy  Ghosl 
College  in  Pittsburgh  and  St.  Vincent's  Seminary  at  Pittsburgh.  He  was 
ordained  a  [priest  .August  13,  1901,  at  Los  Angeles  by  Bisho])  Mont- 
gomery. 

His  first  api)ointmenl  was  as  assistant  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the 
Sacred  Heart  at  Hollister  for  two  years.  Returning  to  Los  Angeles. 
lie  became  secretary  to  the  late  Bishop  Conaty  for  two  years,  ami  then 
took  charge  of  the  Church  of  our  Lady  of  Loretto,  at  the  corner  of 
Court  and  Cpion  streets.  Father  Donahoe  organized  this  parish  in 
1905  and  continued  in  charge  until  i\[arch.  1918.  when  he  was  transferred 
to  his  present  field. 

William  R.  Bukke,  who  died  following  an  operation  for  appen- 
dicitis at  the  Mayo  Hospital  in  Rochester,  Minnesota,  July  19,  1911, 
was  a  Los  Angeles  pioneer,  one  of  the  earliest  investors  in  city  real 
estate,  and  in  gaining  an  individual  fortune  made  many  contributions 
to  the  welfare  and  development  of  his  community. 

To  his  friends  he  was  always  known  as  Major  Burke,  a  title  which 
he  shunned,  but  as  a  son  of  the  Southland  and  as  a  mark  of  real  dis- 
tinction the  title  clung  to  him.  He  was  born  at  Helena.  Arkansas,  and 
was  about  sixty-five  years  of  age  when  he  died.  Prior  to  1885,  when 
he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  he  was  editor  of  a  paper  in  his  home  city.  He 
married  Miss  Greenfield,  daughter  of  a  wealthy  cotton  broker  of  New 
Orleans.  She  died  January  25,  1910,  the  mother  of  two  children,  Carle- 
ton  F.  Burke,  and  Miss  Louise  Burke. 

William  R.  Burke  had  considerable  wealth  when  he  landed  in 
Los  Angeles.  With  great  faith  in  the  future  of  southern  California, 
he  invested  his  money  in  real  estate  and  allied  himself  with  everj-  move- 
ment to  make  Los  Angeles  and  the  surrounding  territory  better  known 
and  appreciated.  This  faith  was  well  rewarded,  his  investments  pros- 
pered, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  his  propertv   was  estimated   to  he 


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worth  more  than  a  milHon.  He  bought  beautiful  Berkeley  Square  when 
it  was  a  barley  field  and  developed  the  district  into  one  of  the  most 
exclusive  residential  sections  in  southern  California.  His  large  home 
has  stood  as  one  of  the  distinctive  types  of  old  southern  architecture 
for  many  years.  He  also  owned  valuable  frontage  on  Broadway  be- 
tween Eighth  and  Ninth  streets  and  between  Ninth  and  Tenth  streets, 
and  other  property  on  East  First  street  near  San  Pedro  street. 

For  years  he  was  a  recognized  leader  in  civic  life,  was  a  stanch 
democrat,  and  a  delegate  to  the  national  democratic  convention  in  1896, 
where  he  seconded  the  nomination  of  Bryan  for  president.  He  was  a 
Catholic,  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  of  the  California 
and  Los  Angeles  Country  Clubs.  His  hobby  in  athletics  was  polo,  and 
it  is  said  he  never  missed  a  polo  game  in  or  about  Los  Angeles. 

Carleton  F.  Burke,  son  of  the  pioneer  Los  Angeles  real  estate  man, 
William  R.  Burke,  w'hose  career  is  sketched  on  preceding  page,  has  for  a 
number  of  years  handled  the  valuable  Burke  interests  in  southern  Califor- 
nia, and  is  widely  known  in  real  estate  and  civic  life  and  also  as  a  soldier  of 
the  recent  war,  in  which  he  spent  two  years  in  the  service  and  attained 
the  rank  of  major. 

Major  Burke  was  born  at  Helena,  Arkansas,  December  lO,  1882, 
and  was  two  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  Los  Angeles.  He  at- 
tended St.  Vincent's  College  to  the  age  of  fifteen,  then  Thatcher  School 
for  Boys  at  Nordhofif,  Ventura  county,  for  two  years,  and  spent  three 
years  in  the  University  of  California.  After  completing  his  education 
he  was  associated  with  his  father  in  real  estate  operations  and  still 
continues  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business. 

Mr.  Burke  since  early  youth  has  been  an  enthusiastic  polo  player, 
and  perhaps  his  greatest  enthusiasm  has  been  in  good  horses.  This 
taste  strangely  enough  became  the  basis  of  his  qualifications  for  patriotic 
service  during  the  recent  war.  He  enlisted  in  June,  1917,  in  the  Re- 
mount Service  of  the  United  States  Army,  his  duties  being  in  the  pur- 
chasing and  training  of  horses  for  army  use.  He  was  commissioned  a 
captain  at  enlistment  and  in  October,  1918,  was  promoted  to  major. 
Major  Burke  spent  fifteen  months  in  France,  and  received  his  hon- 
oratile  discharge  in  June,  1919.  , 

Major  Burke  is  unmarried.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club,  and  in  politics  is  a  democrat. 

Jacob  W.  Earl.  Thirty  years  ago  Jacob  W.  Earl  had  a  small  car- 
riage shop  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneer  carriage  makers 
of  the  city.  He  gradually  developed  his  works,  adapting  himself  to 
progress  and  change,  and  a  large  patronage  and  an  entire  community 
have  come  to  recognize  the  value  and  reliability  of  his  service.  That 
position  meant  much  to  him  and  was  a  decided  asset  when  the  automobile 
came  into  popularity  and  threatened  to  displace  horse-drawn  vehicles. 
Mr.  Earl  early  made  a  change  in  his  facilities  to  meet  the  new  demands, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  has'  been  a  maker  of  automobile  bodies  and 
other  parts  exclusive  of  mechanism.  Today  the  Earl  Automobile  Works 
is  a  big  institution.  It  is  best  known  not  only  in  Los  Angeles  but  in 
other  parts  of  the  country  to  people  of  means  and  of  exclusive  tastes. 
Some  of  the  products  of  this  company  are  sent  all  over  the  United  States, 
and  it  is  the  largest  industry  of  its  kind  west  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Earl  comes  from  a  state  that  is  now  a  center  of  automobile  per- 
fection.    He  was  born  at  Lansing,  JMichigan,  February   1,   1866,  a  son 


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of  John  and  Carl  (Teman)  Earl.  Up  to  the  age  of  sixteen  he  hved 
at  home  and  attended  pubHc  schools.  Then  going  to  Cadillac,  Michigan, 
he  learned  the  carriage  making  trade  with  W.  A.  Miller.  In  l]i86  Mr. 
Earl  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  for  the  next  three  years  was  employed 
by  the  J.  N.  Tabor  Carriage  Works. 

In  1889  he  established  a  shop  of  his  own  at  107-109  East  S>th  street. 
His  floor  space  was  only  18x38  feet.  The  business  grew  and  prospered 
and  in  1900  he  moved  to  1320-22-24  South  Main  street,  and  about  that 
time  added  to  his  general  business  the  manufacture  of  automobile  bodies, 
tops,  trimming  and  painting.  Mr.  Earl  stands  prominent  in  the  auto- 
mobile industry  as  the  inventor  and  pioneer  maker  of  the  automatic  wind 
shield  which  is  universally  used  today. 

In  1917  another  change  was  affected  in  the  business  when  it  moved 
to  its  present  quarters  at  the  corner  of  Pico  and  Los  Angeles  streets. 
The  works  now  occupy  60,000  square  feet.  In  1889  only  one  assistant 
worked  with  Mr.  Earl,  while  today  he  supervises  the  activities  of  a 
force  of  ninety  men.  Very  recently  he  invented  the  "tonneau  wind 
shield,"  which  is  attached  to  the  top  and  is  considered  the  most  practical 
device  of  its  kind  on  the  market.  But  Mr.  Earl's  primary  reputation 
is  built  upon  the  construction  of  automobile  bodies  and  special  tops. 
Except  for  the  motive  mechanism  he  turns  out  complete  automobiles  and 
some  of  these  are  of  the  jnost  distinctive  models  for  individual  customers. 
He  has  built  a  number  of  such  machines  ranging  in  price  as  high  as  ten 
thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  Earl  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  June  20,  1891,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  Abbie  L. 
Taft,  who  passed  away  October  29,  1914.  They  were  the  parents  of 
five  children:  Carl  E.,  aged  twenty-six:  Harley  J.,  aged  twenty-four; 
Arthur  T.,  aged  twenty-two ;  Jessie  L.,  aged  thirteen :  and  William  O., 
who  is  nine  years  old.  The  younger  children  are  in  public  schools.  Carl 
E.  is  a  graduate  of  high  school  and  the  University  of  Southern  California 
and  is  now  purchasing  agent  for  the  Earl  Automobile  Works.  Harley 
attended  Leland  Stanford  University  after  leaving  high  school  and  is 
now  a  designer  with  the  automobile  works.  Arthur  is  a  high  school 
graduate  and  is  now  a  salesman  for  his  father's  business.  Mr.  Earl 
was  married  to  Nellie  May  Black  January  17, .  1917,  and  the  one  child 
of  this  miion  is  Henry  John,  born  September  10,  1918. 

Joseph  F.  Grass.  For  twenty-five  years  the  late  Joseph  Ferdinand 
Grass  was  an  important  factor  in  the  business  affairs  of  Hollywood  and 
the  worth  of  his  efforts  in  the  developing  of  real  estate  here  cannot  be 
overestimated.  He  built  the  first  residence  ever  erected  on  that  avenue 
of  beautiful  homes,  Hollywood  Boulevard,  and  it  was  Mr.  Grass  who 
laid  out  the  curbing.  He  was  devoted  in  every  way  to  the  interests  of 
this  section,  investing  himself  to  the  extent  of  his  fortune  and  being 
the  means  of  bringing  large  amounts  of  capital  here. 

Joseph  F.  Grass  was  born  in  New  Orleans  in  1863.  His  French 
ancestors  wrote  the  name  "de  Grasse"  but  the  family  as  it  became  thor- 
oughly Americanized  adopted  the  shorter  appellation.  Mr.  Grass  was 
a  grandson  of  Count  de  Grasse,  who  came  early  to  New  Orleans.  A 
quarter  of  a  century  has  elapsed  since  Mr.  Grass  came  to  California 
and  settled  in  Hollywood,  where  at  tthat  time  only  twenty-five  families 
had  preceded  his  own.  He  started  ranching  on  a  small  tract  of  six- 
teen acres,  on  which  he  grew  oranges  and  lemons.  He  kept  watchful 
as  to  business  opportunity  and  when  H.  J.  Whitley  came  and  bought 
land  Mr.  Grass  opened  his  first  real  estate  tract,  later  opening  up  five 


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others,  including  the  Lilhan  tract  and  the  Los  Angeles  View  tract, 
giving  his  entire  attention  to  this  business.  He  was  associated  as  a 
partner  with  Philo  Beverage  for  a  time  but  later  operated  individually. 
He  erected  some  thirty  residences  and  business  blocks  from  Cherokee 
street  to  Las  Palmas  avenue. 

Mr.  Grass  married  Eulalia  Pinta,  who  was  of  Italian  and  French 
parentage,  and  is  survived  by  his  widow  and  the  following  children : 
Eulalia  Bertha,  Mrs.  C.  L.  Hogan ;  Julia  Blanch,  Mrs.  Edward  N.  Klar- 
quist;  Eulalia  Marie,  Mrs.  Clinton  W.  Evans,  of  Pomona;  Lillian 
Marie,  Mrs.  Hart  Nesbit,  of  Pomona ;  Joseph  F.  Grass,  Jr.,  of  Merced ; 
and  three  children  of  his  wife  by  a  former  marriage :  Dr.  Joseph  O. 
Chiapella,  a  surgeon  of  Chico,  California ;  Edward  Emile,  of  Holly- 
wood, and  Stephen  Eugene,  of  Los  Angeles  who  were  reared  by  Mr. 
Grass  as  his  own  sons.  His  children  were  born  in  the  south.  Addi- 
tionally he  left  twelve  grandchildren.  Nominally  a  republican,  Mr.  Grass 
often  voted  independently.  He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
the  Order  of  Foresters.  His  death  occurred  December  12,  1918,  and  he 
was  laid  to  rest  according  to  the  rites  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  to 
which  he  belonged. 

Right  Rev.  John  J.  C-\ntwell.  In  1918  the  Diocese  of  Monterey 
and  Los  Angeles  welcomed  as  its  new  bishop  John  J.  Cantwell,  D.  D.. 
who  has  been  a  consecrated  worker  in  California  nearly  twenty  years,  and 
was  called  to  his  present  duties  from  his  former  position  as  Vicar  Gen- 
ral  to  the  Archbishop  of  San  Francisco. 

Right  Rev.  John  J.  Cantwell  was  born  in  County  Tipperary.  Ire- 
land, in  1874.  A  number  of  his  family  have  been  distinguished  in  the 
annals  of  the  church.  Several  of  his  uncles  were  priests,  and  Ijishoj) 
Cantwell  himself  has  two  brothers  in  the  clergy:  Rev.  James  P.  Cant- 
well, Chancellor  of  the  Archdiocese  of  San  Francisco,  and  Rev.  William 
J.  Cantwell,  rector  of  St.  Anselm's  church,  San  Anselmo,  California, 
while  a  still  younger  brother,  Arthur,  is  a  student  at  St.  Bernard's 
.Seminary  at  Rochester,  New  York. 

Bishop  Cantwell  received  his  academic  education  in  the  college  ut 
the  Jesuit  Fathers  at  Limerick  and  pursued  his  theological  studies  at 
St.  Patrick's  College,  Thurles.  He  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1899  and  at 
once  came  to  California,  being  assigned  to  the  Archdiocese  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. His  first  mission  was  at  Berkeley,  and  for  five  years  he  was  assist- 
ant to  the  rector  of  St.  Joseph's  church.  His  learning  and  elo(|uence 
quickly  won  him  distinction  and  gave  him  great  opportunities  for  service 
in  the  University  City,  where  he  interested  himself  especially  in  the 
Catholic  students  at  the  University  of  California,  and  through  his  efforts 
lirought  about  the  organization  of  the  Newman  Club  in  that  city. 

In  1904  the  late  Archbishop  Riordan  called  Father  Cantwell  to  the 
post  of  secretary,  an  ofiiice  demanding  a  fine  combination  of  learning, 
courtesy  and  administrative  ability.  It  was  his  fulfillment  of  the  obli- 
gations and  responsibilities  of  his  new  post  that  brouglit  him  quickly  the 
regard  and  confidence  of  a  growing  number  of  the  clergy,  laity  and  non- 
Catholics.  Upon  the  appointment  of  Archbishop  Hanna  to  the  see 
of  San  Francisco  Father  Cantwell  in  1915  became  Vicar  General  of 
the  Archdiocese.  This  position  he  held  until  he  came  to  southern  Cali- 
fornia to  assume  the  duties  of  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Monterey  and 
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The  Sawyer  School  of  Secretaries.  In  one  of  the  most  modern 
cities  in  the  world,  where  every  form  of  business  and  social  service 
reaches  its  highest  perfection,  it  is  a  matter  of  interest  to  note  that  there 
is  only  one  school  for  the  preparation  of  secretaries  to  serve  the  manifold 
purposes  comprised  in  the  broadening  significance  of  that  term.  It  is  a 
business  school  of  the  higher  grade,  where  upon  the  foundation  of  routine 
technique  is  superimposed  a  training  in  independent  thinking,  initiative 
and  the  intelligent  action  which  modern  business  demands. 

Probably  the  primary  purpose  in  the  minds  of  the  founders  of  the 
school  was  to  afford  opportunities  for  training  the  man  and  woman 
who  already  possessed  a  formal  high  school  or  college  education  but 
without  special  fitness  for  a  place  commensurate  with  their  latent  abili- 
ties in  business  life.  The  directors  of  the  school  have  therefore  been 
pioneers,  and  have  given  the  institution  a  faculty  of  university  train- 
ing and  study,  with  an  admirable  balance  between  theory  and  practice. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  the  course  in  commercial  law  is  handled  by  one 
of  the  attorneys  associated  with  the  Title,  Insurance  &  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Los  Angeles;  the  bookkeeping  is  under  an  expert  accountant; 
and  the  business  correspondence  is  given  by  a  post-graduate  of  Co- 
lumbia University,  prepared  especially  for  high  school  and  college  teach- 
ing of  English. 

The  three  principal  courses  of  study  offered  by  the  Sawyer  School 
are  the  secretarial  course,  business  training  and  intensive  training.  Any 
school  is  judged  by  its  results,  and  the  Sawyer  School  has  been  in  ex- 
istence long  enough  to  demonstrate  the  fact  that  the  possessors  of  its 
diplomas  possess  a  distinction  resting  upon  real  and  broad  qualifica- 
tions for  the  post  of  responsibility  to  which  they  aspire  in  the'  business 
world. 

The  directors  of  the  Sawyer  School  are  Miss  Camille  M.  GifTen 
and  Miss  Frances  Jackling.  Miss  Gift'en  is  a  daughter  of  G.  M.  Giffen, 
a  pioneer  of  Los  Angeles  and  long  associated  with  the  G.  M.  Giffen  Com- 
pany, seal  estate.  She  received  her  B.  L.  degree  from  the  University  of 
California  with  the  class  of  1914,  and  in  addition  to  her  duties  in  the 
Sawyer  School  is  an  instructor  in  history  at  the  Manual  Arts  School 
of  Los  Angeles. 

The  other  director,  Miss  Frances  Jackling,  was  reared  and  was 
a  resident  of  the  city  of  Seattle  until  nine  years  ago.  She  received 
her  Bachelor  of  Science  and  Master  of  Arts  degree  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  in  1914,  and  was  then  a  teacher  in  Miss  Head's 
School  and  later  instructor  of  physical  education  in  the  Hollywood 
High  School.  It  was  recognition  of  the  need  for  a  higher  type  of  busi- 
ness woman  that  induced  these  two  far-sighted  young  women  to  enter 
their  special  field  of  education,  and  the  results  of  the  Sawyer  School 
show  that  they  chose  wisely  and  have  accomplished  a  notable  service 
in  their  pioneer  undertaking. 

Adeline  and  Julia  Riddle,  M.  D.,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  in 
1917,  were  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  active  and  successful  practi- 
tioners of  medicine  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  where  they  did  pioneer 
work  for  their  sex  in  the  profession  of  medicine  and  achieved  many 
noteworthy  distinctions. 

The  sisters  were  born  at  Derby,  Indiana,  daughters  of  Robert  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  (Gayley)  Riddle.  The  family  during  the  early  seventies 
moved  out  to  the  Indian  frontier  in  Kansas  and  lived  in  that  state  nine 
years.     While  there  the  girls  had  their  first  schooling  in  a  school  con- 


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ducted  in  3.  typical  prairie  dugout.  From  Kansas  the  family  moved 
to  Waitsburg,  Washington,  where  the  young  ladies  attended  grammar 
and  high  schools,  graduating  in  1884.  Both  subsequently  tauglit  school 
at  Dayton,  Washington.  Mary  Adeline  left  her  work  in  the  conven- 
tional vocation  of  teaching  in  1890,  and  Julia  in  1891,  both  entering  the 
Women's  Medical  College  of  Chicago,  now  the  Women's  Department 
of  Northwestern  University.  M.  Adeline  graduated  with  honors  and 
the  M.  D.  degree,  the  following  year  continuing  her  studies  in  the  Hah- 
nemann Medical  College  at  Chicago,  from  which  homeopathic  institu- 
tion she  also  received  the  M.  D.  degree  in  1894.  In  that  year  her  sister 
Julia  graduated  from  the  Women's  Medical  College,  and  both  located 
at  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin.  For  three  years  they  were  engaged  in  separate 
practice  and  then  became  associated  as  partners. 

For  several  years  they  had  to  overcome  strong  prejudice  against 
women  practitioners,  and  they  were  among  the  first  to  overcome  those 
prejudices  and  achieve  recognition  and  remunerative  work.  They  re- 
mained at  Oshkosh  until  1917.  At  Oshkosh  they  were  editors  of  the 
Journal  of  Preventive  Medicine,  published  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Wisconsin  Medical  Women's  Association  and  devoted  to  instruction 
in  proper  food,  hygiene  and  moral  education.  Through  the  medium  of 
this  magazine  Drs.  Riddle  &  Riddle  became  widely  known  and  were 
called  upon  as  lecturers.  They  lectured  before  various  state  organiza- 
tions and  other  societies  on  the  subject  of  hygiene  and  moral  educa- 
tion. During  1912  they  gave  all  their  time  .md  talents  to  the  cause 
of  suffrage.  They  made  the  first  automobile  tour  of  Wisconsin,  their 
home  state,  in  the  interest  of  suffrage  hi  company  with  Minona  S. 
Jones.  In  that  year  suft'rage  was  first  submitted  to  the  voters  of  Wis- 
consin. 

Drs.  i^iddle  and  Riddle  were  members  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Wisconsin  State  Medical  Association,  Wisconsin  Medical 
Women's  Association,  but  now  of  the  California  State  and  County 
Medical  Societies,  the  State  Local  and  the  Race  Betterment  League  of 
Wisconsin,  and  Dr.  Adeline  was  chairman  of  the  Health  Department  in 
the  State  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs.  It  is  believed  they  are  the  only 
sisters  practicing  medicine  together  in  the  United  States.  Dr.  Julia  was 
the  only  woman  physician  appointed  as  a  legally  authorized  medical 
examiner  for  the  Travelers  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  also  the  only 
woman  to  be  appointed  as  surgeon  for  the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroad 
Company. 

While  at  Oshkosh  the  sisters  offered  their  services  as  physicians  and 
surgeons  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army. 
On  receiving  orders  to  go  before  the  Medical  Examiners  of  Wisconsin 
they  passed  the  mental  examination  but  objected  to  complete  the  physi- 
cal examination  before  male  physicians  and  asked  that  a  woman  be  ap- 
pointed for  that  work.  Subsequently  going  to  Washington,  an  interview 
with  General  Gorgas,  Surgeon  General  of  the  Army,  brought  out  the 
fact  that  women  physicians  were  not  being  commissioned  under  the 
Medical  Reserve  Corps  upon  the  same  terms  as  men,  but  were  placed  on 
a  salary  without  official  recognition,  the  military  honors  going  to  male 
physicians  only.  Refusing  to  accept  this  unjust  discrimination,  the  sis- 
ters decided  to  come  to  California  to  resume  their  private  practice. 
They  had  several  times  visited  this  state  and  intended  to  locate  here 
when  they  retired.  Coming  as  they  did  in  1917,  while  many  male 
physicians  and  surgeons  were  engaged  in  war  work,  they  filled  a  patent 
need  and   found  immediate   recognition   and   service.     They   have   their 


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offices  in  the  Consolidated  Realty  Building  and  their  home  at  4615  Kings- 
well  avenue,  in  Hollywood.  The  sisters  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  Dr.  Adeline  has  an  adopted  daughter,  the  child  of 
a  former  patient.  Her  name  is  Lenorc  Adeline  Riddle  and  she  is  now 
seven  years  of  age. 

Ernest  A.  Montgomery,  a  permanent  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since 
1904,  though  his  associations  with  the  city  date  back  to  the  early  '90s, 
is  one  of  the  most  conspicuous  figures  in  mining  circles  in  the  far  west. 
W  hile  for  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  considered  a  capitalist,  doing 
business  on  a  large  scale  and  controlling  great  resources  and  furnishing 
employment  to  hundreds  of  men,  there  was  a  time  when  he  was  in  the 
ranks  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  the  prospectors,  toiling  to  the  limit  of 
physical  endurance,  and  sharing  all  the  dangers  and  hardships  that  have 
been  so  long  associated  with  the  life  of  the  western  mine  operator. 

He  was  born  in  London,  Canada,  November  24,  1863,  son  of  Alex- 
ander and  Jane  (Chapman)  Montgomery.  He  is  of  Scotch  ancestry. 
His  paternal  grand-uncle  was  General  Richard  Montgomery,  leader  of 
the  ill  fated  campaign  against  Ouebec  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war.  Mr.  Alontgoniery  received  his  first  schooling  at  London, 
but  later  his  parents  moved  to  Stuart,  Iowa,  where  he  attended  school 
and  busied  himself  on  the  home  farm. 

In  1884  he  started  for  the  mining  regions  of  the  northwest.  He 
was  in  Idaho  and  Washington,  where  he  had  meager  success ;  then  going 
to  Nevada,  where  he  devoted  a  few  years'  time  in  developing  and  operat- 
ing gold  mines.  There  are  few  of  the  wealthy  associates  of  Mr.  !\Iont- 
gomery  at  Los  Angeles  who  understand  better  the  old  axiom  about 
eating  one's  bread  by  the  sweat  of  one's  brow.  Mr.  Montgomery  has 
always  credited  a  considerable  share  of  his  early  success  to  his  congenial 
relations  with  the  Indians.  He  showed  fairness  and  consideration  for 
the  red  men,  in  contrast  with  the  usual  attitude  of  whites  toward  Indians, 
and  he  became  recognized  as  a  decent,  honorable  man  in  every  Indian 
community.  The  Indians  helped  him  instead  of  thwarting  him  in  his 
enterprises,  and  he  has  a  lasting  debt  of  gratitude  for  the  helpfulness 
extended  to  him  by  his  old  Indian  friends. 

Nearly  twenty  years  elapsed  from  the  time  he  set  out  from  the  Iowa 
farm  until  he  had  achieved  recognition  as  a  successful  mine  operator. 
In  1901  he  helped  organize  and  develop  what  is  known  as  the  Mont- 
gomery district  in  Nevada.  One  of  his  early  properties  there  was  the 
Johnnie  Mine,  which  netted  him  a  small  fortune.  After  this  came  his 
operations  in  Inyo  county,  California,  where  he  developed  the  World 
Beater  and  O  Be  Joyful  properties.  Fifteen  years  ago  Nevada  held 
the  center  of  the  stage  among  new  mining  districts.  Mr.  Montgomery 
was  at  Tonopah  in  1903,  and  for  a  time  shared  with  others  in  an  effort 
to  get  a  railroad  into  the  Tonopah  district.  His  reports,  based  upon 
intimate  investigation  and  knowledge  of  the  country,  prevailed  with  the 
directors  and  builders  in  locating  the  route  of  the  Los  Angeles,  Daggett 
iC  Tonopah,  a  road  that  was  subsequently  turned  over  to  and  completed 
by  the  Tonopah  Tide-water  interests. 

Mr.  Montgomery  resumed  his  active  mining  operations  in  1904 
around  Tonopah,  and  in  September  of  that  year  located  the  Shoshone 
Mine  in  the  Bullfrog  district  of  Nevada.  The  property  was  rapidly 
developed,  and  at  the  end  of  sixteen  months  had  become  so  conspicuous 
as  to  attract  the  attention  of  Charles  M.  Schwab  and  his  financial  asso- 
ciates.    In  the  meantime  Mr.  Montgomery  had  acquired  a  generous  for- 


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tune  but  was  not  yet  ready  to  retire.  In  1905  he  obtained  control  of 
the  Skidoo  Mine  on  the  edge  of  Death  Valley  in  California.  After 
spending  half  a  million  dollars  in  development  work  and  installation  of 
machinery  he  brought  out  ores  which  in  a  few  years  returned  him 
dividends  more  than  the  amount  of  the  original  investment.  Mr.  Mont- 
gomery was  one  of  the  original  property  owners  of  the  Goldfield  district 
in  Nevada  who  in  the  fall  of  1903  organized  the  camp  and  named  it 
Goldfield. 

In  recent  years  Mr.  Montgomery  has  extended  his  interests  into 
the  mining  districts  of  old  Mexico,  and  was  also  identified  with  the 
mining  camp  at  National,  Nevada.  He  also  became  extensively  inter- 
ested in  the  oil  fields  of  Tampico,  Mexico,  and  was  formerly  a  director 
of  the  Mexican  Premier  Oil  Company.  He  is  now  vice  president  of 
the  Topila  Petroleum  Company  and  president  of  the  Panuco  Excelsior 
Oil  Company,  both  properties  being  of  great  value.  Very  recently  he 
has  taken  an  interest  in  the  mining  of  silver  on  the  west  coast  of  Mexico. 

He  has  served  as  vice-president  and  director  of  the  American  Mining 
Congress,  and  to  him  is  due  the  credit  for  the  splendidly  successful  con- 
vention of  that  congress  held  at  Los  Angeles  in  1910.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  and  of  many 
technical,  business  and  social  organizations,  including  the  Masonic  Order, 
the  Mystic  Shrine,  the  Jonathan  Club,  the  Rocky  Mountain  Club,  of  which 
he  is  a  charter  member,  and  the  Chemical  Club  of  New  York  and  the 
American  Club  of  Mexico  City.  July  23,  1912,  at  New  York  City,  Mr. 
Montgomery  married  Miss  Antoinette  Schwarz,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Frederick  Schwarz. 

John  D.  Fredericks  as  District  Attorney  of  Los  Angeles  county 
handled  the  famous  prosecution  and  trial  of  the  McNamara  brothers 
for  the  dynamiting  of  the  Los  Angeles  Times  Building  in  1911.  Prob- 
ably no  criminal  trial  in  America  has  been  more  extensively  written 
up  and  is  more  familiar  to  public  knowledge  both  in  this  country  and 
abroad.  All  of  the  important  moves  in  securing  evidence  au^ainst  the 
McNamara  brothers  were  directed  by  District  Attorney  Fredericks,  in- 
cluding much  of  the  brilliant  part  played  by  the  detective  W.  J.  Burns. 
The  part  which  reflects  the  greatest  credit  upon  Mr.  Fredericks'  judg- 
ment and  skill  in  the  case  was  his  influence  in  securing  a  direct  con- 
fession of  guilt  from  the  McNamaras,  thus  avoiding  a  prolonged  trial  in 
court,  which  under  the  conditions  would  have  been  regarded  as  an  out 
and  out  contest  between  capitalism  and  organized  labor. 

Mr.  Fredericks,  who  has  to  his  record  many  other  achievements  in 
his  profession,  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar  for  a  quar- 
ter of  a  century.  He  was  born  at  Burgettstown,  Pennsylvania,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1869,  son  of  Rev.  James  T.  and  Mary  (Patterson)  Fredericks. 
In  the  Fredericks  family  every  male  member  for  over  two  hundred  years 
has  been  either  a  physician,  minister  or  lawyer. 

John  D.  Frederick  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town, 
the  Trinity  Hall  Military  Academy  at  Washington,  Pennsylvania,  and 
graduated  from  Washington  and  Jefiferson  College  in  1890,  with  his 
A.  B.  degree.  The  same  year  he  came  to  California,  and  while  teach- 
ing in  the  Whittier  State  School  for  three  years  read  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  m  1893.  From  1899  to  1903  he  served  as  Deputy 
District  Attorney  of  Los  Angeles  county  and  it  was  his  success  in  hand- 
ling a  number  of  criminal  trials  that  brought  him  the  nomination  and 
election  as  District  Attorney  of  the  county  in  1902.     He  was  re-elected 


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in  1906  and  in  1910,  filling  the  office  continuously  from  1903  to  1915. 
Besides  the  McNamara  case  which  brought  him  international  fame  as 
a  prosecuting  lawyer,  Mr.  Fredericks  handled  a  case  of  much  interest 
and  importance  in  1906  when  he  represented  Los  Angeles  county  and 
other  California  counties  contesting  before  the  Federal  courts  the  case 
against  the  owners  of  the  patent  on  oiled  roads.  Mr.  Fredericks  con- 
tended that  the  process  was  not  patentable,  and  after  a  hard  fight  se- 
cured a  verdict  which  made  the  process  of  oiling  roads  public  property. 
Mr.  Fredericks  served  as  Adjutant  of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  Cali- 
fornia Volunteers,  in  the  Spanish-American  war.  He  is  a  republican, 
a  Presbyterian,  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  a  Shriner,  a  member  of 
the  California  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Country  Clubi  and  also  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California.  In  1896  he  married  Agnes 
M.  Blakeley,  of  Los  Angeles.  They  have  four  children :  Doris,  John  D., 
Jr.,  Deborah  and  James  B. 

Byron  Calvin  Hanna  is  a  prominent  young  lawyer  of  the  Los  An- 
geles bar  and  has  spent  all  his  life  since  early  childhood  in  this  state. 

He  was  born  at  Kinsas  City,  Missouri,  January  2,  1887,  and  in 
1891  when  he  was  four  years  of  age  his  parents  Phil  K.  and  Florence  E. 
(Townsend)  Hanna  moved  to  California.  He  was  educated  in  public 
schools  and  received  his  degree  in  law  from  the  University  of  Southern 
California.  Preparatory  to  his  professional  work  Mr.  Hanna  had  sev- 
eral experiences  and  employments,  at  first  with  the  Wells  Fargo  & 
Company  Express,  then  as  an  accountant,  later  as  a  stenographer,  and 
finally  as  a  lawyer.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Appellate  Court 
at  Los  Angeles  January  2,  1908.  He  served  as  city  attorney  of  the  City 
of  Venice  eight  years,  as  chief  deputy  district  attorney  of  Los  Angeles 
county  two  and  a  half  years,  having  been  appointed  to  that  position 
February  1,  1911.  He  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  Thorpe  & 
Hanna  December  1,  1910,  and  for  the  past  five  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  Fredericks  &  Hanna  with  offices  in  the  Merchants  Na- 
tional Bank  Building. 

Mr.  Hanna  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order  and  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association, 
the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Delta  Chi  Fraternity,  and  in  politics 
is  a  republican.  His  home  is  at  933  South  Kingsley  Drive  in  Holly- 
wood. He  married  at  Riverside  July  16,  1917,  Daisy  May  Boycott,  a 
daughter  of  Walter  J.  Boycott.  Mr.  Hanna  has  one  daughter,  Ruth 
Hanna. 

Alexander  Mitchell.  In  volume  of  receipts  and  business  trans- 
actions the  largest  Land  Office  of  the  United  States  is  that  of  the  Los 
Angeles  District.  The  receiver  of  this  office,  and  the  man  entrusted  with 
the  responsibilities  of  handling  over  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  per 
annum,  is  Mr.  Alexander  Mitchell,  a  veteran  railway  man  and  formerly 
active  in  Los  Angeles  real  estate  afliairs,  and  one  of  the  courageous  and 
unflinching  advocates  of  democracy  in  principle  and  in  party.  Mr. 
Mitchell  was  appointed  receiver  of  the  Los  Angeles  Land  Office  in  1914 
to  succeed  O.  R.  W.  Robinson,  and  on  the  basis  of  his  qualifications  and 
record  was  reappointed  June  19,  1918. 

Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  native  of  Scotland.  He  was  born  and  educated 
in  Aberdeen,  and  in  1877,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  came  to  the  United 
States  with  his  uncle,  Alexander  Mitchell.  For  several  years  he  lived 
at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  and  his  first  position  was  as  a  clerk  in  the 


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Wisconsin  Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  Bank.  From  1879  to  1883  he 
handled  the  lands  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  Com- 
pany in  northwestern  Iowa.  In  1884  he  was  made  traveling  passenger 
agent  of  that  company,  and  continued  in  its  service  steadily  for  sixteen 
years.  For  ten  years  he  had  complete  charge  of  all  its  freight  and 
passenger  business  in  the  states  of  Utah,  Montana,  Idaho  and  Wyoming. 
In  1900  the  Railway  Company  transferred  him  from  Salt  Lake  City  to 
Chicago,  but  he  remained  there  only  about  a  year. 

The  immediate  cause  that  brought  him  to  Los  Angeles  was  a  trip 
to  benefit  his  youngest  son's  health.  He  obtained  a  ninety  day  leave 
of  absence  from  the  railway  company,  but  on  his  own  responsibility  con- 
tinued that  leave  indefinitely  and  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles 
since  1901.  For  fifteen  years  he  was  one  of  the  successful  operators  in 
the  local  real  estate  field,  and  his  long  and  varied  experience  in  handling 
public,  railroad  and  other  lands  and  properties  was  a  most  substantial 
recommendation  for  the  office  he  now  holds. 

Mr.  Mitchell  has  always  been  a  democrat  in  principle  and  has  kept 
his  political  record  absolutely  clear.  While  with  the  railway  company 
at  Salt  Lake  City  he  was  a  member  in  1896  of  the  first  Democratic  Com- 
mittee of  Utah,  and  took  part  in  the  Bryan  campaign  of  that  year.  In 
1908  he  was  president  of  the  Bryan  Club  of  Glendale,  and  has  been  a 
leader  in  every  democratic  local  and  state  campaign  in  California  for 
sixteen  years.  He  never  sought  the  honors  or  responsibilities  of  public 
office  until  he  was  chosen  to  his  present  position.  He  received  the  solid 
endorsement  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  Democratic  Central  Committee 
for  nomination  as  Land  Office  receiver.  It  is  a  matter  of  special  interest 
and  note  that  at  the  time  of  his  first  appointment  to  this  office  four  years 
ago  a  Los  Angeles  paper  in  noting  his  appointment  quoted  his  views 
on  government  ownership  of  railways.  Mr.  Mitchell  at  that  time  under- 
stood many  of  the  diffiiculties  and  obstacles  that  interfered  with  the  har- 
monious regulation  of  railway  rates  and  interests  by  means  of  the  Inter- 
state and  State  Railway  Commission,  and  predicted  ultimate  government 
ownership,  and  recent  events  have  at  least  confirmed  his  proposition  so 
far  as  the  breakdown  of  railway  management  under  public  regulatory 
bodies  is  concerned. 

Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Order  of  Elks.  \Miile 
a  resident  of  Utah  he  became  the  first  exalted  ruler  of  Salt  Lake  City 
Lodge  No.  85,  and  is  therefore  a  life  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and 
has  served  as  president  of  the  Local  Lodge,  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood. 
He  is  president  of  the  "Community  Sing"  of  Glendale.  Mr.  jNIitchell  is 
married  and  has  a  family  of  four  children :  Lorraine  Mitchell,  principal 
of  the  Columbus  Avenue  School ;  George  A.  Mitchell,  connected  with 
the  county  surveyor's  office ;  and  Barbara  I.  and  A.  Gilbert  IMitchell,  both 
graduates  from  the  Glendale  high  school.  George  A.  Mitchell  enlisted 
in  the  navy  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  ensign. 

Arthur  L.  Veitch  is  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer  whose  work  as  a  spe- 
cial prosecutor  in  several  famous  criminal  trials  has  attracted  wide 
attention.  For  several  years  he  has  been  busied  with  a  large  general 
practice,  and  his  time  is  fully  taken  up  with  his  professional  duties. 

Mr.  Veitch  has  been  a  resident  of  Southern  California  since  1901. 
He  was  bom  at  Mayville,  Michigan,  July  5,  1884,  a  son  of  Arthur  and 
Martha  Cordelia  fChoate)  Veitch.  His  parents  still  live  in  Los  An- 
geles, to  which  city  they  removed  from  Michigan  in  1901.  Arthur 
Veitch,  Sr.,  was  a  druggist  during  his  active  life.     He  was  a  native  of 


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Oxford  County,  Ontario,  Canada,  of  old  Scotch  ancestry,  and  his  wife 
was  born  in  Clarence,  New  York,  and  is  a  connection  of  the  Choate  and 
Todd  families  of  New  England.  The  name  Choate  has  been  conspicuous 
in  the  legal  profession  for  many  generations. 

Arthur  L.  Veitch,  the  only  child  of  his  parents,  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Mayville,  Michigan,  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School  in  1902  and  took  his  law  course  in  the  University  of  Southern 
CaUfornia,  graduating  LL.  B.  in  1907  and  LL.  M.  in  1909.  Admitted 
to  the  bar  July  1,  1907,  his  professional  services  were  soon  required 
in  many  prominent  cases.  His  work  as  an  attorney  attracted  the  ai Men- 
tion of  the  District  Attorney  and  in  May,  1909,  he  was  appointed  a 
deputy  and  was  one  of  the  most  vigilant  members  of  the  District  At- 
torneys office  for  several  years.  Wliile  in  the  District  Attorneys  office 
he  was  employed  in  assisting  to  prosecute  the  McNamara  dynamiting 
cases  at  Los  Angeles  and  the  subsequent  "Dynamite  Conspiracy"  cases 
at  Indianapolis.  On  January  1,  1915,  after  leaving  the  district  attor- 
ney's office  he  began  private  practice,  and  on  January  1,  1918,  became 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  Fredericks  &  Hanna.  Mr.  Veitch  was  also 
special  prosecutor  employed  by  the  State  of  Washington  in  a  prominent 
case  involving  the  I.  W.  W.  when  they  stormed  and  made  a  demon- 
stration of  force  against  the  city  of  Everett,  Washington,  in  the  fall 
of  1916,  seventy-four  prisoners  being  brought  to  trial. 

Mr.  Veitch  is  a  republican,  is  affiliated  with  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County 
Bar  Association.  July  5,  1909,  on  his  twenty-fifth  birthday,  he  married 
Miss  Gertrude  E.  M'esplou,  a  native  daughter  of  Los  Angeles.  She 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School.  They  h<ive  one  son, 
Frederick  Arthur,  born  July  31,  1910.  Mr.  Veitch  and  family  reside  at 
1506  West  46th  street. 

Major  A.  J.  Pickrell,  whose  home  and  business  offices  are  in  Los 
Angeles,  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  western  mining  life  and  aft'airs 
for  many  years,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  factors  in  the  great  copper 
districts  of  the  southwest. 

Major  Pickrell  has  lived  his  life  in  many  states  of  the  Union.  He 
was  born  near  Wapakoneta  in  Auglaize  county,  Ohio,  August  23,  1862, 
a  son  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  Elizabeth  (Vincent)  Pickrell.  Before 
he  was  ready  to  attend  school  his  parents  moved  to  the  vicinity  of 
Cherokee  in  Colbert  county,  Alabama.  The  father  had  a  plantation  and 
used  a  log  building  as  a  school  for  the  benefit  of  his  own  children  and 
those  of  other  families  in  the  neighborhood,  hiring  a  teacher.  When 
Major  Pickrell  was  fourteen  his  parents  moved  to  luka,  Tishomingo 
county,  Mississippi,  and  there  he  had  his  first  instruction  in  public 
schools,  and  also  some  military  training.  When  he  was  sixteen  he 
went  with  his  parents  to  Ennis,  in  Ellis  county,  Texas,  where  his  father 
had  a  general  merchandise  business.  There  he  again  attended  public 
school,  and  for  one  year  also  studied  law. 

The  call  of  destiny  came  and  was  answered  when  he  left  his 
Texas  home  on  horseback  for  Leadville,  Colorado,  at  the  time  of  the 
great  gold  and  silver  rush  to  that  point.  He  started  out  with  four- 
teen, but  only  five  of  them  finished  the  trip.  For  three  years  he  was  in 
the  mining  district  of  Leadville,  and  then  went  to  Aspen,  Colorado, 
where  he  did  some  silver  mining.  About  that  time  came  a  discouraging 
drop  in  the  price  of  silver,  and  Major  Pickrell  moved  his  camp,  hav- 
ing heard  of  some  of  his  friends  who  were  doing  well  in  the  gold  and 


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copper  district  near  Prescott,  Arizona.  Prescott  has  ever  since  been 
the  scene  of  his  chief  operations  as  a  miner  and  mine  operator.  From 
1902  to  1907  he  was  general  superintendent  o  fthe  Phelps-Dodge  prop- 
erties of  northern  Arizona,  one  of  the  greatest  mining  corporations  in 
the  southwest.  At  the  same  time  he  looked  after  his  own  mining  in- 
terests at  Jerome,  where  he  is  interested  in  the  United  Verde  Extension 
Company  of  Jerome.  This  is  one  of  the  largest  high  grade  copper 
ore  bodies  of  any  mining  company  in  the  United  States. 

Major  Pickrell  is  president  of  the  Tillie-Starbuck  Gold  &  Silver 
Mining  Company  near  Prescott,  Arizona,  which  he  organized,  contain- 
ing several  thousand  feet  of  development  work  and  opening  up  at  a 
depth  of  some  seven  hundred  to  eight  hundred  feet  of  very  valuable 
ore.  An  unusual  feature  of  this  enterprise  is  that  it  was  developed  with- 
out pay  for  official  development  and  without  commission  on  stock  sales. 

Major  Pickrell  is  a  director  of  the  Commercial  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank  of  Prescott,  a  director  of  the  Home  Savings  at  Los  Angeles,  and 
a  director  of  the  Van  Nuys  National  Bank  of  Van  Nuys,  California, 
near  which  place  his  home  is  located  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  City  Club  and  a 
democrat  in  politics.    He  married  at  Aspen,  Colorado,  Minnie  L.  Hale. 

N.  T.  Powell  is  treasurer  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  The  official 
title  alone  hardly  does  credit  to  his  long  and  varied  service  in  behalf 
of  the  municipality,  his  splendid  executive  abilities  and  the  range  of 
service  performed  by  him  both  in  and  out  of  office.  Mr.  Powell  has 
been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  and  comes 
of  a  distinguished  Southern  family.  Ned  Trucxstone  Powell  was  bom 
at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  January  18,  1866,  a  son  of  Dr.  Fielding  Travis 
Powell,  a  prominent  physician  and  surgeon  who  at  one  time  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Eclectic  Medical  Association  of  Georgia.  He  contributed 
much  to  medical  literature  and  also  was  a  writer  of  fiction  and  other 
forms  of  literary  effort.  He  was  a  native  of  Tullahoma,  Tennessee.  He 
died  at  Atlanta  more  than  twenty  years  ago.  Dr.  Powell  married 
Martha  Ann  Jintsy  Powell,  a  distant  cousin,  in  1849.  She  was  born 
at  Decatur,  George,  at  the  old  Powell  Plantation,  August,  1830,  and  died 
in  May,  1917,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven.  The  Powell  Plantation  is 
famous  in  history  as  the  headquarters  for  General  Sherman  and  Gen- 
eral McPherson  during  the  Atlanta  campaign.  Three  days  after  they 
left  the  plantation  General  McPherson  was  killed. 

N.  T.  Powell  was  one  of  a  family  of  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 
The  youngest  living  member  of  the  family,  N.  T.  Powell,  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Atlanta  and  later  in  a  four  years'  course  acquired  a 
thorough  academic  education  in  a  number  of  special  branches.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  had  a  banking  experience  under  the  tutorship  of 
the  firm  Maddox,  Rucker  &  Company  of  Atlanta.  From  the  south 
Mr.  Powell  removed  to  New  York  to  perfect  his  knowledge  of  banking 
in  Wall  street,  and  in  1895  came  to  Los  Angeles. 

May  11,  1896,  Mr.  Powell  married  Miss  Ada  Gaty.  They  were 
married  at  the  death  bed  of  her  father  Edward  W.  Gaty,  who  was 
twice  mayor  of  Santa  Barbara,  California,  in  which  city  the  marriage 
was  solemnized.  Mrs.  Powell  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  her  grand- 
father Samuel  Gaty  owned  and  operated  the  first  steamboat  on  the 
Mississippi  River. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Powell  was  appointed  finan- 
cial expert  by  the  county  grand  jury  to  examine  the  accounts  of  the 


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County  of  Los  Angeles.  In  the  spring  of  1898  he  was  appointed  by  the 
Board  of  Education  to  take  the  school  census  of  the  city.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  City  Courts  of  Los  Angeles, 
filling  that  office  for  four  years.  He  was  then  made  chief  deputy  of  the 
City  Treasury,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  treasury  department 
ever  since.  He  has  been  city  treasurer  since  January,  1916.  In  con- 
nection with  his  official  duties  he  has  represented  Los  Angeles  in  im- 
portant financial  negotiations  in  New  York,  Sacramento  and  elsewhere. 
An  unsual  and  unprecedented  honor  paid  Mr.  Powell,  and  one  fitly 
bestowed  in  recognition  of  his  official  duties  as  city  treasurer,  is  rep- 
resented by  a  framed  resolution  found  in  Mr.  Powell's  office,  expressive 
of  the  sense  of  the  City  Council  of  the  indebtedness  of  the  community 
to  his  official  administration.  This  formal  resolution  was  passed  May 
3,  1917,  and  is  part  of  the  Council  records  of  the  city. 

I  The  City  Treasury  of  Los  Angeles  has  to  account  for  and  handle 
over  forty  million  dollars  annually,  and  the  city  treasurer  is  also  ex- 
officio  trustee  and  custodian  of  the  municipal  paving  bond  funds.  Ob- 
viously it  is  an  office  of  great  importance,  requiring  great  executive 
ability,  and  it  is  the  good  fortune  of  Los  Angeles  that  a  man  of  Mr. 
Powell's  qualifications  presides  over  an  institution  that  is  so  vital  to 
the  civic  Hfe  of  the  community. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Powell  being  from  the  South  was  reared  in  a  demo- 
cratic atmosphere  but  his  chief  concern  in  recent  years  has  been  to  sup- 
port the  best  man  for  the  place.  Over  his  desk  hang  pictures  of  Wash- 
ington, Lincoln  and  Woodrow  Wilson  flanked  by  a  large  copy  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  his  idea  being  the  man  not  the  party.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  Municipal  Offices  Committee  during  all  of  the 
Liberty  Loan  drives,  and  disposed  of  over  a  million  and  a  half  dollars 
worth  of  bonds,  in  the  five  campaigns.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  City  Club,  Woodmen  of  the  World 
and  has  served  on  a  number  of  public  committees.  Mrs.  Powell,  who 
took  a  prominent  part  in  Red  Cross  and  Civic  work,  passed  away  sud- 
denly, from  heart  failure  on  October  28,  1919,  at  her  home,  1721  South 
Burlington  avenue. 

Everett  H.  Seaver,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Kansas  City, 
where  he  was  well  known  in  grain  and  Board  of  Trade  circles,  has  been 
an  active  factor  in  business  affairs  of  southern  California  since  1911. 
After  William  Wrigley,  Jr.,  paid  three  million  dollars  for  the  Catalina 
Island  resort  in  the  winter  of  1918-19,  under  the  reorganization  of  the 
business  Mr.  Seaver  became  general  manager  of  the  Santa  Catalina  Island 
Company  and  therefore  has  the  practical  supervision  of  nearly  all  the 
business  details  aitecting  the  administration  of  this  famous  resort. 

Mr.  Seaver  was  born  at  Salina,  Kansas,  September  2,  1886,  but  in 
infancy  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he 
lived  until  coming  to  California.  His  father,  James  E.  Seaver,  who  was 
born  at  Batavia,  New  York,  in  1853,  was  educated  in  the  Michigan  State 
Normal  School  to  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  then  spent  a  few  years  pros- 
pecting for  gold  in  California,  in  Canada  and  Mexico,  but  finally  settled 
down  to  more  permanent  interests  as  a  miller  at  Salina,  Kansas.  In 
1887  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  becoming  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  was  active  in  the  grain  business  there  until  1916, 
when  he  retired.  His  death  occurred  March  12,  1918.  He  married 
while  living  at  Salina,  Kansas,  Bella  R.  Carr. 

Everett  H.  Seaver  graduated  from  the  Kansas  City  High  School  in 


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1904,  and  then  for  two  years  was  in  the  grain  business  with  his  father. 
With  this  experience  he  quaHfied  as  an  independent  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trade  and  was  in  the  grain  business  for  himself  until  1911.  On  com- 
ing to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Seaver  became  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
California  Drug  and  Chemical  Company,  and  held  that  post  until  1915. 
In  July,  1917,  he  organized  the  Fulton  Shipbuilding  Company,  with 
Charles  E.  Fulton  as  president,  and  Mr.  Seaver  as  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. In  January,  1918,  he  became  president  and  general  manager  of 
this  business,  and  carried  those  responsibilities  in  addition  to  his  other 
connections  with  the  Catalina  Island  Company. 

Mr.  Seaver  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club  and  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club.  At  Kansas  City,  February  3,  1909,  he  married  Gertrude 
Sharp.  They  have  three  children:  Charles  H.,  born  in  1911  ;  Catherine 
J.,  born  in  1913,  and  James  E.,  born  in  1918 

Arthur  R.  Peck,  Los  Angeles  inventor  and  manufacturer,  has 
done  much  pioneer  work  in  the  field  of  invention,  and  has  also  supplied 
much  of  the  business  energy  and  resources  responsible  for  the  estab- 
lishment and  prosperous  conduct  of  the  Anaheim  Sugar  Company,  one 
of  the  largest  beet  sugar  companies  in  California. 

Mr.  Peck  was  bom  at  Aurora,  Ontario,  Canada,  ]March  28,  1862, 
son  of  Rufus  T.  and  Susan  (Wells)  Peck.  When  he  was  a  child  his 
parents  removed  to  Cortland,  New  York,  where  he  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  Normal  School.  His  first  invention  was  made  when 
about  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  perfected  a  practical  type  of  the 
cash  register,  had  it  patented  in  1887,  and  for  several  years  manufac- 
tured it  on  a  successful  scale.  Mr.  Peck  sold  this  business  in  1895, 
and  removed  to  Syracuse,  New  York,  where  in  1892  he  organized  the 
Barnes  Cycle  Company.  At  that  time  the  bicycle  was  enjoying  the 
height  of  its  popularity,  and  his  company  manufactured  one  of  the 
best  wheels  on  the  market,  known  as  the  Barnes  White  Flyer.  Mr. 
Peck  continued  as  manager  of  the  company  until  1900,  at  which  time 
the  company  was  sold  to  the  American  Bicycle  Company. 

As  a  bicycle  mantifacturer  it  was  only  natural  that  he  became  a 
pioneer  in  the  promotion  of  the  automobile.  Associated  with  Alexander 
T.  Brown,  inVentor  of  the  Smith-Premier  typewriter,  and  three  other 
men,  Mr.  Peck  furnished  the  original  capital  to  build  the  first  three 
Franklin  automobiles  constructed,  and  which  resulted  in  the  formation 
of  the  great  Franklin  Automobile  Company. 

What  brought  Mr.  Peck  to  Los  Angeles  was  his  association  with 
C.  M.  Warner  of  the  Warner  Sugar  Refining  Company  of  New  York. 
These  capitalists  organized  the  Anaheim  Sugar  Company  in  the  year 
1910,  in  which  he  and  Mr.  Warner  are  the  principal  stockholders.  Mr. 
Peck  is  president,  Richard  Melrose  vice  president,  L.  H.  Multer  secre- 
tary and  treasurer,  and  the  other  directors  are  C.  M.  Warner,  E.  T. 
Stimson,  Frank  J.  Carlisle  and  Donald  Barker. 

The  Anaheim  Sugar  Company  was  incorporated  with  a  capital  of 
$750,000,  and  the  plant  at  Anaheim  was  put  in  operation  in  July,  1911, 
with  a  capacity  of  600  tons  of  beets  per  day.  The  plant  has  been  en- 
larged until  its  present  daily  capacity  is  1.2CiO  tons.  The  company  con- 
tracts to  handle  the  product  of  12,000  acres  of  beets  in  Los  Angeles 
and  Orange  Counties,  and  in  1917  the  aggregate  of  business  was  valued 
at  $2,500,000.  In  the  plant  and  business  275  men  find  direct  and  regular 
employment,  while  it  furnishes  employment  and  revenue  indirectly  to 
over  a  thousand  more.  The  Anaheim  sugar  plant  has  direct  transporta- 
tion facilities  over  the  Santa  Fe  and  Southern  Pacific  Railways.  . 


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Mr.-  Peck  is  also  a  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Syracuse,  and 
of  the  Mack-Miller  Candle  Company  of  Syracuse,  which  he  and  an- 
other associate  organized.  His  fame  as  an  inventor  also  rests  upon 
Peck's  Pressure  Filter,  a  device  extensively  used  in  mining  and  sugar 
plants.     Mr.  Peck  is  now  having  this  filter  manufactured. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club, 
Sierra  Madre  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  the  Centurv  Club,  Onondaga  Golf  and  Country  Club  and  Citizens 
Club  of  Syracuse.  Politically  Mr.  Peck  is  a  republican.  At  Syracuse, 
in  November,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Carrie  Aldrich.  Their  one  son, 
Aldrich  R.,  born  in  1896,  was  a  student  in  the  second  year  at  Yale  Uni- 
versity when  he  enlisted  in  the  Naval  Reserves. 

Milton  G.  Coqper.  The  wholesale  district  of  Los  Angeles  has  one 
of  its  most  conspicuous  institutions  in  the  Cooper,  Coates  &  Casey  Com- 
pany. The  president  of  this  company  and  business  organized  it  some 
years  ago  largely  upon  his  extensive  experience  and  demonstrated  suc- 
cess as  a  traveling  salesman. 

Mr.  Cooper  has  been  connected  with  the  dry  goods  trade  prac- 
tically all  his  life,  having  begun  it  as  a  clerk  in  a  large  firm  in  Kansas 
City,  Missouri. 

'  He  was  born  at  Springdale,  Ohio,  October  9,  1873,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Sarah  Cooper.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  left  high  school  to  do  any 
work  that  might  be  assigned  him  as  a  boy  clerk  in  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  house  of  Burnham,  Hanna  &  Munger,  at  Kansas  City.  His 
diligence  and  intelligence  found  favor  in  the  eyes  of  his  superiors,  and 
in  1894,  when  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  received  the  coveted 
honor  of  a  place  on  the  firm's  pay  roll  as  a  traveling  salesman.  In  1895 
Mr.  Cooper  came  out  to  Los  Angeles  to  represent  his  house  in  the 
Pacific  Coast  territory,  and  during  the  next  eleven  years  he  not  only 
built  up  an  immense  volume  of  trade  for  his  house,  but  became  familiar 
with  commercial  conditions  and  built  up  an  extensive  acquaintance  all 
up  and  down  the  coast. 

Then  in  1906  he  organized  the  Cooper,  Coates  &  Casey  Company, 
of  which  he  has  since  been  president.  This  company  does  a  wholesale 
business  in  dry  goods,  notions,  floor  covering,  men's  and  women's  fur- 
nishing goods.  Their  first  plant  was  at  528  South  Los  Angeles  street, 
where  they  had  24,000  square  feet  of  floor  space.  Today  the  different 
buildings  furnish  250,000  square  feet.  In  1912  they  erected  a  five-story 
and  basement  building  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Seventh  and  Los 
Angeles  streets,  and  in  1918  put  up  a  five-story  building  adjoining  the 
first  building,  part  of  this  space  being  used  for  factory  purposes,  manu- 
facturing women's,  children's  and  boys'  garments.  A  subway  con- 
nects the  two  buildings.  The  carload  shipments  arrive  at  their  River 
Station  warehouse,  and  the  company  owns  a  large  garage  and  operates 
forty  automobile  cars  and  trucks.  The  company  does  both  a  domestic 
and  export  business. 

Mr.  Cooper  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member  of 
the  United  Commercial  Travelers,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los 
Angeles  Country  Club,  and  is  not  only  one  of  the  principal  men  of 
affairs  of  Los  Angeles,  but  a  citizen  of  the  deepest  public  spirit. 

At  Plattsburg,  Missouri,  June  26,  1895,  he  married  Miss  Hattie 
M.  Philips.  They  have  one  son,  Stuart,  who  was  educated  in  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools,  the  University  of  Southern  California  and  Phila- 
delphia Textile  School  at  Philadelphia,  and  is  now  making  a  practical 
use  of  his  liberal  education  with  the  Cooper,  Coates  &  Casey  Company. 


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George  F.  Getty,  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1906,' came  to 
this  city  with  a  well  established  reputation  as  an  attorney,  practiced  law 
for  over  twenty  years  in  Michigan  and  Minnesota,  but  for  the  past 
fifteen  years  his  chief  interests  have  been  in  oil  development  and  pro- 
duction. He  is  president  of  the  Minnehoma  Oil  Company,  one  of  the 
largest  producing  companies  in  the  Oklahoma  fields. 

Possessing  initiative  and  ability  of  a  high  order,  and  a  long  and 
persistent  worker,  Mr.  Getty  has  never  been  in  the  class  of  the  "average 
man."  He  was  born  at  Grantsville,  Maryland,  October  17,  1858,  son 
of  John  and  Martha  A.  (Wiley)  Getty.  Soon  after  his  birth  his  parents 
moved  to  eastern  Ohio,  where  he  received  his  early  education.  At  the 
age  of  eighteen  he  entered  the  Smithville  Academy  in  Ohio,  and  from 
that  continued  his  studies  in  the  Ohio  Northern  University  at  Ada,  where 
he  was  graduated  A.  B.  July  10,  1879.  He  left  his  impress  on  the  student 
activities  of  that  old  and  well  known  institution,  and  is  one  of  its  most 
loyal  alumni  and  a  trustee  of  the  university.  He  was  especially  interested 
while  in  college  in  literary  work  and  debating,  and  some  years  ago  he 
founded  the  Getty  Debating  Club,  contributing  a  fund  from  which  two 
prizes  are  given  annually.  Mr.  Getty  was  valedictorian  of  his  class  in 
the  Ohio  Northern.  He  was  a  student  of  law  in  the  University  of 
Michigan,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ann  Arbor  in  1882.  He  then 
located  at  Caro  in  Tuscola  county,  Michigan,  and  practiced  law  for  two 
years,  in  which  time  he  was  Circuit  Court  commissioner  of  that  county. 
In  1S84  he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  and  was  a  member  of  the  bar  of 
that  city  for  twenty-two  years.  A  large  practice  came  to  him  and  he 
became  a  specialist  in  insurance  law,  a  branch  of  work  which  gained  him 
a  clientage  and  practice  over  many  states  of  the  Union.  While  in  Min- 
nesota he  also  served  as  secretary  of  the  State  Prohibition  Party  and 
editor  of  its  party  journal.   The  Review. 

Since  removing  to  Los  Angeles  in  1906  Mr.  Getty  has  become  in- 
terested in  several  oil  corporations,  but  chief  among  them  is  the  Minne- 
homa Oil  Company,  which  he  organized  in  1903,  and,  as  the  name  indi- 
cates, the  original  personnel  of  the  company  were  Minnesota  men,  while 
the  field  of  operations  is  Oklahoma.  Judge  William  A.  Kerr  is  secre- 
tary of  the  company.  This  corporation  owns  a  hundred  wells,  produc- 
ing 2,000  barrels  of  oil  a  day,  and'  has  about  a  hundred  men  on  its  pay 
roll.  These  properties  are  located  in  some  of  the  richest  oil  territory 
of  Oklahoma,  around  Tulsa,  Gushing,  Cleveland  and  Bartlesville. 

As  a  business  man  Mr.  Getty  has  caught  the  modern  spirit  of  busi- 
ness and  is  as  progressive  as  he  is  successful.  In  the  spring  of  1917  he 
organized  the  Loyal  Petroleum  Company,  of  which  he  is  president  and 
controlling  stockholder.  The  rest  of  the  stock  is  held  by  the  leading  em- 
ployes of  the  other  corporations  with  which  Mr.  Getty  is  connected,  and 
the  primary  purpose  in  organizing  the  company  was  to  enable  employes 
to  profit  from  the  business. 

Mr.  Getty  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of 
the  Gamut  Club  and  Municipal  League,  the  Brentwood  Country  Club,  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  the  Alid-Continent  r)il  Produc- 
ers -Association,  and  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  Shriner.  In  religious 
matters  he  is  a  Christian  Scientist.  In  1916  Mr.  Getty  shared  honors 
with  Governor  Frank  B.  Willis  of  Ohio  in  delivering  the  principal  ad- 
dresses at  the  commencement  exercises  of  the  Ohio  Northern  University 
at  Ada.  Governor  Willis  was  a  former  instructor  in  the  Ohio  Northern. 
On  March  31,  1916,  the  Ohio  Northern  conferred  upon  Mr.  Gett.\-  the 
degree  Doctor  of  Commercial  Science.     Mr.  Getty  has  traveled  widely 


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and  was  in  Europe  just  before  the  World  war  broke  out  in  1914,  leaving 
France  the  day  before  the  opening  of  hostilities  and  returning  to  the 
United  States  on  the  Lusitania.  At  Marion,  Ohio,  October  30,  1879,  Mr. 
Getty  married  Miss  Sarah  Risher.  They  have  one  son,  Jean  Paul,  born 
December  15,  1892.  From  the  public  schools  he  entered  the  University 
of  Southern  California,  was  also  in  the  University  of  California  and  Ox- 
ford University,  at  Oxford,  England,  and  spent  some  time  at  the  Sor- 
bonne  in  Paris.  He  is  now  interested  with  his  father  in  the  management 
of  oil  properties  in  Oklahoma. 

William  Jefferson  Hunsaker  has  practiced  law  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia for  more  than  forty  years.  Few  members  of  the  profession  have 
been  more  uniformly  successful  and  have  achieved  more  of  the  dignity 
and  true  rewards  of  the  painstaking  and  conscientious  lawyer.  He  was 
born  September  21,  1855,  in  Contra  Costa  county,  son  of  Nicholas  and 
Lois  E.  (Hastings)  Hunsaker.  His' father  settled  in  California  in  1847. 
His  mother's  uncle,  Lansing  Warren  Hastings,  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Constitutional  Convention  of  California. 

Mr.  Hunsaker  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county 
and  San  Diego  and  began  work  in  the  office  of  the  Bulletin  at  San  Diego. 
He  worked  as  a  journeyman  printer  for  the  Bulletin  and  the  San  Diego 
World  two  years  and  a  half.  He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  A.  C.  Baker,  afterwards  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Ari- 
zona. He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  District  Court  of  San  Diego 
county  in  1876,  and  remained  in  that  city  in  active  practice  until  1880. 
He  then  spent  a  year  at  Tombstone,  Arizona,  and  in  1882  was  admitted 
by  the  California  Supreme  Court.  In  that  year  he  was  elected  district 
attorney  of  San  Diego  county,  serving  until  1884.  In  1887  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  E.  W.  Britt  as  Hunsaker  &  Britt.  Mr.  Hunsaker 
moved  his  offices  to  Los  Angeles  in  1892  and  has  been  one  of  the  leading 
members  of  the  bar  of  that  cit}'  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  In  1900 
he  and  Mr.  Britt  again  became  partners. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  California  and  American  Bar  Associations. 
February  26,  1879,  at  San  Diego,  he  married  Florence  Virginia  McFar- 
land.  Their  four  children  are  Mary  Cameron  Brill,  Florence  King 
Hunsaker,  Rose  Margaret  Steehler  and  Daniel  McFarland  Hunsacker. 

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John  Parkinson.    The  record  of  John  Parkinson  as  an  architect  is 

written  in  Los  Angeles  building  history  during  the  period  of  a  quarter 

of  a  century.    In  that  time  he  has  designed  many  of  the  most  conspicuous 

structures  in  the  business  and  outlying  districts. 

He  was  born  in  England  December  12,  1861,  and  acquired  his  literary 
and  technical  education  in  his  native  country,  graduating  from  the  Me- 
chanics' Institute  at  Bolton,  and  received  his  diploma  in  architecture  and 
building  construction  in  1882.  He  began  the  practice  of  architecture  in 
Napa,  California,  in  1888,  and  practiced  in  Seattle,  Washington,  from 
January,  1889,  to  March,  1894. 

Mr.  Parkinson  removed  to  Los  Angeles  in  1894.  He  was  the  designer 
of  the  Currier,  Laughlin,  Grant,  Johnson  and  Hibernian  Buildings,  the 
Angelus  Hotel,  ]\Iaryland  Hotel,  California  Club,  Security  Building,  Title 
Insurance  Building,  Central  Building,  Union  Oil  Building,  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Building,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Pacific  Mutual  Building,  Bul- 
lock's Store,  the  Broadway  Department  Store,  the  Arcade  Depot,  and  as 
one  example  outside  of  California,  the  Utah  Hotel  Building  at  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  among  the  latest  buildings  are  the  Blackstone  Building,  Security 


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National  Bank  Building,  the  Wholesale  Terminal  Buildings,  and  has 
under  construction  the  buildings  for  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, the  extension  to  Bullock's  Store,  and  a  number  of  other  large 
structures. 

Mr.  Parkinson  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects, 
the  Engineers'  and  Architects'  Association,  the  State  Board  of  Architec- 
ture, and  as  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Jonathan  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 

George  J.  Wilson,  who  has  had  a  long  and  active  experience  in  the 
stock  and  bond  business  and  is  now  head  of  \\'ilson,  Lackey  &  Company, 
stock  and  bond  brokers  and  dealers  in  Los  Angeles,  came  to  Southern 
California  from  Philadelphia,  where  he  had  most  of  his  early  years  of 
experience  and  training. 

He  was  born  in  Belmont  county,  Ohio,  December  11,  1878.  His 
father,  Benjamin  Wilson,  also  a  native  of  Belmont  county,  was  educated 
at  Mount  Pleasant  Boarding  School,  and  for  thirty  years  his  chief  busi- 
ness duties  were  as  treasurer  of  a  Pike  Road  Association  at  Flushing, 
Ohio.  He  was  also  director  of  the  County  Hospital  and  served  in  the 
Legislature  two  terms,  and  became  very  prominent  as  a  republican  leader 
in  Ohio.  He  was  chairman  of  his  County  Committee,  and  in  that  capa- 
city was  called  upon  to  introduce  William  McKinley  at  a  number  of 
places  in  Ohio  where  that  eminent  statesman  was  making  his  campaign 
for  presidency.  In  1912  he  was  at  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  soon 
after  he  had  introduced  William  Taft  to  a  public  audience  in  that  city 
he  was  taken  ill  and  died.  He  married  in  Columbiana  county,  Ohio, 
Mary  French.  She  was  member  of  an  old  and  prominent  Quaker  family 
which  had  helped  found  the  town  of  Salem  in  Ohio.  Benjamin  Wilson 
and  wife  had  four  children :  Dr.  Joseph  G.  Wilson,  who  is  now  past 
assistant' surgeon  of  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service;  Mrs.  Al- 
bertus  L.  Hoyle,  of  Haddon  Heights,  New  Jersey;  George  J.,  and  John 
French,  who  is  a  graduate  of  a  college  in  Ohio,  of  West  Town  Boarding 
School  near  Philadelphia,  of  Haverford  College  in  Pennsylvania,  and  of 
Harvard  University.  He  was  president  of  all  his  classes  in  all  these 
colleges  but  that  of  Harvard.  He  is  now  a  successful  lawyer  at  Cleve- 
land. 

George  J.  Wilson  attended  private  schools,  also  was  in  college  to 
the  age  of  nineteen,  and  then  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  for  two 
years  he  was  in  the  service  of  the  Provident  Life  Insurance  Company. 
He  then  bought  Charles  G.  Gates'  seat  in  the  Philadelphia  Stock  Ex- 
change and  for  five  years  was  in  the  stock  and  bond  brokerage  business 
as  a  member  of  Newport,  Wilson  &  Company.  On  coming  to  Los  An- 
geles Mr.  Wilson  organized  Wilson,  Lackey  &  Company,  of  which  he  is 
president.  This  stock  and  bond  house  issues  a  semi-monthly  stock  re- 
port listing  all  securities. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  is  a 
republican,  and  is  a  birthright  Quaker  in  religious  faith.  At  Westchester, 
Pennsylvania,  May  17,  190O,  he  married  Sarah  E.  Hofifman.  They  have 
two  children,  George  Howard,  born  in  1902,  a  former  student  of  the 
Los  Angeles  High  School  and  now  attending  college,  and  Benjamin, 
born  in  1910,  attending  the  Berkeley  Hall  private  school. 

The  Tidings  is  the  official  organ  of  the  diocese  of  Monterey  and 
Los  Angeles,  and  is  published  by  the  Tidings  Publishing  Company,  of 
which  W.  E.  Hampton  is  president. 


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This  journal,  which  means  much  to  the  CathoHc  population  of  South- 
ern California,  was  founded  in  1895  under  the  name.  Catholic  Tidings. 
Mr.  P.  W.  Croake  was  the  first  editor.  The  name  was  soon  afterwards 
changed  to  The  Tidings.  In  1898  Mr.  J.  J.  Bodkin  bought  a  half  interest 
in  the  paper,  and  soon  acquired  full  ownership.  He  held  the  editorial 
chair  from  1898  to  1904,  when  The  Tidings  was  purchased  by  the  late 
Bishop  Conaty,  and  a  corporation  was  organized  to  continue  its  publica- 
tion. 

Under  its  new  regime  the  first  editor  was  Elmer  Murphy,  a  graduate 
of  the  Catholic  University  of  America  at  Washington.  Mr.  Herman  J. 
Rodman,  previously  connected  with  the  Los  Angeles  Express,  was  its 
second  editor,  holding  the  chair  from  the  spring  of  1906  to  July,  1907, 
when,  after  a  brief  illness,  he  died. 

The  third  editor,  James  Nolan,  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  Toledo 
Catholic  Record.  He  had  charge  of  The  Tidings  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
and  was  succeeded  temporarily  by  Rev.  John  J.  Clififord,  S.  T.  L.,  J.  C.  L. 
Miss  Alice  Stevens  occupied  the  position  for  some  four  years,  resigning 
in  the  fall  of  1913. 

The  present  editor,  Charles  Clifford  Conroy,  took  charge  in  Novem- 
ber, 1913.  To  his  editorial  office  he  brought  many  talents  and  attain- 
ments not  usually  associated  even  with  members  of  this  brilliant  pro- 
fession. 

Though  a  native  of  Colorado,  Mr.  Conroy  was  reared  and  educated 
in  Los  Angeles.  From  1904  to  1911  he  was  professor  of  history,  astron- 
omy and  geolog}-  in  St.  Vincent's  College,  and  from  1911  to  1913  filled 
a  similar  post  in  the  new  Jesuit  institution  now  known  as  Loyola  College. 
Mr.  Conroy  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Astronomical  Society  of  London, 
and  member  of  a  number  of  other  astronomical  societies,  as  well  as  of 
the  Societe  Scientifique  de  Bruxelles,  which  has  its  headquarters  at  Lou- 
vain,  and  is  in  some  respects  the  premier  Catholic  scientific  society  of 
Europe. 

Mr.  Conroy  has  written  several  serial  and  several  shorter  historical 
articles,  and  has  published  a  number  of  papers,  technical  and  popular,  in 
astronomical  journals.  His  specialties  in  this  line  of  scientific  research 
are  stellar  brightness  and  stellar  variability. 

William  F.  Howard,  one  o£  the  founders  and  vice-president  ot  the 
Western  Pipe  and  Steel  Company,  also  vice-president  of  the  Southwest- 
ern Shipbuilding  Company,  two  organizations  that  are  highly  significant 
in  the  development  of  Los  Angeles  district's  industries,  is  a  man  of  wide 
and  varied  experience  in  commercial  affairs. 

Born  in  County  Down,  Ireland,  he  attended  the  National  Schools  of 
Ireland  and  the  Royal  School  at  Armagh,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
went  to  London  and  had  one  year  of  business  life  in  that  metropolis. 
Coming  to  America,  he  located  at  Chicago,  and  later  at  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  and  was  for  nine  years  connected  with  Armour  &  Company. 
Mr.  Howard  also  had  some  experience  in  handling  public  utilities  in  the 
slate  of  Minnesota,  and  spent  several  years  in  New  York  City  in  various 
enterprises. 

Coming  to  Los  Angeles,  he  was  associated  with  Air.  T.ilbot  and 
several  others  in  organizing  the  Western  Pipe  and  Steel  Company,  of 
which  he  has  ever  since  been  vice-president  and  director.  This  is  an 
institution  whose  record  has  been  marked  by  steady  growth.  It  started 
with  a  small  plant  and  with  twenty-five  employes,  and  its  present  im- 
portance is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  a  thousand  individuals  are  on  the 


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pay  roll.  The  business  covers  the  entire  Pacific  coast,  with  headquarters 
at  San  Francisco,  and  with  factories  at  Los  Angeles  and  Taft,  and  branch 
houses  at  Stockton,  FresncJ  and  Bakersfield. 

In  March,  1918,  Mr.  Howard  was  one  of  the  leaders  in  organizing 
the  Southwestern  Shipbuilding  Company,  of  which  he  is  vice-president 
and  director.  There  is  a  special  historical  interest  attaching  to  this  com- 
pany, since  it  is  one  of  the  most  complete  organizations  on  the  Pacific 
coast  devoted  to  the  great  task  of  building  up  the  American  merchant 
marine.  The  company  started  their  plant  on  the  southerly  end  of  Ter- 
minal Island,  at  the  mouth  of  San  Pedro  Bay,  April,  1918.  They  took  a 
stretch  of  desert  land  and  in  a  few  months  had  a  completely  equipped 
shipyard  and  have  already  achieved  results  that  few  other  organizations 
in  the  country  can  equal.  The  firm  was  awarded  a  contract  for  building 
twenty-three  8,800-ton  ships  for  the  emergency  fleet  corporation.  On 
the  19th  of  October,  1918,  the  first  ship  was  launched  from  the  Ways, 
named  the  West  Carnifax.  The  plant  had  been  built  in  five  months 
nineteen  days,  and  this  first  ship  had  been  completed  and  launched  in 
seventy-seven  working  days.  A  second  launching  occurred  December 
31,  a  vessel  of  similar  size  went  from  the  Ways  named  the  West  Caruth. 
The  general  manager  of  the  company  is  David  Hollywood,  who  has  been 
a  shipbuilder  from  boyhood,  served  his  apprenticeship  at  Harland  & 
Wolflf's,  in  Belfast,  Ireland. 

Mr.  Howard  is  also  a  director  of  the  Hellman  Commercial  Trust  & 
Savings  Bank,  and  a  director  of  the  Shaw-Butcher  Ship  Works  at  San 
I'^ancisco.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
che  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  California  Club,  and  is  a  Mason. 

At  Mantorville,  Minnesota,  in  June,  1903,  he  married  Miss  Caroline 
A.  Severance.  They  have  two  children:  Francis  Severance,  aged  four- 
teen, a  student  in  the  public  schools,  and  Caroline  Elizabeth,  a  student  in 
St.  Catherine's  School  for  Girls.  The  daughter  Caroline  was  sponsor  at 
the  launching  of  the  second  boat.  West  Caruth. 

Mrs.  Howard  is  a  sister  of  C.  A.  Severance,  one  of  the  foremost 
lawyers  of  America.  He  was  born  at  Mantorville,  Minnesota,  in  1862, 
son  of  Erasmus  C.  and  Amanda  Julia  (Arnold)  Severance.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1883  and  is  a  member  of  the  well-known  St.  Paul 
law  firm  of  Davis,  Kellogg  &  Severance.  He  represented  the  United 
States  government  in  the  litigation  for  dissolving  the  Harriman  Railroad 
System.  He  was  present  at  the  launching  of  the  West  Caruth  at  San 
Pedro  and  went  out  on  the  trial  trip  of  that  boat.  He  is  now  attorney 
for  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation  in  the  litigation  brought  by  the 
Federal  authorities  to  dissolve  it. 

Walter  F.  Haas  has  been  a  resident  of  southern  California  thirty- 
five  years,  has  been  a  prominent  lawyer  engaged  in  an  active  civil  practice 
since  1891,  and  is  also  widely  known  as  one  of  the  eminent  Masons  of 
the  west. 

Mr.  Haas  was  born  at  the  town  of  California,  Missouri,  November 
12,  1869,  a  son  of  John  B.  and  Lina  W.  (Bruere),  Haas.  His  early 
education  was  acquired  in  his  native  town,  and  on  May  30,  1884,  at  the 
age  of  fifteen,  he  came  to  California  and  finished  his  education  in  the 
Los  Angeles  High  School  and  studied  law  with  the  firm  of  Houghton, 
Silent  &  Campbell,  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was  admitted  by  the  Supreme 
Court  April  7,  1891,  and  the  following  year  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
the  Federal  Courts.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has  been  one  of  the 
leading  figures  in  the  trial  of  important  civil  cases  in  the  courts  of  this 


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district,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  authorities  on  water  law 
and  corporation  law.  In  1901  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Frank  Gar- 
rett, and  in  19(X)  Harry  L.  Dunnigan  entered  the  hrm.  Since  the  death 
of  Mr.  Garrett  in  1911  the  firm  has  been  Haas  &  Dunnigan. 

Mr.  Haas  has  given  his  legal  services  to  a  number  of  business  cor- 
porations, and  has  served  as  president  of  the  Tampico  Land,  Lumber  & 
Development  Company,  as  director  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank,  as  vice-president  of  C.  J.  Kubach  Company,  as  director  of  the  K. 
&  K.  Brick  Company  and  as  president  of  the  Fidelia  Investment  Com- 
pany. During  1899-1900  he  was  city  attorney  of  Los  Angeles.  In  Oc- 
tober, 1915,  he  was  knighted  Knight  Commander  of  the  Court  of  Honor 
by  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  Scottish  Rite  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He 
is  one  of  the  committee  on  Grievances  and  Appeals  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  State  of  California,  is  past  master  of  Palestine  Lodge  No.  351, 
A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  a  member  of  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  Mr.  Haas  is  a  member  of  the  Gamut  Club,  Union  League  Club, 
Jonathan  Club,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Bar  Asso- 
ciations. He  resides  at  Alhambra,  where  recently  he  completed  a  beau- 
tiful hollow  tile  concrete  home  of  twenty-one  rooms. 

Mr.s.  Harriet  \V.\ugh  P.\hl.  Among  the  women  of  Los  Angeles, 
Mrs.  Harriet  Waugh  Pahl,  superintendent  of  the  Angelus  Hospital,  is 
socially  and  professionally  prominent.  Mrs.  Pahl  was  born  in  Maine  and 
was  left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age.  Her  father  was  an  American  of 
English  descent,  and  her  mother  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia.  Her  paternal 
grandfather,  a  scion  of  one  of  the  oldest  New  England  families,  in  whose 
home  she  was  reared,  was  a  man  of  unusual  intellect  and  progressive 
ideas,  and  because  she  was  a  girl  and  an  orphan,  he  insisted  that  she 
have  a  good  business  education.  She  was  also  given  training  in  the 
practical  household  arts  and  in  early  life  accjuired  a  sense  of  individuality 
as  well  as  responsibility  to  the  world. 

For  eight  years  Mrs.  Pahl  lived  in  Honolulu,  a  member  of  the  house- 
hold of  Hon.  Lawrence  McCully,  where  she  enjoyed  many  superior  ad- 
vantages. She  was  in  Honolulu  during  the  reign  of  the  late  King  Kala- 
kuaa  and  also  while  Queen  Lilioukalani  was  on  the  throne  during  which 
time  there  was  maintained  all  the  pomp  and  ceremony  of  a  foreign  court. 
Each  country  being  represented  by  an  ambassador  or  minister  plenipoten- 
tiary and  with  the  men  of  war  of  these  nations  always  in  the  harbor, 
life  at  Honolulu  at  that  time  was  very  gay  and  delightful. 

Mrs.  Pahl  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  took  charge  of  the  Good  Samari- 
tan Hospital  in  1897.  She  was  connected  with  that  institution  for  four- 
teen years  and  then  went  to  the  Angelus  Hospital,  where  she  has  been 
for  nine  years.  This  hospital  has  prospered  wonderfully  under  her  able 
and  capable  management  and  ranks  as  one  of  the  best  in  Los  Angeles. 
When  she  took  charge  the  hospital  was  not  profitable,  but  it  is  now 
paying  dividends  and  shows  a  fine  financial  rating.  Mrs.  Pahl  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Illinois  Training  School  for  Nurses  of  Chicago,  in  which 
city  she  met  and  married  Dr.  P.  C.  LI.  Pahl,  now  assistant  professor  in 
the  University  of  Southern  California  and  chief  of  staff  of  the  university 
clinic.  They  have  two  children,  a  son  fourteen  years  old  and  a  daughter 
twelve.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pahl  are  now  building  a  delightful  home  of  the 
Swiss  chalet  type  on  a  beautiful  hillside  near  Elysian  Park,  overlooking 
for  many  miles  the  picturesque  San  Fernando  Valley. 

Mrs.  Pahl  is  a  member  of  the  Ebcll  Club  and  of  all  the  clubs  of  her 
jirofession.     Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  Mrs.  Pahl  has  worked  nntir- 


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ingly  in  the  interests  of  hospital  betterment  and  high  standards  for 
nurses,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  respected  hospital  women 
on  the  Pacific  coast. 

Herman  Baruch  for  twenty  years  was  distinguished  in  Los  Angeles 
as  a  hard-working,  quiet  and  efficient  business  man,  a  builder  of  trade 
and  commerce,  and  at  his  death  left  a  record  of  unimpeachable  integrity 
and  widespread  generosity. 

He  was  born  in  Hechingen,  Germany,  April  26,  1860,  a  son  of  Solo- 
mon and  Babette  Baruch.  He  attended  the  common  schools,  a  boarding 
school  at  Stuttgart  to  the  age  of  sixteen,  following  which  he  clerked  in 
a  mercantile  house  at  Munich  to  the  age  of  twenty,  and  after  that  at 
Frankfort  for  two.  years.  On  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Baruch  found 
employment  as  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Hellman,  Haas 
&  Company.  In  1891  he  was  made  a  partner  in  the  business,  the  name 
being  changed  to  Haas,  Baruch  &  Company.  With  that  well-known 
enterprise  his  name  and  energies  were  identified  until  his  death,  on  Octo- 
ber 21,  1909.  Successful  in  business,  he  was  interested  in  public-spirited 
movements  and  various  charitable  organizations,  was  a  charter  member 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  Concordia  Club,  a  republican  voter 
and  an  active  member  of  the  Jewish  Faith. 

At  Montgomery,  Alabama,  June  27,  1892,  he  married  Jeannette  Meer- 
tief.  Mrs.  Baruch  is  a  director  of  the  Jewish  Orphans'  Home  and  inter- 
ested in  various  other  charities.  She  is  the  mother  of  two  children. 
Elsie,  the  daughter,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Girls'  Collegiate  School,  and 
during  the  war  was  active  in  Red  Cross  v.'ork  and  was  with  the  United 
States  Food  Administration,  and  during  1919  was  still  connected  with 
the  Red  Cross.  The  son,  Frederick  H.,  born  in  Los  Angeles,  is  a  grad- 
uate of  the  University  of  California  and  left  his  place  with  Haas,  Baruch 
&  Company  to  join  the  first  officers'  training  camp  at  the  Presidio.  He 
was  transferred  to  March  Field  and  Fort  Sill,  was  commissioned  a  second 
lieutenant  in  the  air  service,  and  since  his  honorable  discharge  has  re- 
joined Haas,  Baruch  &  Company  as  a  salesman. 

George  L.  Holton,  president  of  the  Turner  Oil  Company,  has  been 
a  prominent  figure  and  constructive  worker  in  the  industrial  situation 
in  California  thirty-five  years. 

Of  old  New  England  stock,  he  was  born  at  Northfield,  Massachu- 
setts, February  22,  1863,  son  of  John  Pomeroy  and  Stella  (Tyler)  Hol- 
ton. At  the  age  of  seventeen,  after  completing  his  education  in  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools,  he  went  to  New  York  City,  and  for  a  year  was 
with  the  Remington  Arms  Company.  For  several  years  Mr.  Holton 
was  superintendent  of  agriculture  of  the  Mount  Herman  School. 

In  1884,  on  coming  to  California,  he  became  superintendent  of  the 
Bear  Valley  Irrigation  Company.  Mr.  Holton  and  his  associates  planted 
orchards,  built  irrigation  ditches,  divided  large  tracts  of  land,  and  laid 
out  the  city  of  Redlands,  giving  the  permanent  industrial  and  agricul- 
tural bent  to  that  community.  Mr.  Holton  had  an  active  part  in  all  that 
work  for  ten  years.  In  1894  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  and  has  since 
been  identified  with  much  of  the  oil  development  in  California.  In  1899 
he  was  made  superintendent  of  construction  with  the  Howard  Oil  Com- 
pany. In  1901,  having  resigned,  he  organized  the  Densmore-Stabler 
Refining  Company  and  became  its  manager.  This  business  was  absorbed 
in  1904  by-  the  Turner  Oil  Company,  and  Mr.  Holton  continued  as  man- 
ager. Upon  the  death  of  M.  W.  Turner,  in  1908,  Mr.  Holton  was  elected 
president. 


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The  Turner  Oil  Company  was  one  of  the  tirst  to  put  down  a  well 
in  the  Los  Angeles  territory.  Later  they  accjuired  oil  interests  in  Whittier, 
and  they  now  have  extensive  holdings  in  Ventura  county  known  as  the 
Mutual  Oil  Company  and  the  Cosmopolitan  Oil  Company.  The  com- 
pany's refinery  is  at  Los  Angeles,  at  9th  street  and  Santa  Fe  avenue. 

Mr.  Holton  is  president  of  the  California  ( )il  E.xchange  and  vice 
president  of  the  Independent  Petroleum  Market  Association.  He  has 
an  extremely  useful  recreation  in  the  cultivation  and  management  of  a 
seventy-acre  grove  of  Valencia  oranges  in  Orange  county.  In  associa- 
tion with  his  son  as  joint  owner  a  six  hundred  forty  acre  tract  in  Tulare 
county  is  devoted  to  stock  raising. 

Mr.  Holton  is  a  York  and  Scottisli  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sierra  Madre  Club,  the  Union  League  Club,  and  a  republican 
in  politics.  At  Redlands  September  25,  1885,  he  married  Miss  Fanny 
L.  Pratt. 

Robert  Goodyear  Holton,  only  son  of  George  L.  Holton,  was  born 
at  Los  Angeles,  April  17,  1889.  He  attended  the  public  schools,  also 
the  Troop  Institute  at  Pasadena,  and  since  school  days  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  business.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Mtitual 
Oil  Company,  secretary,  treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the  Turner 
Oil  Company,  a  director  in  the  Asphaltum  and  Oil  Refining  Company, 
and  a  director  in  the  Western  Oil  Company,  oil  distributors.  He  is  a 
York  and  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner  and  is  junior  warden  of 
Golden  West  Commandery  No.  43.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Sierra 
Madre  Club  and  the  Jonathan  Club  and  is  a  republican.  February  22, 
1917,  at  Selma,  California,  he  married  Netta  Scott.  They  have  one 
child,  John  Pomeroy  Holton,  and  this  grandson  of  George  L.  Holton 
represents  the  eleventh  generation  of  the  Holton  family  in  America. 

Cii.\RLES  James  \\'.\de  recently  rounded  out  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury of  service  as  secretary  of  the  State  Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Asso- 
ciation of  Los  Angeles.  Organized  in  1889,  Mr.  Wade  became  connected 
with  the  company  two  years  later  and  his  individual  abilities  have  played 
an  important  part  in  the  impressive  record  of  this  association.  When 
he  first  became  connected  with  it  the  association  had  less  than  a  hundred 
thousand  dollars  in  assets.  .An  official  statement  for  July,  1919,  shows 
total  assets  of  over  four  million  four  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  it 
now  has  outstanding  in  loans  nearly  four  millions.  Its  management  has 
been  at  once  conservative  and  progressive  and  the  history  of  the  com- 
pany in  detail  would  prove  it  a  vital  factor  in  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Wade,  the  secretary  of  the  association,  has  had  an  active  busi- 
ness career  beginning  with  his  arrival  in  the  City  of  Boston  on  January 
10,  1872,  on  his  eighteenth  birthday.  He  was  born  in  Suffolk  County, 
England,  January  10,  1854.  In  1869  when  he  was  fifteen  years  old  his 
parents  Mark  Edward  and  Eliza  Anne  (Nazer)  Wade  crossed  the  ocean 
and  settled  at  Goderich,  Ontario,  Canada.  His  father  had  been  a 
gentleman  fanner  in  England  and  in  Canada  he  and  his  wife  lived 
retired.  He  died  at  Brussels  and  his  wife  at  Stratford,  Ontario.  Charles. 
J.  was  one  of  four  sons  and  eight  daughters.  Three  of  the  sons  and 
four  of  the  daughters  are  living.  Mr.  Wade  and  his  youngest  sister 
reside  in  Los  Angeles,  one  sister  is  a  resident  of  England,  while  the 
others  are  in  Illinois,  near  Chicago. 

Charles  James  Wade  attended  the  Queen  Elizabeth  grammar  school 
at  Ipswich,  England,  from  1865  to  1869.  During  1870-71  he  was'  a  student 


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of  law  at  Goderich,  Ontario.  On  arriving  in  Boston  on  his  birthday  as 
above  noted  he  became  bookkeeper  for  Sanderson,  Foster  &  Company, 
and  was  with  that  concern  until  1876.  During  1877-82  he  was  book- 
keeper for  the  New  England  News  Company  in  Boston,  and  from  1882 
to  1889  was  credit  man  and  bookkeeper  for  the  U.  S.  Wind  Engine  and 
Pump  Company,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

Mr.  Wade  came  to  California  in  June,  1889.  He  bought  a  fruit 
ranch  at  Cucamonga,  but  in  1891  entered  the  service  of  the  State  Mutual 
Buildinfi  &  Loan  Association  as  a  solicitor,  and  in  1892  was  appointed 
assistant  secretary  and  in  1894  entered  upon  his  long  term  of  service  as 
secretary. 

He  sold  his  fruit  ranch  in  1896  and  moved  to  Hollywood,  built  his 
liome  in  that  suburb  in  1897  and  he  and  his  family  have  occupied  it  as 
their  family  residence  since  1898.  Mr.  Wade  is  a  member  and  former 
president  of  the  California  State  League  of  Building  &  Loan  Associa- 
tions, was  the  first  representative  from  the  State  at  the  National  League 
meetings,  and  had  that  honor  on  three  different  occasions.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National  Organization.  For 
the  past  twenty  years  he  has  served  as  treasurer  of  St.  Stephen's  church 
at  Hollywood,  is  a  former  president  of  the  Hollywood  Community  Sing, 
and  is  a  life  member  and  treasurer  of  the  Grand  Council  of  California 
of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  is  also  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Otder 
of  Foresters,  is  a  member,  and  for  two  years  in  succession  was  president, 
of  the  Hollywood  Board  of  Trade,  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  San  Gabriel  Valley  Coun- 
try Club. 

At  Boston,  Massachusetts,  December  9,  1876,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Ehzabeth  Howard  of  that  city.  She  died  at  the  Hollywood  home  of 
the  family,  September  1,  1907,  the  mother  of  three  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter. Mr.  Wade  also  has  five  grandsons.  His  daughter  Mabel  Howard 
spent  seventeen  months  in  France  with  the  Red  Cross,  and  soon  after 
her  return  was  married,  August  20,  1919,  at  the  home  in  Hollywood, 
to  Rufus  W.  Balch,  of  Santa  Monica.  She  is  a  graduate  of  the  Good 
Samaritan  Hospital  of  Los  Angeles.  The  son,  Charles  Howard  Wade, 
is  assistant  secretary  of  the  State  Mutual  Building  &  Loan  Association, 
resides  at  Hollywood  and  has  two  sons.  Franklin  S.  is  superintendent 
of  operation  of  the  Southern  Counties  Gas  Company,  as  noted  elsewhere 
in  this  publication,  also  lives  at  Hollywood  and  has  one  son.  Henry 
Nazer,  the  youngest  son,  lives  at  Milwaukee  and  is  the  father  of  two 
boys. 

March  25,  1918,  Mr.  Wade  married  Isabella  Raeburn  Darling.  She 
was  born  at  Montreal,  Canada,  of  a  Scotch-Canadian  family  of  that  city. 
Mrs.  Wade  is  also  a  graduate  of  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital  at  Los 
Angeles,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Alumnae  Association  and  treasurer. 

Franklin  S.  Wade.  The  work  by  which  the  name  of  Franklin  S. 
Wade  stands  out  among  Southern  Califomians  has  been  as  engineer  and 
technical  expert,  first  with  the  Los  Angeles  Gas  &  Electric  Corporation, 
and  for  the  past  several  years  with  the  Southern  Counties  Gas  Company 
of  California.  Primarily  he  furnished  the  technical  skill  and  devised 
many  of  the  scientific  methods  for  the  manufacture  of  domestic  gas  from 
crude  oil.  This  is  a  California  development  pure  and  simple,  and  the 
application  of  the  methods  on  a  broad  scale  by  the  gas  companies  of  this 
state  has  been  of  great  service  to  the  fuel-using  public. 

Mr.  Wade  was  born  at  Kansas  City.  Missouri,  July  27,  1885,  but  has 


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spent  most  of  his  life  in  Southern  California.  He  is  a  son  of  C.  J.  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Howard)  Wade.  His  father  on  coming  to  California 
settled  on  a  fruit  ranch  at  Cucamonga,  but  for  the  past  twenty-eight 
years  has  been  secretar}'  and  manager  of  the  State  Mutual  Building  and 
Loan  Association  of  Los  Angeles.  The  mother  died  in  Los  Angeles 
September  1,  1907.  There  are  four  children:  Mabel  H.,  who  from 
March,  1918,  until  the  summer  of  1919  was  engaged  in  Red  Cross  work 
in  France;  Charles  H.,  who  is  assistant  secretary  with  his  father  in  the 
Building  and  Loan  Association ;  Franklin  S.  and  Henry  H.,  connected 
with  the  Cutler-Hammer  Company  of   Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 

Franklin  S.  Wade  was  about  four  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to 
California.  He  was  educated  in  the  old  Cahuenga  Pass  School  at  Holly- 
wood, and  took  his  preparatory  and  collegiate  work  in  the  University  of 
Southern  California.  He  graduated  with  the  A.  B.  degree  in  1908.  In 
the  meantime,  in  1905,  he  had  entered  the  service  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Gas  and  Light  Corporation  as  a  chemist,  and  continued  in  that  capacity 
with  them  until  1912.  Since  then  he  has  been  superintendent  of  opera- 
tion for  the  Southern  Counties  Gas  Company.  This  company  has  made 
a  specialty  of  distributing  the  natural  gas  by-product  of  the  oil  fields, 
and  many  of  the  methods,  processes  and  devices  for  the  utilization  of 
this  natural  gas  and  its  distribution  have  been  perfected  with  the  tech- 
nical advice  of  Mr.  Wade.  This  natural  gas  produced  with  petroleum 
has  some  distinct  advantages  and  differences  from  artificial  gas  or  the 
natural  gas  of  eastern  states.  Primarily  its  superiority  consists  in  the 
higher  number  of  heating  units,  in  fact  almost  double  the  number  of 
British  thermal  units  contained  in  artificial  gas.  In  distributing  this  gas 
the  company  found  it  necessary  to  alter  or  replace  much  of  the  apparatus 
already  installed  in  the  homes  and  factories,  the  results  being  a  much 
superior  heating  service  and  a  correspondingly  smaller  cost  per  unit  to 
domestic  consumers. 

While  the  chief  territory  supplied  by  the  Southern  Counties  Gas 
Company  is  Orange  county,  the  company's  headquarters  are  in  Los 
Angeles,  in  the  Corporation  Building,  where  Mr.  Wade  has  his  head- 
quarters. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers, 
the  American  Gas  Association  and  the  Pacific  Coast  Gas  Association, 
and  also  belongs  to  the  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club  and  the  Auto- 
mobile Club  of  Southern  California.  He  comes  of  an  Episcopalian  family, 
and  in  politics  is  conservative  and  independent.  April  15,  1914,  at  Los 
Angeles,  he  married  Carol  D.  Cooke,  daughter  of  H.  Jay  and  Ann  Louise 
(Russell)  Cooke.  The  Cookes  are  an  old  Connecticut  family.  Mrs. 
Wade  was  born  in  South  Dakota  and  educated  there.  Her  father  is  in 
the  real  estate  business  in  South  Dakota,  handling  chiefly  his  own  prop- 
erties. Her  mother  died  in  that  state  in  June,  1919.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wade 
have  one  son,  Franklin  Russell  Wade,  bom  at  Los  Aneeles  March  24 
1918. 

William  Mulholland  is  the  designer  and  builder  of  the  famous 
Los  Angeles  Aqueduct.  Those  who  know  how  much  of  his  real  life  has 
entered  into  this  magnificent  undertaking  do  not  hesitate  to  call  him  its 
creator.  Los  Angeles  for  years  has  looked  forward  to  the  completion 
of  this  enterprise,  and  now  that  the  water  mains  of  the  city  are  flushed 
with  the  sparkling  waters  of  Owens  River  brought  by  means  of  the 
Aqueduct  a  distance  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  from  the  Sierra 
Nevada  Mountains  the  achievement  is  properly  regarded  as  marking  a 


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new  era  in  the  history  of  the  city.  It  is  without  question  the  greatest 
aqueduct  in  the  world,  surpassing-  manifold  the  famous  aqueducts  of 
the  old  Roman  Empire.  The  Aqueduct  ^vas  built  at  a  cost  of  nearly 
twenty-five  million  dollars  and  it  was  WiUiam  MulhoUand  who  in  his 
capacity  as  chief  engineer  of  the  Los  Angeles  Waterworks  devised  the 
plans,  estimates,  and  superintended  the  construction  of  the  water  way 
from  end  to  end.  Engineers  from  all  over  the  world,  men  famous  in  the 
profession,  studied  and  admired  this  tremendous  construction,  and  have 
given  Mr.  MulhoUand  the  highest  degree  of  professional  praise. 

Los  Angeles  owes  to  Mr.  MulhoUand  gratitude  not  for  the  Aqueduct 
alone,  but  for  a  constant  and  continuing  service  as  chief  engineer  of  its 
waterworks  system  for  more  than  thirty  years.  As  a  hydraulic  engineer 
Mr.  MulhoUand  is  undoubtedly  one  of  the  most  eminent  in  the  world 
today. 

He  was  born  at  Belfast,  Ireland,  September  11,  1855,  son  of  Hugh 
and  Ellen  (Deakers)  MulhoUand.  In  his  youth  he  attended  public 
schools  and  Christian  Brothers  College  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  as  a 
young  man  came  to  the  United  States  and  lived  in  Pittsburgh  before 
removing  to  California  in  1877.  It  was  in  1886  that  he  was  appointed 
chief  engineer  of  the  City  Water  Company,  at  that  time  a  private  cor- 
poration. He  has  been  superintendent  and  chief  engineer  ever  since  and 
was  retained  in  the  same  capacity  when  Los  Angeles  took  over  the 
water  company  in  1902.  Few  men  have  been  so  successful  in  choosing 
the  field  of  their  professional  work.  Besides  his  official  duties  at  Los 
Angeles  Mr.  MulhoUand  has  for  forty  years  been  a  student  of  condi- 
tions in  southern  California  and  has  designed  and  constructed  a  large 
number  of  great  irrigation  systems  and  water  power  projects  for  which 
the  Los  Angeles  district  is  famous. 

As  a  tribute  to  Mr.  Mulholland's  eminence  in  the  engineering  pro- 
fession the  University  of  California  in  1914  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  LL.  D.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers,  of  the  Pacific  Association  of  Consulting  Engineers,  is 
a  charter  member  of  the  Engineers  &  Architects  Association  of  South- 
ern California,  is  an 'honorary  member  of  the  National  Association  of 
Stationary  Engineers,  and  a  member  of  the  Seismological  Society  of 
America.  He  is  an  honorar)'  member  of  the  Tau  Beta  Pi  and  belongs 
to  the  California,  Sunset  and  Celtic  Clubs,  and  a  member  of  political 
and  progressive  organizations.     In  politics  he  is  nonpartisan. 

July  3,  1890,  Mr.  MulhoUand  married  at  Los  Angeles,  Lillie  Fer- 
guson, who  died  April  28,  1915.  They  became  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren:   Rosa,  Perry,  Lucile,  Thomas  and  Ruth. 

Hon.  Aurelius  W.  Hutton.  It  is  a  rare  distinction  enjoyed  by 
Aurelius  W.  Hutton — a  continuous  and  active  membership  in  the  Los 
Angeles  bar  for  half  a  century,  and  there  is  not  now  practicing  at  this 
bar  any  lawyer  who  preceded  him.  During  all  this  time  his  profession 
has  represented  to  him  a  means  of  service  to  others,  as  well  as  to  him- 
self, and  many  of  the  honors  most  prized  by  a  lawyer  have  been  bestowed 
upon  him. 

Judge  Hutton  was  born  in  Green  county,  Alabama,  July  23,  1847. 
His  grandfather,  General  Joseph  Hutton,  was  born  in  South  Carolina 
in  1769,  and  married  Nancy  Calhoun,  a  cousin  of  the  great  southern 
statesman,  John  C.  Calhoun.  The  grandfather,  with  his  family,  settled 
in  Green  county,  Alabama,  about  1821,  and  died  there  a  year  or  so  after- 
ward.    Their  son,  Dr.  Aquila  D.  Hutton,  was  born  in  Abbeville  district 


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of  South  Carolina,  April  8,  1805.  He  married  Elizabeth  H.  Tutt,  who 
was  born  in  Edgefield  district  of  South  Carolina  in  1812.  To  their  mar- 
riage were  born  six  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  father  died  in  Decem- 
ber, 1852,  at  the  age  of  forty-seven,  survived  by  five  children,  and  his 
wife  passed  away  in  February,  1854,  at  the  age  of  forty-two.  Their 
surviving  daughter,  Eugenia  Floride,  had  married  in  1853,  David  H. 
Williams,  a  physician,  who  became  guardian  to  the  four  orphan  boys  and 
gave  them  a  welcome  in  his  own  home.  Aurelius  W.  Hutton  has  always 
given  his  sister  and  her  husband  credit  for  much  of  his  success  in  life. 
When  he  was  ten  years  old  the  family  home  was  moved  to  Gainesville, 
Alabama.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  Judge  Hutton  entered  the  University 
of  Alabama,  a  military  school  at  Tuscaloosa,  and  with  the  Alabama  Corps 
Cadets  saw  some  active  service  in  behalf  of  the  Confederacy  until  April, 
1865.  All  four  of  the  brothers  were  in  the  Confederate  service.  The 
eldest  was  killed,  as  herinafter  noted  ;  the  second,  Aquila  D.,  was  in  the 
Thirty-sixth  Alabama  Regiment,  was  wounded  at  Chickamauga  and 
thereafter  served  as  lieutenant  in  the  Sixteenth  Confederate  Cavalry. 
His  younger  brother,  Emmett  C,  was  under  fire  April  4,  1865,  one 
month  before  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age. 

After  General  Lee's  surrender  Aurelius  W.  Hutton  returned  to  his 
home  with  his  Springfield  rifle  and  accouterments  and  turned  them  over 
to  the  Federal  provost  marshal  at  Gainesville,  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
and  was  paroled.  The  war  swept  away  all  his  own  inheritance  and 
devastated  the  property  of  the  family,  and  he  had  to  face  vastly  different 
circumstances  to  those  to  which  the  family  had  so  long  become  accus- 
tomed. He  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Bliss  &  Snedecor  at 
Gainesville  about  January,  1866,  his  brother-in-law  paying  a  hundred 
dollars  a  year  for  special  instruction.  Mr.  Bliss  was  a  native  of  New 
Hampshire  and  an  elderly  lawyer  of  great  ability  and  had  been  a  college 
classmate  of  President  Franklin  Pierce.  Mr.  Bliss  had  at  one  time  also 
been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bliss  &  Baldwin,  his  partner  being  Joseph 
G.  Baldwin,  author  of  the  book  of  most  entertaining  sketches,  "The 
Flush  Times  of  Alabama  and  Mississippi,"  and  subsequently  distinguished 
in  California  as  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Mr.  Hutton  spent 
eighteen  months  with  the  firm  of  Bliss  &  Snedecor,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1867  entered  the  law  department  of  the  University  of  Virginia.  At  that 
time  the  University  of  Virginia  Law  School  was  one  of  the  most  rigid 
in  its  requirements  and  curriculum,  and  a  diploma  had  a  current  accept- 
ance recognized  by  the  profession  throughout  all  the  states.  Mr.  Hutton 
combined  both  the  junior  and  senior  courses  in  one  year,  and  came  under 
the  instruction  of  that  great  law  professor,  John  B.  Minor,  and  was  able 
to  graduate  in  June,  1868,  being  one  of  thirty-seven  graduates  in  a  senior 
class  of  about  seventy.  Upon  attaining  his  majority  a  few  weeks  later, 
Mr.  Hutton  vi'as,  in  January,  1869,  without  examination,  admitted  to 
practice  by  the  Supreme  Gourt  of  Alabama  upon  his  B.  L.  degree  from 
the  University  of  Virginia.  In  January,  1869,  he  left  Alabama  with 
the  Travis  family,  bound  for  California,  the  journey  being  by  way  of  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama  to  San  Francisco,  and  thence  to  Los  Angeles. 

Judge  Flutton  arrived  at  Los  Angeles  April  5,  1869.  The  prevailing 
characteristic  of  the  little  city  of  five  thousand  was  the  atmosphere  of 
old  Spanish  and  ]\Iexican  regime.  The  first  trans-continental  railway 
was  just  being  completed.  Mr.  Hutton  had  a  vision  of  a  great  future 
for  Los  Angeles,  though  doubtless  surpassed  by  the  reality  which  he  now 
knows.  Identifying  himself  thoroughly  with  the  community,  he  entered 
the  office  of  Glassell  &  Chapman,  in  the  Temple  Block.    It  was  the  agree- 


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ment  that  his  only  pay  should  be  board  and  lodging,  but  the  firm  appre- 
ciated his  ability  and  paid  him  $50  for  the  first  month.  One  of  the  in- 
teresting facts  in  connection  with  Judge  Hutton's  fifty  years  of  member- 
ship in  the  Los  Angeles  bar  is  that  for  forty-six  years  he  was  continuously 
an  occupant  of  the  old  Temple  Block,  and  after  being  some  months  in 
the  Haas  Block,  has  more  recently  established  his  offices  in  the  Wilcox 
Block.  But  for  many  years  he  worked  in  an  unchanged  environment, 
though  surrounded  on  every  side  by  change  and  progress  and  develop- 
ment, with  lofty  business  structures  rising  about  him,  and  with  the  intro- 
duction of  all  the  growing  complexity  of  modern  municipal  life.  Among 
his  associates  in  practice  have  been  numbered  Judge  Henry  M.  Smith, 
E.  H.  Chapman,  Col.  John  F.  Godfrey,  Judge  "W.  H.  Clark  and  Judge 
OHn  Welborn.  His  last  partner  was  Mr.  Williams,  his  nephew,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Hutton  &  Williams,  but  since  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved, January  1,  1917,  Mr.  Hutton  has  practiced  alone. 

During  these  many  years  Judge  Hutton  has  again  and  again  been 
called  to  the  responsibilities  of  public  life.  In  December,  1872,  he  was 
elected  city  attorney  of  Los  Angeles,  and  was  the  first  man  to  hold  the 
office  for  two  consecutive  terms.  In  1874,  alone  with  his  pen — there  be- 
ing here  no  stenographer  nor  typewriter — he  drafted  the  first  special 
charter  for  Los  Angeles,  the  city  having  previously  been  governed  under 
the  general  incorporation  act  and  several  special  statutes.  In  1876,  acting 
with  the  City  Council,  he  revised  the  charter,  and  every  city  charter  since 
then  has  contained  many  of  the  wise  provisions  of  that  of  1874.  As  city 
attorney,  Mr.  Hutton  also  assisted  in  drafting  the  ordinance  granting  the 
first  franchise  for  a  street  railway,  and  conducted  the  legal  proceedings 
for  the  condemnation  of  rights  of  way  donated  by  the  city  to  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  Company.  After  considerable  efifort,  he  also  convinced 
the  local  officials  and  brought  about  the  requisite  formality  of  complaint, 
warrant  and  commitment  in  the  criminal  procedure  of  the  Municipal 
Court.  When,  in  February,  1887,  the  number  of  superior  judges  of  Los 
Angeles  county  was  increased  from  two  to  four,  Mr.  Hutton  received  on 
the  first  ballot  eighty  per  cent  of  the  vote  of  the  local  bar  recommending 
his  appointment  by  the  governor,  although  there  were  six  candidates 
before  the  meeting.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  Bartlett,  and  in  the 
distribution  of  the  business  of  the  court  that  followed,  in  which  he  had 
no  voice,  he  was  assigned  three-fourths  of  all  the  common  law  and  equity 
cases  tried  without  juries  and  nearly  all  the  law  and  motion  calendar. 
In  his  own  department  he  never  had  a  jury,  but  when  presiding  for  other 
judges,  he  tried  a  few  cases  with  juries.  Perhaps  the  most  important 
case  coming  under  his  jurisdiction  was  that  between  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railroad  Company  and  Coble,  with  reference  to  overlapping  land  grants 
to  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  the  St.  Paul  Railroad 
Company.  Judge  Hutton  found  for  the  defendant  in  a  case  involving 
160  acres,  thereby  declaring  the  land  excepted  from  the  grant  to  the  St. 
Paul  Railroad  Company  and  opening  the  land  to  settlement.  This  was 
in  July,  1888,  and  was  the  first  decision  of  any  court  on  this  important 
question,  and  to  Judge  Hutton  this  credit  is  due,  though  more  than  once 
the  credit  has  been  given  to  another  whose  decisions  in  favor  of  the  St. 
Paul  Railroad  Company  were  reversed  by  the,  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  an  opinion  establishing  the  law  precisely  as  it  was  held 
to  be  in  the  Coble  case.  See  39  Fed.  R.  140,  decided  in  1889,  and  46 
Fed.  R.  683,  decided  in  1892;  also  146  U.  S.  Supreme  Court  Reports 
570,  decided  in  1892,  and  the  record  in  the  Coble  case  in  the  county  clerk's 
office.    The  decisions  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court  are  binding  on  the  in- 


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ferior  courts  aiifl  they  have  of  course  decided  these  questions  against  the 
Railroad  Company  since  the  decision  in  the  146  U.  S.  Reports. 

At  the  election  in  November,  1888,  when  the  republican  ticket,  headed 
by  Harrison  for  president,  swept  everything  before  it.  Judge  Hutton, 
with  the  whole  democratic  ticket,  went  down  to  defeat.  In  August,  1889, 
he  was  appointed  by  Judges  Field  and  Ross  to  fill  a  temiiorary  vacancy 
in  the  office  of  the  United  States  district  attorney,  serving  for  six  months. 
He  was  subsequently  appointed  by  President  Harrison's  attorney  general 
special  counsel  for  the  United  States  in  the  several  cases  known  as  the 
Hata  cases,  involving  questions  growing  out  of  violations  by  the  Chilian 
insurgents  of  the  neutrality  laws  of  the  United  States.  In  1901  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  a  Board  of  Freeholders  to  prepare  a  new  charter 
for  the  city.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee  of  the  board. 
He  suggestefl  the  illegality  of  the  boards,  and  on  its  order  arranged  and 
supervised  a  test  case  in  the  courts.  The  Supreme  Court  of  the  state 
sustained  iiim  in  his  view.  (See  131  Cal.  263).  The  Board,  however, 
continued  its  work  and  completed  the  charter,  relying  upon  the  province 
of  the  council  to  submit  the  charter  to  a  vote  of  the  people  as  amendments 
prepared  or  proposed  by  it.  This  could  have  been  legally  done,  but  it 
was  never  done.  It  was  doubtless  opposed  by  some  power  which  con- 
trolled the  council. 

Judge  Hutton  was  a  stockholder  in  the  San  Gabriel  Orange  Grove 
Association,  the  corporation  that  bought  the  land  and  laid  out  the  city  of 
Pasadena.  He  has  filled  all  the  chairs  in  Golden  Rule  Lodge  No.  160, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  which  he  has  been  a  member  since  September,  1871.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Los  Angeles  Pioneers,  the  Los  An- 
geles Bar  Association  and  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He 
was  honored  with  an  appointment  by  Gen.  John  R.  Gordon,  commander- 
in-chief  United  Confederate  Veterans,  as  major  general  of  the  Pacific 
division  of  the  United  Confederate  Veterans,  and  was  subsequently  elected 
for  a  second  term.  His  division  was  territorially  the  largest  of  all,  extend- 
ing to  and  including  Colorado  and  New  Mexico. 

Februarj^  24,  1874,  Judge  Hutton  married  Kate  Irene  Travis.  She 
was  born  at  Gainesville,  Alabama,  May  3,  1851,  and  died  February  1, 
1915.  Her  father,  Amos  Travis,  was  born  in  North  Carolina  about  1805, 
and  brought  his  family  to  Los  Angeles  in  1869,  Judge  Hutton,  as  has 
been  noted  above,  being  one  of  the  party.  Amos  Travis  returned  to  Ala- 
bama in  1885,  and  died  there  August"  2,  1886.  He  married  Eliza  A. 
Coleman,  who  was  born  about  1820,  and  died  in  Alabama  April  26,  1896. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  Hutton  had  three  sons  and  seven  daughters.  The  oldest, 
Kate,  who  died  April  11,  1897,  had  married  in  the  previous  year  Raphael 
W.  Kinsey,  and  she  left  an  infant  son,  Aurelius  R.  Kinsey,  who  at  the 
age  of  twenty  volunteered  as  a  member  of  Company  E,  One  Hundred 
Seventeenth  United  States  Engineers,  in  the  Rainbow  Division,  and  who 
has  recently  returned  to  his  home.  The  second  child,  Aurelius  W.  Jr., 
died  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  on  April  13,  1895,  being  a  young  man  of 
brilliant  promise  in  the  field  of  electrical  discovery  and  invention.  The 
seventh  child.  Irene,  died  May  22,  1895,  at  the  age  of  eight.  The  tenth 
child  died  in  infancy.  The  other  children  of  Judge  Hutton  are  Mignon- 
ette ;  William  Bryan,  who  was  named  for  Judge  Hutton's  brother,  who, 
while  a  lieutenant  of  Company  A  of  the  Fifth  Alabama  Batallion.  Arch- 
er's Brigade,  A.  P.  Hill's  Division,  Stonewall  Jackson's  Corps,  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville,  May  3,  1863 ;  Helen,  wife  of  P.  G.  Win- 
nett,  vice-president  of  the  Bullock  Company  at  Los  Angeles ;  Elizabeth, 
surviving  wife  of  Louis  Adams,  who  died  November  1,   1918;  Travis 


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Calhoun,  and  Eugenia,  Mrs.  Wilkinson.  Travis  C.  made  more  than  one 
effort  to  volunteer  and  went  to  Toronto,  Canada,  to  join  the  Royal  Avia- 
tion Corps,  but  on  each  attempt  was  rejected  because  of  his  light  weight. 
Finally,  being  passed  on  the  draft  for  clerical  service,  and  disliking  that, 
he  was  permitted  to  enter  the  Spruce  Division  and  he  served  in  that 
until  his  discharge.  On  January  9,  1916,  Judge  Hutton  married  Mrs. 
Rose  A.  Seymour,  and  they  now  reside  at  1704  Ocean  avenue,  Santa 
Monica. 

Henry  R.  Coate.  The  largest  wholesale  dry  goods  house  in  south- 
ern California  is  the  Cooper,  Coate  &  Casey  Dry  Goods  Company,  at  Los 
Angeles,  a  business  established  in  1906,  and  which  has  made  a  tremen- 
dous growth,  with  trade  connections  all  over  the  southwest,  in  the  Latin 
American  countries  to  the  south  and  nearly  across  the  Pacific  to  the 
Philippine  Islands.  The  company  is  solely  engaged  in  the  wholesale  dis- 
tribution of  dry  goods,  notions,  ladies'  and  men's  furnishings,  ready-to- 
wear  garments,  floor  coverings,  etc.  Their  main  building  is  a  large  five- 
story  structure  at  Seventh  and  Los  Angeles  streets,  in  addition  to  which 
they  operate  garment  factories  in  a  large  individual  building,  have  a  com- 
plete warehouse  in  Los  Angeles  and  permanent  sample  rooms  at  El  Paso, 
Texas,  Phoenix  and  Nogales,  Arizona,  at  El  Centro,  San  Diego,  Fresno 
and  San  Francisco,  and  in  Honolulu  and  Manila.  The  traveling  repre- 
sentatives of  the  company  cover  all  the  southwestern  states  and  also 
Mexico,  Central  and  South  America  and  the  Orient.  A  New  York 
office  is  also  maintained  at  377  Broadway. 

