YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Greater Los Angeles anc Southern California PORTRAITS AND PERSONAL MEMORANDA ROBERT J. BURDETTE EDITOR THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Chicago Los Angeles New York 1910 PREFACE IN harmony with the original purpose and plan, this volume is "An historical record of Greater Los Angeles and Southern California ' ' — combining in one volume the human interest always present in por traits together with the instructive facts of biography. It is with more than ordinary satisfaction that the pub lishers send this book forth for public appreciation, since they believe that in general scope and in details it more than fulfils the promises made in the prospectus. None will question that the book is a permanent con tribution to the history of Los Angeles and Southern California. The fact that the men whose lives form the biographical basis of the work are foremost repre sentatives of city, state and nation makes the facts and illustrations herein contained a historical monu ment which will be prized even more by later genera tions than by the present. As regards this element of the book's value, it is only necessary to suggest how much we would value a similar collection of por traits of the men who made the history of our nation one hundred years ago. So much may be said of the salient purposes and contents of the work. Of the mechanical and artistic execution, the most cursory examination will prove its superiority and excellence. The majority of the portraits are recent, the photographs having been PREFACE taken expressly for reproduction in this volume, a process to which both engraver and printer have lent their highest skill. Durability and elegance have been constant ideals in the making of the volume, a per manent and handsome dress being considered a proper adornment to worthy contents. Utmost care has been employed to secure accuracy in the personal records, typewritten copies and prints of the matter intended for publication having been submitted at least once to the persons concerned, and unusual diligence has been exercised in every detail. The Publishers. INDEX PAGE Adams, George W 138 Albright, Porter H 187 Alexander, George 209 Allerton, Samuel W 88 Ames, Wiltcie B 148 Austin, John C. W 324 Baldwin, James V 127 Bartle, John H 129 Bartlett, William S 284 Barton, Herbert P 306 Bergstrom, George E 68 Benton, Arthur B 165 Blackstock, N 304 Blankenship, R. F 184 Blinn, Lewis W 295 Bradshaw, William G 120 Brainerd, Edward R 198 Brainerd, Harry J 194 Braly, John H 62 Brent, E. J 166 Bridge, Norman 123 Brown, A. M , 233 Browning, Charles C 151 Bulla, Robert N 128 Bullard, Frank D 173 Bullard, Rose Talbott 172 Burcham, Rose La Monte 206 Burdette, Robert J 33 Burdette, Clara Bradley 34 Burnett, Charles H 196 Busch, Adolphus 76 Bush, W. E 320 Bushnell, John B 186 Calderwood, Kittie E 223 Calderwood, William T 222 Callahan, Henry S 242 INDEX Campbell, William C 143 Cary, F. S 261 Chase, P. B J-74 Chess, William A 130 Clark, Eli P 90 Clark, J. Ross 94 Cobb, Edward S 104 Cochran, George 1 52 Code, W. H 300 College of Medicine, University of Southern California 141 Converse, C. H 158 Coulston, J. B 262 Cowan, William K 134 Curtis, Clinton J 228 Davies, Edward W 102 Davis, George R 322 De Longpre, Paul 64 Dessery, Floyd G 205 Doolittle, Herbert E 265 Dorsey, Stephen W 74 Durfy, Peter T 332 Eddy, J. W 84 Elliott, John M 36 Ellis, H. Bert 162 Evans, Samuel C 238 Evans, William H 132 Farish, Oscar E 113 Finley, Theodore G 276 Fitzgerald, J. T 268 Foltz, Clara Shortridge 157 Foshay, James A 125 Fries, Amos A 229 Frost, Charles H 49 Garnsey, L. T 82 Gates, Lee C 246 Gillett, Edgar W 208 Goodhue, Arthur M 248 Hakes, Ellis 334 Hall, William G 156 INDEX Hance, Charles H 168 Hancock, G. Allan 287 Hatch, P. E r 220 Hawes, Frederick N 154 Haynes, Lloyd C 244 Hellman, Herman W 70 Hewitt, Leslie R 170 Hewlett, Eugene E 250 Hight, Percy 232 Hole, W. J., Home of 247 Hopper, Charles B 286 Hubbard, A. G. 80 Huntington, Henry E 54 Huntington, Howard E 137 James, Frank 146 Jess, Stoddard 100 Johnson, Joseph H 42 Jones, John P 72 Jones, Mark G 302 Kelsey, Arthur L 185 Kendall, B. O no Kenney, Elizabeth L 219 Kislingbury, George 126 Koebig, Adolph H 69 Lahee, E. H 180 Landone, Leon E 312 Laughlin, Homer 118 Lawler, Oscar 105 LeGrand, Richard V 292 Leighton, George A 234 Lelande, Harry J 169 Letts, Arthur 252 Lewis, Samuel T 257 Lippincott, Joseph B 298 Longyear, Willis D 202 Los Angeles Polytechnic High School 319 Lowe, W. W 336 Luther, Daniel E 254 Maginnis, Almon P 311 Maier, Ed. R 258 INDEX Maier, Joseph F 259 Mallard, Walter 163 Marshall, Edwin J 270 Marsh, Robert 122 Mathews, John R 85 Mathews, William B 144 May, Ernest H 107 McCormack, Edward L 264 Mclntyre, Robert 44 Mead, William 124 Merrill, Leonard 112 Merrill, Samuel 1 314 Monnette, Mervin J 328 Monnette, Orra E 330 Mulholland, William 299 Mulford, S. P 116 Munn, Arthur G 273 Munson, Gilbert D 308 Murphy, John A 296 Murray, Norbert M 136 Nevin, William G 92 Newby, Henry t 114 North, John G 241 North, John W 240 Norton, John H 96 Parkinson, John 66 Parmentier, Fernand 200 Patterson, Wilson C 50 Pease, Niles 58 Pease, Sherman 189 Peckham, George C 260 Pierce, Fred E 193 Pillsbury, George E 192 Pomeroy, Abram E 152 Pottenger, Francis M 150 Potter, Bernard 147 Potter, Milo M 98 Prince, George H 318 Radford, Joseph D 288 Rathbun, George A 272 Reed, J. D 175 INDEX Reeves, H. Alban 176 Riggins, Harley E 191 Rindge, Frederick H 40 Roberts, E. D 78 Rossiter, John G 212 Rowan, Robert A 106 Ryan, Frank J 142 Salyer, John F 210 Sandison, E. W 274 Scarborough, William B 197 Schloesser, Alfred G 282 Schmidt, Ruben S 190 Schuyler, James D 331 Scott, Joseph 86 Sepulveda, Ygnacio 133 Shenk, John W 218 Sherman, Moses H 101 Skinner, Newton J 316 Soiland, Albert 199 Spinks, Clarence C 140 Stanley, Carlos S 280 Steadman, John J 278 Steele, Frank J 294 Story, Francis Q 214 Summers, Emma A 230 Taggart, Clarence M 213 Townsend, James R 164 Townsend, Stephen 224 Trask, Dummer K 103 Unruh, Hiram A 256 Van Nuys, Isaac N 38 Vedder, William H 60 Vickers, J. V 178 Walker, C. J 236 Wamsley, James H 161 Warren, Charles C 182 Washburn, William J 56 Waters, Russell J 46 West, James J 183 INDEX Whitcomb, George D I S3 White, Ben 266 Whitman, Charles H 277 Whittlesey, Charles F 108 Whittington, John W 290 Wiggins, Frank 48 Wilder, J. R 217 Willis, Frank R 145 Wilson, Emmet H 216 Windham, C. H 226 Wood, J. W 321 Woods, William W 310 Woolwine, William D 326 Works, Lewis R 171 FOREWORD You sit on the western piazza and watch the sun go down. You linger long, held by the after-glow that tints the heavens like the heart of a shell. A crescent of silver gleams in the purpling skies. A star shines out below the young moon. In orderly splendor the glittering constellations flame out in their march across the fields of night. Shadows of pine and palm whisper softly under the kisses of the fragrant winds. Incense of rose and heliotrope mingle with the odor of the orange-trees. The silence and star-shine and perfume is prayer and praise. Your soul worships at the shrine of perfect nature. An unseen chalice of melody is tilted somewhere in the upper darkness — a ripple of music, clear and sweet, spilled from its heart of rap ture, runs down through the shadows and fragrance — a mocking bird is singing his hymn to the night. Your soul overflows with a sense of beauty, and joy, and peace. It is not a "Midsummer Night's Dream." Such a scene could not be presented "In a wood near Athens." It is a Mid- winter Night in Southern Cali fornia. An ordinary, commonplace calendar night, one of many such that "quickly dream away the time." With such a winter season, and a summer time that fits it perfectly, small wonder it is that every land under the sun sends its worshiping pilgrims hither. The wonder is, that so many men stay away. "Climate" is. California's principal asset. Our eastern friends tell us the State deserves no credit for that. No. Nor does New Orleans deserve the credit GREATER LOS ANGELES of creating the Gulf of Mexico. Nor did St. Louis invent the Mississippi river. Chicago did not dam up Lake Michigan; she only built the drainage canal, which is different. There is even an old tradition that the famous Harbor was there before Boston was located, which is impossible. All these great natural advantages antedated by many ages the great cities which have grown up because of them, despite the shrewd observation of the thoughtful man who had been impressed by the fact that Providence had wisely ordained that all the great rivers should flow past the large cities. We reluctantly admit that neither the '49ers nor the Native Sons made the "glorious cli mate of California." Men didn't make the climate. But they made the state. Men make cities, not because of natural advantages, but in spite of natural disad vantages. Else had the east wind prevented any Boston; the swamp had vetoed Chicago; the morass had prohibited New Orleans, and the grim specter of the "Great American Desert" had forever isolated California. It was destined to be a land wherein fact should read like romance, and all the fiction born of California genius should read tamely, beside the quiet wonders of its history. Its very name sprang from romantic dreams, for "it is taken from an old Spanish romance, called Sergas de Esplandian (Exploits of Esplandian), by Ordonez de Montalvo, translator of Amadis de Gaul, printed about 1510. California was a mythical island on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial paradise, peopled with Amazons and Grif fins." (Charles F. Lummis.) God was very good to California, then, at her christening, giving to her a name that was characteristically descriptive, especially as to geographical location, before some closet geog rapher should name it "North" Something, because there was a portion of the earth to the south of it, or "New" Something, because there was already in exist ence a country so utterly unlike it that the most dis- AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA torted imagination could detect no suggestion of simi larity between them. "A Good Name is to be chosen rather than great riches." Happy California! That the day of her christening should have come in the time of originality in nomenclature, before the grow ing world had fallen upon the evil days of naming towns and states by the simple, time-saving and brain- sparing use of carbon sheets and multiple copying presses. Christened at the fount of romance, Cold Fact smiled at the appositeness of name and descrip tion, and adopted the dream-child for his own. So he gave to her a dower of valleys in which never a flake of snow flutters down from the highest clouds, and looking down upon them, mountains that wear white crown of winter all the months through all the sum mer years. Deserts lower than the sea, and a moun tain higher than the clouds — Death Valley, the lowest depression, and Mt. Whitney, the highest elevation in the United States. He clothed his daughter of Romance with nothing but truthful superlatives. He gave her the scantiest, sourest, most unpalatable wild fruits of her own, and made her the most bountiful step-mother of all the fruits the earth can bear. He famished her with deserts, barren and desolate, and said to her, "Here, not in the mines of gold, is your wealth." And in one year the harvest of her gold mines was a paltry $16,989,044, while the golden har vest of her farms and gardens was $131,690,606, more than seven times as much as all her gold that year could buy. He taught her how to waste her rivers from their torrent beds, and scatter them over the land in irrigating ditches, so that the shallow river a child could ford became a stream of fertility, an oasis of blossom and fruit and shrub twenty miles wide. On every page of her unfolding history and growing greatness, he wrote down paradoxes that her writers of fiction hesitated to use, so that the guileless tender foot believed in ' ' Colonel Jack Hazard, ' ' and ' ' Truth ful James," and "Bill Nye," in refined and rigidly 10 GREATER LOS ANGELES moral gamblers, in pure-minded harlots and generous stage robbers with university degrees, but shook their heads and said, ' ' Oh, California stories ! ' ' with pitying- toleration, such as one uses when speaking of the heathen in his blindness, when told of the "Big Trees" and the Yo Semite, and eight crops of peas in one year from the same field. Even the meditative and unro- mantic cow, contemplatively chewing her cud of alfalfa under the great branches of the live oak, looked down with placid contempt on the strenuous efforts of the gold mines to produce sixteen millions of dollars, while in the same period, in her quiet simple life in the meadows she added twelve million dollars to the wealth of her state in milk, butter and cheese, a rivalry which is enough to make the old ' ' 49ers ' ' turn over in their graves. The gold is only useful to buy more cows, and improved agricultural machinery. Los Angeles county is not famous for its gold mines — although one may stand on the street and buy mines as they come along, for she owns mines in nearly every district in California, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico — but it has nearly seven thousand farms, and the trans mutation of farm products into minted gold is just as sure as the mining process, and requires far less blue print and promoter's eloquence. But the climate doesn't deserve exclusive credit for all this. The climate was here in all its perfection of beauty and gentleness in 1781. And doubtless the cattle enjoyed it. For the population of California then consisted of the two classes into which the dis cerning cow-boy still divides the denizens of the earth — "cows and humans," putting the cows first, of course, as the more valuable and more intelligent. Los Angeles county, and all California round about it — it was all the one — was a great pasture, and the horned herds that roamed over it would have hard work to se cure "honorable mention" and useful death in the "scalawag" class in any reputable stock yards of today — long bodied, longer legged, and still longer horned; AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA u fleet of foot and scant of beef— the milkless kine of Pharaoh. The only product of any value they yielded was their hide and tallow. When that was taken off, and out, there was nothing left. The people lived the simple life. The "first families'" of Los Angeles, the founders to whose illustrious memory we have neg lected to rear a lofty monument, are not represented by their descendants among the aristocratic loungers in the California Club, nor are they corralling the passing lion in the Friday Morning, or studying civic righteousness in Ebell. "Our Glorious Founders" were a polyglot lot, which Mr. Venus would have classified as "human warious." There were eleven families. Not a man of them could read or write. Two Spaniards there were, and both of these had Indian wives. And one of the proud Castilians, Jose de Lara, of aristocratic name, was very shortly de ported from the colony for general uselessness to himself and the community. The historians tell us, however, that Jose's Castilian stock was somewhat adulterated. But Antonio Felix Villavalencio was warranted ' ' absolutely pure. ' ' He had an Indian help meet; Jose Navarro, Basilio Rosas, an Indian, had mulatto wives; so had Manuel Camaro and Jose Moreno, themselves mulattos, also Luis Quintero, a negro ; Jose Vanegas, Alejandro Rosas, and Pablo Rodriguez, were Indians, with Indian wives. Thus laden with humble souls and aristocratic names our Mayflower came into port September 4th, 1781, and with religious ceremonies, consisting of a mass and a salvo of musketry, our step-fathers formally founded the Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles, on the banks of the Rio de Porciuncula, which changed its name to Los Angeles when it went dry. The city never having passed through that process of regeneration retains its original name unto this day. It takes an earthquake of the century class to convert a California city of the first class to pro hibition, and Los Angeles is not in the earthquake 12 GREATER LOS ANGELES belt. Our forefathers possessed the true Los Angelan spirit. They built first an irrigating ditch and then they laid out town lots and acreage property, de ported three of their number, one white man and two negroes, for general worthlessness, wisely and thriftily confiscating their property for the common good. The remaining colonists — twenty-eight all told, including the children — went to work, erected public buildings and a church, and began to do business. All of Los Angeles was in that little (acorn?). They weren't a people to worry — that folly comes with the higher civilization — and they watched themselves grow. In nine years the population had increased to 141 ; multi plied itself by five in nine years — a record-breaking challenge for succeeding generations. The city thus early established the habit of growing, which is to this day emphasized by prophetic and optimistic real estate "pobladores. " The padres were teaching the Mission Indians the arts of agriculture and architecture, and the useful trades. Los Angeles emerged from its pole huts and erected palatial structures of adobe, one story high and absolutely fire-proof. In 1800 the population was 315, the herds of horses and cattle numbered 12,500 head ; wheat was $1.66 per bushel and the crop was over 8,000 bushels. "Dollar wheat" didn't get into politics that year. They paid their taxes in grain. They had a mail from Mexico once a month, but as not more than half a dozen of the citizens could read or write, there was no complaint when one or two mails missed. In 1818 two Americans became citizens of Los Angeles, Joseph Chapman of Massachusetts, and a negro named Fisher. '" Things moved with symptoms of ' ' hustle. ' ' Chapman built the first mill in Southern California, and the gods of things that are to be began to grind their grist. Three years after that American mill began its tic-tac, Mexico achieved her indepen dence. In 1822 the flag of the Empire of Mexico floated over Los Angeles and the Spanish power in America had begun the march that led to the bottom of AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 13 the sea. Three years of imperial sway, and the ban ner of the Republic of Mexico supplanted the imperial standard, the rapid change of flags fluttering by like the decorations of coming Fiestas. Los Angeles was an agricultural community. Its manufactories at this time consisted exclusively of distilleries and wineries. These were very successful, as an election in 1826 was declared void by the governor on the ground that ' ' the candidates were vagabonds, drunkards, and worse." Graft is not a modern disease in the body politic. Our fathers also ate wild grapes. Some time in 1820 Los Angeles was discovered by Boston, and a thriving trade in hide and tallow was established, the Boston ships bringing out assorted cargoes. The blessings of Bos ton baked beans did not reach the land until later, for the canning industry still slumbered in the brain of inventive man. But the Los Angelans had a base- born, sable-hued bean of their own, upon which, know ing nothing superior, they thrived happily. The American invasion continued. About 1829 the pre cursor of all the signs that dot the landscape and hide the vacant lots and crown the cornices of the highest buildings, appeared — "Rice and Temple." And they were New England Yankees. Los Angeles was march ing on the way of its destiny, and new comers were already dropping the "Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de" from their letterheads. Temple & Rice introduced three or four new and distinct pronunci ations of the rest of the name, which are still most successfully imitated, with intricate variations, by their 350,000 successors. If ignorance is bliss, the people were happy. But they were not unmindful of the blessings of education. In 1817 an old soldier, Maximo Pina, opened a school and taught the children enough in two years to last them through the next decade. Two years of school in forty-six would not make scholars of a community. Indeed, it would barely qualify them for writing dia lect stories and "best selling books." They felt that, 14 GREATER LOS ANGELES and in 1827 Luciano Valdez was employed at a salary of $15 per month, to teach the young idea how and whom to shoot. He struck for $30 in his second year and resigned. Fifteen dollars was the value placed upon a schoolmaster until after the American ' ' assimi lation," even in the flush times of '49. In 1850 the salary was suddenly increased to $60 per month and house rent, and the schoolmaster took his place among the plutocrats. But during all the dearth of public schools it must be remembered that the padres were teachers at the Missions. They taught along polytechnic lines and largely on the Dotheboys hall system. When the neophyte learned to spell hide, he was sent out to tan one. And at irregular but very short intervals his own was properly tanned by the good padre on general principles. He, and the public school teacher as well, were instructors after the fashion of Saxe's "Peda gogue" — "Ye youngster's pate to stimulate, He beat ye other end." The teachers in the public schools, up to 1850 were, as a rule, old soldiers, selected because of 'their physical strength and good fighting qualities. "With the expulsion of the Spanish power came the downfall of the Missions. The country was beginning to fill up with people — that is, here and there was a family or a man who wanted to "locate." The Mis sions, established under Spanish rule, had a land monopoly that would make the Standard Oil hide its diminished head when the subject of monopolies was introduced. From San Francisco to San Diego they held about all the land that was worth holding, and no settler could obtain a grant of land for his homestead, save with the consent of the nearest padres. The ranches owned by the Mission San Gabriel contained about 1,500,000 acres. And this immense tract of land never supported a population of more than 1,800 neophytes. Naturally, people on the outside clamored for a new division of the earth. The Mexican Con gress decreed the secularization of the Missions and AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15 the distribution of their property in August, 1833. The great Mission holdings were divided into smaller ranches and passed into the hands of actual settlers. From that time the country improved in wealth and population more rapidly than ever before. In 1836 California experienced a throb of the Fourth of July and declared itself "a free and sovereign state," with Juan Bautista Alvarado cast for the part of George Washington, and twenty-five American hunters and trappers, under command of a Tennessean named Graham, playing the French allies. Los Angeles re mained loyal to the mother country, and in the battles which followed, her heroes displayed stanch loyalty and good sprinting qualities, which latter on several occasions saved their lives. The "war" ended, rather confusedly, in the triumph of the revolutionists, the appointment of Alvarado as governor, the allegiance of California to the Home Government, and the down fall of independence. There is nothing on earth that resembles the conduct and results of the early wars in California, save the present water-rights laws. Who ever understands the one can solve the other. