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 R. JOHN CRAIG McCOY, 1853-1919. To the Colony of Vir- 
 ginia in 1750 came Thomas McCoy. In his "ain countree" 
 he was "Laird Tammas McKay," a man of position and in- 
 fluence. Like many another of his countrymen, 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 
 hrst-born. Cornelius by name, was two years old, the father 
 undertook 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-fever, 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 Washington during the Revolution. He founded 
 a home in Albemarle County, Virginia, and there was born John, the father 
 of Samuel, the father of Milton, 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 married 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 Church, 
 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 Boonville, 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 
 
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 the boy often helped "Uncle Peter" with his duties, so that the two of them 
 might "go a' fishin'." Through the beautiful 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 McCoy perhaps never had a friend whom he loved and valued more 
 than the "Uncle Peter" of his boyhood, and surely none whose homely philoso- 
 phy 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 impression 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 comrade- 
 ship 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 Mis- 
 souri 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 Philadel- 
 phia, 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 South- 
 ern 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 agricultural and horticultural possibilities became 
 known beyond the eastern mountains, another generation, seeing and feeling the 
 opportunity, inspired 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 energy 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 immi- 
 gration of the right kind, could always be counted on the side of real temper- 
 ance and morality, and every movement toward the upbuilding of the com- 
 munity 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 beside 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 better- 
 ment. 
 
 Doctor McCoy was a man of strong religious convictions. He was a Bap- 
 
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 tist because he believed in the faith and practice of that denomination, 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 attend- 
 ing church and paying his 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 community and the state. His concern for the young 
 led him to be a consistent 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 organization 
 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 Chris- 
 tian 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 the wide-spreading of the gospel of good 
 health. 
 
 "In his relations toward family, friends, and confreres, he exemplified 
 those attributes of character which, besides being admirable, are 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. "While 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 gradu- 
 ation 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 
 his boyhood home, and a partnership with his father. As the study halls were 
 left behind, a high conception of the deeds 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, finding his greatest reward in the con- 
 sciousness 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. 
 
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 "Koller, of Vienna, in 1884 reported his experiments with cocaine in 
 ophthalmic surgery. In 1885 Doctor McCoy was using the drug in his prac- 
 tice 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 Cali- 
 fornia 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 arrangements for the meetings, bring the members to- 
 gether, 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 secretary 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 offi- 
 cially recognized by the State of California, and having labored so energetic- 
 ally in behalf of dental legislation that would protect the public from profes- 
 sional incompetency, he was elected a member of the Board of Dental Exam- 
 iners 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 accomplished much in barring the unscrupulous charlatans and 
 in the prosecution 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 conditions of the mouth 
 and teeth, and the relief of those general disturbances by treatment original 
 with 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 seeds which are now 
 yielding their beneficial harvest. He read a paper before the American Medical 
 Association in 1894 on the subject at the San Francisco 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. May 
 that dream yet be fulfilled. 
 
 "Doctor McCoy was one of the small coterie of Southern California dentists 
 who pre-visioned the present College of Dentistry of the University of Southern 
 California, aided in establishing it, and was a member of its faculty. He 
 lived to be proud of an institution which has come to be an honor to the com- 
 munity and state. 
 
 "Doctor McCoy 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 in 1915. 
 
 "The limitations of space prevent us from further enlarging this bio- 
 graphical recital of a man who so gracefully adorned the profession to which 
 he contributed so bountifully ; of a man who, through his religious convictions 
 
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 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 admiration to the memory 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 Hollywood Cemetery, guarded by the mountains that 
 were his friends, and beneath the blue skies of his beloved California. 
 
George jWacfe 
 
 OR the past dozen years George Mack has been a factor in 
 the oil and other development work in the Southwest, and 
 has become well known among the mining interests centered 
 at Los Angeles. He is a thorough business man, has had 
 wide training in various affairs, and closed one of the largest 
 deals in oil property transacted in recent years. 
 
 Mr. Mack was born in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, 
 December 31, 1863, son of George and Mary (Hodge) Mack. 
 When he was a child his parents moved to Stuart, Iowa, where he acquired his 
 education in the grammar and high schools and later in the State Normal 
 School. When he was nineteen years old he went to the Northwest to seek his 
 opportunities, and at Salem, Oregon, was deputy county clerk of Marion County 
 for three years. At Portland, Oregon,- he was associated with Mitchell, Lewis 
 & Staver Company, wholesale implement dealers, as superintendent of their 
 collection department for ten years. Resigning this office, he removed to Wal- 
 lowa County, Oregon, and was cashier of the First Bank of Joseph until 1907. 
 
 Mr. Mack came to Los Angeles in 1907 to become associated with E. A. 
 Montgomery, a boyhood friend, in the varied and important mining and other 
 interests of the latter. Mr. Mack became treasurer of the Skidoo Mines Com- 
 pany, owned and operated by Mr. Montgomery. Since 1914 he has been secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Paunco Excelsior Oil Company, whose chief property 
 is in the Paunco district, near Tampico, Mexico. In 1917 Mr. Mack accom- 
 plished the closing of the sale of the Paunco Excelsior Oil Company property 
 to the Standard Oil Company, a transaction involving a million dollars. Mr. 
 Mack is also secretary and treasurer of the Topila Petroleum Company. 
 
 Mr. Mack, whose offices are in the Investment Building, in Los Angeles, 
 is a member of the Masonic Order, the Elks, and is a republican voter. At 
 Salem, Oregon, April 11, 1888, he married Lo Ruhamah Chapman. They have 
 two daughters, Nina, wife of H. S. Gibson of Joseph, Oregon, and Helen, wife 
 of A. K. Parker, cashier of a bank at Enterprise, Oregon. 
 
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ITHOUT the definite talent for organization with which a few 
 men of the many are endowed, the opening up of new terri- 
 tories, the development of natural resources and the expan- 
 sion of business would often be delayed. This organizing 
 faculty, working on a stable business foundation, produces 
 marvelous results that benefit the entire sphere of commer- 
 cial life. In this connection attention may be called to a 
 man of great achievement in this line, Martin V. McQuigg, 
 who has home and maintains offices at Los Angeles. Mr. McQuigg has been 
 officially connected with many of the greatest developments in the oil industry 
 in the country for a number of years, and in addition to other positions of 
 prominence, is president of the American Fuel, Oil & Transportation Company, 
 which company recently made the largest single contract for the purchase of fuel 
 oil in the history of the United States, the quantity being over 100,000,000 bar- 
 rels, several ships having been chartered and twenty 10,(JU0 ton tankers are now 
 under construction for the delivery of this oil in Europe. 
 
 Martin V. McQuigg was born in Wright County, Missouri, September 15, 
 1861. His parents were Martin V. and Frances (Weaver) McQuigg. He at- 
 tended the public schools until fourteen years of age, then entered a general 
 store in a clerical capacity, at a salary of $200 a year for the first eighteen 
 months, after that receiving a share of the profits, and by the time he was 
 twenty years old was so highly appreciated for business sagacity, that he was 
 admitted to partnership. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. McQuigg sold his store interest and went to Ontario, Cal., 
 where he organized the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier and a director 
 for ten years, when he resigned the office of cashier, but is still a stockholder 
 of the bank. During this interval he had organized a number of irrigation 
 water companies. In 1900 he went to Kern County, California, where he began 
 oil operating and organized the Euclid Oil Company, and the Globe Oil Com- 
 pany, and is yet president of both companies. In 1902 he organized the Mon- 
 terey County Gas & Electric Company, of which he was president, this com- 
 pany operating the water, electric light and gas systems of Salinas ; the gas, 
 electric light and electric railway system of Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz and 
 Capitola, California, and the Watsonville Railway, of Watsonville, California, 
 which was later merged with the Santa Cruz Electric Railway, which later 
 became the Union Traction Company. Mr. McQuigg sold his interests in 1906. 
 
 In 1902 he organized the Independent Oil Company, of which he was 
 president for one year and treasurer and director since then. One of his asso- 
 ciates in the organization of this company was Hon. Franklin K. Lane, secre- 
 tary of the United States Interior Department. In 1907 Mr. McQuigg again 
 exercised his faculty for business organization, in founding the Exchange 
 National Bank of Long Beach, California, of which he was manager until 1914, 
 when he sold out. In 1907 he also organized the Traders Oil Company, of 
 which he is president, and in 1918 he organized the Traders Oil Corporation, 
 formed to acquire the interests of the Traders and other oil companies. In 
 1919 he organized the American Fuel, Oil and Transportation Company of 
 
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 Delaware, with offices at 170 Broadway, New York City, of which company he is 
 president. This company has absorbed the Traders Oil Company and has large 
 interests in South America, owning three and a half million acres of land 
 there. The company is engaged in oil producing, transportation enterprises, 
 in oil, marketing and refining, and also owns a large acreage in Oklahoma, 
 Kansas, Texas and Mexico. Only men of the keenest business capacity and 
 commercial experience can successfully handle an enterprise of such vast pro- 
 portions. 
 
 Mr. McQuigg was married at Seymour, Missouri, December 25, 1884, to 
 Miss Clara Robertson, who died in 1899, survived by three children: Frank, 
 who is general field manager of the Traders Oil Company; Harry, who is 
 petroleum engineer, has charge of the Kansas development for the Traders Oil 
 Company; and Clara Louise, who resides at home. Mr. McQuigg 's second mar- 
 riage took place at Pasadena, California, June 22, 1905, to Miss Annie Wood, 
 whose father, Almon Wood, came to California with the pioneers. 
 
N THE clay products industry of Southern California and the 
 West no name has stood for more constructive effort and a 
 larger scope of enterprise than Frost. Howard Frost is 
 now president of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, 
 a great industry which was founded by his father the late 
 Charles H. Frost, in 1887. 
 
 Charles H. Frost, who died October 9, 1916, deserves to 
 rank high among the business builders of Los Angeles. He 
 was born at Ithaca, New York, June 9, 1844, son of George P. and Eliza Little 
 (Benjamin) Frost. His grandfather, George P. Frost, was a captain in the Rev- 
 olutionary Army. Charles H. Frost received his early education in Ithaca and 
 Chicago, and finally in a high school at Quincy, Illinois. In 1862, at the age 
 of eighteen he left school and as his father refused to permit him to enlist as 
 a fighting man he took employment in the commissary department as a civilian 
 at Chicago. Two years later he was transferred to the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment at Cincinnati and promoted to cashier, where he remained two years more. 
 
 His first business was life insurance, connected with the Home Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. He became its secretary and in 1868 
 resigned to join the United States Life Insurance Company of New York as 
 manager of the western department. He continued that work until 1877. 
 
 Charles H. Frost first entered the pressed brick business in 1877, when he 
 organized a large company with a capital of $500,000 in Chicago. He was made 
 general manager and was its directing head for ten years. He acquired an 
 independent fortune in the business, and came to California in 1887. Being 
 unwilling to retire he organized in 1887 the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Com- 
 pany, and became its president and general manager. The business was capi- 
 talized for $500,000 and some of the foremost business men of Los Angeles were 
 associated with Mr. Frost in the enterprise. The main plant is at Los Angeles 
 and there are other plants at Santa Monica, Point Richmond, and the newest 
 and one of the largest at Alberhill, Riverside County, and the output is dis- 
 tributed throughout the coast. Charles H. Frost was a member of the Union 
 League Club of Chicago, of the Building Trades Club of New York and the 
 Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, and was a thirty-second degree Mason. On No- 
 vember 19, 1869, at Davenport, Iowa, he married Helen I. Sherman. They be- 
 came the parents of two children, Lida E., Mrs. L. J. Huff and Howard. 
 
 Howard Frost was born in Chicago, August 28, 1883, and was a small 
 child when brought to Los Angeles. He entered the public schools in 1889 and 
 at the age of thirteen attended the Gunnery School for Boys at Washington, 
 Connecticut, for four years, the Belmont School for Boys at Belmont, California, 
 a year and a half, spent one year in Occidental College in Los Angeles, and 
 completed his education with another year at the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 After leaving school Mr. Frost entered the Los Angeles Pressed Brick 
 Company and started in at the factory for the purpose of acquiring a thorough 
 practical knowledge of every phase of the business. His first duties were that 
 of shipping clerk and time keeper, and he worked in all the various depart- 
 
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 ments from the factory to the general offices. He was general manager of the 
 Richmond plant during the first year of its operation in 1907. Later he was 
 elected vice-president and in 1913 became president of this prominent corpora- 
 tion. He is also a director of the Business Men's Co-operative Association, is a 
 member of Sunset Lodge No. 352, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Jonathan 
 Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and is a Presbyterian and a republican. On 
 August 31, 1904, he married Alice Mae Bond. They have one son, John Lau- 
 rence, born in 1912. 
 
Domingo Amestoy 
 
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 F 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 en- 
 gaged in mining, that was not his permanent vocation. His 
 interests lay chiefly in the field of ranching and stock rais- 
 ing, and from his accumulating resources he made a hand- 
 some fortune and used it wisely and well. 
 
 He was born at 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 followed it until 1851. That year brought him to 
 California after a voyage of six months around Cape Horn. At San Fran- 
 cisco 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 650 acres near Los Angeles at Rosecranz. From that time on he 
 increased his holdings in Los Angeles and surrounding country. In 1888 he 
 acquired 4,500 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 acquiring 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 Com- 
 merce. He was also one of the original stockholders of the Farmers and Mer- 
 chants 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 living. Mrs. Junita 
 A. Glass, A. J., J. B., Mrs. Louis Sentous, Jr., Peter D., Michael F., Joseph P. 
 and Mrs. Elizabeth A. Wells, all of whom reside in Los Angeles. 
 
 Michael F. Amestoy, who during his active career has represented many 
 of the extensive interests of the Amestoy family in Los Angeles, was born in 
 Los Angeles, January 29, 1877, son of the late Domingo Amestoy, whose inter- 
 esting career as a California old timer precedes this sketch. 
 
 Michael was well reared and liberally educated. He was under the in- 
 struction of a private tutor in the family home to the age of fifteen, and then 
 
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 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 interests 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. 
 
 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. 
 
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 T IS difficult to do full credit in a brief sketch to the life his- 
 tory of the late Mr. Jarchow, who for more than forty years 
 made his home at San Gabriel and during that time gave the 
 best that was in him and of his influence to the growth and 
 welfare of his community. His life story is that of a self- 
 made man, one who came poor and alone to American shores, 
 and exemplified the finest virtues of the pioneer in the con- 
 quest of the Middle and the Far West. 
 He arrived in this country more than sixty years ago, reaching New York 
 with a single dollar in his pocket, one-half of which he spent for his first Amer- 
 ican breakfast. From humble and inauspicious beginnings he made steady prog- 
 ress by force of his industry, integrity and application and honest efforts. In his 
 declining years he enjoyed the fruits of his well spent career at his attractive 
 home at Mission Road and Main streets in San Gabriel, where amid his orange 
 groves and flowers, surrounded by friends and neighbors, he quietly passed 
 away September 21, 1919, when in his ninety-fifth year. 
 
 The late Mr. Jarchow was born January 13, 1825, in the northern portion 
 of Germany about fifty miles from the city of Hamburg. He grew up on a 
 farm. At an early age he learned to assume his share of farm duties. As a 
 boy he milked the cows and did other farm tasks fitted to his size and strength. 
 He was eighteen years of age when his father died. Being the oldest of seven 
 children he conscientiously assumed increased responsibilities in looking after 
 the family and remained on the home farm until he was nearly thirty years 
 of age. Then, having seen his brothers and sisters come to manhood and wom- 
 anhood, he determined to seek the greater opportunities of America. Octo- 
 ber 20, 1853, he sailed from Hamburg on a sailing vessel. After three months 
 on the ocean the boat reached New York harbor January 10, 1854. There he 
 met a friend who supplied him with transportation to Buffalo. At Buffalo he 
 cut wood for a time, and soon found an opportunity to work on a small farm 
 at wages of $10.00 a month and board. He milked cows, looked after the stock 
 and did other farm work. The second year his wages were raised to $12.00 a 
 month. His next employment was on a large milk farm, where he milked twenty 
 or more cows night and morning. When he tired of this employment he made 
 the next important step in his pioneer progress, going out in Minnesota Terri- 
 tory, and at Stillwater for one year, 1856-57, he worked in a lumber yard. He 
 also took up a government claim. About the time the Civil war began in 
 America he and his three brothers went to a point twenty miles below Memphis, 
 Tennessee, and took a contract to cut wood. Soon the trend of fighting moved 
 in their direction and the brothers gave up their enterprise and returned to 
 Minnesota where they resumed farming on their claim. Jointly they had a 
 hundred twenty acres, most of which they cleared and improved and brought 
 under cultivation. They were stock farmers, and while in Minnesota Mr. 
 Jarchow did much to improve and raise the standard of dairy cows in his dis- 
 trict. He and his brothers were the first settlers in their particular locality, 
 and they did real pioneer work in laying the foundation of a civilization which 
 later comers enjoyed. 
 
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 JOACHIM H. F. JARCHOW 
 
 Mr. Jarchow left Minnesota and came to California in 1876, the centennial 
 year. Tales of the marvelous resources and wonders of the Southwest were 
 being continually read at that time as at present, and Mr. Jarchow finally de- 
 termined to test the words of others by his own personal observation. Selling 
 his Minnesota farm he arrived in San Gabriel, February 28, 1876. At first he 
 rented a small tract but soon bought his home place of ten acres. This land like 
 most of the lands around San Gabriel at that time, was raw and practically 
 unproductive. Once again Mr. Jarchow started in as a pioneer, in a manner 
 repeating what he had done in Minnesota many years previous. He set out an 
 orange grove, from year to year added to the beauty and adornments of his 
 home. While without experience in the growing of citrus fruit, orange culture 
 seemed to come natural with him, and in the course of time he was regarded 
 as an authority on orange growing in his valley. At an early day he sold his 
 oranges for as high as $5.00 a box. One season his oranges were awarded the 
 only gold medal given by the Pasadena Fair. He had many other medals given 
 his crop at fairs and exhibits, and he probably took more satisfaction in the 
 superior quality of his fruit than in the financial profit that he gathered. He 
 was identified with every progressive movement in his locality, being a member 
 of the Grange in eai'ly years. He used his influence and co-operated with his 
 neighbors in creating and perfecting the water system for the irrigation of 
 the lands in his district, and for a number of years served as water superin- 
 tendent. Throughout his residence at San Gabriel he was known as a stanch 
 friend of education and served his school district very capably as a member of 
 the Board of School Trustees. 
 
 Mr. Jarchow was twice married. His first wife was Miss Sophia Bruck. 
 They were married in Minnesota, in 1862. Her death occurred in San Gabriel, 
 in 1900. Two years later at San Gabriel Mr. Jarchow married Mrs. Johanna 
 Kretchmer, widow of Otto Kretchmer and daughter of Henry Lahl. Mrs. Jar- 
 chow was born in Germany and came to the United States February 16, 1882. 
 
jMrs. jWetotna a. lott 
 
 O A "native son" there is great distinction in belonging to a 
 family founded in California by those sturdy pioneers, the 
 "forty-niners," equalled by the pride displayed by those of 
 New England birth in descent from passengers on the historic 
 Mayflower. Therefore, it is but natural that Mrs. Melvina A. 
 Lott is proud of the fact that she is a niece of the famous 
 Remi Nadeau, known all over the West as proprietor of the 
 Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, and later as the builder 
 of the old Nadeau House that still stands at First and Spring streets, then the 
 finest portion of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mrs. Lott was brought from Vermont to Los Angeles when a child during 
 1875. Her people were Canadians, who spent a few years in Vermont prior to 
 making the long trip overland to the "land of promise." They, too, were 
 practical and bought considerable property at Los Angeles. Mrs. Lott's mother, 
 Adele Nadeau, was the youngest of fifteen children, all of whom were born in 
 Canada. She was born in 1841, had a beautiful voice and at eighteen was the 
 leading soprano in Quebec Cathedral. She married Michel LaPointe in 1861. 
 They had eight children, of whom Mrs. Lott is the second, and five are still 
 living. The father died in Los Angeles in 1909, and the mother in 1910. 
 
 In 1884 Mrs. Lott married Austin E. Lott, who for seventeen years was 
 agent for Mr. Nadeau. Soon after his marriage he bought the teams and outfit 
 of Mr. Nadeau, and taking his young wife to the mining camp at Daggett, 
 he continued the freighting business, she keeping the books. During the last 
 sixteen years of his life Mr. Lott lived in Los Angeles and there his death 
 occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Lott have a son, Esperance A. Lott, and a daughter, who 
 is now Mrs. H. M. Keller. At his death Mr. Lott left his widow some very 
 valuable property, located opposite Pershing Square, where she now resides. 
 She was subsequently married to a man bearing the same name as her first 
 husband, but not related. 
 
 A lady of large means, Mrs. Lott's heart is as richly endowed with a wealth 
 of sympathy and generosity as her purse with gold, and her benefactions are 
 numerous and varied. A consistent member of the First Methodist Church of 
 Los Angeles, which she joined when but twelve years old, she has made it many 
 donations, the latest being a $10,000 chimes equipment for the new church edi- 
 fice, her name and subscription heading the list. She also financed the First 
 Methodist Episcopal Church Red Cross Auxiliary of over 1,700 members, and is a 
 life member of five church societies of Los Angeles. During the past two years 
 she has been an earnest worker in the Red Cross, has been a leader in rummage 
 sales, bazaars, and kindred benefactions, and raised for the cause thousands of 
 dollars. She obtained materials from factories and, with her helpers, made at 
 her home over 300 rugs, her output in salvage consisting of everything from 
 rags to gold and silver. An unusual privilege was conferred upon her in that 
 she was the only person, aside from Red Cross headquarters, allowed to sell 
 the products of her gathering and manufacture. During two years she worked 
 indefatigably in this noble cause, and the highest Red Cross medal was con- 
 ferred upon her. 
 
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 MRS. MELVINA A. LOTT 
 
 While Mrs. Lott did not arrive in California until the pioneer period was 
 past, she imbibed much of the spirit of those glorious days and possessed some 
 of the characteristics of the men and women who raised standards of hearty, 
 wholesome hospitality, generous, open-handed friendship, and a fearlessness in 
 supporting what they believed to be right and good. As long as such persons as 
 Mrs. Lott remain, Los Angeles will continue to live up to its name, and the 
 spirit of the founders of the "Golden State" will continue to animate it and 
 its works. 
 
 Perhaps the finest crown of long experience and achievement is the spirit 
 of humility which is found in all really wise people. Many of her close friends 
 and co-workers have long known Mrs. Lott for her literary ability, especially as 
 a writer of verse, much of which has been heard in church and charity enter- 
 tainments. The quality of her verse and the spirit just noted above is best 
 expressed in the following stanzas from the pen of Mrs. Lott : 
 
 What can I say that has not been said? 
 
 Of the pleasant things in life? 
 What can I tell that has not been told 
 
 Of all the world's sadness and strife? 
 
 What can I see no other has seen ? 
 
 The beautiful everywhere found — 
 I can see with just my own viewpoint — 
 
 All the bad and the good around. 
 
 What can I hear not heard by others? 
 
 There is music in everything. 
 It's just within self, in mind and will 
 
 That gives all a musical ring. 
 
 What can I be no other has been ? 
 
 Nothing but my only self, Me, 
 For there were never two just alike, 
 
 So I can just one pattern be. 
 
 What can I do that has not been done 
 In this world of pleasure and strife? 
 
 It is only character that counts — 
 In the building to make a life. 
 
 What can I love any more than you? 
 
 Only that which belongs to me — 
 As personal gifts from God I love ; 
 
 And that is just as it should be. 
 
 What can I take with me when I go? 
 
 Not an item more than can you. 
 We bring nothing in, take nothing out, 
 
 'Tis something we can not undo. 
 
 What are the pleasures to be enjoyed, 
 By the taste, touch, hearing or sight — 
 
 Not enjoyed by the first here on earth? 
 The answer is none, and 'tis right. 
 
MRS. MELVINA A. LOTT 
 
 When I pass on and my story told, 
 I'll be worth just this, hear me say! 
 
 Not one cent less, or one penny more — 
 Than what I have given away. 
 
 When I shall go to the Great Beyond — 
 And the song of my life is sung — 
 
 I'll be remembered by just one thing; 
 And that will be, what I have done. 
 
UFUS W. BURNHAM is one of the oldest men in the service 
 of the internationally known mercantile agency of R. G. Dun 
 & Company. That firm was established in New York in 1841. 
 While one of the oldest mercantile agencies in America and 
 with a widespread service that makes the name "Dun" a 
 common phrase in commercial transactions, it is a matter of 
 interest to note that Mr. Burnham became associated with 
 the company more than forty years ago and has therefore 
 been in its service through more than half of its total existence. 
 
 Mr. Burnham, who has had charge of the Los Angeles branch agency 
 since 1894, took charge of this office seven years after it was established in 
 1887. The first location of R. G. Dun & Company in Los Angeles was 232 
 North Main Street, where the office was maintained over twenty years, and 
 since 1908 Mr. Burnham has had his headquarters in the International Bank 
 Building. Through the experienced direction of Mr. Burnham the Dun & 
 Company agency has become an indispensable factor to the business community, 
 and has facilities for the most perfect and reliable information as to credits 
 and financial conditions generally. 
 
 Mr. Burnham was born in Windham, Connecticut, January 21, 1851, and 
 was only three months old when his father, William Burnham, died. His 
 mother, Ellen (Bass) Burnham, is still living, at the age of ninety years, and 
 retains her faculties almost unimpaired. She resides at Andover, Con- 
 necticut. 
 
 Mr. Burnham was educated in public and private schools at Windham, 
 Connecticut, and Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and as a young man went to work 
 in a book and stationery house at Norwich, Connecticut. He was employed 
 there seven years and after that was with a dry goods house at Hartford, Con- 
 necticut. He first came to the West in 1877, and in 1878 entered the employ of 
 the R. G. Dun & Company at Kansas City. He was sent to Denver, Colorado, as 
 manager of the company's agency there in 1880, but resigned in 1884, and for 
 thirty-five years has made his home on the Pacific Coast. For ten years he 
 spent most of his time traveling as a reporter for Dun & Company, and in 1894 
 took the management of the Los Angeles office. 
 
 During his long residence in Los Angeles he has been a valued leader in 
 many movements for the upbuilding and progress of the city and county. He 
 served on the executive committee of the Municipal League since it was organ- 
 ized until 1914, and for several years was first vice president. He was a director 
 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce from January, 1912, to January, 1916, 
 and has been a member of its more important committees. In 1896, during the 
 first McKinley campaign, he was one of the five members of the executive com- 
 mittee of the Business Men's Sound Money Club. He is a member of the Sixth 
 Agricultural District Association, in charge of the Exposition Park, and served 
 as chairman in 1919. Mr. Burnham is also a member of one of the most ex- 
 clusive clubs in the city, the Sunset Club, which he served as president in 1908. 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club, City Club, Merchants' and Manufac- 
 turers' Association, and during the war was very active as a leader in both 
 
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 the Red Cross and Liberty Bond campaigns, heading a team in support of both 
 
 organizations. 
 
 Mr. Burnham resides at the Bryson Apartments. He married, at Oakland, 
 California, December 30, 1887, Miss Marion Bennison. She died at Los Angeles 
 February 8, 1917. Mr. Burnham has one daughter, Mrs. Richard H. Oakley of 
 Los Angeles, who was born at Oakland and educated in the Los Angeles High 
 School and is a graduate of Marlboro School for Girls at Los Angeles and of 
 Dana Hall in Wellesley. Mrs. Oakley has two daughters, Barbara and Jean, 
 natives of Los Angeles. 
 
HETHER he is known by personal acquaintance — a privilege 
 esteemed by many of the leading business men and citizens 
 of Los Angeles — or by the thousands and hundreds of thou- 
 sands who know his name as a symbol of good service in con- 
 nection with the City Dye Works and Laundry Company, 
 the outstanding feature of John Joseph Jenkins is an unlimit- 
 ed energy for work and a never-ending desire to make his 
 work of real benefit and service to his fellowmen. 
 A great many people work as a necessary prerequisite to getting some- 
 thing they need or desire. Though Mr. Jenkins began to make his living by 
 work when eleven or twelve years of age, apparently he has not yet become 
 satisfied that work is entitled to be followed by rest. Some of his old friends 
 recall an incident that when he was a boy in St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked 
 as a devil in a printing establishment, he showed an extraordinary ability at 
 feeding a printing press at a rate of speed and precision unknown in that shop. 
 He was feeding the press rapidly because that was his way of expressing his 
 character and his energy, and not merely for the sake of promoting himself 
 higher on the pay roll. His enthusiasm was not shared by his fellow work- 
 men and did not become contagious, since one night a burly Irishman met him 
 outside the shop and warned him that he must slow down in his speed and be 
 satisfied with producing only the normal output agreed upon by his fellow 
 employes. He was not convinced then nor since that this was a sound princi- 
 ple for either the individual or an organization of labor, and rather than con- 
 form, he just naturally discharged himself, and has been more or less an active 
 opponent of union labor to this day, particularly so far as the unions counte- 
 nance and uphold a practice of holding back the individual desire to do one's 
 best. However, this is only incidental to his main career, and is mentioned here 
 largely for the light it throws on Mr. Jenkins' working ambition. 
 
 He was born in Philadelphia, June 11, 1869, son of George Spratt and 
 Marietta (Carrell) Jenkins. His paternal ancestors were Welsh Quakers. His 
 grandfather, David Hall Jenkins, was born June 9, 1812, at Philadelphia, while 
 his w ; fe was born in Monmouth, New Jersey, in April, 1812. On his father's 
 side Mr. Jenkins is a great-great-grandson of John Chapman, who served as a 
 p vate soldier in Capt. William Price's company with the Chester County 
 .nnsylvania Militia in 1777. There were seven Jenkinses who were ministers 
 of the gospel. The family history goes back to 1667 to Morgan Rhydderch, an 
 old chieftain, who was a grandson of Griffith Ap Griffith, of the time of Queen 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 George Spratt Jenkins was born in Covington, Pennsylvania, February 12, 
 1844, and died at Los Angeles June 26, 1918, at the age of seventy-four. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he was with a Pennsylvania regiment for four years and six 
 months, being a lieutenant when mustered out. He was retained in service a 
 number of months after the close of the war. By profession he was an expert 
 accountant. He had lived in Los Angeles about twelve years. His wife was 
 born in New York City August 1, 1850, of English ancestry. She died at Pitts- 
 burgh, Pennsylvania, in 1896. John Joseph is the only one now living of five 
 
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 children, two of whom died in infancy. There were also two daughters, one of 
 whom was Gertrude Thompson Jenkins, named after the Long Island family of 
 Thompsons. She died at Spokane, Washington, in 1914. 
 
 John Joseph Jenkins has been earning his own way since he was eleven 
 years old. In the summer of 1881, when President Garfield was shot, young 
 Jenkins was selling newspapers on the streets of Philadelphia. He continued to 
 live in Philadelphia until he was thirteen years of age, attending the common 
 schools as opportunity offered. From there he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, 
 working for a time in a cracker and candy factory, then in a wholesale sta- 
 tionery and drug house, and afterwards started to learn the printer's trade, with 
 results which have already been noted. He made many friends in St. Paul, 
 especially among the French Canadians there. He had some part in city politics. 
 Later he became associated with the St. Paul Title Insurance Company. Its 
 general superintendent sent him to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to lay the founda- 
 tion for a title insurance company in that state and city. He laid that founda- 
 tion, though at the same time he was in competition with a million and a half 
 dollar corporation. He formed an abstract company called the Bissell, Millard 
 & Jenkins Abstract Company. Later Mr. Millard left to become secretary of a 
 big business organization in Chicago. Mr. Jenkins had most of the business 
 responsibility for carrying out the plans of his aged associate, Colonel Bissell, 
 who soon afterwards died, leaving the affair incomplete. The business was a 
 long cherished ambition of Colonel Bissell, and in order to complete it, Mr. 
 Jenkins organized what was known as the Lawyers Title Abstract Company, all 
 the stock being sold to lawyers. Mr. Jenkins personally took upon himself the 
 matter of selling the stock, though without experience in that line. The first 
 lawyer he approached on the subject was Philander Knox, known in American 
 history as secretary of state and now United States senator from Pennsylvania. 
 Mr. Knox not only took a kindly interest in the young stock salesman, giving 
 him a great deal of good advice, but placed his own name on the top line of the 
 stock subscribers. In about two years after the death of Colonel Bissell, Mr. 
 Jenkins had the company well organized and was its general manager. At 
 that point his health broke down, and he had to retire. In the meantime he 
 had read a great deal of title law and had almost a lawyer's knowledge of this 
 subject. 
 
 In the meantime, while making a trip for Colonel Bissell, Mr. Jenkins' 
 fertile mind had conceived the idea of a service whereby a man's suit might be 
 taken care of in the same way that his shirts were handled by laundries. The 
 idea itself was original and the execution of it was big and important under 
 the directing genius of Mr. Jenkins. He formed the Enterprise Pressing Com- 
 pany at Pittsburgh, and built up the industry to most promising proportions. 
 Five years later his health again broke down and he sold out and in 1899 came 
 to Los Angeles, expecting to see California and die, but found so much inspira- 
 ton, as well as health, in the "West that he determined to remain and live. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Jenkins bought a half interest in a small plant, which prop- 
 erly speaking could not be considered even the corner stone or any part of the 
 foundation of the present magnificent establishment known as the City Dye 
 Works and Laundry Company. The plant had a one-horse wagon for delivery, 
 employed six persons, and its boiler was capable of carrying only five pounds 
 of steam. This little shop was at 345 South Broadway. Without considering 
 the subsequent history of twenty years' steady growth and expansion, it is suf- 
 ficient to say that the City Dye Works, of which Mr. Jenkins is president and 
 manager, is now a big plant, with branch stores at Los Angeles, Long Beach, 
 Pasadena and Ocean Park, and altogether employs 300 persons. The main plant 
 itself covers four acres, located at 3000 Central Avenue, between Twenty-ninth 
 and Thirty-second streets. The concern maintains forty automobile delivery 
 wagons and has one of the largest if not the largest private garage in the city. 
 The National Association of Cleaners and Dyers has called this one of the model 
 
JOHN JOSEPH JENKINS 
 
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 establishments of the kind in the United States. It is a big industry, divided 
 into many departments, there being a special organization and department for 
 gloves, garments, blankets and laces, carpets, hats, ostrich feathers. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins was one of the two original Southern California good roads 
 boosters. Together with Robert C. Lennie, long since deceased, he built the 
 first bicycle path from Los Angeles to Santa Monica out of a fund raised through 
 the sale of good roads buttons to the bicycle riders of that period. This well- 
 constructed six-foot roadway was the object lesson that awakened the public 
 to the idea of improved highways, which has since resulted in our splendid 
 system of boulevards. Mr. Jenkins was also secretary of the Ocean-to-Ocean 
 Highway Association and a member of the executive committee who laid out 
 the auto road through the Salton Desert in Imperial Valley and demonstrated the 
 practicability of constructing a highway through what was formerly an im- 
 passable desert waste to automobiles. 
 
 More recently Mr. Jenkins was the man behind an entirely new and unique 
 organization of the Pacific Coast, a commercial yarn dyeing establishment known 
 as the Jenkins-Wright Company, Ltd., yarn dyers and bleachers. This is the 
 only establishment of its kind on the coast, and handles practically all the com- 
 mercial work in that line between San Diego and Seattle. At the present writ- 
 ing improvements are under way for the purpose of doubling the size of the 
 yarn dyeing plant until it will have a capacity for 10,000 pounds of worsted and 
 10,000 pounds of cotton yarn per week. There will also be a fireproof storage 
 with a capacity of 500,000 pounds of yarn. 
 
 As this brief article has endeavored to show, Mr. Jenkins has had an 
 interesting career and has an interesting individuality. His personal charac- 
 ter is appreciated by his many friends and associates in the various bodies of 
 York Rite Masonry and the Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
 the Jonathan Club, Brentwood Country Club, Wilshire Country Club, Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, and the 
 South Coast Yacht Club, of which he was one of the first commodores. He is 
 a member of the Chemist Club of New York, belongs to the Sons of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution, and for five years while living at Pittsburgh was a member of 
 the Naval Reserve and rose to the grade of junior lieutenant. He was on the 
 old battleship Maine the year before it was blown up in Havana harbor. 
 Politically he is a republican. 
 
 October 6, 1896, at Pittsburgh, Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hilda B. Lowry 
 of that city, the daughter of the late Washington Lowry, who at one time was 
 mayor of East Liberty, Pennsylvania, and became prominent in Pittsburgh. 
 Mrs. Jenkins was born and educated at Pittsburgh. 
 
gilbert Sxel Ccfeatrom 
 
 LBERT AXEL ECKSTROM, who was one of the founders and 
 for many years vice president of the California Furniture 
 Company of Los Angeles, was a native son of California, and 
 his life, though terminated at the end of sixty years, was a 
 complete exemplification of the dignity of labor, the beauty 
 of friendship, and all the fruits that flow from sincerity and 
 integrity of character. 
 
 He was born at Stockton, California, March 25, 1859, a 
 son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stuart) Eckstrom. His father was a native of 
 Stockholm, Sweden, and came directly to California around the Horn to San 
 Francisco. While at Stockton he met Miss Elizabeth Stuart. She was a direct 
 descendant of the Stuarts of Scotland, where she was born. As a girl she 
 came to Stockton by way of the Isthmus to visit a married sister, and in this 
 sister's home she married Mr. Eckstrom. They were the parents of a large 
 family, the late Albert A. being the second son. 
 
 He acquired his early education in the schools of Stockton and later 
 attended the Franciscan College at Santa Barbara. He served an apprentice- 
 ship at the upholstery trade at San Francisco. On returning to Stockton he 
 engaged in business for himself before he was twenty-one years of age. Not 
 long afterward he sold out and went back to San Francisco, where he married 
 Daisy E. L. Webb of that city, a member of another pioneer California family. 
 Her father, John M. Webb, was born in England in 1806, and came to New 
 York when very young. He was a California forty-niner, and after a few 
 years in the mines around Sacramento took up his residence in Oakland. Dur- 
 ing the early sixties he became permanently blind. During the years of afflic- 
 tion that followed he was constantly and lovingly attended by his daughter, Mrs. 
 Eckstrom. Mr. Webb had a poetic soul, and when so many of his activities were 
 terminated by blindness, he expressed himself through the avenue of poetry that 
 might well enjoy a high rank with that of other California poets. All of his work 
 is still in manuscript and is carefully preserved by Mrs. Eckstrom, who dur- 
 ing her father's affliction copied the verses as he recited them. He wrote many 
 poems relating to his journey to California by water, to the Civil war period, 
 and to historic places in his state. He died in San Francisco in 1884, at the 
 age of seventy-eight. 
 
 Daisy Webb attended the public schools of San Francisco and was grad- 
 uated from the high school of that city. She and Mr. Eckstrom were mar- 
 ried when she was twenty years of age. On her eighteenth birthday she was 
 a guest at the home of a girl friend also celebrating her eighteenth anniver- 
 sary, and on that occasion she met Albert Eckstrom the first time. 
 
 After their marriage they removed to Seattle, Washington, and during 
 the year and a half of their residence in that city their first daughter was born. 
 On January 1, 1882, they established their home at Los Angeles, where Mr. 
 Eckstrom was employed by the old Los Angeles Furniture Company. Later 
 he entered the wall paper business with two associates, under the firm name of 
 Marsh-Eckstrom-Strasburg. Their first location was on Main, nefar Third 
 Street, and later Mr. Eckstrom removed to Spring, between Third and Fourth 
 
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 streets, and was in business for himself. As noted above, he was a founder and 
 for fifteen years was vice president of the California Furniture Company, do- 
 ing business at 644 South Broadway. 
 
 He was active in business, civic and other affairs practically to the end 
 of his life. He died July 22, 1919, following an operation for appendicitis. 
 Mr. Eckstrom was a member of the draft board from the beginning of the 
 war until its close. He was well known fraternally, being affiliated with the 
 Elks, Masons, the Mystic Shrine, and at one time was a charter member of a 
 lodge of Knights of Pythias. However, he was best known and he took the 
 deepest interest in the Native Sons of the Golden West. He possessed a 
 beautiful loving cup presented him by the Native Sons as a token of love and 
 deep gratitude for valuable services rendered during the San Francisco earth- 
 quake and fire. His ashes are now contained in the loving cup and occupy a 
 niche in the columbarium of Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was a republican in 
 politics. His funeral services were conducted by Ramona Parlor of the Native 
 Sons. What his personality meant to many members of Ramona Parlor and 
 other friends and associates was well protrayed in a memorial tribute paid 
 him by the grand second vice president of the Native Sons. From this tribute 
 the following paragraphs are appropriately quoted: 
 
 "He was intimately known as 'Al.' 'Al' Eckstrom 's life must not be 
 spoken of in platitudes. All the vast philosophies of life for him were molded 
 into the simple text of the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have 
 others do unto you.' 
 
 "His friendship was a matter of your choosing; the only qualification he 
 demanded was that you be trustworthy. He disliked equivocation and did not 
 equivocate. He despised the petty falsities of life. When his confidence was 
 gained, he was your friend. In that friendship he was ever ready to respond 
 to the call for aid and to render such assistance as was in his power. His 
 friendship was a jewel to treastire. In response to his ideals of friendship he 
 was strong in his attachments, constant in his purpose, and faithful to his 
 fellowmen. 
 
 ' ' He believed that life should not be a mere conflict and trial of strength, but 
 that it should be a vast field of industry where the achievements of all should 
 commingle for the common good. He was industrious, self-sacrificing and hon- 
 est. His life was governed by the traditions of industry, hardihood and simple 
 honesty of the pioneers from whom he sprang. He was loyal to his country, 
 to his state and to his friends." 
 
 Three children were born to their marriage, all daughters. The oldest 
 died at the age of five years. The second daughter is Mrs. Edward Woodbury 
 of Los Angeles. Edward Woodbury is the oldest son of Professor Woodbury, 
 who founded the first business college in Los Angeles. The youngest daugh- 
 ter is Mrs. Etelka Skinner of Stockton, California. The Eckstrom home was 
 at 1844 North Vine, a beautiful Italian villa, one of the show places of Holly- 
 wood, with sunken gardens and wealth of flowers and shrubs. 
 
George 3ra Cocfjran 
 
 HILE he began his career as a young lawyer in Los Angeles 
 thirty years ago, and was identified with a busy law practice 
 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 seven years old his father went to Japan, and lived 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 Collegiate Institute and the Univer- 
 sity 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 Supreme Court of California in February of that 
 year. Mr. Cochran practiced law until 1906. 
 
 Since then the responsibilities of many business organizations have claimed 
 practically all his attention. In 1906 he became 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 foremost 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 some share of his ability and time. He is 
 a director of the Southern California Edison Company, Los Angeles Trust & 
 Savings Bank, Rosedale Cemetery Association, Home Fire & Marine Company, 
 and Anglo California Trust Company of San Francisco, Citizens Trust & Savings 
 Bank, Seaside Water Company, Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Com- 
 pany, California Delta Farms, Incorporated, and many others. Mr. Cochran is a 
 regent of the University of California and a trustee of the University of South- 
 ern California. He served as a member of the Los Angeles City Charter Com- 
 mission 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, Midwick 
 Country, Los Angeles Country and Union League clubs, and the Pacific Union 
 and Bohemian clubs of San Francisco. 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, Isabelle May McClung. 
 