The  executive  officers  of  the  company  are  M.  G.  Cooper,  president ; 
H.  R.  Coate,  first  vice-president ;  Edward  Casey,  second  vice-president, 
and  G.  Danielson,  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Henry  R.  Coate  was  in  business  on  the  Pacific  Coast  nearly 
forty  years.  His  own  career  is  a  contribution  to  the  family  record  of 
Americanism.  Mr.  Coate  was  born  at  Troy  in  Miami  county,  Ohio,  a 
son  of  John  H.  and  Jane  (Coppock)  Coate,  both  natives  of  the  same 
county  and  representatives  of  some  of  the  very  earliest  families  estab- 
lished in  southwestern  Ohio.  Both  the  Coate  and  Coppock  families  have 
been  Quakers  in  religious  faith  as  far  back  as  the  record  runs.  •  Mr. 
Coate's  great-grandfather  was  Marmaduke  Coate,  the  fourth  in  as  many 
successive  generations  of  that  name.  It  is  a  part  of  the  family  history 
that  the  original  Marmaduke  Coate  came  from  England  and  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Moses  Coppock,  obtained  from  the  Indians  a  land  grant 
of  four  thousand  acres  at  Philadelphia.  They  leased  this  land  tor  a 
period  of  ninety-nine  years,  and  that  lease  recently  expired.  Henry  R. 
Coate  happens  to  be  one  of  the  third  generation  of  heirs,  and  is  related 
fo  the  original  lessors  through  two  lines.  The  land  is  now  valued  at 
about  fifty  millions  of  dollars.  Great-grandfather  Marmaduke  Coate 
went  to  South  Carolina  from  Pennsylvania,  and  in  that  state  was  born 
his  son  Henry  Coate,  grandfather  of  the  Los  Angeles  merchant.  Henry 
Coate  came  to  Miami  county,  Ohio,  in  1803,  but  had  to  leave  that  county 
on  account  of  fear  of  the  Indians,  though  he  subsequently  returned  and 
had  a  farm  and  also  a  blacksmith  shop.  In  his  shop  he  made  many  of 
the  sickles  with  which  the  grain  of  the  pioneer  farmers  was  cut.  He 
died  in  1848,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  Both  he  and  his  father  were 
local  ministers  of  the  Quaker  church. 

John  H.  and  Jane  (Coppock)  Coate  died  on  the  farm  where  Henry 
R.  Coate  was  born.  The  latter  was  the  oldest  of  four  children ;  his  broth- 
er Warren  is  a  resident  of  Piqua,  Ohio ;  his  sister,  Mrs.  Edwin  Yount, 


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resides  at  Urbana,  Ohio;  while  the  other  son,  Orlestus,  died  at  the  age 
of  thirteen. 

Mr.  Coate  was  educated  in  the  pubhc  schools  of  Ohio,  attended 
Earlham  College,  the  noted  Quaker  institution  at  Richmond,  Indiana, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  his  father  set  him  to  work  in  a  dry  goods 
store  at  Troy.  In  1864  he  was  selling  goods  in  his  uncle's  store  at  the 
then  prevailing  war  scale  of  prices.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  been 
in  the  dry  goods  business  for  a  period  of  over  half  a  centurv-.  He  traveled 
for  the  wholesale  dry  goods  firm  of  John  Shillito  &  Company,  of  Cincinnati, 
until  1876,  then  for  a  few  years  was  traveling  representative  for  a  Philadel- 
phia house,  and  in  1881  came  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  first  had  charge 
of  Hale  Brothers  branch  store  at  Petaluma,  California,  three  years,  spent 
a  similar  career  with  Winestock,  Bloom  &  Company,  of  Sacramento,  and 
then  became  connected  with  the  jobbing  firm  of  Murphy,  Grant  &  Com- 
pany, at  San  Francisco  as  traveling  salesman.  His  headquarters  were 
at  Seattle  and  he  represented  that  firm  until  December,  1893.  Air.  Coate 
then  became  Pacific  Coast  representative  for  the  J.  &  P.  Coates  Thread 
Company,  serving  them  capably  for  seven  years,  until  1900,  when  all 
the  principal  thread  companies  were  merged  into  the  Spool  Cotton  Com- 
pany. While  with  the  Thread  Company  his  headquarters  were  in  San 
Francisco. 

His  next  connection  was  with  Levi,  Strauss  &  Company,  whole- 
sale dry  goods  merchants  of  San  Francisco,  and  this  business  connection 
brought  him  to  Los  Angeles  as  his  headquarters.  He  was  with  that 
firm  until  the  earthquake  of  1906,  and  in  that  year  he  became  one  of  the 
principals  in  organizing  the  Cooper,  Coate  &  Casey  Company. 

The  rise  of  this  company  to  prominence  in  commercial  circles  is 
probably  well  known  to  many  southern  Calif ornians.  Their  first  estab- 
lishment was  a  modest  three-storv'  building  on  Los  Angeles  street,  be- 
tween 5th  and  6th  streets.  After  about  six  years  they  moved  to  the 
present  site  of  their  main  building  at  the  corner  of  Los  Angeles  street 
and  Seventh  street,  where  they  have  five  floors  and  basement  in  addition 
to  the  other  warehouses  and  factories  owned  and  operated  by  them. 

Mr.  Coate  was  a  birthright  Quaker  and  has  always  remained  true  to 
the  faith  of  his  early  youth.  He  was  a  member  of  all  the  Masonic  bodies, 
York  and  Scottish  Rite,  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  Jonathan 
Club,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  his  family  have  long  been 
prominent  socially  in  Los  Angeles. 

In  June,  1880,  he  married  Miss  Virginia  Winans,  of  Ohio,  a  na- 
tive of  Illinois.  Mrs.  Coate  is  a  prominent  social  and  fraternal  leader, 
being  a  member  of  the  Woman's  City  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  and  is 
grand  associate  matron  of  the  grand  chapter  of  California,  Eastern  Star, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1919  was  also  chosen  grand  royal  matron  of  the 
Grand  Court,  Order  of  the  Amaranth  of  California. 

The  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coate,  Gertrude,  is  a  native  daugh- 
ter of  California  and  was  educated  in  Los  .\ngeles.  Mr.  Coate  died  Feb- 
ruary 0,  1920.    The  family  have  made  their  home  at  the  Ingrahami  Hotel. 

Cl.\rk  J.w  ]\Iilliron,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Trust  and  Savings 
Building,  is  a  lawyer  who  has  gained  the  reputation  of  being  an  expert 
on  the  complicated  subjects  of  Federal  income  tax  law,  and  the  bulk  of 
his  practice  is  in  connection  with  that  difficult  subject. 

Mr.  Milliron,  who  is  a  veteran  of  the  Philippine  war  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  was  in  the  Philippine  Civil  Service,  was  born  at  Chamber- 
lain, South  Dakota,  December  21,   1879,  a  son  of  Dr.  L.  and  Phoebe 


230  LOS  ANGELES 

(Stine)  Milliron.  As  a  boy  in  South  Dakota  he  attended  public  schools 
at  Kimball,  also  the  Ward  Academy,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  a  private 
tutor  was  brought  into  the  home  for  his  benefit.  At  sixteen  he  entered 
the  high  school  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  graduating  a  year  later.  During 
the  Philippine  insurrection  he  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Hospital 
Corps  as  a  first-class  private  and  remained  with  the  army  until  honorably 
discharged  in  February,  1904.  He  remained  in  the  Philippines  as  a 
Civil  Service  employe,  being  supervising  revenue  agent.  He  also  studied 
law  at  night,  and  in  December,  1912,  returned  to  the  States,  spending 
his  vacation  in  Los  Angeles.  In  June,  1913,  he  entered  the  National 
University  Law  School  at  Washington.  D.  C,  and  was  graduated  in 
June,  1915,  receiving  the  degrees  LL.  B.  and  LL.  M.  The  university 
gold  medal  was  bestowed  upon  him  in  recognition  of  his  standing  in  all 
subjects  and  courses. 

After  graduating,  Mr.  Milliron  came  to  Los  Angeles,  was  admitted 
to  the  California  bar  and  United  States  courts,  and  has  since  had  a  busy 
practice.  He  is  a  member  of  Henry  S.  Orme  Lodge  No.  458,  F.  and 
A.  M.,  is  a  Royal  Arch,  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  International  Association  of  Lions 
Clubs,  Los  Angeles  City  Club,  the  Bar  Association,  Automobile  Club 
of  Southern  California,  the  Sigma  Nu  Phi  college  fraternity,  and  in 
politics  is  independent. 

Mr.  Milliron  married  Miss  Edith  Morgan  on  September  21,  1909,  at 
Manila,  Philippine  Islands.  They  have  two  children :  Grace  Elizabeth, 
born  at  Manila  Mav  12,  1913,  and  Jay  William,  born  at  Los  Angeles  June 
2,  1915.  '  ■   ■  ■ 

John  Munro,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  California  since  1898,  is  a 
lawyer  of  exceptional  ability  both  in  the  criminal  branch  of  his  profes- 
sion and  also  as  a  counsellor  in  mining  litigation.  He  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  several  prominent  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar  at  dif- 
ferent times,  but  is  now  alone  in  practice,  with  offices  in  the  Bryson 
Block. 

He  was  born  at  Dominionville,  Canada,  November  2,  1874,  a  son  of 
Dr.  James  T.  and  Christina  (Robertson)  Munro.  His  parents  are  still 
living  in  Montreal.  For  years  his  father  was  a  prominent  surgeon  in 
that  city,  a  graduate  of  McGill  LTniversity  of  Montreal.  He  held  the 
rank  of  captain  in  the  British  army  and  served  in  that  capacity  in  the 
Fenian  raid  of  1872.  For  years  he  was  prominent  in  the  conservative 
wing  of  Dominion  political  parties  and  at  one  time  was  slated  for  the 
cabinet  in  the  provincial  government  of  Montreal.  John  Munro  is  the 
oldest  of  three  children.  His  brother,  Dr.  James  Howard,  is  a  Montreal 
surgeon  and  served  with  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  Medical  Corps  Of  the 
French  army  during  the  European  war.  The  daughter,  Olive,  is  the 
wife  of  Doctor  O'Hara,  a  physician  at  Montreal. 

Mr.  John  Munro  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Ottawa, 
Canada,  received  his  A.  B.  degree  from  Queen's  University  at  Kingston 
in  1896,  did  post-graduate  work  in  Manitoba  University  at  Winnipeg  in 
1897,  and  finished  his  law  course  in  the  Nashville  College  of  Law,  re- 
ceiving his  LL.  B.  degree  in  1898.  He  came  to  California  that  year, 
and  in  1906  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  this  state,  and  since  1910  has  had 
a  large  amount  of  practice  in  the  Federal  courts.  He  was  associated 
with  the  Los  Angeles  law  firm  of  Harris  &  Harris  in  1906-07.  He  has 
also  practiced  in  Nevada,  having  a  branch  office  in  the  Gazette  Building 
at  Reno,  from  which  he  handles  his  mining  litigation.     Mr.   Munro  is 


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fond  of  the  criminal  branch  of  the  law.  During  1908  he  was  associated 
in  practice  with  Gen.  Johnston  Jones,  practiced  alone  during  1909,  and 
in  1910  was  senior  member  of  "the  firm  Munro  &  Robertson.  He  was 
also  associated  with  Judge  Pirkey,  a  former  Superior  Court  judge.  The 
firm  of  Munro  &  Pirkey  continued  three  years,  until  Judge  Pirkey  went 
to  the  state  of  Washington  to  take  a  government  position,  and  is  now 
on  the  Superior  bench  of  that  state. 

Mr.  Munro  is  an  active  republican,  is  affiliated  with  San  Fernando 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  is  past  master  of  San 
Fernando  Lodge  No.  343,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Municipal  League,  Union  League,  City  Club, 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  California  State  Bar  Association,  and  in  religion 
is  a  Christian  Scientist. 

September  6,  1911,  at  Riverside,  California,  he  married  Miss  Jane 
Harriss.  She  was  born  and  educated  at  Omaha,  being  a  graduate'of  the 
Omaha  High  School  and  the  Jones  College  of  Music  of  that  city.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Munro  have  one  daughter.  Norma  K..  born  in  Los  Angeles. 

F"Kr-;DERiCK  A.  Wickersham  is  a  young  California  business  man, 
grandson  of  a  California  pioneer,  and  since  leaving  the  naval  service 
has  been  head  of  the  Frederick  A.  Wickersham  Company,  distributors 
and  sales  agents  at  Los  Angeles  for  the  Daniels  car.  The  Daniels  car 
is  an  automobile  that  has  been  manufactured  for  seven  years  by  the 
George  E.  Daniels  Company,  and  has  found  increasing  favor  and  pat- 
ronage with  that  portion  of  the  automobile  buying  public  content  only 
with  the  best  and  most  efficient  car  and  of  finest  design  and  workman- 
ship. The  Daniels  car  is  the  product  of  the  former  chief  designer  of 
the  Simplex  automobile. 

Mr.  Wickersham  was  born  at  Petaluma,  California,  August  17,  1896, 
a  son  of  Frederick  A.,  Sr.,  and  grandson  of  L  G.  Wickersham,  who  came 
to  California  in  1851  across  the  plains,  locating  at  Petaluma,  where  he 
established  one  of  the  first  banks  of  the  state.  Upon  his  death  his  son 
Frederick  took  over  the  management  of  the  bank  and  was  its  active 
head  until  his  death  in  1901.  Frederick  A.  Wickersham,  Sr.,  was  born 
at  Petaluma,  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  there, 
graduated  from  the  University  of  California,  and  in  addition  to  his  office 
as  president  of  the  Petaluma  Bank  was  largely  interested  in  sugar,  oil 
and  lands,  and  in  many  ways  was  a  leader  and  a  man  of  great  useful- 
ness in  the  northern  part  of  the  state.  Frederick  A.  Wickersham,  Jr.. 
attended  public  schools,  Mount  Tamalpais  Military  School,  graduated  in 
1914  from  the  Belmont  Militar)^  Academy  at  Belmont.  California,  and 
until  1917  continued  his  education  in  Stanford  University.  Early  in 
the  war  with  Germany  lie  enlisted  in  the  navy  as  a  sailor,  was  advanced 
to  petty  officer,  and  at  the  signing  of  the  armistice  was  commissioned  en- 
sign. He  received  his  honorable  discharge  January  11,  1919,  and  at 
once  located  at  Los  Angeles  and  secured  the  agency  for  the  Daniels  auto- 
mobile. 

Mr.  Wickersham  is  a  member  of  the  Theta  Chi  and  Phi  Delta  Theta 
college  fraternities,  the  Olympic  Club  of  San  Francisco,  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  and  while  in  the  service  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Athletic  Club  and  the  Boston  Athletic  Club. 

Bi^iucE  Hopkins  C.^ss  has  been  a  merchant  and  manufacturer  at  Los 
Angeles  for  over  thirty  years,  and  through  his  business  and  personal  in- 
fluence has  always  been  working  with  the  constructive  forces  in  the  up- 
building of  the  Southern  California  metropolis. 


238  LOS  ANGELES 

He  was  born  at  Albion,  New  York,  September  16,  1858.  His  father, 
Pliny  Cook  Cass,  was  born  in  New  Hampshire  in  1819,  of  old  New  Eng- 
land stock.  Pliny  C.  Cass  spent  many  years  in  California,  coming  out 
in  1850  and  again  in  1854,  but  soon  returned  to  the  East.  In  February, 
1888,  he  brought  his  family  out  and  settled  permanently.  Following  the 
Civil  war  he  had  moved  to  southwestern  Missouri,  and  after  that  war 
lived  in  Indian  Territory  for  several  years. 

Bruce  Hopkins  Cass  spent  ten  years  of  his  early  life  as  a  United 
States  licensed  Indian  trader  in  old  Indian  Territory.  He  had  acquired 
all  his  education  near  Joplin,  Missouri,  but  his  opportunities  have  been 
largely  of  his  own  creation.  About  1888  he  engaged  in  the  har4ware 
business  at  Los  Angeles,  and  soon  afterward  established  the  Cass 
Brothers  Stove  Company,  his  associate  being  his  brother,  A.  B.  Cass. 
After  two  years  they  consolidated  with  E.  E.  Crandall,  and  about  two 
years  later  Mr.  John  Smurr  bought  the  Crandall  interests,  at  which  time 
the  Cass-Smurr  Company  came  into  existence.  In  1890  Mr.  Cass  also 
bought  a  stock  of  goods  at  Winslow,  Arizona,  and  at  is  required  three 
years  to  dispose  of  this  general  merchandise,  he  spent  much  of  his  time 
back  and  forth  between  Los  Angeles  and  Winslow.  In  1893  he  estab- 
lished another  business  firm,  known  as  Nauerth  &  Cass  Hardware  Com- 
pany. Their  store  was  at  324  South  Spring  street,  while  the  Cass  Stove 
Company  was  at  316  South  Spring.  In  1896  Nauerth  &  Cass  moved  to 
the  present  location  of  the  business,  412-414  South  Broadway.  That 
was  then  an  out-of-the-way  section  of  the  city,  and  the  temporary  quar- 
ters of  the  firm  was  an  old  adobe  building  until  a  more  suitable  struc- 
ture could  be  provided.  While  the  location  of  the  business  was  regarded 
unfavorably  by  the  friends  of  Mr.  Cass,  his  foresight  proved  his  wis- 
dom, and  today  this  store  is  in  the  very  center  of  the  business  district. 

About  ten  years  ago  another  change  was  made  in  the  firm,  when  Mr. 
Damerel  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Nauerth,  the  resulting  organization 
being  the  Cass-Damerel  Hardware  Company.  Later  the  stove  interests 
were  consolidated  and  the  new  business  title  was  the  Cass-Smurr- 
Damerel  Company. 

In  February,  1919,  Mr.  Cass  resigned  as  president  of  this  corpora- 
tion to  devote  all  his  time  to  a  new  company  called  the  Cass  Manufac- 
turing Company,  manufacturing  all  kinds  of  heating  and  ventilating  ap- 
pliances for  public  buildings,  and  all  classes  of  hotel,  restaurant  and 
kitchen  equipment  and  fixtures.  The  leased  quarters  of  the  new  busi- 
ness are  at  332  South  Spring  street.  The  company  manufactures  ranges 
and  other  appliances  unexcelled  in  quality.  As  a  firm  they  have  prac- 
tically no  competition  on  the  Pacific  coast.  The  company  has  already 
installed  equipment  for  new  hotels  and  other  institutions. 

Mr.  Cass  is  an  old  line  republican.  He  is  treasurer  and  director  of 
the  Edmonds  Midway  Oil  Company.  He  has  given  his  time  to  business, 
home  and  family,  and  outside  of  these  interests  has  seldom  identified 
himself  with  clubs  or  with  politics,  though  he  is  recognized  for  his 
eminent  public  spirit  and  his  helpful  co-operation  with  that  body  of 
citizens  who  have  developed  Los  Angeles  during  the  last  three  decades. 

At  Los  Angeles,  October  8,  1890,  he  married  Louise  Hunter,  of 
Mansfield,  Ohio.  Mrs.  Cass  is  quite  prominent  socially  and  during  the" 
war  gave  all  her  time  to  auxiliary  movements.  She  is  a  former  vice- 
president  of  the  Ebell  Club.  They  have  three  children.  The  daughter 
Ruth  is  the  wife  of  Harry  Elliott,  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer.  The  other 
daughter,  Bernice,  is  the  wife  of  Dudley  Watson,  and  lives  at  St.  Louis. 
Before  her  marriage  she  was  her  father's  secretary  and  had  a  very 
thorough  business  training. 


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The  only  son,  Clarence  Cass,  now  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  is  also 
associated  with  his  father  in  business,  was  educated  in  Los  Angeles 
schools  and  in  Stanford  University.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war  with 
Germany  he  left  his  business  affairs  to  enlist  in  the  National  Army,  was 
trained  "at  Camp  Lewis  and  Camp  Kearney,  and  became  corjjoral  in  the 
Headquarters  Company  of  the  One  Hundred  Sixtieth  Infantry.  He 
was  one  of  three  selected  from  a  thousand  picked  men  at  Camp  Kearney 
to  go  overseas  wi'th  this  Headquarters  Company.  Not  one  report  of  his 
was  ever  returned  for  correction.    He  spent  nearly  two  years  overseas. 

Charles  H.m.sey  Elmendouf,  real  estate  and  investments,  directing 
one  of  the  large  business  organizations  of  that  kind  in  Los  Angeles,  has 
been  identified  with  this  line  of  work  for  forty  years,  his  experience 
covering  the  Middle  West  and  Pacific  Coast. 

He  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Ne\y^  York,  September  14,  1858,  son  of 
Rev.  Anthony  and  Sarah  (Clark)  nlmendorf.  His  father  was  of  pure 
Holland-Dutch  stock,  and  his  mother  of  English  stock.  Jan  Elmendorf 
came  to  America  from  Leyden,  Holland,  in  1620,  and  settled  on  the 
Hudson  River  at  a  point  afterward  known  as  the  city  of  Kingston.  Rev. 
Anthony  Elmendorf,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Kingston,  in  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  and  many  of  the  family  still  reside  there.  The  Elmendorf s 
were  represented  by  soldiers  in  the  Revolution  as  well  as  in  the  Civil 
war.  A  Jan  Elmendorf  was  on  Governor  Clinton's  stafif..  The  military 
record  of  the  family  may  be  completed  by  referring  to  Charles  H.  Elmen- 
dorf Jr.,  son  of  the  Los  Angeles  business  man.  He  recently  returned 
from  nineteen  months  of  service  with  the  Fourteenth  United  States  In- 
fantry, having  enlisted  at  the  age  of  eighteen  as  a  raw  recruit,  and  was 
mustered  out  as  a  battalion  sergeant  major  at  the  age  of  twenty.  Rev. 
Anthony  Elmendorf  built  and  for  many  years  was  pastor  of  the  Clare- 
mont  Avenue  Dutch  Reformed  Church  in  Brooklyn.  His  wife,  who  was 
a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  represented  a  family  of  mer- 
chants and  bankers. 

Charles  H.  Elmendorf  entered  grammar  school  at  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey,  and  completed  his  education  in  Rutgers  College.  For  four 
years  he  was  in  the  wholesale  paper  business  in  New  York  City,  but  has 
lor  the  last  forty  years  been  in  the  real  estate  and  investment  business. 
For  some  years  he  was  also  a  breeder  of  Hereford  cattle  and  served  as 
president  of  the  American  Hereford  Association.  During  his  residence 
in  the  Middle  West  he  was  a  private  banker  in  Iowa. 

Mr.  Elmendorf  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  for  many  years  has  been  an  active  Presby- 
terian and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Wilshire  Presbyterian  Church. 

September  22,  1880,  at  Warsaw,  New  York,  he  married  Jeanie  Frank, 
daughter  of  George  W.  Frank  of  Warsaw.  Her  mother  was  a  McNair, 
of  pure  Scotch  ancestr}'.  Her  grandmother  was  a  Pierpont.  The  Frank 
family  was  prominent  in  Western  New  York  as  merchants,  bankers  and 
politicians.  Augustus  Frank,  an  uncle  of  Mrs.  Elmendorf,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress  three  times  during  the  Civil  war,  and  represented  his 
district  with  distinction.  George  W.  Frank  was  a  man  of  prominence 
and  wealth,  a  successful  banker,  negotiator  of  loans  and  real  estate,  and 
lived  at  Warsaw,  New  York ;  Corning,  Iowa,  and  Kearney,  Nebraska. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elmendorf  are  as  follows :  George 
Frank,  who  married  Minnie  Swezey,  a  daughter  of  G.  D.  Swezey,  pro- 
fessor of  astronomy  in  the  University  of  Nebraska ;  Edward  Elmendorf, 
unmarried ;  William  McN.  of  Berkeley,  California,  who  married  Evelyn 


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Bohall ;  Charles  H.  Jr.,  the  soldier  of  the  family ;  Eleanor,  wife  of 
Frank  K.  Lord,  and  Margaret,  wife  of  Edgar  A.  Russell,  who  is  a  senior 
lieutenant  in  the  United  States  Navy. 

John  E.  Coffin,  whose  name  has  become  associated  with  some  of 
the  prominent  manufacturing  and  mining  corporations  of  the  southwest, 
came  to  Los  Angeles  more  than  thirty  years  ago,  and  these  years  have 
been  filled  with  interests  of  increasing  importance  and  value. 

Mr.  Coffin  is  a  birthright  Quaker  and  represents  an  old  Quaker 
family  that  originally  came  from  England  and  bought  the  Island  of 
Nantucket.  He  was  born  at  New  Garden,  North  Carolina,  September 
17,  1860,  a  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  D.  and  Mary  A.  (Newlin)  Coffin.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  North  Carolina  in  November,  1825,  was  a 
graduate  in  medicine  from  the  Jefiferson  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia 
and  of  the  Miami  College  at  Cincinnati.  He  practiced  medicine  at 
Bloomingdale,  Indiana,  at  Fairmount,  Kansas,  retired  from  his  pro- 
fession in  1884,  and  in  1890  reinoved  to  Whittier,  California,  where  he 
died  in  1903.  He  married  in  North  Carolina  in  1853,  and  his  widow  is 
still  living.  Of  their  six  children  the  two  survivors  are  Dr.  W.  V. 
Coffin,  of  Whittier,  and  John  E.  Dr.  Samuel  Coffin  was  a  cousin  of  the 
famous  abolitionist  Levi  Coffin,  known  as  the  president  of  the  under- 
ground railroad,  and  was  associated  with  his  cousin  in  this  enterprise, 
and  later  during  the  Civil  war  was  an  examining  physician  for  the 
LTnion  army. 

When  John  E.  Coffin  was  six  months  old  his  parents  removed  to 
Bloomingdale,  Indiana,  and  there  he  attended  school  until  the  age  of 
ten.  He  then  went  with  his  family  to  Fairmount,  Kansas,  continued  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  that  locality,  and  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen entered  Earlham  College  at  Richmond,  Indiana.  He  was  a  student 
in  that  institution  three  years,  then  attended  Haverford  College,  Penn- 
.sylvania,  this  college  having  the  highest  standard  of  any  Quaker  col- 
lege in  the  world,  graduating  in  1882.  After  graduation  he  spent  one 
year  in  postgraduate  work  in  the  Haverford  Observatory  with  one  of 
America's  best  astronomers.  During  this  period  he  compiled  and  pub- 
lished an  interest  table  which  is  now  used  in  some  of  the  banks  and  busi- 
ness houses  in  Los  Angeles.  For  one  year  he  taught  in  the  Vermillion 
Grove  Academy  in  Illinois,  and  for  another  year  was  employed  in  the 
office  of  the  United  States  Electrical  Company  at  Chicago.  On  com- 
ing to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Coffin  was  in  the  real  estate  business  until  1888, 
and  is  familiar  by  personal  experience  with  the  big  boom  of  the  eighties. 
He  served  as  deputy  city  treasurer  under  M.  D.  Johnson  until  1892,  and 
v/as  then  appointed  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Whittier  State  School, 
holding  that  post  for  two  and  a  half  years  and  for  a  similar  period  was 
superintendent.  On  resigning  Mr.  Coffin  became  associated  with  Henry 
Lindley,  George  Mason  and  his  son  Dean  of  Los  Angeles  in  organizing 
the  Pokegama  Sugar  Pine  Lumber  Company  of  Siskiyou  county,  Cali- 
fornia. Mr.  Coffin  was  secretary  and  director  of  this  corporation  for 
seven  years.  On  selling  out  his  interests  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
and  with  others  organized  the  California  Furniture  Company.  This  has 
since  been  his  chief  business  enterprise,  and  is  one  of  the  leadmg  con- 
cerns of  its  kind  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Mr.  Coffin  is  vice-i^residcnt  and 
in  charge  of  the  promotion  department. 

He  is  also  president  of  the  Consolidated  Reservoir  &  Power  Com- 
pany, a  director  of  the  Laguna  Land  and  Water  Company,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Empire  Arizona  Consolidated  Copper  Company.     He  is  well 


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known  in  social  and  business  circles,  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Association,  University  Club, 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the 
Quaker  church  at  Whittier. 

At  Los  Angeles,  December  31,  1889,  he  married  Bertha  Lindley. 

Edwin  Charles  Thorne  is  a  Los  Angeles  architect,  and  during  the 
past  half  dozen  years  has  given  his  services  to  a  number  of  commercial 
and  industrial  organizations  in  planning  and  carrying  out  their  construc- 
tion work.  Mr.  Thorne  for  a  number  of  years  was  in  the  employ  of 
the  city  government  of  Los  Angeles  as  an  assistant  building  inspector 
and  structural  engineer. 

He  was  born  in  Nansemond  county,  Virginia,  April  16,  1867,  and 
has  lived  in  Los  Angeles  for  over  thirty  years.  His  parents  were  Charles 
Ransom  and  Ehza  Ann  (Bogardus)  Thorne,  both  natives  of  New  York 
state,  his  mother  being  of  English  and  Holland-Dutch  ancestry,  while 
his  father  was  of  a  Quaker  family  with  a  mixture  of  French,  Spanish 
and  Holland-Dutch  blood.  Charles  R.  Thorne  moved  from  New  York 
to  Virginia  for  the  sake  of  his  health,  and  was  a  planter  in  the  latter 
state  for  five  years.  He  then  moved  to  Michigan,  and  from  there  to 
Illinois,  where  he  traded  for  a  large  tract  of  land  and  cleared  up  a  hun- 
dred sixty  acres  in  Tazewell  county.  Still  later  he  was  a  farmer  and 
building  contractor  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska,  and  in  1888  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  did  considerable  building  and  contracting  for  a  dozen 
years.  He  died  at  Los  Angeles  in  1901,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three,  and 
his  wife  passed  away  in  1915,  aged  seventy-nine.  He  was  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  and  in  Los  Angeles  both  he  and  his  wife  joined  the  Baptist 
Church.  He  had  been  reared  a  Quaker  and  his  wife  a  Presbyterian. 
They  had  a  family  of  seven  children,  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 
Those  now  living  are :  Mrs.  W.  E.  Railsback,  of  Kansas ;  Dr.  Elwood 
James  Thorne,  an  osteopath  physician  at  Pasadena;  Mrs.  George  W. 
Watkins,  of  El  Centro,  California  ;  Edwin  Charles,  and  Herbert  W.,  an 
assistant  building  inspector  at  Los  Angeles.  The  oldest  of  the  family 
was  Mrs.  W.  E.  Latham,  who  died  in  Nebraska  in  1918.  Another  son 
died  at  the  age  of  five  years  in  Illinois.  The  first  three  of  the  family 
were  natives  of  New  York  state,  one  other  was  born  in  New  Jersey, 
and  the  last  in  Virginia. 

Edward  Charles  Thorne  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Illi- 
nois, Kansas  and  Nebraska.  He  took  work  through  the  International 
Correspondence  School  in  training  for  his  profession.  Up  to  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  worked  at  farming,  and  then  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the 
carpenter's  trade,  and  followed  that  occupation  from  1888  to  1907,  being 
a  mechanic,  foreman  and  superintendent.  For  two  years  he  was  also  in 
the  mercantile  business.  He  has  been  studying  architecture  since  1900. 
For  three  years  he  was  an  assistant  building  inspector  at  Los  Angeles, 
and  from  1909  to  1912  was  structural  engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  city 
government.  In  1912  he  applied  to  the  State  Board  and  received  a  cer- 
tificate as  an  architect.  The  following  year  he  was  employed  profes- 
sionally by  the  Union  Realty  Company,  and  since  1913  has  been  practic- 
ing his  profession  alone.  His  offices  are  in  the  Western  Mutual  Life 
Building. 

While  living  in  Nebraska  Mr.  Thorne  served  five  years  in  the  First 
Nebraska  Regiment  of  National  Guards.  He  is  an  independent  repub- 
lican in  politics  and  is  a  member  of  the  Llniversity  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  at  Los  Angeles.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California.     His  home  is  at  1232  West  Thirty-first  street. 


242  LOS  ANGELES 

At  Holdrege,  Nebraska,  May  7,  1887,  he  married  Miss  Hilda  W. 
Rundstrum,  of  Galesburg,  Illinois,  where  she  was  born  and  educated. 
The}^  have  four  children,  the  first  born  at  Holdrege,  Nebraska,  and  the 
others  in  Los  Angeles.  Agnes  E.,  the  oldest,  is  the  wife  of  Roy  C. 
Wilson,  of  Santa  Paula,  California;  Ina  G.  is  at  home;  Elsie  M.  is  the 
wife  of  William  C.  Minger,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Dorothy  B.  is  at  home. 
Mrs.  Minger's  husband  served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Forty-second  Field 
Artillery  and  was  twice  ordered  overseas,  the  influenza  epidemic  coun- 
termanding the  order  the  first  time,  and  the  armistice  preventing  his  de- 
parture the  second  time.  Mr.  Thome's  children  were  all  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  University  of  Southern  California. 

Duke  Stone,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Oklahoma,  where  he 
practiced  law  a  number  of  years,  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  trial 
lawyers  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar,  and  does  a  large  business  representing 
casualty  insurance  and  other  corporations  in  Southern  California.  A 
lawyer  of  tried  and  tested  ability,  he  is  a  man  of  many  other  interests^ 
and  his  private  tastes  run  to  ranching.  He  has  a  home  in  the  foothills  at 
2107  Beachwood  Drive,  Hollywood,  and  also  owns  a  ranch  of  thirty 
acres  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley,  where  he  practices  his  hobby  when 
free  from  the  cares  of  his  law  office.  This  little  ranch  is  all  irrigated,  and 
part  of  it  is  planted  to  walnuts. 

Mr.  Stone  was  born  at  Big  Rock,  twenty  miles  from  Clarksville, 
Tennessee,  the  great  tobacco  market,  on  August  29,  1877,  a  son  of  Wil- 
liam J.  and  Mary  Ellen  (Beresford)  Stone.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Tennessee,  and  his  mother  of  Kentucky.  They  were  married  in  Ten- 
nessee. William  J.  Stone  served  four  years  in  the  Confederate  Army. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  war  he  was  in  Morgan's  famous  cavalry,  and 
when  most  of  the  organization  was  captured,  he  joined  a  command 
under  General  Bragg.  He  -was  shot  through  the  leg  at  the  battle  of 
Murfreesboro.  He  was  a  Tennessee  farmer,  and  in  1887  moved  with 
his  family  .to  Brownwood,  in  central  Texas.  He  was  interested  in  politics 
both  in  Tennessee  and  Texas,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  democrats  of 
those  states.  Both  he  and  his  wife  died  in  Texas  and  are  buried  at 
Brownwood.  They  had  a  family  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters,  all 
living  except  the  oldest  son,  William,  who  died  in  Tennessee,  and  these 
children  have  all  made  good  records.  J.  C.  is  an  attorney  at  Muskogee, 
Oklahoma ;  R.  G.  is  in  the  lumber  business  at  Henrj'etta,  Oklahoma ; 
W.  I.  Stone  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  El  Centro,  California,  and  is 
in  the  real  estate  business  in  the  Imperial  Valley.  The  next  in  age  is 
Duke.  Mrs.  Thomas  J-  Beasley  is  the  wife  of  a  Texas  legislator  and 
her  home  is  in  McCullough  county,  Texas.  Mrs.  John  B.  Young  is  the 
wife  of  a  merchant  at  Checotah,  Oklahoma.  Mollie  Jessie,  the  youngest 
daughter,  is  a  teacher  in  the  University  of  Oklahoma. 

Duke  Stone  was  ten  years  old  when  the  family  removed  to  Texas, 
and  he  finished  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Brownwood.  and 
from  high  school  entered  Howard  Payne  College  in  that  city,  graduat- 
ing with  the  degree  A.  B.  in  1900.  He  also  did  post-graduate  work  at 
Baylor  University,  at  Waco,  and  to  pay  the  expenses  of  his  higher  educa- 
tion he  taught  country  schools. 

Mr.  Stone  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  territory  of  Oklahoma  in 
1903.  and  practiced  at  Ada.  He  did  a  large  business  there,  became 
prominent  in  politics,  and  from  Oklahoma  came  to  Los  Angeles  July  22, 
1912.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  September,  and  while  getting  estab- 
lished did  some  brief  work  and  assisted  the  late  H.  H.  Trowbridge,  then 


FRO.M  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  243 

general  counsel  for  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company ;  also  as- 
sisted the  firm  of  Avery  &  French  in  their  office  until  October  1,  1913, 
and  for  one  year  and  two  months  held  the  office  of  first  assistant  United 
States  attorney  of  this  district.  For  a  short  time  he  was  assistant  at- 
torney for  the  Los  Angeles  Wholesale  Board  of  Trade,  but  for  the  last 
four  and  a  half  years  has  been  steadily  engaged  in  a  large  general  prac- 
tice, though  specializing  in  casualty  insurance  work. 

He  has  a  prominent  clientage,  representing  the  American  District  Tele- 
graph Company,  the  Los  Angeles  District  Telegraph  Company,  the  West- 
ern Indemnity  Company,  the  United  States  Lloyd,  the  United  States 
Casualty  Company  and  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company.  His 
forte  is  the  trial  of  cases  before  court  or  jury,  and  he  is  in  court  two- 
thirds  of  his  time.  ' 

While  in  Oklahoma  Mr.  Stone  represented  the  Missouri,  Oklahoma 
&  Gulf  Railway  and  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Railway  for  seven 
years,  and  was  also  attorney  for  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Com- 
pany at  Ada  about  the  same  length  of  time.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  Railway  Employes.  Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  has  tried 
a  number  of  important  cases  as  a  representative  of  the  United  States 
government. 

Mr.  Stone  has  always  been  active  in  democratic  politics.  He  is  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason  and  still  keeps  his  membership  in  Ada  Lodge 
No.  16  in  Oklahoma,  being  a  charter  member  of  that  lodge.  He  served 
it  as  recorder  three  years.  He  is  affiliated  with  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World  at  Ada^  and  is  a  member  of  the  Golden  State  Camp  of  the  Mod- 
ern Woodmen  at  Los  Angeles.  He  also  belongs  to  Borak  Temple  No. 
75  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Stone  married  Miss  Eleanor  Anna  Warren,  of  lola,  Kansas,  at 
Ada,  Oklahoma,  November  26,  1907.  She  was  born  in  County  Wex- 
ford, Ireland,  of  Presbyterian  ancestry,  and  was  brought  to  this  coun- 
try by  her  parents  at  the  age  of  five  years.  She  was  liberally  educated, 
receiving  the  degrees  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  from  Ottawa  University,  at  Ot- 
tawa, Kansas,  and  she  met  her  husband  while  principal  of  schools  at 
Ada,  Oklahoma.  In  Los  Angeles  Mrs.  Stone  takes  a  great  interest  in 
the  Parents-Teachers  Association,  and  is  also  connected  with  the  social 
clubs  of  Hollywood.  They  have  one  daughter,  Eleanor  Louise,  who  was 
born  at  Ada,  Oklahoma. 

J.  M.  Waterman.  In  the  great  volume  of  publicity  that  has  been 
given  to  the  resources  of  southern  California  in  recent  years,  particularly 
those  relating  to  the  growing  of  agricultural  crops,  the  name  of  J.  M. 
Waterman  has  appeared  probably  as  frequently  as  that  of  any  other  in- 
dividual. Mr.  Waterman  has  practically  a  national  reputation  for  his 
work  in  connection  with  the  marketing  and  co-operative  selling  move- 
ments of  California  farmers,  especially  among  the  producers  of  California 
lima  beans.  With  almost  thirty  years  of  experience  in  business  afifairs  in 
the  state,  his  word  is  considered  an  authority  on  many  subjects  closely 
and  vitally  related  to  the  welfare  of  California  agriculture. 

Mr.  Waterman,  one  of  whose  chief  business  interests  is  the  J-  ^i- 
Waterman  Selling  Agency,  represented  not  only  in  California  but  by 
local  and  sub  agencies  in  many  parts  of  the  countrj',  has  had  his  home 
in  Los  Angeles  since  1904.  He  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Germany,  August 
17,  1871,  a  son  of  Max  and  Emma  (Bruell)  Waterman.  His  parents 
spent  all  their  lives  in  Germany,  where  his  father  was  a  cattle  raiser, 
and  he  died  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  fifty^six.     The  widowed 


244  LOS  ANGELES 

mother  passed   away  a   few  years   ago,   when   over   seventy.      In   their 
family  were  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 

J.  M.  Waterman  and  two  of  his  brothers  came  to  the  United 
States,  the  brothers  being  Emil,  of  San  Francisco,  and  William  M.,  of 
Los  Angeles.  Emil,  the  oldest,  was  the  first  to  come  to  this  coun- 
try, being  followed  by  William,  four  years  later,  while  J.  M.  came  in 
1888.  All  have  lived  in  California  for  thirty  years  or  more.  The 
brothers,  however,  have  all  been  back  to  Europe  several  times,  J.  M. 
Waterman  having  been  twice  on  the  continent  within  the  last  twelve 
years. 

Mr.  Waterman  received  his  early  education  in  Germany  under 
private  tutors.  At  the  age  of  fourteen,  when  his  education  was  fin- 
ished, he  went  to  work  in  a  wholesale  dry  goods  establishment,  and 
had  three  years  of  training  before  he  came  to  the  United  States,  at 
the  age  of  seventeen.  Landing  in  New  York  City,  he  remained  a  few 
weeks,  and  then  started  for  California,  stopping  off  a  few  days  in  Chi- 
cago and  Omaha.  From  San  Francisco  he  went  to  Hueneme,  was  there 
a  few  weeks,  and  thence  to  Los  Angeles.  Returning  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, he  became  a  student  in  the  old  Eddy  Street  school.  After  three 
weeks  he  left  his  studies  to  go  to  work,  and  spent  nine  months  in  a 
general  merchandise  store  in  Shasta  county.  Once  more  back  in  San 
Francisco  he  remained  a'  brief  time  and  then  came  south  to  San  Jose 
and  found  work  in  the  store  of  A.  &  H.  Martin  as  a  bundle  wrapper  at 
three  dollars  a  week.  He  was  there  two  and  a  half  years,  was  earning 
$150.00  per  month  and  took  care  of  all  the  cash  and  bookkeeping  of 
the  establishment.  While  the  salary  was  not  important,  the  business 
was  one  which  presented  a  fine  opportunity  to  the  young  man  to  learn, 
and  his  employers  put  everything  in  his  way  to  encourage  him.  Later 
they  found  a  position  for  him  in  San  Francisco  with  Levi,  Strauss  & 
Company,  wholesale  dry  goods.  Beginning  again  at  fifty  dollars  a 
month,  at  the  end  of  two  years  he  was  getting  a  salar}'  of  a  hundred 
fifty  dollars  a  month.  All  the  time  Mr.  Waterman  cared  less  about 
the  money  remuneration  and  more  about  the  oppfirtunities  to  learn 
business  methods  thoroughly. 

For  some  time  he  was  at  Hueneme  in  Ventura  county  working  for 
his  brother  William  at  twenty  dollars  a  month  and  board.  This  was  a 
general  merchandise  store,  but  the  feature  of  the  business  which  espe- 
cially appealed  to  Mr.  Waterman  was  the  handling  of  products  direct 
from  the  farm  to  the  market.  At  this  time  Mr.  Waterman  was  a 
member  of  the  National  Guard  of  California.  Wlien  war  broke  out 
with  Spain  in  1898  he  was  serving  as  corporal  of  Company  H,  7th 
Regiment  of  Ventura.  This  company  had  its  baggage  aboard  a  steamer 
three  times  but  was  never  sent  to  the  field  of  action.  In  the  meantime 
Mr.  Waterman  had  an  ofifer  from  a  San  Francisco  house  to  go  on  the 
road  as  a  traveling  salesman,  and  he  spent  a  year  traveling.  He  then 
engaged  in  business  for  himself  at  San  Jacinto  in  Riverside  county, 
handling  products  and  selling  general  merchandise  direct  to  the  con- 
sumers. This  business  was  terminated  during  1900-01  when  the  farm- 
ers suffered  an  almost  complete  crop  failure.  In  1902  Mr.  Water- 
man, returning  to  San  Francisco,  engaged  with  his  brother  Emil  in 
the  grain  and  bean  business  for  two  years. 

About  that  time  Los  Angeles  began  attracting  the  attention  of  the 
world  by  a  revival  of  business  and  by  promise  of  becoming  one  of  the 
chief  cities  of  the  country.  Mr.  Waterman  decided  that  his  future 
lot  would  be  cast  with  the  city  of  the  south.     His  brother  Emil  chose 


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to  remain  in  San  Francisco,  and  is  still  in  business  there  under  his 
own  name. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1904  J.  M.  Waterman  opened  an  office 
under  his  own  name,  also  built  his  home,  and  has  since  been  very  suc- 
cessful in  a  number  of  lines  of  business,  but  chiefly  in  the  buying  of 
beans  direct  from  the  farmers  and  selling  them  all  over  the  United 
Slates,  Canada  and  Europe.  He  is  and  has  been  one  of  California's 
largest  bean  buyers  and  distributors.  In  both  lima  beans  and  grain  he 
does  a  tremendous  business,  and  his  activities  as  a  merchant  and  in 
connection  with  many  movements  of  benefit  to  the  producers  have  re- 
ceived special  attention  in  many  papers  and  magazines,  including  the 
Saturday  Evening  Post.  Mr.  Waterman  conducted  at  his  own  expense 
a  laboratory  for  some  time,  involving  an  outlay  of  a  considerable 
amount.  The  purpose  of  this  laboratory  was  to  put  certain  matters 
that  had  theretofore  been  guess  work  on  a  real  scientific  basis.  He  has 
always  been  impressed  with  the  necessity  of  a  scientific  knowledge  of 
what  the  soil  is  capable  of,  before  putting  seed  in  the  ground,  and  what 
he  has  done  in  this  direction  has  been  a  matter  of  general  benefit  and 
interest  to  all  of  Southern  California.  His  laboratory  experiments  were 
conducted  not  only  for  soil  examination,  but  with  a  view  of  determin- 
ing the  best  fertilizers  and  also  the  production  of  the  bacteria  for  crop 
inoculation. 

Mr.  Waterman  was  manager  of  the  Lima  Bean  Association,  which 
started  in  1908,  and  was  with  it  as  long  as  the  farmers  of  California 
supported  the  organization.  An  extensive  article  on  the  Lima  Bean 
Association  of  California  was  written  by  John  S.  McGroarty,  editor  of 
this  publication. 

The  J.  M.  Waterman  Selling  Agency  is  Mr.  Waterman's  individual 
business,  with  main  offices  at  Los  Angeles,  but  represented  in  San 
Francisco  and  with  other  offices  and  representatives  all  over  the  United 
States.  He  has  also  been  active  in  the  warehouse,  storage  and  canning 
business,  under  the  name  of  the  Farmers  Warehouse  Company  and 
Calima  Canning  Company. 

Mr.  Waterman  is  a  republican  in  politics,  though  he  voted  for  the 
progressive  candidate  for  governor,  Hiram  Johnson.  He  has  been  a 
Mason  since  early  manhood,  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of 
the  Scottish  Rite,  is  a  Shriner  and  belongs  to  the  various  Masonic 
bodies  at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club,  Argonaut  Club  and  Merchants  Ex- 
change Club  of  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California.  His  offices  are  in  the 
Corporation  Building  and  his  home  at  442  South  Normandie  avenue. 

Cassii's  D.wis  Bl.mr  has  had  a  remarkably  wide  and  diversified  ex- 
perience for  a  man  of  his  years.  He  has  been  engaged  in  chemical,  min- 
ing, hydraulic  and  construction  engineering  on  many  important  projects, 
is  a  lawyer  and  business  man,  and  is  closely  associated  with  some  of  the 
larger  business  and  civic  enterprises  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Los  Angeles  September  4,  1882,  his  birthplace  being 
a  house  at  the  southeast  corner  of  West  Seventh  and  Figueroa  (then 
Pearl)  street.  His  father  was  Nelson  Theodore  Blair  of  Dayton,  New 
York,  who  came  to  California  in  1873  and  located  at  Los  Angeles  in 
1878.  Nelson  Theodore  Blair  married  at  Piano,  Tulare  County,  in  1873 
Ellen  Davis,  whose  father,  Thomas  Davis,  settled  at  Chinese  Camp, 
Tuolumne  County,  in  1850.     Ellen  Davis  was  one  of  the  first  graduates 


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of  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  after  it  became  a  co- 
educational institution.  From  that  time  until  her  marriage  she  was  a 
teacher  in  western  schools. 

Cassius  Davis  Blair  attended  public  schools  at  Los  Angeles,  but  went 
to  work  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  During  1890-99  he  was  employed  in  the 
manufacturing  plant  of  the  Yosemite  Conipany  of  California,  and  while 
there  made  a  special  study  of  chemistry  and  engineering  as  applied  to 
manufacturing.  This  company  sent  him  to  the  New  England  states  in 
1900  to  install  new  plants. 

In  1901  the  Alabama  Dredging  and  Jetty  Company  put  him  in  charge 
of  special  construction  of  equipment  to  cope  with  the  peculiar  conditions 
of  the  "Y"  cut  ofif.  Port  Tampa,  Florida.  He  then  returned  to  California, 
and  during  1902-3  was  with  the  Calkins  Alanufacturing  Company,  min- 
ing machinery  and  chemicals.  While  there  he  made  a  special  study  of 
assaying  and  injetallurgy  and  assisted  in  perfecting  a  line  of  appliances 
for  those  purposes.  During  the  latter  part  of  1903  he  joined  the  Cali- 
fornia Mines  Corporation  in  Calaveras  County,  California,  and  later  in 
the  same  vear  went  to  Eldorado  District  in  Nevada,  where  he  remained 
until  1906. 

Again  returning  to  California,  ]\Ir.  Blair  assisted  in  laying  out  several 
subdivisions,  including  Beverley  Hills,  and  in  the  fall  of  1906  became  one 
of  the  members  of  the  initial  parties  in  the  preliminary  work  on  the  Los 
Angeles  Aqueduct.  He  was  transferred  to  the  City  Engineer's  Depart- 
ment, and  while  his  duties  kept  him  in  Los  Angeles  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California  College  of  Law  as  a  special  student,  com- 
pleting the  course  entirely  by  attending  night  sessions.  Passing  the  bar 
examination,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  all  the  courts  of  California 
in  January,  1912,  and  soon  afterward  to  the  United  States  Courts. 

Much  of  his  professional  and  technical  service  since  then  has  been  in 
association  with  various  movements  for  the  improvement  of  the  Los  An- 
geles business  district,  particularly  that  of  West  Seventh  and  West  Sixth 
streets.  He  is  counsel  for  several  large  property  holders  and  is  counsel 
and  director  of  some  highly  productive  manufacturing  and  agricultural" 
organizations  in  the  southwest.  Mr.  Blair  is  president  of  the  Pecos  Valley 
Investment  Company  of  California,  a  director  of  the  Seventh  Street  Com- 
pany, Greenfield  Farms  and  Talbot  Manufacturing  Company,  all  of  Los 
Angeles. 

In  politics  Mr.  Blair  is  a  republican.  He  is  affiliated  with  East  Gate 
Lodge  No.  290,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Pacific  Chapter  No.  192,  Order  of  the 
Eastern  Star,  serving  as  its  worthy  patron  in  1914,  is  a  metnber  of 
Ramona  Parlor  No.  109,  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  and  his  church 
associations  are  Episcopalian. 

At  Santa  Ana,  California,  September  5,  1906,  he  married  Mildred 
Conuany  Wetzel,  a  daughter  of  Peter  W.  and  Margaret  Loraine  (Cor- 
many)  Wetzel.  Her  father  was  born  in  Somerset  County,  Pennsylvania, 
in  1855,  and  her  mother  was  a  native  of  Lancaster,  Fairfield  County, 
Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blair  have  one  son,  Philip  J.,  born  at  Los  Angeles 
June  15,  1909. 

Albert  J.  Wallace  has  been  a  resident  and  active  figure  in  the  busi- 
ness and  civic  life  of  Southern  California  for  thirty  years.  His  business 
energies  have  been  absorbed  by  merchandising,  banking,  and  large  opera- 
tions in  lands,  especially  swamp  reclamation  work.  For  a  dozen  years  he 
has  been  a  factor  in  oil  development,  operating  with  Mr.  McOuigg  in  the 
organization  of  the  Traders  Oil  Company,  of  which  he  is  an  official. 


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Mr.  Wallace  was  born  at  Wellington,  Ontario,  Canada,  February  11, 
1853,  a  son  of  Donald  and  Harriet  (Lasby)  Wallace.  He  was  liberally 
educated  in  the  public  schools  and  in  Victoria  University,  Toronto,  Can- 
ada. He  was  preparing  for  the  Methodist  ministry  until  failing  health 
obliged  him  to  give  up  that  profession.  In  1878  he  went  out  to  the 
prairies  of  North  Dakota  and  engaged  iq  merchandising,  farming  and 
Ijanking  in  Pembina  County  until  1886.  In  that  year  he  came  to  Los  An- 
geles and  has  since  been  a  prominent  real  state  operator,  his  work  as  a 
real  estate  man  figuring  largely  in  the  constructive  processes  of  reclama- 
tion. The  Traders  Oil  Company,  of  which  he  is  secretary  and  director, 
is  one  of  the  principal  producing  companies  in  the  Midway  Field.  He  is 
also  a  director  of  the  Amierican  Fuel  Ojil  Company. 

Mr.  Wallace  has  long  been  prominent  in  the  public  life  of  his  city  and 
state.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Los  Angeles 
City  Council  for  three  years.  For  four  years,  during  1911-14,  he  served 
as  lieutenant  governor  of  California.  Though  a  republican,  he  has  also 
been  especially  prominent  in  anti-liquor  work,  both  state  and  national, 
and  is  state  president  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  California.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  California 
Club  and  City  Club.  In  1912  the  University  of  Southern  California  gave 
him  the  honorary  degree  LL.  D. 

Mr.  Wallace  has  four  children :  Kenneth  Clark,  born  in  Pasadena  in 
August,  1890,  is  a  graduate  of  high  school  and  of  the  University  of  South- 
ern California.  He  received  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  from  Harvard 
University,  and  is  now  one  of  the  superintendents  of  the  Traders  Oil 
Company  in  the  Midway  oil  field.  Donald,  the  second  son,  born  in  Pasa- 
dena in  Januar)-,  1893,  is  also  a  high  school  graduate.  He  finished  his 
course  in  Harvard  L'niversity  in  1916  and  recently  returned  from  France, 
where  he  was  a  bomber  in  a  flying  squadron.  The  two  daughters  are 
Helen  Harriet,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  and 
Katherine.  a  student  in  high  school.  Mrs.  Wallace  is  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  J-  M.  Hagar,  of  Los  .-\ngeles,  California. 

C.  H.  WoLFELT  came  to  California  in  1906.  He  brought  with  him  a 
routine  e.xperience  as  a  shoe  clerk  gained  back  in  his  home  town  of 
Fostoria,  Ohio,  while  working  for  a  shoe  merchant  named  J.  F.  Peters. 
Mr.  \N'olfelt  was  born  in  Fostoria  April  16,  1879,  and  while  attending 
high  school  had  worked  in  a  shoe  store. 

For  three  years  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  was  with  the 
Wetherby-Kayser  Shoe  Company.  He  left  that  firm  for  a  distinct  pur- 
pose. Most  young  men  are  ambitious  to  get  into  a  business  of  their 
own,  but  C.  H.  Wolfelt  had  more  than  an  ambition,  he  had  a  vision 
which  prompted  him  to  strike  out  in  new  lines  and  build  a  business  of 
a  distinctive  personality  and  atmosphere.  It  was  his  ideal  to  do  an 
exclusive  business,  one  not  in  competition  with  the  common  run  of  stores. 
Even  ten  years  ago  when  the  business  was  started,  with  the  enthusiasm, 
good  taste  and  ideals  of  the  founder  as  the  biggest  part  of  the  capital, 
there  was  something  unique  in  the  furnishing,  environment  and  the  equip- 
ment of  the  first  shop  at  432  South  Broadway.  Mr.  Wolfelt  had  no 
purpose  to  attract  a  miscellaneous  custom,  but  from  the  first  regulated 
his  patronage  by  a  display  and  service  which  made  an  exclusive  appeal. 

Out  of  that  preliminary  enterprise  has  developed  what  is  known 
all  over  the  west,  and  because  California  is  a  social  center  for  the  world, 
therefore  known  in  many  continents,  as  "The  Bootery."     The  Bootery 


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is  represented  by  shops  in  three  California  cities,  Los  Angeles,  San 
Francisco  and  Pasadena.  Recently  plans  have  been  formulated  to  estab- 
lish another  branch  of  the  business  in  New  York  City.  These  shops 
exist  solely  to  supply  the  exclusive  and  high  class  patronage  of  women. 
The  business  furnishes  a  wide  variety  of  styles  in  woman's  footgear, 
but  practically  only  one  class,  that  of  the  highest.  Those  who  exemplify 
the  quiet  elegance  of  good  taste  in  their  dress  do  not  consciously  seek  to 
advertise  the  origin  of  the  goods  they  wear,  but  among  women  of  that 
class  in  California  it  is  more  and  more  taken  for  granted  that  their 
common  tastes  find  satisfaction  when  shoes  are  concerned  in  "The 
Bootery"  shops. 

The  business,  conducted  under  the  name  C,  H.  Wolfelt  Company,  was 
greatly  enlarged  in  1913,  with  the  opening  of  a  shop  at  San  Francisco 
and  another  in  Pasadena.  The  San  Francisco  store  is  at  152  Geary  street 
and  the  Pasadena  store  in  the  Maryland  Hotel  Building.  The  business 
w"as  incorporated  November  9,  1908,  with  Mr.  Wolfelt  as  president. 

Mr.  Wolfelt  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Brent- 
wood Country  Club,  Culver  City  Country  Club,  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California,  Los  Angeles  Chaiilber  of  Commerce  and  Merchants 
and  Manufacturers  Association. 

At  Los  Angeles  May  28,  1907,  he  married  Miss  Mabel  C.  Ander- 
son, who  was  born  and  educated  in  southern  California.  They  have  a 
daughter,  Martha  Louise,  born  at  Los  Angeles.  The  family  home  is  at 
2211  Budlong  avenue.  However,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wolfelt  spend  much  of 
their  time  in  New  York  City.  Mrs.  Wolfelt  is  the  champion  woman  auto- 
mobile driver  of  the  world.  In  1918  she  won  all  the  cups  and  broke 
all  the  records  for  a  woman  at  the  wheel. 

Charles  W.  Lyon,  a  prominent  native  son  of  the  Golden  West,  has 
achieved  distinction  as  a  hard  working  and  capable  lawyer,  a  member 
of  the  firm  Fredericks  and  Hanna  in  the  Merchants  National  Bank 
Building  at  Los  Angeles.  This  prominent  law  firm  comprises  four  attor- 
neys— J.  D.  Fredericks,  Byron  C.  Hanna,  Arthur  L.  Veitch  and  Charles 
W.  Lyon. 

Mr.  Lyon  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  September  13,  1887,  a  son  of 
James  H.  and  Laura  Emma  (Simpson)  Lyon.  His  father  and  mother 
were  natives  of  Maine.  The  Lyon  ancestry  goes  back  to  the  earliest  set- 
tlement of  New  England,  one  of  the  family  connections  being  the  famous 
John  Alden,  and  in  a  later  generation  the  poet  Longfellow  was  a  relative. 
The  Simpsons  are  an  old  family  of  Machias,  Maine,  where  they  were 
established  in  Revolutionary  times.  James  H.  Lyon  and  his  wife  were 
married  in  Maine,  and  the  former  came  to  California  fifty  years  ago 
around  the  Horn,  his  wife  subsequently  joining  him  after  a  trip  across 
the  plains.  James  Lyon  during  his  active  life  was  a  carpenter  foreman 
and  architect,  and  constructed  many  of  the  old-time  buildings  in  Los  An- 
geles. In  early  life  he  was  noted  as  an  athlete,  being  the  champion  long- 
distance runner  of  Los  Angeles  for  a  number  of  years.  The  family  home 
was  formerly  on  Fifth  and  Spring  streets.  The  parents  are  still  living, 
both  well  preserved,  and  of  their  family  of  nine  children  five  sons  and 
two  daughters  are  still  living.  Some  of  them  are  now  in  other  states. 
Mrs.  Frank  K.  Eckley,  the  oldest  child,  lives  at  Fresno,  and  she  and  her 
husband  are  well  known  socially  and  also  in  a  business  way  both  at  Los 
Angeles  and  Fresno.  Josiah  F.  is  a  past  president  of  the  Native  Sons 
of  the  Golden  West,  is  a  telegraph  operator  for  the  Southern  Pacific  and 


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a  resident  of  Los  Angeles.     Ludlum  Longfellow,  the  youngest  of  the 
family,  is  with  the  United  States  Army  at  Camp  Kearney. 

Charles  W.  Lyon,  the  eighth  child,  was  educated  in  Los  Angeles, 
attending  public  schools  and  business  college.  At  the  age  of  fifteeen  he 
went  to  work  for  the  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company,  spent  six  years 
with  that  organization,  and  at  the  same  time  carried  on  the  study  of  law 
in  night  school.  He  left  the  company  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  and  con- 
tinued his  law  work  in  the  office  of  Thorpe  &  Hanna  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1910  at  the  age  of  twenty-three.  He  remained  with  the  firm 
of  Thorpe  &  Hanna,  and  that  firm  today  is  Fredericks  and  Hanna,  with 
Mr.  Lyon  a  junior  partner. 

Mr.  Lyon  has  been  prominent  in  republican  politics  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  1914  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  the  Sixty-second 
District,  being  then  twenty-seven  years  of  age.  He  was  re-elected  in 
1916  and  in  1918  was  chosen  to  the' State  Senate  to  represent  the  Thirty- 
fourth  District.  His  four-year  term  began  January  1,  1919.  The  Thirty- 
fourth  is  the  largest  senatorial  district  in  California.  Mr.  Lyon  served  as 
city  attorney  of  Venice,  California,  in  1917-18.  He  was  only  twenty-one 
years  of  age  when  he  was  elected  president  of  Los  Angeles  Parlor  No. 
45  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West.  He  is  past  state  president 
of  the  California  State  Aerie  of  Eagles,  which  has  over  thirty  thousand 
members  in  California.  He  is  past  president  of  Ocean  Park  Aerie  No. 
924  of  this  order,  and  is  exalted  ruler  for  1919-20  of  Santa  Monica  Lodge 
of  Elks  No.  906.  He  is  also  affiliated  with  Ocean  Park  Lodge  No.  369, 
A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club. 

Mr.  Lyon  and  family  reside  at  700  Victoria  Avenue  at  Venice.  He 
married  Miss  Nancy  Player  Janney  on  September  21,  1912.  Mrs.  Lyon 
was  bom  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  G. 
Janney.  Her  father  was  one  of  the  eminent  metallurgical  engineers  of 
America  and  the  world,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  famous  Utah 
Copper  mines,  was  mill  superintendent  of  all  the  copper  mines  of  LItah 
and  of  other  mines  in  Arizona,  and  was  associated  with  the  noted  Colonel 
D.  C.  Jackling  in  many  of  his  enteqjrises.  Mrs.  Janney,  the  widowed 
mother  of  Mrs.  Lyon,  lives  on  South  Harvard  boulevard  in  Los  Angeles. 
Mrs.  Lyon  received  her  education  in  Los  Angeles,  being  a  graduate  of 
the  Westlake  School  for  Girls.  She  is  a  member  of  Santa  Monica  Bay 
\\'oman"s  Club.  Their  two  children,  both  born  in  Los  Angeles,  are  Nancy 
Jane  and  Charles  W.  Jr. 

Simon  Nordlinger.  The  modern  cosmopolitan  world  of  Los  An- 
geles has  appreciation  of  one  of  its  most  perfect  and  adequate  commer- 
cial institutions  in  the  handsome  establishment  at  631-633  South  Broad- 
way known  as  S.  Nordlinger  &  Sons,  Gold  and  Silversmiths.  Without 
doubt  it  is  one  of  the  largest  and  finest  jewelry  houses  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

When  the  founder  passed  away  a  few  years  ago  he  had  two  worthy 
successors  in  his  sons,  who  are  the  proprietors  today.  Simon  Nord- 
linger was  a  conspicuous  example  of  the  genius  and  skill  of  a  foreign 
country  transplanted  to  the  rich  and  virgin  soil  of  America.  He  was 
born  in  Alsace-Lorraine,  near  the  Swiss  border,  May  11,  1845.  At  the 
age  of  thirteen  he  left  home  to  become  an  apprentice  under  a  Swiss  watch- 
maker. In  1864,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  through  the  generosity  of  his 
uncle  in  New  York  City,  he  came  to  America  and  spent  about  four 
vears  in  New  York.    The  spirit  of  the  west  attracted  him  and  he  came 


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as  far  as  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  remaining  there  eight  months,  until  the 
first  transcontinental  railroad  had  been  completed.  He  traveled  to  San 
Francisco  as  a  passenger  on  the  first  transcontinental  train  to  reach  that 
city  at  the  Golden  Gate.  The  opportunities  he  was  seeking  were  not 
present  in  San  Francisco.  Then  followed  a  visit  to  southern  California, 
where  his  quest  was  likewise  unrewarded  until  from  San  Diego  he 
stopped  at  Los  Angeles,  visiting  a  young  man  who  had  been  one  of  his 
companions  in  Switzerland.  This  friend  informed  him  of  a  watchmaker 
who  desired  to  sell  his  business.  After  a  brief  negotiation  Mr.  Nord- 
linger  bought  the  shop.  This  transaction  occurred  in  1869.  At  that  time 
Los  Angeles  had  about  five  thousand  inhabitants,  perhaps  two  thousand 
whites  and  the  remainder  Mexicans  and  Indians.  Involved  m  the  deal 
there  was  no  special  stock  and  little  more  in  fact  than  a  place  to  work. 
The  shop  was  in  an  old  one-story  adobe  shack  with  a  floor  space  of 
about  12x40  feet  on  Commercial  street  between  Main  and  Los  Angeles 
streets. 

The  distinguishing  qualities  of  the  place  of  business  were  the  per- 
sonality and  character  of  the  neat  proprietor,  who  had  a  genius  for 
success,  combined  with  sound  intelligence,  thrift,  integrity  and  foresight 
and  a  thorough  skill  as  a  watchmaker  and  jeweler.,  He  displayed  at  his 
little  old  fashioned  window  at  the  front  a  few  watches  and  some  cheap 
jewelry,  while  outside  hung  a  large  wooden  watch  as  a  typical  sign.  He 
worked  alone,  living  in  the  rear  of  the  store  and  closing  and  locking  the 
door  when  he  went  out  to  dine.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  splendid 
store  of  today  is  a  practical  monument  to  the  industry  and  character  of 
the  young  man  who  went  to  work  on  Commercial  street  in  1869.  He 
acquired  the  confidence  and  patronage  of  the  people  of  that  day.  After 
a  time  he  had  to  employ  help  and  carry  a  larger  and  larger  stock.  The 
business  outgrew  the  first  store,  he  moved  to  larger  quarters  in  a  better 
location,  and  this  history  repeated  itself  until  there  were  six  removals 
before  the  present  location  in  the  center  of  the  retail  business  section 
was  occupied.  The  present  home  of  S.  Nordlinger  &  Sons  is  nine  blocks 
southwesterly  from  the  first  place  of  business. 

March  31,  1874,  five  years  after  establishing  his  business  in  Los 
Angeles,  Mr.  Nordlinger  married  at  San  Francisco,  Miss  Fannie  Berg. 
She  was  born  at  San  Francisco,  and  her  birth  was  the  first  record  of  a 
Jewish  girl  born  in  that  city.  She  died  at  Los  Angeles  February  22,  1905. 
They  were  the  parents  of' two  sons,  Louis  S.  and  Melville.  These  sons 
as  they  grew  up  manifested  some  of  the  qualities  of  business,  and  in 
1904  Louis  was  given  a  place  in  the  business  and  in  1907  Melville  came 
in,  resulting  in  the  organization  of  a  stock  company  under  the  name 
of  S.  Nordlinger  &  Sons. 

After  forty-two  years  of  active  service  with  the  business  Simon 
Nordlinger  passed  away,  April  2,  1911.  The  firm  has  been  continued 
with  Louis  S.  as  president.  The  late  Mr.  Nordlinger  after  his  business 
was  completely  devoted  to  his  home,  and  his  aftection  for  and  the 
richness  of  love  he  enjoyed  in  the  family  circle  were  among  the  most 
conspicuous  facts  of  his  long  and  useful  life. 

Louis  S.  Nordlinger,  president  of  S.  Nordlinger  &  Sons,  Gold  and 
Silversmiths,  entered  his  father's  business  twenty-five  years  ago  at  the 
engraver's  bench,  was  made  secretary  when  the  business  was  incorporated, 
and  since  his  father's  death  has  been  its  president  and  active  executive. 

Thus  the  story  of  this  business,  told  in  the  sketch  of  his  honored 
father,  Simon  Nordlinger,  is  continued  through  his  own  personality  and 


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career.  Mr.  Nordlinger  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  June  21,  1875.  His 
birthplace  was  the  third  house  north  of  Second  street  on  Fort  street, 
now  Broadway.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and  graduated  in  1893 
from  Belmont  School  at  Belmont,  California.  He  was  prepared  there 
for  Leland  Stanford  University,  but  instead  of  going  to  college  accepted 
the  advice  of  his  father  to  learn  the  jewelry  engraver's  trade.  He  spent 
the  }'ear  1894  and  a  part  of  1895  in  a  private  office  at  San  Francisco 
and  in  the  latter  year  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  entered  the  engraving 
department  of  his  father's  business.  That  was  his  chief  work  in  the 
establishment  for  eight  years,  and  after  that  he  had  experience  in  all 
branches  of  the  business.  The  firm  of  S.  Nordlinger  &  Sons  was  in- 
corporated in  1907  with  Louis  Nordlinger  as  secretary.  In  1911,  after 
his  father's  death,  he  became  president. 

The  present  handsome  location  and  establishment  at  631-633  South 
Broadway  represents  the  sixth  removal  of  the  business  since  it  was 
established  in  1869.  and  has  been  occupied  since  1910.  This  is  the 
old  jewelry  house  and  establishment  at  Los  Angeles  and  one  of  the 
first  ten  oldest  of  all  business  concerns  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Nordlinger  is  also  a  director  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants 
National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  a  director  of  the  Morris  Plan  Bank,  is  a 
former  director  of  the  Alerchants  and  Manufacturers  Association,  and 
is  the  first  vice-president  and  for  five  years  has  held  that  office  in  the 
California  Gold  and  Silversmiths  Association.  He  is  a  member  of  Corona 
Parlor,  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  and  has  been  its  treasurer  for 
the  past  seventeen  years  and  a  member  of  the  Parlor  since  1896.  He  is 
affiliated  with  \\'estgate  Lodge  No.  335,  F.  and  A.  M.,  at  Los  Angeles, 
is  a  past  master  of  that  lodge,  and  in  1911  received  the  honorarj'  thirty- 
third  degree  in  the  Scottish  Rite.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Al  Malaikah 
Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  Culver  City  Country  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Gover- 
nors of  the  Federated  Jewish  Charities.  His  firm  belongs  to  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber-  of  Commerce,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the 
United  States,  the  iNIunicipal  League  and  the  Alerchants  and  Manu- 
facturers Association. 

Mr.  Nordlinger  married  ]Miss  Rose  B.  Loew,  of  Los  Angeles,  Janu- 
ary 2,  1907.  She  is  a  native  of  Los  Angeles,  and  was  educated  in  the 
city  schools,  public  and  private,  as  well  as  in  Europe.  Mrs.  Nordlinger 
is  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Loew,  of  Los  Angeles,  who  came  to  the  city  in 
1868.  and  she  is  a  granddaughter  of  the  distinguished  Calif ornian,  the 
late  Harris  Newmark,  who  died  in  1916,  and  who  came  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1856.  Harris  Newmark,  author  of  the  recently  published  "Sixty 
Years  in  Southern  California,"  was  a  monumental  figure  in  this  citv, 
and  his  career  is  fully  sketched  on  other  pages.  Mrs.  Nordlinger  has 
been  veiT  active  in  Red  Cross  Canteen  work  at  both  depots,  looking 
after  the  incoming  and  outgoing  soldiers.  Mr.  Nordlinger  was  likewise 
identified  with  this  local  war  work,  particularly  in  the.  Liberty  Loan 
campaigns  and  as  a  member  of  the  Red  Cross  teams.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Nordlinger  have  two  children,  both  natives  of  Los  Angeles.  Fannie 
Emily  and  Louis  S.,  Jr.     The  family  home  is  at  1537  West  9th  street. 

Stephen  H.  Taft,  father  of  Judge  Frederick  Harris  Taft,  of  the 
Superior.  Court  of  Los  Angeles  County,  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  long 
and  useful  life  in  Iowa,  but  was  also  a  resident  of  Southern  California 
and  is  distinguished  here  as  the  "father"  of  Sawtelle. 

He  was  born  at  Volney  in  Oswego  County,  New  York,  September  14, 


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1825,  the  sixth  in  a  family  of  ten  children  born  to  Stephen  and  Vienna 
(Harris)  Taft.  The  founder  of  the  family  in  America  was  Robert  Taft, 
who  came  from  England  and  settled  at  Mendon,  Alassachusetts,  in  1679. 
Robert  was  the  father  of  five  sons,  and  the  generation  including  Judge 
Frederick  i\.  Taft  is  of  the  ninth  in  direct  descent.  One  of  the  sons  of 
Robert  Taft  was  the  ancestor  of  former  President  WiUiam  H.  Taft. 

Stephen  T.  Taft  was  born  in  a  log  house  on  a  farm,  and  was  chiefly 
indebted  to  his  mother  for  his  early  education.  He  worked  as  a  farm 
hand,  taught  school,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  was  licensed  to  preach  by 
the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church.  His  religious  experience  was  one  proof 
of  his  independence  of  mind.  He  early  identified  himself  with  the  Chris- 
tian Union  movement,  later  became  a  Unitarian,  and  in  1854  organized 
an  independent  Congregational  Society  in  Pierrepont  Manor,  Jefferson 
County,  New  York,  and  preached  to  it  three  years.  For  five  years  he  was 
pastor  of  an  independent  church  at  Martinsburg  in  Lewis  County, 
New  York. 

In  the  fall  of  1862  he  moved  to  Iowa,  contracted  for  the  purchase  of 
nearly  seven  thousand  acres  of  land  on  the  West  DesMoines  River  in 
Humboldt  County  and  selected  the  site  for  a  new  town,  which  was  first 
known  as  Springvale  and  later  as  Humboldt.  The  following  year  he 
brought  out  a  colony  of  about  fifty  persons,  laid  out  his  town,  superin- 
mill,  and  also  operated  a  hotel.  He  was  a  great  lover  all  his  life  of  trees, 
tended  the  construction  of  a  dam  and  saw  mill,  later  built  a  grist  and  flour 
and  in  Humboldt  superintended  the  planting  of  thousands  of  trees  and 
donated  two  parks  dedicated  to  the  use  of  the  public,  one  being  Taft's 
Park  and  the  other  John  Brown  Park.  The  name  of  the  latter  recalls  his 
enthusiasm  for  the  great  abolitionist,  John  Brown,  and  his  own  active 
part  in  that  cause.  After  John  Brown  was  hanged  Mr.  Taft  preached  a 
sermon  which  was  published  and  attracted  much  attention. 

The  first  five  years  he  spent  in  Iowa  he  was  pastor  of  the  Christian 
Union  Church.  In  1868  he  began  the  work  of  founding  an  unsectarian 
institution  of  learning  known  as  Humboldt  College,  which  opened  in  Sep- 
tember, 1872,  and  of  which  he  was  the  first  president.  Among  the  in- 
fluential eastern  friends  who  helped  him  in  this  undertaking  were  Wen- 
dell Phillips,  Edward  Everett  Plale,  James  Freeman  Clark,  Henry  W. 
Longfellow,  Oliver  Ames,  Henry  ^^'ard  Beecher,  William  Lloyd  Garrison. 
Peter  Cooper,  Charles  Sumner  and  William  Cullen  Bryant. 

He  also  commenced  the  publication  of  a  republican  newspaper  known 
as  the  Humboldt  County  True  Democrat,  which  later  became  the  Hum- 
boldt Kosmos  and  is  now  the  Republican.  He  was  identified  with  every 
interest  and  activity  of  th2  Humboldt  community  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  has  been  described  as  a  man  of  medium  height,  strong,  rugged,  and 
able  to  endure  all  the  hardships  and  privations  of  pioneering.  Several 
times  in  Iowa  he  was  caught  in  blinding  blizzards  of  that  section,  and  he 
had  many  other  narrow  escapes   from  imminent   danger. 

Besides  the  papers  which  he  published  he  wrote  for  th;  public  press, 
and  the  vigor  of  his  mind  was  undimmed  to  the  very  end.  In  1913  he 
returned  to  his  old  town  of  Humboldt  and  was  the  principal  speaker  at 
the  semi-centennial  of  the  community.  He  was  a  strong  advocate  of  tem- 
perance and  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  prohibition  party.  Only  a 
few  weeks  before  his  death  he  wrote  a  letter  in  which  he  expressed  the 
fundamental  reasons  for  a  general  condemnation  of  all  people  for  the  Ger- 
man Kaiser  and  the  system  he  represented. 

-Mr.  Taft  came  to  California  in  1896.     He  was  then  over  seventy  years 


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of  age,  but  he  had  strength  and  resources  to  found  another  town,  Saw- 
telle,  adjoining  the  National  Soldiers'  Home.  He  published  a  monthly 
paper  known  as  the  Bay  District  Investigator,  one  of  the  objects  of  which 
was  to  promote  the  annexation  of  Sawtelle  to  Los  Angeles,  a  movement 
which  culminated  about  a  year  before  his  death.  He  was  prominent  in 
the  Iowa  Association  of  Southern  California,  served  as  its  honorary  presi- 
dent, and  was  a  member  of  the  Centenary  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  composed 
exclusively  of  near-centenarians.  At  the  age  of  eighty-nine  he  sat  for  a 
full  vear  upon  the  Los  Angeles  County  Grand  Jury. 

Death  came  to  him  as  he  desired,  while  in  the  full  possession  of  his 
faculties  and  engaged  in  the  work  he  loved.  While  pruning  a  tree  for  one 
of  his  tenants  at  Sawtelle  he  fell  to  the  ground,  was  severely  stunned,  but 
walked  home.  His  death  occurred  as  a  reaction  of  the  shock,  and  came 
on  April  22,  1918,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two  years  and  seven  months 

Two  tributes  written  after  his  death  serv^  to  express  some  of  the 
dominant  characteristics  of  his  life:  "Mr.  Taft  could  do  more  different 
things  and  have  them  all  going  at  one  time  than  any  man  in  the  northern 
half  of  the  state  of  Iowa."  "He  was  a  worthy  citizen  and  a  forceful  per- 
sonality. He  was  a  builder,  one  of  the  few  who  could,  despite  his  handi- 
caps, impress  his  character  upon  communities  and  times." 

February  22,  1853,  he  married  J\Iary  A.  Burnham,  of  Madison,  New 
York.  Her  father,  Rockwell  Burnham,  was  of  a  family  established  in 
Rhode  Island  in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Mrs.  Taft  died 
at  Santa  Monica,  California,  February  1,  1898.  Several  years  later  Mr. 
Taft  married  a  niece  of  his  first  wife,  Mrs.  Etta  Burnham  Barber,  who 
with  two  adopted  girls  survive  him.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  six 
children :  George  B.,  who  died  in  infancy ;  ^lary  V.,  the  only  daughter, 
who  died  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two :  Elwin  S.,  the  youngest  of 
the  family,  who  died  in  1900;  William  J.,  Frederick  H.  and  Sidney  A., 
who  survive  their  honored  father. 

Frederick  Harris  Taft,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  Santa  Monica 
since  1894,  has  practiced  law  in  Southern  California  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  and  for  the  past  six  years  has  been  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court 
of  Los  Angeles  County.  He  presided  over  the  Juvenile  Court  nearly  two 
years,  and  is  now  in  charge  of  Department  No.  13,  the  Court  of  Domes- 
tic Relations. 

A  man  better  fitted  for  the  responsibilities  he  enjoys  it  would  be  diffi- 
cult to  find.  Mr.  Taft  is  not  an  extreme  in  any  direction,  not  radical,  is 
not  easily  attracted  to  superficial  advantages,  and  altogether  is  a  plain, 
everyday  citizen,  has  led  a  well  regulated  life,  one  of  much  usefulness,  and 
has  the  temper,  the  training,  the  insight  and  the  patience  which  serve  to 
distinguish  even  the  routine  performance  of  his  daily  duties. 
,  Judge  Taft  was  born  at  Pierrepont  Manor,  Jefferson  County,  New 
York,  April  4,  1857.  and  is  a  son  of  the  late  Stephen  Harris  Taft,  a  well- 
known  figure  in  Southern  California,  whose  career  is  reviewed  on  other 
pages.  Judge  Taft  shared  in  the  general  admiration  of  his  father,  and 
also  pays  a  particular  tribute  of  gratitude  to  his  mother,  Mary  Antomette 
Bumham  Taft,  who  was  born  May  1.  1832,  at  Madison.  New  York,  and 
died  February  1,  1898,  at  Santa  ^lonica,  California.  His  mother  shared 
all  the  hardships  of  the  Iowa  pioneer,  was  a  w-oman  of  unusual  poise,  and 
gave  quiet,  efficient  support  to  all  charities  and  good  works  in  her  old 
home  town  of  Humboldt.  Iowa,  where  her  memory  is  the  cherished  pos- 
session of  the  entire  community.  She  was  one  of  the  mothers  who  crown 
womanhood  with  sanctity. 


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Judge  Taft  grew  up  in  Iowa  from  the  age  of  six,  acquired  a  liberal 
education  and  was  a  successful  newspaper  man  in  that  state  before  taking 
up  the  practice  of  law.  He  graduated  from  Humboldt  College  in  1879, 
but  his  experience  in  newspaper  work  began  in  1874,  and  until  1882  he 
was  editor  and  publisher  of  the  Humboldt  Kosmos.  In  1883  he  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Hardin  County  Citizen,  and  from  1884  to  1887  was 
associated  as  editor  and  manager  with  the  Fort  Dodge  Messenger.  He 
continued  newspaper  and  publication  work  in  Sioux  City  until  1892. 
While  at  Sioux  City  he  was  a  student  of  law  in  Morningside  College,  now 
Northwestern  University,  from  which  he  received  his  LL.  B.  degree 
in  1892. 

With  eight  months  of  practice  as  a  lawyer  in  Iowa  Judge  Taft  arrived 
at  Los  Angeles  in  1893,  and  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  firm  of 
Tanner  &  Taft  at  Santa  Monica  in  1894.  In  1904  this  firm  became  Tan- 
ner, Taft  &  Odell,  and  so  continued  until  Judge  Taft  went  on  the  bench. 

Judge  Taft  has  taken  considerable  interest  in  politics  as  a  progressive 
republican  for  many  years.  He  served  as  city  attorney  of  Santa  Monica 
from  1902  to  1907,  and  was  appointed  superior  judge  in  August,  1913. 
He  was  regularly  elected  to  that  office  in  1914.  At  different  times  he  has 
held  offices  on  school  and  library  boards  of  Santa  Monica,  and  during  the 
war  was  community  chairman  of  the  Four-AIinute  Men. 

Judge  Taft  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  at  Santa  Monica 
and  in  Los  Angeles  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League,  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic, City  Club  and  Gamut  Club.  He  became  an  Odd  Fellow  in  early 
manhood,  but  has  never  been  attracted  into  the  ranks  of  secret  fraterni- 
ties.   He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Unitarian  Church  of  Los  Angeles. 

February  23,  1881,  at  Humboldt,  Iowa,  he  married  Frances  M.  Welch, 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ira  L.  Welch  of  that  town.  Mrs.  Taft  has 
been  prominent  in  social  and  club  life  at  Santa  Monica  for  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  is  former  president  of  the  Santa  Monica  Bay  Woman's 
Club,  and  past  matron  of  Seaside  Chapter,  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  Taft  had  three  children:  Alice  Marie,  who  died  in 
infancy;  Muriel  Charlena,  wife  of  Nathan  E.  Shutt,  of  Santa  Monica; 
and  Harris  Welch  Taft,  who  married  Lucile  Sharp  and  is  a  member 
of  the  law  firm  Tanner,  Odell  &  Taft  at  Santa  Monica  and  Los  Angeles. 

John  Barnes  Miller,  chairman  of  the  Southern  California  Edison 
Company,  has  long  been  identified  with  the  electrical  industry  in  this 
section.  He  first  came  to  California  in  1891,  remaining  here  about  a 
year,  and  returned  east  only  because  of  his  father's  ill  health.  In  1896, 
however,  he  moved  to  California,  almost  immediately  becoming  identified 
with  the  development  and  consolidation  of  electric  power  companies.  His 
work  has  been  an  important  contributing  factor  in  giving  southern  Cali- 
fornia its  premier  position  in  the  L^nited  States  in  the  production  and 
transmission  of  hydro-electric  power. 

John  B.  Miller  was  born  at  Port  Huron  in  St.  Clair  county,  Michigan, 
October  23,  1869,  a  son  of  John  Edgar  and  Sarah  Amelia  (Barnes) 
Miller.  His  American  ancestry  goes  back  two  or  three  centuries  to  an 
original  colony  of  Mennonites  or  Swiss-German  Quakers  who  left 
Europe  on  account  of  religious  persecution  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania 
at  the  invitation  of  William  Penn.  He  attended  public  and  private 
schools  at  Port  Huron  and  was  graduated  from  the  Ann  Arbor  High 
School  in  1888,  and  then  entered  the  University  of  Michigan,  studying 
for  the  degree  of  A.  B.  At  the  end  of  his  second  year,  however,  he 
was   compelled   to   leave  college   on   account   of   a   serious   crisis   in   his 


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father's  health.  He  undertook  the  management  of  his  father's  business 
and  at  the  same  time  studied  law.  In  1892  he  became  interested  in  a 
plantation  near  Delhi,  Richmond  Parish,  Louisiana,  managing  it  for 
about  two  years  and  then  returning  to  -klichigan,  where  his  father  was 
again  actively  engaged  in  business.  They  became  interested  in  the 
steamboat  and  fuel  business,  to  which  he  devoted  about  three  years. 

In  1896  Mr.  Miller  moved  to  California,  made  a  thorough  investiga- 
tion of  conditions,  and  was  deeply  impressed  with  the  wonderful  oppor- 
tunities for  development  of  electricity  for  light  and  power  and  the  utiliza- 
tion of  water  power  for  long  transmission,  a  method  then  little  known, 
and  decided  to  ally  himself  with  the  industry. 

At  that  time  southern  California  had  a  number  of  little  plants,  none 
large  enough  to  attract  capital  and  therefore  none  in  a  position  to  e.xpand 
or  render  adequate  service  to  a  growing  community.  Mr.  Miller  took 
the  lead  in  amalgamating  a  number  of  small  plants,  acquired  valuable 
water  power  sites,  and  in  1901  was  elected  president  of  the  Edison 
Electric  Company,  one  of  the  first  great  electric  utilities  furnishing  electric 
current  to  numerous  towns  and  cities  throughout  southern  California. 
He  served  as  the  president  of  this  company  and  its  successors  until  1917, 
when  the  Pacific  Light  and  Powier  Corporation  was  consolidated  with 
the  Southern  California  Edison  Company,  and  Mr.  Miller  became  the 
executive  head  of  the  combined  companies  with  the  title  of  chairman. 

Many  other  institutions  have  felt  the  impress  of  his  resourceful 
mind.-  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  old  Southwestern  National 
Bank,  later  consolidated  with  the  First  National  Bank;  also  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Trust  Company,  now  the  Los  Angeles  Trust  &  Savings  Bank; 
and  at  the  present  time  is  president  of  the  Landowners  Company,  the 
San  Joaquin  and  Eastern  Railroad  Company,  and  is  vice-president  of 
the  Sinaloa  Land  and  Water  Company  and  of  California  Delta" Farms, 
Inc.  He  is  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  of  the 
Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  of  Santa  Barbara  Gas  and 
Electric  Company.  Mr.  Miller  is  a  trustee  of  the  Polytechnic  Elementary 
School  of  Pasadena,  where  he  has  his  home,  and  of  the  Harvard  School 
of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California,  Automobile,  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  and  Los  Angeles  Country  Clubs,  all  of  Los  Angeles; 
the  Midwick  Country  Club  and  Overland  Club  of  Pasadena,  Santa  Bar- 
bara Club,  Santa  Barbara  Polo  Club  and  Santa  Barbara  Country  Club, 
the  Pacific  LTnion  and  Bohemian  Clubs  of  San  Francisco  and  the  Racquet 
and  Tennis  and  D.  K.  E.  Clubs  of  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  college  fraternity,  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and 
Shriner,  a  republican  in  politics  and  an  Episcopalian  in  religion. 

On  April  17,  1895,  Air.  Miller  was  married  to  Miss  Carrie  Borden 
Johnson,  of  Yonkers,  New  York.  They  have  the  following  children: 
Philadelphia  Borden,  now  Mrs.  Donald  6'Melveny,  John  Borden,  Edgar 
Gail,  Morris  Barnes  and  Carrie  St.  Clair  Miller. 

From  the  beginning  of  the  great  war  Mr.  Miller  was  v^ry  active 
in  the  American  Red  Cross.  He  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  American  Red  Cross  War  Finance  Committee,  and 
in  1917  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Incorporators.  In 
the  first  War  Fund  campaign  he  served  as  chairman  for  all  the  territory 
west  of  the  Mississippi,  and  in  the  second  War  Fund  campaign  was 
chairman  for  the  Pacific  Division.  He  then  sened  as  manager  of  the 
Pacific  Division  from  December  1,  1918,  to  June  1,  1919,  and  is  now  a 
member  of  the  Advisorv  Committee  for  the  Division. 


256  LOS  ANGELES 

Southern  California  Edison  Company.  No  one  in  Los  Angeles 
or  the  Southwest  can  escape  a  vivid  daily  reminder  of  the  vital  service 
and  efficiency  of  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company,  one  of  the 
greatest  public  utilities  in  America.  A  brief  history  and  description  of 
the  company  and  its  service  brings  to  light  some  interesting  facts  in  the 
pioneer  development  and  transmission  of  the  electric  current  which  are 
probably  known  only  to  a  few  of  the  older  residents  and  practical  electric 
engineers. 

In  1888  Walter  S.  Wright  of  Pasadena  and  E.  E.  Peck  cam;  into 
possession  of  a  miniature  electric  plant  at  San  Pedro.  Soon  afterwards 
the  village  trustees  cancelled  their  street  lighting  contract,  and  the  owners 
of  the  plant  found  no  outside  demand  to  warrant  the  operation  of  the 
business.  Mr.  Peck,  after  returning  from  the  East,  bought  back  the 
engine  and  dynamo,  which  in  the  meantime  had  been  sold  to  a  junk 
dealer,  and  tried  to  secure  a  franchise  from  the  city  of  Los  Angoles. 
The  City  Council  denied  his  application  and  the  county  supervisors 
granted  him  the  privilege  of  operating  a  plant  outside  the  city  limits. 
This  plant,  consisting  of  an  eighty-horsepower  boiler  and  engine  and  a 
thirty-light  arc  lighting  dynamo,  was  installed  in  a  small  building  on 
Twenty-second  Street,  just  east  of  Vermont  Avenue. 

It  began  operation  in  December,  1895,  and  that  was  the  origin  of 
the  West  Side  Lighting  Company,  one  of  the  first  of  many  constituent 
enterprises  now  merged  in  the  complete  history  of  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Edison  Company.  Th;  West  Side  Lighting  Company  comprised 
E.  E.  Peck,  Walter  S.  Wright,  William  R.  Staats  and  George  H.  Barker 
and  at  the  time  of  its  organization  was  known  as  the  Walter  S.  Wright 
Electric  Company.  Mr.  Wright  remained  with  the  company  as  attorney 
and  member  of  the  board  of  directors  until  his  death  a  few  years  ago, 
while  Mr.  Staats  is  still  a  director  and  one  of  the  vice  presidents  of  the 
Southern  California  Edison  Company. 

Unable  to  secure  a  public  franchise  from  the  City  of  Los  Angeles, 
the  company  extended  its  business  to  private  patrons  of  the  city  by 
setting  poles  on  private  property  and  only  crossing  the  city  with  the 
wires.  Mr.  Wright  finally  discovered  an  old  franchise  and  bought  it. 
This  franchise  was  shortly  to  expire  and  one  of  its  conditions  required 
that  the  company  furnish  lighting  at  the  City  Hall.  Two  weeks  remained 
to  comply  with  this  condition.  Every  man  in  the  company  went  to  work 
and  got  the  line  as  far  as  Third  and  Hill  Streets  by  stringing  th;  wires 
on  the  poles  of  the  Los  Angeles  Traction  Company.  A  block  still  re- 
mained between  that  point  and  the  City  Hall  and  there  were  no  poles. 
Permission  was  granted  by  Mr.  Byrne  to  set  a  horse  on  the  roof  of  the 
Byrne  Building,  and  by  this  means  the  wires  were  carried  to  the  tower 
of  the  City  Hall,  and  on  the  night  before  the  day  on  wdiich  the  franchise 
would  have  expired  a  light  was  burning  in  the  City  Hall  tower. 

All  of  this  was  done  in  the  early  part  of  1896,  and  on  June  5th  of 
that  year*he  West  Side  Lighting  Company  was  incorporated,  capitalized 
at  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  with  an  authorized  bond  issue  of 
three  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Business  was  rapidly  developed,  soon 
outgrowing  the  little  plant  on  Twenty-second  Street,  and  the  directors 
deciding  to  build  for  all  time,  liought  the  power  house  and  equipment 
of  the  Second  Street  Cable  Railway,  at  Second  and  Boylston  Streets, 
the  site  of  the  present  Los  Angeles  Number  One  Substation,  and  trans- 
formed the  whole  into  a  modern  steam  power  station.  This  plant  began 
operation  in  December,  1896,  but  contrary  to  expectations,  the  demand 
grew  so  rapidly  that  additional  machinery  had  to  be  installed  the  follow- 
ing month,  and  still  more  later  in  the  same  year. 


FROINI  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  257 

In  December,  1897,  these  properties  were  taken  over  by  the  Los 
Angeles  Edison  Electric  Company,  capitalized  at  five  hundred  thousand 
dollars  and  with  a  bond  issue  authorized  at  equal  amount.  This  capitaliza- 
tion was  later  increased  to  a  million  dollars  and  a  bond  issue  authorized 
for  one  million  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The  company  at  that 
time  had  great  trouble  in  securing  necessary  capital  for  its  rapid  develop- 
ment. At  that  juncture  John  B.  Miller,  for  many  years  president  of  the 
company  and  now  chairman,  became  treasurer  and  a  director.  He  at 
once  proved  an  important  factor  in  the  affairs  of  the  company  and  has 
been  its  directing  genius  along  financial  lines.  Twenty  years  ago  the 
company's  one  and  only  bookkeeper  was  R.  H.  Ballard,  now  first  vice 
president,  while  the  cashier  was  W.  L.  Percey,  now  treasurer. 

The  second  chapter  in  the  history  of  the  Edison  Company  begins 
with  the  Redlands  Electric  Light  and  Power  Company,  starting  with  the 
year  1892.  The  Redlands  group  had  been  developing  hydro  electric 
generation  and  long  distance  transmission.  It  comprised  jirincipally  H. 
H.  Sinclair,  Henry  Fisher  and  A.  W.  Decker,  an  electrical  engineer. 
After  organizing  the  company,  in  1892,  they  set  about  the  building  of  a 
hydro  electric  plant  at  the  mouth  of  Mill  Creek  Canyon,  some  eight  miles 
from  the  city  of  Redlands.  Mr.  Decker  insisted  on  the  installation  of  a 
three-phase  system  similar  to  one  th?n  being  operated  in  an  experimental 
way  in  Tivoli,  near  Rome.  But  much  delay  ensued  before  the  plans  and 
specifications  for  such  a  plant  would  be  accepted  by  any  American  com- 
pany manufacturing  electrical  equipment  on  the  ground  that  such  a  plan 
was  "a  foolish  piece  of  business."  Finally  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany agreed  to  build  two  two  hundred  and  fifty  kilowatt  three-phase 
generators.  These  were  installed  in  what  is  now  known  as  Mill  Creek 
Number  One  Hydro  Electric  Plant,  being  the  first  hydro  electric  three- 
])hase  long  distance  plant  in  the  world.  These  generators  and  the  original 
motors  connected  to  the  transmission  system,  the  first  of  the  kind  ever 
turned  out  by  the  General  Electric  Company,  and  placed  in  operation  in 
1893,  are  still  in  daily  service  and  are  operating  in  parallel  in  perfect 
accord  with  the  latest  creations  of  the  art  at  Big  Creek. 

The  Redlands  group  also  organized  the  Southern  California  Power 
Company  and  acquired  water  rights  on  the  Santa  Ana  River,  and  in 
1899  put  in  operation  a  second  station,  now  known  as  Mill  Creek  No.  2. 
Meanwhile  the  Los  Angeles  group  was  having  trouble  in  keeping  its 
power  supply  equal  to  its  increasing  business.  It  was  but  natural  the 
two  groups,  the  one  having  the  market  and  the  other  the  power,  should 
join  forces,  and  in  June,  1898,  the  Southern  California  Power  Company 
was  taken  over  by  the  Edison  Company.  The  Santa  Ana  River  No.  1 
plant  was  completed  and  put  into  operation  in  December,  1898,  trans- 
mitting power  at  33,000  volts  to  Los  Angeles,  sixty-eight  miles  away, 
a  distance  and  voltage  theretofore  unheard  of.  The  many  difficulties 
and  problems  in  this  marvelous  piece  of  electrical  pioneering  were  solved 
to  the  lasting  credit  of  the  principal  men  in  the  organization. 

In  subsequent  years  the  Edison  Company  rapidly  expanded,  acquir- 
ing the  Pasadena  Electric  Light  and  Power  Company,  and  entering  the 
Pasadena  field  in  August,  1898;  purchasing  the  gas  and  electric  properties 
of  the  Santa  Ana  Gas  and  Electric  Company  at  Santa  Ana  in  1899,  and 
acquiring  the  Redlands  properties  in  1901.  In  1902  the  Kern  River 
l>rojects  were  acquired  with  the  purchase  of  the  California  Power  Com- 
l)any,  and  the  same  year  Mountain  Power  Company,  with  Santa  Ana 
River  No.  2,  was  taken  over. 

These    properties    were    all    taken    over    September    1,    1902.    at    a 


258  LOS  ANGELES 

that  time  the  Edison  Electric  Company  was 'organized,  with  a  capitaliza- 
tion of  ten  million  dollars  and  an  authorized  bond  issue  of  the  same 
amount,  hi  1903  occurred  the  consolidation  of  the  United  Electric  Gas 
and  Power  Company  with  the  Edison  Company,  giving  the  latter  gas  and 
electric  properties  at  Santa  Barbara,  Santa  Monica  and  Long  Beach, 
and  electric  properties  at  Redondo,  San  Pedro  and  Monrovia,  including 
a  steam  plant  at  Santa  Monica.  In  1906  gas  properties  were  acquired 
in  Whittier,  Pomona,  Riverside,  Redlands,  Colton  and  Monrovia,  but 
subsequently  the  gas  properties  were  all  sold. 

The  present  corporation,  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company, 
was  formed  in  1909,  with  a  capitalization  of  thirty  million  dollars  and  an 
authorized  bond  issue  of  the  same  amount.  Later  the  capital  was  in- 
creased to  a  hundred  million  dollars,  with  bond  issue  authorized  at  a 
hundred  thirty-six  million  dollars.  In  1909  W.  A.  Breckenridge  came 
into  the  organization  as  vice  president  and  general  manager,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  company.  Mr.  Breckenridge  is  an  eminent  electrical 
engineer,  and  was  engineer  in  charge  of  construction  at  the  building  of 
the  hydro.-electric  plant  at  Niagara  Falls. 

Besides  the  improvements  and  extension  of  existing  plants  and 
service  from  year  to  year,  the  next  important  acquisition  came  in  1917 
with  the  purchase  of  the  franchises,  property  and  business  of  the  Pacific 
Light  and  Power  Corporation,  and  controlling  interest  in  the  Ventura 
County  Power  Company  and  several  smaller  companies.  This  purchase 
gave  to  the  Edison  system  hydro-electric  plants  including  the  famous 
Big  Creek  plants,  known  all  over  the  world,  a  large  steam  plant  at 
Redondo,  and  altogether  more  than  doubled  the  company's  power  supply. 
The  merger  was  also  notable  because  it  brought  into  the  company  as  its 
largest  individual  stockholder  and  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
Henry  E.  Huntington,  a  name  that  speaks  for  itself  everywhere  in 
California. 

■  W.  E.  Dunn  entered  the  board  of  directors  with  Mr.  Huntington, 
bringing  with  him  his  wide  knowledge  of  legal  and  practical  affairs ;  also 
Howard  E.  Huntington,  whose  experience  in  the  administrative  affairs  of 
corporations  is  of  value  to  the  management. 

Others  who  came  into  the  organization  at  that  time  were  George  C. 
Ward,  now  second  vice  president ;  A.  N.  Kemp,  comptroller,  and  E.  R. 
Davis,  superintendent  of  the  Northern  Division. 

A  few  words  should  be  added  to  this  historical  sketch  to  describe 
the  status  of  the  company  at  the  close  of  1918.  The  Southern  California 
Edison  Company,  with  its  subsidiaries,  most  important  of  which  are  the 
Mt.  Whitney  Power  and  Electric  Company,  operating  in  the  San  Joaquin 
Valley,  and  Santa  Barbara  Electric  Company,  operating  in  Santa  IBarbara 
and  vicinity,  now  has  an  installed  capacity  of  158,920  horsepower  in 
seventeen  hydro-electric  plants,  and  143,510  horsepower  in  eight  steam 
stations,  a  total  installation  of  302,430  horsepower.  All  these  are  linked 
together  and  inter-connected  by  more  than  fifteen  hundred  miles  of  high- 
tension  transmission  lines  operating  at  voltages  ranging  from  150,000  to 
30,000  volts,  and  eight  thousand  miles  of  distributing  lines,  supplying 
electric  energy  to  two  hundred  thousand  consumers.  This  electric  energy 
does  more  than  light  and  serve  transportation  needs,  being  in  fact  an 
indispensable  asset  to  the  entire  industrial  work  of  the  territory  covered. 
The  company  serves  with  electric  energy  a  population  of  more  than  a 
million  people,  covering  an  area  of  fifty-five  thousand  square  miles, 
greater  than  that  of  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island,  Connecticut,  New  Jersey  and  Delaware. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  259 

The  first  steam  plant  operated  by  the  company  had  a  capacity  of 
eighty  horsepower.  The  capacity  of  the  latest  steam  plant  at  Long  Beach 
is  65,000  horsepower.  The  first  hydro-electric  plant  had  a  capacity  of 
500  kilowatts ;  the  latest,  the  two'  Big  Creek  plants,  32,000  kilowatts 
each.  The  first  long  distance  transmission  line  was  eight  miles  long 
and  was  operated  at  2,300  volts.  The  latest  is  240  miles  long  and  is 
operated  at  150,000  volts.  The  first  company  had  a  capitalization  of 
five  hnndred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  latest  one  hundred  million  dollars. 
These  facts  and  figures  have  real  significance  and  portray  in  a  graphic 
manner  some  of  the  most  important  developments  in  Southern  California 
during  the  last  thirty  years. 

Interesting  and  illustrative  of  the  growth  of  .Southern  California,  as 
•  has  been  the  history  of  the  company,  the  personal  element  is  even  more 
so  to  those  who  are  familiar  with  what  has  been  achieved.  What  is 
affectionately  termed  "The  Edison  Spirit"  has  dominated  all  of  the  deal- 
ings of  officers  and  employees  with  each  other  and  has  naturally  radiated 
to  the  public,  giving  potent  force  to  the  slogan  introduced  by  Mr.  Miller 
when  he  first  took  charge  of  its  affairs:  "Good  service,  courteous  treat- 
ment, square  dealing." 

Besides  Mr.  Miller,  Mr.  Ballard  and  Mr.  Percey,  already  mentioned, 
those  prominently  identified  with  the  upbuilding  of  the  company  and  in 
its  employ  over  fifteen  years  are  B.  F.  Pearson,  general  superintendent 
of  the  Southern  Division,  who  had  charge  of  niuch  of  the  original  con- 
struction;  S.  M.  Kennecy,  general  agent  in  charge  of  the  commercial  de- 
partment, and  who  has  a  record  of  developing  new  business  for  the 
company  nearly  always  in  advance  of  its  generative  capacity ;  W.  L. 
Frost,  his  assistant,  who  has  advanced  through  all  of  the  grades ;  John 
Otto,  purchasing  agent,  who  entered  the  service  as  district  agent ;  A.  W. 
Childs,  superintendent  of  sales,  and  Dr.  H.  C.  Stinchfield,  chief  surgeon. 

This  sketch  would  not  be  complete  without  tribute  to  the  memory 
of  the  late  H.  H.  Trowbridge,  who,  as  general  counsel  for  the  company, 
solved  many  intricate  problems,  and  his  foresight  and  wisdom  were  sub- 
stantial factors  in  making  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company  a 
permanent  institution  of  the  Southwest. 

Arthur  George  Wells.  Indelibly  inscribed  on  the  pages  of  rail- 
road history  is  the  name  of  Arthur  George  Wells,  whose  strong  intellect 
and  long  experience,  directed  in  the  channels  of  railroad  business,  have 
gained  for  hmi  pre-eminence  as  one  of  the  most  efficient  men  in  his  line 
of  work  in  the  country,  and  for  the  past  seventeen  years  he  has  held 
the  responsible  and  dignified  position  of  general  manager  of  the  Atchi- 
son, Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  A  level,  cool-headed  man  of  business 
may  command  respect  because  of  his  great  capacities  in  managing  vast 
enterprises  and  his  power  to  change  circumstances  to  suit  his  will,  and 
may  have  as  chosen  associates  others  of  like  calibre  and  similar  power 
and  interests,  but  in  order  to  secure  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his 
fellowmen  he  must  have  other  qualities  of  a  tenderer  nature  to  win  per- 
sonal affection.  That  Arthur  George  Wells  does  possess  these  char- 
acteristics of  a  finer  fibre  his  many  friends  in  every  walk  of  life  testify, 
and  these  make  him  one  of  the  best  liked  men  in  his  community,  as  well 
as  one  of  the  most  successful  in  the  railroad  business. 

Arthur  George  Wells  was  born  at  Guelph,  Ontario,  Canada,  Novem- 
ber 18,  1861,  a  son  of  Arthur  and  Georgiana  Dora  (Ridout)  Wells.  The 
Wells  family  is  one  of  the  old  ones  in  England,  and  its  records  show 
that  Mr.  Wells'  grandfather  on  the  paternal  side  fought  under  General 


260  LOS  ANGELES 

Wellington  against  the  great  Napoleon  in  the  Spanish  campaign.  Untit 
he  was  fifteen  years  old  Arthur  George  Wells  attended  the  public  schools 
at  Guelph,  but  then  left  school  to  become  self-supporting,  entering  the 
railroad  service,  in  which  it  was  destined  he  was  to  rise  rapidly.  Like 
the  majority  of  men  in  the  railroad  business  who  reach  the  top,  he  under- 
stands every  detail  of  it,  and  his  first  connection  with  this  line  of  en- 
deavor was  as  an  apprentice  machinist  in  the  shops  of  the  Kansas  City, 
St.  Joseph  &  Council  Bluflfs  Railroad  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  which  he 
entered  in  1876.  Having  completed  his  apprenticeship,  in  1880  Mr.  Wells 
was  made  clerk  of  the  mechanical  department,  leaving  this  road  for  the 
position  of  purchasing  agent  for  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad.  It 
v/as  in  March,  1882,  that  Mr.  Wells  began  his  long  career  with  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  in  a  clerical  position  at  San' 
Marcial,  New  Mexico,  and  in  June,  1882,  was  promoted  to  be  chief 
clerk  to  the  general  superintendent  of  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad  at 
Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  while  in  1885  he  was  made  trainmaster  of 
the  same  road,  and  in  these  connections  he  was  able  to  gain  an  insight 
into  the  management  which  served  to  prepare  him  for  duties  involving 
laiger  responsibilities.  By  1886  the  ability  of  this  alert  young  man 
brought  him  to  the  notice  of  those  in  authority,  and  he  was  made  assist- 
ant to  the  general  manager  of  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi  Railroad,  and  in 
January,  1890,  he  was  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  superintendent 
of  the  Ohio,  Indiana  &  Western  Railroad,  which  was  merged  into  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  in  the  service  of 
which  road  Mr.  Wells  remained  until  1893,  being  superintendent  suc- 
cessively of  the  Peoria,  Indianapolis  and  St.  Louis  divisions.  He  was 
then  made  assistant  to  the  first  vice  president  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  Railroad,  and  was  then  given  a  general  superintendency  of  the 
Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad,  and  later  was  made  general  superintendent 
of  the  Southern  California  Railroad,  the  San  Francisco  Railroad  and  the 
Jan  Joaquin  Railroad,  all  branches  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  tS:  Santa  Fe 
Railroad,  and  in  1901  was  made  general  manager  of  the  Coast  Lines  of 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  with  headquarters  at  Los  An- 
geles, California. 

On  October  15,  1884,  Mr.  Wells  was  married  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri, 
to  Gertrude  Alice  Barnard,  a  daughter  of  John  F.  Barnard.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wells  have  two  daughters,  namely  Helen  Audley,  who  married  H. 
Norton  Johnson  and  lives  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  and  Louise.  Since 
he  cast  his  vote,  Mr.  Wells  has  been  a  stanch  republican,  but  aside  frorh 
exercising  the  right  of  suffrage,  he  does  not  participate  in  politics.  Social 
by  nature,  he  finds  relaxation  and  congenial  companionship  in  the  Los 
Angeles  Countrj',  California,  Pacific,  LTnion  and  San  Francisco  Clubs 
and  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California.  The  sound  judgment 
and  singleness  of  purpose  which  have  characterized  Mr.  Wells'  handling 
of  the  various  problems  which  were  presented  to  him  for  solution  in  the 
flifferent  positions  he  has  held  have  been  valuable  assets  to  him  and  his 
roads,  and  he  has  developed  with  his  knowledge  of  railroad  experience  a 
keen  interest  in  life,  an  open  mind  and  quick  understanding.  He  is  a 
man  of  personal  charm,  culture  and  widely  diversified  interests,  and  is 
one  of  the  constructive  citizens  of  his  part  of  the  country. 

Wii.FOKD  E.  Dkming  is  a  veteran  real  estate  man  of  Los  Angeles,  has 
l)ecn  familiar  with  the  changes  and  developments  in  real  estate  values  for 
a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  has  been  one  of  the  city's  most  successful 
operators  and  business  men. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  261 

He  was  born  at  Marysville  in  Alarshall  County,  Kansas,  July  17,  1860, 
a  son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  and  Ulrica  C.  (Erickson)  Deming.  A  few  years  after 
his  birth  his  parents  moved  to  Indiana,  wliere  his  father  practiced  his 
Ijrofession  as  a  physician  in  ditTerent  parts  of  the  state.  Mr.  Deming  at- 
tended public  school  and  graduated  from  high  school  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen, after  which  he  spent  one  year  in  Purdue  University.  He  became 
a  successful  stock  raiser  and  farmer  in  Jasper  County,  Indiana,  and  re- 
mained there  until  1892,  when  he  sold  out.  A  visit  to  Southern  California 
soon  afterward  led  him  to  make  his  home  here  permanently,  and  in  1894 
he  settled  at  Los  Angeles.  He  has  ever  since  been  an  independent  real 
estate  operator,  handling  his  own  properties  almost  entirely.  One  of  his 
transactions  has  a  special  interest.  In  1901  he  bought  from  I.  W.  Hell- 
man  a  piece  of  property  on  South  Cirand  avenue  between  Seventh  and 
Eighth  streets,  a  frontage  of  112  feet,  at  seventy  dollars  per  front  foot. 
Recently  he  was  oiTered  three  thousand  dollars  a  front  foot  for  the 
same  ground. 

Mr.  Deming  is  a  republican.  In  Los  Angeles  January  23,  1901,  he 
married  Ruth  Benedict.  They  have  two  children :  Wilford  E.,  Jr., 
bora  in  1904,  attending  the  Los  Angeles  High  School :  and  Rita,  who  is 
a  student  in  the  Intermediate  High  School. 

Isaac  O.  Levy,  secretary  of  the  prominent  general  insurance  agency 
of  Behrendt  &  Levy  Company,  is  a  native  son  of  Los  Angeles,  and  has 
had  an  active  business  career  here  for  over  twenty  3'ears. 

He  was  born  on  Fort  Street,  now  Broadway,  between  Fifth  and 
Sixth  streets,  where  Clunes  Theater  stands,  October  7,  1879,  a  son  of 
Michel  and  Rebecca  (Lewin)  Levy.  His  father  was  born  in  Alsace- 
Lorraine,  France,  Februar)^  18,  1834,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1851, 
making  his  way  to  California  the  same  year.  He  had  varied  business 
experiences  at  San  Francisco,  Placerville,  Diamond  Springs,  in  Somona 
county,  also  in  Nevada  for  five  years,  and  in  1868  moved  to  Los  Angeles 
and  established  himself  in  the  wholesale  liquor  business.  After  various 
changes  the  firm  became  M.  Levy  &  Company,  and  long  before  the 
death  of  Michel  Levy  on  March  27,  1905,  his  was  recognized  as  the 
oldest  house  of  its  kind  in  Southern  California.  He  also  established 
the  Los  Angeles  Vintage  Company.  His  dominent  characteristic  was 
integrity  and  a  degree  of  fidelity  which  made  him  the  personification  of 
good  faith  in  business  and  personal  life.  All  who  knew  him  admired 
this  splendid  trait.  It  is  said  that  he  was  never  asked  to  put  anything 
in  writing  when  transacting  a  business  deal.  He  was  very  liberal  in 
behalf  of  all  Jewish  activities  and  charities,  was  a  York  Rite  Mason,  and 
was  identified  with  many  important  phases  of  the  growin"g  city  of 
Los  Angeles  for  nearly  forty  years.  In  1870  he  married  Rebecca  Lewin, 
a  native  of  Germany.  She  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1867  and  died  Sep- 
tember 11,  1918.  They  left  three  children:  Mrs.  Lemuel  Goldwater, 
of  Los  x\ngeles ;  Miss  Therese,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Isaac  O. 

Isaac  O.  Lev}'  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  in 
1897,  and  during  the  following  eight  years  was  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  wholesale  liquor  business.  Oh  leaving  his  business  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Sam  Behrendt  in  the  general  insurance  business  and 
they  organized  the  Behrendt-Levy  Company.  In  1908  the  business  was 
incorporated  with  Mr.  Levy  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  This  is  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  successful  general  insurance  agencies  in  Southern 
California.  Mr.  Levy  is  also  a  director  of  the  Moreland  Truck  Company. 
He  is  affiliated  with  Westgate  Lodge  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  is  a  member  of 


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the  Scottish  Rite  and  Mystic  Shrine,  and  is  past  president  of  the  B'nai 
B'rith  and  a  member  of  Corona  Parlor  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden 
West,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California,  and  in  politics  is  independent.  At  Los  Angeles,  July  9, 
1913,  he  married  Dora  Marks.  They  have  one  son,  Donald  Michel, 
born  April  11,  1916. 

Lucius  K.  Chase,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1897,  has  enjoyed 
an  enviable  position  as  an  able  civil  and  corporation  lawyer,  and  has 
been  identified  with  many  prominent  cases,  especially  litigation  over 
land  titles,  and  has  represented  the  affairs  of  a  number  of  corporations. 

Mr.  Chase,  who  is  also  prominent  in  the  social  and  civic  life  of  Los 
Angeles,  was  born  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  July  29,  1871,  a  son  of 
Ransom  J.  and  Mary  M.  (Baker)  Chase.  His  father  was  a  successful 
lawyer  and  the  son  was  given  the  best  advantages  in  school  and  home. 
He  attended  public  school  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  the  Shattuck  Military 
Academy  at  Faribault,  Minnesota,  and  took  his  law  course  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  where  he  graduated  LL.  B.  in  1896.  For  one  year 
he  practiced  law  with  his  father  at  Sioux  City,  and  in  1897  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  and  from  the  first  has  been  specializing  in  corporation  and 
civil  law.  He  is  counsel  for  the  Security  National  Bank  and  a  director 
and  counsel  for  a  number  of  corporations. 

Mr.  Chase  owns  several  hundred  acres  of  ranch  land  in  the  Palo 
Verde  Valley,  devoting  this  land  to  the  cultivation  of  cotton  and  alfalfa. 
Some  years  ago  he  became  interested  in  the  law  suit  of  California  vs. 
United  States,  involving  a  tract  of  fifty  thousand  acres.  He  was  em- 
ployed as  attorney  to  represent  the  settlers  of  Palo  Verde  Valley.  Cali- 
fornia claimed  all  the  swamp  lands  of  that  valley,  but  Mr.  Chase  suc- 
ceeded in  defeating  the  claims  of  the  state  in  behalf  of  the  actual  settlers. 

Mr.  Chase  was  for  five  years  a  director  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  is  now  chairman  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  Advisory 
Board  in  the  matter  of  the  Arizona-California  River  regulation.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  City  Board  of  Education  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  Finance  Committee  therefor  for  the  years  1917-18.  He 
belongs  to  the  Southern  California  Lodge  No.  278,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Los 
Angeles  Commandery  No.  9,  K.  T.,  and  is  also  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  College  Fraternity,  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club  since  1899,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Country 
Club,  City  Club  and  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Politically  he  is  a  re- 
publican. 

At  Los  Angeles,  January  1,  1900,  Mr.  Chase  married  Marie  E. 
Watkins.  Her  father,  D.  F.  Watkins,  was  a  Congregational  minister 
and  went  as  a  missionary  of  his  church  to  Old  Mexico  in  1871.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Chase  have  three  children:  Lucius  Foster,  born  in  1901,  a 
graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  and  now  a  student  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  California;  Ransom  W.,  born  in  1904,  and  David  P.,  born  in 
1908,  students  in  the  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles. 

Hyman  Schwartz  is  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  whose  connections  have 
been  of  steadily  growing  importance,  and  whose  life  record,  for  a  man 
of  his  years,  is  one  of  great  interest  and  inspiration. 

He  was  born  at  Rene,  Russia,  February  12,  1887.  The  family  crossed 
the  ocean  to  New  York  City  in  1900,  lived  there  until  1907,  and  the 
parents  have  since  lived  in  Lx>s  Angeles,  where  Jacob  Schwartz  is  propri- 
etor of  the  New  York  Bottling  Works. 


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As  a  boy  in  his  native  country  Hvman  Schwartz  attended  a  gymna- 
sium, the  equivalent  of  a  college  in  this  country.  In  New  York  City  he 
perfected  his  knowledge  of  the  English  language  and  also  took  courses  in 
chemistry  and  mechanical  drawing.  After  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he 
pursued  the  study  of  law  in  the  night  classes  of  the  University  of  South- 
ern California.  During  the  clay  he  was  working  as  bookkeeper  for  Cun- 
ningham, Curtis  iS:  Welch,  the  largest  stationery  house  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  proved  a  valuable  man  to  that  organization,  was  made  assistant  credit 
man,  and  was  outside  salesman  for  the  last  two  and  a  half  years  before 
he  began  active  practice  in  1912.  Mr.  Schwartz  is  now  attorney  for  his 
old  employers.  He  was  admitted  to  the  California  bar  in  1912  and  has 
since  been  admitted  to  practice  in  the  Federal  Courts.  He  enjoys  a  good 
general  practice,  and  among  other  interests  he  is  secretary  and  partner  in 
the  Pacific  Rock  Salt  Company  of  Los  Angeles.  In  1916  he  organized 
what  was  known  as  the  Engineering  Construction  Company,  located  on 
North  Main  Street.  He  was  its  president  until  he  sold  out  his  interests 
in  1918.  This  company  manufactured  aeroplane  parts,  pumps  and  flota- 
tion machines.  Mr.  Schwartz  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  business  pre- 
paratory to  getting  his  services  accepted  in  the  army. 

Mr.  Schwartz,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Van  NUys  Building,  is  a  re- 
publican in  politics,  though  he  voted  for  Wilson  at  the  second  term.  He  is 
a  member  of  Los  Angeles  Lodge  No.  42  F.  and  A.  M.,  the  oldest  Masonic 
Lodge  in  the  city.  He  is  also  affiliated  with  Lodge  No.  99  of  the  Elks. 
At  Los  Angeles  February  12,  1912,  he  married  Miss  Esperance  Silver- 
berg.  She  was  born  in  Chicago  and  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  of  that  city.  Her  father.  Dr.  Henry  M.  Silverberg,  was  a 
practicing  ^entist  in  Chicago  for  about  twenty  years  and  since  1910  has 
lived  in  Los  Angeles. 

