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 BEING THE PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 OF THE PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE 
 
 WEST WHO HAVE HELPED IN 
 
 THE DEVELOPMENT AND 
 
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A WORD IN ADVANCE 
 
 By 
 
 OTHEMAN STEVENS 
 
 ECAUSE the great West frowned on the white man and pre- 
 sented to his advance its redoubts of desert, mountains of 
 rock, withering heat, vast pathless stretches, inhabited by sav- 
 age beasts and more savage barbarians, the white man con- 
 quered it. 
 
 He transformed its frown into a smile; he turned its quivering blasts of 
 desolating heat into the calorics of fructification, and with the calm courage of 
 the superior mind, obliterated or tamed its barbarians, and quenched its arid- 
 ity by uncovering its hidden sources of water; so that today what was forty 
 years ago the most forbidding, has become the most inviting region of the 
 country the West. 
 
 The reaches which were then cropped only with the desolation of the 
 wilderness, now surpass in return for man's toil, those valleys of beauty and 
 promise which in the beginning of the nation lured with their promise of 
 luxurious ease. 
 
 Half a century ago, there was nothing between the outposts of business 
 and cultivation along the Missouri River and the sands of the Pacific, which 
 promised aught but a heart-breaking struggle with the untoward. 
 
 In the time that has passed of one generation, American indomitable- 
 ness has dotted the West with the bones of gold-seekers and homesteaders; 
 men by the thousands have marched, tortured by thirst, shriveled by pitiless 
 suns, stiffened by icy blasts, fighting, starving, dying, over flat acres and tow- 
 ering mountains, then counted worse than worthless, acres and mountains 
 which today are greater in their returns than all the riches which pictured in 
 the phantasmagoric dreams of the Argonauts. 
 
 In those former days, the Great American Desert filled a large space 
 in the maps in the school geographies; and when in 1847, by the Treaty of 
 Guadalupe de Hidalgo, the nation secured the larger portion of the territory 
 now forming our greater West and Southwest, it was obtained for political 
 purposes alone ; its value to the list of national assets was as absurd in the pub- 
 lic mind as later was the purchase of Alaska, which for a decade caused Sec- 
 retary of State Seward to be regarded as either an incompetent or a dement. 
 
 Nothing brings to the fore more sharply, the capacity of the American 
 to accomplish the impossible, than the facing of the impossible. 
 
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 The Great American Desert is now unknown. 
 
 What has been brought about by the men of America in what was the 
 Far West, is almost of the impressiveness of a miracle. 
 
 A miracle brought about by staunch courage in constant strife, because 
 of the love of strife with Nature in her most fiercely hostile phase. 
 
 It needed men to do this task, and these men were on the firing line dur- 
 ing the combat; some of them fell, but their work remains a part of the Na- 
 tion's bequest to posterity. 
 
 Many of them still live and work, and at need fight, and are among 
 and of us in the day's work. 
 
 It is of these men who have had part in creating this empire of fertility 
 where they found only the abomination of sterility, for these are the men 
 who transformed the bleak, desolate waste into the shining West of Plenty 
 and whose brain made everything possible to the West, that this volume treats. 
 
 They are the men who fought Nature's obstacles and turned the seas of 
 sand into pleasant fields; who went under and into the ground and took from 
 its depths the treasures of ingots and oil; they dug, they bored, they plowed, 
 they planted, they built aqueducts and reservoirs; they joined the East and 
 the West and the Northwest and the Southwest with bands of steel ; they were 
 the pioneer corps of business; they herded their cattle on the many thousand 
 hills, they built factories and cities, and their work has made this country one 
 whole, throbbing, united body politic, and body commercial. 
 
 They are the kind of men who when San Francisco was destroyed 
 turned their backs on the past and wrought out for their city a future more 
 illustrious than its mighty past. 
 
 They have removed the Far West from the map; they have made the 
 East and West blend. 
 
 First that Great American Desert yielded to them and was swept 
 from the map; they are doing the same thing with the dreaded Llano Esta- 
 cado of Texas with plow and pasture; they have changed that dread mys- 
 terious region, the delta of the Colorado, into farms that yield fortunes to the 
 acre; what were the "cow counties," by this work have become the admira- 
 tion of the world; from what was the bleak Northwest, they send forth to 
 all the world a continuous stream of golden grain and ruddy fruit, while they 
 have made its timber and mineral wealth attain undreamed of proportions; 
 they have dotted the West with American homes, and stirred these communi- 
 ties with American business and enterprise, so that schools and colleges 
 shadow the old-time strongholds of the Indian. 
 
 You see their work from the time you leave the Missouri River until 
 you stand on the shore of the Pacific ; from Mexico to Canada ; it is written in 
 and by the West, the Southwest, the Northwest; the work of these men and 
 their fellows and the tales of what was, seem incredible in the face of what is. 
 
 What their forbears did generations before in New England, these 
 men have done many fold over. 
 
 Their work completes the conquering of a continent. 
 
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 PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF 
 MEN OF THE WEST 
 
 IXBY, JOTHAM, Pioneer Stock 
 Raiser and Capitalist, Long 
 Beach, California, was born at 
 Norridgewock, Maine, January 20, 
 1831. He comes from the old stock 
 of New Englanders who settled 
 in Maine in the early days- and who previously 
 had come from Massachusetts. His father was 
 Ainasa Bixby and his mother Fanny (Weston) 
 Bixby. 
 
 Mr. Bixby's maternal great-grandfather was 
 Joseph Weston, a pioneer of Maine, who, in the 
 first year of the Revolutionary War, gave his life 
 to the Republic. He volunteered his services as a 
 woodsman guide to lead the ill-fated expedition of 
 Benedict Arnold against Quebec through the path- 
 less forests of Maine and was killed in the dis- 
 charge of his duty. 
 
 On December 4, 1862, at San Juan Bautista, 
 California, Mr. Bixby married Margaret Winslow 
 Hathaway, second daughter of the Rev. George W. 
 Hathaway, of Skowhegan, Maine. By this union 
 there have been born seven children George Hath- 
 away, Mary Hathaway (deceased), Henry Llewellyn 
 (deceased), Margaret Hathaway (deceased), Rosa- 
 mond Read (deceased), Fanny Weston and Jotham 
 Winslow Bixby. 
 
 Mr. Bixby received his education in the common 
 schools of his native State. Being one of ten chil- 
 dren, and realizing that there were few opportuni- 
 ties for him in Maine, he determined to go to Cali- 
 fornia, which at that time was attracting the eyes 
 of the civilized world. The gold rush was on, and 
 in 1852, Jotham Bixby found himself aboard the 
 ship Samuel Appleton, California-bound. The ship 
 went around the Horn and Mr. Bixby was- landed in 
 San Francisco, the Mecca City for adventurers and 
 gold seekers from all parts of the globe. 
 
 In July, of the same year, Mr. Bixby, in com- 
 
 pany with his elder brother and several others who 
 went out with him from his home village, entered 
 the mining region near Volcano, in Amador County, 
 California. He continued in placer mining for 
 about five years and acquired a small amount of 
 capital. 
 
 In 1856, he went into sheep raising and the 
 wool business and the following year moved south 
 to San Luis Obispo County, California, near San 
 Miguel. He remained there in close attention to 
 his growing flocks for about nine years. 
 
 The name and fame of Southern California had 
 commenced to impress itself on a few of the 
 far-sighted and, in 186G, Mr. Bixby sold his inter- 
 ests- in San Luis Obispo County, intent on settling 
 near Los Angeles. A short time previous to this 
 he and his equal partner in the well known pioneer 
 firm of Flint, Bixby & Company, of which his 
 elder brother, Llewellyn Bixby, was also a member, 
 had purchased from John Temple the fertile and 
 well-watered Rancho Los Cerritos, containing over 
 27,000 acres-. 
 
 This vast tract of land, which lies east of the 
 San Gabriel River and fronts the Pacific Ocean, in- 
 cludes the present townsites of Long Beach and 
 Clearwater, and the Llewellyn or New River dis- 
 trict. Mr. Bixby was half owner and in full man- 
 agement of the property and soon became known 
 as one of the largest and wealthiest stock raisers 
 in Southern California. With his indomitable force 
 of character, he gradually worked his way to the 
 front. He made additional land purchases, financed 
 numerous worthy development projects and became 
 known as one of the most progressive citizens of 
 Southern California. 
 
 As their flocks enlarged and their profits in- 
 creased, Mr. Bixby and his associates purchased 
 17,000 acres of the Palos Verdes Rancho, and a one- 
 third interest in Los Alamitos- Rancho, of 26,000 
 
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 acres. Later he purchased, individually, 6000 acres 
 in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, as well as 
 business properties in and around Los Angeles. 
 
 With this expansion of holdings his stock was cor- 
 respondingly increased and at times he had 30,000 
 head of sheep on his ranges. From this herd 200,- 
 000 pounds of wool were obtained yearly. In later 
 years he raised horses and cattle as well as- sheep. 
 Now his principal live stock interest is in Holstein- 
 Friesian cattle and in scientific dairying. 
 
 Mr. Bixby has been one of the most important 
 factors in the upbuilding of the city of Long Beach, 
 which has- been reared on a part of the land form- 
 erly owned by him, and stands today one of 
 the most progressive municipalities of the Pacific 
 Coast. He was one of the original incorporators 
 of the town, aided in laying out its streets and ave- 
 nues, organized various business- enterprises, in- 
 cluding the first bank, and was instrumental in 
 furthering the city's interests in so many ways that 
 he was given the honorary title of "The Father of 
 Long Beach." The city has a population of approxi- 
 mately 25,000 persons- and won distinction among 
 the cities of the Union by showing a growth in 
 population of nearly seven hundred per cent during 
 the decade from 1900 to 1910, the greatest increase 
 of any city in the United States. To Mr. Bixby, 
 who witnessed and aided the transformation of the 
 place, this record was a source of great satisfac- 
 tion, for in his latter years he is working as eagerly 
 for its- growth as he did at the beginning of the 
 task of making a city. 
 
 Aside from the practical work of adding to the 
 commercial importance of Long Beach, Mr. Bixby 
 and his family have, by their force of character, 
 had a strong influence on governmental and civic 
 affairs in general, with the result that Long Beach, 
 a city of beautiful homes, is one of the cleanest, 
 physically and otherwise, in the country, and noted 
 as one of the most refined resorts in the West. 
 