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N THESE modern days when, there are, unfortunately, so many 
 individuals who prove unworthy to the trust reposed in them, 
 it is gratifying to review the career of one who always kept his 
 life free from contaminating influences, no matter what his 
 surroundings, and was fearless in his support of what he 
 deemed 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 op- 
 portunity 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 have 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, cleaner 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 daughters. 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. Subsequently he removed to Elgin, 
 Illinois, where he became secretary of the Illinois Condensing Company, now 
 known as the Borden Condensed Milk Company. Gail Borden, 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. Mr. Johnson first came to California in 1888, and for 
 a number of years was engaged very successfully in the real estate and build- 
 ing 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 assidu- 
 ously and with great ability in and for his company. He was wrapped up 
 in its work and took the greatest pleasure therein. When President George I. 
 Cochran took in hand the consolidation of the Conservative Life Insurance 
 Company and the Pacific Life Insurance Company 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 great- 
 est 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 individuality, 
 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 superin- 
 
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 GAIL BORDEN JOHNSON 
 
 tendent 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 
 well know. He had a keen sense of justice, and when he felt that he was in 
 the right exemplified the courage of his own convictions by refusing to be dis- 
 lodged 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 inter- 
 ests 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 delibera- 
 tions between man and man seemed rather the kindly dealings between friend 
 and friend. This was always evidenced at the home office, where he kept in 
 close touch with much of the detail of the life business, as affecting the agents 
 and agency matters. He was continually sought in consultation 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 bank- 
 ing business gave him a peculiar fitness for assisting in the management of the 
 financial interest 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 company. He made the appraisements 
 and placed the company's loans in certain sections, particularly in his native 
 state of Texas. As an evidence 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, Mr. Johnson had 
 literary gifts of no mean character, his work in this connection being prin- 
 cipally done in adding to the literature of the company with 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 com- 
 ing 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 quarry of service and 
 polished with aspiration toward perfection. Twelve years ago the present 
 management was called to that quarry and at once determined to serve its gen- 
 eration 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 pro- 
 found 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 insistence upon those 
 few, including the one called Golden ; honesty, courtesy, efficiency, with a sin- 
 cere desire to serve ; hearty approval of state supervision ; loyalty to our country 
 and its laws." 
 
 The following Resolutions, adopted by Mr. Johnson and exemplified by 
 him in his everyday life, strike one of the strong 1 notes of his character: "This 
 day shall be my best if honest effort will make it so. I expect to meet disap- 
 pointment, 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 
 
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 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 California, an advisory director 
 of the Young Women's Christian Association of Los Angeles from its organiza- 
 tion, a trustee of the McKinlej^ Boy's Home, a director in several banks, a 
 member of the Capital Issues Committee of the Twelfth Federal District, and 
 actively connected with various other organizations and interests. While al- 
 ways 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 lead- 
 ing 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 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, appar- 
 ently in the best of health. He was in excellent spirits and enthusiastic 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 conscious- 
 ness. 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 Alhanibra, 
 where Mr. Johnson once resided. On the day of the funeral the following 
 tribute was paid to Mr. Johnson in an editorial which appeared in the Los 
 Angeles Daily Times : 
 
 " ' The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith 
 
 and willing hands.' Of 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 under- 
 stand 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 miss him in the work the 
 time demands — miss the strong, great-hearted, willing, kindly man of the hour, 
 whose ,ioy 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 in- 
 spiration 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." 
 
Upman Jf rank paum 
 
 LTHOUGH the career of a literary or professional man seldom 
 exhibits any of those striking incidents that seize upon public 
 feelings and fix attention upon himself, the late Lyman Prank 
 Baum proved an exception to the rule. From maturity until 
 his death his career was one of laborious yet enjoyable and 
 contented literary effort, and the high distinction which he 
 attained was evidence that he possessed genius of an extraor- 
 
 dinary quality. There never has been an author of juvenile 
 stories who attained wider popularity among children or who found his way 
 into the hearts and affections of readers of all ages, as did Mr. Baum. For, 
 although his work was almost exclusively dedicated to children, there were many 
 of more mature years among his readers who found keen enjoyment in his 
 delightful whimsicalities, which enabled them to live over again their own 
 happy childhood, while following the adventure of "The Wonderful "Wizard 
 of Oz" and his many mythical, amusing and entertaining associates. 
 
 L. Frank Baum was born at Chittenango, New York, May 15, 1856, a son 
 of Benjamin Ward and Cynthia (Stanton) Baum. His father, one of the 
 earliest oil men, owned rich possessions in the Pennsylvania fields, and both 
 John D. Rockefeller and John Archbold were at one time in his employ. 
 Mr. Baum received an academic education at Syracuse, New York, which was 
 later supplemented by instruction from a private English tutor. 
 
 When the "Wizard of Oz Man" (as he was for many years affectionately 
 called) was but twelve years of age, his father presented him with a printing 
 press, upon which, for some time, he indulged his literary tendencies by pub- 
 lishing a paper known as "The Roselawn Home Journal," "Roselawn" being 
 the name of his father's estate near Syracuse. His first public writings were 
 in the line of newspaper work in New York, Pennsylvania and Chicago. From 
 1888 to 1890 he was owner and editor of the "Saturday Pioneer," at Aber- 
 deen, South Dakota, and from 1897 to 1902 he owned and edited "The Show 
 Window" at Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Baum became a playwright early in life, his "Maid of Arran" having 
 been produced in New York in 1881. In the following year, in the same city, 
 appeared "Matches," wbioh was followed in 1884 by "Kilmorne," produced 
 at Syracuse; in 1885 by "The Queen of Killarney," produced at Rochester; in 
 1902 by "The Wizard of Oz," produced in Chicago; in 1905 by "The Woggle 
 Bug," produced in Chicago; in 1908 and 1909 by the "The Radio Play" 
 (motion pictures of Banm's Fairv Tales), produced at Chicago and New York, 
 and in 1913 by "The Tik Tok Man of Oz," produced in Los Angeles. 
 
 It was as a writer, however, more than as a playwright, that Mr. Baum 
 is best known. For more than twenty vears he wrote children's and other 
 stories for various magazines, including St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion and 
 others. The possessor of a rare whimsical style that was of preeminent appeal 
 to children, during his life he took place in the front rank of writers of juvenile 
 fiction. His first published book was "Mother Goose in Prose," which ap- 
 peared in 1897, and the drawings for this story wore the first book illustrations 
 done by Maxfield Parrish. Its success encouraged Mr. Baum to further effort, 
 
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 and the next work to appear from his own pen was "By the Candelabria's 
 Glare," a book of poems. This work was compiled while the Baums were living 
 in Chicago. He installed a small printing press in his home, upon which he 
 printed the book entirely, without assistance, and each one of a coterie of 
 intimate friends contributed to the manufacture of the book, donating paper, 
 ink, book ends and even the thread used in binding. Later he wrote another 
 decidedly entertaining volume, "Tamawaca Folks," woven around friends sur- 
 rounding his family at a Michigan summer resort. This was followed by 
 "Father Goose — His Book," and then by the most famous of all his works, 
 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." 
 
 He married, in Fayettville, New York, November 9, 1882, Maud Gage, 
 whose mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage, wrote considerable woman's suffrage lit- 
 erature and who was a co-worker with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. 
 Anthony in the editing of "The History of Woman's Suffrage." Four sons 
 were born of this union: Frank Joslyn, who served in France as an officer of 
 Heavy Artillery ; Robert Stanton, an officer in the Engineer Corps ; Harry Neal, 
 a resident of Chicago, and Kenneth Gage of Los Angeles. It was while these 
 sons were still lads that Mr. Baum conceived the idea which led to the creation 
 of the Oz characters. He had been in the habit of telling stories to his children 
 and those of his neighbors, his favorite tales being fancifully woven around a 
 wonderful cast-iron man, which later became the famous Tin Woodman of Oz. 
 From this start the stories grew and developed, and Mr. Baum occasionally 
 wove in a "scarecrow" or some other odd character as his prolific fancy dic- 
 tated. These stories eventually came to the ears of his friends, who urged him 
 to place them into connected form and publish them ; and thus came into being 
 the famous series of Oz stories. 
 
 "The Wonderfiil Wizard of Oz" took the country, as represented by its 
 juvenile readers, literally by storm. It was followed in chronological order 
 bv "A New Wonderland," "The Songs of Father Goose," "The Armv Alpha- 
 bet," "The Navy Alphabet," "American Fairy Tales," "Dot and Tot of 
 Merryland," "The Art of Decorating" (a technical work for window trim- 
 mers), "The Master Key," "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," "The 
 Enchanted Island of Yew," "The Magical Monarch of MO," "The Marvelous 
 Land of Oz," "The Woggle Bug Book," "Queen Zixi of Ix," "Animal Fairy 
 Tales," "John Dough and the Cherub," "Ozma of Oz," "Dorothy and the 
 Wizard," "Baum's Fairy Tales," "The Road to Oz," "The Emerald City of 
 Oz," "Baum's Juvenile Speaker," "The Sea Fairies," "The Daring Twins," 
 "Phoebe Daring, Conspirator," "Sky Island," "Little Wizard Series," "Patch- 
 work Girl of Oz." "Baum's Snuggle Tales," "Tik Tok Man of Oz," "Scare- 
 crow of Oz," "Rinkitink in Oz," "Babes in Birdland," "The Lost Princess 
 of Oz," "The Tin Woodman of Oz" and "The Magic of Oz." Upon his death 
 Mr. Baum left some completed manuscripts which his publishers will announce 
 as posthumous works for the future. 
 
 During his career Mr. Baum also wrote under several noms de plume the 
 "Mary Louise" books, and the "Flying Girl" and "Aunt Jane Nieces" series 
 under the name of "Edith Van Dyne," the "Boy Fortune Hunters" series 
 under the name of "Floyd Akers," the "Sam Steele" series under the name 
 of "Captain Hugh Fitzgerald," the "Twinkle Tales" and the "Babes in Bird- 
 land" under the name of "Laura Bancroft," and various other books under 
 the name of "Suzanne Metcalf" and "Schuyler Stanton." He left a book 
 dedicated to each one of his children and grandchildren, while the most popular 
 of all his works, the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz," is dedicated to his wife. 
 
 Having spent many winters in Southern California, about 1909, Mr. Baum 
 decided to live here permanently and built a residence at 1749 Cherokee Avenue, 
 Hollywood, where he made his home. "Ozcot," as it is known, is one of the 
 attractive and unique dwellings in Hollywood, surrounded by a beautiful gar- 
 den in which Mr. Baum delighted to work. He became known as the amateur 
 
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 king of chrysanthemums of Southern California, his dahlias and chrysanthe- 
 mums in which he specialized, having taken over twenty silver cups at numerous 
 flower shows. A well stocked aviary and fish pond, both of which Mr. Baum 
 built, and a summer house in which many of the Oz books were written, are also 
 in this enclosed garden. 
 
 While living at Maeatawa, on Lake Michigan, he owned a summer home 
 which he named the "Sign of the Goose." For this house he made all the 
 furniture, the brads used in the manufacture thereof being in the form of 
 brass geese. The border trimmings in the rooms were stenciled geese, and a 
 large glass window portrayed an immense goose in colors. 
 
 Mr. Baum was a man who was conversant with many subjects, was appre- 
 ciative of good music and had a highly developed artistic sense. In politics 
 he never allowed himself to be bound by party ties, but gave his vote to the 
 candidate whom he deemed best suited for the office. 
 
 His social connections included membership in the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club, and the Uplifters of Los Angeles, the Chicago Athletic Association and 
 the Players Club of New York. After having suffered severely for fifteen 
 months with a serious illness, Mr. Baum quietly passed to his final rest May 
 6, 1919. 
 
Carl Clemen* Strassberger 
 
 ARL CLEMENS STRASSBERGER, who died at his Los 
 Angeles home, 630 Wilton Place, March 1, 1919, had been a 
 resident of Southern California several years but had lived 
 very quietly. However, Mr. Strassberger was nationally and 
 internationally known in the world of music, and was founder 
 of the largest conservatory of music west of Chicago. 
 
 He was born in Saxony near the city of Dresden, April 
 24, 1859. He attended school at Dresden, and as a small boy 
 evinced passion for music. He was never able to remember when he first learned 
 to play on musical instruments. His father was a wealthy brewer and seriously 
 objected to his son pursuing a musical career. Nevertheless the persistence and 
 ambition of the boy triumphed over all obstacles, and he was given every 
 advantage at the Royal Conservatory of Music at Dresden. As a child he con- 
 ducted a boy's band and all his play and work and pleasure was musical. In 
 Saxony he laid the foundation for the wonderful grasp he had of music from 
 every angle, as composer, producer, teacher, critic and patron. 
 
 Coming to America in 1881, he traveled extensively with various musical 
 organizations, and in 1885 established his home at St. Louis. The debt of that 
 city to the late Mr. Strassberger is a lasting one. He probably did more than 
 any other man to educate St. Louis as a community to the appreciation of good 
 music. At the beginning he worked among boys, forming a band of sixty mem- 
 bers. He had them so well trained that eventually he took them on concert 
 tours. Later he was director of a full orchestra, of some sixty odd members. 
 
 He had the musical genius, also the gift of an organizer, and what is per- 
 haps most rare in that combination, sound business ability. He established 
 at St. Louis the Strassberger Conservatory of Music, which from the first has 
 ranked among the best institutions of its kind in America. He finally en- 
 larged it to three branches, and it became the largest conservatory west of 
 Chicago. His success was due partly to the fact that he was exceedingly diligent 
 in searching for the best instructors. He made many trips to Europe to study 
 methods and secure assistants. The recitals and commencement exercises of 
 the Strassberger Conservatory were among the musical events of St. Louis. 
 A true patron of music, a successful business man, he was inspired by generosity, 
 and when he recognized real talent he was ever ready to encourage it with all 
 the facilities at his command, and a number of promising pupils received their 
 musical education from him free of charge. He was also liberal in behalf of 
 charitable purposes, giving many complete concerts and furnishing musical 
 numbers for charitable programs. 
 
 On February 8, 1888, Mr. Strassberger married Matilda Heim, a daughter 
 of John and Gertrude (Christen) Heim, of St. Louis. Mrs. Strassberger pos- 
 sessed a soprano voice of wonderful beauty and did much to make her hus- 
 band's work a success, and a great deal of the credit was due her ability to 
 direct financially and otherwise his growing business. Both always took a 
 personal interest in their pupils. Mrs. Strassberger frequently sang in con- 
 certs evenings after helping in the Conservatory during the day. 
 
 Mr. Strassberger associated with him in his conservatory fifty or more 
 
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 CARL CLEMENS STRASSBERGER 
 
 prominent musicians as instructors. Some of the better known of these artists 
 were the late Dr. Robert Goldbeck; Alfred Ernst, for years director of the 
 St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Guido Parisi, the Italian violin soloist, for- 
 merly of New York ; George Buddeus ; Charles Galloway, who at present is the 
 leading organist in St. Louis; Daniel Jones, Ellis Levy and others. 
 
 Mr. Strassberger composed many selections of band music. One, "The 
 Letter Carriers March," was dedicated to the Postmaster of St. Louis, his per- 
 sonal friend. 
 
 In the midst of his successful work about twelve years ago Mr. Strass- 
 berger 's health was seriously impaired and ended in a paralytic stroke. After 
 that he traveled extensively in search of health, and spent six months under 
 the care of specialists in Europe. He returned much improved and at once 
 plunged enthusiastically into his former work. Again it became necessary for 
 him to go abroad and recuperate. The outbreak of the World war found 
 Mr. and Mrs. Strassberger in Germany and they were in Berlin when the 
 Kaiser delivered his speech to the army. Avoiding the rush of Americans to 
 leave by English and French ports, he went to Italy and came home from 
 that country direct to St. Louis. Soon afterward he came out to Los Angeles 
 and impressed with the beauty and climate of Southern California he bought 
 a home and lived there quietly until his recent death. The present director of 
 the Conservatory in St. Louis is his Brother Bruno Strassberger. Mr. Strass- 
 berger was a member of the Apollo Club, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 
 the American Federation of Musicians, and a member of the Masonic Order. 
 
 Mrs. Strassberger survives him, and also two daughters and two grand- 
 children. The daughters are Mrs. A. J. Barthels, of Los Angeles, and Mrs. C. 
 A. Wiederholdt of St. Louis. The grandchildren are Alfred and Dorothy 
 Wiederholdt. 
 
J5ite 3 acoton 
 
 HEN he arrived at San Bernardino, California, in 1887, Nils 
 Jacobson was twenty-two years of age. He was not equipped 
 at once to take a prominent part in California affairs. He 
 had youth, but no capital, had been in America only about 
 a year, had some knowledge of stock raising and general 
 farming, but his best resources were a complete integrity of 
 character, good health and a steadfast ambition. 
 
 His education had been derived from the grammar school 
 of his native county of Villeje in the town of Malmo, Sweden, where he was 
 born March 11, 1865. His parents were Jacob Nelson and Boel Janson, Swedish 
 farming people, thrifty, frugal and people who impressed their sturdy qualities 
 upon their children. 
 
 Nils Jacobson on coming to America first located at Ottawa, Illinois. The 
 first twelve years he spent in California he did a great deal of hard labor in 
 the lumbering district in the San Bernardino mountains and in the Temescal 
 tin mines. He employed his native intelligence to study the local situation and 
 keep himself informed of opportunities. 
 
 Mr. Jacobson during the last twenty years has been one of the men most 
 prominent in the real development of California's lands and agricultural and 
 horticultural wealth. In 1896 he moved to Highland, where he made his first 
 investment in a seven acre ranch. This land he later planted to oranges. Sub- 
 sequently he acquired a tract of twenty-three acres of full bearing oranges. In 
 1902 he filed on a desert claim of three hundred twenty acres in the Mesquite 
 Lake District in Imperial County. Thus he was one of the pioneers in the 
 development of that magnificent region, which has been the marvel of the 
 world. The following year he moved from his residence at East Highland to 
 Imperial County. For twelve years Mr. Jacobson gave practically all his time 
 to the development of his Imperial holdings. He acquired a block of land 
 consisting of 1,040 acres, used for stock and grain farming. Today it repre- 
 sents one of the finest farms in the heaviest income producing property in that 
 rich valley. In 1915 Mr. Jacobson acquired an orange ranch of fifty-five acres 
 near Downey, and is living there at the present time. In 1917 he acquired 
 thirty-five acres more land, all set to oranges and lemons, located just west of 
 Rivera in Los Angeles County. Mr. Jacobson disposed of all his holdings con- 
 sisting of three orange groves located at East Highland, in 1919, and during 
 the same year he negotiated an exchange of his Imperial holdings for seventy 
 acres of oranges located four miles west of Fullerton in Orange County. This 
 property is reputed to be one of the finest in that section of California. At 
 this writing Mr. Jacobson 's holdings in orange groves comprise 160 acres. He 
 was also a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Imperial. 
 
 While Mr. Jacobson is a republican voter, he has been too busy with his 
 other substantial interests to enter politics, and the work which constitutes his 
 best memorial is that which has been briefly surveyed above. 
 
 At Redlands, California, January 12, 1897, Mr. Jacobson married Miss 
 Jennie Marie Holmquist. She was born in Illinois, from which state her 
 parents moved to Kansas where her father was a pioneer farmer, and also 
 active as a merchant in the town of Assaria. Both her parents were natives of 
 Sweden, and her father volunteered in 1864 in the Union army during the 
 American Civil war. 
 
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H. HAY came to Los Angeles in 1880 and almost continuously 
 from that year to the present has been engaged in the real 
 estate business. He is one of the veterans in that field, and 
 as an expert in subdivision work practically has no superior 
 in the state. Again and again he has exercised a rare skill 
 and foresight in anticipating development and needs of the 
 enlarging community of Los Angeles, and particularly in the 
 district known as West Hollywood and the San Fernando 
 Valley. His efforts and influence have been productive in covering much of 
 that territory with beautiful suburban homes and highly developed suburban 
 farms. 
 
 Mr. Hay, who is now preparing to retire from active business, was born 
 at Hamilton, Canada, October 14, 1864. The town of Hamilton, Ontario, was 
 named in honor of his grandfather Hamilton, who went to Canada on a sailing 
 vessel from Scotland. William and Hamilla (Hamilton) Hay, parents of the 
 Los Angeles real estate man, were both born in Scotland and were married in 
 Glasgow. William Hamilton was a Presbyterian minister, and died of apoplexy 
 while still engaged in that profession in Canada. His widow afterwards eame 
 to Los Angeles, where she died in 1893. 
 
 William H. Hay was educated in the public schools of Canada and was fif- 
 teen years of age when he came to Los Angeles in 1880. On April 8, 1888, 
 he completed his naturalization as an American citizen before Judge Lucius 
 Shaw, now a member of the State Supreme Court of California. For about 
 sixteen years Mr. Hay was associated with J. F. White in the real estate busi- 
 ness at 4 East First Street. He learned the business with Mr. White and 
 afterwards for about ten years they were associated in partnership as White 
 & Hay. For about ten years he was associated with C. E. Norton, the firm of 
 Norton & Hay being located at 318 West Third Street. Their office, occupying 
 the ground floor of the building there, was the best known real estate establish- 
 ment of that time. Since the death of Mr. Norton about 1911 Mr. Hay has 
 carried on his business under his own name. 
 
 Mr. Hay became interested in the farm and ranch property at West Holly- 
 wood in 1908 and has developed that district so rapidly that it is now solidly cov- 
 ered with handsome residences. He also put on the market the railroad tract 
 adjoining the depot at San Bernardino and originally owned what is now 
 known as Marygold Acres adjoining the Rialto in San Bernardino County. His 
 interests during the last several years have been chiefly concentrated on a mag- 
 nificent property in the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the beautiful Cali- 
 fornia State Highway. This subdivision is known as Encino Acres and com- 
 prised originally over 4,500 acres, being about two and three-quarter miles 
 square. Mr. Hay also installed aqueduct water through the above tract, laid 
 out and constructed the streets, and the entire area, now divided into suburban 
 farms, from five acres to twenty acres, has all the basic improvements which 
 make such property immediately available to purchasers. He also marketed 
 the 160 acres known as Crescent Heights, West Hollywood, running along 
 Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevard, but this property is now all sold. 
 
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 Mr. Hay is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, a life 
 member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, a member of the Automobile Club 
 of Southern California, the Municipal League, Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, and the National Defense League of California. During the war he donated 
 the use of a sixteen room house on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood to the 
 Red Cross for sixteen months. The West Hollywood Red Cross Auxiliary was 
 organized there. Mr. Hay is also said to possess the finest private collection 
 of minerals in California. 
 
 Mr. Hay is a widely traveled and cultured gentleman. About ten years 
 ago in 1908 he made a trip around the world, going by San Francisco to Japan, 
 visiting the larger cities of China, then to Vladivostok and across Siberia by 
 the great Siberian railroad to Moscow, visiting Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, Lon- 
 don and thence across the ocean to New York and across the continent to his 
 home state. Politically Mr. Hay is a republican and was one of the stanchest 
 supporters in California of Hiram Johnson. 
 
 In 1910, at Los Angeles, Mr. Hay married Miss Katherine Edmonson, who 
 was born at Huntington, Indiana, in a house where her mother is still living. 
 She was educated in Chicago and since her marriage has become a well known 
 and popular member of social circles in West Hollywood and Los Angeles. 
 She is a member of the Hollywood Club and the Ebell Club. Mr. and Mrs. Hay 
 reside at 7940 Sunset Boulevard, and have a country home of fifty acres in 
 Encino. Mr. Hay has also a sister, Miss Minnie Grafton Hay, and two daughters, 
 Ruby and Elizabeth. 
 
Srbtng €♦ Sngrafjam 
 
 HERE were two widely distant communities upon which the life 
 of the late Irving E. Ingraham was deeply impressed. One 
 was his birthplace, the scene of his business activities and 
 the home of his ancestors, Bristol, Connecticut, and the other 
 was Los Angeles, which, after the choice presented by world- 
 wide travel he has selected as the most delightful place for 
 a home. 
 
 Mr. Ingraham was born at Bristol, Connecticut, Decem- 
 ber 5, 1860. His grandfather, Elias Ingraham, was a pioneer of Bristol and 
 gave that little city its chief industrial and commercial character. He was the 
 maker of the first Ingraham clock and established and built up the Ingraham 
 clock factory to large proportions. After the death of Elias Ingraham it was 
 carried on by his son Edward E. Ingraham. The Ingrahams were all men of 
 fine calibre, highly respected and beloved in their communities and all of them 
 married women who were daughters of prominent men. 
 
 Irving Ingraham, son of Edward E., was educated in the schools of Bristol 
 and also attended a military school for several years. He left school to enter 
 his father's business. He had two brothers and two sisters. The three brothers 
 carried on the clock business after their father's death, and that business was 
 the source of the fortune which Mr. Irving E. Ingraham used so wisely and 
 so well. 
 
 For a number of years he had lived retired from business and he and his 
 wife spent much of the time in travel which took them to every part of the 
 civilized world. They were travelers over both the conventional and the unfre- 
 quented routes of world journeys again and again. Finally their quest for the 
 most beautiful land in which to live brought them to Southern California, 
 where they located permanently in 1897. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ingraham were married July 21, 1893. While they had 
 no children of their own, they had many nephews and nieces, and derived a 
 great deal of happiness from these younger people. Mr. Ingraham was a great 
 hunter and a member of various hunting clubs. 
 
 Tn selecting a home at Los Angeles he located at 2000 West Adams Street. 
 While that is now in the most exclusive section of the city, at the time of Mr. 
 Ingraham 's purchase of a large acreage the site was a barley field. It was not 
 accessible to gas nor electricity, and only a water supply was provided. The 
 first year Mr. Ingraham and wife planted thousands of small pines, and now 
 after twenty years the pines have become large and stately trees and under- 
 neath is a perfect carpet of pine needles. It is probably the only cultivated 
 pine forest in Southern California. Later in their travels they selected the 
 rarest blooming plants, and many choice varieties of fruit trees and other 
 exotics. These are now splendid adornments of the spacious grounds. One 
 tree on the grounds is the Australian strawberry tree, standing six or eight 
 feet tall. There are many rare varieties of the guavas, also the Avocado pears 
 as tall as the pines, and it would require a horticultural and botanical expert 
 to properly enumerate and classify all the splendid flora found in luxuriance 
 at the Ingraham place. 
 
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 IRVING E. INGRAHAM 
 
 The house is a spacious mansion on a hill, from the windows of which a 
 view is commanded down the slopes into the gardens and forests. The basic 
 principle of the entire arrangement of the house was "for comfort." At the 
 driveway is a house with perfect, spacious and comfortable quarters for the 
 servants, where all the cooking for the menage is done. The central and domi- 
 nating feature of the residence quarters is the great living room. It has, of 
 course, a fireplace, where pine logs and pine needles are burned. Each reading 
 chair, and there are many of them, has its own individual reading lamp. The 
 late Mr. Ingraham and Mrs. Ingraham found their greatest pleasure in their 
 home and their ample means enabled them to provide it with facilities for com- 
 fort, while their good taste avoided the impression of extreme or fantastic 
 luxuries. The late Mr. Ingraham was one of the most honorable of men and 
 respected and loved by all. His public spirit doubtless found its chief expres- 
 sion in the Los Angeles Symphony Association of which he was one of the 
 founders and he was always a warm sympathizer with its aims and a generous 
 contributor to its purse. It was largely due to his initiative, enthusiasm, that 
 the Association has grown in artistic fulfillment and also in financial strength. 
 When Mr. Ingraham passed away he requested that no tomb be placed above 
 his grave. Recently as a fitting memorial Mrs. Ingraham subscribed $5,000 
 for a life membership in the Symphony in his name. She had previously sub- 
 scribed a similar amount for a life membership of her own. The Los Angeles 
 Symphony had its first home in the Mason Opera House. When Clune's Audi- 
 torium was built it was largely due to the encouragement and initiative of 
 Mr. Ingraham that the Auditorium became the new home of the orchestra. 
 Other members of the association hesitated on account of the expense, but he 
 declared that the best was none too good for such an institution and his con- 
 victions and enthusiasm carried the day. 
 
 Mr. Ingraham was a member of the California Club, of many hunting 
 clubs, and was very fond of outdoor life, including the sports of tennis, golf 
 and hunting. He knew many of the great artists. Frequently in former times 
 Paul de Longpre would ride over on his bicycle from Hollywood and enjoy the 
 comforts and good society of the Ingraham home. Mr. Ingraham died in 
 August, 1912. 
 
Jfreb Solomon 
 
 ROM a penniless newsboy on the streets of San Francisco, to 
 the "Dance King of the West" has been the rapid rise within 
 a little more than two decades of Fred H. Solomon, now one 
 of the best known citizens of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- 
 fornia. Absolutely through his own efforts, he has built up 
 one of the largest amusement institutions of America which 
 furnishes instruction and entertainment daily and nightly to 
 thousands of thousands of Los Angelans, namely Solomon's 
 Greater Penny Dance de luxe. 
 
 Mr. Solomon was born in San Francisco, August 17, 1876, to Chapman 
 and Sarephine Solomon. His parents had previously come to California from 
 Louisiana. His father crossed the plains in the early days to San Francisco 
 and was engaged in the wholesale jewelry business until his death in 1902. 
 The widowed mother is now living with her son in Los Angeles. 
 
 As a boy, Mr. Solomon attended public school in San Francisco until he 
 was fourteen years of age. His first big enterprise aside from the sale of news- 
 papers was as a traveling salesman covering the state of Texas for M. J. Bran- 
 denstein, a wholesale tea and matting merchant. He sold his wares over that 
 great state for over four years, then he returned to San Francisco to form a 
 partnership with his brother Chapman, to engage in the Japanese curio im- 
 porting business. Fred Solomon was the traveling representative for the firm 
 and was on the road practically all of every year for a period of twenty years. 
 
 After retiring from this field of business endeavor, Mr. Solomon came to 
 Los Angeles and established what is known as Solomon 's Grand Avenue Dancing 
 Pavilion. Starting out to make his pavilion the Mecca of exclusive and fash- 
 ionable society people of the Southland, he set the regular price of dancing 
 at five cents per couple. There was not enough patronage at this figure and 
 the prospects for further continuance of the enterprise were not encouraging, 
 when one day out of a clear sky came a valuable suggestion from a Los Angeles 
 newsboy. The little merchant of the street, used to dealing in pennies in the 
 selling of his papers, suggested to Mr. Solomon that he inaugurate a penny 
 dance. This was in 1915 at a time when coppers were just beginning a popular 
 circulation in Los Angeles. With grave doubts and considerable misgivings 
 as to the results, Mr. Solomon adopted the suggested change, and the con- 
 sequences have been little short of marvelous. During the past two years he 
 has handled upwards of six million people at his main gate, has paid over a 
 quarter of a million dollars for music, and has checked enough hats to supply 
 every American soldier who took part in the great war with a headpiece. The 
 only refreshments sold at the pavilion are ice cream and soda water. More 
 than fifty-six persons are on the Penny Dance payroll which aggregates several 
 thousand dollars a week. Another feature of the pavilion is the popular-priced 
 dancing lessons, ten of which are given for the ridiculously low sum of one 
 dollar. Every year more than ten thousand pupils have received instruction in 
 the art of dancing by a staff of ten highly paid instructors, several of whom 
 receive a salary in excess of $100 per week. 
 
 The Dance King is particularly noted for his charitable proclivities. 
 
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 FRED H. SOLOMON 
 
 Every holiday season in Los Angeles the newsboys of the city look forward 
 eagerly to the annual Christmas dinner given by Mr. Solomon at which the 
 venders of the different Los Angeles journals are the honored guests at the 
 pavilion, and are furnished everything to make that day memorable in their 
 lives. This is only one of many philanthropic enterprises with which the 
 Dance King is connected. There is scarcely a charitable institution in Southern 
 California that has not received a subscription from "the man who made the 
 penny famous." 
 
 During the Fourth Liberty Loan in Los Angeles, Mr. Solomon bought 
 $30,000 worth of bonds with 15,000 pounds of pennies. That was the largest 
 purchase in weight of cash made in the entire United States. For several 
 years Mr. Solomon has maintained a cot at the new Methodist Hospital for 
 working girls. The cot was placed at the disposal of the Young Women's 
 Christian Association, and has taken care of from one hundred to a hundred 
 and fifty cases every year. The cot was dedicated to Mr. Solomon's mother, 
 Mrs. S. E. Solomon, who personally looks after most of the cases. Mr. Solo- 
 mon is also a veteran of the Roosevelt Spanish- American War Veterans. He 
 was in the Spanish- American war in 1898 as member of Battery B, First Cali- 
 fornia Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Mr. Solomon attributes the bulk of his success to consistent and sensa- 
 tional advertising. More than once, he has made Los Angeles sit up and take 
 notice with the various stunts he has staged to give from page publicity to the 
 Penny Dance de luxe. Mr. Solomon has received many invitations from other 
 cities to come to them and establish penny dances, and while scores of lucrative 
 offers have been made, he has persistently refused, insisting that he is anchored 
 to Los Angeles and Southern California for good and all. 
 
(gobfrep ^olterfjoH, Jr. 
 
 ODFREY HOLTERHOFF, JR., a prominent official of the 
 Santa Fe Railway at Los Angeles, has been a resident of the 
 state for forty years and practically throughout that time 
 actively identified with the practical and financial problems 
 of railroading. 
 
 He was born at Cincinnati, November 4, 1860, son of 
 Godfrey and Helena C. (Guysi) Holterhoff. He graduated 
 from the Woodward High School in Cincinnati in 1877 and 
 for a year or so thereafter was in several lines of business in Cincinnati. 
 
 On account of impaired health he came to California (Los Angeles) in 
 October, 1879, and after recovering his strength in the fall of 1880, he became 
 secretary to the managing agent of a syndicate at San Diego which organized 
 and built the California Southern Railroad which later was succeeded by the 
 Southern California Railway Company, and in 1902 acquired by the Atchison, 
 Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and was during the intervening years 
 in various departments of the railroad, but since 1883 solely in -the financial 
 department. In 1893 he was promoted from cashier and paymaster to secretary 
 and treasurer and later when the road was formally acquired by the Santa Fe 
 Railway, Mr. Holterhoff was made assistant treasurer and assistant secretary 
 of the Santa Fe and in charge of the financial department of the company in 
 its far western territory. Since then he has become an officer and director in 
 over thirty corporations, the majority of them controlled by the Santa Fe. 
 He has also given his services as a director or in other executive capacities to 
 the Brea Canon Oil Company, Kings County Development Company, East 
 Highland Improvement Company, California Portland Cement Company, Los 
 Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, Southern Trust and Commerce Bank at San 
 Diego, and has many important interests in orange groves, oil and land prop- 
 erties, and commercial and manufacturing enterprises. In financial circles Mr. 
 Holterhoff is easily one of the best known men in Southern California. 
 
 He is a republican, and in Los Angeles is a member of the Southwestern 
 Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the California Club, Sunset 
 Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Midwick Country Club, Crags Country Club, 
 Cerritos Gun Club, and the Landmarks Club. He is also a member of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 At Los Angeles September 5, 1889, he married Mrs. Louise Schaeffer 
 Lewis. They have one daughter, Leila S. Holterhoff. 
 
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(george £>tmp£on £>afforb 
 
 EORGE SIMPSON SAFFORD was born in Perry, Wyoming 
 County, New York, in 1854. He had read some of the fasci- 
 nating writings of John Muir, and they had made a deep 
 impression on his youthful mind. Hence, shortly after his 
 mother's death, when he was seventeen years old, his most 
 obvious thought was of the great West. 
 
 Los Angeles, which proved to be his goal, was then a 
 thrifty town of about five thousand people, half American, 
 half Mexican, with the atmosphere not so much of a frontier settlement as a 
 foreign city. There was no rail connection with the world of activities beyond, 
 only a railroad of about twenty miles to Wilmington, and the principal means 
 of transit was by coastwise steamers between Wilmington and San Francisco, 
 one trip a week. 
 
 In this primitive but congenial and promising community, young Safford 
 cast his lines. He was of pleasant address and ready observation and endowed 
 with ambition, industry and correct standards. 
 
 I formed his acquaintance in the spring of 1874, having recently arrived 
 in Los Angeles on the same quest as himself. From that time until his death — 
 a period of more than forty-four years — the bond of confidence and friendship 
 established between us never suffered a flaw. On a basis similarly ideal and 
 enduring there was soon formed a little coterie of young fellows engaged in 
 the struggle for the main chance, whose temperaments made them congenial. 
 This group included, beside George and myself, Andrew M. Lawrence, Fred 
 W. Wood and Frank A. Gibson. Cicero in his "De Amicitia" says that the 
 friendships of youth seldom extend into mature life, "for either personal 
 interests or the matter of taking a wife come in to work a separation." It was 
 not so with tts. As the wives came along, they were adopted sisters, and there 
 were double the number to rejoice with us in our success and to sympathize 
 with us in our adversities and sorrows. 
 
 Alas, the original five are all gone now over the Great Divide, all but the 
 one who writes these lines. 
 
 Mr. Safford was successively bookkeeper and cashier on the Los Angeles 
 Morning Herald, secretary to Dr. T. O. Stanway, then the leading physician 
 of Los Angeles, and then bookkeeper and cashier of the Santa Anita Ranch, 
 for E. J. Baldwin, for several years. It was at this time, in 1879, he married 
 Miss Emma O'Melveny, daughter of Judge H. K. S. O'Melveny. The wedding 
 was in the old homestead on the corner of Second and Broadway (then known 
 as Fort Street). A little over a year later the Safford family was rejoicing 
 over the birth of a son. 
 
 My friend's next appointment, as I recall it, was as agent for the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad at Pantano, Arizona, a position which he held four or five 
 years. His wife's brother, Edward O'Melveny, was agent at Benson, twenty 
 miles to the eastward. The two families decided to return to Los Angeles in 
 1884. During their sojourn in the wilderness they had both saved a little 
 capital and with it they purchased a trucking business. Their experience as 
 railway agents had well equipped them for this line of work and they proceeded 
 
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 GEORGE SIMPSON SAFFORD 
 
 to organize the California Truck Company, and place it on a basis commensu- 
 rate with the rapidly growing requirements of the city. Subsequently, E. H. 
 Sanderson, a cousin by marriage, was taken into the company, and later Mr. 
 O'Melveny sold his interest. Mr. Safford was chosen president of the corpora- 
 tion and remained so till the time of his death. The business grew rapidly, 
 and has long been regarded as one of the most substantial in the city. It is 
 now carried on by H. B. Safford and Rowe Sanderson, sons of the founders. 
 
 Shortly after the return of the family from Arizona occurred the birth 
 of their daughter Helen, now Mrs. A. M. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Safford suffered 
 bereavement in the death of his wife. 
 
 As a young man George Safford was observant and thoughtful, but not 
 talkative. This characteristic was dominant with him through life. He had 
 an alert eye for opportunities, a firm decision in grasping them and great 
 persistence in carrying them to fruition. He was not satisfied merely to preside 
 over a large and exacting business, but he reached out to other fields and 
 became a real estate, oil and mining operator on a considerable scale. 
 
 He was among the first to develop the Wilshire district, holding a large 
 interest in the Wilshire Harvard Heights tract comprising eighty acres which 
 he bought in company with E. A. Forrester & Sons. The same syndicate later 
 bought the Joughins ranch of over 300 acres, south of the city, which was sub- 
 divided under the name of Angeles Mesa. Then a syndicate purchased the 
 holdings of H. E. Huntington in the San Fernando Valley and are disposing 
 of them under the title of the Mission Lands Company. 
 
 Although this brief summary of the career of my lifelong friend is mainly 
 of business details, for his was a busy, practical life, there was room in it for 
 the most steadfast friendships, the highest ideals of character, the greatest 
 devotion to those he loved, and kindliness and charity toward his fellow man. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Safford married Miss Mae Campbell, daughter of the late 
 J. D. Campbell. 
 
 In summing up the character of my friend, I would say that he was a man 
 of remarkable poise. He was reserved, averse to display of any sort, and when 
 he spoke his language was forceful and to the point. Only those who knew 
 him intimately could tell how deep and broad a current of consideration and 
 sympathy flowed beneath the calm surface. 
 
 He was self-educated in the hard school of practical affairs, but he was 
 well informed on all matters of public interest, and held liberal and advanced 
 views in politics, religion and social affairs. 
 
 A citizen of Los Angeles through its years of phenomenal development, he 
 made his way to the front ranks among its promoters and developers, and left 
 a lasting impress upon the community. He might have said in the words of 
 Caesar, "all of which I saw, and a part of which I was." 
 
 His fondness for nature went with him all through life. He knew and 
 loved the mountains and streams of California, and his recreation was in- 
 variably an extended trip on a trout fishing excursion. His friends all knew 
 that if conversation lagged they could always stir up a lively interest by men- 
 tioning trout. 
 
 George Simpson Safford died June 11, 1918, after a brief illness. Thus 
 he passed in the midst of an active and usual career, and left an ache in the 
 hearts of all who loved him. — William A. Spalding. 
 
HERE are few Los Angeles people who do not know Mrs. Susan 
 M. Dorsey as one of the active officials in the public school 
 system in the city. She has been a teacher and school admin- 
 istrator here for twenty years or more, but her service has 
 been distinguished not merely by its duration and the respon- 
 sibility of the offices she has held, but the particularly personal 
 character of the work she has done and the ideas and ideals 
 
 which have guided her in that work. 
 
 Mrs. Dorsey is a native of Penn Yan, New York State. She is a graduate 
 of Vassar College and for three years after graduating taught at Vassar. 
 After that she took up various social and church lines of work, and it was 
 those interests which first brought her to California. 
 
 During the first nine years of her residence in this state she was identified 
 with various social programs. In 1892 she entered upon school work, and in 
 1896 became a teacher in the classical languages in the Los Angeles High 
 School. Later she was promoted to the headship of the classical department 
 and later was made vice principal in this high school. In this position Mrs. 
 Dorsey had opportunity not only to teach along the formal lines, but to assist 
 largely in shaping the policies of the Los Angeles High School and of all the 
 high schools of the city. She applied herself with great zest to many problems 
 for integrating the work of the high schools with that of colleges and the 
 practical work of life. She constantly sought to work out plans for developing 
 the social life of the school, and for introducing into it a liberal and demo- 
 cratic spirit which would gradually disintegrate the class and clique system 
 too frequently found in such schools. Mrs. Dorsey was profoundly interested 
 and ultimately instrumental in devising a method whereby older girls should 
 be able to help the younger ones. 
 
 Much is said nowadays about vocational guidance and other features of 
 school and social programs. It is not assigning too much credit to Mrs. Dorsey 
 to say that she was one of the pioneers in developing the idea of vocational 
 guidance. In the direction of that ideal she was steadily progressing when 
 most public schools in America and elsewhere were given over to the cut and 
 dried program of formal education, with only incidental relationship to the 
 big and vital problems of life. 
 