Edgar  E.  Sellers.  There  are  many  notable  examples  in  southern 
California  of  the  power  and  productiveness  of  an  idea,  and  perhaps  none 
more  recent  and  notable  than  the  chain  of  Pacific  Tea  and  ColTee  Stores, 
which  now  extend  up  and  down  the  Pacific  Coast  to  the  number  of  half 
a  hundred  or  more.  The  man  responsible  for  the  idea  and  great  growth 
and  prosperity  of  the  Pacific  Coft'ee  Stores  is  E.  E.  Sellers,  an  expert 
cofTee  man.  He  has  had  a  long  experience  in  every  branch  of  the  busi- 
ness, from  clerk  to  importer,  and  his  genius  consists  largely  in  one  fact, 
that  once  a  good  idea  came  to  him  he  had  the  faith  and  the  energy  to 
carry  it  out  and  make  it  a  success. 

Edgar  E.  Sellers  was  born  at  Barry,  Pike  county,  Illinois,  January 
19,  1865,  a  son  of  George  W.  and  Sarah  (Fletcher)  Sellers.  He  gradu- 
ated from  high  school  at  nineteen,  and  then  for  two  years  taught,  after 
which  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Kansas,  his  father  buying  a  ranch 
near  Newton.  After  some  experience  on  the  farm  Mr.  Sellers  became 
a  traveling  salesman  for  the  Nave-McCord  wholesale  grocery  house  of 
St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  He  was  with  them  four  years  and  then  went  with 
William  Schotten  &  Company  of  St.  Louis,  a  wholesale  cofTee  house. 
His  first  work  there  was  as  sample  boy,  and  later  he  was  with  the  firm 
as  a  traveling  representative  for  eleven  years.  In  1894  he  oj^ened  a  small 
retail  cofifee  store  at  Sedalia,  Missouri,  and  gradually  developed  it  until 
he  was  supplying  many  stores  as  a  wholesaler.  He  sold  out  his  Missouri 
business  in  1903  and  moved  to  Denver,  Colorado,  becoming  coffee  buver. 
tester  and  manager  of  the  coffee  department  of  the  Morey  Mercantile 
Company.  In  that  capacity  he  gained  a  knowledge  of  coffee  that  made 
him  a  real  expert,  a  knowledge  extending  all  the  way  from  the  coffee 
plantation  to  the  point  of  consumption. 


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Mr.  Sellers  resigned  his  position  in  Denver  in  1913,  and  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  in  the  fall  of  that  year  opened  up  the  tirst  exclusive  coffee 
store  at  Long  Beach.  That  was  the  origin  of  the  Pacific  Coffee  Stores 
Company,  his  partner  being  O.  E.  Adamson.  Mr.  Sellers  put  into 
practice  many  original  ideas  in  the  building  and  equipment  of  the  coffee 
stores.  Nearly  all  of  them  are  housed  in  neat  brick  and  glass  buildings, 
'some  in  the  business  districts  of  cities  and  towns  and  others  located 
conveniently  to  the  great  highways  of  automobile  traffic.  One  essential 
feature  of  the  plan  is  the  installation  of  complete  roasting  machinery,  so 
that  the  coffee  can  be  delivered  hot  from  the  roaster  in  bags  and  sold 
direct  to  the  customer,  eliminating  much  of  the  handling  and  additional 
costs  imposed  between  the  coft'ee  plantation  and  the  coft'ee  store.  A 
familiar  name  for  the  Pacific  Coffee  Stores  is  "Coft'ee  Stations,"  and 
from  a  beginning  of  one  store  at  Long  Beach  the  chain  has  grown  link 
by  link  until  in  the  spring  of  1919  there  were  fifty-one  stores  on  the 
Pacific  Coast,  and  also  in  Reno,  Nevada,  and  Ogden,  Utah.  At  that 
time  a  hundred  and  twenty  people  were  employed,  most  of  them  being 
taught  the  full  details  and  the  roasting  and  blending  of  coft'ee,  and  to 
know  the  goods  they  were  selling.  In  1918  the  chain  of  stores  sold 
over  two  million  pounds  of  coft'ee,  with  an  aggregate  value  of  half  a 
million  dollars.  Each  store  is  a  manufacturing  plant,  and  all  the  buying 
and  selling  makes  an  automatically  checked  system,  so  there  is  no  guess- 
ing on  what  is  being  made. 

One  of  the  leading  trade  journals  devoted  to  coffee,  tea  and  spice 
interests  had  an  article  concerning  Mr.  Sellers'  stores  and  plant  about 
two  years  after  his  business  started  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  One  para- 
graph from  that  article  is  as  follows:  "The  growth  of  the  Pacific 
Coffee  Stores  is  an  interesting  demonstration  of  the  result's  which  are 
bound  tp  follow  when  a  man  has  a  big  idea  and  the  courage  to  put 
theories  into  practice.  Mr.  Sellers'  long  and  varied  experience  in  the 
coft'ee  business  before  entering  the  retail  field  enabled  him  to  avoid  the 
pitfalls  which  might  prove  disastrous  to  a  man  seeking  to  duplicate  his 
success  without  his  knowledge  of  buying,  testing  and  roasting." 

Mr.  Sellers  is  a  member  of  the  Qiamber  of  Commerce  and  the 
Annandale  Golf  Club,  and  is  a  republican  in  politics.  He  has  one  child, 
a  son  thirty-three  years  old,  who  is  connected  with  him  in  business. 

May  MacDonald  Hope.  In  musical  circles  of  Los  Angeles  there  are 

few  more  popular  pianists  than  May  MacDonald  Hope,  a  performer  of 
remarkable  talent  and  the  institutor  of  the  Chamber  Music  Recitals,  which 
have  attracted  widespread  interest  and  commendation  among  music  lov- 
ers of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Hope  is  a  product  of  Kansas,  born 
in  the  city  of  Leavenworth,  where  her  father  was  an  army  man.  Both  her 
parents,  whom  she  lost  when  young,  were  musical  and  she  inherited  their 
inclination  and  talent,  which  were  developed  under  special  instruction  in 
the  convent  in  which  she  was  reared  until  reaching  the  age  of  twelve 
years. 

Later,  Mrs.  Hope  became  a  protege  and  pupil  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carl 
Bush,  of  Kansas  City,  who  sent  her  abroad,  where  she  received  her  real 
musical  instruction  and  training.  She  studied  at  Berlin  under  Theresa 
Carreno,  one  of  the  world's  most  celebrated  pianists  and  a  pupil  of  the 
master,  Antone  Rubenstein,  remaining  in  Germany  for  four  years  and 
also  touring  Europe  extensively,  visiting  all  places  of  note  and  interest 
and  taking  some  lessons  under  the  instruction  of  Bruno  Gortatowski. 
Upon  her  return  to  the  United  States  she  gave  a  number  of  very  interest- 


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ing  recitals  and  concerts  at  Kansas  City,  wiiere  the  residents  placed  the 
stamp  of  approval  upon  her  work,  recognizing  her  as  a  finished  and 
charniing-  artist  ujwn  the  ])iano.  About  the  year  1912  she  came  to  Cali- 
fornia and  in  1913  was  united  in  marriage  with  Professor  Edward  W. 
Hope,  of  the  faculty  of  Stanford  University,  who  is  now  identified  with 
the  University  of  Oregon.  She  has  spent  the  subsequent  time  at  Los  An- 
geles, with  the  excejition  of  eight  or  nine  months  at  Eugene,  Oregon, 

Mrs.  Hope  has  instituted  what  are  known  as  the  Chamber  Music  Re- 
citals, a  series  of  which  she  has  been  giving  each  year  for  the  past  three 
years.  These  have  been  very  successful  and  markedly  jiopular,  and  five 
were  held  in  1918,  while  1919  saw  four.  Mrs.  Hope  has  been  ])laying 
with  Mr.  Joseph  Rosenfclt.  -She  expects  to  present  these  recitals  each 
year,  on  ;in  increasing  scale  from  year  to  year,  her  idea  being  to  express 
in  them  her  ideals  for  the  ijetterment  of  music  in  art.  Thus  far  they  have 
been  given  at  Blanchard  Hall. 

In  June,  1910,  Mrs.  Hope  gave  a  concert  with  Alexander  Saslavsky, 
Russian,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New  York  Russian  Symphony 
Orchestra  and  for  twenty-two  years  concert  master  with  Walter  Dam- 
rosch.  Mrs.  Hope's  association  with  Mr.  Alexander  Saslavsky  in  con- 
cert work  marks  a  step  forward  in  her  career,  which  has  been  one  of 
advancement  since  its  start,  and  characterized  by  self  help  and  self 
reliance.  She  also  has  charge  of  the  music  at  the  Cathedral  Chapel  of 
Father  Conaty's  church.  In  whatever  community  she  has  made  her 
home  she  has  been  popular  in  the  best  social  circles,  and  at  Los  yVngeles 
she  has  made  and  maintained  numerous   friendships. 

E.  Burton  Ceruti,  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
bar,  and  has  been  in  active  general  practice  since  1912.  He  is  a  young 
man  of  interesting  experience  and  derived  his  early  training  from  a 
number  of  noted  educational  institutions. 

Mr.  Ceruti  was  bom  at  Nassau,  N.  P.,  Bahamas,  West  Indies, 
August  14,  1875,  son  of  Edward  B.  and  Elizabeth  J.  Ceruti.  His 
parents  came  to  America  in  1880,  and  his  education  was  advanced  by 
successive  attendance  at  the  following  institutions:  Jacksonville  graded 
school  at  Jacksonville,  Florida,  the  grammar  school  of  Nassau,  N.  P., 
Bahamas,  St.  Augstine's  Normal  and  Industrial  Institute  at  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina,  Shaw  University  at  Raleigh,  where  he  took  his  first 
courses  in  law,  the  Howard  University  of  Washington,  D.  C,  Brooklyn 
Law  School,  and  St.  Lawrence  University  at  Canton,  New  York.  From 
the  last  named  institution  he  received  his  degree  in  law  in  the  month 
of  June,  1911.  Soon  afterward  Mr.  Ceruti  came  to  Los  Angeles  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  January  17,  1912.  He  has  busied  himself  with 
a  growing  clientage,  and  among  other  interests  is  grand  attorney  for 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  the  state  of  California  and  attorney  for  the 
southern  California  branches  of  the  National  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Colored  People,  and  was  recently  made  national  director 
for  that  powerful  organization.  His  offices  are  in  the  Thorpe  Building 
and  his  residence  address  is  1800  San  Pedro  street. 

Mr.  Ceruti  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  was  appointed 
a  lay  reader  in  June,  1914.  He  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order 
and  is  exalted  ruler  of  Golden  West  Lodge  No.  86,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks. 


266  LOS  AiXGELES 

John  Thomas  Rowntree.  The  most  substantial  business  enter- 
prises of  any  city  are  those  which  are  the  outgrowth  of  concentrated 
effort  and  thorough  understanding  of  the  needs  of  the  trade  which  is 
supphed.  It  is  not  possible  to  leap  into  a  prominence  that  is  lasting. 
Stability  and  the  confidence  of  the  buying  public  are  won  through  suc- 
cessive operations,  in  each  of  which  the  reliability  and  honesty  of  the 
concern  in  question  are  proven  beyond  doubt.  Once  such  a  reputation 
is  established,  further  growth  is  certain.  Back  of  such  institutions  are 
men  of  executive  ability  and  great  capability,  and  to  them  and  their 
broad-gauged  methods  is  due  the  supremacy  this  country  has  obtained 
and  will  continue  to  maintain. 

One  of  the  firms  which  has  a  national  reputation  of  the  highest  char- 
acter is  that  of  John  T.  Rowntree,  Inc.,  of  Los  Angeles,  with  branches 
at  San  Francisco,  Seattle,  Salt  Lake  City,  Denver  and  Mexico  City,  and 
a  trade  territory  from  the  iNIissouri  River  west  to  the  Pacific  Coast, 
including  British  Columbia  and  Alberta  Provinces,  Canada,  also  the 
Republic  of  Mexico. 

The  head  of  this  firm,  John  Thomas  Rowntree,  comes  of  one  of  the 
oldest  families  in  America,  his  ancestors  being  passengers  on  the  historic 
"Mayflower."  Later  a  branch  of  the  family  went  south  and  took  an 
important  part  in  the  developing  of  South  Carolina,  one  of  the  original 
thirteen  states.  It  was  near  Spartanburg,  South  Carolina,  that  Mr. 
Rowntree  was  born — being  the  oldest  son  of  Emily  F.  and  John  Smith 
Rowntree. 

When  the  troubles  came  to  a  climax  between  the  north  and  the 
south,  which  resulted  in  a  declaration  of  war,  John  Smith  Rowntree 
espoused  the  cause  of  his  section  of  the  country,  and  was  a  gallant  soldier 
in  the  Confederate  Army  from  the  beginning  to  the  close  of  the  war, 
during  which  period  he  was  wounded  twice,  once  at  the  battle  of  Rich- 
mond and  also  at  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg. 

Impoverished,  as  were  so  many  southerners  by  the  war,  John  Smith 
Rowntree  sought  other  surroundings,  taking  his  family  with  him  to  Knox- 
ville,  Tennessee,  where  his  son,  John  Thomas  -Rowntree,  spent  his  boy- 
hood days. 

Desirous  of  having  his  son  go  through  college,  John  Smith  Rowntree 
entered  him  as  a  student  at  the  University  of  Tennessee,  but  the  lad, 
when  but  sixteen  years,  yearned  for  a  business  life,  and  upon  being  offered 
a  position  in  a  leading  vvholesale  hardware  establishment  at  Knoxville, 
he  prevailed  upon  his  father  to  permit  him  to  accept  it.  This  permission 
was  accorded  him  but  under  the  condition  that  he  return  to  his  studies 
after  a  year  of  business  experience.  The  progress  made  by  the  lad  in 
his  new  undertaking  was  such  that  at  the  expiration  of  the  period  of 
probation  the  elder  man  was  satisfied  to  have  his  son  continue  in  what 
proved  to  be  his  life  work,  and  where  he  remained  for  twelve  years, 
but  during  that  time  he  longed  for  a  broader  field  and  better  opportunities 
for  expression  of  his  business  ideas. 

In  the  fall  of  1889  Mr.  John  Thomas  Rowntree  moved  with  his 
family  to  Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  established  an  office  and  head- 
quarters, remaining  in  that  city  twelve  years  as  the  personal  representative 
of  a  number  of  eastern  hardware  manufacturers,  visiting  his  trade  every 
three  or  four  months  and  covering  a  territory  which  extended  from  Den- 
ver west  to  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Later  he  found  it  expedient  to  open  offices  at  San  Francisco,  Los 
Angeles,  Seattle  and  Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  1901  moved  to  Los  Angeles. 
eventually  making  this  city  his  headquarters  but  retaining  all  of  his  other 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  267 

offices.  He  now  has  in  his  employ  ten  experienced  hardware  salesmen 
covering  the  territory,  and  has  succeeded  in  building  up  a  valuable  busi- 
ness in  hardware  specialties,  besides  being  a  stockholder  in  a  number  of 
the  firms  he  now  represents.  When  Mr.  Rowntree  decided  to  come  to 
the  west,  with  a  view  of  carrying  out  his  plans  to  represent  eastern  firms, 
his  ideas  in  that  respect  did  not  coincide  with  the  views  of  the  con- 
servative southerners  with  whom  he  had  been  associated ;  however,  time 
has  proven  the  far-sightedness  and  keen  business  ability  of  the  man  who 
not  only  knew  what  he  wanted  to  do,  but  also  the  manner  in  which  to 
handle  the  proposition  successfully. 

Some  of  the  firms  he  is  now  representing  he  has  been  associated 
with  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  through  him  their  specialties  have 
been  introduced  in  a  territory  Where  before  his  advent  they  were  an 
unknown  quantity.  Not  only  does  Mr.  Rowntree  hold  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  his  associates,  but  his  competitors  acknowledge  their  respect 
for  his  ability  and  their  belief  in  his  integrity.  It  is  related  on  one 
occasion  an  ofificer  of  one  of  the  leading  eastern  manufacturers  whom 
Mr.  Rowntree  is  associated  with  stated  to  some  gentlemen  when  intro- 
ducing them  to  Mr.  Rowntree,  that  he  considered  Mr.  Rowntree  one 
of  the  best  balanced  men  he  had  ever  met. 

Although  a  southerner  by  birth  and  education,  Mr.  Rowntree  is  an 
independent  republican  and  believes  in  voting  for  the  best  and  most  com- 
petent man  for  the  office  in  question  regardless  of  party  affiliations.  He 
has  proven  this  in  casting  his  presidential  vote  for  Grover  Cleveland. 
\\'illiam  McKinley,  Theodore  Roosevelt,  William  Howard  Taft  and 
Woodrow  Wilson. 

John  Thomas  Rowntree  was  united  in  marjiage  at  Knoxville,  Tennes- 
see, to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  Barry,  a  native  of  Tennessee.  They  have 
three  children :     Lelia  Elizabeth,  John  Wallace  and   Bessie   May. 

Lelia  Elizabeth  Rowntree  was  educated  in  Denver,  Colorado,  where 
she  graduated  at  Mrs.  Speer's  private  school  for  girls.  She  was  married 
to  Frank  L.  Wishon,  of  Denver,  Colorado,  now  deceased,  and  they 
had  one  son,  Frank  R.  Wishon.  Later  she  was  married  to  W.  W.  White- 
cotton,  proprietor  of  the  Hotel  Shattuck  at  Berkeley,  California,  and  also 
the  Lankershim  Hotel  of  Los  Angeles. 

John  Wallace  Rowntree  was  graduated  from  the  Lexington  Mili- 
tary Academy  of  Lexington,  Missouri,  as  captain  of  his  company.  He 
gained  his  first  knowledge  of  the  fundamentals  of  commercial  life  at 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  in  1906  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  join  his 
father's  force,  and  is  still  associated  with  him  in  the  business.  He 
married  Miss  Fanny  K.  Ball  at  Richmond,  iNIississippi.  Thev  have  three 
children,  namely:  John  \\'allace,  Jr.,  Louise  Kirkley  and  iNIarv  Eliza- 
beth. 

Bessie  May  Rowntree,  an  artist  of  note,  was  married  to  Willard 
Arnott,  who  is  president  of  Arnott  &  Company,  and  prominent  in  busi- 
ness and  social  afiPairs  of  this  city.  They  have  two  children,  namely : 
Mary  Helen  and  Willard,  Jr.  Mrs.  Arnott  is  one  of  the  social  leaders 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  during  the  great  war  both  she  and  her  mother 
were  very  active  in  Red  Cross  work  as  well  as  on  all  the  drives.  Mrs. 
Rowntree  has  always  been  an  earnest  and  effective  worker  for  charitable 
organizations  and  is  beloved  in  many  homes  where  her  benevolence  brings 
relief. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  J\Ir.  Rowntree  is  alert  and  aggressive 
in  business  life,  he  possesses  all  the  old  time  chivalry  and  culture  of  the 


268  LOS  ANGELES 

typical  southern  yentleman,  and  has  made  a  host  of  warm,  personal 
friends.  Although  having  strong  convictions,  he  is  of  a  quiet  and  retiring 
nature.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rowntree  have  a  beautiful  home  in  the  Wilshire 
District,  where  their  social  gatherings  are  enjoj-ed  b}'  many  frientis 

Social  by  nature,  Mr.  Rowntree  belongs  to  the  California  Club,  Los 
Angeles  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  City  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  also  the  Olympic  Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Los  .Vngeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  San  Francisco  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  He  belongs  to  the  Golden  West  Commandery,  K.  T., 
and  the  Al  Malaikah  Shrine,  being  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  In 
religious  belief  a  Baptist,  he  affiliated  with  the  Temple  Baptist  church 
of  Los  Angeles,  shortly  after  locating  in  this  city,  and  is  now  serving- 
it  as  a  trustee.  His  charities  are  many,  and  since  the  outbreak  of  the 
World  War  they  have  increased  in  a  manner  that  is  only  commensurate 
with  his  generous  nature.  In  addition  to  his  donations  to  local  charitable 
institutions  Mr.  Rowntree  contributes  liberally  to  the  funds  for  the 
orphans  in  the  devastated  countries  of  Europe,  and  during  the  drives 
he  gave  generously  of  his  time  and  money  to  make  them  a  success. 

He  believes  in  and-  supports  the  Boy  Scout  movement,  as  he  does 
in  all  organizations  whose  object  is  the  inculcating-  of  true  American  senti- 
ments and  the  betterment  of  conditions  locally  and  nationally. 

Thomas  P.  White  has  gained  a  most  gratifying  array  of  honors 
and  successes  -with  the  legal  profession  since  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1911,  and  few  men  of  his  age  have  in  fact  so  quickly  distinguished 
themselves  either  in  the  solid  accomplishments  of  the  profession  or  in 
efifective  public  leadership. 

Mr.  White  is  only  thirty-one  years  of  age,  having  been  born  in 
Los  Angeles  September  27,  1888,  a  son  of  Peter  and  Catherine  (Clark) 
White.  His  father  was  born  and  educated  in  Ireland  and  has  been  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  the  age  of  twenty-one.  For  twenty  years 
he  was  employed  as  fireman  or  engineer  with  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
way, and  after  that  was  in  commercial  affairs  until  1916,  when  he 
retired.  He  died  August  26,  1918.  The  wife  and  mother  is  still  living 
in  Los  Angeles. 

Thomas  P.  White  attended  the  parochial  schools  of  Los  Angeles, 
graduated  from  St.  Vincent's  High  School  in  1904,  but  after  one  term 
gave  up  his  work  in  St.  Vincent's  College  to  earn  his  own  living.  The 
opportunity  came  to  serve  as  rate  clerk  in  the  Santa  Fe  general  ottices 
at  Los  Angeles,  and  there  was  a  steady  promotion  that  placed  him  by 
1908  in  the  position  of  assistant  to  the  trainmaster  at  Needles.  He 
was  then  twenty  years  of  age,  and  there  was  every  promise  of  continued 
promotion  and  higher  usefulness  in  railroading.  However,  his  ambi- 
tion had  become  fixed  several  years  before  on  the  law,  and  he  resigned 
and  invested  his  savings  in  the  law  course  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California,  from  which  he  graduated  LL.  B.  in  1911.  He  was  admitted 
to  practice  by  the  District  Court  of  Appeals,  Second  District,  June  19, 
1911,  and  in  the  same  year  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United  States 
Circuit  and  District  Courts.  After  graduating  he  became  a  member  of 
the  law  firm  of  Randall,  Bartlett  &  White,  but  in  1913  formed  the  law 
partnership  of  Irwin,  White  &  Rosecrans.  A  few  months  later,  in 
August,  1913,  he  resigned  his  membership  in  the  law  firm  to  accept  the 
appointment  of  judge  of  Police  Court  to  fill  an  unexpired  term.  In  the 
general  election  of  November,  1914,  he  was  elected  to  that  office  by 
popular  vote  and  received  the  highest  vote  ever  given  to  a  candidate  for 


I'ROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  269 

Ihis  nninicipal  jwsition.  Mr.  White  soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar 
was  appointed  attorney  for  the  Boards  of  Education  of  several  union 
liigh  school  districts  of  Los  Angeles  county. 

While  in  college  Mr.  White  excelled  at  a  debater  and  orator,  and 
was  on  the  team  of  the  University  of  Southern  California  in  its  col- 
legiate contest  with  Cornell  University  in  1910,  and  with  the  University 
of  Washington  in  1911.  Rack  of  the  manner  and  arts  of  the  charming 
public  speaker  Mr.  White  has  the  clear  thinking  and  reasoning  ability 
that  gives  force  and  cogency  to  all  he  says,  and  it  is  not  strange  that 
he  has  been  one  of  the  speakers  most  in  demand  by  the  republican 
organization  of  southern  California.  He  has  taken  part  in  every  cam- 
paign since  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  was  elected  a  delegate 
to  the  County  Republican  Convention  in  that  year,  and  has  done  much 
to  keep  up  the  strength  of  the  organization  in  the  county. 

Mr.  White  is  a  prominent  layman  in  the  Catholic  affairs  of  southern 
California.  He  is  past  grand  knight  of  the  Los  Angeles  Council  of 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  is  pa.st  grand  president  of  the  California 
Jurisdiction  of  the  'Young  Men's  Institute  having  been  elected  president 
in  1912  and  was  the  first  man  so  honored  from  Los  Angeles  in  twenty- 
eight  years.  This  is  one  of  the  leading  fraternal  organizations  of  the 
Catholic  church  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  White  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Delta  Chi  legal  fraternity,  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  Native 
Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

February  3,  1915,  he  married  at  Los  Angeles  Miss  Helen  Hickson, 
daughter  of  Christopher  Hickson,  a  pioneer  citizen  of  Los  Angeles. 

Charles  J.  Alfred  is  a  successful  Los  Angeles  manufacturer  who 
has  made  almost  a  lifelong  study  of  means  and  methods  of  making  a 
commodity  which  satisfies  a  practically  universal  taste  and  demand. 
In  less  than  a  generation  ice  cream  has  been  raised  from  a  rare  lu.Kury 
until  it  now  has  an  indispensable  place  in  the  rational  menu  of  all  classes 
of  people.  It  is  as  much  a  staple  article  of  diet  today  as  refined  sugar 
was  forty  or  fifty  years  ago.  Ice  cream  manufacturers  no  longer  have 
to  stimulate  and  make  a  market  for  their  goods,  and  their  only  prob- 
lem lies  with  methods  of  manufacture  which  insure  a  perfect  article  in 
purity,  cleanliness  and  quality. 

In  his  fine  plant  at  Los  Angeles  Charles  J.  Alfred  has  probably 
solved  these  problems  as  completely  as  any  of  his  competitors  in  Cali- 
fornia. He  gained  his  first  knowledge  of  ice  cream  making  when  a 
boy  of  sixteen.  He  was  born  in  Seneca  Falls,  New  York,  July  16, 
1870,  son  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Ellen  (Troutman),  Alfred.  Until 
he  was  fifteen  he  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  a  year  later  began  his  thorough  and  laborious  apprenticeship 
in  mastering  the  ice  cream  and  confectionery  business.  He  worked  at  it 
steadily  for  two  years,  and  then  for  two  years  had  another  line  of  experi- 
ence, as  salesman  for  the  National  Cash  Register  Conijinny  with  head- 
fiuarters  at  Rochester,  New  York. 

Then  utilizing  his  earlier  experience  Mr.  .Vlfred  moved  to  Ridge- 
way,  Pennsylvania,  and  established  the  .Alfred  Ice  Cream  Company, 
owned  and  conducted  entirely  by  himself.  He  also  manufactured  con- 
fectionery for  many  years.  That  business  is  still  a  prosperous  and  going 
concern,  reflecting  the  ideas  and  methods  of  its  founder,  but  Mr.  Alfred 
sold  his  business  there  in  1913  and  came  to  Los  Angeles.  Here  he  estab- 
lished the  Alfred  Pure  Ice  Cream  Company,  of  which  lie  has  since  been 
president.     H.   P.  Taylor  is  vice  president,  and   R.   J.    Powell   >ecretary 


270  LOS  ANGELES 

and  treasurer.  It  is  a  large  business,  incorporated  with  capital  of  a  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  and  at  its  chief  place  of  business,  817  East 
Eighteenth  street,  has  a  model  plant,  comprising  a  three-story  building 
85x88  feet,  and  of  more  recent  construction  a  one-story  garage  building 
adjoining,  30x88  feet.  From  the  very  first  ]\'Ir.  Alfred  has  emphasized 
the  purity  and  cleanliness  of  his  plant  in  every  detail  of  manufacture. 
As  already  noted,  people  no  longer  inquire  whether  ice  cream  is  good, 
but  whether  it  is  pure  and  clean.  Those  questions  Mr.  Alfred  has  been 
at  great  pains  to  answer  with  a  margin  of  assurance  sufficient 
to  satisfy  the  most  skeptical.  In  fact  his  business  has  grown  and 
prospered  largely  because  he  has  lived  up  to  his  slogan,  "the  factory  of 
the  open  door."  He  has  never  been  satisfied  to  measure  up  merely  to 
the  standard  requirements  of  the  law,  but  has  made  his  plant  conform  to 
such  ideals  of  purity  and  cleanliness  that  its  doors  stand  open  at  all 
times  welcoming  the  casual  and  the  most  critical  visitors.  The  business 
has  prospered  and  it  has  deserved  to  prosper.  The  first  year  the  com- 
pany employed  only  twelve  persons,  and  today  there  are  forty  on  the 
payroll,  and  in  the  delivery  and  other  branches  of  the  service  are  required 
thirteen  wagons  and  automobile  trucks.  In  order  to  safeguard  the  con- 
tinuity of  service  at  every  point  there  has  been  installed  a  complete  dup- 
lication of  machinery,  so  that  the  possibility  of  interruption  is  eliminated 
They  also  have  a  complete  ice  plant,  both  for  refrigeration  and  the 
manufacture  of  ice  for  packing  the  goods.  The  capacity  of  refrigera- 
tion is  100  tons.  The  company  established  a  creamery  at  Tipton  and 
are  the  largest  shippers  of  sweet  cream  in  that  section. 

Mr.  Alfred  is  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  business  circles,  is  a 
member  of  the  Credit  Men's  Association,  the  Merchants  and  Manufac- 
turers' Association,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk,  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  a  republican  in  politics.  He  served 
as  a  member  of  the  council  four  years  in  Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania,  but 
has  not  been  in  politics  in  California.  At  Seneca  Falls,  New  York,  May 
18,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Maude  Troutman.  They  have  two  children : 
Maurice,  born  in  1895,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Manual  Arts  High  School 
and  the  University  of  California  and  served  as  a  soldier  with  the  Fourth 
Company  Development  Batallion  at  Camp  Kearney.  He  was  honorably 
discharged  May  1,  1919.  He  was  in  charge  of  a  creamery,  a  branch 
of  the  company  at  Tipton,  Tulare  county.  The  daughter,  Helen,  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Manual  Arts  High  School  and  is  now  attending  the 
Cumnock  School  for  Girls  at  Los  Angeles. 

George  A.  R.^lphs.  A  monumental  business  enterprise  of  Los  An- 
geles, familiar  to  every  local  citizen,  is  the  chain  of  Ralphs  grocery 
stores.  The  founder  of  this  business  was  the  late  George  A.  Ralphs,  a 
California  pioneer,  a  man  of  highly  interesting  personality,  of  splendid 
business  integrity  and  a  type  of  citizen  whose  thought  is  always  felt, 
however  great  the  community  in  which  he  lives. 

Mr.  Ralphs  was  born  at  Joplin,  Missouri,  September  22),  1850, 
and  was  a  small  boy  when  his  parents  left  Missouri  for  California.  He 
often  recalled  the  exciting  incidents  of  the  trip.  The  prairie  schooner 
of  the  Ralphs  family  drawn  by  five  yoke  of  oxen  joined  a  larger  caravan 
in  Kansas,  and  in  passing  through  Colorado  the  train  was  attacked  by 
Indians.  About  half  of  the  party  went  out  to  fight  the  red  men  and 
they  were  undoubtedly  massacred  since  their  subsequent  fate  was  never 
known.  Those  who  remained  to  guard  the  women,  children  and  wagons 
finally  reached  their  destination  at  San  Bernardino  eighteen  months  after 


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starting  the  journe)'.  In  Los  Angeles  George  A.  Ralphs  served  an  appren- 
ticeship at  the  bricklayer's  trade.  He  worked  on  some  of  the  pioneer 
structures  in  the  city,  and  became  an  expert  and  was  known  as  the 
champion  bricklayer  of  the  state.  Many  times  he  excelled  contenders 
for  the  honors  in  open  competition.  An  accident  while  hunting  depri\ed 
him  of  one  of  his  hands,  and  he  had  to  start  life  over  again.  He  found 
his  opportunity  as  clerk  in  a  small  grocery  store  at  Mfth  and  Hill  streets. 
In  1877  he  used  his  modest  savings  to  buy  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Francis  in  a  small  store  at  Sixth  and  Spring  streets.  ^The  firm  of  Ralphs 
and  Francis  continued  two  jears  and  in  1879  the  Francis  interests  were 
bought  by  Walter  B.  Ralphs,  a  brother  of  the  senior  partner.  Ralphs 
Brothers,  the  title  of  the  business  for  many  years,  had  a  record  of  growth 
and  prosperity  seldom  equalled  even  in  Los  Angeles.  At  the  present 
time  there  are  seven  of  the  largest  retail  grocery  stores  in  the  city  under 
the  Ralphs  name  and  management.  The  business  was  incorporated  in 
1909  as  the  Ralphs  Grocery  Company  and  Albert  George,  a  son  of 
George  A.  Ralphs,  is  now  prominent  in  the  management,  being  vice- 
president  and  director. 

Mr.  Ralphs  married  Miss  Wallula  \'on  Keith  of  Los  Angeles  July 
23,  1896.  Her  father  was  Professor  J.  H.  Von  Keith,  a  well  known 
California  artist.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralphs  had  a  daughter,  Annabell,  and 
a  son,  Albert  George,  who  on  April  29,  1918,  married  Miss  Ava  Richards 
of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Ralphs  died  June  21,  1914.  He  and  his  family  had  gone  for  a 
week-end  to  the  San  Bernardino  Canyon.  While  taking  a  stroll  in  the 
canyon  Mr.  Ralphs  seated  himself  on  a  boulder  beside  the  trail  and 
m  attempting  to  assist  his  wife  to  a  place  beside  him  he  dislodged  a 
huge  stone  which  had  been  the  support  of  the  boulder.  It  rolled  down 
the  mountain  side  carrying  him  with  it.  One  leg  was  caught  and  severely 
injured  and  though  he  was  immediately  hurried  to  the  Ramona  Hospital 
at  San  Bernardino,  the  shock  proved  too  severe  and  he  could  not  survive 
the  operation.  For  several  months  prior  to  his  death  Mr.  Ralphs  had 
been  serving  with  the  trial  term  jury  in  the  LTnited  States  District  Court. 
His  fellow  jurors  subscribed  to  a  resolution  which  reflects  the  general 
sentiments  and  opinions  of  the  entire  community  as  to  Mr.  Ralphs'  char- 
acter and  business  standing.  One  paragraph  of  the  resolution  reads : 
"Associated  with  Mr.  Ralphs  as  we  have  been  during  the  past  four 
months  we  have  formed  an  estimate  of  his  character  which  has  placed 
him  in  the  front  rank  of  the  best  citizens  of  this  community  where  he 
has  lived  for  half  a  century  and  marked  him  as  an  effkient,  intelligent, 
painstaking  and  conscientious  man,  whose  views  of  duty  were  reflected 
by  his  remarks  when  asked  why,  with  abundant  reasons  therefor,  he 
did  not  ask  to  be  excused,  said :  T  feel  it  to  be  my  duty  as  a  citizen 
to  serve  when  called  and  do  not  care  to  ask  the  court  to  excuse  me.'  " 

Albert  George  Ralphs,  Jr.  An  executive  official  of  the  Ralphs 
Grocery  Company,  whose  stores  are  distributed  throughout  Los  An- 
geles, Albert  George  Ralphs,  Jr.,  returned  in  the  spring  of  1919  from 
active  service  as  a  soldier  with  the  allied  armies  in  France. 

Mr.  Ralphs,  who  is  one  of  the  youngest  of  Los  Angeles'  business 
men,  was  born  in  this  city  April  30,  1897,  son  of  George  A.  Ralphs, 
whose  career  is  sketched  elsewhere.  He  attended  grammar  and  high 
school,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1914,  and  for  a  year  and  a  half 
was  a  student  in  Occidental  College.     He  made  a  fine  record  in  col- 


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lege  as  an  athlete,  playing  center  on  the  football  team,  and  also  had 
the  same  position  in  the  high  school  team.  In  1915  some  of  the  ex- 
pert critics  picked  him  for  membership  in  the  "All  Star  Foot  Ball 
Team." 

He  left  college  to  join  the  army,  being  assigned  to  the  17th  Com- 
pany of  Coast  Artillery.  He  went  to  France  with  the  55th  Ammunition 
Train  as  a  sergeant,  and  served  as  a  First  Class  Observer  both  in  Ar- 
tillery and  Infantry.  At  the  signing  of  the  amistice  he  was  thirty  miles 
back  of  the  front  lines.  He  received  his  honorable  discharge  March  25, 
1919,  and  since  resuming  his  status  as  a  civilian  he  has  lieen  vice- 
president  and  director  of  the  Ralphs  Grocery  Company.  This  business 
founded  by  his  father  now  has  in  active  operation  seven  stores  in  Los 
Angeles,  with  an  aggregate  employment  of  five  hundred  persons  and 
operates  sixty-three  auto  delivery  trucks. 

Mr.  Ralphs  is  affiliated  with  the  Owl  and  Keys  Fraternity,  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Brentwood  and  Wilshire 
Clubs  and  the  Recreation  Gun  Club.  He  was  married  in  Los  Angeles 
April  29,  1918,  to  Miss  Ava  Richards. 

John  J.  Hamilton,  formerly  chairman  of  the  County  Board  of 
Supervisors  of  Los  Angeles  county,  and  now  one  of  the  city  commis- 
sioners of  Pasadena,  has  been  a  man  of  intellectual  and  civic  leadership 
for  many  years,  is  a  vigorous  writer,  for  many  years  was  a  successful 
editor  and  publisher  in  Iowa,  and  through  his  writings  and  personal 
influence  has  done  much  to  advance  the  cause  of  civic  enlightenment  and 
progress. 

Mr.  Hamilton  was  born  at  Harrisville,  Pennsylvania,  November  10, 
1854,  son  of  William  and  Catharine  (Logan)  Hamilton.  His  father 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Union  army,  and  Mr.  Hamilton  by  other  ancestors 
is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of  Pennsylvania.  In  1877. he 
graduated  from  the  State  University  of  Iowa.  While  in  the  university 
he  showed  his  first  talents  as  a  newspaper  man,  and  was  publisher  of 
the  University  Reporter  and  first  assistant  librarian,  much  of  the  time 
having  actual  charge  of  the  University  librar)^  For  a  year  following 
he  was  employed  as  a  teacher  in  the  Iowa  City  High  School  and  in  the 
University  Library.  One  summer  vacation  he  spent  gathering  data  for 
a  sociological  study  of  the  negro  is  southeastern  Virginia,  following  an 
extensive  study  of  the  same  subject  in  the  Gulf  States. 

For  three  years  Mr.  Hamilton  was  editor  of  the  Bloomfield  Repub- 
lican in  Iowa.  His  main  work  in  the  editorial  field,  however,  was 
at  Des  Moines,  where  he  began  as  a  reporter  with  the  Des  Moines 
Daily  News.  He  finally  became  editor  and  publisher  of  that  paper,  but 
after  twenty-one  years  he  sold  his  interests  in  the  News  and  became 
assistant  general  manager,  with  headquarters  at  Des  Moines,  of  the  Iowa 
Homestead,  Kansas  City  Farmer  and  Stockman,  Wisconsin  Farmer, 
Farm  Gazette,  and  Homemaker.  At  the  end  of  four  years  he  resigned 
his  heavy  responsibilities  with  these  publication?  and  for  a  year  was 
editor  of  the  Literary  Magazine  at  Des  Moines. 

It  was  during  that  year  that  he  produced  his  most  notable  and  influ- 
ential literary  work.  He  wrote  the  "Dethronement  of  the  City  Boss," 
three  editions  of  which  were  published  by  Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company 
of  New  York  City.  This  was  the  first  book  which  took  up  and  dis- 
cussed and  brought  out  the  ideals  and  plans  subsequently  formulated 
in  the  familiar  Commission  form  of  government  for  cities.     For  that 


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reason  it  might  well  be  accorded  a  place  among  the  epoch-making  books 
in  our  civic  literature. 

Mr.  Hamilton  came  to  California  in  1911,  locating  at  Palms  in 
Los  Angeles  coimty.  He  soon  was  made  secretary  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Charter  Revision  Commission  and  Board  of  Freeholders.  He  also 
wrote  special  articles  on  municipal  government  for  the  Los  Angeles 
Tribune  and  Los  Angeles  Express.  In  1912  he  moved  to  Pasadena  and 
for  two  years  devoted  his  time  to  looking  after  his  personal  interests. 
He  was  then  appointed  to  the  Board  of  Education,  and  made  a  survey 
of  the  Pasadena  School  System.  In  November,  1914,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Los  Angeles  county,  and  in 
January,  1917,  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  Board. 

He  married  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  October  26,  1893,  Miss  Margaret 
George.  They  have  had  three  children :  George  Chase,  born  in  1894, 
died  December  28,  1918,  formerly  of  the  One  Hundred  Forty-third 
Field  Artillery;  John  Judson,  Jr.,  born  in  1899,  attending  Pasadena  High 
School,  and  the  daughter.  Catharine,  is  a  student  in  the  State  University 
of  Iowa. 

Albert  Shiels,  Litt.  D.  The  people  of  Los  Angeles  have  a  deep 
appreciation  of  the  fact  that  in  their  superintendent  of  city  schools  they 
have  a  man  nationally  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  educators  in 
the  country.  Dr.  Shiels  first  came  to  Los  Angeles  when  he  and 
Dr.  Walter  A.  Jessup,  president  of  the  State  University  of  Iowa,  were 
selected  by  the  local  Board  of  Education  to  examine  Los  Angeles  school 
conditions.  As  a  result  of  this  investigation  a  report  was  prepared 
and  the  Board  of  Education  accepted  it  with  a  special  resolution  of 
appreciation.  Then  in  June,  1916,  the  Board  tendered  Dr.  Shiels  the 
position  of  city  superintendent,  which  he  accepted. 

A  detailed  study  of  his  administration  as  superintendent  need  not 
be  made  at  this  point.  It  is  well  known  that  he  has  made  many  changes 
without  disturbing  the  school  system  or  arousing  the  antagonism  which 
radical  movements  engender.  Among  such  changes  might  be  noted  the 
extension  of  education  to  foreigners,  a  work  which  is  only  a  continua- 
tion of  efforts  that  have  been  made  by  Dr.  Shiels  for  many  years.  In 
fact  he  is  looked  upon  as  a  national  leader  in  many  movements  affecting 
the  immigrant  and  assimilation  of  foreign  population  and  was  therefore 
a  promoter  of  Americanism  long  before  that  movement  became  so  sig- 
nificant as  it  has  been  made  through  the  results  of  the  great  war.  As 
superintendent  he  also  established  advisory  committees  among  the  teach- 
ers and  principals,  giving  them  a  voice  in  the  initiation  of  school  policy. 
He  reorganized  the  Health  and  Development  Department,  established  a 
special  division  for  abnormal  children,  created  a  division  of  research 
which  has  greatly  raised  the  level  of  accomplishment  in  the  elementary 
schools,  extended  agricultural  instruction  to  all  the  high  schools,  and 
initiated  a  system  of  vocational  instruction  which  has  received  the 
approval  of  state  and  federal  authorities. 

Some  of  the  most  significant  work  accomplished  has  been  the  reor- 
ganization of  school  administration  and  method  of  instruction  to  meet 
conditions  resulting  from  the  war.  These  changes  and  the  results 
achieved  have  received  a  great  deal  of  public  commendation,  primarily 
due  to  the  fact  that  while  enabling  schools  to  aid  the  government  at  a 
critical  time  in  its  history,  it  has  also  vitalized  the  educational  system  and 
become  an  excellent  object  lesson  of  ethical  and  patriotic  training. 

During  his  first  year   as   superintendent,   notwithstanding  the   fact 


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that  classes  were  made  smaller  and  educational  work  extended,  Doctor 
Shiels  was  able  to  reduce  unnecessary  waste  in  school  expenditures  to 
an  extent  which  effected  a  saving  of  $246,000.  In  the  matter  of  school 
expenditures,  however,  Doctdr  Shiels  has  maintained  the  attitude  that 
the  real  value  of  any  system  is  not  in  its  relative  cost,  but  in  the  service 
which  it  yields.  For  that  reason  he  has  always  put  forth  the  contention 
that  a  school  administration  should  undertake  to  show  its  value,  so  far 
as  such  values  are  susceptible  of  measurement. 

Doctor  Shiels  is  a  man  of  wide  experience  in  life  as  well  as  in  edu- 
cational work.  He  was  born  in  New  York  City,  July  9,  1865,  son  of 
George  E.  and  Alberta  Shiels.  He  finished  his  education  in  the  College 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  receiving  his  A.  B.  degree  in  1886,  the  degree 
Pd.  M.  in  1896,  and  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  in  1899.  During  1887- 
90  he  was  cashier  of  the  Panama  Railroad,  and  was  also  consul  for 
Mexico  at  Colon  and  Panama  and  in  charge  of  the  British  Consulate 
and  the  International  Mail  Station  at  the  city  of  Colon. 

From  1890  to  1899  Doctor  Shiels  was  teacher  in  various  grades 
and  principal  of  evening  schools  in  New  York  city.  He  was  appointed 
first  principal  in  Greater  New  York  in  1899,  and  from  1906  to  1913 
was  district  superintendent  of  schools  of  New  York  City,  in  charge  of 
evening  and  supplementary  instruction.  From  1913  to  1916  he  was 
director  of  the  Division  of  Reference  and  Research,  Department  of  Edu- 
cation, New  York  City. 

He  has  served  as  a  lecturer  and  instructor  at  the  College  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  Dartmouth  College  and  Columbia  University.  He 
is  allied  with  a  number  of  national  associations  engaged  in  social  wel- 
fare, and  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Science,  a  member  of  the  National  Education  Association,  the 
National  Association  of  Educational  Research,  National  Board  of 
Review,  American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science,  American 
Library  Association,  and  is  a  Phi  Delta  Theta.  He  is  a  Presbyterian 
and  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  City  and  Graduates  Club  of  New  York, 
the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  and  the  Sunset  Club.  His 
experience  and  views  on  educational  subjects  have  been  set  forth  in 
many  articles  that  have  appeared  in  educational  and  other  periodicals. 

In  1915  Doctor  Shiels  was  elected  director  of  the  People's  Institute, 
hut  declined  to  serve  as  he  was  requested  to  continue  his  work  with  the 
New  York  Board  of  Education.  In  1917  he  was  requested  to  take  charge 
of  the  social  welfare  of  soldiers  in  fourteen  cantonments  of  the  United 
States  Army,  but  owing  to  the  demands  of  the  Los  Angeles  schools  at 
that  time  considered  it  best  to  decline.  In  December,  1917,  he  was  made 
Federal  director  of  the  educational  phases  of  the  War  Savings  Com- 
mittee Work  in  the  states  of  Arizona,  California  and  Nevada,  and  also 
accepted  the  chairmanship  of  the  Advisory  Committee  on  Americaniza- 
tion in  Southern  California. 

In  the  summer  of  1918  Doctor  Shiels  was  granted  a  leave  of  absence 
by  the  Board  of  Education,  effective  August  1st,  to  enable  him  to 
inangurate  and  direct  an  organization  known  as  Community  Councils 
for  War  Work  in  the  City  of  New  York,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Committee  for  National  Defense.  This  movement  involves  a  mobiliza- 
tion of  civilian  population  to  meet  demands  brought  about  by  the  war, 
and  of  especial  value  was  its  influence  in  eliminating  duplications  and 
in  centralizing  the  direction  or  executive  functions  of  various  organiza- 
tions engaged  in  or  contributing  to  war  work. 


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Alfred  Guido  Rudolph  Castles,  retired  pliysician  and  surgeon,  a 
prominent  California  capitalist,  art  connoisseur  and  world  traveler,  who 
has  crossed  the  Arctic  Circle  and  Equator  several  times,  has  been  a  res- 
ident of  Los  Angeles  since  1900.  His  wonderful  home  at  Hollywood, 
known  as  Castle  Sans  Souci,  has  been  one  of  the  points  of  interest  in- 
cluded in  the  itineraries  of  all  tourists  to  southern  California.  But  to  a 
more  intimate  and  exclusive  circle  is  it  esteemed  as  one  of  the  rarest 
centers  of  art  in  the  state. 

Dr.  Castles  was  born  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  19,  1851. 
His  father  was  Rudolph  Schloesser  and  his  mother  Amalia  Hoffman 
Schloesser.  Rudolph  Schloesser  was  a  pioneer  Chicagoan,  and  for  over 
half  a  century  the  history  of  that  city  has  included  numerous  references 
to  members  of  the  Schloesser  family.  He  was  a  successful  banker  and 
real  estate  investor,  and  was  often  associated  in  business  with  Marshall 
Field,  George  Pullman,  Potter  Palmer,  J.  Y.  Scammon,  P.  D.  Armour 
and  others.  He  built  one  of  the  first  pretentious  office  and  bank  build- 
ings in  Qiicago  immediately  after  the  fire  of  1871,  a  structure  known  as 
the  Schloesser  LSlock.  iVlthough  Rudolph  Schloesser  and  his  wife, 
Amalia  Hoft'man,  were  descendants  of  the  nobility  of  Germany  and  had 
entree  to  the  royal  courts  of  Europe,  the  elder  Schloesser  soon  tired  of 
the  despotic  oppression  and  militarism  of  Prussia,  sought  America  in 
his  early  youth,  and  immediately  upon  his  arrival  here  became  a  natura- 
lized citizen.  He  with  his  brother-in-law,  the  Hon.  Francis  A.  Hoft'man, 
assisted  substantially  in  the  campaign  which  elected  Abraham  Lincoln 
to  the  presidency.  Hon.  Francis  A.  Hoffman,  Dr.  Castles'  maternal 
uncle,  served  as  lieutenant  governor  of  Illinois  with  Hon.  Richard  Yates, 
famed  as  the  war  governor  of  that  state.  By  his  splendid  oratory  and 
magnetic  personality  Francis  A.  Hoffman  was  instrumental  during  the 
first  years  of  the  war  in  inducing  many  of  the  young  men  of  the  citv 
and  rural  sections  of  Illinois  to  enlist  in  the  Union  army.  He  further 
distinguished  himself  by  not  only  organizing  but  arming  and  equiping 
at  his  own  expense  a  matchless  comipany  of  cavalry  known  as  the  Hoff'- 
man  Dragoons.  This  practical  demonstration  of  his  loyalty  and  liberality 
won  for  him  the  gratitute  and  lasting  friendship  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 
It  was  through  President  Lincoln  that  Francis  A.  Hoffman,  Jr.,  was 
appointed  a  midshipman  of  the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis. 

Dr.  Castles  received  his  preparatory  training  in  the  public  schools 
of  Chicago  and  under  private  tutors,  graduated  at  the  Select  High  School 
of  Chicago  presided  over  by  Professor  C.  J.  Belleke,  LL.  D.,  and  also 
attended  Concordia  College  at  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana.  He  graduated  in 
medicine  and  surgery  from  Rush  Medical  College,  now  affiliated  with 
the  L'niversity  of  Chicago,  receiving  his  diploma  in  1871.  Later  he  took 
post-graduate  courses  at  the  Universities  of  Heidelberg,  \\'urtzburg,  Ber- 
lin, Vienna,  Rome,  Paris  and  London.  During  the  cholera  epidemic  in 
1873  Dr.  Castles  volunteered  and  served  as  assistant  physician  in  the  Im- 
perial Royal  Allgemeine  Krankenhaus  at  Vienna.  Dr.  Castles  is  author 
of  a  number  of  scientific  works,  is  a  licentiate  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  practised  mjedicine  and  surgery,  eventually  specializing  in 
laryngology  and  dermatology  at   Chicago    for  some  twenty  years. 

His  professional  eminence  and  family  position  brought  him  most  un- 
usual opportunities  to  know  the  world  and  many  of  the  world's  most  con- 
spicuous people.  He  has  been  much  abroad  and  has  made  several  world 
tours.  He  has  mingled  in  social  affairs  with  royal  houses  in  a  number 
of  European  states,  and  one  time  was  a  guest  of  General  Lew  Wallace, 
Minister  at  Constantinople,  and  was  introduced  to  the  late  Abdul  Hamid, 


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Sultan.  Dr.  Castles  was  a  close  friend  of  the  late  James  G.  Blaine,  and 
has  always  valued  greatly  a  letter  written  by  Mr.  Blaine,  then  secretary 
of  state,  introducing  him  to  the  ministers  and  representatives  of  the 
United  States  government  abroad. 

Though  medicine  and  surgery  were  his  chief  study  while  abroad,  Dr. 
Castles  also  made  a  profound  study  of  painting  and  sculpture,  and  for 
that  purpose  spent  much  time  and  made  special  trips  to  Munich,  the 
Netherlands,  Spain  and  Italy.  By  purchasing  meritorious  works  of  art 
during  these  various  trips  he  finally  accumulated  what  has  been  pro- 
nounced a  very  rare  and  valuable  collection  by  one  of  the  leading  art 
journals  of  America. 

In  1894,  through  the  influence  of  an  old  mining  friend,  a  California 
forty-niner,  Samuel  Locke,  Dr.  Castles  was  induced  to  purchase  a  mining 
prospect  at  Hayden  Hill,  Lassen  county,  for  ten  thousand  dollar?.  He 
presented  Mr.  Locke  with  a  one-eighth  interest  in  the  property,  known 
as  the  Golden  Eagle  Mine.  After  some  development  work  this  mine 
yielded  a  net  profit  of  forty-five  thousand  dollars  monthly.  Though  being 
the  majority  stockholder.  Dr.  Castles  entered  into  all  stages  of  the  work 
from  pick  and  shovel  to  the  assay  office  in  order  to  become  thoroughly 
familiar  with  mining.  On  this  property  he  built  a  hundred  ton  cyanide 
reduction  plant,  the  first  of  the  kind  in  Lassen  county,  thus  saving  ninety- 
seven  per  cent,  of  the  gold. 

Attracted  by  the  climate  and  people  of  Los  Angeles,  Dr.  Castles 
decided  to  make  California  his  permanent  home  in  1900,  and  became  a 
resident  of  Hollywood,  erecting  Castle  Glengarry,  named  after  Mrs. 
Castles'  forefathers'  castle  at  Inverness,  Scotland.  This  handsome  place 
being  too  small  for  his  ambitious  plans  for  entertainment.  Dr.  Castles 
finally  erected  Castle  Sans  Souci,  contained  in  a  three-acre  park  in  the 
highest  state  of  horticultural  development.  Its  landscape  gardening  was 
done  under  the  direction  of  the  famous  Nils  Emitsloef,  late  gardener 
to  the  Czar  Alexander  the  Third  of  Russia,  also  creator  of  Queen  Vic- 
toria's orchid  beds,  and  a  park  designer  for  the  late  Sultan  Abdul  Hamid 
of  Turkey.  This  park,  the  larger  part  of  Schloesser  Terrace  Tract,  is 
the  environment  of  Castle  Sans  Souci,  a  beautiful  mansion  built  in  the 
Tudor-Gothic  style  of  architecture,  and  one  of  the  most  interesting  sites 
of  Hollywood,  being  situated  at  Franklin  and  Argyle  avenues,  just  oppo- 
site Castle  Glengarni',  the  former  family  residence.  Two  great  lions 
guard  the  entrance  to  the  building.  They  are  made  of  Carrara  marble 
and  for  one  hundred  forty-four  years  guarded  one  of  the  palaces  of 
the  Doges  in  Venice.  The  massive  front  door  of  the  castle  opens  in  a 
great  Tudor-Gothic  hall  two  stories  in  height  and  lighted  with  two  large 
cathedral  windows  containing  stained  art  glass  executed  by  the  famous 
Royal  Art  Glass  Institution  at  Munich,  representing  Emperor  Maximilian 
the  First,  and  the  Coat  of  Arms  of  the  Castles  family  Above  the  massive 
Gothic  mantel  is  contained  the  famous  Van  Dyke  heroic  size  painting  of 
Charles  the  First  of  England.  Soft  lights  gleam  amid  mural  paintings 
of  old  and  new  masters,  while  around  the  hall  stand  dummies  in  suits  of 
armor,  reminding  the  guest  of  the  old  days  when  the  Crusaders  fell.  The 
Flemish  Gothic  dining  room  with  its  Jacobin  ceiling,  mantel  and  other 
decorations  represents  strictly  that  medieval  period.  The  Louis  XV 
drawing  room,  with  its  panelings  covered  with  silk  and  tapestries,  its 
cream  and  gold  decorations,  frescoes  and  mantel,  represents  strictly  that 
period  of  French  history.  There  is  also  the  Louis  XVI  bedchamber,  with 
its  mantel  and  decorations.  From  the  upper  rooms,  whose  balconies  and 
windows  look  upon  the  great  hall,  it  is  possible  in  times  of  the  dances, 


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theatricals  or  musicales  to  sit  and  look  down  as  though  from  private 
boxes.  The  embattled  tower  a  hundred  feet  high  was  built  after  special 
permission  was  obtained  by  act  of  common  council  to  amend  the  building 
restrictions  as  to  height.  From  this  tower  the  waves  of  the  Pacific  some 
twelve  miles  distant  may  be  seen,  and  at  night  Los  Angeles  with  its 
lights  over  the  wide  plain  gleams  like  the  milky  way. 

To  this  California  home  Dr.  Castles  has  brought  many  art  treasures, 
selected  through  a  period  of  many  years  and  with  the  care  and  judg- 
ment of  a  real  connoisseur.  Some  of  the  great  artists  whose  works  are 
represented  are  those  of  his  old  friend  and  neighbor  Paul  de  Longpre, 
F.  Andreotti,  Van  der  Hyse,  Landseer,  Madame  Le  Brun,  Van  Dyke, 
Alexandre  of  Paris  and  others.  Besides  paintings  he  has  a  remarkable 
collection  of  ancient  wood  carvings,  tapestries,  vases,  statuary  and  bric- 
a-brac. 

From  the  very  beginning  of  United  States  activity  in  the  war 
Dr.  Castles'  home  was  the  scene  of  many  benefits  for  the  Red  Cross  and 
other  patriotic  societies  engaged  in  war  relief  work.  Dances  were  given 
every  second  Saturday,  at  which  hundreds  of  the  Army  and  Navy  boys 
were  entertained.  One  of  these  gatherings  was  the  time  chosen  by  a 
sailor  boy  to  marry  his  sweetheart.  When  the  Citizens  Committee  of 
the  Council  of  Defense  organized  the  precincts  in  order  to  systematize  the 
civilian  war  work.  Dr.  Castles  was  the  first  one  in  the  city  to  offer  his 
home,  and  it  became  the  headquarters  for  Precinct  No.  391,  which  ranked 
among  the  first  in  the  work  accomplished. 

Dr.  Castles  is  intensely  American  in  spirit,  and  it  was  decidedly 
characteristic  of  the  man  and  his  unchallenged  patriotism  that  in  the 
spring  of  1918  he  petitioned  the  courts  to  change  the  old  proud  name 
which  his  forefathers,  men  high  in  the  confidence  and  service  of  kings, 
had  borne  for  centuries,  to  Castles,  a  direct  translation  from  the  name 
Schloesser. 

Dr.  Castles  is  a  prominent  Mason,  a  member  of  Hollywood  Lodge, 
Los  Angeles  Commandery  No.  9  of  the  Knights  Templars,  and  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  Dr.  Castles  married  Emma  M.  R.  MacDonell  in  Chicago 
November  19,  1874.  Their  children  are  Alexander  R.  Schloesser,  mining 
engineer ;  Mrs.  J.  G.  Barnett,  of  Chicago ;  Mrs.  Carl  E.  Thomsen,  of 
Berkeley,  California ;  and  Mrs.  Eric  E.  Eastman,  of  Ames,  Iowa. 

Dr.  Castles  has  two  nephews  who  achieved  distinction  in  the  great 
war.  One,  the  oldest  son  of  his  sister,  was  Captain  John  F.  Spread  of 
the  Royal  Fusiliers.  He  was  on  Field  Marshal  Sir  Douglas  Haig's  staff 
during  the  late  war.  Another  is  Lieutenant  William  Slayter,  eldest 
son  of  Dr.  Castles'  youngest  sister.  He  was  with  H.  M.  S.  Queen  Mary 
and  was  transferred  to  another  dreadnaught  some  ten  days  before  the 
sea  fight  at  Jutland.  In  that  fight  every  man  of  the  war  ship  Queen  Mary 
was  destroyed.  At  Zeebrugge  Lieutenant  Slayter  volunteered  to  assist 
in  sinking  the  war  ship  with  thirty-six  men  for  the  purpose  of  blocking  up 
the  channel.  He  returned  with  some  six  men.  Lieutenant  Slayter  was 
in  the  same  class  of  the  Naval  Academy  with  the  Prince  of  Wales. 

Edw.xrd  S.  Irvin,  secretary  of  the  Los  Angeles  Can  Company,  has 
been  a  business  man  all  his  life,  but  started  at  the  very  bottom  round 
of  the  latter,  and  his  range  of  experience  well  qualifies  him  as  one  of 
the  leaders  in  Los  Angeles  industry. 

The  Los  Angeles  Can  Company  was  established  in  1902  by  F.  F. 
Stetson  and  T.  J.  Spencer.  It  was  first  known  as  the  Stetson-Spencer 
Can  Company.    In  1903  they  incorporated  as  the  Los  Angeles  Can  Com- 


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pany,  with  F.  F.  Stetson,  president ;  T.  J.  Spencer,  vice  president ;  E.  S. 
Irvin,  secretary,  and  D.  K.  Stetson,  treasurer.  In  191S  F.  B.  McCoskey 
succeeded  D.  K.  Stetson  as  treasurer  and  he  in  turn  in  1917  was  suc- 
ceeded by  J.  P.  Williams. 

The  founders  of  this  business  recognized  a  tremendous  opportunity 
in  Southern  California  for  an  industry  to  manufacture  fruit  and  vege- 
table cans  convenient  to  the  great  sources  of  use.  In  1903  the  company 
occupied  a  low,  one-story  building  60x80  feet.  Today  the  plant  covers 
two  and  a  half  acres,  the  main  factory  being  a  two-story  brick  building, 
and  the  entire  factory  is  equipped  with  an  automatic  sprinkler  system 
for  fire  protection.  The  machinery  is  of  the  most  approved  type  and 
whereas  the  first  year's  output  was  only  three  hundred  thousand  cans, 
the  capacity  today  is  a  hundred  million  a  year,  and  the  prospects  for 
increased  growth  seem  practically  unlimited.  When  the  business  was 
started  in  1902  there  was  only  one  helper.  Six  months  later  they  were 
employing  a  force  of  twenty-five,  and  today  the  number  of  employes 
is  two  hundred  and  fifty.  The  plant  occupies  a  full  city  block  between 
San  Fernando  Boulevard  and  North  Avenue,  Humboldt  Street  and  the 
Santa  Fe  Railway. 

Edward  S.  Irvin  was  born  at  Valparaiso,  Indiana,  January  19,  1860, 
son  of  Samuel  and  Catherine  (Keller)  Irvin.  He  attended  public  school 
at  Hebron,  Indiana,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  taught  in  that  vicinity 
for  about  a  year.  For  two  years  he  was  employed  as  a  drug  clerk  at 
Hebron  and  then  worked  in  a  dry  goods  store  for  another  two  years. 

It  was  with  this  experience  and  training  that  he  came  West  and 
located  at  Ontario,  California.  For  one  year  he  worked  at  diiTerent 
lines  and  then  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  two  years  was  clerk  with 
H.  C.  Worland,  druggist  and  postmaster  at  Boyle  Heights.  Mr.  Irvin 
worked  one  year  as  chain  man  under  Henry  Dockweiler,  the  Los 
Angeles  city  engineer.  For  about  a  year  he  was  a  general  workman  in 
the  shops  of  the  Los  Angeles  Metal  Works,  and  when  that  concern  was 
absorbed  by  the  American  Can  Company  he  remained  in  the  cost  depart- 
ment of  that  corporation  until  1903.  At  that  date  the  American  Can 
Company  discontinued  its  Los  Angeles  branch  and  Mr.  Irvin  went  with 
the  newly  organized  Los  Angeles  Can  Company  as  vice  president  and 
secretary. 

He  is  a  charter  member  of  Hoilenbeck  Lodge  of  Masons,  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Credit  Men's  Association,  is  a  democrat  and 
belongs  to  the  Christian  church.  At  Hebron,  Indiana,  January  1,  1884, 
he  married  INIiss  Hattie  Bryant.  They  have  two  children,  Samuel  B. 
and  Ruth.  Samuel  was  born  in  1885,  was  educated  in  public  schools, 
and  did  his  first  work  with  the  Sunset  Telephone  Company  and  at  pres- 
ent is  cashier  and  timekeeper  with  the  Los  Angeles  Can  Company.  The 
daughter,  Ruth,  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  California,  specializ- 
ing "in  the  study  of  languages,  Spanish,  Greek  and  Latin,  and  is  also 
a  talented  young  musician.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Acholth  Sorority 
and  of  the  Eastern  Star.  Mr.  Irvin  and  family  reside  in  a  beautiful 
home  at  1722  North  Van  Ness  Avenue  in  Hollywood. 

Lynn  Helm  gave  up  a  profitable  practice  at  Chicago  in  1896  to 
become  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles,  and  for  twenty  years  he  has  ranked 
as  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  southern  California  bar. 

His  individual  career  is  part  of  a  notable  family  record.  His  father, 
Henry  Thomas  Helm,  was  one  of  the  distinguished  lawyers  of  Illinois. 
He  was  born  in  Tennessee  in  1830,  grew  up  in  Ohio,  was  a  graduate 


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of  Miami  University  and  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar  at  Chicago 
in  1854.  He  was  associated  with  some  of  the  ablest  Chicago  lawyers 
of  the  old  regime.  Besides  his  ability  as  a  lawyer  he  was  known  as  a 
mining  expert,  and  as  an  authority  upon  trotting  horses  and  many 
phases  of  agriculture.  At  one  time  he  wrote  a  book  upon  the  trotting 
horse  in  America  that  was  long  considered  an  authority.  He  married 
Julia  Lathrop. 

Mr.  Lynn  Helm  was  born  at  Chicago,  son  of  these  parents,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1857.  He  received  his  preparatory  education  in  Lake  Forest 
Academy  and  in  1875  entered  Princeton  University,  where  he  was  a 
classmate  of  Woodrow  Wilson.  He  received  his  A.  B.  degree  in  1879 
and  in  1882  was  awarded  the  Master  of  Arts  degree.  He  studied  law 
in  his  father's  office  and  was  admitted  to  the  bars  of  Indiana  and  Illinois 
in  1881.  For  fifteen  years  he  was  a  lawyer  of  higii  and  influential 
connections  in  the  Chicago  bar. 

Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  Helm  has  handled  many  notable 
cases.  Among  them  are  the  Lowe  and  Dobbins  gas  cases,  and  the  case 
of  Dobbins  vs.  the  City  of  Los  Angeles,  which  Mr.  Helm  finally  won 
in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  In  1901  he  was  appointed  referee 
in  bankruptcy  of  the  United  States  District  Court  of  southern  California 
for  Los  Angeles  County,  and  also  served  as  master  in  chancery  for  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court.  At  the  end  of  his  term,  in  September, 
1915,  he  resigned  as  referee  in  bankruptcy  and  requested  the  judges  not 
to  reappoint  him.  However,  he  is  still  active  in  the  general  practice 
of  law.  He  is  author  of  several  legal  treatises,  and  was  a  commissioner 
to  the  Conference  on  Uniform  Laws.  He  was  the  second  man  chosen 
to  the  office  of  vice  president  of  the  California  State  Bar  Association, 
and  was  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association  in  1908-09.  In 
January,  1917,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Board 
of  Education  and  since  July  1,  1917,  has  been  president  of  that  body. 
He  was  formerly  identified  with  a  number  of  social  clubs,  but  his  only 
membership  at  present  is  with  the  California  Club. 

Mr.  Helm  married,  April  26,  1888,  Miss  Annie  Horlock.  Mr.  Helm 
is  very  proud  of  his  three  children,  especially  his  son  who  has  won 
merited  distinction  in  France.  His  oldest  child  is  Elizabeth,  who 
received  her  education  at  Dana  Hall  and  Wellesley  College,  and  is  now 
the  wife  of  W.  S.  Rosecrans  of  Gardena,  California.  Lynn  Helm,  Jr., 
was  a  student  in.  Princeton  University  when  the  war  broke  out  with 
Germany.  He  enlisted  in  May,  1917,  for  the  Officers  Training  Camp, 
and  from  there  was  sent  to  Douglas,  Arizona.  In  March,  1918.  he  was 
transferred  to  the  School  of  Fire  at  Fort  Sill,  and  on  July  1,  1918,  went 
to  France  as  first  lieutenant  of  the  Uth  Field  Artillery.  During  the 
last  month  of  hostilities  he  was  on  the  battle  line  and  in  June,  1919, 
left  Vallehon  (the  Artillery  School),  and  returned  to  America.  For 
gallant  work  in  action  in  the  district  north  of  Argonne  he  was  awarded 
the  distinguished  service  cross  and  was  first  lieutenant.  The  younger 
son,  Harold,  attended  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  and  is  now  in  the  third 
year  at  Princeton  University. 

Agnes  Swobdi  Meade  has  a  well  earned  fame  of  her  own  in  south- 
ern California,  quite  apart  from  that  associated  with  her  late  husband, 
G.  Walter  Meade,  for  his  artistic  and  professional  work.  Her  appeal 
is  to  the  eternal  feminine  and  to  the  women  of  southern  California, 
"Swobdi  Millinery"  is  the  last  word  in  fashion  and  good  taste.  Her 
stores  are  at  Los  Angeles,  Pasadena  and  Coronado. 


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Mrs.  Meade  is  a  remarkable  business  woman — many  regard  her 
as  the  foremost  in  Los  Angeles.  When  she  came  to  California  twenty 
years  ago  she  was  Miss  Agnes  LaMonte  Swobdi.  She  came  here  for 
her  health.  Doctors  had  allowed  her  a  lease  of  only  two  years  longer. 
Health,  wealth  and  an  extremely  large  share  of  content  and  happniess 
have  been  her  lot. 

She  was  born  in  the  city  of  Berlin,  of  Polish  and  French  parentage. 
Her  parents  moved  to  Vienna,  where  her  father  engaged  in  business 
with  his  cousin,  manufacturing  men's  silk  hats,  and  he  was  there  at 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1845,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  years.  The 
mother  died  shortly  afterward,  when  the  daughter  was  two  years  old, 
and  she  was  reared  by  her  father's  sister,  who  had  no  children  of  her 
own.  At  the  age  of  ten  years  the  child  accompanied  her  uncle  and 
aunt  to  America,  their  destination  being  San  Jose,  California,  where 
the  aunt's  chum  was  located,  but  owing  to  her  illness  and  death  they 
never  got  any  further  than  Nebraska.  An  orphan  indeed  Mrs.  Meade 
then  became,  but  Mr.  and  Mrs.  K.  J.  Willis  took  her  under  their  care 
and  for  the  next  six  years  she  was  raised  and  educated  by  them,  and 
this  being  the  formative  years  of  her  life  she  gives  much  credit  to 
Mother  Willis  for  her  teaching. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen  she  entered  her  chosen  work,  which  she 
has  followed  to  the  present  time. 

Miss  Swobdi  started  the  millinery  business  at  555  South  Broadway 
in  Los  Angeles.  She  did  her  pioneer  work  with  the  Terrills,  who  long 
held  sway  as  the  highest  class  and  most  exclusive  outfitters  for  women 
in  Los  Angeles.  The  Terrills  are  now  retired  from  business.  Mrs. 
Meade  moved  to  Eighth  and  Broadway  and  finally  in  her  farsighted  way 
seeing  the  trend  of  the  times  she  secured  her  present  location  on  Seventh 
street,  in  the  heart  of  the  most  fashionable  shopping  district. 

Mrs.  Meade  first  leased  the  building  now  occupied  by  the  beautiful 
New  York  store.  Before  she  had  made  a  single  payment  on  the  lease 
she  sold  her  rights  to  Mr.  Hagerty  for  a  considerable  advance.  She 
then  secured  the  present  site  with  the  floor  above  and  the  store  ad- 
joining and  sold  the  lease  for  the  adjoining  store  and  the  second  floor 
for  a  similar  profit. 

Mrs.  Meade  is  a  far  sighted  woman,  keen  in  business,  and  has 
made  money  through  her  ability  to  select  locations  and  furnish  a  service 
that  can  hardly  be  duplicated  in  the  west.  She  pins  her  faith  to  the  fu- 
ture of  Seventh  street,  and  owns  several  lots  near  the  location  of 
the  new  hotel,  which  is  to  cost  several  million  dollars.  She  has  already 
been  offered  a  handsome  increase  for  these  properties,  which  she  has 
refu?ed.  Mrs.  Meade  explains  her  success  as  due  to  concentration  and 
being  able  to  look  ahead. 

She  was  married  to  G.  Walter  Meade  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Meade's 
great-great-aunt,  Mrs.  George  Babcock,  at  Alameda,  July  18,  1909. 
She  met  Mr.  Meade  eight  years  prior  to  their  marriage  in  Deuoit, 
and  as  soon  as  he  came  to  California  they  were  married.  He  was  for- 
merly a  well  known  lawyer  of  Detroit.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Meade  as  a 
honeymoon  made  an  extended  trip  through  France,  spending  much 
time  in  Paris.  Mr.  Meade  was  deeply  interested  in  politics.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  Michigan  College  of  Law,  and  his  father  before  him  was 
a  lawyer.  Mr.  Meade  was  born  in  Charlotte,  Michigan.  He  was  on 
the  advertising  staff  of  the  Detroit  Free  Press  and  came  out  to  Cali- 
fornia with  the  intention  of  entering  the  advertising  business.  His 
wife's  varied  concerns  were  so  prosperous  and  she  was   in  so   much 


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need  of  his  services  that  he  yielded  to  her  prior  and  superior  claims 
and  thereafter  was  her  partner  in  business  management. 

At  one  period  Mr.  Meade  was  advertising  manager  for  the  great 
manufacturing  drug  firm  Parke,  Davis  &  Company,  at  Detroit,  making 
his  headquarters  in  New  York.  While  connected  with  the  Detroit 
and  Lansing  newspapers  he  gained  a  wide  acquaintance  through  that 
state  and  became  prominent  in  the  democratic  party,  serving  as  secretary 
of  the  State  Central  Committee.  He  was  at  one  time  press  clerk  of  the 
Senate  of  Michigan. 

Some  of  his  other  interesting  activities  are  detailed  in  the  follow- 
ing extract  from  the  Southland  Magazine  of  August,  1911.  "We  are 
given  to  understand  that  within  the  next  several  weeks  there  is  to  be 
edited  and  published  in  Los  Angeles  a  periodical  devoted  exclusively 
to  art  and  the  varied  crafts.  It  will  be  issued  under  the  pleasing  name 
of  'The  Pacific  Arts  and  Crafts  News.'  Mr.  G.  Walter  Meade,  for 
many  years  associated  with  Mr.  Sheridan  Ford,  one  of  the  world's 
recognized  art  critics,  editor  of  the  first  and  unexpurgated  edition  of 
'The  Gentle  Art  of  Making  Enemies,'  'Art  a  Commodity,'  'Tiie  Art 
of  Folly,'  etc.,  will  be  the  publisher.  Mr.  Meade  is  an  authority  on  art 
pictorial.  He  will  shortly  announce  the  editorial  staff  and  the  location 
of  the  general  offices." 

Mr.  Meade  published  a  series  of  attractive  little  booklets  under 
the  general  title  of  "Hours  with  Famous  Americans,"  of  which  the 
second  was  the  story  of  "Champ  Clark."  The  book  is  handsome  typo- 
graphically and  as  entertaining  as  the  Era's  Little  Journeys.  It  is 
written  by  John  Hubert  Grensel.  The  book  is  published  in  an  edition 
de  luxe  limted  to  five  hundred  copies. 

G.  Walter  Meade  was  killed  April  10,  1913,  instantly,  when  his 
automobile  skidded  on  a  curve  near  San  Juan  Capistrano,  slid  over  an 
embankment  and  catapulted  into  the  arroyo  below.  He  was  driving  to 
Coronado,  where  he  intended  to  open  a  branch  shop. 

One  paragraph  from  a  Los  Angeles  newspaper  of  that  date  reads : 
"Mr.  Meade's  career  of  professional  honor  covered  a  moderate  life- 
time of  useful  endeavor  along  social,  political  and  literary  lines.  Mr. 
Meade  was  forty-seven  years  old,  had  been  a  publisher  in  Detroit  and 
Lansing  and  was  a  lawyer  of  splendid  reputation  in  Detroit." 

W.\RREN  L.  Williams,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar,  acknowl- 
edges ]\Iichigan  as  his  native  state  but  has  been  a  resident  of  Los 
Angeles  practically  all  his  life. 

He  was  born  at  Lansing,  Michigan,  June  23,  1882,  a  son  of  Charles 
Brewster  Williams,  who  was  born  in  County  Clare,  Ireland,  in  1842, 
came  as  a  boy  to  the  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada,  finished  his  educa- 
tion there,  and  then  took  up  a  career  as  an  agriculturist,  a  vocation 
which  he  his  steadily  followed  ever  since.  For  many  years  he  farmed  near 
Lansing,  the  capital  of  Michigan,  but  in  1882,  when  his  son  Warren 
was  an  infant,  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  has  been  able  to  adapt  himself 
agreeably  and  profitably  to  the  business  of  farming  in  this  section  of 
California.  He  married  at  Lansing,  Michigan,  in  1879,  Mary  Cather- 
ine Hunt. 

Warren  L.  Williams,  only  child  of  his  parents,  attended  grammar 
and  high  school  at  Los  Angeles,  graduating  from  high  school  in  1900. 
He  was  in  business  several  years  before  he  became  a  lawyer.  For  two 
years  he  was  salesman  in  the  W.  E.  Cummings  shoe  store,  and  then 
salesman  with  the  C.  M.  Staub  Shoe  Company  until  1905.    Mr.  Williams 


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selected  the  university  of  his  native  state  of  Michigan  as  the  source 
of  his  legal  education.  His  studies  there  were  interrupted  in  April, 
1906,  when  on  account  of  the  California  earthquake  he  returned  to  Los 
Angeles.  He  then  attended  the  Southern  California  College  of  Law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  in  1907.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  he  began  practice  and  was  appointed  deputy  district  attorney. 
In  1909  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  Police  Court  to  fill  an  unexpired 
term  of  Judge  H.  E.  Austin,  and  continued  in  that  office  until  January, 
1915.  In  March,  1915,  he  became  city  prosecutor,  and  concluded  his 
official  service  by  resigning  from  this  office  in  1917  to  take  up  private 
practice.  Judge  Williams  is  widely  and  favorably  known  for  his  vari- 
ous official  connections  and  has  well  earned,  the  confidence  and  trust 
of  a  large  part  of  the  population  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  is  a  member  of  Henry  L.  Orme  Lodge  No.  458,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  belongs  to  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Union  League  Club 
the  City  Club,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  At  Los  Angeles,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1910,  he  married  Maria  Theresa  McAuley,  whose  father  was  a 
pioneer  of  Los  Angeles  and  for  many  years  was  engaged  in  the  general 
contracting  and  building  business.  He  erected  the  old  Baker  Block, 
one  of  the  landmarks  of  the  city. 

Emil  Olcovich  as  president  and  directing  head  of  one  of  the  mer- 
cantile corporations  of  southern  California  doing  a  business  of  more 
than  a  million  dollars  annually  is  one  of  the  interesting  figures  in 
business  aflfairs,  and  a  man  whose  career  may  be  followed  with  profit 
and  inspiration. 

A  native  son  of  California,  he  was  born  at  San  Francisco,  October 
14,  1875,  son  of  Bernhard  and  Carrie  (Vaneberg)  Olcovich.  His 
father  was  a  pioneer  westerner.  Born  in  Posen,  Poland,  and  educated 
there,  he  sought  the  broader  and  better  opportunities  of  American  life 
and  institutions,  and  in  1856  came  to  the  United  States.  By  way  of 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama  he  continued  until  he  reached  San  Francisco, 
and  thence  went  to  Carson  City,  Nievada,  by  mule  team.  That  was  a 
number  of  years  before  the  first  transcontinental  railroad  was  opened. 
Fie  had  a  general  merchandise  store  at  Carson  City  until  1875,  when  he 
returned  to  San  Francisco  and  engaged  in  the  importing  business.  He 
was  well  known  in  the  business  section  of  San  Francisco.  He  finally 
retired  in  1906  and  died  'in  1908. 

Emil  Olcovich  after  graduating  in  a  public  school  course  in  1891 
came  to  Los  Angeles.  Here  he  found  his  first  opportunity  to  make  a 
living  on  a  modest  scale  and  acquire  a  mercantile  experience  as  sales 
clerk  with  the  Mammoth  Shoe  Company  at  315  South  Spring  Street. 
He  was  paid  ten  dollars  a  week  until  his  superior  ability  v/as  rscognized. 
In  1894  he  was  promoted  to  manager  of  the  business,  That  was  the 
beginning  of  the  present  enterprise  now  conducted  under  his  name  and 
f&miliar  to  the  retail  public  over  the  greater  part  of  California.  In 
1900  Mr.  Olcovich  bought  out  his  employers  and  with  Max  Streicher 
continued  under  the  firm  name  of  Olcovich  &  Streicher  until  1909. 
In  that  year  Mr.  Olcovich  made  a  further  step  in  working  out  his 
great  plans  and  ideas  as  a  merchant,  and  having  bought  out  his  partner 
incorporated  the  Emil  Olcovich  Company.  He  is  president,  Albert  Olco- 
vich is  vice  president  and  A.  M.  Schulte  is  secretary. 

There  is  probably  not  a  shoe  house  on  the  Pacific  Coast  better 
known  and  doing  a  larger  and  more  rapidly  growing  business  than  this. 
The  company  operates  a  chain  of  shoe   stores,  with  branches  in  the 


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cities  of  San  Diego,  Oakland,  San  Bernardino,  Pasadena,  Bal<ersfield, 
Fresno  and  Santa  Barbara.  The  company  is  capitalized  at  three  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  does  an  annual  business  valued  at  more  than  a 
million  dollars  and  has  more  than  a  hundred  people  working  in  the 
different  departments  and  stores. 

Mr.  Olcovich  is  also  president  of  the  Emil  Olcovich  Investment 
Company,  is  president  of  the  Central  Park  Investment  Company,  and 
a  director  of  the  Business  Men's  Cooperative  Association  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Merchants  and  Manufacturers 
Association.  He  is  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order  and  in  politics  is 
a  republican. 

Captain  Chauncey  Weeks  Hyatt.  For  a  residence  of  a  quarter 
of  a  century  in  Los  Angeles,  a  residence  accompanied  by  many  distinctive 
labors  and  fruits  in  behalf  of  the  advancement  and  progress  of  southern 
California,  memory  of  the  late  Captain  Chauncey  Weeks  Hyatt  deserves 
more  than  passing  mention  in  this  history. 

He  was  born  at  Kent,  Putnam  county,  New  York,  February  28, 
1838,  son  of  James  Duncan  and  Minerva  (Meade)  Hyatt.  His  paternal 
grandfather  was  a  son  of  Jesse  Hyatt,  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  James 
Hyatt,  father  of  the  Revolutionary  patriot,  was,  according  to  family 
tradition,  one  of  three  brothers  who  came  from  England  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century.  These  brothers  became  separated  and  their  names 
thereafter  were  variously  spelled,  as  Haight,  Hiet,  Hoyt  and  Hyatt. 
Their  descendants  bearing  these  names  have  become  very  numerous. 
Captain  Hyatt  was  the  seventh  son  and  ninth  child  in  a  family  of  four- 
teen, of  one  mother,  all  of  whom  survived  until  the  youngest  was  forty- 
five  years  of  age,  and  each  became  the  head  of  a  more  or  less  numer- 
ous family.  The  old  homestead  where  Captain  Hyatt  spent  his  youth 
was  in  the  rough  and  rugged  part  of  eastern  New  York,  where  the 
residents,  w^ho  depended  upon  agriculture  for  their  living,  as  did  the 
father  of  Captain  Hyatt,  had  to  combine  stem  and  unremitting  industry 
wdth  the  utmost  thrift  and  economy.  All  the  children  of  the  "household 
were  required  to  labor  during  the  summer  and  attend  a  five  months' 
term  of  school  in  the  winter. 

It  was  under  this  discipline  that  Captain  Hyatt  grew  to  manhood. 
Aside  from  the  common  schools  he  had  a  limited  course  in  the  Ray- 
mond Institute  at  Carmel,  New  York.  In  1854,  when  sixteen  years  of 
age,  he  left  his  native  community  and  started  for  the  far  west,  going 
to  Wisconsin  and  settling  in  the  wilds  of  Sheboygan  county.  There  he 
became  a  school  teacher.  He  left  his  position  in  the  school  room  at 
the  very  outbreak  of  the  Civil  war,  in  IMay,  1861,  to  enlist  in  Company 
C  of  the  Fourth  Wisconsin  Infantry  and  served  to  1865.  That  was 
the  first  three-year  regiment  to  leave  Wisconsin^  It  was  soon  ordered 
to  New  Orleans,  and  was  the  first  regiment  to  enter  Crescent  City. 
Captain  Hyatt  remained  with  his  command  until  after  some  of  the 
first  unsuccessful  attempts  to  capture  Vicksburg.  He  was  then  pro- 
moted and  assigned  to  duty  with  the  38th  Wisconsin  Infantry,  and  was 
with  that  command  from  Cold  Harbor  to  Appomattox.  He  participated 
in  all  the  desperate  battles  of  the  campaign,  and  was  in  command  of 
his  company  in  nearly  every  engagement,  being  acting  commander  even 
before  he  was  commissioned  captain.  At  the  close  of  the  w^ar  his  com- 
pany presented  him  with  a  beautiful  sword  inscribed  with  the  battles 
in  which  he  had  engaged. 

In  February,  1865,  while  in  front  of  Petersburg  and  when  prepara- 


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tions  were  being  made  for  a  final  assault,  Captain  Hyatt  obtained  a 
leave  of  absence  to  go  to  Chicago,  where  on  the  10th  of  February  he 
was  married  to  Mary  J.  Keith,  daughter  of  William  and  Christie 
(Smith)  Keith.  The  original  home  of  the  Keith  family  was  in  Aber- 
deen, Scotland,  where  one  of  their  illustrious  ancestors  was  Marshal 
Keith. 

When  the  war  closed  Captain  Hyatt  settled  in  Tama  county,  Iowa, 
eighteen  miles  from  Marshalltown,  where  he  took  up  four  hundred 
acres,  his  wife  soon  joining  him.  There  he  held  many  positions  of 
trust  and  profit.  He  made  civil  engineering  his  principal  occupation. 
He  was  county  surveyor  two  terms.  The  postoffice  at  Badger  Hill  was 
established  by  him  on  his  land,  and  he  was  its  first  postmaster.  In 
1872  he  removed  to  Dodge  county,  Nebraska,  and  his  name  is  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  pioneer  history  of  that  Nebraska  county.  He 
was  a  civil  engineer  for  several  years,  was  county  surveyor,  and  in 
1872  he  also  entered  the  field  of  journalism  by  establishing  the  Daily 
and  Weekly  Flail  at  North  Bend.  He  became  postmaster  of  North 
Bend,  and  served  through  the  administrations  of  Arthur  and  Hayes. 
At  that  time  he  raised  the  office  from  a  fourth  to  a  third  class  office.  At 
the  election  of  President  Cleveland,  Captain  Hyatt,  who  had  made  a 
vigorous  campaign  for  James  G.  Blaine,  was  summarily  removed  from 
office.  While  this  was  only  one  of  a  wholesale  number  of  removals  at 
the  beginning  of  a  new  political  administration,  the  case  of  Captain 
Hyatt  achieved  national  note  because  it  was  the  first  in  which  the  term 
"ofliensive  partisanship"  was  the  expressed  reason  for  the  removal. 
That  was  a  new  term  in  American  political  history.  Senator  Mander- 
son  took  up  the  matter  and  made  it  conspicuous  in  Congress,  and  the 
Associated  Press  gave  a  liberal  amount  of  space  and  even  the  Lon- 
don Times  commented  on  the  topic  with  a  leader. 

As  an  editor  Captain  Hyatt  received  many  flattering  comments  and 
his  paper,  the  Daily  Flail,  of  Fremont,  continued  under  his  manage- 
ment until  as  a  delegate  to  the  National  Editorial  Convention  in  San 
Francisco  he  was  so  delighted  with  Los  Angeles  that  he  put  his  paper 
on  the  market  and  within  a  few  months  came  west,  reaching  Los  An- 
geles as  a  permanent  resident  in  July,  1894.  He  at  once  adapted  him- 
self to  conditions  and  began  earnestly  to  work  for  the  upbuilding  of 
the  new  city.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  agitate  the  question  of  the 
annexation  of  his  locality,  known  then  as  the  old  University  district. 
to  Los  Angeles.  When  the  annexation  was  culminated  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Committee  and  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Lit- 
erature for  the  occasion.  For  many  years  he  was  a  strong  figure  in 
real  estate  circles  and  public  spiritedly  aided  in  every  phase  of  the 
grand  march  of  improvement.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist church,  was  prominent  in  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal  Legion, 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  Junior  Order  United  Anterican 
Mechanics  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters.  Every  cause  rep- 
resenting the  civic  betterment  had  his  support.  Captain  Hyatt  con- 
tinued busy  as  a  real  estate  man  until  the  date  of  his  death,  IDecember 
28,  1917.     He  died  at  his  home  at  1016  West  Thirty-fourth  street. 

Into  this  old  home  he  and  his  wife  had  moved  the  day  after  they 
came  to  Los  Angeles.  Captain  Hyatt  is  survived  by  his  widow  and 
son,  Chauncey  Alanson  Hyatt. 

Mrs.  Hyatt  has  been  a  prominent  worker  in  the  Woman's  Relief 
Corps  for  years,  since  the  Rebellion,  assisted  in  the  organization  of  two 
branches  of  the  order  at  Fremont,  Nebraska,   and  also   aided   in   the 


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organization  of  the  Ladies  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  in  the  same  city.  In  both 
branches  she  is  past  president  and  department  aide,  and  for  two  years 
served  as  chairman  of  the  Council  of  Administration.  Since  coming  to 
Los  Angeles  Mrs.  Hyatt  has  been  equally  active  in  the  various  auxili- 
aries of  the  Grand  Army.  She  organized  two  tents  of  the  Daughters 
of  Veterans  and  has  officiated  as  president  and  chaplain  in  Los  An- 
geles. She  is  past  lady  commander  of  the  Ladies  Auxiliary  of  the 
Maccabees,  is  identified  with  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood,  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Foresters,  and  has  held  the  office  of  president  of 
the  Ladies  of  the  G.  A.  R.  The  State  Grand  Councillor  of  Chosen 
Friends  conferred  upon  her  a  justly  deserved  honor  by  appointing  her 
past  councillor  in  Los  Angeles  in  recognition  of  very  meritorious  serv- 
ices rendered  this  order.  This  tribute  followed  her  successful  work  in 
her  own  and  other  lodges  throughout  the  state.  Mrs.  Hyatt  has  been 
very  active  in  aiding  old  soldiers,  and  is  probably  the  oldest  and  the  most 
active  worker  for  the  soldiers  in  the  whole  country.  She  still  possesses 
good  health  and  a  clear  brain. 

Mrs.  Hyatt  has  long  been  a  consistent  church  worker,  belonging 
to  the  Episcopal  church.  She  has  for  years  been  collecting  for  her  son 
a  fine  library,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  city. 

Ingall  W.  Bull  has  been  one  of  the  busy  practicing  lawyers  of 
Los  Angeles  for  the  past  fourteen  years,  and  has  devoted  himself  to 
his  profession  with  singular  fidelity  and  ability.  His  success  in  the  law 
has  satisfied  his  modest  ambitions  without  recourse  to  politics  or  other 
outside  fields. 

He  was  born  on  Bainbridge  Island  in  Kitsap  county,  Washington, 
August  10,  1884,  son  of  William  and  Inga  Christina  Johnson  Bull. 
When  he  was  twelve  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  San  Francisco, 
where  he  continued  his  public  school  education,  and  also  attended  high 
school  until  1902.  He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  Dorn  and  Dorn, 
studying  law  with  them  for  two  years  and  afterward  in  the  office  of 
Booth  &  Barnett  until  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  August  15,  1905. 
Since  that  date  Mr.  Bull  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  and  has 
always  practiced  with  offices  in  the  Central  Building.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  corporation  law  and  has  a  very  representative  and  important 
clientage.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association. 

Mr.  Bull,  who  is  unmarried,  is  affiliated  with  Pentalpha  Lodge,  A. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  East  Gate  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  Los  Angeles  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  and  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Elks  and  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  City 
Club. 

William  M.  Strother,  who  is  the  man  responsible  for  giving 
Hollywood  a  service  of  perfect  appointment  and  skill  as  undertaker 
and  embalmer,  came  to  Los  Angeles  about  fifteen  years  ago,  but  is  the 
son  of  a  pioneer  Californian. 

His  father  was  the  late  Benjamin  H.  Strother,  who  died  recently 
in  Los  Angeles.  Benjamin  H.  Strother  was  born  at  Bardstown,  Ken- 
tucky, and  was  eighty-seven  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
lived  in  Kentucky  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  old,  was  a  civil  engi- 
neer and  for  several  years  in  the  employ  of  the  Louisville  and  Nash- 
ville Railway,  and  at  one  time  had  charge  of  the  United  States  Patent 
Office  at  Washington.  That  was  during  the  administration  of  President 
Buchanan.    He  came  to  California  in  1852,  crossing  the  plains  in  charge 


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of  a  train  of  a  104  wagons.  He  piloted  this  train  through  to  British 
Columbia,  and  from  there  came  to  Sacramento  and  was  engaged  in 
placer  mining.  Later  he  had  charge  of  a  bonded  warehouse  at  New 
Orleans.  Soon  after  the  Civil  war  he  moved  to  a  farm  in  Missouri, 
near  Kansas  City,  and  in  1888  engaged  in  the  feed  and  fuel  business  in 
that  city.  About  1893  he  retired  and  moved  to  Colorado,  and  ten  years 
later  came  to  Los  Angeles.  He  married  at  Washington  in  1855  Frances 
McCalley.  He  was  survived  by  three  sons,  W.  M.  and  J.  D.  Strother, 
both  of  Hollywood,  and  C.  H.  Strother  of  New  York. 

William  M.  Strother  was  bom  in  Jackson  County,  Missouri,  May 
8,  1875,  and  attended  the  public  schools  of  Kansas  City  until  he  was 
fourteen  years  old.  For  a  year  and  a  half  he  was  employed  as  a  gen- 
eral utility  clerk  by  the  Scott  &  Morrison  Mercantile  Agency,  then 
worked  for  the  Carlett  Undertaking  Company  until  twenty  years  of  age, 
and  that  gave  him  his  first  experience  in  his  first  business.  He  was 
then  appointed  assistant  superintendent  of  streets  of  Kansas  City  under 
Captain  May,  and  filled  that  position  until  1896.  During  the  silver 
mining  boom  at  Aspen,  Colorado,  he  went  to  that  locality,  and  in  1897 
located  at  Elizabeth,  New  Mexico,  where  he  contracted  to  build  a  tunnel 
and  organized  and  opened  the  Challenge  Mining  and  Milling  Company. 
Mr.  Strother  sold  his  interest  in  New  jNIexico  in  1902,  and  then  for  a 
couple  of  years  was  a  traveling  representative  for  Armour  &  Company 
through  New  Mexico,  Colorado  and  part  of  Texas. 

Coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1904  Mr.  Strother  has  since  been  engaged 
in  his  profession  as  an  embalmer.  For  five  years  he  was  with  Bre^fsee 
Brothers,  undertakers,  resigning  that  position  on  account  of  illness. 
For  two  years  he  was  manager  of  the  Hollywood  cemetery,  and  then 
bought  out  the  firm  of  Woodman  and  Brunner,  undertakers  at  Wilcox 
Street  and  Hollywood  Boulevard.  Since  then  he  has  conducted  business 
under  his  own  name  and  in  January,  1918,  erected  a  beautiful  two-story 
building  at  6240  Hollywood  Boulevard,  especially  equipped  and  fur- 
nished for  his  business.  In  putting  up  this  building  he  drew  heavily 
upon  his  own  experience  and  all  the  most  advanced  ideas  of  the  under- 
taking profession.  The  building  is  equipped  with  chapel,  display  room, 
parlors  and  offices  and  is  a  structure  much  out  of  the  ordinary  and  has 
none  of  the  superficial  appearance  usually  associated  with  undertaking 
parlors.  The  building  is  50x120  feet,  is  finished  in  ivory  color,  and  in 
its  equipment  and  in  the  personnel  of  his  service  Mr.  Strother  has  laid 
good  claim  to  ranking  among  the  first  in  his  profession  in  southern 
California. 

Mr.  Strother  is  affiliated  with  Hollywood  Lodge  No.  355,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  Hollywood  Chapter  No.  120,  R.  A.  M.,  Los  Angeles  Command- 
ery  No.  9,  K.  T.,  Elks  Lodge  No.  99,  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of 
the  Christian  Science  church.  November  29,  1899,  at  Raton,  New 
Mexico,  he  married  Emma  Margaret  Nichols.  Their  one  daughter, 
Adelyn,  attends  the  Hollywood  High  School. 

W.  Scott  Bicksler  has  been  identified  with  the  bar  of  Iowa,  Colo- 
rado and  California,  and  has  achieved  real  eminence  in  his  profession, 
his  name  being  associated  with  some  of  the  cases  that  have  furnished 
precedents  recognized  by  all  American  lawyers. 

Mr.  Bicksler  was  born  at  Salem,  Iowa.  March  4,  1861,  son  of  John 
and  Sarah  Ann  (Buffington)  Bicksler.  His  father  was  always  a  busi- 
ness man  and  banker,  and  the  son  doubtless  acquired  his  inclination 
for  the  law   from  his  mother's  people.     Joseph   Buffington  was  at  one 


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time  a  judge  of  the  Sui)reme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  and  declined  an 
appointment  as  United  States  judge  to  the  territory  of  Utah.  His 
nephew,  Joseph  Bufiington,  is  at  present  judge  of  the  United  States  Court 
of  A])peals  of  the  Third  District,  consisting  of  Delaware,  New  Jersey 
and  Pennsylvania.  John  Bicksler  was  born  in  I'"airfa.\  county,  Virginia, 
and  after  some  years  of  travel  and  temporary  sojourn  located  permanently 
at  Salem,  Iowa.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade  and  later  built  up  a  pros- 
perous business  as  a  manufacturer  of  wagons  and  carriages.  In  1888  he 
sold  out  this  industry  and  established  Hicksler's  Bank,  and  was  its  presi- 
dent and  active  head  until  1907,  when  he  retired.  1  le  died  in  Alarch, 
1916. 

W.  Scott  Bicksler  attended  public  school  in  Salens,  also  Whittier 
College,  a  Ouaker  institution,  and  in  1881  entered  the  law  department  of 
the  State  University  of  Iowa  at  Iowa  City,  where  he  graduated  LL.  B. 
in  1883.  He  then  returned  to  Salem  and  for  two  years  was  cashier  pf 
his  father's  bank.  The  father  had  established  this  bank  for  the  e.xpress 
purpose  of  keeping  his  son  at  home.  While  cashier  of  the  bank  he  also 
developed  some  law  business,  serving  as  attorney  for  the  St.  Louis,  Keo- 
kuk and  Northwestern  Railroad.  From  Salem  he  removed  to  Boone, 
Iowa,  and  practiced  law  there  for  six  years. 

For  many  years  ]\Ir.  Bicksler  was  one  of  the  prominent  attorneys 
at  Denver,  Colorado.  For  twenty  years  he  served  as  general  counsel 
for  the  Daily  Mining  Record,  and  had  charge  of  all  its  libel  cases.  He 
also  tried  the  Hayes  vs.  City  of  Denver  case,  known  as  the  Auditorium 
Bond  Case,  a  case  in  which  the  validity  of  $400,000  of  bonds  was  involved 
and  the  decisions  in  which  constitute  the  primary  authority  in  the  United 
States  upon  issues  of  municipal  bonds.  It  had  been  carried  to  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Colorado  and  decided  in  favor  of  Mr.  Bicksler  and 
his  clients.  Mr.  Bicksler  was  also  appointed  by  the  Federal  Department 
of  Justice  as  a  special  United  States  attorney.  In  1904  he  was  honored 
by  President  Roosevelt  by  appointment  as  delegate  to  the  Congress  of 
Lawyers  and  Jurists  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Mr.  Bicksler  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1912  and  is  now  senior  mem- 
ber of  Bicksler,  Smith  &  Parke,  one  of  the  foremost  law  fimis  of  south- 
ern California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association, 
the  American  Bar  Association,  is  a  member  and  formerly  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Commercial  Law  League  of  America.  He  belongs  to 
the  California  Club,  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars  and  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  Mr.  Bicksler 
is  a  republican.  At  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  June  9,  1885,  he  married 
Nettie  H.  Hampton. 

I 

Ch.'Vrles  S.  Burnell,  who  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
bar  since  1906,  is  present  city  attorney,  having  gone  into  that  post  of 
responsibility  with  the  largest  majority  ever  giverf  a  candidate  for  that 
office.     He  was  elected  in  the  municipal  elections  of  July  7,   1919. 

Mr.  Burnell  was  born  at  Elko,  Nevada,  September  21,  1874,  but 
has  spent  practically  all  his  life  in  the  Golden  State.  His  parents  were 
Frederick  Marcus  Smith  and  Anna  Loraine  (Hoogs)  Burnell.  He 
began  attending  school  at  the  Locust  Grove  School  in  Sonoma  county. 
California,  and  after  the  age  of  nine  was  a  student  in  Trinity  School  in 
San  Francisco.  He  graduated  from  that  school  in  1890,  attended  the 
Lowell  High  School  of  San  Francisco  until  October,  1891,  and  then 
became  a  member  of  what  was  known  as  the  "pioneer  class"  of  Stan- 
ford  LTniversity.      He   received   the   degree   of    Bachelor   of   Arts   from 


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Stanford  in  1895,  and  spent  one  year  in  post  graduate  work.  Returning 
to  San  Francisco,  he  chose  as  his  training  ground  the  leading  firm  of 
lawyers  in  the  city  at  the  time,  Bishop  &  Wheeler.  While  with  them 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1897,  and  in  1899  opened  an 
office  of  his  own.  Mr.  Burnell  practiced  at  San  Francisco  until  August, 
1906.  On  removing  to  Los  Angeles  he  was  associated  with  Seward 
A.  Simons  for  a  year,  was  then  in  individual  practice  in  the  Coulter 
Building,  and  in  1911  formed  a  partnership  with  Kemper  B.  Campbell 
and  Frank  P.  Doherty,  prominent  young  attorneys.  The  partnership 
was  dissolved  after  six  months,  but  the  three  remained  together  in  the 
same  office  until  July,  1913,  when  Mr.  Burnell  was  appointed  assistant 
city  attorney  in  charge  of  civil  litigation  for  Los  Angeles.  He  resigned 
in  August,  1918,  and  became  special  counsel  for  the  Los  Angeles  County 
Flood  Control  District.  This  position  occupied  most  of  his  time  and 
abilities  until  he  was  chosen  city  attorney. 

Mr.  Burnell  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Alumni 
Association  of  Stanford  University,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  also  a 
member  of  the  Grotto,  and  belongs  to  the  University  and  City  Clubs. 
He  is  a  republican  in  politics.  March  23,  1907,  at  Los  Angeles,  he 
married  Blanche  Emery.  They  have  one  daughter,  Dorothy,  born  in 
1908,  a  student  in  the  public  schools. 

Leo  V.  YouNGWORTH.  It  has  many  times  been  demonstrated  that 
California  may  justly  take  pride  in  her  sons,  for  in  every  walk  of  life 
they  have  demonstrated  mental  alertness,  physical  prowess,  and  on 
land  and  sea,  in  peace  and  in  war,  have  been  credits  to  the  state  of 
their  birth.  In  the  professions  they  have  become  notable  and  especially 
in  the  law  have  they  attracted  attention  and  often  reached  eminence. 
Among  the  practicing  lawyers  of  Los  Angeles  Leo  V.  Youngworth 
occupies  a  place  he  has  won  for  himself  through  determined  effort  and 
thorough  preparation. 

Leo  V.  Youngworth  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  December  7,  1872. 
His  parents  were  Charles  and  Annie  (Marnell)  Youngworth.  His 
father  was  born  at  Stuttgart,  Germany,  where  he  attended  school  until 
seventeen  years  old,  when  he  left  his  native  land  in  order  to  escape 
military  service.  He  reached  the  United  States  and  landed  at  Philadel- 
phia, from  which  city  he  came  to  San  Francisco,  in  1849,  crossing  the 
plains  with  one  of  the  early  outfits.  He  engaged  in  mining  on  the 
North  Fork  of  the  American  River,  where  he  accumulated  a  fortune, 
then  went  to  San  Jose,  California,  and  embarked  in  the  hotel  business 
with  a  partner,  but  the  venture  was  not  a  success.  Mr.  Youngworth 
then  went  to  the  White  Pine  section,  where  he  secured  another  fortune, 
with  which  he  went  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  lost  out  again  in  the 
grain  business.  Once  more  he  returned  to  the  mines,  this  time  at 
Cloverdale,  where  he  accumulated  enough  to  enable  him  to  embark  in 
the  restaurant  business  at  San  Francisco.  In  1878  he  sold  his  interests 
there  and  moved  to  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  there  engaging  in  mining 
until  1880,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  conducted  a  restaurant 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  His  widow  survived  until  December,  1917. 
Of  their  children,  Gustavus,  Charles,  Ida  and  Leo  V.,  the  last  named 
is  the  only  survivor. 

Leo  V.  Youngworth  was  about  twelve  years  old  when  his  father 
died,  and  that  occasioned  his  leaving  school  and  beginning  work  with 
the  Fulton  Engine  Works,  and  was  later  with  the  Crane  Company. 
He  began   at   the   bottom   of   the   ladder,   as   a   helper,   but   he   climbed 


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and  by  the  time  he  was  eighteen  years  old  was  useful  to  the  firm  as  a 
salesman.  For  a  short  time  he  engaged  in  farming  at  La  Ballona,  and 
then  went  to  San  Francisco  with  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  on  their 
cutoff  line,  and  worked  with  the  gang  on  the  survey  until  he  was  twenty 
years  old.  Coming  then  to  Los  Angeles,  he  worked  as  chainman  and 
transit  man  in  the  city  engineer's  office  and  was  made  deputy  city 
engineer,  and  was  only  twenty-three  years  old  when  he  became  chief 
deputy  in  the  county  surveyor's  office,  where  he  remained  two  years. 
Then,  as  deputy  city  engineer  under  Engineer  H.  S.  Stafford,  he  assisted 
in  locating  the  outfall  sewer  and  was  concerned  with  the  construction 
of  the  same. 

During  all  this  time  he  had  cherished  his  ambition  to  become  a  lawyer 
and  had  devoted  every  spare  moment  to  the  study  of  law.  In  1903  Mr. 
Youngworth  was  nominated  in  the  Republican  County  Convention  for 
the  office  of  county  surveyor  and  was  elected  and  served  three  and  a 
half  years,  resigning  at  that  time  in  order  to  take  up  the  duties  of 
United  States  marshal  for  this  district,  which  ofifice  had  been  conferred 
by  President  Roosevelt,  and  later  he  was  reappointed  by  President 
I'aft.  In  the  meanwhile,  during  vacations,  he  had  studied  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California  and  attended  the  College  of  Law  of  the 
University  of  Michigan.  In  July,  1912,  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
by  the  District  Court  of  Appeals.  In  1913  he  resigned  his  office  as 
United  States  marshal,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in 
which  he  has  been  exceedingly  successful. 

Mr.  Youngworth  was  married  at  Los  Angeles,  February  23,  1911, 
to  Miss  Margaret  E.  Smith,  and  they  have  three  children:  Helen,  Jane 
and  Margaret.  In  Masonic  circles  he  has  been  very  prominent.  He 
is  past  master  of  Hollenbeck  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  serving  two  terms, 
and  was  active  in  the  erection  of  its  temple ;  is  past  High  Priest  of 
Signet  Chapter;  past  Grand  High  Priest,  R.  A.  M.,  of  California:  Past 
Commander  of  Los  Angeles  Commandery ;  Past  Potentate  of  Al  Malaikah 
Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  for  two  terms.  In  June,  1919,  he  was 
elected  Imperial  Outer  Guard  of  Imperial  Council,  at  the  convention 
held  at  Indianapolis.  He  is  Past  Exalted  Ruler  in  the  Elks  Lodge 
No.  99,  and  Pa.=t  President  of  Ramona  Parlor,  Native  Son'^  of  the 
Golden  West.    He  belongs  also  to  the  Jonathan  Qub. 

Germain  Pellissier.  Among  those  who  are  justly  entitled  to  be 
enrolled  among  the  makers  of  the  great  commonwealth  of  California  and 
of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  was  the  late  Germain  Pellissier,  whose  more 
than  forty  years  of  residence  here  left  its  impress  upon  the  city  and  its 
institutions.  Although  born  in  one  of  the  historic  landmarks  of  Hautes- 
Alpes,  the  son  of  well  to  do  parents,  he  early  saw  the  great  possibilities 
which  the  state  of  California  presented,  and  as  a  consequence  in  1867. 
within  a  year  of  the  death  of  his  father,  left  his  native  place  and  immi- 
grated to  the  United  States.  He  possessed  some  small  inheritance,  and 
was  filled  with  high  hopes  and  a  laudable  ambition  to  succeed,  and  a 
volition  which  shrank  from  no  obstacles  or  difficulties  that  presented 
themselves  to  bar  his  progress.  He  came  at  that  fortunate  period  when 
everything  was  in  the  formative  state,  when  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  was 
a  pueblo,  with  only  a  few  thousand  inhabitants  and  an  actual  municipal 
area  of  twenty-eight  square  miles.  If  his  ambition  was  great,  his  rise 
was  rapid,  and  within  a  few  years  of  his  arrival  he  had  become  known 
as  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  community.  He  became  imbued 
at  a  very  early  period  with  the  idea  that  Los  Angeles  was  destined  to  be  a 


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great  city,  and  in  spite  of  ridicule  and  discouraging  prophecies  on  the 
part  of  others  backed  his  faith  by  investment  in  large  tracts  of  land. 
His  faith  and  enthusiasm  were  fully  vindicated,  and  the  property  which 
he  was  called  reckless  for  buying,  "because  it  was  so  far  out  in  the 
country,"  is  today  Pellissier  Square,  in  the  heart  of  the  fashionable  Wil- 
shire  district.  Among  the  early  settlers,  Mr.  Pellissier  was  a  typical 
pioneer  of  his  kind,  and  his  career  formed  part  of  the  history  of  Los 
Angeles ;  for  he  saw  it  grow  from  a  sleepy  frontier  town  into  one  of 
the  world's  great  metropolises. 

Germain  Pellissier  was  born  September  24,  1849,  in  Hautes  Alpes 
in  the  south  of  France,  the  youngest  of  the  ten  children  of  Jean  Francois 
and  Adelaide  (Bellue)  Pellissier.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  community,  and  as  a  youth  was  thoroughly  trained  as  a  farmer 
and  sheep  raiser,  his  father  having  followed  these  vocations  with  success 
for  many  years.  The  death  of  his  father  served  to  furnish  him  with 
the  funds  necessary  for  the  attainment  of  his  desire,  the  immigation  to 
America,  and  when  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age,  February  2,  1867. 
he  arrived  at  San  Francisco.  In  August  of  the  same  year  he  removed 
to  southern  California,  locating  at  Los  Angeles,  a  community  which 
immediatetly  presented  to  him  attractions  so  alluring  that  he  decided  to 
make  his  permanent  home  there.  Accordingly,  he  established  his  home 
at  Seventh  and  Olive  streets,  then  outside  the  city  limits,  but  a  district 
which  subsequently  became  one  of  the  important  business  centers  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  remained  there  for  twentv-eight  years,  having  built  in 
1888  the  Pellissier  Block,  which  at  that  time  represented  the  most  ad- 
vanced type  of  business  building.  This  property  still  is  retained  in 
the  family,  but  the  home  was  transferred  many  years  ago  to  697  South 
Serrano  Avenue,  where  his  widow  still  resides. 

Mr.  Pellissier  possessed  one  of  the  keenest  business  minds  among 
the  men  of  his  day  and  locality,  and  his  foresight  was  as  great  as  his 
judgment  was  sound.  His  view  extended  beyond  the  narrow  confines  of 
the  city  as  it  then  presented  itself  to  the  visitors,  and  clearly  outlined 
the  possibilities  of  the  future.  He  quickly  grasped  the  opportunity  of 
buying  large  tracts  of  land  for  a  nominal  price,  although  there  were 
many  who  were  not  slow  to  intimate  that  his  judgment  was  at  fault. 
Later  developments  showed  that  his  was  the  clearer  vision.  His  land 
at  the  time  of  its  purchase  was  converted  into  a  great  sheep  ranch,  and 
Mr.  Pellissier  soon  became  one  of  the  great  herdsmen  of  the  souihwest. 
In  his  operations  he  introduced  many  progressive  movements,  again 
evidencing  his  cool  judgment  and  remarkable  foresight.  In  1885  he 
retired  from  the  sheep-raising  industry  and  in  1887  disposed  of  some  of 
his  land  for  subdivision  purposes,  putting  Pellissier  tract  on  market. 

His  personal  interests  were  numerous  and  important,  including  con- 
nections w;ith  large  business  houses  and  financial  institutions.  While 
he  was  a  stanch  republican,  he  never  sought  office,  but  assisted  others 
of  his  party  to  high  position.  For  many  years  he  served  as  president 
of  the  French  Benevolent  Society  of  Los  Angeles.  Fond  of  travel,  with 
a  cultured  mind  which  enjoyed  and  appreciated  the  attractions  of  the 
old  world,  he  made  extended  tours  of  Europe,  accompanied  by  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  and  in  his  itinerary  included  France,  Switzerland, 
Germany,  Austria  and  Italy. 

Mr.  Pellissier  was  married  June  6,  1876,  at  San  Francisco,  to 
Marie  Julie  Darfeuille,  a  native  of  Paris,  who  survives  him  with  two 
daughters,  Marie  Louise,  Mrs.  de  Roulet,  and  Adelaide,  Mrs.  Hoyt 
Mitchel.     They  were  at  his  bedside  when  his  death  occurred  at  the  Los 


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Angeles  home,  January  15,  1908.  To  condense  the  work  of  an  active 
life  of  nearly  sixty  years,  embracing  the  functions  of  business  man, 
pioneer,  financier  and  citizen,  to  say  nothing  of  the  personal  and  social 
relations  which  occupy  so  much  of  the  time  of  one's  life,  into  the  few 
pages  of  a  sketch  is  to  exhibit  in  its  simple  and  rugged  outlines  the 
skeleton  of  a  subject  without  the  soft  integument  and  smooth  cover- 
ing that  give  it  the  form  and  color  and  beauty  of  comely  life.  These 
more  evanescent  but  yet  charming  details  must  be  left  to  the  imagina- 
tion of  the  reader,  only  premising  that  the  devoted  philanthropic  spirit, 
the  genuine  social  qualities  and  the  high  ideals  of  Mr.  Pellissier's  spirit 
rendered  his  life,  in  its  more  private  relations,  a  benediction  to  the 
,  circle  of  friends  among  whom  his  influence  was  felt. 

Elliott  H.  B.vrrett.  Admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1908,  Mr. 
Barrett  has  for  over  ten  years  been  a  hard  working  Los  Angeles  law- 
yer, and  is  recognized  for  his  exceptional  qualifications  as  a  probate 
lawyer  and  attorney  for  estates. 

He  came  to  Los  Angeles  when  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old. 
Mr.  Barrett  was  born  at  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  a  place  named  in 
honor  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  March  27 ,  1886.  His  parents  were  Sher- 
man H.  and  Anna  (Heywood)  Barrett.  His  parents  came  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1903,  and  both  are  now  deceased.  His  father  was  born 
at  Acton,  Massachusetts,  was  for  many  years  in  the  grocery  business, 
later  a  contractor,  and  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles  gave  all  his  atten- 
tion to  the  business  of  builder  and  contractor.  He  was  lineally  de- 
scended from  Captain  John  Barrett,  the  first  in  command  of  the  Con- 
tinental troops  at  the  battle  of  Lexington.  For  many  generations  the 
Barretts  were  people  of  consequence  in  and  around  Concord.  Mr.  Bar- 
rett's mother  was  born  in  Passadumkeag,  near  Old  Town,  Maine,  and 
was  one  of  a  family  of  eleven  children,  her  people  being  representative 
of  all  the  illustrious  virtues  of  Maine  families.  Mr.  Barrett's  father 
and  mother  were  both  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Sons  and  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution.  They  had  three  children,  Elliott  and  two 
daughters,  one  of  whom  is  now  deceased.  The  other  lives  in  Seattle, 
Washington. 

Mr.  Barrett  first  attended  school  in  his  native  village  of  Franklin, 
and  later  in  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles.  In  June,  1908,  he  received 
his  degree  in  law  from  the  University  of  Southern  California,  having 
been  admitted  to  the  bar  five  months  earlier.  For  about  a  year  after 
his  graduation  he  was  associated  with  the  firm  of  McDowell  &  Crandell, 
and  since  then  has  conducted  an  independent  practice  of  steadily  increas- 
ing volume  and  importance.  Among  other  interests  which  he  represents 
as  attorney  are  a  number  of  manufacturing  and  other  companies. 

Mr.  Barrett  is  one  of  the  well  informed  professional  men  upon 
whom  rests  the  responsibility  for  progressive  ideas  and  system  in  civic 
and  social  afl^airs.  He  i?  sn  active  republican  and  in  1914  was  a  can- 
didate on  that  ticket  for  justice  of  the  Peace  in  Los  Angeles  township. 
He  has  the  unqualified  endorsement  of  many  of  the  best  professional 
and  business  interests  of  the  city.  Mr.  Barret  is  a  very  able  public 
speaker,  and  the  full  strength  of  his  influence  is  given  to  every  worthy 
movement  in  local  aiTairs.  He  is  actively  identified  with  the  Los  Angeles 
County  Union  of  the  Christian  Endeavor,  and  has  been  superintendent 
of  its  Citizenship  and  Temperance  Department.  At  the  State  Conven- 
tion of  June,  1918,  he  was  one  of  the  most  active  boosters  in  proposing 
for  another  term  as  governor  the  Hon.  WiilHam  D.  Stephens.     He  is  a 


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member  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  and  has  been  chair- 
man of  its  Board  of  Trustees.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  the  City  Club  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Outside  of  his  profession 
he  spends  some  of  his  most  delightful  hours  at  the  hand-ball  courts  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  is  a  participant  in  many  of  the  athletic  competi- 
tions. In  1907  he  won  second  and  third  prizes  and  in  1916  first  prizes 
in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  indoor  athletic  meets. 

June  26,  1912,  Mr.  Barrett  married  Miss  H.  Leona  Hutchinson,  of 
Los  Angeles.  She  was  born  at  Union  City,  Michigan,  but  has  spent 
most  of  her  life  in  Los  Angeles,  where  she  attended  public  schools, 
also  the  Marlboro  School.  Her  parents  are  Marvin  J.  and  Nettie  A. 
(Doty)  Hutchinson,  of  Los  Angeles.  Her  father  is  well  known  in 
real  estate  circles.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barrett  have  one  son,  Robert  Hutchin- 
son Barrett.     The  family  home  is  at  4905   First  Avenue. 

James  Hosick.  In  James  Hosick  Los  Angeles  has  one  of  its 
best  qualified  lawyers,  who  Combines  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
law  with  an  experience  of  men  such  as  probably  no  other  attorney 
in  the  state  possesses.  Among  other  accomplishments  Mr.  Hosick  might 
qualify  as  an  expert  criminoligist,  but  his  enthusiasm  and  hard  work 
for  several  years  have  been  devoted  almost  entirely  to  his  growing  prac- 
tice as  a  lawyer. 