 Despite his prominence in public affairs, Mr. 
 Bixby has never had any political ambitions and 
 consequently has never appeared as a seeker or 
 candidate for any public office, although, as a rec- 
 ognition of his great work for his adopted State he 
 could probably have had any office within the gift 
 of the people of his section. He has always taken 
 an interest in politics to the extent of assuring 
 clean, progressive government, but in the main 
 his work has been that of a developer of resources 
 and his appearances in public affairs have been 
 limited to service on special bodies engaged in the 
 promotion of movements for the benefit of the city. 
 
 Mr. Bixby has now turned over the management 
 of some of his interests to his sons. At the same 
 time he takes a keen interest in looking after busi- 
 ness details, particularly of his farming interests, 
 his confidence in his own judgment therein being 
 fully justified by the fact that farming formed the 
 foundation of his fortune. 
 
 He is President of the Bixby Land Company, the 
 Palos Verdes Company, the Jotham Bixby Company, 
 and many smaller corporations; Vice President of 
 the Alamitos Land Company, the Alamitos Water 
 Company, First Vice President of the National 
 Bank of Long Beach, and Vice President of the 
 
 Long Beach Savings & Trust Company, being asso- 
 ciated in some of these enterprises with other mem- 
 bers of his family connection and in others with 
 that eminent Pacific Coast financier, Isaias W. 
 Hellman. 
 
 In addition to the interests mentioned, Mr. Bix- 
 by has been interested in various other enter- 
 prises, including orange growing, manufacturing, 
 irrigation and cattle. He was President of the 
 Chino Valley Cattle Company of Arizona for sev- 
 eral years, this company being engaged in the 
 sheep raising business at Ash Fork, Arizona, on an 
 extensive scale. The direct management he turned 
 over to his son Harry L. Bixby, who conducted the 
 business until his- death in 1902, and since that time 
 it has been in the hands of others. Another im- 
 portant concern which Mr. Bixby helped to or- 
 ganize and push to success was the Pacific Cream- 
 ery Company, of Buena Park, Orange County, Cali- 
 fornia, engaged in the manufacture of condensed 
 milk and cream, with a monthly output of nine 
 thousand cases of evaporated milk and cream. 
 
 Several years ago Mr. Bixby resigned from the 
 office of President of the National Bank of Long 
 Beach to take the less confining, though active 
 office of First Vice President of the bank, in which 
 capacity he serves. 
 
 On December 4, 1912, Mr. and Mrs. Bixby cele- 
 brated the golden anniversary of their wedding in 
 their magnificent home at Long Beach, facing Bixby 
 Park, a beauty spot he presented to the city. They 
 welcomed more than eighty guests, many of whom 
 were their children and grand-children, and, fol- 
 lowing the wedding luncheon, a great family re- 
 union was held. 
 
 On this occasion, Mr. Bixby, strong and alert at 
 the age of eighty-one, received congratulations 
 from scores of friends in all parts of the country 
 who admire him as a man, and appreciate his work 
 in upbuilding the substantial City of Long Beach, 
 built on the land where formerly his sheep and 
 cattle grazed. The couple received numerous gifts 
 commemorating their fiftieth anniversary of 
 wedded life, one of these being a handsome silver 
 vase three feet in height, sent by the officers and 
 directors of the National Bank of Long Beach, of 
 which he was one of the organizers and the first 
 President, and the Long Beach Savings & Trust 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Bixby long occupied a comfortable, but by 
 no means ostentatious residence overlooking the 
 Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, but in September, 
 1911, he purchased the magnificent residence built 
 there two years before by A. D. Meyers, a mining 
 man, which is one of the most palatial residences 
 in Southern California, and occupies a commanding 
 position on the bluff above the ocean. 
 
 There he is rounding out the evening of a most 
 active life in close and happy companionship with 
 his wife and his surviving children and grand- 
 children, who, best of all, know and appreciate the 
 simple, unaffected and generous, but entirely vigor- 
 ous traits of character which make this stalwart 
 scion of a hardy and conscientious race a true 
 historic representative of the best and most char- 
 acteristic in the transformation of early California. 
 
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 IXBY, GEORGE H., Banking, Long 
 Beach, California, is a native of 
 that state, having been born on 
 Independence Day, 1864, at San 
 Juan Bautista, San Benito Coun- 
 ty. He is the oldest son of 
 Jotham Bixby, the famous Southern California 
 pioneer and settler, and Margaret (Hathaway) 
 Bixby. His mother's father, the Reverend George 
 W. Hathaway of Skowhegan, Me., was a graduate 
 of Williams College and of 
 the Andover Theological 
 Seminary and served 
 through the Civil War as 
 chaplain of one of the Maine 
 regiments. 
 
 Mr. Hathaway traced in 
 direct descent to Governor 
 William Bradford, who came 
 over in the Mayflower and 
 was the first Governor of 
 Plymouth Colony, and to 
 Kenelm Winslow, a brother 
 of Edward Winslow, the sec- 
 ond Governor of the colony. 
 On his fatner's side, Mr. 
 Bixby traces, as do probably 
 all the families of that name 
 scattered in various parts of 
 the country, to Joseph Bixby, 
 who came over from England 
 in the early Puritan immi- 
 gration and settled in Mas- 
 sachusetts, from which state 
 his descendants kept push- 
 ing out to the frontier in 
 many directions. 
 
 This branch of the family 
 settled in Maine, and Mr. 
 
 GEORGE H. BIXBY 
 
 immediately took up part of his father's interests 
 at that place, becoming secretary of the Alamitos 
 Land Company. For several years he remained in 
 this position, studying the business conditions of 
 that vicinity and acquainting himself with his 
 father's extended properties and holdings. About 
 the year 1901 he was appointed Vice President 
 and Manager of the Bixby Land Company and of 
 the Palos Verdes Land Company, his father re- 
 taining the presidency of these corporations, but 
 looking to his son to assist 
 him in the management of 
 them. 
 
 From that time down to 
 date he has had his time 
 well employed in managing 
 and directing the various 
 companies in which he holds 
 office and in working for the 
 development of the Long 
 Beach community in general. 
 
 He is a director of the Los 
 Angeles Dock and Terminal 
 Company, developing the 
 Long Beach Inner Harbor; 
 director of the Seaside In- 
 vestment Company, owning 
 and operating the Hotel Vir- 
 ginia; director of the Wall 
 Company Department Store; 
 director Long Beach Dairy 
 Company and other local cor- 
 porations. He is also vice 
 president of the National 
 Bank of Long Beach, and 
 president of the Long Beach 
 Savings BanK & Trust Com- 
 pany, a substantial and grow- 
 ing institution. 
 
 Jotham Bixby's maternal grandfather, named Wes- 
 ton, was one of the sturdy Maine woodsmen-farmers 
 who lost their lives in the service of their coun- 
 try in the first year of the Revolutionary War, 
 while guiding through those pathless northern for- 
 ests the ill-fated expedition of General Benedict 
 Arnold against Quebec. 
 
 Mr. Bixby married in Los Angeles, on August 
 31, 1887, Amelia M. E. Andrews, a native of Toronto, 
 Canada, and daughter of Joshua and Dinah Eliza- 
 beth Andrews, well-known old-time residents of 
 the Los Nietos Valley. As a result of this mar- 
 riage there are now surviving six children, Rich- 
 ard A., Philip L., Margaret W., Barbara L., David 
 W. and Stephen L. Bixby. 
 
 Mr. Bixby was educated in the preparatory 
 schools of Oakland, California. After graduating 
 from the Sackett School in that city he entered 
 Yale University, where he graduated with the de- 
 gree of B. A. in 1886. In college he was a member 
 of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 
 
 On returning to Long Beach from the East, he 
 
 As an owner of extensive land holdings through- 
 out the Southwest, Mr. Bixby has been in a posi- 
 tion to understand the alignment and condition of 
 roads in Southern California. 
 
 He was chairman of the Los Angeles County 
 Highway Commission up to August, 1911, having 
 served as Highway Commissioner for four years. 
 During this time he has been occupied in studying 
 the highway conditions of the county, in touring 
 over the boulevards in the interests of his position 
 and in laying plans for new improvements in this 
 direction. 
 
 Since retiring at the end of his second term in 
 this office, he is devoting his time to his banking, 
 real estate, ranching and other interests in Long 
 Beach and to the upbuilding of his city, his work in 
 this direction placing him in the forefront of civic 
 factors 
 
 He is a member of the California Club in Los 
 Angeles, the Virginia Country Club at Long Beach, 
 as well as being an honorary member of the El 
 Rodeo Club in the latter city. 
 
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 n 
 
 ANDOLPH, EPES, Railroad Presi- 
 dent, Tucson, Arizona, is a son of 
 Eston Randolph and Sarah Lavinia 
 (Epes) Randolph, born and reared 
 in Virginia. He is a member of 
 .the famous Randolph family of 
 that State and a descendant of 
 Pocahontas, the Indian princess. He married Miss 
 Eleanor Taylor of Kentucky in 1886. 
 
 Upon completing his education, Mr. Randolph 
 engaged in the railroad business in the civil engi- 
 neering department and his career has been one of 
 successful achievement. His life is a part of the 
 history of railroad development in the United States. 
 
 From 1876 to 1885 he was continually engaged 
 in the location, building and maintenance of rail- 
 ways in various Southern States and Old Mexico. 
 He served several companies during this time as As- 
 sistant, Locating, Resident or Division Engineer, the 
 principal of these being the Alabama Great South- 
 ern, the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern and the 
 Kentucky Central railways. He took an active part 
 in the construction of hundreds of miles of line in 
 the States of Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missis- 
 sippi, Georgia and Old Mexico. The majority of 
 these properties were owned by the late Collis P. 
 Huntington and associates, and during his nine 
 years of activity Mr. Randolph so impressed the 
 veteran Builder that he chose him for one of his 
 chief aides and confidential advisers. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Randolph was selected by Mr. 
 Huntington for Chief Engineer of the Kentucky 
 Central Railroad, with headquarters at Covington, 
 Kentucky, and also as Chief Engineer of the Cin- 
 cinnati Elevated Railway, Transfer & Bridge 
 Company. In this latter capacity he designed and 
 directed the construction of the great Huntington 
 bridge which spans the Ohio River, connecting 
 Covington, Ky., with the city of Cincinnati. This 
 structure is one of the world's great engineering 
 achievements, consisting of double track railway, 
 highway and pedestrian divisions, with an elevated 
 approach thereto. Its erection established Mr. 
 Randolph for all time in the world of engineering, 
 but to this he has added greater accomplishments. 
 