 In March, 1913, by the unanimous choice of the Board of Education, Mrs. 
 Dorsey entered upon the duties of assistant superintendent of schools. With 
 this assignment there came the responsibility of supervising one of the school 
 districts. In spite of absorption in this larger and more general work she has 
 always found time to consider individual cases whether of a teacher or a pupil. 
 Because of her interest in organizations having in charge the social welfare 
 of women and girls in the city, she has done much to put the work of the 
 schools into close and effective co-ordination with such outside organizations, 
 and to secure frequent conferences between the school authorities proper and 
 the juvenile associations, the City Mothers and charity organizations. Espe- 
 cially during the war much time and serious effort were given to making the 
 
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 MRS. SUSAN M. DORSEY 
 
 schools one of the great controlling factors in Los Angeles toward winning 
 
 the war. 
 
 Mrs. Dorsey has served as president of the California Teachers' Associa- 
 tion, Southern Section, and is at present a member of the Commission on the 
 National Emergency in Education, a member of the National Council of Edu- 
 cation and vice president of the National Education Association. She is a 
 charter member of the Woman's University Club, a member of the Vassar 
 Club, City Teachers' Club and of the National Education Association. She is 
 devoted to the working out of a large and wholesome program of American 
 education, and her own Americanism is a record that begins with her ancestors, 
 who fought in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 On January 1, 1920, Mrs. Dorsey entered upon the work of superintendent 
 of the schools of Los Angeles, to which position she had been assigned by the 
 Board of Education a few days before. She has assumed this responsible 
 work at a time of extreme difficulty, owing to the fact that war conditions for 
 several years have prevented the usual improvement and increase in school 
 facilities, while the child population of Los Angeles has kept on growing at 
 an astonishing rate. She will bring to the situation steadiness, courage, optim- 
 ism and determination. 
 
hospital of tfje #oob Samaritan 
 
 HE HOSPITAL OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN STUDENT 
 BODY GOVERNMENT. The year 1919 marks the sixth an- 
 niversary of an important organization in the Nurses' Train- 
 ing School of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, namely, 
 Student Body Government. This organization has been a most 
 valuable factor in the upbuilding of the school, and one of 
 which each member has every reason to be proud. 
 
 Knowing that trust in an individual will raise that per- 
 son's standards, our country has for the past ten or twelve years endeavored to 
 improve the discipline in its high schools and colleges by placing upon its students 
 the responsibility of self government. The inefficiency of student body govern- 
 ment, more especially in the high schools, has been due largely to the carefree 
 and irresponsible attitude of its members. Our Nurses' Student Body has not 
 this condition to meet, for a young woman entering the nursing profession very 
 early realizes the responsibility of her position in life. It would seem most 
 plausible that self government should operate successfully amongst a body of 
 professional women. But, upon deeper thought, the difficulties of such a gov- 
 ernment begin to appear. However, these can be overcome very readily by a 
 strong foundation on which to build. The foundation consists of a body of 
 nurses with high standards and a superintendent they love, respect and admire. 
 With these assets, student body government in a nurses' training school de- 
 velops the weaker nurses, weeds out the undesirable and promotes a feeling 
 of pride and loyalty in the school. 
 
 The following is a very condensed summary of the methods used in our 
 school : 
 
 The student body officers are elected once a year from the senior class. 
 Prior to the election, the nomination committee submits the nominations to the 
 superintendent of the hospital for approval. The officers consist of a president, 
 vice president, secretary-treasurer, librarian and five monitors. There is also a 
 board of student body affairs, consisting of the student body officers and 
 the president and vice president of each class. 
 
 The nurse elected to be president of the school should be a woman of 
 force and character. She should be a woman who understands girls and can 
 comprehend their desires and difficulties. She, as the representative of the 
 school, submits all recommendations and requests of the student body to the 
 superintendent of the hospital, and the superintendent of the hospital, in turn, 
 presents her wishes to the president of the student body to be placed before 
 its members. Complaints concerning the conduct of nurses are made to the 
 president. If worthy of consideration, the matter is brought before the Board 
 of Student Body Affairs, and, if deemed necessary by them, placed before the 
 student body for consideration. 
 
 The president is assisted by five monitors of her own selection from the 
 senior class. It is the duty of the monitors to enforce all rules of the school, to 
 see that there is proper observance of seniority, to supervise all matters of 
 uniforms and personal neatness among the nurses, and to have general over- 
 sight of the good conduct and well-being of the school. The senior class as 
 
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 MRS. HORATIO WALKER, JR. 
 
 a whole takes the disciplining of the school as its duty, thus lightening the 
 work of the officers very much. 
 
 The opportunities for abusing and overstepping rules are greater under 
 student body government, but the desire seems to be latent. There is no 
 supervision in the nurses' home by the superintendent or the hospital super- 
 visors. Each monitor is in charge of a floor, and occasionally it becomes 
 necessary for her to remind the nurses of their duties, but it is not often. 
 
 In admitting new nurses into our school, it is our endeavor to make them 
 feel as comfortable as possible. The probationers are received by members of 
 the student body, appointed by the president. The first evening she instructs 
 them as to the rules of the school and the general conduct of the nurses. They 
 are urged to come to her with any difficulties which arise, that they may not 
 become discouraged in their early training. When the probationers are capped 
 and taken into the student body, the president impresses upon them what is 
 expected of them, as a member of our school. 
 
 How much our government has grown a part of us we can hardly realize! 
 But the loyalty and pride which it has instilled are most evident. The re- 
 sponsibility of making our school the best falls on each individual nurse. Our 
 path is not always smooth, for occasionally we find among our member girls 
 who endeavor to pollute the weaker minds and shatter our ideals, causing a 
 feeling of dissatisfaction among the nurses. Fortunately, their sojourn in our 
 midst is usually short. 
 
 The above is a very brief outline of student body government as we enjoy 
 it. To write in detail would make a long paper. 
 
 It is to Mrs. Walker, our superintendent, that we extend out gratitude 
 for conceiving of a plan of government for our school which has given us so 
 much freedom, loyalty and self-respect. Student Nurses. 
 
 ifflr*. ^oratto talker, 3Tr. 
 
 Mrs. Horatio Walker, Jr., during her residence in Los Angeles has been 
 superintendent of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, and her services in 
 behalf of and to that great institution make her one of the interesting women 
 of Southern California. 
 
 Mrs. Walker comes of a family of scholars, ministers and professional 
 people. She was born in New Brunswick, Canada, her maiden name being 
 Rahno Aitken. Mrs. Walker feels that her life work is a direct product of 
 the influence and training she received from her father and mother. Her 
 father was the Rev. William Aitken, a native of Scotland and a graduate of 
 Edinburgh University and a Scotch Presbyterian minister. He married Jane 
 Noble, whose people lived at Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland. Mrs. Walker 
 was one of a family of nine children, all of whom are still living. Four of her 
 brothers and one sister were overseas in the World war. Her oldest brother 
 is a lawyer of prominence, and her third brother is the present Lord Beaver- 
 brook. Her mother is still living at Newcastle, New Brunswick. Her father 
 died in 1913 in Canada, after having been retired for twenty-two years. Mrs. 
 Walker was educated at the Ministers' Daughters College in Edinburgh, Scot- 
 land, and has been overseas a number of times. She is a woman of culture, 
 wide experience and travel. Her father neglected no opportunity to give 
 his children the broadest possible education, and it was a wonderful home 
 atmosphere in which Mrs. Walker and her brothers and sisters grew up. 
 
 Mrs. Walker's husband, who died eleven years ago in the Pasadena Hos- 
 pital, was the only son of Horatio Walker, a famous American artist. Horatio 
 Walker, Jr., was born in Canada, and was a graduate of McGill University, 
 at Montreal, with the B. A. degree, and also one in medicine. Dr. and Mrs. 
 
MRS. HORATIO WALKER, Jr. 
 
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 Walker were married at Trinidad, Colorado, in 1907. Prior to that time Mrs. 
 Walker had taken the course for training in the Toronto General Hospital, 
 and for a time was superintendent of a hospital in Montreal. After her mar- 
 riage and the death of her husband, she returned to California and was elected 
 superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital eight years ago. At that 
 time the hospital was still at its old site on Seventh Street, its organization 
 including some fifty or sixty nurses. Nine months later the institution was 
 moved to its present beautiful home on Orange Street, and since then Mrs. 
 Walker has had an important part in the continuous upbuilding of the in- 
 stitution, until it ranks second to none in the West. The Hospital of the 
 Good Samaritan is maintained under the auspices of the Episcopal Church, 
 Bishop Johnson being president of the governing board. While in so many 
 ways the skillful efficiency of the management is due to Mrs. Walker, she is 
 credited with one particular achievement, the introduction in 1913 of the 
 student body government in the Nurses Training School. Those competent 
 to speak of the results of this plan freely credit Mrs. Walker with much of its 
 success. In six years the plan has passed through more than the experimental 
 stage, and it is now regarded as an indispensable feature of the training school 
 and has given a distinctively high tone to the character and conduct of the 
 body of nurses. 
 
HE Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, which was incorporated 
 in 1896, with H. L. Musser as president, has by a persistent 
 and active service contributed values of untold millions to 
 California and the great Southwest. It is much more than an 
 ordinary seed-distributing house. Henry L. Musser for over 
 twenty years made a scientific study of seeds and plants with 
 regard to their adaptability to soil and climatic conditions. 
 
 The company of which he is president has carefully extended 
 its facilities for propagation and breeding of seeds under the peculiar condi- 
 tions of the southwestern climate, and today, besides the large plant at Los 
 Angeles, has an extensive acreage where seeds are grown and handled under 
 the direct supervision of the experts of the company. 
 
 Through the long continued experiments carried on by this organization 
 have been introduced some vegetables of national reputation, including the 
 California Pearl Cauliflower, the Los Angeles Market Lettuce, the Casaba 
 Melons, the White Rose Potatoes, the Anaheim Chili and Pimento Peppers 
 and many varieties of vegetation of local prominence, all of which have meant 
 millions of dollars to Los Angeles find California. While the business was 
 built up practically from nothing, it now ranks with the largest seed houses 
 in the United States. The firm not only grows seeds, but handles as jobbers 
 and retailers seeds of all kinds, and have established a large mail order busi- 
 ness. The company's export business extends to every agricultural center 
 in the world. 
 
 The Aggeler & Musser Seed Company requires sixty thousand feet of 
 floor space in its three Los Angeles plants. A hundred persons are on the 
 pay roll, and the amount paid out in wages and salaries is several thousand 
 dollars a week. Mr. Musser is president, Mr. E. A. Aggeler is vice president, 
 and W. B. Early is secretary and treasurer. The volume of business is in 
 excess of one million dollars per annum. 
 
 Henry Lincoln Musser was born at Marietta, in Lancaster County, Penn- 
 sylvania, May 3, 1865, and before coming to Los Angeles was in the lumber 
 business. He is the son of Henry S. and Mary 6. Musser. His father was 
 for sixty-two years engaged in the lumber business at Marietta. Henry L. 
 Musser attended public school, and finished his education in the Lebanon 
 Valley College, at Annville, Pennsylvania, graduating with the class of 1884. 
 Mr. Musser was a delegate to the Pacific Coast Congress for a League of Na- 
 tions held in San Francisco during February, 1919. This brought out an 
 interesting fact, showing that a prophet is not altogether without honor. 
 
 Now that the "League of Nations" is a reality, it is a matter of interest 
 to read the following prophetic oration delivered by Henry Lincoln Musser 
 at the time of his graduation from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Penn- 
 sylvania, May 19, 1884: 
 
 THE TENDENCY OF GOVERNMENT IS UNIVERSAL. 
 
 The requirement of a universal government is that there be congressional 
 representatives from every nation and that there be an international congress 
 
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 HENRY L. MUSSER 
 
 in every way as perfect as our nation's Congress at Washington aims to be. 
 That it should have regular sessions and discuss the general welfare of the 
 world. 
 
 It would be the purpose of this congress to bring all people to a common 
 equality; to educate the uneducated, and to Christianize the heathen; dot the 
 fair lands everywhere with schools and churches, and everywhere modify nature 
 to the uses of man ; all this to be done at the expense of the world, for all, by 
 all. After a careful review, we can not help but see that the past and present 
 tends to a universal government, although we have only gotten so far as an 
 occasional international conference, we must admit this to be the dawn of 
 universal government. 
 
 Let us review and see if each change of government, from the beginning 
 of any government, has not been one step toward a republic. 
 
 Previous to the patriarchal government there was no center of power; 
 this was the first established controlling center ; next an absolute monarchy, 
 followed soon with a king and council of wise men. This was succeeded by 
 a limited monarchy, in which the voice of the people was having authority, 
 which later led to pure democracy, which was as bad as no government at all, 
 because there was no concentration of authority. This led to a representative 
 democracy — a republic which proved to be the ultimate, when we might well 
 say that by Divine inspiration the Constitution of the United States was formed. 
 
 Here we have followed the tendency of all government and find that we 
 are inevitably led to a republic. It is the ultimate government. It is now 
 only sectional. To be perfect it must be universal, and I believe if mankind 
 exists to see their ideal millennium, it will be governed by a universal republic. 
 
 You will all admit the possibilities of such a government ; it could exist 
 just as easily as the United States. Nations would simply sustain the same 
 relation to each other as states. 
 
 Let us take a moment to contemplate the results of such a government. 
 As the United States spends millions of dollars for national improvement, so 
 could a world republic expend millions for world improvement ; an expense 
 that would scarcely be felt by a world of people who would receive incalculable 
 benefits. 
 
 Mr. John P. Morgan mentions such benefits when speaking of the relations 
 of the United States with Mexico. He said: "When Key West is connected 
 with the mainland with railway or a ship channel, and Cape Catoche is con- 
 nected by railway with the Mexican system and with the inter-oceanic canals, 
 a sea will be inclosed within the lines of the two republics that will add more 
 to the civilization of the western hemisphere than the Mediterranean has con- 
 tributed to the advancement and elevation of the human family in Europe, 
 Asia and Africa which incloses its waters. 
 
 With a universal government, this and like improvements would be made ; 
 all nature would be modified to the uses of man. To do this, work would be 
 abundant ; to rid the world of idleness alone would be a grand achievement. 
 
 Take the expense that is required to support the armies of the world and 
 apply it to the education of the ignorant everywhere and you have done the 
 work you were ordained to do — and it can be done only under a universal gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 All this can be done. It must be done. It will be done. The past shows 
 this tendency, and let it come soon, but let us grow into it with a calm and 
 secure growth that can never become corrupted. 
 
 Since the foregoing oration was delivered, the Key West-Tampico Rail- 
 way has been completed, the Panama Canal has been constructed, and a League 
 of Nations is a reality that there may be a universal government for all the 
 people, by all the people, a World Republic. 
 
 After leaving college, Mr. Musser was for four years in the railway mail 
 service on a run between New York City and Pittsburgh, on the Pennsylvania 
 
HENRY L. MUSSER 
 
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 Railroad. He then returned to Marietta and became associated with his father 
 in the lumber business and was manager for the elder Musser until 1896. 
 On coming to Los Angeles he organized the Johnson & Musser Seed Company, 
 becoming its president. In 1903 Mr. Johnson died, and in 1906 the business 
 was incorporated as the Aggeler & Musser Seed Company. 
 
 Mr. Musser is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Chamber 
 of Commerce, and is a republican. At Marietta, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1896, 
 he married Emma Pcmeroy. They have one daughter, Mary, a graduate of 
 the Hollywood High School. 
 
Ctmrle* Stopper 
 
 F there is such a thing as a real estate man "to the manner 
 born," the description would fit Charles B. Hopper probably 
 better than any other man in Southern California. The real 
 estate business seems to have run in the Hopper family. Mr. 
 Hopper's father was a successful real estate operator in the 
 East, and also on the Pacific Coast, and Mr. Hopper himself 
 grew up in the atmosphere of a real estate office and has known 
 and wanted no other field of work since he was a boy. 
 He is the subdivision man supreme and pre-eminent, and his work in de- 
 veloping and selling subdivisions in and around Los Angeles is probably too 
 well known to require further introduction. In later years his name and 
 enterprise have been especially identified with the Southgate Gardens and 
 South Park Gardens. 
 
 Mr. Hopper was born at Titusville, the famous center of the Pennsyl- 
 vania oil industry, September 26, 1880, a son of Isaac B. and Elizabeth (Har- 
 riman) Hopper, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Adrian, 
 Michigan. The family came to California and located at Los Angeles in 1895. 
 Isaac Hopper died March 11, 1911, having been retired several years before 
 his death. Charles B. and his sister, Mrs. Kelley Rees, of Portland, Oregon, 
 are the only survivors of four children. 
 
 Charles B. Hopper, the youngest, was educated in the grammar and high 
 schools of Los Angeles, attended Leland Stanford University, and in 1896 
 went to work in the real estate business with his father. He has been an 
 independent operator since 1903, and it can be safely said that no one is 
 better versed in real estate values in Southern California than he. He is 
 a specialist in subdivision property. He has built over six hundred houses 
 in this section, having developed the Lawndale district, between Los Angeles 
 and Redondo, and also the Western Avenue and Jefferson Street district. 
 
 For the last two years he has been handling the famous Cudahy Ranch 
 under the name of the Southgate Gardens, a tract of about two thousand 
 acres adjoining Los Angeles on the south. By 1919 a quarter of this property 
 had been sold. Development work began on the ranch property in 1917, 
 and within less than two years it has been completely transformed, now having 
 broad paved avenues, with sewers, electric light and all modern improve- 
 ments, and many of the avenues are lined by attractive homes, the grounds 
 being subdivided in half-acre units. Besides the Southgate Gatrdens sub- 
 division as a whole, there is a town-site of Southgate, opened March 1, 1918, 
 and now well developed with stores, churches and schools. 
 
 The South Park Garden district is a very ambitious project, involving 
 1,000 acres, located south of the new Goodyear Rubber Company plant, which 
 will give employment to about seven thousand men. South Park Gardens is 
 divided into Mr. Hopper's favorite unit, a half acre of ground, with all city 
 improvements, a low price and good transportation. 
 
 Mr. Hopper knows how to market property and get it placed with the 
 right class of people, so that satisfaction is insured to all concerned. He has 
 been author of some of the most effective advertising campaigns employed 
 
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 in the development and sale of Southern California property. He has five 
 real estate offices, including those at Ocean Park, Whittier and Santa Ana. 
 His main office, at 611 South Hill Street, on the ground floor of the Con- 
 solidated Realty Building, is said to be the largest and finest real estate office 
 on the Pacific Coast, and the best equipped subdivision office in the West, 
 or west of Chicago, though probably not even Chicago has any office of the 
 kind that equals it. The office is exceedingly large, with 6,000 square feet 
 of floor space, has special auditorium for lectures and moving pictures, and 
 this auditorium is used every Tuesday and Thursday evenings and has been 
 the medium for a great deal of educational instruction regarding the citrus 
 district. Mr. Hopper operates three automobile excursions, with a free ranch 
 dinner, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and altogether he furnishes 
 a dollar's worth of service for every dollar he receives as commission. 
 
 Mr. Hopper is a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Athletic Club, California Club, Los Angeles 
 Country Club, Gramercy Tennis Club, and is a republican. But the organi- 
 zation where his name is especially enshrined is the Automobile Club of 
 Southern California. He helped organize this club, and in the capacity of 
 secretary and treasurer for about four years was the individual chiefly re- 
 sponsible for making it a real club, developing its membership from 30 to 2,000. 
 Most of the real work of increasing the membership and building up the 
 organization was done in Mr. Hopper's real estate office as a pastime from 
 his other duties. In recognition of what he did for the club, he was made 
 an honorary member for life, with no dues to pay. He is also a director and 
 one of the organizers of the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association, which 
 has one of the largest sites for cemetery purposes in California. Mr. Hopper's 
 recreation is in golf and tennis and in real estate. 
 
 His home is at 716 South Manhattan Place. He married Miss Helen Mac- 
 Donald, of Columbus, Ohio, at Los Angeles, June 28, 1909. She was born 
 and educated in Ohio, but finished her schooling in Los Angeles. Mrs. Hopper 
 is a member of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. They have two 
 native daughters of Los Angeles, Virginia and Elizabeth. 
 
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 ITH proper regard to his experiences and achievement, it is 
 permitted to call the late Daniel O'Connell McCarthy one 
 of the most useful citizens of California. He was much more 
 than a pioneer and early settler, founder of the first morn- 
 ing newspaper, and a picturesque personality. He came of 
 fighting stock, and all his fighting was done on the side of 
 constructive ideals and plans that resulted in many benefits 
 of his home state, perhaps not properly appreciated at the 
 present day. 
 
 Daniel O'Connell McCarthy was born at Raleigh, North Carolina, August 
 24, 1830, a son of Maurice McCarthy. His ancestry goes back to remote 
 antiquity, to the time when the Spanish stock was blended with the native 
 Celts of Ireland. He was descended from a line of Irish kings of Munster. 
 One of the family, McCormick McCarthy, in 1476 owned Blarney Castle. 
 One of the early kings of Munster was Carthack, which later was changed 
 to McCarthy. Another king was Justin, in 1093, and later on in modern times 
 we find Justin McCarthy, who was a second cousin of Daniel O'Connell Mc- 
 Carthy. The late Mr. McCarthy was also descended through his mother 
 (Bridget O'Hea) from two noble and illustrious houses in the Province of 
 Munster, in the County of Cork. Their magnificent estate, together with 
 those of the McCarthy family, were all confiscated in the rage of religious per- 
 secution, and to the lineal descendants nothing remained except their name 
 and religion. The coat of arms of the O'Hea family and that of the McCarthy 
 family were united in one combined design, now in the possession of the 
 families. The motto is: "To the strong and faithful nothing is difficult." 
 
 Mr. McCarthy's parents were married in Ireland, where their first child 
 was born. When the family came to America they settled in western North 
 Carolina, and subsequently removed to Columbus, Mississippi, where both par- 
 ents died when the oldest child was only fourteen years old. The loss seemed 
 irreparable, for not only was the father an honorable and useful citizen, de- 
 voted to his family, but the mother was a woman of rare culture and refinement, 
 of noble character and of great personal beauty. 
 
 The children, with names and dates of birth, are briefly noted as follows : 
 Maurice, born in Ireland in 1820; "Yankee" James, born in America in 
 1822, and died in infancy; James Barry McCarthy, 1824; Michael O'Hea, 
 1826; Mary Barry, 1828; Daniel O'Connell, 1830; Catherine, 1832; John 
 Harvey, 1834, and Jeremiah Crowley, 1835. 
 
 Daniel O'Connell McCarthy was educated in the common schools of Co- 
 lumbus, Mississippi. At the age of fourteen he was appointed commissary 
 clerk by Capt. William Barksdale, and went with his commander to Mexico 
 at the time of the war between the United States and Mexico. In 1848 he 
 was stationed on General Taylor's line. At the conclusion of peace he located 
 at San Antonio, Texas, engaged in mercantile business and remained in that 
 city until 1850. In September, 1850, he organized a company of young men, 
 and as captain, interpreter and commissary general conducted them overland 
 to California, and immediately went to the mining districts of Tuolumne 
 
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 DANIEL O'CONNELL McCARTHY 
 
 County. He spent two years in placer mining, and then engaged in stock 
 raising and other lines of business until 1858. Selling out his interests, he 
 became a merchant in the Town of Sonora and was also extensively engaged 
 in quartz mining. 
 
 Sonora, the town where he was established in business, was then the center 
 for that considerable body of Southerners and pro-slavery people who em- 
 ployed every expedient to range California on the side of the South. A 
 Southerner himself by birth and training, Mr. McCarthy had none of the 
 characteristic attitude of those people toward our political institutions. He 
 had no interest in slavery and the Union of the States was one of the first 
 articles in his creed and faith. As an appropriate means of expressing this 
 faith in the Union cause, he was left to establish in 1860 a newspaper at Sonora, 
 the title of which pioneer journal was The American Flag. It was founded 
 entirely upon the basis and spirit of personal patriotism and unselfish love 
 of country, and its publication was continued under circumstances of perse- 
 cution and injustice. In the end The American Flag became one of the chief 
 instruments for the winning of California to the side of the Union. It is well 
 recognized by historical authorities that when the people of California voted 
 to enter the Union as a free state, the cause of the Union was fortified as it 
 had been by no previous event for twenty years. The American Flag was not 
 only the first morning newspaper in the state, but was the first radical Union 
 newspaper, and during the Civil war was considered a deciding factor in the 
 refusal of California to secede with the Southern states. It was also the first 
 advocate of woman's suffrage in the state. 
 
 One of the first acts of the "Union State Convention," meeting at Sacra- 
 mento in 1863, and composed of 600 representatives from all parts of the 
 state, was to pass a resolution, amid enthusiastic cheering, endorsing The 
 American Flag as a newspaper true, energetic and reliable for its advocacy 
 of the great measures and principles of the Union party in this state, and 
 that we do hereby commend it to the confidence and support of all loyal men. 
 At the same time there were forty-two other papers in the state supporting 
 the Union party. 
 
 Soon afterward, at the written request of a large number of leading Union 
 men of the state, Mr. McCarthy moved his paper to San Francisco and estab- 
 lished it as a daily journal. Even by its bitter enemies The American Flag 
 was considered to be the most brilliant and fearless journal ever published 
 on this coast. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy was nominated for state printer, a very important and 
 lucrative office, but owing to the combined opposition of jealous newspapers, 
 who placed two independent republican candidates in the field, he was de- 
 feated, though running 5,000 votes ahead of his ticket. 
 
 While publisher in San Francisco, the owner of The American Flag started 
 one of the first newspaper agitations in the United States. An effort was 
 being made to pass the Pacific Contract Law. Corruption was charged against 
 the State Legislature. This resulted in the arrest of Mr. McCarthy. He was 
 later released and feted by hundreds of supporters. It was also The Amer- 
 ican Flag that first published the news of the assassination of Lincoln in : 
 California. 
 
 Soon after giving up his journalistic career, Mr. McCarthy removed to 
 San Diego in 1870, investing in real estate. He also became interested in 
 the wonderful Burrow silver mining district of New Mexico, where he located 
 several claims and organized a company, acquiring timber properties, water 
 privileges and laying out towns and railway routes. He was one of the first 
 to locate silver mines in Silver City, New Mexico. In the meantime the man 
 he had left in charge of his interests at San Diego had mismanaged them, 
 so that his presence for several years was required in restoring order to Cali- 
 fornia affairs. In the meantime a large part of his rights and acquisitions 
 
DANIEL O'CONNELL McCARTHY 
 
 273 
 
 in New Mexico were lost. During those years he proved a leader and man 
 of vision in promoting a number of large undertakings, and while he expe- 
 rienced numerous vicissitudes, the failures were due chiefly to the inevitable 
 inability of one man to thoroughly control and direct issues involving widely 
 separated groups and responsibilities. 
 
 At San Diego he served as president of the Board of Trustees (at that 
 time practically mayor of the city) and was instrumental in building the first 
 railroad into that city. Later he was engaged in mining in Lower California, 
 and in 1882 removed from San Diego to his ranch, Siempreviva, and became 
 interested in stock raising and farming. While president of Mount Tecarte 
 Land and Water Company at San Diego in 1892, he went to the City of Mexico 
 and obtained a concession from President Diaz to bring a portion of the water 
 across Mexican territory. A tribute to the far-sighted genius of Mr. Mc- 
 Carthy is found in an editorial recently published in The San Diego Union and 
 quoted herewith for the value it has in supplementing this brief biography : 
 "H. N. Savage, hydraulic engineer, and three newspaper men stood on the 
 site of the Barrett dam last Wednesday afternoon, discussing the work which 
 will be necessary in the erection of this last link in the construction of San 
 Diego's water system. Mr. Savage was relating the history of the dam site. 
 'You speak of vision in great engineering projects,' he said, 'of the romance 
 and imagination behind it all, and you have mentioned the Panama Canal, 
 the mighty Assouan, the Roosevelt and the Shoshone; but right where we 
 stand is as fine an example of that sort of thing as I know. Here, in the early 
 '80s, a man visioned this Barrett dam ; he even started the work with that 
 bit of stone parapet down there. This man's vision saw the future need of 
 San Diego ; he had supreme confidence in the potentialities of the little city, 
 then no more than a village ; he knew that eventually a great seaport metropolis 
 would cover the shores of San Diego Bay ; and he hoped to see the realiza- 
 tion of what to others was only a dream.' So the story went on until one 
 of the newspaper men asked the name of this visionary. 'His name,' said 
 Mr. Savage, 'was D. 0. McCarthy.' 
 
 "At that very moment the man who had located and started the con- 
 struction of the Barrett dam more than thirty-five years ago was lying dead 
 in his Los Angeles home. He had passed away while his name was on the 
 lips of men who were contemplating his dream at the inception of its full 
 realization. 
 
 "The coincidence does not end here. McCarthy's interest in the Barrett 
 dam site passed from him to E. S. Babcock, and thence to the control of the 
 city that he had visioned as he worked in that outlet gorge to a water shed 
 with an area of 130 square miles. In the meantime the Morena dam was 
 built by John D. Spreckels, whose original purpose was to build the first dam 
 of his system at Barrett. One of the newspaper men in the inspecting group 
 was connected with the San Diego Union, owned by John D. Spreckles. The 
 San Diego Union in 1900 absorbed the plant of the Morning Call ; the Morn- 
 ing Call had been the San Diego Vidette; D. 0. McCarthy established the 
 Vidette in the fall of 1893. He was the owner of that newspaper when he 
 dreamed the Barrett dam. 
 
 "There are cycles in human affairs as in the physical functions of the 
 natural order; and it is complete in this instance. The legacy of D. 0. Mc- 
 Carthy's vision has passed from dream to dream through devious ways until 
 it came back to him by the impulse of his own desire — on his deathbed. The 
 Barrett dam will be built by other hands than those which laid its founda- 
 tion ; but those hands are guided by the same vision that inspired the pur- 
 pose of the man who saw it first. Within the area of that vision lies 347 
 square miles of watershed, all converging to the Lower Otay reservoir, and 
 when the Barrett dam is finished, the city that D. 0. McCarthv visioned will 
 have a water storage capacity of 48,550,000,000 gallons, 16,000,000,000 gallons 
 of which will be stored behind the mighty wall of the Barrett dam. 
 
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 DANIEL O'CONNELL McCARTHY 
 
 "It is the men with vision who build empires and move the world. Dreams 
 come true for those who know how to dream." 
 
 Mr. McCarthy lived at Los Angeles from 1901, and until a few years be- 
 fore his death was engaged in the real estate business. He was a republican, 
 and it is said that he never missed voting after California became a state. 
 He voted for Lincoln, and during the Blaine campaign of 1884 it is said that 
 he rode fifty miles on horseback to cast his ballot. December 1, 1909, he was 
 admitted to life membership in the Archaeological Institute of America at 
 Washington. Mr. McCarthy was elected an honorary member of the Burbank 
 Society. The monumental work entitled "Luther Burbank, his Methods and 
 Discoveries and their Practical Appliance," contains on the page following 
 the title: "Dedicated to Daniel 0. McCarthy, Honorary Member of the Luther 
 Burbank Society." 
 
 During the Civil war a cousin of Mr. McCarthy, Major General Barry, 
 served on General Sherman's staff. A brother of Mr. McCarthy on the other 
 hand was in the Confederate army, Major Maurice McCarthy. Mary Barry 
 McCarthy, a sister of Mr. McCarthy, came from Holly Springs, Mississippi, 
 to visit her brother and his wife in Sonora, Tuolumne County. While here 
 she met and was married to Col. B. F. Moore, an uncle of Mrs. Daniel Mc- 
 Carthy, and one of the great criminal lawyers of California, a framer of the 
 State Constitution. Maj. Maurice McCarthy and his sister Mrs. Katherine 
 McCarthy Hill are given credit for originating the American holiday, Decora- 
 tion or Memorial Day. Mrs. Hill, at Columbus, Mississippi, had begun dec- 
 orating graves of southern soldiers who had fallen in the war, and later, on the 
 first Memorial Day after the war, her brother Major McCarthy suggested that 
 they do the same for northern boys. Their action attracted wide attention, 
 and later a society was formed which set aside a particular dav to perform 
 the ceremony and eventually the institution spread until it became a national 
 holiday. This incident inspired Judge Francis Miles Finch to write the beau- 
 tiful poem "The Blue and the Gray." As to who and what city first sug- 
 gested and did decorate both southern and northern graves was a question at 
 one time involving a lively controversy. A strenuous claim to the honor was 
 laid by Columbus, Georgia, but after careful investigation it was proved that 
 the custom originated in the kindly offices of Major McCarthy and his sister, 
 Mrs. Hill, as just noted. Maj. Maurice McCarthy has a daughter, Katherine 
 McCarthy Chamberlin, a resident of Los Angeles. 
 
 At San Francisco, December 16, 1857, Mr. McCarthy married Amanda 
 Anderson, a native of Mobile, Alabama, daughter of Mathew and Lucinda 
 (Moore) Anderson, and of an old colonial southern family. Her family home 
 was in a suburb to Mobile. The Andersons were of Scotch extraction. Mrs. 
 McCarthy when a girl of aboiit sixteen came with her parents from the South 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Thence the steamer, the old Brother 
 Jonathan, an old time sidewheeler, carried them to San Francisco. The boat 
 became delayed and was many days over due when it sailed into the Golden 
 Gate of San Francisco, and the surrounding hills were covered with crowds 
 to greet the vessel and its passengers almost given up for lost. Thus Mrs. 
 McCarthy, too, was a California pioneer. 
 
 Mrs. McCarthy died December 31, 1911, while Mr. McCarthy passed away 
 after three days' illness on August 13, 1919. He was a man wonderfully 
 preserved for all his years and experiences, was erect in carriage and in ap- 
 pearance many years younger than he really was. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy 
 had twelve children, only two of whom are now living: John Harvey McCarthy, 
 a real estate dealer of Los Angeles, and Mary Barry McCarthy of Los Angeles. 
 Mr. McCarthy possessed a wonderful personality. His was a lovable character, 
 a sweet and gentle nature, fond of children and loved by them as well as by 
 men of note. He was the soul of generosity and observed the strictest honesty 
 in all his dealings. 
 
<£ugene & ermain 
 
 NE of the oldest commercial institutions in Los Angeles is the 
 Germain Seed and Plant Company, whose founder was the 
 late Eugene Germain. He established his home at Los Angeles 
 fifty years ago, and was a man of wide and influential re- 
 lationships with the city until his death. 
 
 He was born in the French part of Switzerland, Novem- 
 ber 30, 1849. Educated in public schools and the college at 
 Lausanne until he was twenty, he then came to New York City 
 and after a short time went West to Los Angeles by way of Panama. His 
 first enterprise in California was a restaurant, but soon afterward he opened 
 a grocery store and gradually developed the commission business then known 
 as the Germain Fruit Company. While it was a general commission firm, an 
 important feature was the handling of seed, nursery stock, wines, and the 
 operation of a fruit packing plant at Santa Ana. Eugene Germain continued 
 as president of the business until 1893. President Cleveland appointed him 
 United States Consul to Switzerland for a term of four years, and during 
 his absence the business was left in charge of a manager. On returning to 
 Los Angeles he sold the wine department to his brother, Edward, and the 
 commission business to Loeb-Fleishman & Company, and thereafter concen- 
 trated his attention upon the seed and nursery features under the name Ger- 
 main Seed & Plant Company. In this line he continued active until his death 
 in 1909, when his son succeeded him. 
 
 April 2, 1872, at Los Angeles, Eugene Germain married Caroline Sievers. 
 They had five children: Edmund, of Brooklyn, New York, deceased; Lillian, 
 wife of C. A. J. Sharman, of Alberta, Canada ; Clare, at home ; and Marc L. 
 
 Eugene Germain was the first president of the Board of Trade, one of 
 the first vice presidents of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and a di- 
 rector and officer in many other important institutions. He was a Mason and 
 Odd Fellow, a member of the Jonathan Club, a charter member of the Cali- 
 fornia Club, and a democrat in politics. 
 
 Marc L. Germain, who was born at Los Angeles, August 20, 1882, attended 
 the local public schools to the age of nine, and during his father's residence 
 abroad attended the schools at Zurich, Switzerland. He finished his educa- 
 tion in Yale University, graduating in 1904. On returning to Los Angeles 
 he became associated with his father in the Germain Seed & Plant Company, 
 and as noted above, succeeded him as president in 1909. Eugene Germain 
 has also been responsible for much building improvement in Los Angeles. 
 Some of the buildings erected by him were the Germain Block on Los Angeles 
 Street, near Requena Street, a building on Los Angeles between First and 
 Second streets, another at the northwest corner of Fourth and Los Angeles 
 streets, the Germain Hotel at Tenth and Hope streets, the Germain Building 
 at 224 South Spring, a large building at the southeast corner of Twelfth and 
 Main streets, and a building on Main near Second Street, on part of the prop- 
 erty on which the Albert Cohn store is now located. 
 
 The Germain business was originally located in the J. Kurtz Building 
 at First and Main streets, but in 1899 was moved to 326-330 South Main Street. 
 In 1918 a separation was made between the wholesale and retail departments, 
 the retail being located at Sixth and Main streets and the wholesale at the 
 Terminal Market. 
 
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 '.^ ^'^-X'^P^C 1 ANY interests came to know and appreciate the services of the 
 ^{ji _ 4^, late Doctor McCollough, not only as a practicing physician 
 il^jj but as a very enterprising and original business man, who 
 left his mark on many affairs of Southern California. He 
 came to Los Angeles about a quarter of a century ago, with 
 a wide and successful experience as a physician and business 
 man. 
 
 Doctor McCollough was born at Malaga, Ohio, Novem- 
 ber 26, 1852, and died at Los Angeles August 19, 1909. His parents were 
 Dr. J. G-. and Margery McCollough. He early determined to follow the same 
 profession as his father. After getting his public school education he entered 
 the Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1876, and was also 
 graduated at Cincinnati, Ohio. For several years he practiced at Catlin, 
 Illinois. In the early '80s he went to the boom town of Wichita, Kansas, 
 and was one of the physicians of that city until 1888. Removing to the North- 
 west he retired from his profession, and at Tacoma, Washington, organized 
 the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company and served as its president 
 until 1892. 
 
 Doctor McCollough came to Los Angeles in 1892, and after several years 
 of partial retirement went East in 1895, taking post-graduate work at the 
 New York Polyclinic for six months, intending at that time to open a hospital 
 at Los Angeles. On returning West he resumed active practice and was one 
 of the reliable and successful physicians of Los Angeles until 1904. 
 
 In the meantime he had colonized a tract of land known as "The Bend 
 Colony" in Tehama County, California. In 1894 in Old Mexico he spent a 
 winter with his wife and son intending to develop a coffee plantation, but 
 dissatisfaction among his partners caused him to return to California. In 
 1905 he extended his capitalistic efforts to Central America, purchasing a 
 banana plantation in Costa Rica as representative of Mr. Frederick W. Rindge. 
 After that he was identified with a number of enterprises in Los Angeles and 
 vicinity, including the California City Land Company, which subdivided the 
 Jacob Raneho in Kings County. He also laid out the high school addition 
 to Lindsay, California, and was owner of some orange groves in Riverside 
 County. At the time of his death he was secretary of the Alvarado Oil Com- 
 pany, which had leases in the Midway oil field of Kern County, of which he 
 was an organizer. He was one of the early physicians connected with the 
 Conservative Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and was its medical 
 examiner. This company was later consolidated with the Pacific Mutual of 
 California. Doctor McCollough was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Ma- 
 son and Shriner and a member of all the leading medical societies. He was 
 a republican and a Presbyterian. 
 
 April 24, 1879, he married Miss Emma A. McClenathan at Catlin, Illinois. 
 She was the daughter of George E. and Sarah (Penn) Remley McClenathan. 
 This was one of the old families of Northeastern Illinois, settling near Chi- 
 cago when there were only 3,000 people in that city. Doctor McCollough and 
 wife had two children, Vernon C. and Vernita. The latter lives in Los An- 
 geles with her widowed mother and is one of the city's well known and talented 
 musicians. 
 
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Vernon C. ifHtCollougt) 
 
 ERNON C. McCOLLOUGH in a brief lifetime compressed many 
 activities sufficient to give his name an honored place beside 
 that of his father. He was born at Wichita, Kansas, January 
 20, 1886, was educated at Los Angeles in the public schools 
 and the Harvard Military School, attended the University of 
 Southern California and Stanford University until 1908, and 
 took his law work in the University of Southern California 
 until 1910. After that he studied law with E. W. Freeman 
 until admitted to the bar in 1912. 
 
 In the meantime his father's death had forced him into the lead in various 
 business enterprises and much of his time was taken up with practical affairs 
 rather than law practice. He was secretary of the California City Land Com- 
 pany and thus became identified with the ownership and subdivision of the 
 old Jacob Rancho of 15,000 acres in Kings County, which was entirely sold 
 out to the settlers. The company gave every assistance to its purchasers in 
 their start and early struggles. The company collected all of its contracts 
 and had not a single foreclosure. As secretary and treasurer of the Alvarado 
 Oil Company Vernon MeCollough had much to do with the early develop- 
 ment of the Taft-Midway field. The leases of this company were involved 
 in the former Gypsum contest and presidential withdrawal orders, but after 
 numerous hearings and several years in the land office at Washington patents 
 were issued to the company for the land. The MeCollough Investment Com- 
 pany, of which Vernon MeCollough was secretary, dealt exclusively in its own 
 property. He was also secretary of the Soffel Drug Company, vice president 
 of the Porterville Alfalfa Farm Company, which engaged in alfalfa raising 
 and dairying in Tulare County. Mr. MeCollough was a member of the South- 
 ern California Lodge of Masons, the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity, and 
 was a republican and Presbyterian. 
 
 In 1918 he was putting his affairs in order with a view to entering Camp 
 Riley at the time the armistice was signed. In order to do his utmost as a 
 patriotic citizen he had also put in a large tract of 320 acres of wheat and 
 conducted a dairy on his ranch at Porterville. He worked hard, undermining 
 his strength, and on December 11th, having returned home from the ranch 
 exhausted with his labors he was stricken with influenza and passed away 
 December 22, 1918. 
 
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P. Jf. Darnell 
 
 F. YARNELL, who died at Los Angeles, August 1, 1918, had 
 been a resident of Southern California for over forty years, 
 coming here in early childhood. Born at Lewistown, Iowa, 
 December 24, 1872, he was three years of age when his par- 
 ents came to California. At the time of his death he was 
 probably the oldest and best known contractor and appraiser 
 in the city. He had been engaged in that line of business for 
 fifteen years, and was considered an authority on all matters 
 relating to appraising and adjusting otf fire losses. His father was a pioneer 
 builder at Los Angeles and the son took up and developed the same line of 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Yarnell was reared in Los Angeles, was a graduate of the City High 
 School and from that school joined his father in the building and contracting 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Yarnell had a genius for friendship. He had those personal quali- 
 fications, more particularly an unselfish interest in others, which brought him 
 hosts of admirers, not only from among his business associates but all classes 
 of men. Few representatives of the prominent families of this state were better 
 known than B. F. Yarnell. His works of commerce and charity will long 
 stand as a monument to his memory and the vacancy in many circles will not 
 soon be filled. For one term he served as a member of the Los Angeles Board 
 of Education, was a member of the Union League Club, Merchants and Manu- 
 facturers Association, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Blue Goose 
 and other social and business organizations. He was buried under the auspices 
 of the Masonic Order. 
 