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of August 13th, 1846, "mani fest destiny" knocked at the gates of Los Angeles. Fremont and Stockton entered the city with 500 real soldiers and no proclamation, California was benevo lently assimilated, and Joshua had added to his right ful inheritance by the simple act of ' ' putting down his foot." Los Angeles belonged to "us," and the first "native son" in a land older than the pyramids got himself ready to be born and organize a "parlor." The men who were to make California, however, had got born some time before, and were on their way to introduce the strenuous life. At the time of the capture of Los Angeles the white population of California was about 5,000, of whom less than 500 were Americans. Two years later a man found a grain of gold in the mud of a tail-race, and within a year thereafter that tiny magnet had drawn 16 GREATER LOS ANGELES 42,000 people from the eastern states and all over the world to the new gold field, and California was "dis covered." In ten years the population had grown to nearly 100,000. In 1860 it was 379,994. Today it is more than one and one-half millions, and the greater part of the increase has been in the south. Los An geles, which came into the Union in 1851 with a popu lation of 1,610, is now the 30th city in the United States, numbering 238,000 souls. In 1850 Los Angeles county included the present counties of San Bernar dino, Orange and about half of Kern, and the officially recorded population was 3,530. In the rush of '49, Los Angeles county profited a little with the rest of the territory, but the development of the mines in the south, with other developments, followed that date. And in 1906 the value of "the gold that grows on trees" in Southern California citrus groves, is esti mated at $30,000,000. Hides, once the great staple of the country, Southern California, added but a petty paltry $150,000 to her wealth. The value of the steer saves his hide in these days of prosperity, while "humans" pay more for a pair of boots or a suitcase than the whole hide is worth. Such is the difference between hide and leather. The area of the "pueblo" has grown to be 44 square miles, and with an eye to the annexation of the entire county. Nearly 200 churches minister to the spiritual needs of the people, while the processional and migratory "religions" which howl on the streets and camp for a night on the vacant lots — of which there are very few left in Los Angeles — defy the activity of the statistician. The Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America have homes commodious, attractive and in every way most excellently appointed. The public school system of the state stands in the first rank in the Union, the census of 1900 showing five State Normal Schools, 120 High Schools, 7,119 kindergartens, primary and grammar schools ; with a total of 7,706 teachers, 372,- 352 pupils, and $19,135,722 value of school property; AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 17 two great free universities and an enrollment of one college student to every 419 of total population — a larger proportion than is reached in any other state. The bank clearances of Los Angeles exceed those of any city west of the Rocky Mountains, San Fran cisco alone excepted. Half a century ago, Los Angeles county was a ranche — hardly that — a wild of graz ing lands, for the assessed value of all the real estate in the then enormous county was but $748,696 in 1852, and the value of improvements but $301,947. Today, sixty-one towns and cities dot the area of the smaller county, and the assessor's total valuation of the county, after equalization by the state board, for 1905, was $201,509,785. If one knows just where to look for it, there is in Los Angeles an adobe house, there may be one or two or several others — crumbling landmarks of adobe days and adobe men. They were good houses and good men in their day. They were the best of their time and place. All honor to their memory. It should be kept green by the preservation of at least one adobe house. But the great sky-scrapers of steel and terra cotta and reinforced concrete easily crush the sun-dried walls which sheltered the simple life. The intellectual pov erty of the moneyed tenderfoot, who, unable to pro nounce "El Camino," insists on changing the name of the street on which he lives to the name of a way-back street on which he used to live in a way-back town, is like unto the class of people who date their letters "Troy" because they cannot spell "Skaneateles." The antiquity of a city 225 years old is not that of Baalbec, but it is sufficiently venerable to demand the reverence of these days of gallop and gulp. The de struction of the old names, memorials of the people who laid the foundations for all our present day pros perity and glory, is a profanation, like the erasure of an honored name from a tombstone. There is enough of pathos in the fact that the race which christened the city should have been so utterly dispossessed of their 18 GREATER LOS ANGELES inheritance. It adds tragedy to the pathos when we obliterate even the names of their fathers. Despite the movement to make spelling easy for lazy illiterates, let California's native and adopted sons alike continue to "spell hickory with a j," and grant the transplanted tenderfoot dispensation to "pronounce her as she is spelled, until he learns to say her as she is spoke. ' ' Now, all this marvel of development was not wrought by climate alone. This required men. And the men of California, like its fruits and flowers, are largely adopted children. There is only one generation to the manner born. The speech of the Californian betrayeth him not, for every dialect of civilization is here. A little pure Spanish and much patois of Mexican-In dian-Spanish whisper into the Babel of today the echoes of a romantic yesterday. Aspirations and ex- aspirations from the tight little island have a right to be called native Californian so long as we sing the charms of the English rose, of which we have adopted everything save the English perfume. The "sunny land of France ' ' speaks the language of the boulevards in her own Los Angeles colony and journal. The Basque shepherd cares for his snowy fleeces on the sheep ranges. The New England twang blends with the soft Southern accent, and a broad touch of Penn sylvania Dutch establishes the Dunkard's right to the privilege of the native born. The right amalgam is stronger than the virgin metal, and every state in the Union has poured its right and due proportion into the blend that we call California. Russia sent her children here — or rather they came without being sent — run away children, very much against the paternal will, and they brought the strength and hope and liberty- loving spirit that the mother country now so sorely needs, and which the kinder step-mother so gladly ac cepts as her own. Not only the orient but the Occident — the nations who dwell where the East and West join — China and Japan, are among us if not of us. Trav elers tell us of the vivid panorama of varied humanity. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 19 that streams past "Shephard's" in Cairo. You will touch elbows with a greater variety of men in the streets of Los Angeles. Only, the picturesqueness is lacking. The people have become amalgamated. They dress like Christians. At least, they dress like the rest of us. The immigrants who have made modern Los An geles were so unlike the ordinary conception of immi grants that a new name had to be applied to them, and they are called "tourists." Not theirs the toilsome journey across the continent or around the storm- washed Horn. Not for them the daily trek and the nightly camp in the midst of alarms and cactus, In dians, grizzlies, and rattlers ; not theirs the weary pil grimage through the alkali lakes and the desert dust, with the complaining wheels shrieking their anguish to the sun-burned and wind-dried axle ; the dying cattle and the long and repeated hours and days of despair and fear. About 8,000 came to Los Angeles in that manner in the decade of 1850 and '60. The rest of them waited for the completion of the transcontinental railways and came with no one to molest them save the train-robber and no one to make them afraid but the porter. In the ten years following the breaking out of the Civil war 4,000 came. Between 1870 and 1880 10,- 000 home-seekers came by the easy way of the rail. The ten years following saw 70,000 added to the city's population, and the same number in the next decade. Our immigrants came not to hew down the forests or dike out the sea. They came prepared to buy their homes; they came from homes of comfort to make homes still more comfortable. They were not flying from persecution or tyrrany in the eastern states; they were not, as a rule, driven here by stress and pinch of poverty. They did not have to come. They wanted to. True, some of them came with a dimin ished capitalization of health, but even then they came because they wanted to increase their vital holdings. Men came here not to be made by the country, but to 20 GREATER LOS ANGELES help make the city, county and state. The East sent to California her best, and California made them bet ter. The work of betterment was mutual. Southern California was moulded by these immigrants of educa tion, thrift, and morality. It was never the California of Bret Harte, of refined stage robbers, chaste and sensitive women of the street and camp, and high- minded and honest blacklegs. The newcomers builded churches, public schools, libraries, jails and other con comitants of a high and progressive civilization. It was not a drunken, riotous California. Prohibition be came popular. One of the largest and most beautiful cities in Los Angeles county, the most prosperous out side of the great county capital, was founded as a tem perance town, and has not had a saloon within its limits for the past twenty-five years. There are half a score prohibition towns now in the county, and the great city of Los Angeles restricting the number of saloons to 200, has fewer of them in proportion to its population than any other city of its size in the United States. Not "wide-openness," but temperance, moral ity and industry, with an unmeasured faith in the country itself, have been the great elements in the prosperity of Los Angeles county. Founded as an inland pueblo, the city of Los Angeles now looks out across the Pacific Ocean from its own frontage, and the great railroad center is a busy sea port. The dream of the consolidation of Los Angeles city and county, with the borough system of govern ment, took tangible form in the preliminary report of a consolidation commission in 1906, which had for its object the effective control of harbors and the assur ance of free wharfage ; co-operation and participation in the benefits of the Owens River water supply ; regu lation of terminal rates for harbor towns, and economy and increased efficiency of city and county government. Since that day of visions Mahomet has gone to the mountain ; Los Angeles, finding that the Pacific Ocean, which was here first, and abode upon its rights of pri- AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 21 ority, would not come across the meadows and up the grades to the city, has gone to the ocean, by the simple process of annexing the intervening territory, which was all too glad to be annexed, and Los Angeles is one of the important seaports of the Pacific coast. And not the least important. Then along in the nineteen hundreds the city began to grow by leaps and bounds. It stretched itself like an awaking giant, and added to area and numbers by the wholesale methods of annexation, always with the glad consent of the annexed. It reached down to the sea and made the great harbor at San Pedro the har bor of Los Angeles, by making a part of itself all that portion of the Pacific Ocean and the towns adjacent. The municipalities of Wilmington and Colegrove be came part of the wealth and strength of Los Angeles, The annexation of Colegrove added ten thousand popu lation to the great city. And having reached its three mile limit of jurisdiction in the Pacific Ocean, the city is now looking fondly toward even greater conquests nearer the mountains. And when it reaches from the desert to the sea, it will probably extend north and south. The "inner harbor" of "Los Angeles" consists of nearly three miles of wharfage along the channel open ing to Wilmington lagoon, where additional shipping and industrial facilities are to be developed as the in creasing commerce demands, many times greater than in use at present. And the "outer harbor" is the great anchorage which the United States government is pro tecting by an immense breakwater, now far advanced in construction. Completed, it will be 9,250 feet in length, and will cost $2,900,000. The protected area will vary in depth from 20 to 48 feet; with a channel from 500 to 900 feet in width, and a turning basin 1,600 feet wide. The Inner Harbor will have a larger area than the great Liverpool docks, which handle an annual tonnage of nearly twenty millions. On July 1, 1909, 2,732,163 tons of stone had been placed in the 22 GREATER LOS ANGELES great breakwater. The weight of each wall stone, on the harbor side, is not less than 6,000 pounds. On the ocean side, the weight of each stone is at least 16,000 pounds. The breakwater stands 14 feet above low water ; 20 feet wide at the top ; 38 feet wide at the water line. The width of the base, at the 52 feet depth, is nearly 200 feet. Should the necessity ever be felt, this great sea wall can be extended an additional 20,000 feet, to the easterly edge of Long Beach, thus increasing ten fold the deep water anchorage. At the present time vessels drawing twenty-five feet of water can take on and discharge their cargoes in the inner harbor. And within a very short time, when the entrance to this portion of the harbor is deepened, the slip can be used by ships drawing thirty feet. Plans approved by the war department provide for the improvement of 60,000 feet of water front in the east and west basins of the inner harbor. Efforts are being made to compel the restoration to the state of 700 acres of tide lands of the lagoon which in time will become the principal part of the inner harbor. The importance of this great free harbor is not alone for the city of Los Angeles, but for all of Southern Cali fornia. During the year 1907 956 steamers, 281 schooners, and 79 other vessels, coming from the mills in California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Japan, discharged at San Pedro harbor cargoes consisting of 484,879,000 feet of lumber, 170,284,000 shingles, 1,348,000 shakes, 36,006,000 lath, 275,689 rail road ties, 12,052 piles for wharfs, 18,230 telegraph and telephone poles, 37,854 posts of various kinds, 789 tons of staves and 2,206 tons of shooks. And the receipt of other classes of freight from domestic and foreign ships that make San Pedro a port of call is steadily in creasing-. Vastly increased traffic will follow the open ing of the Panama canal ; all Southern California will rejoice in the consequent tides of prosperity, and the generation of public- spirited citizens who have labored AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 23 for the possession of this great free harbor will be re membered with blessings by a grateful posterity. In proportion to population, more electric current is consumed in Los Angeles than in any other city in America. The cheapness of electricity makes it pop ular. Only one great city in the United States enjoys such cheap electric rates as Los Angeles — that is Buf falo, within eighteen miles of the greatest electric power source in the world — Niagara Falls. The rate in both cities is nine cents per kilowatt hour. Three power and light companies in Los Angeles have a total investment of $16,441,092.29. They furnish 60,000 horsepower for railways, manufacturing and elevator service. The aggregate output of these companies, for light and power, in 1908 was 141,877,145 kilowatt hours. Los Angeles is also one of the greatest — if not the greatest — interurban railway center in the United States. The nine cities of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Springfield, 111., Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton and Chicago, with an aggregate population of nearly four millions, operate 1,228 trains per day. One electric railway in Los Angeles alone operates 1,800 trains per day. The three interurban companies oper ate 1,000 miles of track. The greatest of all Los Angeles' enterprises — a great undertaking among all great enterprises — is the Owens River aqueduct. It never was a "dream." It was born a "plan," in the brain of a clear-headed, practi cal man. It was never discussed as a possibility, but always as a reasonable and positive undertaking. It was proposed as a necessity for the city and its en virons, that the municipality bring from the High Sierras, 230 miles distant, a flood of clear, sweet snow water — 259,000,000 gallons daily — to the homes of its citizens. That means a supply of water for domestic purposes for a population of 2,000,000 people and the irrigation of about 75,000 acres of land, now unpro ductive, adjacent to the city, and the development of 75,000 horsepower of electrical energy. The water will 24 GREATER LOS ANGELES be carried through 230 miles of canals, lined with con crete and covered with concrete slabs, tunnels, steel siphons and tubes and flumes, with a system of im pounding, clarifying and regulating reservoirs. It was an immense undertaking for a city of 110,000 peo ple. But when the election was held in 1907 the people showed their quality of municipal faith and patriotism by voting 14 to 1 for the issue of bonds to the amount of $23,000,000 for the work. It was looked upon as a matter of course. And this faith was builded largely upon the character of the men who said it could be done. If they would undertake the work, the people would gladly furnish the means. Honesty and efficiency conducted the work. The very day laborers were sifted down to the best. Only American labor was em ployed, The city constructed one section of the aque duct at a cost of less than one-half the lowest bid sub mitted by a contractor. All the work, with the excep tion of ten miles, is done by the city, under direction of the board of public works and the aqueduct en gineers. The authority of the city to perform its own work was contested in the courts. The city won out, and then proved how well it could do its own work, how much better the "boss" could work than the "hired man," by constructing one section of the aque duct — the Jawbone — at a cost of less than one-half of the lowest bid submitted by a contractor. During one month the working force on this section was over 1,200 men. One of the wisest investments of the city was the construction of a cement plant at a cost of $400,- 000, with a capacity of 1,200 barrels of Portland ce ment per day. Surrounding the plant, the city owns immense supplies of limestone and clay, and a narrow- gauge railway, seven miles long. Probably in no other city of its population in America do so many people own their homes as in Southern California. And in no land is there displayed a greater desire for home adornment. The bungalow has become a feature of city and country residence AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2s architecture. It has followed the old mission style, which, in this land of Spanish traditions, must always be popular. Less stately and dignified, the bungalow preserves, with the mission home, the spirit of the out- of-doors which belongs to this land. It is capable of an almost endless variety of architectural treatment. Its beauty, lightness, artistic airiness of construction, combined with durability, its easy adaptation to the personal taste and whim of the owner and builder — in short, its charming individuality — endears it to the home builder, and bids fair to make of Southern Cali fornia the typical bungalow-land of the world. It is equally appropriate and graceful in the city, the villa and on the ranche and the mountain slope. In the city of Los Angeles alone, in 1908, homes to the value of $6,000,000 were erected. One can build a home for $300. Beyond that, the limit is his purse. One can buy a lot with his money. He can't get a thousand-dollar lot for three hundred dollars. Not in California. But he can get an excellent three hundred dollar lot for that amount. And he may live in the city, or he may live ten or twelve miles out, and be just about as near to his business in town, on the line of an electric railway that has never been snow-bound since frost was in vented. And if the newcomer cannot afford marble, or concrete, or brick or lumber for a home, very well — he can live out of doors. He can do that part of the time, in the severe eastern climates. You may live out of doors in Southern California all the year round, if you so desire. And hundreds of people, in good health, with never a touch of any kind of sickness, and of ample means, who live in costly homes, build the out- of-door sleeping room, because they prefer to sleep out of doors. The "sleeping porch" is rarely forgot ten in the plans of the modern California house. Tent houses, consisting of a good floor, a good roof, frames for doors and windows, and canvas sides — and some times the canvas roof as well — cost from $25 "up" to $200 or $300, according to the means and taste of the 26 GREATER LOS ANGELES owner. Canvas partitions give the dweller the requi site number of rooms. Sometimes you will see little colonies of these tent houses. One by one they disap pear. A handsome and durable bungalow or more con ventional residence stands in its place. The tent house has been moved "back." And in many instances some member of the family still resides therein, from pref erence. The tent house is a rent saver. It goes on the $100 or $500 lot with the first payment, and some of the happiest hours of the home life are lived in its canvas walls. And all around it the roses and lilies, carnations and violets, geraniums and lantanas glorify the little home with the same wealth of color and fra grance that they yield to the lawns and gardens of the millionaire. A twelve hundred dollar bungalow, cov ered to the window casings and chimney tops with roses and bougainvillea, may be constructed of marble, for aught the eye can declare. Los Angeles county is officially declared to be the richest county in the west, including Cook county, Illi nois, which contains the city of Chicago. The assessed value of Los Angeles county, which, according to the State Board of Equalization, is fifty per cent of the actual value of the property within the county, is $585,- 401,164. In the city of Los Angeles there are 1,500 manufactories, employing over 12,000 men, with an annual output of more than $50,000,000. Among other uses to which the rich county puts its great wealth is the construction of good roads. A few years ago the people voted bonds to the amount of $3,500,000 for the construction of a system of solid, smooth, macadamized roads, radiating from Los Angeles city throughout the county, and the practical work on these highways has already beg-un, in 1909. A few years more will see the completion of splendid boulevards from the Sierras to the Pacific. The production of petroleum in eight Cal ifornia counties in 1908 was 48,306,910 barrels — a value of $26,566,181. This places California at the head of the oil-producing states. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 27 If the newcomer has a taste for forestry, and does not know any too much about it, there is temptation of eucalyptus culture awaiting him, with its promise of profits. The area of the eucalyptus groves of the state were increased over 7,000 acres in the spring of 1909. One company planted 2,250,000 young trees upon its lands, and other concerns had at that time 200,000, 400,000, 500,000 and one million trees in nursery stock, and the demand far exceeds the supply. There are twenty-five eucalyptus companies in the state at this time. The largest single plantation in the spring of 1909 was that of the Santa Fe Railway Company, which had planted between 7,000 and 8,000 acres. An acre of commercial eucalyptus, rightly located and han dled, at ten years of age should produce 100,000 feet of lumber, board measure. The stumpage value should be $2,500 per thousand feet, for this age. And the cost to the grower about $2.50 per thousand. Southern California offers unusual inducement to the small rancher — the "truck farmer." The lure of the hen is as attractive as a gold mine, and results, while never so dazzling in the blue print and pros pectus, are more certain. Indeed, the small producers, as a rule, are more prosperous, proportionately, than are the great investors. The poultry ranches range from a ' ' coop " in a back lot of a city home, to the big- corral with a thousand or thousands of busy hens, an nouncing their diurnal output after the manner of their kind. The largest pigeon ranche in the world, containing about 100,000 birds, is located in Los An geles — the ranch covering eight acres of gravelly ground in the bed of the Los Angeles River. These are common pigeons. About 300 squabs per day are killed, selling at $2.50 and $3.00 per dozen. All the fancy varieties of pigeons do well in California. Poultry raising in the state is an established business, all the way from the little brown hen to the gigantic ostrich, the hen being a more profitable investment than her gigantic sister — and more easily managed. In 1908, 28 GREATER LOS ANGELES the revenue from the poultry yards of the state was $12,650,000, results which justify a great deal of cackling both from the producers and owners. And the vineyards call to the immigrant with a very pleasant voice. The man who is rich in children and poor in purse may capitalize the labor of his family in this industry. A fifty-acre vineyard has been known to yield a profit of $3,000 a season. Grapes raised for raisins alone have yielded a return of $60 an acre. There are three classes of grapes grown. The vines for the wine grapes are easiest of culture. No irriga tion is demanded, and far less care in picking is re quired. Muscats are the raisin variety, growing quickly and fruiting abundantly, with certain profits. Table grapes — Malagas and Tokays — are the most profitable, the returns sometimes running as high as $1,000 per acre. The eastern varieties, Concord, Isabella, Del aware and Catawba, are also grown in California. The new vineyard begins bearing in three years. More than $100,000,000 is invested in the wineries of Cali fornia, about $40,000,000 of this being represented in Southern California, which contains about sixty win eries, and produces'the bulk of the sweet wines. There is one vineyard at Cucumonga which alone produces 20,000 tons of grapes. Altogether there are 100,000,000 vines in the state, three times more than are grown in New York, and nearly ten times more than in Ohio. The raisin crop, cured, is over 60,000 tons. Of dry wines, the product is about 30,000,000 gallons; sweet wines about one-half that amount, and brandy, in some years, about 4,500,000 gallons. The prune product of the state is about 100,000 tons. From the entire out put of natural resources, California derived a revenue in 1908 of more than $405,000,000. Of this amount $300,000,000 came from the soil. The florists raised $600,000 worth of flowers and the bees extracted $825,- 000 worth of honey and wax from all the blossoms in the state. In Southern California about 12,000 orchardists are AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 29 engaged in the cultivation of oranges and lemons, the principal counties being Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Tulare, Orange, Ventura and Santa Bar bara. This industry supports about 150,000 persons, including laborers and their families. During the past eleven years the citrus orchards of California have pro duced 90,089,300 boxes of oranges and 9,780,500 boxes of lemons. The amount received by the citrus growers from the year of the first shipments is over $250,000,- 000. In 1908 Southern California placed on the market 600,000 gallons of select olives, and more than 200,000 gallons of oil. Ecclesiastical Los Angeles stands among the elect. She has set bounds around the saloon which it may not pass. Two hundred saloons must suffice for the city, no matter what its growth may be, and these, as well as the wholesale liquor houses, are segregated within borders which they must not pass, so that the resident portion of the city is kept clear of this evil. But there are more than two hundred churches in Los Angeles, and no limit to as many more as may come. There are 170 houses of worship worthy of mention — some of them beautiful examples of architecture — one of them a classical structure costing $250,000. The Young Men's Christian Association building and the Young- Women's Christian Association building are among the costliest and most complete in all their appoint ments in the United States, which is to say, in the world. Los Angeles is a church-going city — the same may be truthfully said of every city in Southern Cali fornia. The churches of Los Angeles are bound to gether in the strong brotherhood of the "Church Fed eration. ' ' Church unity is a practical fact, not a theory. There is no spirit of controversy among the denomina tions. Jewish and Baptist congregations have wor shipped together at the Passover season, both rabbi and minister taking part in the service before the united congregations. That is the spirit — not of re ligious tolerance, but of brotherhood and friendship. 30 GREATER LOS ANGELES The Protestant church membership of the city is nearly 60,000; the Catholic communion about the same, though, of course, the church attendance is much larger than the total memberships. The feeling of all the churches is well expressed by the Right Reverend Thomas J. Conaty, Bishop of the Roman Catholic dio cese of Monterey and Los Angeles : ' ' The earnest de sire of the Catholic people, composed as they are of so many and varied nationalities, is to unite with the other citizens of Los Angeles to make our city a home to be proud of, and a community in which it is a priv ilege to dwell." Pasadena is the Episcopal residence of the Right Reverend Joseph Johnson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern California. With the churches stand the public schools, which begin their work of education with the tiny children. The kindergarten system of Los Angeles is expensive to the city, because it is the very best, but it is the cheapest to the patron, who secures the best returns for the outlay. The Los Angeles child may begin its education when it is four and a half years old. The kindergartens are so distributed that they are for the benefit of the children of the "plain people" — the peo ple whose the public schools are. They are not con fined to "the best localities." The sessions are for half days only — the best for teacher and pupil; and the classes are never large — the average being thirty- six pupils. In the primary schools, into which the kin- dergartner is graduated, the average number of pupils to the class is about thirty-six. In his way through the public schools, the pupil is not only taught the in- dispensible "three R's," but constructive work in paper folding, basketry, and weaving; cardboard con struction, and for the boys two years in wood sloyd with some mechanical drawing, while the girls spend the last two years of the elementary course in learning the elements of cooking. All pupils have instruction in free-hand drawing, the beginnings of designing, and from the day they enter the schools until they leave AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 31 them daily instruction in music — an education for the sons and daughters of the people. In 1908 the drawing exhibit of the Los Angeles schools was given the place of honor at Edinburgh. Great attention is paid to manual training. It is taken for granted that boys and girls educated in the public schools are not only going to know something, but also to do something. The city looks after the health of the pupil's body as well as the education of his mind. There is a thorough health inspection of all the children in the public schools — the inspection being directed to five points — condition of eyesight, hearing, breathing, heart action, and the teeth. A compulsory education law is strictly enforced. The city keeps her children of school age off the streets and out of the factories and in the schools. Idleness is looked upon as a crime. The high standards which the city has set, and which it maintains, for the qualifica tions of the teacher, secure for the schools a most su perior body of instructors. No one may teach in the grammar schools who has not received an education equivalent to graduation from a high school and a normal school. On a par with the city schools are the county schools. The child on the ranche is not sent to the city to attend high school. Of the twenty-six high schools in Los Angeles county, eighteen are in the country districts. The buildings are usually of the mission style of archi tecture; they are all handsome, splendidly adapted to their purpose; modern to the day of their erection; surrounded by beautifully kept grounds — educational palaces, each in its own park. All the county schools are ornaments to the country in appearance, as they are immeasurable benefits. More than 20,000 school children reside in the country ; ninety per cent of them live within easy distance of steam or electric railways and from fifteen minutes to one hour distant from the center of Los Angeles. Whittier has a union high school which serves seven districts. The Citrus union high school at Azusa is a beautiful picture in the heart 32 GREATER LOS ANGELES of the orange groves. The finest building in South Pasadena is its high school. San Gabriel, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre and many others of the towns deserve high praise for their school houses. One of the things the homeseeker has to do when he comes to California is to unlearn about all he has ever been taught about soil, climate, seasons, the habits of plants and the treatment of the farm and garden. The brilliantly illustrated "annuals" issued by the great florists and seed houses of the East are joke books in California, where things grow thirteen months in the year, rather than six. When the hour is dull one can read the chapter on "Garden Work in November" and laugh the tedious moments away. "What to Plant After Gathering the Peas" pleases the Whittier farmer, gathering his seventh crop for the cannery that year. One of the duties of the Christian parent in California is to explain to the wondering child the snow-drifted, ice-bound, frost-spangled Christmas cards issued by the Boston publishing houses and sent to this land where Christmas and Fourth of July are born under the sign of Gemini. Easter Sunday is no more beautiful and glorious, with its symbols of the resurrection, than is any Sunday in December. How can the emblems of the resurrection be very impressive in a land where nature has no symbols of death, but where month answers month, all though the year, in every flower-blossoming cemetery, shaded by fadeless palms and pines, crying, "Life — everlasting life"! Our children cannot understand Thomson's "Sea sons." The pathos of the Christmas story of the ragged little waifs freezing to death in their wretched hovel on Christmas eve is largely lost. "Why did not the children go out of doors and get warm?" This is a land of life. ¦Vfeki AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 33 ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, Pasadena. Humorist, author, lecturer, preacher, philanthropist; Born July 30, 1844; Greensboro, Pa. Educated in public schools, Peoria, 111. ; private soldier in 47th Illi nois Infantry; reporter on Peoria (111.) Transcript, 1869-72; editor Peoria Evening Review, 1872-75; editor Burlington (la.) Hawk-Eye, 1876-84. Popular lecturer, 1876-1905. Licensed to preach, Lower Merion Baptist Church (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), 1897; ordained to the Bap tist ministry Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug., 1903. Married, first, Caroline Spaulding Garrett, Peoria, 111., March 4, 1870 (died, May, 1884); second, Clara Bradley Baker, Pasadena, Cal., March 27, 1898. His home, "Sunnycrest," on Orange Grove Ave, Pasa dena. GREATER LOS ANGELES CLARA (BRADLEY) BURDETTE, Pasadena. Horn East Bloomfield, N. Y./ July 22, 1855. Educated in Syracuse pub. schools and Syracuse Univ., 1872-6; one of founders of Alpha Phi Sorority. Active in educational and literary life and women's club organizations and work; federated the women's clubs of Cal. and was first Pres. of State Federation; also First Vice Pres. General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902-4. Builder and donor, Pasadena Maternity Hosp. ; trustee Throop Polytechnic Inst., Pasadena; First Vice Pres. and Chairman finance com. Auditorium Company, Los Angeles. Mem. Ameri can Social Science Assn. and Archaelogical Inst, of Ameri ca. Lect. on social and economic questions; magazine and newspaper contributor; author of "The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold" and "To Idealize Drudgery." Married, 1878, N. Milman Wheeler (died 1886); 1890, Pressley C. Baker (died 1893); 1899, Robert J. Burdette. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 35 Xo pio o wM 50HO!Z!PI[/>td c wa p) H HP! 36 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN MACKAY ELLIOTT, Los Angeles Born in South Carolina, October, 1844. During Civil War was a private in Signal Corps, Confed erate Army. Came to Los Angeles from Savannah, Ga., 1870. In the affairs of Los Angeles he has performed an important part for more than thirty years. Entered First National Bank as bookkeeper in 1S81; assistant cashier, 1883; cashier, 1885; president since 1893; always known as a conserva tive banker. One of hi n r o 38 GREATER LOS ANGELES ISAAC NEWTON VAN NUYS, Los Angeles Born West Sparta, Livingston Co., New York, No vember 20, 1835. Educated in public schools and Lima Academy. Engaged in farming in New York until coming to Napa county, California, in 1865, whence he removed to Los Angeles in 1871. For many years engaged in the live stock and farming business in the San Fernando Valley. In 1896 erected Hotel Van Nuys: president Los Angeles Farming & Milling Co. ; vice-president and director Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank, and di rector German-American Savings Bank; member Los Angeles Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, and California Club. Republican in politics. Married 1880, Miss Susanna Lankershim, and has three chil dren. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 39 40 GREATER LOS ANGELES FREDERICK H. RINDGE (Dec'd), Los Angeles Born in Cambridge, Mass., 1857. Educated at Cam bridge, student at Harvard, class 1879. Philan thropist, during lifetime gave Cambridge a Manual Training School. Public Library. City Hall and other gifts, also large amounts to different benevolences throughout the country. President Conservative Life Insurance Co., Y. M. C. A., Sinaloa Land Companies and various reclamation and development companies in California; vice-president Union Oil Company; director Edison Electric Company, of banks and other substantial businesses, besides his various interests in the East. Owner of Malibu Rancho. Died at Yreka, California, August 29, 1905. O i — i < u wEHOQ< Home of Mrs. Frederick H. Rindge. 42 GREATER LOS ANGELES RT. REV. JOSEPH HORSFALL JOHNSON, D.D., Los Angeles Born Schenectady, N. Y., June 7, 1847. Gradu ated Williams College, 1870; General Theological Seminary, 1873. Ordained priest, 1874. In charge Holy Trinity Church, Highland, N. Y., 1873-9; rector Trinity Church, Bristol, R. I., 1879-81; St. Peter's Church, West Chester, N. Y., 1881-6; Christ Church, Detroit, 1886-96; Bishop Los Angeles (Protestant Episcopal) since 1896. Married June 14, 1881, Miss Isabel Greene Davis. Member Sun set Club. C5 o I— I -?' 46 GREATER LOS ANGELES RUSSELL JUDSON WATERS, Los Angeles Born Vermont, June 6, 1843; located in Chicago, 111., 1868; adm. Illinois bar May 12, 1868; prac ticed there until 1886, when he came to Redlands, Cal. Known as the father of Redlands. Came to Los Angeles 1894. Elected to congress 1898. Mem ber Chamber of Commerce, Union League Club; Pres. Bay Island Club; Pres. Union League Bldg. Assn.; Pres. Citizens' Nat'l Bank of Los Angeles and the State Bank of San Jacinto; Dir. and Treas. Las Vegas and Tonapah Ry. Co. ; Dir. Citizens' Nat. Park, Redlands; Pres. Home Savings Bank, Los Angeles; Pres. Citizens' Security Co.; Pres. Calif. Cattle Co. ; Pres. Colombia Commer. Co. ; press cor respondent and w riter for many years. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 47 Ko PIo*}Gtn PI GO >HK50 48 GREATER LOS ANGELES FRANK WIGGINS, Los Angeles Born Richmond, Ind., 1849. In 1886, because of failing health, came to California. Became connected with Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1890. Was Supt. of Ex hibits until 1897, when given additional office of Secretary, positions he still holds. Had charge of Orange Carnival in Chicago, 1891, of Southern Calif, display at Word's Fair in Chicago, 1S93; at Mid-Winter Fair, 1894; Atlanta, 1896; Omaha. 1898; Buffalo, 1901; St. Louis, as State Commissioner, 1904, and was Deputy Commissioner from Calif, to Lewis & Clark Exposition. It is largely due to his tireless energy and his special aptitude for this class of work that the permanent exhibit of the Chamber has been built up to its present excellence. Has served as Supt. for four or five citrus and agricultural fairs, and in decoration of streets he is an expert. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 49 CHARLES HENRY FROST, Los Angeles Born at Ithaca, New York, and at fourteen years of age removed to Chicago. Educated public schools. Came to I.os Angeles, 1886. Organized and is presi dent of Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company. 5o GREATER LOS ANGELES WILSON CAMPBELL PATTERSON, Los Angeles Born Ross county, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1845. Educated public schools and Salem Academy. July 4, 1863, enlisted Co. A, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery; discharged July, 1865. Came to Los Angeles Jan. 26, 1888. Pres. Los Angeles Nat'l Bank, 1898-1905; elected Vice-Pres. First Nat'l Bank upon the consolidation of the Los Angeles Nat'l with the First Nat'l, Octo ber, 1905' also a director in many other banks and corporations; ex-president Chamber of Commerce; president University and mem. California, Sunset and other clubs. Republican and Presbyterian. Married January 8, 1874, Miss Virginia Monette Moore, of Chillicothe, O. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 51 ogHO r m O o > TJtd >H PIWtnO2! 52 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE I. COCHRAN, Los Angeles Born near Toronto, Can., July 1, 1863. Spent early boyhood in Tokio, Japan. Returning about 1879 he received his education in Toronto and was admitted to the bar at Osgood Hall. Came to Los Angeles in 1888. Attained success as a lawyer and as a financier. Republican in politics. Has aided in developing many of the institutions of the city, including Univ, of Southern California and Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.; director of First Na tional Bank, Broadway Bank and Trust Co., Los Angeles Trust Co.. Y. M. C. A., and Y. W. C. A., and many other corporations. Active in the Methodist Church and prominent in affairs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 53 og PJ o Qpiownw norva >21 54 GREATER LOS ANGELES HENRY EDWARDS HUNTINGTON, Los Angeles Born Oneonta, N. Y., February 27, 1850, son of Solon and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington. Edu cated public and private schools. Business life has been devoted mainly to the building and operation of steam and electric railways. Upon the advice of his uncle, the late Collis P. Huntington, came to Calif., 1893, locating in San Francisco, and later to Los Angeles; 1901-5 built Pacific Electric Bldg. Married, Newark, N. J., 1873, Mary Prentice. Pres. Jonathan and member Calif. Clubs, Los An geles; Pacific Union and Bohemian, San Francisco; Metropolitan and Lawyers, New York City. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 55 >n M3 o p PIo HSO tdG s 5 o i if "a '33 '^ S ^ef a sl\ ¦ j!3 ! sh ^j^j^j^j^^t .4 aani :t>Mft-T 5* GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM J. WASFIBURN, Los Angeles Born Livingston Co., N. Y., September 30, 1852. Educated public schools. Removed to St. Louis, Mo., 1872, where he was engaged in business until 1888, as a member of the firm of William Washburn & Sons. Came to Los Angeles 1888, and since that year has been engaged in banking business. Pres. Equitable Savings Bank. Pres. Chamber of Com merce. Pres. Board of Education. Member Cali fornia and University Clubs. Married 1878, Miss Helen E. Rowell of St. Louis, Mo. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 57 ogMO rr h-i> g >01 WM G W a 58 GREATER LOS ANGELES NILES PEASE, Los Angeles Born Thompsonville, Conn., Oct.. 13, 1838, grandson of Simeon Pease, a Rev. soldier. Educated public schools. In tin and stove business, Thompsonville, 1860 to fall of 1884. 1876 representative to Conn. Legislature. Came to Los Angeles October 20, 1884, entering furniture and carpet business November 10, 1884; Inc. Niles Pease Furniture Co., 1897; sold De cember 1, 1904. Inc. Niles Pease Investment Co. February 8, 1905. Fres. Merchants and Manufac turers' Assn. four years to January 15, 1906; a Dir. Central Bank; Dir. Provident Bldg. and Loan Assn.; Dir. Angelus Hospital Assn.: Treas. Masonic Temple Assn. ; Dir. Chamber of Com. ; Pres. Niles Pease Investment Co. 32d Deg. Mason and Shriner. Mem. Unitarian Church. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 59 c g PI o r1pi w > 6o GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM H. VEDDER, Pasadena Born Schenectady, N. Y. Educated public schools. Engaged in the lumber business in Schenectady until his removal to Pasadena in 1889. Elected mayor of Pasadena, April. 1903. Now Treas. Pasadena Sav ings and Trust Co., to which office he has been elected while mayor. Director of First National Bank, Pasa dena Savings and Trust Company, Home Telephone Co. of Pasadena, Pres. and Director of Pasadena Grocery Co., Pres. and Director of the Pasadena Masonic Temple Assn. Thirty-second Degree Mason, Knight Templar. Shriner. Mem. of the Woodmen of the World and Royal Arcanum. oi — i 64 GREATER LOS ANGELES PAUL de LONGPRE, Hollywood Born Lyons, France, April, 1855. Reared and edu cated in Paris. At twelve years began painting flow ers on fans. His first oil painting accepted and hung in the Salon of Honor — Paris Salon, 1876. Through the failure of the largest bank in Paris he met finan cial ruin and in 1890 came to New York City to begin life anew. 1896 made first flower-painting ex hibition ever made at an art gallery, at American Art Galleries, N. Y. City. Came to Los Angeles 1899. His residence and extensive floral' .gardens are at Hollywood. Married 1874, Miss Josephine" Estieve- nard. Pi o u wMH D O COQ < *.^,^ Home of Paul de Longpre. 66 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN PARKINSON, Los Angeles Born Scorton, England, December 12, 1861, son of Thomas Parkinson, of an English family whose line age is traced back to 1307. His ancestors were ex tensive land owners in the northern part of Lanca shire Co., England, and took leading part in current events and contributed some distinguished men to England's activities. The family motto is "Volens- et-Valens." Since 1894 Mr. Parkinson has resided in Los Angeles. Member Calif., Jonathan and Uni versity Clubs of Los Angeles, Union League Club of San Francisco; also member American Institute of Architects, So. California Chapter of American Insti tute of Architects and a member So. California So ciety Engineers and Architects. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 67 1 33 B Union Trust Building. John Parkinson, Architect. 68 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE EDWIN BERGSTROM, Los Angeles Born Neenah, Wis., March 12, 1876. Educated pub lic schools; graduated Phillips- Andover Academy, Andover, Mass., 1893; Sheffield Scientific School oi Yale, 1896, and Mass. Institute of Technology, 1899. 1899-1901 in practice of profession New York City. Then spent two years in the field. Came to Los Angeles 1903. Since 1905 member firm Parkinson & Bergstrom, Architects. Member So; California So ciety Engineers and Architects. Member Jonathan, California and University Clubs of Los Angeles and the Yale Club of New York City. Married 1903, Miss Nancy Kimberly of Neenah, Wis. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 69 ADOLPH H. KOEBIG, Born Prussia, Germany, 1852. University, class 1S76. In the man Government 1876 to 1880 1880. Practiced mining and civi York, Colorado and Wisconsin. 1885 and to Los Angeles 1889. since 1886. Member California Los Angeles Graduate Karlsruhe employ of the Ger- Came to America 1 engineering in New Came to California Consulting Engineer and University Clubs. 7o GREATER LOS ANGELES HERMAN W. HELLMAN, Los Angeles Born Bavaria, Germany, September 25, 1843; edu cated public schools. Came to Los Angeles May 14, 1859. In 1S71 one of the founders of the firm of Hellman, Haas & Co. Sold out 1890. March, 1890, to May, 1903, Vice-Pres. and Manager Farmers and Merchants' Nat'l Bank. Since July, 1903, Pres. Merchants' Nat'l Bank. Also Pres., Vice-Pres. or Director of twelve additional banks in So. California. 1903-4 erected Flerman VV. Hellman Office Bldg. Married 1874. Has four children. Thirty-second De gree Mason and Mem. Jonathan, California and Con cordia Clubs. From a $20 per month position, in the employ of Gen. Phineas Banning at Wilmington, has become one of the leading^ bankers of Cali fornia. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 7i o g MO >?} .H W> r S> 72 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN PERCIVAL JONES, Santa Monica Born at The Hay, Herefordshire, England, 1829. Emigrated to the United States with parents in in fancy. Educated public schools, Cleveland, O. Came to California, 1850. Member California State Senate 1863-67. Removed to Nevada 1867. Appointed Supt. famous Crown Point Silver Mines 1868. U. S. Sen ator from Nevada . 1873-1903. Chairman Monetary Commission 1S75-0. Republican in politics. En gaged in mining since 1850. Designated by the press the "Nevada Commoner." One of the well known men of the nation and honored wherever known. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 73 KoSRO '— 1 Oa w so o >r o PI 74 GREATER LOS ANGELES STEPHEN W. DORSEY, Los Angeles Born in Vt, Feb. 38, 1844. Removed to Oberlin, O., when a boy; educated at Oberlin Acad. At close of war became identified with reorganization and construction of Pennsylvania R. R. Later took active part in incorpora tion and construction of Texas & Pacific, Little Rock & Fort Smith and Ark. Central R. Rs., to-day the great trunk lines of the states they traverse. Served in U. S. Senate six years. His mining interests began in 1873; acquired interests at Central City, Col., and in Leadville's discovery, in 1878, and was active in Colo, mining enter prises twenty-five years. For past eight years has been one of the most energetic operators in mines of the G. S. W. -Mr. Dorsey's residence is one of the most beautiful in Los Angeles. Member of Cal., Los Angeles Country and San Gabriel Country Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 75 Ko pi opienHpi 2 ^ d oso tn Pi 76 GREATER LOS ANGELES ADOLPIIUS BUSCH, Pasadena Born in Mainz, Germany. As a boy emigrated to St. Louis, Mo. Worked on a Miss, river steamer and in mer cantile houses until 1S59, when he embarked in the com mission, malting and brewers' supply business. In 1865 purchased controlling interest in E. Anheuser & Co., then a very primitive affair. In 1880, on death of Mr. An heuser, corporate name was changed to Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n, and Mr. Busch has since been its Pres. He also owns majority of stock in 5 breweries in Texas and one in Oklahoma City, and is interested in bank, trust company, railroad and ice plant stocks throughout the country. His liberal donations to the needy, the charita ble institutions and institutions of learning, are not con fined only to his home city and state, but are spread throughout the entire country. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 77 X o w o PI d o c 1/1td o 73 GREATER LOS ANGELES E. D. ROBERTS, San Bernardino Born Cambria, Columbia county, Wis., July 18, 1864. Educated public schools and Western Univ. of Penn., Pittsburg. Began banking business 1883 at Bridge- water, S. D. Came to San Bernardino Co. 1886. Pres. San Bernardino National Bank (a "Roll_ of Honor Bank"), San Bernardino County Savings Bank and First National Bank of Colton; Dir. Ar rowhead Hot Springs Co. and other corporations. Delegate Republican Nat. Convention Chicago, 1904. Knight Templar and Mem. Al Malikah Temple, Los Angeles, and B. P. O. E. Married November 14, 1891, Maud Adams, a native of Bloornington, 111. Has two daughters — Louise and Marie. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 79 o g o PJM o03 P)SO So GREATER LOS ANGELES A. G. HUBBARD, Redlands Born Northern Wisconsin, 1847. Acquired knowl edge of chemistry, metallurgy and mining engineer ing. Crossed plains in 1865, riding on horseback from Missouri river to City of Mexico and back through Texas, reaching Pac. Coast in fall of 1867. Took charge of copper mine for an English company in 1868. Followed mining in the capacity of Supt. of mines and reduction work and doing expert work, reporting on prospects in Ariz., Calif., N. Mexico and Old Mexico until 1893. Since then has been engaged in banking business. Is now Pres. of Citi zens* Nat'l Bank of Redlands, Calif., and is inter ested in a chain of banks stretching from San Fran cisco to Phoenix, Arizona. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 82 GREATER LOS ANGELES L. T. GARNSEY, Los Angeles Born Great Bend. Pa., 1845. Educated public schools and Eastman's Business College. August, 1863, to October, 1865, engaged in military Rys. in nearly all divisions nf Va., and later connected with building of Union Pacific Ry. Later in North Platte and Omaha, Neb. ; Denver, Colo. : Chicago, N. Y. City and interior points. For 12 years in wholesale fruit and importing business. For 19 years in Los Angeles as Pres., Mgr. or officer of not less than 5 to 13 of most successful land corporations in and around city of Los Angeles, embracing not less than 150,000 acres. Pres. I.os Angeles & Redondo Ry. Co., Los Angeles & Redondo Improvement Co., Redondo Hotel Co. Member and one of organizers Cal. Club and member Jonathan Club. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 83 ogpio PJr 9w GREATER LOS ANGELES &\ J. W. EDDY, Los Angeles Born Java, Wyoming Co., N. Y., 1832. Educated public schools and Arcade and Genesee Wesleyan Seminaries and Genesee College. Taught school. Removed to Chicago 1853, studied law and admitted to the bar 1856. Practiced at Batavia, 111. Member Board of Education, County Supervisors, Legislature and State Senate. Came to Los Angeles 1895. Built Angel's Flight R. R., 1901: Vice-Pres. Cali fornia Children's Home, President Los Angeles Or thopedic Hospital. Member First Congregational Church and a Republican in politics. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 85 JOHN R. MATHEWS, Los Angeles Born St. Louis, Mo. Educated public schools and Wash ington Univ/; grad. Mo. State Dental Coll. Engaged in mining and real estate in Leadville, Colo., three years. In 1883 established Mathews Bros, produce house at Los Angeles. Was Pres. Old Produce Exchange three terms and an incorporator Los Angeles Board of Trade. Was Director Chamber of Commerce. Served as Brig.-Gen. N. G. C. four years. 1892 elected General Assembly, and 1894 to State Senate. Appointed P. M. Los Angeles by Pres. Cleveland. Again in produce business and two years was Pres. of present Produce Exchange. February 1, 1906, disposed of interest in Mathews Bros, and elected Pres. State Bank and Trust Co. Married Miss Bessie F. Hersey, daughter of Geo. E. Hersey, banker of Gilroy, Calif. 86 GREATER LOS ANGELES - **'&! JOSEPH SCOTT, Los Angeles Born Penrith, Cumberland Co.x England, July 16, 1867. Educated Ushaw Coll., Durham, and matric ulated in honors London University, England, 1887. Prof. Rhetoric and English Literature Allegany Coll., N. Y., 1890-93. Came to Los Angeles 1893. Ad mitted Calif, bar 1 894 ; in practice since. Elected Mem. Board of Education 1904. Dir. Equitable Savings Bank and Mem. Chamber of Commerce. Mem. Calif. Club and President and one of the founders of Newman Club. Married Miss Bertha Roth, a native daughter of California. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 87 Xo K pi opi pi a enno H GREATER LOS ANGELES SAMUEL WATERS ALLERTON, Pasadena Born Armenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 26, 1829. Located in Chicago 1856 and since that time his business Hie has been largely devoted to the live stock and packing interests. One of the founders of the Union Stock Yards of Chicago in 1866. For many years has been a director of the Chicago City Railway. His business career has been one of con tinual activity and unquestioned integrity. Married 1860 to Miss Pamilla Thompson of Canton, 111. Po litically always an uncompromising Republican. For many years his winter residence has been in beau tiful Pasadena. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 89 9o GREATER LOS ANGELES ELI P. CLARK, Los Angeles Born on farm near Towa City. Moved to Grinnell, la., 1855. Educated public schools and Iowa Coll. Be gan teaching at age of IS, and continued in S. W. Missouri three seasons. Left home for Ariz. 1875, was in mercantile business, and for 10 years Auditor of the Territory; also engaged in manuf. and sale of lumber. January, 1891, came to Los Angeles. Was Vice-Pres. and Mgr. Los Angeles Consol. Elec. R. R., the present Los Angeles Ry. system, which was first electric road in successful operation in Calif. 1894 began construc tion of first line to Pasadena. 1896 built first Santa Monica line, now known as Los Angeles Pacific Co., with nearly 200 miles of track. Has been Pres. and Gen. Mgr. since organization. Mem. Jonathan, Univer sity and Calif. Clubs. Pres. Congl. Union and Board of Trustees First Congl. Church. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 91 X o IS pi o PI Mr n hi> 92 GREATER LOS ANGELES '•a?: WILLIAM G. NF.VIN (Dec'd), Los Angeles Born Philadelphia, Pa., December 17, 1855. Edu. cated in the public schools of Boston, Mass. From 1876 until his death, January 26, 1903, was engaged in the railway business, except the time 1886 to 1891. From 1S97 to 1902 was Gen. Mgr. of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Was extensively interested in I.os Angeles real estate. Was a mem ber of the Calif, and Los Angeles Country Clubs, and Pacific Union Club of San Francisco. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 93 XoS p)op) r r(—1> P 94 GREATER LOS ANGELES .&:*< J. ROSS CLARK, Los Angeles Born near Connellsville, Pa., April 10, 1850. Edu cated public schools and Bentonsport (la.) Academy. Moved to Montana 1871, where he engaged in bank ing, mining and merchandising until 1892, when he came to Los Angeles. Since 1892 engaged in rail roading and the mnfr. of sugar. 1901 elected Vice- Pres. San Pedro, Los -Angeles & Salt Lake R. R.; has taken an active part in its construction and oper ation. Vice-Pres. Citizens* Nat'l Bank. Married 1878, Miriam A. Evans at Butte, Montana. Has a daughter and a son. Mem, Calif, and Jonathan Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 95 o ga o pi oo> •^v^ 96 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN H. NORTON, Los Angeles Born Milton, Mass., 1847. At age of seventeen came west to Colorado, then to Arizona, where he estab lished in business, connecting himself with the U. S. Government in all its different branches, handling a large volume of business for several years. In 1896 moved to Los Angeles, and was soon again in business, connecting himself with several enterprises. He is President of the John H. Norton Co., Presi dent Blue Water & Irrigating Co. of New Mexico, President of Norton-Morgan Commercial Co. of Southern Arizona. Director of First National Bank, Citizens' National Bank, Los Angeles Trust Co. Member California Club, Jonathan Club. Delegate National Republican Convention 1904. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 97 Xo pio ' — I oao !d~3 O2! 93 GREATER LOS ANGELES MILO MILTON POTTER, Los Angeles Born Dundee, Mich., May 19, 1854. Graduated Uni versity of Michigan, 1873. Started in life with the idea of becoming a banker, but circumstances changed his plans, and since 1884 has been engaged in hotel business. Came to Los Angeles 1S84. and for nine years managed the Westminster. He planned, built and owns the Hotel Van Nuys, and in 1901 erected Hotel Potter at Santa Barbara, which he . owns. Member California, Jonathan, University and Los Angeles Country Clubs. Married October 19, 1901, Mrs. Nellie M. Jones of San Francisco. o1 — I < U!Z! wXH O17}P < The Potter Hotel, Santa Barbara. GREATER LOS ANGELES STODDARD JESS^ Los Angeles Born Fox Lake, Wis., 1856. Educated University of Wisconsin. Cashier of the Bank at Waupun, Wis., from 1876 to 1885. During residence in Wisconsin served several years in City Council and in 1883 elected Mayor of Waupun. 1S85 moved to Pomona, California, and in 1886, with others, organized the First National Bank of Pomona and was its Cashier until January 1, 1S9S. April. 1904, accepted position as Vice-Pres. First National Bank of Los Angeles. Was first City Treasurer of Pomona, first President of the Board of Trade, for many years Trustee of the Pomona Public Library and for several years President :>f the Board. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IOI ¦ MOSES II. SHERMAN, Los Angeles Born West Rupert, Vt, 1S54. Acquired liberal edu cation and in early '70s moved to Prescott, Ariz., where he engaged in educational work and later served as Supt. of Public Instruction of the Terri tory, and for three terms was Adjutant General of Ariz. He organized and was the first Pres. of the Phoenix Valley Bank. Gen. Sherman came to Los Angeles in 1889 and here he has been extensively engaged in the construction and operation of electric railways. 102 GREATER LOS ANGELES EDWARD W. DAVIES, Los Angeles Born Winterset, Iowa, Feb. 8, 1861. For 29 years was engaged in the lumber business. Came to Los Angeles 1892. Estab. the Patten & Davies Lumber Co. Pres. Klamath Redwood Co. and Vice-Pres. Empire Redwood Co., San Francisco. Director Cen tral Bank since its organization. Pres. Auditorium Co. Prom, in Masonic bodies in Southern California. Married 1884, Miss Delia Paramore of Topeka, Kan. Rep. in politics. Now practically retired from busi ness. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 103 DUMMER KIAH TRASK, Los Angeles Born Cincinnati, O., July 17, 1860. He is a de scendant of Capt. William Traske, one of the five "Old Planters" of Salem, Mass. Judge Trask lived in Maine from 1861 until he came to California in 1882, locating in San Joaquin County, where he fol lowed the profession of teaching. He removed to Los Angeles in 1890, where he practiced law until he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court in 1898. Has filled several public positions, and is a Past Grand Chancellor in the Order of Knights of Pythias. 104 GREATER LOS ANGELES jfc.--^- EDWARD SIGOURNEY COBB, Los Angeles Born Nashville, Tenn., May 21, 1858, son of Jon athan and Martha S. (Wales) Cobb, Dedham, Mass. Educated high school; in 1870 grad. Worcester Poly. Institute. 1882-88 Prof. Practical Mechanics and Machine Design, Rose Poly. Institute, Terre Haute, Tnd. 1888 to date consulting eng'r Dallas, Tex., Erie, Pa., San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since 1893 connected with much of the largest industrial construction in California. Designed and built, 1902- 3-4, Pacific Electric Bldg.. Los Angeles. Mem. Jon athan Club, Hillside Club of Whittier, and Engi neers and Architects' Assn. of Los Angeles. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 105 OSCAR LAWLER, Los Angeles Born Marshalltown, la., April 2, 1875, son of Will iam T. and Margaret Lawler. Educated public schools. Came to Los Angeles 1888. Read law under the direction of Judge Erskine M. Ross and IT. S. Senator F. P. Flint. Admitted to the bar 3 896, and has practiced since. Delegate Republican National Convention 1904. December, 1905, ap pointed U. S. Attorney So. Dis. of Cal. Mem. Los Angeles Commandery No. 9, K. T., and Jonathan and Concordia Clubs io6 GREATER LOS ANGELES ROBERT ARNOLD ROWAN, Pasadena Born Chicago, 111, August 20, 1876, son George D. and Fannie F. Rowan. Father was wholesale grocer and real estate operator; died September 7, 1902. R. A. Rowan came to Los Angeles with parents in 1876. Educated public schools. 1893-4 engaged in export business N. Y. City. 1895-7 merchandise broker. Since 1897 engaged in real estate business. Pres. R. A. Rowan & Co. Member Los Angeles Realty Board. Member California, Jonathan, Los Angeles Country, Pasadena Coiintry Clubs and Pres. Los Angeles Athletic Club. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 107 ERNEST H. MAY, Pasadena Born Washington, D. C, October 16, 1859. Edu cated public schools and Gonzaga College, Washing ton. 1880 to 1885 employed in U. S. Treasury at Washington. Came to Pasadena 1886, and since con nected with the First National Bank; Vice-Pres. 1903-4; elected Pres. 1905. Pres. Pasadena Savings and Trust Co. Member Executive Council State Bankers' Association. io8 GREATER LOS ANGFLES CHARLES F. WHITTLESEY, Los Angeles Born Alton, 111., March 10, 1867. Educated public schools. At sixteen years of age began the study of architecture. Practiced in Chicago, 111., 1888-1903, when he came to Los Angeles. Architect for the Auditorium, Dr. Hay ward's Hotel, 6th and Spring streets. Member So. Cal. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and B. P. O. E. and Masonic fraternities. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 109 H W F)> dHO s 3 1 10 GREATER LOS ANGELES B. O. KENDALL, Pasadena Born Clinton, Mass., September 2, 1861. Educated public schools at Clinton. Came to Pasadena Janu ary, 1886, and since August of that year has been engaged in business as a real estate, stocks and bonds and investment broker. Pres. B. O. Kendall & Co., which company was incorporated March 1, 1905. Pres. and Treas. Boston Investment Co. Member Overland and Pasadena Whist Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA in X o PI 7*pi> 112 GREATER LOS ANGELES LEONARD MERRILL, Los Angeles Born Lewis Co., Mo., September 3, 1S57. Educated Baptist College, Louisiana, Mo. From 1878 to 1S90 engaged in the cattle brokerage business in St. Louis, Mo. Came to Los Angeles 1S91, and has since been engaged in the brokerage business of real estate, stocks and bonds. June, 1905, elected Pres. Los Angeles Realty Board; re-elected Pres. Los Angeles Realty Board June.. 1906. Member Stock Exchange and Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles. Married December 31, 1884, Miss Susan L. La Beaunie, of St. Louis, Mo. Member Union League Club and Temple Baptist Church. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA "3 OSCAR EUGENE PARISH, Los Angeles Born Chatham Co., N. C, July 20, 1868. Self edu cated. From 1S86 to 1893 with the Southern Ex press Co. in Virginia and Tennessee. Came to Los Angeles 1895. Cashier Los Angeles Gas and Elec tric Company 1895-189S. Since 1898 in the oil and real estate business. Member realty firm of Mines & Farish since September, 1903. Member Realty Board and Chamber of Commerce. 1903-4 member City Council. Married December, 1895, Miss Alice Grindrod of Albany, N. Y. . .-,•¦ -urn- ¦¦ H4 GREATER LOS ANGELES HENRY NEWEY, Pasadena Born Spiceland, Ind., May 4, 1868. Educated Spice- land Academy. Came to Pasadena February, 1887. September 1, 1887, to October 1, 1900, his business connection was with the First Nat'l Bank, Pasadena. October 1, 1900, became Cashier; December 6, 1904, Vice-Pres.. and April 13, 1905, upon death of Gil bert W. Pratt, Pres. of Pasadena Nat'l Bank. Is also Vice-Pres. of the Bankers' Savings Bank, Pasa dena, and Director American Nat'l Bank, Monrovia. Married September 11, 1889, Miss Pearl Berry, Spiceland. Tnd. K. T. and Thirty-second Degree Mason ; member Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, and Overland Club, Pasadena. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA n5 Xo g PIcPi XB 2!W> o r 120 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM G. BRADSHAW, Los Angeles Born Somerville, Mass., January 16, 1861; came to Los Angeles in 1882 and since 1886 has-been en gaged in real estate business, and identified with the growth and development of the city, being a mem* ber of the Realty Board, Chamber of Commerce and Union League Club. Promoter and largest owner of Wilshire Blvd. Hgts., a high-grade subdivision situated in the western portion of the city, cor. Wilshire blvd. and Vermont ave. Has always made a specialty of first-class residence _ and business prop erty; also extensively interested in oil and mining properties. By years of square dealing has created a reputation for honesty and reliability not excelled by any one in the community. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 121 Xo o p) rr > P Wwa>3 122 GREATER LOS ANGELES ROBERT MARSH, Los Angeles Born Charlestown, 111., January 20, 1874. Educated public schools. Came to Los Angeles 1890. For some time was engaged as a dealer in hats and fur nishing goods. Since 1901 engaged in the real estate business, under firm name of Robert Marsh & Co., genera] and business property. Mem. Realty Board. Office ground floor, main corridor, II. W. Hellman Bldg. Is thirty-second Degree Mason and Knight Templar; Mem. California, Jonathan and Los An geles Country Clubs. Married 1897. Miss Ceceil Lothrop of Alhambra, Calif. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 123 NORMAN BRIDGE, A. M., M. D., Los Angeles and Pasadena Born Windsor, Vt., December 30, 1844. Educated 111. public schools and Sycamore (III.) High School. Grad. Chicago Med. Coll., 1868, and Rush Med. Coll., 1878. A. M. Lake Forest Univ., 1889. Teacher in various chairs since 1873; now Emeritus Prof. Med., Rush Med. Coll. (Univ. of Chicago) ; mem. 1881-4 and twice Pres. Chicago Board of Education. Repub lican Mem. Board Election Commrs., Chicago, 1886- 90. Mem. Assn. American Physicians, American Cli- matological Assn. Well known author and writer on medical subjects. Married 3874 Mae Manford. Member California Club and University Club, and Union League Club and Hamilton Club, Chicago. I24 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM MEAD, I os Angeles Born in Lewistown, Til., January 11, 1862. Reared on farm and attended Lewistown public schools. Moved to Los Angeles 18S6 and engaged in real es tate business until 1890. Was elected on Democratic ticket to California Legislature 1896 and 1898, and twice received complimentary vote of minority for speaker. Was organizer of Central Bank of Los Angeles and its President since it commenced busi ness in April, 1900. 1905 organized Goethenburg Committee, of twenty-five leading business and pro fessional men of city, for purpose of introducing the company system of regulating the liquor traffic in Los Angeles. Married 1896, Nella Mae Wilde of Los Angeles, Cal., a native of Iowa City, la. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 125 JAMES A. FOSHAY, Los Angeles Born Cold Spring, N. Y., November 25, 1856. Grad uated State Normal School, Albany, N. Y., 1879. (A.M., Univ. of Southern California; Pd.D., State Normal Coll., Albany, N. Y.) Taught public schools Putnam Co., N. Y., 1879-1881; School Commissioner 1881-7. Secre tary N. Y. Association School Commissioners and Supt. 1884-6. Removed to California 1887. Member School Examining Board, Los Angeles Co., 1889-95. Dep. Supt. Schools, Los Angeles, 1893-95. Supt. July, 1895, to March 1, 1906. January, 1906, elected Supreme Pres. Fraternal Brotherhood. Member Nat'l Council of Edu cation and California Council of Education. Director So. California Academy Sciences. Grand Master Califor nia Grand Lodge, F. & A. M., 1900-1. Married March 18, 1885, Miss Phebe Powell Miller. Member Sunset Club. [26 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE KISLINGBURY, Los Angeles Born England 1848. Came to U. S. and located in Wisconsin 1855. Educated Wis, public schools. Pri vate soldier Co. K, 37th Wis. Vol. Inf. Engaged in mining first in 1865, Wis. lead and ziric mines. Removed to Col. 1868, and to White Pine, Nev., 1869. Engaged in mining and as mine engineer since that time. Examined mining properties throughout the U. S. and Territories, Alaska, British Columbia, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. For two years Mining Inspector of Colorado. Eight years mine examiner for Capt. J. R. De Lamar. Resident of Los Angeles since 1900. Member Jon athan Club and F. & A. M., I. O. O. F. and K of P. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 127 JAMES V. BALDWIN, Los Angeles Born at Weston, O., October 25, 1870. Educated public schools and Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela ware. From 1891 to 1897 engaged in mercantile business at Weston, O. Came to Los Angeles 1897, since which time has been engaged irl the real estate business. Wilshire Blvd. and West Adams Heights are some of his most successful ventures. Mem. of the Realty Board: Jonathan and Los Angeles Coun try Clubs. Married 1891, Miss Maude L. Munn of Weston, O. 128 GREATER LOS ANGELES ROBERT NELSON BULLA, Los Angeles Born Richmond, Ind., September 8, 1852. Educated public schools and National University, Lebanon, O. Admitted Ohio Bar 1876, practiced in Cincinnati three years, came to Los Angeles 1883, where he has practiced since. Organized Central Oil Com pany of Los Angeles, 1895, of which he is Attorney and Secretary. In 1893 was elected to the Assembly and re-elected in 1895, and in 1897 elected to Cali fornia Senate. 1897 was member of Commission to Revise the Codes of California. Member Board of Directors of the Central and the Dollar Savings Bank and Trust Co. Married August 4, 1890, Miss Evangeline Sutton, who died March 12, 1903. Mem ber of California, Sunset, University, Union League arid Country Clubs of Los Angeles. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 129 JOHN HENRY BARTLE, Monrovia Born July 22, 1855; son of John and Thirza (Rey nolds) Bartle. Educated public schools. Commenced business life at the age of thirteen in a dry goods store. Came to Monrovia 1887. Since 1888 in bank ing business. Pres. First Nat'l Bank since Jan. 1, 1894; also Pres. Monrovia Savings Bank and First Nat'l Bank of Elmonte. Royal Arch Mason. In poli tics Republican. Married, Aug. 25, 1885, Miss Amelia Bowerman; three children. 