 The bridge having been completed and the 
 Kentucky Central, on which he had charge of main- 
 tenance, construction and reconstruction, sold to 
 the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, 
 Mr. Randolph, in 1890, was transferred to Lexing- 
 ton, Ky., where he assumed command of the oper- 
 ating and engineering departments of various 
 Huntington properties. These iucluded the New- 
 port News & Mississippi Valley Company, the 
 Ohio & Big Sandy Company and the Kentucky 
 & South Atlantic Railroad Company. He served 
 as Chief Engineer and Superintendent of these three 
 companies until about the middle of 1891, when he 
 was transferred to Louisville as Chief Engineer and 
 General Superintendent of the Chesapeake, Ohio 
 & Southwestern and the Ohio Valley Railway Com- 
 panies, both Huntington lines. 
 
 As in all of his previous connections, Mr. Ran- 
 dolph applied himself indefatigably to his work 
 with the result that at the end of three years his 
 health failed and he was compelled in the middle of 
 1894 to resign his position; and for one year he 
 did no work except that of giving professional 
 advice to such companies as he was then serving 
 in the capacity of Consulting Engineer. 
 
 In addition to his work for the Huntington in- 
 terests, Mr. Randolph, from 1885 to 1895, had a 
 general practice as Consulting Engineer, serving 
 various railroads and municipalities. His efforts 
 
 were confined chiefly to bridge construction, and 
 among others he supervised the construction of the 
 great bridge crossing the Ohio and connecting 
 Louisville with Jeffersonville, Indiana. This bridge 
 exceeds its predecessor at Cincinnati by only five 
 feet and is the longest single span in the world. 
 Mr. Randolph built this structure for the East End 
 Improvement Company of Louisville, but upon its 
 completion it was sold to the Chesapeake & Ohio 
 and the Big Four Railroad companies. 
 
 Resuming active work in August, 1895, Mr. 
 Randolph was appointed Superintendent for the 
 Southern Pacific Company, in charge of its lines 
 in Arizona and New Mexico, with headquarters at 
 Tucson, Arizona. He retained this position for 
 six years, resigning in August, 1901, to become 
 associated with Henry Huntington, nephew of his 
 earlier friend, as Vice President and General Man- 
 ager of the Los Angeles Railway Company and 
 the Pacific Electric Railway Company. 
 
 Mr. Randolph was located in Los Angeles three 
 years and during this time gave to the city the 
 greater part of the splendid system of urban and 
 interurban railways operating there today. Sum- 
 marized, his work consisted of locating, construct- 
 ing and operating approximately 700 miles of elec- 
 tric line, a record unparalleled in the annals of 
 electric railways for the same length of time. 
 
 In the fall of 1904, Edward H. Harriman, then 
 in the midst of his mighty work of development 
 and railroad reconstruction, invited Mr. Randolph to 
 rejoin the Southern Pacific forces, and accordingly, 
 he returned to Tucson. He was eiected President 
 of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway 
 Company and of the Maricopa, Phoenix & Salt 
 River Valley Railroad Company, in Arizona, and 
 the Cananea, Yaqui River & Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany in Old Mexico, all Harriman properties. 
 
 It was while engaged in the direction of these 
 companies that Mr. Randolph, in 1905, was elected 
 President of the California Development Company, 
 a large irrigation project operating in the Colorado 
 Desert in the State of California and Lower Cali- 
 fornia, Old Mexico. The company now irrigates 
 250,000 acres of land and, when the project is com- 
 pleted, will irrigate 600,000 acres. In this connec- 
 tion Mr. Randolph accomplished a feat which not 
 only added to his fame as an engineer, but bla- 
 zoned him to the world as a great public benefactor. 
 
 President Theodore Roosevelt, about the begin- 
 ning of 1907, appealed to Mr. Edward H. Harriman 
 to undertake the work of damming the Colorado 
 River, which had broken its banks and was empty- 
 ing its entire flow into Salton Sink through a chan- 
 nel previously cut and occupied by it. Salton 
 Lake then had a length of fifty miles, a width of 
 fifteen miles and a central depth of one hundred 
 feet. Mr. Harriman in turn asked Mr. Randolph 
 if he would undertake, under the aggravated con- 
 ditions, to force the fugitive stream back into its 
 original channel again. Mr. Randolph told him it 
 could be done and undertook and accomplished the 
 task, although it was generally regarded by engi- 
 neers as an impossibility, for it had been previously 
 undertaken and much money expended in vain. 
 
 The following quotation, from the New York 
 "Times" of April 2, 1909, is what Mr. Harriman 
 had to say about the feat several years later: 
 
 "During my trip I visited the Imperial Valley, 
 where we did that work to prevent the flooding 
 of the valley by the Colorado River. There is a 
 picture of the dam (pointing to a snapshot) and 
 and that is Randolph, the engineer who did the 
 work. The other engineers said the work could 
 
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 not be done, but Randolph did it. He told me that 
 the only misgiving he had while the work was go- 
 ing on was that I might get tired of the racket 
 and stop putting up the money. But we stood to- 
 gether and the work was done. 
 
 "We beat the river out, he (Randolph) told me, 
 by only four or five days. If the Colorado River 
 had not been closed then it never could have been 
 closed, and all that land would have been lost; 
 but the work was done, and all those 600,000 acres 
 or more of land have been saved for all time." 
 
 The closure was completed February 11, 1907, 
 and the river thrown back into its old channel, the 
 flow of water being 44,000 cubic feet per second 
 at the time. Two hundred and fifty thousand cubic 
 yards of rock and gravel were used in the dam 
 and the time consumed in making the closure four- 
 teen days and twenty-one hours. The dam stands 
 today a monument to constructive genius and is 
 a part of the permanent levee. The actual cost 
 of the closure was $1,600,000 and upon its com- 
 pletion Mr. Harriman had invested in the protec- 
 tion of Imperial Valley, $5,000,000. This is today 
 the largest irrigated district in America and its 
 reclamation represents untold energy. 
 
 Where the break which Mr. Randolph closed 
 occurred in the Colorado River, the stream is 120 
 feet above sea level and the bottom of Salton 
 Basin is 285 feet below sea level, so that if the 
 river had not been returned to its original channel 
 the country would, in time, have been inundated, 
 and instead of the prosperous farms and cities of 
 today there would have been only Salton Sea. 
 
 Mr. Randolph gives the major credit for this 
 great work to the late Mr. Harriman, who approved 
 and financed his plan of operation, and to the en- 
 gineers who followed his orders; but the record 
 stands, nevertheless, that he personally was the 
 active agent in the great undertaking, who accom- 
 plished his object against terrific odds. 
 
 Some two years after Mr. Randolph concluded 
 his task the Colorado River again broke its banks, 
 about twenty miles lower down, this time emptying 
 its water into Volcano Lake and thence to the 
 Gulf of California. The U. S. Government in 1910 
 undertook to close this break, but failed, after 
 spending something like a million dollars. In the 
 Summer and Fall of 1911 Mr. Randolph caused to be 
 made a survey of the Lower Colorado Delta, and, 
 after exhaustive study, prepared a report upon the 
 whole subject. Accompanying this report were ex- 
 planatory maps, profiles and estimates, all having 
 in contemplation closing the break and providing 
 permanent control of the Colorado. 
 
 This report is dated November 1, 1911, and was 
 submitted, through the proper channels, to Presi- 
 dent Taft, who, in turn, submitted it to Congress 
 in his message of February 2, 1912. Prior to that 
 time a special Board of Engineers had been ap- 
 pointed by Mr. Walter L. Fisher, Secretary of the 
 Interior, to report upon the same subject. Gen- 
 eral W. L. Marshall, formerly Chief of Engineers, 
 U. S. Army, now Consulting Engineer of the Dept. 
 of the Interior, was a member of this board and 
 thoroughly familiar with Mr. Randolph's views. Mr. 
 Randolph's recommendations, however, are at vari- 
 ance with those of the Board of Engineers, and Gen- 
 eral Marshall, in a letter to the Secretary of the In- 
 terior, January 5, 1912, takes direct issue with Mr- 
 Randolph and severely criticises his report. For fu- 
 ture reference, it is well to consider this divergence 
 of opinion between these two experts. 
 
 Gen. Marshall's letter says of Mr. Randolph's pro- 
 posal: "For lands in the United States this project 
 is not necessary nor, in my mind, even desirable." 
 
 Again, "Nor do I see any basis for the estimate that 
 the rim of Volcano Lake, which is now thirty-four 
 feet above sea level and has been so high for many 
 years, will be forty feet above sea level in four 
 years," this latter being Mr. Randolph's estimate. 
 Mr. Randolph says that tne rim of Volcano 
 Lake will, in time, be raised by deposits to an 
 elevation of 67^ feet above sea level, and he pre- 
 dicts that so much of this raise will have been 
 accomplished within four years that it will no 
 longer be practicable to prevent the water from 
 escaping from Volcano Lake into Imperial Valley. 
 In other words, Mr. Randolph maintains that unless 
 the recommendations set forth in his report be 
 substantially adopted, the Colorado River will 
 again empty into Salton Sink and ultimately inun- 
 date Imperial Valley, destroying the work which 
 cost millions of dollars and years of labor. 
 
 It is not within the province of the writer to 
 say which of these two engineers is right and 
 which wrong, but it is a question of vital interest 
 to the country at large and particularly to the in- 
 habitants of Imperial Valley and the Southwest; 
 and the fact remains that any recommendations 
 on this subject coming from Mr. Randolph, a man 
 so entirely familiar with the territory and condi- 
 tions involved, deserve the deepest and most se- 
 rious consideration, and the public will watch the 
 outcome with profound interest. 
 
 Upon the completion of his Colorado River work, 
 Mr. Randolph again devoted himself exclusively to 
 the direction of the railroads under his jurisdiction. 
 His principal work for several years past has been 
 the location and supervision of construction of a 
 line through the western part of Old Mexico, which 
 he has pushed through in the face of great ob- 
 stacles, natural and artificial. This line, which is 
 today 1200 miles in length, has opened up a fab- 
 ulously rich territory, including mining and agri- 
 cultural lands, and ultimately will enter the City 
 of Mexico. The road the Cananea, Yaqui River 
 & Pacific was absorbed in June, 1909, by the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico and 
 Mr. Randolph was then elected its Vice President 
 and General Manager. Eight months later Febru- 
 ary, 1910 he was elected to the same office in the 
 Arizona Eastern Railroad, formed by the consolida- 
 tion of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern and the 
 Maricopa, Phoenix & Salt River Valley companies. 
 In October, 1911, upon the reorganization of 
 the Southern Pacific system into several depart- 
 ments, he was elected President of these two roads. 
 This resume of the operations of Mr. Randolph 
 tells inadequately the part he has taken in the 
 railroad upbuilding of the Southwest, for he was 
 in close personal association with Mr. Harriman 
 in the latter's great plans for the conquest of the 
 Nation's waste places and during the Harriman 
 epoch occupied the same position with the leader 
 as he had under the Huntington regime. 
 