 Besides the business and good name he left to his family a wonderful 
 ranch of 820 acres in San Diego County. The B. F. Yarnell Company since 
 the death of its founder has been continued by Mrs. Yarnell, with the assistance 
 of her son William G. and Mr. W. L. Wolfskill, an associate of Mr. Yarnell 
 for a number of years. 
 
 February 1, 1899, Mr. Yarnell married Miss Laura A. Griffith at River- 
 side, California. She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, was educated there 
 to the age of twelve years, when she came to California with her parents, 
 Mr. and Mrs. U. Griffith, and here finished her education. Her father was a 
 prominent business man of St. Joseph, Missouri. At the death of her hus- 
 band Mrs. Yarnell was left with four children, two sons and two daughters: 
 William G., Lillian R., Burtron F., Jr., and Virginia L., all of whom were 
 born in the old family home at Los Angeles on South Union Avenue. This 
 residence was built by Mr. Yarnell, and besides it he owned considerable local 
 real estate including two beautiful summer homes, one at Sierra Madre at the 
 foot of Mount Wilson, and the other at Hermosa Beach. 
 
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JUatfjamel ?@lake JSlacfesitone 
 
 JATHANIEL BLAKE BLACKSTONE, the founder, president 
 and general manager of the N. B. Blackstone Company until 
 1918, was born at Livermore, Maine, January 20, 1843, son of 
 Nathaniel and Mary (Sawyer) Blackstone. His parents, who 
 spent all their lives in Maine, were old fashioned New Eng- 
 land Christian people. His father was a farmer. Nathaniel 
 B. was the youngest of nine children, four sons and five daugh- 
 ters, and is the last survivor. His home and early environment 
 were calculated to bring out his self reliance and industry. He left school 
 at the age of seventeen, and at Brockton, Massachusetts, laid the founda- 
 tion of his experience in dry goods as an employe of H. W. Robinson. Five 
 years later he went to Boston, became an employe of a wholesale dry goods house, 
 and eventually rose to a partnership in the firm of Ewing Bros. & Company. 
 
 Mr. Blackstone came to Los Angeles in February, 1887, and became as- 
 sociated with his brother-in-law the late J. W. Robinson in the Boston Store. 
 In 1895 Mr. Blackstone opened a store of his own under the name N. B. Black- 
 stone Company. As a merchant he has had several different locations, his 
 first business being on Spring Street near Temple opposite the old Courthouse. 
 From there he moved to the corner of Third and Spring in the Douglass Build- 
 ing when it was first built, next to Broadway between Third and Fourth, and 
 was there ten years until the handsome new building now known as Black- 
 stone's was erected and opened on September 20, 1917. Each move being to 
 secure larger and finer quarters as well as better location for the increased 
 business. Mr. Blackstone continued actively associated with the affairs of 
 this company until 1918, when he sold out his business and retired after serv- 
 ing fifty-eight years in the dry goods business. 
 
 For several years he was a director of the National Bank of California 
 and now is a director of the Merchants National Bank. He is a member of 
 the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and in former years was an active 
 worker and one of the directors of that organization. He is a member of the 
 California Club of Los Angeles, of the National Republican Club of New 
 York City, the Maine Society of California, and in the First Congregational 
 Church was a trustee for ten years, holding that position when the church 
 edifice was built. His home is at the corner of West Twenty-eighth Street 
 and Orchard Avenue, a residence which he built twenty-six years aeo. 
 
 Mr. Blackstone was as fortunate in his home life as he was in business. 
 On September 29, 1917, he and his good wife celebrated their golden wedding 
 anniversary. Their marriage was celebrated at Brockton, Massachusetts, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1867. The bride was Miss Louise Robinson, a daughter of H. W. 
 Robinson, in whose store Mr. Blackstone had acquired his first business ex- 
 perience. She was a sister of the late J. W. Robinson, long prominent in 
 Los Angeles mercantile circles. Mrs. Blackstone was born at Stow, Massa- 
 chusetts, and was educated in public schools and the Lasell Seminary at Au- 
 burndale, Massachusetts, where she and her husband lived for seventeen years 
 before coming to California. Mrs. Blackstone died November 25, 1918. While 
 her ambition never extended beyond her home, intimate friends and church, 
 
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 she cultivated many charitable interests, which engaged her time and means 
 for a number of years. Two children were born to their marriasre. The 
 daughter, Anne Louise, died at the age of eight years. The son, H. Winthrop 
 Blackstone, was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts. For fifteen years he 
 was vice president of the N. B. Blackstone Company. 
 
 3Jofjn &. TOlson 
 
 John K. Wilson, superintendent of Blackstone 's and for thirty-two years 
 an active business associate of Mr. N. B. Blackstone, may be said to have begun 
 his Los Angeles career with disappointment and defeated hopes. Stories of 
 fortunes won overnight in real estate had lured him from the Middle West, 
 but the tide had turned before he arrived in Los Angeles in 1887 and with 
 the bursting of the boom he found it necessary to accommodate his glowing 
 expectations to the modest rewards of a mercantile clerk. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was born on a farm near New Madison, Ohio, ."J^anuary- 24^ 
 1858, son of Nathaniel M. and Mary Emily (Rush) Wilson. His mother is 
 still living in . Los Angeles with her son, John, in good health at the age of, 
 eighty-three and an active member of the Emanuel Presbyterian Church. Nath- 
 aniel M. Wilson was for many years a farmer and stockman in Ohio and played 
 quite an active part in democratic politics in that state. In 1887 he brought his. 
 family to California, living in Los Angeles three years, and in. 1890 located on 
 a 300 acre tract in San Diego County. That tract he developed by the plant- 
 ing of olive trees and gave it the name Olive Hill Ranch. It was the family 
 home for eleven years, and later the parents returned to Los Angeles where 
 Nathaniel M. Wilson died in 1901 at the age of sixty-nine. He still owned 
 the ranch at the time of his death. As a stock man he has specialized in the 
 breeding of Poland China hogs and Durham cattle. 
 
 John K. Wilson had only the normal opportunities and advantages of an 
 Ohio .country boy. He went to school in tbe winter, worked on the farm in, 
 summer, and from 1874 until he graduated in 1878 attended the high school 
 of Greenville, Ohio. Afterwards while learning merchandising he attended . 
 a business college in Greenville. Beginning in 1879 he served a three year's 
 apprenticeship in the dry goods store of George W. Moore in Greenville. The 
 first year he was paid board and $100 and his salary was increased $100 each 
 year until the end of the apprenticeship. After four years, with a vision of 
 better things in the West, he moved in 1883 to Southern Kansas. There he 
 became a buyer and shipper of grain. Pour years in that state was a period 
 of many vicissitudes involving grasshoppers, drought and hot winds. There- 
 fore when he arrived in Los Angeles he had been well schooled to bear up 
 under the disappointment in wait for him due to the collapse of the real estate 
 boom. Soon afterwards he utilized his former training and experience and 
 entered the store of J. W. Robinson,, at that time located on Spriner near Temple 
 Street. J. W. Robinson had as his partner and. associate his brother-in-law... 
 N. B. Blackstone. Mr. Wilson spent eight years with the J. W. Robinson Com- 
 pany. Then .he and Mr. Blackstone and C. A. Smith incorporated a new husi-. 
 ness under, the title N. B. Blackstone Company, in February, 1896. . They 
 occupied the room recently vacated by the J. W. Robinson Company, who had , 
 moved to South Broadway. The Blackstone Company has followed the south- 
 ward trend of the city, and during the last twenty-five years fitted up four 
 stores. In 1917 the company entered its present quarters at Broadway and 
 Ninth, a building with six floors and basement and with 100,000 square feet 
 of floor space. As an exclusive shop for all the fine wares comprehended under 
 the term dry goods, Blackstone's stands pre-eminent on the Pacific Coast. 
 Mr. Wilson held various positions of responsibility with the J. W. Robinson 
 
JOHN K. WILSON 
 
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 Company, and during his association with Mr. Blackstone has been manager 
 and director, was buyer for several departments, and is still a director in the 
 company as well as superintendent of the business in general. Mr. Wilson 
 is also owner of some valuable industrial property at Eighth and Santa Fe. 
 In politics he was reared a democrat, but has been a republican in national 
 affairs since 1896. For many years he has been a member of the Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 At Greenville, Ohio, September 3, 1884, he married Miss Caroline Stephens, 
 daughter of Martin Franklin and Alvira (Leibe) Stephens. Her father was a 
 dry goods merchant, and for many years one of the influential republicans 
 of the State of Ohio. In the Stephens family were six children, five daughters 
 and one son. The son is now Governor of California, Hon. William Dennison 
 Stephen, whose individual biography is found on other pages of this publica- 
 tion. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. 
 Their only son and child is Weston Stephens Wilson. He is a graduate of 
 Leland Stanford University with the class of 1913 and is unmarried. His 
 special talent has been music, and he is both a composer of music and a writer 
 of operas and songs, much of his work having earned national fame. He is 
 a member of the firm Daniels & Wilson, music publishers of San Francisco 
 and New York, and he divides his time largely between those two cities. 
 
 Mr. John K. Wilson was one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, 
 all of whom reached mature years. He is the oldest of the four still living. 
 His only sister is Mrs. James P. Martin, of Corvallis, Oregon. His two brothers 
 are Charles A., who has charge of the University Branch postoffice at Los 
 Angeles, and N. E., a Los Angeles grocer. His brother, Dr. A. P. Wilson, 
 youngest of the family, became a prominent physician in Los Angeles and 
 was accidentally shot in July, 1916, while camping in the high Sierras, near 
 Fresno. 
 
OSES NATHAN AVERY, president and a director of the Guar- 
 anty Trust & Savings Bank, is one of the best known bankers 
 in Southern California, and is looked to for advice and sug- 
 gestions in business matters by thousands of Los Angeles resi- 
 dents, especially among those substantial citizens of long 
 residence who have been acquainted with him socially and 
 through business for so many years. 
 
 For "Dr. Avery," as he is known to his friends, though 
 a graduate physician, was one of the founders, in 1890, of the banking in- 
 stitution which has now become through growth and expansion the "Guaranty 
 Bank. ' ' He has been continually connected with it ever since ; for many years 
 its executive head; and its history has been one of steady, conservative growth 
 in resources and influence, until now it is one of the important banks of the 
 Pacific Coast, with aggregate resources of more than thirty-four million dollars 
 (March, 1920), rendering through its trust and other departments a complete 
 departmental banking service. 
 
 Doctor Avery was born at Lyndon, Washtenaw County, Michigan, a son 
 of Nathan and Matilda (Rockwell) Avery. His father, who was a native of 
 Elmira, New York, came to Southern Michigan in 1832, being one of the 
 pioneers in that state. Doctor Avery is a descendant of the Groton Averys, 
 a noted family of New England, and one of Doctor Avery's kinsmen, Elroy 
 M. Avery of Cleveland, has compiled and published the family genealogy and 
 history under the title, "The Groton Avery Clan." 
 
 Moses Nathan Avery finished his high school course at Chelsea, Michigan, 
 in 1875, and at the age of seventeen taught his first term of district school. 
 School teaching in winter and farming in the summer were the stepping stones 
 by which he reached his profession. He continued this varied occupation 
 until he entered the Universitv of Michigan, in 1879, and was graduated M. D. 
 in 1881. 
 
 He practiced medicine at Niles, Michigan, for eight years. 
 
 Doctor Avery is a republican in politics, a Presbyterian, a member of 
 the California Club, and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. July 14, 
 1880, at Waterloo, Michigan, he married Sarah Elizabeth Gorton, daughter 
 of Aaron T. Gorton. Dr. and Mrs. Avery have two children, Florence Lucile 
 and Dr. Lewis Gorton Avery. 
 
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etitoarb a. Clampitt 
 
 DWARD A. CLAMPITT, who died at his home in Los Angeles, 
 September 25, 1919, had for several years been the largest in- 
 dependent individual oil operator and owner of oil property 
 in California. In his death the oil industry lost its best friend, 
 was the opinion of his associates and friends, who had re- 
 garded him as an able counselor in all matters affecting the 
 general welfare of the petroleum industry. He was a man 
 of strong friendship, was a vigorous fighter for the rights of 
 his friends, as well as his own, and no man could have done more for the pro- 
 motion of the legislation for oil interests and oil wells. Mr. Clampitt 's hold- 
 ings in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and in Bakerfield were of consider- 
 able area. 
 
 He was born in Macon County, Illinois, December 14, 1868, a son of Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. A. Clampitt, who are still living in Los Angeles. Edward A. 
 Clampitt came to Los Angeles in 1888, and from that time until a few days 
 before his death was continuously engaged in some phase of the oil business. 
 He was an oil driller, and helped bring in some of the greatest oil fields in 
 the Southwest. Among his activities were the operation of about forty wells 
 in the old Los Angeles city field. For many years he was a director of the 
 Columbia Oil Producing Company, and was organizer and owner of the E. A. 
 Clampitt Company of Los Angeles. Only a brief time before his death he was 
 appointed counselor of the American Petroleum Institute. He had some sev- 
 eral hundred acres in the Newhall District, where many wells are operated. 
 
 Mr. Clampitt worked very hard, but enjoyed each day of life as he lived 
 it. He liked work and he also threw himself with enthusiasm into his play and 
 recreation. He was devoted to his family and home and he exhibited a broad 
 interest in the general welfare. While he was a member of the city council 
 at Los Angeles he did much to give employment to the unemployed, and in the 
 general industrial organization under his immediate supervision he sought 
 constantly to extend better pay and better working conditions to his men. 
 While he was what might be called a practical business man, Mr. Clampitt long 
 recognized those forces and influences that are classified as spiritual. He 
 understood better than most men some of the spiritual conditions underlying 
 the problems of economical unrest. A short time before his death, in a con- 
 versation with his pastor, Rev. Mr. Monkman, Mr. Clampitt expressed his 
 belief that the world restorative must be supplied by the churches in the 
 spirit of brotherly love, one of their foundation principles, the practice of 
 which would serve better than anything else to stabilize humanity during the 
 process of reconstruction. 
 
 Mr. Clampitt was elected a member of the City Council in 1906 and filled 
 that office for three years. In respect for his public services, the city govern- 
 ment of Los Angeles made special recognition at the time of his funeral which 
 was very largely attended by his multitude of friends, including bankers, lawyers 
 and nearly all the members of the city government. 
 
 Genuine grief at his passing by strong men, and later many letters of 
 condolence and expression of personal loss came from distant points, and 
 
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 numerous newspapers over the country also paid tribute to the passing of a 
 good friend and upright man. His funeral was preached by his friend and 
 pastor, Rev. Dr. Locke of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and Rev. 
 Mr. Monkman of the Union Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines and Oils, the 
 Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Elks, the Masons, and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 The late Mr. Clampitt married Miss Margaret M. Wright. Mrs. Clampitt 
 and two children survive, Leah Margaret and Barbara Hallam Clampitt. Mrs. 
 Clampitt, who has long been prominent socially in Los Angeles, is a daughter 
 of Herman and Nancy (Hallam) Wright. Both parents died in the East. 
 Mrs. Clampitt was born in Livingston County, Illinois. Her father was a mer- 
 chant and for many years conducted a hotel at Washington, Pennsylvania. It 
 is recorded that this hostelry was the gathering place for all the best people 
 of the historic section of Pennsylvania in which they lived. Especially on 
 "court days" the city of Washington was crowded with people from the 
 surrounding districts and the best county families would dine and meet 
 socially in the "Hotel Court." Mrs. Clampitt, through her mother, is de- 
 scended from the distinguished Hallam family, originally of Windsor, Eng- 
 land, many of whose members have gained distinction in art and letters. Mrs. 
 Clampitt 's ancestors were also early Americans. Her great-grandfather Hal- 
 lam built the first theater in Philadelphia. Her father was a member of the 
 prominent Wright family of Maryland, extensive land owners, who prior to 
 the Revolution settled around Baltimore and Hagerstown. 
 
 Mrs. Clampitt was educated in the public schools of Kansas and the 
 Normal University of Salina, Kansas. She has been a member of the Ebell 
 Club of Los Angeles since 1904, the Wednesday Morning Club since 1902, and 
 for a number of years was a member of the Averill Club and was one of the 
 organizers of the literary La Comarada Club. During the period of the war 
 she was chairman of the Food Committee in her precinct and was active in 
 sugar distribution. 
 
 Mrs. Clampitt 's parents had a number of children, but Mrs. Clampitt 
 and her sister, Mrs. Rae Johnson, alone reside in Los Angeles. Rae Wright 
 married Harry T. Johnson, who for years had been a close personal friend 
 and business associate of Mr. Clampitt and is now general manager of all the 
 Clampitt properties. Mrs. Rae Johnson during the war was active in united 
 war work and Liberty Loan campaigns, serving as chairman of the committee 
 in her precinct, her home being precinct headquarters. She has always taken 
 much interest in politics, especially since suffrage was conferred upon the 
 women of California. She was for a time a school teacher and is a member 
 of the Ebell Club, and with her sister, Mrs. Clampitt, helped organize the 
 La Comarada Club. Mrs. Johnson and her husband were actively connected 
 with Mr. Clampitt 's work and Mr. Johnson was in charge of the development 
 and operation of the holdings of Mr. Clampitt in the Newhall district. Mrs. 
 Clampitt and Mrs. Johnson all their lives have been very close and intimate 
 in their interests and activities. 
 
The American Historical Society 
 
Spencer Amity 
 
 FENCER H. SMITH was an annual visitor in Southern Cali- 
 fornia for a number of years, and from 1906 until death 
 owned the beautiful home on West Adams Street, where his 
 widow now resides. He died November 28, 1917. 
 
 His many friends in Southern California recognize in 
 Mr. Smith a character of great personal charm and of the 
 dignity conferred by many years of successful business ex- 
 perience and the transaction of large and important affairs. 
 He was born in New York City March 4, 1829, of English parentage. His 
 father, who had come to this country in 1802, acquired much property in the 
 East. At one time in his career he planned to come West, but because of his 
 wife's health he remained in New York, where he was a manufacturer, and also 
 owned a farm in Harlem. 
 
 Spencer H. Smith was educated at Mrs. Fairchild's School, at Plainfield, 
 New Jersey. His brilliant mind brought him rapid advancement in his studies 
 and every instructor advised him to study law and become a lawyer. When 
 he was sixteen years of age his father gave him the choice of going to college 
 and completing a law course or an extended trip to England, upon which his 
 father was then embarking. He chose the experience abroad, and after his 
 return engaged in business with his father. 
 
 Later he retired from this business and became actively associated with 
 his father-in-law, Mr. Walter Bowne, in handling the latter 's large estate. Mr. 
 Bowne gave him his confidence, consulted and talked with him freely. For 
 a time Mr. Smith was president of the Flushing Railroad when Mr. Bowne 
 owned that property. In 1859 he was made one of the trustees at the incor- 
 poration of the Queen's County Savings Bank, at Flushing, Long Island, and 
 at the first meeting was elected treasurer for 1859-60, and again filled the same 
 position in 1863-64. 
 
 During his early life Mr. Smith took a prominent part in the New York 
 National Guard, serving as a member of the Seventh Regiment, New York 
 Militia, and later joined Squadron A, of which he was colonel. At the out- 
 break of the Civil war he sent the first regiment out of New York when the 
 call came for the Home Guard. He was extremely anxious to go with them, 
 but his wife and her father, Mr. Bowne, opposed it, much to his disappoint- 
 ment. Immediately after the war he went South to attend to some business 
 for Mr. Bowne, his trip taking him as far as New Orleans. As he was an 
 American only one generation removed from England, and had the appear- 
 ance and manners of a typical Englishman, the Southerners in his presence 
 showed none of the restraint and hostility which they expressed before North- 
 ern men, and he therefore gained an early intimate view of Southern condi- 
 tions immediately after the great war. Mr. Smith was quick-witted had a 
 great fund of humor, and was a splendid entertainer in social converse. He 
 knew all the prominent men of his time in New York, and to the last was noted 
 for his retentive memory. Like most Englishmen, he was an excellent horse- 
 man, and for many years kept a stable of splendid horses. He was a republi- 
 
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 can in politics, a member of the Episcopal faith, and belonged to the Union 
 League Club of New York City and the California Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 He spent his first winter in California in 1887, and after that sojourned 
 in the state every winter, and in 1906 bought a house and made California his 
 permanent home. He also acquired considerable other property in the West. 
 
 Mr. Smith's first wife was Eliza Bowne, daughter of Walter Bowne and 
 granddaughter of Walter Bowne, mayor of New York. She died at San 
 Gabriel in 1892. Her two daughters are Mrs. Charles W. Carpenter of New 
 York and Mrs. Samuel Freeman of New York. 
 
 The present Mrs. Smith before her marriage was Miss Catherine Dallett, 
 a daughter of Gillies Dallett of Philadelphia. Mr. Dallett was a prominent 
 Eastern banker, at one time president of the Penn National Bank of Phila- 
 delphia. Mrs. Smith resides in the home which Mr. Smith purchased on West 
 Adams Street, a delightful spot, the gardens being walled away from the 
 street and adorned with many beautiful plants and shrubs, while the house is 
 a complete expression of comfort and good taste. 
 
ROM his arrival in California, in 1852, until his death, nearly 
 fifty years later, Andrew Glassell, Sr., was almost constantly 
 busied with his professional and business responsibilities, and 
 enjoyed a career that easily ranked him among the great 
 lawyers of the state. 
 
 He was the fourth in direct succession to bear the name 
 Andrew Glassell. The first was a Scotchman, and the second 
 founded the family in Virginia. Andrew Glassell was the last 
 survivor of the six children of Andrew and Susan (Thornton) Glassell. He 
 was born in the ancestral home known as Torthorwald, in Virginia, September 
 30, 1827. When he was seven years old he was taken to Sumter County, Ala- 
 bama, where his father became a cotton planter near Livingston. At the age 
 of seventeen he entered the University of Alabama and was graduated in 
 1848. On being admitted to the bar he began general practice and soon ac- 
 quired the friendship and interests of Hon. John A. Campbell, at one time 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Glassell left Alabama to cast his fortunes with the new state 
 of California. He brought with him a letter from Judge Campbell, and that 
 gave him admission to the bar of the Supreme Court, and he quickly proved 
 himself the possessor of the many high qualities noted in the recommendation. 
 Soon after coming to the state he was appointed a deputy of the United States 
 district attorney at San Francisco. During that time he had special duties 
 in connection with handling land cases. After three years in that office he 
 resumed private practice in San Francisco, and continued his profession in 
 that city until the war. Being of Southern ancestry and sympathies, he found 
 it impossible for him to take the test oath, and temporarily closed his law office 
 during the war. While that struggle was going on he engaged in running a 
 steam saw mill and manufacturing lumber and staves near Santa Cruz. 
 
 After the war Mr. Glassell resumed his profession, with Los Angeles as 
 his home and headquarters. Here he entered a partnership with Alfred B. 
 Chapman, a friend of his boyhood and at one time an officer in the regular 
 army. For a time the firm was Glassell & Chapman, and on January 1, 1870, 
 Colonel George H. Smith became a member, and a later partner was Henry M. 
 Smith, subsequently a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. 
 In 1879 Mr. Chapman retired to his fruit ranch, and later George S. Patton, 
 a nephew of Mr. Glassell, was admitted as a junior partner. In 1883 Mr. 
 Glassell retired to enjoy his declining years in leisure. 
 
 During his residence in San Francisco Mr. Glassell married Lucy Toland. 
 Her father, Dr. H. H. Toland, was at one time head of the medical department 
 of the University of California. To their marriage were born nine children: 
 Susan G., who became the wife of H. M. Mitchell, and is now deceased: Minnie 
 G., Mrs. Harrington Brown of Los Angeles; Hugh; Andrew; William T., de- 
 ceased ; Louise G., widow of Dr. J. DeBarth Shorb, of Los Angeles ; Philip H., 
 deceased; Alfred L., deceased, and Lucien, deceased. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Glassell was born in South Carolina and was a mere child when 
 brought to California. She died at the age of thirty-nine years. She was a 
 
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 member of the Catholic Church. Six years after her death Mr. Glassell mar- 
 ried for his second wife, Mrs. Virginia Micou Ring of New Orleans. She died 
 at Los Angeles in 1897. 
 
 Andrew Glassell passed away at his home in Los Angeles, January 28, 
 1901. Of the many tributes paid to his memory, none contains so much of 
 history and of impressive record as a memorial adopted by the Los Angeles 
 Bar Association, and prepared by a committee comprising Stephen M. White, 
 A. M. Stephens, A. W. Hutton, J. R. Scott and J. A. Graves. The following 
 are excepts from that memorial : 
 
 "At all times since the formation of the co-partnership of Glassell & 
 Chapman down to the time of Mr. Glassell's retirement, the firm of which he 
 was the head enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He and his co-partners 
 were favorably known throughout the state, and especially in this section, 
 and they were usually retained on one side or the other of every important 
 civil suit tried in this county and vicinity. The records of the several 
 tribunes, state and federal, abound with evidence demonstrating the extent 
 and importance of the litigation so ably conducted by and under the super- 
 vision of Mr. Glassell. And to these records reference is made as the highest 
 and best evidence of his reputation, worth and ability as a lawyer. Not only 
 was the firm of Glassell & Chapman active practitioners of law, but did much 
 to develop and improve this section of the state. They did not, as so many 
 owners of large tracts of land have done, wait to become rich by and through 
 the enterprise of others, but in all matters calculated to induce emigration 
 and improve Southern California they were foremost. One instance of their 
 deals in real estate may be cited. About 1868 they became the owners of a 
 large tract of land in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. This tract was sub- 
 divided and a large irrigating canal constructed to conduct the waters of the 
 Santa Ana River to farming lands and the town of Richland, which was laid 
 out by them, and the land offered for sale upon terms the most favorable for 
 settlers. This little town of Richland is now the city of Orange. The canal 
 has from time to time been extended and enlarged, until today it forms a large 
 part of the property of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and a por- 
 tion of the finest system of irrigation in the southern part of the state. 
 
 "Mr. Glassell was one of the incorporators and for many years preceding 
 his death was one of the directors of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of 
 Los Angeles. He also took part in the organization of the Los Angeles City 
 Water Works Company in 1868 and continued to be one of its large stock- 
 holders. About the same year the firm of Glassell & Chapman acted as attor- 
 neys in the incorporation of the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railway Company, 
 by which company the present railroad in Los Angeles was constructed. They 
 were the attorneys continuously until the road was transferred to the South- 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company, when the firm became local attorneys for the 
 latter company. 
 
 "As a lawyer and as a man he was scrupulously honest, direct in his 
 methods, open and frank in all his dealings, and towards the members of the 
 bar always extremely courteous and affable, but at the same time in the trial 
 of a case bold and vigorous. He was generous and was liberal to the young 
 men who entered the profession through his office, and more than one member 
 of your committee remembers with gratitude his kindness, helpfulness and 
 generosity, and it is most pleasing now to remember that in all their inter- 
 course with him they can not recall one single coarse expression or single in- 
 stance in which even for a moment he laid aside the bearing of a gentleman. 
 He was a sound lawyer, amply versed in the principles of his profession and 
 thoroughly posted as to precedents affecting the questions in hand. He was 
 a safe adviser and practical rather than brilliant. He was not an orator, but 
 always terse, clear and forcible in argument. He was at all times thoroughly 
 prepared at trial, and in the preparation acted upon the theory that he is the 
 
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 best lawyer who drafts his pleading and other papers so thoroughly as to 
 leave no weak points for the attacks of his adversary. In his dealings with 
 his debtors he was merciful and forbearing, often refusing or remitting th« 
 debt when its enforcement might have seemed to be harsh. Each member of 
 your committee has personally known Mr. Glassell for more than a quarter 
 of a century and can without reservation attest that they never heard ex- 
 pressed any suspicion of the man. By devotion to his profession and by rare 
 business sagacity he accumulated a large fortune, but by far the richest legacy 
 he leaves behind him is the reputation which he earned by a lifelong course of 
 honest dealing in his professional and business career. Notwithstanding his 
 retirement from the practice, his life was a laborious one and full of respon- 
 sibilities, and is said by one who was near to him in his later days that he was 
 ready to lay down the burdens of life and rest." 
 
Snbreto <0la**ell, V 
 
 NDREW GLASSELL, V, whose business interests at Los 
 Angeles have been chiefly in subdivision and development 
 work, is a son of Andrew Glassell, the distinguished California 
 lawyer, whose career has been reviewed, and his wife, Lucie 
 Goodwin (Toland) Glassell, daughter of the late Dr. H. H. 
 Toland of San Francisco. 
 
 Andrew Glassell, V, was born at San Francisco, October 
 20, 1860. He graduated from the Los Angeles High School 
 in 1879, continued his education by private study, and for two years was a law 
 student. Ill health caused him to abandon his intention of becoming a lawyer, 
 and he retired to the country and became a practical farmer. Mr. Glassell con- 
 tinued farming until about 1906, in which year he put out his first subdivision, 
 "Glassell Park." His business in subdividing continued until 1912, and he 
 still retains a large interest in the Glassell Development Company, and also has 
 three hundred and fifty acres in and near Glassell Park, in the city of Los 
 Angeles, a portion of which, containing one hundred and ten acres, he has re- 
 cently subdivided and put upon the market. 
 
 Mr. Glassell is a democrat in his political affiliation. March 31, 1886, he 
 married Miss Rietta M. Ring, daughter of George P. and Virginia (Micou) 
 Ring, of New Orleans. At the time of her marriage, Mrs. Glassell 's mother, 
 Virginia M. Ring, was the second wife of the late Andrew Glassell, Sr. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Glassell had three children : Andrietta, who became the wife of 
 Milton Clark Somers ; Virginia, who died at the age of twelve years, and Wil- 
 liam Micou, who married Margaret Dagmar Sheerer. 
 
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German &astf)tngton Jf ranft 
 
 ERMAN WASHINGTON FRANK, president of the Harris & 
 Frank Company, one of the oldest and largest commercial 
 houses on the Pacific Coast, concerned himself so intimately 
 with the affairs of the institutions of Los Angeles during the 
 last thirty years that his name has come to be associated not 
 with any one line of business or civic activity, but with the 
 growth and welfare of Los Angeles as a whole. 
 
 Mr. Frank is a Western man, having been born at Port- 
 land, Oregon, July 4, 1860. His father was a pioneer merchant, establishing 
 himself in business at Portland as early as 1854. H. W. Frank was well edu- 
 cated, attending Whitman Seminary, now Whitman College, at Walla Walla, 
 Washington. When only fourteen years old he began his business career in a 
 country store. The experience may have been monotonous at times, but the 
 training was invaluable, since it gave him a first-hand knowledge of many 
 branches of commerce. He served as assistant postmaster, telegraph operator, 
 and also as assistant agent for Wells Fargo & Company. One of the first mes- 
 sages he ever received over the telegraph wire was one telling of the nomina- 
 tion of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. This message he posted on the windows 
 of the store for the information of the local rustics. 
 
 About that time, in 1876, he removed to San Francisco. Here he became 
 connected with a wholesale clothing house, and was assistant bookkeeper, 
 cashier and traveling sales agent over Oregon and Idaho. That was before 
 Idaho had any railroads, and the customary method of travel was by sleigh or 
 stage. Frequently two days and nights were spent between towns of any size. 
 Mr. Frank was first in business for himself as a general merchant at Alameda. 
 
 On coming to Los Angeles, in 1887, he joined Mr. L. Harris, a veteran 
 merchant of the coast, and in 1888 they formed the company of Harris & Frank, 
 now a corporation. Their first store was at Temple and Spring streets. This 
 firm erected the first building ever leased in Los Angeles, known as the Allen 
 Block. Harris & Frank now own and occupy the building at 437 South Spring 
 Street. Continuously since 1887 Mr. Frank has been a Los Angeles merchant. 
 He is also a director of the Merchants National Bank, secretary of the Riverside 
 Vineyard Company, owning eighteen hundred acres of land in Riverside 
 County, and is president of the L. Harris Realty Company, Incorporated. 
 
 Mr. Frank's friends say that he has given more time to public affairs than 
 any other man in the city. In 1895 he was the second elected president of the 
 Merchants Association, and for many years has been identified with the Mer- 
 chants and Manufacturers Association. He was chairman of the committee 
 of this organization which raised a large fund and put unemployed men to 
 work during the hard times succeeding the Spanish- American war. He was 
 also chairman of a committee to raise funds for the Times sufferers after the 
 explosion of the Times Building. With Judge Charles H. Sibert, he succeeded 
 in raising thirty-five thousand dollars for this purpose. He is credited with 
 having raised more money for direct burdens of charity than any other one 
 man in Los Angeles. Mr. Frank for fifteen years was president of the Asso- 
 ciated Charities, and was father of the Tag Day idea on the Pacific Coast. Five 
 
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 successive Tag Day yearly campaigns were held with great success under his 
 initiative and the plan was adopted by many other cities on the coast. Mr. 
 Frank was a member of the School Board of Los Angeles from 1895 to 1914, 
 and president of the board two different times. He is a director of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce and director for the Red Cross Chapter of 
 Los Angeles, and is a former vice president of the Municipal League. Mr. 
 Frank is a Mason, Shriner, Maccabee, Elk and Woodman of the World. 
 
 In 1888 he married a daughter of Mr. L. Harris, his business partner. 
 They have two sons, Lawrence P. Frank, who served in the United States Navy, 
 and is now treasurer of Harris & Frank, Incorporated, and Alvin H. Frank, 
 of the firm of Frank & Lewis, stocks and bonds. Mr. H. W. Frank, while not a 
 politician, is a firm believer in the idea that business men should take an active 
 interest in civic affairs and help in deciding the policies of our country. 
 
miin I. lafjobes 
 
 LLIN L. RHODES, known for his many conspicuous interests 
 in financial affairs, is a true son of the Golden West, a native 
 of Calaveras County and representative of a family that has 
 been in California seventy years. 
 
 His father, the late Alonzo Rhodes, was born at Lumberton, 
 North Carolina, May 25, 1825, and the Rhodes family is still 
 a prominent one in the Old North State. Alonzo, however, 
 
 spent his early manhood in Tennessee and Mississippi until in 
 1849 he joined the argonauts to California, making the trip overland. He 
 farmed in San Joaquin County until 1856, mined in Calaveras County until 
 1872, and from that year until he retired in 1891 was occupied with real estate 
 and conveyancing in Stockton, where he is best remembered in a business way. 
 In 1886 he and associates took over the street railway system of Stockton, and 
 during his connection therewith it was greatly improved and extended, with 
 service adequate to that growing and progressive city. Alonzo Rhodes moved 
 to Los Angeles in 1899, and spent the last five years of his life here. He died 
 in May, 1904. He was a member of the Society of California Pioneers. At 
 Stockton March 15, 1855, he married Miss Anna MacVicar, a native of Missis- 
 sippi, and of their six children three are living, Alonzo Willard of Los Angeles, 
 and Mary A. who lives with her brother Allin. 
 
 During his boyhood and youth in Stockton, Allin L. Rhodes attended the 
 public schools, but took his professional education in the University of Michigan, 
 where he was graduated in the law course with the degree LL. B. After his 
 admission to the bar he practiced at Stockton until a break down in health in 
 1897 compelled him to abandon his profession there. After two years of re- 
 cuperation among the Sierras with refreshed energies he resumed his career at 
 Los Angeles in the fall of 1899, and the following spring entered the legal 
 department of the Title Abstract & Trust Company and about six months later 
 took the general management of its affairs. 
 
 In August, 1913, those in touch with Los Angeles business will recall the 
 consolidation of this company with the Los Angeles Title Insurance Company, 
 under the latter name, with Mr. Rhodes as general manager and director, the 
 offices he holds today. In January, 1914, the company also absorbed the Los 
 Angeles Title & Trust Company, giving it unrivaled facilities. The business 
 of the company has assumed such proportions that it has recently, as shown by 
 the reports issued by the Insurance Departments of the various States, been 
 handling a greater volume of title business than any other company in America 
 engaged in the title insurance business exclusively. 
 
 Mr. Rhodes is also president of the Brearley Investment Company and a 
 director of the Azuza Orange Company. He is a York Rite Mason and Shriner, 
 a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and a democrat. 
 
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DWARD DOUBLE, who, up to the time of his death was presi- 
 dent of the Union Tool Company — one of the greatest indus- 
 trial organizations of Southern California — was a man of long 
 and wide experience in the oil industry, and a specialist in 
 the mechanical and technical side of that work. He came to 
 California in the infancy of petroleum workings on the coast 
 and his own inventive genius and enterprise secured to him 
 immediate recognition and rapid advancement, and contributed 
 more than any other one factor to the quick yet substantial growth of the great 
 organization of which he was the head, which makes and deals in all kinds of 
 oil well equipment and supplies, internal combustion engines, mining machinery 
 and steel and iron castings. 
 
 Mr. Double was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania — one of the pioneer 
 American centers of the oil industry — on October 15, 1874, a son of Hamilton 
 and Mary (Smith) Double. He grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, attended 
 public school, and his early disposition and inclination toward mechanical work 
 naturally threw him into the throbbing industries of Western Pennsylvania, 
 where he came to know all phases of the oil business. He was especially in- 
 terested in the manufacture of tools and appliances for the production of oil. 
 In the course of time, and while he was yet a young man, he came to be recog- 
 nized as one of the most skilled tool and machinery men in the oil fields of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 About the time California came into prominence as a petroleum producing 
 state, Mr. Double sought the far western field, in July, 1897, first locating in 
 Santa Paula, Ventura County. He became intimately acquainted with the 
 leading oil producers of that vicinity, and was soon interested in several enter- 
 prises. He established a plant for the manufacture of oil tools and machinery, 
 which, in 1901, was removed to Los Angeles and the business and plant enlarged, 
 making it the leading establishment of its kind on the Coast. 
 
 His great success was largely a matter of foresight, re-enforced by his own 
 ability to manufacture and supply the rapidly increasing needs of the California 
 oil district. 
 
 He was among the very first in the Southwest to adopt the use of tungsten 
 or high speed steel, because, though the initial outlay for it was probably six 
 times as great as carbon steel would have been, it gave him speed and efficiency 
 and met the demands of his progressive methods. 
 
 At Los Angeles he built up an industry larger than any other in the 
 manufacture of oil well tools and supplies for the Southwest. He also became 
 associated with the Union Tool Company of Los Angeles, which was established 
 in May, 1908, by the consolidation of the American Engineering and Foundry 
 Company and the Union Oil Tool Company, each of which had been in existence 
 for a period of years. Their combined production constituted the bulk of the 
 important manufacturing done in the interest of the oil industry of the Coast. 
 The new company, which was named Union Tool Company, was capitalized at 
 one million two hundred thousand dollars, and under the handling of Mr. Double 
 as president and general manager its growth and prosperity exceeded all pre- 
 
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 dictions. The company soon outgrew its facilities and its ground space in Los 
 Angeles, and several years ago removed to the model industrial suburb of Los 
 Angeles, Torrance, where, on twenty-five acres of ground, the company erected 
 one of the largest and most complete manufacturing plants in the country. 
 The buildings are all of concrete and steel construction, and have many times 
 been called models of modern factory arrangement, appliances and sanitary 
 equipment. Mr. Double himself furnished many of the basic ideas and designs 
 for these buildings, and personally witnessed and directed every phase of their 
 construction and equipment. The capital of the company was later increased 
 to $2,500,000, and more recently was still further increased to $7,500,000. The 
 plant alone represents an investment of one and one-half millions of dollars. 
 The company maintains branches in all the oil fields of California, and it also 
 does very substantial business in the East, having one large plant near Chicago 
 and another at Carnegie, near Pittsburgh, and exporting large quantities of its 
 products to European and Oriental countries. 
 
 Mr. Double was a most successful organizer and had the rare genius of 
 surrounding himself with a corps of able assistants, whose talents he co-ordi- 
 nated into a vital working unit. 
 
 As a prominent business man Mr. Double met faithfully and grandly the 
 numerous calls made upon his service and time for the good of Los Angeles as 
 a community. He was a member of the representative business and civic 
 organizations, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Union League Club, 
 Jonathan Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club 
 and the Order of Elks. 
 
 On January 4, 1899, at Santa Paula, California, Mr. Double married Miss 
 Alice Harbard, who survives him. This union was blessed with one daughter, 
 Helen Double, who is a student at the University of Wisconsin. 
 
 At the very height of his advancing career, while constructing and com- 
 pleting another great plant at Carnegie, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for 
 manufacturing oil well tools and equipment for the export trade, he was sud- 
 denly claimed by death on May 27, 1920. 
 
Maria Elisaldc De Sepulveda 
 
Don Jose Diego Sepulveda 
 
CHE Sepulvedas are a fine old family whose names figure promi- 
 / nently in the romantio history of the ancient regime of 
 \ Southern California and in later generations the name has 
 * been one of distinction in connection with the social and ma- 
 y terial development and progress of this section of the state. 
 \ Jose Diego Sepulveda was a son of Dolores Sepulveda, 
 
 / who came from his native Castillian province in Spain to 
 California in the employ of his government, bringing with 
 him his wife, Maria Yquacia Avila, also a native of Spain. The families of 
 both Sepulveda and Avila had provinces in Spain bearing their name. In 
 return for his services Dolores Sepulveda was given the Rancho Palos Verdes, 
 which extended from San Pedro to Redondo. 
 
 On this great estate Jose Diego Sepulveda was born in 1813. He later 
 became an heir to the Palos Verdes grant of thirty-nine thousand acres, also 
 owner of the Yncaipa Rancho in San Bernardino County and part owner of the 
 Rancho San Bernardino present site of the city of San Bernardino, which he 
 and other owners sold to the Mormons in 1852. 
 
 He was a somewhat conspicuous figure in connection with the historic Los 
 Angeles revolt of 1846-47. He and Serbelo Verela and Ramon Carrillo had 
 been dispatched from the Paderon Blanco with a command of fifty or more 
 men to oppose Wilson and his retainers. Jose Carmen Lugo was already in 
 command of a force of about twenty men on the San Bernardino frontier with 
 instructions to watch the foreigners and he marched with his men to Chino. 
 Lugo claimed to have been the first to arrive at that point and to have been 
 joined late at night by Varela. The Americans were summoned to surrender 
 and it is possible that a few shots were exchanged between the contending forces 
 at this time. Varela promised protection to the Americans as prisoners of war, 
 and the terms were accepted and "Wilson and his men after surrendering were 
 soon on their way with their captors to Los Angeles. Sepulveda and his men 
 were in the advance and in charge of most of the prisoners, who were in due 
 time turned over to Flores, eight or ten of the more prominent of the number 
 being held in captivity until January, 1847. 
 
 During the remainder of October, 1846, a large part of the California 
 army — at least about a hundred men, were kept in service between Los Angeles 
 and San Pedro, the chief encampment having been at Temple's Rancho of Los 
 Carritos, and a small detachment being established at the Palos Verdes Rancho 
 of Sepulveda, near the anchorage at San Pedro. 
 