Mr.  Hosick  is  a  native  of  Scotland,  born  at  Edinburgh,  May  18, 
1872,  son  of  James  and  Agnes  (Clark)  Hosick.  His  father  died  in 
1918,  at  the  old  home  in  Scotland,  and  the  mother  is  still  living  in  that 
city.  James  Hosick,  Sr.,  was  a  carpenter  and  contractor,  and  was  bom 
in  the  same  house  as  his  son  James.  There  were  ten  children  altogether, 
six  sons  and  four  daughters.  One  son,  Daniel,  died  in  South  Africa 
while  in  the  service  of  the  British  government.  All  the  other  children 
are  living,  and  four  are  in  America.  John  Clark  Hosick  is  also  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles,  Hugh  Hosick  lives  in  Alaska,  and  a  married 
sister  has  her  home  in  Toronto,  Canada. 

Mr.  James  Hosick  was  well  educated,  attending  the  public  schools 
at  Edinburgh  and  also  Fettes  College  in  that  city.  At  the  age  of  nine- 
teen he  landed  in  New  York  and  at  once  crossed  the  continent  to  Los 
Angeles.  He  reached  America  with  a  cash  capital  of  fifteen  dollars 
and  with  no  immediate  prospect  of  an  improved  fortune  or  condition. 
At  Los  Angeles  he  worked  at  different  employments  and  attended  a 
business  college.  But  the  work  which  revealed  his  latent  abilities  came 
when  the  opportunity  was  afforded  him  by  Mayor  McAleer  to  become 
police  detective.  He  was  with  the  Los  Angeles  police  department  for 
thirteen  years,  most  of  the  time  in  charge  of  the  Bureau  of  Identifica- 
tion. He  became  an  expert  in  theory  and  practice  in  the  Bertillon  Sys- 
tem of  criminal  measurement,  including  finger  prints,  and  his  work 
brought  well  deserved  fame  to  the  Los  Angeles  Police  Department. 
Records  of  that  department  show  many  exceptional  services.  He  was 
given  a  diamond  medal  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors  for  exceptional 
bravery  and  a  vote  of  thanks  for  conduct  as  a  police  officer  in  1912 
when  he  captured  Carl  Warr,  known  as  the  "dynamite  fiend,"  when 
Warr  came  into  the  police  station  with  a  bomb  concealed  about  his 
person  and  for  the  purpose  of  blowing  up  the  building.  Mr.  Hosick 
was  also  one  of  the  conspicuous  figures  in  the  famous  case  of  the 
McNamara  brothers,  charged  with  complicity  in  the  dynamiting  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Times  Building,  which  resulted  in  the  killing  of  twenty-one 
persons.     Mr.  Hosick  was  charged  with  the  difficult  and  dangerous  task 


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of  bringing  J.  B.  and  J.  J.  McNamara  from  the  east,  and  drove  ihem 
eight  hundred  miles  across  the  continent,  exercising  every  precaution 
to  prevent  interference  by  labor  union  men.  Mr.  Hosick  was  indicted 
for  kidnapping  the  brothers,  and  four  times  had  to  face  trial  at  Indi- 
anapolis on  four  different  indictments.  Each  time  he  was  found  not 
guilty  by  Federal  Judge  Anderson  of  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Hosick  after  leaving  the  Police  Department  was  chief  deputy 
in  the  prosecuting  attorney's  office,  under  Joseph  McKeeby,  then  prose- 
cuting attorney,  but  now  Major  McKeeby  of  the  Expeditionary  Forces 
in  France. 

Mr.  Hosick  began  the  study  of  law  in  1911-12,  and  had  as  his 
instructors  Earl  Rogers,  E.  J.  Fleming  and  Kemp  B.  Kemper.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  California  Bar  January  23,  1913,  and  for  the  past  five 
years  has  been  in  active  practice,  except  for  two  years  spent  in  the 
prosecuting  attorney's  office.  Mr.  Hosick  has  a  host  of  warm  friends 
in  Los  Angeles,  among  all  classes  of  people,  and  has  built  up  a  fine 
clientage  during  the  two  years  of  his  professional  career. 

It  would  probably  be  Mr.  Hosick's  opinion  that  the  preceding 
account  leaves  out  the  one  most  important  and  significant  factor — his 
wife.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hosick  throughout  their  married  life  have  had  a 
singular  congeniality  of  interests  and  tastes.  Mrs.  Hosick  made  a  thor- 
ough study  of  the  theory  of  crime  detection,  and  became  almost  as 
expert  in  criminal  identification  as  Mr.  Hosick  himself.  In  fact  it  was 
through  their  joint  efforts  that  the  Police  Department  is  indebted  for 
their  reputation  as  possessing  one  of  the  best  identification  bureaus  in 
the  west.  When  Mr.  Hosick  studied  law  he  had  an  equally  able  ally 
in  Mrs.  Hosick.  She  is  thoroughly  versed  in  the  profession,  and  was 
his  tutor  and  presided  over  his  quizzes.  When  Mr.  Hohick  was  indicted 
for  the  kidnapping  of  the  McNamaras  he  acted  as  his  own  attorney,  and 
Mrs.  Hosick  was  his  legal  adviser  in  the  trial  of  the  cases  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hosick  were  married  at  Ventura,  California,  June 
16,  1895.  Her  maiden  name  was  Edith  Loretta  Fulstone.  She  is  a 
native  daughter  of  California,  and  grew  up  in  Ventura.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hosick  have  one  daughter,  Agnes  Aileen,  who  was  bom  at  Los  Angeles, 
was  educated  in  the  pubHc  schools,  also  at  Kernard's  Business  College 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Cumnock  School  for  Young  Women  of  this 
city. 

Mr.  Hosick  is  a  republican  in  politics,  is  secretary  of  the  Caledonian 
Club,  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  he  and 
his  family  are  Presbyterians. 

Page  Military  Academy,  a  boarding  and  day  school  for  young  boys, 
was  founded  in  1908  by  Mr.  Robert  Adams  Gibbs,  and  under  his  man- 
agement as  head  master  it  has  now  completed  ten  years  of  most  suc- 
cessful history. 

While  the  school  has  been  maintained  along  the  general  lines  of 
public  schools,  the  Page  School  has  many  special  and  highly  commend- 
able features.  Boys  between  the  ages  of  five  and  fourteen  are  enrolled, 
and  while  the  school  is  not  sectarian  as  to  religion  or  exclusive  as  to 
class,  an  appropriate  sifting  process  keeps  out  boys  whose  previous 
associations  and  character  would  make  them  undesirable.  Due  to  the 
successful  record  of  the  school  in  past  years,  the  number  of  pupils  is 
such  that  classification  is  possible  not  only  in  the  regular  grades  cor- 
responding to  grammar  schools,  but  a  division  into  classes  within  each 


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grade,  so  that  there  is  a  sufficient  number  in  each  class  to  promote 
wholesome  rivalry  and  competition,  and  at  the  same  time  the  teaching 
faculty  is  large  enough  so  that  each  pupil  receives  appropriate  and 
methodical  attention  from  the  staff  of  instructors.  The  first  four  grades 
are  taught  by  lady  teachers,  and  beginning  with  the  fifth  grade  the  boys 
are  under  men  teachers,  each  one  a  specialist  in  some  line  of  study. 

The  work  of  supervision  and  instruction  is  practically  continuous, 
and  there  is  a  harmonious  combination  of  the  playtime  and  study  time 
of  a  boy's  growing  life.  The  pupils  are  supervised  not  only  during 
recitation  periods,  but  also  during  the  study  periods,  and  boys  are  thus 
taught  that  most  indispensable  of  all  things,  how, to  study. 

As  the  school  is  maintained  only  for  boys  fourteen  or  under,  it  is 
not  a  military  school  in  the  popular  sense  of  training  youth  for  military 
duty,  and  the  military  drill  and  discipline  have  their  place  in  the  cur- 
riculum because  by  no  other  known  means  can  so  many  benefits  be 
conferred  upon  a  growing  boy  as  through  this  drill  and  discipline. 
While  the  actual  military  training  consumes  only  a  half  hour  five  times 
a  week,  yet  the  effects  and  benefits  in  inculcating  correct  and  orderly 
habits,  alert  bearing  and  obedience,  have  their  favorable  reactions 
throughout  the  entire  day.  Careful  attention  is  also  given  to  general 
athletic  exercises. 

For  the  first  seven  years  after  the  school  was  founded  its  home 
was  in  a  group  of  buildings  on  West  Adams  street.  In  the  fall  of  1915 
the  school  moved  to  new  and  specially  constructed  buildings  in  the  ex- 
clusive Wilshire  district  on  LaBrea  avenue,  between  Wilshire  and  Pico 
boulevards.  Here  the  school  has  a  campus  of  seven  acres,  and  offers 
every  facility  for  the  utmost  benefit  derived  from  outdoor  life.  The 
buildings  are  unsurpassed  by  those  of  any  private  school  in  southern 
California.  They  are  five  in  number,  all  two  stories  high,  and  con- 
nected by  arcades.  They  are  built  in  the  familiar  Spanish  Mission 
style,  and  the  construction  is  practically  fireproof. 

The  founder  and  head  master  of  the  Page  Military  Academy, 
Robert  A.  Gibbs,  was  born  at  Fort  Ann,  New  York,  October  6,  1871, 
son  of  Theron  Z.  and  Mary  J.  (Thomas)  Gibbs.  His  father  was  a 
graduate  physician.  Mr.  Gibbs  graduated  from  Vermont  Academy,  at 
Saxtons  River,  Vermont,  in  1892,  and  from  1893  to  1896  was  a  student 
at  Leland  Stanford  Jr.  University.  From  1897  to  1900  his  work  was 
as  a  public  speaker,  and  from  1903  to  1906  he  was  director  of  physical 
training  at  Rochester,  New  York.  After  work  in  the  Summer  School 
of  the  University  of  California  and  at  the  University  of  Southern  Cah- 
fornia,  he  was  granted  his  A.  B.  degree  in  1908.  Mr.  Gibbs  was  a 
teacher  at  the  Harvard  School,  at  Los  Angeles,  during  1906-07.  In 
1908  he  established  the  Page  Military  Academy.  Mr.  Gibbs  is  a  re- 
publican in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church. 

April  7,  1909,  he  married  Miss  Delia  M.  Page.  Mrs.  Gibbs  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Fayette  Normal  University,  at  Fayette,  Ohio,  with 
the  class  of  1894:  was  a  student  of  Hiram  College  from  1894  to  1897, 
after  which  she  taught  in  public  schools  at  Pulaski,  Ohio,  Eastonville 
and  Denver,  Colorado,  from  1900  to  1905,  and  in  1906  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  foi  three  years  associate  principal  of  the  Page  School 
for  Girls  at  Los  Angelef  Since  her  marriage  she  has  been  superin- 
tendent of  Page  Military  Academy.  She  is  the  mother  of  one  daughter, 
Edith  Caroline,  born  August  20,   1912. 

Mr.  Gibbs  has  always  been  interested  in  the  military  side  of  educa- 
tion.     In   1892'  Redfield    Proctor   of   Vermont,    then   secretary   of    war. 


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recommended  him  for  a  commission  as  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
Army.  In  response  to  his  request  to  be  allowed  to  serve  in  the  great 
war,  the  adjutant  general  of  the  Western  Department  replied:  "It  is 
believed  that  you  can  perform  a  duty  with  your  school  which  will  be 
as  useful  to  the  government  in  the  present  crisis  as  would  your  services 
in  the  army  be." 

Mr.  Gibbs  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club  of  Los  Angeles  and  of  the 
One  Hundred  Per  Cent  Club. 

R.WMOND  Ives  Bl.\keslee.  After  living  most  of  his  life  in  and 
about  New  York  City,  and  practicing  there  as  a  patent  attorney,  Mr. 
Blakeslee  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1907,  and  has  enjoyed  an  increasing 
practice  and  prestige  as  a  patent  lawyer  and  patent  solicitor,  in  which 
his  work  has  been   specialized. 

He  was  bom  at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  September  17,  1875,  son 
of  Cornelius  and  Mary  (Sanford)  Blakeslee.  All  his  direct  ancestors 
have  been  in  this  country  for  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  years, 
and  Mr.  Blakeslee  in  his  personal  views  reflects  some  of  the  sturdy 
and  independent  Americanism  which  made  this  a  great  nation.  He  is 
a  lineal  descendant  of  Governor  Bradford  of  the  Plymouth  Colony  of 
1620,  and  of  Generals  Wooster  and   Mansfield  of  the  Revolution. 

He  was  educated  in  the  Brooklyn  High  School  and  attended  the 
New  York  Law  School  during  1897-98,  also  pursuing  independent 
studies.  He  has  been  admitted  to  the  California  bar  and  the  federal 
courts.  For  three  years  he  was  in  partnership  with  Hon.  Tracy  C. 
Becker  under  the  firm  name  of  Becker  &  Blakeslee. 

Mr.  Blakeslee  acknowledges  no  affiliation  with  political  parties  at 
present.  He  was  formerly  a  progressive.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Los  Angeles  Bar 
Association.  In  1906,  at  Norwich,  Connecticut,  he  married  Miss  Helene 
M.  Beers,  daughter  of  Oliver  and  Letta  M.  Beers.  They  have  two 
children :  Loren  Ray,  attending  the  Page  Military  Academy,  and  Anita 
Dawn. 

John  Patrick  Coyne.  A  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1895, 
John  Patrick  Coyne  was  one  of  the  charter  organizers  of  the  Hiber- 
nian Savings  Bank,  but  his  principal  interests  in  business  affairs  until 
he  retired  were  mining  and  oil,  and  he  deserves  prominence  among 
the  group  of  men  who  have  done  most  to  develop  those  resources  of 
California. 

Mr.  Coyne,  wdio  was  born  June  27,  1861,  at  Castlereagh,  County 
Roscommon,  Ireland,  is  a  member  of  an  old  and  interesting  Irish  family. 
His  parents  were  Thomas  and  Rose  (Caulfield)  Coyne,  who  died  at 
the  old  home  in  Ireland,  where  four  generations  of  the  Coynes  have 
lived.  John  Patrick  has  no  memory  of  his  mother,  who  died  when  he 
was  an  infant.  His  father  was  a  carriage  builder  in  Ireland  and  also 
had  a  small  farm,  conducting  both  enterprises.  Thomas  Coyne  and  his 
brother  married  sisters,  and  the  families  all  grew  up  under  the  same 
roof  and  no  property  was  dived  until  the  oldest  child  of  both  families 
was  married.  When  the  household  gathered  around  the  table  fre- 
quently there  were  twenty-two  places  filled.  It  was  indeed  one  of  the 
good  old  families,  large  in  number  and  happy  and  congenial  in  all  their 
relationships.  The  Coynes  were  exceedingly  hospitable,  and  not  infre- 
quently fifty  people,  including  the  families,  gathered  around  the  family 
table   at   meal   time.      They   were   all   of   old   Catholic    stock.      Thomas 


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Coyne  and  wife  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  two  daughters 
are  now  deceased  and  the  two  older  sons,  Patrick  and  Thomas,  still 
live   in  Ireland. 

John  Patrick  Coyne  was  educated  by  a  private  tutor  at  home,  and 
then  served  an  apprenticeship  in  the  general  merchandise  business  under 
an  uncle.  This  was  an  establishment  in  which  everything  was  sold 
from  a  loaf  of  bread  to  a  steam  engine,  and  Mr.  Coyne  acquired  a 
practical  knowledge  of  nearly  every  phase  of  merchandising.  In  1878, 
when  he  was  seventeen  years  old,  he  came  to  the  United  States,  and 
from  New  York  City  went  to  Oswego  in  that  state,  and  a  year  later 
located  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  where  some  of  his  relatives  lived.  He 
lived  in  Memphis  ten  years,  and  while  there  was  buyer  and  manager 
of  a  large  commercial  house.  Mr.  Coyne  came  from  Memphis  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1895.  His  associates  in  organizing  the  Hibernian  Savings 
Bank,  today  one  of  the  big  banking  houses  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  were 
John  R.  Grant,  president  of  the  Grant  Construction  Company,  D.  F. 
McGarry,  of  the  McGarry  Realty  Company,  George  W.  Lichtenberger, 
of  the  Lichtenberger-Ferguson  Company,  Thomas  J.  Cunningham  of 
Cunningham  &  O'Connor,  and  G.  Allen  Hancock,  the  prominent  land- 
owner and  oil  operator.  Mr.  Coyne  kept  his  active  interest  in  the  bank 
only  about  a  year,  at  which  time  all  of  the  original  organizers  dis- 
posed of  their  interests  in  that  bank  and  retired,  with  the  exception  of 
G.  Allen  Hancock.  Since  then  Mr.  Coyne  has  been  primarily  engaged 
in  mining  and  oil  development.  All  his  interests  in  this  field  lie  in 
California.  He  has  been  interested  in  mining  for  approximately  twenty 
years.  He  is  vice  president  of  the  Feather  River  Land  &  Mining 
Company,  but  retired  from  active  business  in  1917.  He  still  retains 
his  office  in  the  Homer  Laughlin  Building,  in  which  he  has  been  a  tenant 
since  its  erection  and  is  the  only  one  of  the  original  tenants  left  in  the 
building  today. 

While  living  at  Memphis  Mr.  Coyne  was  a  member  of  the  Chicka- 
saw Guards  of  the  State  Militia.  In  politics  he  is  occasionally  influenced 
to  independent  support  of  certain  candidates,  but  generally  is  a  red  hot 
democrat.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Newman  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  a  charter  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  is  treasurer  of 
the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society,  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  Cathedral 
Chapel  Parish. 

In  September,  1895,  Mr.  Coyne  and  Miss  Louise  Henrietta  Rousseau, 
of  Memphis,  were  married  in  St.  Vincent's  church  at  Los  Angeles,  Rev. 
Father  Myer,  president  of  St.  Vincent's  College,  officiating.  Mrs.  Coyne 
was  born  in  Paris,  France,  and  is  a  niece  of  Valdec  Rousseau,  one  time 
president  of  the  French  Republic.  She  was  about  nineteen  years  old 
when  she  came  to  America.  She  had  previously  visited  friends  in  Eng- 
land. She  was  educated  in  a  French  convent  and  met  her  husband  in 
Memphis.  Mrs.  Coyne  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Ladies'  Club  and 
was  one  of  the  organizers  in  Los  Angeles  of  St.  Joseph  settlement  work. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coyne  having  no  children  of  their  own  have  made  many 
opportunities  to  exercise  their  deep  sympathy  through  philanthropic 
channels,  and  have  taken  into  their  home  and  reared  and  educated  five 
orphan  boys. 

RoBAH  J.  BiNKLEY.  As  president  of  the  Sugar  Machinery  Com- 
pany, Robah  J.  Binkley  is  a  manufacturer  whose  products  are  known 
practically  wherever  sugar  making  is  an  industrj'.    The  Sugar  Machinery 


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Company  has  been  developed  as  a  business  largely  on  the  basis  of  pat- 
ented and  perfected  devices  that  were  created  first  in  Mr.  Binkley's  brain 
and  worked  out  by  his  own  experience  and  skill. 

Mr.  Binkley  is  a  very  young  man,  but  has  long  been  traveling  the 
road  of  independent  self  effort.  He  was  born  October  13,  1889,  twelve 
miles  from  Winston-Salem,  North  Carolina.  His  early  days  were 
spent  on  his  father's  farm  in  that  noted  section  of  North  Carolina.  His 
father,  Daniel  Binkley,  was  a  Methodist  minister,  and  also  an  extensive 
land  owner.  The  mother.  Miss  Laura  Jarvis,  was  a  native  of  North 
Carolina.  His  great-great-grandfather  Binkley  was  of  English  and 
Scotch  ancestry  and  an  early  settler  in  the  colonies  of  the  east.  Daniel 
Binkley  was  widely  known  for  his  generosity,  and  expended  a  large  part 
of  his  earnings  as  a  minister  and  as  a  planter  on  charitable  causes  and 
missionary  work.  He  and  his  wife  represented  the  ideals  of  married 
companionship,  living  together  in  harmony  and  in  effective  cooperation 
and  presenting  an  example  of  good  not  only  to  their  own  children  but 
to  the  entire  community.  ♦ 

R.  J.  Binkley  being  a  minister's  son  was  very  conscious  of  the  fact 
and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  determined  to  shift  for  himself  and  escape 
the  common  conventional  criticisms  usually  made  of  the  son  of  a  minister. 
With  his  parents'  permission  he  left  home,  and  at  that  time  could 
scarcely  read  or  write.  He  attended  a  school  at  Lewisville,  North  Caro- 
lina, and  from  there  joined  a  construction  camp  at  Thomasville,  North 
Carolina,  in  the  building  of  a  new  railroad.  Later  he  was  employed  by 
the  engineering  department  of  the  Southern  Railway  until  he  was  eigh- 
teen years  old.  Meantime  he  was  making  assiduous  efforts  to  improve 
his  education  and  his  practical  abilities.  Every  night  he  wrote  his  name 
many  times,  studied  spelling,  and  read  everything  he  could  find.  His  edu- 
cation for  the  most  part  was  derived  from  night  study.  He  also  studied 
to  perfect  himself  in  the  practice  and  theory  of  civil  engineering. 

About  1907,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  Mr.  Binkley  came  west  to  Los 
Angeles,  and  tried  to  secure  employment  in  railroading,  but  found  so 
many  applicants  ahead  of  him  that  he  resigned  that  ambition  altogether. 
A  friend  in  Pasadena  was  a  landscape  gardener,  and  with  him  young 
Binkley  secured  a  position  with  one  of  the  large  hotels  trimming  shrubs 
and  taking  care  of  the  grounds. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  Mr.  Binkley  married  Helen  Soper,  of  Pasa- 
dena. It  was  a  youthful  marriage  but  has  proved  to  him  the  greatest 
single  good  fortune  of  his  life.  Mrs.  Binkley  is  a  native  of  California, 
and  her  father  was  a  wealthy  real  estate  owner,  being  one  of  the  pro- 
moters of  Long  Beach,  and  also  owns  some  property  in  Hollywood. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Binkley  have  two  children,  Dorothy  Lois,  born  in  1909 ;  and 
Robert  Joe,  born  in  1913.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Binkley  live  at  Long  Beach 
and  also  have  a  home  at  Pomona.  Mrs.  Binkley  is  an  active  club  woman,' 
has  organized  several  clubs  and  during  the  war  was  prominent  in  Red 
Cross. 

,  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Binkley  went  to  Montana  to  investigate  the 
irrigation  situation,  but  not  being  satisfied  with  the  outlook  he  returned 
to  California  and  in  1908  went  to  work  in  a  sugar  mill  as  a  mill  hand  or 
station  man.  He  remained  three  years,  and  during  that  time  began 
experimenting  in  sugar  machinery.  He  invented  several  devices  which 
were  not  successful.  The  fifth  one  proved  of  immediate  value.  A  very 
good  friend,  a  patent  lawyer  of  Los  Angeles,  recognized  the  possibili- 
ties of  his  new  devise  and  took  it  to  Washington  and  secured  a  patent. 
The  sugar  mill  for  which  he  had  been  working  adopted  the  invention  but 


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refused  to  pay  Mr.  Binkley  anything  for  it,  claiming  that  he  had  used 
their  time  and  shop  to  perfect  his  patent.  He  was  discharged  from  their 
pay  roll  and  immediately  started  out  to  sell  his  patent.  In  his  travels  he 
found  other  men  who  wished  him  to  sell  their  devices.  During  his  work 
of  experimentation  and  while  his  invention  was  developing  Mr.  Binkley 
had  accepted  assistance  from  his  friends  until  he  owed  nearly  four 
thousand  dollars,  but  within  three  months  after  his  device  was  patented 
he  had  paid  it  all  back.  To  perfect  his  invention  he  worked  at  night 
in  the  blacksmith  shop  of  a  friend,  and  finally  he  formed  the  partnership 
of  Binkley,  Page  &  Stepps,  and  as  the  business  grew  it  was  eventually 
incorporated  as  the  Sugar  Machinery  Company.  Mr.  Binkley  now 
has  the  controlling  stock  and  is  president  of  the  company.  ' 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  many  other 
social  organizations,  and  is  a  republican  voter.  He  is  one  of  the  popular 
business  men  of  southern  California  and  has  that  character  as  well  as 
genius  which  insure  him  the  confidence  of  his  associates,  and  in  all  his 
career  of  struggle  and  good  fortune  he  has  never  wanted  or  lacked  for 
financial  assistance  when  it  was  needed. 

Frank  Erwin  Woodley,  serving  his  second  elective  term  as  repre- 
sentative of  the  Third  District  on  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Los 
Angeles  county,  is  a  Californian  of  more  than  thirty  years  standing, 
and  has  long  been  prominent  in  fruit  growing,  mining,  and  business  and 
public  affairs. 

He  came  west  when  about  twenty-two  years  of  age  from  Wis- 
consin. He  was  born  at  Menominee,  in  that  state,  April  28,  1865,  a 
son  of  Rev.  Mathias  and  Julia  (Erwin)  Woodley.  His  father  and 
mother  were  both  born  in  Pennsylvania,  were  married  there,  and  his 
father  was  an  old-time  Methodist  minister,  but  did  all  his  active  work 
in  the  church  while  in  Wisconsin.  He  followed  his  son  to*  California 
in  1888,  and  after  that  was  interested  in  an  orange  ranch  in  Tulare 
county.  He  died  in  California  over  twenty  years  ago,  and  his  wife 
passed  away  about  the  same  time  while  on  a  visit  back  to  Wisconsin. 
Both  were  laid  to  rest  in  the  Rosedale  Cemetery  in  Los  Angeles.  In 
their  family  were  four  daughters  and  one  son.  The  two  .daughters 
still  living  are  Mrs.  Ella  T.  Condit  of  Chicago,  and  Mrs.  E.  Newman, 
wife  of  a  civil  engineer  in  Fresno  county. 

Frank  E.  Woodley,  youngest  of  the  family,  acquired  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Tomah,  Wisconsin,  attended  law  school  in  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  but  was  never  admitted  to  the  bar  and  never 
developed  any  practice.  He  gave  up  the  law  on  account  of  ill  health. 
Before  coming  to  California  he  was  in  a  law  office  at  Chippewa  Falls, 
Wisconsin.  In  1887  he  established  his  home  at  Riverside,  California, 
and  from  there  moved  to  Tulare  count}',  where  he  lived  fourteen  years. 
He  was  interested  in  the  growing  of  oranges  and  also  had  much  to  do 
with  the  establishment  of  a  water  system  at  Porterville  and  had 
active  charge  of  the  irrigation  works  for  fourteen  years.  He 
then  spent  a  year  with  the  Fay  Fruit  Company  in  Porterville,  in 
charge  of  their  orange  packing  house.  On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  Mr. 
Woodley  took  up  real  estate  and  mining,  and  that  is  his  business  at 
present.     He  is  connected  with  several  mining  companies. 

Mr.  Woodley  was  elected  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Sixty- 
fourth  Legislature  in  1913.  In  1914  he  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  County  Board  of  Supervisors  by  Governor  Johnson, 
and  was  regularly  elected  for  the  term  beginning  in  January,  1915,  and 


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was  re-elected  for  the  four-year  term  beginning  January  1,  1919.  Mr. 
Woodley  is  a  republican,  but  in  his  voting  usually  emphasizes  the  man 
and  principle  at  stake. 

Fraternally  he  is  affiliated  with  Hollywood  Lodge  No.  355,  at  Holly- 
wood, is  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Municipal  League,  and  his  church  membership  is  with  the 
Fifth  Church  of  Christ,   Scientist,  Hollywood. 

Mr.  Woodley  resicles  at  1405  Hayvenhurst  Drive,  in  West  Holly- 
wood. In  1893,  at  Porterville,  he  married  Miss  Mary  Hilton,  who 
was  born  and  educated  there  and  is  a  native  daughter  of  California. 
They  have  two  children,  Harold  Hilton,  a  high  school  student,  and 
Marion  Ruth.  Both  children  were  born  at  Porterville.  The  daughter 
inherits  the  strong  musical  tastes  of  her  father's  family,  and  even  in 
the  restricted  circles  of  her  friends  and  school  has  achieved  a  reputa- 
tion for  her  wonderful  voice.  She  is  now  studying  vocal  music  with 
Madam  Groff  Bryant,  at  Lombard   College,   in  Galesburg,   Illinois. 

John  Greer  C.vuev.  Ever  since  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1906, 
John  Greer  Carey  has  been  identified  in  some  capacity  with  what  is 
now  the  Equitable  Branch  of  the  Security  Trust  and  Savings  Bank. 
He  acquired  his  first  knowledge  of  banking  in  his  home  state  of  Wis- 
consin after  leaving  high  school,  later  acquired  a  liberal  university 
education,  and  his  work  at  Los  Angeles  has  brought  him  favorable 
recognition  as  one  of  the  more  prominent  younger  financiers  of  the 
city.  He  is  now  manager  of  the  Equitable  Branch  of  the  Security 
Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  one  of  the  largest  banking  organizations  in 
Southern  California. 

Mr.  Carey  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  in  Grant  county,  Wis- 
consin, August  21,  1880,  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Greer)  Carey,  the 
former  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  the  latter  of  Pennsylvania.  His 
father  spent  his  life  as  a  farmer  on  the  place  where  he  was  born,  and 
where  his  son  was  also  born,  and  was  a  successful  stock  man,  raising 
Shorthorn  cattle  and  draft  and  driving  horses.  He  died  in  1899.  The 
widowed  mother,  since  1909,  has  lived  in  Los  Angeles,  where  her  three 
youngest  children  also  reside.  The  oldest  of  the  family  is  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Ott  of  Winona,  Minnesota.  Dr.  G.  H.  Carey  is  the  well  known  eye, 
ear,  nose  and  throat  specialist  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Miss  Katharine  L. 
is  vice  president  of  the  Jefferson  High  School  of  this  city. 

John  Greer  Carey,  the  youngest  of  the  family,  attended  the  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  of  Bloomington,  Wisconsin.  After  graduating 
from  high  school  in  1898,  he  went  to  work  as  clerk  in  the  State  Bank 
of  Woodhouse  &  Bartley  of  Bloomington,  remaining  there  two  years, 
partly  from  his  desire  to  be  near  home  after  his  father's  death.  He 
then  went  to  Madison  to  complete  his  education,  entering  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin  and  graduating  with  the  A.  B.  degree  in  1905.  He 
specialized  in  the  School  of  Commerce,  making  his  studies  fit  in  with 
his  plans  for  a  business  career.  The  year  following  his  university 
work  Mr.  Carey  spent  in  Chicago  with  the  great  mail  order  house  of 
Sears,  Roebuck  &  Company. 

He  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  in  February,  1906,  and  in  June  of  the 
same  year  went  to  work  for  the  Equitable  Savings  Bank,  which  in 
January,  1912,  was  consolidated  with  the  Security  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank.  The  Equitable  Savings  Bank  was  in  the  Equitable  Building  at 
First  and  Spring  streets,  and  since  consolidation  it  has  been  known 
as  the  Equitable  Branch  of  the  larger  institution.     The  Security  Trust 


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&  Savings  Bank,  whose  officers  and  directors  are  meia  of  the  highest 
standing  in  financial  circles,  operates  four  banks  in  Los  Angeles  and 
has  total  resources  of  upward  of  sixty  million  dollars.  Mr.  Carey 
went  to  work  for  the  Equitable  Savings  Bank  as  a  clerk,  and  at  the 
time  of  its  consolidation  was  cashier.  His  services  were  retained  by 
the  larger  organization  in  the  capacity  of  assistant  manager,  and  since 
1916  he  has  been  manager. 

Mr.  Carey  is  an  active  member  of  the  Optimists  Club  of  Los 
Angeles,  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Automobile  Club  of   Southern   California. 

At  Long  Beach,  California,  July  12,  1910,  he  married  Miss  Faye 
Rogers  of  Elkhorn,  Wisconsin.  She  graduated  from  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  in  the  same  class  as  her  husband.  Mrs.  Carey  was  born 
at  East  Troy,  Wisconsin,  daughter  of  Oscar  B.  and  Ella  (Mills) 
Rogers,  an  old  Scotch  family  now  living  at  Elkhorn,  where  her  father 
for  many  years  was  a  merchant.  Mrs.  Carey  is  a  member  of  the 
Woman's  Club  of  Pasadena.  Their  home  is  at  1706  Electric  avenue, 
in  South  Pasadena.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carey  have  two  children,  natives 
of  Los  Angeles,  John  Rogers  Carey  and  Janet  Carey. 

Robert  J.  Gaffney.  Though  a  resident  of  southern  California  for 
a  number  of  years  and  with  important  business  interests  here,  Mr.  Gaff- 
ney laid  the  foundation  of  his  business  and  industrial  success  in  the  east. 
Through  his  own  enterprise  and  that  of  his  brothers  the  name  Gaffney 
for  years  has  had  an  outstanding  significance  in  the  chemical  industries 
and  in  the  manufacture  of  plate  glass,  window  glass,  charcoal,  alcohol 
and  other  essentials. 

The  Gaffney  family  is  descended  from  Milesius,  King  of  Spain, 
through  the  line  of  his  son  Heremon.  The  founder  of  the  family  was 
Fiacha,  ancestor  of  the  Southern  Hy  Nials  and  son  of  Nial  of  the  Nine 
Hostages,  King  of  Ireland,  A.  D.  379.  The  ancient  nafe  was  Rag- 
bheartach  and  signifies  "The  Stubborn."  The  possessions  of  the  clan  were 
located  in  the  present  county  of  Donegal. 

Mr.  Gaffney's  parents,  Michael  and  Matilda  (Leach)  Gaffney,  were 
born  in  Ireland,  were  sweethearts  in  their  youth,  but  were  married  after  , 
coming  to  the  United  States  Michael  Gaffney  came  over  on  a  steam- 
ship, and  his  sweetheart  followed  him  on  a  sailing  vessel,  being  nine 
weeks  on  the  voyage.  They  were  married  in  New  York  City,  where  they 
lived  several  years.  Michael  was  an  expert  dyer  and  bleacher.  In  the 
days  when  women  wore  hoop  skirts  and  waterfalls,  before  aniline  dyes 
were  known,  when  each  dyer  had  to  work  out  his  own  colors,  he  made 
a  specialty  of  coloring  jute  to  represent  women's  hair.  There  were  only 
three  in  New  York  City  engaged  in  this  industry.  In  later  years  he 
was  a  manufacturer  of  linens  and  cottons  at  Valley  Falls,  New  York, 
and  became  prominent  in  business  aft'airs,  opening  the  way  for  some  of 
the  enterprises  which  his  sons  so  successfully  developed.  He  was  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason,  and  all  five  sons  are  the  same,  while  his  young- 
est son,  Harry,  is  a  thirty-third  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason.  Michael 
Gaffney  was  born  in  1832  and  died  at  Kane,  McKean  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1907,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  His  wife,  who  was  born  in 
1833,  died  in  southern  Florida,  in  1910,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six.  Both 
were  buried  at  Kane,  Pennsylvania.  They  had  five  sons,  and  one  daugh- 
ter who  died  in  1915,  the  sons  are  all  living  and  engaged  in  manufac- 
turing. William  S.,  of  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  is  president  of  the 
Gaffney  Wood  Products  Company.     The  next   in   age  is  Robert  John. 


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George  M.,  of  Boston,  is  also  a  manufacturer  of  wood  products,  with  a 
plant  at  Warren,  New  Hampshire.  A.  H..  of  Kane,  Pennsylvania,  is 
president  of  the  American  Plate  Glass  Company  and  the  Kane  Window 
Glass  Company.  Harry  E.  is  general  manager  of  the  Gaflfney  Wood 
Products  Company  and  lives  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania. 

Robert  John  Gaffney  was  born  in  New  York,  January  14,  1863, 
and  was  educated  at  Valley  Falls,  where  he  also  had  his  early  business 
training  in  the  cotton  and  linen  mills  in  which  his  father  was  a  stock- 
holder and  general  manager.  On  leaving  home  he  spent  a  year  in  New 
York,  and  then  took  charge  of  a  store  connected  with  a  wood  alcohol 
works  at  Fishers  Eddy  in  Delaware  County,  New  York.  Mr.  Gafifney 
is  a  pioneer  in  the  wood  alcohol  industry,  and  in  1888  built  the  first  wood 
alcohol  plant  in  Austin,  Pennsylvania,  later  moving  it  to  Bradford,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  which  city  is  now  located  the  head  office  of  the  Gafifney 
Wood  Products  Company,  with  plants  all  around  that  section  of  the 
state.  The  dozen  plants  formerly  operated  by  the  company  have  since 
been  consolidated  and  reduced  to  six,  four  In  Pennsylvania,  one  in  New 
York,  and  one  now  in  the  course  of  construction  and  the  first  of  its  kind 
in  the  state  of  Mississippi.  The  principal  output  of  these  industries 
are  wood  alcohol,  acetate  of  lime,  charcoal  and  wood  tar  oils. 

Mr.  Gafifney  is  personally  known  by  every  extensive  user  of  char- 
coal east  of  Chicago,  and  originated  the  practice  of  putting  charcoal  in 
paper  bags  for  kindling  fires,  handled  through  grocery  and  other  retail 
stores.  From  1896  to  1901  he  controlled  all  the  charcoal  manufactured 
east  of  the  Mississippi  River  and  sold  the  same.  His  business  was 
then  known  as  the  American  Charcoal  Company,  and  is  now  the  Standard 
Charcoal  Company,  with  headquarters  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  Gaft'ney  is  a  director  of  the  American  Plate  Glass  Company 
and  the  Kane  Window  Glass  Company  of  Kane  Pennsylvania,  is  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Tuna  Glass  Company  of  Clarksburg,  West  Virginia,  and 
was  one  of  the  early  directors  and  executives  of  the  Wood  Products 
Company  of  Bulifalo.  New  York,  and  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
United  States  Industrial  Alcohol  Company,  which  handles  all  the  indus- 
trial alcohol  in  this  country.  He  was  instrumental  in  building  the  first 
charcoal  iron  furnace  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  in  which  enterprise  the  late 
Senator  Mark  Hanna  was  associated  with  him. 

Mr.  Gafifney  has  also  been  prominently  identified  with  the  production 
of  oil  throughout  the  United  States  since  1890,  having  operated  in  Ohio, 
Pennsylvania,  Kentucky,  Indiana,  Kansas,  California,  etc.  The  chief 
one  of  his  important  business  connections  in  California  is  the  Quintuple 
Oil  Company,  with  ofifices  in  Los  Angeles  and  the  property  in  Orange 
County.  He  is  president  of  this  company  and  is  a  director  of  the  La 
Habra  GasoHne  Company  of  Los  Angeles.  He  also  owns  an  orange  and 
lemon  grove  consisting  f)f  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  at  Strathmore, 
California. 

In  addition  to  his  many  activities  as  above  mentioned  he  has  been 
interested  in  several  banks,  formerly  in  the  Bradford  National  Bank  of 
Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  and  at  present  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Lindsay 
Ivfational  Bank  of  Lindsay,  California.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Blue  Bill 
Gun  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  the  Automobile  Club  of 
southern  California,  is  a  republican,  and  belongs  to  several  Masonic 
bodies  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  and  to  Ismalia  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine  at  Bufifalo,  New  York. 

In  1917  he  built  his  home  at  449  South  Plymouth  Boulevard, 
Windsor  Square.     Mr.  Gaftney  married  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  June 


30.?  LOS  ANGELES 

5,  1895,  Miss  Adelaide  L.  Wyman,  daughter  of  Adam  L.  and  Sophia 
(Phalar)  Wyman,  of  Rochester,  New  York.  Her  parents  are  both 
deceased.  Mrs.  Gatifney  was  born  and  educated  at  Oil  City,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  in  a  young  ladies'  school  at  Rochester,  New  York.  Their 
three  children,  all  born  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  were  John  Wyman, 
Edwin  Arnold,  who  died  at  the  age  of  four  years,  and  Marian  Adelaide, 
a  student  in  Marlborough  School  for  Girls.  The  son,  J.  Wyman,  was 
born  August  22,  1897,  educated  in  public  schools  of  Bradford,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  preparatory  school  at  Asheville,  NoNrth  Carolina,  and  was 
attending  Leland  Stanford  University  when  he  entered  the  Officers 
Training  Camp  at  Fort  McArthur,  in  the  heavy  Artillery,  receiving  his 
honorable  discharge  December  13,  1918.  With  the  assistance  of  his 
father  he  has  since  organized  the  Gaffney  Motor  Sales  Company,  of 
which  he  is  general  manager.  This  company  has  the  agency  for  the 
Owen  Magnetic  automobile  and  the  Raulang  Electric  car  and  the  Mil- 
burn  Electric  car.  Their  salesrooms  are  located  at  672-674-676  South 
Alvarado  Street. 

Charles  Lincoln  Myers.  Within  recent  years  the  general  public 
has  begun  to  understand  and  appreciate  the  value  and  importance  of 
organized  labor,  and  as  the  people  become  educated  to  further  degree 
this  realization  will  result  in  improved  conditions  throughout  not  only 
this  but  other  countries.  Never  before  in  the  history  of  the  world  has 
the  working  man  been  accorded  such  recognition  as  today,  when  the 
dignity  and  importance  of  labor  honestly  performed  is  urged  by  the 
leaders  of  organized  labor.  This  condition  has  been  brought  about 
gradually,  and  principally  through  the  efiforts  of  the  more  conservative 
of  the  men  placed  in  authority  by  their  fellow  workers,  and  among  them 
one  worthy  of  more  than  passing  mention  is  Charles  Lincoln  Myers,, 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  Central  Labor  Council  of  Los  Angeles. 

Charles  Lincoln  Myers  was  born  at  Louisville,  Ohio,  August  31, 
1885,  and  there  attended  the  common  and  high  schools,  and  learned  the 
machinist  trade  in  Alliance,  Ohio.  Li  1906  he  was  attracted,  as  have 
been  so  many  of  the  ambitious  young  men  of  the  country,  to  the  coast, 
and  found  ready  employment  in  the  shops  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
road at  Los  Angeles  as  a  machinist.  With  the  labor  troubles  of  1911 
Mr.  Myers  left  these  shops  on  account  of  a  strike  being  called,  and 
for  the  subsequent  three  years  was  fully  occupied  with  the  duties  per- 
taining to  the  office  of  treasurer  of  the  Machinists'  Union,  to  which  he 
was  elected  in  1909.  In  1911  he  was  elected  financial  secretary,  which, 
position  he  held  for  a  period  of  two  years.  For  eight  years  Mr.  Myers 
took  a  very  active  part  in  securing  better  conditions  for  his  associates 
as  a  delegate  to  the  Central  Labor  Council  and  to  other  conventions  of 
his  union,  and  his  ability  and  knowledge  of  men  and  affairs  received 
recognition  to  such  an  extent  that  in  1914  he  was  elected  assistant  secre- 
tary of  the  Central  Labor  Council,  and  in  1915  was  elected  secretary- 
treasurer,  which  office  he  has  since  held. 

There  are  102  unions  in  Los  Angeles,  and  each  one  sends  three 
representatives  to  the  Central  Labor  Council  each  Friday  night,  at  which 
time  all  matters  which  have  been  referred  to  it  are  settled  by  this 
council.  A  practical  man,  Mr.  Myers  has  had  every  opportunity  to 
study  labor  conditions,  and  is  a  firm  believer  in  organized  labor,  although 
he  realizes  that  there  is  still  much  to  be  done  to  educate  the  public  as  to 
the  value  of  unions.  He  declares  that  during  the  great  war  all  of  the 
labor  councils  followed  strictly  the  regimen  laid  out  by  the  government. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  3U3 

and  all  of  the  requirements  were  responded  to  generously  by  all  the 
members  of  the  unions. 

On  May  21,  1908,  Mr.  Myers  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Elizabeth  a'.  Carter  of  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  they  have  two  sons, 
Lewis  E.  and  Charles  Lincoln  Jr.  Mr.  Myers'  interest  is  centered  in 
his  work  and  he  has  little  taste  or  time  for  club  life.  Quiet  and  un- 
assuming in  manner,  he  gains  attention  through  his  genuine  sincerity 
and  undoubted  faith  in  the  justice  of  his  organizations.  Pleasing  in 
personality,  he  seeks  to  convince  through  argument  and  facts  rather  than 
force,  and  his  example  is  one  which  results  in  beneficial  results,  for  he 
is  able  to  control  those  who  would  go  to  extremes  to  bring  together 
the  opposing  elements  and  effect  a  satisfactory  arrangement  between 
capital  and  labor,  and  at  the  same  time  establish  a  better  understanding 
between  both  sides.  Such  men  as  Mr.  Myers  are  raising  high  standards 
for  organized  labor  and  gaining  for  the  workingmen  the  rights  to  which' 
they  are  undoubtedly  entitled,  without  undue  hardship  to  any  class. 

Camillus  John  Williams.  The  career  of  Camillus  John  Wil- 
liams, of  Los  Angeles,  furnishes  a  most  interesting  study,  as  well  as 
food  for  much  wholesome  thought.  Left  an  orphan  in  infancy,  com- 
pelled to  overcome  numerous  obstacles  in  the  acquirement  of  an  educa- 
tion, his  life  has  been  one  of  distinctive  and  growing  achievements, 
culminating  in  the  founding  and  substantial  establishment  of  an  in- 
stitution which  has  taken  high  rank  in  the  educational  field,  the  Williams 
International  School. 

Mr.  Williams  was  born  at  Newport,  Isle  of  Wight,  south  of'  Eng- 
land, July  18,  1861.  He  did  not  know  his  parents,  who  died  when  he 
was  but  two  years  of  age,  and  his  education,  largely  self-gained,  was 
acquired  at  Newport,  where  he  made  his  home  until  he  was  eighteen 
years  of  age.  At  that  time  he  went  to  Paris  to  teach  English  as  a  private 
tutor,  and  during  the  three  years  that  he  remained  in  the  famous  capital 
acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  French  language.  From  Paris  he  went 
to  Barcelona,  Spain,  where  he  taught  French,  English  and  Spanish,  and 
when  twenty-three  years  of  age  settled  at  Genoa,  Italy,  where  he  was 
an  instructor  in  the  three  same  languages.  He  was  similarly  engaged 
in  Switzerland  for  three  years,  and  at  Buenos  Aires,  South  America, 
for  a  like  period,  subsequently  going  to  Montevideo,  Uruguay,  where 
he  estabhshed  a  school  of  languages  and  remained  until  1890.  In  .-hat 
year  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  located  at  New  York  City,  but 
for  the  following  two  years  was  not  actively  employed,  and  in  1892 
went  to  Mexico,  where  he  resinned  his  educational  activities.  In  1898 
he  was  married*  in  Mexico  to  Louise  Rani,  a  native  of  Rome,  Italy.  Mr. 
Williams  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1912  and  established  what  was  at 
first  known  as  the  Swiss  College  of  America,  but  which  is  now  called  the 
Williams  International  School.  Mr.  Williams  has  a  growing  school, 
well  organized,  and  is  a  power  for  good  among  his  boys,  who  under  his 
capable  instruction  are  being  fitted  for  work  in  foreign  countries  through 
their  mastery  of  foreign  languages.  He  has  an  all-absorbing  love  for 
boys  and  young  men,  which  assists  him  materially  in  winning  their  con- 
fidence and  thus  greatly  adds  to  his  natural  ability  as  an  instructor. 
Likewise  he  is  devoted  to  Los  Angeles  and  its  interests  and  is  a  generous 
and  helpful  supporter  of  all  worthy  movements.  He  has  leased  con- 
siderable ground  adjoining  his  school,  and  when  he  has  completed  his 
plans  will  build  extensively,  at  which  time  the  institution  will  allow  a 
limited  number  of  boarders. 


304  LOS  ANGELES 

The  Williams  International  School  is  dedicated  to  the  parents  of 
the  country  who  have  the  best  interests  of  their  children  at  heart. 
Character  building  is  one  of  its  features.  The  students  are  taught  to 
be  ambitious,  energetic,  independent  and  to  respect  their  comrades  and 
be  respected  by  them.  The  amusements  and  diversions  of  the  students 
are  supervised  and  shared  by  their  instructors.  The  intensive  personal 
instruction  which  is  given  by  the  institution  under  Mr.  Williams'  super- 
intendency  in  all  branches  of  study  prescribed  for  graded  and  high 
schools  guides  and  advances  the  talented  youth  and  encourages  and 
awakens  the  backward  student  in  a  manner  impossible  by  any  other 
method.  The  facilities  offered  by  the  school  for  the  study  of  foreign 
languages  are  unique  and  worthy  of  special  attention,  and  the  school  is 
prepared  to  offer  personal  instruction  by  competent  native  teachers  and 
constant  association  and  conversation  with  those  who  speak  French, 
Spanish  and  Italian. 

The  school  occupies  a  choice  site  on  West  Adams  street,  near 
Chester  Place,  the  finest  residence  district  in  a  city  world-famed  for 
its  beautiful  homes,  and  the  beauty  and  magnitude  of  the  buildings 
particularly  fit  them  for  its  purposes.  The  heating,  lighting,  ventilation 
and  sanitation  are  perfect,  and  the  spacious,  well-located  rooms,  the 
porches  and  the  verandas  are  ample  for  all  occasions.  The  gardens, 
lawns  and  tree-bordered  walks  afford  most  agreeable  places  for  rest 
and  diversion  after  the  daily  periods  of  study.  The  school  endeavors 
to  be  and  succeeds  in  being  a  true  home  for  its  pupils,  who  find  a  home- 
like air,  with  careful  and  prudent  discipline.  It  has  been  the  aim  of 
Professor  Williams,  by  precept  and  example,  to  stimulate  nobility  and 
manliness  in  the  youth  entrusted  to  the  care  of  the  institution.  The 
class  rooms  are  furnished  according  to  the  latest  ideas,  every  effort  has 
been  made  to  furnish  a  model  institution,  and  the  food  is  carefully 
selected  and  prepared,  wholesome  and  abundant.  The  Williams  Inter- 
national School  is  dedicated  to  the  harmonious  mental  and  physical 
development  of  its  pupils,  and  to  that  end  provision  is  made  for  not 
only  gymnastic  apparatus  and  instruction,  but  also  frequent  excursions 
to  the  mountains,  the  beaches  and  through  the  countryside,  thus  giving 
the  pupils  every  possible  opportunity  to  observe  the  actual  operation  of 
factories,  farms  and  other  businesses  that  they  may  familiarize  them- 
selves with  practical  affairs.  Under  the  direction  of  the  school,  students 
may  prepare  and  finish  for  careers  in  medicine,  law,  chemical  engineer- 
ing, mechanical  engineering,  agriculture,  finance,  painting,  commerce  in 
all  its  branches,  etc. 

In  addition  to  the  Williams  International  School,  Professor  Wil- 
liams is  also  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Cftmmerce.  His 
children  are:  Mar\',  Luz,  Anita,  Rosita,  Sophia,  Sarita,  Elvira,  Eddie 
and  Charles. 

George  Doddridge  Rowan,  who  died  at  his  home  in  Los  Angeles, 
September  7,  1901,  was  one  of  the  notable  group  of  men  whose  en- 
thusiasm, faith,  energy  and  foresight  constituted  the  foundation  stones 
upon  which  the  Los  Angeles  of  the  present  generation  rests.  He  lived 
long  enough  to  realize  many  of  his  early  visions  and  the  fruits  of  the 
efforts  expended  by  him  and  his  associates.  But  his  active  career  was 
identified  with  the  Los  Angeles  of  forty  years  ago,  when  perhaps  not 
even  the  most  sanguine  and  optimistic  mind  could  comprehend  half 
the  development  that  has  since  taken  place.  However,  the  late  Mr. 
Rowan  often  predicted  that  Los  Angeles  would  be  built  solid  from  the 
mountains  to  the  sea,  and  that  is  no  longer  a  visionary  ideal. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  305 

He  represented  an  old  New  York  State  family,  a  son  of  James 
and  Rebecca  Rowan,  and  his  father  was  a  merchant  at  Batavia,  New 
York.  George  D.  Rowan  was  born  at  Corfu,  New  York,  November 
7,  1843.  He  attended  the  public  schools,  afterward  entering  Union 
College,  in  New  York  State.  He  later  entered  ui)on  a  business  career 
in  association  with  his  brother-in-law,  E.  B.  Millar.  This  firm  entered 
the  wholesale  grocery  trade  at  Lansing,  Michigan,  under  the  name  E. 
B.  Millar  &  Company.  In  the  early  70s  they  went  to  Chicago,  where 
they  were  importers  of  teas,  which  business  grew  and  prospered  and 
is  now  one  of  the  great  commercial  institutions  of  the  metropolis  of 
the  middle  west.  Mr.  Rowan's  part  in  the  business  was  in  broadening 
its  trade  connections  and  effectively  organizing  them  over  the  west. 
He  finally  went  to  the  Orient  and  for  more  than  a  year  made  his  home 
at  Yokahama,  Japan. 

On  account  of  his  wife's  failing  health,  Mr.  Rowan  retired  from 
the  Chicago  business  in  1876,  and  shortly  afterward  located  at  Los 
Angeles.  At  that  time  Los  Angeles  had  achieved  only  a  modest  dignity 
as  one  of  the  coast  cities.  Mr.  Rowan  conducted  a  grocery  store  on 
North  Main  street  in  1884,  and  during  the  following  year  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  Jennings  &  Rowan,  commission  merchants  at  San 
Francisco.  On  his  return  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1885,  Mr.  Rowan  entered 
the  field  where  his  abilities  enabled  him  to  be  of  greatest  service  to 
the  expanding  city  of  his  choice.  He  was  a  pioneer  real  estate  operator 
aiid  used  his  growing  means  and  prestige  to  attract  many  substantial 
residents  to  the  city.  He  participated  in  the  historic  boom  of  1887,  and 
though  two  or  three  years  later  the  collapse  of  this  period  of  prosperity 
was  regarded  in  the  light  of  a  calamity,  more  mature  judgment  accords 
to  Mr.  Rowan  and  his  associates  a  substantial  work  and  a  stimulus  to 
prosperity  which  without  doubt  hastened  the  recovery  of  values  and 
ushered  in  the  long  and  stable  era  of  growth  which  has  taken  place 
in  the  last  quarter  of  a  century.  Much  of  the  larger  significance  of 
his  business  career  is  reflected  in  the  fact  that  in  his  transactions  he 
was  associated  with  a  group  of  men  including  such  outstanding  figures 
as  Colonel  J.  B.  Lankershim,  O.  H.  Churchill,  I.  N.  Van  Nuys  and  Otto 
Mueller.  Mr.  Rowan  specially  emphasized  his  faith  in  Broadway  even 
when  it  was  called  Fort  street.  He  acquired  much  property  on  that 
thoroughfare  and  could  never  be  induced  to  sell  a  foot  of  it. 

His  formal  retirement  from  business  life  came  in  1889,  though  he 
guided  many  large  private  affairs  for  a  number  of  years  afterward. 
He  then  lived  in  Pasadena  until  1898,  which  year  saw  his  return  to 
Los  Angeles.  " 

One  of  the  interesting  though  smaller  achievements  of  his  long 
career  is  the  fact  that  he  is  credited  with  introducing  the  first  nickels 
or  five-cent  pieces  into  common  usage  at  Los  Angeles,  where  previously 
popular  prejudice  had  practically  barred  that  coin  from  circulation.  He 
was  very  popular  in  social  organizations,  was  active  in  church,  an  ad- 
vocate of  temperance  and  woman's  suffrage  and  has  properly  been 
esteemed  as  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school  who  placed  honor  above  all 
other  considerations. 

At  Lansing,  Michigan,  in  1873,  Mr.  Rowan  married  Miss  Fannie 
F.  Arnold,  a  native  of  Rensselaer  County,  New  York.  Mrs.  Rowan, 
who  is  still  living,  is  the  mother  of  eight  children :  Robert  A.,  Frederick 
S.,  Earl  Bruce,  Paul,  Benjamin,  Philip  Doddridge,  Fannie  F.  and 
Florence. 


306  LOS  ANGELES 

George  F.  Dustin,  president  of  the  Dustin-Roman  Auto  Top 
Company  of  Los  Angeles,  was  born  at  Sandwich,  New  Hampshire, 
March  15,  1862,  a  son  of  Ezekel  and  Elsie  Dustin.  His  public  school 
education  continued  only  until  he  was  ten  years  of  age.  j\lr.  Dustin 
being  of  a  very  tender-hearted  and  sensitive  nature,  on  being  punished 
by  his  father,  left  home  at  the  age  of  ten.  He  made  his  own  way  in 
the  world  by  working  on  a  New  England  farm  near  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  until  the  age  of  eighteen,  when  he  determined  to  advance 
and  broaden  his  knowledge  of  the  world.  Leaving  the  farm,  lie  went 
to  Boston,  jMassachusetts,  entering  the  employ  of  John  T.  Smith  as  an 
apprentice  to  learn  the  carriage  makers'  trade.  In  a  very  short  time 
he  was  promoted  to  manager  of  the  Smith  establishment,  remaining 
with  the  above  firm  for  six  years. 

Mr.  Dustin  always  having  had  a  great  desire  to  take  up  art,  and 
having  acquired  the  means  that  would  enable  him  to  gratify  his  natural 
inclination,  he  entered  the  Boston  Conservatory  of  Music  and  Art.  Ap- 
plying himself  diligently  here,  as  in  all  other  undertakings,  he  soon 
acquired  much  proficiency  in  the  fine  arts  and  for  the  next  eleven  years 
he  followed  this  profession. 

When  the  automobile  was  in  its  infancy  Mr.  Dustin  saw  that  it 
would  be  the  coming  business,  and  his  previous  knowledge  in  the  car- 
riage business  stood  him  in  good  stead.  Looking  for  a  location,  he  de- 
cided on  Denver,  Colorado.  Here  he  opened  a  plant  for  the  manufacture 
of  automobile  tops,  seat  covers,  painting,  etc.,  similar  to  his  present 
business.  He  remamed  in  Denver  until  1913,  when  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles  and  became  associated  with  a  firm  in  the  auto  top  and  painting 
business. 

In  March,  1918,  he  organized  the  Dustin-Roman  Auto  Top  Com- 
pany, with  himself  as  president,  Mrs.  M.  M.  Moore  vice-president,  and 
Mr.  J.  T.  Roman  secretary  and  treasurer.  They  chose  their  present 
location.  Eleventh  and  Figueroa  streets,  having  built  for  their  own 
use  a  modern  building  100  by  170  feet.  Mr.  Dustin  saw  to  it  that  his 
building  was  well  adapted  for  his  particular  business  in  having  it  well 
ventilated  and  with  plenty  of  light  and  other  conveniences  that  would 
enable  him  to  turn  out  good  work.  The  business  started  with  the  help 
of  seventeen  people,  and  now  the  pay  roll  has  more  than  thirty  of  the 
best  experienced  workmen  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Dustin  is  the  inventor  of  the  special  solid  top  which  is  now  so 
much  in  vogue  in  California,  and  several  hundred  orders  for  solid  tops, 
seat  covers,  painting,  etc.,  have  been  turned  out  from  this  plant. 

C.  C.  C.  T.\TUii,  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  realtor,  with  offices  in 
the  Merchants  National  Bank  Building,  is  one  of  the  highly  successful 
business  men  of  the  city.  He  was  probably  born  with  some  of  his  talent 
of  salesmanship,  has  had  it  developed  and  refined  by  an  experience 
beginning  in  boyhood,  and  in  addition  has  achieved  the  thorough  under- 
standing and  knowledge  that  is  at  the  foundation  of  a  successful  career 
in  real  estate.  Mr.  Tatum  has  been  a  resident  of  Southern  California 
over  twenty  years. 

He  was  born  at  St.  Louis,  IMissourir  October  22,  1879,  a  son  of 
Joseph  Tabor  and  Adele  (Lynch)  Tatum,  his  mother  still  living  in  Los 
Angeles.  His  parents  were  both  born  in  St.  Louis,  his  father  in  1837. 
They  were  married  in  that  city  October  25,  1866,  and  Joseph  T.  Tatum 
died  in  Los  Angeles  January  8,  1916.  Had  he  lived  nine  months  longer 
he  would  have  celebrated  their  fiftieth  or  golden  wedding  anniversary. 


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Joseph  T.  Tatum  was  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  practiced  in  St.  Louis 
more  than  forty  years.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  with  the 
class  of  1859.  When  he  attended  the  fiftieth  anniversary  class  reunion 
in  1909  there  were  only  seventeen  survivors  out  of  a  large  class.  Soon 
after  leaving  Yale  he  entered  the  Civil  war,  serving  in  Merrill's  Horse, 
a  regiment  of  Missouri  cavalry.  During  the  latter  part  of  the  war  he 
was  judge  advocate  of  the  New  Orleans  District.  Joseph  T.  Tatum  and 
wife  and  family  came  to  Los  Angeles  from  St.  Louis  in  1897.  Though 
he  was  admitted  to  the  California  bar,  he  never  engaged  in  active  prac- 
tice on  account  of  growing  deafness.  The  widowed  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Henry  C.  and  Victoria  Charleville  Lynch.  The  Charleville 
family  were  pioneers  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  Mrs.  Tatum  received  her 
early  education  in  Sacred  Heart  Convent  at  St.  Louis.  She  became  the 
mother  of  nine  children,  eight  sons  and  one  daughter.  Three  of  the 
sons  are  deceased.  Those  living  are  all  residents  of  California,  though 
their  homes  are  widely  scattered. 

C.  C.  C.  Tatum,  the  seventh  in  age  among  the  children,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis.  Even  while  a  schoolboy  on 
Saturdays  and  during  vacations  he  worked  as  cash  boy  with  the  cloth- 
ing house  of  Browning,  King  &  Company.  Then  from  1895  to  1897 
he  was  a  clerk  in  that  establishment,  and  in  November,  1897,  he  came 
to  Los  Angeles.  For  about  a  year  he  was  a  clerk  with  Sanborn,  Vail 
&  Company  at  Los  Angeles,  and  held  some  other  positions.  In  April, 
1899,  he  became  real  estate  salesman  for  Edward  D.  Silent  &  Company, 
and  during  the  next  three  years  acquired  a  vast  amount  of  knowledge 
of  local  real  estate.  In  1902  he  engaged  in  business  for  himself,  form- 
ing a  partnership  with  Sam  and  Paul  Schenck  under  the  name  Schenck, 
Tatum  &  Schenck.  Then  in  1904  he  withdrew,  and  continued  business 
alone  until  1908,  when  he  became  a  partner  in  the  Tatum-Winstanley 
Company,  but  in  recent  years  has  been  again  operating  under  his  in- 
dividual name,  a  name  widely  known  and  recognized  in  and  around 
Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Tatum  is  in  a  general  real  estate  business,  handling 
orange  groves,  city  property,  subdivisions  and  practically  anything  and 
everything  connected  with  real  estate.  He  has  done  a  good  deal  of  sub- 
dividing in  and  around  Los  Angeles. 

At  different  times  Mr.  Tatum  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  politics 
as  a  matter  of  encouraging  good  government  and  good  men  to  office, 
without  any  ambition  of  his  own.  His  partisan  affiliation  is  as  a  repub- 
lican. He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Realty 
Board,  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  California  State  Realty  Federa- 
tion, was  a  director  three  years  and  first  vice-president  one  term  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  and  is  a  member  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Real  Estate  Boards,  the  members  of  which,  in  accordance  with 
a  recent  resolution,  are  entitled  to  use  the  term  "Realtor"  in  designat- 
ing their  business. 

Mr.  Tatum  married  Miss  Blanche  LeDoux,  daughter  of  Dr.  J.  A. 
and  Alice  (Nadeau)  LeDoux  of  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Tatum  was  born 
in  Montreal,  Canada,  and  when  an  infant  was  brought  to  Los  Angeles, 
where  she  was  educated  in  the  local  schools  and  the  Girls'  Collegiate 
School.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club.  Dr.  LeDoux  is  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Los  Angeles,  having  followed  his 
profession  in  this  city  for  more  than  thirty  years. 


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James  Andrew  Montgomery  is  dean  of  the  jewelry  merchants 
of  southern  California,  president  of  the  firm  Montgomery  Brothers., 
occupying  one  of  the  largest,  most  costly  and  most  beautiful  retail  jewelry 
stores  in  the  United  States  and  carrying  one  of  the  largest  and  finest 
stocks  in  the  country.  The  business,  esablished  in  1881,  is  a  conspicu- 
ous feature  of  the  retail  district,  and  many  of  its  patrons  in  past  years 
have  been  people  whose  home  is  in  the  most  distant  part  of  this  country 
and  foreign  lands. 

The  handsome  store  at  Broadway  and  Fourth  Street  is  an  interest- 
ing and  dignified  monument  to  the  sound  business  sense,  intelligent  and 
persevering  energies  of  James  Andrew  Montgomery.  Mr.  Montgomery 
is  a  hving  illustration  of  the  power  and  resources  of  an  individual  char- 
acter. He  was  born  at  Brantford,  Ontario,  Canada,  August  29,  1850, 
secured  a  grammar  school  education  in  his  native  town,  and  had  no  spe- 
cial advantages  that  any  other  young  man  properly  ambitious  and  dili- 
gent could  not  acquire.  He  has  been  in  the  jewelry  business  as  an  artisan 
and  merchant  since  1870,  beginning  in  Canada.  He  started  for  the  great 
west  in  1880,  spending  six  months  in  Nevada,  which  was  then  a  wild 
and  woolly  section  of  the  west,  and  its  social  conditions  and  business 
status  were  hardly  suited  to  Mr.  Montgomery's  nature  and  training.  He 
sought  to  return  to  Canada,  but  eventually  was  led  by  destiny  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  arrived  February  22,  1881.  He  had  only  three  dol- 
lars and  a  half  on  reaching  this  city.  The  population  of  Los  Angeles 
was  then  eleven  thousand  people,  and  he  has  seen  the  community  develop 
to  comprehend  more  than  half  a  million  people  and  assume  vast  and 
varied  forms  of  metropolitan  life.  He  began  repairing  watches.  Wisely 
he  determined  not  to  become  an  employe  but  to  set  up  a  modest  shop  of 
his  own,  and  in  that  shop  he  laid  the  development  of  the  present  great 
business.  There  followed  years  of  hard  work,  and  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  what  he  was  about,  a  cheerful  and  pleasing  personality,  brought  results. 
Thirty-eight  years  have  greatly  changed  his  position  and  has  given  him 
far  more  than  his  brightest  ambitions  anticipated.  While  working  at 
the  bench  and  largely  for  the  trade  he  gradually  acquired  a  stock  and 
developed  a  general  jewelry  business.  In  those  days  he  knew  discour- 
agement and  even  hunger.  At  that  time  jewelers  in  the  west  paid  more 
attention  to  watch  and  clock  work  and  repairing  than  the  sale  of  gen- 
eral stock.  Business  methods  were  not  systematized,  and  owners  scarcely 
knew  what  departments  were  profitable  and  what  not. 

In  1888  Mr.  Montgomery's  brother  George  A.  Montgomery  came 
to  Los  Angeles  and  in  a  short  time  the  firm  Montgomery  Brothers  was 
organized.  Later  the  business  was  incorporated.  Today,  though  almost 
seventy  years  of  age,  James  A.  Montgomery  is  as  active  and  as  busy  in 
the  work  of  managing  his  business  interests  as  at  any  period  in  the  past. 
He  puts  in  eight  hours  a  day  six  days  a  week,  and  he  is  an  unusual  type 
of  business  man  who  is  not  worn  out  by  his  business  but  finds  strength 
constantly  renewed  by  energetic  contact  with  it.  He  enjoys  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  the  entire  business  community,  has  accumulated  a  hand- 
some competency  represented  by  investments  in  real  estate,  stocks  and 
bonds,  and  owns  a  beautiful  home  on  Bonnie  Brae,  located  in  the  fash- 
ionable Wilshire  district. 

Socially  inclined,  a  member  of  various  organizations,  his  serious 
hours  have  been  taken  up  by  his  business  and  financial  interests  and  he 
has  never  held  any  office  of  public  trust,  though  keenly  and  deeply  inter- 
ested in  all  things  that  have  made  Los  Angeles  a  great  city.  He  is  a 
republican.    He  was  an  honorary  member  of  Los  Angeles  Commandery 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  309 

of  the  Knights  Templar,  with  which  he  has  been  affiUated  more  than 
thirty-three  years,  has  been  a  member  of  the  Penthalpha  Lodge  since 
1886,  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  since  the  same  year,  is  a 
past  grand  in  the  Odd  Fellows  and  a  past  chancellor  in  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  for  more  than 
ten  years  was  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  Immanuel  Presbyterian  church 
at  Los  Angeles. 

March  4,  1888,  at  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Montgomery  married  Annie  T. 
Tierney,  of  Philadelphia. 

William  K.  Murphy,  general  agent  for  Southern  California  of 
the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Milwaukee,  is  a 
man  with  a  record  in  the  insurance  field,  and  ever  since  he  left  college 
fifteen  years  ago  has  been  identified  with  the  present  company,  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  substantial  in  America.  It  was  his  qualifications 
and  record  as  a  business  getter  and  builder  that  brought  him  to  Southern 
California,  where  he  has  supervision  of  a  large  force,  contributing  to 
the  volume  of  business  which  in  1919  caused  California  to  rank  twelfth 
among  the  various  states  in  which  the  Northwestern  Company  does 
business. 

Mr.  Murphy  was  born  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  November  7,  1880, 
a  son  of  Daniel  E.  and  Rosalie  G.  (Maher)  Murphy.  When  he  was 
five  weeks  old  his  parents  removed  to  Milwaukee,  and  he  grew  up  and 
spent  his  early  life  in  that  city.  In  1899,  after  completing  his  nigh 
school  course,  he  entered  the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  received  his 
A.  B.  degree  in  1903.  Soon  afterward  he  was  put  on  the  roll  of  the 
Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company's  solicitors,  and  has 
always  stood  high  among  the  individuals  getting  business  for  that  com- 
pany. In  January,  1916,  he  was  appointed  general  agent  for  Southern 
California,  with  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles.  Under  his  immediate 
supervision  are  sixty  people  in  his  territory. 

The  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Milwaukee 
is  now  in  its  sixty-second  year.  It  was  organized  in  1857  at  Janesville, 
Wisconsin,  and  it  is  therefore  one  of  the  oldest  companies  in  America. 
It  was  first  known  as  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Wisconsin, 
but  when  the  offices  were  removed  to  Milwaukee,  in  1859,  the  present 
corporate  title  was  adopted.  The  character  of  its  management  has  re- 
mained practically  the  same  throughout  the  sixty  odd  years  of  its  exist- 
ence, conservative,  substantial  and  progressive,  and  the  assets  have 
grown  from  nothing  to  over  four  hundred  and  thirty-two  million  dollars. 
Much  of  the  progress  was  made  under  the  late  Judge  Henry  L.  Palmer, 
who  was  president  of  the  company  from  1874  to  1907,  when  he  became 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  continued  in  that  position  until 
his  death,  in  May,  1909.  George  C.  Markham  was  president  from  1907 
to  January,  1919,  when  he  resigned,  and  was  succeeded  by  William  D. 
VanDyke.  The  company  has  always  confined  itself  to  the  United  States 
both  in  its  policies  and  its  investments.  In  1859,  when  the  company 
moved  to  Milwaukee,  it  had  only  a  hundred  thirty-seven  policies  in  force^ 
and  in  1918  the  number  of  policies  was  over  six  hundred  thousand. 

Mr.  Murphy  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Ath- 
letic Club,  University  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  At  Beaver  Dam,  Wisconsin, 
June  30,  1909,  he  married  Vivian  Lamoreaux.  They  have  six  children: 
Gertrude  H.,  Helen  L.,  Daniel  E.,  William  J.  Jr.,  Barbara  and  June. 
The  four  older  children  attend  the  Gardner  School  in  Los  Angeles. 


310  LOS  ANGELES 

Frank  L.  Muhleman,  senior  member  of  Muhleman  &  Crump, 
lawyers,  has  a  well-earned  position  of  esteem  in  the  bar  of  Southern 
California,  and  is  a  man  of  varied  experience  and  capabilities  in  other 
lines  than  his  profession. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Monroe  county,  Ohio,  November  14, 
1869,  a  son  of  Jacob  J.  and  Louise  (Hoffmeyer)  Muhleman.  Like  many 
American  boys,  he  had  great  ambitions  and  not  much  opportunity  to 
fulfill  them.  He  had  a  district  school  education  as  a  boy.  While  living 
at  Newport,  Kentucky,  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Colonel  John  S. 
Ducker.  In  1892  he  entered  Baldwin-Wallace  College  at  Berea,  near 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  remained  a  student  there  until  1893.  He  also 
studied  under  a  private  tutor  during  the  following  year. 

Mr.  Muhleman  first  came  to  California  in  1894,  and  for  the  next 
three  years  was  engaged  on  a  ranch  with  his  brother,  R.  G.  Muhleman, 
near  Sacramento.  He  had  not  yet  satisfied  his  deep-seated  desire  to 
qualify  as  a  lawyer.  Returning  to  Newport,  Kentucky,  he  again  took 
up  the  study  of  law,  taking  a  course  in  the  McDonald  Institute,  where 
after  three  years  he  was  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree.  He  first 
practiced  law  at  Newport,  and  while  there  made  a  campaign  for  the 
office  of  city  attorney.  In  1903  he  removed  his  home  and  professional 
business  to  Parkersburg,  West  Virginia,  but  on  1905  disposed  of  his 
practice  in  the  East  and  came  to  Los  Angeles.  The  first  five  years  he 
was  in  Los  Angeles  he  was  attorney  for  the  Title  Insurance  Company, 
and  he  still  has  offices  in  the  Title  Insurance  Building.  He  then  resigned 
his  position  with  that  company  to  form  his  partnership  with  Guy  Rich- 
ards Crump  under  the  name  Muhleman  &  Crump.  They  have  a  general 
practice  and  are  recognized  experts  in  title  law. 

Mr.  Muhleman  resides  at  Glendale.  In  1910  he  was  city  attorney 
of  Glendale,  and  in  1916  was  elected  trustee  of  Glendale,  and  is  still  an 
official  member  of  the  municipal  government  there,  being  now  chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  served  as  a  member  of  Draft  Board  No. 
7  for  Los  Angeles  county.  August  3,  1912,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married 
Florence  Wright.  They  have  two  children :  Ruth  Louise,  born  in  1914, 
and  Frank  L.,  Jr.,  born  in  1918. 

Frank  Thornton  Price  is  president  and  general  manager  of  Nel- 
son &  Price,  Incorporated,  223  West  Eleventh  Street,  Los  Angeles. 
That  statement  alone  is  perhaps  sufficient  to  identify  him  with  the  most 
successful  business  men  of  Southern  California.  It  might  be  added 
further  that  Mr.  Price  is  a  young  man,  and  at  the  age  of  thirty  years 
is  head  of  a  business  which  sells  more  automobile  tires  than  any  other 
firm  west  of  Chicago.  He  does  both  a  wholesale  and  retail  business, 
handling  all  makes  of  tires,  and  specializes  in  the  distribution  of 
the  Kelly-Springfield,  Hartford  and  Michelin  tires.  As  an  evidence  of 
what  his  organization  is  capable  of  doing  it  might  be  mentioned  that 
Mr.  Price  made  a  contract  with  the  United  States  Rubber  Company  for 
a  million  dollars  worth  of  automobile  tires  for  1920.  This  is  the  largest 
single  contract  that  corporation  ever  made  with  a  tire  jobber.  Nelson 
&  Price  have  retail  stores  both  in  Los  Angeles  and  Pasadena,  and  also 
do  a  business  with  many  other  smaller  firms.  They  maintain  a  sales 
force  covering  the  whole  state  of  California,  and  the  pay  roll  runs  close 
to  a  hundred  thousand  dollars  a  year. 

In  getting  to  his  present  position  Frank  Thornton  Price  has  capi- 
talized only  the  resources  and  abilities  of  his  individual  character.  He 
went  to  work  when  a  youth  as  a  farm  hand  and  has  made  and  recognized 


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his  own  opportunities  and  gone  steadily  ahead  toward  the  goal  of  success. 

He  was  born  at  Phoenix,  Arizona,  October  2,  1889,  son  of  George 
and  N-ellie  E.  (Christy)  Price,  the  former  a  shoe  manufacturer  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  and  the  latter  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles.  He  has  an  older 
sister,  Mrs.  L.  D.  Mosher,  of  Santa  Barbara,  California. 

Mr.  Price  was  two  years  old  when  brought  to  California  and  he  grew 
up  in  San  Bernardino,  attending  public  school  there  to  the  age  of  sixteen. 
He  then  went  to  work  as  a  farm  hand,  and  at  nineteen  made  his  first 
acquaintance  with  the  business  he  is  in  today.  He  went  to  work  for 
the  Diamond  Rubber  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  and  was  with  that  con- 
cern five  years,  acquiring  and  assimilating  a  great  amount  "of  technical 
and  commercial  knowledge.  He  was  promoted  to  assistant  manager 
under  Mr.  F.  O.  Nelson  of  the  Rubber  Company,  and  in  1913  they  asso- 
ciated themselves  in  a  business  of  their  own  handling  automobile  tires. 
Later  they  built  the  present  home  of  Nelson  &  Price  at  West  11th  and 
Olive  streets.  In  1918  Mr.  Price  took  over  the  entire  business,  Mr. 
Nelson  retiring,  though  liis  name  is  still  retained  in  the  business  title. 
Mr.  Price  incorporated  the  business  in  March,  1917.  The  home  of  this 
firm  is  a  two-story  building  with  twenty-seven  thousand  square  feet  of 
floor  space  and  basement.  . 

Mr.  Price  is  also  a  director  of  the  Caltex  Oil  Company  of  Texas 
and  is  owner  of  the  Locust  Stock  Farm.  This  farm,  though  in  the  nature 
of  a  hobby  and  diversion  from  his  main  business,  is  an  enterprise  of 
magnitude.  The  farm  contains  eight  hundred  six  acres  and  is  located 
near  Bakersfield,  California.  On  it  he  raises  horses,  cattle  and  Poland 
China  hogs.  Mr.  Price  is  affiliated  with  all  the  Masonic  bodies  of  Los 
Angeles,  including  the  Shrine  and  the  Consistorj'.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Automobile  Club 
of  Southern  California,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Advertising 
Club,  Press  Club,  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Association,  and  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

He  and  his  family  reside  at  835  Fifth  Avenue.  March  4,  1914,  at 
Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  Clair  K.  Johnston,  who  was  born  in 
San  Antonio,  Texas,  and  finished  her  education  in  a  girls'  school  at 
Hollins,  Virginia.     They  have  two  daughters,  Patricia  and  Frances. 

Robert  J.  Powell  has  been  a  factor  in  Los  Angeles  business  circles 
in  oil,  real  estate  and  other  lines  for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  a  most 
successful  business  record  as  a  stirring  and  enterprising  citizen. 

He  was  born  in  Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania,  June  9,  1878,  a  son  of 
Jerome  and  Amanda  E.  (Horton)  Powell.  His  father,  who  died  in 
1896,  was  a  native  of  Warren,  Pennsylvania,  was  well  educated,  and 
organized  and  edited  for  a  number  of  years  the  Ridgeway  Advocate  at 
Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania.  In  later  years  he  was  a  lumberman,  mer- 
chant and  real  estate  man. 

Robert  J.  Powell  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  Ridgeway,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  entered  Bucknell  University 
at  Lewisburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  finished  his  course  there  in  1900.  He 
supplemented  this  literary  education  with  a  course  in  Eastman's  Busi- 
ness College  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  where  he  graduated  in  1901. 

Mr.  Powell  for  a  number  of  years  was  associated  with  his  brother, 
E.  C.  Powell,  under  the  name  E.  C.  and  R.  J.  Powell  of  Ridgeway, 
Pennsylvania,  handling  real  estate  and  as  lumber  dealers.  He  was  also 
a  director  in  the  Elk  County  National  Bank. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1910,  Mr.  Powell  became  interested 


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in  the  Engineers  Oil  Company,  in  which  he  became  a  director,  but  has 
since  disposed  of  his  interests.  Probably  his  chief  contribution  to  Los 
Angeles  business  was  his  part  in  establishing  the  Alfred  Pure  Ice  Cream 
Company.  Back  in  his  home  town  at  Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania,  he  knew 
that  C.  J.  Alfred  was  manufacturing  a  quality  of  ice  cream  unexcelled 
on  every  possible  count,  and  that  Mr.  Alfred  was  a  past  master  of  the 
business.  In  order  to  give  Los  Angeles  a  similar  establishment,  Mr. 
Powell  returned  to  Ridgeway  in  1913  and  induced  Mr.  Alfred  to  bring 
his  experience  and  enterprise  to  a  city  of  unequalled  opportunities.  Thus 
was  established  the  Alfred  Pure  Ice  Cream  Company,  of  which  Mr. 
Powell  has  since  been  secretary  and  treasurer. 

Mr.  Powell  is  a  past  master  of  Elk  Lodge  No.  379,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.,  at  Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania,  is  a  York  Rite  Mason,  is  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  At  Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania,  February  19,  1906,  he  married 
Miss  Mabel  R.  Williams. 

George  Arthur  Montgomery.  The  active  business  career  of 
George  Arthur  Montgomery  in  Los  Angeles  is  comprehended  in  the 
history  of  Montgomery  Brothers,  the  great  jewelry  house  on  Broadway, 
one  of  the  finest  establishments  of  the  kind  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  This 
business  was  founded  by  his  brother,  James  A.  Montgomery,  in  1881, 
and  for  about  thirty  years  George  Montgomery  was  an  active  member 
and  partner,  but  is  now  retired. 

Mr.  Montgomery  was  bom  at  Brantford,  Ontario,  Canada,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1857,  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
birthplace.  He  had  some  business  experience  in  Canada  and  in  1887 
came  to  Los  Angeles.  In  February,  1888,  he  became  associated  with 
his  brother  as  an  equal  partner  in  the  firm  of  Montgomery  Brothers, 
and  from  that  time  forward  gave  the  best  energies  and  abilities  of  his 
mature  years  and  experience  to  building  up  the  interests  of  the  firm. 
Ill  health  compelled  his  retirement  from  the  business  at  a  recent  uate, 
and  he  is  now  living  in  ease  and  comfort  with  a  handsome  competence 
won  by  his  energy  and  ability. 

Mr.  Montgomery  is  an  ardent  republican,  interested  in  public 
afifairs,  but  never  an  aspirant  for  public  office.  He  is  one  of  the  charter 
members  and  founders  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  and  one  of  the  oldest  active 
members  of  that  notable  social  organization  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Montgomery  married  in  Canada  in  1883  Alice  Richardson. 
Her  father,  Robert  Richardson,  of  Port  Rowan,  Canada,  was  formerly 
a  member  of  the  Provincial  Parliament  for  South  Norfolk,  Ontario. 
Mr.'  Montgomery  has  three  sons :  Chester  A.  and  Monro  D.,  both  mem- 
bers of  the  Montgomery  Brothers  corporation,  and  Richard  W.,  a  civil 
engineer  connected  with  the  California  Standard  Oil  Company. 

Frank  Sabichi.  By  birth  and  family  connection  Frank  Sabichi 
belonged  to  the  old  order  of  southern  California.  In  his  youth  he  was 
educated  abroad  and  had  the  finest  advantages  of  English  and  European 
institutions,  and  as  petty  officer  on  an  English  war  vessel  had  visited 
nearly  every  port  and  clime  of  the  civilized  world  before  he  had  attained 
years  of  manhood.  He  returned  to  Los  Angeles  fitted  by  talents  and 
training  for  a  big  and  important  place  in  the  new  destiny  that  awaited 
that  city.  For  a  third  of  a, century  he  remained  one  of  the  eminently 
constructive  factors  in  the  progress  and  development  of  Los  Angeles  and 
much  of  the  surrounding  territory.    A  lawyer  by  profession,  he  is  best 


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remembered  as  a  business  man  and  an  administrator  of  great  and  im- 
portant property  trusts. 

He  was  born  in  the  Mexican  town  of  Los  Angeles,  October  4,  1842, 
and  his  earliest  memories  were  of  the  old  Pueblo  community,  and  from 
a  child  he  associated  with  many  of  the  great  hearted  and  hospitable 
people  who  comprised  the  early  population  of  the  town.  His  father 
was  Mathias  Sabichi,  a  native  of  Austria,  who  came  from  Vienna  and 
settled  in  southern  California  in  1838.  Mathias  Sabichi  married  a  mem- 
ber of  an  old  family  from  the  Mexican  capital.  In  1850  Mathias  Sabichi, 
desiring  to  afford  his  sons  Frank  and  Mathias,  Jr.,  the  advantages  of  a 
liberal  education,  started  with  them  for  England.  While  crossing  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama  he  was  stricken  with  yellow  fever,  and  died  before 
reaching  England.  The  boys  were  taken  charge  of  by  the  American 
Consul,  Joseph  Rodney  Crosky,  who  received  them  into  his  own  family 
and  became  their  foster  father.  Under  his  supervision  th:ir  education 
was  generously  provided  for.  Frank  Sabichi  afterward  was  entered  as 
a  student  in  the  Royal  Naval  Academy  at  Gosport  near  Portsmouth,  and 
spent  several  years  diligently  pursuing  the  liberal  and  technical  courses 
then  in  vogue.  On  leaving  the  Academy  he  was  commissioned  a  petty 
officer  in  the  English  Navy,  and  for  several  years  cruised  the  water  of 
Europe  and  many  seas.  He  gained  a  large  and  varied  knowledge  of  the 
diverse  peoples  of  the  world,  languages,  arts  and  institutions,  and  also 
participated  with  the  spirit  of  youth  in  the  adventures  that  were  a  part 
of  his  duty.  He  was  a  participant  in  the  Sepoy  Indian  rebellion,  and 
several  times  while  on  the  Pacific  visited  the  Philippine  Islands. 

Eventually,  having  satisfied  himself  with  travel  and  feeling  that  his 
training  should  be  diverted  to  avenues  of  greater  usefulness,  he  returned 
to  his  old  home  in  southern  California  and  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  in  the 
summer  of  1860.  Having  determined  to  study  law,  he  entered  the  office 
of  Glassell,  Smith  &  Patton,  at  that  time  one  of  the  leading  firms  of 
southern  California.  He  qualified  for  the  bar,  and  with  the  advantage  of 
a  liberal  culture  and  also  a  knowledge  of  the  language,  institutions^  and 
people  of  southern  California  he  rapidly  advanced  in  his  professional 
career.  Eventually  his  extensive  business  engagements  demanded  that 
he  abandon  his  general  practice  and  for  many  years  he  was  engaged  in 
managing  his  property  and  promoting  the  industrial  and  commercial 
development  of  his  home  city  and  section.  He  was  interested  in  several 
land  syndicates  and  projected  railroad  systems.  He  acquired  much  valu- 
able real  estate  in  and  about  Los  Angeles.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
San  Jose  Land  Company,  which  controlled  a  large  part  of  the  property 
now  "in  the  heart  of  the  orange  belt.  He  was  one  of  the  promoters  of 
the  Los  Angeles  and  Ballona  Railroad,  and  for  a  time  was  vice  president 
of  the  company.  He  was  especially  interested  in  the  development  of 
the  old  family  homestead  of  twenty  acres  on  East  Seventh  street,  and 
was  largely  instrumental  in  the  establishment  of  that  important  thorough- 
fare of  Los  Angeles.  He  took  a  deeply  interested  but  always  unselfish 
part  in  politics  and  public  affairs  in  his  native  city.  His  was  the  per- 
sonahty  that  lends  itself  easily  to  leadership  in  men  and  afifairs,  and 
again  and  again  he  was  the  point  of  initiation  for  many  important  move- 
ments. He  did  not  desire  public  office,  its  cares  and  responsibilities,  but 
from  a  sense  of  duty  consented  to  become  a  member  of  the  City  Council 
in  1871  and  was  re-elected  in  1874.  During  his  second  term  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Council.  In  1884  he  again  reluctantly  consented  to  become 
a  candidate  in  order  that  his  judgment  and  ability  might  be  drawn  upon 
in  the  negotiations  whereby  the  city  acquired  the  water  rights  upon 


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the  Los  Feliz  Rancho  and  extended  the  water  system  adequate  to  the 
needs  of  that  time.  An  interesting  evidence  of  the  high  station  of  honor 
he  enjoyed  in  his  home  city  and  state  came  in  1893  when  a  petition  and 
memorial  signed  by  thirty-nine  senators  and  twenty-six  assemblymen 
of  the  State  Legislature,  the  justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  many  mem- 
bers of  the  Bench  and  Bar  of  San  Francisco  at  Los  Angeles,  besides 
other  business  men  and  citizens,  presented  his  many  qualifications  to 
President  Cleveland  and  urged  his  appointment  to  the  post  of  minister 
to  (.jautemala.  Mr.  Sabichi  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Park  and 
Police  Commission  of  Los  Angeles. 

This  true  and  faithful  citizen  of  Los  Angeles  passed  to  his  reward 
April  12,  1900.  In  his  social  and  intellectual  qualities,  his  civic  pride, 
his  ability  as  a  professional  and  business  man,  and  in  all  other  relation- 
ships, he  was  undoubtedly  one  of  the  best  representative  men  ever  pro- 
duced by  southern  California.  He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West  and  was  a  Catholic  in  religion. 

On  May  4,  1865,  he  married  Magdelina  Wolfskill.  She  was  born 
in  Los  Angeles,  a  daughter  of  William  Wolfskill.  They  were  married 
in  the  old  Plaza  Mission  by  Father  Mora,  who  later  became  Bishop  of 
the  Diocese.  Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  Magdalina  Lugo.  William 
Wolfskill  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Los  Angeles,  and  owned  a 
splendid  domain  containing  one  of  the  first  orange  groves  in  Southern 
California  outside  of  those  of  the  ancient  missions.  The  Wolfskill 
Rancho  was  at  Alameda  Street,  between  that  thoroughfare  and  Central 
Avenue  and  Third  and  Fourth  streets,  and  the  birthplace  of  Mrs. 
Sabichi  was  the  present  site  of  the  Los  Angeles  Ice  Company.  William 
Wolfskill  at  one  time  also  owned  the  Santa  Anita  Rancho.  Her  brother 
sold  this  to  M.  H.  Newmark,  who  in  turn  sold  it  to  Lucky  Baldwin, 
and  part  of  the  property  is  today  owned  by  Anita  Baldwin.  William 
Wolfskill  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  crossed  the  plains  on  foot  to 
California  through  New  Mexico.  What  is  now  called  Central  Avenue 
was  at  one  time  Wolfskill  Avenue,  and  bisected  Wolfskill  property  in 
Los  Angeles.  That  property  contained  a  hundred  acres.  William 
Wolfskill  was  the  father  of  two  sons  and  four  daughters,  and  employed 
a  tutor  in  his  home  for  the  education  of  his  children.  The  only  recreation 
of  the  early  days  was  the  annual  fiesta  or  bazaar  held  by  the  Sisters 
of  Charity,  lasting  three  days,  and  ending  with  a  dance,  which  was 
looked  forward  to  and  back  upon  as  the  central  event  in  the  social  cal- 
endar by  the  Wolfskill  daughters  and  other  members  of  the  social  set. 
Mr.  Sabichi's  mother  is  buried  at  the  old  San  Gabriel  Mission  under 
one  of  the  pillars,  while  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Sabichi  was  baptized  at  the 
old  Santa  Barbara  Mission. 

For  twenty  years  after  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sabichi  lived 
on  the  twenty  acre  place  at  Seventh  and  San  Pedro'  avenues.  They 
were  the  parents  of  thirteen  children.  Those  living  today  are :  Agatha, 
widow  of  J.  J.  Fay,  Jr.;  Joseph  Rodney,  of  Culver  City;  Dr.  George 
Carlos,  of  Bakersfield,  Cafifornia :  William  Wolfskill,  of  Los  Angeles; 
Lewis  Sabichi,  of  Los  Angeles;  Rose,  wife  of  Dr.  H.  A.  Putnam,  of 
Monrovia,  California ;  Beatrice,  wife  of  C.  L.  Mitchell,  of  Los  Angeles. 
Mrs.  Mitchell  was  born  in  the  present  Sabichi  residence  on  Figueroa 
Street. 

John  Emmett  Murray.  Death  coming  suddenly  on  August  2, 
1919,  removed  one  of  the  most  active  workers  and  influential  members 
from  the  Masonic  bodies  of  Southern  California,  and  also  an  old-time 


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Los  Angeles  resident  and  former  business  man,  in  the  person  of  John 
Emmett  Murray. 

He  was  born  near  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  in  1854,  and  was 
sixty-five  years  of  age  when  he  died.  A  few  years  after  his  Ijirth  his 
parents  removed  to  Peoria,  Illinois,  where  he  received  a  public  school 
education,  and  had  his  first  business  ex])erience  as  an  employe  of  the 
T.,  P.  &  W.  Railroad.  Later  he  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  produce 
and  the  wholesale  fuel  business.  His  father  was  an  honored  citizen  of 
Peoria,  where  at  one  time  he  was  chief  of  police.  The  maternal  grand- 
father of  the  late  Mr.  Murray  was  a  member  of  the  Scotch  Grays  under 
Wellington  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo. 

Mr.  Murray,  who  first  came  to  California  forty  years  ago,  gave  the 
last  years  of  his  life  to  untiring  effort  and  work  in  connection  with 
Masonry.  For  thirty-four  years  he  was  a  member  of  Knights  Templar 
Connnandery  No.  9,  and  in  point  of  service  was  the  eighth  oldest  mem- 
ber of  the  Commandery.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Visiting  Committee 
of  .\1  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  for  several  years  had 
devoted  his  entire  time  to  that  branch  of  the  work,  and  was  a  source  of 
comfort  and  solace  to  hundreds  of  the  sick  and  distressed  among  his 
brethren.  He  was  buried  from  the  Scottish  Rite  Cathedral,  and  was 
the  fourth  to  be  buried  from  there,  an  honor  not  often  granted.  Pie  was 
chairman  of  the  Relief  Committee  of  all  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and,  be- 
sides his  connection  with  the  Los  Angeles  body  of  the  Masons,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  Veterans'  Association  of  the  Pacific  Coast  at 
San  Francisco,  and  an  honorary  member  of  Moslem  Temple,  Detroit, 
an  honorary  member  of  Peoria  Commandery  No.  3,  K.  T.,  also  an 
honorary  life  member  of  Peoria  Consistory. 

;\lr.  Murray  died  suddenly  while  quietly  conversing  with  his  wife, 
who  had  just  recovered  from  a  long  serious  illness.  He  married  in  his 
early  years  Miss  Inez  Young  of  Peoria,  and  had  by  this  marriage  a  son 
named  Emmett  Murray.  The  first  Mrs.  Murray  died  in  1909.  In  1910 
Mr.  Murray  married  Miss  Lucy  Emery  Wheeler,  a  native  daughter  of 
California.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Murray  planned  and  personally  supervised 
all  details  of  the  building  of  the  beautiful  Murray  Apartments  on 
Orange  street.  These  were  the  first  thoroughly  modern  apartments  in 
that  section  of  the  city,  and  it  was  due  to  Mrs.  Murray's  careful  planning 
that  they  were  so  exclusively  furnished  and  artistically  decorated. 

Miss  Lucy  Wheeler,  as  Mrs.  Murray  was  before  her  marriage,  was 
one  of  the  first  public  stenographers  in  Los  Angeles.  She  was  also  first 
to  rent  her  own  office  and  to  hire  others  to  work  for  her.  For  several 
years  she  kept  from  ten  to  fifteen  girls  employed,  and  her  business 
standing  was  such  that  she  had  exceptional  bank  and  local  business 
references.  Her  notary  commission  came  from  old-time  Governor  Budd, 
and  when  first  granted  it  was  considered  remarkable  that  a  woman 
should  hold  a  notary  commission.  She  continued  to  own  her  business 
for  four  years  after  her  marriage,  turning  over  its  management  to  an 
assistant,  but  later  sold  it.  She  had  studied  law  and  had  a  good  knowl- 
edge of  legal  matters.  Most  of  the  work  of  the  City  Hall  was  done  in 
her  office  for  a  number  of  years,  including  the  writing  of  the  specifica- 
tions for  the  Third  and  Broadway  Tunnel  and  other  municipal  works 
of  twenty  years  ago.  IMrs.  Murray  is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club,  par- 
ticularly active  in  the  Browning  Department.  Prior  to  her  marriage 
she  had  traveled  through  the  Orient,  Japan,  China  and  Manila.  She 
is  a  member  of  Immanuel  Presbyterian  Church. 

Mrs.  Murray's  family  is  an  old  one  in  California.     Her  maternal 


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grandfather,  Captain  William  Emery,  came  around  the  Horn  in  1849 
on  his  own  ship.  He  had  been  all  over  the  world  in  it.  He  was  first 
a  resident  of  Sacramento,  doing  much  to  build  up  that  pioneer  city,  and 
later  was  at  San  Francisco  and  at  San  Diego.  He  had  two  sons,  Henry 
and  Herbert  Emery.  Henry  Emery  was  a  constructive  factor  in  the 
upbuilding  of  San  Diego  and  was  supervisor  when  the  Coronado  Hotel 
was  built.  He  owned  great  tracts  of  land  in  the  Pine  Valley  and  sur- 
rounding valleys,  which  he  later  sold  to  the  San  Diego  Water  Company. 
Mrs.  Murray  has  heard  this  uncle  tell  many  interesting  pioneer  stories, 
and  she  was  particularly  entertained  by  his  tales  of  Indian  troubles. 
His  life  was  once  saved  in  an  Indian  attack  when  he  stubbed  his  toe  and 
fell,  his  enemies  thinking  he  had  been  killed. 

The  Emery  family  is  one  of  the  largest  and  oldest  in  the  United 
States.  The  tradition  is  that  two  brothers  of  the  name  came  from  Eng- 
land about  1640.  The  Wheeler  family  came  a  few  years  later.  Mrs. 
Murray's  father  was  Samuel  H.  Wheeler.  He  was  consulting  engineer 
to  Mr.  Holiday,  the  inventor  of  the  first  cable  car  system,  and  had  the 
active  supervision  of  the  first  line  installed  at  San  Francisco.  He  was 
also  manager  of  the  old  Fulton  Foundry,  where  the  ship  "Oregon"  was 
built.  He  stood  high  in  Masonry  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Mechanics  Institute.  He 
owned  a  fine  scientific  library,  which  was  purchased  by  the  State  Uni- 
versity at  Berkeley.  He  was  once  ofifered  the  chair  of  mathematics  in 
that  institution,  but  declined  the  ofifer. 

James  G.  Donavan.  is  founder,  vice  president  and  general  manager 
of  the  Donavan  &  Seamans  Company,  whose  jewelry  and  precious  stones 
establishment  is  one  of  the  show  places  of  Los  Angeles.  They  rank 
as  one  of  the  foremost  firms  in  the  United  States  as  jewelry  and  diamond 
merchants. 

Like  many  other  large  and  successful  businesses,  it  was  far  from 
being  a  conspicuous  enterprise  when  it  was  first  started  in  Los  Angeles 
in  1894  in  Spring  Street  near  Temple,  then  in  the  heart  of  the  shopping 
center.  Later  the  store  was  moved  to  Third  and  Spring  streets,  and 
that  was  their  location  for  over  twenty  years.  From  there  the  company 
came  to  its  present  elegant  quarters  at  743  South  Broadway,  where  the 
tiled  floors,  show  cases  of  mahogany  and  rosewood  make  an  appropriate 
setting  for  the  company's  display  of  high  class  jewelry,  gold  and  silver- 
ware and  flawless  precious  stones. 

Before  he  became  a  metropolitan  jew?ler  Mr.  Donavan  was  an 
expert  watchmaker,  and  had  a  long  and  varied  experience  in  that  delicate 
mechanical  trade.  He  was  born  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  June  19,  1866,  son 
of  Daniel  and  Eleanor  (O'Connor)  Donavan,  both  members  of  pioneer 
families  of  Aurora.  His  mother  died  in  1913,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six. 
His  father  was  a  contractor.  The  parents  had  five  children.  One 
daughter  is  Mrs.  S.  D.  Seamans,  wife  of  the  other  member  of  the  firm 
Donavan  &  Seamans  Company. 

James  G.  Donavan  attended  public  school  at  Aurora,  also  the  old 
Jennings  Seminary  there.  He  left  school  to  work  in  an  Aurora  watch 
factory,  serving  his  apprenticeship  under  some  of  the  master  watch- 
makers of  the  country.  Later  he  was  employed  in  some  of  the  biggest 
watch  factories  in  America,  and  for  many  years  that  was  his  line  of 
business. 

Having  accumulated  some  money  from  his  thrift,  he  finally,  in  1890, 
engaged  in  the  retail  jewelry  business  at  Aurora,  Illinois.    Mr.  Donavan 


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first  came  to  Los  Angeles  for  a  two  weeks'  vacation  with  his  sister.  He 
decided  to  stay  two  weeks  longer,  then  three  months,  and  finally  (jould 
resist  the  lure  of  Los  Angeles  no  longer,  and  after  selling  his  half 
interest  in  the  store  at  Aurora  settled  here  permanently.  When  he 
entered  business  in  1894  he  had  only  one  eight  foot  show  case  for  his 
goods,  but  that  was  the  nucleus  of  the  business  now  known  as  the 
Donavan  &  Seamans  Company,  which  was  incorporated  in  1905  with  a 
capital  stock  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  The  company  employs 
twenty-five  people,  and  Mr.  Donavan  has  not  only  had  a  phenomenal 
success  in  a  general  business  way,  but  is  recognized  as  an  authority  in 
appraising  and  dealing  in  diamonds  and  precious  stones.  In  the  year 
1919  was  celebrated  the  silver  anniversary  of  the  establishing  of  the 
business.  Mr.  Donavan  is  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  financial  circles, 
and  besides  his  office  as  vice  president  and  manager  of  the  Donavan  & 
Seamans  Company  he  is  interested  in  the  Farmers  &  Merchants  Bank, 
the  First  National  Bank,  the  Security  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles  and  the  Hamilton  Watch  Company  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania. 
Mr.  Donavan  married  at  Los  Angeles  Miss  Rose  Ganahl.  Her 
father,  F.  J.  Ganahl,  was  a  prominent  wholesale  and  retail  lumber  dealer 
at  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donavan  have  four  children :  Eloise, 
James,  Jr.,  Frances  and  Daniel.  The  Donavan  home  is  a  commodious 
residence  at  Twenty-second  Street  and  Western  Avenue.  Mr.  Donavan 
built  this  home  literally  in  a  wheat  field,  and  has  seen  his  surroundings 
improved  into  a  beautiful  and  attractive  section  of  the  city.  He  is  a 
member  in  and  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Merchants  &  Manufac- 
turers Association,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Knights  of  Columbus 
and  the  Newman  Club.    He  is  a  republican. 

Lewis  Martindale  Farnham,  who  is  corporation  secretary  for  the 
Public  Utility  and  Land  Companies  controlled  by  Messrs.  Allan  C.  BalcH, 
William  G.  Kerclchoff,  Ben  R.  Meyer  and  Abe  Haas,  of  Los  Angeles 
received  his  early  training  with  a  New  England  railroad,  came  to  Cali- 
fornia about  twenty  years  ago  with  health  broken  down  by  overwork,  and 
since  1903  has  been  connected  with  that  group  of  financiers  whose  capi- 
tal and  resources  comprise  one  of  the  largest  aggregates  of  power  and 
influence  in  the  affairs  of  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Famham  was  born  at  Bangor,  Maine,  May  26,  1864,  a  son  of 
John  N.  and  Nancy  Melinda  (Wentworth)  Farnham.  his  family  being 
of  Puritan  English  stock.  He  was  educated  in  the  Bangor  public  schools 
and  in  1878,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  went  to  work  in  a  book  store.  He 
continued  the  quiet  routine  of  a  book  and  stationery'  store  eleven  years, 
and  then  became  an  employe  of  the  Maine  Central  Railroad.  During  the 
following  nine  years  he  served  successively  as  accountant,  rate  clerk 
and  paymaster,  and  was  cashier  of  the  local  freight  office  when  he  came 
to  California  late  in  the  year  1898.  He  came  west  to  avoid  a  threatened 
nervous  prostration  caused  by  overwork.  After  three  months  he  con- 
cluded to  remain  in  California,  sent  back  his  resignation  to  the  Maine 
Central  Railroad,  and  during  the  next  five  years  worked  as  storekeeper 
and  bookkeeper  with  the  Napa  Consolidated  Quicksilver  Mining  Com- 
pany at  Oak  Hill.  For  about  a  year  he  also  acted  as  superintendent  of 
the  Aetna  Quicksilver  Mining  Company  during  the  period  of  cleaning 
up  before  the  mine  was  finallj  closed  down. 

Mr.  Farnham  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  at  which  time  he  began 
work  for  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Company,  then  under  the  manage- 
ment and  control  of  Messrs.  Balch,  Kerckhoff,  Kaspare  Cohn,  Hass  and 


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H.  E.  Huntington.  After  a  few  months  he  was  appointed  assistant  audi- 
tor, in  1907  became  auditor  and  assistant  secretary,  in  1912  resigned  a; 
auditor  and  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Cor- 
poration and  a  number  of  affiliated  companies  owned  by  the  same  people, 
including  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company.  Much  of  the  story  of 
the  industries  originated  and  controlled  by  these  interests  has  been  cited 
on  other  pages.  It  will  be  recalled  that  in  1913  Balch,  Kerckhoilf,  Cohn 
and  Haas  sold  their  interests  in  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Corporation 
to  Mr.  Huntington,  and  then  turned  their  attention  to  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Gas  Company,  the  Alidway  Gas  Company  and  the  San  Joaquin 
Light  and  Power  Corporation  and  affiliated  companies.  At  the  change  of 
ownership  Mr.  Farnham  remained  with  the  latter  group.  In  1916  Mr. 
Kaspare  Cohn  of  the  firm  died,  and  the  affairs  and  management  of  th( 
companies  were  taken  by  his  son-in-law,  Ben  R.  Meyer.  Mr.  Farnham 
has  continued  with  these  four  individuals  and  the  companies  controlled 
by  them  to  the  present  time  and  is  now  vice  president  and  secretary  of 
the  Southern  California  Gas  Company,  of  the  San  Joaquin  Light  and 
Power  Corporation,  the  Midland  Counties  Public  Service  Corporation, 
the  Fresno  Farms  Company  and  is  now  secretary  of  the  Fresno  City 
Water  Corporation  and  the  Lerdo  Land  Company.  He  is  also  associated 
with  the  Broadway  Building  Company,  Kearny  Boulevard  Heights  Com- 
.pany.  Producers  Gas  and  Fuel  Company,  San  Joaquin  Holding  Company, 
Stratford  Inn  Corporation,  and  is  assistant  secretary  of  the  Midway  Gas 
Company. 

Mr.  Farnham  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. November  24,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Faustina  Ankeny  Gerrish 
at  Milford,  Maine. 

Midway  G.^'iS  Company.  Los  Angeles  was  first  given  a  natural 
gas  supply  in  1913,  when  through  the  enterprise  of  A.  C.  Balch  and  his 
able  financial  and  business  associates  a  system  was  installed  by  which  a 
supply  was  drawn  a  hundred  and  ten  miles  from  the  Midway  oil  field. 
The  list  of  well-known  California  capitalists  who  wrote  this  new  chapter 
m  Southern  California  development  included  Mr.  Balch,  William  G. 
Kerckhoflf,  Kaspare  Cohn,  Ben  R.  Meyer,  A.  Haas  and  A.  B.  Macbeth, 
who  in  1914  became  associated  as  general  manager  of  the  Midway  Gas 
Company  and  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Gas  Company. 

The  Midway  Gas  Company  was  incorporated  on  November  18,  1911, 
for  the  purpose  of  constructing  a  gas  transmission  main  from  the  Mid- 
way field  in  Kern  County  to  Los  Angeles.  Up  to  that  time  as  much  of 
the  gas  produced  in  the  Midway  Field  as  was  required  in  the  operation  of 
the  oil  wells  was  used  for  consumption  in  the  oil  fields  and  the  rest  of 
the  gas  was  wasted. 

Mr.  John  Martin  was  the  prime  mover  in  the  attempt  to  serve  the 
larger  cities  of  San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles  with  natural  gas.  He 
began  his  efiforts  in  1910  and  after  being  unable  to  interest  San  Francisco 
capital,  he  presented  the  proposition  to  the  principal  owners  of  the  South- 
ern California  Gas  Company  and  the  San  Joaquin  Light  and  Power  Cor- 
poration— Messrs.  A.  C.  Balch,  William  G.  Kerckhoff,  Kaspare  Cohn, 
Ben  R.  Meyer  and  A.  Haas,  who  brought  about'  the  organization  of  the 
Midway  Gas  Company. 

In  March,  1912,  the  Company  entered  into  a  contract  for  an  addi- 
tional supply  of  natural  gas,  giving  them  an  aggregate  supply  of  over 
thirty  million  cubic  feet  per  day.    The  transmission  line  from  Midway  to 


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West  Glendale  near  Los  Angeles  was  started  in  April,  1912,  and  completed 
in  September  of  the  same  year  at  a  cost  exceeding  a  million  five  hundred 
thousand  dollars.  The  first  regular  service  began  on  April  28,  1913.  For 
three  years  the  projectors  and  managers  were  beset  with  an  unprecedented 
train  of  difficulties,  owing  to  breaks  in  the  lines,  excessive  loss  of  gas,  and 
other  factors.  These  difficulties  and  troubles  were  eventually  remedied 
and  overcome,  the  credit  for  which  largely  belonged  to  the  general  man- 
ager, A.  B.  Macbeth. 

In  1915  the  company  contracted  for  an  additional  supply  from  the 
Fullerton  Field  and  eventually  approximately  20,000,000  cubic  feet  of  gas 
per  day  were  being  sent  through  the  transmission  lines  from  the  Midway 
Field  and  approximately  15,000,000  cubic  feet  per  day  were  being  sent 
through  the  transmission  lines  from  the  I'^illerton  Field  and  this  35,000,- 
000  cubic  feet  of  gas  were  marketed  and  sold  in  Los  Angeles  and 
vicinity. 

About  July  1,  1919,  the  Midway  Gas  Company  purchased  the  stock 
of  the  Valley  Natural  Gas  Company  and  consolidated  the  operation  of 
the  companies.  The  X'alley  Company  owned  contracts  with  the  Standard 
Oil  Company  for  supply  of  natural  gas,  and  the  consolidation  of  these 
companies  enlarges  the  use  as  well  as  better  conserving  the  supply  oi 
natural  gas  which  is  being  developed  in  Kern  County. 

The  Midway  Gas  Company  sells  natural  gas  to  all  the  distributing 
companies  in  Southern  California.  It  is  the  only  gas  company  in  Cali- 
fornia which  is  fully  and  properly  equipped  to  take  gas  from  either  gas 
wells  or  oil  wells,  handle  the  same  through  its  compressor  plants  and  sell 
and  deliver  to  distributing  companies  gas  at  a  uniform  pressure  for 
consumers. 

SouTHERX  C.M.iFdRNiA  G.\s  COMPANY.  As  a  Corporation  whose  serv- 
ice is  decidedly  of  a  public  nature  and  whose  product  is  used  throughout 
the  Los  Angeles  district,  the  history  of  the  Southern  California  Gas  Com- 
pany has  special  interest  in  this  publication. 

Under  the  present  form  the  company  has  existed  since  1910.  When 
organized  on  October  5th  of  that  year  the  present  company  acquired  the 
Domestic  Gas  Company  of  Los  Angeles. 

Going  back  two  years  further,  during  the  summer  of  1908,  William 
G.  Kerckhofif  and  A.  C.  Balch,  who  were  respectively  president  and  vice 
president  and  general  manager  of  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Company, 
began  the  negotiations  which  led  to  the  purchase  of  the  City  Gas  Com- 
pany, properties  of  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Company.  The  new 
property  was  operated  under  the  name  of  Domestic  Gas  Company  and 
started  in  with  about  fifty-eight  hundred  consumers  and  one  hundred 
six  miles  of  mains. 

Such  rapid  progress  was  made  in  the  building  up  of  the  Inisiness  dur- 
ing the  following  two  years  as  to  justify  the  reorganization  under  the 
title  of  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company,  which  took  over  the 
properties  and  business  of  the  Domestic  Gas  Company,  including  eleven 
thousand  consumers  in  Los  Angeles,  Tropico  and  Glendale.  with  approxi- 
mately two  hundred  miles  of  mains.  The  gas  properties  in  San  Ber- 
nardino, owned  by  the  Pacific  Light  and  Power  Corporation,  and  the  gas 
properties  in  Riverside,  owned  by  the  Southern  California  Edison  Com- 
pany, were  purchased  early  in  1911,  and  expanded  the  service  by  six 
thousand  additional  consumers  and  one  hundred  ten  miles  of  mains. 

The  Company  in  191 1  constructed  a  gas  plant  at  Colton,  with  a  ca- 
pacity of  2,000,000  cubic  feet  per  day.  and  mains  were  laid  from  Colton 


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to  San  Bernardino  and  Riverside.  Since  then  the  generating  plants  at 
San  Bernardino  and  Riverside  have  been  used  as  reserve  plants. 

In  1912  the  capacity  of  the  generating  plant  at  Los  Angeles  was 
doubled. 

In  1912-13  the  company  contracted  with  the  Midway  Gas  Company 
for  a  supply  of  natural  gas,  which  supply  was  largely  increased  through 
contract  made  in  1915  with  the  Standard  Oil  Company  for  a  supply  of 
natural  gas  from  the  Fullerton  Field. 

By  1917  the  company  was  supplying  gas  at  wholesale  and  retail  for 
light,  heat,  fuel  and  industrial  purposes  to  Los  Angeles,  Riverside,  San 
Bernardino  and  seventeen  other  cities  and  towns  in  Southern  California 
the  population  of  the  territory  served  by  the  company  being  estimated  at 
over  600,000.  The  distribution  system,  aggregated  662  miles  of  mains 
served  37,000  consumers. 

Further  progress  has  been  made  since  then.  In  1918  the  company 
bought  the  gas  properties  at  Redondo  from  the  Western  Fuel  Gas  & 
Power  Company,  and  in  1919  bought  the  gas  properties  in  Los  Angeles 
from  the  Economic  Gas  Company. 

Tiie  Southern  California  Gas  Company  manufactures  artificial  gas, 
also  supplies  straight  natural  gas,  purchased  under  contract  with  the  Mid- 
way Gas  Company.  The  domestic  consumption  is  mixed  natural  and 
artificial  product. 

S.\N  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Corporation  is  intimately  re- 
lated to  a  group  of  corporations  and  public  utilities  that  serve  Southern 
California,  most  of  its  officials  being  executives  in  the  Midway  Gas  Com- 
pany and  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company. 

The  history  of  this  corporation  includes  the  story  of  the  first  system 
to  transmit  electricity  for  power.  The  original  San  Joaquin  plant  was 
first  put  in  operation  in  1896,  designed  for  transmission  for  the  commer- 
cial light  and  power  supply  in  the  city  of  Fresno.  At  that  time  many 
experts  were  confident  that  the  electric  current  could  not  be  profitably 
transmitted  even  to  this  thirty-six  miles,  and  it  was  the  successful  opera- 
tion of  the  San  Joaquin  plant  No.  1  which  disproved  and  discarded  many 
old  theories  on  this  score.  The  pioneer  plant  continued  in  operation 
fifteen  years,  until  it  was  superseded  in  1911  by  the  great  power  house 
which  represented  the  acme  of  electric  power  development. 

The  original  San  Joaquin  plant,  with  some  additions  to  its  original 
service,  was  sold  in  1902  to  a  new  company  composed  of  men  themselves 
jiioneers  in  the  field  of  electric  transmission.  They  were  William  G. 
Kerckhoflf,  A.  C.  Balch,  Kaspare  Cohn  and  Abe  Haas  and  Messrs.  Kerck- 
hoflf  and  Balch  assumed  control  December  1,  1902.  Mr.  A.  G.  Wishon 
was  made  general  manager  in  May,  1903.  The  first  two  were  officials 
in  the  Pacific  Light  &  Power  Corporation,  while  Mr.  Wishon  was  one  of 
the  originators  and  a  part  owner  of  the  Mount  Whitney  Power  Com 
pany.  Mr.  Kerckhoff  had  been  prominent  in  the  lumber  industry  for 
many  years,  and  in  1897,  with  A.  C.  Balch,  had  organized  the  San  Gabriel 
Electric  Company,  which  was  the  nucleus  of  the  great  Pacific  Light  & 
Power  Corporation.  Mr.  Balch  as  an  electrical  engineer  had  distin- 
guished himself  by  work  in  the  northwest,  and  in  1898,  with  Mr.  Kerck- 
hoff,  built  the  Az'usa  Plant,  now  a  part  of  the  Pacific'  Light  &  Power 
Corporation. 

Mr.  Wishon  was  the  man  who  with  indomitable  perseverance,  and 
with  a  clear  vision  of  possibilities,  had  first  made  use  of  electric  current 
for  pumping  water  for  irrigation  in  the  farming  area  of  Tulare  County. 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  321 

Mr.  Balch  is  responsible  for  bringing  into  practical  use  electrical  [jower 
for  pumping  and  drilling  oil  wells. 

Since  the  formation  of  the  San  Joa(|uin  Light  &  I'ower  Corporatioi: 
its  facilities  have  been  improved  to  serve  an  immense  territory  in  the  re- 
gion generally  known  as  the  San  Joaquin  Valley,  the  area  served  being 
equal  to  the  areas  of  the  New  England  states  of  New  Hampshire.  Massa- 
chusetts and  Connecticut. 

Fredeuick  Veunon  (_i(iiU)().\.  (  )n(j  ul  ihe  large  oil  land  owners  oi 
California,  being  interested  in  much  of  the  choicest  property  in  the -oil 
tields  of  the  state,  Frederick  Vernon  Gordon,  of  Los  iVngeles,  has  led  a 
career  characterized  by  the  attainment  and  maintenance  of  high  positior 
through  individual  effort.  He  began  to  be  self-supporting  when  still  a 
lad,  and  with  no  advantages  save  those  of  natural  ability  and  a  determina 
tion  to  succeed,  worked  his  way  step  by  step  upward,  grasping  some  op- 
portunities and  making  others  to  suit  his  own  needs,  his  entire  business 
life  having  constitiUcd  a  record  of  singular,  eminetU  and  well-merited 
achievement. 

Mr.  Gordon  was  born  at  Montgomery  City,  Missouri,  May  23,  1875, 
<i  son  of  B.  ]•".  and  Margaret  A.  Gordon,  and  was  eight  years  of  age  when 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Los  Angeles,  his  educational  training  being  com- 
pleted in  this  city's  iniblic  schools.  He  was  a  little  more  than  sixteen 
years  of  age  when,  in  July,  189L,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad,  as  assistant  operator  and  ticket  agent  at  River  Station, 
Los. Angeles,  and  in  1892  was  advanced  to  the  post  of  clerk  of  the  freight 
depot  at  that  station.  The  outbreak,  of  the  Spanish-.Vmerican  war  in- 
terrupted his  career  for  a  time,  for  in  June,  1898,  he  enlisted  with  the 
First  Company,  VohuUeer  Signal  Corps,  at  Los  Angeles,  and  July  1.  1898, 
was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  corporal,  this  being  followed  by  promotion 
lo  sergeant  in  December  of  the  same  year.  He  was  detailed  on  several 
military  expeditions  into  the  interior  of  the  Philippins  Islands  against  the 
natives  and  took  part  in  a  number  of  engagements,  among  them  l^eiug; 
Manila,  August  13.  1898;  Laloma  Church,  February  5-6,  189'';  Caloocan, 
I'^bruary  10;  Tuluhan,  }ilarch  25;  Palo,  A'larch  26,  and  Meyecanaghan  on 
the  same  date  ;  Marloa,  March  17  ;  Bocave  and  Guiguinto,  March  29  ;  Mo- 
iolos,  March  31 :  Calumpit,  April  25  ;  Santa  Tomas,  !May  4.  and  San  Fer- 
nando, May  5,  1899.  Mr.  Gordon  was  on  duty  under  General  MacArthur 
during  his  Philippine  campaign.  After  the  close  of  the  war  with  the  na- 
tives he  was  mustered  out  in  July,  1899.  He  took  an  active  part  in  mili- 
tary affairs  for  a  brief  time  following  and  then  returned  to  the  pursuits 
of  civil  life. 