 Mr. Randolph has devoted his life to develop- 
 ment work, taking no active part in politics, al- 
 though he has always been a stanch supporter of 
 the Democratic party. In the early part of his 
 residence in Arizona he was chosen a member of 
 the staff of Governor McCord, and held a similar 
 honor with Governor Murphy, in both instances 
 with the rank of Colonel. He was assigned various 
 engineering duties in the interest of the State, 
 which he performed in addition to his railroad work. 
 He is a member of the California, Jonathan, Los 
 Angeles Country, and San Isidro Gun Clubs, Los 
 Angeles, Cal.; Old Pueblo Club, Tucson; Yavapai 
 Club, Prescott, and Arizona Club, Ehoenix, Ariz., 
 and engineering and scientific societies. 
 
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 COTT, HENRY T., San Francisco, 
 California, President of the Pa- 
 cific Telephone & Telegraph Com- 
 pany, and executive officer of va- 
 rious interests, was born near 
 Baltimore, Maryland, in 1846, the 
 son of John Scott (a Quaker preacher and a strong 
 supporter of the Union) and Elizabeth (Lettig) 
 Scott. His paternal ancestors were among the 
 earliest residents of Maryland, and the Scott home, 
 now occupied by Mr. Scott's 
 sister, was deeded to the fam- 
 ily by Lord Baltimore. In 
 1867 Mr. Scott came to Cali- 
 fornia, where he has achieved 
 a notable position and sue 
 cess. He was married to Miss 
 Elsie Horsley of England, 
 and is the father of three 
 children. They are W. Pres- 
 cott, Harry H. and Mary Scott 
 (now Mrs. Walter Martin). 
 Henry T. Scott obtained 
 his education in the public 
 schools and at Lamb's Acad- 
 emy, in Baltimore, Maryland, 
 and shortly after leaving the 
 latter institution he removed 
 to California. 
 
 Not long after his arrival 
 in San Francisco he secured 
 employment, as time-keeper, 
 in the Union Iron Works, 
 which at that time, though a 
 comparatively small concern, 
 was the leading corporation 
 of its kind on the Pacific 
 Coast. Here, by zealous de- 
 votion to his duties, as well 
 
 as by sheer ability, he rose rapidly, filling various 
 responsible positions and finally, together with his 
 brother, Irving M. Scott, becoming an indispensable 
 part of the corporation. The Scotts, indeed, came 
 to be regarded as the chief part, if not the whole 
 institution. When, in 1883, it was organized as an 
 incorporated company, Henry T. Scott was made 
 the First Vice President of the Union Iron Works. 
 Two years later he became President, an office he 
 filled with distinction up to the time the corpora- 
 tion changed hands. 
 
 During the Scotts' control of the Union Iron 
 Works the establishment was developed from a 
 comparatively unimportant local concern to one of 
 world-wide reputation, chiefly as a Dullder of bat- 
 tleships and cruisers for the United States Navy. 
 The Oregon, the Charleston, and the San Fran- 
 cisco were among their first notable achievements 
 in this line vessels that always a little more than 
 "came up to specifications." The Oregon, in fact, 
 bids fair to become historical in more than one 
 respect, for a movement is now on foot to have it 
 
 HENRY T. SCOTT 
 
 lead the naval procession through the Panama 
 Canal, in celebration of the opening of that water- 
 way. 
 
 Mr. Scott's interests have now branched into a 
 wide and varied field of activity, earning him the 
 title among his associates, in the financial world, 
 of "Pooh Bah." He is, perhaps, best known as 
 President of the Pacific Telegraph & Telephone 
 Company, which operates in the States of Cali- 
 fornia, Oregon, Nevada and the western part of 
 Idaho. This company has the 
 largest single system of any 
 telephone company in the 
 United States, as well as the 
 most extensive long distance 
 lines and the greatest num- 
 ber of exchange plants. Its 
 capitalization is $50,000,000, 
 and its subscriptions have 
 reached a higher figure than 
 those of any other company 
 of its kind, and under the 
 management of Mr. Scott it 
 is rapidly expanding. 
 
 Ever since the subject of 
 the Panama-Pacific Interna- 
 tional Exposition to com- 
 memorate the opening of the 
 Panama Canal, was first 
 broached, Mr. Scott has been 
 one of the most enthusiastic 
 supporters of the project. He 
 was one of the original or- 
 ganizers of the Panama-Pa- 
 cific International Exposi- 
 tion Company, the directing 
 organization, and has since 
 been a member of various im- 
 portant committees. He was 
 
 one of the most active members of the committee 
 that went to Washington during the historic con- 
 test between the cities of New Orleans and San 
 Francisco before Congress, which resulted in the 
 California city being chosen as the site for the 
 great exposition. From the time of this selection, 
 Mr. Scott has given up a large portion of his time 
 to the work of the exposition, giving the promoters 
 of it the benefit of his long experience in engineer- 
 ing and business affairs. 
 
 Besides his Presidency of the Pacific Telephone 
 & Telegraph Company, Mr. Scott is President of the 
 Mercantile National Bank, Burlingame Land & 
 Water Company, St. Francis Hotel Company, Co- 
 lumbia Theater Building Company, Director Crocker 
 National Bank, Bank of Burlingame, Crocker Es- 
 tate Company, Crocker Realty Company, Crocker 
 Hotel Company, City Realty Company, Moore & 
 Scott Iron Works, R. N. Burgess Company, and 
 Western Mortgage & Guaranty Company. 
 
 Mr. Scott is a member of the Pacific-Union 
 Club, and Burlingame Country Club. 
 
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 JOHN HAYS HAMMOND 
 
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 AMMOND, JOHN HAYS, Consulting 
 Engineer, San Francisco, New 
 York and London, was born in 
 San Francisco, California, March 
 31, 1855, the son of Major Rich- 
 
 ard Pindle Hammond and Sarah 
 
 Elizabeth (Hays) Hammond. His father, a native 
 of Maryland, was graduated from the United States 
 Military Academy in 1841 and served with distinc- 
 tion in the Mexican War, retiring from the army 
 with the rank of major. He afterwards settled in 
 California with his- wife, who was a daughter of 
 Harmon Hays, a Tennessee planter, and sister of 
 Colonel John C. Hays, famous as a commander of 
 Texas Rangers in the border war days. Mr. Ham- 
 mond married Miss Natalie Harris, daughter of 
 Judge J. W. M. Harris of Mississippi on New Year's 
 day, 1880, and to them there have been born four 
 sons, Harris, John Hays, Jr., Richard Pindle and 
 Nathaniel Hammond. 
 
 Mr. Hammond, who has been called the greatest 
 engineering genius of his era and has conquered 
 obstacles in most of the civilized and uncivilized 
 parts of the world, inherited his engineering ability 
 from his- father. He was also fortunate in having 
 splendid educational advantages in his training 
 period. He received his preliminary education in 
 public and private schools, going from Hopkins 
 Grammar School, at New Haven, Connecticut, to 
 Yale University. He was graduated from Sheffield 
 Scientific School of Yale in 1876, with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Philosophy, and in 1898, twenty-two 
 years later, Yale conferred upon him the degree 
 of Master of Arts. Following the completion of his 
 course at Yale, he studied for three years in the 
 Royal School of Mines at Freiberg, Saxony, but did 
 not graduate. Other collegiate honors- bestowed 
 upon him in later years were the degree of Doctor 
 of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, in 1906, and that of Doctor of Laws, conferred 
 upon him in 1907 by St. Johns College. 
 
 From the time he left school Mr. Hammond has 
 been progressing successfully and successively in 
 the world of mining and mine engineering, until 
 today, with a wonderful record of accomplishment 
 behind him, he stands at the head of his profes- 
 sion, this position being voted him by his contem- 
 poraries in all parts of the world. 
 
 Upon his return from Saxony, in 1880, Mr. Ham- 
 mond was chosen by the United States Government 
 as special expert for the Geological Survey to ex- 
 amine the gold fields of California. His report on 
 the gold resources of his native State, made after 
 the most thorough investigation, was the most com- 
 prehensive ever prepared up to that time and is 
 one of the recorded government authorities. 
 
 His work in this capacity established Mr. Ham- 
 mond as one of the experts of the mining world and 
 for the next few years succeeding he was in great 
 demand for examination and research work. In 
 1892, when he was barely thirty-seven years- of age, 
 Mr. Hammond was chosen as superintendent of 
 large silver properties in Sonora, Mexico, and dur- 
 ing the time he was there he also examined a num- 
 ber of other valuable properties, thereby gaining 
 first-hand information about the mining possibili- 
 ties of the Republic. 
 
 He was called back to San Francisco from Mex- 
 ico to become consulting engineer of mines in 
 Grass Valley, California, and also was chosen as 
 Consulting Engineer for the Union Iron Works of 
 San Francisco, the Central Pacific and the Southern 
 Pacific Railroads. 
 
 The works accomplished by Mr. Hammond in 
 
 these offices added to his reputation and he was 
 commissioned to examine mining properties in all 
 parts of the world. Finally, in 1893, he was sum- 
 moned to South Africa by the celebrated diamond 
 and gold magnates, Barnato Brothers of London and 
 South Africa. This was the beginning of one of 
 the most thrilling and picturesque chapters in his 
 entire life, for, after a short experience in the coun- 
 try, he became associated with Cecil Rhodes then 
 in the midst of his great work in South Africa, as 
 Chief Engineer of his enterprises, and with the im- 
 mortal empire-builder he took a conspicuous part 
 in that country's upbuilding. 
 
 Mr. Hammond was one of the intimates of the 
 great Rhodes in his plans and in his engineering 
 triumphs not only won the respect and admiration 
 of the leader, but caused a feeling among the na- 
 tives of the country that made them put him in the 
 clas-s of the wonder-worker. For instance, Mr Ham- 
 mond turned the wild trails of certain places into 
 level streets and platted cities almost over night- 
 built mine elevators by which thousands of the na- 
 tives were shot down into the mines in the morn- 
 ing and brought back to the surface of the earth 
 at evening, and accomplished other feats which so 
 startled the people that they really regarded him 
 as superhuman. 
 