 Jose Diego Sepulveda choosing the stock industry as his occupation made 
 the Palos Verdes Rancho his headquarters. He bought and sold large numbers 
 of cattle, horses and sheep and over the hills for miles in every direction roamed 
 his herds and flocks. Sepulveda handled his vast possessions with keen judg- 
 ment and great energy, proving himself the inheritor of his father's talent. At 
 the time of his death Sepulveda was fifty-nine years of age. His widow was 
 Maria Francisca Elisalde, member of a prominent San Diego family, whose 
 
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 father was the first major domo, overseer, of all Mission lands, a government 
 appointment. 
 
 At Senora Sepulveda's death she was survived by three of their eleven 
 children, Aurelio W., now deceased, and Raman D. and Rudecinda Florencia 
 (Mrs. James H. Dodson, Sr.), both residents of San Pedro. 
 
f ojjn Jogepf) Jf ap, Jr. 
 
 HILE John Joseph Fay, Jr., came to Southern California after 
 a successful business career in the East, he was never satisfied 
 to be a retired business man, and as a matter of fact was one 
 of the prominent bankers, oil men and public spirited citizens 
 of Los Angeles for many years. 
 
 The outstanding feature of his record as a public man 
 was the great service he performed as president of the Aque- 
 duct Commission, an office to which he was appointed by 
 Mayor Meredith P. Snyder of Los Angeles. One of the greatest pieces of engi- 
 neering in the world, the aqueduct has brought untold benefit to Los Angeles, 
 and the gratitude of this and subsequent generations is paid the men who were 
 most influential in carrying out the project. The commission presided over by 
 Mr. Fay had the disbursement of twenty-three million dollars for the building 
 of the aqueduct, and in that office, as in everything else he undertook, he dis- 
 charged his duties with complete honor and integrity. 
 
 Mr. Fay was born at Detroit, Michigan, in 1853. His father, John Joseph 
 Fay, Sr., was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and located at Detroit when a young 
 man. Then and in later years he was a wholesale grocery merchant. In 1854 he 
 moved to Grand Rapids and in 1869 to Indianapolis, but after the death of his 
 wife he returned to Deti'oit and lived with his son until his death on Decem- 
 ber 30, 1898. He married Catherine Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, of 
 Philadelphia. They were the parents of four sons and one daughter: John J., 
 Louis, Angelo, Frank and Catherine Fay. 
 
 John Joseph Fay, Jr., acquired a public school education and at an early 
 age became a bookkeeper with the lumber firm of T. D. Stimson & Company. 
 He became actively associated with Mr. T. D. Stimson at Big Rapids, Michigan, 
 in the early seventies, and for nearly twenty years was prominent in lumber 
 circles in Michigan and the Middle West. 
 
 Mr. Fay came to California in the early nineties. Here he employed his re- 
 sources to engage in the banking business and served for seven years as presi- 
 dent of the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles, and at the time of his death 
 was director of that institution, also of the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank. 
 After seven years he resigned as president of the bank to engage in the oil busi- 
 ness, having acquired extensive holdings in the Fullerton Oil Company and be- 
 came president of that corporation. 
 
 Mr. Fay died March 11, 1918, at the age of sixty-four. In politics he was 
 a stanch democrat, was a member of the Catholic Newman Club, and was an 
 ardent sportsman, having membership in the California Club, was a charter 
 member of the Bolsa Chica Gun Club and the Tuna Club of Catalina. 
 
 In 1875 he married Miss Jane Stimson, a daughter of his business partner, 
 T. D. Stimson. Mrs. Fay died while making a tour of the world at Rome, 
 Italy, in 1906. She was the mother of two sons and one daughter, Louis, Clar- 
 ence and Anna Fay. At Los Angeles, July 29, 1908, Mr. Fay married Agatha 
 J. Sabichi. Mrs. Fay, who survives her honored husband and resides at 2432 
 Figueroa street, is a native of Los Angeles and represents two of the oldest and 
 
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 most prominent families of Southern California. Her father was one of the 
 most prominent lawyers of his day, and her mother was a daughter of William 
 Wolfskill, one of the first American settlers in Southern California. More ex- 
 tended reference to both the Sabichi and Wolfskill families is made on other 
 pages of this publication. Mrs. Fay is the mother of two children, John Francis 
 and Edward Richard Fay. 
 
Jfrebericfe Vernon© or&on 
 
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 NE of the large oil land owners of California, being interested 
 in much of the choicest property in the oil fields of the state, 
 Frederick Vernon Gordon, of Los Angeles, has led a career 
 characterized by the attainment and maintenance of high 
 position through individual effort. He began to be self-sup- 
 porting when still a lad, and with no advantages save those 
 of natural ability and a determination to succeed, worked his 
 way step by step upward, grasping some opportunities and 
 making others to suit his own needs, his entire business life having constituted a 
 record of singular, eminent and well-merited achievement. 
 
 Mr. Gordon was born at Montgomery City, Missouri, May 23, 1875, a son 
 of B. F. and Margaret A. Gordon, and was eight years of age when taken by his 
 parents to Los Angeles, his educational training being completed in this city's 
 public schools. He was a little more than sixteen years of age when, in July, 
 1891, he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, as assistant opera- 
 tor 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- American war interrupted his career for a time, for in June, 1898, he 
 enlisted with the First Company, Volunteer Signal Corps, at Los Angeles, and 
 July 1, 1898, was advanced to the rank of corporal, this being followed by pro- 
 motion to sergeant in December of the same year. He was detailed on several 
 military expeditions into the interior of the Philippine Islands against the 
 natives and took part in a number of engagements, among them being : Manila, 
 August 13, 1898; Laloma Church, February 5-6, 1899; Caloocan, February 10; 
 Tuluhan, March 25 ; Palo, March 26, and Meyecanaghan on the same date ; 
 Marloa, March 27 ; Bocave and Guiguinto, March 29 ; Mololos, March 31 ; Calum- 
 pit, April 25 ; Santa Tomas, May 4, and San Fernando, May 5, 1899. Mr. Gor- 
 don was on duty under General MacArthur during his Philippine campaign. 
 After the close of the war with the natives he was mustered out in July, 1899. 
 He took an active part in military affairs for a brief time following and then re- 
 turned 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 advanced to cashier 
 and then to assistant agent. He continued in the service 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 1907, when he resigned 
 to enter the oil business on his own account. Mr. Gordon's connections with 
 operating companies are numerous and important, and he is secretary and a di- 
 rector of many oil companies. He is one of the best informed men regarding 
 oil investments 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 the Los 
 Angeles Athletic, Midwick Country, Los Angeles Country, California Coun- 
 try, the Gamut clubs and the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 On February 20, 1902, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage at Bakersfield, 
 California, with Miss 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. 
 
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Claube Srbing^arber 
 
 LAUDE IRVING PARKER studied law and was admitted to 
 the bar while he was deputy county auditor of Los Angeles 
 county. Then followed 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 himself 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, 1871. He 
 is a son of Theophilus and Lora (Bayley) Parker. His father entered the Union 
 Army at the age of seventeen, rose to the rank of captain of the Thirteenth Illi- 
 nois 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 and 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 de- 
 rived from private study and experience in the intervals of self-supporting em- 
 ployment. 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 Com- 
 pany 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 dili- 
 gently 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 mem- 
 ber of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Automobile Club of Southern 
 California. 
 
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 T different points in the narrative and personal history of 
 Southern California the name William G. Kerckhoff appears 
 prominently in connection with the great industrial, particu- 
 larly 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 com- 
 mercial enterprises that in themselves are of the greatest significance in South- 
 ern 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 return- 
 ing from abroad went into business with his father, who conducted a whole- 
 sale jobbing saddlery and hardware business at Terre Haute. In the fall of 
 1878 he came to California, and after a year of travel and investigation located 
 at Los Angeles, which then contained only 10,000 people. In 1879, with two 
 associates, he organized the firm of Jackson, Kerckhoff & Cuzner, which later 
 became 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 lumber 
 man before he became interested in electric power development. In 1897 he 
 was associated with A. C. Balch in organizing the San Gabriel Electric Com- 
 pany. The history of this concern has been referred to elsewhere as the pioneer 
 in Southern California water power development for electrical purposes. Out 
 of it has grown one of the greatest light and power systems in the world, the 
 Pacific Light and Power Corporation, of which Mr. Kerckhoff was president 
 until 1913. 
 
 He is also actively identified with the San Joaquin Light and Power Cor- 
 poration 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 Na- 
 tional Bank and the First National Bank of Kerman, the Fresno Farms Com- 
 pany and the South Coast Land Company. He is also very largely interested 
 in realty-improved property in Los Angeles, including the Kerckhoff Build- 
 ing, among the very large 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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 FTER years of experience and rigid training, Adolph H. Koebig 
 is deservedly ranked among the most prominent consulting 
 engineers of Southern California, and his work in connec- 
 tion 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 thoroughly 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 military 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 Helene 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 super- 
 intending 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 the 
 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. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Koebig was made assistant to the chief engineer of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad at San Bernardino, California, and when later he was made city 
 engineer of that municipality, 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 Angeles and other cities. Oftentimes he is called 
 upon for expert testimony in important litigation, his authority and knowledge 
 being practically 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 
 
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 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 Sav- 
 ings 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, belongs to the Ebell 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 medicine, at Los 
 Angeles, with the degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of South- 
 ern California. After serving as interne in several hospitals in this city, he 
 went to Arizona as surgeon of the Santa Fe Railroad. Returning to Cali- 
 fornia, he passed the state examination, and became resident surgeon for the 
 Santa Fe Railroad at Riverbank, California, holding that position for two 
 and one-half years. Doctor Koebig then went East for post graduate work, 
 but in the meanwhile his country entered the World war, and he returned to 
 California, sold his practice, and enlisted in the army. 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 com- 
 panies in irrigation districts, and in the building department of the City of 
 Los Angeles, and the good roads department of the County of Los Angelas. 
 Having acquired a very valuable experience, and by that time measuring up 
 to his father's exacting standards, the young man was taken by his father 
 into partnership. He married Gladys Felt of Los Angeles, and they have one 
 child, Helene Mary Koebig, who is six years old. The Lyons Club holds the 
 membership 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 Leland Stanford University, but did not graduate, as he pre- 
 ferred to enter business life. He learned the fundamentals of a commercial 
 career in the National Bank of California at Los Angeles, 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 Com- 
 pany. 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. 
 
jfranfe Winq, ©aplor 
 
 RANK WING TAYLOR was a resident of Los Angeles for 
 twenty-three years and he and his family have long been 
 prominent socially, in business and professional affairs of 
 Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Taylor, who died in 1918, a short time before the 
 close of the World war, was born at Troy, New York, April 
 28, 1856, a son of Tracy and Ella (Wing) Taylor. The Taylor 
 home was at 122 First Street, in Troy, and next door lived 
 Russell Sage and wife. Mrs. Sage often took care of Frank Wing Taylor as a 
 baby and loved him as a child. 
 
 His mother was a daughter of Abraham Wing, a pioneer lumberman of 
 New York. The Wing mill site for several years was known as Wing's Falls, 
 and later the name was changed to Glens Falls, now an important city of 
 New York State. Abraham Wing was known for his extensive charities and 
 his kind and lovable nature. 
 
 Tracy Taylor was a descendant of the Tracy family. Baron John D. 
 Sudley, Lord of Sudley and Toddington, in the year 1140, married Grace, 
 daughter and heir of Henry De Traci, feudal Lord of Barnstable. The Traci 
 family boasted of descent from the Saxon kings of England. 
 
 April 24, 1783, Mary Tracy was married to Nathan Taylor, and their 
 twin children were Tracy and Mary Taylor. The name Tracy has reappeared 
 in every generation of the Taylor family since then. 
 
 Frank Wing Taylor received his early education in Bennington, and later 
 attended college at Davenport, Iowa. While in Chicago he met Miss Minnie 
 Cray, and they were married June 6, 1883, at high noon, in Grace Episcopal 
 Church. Miss Cray was an orphan. Her father, Edward A. Cray, had a 
 general merchandise store at Fort Edward, New York, and was a prominent 
 Mason, and died November 3, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were distantly re- 
 lated. Mrs. Taylor's mother, Mary Eliza Park was a daughter of John C. 
 Park of Whitehall, New York, and Mary Eliza Wing, niece of Abraham Wing, 
 grandfather, as noted above, of Frank Wing Taylor. 
 
 Before his marriage Mr. Taylor had traveled quite extensively with his 
 mother both in this country and abroad. He had attended the Philadelphia 
 Exposition of 1876, and the Paris Exposition of 1878. His mother, Ella Wing 
 Taylor, and his wife's mother were both graduates of the Emma Willard 
 Seminary for Young Ladies, at Troy, New York, a seminary that has since 
 been liberally endowed by Mrs. Russell Sage. 
 
 At the time of his marriage Mr. Taylor took a position in the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Chicago under Lyman Gage. This was the first and only 
 position he ever held, and he remained there ten years. He left at the death 
 of his mother, which made it necessary for him to take care of his inheritance, 
 which came to him from his maternal grandfather. He never resumed busi- 
 ness again beyond the responsibilities required in looking after his private 
 property. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor moved to Los Angeles in October, 1894. The phy- 
 sicians had given Mrs. Taylor six months to live, but she is alive and well 
 
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 today. They brought with them their five small children. Their first home 
 was at 2110 Grand Avenue, then the only house in the block. After a year, 
 they bought property at the corner of Adams and Grand. Mrs. Taylor was 
 attracted to this home by reason of its trees and flowers. Later they made 
 a trip abroad with their three older sons, and on returning gave their serious 
 attention to the education of the boys. 
 
 Edward Cray Taylor, the oldest son, graduated from the Los Angeles 
 High School, and four years later entered the University of California at 
 Berkeley. He remained there until the earthquake, when he continued his 
 studies at Columbia University, graduating in architecture. He then made 
 a second trip abroad to study at first hand the greatest monuments of archi- 
 tectural genius on the continent and which he had seen only superficially on 
 his first trip to Europe. 
 
 The second son, Ellis "Wing Taylor, also attended Columbia University, 
 but graduated from the University of California in construction engineering. 
 The third son, F. William Howard Taylor, was a student at Berkeley, but 
 graduated in medicine from the University of Southern California and be- 
 came an X-ray specialist. 
 
 At the entrance of the United States into the war, all of the sons of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Taylor enlisted. The three older boys took the examination and 
 all were commissioned first lieutenant, two in the army and one in the navy. 
 The oldest son went to France with the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Engineers, 
 and from March, 1918. was engaged in constructing roads, railways, hospitals 
 and bridges near the front lines, and performing every other duty required 
 of the engineers. He was instrumental in having the school of Toulouse opened 
 to the American engineers, artists and architects. He has a diploma and medal 
 from Toulouse for work done there. The great sorrow of his family in the 
 death of his father occurred while he was in France, and the news did not 
 reach him for several months. 
 
 The second son went to Annapolis and was allowed to choose where he 
 would be stationed. He entered the submarine officers' school at New London, 
 Connecticut, where he was graduated in June, 1918, and passed with such 
 high honors that he was again allowed freedom of choice and selected the 
 Western coast and was made commander of submarine F-3. He was at San 
 Pedro at the time of his father's death and during a furlough proved the stay 
 and comfort of his mother during the sorrowful time. 
 
 The third son became an x-ray instructor in the medical corps at New 
 York, and was recommended for a captaincy, but on account of his extreme 
 youth the commission was withheld. 
 
 The fourth son, Fred Taylor, who had been injured in an accident, also 
 did his bit by work in the shipyards during the war. 
 
 The older daughter, Barbara, a gifted harpist, during the war graduated 
 in a course in first aid work with the Red Cross and was busily engaged in 
 war duties, not only with her harp, but with her hand. She is the wife of 
 Charles Roger Kierhulf, a junior member of the firm C. R, Kierhulf & Com- 
 pany, electricians' supplies, and who during the war was in the navy, at the 
 Reserve Training Station at San Pedro. 
 
 The younger daughter, Alma, who was born in Los Angeles, was married 
 to William H. Eaton, Jr.. son of William H. Eaton, after whose family Eaton's 
 Canyon was named, and whose grandfather constructed the first water line 
 into' Pasadena. William H. Eaton, Jr., during the closing months of the 
 war was in the Artillery Officers' School at Camp Taylor. Louisville. Kentucky. 
 
 The late Frank Wing Taylor was one of the promoters of the Chess Chib 
 of Los Angeles, and as a member of the Athletic Club was chairman of its 
 Chess Club. He was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church, and in 
 politics was always a democrat. 
 
©sstoalb partlett 
 
 ROM the age of eleven until he was about eighteen, Oswald 
 Bartlett lived in the Castaic district of California. His home 
 was a ranch in the mountains. While the Ridge Route now 
 makes that district accessible, at that time it was regarded as 
 almost without the pale of civilization, being in fact the 
 rendezvous of all the outlaws and gunmen in that section. 
 For the training of a young man for the responsibilities of 
 American business, hardly a less promising environment could 
 be imagined. However, it had its compensating advantages. It endowed Mr. 
 Bartlett with his unconquerable love of outdoors, and the solitude, grandeur 
 and rugged wildness of the mountains and incomparable hills of California. 
 There was a country school which he and a brother and sister attended. They 
 made up half of the entire number of pupils. Every day they walked about 
 three miles each way over rough, rugged mountain hills to the school. 
 
 This early chapter in Mr. Bartlett 's career is pertinent chiefly by way 
 of contrast to his busy and fruitful experience in Los Angeles. He has lived 
 in this city twenty years and in that time his consecutive industry and in- 
 satiable passion for mercantile knowlege brought him to a position where he 
 is recognized as one of the foremost merchants and is president and general 
 manager of California's finest store, Blackstone's. 
 
 Mr. Bartlett was born at Birmingham, England, February 24, 1882, son 
 of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Hobbins) Bartlett. His father was also a native 
 of England, but when a boy came to America, spending about two years in 
 Norfolk, Virginia, and two years in Hampton, Massachusetts. Later he re- 
 turned to England, married in 1881, and engaged in business as a coal mer- 
 chant. Becoming dissatisfied with the humdrum ways of old England, early 
 in 1890 he gave up his business and, returning to America, settled first at 
 Denver, Colorado, where he became a merchant, and in 1893 he moved to 
 California to satisfy his desire to live the life of an agriculturist. His agri- 
 cultural ventures in the Castaic district were a failure, owing to the lack of 
 water and three or four consecutive dry seasons. 
 
 The successful business man is one who learns how to adapt himself to 
 circumstances and solve each day's problems as they come up. Probably in 
 all his career there was no greater need for this adaptability than when Mr. 
 Bartlett arrived from the ranch a green country boy and, without knowledge 
 of city ways, gained his first knowledge of Los Angeles. Barker Brothers 
 had just moved into their new building on South Spring Street. Young 
 Bartlett was then a member of the Sunday school class in the First Baptist 
 Church, at Sixth and Broadway, his teacher being Mr. C. H. Barker. Through 
 this acquaintance he secured the position of elevator boy in the new building. 
 Barker Brothers were then, as now, the largest furniture store in Los Angeles, 
 having at that time a pay roll of nearly forty people. Oswald Bartlett ran 
 the elevator several months, his wages being increased to $7.00 or $8.00 a 
 week. It supplied the immediate necessity of employment, but had no future. 
 He next requested work in the drapery workshop, where his salary was re- 
 duced to $3.00 a week on account of his lack of experience. "While there he 
 
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 acquired some knowledge of the different sorts of drapery fabrics, and then 
 made a new move to get into the selling end of the business. His next posi- 
 tion was stock boy and second salesman in the drapery department of the 
 Niles Pease Furniture Company, then located in what is now the Harris & 
 Frank Building, at 443 South Spring Street. In successive years there were 
 other changes of employment, each change being actuated by the broader op- 
 portunities apparently presented. He was with W. & J. Sloane of San Fran- 
 cisco as salesman in the decorative department ; the Eastern Outfitting Company 
 at Los Angeles as general salesman of furniture, carpets and draperies; and 
 with the J. M. Hale Company of Los Angeles he acquired his first experience 
 in buying. His first real executive position was as buyer of floor coverings 
 and draperies at the Broadway Department Store, where he remained several 
 years. He left that establishment to take charge of Bullock's Basement Store. 
 This was the first basement store established in Los Angeles carrying all lines 
 of merchandise. It was a merchandising idea then an innovation and now 
 in the experimental stage, and its thorough success was largely due to Mr. 
 Bartlett's genius. After about a year with Bullock's, he accepted another 
 opportunity to go with the Hamburger store as buyer for floor covering, furni- 
 ture, drapery and picture departments, a line in which he was specially inter- 
 ested. With that house he remained about ten years. 
 
 While these successive changes are briefly told, during those years of 
 service Mr. Bartlett had achieved the knowledge, the executive sense and the 
 broad and detailed comprehension which are the chief qualifications of a suc- 
 cessful merchant. On this foundation his subsequent progress seems merely 
 a matter of course. February 1, 1917, he availed himself of the opportunity for 
 still further advancement, when he became merchandise manager for the N. 
 B. Blackstone Company. Not long afterward he succeeded to the position of 
 president and general manager, and as such he is directing the service of a 
 store known nationally and internationally. 
 
 Notwithstanding all his various duties and responsibilities, Mr. Bartlett 
 has been a close observer of social and political conditions affecting the wel- 
 fare of his city and nation, particularly in recent years. He is one of the 
 stanch business men to whom Americanism is something more than a mere 
 word. He conceives of it as a set of principles, involving not only sound 
 patriotism, but sound political economy, instruction in which should begin in 
 the grammar grades of public schools, so that the next generation at least 
 will be properly trained and as a direct result of training and education be 
 competent to solve the problems which now cause social and industrial unrest. 
 Mr. Bartlett is a republican and a firm believer that all municipal politics 
 should be strictly non-partisan. He is an active member of the Commercial 
 Federation of California, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, The 
 Brentwood Country Club and a thirty-second degree Mason, being affiliated 
 with Hollywood Lodge No. 355, Free and Accepted Masons, and Los Angeles 
 Consistory No. 3, and a Shriner. He is a member of the First Baptist Church 
 of Hollywood. 
 
 December 31, 1904, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Louise Eckerman, 
 daughter of Alexander and Rosa (Bullock) Eckerman of Grand Rapids, Mich- 
 igan. Alexander earned all the honors due to a brave and faithful soldier 
 and veteran of our Civil war. He was in fourteen battles and numerous skirm- 
 ishes, including the battle of the Wilderness, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Spott- 
 sylvania and Petersburg, in the last engagement his younger brother being 
 shot down by his side. For a period of fifty-eight years until the time of his 
 death he was engaged in the drug business in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett 
 have two children, Oswald, Jr., born in 1909, and Elizabeth Louise, born in 1917. 
 
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 ^[^O have been at some time an employe, subordinate or co-worker 
 FjS"* '""'^^GO °^ Cenl. M. H. Sherman is an experience that many prominent 
 r4 ' I ' Calif ornians never neglect to mention with a degree of pride 
 
 \£ an d satisfaction, thereby claiming credit not only to them- 
 
 fcn A C r T selves, but unconsciously expressing a high tribute to this 
 il6r *<f T5^*)W^ pioneer and master railway builder of Southern California. 
 ^4 occ j>i> 0^ The great work General Sherman and his brother-in-law 
 
 and business associate, E. P. Clark, has done in developing 
 the electric transportation in Southern California need here be only briefly 
 outlined as part of the personal history of General Sherman. 
 
 He was born at West Rupert, in Bennington County, Vermont, Decem- 
 ber 3, 1853, of sturdy New England ancestry. General Sherman's achieve- 
 ments apparently have been a result of the steady and sturdy development 
 of his own powers and experiences. He completed his education in the Oswego 
 Normal School, in New York, and was a district school teacher in New York 
 State. At the age of twenty he made his first visit to Los Angeles, and soon 
 thereafter went to the sparsely settled territory of Arizona, locating at Pres- 
 cott, then only a mining town. There he taught school until 1876, when the 
 territorial governor selected him at the age of twenty-three, as a suitable man 
 to represent Arizona at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. After 
 discharging his duties at Philadelphia, he started to return to the Pacific Coast. 
 The voyage was made by the Isthmus of Panama, the steamship being wrecked 
 near Cuba, and altogether was a trying adventure for all concerned. At that 
 time General Sherman was accompanied by his sister, who later became the 
 wife of Mr. E. P. Clark. On his return to Arizona, young Sherman was ap- 
 pointed by the then governor, John C. Fremont, superintendent of public 
 instruction. In that office he had the first crucial test of his abilities as an 
 organizer. Arizona then had no public school system and young Sherman 
 had to solve the many difficult problems of providing school facilities for the 
 scattered population of the territory. After his appointive term, the office 
 became elective, and he was chosen as his own successor, being the only re- 
 publican elected to a territorial office. During that term, at the request of 
 the Legislature, he rewrote the school laws of the territory, and those laws, 
 unanimously adopted, remained the standard for over thirty years. 
 
 His next public task after leaving the office of superintendent of schools 
 came in the shape of an appointment by the governor to the office of adjutant- 
 general of the territory. He was reappointed by the succeeding governor, and 
 during his two terms accomplished for the National Guard or Militia what he 
 had done previously for the public school system. 
 
 In the meantime he had entered business, having established, in 1884, at 
 the age of thirty-one, the Valley Bank of Phoenix, Arizona, and serving as 
 its first president. Later this became the largest bank of Arizona. He also 
 grained his first experience in railroad building in Arizona, building the Phoenix 
 Railway in 1884. He retained the ownership of that line and in 1910 ex- 
 tended it to Glendale, Arizona, to connect with the Santa Fe system. 
 
 It was during a visit to Los Angeles in 1889 that the big opportunity of 
 
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 his lifetime was presented to General Sherman. The city at that time had in 
 operation a costly cable tramway system, built by a Chicago syndicate. The 
 system was frequently paralyzed as a result of winter rains washing sand 
 into the cable slots, and there was no end of dissatisfaction on the part of the 
 public. While General Sherman had spent most of his years in the South- 
 west, he had kept in touch with modern scientific progress, and had followed 
 with interest the first experiments in the use of electricity as a motive power 
 for driving street cars. Electric traction, however, at that time was still in 
 an experimental stage, though in two or three Eastern cities its possibilities 
 had been demonstrated. General Sherman determined that a most promising 
 field for electric traction was open in Los Angeles. He enlisted the services 
 of his brother-in-law, Mr. E. P. Clark, in raising capital and securing a 
 franchise, and together they built the first tracks of the Los Angeles Railway, 
 and soon afterwards the first electric street cars were put in operation. Gen- 
 eral Sherman became president of the system, with Mr. Clark vice president 
 and general manager. They absorbed the cable railway and from their initial 
 success went on to larger projects, including the organization of the Los An- 
 geles & Pasadena Electric Railway. All this property was subsequently sold 
 to H. E. Huntington. General Sherman and Mr. Clark then turned their 
 enterprise to another field, organizing the Los Angeles Pacific Railway and 
 building lines to Hollywood, Santa Monica and eventually covering all the 
 territory between Los Angeles and Santa Monica Bay. This system was sold 
 to E. H. Harriman, and became the nucleus of the present great Harriman 
 traction holdings in Southern California. General Sherman is still a director 
 in this system. 
 
 This is a mere outline of General Sherman's activities in Southern Cali- 
 fornia. It would be difficult to estimate the tremendous influence he has 
 exercised over many lines of development which are now essential features of 
 modern Los Angeles and surrounding territory. He is also a banker, being 
 president and director of the First National Bank of Miland, vice president 
 and director of the First National Bank of Calexico, vice president and director 
 of the First National Bank of Van Nuys, vice president and director of the 
 State Bank of Owensmouth, director of the Farmers and Merchants National 
 Bank of Los Angeles, president of the M. H. Sherman Investment Company and 
 also a director in many other corporations in California and Arizona, and is an 
 extensive property owner. He is a member of the California Club, Jonathan 
 Club, Country Club and other social and business organizations at Los Angeles 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 General Sherman married, in 1885, Harriet E. Pratt. Her father, R. H. 
 Pratt, was one of the distinguished builders of the Central Pacific Railway. 
 They have three children, Robert, Hazeltine and Lucy. 
 
leCompte Babte 
 
 ROBABLY no member of the Los Angeles bar is more fre- 
 quently 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. Le- 
 Compte Davis is a scholarly lawyer, takes delight in litera- 
 ture 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 of Los Angeles County, and 
 left that office in 1895 to form a partnership with Judson R. Rush. The 
 firm of Davis & Rush has been in existence now nearly a quarter of a century. 
 It has been especially 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 defended 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 eases 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 six thousand volumes, be- 
 sides a rare collection of old engravings and paintings. April 18, 1908, at 
 Ventura, California, Mr. Davis married Edythe Gilman. 
 
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|NE 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 at 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 case. Their first offices were in a build- 
 
 ing 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 generations, 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 Fullerton district. Three years he also con- 
 ducted 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 examina- 
 tion 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 Asso- 
 ciation, 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, California. 
 
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 AVID McNAIR, a wealthy and prominent Canadian lumberman 
 and manufacturer, came to San Diego, California, with his 
 family about twenty years ago, and fifteen years ago moved to 
 Los Angeles and built the beautiful home which his family now 
 occupies at -625 Kingsley Drive, it being one of the first homes 
 on that now noted thoroughfare. 
 
 Mr. McNair, who died in the beautiful surroundings his 
 wealth and good taste had created, and honored and respected 
 by many prominent Southern Californians, on January 25, 1920, was born at 
 River Louison, New Brunswick, Canada, September 13, 1842, son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Kelso) McNair and grandson of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (McKenzie) 
 McNair. His father was of a prominent and wealthy Scotch Highland family, 
 and came from Campbellton, Argyleshire, Scotland, to New Brunswick on a 
 sailing vessel at a very early day (1819), when crossing the ocean was a matter 
 of three months or more. John McNair took up the lumber business in Eastern 
 Canada, and owned several timber mills and a fleet of sailing vessels to ship the 
 product to England. 
 
 David McNair was educated in New Brunswick, and after leaving school 
 took up the lumber business with his father. Later he utilized his experience in 
 the new and pioneer districts of the Pacific Coast, the British Columbia forests, 
 going to Western Canada in company with John Hendry and establishing his 
 home and business headquarters at New Westminster and later moved to Van- 
 couver. There he was associated with John Hendry in the sawmilling business 
 at Nanaimo, and subsequently they formed the Royal City Planing Mills of New 
 Westminster. The British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company was 
 incorporated by Mr. McNair, Mr. Hendry and Mr. Beecher in the early nineties, 
 this new corporation absorbing the properties of the Royal City Planing Mills 
 and the Hastings Sawmill Company. Mr. McNair was one of the first lumber- 
 men to develop the timber resources of British Columbia on a large commercial 
 scale. He was an eminently practical man, possessed of all the typical virtues 
 of northern lumbermen, and was a recognized authority upon every phase of 
 the industry. His part of the work was surveying and securing the timber. 
 He continued his associations with the British Columbia Mills Timber and Trad- 
 ing Company until in recent years, after coming to California. He came to 
 Southern California for the benefit of Mrs. McNair 's health. In California Mr. 
 McNair became interested in real estate and the general development of Los 
 Angeles and vicinity. He was one of the directors of the Angeles Mesa Land 
 Company and the Mission Land Company at San Fernando. 
 
 April 13, 1881, Mr. McNair married Marion Hendry, who was born at Belle- 
 dune, New Brunswick. Her parents, James and Margaret (Wilson) Hendry, 
 had sailed from Ardrosson, Scotland, for Chaleur Bay April 6, 1832, on the 
 ship Margaret Ritchie. Mrs. McNair died in Los Angeles April 14, 1920. The 
 late Mr. McNair was always faithful to his training as a Scotch Presbyterian and 
 was an elder in the church for many years. He was also one of the early members 
 of the Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 DAVID McNAIR 
 
 He is survived by two brothers, Mr. Alexander McNair of Vancouver and 
 John McNair of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Daniel McMillan of Ottawa. 
 
 The family home at Los Angeles is now occupied by the daughter, Miss 
 Ethelyn McNair. There are two other daughters, Mrs. Henry Browning Landes, 
 of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Colin Defries, of London, England. Their oldest child, 
 a son, died when a baby at New Westminster. Mrs. Defries has two children, 
 Joan Elizabeth and Madeline Darcy. 
 
Hancock panning 
 
 SON of one of the Southern California's most conspicuous 
 pioneer characters, the late General Phineas Banning, Hancock 
 Banning has to his credit more than thirty -seven years of busi- 
 ness activity in and around Los Angeles. 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 born 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 Govern- 
 ment since he was twenty-one years of age. After completing a business college 
 course he undertook his first business venture at Pasadena, where he estab- 
 lished the Pasadena Transfer and Fuel Company, and afterwards moved to 
 Los Angeles, 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 ownership of Santa Catalina Island 
 until 1919, when they disposed of their interests in this famous resort to the 
 Chicago capitalist, William Wrigley, Jr. Prior to that time the Bannings 
 had completed the Hotel St. Catherine, which together with the company 
 steamers Cabrillo and Hermosa and other improvements represented an invest- 
 ment by them of over two million dollars. 
 
 Mr. Banning now makes his home at the old Banning mansion at Wilming- 
 ton, where he was born. That home had also sheltered his grandmother, 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, daugh- 
 ter of former Judge George H. Smith of the Appellate Court of California. Since 
 her marriage Mrs. Banning has been very active in many 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 carried out in many cities of the United States, 
 and not only the Red Cross but other charitable institutions have adopted the 
 idea. During the war the Red Cross Shop did a business aggregating millions 
 
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 HANCOCK BANNING 
 
 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. MacParland, 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 outbreak 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, h'eld 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 grad- 
 uted 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 success- 
 fully 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 writ- 
 ing on the "Chronicle" newspaper force. 
 
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'HE RED CROSS SHOP as a distinctive feature of the auxiliary 
 war work originated in Los Angeles, and the mind and heart 
 from which proceeded the great and fertile idea were those 
 of Mrs. Hancock Banning. It is due the shop as an institu- 
 tion, to Mrs. Banning and her associates, to make some par- 
 ticular reference to the institution and its work. The best ac- 
 count 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 {he little group of friends to whom her plans 
 in detail were confided. With one exception, this original plan has been care- 
 fully 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 whatever 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 ifc 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 hofp 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 in a manner somewhat similar in plan to that of the 
 ' Miseracordia 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, cuffs 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 in- 
 terested 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 generosity 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 
 
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 THE RED CROSS SHOP 
 
 to the postage stamps and stationery, which are personally 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 recon- 
 struction of broken furniture, clocks, toys, the mending of clothing, millinery, 
 etc., are met by patriotic volunteers who are happy to give of their time and 
 skill to the worthy cause. It is this democracy of spirit which illuminates 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 fingers 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 commercial 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 comprehensive 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 themselves 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 livelihood 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' Mrs. 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. Heffner 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 responsibilities 
 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 entertain- 
 ment committee, which involves the work of securing famous stage and screen 
 stars as participants and staging other ci'owd-drawing attractions for the Tea 
 Room, has also undertaken, successfully, the work of publicity director, which 
 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. Mac- 
 Beth, in charge of the automobile service; Mrs. J. Arthur Wright, manager of the 
 Tea Room; Mrs. R. E. Wells, in charge of the Red Cross Shop branch at Tenth 
 and Main streets, are all filling departments equally as important to the success 
 of the shop as a whole. 
 
 "The stockroom, occupying a spacious part of the second floor of the build- 
 ing, is in charge of Mrs. Franklyn Booth, and it is hero that surplus stock is 
 stored, and where all articles upon receipt are sorted out, priced, and if in un- 
 
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 salable condition are sent out to be repaired, cleaned and in other manner con- 
 verted into desirable commodities for sale. 
 
 "Mrs. Jaro von Schmidt is in charge of the children's clothing department, 
 while the women's apparel is under the jurisdiction of Mrs. Harry Dana Lom- 
 bard, 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 supervises the work of the toy 
 departments; 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 aug- 
 mented by many branches and an enthusiastic corps of workers. The reconstruc- 
 tion 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 Lilli- 
 putian work shop in charge of Miss Winifred Ballard ; the art shop under direc- 
 tion 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. Othman Stevens, who con- 
 ceived the idea of collecting such waste as tinfoil, old automobile tires, old 
 papers and typewriter metals and marketing them. As succinctly expressed 
 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 nothing, 
 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 $11,355.11, which against the gross receipts of $12,125.80 
 gives an idea of the correspondingly small amount disbursed for expenses. The 
 June receipts mounted even higher, the profits reaching $12,000 for the month — 
 representing 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." 
 
ILLIAM H. DAUM came to Southern California as industrial 
 commissioner for the Santa Pe Railway Company, but soon re- 
 signed and has since specialized in an almost unique profession, 
 largely along the line of his former experience as a railroad 
 industrial commissioner. Mr. Daum is credited with an im- 
 portant share of the enterprise and influence through which a 
 score or more of industries have been located and developed in 
 and around Los Angeles. 
 Mr. Daum was born at Nortonville, Kansas, September 11, 1883, and all his 
 early experience was in railroading. His parents were William and Margaret 
 (Payne) Daum. He attended the public schools of Nortonville and graduating 
 from the high school at Topeka, Kansas, in 1897, and soon afterward went to 
 work for the Santa Fe Railway as freight clerk and handler at Meriden, Kansas. 
 The first year he was paid twenty dollars a month. He was then telegraph 
 operator at Atchison six months, was transferred as telegraph operator to Mel- 
 vern, Kansas, then to Barclay, and in 1900 returned to Atchison as night agent. 
 In 1903 the company sent him to Topeka as train dispatcher, and in 1904 moved 
 him further west to Albuquerque, where he had charge of the telegraph depart- 
 ment until December of that year. He was then made agent of the Santa Fe 
 at Holbrook, Arizona, and while there was in the cattle business on the side. 
 In 1906 he became superintendent of terminals for the Santa Fe Railway Com- 
 pany at Seligman, Arizona. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Daum moved his headquarters to Los Angeles as industrial 
 commissioner for the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque. He continued this 
 work for five years, and in 1912 resigned to engage in the industrial realty busi- 
 ness for himself. 
 
 He was interested in the first big modern lemon packing and storage house, 
 locating it at San Dimas. He located a dozen fruit packing houses in Southern 
 California, and was associated with A. S. Bradford in starting the town of 
 Placentia. During his service as industrial commissioner for the Santa Fe he 
 was instrumental in locating two hundred twenty-three industries, a hundred 
 seventy-five of them in Southern California. 
 
 Some of the important industries which have been established with Mr. 
 Daum handling more or less of the negotiations are the American Can Company, 
 Republic Motor Truck Company, Griffin Car Wheel Company, American Brake 
 Shoe & Foundry Company, Globe Oil Mills, California Cotton Oil Company, 
 Federal Box Company, Pacific Portable Construction Company, Pan-American 
 Petroleum Company, Charles R. McCormack Lumber Company of Los Angeles 
 and San Diego. Very recently Mr. Daum had charge of the arrangements 
 through which the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, established 
 its twenty-six million dollar rubber and cotton mill plant in Southern California. 
 
 A tremendous amount of interest has been aroused by the coming of the 
 Goodyear Company to Los Angeles. The rubber and cotton mill plant, when in 
 full operation, will employ eight thousand people, and it is the largest single 
 industry ever established west of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Daum has recently 
 figured in the discussions of plans, based partly on the Goodyear enterprise, 
 
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 WILLIAM H. DAUM 
 
 and the logical development of natural resources and advantages of Southern 
 California toward making Los Angeles the center of air navigation and trans- 
 portation for America. The fact that practical business men like Mr. Daum are 
 working on such plans is a striking illustration of the splendid advances made in 
 aeronautics during the past five years. 
 
 Mr. Daum is manager and director of the Factory Site Company, is vice 
 president and director of the Sunset Park Land Company, manager of the 
 Industrial Center Corporation, and manager of the Artesian Land Company. 
 He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club, is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Congregational Church. 
 At Atchison, Kansas, June 19, 1906, he married Mary Rose. Their four children 
 are : Elizabeth Rose, born in 1907 ; Dorothy Marian, born in 1911 ; William 
 Howard, Jr., born in 1913, and Richard Hampton, born in 1915. 
 
VHARLES KOSSOUTH BOOK came to Los Angeles twenty-two 
 / years ago in 1898. At that time as well as since he enjoyed an 
 \ enviable reputation among the practical oil experts of America. 
 £ He was born and reared in the atmosphere of the petroleum 
 / industry in western Pennsylvania. He came from a family 
 S of forceful business executives and as a young man he began 
 K his explorations and observations, operating oil rigs and drill- 
 ing all over the hills of western Pennsylvania. He was promi- 
 nent in the petroleum industry of California. 
 
 Mr. Book, who died after a brief illness of one week, February 4, 1920, was 
 born at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, in September, 1851. His parents were Colonel 
 William and Ann Emery Book. His mother was related to Lord Harland of 
 England. Colonel William Book held his rank from service in the Pennslyvania 
 Militia, and he drilled a number of companies at Newcastle for the Civil War. 
 Grandfather Book was a Revolutionary soldier. All the brothers of Charles 
 K. Book were in the Civil War, including Dr. W. P. Book, Captain J. S. Book 
 and Rear Admiral G. M. Book, the two latter of Los Angeles. 
 
 Charles Kossouth Book was but ten when the war began. He wanted to 
 enlist, but was prevented by his age, but he became drummer and acquiring a 
 uniform, organized a company of boys. He was known as ' ' the Drummer Boy, ' ' 
 and as a paper remarked, "Did more than any other single individual to boost 
 enlistments in Lawrence County." 
 
 At thirteen he saved a boy from drowning in the Shenango River. 
 After finishing his education at Martin Gantz School, Charles K. Book 
 went into the oil business near Oil City, later operated in the Bradford oil 
 fields, and for a number of years was associated with his brother Dr. W. P. 
 Book. While engaged in the practical business of drilling wells he made his 
 home at Bradford and Jamestown, New York, for twenty-two years. 
 
 After coming to Los Angeles he acquired interests in oil wells in the imme- 
 diate vicinity of the city, including one near the site of the old French Hos- 
 pital. He owned the land there, selling it about six years before his death. 
 He also operated on Kern River, drilling and bringing in some valuable prop- 
 erties, but had disposed of his interests there before his death. He also at one 
 time owned interests in the oil districts of West Virginia. 
 
 Mr. Book was a Mason, being affiliated with the various Masonic bodies at 
 Buffalo and Jamestown, New York, including the Shrine. For many years his 
 advice was eagerly sought by corporations and individuals in the oil industry. 
 He was a man of broad vision, philanthropic and liberal, and while achieving 
 success for himself helped others. 
 
 October 3, 1877, Mr. Book married Miss Ida L. Tyler. They were married at 
 Tyler Hill, Pennsylvania, where she was born, the townsite being named in honor 
 of her grandfather, Israel Tyler. The Tylers are a prominent family in that 
 section of Pennsylvania. Her grandfather was prominent in the lumber business, 
 as a land owner, and at one time owned an extensive group of saw and planing 
 mills, stores, flour mills and other commercial enterprises. Much of his time was 
 spent in Philadelphia and New York. Mrs. Book's father was Moses Tyler, a 
 merchant. Mr. Book is survived by Mrs. Book and one daughter, Dorothy E. 
 Book. 
 