Upon  his  return  to  California  Mr.  Gordon  spent  a  short  period  at 
Los  Angeles,  but  in  November,  1899,  removed  to  Bakersfield,  where  he 
became  night  operator  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  being  subsequently  ad- 
vanced to  cashier  and  then  to  assistant  agent.  He  continued  in  the  serv- 
ice of  that  road  until  1902,  in  which  year  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and 
embarked  in  his  operations  in  the  oil  business.  His  first  work  in  that  line 
was  in  charge  of  a  large  organization  operating  in  the  west  side  oil  fields 
of  Bakersfield  until  1W)7,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  the  oil  business  on 
liis  own  account.  Mr.  Gordon's  connections  with  operating  companies 
are  numerous  and  important,  and  he  is  secretarv-  and  a  director  of  many 
oil  companies.  He  is  one  of  the  best  informed  men  regarding  oil  invest- 
ments in  Los  Angeles,  and  his  business  associates  rate  him  high  in  ability, 
while  his  personal  integrity  has  never  been  questioned.  He  is  well  known 
in  club  circles  of  Los  Angeles,  belonging  to  the  California  Club,  and  to 


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the    Los    Angeles    Athletic,    Midvvick    Country,    Los    Angeles    Country, 
California  Country  and  the  Gamut  Clubs  and  the  Y.  AI.  C.  A. 

On  February  20,  1902,  i\Ir.  Gordon  was  united  in  marriage  at  Bak- 
ersfield,  California,  with  JNIiss  Mary  Smith  Langdon,  of  that  city,  and  to 
this  union  there  were  born  two  children :  Ruth  Langdon,  who  resides 
with  her  parents  and  is  attending  school ;  and  Margaret  E.,  deceased. 

John  Gormley  Rossiter  is  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  bar 
of  Southern  California,  having  begun  practice  at  Pasadena  thirty  years 
ago.  For  the  past  five  years  he  has  had  his  law  offices  at  Los  Angeles, 
in  the  Wilcox  Building. 

He  was  born  at  Fort  Howard,  Wisconsin,  November  10,  1855,  son 
of  Allan  Frederick  and  Margaret  (Gormley)  Rossiter.  His  parents 
were  married  at  Fort  Howard,  Wisconsin,  there  being  two  brothers  of 
the  Rossiter  family  who  married  two  sisters  of  the  Gormley  family. 
Allan  Frederick  Rossiter  was  a  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  and 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder  and  railroad  bridge  constructor  in  Wis- 
consin. He  was  superintendent  of  buildings  and  bridges  on  the  Green 
Bay,  Winona  &  St.  Paul  Railroatl,  and  was  killed  in  an  accident  in 
Wisconsin  while  working  on  a  bridge  about  twenty  years  ago.  His 
first  wife  died  at  Fort  Howard  at  the  birth  of  her  second  son,  and  when 
John  G.  was  two  years  old.  The  second  son  died  at  the  same  time  as 
his  mother.  The  father  afterward  married  Ann  Dawson,  and  she  was 
the  mother  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  married  and  all  living 
in  Los  Angeles  except  one  daughter. 

John  G.  Rossiter  attended  public  schools  in  Wisconsin.  After  his 
mother's  death  he  lived  with  an  uncle  for  several  years,  and  then  re- 
turned to  the  home  of  his  father  and  his  stepmother.  He  has  the  most 
kindly  and  grateful  memories  of  his  father's  second  wife,  who  in  every 
respect  was  a  true  mother  to  him.  After  finishing  his  education  he 
engaged  in  commercial  work  in  Wisconsin,  and  at  the  age  of  thirty-two 
came  West  and  settled  in  Pasadena. 

Here  for  two  years  he  read  law  with  A.  R.  Metcalfe,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Superior  Court  of  California  in  1889,  and  to  the  Supreme 
Court  in  1892.  For  seven  years  he  served  as  city  recorder  of  Pasadena, 
and  by  reason  of  that  official  position  his  friends  and  others  have  always 
called  him  Judge  Rossiter.  He  began  practice  in  Pasadena  in  1889, 
and  in  all  the  years  has  never  had  a  partner.  He  moved  his  offices  to 
Los  Angeles  in  1915,  but  resides  at  Pasadena,  at  106  Bellefontaine 
street.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association, 
and  is  a  strenuous  republican,  though  he  was  a  follower  of  Roosevelt 
and  Hiram  Johnson  in  the  progressive  campaign.  He  is  affiliated  with 
Corona  Lodge  No.  134,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Pasadena,  Pasadena  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar,  and  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine  at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Pasadena,  and  is  identified 
with  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  that  city. 

March  31,  1897,  at  Pasadena,  Judge  Rossiter  married  Mrs.  Mary 
F.  (Parker)  Foster.  She  was  born  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Daniel  Parker,  of  that  historic  old  Massachusetts  town,  which 
has  a  history  of  more  than  two  and  a  half  centuries.  Mrs.  Rossiter 
was  educated  in  her  native  town  and  has  been  a  resident  of  California 
since  1896.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Shakespeare  Club  of  Pasadena,  and 
was  formerly  prominent  in  musical  circles  and  a  talented  vocalist. 


FR(3M  THE  MOLIXTAIXS  TO  THE  SEA  323 

Judge  Herbert  D.  Gale,  whose  law  offices  are  on  the  eighth  floor 
of  the  Trust  &  Savings  Building  at  Los  Angeles,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Iowa  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  He  had  about  the 
usual  routine  of  experience  as  a  capable  city  lawyer  until  the  beginning 
of  the  Spanish-American  war.  For  several  years  he  was  coimected  with 
the  American  Army  as  a  soldier  and  in  the  quartermaster's  department, 
seeing  active  service  in  Cuba,  later  in  China,  and  finally  as  an  official 
of  the  American  government  in  the  Philippine  Islands,  and  for  several 
years  was  judge  of  the  Court  of  First  Instance  in  the  I'hili])pines.  After 
an  absence  from  the  United  States  of  nearly  fifteen  years.  Judge  Gale 
came  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  eventually  located  at  Los  Angeles. 

Judge  Gale  was  born  in  Shoreham,  Vermont,  August  18,  1871,  son 
of  Daniel  A.  and  Rosetta  (Austin)  Gale,  both  of  whom  are  now  de- 
ceased. His  father  died  at  Ticonderoga,  New  York,  and  his  mother  jn 
Sudbury,  Vermont.  The  American  family  of  Gale  goes  back  to  1690, 
when  three  brothers  came  from  England  and  settled  in  Connecticut. 
Judge  Gale's  paternal  grandmother  was  a  daughter  of  John  Sargent,  a 
"Revolutionary  soldier,  and  she  lived  to  be  ninety  years  of  age.  The 
Austin  family.  Judge  Gale's  maternal  ancestry,  has  lived  in  Massachu- 
setts and  Vermont  for  a  number  of  generations.  His  maternal  grand- 
father, Jonathan  Austin,  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Townsend,  Ver- 
mont. Daniel  A.  Gale  was  a  lawyer  by  profession,  practiced  at  Brattle- 
boro,  Vermont,  and  Lockport,  New  York,  and  left  his  profession  to 
become  a  stock  raiser.  He  owned  a  large  farm  at  Shoreham,  Vermont, 
and  made  a  specialty  of  Merino  sheep,  being  a  buyer,  shipper,  importer 
and  exporter,  and  continuing  the  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He 
died  in  1893,  when  about  sixty-eight  years  of  age,  and  his  wife  passed 
away  in  1879,  at  the  age  of  forty,  when  her  son,  Herbert,  was  about 
eight  years  old.  She  was  the  mother  of  ten  children,  three  sons  and 
seven  daughters,  all  of  whom  reached  mature  years,  and  four  daugh- 
ters and  three  sons  still  hving.  Judge  Gale  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Oscar 
A.  Rogers,  are  the  members  of  the  family  in  California.  The  oldest 
daughter  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four.  The  oldest  living  daughter  is 
Mary  R.  Davis,  now  head  of  the  Lucia  Gale  Barber  School  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  This  school  was  founded  by  her  sister,  Lucia  Gale  Barber, 
who  died  in  Iowa  in  1911.  The  next  in  age  is  Mrs.  Rogers  of  California. 
Mrs.  D.  M.  Davidson  resides  at  Rutherford,  New  Jersey.  Mrs.  Bernard 
O.  Hale  died  at  Ansonia,  Connecticut,  in  1909.  Mrs.  Flora  G.  Harris  is 
a  resident  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Dr.  George  E.  Gale  is  chief 
surgeon  for  the  Public  Service  Corporation  of  New  Jersey,  with  home 
at  Newark,  and  during  the  war  was  major  in  the  Medical  Reserve 
Corps,  in  charge  of  the  Base  Hospital  at  Jacksonville,  Florida.  Judge 
Herbert  D.  is  next  in  age.  William  A.  is  a  prominent  architect  and 
builder,  was  commissioned  by  the  government  to  restore  old  Fort  Ticon- 
deroga, and  in  1916  his  services  were  requisitioned  by  the  French  gov- 
ernment to  assist  in  restoration  of  destroyed  buildings,  and  he  was  still 
on  duty  in  France  in  the  fall  of  1919. 

Herbert  D.  Gale  attended  schools  in  Vermont,  ]\Iassachusetts  and 
Iowa.  For  one  year  he  attended  law  lectures  in  the  Iowa  State  Uni- 
versity. He  also  had  some  intention  of  becoming  a  physician,  spending 
one  year  in  Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago.  Afterward  he  studied 
law  in  Chicago  and  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1892  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Iowa  at  Des  Moines.  For  six 
years  he  practiced  law  at  Cedar  Rapids. 

Early  in  the   Spanish-American  war  Judge  Gale  enlisted  in   Com- 


324  LOS  ANGELES 

pany  C  of  the  Forty-ninth  Iowa.  He  was  regimental  quartermaster 
sergeant,  and  spent  several  months  in  Southern  camps  and  also  in  Cuba. 
After  his  discharge  he  was  superintendent  of  transportation  for  a  short 
time  in  the  Seventh  Army  Corps  under  General  Fitzhugh  Lee.  He  re- 
mained in  Havana  until  May,  1900,  and  had  charge  of  the  passenger 
transportation  for  the  army.  His  services  were  then  required  for  duty 
in  North  China  with  the  China  Relief  Expedition  in  the  Boxer  Re- 
bellion, and  he  was  on  duty  there  from  July  15th  until  December  15th, 
1900.  Judge  Gale  then  became  disbursing  clerk  for  the  Quartemmaster's 
Department  in  the  Philippines.  After  about  a  year  he  was  commis- 
sioned major  and  chief  quartermaster  of  the  Philippine  Constabulary 
forces,  resigning  in  the  latter  part  of  1902.  He  then  became  deputy 
prosecuting  attorney  of  Manila,  an  office  he  held  until  1905,  resigning 
to  become  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Gibbs,  Gale  &  Carr  of  Manila. 
In  1908  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  Court  of  First  Instance  and  was 
a  hard-working  member  of  the  Philippine  Judiciary  for  five  years.  He 
resigned  in  1913  and  returned  to  the  United  States,  first  locating  at 
Klamath  Falls,  Oregon.  He  had  lived  so  long  in  a  tropical  climate  that 
he  found  the  conditions  at  Klamath  Falls  too  severe,  and  after  two  years 
came  to  Southern  California  and  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles 
since  November,  1915.  From  1916  for  two  and  a  half  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  Gale,  Stone  &  Cobb,  and  since  then  has  been 
alone  in  a  general  practice.  He  is  director  of  an  oil  company  in 
Wyoming. 

Mr.  Gale  has  always  been  a  republican,  but  has  never  experienced 
a  stronger  sense  of  affiliation  with  that  party  and  its  principles  than  at 
the  present  time.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  Central  Com- 
mittee in  the  Philippines  about  five  years.  He  served  as  an  alternate 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention  in  Chicago  in  1912. 
Judge  Gale  is  a  member  of  the  Corregidor  Masonic  Lodge  of  Manila, 
being  one  of  the  organizers  of  that  lodge  and  its  first  master.  He  be- 
came a  Mason  in  Cuba  in  1899.  He  is  a  member  of  the  several  Scottish 
Rite  bodies  in  Manila  and  is  affiliated  with  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine  at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Eastern 
Star,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Union  Leagtie  Club  and  Lions  Club.  He  is  present  commander  of 
James  B.  Gresham  Post  (named  after  the  first  American  to  be  killed 
in  France)  No.  8.  Veterans  of  Foreign  Wars  of  United  States.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Bar  Association  and  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Cathedral. 

October  14,  1901,  Judge  Gale  married  Miss  Minnie  Hopkins.  They 
were  married  at  Manila,  where  Mrs.  Gale  was  an  even  earlier  resident 
than  her  husband,  and  before  her  marriage  had  been  supervisor  of  educa- 
tion at  Manila,  being  the  first  appointed  to  that  office.  Her  appointment 
was  due  to  President  Wheeler  of  the  University  of  California.  Mrs. 
Gale  is  a  graduate  of  Mills  College  at  Oakland  and  of  the  State  Normal 
at  San  Jose.  She  is  a  native  of  Otegon,  daughter  of  Martin  and  Sarah 
E.  (Miller)  Hopkins.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Mills  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion. Mrs.  Gale  went  to  Manila  in  the  early  part  of  1900,  and  remained 
there  until  1912,  when  she  returned  to  the  United  States  with  her  hus- 
band at  the  time  of  the  National  Republican  Convention.  Judge  and 
Mrs.  Gale  have  two  children:  Herbert  Austin,  born  in  Oakland,  Cali- 
fornia, and  Beatrice  Lucia,  born  at  Manila,  Philippine  Islands. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  325 

Hon.  James  Archibald  Anderson.  In  the  person  of  the  late  Hon. 
James  Archibald  Anderson  the  Los  Angeles  bar  jjossessed  not  only  a 
most  scholarly,  accomplished  and  dignified  lawyer  but  a  gentleman  of 
rare  charm  of  fellowship,  tastes  and  character.  He  was  one  of  the 
men  of  cultivated  intellect  and  personal  attainments  such  as  have  been 
associated  with  the  old  South,  and  while  his  Americanism  was  as  broad 
as  the  Union  of  States  he  had  interrupted  his  early  career  as  a  lawyer 
to  fight  nearly  four  years  on  the  side  of  the  Confederacy. 

He  was  born  at  Warrenton,  North  Carolina,  July  11,  1826.  His 
father  was  of  Scotch  and  his  mother  of  Irish  parentage,  and  he  inherited 
from  both  many  excellent  qualities  that  in  the  course  of  his  life  and 
experience  were  developed  to  rich  and  perfect  fruitage.  When  he  was 
about  two  years  old  his  parents  removed  to  LaGrange,  Tennessee,  where 
he  spent  his  youth.  He  accjuired  a  vigorous  constitution  by  much  exer- 
cise and  indulgence  in  open  air  sports  and  excelled  in  the  athletic  com- 
petitions while  in  college.  He  attended  the  old  Episcopal  school  known 
as  Jubilee  College,  and  studied  law  with  his  uncle,  Walker  Anderson, 
one  of  the  leading  attorneys  of  the  time  at  Jacksonville,  Florida.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  began  practice  at  LaGrange  and  soon  afterward 
removed  to  Memphis,  Tennessee.  In  1861  he  left  his  budding  practice 
and  his  w'ife  to  serve  as  a  private  soldier  in  the  Confederate  ranks.  After 
the  expiration  of  his  first  term  he  re-enlisted  in  February,  1862,  and  two 
months  later  was  detailed  to  organize  a  cavalry  company  at  his  old  home 
at  LaGrange.  When  the  company  was  recruited  he  was  elected  its  cap- 
tain, and  with  that  rank  he  served  throughout  the  rest  of  the  war  suc- 
cessively under  Generals  William  H.  Jackson,  Van  Dorn,  Forrest  and 
Stephen  D.  Lee.  He  was  a  brave  and  conscientious  soldier  and  a  per- 
fect model  of  an  officer.  He  well  earned  the  sobriquet  of  "Fighting  Jim 
Anderson."  Captain  Anderson  fought  hard  as  long  as  there  was  hght- 
ing  to  do,  but  when  peace  was  declared  he  accepted  the  situation  without 
sullenness  and  ever  afterward  joined  his  heart  and  soul  to  the  cause  of 
the  reunited  and  permanent  union  of  states. 

He  soon  resumed  practice  at  Memphis  and  while  there  served  one 
term  as  circuit  judge.  In  1880,  on  leaving  Memphis,  he  lived  a  short 
time  in  Texas,  then  at  Tucson,  Arizona,  and  in  1885  removed  to  Los 
Angeles.  Here  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  Fitzgerald  and  his 
son,  J.  A.  Anderson,  Jr.,  under  the  name  Anderson,  Fitzgerald  &  Ander- 
son. In  1891  Judge  Fitzgerald  went  on  the  Supreme  Court  Commission, 
and  after  that  Judge  Anderson  continued  practice  with  his  son  and 
afterward  had  other  sons  in  partnership.  His  career  came  to  a  most 
peaceful  close  on  March  12,  1902. 

As  a  man  and  citizen  he  was  well  known  and  loved,  was  a  kind 
husband  and  father,  and  as  a  lawyer  he  brought  to  the  study  of  his 
profession  a  clear  and  comprehensive  intellect,  an  intuitive  sense  of  jus- 
tice and  knowledge  of  right  and  wrong  which  enabled  him  to  master 
the  principles  of  jurisprudence  'and  apply  them  with  almost  unerring 
certainty.  In  religion  he  was  liberal  and  tolerant,  but  had  made  his 
own  early  choice  of  the  Episcopal  denomination  and  was  always  an 
earnest  member  of  that  church.  Soon  after  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he 
helped  organize  the  Christ  Church  parish,  became  its  senior  warden,  a 
post  which  he  held  until  his  death,  and  upon  the  organization  of  the 
Diocese  of  Los  Angeles  was  active  in  the  framing  of  its  constitution  and 
canons  and  a  member  at  all  times  of  the  standing  committee  of  the 
diocese  and  attended  each  annual  convention.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association  and  in  politics  a  very  ardent 
democrat. 


326  LOS  ANGELES 

Judge  Anderson's  first  wife  was  Louise  Catherine  Trent.  She 
died  in  Tennessee  in  1868.  She  was  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families  of  the  United  States.  She  was  descended  from  Judge  William 
H.  Trent,  who  died  in  1723,  and  who  while  not  a  regularly  trained  law- 
yer, served  as  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  colony  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  later  as  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  colony  of 
jS'ew  Jersey.  He  owned  the  land  on  which  the  city  capital  of  New  Jersey 
was  built  and  which  was  named  in  his  honor  Trenton.  A  still  earlier  an- 
cestor of  Mrs.  Anderson  was  William  Codington,  who  was  the  first  gov- 
ernor of  Rhode  Island.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Anderson  had  nine  children,  five 
of  whom  died  during  the  Civil  war.  Those  still  living  are  Mrs.  T.  O. 
Anderson,  of  San  Diego,  California ;  J.  T.  Anderson  of  Calexico  in  the 
Imperial  Valley,  and  James  A.  and  William  H.,  who  since  the  death  of 
their  father  constitute  the  law  firm  of  Anderson  &  Anderson.  Judge  An- 
derson married  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Maria  Anderson,  a  daughter  of 
General  Nathaniel  Anderson  of  western  Tennessee.  She  died  in  1879,  in 
Tennessee,  the  mother  of  six  children,  three  of  whom  are  still  living: 
Mrs.  C.  O.  Middleton,  of  Dallas,  Texas ;  C.  V.  Anderson,  a  lawyer  at 
Bakersfield,  California,  and  Miss  Maria  Anderson,  of  San  Diego.  In  1880 
Judge  Anderson  married  for  his  third  wife  Miss  Bettie  Daingerfield, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  where  they  were  married.  Mrs.  Anderson  is  still 
living  in  Los  Angeles. 

William  Henry  Anderson.  During  nearly  thirty  years  of  resi- 
dence in  California  William  Henry  Anderson  has  made  a  secure  reputa- 
tion as  a  lawyer  of  ability  and  ripe  scholarship.  His  intimate  friends 
also  know  him  as  a  man  of  versatile  talents,  kindly  affections,  unusual 
literary  tastes  and  an  ideal  companion. 

A  son  of  the  late  James  Archibald  and  Louise  Catherine  (Trent) 
Anderson,  whose  lives  are  the  subject  of  a  separate  article,  William 
Henry  Anderson  was  born  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  December  31,  1866. 
He  was  a  year  old  when  his  mother  died.  His  early  education  was 
acquired  under  private  tutors,  and  in  1884-86  he  attended  Southwestern 
University  at  Georgetown,  Texas.  On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1886  he 
studied  law  with  the  firm  of  Anderson,  Fitzgerald  &  Anderson  until 
1889.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  in  1889,  and 
during  the  following  three  years  engaged  in  practice  at  Abilene,  Texas. 
From  1892  to  1895  he  was  a'ssociated  with  Morris  M.  Estee  of  San  Fran- 
cisco in  the  law  firms  of  E.stee,  Fitzgerald  &  Miller  and  Estee  &  Miller. 
During  1895  Mr.  Anderson  was  assistant  attorney  general  of  California. 
He  has  never  been  a  seeker  for  the  honors  and  responsibilities  of  public 
office.  During  1899-1900  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  Fitzgerald  & 
Anderson  at  San  Francisco,  and  on  returning  to  Los  Angeles  in  1900 
became  associated  in  practice  with  his  father  and  brother.  The  firm 
was  then  known  as  Anderson  &  Anderson  and  the  title  has  been  retained 
since  the  death  of  the  senior  partner.  While  the  firm  handles  a  general 
practice,  they  represent  many  special  interests,  especially  those  affecting 
water  rights  and  probate  cases.  They  are  counsel  for  the  estate  of 
Edwin  T.  Earl,  Los  Angeles  Olive  Growers'  Association,  Covine  Irri- 
gation Company  and  the  San  Dimas  Water  Company. 

Mr.  Anderson  in  politics  is  a  democrat,  but  in  local  affairs  usually 
gives  his  support  to  the  ticket  which  he  regards  as  most  progressive.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  American  Wars,  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  col- 
lege fraternity,  Jonathan  and  University  clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Elks, 
the  Brentwood  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  and  California  State  Bar 


FROM  THE  MUUXTAIXS  TO  THE  SEA  111 

Associations,  Municii)al  League  and  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Pro- 
Cathedral  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  But  after  his  profession  Mr.  An- 
derson finds  greatest  pleasure  in  his  family,  his  friends,  and  the  pur- 
suit of  several  quiet  tastes,  such  as  writing  poetry  and  cooking  good 
things  to  eat.  That  Mr.  Anderson  is  far  removed  from  the  ability  of 
the  mere  versifier  is  revealed  by  the  following  lines  which  he  recently 
wrote,  entitled  "Beyond :" 

"The  evening  sunshine,  be  it  ne'er  so  bright, 
By  its  East-slanted  shadows  hints  of  night, 
The  great  sun  sinking  on  its  western  way 
■yVith  all  its  glory  speaks  the  dying  day. 
Nature  immutably  from  sun  to  sun 
Stamps  all  that  passes  as  forever  done, 
And  every  moment's  time  for  you  or  me 
Ls  one  step  nearer  to  Eternity — 
Eternity !  to  mortals  less  than  naught — 
A  food  for  speculation,  not  for  thought!" 

March  5,  1895,  Mr.  Anderson  married  Miss  Jessie  Isabelle  Calhoun, 
of  San  Jose,  California.  They  were  married  in  San  Francisco.  Mrs. 
Anderson  was  born  in  the  mountains  of  Kern  County,  California,  and 
was  liberally  educated  at  San  Jose  and  in  London  and  Paris.  A  woman 
■  of  talent  herself,  she  is  member  of  a  talented  family  and  is  a  sister  of 
Frircess  Lazaravich  Hrebelianovich,  who  formerly  was  Miss  Eleanor 
Calhoun.  She  also  was  born  in  California,  and  achieved  many  honors 
as  an  actress  in  London  and  Paris.  From  her  home  in  New  Vork  she 
returned  to  California  for  the  express  purpose  of  acting  tiic  part  of 
the  leading  lady  in  John  S.  McGroarty's  historic  pageant,  the  Mission 
Play,  first  enacted  at  San  Gabriel. 

Mrs.  Anderson  was  recording  secretary  of  the  State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs  and  was  also  chairman  of  the  Dramatic  Section  of 
Southern  California  District  Federation  and  chairman  of  the  Dramatic 
Section  of  the  Wahwan  Club. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anderson  have  three  daughters,  Mrs.  Lee  Schlisenger, 
of  San  Francisco ;  Eleanor  C.  and  Virginia  C.  The  first  two  were  born 
in  San  Francisco  while  the  youngest  is  a  native  of  Los  Angeles.  The 
two  older  sisters  are  graduates  of  Santa  IMonica  High  School  and  Leland- 
Stanford  University,  while  Miss  'Virginia  is  now  attending  the  Marl- 
boro School  for  Girls  in  Los  Angeles. 

Claude  Irving  Parker  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
while  he  was  deputy  county  auditor  of  Los  Angeles  county.  Then  fol- 
lowed a  service  of  four  years  as  United  States  collector  of  internal 
revenue.  'When  he  left  that  office  and  took  up  practice  he  turned  his 
experience  to  good  account  and  has  been  specializing  in  cases  involving 
Federal  tax  laws.  Today  Mr.  Parker  is  head  of  an  organization  which 
he  has  personally  built  up  and  represents  the  ablest  experts  found  in  the 
United  States  as  specialists  on  the  complicated  subject  of  Federal  taxa- 
tion. Mr.  Parker  has  offices  in  San  Francisco  and  Salt  Lake,  as  well 
as  in  Los  Angeles,  and  has  a  staff  of  twenty-seven  assistants  in  this 
branch  of  the  law.  He  has  been  at  pains  to  secure  and  surround  him- 
self with  specialists  in  his  line,  and  has  perfected  a  service  complete  in 
every  detail  and  adequate  for  every  contingency. 

Mr.  Parker  was  born  on  a  farm  at  Carmi,  Illinois,  January  24,  187L 
He  is   a   son  of  Theophilus   and   Lora    (Bayley)    Parker.      His    father 


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entered  the  Union  Army  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  rose  to  the  rank  of 
captain  of  the  Thirteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  of  a  military  family, 
two  of  his  brothers  giving  up  their  lives  in  the  cause  of  the  Union. 
Captain  Parker  after  the  war  was  a  farmer  and  cattle  raiser  an,d  dealer 
in  Illinois,  and  died  at  Carmi  in  March,  1894.  His  wife  after  his  death 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  died  in  June,  1919,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three. 

Claude  I.  Parker  is  the  second  of  fourteen  children,  six  of  whom 
are  still  living.  He  lived  on  a  farm  in  Southern  Illinois  to  the  age  of 
sixteen,  attending  the  common  and  high  schools  at  Carmi.  The  rest  of 
his  education  he  has  derived  from  private  study  and  experience  in  the 
intervals  of  self-supporting  employment.  On  leaving  his  father's  farm 
he  went  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  for  two  years  was  employed  as  ticket 
boy  by  the  Santa  Fe  Railway  Company.  He  then  returned  home,  and 
for  two  years  traveled  on  the  road  as  salesman  for  the  Acme  Portrait 
Company  in  Chicago.  Mr.  Parker  came  to  California  in  June,  1892,  and 
for  eight  years  was  a  salesman  for  the  Singer  Manufacturing  Company 
at  Los  Angeles.  He  left  that  company  to  accept  the  position  of  deputy 
county  tax  collector  of  Los  Angeles  county,  serving  from  1902  to  1906; 
from  1906  to  1909  he  was  deputy  county  auditor,  and  having  in  the 
meantime  diligently  pursued  the  study  of  law,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  the  latter  year.  Mr.  Parker  was  appointed  United  States  collector 
of  internal  revenue  for  the  newly  created  district  of  Southern  California 
by  President  Theodore  Roosevelt,  and  entered  upon  his  duties  in  that 
office  on  July  1,  1909.  As  collector  for  the  Sixth  District  of  California, 
he  remained  in  office  until  September,  1913,  and  then  began  his  law 
practice,  specializing  in  Federal  tax  law. 

Mr.  Parker  is  a  republican  in  national  affairs.  He  is  a  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk  and  Maccabee,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California. 

Miss  Mildred  Chase.  While  the  ever-widening  activities  of 
women  seem  to  set  no  limit  to  their  capacities,  it  is  doubtful  if  at  any 
time  they  will  be  more  cherished  or  honored  than  in  a  situation  which 
carries  with  it  a  suggestion  of  a  home.  Especially  may  this  be  true 
when  illness  brings  helplessness  and  an  urgent  need  of  the  tenderness 
and  unselfish  devotion  that  is  an  inherent  part  of  a  woman's  nature, 
however  sagacious  she  may  be  in  business  or  gifted  in  the  wider  affairs 
of  life.  It  is  believable,  therefore,  that  it  was  not  altogether  business 
opportunity  that  induced  Miss  Mildred  Chase  to  build  the  Chase  Diet 
Sanitarium  at  Los  Angeles,  which  she  so  admirably  manages  and  oper- 
ates, for  it  is  not  only  a  place  of  scientific  healing,  but  in  every  essential 
is  a  quiet,  restful  home,  where  personal  interest  is  added  to  professional 
attendance. 

Miss  Chase  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  business  women  of  Los 
Angeles,  competent  along  many  lines,  and  a  cheering,  helpful  presence 
wherever  she  appears.  She  came  here  with  much  experience  behind  her 
and  with  many  self-won  honors,  and  the  institution  she  founded  has 
become  one  of  the  most  worthy  enterprises  of  the  city. 

Mildred  Chase  was  born  at  Bellevue,  Kentucky,  in  1889.  She  came 
to  California  in  1906,  was  graduated  early  from  the  South  Pasadena 
High  School  and  from  the  Santa  Barbara  Normal  School,  and  is  also  a 
graduate  of  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Her  interest  in 
domestic  science  was  awakened  in  girlhood.  Her  first  experience  in 
business  was  when  she  had  charge  of  a  tea  room  in  a  city  in  Vermont. 


I'ROM  THE  MUL'XTAI.XS  TO  THE  SEA  32'> 

From  there  she  went  to  Alaska  and  had  charge  of  the  kitchens  in  the 
Golden  North  Hotel  at  Skagway,  and  later  for  nine  months  had  charge 
of  the  kitchens  in  the  Mount  Zion  Hospital  in  San  Francisco.  She  also 
was  an  instructor  in  domestic  science  and  domestic  art  in  the  high  schools 
of  Hemet  and  San  Jacinto,  California.  In  1917  Miss  Chase  came  to 
Los  Angeles  and  built  the  Chase  Diet  Sanitarium,  which  has  been  so 
liberally  patronized  that,  although  in  existence  only  two  years,  it  has 
been  enlarged  to  as  great  an  extent  as  the  grounds  will  permit.  It  is 
beautifully  situated  in  the  midst  of  attractive  grounds,  has  every  modern 
convenience  and  graduate  nurses  only  are  employed.  Miss  Chase  her- 
self has  always  been  the  vitalizing  force. 

A.  H.  WooLLACOTT.  For  fully  forty  years  the  name  Woollacott  has 
been  one  of  many  prominent  associations  with  the  business  of  real  estate, 
banking  and  financial  interests  of  Los  Angeles.  The  Woollacott  estate 
today  is  a  large  and  valuable  one,  founded  primarily  by  the  late  Henry 
John  Woollacott. 

A.  H.  Woollacott  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  July  22,  1884.  His 
grandfather,  John  Woollacott,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  at  Salt  Lake 
City,  helped  build  up  that  community,  and  had  an  important  part  in  the 
construction  of  the  great  Mormon  Tabernacle.  He  married  Miss  Woolla- 
cott, of  the  same  name  but  not  related,  who  came  from  England  and 
crossed  the  plains  to  Utah. 

The  late  Henry  John  Woollacott  was  born  at  Salt  Lake  City,  August 
21,  1858.  His  earliest  business  experience  was  as  cash  boy  for  Walker 
Brothers'  department  store  in  Salt  Lake  City.  On  November  10,  1876, 
at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  arrived  in  Los  Angeles,  practically  a  penniless 
youth.  He  was  employed  as  delivery  boy  and  clerk  by  Alexander 
McKenzie  until  1880,  and  then  entered  the  wholesale  liquor  business 
and  the  manufacture  of  wine.  He  was  the  first  to  ship  California  wine 
to  eastern  markets.  In  1890  he  established  the  State  Bank  &  Trust  Com- 
pany, becoming  its  president,  and  made  this  one  of  the  leading  financial 
concerns  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  It  was  merged  with  the  Central  National 
Bank  in  1905,  at  which  time  he  practically  retired  from  active  business. 
H.  J.  Woollacott  at  one  time  had  an  office  on  Wall  Street  in  New  York 
City.  He  had  a  sublime  faith  in  the  future  greatness  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  gladly  invested  considerable  capital  in  local  real  estate.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  was  one  of  the  largest  taxpayers  in  the  city.  He 
erected  the  first  brick  building  south  of  First  Street,  and  made  a  num- 
ber of  other  notable  contributions  to  the  material  progress  of  the  com- 
munity. He  was  interested  in  a  number  of  business  corporations  and 
was  a  stockholder  in  one  of  the  largest  dry  goods  stores  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  was  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and  was  one  of  the  first  nine  candidates 
for  the  Otder  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  in  Los  Angeles.  He  was  also  a 
charter' member  of  the  California  and  Jonathan  Clubs.  Henry  John 
Woollacott  died  November  7,  1910.  In  1879  he  married  at  Los  Angeles 
Mary  D.  Yates,  and  their  three  children  are  A.  H.  Woollacott,  J.  S. 
Woollacott  of  Los  Angeles  and  Mrs.  L.  W.  Neiswender,  also  of  Los  An- 
geles. 

A.  H.  Woollacott  received  a  public  school  education  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  when  given  the  choice  of  an  immediate  business  career  or  a  uni- 
versity training  he  chose  the  former  and  went  into  his  father's  office 
in  1900.  His  father  retired  from  active  business,  and  his  interests  were 
handled  by  his  son,  who  entered  into  the  brokerage  business  of  handling 
stocks  and  bonds.      Since  that  time  he  has  placed  a   number  of  bond 


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and  share  issues  for  the  financing  of  different  southern  California  enter- 
prises, and  has  also  been  financially  interested  in  Mexican  copper,  being 
a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Jalisco  Mines  Company,  and  he  is  a  direc- 
tor of  the  California  Warehouse  Company,  the  Los  Angeles  Transfer 
Company  and  is  interested  in  many  other  concerns.  He  inherited  a  large 
amount  of  property,  especially  real  estate,  from  his  father,  Mr.  Woolla- 
cott  is  a  me;mber  of  the  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco  Stock  Exchanges 
and  belongs  to  the  Jonathan  Club. 

In  1919  the  firm  name  of  the  business  was  changed  to  A.  H.  Woolla- 
cott  Company^  at  which  time  a  private  wire  system  was  installed  in 
the  office  in  Los  xngeles  for  the  handling  of  eastern  business  and  which 
affords  direct  communication  with  all  the  principal  cities  of  the  United 
States  and  stock  exchanges,  the  fiiTm  doing  business  in  stocks,  bonds, 
grain  and  cotton.  An  office  is  also  maintained  in  San  Francisco,  doing 
business  in  the  same  securities. 

Danford  Morse  Baker  was  born  and  reared  in  Connecticut.  When 
a  youth  he  was  employed  in  the  office  of  the  Travelers'  Insurance  Com- 
pany at  Hartford.  The  training  he  received  there  brought  out  his 
natural  qualifications  for  service  in  the  insurance  field,  and  about  1886, 
more  than  thirty  years  ago,  the  Travelers'  Company  sent  him  to  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  as  cashier  of  the  agency  there.  He  won  prometion  to 
general  agent  of  the  company  at  Kansas  City. 

For  nearly  thirty  years  Mr.  Baker  has  been  identified  with  the 
Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  California,  having  been  with 
that  old  and  substantial  company  through  practically  half  of  its  lifetime. 
In  1891  he  was  appointed  general  agent  for  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  at 
Kansas  City,  and  in  1893  was  sent  to  Chicago  as  general  agent,  and 
under  his  direction  the  great  business  of  the  company  was  built  up  in 
the  Chicago  district,  including  both  life  and  accident.  Mr.  Baker  came 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1906  as  third  vice-president  of  the  company,  and  in 
1918  was  made  second  vice-president  and  superintendent  of  agencies. 
Of  all  the  executive  officers  of  the  company,  Mr.  Baker  has  the  largest 
acquaintance  among  the  members  of  the  insurance  fraternity  throughout 
the  country  and  now  superintends  all  the  field  operations  of  the  Pacific 
Mutual.  While  it  has  always  been  a  California  company,  its  business 
now  extends  from  coast  to  coast. 

Danford  Morse  Baker  was  born  at  Staff'ord  Springs,  near  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  August  20,  1862,  son  of  George  and  Emeline  (Morse) 
Baker.  His  father  for  many  years  was  a  boot  and  shoe  manufacturer  in 
a  little  town  in  Connecticut,  where  he  obtained  prison  contracts  and  ex- 
panded his  business.  He  was  also  a  Union  soldier  in  the  Civil  war.  He 
is  now  living  retired  at  Hartford.  His  wife  died  at  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  in  1918,  and  her  daughter,  Capitola  Idell  Spalding,  wife  of  Fred 
E.  Spalding  of  Providence,  died  within  five  days  of  her  mother! 

Danford  Morse  Baker  was  educated  in  the  country  schools  of  Staf- 
ford, and  taught  school  there  for  several  terms  before  entering  the  in- 
surance offices  at  Hartford.  He  is  one  of  the  veteran  insurance  men 
of  the  United  States.  While  practically  all  his  time  has  been  given  to 
the  Pacific  Mutual,  he  is  also  a  director  of  the  Central  Business  Prop- 
erties, Incorporated,  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  republican  in  politics,  is  affiliated  with  Garden  City 
Lodge  No.  141  of  the  Masonic  Order  at  Chicago,  is  a  member  of  the 
California  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club, 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Press  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  Auto- 


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mobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Exmoor 
Golf  Club  of  Chicago,  and  is  vice-president  and  a  director  of  Eagle 
Water  Golf  Club,  which  he  and  two  others  established  at  Eagle  River, 
Wisconsin.  Mr.  Baker  contributes  to  the  support  of  the  West  Adams 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Los  Angeles.  His  chief  recreation  is 
golf.     His  home  is  at  2118  Harvard  boulevard. 

January  8,  1890,  Mr.  Baker  married  Miss  Clara  Louise  Gabel  of 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  she  was  born  and  educated.  Her  parents,  , 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Gabel,  have  been  residents  of  Kansas  City  for 
over  sixty  years.  To  the  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baker  were  born 
two  children :  Bessie  Emeline,  the  daughter,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Los 
Angeles  High  School,  attended  Westlake  School  for  Girls,  and  is  now 
the  wife  of  Arthur  Letts  Jr.  of  Los  Angeles.  Danford  M.  Baker  Jr., 
who  was  educated  in  Los  Angeles  and  in  the  Culver  Military  Academy 
of  Culver,  Indiana,  served  as  an  ensign  in  the  navy  and  spent  about 
nine  months  on  the  battleship  "Illinois."  Since  the  close  of  the  war 
he  has  been  connected  with  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  California. 

Mrs.  Isabel  R.  De  Tononi,  who  passed  peacefully  from  this  life 
August  29,  1917,  was  one  of  the  notable  women  of  Los  Angeles.  She 
lived  a  saintly  life,  and  was  distinguished  by  her  relationship  with  family 
and  various  religious  causes. 

She  was  born  April  5,  1841,  when  Los  Angeles  was  only  a  small 
adobe  village  At  the  age  of  eleven  Isabel  Ramirez,  which  was  her 
maiden  name,  was  taken  to  Notre  Dame  Convent  in  San  Jose,  accom- 
panied by  her  two  brothers,  Frank  and  John.  There  she  distinguished 
herself  by  taking  practically  all  the  first  premiums  given  for  the  various 
studies.  While  yet  in  her  youthful  bloom  Isabel  Ramirez  was  married 
to  Antonio  Pelanconi,  a  native  of  northern  Italy.  They  enjoyed  a  short 
but  happy  married  life.  Two  years  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband 
she  married  Giacomo  Tononi,  also  of  Italy,  who  was  a  kind  father  to 
her  little  children  for  ten  years,  and  then  he  too  was  called  to  his  reward. 

Mrs.  Tononi  was  survived  by  four  devoted  children :  Lorenzo  and 
•  Miss  Petra  Pelanconi,  Mrs.  A.  Z.  Valla  and  Mrs.  M.  J.  Hanifan.  There 
were  also  the  following  grandchildren :  Sister  M.  Agnes  of  Jesus  of  the 
Carmelite  Order,  Sister  Mary  Ynez  of  the  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Names, 
Pomona,  Mary,  Stella  and  Victor  Valla,  and  Mary  Catherine  Hanifan. 

The  following  account  of  the  last  rites  appeared  in  The  Tidings : 
"Distance,  distinction  and  creed  were  no  bar  to  the  vast  number  of 
friends  that  gathered  at  611  South  Bonnie  Brae  Street  to  pay  their  trib- 
ute to  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Tononi.  Many  priests  and  sisters  of  various 
orders  visited  the  house.  The  active  pall  bearers  at  the  funejral  were : 
Messrs.  John  Larronde,  Frank  and  Dominic  Bernard,  William  H.  Menn, 
Nick  Quierolo  and  Walter  Hardwick.  The  honorary  pall  bearers  were 
W.  I.  Foley,  W.  H.  Workman,  former  Governor  Henry  T.  Gage,  H.  W. 
O'Melveny,  Charles  Prudhome,  W.  I.  Gilbert  and  Albert  Vignolo. 

"The  solemn  Mass  of  Requiem  was  celebrated  in  the  Cathedral 
chapel  by  Rev.  Francis  J.  Conaty,  assisted  by  Rev.  P.  McNellis  as  deacon 
and  Rev.  Jose  Preciado,  sub-deacon.  Rev.  Robert  E.  Lucey,  D.  D.,  was 
master  of  ceremonies.  Revs.  Joseph  McManus,  M.  O'Gorman,  Thomas 
O'Regan,  J.  J.  Burri,  A.  Bucci  and  Miguel  Sana  were  present  in  the  sanc- 
tuary. 

"An  impressing  tribute  was  paid  by  the  Sisters  of  Charity,  who  gath- 
ered all  the  little  ones  of  the  Orphan  Asylum  in  Boyle  Heights  before 
the  convent  as  the  funeral  passed." 


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Lorenzo  A.  Pelanconi.  Pelanconi  is  one  of  the  prominent  names 
among  the  French  and  Itahan  families  of  southern  CaUfornia.  For 
over  a  half  century  it  has  stood  for  exceptional  business  enterprise,  fine 
integrity  and  participation  in  all  philanthropic  and  civic  activities. 

The  founder  of  the  family  in  California  was  the  late  Antonio  Pelan- 
coni, who  was  born  in  Gordona.  Province  of  Sondrio^^  Italy,  was  educated 
there,  and  worked  on  his  father's  farm  to  the  age  of  eighteen.  Crossing 
the  ocean  to  New  York  City,  he  soon  embarked  on  the  still  longer  and 
more  hazardous  journey  across  the  plains  with  a  prairie  schooner  and 
ox  team,  eventually  arriving  in  Los  Angeles.  Here  he  found  employ- 
ment in  orchards  and  later  on  as  a  rancher.  For  a  time  with  his  brother 
Lorenzo  he  also  did  some  mining  in  San  Francisquito  Canon  and  later 
in  the  noted  Caribou  mines  of  British  Columbia.  Returning  to  Los 
Angeles,  he  became  associated  with  Don  Jose  Gazzo  in  the  wine  and 
liciuor  business.  Later  he  was  in  the  firm  with  Rivarra  and  Sanquinetti. 
He  finally  bought  out  the  business  and  operated  it  under  his  own  name 
until  1877,  when  he  sold  to  Valla  &  Tononi.  In  the  meantime  he  had 
acquired  extensive  land  holdings,  and  his  last  years  were  spent  in  look- 
ing after  his  land  and  other  interests.  This  well  known  old  time  citizen 
of  Los  Angeles  died  May  13,  1879.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  French  Benevolent  Society  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Italian  Mutual  Beneficial  Society.  He  was  a  devout  Catholic.  At  Los 
Angeles,  March  -I,  1866,  he  married  Isabel  Ramirez.  Seven  children 
were  born  to  them:  Lorenzo  A.;  Magdalena,  deceased;  Mrs.  A.  Z. 
Valla,  of  Los  Angeles ;  Antonio,  deceased ;  Maria  Lucia,  deceased ;  Miss 
Petra,  of  Los  Angeles ;  Antonio,  second  of  the  name,  also  deceased. 

Lorenzo  A.  Pelanconi  was  the  oldest  of  his  parents'  children  and  was 
born  at  Los  Angeles,  December  24,  1866.  Up  to  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  was  educated  in  a  private  French  school,  then  attended  St.  Vincent's 
College  one  year,  1881,  and  his  first  regular  business  employment  was  as 
clerk  in  his  father's  establishment,  continuing  until  August,  1884.  He 
also  carried  on  studies  that  perfected  him  in  his  knowledge  of  the  French 
and  Italian  languages.  Until  18S6  he  was  a  student  in  Santa  Clara 
College  at  Santa  Clara,  California,  and  then  became  a  clerk  in  his  step- 
father's establishment.  His  stepfather  was  Giacomo  Tononi.  In  1887 
the  stepfather  sold  that  business.  Mr.  Pelanconi  then  spent  six  months 
in  the  Woodbury  Business  College,  and  then  used  his  modest  capital  and 
previous  experience  for  the  purpose  of  opening  a  general  store  at  Sepul- 
veda  Station,  California.  He  was  in  business  there  until  1892.  In  that 
year  his  stepfather  died,  and  he  then  went  to  the  aid  of  his  mother  in 
looking  after  the  estates  of  both  Antonio  Pelanconi  and  Giacomo  Tononi, 
her  two  husbands.  Mr.  Pelanconi  has  been  busily  employed  ever  since 
in  handling  the  family  business  affairs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Advisory 
Board  of  the  Bank  of  Italy,  is  a  republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
church.  At  Yorba,  California,  November  24,  1909,  he  married  Martina 
Yorba,  daughter  of  Vincente  Yorba  and  Mrs.  Erolinda  Cota  Yorba,  both 
members  of  old  Spanish  families  in  southern  California. 

William  F.  Ball  is  a  veteran  tobacconist  of  Los  Angeles,  has  been 
active  in  business  nearly  thirty-five  years,  and  still  carries  some  im- 
portant responsibilities  in  the  business  affairs  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Ball  was  born  at  Ball's  Mills,  in  Lycoming  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, November  12,  1860,  son  of  Joseph  and  Matilda  C.  (Fisher) 
Ball.  He  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  when  not  in  school  was 
assigned  duties  sufficient  to  keep  him  busy  and  never  formed  any  habits 


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of  idleness.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  came  out  to  California  with 
his  brothers,  and  for  a  few  months  worked  at  Anaheim  Landing,  in 
Orange  county,  then  spent  a  'year  as  a  ranch  hand  on  the  Alamitos 
Ranch,  in  the  same  county,  and  on  coming  to  Los  Angeles  had  charge 
of  the  looms  for  weaving  cloth  in  the  Horner  &  Toor  woolen  mills. 
He  was  also  employed  as  watchman  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad 
at  River  Station  until  Xovember,  1881.  At  that  date  he  acquired  an 
interest  in  a  fruit  stand  at  River  Station,  and  looked  after  his  end  of 
the  partnership  until  June.  1882.  At  that  date  Mr.  Ball  bought  a  cigar 
and  tobacco  store  at  110  North  Spring  street.  There  his  business 
steadily  grew  and  ])rospered,  and  in  1892  he  rented  an  adjoining  store 
at  106  North  Spring.  This  place  is  still  patronized  by  many  of  the  old- 
timers,  and  in  the  changes  and  developments  of  a  third  of  a  century  the 
store  is  now  somewhat  isolated  and  in  one  of  the  older  parts  of  the 
town.  Mr.  Ball  continued  active  as  a  tobacconist  until  January,  1916, 
and  is  now  giving  his  time  to  varied  interests.  He  is  vice-president  of 
the  Fullerton  Oil  Company  and  has  been  a  director  since  organization 
of  the  Mortgage  Guarantee  Company.  He  and  his  brother,  A.  L.  Ball, 
are  Cjuite  extensively  interested  in  citrus  fruits  near  Downey,  rmd  Mr. 
Ball  gives  much  of  his  time  to  that  industry. 

Mr.  Ball  is  president  of  the  Blue  Wing  Gun  Club,  is  a  member  of 
the  Pioneer  Society,  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers"  Association,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  a  republican.  He  has  always  taken  an 
interest  in  politics,  but  never  as  a  candidate  ior  office. 

In  Los  Angeles,  February  25,  1886.  he  married  Paula  Mary  Chard. 
They  have  two  children.  The  daughter,  Madge,  is  the  wife  of  Edwin 
J.  Salyer  of  Los  Angeles,  secretary  of  the  Bartlett  Music  Company. 
The  son,  W.  F.  Jr.,  bom  in  1890,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School  and  the  University  of  California,  and  is  secretary  of  the  Maine 
Machine  Works. 

Joseph  A.  Ad.mr,  a  native  son,  for  eight  years  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  bar,  has  been  a  teacher,  lawyer,  editor  and  public  official, 
and  altogether  has  had  an  exceedingly  busy  career. 

He  was  born  June  2,  1861,  at  Michigan  Flat,  now  the  town  of 
Lotus,  three  miles  from  Coloma,  in  Eldorado  county,  where  the  first 
discovery  of  gold  in  California  was  made.  His  parents  were  James  C. 
and  Mary  Deegen  Adair,  his  mother  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  and  now 
in  very  advanced  age.  His  father,  who  died  in  1895,  came  to  California 
in  the  fifties  and  was  one  of  the  gold  seekers  in  Eldorado  county.  When 
Joseph  A.  Adair  was  an  infant  his  parents  moved  to  San  Francisco,  and 
later  to  Mariposa  county,  where  he  was  reared  and  where  he  spent 
many  years  of  his  mature  life.  Mr.  Adair  is  the  oldest  of  eight  children, 
five  of  whom  are  still  living. 

He  had  a  public  school  education  in  ^lariposa  county,  also  attended 
the  State  Normal  School  and  for  a  number  of  years  taught  in  Mariposa 
county.  While  a  teacher  he  devoted  his  leisure  time  to  the  study  of 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  California  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court 
January  12,  1892.  In  the  same  years  he  was  elected  district  attorney 
of  Mariposa  county,  serving  in  1893-94.  In  1895  he  bought  the  Mari- 
posa Gazette,  and  was  its  editor  and  pul:)lisher  until  1901.  In  1902  he 
was  again  elected  district  attorney,  re-elected  in  1906  and  altogether 
filled  that  office  for  ten  years.  From  1887  to  1892  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Mariposa  count}',  resigning  upon  his  first 
election  as  district  attorney.     In  1911  Mr.  Adair  moved  to  Bakersfield, 


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practicing  as  a  member  of  the  bar  of  that  city  six  months,  and  on  June 
2i,  1911,  located  at  Los  Angeles,  where  he  continued  his  general  prac- 
tice, with  offices  in  the  Fay  Building.  So  far  as  his  other  duties  have 
permitted  Mr.  Adair  has  been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law 
since  1892. 

He  is  a  democrat  in  politics,  is  past  president  of  Ramona  Parlor  of 
the  Niative  Sons  of  the  Golden  West  at  Los  Angeles,  and  is  affiliated 
with  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  November  1,  1898,  in  Mariposa  county, 
he  married  Miss  Annie  L.  Kerrins.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Native 
Daughters  of  the  Golden  West  and  was  born  in  Mariposa  county.  They 
have  two  children,  Joseph  A.  Jr.  and  Aubury  L. 

K.\RL  W.  Thalhammer.  Many  of  the  marvelous  effects  which  mys- 
tify the  beholder  in  moving  picture  art  are  the  results  of  inventions  and 
devices  perfected  by  a  Los  Angeles  man,  Karl  W.  Thalhammer,  whose 
name  is  known  wherever  motion  picture  photography  is  practiced.  He 
has  contributed  some  of  the  beautiful  lighting  effects,  dissolving  and 
double  pictures,  and  lastly  the  production  of  natural  color,  and  as  a  me- 
chanical genius  has  done  as  much  to  re\olutionize  and  improve  the  cinema 
as  any  other  one  man. 

Mr.  Thalhammer  was  born  October  31,  1881,  at  Ivakan,  Doboj, 
Turkisch  Brod,  Austria.  His  parents  were  both  natives  of  Austria  and 
are  still  living,  his  father  eighty-si.x  and  his  mother  seventy-seven  years 
of  age.  His  father  is  still  active,  working  every  day  as  cashier  in  a  large 
cabinet  establishment.  Of  a  family  of  four  there  are  three  sons,  the  old- 
est having  achieved  a  high  place  as  a  government  engineer,  while  the  sec- 
ond is  a  railroad  man. 

Karl  Thalhammer  was  educated  at  Vienna,  where  he  studied  the 
art  of  electro-technique  and  gained  a  knowledge  of  many  instruments  of 
precision  used  by  scientists.  His  parents  at  one  time  planned  a  career 
as  priest  for  him,  and  he  studied  in  the  Castle  Monastery,  the  largest  in 
Europe.  On  leaving  Vienna  he  traveled  through  Europe  and  Africa,  after 
which  he  served  his  regular  time  in  the  army  and  on  December  23,  1904, 
he  landed  in  New  York  City,  with  twenty-five  cents  in  his  pocket.  That 
first  night  in  America  was  the  coldest  of  his  entire  experience.  In  order 
to  learn  American  ways  and  language  he  became  a  bus  boy  in  the  Wa:l- 
dorf-Astoria  Hotel,  but  a  month  later  was  employed  by  a  private  party 
for  experimental  work.  Early  in  1906  he  invented  an  electric  phonograph 
at  Toledo,  Ohio.  He  was  soon  afterward  in  San  Francisco,  and  during 
his  first  year  in  America  accumulated  a  small  fortune  by  his  inventions. 
All  his  hard-earned  savings  were  swept  away  by  the  San  Francisco 
earthquake  and  fire.  He  left  San  Francisco  on  a  bicycle  with  a  couple  of 
dollars  in  his  pocket,  and  coming  to  Los  Angeles  went  to  work  for  the 
Frese  Optical  Company.  He  then  held  several  other  positions  doing  ej^;- 
perimental  work. 

Li  1908,  at  548  South  Flower  street,  he  engaged  in  business  for  him- 
self as  a  manufacturer  and  inventor.  His  present  business  headquarters 
are  at  550  South  Figueroa  street,  where  he  has  twelve  experienced  work- 
men under  his  direction,  and  all  the  fine  and  delicate  machinery  required 
for  the  production  of  devices  representing  the  last  word  in  precision  and 
accuracy.  Mr.  Thalhammer  is  inventor  of  a  telephone  signal  recorder,  of 
a  self-photo  apparatus,  a  self-stop  device  for  phonographs.  It  was  in 
1913  that  he  applied  his  inventive  genius  to  the  world's  greatest  industry, 
moving  pictures.  He  has  made  many  changes  and  improvements  for  the 
motion  picture  camera,  and  today  three  hundred  producers  use  the  Thai- 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  335 

hammer  Combination  Iris  Diaphram.  He  now  has  a  natural  color  photo- 
graphic process  a  hundred  per  cent  perfect,  and  that,  of  course,  will  mean 
the  most  startling  innovation  in  moving  picture  art  since  the  invention  of 
the  cinematograi)h  itself.  He  also  has  perfected  an  economical  device  for 
use  on  the  present  camera,  used  for  black  and  white  pictures,  which  ac- 
complishes a  saving  of  at  least  three  hundred  dollars  a  week  to  larger 
companies. 

Judge  Lewis  Reed  Works  is  a  man  of  sterling  worth  and  integrity 
of  purpose,  a  worthy  citizen  and  a  true  friend.  His  ability  in  the  legal 
profession  has  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  men  who  are  accomplish- 
ing much  in  that  special  line,  while  it  has  also  made  him  an  invaluable 
public  servant,  and  on  more  than  one  occasion  he  has  served  with  dis- 
tinction and  lasting  benefit  to  his  constituency,  which  is  at  all  times  tlie 
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  for  six  years,  commencing  in  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 
helpmate  of  her  husband.  Judge  Works  received  his  early  education  in 
Indiana,  and  in  1883  removed  with  his  parents  to  San  Diego,  where  he 
continued  his  public  school  studies,  completing  them  later  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. In  1887  he  was  graduated  from  the  San  Diego  Commercial  Col- 
lege. From  1882  to  1890,  principally  during  vacations,  he  worked  as  a 
practical  printer,  but  during  the.  last  year  of  the  period  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.  He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
San  Diego  until  1901,  when  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has 
made  his  home  continuously  since.  He  was  appointed  a  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  California  for  Los  Angeles  county  by  the  governor 
in  1913,  to  serve  until  January,  1915.  At  the  fall  election  of  1914  he 
was  returned  by  the  people  to  a  six-year  term  in  the  same  ofifice,  to 
commence  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  under  the  appointment.  During 
the  time  of  his  legal  practice  Judge  Works  appeared  as  counsel  in  many 
important  cases.  He  was  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  state 
legislature  in  1899-1901,  and  in  1907-9  was  first  assistant  city  attorney 
of  Los  Angeles.  In  1910-11  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Charter  Revision  Committee,  framing  very  important  and  exhaustive  city ' 
charter  amendments  that  were  voted  on  and  adopted  by  the  people  March 
6,  1911,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Freeholders  to  frame  a 
new  charter  of  Los  Angeles  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  many  other  interests  which  bring 
into  constant  and  close  contact  with  his  fellow  citizens.  He  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  Company  A,  California  Naval  Militia  (Naval  Reserves), 
the  first  batallion  organized  in  California,  in  which  he  served  three  years 
and  from  which  he  was  honorably  discharged.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science,  the  National  Geo- 
graphic Society,  the  National  Municipal  League,  the  Los  Angeles  City 
Club,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  City   Club.     He   is  also  a 


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member  of  several  social  clubs,  and  is  a  past  exalted  ruler  and  a  life 
member  of  San  Diego  Lodge  No.  168,  B.  P.  O.  E. 

Judge  Works  has  recently  served  eleven  months  as  one  of  the 
justices  of  the  District  Court  of  Appeal,  an  intermediate  court  of  appeal 
under  the  California  judicial  system.  He  was  designated  for  that  work 
by  the  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  California,  his  services  being 
required  to  temporarily  fill  the  post  of  an  absent  justice  of  the  Court 
of  Appeal. 

H.\RRV  GuARiNG  is  a  mechanical  engineer,  has  lived  at  Los  Angeles 
since  1909,  and  makes  a  specialty  of  the  development  of  inventions.  He  has 
served  a  number  of  important  corporations  and  individuals  for  the  design- 
ing of  special  machinery,  gas  engines,  lunnps  and  hydraulic  machinery 
and  electrical  appartus. 

Mr.  Gearing,  while  a  busy  man  in  his  profession,  has  also  become 
prominent  in  civic  affairs,  especially  through  his  connections  with  various 
organizations  in  southern  California  made  up  of  former  residents  of 
Canada.  Mr.  Gearing  was  born  in  Toronto.  Canada,  April  4,  1879.  His 
lather,  John  James  Gearing,  was  bom  at  Reading.  England,  in  1851,  came 
to  Canada  in  1873,  and  was  married  in  Toronto.  His  wife,  Emma  Gear- 
ing, was  born  in  Toronto  in  1845  and  died  there  in  1903.  John  James 
Gearing  engaged  in  the  building  Ijusiness  in  1875  and  was  always  inter- 
ested in  politics  and  civic  affairs  in  Canada.  i\fter  eight  years  of  illness 
he  died  in  December,  1892.  at  Toronto.  He  and  his  wife  had  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  all  living  and  all  residents  of  Toronto  except  Harry. 

While  he  acknowledges  a  proper  debt  to  the  influence  of  his  parents 
and  his  home  in  Toronto,  Harry  Gearing  has  depended  upon  his  own  ex- 
ertions largely  for  his  education  and  his  progress  in  affairs.  As  a  boy 
he  attended  the  city  grammar  schools  of  Toronto  and  in  the  intervals  of 
a  self-supporting  career  took  work  with  the  International  Correspondence 
School  and  received  both  the  degrees  Mechanical  Engineer  and  Electrical 
Engineer  from  that  soured.  P)et\veen  the  ages  of  twelve  and  fifteen  he 
was  messenger  boy  in  a  Toronto  shoe  store,  and  then  in  succession  he 
worked  for  three  years  box  repairing  in  the  Christie  Brown  Biscuit 
Works,  for  four  years  was  employed  in  pipe  organ  repairing  and  build- 
ing at  Toronto,  and  then  did  machine  designing  for  the  Schofield  Machine 
Company  of  Toronto  and  for  the  Newell-Heigle  Piano  -Vction  Company 
of  the  same  city. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  from  Toronto  in  1909  Mr.  Gearing  served 
as  engineer  for  the  Western  Gas  Engine  Company,  later  as  assistant  en- 
gineer of  the  Oil  Well  Supply  Company  of  this  city,  and  in  1913  opened 
his  office  for  practice  as  a  mechanical  and  consulting  engineer.  His 
offices  are  in  the  \\'esley  Roberts  Building. 

Mr.  Gearing  feels  an  appropriate  interest  in  his  fellow  citizens  and 
fellow  natives  of  Canada,  but  is  a  type  of  American  whose  enthusiasm  for 
his  adopted  country  and  state  has  no  limits.  As  president  for  1918-19 
of  the  Canadian  Society  of  Southern  California,  as  secretary  of  the  Brit- 
ish Soldiers'  Aid  Society,  and  secretary  of  the  Allies  Committee  he  has 
never  neglected  an  opportunity  to  emphasize  the  advantages  of  American 
citizenship,  and  it  is  a  matter  of  conviction  and  not  merely  rhetoric  with 
him  that  if  foreign-l)orn  residents  can  not  accept  the  privileges  and  obliga- 
tions of  this  couiitry  they  should  return  to  the  land  of  their  birth.  For 
three  years  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Tenth  Royal  Grenadiers  at 
Toronto.  As  an  American  he  is  a  republican  voter.  He  is  afifiliated  with 
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R.  A.  M.,  Los  Angeles  Comtnandery  No.  9,  K.  T.,  is  a  member  of  Cove- 
nant Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  at  Toronto,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Sons  of 
St.  George.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Optimist  Club  and  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Highland  Park  Presbyterian  Church. 

November  1,  1901,  he  married  Miss  Elsie  Lillian  Ransom,  wrho  was 
born  at  Odessa,  New  York,  daughter  of  Joel  Ransom,  but  was  educated 
in  Toronto,  where  she  lived  and  was  reared  by  an  uncle  after  her  mother's 
death.  She  was  about  six  months  old  when  her  mother  died  and  of  her 
immediate  relatives  she  has  known  very  little.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gearing  have 
two  children,  both  born  at  Los  Angeles,  Richard  Ransom  and  Mary 
Eleanor  Gearing. 

Ernest  L.  Wallace  is  one  of  the  younger  members  of  the  Los  An- 
geles bar,  specializing  as  a  patent  attorney,  a  wrork  for  which  long  train- 
ing and  experience  evidently  qualified  him.  He  is  a  graduate  electrical 
engineer,  has  had  an  all-around  training  and  experience  in  the  engineer- 
ing profession,  was  for  several  years  an  examiner  in  the  patent  office  at 
Washington,  and  is  a  technical  expert  as  well  as  a  legal  authority  on  many 
of  the  subjects  covered  by  his  practice. 

Mr.  Wallace  was  born  in  Chicago  March  20,  1879.  He  is  a  member 
of  one  of  Chicago's  older  families.  His  grandfather,  Edwin  Wallace,  set- 
tled in  that  city  in  1850.  His  father,  Joseph  Wallace,  was  also  born  in 
Chicago  and  was  a  grocery  merchant  there  for  many  years.  He  married 
Mary  A.  Horn. 

Ernest  L.  Wallace  attended  public  school  in  Chicago  to  the  age  of 
fourteen,  and  in  1897  completed  the  course  of  the  Armour  Scientific 
Academy.  He  spent  a  year  in  the  Michigan  College  of  Mines  at  Hough- 
ton, Michigan,  taking  the  Mining  Engineer  course,  and  then  returned  to 
Chicago  and  entered  Armour  Institute  of  Technology,  where  he  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Science  in  Electrical  Engineering  in 
1902.  Mr.  Wallace  was  employed  during  the  construction  of  the  Aurora- 
Elgin  Electric  Railway  as  engineer  of  installation  of  power  plants  for 
one  year.  The  following  eighteen  months  he  spent  as  engineering  appren- 
tice at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  Returning  to  Chicago,  he  was  for  four 
years  in  charge  of  electrical  courses  conducted  by  the  American  School 
of  Correspondence. 

Mr.  Wallace  spent  five  years  in  the  United  States  Patent  Office  at 
W'ashington  as  examiner,  and  at  the  same  time  carried  on  his  studies  in 
the  law  department  of  Georgetown  University.  In  1914  he  received  from 
that  institution  the  desrrees  LL.  B.  and  Master  of  Patent  Law.  This  was 
the  training  and  experience  which  preceded  the  entrance  of  Mr.  Wallace 
into  the  bar  and  professional  life  of  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  for  five 
years  been  engaged  in  general  practice,  though  largely  attending  to  pat- 
ent law.  He  is  a  partner  with  Joseph  F.  Westall  in  the  law  firm  of 
^^'estall  &  Wallace. 

Mr.  Wallace  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Modern 
v\'oodmen  of  America,  and  a  republican. 

Nelson  Osgood  Rhoades  is  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  with  offices 
in  the  Merchants  National  Bank  Building,  but  from  this  city  directs 
business  interests  that  make  him  a  figure  and  power  in  the  commercial 
and  industrial  life  of  Mexico  and  all  of  Latin  America. 

Mr.  Rhoades  was  born  in  Wisconsin,  June  2,  1869,  a  son  of  Nelson 
Carrier  and  Lucy  Eunice  (Osgood),  Rhoades.  His  Osgood  ancestors 
settled  at  Andover,  Massachusetts,  in  1638,  and  his  first  Rhoades  ances- 


338  ,  LOS  ANGELES 

tors,  Henry,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  settled  there  in  1640.  The  original 
homesteads  of  both  families  are  still  in  possession  of  their  descendants. 
The  Rhoades  line  goes  back  through  the  Richmonds  to  Thomas  Rogers 
of  the  Mayflower.  In  the  direct  line  the  Rhoades  family  has  furnished 
soldiers  to  all  the  Colonial,  Revolutionary  and  subsequent  wars  of  this 
nation. 

Mr.  Rhoades  has  had  an  exceedingly  busy  and  eventful  life  but 
began  his  independent  experience  at  the  age  of  seventeen  in  the  quiet 
role  of  a  school  teacher  in  Iowa.  In  the  meantime  he  took  up  the  study 
of  engineering,  and  for  many  years  has  been  in  practice  as  a  consulting 
engineer.  His  duties  in  that  profession  have  taken  him  to  such  distant 
countries  as  Mexico,  India,  Alaska  and  Egypt.  He  made  a  thorough 
study  of  sanitation  and  water  supply  in  Germany  and  in  1900,  returning 
to  Mexico,  was  retained  by  the  Mexican  government  to  build  railroads, 
make  municipal  iriiprovements  and  assist  in  the  survey  of  public  lands. 
For  nearly  twenty  years  Mr.  Rhoades  has  been  recognized  as  one  of  the 
Americans  most  prominent  in  the  development  of  the  Southern  Republic. 
He  also  did  much  colonization  work  in  Mexico,  made  the  survey  and 
revalidated  the  titles  of  the  lands  of  the  state  of  Sinaloa  and  translated 
many  of  the  laws  of  Mexico  into  English. 

With  his  associates  Mr.  Rhoades  owns  several  million  acres  in 
Mexico.  These  properties  are  being  rapidly  developed  and  will  be  made 
ready  for  the  after-war  movement  of  Europeans  to  this  continent. 

Mr.  Rhoades  is  an  officer  and  director  in  many  companies  in  the 
LTnited  States  and  Mexico.  He  is  president  of  the  Sinaloa  Land  Com- 
pany, S.  A.,  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Garfield  and  Rhoades,  with 
offices  in  Los  Angeles,  Cleveland,  LWiio,  and  Mexico  City,  Mexico,  the 
senior  partner  of  that  firm  being  the  Hon.  James  R.  Garfield,  of  Cleve- 
land and  Washington.  Mr.  Rhoades  is  a  member  of  the  following  clubs 
and  societies :  The  American  Academy  of  Science,  the  Pacific  Astro- 
nomical Society,  the  Colorado  Scientific  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution, the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  Order  of  Founders  and  Patriots  of 
America,  the  Order  of  George  Washington,  the  Valley  Forge  Historical 
Society,  University  Club,  Mexico  City,  Mexico ;  American  Club,  Mexico 
City,  Mexico ;  Reforma  and  Country  Clubs,  Mexico  City,  jNIexico ;  Jona- 
than and  California  Clubs,  Los  Angeles :  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Los 
Angeles,  and  the  Masonic  Order,  and  other  fraternal  societies.  He  is  also 
a  life  member  of  the  National  Geographic  Society,  the  New  England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biograph- 
ical Society,  the  Mayflower  Society,  and  the  National  Historical  Society. 
January  27 ,  1911,  he  married  Frances  James  Brown. 

Herbert  J.  GuuDGii,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  bar  since  1893,  is  prominent  as  a  lawyer  and  his  name  is  found 
in  the  membership  of  many  of  the  leading  social  and  civic  organizations 
of  the  city  and  of  Southern  California. 

He  was  born  in  London,  England,  April  26,  1863,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Agnes  (Bateman)  Goudge.  His  father,  also  a  native  of  London,  died 
in  1863,  the  same  year  that  his  son  was  born,  and  was  a  man  of  no  mean 
distinction  in  that  great  world  metropolis.  He  was  a  shoe  merchant  and 
built  up  one  of  the  largest  concerns  of  its  kind  in  England.  One  of  the 
things  for  which  his  life  is  most  interesting  was  his  pioneer  advocacy  of 
the  temperance  cause  in  England,  a  country  which  on  the  whole  has  never 
taken  kindly  to  the  temperance  movement  so  familiar  in  America.  He 
was  active  in  several  temperance  societies,  and  made  an  even  more  im- 


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portant  contribution  to  the  cause  l)y  helping  estabhsh  a  hirgc  hfe  insur- 
ance company  which  hmited  its  risks  to  total  abstainers.  He  was  very 
fond  of  music  and  an  amateur  performer  himself.  The  brothers  of 
Xathaniel  Goudge  came  to  the  United  States  when  very  young  men  and 
settled  in  New  York  City. 

Herbert  J.  Goudge  acquired  a  liberal  education.  He  graduated  from 
the  City  of  London  College  in  1884,  and  received  his  degree  in  the  De- 
partment of  Law  from  the  University  of  London  in  1886.  For  the  sake 
of  his  health  he  spent  a  year  in  the  Alps  of  Switzerland  and  then  traveled 
about  over  the  world  until  1888  brought  him  to  Ventura,  California.  His 
health  not  yet  permitting  the  confinement  of  professional  work,  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  horticulture  until  1893.  In  that  year  he  sold  his 
farm  and  located  at  Santa  Paula  in  Ventura  County,  practicing  law  and 
then  came  to  Los  Angeles.  In  Los  Angeles  he  was  first  a  member  of  the 
partnership  of  Cochran,  Williams,  Goudge  &  Chandler,  and  for  a  quarter 
of  a  century  has  practiced  as  a  member  of  that  firm  and  its  successors. 
He  is  now  senior  partner  of  Goudge,  Robinson  &  Hughes.  I'Vom  1900  to 
1906  Mr.  Goudge  was  first  assistant  city  attorney  of  Los  Angeles.  He  is 
also  a  director  of  the  Horiie  Savings  Bank,  the  St.  Anthony  Mining  and 
Development  Company  of  Arizona,  the  Steel  Alloys  Company  and  other 
corporations. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Sunset  Club,  Union  League 
Club,  City  Club,  Municipal  League,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  San  Gabriel 
Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  and  State  liar  Associations,  is  affiliated  with 
WestlaJ<e  Lodge,  V.  and  A.  M,,  and  with  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  at  Los 
Angeles.  Politically  he  is  a  republican  and  is  a  member  of  the  Epis- 
copal church. 

February  1,  1893,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Nellie  Agnes  Tighe. 
They  have  three  children :  Agnes,  a  graduate  of  Occidental  College : 
George,  born  in  1895,  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School,  now 
serving  as  a  sergeant  in  the  Coast  Artillery;  and  Mildred,  a  student  in 
the  Girls'  Collegiate  School. 

D.  W.  Woods,  one  of  the  younger  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar, 
is  assistant  secretary  and  a  member  of  the  legal  department  of  the  Gen- 
eral Petroleum  Corporation. 

He  was  born  in  Pasadena,  California,  January  17,  1893,  son  of  Rob- 
ert A.  and  Kate  Ethel  (Whitney)  Woods.  His  father,  who  was  born 
near  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  in  1873,  was  reared  and  educated  in  that 
locality  and  on  coming  west  located  at  Pasadena  where  he  was  repre- 
sentative for  a  wholesale  woodenware  house  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in 
the  southwestern  territory.  In  1901  he  returned  east  and  located  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  he  is  now  engaged  in  the  wholesale  coal  business. 

D.  W.  Woods  first  attended  school  in  Los  Angeles,  but  went  east 
with  his  parents  and  continued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Cleveland  until  1911.  Returning  to  Los  Angeles,  he  took  further  work 
in  high  school,  and  was  employed  on  a  salary  for  a  year  and  a  half. 
He  took  his  law  course  with  the  I'niversity  of  Southern  California,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1915.  He  was  in  practice  for  himself  one 
year  before  he  became  identified  with  the  General  Petroleum  Corporation. 
Mr.  Woods  is  a  member  of  the  Advertising  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  is  a 
republican,  and  a  member  of  the  First  ]\Ietbodist  Episcopal  Church.  At 
Los  Angeles  December  19.  1917,  he  married  Norma  Hoover.  They  have 
one  child,  Warren,  born  November  3,  1918.  , 


340  LOS  ANGELES 

Joseph  H.  Spires  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1888,  was  one  of  the 
men  who  suppHed  the  faith,  enthusiasm  and  unHmited  energy,  and  though 
not  at  the  beginning  a  wealthy  man  he  .inspired  much  of  the  capital  which 
created  the  solid  ground  work  on  which  the  modern  metropolis  rests  as  its 
foundation. 

The  late  Mr.  Spires  was  bom  at  Walpole,  Ontario,  Canada,  August 
9,  1853,  youngest  son  of  Stephen  and  and  Mary  Belle  (Foster)  Spires. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Lincolnshire,  England,  and  his  maternal 
ancestors  were  Scotch-Irish.  Joseph  H.  Spires  worked  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  had  only  limited  opportunities  to  acquire  an  education,  most 
of  his  knowledge  being  the  product  of  much  private  study  and  experience. 
About  the  time  he  was  twelve  years  of  age  his  father  through  misplaced 
confidence  lost  his  farm  and  the  family  moved  to  Buffalo,  where  Joseph 
went  to  work  in  a  crockery  store  and  worked  hard  and  long  hours  for 
the  meager  stipend  he  received.  When  he  was  eighteen  the  family 
removed  to  Michigan,  where  his  savings  helped  to  start  his  father  on  a 
small  farm. 

Joseph  H.  Spires  made  his  name  well  known  in  Michigan  and  later 
in  Southern  California  as  a  hotel  man.  He  was  first  employed  as  night 
clerk  in  the  old  National  Hotel  at  Grand  Rapids,  and  was  successively 
clerk  and  manager  of  some  of  the  best  known  hotels  of  Western  Michi- 
gan, including  the  Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven,  the  Hofstra  House  at 
Muskegon,  and  in  1886  he  opened  the  new  Macatawa  Beach  Hotel.  He 
had  also  for  a  time  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  shingles  and  clap- 
boards at  Silver  Lake  until  his  mill  had  exhausted  the  timber  resources. 
In  1887  he  inaugurated  the  commissary  system  in  the  new  Soldiers' 
Home  at  Grand  Rapids,  and  introduced  new  methods  of  handling  food 
supplies  for  five  thousand  men.  After  putting  the  system  in  operation  he 
took  charge  of  the  Park  Place  Hotel  at  Travers  City. 

Unremitting  work  had  seriously  impaired  his  health  and  he  had  to 
seek  a  milder  climate.  In  the  latter  part  of  1887  he  came  to  California 
and  after  a  brief  experience  at  mining  in  Calaveras  county  came  to  Los 
Angeles  in  September,  1888.  Here  he  became  manager  of  the  Fre- 
mont Hotel. 

In  a  short  time  Mr.  Spires  was  drawn  into  those  enterprises  where 
his  service  was  of  greatest  benefit  to  the  development  of  southern  Cali- 
fornia and  became  the  basis  of  his  own  considerable  fortune.  His  far- 
sighted  vision  enabled  him  to  understand  better  than  most  people  the 
meaning  of  the  proposed  system  of  suburban  railways.  He  was  one 
of  the  early  associates  of  General  M.  H.  Sherman  and  E.  P.  Clark  in 
promoting  the  line  from  Los  Angeles  to  Pasadena.  He  secured  the 
right  of  way  for  that  line  and  also  for  the  Santa  Monica  line,  and 
accepted  in  lieu  of  cash  payment  for  his  services.  He  gave  the  best  that 
was  in  him  to  this  work,  and  his  judgment  was  rewarded  in  after  years 
by  the  enormous  increase  in  land  values.  He  also  organized  with  Edwin 
Densmore  the  Yucca  Manufacturing  Company,  to  utilize  the  fiber  of  the 
Yucca  plant.  In  1902  he  bought  the  Western  Fuel  Gas  &  Power  Com- 
pany at  Redondo  Beach,  which  he  eventually  put  on  a  paying  basis. 
He  also  organized  with  Mr.  C.  H.  Sweet  the  Sunset  Brick  &  Tile  Com- 
pany, which  was  later  consolidated  with  the  Los  Angeles  Pressed  Brick 
Company.  In  1900  Mr.  Spires  began  the  agitation  for  the  widening  of 
Hill  Street  from  Sixth  to  Pico  streets,  and  after  this  movement  had 
resulted  in  giving  Los  Angeles  one  of  its  best  thoroughfares  he  worked 
out  a  similar  plan  for  Sixth  Street.  Mr.  Spires  was  heavily  interested 
in  the  development  of  realestate  in  Los  Angeles,  and  while  his  own  for- 


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tune  was  greatly  prospered  by  the  development  in  which  he  took  a  part, 
his  course  throughout  was  one  of  unselfish  public  spirit.  He  served  on 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Good  Roads  Committee,  Aqueduct  Dedica- 
tion Committee,  and  the  secretary  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  recog- 
nized his  services  as  invaluable  and  said:  "No  other  has  given  more 
of  his  own  time  to  the  work  of  the  Chamber.  He  acquired  a  remarkable 
knowledge  of  everything  pertaining  to  Los  Angeles  and  his  good  judg- 
ment, business  sagacity,  sound  logic  and  great  foresight  made  him  an 
invaluable  member." 

He  was  interested  in  Sonora,  Mexico,  mines  from  1898  to  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  sold  the  gold  claims  for  $75,000  in  the  early  '90s  and 
conditions  in  Mexico  preventing  work  with  safety  he  let  the  other  mines 
lapse. 

Mr.  Spires  while  not  possessed  of  the  most  rugged  health  and  con- 
stitution, was  supplied  with  a  will  and  energy  that  kept  him  busy  every 
moment  of  his  time.  In  the  words  of  a  statement  found  in  one  of  the 
local  Los  Angeles  papers :  "His  optimism  was  of  such  a  character  that 
men  in  the  financial  world  credit  him  with  being  an  invaluable  asset 
during  the  dark  financial  days  of  the  'scrip'  and  to  him  is  due  the  fact 
that  a  number  of  larger  financial  concerns  who  went  through  the  panic 
are  in  existence  today  and  thriving.  Men  of  his  hold  are  empire  build- 
ers and  go  to  make  up  the  brains  and  energy  of  the  country.  His  rapid 
rise  in  the  world  was  due  entirely  to  his  optimism  and  his  absolute  faith 
in  the  future  of  this  section  of  the  country." 

Mr.  Spires  was  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California,  Chamber  of  Commerce  for  twenty-eight  years.  Into 
a  comparatively  brief  life  he  compressed  an  enormous  amount  of  achieve- 
ment and  energy.  His  death  occurred  at  Los  Angeles,  January  3,  1913, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-nine.  As  a  young  hotel  man  in  Michigan  Mr.  Spires 
met  and  on  April  2,  1879,  at  Grand  Rapids,  married  Mary  Harrison, 
daughter  of  John  Harrison  of  Pontiac,  Michigan.  Mrs.  Spires  survives 
her  honored  husband  and  resides  at  1501  South  Hoover  Street. 

Andrew  H.  Rose,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar,  carries  many 
business  responsibilities  as  well  as  a  large  private  practice,  and  has  pur- 
sued with  success  a  number  of  diverse  undertakings  and  enterprises. 

Mr.  Rose  represents  one  of  the  early  families  composing  the  Ca- 
nadian colony  at  Ontario,  California.  He  was  born  at  Toronto,  Canada, 
January  20,  1879.  His  father,  Henry  J.  Rose,  was  a  native  of  Oxford, 
England,  was  brought  to  Canada  when  a  boy,  was  in  the  drug  business 
■or  a  number  of  years  at  Toronto,  and  at  one  time  was  lecturer  on  chem- 
jstry  at  Toronto  University.  In  1888  he  moved  to  California  and  joined 
the  Canadian  colony  at  Ontario,  where  he  continued  the  dru';  business 
until  his  death  in  February,  1911.  At  Toronto  he  married  Charlotte  E. 
McCord.  They  had  four  children :  Walter  Malins,  a  well-known  Los 
Angeles  lawyer,  now  deceased ;  Mrs.  A.  K.  Neales  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Fred- 
endall,  both  of  Ontario,  California ;  and  Andrew  H. 

Andrew  H.  Rose  was  seven  years  old  when  he  came  to  California. 
He  graduated  from  Chaffey  College  at  Ontario  in  1897,  was  a  student  in 
the  Hastings  Law  College  at  San  Francisco  until  1900,  and  afterward 
entered  Lelnnd  Stanford  University,  from  which  he  graduated  with  the 
A.  B.  degree  in  1905.  On  returning  to  Los  Angeles  he  became  associated 
with  his  brother,  \A'alter  M.,  in  editorial  work,  chiefly  in  compiling  Rose's 
Code  of  Federal  Procedure.  That  was  the  last  work  Walter  M.  Rose 
did  before  his  death  in  1908.    In  1905  Andrew  H.  Rose  was  admitted  to 


342  LOS  ANGELES 

the  bar  by  the  District  Courts  of  Appeals  and  after  the  death  of  his 
brother  he  took  up  private  practice.  Li  1914  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  H.  F.  Scovill  under  the  firm  name  of  Rose  &  Sco\  ill,  but  since  1916 
he  has  been  handling  his  law  practice  alone. 

Mr.  Rose  is  an  enthusiastic  student  of  aeronautics  and  has  done  milch 
to  promote  the  practical  application  of  this  science  in  Southern  California. 
In  1917  he  and  Earl  Remington  organized  the  California  Aviation  Com- 
pany, of  which  Mr.  Rose  became  president.  This  company  completed  a 
contract  to  furnish  planes  for  the  government.  He  and  Remington  also 
organized  and  Mr.  Rose  is  secretary  of  the  Aeronautical  Society  of 
California. 

Mr.  Rose  is  a  director  of  the  Associated  Investment  Corporation, 
Corona  Pacific  Typewriter  Company,  Cucamonga  Fruit  Land  Company, 
Dean  Electric  Company  of  California.  Delta  Investment  Company,  East 
W'hittier  Land  &  \Vater  Company,  and  Inyo  Consolidated  Water  Com- 
pany. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association,  of  the  Delta 
Chi  Fraternity,  and  is  a  democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
At  Los  Angeles  February  12,  1912,  he  married  Martha  Starns.  Th?y 
have  one  child,  Andrew  H.,  Jr.,  now  a  kindergarten  pupil. 

Domingo  Amestoy.  Of  the  old  timers  in  California  one  of  the 
names  that  can  be  recalled  most  fitly  is  Domingo  Amestoy.  He  arrived 
in  California  shortly  after  the  discovery  of  gold.  While  he  engaged  in 
mining,  that  was  not  his  pennanent  vocation.  His  interests  lay  chiefly 
in  the  field  of  ranching  and  stock  raising,  and  from  his  accumulating  re- 
sources he  made  a  handsome  fortune  and  used  it  wisely  and  well. 

He  was  born  ai  St.  Pierre  d'  Irube,  France,  in  1822.  The  spirit  of 
adventure  was  in  him.  At  the  age  of  fourteen,  after  completing  his 
education,  he  left  France  and  went  to  Argentine  in  South  America.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker  and  follow'ed  it  until  1851.  That  year 
brought  him  to  California  after  a  voyage  of  six  months  around  Cape 
Horn.  At  San  Francisco  he  remained  a  brief  time  and  then  went  to 
the  placer  mines  of  Tuolumne  County.  He  soon  found  employment  on 
a  large  ranch,  and  worked  until  he  had  saved  enough  to  buy  some  stock 
of  his  own.  He  brought  his  small  herd  south  to  the  vicinity  of  Santa 
Barbara,  but  always  marketed  his  cattle  by  driving  them  north  to  San 
Francisco.  Later  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles,  and  worked  for  a  sheep 
rancher  named  Noriega.  Again  he  went  through  the  laborious  process 
of  saving  his  earnings  and  gradually  accumulating  a  flock  of  his  own. 
He  finally  bought  six  hundred  fifty  acres  near  Los  Angeles  at  Rosecranz. 
From  that  time  on  he  increased  his  holdings  in  Los  Angeles  and  sur- 
rounding country.  In  1888  he  acquired  forty-five  hundred  acres  in  the 
San  Fernando  Valley  known  as  the  Encino  Ranch.  This  has  been  one 
•of  the  noted  ranch  holdings  in  Southern  California.  Not  long  after  ac- 
quiring that  magnificent  property  Domingo  Amestoy  retired,  and  his 
death  occurred  January  11,  1892. 

He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  He  was  also  one  of  the  original  stockholders  of  the  Farmers 
and  Merchants  Bank  and  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank.  He 
was  a  Catholic  and  in  politics  a  republican. 

He  had  already  accumulated  considerable  property  in  California 
when  he  went  back  to  France  and  married  a  girl  from  his  own  country. 
Mary  Elizabeth  Amestoy  was  born  in  1843  and  died  March  17,  1891. 
She  became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  liv- 


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ing.  Mrs.  Junita  A.  Glass,  A.  J.,  ].  B.,  Mrs.  Louis  Sentous.  Jr.,  Peter 
D.,  Michael  F.,  Joseph  P.  and  Mrs.  Ehzabcth  A.  Wells,  all  of  whom 
reside  in  Los  Angeles. 

John  B.  Amestov,  president  of  the  French  Benevolent  Society  of 
Los  Angeles,  is  a  retired  ranch  owner  and  business  man  whose  experi- 
ence and  activities  have  touched  many  points  in  the  welfare  of  Los  .An- 
geles and  surrounding  territory. 

Mr.  Amestoy  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  county,  July  4,  1869.  A 
sketch  of  his  father,  Domingo  Amestoy,  appears  on  other  pages.  Mr. 
Amestoy  was  liberally  educated  both  in  California  and  abroad.  He  began 
his  education  in  a  public  and  private  school  where  Hollyw'ood  is  now- 
located.  In  1875  his  parents  moved  to  what  is  now  Gardena,  where  his 
father  bought  a  large  ranch  not  far  from  Rosecrans.  While  his  father 
was  in  the  sheep  business  there  John  attended  the  public  schools  of  Green 
Meadows  in  what  is  now  South  Los  Angeles.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  an 
accidental  injury  kept  him  out  of  school  for  two  years.  He  had  a  private 
lutor  until  1883,  and  from  that  date  until  May,  1885,  was  in  St.  Vincent's 
College  at  Los  Angeles.  His  father  then  sent  him  abroad  and  he  entered 
the  St.  Cern.ard  School  conducted  by  the  Christian  Brothers  at,Bayonne, 
France.  In  September,  1887,  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  two 
years  continued  his  studies   in   St.   Vincent's  College. 

After  leaving  school  Mr.  Amestoy  was  on  his  father's  ranch  at  Rose- 
crans until  1893,  and  then  took  charge  of  the  forty-five  hundred  acre 
ranch  owned  by  his  father,  known  as  the  Rancho  El  Encino  in  the  San 
Fernando  A'alley.  In  1901  he  entered  a  partnership  with  the  Castrucio 
Brothers  under  the  name  Castrucio  and  Amestoy  Company,  wholesale 
and  retail  grocers  and  importers.  Qu  selling  his  interest  in  that  business 
in  1911  I\Ir.  Amestoy  again  took  charge  of  the  Rancho  El  Encino,  but 
since  1916  has  been  largely  retired  and  looking  after  his  private  affairs. 

He  is  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  French  ancestry  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  has  been  identified  with  many  of  the  war  activities,  especially  those 
in  behalf  of  the  French  people.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Native  Sons  of 
the  Golden  West,  the  \A'estshore  Gun  Club,  is  a  Catholic  and  a  repub- 
lican. At  Los  Angeles  October  15,  1893,  he  married  Miss  Francoise 
Hauret.  They  have  three  children.  The  daughters  Grace  E.  and  Juanita 
M.  attended  the  Sacred  Heart  Convent  at  Hollywood  and  are  both  at 
home.  The  son  Domingo  F.,  born  in  1900,  attended  the  public  schools 
and  St.  Thomas  parochial  school,  also  St.  Vincent's  College  at  Garvanza, 
and  from  the  Hollywood  High  School  enlisted  in  1918  in  the  United 
States  Navy. 

MiCH-VEL  F.  Amestoy,  who  during  his  active  career  has  represented 
man}^  of  the  extensive  interests  of  the  Amestoy  family  in  Los  Angeles, 
was  born  in  Los  Angeles,  Januan,-  29,  1877,  son  of  the  late  Domingo 
Amestoy,  whose  interesting  career  as  a  California  old  timer  is  told  on 
other  pages. 

Michael  was  well  reared  and  liberally  educated.  He  was  under  the 
instruction  of  a  private  tutor  in  the  family  home  to  the  age  of  fifteen, 
and  then  took  the  classical  course  of  St.  Vincent's  College  for  five 
years.  Mr.  Amestoy  handled  many  of  the  details  of  his  father's  estate, 
especially  the  Los  Angeles  property,  until  1900.  In  that  year  the  inter- 
ests were  incorporated  as  the  Amestoy  Estate  Company,  of  which  Michael 
F.  Amestoy  was  president  until  1913.  Since  that  date  he  has  looked 
after  his  private  affairs. 


344  LOS  ANGELES 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Elks  Order,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club 
and  is  a  Catholic.  In  New  York  City  June  22,  1905,  he  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Munn.  They  have  three  children,  Michael  F.,  Jr.,  born  in 
Los  Angeles,  September  10,  1910,  is  in  St.  Brendan's  parochial  school; 
John,  born  April  28,  1915,  and  William,  born  on  March  19,  1917. 

Westlake  Military  School,  now  in  its  beautiful  home  at  Santa 
Monica,  was  founded  February  1,  1915,  at  Los  Angeles.  Its  first  loca- 
tion was  at  802  South  Union  street.  Colonel  William  Strover,  the 
founder,  a  retired  officer  of  the  United  States  Army  and  with  many  years 
of  experience  in  military  affairs,  began  his  school  with  only  six  pupils. 
Seven  months  later  he  moved  the  school  to  701  Beacon  street.  On  June 
1,  1917,  ihe  school  was  moved  to  Santa  Monica,  occupying  a  large  build- 
ing on  California  avenue  near  Second  street.  Again  the  location  proved 
inadequate,  and  in  August,  1918,  the  school  was  moved  to  its  present 
home,  known  as  Belle  Vista,  where  Colonel  Strover  also  added  the  prop- 
erty known  as  "Miramar,"  consisting  of  nearly  four  acres  of  park,  with 
many  rare  trees  and  shrubs,  among  them  the  largest  Indian  rubber  tree 
on  the  continent.  The  main  building,  ''Miramar,"  is  a  palatial  home,  fin- 
ished with  every  modern  convenience  which  the  former  millionaire  owner 
could  provide.  It  contains  thirty-eight  rooms,  all  with  luxurious  appoint- 
ments. The  location  of  the  school  is  now  on  Ocean  avenue  between  Wil- 
shire  and  California  avenues,  overlooking  the  ocean  and  the  Palisades 
Park.  With  these  buildings  and  with  this  location  the  Westlake  Military 
School  doubtless  outrivals  any  other  private  school  on  the  Pacific  coast 
in  appointments  and  accommodations. 

This  school  is  a  home  for  boys,  presenting  a  carefully  balanced 
academic,  military  and  physical  training  under  strict  personal  supervision. 
That  the  school  has  more  than  realized  the  aims  and  expectations  of  its 
founder  needs  no  other  proof  than  its  wonderful  growth  and  progress 
and  its  present  prosperity  as  evinced  by  the  enrollment  and  the  school 
buildings  and  grounds.  At  present  the  school  has  an  enrollment  of  sev- 
enty-five boys,  most  of  them  from  remote  states  and  cities  and  some  from 
foreign  countries. 

Colonel  William  Strover,  sole  owner  and  superintendent  of  this 
school,  is  a  Californian  whose  career  commands  especial  interest  not  only 
because  of  his  connection  with  the  school  but  for  his  military  career.  He 
was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany,  June  25,  1861,  son  of  Frederick  Strover. 
He  was  liberally  educated,  attending  the  common  schools  and  the  gym-_ 
nasium  until  the  age  of  seventeen.  For  one  year  he  was  in  the  German 
army  as  a  cavalryman  in  one  of  the  crack  regiments. 

He  came  to  the  United  States  without  special  means  or  influence,  and 
for  about  eight  months  followed  in  Philadelphia  any  employment  that 
would  give  him  a  living.  Coming  west,  he  located  at  Santa  Fe,  New  Mex- 
ico, and  was  manager  of  a  general  store  until  1886.  He  then  entered  the 
United  States  Army  in  the  10th  United  States  Infantry,  and  was  pro^ 
moted  to  first  sergeant  and  then  to  sergeant  major,  and  was  in  active 
service  during  the  Indian  campaign,  known  as  the  Geronimo  campaign. 
On  resigning  from  the  army  he  organized  the  National  Guard  of  Santa 
Fe,  and  was  Captain  of  Infantry,  Captain  of  Cavalry,  and  later  Colonel  of 
Cavalry.  In  1898  he  organized  a  company  for  the  Spanish-American 
war,  this  being  Company  G  of  the  First  Territorial  Infantry,  U.  S.  Vol- 
unteers. He  served  as  its  captain  one  year.  Returning  to  Santa  Fe 
Colonel  Strover  became  chief  draftsman  of  the  United  States  surveyor 


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general's  office,  Department  of  Interior.  Later  he  was  called  to  Wash- 
ington, made  office  inspector,  and  subsequently  was  inspector  of  United 
States  surveys,  in  that  capacity  traveling  all  over  the  United  States.  After 
about  twenty-five  years  of  military  and  civil  service  Colonel  Strover  re- 
tired in  1913  and  came  to  Los  Angeles.  He  soon  after  conceived  the  idea 
of  making  his  experience  valuable  to  the  young  manhood  of  this  country 
by  establishing  the  Westlake  Alilitary  School. 

Colonel  Strover  is  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Elks  and 
with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Business  Men's  Association  of  Santa 
Monica,  and  is  a  republican.  At  Lincoln,  New  Mexico,  November  4, 
1891,  he  married  Miss  Justine  Goudreau.  Mrs.  Strover  has  the  active 
direction  of  the  domestic  arrangements  of  Westlake  Military  School,  and 
is  a  mother  to  the  boys  and  carefully  looks  after  their  welfare.  Colonel 
and  Mrs.  Strover  have  one  son,  Charles  F.,  now  twenty-four  years  of 
age.  He  finished  his  education  in  the  University  of  Colorado  and  is  now 
athletic  instructor  of  the  Westlake  Military  School. 

California  Mission  of  Latter  Day  Saints.  From  data  supplied 
by  Joseph  E.  Robinson,  formerly  president  of  the  California  Mission, 
it  is  possible  to  present  some  interesting  facts  concerning  the  early  Mor- 
mon activities  in  and  about  Los  Angeles.  It  is  not  generally  known  that 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  commonly  called  Mor- 
mons, played  a  significant  part  in  the  settlement  of  Southern  California, 
in  the  overthrow  of  Spanish  rule,  and  the  estabHshment  of  law  and 
order  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity. 

In  the  making  of  this  early  history  the  chief  factor  was  the  Mor- 
mon Battalion,  consisting  of  five  companies  of  one  hundred  men  (549 
to  begin  with)  mobilized  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  July  15,  1846.  It  was 
equipped  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  as  a  part  of  General  Stephen  F.  Kearny's 
command.  At  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  by  order  of  General  Kearny, 
Colonel  Philip  St.  George  Cooke  was  given  charge  of  the  Mormon  Vol- 
unteers and  led  them  to  the  shores  of  the  Pacific,  via  the  Rio  Grande, 
the  Gila,  the  San  Pedro  and  Colorado  rivers,  a  distance  of  more  than 
two  thousand  miles. 

Of  the  privations  and  achievements  of  the  Batallipn  in  this  march 
Colonel  Cooke  furnishes  information  in  an  order  issued  at  Mission  of 
San  Diego,  January  30,  1847,  in  which  he  says: 

"The  Lieutenant-Colonel  commanding  congratulates  the  Battallion 
on  their  safe  arrival  on  the  shores  of  the  Pacific  Ocean  and  the  conclu- 
sion of  their  march  of  over  two  thousand  miles.  History  may  be  searched 
in  vain  for  an  equal  march  of  infantry.  Half  of  it  has  been  through  a 
wilderness  where  nothing  but  savages  and  wild  beasts  are  found,  or 
deserts  where  for  want  of  water  there  is  no  living  creature.  There 
with  alrqost  hopeless  labor  we  have  dug  deep  wells  which  the  future 
traveler  will  enjoy.  Without  a  guide  who  had  traversed  them,  we  have 
ventured  into  trackless  table-lands  where  water  was  not  found  for  sev- 
eral marches.  With  crowbar  and  pick  and  axe  in  hand,  we  have 
worked  our  way  over  mountains,  which  seemed  to  defy  aught  save 
the  wild  goat,  and  hewed  a  passage  through  a  chasm  of  living  rock  more 
narrow  than  our  wagons.  To  bring  these  first  wagons  to  the  Pacific,  we 
have  preserved  the  strength  of  our  mules  by  herding  them  over  large 
tracts,  which  you  have  laboriously  guarded  without  loss.  The  garrison 
of  four  presidios  of  Sonora,  concentrated  within  the  walls  of  Tucson, 
gave  us  no  pause.  We  drove  them  out  with  our  artillery,  but  X)ur  inter- 
course with  the  citizens  was  unmarked  by  a  single  act  of  injustice.    Thus, 


346  LOS  ANGELES 

marching  half  naked  and  half  fed,  and  living  upon  wild  animals,  we 
have  discovered  and  made  a  road  of  great  value  to  our  country. 

"Arrived  at  the  first  settlement  of  California,  after  a  single  day's 
rest,  you  cheerfully  turned  oft"  from  the  route  to  this  point  of  promised 
repose,  to  enter  upon  a  campaign  and  meet,  as  we  supposed,  the  approach 
of  an  enemy ;  and  this,  too,  without  even  salt  to  season  our  sole  sub- 
sistence of  fresh  meat.  Lieutenant  A.  J.  Smith  and  George  Stoneman 
of  the  First  Dragoons,  have  shared  and  given  valuable  aid  in  all  these 
labors. 

"Thus,  volunteers,  you  have  exhibited  some  high  and  essential  qiiali- 
ties  of  veterans.  But  much  remains  undone.  Soon  you  will  turn  your 
attention  to  the  drill,  to  system  and  order,  to  forms  also,  which  are  all 
necessary  to  the  soldier." 

Having  arrived  at  San  Diego  in  the  latter  part  of  January,  1847, 
they  were  allowed  but  a  brief  respite  from  their  arduous  march  for  the 
Calif ornians  were  still  belligerent,  though  Genera!  Pico  had  surrendered 
to-  General  Fremont  sometime  before.  (The  last  decisive  battle  with  the 
Californians  was  fought  at  Los  Angeles,  January  8  and  9,  1847,  General 
Kearny  and  Commodore  Stockton  in  command  of  American  forces.)  The 
Battalion,  however,  was  called  to  occupy  San  Luis  del  Rev  and  "Pueblo" 
Los  Angeles  as  well  as  garrison  San  Diego. 

Mormon  activities  in  Southern  California  continued.  Companies 
A,  C,  D,  and  E  of  the  Battalion  occupied  Los  Angeles  March  23,  1847. 
These  companies  ran  entirely  out  of  provisions  during  the  week  and 
went  to  bed  supperless  and  without  food  until  the  afternoon  of  the  fol- 
lowing day,  when  supplies  came  in  from  San  Diego  where  the  United 
States  Quartermaster  with  supplies  was  quartered.  Detachments  from 
Los  Angeles  were  sent  from  San  Gabriel — then  occupied  by  Fremont's 
followers — and  to  Cajon  Pass  and  Warner's  Ranch  in  efforts  to  pacify 
the  country  and  to  punish  recalcitrant  Indians. 

Another  interesting  order  of  Colonel  Cooke  should  be  quoted.  It  is 
No.  9,  dated  at  Los  Angeles,  April  24,  1847:  "The  Mormon  Battalion 
will  erect  a  small  fort  on  the  eminence  which  commands  the  town  of  Los 
Angeles.  Company  A  will  encamp  on  the  ground  tomorrow  forenoon. 
The  whole  company  will  be  employed  in  the  diligent  prosecution  of  the 
labors  for  one  week,  but  there  will  be  a  daily 'detail  of  a  non-com- 
missioned officer  and  six  privates  for  the  camp  guard,  which,  with  cooks 
absolutely  necessary  will  not  labor  during  their  detail.  The  hours  of 
labor  will  be  from  half-past  six  o'clock  until  twelve  o'clock  and  from 
one  .o'clock  until  six  o'clocl<.  The  guard  will  mount  at  half-past  five 
o'clock. 

"Lieutenant  Davidson,  First  Dragoons,  will  trace  to-morrow  on  the 
site  selected,  his  plan,  which  has  been  approved,  of  a  fort  with  one  small 
bastion,  front  for  at  least  six  guns  in  barbette,  assisted  by  the  company 
officers.  He  will  have  the  direction,  as  superintendent,  which  pertains 
to  an  officer  of  engineers.  As  assistant  quartermaster  he  will  procure 
the  necessary  tools." 

The  remains  of  this  little  fort  can  still  be  discerned  on  the  little 
point  of  the  hill  overlooking  the  Plaza  and  immediately  over  the  Broad- 
way Tunnel,  called  erroneously,  "Pico  Heights"  and  said  to  be  where 
General  Pico  made  his  last  stand  which  is  equally  erroneous. 

The  Battalion  was  discharged  honorably  at  Los  Angeles  in  July, 
but  upon  solicitation  of  Governor  R.  B.  Mason,  who  succeeded  General 
Kearny  as  Military  Commander,  eighty-one  men  re-enlisted.  Governor 
Mason  says  of  them  in  his  report  to  the  Adjutant  General,  September 
18,  1847: 


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"Of  the  services  of  the  Battalion,  of  tlicir  patience,  subordination, 
and  general  good  conduct,  you  have  already  heard ;  and  I  take  great 
pleasure  in  adding  that  as  a  body  of  men  they  have  religiously  respected 
the  rights  and  feelings  of  this  conquered  peojile;  not  a  syllable  of  com- 
plaint has  reached  my  ear  of  a  single  insult  offered  or  outrage  done  by  a 
Mormon  Volunteer.  So  high  an  opinion  did  I  entertain  of  the  Bat- 
talion and  of  their  special  fitness  for  the  duties  now  performed  by  the 
garrisons  in  this  country,  that  I  made  strenuous  efforts  to  engage  their 
services  for  another  year." 

Those  discharged  took  wheat,  corn,  potatoes,  and  garden  seed  to 
Utah  where  they  arrived  by  the  Northern  Route  October  16,  1847.  Some 
few  remained  in  California  for  the  winter  and  among  these  were  six 
members  who  were  employed  by  Mr.  James  W.  Marshall,  Captain  Sut- 
ter's foreman,  at  Sutter's  Mill  near  Sacramento,  and  discovered  gold  in 
the  ;nill  race,  submitting  the  same  to  Mr.  Marshall  to  determine  what  it 
was.  The  rest  of  the  history  of  that  marvelous  discovery  is  woven  into 
the  very  structure  of  the  State  of  California,  and  is  one  of  its  most 
fascinating  stories.  Among  members  who  went  direct  to  Utah  by  the 
northern  route  was  one  Captain  Jefferson,  who  had  charge  of  five  com- 
panies of  the  Mormon  Battalion.  Finding  his  people  in  destitute  con- 
dition and  provisions  unobtainable  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley,  at  which 
place  the  Mormon  pioneers  arrived  in  July  of  the  same  year,  he  con- 
cluded to  return  to  southern  California,  having  been  so  favorably 
impressed  with  its  wonderful  climate  and  resources. 

He  set  out  with  a  small  company  of  fifteen  men  and  blazed  the 
Mormon  trail  from  southern  Utah  to  the  San  Bernardino  Valley,  where 
they  laid  out  and  colonized  the  town  of  San  Bernardino.  Over  this  trail 
for  years  the  Mormons  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  Wilmington  Harbor 
for  supplies  and  products  unobtainable  in  the  mountains.  This  kindly 
interchange  of  commodities  and  trade  was  finally  cemented  by  the  build- 
ing of  the  Salt  Lake  Route  practically  parallelling  the  old  "]\'Iormon 
Trail." 

So  much  for  the  early  history,  which  thus  feebly  told  is  suggestive 
of  one  of  the  most  significant  factors  contributing  to  the  later  as  well 
as  the  pioneer  development  of  Southern  California.  It  now  remains  to 
note  some  features  of  the  California  Mission  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 

The  headquarters  of  this  Mission,  which  comprises  the  States  of 
California,  Nevada  and  Arizona,  are  located  at  153  West  Adams  Street, 
where  they  have  a  substantial  and  beautiful  little  chapel  with  a  Mission 
office  and  home  for  the  presiding  elder,  who  at  this  time  is  Elder  Joseph 
W.  McMurrin,  who  succeeded  Elder  Joseph  E.  Robinson  as  president 
of  the  Mission,  A]iril  17,  1919. 

President  Robinson  presided  over  the  jMission  for  upwards  of  eigh- 
teen years.  Under  his  administration  successful  colonies  have  been  estab- 
lished at  Gridley,  Mayten  and  Grenada,  California,  and  in  various  parts 
of  Arizona,  and  their  membership  in  the  Mission  has  grown  from  a  few 
souls  to  several  thousand. 

President  Robinson  was  peculiarly  well  fitted  for  his  position  bv  his 
early  experiences.  His  father  was  a  pioneer  of  California,  coming  via 
El  Cajon  Pass  in  1849.  He  afterward  became  an  Indian  Missionary  of 
the  Southwest,  where  his  family  was  brought  up  under  all  the  vicis- 
situdes and  experiences  of  pioneer  life.  President  Robinson  thus  became 
acquainted  with  the  handling  of  stock  and  sheep,  also  farming,  then 
became  a  merchant  and  in  succession  held  the  office  of  assessor  and  col- 
lector, county  clerk  and  recorder,  ex-officio  district  clerk,  and  was  elected 


348  LOS  ANGELES 

a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  the  State  of  Utah  and  of 
three  consecutive  legislatures.  Finally  he  was  sent  by  the  Presidency 
of  the  Mormon  church  to  California  to  preside  over  its  Mission  and 
interests  there.  These  experiences  fitted  him  to  direct  the  people  in  all 
the  activities  of  commercial  and  agricultural  life  and  to  advise  them 
legally  in  many  ways  to  their  profit.  They  are  accordingly  growing  in 
prestige,  numbers  and  prosperity,  and  are  a  valuable  asset  to  the  political, 
commercial  and  social  life  of  the  Los  Angeles  country. 

Theodore  J.  Van  de  Kamp  is  a  very  young  man,  has  been  in  Los 
Angeles  only  a  few  years,  but  his  enterprise  has  served  to  set  in  motion 
some  lines  of  business  which  when  named  will  serve  to  give  his  personal 
career  the  importance  it  deserves  in  this  city.  The  chief  of  these  enter- 
prises is  the  T.  J.  Van  de  Kamp  Company,  the  Holland  Dutch  bakers, 
a  business  that  is  now  a  large  corporation  with  its  central  plant  and  four 
complete  stores,  doing  both  a  wholesale  and  retail  business,  and  yet  three 
or  four  years  ago  it  originated  in  a  small  shop  whose  facilities  were 
devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  Saratoga  chips. 

The  other  business  with  which  Mr.  Van  de  Kamp  is  identified  is 
the  American  Reporting  Service  for  insurance  companies,  and  it  was 
with  a  general  training  in  insurance  work  that  Mr.  Van  de  Kamp  came 
to  Los  Angeles.  He  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  May  1,  1891, 
a  son  of  Henry  and  Sophia  Van  de  Kamp.  His  education  to  the  age 
of  eighteen  was  acquired  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  Milwau- 
kee. Then,  while  employed  in  the  day,  he  attended  a  night  high  school 
for  two  years.  In  1909  he  went  to  work  for  the  Northwestern  Mutual 
Insurance  Company  at  Alihvaukee  as  clerk  in  their  general  oiBces.  Later 
he  was  promoted  to  salesman  and  with  a  more  than  routine  knowledge 
of  the  insurance  business  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  his  individual  motion 
established  the  American  Reporting  Service,  which  furnishes  informa- 
tion to  various  insurance  companies. 

On  January  1,  1915,  Mr.  Van  de  Kamp  and  L.  L.  Frank,  who  is 
still  one  of  his  business  associates,  formed  a  modest  partnership  with  a 
capital  of  two  hundred  dollars  and  opened  their  first  store  at  236^2 
South  Spring  street  for  the  primary  object  of  manufacturing  and  selling 
Saratoga  chips.  The  goods  they  manufactured  were  the  best  of  their 
kind,  and  the  partners  both  exhibited  tremendous  energy  and- salesman- 
ship in  making  their  product  known.  Consequently,  March  1,  1915,  they 
opened  a  second  store  at  561 1  South  ]\Iain  street.  April  22,  1915,  they 
opened  their  third  store  at  454J.^  South  Hill  street.  In  November,  1915. 
a  fourth  store  appeared  at  112  South  Hill  street.  In  March,  1916,  they 
added  a  fifth  store  at  873  'South  Spring  street.  Their  success  encouraged 
them  still  further,  and  on  September  1,  1916,  the  T.  J.  Van  de  Kamp 
Company,  wholesale  bakers,  came  into  action,  with  their  main  baking 
'  plant  at  222  Center  Place.  At  that  time  H.  J.  G.  Bruning  came  in  as  a 
partner,  and  this  constituted  the  business  as  it  is  today  wiih  respect  to 
the  managing  personnel.  In  April,  1917,  they  vacated  the  store  at  236 
South  Spring  street  and  moved  to  246  on  the  same  street,  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1917,  made  another  change  to  the  corner  of  Third  and  Spring 
streets.  In  October,  1917,  they  opened  a  stand  at  114  West  Sixth  street, 
and  since  then  have  eliminated  all  their  Saratoga  chips  stores  and  now 
confine  their  attention  to  the  wholesale  and  retail  baking  business,  with 
office  in  the  Douglas  Building,  and  with  bakery  at  255-257  Werdin 
Place.  A  splendid  sanitary  baking  plant  is  now  being  erected  for  the 
company   at   a   cost   of   twenty-five   thousand   dollars.     The    four   retail 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  349 

stores  are  the  Sanitary  Market  Bakery,  and  others  at  561  South  Main 
street,  412  South  Hill  street  and  114  West  Sixth  street.  About  thirty 
persons  are  employed  in  the  business. 

Mr.  Van  de  Kamp  is  an  independent  in  politics.  April  18,  1918,  at 
Milwaukee,  he  married  Miss  Florence  Lingelbach.  They  reside  at  455 
South  Hobard  avenue. 

MiLBANK  Johnson,  B.  Sc,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.  Distinguished  by  long 
and  capable  service  both  in  his  profession  and  in  civic  affairs.  Doctor 
Johnson  is  one  of  the  best  known  physicians  in  Los  Angeles,  is  assistant 
medical  director  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  is  entitled  to  special  credit  for  his  work  while  a  member  of 
the  California  Military  Welfare  Committee  during  the  war  as  being  the 
author  of  the  so-called  California  Plan  of  Vice  Control  for  the  protection 
of  soldiers  and  sailors. 

Doctor  Johnson  was  born  at  Columbus,  Texas,  October  13,  1871,  a 
son  of  Jehu  W.  and  Phila  W.  (Borden)  Johnson.  His  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Gail  Borden.  Doctor  Johnson  secured  his  early  education 
in  private  schools,  and  took  his  medical  work  in  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity at  Chicago,  graduating  in  1893  with  the  degrees  Bachelor  of 
Science  and  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  holds'  the  degree  LL.  D.,  con- 
ferred by  the  University  of  Southern  California.  After  completing  his 
medical  course  he  went  abroad  and  did  post-graduate  work  in  several 
of  the  leading  hospitals  in  London  for  one  year.  Returning  to  this 
country,  he  located  at  Los  Angeles  and  soon  was  busy  in  a  large  private 
practice,  and  continued  in  the  private  profession  for  eighteen  years. 
For  twelve  years  he  was  chief  surgeon  of  the  Southern  California  Edi- 
son Company,  and  so  organized  its  medical  department  that  the  phrase, 
"A  corporation  with  a  soul,"  was  coined.  He  was  appointed  assistant 
medical  director  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in  Sep- 
tember, 1917,  and  is  also  a  director  in  that  great  corporation. 

He  is  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Southwestern  Museum 
of  Los  Angeles,  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County,  the  California 
and  American  Medical  Associations,  the  Medical  Society  of  Southern 
California,  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
the  Colonial  Wars,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  and  is  affili- 
ated with  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club, 
the  California  Club,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Pho  Sigma,  which  was  founded  at  Northwestern  University, 
then  the  Chicago  Medical  College  and  in  affiliation  with  Northwestern 
University,  and  to  Dr.  Milbank  Johnson  solely  belongs  the  credit  of  its 
inception.  This  is  now  the  largest  organization  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 
He  also  organized  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  and 
was  its  president  for  the  first  two  years  of  its  existence,  when  it  built 
the  first  "good  road"  in  California  and  instituted  the  state-wide  good 
road  campaign  which  has  resulted  in  the  wonderful  good  road  system 
throughout  the  state. 

September  16,  1893,  at  Alhambra,  California,  Doctor  Johnson  mar- 
ried Louise  Lothrop.  They  have  two  daughters,  Louiez  and  Evelyn 
Gail.  The  older  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Leslie  J.  Webb  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  the  younger  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Brandon  Bnmer  of  Ontario, 
California. 

Charles  Howard  Palmer  Jr.,  a  mining  engineer  by  profession,  is 
one  of  the  leading  men  of  his  calling  in  Los  Angeles,  and  is  largely  in- 


350  LOS  ANGELES 

terested  in  mining  and  oil  properties  in  this  country  and  Canada.  He 
was  born  at  Rocliester,  New  York,  September  26,  1886,  a  son  of  Charles 
Howard  and  Mar}'  (AUis)  Palmer.  On  the  maternal  side  of  the  house 
Charles  Howard  Palmer  Jr.  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Mayflower  stock, 
and  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  in  Massachusetts.  His  father 
has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the  solid  men  of  Rochester,  and  asso- 
ciated with  a  large  financial  institution  in  an  official  capacity. 

After  attending  the  Lewis  Private  School  for  young  boys  at  Roch- 
ester, Charles  Howard  Palmer  Jr.  became  a  student  of  the  Bradstreet's 
Preparatory  School,  and  later  of  St.  George's  School  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island.  He  then  entered  Harvard  University,  and  following  his  gradua- 
tion therefrom  he  entered  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines  at  New  York 
City,  returning  to  Harvard  for  post-graduate  work  after  completing_  his 
engineering  course.  He  holds  two  degrees,  Bachelor  of  Science  and 
Engineer  of  Mines. 

Mr.  Palmer's  first  practical  experience  in  his  profession  was  at 
McGill,  Nevada,  where  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Nevada  Consoli- 
dated Copper  Company,  beginning  with  that  concern  at  the  bottom  in 
1911  and  gaining  an  experience  which  made  him  eligible  for  the  position 
of  assistant  engineer  at  Copper  Flat,  Nevada.  Still  later  he  was  made 
assistant  manager  of  the  South  Nevada  Gold  Mine  Company  at  Las 
Vegas,  Nevada.  In  1912  Mr.  Palmer  leased  the  Columbia  Mine  at 
Good  Springs,  Nevada;  in  Februar}',  1913,  leased  the  King  Solomon 
Mine  at  Havilah,  California;  and  in  September,  1913,  leased  the  Amer- 
ican Eagle  Mine  at  Dos  Cabezos,  Arizona.  During  May,  191*4,  Mr. 
Palmer  became  engineer  for  the  Pacific  Mines  Corporation  at  Ludlow, 
California;  in  January,  1915,  was  made  engineer  for  the  United  Eastern 
Mining  Company  of  Oatman,  Arizona;  in  April,  1915,  as  a  consulting 
engineer,  opened  offices  in  Los  Angeles,  to  which  city  he  had  come  in 
1912;  in  July,  1917,  he  was  made  a  director  of  the  United  Eastern  Min- 
ing Company,  and  is  now  directing  the  affairs  of  several  mining  and  oil 
properties  in  which  he  is  financially  interested. 

Like  other  patriotic  men  of  his  profession,  Mr.  Palmer  offered  his 
services  to  his  government  during  the  time  of  war,  and  in  October,  1917, 
went  to  Vancouver  Barracks  Engineers'  Training  Camp,  and  was  made 
a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Engineer  Officers'  Reserve  Corps.  Sent  to 
Camp  Meade,  Maryland,  with  Company  F,  Three  Hundred  and  Fourth 
Engineers,  he  was  soon  made  regimental  gas  officer  and  later  assistant 
to  the  chief  engineer  of  the  Seventy-ninth  Division.  On  February  10, 
1918,  he  was  ordered  to  Washington  as  assistant  to  the  assistant  director 
of  the  United  States  Government  Explosives  Plant,  receiving  his  pro- 
motion as  captain  on  July  1,  1918,  and  his  honorable  discharge  on 
February  18,  1919.  A  brother  of  his  was  a  member  of  the  Lafayette 
Escadrilie,  and  died  in  France  in  November,  1917. 

On  December  2,  1910,  Mr.  Palmer  was  united  in  marriage  at  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  to  Mary  Wilde  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  There 
are  no  children.  Mrs.  Palmer  took  a  very  active  part  in  Red  Cross 
work  and  other  war  movements,  and  is  an  enthusiastic  club  woman. 
Mr.  Palmer  belongs  to  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  the  California 
Club,  the  Cerritos  Gun  Club,  the  Rocky  Mountain  Club  of  New  York, 
the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  the  Harvard  Club  of  New 
York,  the  Mayflower  Society,  the  Pilgrim  Society,  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  the  Society  of  the  Colonial  Wars.  While  a 
republican,  he  has  never  entered  politics. 