 As an ardent supporter of Cecil Rhodes, Mr. 
 Hammond naturally came to have a prominent part 
 in the political plans of his leader and was one of 
 the four great leaders of the reform movement in 
 the Transvaal. It was during this time that Rhodes 
 stationed a body of 600 men, under Dr. Leonard 
 Starr Jameson, on the border of the Transvaal to 
 be prepared for any disturbances which might be 
 fomented by the Uitlanders. Mr. Hammond was 
 with him. Finally, Jameson made his celebrated 
 raid, which resulted so disastrously, and Mr. Ham- 
 mond, who was not in sympathy with the move- 
 ment, was one of the chief sufferers. Dr. Jameson, 
 on his own initiative, went forward one day to at- 
 tack Krugersdorp, but met with such fierce resist- 
 ance that even his bombardment of the town proved 
 ineffectual and his attack failed. He next attacked 
 Doornkoop, but after a terrific battle of thirty-six 
 hours' duration, in which he lost seventeen men 
 killed and forty-nine wounded, he was compelled 
 to surrender to the Boers. 
 
 Jameson and his officers were turned over to 
 the British Government for punishment and Mr. 
 Hammond, as one of the supposed leaders, was first 
 sentenced to death for his part in the raid. This 
 later was commuted to fifteen years' imprisonment 
 and finally he regained his freedom by paying to 
 the Transvaal Government $125,000. 
 
 While connected with the Rhodes enterprises 
 as Consulting Engineer of the Consolidated Gold 
 Fields of South Africa, the British South Africa 
 Company and the Randfontein Estate Gold Mining 
 Company, Mr. Hammond accomplished marvels in 
 the engineering work and is given credit for a 
 large part of the success attaching to the develop- 
 ment of Rhodesia. It was while there that he dis- 
 played a side of his character that showed the big- 
 ness and fairness of the man, the incident here re- 
 lated being told by a warm friend of his some years 
 after it occurred. 
 
 As the story goes, Mr. Hammond, in his capacity 
 of Chief Engineer, commissioned a younger man, 
 in whom he had great confidence, to handle a large 
 operation and this man, through an error of judg- 
 ment, caused damage which meant the loss of a 
 tremendous amount of money to his employers. 
 Humiliated and discouraged, the younger engineer 
 
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 appeared before Mr. Hammond, told him what he 
 had done and tendered his resignation. The elder 
 man would not accept it, but instead told his assist- 
 ant how the damage could be repaired, and then 
 said to him: 
 
 "You cannot afford to make this mistake. You 
 are a young man and have your whole life before 
 you. If I make this mistake, the world will not 
 take it so seriously, and, as I sent you out, I will 
 stand responsible for the damage." 
 
 This he did, and the younger man, who was 
 ready to abondon the work for which Mr. Hammond 
 considered him born, was saved from disgrace. He 
 is today one of the great and successful engineer- 
 ing experts of the world. 
 
 This is a story that Mr. Hammond never relates 
 himself, nor is the writer aware that it has ever 
 appeared in print before. 
 
 Following the completion of his works in South 
 Africa and his exoneration, morally, for his part 
 in the Jameson raid, Mr. Hammond settled in Lon- 
 don, England, and there became interested in a 
 number of large mining companies in various parts 
 of the world, including the United States and Mex- 
 ico. In directing and overseeing these operations, 
 he made many trips to the United States and other 
 parts- of the world, finally returning to his native 
 country to remain permanently. 
 
 Becoming associated with the great Guggenheim 
 Brothers' mining interests as Chief Engineer for the 
 Guggenheim Exploration Company of New York, 
 Mr. Hammond took his place at the head of his 
 profession in this country, at a salary variously 
 estimated from half a million to a million dollars 
 per annum. All the mining operations of this gi- 
 gantic concern were placed under nis personal su- 
 pervision and he embarked upon one of the most 
 extensive development enterprises ever known to 
 the mining industry of America. He designed and 
 supervised the construction of a vast system of 
 canals in the placer fields of Alaska and opened up 
 many valuable coal and metal properties in that 
 northernmost possession of the United States. He 
 also directed operations in various other parts of 
 the United States, in Old Mexico and abroad, and 
 made frequent trips to Russia and Siberia in the 
 interest of his employers. His work in this ca- 
 pacity is a part of mining history. 
 
 A few years back, Mr. Hammond became inter- 
 ested in the Yaqui River Delta Land & Water 
 Company, projectors of the largest irrigation and 
 general development enterprise ever undertaken in 
 Mexico. This company owns more than a million 
 acres of land in the Yaqui River Valley, which it is 
 reclaiming and opening to settlement, and Mr. 
 Hammond is one of the owners as well as Chief 
 Engineer and designer of the work. 
 
 Mr. Hammond, who is regarded abroad as the 
 typification of American progress, has been a fac- 
 tor in American political life fpr many years. In 
 1908, at the solicitation of friends, in many States, 
 he became the candidate of Massachusetts for the 
 nomination of Vice President at the Republican 
 National Convention, held that year in Chicago. 
 Because of his great professional record and his 
 personal popularity, his candidacy rapidly gained 
 strength, delegates from Massachusetts, his resi- 
 dence, and California, his native State, making a 
 vigorous fight in his behalf. Other States, particu- 
 larly the mining States of the West, rallied to his 
 standard, and his headquarters, at the Congress 
 Hotel in Chicago, was the scene of the greatest 
 activity in the pre-convention days. 
 
 His choice for the position of running-mate to 
 Taft seemed assured and, as events proved, he 
 
 would have been elected to the second highest of- 
 fice in the land; but as the nominations were about 
 to be made, Mr. Hammond became convinced that 
 the election of President Taft could be made more 
 certain by the selection of a New York man as 
 the Republican party's candidate for Vice Presi- 
 dent, so he withdrew in favor of James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, of Utica, New York, and threw all of his 
 support to him. 
 
 Mr. Hammond, because of his great ability as 
 an organizer, was later chosen as President of the 
 National League of Republican Clubs, and in this 
 capacity was enabled to render great assistance. 
 
 President Taft and Mr. Hammond are warm 
 personal friends and at their summer homes in 
 Massachusetts have frequently played golf to- 
 gether. This close association gave President Taft 
 a clearer insight into the character of Mr. Ham- 
 mond than could be had in the formal meetings of 
 public life and in 1911, when it came time to choose 
 a diplomatic envoy to represent the United States 
 among the nations at the Coronation of King 
 George Fifth and Queen Mary, the Chief Executive 
 appointed Mr. Hammond Special Ambassador. The 
 visit of Mr. Hammond and his wife to the English 
 court was a triumph for them and their country. 
 They were paid many honors by the newly crowned 
 rulers and other notables who figured in the cere- 
 monies, and they, in turn entertained lavishly. 
 
 The reception accorded Mr. Hammond on this 
 occasion was one of the most pleasing of his life 
 and demonstrated to the world at large that any 
 feeling which England may have had for his part 
 in the Jameson affair had been obliterated by his 
 later and greater accomplishments for the good of 
 the Empire. His relations with King George were 
 the most cordial of any had by a foreign delegate 
 to the coronation. 
 
 In addition to this honor, President Taft also 
 reposed other confidences in Mr. Hammond, ad- 
 vising with him on many matters of great impor- 
 tance to the country. In his world-wide travels 
 Mr. Hammond has made a deep study of interna- 
 tional trade relations, and some of his utterances 
 concerning development of foreign trade for the 
 United States have been adpoted as the basis of 
 trade reform. He has also taken a very prominent 
 part in the advocacy of reforms in the nation's 
 mining laws, and has helped in the creation of nu- 
 merous acts passed by Congress in recent years for 
 the protection of lives and property of the miners. 
 Because of his prominence in this respect and his 
 frequent conferences at the White House, it was 
 reported many times that President Taft was seek- 
 ing to have him enter his Cabinet. 
 
 Mr. Hammond served as President of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Mining Engineers during the years 
 1907 and 1908. He has contributed numerous 
 articles on mining and engineering matters to the 
 the technical press, and despite his diversified in- 
 terests, has found time to lecture before the young 
 aspirants for engineering honors at various institu- 
 tions of learning. Among others he has lectured 
 before the classes of Columbia, Harvard, Yale and 
 Johns Hopkins Universities. 
 
 Other organizations in which Mr. Hammond is 
 a leading figure are the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, of which he was 
 elected a Fellow in 1891, the National Civic Federa- 
 tion and several lesser ones of a political or civic 
 nature. He is a member of the Century and Uni- 
 versity Clubs, of New York, and of the University 
 Clubs of Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. 
 He makes his home at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 
 but has offices in London and New York. 
 
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 VES, EUGENE SEMMES, At- 
 torney at Law, Tucson, Arizona, 
 was born in Washington, D. C., 
 November 11, 1859, the son of 
 Colonel Joseph Christmas Ives 
 and Cora M. (Semmes) Ives. He 
 married Anna Waggaman in Washington, D. C., 
 June 15, 1889, and to them there have been born 
 seven children, Annette, Cora, Helen, Miriam, 
 Thomas, Eugene Semmes, Jr., and Eleanor Ran- 
 dolph Ives. His is a family 
 noted in American history, 
 members of both sides hav- 
 ing served in the Revolu- 
 tionary War. His father was 
 on the staff of General Rob- 
 bert E. Lee, and his uncle, 
 Admiral Raphael Semmes, 
 was commander of the Con- 
 federate gunboat "Alabama" 
 during the Civil War. 
 
 Mr. Ives' boyhood was 
 spent principally in Virginia 
 and he attended school at 
 Warrenton, that State. He 
 later became a student at 
 Georgetown College and 
 there prepared for a special 
 course at Feldkirch, Austria. 
 From the latter he went to 
 St. Michael's College in Brus- 
 sels, and returning to the 
 United States, completed a 
 course at Georgetown College 
 in 1878. Mr. Ives then took 
 up the study of law at Co- 
 lumbia University, New York, 
 and was graduated in the 
 class of 1880 with the degree 
 
 of L. B. He has since had other degrees conferred 
 upon him and now has, in addition to Bachelor 
 of Laws and Bachelor of Arts, those of Master of 
 Arts, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Laws. 
 
 Mr. Ives began the practice of his profession 
 in New York City and remained there until 1895, 
 at which time he moved to Arizona on account of 
 his wife's health. During the seventeen years he 
 has practiced in the latter State he has come to be 
 known as one of the leading lawyers of the South- 
 west and also has been a prominent figure in the 
 politics of that section. 
 
 His practice has consisted in a large measure 
 of mining and corporation litigation, in both of 
 which branches he has scored many notable vic- 
 tories. Among these were several cases for the 
 King of Arizona Mining Company, and there have 
 been various others. 
 
 In 1902, as attorney for the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Company, Mr. Ives appeared in the suit 
 of his company against the Santa Fe Railroad 
 Company over a right-of-way through the Gila 
 
 EUGENE S. IVES. 
 
 Canyon of Arizona and was successful in his con- 
 tention. 
 
 Two years later, Mr. Ives was retained by the 
 Black Mountain Mining Company to handle its 
 cause against certain mining men of Colorado and 
 in this, too, he scored an important victory. 
 