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 MIL KAYSER, a resident of Pasadena for the past thirty-five 
 years, and a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, came to Cali- 
 fornia from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1884. 
 
 His father for many years was a general merchant at 
 Bellevue near Omaha, Nebraska. Emil was one of four sons 
 and three daughters reared in that town, being the only mem- 
 ber of the family in California. He attended public school at 
 
 Bellevue, but left home at the age of fourteen. His early busi- 
 ness experience was acquired in Omaha and later in Denver, Colorado, in which 
 city he spent three years. 
 
 In the fall of 1884 he came to Pasadena and associated himself with Mr. 
 A. Cruickshank, with whom he had been first connected in Omaha in the dry 
 goods business. The Pasadena firm was known under the name of Cruickshank 
 & Company and continued as general dry goods merchants there for a number 
 of years. 
 
 On selling his interests with Cruickshank & Company Mr. Kayser became a 
 partner of the late F. B. Wetherby, a prominent resident of Pasadena whose 
 career has been reviewed elsewhere in this publication. The object of their 
 original association was to engage in the business of real estate and subdividing. 
 
 ° During 1887 and 1888 they built the Wetherby-Kayser Building in Pasadena 
 and started the Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company. That was the beginning of the 
 big shoe business now handled under the firm name in Los Angeles. A branch 
 store was established at Second and Broadway in Los Angeles in 1902, and 
 the following year they sold the Pasadena establishment, and made the Los 
 Angeles branch their headquarters. In that store they developed the well founded 
 and highly standardized business which today ranks as one of the best of its 
 kind on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Kayser 's home is still in Pasadena, and he continues to be one of the 
 city's most loyal residents. He is identified with the Valley Hunt Club of 
 Pasadena, is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, and his public 
 spirit has led him into active participation with many movements for the better- 
 ment of the community. He is also a member of the Presbyterian Church at 
 Pasadena. 
 
 On July 15, 1892, Mr. Kayser married Miss Gertrude Visscher, of Pasadena. 
 Incidentally it should be noted that he and Mr. Wetherby married sisters, and 
 their business partnership was therefore the stronger welded by the tie of 
 family relationship. The marriage ceremony was performed at the Visscher 
 home on South Madison Avenue, and following this event Mr. and Mrs. Kayser 
 established themselves in their own new home at the corner of Madison and 
 Center avenues, in which place they have lived for over a quarter of a century 
 and where their four children were born. The three children living are Nancy, 
 Frederic V. and Gretchen. Emily Gertrude, the third child, died in infancy. 
 The two daughters, Nancy and Gretchen, are well known Pasadena society girls, 
 Gretchen being a student in the Marlborough School of Los Angeles. The son 
 Frederic is a Leland Stanford man, now associated with his father in the 
 Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company at 416-418 West Seventh Street, where the 
 attractive new store has been in operation for the past two years. 
 
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CoL Ctmrlea ft, JBrake 
 
 O ONE could desire a better monument than the Virginia Hotel 
 at Long Beach and the service which it represents. While it 
 was founded and built by a stock company, Col. Charles R. 
 Drake has from the first been one of the largest stockholders 
 and vice president of the company, and since 1907 the presi- 
 dent and general manager, and the man whose genius has given 
 the hotel its big place in Southern California. 
 
 Colonel Drake, who was born more than three quarters of 
 a century ago, has been a man of means for many years, but has found the 
 real satisfaction of living in experience, and his experiences have been romantic 
 as well as useful. He was born at Walnut Prairie, Illinois, July 26, 1843, a 
 son of Charles and Mahala Jane (Jeter) Drake. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Illinois, and in 1863, at the age of nineteen, left a position as a drug 
 clerk to volunteer in the United States Navy. He was acting master's mate 
 from 1863 to 1865, serving under Admiral D. D. Porter in the Mississippi 
 Squadron. At the end of the war he resumed his former occupation in New 
 York, but subsequently became hospital steward in the United States Army 
 service under Surgeon General Barnes. He was assigned to duty under Gen- 
 eral Crook, then commanding the Department of Arizona, and in 1871 was 
 stationed at Fort Lowell, Tucson, Arizona. Some of the most picturesque and 
 eventful years of his life Colonel Drake spent in Arizona. After four years 
 in the army he retired to civil life and was appointed postmaster at Tucson, an 
 office he filled four years. He also engaged in the general insurance and real 
 estate business there. He was elected county recorder in 1881 and 1883 and 
 under President Harrison was appointed to the office of receiver of public 
 monies in the United States Land Office at Tucson. Arizona was his home for 
 thirty years, and he was again and again honored with offices of trust and 
 responsibility, being twice elected to the Territorial Senate and for one term 
 was president of that body. At the same time he was actively concerned with 
 a number of business enterprises. He organized in 1893 the firm of Norton- 
 Drake Company, his associate being the late Major John H. Norton. This 
 company handled for many years large labor contracts for the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Company. 
 
 With a comfortable fortune Colonel Drake retired and moved to Los 
 Angeles in 1900, but the years of his retirement have been marked by more 
 active business connections than the average man in his prime. He was one 
 of the first to recognize the great possibilities of Long Beach as a popular 
 seaside residence city. He backed his judgment with large investments, and 
 has been the means of concentrating an enormous amount of capital in that 
 city. Some of his larger connections with the development of Long Beach and 
 Southern California are indicated by the following connections. He is presi- 
 dent and general manager and one of the largest stockholders of the Seaside 
 Water Company ; president and general manager of the Long Beach Bath 
 House and Amusement Company ; president and general manager of the Seaside 
 Investment Company, owning and operating the Hotel Virginia, and financially 
 interested in many other large business affairs at Long Beach and in Southern 
 
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 COL. CHARLES R. DRAKE 
 
 California. Several of these corporations were organized in 1901, and Colonel 
 Drake had as his active associate then and for a number of years later the 
 late Frederick H. Rindge, of Los Angeles; George I. Cochran, president of the 
 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company; Dr. W. W. Beckett, medical director 
 of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company; H. V. Carter, president of the 
 Carter Motor Company, of San Francisco, and Charles H. Howland, of Centinella. 
 
 Probably no one institution has done more to popularize the wonderful 
 resources of Southern California than the Virginia Hotel. It covers an entire 
 block, 430x428 feet, with hotel and grounds extending from Ocean Avenue 
 to the ocean shore, its setting affording unexcelled facilities for the enjoyment 
 of the seaside and all other attractions of Southern California's climate. The 
 Hotel Virginia is beautiful and luxurious, has developed a unique perfection 
 of service, and probably more of the high class social life of California centers 
 around this hotel than any other one institution. 
 
 Colonel Drake is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, the Los 
 Angeles Country Club and is the organizer of the Virginia Country Club of 
 Long Beach, which is one of the attractions for the Hotel Virginia. He is 
 also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and Long Beach, 
 California, and a member of several secret orders. 
 
 In 1872, at Tucson, Arizona, Colonel Drake married Agripine Moreno. 
 They were the parents of Jean G., William L., Albert Garfield, Elizabeth Jane 
 and Pinita Rivers Drake. On April 30, 1890, Colonel Drake married at Tucson, 
 Arizona, Mrs. Kate A. Seeley. To this marriage was born one daughter, Mar- 
 guerite Rivers Drake (Mrs. C. W. Kemmler). Colonel Drake makes his home 
 at the Hotel Virginia, of which company he is president and general manager, 
 and still keeps in close touch with the many extensive business interests repre- 
 sented by the corporate titles above mentioned. 
 
Clarence Jffl. Jf uller 
 
 "CLARENCE M. FULLER since leaving college has been a worker 
 / in the oil fields of California ; was at one time an independent 
 \ operator and is now general manager of the Richfield Oil 
 r Company. 
 
 ) This company was incorporated November 29, 1911, by 
 
 i the owners of the Los Angeles Oil Refining Company and the 
 % Kellogg Oil Company as a small concern to handle the oil 
 production of the Santa Fe Railway. At the close of 1913 there 
 was a general consolidation of the Los Angeles Oil Refining Company and the 
 Kellogg Oil Company and their affiliated interests into a corporation known as 
 the Richfield Oil Company. This corporation has enjoyed a remarkable growth. 
 The first plant was located at Richfield, California, and later a large industry 
 was established at Orlando. The executive officers of the company are : F. R. 
 Kellogg, president; C. W. Winter, vice-president; G. J. Syminton, secretary; 
 J. R. Jacobs, treasurer, and Clarence M. Fuller, general manager. 
 
 Mr. Fuller is a native of Lawrence, Kansas, son of Edgar R. and Julia 
 (Buckingham) Fuller. His father was a Congregational clergyman and the 
 family lived in several different localities during the boyhood of Clarence M. 
 He attended public schools and in 1898 came with the family to Bakersfield, 
 California, where he graduated from the high school in 1903. For another 
 year he attended Pomona College at Pomona, California, and also spent two 
 years in Hiram College and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 On returning to California Mr. Fuller went to work at Bakersfield with the 
 firm of Barlow & Hill, oil producers. He did their general office work until 
 1909, when he formed a partnership with Herbert Taylor under the name 
 Taylor & Fuller, oil producers. They dissolved partnership two years later, 
 and Mr. Fuller then came to Los Angeles and became salesman for the National 
 Petroleum Company. He was later promoted to manager of the Road Oil 
 and Asphalt Department, subsequently became assistant general manager and 
 then assistant to the president, and from that work entered upon his present 
 duties in 1915. 
 
 Mr. Fuller is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a republican 
 and a member of the Congregational Church. June 17, 1907, at Bakersfield, 
 he married Miss Hazel Graney, daughter of W. S. Graney, division superintend- 
 ent of the Santa Fe Railroad. They have one child, Winston, who was born in 
 1911 and is now a student in the public schools. 
 
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Jfflarttn ftenrp Jllositer 
 
 ARTIN HENRY MOSIER grew up in Western Pennsylvania, 
 was a small boy when the first crude petroleum was discovered 
 in the Drake well, and in 1876 he began operating as an oil 
 producer. Since that time both in oil and natural gas he 
 has been one of the prominent figures not only in Pennsylvania, 
 but in the mid-continent fields, and now in the Pacific Coast 
 district. Mr. Mosier still has extensive interests in oil scat- 
 tered from Ohio to the Pacific Coast, but for the last ten 
 years he has made his home in Los Angeles. 
 
 He was born near Pittsburgh, June 21, 1856, a son of Daniel and Ann E. 
 (Stewart) Mosier. His parents were life-long residents of Pennsylvania. His 
 Grandfather spelled his name .Moser and came from the border of Alsace- 
 Lorraine to America. The Mosiers originated in Alsace-Lorraine, and of those 
 that came to America some came through Germany and others through England. 
 Originally the name "Mosier" meant "The Lord of the Moss," in keeping 
 with the custom of the times. This branch of the family in America were the 
 original owners of the large tracts of land in the anthracite coal district of 
 Pennsylvania, before the value of anthracite was known. The Reading Coal 
 and Iron Company own it now. 
 
 Mr. Mosier 's father was a farmer and he died about twenty -five years ago 
 on the farm secured from the Holland Land Company by Henry Moser, the 
 grandfather, in 1832. Martin Henry was only two years of age when his 
 mother died. He was her only child. By his father's second marriage he has 
 three brothers and a sister. 
 
 Mr. Mosier was educated in the Glade Run Academy near Pittsburgh, and 
 began teaching school when sixteen years old. During the four succeeding 
 winters he taught school and returned to the farm for the summer. In 1876 
 he went into the oil country, and has been an oil producer since that time. 
 In 1880 he did some of the first work in bringing into use the then wasting 
 natural gas of Pennsylvania, and in the East he became known as an expert 
 in natural gas production, transportation, distribution and the necessary 
 appliances. 
 
 In 1881, as superintendent of the Bradford Gas, Light and Heating Com^ 
 pany, he built the first natural gas pumping station in the world near Bradford, 
 Pennsylvania. That was before Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, utilized natural gas, 
 and the success of this enterprise made it possible for all of the large cities 
 surrounding the oil fields to secure natural gas for fuel and lighting purposes 
 in winter as well as summer. Later he assisted in developing the use of natural 
 gas in Indianapolis, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, and for the Carnegie Natural 
 Gas Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who furnished the Carnegie Steel 
 Company with their natural gas requirements. 
 
 On August 8, 1883, Mr. Mosier married Miss Maud Isabel Adams, of 
 Franklin, Pennsylvania, where she was born and educated. Her father was 
 the late William Adams, and his only son, William B. Adams, still owns the 
 old farm where Mrs. Mosier was born, and this farm since 1860 has been a 
 scene of active oil operations. Mrs. Mosier traces her family tree back to 
 
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 John Quincy and John and Samuel Adams of Revolutionary times and farther 
 back to William Adams of England, prominent there in his time. 
 
 Mr. Mosier was one of the pioneer operators of the great Mid-Continent 
 oil field. He went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1905, when the little box car at the 
 railway station served about all there was to eat. At that time all the banks 
 of Tulsa did not have two hundred thousand dollars in deposits whereas now 
 the resources of the banks in that progressive city aggregate more than sixty 
 million. In the early days he was a prominent factor in every enterprise of 
 Tulsa as a city and industrial center. He served as president of the Chamber 
 of Commerce of Tulsa in 1909, and in 1910 an honorary position of Grand 
 Chairmanship of the Chairman of the Twenty-one Public Improvement Com- 
 mittees was voted him by the directors and members of the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Mosier first visited California in 1909, and in finding California climate 
 and business opportunities to his likng, he made appropriate arrangements for 
 the conduct of his business in the East and located here permanently in July, 
 1910. Since then he has organized three close corporations and has served 
 as director and president of all of them since their incorporation. He is 
 president of the Petroleum Company, a California corporation, with a paid up 
 capital of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, whose home is in the Consoli- 
 dated Realty Building of Los Angeles, California. He is also president of the 
 Carpathia Petroleum Company of Oklahoma, whose home is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
 Perhaps his chief interest now is in the Sunshine Company, a big Los Angeles 
 enterprise with a capital stock of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars, 
 engaged not only in the production of citrus fruits and general farming but 
 also is interested in petroleum. This company owns the celebrated Sunshine 
 Ranch of forty-two hundred acres, located at the foothills on the north side 
 of San Fernando Valley. In the citrus groves, in the fields of grain and 
 alfalfa, with the cattle, dairy, hogs and poultry on this ranch Mr. Mosier spends 
 much of his time, finding the business both a recreation as well as a source 
 of profit. Individually he still conducts oil operations in Ohio and Oklahoma. 
 
 His family home is at 55 Fremont Place, between the Los Angeles High 
 School and Wilshire Boulevard, and is considered one of the beautiful resi- 
 dences in the fashionable Wilshire district. 
 
 Mr. Mosier is a member of the Mid-Continental Oil & Gas Association, a 
 member of the American Petroleum Institute, a member of the Automobile 
 Club of Southern California, a life member of the Press Club of Los Angeles, 
 a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, a member of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, and is a director and president of the newly organized 
 Los Angeles High School Community Center, which organization has on its 
 membership list nearly all of the people residing in the west end of the city, 
 who individually and collectively have pledged themselves to make of that 
 part of the city the best location for homes for good American citizens whether 
 they are old or young. 
 
 Mrs. Mosier is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is fre- 
 quently on committees whose business it is to take care of the deserving poor. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Mosier did their first house-keeping at Gaston, Pennsylvania, the 
 first natural gas town in the world. Their first child was born there and 
 they named him Earl Gaston Mosier. They have two sons living, Earl Gaston 
 and Harold Adams, and one daughter, Laura Ethel, married to Edward L. 
 Moorehead of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead have a 
 daughter, five years old, they call Maud Isabel, for her grandmother. 
 
 Another son, Martin Henry, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 
 1900, graduated as president of his class of the Los Angeles High School in 
 1919 and entered Cornell University, without examination, for the 1919-20 
 term. He was injured on November 21, 1919, and died Good-Friday morning, 
 April 2, 1920, at the family home, Los Angeles, California. 
 
ft. J. &Wt? 
 
 HILE there is a generous and widespread appreciation of the 
 magnificent results achieved in developing many of the beau- 
 tiful districts around Los Angeles, it is not generally under- 
 stood how much of the credit is due the guiding genius and 
 inspiration of a few far-sighted and public spirited individuals. 
 Some of the best examples of this development, notably at 
 Hollywood, have not proceeded from the haphazard and un- 
 directed enterprise of a community and its inhabitants, but 
 from a powerful concentration of effort originating largely in a single man or 
 organization. 
 
 Those intimately informed as to the history of progress and development 
 in the wonderful section of Los Angeles north of the city proper, including 
 Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, are aware that the results achieved 
 are due largely to the silent workings, plans and energies of H. J. Whitley. 
 Mr. Whitley exemplifies in an eminent degree that broadly constructive spirit 
 and genius for development which makes communities and cities. Mr. Whitley 's 
 forte has not only consisted in town development, the usual scope of his enter- 
 prise having extended over a much greater area than that prescribed in any 
 single town site. 
 
 Mr. Whitley was born at Toronto, Canada, October 7, 1859. He is a 
 descendant on his paternal side of a prominent English family and on his 
 maternal side from a well known Scotch family. Most of his early boyhood 
 was spent at Flint, Michigan, where he received his early education, and he 
 attended the Toronto Commercial College. 
 
 Long before he came to Los Angeles his development work had expanded 
 to a large scale in the middle west, northwest and southwest. For a number 
 of years his headquarters were in Kansas City and Minneapolis, where he 
 became interested in banking and large land developments. While the Northern 
 Pacific Railway was building through to the coast he became associated with 
 some of its leading officials, managing and developing large acreage of lands 
 and towns along the line and was also an officer and organizer of a chain 
 of banks on the route of the Northern Pacific. During that period of his 
 career he organized and managed the H. J. Whitley Land Mortgage Company, 
 which is still his principal business and which for many years has performed 
 a large and extensive service in the middle states. 
 
 Mr. Whitley was one of the first capitalists and men of enterprise on the 
 ground at the opening of the original Oklahoma Territory. He was in Guthrie 
 the day of the opening, and soon afterward built and owned the first brick block 
 in the territory, housing the Guthrie National Bank. He built numerous brick 
 and stone business blocks in that city, also in Oklahoma City, El Reno, Chickasha, 
 Enid, Medford and in numerous other towns on the Rock Island Railroad. 
 
 He organized and was leading officer in a number of banks and was 
 appointed trustee and treasurer of various Indian allotments in Oklahoma, and 
 managed these lands both for the Indians and the Rock Island Railroad Com- 
 pany. He had a large interest in and entire charge of the development work 
 along the Rock Island road from Kansas to Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Whitley 
 
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 H. J. WHITLEY 
 
 in that capacity platted a number of towns, including the now important cities 
 of Chickasha, Medford, Enid, El Reno and about twenty others. Before the 
 organization of the territory of Oklahoma he was sent as a non-official rep- 
 resentative by both republicans and democrats to assist at Washington in the 
 framing of the first laws of the territory. It was due entirely to his influence 
 and efforts that the first territorial capital was located at Guthrie. His first 
 large school development work was in Oklahoma and included the building of 
 the State Normal School and the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 His heavy responsibilities and the continuous strain of business effort 
 brought about a breakdown in health, and on the advice of his physicians Mr. 
 Whitley came to California in 1893. He was soon afterward employing his 
 talents and means in local constructive enterprises, although his interests else- 
 where have always continued large. His greatest task and the scene of his 
 best work has been in the district of Hollywood and the contiguous territory 
 of the San Fernando Valley. From an open country he developed the modern 
 Hollywood, having as his associates some of the most prominent business men 
 of Los Angeles. Individually, however, he owned the principal interests and 
 had the chief burdens of management. He was the first to conceive the idea 
 of making Hollywood a suburb of Los Angeles. Largely through his efforts 
 water was distributed throughout the Hollywood hills. He donated five tracts 
 of lands, two reservoir sites and other grounds which today are valued by the 
 water company at nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He also gave 
 nearly the entire site for the Hollywood Hotel and the First National Bank 
 property and organized the bank. He was a large stockholder in these and 
 other institutions which developed Hollywood. He put in the first electric 
 light and telephone systems. It was his influence that attracted the assistance 
 of E. P. Clark and Gen. M. H. Sherman in their building the electric line 
 through Hollywood. The splendid boulevards, Sunset and Hollywood, were 
 conceived in his original plan for the development of Hollywood. Up to that 
 time suburban development around Los Angeles had encountered baffling ob- 
 stacles, and it was the sheer will, force and able management of Mr. Whitley 
 that brought about the first real suburban success. 
 
 With present results and the possibilities of the future in mind, doubtless 
 the greatest achievement of Mr. Whitley in Southern California has been the 
 transformation of the San Fernando Valley from an immense grain field to 
 a high class suburban property. It was about 1900 that he conceived the idea 
 of developing the valley empire and adding it to the growing suburbs of Los 
 Angeles. Finally, in September, 1909, he and his four associates completed 
 the negotiation for the purchase of forty-seven thousand acres for the sum 
 of two million five hundred thousand dollars and spending about three millions 
 for. development work. The men actively associated with Mr. Whitley were 
 General H. G. Otis, O. F. Brant and General M. H. Sherman and Harry 
 Chandler, each having a fifth interest. All were attracted to the project as 
 much by the benefits it would bring to the city as by prospective profits. Later 
 they divided their interests with their associates, employes and others whom 
 they wished to benefit. In all the Whitley enterprises there has been no pro- 
 moter's stock or scret profits or commissions to him. Mr. Whitley accepted the 
 management of the project and planned, executed and managed the entire 
 business from both a financial and development standpoint, having at all times 
 the able and hearty co-operation of his fellow members on the board. He 
 planned and caused to be built a double asphalt boulevard sixteen miles long, 
 lined with roses and rare shrubbery, which was named "Sherman Way" in 
 honor of his friend General M. H. Sherman. He also established towns and 
 caused the erection of school buildings and churches, in line with his previous 
 enterprise at Hollywood, where he had been instrumental in erecting three 
 fine school buildings, adding five more in San Fernando Valley. Perhaps even 
 
H. J. WHITLEY 
 
 349 
 
 more important, from the standpoint of affording a livelihood to the inhabitants 
 of the valley, was the introduction of orchards, bean and sugar beet raising, 
 banks, poultry industry, alfalfa ranches, stock, vegetables and several manu- 
 facturing institutions. Mr. Whitley and his associates recognized and acted 
 upon the fundamental principle in the handling of such projects, that a vast 
 amount of capital must be expended upon improvement and development and 
 that the benefits must in a large degree be shared with the individual purchasers 
 and the realization of profits be deferred through a long period of years even 
 through the most stringent financial times. Actual settlers have never been 
 pressed for payments. The outstanding fact is that today approximately a 
 hundred twenty thousand acres in the San Fernando Valley have been annexed 
 to Los Angeles and are an enormous asset in wealth and power to the larger city. 
 Mr. Whitley regards his work in the San Fernando Valley as the culmination 
 of a lifetime replete with success. The keynote of his operations has always 
 been development — the building of fine boulevards, schools, churches, railways 
 and houses, and the establishment of banks and industries to give a livelihood 
 to settlers. 
 
 Another earlier enterprise was the purchase with associates of nearly forty 
 thousand acres in Kings and Tulare counties and the establishment of the town 
 of Corcoran, the financing of which enterprise fell largely on Mr. Whitley 
 personally and largely through him the district has developed into one of the 
 finest and largest dairy sections in California. 
 
 It is appropriate to speak of Mr. Whitley as the father of Hollywood 
 and many other places which exemplify his modern methods and capable man- 
 agement and are among the best town and suburban communities in the 
 United States. 
 
 It should also be noted that a few years ago, in order to close up affairs, 
 Mr. Whitley took over the balance of unsold lands and assets of the Suburban 
 Homes Company, taking over a large amount of land and other assets, supplying 
 the capital and making it possible to wind up the affairs of the company. This 
 was another of his generous acts, in line with his desire to insure that his 
 policy of giving the land buyer who improves his holding proper accommodation 
 and support should be continued. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Whitley married Miss Margaret Virginia Ross, daughter of 
 William M. Ross. Mrs. Whitley is a member of one of the oldest and best 
 known families of Philadelphia. She has greatly aided her husband in the 
 upbuilding of churches, schools and worthy social development work. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Whitley have two children, a son and a daughter. The 
 daughter, Grace Virginia, was married in 1915 and has two beautiful children. 
 The son, Ross Emmett Whitley, is well known in Los Angeles business and 
 banking circles, and his training and character well fit him to carry on the 
 extensive enterprises of his father. 
 
Jfreb Kellogg 
 
 RED R. KELLOGG has been closely associated with some of 
 the large and important oil developments in Southern Cali- 
 fornia during the past eighteen years. A lawyer by training, 
 he has used his knowledge only as a supplement to his very 
 practical business career. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg is a native of Iowa, a son of H. C. and 
 Elizabeth. Kellogg. His father was one of the most prominent 
 and successful attorneys in Iowa. Fred R. Kellogg was edu- 
 cated in common and high schools in that state, and for two years read law at 
 Sioux City. Abandoning his intention of practicing law, he took up farming 
 in his native state, and was one of the progressive agriculturists of that great 
 commonwealth until he came to Los Angeles in 1902. 
 
 Since coming to this state his activities have been largely in the oil and 
 refining business. In 1906 he incorporated the Kellogg Oil Company, with 
 himself as president and G. J. Syminton as secretary and treasurer. This 
 company marketed both crude and distilled oils. Its facilities were greatly 
 enlarged when they took over the Topping Oil Plant of the Santa Fe Railroad 
 at Taft, California. In 1911 they consolidated with the Los Angeles Oil and 
 Refining Company, thus acquiring a complete refinery at Los Angeles. The 
 new name of the corporation at this time became the Richfield Oil Company, 
 of which company Mr. Kellogg is now the president. 
 
 In 1915 this company bought the Phoenix Refining Company at Bakers- 
 field, California. At the present time a further extension to their facilities of 
 a gasoline refining plant at Bakersfield has been finished and is in operation. 
 The company employs altogether about one hundred and twenty-five people. 
 Mr. Kellogg was one of the founders of the California Independent Oil Asso- 
 ciation and was active in the various war departments, he is the vice-president 
 of the El Segunda Bank of El Segunda, California, a president of the Buttonlath 
 Manufacturing Company and a director in several large business enterprises in 
 Los Angeles. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, and a member of the California Club of Los Angeles. He is a 
 republican and in religion a Congregationalist. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg was married at Cherokee, Iowa, in 1895, to Miss Leota Smith, 
 daughter of Major Robert M. Smith, of the 78th Pennsylvania Infantry during 
 the Civil war, and a member of the Loyal Legion. Four children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, of whom three are living : Margaret, who was 
 active in Red Cross canteen work, is a graduate of the Marlborough School ; 
 H. Chandler, a student at Corvallis, Oregon, and Marion, attending school at 
 Marlborough. 
 
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BSPITE the weird limitations of fame, so that no single celebrity 
 in history is known to all the people all the time, it is safe 
 to say that the name Barney Oldfield is and has been for 
 years inevitably linked with the word automobile, constituting 
 a degree of fame upon which even the vaulting ambition of a 
 Caesar could hardly aspire. 
 
 As a driver and pilot in speed racing Barney Oldfield 
 has been before the public for over twenty years. His life 
 covers something more than forty years, and it is appropriate to note some of the 
 early milestones in his career. 
 
 He was born on a farm three mile from Wauseon, Ohio, January 29, 1878, 
 and just eleven years later the family moved to Toledo, where during 1890-91 
 he sold newspapers on the streets. During 1892 he worked as waterboy with a 
 railroad section gang, and from his savings of sixty-five dollars bought his first 
 "Advance" bicycle. During the next year he was employed as bell boy in the 
 Boody House, and was diligently practicing on his "whele" and on Decoration 
 Day of 1894 won second place in an eighteen mile road race. During 1895 
 he was appearing in a number of events as a bicycle racer, otherwise doing 
 duty as an elevator boy. In that year he won two medals and a gold watch 
 in Ohio state championships at Canton, and soon afterward began selling bicycles. 
 By 1896 he was recognized as the bicycle race champion of Ohio, and then 
 turned professional, and covered Ohio and Michigan as traveling sales repre- 
 sentative of bicycle manufacturers. The two years following he campaigned 
 as a racing man in seasons, and during the winter was employed as salesman 
 and factory worker. 
 
 It was in 1899 that Barney Oldfield had his first experience with a machine 
 driven by motor power. This was a gasoline motorcycle, and as a pilot he was 
 soon ranked as an expert. During 1900, 1901 and 1902 he was a participant in 
 nearly all the national events as a rider of bicycles and motorcycles. 
 
 Probably the most significant event in his entire career came in 1902, 
 when he became associated with Tom Cooper, a former national bicycle champion, 
 with Henry Ford, an obscure engineer, Oldfield being the mechanic and later 
 driver of two racing automobiles built from Ford's designs and financed by 
 Cooper's money. Oldfield was a driver in a historic race, over a five mile course, 
 with the Ford "999." The place and date was September 21, 1902, on the 
 Groose Pointe track at Detroit, and the time 5 :20 set a world record. The next 
 year, 1903, Barney Oldfield drove the "999" at Indianapolis in 0:59 3-5, the 
 first time the minute mark was ever broken on a one mile circular course. 
 
 Since then on virtually every race course in the country Barney Oldfield 
 has broken records and thrilled throngs, and with seventeen years of race 
 driving to his credit he well deserves the title of "master driver," being the 
 dean of all racers. As one critic has written: "He has seen three generations 
 of drivers come out, race and either retire or come to grief by the accident 
 of the terribly dangerous sport. Barney Oldfield was more than a daredevil. 
 He was a thinker — a student." 
 
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 He has cut record after record, including the world's non-stop race record of 
 three hundred one miles at Corono, California, with an average of 86V2 miles 
 an hour. In 1917 he set a record, still unbroken, on a mile track at St. Louis, 
 and with a series of distances ranging from one to fifty miles. 
 
 Barney Oldfield recently retired from racing. He has always been a suc- 
 cessful business man and was financially independent long before he retired 
 from racing. In 1919 he became president of the Oldfield Tire Company at 
 Cleveland. The history of automobile racing proves that the great majority of 
 accidents have been due not to faulty mechanism, but to tire troubles, and for 
 years Barney Oldfield has been a student of the tire problem and in order to 
 get his exacting specifications and experience translated into concrete results, 
 he is now head of a tire company making a tire according to his personal stand- 
 ards, under his personal supervision and bearing his name as a personal 
 guarantee. 
 
 The unusual progress of The Oldfield Tire Company has been one of the 
 miracles of the tire industry. The company has been in actual operation a 
 little more than a year, and in this short time has passed more than eighty-five 
 per cent of its competitors in volume of business. To cap the climax, on May 
 31, 1920, Oldfield Tires equipped the cars finishing 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 in the 
 Indianapolis 500-miles speedway race. The winner of the race finished without 
 a single tire change — the first time in history that any tire has been able to 
 accomplish this wonderful feat. Mr. Oldfield considers this victory of his tire 
 as even more significant than any of the record-breaking performances in which 
 he participated as a driver. 
 
 While he spends a great deal of time in Cleveland, he has made his residence 
 in Los Angeles for ten years. He is a member of the Elks, and politically a re- 
 publican. He married in Chicago, Illinois, in November, 1904, Bessy Gooby, a 
 native of Alameda, California. They have no children. 
 
^HOMAS J. FLEMING, general manager of the California Port- 
 
 ClO ^ anc * Cement Company and former county treasurer of Los 
 
 a A r I 1 A A Angeles County, has been a resident of Southern California 
 vy V/ over thirty years. His business activities have been of a con- 
 
 r I . X C n structive character, and the success he has achieved in business 
 hwt "*SC5?~>§iw nas enaD ^ e( ^ him to follow out constructive ideas in developing 
 £^i£cfc'3^jW& a wonderful country place in the San Jacinto mountains. 
 
 Mr. Fleming was born December 18, 1860, at Ithaca, New 
 York, in the same house in which his father was born. His family is of old 
 and honored American stock, and through his ancestors Mr. Fleming holds 
 membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. His great-great-grand- 
 father came to the United States from England in 1700 and spent the rest of 
 his life as a farmer and planter in Virginia. His great-grandfather, William, 
 left Virginia early in life, settling near Auburn, New York, where he developed 
 a place now known as Fleming Hill and there engaged in farming. The 
 grandfather, Thomas Fleming, a native of Virginia, spent his mature years as 
 a farmer at Ithaca, New York. 
 
 Thomas J. Fleming is a son of James and Jane (Nelson) Fleming. His 
 father was born at Ithaca in July, 1827, and up to the age of twenty-one his 
 environment was that of a farm. At that time his father gave him some money 
 and he crossed the plains to California, taking the south trail. While en route 
 he was attacked by a grizzly bear, and the injuries were such as to keep him 
 from active mining, the purpose for which he had come to California. He 
 contrived another business, conducting a supply station for teamsters who hauled 
 supplies to the mines. This business was located near Indian Gulch, in what 
 was then a part of Fresno, now Merced County, and the original building is 
 still standing there on the bank of Bear Creek. James Fleming went back to 
 New York by way of the Panama Canal in 1856, and in 1857 was married at 
 Ithaca. The rest of his life was spent quietly in farming at Ithaca. 
 
 Thomas J. Fleming spent his early life in New York State, attending gram- 
 mar and high schools to the age of eighteen. The next three years he was 
 clerk with the George Small Lumber Company. He resigned on account of 
 ill health and later came to San Francisco and soon afterward to Los Angeles. 
 His first business connection in Los Angeles was as secretary for the Exchange 
 Block Company. This company built the first three story brick office buildings 
 in Pasadena. He was with that concern three years, and then became chief 
 deputy county treasurer under Colonel Jabez Banbury, and continued under 
 J. DeBarth Shorb, successor of Colonel Banbury. Mr. Fleming was deputy 
 until appointed county treasurer to fill an unexpired term, and at the next 
 regular election was chosen county treasurer, an office he capably filled four 
 years. 
 
 On leaving office Mr. Fleming engaged in the building material business, 
 organizing the Oro Grande Lime and Cement Company, of which he is still 
 president. Subsequently he took over the management of the California Portland 
 Cement Company, and is now one of the chief stockholders, and besides general 
 
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 manager is also secretary and treasurer of the company. The plant is located 
 at Colton, California. Mr. Fleming is also a director of the Western California 
 Land Company and the Hellman Commercial Trust and Savings Bank. During 
 the war he served as Director of District No. 14 of the War Service Committee, 
 War Industries Board. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Midwick Country Club, Los Angeles 
 Country Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, an Elk and a Mason, 
 and in politics a republican. He married at Los Angeles Ella Thompson. Their 
 two children are Margaret, now Mrs. Asa Call, and Louise, Mrs. Ernest Duque, 
 both of Los Angeles. 
 
 It has been the good fortune of Southern California that many wealthy 
 men have used their wealth in conjunction with good taste to give increased 
 beauty to the natural charm of the landscape. The place here selected by Mr. 
 Fleming for his country home is a nine hundred and fifty acre ranch in the 
 San Jacinto Mountains of Riverside County. Besides his own land he leases 
 four thousand acres from the United States Government. Much of it is wild 
 and picturesque, the woods and mountain retreats containing many wild cats, 
 gray fox, raccoon, mountain quail and large gray tree squirrels, besides deer 
 and mountain lions. Mr. Fleming is now negotiating with the Government to 
 secure official recognition of this as a <?ame refuge. While Mr. Fleming has 
 made some of his property productive in a commercial way, he regards the 
 chief assets of the region the work of nature itself. Mr. Fleming is an ardent 
 outdoor man, and a few days or a few weeks in the mountains completely 
 recreates his energies for business. In his beautiful mountain retreat he keeps 
 a cook and several Indians employed all the year around. 
 
 Just recently his country home was completed. It is known as "Tahquitz." 
 His familiarity with old Indian legends supplied him with the name. The story 
 goes that an old Indian chieftain of ancient times became an outlaw, and 
 secluding himself in this valley of the San Jacinto Mountains made periodic 
 raids upon women and children. Finally he was subdued by the chief of the 
 Saboba Tribe, and his spirit has been confined by chains in subsequent ages. 
 Whenever he rouses himself and attempts to break the chains he causes earth- 
 quakes. Henceforth "Tahquitz" is destined to be a name of wide significance 
 applied to one of the most unique country estates in California. 
 
V. ANDREWS was born in Richland Center, Richland 
 County, Wisconsin, on October 16, 1861. He is the second 
 son of Lindley M. Andrews and Elizabeth W. Andrews. He 
 is of Yankee and Quaker stock. He was educated at the high 
 school at Decatur, Illinois, from which he graduated in 1881, 
 and at the University of Cincinnati, from the Law School of 
 which he graduated in 1883. Mr. Andrews also taught school 
 four terms, and values the training thus gained as of the 
 highest importance. Between terms of teaching he worked on a farm, and 
 acquired that intimate touch with common things and that deep respect for 
 hard labor so necessary to success. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Andrews was admitted to the bar of Ohio, 
 and immediately began practice at Norwalk, Ohio, in partnership with his older 
 brother, Horace, under the firm name of Andrews Brothers. For eighteen years 
 this partnership continued and a large practice was built up. In 1902 Horace 
 Andrews removed to Cleveland, where he entered the firm of Hoyt, Dustin, 
 Kelley, McKeehan and Andrews, and has ever since been in that organization 
 and one of the leading lawyers of Ohio. A. V. Andrews continued in the 
 practice of his profession at Norwalk until February, 1914, having associated 
 with him W. R. Pruner, making the firm name of Andrews and Pruner. A 
 large and desirable business, both in the trial of cases and in the business side 
 of the law was the result of Mr. Andrews' career at the bar in Ohio. He was 
 also a valued and respected factor as a citizen. He became identified with 
 several banks as a director and attorney and many other successful business 
 enterprises employed him as counsel and elected him to their directorates. In 
 February, 1914, Mr. Andrews was offered a larger field of labor and usefulness 
 in Los Angeles, and after twenty-nine years of successful practice in one city, 
 and one office, he decided to cast his lot with the West and removed to Los 
 Angeles, leaving a host of warm friends in Northern Ohio. With his brother, 
 Lewis W. Andrews, and Thomas O. Toland, he formed the law firm of Andrews, 
 Toland and Andrews, which by the admission in 1920 of Mr. Paul M. Gregg has 
 become Andrews, Toland, Gregg and Andrews. Mr. Andrews has devoted much 
 of his time and abilities during the past six years to the litigations and legal 
 affairs of several large and growing corporations. He is a member of the State 
 Bar Association of California and of the Los Angeles Bar Association. He has 
 for many years belonged to the Masonic bodies, including the Blue Lodge, the 
 Knights Templar and the Scottish Rite degrees. He is a member of the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club. In religion he is a Unitarian and a trustee of the First 
 Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. In politics he is a life-long republican, but 
 in 1912 followed Roosevelt. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Andrews married Edna G. Hayden, daughter of Hon. George 
 Hayden, of Medina, Ohio. Of this marriage there have been born six children, 
 Gertrude H., Marion L., Ruth S., George L., Lewis M. and A. V., Jr. Since 
 July, 1914, the family home has been at 238 South Andrews Boulevard, Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 N a little cottage nestled in an orange grove on East Seventh 
 Street, in the city of Los Angeles, the fifth child of Francisco 
 and Magdalena W. de Sabichi came, on a wintry morning 
 November 4, 1878. Amid these happy surroundings he spent 
 his youth. He received his early training at the primary 
 schools of Los Angeles, which was later enriched by two 
 degrees obtained from St. Vincent's College. 
 
 Early in his youth the desire to pursue the study of 
 medicine came to him, and after leaving St. Vincent's College he entered the 
 University of California at Berkeley. While there he made an enviable collegiate 
 record, and also made history as an athlete, being a member of the football 
 squad which was the first to score against Stanford University, 30-0. During 
 his college career he became a charter member of the Beta Xi of Kappa Sigma. 
 With this excellent classical and scientific training he entered the medical 
 department of the University of Southern California, where the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine was conferred on him in June, 1904. His opportunity for 
 experience in the practice of medicine was enriched by his service at the Los 
 Angeles County Hospital and at the Pacific Branch of the National Soldiers' 
 Home through an appointment from Brigadier-General La Grange. 
 
 During the year 1906, we find the young physician pursuing the study of 
 clinical medicine and surgery at Columbia University of New York. Returning 
 from New York he took charge of the medical department of the Yellow Aster 
 Mining Company, where he enjoyed an enviable record in his chosen profession. 
 
 Doctor Sabichi saw great possibilities in the city of Bakersfield, where he 
 has witnessed the great agricultural development of the San Joaquin Valley 
 and the rapid progress of the petroleum industry. The development of these 
 natural resources afforded him unusual opportunities to become an investor in 
 numerous oil corporations. 
 
 The past eleven years have found the doctor practicing in Bakersfield, 
 where he has won several distinctive appointments — as president of the San 
 Joaquin Hospital, consulting surgeon of the Santa Fe Railroad and during the 
 European War an appointment by Governor Stevens as examiner on the 
 exemption boards No. 1 and 2. 
 
 Aside from his professional career he finds time to devote to club life and 
 outdoor sports as golfing and hunting. 
 
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^enrp £>mttf) Carhart 
 
 <||¥HE world has for many years appreciated the contributions of 
 the late Henry Smith Carhart to the science of physics and 
 applied electricity. His residence during his later years at 
 Pasadena and the encouragement he gave to the California 
 Institute of Technology make his life and attainments sub- 
 jects of appropriate interest in this work. 
 
 Henry Smith Carhart was born at Coeymans, New York, 
 March 27, 1844, the youngest son of Daniel Sutton and Mar- 
 garet Martin Carhart. He completed his college course at Wesleyan University, 
 Middletown, Connecticut, with highest honors in 1869, and in 1872 received the 
 Master of Arts degree from the same university. He was a student in Yale 
 during 1871-72, and in Harvard during the summer of 1876. The year 1881-82 
 he devoted to research work in the laboratory of the renowned Von Helmholtz 
 at the University of Berlin. In 1893 Wesleyan University conferred upon him 
 the degree of LL. D. in recognition of his eminence as a physicist and as a 
 teacher. In 1912 the degree of LL. D. was also conferred upon him by the 
 University of Michigan, and that of Sc. D. by Northwestern University. 
 
 Two of the great universities of the middle west claimed his services for 
 nearly thirty-five years. He was professor of physics and chemistry at North- 
 western University from 1872 to 1886, when he was called to the University 
 of Michigan as professor of physics. He held that chair until 1909, when he 
 became emeritus professor. In 1910 he was made research associate in physics 
 at the California Institute of Technology. The position was a purely friendly 
 and honorary relation, involving neither professional services nor salary, yet 
 his personal prestige and his kindly interest proved a quickening power in 
 every department of the school's technical activities. During his residence in 
 Pasadena he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Occidental College, 
 in which he was deeply interested. He was prominent in the Presbyterian 
 Church in Pasadena and in the Twilight Club. On June 8, 1910, he delivered 
 the dedication address for Pasadena Hall, now known as Throop Hall, his sub- 
 ject being "The Twentieth Century Engineer." 
 