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FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THli  SKA  351 

Ildevert  I.  Dehail.  For  many  years  some  of  the  valuable  firoperty 
interests  of  Los  Angeles  have  been  in  the  Dehail  ownership  and  manage- 
ment. The  late  Ildevert  1.  Dehail  was  one  of  the  early  and  prominent 
real  estate  operators  and  owners  of  the  city,  and  while  only  a  few  brief 
facts  concerning  his  career  are  available  he  was  evidently  a  man  of  re- 
markable enterprise,  of  undaunted  courage,  and  made  and  lost  and  re- 
covered several  fortunes. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Mortagne,  France,  May  17,  1848,  and 
had  but  a  few  months  of  education.  He  was  living  in  France  when  the 
Franco-Prussian  war  broke  out,  served  as  a  French  soldier  and  three 
months  before  the  capture  of  Paris  he  was  made  a  prisoner.  He  escaped 
once  from  the  German  prison  and  reached  the  Holland  border  before  he 
was  recaptured.  He  was  then  put  in  a  fortress  on  the  Rhine  and  re- 
mained tliere  until  after  the  war.  r)roken  in  health,  he  came  to  the 
United  States,  on  the  steamship  "Europe."  This  vessel  in  midocean  was 
wrecked  and  all  the  meager  possessions  of  Mr.  Dehail  were  swept  away. 
The  passengers  were  rescued  by  the  English  steamship  "Greece,"  and 
arrived  in  New  York  City  in  1874.    During  the  war  his  parents  both  died. 

Mr.  Dehail  turned  his  abilities  to  work  in  a  butcher  shop.  Later  he 
traveled  around  the  country,  chiefly  in  the  southern  states,  and  in  1877 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  meat  business  at  St.  Louis.  He  prosecuted  this 
with  great  vigor,  and  rapidly  accumulated  a  fortune.  He  sold  out  in  the 
late  seventies  and  went  to  Leadville,  Colorado,  then  one  of  the  leading 
districts  in  the  west.  He  became  a  mine  operator  and  made  and  lost  sev- 
eral fortunes  there.  He  had  come  all  the  way  to  Colorado  on  horseback, 
and  while  in  Leadville  he  located  several  mines.  He  located  the  "Morn- 
ing Star  Mine."  He  was  engaged  in  gold  washing  there  and  also  ran 
the  Clarendon  Hotel,  the  leading  hotel.  In  1882  he  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  from  there  to  San  Diego,  and  then  back  to  San  Francisco, 
looking  for  a  location. 

In  February,  1886,  with  all  his  money  gone,  Mr.  Dehail  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  and  with  renewed  energy  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business. 
He  bought  twenty-five  or  thirty  properties,  improved  and  sold  them. 
The  next  two  years  he  acquired  title  to  some  property  that  has  since  be- 
come very  valuable.  He  was  especially  identified  with  the  upbuilding  and 
improvement  of  the  section  between  Central  avenue  and  Main  street  and 
from  First  street  to  Sixth  street.  He  was  also  responsible  for. the  open- 
ing of  San  Pedro  street,  north  of  Third  street.  He  was  the  active  leader 
in  getting  paving  and  general  improvements  made.  He  also  bought  prop- 
erty in  San  Francisco  at  Twelfth  and  ^Market  streets,  and  after  the  great 
fire  erected  a  large  hotel  and  was  well  known  in  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Dehail  died  while  on  t  trip  inspecting  some  of  his  property  inter- 
ests in  San  Francisco  September  3,  1918.  He  was  a  republican  in  poli- 
tics. At  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  he  married  Alice  Ferrandon,  a  native  of 
Nauvoo,  Illinois.  His  only  son,  Elmo,  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  April  11, 
1892.  Fie  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  and  then  be- 
came associated  with  his  father  in  the  real  estate  business,  and  since  his 
father's  death  has  had  the  active  management  of  the  estate. 

During  the  war  with  Germany  Mr.  Dehail  took  an  active  interest  and 
gave  liberally  to  the  Red  Cross  and  other  patriotic  measures.  He  was 
a  very  patriotic  American. 

Col.  Cassius  M.  Moses.  One  by  one  pass  away  the  notable  figures 
of  the  country's  older  military  history,  and  there  was  a  sad  appropriate- 
ness in  the  death  of  Col.  Cassius  M.  Moses  on  Decoration  Dav,  Mav 
30,  1919. 


352  LOS  ANGELES 

Cassius  M.  Moses  was  born  in  Clymer,  Chautauqua  county,  New 
York,  January  31,  1865,  the  sixth  of  the  seven  sons  born  to  Amasa 
C.  and  Naoma  Terry  Moses.  In  August,  1871,  the  Moses  family  moved 
to  Barton  county,  Kansas,  and  the  early  boyhood  years  of  Colonel 
Moses  were  spent  on  the  Moses  homestead,  "punching  cows,"  farm- 
ing and  living  the  strenuous  life  of  those  pioneer  days.  In  writing  of 
this  time,  in  later  years,  he  said :  "The  memory  of  the  days  when  my 
father  and  mother,  their  older  sons,  Arthur,  Clayton  and  Edward,  and 
the  valiant  friends  and  associates  of  that  time  were  building  an  American 
empire  in  the  wilderness  will  be  my  dearest,  my  most  valued  possession 
while  life  lasts." 

In  the  spring  of  1882  he  went  to  work  for  his  brothers,  who  were 
engaged  in  a  general  mercantile  business  in  Great  Bend,  Kansas.  In 
1888  he  accepted  a  commercial  position  in  Pueblo,  Colorado,  and  went 
there  to  live,  and  enlisted  in  the  National  Guard  of  the  state  of  Colorado 
in  April,  1889,  and  served  the  state  in  every  capacity  from  private  sol- 
dier to  the  highest  office  in  the  guard,  that  of  brigadier  general.  On 
January  18,  1895,  he  was  appointed  adjutant  general  of  the  state  of 
Colorado  by  Governor  A.  W.  Mclntire,  and  removed  to  Denver  and 
was  reappointed  adjutant  general  by  Governor  Mclntire  April  1,  1895, 
and  again  reappointed  adjutant  general  by  Governor  Alna  Adams  March 
1,  1897.  Quoting  from  a  report  made  by  Gen.  Irving  Hale,  U.  S.  V. : 
"As  adjutant  general  and  quartermaster  general  of  the  state  of  Colorado 
for  over  three  years,  including  the  long  service  of  the  guard  during  the 
Leadville  strike.  Gen.  Cassius  M.  Moses  showed  great  energy  and 
executive  ability  and  put  the  National  Guard  of  Colorado  in  the  ex- 
cellent condition  as  to  drill,  discipline  and  equipment  in  which  it  was 
found  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish  war." 

In  the  spring  of  1898,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American 
war,  the  entire  National  Guard  of  Colorado,  under  the  command  of 
General  Moses,  was  mobilized  at  Camp  Adams,  near  Denver,  and  the 
entire  quota  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  May  1,  1898. 
It  was  then  General  Moses  proved  his  true  loyalty  and  love  of  country 
by  resigning  as  adjutant  general,  intending  to  enter  the  ranks  as  a  private 
soldier,  but  this  sacrifice  was  not  accepted  and  he  was  commissioned 
major.  First  Regiment  Infantry,  Colorado  Volunteers,  May  1,  1898,  and 
with  the  regiment  left  Camp  Adams  May  17,  1898,  for  the  Philippine 
Islands  via  San  Francisco,  reaching  Manila  Bay  July  16,  1898.  Major 
Moses  participated  in  engagements  before  Manila,  and  in  the  capture  of 
that  city,  August  13,  1898.  Quoting  from  a  report  of  this  engagement 
by  Capt.  William  A.  Cornell,  U.  S.  V.  (now  lieutenant-colonel.  United 
States  Army)  :  "In  this  movement.  Major  Moses  not  only  distinguished 
himself  for  his  bravery  and  fearless  leadership,  and  his  genius  and  skill 
in  successfully  commanding  the  troops  under  him,  receiving  and  merit- 
ing the  hearty  commendation  of  his  superiors  in  rank,  and  the  true 
respect  of  his  subalterns."  Quoting  from  a  letter  written  by  Major 
General  F.  V.  Green,  U.  S.  V. :  "I  saw  Major  Moses  daily  from  June 
to  September,  1898,  and  can  testify  to  his  ability,  his  fine  soldierly 
qualities,  his  zeal  and  enthusiasm  in  the  performance  of  every  duty, 
and  his  high  character  in  every  respect  as  an  officer.  The  First  Colo- 
rado was  an  unusually  fine  regiment,  and  I  considered  Major  Moses 
one  of  the  best  officers  in  it."  On  September  6,  1898,  he  was  com- 
missioned lieutenant  colonel.  In  the  Philippine  insurrection  Colonel 
Moses  commanded  at  various  times  every  part  of  the  First  Colorado 
Regiment.    Quoting  from  a  letter  written  by  Major  General  E.  S.  Otis : 


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"In  the  Philippines  we  considered  Colonel  Moses  one  of  our  best  officers 
and  he  was  promptly  selected  for  dangerous  service  requiring  tact  and 
courage.  In  General  Lawton's  movement  to  the  south  he,  with  six  com- 
panies of  his  regiment,  took  the  brunt  of  the  initiative  attack  upon  the 
enemy's  position  and  gallantly  carried  it,  the  colonel  being  severely 
wounded  and  carried  from  the  field." 

On  June  10,  1899,  in  General  Lawton's  advance  on  Guadaloupe 
Heights,  Las  Pinos  and  Paranaque,  Colonel  Moses  was  severely 
wounded.  He  never  fully  recovered  from  the  injuries  received,  and 
they  finally  caused  his  death  at  the  age  of  iifty-four  years.  He  was 
mustered  out  with  the  regiment  September  8,  1899,  at  the  Presidio  of 
San  Francisco,  California,  and  returned  to  Colorado,  where  he  lived 
until  January,  1903,  when  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles  to  make  his  perma- 
nent home.  He  engaged  in  mercantile  business  until  19L5,  when  mines 
and  mining  affairs  engrossed  him. 

Colonel  Moses  was  married  October  14,  1890,  to  Miss  Betsey  Bald- 
win Cunningham  of  Frederick,  Illinois,  who  survives,  with  a  daughter, 
Donna,  the  wife  of  Capt.  John  James  Vandenburgh,  Coast  Artillery, 
United  States  Army ;  a  son,  John  Campbell  Moses,  first  lieutenant, 
Second  Field  /Vrtillery,  United  States  Army,  of  the  American  Expedi- 
tionary Forces  in  France,  and  a  grandson,  John  James  Vanderburgh  Jr. 
Colonel  Moses  is  survived  also  by  his  six  brothers,  Arthur  H.,  Clayton 
L.,  Edward  W.,  William  A.,  Lincoln  E.  and  Seward  E. 

Colonel  Moses  is  remembered  as  an  honest,  capable,  patriotic  Amer- 
ican, who  at  all  times  labored  for  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  soldiers,  the 
good  of  the  service  and  the  honor  of  his  country,  respected  ;md  admired 
by  his  army  comrades,  business  and  social  associates. 

G.\RRETTSON  DuLiN  is  a  prominent  young  business  man  of  Los 
Angeles,  formerly  local  manager  for  E.  H.  Rollin  &  Son  of  Boston, 
during  the  war  an  officer  and  instructor  in  aviation,  and  now  member 
of  the  firm  Blankenhorn,  Hunter,  Dulin  Company.  Bonds  and  Invest- 
ment Bankers. 

Mr.  Dulin  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  May  24,  1889,  arid 
one  month  after  his  birth  his  parents,  Edgar  G.  and  Jean  Belden  (Gar- 
rettson)  Dulin,  came  to  California  and  located  in  San  Diego.  Garrett- 
son  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles,  attended  the 
University  of  California,  and  completed  his  education  in  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, at  Ithaca,  New  York. 

He  became  Los  Angeles  manager  for  the  nationally  known  bond 
house  of  E.  H.  Rollin  &  Son  of  Boston  in  1912.  His  ability  and  per- 
sonal character  have  made  that  house  a  prosperous  factor  in  Los  Angeles 
financial  circles  for  five  years.  Early  in  the  war  with  Germany  Mr. 
Dulin  began  training  for  an  aviator.  After  his  course  of  instruction 
he  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant,  and  was  then  placed  on  duty 
as  an  instructor  at  Marshfield,  Riverside,  California.  He  remained  in 
the  service  until  after  the  signing  of  the  armistice,  and  then  rettirned  to 
Los  Angeles.  March  1,  1919,  he  entered  the  firm  of  Blankenhorn, 
Hunter,  Dulin  Company,  and  on  February  14,  1920,  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Jane  Stimson,  daughter  of  George  W.  Stimson  of  Pasa- 
dena. Mr.  Dulin  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  .\thletic  Cluli.  Mid- 
wick  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  and  California  Club, 
ajid  belongs  to  the  college  fraternity  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 


354  LOS  ANGELES 

Miss  Lloy  Galpin.  There  is  hardly  a  name  that  stands  for  more  in 
the  social  and  artistic  circles  of  Southern  California  than  that  of  Galpin. 
Miss  Lloy  Galpin  is  a  daughter  of  Cromwell  Galpin,  and  her  own  modest 
part  as  a  member  of  this  family  is  as  a  teacher  in  the  Los  Angeles  New 
High  School. 

Cromwell  Galpin  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1883,  when  the  city  had  a 
population  of  eleven  thousand.  At  that  time  he  was  on  his  way  to  the 
Hawaiian  Islands.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Michigan, 
and  during  his  residence  in  Los  Angeles  was  a  member  of  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  Times-Herald  and  Express.  He  was  also  a  contributor  to  the 
]'outh's  Companion  and  St.  Nicholas.  He  built  his  home  on  Loomis 
street  near  Sixth  street,  where  the  family  lived  twelve  years.  The  neigh- 
borhood as  far  as  Seventh  and  Figueroa  was  all  orange  groves.  Their 
home  was  one  of  great  hospitality,  and  Mr.  Galpin  entertained  many 
noted  people.  Later  he  bought  a  ranch  at  Eagle  Rock,  and  in  June,  IS'85, 
while  on  his  way  to  the  ranch,  found  the  river  so  swollen  that  he  had  to 
lord  the  otherwise  stream.  At  Eagle  Rock  he  did  much  toward  shaping 
the  social  and  civic  life  and  conditions  of  that  community. 

His  first  wife  and  the  mother  of  Miss  Lloy  Galpin  died  in  1888.  In 
1890  Cromwell  Galpin  married  Kate  Tupper.  Her  name  is  conspicuous 
among  American  woman  educators  and  particularly  so  in  the  far  west. 
She  was  Professor  of  Education  in  the  University  of  Nevada,  being  the 
first  woman  full-fledged  professor  in  the  country  in  a  co-educational  uni- 
versity. At  Los  Angeles  she  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Friday 
Morning  Club.  Besides  the  abilities  and  qualifications  that  made  her  a 
notable  educator  she  was  a  woman  of  broad  social  views,  and  had  many 
rare  friends.  Her  hom'e  was  the  rendezvous  of  musicians,  educators  and 
many  great  thinkers.  Mrs.  Galpin  was  a  first  cousin  to  Kate  Douglas 
\\  iggin.  In  1893,  at  the  \\'orld's  Congress  of  \\'omen,  she  spoke  on  the 
same  platform  with  Mme.  Modjeska,  and  Mme.  Copeland  of  Belgium. 
This  congress  was  presided  over  by  the  late  Mrs.  Potter  Palmer.  During 
the  suffrage  campaign  of  1885  Mrs.  Galpin,  then  Kate  Tupper,  toured 
California  as  speaker  with  Susan  B.  Anthony  and  Carrie  Chapman  Catt. 

Mrs.  Galpin  was  the  founder  of  the  Shakespeare  Club  of  Los  An- 
geles. Ben  Greet,  the  great  English  actor  and  manager,  said  this  club 
was  unique  because  it  was  made  up  entirely  of  students  of  Shakespeare. 
In  1903  Mrs.  Galpin  went  abroad  and  after  touring  Europe  spent  several 
months  at  Stratford,  devoting  all  her  time  while  there  to  the  study  of 
Shakespeare.  A  memorial  of  Mrs.  Galpin,  a  bust  by  Emilie  Perry,  is 
placed  in  Stratford  as  a  tribute  to  her  Shakespearean  studies. 

In  1905  she  and  Mr.  Galpin  went  abroad  for  a  tour  of  six  months, 
spending  their  time  in  Vienna,  Berlin,  Italy  and  other  points.  Two  weeks 
after  their  return  home  she  became  ill,  and  died  in  January,  1906. 

Soon  afterward  the  remainder  of  the  family,  moved  to  the  Eagle 
Rock  ranch.  Miss  Lloy  Galpin's  mother  was  the  creator  of  the  Woman's 
Parliament  at  Los  Angeles,  the  first  attempt  to  unify  social  and  civic 
organizations  for  the  city's  betterment.  Mrs.  D.  J.  Stevens  of  Santa 
Monica  was  the  first  president,  Mrs.  Galpin  was  the  first  speaker  and 
the  second  president.  This  was  an  organization  made  up  of  only  South- 
ern California  clubs. 

The  daughter  Hazel  Galpin  married  John  R.  Lowe,  now  superin- 
tendent of  the  San  Diego  and  Arizona  Railway,  with  headquarters  in 
San  Diego.  They  have  five  lovely  daughters,  the  oldest  thirteen.  The 
younger  daughter,  Ellen  Galpin,  is  a  graduate  of  Stanford  University 
and  is  now  working  toward  the  doctor's  degree  in  medicine  at  the  Uni- 


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versify  of  Chicago.     The  son,  Alfred  Galpin,  a  sculptor  by  profession,  is 
editor  of  the  Standard  Oil  Bulletin  in  San  Francisco. 

Miss  Lloy  Galpin  is  a  member  of  many  literary  clubs,  also  a  member 
of  the  Business  Woman's  Civic  Clulj  and  enrolled  for  active  service  in 
the  Red  Cross,  and  had  hoped  for  an  opportunity  to  go  overseas.  She 
is  now  giving  her  attention  to  her  congenial  duties  as  one  of  the  teachers 
in  the  New  High  School. 

Oscar  Clarence  Smith  was  born  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  De- 
cember 12.  1885.  He  is  the  son  of  Charles  W.  Smith,  a  retired  carriage 
manufacturer  and  pioneer  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Louisa  Anna  Smith.  He 
completed  the  grammar  school  course  in  Los  Angeles  and  entered  the 
high  school,  leaving  the  latter  institution  before  the  completion  of  his 
final  year  to  enter  the  employ  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank 
of  this  city,  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  continuing,  however,  to  attend  the  night 
school  for  some  years  and  to  do  much  reading  as  a  means  of  preparing 
himself  for  his  chosen  vocation. 

His  first  duties  with  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  were  to 
act  as  messenger,  after  which  he  was  promoted  successively  to  clerk,  book- 
keeper, teller,  head  of  the  loan  department,  assistant  secretary  and  finally 
secretary  of  the  above  institution,  succeeding  the  late  Roy  P.  Hillman  to 
that  position  in  February,  1919.  Today  Mr.  Smith  has  the  distinction  of 
being  the  oldest  employe  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  in 
point  of  service,  with  the  exception  of  the  president,  Dr.  M.  N.  Avery, 
and  his  Icfng  connection  with  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  has 
brought  him  in  contact  with  the  most  prominent  financiers  and  business 
men  of  Los  Angeles  during  the  period  of  the  city's  greatest  growth  along 
banking  lines. 

On  May  8,  1907,  Mr.  Smith  was  married  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
to  Miss  Belle  Wilcox,  a  niece  of  Wallace  J.  Wilcox  and  the  late  Fred 
Elmer  Wilcox  of  Pasadena.  Mr.  Smith  has  two  sons,  Hobart  and 
Howard  Smith. 

Mr.  Smith  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Los  An- 
geles Athletic  Club. 

William  Byron  Scarborough  has  been  a  quiet,  dignified  and 
hard-working  member  of  the  business  and  social  community  of  Los 
Angeles  for  over  thirty  years.  He  is  especially  well  known  in  financial 
circles,  and  was  formerly  president  of  two  banks  in  Monrovia. 

His  career  is  an  instance  of  perseverance  and  hard  work  in  raising 
him  from  a  condition  of  obscure  poverty  to  one  of  real  influence.  He 
was  born  in  Louisiana  in  April,  1853.  About  the  close  of  the  war  his 
father  moved  to  Brenham,  Texa^.  His  mother  died  there  in  February, 
1869.  At  that  time  William  Byron  was  a  boy  of  sixteen,  his  father  was 
an  invalid,  and  he  also  had  the  care  and  responsibility  of  a  little  sister 
and  brother.  He  was  in  a  strange  country  without  acquaintances  or 
friends  and  without  money.  Probably  then,  under  the  spur  of  necessity, 
he  learned  and  applied  the  greatest  lesson  of  life,  to  accept  and  make 
use  of  the  opportunities  that  lie  nearest  and  lose  no  time  in  doing  it. 
All  the  following  summer  he  worked  and  toiled  in  the  fields,  caring  for 
a  large  crop  of  water  melons  and  cotton,  and  realized  enough  to  pay  the 
expenses  of  the  family  household.  This  instance  of  enterprise  encou- 
raged him  to  something  better,  and  the  following  year  he  bought  some 
teams  and  took  contracts  for  the  delivery  of  railroad  ties  and  cord  wood 
to  a  railroad  then  being  extended  from  Brenham  to  Austin,  Texas. 

In  1872  Mr.  Scarborough  went  to  Waco,  Texas,  and  for  two  years 


356  LOS  ANGELES 

was  a  student  in  Waco  University,  now  Baylor  University.  He  expected 
to  practice  law,  but  when  about  ready  to  stand  his  examination  for  ad- 
mission to  the  bar  he  accepted  an  offer  of  two  hundred  fifty  dollars  a 
month  as  cashier  in  a  wholesale  dry  goods  company.  A  few  months 
later  he  resigned  to  engage  in  the  mercantile  business,  and  followed  it 
successfully  for  several  years. 

The  majority  of  successful  Americans  come  sooner  or  later  to 
California.  Mr.  Scarborough,  however,  is  probably  indebted  to  his  mem- 
bership in  the  Masonic  Order  for  his  long  and  congenial  residence  in 
this  state.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  1876  and  passed  all  the  chairs  in 
the  York  Rite  before  he  was  thirty  years  of  age.  In  August,  1883,  he 
attended  the  Triennial  Conclave  of  Knights  Templar  at  San  Francisco 
as  commander  of  the  Waco  Commandery.  When  he  left  Texas  he  had 
not  the  least  idea  of  severing  his  home  and  business  ties  with  that  state. 
However,  he  became  so  infatuated  with  the  climatic  advantages  and  the 
outlook  for  the  future  of  Los  Angeles  that  he  put  his  affairs  in  Texas 
in  order  and  in  February,  1885,  permanently  took  up  his  home  in  Los 
Angeles.  He  was  honored  with  the  office  of  grand  master  of  the  Grand 
Council  of  Royal  and  Select  Masters  of  California  in  1902. 

For  thirty  years  Mr.  Scarborough  has  had  an  office  and  business 
in  Los  Angeles  primarily  for  the  purpose  of  loaning  individuals  money 
on  first  mortgage  securities.  He  has  thousands  of  clients,  and  his  busi- 
ness is  represented  in  every  state  of  the  Union.  While  president  of  the 
two  banks  in  Monrovia  for  several  years,  he  maintained  his  office  in 
Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Scarborough  has  always  felt  grateful  for  the  high 
estimate  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  banks  and  financial  institutions  of 
Los  Angeles,  expressive  of  their  appreciation  of  his  honesty,  ability  and 
integrity. 

The  notoriety  of  public  office  has  been  distasteful  to  him,  though  he 
consented  to  serve  as  police  commissioner  of  Los  Angeles  in  1901-02,  and 
for  several  years  was  mayor  of  Monrovia.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  Temple  Baptist  Church  of  Los  Angeles. 

Samuel  W.  Odell,  a  lawyer  of  thirty  years'  experience,  who  came 
to  Southern  California  from  Moline,  Illinois,  has  enjoyed  a  high  place  in 
the  Los  Angeles  bar,  and  is  also  known  to  a  growing  circle  of  appreciative 
readers  as  author  of  several  books  of  fiction. 

Mr.  Odell  was  bom  at  Hampton,  Illinois,  Noveml^er  4,  1864,  a  son 
of  John  P.  and  Sarah  (Neilson)  Odell.  In  1870  the  family  moved  to 
Scott  County,  Iowa,  where  he  first  attended  public  school.  At  the  age 
of  thirteen  the  Odells  accomplished  another  stage  in  the  western  move- 
ment when  they  went  to  Cloud  County,  Kansas,  and  in  that  pioneer 
locality  SamuelVV.  Odell  attended  school  for  another  year.  From  Kan- 
sas the  family  went  back  to  Port  Byron,  Illinois,  where  his  early  educa- 
tion was  finished  in  the  public  schools  and  the  Port  Byron  Academy.  He 
graduated  from  the  Academy  in  1885,  and  then  entered  Illinois  Wes- 
ieyan  LIniversity  at  Bloomington,  from  w-hich  he  received  his  law  degree 
in  1887.  Mr.  Odell  upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar  practiced  law  at 
Moline,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  attorneys  of  that  city  until  1904.  He 
served  one  term  as  city  attorney. 

Mr.  Odell  has  been  a  resident  of  Southern  California  since  1904.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Tanner,  Taft  &  Odell  until  1912,  when 
Mr.  Taft  was  elected  to  the  Superior  Court  Bench.  Since  then  the  firm 
has  been  Tanner,  Odell  &  Taft,  Harris  W.  Taft,  son  of  Judge  Taft,  being 
junior  partner.    This  is  one  of  the  legal  firms  of  highest  standing  in  the 


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state.  Mr.  O'dell  lived  at  Santa  Monica  the  first  five  years  he  was  in  the 
state  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Pasadena. 

He  is  a  Alason,  a  member  of  the  New  Century  Qub  of  Pasadena,  the 
Sierra  Club  and  the  City  Club  of  Los  Angeles.  His  published  writings 
and  the  output  of  his  literary  leisure  include  "Sampson,"  "Delilah,"  "Un- 
equal Four,"  "Princess  of  Athura."  Mr.  Odell  is  a  republican  and  a 
niember  of  the  Congregational  church. 

At  Port  Byron,  Illinois,  he  married,  December  20,  1888,  Clara  Mor- 
gan. They  have  two  sons,  both  of  whom  were  soldiers  in  the  recent  war: 
Morgan  S.,  born  in  1894,  graduated  from  Occidental  College  and  in  1917 
enlisted  in  Section  565  of  the  Aml)ulance  Corps,  and  with  the  rank  of 
sergeant  was  on  duty  along  the  fighting  front  in  Italy.  Donald,  born  in 
1896,  left  his  studies  in  Occidental  College  in  1918  to  enlist  in  the  Avia- 
tion Department,  and  received  his  commission  as  Second  Lieutenant 
Aviation  Pursuit  Pilot  at  Camp  Kelly.  He  received  his  honorable  dis- 
charge April  7,  1919,  and  resumed  his  studies  at  Occidental  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  June,  1919. 

Harrington  Brown,  ppstmaster  of  Los  Angeles,  has  been  a  res- 
ident of  Southern  California  forty  years,  and  is  a  worthy  descendant  of 
a  proud  old  family  going  back  into  the  early  colonial  period  and  includ- 
ing a  long  line  of  distinguished  men  and  women. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  lawyer  by  training,  but  has  never  practiced  to  any 
extent,  and  during  his  residence  at  Los  Angeles  has  been  prominently 
associated  with  the  affairs  of  the  city  and  has  taken  an  especially  active 
part  in  the  development  and  upbuilding  of  its  material  interests.  He 
has  always  been  heavily  interested  in  real  estate,  and  since  the  opening 
of  the  oil  industry  has  been  closely  identified  with  that  business.  His 
appointment  to  the  position  of  postmaster  was  in  direct  accord  with 
many  distinguished  services  that  he  had  rendered  to  the  city  and  the 
democratic  party  in  particular,  and  is  a  merited  recognition  of  his  ability 
as  a  business  man. 

Mr.  Brown  was  born  in  the  city  of  Washington,  D.  C,  January  1, 
1856,  son  of  Dr.  William  VanHorn  Brown,  who  also  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  Washington.  The  grandfather  was  the  Rev.  Obadiah 
Bruen  Brown,  a  native  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  a  man  of  great 
ability  and  power  both  in  the  church  and  in  philanthropy  and  public 
affairs.  He  established  the  first  Baptist  Church  in  Washington,  giving 
his  services  free  of  charge.  He  also  contributed  large  sums  of  money 
to  the  support  of  charitable  and  benevolent  work  carried  on  by  his 
denomination.  He  was  an  eloquent  and  even  a  brilliant  speaker,  and 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  entertainers  in  the  most  brilliant  circles 
in  Washington  at  that  time.  One  of  his  intimate  friends  was  Andrew 
Jackson,  at  whose  hands  he  received  the  appointment  of  postmaster 
general  during  the  Jackson  administration.  It  was  Rev.  Obadiah  Bruen 
Brown  as  postmaster  general  who  inaugurated  the  Star  mail  route  sys- 
tem, as  a  result  of  which  the  Southern  states  and  many  Western  terri- 
tories had  their  first  regular  mail  service.  Mrs.  Obadiah  B.  Brown 
was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  social  life  of  Washington,  and  a  devoted 
church  worker.  She  founded  the  Protestant  Orphans'  Home  in  Wash- 
ington, and  when  death  called  her  from  her  labors,  her  daughter  and 
granddaughter-in-law  succeeded  'and  continued  the  effectiveness  of  this 
great  institution. 

Dr.  William  VanHorn  Brown,  father  of  the  Los  Angeles  post- 
master, spent  nearly  all  his  life  in  Washington.     At  one  time  he  was 


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c!,ief  clerk  of  the  Land  Department,  and  at  another  time  was  connected 
witli  the  patent  office.  He  was  independent  in  politics  and  his  only  im- 
portant absence  from  the  capital  city  was  the  short  time  he  spent  when  a 
young  man  in  Missouri.  He  married  Adelaide  Harrington,  a  native  of 
Troy,  New  York.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  two  of 
whom  are  still  living.  One  son  was  a  pioneer  of  Los  Angeles,  and  for 
many  years  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  city.  At  the  time  .of 
his  death  in  1892  every  business  house  closed  its  doors  until  after  the 
funeral.  He  was  a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Hutton  &  Smart,  and  had 
served  two  terms  as  district  attorney  for  Los  Angeles  county. 

Mr.  Harrington  Brown  received  his  education  in  Emmerson  Insti- 
tute and  later  at  Princeton  College,  and  after  graduating  entered  the 
law  department  of  Columbian  College,  now  George  Washington  Univer- 
sity, at  Washington  City.  He  first  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1878,  and 
this  city  has  since  been  his  home.  On  Vermont  avenue  he  bougtit  a 
tract  of  a  hundred  thirty  acres  extending  to  Normandie  avenue  and 
Santa  Barbara  street  and  on  into  the  country.  This  he  subdivided  and 
improved,  placing  it  on  the  market  in  residence  lots.  With  his  own 
hands  he  set  out  the  trees  which  make  that  section  of  the  city  a  beauty 
spot  today  and  otherwise  added  greatly  to  the  development  of  that 
section.  His  present  home  place  is  located  at  the  corner  of  Vermont 
avenue  and  Santa  Barbara  street  and  marks  the  site  of  his  original  home 
in  the  city. 

On  December  13,  1883,  Mr.  Brown  married  Miss  Minnie  Glassell, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Glassell  Sr.,  concerning  whom  extended  mention 
is  made  on  other  pages  of  this  publication.  Following  their  marriage 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  traveled  for  a  year  throvigh  the  Eastern  states  and 
Canada  before  returning  to  Los  Angeles  and  establishing  their  home. 
They  became  the  parents  of  the  following  children  :_^  Adelaide  J.,  Lucie 
T.,  Eleanor  G.  (deceased),  Harrington  Jr.  and  A.  Glassell.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Brown  are  widely  known  throughout  the  city  and  county  and 
are  highly  esteemed  by  their  friends  and  acquaintances.  Mr.  Brown  is  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  Church,  while  his  wife  and  children  are  com- 
municants of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Brown  is  active  in  fraternal 
affairs  and  many  of  the  most  exclusive  clubs,  including  the  University, 
Jefferson,  Princeton,  College  Men's  and  Los  Angeles  Country  Clubs. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers  Association,  Municipal  League,  City  Club  and  the  Gamut 
Club. 

Immaculate  Heart  College.  As  an  institution  of  preparatory  and 
higher  education  for  women,  Immaculate  Heart  College  at  Hollywood  has 
as  fully  met  the  expectations  of  its  founders  as  any  similar  institution  in 
Southern  California.  It  was  founded  in  1906  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  J. 
Conaty,  and  since  that  time  a  group  of  beautiful  buildings  in  the  Spanish 
Alission  style  of  architecture  has  adorned  a  spot  in  the  mesa  land,  six 
miles  northwest  of  the  business  center  of  Los  Angeles.  Both  the  build- 
ings and  their  environment  harmonize  wonderfully  with  the  noble  plans 
and  purposes  that  have  been  carried  out  in  the  management  and  adminis- 
tration of  the  school. 

The  stated  object  of  the  college  is  "the  training  and  cultivating  of 
the  entire  personality  of  young  girls,  not  merely  by  means  of  text  book 
culture,  but  by  the  inculcating  of  high  ideals  and  the  development  of 
power  through  inspiring  and  noble  environment  and  by  lines  of  culture 
far  removed  from  any  prescrilied  books  listed  in  school  curricula." 


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The  College  of  the  Immaculate  Heart  and  its  High  School  Depart- 
ment are  accredited  to  the  University  of  California,  and  the  various  de- 
partments of  the  institution  are  visited  annually  by  the  University  Board 
of  Examiners.  The  college  confers  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  offers 
courses  in  Religion,  English,  Latin,  History,  Political  Science,  Philosophy, 
French,  Psychology,  Mathematics  and  Education,  leading  to  that  degree, 
124  units  of  collegiate  work  being  required  for  graduation. 

The  College  is  a  Catholic  institution,  but  receives  students  of  all  de- 
nominations. Lectures  on  the  great  Christian  principles  of  social  and 
religious  life  are  given  weekly,  and  great  emphasis  is  placed  on  the  forma- 
tion of  those  habits  of  integrity  which  are  essential  to  a  well-formed 
Christian  character.  Every  safeguard  has  been  thrown  around  the  pupils 
entrusted  to  the  school,  and  it  is  a  place  to  which  girls  may  be  sent  with 
the  assurance  that  every  opportunity  for  cultured  home  and  social  life 
will  be  afforded. 

Ralph  J.  Scott  is  lire  chief  of  Los  Angeles,  and  by  reason  of  that 
position  one  of  the  most  responsible  and  important  figures  in  the  mu- 
nicipal government.  He  is  one  of  the  youngest  men  to  hold  such  a  posi- 
tion in  the  fire  departments  of  any  large  American  cities,  and  has  won 
his  way  to  the  top  by  steady  promotion  and  efficiency. 

Mr.  Scott  was  born  in  Alinneapolis,  Minnesota,  April  1,  1884,  a  son 
of  James  S.  and  Mar>'  C.  Scott.  In  1887  his  parents  moved  to  Tacoma, 
Washington,  where  he  grew  up,  graduating  from  the  Tacoma  High 
School  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  Soon  afterward  he  went  to  Alaska, 
and  had  many  experiences  as  a  placer  miner  in  the  Skagway  and  Porcu- 
pine districts  for  a  year  and  a  half.  On  returning  to  Tacoma  he  was 
employed  in  the  construction  department  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad 
until  1904. 

Mr.  Scott  then  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  for  one  year  was  in  the  bag- 
gage department  of  the  Los  Angeles  Transfer  Company.  He  received 
his  first  appointment  to  the  fire  department  July  22,  1905,  and  on  Au- 
gust 1,  1906,  was  made  a  driver.  His  successive  promotions  have  been: 
Lieutenant,  May  31.  1910:  captain,  October  31,  1913;  September,  1918, 
became  acting  battalion  chief  of  District  No.  1  :  and  on  July  17,  1919, 
was  appointed  chief  of  the  tire  department  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  by 
Mayor  M.  P.  Snyder. 

Mayor  Snyder  in  making  the  appointment  said  of  Mr.  Scott :  "He 
is  a  vigorous  man :  has  made  a  close  study  of  fire  fighting  and  protective 
methods,  and  he's  a  man  with  ideas.  I  have  studied  him  closely  and  I 
believe  he  has  the  right  kind  of  stuff  in  him  to  make  the  fire  department 
of  Los  Angeles  what  it  ought  to  be.  He  is  popular  in  the  department 
and  I  am  certain  will  receive  the  loyal  support  of  all  its  members." 

Mr.  Scott  was  formerly  a  director  of  the  Firemen's  Relief  Associa- 
tion, and  in  1913  was  elected  its  vice  president  and  in  1914  its  president. 
He  is  unmarried  and  lives  with  his  mother  at  2531  East  Third  street. 

Lynden  Ellsworth  Behymer  ("Bee").  It  was  not  so  long  ago 
that  any  dramatic  or  musical  intelligence,  of  sufficient  importance  to 
claim  space  as  news,  had  to  bear  a  New  York  date  line  to  get  attention. 
Even  the  most  casual  reader  of  the  news  pertaining  to  stellar  artists  of 
the  stage  and  in  music  is  aware  that  a  new  condition  has  come  about, 
and  is  accustomed  to  look  upon  Los  Angeles  as  the  source  of  history 
in  the  making  in  artistic  aft'airs. 

This  new  role  and  sphere  of  Los  Angeles  rests  upon  a  sturdy  foun- 


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dation.  It  is  a  foundation  due  to  more  than  thirty-four  years'  patient, 
self-sacrificing  and  broad  visioned  work  done  by  probably  the  most 
beloved  man  in  Pacific  Coast  artistic  circles,  known  by  many  simply  as 
"Bee,"  and  to  others  as  Lynden  Ellsworth  Behymer. 

Without  encroaching  upon  the  province  of  the  historian  in  describ- 
ing the  artistic  side  of  the  history  of  Los  Angeles,  it  is  proper  to  review 
briefly  the  career  of  Mr.  Behymer,  particularly  with  reference  to  his 
residence  in  Los  Angeles,  covering  a  period  of  over  thirty- four  years. 
He  was  born  in  Ohio,  and  his  Lutheran  ancestors  left  Holland  many 
generations  ago,  went  to  England,  and  from  there  came  to  Virginia  in 
1650.  One  of  his  ancestors  was  Jonathan  Behymer,  a  soldier  under 
Washington  at  Valley  Forge.  His  father,  Aaron  S.  Behymer,  survived 
the  battle  of  Gettysburg  after  being  wounded  nine  times.  His  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Philip  and  Matilda  (Moyer)  Leach,  and  of  the  same 
lineage  as  Dr.  Edgar  Leach,  the  noted  surgeon  and  scientist  of  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  and  author  of  many  medical  works. 

Lynden  E.  Behymer  graduated  from  the  high  school  in  Shelbyville, 
Illinois,  in  May,  1881.  Soon  after  he  became  a  pioneer  in  Dakota  ter- 
ritory, establishing  a  mercantile  business  at  Highmore,  Hyde  county. 
At  Highmore,  January  3,  1886,  he  married  Miss  Menettie  Sparkes, 
daughter  of  Harvey  Harrison  and  Julia  (Dunbar)  Sparkes.  Mrs.  Be- 
hymer was  born  at  Fredonia,  Chautauqua  county,  New  York,  May  8, 
1866.  To  their  marriage  were  born  the  following  children:  Glenarvon, 
a  Los  Angeles  lawyer;  Enid  Lynn,  wife  of  Dr.  Roy  Malcom,  of  the 
University  of  Southern  California,  and  Elsie  Olive,  wife  of  Capt.  Egbert 
Earl  Moody,  M.  D. 

As  a  result  of  the  cyclone  which  destroyed  all  his  possessions  in 
Dakota,  Mr.  Behymer  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1886,  and  was  given  the 
management  of  the  book  department  of  Stoll  &  Thayer,  book  dealers 
and  stationers.  At  that  time  the  Herald  also  carried  columns  of  literary 
review  written  by  Mr.  Behymer.  Almost  from  the  first  he  became  a 
power  in  encouraging  the  Los  Angeles  community  to  support  meritorious 
and  high-class  literary,  dramatic,  operatic  and  musical  talent.  In  the 
fall  of  1886  he  assisted  in  bringing  the  first  important  operatic  organiza- 
tion to  the  city,  the  National  Grand  Opera  Company,  with  Theodore 
Thomas  as  conductor.  The  performances  were  rendered  in  Hazard's 
Pavilion,  on  the  site  of  the  Temple  Auditorium,  and  then  for  the  first 
time  the  people  of  the  city  heard  the  operas  of  "Nero,"  "Othello," 
"L'Africane,"  "Tannhauser,"  "Les  Huguenots"  and  "Norma." 

Even  the  briefest  review  of  Mr.  Behymer's  succeeding  efforts  read 
aknost  like  a  chronology  of  the  high  lights  in  Los  Angeles'  artistic 
progress.  In  1887  he  was  instrumental  in  bringing  Adelina  Patti  to 
Los  Angeles,  and  she  sang  in  Mott's  Hall,  over  the  Mott  Market,  on 
Main  street  Early  in  1888,  under  the  same  management,  Henry  M. 
Stanley  delivered  his  famous  lecture,  "In  Darkest  Africa,"  and  Sarah 
Bernhardt  presented  "La  Tosca."  At  that  time  Mr.  Behymer  was  by 
no  means  a  wealthy  man,  and  it  was  often  at  much  sacrifice  of  his 
limited  personal  means  that  he  devoted  himself  so  strenuously  to  the 
artistic  side  of  Los  Angeles.  He  soon  became  associated  with  Manager 
H.  C.  Wyatt,  then  of  the  Grand  Opera  House,  at  First  and  Main 
streets,  and  with  McLain  and  Lehmann,  managers  of  Hazard's  Pavilion, 
in  capacities  as  press  agent,  house  manager,  treasurer,  assistant  and 
acting  manager.  In  1904  he  became  manager  of  Simpson's  Auditorium, 
and  in  1909  took  the  management  of  the  Temple  Auditorium.  He  left 
this  post  in   1914  to  take  over  the  new  home  of  music  and  art  in  Los 


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Angeles,  the  Trinity  Auditorium,  at  Ninth  street  and  Grand  avenue. 
The  great  vision  of  Mr.  Behymer,  and  one  that  all  his  friends  hope  he 
vi^ill  live  to  "realize,  is  a  splendid  Fine  Arts  building,  which  will  prove  a 
permanent  home  for  Grand  Opera,  the  Los  Angeles  Philharmonic  Sym- 
phony Orchestra  and  a  musical  and  dramatic  conservatory,  and  many 
other  local  organizations  whose  central  purpose  is  the  development  of 
the  artistic. 

For  years  Mr.  Behymer  has  represented  the  leading  musical  agencies 
of  both  Europe  and  America,  confidential  representative  of  dramatic, 
musical  and  operatic  producers,  and  has  the  friendship  and  the  trust 
and  confidence  of  many  of  the  greatest  individuals  of  the  artistic  world. 
With  Harley  Hamilton  and  Josephy  Dupuy,  he  founded  and  organized 
the  Los  Angeles  Symphony  Orchestra  and  was  its  manager  sixteen  years. 
He  was  with  the  orchestra  in  its  years  of  struggle  and  adversity.  For 
many  years  he  was  the  adviser  and  manager  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Woman's  Orchestra. 

In  May,  1919,  W.  A.  Clark  Jr.,  a  man  of  that  rare  genius  which 
combines  business  ability  with  artistic  perspective,  gave  $200,000  out- 
right to  the  formation  of  a  symphony  orchestra  in  Los  Angeles,  with  a 
$150,000  yearly  guarantee  for  five  years  against  any  deficit,  which  would 
brook  favoralale  comparison  with  the  standardized  symphonic  organiza- 
tions of  the  East. 

It  is  known  as  the  Philharmonic  Orchestra  of  Los  Angeles,  with  a 
membership  of  ninety  selected  musicians,  presenting  symphonic  and 
popular  concert  programs  of  the  highest  order,  providing  for  a  series  of 
especially  arranged  programs  for  the  elementary  and  high  school  pupils 
of  Los  Angeles  with  soloists  of  international  reputation,  with  first  chair- 
men of  supreme  merit  and  Henry  Walter  Rothwell,  a  conductor  of  inter- 
national fame.  To  assemble  and  manage  this  organization  Mr.  Clark 
chose  L.  E.  Behymer. 

Since  1S99  Mr.  Behymer  has  been  the  organizer  of  the  annual 
Philharmonic  courses  for  Los  Angeles,  California  and  the  Southwest. 
It  is  obvious  that  he  has  been  a  pioneer  and,  like  other  pioneers,  he  has 
borne  the  heat  and  burden  of  the  day,  oftimes  sustaining  heavy  financial 
losses,  but  never  relaxing  his  determination  to  follow  through  and  seek 
only  the  highest  and  best  for  his  community.  It  is  undoubtedly  true 
that  he  has  led  the  West,  and  in  some  instances  has  even  outdistanced 
some  of  the  far  Eastern  cities. 

Through  his  influence  and  under  his  local  management  Los  Angeles 
has  been  able  to  welcome  and  enjoy  such  celebrities  as  Adelina  Patti, 
Mme.  Marcella  Sembrich,  Mme.  Louisa  Tetrazzini,  Lillian  Nordica, 
Nellie  Melba,  Mary  Garden,  Julia  Culp,  Johanna  Gadski,  Schumann- 
Heink,  Fritzi  Scheflr,  Jeanne  Jomelli,  Alice  Nielsen,  Emma  Ames, 
Gerville-Reache,  Emma  Calve,  Paderewski,  Josef  Hofifman,  Vladimir 
de  Puchmann,  Josef  Ihevinne,  Harold  Bauer,  Mischa  Elman,  Jan  Kube- 
lik,  Leopold  Godowsky,  Maud  Powell,  Fritz  Kreisler,  the  Flonzaley 
Quartette,  Ysaye,  Carreno,  Ludwig,  Wullner,  John  McCormack,  Amelita 
Galli-Curci,  Riccardo  Martin,  Anna  Case,  Emilio  de  Gorgorza,  Edward 
de  Reszke,  Alexander  Heinemann,  David  Bispham,  Caruso,  Fanny 
Bloomfield-Zeisler ;  also  the  celebrated  dancers,  Anna  Pavlowa,  Mikail 
Mordkin,  Adeline  Genee,  Isadora  Duncan,  Maud  Allen,  Ruth  St.  Denis, 
Larger  organizations  brought  here  by  Mr.  Behymer  have  been  the  Rus- 
sian Symphony  Orchestra,  Strauss'  Orchestra,  Damrosch  Orchestra, 
Paris  Conservatoire  Orchestra,  The  St.  Cecelia  Italian  Symphony  Or- 
chestra, Sousa  Band,  United  States  Marine  Band,  Ben  Greet  Players, 


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the  Hadin^;^  Coquelin  Companv,  the  Passion  Play,  Everyman  and  many 
of  the  early  efforts  in  outdoor  pastoral  drama  and  the  ii"j^roduction  of 
picture  plays.  The  Metropolitan  Grand  Opera  Company  of  New  York 
came  to  Los  Angeles  before  many  of  the  larger  cities  of  the  middle 
West  had  anything  except  mediocre  operatic  talent.  He  also  brought 
the  Maurice  Grau  Grand  Opera  Company,  the  Chicago  Grand  Opera 
Company,  the  Los  Angeles  Grand  Opera  Company,  the  San  Carlo  Grand 
Opera  Company,  and  for  many  seasons  owned  and  operated  the  LaScala 
Grand  Opera  Company.  Under  his  management  the  Bevani  Grand 
Opera  Company  gave  a  four  weeks'  successful  season  of  grand  opera 
in  Italian,  at  popular  prices  of  a  dollar  or  less,  demonstrating  that  in  one 
community  at  least  grand  opera  could  be  performed  as  in  Europe  with- 
out subsidy  of  loss. 

Mr.  Behymer  was  responsible  for  the  first  presentation  in  American 
of  "La  Boheme,"  which  was  given  in  Los  Angeles  in  October,  1898,  by 
Del  Conte  Italian  Company,  and  similarly  was  responsible  for  the  pre- 
mier performance  in  America  by  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Company  of 
New  York  in  1901,  with  Melba  in  the  chief  role.  On  that  occasion 
Fritzi  Scheff  made  her  debut  in  America  as  "Musette." 

In  1904  Mr.  Behymer  paid  $10,000  to  secure  for  Los  Angeles  a 
single  performance  of  "Parsifal."  In  February,  1913,  he  secured  the 
Chicago  Grand  Opera  Company  for  a  full  week's  season  of  eight  per- 
formances when  it  was  necessary  to  guarantee  $88,000.  Then  for  the 
first  time  in  the  West  was  presented  the  grand  opera  "Natoma,"  with 
Mary  Garden  in  the  title  role. 

Frequently  in  bringing  larger  organizations  to  Los  Angeles  it  has 
been  necessary  for  Mr.  Behymer  to  assume  the  management  of  ex- 
tensive tours  west  of  the  Rockies.  From  this  has  developed  this  im- 
portant business  as  an  impressario,  supplying  Philharmonic  Courses  and 
other  talent  to  many  of  the  towns  and  cities  west  of  Denver.  Frequently 
organizations  and  celebrated  individuals  have  depended  entirely  upon 
Mr.  Behymer  for  the  management  of  their  tours  in  the  Southwest. 

In  1906,  when  the  Theatrical  Trust  refused  bookings  to  Sarah 
Bernhardt,  forcing  her  to  make  her  spectacular  tour  in  a  tent,  Mr. 
Behymer  handled  the  California  part  of  her  tour.  He  was  also  a  stanch 
friend  of  the  late  Mme.  Modjeska,  who  entrusted  to  his  management 
many  of  her  efforts. 

Obviously  the  type  of  service  rendered  by  Mr.  Behymer  to  his 
community  has  been  of  that  unique  character  such  as  constitutes  pre- 
eminence. So  far  as  his  time  and  energies  have  permitted,  he  has 
generously  given  of  them  to  the  promotion  of  civic  undertakings,  in- 
cluding fiestas,  pageants,  entertainments  by  fraternal  and  charitable 
organizations,  etc.  Mr.  Behymer  is  a  rare  combination  even  for  a  suc- 
cessful impressario.  As  the  record  shows,  he  has  been  guided  always 
by  the  highest  ideals  of  musical  and  dramatic  art,  has  an  unerring  judg- 
ment and  taste  in  that  direction,  but  furthermore  has  the  faculty  of  the 
business  manager  and  is  a  rare  expert  in  publicity,  a  good  speaker,  lec- 
turer and  writer. 

Mr.  Behymer  has  been  active  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  work  of 
the  Playground  Association,  the  City  Planning  Association,  the  City 
Club,  the  Drama  League  of  America,  and  is  the  only  western  representa- 
tive of  the  new  order  of  historical  pageantry.  Incidentally  he  has  col- 
lected what  is  probably  one  of  the  most  complete  musical  and  dramatic 
libraries  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  is  a  well-known  authority  on  these 
subjects. 


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Something  should  also  be  said  of  one  of  his  most  distinctive  services 
not  only  to  Los  Angeles  but  to  American  art.  Wlien  the  Federation  of 
Musical  Clubs  of  America  decided  to  give  a  ten  thousand  dollar  prize  for 
the  best  American  grand  opera  and  hold  their  biennial  meeting  in  the 
city  that  would  raise  the  prize  money,  Mr.  Behymer,  with  Fred  Blanch- 
ard,  president  of  the  Gamut  Club,  resolved  that  Los  Angeles  would  be 
that  city.  Not  only  was  the  sum  raised,  but  an  additional  forty  thousand 
dollars  to  give  the  premier  performance  in  an  adequate  and  sumptuous 
manner.  The  prize  was  awarded  to  Horatio  Parker  of  Yate,  with  Brian 
Hooker  as  librettist,  and  Dr.  Alfred  Hertz  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
of  New  York  was  engaged  as  artistic  producer.  Many  of  the  cast  were 
drawn  from  the  Metropolitan,  while  the  chorus  and  orchestra  were  all 
selected  in  Los  Angeles.  The  occasion  of  the  first  performance  a  fact 
of  permanent  significance  in  the  history  of  American  music,  is  well  re- 
membered. The  first  American  grand  opera  was  performed  July  L 
1915,  in  the  Temple  Auditorium,  and  Manager  Behymer,  with  the  asso- 
ciate board,  was  greatly  responsible  for  its  successful  presentation. 

In  recognition  of  his  distinguished  services  in  the  domain  of  musical 
and  dramatic  art,  Mr.  Behymer  was  elected  an  officer  of  the  Academic 
des  Beaux  Arts  of  Paris,  March  8,  1907,  and  six  months  later  received 
from  the  French  minister  of  public  instruction  in  like  recognition  the 
decoration  of  the  The  Palms. 

Mr.  Behymer  is  probably  one  of  the  most  widely  traveled  residents 
of  Los  Angeles.  Traveling  has  been  his  rec/eation,  though  primarily 
performed  in  the  line  of  duty.  His  name  is  one  of  the  best  known  and 
his  personality  one  of  the  best  loved  among  artists  in  all  quarters  of  the 
world,  and  none  of  the  artistic  centers  of  Europe  are  strange  to  him. 

His  favorite  organization  at  Los  Angeles  is  the  Gamut  Club,  of 
which  he  is  now  president.  Largely  due  to  his  wide  personal  acquaint- 
ance, this  club  has  every  year  entertained  some  of  the  world's  most 
famous  artists.  He  is  honorary  president  of  the  National  Musical 
Managers  of  America  and  Canada.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club  and  of  The  Uplifters,  and  frequently  is  on  their  entertain- 
ment committees.  He  is  an  officer  of  the  Los  Angeles  section  of  the 
Drama  League  of  America  and  of  The  Arts  Alliance,  is  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Savage  Club  of  London  and  a  member  of  the  Wagner 
Opera  League  of  Bayreuth.  Moreover,  he  is  the  dean  of  Los  Angeles 
theatrical  and  musical  managers.  For  many  years  he  has  been  a  popular 
member  of  Los  Angeles  Lodge  No.  99  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  and  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
Knights  Templar  and  a  member  of  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine. 

Stephen  Innes.  To  make  slight  mistakes  in  business  is,  perhaps,  a 
not  unusual  experience  with  the  average  man,  but  it  very  often  is  a  serious 
matter  when  he  invests  heavily  in  bonds  and  stocks  on  his  own  initiative 
and  finds  his  investments  worthless.  Hence  is  needed  the  honest,  well 
qualified,  thoroughly  informed  dealer  in  stocks,  bonds  and  investments, 
'  whose  business  it  is  to  know  values  and  protect  his  clients.  Such  an  able 
business  man  at  Los  Angeles  is  found  in  Stephen  Innes,  311  I.  W.  Hell- 
man  Building,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  since  1907. 

Stephen  Innes  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Januar}'  23, 
1870.  He  attended  the  William  Penn  Charter  School,  Philadelphia,  then 
entered  the  L^niversity  of  Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1893  with  the  decree  of  B.  A.     His  tastes  led  him  to  embark  in  the  real 


364  LOS  ANGELES 

estate  business,  in  which  he  continued  in  the  east  until  1907,  when  he 
came  to  Los  Angeles  and  established  his  real  estate  offite  in  the  Citizens 
National  Bank  Building.  He  was  associated  with  George  Greene  as  a 
partner  for  five  years,  but  since  then  has  been  alone,  and  has  developed 
a  large  business  in  stocks  and  bonds,  having  his  office  now  in  the  L  W. 
Hellman  Building.  He  has  many  clients  in  New  York  City  whose  inter- 
ests require  him  to  frequently  visit  that  city.  The  confidence  reposed  in 
him  by  local  business  men  may  be  indicated  by  the  fact  of  his  election  in 
1918  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Innes  was  married  in  New  York  City  to  Miss  Louise  B. 
Smithers,  who  is  a  daughter  of  F.  S.  Smithers,  president  of  the  F.  S. 
Smithers  Company,  prominent  bankers  and  brokers  in  New  York. 

Lewis  Dent  Collings  has  been  a  hard-working  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  bar  since  1911,  and  through  his  individual  efforts  built  up  a  good 
practice  and  prestige,  and  since  January  1,  1919,  has  been  associated  with 
Edmon  Gordon  Bennett,  one  of  the  best  known  lawyers  in  the  west.  The 
firm  is  Bennett  &  Collings,  with  offices  in  the  Washington  Building. 

Mr.  Collings  was  born  at  Dora,  Texas,  March  10,  1887,  and  repre- 
sents a  family  of  pioneers  and  distinguished  characters  in  the  history  of 
the  southwest.  He  is  a  son  of  Edmund  L.  and  Katie  (Beall)  Collings, 
both  native  Texans.  The  paternal  ancestors  of  the  Collings  family 
reached  Rhode  island  a  few  days  after  Roger  Williams.  They  were  a 
Scotch  Presbyterian  family.  Mr.  L.  D.  Collings  is  eligible  to  member- 
ship in  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  through  his  mother  is 
related  to  the  Grant  family,  General  Grant  having  married  Julia  Dent. 
His  maternal  grandfather,  Captain  W.  D.  Beall,  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  El  Monte,  California.  During  1859-60  he  had  a  government  contract 
to  furnish  corn  for  the  army  horses  in  southern  California.  He  died  at 
Sweetwater,  Texas,  in  1912.  He  was  a  lifelong  friend  of  John  Ouinn 
and  John  Guest,  old  timers  who  are  still  living  at  El  Monte  in  Los  An- 
geles County.  Captain  Beall  was  a  captain  of  cavalry  in  the  Confederate 
army.  Edmund  Lewis  Collings,  grandfather  of  the  Los  Angeles  lawryer, 
was  the  first  captain  of  the  Texas  Rangers,  a  famous  organization  per- 
fected and  maintained  in  the  state  of  Texas  for  guarding  the  frontier. 
He  was  with  the  Rangers  engaged  in  that  dangerous  duty  when  he  was 
killed  by  the  Indians  in  1863  near  the  present  site  of  Stamford,  Texas. 
Edmund  L.  Collings,  Jr.,  is  a  retired  banker  and  cattle  man  and  with  his 
wife  now  lives  at  Pecos,  Texas.  Their  six  children,  four  daughters  and 
two  sons,  are  all  living  and  are  all  native  Texans.  Mrs.  Sam  F.  Means 
is  a  resident  of  El  Paso.  Lewis  D.  is  the  second  in  age.  H.  Earl  lives 
at  Pecos  and  Sarah,  Nannie  May  and  Warren  are  still  at  home.  Mr. 
Collings'  father  is  a  past  grand  master  of  Texas  State  Grand  Lodge  of 
Masons. 

Lewis  D.  Collings  was  educated  at  Baylor  University  at  Waco, 
Texas,  graduated  in  law  from  Cumberland  University  in  Lebanon,  Ten- 
nessee, in  June,  1908,  and  took  post-graduate  work  in  law  at  Vanderbilt 
University  at  Nashville.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Tennessee  bar  in  June, 
1908,  and  to  the  Texas  bar  in  September  of  the  same  3'ear,  and  gained 
admission  to  practice  in  California  in  February,  1911.  Since  the  latter 
date  he  has  been  in  practice  at  Los  Angeles. 

September  26,  1910,  Mr.  Collings  married  Miss  Annie  May  Meyer, 
of  Jefferson.  Texas,  where  she  was  bom  and  educated.     She  was   an 


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under-graduate  of  St.  Mary's  College  at  Dallas.  Her  father,  I'Ulward 
Meyer,  of  Jett'erson,  was  formerly  assistant  general  land  agent  of  the 
state  of  Texas.  Mr.  Collings  is  a  member  of  the  Sigma  .Alpha  Epsilon 
P"raternity  and  secretary  of  the  x\lumni  Association  of  Los  Angeles.  In 
politics  he  is  a  democrat,  and  in  1919  was  a  candidate  for  the  Board  of 
Education  at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  City  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  Los  A.ngeles  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation and  the  American  Bar  Association,  and  with  his  wife  affiliates 
with  the  First  Baptist  Qiurch. 

Mr.  Collings  received  his  honorable  discharge  from  the  army  Decem- 
ber 23,  1918.  He  volunteered,  and  spent  four  months  in  the  Officers' 
Training  School  at  Camp  Pike,  Arkansas,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Fifth  Company  of  the  Third  Battalion,  I.  C.  O.  T.  S.  Mr.  Collings  is  an 
all-around  athlete,  and  while  in  college  and  university  won  the  university 
letter  for  his  work  in  baseball,  football,  basket  ball  and  tennis. 

Charles  E.  Putnam  is  a  business  man  and  lawyer  of  many  influ- 
ential connections  in  Los  Angeles,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  active 
in  educational  work  both  in  this  state  and  in  the  far  East. 

Mr.  Putnam,  who  first  came  to  Los  Angeles  more  than  a  quarter 
of  a  century  ago,  was  born  in  Pierce  county,  Wisconsin,  May  8,  1869, 
son  of  John  D.  and  Catharine  Helen  (Lovell)  Putnam.  His  father, 
who  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Connecticut,  June  19,  1837,  was  educated  at 
a  normal  school  in  Hartford  of  his  native  state,  and  in  1859  moved  to 
St.  Croix,  Wisconsin,  where  he  followed  farming  until  1875.  Upon  his 
removal  to  Pierce  county,  in  that  state,  he  bought  a  flour  mill  and 
operated  it  until  1891.  Having  made  a  success  of  his  various  business 
efforts,  he  then  sold  his  Wisconsin  interests,  and  on  coming  to  Los 
Angeles  retired,  but  invested  his  surplus  capital  in  a  large  tract  of  land 
in  eastern  Los  Angeles.  In  1893  he  was  appointed  by  President  Grover 
Cleveland  as  Chinese  inspector  of  California.  While  living  in  Wiscon- 
sin he  had  been  honored  with  a  seat  in  the  Legislature.  He  died  in 
1894.  He  and  Catharine  Helen  Lovell  were  married  at  Amenia,  Con- 
necticut, in  1859,  and  were  the  parents  of  seven  children. 

Charles  E.  Putnam  attended  the  local  schools  of  Pierce  county,  Wis- 
consin, and  graduated  from  the  River  Falls  High  School  in  that  county 
in  1887.  For  the  two  years  following  he  was  active  assistant  to  his 
father  in  the  milling  business,  but  in  1889  entered  the  University  of 
Minnesota,  from  which  he  graduated  in  the  law  department  with  the 
degree  LL.  B.  in  1893.  With  the  diploma  of  this  school  he  came  to 
Los  Angeles,  but  instead  of  practicing  his  profession,  taught  in  the 
city  for  two  years  and  then  had  charge  of  the  public  school  system  of 
Petaluma,  California,  until  1901.  Having  more  than  a  local  reputation 
as  an  educator,  he  was  then  selected  by  the  Federal  government  as  one 
of  the  division  superintendents  of  schools  in  the  Philippine  Islands  and 
remained  identified  with  the  great  cause  of  public  education  in  those 
islands  until  1906,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  law  division  of  the 
Executive  Bureau  as  assistant  chief.  In  1907  he  resigned,  after  having 
spent  nearly  seven  years  in  the  far  East,  and  returning  to  Los  Angeles 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  been  steadily  practicing  law  and  looking 
after  his  business  interests.  He  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Wiite 
Star  Oil  Company.  As  a  lawyer  he  specializes  in  corporation  law  and 
probate  work. 

Mr.  Putnam  is  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi  and  Phi  Delta  Phi 
fraternities,  and  is  a  Chapter  Mason.  November  9.  1914.  he  married 
Winnie  Blackman. 


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John  J.  Schumacher  is  secretary  and  a  director  of  the  Southwest- 
ern University,  an  institution  of  higher  education,  of  which  a  more  com- 
plete account  will  be  found  on  other  pages  of  this  publication. 

Mr.  Schumacher  has  been  a  resident  of  California  most  of  his  life. 
He  was  born  in  Schell  City,  Missouri,  December  19,  1885,  son  of  Joseph 
and  Kunigunda  Schumacher.  He  reiTiained  in  Missouri  to  the  age  of 
eight  years,  and  prior  to  that  time  had  attended  a  kindergarten  and  pri- 
mary school  in  Schell  City.  His  father  having  died  in  1891,  his  family 
moved  to  Los  Angeles  in  1894,  and  he  was  put  into  the  St.  Joseph's  Paro- 
chial School.  In  July,  1899,  he  entered  St.  Anthony's  College  at  Santa 
Barbara,  taking  the  classical  course  and  graduating  in  1904. 

With  this  liberal  education  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  promptly 
began  his  business  career  as  bookkeeper  and  cashier  for  R.  H.  Whitten, 
book  publisher,  continuing  until  1910.  ]\Ir.  Schumacher  was  one  of  the 
men  chiefly  responsible  for  the  organization  of  Southwestern  University, 
and  has  ever  since  been  its  secretary  and  a  director.  During  the  first 
three  years  the  offices  of  the  University  were  in  the  Union  Oil  Building 
and  since  then  at  206  South  Spring  street.  Mr.  Schumacher  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

Southwestern  University.  Now  in  the  sixth  year  of  its  existence 
as  a  corporation.  Southwestern  University  has  passed  its  period  of  pio- 
neering and  its  prestige  and  usefulness  are  thoroughly  established  in  the 
appreciation  of  the  public  by  its  record  for  high  usefulness  and  service  in 
the  particular  field  it  occupies.  Southwestern  University  is  an  entirely  in- 
dependent non-sectarian  institution,  devoted  exclusively  to  the  utilitarian 
branches  of  higher  education.  The  University  was  organized  May  10, 
1913,  and  was  chartered  as  a  "benevolent  and  beneficent  institution  for 
educational  purposes  with  all  the  powers  necessary  to  successfully  conduct 
separate  schools  or  colleges  or  seminaries  or  departments  for  the  study 
of  each  or  all  of  the  liberal  and  learned  arts  and  professions  and  for  any 
scientific  or  other  educational  purposes,  and  to  grant  such  literary  honors 
and  degrees  as  are  usually  granted  in  universities  or  colleges  or  other  in- 
stitutions of  learning." 

The  full  scope  of  the  charter  powers  has  not  been  exercised,  and  the 
University  so  far  has  been  composed  of  a  School  of  Law  and  a  School 
of  Commerce.  Accounts  and  Finance.  When  it  was  established  there 
was  no  School  of  Commerce,  Accounts  and  Finance,  or  Business  Admin- 
istration, as  standardized  in  leading  eastern  universities,  in  existence  in 
California.  There  was  also  only  one  established  Law  School  in  Southern 
California  ofTering  systematic  instruction.  Therefore,  the  University  has 
been  conducted  very  comimendably,  not  as  a  competitor  of  other  co-ordi- 
nate institutions  of  learning,  but  primarily  to  fill  an  increasing  and  recog- 
nized need  in  special  fields. 

The  growth  of  Southwestern  University  has  been  due  to  normal  evo- 
lution rather  than  to  corporation  promotion.  The  Southwestern  College 
of  Law  was  organized  by  John  J.  Schumacher  on  November  25.  1911, 
and  was  continued  until  May  10,  1913,  when  it  was  absorbed  by  the 
Southwestern  University  proper.  It  was  Mr.  Schumacher  who  undertook 
the  arduous  task  of  organizing  the  faculties  of  both  schools  under  the 
charter  granted  the  Southwestern  University  in  1913.  Men  of  the  local 
community  possessing  the  necessary  qualifications  were  gradually  associ- 
ated, and  for  the  rest  leading  universities  were  drawn  upon.  Lip  to  Feb- 
ruary  1,   1913,   Southwestern  University  was  located  in  the  Union  Oil 


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Building.  Larger  quarters  were  then  retiuired,  and  a  permanent  location 
was  found  in  the  Wilcox  Building  at  the  corner  of  Second  and  Spring 
streets.  Here  provision  has  been  made  for  adequate  quarters  and  equip- 
ment to  facilitate  the  continued  and  increasing  usefulness  and  efficiency 
of  the  work.  The  University  now  has  a  library  of  approximately  sixteen 
hundred  volumes  in  the  legal  section,  and  also  a  special  department  of 
reference  works  required  by  the  School  of  Commerce,  Accounts  and 
Finance. 

The  professional  School  of  Law  began  in  the  school  year  1913-14 
under  the  deanship  of  Hugh  Fvaiuler  \\  illis,  A.  M.,  LL.  M.,  who  was 
engaged  from  the  Law  School  faculty  of  the  University  of  Minnesota. 
April  15,  1915,  he  was  succecikxl  by  Arthur  J.'  Abbott,  J.  D.,  then  a 
member  of  the  faculty  of  the  School  of  Law,  as  Acting  Dean.  Mr.  Ab- 
bott has  been  dean  of  the  School  of  Law  since  January,  1916.  The  fac- 
ulty of  the  School  of  Law  is  composed  of  professional  law  teachers,  most 
of  whom  are  also  engaged  in  the  active  practice.  Special  lectures  are 
given  by  members  of  the  judiciary  and  by  prominent  members  of  the 
California  bar. 

One  of  the  primary  reasons  that  lead  to  the  establishment  of  this 
School  of  Law  was  the  need  for  an  institution  which  should  employ  the 
■'case  book"  method,  as  a  basis  of  its  law  instruction.  This  system,  which 
has  been  adopted  by  nearly  all  the  leading  universities  in  America,  has 
been  faithfully  continued  by  Southwestern  from  the  beginning.  An  ad- 
mirable statement  of  the  purpose  and  scope  of  the  School  of  Law  is 
found  in  an  official  announcement  as  follows:  "It  is  the  primary  pur- 
pose of  the  School  of  Law  to  train  men  and  women  for  the  practice  of  the 
profession  of  law.  Its  curriculum  is  modern  and  thorough.  It  offers  no 
"short  cuts"  to  the  prospective  practitioner.  Oh  the  contrary,  the  in- 
struction offered  by  the  School  of  Law  is  given  in  the  belief  that  it  is 
essential  to  the  scholarly  teaching  of  law  that  emphasis  be  placed  upon 
the  origin,  theory  and  scientific  basis  of  the  subject.  At  the  same  time 
the  curriculum  is  distinctly  practical,  particular  stress  being  placed  upon 
procedure,  trial  practice  and  subjects  treating  with  the  actual  administra- 
tion of  the  law." 

The  faculty  of  the  School  of  Commerce,  Accounts  and  Finance  was 
at  first  under  the  general  direction  of  W.  M.  Burke,  A.  I\I.,  Ph.  D.,  Dean. 
Mr.  Reynold  E.  Blight,  C.  P.  A.,  taught  the  major  curriculum  of  the 
School  of  Commerce,  Accounts  and  Finance  during  its  first  actual  year 
in  1912-13,  and  since  June,  1916,  he  has  been  dean  of  the  school.  It  is 
unnecessary  to  state  that  the  School  of  Commerce  is  not  an  ordinary 
"business  college,"  but  it  has  been  conducted  primarily  to  train  its  stu- 
dents in  the  broad  technical  and  scientific  phases  of  commerce  and  in- 
dustry with  a  view  to  fitting  them  to  hold  important  administrative  po- 
sitions. 

David  Blankenhorn,  president  of  the  well-known  bond  and  in- 
vestment house,  Blankenhorn-Hunter-Dulin  Company,  and  an  executive 
official  in  a  dozen  or  more  corporations  of  Southern  California,  is  a 
Californian  whose  rise  to  prominence  in  business  aft'airs  has  been  at- 
tended with  phenomenal  rapidity  and  results  that  justify  his  friends  in 
calling  Mr.  Blankenhorn  a  business  genius. 

He  was  born  at  Pasadena  December  31,  1886,  a  son  of  Louis 
Blankenhorn.  His  father,  who  was  bom  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York, 
in  May,  1847,  was  educated  in  his  native  city  and  on  removing  to  Chicago 
in  young  manhood  became  connected  with  the  Chicago,   Milwaukee  & 


368  LOS  ANGELES 

St.  Paul  Railroad  as  assistant  freight  agent.  In  1883  he  moved  to  Cali- 
fornia, and  here  was  engaged  in  the  stock  and  bond  business  and  had 
an  active  part  in  a  number  of  civic  organizations.  He  has  lived  retired 
since  1914.  He  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason  and  Shriner.  At  Milwau- 
kee, in  1881.  Louis  Blankenhorn  married  Lillian  Stevens.  They  have 
four  children:  George,  of  Philadelphia;  MacLaughlin.  of  Los  Angeles: 
David  and  Barbara. 

David  Blankenhorn  lived  at  home  and  attended  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  in  Pasadena  to  the  age  of  seventeen.  So  far  as  known,  Mr. 
Blankenhorn  served  no  business  apprenticeship,  but  started  forthwith 
in  the  real  estate  business  on  his  own  account  at  Pasadena.  In  1908  he 
formed  the  David  Blankenhorn  Company,  of  which  he  was  and  is  still 
president.  In  1914  Mr.  Blankenhorn  became  associated  with  Mr.  R. 
E.  Hunter. under  the  firm  name  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company,  a  cor- 
poration, with  a  capital  of  $300,000.  In  February,  1919,  Mr.  Garrettson 
Dulin  and  Mr.  E.  S.  Dulin  became  partners  in  the  firm  and  the  firm 
name  was  changed  to  Blankenhorn-Hunter-Dulin  Company.  This  com- 
pany has  become  fjue  of  the  leading  private  banking,  investment  and 
bond  houses  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  maintaining  offices  in  Los  Angeles, 
San  Francisco  and  Pasadena.  The  company  does  a  general  underwrit- 
ing business,  handling  bonds,  securities  and  financing  public  utilities, 
water  companies,  reclamation  and  irrigation  projects. 

Mr.  Blankenhorn  for  a  number  of  years  has  proceeded  on  the  theory 
that  farm  land  of  good  quality  accessible  to  water  forms  an  incomparable 
security  for  conservative  investment.  Consequently  his  firm  has  financed 
a  large  number  of  irrigation  and  reclamation  projects  in  the  state  of 
California. 

The  spectacular  transaction  involving  the  recent  purchase  of  the 
world  famous  Santa  Catalina  Island,  with  its  improvements,  hotels, 
docks,  shipping,  etc.,  was  handled  by  Mr.  Blankenhorn.  Mr.  William 
Wriglcy  Jr.,  of  Chicago,  the  world  renowned  chewing  gum  magnate, 
who  purchased  with  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company  the  controlling 
interest  in  the  island,  previously  held  by  the  Banning  family,  has  been 
associated  with  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company  since  1915. 

As  the  representative  for  Mr.  Wrigley  and  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter 
Company's  interests,  Mr.  Blankenhorn  became  president  of  the  Santa 
Catalina  Island  Company  and  the  Wilmington  Transportation  Company. 
The  latter  company  owns  and  operates  the  transportation  lines  between 
the  mainland  and  the  island,  and  Mr.  Blankenhorn  will  have  man}'  im- 
portant responsibilities  in  connection  with  the  proposed  development  of 
the  resort. 

Mr.  Blankenhorn  is  also  president  of  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter-Dulin 
Company,  president  of  the  Blankenhorn-Hunter  Company,  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Corona  Foothill  Lemon  Company,  and  a  director  in 
the  Fresno  Canal  and  Land  Corporation,  Guaranty  Realty  and  Building 
Company,  Harris  Realty  and  Building  Company,  Hunter  Fireproof 
Storage  Company,  Laguna  Lands  (Incorporated),  Orange  Land  and 
Improvement  Company  and  Orion  Realty  and  Building  Company.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  Anandale 
Country  Club,  Valley  Club  and  Tuna  Club  of  Catalina  Island. 

During  the  war  with  Germany  Mr.  Blankenhorn  and  his  partners, 
Mr.  R.  E.  Hunter  and  Mr.  E.  S.  Dulin,  together  with  eleven  of  their 
associates  in  the  business,  enlisted  in  the  military  service.  Captain 
Blankenhorn  enlisted  February  20,  1918,  and  at  the  time  of  the  armis- 
tice was   stationed   at   the   port   of   embarkation   in   Hoboken,   awaiting 


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transfer  across,  where  he  had  been  assigned  as  commander  of  an  ord- 
nance department  in  France.  Prior  to  his  arrival  in  Hoboken  he  was 
depot  ordnance  officer  of  the  Chicago  General  Supply  Ordnance  Depot 
in  Chicago. 

In  Pasadena,  December  28,  1909,  he  married  Miss  Emma  Peterson. 
They  have  two  children :  David  Jr..  born  in  1910,  attending  Throop 
College  of  Technology  at  Pasadena,  and  John,  born  in  1913.  a  kinder- 
garten pupil. 

George  E.  Reiu.  A  resident  of  Los  Angeles  twenty-one  years, 
George  E.  Reid  has  been  increasingly  identified  with  banking  and  bank 
management  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  financial  district. 

j\lr.  Reid  was  born  at  Springfield,  Ohio,  December  17,  1870,  a  son 
of  William  R.  and  Martha  A.  (Crandall)  Reid.  His  early  life  was  spent 
at  Jackson,  Michigan,  where  he  attended  grammar  and  high  schools, 
graduating  from  high  school  in  1890.  His  first  business  experience  was 
work  as  cashier  for  threa  years  with  the  Standard  Oil  Company.  At  To- 
ledo, Ohio,  he  was  assistant  cashier  and  head  bookkeeper  of  the  Draper 
&  Nugent  Manufacturing  Company  until  1895,  and  the  following  year 
was  bookkeeper  for  the  Woolson  Spice  Company  of  that  city.  His  next 
employment  really  created  the  influence  which  brought  him  to  Los  An- 
geles. He  was  paymaster  and  later  salesman  for  the  Snell  Cycle  Fitting 
Company,  and  in  October,  1898,  came  to  Los  Angeles  as  representative 
of  this  corporation.  The  following  December  he  resigned  to  become 
bookkeeper  and  teller  with  the  Southern  California  Savings  Bank.  With 
that  institution  he  was  connected  five  years  and  resigned  the  position  of 
teller  in  1903.  During  the  last  three  years  of  the  same  period  he  was 
also  assistant  to  the  manager  of  the  clearing  house.  The  Broadway  Bank 
and  Trust  Company  next  had  his  services  as  teller  until  1904,  after  which 
he  was  with  the  Central  Bank,  subsequently  known  as  the  Central  Na- 
tional Bank  and  now  the  Security  National  Bank,  being  teller  for  this 
institution  until  1907.  Until  October,  1909,  he  was  assistant  cashier  with 
the  Merchants  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  which  later  merged  with  the 
Western  State  Bank.  For  over  ten  years  Mr.  Reid  has  been  identified 
with  the  Home  Savings  Bank.  He  went  with  that  institution  in  October, 
1909,  as  assistant  cashier,  and  on  January  1,  1918,  became  cashier  of  the 
institution. 

Mr.  Reid  is  a  prominent  republican,  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Tem- 
ple Baptist  Church  since  its  organization  in  1903,  and  is  treasurer  of  the 
Southern  California  Baptist  Convention,  which  represents  the  Baptist 
churches  from  Fresno  to  San  Diego.  He  has  held  that  official  honor  for 
the  past  eleven  years.  For  twelve  years  he  has  been  on  the  Board  of  Man- 
agement of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  until  July,  1917,  was  supreme  treasurer 
of  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood.  Mr.  Reid  served  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in 
France  as  secretary  in  the  treasury  department  headquarters,  Paris,  for 
four  and  one-half  months.  October  11,  1900,  he  married  Miss  Olive 
Barringer.  They  have  one  child,  Frances,  aged  thirteen  years,  and  a 
student  in  the  public  schools. 

Ar.  W.  FiLsoN.  It  is  a  large  world  that  knows  the  name  Al  W. 
Filson,  who  for  over  thirty  years  was  a  "prominent  star  and  vaudeville 
artist  and  until  recently  was  also  a  participant  in.  a  number  of  prom- 
inent movie  screen  enterprises. 

Mr.  Filson,  who  has  had  his  home  in  Southern  California  for  a 
number  of  years,  was  born  at  Bluffton,  Indiana,  January  27,  1857.     His' 


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father,  Snyder  Filson,  was  a  manufacturer  and  built  one  of  the  tirst 
large  woolen  mills  in  the  state  of  Indiana.  Snyder  Filson  married 
Katharine   Case. 

Al  W.  Filson  attended  public  schools  to  the  age  of  eight,  and  then 
entered  the  Notre  Dame  School.  He  had  a  remarkable  voice  as  a  boy, 
and  was  solo  singer  at  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  Catholic 
Church  at  Notre  Dame.  At  the  age  of  twelve  his  voice  broke  and  he 
soon  afterward  left  school,  and  going  to  Grand  Rapids, 'Michigan,  be- 
came a  messenger  and  later  telegraph  operator  for  the  Grand  Rapids  & 
Indiana  Railroad.  In  the  meantime  a  large  circle  of  friends  had  come 
to  appreciate  his  exceptional  talents,  and  it  was  this  appreciation  which 
put  him  on  the  stage.  He  made  his  first  important  public  appearance  at 
the  Coliseum  Theatre,  in  Chicago.  On  June  28,  1881,  he  married  Jennie 
Sherman,  whose  stage  name  was  Errol.  They  played  in  vaudeville  as 
the  famous  team  of  Filson  &  Errol.  Mr.  Filson  and  his  wife  were  on 
many  circuits  and  produced  George  M.  Cohan's  first  literary  effort,  "A 
Tip  on  the  Derby,''  and  furnished  amusement  to  a  whole  generation  of 
theatre  goers.  They  finally  retired  in  1908  and  have  since  had  their 
home  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Filson  in  1912  resumed  a  new  phase  of  his 
old  profession  when  he  became  associated  with  Mr.  Selig  in  character 
leads  in  motion  pictures,  and  he  was  also  with  D.  W.  Griffith  until  1916. 

For  several  years  Mr.  Filson  used  his  means  and  time  in  the  build- 
ing of  houses  in  the  Los  Angeles  district.  In  1912  he  also  became  in- 
terested in  the  Midway  Northern  Oil  Company  as  a  director,  and  in 
1918  was  elected  president.  This  company  operates  in  the  Coalinga 
field  and  has  seven  wells,  w^ith  a  production  of  900  barrels  a  day.  Mr. 
Filson  is  a  member  of  Elysian  Lodge  of  Masons  and  the  Union  League 
Club. 

He  and  his  wife  were  married  at  Chicago.  She  is  a  descendant  of 
Roger  Sherman,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
They  were  very  proud  of  their  only  son,  Harold,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-nine.  Under  the  stage  name  of  Hal  Godfrey,  he  was  very 
successful  in  vaudeville,  and  appeared  on  all  the  leading  circuits  in  the 
LTnited  States  and  England. 

LoRiN  Andrew  H.vndley  is  president  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  has  been  one  of  the  most  conspicuous  factors  in 
the  municipal  and  civic  affairs  of  Los  Angeles  for  the  past  ten  years. 

He  was  born  at  Franklin,  Indiana,  February  12,  1881.  His  par- 
ents were  Josiah  H.  and  Nancy  Jane  (Carnine)  Handley.  Among  his 
ancestors  were  Matthew  Handley  and  Daniel  Boone.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Johnson  County,  Indiana,  and  graduated  from 
Hanover  College,  Indiana,  in  1902.  He  took  his  Master  of  Arts  degree 
from  Princeton  University  in  1904.  While  at  Princeton  he  was  a  student 
of  Constitutional  law  and  jurisprudence  under  Woodrow  Wilson. 

Mr.  Handley  first  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  the  capacity  of  educator. 
In  1905  he  went  to  Emporia  College,  Kansas,  to  occupy  the  chair  of 
Mental  and  Moral  Philosophy  and  also  as  a  teacher  of  International  Law 
and  Economics.  In  1907  he  became  identified  with  Occidental  College 
at  Los  Angeles,  where  he  continued  his  work  three  years. 

He  has  always  been  interested  in  politics  and  government  and  left 
the  college  at  Los  Angeles  to  make  the  race 'for  Congress  on  the  demo- 
cratic ticket.  In  December,  1910,  he  was  elected  city  clerk  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  from  that  office  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Public    Works    by    ex-Mayor    Alexander.      In    January,    1912,    he    was 


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elected  president  of  the  Board,  and  on  January  7,  1919,  was  again  chosen 
president  for  the  seventh  consecutive  term.  This  is  the  longest  term  ever 
given  to  any  president  of  the  Board  in  its  history. 

Mr.  Handley  is  vice  chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Com- 
mittee, and  in  1916  was  a  presidential  elector.  He  brought  with  him  to 
California  an  ardent  admiration  for  the  qualifications  of  Woodrow  Wil- 
son and  while  Mr.  Wilson  was  still  governor  of  New  Jersey  Mr.  Handley 
organized  the  Woodrow  Wilson  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  the  first  club  of 
that  name  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Handley  is  now  serving  his  second 
term  as  president  of  the  League  of  California  Municipalities. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Highland  Park  Presbyterian  Church  and 
has  long  been  prominent  in  church  work.  For  the  past  five  years  he  has 
been  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Church  Federation.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  noted  Princeton, Literary  Club,  the  City  Club,  the  Whig 
Club,  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  a  Phi  Gamma  Delta 
and  a  member  of  the  \^'oodmen  of  the  World  and  the  Independent  Order 
of  Foresters. 

July  12,  1905,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Jane  Baldridge  at  Mount 
Carmel,  Illinois.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  children :  Joseph  B., 
aged  thirteen  and  in  the  public  schools ;  Donald  L.,  aged  eleven ;  Mary  F., 
seven  years  old  and  a  kindergarten  pupil;  and  James  R.,  aged  five. 

Adolph  Heliodor  Koebig.  After  years  of  experience  and  rigid 
training,  Adolph  H.  Koebig  is  deservedly  ranked  among  the  most  promi- 
nent consulting  engineers  of  Southern  California,  and  his  work  in  con- 
nection with  numerous  irrigation  projects  is  of  such  an  important  nature 
that  too  much  credit  can  scarcely  be  accorded  him.  Of  foreign  birth, 
Mr.  Koebig  has  been  an  American  citizen  for  many  years,  and  is  thor- 
oughly identified  with  the  best  interests  of  his  adopted  country.  He  was 
born  in  Mettlach,  Prussia,  Germany,  May  17,  1852,  and  was  educated  in 
the  Carlsruhe  Gymnasium,  and  after  his  graduation  in  1869,  went  directly 
into  the  militarv  service  and  for  six  years  was  an  officer  in  the  army  with 
the  rank  of  lieutenant  of  artillery  and  of  the  engineering  corps.  Being 
retired  from  the  service  on  account  of  invalidism,  he  studied  in  the 
University  of  Carlsruhe,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1877.  For 
the  subsequent  three  years  he  was  in  the  service  of  the  department  of 
roads,  and  was  engaged  in  canal  and  railroad  construction  in  Germany 
and  Alsace-Lorraine.  Becoming  interested  in  American  affairs  through 
belonging  to  the  first  American  base  ball  team  in  Germany,  Mr.  Koebig 
decided  to  come  to  the  United  States,  and  consequently  applied  for  a 
leave  of  absence  for  a  period  of  six  years,  and  upon  receiving  it  sailed 
for  this  country.  As  he  was  married  on  January  31,  1880,  to  Miss  Helena 
Kieffer,  he  brought  his  bride  with  him,  and  landed  in  New  York  City 
during  1880.  For  the  first  six  months  after  his  arrival,  Mr.  Koebig 
was  engaged  in  superintending  the  building  of  furnaces  for  some  large 
smelting  works,  and  was  then  called  to  Denver,  Colorado,  and  employed 
by  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  as  chief  assistant  to  the  chief 
engineer  in  the  Southern  Division  of  this  road.  Later  he  became  chief 
engineer  of  an  extensive  mining  corporation.  In  1884  he  returned  to 
Germany,  and  after  a  brief  period  came  back  to  tlie  United  States,  and 
in  December  of  that  same  year  applied  for  citizenship  papers,  receiving 
his  first  ones  in  1885  and  his  final  ones  in  1888.  From  1884  to  1885  Mr. 
Koebig  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  development  work  of  iron  mines  in 
Northern  Michigan,  leaving  that  state  for  California  at  the  close  of  1885, 
and  had  charge  of  a  silver  mine  at  Calico,  that  state. 


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In  1886  Mr.  Koebig  was  made  assistant  to  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Santa  Fe  Railroad  at  San  Bernardino,  Cahfornia,  and  when  later  he 
was  made  city  engineer  of  that  municipalit}',  he  opened  an  office  of  his 
own  and  specialized  in  municipal  and  irrigating  and  mining  engineering, 
continuing  there  until  1900  when  he  located  permanently  at  Los  Angeles, 
opening  his  present  office,  and  continuing  alone  until  1910,  when  he 
took  his  son,  A.  H.  Koebig,  Jr.,  into  partnership  with  him.  Mr.  Koebig 
has  been  connected  with  numerous  irrigation  projects  and  hydro-electric 
corporations  all  over  the  state,  and  was  consulting  engineer  for  Los  An- 
geles and  other  cities.  Oftentimes  he  is  called  upon  for  expert  testi- 
mony in  important  litigation,  his  authority  and  knowledge  being  prac- 
tically undisputed.  Well  known  in  clubdom,  Mr.  Koebig  belongs  to  the 
California,  Los  Angeles  Country,  and  other  clubs,  and  to  the  Municipal 
League  and  Chamber  of  Commerce.  For  three  years  he  was  president 
of  the  Engineers  and  Architects  of  Southern  California ;  was  the  first 
president  of  the  Technical  Societies  of  Los  Angeles ;  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers ;  and  was  president  of  the 
German  Red  Cross  'Relief  Society  of  Southern  California,  but  resigned 
when  the  United  States  entered  the  World  war.  Politically  he  is  a 
stanch  republican.  The  Episcopal  Church  holds  the  membership  of  his 
family.  During  the  war  Mr.  Koebig  was  a  director  of  the  local  Red 
Cross  and  chairman  of  the  local  committee  on  the  War  Savings  Stamp 
campaign. 

Mrs.  Koebig  was  born  in  Luxemburg,  her  father  being  burgomaster 
of  one  of  the  cities  of  that  country.  The  family  is  a  very  old  one  of 
Luxemburg,  and  socially  prominent.  During  the  late  war  Mrs.  Koebig 
took  a  very  active  part  in  the  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Loan  work.  She 
is  a  director  in  a  number  of  charitable  institutions  of  Los  Angeles,  be- 
longs to  the  Ebel  and  other  clubs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Koebig  have  three  children,  namely :  Dr.  W.  C, 
Adolph  H.,  Jr.,  and  Kurt  J.  Dr.  W.  C.  Koebig  was  graduated  in  medi- 
cine, at  Los  Angeles,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  from  the 
University  of  Southern  California.  After  serving  as  interne  in  several 
hospitals  in  this  city,  he  went  to  Arizona  as  surgeon  of  the  Santa  Fe 
Railroad.  Returning  to  California,  he  passed  the  state  examination,  and 
became  resident  surgeon  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  at  Riverbank,  Cali- 
fornia, holding  that  position  for  two  and  one-half  years.  Doctor  Koebig 
then  went  East  for  post  graduate  work,  but  in  the  meanwhile  his  countrs' 
entered  the  World  war,  and  he  returned  to  California,  sold  his  practice, 
and  enlisted  in  the  anny.  About  a  year  ago  he  was  sent  to  Bordeaux, 
France  to  take  charge  of  the  orthopedic  section  of  base  hospital  No.  88, 
he  having  specialized  in  orthopedic  surgery.  During  his  period  of  service 
he  received  his  promotion  to  the  rank  of  captain,  and  has  now  been 
returned  to  the  United  States.     Doctor  Koebig  is  married. 

The  second  son,  Adolph  H.  Koebig,  Jr.,  and  his  father's  namesake, 
is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  Military  School,  the  University  of  Southern 
California,  the  Leland-Stanford  University,  from  whence  he  went  to  the 
Amherst  College  at  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles 
and  was  employed  as  assistant  location  and  construction  engineer  by 
various  water  and  power  companies  in  irrigation  districts,  and  in  the 
building  department  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  good  roads 
department  of  the  county  of  Los  Angeles.  Having  acquired  a  ver)' 
valuable  experience,  and  by  that  time  measuring  up  to  his  father's  exact- 
ing standards,  the  young  man  was  taken  by  his  father  into  partnership. 
He  married  Gladys  Felt  of  Los  Angeles,  and  they  have  one  child,  Helene 


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Mary  Koebig,  who  is  six  years  old.     The  Lyons  Chih  holds  the  member- 
ship of  A.  H.  Koebig,  Jr. 

Kurt  J.  Koebig  also  attended  the  Harvard  Military  School,  and  for 
two  years  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  Southern  California,  and 
for  several  terms  was  at  L.eland  Stanford  University,  but  did  not  gradu- 
ate, as  he  preferred  to  enter  business  life.  He  learned  the  fundamentals 
of  a  coipmercial  career  in  the  National  Bank  of  California  at  Los  An- 
geles, and  then  was  made  purchasing  agent  for  the  Silver  Lake  Power 
&  Irrigation  Company,  leaving  it  for  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  then  was  connected  with  the  Bank  of  Italy,  then  with  the 
Arnold  Automobile  Distributing  Company.  Kurt  J.  Koebig  was  married 
to  Edna  Hauerwaass,  and  they  have  one  son,  Frederick,  who  is  two  years 
old,  and  they  reside  at  Los  Angeles. 

George  Hanna  was  born  in  Salem,  Washington  county,  New  York, 
December  IS,  1845,  the  son  of  Robert  Hanna  and  Mary  Ann  (Rea) 
Hanna.    He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent. 

Mr.  Hanna  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  until  he 
was  nine  years  of  age,  and  his  parents  moving  at  that  time  to  Illinois, 
he  finished  his  studies  in  the  public  schools  of  Aurora. 

He  began  his  business  career  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  as  a  clerk 
in  a  grocery  store.  He  only  remained  in  that  position  about  a  year  and 
then  became  a  clerk  in  a  drug  house,  where  he  worked  for  about  two 
years.  His  father  and  brother  owned  a  general  merchandise  store  in 
Aurora,  and  in  1865  Mr.  Hanna  bought  out  the  interest  of  his  father, 
who  was  desirous  of  retiring  from  business.  The  firm  then  became 
known  as  Hanna  Brothers,  and  for  the  next  eight  years  Mr".  Hanna  de- 
voted his  time  to  the  business. 

In  1873  the  brothers  sold  their  Aurora  business  and  went  to  Chi- 
cago, where  they  engaged  in  real  estate  operations.  They  handled  their 
own  property,  but  at  the  end  of  two  years  sold  out  and  returned  to 
Aurora,  where  they  again  engaged  in  the  general  mercantile  business. 
In  1881  his  two  brothers  who  were  in  partnership  with  him  sold  their 
interest  in  the  store  and  he  continued  it  alone.  He  was  thus  engaged 
for  about  five  years,  when  he  made  a  trip  to  California,  and  was  so 
charmed  with  the  country  that  he  returned  the  following  January.  At 
that  time  he  remained  about  two  months  and  made  some  fortunate  real 
estate  investments,  which  determined  him  upon  locating  permanently 
in  Los  Angeles, 

Accordingly  he  returned  to  Illinois,  and  in  September.  1887,  having 
disposed  of  his  business  there,  he  moved  his  family  to  Los  Angeles. 
He  had  purchased  an  orange  grove  in  the  Vernon  district,  just  outside 
of  the  city  limits  of  Los  Angeles,  on  his  first  trip  West,  and  he  made 
his  home  there.  For  the  first  five  years  he  was  engaged  in  orange  grow- 
ing, and  also  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  oj  Vernon,  being  a  school 
trustee  and  deputy  county  assessor. 

In  the  late  eighties  Mr.  Hanna  was  appointed  receiver  for  the 
Visalia  Water  Company  of  Tulare  county,  California,  and  within  a  few 
months  had  the  property  in  a  paying  condition.  In  1892,  upon  closing 
the  receivership.  Mi'.  Hanna  leased  his  orange  ranch  at  Vernon  and 
located  temporarily  in  Tulare  county.  There  he  became  interested  in 
various  enterprises  and  accepted  the  managership  of  a  company  which 
was  engaged  in  extensive  irrigation  projects,  one  of  which  was  the  irriga- 
tion ditch  from  the  Kaweah  River  to  Exeter,  California,  now  one  of  the 
finest  orange-growing  sections  in  the  state  of  California. 


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In  1895  Mr.  Hanna  formed  the  West  Los  Angeles  Water  Company, 
which  supplied  water  to  Hollywood,  the  National  Soldiers'  Home  at 
Sawtelle,  and  other  places  adjacent  to  Los  Angeles.  Later  Mr.  Hanna 
and  his  associates  purchased  tlie  West  Side  Water  Company  of  Los 
Angeles,  and  further  extended  their  territory  to  include  all  of  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  city  proper.  Mr.  Hanna  was  one  of  the  principal  stock- 
holders of  this  company  and  served  as  general  manager  for  a  period  of 
twelve  years.  During  this  time  he  established  himself  as  one  of  the 
pioneers  in  the  field  of  public  utilities  and  aided  materially  in  the  up- 
building of  a  large  part  of  the  West  Side  of  Los  Angeles.  In  1904  Mr. 
Hanna  and  associates  sold  the  West  Side  Water  Company  and  a  portion 
of  the  holdings  of  the  West  Los  Angeles  Company  lying  in  the  city 
limits  to  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  Two  years  later  they  sold  the  re- 
maining holdings  of  the  West  Los  Angeles  Company  to  the  Union 
Hollywood  Water  Company. 

Previous  to  the  last  named  deal  Mr.  Hanna  purchased  a  large  in- 
terest in  the  Security  Land  and  Loan  Company,  a  corporation  of  which 
H.  J.  Whitley  was  president  and  general  manager,  and  purchased  about 
50,000  acres  of  land  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley.  The  tract  included  the 
towns  of  Angiola,  Corcoran  and  Waukena,  California.  Mr.  Hanna 
assumed  the  duties  of  local  representative  of  the  company  and  was  one 
of  the  principal  factors  in  the  development  of  that  section  of  California. 
He  was  active  in  that  work  for  about  three  years,  and  in  1910  returned 
to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  accjuired  an  interest  in  the  VanNuys  and 
Lankershim  lands  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley.  Since  that  time  he  has 
been  active  in  that  locality. 

Besides  the  above  mentioned  company,  Mr.  Hanna  is  interested  in 
.various  other  enterprises,  these  including  the  Corcoran  Water  Company, 
of  which  he  was  president ;  the  Security  Land  and  Loan  Company,  of 
which  he  is  vice-president,  and  the  Corcoran  Land  Company,  of  which 
he  was  president.  He  is  interested  in  several  banks  throughout  Cali- 
fornia as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  These  are  the  Home 
Savings  Bank,  Los  Angeles  First  National  Bank  of  Corcoran,  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  VanNuys,  and  the  Bank  of  Lankershim. 

INIr.  Hanna  is  a  member  of  the  Hollywood  Lodge  of  Masons  and 
a  prominent  republican,  although  he  takes  no  active  part  in  politics.  He 
was  married  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  December  25,  1872,  to  Miss  Julia 
Mandigo.  The  children  of  this  marriage  are  Rea  and  Pauline.  Rea 
was  United  States  consul  in  China,  British  Guiana,  South  America  and 
Chili,  but  now  represents  Gaston  Williams  &  Company,  Limited,  of  New 
York,  selling  their  products  to  the  trade  on  the  entire  western  coast  of 
South  America.     Pauline  is  at  home  with  her  parents. 

Simon  Levi.  One  of  the  outstanding  figures  in  the  commercial  life 
of  Southern  California  for  nearly  half  a  century  was  Simon  Levi,  who 
died  at  his  home  in  San  Diego,  September  14,  1918.  While  he  laid  the 
foundation  of  his  career  at  San  Diego,  his  interests  in  later  years  iden- 
tified him  prominently  with  the  Los  Angeles  community  both  as  a  mer- 
chant and  as  one  whose  constant  thought  and  spirit  were  closely  united 
with  the  generous  men  of  the  world. 

He  was  born  in  Bohemia  in  1851,  and  his  age  at  death  was  sixty- 
seven  years,  eight  months  and  nineteen  days.  At  the  age  of  twelve 
years  he  came  to  the  United  States,  and  after  a  brief  stay  in  New  York 
City  and  Syracuse  came  to  California,  arriving  in  San  Francisco  in 
March,  1863.  For  two  years  he  worked  and  earned  a  living  at  Auburn 
in  Placer  County,  but  his  chief  experience  and  apprenticeship  as  a  mer- 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  375 

chant  was  the  eight  years  lie  spent  in  the  emploj-nicnt  of  Svveitzer-Sachs 
&  Companj'  of  San  Francisco. 

He  came  to  Southern  California  with  a  very  limited  capital,  and  in 
1873  opened  a  general  merchandise  store  in  Temecnla,  then  a  part  of 
San  Diego  county,  now  in  Riverside  county.  He  developed  a  complete 
merchandise  service  for  that  community,  but  in  a  few  years  sought 
a  larger  field  in  San  Diego,  where  he  was  associated  with  his  friend  and 
business  preceptor  Abraham  Klauber  in  the  wholesale  grocery  business. 
The  firm  of  Klauber  &  Levi  was  for  many  years  the  leading  wholesale 
house  in  San  Diego.  After  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Klauber  Mr.  Levi 
founded  the  house  of  Simon  Levi  Company,  San  Diego  and  Los  Angeles, 
and  continued  its  head  and  moving  spirit  until  his  death.  Of  his  charac- 
ter as  a  merchant  one  of  his  old  friends  and  associates  said :  It  is 
almost  proverbial  in  this  community  that  everything  that  bears  the  name 
of  Simon  Levi  is  beyond  being  questioned.  It  can  be  said  without  any 
qualification  in  the  business  world  in  which  Mr.  Levi  was  a  merchant 
his  high  standard  of  probity  was  never  excelled.  With  him  a  promise 
made  was  a  debt  paid  and  an  unfilled  obligation  had  the  vitality  of  the 
judgment  of  a  court  of  competent  jurisdiction.  The  same  attributes  that 
made  him  a  pillar  of  strength  in  the  commercial  world  found  even  more 
beautiful  and  complete  expression  in  his  private  life.  No  husband  ivas 
ever  more  devoted,  more  loyal  or  more  tender.  At  the  end  of  forty- 
three  years  of  happy  married  life  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Levi  were  the  same 
lovihg  and  devoted  couple  as  in  the  days  of  their  honeymoon.  No 
father  was  ever  more  thoughtful,  more  considerate,  more  just.  As  a 
friend  he  was  fidelity  itself.  As  a  citizen  he  was  always  mindful  of 
his  civic  duties.  In  his  private  life  he  always  without  apparently  attempt- 
ing to  do  so  displayed  in  a  marked  degree  the  charitable  impulses  of  a 
noble  heart.  No  appeal  to  him  in  a  worthy  cause  was  ever  left  unan- 
swered. His  high  sense  of  honor  never  would  permit  him  to  compromise 
a  wrong,  yet  I  have  never  known  him  to  fail  to  find  some  palliation  or 
excuse  for  those  who  had  fallen  by  the  wayside." 

How  responsive  the  community  of  Los  Angeles  \vas  to  the  death  of 
such  a  citizen  is  well  expressed  by  an  editorial  in  the  Los  Angeles 
Times  of  September  20,  1918.  This  editorial  reads:  "Current  San  Diego 
newspapers  contain  very  full  accounts  of  the  funeral  honors  paid  to  the 
late  Simon  Levi,  long  identified  with  the  commerce  of  San  Diego  and 
Los  Angeles  and  whose  sudden  death  last  Saturday  evening  was  reported 
in  the  Times.  A  large  delegation  of  Los  Angeles  business  men  attended 
the  funeral,  which  was  held  in  the  Masonic  Temple.  The  eulogies 
pronounced  indicate  how  highly  Mr.  Levi  was  esteemed  in  the  South- 
land as  a  citizen,  friend,  brother  and  leader  in  afifairs.  Mr.  Eugene 
Daney  said  of  him :  'I  have  never  met  a  man  who  in  his  daily  life,  his 
family  relations,  his  business  associations  and  in  his  varied  activities 
more  beautifully  and  thoroughly  measured  up  to  the  standards  of 
good  citizenship.  The  name  of  Simon  Levi  in  the  business  world  was 
synonymous  with  honor.  Everything  that  he  did  and  every  thought 
he  entertained  had  first  to  stand  the  acid  test  of  his  correct  standards 
of  honorable  conduct.'  It  is  a  blessed  thing  to  leave  the  world  with  a 
judgment  like  that  upon  one's  career,  but  it  is  thrice  blessed  so  to  have 
lived  in  the  world  as  to  merit  it." 

Jay  B.  Jacobs.  A  business  organization  that  represents  the  last 
word  in  efficiency  of  equipment,  personal  and  business  system  is  the 
Simon  Levi  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  a  wholesale  grocery  house  but 
giving  particular  attention  to  highly  specialized  lines  of  that  business. 
Men  qualified  by  experience  to  speak,   say  that  this  company  has  the 


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most  perfectly  appointed  handling  plant  in  the  country.  It  is  in  every 
sense  a  high  grade  business,  and  one  that  performs  a  big  public  service 
through  the  efficiency  with  which  it  distributes  a  large  line  of  food 
products  to  the  trade. 

The  president  and  active  manager  of  this  business  at  Los  Angeles 
is  Jay  B.  Jacobs,  who  even  as  a  youth  showed  promise  of  brilliant  per- 
formance in  his  career.  He  was  born  at  Antioch,  California,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1871,  a  son  of  M.  H.  and  Bertha  Jacobs.  As  a  boy  in  the  public 
schools,  the  Lincoln  Grammar  School  of  San  Francisco,  he  distinguished 
himself  by  all-around  scholarship,  and  was  one  of  the  two  highest  in 
standing  among  the  graduates.  He  was  awarded  both  the  Lincoln 
and  Bridge  medals  when  he  graduated  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  He  then 
entered  commercial  high  school,  but  at  the  age  of  sixteen  left  his 
studies  to  get  into  the  work  for  which  his  talents  especially  equipped 
him.  For  two  years  he  was  salesman  for  Louis  Saroni,  candy  manu- 
facturers, spent  a  few  months  with  a  general  merchandise  house  at 
El  Rio,  Ventura  county,  was  secretary  and  manager  for  two  years 
of  the  Capital  Candy  Company,  at  Sacramento,  and  then  removed  to 
Los  Angeles,  where  his  initiative  enabled  him  to  start  the  Pacific  Coast 
Biscuit  Company,  of  which  he  was   secretary  and  manager  until   1898. 

Resigning  that  office,  Mr.  Jacobs  moved  to  San  Diego,  and  be- 
came actively  associated  with  the  Simon  Levi  Company,  wholesale 
grocers,  whose  main  establishment  was  at  San  Diego.  In  1903  Mr. 
Jacobs  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  open  the  business  in  this  city,  and  the 
formal  opening  came  on  June  1,  1903.  The  officers  of  the  company 
then  were  Mr.  Simon  Levi,  president ;  Mr.  J.  B.  Jacobs,  vice  president ; 
Bernard  Levi,  secretary  (son  of  Simon  Levi).  Their  first  headquar- 
ters were  at  the  corner  of  Boyd  and  Los  Angeles  streets.  Later  they 
removed  to  231-5  South  Central  avenue,  and  in  1918  the  company  came 
into  their  present  magnificent  quarters  at  796  Market  Court,  the  whole- 
sale terminal.  The  firm  of  Simon  Levi  Company  is  housed  in  a  mod- 
ern, three-story  reinforced  concrete  warehouse  and  office  building,  in 
the  construction  of  which  vast  experience  was  utilized  and  many  points 
of  superiority  were  added  which  will  insure  adequacy  for  years  to 
come.  They  handle  a  general  line  of  California  dried  fruits,  and  in 
this  line  handle  more  goods  than  all  the  other  jobbing  houses  in  Los 
Angeles  combined.  They  also  deal  in  grocery  specialties,  canned  fruits 
and  vegetables,  and  a  full  line  of  staple  products.  The  company  at 
Los  Angeles  employs  fifty  persons,  operates  over  twenty  automobiles 
and  auto  trucks,  and  the  general  prosperity  and  growth  is  reflected  in 
the  fact  that  it  began  with  a  paid-up  capital  of  but  twenty-five  thousand 
dollars  and  today  the  company  employs  a  surplus  and  capital  of  over 
two  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

In  1905  Mr.  Jacobs  became  vice  president  and  manager  of  the  cor- 
poration, and  since  the  passing  away  of  Mr.  Simon  Levi  in  1918  has 
been  president.  He  is  also  vice  president  and  director  of  the  Simon 
Levi  Company  of  San  Diego.  He  has  been  honored  with  the  office 
of  president  of  the  Produce  Exchange,  and  is  well  known  in  social  and 
civic  circles,  being  past  master  of  Westgate  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  a 
member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  Mystic  Shrine,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  San  Gabriel  Country  Club,  Union  League  Club,  and  in 
politics  is  a  republican. 

June  15,  1898,  Mr.  Jacobs  married  at  San  Diego  Sara  Levi,  daugh- 
ter of  Simon  Levi,  the  well  known  San  Diego  pioneer  and  founder  of 
the   Simon   Levi   Company.      Mr.   and   Mrs.   Jacobs  have   two  children, 


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Beatrice  E.,  a  graduate  of  the  Hollywood  High  School  and  active 
in  Red  Cross  work,  and  Harold  S.,  aged  seventeen,  a  student  in  high 
school.  A  very  important  event  took  place  in  Mr.  Jacobs'  immediate 
family  September  23,  1919,  when  his  daughter  Beatrice  became  the 
wife  of  Jules  G.  Hexter,  of  Dallas,  Texas. 

Carlos  S.  H.\rdy,  a  resident  of  Southern  California  since  1909,  is 
distinguished  in  the  United  States  and  abroad  as  an  authority  on  fra- 
ternal insurance  law.  He  has  been  a  lawyer  over  thirty  years,  practicing 
in  Texas,  Illinois  and  California.  It  is  claimed  for  Mr.  Hardy  that  he 
is  author  of  the  standard  and  only  authentic  works  on  fraternal  societies, 
fraternal  insurance  and  fraternal  insurance  law.  These  products  of  his 
authorship  are  m  all  the  state  and  court  libraries  throughout  the  United 
States,  Canada,  Australia  and  in  many  parts  of  Europe. 

Mr.  Hardy  was  born  near  Minden,  in  Webster  Parish,  Louisiana, 
a  son  of  Charles  L.  and  Elizabeth  Hardy.  His  mother's  great-great- 
grandfather was  John  Ratcliff,  one  of  the  founders  of  Virginia  and 
earliest  colonist  settler  at  Jamestown,  Virginia.  Charles  L.  Hardy's 
father,  Henry  Hardy,  fought  in  the  War  of  1812  against  the  British, 
and  in  the  Mexican  war  of  1846.  Charles  L.  Hardy  himself  was  for 
four  years  a  Confederate  soldier. 

Carlos  S.  Hardy  attended  private  schools  in  the  South,  was  in  the 
law  department  of  the  University  of  Texas  in  1885-8,  holds  the  degree 
of  LL.  B.  and  LL.  M.,  received  the  degree  Doctor  or  Civil  Law  from 
the  Chicago  Law  School  in  1897,  and  a  similar  degree  from  the  Illinois 
College  of  Law  in  1898. 

He  was  admitted  in  the  Supreme  Court  in  Texas  June  15,  1886, 
before  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  and  in  1901  was  admitted  to  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  and  is  a  member  of  the  bars  of 
Texas,  Illinois  and  California.  He  practiced  law  in  Texas  until  1892. 
Following  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  bar  until  1909,  and  in 
the  latter  year  came  to  California. 

Mr.  Hardy  has  specialized  in  insurance  law  for  a  quarter  ot  a 
century.  His  specialty  has  brought  him  a  large  practice  all  over  the 
United  States.  For  ten  years  he  was  general" counsel  for  the  Supreme 
Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  a  hundred  million  dollar  concern,  and  han- 
dled several  million  dollars  of  investments  for  that  society,  as  v>'ell  as 
counselling  in  its  general  affairs.  For  the  past  three  years  he  has  been 
supreme  president  of  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood,  a  twenty-five  million 
dollar  concern,  with  headquarters  at  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Hardv  enjoys 
a  personal  acquaintance  with  nearly  all  the  fraternal  society  officials  in 
the  world,  and  is  not  only  a  lawyer,  but  is  nationally  known  as  a  lecturer, 
public  speaker  and  writer.  During  the  war  he  was  vice-chairman  of 
the  Four-Minute  Men  for  Los  Angeles  county,  chairman  for  the  Speakers 
Women's  Committee,  member  of  Red  Crosi  and  Liberty  Loan  Cam- 
paign Committees  and  delivered  over  three  hundred  speeches  on  patriotic 
subjects.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  County  and  Municipal 
Affairs  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  a  progressive  re- 
publican with  independent  leaning,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Elks,  Royal 
League,  Royal  Arcanum,  Maccabees,  Woodmen,  Fraternal  Brotherhood, 
the  Athletic' Club  and  the  City  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Hardy  is  married  and  lives  in  Hollywood,  surrounded  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends.  Mrs.  Hardy  has  a  large  following  and  reputa- 
tion of  her  own  as  a  noted  author  of  juvenile  stories  and  books  and  as 
a  public  speaker  and  club  woman.     Mr.   Hardy  has  three  sons,  all  of 


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whom  were  in  the  great  war  and  proved  themselves  gjallant  soldiers. 
Captain  Rex  G.  Hardy  is  a  successful  lawyer,  Harry  E.  is  with  a  Boston 
barking  house,  and  Oliver  C.  is  a  young  lawyer  and  orange  ,G;rower. 
^Ir.  Hardy  also  has  three  lo\'ely  daughters,  Ethelyn,  Grace  and  Marian. 

Mr.  Hardy  for  eight  years  held  a  chair  in  the  Illinois  College  of 
Law  and  for  several  years  was  lecturer  in  the  Post-Graduate  School  of 
the  Law  College  of  the  University  of  Southern  California.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  a  number  of  educational  and  social 
organizations  and  is  loyally  identified  with  the  forward  movements  in 
Southern  California.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hardy  live  in  Hollywood,  where 
they  are  both  socially  prominent. 

1 

Andrew  C.  Hansen,  present  city  engineer  of  Los  Angeles,  was 
reared  and  educated  in  this  city,  and  has  a  most  successful  record  of 
experience  as  a  civil  engineer. 

He  was  born  near  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  Eebruary  8,  1880,  son 
of  Niels  Hansen  and  Anna  Christiansen.  A  year  and  a  half  after 
his  birth  his  parents  came  to  the  United  States  and  settled  at  Perth 
Amboy,  Niew  Jersey,  and  in  1887  moved  to  Fresno,  California.  Here 
Andrew  C.  Hansen  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools,  graduated 
from  the  latter  in  1898,  soon  afterwards  entering  the  University  of 
California,  where  he  graduated  in  the  College  of  Civil  Engineering  in 
1903.  For  several  years  he  was  connected  with  the  United  States 
Reclamation  Service  as  assistant  engineer..  During  that  time  he  was 
employed  on  projects  at  Yuma,  Arizona,  Klamath,  Oregon,  and  in  the 
Imperial  Valley  of  California.  In  November,  1906,  he  accepted  the 
post  of  assistant  city  engineer  at  Los  Angeles,  and  in  190S  became 
division  engineer  of  the  Los  Angeles  Aqueduct,  having  charge  of  the 
Mojave,  Jawbone  and  Antelope  divisions.  In  November,  1911,  he 
was  appointed  inspector  of  public  works  and  street  maintenance  and  in 
July,  1913,  when  the  street  maintenance  and  engineering  departments 
were  combined  he  continued  as  inspector  but  was  soon  made  assistant 
city  engineer.  July  11,  1917,  he  was  promoted  to  his  present  duties  as 
city  engineer. 

Mr.  Hansen  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers and  belongs  to  all  its  local  branches  in  Southern  California.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Architects  and  Engineers  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, University  and  Civic  Clubs,  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  August  5,  1908,  at  Los  Angeles  he 
married  Miss  Genevieve  O'Neil.  Their  two  children  are  Genevieve  and 
Gladys,   students  in  the  public   schools. 

Frank  J.  Prehod.\.  For  fifteen  years  or  more  Mr.  Prehoda  has 
been  a  factor  of  increasing  importance  in  the  oil  industry  of  California. 
He  is  a  thoroughly  practical  man  in  the  business  from  the  operating 
as  well  as  the  technical  side,  and  is  now  superintendent  of  the  great 
Rancho  La  Brea  field. 

Mr.  Prehoda  has  been  an  American  resident  since  early  child- 
hood. He  was  born  in  one  of  those  interesting  districts  which  for- 
merly made  up  the  Austrian  Empire.  His  home  country  was  Moravia, 
where  he  was  born  December  1,  1874,  son  of  Bartholoma  and  Cath- 
erine (Effingberger)  Prehoda.  In  1881  when  he  was  seven  years  of 
age  his  parents  came  to  the  United  States  and  located  at  Riyerton, 
Illinois. 

There  Frank  J.   Prehoda  attended  the  grammar  and   high  schools 


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to  the  age  of  sixteen,  at  which  date  he  went  to  work  for  the  Riverton 
Coal  Company.  He  was  emploj'ed  in  duties  fitting  to  his  youth  and 
inexperience,  hut  in  time  had  worked  up  to  the  position  of  weigh 
boss. 

Mr.  Prehoda  came  to  California  in  1902,  locating  at  Bakersfield, 
where  he  was  employed  six  months  as  a  tool  dresser  for  the  Standard 
Oil  Company.  Since  then  his  home  has  been  in  Los  Angeles.  He 
entered  the  producing  department  of  the  Amalgamated  Oil  Company 
as  driller  in  the  Rancho  La  Brea  field  for  three  years.  He  was  then 
employed  by  the  Rancho  La  Brea  Oil  Company,  and  on  August  1,  1911, 
was  promoted  to  his  present  responsibilities  as  superintendent  in  charge 
of  that  field.  There  are  about  a  hundred  eighty  producing  oil  wells 
in  the  field  and  under  his  immediate  supervision. 

Mr.  Prehoda  is  a  fourth  degree  Knight  of  Columbus,  a  member 
of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  Royal  Neighbors,  a  Catholic 
and  a  democrat.  At  Riverton,  Illinois,  June  16,  1896,  he  married  Miss 
Isabelle  Smith.  They  are  the  parents  of  six  children.  Eugene,  born 
at  Riverton  March  26,  1897,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Hollywood  High 
School  and  is  now  tool  dresser  for  the  Rancho  La  Brea  Oil  Company. 
Thomas,  born  in  Riverton  September  8,  1898,  graduated  from  the 
Hollywood  High  School  and  is  now  in  the  United  States  Navy.  Geral- 
dine  also  a  graduate  of  the  Hollywood  High  School,  is  employed  by 
the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company.  The  younger  children  are 
Edwin,  born  at  Riverton,  November  7,  1917;  Louis  B.,  bom  in  River- 
ton, September  12,  1903,  both  attending  the  Hollywood  High  School ; 
and  Mildred,  a  student  in  the  grammar  school. 

DuANE  Washington  Faego.  It  is  not  often  that  a  man  of  sterling 
strength  and  character  and  business  ability  is  remembered  more  for  the 
rare  serenity  and  sweetness  of  his  nature  than  for  these  more  virile  traits. 
Such,  however,  is  the  case  of  the  late  Duane  Washington  Fargo,  whose 
beautiful  home  place,  Bonita  Vista  Ranch,  near  San  Gabriel,  remains 
as  an  attractive  monument  to  the  labors  and  the  care  of  the  many  years 
he  spent  there.  While  successful  in  business,  Mr.  Fargo  was  known 
among  his  friends  chiefly  for  his  splendid  traits  of  heart  and  mind,  for 
his  never-failing  gentleness  and  courtesy,  and  for  the  character  that 
surpassed  all  outward  show  and  indicated  him  a  gentleman  to  the  man- 
ner born.  Of  a  retiring  disposition,  he  cared  little  for  the  outside  in- 
terests of  the  world,  though  keenly  alive  to  all  that  related  to  his  own 
home  life  and  the  welfare  of  his  friends.  Loyalty  to  friends  amounted 
in  his  case  almost  to  a  religion. 