 Another large civil action handled success-fully 
 by Mr. Ives was the litigation of Gleeson vs. 
 The Martin Costello Estate, an action involv- 
 ing a large amount of property. 
 
 These instances represent 
 only a few of his cases, but 
 Mr. Ives' career in the South- 
 west has been one of unceas- 
 ing activity, attended by 
 splendid successes in the 
 State and Federal Courts, and 
 also in the United States Su- 
 preme Court. 
 
 In addition to his profes- 
 sional work, Mr. Ives also 
 has been among the men who 
 have helped to develop the 
 resources of the Southwest 
 and is largely interested in 
 oil and mining. He is the 
 largest individual stockhold- 
 er in the King of Arizona 
 Mining Company and also is 
 heavily interested in the 
 Amalgamated Oil Company 
 of California. This latter is 
 one of the successful produc- 
 ing companies in the Cali- 
 fornia fields and is generally 
 considered one of the most 
 important in that State. 
 
 Mr. Ives is a Democrat 
 and has- been active in the 
 
 party affairs since his earliest days in Arizona. He 
 ran for office on several occasions, but failed of 
 election, principally because Tucson, and Pima 
 County, of which it is the county seat, were over- 
 whelmingly Republican. He has held various com- 
 mittee posts and in the first general election follow- 
 ing Statehood, worked for his party victory. He 
 went to the Democratic National Convention at 
 Baltimore in 1912 as- a Delegate, supporting Champ 
 Clark in the early stages of balloting, but later 
 joined the Wilson forces. 
 
 Mr. Ives spends the greater part of his time in 
 Tucson, but owing to his interests in California 
 maintains offices also in Los Angeles and has a 
 summer home at Alhambra, California. 
 
 He is one of the best known club men of the 
 West, his clubs including the Old Pueblo Club, Tuc- 
 son; Phoenix Country Club, Phoenix; California 
 Club, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and 
 Annandale Country Club, Los Angeles; Midwick 
 Country Club, Pasadena; University Club, New York, 
 and life membership, Coney Island Jockey Club. 
 
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 ILLER, JOHN BARNES, President 
 of the Southern California Edison 
 Company, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Port Huron, St. Clair 
 County, Michigan, October 23, 
 1869. He is the son of John Edgar 
 Miller and Sarah Amelia (Barnes) Miller. His an- 
 cestors were of that group of religious refugees 
 from Germany Mennonites who settled in Penn- 
 sylvania on the invitation of William Penn. He mar- 
 ried Carrie Borden Johnson 
 of Yonkers, N. Y., on April 
 17, 1895. There are five chil- 
 dren: Philadelphia Borden, 
 John Borden, Edgar Gail, 
 Morris Barnes and Carrie 
 St. Clair Miller. 
 
 Mr. Miller attended public 
 and private schools at Port 
 Huron, Michigan, and gradu- 
 ated from the Ann Arbor 
 School in 1888. He took a 
 special literary course in the 
 University of Michigan at 
 Ann Arbor, 1888-89, and left 
 college owing to the physical 
 collapse of his father. 
 
 The next two years he 
 managed the personal inter- 
 ests of his father and studied 
 law in an office at Port 
 Huron. He planned to take 
 the bar examinations, but in 
 1892 became interested in a 
 plantation near Delhi, Rich- 
 mond Parish, Louisiana, and 
 managed it for about two 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Miller then returned 
 
 to Michigan, where his father was again actively 
 engaged in business. They became interested in 
 the steamboat and fuel business, to which he de- 
 voted about three years. 
 
 In 1896 he disposed of his Eastern interests and 
 moved to Los Angeles. After surveying the invest- 
 ment field for a considerable length of time, Mr. 
 Miller was struck with the wonderful opportuni- 
 ties for development in electric lighting and the 
 utilization of water power for long transmission, a 
 method then little known. When he undertook the 
 development of electric light and power the coun- 
 try around Los Angeles was dotted with numerous 
 little plants, none of which was large enough to at- 
 tract capital, and consequently not in a position to 
 expand or to render the best service. 
 
 By amalgamating a number of these small- 
 er companies with consequent economies mod- 
 ernizing plants and methods, and a highly organ- 
 ized management, and by obtaining extensive water 
 power control, Mr. Miller and his associates laid 
 the foundation of what today is one of the most 
 
 JOHN B. MILLER. 
 
 important public utilities in the West. The organi- 
 zation of this company by Mr. Miller marked the 
 beginning of electrical advancement in Southern 
 California and the birth of an industry that has 
 grown steadily. 
 
 Mr. Miller was elected president of the Edison 
 Electric Company in 1901, and through various 
 changes in the form of that corporation has been 
 the directing spirit. When the company was re- 
 organized several years ago under the name of the 
 Southern California Edison 
 Co. he continued as its execu- 
 tive head, and still retains 
 that position. It is not 
 stretching a point to say that 
 Mr. Miller has been a domi- 
 nating personality in the 
 growth of the company, but 
 his success in the upbuilding 
 of it is due to his finan- 
 cial rather than to any tech- 
 nical ability. 
 
 He was one of the found- 
 ers of the old Southwestern 
 National Bank, later consoli- 
 dated with the First Nation- 
 al Bank, and of the Los An- 
 geles Trust Company, now 
 the Los Angeles Trust and 
 Savings Bank, in the former 
 of which organizations he 
 remains as director. In ad- 
 dition to those two, and 
 the office of president of the 
 Southern California Edison 
 Company, Mr. Miller is a di- 
 rector and member of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the Pa- 
 cific Mutual Life Insurance 
 
 Company, president of the Union Power Company, 
 director of the Sinaloa Land and Water Company, 
 director of the Santa Barbara Gas and Electric 
 Company and a director of the Long Beach Con- 
 solidated Gas Company. 
 
 The Pacific Mutual is one of the leading life in- 
 surance companies on the Pacific Coast, and the 
 other concerns mentioned, such as water, gas and 
 power, are important public utilities in their re- 
 spective localities, ably managed and modern in 
 every detail. In all of these the progressive poli- 
 cies of Mr. Miller go far toward shaping their 
 courses and expansion. 
 
 His clubs are: California, Jonathan, Los An- 
 geles Country and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, 
 Country, Overland Clubs of Pasadena, Santa Bar- 
 bara Country Club, University Club of Redlands, 
 Pacific Union and Bohemian Clubs of San Francisco 
 and the Automobile Club of America of New York. 
 He belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Com- 
 mandery and Shrine of Masonry. He was a mem 
 ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College Fraternity. 
 
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 RAVES, JACKSON ALPHEUS, 
 
 Banker and formerly Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Hauntown, Clinton 
 County, Iowa, on December 5, 
 1852. His father was John Q. 
 Graves, and his mother Katherine Jane (Haun) 
 Graves. Mr. Graves was married October 23, 1879, 
 in Los Angeles, to Alice H. Griffith, the issue be- 
 ing: Alice Graves Stewart, wife of H. F. Stewart; 
 Selwyn E. Graves, deceased 
 (March 1, 1908); Katherine 
 Graves Armstrong, wife of 
 E. S. Armstrong; Jackson A. 
 Graves, deceased (March 23, 
 1910), and Francis Porter 
 Graves. 
 
 The Graves family re- 
 moved to California in Oc- 
 tober, 1857, locating first in 
 Marysville, Yuba County, 
 where Mr. Graves received 
 his first education from the 
 public schools of that town. 
 He later attended the San 
 Francisco High School, from 
 which he graduated in 1869. 
 His home in the meantime 
 had been moved to San 
 Mateo County, California 
 (1867). After graduating 
 from the San Francisco 
 High School, Mr. Graves en- 
 tered St. Mary's College, 
 San Francisco, graduating 
 from that institution in May, 
 1872, with the degree of A. 
 B., and in 1873 from the 
 
 1, 1885, when this firm was dissolved and Mr. 
 Graves united his ability with that of Henry W. 
 O'Melveny, the designation being Graves and 
 O'Melveny, the firm being formed on April 10, 
 1888; later Mr. J. H. Shankland was admitted to 
 the firm and the title read Graves, O'Melveny and 
 Shankland until January 1, 1904, when Mr. Graves 
 withdrew from the practice in order to assume the 
 position of Vice President of the Farmers and 
 Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 He had already, back in 
 1901, became Vice Presi- 
 dent, the President being I. 
 W. Hellman, whose enlarged 
 interests about this time 
 called him to San Francisco, 
 and in June, 1903, Mr. Graves 
 entered actively into the 
 management of the bank. 
 
 From this time the indi- 
 cation of his talent for busi- 
 ness affairs which Mr. 
 Graves had given by his 
 wise investments and ca- 
 pacity for foresight were 
 thoroughly justified; he or- 
 ganized the first title and 
 abstract company in the 
 city; then his activities took 
 the direction of oil matters 
 and he built, with Edward 
 Strasburg, storage tanks 
 near the Llewellyn Iron 
 Works, having organized the 
 Oil Storage and Transporta- 
 tion Company; this property 
 is now owned by the Amal- 
 J. A. GRAVES gamated Oil Company; since 
 
 same college with the degree of A. M., after which 
 he began the study of law in the offices of the firm 
 of Eastman and Neumann in San Francisco. 
 
 On June 5, 1875, Mr. Graves moved to Los An- 
 geles, where he continued his law studies with Mr. 
 Eastman, who had gone to Los Angeles and formed 
 a partnership with the late Judge Brunson. On 
 January 13, 1876, Mr. Graves was admitted to prac- 
 tice by the Supreme Court of the State of Califor- 
 nia, and then was formed the law firm of Brunson, 
 Eastman and Graves. 
 
 From that time on until he forsook the law for 
 the intricacies of finance Mr. Graves had a con- 
 tinuous advancement in position in his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 The firm of Brunson, Eastman and Graves was 
 dissolved in June, 1878, and the young attorney 
 practiced alone with most satisfactory results until 
 June 1, 1880, when he associated himself with the 
 late John S. Chapman in the firm of Graves and 
 Chapman; this connection endured until January 
 
 that period his interests in oil properties through- 
 out the State have vastly increased. 
 
 Another industry in which Mr. Graves is largely 
 interested is orange growing. He started in grow- 
 ing citrus fruit more than thirty years ago, and de- 
 spite his increasing responsibility in connection 
 with other interests, still is active in his groves. 
 