 Dr. Carhart first became known to the scientific world in 1881 for his 
 experimental work on voltaic cells, a subject on which in later years he was a 
 world authority. In must have been gratifying to Von Helmholtz to have his 
 former pupil chosen as his colleague by the International Electrical Congress in 
 1893 on a commission of three to formulate the details of the standard Clark 
 cell. At that time Dr. Carhart was the recognized authority on the subject on 
 either side of the Atlantic. 
 
 While at Northwestern Dr. Carhart supervised the construction of a lab- 
 oratory for physical science, and his first labor at Ann Arbor was to build a 
 physical laboratory according to his own detailed plans. It is significant of 
 the comparative youth of modern applied electricity that in 1889 the Board 
 of Regents of the University of Michigan authorized him to introduce a course 
 in electrical engineering, a department which received its original impetus 
 from Dr. Carhart, and in which have been educated many of the prominent 
 
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 men in that profession. Dr. Carhart frequently was employed as an expert 
 in suits involving the validity of patents on electrical devices. 
 
 A summary of his attainments in the scientific world, and a tribute by a 
 distinguished fellow scientist has been written by Dr. George E. Hale, director 
 of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. Dr. Hale said : 
 
 "The death of Dr. Carhart, which comes as such a shock to his friends, 
 will be widely felt throughout the scientific world. He was one of the pioneers 
 of electro-chemistry in the United States, and his contributions in this field, 
 especially in the development of Carhart 's standard cell, gave him an inter-, 
 national reputation many years ago. The success of the researches that cul- 
 minated in the production of a constant and reliable source of electric potential 
 was of fundamental importance to the advancement of physics and electrical 
 engineering, as nearly all precise electrical measurements depend upon such 
 a source. 
 
 "European men of science were quick to recognize his achievements, and 
 he was frequently called to serve on international committees. Thus he was 
 a member of the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition of Elec- 
 tricity in 1881, the president of the board of judges in the department of 
 electricity at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, a member of the 
 Jury of Awards at the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and one of the delegates 
 of the United States to the International Electrical Congress at Chicago in 
 1893, and at St. Louis in 1904. He was also a delegate to the conferences on elec- 
 trical units and standards at Berlin in 1905, and London in 1908. 
 
 "At the great centennial celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin in 
 Cambridge, England, in 1909, he represented the University of Michigan, with 
 which he was connected as professor of physics and head of this department 
 from 1886 to 1909, when he retired as professor emeritus. Professor Carhart 
 was one of the small group of leading American men of science who attended 
 the South African meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 
 Science in 1905 as guests of the association. Further evidence of the wide- 
 spread appreciation of his work is afforded by his election to membership in the 
 London Institution of Electrical Engineers and other societies, and by the 
 honorary degrees conferred upon him by Wesleyan University, the University 
 of Michigan and Northwestern University, in which he began his scientific career 
 as professor of physics and chemistry in 1872. 
 
 "Professor Carhart 's influence on the teaching of physics was no less active 
 and effective, and both his university and elementary textbooks are very ex- 
 tensively used. His clear and attractive method of treating the subject has 
 done much to arouse and develop the interest of thousands of students. 
 
 "The Mount Wilson Observatory was fortunate enough to enjoy Professor 
 Carhart 's co-operation in certain physical researches, the success of which de- 
 pended upon the use of the standard cell. The members of its staff who thus 
 learned to know his many attractive qualities have special reason to mourn his 
 loss." 
 
 Dr. Carhart was a pioneer along many lines of the practical application of 
 science. Before he had ever seen a telephone he invented one which worked 
 very successfully; he was the first person in Chicago to utilize the incandescent 
 lamp. In 1871 Dr. Carhart, in conjunction with his brother, Dr. J. W. Car- 
 hart, designed a steam engine for the first automobile. This crude machine was 
 built at Racine, Wisconsin, at the plant of the J. I. Case Thresher Works. The 
 original plan of the automobile was evolved in the mind of Dr. J. W. Carhart. 
 
 It is safe to say that a large majority of American boys and girls who have 
 gone through high school and college in the past thirty years immediately 
 recognize the name Carhart in connection with scientific text books. His prin- 
 cipal works are : Primary Batteries, 1891 ; Elements of Physics, with Horatio 
 N. Chute as collaborator, 1892-97 ; University Physics, 1894-96 ; Electrical Meas, 
 
HENRY SMITH CARHART 
 
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 urements, with George W. Patterson, 1895; High School Physics, with H. N. 
 Chute, 1901; College Physics, 1910; First Principles of Physics, with H. N. 
 Chute, 1912; Physics With Applications, with H. N. Chute, 1917. His last 
 work went to the press just before his death; it is a compilation of his original 
 work on cells, under the title Thermo Electromotive Force in Electric Cells. 
 
 When Dr. Carhart was granted a retiring allowance by the Carnegie Foun- 
 dation, the president of the fund, Dr. Pritchett, himself a distinguished American 
 scientist, gave solicitous expression in a letter to President Angell of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan to the high estimate entertained in scientfic circles concern- 
 ing Dr. Carhart as a teacher and an investigator. 
 
 August 30, 1876, Dr. Carhart married Miss Ellen M. Soule of Ossining, New 
 York, who was at that time dean of the Woman's College of Northwestern 
 University. Mrs. Carhart, who survives him, brought to him the companionship 
 of a woman of fine literary attainments and social gifts. Dr. Carhart 's only 
 son, Emory Richard Carhart, has inherited his father's interest in mechanics, 
 which he puts to practical use as an automobile distributor on a large scale. 
 One daughter, Margaret Sprague Carhart, carries on her father's interest in 
 education as a teacher in California. The youngest child, Mrs. Evans Ramsey 
 Cheeseman, lives in San Francisco. 
 
^tlltam JUenjamtn £kott 
 
 J^^^^^^RlLLIAM BENJAMIN SCOTT, while he began his career in the 
 WZJ^ 5 ^ Gwl California oil fields as a rig builder, had attained a quarter of 
 \ V J sen a century later a reputation as one of the most active and sue-* 
 f*yj \A/ cessf ul oil operators in the state. He was associated in business 
 
 PkS anc * on ^ e P^ ane °^ friendship with a notable group of Cali- 
 £=*eTXtfl tf3ndP=s ^ orn ^ a men > men whose material achievements have made up 
 nL'GS^'n^o&J^ the constructive progress of the Southwest, and whose ideals 
 and character as business men and citizens can never be suffi- 
 ciently admired. 
 
 William Benjamin Scott was born in Johnson County, Missouri, November 
 15, 1868, and came to California too young to remember anything of the state 
 of his birth or the journey to the far West. His parents settled at Santa Paula, 
 where Mr. Scott was educated, one of his teachers being Hon. Thomas 0. Toland, 
 of Los Angeles. He served an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and it was his skill 
 at that trade that made him a useful factor at the beginning of his oil career as a 
 rig builder with the Union Oil Company of California. He worked for this com- 
 pany in Torrey Canyon and the Tarr Creek districts of Ventura County. He was 
 fascinated by the oil industry, and it undoubtedly brought out the finest qualities 
 of an executive genius that lay dormant under his role as a mechanic. He learned 
 tool dressing, the practical operations of drilling, and his experience comprised 
 every technical process involved in oil production. 
 
 Mr. Scott's independent operations commenced in 1894, when he came to 
 Los Angeles and began building rigs by contract for different oil operators in 
 the Los Angeles city fields. This was followed by his drilling oil wells under 
 contract for various companies. Later a partnership was formed by Mr. Scott 
 and Mr. William Loftus, and for several years this firm was engaged in operating 
 for themselves and drilling wells by contract for others. 
 
 In 1898, together with Mr. W. L. Hardison, Mr. Scott secured leases in the 
 Olinda oil district in Orange County, California, which formed the basis for the 
 organization of the Columbia Oil Company, of which Mr. Hardison was president, 
 and Mr. Scott vice president. In 1900 this company was reorganized as the 
 Columbia Oil Producing Company, having an authorized capital of $1,000,000, 
 with Mr. Hardison as president, and Mr. Scott as vice president, with whom were 
 also associated Mr. Harry Chandler, Guy L. Hardison and F. X. Pfaffinger and 
 other Los Angeles business men. 
 
 In 1903 a consolidation was effected between the Columbia Oil Producing 
 Company and the Puente Oil Company, the latter company being headed by W. 
 R. Rowland, and with him associated J. A. Graves, Richard and William Lacey 
 and others, Mr. Hardison becoming president and Mr. Scott vice president of 
 the consolidated companies. This gave the reorganization an operating refinery 
 at Chino, as well as a selling organization, thus combining production, refining 
 and marketing. By 1907 Mr. Scott had greatly increased his stock holdings and 
 had become president of the company. During that year, also, Mr. Scott, together 
 with E. A. Clampitt, Captain Tompkinson, I. N. Richards and others, organized 
 the Orange Oil Company, which controlled fifty-six acres in Brea Canyon, Mr. 
 
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 Scott becoming also president of this new company. This Brea Canyon property 
 became very productive. In 1909, with the purchase of four hundred acres 
 adjoining the old Puente property in Brea Canyon, the Pico Oil Company was 
 organized by Mr. Scott, Harry Chandler, General Sherman, W. L. Stewart, 
 Chester W. Brown and Charles Astley. 
 
 The final consolidation of all these properties and companies was effected in 
 1912, at which time the capital stock of the Columbia was increased to three 
 million five hundred thousand shares par value one dollar. The holdings con- 
 sisted of about five thousand acres of oil lands, leases and mineral rights in fee, 
 located in Orange and Los Angeles counties, with approximately a hundred wells 
 of substantial production and a refinery and sales organization. While some of 
 his prominent associates have been named, the substantial credit for this progres- 
 sive accumulation of oil properties and the business organization is due to the 
 foresight and genius of Mr. Scott, who became president of the reorganized com- 
 pany, his fellow directors being Chandler, Stewart, Rowland, Sherman, Clampitt 
 and Astley. Mr. Scott remained as chief executive until August, 1919, when the 
 Union Oil Company of Delaware purchased and contracted to purchase the out- 
 standing stock of the company on a basis of six million dollars to the stock- 
 holders. The Eastern company took over the property and active management 
 January 1, 1920, and by special request Mr. Scott remained on the board of 
 directors, and was serving as such at the time of his death on April 27, 1920. 
 
 He died in his fifty-second year, and while his friends were shocked by his 
 premature end, all admired the tremendous array of achievements to the credit of 
 his life. They had known him as a tireless worker, a man of rare good judgment 
 and business acumen, not as a shrewd bargainer, but, as one friend said, "He used 
 the golden rule as a yardstick for the measure of his conduct, and if he had 
 any doubt as to its application in the matter at issue, he gave the other the benefit 
 of the doubt." It means a great deal when one of his friends could sincerely 
 say: "He was brave, kind, good, true. His every thought was pure and honest 
 and his every act a living expression of his noble thought." Many stories have 
 been told illustrating his integrity of character. All the years he was in the oil 
 fields he was strictly a legitimate operator, and no one could ever tempt him to 
 join in the frequent " wildcatting " practices that prevailed here as elsewhere. He 
 also had a high measure of appreciation for those who worked for him and with 
 him for the success of his business. At the time of the sale to the Eastern in- 
 vestors, and upon the initiative of Mr. Scott, a special bonus was paid to all 
 employes of the company equal to ten per cent of the entire amount earned by 
 each during continuous employment. This generous provision called for the 
 distribution of approximately $110,000. That act was characteristic of Scott's 
 numerous kindly acts to his fellow men, though many of the impulses that directed 
 him to practical generosity were completely hidden from public view. 
 
 In addition to his activities as an oil operator, Mr. Scott had a diversity of 
 interests. He was a director of the Citizens National Bank, and a director of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Oil and Mines. He also served on important committees 
 of the Los Angeles and Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 On June 24, 1896, Mr. Scott was married to Miss Luna M. Hardison, of 
 Caribou, Maine. This union was blessed with two children, Miss Josephine Scott, 
 now a student at Stanford University, and William Keith Scott, a student of Los 
 Angeles High School. 
 
 It was the financiers, business executives, prominent men in social, profes- 
 sional and public affairs, and the numerous employes who had worked under 
 his leadership, who rendered sincere and complete homage to the life and services 
 of Mr. Scott at the time of his death. He was laid to rest in Inglewood cemetery, 
 the burial services being conducted by the Santa Paula Masonic Lodge, of which 
 he was a life member. 
 
Cfmrles Strelbert Canftelb 
 
 HARLES ADELBERT CANFIELD, who died August 15, 1913, 
 at his home in Los Angeles, California, was a pioneer and one 
 of most conspicuous factors in the development of the great 
 oil fields of Southern California and Mexico with which his 
 name will be forever predominantly associated. Before that he 
 had been a miner in Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, 
 California, and always and everywhere he had played the game 
 fair. All his life long, in business and out, he stood for the 
 square deal and never failed to keep his word in small as well as in big things. 
 A gentle, kindly spirit masking a brave heart and a prodigious strength — he 
 gave generously, unostentatiously, almost surreptitiously, and never shunned a 
 task however formidable. 
 
 Life to the late Mr. Canfield was a continuous adventure. Resolute in his 
 purpose, ever hopeful of attainment though again and again at the bottom of 
 his resources, he never sounded the depths of discouragement because his was 
 the spirit which rises upon the ashes of failure. 
 
 He was born at Springfield, Erie County, May 15, 1848, on a farm which 
 is now part of the city of Buffalo, New York, but the westward immigration 
 of his parents in 1863 carried him to Minnesota where he finished his schooling. 
 After a couple of years of farming and local business experience he left home 
 in 1869 for Colorado where in the Boulder district he got his first job in a twenty 
 stamp mill of the "Ni Wot" mine and his first lesson in the field in which later 
 he became so commanding a figure. 
 
 For nearly five years he worked in Colorado mines taking advantage of 
 every opportunity to improve his practical skill and to extend his knowledge 
 of lead mining, and when he went into the Eureka Consolidated Mine at Ruby 
 Hill, Nevada, 1874, there were few so expert as he in placing a charge or driv- 
 ing a tunnel, and fewer still among his companions with his keen and apprecia- 
 tive judgment of ore. It was in fact a common saying around the camps that 
 ' ' Charley Canfield didn 't need any assayer to tell him if his ' prospect ' had a pay 
 streak. ' ' 
 
 On January 22, 1879, at Grand Island, Nebraska, he married Chloe, daughter 
 of Oscar U. Wescott, whom he had first seen on a visit home four years previously, 
 and took her to Ruby Hill where they continued to live until the birth of their 
 first child, Florence, a year later, and on to the spring of 1881 when reports 
 of rich discoveries in the Southwest swept them to Chloride, New Mexico. 
 
 Here Mr. Canfield entered upon a period of indefatigable and intelligent 
 prospecting, contracting, leasing, which stretched over a long five years of ups 
 and downs such as would have used up a less hardy man and utterly disheartened 
 a less determined and courageous one, but which led finally to his discovery 
 of some very rich surface prospects adjoining an undeveloped claim known 
 as the "Comstock." Believing these surface indications to be worth following 
 up he secured a six months lease on the claim giving a one-third interest each to a 
 couple of local miners — Barton and Rugg — who were to find the money for the 
 development work. Little money was forthcoming however and nearly three 
 
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 months passed with nothing to show for their hard work but a bill for powder 
 and fuse which threatened to close them out. 
 
 The partners were for quitting but Canfield persisted in his reliance on the 
 promise of the prospects he had uncovered and would not quit. So together the 
 three went to the Percha Bank, at Kingston, where Norman C. Raff, its cashier 
 and part owner, loaned them on their joint note the $100 needed to pay their bill 
 and give them fresh credit for more powder and grub. 
 
 Within the week they had ' ' struck it ' ' and within the month these men who 
 had experienced such difficulty in raising $100 were taking $10,000 a day out of 
 an ore chamber they had opened up, and which became known throughout the 
 greatly excited Black Range mining district as the "Canfield Bonanza." 
 
 Probably half a million dollars in bullion was taken out of this chamber 
 within the remaining three months, and when the lease had expired Mr. Canfield 
 moved with his family early in 1887 to Los Angeles. 
 
 He had great faith in the future of this town and, as was his habit, backed 
 his judgment with his money, in this instance so heavily that in the depression 
 following the burst of a real estate boom Mr. Canfield was unable to save his 
 holdings or more than a comparative few dollars of the comfortable fortune 
 he had brought from New Mexico only two years before. 
 
 The fact that Mr. Canfield 's investments in 1888 included the block at 
 Seventh Street and Grand Avenue (now occupied by J. W. Robinson & Co.) 
 suggests his remarkable judgment, his vision and his faith in the future of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Fortune had dealt him a terrible blow, but not a knock out; he was "broke," 
 but not in spirit. With unfaltering faith in his ability to win out, heartened by 
 the courageous spirit of his plucky wife who remained in Los Angeles to care 
 for the five children, he took up again in 1890 the arduous trail of the prospector 
 with its hopes and its hardships and its disappointments, and followed it for 
 two years in the Mojave Desert, California, locating one or two mines which 
 paid expenses but from which no considerable money was ever taken. 
 
 It was during this period that Mr. Canfield ran across Edward L. Doheny, 
 an old mining friend of New Mexico days, on his way from New Mexico to Los 
 Angeles, who, late in 1892, noticed oil exudes on the west borders of Los Angeles 
 and told of his discovery to Canfield because, as he said years later, "I always 
 had great faith in his general mining knowledge, and when Canfield said they 
 looked good he and I, in November, 1892, began sinking the first well on the 
 Pacific Coast with simple picks and shovels at the corner of the present Lake 
 Shore Avenue and Patton Street. ' ' 
 
 This was the beginning of the business association — which continued to Mr. 
 Canfield 's death — of these two men so dissimilar in temperament, yet so comple- 
 mentary one to the other and to the success of the immense and daring projects 
 upon which they subsequently embarked, and from this modest start it was 
 too that these two men grew in a few years to a commanding position in the oil 
 producing world. 
 
 Later Mr. Canfield located, alone, and developed the Coalinga field and 
 then with Mr. Doheny opened the wells of Bakersfield. Still later other com- 
 panies were organized, Mexico unfolded a wealth of opportunity and much out- 
 side money became a necessity to capitalize their extended working plans and 
 thus fully to realize upon the glowing prospects of the new fields. In this 
 undertaking Mr. Canfield 's well known judgment and established reputation of 
 accomplishing what he set his hand to do proved a mighty help in making it 
 possible to finance operations on such gigantic scale. 
 
 At his death he shared with Mr. Doheny control of the Mexican Petroleum, 
 Huasteca Petroleum, American Oil Fields, California Petroleum, Bankers Oil, 
 Mexican Paving and Mexican Gas companies, besides being the dominant figure 
 in a number of other small companies. 
 
CHARLES ADELBERT CANFIELD 
 
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 His acknowledged business acumen and faith in the future of Southern 
 California made him an eagerly sought stockholder and director and his interests 
 outside of oil grew gradually to be many, embracing well nigh every new enter- 
 prise of merit launched on the southern coast. He had an abiding love for land 
 and was ever accumulating it and supporting land developing companies until 
 his acreage mounted into the thousands scattered over the state, while his stock 
 holdings included the South Coast, Dolgeville, Harbor View, New Richmond 
 land companies, the Rodeo Land & Water and the Pacific Wharf & Storage com- 
 panies. In addition he was in a number of the more important banks of 
 Southern California including the Citizens National, Security Trust and Savings, 
 Farmers and Merchants of Los Angeles and the Southern Trust and Commerce of 
 San Diego, as well as the Merchants National Bank of San Francisco, all of 
 which constituted an extensive and valuable aggregate and most of which ex- 
 pressed the builders impulse that held Mr. Canfield so completely in possession. 
 
 His heart however was always with the oil game because it satisfied that 
 very impulse and represented to him the adventure and the energy it had re- 
 quired to develop their properties at a time when eastern oil interests were 
 actively hostile and capital was exceedingly difficult to obtain. In no sense was 
 Mr. Canfield a "dollar chaser," and even after great wealth had come to him 
 he retained his democratic simplicity and found more gratification in construc- 
 tive labor itself than in the mere money fruits of those labors. 
 
 He loved flowers and was proud of his fine gardens; he loved animals, 
 especially driving horses, of which he had several finely bred ones in his own 
 stables; he was a member of the Los Angeles Driving Club and a generous 
 patron of local matinee racing or amateur trotting, for the encouragement of 
 which he donated a large and handsome grand stand at Exposition Park. 
 
 Mr. Canfield exemplified by his own life the principles that the man of 
 wealth owes a duty to his fellows. Always on the outlook to lend a helping 
 hand, his chief concern was the youth that had not had a fair chance and the 
 worthy who had been bowled over by hard luck. He was one of the two chief 
 supporters of the McKinley Home for Boys, and in his will made generous pro- 
 vision for an especially equipped school of training and research which his 
 trustees are about to establish for defective children. 
 
 Mr. Canfield 's was the builder's vision. He walked in realms beyond the 
 comprehension of his associates. In the mines, the oil fields, the directors room 
 he was a clear headed advisor of remarkable constructive ability, and everywhere 
 he went was always a mighty agency for right. He had a rare philosophy, a dry, 
 delightful humor, a deeply rooted sense of justice. He was a man to be loved 
 and trusted. In the words of the Memoriam issued by his Mexican Petroleum 
 associates: "He was more than a partner, more than an associate in business, 
 more than a fellow worker; he was a friend — kindly, serene, warm hearted and 
 unfailingly dependable. ' ' 
 
 Mr. Canfield was survived by the following children : Mrs. Caspar Whitney, 
 of New York; Mrs. J. M. Danziger, Mrs. S. M. Spalding and Charles 0. Can- 
 field, of Los Angeles; Mrs. J. H. Himes, of Canton, Ohio, and also by an adopted 
 daughter, Mrs. Raymond Cheseldine, of London, Ohio. 
 
OSEPH TOPLITZKY, though prominently connected as a Los 
 Angeles real estate man, was in early life a promising actor 
 on the stage and his introduction to Southern California was in 
 theatrical circles. 
 
 He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, December 25, 
 1884, a son of Meyer and Ida Toplitzky. He attended public 
 schools to the age of fourteen, but beginning at ten was playing 
 child parts with stock and other companies, and continued his 
 work with the theatre until 1900. He performed in companies of such celebreties 
 as Andrew Mack, Chauncey Olcott, Otis Skinner, Sir Henry Irving and the 
 late James Neill. 
 
 Mr. Toplitzky came to Los Angeles with his parents in 1900, being then 
 sixteen years of age, and was soon employed as an usher at the Los Angeles 
 Theatre with H. C. Wyatt. Later he was with the Mason Theatre and in time 
 had achieved the responsibilities of assistant to Mr. Wyatt. He left the theatre 
 in 1911 to engage in the general real estate business, and since then has handled 
 downtown and acreage property and has been markedly successful in this field. 
 He is president of the Cross Land Company, is interested in several oil prop- 
 erties and has offices in the H. W. Hellman Building. 
 
 Mr. Toplitzky is a republican in politics. July 10, 1912, he married Elsie 
 B. Crossley and they have one daughter, Beth, born in 1918. 
 
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Jf rancts Jtlontsomerp 
 
 ,RANCIS S. MONTGOMERY engaged in the practice of law in the 
 City of Los Angeles shortly after his graduation in Georgetown 
 University, District of Columbia, and while he made an admir- 
 able and successful record in the work of his profession, the 
 impaired health of his father-in-law, Victor Ponet, led him to 
 assume active supervision of the latter 's large and varied capi- 
 talistic and business interests in the year 1912, and since that 
 time this service has demanded the major part of his time and 
 attention. He maintains his residence at Hollywood. He is now the president 
 of the Ponet Company, with headquarters in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery was born at Concordia, Kansas, June 23, 1878, and is a 
 son of Pius L. and Sarah (Stanton) Montgomery. The late Archbishop George 
 Montgomery, who served as bishop of the Catholic diocese of Monterey and 
 Los Angeles, California, from 1894 to 1903, was the eldest brother of him whose 
 name initiates this sketch. 
 
 Francis S. Montgomery acquired his preliminary education in the parochial 
 and public schools of his native place, and in the furtherance of his higher 
 academic education he completed a course in the college of arts of Creighton 
 University, in the City of Omaha, Nebraska, from which institution he was grad- 
 uated in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Georgetown 
 University, District of Columbia, in which great institution he pursued courses 
 both in philosophy and law and from which he was graduated in 1907, with 
 the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Laws. Shortly after his 
 graduation he came to California and was admitted to the bar in this state. 
 Thereafter he was engaged in practice at Los Angeles until, as already noted, 
 he assumed executive duties in connection with the business affairs of his 
 father-in-law. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He 
 and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with 
 the Knights of Columbus, besides being a member of the Newman Club in Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 On the 3d of July, 1907, at St. Victor's Church, Hollywood, California, 
 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Montgomery to Miss Gertrude Ponet. Mrs. 
 Montgomery received the best of educational advantages in her youth. She at- 
 tended one of the leading convent schools in the City of Los Angeles, and later 
 was a student in a representative Catholic educational institution in the City 
 of San Francisco, besides which she attended Notre Dame Convent in the City 
 of Brussels, Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have traveled somewhat ex- 
 tensively since their marriage, but they never fail in appreciation of and loyalty 
 to their home state. They have four children, Victor Ponet, George Francis, 
 Francis Joseph and William John. The year 1920 finds the eldest son a student 
 in the Academy of the Holy Name at Santa Monica, he being eleven years of age, 
 and George Francis, aged ten, and Francis Joseph, aged seven, are likewise at- 
 tending this institution, the youngest son being four years of age at the time 
 of the preparation of this article. Following will be found a memoir to the 
 late Victor Ponet, father of Mrs. Montgomery. 
 
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Victor JJonet 
 
 T WAS well within the powers and ambition of the late Victor 
 Ponet to have marked the passing years with large and worthy 
 achievement, and he was one of the honored and influential 
 pioneer citizens of California at the time of his death, which 
 occurred on the 7th of February, 1914. He was in the most 
 significant degree the architect of his own fortunes, and in his 
 progressive career in California his activities conserved not 
 only his individual success but also the well being of the com- 
 munity at large. 
 
 Victor Ponet was born in Lemburg, Belgium, on the 9th of March, 1836, a 
 son of Lawrence and Gertrude A. (Wauters) Ponet, his father having been a 
 farmer by vocation and having served as a soldier under the great Napoleon. 
 In the excellent schools of his native land Victor Ponet continued his studies 
 until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, after which he served a 
 three years' apprenticeship to the trade of cabinet-maker, in which he became 
 a skilled artisan. After having followed his trade several years in the City of 
 Paris, France, his ambition and self-reliance led him in 1865 to come to the 
 United States. He readily found employment at his trade in New York City, 
 where he remained until 1867, when he came to California. He made the journey 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama and thence proceeded up the coast to San 
 Francisco, where he remained two years. He then came to Los Angeles and 
 entered vigorously and loyally into the civic and business affairs of the city, which 
 then had a population of not more than 4,500 people. In 1885 he sold his busi- 
 ness and thereafter he passed two years in making a tour of Europe, in connection 
 with which he found special satisfaction in visiting his old home in Belgium. For 
 many years Mr. Ponet and his wife maintained their home on a ranch southwest 
 of the City of Los Angeles, and much of this land is now included within the 
 corporate limits of the city, their residence having been situated at the juncture 
 of the present Alvarado and Pico streets. Eventually Mr. Ponet subdivided 
 this property and effected its improvement, and he finally removed to his fine 
 ranch at West Hollywood, which continued to be his place of abode during the 
 remainder of his life. His substantial financial success was gained largely 
 through his wise investments in real estate in Los Angeles County, the same hav- 
 ing greatly increased in value with the remarkable development and upbuilding 
 of this favored section of California. In the early period of his residence in 
 Los Angeles he purchased Fiesta Park, bounded by Pico Street, Twelfth Street, 
 Grand Avenue and Hope Street. On this property he erected one of the hand- 
 some apartment buildings of the city, and the former park is now known as 
 Ponet Square, upon which the family has erected a modern hotel building and 
 eight automobile .structures, among the best in Los Angeles. At West Hollywood 
 he purchased a large tract of land upon which he built a spacious and beautiful 
 country house, and he made this one of the ideal places of the county. He ac- 
 cumulated other valuable ranch properties, as well as other realty in the City 
 of Los Angeles, and his liberality in the handling and improving of his various 
 properties contributed much to the material development and civic prosperity 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
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376 
 
 VICTOR PONET 
 
 Mr. Ponet was a man who had fine appreciation of the personal stewardship 
 which success involves, and his gracious character was shown in unostentatious 
 benevolences and charities, as well as in earnest and liberal support of the various 
 activities of the Catholic Church in this diocese. Mr. and Mrs. Ponet deeded 
 the land and erected on the same the present edifice of St. Victor's Church, and 
 made both land and building a gift to the diocese. 
 
 Mr. Ponet was one of the organizers of the German-American Savings Bank 
 of Los Angeles, an institution now bearing the corporate title of the Guaranty 
 Trust & Savings Bank. He became a director of the bank, and in 1894 he was 
 elected its president, a position of which he continued the incumbent three years. 
 He was one of the organizers also of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and 
 gave liberally of his time and money in fostering and developing the new institu- 
 tion, of which he served many years as a trustee. He took lively and helpful 
 interest in all things touching the welfare of Los Angeles and all of Southern 
 California, and was essentially a broad-minded, liberal and public-spirited citi- 
 zen. He was a most zealous communicant of the Catholic Church, he was affiliated 
 with the Knights of Columbus and he held membership in the Newman and 
 Jonathan clubs. 
 
 He served many years as a representative of Belgian consular interests at 
 Los Angeles. On the 5th day of January, 1894, he was appointed consular 
 agent at Los Angeles, and on the 31st of December, 1897, he was made Belgian 
 vice-consul for Southern California and Arizona. On the 20th of May, 1906, 
 there came to him distinguished recognition from the ruler of his native land, 
 as on that date King Leopold of Belgium conferred on him the knightly honor 
 of Chevalier de L'Ordre de Leopold. In politics Mr. Ponet was well fortified 
 in his convictions and gave his allegiance to the republican party. A man of in- 
 tegrity and honor in all the relations of life, he left an enduring and worthy 
 impress upon the history of the city and county of Los Angeles, where he gained 
 pioneer prestige and proved also an apostle of progress. 
 
 In the year 1874 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ponet to Miss Ellen J. 
 Manning, a native of Ireland, and she survived him by five years — a woman whose 
 gentle and gracious personality endeared her to all who came within the sphere 
 of her influence. Mrs. Ponet remained at the beautiful home in West Hollywood 
 until she too was summoned to the life eternal, on the 18th of February, 1919. 
 She had passed her seventieth year and her funeral obsequies were held at St. 
 Vibiana's Cathedral, Los Angeles, in the work of which parish she had been 
 active in early years, with a record for unassuming support of charitable and 
 benevolent agencies. Gertrude, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ponet, is now the 
 wife of Francis S. Montgomery, of whom individual mention is made on the 
 preceding page of this work. Rev. William Ponet, C. M., a foster son of the 
 subject of this memoir, was afforded the best of educational advantages, pre- 
 pared himself for and was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church, and 
 now holds a pastoral charge in the City of San Diego, California. 
 
Mrs John T Gaffey 
 
JOHN T Gaffey 
 
3 ofm (gaff ep 
 
 RESIDENT of California since he was seven years of age, 
 John T. Gaffey has had a career of many interesting phases. 
 He has been a practical newspaper man, has filled many public 
 offices both appointive and elective, and has directed many 
 large business affairs, though now practically retired. 
 
 Mr. Gaffey whose home is at San Pedro, was born in Gal- 
 way, Ireland, November 1, 1860, son of Thomas and Ann E. 
 (Tracy) Gaffey. His mother's family was of old Norman Irish 
 stock in Ireland while his father was Scotch Irish. In 1867 the mother brought 
 her seven children by sailing vessel to America, and by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama landed at San Francisco. Going to Santa Cruz she bought a large cattle 
 and sheep ranch. It was in this environment that John T. Gaffey grew to man- 
 hood. His early education was acquired in private schools and later at San 
 Francisco he completed the work of the Lincoln grammar school and the Boys' 
 high school. After one year in the University of California he returned to Santa 
 Cruz in 1879 and there began his newspaper work as reporter for the Santa 
 Cruz Courier. He was with that journal two years and then established the 
 Santa Cruz Herald which he conducted for three years. After selling out he 
 was appointed under sheriff of the county. At the close of his term of office he 
 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court of the Southern District, and the 
 duties of that office brought him to Los Angeles. In 1886 he was elected a 
 member of the Board of Equalization for the Southern District. After four 
 years he engaged in mining in Old Mexico, and during his absence was elected a 
 member of the School Board of Los Angeles. He returned in time to serve in 
 that position for ten months. In 1892 he was elected a member of the City 
 Council, filling the office for six months until he resigned to take charge of 
 Stephen M. White's campaign, and handled it successfully until Mr. White 
 was chosen a member of the United States Senate. For eighteen months begin- 
 ning in 1894 Mr. Gaffey also served as managing editor of the Los Angeles 
 Herald. 
 
 In 1893 he was appointed Collector of Customs by President Cleveland for 
 the Southern District including Riverside, Orange, Ventura and Los Angeles 
 counties. At the close of his four year term he retired from politics and gave 
 his efforts to his mining interests in Old Mexico and oil operations in Texas 
 until 1906, when he disposed of most of his holdings and has since enjoyed the 
 comforts of his beautiful home at San Pedro, with only his private affairs to 
 require his supervision. Mr. Gaffey is president of the Bandini Baker Estate 
 Company, is a director of the First National Bank, is president of the Gaffey 
 Investment Company, and is a member of the California Club and the Bohemian 
 Club of San Francisco. 
 
 June 1, 1887, he married Arcadia Bandini, daughter of Don Juan Bandini. 
 They have two children, William T. and Mrs. Captain John Mell. The son 
 William T., who was born at Santa Monica, was educated in college at Santa 
 Clara and soon afterward entered the United States Navy. In 1917 he was com- 
 missioned an ensign and was in service until the close of the war, being now on 
 the reserve list. The daughter was educated in the Sacred Heart Convent at 
 Menlo Park. 
 
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Jfreb Bennington Jletoport 
 
 ISION, initiative, executive ability and tenacity are the attri- 
 butes that have combined to make the name of Fred Penning^ 
 ton Newport a synonym of successful real estate development 
 from the viewpoint of both buyer and seller. Since 1907 Mr. 
 Newport, head of the F. P. Newport Company, has achieved 
 distinction as a pioneer in various extensive undertakings 
 promoted by himself and associates. 
 
 His operations cover both northern and southern Cali- 
 fornia involving vast acreages of now high priced agricultural lands and prop- 
 erties included in the most exclusive and valuable business and residential sections 
 of Los Angeles. Strong in his faith that Los Angeles was destined to become the 
 most populous city west of St. Louis, he and his associates invested millions 
 of dollars in desirable holdings and in their actual development. In later years, 
 Delieving that the action and influence of the Panama Canal on maritime Los 
 Angeles would make this metropolis the most important commercial and indus- 
 trial center of the Pacific seaboard, he has been the means of interesting thousands 
 of people in tidewater frontage and industrial sites at Los Angeles-Long Beach 
 harbor. 
 
 Conforming to established precedent, at the present time he is pioneering in 
 a development unique in the annals of Southern California realty — that of con- 
 verting into surpassingly beautiful home sites about three hundred acres of fertile 
 foothill and valley lands in historic Verdugo Canyon. In this "Switzerland of 
 California" situated in North Glendale and within the ten mile circle from the 
 heart of the city, he has platted spacious villa sites and endowed them with every 
 convenience, the most notable feature perhaps being the substantially constructed 
 domestic water system and development of electricity for both cooking and heat- 
 ing purposes. He has built a wide boulevard through the subdivision and already 
 many handsome homes dot this picturesque gem of the "Mother Mountains." 
 
 Mr. Newport is a self made man, and though not yet in his prime has 
 taken his position among the influential factors in business and financial circles 
 of his adopted state. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, son of Burton 
 and Mary (Pennington) Newport, but was reared on an Illinois farm. He grad- 
 uated from the Princeton High School of Illinois, did special work in the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota, the Northwestern University at Chicago, and Drake 
 University at Des Moines. In early life he was principal of schools at Creighton, 
 Nebraska, and also superintendent of agents of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company and as noted above for more than ten years has been sole owner of 
 F. P. Newport Company. 
 
 Mr. Newport is a member of the Athletic Club, Los Angeles Country Club, 
 Tuna Club, Los Angeles Realty Board, Merchants and Manufacturers Associa- 
 tion, Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Real Estate Exchanges. 
 He is a Mason, a republican and a member of the Congregational Church. April 
 19, 1901, he married Letty Johnson, of Meadow Grove, Nebraska. 
 
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<©eorge jf uller 
 
 EORGE FULLER, whose death occurred March 16, 1918, at his 
 beautiful rancho at Buena Vista, gained distinguished position 
 as one of the representative members of the California bar, 
 served on the bench of the Superior Court of San Diego County 
 and was retained as counsel for important corporations. He 
 became widely known as an authority on corporation and inter- 
 national law, and by his sterling character and high profes- 
 sional achievement as well as by reason of his exalted patriotism 
 and civic loyalty he honored the state of his adoption the while he gained the 
 respect and high regard of the people of California. 
 
 Judge Fuller was born in New York City on the 3d of June, 1850, and was 
 a son of Thomas and Henrietta (Turner) Fuller. He was of the sixth generation 
 in descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller, who came to America on the historic ship 
 "Mayflower" and who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. Judge Fuller acquired his early education in the public schools of 
 his native city and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered the law 
 department of the University of New York, where he applied himself to his 
 studies with characteristic diligence and ambition. In 1871 he went to Madison, 
 capital of the State of Wisconsin, where he entered the law office of Hon. John 
 Coit Spooner, who long served as United States Senator from that state. He 
 continued in the practice of law at Madison until 1878, when he removed to 
 Providence, Rhode Island, where he became associated with the well known law 
 firm of Turston & Ripley, and where also he became a professional associate 
 of Carter Woods and J. Carter Brown. 
 
 In 1883 Judge Fuller came to the West and established himself in practice 
 at Tacoma, Washington, where he built up a representative law business and 
 where he served as city attorney. In his office in Tacoma Hon. J. Hamilton 
 Lewis, who later became United States Senator from Illinois, initiated his career 
 as a lawyer, and the two continued close friends until the death of Judge Fuller. 
 In 1887 Judge Fuller came to California and established his residence at San 
 Diego, where he became general counsel for the International Company, of En- 
 senada, Mexico. Thereafter he continued to serve in this capacity during five 
 administrations of the English syndicate that succeeded the International 
 Company. He resigned this post in 1905, in which year he came to Los Angeles 
 and engaged in private practice. He had in the meanwhile passed much time in 
 Mexico, and incidental to his legal activities in connection with Mexican corpora- 
 tions he became strongly fortified in the minutiae of international law. He 
 organized the Mexican Land Colonization Company and the Lower California 
 Development Company, and served with characteristic ability as counsel for the 
 important DeBaker estate. In 1899, while a resident of San Diego, Judge Fuller 
 formed a law partnership with Judge Ernest Riall, and this alliance continued 
 five years. In 1903 he was appointed to the bench of the Superior Court of 
 San Diego County by Governor Gage to fill out an unexpired term. He served 
 about eleven months on the bench and was regarded as vouchsafed by his former 
 law partner, Judge Riall, one of the best judges who ever sat on the local bench. 
 
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 GEORGE FULLER 
 
 He did not appear as a candidate for the office at the expiration of the term 
 for which he had been appointed. 
 
 Judge Puller retired from the active work of his profession in 1917 and in 
 the meanwhile he had passed much of his time on his fine ranch. He was a 
 man of fine presence, genial, urbane and kindly, was possessed of marked literary- 
 ability, as shown in both his prose and verse productions, and in all of the rela- 
 tions of life he so bore himself as to retain the confidence, respect and good 
 will of his fellow men. His political allegiance was given to the republican 
 party and he was an effective advocate of its principles. He was long and 
 prominently affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, held membership in the Ameri- 
 can Bar Association, the California Bar Association and the Los Angeles County 
 and San Diego County Bar Associations. For years he was one of the leading 
 and most popular members of the Cuyamaca Club of San Diego. 
 
 At Los Angeles on the 12th of January, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Judge Fuller to Mrs. Ysidora F. (Couts) Gray, and she still maintains her home 
 in this city. By her former marriage to William D. Gray, a native of Virginia, 
 Mrs. Fuller has one son Chalmers Gray who was educated at Santa Clara College 
 and who thereafter assumed charge of his mother's fine ranch property in 
 San Diego County. He entered the United States Navy when the nation became 
 involved in the World war, and since the close of the war he has established 
 himself in the automobile business in Los Angeles. Mrs. Fuller's attractive home 
 is at 358 Van Ness avenue, and as its popular chatelaine she has made it the 
 center of distinctly representative social activity in Los Angeles. 
 
Jonathan ©emple 
 
 ONATHAN TEMPLE, who was better known to native Cali- 
 fornians as Don Juan Temple, was as keen a Yankee as ever 
 shipped over western waters. He knew how to make money 
 and keep it, and was a picturesque if not a magnificent figure 
 in the early life and history of Southern California. 
 
 He was born at Reading in Middlesex County, Massa- 
 chusetts. His father, Jonathan Temple, Sr., was born 
 September 25, 1768. Jonathan Temple was of a roaming 
 disposition, and as a young man we find him in the Sandwich Islands in 1825, 
 owning his own vessel and trading with the natives. As early as 1827 he had 
 established himself as a merchant in Los Angeles, where his business career 
 commenced. He established himself in business in an adobe building at the 
 intersection of Spring and Main streets. As business prospered he built with 
 an eye to business rental property just south of his store, and this he rented 
 to doctors, lawyers, merchants and others. This building still stands in August, 
 1918, and is known to all Californians as the Don Juan Temple block. After 
 Mr. Jonathan Temple's death this property was sold to his brother F. P. P. 
 Temple for ten thousand dollars. The old adobe building was then torn down 
 and what is known as the Temple Block was erected, in which the Temple and 
 Workman Bank was opened. 
 
 In the middle fifties Mr. Temple built what was known as the City Market, 
 standing where the Bullard block is now located. It was fashioned after 
 Faneuil Hall in Boston, the lower story being adapted as a market, while the 
 upper story was used for judicial offices. Here Don Ignacio Sepulveda, one 
 of the old California judges, held court for quite a number of years, as well 
 as Hon. Volney E. Howard. Mr. Temple also owned the lot where the Post- 
 office and Federal Building now stand. 
 