The  late  Mr.  Fargo  was  born  at  Batavia,  New  York,  December  15, 
1836,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  the  same  city.  After  completing 
his  school  work  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business,  and  in  time  became 
head  of  a  large  and  prosperous  enterprise.  He  sold  out  his  business-  in 
New  York  in  1882  and  came  to  California.  Preparator}'  to  his  removal 
and  at  his  own  request  for  assistance  in  finding  a  suitable  location,  the 
Fargo  brothers  of  San  Francisco,  brothers  of  Mr.  Fargo,  purchased  for 
him  the  property  which  is  the  home  of  his  widow.  Thus  Mr.  Fargo  was 
a  resident  of  San  Gabriel  from  1882  until  his  death  on  January  28,  1907. 
The  property  originally  consisted  of  sixty-five  acres.  He  made  addi- 
tional purchases  from  time  to  time  until  he  had  ninety-five  acres,  and 
later  sold  twenty  acres,  so  that  the  estate  at  the  time  of  his  death  con- 
sisted of  seventy-five  acres. 

When  he  bought  the  land  a  few  seedling  trees  were  on  the  property 


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and  a  few  acres  of  vineyard.  Later  he  had  these  vines  removed  alto- 
gether and  the  entire  tract  planted  to  orange  trees,  which  had  been 
raised  by  Mr.  Fargo  from  the  seed  and  grafted  on  the  place.  The 
varieties  chosen  were  the  Valencies  and  Washington  Navels.  For  many 
years  the  Bonita  Vista  Ranch  has,  been  noted  as  one  of  the  most  pro- 
ductive orange  groves  in  the  valley.  Prior  to  coming  to  Los  Angeles 
county,  Mr.  Fargo  knew  nothing  about  citrus  fruit  culture.  He  gave  the 
subject  a  great  deal  of  his  time  and  study,  and  his  training  in  the  grocer)' 
business  also  helped  him  m  his  experimental  work.  Long  before  his 
death  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  competent  authorities  in  his 
part  of  the  country  on  citrus  growing. 

In  1870,  at  IJatavia,  New  York,  Mr.  Fargo  married  Miss  Olive 
Squire  of  that  city.  She  was  his  faithful  companion  all  the  remaining 
years  of  his  life  and  she  still  resides  on  Bonita  Vista  Ranch,  which 
under  her  careful  management  has  retained  its  fame  as  one  of  the  best 
producing  groves  in  the  county,  while  continued  care  has  added  to  its 
attractiveness  as  a  home. 

Mr.  Fargo  had  many  warm  friends  and  admiring  acquaintances  in 
Southern  California.  He  was  a  Mason,  having  joined  the  order  in 
Batavia  when  a  very  young  man,  and  subsequently  became  a  Knight 
Templar  in  that  city.  Mrs.  Fargo  is  deeply  interested  in  all  that  pertains 
to  her  part  of  the  county.  She  has  many  times  lent  her  influence  to 
promote  better  schools  and  better  educational  advantages,  and  is  thor- 
oughly conversant  with  all  the  details  of  her  large  business  and  the 
management  of  her  property.  While  not  so  much  an  authority  on  citrus 
culture  as  her  husband,  she  knows  the  practical  and  technical  details 
and  possesses  the  faculty  of  making  a  wise  choice  of  persons  and  instru- 
ments for  carrying  out  her  plans. 

Mrs.  Emma  Porter  Makinson.  The  artistic  colony  of  Los  An- 
geles had  a  notable  addition  when  Mrs.  Makinson  chose  this  city  as 
her  home  about  eight  years  ago.  Mrs.  Makinson  is  a  nationally  known 
dramatic  soprano,  has  interpreted  a  great  deael  of  the  finest  music  writ- 
ten for  the  voice,  and  has  rendered  a  specially  noteworthy  service  as 
one  of  the  foremost  interpreters  of  the  songs  of  Charles  Wakefield 
Cadnian. 

Mrs.  Makinson's  individual  career  has  been  one  of  unusual  interest. 
She  was  born  at  Huntsville  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri.  Her  grand- 
father. Dr.  Alexander  Mitchell,  studied  medicine  at  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, was  married  at  the  age  of  nineteen  and  had  twin  children  when 
he  was  twenty-one.  He  became  owner  of  the  extensive  estates  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  much  of  this  property  subsequently  was  owned  by  Mrs. 
Makinson's  father,  Thomas  Reeves  Mitchell,  a  native  of  Virginia  who 
subsequently  moved  to  Philadelphia.  He  attended  a  New  England 
boarding  school  preparator}'  for  Princeton  and  was  graduated  from 
Princeton  College  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 

Mrs.  Makinson's  mother  was  Elizabeth  Ralston  of  an  old  and 
wealthy  southern  family  of  Natchez,  Mississippi,  where  the  Ralstons 
owned  many  tracts  of  land,  and  one  of  Mrs.  Makinson's  uncles  had 
five  hundred  slaves.  Through  her  mother  Mrs.  Makinson  is  descended 
from  a  branch  of  the  Smith  family  that  was  conspicuous  in  New  Eng- 
land. Her  maternal  great-grandparents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith, 
were  members  of  Old  South  Church  at  Boston  in  1670,  and  some  of 
them  are  mentioned  in  the  books  on  colonial  wars.  Mrs.  Makinson  is 
eligible  to  membership  in  the  Colonial  Dames,  and  is  a  member  of  Los 


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Angeles  Chapter  United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy.  Her  brother 
and  two  uncles  participated   in  the   Civil   war. 

Her  fath:r  and  mother  were  married  in  Philadelphia,  where  her 
father  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business.  He  lived  only  a 
few  years  in  Missouri.  He  was  at  Natchez  and  owned  a  sugar  plan- 
tation, but  through  illness  was  compelled  to  abandon  that  and  go  on 
an  ocean  voyage.  He  bought  a  vessel,  loaded  it  with  drugs,  and  sold 
the  entire  cargo  to  the  West  Indies.  He  then  returned  to  Philadelphia, 
bought  another  vessel  and  cargo,  and  had  similar  good  fortune  in  its 
disposition.  He  then  engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business  at  New 
Orleans.  Mrs.  Makinson  was  the  twelfth  in  a  family  of  fourteen  chil- 
dren. From  New  Orleans  her  father  moved  to  Texas  when  she  was 
five  years  old,  locating  in  Goose  Creek,  only  two  miles  from  where 
some  of  the  biggest  oil  wells  are  now  located.  While  in  Missouri  her 
father  owned  slaves  and  was  a  southern  sympathizer  in  the  Civil  war. 
After  the  war  he  bought  a  home  in  Texas  midway  between  Galveston 
and  Houston  on  Galveston  Bay,  developing  a  cotton  plantation.  He 
was  also  in  the  drug  business  in  Galveston  under  the  name  of  Mitchell 
&  Blunt.  After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Makinson's  mother  the  family  left 
the  plantation  and  Mrs.  Makinson  went  to  live  with  her  sister  in 
Galveston,  then  to  St.  Louis,  and  from  there  entered  the  Hollidays- 
burg  Female  Seminary.  This  seminary  in  later  years  oiTered  her  the 
position  as  head  of  the  Voice  Department.  From  Hollidaysburg  she 
returned  to  St.  Louis  to  live  with  her  sister  and  also  spent  some  time 
with  another  sister  in  Texas. 

She  took  her  first  vocal  instruction  at  the  Seminary.  While  visit- 
ing a  sister  in  Florida  she  met  her  husband  Louis  Carroll  Makinson,  a 
wholesale  and  retail  merchant.  They  were  married  in  Florida  in  1887. 
Mr.  Makinson  having  lost  his  business  in  Florida  they  removed  to 
Tacoma,  Washington,  and  from  there  to  Chicago,  where  Mrs.  Makin- 
son began  the  serious  study  of  music  and  the  development  of  her  pro- 
fessional career.  She  had  sung  in  public  at  Tacoma,  occupying  two 
church  positions  as  a  means  of  helping  out  the  family  budget.  She 
sang  in  two  of  the  largest  churches  in  Chicago.  Mrs.  Makinson  studied 
oratorio  with  Mrs.  Clarence  Eddy,  later  with  Madam  Duiif,  who  at 
the  same  time  had  as  another  pupil  Mary  Garden,  and  she  was  also  a 
student  with  C.  Juanita,  with  Clement  Tete  Deux  and  with  Mrs.  Mag- 
nus, still  one  of  the  finest  teachers  in  Chicago.  While  in  Tacoma  she 
studied  with  Herbert  Joy. 

She  gave  her  first  paying  concert  with  Frederick  Archer.  Though 
she  went  to  Chicago  a  total  stranger,  she  was  there  only  a  month  when 
she  got  the  appointment  to  sing  in  Dr.  Thomas'  church  and  at  the 
same  time  sang  at  Rabbi  Hirsch's  synagogue.  At  that  time  she  refused 
an  ofifer  of  a  thousand  dollars  to  sing  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church 
at  Pittsburgh.  An  honor  and  privilege  greatly  appreciated  by  all  vocal 
artists  came  to  Mrs.  Makinson  when  she  appeared  as  soloist  with  the 
Theodore  Thomas  Orchestra  in  Chicago.  The  following  year  she  went 
to  Pittsburgh  to  sing  in  the  Third  Church  and  lived  in  that  city  for 
fifteen  years.  While  there  she  did  concert  work  en  tour  and  for  over 
ten  years  was  soloist  in  the  U^nitarian  Church.  She  also  did  some 
teaching  and  considerable  impresario  work,  bringing  some  of  the  great- 
est artists  in  the  musical  world  to  that  city.  While  at  Pittsburgh,  she 
was  one  of  the  first  to  recognize  and  use  Charles  Wakefield  Cadman's 
songs.  She  'was  the  highest  priced  soprano  Pittsburgh  ever  had,  and 
among  other  occasions   she  delights   to  recall  was  her  singing  on   pro- 


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grams  with  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  Eugene  Field,  Opie  Reed  and  other 
entertainers.  Then,  and  since,  she  has  appeared  in  many  joint  recitals 
with  Mr.  Cadman. 

About  ten  years  ago,  shortly  before  she  left  Pittsburgh,  the  musical 
columns  of  the  Pittsburgh  Spectator  described  some  of  her  work  and 
influence  in  behalf  of  music  in  that  city  as  follows:  "Pittsburgh  has 
much  for  which  to  be  grateful  to  Mrs.  Emma  Porter  Makinson.  She 
deserves  a  word  of  heartiest  commentlation  for  giving  Pittsburgh  the 
opportunity  to  hear  three  of  the  greatest  artists  of  the  country — Dr. 
Wullner,  Tilly  Koenan  and  Busoni.  So  far,  Mrs.  Makinson,  as  an 
impresaria,  has  been  greatly  successful,  finding  a  certain  opportunity 
to  act  as  manager  through  a  charitable  motive,  and  being  successful, 
finding  a  fascination  about  it,  and  with  a  desire  to  give  Pittsburgh  the 
best  in  recital  work  that  the  world  could  aiiford,  she  made  a  second 
venture  in  a  recital  by  Dr.  Wullner.  This  recital  was  a  great  success 
and  started  a  busy  season  for  Mrs.  Makinson.  Since  entering  the 
managerial  field,  she  has  been  deluged  with  literature  from  various 
other  managers  wishing  her  to  act  as  local  manager  for  their  artists. 
But  Mrs.  Makinson  refuses  to  be  influenced  by  alluring  offers  and 
selects  her  artists  from  the  finest  in  the  land. 

"Mrs.  Makinson  came  to  Pittsburgh  fourteen  years  ago  from  Chi- 
cago, where  she  had  held  two  prominent  church  positions  as  well  as 
doing  much  concert  work  from  coast  to  coast.  At  present  she  is 
soprano  soloist  at  the  Unitarian  church,  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Tuesday  Musical  Club,  Twentieth  Century  Club,  the  Art  Society,  and 
active  in  many  outside  musical  enterprises. 

In  December,  1911,  Mrs.  Makinson  came  to  California  and 'since 
then  has  devoted  herself  principally  to  teaching  and  in  this  time  she 
has  been  most  successful.  It  was  her  pupil,  Ruth  Hutchinson,  who  won 
first  place  in  the  young  artists  contest  at  the  biennial  meeting  of  the 
Federated  Musical  Clubs  at  Peterboro,  New  Hampshire,  in  June,  1919. 
Mrs.  Makinson  was  associated  with  Mr.  Cadman  in  two  recitals  for  the 
Ebell  Club,  and  on  many  other  occasions  of  interest  to  the  musical  pub- 
lic. Mrs.  Makinson  is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club,  the  Wa  Wau  Club, 
the  Matinee  Musical,  the  McDowell  Club  of  Allied  Arts,  and  the  ;\lusic 
Teachers'  Association. 

Ira  Woodbury  Shirley.  In  the  career  of  the  late  Ira  Woodbury 
Shirley  there  was  demonstrated  the  fact  that  a  man  can  dominate  in 
more  than  one  direction  and  that  some  of  the  most  successful  business; 
men  and  prominent  citizens  are  not  entirely  engrossed  in  their  financial 
matters  and  civic  duties,  but  also  find  time  for  participation  in  the  lighter 
activities  of  life  and  in  the  encouraging  of  inherent  inclinations  which 
lead  them  into  the  field  of  practical  philanthropy.  Los  Angeles  has 
every  reason  to  remember  with  pride  a  man  who  not  only  was  a  repre- 
sentative of  its  highest  type  of  business  citizen,  but  who  also  was  a 
leader  in  manly  sports,  and  whose  benevolences  made  possible  the  carry- 
ing on  of  worthy  movements  and  charitable  enterprises. 

Ira  Woodbury  Shirley  was  born  at  Dunkirk,  New  York,  in  1853,  a 
son  of  Albert  and  Jane  (Woodbury)  Shirley,  and  a  member  of  an  old 
family  of  Massachusetts,  in  which  state  his  parents  were  born.  As  a 
lad  he  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Niagara  Falls,  New  York,  where  he 
attended  the  public  schools,  and  when  a  young  man  became  interested  in 
the  oil  business,  subsequently  taking  over  vast  leases  in  Ohio  and  Penn- 
sylvania fields,  which  were  highly  productive.     The  greater  part  of  his 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  383 

later  life  was  devoted  to  the  management  and  superintendency  of  these 
properties,  which  yielded  him  a  handsome  return  on  his  investment. 
Mr.  Shirley  was  an  extensive  traveler,  not  only  in  his  own  country,  but 
in  Europe  and  the  Orient,  and  these  experiences,  combined  with  much 
reading,  made  him  an  interesting  conversationalist  and  companion  and 
an  authoritative  commentator  upon  all  public  alifairs. 

While  his  time  was  very  well  occupied  with  his  important  business 
interests,  Mr.  Shirley  always  found  time  to  indulge  in  his  hobbies,  which 
principally  had  to  do  with  sports.  He  belonged  to  the  Annr.iulale  Club, 
the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club  and  the  Santa  Ana  Gun  Club,  and  was  inordinately  fond 
of  fishing,  hunting,  golf  and  billiards,  in  fact  of  any  of  the  manly  forms 
of  sport  and  exercise.  As  a  golfer  he  became  known  as  an  expert,  and 
had  his  name  engraved  three  times  on  the  Julius  Brown  cup  at  the  Los 
Angeles  Country  Club  for  certain  splendid  series  of  scores,  being  the 
only  member  in  the  history  of  the  club  to  achieve  such  distinction.  He 
was  an  expert  shot  with  rifle,  shotgun  and  revolver,  and  a  quarter  of  a 
century  ago  defeated  Col.  William  F.  Cody  (Buffalo  Bill)  in  a  match 
at  New  Orleans,  considered  an  accomplishment  of  more  than  ordinary 
importance.  In  billiards  he  vv'on  many  trophies  at  the  California  Club, 
and  as  a  fisherman  had  a  long  and  splendid  record  for  big  catches  at 
Catalina,  his  record  catch  being  a  535-pound  member  of  the  finny  tribe, 
which  it  was  necessary  to  spear  before  it  could  be  landed.  He  was  fond 
of  animals  and  birds,  and  dogs  were  his  especial  delight.  A  great  lover 
of  children,  his  contributions  for  their  welfare  were  epitomized  in  his 
friendship  for  and  support  of  the  Children's  Home  Society,  which  owed 
much  to  him  for  its  ability  to  carry  on  its  splendid  work.  A  typical 
American,  and  intensely  patriotic,  during  the  great  war  he  was  a  con- 
stant and  generous  subscriber  to  the  movements  founded  and  fostered 
for  the  assistance  of  the  fighting  men,  and  no  call  was  made  on  him  in 
vain  for  the  aid  of  stricken  humanity. 

Among  his  numerous  business  holdings,  Mr.  Shirley  was  especially 
interested  m  a  beautiful  orange  grove  at  Upland,  California,  where  he 
was  constantly  improving  the  grove  and  experimenting  with  various 
kinds  of  deciduous  fruits.  He  built  a  modest  home  on  this  property 
and  there  enjoyed  many  happy  days.  His  death  occurred  April  12,  1919. 
With  his  passing  Los  Angeles  lost  an  honorable  business  man,  square 
sportsman  and  public-spirited  citizen,  who  had  many  friends  and  few 
enemies.  His  record  both  in  business  and  private  life  was  blameless. 
Mr.  Shirley  is  survived  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Nellie  B.  Shirley,  and  two 
brothers,  Albert  Shirley,  of  Sawtelle,  California,  and  D.  Charles  Shirley, 
of  Niagara  Falls,  New  York.     Mr.  Shirley  was  twice  married. 

Daniel  M.  McG.\rry,  who  died  on  July  4,  1903,  was  for  some 
twenty-two  years,  numbered  among  the  distinguished  and  respected 
citizens  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Loughgiel,  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  January  20, 
1842;  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  in  the  national  schools  of 
his  native  country.  In  early  life  he  was  a  teacher  and  in  the  early 
seventies,  came  to  America. 

In  Cleveland,  Ohio,  with  a  cousin,  he  engaged  in  the  fuel  business. 
In  1871.  he  married  Miss  Margaret  McCaughan.  He  then  became  a 
resident  of  Chicago  and  operated  a  wholesale  and  retail  fuel  business 
until  1881,  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  He  purchased  a  ranch  at 
Eighth  and  Almeda  streets,  and  this  was  the  home  place  of  the  family 
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For  a  number  of  years,  without  compensation,  he  represented 
the  old  Fifth  Ward  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council,  and  in  1890  was 
again  elected  from  the  then  Seventh  Ward.  He  was  one  of  the  potent 
factors  in  abating  evil  conditions  and  in  enforcing  efficient  administra- 
tion. He  was  a  democrat  in  National  politics,  but  in  politics,  as  in 
religion  was  broad  and  tolerant  of  the  views  of  others.  He  served 
several  terms  as  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank ;  was  one  of  the 
early  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  had 
served  as  one  of  its  directors.  In  1900  he  was  a  member  of  the  Free- 
holders' Conference.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  and  never  had  lost  his  zeal  in  the  cause  of  Ireland's  free- 
dom. 

In  everything  connected  with  the  betterment  and  upbuilding  of 
the  Catholic  Church  and  its  institutions  in  Southern  California  he 
was  ever  ready  to  respond  with  personal  work  and  financial  aid.  He 
was  a  benevolent  friend  to  the  orphan  children  and  to  all  worthy  chari- 
ties ;  a  man  of  high  ideals,  noble  impulse  and  broad  sympathy. 

This  excerpt  (a  part  of  the  codicil  to  his  will  and  personally 
addressed  to  his  children),  gives  a  fair  insight  to  the  lofty  character  of 
Mr.  McGarry :  "I  would  remind  my  dearly  beloved  children  of  the 
duty  they  owe  to  their  mother.  Strive  to  smooth  the  declining  years 
of  her  life  by  tender  solicitude  and  care,  as  she  has  given  you  from 
infancv  to  now.  Always  keep  God  in  sight  and  never  let  avarice  or 
passion  silence  conscience.  Keep  moral  principle  above  money  making, 
and  always  endeavor  to  assist  the  poor  and  elevate  the  lowly,  without 
regard  to  race  or  color — all  are  God's  creatures." 

Mrs.  McGarry  survived  her  husband  about  twelve  years  and  died 
April  28,  1915,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  She  was  born  in 
County  Antrim,  Ireland,  and  had  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles,  some 
thirty  odd  years.  She  was  a  woman  of  warm  heart  and  of  loveable 
character  and  had  been  associated  with  her  husband  in'  church  and 
philanthropic  work.  Her  death  was  an  occasion  of  sorrow  for  all  who 
had  known  her. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  McGarry  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  at 
the  time  of  her  death.  Mrs.  McGarry  was  survived  by  fifteen  grand- 
children. 

The  two  daughters  were  born  in  Los  Angeles  and  are  Miss  Mary 
T.  and  Miss  Anna  M.  McGarry.  The  sons  are  Michael  J..  Daniel  F., 
Dr.  John  A.,  and  Patrick  J.,  reference  to  whom  is  made  on  other 
pages. 

D.KNiEi.  Francis  McG.arry,  is  one  of  the  four  McGarry  brothers, 
all  of  whom  have  notable  places  in  the  life  and  afifairs  of  this  city. 
They  are  sons  of  the  late  Daniel  M.  and  Margaret  McCaughan  Mc- 
Garry, both  mentioned  on  other  pages  of  this  publication. 

Daniel  Francis  McGarry  was  born  in  Chicago,  July  19,  1873,  and 
when  about  eight  years  old,  came  with  his  parents  to  Los  Angeles. 
His  boyhood  days  were  spent  on  the  home  ranch,  at  what  now  is 
Eighth  and  Alameda  streets.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Vincent's  Col- 
lege, and  graduated  in  1892.  He  also  attended  Clongowes  Wood  Col- 
lege, near   Dublin,   Ireland,   and  the   University  of  California. 

When  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  gained  his  first  business  experi- 
ence, in  Chicago,  where  he  lived  for  two  years.  For  the  next  five  years, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  fuel  and  feed  business,  in  Los  Angeles. 

In    1898,  he  married   Miss   Genevieve   Reardon,   who   died   August 


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25,  1899,  soon  after  the  birth  of  their  son,  Francis  G.  For  a  number 
of  years  thereafter  Mr.  McGarry  held  responsible  positions,  in  the 
employ  of  banking  and  mining  corporations  of  Arizona  and  Mexico. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  1903,  he  was  called  to  Los  Angeles, 
and  has  since  made  this  city  his  home. 

He  is  a  realtor,  and  personally  specializes  on  appraisals.  He  and 
his  brother,  P.  J.  McGarry,  operate  a  general  realty  business,  as  the 
McGarry  Realty  Company,  with  ofifices  in  the  Higgins  building.  He  is 
also  financially  interested  in  mining  enterprises,  both  in  this  State  and 
in  Arizona,  and  in  farming  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley,  as  well  as  in 
Southern  California  realty. 

Mr.  McGarry  has  served  three  terms  as  a  Director  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  Mines  and  Oil ;  three  terms  as  a  member  of  the  Governing  Com- 
mittee of  the  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  of  which  he  was  president  in 
1918:  and  three  terms  as  a  Director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

He  responded  freely  to  any  demands  made  upon  him  and  his 
services  during  the  war,  and  was  one  of  the  seven  members  of  the  Pro- 
posed Non-War-Construction  Committee  of  the  Los  Angeles  County 
Division  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense,  as  well  as  being  one  of  the 
United  States  Government  realty  appraisers.  Mr.  McGarry  in  religion 
is  a  Catholic,  but  with  a  broad  tolerance  of  and  a  generous  respect 
for  the  religious  views  of  others.  In  national  politics  he  is  a  demo- 
crat. He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Knights  of 
Columbus  and  Ancient   Order  of  Hibernians. 

In  1906  he  married  Miss  Ana  Doyle,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Patrick  W.  Doyle,  old  residents  of  Pomona,  California.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Garry was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio ;  educated  in  Pomona,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Catholic  Woman's  Club  of  Los  Angeles.  The  editor 
will  assume  responsibility  for  the  assertion  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McGarry 
have  one  of  the  charming  families  of  California.  Incidentally,  it  may 
be  said  that  Mr.  McGarry  acknowledges  as  his  one  hobby  and  recrea- 
tion, the  pleasures  of  the  domestic  circle.  He  and  his  wife  have  seven 
sons  and  one  daughter,  the  oldest  twelve  years  of  age,  and  all  are 
natives  of  Los  Angeles.  Their  names  in  order  of  birth  are  :DanieI 
Doyle,  Martin  M.  and  Helen,  twins:  Gerald  T.,  Bernard,  Kevin.  William 
and  Patrick. 

Mrs.  Le.\fie  Slo.an  Orcutt.  It  is  due  a  noble,  self -sacrificing  and 
generous  Los  Angeles  woman  that  some  brief  record  should  be  made 
of  the  various  activities  by  which  her  kindly  purpose  and  thought  have 
been  expressed  in  this  city  during  the  past  few  years. 

Mrs.  Orcutt  was  born  at  Buffalo,  New  York,  a  daughter  of  Wilson 
and  Eliza  (Simms)  Sloan.  Her  father  was  a  Buffalo  banker,  active  in 
business  and  finance  for  half  a  century,  and  also  did  much  to  promote 
the  public  good  and  the  development  of  his  home  city.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  to  launch  the  Pioneer  City  Light  and  Power,  and  all  press 
notices  of  him  praise  his  work  highly  in  behalf  of  the  public  good,  civic 
welfare  and  his  individual  honesty  and  integrity. 

Miss  Leafie  Sloan  attended  Buffalo  Seminary  and  finished  her 
education  in  Mrs.  Sylvanis  Reed's  School,  then  the  most  desirable  finish- 
ing school  in  New  York  City.  During  her  school  days  she  distinguished 
herself  as  an  exceptional  French  scholar.  Her  beautiful  voice,  a  mezzo 
soprano,  was  given  all  the  training  that  talent  and  money  could  give. 
She  sang  a  great  deal  at  private  affairs  in  her  own  set  and  mother's 


386  LOS  ANGELES 

circle  in  New  York,  Washington  and  Buffalo.  As  a  girl  her  talents 
with  the  pen  were  also  appreciated,  and  when  in  her  teens  she  formed 
the  Scribblers'  Club  at  Buffalo  and  was  made  a  charter  member. 

jMiss  Sloan  became  the  wife  of  the  late  Judge  William  Hunter 
Orcutt  of  Boston.  Judge  Orcutt  was  a  pioneer  in  introducing  manual 
training  into  the  public  schools  of  Boston.  Miss  Longfellow  was  a 
member  of  the  same  board  and  one  of  his  strongest  supporters.  One  of 
the  closest  friends  of  the  late  Judge  Orcutt  was  President  Emeritus 
Elliot  of  Harvard  University.  Mrs.  Orcutt  has  a  wonderful  iron  lamp 
made  by  the  boys  of  Boston  in  their  first  year  of  manual  training  and 
oresented  to  Judge  Orcutt. 

Mrs.  Orcutt  has  never  dropped  the  study  of  music  and  her  voice  has 
";ceived  praise  from  press,  public  and  her  instructors.  She  studied  in 
New  York  with  Beiari  and  Errani,  and  in  Paris  with  Madame  LaGrange. 
Her  brother  was  author  of  the  band  favorite,  "Tally-ho,"  which  is  played 
everywhere. 

At  Buffalo  Mrs.  Orcutt  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Twentieth 
Century  Club  and  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  Western  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs,  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Afternoon  Musical,  the  News- 
boys' Home,  interested  in  the  Homeopathic  Hospital  and  at  one  time 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  the  Prison  Gate  Mission  of  Buffalo.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  Graduates'  Association  of  the  Seminary,  and  the  Twen- 
tieth Century  Club  at  Buffalo  originated  through  this  association.  The 
club  by  taxing  large  membership  fees  built  what  is  still  the  finest  club- 
house in  Buffalo. 

In  recent  years  no  civic,  social  or  philanthropic  program  in  Los 
Angeles  has  been  complete  without  the  support  and  influence  of  Mrs. 
Orcutt.  She  was  made  a  member  of  the  Park  Commission  by  appoint- 
ment by  the  mayor,  the  Council  of  the  City  of  Los  Angeles  confirming 
her  appointment  at  a  meeting  held  on  January  10,  1917.  She  has  been, 
president  of  the  Board'  of  Park  Commissioners  for  three  years.  She 
succeeded  in  getting  ordinances  passed  to  raise  the  men's  wages  and  to 
give  them  half  holidays  throughout  the  year,  and  in  her  new  budget  for 
park  financing  is  recommending  another  raise.  The  park  employes  sent 
her  an  expression  of  their  gratitude,  each  one  of  them  signing  his  name. 
Mrs.  Orcutt  has  instituted  a  course  of  first  aid  to  the  park  men  and  pro- 
vided them  with  emergency  kits.  Those  who  use  the  park  system  of 
Los  Angeles  might  find  at  almost  every  turn  an  expression  of  her  wis- 
dom and  interest.  Her  plans  have  been  carried  out  to  erect  new  foun- 
tains, new  statues,  band  stands,  especially  a  splendid  one  for  Pershing 
Square,  and  an  artistic  band  stand  boat  house  at  Westlake.  She  has  also 
caused  to  be  built  Italian  pergolas,  a  new  boat  house,  and  succeeded  in 
raising  money  to  make  Lincoln,  Westlake  and  Hollenbeck  Parks  light 
as  day.  She  succeeded  in  finishing  the  wonderful  clubhouse  at  Griffith 
Park  and  put  the  golf  links  on  a  self-supporting  basis.  Through  Mrs. 
Orcutt  Eastlake  Park  was  renamed  Lincoln  Park  and  dedicated  on 
Lincoln's  birthday  in  1917.  She  also  named  and  dedicated  the  "Victory 
Memorial  Grove"  in  Elysiaii  Park,  installed  a  fine  water  system  and 
planted  the  first  memorial  tree.  It  is  a  park  where  the  mothers  and 
wives  of  the  men  who  died  in  the  service  can  plant  a  memorial  tree 
and  bronze  tablet. 

The  handsome  flag  that  floats  over  the  Lincoln  High  School  was 
a  donation  by  Mrs.  Orcutt.  She  was  made  a  member  of  the  Lincoln 
High  School  Alumnae,  her  membership  being  inscribed  on  parchment, 
and  was  also  given  a  class  pin  by  the  graduating  class  and  a  beautiful 


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copy  of  Lincoln's  Gettysburg  speech  on  parchment.  She  is  mother  of 
the  Regiment  of  the  Boys'  Battahon  of.  the  Lincohi  High  School  and 
was  instrumental  in  getting  the  boys  the  opportunity  of  two  weeks  at 
Arcadia  Government  Training  Base,  with  expenses  paid  by  the  r>tate> 
The  class  book  dedicated  to  her  by  the  members  is  inscribed :  "Mrs. 
Leafie  Sloan  Orcutt,  from  her  loyal  friend  students." 

Mrs.  O'rcutt  was  instrumental  in  securing  $15,000  for  the  swimming 
pools  in  Exposition  Park.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Cruelty  to  Animals 
Association  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  the  Lafayette  Society  to 
dedicate  old  Sunset  Park  as  Lafayette  Park  on  September  6,  1919.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  Ebell  Club,  Friday  Morning  Club  and  the  Woman's 
City  Club.  Mrs.  Orcutt  is  an  honorary  vice-president  of  the  Big  Sisters 
League,  which  built  a  home  on  Trinity  street,  where  girls  learn  to  operate 
power  machines  preparatory  to  regular  positions  in  the  "Sassy  Jane 
Apron  Factory."  Plans  are  now  under  way  to  install  kitchens  where 
the  girls  can  learn  to  cook.  The  Big  Sisters  League  carried  out  the 
plans  for  a  carnival  at  Los^  Angeles  on  September  6,  1919,  the  proceeds 
from  the  carnival  being  used  to  constitute  a  fund  to  make  the  league 
self-supporting.  This  is  a  woman's  training  home,  and  all  the  sleeping 
rooms  have  been  furnished  by  individuals  and  the  club.  Mrs.  Orcutt 
built  and  furnished  the  dining  room. 

A  number  of  other  activities  should  be  mentioned.  She  is  honorary 
vice-president  of  the  Lark  Ellen  Newsboys'  Home,  was  on  the  Red  Cross 
committees  and  was  active  in  all  the  Liberty  Loan  drives,  is  honorary 
vice-president  of  the  Italian  Relief  and  one  of  the  regular  contributors 
to  the  Belgian  Relief.  She  is  vice-president  of  Lincoln  Monument,  Illi- 
nois Society  Statue  to  be  placed  in  Lincoln  Park  in  February,  1920 ;  is 
honorary  vice-president  of  the  Hollywood  Memorial  Park  Committee, 
who  plan  the  building  of  a  chain  of  memorial  parks  in  Hollywood :  is 
vice-president  of  the  California  Agricultural  Fair,  an  associate  member 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Musical  Settlement  Association  School,  is  a  mem- 
]feT  of  the  Audubon  Society,  member  of  Women's  Council  of  County 
Service,  was  a  member  of  decorations  and  reception  committee  during 
Fleet  week,  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  she  was  largely 
instrumental  in  having  musical  entertainments  in  the  city  parks. 

I 

Fred  C.  Wheeler.  While  the  honors  of  politics  are  transitory, 
especially  in  state  and  municipal  politics,  it  seems  likely  that  a  later 
generation  will  have  memory  for  Fred  C.  Wheeler  on  account  of  the 
fact  that  he  was  the  first  socialist  ever  elected  to  a  city  council  in  a 
large  city  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Wheeler  is  a  mechanic  by  trade,  has  been  identified  with  the 
working  masses  all  his  life,  and  has  rendered  many  signal  services  to 
the  cause  of  the  working  man  in  politics. 

He  was  born  at  Rushford,  Minnesota,  September  18,  1867,  son  of 
Henry  Clay  and  Elizabeth  (Preston)  Wheeler.  His  father  was  a  Min- 
nesota pioneer.  Mr.  Wheeler  grew  up  in  Minnesota,  had  a  common 
school  education,  and  lived  in  the  environment  of  a  farm  to  the  age  of 
thirteen.  The  following  three  years  were  spent  in  a  book  binder}'  and 
printing  office  at  Minneapolis.  For  one  year  he  rode  range  as  a  cow- 
boy at  Miles  City,  Montana,  and  for  four  years  served  an  apprentice- 
ship and  worked  at  the  trade  of  carpenter  at  Jacksonville,  Florida. 

It  was  in  the  role  of  carpenter  that  Mr.  Wheeler  first  came  to 
Southern  California,  living  at  San  Diego  until  1888.  Following  that 
for  six  months  he  was  employed  by  his  uncle  Myron  G.  Wheeler,  then 


388  LOS  ANGELES 

county  surveyor,,  and  spent  one  year  on  the  high  seas  as  mate  on  a 
schooner.  Thus  his  experience  with  work  and  with  men  has  not  been 
confined  to  one  vocation.  After  leaving  the  sea  he  was  a  carpenter 
at  San  Francisco  three  years,  spent  nine  months  working  in  a  saw  mill 
in  Alaska,  and  then  settled  permanently  at  Los  Angeles.  For  twelve 
years  he  carried  on  his  work  as  a  carpenter  in  this  city. 

A  number  of  years  ago  Mr.  Wheeler  turned  his  decided  talents  to  a 
broader  field  for  influencing  his  fellow  men,  and  was  a  lecturer  and 
organizer  for  trade  unions  and  socialist  movements.  He  was  elected 
to  the  city  council  of  Los  Angeles  on  the  socialist  ticket  in  1913.  His 
election  as  a  unique  performance  of  the  socialist  party  was  noted  and 
commented  upon  by  the  press  of  the  entire  nation.  He  was  re-elected 
in  1915  and  at  that  time  had  the  highest  vote  given  any  man.  In  1917 
he  was  defeated,  but  in  1919  was  again  returned  as  a  member  of  the 
city  council.  He  was  a  candidate  for  mayor  of  Los  Angeles  in  1901 
against  M.  P.  Snyder,  the  present  mayor,  and  in  1910  was  candidate 
for  lieutenant  governor.  In  1912  Mr.  Wheeler  received  the  highest 
vote  for  the  office  of  member  of  the  Board  of  Freeholders  in  Los 
Angeles  county.  In  1915  he  was  president  of  the  State  Conference  on 
City  Planning,  and  for  twenty  years  has  been  a  decided  influence  in  the 
civic   affairs    and   progress   of    Los    Angeles    and   Los    Angeles   county. 

He  is  a  past  president  of  the  Carpenters'  Union,  is  classified 
as  a  republican  in  party  afifiliations,  is  a  past  grand  of  Acme  Lodge 
of  Odd  Fellows,  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Maccabees. 
December  12.  1898,  at  Pomona,  California,  he  married  Miss  Lucinda 
Cook.  Her  brother  John  W.  Cook  was  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  in  1896.     They  have  one  child,  Frances,  aged  five  years. 

Robert  James  Adcock  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
bar  since  the  middle  eighties,  and  his  abilities  have  gained  him  special 
distinction  in  the  law.  His  success  has  been  due  not  only  to  individual 
efiforts  and  attainments,  but  to  the  enviable  qualities  of  his  inheritance. 

Mr.  Adcock  was  born  in  Warren  County,  Illinois,  July  5,  1859,  a 
son  of  J.  W.  and  Mary  E.  (McMurtry)  Adcock.  His  father  was  born 
in  Kanawha  County,  now  West  Virginia,  January  26,  1826.  His  grand- 
father Adcock  filed  upon  an  Illinois  homestead  in  Warren  county  in 
1827,  and  in  1830  the  family  moved  to  Knox  County  and  in  1833  to 
Warren  County.  Grandfather  Adcock  was  a  soldier  in  the  Blackhawk 
Indian  war.  Two  Adcock  brothers  came  to  this  country  from  England 
prior  to  the  Revolution.  J.  W.  Adcock  spent  his  active  life  as  an  Illi- 
nois farmer  and  at  one  time  owned  four  hundred  eighty-eight  acres  of 
rich  and  productive  soil  of  north  central  Illinois.  He  was  also  active 
in  politics,  filling  many  local  and  county  offices.  He  also  helped  to 
build  some  of  the  dykes  and  levees  for  the  reclamation  of  the  lowlands 
along  the  Mississippi  River.  On  August  30,  1849,  J.  W.  Adcock  mar- 
ried'Mary  E.  McMutry,  who  was  l)orn  in  Indiana.  September  26,  1827. 
They  had  three  sons  and  four  daughters,  and  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters are  still  living,  Robert  J.  being  the  only  one  in  California. 

Mr.  Adcock's  maternal  grandfather  was  William  McMurtry,  long 
a  distinguished  figure  in  Illinois  public  life  and  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry. 
He  was  born  in  Kentucky,  February  20,  1801,  lived  in  Crawford  County, 
Indiana,  for  several  years  and  in  1829  settled  in  Knox  county,  Illinois. 
He  represented  his  county  in  the  Legislature  in  1836,  in  the  Senate  of 
1842,  and  in  1848  was  elected  lieutenant  governor  of  Illinois.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  state  officers  elected  under  the  new  constitution  adopted 


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that  year.  He  had  also  served  as  a  vohinteer  in  the  Blackhawk  Indian 
war.  As  Heutenant  governor  and  as  a  state  senator  he  had  been  influ- 
ential in  promoting-  the  building  of  the  old  Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal 
from  Chicago  to  the  Illinois  River.  He  was  also  one  of  tWi  commis- 
sioners who  built  the  Illinois  penitentiary  at  Joliet.  He  was  associated 
in  the  State  Senate  with  Stephen  A.  Douglas  and  Abraham  Lincoln, 
both  of  whom  were  in  the  Senate  while  he  was  lieutenant  governor  uid 
president  of  the  Senate.  In  1862  though  in  advanced  age  he  assisted  in 
raising  the  One  Hundred  and  Second  Illinois  Infantry  and  was  elected 
colonel,  but  failing  heaUh  compelled  him  to  accept  a  discharge.  He- 
died  April  10,  1875. 

Robert  James  Adcock  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  took  his 
higher  education  in  Knox  College  at  Galesburg.  He  holds  the  degrees 
A.  B.  and  A.  M.  from  the  same  institution.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  in  1884,  and  in  1886  arrived  in  Los  Angeles,  being  admitted 
to  the  California  bar  the  same  year  and  beginning  a  general  practice. 
Mr.  Adcock's  services  have  been  in  great  demand  for  legal  counsel  in 
settling  land  titles.  In  the  past  ten -years  he^  has  handled  a  large  vol- 
ume of  criminal  work.  He  has  appeared  in  sixty-two  capital  cases  and 
in  not  one  of  them  was  a  verdict  of  murder  in  the  first  degree  passed. 
At  one  time  he  was  deputy  district  attorney  and  assistant  prosecuting 
attorney.  For  the  past  twenty-five  years  he  has  been  an  active  cam- 
paigner in  county  and  state  politics,  and  has  accepted  a  place  on  the 
local  democratic  tickets  at  different  times.  He  is  a  stanch  Wilson  demo- 
crat. Mr.  Adcock  is  a  member  of  the  Broadway  Christian  Church 
.  and  is  a  prominent  Sunday  School  worker  and  regarded  as  one  of 
the  best  qualified  Sunday  School  teachers  in  the  county. 

As  a  young  man  in  Knox  Colege  Mr.  Adcock  boarded  with  a  Mrs. 
Ewing,  a  cousin  of  General  W.  T.  Sherman.  While  there  he  met 
General  Sherman,  and  through  his  influence  was  appointed  to  a  cadet- 
ship  at  West  Point  Military  Academy,  but  was  unable  to  pass  the  phy- 
sical examination  for  entrance. 

Benjamin  Davis  Wilson  was  one  of  the  first  Americans  in  South- 
ern California.  He  was  the  most  influential  among  them  while  Mexican 
governors  exercised  authority  over  this  region.  He  was  the  local  citizen 
deputized  with  civil  and  military  power  by  the  old  Spanish  regime  and 
by  Commodore  Stockton  at  the  time  of  the  American  conquest.  An 
actor  in  that  drama  which  brought  Los  Angeles  under  a  new  order,  he 
was  one  of  the  most  competent  authorities  on  the  events  which  he  wit- 
nessed. Only  a  short  time  before  his  death,  which  occurred  March  11, 
1878,  he  dictated,  at  the  request  of  the  late  Hubert  Howe  Bancroft,  a 
lengthy  sketch  of  his  life  and  Southwestern  experiences.  The  original 
manuscript  is  probably  with  the  famous  Bancroft  collection.  Copies  are 
also  preserved  by  Mr.  Wilson's  family,  including  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
George  S.  Patton,  and  from  one  copy  the  following  sketch  is  prepared 
as  an  appropriate  memorial  to  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  Southern 
California. 

He  was  born  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  December  1,  1811.  The 
pioneer  instinct  was  in  the  Wilson  blood.  His  father  was  born  in  1772 
at  a  fort  in  the  territory  of  Tennessee.  Benjamin  was  eight  years  old 
when  his  father  died,  leaving  the  family  in  straightened  circumstances. 
Through  the  aid  of  his  grandfather  he  obtained  some  education,  but 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  was  trading  among  the  Indians  on  the  Yazoo  River. 
Warned  that  he  could  not  live  in  that  climate,  he  started  West,  and  in 


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1833  went  over  the  plains  to  Santa  Fe,  being  one  of  the  earl)'  travelers 
over  that  famous  trade  route  known  as  the  Santa  Fe  trail. 

He  also  did  some  hunting  in  the  Gila  River  country  in  Arizona,  and 
some  of  his  reminiscences  concern  his  experiences  among  the  Apache 
Indians.  While  at  Santa  Fe  he  had  charge  for  two  years  of  the  busi- 
ness of  Doctor  Gregg,  distinguished  as  author  of  "Commerce  of  the 
Prairies,"  the  leading  authority  on  the  history  of  the  Santa  Fe  trail.  He 
remained  in  business  in  Santa  Fe  until  1841.  In  November  of  that 
year,  in  view  of  a  threatened  invasion  from  Texas,  he  concluded  it  was 
not  safe  to  remain  in  New  Mexico  a,nd  started  for  California.  His  party 
contained  several  other  men  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  Southern 
California,  including  John  Rowland,  William  Workman,  William  Gordon 
and  William  Knight.  In  1843  he  bought  the  Jurupa  Ranch,  now  River- 
side, and  occupied  it  without  objection  by  the  government,  though  he 
declined  to  become  a  Mexican  citizen. 

"After  many  unsuccessful  efforts  to  leave  California,  and  receiving 
much  kindness  from  native  Californians,  I  arrived  at  the  conclusion 
that  there  was  no  place  in  the  world  where  I  could  enjoy  more  true 
happiness  and  true  friendship  than  among  them.  There  were  no  courts, 
no  juries,  no  lawyers,  nor  any  need  of  them.  The  people  were  honest 
and  hospitable,  and  their  word  was  as  good  as  their  bond ;  indeed,  bonds 
and  notes  of  hand  were  entirely  unknown  among  the  natives.  So,  as  I 
said,  I  settled  upon  the  ranch  and  led  a  ranchero's  life  for  some  years. 
In  1844  I  married  Ramona  Yorba,  daughter  of  Don  Bernardo  Yorba, 
one  of  the  owners  of  the  Santa  Ana  Ranch." 

In  1845,  at  the  request  of  the  governor,  Don  Pio  Pico,  he  took  com- 
mand of  an'  expedition  against  the  Mojave  and  other  Indians,  and  in 
the  course  of  it  had  the  unpleasant  duty  of  killing  the  notorious  marau- 
der, Joaquin.    At  that  time  he  was  also  active  as  alcalde  of  his  district. 

In  1845  he  was  called  out  for  duty  in  the  campaign  between  Michel- 
torena  and  the  California  parties,  all  of  which  is  a  well-known  part  of 
Southern  California  history.  During  that  campaign  he  was  one  of  the 
Americans  entrusted  with  responsibility  of  detaching  from  the  follow- 
ing of  Micheltorena  a  party  of  Americans  who  were  with  the  enemy 
through  misapprehension,  and  whose  defection  brought  about  the  rapid 
disintegration  and  defeat  of  the  invading  rabble. 

The  next  event  to  call  him  from  his  ranch  was  the  War  of  1846 
between  Mexico  and  the  United  States.  While  he  declined  the  request 
of  Governor  Pico  for  military  duty  to  resist  the  American  invasion,  he 
pledged  his  word  to  remain  neutral  and  do  no  act  hostile  to  the  country. 
With  the  departure  of  the  governor  upon  the  arrival  of  the  squadron  of 
Commodore  Stockton  in  San  Pedro  Bay,  he  visited,  the  commander,  and 
reluctantly  accepted  a  captain's  commission  in  charge  of  the  local  forces 
of  Americans.  As  the  nominal  commander  of  a  small  company  of  volun- 
teers he  then  returned  to  his  ranch.  After  the  departure  of  Commodore 
Stockton,  a  general  revolt  arose  among  the  Californians  and  Mexicans, 
largely  due,  Mr.  Wilson  says,  to  the  autocratic  and  tactless  manner  in 
which  Lieutenant  Gillespie,  who  had  been  left  in  command  at  Los  An- 
geles, was  administering  his  authority.  Unable  to  effect  a  junction  with 
the  garrison  at  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Wilson  and  his  small  party  had  to  sur- 
render. They  suffered  imprisonment  in  a  small  adobe  room  at  what 
is  now  Boyle  Heights,  and  several  times  were  in  danger  of  their  lives 
because  of  unscrupulous  leaders  among  the  Mexicans  and  the  revengeful 
spirit  among  the  old  Californians  on  account  of  treatment  they  had 
received  from  Gillespie.     Mr.  Wilson  and  associates,  however,  had  some 


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good  friends  among  their  temporary  enemies,  and  eventually  they  were 
sent  to  the  mission  San  Gabriel. 

With  the  return  of  Commodore  Stockton  in  January,  1847.  ;ind  the 
subsequent  occupation  under  Fremont  and  Kearney,  Mr.  Wilson  and 
companions  were  released  and  permitted  to  rejoin  their  families.  In  his 
reminiscences  he  describes  a  number  of  circumstances  in  the  relation 
between  Stockton,  Kearney  and  Fremont,  and  the  early  acts  of  the  mili- 
tary government. 

After  the  American  conquest  Mr.  Wilson  engaged  in  merchandis- 
ing at  Los  Angeles.  The  following  brief  references  he  makes  to  political 
afifairs  are  of  special  interest:  "Nothing  worthy  of  mention  happened 
until  1849,  when  a  convention  was  called  by  General  Riley  to  form  a 
constitution  for  California.  We  held  a  public  meeting  and  selected  the 
best  men  we  could  find.  We  had  no  direction  to  give  our  representatives, 
except  that  we  wished  not  to  be  a  state  as  yet,  but  if  we  had  to  be  a  state 
we,  although  most  of  us  were  southern  men,  were  very  positive  that  we 
wanted  no  slavery.  The  following  year,  California,  having  been  voted 
in  the  constitution  a  state,  we  held  a  convention  of  the  southern  coun- 
try in  Santa  Barbara,  at  which  I  was  a  member,  for  the  purpose  of  send- 
ing a  protest  to  Congress  that  in  the  case  California  was  admitted  as  a 
state  of  the  Union,  the  southern  portion  would  be  allowed  to  form  a 
territorial  government.  Our  efforts  proved  unavailing.  After  the  state 
was  organized,  I  was  elected  the  first  clerk  of  the  county  of  Los  Angeles, 
making  the  condition  with  my  friends  that  I  should  not  serve  personally, 
but  would  appoint  a  deputy  to  run  the  office  and  have  all  the  emolu- 
ments. When  the  town  of  Los  Angeles  was  incorporated  as  a  city  the 
people  elected  me  its  first  mayor.  I  only  served  a  few  months,  and  then 
resigned.     My  wife,  Ramona  Yorba  Wilson,  died  March  21,  1849." 

In  1852  he  was  appointed  by  President  Fillmore  Indian  agent  for 
the  southern  district  to  help  arrange  Indian  affairs  in  California.  He 
was  to  work  in  conjunction  with  Lieutenant,  afterward  General,  Beale, 
the  general  superintendent,  but  after  participating  in  some  of  the  pre- 
liminary work  he  found  himself  unable  to  work  in  harmony  with  the 
superintendent  and  resigned.  In  1855  he  was  elected  a  state  senator, 
and  served  a  second  term  in  1869-70.  Otherwise  his  life  for  many 
years  was  spent  as  a  horticulturist  in  Los  Angeles  county  at  Lake  Vine- 
yard, where  he  had  his  home  when  he  composed  the  manuscript  for  Mr. 
Bancroft. 

February  1,  1853,  he  married  Margaret  S.  Hereford,  widow  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Hereford.  He  was  survived  by  her  and  three  daughters,  the 
oldest,  a  child  of  his  first  wife,  being  Mrs.  J.  DeBarth  Shorb ;  and  the 
other  two,  Annie  and  Ruth,  by  his  second  wife.  Ruth  Wilson  was  mar- 
ried to  George  S.  Patton,  December  11,  1884. 

George  S.  Patton  was  born  at  Charleston,  Virginia,  September  30, 
1856,  son  of  George  Smith  and  Susan  Thorton  (Glassell)  Patton. 
His  ancestry  includes  many  distinguished  names  in  American  annals. 
He  is  directly  descended  from  Mildred  Washington,  and  another  ances- 
tor was  General  Hugh  Mercer,  who  commanded  the  Virginia  troops 
under  Washington  and  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Princeton.  There  are 
numerous  towns  and  counties  in  the  various  states  named  after  this  dis- 
tinguished Revolutionary  leader.  In  all  generations  the  Pattons  have 
displayed  an  unequivocal  patriotism,  and  many  of  them  have  shown 
strong  inclination  for  military  sen.'ice.  That  J\Ir.  George  S.  Patton  has 
no  military  record  is  due  to  his  fate  in  having  been  born  too  late  for  the 


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Civil  war  and  too  early  for  the  World  war,  in  which  his  son  Colonel 
G.  S.  Patton  III  achieved  real  distinction.  Mr.  Patton's  father  was  a 
colonel  in  the  22nd  Virginia  Infantry  during  the  Civil  war  and  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Winchester  on  September  19,  1864. 

George  Smith  Patton  II  was  educated  in  the  Virginia  Military  Insti- 
tute at  Lexington,  Virginia,  and  afterwards  studied  law  in  that  city.  He 
came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1878,  was  admitted  to  the  California  bar  two 
years  later,  and  was  soon  prominent  in  his  profession.  He  served  as 
district  atorney  of  Los  Angeles  county  in  1884.  Mr.  Patton  has  always 
been  a  democrat,  a  leader  in  his  party,  and  has  never  neglected  an  oppor- 
tunity to  perform  a  part  of  usefulness  in  his  city,  state  and  nation.  He 
was  democratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  1894,  in  the  Sixth  District, 
and  in  1916  was  democratic  candidate  for  LInited  States  senator  for 
California.  He  has  been  a  vestryman  in  the  Church  of  Our  Savior, 
Protestant  Episcopal,  at  San  Gabriel  for  more  than  twenty-five  years. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 

December  10,  1884,  at  San  Gabriel,  he  married  Miss  Ruth  Wilson. 
She  is  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  D.  and  Margaret  Wilson.  Her  father 
was  one  of  the  first  Americans  to  settle  in  Los  Angeles  and  for  many 
years  exercised  a  great  influence  in  that  city.  He  became  an  extensive 
land  owner,  and  his  properties  were  widely  distributed  between  the 
mountains  and  the  sea.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Patton  have  two  children.  Colonel 
George  Smith  Patton  and  Miss  Anne  Wilson  Patton. 

Colonel  George  S.  Patton,  Jr.,  Ill,  was  bom  at  San  Gabriel,  Cali- 
fornia, November  11,  1885,  was  educated  in  Pasadena,  and  in  1904 
entered  West  Point  Military  Academy,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1909-  He  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  of  the  15th  Cavalry,  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Sheridan,  Illinois.  May  26,  1910,  he  married  Beatrice 
Ayer,  daughter  of  Frederick  Ayer  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
transferred  from  Fort  Riley  to  Fort  Myer,  Washington,  served  there  two 
years,  and  for  a  few  months  was  personal  aide  to  General  Leonard 
Wood,  Chief  of  Staff.  In  1912  he  was  appointed  to  represent  the 
United  States  Army  in  the  Olympic  games  at  Stockholm,  as  the  only 
representative  in  the  contest  known  as  the  ]\Iodern  Pentoathlon,  a  mili- 
tary contest  requiring  shooting  with  the  pistol,  fencing  with  the  French 
duelling  sword,  swimming,  cross  country  horse  back  riding  and  running. 
In  this  contest,  which  was  participated  in  by  twenty-nine  officers  of  all 
European  armies,  he  was  successful  over  all  except  the  Swedes,  who 
of  course  had  very  numerous  entries  in  all  contests.  As  a  result  of  the , 
fencing  contest  particularly,  in  which  he  was  fortunate  enough  to  defeat 
the  French  champion,  he  was  detailed  to  go  to  Saumur,  France,  to  the 
French  Cavalry  School,  for  special  instruction  in  the  use  of  the  cavalry 
sabre.  On  returning  home  he  was  appointed  first  instructor  in  cavalry 
sabre  at  the  United  States  Cavalry  School  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas.  He 
designed  the  new  sabre  then  adopted,  and  trained  two  classes  of  officers 
at  Fort  Riley,  at  the  same  time  himself  taking  the  two-year  cavalry 
course  at  that  school,  from  which  he  graduated. 

Still  with  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant  he  was  appointed  to  the 
Eighth  Cavalry  at  Fort  Bliss,  El  Paso,  and  in  1916,  went  as  a  member 
of  General  Pershing's  staff  on  the  Mexican  campaign.  He  was  engaged 
in  a  thrilling  skirmish  at  Rubio  Ranch,  where  in  command  of  ten  troop- 
ers he  ran  to  earth  and  killed  Colonel  Julio  Cardenas,  one  of  Villa's 
body-guard  captains  who  was  in  command  of  a  body  of  bandits.  Return- 
ing from  the  Mexican  expedition  in  March,  1917,  he  was  spending  his 
leave  with  his  wife  and  family  in  Boston  when  the  United  States  entered 
the  World  war. 


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Ordered  to  Washington,  he  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Head- 
quarter Detachment  of  sixty  troopers,  organized  to  accompany  General 
Pershing  and  his  staff  to  Europe,  and  thus  had  the  good  fortune  to  be 
with  the  first  United  States  troops  under  arms  to  land  in  England.  He 
reached  France  with  the  rank  of  captain  and  continued  to  command  the 
Headquarter  Detachment  for  six  months.  When  the  United  States  de- 
termined to  organize  a  permanent  Tank  Corps  he  was  made  Major  and 
then  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  put  in  command  of  the  first  training  camp 
and  brigade  of  Tanks  at  Bourg,  near  Langres,  in  France.  He  spent 
a  short  time  in  England  with  the  British  Tank  School,  and  with  the 
British  Tanks  on  the  front  line  near  Cambrai,  and  also  at  the  French 
Training  School.  He  trained  and  commanded  the  first  brigade  of 
American  Tanks  which  engaged  in  action  at  the  battle  of  San  Mihiel 
on  September  12,  1918.  After  that  he  was  appointed  full  colonel  and 
commanded  the  same  brigade,  consisting  of  a  hundred  seventy  tanks,  one 
hundred  forty-two  manned  by  Americans  and  twenty-eight  by  French, 
on  the  opening  of  the  great  battle  of  the  Argonne.  He  was  wounded  on 
the  first  day's  fighting,  on  September  26th.  On  December  17th,  having 
recovered  from  his  wound,  he  was  decorated  with  the  Di?tinguished 
Service  Cross,  the  citation  for  the  decoration  contains  the  following  par- 
ticular reference  to  him  individually :  "Colonel  George  S.  Patton,  Jr., 
Tank  Corps,  No.  1391,  for  extraordinary  heroism  in  action  near  Cheppy, 
France,  26  September,  1918.  Colonel  Patton  displayed  conspicuous  cour- 
age, coolness,  energy  and  intelligence  in  directing  the  advance  of  his 
brigade  down  the  valle}'  of  the  Aire.  I^ter  he  rallied  a  force  of-'  dis- 
couraged infantrj'  and  led  it  forward  behind  the  tanks  under  heavy 
machine  gun  and  artillery  fire  until  he  was  wounded.  Unable  to  advance 
further.  Colonel  Patton  continue  dto  direct  the  operations  of  his  unit 
until  all  arrangements  for  turning  over  the  command  were  completed." 

He  returned  to  the  United  States  in  command  of  the  First  Brigade 
of  American  Tanks,  landing  in  New  York  March  17,  1919,  and  from 
there  was  ordered  to  Camp  Meade,  near  Baltimore,  where  the  permanent 
Tank  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army  is  being  organized,  and  was 
detailed  on  the  Board  in  Washington  to  write  the  official  drill  tactics 
and  regulations  of  the  Tank  Corps. 

Afterwards,  on  June  16,  1919,  he  was  awarded  the  Distinguished 
Service  Medal  in  addition  to  the  Cross,  in  the  following  citation : 

GENER.\r,  Headquarters — American   Expeditionary  Forces. 

France,  16  June,  1919. 
Distinguished  Service  Medal  Citation. 

Under  the  provisions  of  Cablegram  No.  2830,  received  from  the  War 
Department,  March  1st,  1919,  the  Commander-in-Chief,  in  the  name 
of  the  President,  has  awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Medal  to  you 
for  exceptionally  meritorious  and  distinguished  services  as  set  forth 
below : 

Lieutenant  Colonel  George  S.  Patton,  U.  S.  A. 

For  exceptionally  meritorious  and  distinguished  services.  By  his 
energy  and  sound  judgment  he  rendered  very  valuable  services  in  his 
organization  and  direction  of  the  Tank  Center  at  the  Army  Schools  at 
Langres. 

In  the  employment  of  Tank  Corps  troops  in  combat,  he  displayed 
high  military  attainments,  zeal  and  marked  adaptability  in  a  form  of  war- 
fare' comparatively  new  to  the  American  Army. 


394  LOS  ANGELES 

Martin  E.  Geibel,  whose  work  has  demanded  increasing  atten- 
tion as  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  is  a  man  of  brilliant  scholarship  and  had 
an  education  acquired  in  some  of  the  best  schools  and  under  some  of 
the  best  minds  of  this  country  and  abroad. 

He  was  born  in  Summit  township  of  Butler  County,  Pennsylvania, 
October  8,  1879,  a  son  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Eyth)  Geibel.  Up  to 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  lived  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools.  His  advantages  after  that  were  of  his  own  acquiring.  He 
attended  St.  Charles'  College  at  Ellicott  City,  Maryland,  studying  under 
Father  Tabb  two  years ;  for  two  years  was  a  student  in  St.  Vincent's 
College  at  Beatty  Station,  Pennsylvania ;  graduated  with  the  A.  B. 
degree  in  1902  from  St.  Mary's  University  at  Baltimore,  and  then  went 
abroad  and  for  three  years  was  a  student  of  theolog}'  in  the  University 
of  Fribourg,  Switzerland  His  professor  of  history  in  that  university 
was  Pierre  Francois  Feliz  Mandonnet,  and  excellent  lecturer  and  emin- 
ent authority  on  Augustinism  and  neo-Scholasticism.  His  most  noted 
work  entitled  "Siger  de  Brabant  et  I'averroisme  latin  an  XIII  siecle" 
was  crowned  by  the  French  Academy. 

After  his  residence  abroad  Mr.  Geibel  returned  to  this  country 
and  came  to  California,  spending  six  months  in  the  law  school  of  Stan- 
ford University  and  finished  his  preparation  at  Sacramento.  January 
14,  1907,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Appellate  Court.  He  was 
the  first  to  be  examined  for  admission  before  that  court  after  it  was 
changed  from  the  Supreme  Court  to  the  Appellate  Court.  Though  well 
qualified  for  practice  Mr.  Geibel  on  coming  to  Los  Angeles  was  for 
one  year  in  the  Los  Angeles  Military  Academy.  He  then  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  law  firm  of  Hatch  &  Lloyd  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Hatch  in  1912,  and  has  since  practiced  as  a  member  of  the  law  firm 
Lloyd,  Cheney  and  Geibel. 

Mr.  Geibel  is  a  republican,  a  Catholic,  a  member  of  the  University 
Club  and  Los  Angeles  City  Club.  He  belongs  to  the  Los  Angeles  and 
California  Bar  Association  Mr.  Geibel  resides  at  Pasadena.  He  married 
Angelina  Nblf,  also  a  native  of  Butler  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  Octo- 
ber 16,  1910.  They  were  married  at  the  Old  Mission  Chufch  of  Santa 
Barbara. 

Hon.  Meredith  P.  Snyder.  Elected  mayor  of  Los  Angeles  for 
the  fourth  time,  in  June,  1919,  Hon.  Meredith  Pinxton  Snyder  is  again 
demonstrating  his  possession  of  the  attributes  necessary  to  the  proper 
handling  of  the  reins  of  municipal  government.  One  of  the  prominent 
and  eminently  capable  financiers  of  his  city,  his  personal  achievements 
have  been  numerous,  while  he  has  been  no  less  valuable  in  behalf  of 
the  interests  of  his  adopted  city  since  he  first  entered  public  service  in 
1891,  in  the  capacity  of  police  commissioner. 

Meredith  Pinxton  Snyder  was  born  October  22,  1859,  at  Winston- 
Salem,  North  Carolina,  a  son  of  K.  D.  and  Elizabeth  (Hire)  Snyder. 
A  sidelight  on  his  boyhood  is  given  in  the  following:  When  he  was 
eight  years  old  his  father  gave  him  a  young  colt.  The  lad  "broke"  him, 
but  needed  a  saddle.  This  was  a  problem  for  those  were  the  days 
known  as  the  Reconstruction  Period,  when  there  was  no  money  in  the 
South,  and  everything  was  "swapped."  Finally  young  Meredith's 
father  told  him  that  if  he  would  clear  a  large  piece  of  ground  that 
was  covered  with  old  plum  trees  and  plant  it  to  corn  he  could  have  that 
first  crop  to  swap  for  a  saddle.  The  youth  worked  hard,  and  the  land 
was  finally  cleared,  the  corn  duly  planted  and  the  crop  harvested,  and 


FROM  THE  MOUXTAIXS  TO  THE  SEA  395 

the  youth  went  to  the  nearby  town  of  Lexington  to  get  a  saddle.  His 
mother  had  given  him  a  beautiful  hand-woven  saddle  blanket.  Proud 
indeed  was  the  young  man  as  he  started  home,  but  a  severe  snowstorm 
arose,  and,  thinking  nothing  of  himself,  he  carefully  wrapped  up  his 
beloved  saddle,  unmindful  of  his  physical  discomfort,  and  arrived  at 
home  nearly  frozen.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years  he  was  managing 
three  plantations,  and  every  morning  he  would  lead  the  darkies  out 
and  supervise  their  work  all  day. 

In  the  meantime,  Mr.  Snyder  was  securing  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  state,  at  the  Bethany  and  Schylo  Academy 
and  at  Yadkin  College,  North  Carolina.  That  he  was  a  leader  while 
at  school  is  evidenced  by  an  old  time  photograph,  taken  when  he  was 
fifteen  years  of  age,  in  which  he  is  seen  decked  out  in  a  great  sash, 
as  marshal  of  a  celebration  of  the  school  in  his  home  town.  Imme- 
diately upon  leaving  Yadkin  College,  in  1880,  he  received  $125  from  his 
father  for  an  estate,  the  first  real  money  he  had  ever  handled,  and  real- 
ized an  ambition  that  he  had  cherished  from  boyhood,  by  coming  to 
Los  Angeles.  Here  he  obtained  a  clerkship,  and  from  that  time  his 
rise  was  consistent  and  steady,  from  clerk  to  business,  from  business 
man  to  banker,  and  from  banker  to  leading  public  figure  and  a  marked 
factor  in  the  development  of  the  city's  interests.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Lomita  Land  and  Water  Company. 

In  1891  Mr.  Snyder  was  elected  police  commissioner  of  Los  An- 
geles, and  his  work  in  that  office  brought  him  favorably  before  the  peo- 
ple. He  retained  the  post  until  1894,  when  he  was  elected  city  council- 
man. While  serving  thus  he  introduced  a  bill,  ultimately  passed,  which 
placed  water  distribution  under  municipal  control,  saving  the  people  of 
the  city  $136,000  in  a  single  year  and  costing  the  water  company  an 
equal  amount.  In  1896  Mr.  Snyder  was  elected  to  the  mayoralty,  and 
was  again  chosen  for  that  office  in  1900,  serving  until  1905.  At  that 
time  he  refused  another  renomination  because  of  the  heavy  pressure 
of  his  private  interests.  Los  Angeles  progressed  immeasurably  during 
his  administrations,  and  many  reforms  which  made  a  modern  city  of 
the  Southern  California  metropolis  originated  with  him.  To  enumer- 
ate all  of  these  would  transcend  the  limits  ascribed  to  this  review,  but 
one  which  was  a  notable  achievement,  and  in  which  he  took  a  great 
personal  interest,  was  the  merging  of  San  Pedro  and  Wilmington  with 
Los  Angeles,  thus  giving  the  latter  an  outlet  to  the  sea.  He  was  a 
member  and  one  of  the  hardest  workers  on  the  committee  which  brought 
about  the  merger. 

Mr.  Snyder  had  retired  from  business  aft'airs  and  politics,  and 
was  comfortably  spending  the  remaining  years  of  his  life  in  the  en- 
joyment of  those  recreations  which  attract  the  active  and  cultivated 
mind,  when,  in  July,  1918,  occurred  the  greatest  tragedy  of  his  life  in 
the  death  of  his  only  son,  Ross  Snyder,  who  fell  on  the  bloody  field  of 
Chateau  Thierry.  Feeling  that  he  needed  a  new  interest  in  life,  he 
allowed  himself  to  be  persuaded  to  accept  the  candidacy  for  the  mayor- 
alty, and  in  June,  1919,  was  again  chosen  to  direct  the  city  from  the 
chief  executive's  chair. 

Personally,  Mayor  Snyder  is  small  in  stature,  but  large  in  men- 
tality, bodily  activity  and  worth-while  achievements.  He  is  possessed 
of  a  magnetic  smile  and  a  cheerful  and  likeable  personality  that  open 
the  wav  to  instant  and  lasting  friendships,  and  his  manner,  while  not 
self-assertive,  is  quietly  confident.  He  finds  recreation  in  golfing,  en- 
joys  shooting  at  his  gun  club  and   during  the  wild   duck   season,   and 


396  LOS  ANGELES 

confines  his  reading  to  current  events,  his  interest  in  the  classics  being 
secondary.  His  enjoyment  in  the  companionship  of  his  fellows  is  indi- 
cated by  his  membership  in  the  Masons,  in  which  he  is  a  Knight  Temp- 
lar, and  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  in  the  Elks,  the  Jonathan  Club  and  the 
Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 

On  February  14,  1889,  at  the  Coronado  Hotel,  San  Diego,  Cali- 
fornia, Mayor  Snyder  was  united  in  marriage  with  May  Ross,  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  one  son:  Ross  Snyder,  who  was  born  at  Los 
Angeles,  June  29,  1893.  He  attended  a  private  school  and  Harvard 
Military  Academy,  from  which  latter  he  was  graduated  as  captain 
of  Company  B,  in  June,  1913.  At  that  time  his  father  was  president 
of  a  local  bank  and  wished  his  son  to  come  into  the  institution.  The 
latter,  however,  felt  that  he  was  not  fitted  for  the  life  of  a  banker, 
and  instead  informed  his  father  that  he  had  decided  to  enter  the  United 
States  Army,  at  the  same  time  predicting  in  a  prophecy  that  is  remark- 
able considering  later  events,  the  entrance  of  this  country  in  a  world's 
war.  He  had  spent  three  years  as  sergeant  of  artillery  in  the  National 
Guard,  and  in  1916  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army,  as  a  private  of^ 
Troop  D,  for  although  he  had  been  oiTered  a  commission  he  desired  to 
gain  experience  from  the  private's  viewpoint.  When  war  with  Ger- 
many was  declared  by  the  United  States,  he  received  orders  to  report 
at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  he  was  graduated  as  a  first  lieu- 
tenant of  the  Forty-seventh  United  States  Regiment,  and  was  imme- 
diately made  captain  of  Company  M.  Soon  thereafter  he  was  advanced 
to  acting  major  of  a  battalion  of  the  same  regiment,  with  which  he 
went  to  France  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  the  Marne.  On  July  14, 
1918,  he  started  for  Chateau  Thierry,  and  met  his  death  in  that  battle, 
north  of  the  Orcqu  River,  July  31,  1918.  On  July  30  he  was  wounded 
but  refused  to  go  back  to  the  hospital,  insisting  on  remaining  with  his 
battalion,  and  on  the  next  day,  July  31,  met  his  death  at  Leige  while 
leading  his  men  in  battle. 

Meredith  P.  Snyder  was  president  of  the  Home  Telephone  Com- 
pany of  San  Diego  until  February,  1919,  when  he  sold  out  to  the  Pacific 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  Meredith 
Office  Building,  at  No.  618  South  Spring  Street,  a  large  farm  in 
Modesto,  and  has  business,  civic  and  social  interests  that  make  him  one 
of  the  leading  citizens  of  his  community  today. 

Frank  H.\ll  Joyner  is  a  highway  engineer  of  national  reputation 
and  standing  and  for  the  past  eight  years  has  been  the  technical  and 
official  expert  who  has  planned  and  directed  practically  all  the  improve- 
ments on  the  highway  system  of  Los  Angeles  county. 

Railroad  and  other  engineering  work  has  been  almost  a  lifelong 
study  and  pursuit  of  Mr.  Joyner.  He  was  born  at  North  Egrcmont, 
Massachusetts,  January  20,  1862,  son  of  Loomis  M.  and  Marj'  L.  (Cross) 
Joyner.  He  is  of  pure  Yankee  stock  and  is  descended  from  Robert 
Joyner,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  from  Joseph  Loomis,  who  located  at 
'Windsor,.  Connecticut,  in  1639  and  founded  the  large  and  prominent 
family  of  Loomis  in  America. 

Mr.  Joyner  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
town,  in  the  high  school  at  Great  Barrington,  Massachusetts,  in  Carter's 
Commercial  College  at  Pittsfield,  and  had  a  course  in  the  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College  at  Amherst.  In  1881  he  was  working  as  a  chainman 
with  the  New  York,  West  Shore  &  Buffalo  Railroad.  Later  for  three 
years  he  was  assistant  engineer  with  that  company.      In   1885  he  was 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  397 

made  resident  engineer  for  tlie  Wisconsin  Central,  now  the  Sou  Line, 
with  headquarters  at  Des  i'laines,  iUmois.  iJeginning  in  lUtib  and  con- 
tinuing for  over  a  year,  he  was  engineer  at  the  end  of  tractc  and  assistant 
superintendent  of  construction  with  the  Fitzgerald  &  Mallory  Company 
in  the  construction  of  a  branch  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  System. 

Mr.  Joyner  left  railroad  engineering  in  1887  to  become  connected 
with  a  firm  of  Chicago  engineers,  JMorrison  &  Corthell.  He  had  charge 
of  the  preparation  of  stone  for  the  bridge  over  the  Ohio  River  at  Cairo, 
and  bridges  over  the  Mississippi  at  St.  Louis  and  Memphis,  tie  was 
city  engineer  at  Bedford,  Indiana,  until  1891,  when  he  resigned  that 
office  and  left  the  firm  of  Morrison  &  Corthell. 

His  varied  experience  as  an  engineer  was  supplemented  when,  in 
1892,  he  became  connected  with  the  Tejepscot  Paper  Company,  one  of 
the  largest  establishments  of  its  kind  in  Maine.  As  assistant  engineer, 
he  supervised  the  construction  of  dams  and  pulp  mill  plants  for  this 
company. 

Since  1896  Mr.  Joyner  has  given  practically  all  his  time  to  highway 
engineering.  For  two  years  he  was  resident  engineer  with  the  Massa- 
chusetts Highway  Commission,  and  in  1898  was  advanced  to  division 
engineer,  a  post  from  which  he  resigned  February  1,  1911.  It  was  his 
record  in  Massachusetts  that  brought  him  to  the  attention  of  the  Lo> 
Angeles  County  Highway  Commission,  who  secured  his  services  in  the 
early  part  of  1911  as  engineer  in  charge  of  maintenance  and  care  of  main 
highways  of  this  county.  In  July  of  the  same  year  he  was  appointed 
chief  engineer  for  the  Los  Angeles  County  Highway  Commission,  and 
under  the  new  charter  was  made  road  commissioner  in  April,  1914,  his 
present  oiTlce.  In  that  capacity  he  has  charge  of  all  road  construction 
and  maintenance,  including  dirt  roads,  lanes,  alleys  and  bridges,  in  Los 
Angeles  county. 

Mr.  Joyner  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
the  Massachusetts  Highway  Association,  the  American  Road  Builders 
and  the  American  Highway  Association.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Los 
Angeles  Engineers'  Club  and  the  Architects'  Club,  the  University  Club, 
and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  At  Brooklyn.  New  York,  October  1, 
1888,  Mr.  Joyner  married  Miss  Clara  E.  Curtiss.  They  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Mary  C.  Joyner,  who  has  made  a  rather  unusual  record  of  scholar- 
ship and  is  now  a  computor  at  Mount  Wilson  Observatory. 

John  Amos  Kinuslev.  The  gratification  of  ambitious  aims  is 
liable  to  result  in  the  accomplishment  of  every  ultimate  aim  and  a 
consequent  cessation  of  endeavor  and  an  inactivity  that  must  of  neces- 
sity be  supine.  Those  who  rise,  however,  recognize  the  possibilities 
of'  successful  attainment  and  continually  strive  energetically  and  per- 
severingly,  actuated  by  a  determination  for  still  further  advancement, 
that  results  in  the  reaching  of  a  position  of  power  and  influence.  To 
reach  this  desirable  consummation,  success  must  be  based  upon  a  definite 
aim  and  persistency  of  pur]iose  which  enables  the  individual  to  continue 
on  a  given  course  regardless  of  the  ob.stacles  which  may  appear  in  his 
liath.  A  review  of  the  careers  of  those  who  have  attained  success 
shows  that  those  who  have  reached  their  goal  have  possessed  self- 
reliance,  conscientiousness,  energy  and  integrity,  for  these  are  the  traits 
of  character  which  make  for  the  highest  awards  in  any  field  of  endeavor'. 
One  of  the  men  who  has  always  possessed  just  these  traits  is  John 
Amos  Kingsley,  veteran  business  man  of  Los  Angeles,  and  well-known 
traternalist. 


398  LOS  ANGELES 

Mr.  Kingsley  was  born  April  18,  1852,  at  Eaton  Rapids,  Michigan, 
a  son  of  Phineas  Kingsley,  a  native  of  the  state  of  New  York,  who  located 
at  Eaton  Rapids,  Michigan,  in  1848,  and  was  engaged  as  a  cooper  and 
wheelwright.  There  was  little  time  for  schooling  in  the  boyhood  days 
of  John  A.  Kingsley,  but  this  was  only  one  of  the  obstacles  which  his 
strong  character  and  determination  overcame  and  today  he  is  a  well- 
educated,  if  self-educated,  man.  He  was  still  a  youth  when  he  was 
married,  November  11,  1869,  at  Lansing,  Michigan,  and  in  1880  came 
to  Los  Angeles.  He  has  two  children  living:  Grace,  who  resides  with 
her  parents ;  and  Mildred,  who  is  now  the  widow  of  E.  E.  Mossman. 
He  has  one  granddaughter,  Grace  Frances,  nineteen  years  of  age. 
When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kingsley  came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Lansing, 
Michigan,  their  children  were  six  and  four  years  old  respectively.  They 
made  the  journey  on  the  slow  and  primitive  trains  of  the  day,  the  jour- 
ney consuming  six  days.  Los  Angeles  at  that  time  was  a  far  different 
city  than  it  is  today.  It  could  boast  of  neither  sidewalks  nor  paved 
streets,  and  many  of  the  houses,  and  even  business  houses,  were  of  the 
adobe  class,  as  there  were  few  residents  other  than  the  old  Spanish 
families,  with  many  of  whom  Mr.  Kingsley  was  acquainted.  Mr. 
Kingsley  retains  an  afifectionate  remembrance  of  the  old-fashioned 
Spanish  barbecues  of  the  early  days,  so  popular  in  their  time.  In  that 
day  there  was  only  what  might  be  termed  a  trail  to  Pasadena.  Mr. 
Kingsley  would  often  visit  the  built-up  section  of  that  community,  then 
consisting  of  a  drug  store  on  one  corner,  a  school  on  another,  a  hotel 
on  the  third,  and  a  blacksmith  shop  on  the  other.  Horse-back  was  the 
usual  means  of  travel,  and  the  trails  were  hard  and  the  going  bad. 

When  he  arrived  at  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Kingsley  found  employment 
temporarily  in  taking  subscriptions  for  "The  Journal,"  one  of  the  first 
Los  Angeles  newspapers.  In  1881,  because  of  the  vicarious  state  of  his 
health,  he  turned  to  railroading,  and  engaged  therein  for  five  years 
both  as  fireman  and  locomotive  engineer.  Determined  to  get  a  start 
and  to  be  the  proprietor  of  a  business  of  his  own,  he  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, having  found  an  old  friend  in  Los  Angeles  who  was  able  and 
willing  to  lend  him  $800,  and  with  this  capital  he  purchased  a  small 
printing  office  and  later  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  established  him- 
self in  the  printing  business  with  a  partner,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Kingsley  &  Barnes,  an  association  which  lasted  for  more  than  sixteen 
years.  In  1902  there  was  founded  the  present  business  of  Kingsley, 
Mason  &  Collins  Company,  stationers  and  printers,  which  has  grown 
to  goodly  proportions,  and  maintained  high  standards  and  ideals  that 
he  set  at  the  outset  of  his  career  and  has  maintained  them  through 
thirty-five  years  of  business  activity  in  Los  Angeles. 

While  he  has  been  a  busy  man  in  taking  care  of  his  personal  inter- 
ests, Mr.  Kingsley  has  never  been  too  busily  engaged  with  his  affairs 
to  neglect  the  needs  of  his  city  or  the  responsibilities  and  duties  of 
citizenship,  and  has  steadfastly  evidenced  a  civic  pride  that  let  him  into 
numerous  movements  and  enterprises  which  have  promised  and  proven 
to  be  beneficial.  In  politics  a  republican,  he  has  been  active  in  parry 
organization  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  numerous  conventions  of  the 
county,  city  and  state,  under  the  old  time  regime  of  ward  caucus  and 
conventions.  For  nine  years  he  was  Sergeant  in  Company  C,  National 
Guard  of  California,  with  three  enlistments  to  his  credit.  His  religious 
connections  are  with  the  Episcopal  Church,  which  he  joined  in  his 
young  manhood,  and  the  faith  of  which  he  has  daily  lived.  Mr.  Kings- 
ley  cannot  be  said  to  be  much  of  a  club  man,  for  his  home  is  his  great- 


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est  interest,  and  he  is  devoted  to  it  as  he  is  to  nothing  else.  How- 
ever, that  he  enjoys  and  appreciates  the  companionship  of  his  fellows 
is  found  in  the  fact  that  he  has  been  a  Mason  for  many  years.  In 
February,  1918,  his  name  appeared  on  the  Roll  of  Honor  of  his  Com- 
mandery,  Los  Angelas  Conimandery  No.  9,  Knights  Templar,  as  a 
thirty-year  member,  he  having  belonged  to  that  body  since  November  7, 
1889,  and  was  its  commander  in  1904.  He  was  master  of  Pentalpha 
Lodge,  No.  202,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  1891,  and  high  priest  of  Signet  Chapter, 
No.  57,  R.  A.  M.,  in  1892,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  also  president 
of  the  Masonic  Board  of  Relief.  He  is  one  of  Los  Angeles  good  and 
constructive  citizens  and  possesses  a  record  well  worthy  of  emulation 
by  the  growing  generations 

E.  K.  HoAK,  a  Keystone,  was  born  at  Pittsburgh  November  7,  1875. 
His  father,  a  Methodist  minister,  is  now  retired  and  living  at  Elyria, 
Ohio.  Mr.  Hoak  was  with  the  Cleveland  Trust  Company  for  ten  years 
prior  to  locating  m  Los  Angeles  in  December,  1910.  For  three  years 
he  was  Southwestern  manager  of  the  Sunset  Magazine,  and  resigned 
that  position  to  act  as  Pacific  Coast  manager  for  Doubleday,  Page  & 
Company,  publishers  of  the  World's  Work,  Country  Life,  and  one  of 
the  largest  book  publishers  in  the  country,  which  position  he  continues 
to  hold  at  the  .present  time. 

As  an  aggressive  business  man  and  organizer,  Mr.  Hoak  is  a  firm 
believer  in  advertising  and  claims  that  any  proposition  which  has  merit 
can  be  put  over  with  the  right  kind  of  advertising.  He  traveled  over  a 
quarter  million  miles  from  British  Columbia  to  Texas  making  a  thor- 
ough investigation  as  to  general  conditions  in  this  section  before  becom- 
ing permanently  located  in  Los  Angeles. 

Several  years  ago  Mr.  Hoak- purchased  an  interest,  and  at  a  later 
date  the  entire  capital  stock,  of  The  Financial  News  Publishing  Company, 
publishers  of  Financial-Insurance  News  and  several  Financial  Direc- 
tories and  Year  Books,  all  of  which  have  flourished  under  his  manage- 
ment. 

In  1917  he  was  elected  president,  treasurer  and  general  manager 
of  the  Mission  Play,  also  acting  as  John  S.  McGroarty's  general  man- 
ager for  his  various  books  and  writings.  Mr.  Hoak  and  Mr.  McGroarty 
are  now  the  principal  owners  of  the  Mission  Play. 

Mr.  Hoak  is  prominently  interested  in  a  number  of  business  and 
pliilanthropic  organizations,  all  of  which  have  been  successful,  and  dur- 
ing the  war  he  devoted  practically  his  entire. time  to  various  war  activities, 
the  principal  one  being  Pacific  Coast  manager  of  Red  Cross  Magazine. 
He  was  married  November  10,  1898,  to  Frances  B.  Parker  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio.  They  have  two  sons  and  a  daughter  and  live  in  South  Pasadena. 
Mr.  Hoak  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club.  The  summer  home  is  at  Forest  Home,  California,  and  also  at 
Santa  Catalina  Island,  CaHfornia. 

Harold  C.  Morton  is  a  young  Los  Angeles  lawyer  and  entered 
upon  his  professional  career  under  auspicious  circumstances  favoring 
success  seldom  excelled.  Mr.  ^Morton  is  a  native  son  and  was  born 
at  Los  Angeles  May  17,   1895. 

His  parents  are  John  and  Lillian  (Bowers)  Morton,  the  former 
a  native  of  Philadelphia  and  the  latter  of  New  York.  His  mother 
came  to  California  many  years  ago,  being  a  graduate  of  the  San  Jose 
Normal  School,  and  was  a  teacher  before  her  marriage  in  Los  Angeles 


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in  1890.  John  Morton  came  to  California  about  1885  and  is  well  known 
as  deputy  county  assessor  of  Los  Angeles  county.  There  were  two 
sons  and  two  daughters  in  the  family :  Katharine  S.,  the  oldest,  who 
died  in  1911;  Lindley  C,  of  Philadelphia;  Llarold  C.  and  Margaret  L. 
All  were  born  in  California,  the  two  older  in  San  Bernardino  county, 
and  the  two  youngest  in  Los  Angeles. 

Harold  C.  Morton  graduated  from  the  Manual  Arts  High  School 
at  Los  Angeles  in  1913.  He  then  spent  three  years  as  a  student  in 
the  University  of  Southern  California  College  of  Law,  taking  his  LL. 
B.  degree  in  1916.  He  paid  his  own  expenses  while  in  law  school, 
working  in  the  Los  Angeles  County  Law  Library.  When  he  graduated 
he  had  the  highest  average  of  scholarship  ever  attained  in  the  Cqllege 
of  Law,  his  average  for  the  three  years  being  97.2  per  cent.  He  won 
the  scholarship  medal,  and  that  was'  an  occasion  of  many  congratula- 
tions by  his  fellow  law  students  and  the  younger  attorneys  of  the  Los 
Angeles  bar.  He  was  president  of  the  student  body  and  was  a  niem- 
ber  of  five  organizations  at  the  law  school  and  two  honorary  fraterni- 
ties, the  Tau  Kappa  Alpha  national  honorary  debating  fraternity  and 
the  Sigma  Iota  Chi.  For  three  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  law 
debating  teams. 

Mr.  Morton  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1916,  and  has  since 
been  in  active  practice  except  for  the  brief  period  of  his  army  service. 
For  a. time  he  was  alone,  and  since  April  1,  1919,  has  been  associated 
with  the  law  firm  of  Fredericks  &  Hanna.  For  two  months  before  the 
signing  of  the  armistice  he  was  in  the  Aviation  School  at  Berkeley, 
California. 

Mr.  Morton  is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  the 
Masonic  Order,  is  a  member  of  the  National  Guard  of  California  and 
lieutenant  in  the  Fifteenth  Separate  Company,  and  in  politics  is  a 
republican.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Ramona  Parlor  of  the  Native  Sons 
of  the  Golden  West. 

December  23,  1916,  he  married  Miss  Dorothy  F.  Smith  of  Los 
Angeles,  daughter  of  Frank  C.  and  Mary  S.  (Stanwood)  Smith.  Her 
parents  came  to  California  from  Texas  and  reside  at  Los  Angeles. 
Her  father  is  a  native  of  Georgia,  and  her  mother  is  of  the  old  and 
prominent  Kentucky  family  of  Stanwood.  Mrs.  Morton  was  born  in 
Ohio  and  was  educated  in  Texas  and  Los  Angeles,  being  a  graduate 
of  the  Manual  Arts  High  School  in  the  class  of  1915.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Mary  Lillian,  born  in  California. 

John  S.  Myers  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1890, 
and  since  1910  by  repeated  elections  has  served  in  the  important  office 
of  city  auditor. 

He  was  born  in  Fountain  countv,  Indiana,  "On  the  Banks  of  the 
Wabash."  December  20,  1859.  a  son  of  Calvin  and  Elizabeth  (Mar- 
shall) Myers.  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of  John  Marshall  of 
Virginia.  ]\Ir.  Myers  had  his  first  conscious  recollection  of  his  father 
when  the  latter  returned  as  a  veteran  soldier  of  the  LInion  army.  His 
parents  finally  moved  to  Kansas  and  are  buried  in  a  cemetery  at  Mul- 
vane,  in  that  state. 

Mr.  Myers  acquired  his  education  in  the  Indiana  common  schools, 
the  Indiana  Normal  College  and  Business  Institute  at  Ladoga,  where 
he  completed  the  business  and  teachers'  courses  in  1881.  He  taught 
school  in  Fountain  county,  Indiana,  clerked  in  his  father's  general 
merchandise  store,  and  in   1884  moved  out  to  the  last  frontier  of  Kan- 


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sas,  in  the  southwest  quarter  of  that  state,  fifty  miles  from  Dodge  City 
and  the  nearest  railroad.  He  was  instrumental  in  organizing  Clark 
county  and  its  county  seat,  Ashland,  served  as  the  first  county  clerk, 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  newspaper  business,  and  helped  put  out 
the  first  paper  in  the  county.  He  was  also  vice-president  of  the  Clark 
County  Bank,  and  served  by  appointment  without  salary  as  city  treas- 
urer and  treasurer  of  the  School  Board. 

Coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1890,  Mr.  Myers  was  for  several  years 
connected  with  the  title  and  abstract  concerns,  chiefly  the  Title  Insur- 
ance &  Trust  Company,  until  1896.  Then  for  a  time  he  was  clerk  of 
the  Superior  Court  while  it  was  presided  over  by  Judge  Waldo  M. 
Yoik,  and  served  as  deputy  county  treasurer  until  1906.  Then  for  a 
period  he  was  again  engaged  in  commercial  and  banking  lines,  and  is 
still  a  director  of  the  Industrial  Loan  and  Investment  Company.  When 
partisan  politics  were  eliminated  from  city  elections  by  changes  in  the 
charter,  Mr.  Myers  became  nonpartisan  candidate  for  city  auditor  and 
was  elected  and  took  office  January  1,  1910.  At  every  succeeding  elec- 
tion since  then  he  has  been  chosen  as  his  own  successor  and  is  now  in 
his  tenth  consecutive  year.  He  is  a  republican  in  national  aflfairs,  but 
nonpartisan  in  city  elections. 

Mr.  Myers  has  long  been  prominent  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
serving  as  keeper  of  records  and  seals  for  fifteen  years,  for  many  years 
has  held  the  ofiice  of  secretary  of  the  Dramatic  Order  Knights  of 
Khorassan,  affiliated  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  has  been  a  state 
and  national  delegate  to  conventions  of  these  fraternities.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Maccabees,  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and 
City  Clubs,  is  treasurer  and  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
City  Club,  vice-president  of  the  National  Association  of  Comptrollers 
and  Accounting-  Officers,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  and  has  served  on  the  official  board  more  than  a 
dozen  years. 

December  10,  1884,  at  North  Salem,  Indiana,  Mr.  Myers  married 
Miss  Lou  M.  Cook,  daughter  of  Henderson  Cook.  She  was  a  teacher 
before  her  marriage  and  for  several  years  has  been  active  in  women's 
and  civic  clubs.  Several  of  her  uncles  and  two  of  her  brothers  are 
physicians.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Myers  have  two  children,  Lindley  C.  Myers 
of  San  Francisco,  and  Edith  M.,  wife  of  T.  E.  Loynahan  of  Los 
Angeles. 

Edward  Turner  Sherer.  From  the  standpoint  of  ability,  educa- 
tion, training  and  successful  experience,  Edward  T.  Sherer  stands  in  the 
front  ranks  of  the  representative  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar 
Association. 

He  was  born  in  Santa  Barbara,,  California,  February  16,  1878,  and 
physically  as  well  as  mentally  is  a  wholesome,  typical  native  son  of  the 
Golden  West.  His  parents,  Rudolph  and  Elizabeth  (Snyder)  Sherer, 
were  united  in  marriage  in  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  and  became  the 
parents  of  thirteen  children. 

Rudolph  Sherer  was  a  brother  of  Jace.b  Sherer,  whose  name  was  so 
honored  and  loved  by  all  of  Switzerland,  having  been  elected  and  served 
two  different  terms  as  president  of  the  Swiss  Republic.  Rudolph  Sherer 
was  a  man  of  large  importance,  both  socially  and  commercially.  He 
was  bom  in  Zurich,  Switzerland,  in  1840,  and  was  fortunate  in  the  ad- 
vantages of  higher  education,  claiming  as  his  alma  maters  several  schools 
of  importance,  including  the  University  of  Berlin.     He  fluently  mastered 


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several  languages.  After  completing  his  education  he  participated  in 
his  father's  interests,  the  latter  being  in  the  stock  business,  and  under 
contract  sold  to  various  governments. 

Rudolph  Sherer  came  to  the  United  States  in  1860,  and  in  the  early 
days  of  the  rebellion  enlisted  for  military  service  with  a  Michigan  divi- 
sion of  the  Federal  army.  Li  1865  he  received  his  honorable  discharge. 
Coming  to  California,  he  reached  San  Francisco  in  1868.  Following 
this  he  was  connected  with  the  Senator  Bard  interests,  this  necessitating 
a  change  of  residence  to  Santa  Barbara.  Later  he  invested  in  two  hun- 
dred acres  of  ranch  land  near  Compton,  which  he  cultivated  in  connection 
with  commercial  interests  in  the  latter  city  until  the  close  of  his  life  in 
1898.  He  was  an  active  republican  and  secretary  of  the  United  Work- 
men, a  man  whose  life  record  was  unimpeachable. 

Edward  T.  Sherer  attended  the  public  schools  of  Compton  and  in 
1896  was  class  president  of  the  senior  class  of  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School.  After  taking  the  course  of  law  at  Stanford  University  he 
located  first  in  Seattle,  Washington,  to  practice  his  profession,  later  en- 
gaging in  general  practice  in  Los  Angeles  actively  and  successfully  up 
to  the  present  time. 

Too  much  can  not  be  said  in  praise  of  this  splendid  man,  but  his 
exceptional  reputation  for  integrity  and  professional  honesty  must  not 
be  omitted,  as  well  as  his  keen  insight  into  the  intricacies  of  his  profes- 
sion. With  his  wife  he  is  a  consistent  member  of  Immanuel  Presby- 
terian Church.  He  was  married  November  6,  1902,  to  Mary  Brown 
Roberts,  of  old  Virginia  stock,  a  niece  of  John  Gaw  Knox  of  Visalia, 
who  came  to  California  sixty  years  ago,  and  is  called  the  father  of 
Tulare  county. 

Mr.  Sherer  is  a  director  of  the  Citizens  Savings  Bank  of  Compton, 
a  Scottish  and  York  Rite  Mason,  Shriner  and  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Bar  Association  and  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  a  golfer  of 
local  reputation  and  a  winner  of  many  trophies. 

Mrs.  Aletha  JM.-\xey  Gilbert,  whose  position  as  "City  Mother" 
of  Los  Angeles  makes  both  her  personality  and  work  of  extreme  in- 
terest, is  a  native  daughter  of  California  and  her  parents  were  real 
pioneers. 

She  was  born  at  El  Monte.  Her  father  was  Warren  V/ocdson 
Maxey,  and  her  mother  Lucy  Utheria  Thompson.  The  father  raised 
fine  stock  and  was  the  pioneer  to  open  up  Lytle  Creek,  where  he  took  a 
government  claim  and  developed  a  ranch  which  afterward  sold  for  a 
large  sum.  He  began  there  with  a  log  hut,  and  the  bears  frequently 
came  about  the  hut.  It  is  the  section  called  Glen  Ranch  now,  near  San 
Bernardino.     He  came  out  to  California  in  1851. 

Mrs.  Gilbert's  mother  was  nine  years  old  when  she  first  came  to 
El  Monte.  She  came  to  California  from  Iowa  by  ox  team.  The  party 
was  snowed  m  in  the  mountains,  went  without  food  except  for  crow 
meat  and  what  game  could  be  secured,  and  for  another  period  they 
were  without  water.  Danger  and  hardship  also  came  to  them  from  the 
Indians.  They  stopped  at  Tucson,  where  a  band  of  Indians  surrounded 
them  and  were  going  to  take  away  their  food  and  blankets.  Lucy 
Tl-iompson,  just  as  the  redmen  were  drawing  their  bows  and  arrows, 
jumped  up  and  took  a  piece  of  fire  to  light  the  pipes  of  the  Indians,  who 
praised  her  for  her  bravery,  and  that  act  warded  off  death  from  the 
party.  When  Lucy  Thompson  was  sixteen  years  old  she  eloped  with 
Mr.  Maxey.  She  became  the  mother  of  seven  children.  When  Mr. 
Maxey  died  she  took  up  a  squatter's  claim  at  Azusa  and  reared  her 


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family  alone.  When  her  children  were  old  enough  to  be  self-supporting 
she  married  Thomas  Gray.  When  she  married  him,  Mr.  Gray  owned 
three  hundred  twenty  acres  in  a  fine  portion  of  Los  Angeles,  on  the  site 
of  the  present  location  of  Harvard  School.  Two  children  were  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gray. 

Mrs.  Gilbert  attended  school  at  Azusa  and  Los  Angeles.  In  1886 
she  became  the  wife  of  T.  M.  Gilbert,  who  was  a  stationary  engineer 
and  ran  the  first  electric  railway  in  Los  Angeles. 

Her  life  in  the  country  developed  in  her  tastes  for  all  out  of  door 
sports,  swimming,  diving,  horsemanship  and  other  athletics.  When  a 
young  girl  she  frequently  would  board  the  horse  cars  and  the  drivers 
would  allow  her  to  drive  back  and  forth.  Her  brothers  kept  a  wood 
and  feed  yard  at  Second  and  Spring  streets,  selling  grain,  wood  and 
coal  and  taking  care  of  the  teams  that  came  to  tovi'n.  Mrs.  Gilbert  has 
a  daughter,  Mrs.  G.  E.  Staininger  of  Berkeley.  She  also  has  two  grand- 
children. 

As  "City  Mother"  Mrs.  Gilbert  is  a  part  of  the  police  system  of 
Los  Angeles.  She  is  the  first  woman  to  hold  this  office  in  the  city,  and 
has  been  engaged  in  police  work  for  twenty-eight  years.  Her  mother 
was  the  first  police  matron  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mrs.  Gilbert  had  her 
primary  exfierience  as  assistant  to  her  mother.  Her  mother  was  in  that 
work  for  sixteen  years  before  her  death,  and  Mrs.  Gilbert  was  appointed 
head  matron  of  the  jail  as  her  successor,  a  position  she  held  for  ten 
years.  .She  also  did  all  the  work  in  assisting  at  the  Receiving  Hospital, 
assisted  in  surgery,  and  for  ten  years  there  were  only  two  women  to 
share  in  all  this  responsibility.  For  four  years  after  that  she  was  on 
outside  work  with  the  Juvenile  Protective  Association.  In  1914  she 
was  appointed  City  Mother  and  was  given  an  advisory  board  of  ten 
women  of  the  clubs  and  prominent  citizens. 

In  her  office  are  concentrated  the  care  of  children  who  have  no 
parents,  or  whose  parents  do  not  perform  their  duty;  adjustment  of 
many  "domestic  relations"  cases,  and  by  the  elimination  of  court  pro- 
cedure frecjuently  saves  the  city  and  county  many  hundreds  of  dollars. 
Mrs.  Gilbert  has  raised  eight  thousand  dollars  by  entertainments  and 
from  other  sources  for  an  emergency  fund,  and  many  hundreds  of  dol- 
lars have  been  given  to  finance  new  societies  for  public  welfare,  includ- 
ing contributions  to  Dr.  Maude  Wilde  for  the  Baby  Home.  Her  organi- 
zation still  has  a  cash  Liberty  Bond  of  a  thousand  dollars  and  a  balance 
of  two  thousand  dollars  on  hand.  They  established  a  day  nursery,  pro- 
viding two  nurses,  and  care  for  forty-five  babies  daily  without  charge 
for  working  mothers.  Mrs.  Gilbert  also  raised  the  money  to  send  the 
Police  Band  on  California  Day  to  San  Francisco.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  City  Club  and  of  the  ^Million  Club. 

Through  her  efforts  the  city  ordinance  has  provided  for  a  general 
clean-up  of  sore  spots,  like  penant  stands,  where  men  would  shake  dice 
with  women,  has  prohibited  girls  from  shooting  galleries  -and  all  such 
places  of  amusement,  and  prosecutes  men  who  laid  girls  liable  in  those 
places.  A  similar  ordinance  has  prohibited  the  newspapers  from  adver- 
tising girls  who  had  made  mistakes,  and  she  also  secured  an  ordinance 
insisting  on  lights  being  placed  on  tonneaus  of  all  jitney  busses  to  insure 
protection  to  young  girls. 

William  A.  Spill.  Since  1911  Mr.  Spill  has  been  a  resident  and 
an  active  member  of  the  Pasadena  bar.  He  earned  prominence  as  a 
lawyer,  newspaper  man  and  public  official  in  Ohio,  his  native  state.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  was  editor  of  various  Ohio  newspaper,  and  has 


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been  a  more  or  less  regular  contributor  to  journalism.  He  practiced 
law  at  Warren,  Ohio,  until  1905,  when  he  removed  to  Cleveland  and 
served  as  judge  of  the  Municipal  Court  of  Cleveland  during  1908-09. 

He  was  born  at  Mineral  Ridge,  Trumbull  county,  Ohio,  November 
21,  1876.  Mineral  Ridge  is  a  little  community  not  far  distant  from 
Niles,  and  along  the  same  thoroughfare  four  miles  from  the  house 
where  Mr.  Spill  was  born  stood  the  birthplace  of  William  McKinley  in 
Niles.  Judge  Spill  is  a  son  of  George  and  Martha  Jane  (Williams) 
Spill.  His  parents  were  both  natives  of  Wales,  and  the  maternal  grand- 
father. Rev.  Ambrose  Williams,  was  a  Welsh  Baptist  minister.  Judge 
Spill  was  named  for  his  two  grandfathers.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
William  Spill,  was  born  at  Thornbur}',  England,  about  seven  miles  from 
Bristol,  where  his  father,  William  Sr.,'  was  a  master  shoemaker,  a  free- 
holder and  a  man  of  exceptional  education.  Grandfather  Spill  spent 
his  life  as  a  farmer  and  coal  miner  and  came  to  the  United  States  about 
1853,  when  Franklin  Pierce  was  president.  George  Spill  worked  with 
his  father  as -a  coal  miner,  and  in  Eastern  Ohio  they  were  associated  in 
the  ownership  and  operation  of  coal  mines.  In  1868  they  opened  a 
general  store  at  Mineral  Ridge,  Ohio.  This  was  continued  until  1880 
under  the  name  William  Spill  &  Son.  In  the  meantime  the  wife  of 
George  Spill  had  died,  and  his  own  health  being  poor,  he  retired  from 
business  and  his  death  occurred  in  March,  1883,  when  about  forty  years 
of  age.  His  wife  had  died  in  January,  1879,  aged  about  twenty-three. 
The  old  Spill  store  occupied  a  portion  of  a  log  cabin.  It  was  a  very 
popular  general  mercantile  establishment.  The  partners  usually  laid  in 
a  supply  of  a  hundred  chests  of  tea  at  a  time  and  also  great  quantities 
of  cheese  and  cider  and  other  favorite  commodities.  William  A.  Spill 
is  one  of  two  children.  His  sister,  Martha  J.  McCorkle,  died  in  Ohio 
in  1915. 

Mr.  Spill  was  reared  by  his  grandfather.  Grandfather  William 
Spill  eventually  married  the  maternal  grandmother  of  Judge  Spill.  The 
latter  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  at  Warren,  Ohio,  graduating 
from  high  school  with  the  class  of  1894.  During  his  junior  year  in  high 
school  he  was  assigned  the  duty  of  teaching  geometry  to  the  sophomore 
class.  He  then  entered  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor, 
graduating  in  1896.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Michigan  bar  in  that  year, 
and  to  the  Ohio  bar  in  1897.  During  the  next  seven  years  he  practiced 
at  Warren,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Federal  courts  in  1899.  He  then 
moved  to  Cleveland,  and  had  a  successful  general  law  practice  there  for 
live  years.  This  practice  was  interrupted  when  the  late  Mayor  Tom 
Johnson  appointed  him  judge  of  the  City  Court  of  Cleveland.  On  ac- 
count of  failing  health.  Judge  Spill  left  Cleveland,  spent  the  summer  of 
1911  in  the  Canadian  Northwest,  and  after  returning  to  Cleveland  for  a 
brief  time  came  out  to  Southern  California  and  located  at  Pasadena  in 
October.  He  was  associated  with  the  late  Judge  Charles  J.  Willett  until 
the  end  of  1913,  but  has  since  been  alone  in  practice. 

Just  before  the  signing  of  the  armistice  Mr.  Spill  was  slated  for 
appointment  as  judge  advocate  with  the  rank  of  major,  to  be  assigned 
to  a  new  division  being  formed  at  Camp  Sherman.  In  politics  he  is  an 
independent.  Lie  is  commissioner  for  the  states  of  Massachusetts,  New 
York,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Michigan  and  Illinois.  He  has  long  been 
prominent  in  Masonry,  though  he  has  not  transferred  his  Masonic 
affiliations  from  Ohio  to  California.  In  1905-06  he  was^ grand  master 
of  the  Grand  Council  of  Ohio,  the  largest  Grand  Council  in  the  world. 
He  is  a  member  of  all  branches  of  the  order,  including  the  Eastern  Star 


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and  Shrine,  and  has  been  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  since  1899.  He 
is  a  life  member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  Shrine  and  was  master  of  his 
lodge  at  Warren,  Ohio,  when  it  celebrated  its  centennial.  For  Wenty- 
two  years  he  has  been  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  and  is  a  member  of  Mahoning  Lodge  No.  29  at  Warren,  a  lodge 
more  than  three-quarters  of  a  century  old.  ''He  is  a  member  of  Pasadena 
Lodge  No.  672  of  the  Elks,  and  Lodge  No.  38  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  in  Pasadena,  also  Pasadena  Aerie  No.  517  of  the  Eagles,  and  he 
and  all  his  family  are  members  of  All  Saints  Episcopal  Church  at 
Pasadena. 

While  at  the  University  of  Michigan  Judge  Spill  was  editor  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  Daily,  and  at  one  time  was  editor  of  the  Warren 
Daily  Chronicle  and  the  Warren  Daily  Tribune  in  his  home  town  in 
Ohio.  Some  of  his  writings  have  been  published  in  the  Ladies'  Home 
Companion  and  the  Motor,  and  he  has  written  other  articles  on  govern- 
ment regulation  of  railroad  rates. 

October  1,  1901,  he  married  Miss  Minnie  A.  Biggers  at  Warren, 
Ohio,  where  she  was  born  and  reared.  She  finished  her  education  in 
Dana's  Musical  Institute  and  the  New  York  State  Normal  College  at 
Albany.  Mrs.  Spill  is  a  member  of  the  Shakespeare  Club  of  Pasadena, 
is  chairman  of  its  Club  House  Committee,  and  well  known  in  social 
circles.  The  family  resides  at  1091  North  Los  Robles  avenue.  Their 
one  daughter,  Geraldine  B.,  born  in  Warren,  Ohio,  is  now  a  senior  in 
the  Pasadena  High  School. 

EsTANiSL.\o  V.  Chavez,  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  has  spent 
all  his  life  in  the  Southwest,  and  before  coming  to  California  was  prom- 
inent in  the  law,  public  affairs  and  the  democratic  party  in  New  Mexico. 
He  is  descended  from  a  very  prominent  family  of  New  Mexico,  and 
those  especially  prominent  were :  Francisco  Javier  Chavez,  governor  of 
the  province  of  New  Mexico  in  the  years  1822-23,  and  the  first  governor 
under  the  Mexican  government ;  Antonio  Jose  Chavez,  who  was  gov- 
ernor in  1828-31 ;  Mariano  Chavez,  who  was  acting  governor  in  1835, 
and  Jose  Chavez,  who  was  acting  governor  in  1845. 

Estanislao  V.  Chavez  was  born  in  Socorro  county.  New  Mexico, 
June  15,  1862,  a  son  of  Jesus  Maria  and  Luz  Torres  Chavez.  He  at- 
tended public  schools,  St.  Michael's  College,  conducted  by  the  Christian 
Brothers  in  Santa  Fe,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  became  chief  deputy 
under  his  father,  who  was  county  clerk,  clerk  of  the  Probate  Court, 
county  commissioner  and  ex-officio  county  assessor.  At  tlie  age  of 
twenty-four  Mr.  Chavez  was  elected  county  clerk  to  succeed  his  father. 
In  1892  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature  of  New 
Mexico,  serving  two  years.  He  was  also  territorial  delegate  from  New 
Mexico  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at  Chicago  when  Cleve- 
land was  nominated.  Mr.  Chavez  read  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Ira  E. 
Leonard  at  Socorro,  and  in  1902  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  practiced 
one  year  at  Socorro  and  then  at  Albuquerque,  where  he  was  attorney  for 
the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  until  1907.  In  that  year  he  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  still  one  of  the  attorneys  of  the  Santa  Fe  System.  In  1912  he 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

Mr.  Chavez  again  represented  New  Mexico  as  territorial  delegate 
to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at  St.  Louis  in  1904.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  City  Club,  Knights  of  Columbus  and  a  Catholic.  At  So- 
corro, New  Mexico,  in  October,   1883.  he  married  Fanny  V.   Martin. 


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Mrs.  Chavez  passed  away  in  January,  1897.  They  had  three  interesting 
and  talented  children:  Stanislao  R.,  who  was  recently  discharged  from 
the  army ;  Cosette's  special  talents  are  as  a  scenic  painter ;  Felipe  C.  is 
now  serving  as  official  clerk  of  the  Judge  Advocate's  Court  of  the  United 
States  Forces  at  Vladivostok,  Russia.  Mr.  Chavez  was  again  married, 
in  September,  1897,  to  Miss  Ellen  M.Olsen  of  Wisconsin.  The  one 
daughter  of  this  union  is  Henrietta  Couchita,  who  is  a  student  of  vocal 
music  under  the  widely  known  Professor  DeLara. 

George  C.  Peckham,  realty  and  investments,  with  offices  in  the 
Hibernian  Building,  has  been  a  factor  in  the  business  life  of  Los  Angeles 
for  the  past  fifteen  years.  He  came  here  from  North  Dakota,  where 
he  laid  the  basis  of  a  successful  business  as  a  merchant  and  became, 
prominent  in  real  estate  operations  in  and  around  Fargo. 

Mr.  Peckham  is  of  New  England  ancestry  and  his  early  associations 
were  with  Old  Lyme,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  born  February  9,  1871, 
a  son  of  George  Henry  and  Fannie  M.  (West)  Peckham.  Though  he 
spent  his  early  life  on  a  farm,  he  early  came  in  touch  with  commercial 
life  and  college  ideals.  He  was  graduated  from  Buckley  College  at 
New  London  with  the  A.  B.  degree.  While  in  college  he  worked  as  an 
apprentice  in  a  general  store.  Going  West  to  Fargo,  North  Dakota,  he 
engaged  in  general  merchandising  and  the  machinery  business  and' 
prosecuted  his  affairs  on  a  broad  scale.  He  also  invested  in  land  and 
was  a  leader  in  the  real  estate  development  of  Fargo. 

Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  Mr.  Peckham  has  devDted 
his  time  to  manufacturing,  investments  and  real  estate.  A  specialty  of 
his  real  estate  business  has  been  making  subdivisions.  He  is  president 
of  the  George  C.  Peckham  Company  and  of  the  National  Car  Seal  Com- 
pany. 

Mr.  Peckham  is  also  well  known  in  social  circles,  being  a  member 
of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  the  Los  Angeles  Elks, 
the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the 
Chamber  of  Mines.  He  married  Elizabeth  Young  in  1892,  and  by  that 
marriage  has  two  sons. 

Ira  Francis  Thompson,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  California 
School  of  Law,  has  achieved  success  in  the  legal  profession  and  has  been 
in  active  practice  at  Los  Angeles  for  th»  past  ten  years.  He  is  the  second 
member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Manning,  Thompson  &  Hoover,  in 
the  Merchants  Trust  Building. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  born  in  Shaw  Valley,  Wisconsin,  June  20,  1885, 
a  son  of  Josiah  and  Elisabeth  (Alderman)  Thompson.  His  father,  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  was  a  manufacturer  of  woodenware  at  Shaw 
Valley,  Wisconsin,  where  he  located  about  1880.  The  Thompson  family 
came  from  Scotland  in  1675,  lived  in  New  Jersey  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  went  to  Pennsylvania  in  1704.  At  one  time  members  of  this  family 
owned  the  site  of  Uniontown,  Penns)dvania,  and  many  of  the  descendants 
are  still  in  that  locality.  Josiah  Thompson's  older  brother  was  on  one 
of  Commodore  Perry's  battleships  in  the  battle  of  Lake  Erie.  Josiah 
Thompson  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight,  and  his  wife  at  forty-eight.  Ira 
Francis  was  only  six  months  old  when  his  father  died,  and  eighteen 
months  old  at  the  death  of  his  mother. 

He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  country  schools  of  Crawford 
and  Grant  counties,  Wisconsin,  and  in  early  boyhood  came  to  California 
and  continued  his  education  in  Eureka,  graduating  from  the  high  school 
there  in  1904.     He  spent  four  years  in  the  University  of  California  at 


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Berkeley,  and  took  the  six  years'  law  course  in  that  time,  graduating  B. 
L.  in  1909.  He  was  admitted  to  the  CaHfornia  bar  July  2d  of  that  year, 
and  did  his  first  work  in  the  profession  at  Oakland,  but  since  March  1, 
1910,  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles.  He  became  associated  with 
John  F.  Manning  under  the  name  Manning  &  Thompson,  and  since 
July,  1912,  Mr.  H.  D.  Hoover  has  been  a  partner.  The  firm  of  Manning, 
Thompson  &  Hoover  handles  an  immense  general  practice,  devoted  ex- 
clusively to  the  civil  side  of  the  law,  without  participation  in  criminal 
cases.  The  junior  partner,  H.  D.  Hoover,  and  Mr.  Thompson  were 
classmates  and  special  friends  in  the  university  and  graduated  the  same 
year.  Mr.  Hoover  has  made  a  splendid  record  in  the  National  Army. 
He  was  commissioned  a  first  lieutenant  at  Camp  Lewis,  was  transferred 
to  the  Judge  Advocate's  Department,  and  has  been  in  France  since  May, 
1918.  He  went  overseas  with  the  rank  of  captain,  and  two  v/eeks  after 
reaching  France  was  made  a  judge  advocate  and  now  holds  the  rank  of 
major  in  the  Ninety-first  Division.  He  participated  in  three  offensives 
during  the  summer  and  early  fall  of  1918. 

Mr.  Thompson  is  a  republican  in  politics  and  was  quite  active  in 
the  party  while  living  at  Oakland.  He  is  affiliated  with  Elysian  Lodge 
No.  418,  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Los  Angeles,  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association  and  California  State  Bar 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  Delta  Chi  fraternity. 

June  1,  1910,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  C.  Hilda  Manning, 
daughter  of  John  F.  Manning,  senior  ]5artner  of  Manning,  Thompson  & 
Hoover.  Mrs.  Thompson  was  born  in  San  Diego,  was  educated  in  the 
Los  Angeles  High  School  and  the  University  of  California,  and  was 
member  of  the  Alpha  Omicron  Pi  sororjty  at  the  university.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  California  Women's  Federation,  active  in  the  Parents- 
Teachers  Association  and  belongs  to  the  Fifth  Church  of  Christ,  Sci- 
entist, of  Los  Angeles.  INIr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson  have  one  daughter.  Cora 
Elisabeth,  and  a  son,  John  Francis,  both  born  in  Los  Angeles. 

G.  Edwin  Williams,  portrait  photographer,  has  been  following  his 
profession  at  Los  Angeles  for  the  past  ten  years,  coming  here  from 
New  York,  and  has  contributed  an  important  reputation  to  the  creative 
artistic  activities  of  Southern  California. 

He  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  educated  there,  and  on  leaving 
school  tried  various  commercial  pursuits,  but  his  artistic  temperament 
led  him  into  taking  up  photography,  and  his  success  in  this  line  shows 
he  made  no  mistake.  Then  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  employed 
with  leading  photographers  over  the  country,  and  while  in  that  work  he 
originated  the  practice  of  "Home  Photography,"  getting  away  from 
the  stiff'  and  formal  work  which  so  long  characterized  the  ordinary 
photographic  studio  and  making  portraits  in  the  natural  home  environ- 
ment. It  is  his  work  along  that  line  that  is  the  basis  of  Mr.  Williams' 
enduring  fame  as  an  artist.  He  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1910,  and  intro- 
duced home  photography  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  has  made  photo- 
graphs of  America's  leading  people  at  the  various  winter  hotels,  and  his 
clientage  grew  until  in  1913  he  was  compelled  to  open  a  studio  at  1832 
West  Seventh  street.  His  reputation  is  national  if  not  international. 
He  is  often  called  East  to  make  portraits  of  prominent  people  in  their 
homes,  and  his  collection  of  originals  comprises  hundreds  of  notables 
known  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

Mr.  Williams  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Rotary 
Club,  and  is  affiliated  with  Wilshire  Lodge  of  Masons,  the  Los  Angeles 
Consistory  and  the  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 


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Jesse  Yarnell  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1866.  He  was  one  of  the 
earliest  newspaper  editors  and  publishers  in  California.  He  helped  found 
at  least  two  of  the  newspapers  which  now  stand  out  as  among  the 
greatest  institutions  of  the  "fourth  estate"  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  was 
a  man  of  varied  capabilities  and  varied  services.  He  was  an  important 
personage  in  Los  Angeles  when  it  was  just  beginnmg  its  modern  de- 
velopment. His  influence  was  not  dwarfed  as  the  city  grew  and  ex- 
panded, and  even  in  later  years  he  was  counted  upon  as  one  of  the  men 
whose  support  was  essential  to  many  forward  movements,  and  whose  in- 
fluence was  indispensable  in  the  better  life  of  the  community. 

Jesse  Yarnell  died  at  his  home,  at  134  South  Bonnie  Brae  street, 
January  19,  1906,  being  then  sixty-nine  years  of  age.  He  was  bom  June 
20,  1837,  at  Gratiot,  in  Licking  county,  near  the  Muskingum  county  line, 
in  the  state  of  Ohio.  As  a  boy  he  learned  the  printer's  trade  at  Zanes- 
ville,  Ohio.  He  worked  there  in  the  newspaper  business  about  three 
years,  and  in  1862  came  to  California,  settling  at  Placerville,  the  old 
mining  center  originally  called  Hangtown.  He  bought  a  controlling  in- 
terest in  the  Placerville  Daily  News,  the  first  paper  of  Placerville,  and 
was  identified  with  its  management  until  1866. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  the  latter  year  Mr.  Yarnell  started 
the  weekly  Republican.  A  year  later  he  sold  the  material  of  this  plant, 
and  eventually  it  was  used  for  the  publication  of  the  Evening  Express, 
a  newspaper  launched  by  Mr.  Yarnell  and  his  brother  George,  together 
with  Mr.  George  Tiffany,  John  Painter  and  Miguel  Varilla. 

Later  Mr.  Yarnell,  associated  with  T.  J.  Caystile  and  W.  W.  Brown, 
started  the  Weekly  Mirror.  Subsequently  Nathan  Cole  came  to  Los 
Angeles  and  established  the  Daily  Times,  which  he  sold  to  the  Mirror 
Company.  The  Mirror  was  iinally  purchased  by  Col.  H.  G.  Otis  and 
associates  and  incorporated  in  the  Times-Mirror  Company.  Thar  brings 
the  institution  within  the  record  of  the  history  of  the  present  Los  An- 
geles Times,  one  of  the  greatest  daily  papers  in  the  country.  Under  the 
direction  of  Mr.  Yarnell,  the  Weekly  Mirror  had  an  influential  and 
prosperous  career  and  was  well  fitted  to  be  one  of  the  corner  stones  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Daily  Times  of  the  present. 