 Besides his active place as Vice President of 
 the Farmers and Merchants' Bank, Mr. Graves is 
 Vice President of the Southern Trust Company, 
 President of the Farmers and Merchants' National 
 Bank of Redondo, California; President of the 
 United States National Bank of Azusa, California, 
 and is a director in the following institutions: 
 Security Savings Bank and the United States Na- 
 tional Banks of Los Angeles; of the Whittier Na- 
 tional Bank of Whittier, California; of the First 
 National Bank of Monrovia, California; of the First 
 National Bank of El Monte, California; of the Na- 
 tional Bank of Long Beach, and of the Long Beach 
 Savings Bank and Trust Company. 
 
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 DR. NORMAN BRIDGE 
 
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 21 
 
 RIDGE, DR. NORMAN, Physician, 
 Teacher, and Business Man, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in Wind- 
 sor, Vt, Dec. 30, 1844, the son of 
 James Madison and Nancy Ann 
 (Bagley) Bridge. He is descended 
 from Deacon John Bridge, who came from England 
 and settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1632. Nor- 
 man is of the seventh generation from John of 
 Cambridge. His great grandfather, Ebenezer, was 
 a Colonel in Washington's army of the Revolution. 
 Deacon John "s-aved the settlement" of Cambridge 
 when Hooker seceded to Connecticut in 1636 and 
 was responsible for the present location of Har- 
 vard College. There is a bronze statue of him on 
 Cambridge Common, in the garb of a Puritan. It 
 was erected in 1882 and is the work of the artists, 
 T. R. and M. S. Gould. 
 
 One of the inscriptions on the monument reads: 
 "This Puritan helped to establish here Church, 
 School and Representative Government, and thus 
 to plant a Christian Commonwealth"; and another 
 is as follows: "They that wait upon the Lord shall 
 renew their strength." 
 
 Dr. Bridge was married in 1874 to Miss Mae 
 Manford, daughter of the late Rev. Erasmus and 
 Hannah (Bryant) Manford. Their only child died 
 in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Manford was- a Universalist clergyman of 
 the old school for over half a century. He was 
 much of this time publisher of various denomina- 
 tional periodicals. 
 
 Dr. Bridge was born on a small farm among the 
 Vermont hills, a few miles from the village of 
 Windsor. It has been a long-time wonder to him 
 how his father could ever have made a living for 
 himself and family on such a rocky and unpromis- 
 ing patch of earth. In 1856, the elder Bridge re- 
 belled against his hard conditions and moved with 
 his family and little cash to Illinois-. They settled 
 on a farm of unbroken prairie without buildings 
 or fence, where they struggled for some tense 
 years. This was in Malta, DeKalb County, 
 when Norman was twelve years old. The family 
 consisted of father, mother, an older brother and a 
 younger sister. The brother, Edward, was a soldier 
 in the Civil War, Fifty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Regi- 
 ment, and died of disease in the service, after sur- 
 viving a dozen battles, in the fir&t of which, Shiloh, 
 he was wounded. His father died in 1879 and 
 his mother at an advanced age in 1903. His sister 
 is Mrs. Susan B. Hatch, of Des Moine&, Iowa. 
 
 Norman B. received his general education in 
 the country district schools, and in the High 
 Schools of DeKalb and Sycamore, Illinois. He 
 taught a country school in the winter of 1862-63, 
 but owing to a severe fever which came on in the 
 midst of this work he was unable to finish the 
 term. He never attended the academic department 
 of a university or college. 
 
 He was a postoffice clerk in Sycamore during 
 
 the summer and fall of 1864; and a fire insurance 
 agent in Morris, Illinois, in 1864-65, traveling 
 through the entire county of Grundy. 
 
 In 1865 he began the study of medicine, attended 
 the Medical Department of the University of Mich- 
 igan in 1866-67, and of the Northwestern University 
 in 1867-68, where he was graduated with the degree 
 of M. D. He received the degree of A. M. from the 
 Lake Forest College in 1889. 
 
 His summer vacations from medical college he 
 spent in work on his father's farm in Malta, chiefly 
 in harvesting hay and grain, and in threshing. 
 
 He began teaching medicine from the time of 
 his graduation, and from that day to this his name 
 has appeared in the faculty of some Medical Col- 
 lege in his Alma Mater first, then in the Woman's 
 Medical College, and since early in 1874 in Rush 
 Medical College of the University of Chicago, in 
 which he is now Emeritus Professor of Medicine. 
 He was for twenty years, more or less, an attend- 
 ing physician in the County Hospital and in the 
 Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. He received 
 the ad eundem degree in medicine from Rush Col- 
 lege in 1878. He has- had his professional office 
 in only two communities, Chicago, until 1891, and 
 in Los Angeles since. 
 
 Dr. Bridge's- first position in Rush College was 
 received as the result of a concours or contest in 
 lecturing, before the faculty and students a meth- 
 od that has fortunately not since been in vogue. 
 The college of that day was unconnected with any 
 university. Like nearly all the medical colleges of 
 the country, its tru&tees were mostly members of 
 its faculty, only two courses of lectures were re- 
 quired for graduation, and the conditions of admis- 
 sion were cheap indeed. He joined his then 
 younger colleagues in working for higher standards, 
 longer and more thorough courses, more laboratory 
 work, and connection with a university. For over 
 a decade this school has been one of the medical 
 arms of the University of Chicago, is doing uni- 
 versity work, and has a course of study that looks 
 formidable by the side of that of thirty years ago. 
 Throughout the country, in most of the large cities, 
 the stronger medical colleges have undergone a like 
 metamorphosis, to the benefit of all the people. 
 
 Through the decade of the eighties he accepted 
 appointive public office for seven years, first as a 
 member of the Chicago Board of Education for 
 three years (1881-1884), afterward as the Republican 
 Election Commissioner for four years (1886-1890). 
 
 His health broke down in 1890, and in January, 
 1891, he moved to California, where he has since 
 resided, first at Sierra Madre (1891-94), then at 
 Pasadena (1894-1910), and finally in Los Angeles. 
 By 1893 he had so far recovered as to resume his 
 work for a few weeks each autumn in the College 
 and Presbyterian Hospital at Chicago. He con- 
 tinued the autumn hospital work until 1900, and the 
 college lectures until 1905 inclusive. He has been 
 regularly engaged in practice in Los Angeles for 
 
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 twenty years. Since 1905, however, his growing 
 secular interests have compelled him gradually to 
 reduce his professional work, and he has regarded 
 his active college service as terminated. 
 
 The public appointments were unsought and 
 each came as a surprise that to the School Board 
 from the first Mayor Harrison, and the Election 
 Commissionership from the County Court Judge 
 Richard Prendergast. On his entry into the Board 
 of Education he was elected Vice President of that 
 body, and in a few months was made President to 
 serve out a fractional year; after which he was 
 elected to the same office for a full year term. He 
 was a Republican, and the Board consisted of twice 
 as many Democrats as Republicans'. 
 
 The election office was illuminating in the study 
 of human nature and government; in ward politics 
 and party strife. The Republican Commissioner 
 was one of three, the other two were Democrats, 
 and the County Court was democratic. The law 
 required that at least one member of the Board of 
 Commissioners- should be a Republican. 
 
 His first appointment to the Election Commis- 
 sion was for an unexpired term of one year. Near 
 the end of this term the "Tribune," the leading 
 Republican newspaper, began to attack his Repub- 
 licanism, not because this was open to the smalle&t 
 criticism, but because he had a personal friend 
 who edited a rival and independent newspaper.* 
 On one certain Sunday the paper contained a 
 severe editorial attack upon him because of his 
 alleged failure to do a particular thing in the Can- 
 vassing Board on the Friday before. As a matter 
 of fact, he had tried to accomplish the thing re- 
 ferred to, but had been outvoted, as the Saturday 
 edition of the "Tribune" in its local columns truth- 
 fully reported. The next day (Monday) both the 
 "Daily News" and the "Inter-Ocean" printed in 
 parallel columns the paragraphs referring to the 
 Republican Commissioner, of the "Tribune" on Sat- 
 urday and Sunday, and ridiculed the paper for its 
 inconsistency and carelessness. This- led to worse 
 attacks by the "Tribune," and retorts by the other 
 .papers. Finally there appeared in the "Inter- 
 Ocean" of Thursday a biting open letter to the edi- 
 tor of the "Tribune" signed by the Commissioner 
 himself. This inspired more reckless attacks on 
 him and on the other papers, and culminated, the 
 following Sunday, in a libel on his professional 
 character. Then, with his attorney, he went to the 
 office of the paper and had a quiet and much re- 
 strained conversation with the editor, which re- 
 sulted in an editorial correction, retraction, and 
 apology the following morning. This was printed 
 on the editorial page. At the end of his year, 
 which occurred during the week of this newspaper 
 war, the County Judge reappointed him for a full 
 term of three years, which he served out. 
 
 The only elective office he has held was that of 
 one of a Board of "Freeholders" in the City of 
 
 Melville E. Stone of the "Daily News." 
 
 Pasadena, in 1900, to frame a new charter for the 
 city. Their charter was adopted. 
 
 Dr. Bridge has written considerably for medical 
 journals and somewhat for the lay press. He is 
 the author of four modest books, three of collected 
 essays and addresses: "The Penalties of Taste," 
 "The Rewards of Taste," and "House-Health"; and 
 "Tuberculosis," which is a re-cast of his college 
 lectures on this subject. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Bridge visited Europe in 1889 and 
 in 1896, and he alone went to London on a hurried 
 busine&s trip in April, 1906. 
 
 In his two earlier visits to Europe, he spent a 
 part of his time in visiting the hospitals of Berlin, 
 Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Geneva, Stra&sburg, Hei- 
 delberg and Erlangen. 
 
 His vacations have consisted mo&tly in some 
 varying of his activities, for he has, through life, 
 been a constant debtor to the joy of work. He be- 
 lieves that, outside his regular vocation, every pro- 
 fessional man should have some avocations that 
 make him touch, in an intimate way, the non-pro- 
 fessional world about him. His own early shortage 
 in school education has encouraged an interest in 
 schools in general. For some seventeen years he 
 has been one of the Trustees of Throop Polytechnic 
 Institute in Pasadena, and most of that time as 
 Chairman of the Board. He has seen that institu- 
 tion grow from a small academy until it has now 
 come to be a college of technology of the highest 
 standard. 
 
 From January, 1906, to the present, Dr. Bridge 
 has given a large part of his time to the oil and 
 gas business, in association with Messrs. E. L. 
 Doheny and Charles A. Canfield. He is now a 
 Director and the Treasurer of several of the com- 
 panies operating and interested in the gulf region 
 of Mexico and in California, notably the Mexican 
 Petroleum Company, Limited; the Mexican Petro- 
 leum Company, and the Huasteca Petroleum Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The business interests in Mexico have taken 
 him often to that Republic, and he and his associ- 
 ates have many warm friends among Mexican citi- 
 zens-. They have for ten years conducted their 
 business in harmony and amity with the govern- 
 ment of Mexico and with its citizens both of the 
 business and the working classes, for whom, and 
 for the government, they have high respect. 
 