 He was not satisfied with inside property and began to reach out. He 
 bought Don Pedro Dominguez' interest in the famous Dominguez ranch, com- 
 prising thirty thousand acres. This is now the property of the Jotham Bixby 
 heirs, and the city of Long Beach is built on the property. This place Mr. 
 Temple originally stocked up with large herds of cattle. As a basis for his 
 grazing industry he had practically all the lands from Los Angeles to the 
 ocean, for a distance of twenty miles, and an equal distance from east to west. 
 He and his brother Pliny Temple, who was equally as rich as his brother, 
 combined their interests and sent great herds of cattle to the mines in the 
 northern part of the state, reaping immense fortunes. The master stroke of 
 Jonathan Temple was in leasing the mint in Mexico, realizing an immense 
 fortune from that venture. He refused a million dollars for his concession 
 He lived to see the day when he coined his own money, controlled seven hun- 
 dred miles of the western coast of Mexico and had his boats running with his 
 goods from Acapulco to San Francisco. Without entering into greater details, 
 Jonathan Temple was the richest and heaviest taxpayer in Los Angeles. In 
 business he did not mince his words, while his brother Pliny on the other hand 
 could not say no, and that was the undoing of the latter 's vast possessions. 
 The Temple brothers were exceedingly fond of their eastern relatives, and 
 
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 JONATHAN TEMPLE 
 
 they were as a father to them all, particularly to their sisters, whom they 
 adored. The member of the family who furnished this information knew two 
 sisters and a brother, and the memories of their brother Pliny leaving Boston 
 often was related to him. Jonathan Temple would visit his eastern relatives 
 quite frequently, stay with them a month or so and return to the coast with 
 a large supply of the merchandise and commodities he needed. His brother 
 Pliny went back to Boston only once to visit his people, and that was June 20, 
 1870, after an absence of thirty years. He found only three, two sisters and 
 a brother, out of a family of eleven, of whom he was the youngest. Jonathan 
 and Pliny Temple were the last surviving children. The only surviving heirs 
 of the original New England Temples are the Temples of California, including 
 John, Walter, Charles, Lucinda and Margarita. Lucinda married Mr. M. M. 
 Zuniga, and both are still living. Margarita is the widow of Mr. Samuel P. 
 Rowland. 
 
 Jonathan Temple married September 17, 1830, Dona Rafaela Cota, of 
 Santa Barbara. To this union there was born one child, Miss Francisca 
 Temple. She married Don Gregorio de Ajuria, a native of Spain. They were 
 married about August, 1848. To this union were born nine children, seven 
 boys and two girls. 
 
 Jonathan Temple visited Paris March 20, 1858, with his wife and with 
 Don Gregorio and his family. Mrs. Temple was so well pleased with Paris 
 that she eventually went there to pass her remaining days. Mr. Temple died 
 in San Francisco, May 31, 1866, and is buried there. Mrs. Temple and her 
 daughter Francisca both died in Paris, and are buried there. Don Gregorio 
 de Ajuria and his children are all now deceased but one. Antonio. 
 
Jf ranct* $lmp JfM temple 
 
 HERE is a rather persistent opinion among people otherwise 
 well informed that Los Angeles was not discovered until the 
 gold which made the name California potent throughout the 
 civilized world. It will be a surprise to these people that 
 men other than Indians and Spanish padres were living and 
 working out their somewhat isolated though not unimportant 
 destiny in this section of Southern California long before the 
 American conquest. 
 Perhaps the career of none of these old timers will serve better to trans- 
 late some of the features of early California days to the modern generation 
 than that of Francis Pliny Fisk Temple, a notable and picturesque figure 
 among the pioneers of Los Angeles, and several of whose sons are still active 
 in affairs and well known in Southern California. 
 
 Francis Pliny Fisk Temple was born at Reading, Middlesex County, 
 Massachusetts, February 12, 1822. He represented one of the oldest and 
 most highly respected New England families. As a young man he attended 
 the public schools of his native town until he was about seventeen years of 
 age, and then took a two years' mercantile course in Boston. Reading was 
 a quiet town and offered little opportunity to an ambitious young man. He 
 therefore determined to follow the example of an older brother and come to 
 California. He embarked on a vessel at Boston January 18, 1841, and after 
 a long voyage around the Horn arrived at Los Angeles in the summer of the 
 same year. When he arrived here he was a boy of nineteen. Jonathan Temple, 
 his older brother, with the energy characteristic of the family had identified 
 himself with Southern California as a pioneer merchant in 1827, and in the 
 meantime had become the leading merchant of Los Angeles. The younger 
 brother joined him in business and lived with Jonathan until his marriage 
 on September 30, 1845. Francis Temple married Senorita Antonia Margarita 
 Workman, only daughter of William Workman, Esquire. 
 
 After his marriage he remained with his father-in-law at the Puente Rancho 
 for some three years. Two of his children were born there, Thomas and 
 Francis Temple. The latter died some forty years afterward almost to a day 
 in the same room in which he was born. During this time Mr. Temple pur- 
 chased La Merced Rancho, consisting of 2,363 acres, where he built for himself 
 a large roomy and substantial adobe building, after the old Spanish style, 
 110x100 feet, forming a half square. There he engaged largely in the breed- 
 ing of stock, and he also bought stock from other raisers and sent immense 
 droves of cattle north. As a stockman he realized immense profits. About 
 1850 he commenced the work of further improving and beautifying his home 
 property on the Merced ranch. He planted a vineyard of fifty thousand vines, 
 set out thirty acres to miscellaneous fruits, and laid out a beautiful garden, 
 one of the finest in the county in that day. Mr. Temple was also a lover of 
 fine horses, and much interested in their breeding. In 1860 he purchased Black 
 Warrior, paying seven thousand dollars, an almost unheard of price for a single 
 animal in those days. He was also interested in the breeding of fine mules, 
 paying a thousand dollars for a Kentucky Jack. About this time he began 
 
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 fencing in his large domain, spending about forty thousand dollars for that 
 purpose alone, besides building commodious barns for his stock. All the lumber 
 had to be brought by wagon from San Pedro harbor, a distance of thirty miles. 
 
 Mr. Temple was one of the heavy land owners of California. He was half 
 owner of Rancho Tejon, which contained twenty-two leagues ; and was also 
 part or whole owner of the following ranches : Chonchella, containing one 
 hundred ten thousand acres ; San Emedio, thirty thousand acres ; La Merced, 
 two thousand three hundred and sixty-three acres; Potrero Grande, four thou- 
 sand four hundred and thirty-one acres; Rancho Potrero de Felipo Lugo, two 
 thousand and forty-two acres. He also owned the Temple Block and had 
 numerous lots and acre properties scattered all the way from Los Angeles 
 to the ocean. 
 
 His participation in business affairs of Los Angeles was as a pioneer 
 banker. He became associated with I. W. Hellman and his father-in-law, 
 William Workman. This partnership was dissolved in 1871, and was suc- 
 ceeded by the banking house of Temple and Workman. The new firm had 
 their headquarters in the massive structure known then and now as the 
 Temple Block, one of the best business locations in the city. The Temple 
 and Workman bankers became well known in business circles all over the 
 Pacific Coast, throughout the adjacent territories, and in many of the prin- 
 cipal financial centers of the East. The firm failed in 1875-76. Through 
 that failure the magnificent fortune so energetically acquired by the pro- 
 prietors melted away. Mr. Workman died May 17, 1876. Mr. Temple never 
 recovered from the financial disaster by which he lost all but his honor. He 
 died of apoplexy at La Merced ranch April 27, 1880. He lies in the La 
 Puente family burying ground by the side of his bride of long ago, whom 
 he took from the Workman homestead when she was fifteen and he a young 
 man of twenty-two. 
 
 Perhaps the most impressive fact about his career was neither his splendid 
 accumulations of land and property nor the disaster which overtook him in 
 banking, but consisted in the qualities of a noble heart, especially generosity, 
 which would not allow him to see anyone suffer. During the smallpox epi- 
 demic of 1863 he kept a carpenter at his ranch at La Merced especially to 
 make coffins for the poor, and they were free to anyone that needed them. 
 As a friend he tided many a family over temporary crises by covering 
 their credit at the grocery store. His generosity and his inability to say 
 no were the real causes of his downfall, since he was taken advantage of at 
 every turn. Mr. Temple was the father of eleven children, eight growing 
 to manhood and womanhood, six sons and two daughters. 
 
 Apart from the interest attaching to it due to the personality of the 
 pioneer writer, there is much vivid history contained in a letter now care- 
 fully preserved by his descendants and written by Francis Pliny Fisk Temple 
 to his brother in 1845. It is the privilege of the publishers to quote this 
 letter in its essential parts, thus giving permanent record to a document 
 which is now more than seventy years old. 
 
 "Pueblo de Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 1845. 
 
 Dear Brother : 
 
 The country is quiet at present. How long it will continue is difficult to 
 say. At all events it will remain so until we have grass to fatten the horses, 
 as Californians cannot fight unless they have something to run away on. 
 We have had no rain to speak of since 1843. The plains are now barren as 
 the Desert of Arabia. The cattle are dying of hunger in many parts. How- 
 ever, I hope in the course of the next month we shall have some rain, if not 
 tallow will be scarce the coming season. Last February the Californians 
 with the assistance of foreigners sent General Michel tonen with his troops 
 out of the coiintry. The battle was fought about ten miles from this place. 
 
FRANCIS PLINY FISKE TEMPLE 
 
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 There was a great number of cannon fired but without injury to either party; 
 except the killing of a few horses which is not of much consequence in this 
 country. Had the General gained the day the Pueblo probably would have 
 been plundered by his troops, as he had promised them previous to their arrival 
 near the place that in case of victory they should have two hours for plunder, 
 but they were not victorious, they were sent to San Pedro to embark on board 
 an American ship for San Bias. 
 
 "Don Pio Pico is now governor of California. He resides in this place, 
 this being the seat of government at present. The Pueblo is increasing in 
 population. Quite a number of houses (or huts) were put up last season. A 
 considerable quantity of brandy and wine was made here this year, this section 
 of the country being the only part where liquors are made. Brandy is worth 
 here thirty dollars a barrel of eighteen gallons, wine bears different prices, ac- 
 cording to its quality, say from eighteen to twenty dollars per barrel." 
 
 Mrs. F. P. F. Temple died January 24, 1882. Her eleven children, with 
 the dates of their birth, were : Thomas Workman Temple, November 26, 1846 ; 
 Francis Workman Temple, August 5, 1848 ; William Temple, May 25, 1851 ; 
 David Harris Temple, December 11, 1853 ; John Harrison Temple, February 
 27, 1856 ; David Harris Temple, April 4, 1858 ; Lucinda Amada, September 13, 
 1860 ; Agnez, June 5, 1863 ; Margarita, September 2, 1866 ; Walter Pablo, June 
 7, 1869; and Charles Parker Temple, May 10, 1872. Of these Thomas W. 
 Temple died February 11, 1892 ; Francis Workman Temple, August 2, 1888 ; 
 and William Temple, February 1, 1917. The three children that died in child- 
 hood were : David Harris Temple, December 21, 1856 ; David Harris Temple, 
 July 29, 1859, and Agnez Temple, July 19, 1865. 
 
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 HILE he would be properly classified as a retired resident of 
 Los Angeles, John H. Temple still has many connections that 
 give to his career a special interest for all who esteem the 
 builders and makers of Southern California and the historical 
 progress of the past. 
 
 Mr. Temple, a son of F. P. F. Temple, the pioneer Cali- 
 fornian whose career has preceded this, and Miss Marga- 
 rita Workman, only daughter of William Workman, was 
 born at La Merced Rancho February 27, 1856. During his youth he was 
 carefully reared and liberally educated. Up to his eleventh year he was 
 taught by a private tutor at his grandfather, Mr. William Workman's home 
 at La Puente. This was a wonderful environment for his formative years, 
 the historic Workman homestead being surrounded by twenty-five thousand 
 acres of land. He was then sent to Santa Clara College, where he remained 
 some three years. Returning to his father's farm, La Merced, he was his 
 father's assistant until September, 1874, when he was sent East to his father's 
 birthplace, Reading, Massachusetts, and lived there two years with his father's 
 sister, Mrs. Clarinda Bancroft. While there he attended school in Reading 
 for about one year, then went to Bryant & Stratton's Commercial School in 
 Boston. Receiving his diploma, he traveled through the New England states, 
 visiting Washington, and was at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 
 1876. He went back to Reading, but after a brief stay started home for Cali- 
 fornia, purchasing his return ticket almost two years to a day after he had 
 started for Boston. 
 
 He had need of all the education and the resources of his individual char- 
 acter, since about the time he reached his majority his father failed in busi- 
 ness, and the family fortune was swept away. John H. Temple proved equal 
 to the emergency. Soon after arriving home he took active control of the 
 seventy-five acre ranch known as the Rancho Potrero de Felipe Lugo. He 
 soon had a walnut orchard of forty-four acres developed, and built his own 
 home in the midst of that grove. As none of his brothers were married, he 
 felt that the responsibility of taking a wife devolved upon him. More than 
 thirty years have passed, and today he is convinced that his choice brought 
 him the sweetest and kindest of women, Miss Anita Davoust, daughter of Mr. 
 Adrian Davoust, and a niece of the famous Marshall Davoust of Napoleon's 
 armies. They were married at the Old Plaza Church in Los Angeles Septem- 
 ber 30, 1886, by Bishop Verdagues. Taking his bride to his newly furnished 
 home, he remained there until the death of his brother, Francis Workman 
 Temple, who had willed the historic Temple homestead to him and to his 
 brother, William. Later Mr. Temple bought his brother William's half interest, 
 and remained there about ten years. Owing to inadequate school facilities he 
 determined to move his family to Los Angeles, and has been a resident of that 
 city since 1898. Mr. Temple has been a factor in developing some of the 
 most valuable properties in the Los Angeles territory, and his success is ample 
 proof, if proof were needed, of the inherent business ability and energy of the 
 
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 JOHN HARRISON TEMPLE 
 
 Temple family. Mr. Temple is a republican voter and a member of the Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 No part of his record could be read with more interest than that pertain- 
 ing to his children. The names of these children and the dates of their birth 
 follow: Francis Pliny Fisk Temple, August 24, 1887; Francis Workman 
 Temple, November 17, 1888 ; Edith Christina Temple, January 20, 1891 ; Adrian 
 Davoust Temple, January 20, 1893; George Harrison Temple, February 2, 1895; 
 Edmund Parker Temple, January 7, 1897; Robert Palmerston Temple, Decem- 
 ber 3, 1898; and John Harrison Temple, February 27, 1904. 
 
 The oldest son, named for his grandfather, F. P. F. Temple, received his 
 certificate of graduation from the high school and then undertook work for 
 himself when quite young. He now holds a prominent place with the Salt 
 Lake Railroad. He married, June 27, 1914, Miss Florence Bacejalupi, of 
 Tacoma, Washington, and their union has been blessed with a boy, given the 
 name of his father and grandfather. 
 
 Francis Workman Temple, second son, named for his uncle, did not live 
 to see many years, dying in his twentieth year. He is buried by the side of 
 his uncle and namesake at the Temple burying grounds at La Puente. 
 
 The only daughter, Edith Christina Temple, has always lived with her 
 father and mother. 
 
 Adrian Davoust Temple, twenty-five years of age at the time of this writ- 
 ing, has had a romantic life. He enlisted in the navy when a mere boy, and 
 during his service of four years traveled practically all over the world. He 
 and his comrades were received by the nobility of England, and visited such 
 historic shrines as the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt and the Rock of 
 Gibraltar. He and his fellow soldiers were in Sicily three days after the big 
 earthquake, and among them they raised a subscription of over two thousand 
 dollars for the earthquake sufferers. He was stationed on the U. S. S. Vermont, 
 being captain of one of the big guns, with sixteen men under him. As a rifle 
 and all around shot he was considered one of the very best, receiving the gold 
 medal for fine marksmanship. After serving his four years he was honorably 
 discharged, and after extensive travels throughout the United States arrived 
 in Los Angeles and lived quietly at home with his parents a year. Then came 
 the war with Germany, and he immediately offered his services to the Gov- 
 ernment as an aviator. He was schooled at Pensacola, Florida, was sent to 
 France, served on the allied lines about eight months, and was then transferred 
 to England, where he was stationed at the time of this writing, in August, 1918. 
 
 George Harrison Temple, who like the rest of his brothers is a native of 
 Los Angeles, pursued the quiet routine of home life until the outbreak of the 
 war, when he enlisted, and received his military training at Camp Lewis, Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Edmund Parker Temple, a graduate of the grammar schools, followed by a 
 course at the Polytechnic School, was just past nineteen when the war broke out, 
 but he volunteered his services to the Government like his other brothers. For 
 several months he was stationed at Los Angeles as a recruiting officer, was then 
 sent to Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, to qualify for an infantry officer. 
 
 Robert Palmerston Temple received his graduation certificate from the com- 
 mon schools and has taken up the driving and construction of automobiles. 
 He is now in his twentieth year and expects soon to join the colors, and at his 
 departure four of the Temple family will be enrolled in the United States 
 service — a record of unqualified patriotism, but only what might be expected 
 from the sturdy qualities exhibited by the Temples in the various generations. 
 
 The youngest son, John Harrison Temple, named for his father, is in 
 his seventeenth year at the time of this writing. He has his graduation certi- 
 ficate from the grammar school and is enrolled for the four years' course at 
 the Polytechnic School. 
 
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 ILLIAM WORKMAN, whose interests were among the very 
 foundation stones of Southern California's prosperity and 
 greatness, and whose life was run with the romance and 
 endeavor of the pioneers, was born at Clifton, Westmoreland 
 County, England, in 1800. When a young man he came to 
 the United States and traveled much over the Indian country 
 of the West. He stood up as best man at his brother David's 
 wedding in Missouri in 1830. Soon afterward he crossed the 
 range to New Mexico, then part of old Mexico, and formed a partnership with 
 Mr. John Rowland, father of ex-sheriff William R. Rowland of Los Angeles 
 County. They opened a general merchandise store, but gave their attention 
 principally to buying and selling furs and pelts. They also owned and oper- 
 ated a flouring mill. The two partners, after remaining in New Mexico ten 
 years and making a fortune, concluded to go to California. 
 
 Mr. Workman was sent on ahead to look up the situation, Mr. Rowland 
 remaining to look after the firm's interests. Mr. Workman started from Santa 
 Fe July 14, 1841. His passport given him by the Mexican authorities in 1841 
 is now in the possession of his grandson, John H. Temple, who has furnished 
 most of the material for this article. After being on the road four months 
 he arrived at Los Angeles Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th. 
 
 While crossing the Puente Valley he was irresistibly attracted by the fer- 
 tility of the soil and the situation. He immediately began negotiations for 
 purchasing the Puente property, containing 48,790 acres. He then sent for 
 his partner, and the land was divided, Mr. Rowland taking the east half and 
 Mr. Workman the west half. Mr. Workman immediately set himself to build- 
 ing a home, choosing a beautiful site, which even in this day brings expressions 
 of admiration from all visitors as to the beauty of the spot. On this site he 
 built after the fashion of the rich Don of old Mexico, Mr. Workman being as 
 familiar with that country as he was with the United States. The dimensions 
 of his house were 75x150 feet, and it was built of adobe walls three feet thick 
 with a flat roof. The northern portion consisted of three immense rooms, the 
 eastern room, occupied by Mr. Workman and family, the middle room, used as 
 a dining room, and the west room, a reserve room. This reserved room subse- 
 quently domiciled Mr. David Workman, his brother, when he arrived from 
 Missouri in the early fifties. The southern part of the building consisted of 
 two parallel wings, 75 feet long, making the length of the building 150 feet. 
 The parallel wings were devoted to various uses. On the east the room next 
 to the main building and to Mr. Workman's sleeping room was used by him 
 as a smoking and rest room. It contained a large open fireplace, before which 
 he spent his winter evenings. Next to that was the well room, where water was 
 drawn for all domestic purposes. The excavation of the old well can be seen 
 to this day. For drawing the water a large English pump was installed with 
 a handle four or five feet long and a ball at the end weighing about ten pounds. 
 The next room was the commissary room, for keeping clothing, boots, shoes, 
 hats, blankets, as there were some fifty men always employed and whose wants 
 were supplied from the ranch store. The next room was the butcher shop, 
 
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 where meats were cut up and sold to the ranch hands. A steer was killed 
 every Monday and three or four wethers killed during the week. The last 
 room was a blacksmith shop, where a man was always employed in making 
 bridle bits, spurs and doing general repairing for the ranch. 
 
 On the west wing and next to the extra or reserved room was Mr. Work- 
 man's sitting or reception room, where he received those having business with 
 him. The kitchen was underneath this room and the food was taken up one 
 flight of stairs to the dining room. Next to the sitting room was the school 
 room, in which Mr. Workman had all his grandchildren receive their preliminary 
 instruction before sending them out to college or other schools. The last teacher 
 Mr. Workman employed was Mr. Frederick Lamborn, of the firm of Lamborn 
 & Turner. He remained with the Workman family fifteen years, from 1860 
 to 1875. The teacher would board with the family and teach the children 
 table manners as well as more formal learning. There were three other rooms 
 in this wing, these being used to store saddle trees, saddles and all that pertain 
 to a vaquero's outfit, and also for the storage of grain. At the end of these 
 two parallel wings was an extension at right angles to a large gate some fifteen 
 or twenty feet wide, with a massive lock and which was shut everv night. On 
 top of the gate was an elaborate pigeon house, from which the family derived 
 their squabs and pigeons. 
 
 Between these wings and the main building was a patio, an arbor of grape 
 vine, and on either side orange trees, two of which are alive, thrifty and bear- 
 ing every year, none the worse for their seventy-five years of usefulness. Mr. 
 Workman also set out some four thousand grape cuttings, manufacturing his 
 own wine and brandy. He always had brandy on hand, running from a year 
 to twenty years in age. This he stored in a large cellar immediately under 
 his house. He also built three large wine cellars, one used for a crushing and 
 fermenting cellar, the other for white wine and the third for red wine. These 
 wines were sold all through the state, but the principal market was in Boston, 
 Massachusetts. He not only manufactured his own wine, but bought hundreds 
 of tons of grapes on the outside. 
 
 1863 and 1864 were extremely dry years. There was not much more than 
 an inch of rain in the two years. This practically put an end to cattle raising 
 in Southern California. Mr. Workman was compelled to kill some two thou- 
 sand head to save their hides. The cattle were driven into a large corral from 
 day to day and were shot. John H. Temple recalls seeing cattle go up to a 
 cactus patch so weak that they could scarcely walk and in attempting to get 
 something to eat would literally cover their heads and mouth with cacti. It 
 was one of his greatest ambitions to follow his grandfather through the corral 
 and see him bring his bullock down. He was considered one of the best shots 
 in the West, and proved it many a day, though he was sixty-three years of age. 
 After the dry seasons of 1863-64 Mr. Workman turned his attention more to 
 the cultivation of his ranch. He reserved five thousand acres for wheat rais- 
 ing. This was known as the Wheatfield ranch and was some five miles north 
 of the house. One of the greatest difficulties he had to contend with was in 
 keeping the geese, ducks and sandhill cranes away and from destroying all 
 his wheat. These birds would light in the field by the thousands, and men were 
 employed continuously guarding the wheat. About the same time Mr. Work- 
 man began the construction of a mill about four miles west of the house to 
 utilize the wheat, barley and corn grown on the ranch. 
 
 Mr. Workman was the real bank pioneer of Los Angeles, though seldom 
 if ever appearing in the banking house of which he was the mainstay. He 
 and his son-in-law, Mr. F. P. F. Temple, and I. W. Hellman opened the first 
 banking house in Los Angeles in 1868. This company was dissolved, and in 
 1871 the Temple and Workman Bank was opened in the new and finely finished 
 Temple Block, and on the same ground upon which Jonathan Temple opened 
 his store in 1827. This company did business all through the western states 
 
WILLIAM WORKMAN 
 
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 as far as the city of Mexico, and had the confidence of the world. The two 
 partners owned land aggregating a hundred fifty thousand acres. Mr. Temple 
 by nature was not a banker, was too easy in his business methods, and was 
 taken advantage of at every turn. The Temple and Workman Bank failed in 
 1875. Mr. Temple was obliged to borrow money and mortgaged his own prop- 
 erty as well as that of his father-in-law, Mr. Workman, at such exorbitant rates 
 of interest that it swallowed up all their ranches. Mr. Temple died April 27, 
 1880, of a broken heart and was buried at the family burying ground at La 
 Puente. 
 
 Mr. Workman is buried in his own graveyard, which he designated in 1850 
 as a family burying ground. He selected an acre of ground four hundred 
 yards east of his house, had it walled in with a brick wall, built a chapel and 
 in the center of this acre he had a lot 40x50 feet fenced in with an iron railing. 
 Within the folds of this railing lie the mortal remains of pioneers who helped 
 to make California history. Mr. Workman lies by his long life friend and 
 partner, Mr. John Rowland, and by the side of his brother David, who was 
 accidentally killed in 1855 while riding a mule in the northern part of the state, 
 and was the first man buried in the little plot selected by his brother. His 
 cherished daughter, Margareta, and his son-in-law, Mr. F. P. F. Temple, lie 
 near him. 
 
 It is incalculable what these pioneers would command today if they should 
 rise and own the property they once had. Mr. Temple alone would be valued 
 at one billion dollars, as during the height of his prosperity he owned all the 
 Montebello oil fields lands, and they are estimated to be worth over one billion 
 dollars. 
 
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 HE American pioneers of the Los Angeles district were a pictur- 
 esque group of men, and some of them were also men of the 
 finest character and eminently qualified for the duties of con- 
 structive pioneering. One of them was John Rowland, an in- 
 timate associate and fellow pioneer with such early Americans 
 of Southern California as William Workman, whose interest- 
 ing life story and experience has been described on other pages. 
 At death these two pioneers, the closest friends in life, were 
 laid side by side. 
 
 John Rowland was born in Maryland and in early manhood went into the 
 southwest where he became associated in the mining industry at Taos, New 
 Mexico, as a partner with William Workman. In 1841 the two partners set 
 out for California in company with John Tete, Santiago Martinez, Thomas 
 Belardo and others. The next year they returned to Taos for their families, 
 so that their permanent residence in California dates from 1842. On their 
 second coming they were accompanied by B. D. Wilson, D. W. Alexander, John 
 Reed, William Perdue, and Samuel Carpenter, all well known names in the 
 early history of Los Angeles County. 
 
 Mr. Rowland and William Workman together obtained a grant of La 
 Puente Rancho, comprising forty-eight thousand acres. On that beautiful and 
 historic site they spent the rest of their lives. The property was divided by the 
 partners in 1869, and about a year afterwards Mr. Rowland settled up his 
 estate and divided his ranch among his heirs, giving to each about three thou- 
 sand acres of land and a thousand head of cattle. He lived there in peace and 
 comfort to the end of his days, passing away October 14, 1873, at the age of 
 eighty-two. His first wife was Dona Incarnacion Martinez. Her children were 
 John, Jr., Thomas, Robert, Nieves, who married John Reed ; Lucinda, who 
 became the wife of James R. Barton, and William R. For his second wife John 
 Rowland married Mrs. Charlotte Gray, whose husband had been killed by the 
 Indians while crossing the plains. She was the mother of a daughter, Mary A. 
 Gray, who became the wife of Charles Forman of Los Angeles. Mr. Rowland's 
 second marriage brought him two children, Albert and Victoria. The daughter 
 became the wife of J. W. Hudson. 
 
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 ILLIAM RICHARD ROWLAND is distinguished in the citizen- 
 ship of Southern California principally because of his pioneer 
 and long continued responsible connection with petroleum oil 
 development. 
 
 The year 1884 is a really ancient date in the history of 
 petroleum on the Pacific Coast. In that year Mr. Rowland 
 and Burdette Chandler started to bore for oil in the hills of 
 Puente Rancho. That rancho, incidentally, was Mr. Row- 
 land's birthplace. After several attempts to discover petroleum, they met with 
 success, and the Puente Oil Company, which has grown out and developed from 
 these preliminary investigations, is today one of the most successful and oldest 
 companies in California. Mr. Rowland is president of the company and gives 
 practically all his time to its affairs. 
 
 Mr. Rowland was born at the La Puente Rancho, in Los Angeles County, 
 November 11, 1846, son of John Rowland and Dona Maria E. Martinez Row- 
 land. As related in the story of his father and that of William Workman, the 
 La Puente Rancho was acquired by these pioneers nearly eighty years ago. 
 
 William R. Rowland acquired his early education in the public schools, in 
 the private school of William Wolf skill at Los Angeles, and during 1858-59-60 
 was a student in Santa Clara College. Until 1871 he managed his father's busi- 
 ness, and then busied himself with his private affairs. He became interested in 
 the petroleum oil industry through the discovery of an oil well on his ranch of 
 twenty-six hundred acres, and as a means of developing the well commercially he 
 had a pipe line constructed to the railroad. One of the first industries to use 
 the crude oil as fuel was the Chino Sugar Factory. The oil resources of the 
 Puente hills, due to the enterprise of Mr. Rowland, became one of the corner 
 stones of the colossal industry subsequently developed in Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Rowland for many years has enjoyed the esteem of his fellow citizens, 
 and has been a man of prominence in the life of his locality and the affairs of 
 state. In 1871 he was elected sheriff of Los Angeles County, and was re-elected, 
 filling the office for about five years, during a period which tried the utmost re- 
 sourcefulness, skill and courage of an official in that position. As a democrat he 
 was appointed by Governor Budd a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Whittier School and was influential in bringing that institution to a higher 
 standard of efficiency and usefulness. Mr. Rowland is a member of the Cali- 
 fornia Club and is widely known in business and social circles. 
 
 He married Miss Manuela Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have two 
 children, Miss Nina and Mrs. Clarence Moore, both of Los Angeles. 
 
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 HOMAS O. TOLAND is a member of the prominent Los 
 Angeles law firm of Andrew, Toland, Gregg & Andrews. His 
 professional record in California is a long and enviable one 
 and has made him widely known over the state. He is one of 
 the oldest students of the Hastings College of Law and has 
 been a member of the California bar over thirty years. 
 
 Mr. Toland was born at Bluff Springs, Clav County, 
 Alabama, September 13, 1856, a son of James and Mildred 
 Ann (Street) Toland. He grew up in Alabama, acquiring his early educa- 
 tion in the common schools and at the Munford Academy, Andrew McDonald, 
 president. In January, 1874, he entered the University of Virginia, remain- 
 ing one term, and in the fall of the same year entered the Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College at Auburn in his native state. 
 
 Coming to California in January, 1875, he immediately entered the Uni- 
 versity of California at Berkeley. He was prominent in student activities, 
 being editor of the "Besom," a University paper, in 1876, and in 1877-78 was 
 editor-in-chief of the "Berkeleyan," which he changed from a college paper 
 to a college magazine. He graduated from the Literary Department of the 
 University with the class of 1878, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 This was followed with the law course of Hastings College at Law and ad- 
 mission afterward to the California bar by the Supreme Court at Los Angeles. 
 He has also practiced before the United States Courts, and was admitted to 
 the Supreme Court of the United States December 15, 1910. 
 
 Between these dates he had a long and varied experience not only as a 
 lawyer but as a teacher and worker. After leaving the University of Cali- 
 fornia he was employed in the grocery business by R. G. Huston at Berkeley, 
 and was a law clerk and student in the office of George D. Shadburne in San 
 Francisco in 1878. In 1880 he taught mathematics in Brewer 's, Military 
 Academy at San Mateo, was in charge of San Anselmo grammar school in 
 Marin County in 1880-81, and worked in law offices and studied law during 
 1881-82, following which he again taught school from 1882 to 1886 at Hueneme 
 and Santa Paula in Ventura County. He opened his first law office and also 
 engaged in real estate at Santa Paula as a member of the realty firm of 
 Guiberson & Toland in 1886. The same year the realty firm became Toland & 
 Baker, and so continued until May, 1890, when he removed to San Buena 
 Ventura, the county seat, to engage in law practice alone. He acquired the 
 library, office and station of Hon. Lemuel C. McKeeby, who had removed to 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 From 1893 to 1895 Mr. Toland was district attorney of Ventura County; 
 was city attorney of San Buena Ventura in 1896-98 ; represented the Sixty- 
 fifth District in the State Assembly in 1897-99; and from 1899 to 1903 was 
 a member of the State Board of Equalization from the Fourth Equalization 
 District. He did some notable work while serving on this board. In 1896 
 he supported George S. Patton against L. J. Rose, Sr., in the celebrated contest 
 for the democratic nomination for Congress from the Sixth Congressional 
 District, which then included Los Angeles and the counties south. During the 
 
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 period 1884 to 1896 Mr. Toland was a member of the Board of Education of 
 Ventura County. In 1906 he was the democratic candidate for lieutenant 
 governor of California, and took the highest popular vote given a democratic 
 candidate for that office in twenty-five years. 
 
 In March, 1910, he removed to Los Angeles to become associated with 
 Lewis W. Andrews in the practice of law. That association has developed into 
 the present firm of Andrews, Toland, Gregg & Andrews, and the firm has been 
 in charge of the legal department of the Union Oil Company of California since 
 1910. 
 
 Mr. Toland is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including Al 
 Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Odd Fellow, having 
 been a member of Santa Paula Lodge No. 314 since 1884. He is a member 
 of the Alumni Association of the University of California; in politics is a 
 democrat, and is a member of the Los Angeles County and the California 
 State Bar associations, and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
 August 16, 1900, he married Miss Carrie Anna Fleisher, of Santa Paula, 
 California. She is a graduate of the State Normal School of Los Angeles and 
 a member of the Eastern Star and the Ebell Club. 
 
Joftn &teben JHctSroartp 
 
 OHN STEVEN MeGROARTY, poet, historian and playwright, 
 was born in Foster Township, Luzerne County, in northeastern 
 Pennsylvania, August 20, 1862. He is the son of Mary and 
 Hugh Montgomery McGroarty, his father being a grand- 
 nephew of Gen. Richard Montgomery who was famous as one 
 of Washington 's generals in the American Revolution and who 
 fell in the immortal assault on Quebec in 1778. 
 
 John Steven was educated in the parochial and public 
 schools of his early home, and later pursued his studies in The Hillman Academy 
 of Wilkes-Barre. At the age of sixteen years he entered the profession of 
 teaching, which he abandoned at the end of three years to take up journalism, 
 serving his apprenticeship on the Wilkes-Barre "Leader," of which he rose to 
 be managing editor. 
 
 Taking an active interest in politics, Mr. McGroarty was elected Justice 
 of the Peace the year he obtained his majority, being the youngest man to hold 
 that office in the history of his native state. At twenty-six he was elected to 
 be treasurer of Luzerne County, being also the youngest man ever elected to 
 that office. At the expiration of his term as county treasurer he was admitted 
 to the Pennsylvania bar where he practiced law for three years, and then 
 accepted an offer from Marcus Daly, the famous "Copper King" of Montana, 
 to join his legal staff in the mountain state where he remained until the time 
 of Mr. Daly's death. He then toured Old Mexico and the southwest, finally 
 locating in California where he became chief editorial writer on the Los Angeles 
 "Times" under the late Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. He held this position for a 
 period of upwards of fifteen years, retiring from its active duties to prosecute 
 special literary work of his own. He is still, however, a member of the staff of 
 "The Times," contributing to its columns as an occasional and not infrequent 
 writer. 
 
 Mr. McGroarty 's best known books are the two volumes, "California" and 
 "Wander Song," the one a fascinating narrative of the romantic history of the 
 Golden State, and the other a volume of poems. He has also now in press with 
 the publication firm of Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, a new Cali- 
 fornia narrative which will appear under the title of "The High House," and 
 which deals with a phase of history hitherto quite untouched by any other 
 writer. 
 
 The one great and doubtless immortal literary production of John Steven 
 McGroarty, however, is the now world-famed "Mission Play," produced for a 
 season every year at Old Mission San Gabriel. The "Mission Play" is de- 
 clared by Dr. Henry Van Dyke to be the world's greatest pageant drama. It 
 has been visited by hundreds of thousands of people from every part of the 
 globe and its prosperity and popularity increases with each passing year. 
 
 Mr. McGroarty 's home in California is situated in a lovely nook of the Ver- 
 dugo Hills, about twenty miles distant from Los Angeles. It is an ideal 
 situation for a writing man, and it is a spot from which the world expects still 
 greater inspirations from its well-beloved poet. 
 
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 Amestoy, Domingo, 219 
 Amestoy, Michael F., 219 
 Andrews, A. V., 357 
 Avery, Moses N., 287 
 
 Bain, Ferdinand R., 39 
 
 Baker, Fred L., 166 
 
 Baker, Milo A., 168 
 
 Baker, Milo S., 165 
 
 Baldwin, Elias J., 67 
 
 Banning, Anne O., 331 
 
 Banning, Hancock, 329 
 
 Bartlett, Oswald, 319 
 
 Baum, L. Frank, 241 
 
 Behymer, Lynden E., ("Bee") 173 
 
 Bilicke, Albert C, 45 
 
 Bixby, Lewellyn, 91 
 
 Blaekstone, Nathaniel B., 283 
 
 Blankcnhorn, David, 177 
 
 Book, Charles K., 337 
 
 Bridge, Norman, 203 
 
 Brown, Harrington, 169 
 
 Buffum, Asa M., 19 
 
 Buffum, Rebecca E., 18 
 
 Buffum, William M., 17 
 
 Burnham, Rufus W., 227 
 
 Canfield, Charles A., 367 
 Cantwell, John J., 99 
 Carhart, Henry S., 361 
 Castles, Alfred G. R., 137 
 Childs, Ozro W., 1 
 Clampitt, Edward A., 289 
 Clampitt, Margaret M., 290 
 Clark, Eli P., 89 
 Coate, Henry R., Ill 
 Cochran, George I., 235 
 
 Daum, William H., 335 
 Davis, LeCompte, 323 
 De Tononi, Isabel R., 159 
 Doheny, Edward L., 13 
 Doheny, Edward L. Jr., 14 
 Dorsey, Susan M., 259 
 Double, Edward, 303 
 Drake, Charles R., 341 
 
 Drake, James C, 61 
 Dulin, Edgar S., 43 
 Dulin, Garrettson, 171 
 
 Earl, Jacob W., 97 
 Eckstrom, Albert A., 233 
 Etehemendy, Jean, 51 
 
 Fargo, Duane W., 181 
 Faris, William A., 23 
 Fay, John J. Jr., 307 
 Fleming, Thomas J., 355 
 Forman, Charles, 25 
 Forman, Mary A., 26 
 Frank, Herman W., 299 
 Freeman, Daniel, 57 
 Frost, Charles H., 217 
 Frost, Howard, 217 
 Fuller, Clarence M., 343 
 Fuller, George, 381 
 
 Gaffey, John T., 377 
 Gaffney, Robert J., 149 
 Germain, Eugene, 275 
 Getty, George F., 103 
 Gibbs, Robert A., 147 
 Gilfillan, Sennet W., 79 
 Glassell, Andrew V, 297 
 Glassell, Andrew Sr., 293 
 Gordon, Frederick V., 309 
 
 Haas, Walter F., 107 
 
 Haggarty, John J., 49 
 
 Hancock, George Allan, 35 
 
 Hancock, Henry, 31 
 
 Hanna, George, 179 
 
 Hay, W. H., 249 
 
 Hoak, E. K., 195 
 
 Holterhoff, Godfrey Jr., 255 
 
 Holton, George L., 109 
 
 Hopper, Charles B., 269 
 
 Hospital of the Good Samaritan, 261 
 
 Howland, Charles H., 59 
 
 Huntington, Henry E., 81 
 
 Hyatt, Chauncey W., 143 
 
 Hyatt, Mary J., 143 
 
 403 
 
404 
 
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 Ingrabam, Irving E., 251 
 
 Jacobson, Nils, 247 
 Jarchow, Joachim H. F., 221 
 Jenkins, John J., 229 
 Johnson, Gail B., 237 
 Jones, Johnstone, 93 
 
 Kayser, Emil, 339 
 Kellogg, Fred E., 351 
 Kerckhoff, William G., 313 
 Koebig, Adolph H., 315 
 
 Lackey, Bertram D., 41 
 Larronde, Juana, 53 
 Larronde, Pierre, 53 
 Loeb, Adrien, 77 
 Lott, Melvina A., 223 
 
 Mack, George, 213 
 Meade, Agnes S., 141 
 Meade, G. Walter, 141 
 McCarthy, Daniel 0., 271 
 McCollough, Alexander M. F., 277 
 McCollough, Vernon C, 279 
 McCoy, John C, 207 
 McGroarty, John S., 401 
 McNair, David, 327 
 McQuigg, Martin V., 215 
 Miller, John B., 123 
 Montgomery, Ernest A., 101 
 Montgomery, FTancis S., 373 
 Montgomery, Gertrude P., 373 
 Montgomery, James A., 151 
 Moses, Cassius M., 163 
 Mosier, Martin H., 345 
 Mullen, Andrew, 63 
 Musser, Henry L., 265 
 
 Newmark, Harris, 125 
 Newmark, Maurice H., 127 
 Newport, Fred P., 379 
 Nordlinger, Louis S., 120 
 Nordlinger, Simon, 119 
 
 Oldfield, Barney, 353 
 
 Orcutt, Leafie Sloan, 185 
 
 Ortega, Emilio C, 87 
 
 Ortega, Concepeion Dominguez, 87 
 
 Page Military Academy, 147 
 Parker, Claude I., 311 
 Patton, George S., 191 
 Patton, George S. Jr., 193 
 Peck, George H., 55 
 Pelanconi, Antonio, 157 
 Pelaneoni, Lorenzo A., 157 
 Pellissier, Germain, 145 
 Phillips, Lee A., 113 
 
 Ponet, Ellen J., 376 
 Ponet, Victor, 375 
 Powers, John F., 75 
 Prather, Will C, 199 
 Price, Frank T., 153 
 
 Ralphs, Albert G. Jr., 136 
 Ralphs, George A., 135 
 Red Cross Shop, The, 331 
 Rhoades, Nelson O., 161 
 Rhodes, Allin L., 301 
 Ross, Ida H., 33 
 Rowland, Charlotte M., 29 
 Rowland, John, 395 
 Rowland, William R., 397 
 Rowntree, John T., 131 
 Rush, Judson R., 325 
 Russell, John N. Jr., 201 
 
 Sabichi, Frank, 155 
 Sabichi, G. Carlos, 359 
 Safford, George S., 257 
 Sargent, Edwin W., 85 
 Sartori, Joseph F., 47 
 Scott, William B., 365 
 Sellers, Edgar E., 129 
 Sepulveda, Jose D., 305 
 Sepulveda, Maria, 305 
 Sherman, Moses H., 321 
 Shirley, Ira W., 183 
 Slusher, Margaret F., 73 
 Smith, Spencer H., 291 
 Solomon, Fred H., 253 
 Spellacy, Timothy, 37 
 Strassberger, Carl Clemens, 245 
 
 Taylor, Frank W., 317 
 Temple, Francis P. F., 385 
 Temple, John H., 389 
 Temple, Jonathan, 383 
 Thorpe, Spencer B., 21 
 Toland, Thomas O., 399 
 Tononi, Giacomo, 159 
 Tononi, Isabel R. De, 159 
 Toplitzky, Joseph, 371 
 
 Walker, Mrs. Horatio Jr., 262 
 Waterman, J. M., 117 
 Whitley, H. J., 347 
 Wilson, Benjamin D., 187 
 Wilson, George J., 105 
 Wilson, John K., 284 
 Workman, Boyle, 9 
 Workman, William, 391 
 Workman, William H., 3 
 Workman, William H. Jr., 65 
 
 Yarnell, B. F., 281 
 Yarnell, Jesse, 197