130 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM ALBERT CHESS, Monrovia Born Cass Co., Mich., June 9, 1853. Educated public schools and commercial college; grad. latter 1872. In dry goods business nine years at Browsville, Mich. ; then a stock dealer in Kansas for five years. Came to Monrovia 1887. Engaged in banking for past twenty years; associated with J. H. Bartle; since 1894 Cashier First Nat'l Bank; also Cashier Monrovia Savings Bank. Mem. K. O. T. M. ' Democrat. Married, 1881, to Miss Minnie Smith; two children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 13' w ir.H H O 2 >rtd>Si oW c < 132 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM HOWARD EVANS, Monrovia Born Chester Co., Pa., May 18, 1848; son of Levi and Rachel (Howard) Evans. District school and collegiate education. Thirty-five years in merchant tailoring busi ness; five years of that period also engaged in manu facture of brick and tile in Stark Co., Ohio. Came to Monrovia 1887. City Clerk two and a half years; Police Judge ten years; also real estate dealer. Pres. Board of Trade 1909. European trip 1871, including England, Scotland, Ireland and France. Since 1872 mem. Nimisila Lodge No. 39, I. O. O. F., Canton, O. In politics Re publican. Married, 1872, Miss Ruhama Herbert of Co lumbiana Co., Ohio, who died March 27, 1904; mother of Annetta (wife of George O. Monroe) and Harry. Dec. 20, 1906, married Mrs. Mary F. Chubbuck of Minne apolis, Minn. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA *33 YGNACIO SEPULVEDA, Mexico City, Mexico Born Los Angeles, Cal., July 1, 1842, the place then be ing within Mexican territory. Educated in Boston, Mass.; returned to his native pueblo, studied law and was ad mitted to the bar Sept., 1863. Served in legislature 1863- 64; County Judge 1869-73; District Judge from 1873 until court was abolished by new constitution 1876; Superior Judge 1876-83. Resigned position late in 1883, and went to the city of Mexico where he has since practiced his profession, making a specialty of land titles, corporations, government concessions and patents. Was First Secretary of American Legation and charge d'affaires under the Cleveland administration. Is Pres. of the Society of the American Colony, and Pres. of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the Republic. Is still an American citizen and considers Los Angeles his home. - - — -- ---.___ 134 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM K. COWAN, Los Angeles Born Greenfield, Mo., Mar. 17, 1863. Educated Park College, Mo., and Baker (Kan.) Univ. Then learned jeweler's trade, at which he worked for some time, Came to Los Angeles 1887, where he was the pioneer automobile dealer; continues in same business. Mem. Jonathan and So. Calif. Automobile Clubs. Thirty- second degree Mason and Shriner. Republican in poli tics. Married, 1895, Miss Martha, daughter of George and Sarah Hare; one child, William K., Jr. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 135 r >S no >a g Fo5 m 136 GREATER LOS ANGELES NORBERT M. MURRAY, Alhambra Born De Pere, Wis., Dec. 17, 1878, son of Michael and Ellen Murray. Educated public and private schools of St. Paul, Minn. Came to California 1900. Since 1905 engaged real estate business, handling among other properties the Huntington interests on the Monrovia and Oak Knoll Electric Lines. Mem. Cali fornia, Jonathan and San Gabriel Country Clubs and White Bear Yacht Club (Minn.). Married, July, 1902, Miss Mary Ella Bean; two sons, Jacob B. and Nor- bert M., Jr. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 137 HOWARD E. HUNTINGTON, Los Angeles Born St. Albans, W. Va., Feb. 11, 1876. Five years with the department of engineering and maintenance- of-way Southern Pacific Ry. Co. ; then two years and a half at Harvard Univ. Came to Los Angeles March, 1903. For some time asst. to E, Randolph of Pacific Electric Ry. In January, 1904, succeeded the late J. A. Muir as Gen. Mgr. Los Angeles Ry. Co. Mem. California, Jonathan, Bolsa -Chica and several country clubs. Married, August, 1905, Miss Leslie Thayer Green, of Berkeley, Cal. 138 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE W. ADAMS, Los Angeles Born Monticello, Wis., 1865. Educated at Iowa State Agricultural College, Ames, and law dep't Univ. of Iowa. Grad. 1891, Prac. ten years in Iowa. Came to Los Angeles 1902; since that year has been prin cipally engaged in corporation and commercial law prac. Mem. University Club of Los Angeles and K. of P. In politics Republican. Married, 1896, Miss Iva E. Binford, a native of Marshalltown, la. ; two daughters. oi — i j 6 wHID OCOQ Home of George W. Adams. 140 GREATER LOS ANGELES CLARENCE C. SPINKS, Monrovia Born Yorktown, Tex., January, 1858, son of Dr. Wil liam A. (who died Eureka, Nev-, 1878) and Cynthia J. Spinks (died San Jose, Cal., 1871). As an infant, in 1858, brought by parents across Great Plains, family locating at Old Gilroy; 1864 settled at San Jose, where he was educated. Has engaged in gold mining and development of oil properties; in latter business for twelve years. Director First Nat'l Bank, Monrovia. Mem. Granite Club. Independent in politics. Mar ried, 1885, Miss Ella E. Bradley of Fresno, Cal. < I— I Pi oI— I < uwHP OCOP< Barlow Library. Free Dispensary Hendryx Laboratory. Founder's Building. 142 GREATER LOS ANGELES FRANK J. RYAN, Los Angeles Born Springfield, Mass., July, 1880, son of William H. and Rose (Lee) Ryan, both deceased. Educated Springfield (Mass.) schools; grad. high school, 1898. Then two years with American Writing Paper Co. Came to Los Angeles 1902. With the Conservative Life Insurance Co. three years, and at time .of resig nation, 1905, was manager of San Joaquin Valley, with headquarters at Fresno. Now dealer in oil lands and general real estate, under firm name of Frank J. Ryan & Co. Mem. Union League; Republican. Mar ried, 1906, Miss Ruth Muller, daughter of Gen. M. W. Muller of Fresno; a daughter, Maude Roselee. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 143 WILLIAM CAREY CAMPBELL, Hollywood Born Fayette Co., Ohio, July 14, 1854. Boyhood and early manhood spent in Kansas. Educated public schools that sta'-e, and at law school Univ. of Michi gan. Admitted to bar 1878; prac. in Kansas, Colorado and Arizona until 1902, when, on account of ill health, he went to Southern California, located at Hollywood and embarked in the real estate line, under the present style of W. C. Campbell & Co. 144 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM BURGESS MATHEWS, Los Angeles Born near Georgetown, Ohio, Mar. 1, 1865, son of William B. and Margaret (Salisbury) Mathews. At tended public and private schools Maysville, Ky. ; grad. Center College, Ky., 1885 (A. B.). Admitted to Kentucky bar 1888; then one year Columbia Law School, New York City. Came to Los Angeles 1889; prac. since. City Atty. Los Angeles 1901-7; now spe cial counsel Los Angeles aqueduct; mem. Board of Directors public library 1899-1900; Union League, Fed eration, Cal. and City clubs. Married, 1891, Miss Susan Avery Hays. Republican. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 145 FRANK R. WILLIS, Los Angeles Born North Adams, Mass., Aug. 17, 1854; son of Albert L. and Laura P. (White) Willis. Educated public schools Iowa, Lenox College (Hopkinton, la.), and Iowa State Normal School (grad. 1879) and Iowa State Univ. (1881, LL. B.) Prac. Aurelia 1881; Mayor and City Attorney of that place, 1881-83. Came to Los Angeles 1883; at torney for Public Administrator 1886-88; Asst. District Attorney Los Angeles County 1894-02; City Attorney Re dondo Beach six years; member firm Davis, Rush & Willis 1902-08; Instructor in Criminal Law University Southern California 1900-09; November 3, 1908, elected Judge of the Superior Court, Republican; mem. Los An geles Bar Assn., Union League, Gamut and other clubs. K. T. and Scottish Rite Mason. Married, 1882, Miss Letitia G. Allin. Two sons, Will H. and Fred A. Willis. 146 GREATER LOS ANGELES '¦¦¦—¦^.„ He % I kill ill FRANK JAMES, Los Angeles Born Fulton, Schoharie Co., N. Y., Mar. 16, 1863, son of Thomas H. and Elizabeth James. Educated public schools and studied law in office of Krum & Grant, of that city. Admitted to New York bar 1886; California bar 1888; Federal courts, Los An geles, 1894. General prac. since 1886. Attorney for California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Mem. State Assembly, 1901; Mason and K. of P.; mem. Jonathan and San Gabriel Country clubs. Married, 1886, Miss Harriet Bouck; two children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 147 BERNARD POTTER, Los Angeles Born near Springfield, Mo., 1871, son of P. G. and Rebecca (Bodenhamer) Potter. Grad. Fredonia (Kan.) 1889 and Baker Univ., Baldwin, Kan., 1892. Ad mitted California bar 1894. Prac. since, mainly in civil courts. Mem. Bar Assn., Union League and Jonathan clubs; also A. F. & A. M. Married, June, 1908, Miss Mary Olive Lewis, of Los Angeles. His father, who was a Confederate captain in the Civil War, is a merchant of Long Beach. 14B GREATER LOS ANGELES WILTCIE B. AMES, Los Angeles Born Royalton, Wis., 1869. Care of invalid father pre vented early education. Left an orphan at thirteen. Worked for two years in the pineries and mines of Wisconsin and Michigan ; one year at carpentry ; and several years as nursery and book agent. Reached posi tion of general western manager of book house and moved to Pacific coast. Took night course: at Univ. of Oregon; studied law; admitted to bar 1893; prac. Portland. Or ganized Ames Mercantile Agency of Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Los Angeles, 1895 ; organized Miners and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, 1905, serving as Pres. until consolidation with Bank of Los Angeles, becoming its head. In 1908 severed relations with latter to or ganize and become Pres. of City and County Bank of Los Angeles. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 149 X o gw o *4 r H o M> '50 GREATER LOS ANGELES FRANCIS MARION POTTENGER, Monrovia Born Sater, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1869, son of Thomas and Hannah E. (Sater) Pottenger, a direct descendant of Cromwell. Educated public schools and Otterbein Univ. TPh. B., 1892; Ph. M., 1897; A. M., 1905; LL. D., 1909); Medical College, Ohio. 1892-93 and Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery 1893-94 (M. D.); post-graduate courses in Europe, 1894, 1905, 1907, 1909, and in New York, 1900. Prac. Norwood, Ohio, 1894. Came to Mon rovia 1895; 1901 began prac. as lung and throat special ist, being the Pacific Coast pioneer in that line; founded Pottenger Sanatorium 1903. Pres. Southern California Anti-Tuberculosis League 1902-06. Mem. leading medical societies of California and America; author of standard tuberculosis 1'terature. Married, 1900, Miss Adelaide G. Babbitt, of Germantown, Ohio; three children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA I5i CHARLES CLIFTON BROWNING, Monrovia Born Denver, 111., May 25, 1861; son of Enoch C. and Sophia L. (Pennock) Browning; his father long in Christian church. Attended Shelbina (Mo.) College 1878-9; Christian University 1880-1, and Mis souri State University 1881-3 (M.D.); interne Columbia (Mo.) Dis pensary; prac. Hancock Co., 111., 1883-8; 1888-91 in New York as interne and in post graduate work. Came to California 1891; prac, San Jacinto and Highland until 1905. Since March of latter year medi cal director of Pottenger Sanatorium, Monrovia, and since incorporation Vice-Pres. Pottenger Sanatorium Co. Mem. of American Med. Ass'n and State Medical Societv; National Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; International Congress on Tuberculosis, and State Ass'n ( Vice-Pres.) ; also of various other organizations for scientific and social investigation. Mem. Mystic Shrine and York Rite. Married, 1885, Miss Helen E. Tillabaugh; one child, Helen Gilberta. 152 GREATER LOS ANGELES ABRAM EHLE POMEROY, Los Angeles Born at Clinton, Mich., son of Charles W. and Permelia (Valentine) Pomeroj', both of New York. When he was young family moved to California; in 1856 to Santa Clara Co. Educated San Jose public schools and Univ. of the Pacific (grad. 1863). Deputy and County Clerk; then entered hardware and grocery business; also Cashier San Jose Savings Bank. Came to Los Angeles 1881, and has since been a real estate dealer and banker, having laid out several town sites and ranches. Has been Pres. Board of Education; trustee of State Normal School; Vice-Pres. Sta'.e Mutual Building and Loan Ass'n; trustee Univ. Southern California. Charter mem. California Club and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Thirty-second degree Mason and leading Methodist. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 153 GEORGE D. WHITCOMB, Glendora Born Brandon, Vt., May 13, 1834, son of Dexter and Emily A. (Tilton) Whitcomb. Moved with family to Mich. 1844, and to Ohio 1856. Educated public schools. Began working for himself on salary 1854; purchasing agent Pan Handle Ry. 1864-70; in coal mining business 1870-80, with headquarters in Chicago. Came to California 1884 and has continued business in coal mining machinery. Laid out town of Glendora 1887, planting several thousand pepper trees to beautify it. Republican in politics; Metho dist in religion. Married, Oct., 1859, Miss Leodora Bennett. '54 GREATER LOS ANGELES FREDERICK NORMAN HAWES, Monrovia Born Hillsdale, Mich., Apr. 17, 1872, son of Norman S. and Sarah (Dickerson) Hawes. Common and high school education. Moved to Riverside, Cal., 1887; connected with Orange Growers' Bank, of that place, 1891-94, and with the Riverside Savings and Loan Ass'n, 1894-96. Auditor Mt. Lowe Ry. 1897-1900. Teller American Nat'l Bank, Los Angeles, 1900-03. Removed to Monrovia 1903, as Vice-Pres. and Mgr. Granite Bank and Trust Co. ; Cashier of American Nat'l Bank since organization May 1, 1905 ; same position with Granite Bank and Trust Co- Married, Feb. 16, 1898, to Miss Alice B. Hersey; one child, James Hersey Hawes. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 155 > iSPI o > o2 td>2 156 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM G. HALL, Glendora Born in Central Missouri, Nov. 20, 1869, son of James M. and Nancy (Armstrong) Hall. Educated public schools. Taught for two years; then clerked in general store at Seneca, Mo. Came to California 1892 and since 1893 engaged in citrus nursery rais ing. In 500,000 trees grown, less than ten have proven untrue to the name. In politics Republican. Mem. Presbyterian church. Married, 1900, Miss Mary C. Bradley; four children — Willard, James, and Ada and Anna (twins). AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 157 CLARA (SHORTRIDGE) FOLTZ, Los Angeles Born Henry county, Ind., daughter of Rev. E. W. and Telitha Cumi (Harwood) Shortridge. Her brothers are Hon. Samuel M. Shortridge of San Francisco and ex- State Senator Charles M. Shortridge of San Jose. Came to Pacific Coast with her parents; married J. D. Foltz of Akron, Ohio, and was left a widow with five dependent children. First woman admitted to bar on Pacific Coast; first woman trustee State Normal School. Represented California bar at World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. Drafted and introduced bill into 32 legislatures to create office of Public Defenders; also drafted Woman Lawyer's bill for California. Organized Portia Law Club of California. Spoke in 1900 campaign under auspices Nat'l Republican Com. Specialty corporation law. Author "Prison Parole System for California." 158 GREATER LOS ANGELES C. H. CONVERSE, Glendora Mem. bar and prac. State and U. S. courts. Came to Mariposa, Cal., in March, 1879; at head of schools sev eral years; read law with Hon. J. M. Corcoran, Superior Judge Mariposa county. Grad. from State Univ. with honors (D. B., 1882; LL. B., 1884). Prac. in Merced and Pasadena before coming to Glendora. Resides on a thirty-acre orange grove. Has recently erected a beau tiful residence and the Converse Block (both shown in an accompanying illustration ) , acting as his own archi tect and contractor. Pres. Glendora Board of Trade; also director and attorney for the First Nat'l Bank, First Savings Bank, Glendora Light and Power Co., Glendora Irrigating Co., and Glendora Water Co. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 159 i6o GREATER LOS ANGELES < «o e !S w J O u o J pq M en« hi >O U AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 161 - = -JAMES HORACE WAMSLEY, Glendora Born Henry Co., la., Jan. 28, 1842, son of Thomas O^ and Sarah S. (Ristine) Wamsley. Fa+her born Adams Co., Ohio, 1806; died Mo., 1872. He was a Republican and served as County Judge in Missouri 1861. James H. enlisted Company B, Third Mo. Cav'y. ; twice wounded — first at Mt. Zion, Mo., Dec. 28, 1861, and at Chalk Bluff, that state, May 1, 1863; discharged 1864, with rank corporal. Came to Glendora 1889. Appointed postmaster by McKinley and continued in ojfice by Roosevelt. Republican. Married, 1873, Miss Bettie R. Cook, her father being a leading, mem. Missouri State Militia; children, four sons. 1 62 GREATER LOS ANGELES H. BERT ELLIS, Los Angeles Born Lincoln Center, Maine, May 17, 1863, son of James H. and Annie M. (Bullard) Ellis. Directly descended from Thomas Davis, Lord Mayor of London (1677) and (maternally) from Governor Bradford, second Governor of Mass. Educated public schools of Fredericton, N. B., Collegiate School (also Fredericton), Univ. New Bruns wick and Acadia Coll., Wolfville, N. S. (grad. 1884, A. B.); also, Univ. So. Cal. (1888, M. D.), Post grad. work Univs. Goettingen and Wien, 1888-9. Prac. in Los Angeles since 1889; since 1893, prac. devoted to eye, ear, nose and throat. Mem. local and nat'l med. societies; Calif., Jonathan, Univ. and Sunset clubs of Los Angeles, and Bohemian Club, San Francisco. Pres. Los Angeles Board of Education 1903-5. Prof. Diseases of Eye, and Treas. California Med. Coll. Married, 1907, to Mrs. Florence E. Chandler. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 163 WALTER MALLARD, Los Angeles Born Los Angeles, Cal., February 14, 1859, son of Joseph S. and Cordelia Mallard. Educated public schools of native city. Assessor Los Angeles for term beginning January 1, 1907, and ending January 1, 1910. Married, October 11, 1887, Miss Alice M. Whipple of Ohio. Republican. Member Native Sons of California. 164 GREATER LOS ANGELES JAMES R. TOWNSEND, Los Angeles Born Staunton, Indiana, Sept. 21, 1858. Resident of Los Angeles since May 17, 1882. Began practice be fore U. S. patent office in that ci'y in 1882; from 1885-96 member of firm of Hazard and Townsend, and from 1897 to 1905 of Townsend Bros. Since 1905 has continued the practice individually. Prof. of Patent Law Univ. So. Cal. ; one of the leading advocates of patent law in America. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 165 ARTHUR B. BENTON, Los Angeles Born Peoria, III., Apr. 17, 1858. Descendant Andrew and Hannah (Stocking) Benton, Milford, Conn., 1639, and William and Annis Chandler, Andover, Mass., 1630. Edu cated Peoria schools; grad. 1877; student School of Art and Design, Topeka, Kans. Began professional career in architect's department, chief engineer's office, Santa Fe Ry., Topeka; there 1887 to 1890; from 1890 to 1891 in chief engineer's office U. P. Ry., Omaha; architect in private practice in Los Angeles since spring 1892. Gov ernor Cal. Soc'y Colonial Wars; associate American In stitute of Architects; dir. So. Cal. Chap. American Insti tute Architects; Sec. Landmarks Club; mem. Cal. Soc'y Sons of Revolution, University Club of Redlands, and Jonathan and Union League clubs of Los Angeles. i66 GREATER LOS ANGELES E. J. BRENT, Los Angeles Born London, Eng., 1856. Educated public schools. Came to U. S. 1870. Resided at Indianapolis, Ind., until 1880. Then returned to London, where resided until 1887, when he came to Los Angeles. In 1890 he founded his house-furnishing business, his location being the site of the Hotel Angelus; in 1905 moved to No. 712 So. Main St. Member Union League and Jonathan clubs; identified with Masonry and the B. P. O. E. Married, 1880, Miss Mary West of Lon don, Eng. 2; Pi o I — I < upiwKH POC/iP Home of E. J. Brent. 1 68 GREATER LOS ANGELES CHARLES HEWITT HANCE, Los Angeles Born Montgomery County, Mo., Mar. 11, 1837. Edu cated public schools St. Louis, Mo. After Civil War, for thirteen years engaged in drug business in Mo. In 1874 elected clerk Circuit Court, Randolph Coun ty, Mo., serving eight years. Came to California 1883, and 1885 to Los Angeles; engaged in drug business for ten years; elected City Clerk, Los Angeles, 1896; served three terms. Then for four years, Cashier Title, Guarantee & Trust Company. Elected City Treasurer of Los Angeles 1906; served three years. Married, Oct. 27, 1864, Miss Sarah C. Henderson. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 169 If//// HARRY J. LELANDE, Los Angeles Born Sonora, Cal., Oct. 28, 1870. Educated Los Angeles schools; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Santa Clara (Cal.) College. From 1892 to 1895 mem. book and stationery firm William M. Edwards & Co. In fire insurance business 1895-99; Corres pondence Clerk CLy Tax Office 1899-1902; City Clerk 1902-06. Republican in politics. Mem. Union League; also Mason and B. P. O. E. Married, Aug. 19, 1895, Mary Winifred Davidson. 170 GREATER LOS ANGELES LESLIE RANDALL HEWITT, Los Angeles Born Olympia, Wash., Sept. 12, 1867, grandson of Hon. C. C. Hewitt, Chief Justice Washington Ty., 1861-9, and son of Randall H. Hewitt. Came to Los Angeles with his parents March, 1876. Educated public and high schools (grad. latter, 1885) and Univ. Cal. (grad. June, 1890). Studied law and admitted to Cal. bar 1893. Gen. prac. until 1898; Deputy City Arty, and City Atty. (term 1906-10.) Republican. Scottish Rite Mason, and K. of P. Mem. Union League and University clubs. Married, 1901, Miss Mabel Eastwood of Newcastle, Cal. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 171 LEWIS R. WORKS, Los Angeles Born Vevay, Ind., Dec. 28, 1869. Educated common schools, Ind. and Cal. ; grad. San Diego Commercial College. Admitted to Cal. bar Apr. 4, 1892; has been member law firm Works & Works, Works, Works & Ingle, Works, Lee & Works, and is now again in partnership with his father, Judge John D. Works. Was charter mem. of first company of Naval Militia organized in Cal., serving three years; Rep resentative in Cal. Legislature 1899-1901; Asst. City Attorney, Los Angeles, from Feb., 1907, to Jan., 1909. Past Exalted Ruler B. P. O. E. 172 GREATER LOS ANGELES ROSE TALBOTT BULLARD, Los Angeles Born Birmingham, la., Apr. 16, 1864, daughter of Dr. Joseph Talbott (deceased). Educated common schools, Birmingham Academy and Northwestern Univ, Woman's Medical School (M. D., 1886); post-graduate work in Vienna, Chicago Policlinic and Post-Graduate Medical School and Johns Hopkins Univ. Since 1907 Instructor in Gynecology Med. Dept. Univ. So. Cal.; medical ex aminer insurance companies. Ex-Sec. and Pres. Los Angeles Co. Med. Ass'n; also mem. So. Cal. Medical and State societies, American Medical Ass'n, and Friday Morning Club. On Board of Managers Y. W. C. A. Came to Los Angeles 1886. Married Frank D. Bullard, May 3, 1888; one child, Helen, born May 15, 1892. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ^73 FRANK D. BULLARD, Los Angeles Born Lincoln, Me., Dec. 27, 1860, son of Dr. William Bradford Bullard (descendant of Governor Bradford of Massachusetts) and Lydia E. (Dearborn) Bullard. Grad. Colby College; A. B., 1881, and Med. Dept. Univ. So. Cal., M. D., 1888. Post-gradua e work in Vienna and Goetlingen 1888 9. Principal of Brownsville (Me.) High School 1884; principal of Azusa (Cal.) schools 1885; Professor of Chemistry Univ. So. Cal., six years, and Instructor in Ophthalmology since 1903. Associate editor of Southern California Practitioner, ten years. Pres. Univ. Club 1900-2. Ex-Pres. Los Angeles Co. and South ern California Medical Socie ies; also mem. State and American Medical Ass'ns. Anaesthetist, oculist and aurist. Mason. Wife formerly Miss Rose Talbott, M. D. (see biography). 174 GREATER LOS ANGELES P. B. CHASE, Hollywood Born Saratoga Co., N. Y., 1847, son of David H. and Ruth M. Chase, who located in Mich, in 1849. Educated public schools and Raisin Valley Seminary. For seventeen years engaged in farming, stock rais ing and shipping in Mich., Mo. and Kans, Came to Cal. 1887 and since has been interested in farming, real estate and loans and orange and walnut culture. Has taken a leading part in the development of Hol lywood, Corcoran and Lindsay. Married, 1869, Ca- lista T. Woolsey of Mich. Is the eldest of nine brothers, none of whom have ever used tobacco or liquor. Missing Page Missing Page Missing Page Missing Page AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 179 Xogwo i8o GREATER LOS ANGELES ....Mmm E. II. LAHEE, Covina Born Utica, N. Y., 1845. Educated Lewisville (N. Y.) y-Vcademy and Shurtliff (111.) College. Located in St. Louis, Mo., 1862, and until 1876 connected with Second Nat'l Bank, last five years as Cashier. Re moving to Chicago, until 1898 engaged in grain bus.; in that year came to Covina. Lifelong Republican. Mayor Covina since 1903 ; chairman of the commit tee that secured the Pacific Electric right-of-way through El Monte to Covina; also Pres. Carnegie Library Ass'n and Covina Country Club. Mem. Loyal Legion. Married, 1869, Miss Louise Clawson of Alton, 111. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA iSi ow or>w RW 1 82 GREATER LOS ANGELES CHARLES C. WARREN, Glendora Born Portland, Me., Nov. 9, 1859. Family came to Cal. 1862. Educated Stockton public schools. En gaged farming 1880. Removed to Pomona 1883; re sided in Cucamonga, San Bernardino Co., from 1889 to 1896; moved to Glendora 1896. Orange and lemon grower; owner of 125-acre ranch. Dir. San Dimas Lemon and Glendora Citizens' Ass'ns, and San An tonio District Exchange, and Vice-Pres. Glendora Ir rigating Co. Republican in politics. Married, 1882, Miss Minnie L. Horn, of Stockton, Cal. Have four sons — Leslie A.; Herbert C, a student in Stanford Univ., and C. M. and W. H., attending Throop Poly technic, Pasadena. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 183 JAMES J. WEST, Glendora Born Trumbull Co., Ohio, 1852, son of John P. and Elizabeth West; father a Civil War soldier and mem ber Iowa State Senate; in California, was delegate to Constitutional convention and Senator from Los Angeles Co.; died in Glendora, 1892, widow dying there in 1907. James J. educated la. Wesleyan Univ. Came to California 1875; Glendora 1877. Nineteen years engaged in orange and lemon culture; has 30- acre grove. Pres. Glendora Citrus Ass'n; Vice-Pres. Glendora Mutual Water Co. For many years mem. Board of Education; active man of affairs; independ ent in politics. Identified with the M. E. church. GREATER LOS ANGELES R. F. BLANKENSHIP, Glendora Born Jonesburg, Mo., Mar. 8, 1873. Educated com mon schools. From 1901 to 1903 general storekeeper Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad. Came to California 1904, locating at Azusa, where he resided until January, 1907, when he removed to Glendora. Since 1906 has been connected with the Glendora Citrus Ass'n and November, 1907, was appointed its manager. Was a delegate to Cal. Fruit Growers' Convention at Kansas City, 1908. Mason and K. of P. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 185 ARTHUR LEWIS KELSEY, Los Angeles Born Merced Co., Cal., Aug. 16, 1861. Grad. Univ. Cal. 1883; medical education Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, and Jefferson Medical College, Phila delphia (M. D., 1888); post-graduate -work at N. Y. Polyclinic and hospitals, and in specialties (eye, ear, nose and throat) , in London, Vienna and Halle, ' 1903-5. Gen. prac. 1888-1903; eye, ear, nose and throat since 1905 ; in Los Angeles since that year. Mem. leading med. societies; also Masonic order and University Club. Married, 1902, Miss Eunice W. Blanchard, of Santa Paula, Cal. 1 86 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN B. BUSHNELL, Los Angeles Born Peru, 111., son of William F. and Mary (Mc- Kean) Bushnell, natives respectively of Connecticut and New York. John B. educated in common schools. Came to Los Angeles 1892. Honorary mem. Cal. Miners' Ass'n. One of the organizers and First Vice- Pres. Jonathan Club, of which he is a mem., as well as of Gamut Club and Chambers of Commerce and Mines. Mason. Married, 1887, Miss Margaret Cole man of Chicago. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 187 PORTER H. ALBRIGHT, Los Angeles Born Macon County, Mo., Sept. 29, 1882. Educated public schools; pursued civil engineering course Univ. of Missouri. For one year in employ of Blodgett Construction Company, Kansas City, Mo. One year with Waddell & Hedrick, bridge engineers, of Kansas City. Came to Los Angeles 1905. With Los Angeles Railway 1905-6; Assistant Engineer Los Angeles Pa cific Company 1906-8; Engineer Los Angeles Pacific Company 1908 to date. Mem. Univ. Club, So. Cal. Academy of Sciences and Engineers and Architects Ass'n. GREATER LOS ANGELES m is a w &> ™ Kg! 11 Hii n S ¦ ft" aa. _ " !i S « s- " < ww% 111 ^ 1 1 1 1 III rur^-, ¦ ssi Bi' sb ea m mm m m m a' il 1 i ¦ ill i i S i Pease Bros. Furniture Co. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 189 SHERMAN PEASE, Los Angeles Born Thompsonville, Conn., 1869. Came to Los An geles 1884. Engaged furniture bus. 1885 to 1904, as Vice-Pres. Niles Pease Furniture Co.; since 1906 Pres. Pease Bros. Furniture Co. Mem. Governor's staff, with rank of Colonel. Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner; also B. P. O. E. and Union League Club. 190 GREATER LOS ANGELES RUBEN STEPHEN SCHMIDT, Los Angeles Born Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 17, 1881. Grad. Los Angeles High School, 1898. Then one year in law office J. L. Murphey. Grad. Univ. Mich. 1903; Law School, 1905. Admitted bar of California 1905; also Federal courts. Mem. firm Murphey & Schmidt Sep tember, 1905, to March, 1908. Since latter date, mem. Schmidt & Riggins. Corporation and probate practice. Mem. Bar Ass'n, Native Sons, Golden West, City Club and Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Married, Nov. 17, 1908, Miss Katherine R. George, of Ann Arbor, Mich. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 191 HARLEY EDMUND RIGGINS, Los Angeles Born Sheffield, Iowa, June 6, 1879. Came to Cali fornia 1892. Educated Santa Monica High School and business college. Grad. Univ. of So. Cal. Law School 1903. Admitted to bar 1903; also United States courts. Deputy Clerk Superior Court, Los An geles .County, 1902-8 ; since March, 1908, mem. firm Schmidt & Riggins. Appointed Deputy City Attorney Jan. 1, 1909. Prac. corporation and probate law. Mem. Bar Association, Sons of Veterans and Y. M. C. A. ; also Mason and K. of P. 192 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE E. PILLSBURY, Los Angeles Born Tewksbuiy, Mass., 1857. Educated public schools and Lawrence Academy. Began civil engineering in Lowell, Mass., and until 1880 was in the employ of various railroads; then removed to Mexico, where, for about three years, he was a division engineer during the building of the Mexican Central Railway. In 1884 came to the Coast and since 1885 has been a resident of Los Angeles. From 1885 until 1895 engaged in railway and other engineering; since 1895 in engineering with Los Angeles Electric Railways, and has been Chief Engineer of the Pacific Electric Railway since its inception. Mem. Engineers and Architects Association, and Jonathan and San Gabriel Country Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 193 FRED E. PIERCE, Los Angeles Born Walton, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1866; one of eight sons and one daughter now living in Los Angeles. Came to Cal. 1881 and since has been identified with the bus. interests of Los Angeles and So. Cal. Pres. Pierce Bros. Undertaking Co.; Vice Pres. of City and County Bank since organization in October, 1908. Republican and Assemblyman, 1907-8. Mem. Los Angeles Com mandery No. 9, K. T.; Grand Patriarch I. O. O. F., 1907-8; mem. Union League Club. Married, 1890, Miss Alice May Parmeter of Los Angeles. 194 GREATER LOS ANGELES ¦^''¦^0BmmmWwL 4k% llm \zm . KjC; m^Lmm Jm%~ "^H;'v HARRY JAMES BRAINERD, Los Angeles Born Cincinnati, Ohio, June 14, 1850. Attended Wis consin Univ., making specialty of archaeology and geol ogy; served as Asst. Curator Academy of Science, Chi cago; has fine collection of archaeological and geologi cal specimens. In his early business career was cashier western dept. Continental Fire Insurance Co., Chicago; 1882 went to New York and for many years engaged in manufacture of builders' hardware. Came to Los Angeles 1906 and engaged in manufacturing and building, his spe cialty being sectional, ready-made and portable buildings, with offices in Chamber of Commerce bldg. Mem. Union League, Annandale Country, Rotary and Sierra Madre Clubs and Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Mines and Merchants and Manufacturers Ass'n. Married Mary Gertrude Gardner of Chicago, daughter of Samuel S. and Almira H. Gardner. IT) On OI 1 < w OCOQ Sectional Ready-Made and Made-to-Order Portable Houses h. j. brAinerd, manufacturer and builder. 196 GREATER LOS ANGELES CHARLES H. BURNETT, Redondo Beach Born Kingston, N. Y., 1870. Educated public schools Washington, D. C. Entered Government employ in 1886 and served in Patent Office, Civil Service Commission and Inter-State Commerce Commission, for which he -was official stenographer 1888-91. Moved to N. Y. City 1891 and was private sec'y to W. Seward Webb, Pres. Wagner Palace Car Co., and (1892-3) sec'y Mohawk & Malone Ry. ; Purchasing Agt. St. Lawrence & Adirondack Ry. 1896-8; Trainmaster N. Y. C. & H. R. Ry. 1898-1902; Gen. Mgr. Fulton Navigation Co. 1901; Asst. to Pres. St. Lawrence & Adirondack Ry. 1902-5. Came to Los Angeles 1905 as Trainmaster Southern Pacific R. R. ; same year became Supt. and Gen. Freight and Pass. Agt. L. A. & Redondo Ry. ; since 1906 its Mgr.; also Mgr. Redondo Improvement Co. and Pres. Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce. Mem. Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 197 WILLIAM BYRON SCARBOROUGH, Monrovia Born Louisiana, in April, 1853. Moved to Texas 1868. Educated at Waco Univ. Engaged in merchandising 1875-82. Moved to Los Angeles 1885. One of the founders Temple Baptist church. Mason in 1876; has- held highest offices; Grand Master of Grand Council California 1902. Is Mayor of Monrovia and Pres. American National and Granite Banks. Has had in vestment brokerage office at Los Angeles for twenty years. 198 GREATER LOS ANGELES EDWARD R. BRAINERD, Los Angeles Born St. Albans, Vt., 1856. Grad. Middlebury (Vt.) College (A. B. 1879); A. M., 1882; received B. D. from Union (N. Y.) Seminary, 1883; mem. Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Psi fraternities. Came to Los Angeles 1886; Vice Pres. Traders Bank and for past sixteen years engaged in investments and dealings in Los Angeles business property. Mem. Univ., Union League and Overland Clubs. In politics, Republican. Mar ried, Dec. 1, 1884, Miss Louise E. McDonald of Que bec, Canada. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 199 ALBERT SOILAND, Los Angeles Born Norway, 1873. Educated King's School. Located in Chicago 1885. Preparatory studies at Univ. of Illinois; came to Los Angeles 1898; grad. med. dept. Univ. So. Cal. 1900. Regular prac. 1900-5; special courses abroad in electro-therapeutics and Roentgen ray work, to which he has since given his time. Prof. Electro-'Therapeutics and Radiology in Los Angeles Post Graduate Med. School, Univ. So. Cal. Mem. leading medical societies; A. F. & A. M., B. P. O. E., Cal. Club and So. Coast Yacht Club. Married, 1901, to Dagfine Svendsen. 200 GREATER LOS ANGELES FERNAND PARMENTIER, Los Angeles Born Paris, France, 1865. Academic education in native country; architectural education in Chicago, where he located in 1878. Prac. in Chicago from 1888 to Nov., 1893; came to California autumn 1893; prac. in Los Angeles since 1895. In Chicago, architect for Sheridan and Hyde Park club houses and office building Chicago City Ry. ; in Los Angeles, for Cambria Union Apart ments, Christopher factory, First Church Christ Scien tists, Mascarel building and many fine residences. Sec*y So. Cal. Chapter American Institute of Architects; asso ciate mem. American Institute of Architects; delegate from So. Cal. (1907-8) to national convention American Institute of Architects; Pres. Legion . rancaise and Vice Pres. Liberal Alliance So. Cal. Mem. Playground Com mission of Los Angeles. o < p^ o I — I < u w H OwQ Cambria Union Apartments — Fernand Parmentier, Architect. 2()2 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIS DOUGLAS LONGYEAR, Los Angeles Born in Jackson Co., Mich., July 2, 1863. Moved to Kalamazoo, that state, in 1872, after the death of his father. Entered employ of Kalamazoo National Bank in November, 1884, and resigned in October, 1889, to come to Cal.; June, 1890, became Bookkeeper and Teller Security Savings Bank, Los Angeles, when that institu tion had only $220,000 deposits. Was elected Asst. Cashier in April, 1893, and Cashier and Secretary (pres ent position) in January, 1895. Scottish Rite Mason. Mem. Jonathan Club. Married, in February, 1893, Miss Ida A. Mackay, youngest daughter of the late Capt. A. F. Mackay. c? <:i — i S5Pi oI — I u pciWK H OCOQ Home of Willis Douglas Longyear. 204 GREATER LOS ANGELES Security Building, Los Angeles. GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT OCCUPIED BY Security Savings Bank and Security Safe Deposit Vaults. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 205 FLOYD GOSSETT DESSERY, Los Angeles Born Leavenworth, Kans., Feb. 10, 1879. Came to Los Angeles 1886. Common and high school education. En listed June 3, 1898, for Spanish- American War in Bat tery H, Third U. S. Artillery; served through Spanish and Philippine campaigns. Entered engineering in 1900; appointed special engineer for city of Wilmington in harbor improvement work, 1908; also City Engineer of Covina, Los Angeles Co. Mem. Engineers and Archi tects Ass'n of So. Cal., and Covina Country Club; also Chamber of Commerce. Mem. firm of Dessery & West, civil and hydraulic engineers. Married, Sept. 6, 1905, Miss Julia Morrison, of Redlands; one child, Floyd Gor don Dessery. Republican. 2o6 GREATER LOS ANGELES ROSE LA MONTE-BURCHAM, Los Angeles Born Dansville, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1857; daughter Dr. James and Eliza (Pratt) La Monte. Her father, born in England, prac. many years in Rochester, N. Y., and died Nov. 19, 1893. Rose L. Burcham, educated public schools and seminary at Dansville, receiving teacher's certificate at sixteen; grad. Rochester Acad. 1882. Commenced med. studies with father; grad. Eclectic Med. Institute, Cin cinnati, 1884. Located Highland, Cal., 1885; prac. there eleven years. Married, Dec, 1887, Charles A. Burcham, Los Angeles; in 1896, with husband, became interested in Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Co., Randsburg, Cal., and since regular formation of company, has been secre tary. Residence Los Angeles since 1899. On Board of Directors Fine Arts League; life mem. and dir. Ebell Club. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 207 Xo o*1 > O n > tdGw o M as y J0-' -^r^ 208 GREATER LOS ANGELES EDGAR W. GILLETT, Los Angeles Born Jefferson Co., Ind., Feb. 22, 1861; son of Alonzo H. and , Isabel (Brazelton) Gillett. Educated common and high schools of Peru and North Platte, Neb. In Dec, 1876, entered employ of Union Pacific Railway as telegraphic operator and agent; thus engaged at different points of the system until 1884, and continued in same position with the Burlington Road until 1887. From 1887 to 1894 was agent for the Rio Grande Railway at differ ent points; Gen. Agt. Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Rail way at Phoenix, Ariz., 1895-1901; Gen. Freight and Pass, Agt. San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Ry., 1901-6; Sec'y Los Angeles Chamber of Mines, 1906-7; since February of latter year Traffic Mgr. Las Vegas & Tonopah Ry. Vice Pres. Balboa Oil Co. Mem. Los Angeles Cham ber of Commerce, Jonathan and Traffic (N. Y.) Clubs. Married, 1885, Nellie Evelyn Woods; four children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 209 GEORGE ALEXANDER, Los Angeles Born near Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 21, 1839. In 1850 family came to U. S., residing for five years in Chicago; 1856 moved to Tama Co., la. Spent boyhood and youth as a Chicago newsboy and working on his father's Iowa farm. Civil War soldier, enlisting in 1862 and serving to close in Co. E, 24th Iowa Vol. Inf. Then worked in Belle Plaine, la., for five years; continued in grain busi ness at Toledo and Dysart, that state, and in 1887 sold it and located at Los Angeles. From 1890 to Jan. 1, 1901, identified with City Street dept. ; Supervisor Los Angeles Co., from latter date to Jan. t, 1909; present Mayor, elected Mar. 26, 1909. Republican. Mem. Muni cipal League and City, Union League and Gamut Clubs; Knight Templar and Shriner. Married, Apr. 15, 1862, Anna Yeiser, a native of Ohio; two children living-. 210 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN FREMONT SALYER, Los Angeles Born in Iowa, Nov. 2, 1862. Actively engaged in the music business since 1879, with the exception of four years in the general offices of the Santa Fe Railway Co., Topeka, Kans. Came to Los Angeles in 1890 to the Bartlett Music Co. After being successively man ager and secretary became president of "The Big Ex clusive Piano House." Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers Assn., Chamber of Mines, and Union League, Jonathan, Gamut and City Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211 XO gwo o a•2, en > rx H 212 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN GORMLEY ROSSITER, Pasadena Born Fort Howard, Wis., 1855; son of Allan F., a native of Prince Edward Island, and Margaret (Gorm- Iey) Rossiter, of Irish birth. Educated public schools. Admitted to the bar 1889. Came to California 1887. City Recorder Pasadena 1890-98. General practice since 1889. Married, 1897, Mrs. Mary Parker Foster, of Billerica, Mass. Mem. Pasadena Commandery No. 31, K. T.; also I. O. O. F. and K. of P. In politics, Republican. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 213 CLARENCE M. TAGGART, Los Angeles Born Red Oak, la., June 24, 1882. Educated public schools. Came to Los Angeles in January, 1901; since January, 1903, has been engaged in real estate, mining and building. Pres. Homestead Land and Building Co. of Los Angeles. Active in Republican politics. Mem. Chamber of Mines, Municipal League, Union League and City Clubs. Leader in work First M. E. church. Married, Apr. 2, 1906, Miss Winifred Pitner, of Los Angeles. 214 GREATER LOS ANGELES FRANCIS QUARLES STORY, Alhambra Born Waukesha, Wis., July 18, 1845; son of John P. and Eliz.(Quarles) Story, of Salem, Mass; brother of Maj. Gen. J. P. Story, retired, U. S. A., and Judge Wm. Story of Colo. For ten years wool merchant in Boston and San Francisco. Resident of Alhambra since 1883. Pres. of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1902; mem. since 1891; Chairman of its Citrus Tariff Exec. Com., which secured the tariff of 1897, and of com mittee appoinied to receive the N. E. A. Assn. in 1898 and J907, also of its Citizens' Relief Com. for San Francisco, and of Building Commit tee, which raised bonus required to erect present building. Is now Pres. Alhambra Orange Growers1 Assn., Semi Tropic Fruit Exchange, Fruit Growers' Supply Co., Executive Committee of Citrus Protective League, Los Angeles City Directory Co., and San Gabriel Valley Country Club; Director of First National Bank of Los Angeles and Equitable Savings Bank; California representative of National Conservation Committee. Married, 1876, Charlotte S. F. Devereux, who died childless, 1897. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 215 IX o oSO >a; n JO a >rK in Ho so >< 2l6 GREATER LOS ANGELES EMMET HOMER WILSON, Los Angeles Born Greeley, Colo., Jan. 15, 1876. Educated in the public schools Los Angeles Co.; grad. Los Angeles High School 1894. Admitted to bar Apr. 10, 1900, and U. S. Supreme Court Oct. 14, 1907. Gen. prac. since 1900; appointed Chief Dep. City Atty., Jan. 1, 1907. Democrat. Mem. Gamut Club, Chamber of Commerce and K. O. T. M.; also of first Playground Commission of Los Angeles (1904) ; on Board of Education 1905-6, and re-elected 1906, but resigned to become Chief Dep. City Atty. Married, Oct. 7, 1907, Grace Safford Ffumphrey of New York. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 21; J. R. WILDER, Los Angeles Born Tuscola Co., Mich., Dec. 17, 1874. Educated common schools; for six years studied law; also private secretary to U. S. Judge, Sixth Circuit. Ad mitted to bar 1904; gen. prac. in all courts, state and federal. Mason and K. of P. Married, Jan. 29, 1902, Miss Winifred Patterson, of Sioux City, la. 2l8 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN W. SHENK, Los Angeles Born Shelburne, Vt., Feb. 7, 1875. Moved to Omaha, Neb., 1882. Grad. Omaha High School 1895 and Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Delaware, 1900; law course Univ. of Mich. Mem. Fourth Ohio Vol. Inf. from first call until February, 1899, Spanish-American War. Came to Los Angeles in September, 1900. Admitted Cal. bar October, 1903 ; appointed Deputy City Atty. of Los Angeles August, 1906, and First Asst. City Atty. Jan. 1, 1909. Mem. Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta I hi ; Master South Pasadena Lodge No. 367, A. F. & A. M., 1909; Royal Arch Mason, an Elk, and mem. Union League and San Gabriel Country Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 219 ELIZABETH L. KENNEY, Los Angeles Born Mattoon, 111. Grad. Sioux Falls (S. D.) High School; course at Leland Stanford Univ.; LL. B. de gree Northwestern (111.) Univ. Admitted bar Cal. 1897; first woman practitioner of Los Angeles. Gen. prac. ; specialty, probate matters and administering of estates. Ardent advocate of woman's suffrage. Mem. College Woman's Club, Cal. Business Woman's Assn., Political Equality League and Friday Morning Club. Resident of Los Angeles for twenty-three years. 220 GREATER LOS ANGELES P. E. HATCH, Long Beach Born New Preston, Conn., 1861. Educated Whittlesey's Seminary, that place, and business department Yale College; grad. of both. Moved to Nebraska 1887 and seven years cashier Kennesaw Exchange Bank. Came to Long Beach Oct. 1, 1894; organized Bank of Long Beach in June, 1896, of which Cashier and Manager; in 1903 this became National Bank of Long Beach, of which he is Pres. Also, First Vice Pres. and Manager Long Beach Savings Bank and Trust Co., which he organized in 1900; Pres. Long Beach Chamber of Com merce eight years; and mem. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce twelve years and of Jonathan Club of that city. Married, 1883, Miss Elouise C. Norton, of Guil ford, Conn. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 221 > HMo> r td> o ro ^a o td w> o W 222 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM THOMAS CALDERWOOD, Los Angeles Born Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 7, 1872; son of Job F. Cal derwood, well known as an operator of early California railways. Educated in the public schools and at Bain- bridge College. Came to Los Angeles in 1901 and for fifteen years has been engaged in mining. Pres. Mexico Mining, Refining and Exploration Co. ; also manager Nevada-California Investment Co. Actively identified as director with Grizzly Bear Magazine, official organ Native Sons of California for the promotion and interest of Native Sons Golden West. Active B. P. O. E. Repub lican. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 223 MRS. KITTIE E. CALDERWOOD, Los Angeles Born in Sacramento County, near Elk Grove, Cal. Educated in the public schools and Sisters' Seminary, Sacramento, that state. Daughter of John A. and Ann R. (McClure) Elder, pioneers of California and prominent in mining and ranching. Married July 27, 1892, at Sacramento, to William T. Calderwood; four children — Perman, William, George and Ruth. Mem. of Eastern Star. 224 GREATER LOS ANGELES STEPHEN TOWNSEND, Long Beach Born Hamilton Co., Ind., 1848; moved to Cedar Co., la., at seven years; educated public schools. Farming in Iowa, until 1876, when he came to California, locating in what is now Pasadena; built first street car line there and served in City Council. Resident Long Beach since 1895 ; real estate and investments since 1897. Pres. Townsend Dayman Investment Co.; Dir. First National and Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach; Pres. State Bank of Newport. Ex-Pres. Board of City Trus tees, Long Beach. Mem. Chamber of Commerce and Pres. la. Socy. of So. Cal., 1909. Leader in M. E. church; many years Supt. Sunday School; Vice Pres. Long Beach Y. M. C. A. Married, 1869, Miss Anna M. Carroll. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 225 Xo %3 O en HM>dS- Ho3»% Ba 226 GREATER LOS ANGELES C. H. WINDHAM, Long Beach Born McMinnville, Tenn., Oct. 13, 1865. Educated in log cabin schools of native state. Engaged in railway construction and operation in United States, Central and South America, 1882-97; then for five years cof fee and sugar plantation bus. in Central America. Came to California 1903, and Long Beach 1904. Gen. Mgr. Western Dredging & Marine Construction Co. In politics, Independent; as such elected Mayor of Long Beach 1906. Married, 1894, Angelica Bonilla of Costa Rica, Central America. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 227 Xo gwo n 2aK > 228 GREATER LOS ANGELES CLINTON J. CURTIS, Long Beach Born Winona, Minn., 1870. Grad. Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1890, and class 1894 Yale College. Came to California 1893. Pres. West American Fruit Co., Redlands, 1897-1905. Resident of Long Beach since 1906. Pres. Los Angeles Dock & Terminal Co.; Dir. Redlands National Bank. Mem. University Club of Redlands and Chamber of Commerce, Long Beach. Married, Apr. 20, 1901, Lucy Kimberly, of Neenah, Wis. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 229 AMOS ALFRED FRIES, Los Angeles Born Vernon Co., Wis., March 17, 1873; son of Christian M. and Mary Ellen (Shreve) Fries. Educated country and Mound City schools, Mo , also in Nev, and Ore.; grad. Medford (Ore.) High School 1893, U.S. Military Academy, 1898; post-grad, work two years, civil engineering, electricity and practical astronomy. 2nd Lieut. Engineers' Corps, Willet's Point, N. Y., during Spanish-American War; on river and har bor improvements Portland, Ore., 1898 9; U. S. Engineers1 School, 1899- 1901; engineering work and military service in Philippines 1901-3; asst. river and harbor improvements Portland, Ore., 1903-5; Captain June 11, 1904; assigned supt. of river and harbor improvements Los Angeles district Feb. 6, 1906. Pres. Engr's and Archt's Assn So. Cal ; and mem. of military and scientific organizations; also of City and Country Clubs, Los Angeles. Married, 1899, Elizabeth C. Wait, Medford, Ore. 230 GREATER LOS ANGELES MRS. EMMA A. SUMMERS, Los Angeles Of southern birth. Known as "The Oil Queen of California." Since oil was first discovered near her home o-n California street, has made a careful study of the business. Invested her savings as a school teacher, and is now the leader in oil production of the Los Angeles territory. Also established the Sum mers Paint Company, and owns valuable real estate in Los Angeles. Giad. from New England Conserva tory of Music. Life member Pacific Coast Women's Press Association. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 231 Xo o W S> > en pi 232 GREATER LOS ANGELES PERCY HIGHT, Long Beach Born Riverside, Cal., 1877. Grad. San Bernardino schools and Univ. California (LL. B., 1903). Admit ted California bur by Supreme Court 1903. Prac. San Bernardino 1903 7. Came Long Beach in March, 1907. Appointed Asst. City Atty., Long Beach, in December, 1907; Chief History Clerk Cal. Assembly 1901-5. Republican. Gen. prac; mem. law firm Long, Hight & Hoodenpyl. Identified with B. P. O. E. His father, J. P. Hight, practiced law in San Bernardino for thirty years; now retired. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 233 A. M. BROWN, Los Angeles Born at Jamestown, Ohio, 1864. Attended public schools until twelve years old; then newsboy in Xenia, that state, and later Asst. Postmaster; resumed education at nineteen, attending Knox College, Galesburg, 111., and graduating from Univ. Michigan 1889. Principal Oneida (111.) schools 1890 and of Knoxville (111.) high school 1891, and Supt. of Schools Geneseo, 111., 1892. Came to Los Angeles 1893 and became clerk in National Bank; Paying Teller of same when merged with First National Bank; Teller of latter one year; then Asst. Cashier of American National and, since 1909, Cashier. Mem. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and served on Board of Education; also Mem. Country Club and Thirty- second Degree Mason. 234 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE A. LEIGHTON, Los Angeles Born Manchester, N. H'., Mar. 23, 1845. Grad. Concord (N. H.) High School. In 1880 invented Leighton knit ting machine and organized Leighton Machine Co. at Manchester, N. H., of which continuously Pres.; also Pres. Dodge Needle Co. of that city, which he organized; established in 1890 and ten years Treas. Union Electric Co., Manchester; organized 1889 and six years Pres. Everet Knitting Works, Lebanon, N. H. Mem. N. H. Legislature 1887-8. Permanent resident Los Angeles since 1904; built Hotel Leighton in that year and is still owner. Civil War soldier and mem. G. A. R. and Derry- field Club (Manchester, N. H.). Lifelong Republican. Married, 1879, Rose Golden, of South Berwick, Me. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 235 X o HHr1r o MH O Z 236 GREATER LOS ANGELES C. J. WALKER, Long Beach Born Almond, N. Y., 1869. Common school and bus. ed. Traveled in different parts of U. S. Came to Long Beach 1895. Pres. Farmers and Merchants Bank; Dir. Fiist National Bank and Citizens1 Savings Bank, Long Beach Bank of Oceanside and First National Bank, Ocean- side; Pres. of two largest dry goods stores in Long Beach, "The Mer cantile Co.'1 and "The Cash Store Co.'1 Secy, and Treas. LongBeach Salt Co ; Pres. Oceanside Electrical ana Gas Co., etc. Owns fruit ranches in different parts of the state. As Temperance Mayor of Long Beach (1900-04) chiefly instrumental in excluding saloons. Many years Pres. Board of Trustees, First M. E. church, and under his super vision structure cor. of Fifth and Pacific Ave. was erected. Married, 1895, Carrie D. Ziegler, a State Normal graduate; five children, Alice, Charles, Gustavus, Delmar and Marian, who can trace direct paternal lineage from Israel Putnam and maternal from Martin Luther. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 237 Ha oa woo*3>r O Waw o or o o bd> O 238 GREATER LOS ANGELES SAMUEL C. EVANS, Riverside Born Fort Wayne, Ind., 1866. Came California 1877. Grad. Univ. of the Pacific, San Jose, 1899. Son of Samuel C. and Minerva C. (Catlin) Evans. Since 1899 engaged in real estate and water investments. In 1907 elected first Mayor of Riverside under the city charter; Sept., 1909, elected Pres. California League of Municipalities. Republican; active in state and county ¦ politics for ten years. Married, 1893, Mary Southworth, of Stockton, Cal. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 239 X o o *l m > gH n< 240 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN WESLEY NORTH, Riverside Born near Troy, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1815. Settled in Territory Minnesota, 1849. Mem. Constitutional con vention when Minnesota admitted into Union, 1857. Chairman Minnesota delegation to National Republi can convention, Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln. Came to California and Nevada 1861; 1863-4 served as Associate Justice Nevada Territory under appointment Lincoln. Admitted N. Y. bar Nov. 1, 1845. Laid out and founded Riverside in 1870. Grad. Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn., 1841 ; law prac. 1846-1880. Died at Fresno, Cal., Feb. 22, 1890. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 241 JOHN G. NORTH, Riverside Born Minneapolis, Minn., 1855; son of the late Hon. John W. and Ann H. (Loomis) North. Came Cali fornia in 1861, and resident of Riverside since 1870. In 1884 one of the organizers and in 1889-90 Pres. of the Riverside Water Co.; Dir. Citizens National Bank. Lawyer engaged in gen. prac. Republican. Knight Templar. 242 GREATER LOS ANGELES HENRY S. CALLAHAN, Long Beach Born Jackson Co., Ind., 1868. Educated in common schools and Indiana State Normal School (grad. 1887). Since 1887 engaged in furniture business. Resident of California since 1894 and of Long Beach since 1902. Many years active in Republican politics. In 1907 elected to Long Beach City Council from Third Ward, serving as Chairman of Finance Com mittee. Mem. Chamber of Commerce; also Knight Templar and Elk. Married, 1897, Augusta C. Young, of Santa Anna; one daughter, Thelma. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 243 Xo o X wzw inn >r> >2! 244 GREATER LOS ANGELES LLOYD C. HAYNES, Hollywood Born May 20, 1862, in Canaseraga, N. Y. ; son of Henry D. and Helen M. (Whitney) Haynes. Educated in his native town. For many years engaged in bond and general securities bus., headquarters in N. Y. City. In Jan., 1907, to meet demands of increased western inter ests in mining, industrials and banking of the Manhattan Securities Co., of which he is Pres., moved his family from N. Y. City to Los Angeles and transferred the executive headquarters of the corporation from eastern to western city. Mr. Haynes, so well known from his firm's development of the Haynes copper mine at Jerome, Ariz., is also Pres. of the Union Exchange Bank of Los Angeles. Mem. Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Madre Club. Married, 1890, Dorothea L. Mayer, of Olean, N. Y. ; one son, H. Lewis Haynes, born 1894. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 245 Xo gw o r r c «:u n 246 GREATER LOS ANGELES LEE CHANNING GATES, Los Angeles Born Preble Co., Ohio, Apr. 4, 1856; son of Laborious A. and Maria (Brumbaugh) Gates. Educated in public schools Indiana and Ohio. Taught school five years in Wayne Co., Ind., and Montgomery Co., Ohio. Read law and was admitted to bar at Dayton, Ohio., 1881; prac. four years in Ohio. Moved to Kansas in 1885, ranch ing and practicing law until 1892 at El Dorado. Located at Los Angeles 1892 and became Atty. for the Los Angeles Abstract Co.; chief counsel Title Insurance and Trust Co. ; its successor, since formation in 1894. Inde pendent Republican; active in state and municipal re forms. Charter mem. and first Pres. City Club; Pres. California Land Title Assn.; mem. American Assn. Title Men, and various local clubs. Married, 1883, Bes sie B. Caldwell, Richmond, Ind.; two daughters, Hazel and June. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 247 Xo wo Xow 248 GREATER LOS ANGELES ARTHUR M. GOODHUE, Long Beach Born Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 22, 1871. Grad. Poly technic School of Oakland, Cal. For nineteen years engaged in lumber business. Pres. State Bank of Long Beach since February, 1906, and Vice Pres. from its organization in June, 1905, to the former date. Dir. Chamber of Commerce; Treas. Seaside Investment Co. Republican and a Mason; also mem. California Club of Los Angeles. Married, Oct. 24, 1896, Lilian Everson, of Oakland. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 249 Xo gHO>H K c w a o o aX a w 250 GREATER LOS ANGELES ¦. \ i r EUGENE ELBERT HEWLETT, Los Angeles Born Petaluma, Cal., 1878. Grad. Univ. of Califor nia 1900 (B. L.); Harvard Law School 1903 (LL. B.) ; Hastings Law School 1903 (LL. B.). Admitted bar 1903; mem. firm Hewlett, Bancroft & Ballantine, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mem. Delta Kappa Epsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon, Skull and Keys and Phi Delta Phi, college fraternities; also, of California and Jonathan Clubs, Los Angeles; Uni versity Club, San Francisco; and Pasadena and Annandale Clubs of Pasadena. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 251 Xog wo*jW aaww MwK HKw rwHH 252 GREATER LOS ANGELES ARTHUR LETTS, Los Angeles Born Holmby, England, June 17, 1862. Educated in private and public schools. In boyhood removed to To ronto, Canada; volunteer soldier Reil Rebellion 1885, re ceiving for bravery medal and bar from the British Government. Resident of Seattle, Wash., 1885-95. Came to Los Angeles 1895 and engaged in mercantile and finan cial pursuits. Vice Pres. California Savings Bank, and Dir. Broadway Bank & Trust Co. and Sinaloa Land Co. Pres. Y. M. C. A. and delegate (1909) to world's con vention of the association at Barmen-Elberfeld, Germany. Republican. Mem. California Club, Los Angeles, and Bohemian Club, San Francisco. Married, 1886, Florence Philp, of Toronto, Canada. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 253 254 GREATER LOS ANGELES DANIEL E. LUTHER, Los Angeles Born near Paris, Canada, Jan. 7, 1859; son of Upton H. and Aurilla (Maus) Luther. Boyhood spent in Orleans Co., N. Y. Educated at Medina (N. Y.) Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (grad. 1879). In 1880 moved to Atlanta, Ga., as Southern Mgr. of Cassell & Co.; after five years oiganized the D. E. Luther Publish ing Co., of which he was Pres. until he came to Los Angeles in 1905. Dir. of Atlanta Y. M. C. A. for ten years and Gen. Secy. 1897 to 1905; August of the latter year came to Los Angeles to assume a like position with the local association. During his administration the asso ciation has raised money for and built and equipped its building on Hope Street, pronounced by experts to be the finest building of its kind in the world. Active in civic work and a leading Methodist. Married, 1879, Sadie J. Burroughs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 255 ro>Z 55 Wr1w §U Ui/ /Aft/ imi/imfi 'y / ujf Mn/ v;/ uji >:4fi 1*1*1 Mmf /.f/.JJT' ^^^mmj ^^™^my ^mmmj Mmmjj /.yfammy ^mmm§ ^mmmmj ^mmmf mmmw ^ trmmy ^~. ¦ ¦*>¦ lmL4 1+4 Mm/ *4*>J«4fi:: **^W ***ml j.* , k ff 256 GREATER LOS ANGELES HIRAM AUGUSTUS UNRUH, Arcadia Born Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 1, 1846. Educated at Carry's Institute of that city. In Civil War three years with 20th Indiana Inf. and First U. S. Marine Artillery; nine months prisoner of war in Libby and other prisons. Came to California in 1866 as member Russian American expedition; remained as employee of Wells-Fargo Ex press, Western Union Telegraph and Central Pacific Railroad. Built first telegraph line over Sierra Nevadas for railway named and Asst. Freight Agt. from 1869 to 1874. In May, 1879, became connected with E. J. Bald win as general business manager and still holds position. Came to Los Angeles 1884. Always a Republican. Mar ried, Oct. 10, 1868, Jennie A. Dunn, then of Placer Co., Cal., but a native of N. Y. State. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 257 SAMUEL THOMPSON LEWIS, Pasadena Born in Union Co., Ind., educated in public schools and Valparaiso M. & F. College. Enlisted 1861, assigned to 9th 111. Cav., serving three years. In 1872 established produce commission business in Chicago, and a grocery business in 1874. Withdrew from retail trade in 1875, and after being associated for a time with D. Appleton & Co., publishers, in 1877 entered the publishing busi ness with C. C. Chapman & Co. He and his brother formed the Inter-State Publishing Co. in 1880, and in 1885 took the name of The Lewis Publishing Co., the business being incorporated in 1887. Married Miss Har riet Hosea at Newcastle, Ind., in 1887; two children, Alameda and Pauline. Moved to Pasadena in 1903. Residence, 149 N. El Molino Ave. 258 GREATER LOS ANGELES ED. R. MAIER, Los Angeles Born Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 5, 1882. Educated in public schools native city and at Univ. of California, Berkeley. In brewing business all his life; became Pres. Maier Brewing Co. at death of brother, Joseph F., Apr. 11, 1909; Pres. Southern California Brewers Assn., 1909. Mem. California and Jonathan Clubs and B. P. O. E. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 259 JOSEPH FREDERICH MAIER, Los Angeles Born Los Angeles, June 21, 1876. Educated in pub lic schools; learned the brewmaster's trade in Chicago and then joined his father (the late Joseph F. Maier) in the Maier-Zobelein brewery of Los Angeles, Zobe- lein interest in brewery purchased and he became Pres., thus continuing until death, Apr. 11, 1909. Leading Elk and Mason, being Past Master of Los Angeles Lodge No. 42, Knight Templar, and Shriner; also mem. Eagles, Native Sons, Jonathan Club and several German societies. 2f)Q GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE C. PECKHAM, Los Angeles Born Old Lyme, Conn., Feb. 9, 1871. Educated at Buck ley College, New London, that state. Moved to Dakota early in the nineties, chiefly engaging in mercantile and agricultural implement bus. Came to Los Angeles in 1904 and has aided largely in developing the southwestern section of the city, sub-dividing and improving such tracts as OHvita Heights, Magnolia Place and Moneta Avenue Square; also carries on large general real estate bus., being engaged in the sub-division of agricultural proper ties. Aside from real estate operations is Pres. National Car Seal Manufacturing Co., capitalized at $2,000,000, and manufacturing the widely known Estell car seal. Mem. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Mines, and active in automobile, business and social clubs; also mem. Elks Lodge No. 99 of Los Angeles. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 261 F. S. CARY, Wilmington Born Patterson, N. Y., 1865. Educated in common schools. Moved to Illinois in 1884 and to Nebraska in 1886, being a merchant of the latter state for twenty years. Came to Wilmington in 1905; assisted in organizing the Bank of Wilmington and has since been its Cashier and one of its largest stockholders; organized the Wilmington Dock Co. 1906, is its Vice Pres. and through it has taken a leading part in open ing the inner harbor to commerce. Is active in all matters pertaining to Greater Los Angeles. Repub lican and I. O. O. F. Married, 1893, Tena B. Bil lings, a native of Kansas. 262 GREATER LOS ANGELES J. B. COULSTON, Pasadena Bom Ellisburg, Pa., May 22, 1869. Previous to be coming a resident of Pasadena in 1905 was largely interested in Pennsylvania banks and the natural gas business of that state. Organized and Pres. of Colton National Bank and the Covina National Bank; Pres. Crown City National Bank and Crown City Savings Bank of Pasadena ; Vice Pres. Traders Bank of Los Angeles, and interested in national banks at River side, South Pasadena and San Pedro. Is also an extensive grower of citrus fruits, with orange ranches at Covina and Glendora. Knight Templar, Shriner and Thirty-second Degree Mason. Mem. Overland, Annandale and Jonathan Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 263 264 GREATER LOS ANGELES EDWARD LEE McCORMACK, Pasadena Born near Rockville, Mo., 1877. Educated in public schools and Central College, Sedalia, Mo., from which grad. 1895. Then engaged in banking, being con nected with the National Surety Co. and the New England National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.; later for five years in loan, investment and real estate busi ness. Came to Southern California in March, 1906, serving as Cashier of the American Bank & Trust Company, from that date until elected its Pres. (his present office) in March, 1907. Is the youngest bank pres. in California. Mem. Y. M. C. A., church clubs and Annandale Country Club. Married, July 6, 1904, to Miss Estelle Lytle. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 265 HERBERT E. DOOLITTLE, San Diego Born Painesville, Ohio, 1864. Educated in public schools of Illinois and Monmouth (111.) College (four years); grad. Denison Univ., Granville, Ohio, 1886. Came to California 1888. Admitted to bar 1890 and to U. S. Supreme Court 1899. City Atty., San Diego, 1895-1905; Republican. Prac. gen. and corporate. Mason and B. P. O. E. Mem. University and Cuya- maca Clubs. Married, 1893, Mary Susan Gay, of Plaquemine, La. 266 GREATER LOS ANGELES BEN WHITE, Los Angeles Born in Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Cal., Jan. 18, 1870. Flis parents emigrated to the United States in 1849, his mother from County Cork, Ireland, and his father from Glasgow, Scotland. Educated in pub lic schools Contra Costa Co., Cal., and later read law in San Francisco. Came to Los Angeles in 1892, where he has since been engaged in the real estate business. Mem. Los Angeles Real Estate Board, Chamber of Commerce, Municipal League and Jonathan and Athletic Clubs; also Knights of Maccabees, B. P. O. E. and Knights of Columbus. Married, 1902, Anna D. Rose, of San Francisco. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2D7 Xo g w o *i tdM 2 H 268 GREATER LOS ANGELES J. T. FITZGERALD, Los Angeles Born San Francisco, Cal., 1864. Common school education. Came to Los Angeles 1891, and has from that date been engaged in business under the name of the Fitzgerald Music Company; standard music of the Southwest greatly elevated through his efforts. Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manu facturers Assn., and Jonathan and Los Angeles Clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 269 X o gwc HH N s >ro 270 GREATER LOS ANGELES EDWIN JESSOP MARSHALL, Los Angeles Barn Baltimore Co., Md., Mar. 18, 1860. ^ Educated in country schools Maryland and Illinois. From 1877 to 1887 engaged in railroad work for the Union Pacific and Santa Fe roads at Atchison, Kans., and Galveston, Tex. In 1888 appointed Cashier First Natn'l Bank, Lampasas, latter state; Pres. 1890, thus serving until coming to Los Angeles, Jan. 1, 1904. Largely interested in the cattle business of Mexico and Southwest, and among his business connections are the following: Pres. Chino Land & Water Co., Sinaloa Land & Water Co., Palomas Land & Cattle Co., Jesus Maria Rancho (Inc.); Dir. First National Bank, Los Angeles Trust Co., Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co., Home Telephone & Telegraph Co., James H. Adams & Co. (Inc.), and Home Telephone Co., San Francisco. Mem. California, Jonathan and Country Clubs, Los Angeles, and Bohemian Club, ,San- Francisco. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 271 X o gwo*1W d en O >w en X >rr 272 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE A. RATHBUN, Los Angeles Born Clinton Co., la., Sept. 25, 1868. Educated at Cornel] (la.) College; afterward took a business course at the Omaha Business College; then connected with the Omaha National Bank for three years. In 1891 entered insurance business and after three years appointed Gen, Mgr. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia for Nebraska; continued with company 1891-1904; since 1904 Mgr. Equitable Life Assurance Society, first at Denver and later at Los Angeles. Mem. California and University Clubs; is a Mason, Oakland Commandery, K. T., and Islam Temple of the Mystic Shrine, San Francisco. Mar ried, 1895, Alda Elizabeth Miles at Omaha, Neb.; one daughter, Ruth Marjorie. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA V3 ARTHUR GREENVILLE MUNN, Los Angeles Born Lakeport, Cal., 1864. His father, Judge Orrin A. Munn, a native of Ohio, was County Judge of Lake Co. ; his mother was born at Atlanta, Ga. At twenty-two he purchased the San Jacinto (Cal.) Regis ter, which he still owns. Moved to Los Angeles 1906, taking up the sale of real estate; is considered a keen judge of present and future values; Pres. and Mgr. of the California Nitrate Company, a three million dol lar corporation. Mem. of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Mines. Has passed through all the chairs of Native Sons of the Golden West and Woodmen of the World. 274 GREATER LOS ANGELES E. W. SANDISON, Hollywood Born Chatham, Canada, Nov. 2, 1844. Came to United States 1866. Married, 1875, Sabina Wigle, of Kingsville, Canada. Founded Everest (1882), Horton (1886) and Liberal (1888), all in Kansas. Came to California 1894. Made fifteen round trips to Daw son, Alaska, in furtherance of commercial interests. Disposed of seven sub-divisions in Wilmington, inter esting several hundred people, who greatly aided in bringing about its present harbor development. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 275 276 GREATER LOS ANGELES THEODORE G. FINLEY, B. S., M. D., Los Angeles Born at Beaver Falls, Pa., 1875. Grad. Earlham Col lege, Richmond, Ind., 1897 (B. S.); attended Univ. Pennsylvania Medical Department, one year; M. D. from College of Medicine Univ. Southern California 1908. Interne Los Angeles County Hospital Aug. 1, 1908, to Feb. 1, 1909, when appointed Asst. Supt. of that institution. Has resided in California nine years; in Los Angeles four years. Mem. Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity and Los Angeles County Medical and California State Medical Societies; Mason and B. P. O. E. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 277 CHARLES HENRY WHITMAN, Los Angeles M. D., Born Leedsville, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1854; in 1859 was brought by his parents to Iowa. Educated in public schools of Des Moines and Chicago; studied pharmacy and for many years was engaged in the drug business in latter city. Grad. from Bennett Medical College, Chi cago, 1886; received degree of M. D. from medical de partment Univ. of Illinois 1890. Moved from Chicago to Los Angeles 1894; prac. there and in San Francisco until the great earthquake 1906, soon after which he returned to Los Angeles. Appointed Superintendent of Los An geles Co. Hospital Jan. 18, 1909. Mem. County, State and National medical societies. Knight Templar, Scot tish Rite Mason and Mystic Shriner. Married, 1893, Eleanor Goodwin of Chicago. 278 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN J. STEADMAN, Hollywood Born Ohio, 1849. Educated at Western Reserve Seminary and Mt. Union College, that State. Entered the Union army at sixteen years as mem. 171st Ohio Vol. Inf. Afterward principal of Springfield and Car rier seminaries, Fa. ; editor Daily Gazette, Creston, and Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, la., and Clerk U. S. District Court, Southern District, Iowa; also, Commander Department Iowa, G. A. R. Came to California 1902. Editor California Cultivator. Pres. Hollywood Board of Trade 1905; one of the founders of the Public Library and mem. (Pres. 1908) Board of Trustees Hollywood Union High School; Pres. Iowa Ass'n Southern California 1907. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 279 o rr X 3 r aw> 280 GREATER LOS ANGELES CARLOS S. STANLEY, Long Beach Born San Luis Obispo Co., Cal., 1884. Educated public schools. Since 1898 engaged in the hotel busi ness. Has been connected with operation of "Van Nuys ITotel" of Los Angeles, the "Potter" of Santa Barbara, the "Maryland" of Pasadena, and May 29, 1909, appointed manager of the "Hotel Virginia" of Long Beach, Cal. Mem. B. P. O. E. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 281 XoHHr o X 282 GREATER LOS ANGELES ALFRED G. SCHLOESSER, Hollywood Born Chicago, 111., Apr. 19, 1851, son of Rudolph Schloesser, a successful banker who erected the first bank and office building of note after the Great Fire of 1871. After graduating from Rush Medical Col lege (now affiliated with the Univ. of Chicago), Dr. Schloesser took a post-graduate course in the univer sities of Wurzburg, Heidelberg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. Regardless of his being a licentiate to practice in California, he prefers a commercial career, and is active in the bond investment, real estate and loan business. Dr. Schloesser resides in a handsome new home at Hollywood called "Glengarry Castle.'* AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 283 A.3?*^ i O r Z «>w w Wririxrir ¦#; . .'sC — ' ^ > 7? ^ f ^: if R. '-5«wjif y/mtSi] J.' 1 "£i V- ^ / . ¦ , '•*¦¦ 284 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM SPRINGER BARTLETT, Los Angeles Born South Bend, Ind., where he had practical mer cantile training; commenced banking career in San Francisco as bookkeeper for California Trust Co. (later National Gold Bank and Trust Co.), of which he be came Cashier; subsequently came to Southern Cali fornia and organized several banks and other corpora tions; in February, 1898, became Pres. Union Bank of Savings, of Los Angeles, and after it merged with the German-American Savings Bank became, as now, head of the consolidated institution. One of the promoters and organizers of the Home Telephone Co., Los An geles; Treas. and Dir. Y. M. C. A. Mem. California Club. In politics, Republican; in religion, Presby terian. Married at Oakland, Cal., Miss F. C. Gray, of Virginia. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 285 xo rrP C/J 53 o MW bd >w1-3 rwHH 286 GREATER LOS ANGELES CHARLES B. HOPPER, Los Angeles Born in Pennsylvania. Grad. Los Angeles High School ; student, for three years, at Leland Stanford Univ. Resident of Los Angeles twelve years; owner and founder of the town of Lawndale. Pres. of real estate and insurance firm of E. L. Hopper & Son; Sec. and Treas. Automobile Club So. Cal., and mem. California and Los Angeles Country clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 287 G. ALLAN HANCOCK, Los Angeles Born San Francisco, Cal., July 26, 1875, son of Major Henry Hancock and Mrs. Ida Hancock. Edu cated Belmont schools. For ten years has been en gaged in oil bus. , is Vice Pres. and Gen. Manager Rancho La Brea Oil Co. Since Jan., 1907, Pres. Automobile Club of So. Cal. and most active in pro moting its interests; mem. Galifornia and Gamut clubs, and Dir. in latter. Married, 1900, Miss Gene vieve Mullen, a native of Wisconsin. GREATER LOS ANGELES JOSEPH D. RADFORD, Los Angeles Born Fond du Lac, Wis., Apr. 14, 1857. Educated in schools of that city; grad. High School 1875. Same year became messenger in first Natn'l Bank of Fond du Lac; in 1883 private bank of Nelson Story, Bozeman, Mont. Came to Los Angeles 1896, and for three years was Asst. Cashier National Bank of California; located at San Jose 1898 to become Cashier of Garden City Bank and Trust Co., later holding same position with First Natn'l Bank; in 1903, became Pres. of bank; resigned 1907 to accept Vice-Pres. of German- American Savings Bank. Pres. California Bankers Ass'n 1908. Knight Templar and Shriner. Republican. Mem. Jonathan, Federation and City clubs. Married, 1908, Mrs. Florence Rivers Stowell ; first wife, Miss Maria M. Pinney, to whom he was married in 1881, and who died in 1901. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 289 XoBwo >ZD% o 290 GREATER LOS ANGELES HH z OH O SI 292 GREATER LOS ANGELES RICHARD V. LeGRAND, Pasadena Born Grimes Co., Tex., Nov. 21, 1860, son of Charles W. and Virginia (Pye) LeGrand; on maternal side direct descendant from Robert Morris. Educated public schools and Georgetown (D. C.) College. For twenty-one years has been engaged in mining in Mexico, New Mexico, Indian Territory, Arizona and Nevada. In 1907 organized the Alamo Mining Co., owners of "Mountain King" silver mine, at Lucky Boy, Nev. Democrat. Married, 1884, Dixie Clarke, daughter Major George W. Clarke, who was the founder and owner of The Two Republics, the first American newspaper published in Mexico. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 293 Xog wo o W >wa s;a 294 GREATER LOS ANGELES FRANK J. STEELE, Los Angeles Born New York City, June 15, 1872. Educated in public schools of native city and Univ. Southern Cali fornia. Came to Los Angeles 1889, and since 1894 has been in the real estate, loans and investment business. From 1894 to 1897 had management and exclusive sales of well known Chino ranch of 64,000 acres in San Bernardino Co. Since 1900 has con ducted an independent business under the name of F. J. Steele & Co. Mem. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 295 LEWIS W. BLINN, Los Angeles Born Dresden, Me., Dec. 22, 1842. Educated public schools and Maine Wesleyan Univ., Kents Hill. Came to California and located in San Francisco 1864, and since that year has been engaged in lumber business. Pres. of L. W. Blinn Co., Golden Gate Lumber Co., Lumber and Mill Co. of Whittier, State Bank of San Pedro and Provident Mutual Building & Loan Ass'n.; also Dir. of Citizens National Bank. Independent in politics and mem. Independent Church of Christ; also, Jonathan and Sunset clubs. Married, Dec, 1867, Celia Little, a native of Maine; have one son. 296 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN A. MURPHY, Los Angeles Born Philadelphia, Pa., Mar. 2, 1856. Educated at St. Vincent's College, Germantown, Pa. Moved to Denver, Colo., 1878, and to Los Angeles in 1887. Has been engaged as a building contractor from 1878 to fall of 1906, and for twenty years a leading con tractor of Southern California. Pres. East Side Can ning Co.; since January, 1908, active Vice Pres. Na tional Bank of Commerce. Republican. Mem. Union League Club; also Knights of Columbus and B. P. O. E. Married, 1879, Alvina Thompson of Davenport, la. ; have two children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 297 M ll* IS >. >. 1 3 ht i~ &5pP>SJte; ^b S*V ! oHffiHffiifiF 8^3? ill ^ F 7 -$ ¦ 5 iEW ! : II m f B t f §RH ar 't^pr ^B •- El> null M& *i) ' fc. r ^eMJkS r- k ^ ^" T^mmPbb^ X 1 B rT'"^Hii ' .-'¦'/>»' '''-;JjL 0 »' ^BB L'f MtoaBbI * /"' '/' i''f. '¦'¦"¦£d&r'$i g l bb«~ p-f ; y ; ' *'•''$$$ J-i M »¦ ¦¦« r' fer IMBBNBntflfl ••'¦¦•¦ '^M^ ^* fl^R &'. V' fffffSiBnHH KESK il#fl« *£A *"i O *1 ^'UrB? ¦ ^SKS^^Sfei''" Lfl <— 1 1 '" S- nfl BL< ¦ >¦*&**& ISKiJF^r OX*z II tlHB ^B~— T*X* Ebb :' \<&'fa$\ iHP! S3 4M*t& jBJr. ¦ha Bfl B ¦y... ;¦ ,-'¦ <" * ,i V^^H ^B 1 1 ft ..-.. ,./ Z^^^I^^L c| |P*"' ¦"..* j§|*| .¦¦¦>: • ^BvBBB^BSBBi .-:- 298 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOSEPH BARLOW LIPPINCOTT, Los Angeles Born in Scranton, Pa., October 10, 1864. Grad. Univ. Kansas as B. S. in 1886. Transitman on Santa Fe rail road survey 1886-8; topographer U. S. Geological Survey 1888-92, and afterward engineer for various irrigation en terprises; hydrographer U. S. Geological Survey Cali fornia 1895-1902, and consulting engineer for various cities; Supervising '"Engineer U. S. Reclamation Service 1902-6; now Ass't. Chief Engineer Los Angeles Aque duct. Has made special study of California hydrography, the results of which have been published as "Water Supply Papers" by the U. S. Geological Survey. Mem. American Soc. Civil Engineers, Ex-Pres. Southern Cali fornia Engineers and Architects Ass'n and Vice Pres. Calif. Water and Forest Ass'n; also mem. California, Sunset and City clubs. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 299 WILLIAM MULHOLLAND, Los Angeles Born Belfast, Ireland, 1855, son of Hugh and Ellen (Deakers) Mulholland. Educated in Dublin public schools and under private instructors in mathematics and navigation. Followed a sea-faring life from 1870 to 1875. Came to Los Angeles in February, 1877, and since 1878 has been connected with the water supply companies of the city. Appointed Chief Engineer water department Los Angeles, 1902, and still holds position; also is Chief Engineer and one of the lead ing promoters of the Owens River Aqueduct project. Mem. American Soc'y Civil Engineers, Engineers and Architects Ass'n Southern California, and California and Celtic clubs. Married, 1890, Lillie Ferguson; five children. 300 GREATER LOS ANGELES W. H. CODE, Hollywood Born Saginaw, Mich., Nov. 22, 1864. Educated in public schools and Univ. of Michigan. Engaged in railroad work on Union Pacific at Cheyenne, Wyo., 1890; Assistant State Engineer Wyoming 1891-2; Chief Engineer Consolidated Canal System, Salt River Val ley, Ariz., 1892-1902; Chief Engineer U. S. Indian Service since 1902; Consulting Engineer U. S. Recla mation Service on Indian Affairs. Field headquar ters. Los Angeles, and residence, Hollywood. Mem. American Society Civil Engineers and National Geo graphic Society. Married, at Bay City, Mich., Sept. 14, 1893, Miss M. E. Devlin. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 301 302 GREATER LOS ANGELES MARK GORDON JONES, Los Angeles Born San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 22, 1859, son of John and Doria (Deighton) Jones. His father was a pioneer English merchant, who in 1850 landed at Monterey with a shipload of merchandise from Australia. Educated in Los Angeles schools and at St. Augustine's College, Benecia, Cal., from which grad. 1879. After leaving college assumed management of mother's estate and so continued until her death in 1908, when he was appointed Administrator, as at present. Pres. Merchants Bank and Trust Co. and Merchants Building Co. From 1889 to 1907 served two terms as County Treas. In 1906 organ ized Inglewood Park Cemetery Ass'n, of which Pres. and Treas. Knight Templar; also of the Blue Lodge and Temple. Mem. Native Sons of the Golden West. Mar ried, 1885, Blanche E. McDonald, at Los Angeles; three children. __._._ AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3°3 MERCHANTS BANK $ TRUST COMPANY v/-» Merchant's Bank & Trust Company. 304 GREATER LOS ANGELES N. BLACKSTOCK, Los Angeles Born Asheville, N. C, 1846. Educated private schools in Tennessee. Served four years as a Confederate sol dier; six months 27th N. C. Cav.; three years, six months, 1st S. C. Art'y. Studied law and admitted Ten nessee bar 1868; all courts California 1875 and U. S. Supreme Court, Washington, D. C, 1882. Came to Los Angeles 1875 by stage; thirty years resided and prac. Ventura. Railroad Commissioner Third Dist. 1898-1902; Bank Commissioner 1905-7; resigned to become^Vice Pres. Merchants Bank & Trust Co.; also Trust Officer. Three years Eminent Commander of Ventura Commandery No. 18 ; now mem. Golden West Commandery No. 43 and Mystic Shriner. Republican. Mem. Union League and Federation clubs, Los Angeles. Married, 1868, Abbie Smith of Newport, Tenn. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 305 oga o td c 306 GREATER LOS ANGELES HERBERT PARKS BARTON, Los Angeles Born Worcester, Mass., Dec. 25, 1866, Clara Barton, illustrious founder of the Red Cross Soc'y, being his great-aunt. Grad. Oxford ( Mass. ) High School 1 882 ; student at Worcester Business College and Academy; then, until 1887, followed insurance business in Worcester and Webster, Mass. Grad. Jefferson Med. Coll., Phila delphia, 1890; interne in Jefferson Hospital; prac. and surgical post-graduate work, as well as mem. Board of Health, N. Y. City, 1891-2; prac. one year Denver and four years Worcester. Came to California 1897; prac. at Ontario, where assisted in organizing Board of Health; after two and a half years came to Los Angeles, where he has confined himself to surgery and Clara Barton Hospital, which he founded, 1904, and is Pres. and Gen. Mgr. Mem. of leading med. soc. ; prominent Mason. Married, 1890, Frances J. Vasseur; one child, Chandler Parks. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 307 3o8 GREATER LOS ANGELES GILBERT DWTGHT MUNSON, Los Angeles Born Monticello, 111., 1840, son of Horace Dwight and Mary B. (Griggs) Munson. Moved to Zanesville, Ohio, 1846. Student until July, 1861, when he enlisted Com pany B, 15th Ohio Inf'y; later transferred as 2nd Lieut. Company B, 78th Ohio, and rose through all the ranks to Lieut. Colonel and Brevet Colonel. Attended Colum bia Law School; admitted to N. Y. and Ohio bars 1867 and U. S. Supreme Court 1872. Commenced prac. at Zanesville, Ohio; Register in Bankruptcy 1867-74; Judge Court Common Pleas, First Subdivision, Eighth Ohio Judicial Dist., 1894-9. Came to Los Angeles 1900. Mem. of firm Munson & Barclay. Mem. Hazelette Post No. 81, Ohio G. A. R. ; life mem. Sons Am. Rev. and Soc'y Army of Tennessee, and Pres. Ass'n So. Cal. Military Order of Loyal Legion of U. S. (1908). Married, 1872, Miss Lucy S. Pqtwin. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3°9 ogo9rsH a n M >-3 ao 2 3io GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM W. WOODS, Los Angeles Born Hagerstown, Ind.. Apr. 24, 1877. Educated com mon schools Colorado and New Mexico. Was seven years with First National Bank El Paso, Tex., and two years and a half Asst. Cashier First National Bank Albuquerque, N. M. Came to Los Angeles June 1, 1905, to become Asst. Cashier American National Bank; elected Cashier Jan. 1, 1907, and Vice Pres. Apr. 1, 1909; Aug. 28th American and Citizens' Na tional merged, and Mr. Woods was elected Cashier of Citizens' National Bank on that date; also elected mem. Executive Gommittee of Los Angeles Clearing House Ass'n. Mem. California, Union League and Annandale Country Clubs. Thirty-second degree Mason. Married, 1901, Miss Marguerite L. Ainsa, of El Paso, Tex. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3" ALMON PORTER MAGINNIS, Los Angeles Born Cleveland, O., Jan. 1, 1848. Educated in Cleveland public and high schools (grad. 1866). Railroad engineer ing 1866-8 on Kansas Pacific; in 1880 timber contract ing on Texas Pacific; in 1882 bridge building on Cotton Belt Line, Texas. In 1882 became connected with the Santa Fe as president of the colony of the Neosho Falls & Western road, a branch built through portions of Kan sas; in 1886-7 bought right-of-way for extension of Santa Fe from Kansas City to Chicago. In 1887 came to Cali fornia as Mang'r Pacific Land Improvement Co. ; later appointed Commissioner of Land Dept. and Tax Commsr. and Claim Agt. of Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque, N. M.; also Pres. Santa Fe Car Icing, Navajo Ice & Cold Storage, Winslow Electric Light & Power, Gate City Ice & Pre-cooling companies, etc. Married, 1878, Alice J. Harpham, of Havana, 111.; three children. 312 GREATER LOS ANGELES LEON ELBERT LANDONE, A.M. Los Angeles M. D., Ph. D., Interested in psychology, philosophy and religions before eleven years of age. Traveled much and studied in tensely and broadly dui ing early life. Interested con secutively in political, religious, social and educational reform, studying each at first hand by living the life of those who needed aid. .After spending several years in social and industrial reform work, abandoned all previous studies and -efforts and gave several years to private ex perimental work, resulting in the educational process known as "the consciously functional and structurally de\ elopmental method." At present, Executive Secretary International Committee of New Educational Movement and President Institute of Applied Science and Art. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 313 r >zOC B o g O parc 2; wr r52 3*4 GREATER LOS ANGELES SAMUEL INGHAM MERRILL, Los Angeles Born Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1856; educated in its common and high schools. Commenced business with a Buffalo grain house; came to Oakland, Cal., Sept. 11, 1876, and opened grocery; bookkeeper, then manager for Hopkins & Haley, San Francisco bankers, 1877-81. Came to Los Angeles Dec. 24th of that year and entered hardware business as Merrill & Babcock; wholesale iron trade as Percival & Merrill 1883-5; book and stationery house (Merrill & Cook) 1885-91; devel oped one of the largest retail oil concerns in the world 1891-1901; Gen. Mgr. and Pres. California Industrial Co. since; also Dir. Western Gas Engine Co. and Chamber of Commerce. Organized Y. M. C. A. of Los Angeles Feb., 1882, and Pres. four years; one of the founders Baptist College, Union Rescue Mission, Good Samaritan Mission, McKinley Industrial Home and First New Testament Church of Los Angeles. Married, 1888, Sarah De Etta Dearborn; three children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3'5 3i6 GREATER LOS ANGELES NEWTON J. SKINNER, Los Angeles Horn Northfield, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1869. Received early education in Iowa. Moved to Galveston, Tex., 1892, and admitted to bar of that State; general prac. until 1902; resided in N. Y. City for two years. In Octo ber, 1905, moved to California, and admitted to State and United States courts. Assisted in organization of Bank of Southern California, of which Vice Pres.; Jan. 4, 1909, founded All Night and Day Bank of Los Angeles, only institution of kind on Pacific Coast and third in United States, of which Pres. Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Elks and Rotary Club. Married, 1889, Mattie Bal- lou Stafford ; three children — Etta M., Carl Newton, and Gladys M. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3i/ 3i8 GREATER LOS ANGELES GEORGE H. PRINCE, Lankershim Born Gambier, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1863. Educated in public schools, Kenyon Military Academy and Kenyon College (grad. 1888). Came to California year of graduation and for nineteen years has been engaged in teaching. Fifteen of his summers have been spent in drying fruit and during the season of 1908 he handled 527 tons. Mem. Board of Trustees Holly wood Union High School, and Sec'y Lankershim Im provement Ass'n. Republican. Married, 1900, Maude I. Dalton, born Los Angeles 1873; four children. Mem. Masonic fraternity. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 319 ow >z o wrmo r <: 324 GREATER LOS ANGELES JOHN CORNEBY WILSON AUSTIN, Los Angeles Born Bodicote, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, Eng., Feb. 13, 1870, son of Richard W. and Jane E. Austin. Educated English private schools; architect's apprentice under William Sampson Barwick. Came to U. S. 1890, first locating at Philadelphia; 1 842-5 in San Francisco, and since latter year in Los Angeles. In prac. in U. S. since 1890. Architect of the following buildings in California: Potter Hotel, Santa Barbara; Leighton, Alvarado and Fremont hotels, Los Angeles; Wright & Cal- lender building; First M. E. church, Los Angeles; First M. E. church, Pasadena; California Hospital, Angeles Hospital, So. Cal. College of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Univ. So. Cal. (rebuilt), Harvard Military Academy and Madam Ida Hancock residence. Scot tish Rite Mason and Shriner; associate mem. American Institute Archi tects; Pres. Los Angeles Humane Society; mem. Chamber of Commerce and-Jonsthan Club. Married and has five children. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 325 Wright & Callender Building. john c. w. austin, architect. 326 GREATER LOS ANGELES WILLIAM DAVID WOOLWINE, Los Angeles Born Christianburg, Va., Oct. 19, 1855. Educated in country schools. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1873, and until 1886 devoted himself tp the counting room and financial departments of wholesale and manufacturing enterprises. Came to San Diego, Cal., in 1886, and from 1888 to 1894 was Cashier First Nat'l Bank. Located in Los Angeles 1894 and until 1898 Cashier So. Cal. Sav ings Bank; Cashier Los Angeles Nat'l Bank 1898-1903; Vice Pres. So. Cal. Savings Bank 1903-6; since 1906 Vice Pres. Nat'l Bank of Cal. Dir. Security Savings Bank, Federal Bank, and State Mutual Building and Loan Ass'n. Mem. Chamber of Commerce and Cal. Club. Married, Oct.. 18, 1883, Miss Lily White, of Louisville, Ky. ; two children; a son, Louis M., aged twenty, and a daughter, Martha B., aged thirteen. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 327 X o g r> g d3 oor3 328 GREATER LOS ANGELES MERVIN J. MONNETTE, Los Angeles Born Marion, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1847. Educated com mon schools. Reared on a farm, and for some years' a stock dealer in Ohio. Also fifteen years' banking •experience in that state, ten years as president. Then eight years in Nebraska as cattle raiser on large tract of land. Later, operated the Mohawk lease at Gold- field, Nev., this proving the richest mine in America — forty-seven tons of ore, netting $574,958. Came to Los Angeles in April, 1907. Elected Pres. Ameri can Nat'l Bank January, 1909; also dir. Citizens Nat'l Bank. Mem. B. P. O. E., California, Union League and Country clubs of Los Angeles, Married, 1869, Miss Olive Adelaide Hull. <: pi o <; u W X H O Q Home of Mervin J. Monnette. 33Q GREATER LOS ANGELES ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE, Los Angeles Born Bucyrus, Ohio, Apr. 12, 1873. Descended from Samuel Fuller, "Mayflower" pilgrim, and genealogy re verts to early English kings and signers of Magna Charta; numbered among his ancestors also French Huguenots and Revolutionary soldiers. Educated in public schools; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1895; B. A. and Special Law; Honor man and Phi Beta Kappa. Admitted Ohio bar 1896; prac. Bucyrus 1896-1903; Toledo, 1903-7. Set tled Cal. April, 1907; since active prac. Dir. Citizens' Nat'l Bank and Chamber of Mines. Writer and com piler of Monnet Family Genealogy. Mem. patriotic, state, historical and genealogical societies; Phi Kappa Psi Frat., Union League, Jonathan and Country clubs of Los An geles; thirty-second degree Mason. Married, 1895, Miss Carrie Lucile Janeway of Columbus, Ohio. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 33i JAMES DIX SCHUYLER, Los Angeles Born Ithaca, N. Y., 1848, son of Philip Church and Lucy M. (Dix) Schuyler. Educated common schools to 1863; Friends College, Union Springs, N.Y., 1863-8; thereafter, self-educated. Railroad construction in Colorado on Kansas Pacific, Denver & Boulder and Denver & Rio Grande roads, 1869-73. Moved to Cal. in June, 1873; was chief engineer of the Stockton & lone Ry.. and from 1878 to 1882 assistant to the State Engineer in charge of irrigation investigations. Built famous Sweet water dam near San Diego, 1887-8; Hemet dam in Riverside Co., high est masonry work in Cal., 1890-1 , as well as extensive works for irriga tion and power development in Mexico, Brazil, etc.; constructed Necaxa dam in Mexico, 1907-10. Dec. 28, 1908, appointed by Roose velt member of commission to accompany President-elect Taft to Panama and report on the canal plans. Member of all leading Ameri can and English societies of civil engineers. Married, 1889, Mrs. Mary Ingalls Tuliper, of San Diego, Cal. 332 'GREATER LOS ANGELES PETER TIFFANY DURFY, Sherman Born Otsego Co., N. Y., Nov. 12, 1850. Educated in public schools and Albany Normal (grad. 1875). In 1876, after teaching one year, came to Los Angeles, where he continued that occupation for three years and then engaged in farming. Since 1881 he has re sided on his ranch near Sherman. Active as a prohibi tionist. For many years a trustee of the Coldwater district schools, and since 1905 mem. of Board of Trustees Hollywood Union High School; Pres. of same 1908-9. Married, 1890, Sallie L. Levering; four chil dren; family members Congregational Church. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 333 Xo f£oo 0 C z I— I o oKmoaoot-1 334 GREATER LOS ANGELES ELLIS HAKES, Long Beach Born Brown Co., Ohio, 1838. Removed to Illinois in boyhood. Enlisted Co. E, 77th 111. Vol. Inf., during war of Rebellion. In fall 1865 located Iowa Co., la., where for thirty-five years was engaged in farming and stock raising. For twenty-five years interested in banking and financial matters; Pres. of City National Bank since organization in 1907. Mem. G. A. R. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 335 \ - 33& GREATER LOS ANGELES W. W. LOWE, Long Beach Born Pickaway Co., Ohio, 1843. Settled in Nebraska 1861, where he was engaged in live stock and grain business. Came to California 1883 and to Long Beach in 1884. Was the first merchant of Long Beach, but for many years has been in real estate and insurance business. In politics, an earnest Prohibitionist. For eighteen years actively identified with the Southern California Chautauqua Ass'n. Mem. Long Beach Com mandery No. 40, K. T., and Congregational Church. Married, 1867, Belle McKee, a native of Ohio; have one daughter, Mrs. Vinnie E. Heartwell.