The  late  Mr.  Yarnell  was  a  lifelong  advocate  and  stanch  supporter 
of  prohibition.  Throughout  his  newspaper  career  he  never  neglected  an 
opportunity  to  make  his  journals  express  his  views  on  that  subject. 
After  selling  the  Mirror  he  associated  himself  with  Commodore  Rufus 
R.  Haines  and  Julius  Martin  in  establishing  the  Western  Wave,  which 
was  conducted  as  an  out-and-out  prohibition  paper.  After  a  year  they 
sold  the  Wave,  and  it  was  finally  merged  into  what  was  the  California 
Voice,  the  representative  prohibition  paper  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mr.  Yarnell  was  also  identified  with  the  organization  of  the  old 
firm  of  Kingsley  &  Barnes,  later  Kingsley,  Barnes  &  Nenner  Company, 
and  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  the  first  president  of  the  first  cable 
street  railroad  into  Los  Angeles,  the  old  Second  street  line,  which  started 
at  Second  street  on  Spring  and  terminated  on  Belmont  avenue.  This  old 
cable  line  played  an  important  part  in  the  development  of  the  hill  section 
of  Los  Angeles. 

His  part  in  these  varied  enterprises  indicates  the  characteristic  most 
prominently  associated  with  Mr.  Yarnell  in  the  minds  of  his  associates, 
his  broad-minded  judgment  and  public  spirit.  By  a  degree  of  justice  his 
name  belongs  among  the  builders  of  modern  Los  Angeles.  He  assisted 
in  laying  out  several  additions  to  subdivisions  in  and  around  Los  An- 
geles.    He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  old  Indiana  colony,  the 


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foundation  of  the  beautiful  city  of  Pasadena.  He  also  helped  re-estnblish 
the  Troy  Laundry  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  which  became  one  of  the 
best  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  He  was 
secretary  of  the  company  for  eight  years.  He  was  also  president  of  the 
Portland  Land  &  Water  Company  and  of  the  Richfield  Land  &  Water 
Company,  and  in  later  years  became  interested  in  the  oil  development  in 
his  section  of  the  state. 

As  a  worker  of  the  prohibition  party  he  was  several  times  nom- 
inated for  office  on  that  ticket  and  was  three  times  elected  to  represent 
California  on  the  National  Party  Committee  and  also  on  the  State  Com- 
mittee, and  chairman  of  the  county  organization.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Pioneers'  Association  and  held  one  of  the  highest  offices 
in  the  state  organization  of  the  Good  Templars.  For  over  twenty-five 
years  he  was  an  active  member  of  Merrill  Lodge,  L  O.  G.  T. 

The  late  Mr.  Yarnell  was  heir  to  a  splendid  inheritance  of  char- 
acter from  his  ancestors.  His  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Oliver 
Cromwell,  a  near  relative  of  ex-President  Zachary  Taylor  and  Bayard 
Taylor. 

At  Placerville,  January  18,  1865,  Mr.  Yarnell  married  Miss  Susan 
Caystil ',  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Esther  (Lea)  Caystile.  She  came  to 
California  with  her  parents  around  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  in  1855, 
when  only  nine  years  of  age.  After  they  came  to  Los  Angeles  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Yarnell  lived  on  a  five-acre  tract  at  the  present  site  of  Figueroa 
and  Pico  streets,  and  for  many  years  their  home  was  the  present  family 
residence  at  First  and  Bonnie  Brae  streets.  The  three  daughters  of 
the  family  still  occupy  that  family  residence.  The  old  church  at  Placer- 
ville where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yarnell  were  married  is  still  standing.  Mrs. 
Yarnell,  who  died  in  October,  1919,  was  not  only  a  Los  Angeles  pioneer, 
but  distinguished  for  many  rare  qualities  of  beauty  and  generosity.  She 
moved  in  the  best  social  circles,  but  much  of  her  time  was  given  to 
charity  and  she  befriended  and  worked  for  children  in  particular.  Her 
father  was  born  on  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  her  mother  in  Liverpool,  Eng- 
land. Thomas  Caystile  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  at  Placerville.  The 
original  family  stock  of  the  Caystiles  goes  back  to  ancient  Spain.  The 
Yarnells  were  of  English  descent,  and  one  of  the  name  was  a  surveyor 
with  George  Washington. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yarnell  had  five  children,  the  youngest,  Ramona, 
dying  at  the  age  of  eighteen.  The  only  son  is  Ellis  T.  Yarnell.  The 
three  dauffh!-er.=  are  Esther,  Katherine  and  Mrs.  Jesse  Y.  Kimball.  They 
are  all  native  Californians,  Mrs.  Kimball  being  a  native  of  Placerville, 
while  the  others  were  born  at  Los  Angeles. 

Charles  E.  Toberman  is  president  and  active  head  of  the  C.  E. 
Toberman  Company,  Real  Estate.  A  young  man,  he  has  had  a  long 
and  varied  and  successful  business  exp:rience,  is  possessed  of  a  tre- 
mendous fund  of  energy  and  business  drive,  and  through  his  organiza- 
tion has  directed  many  of  the  improvements  which  are  keeping  Holly- 
wood abreast  of  modern  progress. 

Mr.  Toberman  was  born  at  Seymour,  in  Baylor  county,  Texas, 
February  21,  1880,  a  son  of  Philip  and  Lucy  Ann  (Blackburn)  Tober- 
man. He  attended  grammar  and  high  school  until  he  was  fourteen 
years  old.  He  spent  three  years  in  the  Agricultural  and  Mechanical 
College  of  Texas  and  for  one  year  was  a  student  in  the  Metropolitan 
Business  College  at  Up  lias.  Mr.  Toberman  entered  business  through 
the  avenue  of  stenography.     For  a  short  time  he  was  employed  as  a 


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stenographer  by  the  Sanger  Bros,  dry  goods  house  of  Dallas,  was  public 
stenographer  at  Wichita  Falls,  Texas,  two  years,  moved  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1902  and  was  stenographer  with  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company  in 
the  Freight  Department  seven  months ;  was  bookkeeper  for  six  months 
with  the  Bond  Baking  Company,  wholesale  bakers  and  candy  makers ; 
returned  to  Wichita  Falls  and  established  a  hardware  store,  but  after  a 
year  sold  out  and  came  again  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  was  bookkeeper 
in  the  storage  plant  of  the  Los  Angeles  Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Company. 
He  was  then  persuaded  to  return  to  the  Bond  Baking  Company  as  secre- 
tary, and  after  resigning  that  position  was  cashier  for  Edward  D.  Silent, 
Real  Estate,  until  1907.  He  was  then  city  treasurer  of  the  city  of  Holly- 
wood until  Hollywood  was  annexed  to  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  Since 
1907  he  has  been  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Hollywood,  and  in  1912 
incorporated  the  C.  E.  Toberman  Company,  of  which  he  is  president. 

During  the  past  ten  years  Mr.  Toberman  has  handled  more  than 
seventy  per  cent  of  the  subdivision  real  estate  work  in  Hollywood.  In 
1913  his  organization  erected  a  handsome  four-story  and  basement  office 
building  at  the  corner  of  Hollywood  boulevard  and  Highland  avenue, 
and  in  the  rear  put  up  a  four-story  fireproof  building  facing  Highland 
avenue,  used  by  the  Hollywood  Fireproof  Storage  Company,  of  which 
he  is  secretary  and  director.  He  owns  a  number  of  jjusiness  blocks 
along  Hollywood  boulevard  and  is  president  of  the  Hollywood  Studios, 
Inc.,  recently  established  at  Hollywood. 

Mr.  Toberman  is  a  past  master  of  Hollywood  Lodge  No.  355,  A. 
F.  &  A.  M.,  he  is  a  member  of  Hollywood  Chapter  No.  120,  R.  A.  M., 
Golden  West  Commandery  No.  43,  K.  T.,  is  a  member  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  in 
politics  is  independent. 

At  Wichita  Falls,  Texas,  April  25,  1902,  he  married  Josephine  W. 
Bullock.  They  have  three  children,  all  in  public  school,  Jeannette,  the 
oldest,  being  a  high  school  girl,  and  the  younger  two  are  Homer  and 
Catherine.  ► 

\ 

Clifford  A.  Rohe  is  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer.  He  studied  law  and 
had  his  first  experience  in  the  profession  in  Chicago,  and  since  coming 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1912  has  been  a  member  of  several  partnerships  of 
the  highest  standing  and  with  a  prominent  record  in  the  civil  courts. 

Mr.  Rohe  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  February  12,  1888,  a  son 
of  Anthony  J.  and  Anna  (Cooper)  Rohe.  He  attended  the  Cathedral 
Parochial  School  and  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati,  and  while  a  clerk 
in  the  law  offices  of  William  F.,  Arthur  B.  and  Fyffe  Chambers  carried 
on  a  night  course  in  a  city  high  school.  While  in  Chicago  Mr.  Rohe 
was  a  student  in  Loyola  University,  where  he  graduated  from  the  Law 
Department  with  the  degree  LL.  B.  in  1910.  From  college  he  entered 
the  law  office  of  Cummins,  Stearns  &  Milkewitch,  and  was  with  that 
Chicago  firm  until  1912. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  was  admitted  to  the  California  bar 
and  then  formed  a  partnership  with  Alfred  Barstow  under  the  name 
Barstow  6c  Rohe  in  July,  1912.  Soon  afterward  Wesley  Beach  entere'd 
the  firm,  which  became  Barstow,  Beach  &  Rohe,  and  so  continued  until 
the  death  of  Mr.  Beach,  April  30,  1916.  Mr.  Beach  was  succeeded  by 
Frank  A.  Jefters  in  the  firm,  the  title  being  Barstow,  Rohe  &  Jefifers. 
In  September,  1918,  Mr.  Barstow  withdrew  and  Joseph  F.  Devin  be- 
came associated  as  Rohe,  Jefifers  and  Devin.  This  firm  handles  a  large 
genera!  practice,  but  does  no  criminal  work.     Mr.  Rohe  is  a  member  of 


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the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association,  California  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion, American  Bar  Association,  and  was  president  of  the  Lincoln  Law 
Club  of  Chicago.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Phi  Alpha  Delta  fra- 
ternity, Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  City  Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club, 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  One  Hundred  Per  Cent  Club,  is  a  fourth  decree 
Knight  of  Columbus  and  a  member  of  the  Dantian  Society.  While  at 
Loyola  he  was  captain  of  a  baseball  team  and  also  played  semi-pro- 
fessional baseball  in  Chicago.  He  has  continued  his  athletic  record  in 
Los  Angeles  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club.  He 
has  won  several  cups  for  swimming  and  handball.  Mr.  Rohe  is  a  re- 
publican in  political  affiliation  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church. 

At  Chicago,  November  24,  1910,  he  married  Loretta  M.  Kelly. 
Their  four  children  are  Virginia  Bernice,  Robert  Anthony,  Barbara 
Marie  and  Carolyn  Loretta.  Virginia  and  Robert  are  students  in  the 
public  schools. 

Harry  George  Johansing  is  a  member  of  Cass  &  Johansing,  in- 
surance brokers.  A  firm  established  only  a  few  years  ago,  it  has  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  insurance  men  by  the  rapidity  and  volume  of  its 
increasing  business.  As  brokers'  liability  insurance,  this  firm  stands  in 
the  very  front  rank  in  California. 

Mr.  Johansing  has  been  in  the  insurance  business  ever  since  he 
left  school.  He  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  October  15,  1883,  a  son 
of  William  and  Anna  (Lighter)  Johansing.  His  parents  were  born  in 
Europe.  The  father  was  a  contractor  and  a  resident  of  Cincinnati  for 
twenty-five  years,  dying  in  that  city  in  1908.  Since  1914  the  widowed 
mother  has  lived  at  Los  Angeles.     She  was  the  mother  of  seven  sons. 

Mr.  Johansing  attended  the  parochial  schools  at  Cincinnati,  and 
after  a  course  in  Bartlett's  Business  College  went  to  work  for  the  IBoard 
of  Fire  Underwriters  at  Cincinnati,  remaining  in  that  service  for  a 
year  and  a  half  and  acquiring  much  knowledge  that  has  been  utilized  by 
him  in  later  years.  He  was  then  connected  with  an  insurance  agency 
for  about  four  years,  follovv-ing  which  he  was  chief  local  clerk  for  the 
Royal  Insurance  Company  of  Cincinnati.  He  entered  business  for  him- 
self under  the  firm  name  of  Earls  &  Johansing  at  Cincinnati,  handling 
general  insurance.  Five  years  later  the  partnership  wa.=  terminated 
and  Mr.  Johansing  took  a  year's  leave  of  absence,  coming  to  Los  An- 
geles in  1913.  He  has  since  made  Los  Angeles  his  permanent  home, 
and  for  a  time  was  connected  with  C.  B.  Sloan  &  Company,  insurance 
brokers. 

He  then  formed  his  present  partnership  with  Louis  Cass  under  the 
firm  name  of  Cass  &  Johansing,  general  insurance  brokers.  No  other 
firm  in  California,  considering  its  years,  has  been  so  successful  in  the 
writing  of  insurance.  The  firm  are  general  agents  for  the  Standard 
Accident  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  are  the  insurance  brokers  for  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California  and  enjoying  a  very  exclusive 
clientele. 

Mr.  Johansing  is  a  member  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California,  is  affiliated  with  Long-  Beach  Council  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,  being  a  grand  knight  for  a  second  term,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Insurance  Brokers'  Exchange.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles   Chamber  of  Commerce. 

At  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  September  15,  1908,  in  St.  Mary's  Church  of 
Hyde  Park,  a  suburb  of  that  city,  Mr.  Johansing  married  Miss  Millie 
F.  Farfsing.     She  was  born  and  educated  in  Cincinnati.     They  have  six 


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children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  Margaret,  Eleanor,  Harry, 
Walter,  Mary  Clare  and  Paul,  the  first  three  born  in  Cincinnati,  and  the 
last  being  native  Californians. 

Mr.  Johansing  and  family  reside  at  Los  Cerritos,  and  he  is  clerk  of 
the  Board  of  Education  of  that  suburb,  and  he  and  his  wife  both  active 
as  officers  in  the  Parents-Teachers  Association,  Mrs.  Johansing  being 
the  judge  of  the  Board  of  Election  and  he  being  chairman  of  the  Mem- 
bership Committee. 

Edward  Schmidt.  There  is  a  necessarily  limited  though  influential 
and  wealthy  clientage  in  Los  Angeles  who  have  long  known  and  appre- 
ciated the  services  of  Edward  Schmidt  as  probably  the  highest  class 
tailor  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  is  known  in  the  Los  Angeles  business 
district  as  a  thorough  merchant,  gentleman  and  public  spirited  citizen, 
and  some  people  also  know  him  and  his  family  for  its  interesting  his- 
torical associations  with  the  old  as  well  as  the  modern  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Schmidt,  who  is  a  member  of  Los  Angeles  county,  having  been 
born  at  Wilmington  September  21,  1874,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Edward 
Schmidt.  Edward  Sr.  was  born  at  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  February  3, 
1843,  grew  up  and  was  educated  in  his  native  city  and  was  a  sailor  for 
eighteen  years.  He  came  around  the  Horn  as  captain  of  a  sailing  vessel 
and  reached  San  Francisco  in  1861,  and  a  few  years  later,  in  1867,  per- 
manently settled  in  Los  Angeles,  where,  with  his  brother  Fred,  he  took 
up  a  hundred  sixty  acres  ot  government  land.  The  site  of  this  govern- 
ment claim  can  be  identified  by  the  modern  boundaries  of  Vermont 
avenue  and  Wilshire  boulevard.  As  is  well  known,  it  is  now  in  the  most 
exclusive  residential  section  of  Los  Angeles.  In  1876  Edward  Schmidt 
sold  eighty  acres  for  five  thousand  dollars,  and  he  and  his  brother  divided 
the  rest.  He  gradually  sold  off  his  share,  with  the  exception  of  thirty 
lots  at  the  corner  of  Catalina  avenue  and  Wilshire  boulevard.  This,  a 
portion  of  the  original  government  claim,  is  still  owned  by  his  widow. 
Edward  Schmidt  Sr.  retired  from  business  in  1904  and  died  in  1913.  He 
married  in  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  Pauline  Lund.  Of  their  seven  chil- 
dren, six  are  living. 

Edward  Schmidt  Jr.  acquired  his  education  in  the  district  schools 
of  Los  Angeles  county,  and  attended  the  Baptist  College  in  Los  Ang?Ies 
to  the  age  of  sixteen.  He  then  began  an  apprenticeship  at  the  tailors' 
trade,  and  since  1903  has  been  in  business  for  himself  and  has  built  up 
an  establishment  known  all  over  Southern  Cplifornia  and  to  many  who 
make  Los  Angeles  their  winter  home.  His  business  employs  forty  peo- 
ple and  is  devoted  to  the  highest  class  of  men's  and  women's  tailoring. 

Mr.  Schmidt  is  also  well  known  in  social  circles,  being  a  member 
of  Southern  Cahfornia  Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  Jonathan  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  He  married,  at  Los  An- 
geles. Ruby  Noyes,  daughter  of  E.  W.  Noyes,  who  came  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1849.  They  have  four  children,  Leland,  Edward  Jr.,  H  len  and 
Robert.  Leland  is  a  graduate  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  and  is 
now  serving  as  a  lieutenant  with  the  American  forces  in  the  Salvage  De- 
partment in  France.  The  son  Edward  attends  grammar  school,  and 
Helen  is  a  student  in  the  Westlake  School  for  Girls. 

Charles  R.  Bell.  Throughout  his  business  experience,  ever  since 
leaving  high  school,  Charles  R.  Bell  has  been  working  in  an  atmosphere 
of  finance  and  banking,  and  during  ten  years  of  residence  at  Los  Angeles 
has  become  well  known  in  local  banking  circles  ^nd  is  now  one  of  the 
executive  officers  of  the  Hellman  Commercial  Trust  and  Savings  Bank. 


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He  \vas  born  in  the  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada,  July  22,  1886,  a 
son  of  John  and  Anna  Belle  (Kimberly)  Bell.  His  father  was  born  in 
England  in  1840,  was  reared  and  educated  there,  and  in  Canada  became 
a  civil  engineer.  He  was  one  of  the  engineers  of  the  Grand  Trunk  Rail- 
road and  later  with  the  Canada  Land  Company,  surveying  their  forests 
and  roads.  He  died  in  1901.  In  1872  he  married,  in  Ontario,  Miss  Belle 
Kimberly.  They  were  the  parents  of  six  children:  Matilda,  deceased; 
Josephine,  wife  of  J.  F.  Burley  of  Pasadena;  John,  an  instructor  of 
trainmen  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway  of  Los  Angeles;  James,  a 
trainmaster  of  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway ;  Margaret,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Stevenson  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Charles  R. 

Charles  R.  Bell  was  educated  in  Ontario,  and  after  graduating  from 
high  scliool  in  1903,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  went  to  work  for  the 
Sovereign  Bank  of  Canada.  This  is  one  of  the  largest  banks  of  the 
Dominion.  Beginning  as  bookkeeper,  he  worked  steadily  along  until  he 
was  promoted  to  teller,  and  resigned  that  office  when  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1908.  Here  he  became  connected  with  the  All  Night  and 
Day  Bank,  and  in  1911  was  elected  its  cashier.  In  1913,  when  the  All 
Night  and  Day  Bank  v/as  reorganized  and  the  name  changed  to  the 
Hellman  Commercial  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  Mr.  Bell  was  made  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  larger  institution,  a  position  he  has  since  held, 
and  is  one  of  the  younger  bank  officials  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Bell,  who  is  unmarried,  left  his  duties  in  July,  1918,  to  join 
the  Heavy  Artillery  Officers'  Training  Camp  at  Fortress  Monroe,  Vir- 
ginia, and  went  through  the  training  preliminary  to  an  officer's  commis- 
sion. Ten  days  before  the  commission  would  have  been  issued  he  re- 
ceived his  honorable  discharge  on  December  1,  1918. 

Mr.  Bell  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Presby- 
terian Church  and  is  a  republican  in  politics. 

Charles  D.  Wagner,  who  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1902,  has  de- 
veloped an  organization  and  service  as  a  building  contractor  which  is 
exemplified  in  its  perfect  results  by  scores  of  the  finest  homes,  business 
blocks  and  apartments  in  and  around  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Wagner  was  born  in  Woodward,  Iowa,  March  24,  1873,  son  of 
Philip  and  Eva  (Stauber)  Wagner.  Up  to  the  age  of  ten  he  attended 
public  school  at  Woodward,  and  his  parents  then  removed  to  Peabody, 
Kansas,  where  he  continued  attending  school  and  working  on  his  father's 
farm.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one,  leaving  the  rural  districts,  he  went 
to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Wells  Fargo  & 
Company  Express  until  1902.  In  that  year  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and 
has  ever  since  engaged  in  the  building  contracting  business. 

The  following  are  some  of  the  more  important  building  contracts 
handled  by  him  and  the  approximate  costs  of  each :  Residences  of  D.  A. 
Hamburger.  $25,000;  E.  C.  Hauser,  $20,000;  David  E.  Thompson, 
$20,000:  J.  T.  Itan,  $20,000:  S.  A.  Hanlin,  $20,000:  C.  B.  McCov, 
$30,000 ;  Frank  Baker,  $40,000 ;  Francis  G.  Keene,  $30,000 ;  David  Beid- 
ler  Flats,  $40,000:  Phelps  Apartments,  Sixth  and  St.  Andrews  streets, 
$60,000;  also  the  Greer-Robins  garage  and  many  other  business  blocks 
and  apartments  too  numerous  to  mention.  Mr.  Wagner  has  his  own 
drafting  department,  and  has  an  organization  of  about  a  hundred  men. 
As  the  above  list  indicates,  he  has  erected  many  of  Los  Angeles'  beauti- 
ful homes,  and  he  constructed  twenty-eight  of  the  fine  residences  in  the 
exclusive  Lafayette  Square  at  7  Pellessier  Square. 


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Mr.  Wagner  is  a  republican  in  politics.  At  Los  Angeles,  January 
10,  1910,  he  married  Ethel  Hawkins.  They  have  one  daughter,  Lillian 
Claire,  born  in  1912. 

Fred  L.  Hunt  is  a  business  man  as  well  as  a  lawyer,  and  Southern 
California  is  indebted  to  his  enterprise  in  developing  some  of  the  lands 
of  this  district  into  productive  farms  and  fruit  ranches.  Mr.  Hunt  has 
had  a  varied  career,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  volunteer  soldier 
in  the  Spanish-American  war. 

He  was  born  at  Spencer,  in  Clay  county,  Iowa,  December  26,  1875, 
son  of  Mark  and  Flora  (Dodge)  Hunt.  His  father  laid  out  the  town- 
site  of  Spencer.  When  Fred  was  four  years  old  his  parents  moved  to 
Elkhorn,  in  Walworth  county,  Wisconsin,  and  there  he  attended  district 
schools  to  the  age  of  eleven.  On  leaving  school  at  this  early  age  he 
went  to  work  on  farms,  and  only  in  the  intervals  of  self-sustaining  work 
did  he  find  opportunity  to  attend  school.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he 
entered  Beloit  Academy,  in  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  and  paid  his  way  by  out- 
side work  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Hunt  served  in  the  Spanish-American  war  as  a  member  of 
Compan}'  E  of  the  First  Wisconsin  Volunteers.  Fie  was  with  his  regi- 
ment eight  months,  and  on  being  honorably  discharged  went  to  Rockford, 
Illinois,  and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Works  &  Hyer.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  March,  1901,  and  practiced  law  at  Belvidere,  Illinois, 
and  soon  became  prominent  in  local  and  state  politics.  He  served  as 
corporation  counsel  of  Belvidere  and  was  also  Senate  Clerk  in  the  Illi- 
nois Legislature.  He  attended  many  republican  conventions  and  was  a 
staunch  ally  and  political  friend  of  Frank  O.  Lowden,  now  governor  of 
Illinois. 

Mr.  Hunt  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1906.  For  one  year  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  escrow  department  of  the  Title  Insurance  Company.  He 
then  spent  a  year  in  the  law  ofifice  of  Denis  &  Lowenthal,  following 
which  he  began  an  individual  practice.  After  two  years  he  became  a 
member  of  the  law  partnership  of  Hatch,  Lloyd  &  Hunt.  After  the 
death  of  David  Hatch,  in  1911,  the  firm  continued  as  Lloyd,  Hunt, 
Cheney  &  Geibel  for  a  year  and  a  half.  Mr.  Hunt  then  retired  from  his 
practice  to  devote  three  years  to  improving  his  ranch  properties.  In 
that  time  he  succeeded  in  improving  out  of  raw  and  unproductive  land 
fifteen  farms,  planted  and  in  condition  for  orchard  production.  These 
farms  were  all  in  the  vicinity  of  Los  Angeles.  Since  1917  Mr.  Hunt  has 
resumed  the  private  practice  of  law. 

He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  member  of  Roosevelt  Camp  of  the 
Spanish-American  War  Veterans,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Union 
League  Club,  and  is  an  associate  member  of  the  Ellis  and  Women's  Lyric 
Clubs.  In  politics  he  is  a  republican,  and  is  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  St.  Andrews  Episcopal  Church.  At  Rockford,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1902,  he  married  Bertha  M.  Hyer. 

WiLLEDD  Andrews,  who  has  practiced  law  since  1909,  is  one  of  the 
younger  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar,  but  has  achieved  many  in- 
fluential connections  and  is  a  man  of  the  highest  standing  both  profes- 
sionally and  socially. 

He  is  a  son  of  Carl  Adams  and  Florence  (Marsh)  Andrews.  His 
father,  who  has  had  a  most  successful  business  career,  was  born  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  in  1860,  and  finished  his  education  in  the  University 
of  Arkansas.     For  several  years  he  lived  in  Little  Rock,  and  while  there 


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became  interested  in  the  development  and  promotion  of  various  coal 
mine  properties  and  gas  companies.  His  business  affairs  have  required 
his  residence  in  a  number  of  cities  and  he  is  practically  known  from 
East  to  West.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Andrews  Coal  Corporation 
of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  prominent 
polo  player.  At  Little  Rock,  in  1882,  he  married  Florence  Marsh,  They 
had  five  children  :  Willedd ;  Dean,  in  the  United  States  Navy ;  Catherine 
Andrews  Lassing,  wife  of  Commander  Walter  Lassing,  whose  home  is 
at  Wa.shington,  D.  C. ;  Claiborne,  who  lives  at  New  Orleans  and  is  secre- 
tary of  the  Andrews  Coal  Company,  and  is  also  interested  in  sugar 
plantations ;  and  Martha,  at  home. 

Willedd  Andrews  was  born  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  November  17, 
1883.  He  spent  his  youth  in  a  number  of  different  cities  and  his  educa- 
tion was  derived  from  a  number  of  different  schools.  He  began  his 
schooling  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  attended  school  at  New  Orleans  to 
the  age  of  ten,  at  which  time  his  parents  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  he 
was  in  school  here  two  years.  He  then  finished  his  high  school  work 
at  New  Orleans  and  took  his  preparatory  course  in  the  Academic  De- 
partment of  Central  University  at  Richmond,  Kentucky.  After  finish- 
ing his  preparatory  course  in  1901  he  was  a  student  in  the  collegiate 
department  of  Central  University  for  two  years,  and  from  there  came 
to  the  University  of  Southern  California,  where  he  was  in  the  Law 
School  four  years.  He  graduated  with  the  LL.  B.  degree  in  1908.  and 
in  1909  received  the  degree  LL.  M.  Since  then  Mr.  Andrews  has  been 
in  continuous  and  successful  practice  and  has  specialized  in  civil  and 
corporation  law.  Li  1909-10  he  served  as  special  deputy  district  attorney 
under  Captain  Fredericks. 

Mr.  Andrews  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  a  member  of  the  Fraternal 
Brotherhood,  the  Union  League  Club,  the  college  fraternities  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon  and  Theta  Nu  Epsilon,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican. 
October  27,  1912,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Helen  Stocker.  They 
have  two  children:  Virginia,  born  in  1913,  and  Lesley  Brand,  born  in 
1915. 

James  Gustave  Scarborough  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles 
nearly  thirty-five  years,  is  still  in  active  practice  of  law,  and  has  sustained 
and  expressed  a  broad  and  generous  usefulness  in  the  community,  though 
with  few  of  the  superficial  marks  of  honor  and  dignity  enjoyed  by  many 
lesser  men. 

He  was  born  in  Louisiana  of  Southern  parentage,  and  when  a  boy 
his  parents  moved  tQ  Brenham,  Texas,  and  later  to  Waco,  in  that  state. 
He  attended  private  schools,  later  Waco,  now  Baylor,  University,  and 
finished  his  education  in  Howard  College,  a  military  school  at  Marion, 
Alabama,  presided  over  by  Col.  J.  T.  Murfee,  at  one  time  commandant 
of  the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  the  most  famous  military  school  of 
the  South.  Graduating  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  he  received  the  highest 
honors,  being  validictorian  of  his  class  and  holding  the  highest  military 
office  awarded  to  students.  He  was  graduated  with  the  A.  B.  degree, 
and  then  returned  to  Waco,  Texas,  and  read  law  in  the  office  of  the 
prominent  law  firm,  Anderson  &  Flint.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
the  District  Court  m  September,  1S84,  and  in  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Texas  in  February,  1885. 

Mr.  Scarborough  arrived  with  his  brother  at  Los  Angeles  on  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1885,  and  until  June,  1886,  was  in  the  offices  of  Bicknell  & 
White.     The  junior  member  of  that  firm  was  Hon.  Stephen  M.  White, 


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at  one  time  United  States  senator  from  California.  Mr.  Scarborough 
opened  his  own  office  at  Los  Angeles  in  November,  1886,  and  practically 
from  the  beginning  enjoyed  a  large  civil  law  practice,  representing  some 
of  the  leading  interests  and  real  estate  operators. 

In  February,  1890,  he  accepted  the  attorneyship  of  railroad  and 
other  interests  promoted  by  Mr.  James  McFadden  and  his  associates  at 
Santa  Ana,  Orange  county,  moving  to  that  city  in  March,  1890.  While 
there  he  served  one  term  as  ■  district  attorney  of  the  county  and  also 
accumulated  a  large  clientage  in  private  practice. 

Mr.  Scarborough  removed  his  home  and  reopened  his  law  office  at 
Los  Angeles  in  1896,  though  at  the  same  time  retaining  his  office  and 
clientage  at  Santa  Ana.  For  the  past  twenty  years  at  Los  Angeles  he 
has  been  associated  with  William  M.  Bowen  under  the  firm  name  of 
Scarborough  &  Bowen,  while  at  Santa  Ana  his  associate  is  Horatio  J. 
Forgy  under  the  firm  name  of  Scarborough  &  Forgy. 

"Newspaper  notoriety  seldom  is  bestowed  upon  the  class  of  business_ 
which  Mr.  Scarborough  seeks  in  the  professional  field.  He  avoids  sen- 
sational cases,  politics,  political  ofiice  and  all  pubHcity.  His  civic  record 
is  on  a  par  with  his  professional  one.  It  is  frequently  noted  that  some 
of  the  most  useful  sitizens  are  those  whose  names  appear  seldom 
in  public  print.  He  has  been  a  part  of  and  assisted  in  the  growth  and 
development  of  Los  Angeles  for  over  thirty-four  years.  He  has  repre- 
sented large  interests  and  many  clients  m  important  law  suits,  but  those 
of  greatest  public  interest  were  the  actions  through  which  the  tract  of 
land  now  known  as  Exposition  Park  was  recovered  from  private  claim- 
ants for  public  use  through  the  efforts  of  his  partner,  William  M.  Bowen, 
whom  he  assisted. 

For  more  than  ten  years  Mr.  Scarborough  was  lecturer  on  code 
pleading  and  practice  in  the  Law  School  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California,  reducing  the  study  to  a  comprehensive  and  practical  system 
by  a  series  of  lectures,  a  synopsis  of  which  has  been  published  in  form 
which  has  proved  useful  to  both  student  and  practitioner.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  of  all  the  Masonic  bodies,  being  on  the 
Jurisprudence  Committee  of  the  Grand  Commandery,  is  a  member  of 
Al  Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  belongs  to  the  Jonathan  Club, 
Los  .'\ngeles  Bar  Association  and  other  organizations. 

October  4,  1887,  Mr.  Scarborough  married  Miss  Florence  Pendle- 
ton, now  deceased,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  H.  Pendleton,  then  pastor 
of  one  of  the  leading  Baptist  churches.  Mr.  Scarborough  has  one  son 
bearing  his  own  name,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  California,  an 
officer  in  the  United  States  Army  during  the  late  war,  and  now  studying 
with  his  father  preparatory  for  admission  to  the  bar. 

Sacred  Heart  Academy.  Hundreds  of  men  and  women  in  South- 
ern California  cherish  the  recollections  of  their  early  school  days  spent 
in  the  Sacred  Heart  School.  The  training  afforded  there  under  the  good 
Dominican  Sisters  has  been  a  foundation  stone  in  the  success  and  char- 
acter of  many  of  the  former  pupils.  The  school  is  now  nearly  thirty 
years  old. 

It  was  opened  September  1,  1890,  by  Mother  Seraphina  and  two 
companions  as  an  adjunct  to  the  Sacred  Heart  Church.  The  school  is 
in  the  Lincoln  Heights  district,  which  twenty-five  years  ago  was  by  no 
means  so  densely  populated  or  so  wealthy  a  community  as  it  has  since 
become.  There  were  only  fifty  children  in  the  school  at  the  beginning. 
The   first   building   was    an    unpretentious   two-story    structure,    serving 


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both  as  a  school  and  as  a  liome  for  the  Sisters.  There  was  a  steady- 
growth  and  the  need  became  insistent  for  a  better  building  and  larger 
grounds.  In  1901  the  entire  block  was  purchased  and  a  four-story 
building  erected  fronting  Sichel  street.  The  old  building  was  moved 
and  conjoined  with  the  new  one.  The  new  building  had  what  was  re- 
garded at  the  time  a.  superlative  equipment  and  facilities,  including  all 
the  equipment  for  dormitories  and  living  conditions,  as  well  as  school- 
rooms. In  1907  a  right  wing  was  built,  affording  four  class  rooms,  din- 
ing room  and  another  dormitory.  In  that  year  the  high  school  was  lirst 
opened  with  eight  pupils.  Still  another  addition  was  made  in  1913,  and 
the  left  wing  restored  the  symmetry  of  the  building,  and  afforded  special 
rooms  and  facilities  for  the  high  school,  including  an  auditorium. 

Today  the  Sacred  Heart  Academy,  accredited  by  the  University  of 
California,  is  conducted  as  a  day  and  boarding  school  for  girls  and  is 
one  of  the  most  perfectly  appointed  institutions  for  elementary  and  high 
school  education  in  Southern  California. 

Will  C.  Pr.\ther,  head  of  the  Prather  Investment  Company,  stocks, 
bonds,  loans,  real  estate  and  insuratice,  in  the  Merchants  National  Bank 
Building,  has  been  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1905  and  was  for- 
merly a  merchant  and  business  man  in  the  East. 

He  -was  born  in  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  August  5,  1868,  a  son  of 
James  Newton  and  Nannie  (Bell)  Prather.  His  great-grandfather 
Prather  served  as  a  major  in  Washington's  army  in  1776  and  was  identi- 
fied with  the  cause  of  independence  actively  for  four  years.  In  1780  he 
settled  on  Harrod's  Creek,  near  Harrodsburg,  in  Mercer  county,  Ken,- 
tucky,  and  achieved  a  place  in  the  making  of  that  illustrious  common- 
wealth. Nannie  Bell  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  David  Bell  and  grand- 
daughter of  George  Robertson.  George  Robertson  is  one  of  the  most 
conspicuous  names  in  the  early  annals  of  American  history.  He  was 
in  Congress  when  Monroe  was  president  and  resigned  to  return  to  Ken- 
tucky and  was  speaker  of  the  State  Legislature  and  instrumental  in 
securing  Henry  Clay's  nomination  for  the  presidency.  George  Robertson 
was  a  brilliant  orator  and  jurist,  served  as  chief  justice  of  Kentucky, 
and  his  opinions  were  the  first  of  any  American  lawyer  to  be  quoted  in 
England.  Many  of  them  were  imbedded  in  the  statutes  of  most  of  the 
Southern  states.  Kentucky  honors  him  and  his  family  connections  with 
the  county  names  of  Robertson,  Letcher,  Owsley  and  Bell. 

Will  C.  Prather  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Harrods- 
burg, in  Center  College  of  Danville,  Kentucky,  and  on  leaving  school 
became  identified  with  the  coffee  business.  That  was  his  principal  line 
for  nineteen  years,  seven  of  which  were  spent  with  James  Heekm  & 
Company  in  Cincinnati,  and  later  he  was  connected  with  Potter,  Parlin 
&  Company,  W.  L.  Johnson  Company  and  W.  C.  Prather  Company  of 
New  York  City. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1905  he  established  the  wholesale 
house  of  Prather,  Garvey  &  Company,  but  sold  his  interest  to  Clarence 
Garvey  in  1906.  Since  then  he  has  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business. 
Mr.  Prather  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  a  Presbyterian,  and  by 
his  marriage  in  1898  to  Kathryn  D.  Smith  has  three  sons  and  one 
daughter.  The  family  reside  at  their  countn'  estate  at  Royalton  Heights 
between  the  city  limits  of  Los  Angeles  and  Venice. 

Judge  Dan.\  Reid  Weller,  who  is  one  of  the  judges  in  the  Los 
Angeles  judicial  system,  has  spent  nearly  all  his  life  in  this  city  and  has 


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been  a  prominent  lawyer  for  over  twenty  years.  He  is  lil<ewise  well 
known  in  Masonic  circles  and  was  a  captain  in  the  army  during  the 
Philippine  war. 

Judge  Weller  was  born  at  Oneoto,  Superior  county,  Minnesota, 
March  24,  1874.  His  father,  Levi  Weller,  who  has  been  a  resident  of 
Southern  California  more  than  forty  years,  was  born  in  Ohio,  October 
12,  1835,  was  liberally  educated,  finishing  in  Oberlin  College,  taught 
school  at  Wapello,  Towa,  and  in  1873  moved  to  Northern  Minnesota 
and  taught  in  Duluth.  In  1875,  on  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  he  continued 
teaching  and  also  conducted  a  farm  near  Los  Angeles.  He  has  lived 
retired  since  1917.  He  married  at  Wapello,  Iowa,  February  22,  1865, 
Cordelia  Woods.  They  have  three  children :  ]\Irs.  Lulu  Hunter  of  Los 
Angeles,  William  W.  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Dana  R. 

Dana  R.  Weller  received  his  education  in  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Los  Angeles  Normal,  and  in  August,  1893, 
began  the  study  of  law  with  John  T.  Jones,  paying  his  way  by  vork  as 
a  stenographer.  In  April,  1895,  lie  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  tfie 
Supreme  Court  of  California,  and  in  1899  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
Federal  Court.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  became  associated  with 
Mr.  Jones  as  a  partner,  and  their  firm  continued  for  many  years,  one  of 
the  most  substantial  law  firms  in  Southern  California.  Judge  Weller 
has  also  been  active  in  business  afl:'airs. 

He  joined  the  National  Guard  in  1891  and  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
Spanish-American  war  became  major  of  the  Seventh  California  Infantry, 
United  States  Volunteers,  serving  from  May  to  December  in  1898.  From 
September  16,  1899,  to  June  30,  1901,  he  was  captain  of  the  Forty-fourth 
United  States  Infantry,  volunteers,  in  the  Philippines.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  United  Spanish  War  Veterans. 

Judge  Weller  is  a  past  master  of  Southern  California  Lodge  No. 
278,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  has  taken  the  degrees  in  both  the  Scottish  and  York 
branches,  is  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  served  as  grand  master 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  California  in  1911.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the 
Union  League  Club  and  was  its  president  in  1909  and  1919,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

October  14,  1897,  he  married  Jessica  Rhodes  of  Los  Angeles.  THey 
have  one  daughter,  Catherine,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California  High  School,  and  now  attending  University  of  South  Caro- 
lina. 

L.  R.  Wh.\rton.  The  work  of  L.  R.  Wharton  as  a  lawyer  which 
has  brought  him  his  high  standing  in  the  Los  Angeles  bar  has  been  chiefly 
in  connection  with  probate  law.  He  has  handled  many  important  inter- 
ests in  that  branch  of  practice  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
bar  for  over  fifteen  years.  His  name  and  services  have  also  figured  in 
local  politics  not  as  a  politician,  but  as  a  friend  and  worker  for  good 
government,  and  he  was  one  of  the  leading  figures  and  campaigners  in 
behalf  of  various  war  auxiliary  movements  during  1917-1918. 

Mr.  Wharton  was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois,  December  24, 
1874,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Arilla  (Merryman)  Wharton.  His  father, 
who  was  born  at  Zanesville,  Ohio,  in  1836,  made  a  trip  when  a  boy 
across  the  plains  to  the  mining  regions  of  Pike's  Peak.  Colorado.  He 
looked  for  gold  in  that  district,  and  on  his  return  East  became  a  farmer 
and  stock  raiser  in  Mercer  County,  Illinois,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death  in  December,  1910.  He  and  his  wife  had  a  family  of  six  children, 
five   of  whom   are    still   living:      Willard    A.,    a   lumberman   in    Mercer 


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Count}' ;  Nellie  M.,  who  died  in  1900 ;  Leroy  R. ;  Leota,  of  Rock  Island, 
Illinois ;  Mrs.  Louisa  Witter,  whose  husband  is  the  present  city  attorney 
of  Rock  Island,  and  Captain  J.  F.  Wharton,  who  is  an  army  surgeon,  and 
in  the  spring-  of  1919  was  still  on  duty  at  liordeaux,  France. 

L.  R.  Wharton  attended  grammar  and  high  schools  in  Illinois, 
graduating  in  1892.  For  a  year  he  sold  farm  implements.  Being 
unable  to  look  to  his  family  for  much  assistance  in  securing  a  higher 
education,  he  practically  worked  him  way  through  college,  attending  Knox 
College,  at  Galesburg,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1898  with  the  Bache- 
lor of  Science  degree.  In  the  same  city  he  studied  law  with  J.  Dougherty 
for  two  years.  He  took  the  bar  examination  before  the  Supreme  Court 
at  Chicago,  and  returned  to  Galesburg  to  practice.  By  appointment 
from  Federal  Judge  Kohlsaat  he  served  as  referee  of  bankruptcy. 

A  well-known  Los  Angeles  financier,  O.  T.  Johnson,  came  to  Cali- 
fornia from  Galesburg.  It  was  Mr.  Wharton's  good  fortune  to  have 
represented  Mr.  Johnson  in  some  legal  matters,  and  on  the  advice  of  the 
older  friend  and  client  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  and  his  reputa- 
tion as  an  able  counselor  has  been  steadily  growing  ever  since. 

Mr.  Wharton  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  the  first  secretary  of 
the  City  Club.  He  is  identified  with  the  Municipal  Leaguej  Union  League 
Club,  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association.  He  has 
been  active  in  several  promising  movements  for  civic  and  political 
progress  in  Southern  California.  During  the  war  he  gave  a  large  part 
of  his  time  in  behalf  of  several  war  activities  and  made  over  two  hundred 
fifty  speeches.  His  work  was  especially  commended  during  the  last 
Salvation  Army  drive      Mr.  Wharton  is  a  republican  and  is  unmarried. 

Louis  H.  V--\lentine,  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Los  Angeles 
County,  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar  over  thirty  years, 
and  the  honors  and  services  that  have  accrued  to  his  credit  make  an 
imposing  record. 

Whatever  distinction  there  is  in  being  a  native  Califomian  is  in- 
tensified in  the  case  of  Judge  Valentine,  who  first  saw  the  light  of  day 
at  old  Sutter  Mill,  where  gold  was  discovered  by  Marshall  in  1848,  thus 
precipitating  the  movement  of  population  which  was  the  corner  stone 
of  California's  incorporation  in  the  Union  of  States.  He  was  born  there 
November  13,  1859,  son  of  William  H.  and  Laura  J.  (Cromwell)  Valen- 
tine. He  was  well  educated,  graduating  from  high  school  at  the  age  of 
seventeen,  and  in  1887  received  his  LL.  B.  degree  from  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  California.  The  following  year  he  located  at 
Los  Angeles,  and  the  subsequent  years  have  brought  him  a  large  experi- 
ence as  a  lawyer  and  rank  among  the  foremost  members  of  the  bar  in 
the  county. 

First  and  last.  Judge  Valentine  has  had  a  long  record  of  public 
service,  frequently  in  positions  that  carry  no  remuneration  but  great 
responsibility.  Before  he  became  a  lawyer  he  taught  school  seven  vears, 
being  principal  of  the  Placerville  School,  and  two  years  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Education  in  Eldorado  County.  He  served  in  the  State 
Legislature  from  Los  Angeles  County  in  the  sessions  of  1897  and  1899. 
and  the  extra  session  of  1900.  and  during  the  last  two  sessions  was 
chairman  of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee,  and  former  Governor 
Gage  has  asserted  that  it  was  Judge  Valentine's  co-operation  in  prepar- 
ing the  state  budget  which  made  it  possible  for  the  Governor  to  carry 
out  his  ideas  of  conservation  and  economy  as  applied  to  all  state  depart- 
ments.    He  also  secured  the  passage  of  the  bill  regulating  the  manage- 


420  LOS  ANGliLES 

ment  and  work  of  the  State  Printing  Office,  resulting  in  a  great  saving, 
and  was  author  of  the  law  requiring  street  contractors  to  furnish  a  bond 
in  one-half  the  amount  of  their  contract  for  the  benefit  of  laborers  and 
material  men. 

In  1901  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  to  the  office  of 
United  States  attorney  for  the  Southern  District  of  California,  and  under 
reappointment  from  Roosevelt  served  more  than  four  years.  Judge 
Valentine  was  chairman  of  the  first  non-partisan  organization  in  Los 
Angeles  County  organized  prior  to  the  passage  of  the  direct  primary 
law,  for  the  purpose  of  selecting  judicial,  educational  and  other  strictly 
non-partisan  officers.  At  the  time  of  his  appointment  to  the  bench  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Public  Service  Commission  of  Los  Angeles.  This 
is  the  department  of  city  government  that  controls  and  manages  the 
vast  water  and  power  properties  of  the  city,  including  the  Owens  River 
Aqueduct.  Although  the  members  of  the  Commission  serve  without 
compensation,  their  responsibility  is  probably  greater  than  that  of  any 
other  city  official  excepting  the  mayor.  Judge  Valentine's  services  while 
on  the  Commission  assisted  materially  in  bringing  about  the  present  con- 
tract between  the  city  and  the  Edison  Company,  by  which  the  city 
realizes  an  income  from  the  sale  of  its  electric  power  in  excess  of  sixty 
thousand  dollars  a  month. 

Judge  Valentine  was  appointed  to  the  Superior  Bench  of  Los 
Angeles  County  by  Governor  Stephens  in  August,  1917.  A  year  later 
Tie  was  candidate  for  the  regular  nomination  at  the  primaries  and,  with 
the  endorsement  and  support  of  almost  every  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
County  bar,  was  elected  to  preside  on  that  bench  for  the  regular  term. 
Of  his  qualities  as  a  judge,  one  of  his  fellow  jurists  has  written :  "On 
the  bench  he  is  courteous,  dignified,  patient,  prompt  on  decision,  and  is 
endowed  to  a  very  high  degree  with  the  judicial  temperament."  Un- 
doubtedly his  wide  experience  as  a  lawyer  and  man  of  affairs  brings 
to  the  Superior  Court  those  qualifications  and  attributes  which  are  most 
essential  to  the  integrity  and  proper  functioning  of  the  judicial  office. 

Judge  Valentine  is  a  member  of  Westlake  Lodge  No.  392,  F.  and 
A.  M.,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the 
Golden  West,  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  the  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees  and  the  L^nion  League  Club,  City  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association.  He  is  a  republican  and  a 
Presbyterian.  November  13,  1889,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Pearson. 
They  were  married  at  the  old  Hangtown  of  pioneer  days,  identified  in 
modern  geography  as  Placerville,  Eldorado  County.  Mrs.  Valentine 
was  born  in  Placerville,  and  her  father,  John  Pearson,  a  native  of 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  was  a  pioneer  Californian.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Valen- 
tine have  two  daughters.  Jean  is  a  graduate  of  Stanford  University  and 
the  Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School.  Claire  is  a  graduate  of  Miss 
Head's  Young  Ladies'  Seminary  and  the  Los  Angeles  State  Nonnal 
School.     Both  are  now  teachers  in  a  private  school  at  Hollywood. 

John  Newton  Russell  Jr.  The  years  of  a  very  busy  life,  thirty 
or  more,  Mr.  Russell  has  spent  in  California  and  the  West  as  a  rising 
factor  in  the  insurance  business.  In  1917  he  was  honored  with  the 
office  of  president  of  the  National  Association  of  Life  Underwriters. 
Mr.  Russell  is  manager  of  the  Home  Office  General  Agency  for  the 
Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  at  Boonesville,  Missouri,  June  5,  1864,  son  of  J. 
Newton  and  Emily  Alden  (Little)  Russell.    Mr.  Russell  is  of  old  Amer- 


FROM  THE  iMOUNTAINS  TO  TPIE  SEA  421 

ican  stock,  as  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  lie  is  a  member  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution.  His  father  was  born  near  Charleston,  Virginia,  now 
West  Virginia,  in  April,  1835,  and  as  a  boy  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Booneville,  Missouri,  where  he  finished  his  education  in  the  Kemper 
Military  Academy.  For  a  time  he  was  a  farmer,  but  going  to  Texas  be- 
came a  manufacturer  at  Waco  and  Dallas.  In  1883  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Los  Angeles,  and  there  engaged  in  the  insurance  business. 
In  1884  he  moved  his  headcjuarters  to  San  Francisco,  and  was  one  of 
the  older  insurance  men  of  the  state  when  he  retired  in  1911.  Since 
then  he  has  lived  in  Los  Angeles. 

John  Newton  Russell  Jr.  was  educated  chiefly  in  the  public  schools 
of  Weatherford,  Texas,  also  in  Hill's  Business  College  at  Waco  and 
Heald's  Business  College  at  San  Francisco.  He  gained  a  knowledge  of 
the  insurance  business  under  his  father,  and  in  1889  came  to  Los  An- 
geles as  secretary  of  the  Banker's  Alliance  Life  Insurance  Company. 
Six  years  later  he  became  superintendent  of  agencies  at  Denver  with  the 
Consen-ative  Life  Insurance  Company.  When  that  company  was  con- 
solidated with  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in  1906,  Mr. 
Russell  returned  to  Los  Angeles  as  secretary  of  the  larger  corporation 
for  two  years,  and  since  then  has  been  manager  of  the  Home  Office 
General  Agency. 

Mr.  Russell  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  the  Gamut  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  California 
Automobile  Club,  City  Club,  Advertising  Club,  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
is  on  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Municipal  League,  and  is  a  York 
Rite  Mason  and  noble  of  the  Shrine.     Politically  he  acts  independently. 

In  Se]iteml3er,  1893,  he  married  Miss  A.  Berdella  Evans.  Their 
only  child  is  John  Henry  Russell,  who  was  born  at  Los  Angeles  in  Sep- 
tember, 1895.  •  He  was  educated  in  the  local  grammar  and  high  schools, 
spent  one  year  in  the  Culver  Military  Academy  in  Indiana,  and  after 
graduating  from  Stanford  University  of  California  in  1917,  entered  the 
special  training  class  of  the  United  States  Training  Academy  at  Ann- 
apolis. He  was  graduated  in  February,  1918,  and  assigned  as  ensign  on 
the  cruiser  "San  Diego,"  which  sank.  He  was  then  assigned  to  the 
"Breese,"  after  which  he  was  appointed  lieutenant.  He  was  discharged 
in  June,  1919.  and  then  entered  thc^Home  Office  Agency  of  the  Pacific 
Mutual    Life   Insurance    Company    as    secretary. 

Sam  Behrendt,  president  of  the  Behrendt  &  Levy  Company,  Incor- 
porated, one  of  the  largest  insurance  agencies  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  state,  is  a  native  of  Los  Angeles  and  son  of  one  of  the  California 
pioneers. 

He  was  born  on  West  Fourth  Street,  between  Spring  Street  and 
Broadway,  July  18,  1879.  His  father  was  Casper  Behrendt.  Born  in 
Danzig,  Germany,  in  1831,  of  Jewish  parents,  he  came  to  the  United 
States  at  fourteen,  and  from  New  York  extended  his  travels  and  adven- 
tures throughout  a  large  part  of  the  new  world.  With  headquarters 
at  Boston,  he  traveled  through  Old  Mexico  and  for  a  time  was  located 
at  Mazatlan,  Mexico.  In  1851  he  came  to  California  by  way  of  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  after  reaching  San  Francisco  traveled  as  a 
merchandise  peddler  through  all  the  mining  camps  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  state.  In  1855  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  During  a  period  of  forty 
years  he  did  business  in  a  city  which  developed  from  a  Spanish  town 
into  one  of  the  most  attractive  cities  in  the  world.  Casper  Behrendt 
died  in  1914.     He  was  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  Los  Angeles  Lodge 


422  LOS  ANGELES 

No.  42,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  at  one  time  served  as  treasurer  of  the  B'nai 
B'rith,  and  was  very  prominent  in  Jewish  charitable  work.  Politically 
he  was  a  democrat.  He  married  at  San  Francisco  Hulda  Cohn.  Casper 
and  Hulda  Behrendt  had  four  children:  Jake  Behrendt,  deceased;  Lily 
Behrendt  Kahn,  who  married  Sol  Kahn,  one  of  Oakland's  leading  mer- 
chants :  Gertrude  B.  Kahn,  widow  of  John  Kahn,  founder  of  Kahn-Beck 
Cracker  Company,  and  Sam. 

Sam  Behrendt  acquired  his  education  in  the  Spring  Street  and 
Eighth  Street  Grammar  Schools  at  Los  Angeles,  and  after  he  was 
fifteen  years  old  spent  one  year  in  a  business  college.  For  two  years  he 
clerked  in  grocery  and  cigar  stores,  and  then  went  to  San  Francisco 
and  bought  an  interest  in  a  cigar  business,  and  remained  there  until 
1900.  Selling  out  and  returning  to  Los  Angeles,  he  became  connected 
with  the  San  Gabriel  Electric  Company,  later  merged  with  the  Pacific 
Light  and  Power  Company.  He  was  employed  as  collector  and  later 
solicited  new  contracts  for  three  years.  On  leaving  that  corporation, 
Mr.  Behrendt  entered  the  insurance  business  for  himself,  and  in  1907 
took  in  Mr.  L  O.  Levy  as  a  partner  under  the  name  Behrendt-Levy  Com- 
pany, and  they  incorporated  the  business  in  1908.  This  is  a  general 
insurance  agency  and  the  establishment  now  employs  twenty-one  people. 
Mr.  Behrendt  is  also  a  director  of  the  Union  Bank  and  Trust  Company 
and  a  director  of  the  Shiff,  Lang  &  Company. 

He  is  affiliated  with  Hollenbeck  Lodge  No.  119,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  is 
a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk,  a  member  of  Corona  Parlor 
of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  the  B'nai  B'rith,  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club,  San  Gabriel  Countn,'  Club,  City  Club,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Association,  and  the  Friars  Club 
of  New  York  City.     Mr.  Behrendt  is  a  republican. 

At  Oakland,  California,  October  7,  1903,  he  married  Sadie  Mos- 
bacher.  Their  son,  George,  born  in  1904,  is  a  student  in  the  Hitchcock 
Military  Academy,  at  San  Rafael. 

Oscar  C.  Mueller,  a  lawyer  of  long  and  successful  experience,  has 
also  enjoyed  some  of  the  unusual  honors  of  his  profession  and  in, civic 
alTairs.  He  was  elected  and  served  as  president  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Bar  Association  in  1917,  and  during  the  same  year  was  vice  president 
of  the  California  Bar  Association.  In  1918  he  was  president  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Mueller  was  born  in  Denver,  Colorado,  September  7,  1876, 
but  has  lived  in  Los  Angeles  since  early  childhood.  His  father,  the 
late  Otto  Mueller,  was  born  at  Dayton.  Ohio,  in  1846,  was  educated  in 
public  schools,  and  early  removed  to  Denver,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
commission  business.  In  1880  he  brought  his  family  to  Los  Angeles 
and  established  the  first  large  furniture  house  in  the  city  with  O.  T. 
Barker.  This  business  is  still  continued  as  the  Barker  Brothers,  reputed 
to  be  the  largest  retail  furniture  store  in  the  United  States.  Otto  Muel- 
ler retired  from  the  firm  after  ten  years  and  died  January  25,  1890.  He 
married  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  Nettie  Kette. 

Oscar  C.  Mueller  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Los  Angeles 
and  O'ccidental  College  and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  W.  H. 
Wilde.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  California 
Club,  Jonathan  Club,  is  a  York  and  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  repub- 
lican. At  Los  Angeles,  April  5,  1900,  he  married  Ivy  Schoder.  His 
only  son,  Douglas,  born  in  1902,  is  now  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Military 
Academy. 


FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS  TO  THE  SEA  423 

Clara  Matilda  Moohr,  who  has  spent  years  in  study  and  practice 
in  the  arts  and  sciences  of  chiropractic,  neuropathy,  and  electro-therapy, 
is  a  prominent  Los  Angeles  woman  and  was  born  at  Sheboygan,  Wis- 
consin, in  1870. 

She  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Calumet,  Michigan, 
graduating  from  high  school.  As  a  school  girl  her  ambition  was  to  be  a 
doctor.  However,  soon  after  the  completion  of  her  high  school  work, 
her  family  moved  to  Pueblo,  Colorado,  where  as  a  young  girl  she  married 
and  went  with  her  husband  to  Denver,  where  two  children  were  boni. 
Later  they  returned  to  Calumet,  ]\Iichigan,  where  her  son  was  born. 

Dunng  a  visit  to  Los  Angeles  wUh  her  husband  and  family  she 
became  infatuated  with  California,  particularly  Los  Angeles,  and  deter- 
mined then  that  nothing  should  prevent  her  eventually  coming  to  this 
state  to  live.  Li  the  fall  of  1904  she  came,  a  widow,  with  her  youngest 
son.  Los  Angeles  has  always  made  a  big  and  irresistible  appeal  to  Doctor 
Moohr,  with  its  quaint  Spanish  names,  its  romantic  missions,  its  beautiful 
valleys,  and  she  regrets  that  she  could  not  claim  the  city  and  state  as  a 
native  daughter.  Though  owning  property  at  Venice  and  Long  Beach, 
Los  Angeles  seems  most  to  her  among  the  California  cities. 

After  she  had  been  in  Los  Angeles  five  or  six  years,  she  entered 
the  Los  Angeles  College  of  Chiropractic  and  was  the  first  woman  grad- 
uate from  any  college  in  California  issuing  diplomas  in  chiropractic.  She 
received  her  degree  June  6,  1912,  from  the  Los  Angeles  College  of 
Chiropractic.  She  has  since  acquired  other  diplomas,  after  six  months' 
work  receiving  one  in  recognition  of  her  post-graduate  course  with  Dr. 
Alva  A.  Gregory,  M.  D.,  D.  C,  one  of  the  foremost  chiropractors  in 
the  United  States  and  author  of  a  chiropractic  text  book.  This  she 
followed  with  six  months  in  neuropathy  with  Dr.  A.  P.  Davis  at  the 
Davis  College  of  Neuropathy,  being  granted  a  degree  as  Doctor  of 
Neuropathy  in  1913.  For  another  six  months  she  pursued  a  course  in 
dissection  under  the  avispices  of  the  Los  Angeles  College  of  Chiropractic, 
and  still  later  took  a  course  in  electro-therapy,  for  which  she  received 
the  degree  Master  of  Electro-Therapy  in  1915.  She  was  examined 
before  the  State  Medical  Board  and  given  a  license  to  practice  in  1916. 

Doctor  Moohr  is  president  of  the  Universal  College  of  Drugless 
Therapeutics,  under  a  charter  from  the  state,  with  the  power  to  issue 
diplomas.  She  conducts  classes  in  chiropractic,  neuropathy,  physical  cul- 
ture and  dietetics,  in  addition  to  looking  after  a  large  private  practice. 
Her  offices  are  in  the  Columbia  Building,  on  West  Third  Street. 

Doctor  Moohr  is  a  member  of  the  Rebekahs,  and  while  without 
church  affiliation,  she  endeavors  to  practice  the  (iolden  Rule.  She  is 
equally  independent  in  politics  and  votes  for  principle  and  what  she 
believes  is  for  the  best  welfare  of  her  city,  county  or  state.  She  owns 
her  home  and  other  properties  in  Southern  California. 

Alfred  L.  Bartlett,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar, 
came  to  California  soon  after  leaving  college. 

Mr.  Bartlett  is  a  member  of  a  very  notable  family,  both  on  his 
father's  and  mother's  side.  He  was  born  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
October  8,  1884.  His  father,  Frank  W.  Bartlett,  who  was  born  at  York 
Harbor,  Maine,  was  educated  at  Dartmouth  College,  and  became  a 
pioneer  in  the  Central  West.  He  was  one  of  the  early  homesteaders 
in  Allen  County,  Kansas,  and  was  in  that  state  when  Kansas  was  a 
center  of  the  issues  which  were  settled  by  the  Civil  war.  During  the 
sixties  he  made  an  overland  trip  by  wagon  train  to  Los  Angeles,  and 


424  LOS  ANGELES 

went  on  an  extensive  exploring  expedition  through  Lower  California. 
On  returning  to  Kansas  he  became  superintendent  of  schools  at  Atchi- 
son, later  went  to  Florida  and  was  an  orange  grower,  and  eventually 
made  his  home  at  Philadelphia.  For  a  number  of  years  he  made  a 
practice  of  organizing  tourist  clubs  and  took  such  parties  all  over  the 
world.     He  died  in  f899. 

Mr.  Bartlett's  father  was  a  brother  of  Major  General  George  T. 
Bartlett,  who  graduated  from  West  Point  Military  Academy  in  1881, 
and  has  been  in  the  army  nearly  forty  years.  He  was  commissioned  a 
major  general  in  August,  1917,  and  became  a  member  of  the  General 
Stalif  Corps  in   1909. 

Frank  W.  Bartlett  married  Francelia  Lewis.  Through  his  mother, 
Alfred  L.  Bartlett  is  a  nephew  of  several  men  who  have  won  high  honors 
in  journalism  and  authorship,  one  of  whom  is  William  E.  Lewis,  owner 
of  the  New  York  Morning  Telegraph  of  New  York  City.  Associated 
with  William  E.  is  Irving  J.  Lewis,  another  prominent  New  York  news- 
paper man.  Perhaps  the  best  known  of  these  Lewis  brothers  was  the 
late  Alfred  Henry  Lewis,  author  of  the  inimitable  "Wolfville  Tales," 
probably  the  most  widely  read  and  appreciated  stories  of  the  South- 
western country  ever  written.  Alfred  Henry  Lewis  was  author  of  many 
other  published  works  and  for  many  years  was  the  Washington  corre- 
spondent for  metropolitan  newspapers. 

Alfred  L.  Bartlett,  who  received  his  first  name  in  honor  of  his 
author  uncle,  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
and  also  the  public  schools  of  New  York  City.  He  was  also  a  student 
at  Erasmus  Hall  until  1903,  and  then  entered  Amherst  College  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Mr.  Bartlett  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1906.  Pie  attended  the 
law  department  of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  July  23,  1909.  He  has  since  been  in  regular  practice, 
and  now  is  member  of  the  firm  Randall,  Bartlett  &  White,  his  partners 
being  Lewis  B.  Randall  and  Thomas  P.  White. 

Mr.  Bartlett  was  elected  a  member  of  the  California  Legislature  in 
1914  and  re-elected  in  1916.  He  served  until  December  31,  1918.  He 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Humane  Animal  Commission  of  Los 
Angeles,  member  of  the  State  and  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Associa- 
tions, and  is  a  republican  in  politics.  At  Los  Angeles,  June  29,  1912, 
he  married  Rallah  Adams. 

Walter  M.  Campbell  is  a  Los  Angeles  lawyer,  and  a  man  of  wide 
and  diversified  experience  in  law  and  in  business,  acquiring  both  during 
his  residence  in  the  Eastern  states  and  as  a  citizen  of  California. 

Mr.  Campbell,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Security  Building,  was 
born  at  Red  Sulphur  Springs,  West  Virginia,  June  14,  1871.  His 
parents  were  Robert  D.  and  Mary  C.  Campbell.  During  his  youth  he 
attended  public  schools,  the  Greenbrier  Valley  Academy,  at  Lewisburg, 
West  Virginia,  and  was  a  student  in  Marshall  College,  at  Huntington, 
West  Virginia,  until  1890.  Mr.  Campbell  took  his  law  course  in  the 
University  of  Virginia,  at  Charlotteville,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1894.  He  practiced  law  at  Huntington  as  a  member  of  the  firm  Camp- 
bell, Holt  &  Campbell  until  1901. 

Coming  West,  Mr.  Campbell  was  identified  with  the  city  of  Red- 
lands  until  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles.  While  there  he  practiced  law, 
served  as  a  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank,  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  and  a  director  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  assisted 
in   organizing   and   was   director   and   treasurer   of  the    Home   Gas   and 


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Electric  Company.  He  was  also  master  of  Redlands  Lodge  No.  300, 
A.  F.  and  A.  M. 

Mr.  Campbell  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1907,  and  has  enjoyed  a 
steadily  rising  prestige  as  a  lawyer  in  this  city  and  throughout  Southern 
California.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Los  Angeles  Dock  and  Terminal 
Company.  He  is  also  identified  as  a  working  member  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  is  a  York  Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  Alhambra  Com- 
mandery  K.  T.,  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Church  Extension  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Southern  California. 
He  is  a  democrat  and  a  member  of  the  City  Club. 

At  Hardinsburg,  Kentucky,  August  12,  1896,  Mr.  Campbell  mar- 
ried Mary  Elizabeth  Bovvmer.  They  are  the  parents  of  six  children: 
Robert  Bowmer,  born  in  1897,  is  a  graduate  of  Alhambra  High  School 
and  is  now  an  employe  of  the  Los  Angeles  Shipbuilding  and  Dry  Dock 
Company :  William  Lewis,  born  in  1899,  is  attending  the  University  of 
Southern  California ;  Man,'  Catherine  is  a  student  in  Pomona  College  ; 
Walter  M.  Jr.,  born  in  1905;  John  Edgar,  born  in  1910,  and  Franklin 
Gardiner,  born  in  1912,  are  all  students  in  the  Alhambra  Grammar 
Schools. 

NoRM.VN  Bridge,  M.  D.,  A.  M.  The  words  "physician,  teacher  and 
business  man"  furnish  a  very  superficial  index  to  the  life  and  service 
of  Dr.  Norman  Bridge,  who  for  nearly  thirty  years  has  been  eciually 
well  known  as  a  citizen  both  in  Southern  California  and  Chicago.  From 
a  boyhood  of  close  fellowship  with  the  hard  toil  and  meager  advantages 
of  a  pioneer  farm  in  Illinois,  Doctor  Bridge  has  exemplified  a  positive 
rather  than  a  conventional  relationship  with  his  environment,  and  at 
many  times  and  under  many  conditions  has  been  a  leader  battling  against 
adverse  odds  for  the  enlightened  principles  and  the  higher  ideals  of 
professional,  civic  and  business  advancement. 

\Miile  he  has  been  too  busy  to  give  a  conscious  recognition  to  the 
fact.  Doctor  Bridge  has  in  many  ways  repaid  the  debt  of  ancestry.  On 
the  Cambridge  Common  at  Harvard  College  stands  a  bronze  statue  of 
Deacon  John  Bridge,  from  whom  Doctor  Bridge  represents  the  seventh 
generation  in  direct  line  of  descent.  The  statue  represents  his  ancestor 
in  the  garb  of  a  Puritan,  and  one  of  the  inscriptions  on  the  moniunent 
reads :  "This  Puritan  helped  to  establish  here  church,  school  and  repre- 
sentative government,  and  thus  to  plant  a  Christian  Commonwealth."  The 
tendencies  and  exertions  of  Doctor  Bridge  in  his  own  generation  have 
been  as  noteworthy  as  those  of  Deacon  John,  who  settled  at  Cambridge 
in  1632.  Doctor  Bridge's  great-grandfather,  Ebenezer  Bridge,  was  a 
colonel  in  Washington's  army  in  the  Revolution. 

Doctor  Bridge  was  born  on  a  small  farm  among  the  Vermont  hills, 
a  few  miles  from  the  Village  of  Windsor,  December  30,  1844,  son  of 
James  Madison  and  Nancy  Ann  (Bagley)  Bridge.  After  years  of 
struggle  in  wringing  a  meager  living  from  the  rocky  and  unpromising 
farm  in  Vermont,  James  jNI.  Bridge  took  his  family  West  in  1856,  and 
established  them  on  a  farm  of  unbroken  prairie  without  buildings  or 
fence,  at  Malta,  in  DeKalb  County.  The  father  moved  to  Iowa,  wnere 
he  died,  honored  and  respected  in  his  community,  in  1879,  and  the 
widowed  mother  survived  until  1903.  Doctor  Bridge's  only  brother, 
Edward,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Fifty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,  was  wounded 
in  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  and  after  being  in  a  dozen  battles  died  of  disease. 

Much  of  Doctor  Bridge's  later  interest  in  education  was  inspired 
by  his  own  early  lack  of  advantages.    He  attended  more  or  less  regularly 


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the  country  district  schools  in  Northern  IlHnois,  also  the  high  schools  at 
DeKalb  and  Sycamore,  but  never  attended  an  academic  department  of  a 
university  or  college.  During  the  winter  of  1862-63  he  taught  a  term  of 
country  school.  During  1864-65  he  worked  as  a  clerk  in  the  postoffice  at 
Sycamore  and  as  a  fire  insurance  agent  in  Grundy  County.  Some  of 
his  early  experiences  were  similar  to  those  of  his  contemporary,  O.  N. 
Carter,  long  distinguished  as  a  Supreme  Court  justice  of  Illinois. 

Doctor  Bridge  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  1865,  attending  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1866-67,  and  the 
Northwestern  University  1867-68.  He  was  graduated  in  the  latter  year, 
and  in  1878  was  awarded  the  Ad  Eundem  degree  in  medicine  from  Rush 
Medical  College,  and  in  1889  was  honored  by  Lake  Forest  College  with 
the  A.  M.  degree.  In  the  intervals  of  his  studies  he  worked  on  his 
father's  farm. 

It  is  significant  that  Doctor  Bridge  has  given  almost  as  many  years 
to  the  service  of  teaching  as  he  has  to  private  practice.  In  fact,  he  began 
teaching  medicine  from  the  time  of  his  graduation,  at  first  in  North- 
western University,  then  in  the  Woman's  Medical  College,  and  in  1873 
became  identified  with  Rush  College.  He  was  Professor  of  Clinical 
Medicine,  then  Professor  of  Medicine,  and  since  1901  Emeritus  Pro- 
fessor of  Medicine  in  Rush  Medical  College  of  the  University  of  Chicago. 
For  about  twenty  years  he  was  an  attending  physician  at  the  County  and 
the  Presbyterian  Hospitals  at  Chicago. 

The  service  he  rendered  in  Rush  College  deserves  more  than  passing 
mention.  His  first  position  in  the  college  was  received  as  the  result  of  a 
concours  or  contest  in  lecturing  before  the  faculty  and  students — a 
method  that  has  forunately  not  since  been  in  vogue.  The  college  of  that 
day  was  unconnected  with  any  university,  and  like  nearly  all  the  medical 
colleges  of  the  country,  its  trustees  were  mostly  members  of  its  faculty, 
only  two  courses  of  lectures  were  required  for  graduation,  and  the  condi- 
tions of  admission  were  cheap  indeed.  He  joined  his  then  younger 
colleagues  in  working  for  higher  standards,  long  and  more  thorough 
courses,  more  laboratory  work  and  coimection  with  the  university.  He 
was  one  of  those  most  influential  in  securing  the  affiliation  of  the  Rush 
Medical  College  with  the  University  of  Chicago,  giving  the  college  a 
standardization  of  courses  and  facilities  that  makes  it  rank  today  as  one 
of  the  leading  centers  of  medical  education  in  the  world. 

Accompanied  by  his  wife.  Doctor  Bridge  has  several  times  visited 
Europe,  his  two  earliest  trips  being  made  in  1889  and  in  1896.  In  those 
journeys  abroad  he  spent  much  time  in  attending  clinics  and  observing 
methods  in  the  hospitals  of  Berlin,  Munich,  Dresden,  Geneva,  Strass- 
burg,  Heidelberg  and  Erlangen.  Doctor  Bridge  is  a  man  of  thorough 
literary  tastes,  and  his  skill  with  the  pen  has  lent  charm  not  only  to  his 
secular  writings,  but  to  his  contributions  to  medical  journals.  He  is 
author  of  forty-six  papers  on  medicine  and  cognate  subjects  in  medical 
journals  and  books  and  is  also  author  of  several  individual  books :  The 
Penalties  of  Taste  and  Other  Essays,  published  in  1898 ;  The  Rewards 
of  Taste  and  Other  Essays,  1902  :  Lectures  on  Tuberculosis,  1903  ;  House 
Health,  1907,  and  Fragments  and  xA-ddresses,  1913. 

A  breakdown  in  health  in  1890  was  the  cause  of  his  leaving  Chicago, 
and  in  Januar\^  1891,  he  established  a  home  in  California.  From  1891 
to  1894  his  home  was  at  Sierre  Madre,  at  Pasadena  until  1910,  and  then 
at  Los  Angeles.  However,  he  still  calls  Chicago  home,  and  resides  when 
in  that  city  at  the  Blackstone.  By  1893  he  had  so  far  recovered  his 
health  as  to  resume  work  a  few  weeks  each  autumn  at  the  College  and 


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Presbyterian  Hospital  at  Chicago.  He  continued  his  college  lectures 
there  until  1905.  Since  that  date  he  has  resigned  so  far  as  possible  his 
professional  work,  and  has  given  his  time  to  his  growing  business  inter- 
ests. He  has  been  associated  with  E.  L.  Doheny  and  Charles  A.  Canfield 
in  the  oil  and  gas  industry,  and  has  served  as  an  official  in  several  com- 
panies in  Mexico,  California,  including  the  Mexican  Petroleum  Company, 
the  Huasteca  Petroleum  Company  and  the  Pan-American  Petroleum 
and  Transport  Company. 

From  1881  to  1884  Doctor  Bridge  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Education,  and  during  1882-83  was  president  of  the  board. 
From  1886  to  1890  he  was  republican  election  commissioner  of  Chicago. 
He  was  a  republican  in  politics,  but  was  appointed  to  the  School  Board 
by  the  first  Mayor  Harrison,  a  democrat.  The  only  elective  office  he  has 
ever  held  was  when  chosen  one  of  the  board  of  freeholders  of  the  City 
of  Pasadena  in  1900,  to  frame  a  new  charter  for  the  city. 

May  21,  1874,  Doctor  Bridge  married  Mae  Manford,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Erasmus  and  Hannah  (Bryant)  Manford.  The  only  child  born  to 
them  died  in  infancy. 

Doctor  Bridge  is  a  member  of  the  Association  of  American  Physi- 
cians, is  corresponding  member  of  the  Wisconsin  Academy  of  Sciences, 
Arts  and  Letters,  a  member  and  one  year  president  of  the  American 
Climatological  Association,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Academy  of 
Sciences,  the  various  medical  associations,  and  belongs  to  the  Union 
League  and  University  Clubs  of  Chicago,  and  the  California,  University 
and   Sunset   Clubs   of   Los  Angeles. 

During  the  late  war  Doctor  Bridge  was  called  upon  by  the  national 
government  to  assume  one  of  the  more  delicate  responsibilities  arising 
out  of  the  conflict.  He  was  made  chairman  of  the  National  Alien  Enemy 
Relief  Committee,  and  in  that  capacity  spent  most  of  his  time  in  Wash- 
ington and  New  York.  This  committee  had  to  deal  with  the  cases  of 
destitution  that  resulted  from  the  interning  of  alien  enemies.  Many 
families  were  thus  deprived  of  means  of  support.  Provision  for  such 
cases  was  made  by  the  Gennan  Empire  and  also  the  Austrian  Empire, 
and  it  was  the  duty  of  Doctor  Bridge's  committee  to  see  that  funds  thus 
supplied  were  properly  distributed  and  to  bona  fide  cases,  and  in  such 
manner  that  the  distribution  would  not  serve  to  the  benefit  of  the  enemy 
countries.  Doctor  Bridge  thus  became  chairman  of  a  committee  made 
up  of  twenty  members,  three  of  whom  were  from  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Charles  Randolph  Smurr,  chief  clerk  of  the  general  freight 
office  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Lines  at  Los  Angeles  under  the  United 
States  Railroad  Administration,  has  risen  to  his  present  duties  and  re- 
sponsibilities from  a  minor  clerkship  and  is  the  son  of  a  man  who  was 
long  prominent  in  railroad  circles  in  this  state. 

His  father,  Charles  F.  Smurr,  was  born  at  Nankin,  Ohio,  in  1849. 
He  was  educated  in  Oberlin  Academy,  in  Ohio,  to  the  age  of  fourteen, 
and  at  that  early  age  became  self-supporting.  He  worked  at  Cleveland 
as  office  boy  with  the  Panhandle  Railroad,  and  later  was  in  Chicago  as 
clerk  in  the  freight  department  of  the  Star  Union  Railroad  until  1873. 
In  that  year,  at  the  solicitation  of  J.  C.  Stubbs,  general  freight  agent, 
he  came  West  to  San  Francisco  and  entered  the  employment  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company  as  receiving  clerk  at  the  docks.  Later  he 
was  made  assistant  cashier,  then  cashier,  was  sent  by  the  coijnpanj'  to 
Salt  Lake  City  as  traveling  auditor,  and  in  1876  came  to  Los  Angeles 
as    freight   auditor    for   the    Southern    Pacific.      In    1881    he   was    again 


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transferred  to  San  Francisco  as  assistant  general  freight  agent,  but  in 
1888  returned  to  Los  Angeles  as  first  assistant  general  freight  and 
passenger  agent,  went  back  to  San  Francisco  as  general  freight  agent, 
and  on  July  1,  1897,  became  freight  traffic  manager.  Soon  after  taking 
hold  of  that  responsible  office  he  died,  October  31,  1897.  He  was  widely 
known  among  railroad  men  and  business  interests  up  and  down  the 
California  coast.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  the  California  Council  of  the  National 
Union.  In  politics  he  voted  republican.  At  Los  Angeles,  in  1876,  he 
married  Miss  Arcadia  Carrillo.  Their  two  children  were  William  and 
Charles  Randolph,  the  former  deceased. 

Charles  Randolph  Smurr  was  born  at  Los  Angeles  September  25, 
1878.  He  spent  his  boyhood  in  his  native  city  and  at  San  Francisco,  and 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  Oakland  in  1894.  In  1897,  after 
graduating  from  the  California  School  of  Mechanic  Arts  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  became  delivery  clerk  with  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railroad.  A  year  and  a  half  later  he  was  made  clerk 
in  the  local  freight  office,  but  resigned  in  January,  1902,  and  joined  the 
Sperry  Flour  Company  of  San  Francisco  as  office  and  expert  man  in 
the  cereal  department.  From  1906  to  1908  Mr.  Smurr  was  in  the  auto- 
mobile business  at  Oakland,  and  in  the  latter  year  resumed  his  service 
with  the  Southern  Pacific  Company  at  San  Francisco  as  clerk  in  the 
traffic  department  for  one  year,  and  then  as  special  adjustor  in  the 
freight  claim  department  until  1912.  In  the  latter  year  he  returned  to 
Los  Angeles  as  contracting  freight  agent,  and  since  June  18,  1918,  when 
the  government  took  over  the  railroad,  he  has  been  chief  clerk  of  the 
general  freight  office. 

Mr.  Smurr  is  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
At  San  Francisco,  December  12,  1899,  he  married  Miss  Florence  Sher- 
wood. Their  two  children,  both  attending  the  Los  Angeles  High  School, 
are  Janice  and  Charles  F. 

John  D.  Cole,  who  was  a  captain  in  the  World  war,  is  now  prom- 
inently connected  with  the  Blankenhorn  real  estate  firm  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  active  manager  of  the  Santa  Catalina  Island  properties. 

Mr.  Cole  was  liorn  in  Derry,  Pennsylvania,  August  5,  1886.  son  of 
Joshua  and  Nancy  (Tomb)  Cole,  and  has  had  a  successful  experience  in 
engineering  and  with  several  large  business  corporations.  He  attended 
public  schools  to  the  age  of  fifteen,  graduated  in  1906  from  the  Indiana 
Preparatory  School,  at  Indiana,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1910  graduated 
from  Westminster  College,  at  Wilmington,  Pennsylvania.  During  the 
following  year  he  was  at  Monmouth,  Illinois,  as  civil  engineer  for  the 
Rock  Island  Southern  Railroad,  following  which  for  two  years  he  was 
superintendent  of  that  road.  Going  to  Chicago,  he  became  manager  of 
one  of  the  departments  of  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Company  for  two  years, 
and  then  went  East  to  New  York  City  and  was  operating  manager  for 
the  Charles  Williams  mail  order  house  until  October,  1917. 

He  resigned  and  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, being  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  and  in  June,  1918,  was  pro- 
moted to  captain.  He  was  in  service  nearly  a  year  and  a  half,  receiving 
his  honorable  discharge  Tvlarch  31,  1919.  Captain  Cole  then  came  to 
Los  Angeles  and  became  assistant  to  President  David  Blankenhorn  of 
the  Santa  Catalina  Island  Company.  Captain  Cole  is  a  member  of  the 
Advertising  Club,  the  California  Club,  University  Club  of  New  York 
City,  and  the  Great  Neck  Country  Club  of  New  York.  He  is  independent 
in  politics. 


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At  Monmouth,  Illinois,  October  4,  1912,  he  married  Helen  Graham. 
Their  two  children  are  John  D.  Jr.,  born  in  1913,  and  William  Graham, 
born  in  1916. 

Frank  Karr,  who  was  admitted  to  practice  in  California  in  1901, 
has  won  a  high  place  in  the  profession,  and  now  gives  all  his  time  to 
his  duties  as  chief  counsel  for  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway. 

Mr.  Karr  was  born  at  Heyworth,  Illinois,  February  18,  1875,  son 
of  Henry  Allen  and  Martha  Elizabeth  Karr.  He  graduated  from  high 
school  in  his  native  town  in  1892,  and  for  two  and  a  half  years  attended 
the  Illinois  State  Nonual  University.  Like  many  successful  professional 
men,  he  had  an  experience  as  a  teacher  and  was  connected  with  the 
schools  of  Lytleville,  Heyworth  and  Pekin,  Illinois,  for  three  and  a  half 
years.  On  coming  to  California,  in  1898,  he  enrolled  as  a  special  student 
at  Stanford  University,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  year  1901. 
He  at  once  opened  an  office  for  practice  at  San  Pedro,  and  from  1902 
to  1906  was  city  attorney.  He  continued  practice  at  San  Pedro  until 
1910,  and  in  the  meantime  in  1907  had  also  opened  an  office  at  Los 
Angeles.  He  removed  his  home  to  Los  Angeles  in  1910,  and  at  that  date 
became  associated  with  Judge  J.  W.  McKinley,  chief  counsel  for  the 
Pacific  Electric  Railway  and  attorney  for  the  Southern  Pacific.  Mr. 
Karr  was  assistant  to  Judge  McKinley  until  March  1,  1914,  when  he 
succeeded  that  well-known  jurist  and  lawyer  as  chief  counsel  for  the 
Pacific  Electric  Railway. 

During  his  residence  at  San  Pedro  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
School  Board  until  San  Pedro  was  annexed  to  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Karr 
is  affihated  with  San  Pedro  Lodge  No.  332,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  San 
Pedro  Chapter  No.  89,  R.  A.  M. ;  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  the 
University  Club.  Politically  he  is  a  democrat.  October  29,  1903,  at 
Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Karr  married  Miss  Dora  VanOrdstrand.  They  have 
two  children,  Frank  Randolph,  born  December  1,  1904,  and  a  student  in 
the  grammar  schools,  and  Dorothy,  born  July  11,  1915. 

Joseph  B.  Tatlow,  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  law  firm  of  Burke 
&  Tatlow,  practiced  law  in  Southern  California  for  the  past  five  years 
and  came  to  this  state  with  a  reputation  of  sound  achievement  as  a 
lawyer  in  Missouri. 

He  was  born  in  Marion  County,  Missouri,  January  10,  1871,  a  son 
of  Joseph  B.  and  Irene  (Pittmann)  Tatlow.  His  father  was  a  native 
of  Maryland,  where  Grandfather  Tatlow  was  a  merchant  and  miller. 
The  family  moved  in  early  times  to  Marion  County,  Missouri,  where 
the  grandfather  was  in  the  same  business  and  was  succeeded  by  Joseph 
B.  Tatlow.  In  1880  the  latter  removed  to  Springfield,  Missouri,  and 
was  a  merchant  in  that  city  until  1905,  when  he  retired.  He  and  his 
wife  were  married  in  Marion  County,  Missouri,  January  15,  1863.  Of 
their  eight  children,  one  is  William  D.  Tatlow,  who  for  many  years 
has  been  one  of  the  most  distinguished  lawyers  of  the  state  of  Missouri. 

Joseph  B.  Tatlow  attended  grammar  and  high  school  at  Springfield, 
Missouri,  from  the  age  of  nine  to  sixteen.  He  left  school  to  work  as 
clerk  in  a  grocery  store  for  six  months,  following  which  he  took  up  the 
study  of  law  with  his  brother  William.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri  in  1898.  He  engaged  in  private 
practice  vmtil  1901,  when,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he  retired.  He  next 
accepted  the  appointment  of  assistant  secretary  of  state  under  Sam  B. 


430  LOS  ANGELES 

Cooke,  secretary  of  state  of  Missouri.  He  resigned  this  office  January 
1,  1905,  to  resume  private  practice,  opening  offices  both  in  St.  Louis  and 
Springfield. 

Mr.  Tatlow  had  to  abandon  practice  again  in  1908  in  order  to  travel 
in  Texas  and  California  for  the  benefit  of  the  health  of  his  sisters.  In 
1912  he  located  at  Los  Angeles,  but  did  not  resume  professional  work 
until  1914,  when  he  formed  his  present  partnership  with  William  Burke 
under  the  name  Burke  &  Tatlow.  Mr.  Tatlow  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  County  Bar, Association,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  an  Elk, 
a  democrat  ancl  is  affiliated  with  the  Christian  Church.     He  is  unmarried. 

Henry  A.  Culloden,  secretary  and  auditor  of  the  Pacific  Electric 
Railway  and  its  many  allied  corporations,  has  had  a  career  of  experience 
and  service  such  as  few  men  of  his  age  can  equal,  and  one  that  has  taken 
him  practically  all  over  the  United  States  from  Canada  to  the  extreme 
Southwest. 

He  was  born  at  Milton,  Ontario,  Canada,  March  15,  1866,  son  of 
William  George  and  Sarah  (Shaw)  Culloden.  He  lived  at  home  and 
attended  public  school  to  the  age  of  twelve.  Thereafter  until  he  was 
sixteen  he  lived  with  an  uncle  at  Lowville,  Ontario,  and  worked  in  his 
uncle's  general  merchandise  store.  Returning  to  Milton,  he  studied 
telegraphy  with  the  Hamilton  Northwestern  Railroad  Company  for  a 
time.  He  made  much  progress  in  learning  the  art,  but  was  paid  no 
wages.  Many  experiences  followed  that  in  rapid  succession:  At  Chi- 
cago for  two  months  he  was  clerk  in  a  men's  furnishing  goods  store ; 
cashier  for  a  tailor  at  Indianapolis  three  months ;  clerk  in  the  loan  de- 
partment of  the  Aetna  Life  Insurance  Company  a  year ;  went  out  to 
Helena,  Montana,  with  a  topographical  party  of  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railroad  for  six  months,  and  clerked  there  in  the  postoffice  until  De- 
cember, 1883.  Coming  to  Pasadena,  he  did  some  of  the  hardest  labor 
he  ever  put  in,  digging  tree  holes  at  a  dollar  a  day  and  board  for  four 
months. 

As  his  present  positions  indicate,  Mr.  Culloden  is  an  expert  account- 
ant, and  the  work  that  put  him  in  touch  with  his  present  profession 
was  begun  at  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  in  the  auditor's  office  of  the 
Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railvvay.  He  was  there  four  years,  for  two  years 
was  stationed  at  Colorado  City,  Colorado,  in  the  storekeeper's  office  of 
the  Colorado-Midland  Railroad,  clerked  a  year  and  a  half  in  the  auditor's 
office  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railway  at  Chicago,  and  returned  from  there  to 
Albuquerque  as  traveling  auditor  for  the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  three  years. 
This  was  followed  by  eight  and  a  half  years'  service  as  auditor  for  the 
Sonora  Railway  at  Guaymas,  Mexico.  Entering  the  employ  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  system,  he  was  assigned  to  duty  at  San  Francisco  as 
special  accountant  three  years,  and  giving  up  that  position,  he  was 
public  accountant  with  Klink  &  Bean  Company  a  year,  and  on  leaving 
there  opened  an  office  of  his  own  as  public  accountant  at  Los  Angeles 
a  year.  For  a  year  and  a  half  he  was  engaged  in  mining  at  Eureka, 
Nevada,  and  then  accepted  another  position  with  the  Southern  Pacific  at 
San  Francisco  as  special  accountant  for  a  year  and  a  half. 

From  there  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  to  become  auditor  for  the 
Pacific  Electric  Railway.  In  June,  1910,  Mr.  Culloden  was  elected 
secretary  and  auditor  of  this  company,  and  also  performs  similar  duties 
and  holds  similar  offices  with  the  Pacific  Electric  Land  Company,  the 
Visalia  Electric  Railway  Company,  the  Fresno  Traction  Company,  the 
Stockton  Electric  Railway  Company,  the  Peninsular  Railway  Company, 
and  the  San  Jose  Railroads. 


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Mr.  Culloden  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club.  He 
is  a  reoublican.  At  Eureka,  Nevada,  November  7,  1897,  he  married 
Miss  Effie   Phillips. 

Dr.  John  Cr.^ig  McCoy,  1853-1919.  To  the  Colony  of  Virginia  in 
1750  came  Thomas  McCoy.  In  his  "ain  countree"  he  was  "Laird  Tam- 
mas  McKay,"  a  man  of  position  and  influence.  Like  many  another  of 
his  countryanen,  he  came  to  spy  out  the  new  land,  and,  like  those  others, 
he  cast  his  lot  with  the  colonists,  married,  and  founded  a  home.  When 
his  first-bom,  Cornelius  by  name,  was  two  years  old,  the  father  under- 
took a  journey  to  Scotland  to  further  settle  his  affairs.  This  being 
accomplished,  he  set  sail  again  for  America.  But  when  half  the  return 
journey  was  completed,  he  died  from  ship-fe^•er,  and  was  buried  in  mid- 
ocean. 

Cornelius  grew  to  rugged  manhood  in  the  new  land,  and  had  the 
honor  to  serve  as  aide  to  the  great  \\'ashington  during  the  Revolution. 
He  founded  a  home  in  Albermarle  County,  A^irginia,  and  there  was  born 
John,  the  father  of  Samuel,  the  father  of  ]\lilton,  the  father  of  John 
Craig  McCoy,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

To  these  same  colonies  came  in  1737  Rev.  John  Craig,  who  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  1715.  He  was  educated  in  Edinburgh,  and  there  mar- 
ried Isabella  Helena  Russel,  a  Scotch  lady,  in  1736.  Coming  to  America, 
he  first  established  himself  in  Delaware,  but  in  one  year  moved  to  the 
Colony  of  Virginia,  and  settled  at  Fort  Staunton  in  1738. 

Dr.  John  Craig  became  famous  in  Virginia  for  his  ability  as  a 
preacher,  his  learning  and  his  achievements.  In  Augusta  County  he 
builded  both  the  Old  Stone  Church,  Presbyterian,  at  Fort  Defiance,  and 
Tinkling  Spring  Churcli.  of  the  same  faith,  in  the  years  1747  and  1748. 
Dr.  John  Craig  was  pastor  of  the  Old  Stone  Church  for  forty  years, 
and  "his  grave  is  in  the  churchyard  there.  Time  seems  to  have  left  no 
disintegrating  trace  upon  the  ivy-grown,  gray  stone  walls  of  the  Old 
Stone  Church,  and  it  is  one  of  Virginia's  most  cherished  landmarks. 

Dr.  John  Craig  was  the  father  of  George,  who  was  the  father  of 
George,  who  was  the  father  of  John,  who  was  the  father  of  Joanna, 
who  was  the  mother  of  Dr.  John  Craig  McCoy. 

It  is  a  great  asset  in  life  to  be  born  of  such  sturdy  stock,  and  John 
Craig  McCoy  honored  his  ancestry. 

Milton  McCoy  married  Joanna  T.  Craig  at  Buffalo,  Virginia,  in 
1852,  and  here,  in  1853,  John  Craig  McCoy  was  born. 

The  lure  of  the  West,  as  always,  was  strong,  and  Dr.  Milton  McCoy, 
his  wife  and  little  two-year-old  son  undertook  the  hardships  of  pioneer 
life  in  the  new  state  of'  Missouri.  There,  first  at  Tipton,  then  at  Boon- 
ville,  John  Craig  McCoy  spent  a  happy,  adventure  filled  boyhood,  and 
prepared  himself  for  his  after  usefulness. 

A  very  important  member  of  the  household  at  Boonville  was  "Uncle 
Peter,"  who,  having  been  a  faithful  bondman,  remained  a  faithful  servant 
for  many  years,  indeed  until  age  necessitated  his  retirement  upon  a  plan 
provided  by  his  beloved  "white  folks."  The  deeply  religious,  kindly  old 
black  man  and  the  sensitively  organized,  rather  delicate  little  boy  were 
the  greatest  chums ;  and  the  boy  often  helped  "Uncle  Peter"  with  his 
duties,  so  that  the  two  of  them  might  "go  a'  fishin'."  Through  the  beau- 
tiful groves,  and  on  the  banks  of  the  streams,  the  two  comrades  spent 
many  a  summer  afternoon,  and  the  old  black  man  not  only  taught  the 
little  boy  the  mysteries  of  woodcraft,  and  the  habits  of  perch  or  catfish, 
but   instructed  him   regarding  many   of   the   problems   of  life.      Doctor 


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McCoy  perhaps  never  had  a  friend  whom  he  loved  and  valued  more  than 
the  "Uncle  Peter"  of  his  boyhood,  and  surely  none  whose  homely 
philosophy  he  more  often  quoted. 

Doctor  McCoy  was  educated  in  Boonville,  famous  for  her  fine 
schools.  The  man  among  all  his  teachers  who  made  the  greatest  im- 
pression upon  him,  and  who  had  the  greatest  share  in  moulding  his 
character,  was  Rev.  S.  W.  Marston,  D.  D.,  a  man  not  only  of  learning, 
but  of  fine,  strong  character,  and  high  ideals.  Finding  in  his  pupil  the 
eager  mind  and  receptive  heart  which  appealed  so  strongly  to  him, 
Doctor  Marston  gave  him  a  love  and  comradeship  which  were  later  to 
bear  such  noble  fruit  in  the  large  work  for  humanity  which  was  the 
passion  of  Doctor  McCoy's  life. 

He  took  his  professional  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Surgery  at  the 
Missouri  Dental  College,  now  a  part  of  Washington  University,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri, 

In  1881  he  married  Miss  Mary  Hester  Rush,  daughter  of  Rev. 
William  M.  Rush,  D.  D.,  whose  illustrious  ancestor  was  Dr.  Benjamin 
Rush  of  Philadelphia,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and 
later  minister  to  the  Court  of  St.  James.  In  1882  Doctor  McCoy  came 
to  California  in  search  of  recreation  and  health.  He  was  fascinated  by 
the  beauty  and  promise  of  Southern  California,  and  within  two  months 
had  bought  land  in  what  is  now  Orange  County.  Immediately  thereafter 
he  caused  to  be  planted  an  orange  grove  and  a  vineyard  on  this  land, 
together  with  the  ornamental  and  varied  fruit  trees  which  would  make 
a  home  here  the  ideal  of  his  dreams. 

Arranging  for  the  care  of  his  ranch  during  his  absence,  he  returned 
to  Missouri,  to  come  again  in  eighteen  months  to  his  land  of  heart's 
desire,  with  his  young  wife  and  year-old  son,  William  Milton  McCoy. 

Never  a  man  enjoyed  more  all  that  California  can  give — mountains 
and  sea,  sunshine,  fruit  and  flowers. 

He  belonged  to  that  coterie  of  near-pioneers  who  reclaimed  and 
developed  Southern  California.  There  was,  of  course,  the  outer  circle 
of  men  who  came  when  the  country  was  divided  into  very  large  grants 
of  land,  made  during  the  time  when  Spain  controlled  so  much  of  the 
western  continent.  But  as  the  fame  of  the  country,  its  climate,  its  agri- 
cultural and  horticultural  possibilities  became  known  beyond  the  eastern 
mountains,  another  generation,  seeing  and  feeling  the  opportunity,  in- 
spired with  the  energy,  the  hope  and  determination  of  young  manhood, 
came  from  the  East  and  Middle  West  to  do  their  part  in  building  up 
the  Land  of  the  Setting  Sun.     Of  these  was  Doctor  McCoy. 

Turning  aside  from  his  profession  for  a  time,  Doctor  McCoy  became 
an  enthusiastic  horticulturist.  But  his  energ)'  could  not  be  confined  to 
the  limits  of  growing  oranges  and  grapes.  He  saw  that  there  would  be, 
following  his  steps,  a  multitude  to  inhabit  the  valley,  and  he  was  zealous 
for  the  growing  community  in  which  he  had  made  his  home.  He  was 
active  in  securing  immigration  of  the  right  kind,  could  always  be  counted 
on  the  side  of  real  temperance  and  morality,  and  every  movement  to- 
ward the  upbuilding  of  the  community  found  in  him  an  eager  supporter. 
Truly  he  '-built  his  house  beside  the  road  to  be  a  friend  to  man."  His 
was  a  soul  impassioned  with  a  desire  to  benefit  mankind.  He  sowed  be- 
side all  waters. 

Life  in  the  open  on  his  ranch  soon  restored  his  physical  health,  and 
he  then  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession,  first  in  Orange,  then  in 
Santa  Ana,  and  in  1896  he  responded  to  the  urge  of  many  friends  and 
moved  to  Los  Angeles,  to  undertake  a  larger  work,  both  professionally 
and  for  civic  betterment. 


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Doctor  McCoy  was  a  man  of  strong  religious  convictions.  He  was 
a  Baptist  because  he  believed  in  the  faith  and  practice  of  that  denomina- 
tion, but  he  was  not  bigoted.  His  life  was  an  intense,  but  not  a  narrow 
one.  He  was  a  Christian  man  who  did  not  feel  that  his  duties  were 
exhausted  in  attending  church  and  paying  the  minister.  His  Christian 
influence  radiated  not  only  as  a  church  man,  but  as  a  citizen  and  a 
philanthropist,  interested  in  everything  which  concerned  both  the  com- 
munity and  the  state.  His  concern  for  the  young  led  him  to  be  a  con- 
sistent enthusiast  in  the  Sunday  school  work,  in  which  he  became  a 
leader  and  an  authority.  Although  engaged  in  Sunday  school  work  for 
many  years  in  the  different  cities  where  he  had  lived,  the  crowning  effort 
of  his  life,  in  the  opinion  of  those  who  knew  him  best,  was  the  organiza- 
tion and  launching  of  the  Temple  Baptist  Bible  School  of  Los  Angeles. 
One  of  the  original  committee  of  twenty-five  laymen  who  conceived  and 
carried  out  the  idea  which  culminated  in  the  organization  of  the  Temple 
Baptist  Church,  it  was  not  strange  that  he  should  have  been  chosen  to 
plan  and  lead  the  Bible  School  as  its  first  superintendent.  Rev.  Robert 
J.  Burdette  used  to  say  that  "the  school  was  born  full  grown."  It  lives 
today  as  a  monument  to  Doctor  McCoy's  genius  for  organization,  his 
untiring  zeal,  and,  above  all,  to  his  character  as  a  Christian  gentleman. 
Always  an  ardent  and  fearless  advocate  of  temperance,  and  a  master  at 
illustration,  his  teaching  made  a  lasting  impression  upon  the  minds  of 
those  who  were  privileged  to  see  and  hear.  Truly,  the  characteristics 
of  Doctor  McCoy's  life  were  devotion  to  duty,  love  of  mankind,  and 
loyalty  to  God. 

The  following  editorial,  which  appeared  in  the  Pacific  Dental  Gazette 
for  July,  1919,  tells  the  story  of  his  professional  career  in  Southern 
California: 

"To  record  the  loss  which  dentistry  has  sustained  in  the  death  of 
Dr.  John  Craig  McCoy  is  the  sorrowful  duty  which  we  are  called  upon 
to  perform.  The  dental  profession  in  its  national  aspects,  as  well  as  in 
the  field  of  the  immediate  activities  of  this  beloved  practitioner,  has  been 
deprived  of  the  influence  of  a  personality  which  has  left  in  the  annals 
of  dentistry  the  indelible  impress  of  years  of  unstinted  devotion  to  the 
welfare  of  humanity.  To  him  dentistry  meant  service;  to  him  dentistry 
spelled  a  means  of  relieving  human  suffering;  to  him  dentistry  was  a 
channel  for  die  wide-spreading  of  the  gospel  of  good  health. 

"In  his  relations  toward  family,  friends,  and  confreres,  he  exempli- 
fied those  attributes  of  character  which,  besides  being  admirable,  are 
also  rewarded  by  love  and  respect.  He  was  the  nurturing  father,  the 
kind  friend,  the  considerate  confrere,  but  above  all,  he  was  the  champion 
of  right  and  justice.  Altruistic  to  a  fault,  personal  considerations 
counted  for  naught,  if  he  could  see  in  the  issue  a  possible  broadening  of 
the  dental  horizon,  a  possible  improvement  in  methods  or  devices  which 
could  help  him  and  others  in  better  serving  his  fellowmen. 

"Already  acquainted  with  some  of  the  fundamental  principles  of 
dentistry  under  the  tutelage  of  his  father,  Milton  McCoy,  M.  D.,  D.  D. 
S.,  he  entered  upon  the  collegiate  study  of  dentistry  at  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  graduated  therefrom  in  1875.  Whil^ 
in  college  Doctor  McCoy  had  the  great  advantage  of  the  friendship  and 
interest  of  Doctor  McKellops,  who  gave  to  him  the  benefit  of  his  large 
experience  and  up-to-date  methods.  Such  was  his  record  as  a  student, 
and  such  unusual  skill  did  he  evidence  that  upon  his  graduation  he  was 
offered  a  partnership  by  Dr.  H.  L.  Judd,  whose  reputation  and  ability 
were  second  to  none.     But   family  ties   called  Doctor   McCoy  back  to 


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his  boyhood  home,  and  a  partnership  with  his  father.  As  the  study 
halls  were  left  behind,  a  high  conception  of  the  needs  of  dentistry  to 
render  it  a  more  efficient  instrument  for  good  became  the  enduring 
passion  of  his  life.  He  was  indefatigable  in  this  self-imposed  duty,  find- 
ing his  greatest  reward  in  the  consciousness  of  services  faithfully 
rendered. 

"A  born  investigator  and  an  insatiable  reader  of  professional  and* 
general  literature,  no  new  device  or  method  which  promised  to  assist  in 
the  solution  of  any  obscure  dental  problem  was  allowed  to  remain  beyond 
his  reach. 

"Koller,  of  Vienna,  in  1884  reported  his  experiments  with  cocaine  in 
ophthalmic  surgery.  In  1885  Doctor  McCoy  was  using  the  drug  in  his 
practice  in  California,  and  in  1886  reported  upon  its  application  in  the 
removal  of  pulps.  This  incident  is  one  of  many  examples  in  his  life 
which  testify  to  a  progressiveness  which  was  in  evidence  in  all  of  his 
professional  relations  up  to  the  very  day  when  he  left  his  office  for  the 
last  time,  only  a  few  weeks  ago,  cheerful  and  smiling,  even  though  in  the 
throes  of  distressing  pain. 

"He  saw  in  dental  organizations  the  means  of  approximating  his 
ideal  of  professional  usefulness  and  dignity,  and  was  the  prime  mover 
in  the  formation  of  the  first  dental  society  in  Southern  California.  This, 
the  Southern  California  Odontological  Society,  which  he  brought  into 
being  in  1883,  we  find  today  metamorphosed  into  one  of  the  largest 
organizations  of  its  kind  in  the  West.  It  required,  at  a  time  when  he 
was  a  resident  of  Orange,  monthly  trips  to  Los  Angeles,  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  the  meetings,  bring  the  members  together,  and  often  furnish 
the  literary  program  himself.  But  all  of  it — at  a  sacrifice  to  himself  of 
time  from  his  practice,  to  say  nothing  of  the  monetary  phase  of  it- 
was  done  with  a  cheerful  willingness  born  of  his  eagerness  to  serve  his 
fellowmen  through  the  profession  in  which  he  was  so  potent  a  factor, 
and  to  which  he  was  so  ardently  devoted.  In  the  parent  association. 
The  Southern  California  Odontological  Society,  he  served  as  secretarj' 
for  three  consecutive  terms,  and  in  1886  was  elected  to  the  presidency. 
He  filled  these  offices  in  the  efficient  manner  characteristic  of  the  man. 
His  services  to  dentistry  were  officially  recognized  by  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  having  labored  so  energetically  in  behalf  of  dental  legislation 
that  would  protect  the  public  from  professional  incompetency,  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Dental  Examiners  and  served  for  two 
consecutive  terms.  He  tried  to  bring  order  out  of  the  chaotic  conditions 
surrounding  dental  practice  in  the  state  at  that  time,  and  while  he  accom- 
plished much  in  barring  the  unscrupulous  charlatans  and  in  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  violators  of  the  law,  he  did  so  at  a  cost  to  himself  in  time, 
money  and  health  deserving  of  the  highest  commendation  and  of  the 
lasting  gratitude  of  the  profession  in  California. 

"In  1898  Doctor  McCoy  read  a  paper  before  the  Southern  California 
Dental  Association  on  the  general  health  relations  of  the  teeth,  describing 
cases  from  his  own  practice  and  from  personal  observations,  in  which, 
in  his  belief,  the  systemic  derangements  had  been  caused  by  toxic  condi- 
tions of  the  mouth  and  teeth,  and  the  relief  of  those  general  disturbances 
by  treatment  original  Vv'ith  himself  at  that  time.  Some  fifteen  years 
later  the  world  awakened  to  the  importance  of  considering  the  teeth  in 
the  light  of  infections. 

"Doctor  McCoy  was  the  pioneer  in  the  entire  West  in  introducing 
oral  hygiene  in  the  public  schools,  sowing  in  1890  the  good  seed  which 
are  now  yielding  their  beneficial  han'est.     He  read  a  paper  before  the 


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American  Medical  Association  in  1894  on  the  subject  at  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Mid-Winter  Fair,  which  was  widely  copied  in  both  medical  and 
dental  journals.  Long  before  the  great  Forsythe  Clynic  of  Boston  had 
been  founded,  it  was  his  dream  to  interest  some  wealthy  patients  in 
establishing  such  an  institution  in  Los  Angeles.  Mav  that  dream  yet  be 
.fulfilled. 

"Doctor  ]\IcCoy  was  one  of  the  small  coterie  of  Southern  California 
dentists  who  pre-visioned  the  present  College  of  Dentistry  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southern  California,  aided  in  establishing  it,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  its  faculty.  He  lived  to  be  proud  of  an  institution  which  has 
come  to  be  an  honor  to  the  community  and  state. 

"Doctor  ]\IcCoy  was  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Dental  Congresses 
in  1894  and  1905,  and  was  one  of  the  honorary  presidents  of  the  Panama- 
Pacific  Dental  Congress  of  1915. 

"The  limitations  of  space  prevent  us  from  further  enlarging  this 
biographical  recital  of  a  man  who  so  gracefully  adorned  the  profession 
to  which  he  contributed  so  bountifully:  of  a  man  who,  through  his  re- 
ligious convictions  and  teachings,  helped  us  to  see  that  the  only  reward 
of  virtue  is  virtue,  and  the  only  way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be  one.  A 
noble  man  has  been  taken  from  the  ranks.  We  mourn  a  loss  to  dentistry 
greater  than  this  modest  tribute  could  depict,  and  bow  in  respect  and 
admiratio;i  to  the  memor)'  of  a  life  spent  in  an  unselfish  abandon  that 
thereby  he  could  more  liberally  add  to  the  comforts  of  those  in  the 
province  of  his  ministrations.  We  mourn  the  removal  from  among  us 
of  one  dearly  beloved  and  most  highly  esteemed  as  a  friend  and  adviser." 

Doctor  McCoy  passed  away  after  a  surgical  operation  on  June  12, 
1919,  and  sleeps  in  beautiful  Flollywood  Cemetery,  guarded  by  the 
mountains  that  were  his  friends,  and  beneath  the  blue  skies  of  his  be- 
loved California. 

H.\ERV  W.  H.\RRisoN.  The  vital  point  in  the  application  of  power 
to  automotive  machinery,  as  exemplified  in  nearly  every  type  of  motor 
car  and  truck,  is  the  electric  spark.  The  mechanism  required  to  produce 
that  spark  is  therefore  the  one  indispensable  element,  and  as  that 
mechanism  requires  constant  or  periodical  care  and  reinstallation,  it 
necessarily  involves  in  a  great  city  like  Los  Angeles  a  big  business 
service  of  itself,  thoroughly  specialized  and  requiring  a  large  amount  of 
capital  and  many  expert  men. 

This  is  the  business  service  by  which  Harry  W.  Harrison  is  a 
factor  in  the  modern  aflfairs  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Harrison,  who  has 
had  an  interesting  career  of  business  progress,  was  born  at  Toronto, 
Canada,  June  13,  1884,  a  son  of  Hugh  and  Sarah  Harrison.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen,  when  his  days  in  the  public  school  ended,  he  entered  the 
Ryrie  Brothers  retail  jewelry  house  at  Toronto  as  a  salesman.  He 
remained  there  until  1906,  when,  going  W^est,  he  spent  a  year  as  sales- 
man with  the  retail  jewelry  house  of  Chandler  &  Mitchell  at  Vancouver, 
British  Columbia,  and  another  year  was  at  Seattle,  Washington,  with 
Albert  Hansen,  a  jeweler. 

From  Seattle  Mr.  Harrison  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  established 
one  of  the  pioneer  enterprises  for  the  recharging  and  repairing  of  electric 
trucks.  His  first  shop  was  on  Werden  Place,  between  Fourth  and  Fifth 
Streets.  He  handled  all  his  patronage  with  the  help  of  one  man.  The 
next  year  he  had  a  building  especially  erected  for  his  purposes  at  the 
corner  of  Boyd  and  Wall  Streets.  That  was  his  business  headquarters 
until   1915,  when  he  moved  into  his  present  building  at  831-839  South 


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Los  Angeles  Street.  Here  he  has  a  perfectly  appointed  and  especially 
constructed  place  adapted  to  the  handling  of  his  business.  The  first 
floor  is  150x100  feet,  and  the  second  floor  100x40  feet.  Eighteen  expert 
men  are  now  in  his  service.  At  the  beginning  he  had  as  the  nucleus  of 
his  regular  patronage  the  care  of  only  six  electric  trucks.  Three  years 
later  he  handled  a  battery  service  of  forty  trucks  and  was  also  selling 
agent  for  the  General  Vehicle  Electric  Truck.  In  1916.  on  selling  that 
agency,  he  acquired  the  local  agency  for  the  Exide  Battery,  and  now  has 
facilities  for  handling  a  general  battery  repair  and  charging  service. 
The  growth  of  this  service  has  been  phenomenal  and  today  he  has  one 
of  the  largest  organizations  in  Los  Angeles  for  that  purpose. 

Mr.  Harrison  is  a  member  of  Westlake  Lodge  of  Masons,  belongs 
to  the  various  Scottish  Rite  bodies  and  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers  Association,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  March  30, 
1910,  he  married,  at  Los  Angeles,  Helen  Woodrufi".  formerly  of  Dayton, 
Ohio. 

Arthur  C.  Lillie  is  proprietor  of  the  Hartford  Windshield  Com- 
pany of  Los  Angeles,  an  industry  which  has  been  in  existence  for  ten 
years,  and  has  developed  on  the  merits  of  its  product  until  its  output 
is  now  sold  and  distributed  to  all  parts  of  the  world  where  automobiles 
are  used. 

Mr.  Lillie  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  September  24,  1888, 
a  son  of  C.  S.  and  Ella  J.  Lillie.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  left  high 
school  in  his  native  city  and  for  several  years  was  associated  with  his 
father,  a  building  contractor.  In  1910  he  came  to  Los  Angeles,  and  from 
that  time  forward  has  been  identified  with  the  Hartford  Windshield 
Company.  At  first  he  was  superintendent  of  installation,  and  in  1912 
bought  an  interest  in  the  business. 

The  Hartford  Windshield  Company  was  originally  established  in 
1908  by  J.  N.  Tabor,  inventor  of  the  automobile  windshield.  In  1910 
H.  S.  Kennedy  and  Walter  Gather  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Tabor, 
and  at  that  time  reorganized  the  business  under  the  title  of  Hartford 
Windshield  Company.  Mr.  Lillie  bought  the  industry  in  1912,  and  for 
six  years  had  as  partner  Mr.  Spencer,  but  since  March,  1918,  has  been 
sole  owner.  A  few  years  ago  only  five  employes  were  required,  but  at 
the  present  time  there  are  thirty-five  men  working  under  Mr.  Lillie. 
The  products  manufactured  by  the  Hartford  Windshield  Company  are 
all  patented,  either  being  inventions  of  their  own  or  inventions  which 
are  controlled  exclusively  by  them,  and  are  distributed  throughout  the 
LTnited  States  by  sales  agencies. 

Mr.  Lillie  is  affiliated  with  Golden  Gate  Lodge  No.  358,  F.  and  A. 
M.,  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  member  of  Al  Malaikah  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the 
Auto  Trade  Association,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Automobile  Club 
of  Southern  California,  and  in  politics  is  a  republican.  September  18, 
1908,  he  married  Lucile  Squire.  They  have  two  children :  Anita,  born 
in  1910,  and  James,  born  in  1912,  both  attending  the  public  schools. 

Carl  F.  Horn  is  a  well-known  business  figure  in  Los  Angeles,  where 
his  dancing  school  and  academy  has  become  a  fixture  in  the  social  life 
of  the  city.       , 

Mr.  Horn  was  bom  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  October  18,  1878,  a 
son  of  Louis  H.  and  Johanna  (Labastian)   Horn.     He  grew  up  in  his 


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native  city,  attending  public  school  to  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  then  took 
up  night  work  in  the  Chambers  Business  College.  In  the  daytime  he 
worked  as  bookkeeper  and  cashier  for  the  Ross  &  Todd  Wood  and  Coal 
Company  for  a  year  and  a  half.  Mr.  Horn  has  a  military  record,  having 
joined  Company  C  of  the  Fourth  Missouri  Infantry  as  a  bugler  during 
the  Spanish-American  war.  He  was  with  that  organization  nine  months. 
On  returning  to  St.  Joseph,  he  was  department  manager  for  Hirsch  Bros, 
two  years,  and  then  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  during  the  Louisiana 
Purchase  Exposition  was  musical  director  for  two  large  concessions  on 
the  Pike  until  the  fall  of  that  year.  Soon  after  returning  to  St.  Joseph, 
Mr.  Horn  opened  a  dancing  school,  and  in  1905  came  West  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  was  put  in  charge  of  a  department  of  the  Broadway 
Department  Store.  He  filled  that  position  three  years,  and  at  the  same 
time  operated  a  night  dancing  school  at  Forty-eighth  Street  and  Ver- 
mont Avenue.  His  enterprise  was  popular,  enjoyed  a  steady  growth, 
and  in  1906  moved  to  Mercantile  Place.  In  1908  he  gave  all  his  time 
to  his  school,  moving  it  to  Fifteenth  and  Main  Streets,  and  on  September 
2,  1916,  occupied  his  present  location  at  755  South  Spring  Street,  where 
he  conducts  a  high-class  dancing  school  and  academy. 

Mr.  Horn  is  affiliated  with  St.  Joseph  Camp  No.  1  of  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World,  Court  No.  33  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  is 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  City  Club,  Com- 
mercial Business  Men's  Association,  Union  League  Club,  Business  Men's 
Accident  Association  of  America,  and  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California.  He  married,  in  Los  Angeles,  Miss  Marguerite  Mackey,  on 
August  28,  1917.  Mr.  Horn  has  one  child  by  a  former  marriage,  Ivan 
Lynn,  born  April  5,  1908. 

Walter  Francis  McEntire  is  one  of  the  newer  members  of  the 
Los  Angeles  community.  He  was  for  many  years  a  successful  lawyer 
and  business  man  in  the  East.  Born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  June  4,  1861, 
son  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Morgianna  Rosamond  (Sheble)  McEntire. 
His  maternal  grandmother's  people  were  Quakers  and  settled  in  Phila- 
delphia as  early  as  1685,  and  were  among  the  builders  of  that  city.  Mr. 
McEntire's  maternal  grandfather  belonged  to  one  of  the  thirteen  families 
that  located  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  McEntire's  paternal 
grandparents  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  1812  and  settled  in 
Virginia,  where  they  were  farmers,  and  later  moved  to  St.  Louis. 

The  names  McEntire  and  Sheble  at  one  time  had  more  significance 
in  the  river  transportation  of  the  Mississippi  and  Missouri  than  any  other 
two  names  that  might  be  mentioned.  Captain  Joseph  IMcEntire  organ- 
ized the  Omaha  Packet  Company,  which  operated  a  line  of  steamers 
up  the  ^Missouri  River  as  far  as  the  outpost  of  civilization  at  Fort  Benton, 
Montana.  His  boats  were  practically  the  only  regular  line  of  transporta- 
tion to  those  remote  sections  of  the  United  States.  Captain  Edwin  A. 
Sheble,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Morgianna  Rosamond  McEntire,  organized  at 
St.  Louis  The  Anchor  Line  of  steamers  plying  between  St.  Louis  and 
New  Orleans. 

Walter  Francis  McEntire  attended  the  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  St.  Louis  to  the  age  of  seventeen.  Then,  while  employed  in  the  law 
offices  of  Nathaniel  Myers,  he  studied  law  and  between  times  attended 
the  St.  Louis  University,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  to  practice  in 
the  state  and  Federal  courts  in  the  year  1880.  Mr.  McEntire  was  busied 
with  a  large  law  practice  at  St.  Louis  until  1903.  In  that  year,  having 
become  interested  in  several  mining  ventures  in  Colorado,  he  transferred 


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his  headquarters  to  Chicago.  In  1906  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  at 
Chicago,  and  in  the  fall  of  1908  was  appointed  assistant  special  state's 
attorney  under  Frank  J.  Loesch,  who  at  that  time  was  general  Western 
sohcitor  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  In  the  spring  of  1909  Mr. 
McEntire  resigned  and  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  represented 
several  large  corporations  as  attorney,  and  came  to  be  recognized  as  a 
corporation  lawyer  of  splendid  standing  in  the  Eastern  metropolis.  He 
had  to  give  up  his  business  interests  there  on  account  of  ill  health,  and 
in  February,  1915,  came  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  resumed  law 
practice,  but  somewhat  less  strenuously  dian  in  former  days,  attaining 
here,  however,  a  high  standing  and  a  good  practice. 

Mr.  McEntire  is  deeply  interested  in  the  life  and  affairs  of  Cali- 
fornia and  has  written  a  number  of  articles  on  California  history.  He 
has  made  a  special  study  of  the  old  Spanish  missions.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Union  League  Club,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Law  Com- 
mittee of  the  RepubHcan  State  Central  Committe  of  the  Southern  Divi- 
sion of  California. 

While  a  resident  of  St.  Louis  he  was  actively  identified  with  educa- 
tional affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  that 
city  for  three  years,  and  while  in  office  did  good  work  for  the  public 
schools ;  he  also  did  much  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  St.  Louis  Uni- 
versity. He  was  president  of  the  Jefferson  Club  in  1906  and  1907.  At 
St.  Louis,  August  1.  1887,  he  married  Miss  Julia  E.,  daughter  of 
Gerard  O.  Kalb,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  city.  Their  only  child.  Vera, 
is  the  wife  of  Samuel  Stockton  White  HI  of  Philadelphia.