 Dr. Bridge belongs to several Scientific Socie- 
 ties, among them the "Association of American 
 Physicians," the "American Climatological Associa- 
 tion," of which he was one year President; the 
 "American Academy of Medicine," the "Wisconsin 
 Academy of Science, Arts and Letters," the "Los 
 Angeles Academy of Sciences," and the local, State 
 and National Medical Associations. His clubs are 
 the "Union League," "Hamilton," and "University" 
 Clubs of Chicago; the "California," "University," 
 "Sierra Madre," "Athletic," and "Sunset" Clubs of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 ULLARD, GEORGE PURDY, At- 
 torney General for the State of 
 Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, was 
 born in Portland, Oregon, April 
 14, 1869, the son of Lowell J. Bul- 
 lard and Virginia (Purdy) Bullard. 
 He married Kate C. Brockway at Phoenix, June 
 10, 1899. Mr. Bullard's paternal ancestors settled 
 in New England in Colonial times and his great- 
 grandfather was a member of the Constitutional 
 Congress. On the maternal 
 side, his grandfather, Samuel 
 Purdy, was Lieutenant Gov- 
 ernor of California, and an- 
 other member, Sparrow Pur- 
 dy, served as Pasha under 
 Stone in the Egyptian serv- 
 ice. 
 
 Mr. Bullard went to school 
 in various places, including 
 Baltimore, Washington, New 
 York and Chicago, until he 
 was eighteen years of age, 
 when he took up law in the 
 office of his uncle, Samuel 
 Purdy, Jr., at Yuma, Arizona. 
 He was admitted to practice 
 in 1889 and went to San 
 Francisco, where he was in 
 partnership with Cameron H. 
 King, as King and Bullard, 
 for approximately five years. 
 Mr. Bullard, in 1894, returned 
 to Yuma, but only remained 
 there a few months, trans- 
 ferring his residence perma- 
 nently to Phoenix. He has 
 been in practice there since, 
 
 HON. GEO. PURDY BULLARD 
 
 only in five instances did acquittals result. Mr. 
 Bullard was the chief figure for the prosecution in 
 the Eyting murder case, notable in Arizona crim- 
 inal annals, because of the bitter fight made by the 
 defense against alleged circumstantial evidence. 
 
 Mr. Bullard has been a constant worker for the 
 Democratic party for many years, was one of the 
 first men to advocate the Constitution under which 
 Arizona was admitted to Statehood, and in the first 
 general election, December, 1911, drew up the plat- 
 form on which the Demo- 
 cratic party rode to victory. 
 He was nominated by accla- 
 mation for Attorney General 
 and was elected over his Re- 
 publican opponent by 1700 
 majority. 
 
 As Attorney General, Mr. 
 Bullard has aided largely in 
 legislative matters since the 
 first State government was 
 organized, and also has been 
 active in other lines. Among 
 the early important actions 
 instituted by him were suits 
 to investigate the Southern 
 Pacific and Santa Fe Rail- 
 way companies, with a view 
 of reducing passenger rates 
 in Arizona; and proceedings 
 against the street railway 
 company of Phoenix to com- 
 pel improvement of the 
 street railway system of the 
 Capital. 
 
 Mr. Bullard is noted as an 
 advocate of good roads and 
 the originator of the Los An- 
 
 his firm at the present time being known as Bul- 
 lard and Carpenter. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Bullard was appointed City Attor- 
 ney of Phoenix and served in this office for four 
 years. His most important accomplishment, per- 
 haps, was the prosecution of suits whereby he 
 forced four additions into the corporate limits of 
 the city, giving to Phoenix about three thousand ad- 
 ditional citizens and a more extensive land area. 
 
 While Mr. Bullard was still in the office of City 
 Attorney, Judge A. C. Baker was elected District 
 Attorney of Maricopa County, in which Phoenix 
 lies, and he chose Mr. Bullard as Deputy District 
 Attorney. The latter began his duties immediately 
 upon leaving his first office and served four years. 
 
 In 1906 Mr. Bullard, who had made a splendid 
 record during his association with Judge Baker, 
 was elected District Atorney and was re-elected 
 for a second term. He served as District Attorney 
 until Arizona was admitted to Statehood, about 
 five years in all, and during that time he prose- 
 cuted approximately five hundred criminal cases; 
 
 geles-to-Phoenix automobile endurance race, an 
 annual event in which the leading cars and racing 
 pilots are matched in a contest unique because the 
 course lies, for the most part, across desert wastes. 
 Mr. Bullard, as President of the Maricopa County 
 Automobile Club, instituted this contest in 1908 
 and it is now one of the classics of the automobile 
 world. 
 
 As representative of the Contest Board of the 
 American Automobile Association, Mr. Bullard has 
 also been in charge of various other automobile 
 events in recent years, and is perhaps the leading 
 automobilist of that section of the country. In 
 addition to being Vice President of the Good Roads 
 Association of Arizona, he is an honorary member 
 of the Lincoln Memorial Association, and aided in 
 the organization of the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway 
 Association, the object of which is to promote the 
 building of a highway across the United States, 
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
 
 Mr. Bullard also is a member of the Phoenix 
 Board of Trade, the Arizona Club and the Elks, 
 of which he is Past Exalted Ruler in Phoenix. 
 
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 URCH, HENRY KENYON, Me- 
 chanical and Metallurgical Engi- 
 neer, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Vlysummit, Washington 
 County, New York, April 19, 1873, 
 the son of Adalbert Le Roy Burch 
 and Rachael (Kenyon) Burch. He married Grace 
 Colburn at Moscow, Idaho, October 5, 1905. They 
 have one son, Kenyon Colburn Burch. 
 
 Mr. Burch, who has attained a high position in 
 his profession, received his 
 early education in the public 
 schools of Greenwich, New 
 York, a town near his birth- 
 place, and after attending the 
 high school left to enter Mar- 
 shall Seminary at Easton, 
 New York. He completed his 
 academic work there and 
 then took up his professional 
 studies at the Washington 
 State College of Science, 
 from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1901 with the degree 
 of A. B. 
 
 Within a month of his 
 graduation, Mr. Burch went 
 to Anaconda, Montana, 
 where he entered the employ 
 of the Anaconda Copper 
 Company as a mechanical 
 draughtsman and clerk to the 
 Master Mechanic of the Com- 
 pany, a position he filled for 
 about eighteen months. In 
 the latter part of 1902 he left 
 the Anaconda Company to 
 accept a position as me- 
 chanical draughtsman for 
 the Daley-Judge Mining Com- 
 pany, but only remained with 
 this concern for about three 
 months. He was next asso- 
 ciated with the Park City 
 Metals Company as draughts- 
 man, continuing there until May of the year 1903. 
 
 At this time he was selected by J. M. Callow, 
 of Salt Lake City, to assist him on plans for a 
 metallurgical testing plant for the University of 
 Utah, and also drawings of plans for the Yampa 
 Smelter. When this work was completed he went 
 to Morenci, Arizona, and there entered the service 
 of the Phelps-Dodge Company, one of the leading 
 copper mining corporations of the country, and de- 
 signed and constructed for the Detroit Copper Com- 
 pany, a subsidiary, its 1500-ton concentrator. 
 
 This was the beginning of an association with 
 the owners of the famous Copper Queen Mine and 
 other properties which has continued almost un- 
 interruptedly down to the present day, for during 
 the several years which have elapsed Mr. Burch 
 has designed and constructed all of the company's 
 milling plants in the United States and Mexico. 
 Upon completing his work at Morenci, he was sent, 
 in 1906, to Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, where the 
 Phelps-Dodge interests are represented by the 
 Moctezuma Copper Company, and there took charge 
 of the construction of an entire plant. This in- 
 cluded the design and construction of a concentra- 
 tor of 2000 tons daily capacity, pumping plants and 
 other adjuncts of a big mining operation. His work 
 kept him at Nacozari until November, 1908, when 
 
 H. KENYON BURCH 
 
 he became associated with the Miami Copper Com- 
 pany, at Miami, Arizona. For this company Mr. 
 Burch de&igned and constructed a concentrator of 
 3000-ton capacity, a power and pumping plant of five 
 thousand horse power and other surface equipment, 
 including a hoisting plant, crushing plant and head 
 frame. He planned and carried out many other de- 
 tails necessary to the completed work. In all, Mr. 
 Burch was engaged at Miami for a period lacking one 
 month of three years, leaving there in October, 1911. 
 When this work was 
 finished, Mr. Burch went 
 to Los Angeles and a 
 short time afterward opened 
 his offices as a Consulting 
 Mechanical and Metallurgical 
 Engineer, and in addition to 
 his general work, he was 
 chosen by the Phelps-Dodge 
 Company as Consulting mill- 
 ing expert, one of his princi- 
 pal works being the design 
 and construction of a crush- 
 ing and concentration plant 
 for the Old Dominion Copper 
 Mining & Smelting Company, 
 having a capacity of one 
 thousand tons. 
 
 In July, 1912, he was en- 
 gaged as Chief Engineer of 
 the Inspiration Consolidated 
 Copper Company, of Miami, 
 Arizona, and in that office 
 designed a concentrating and 
 mining plant to have an ini- 
 tial capacity of 7500 tons of 
 ore per day. The 'construc- 
 tion work will be completed 
 some time in 1913, and the 
 concentrator building alone 
 will cover more than eight 
 acres of ground. In addition 
 to this there will be pumping 
 plants, crushing plants, ma- 
 chine shops and hoisting 
 plants, the whole forming one of the largest mining 
 plants in the world, erected at a cost of several 
 million dollars. 
 
 Another important commission executed by Mr. 
 Burch in 1912, was the design and construction of 
 a 3000-ton rock crushing plant for the Temescal 
 Rock Company, near Corona, California, one of the 
 most up-to-date crushing plants in the United States. 
 To the average reader, these terms and figures 
 convey little meaning as to the work of Mr. Burch, 
 but to the initiated they show that he has, within 
 a few years, accomplished tasks which place him 
 among the leaders of the mining profession. The 
 mining, milling and smelting of copper at the 
 present time is one of the most gigantic industries 
 in the world, and the plants which Mr. Burch has 
 designed and constructed form a large part of the 
 physical equipment necessary to the total output 
 of this product. The various concentrators with 
 which he has had to do, turning out nearly ten 
 thousand tons of commercial copper per day, con- 
 tribute a large percentage of the country's total 
 copper supply. In his private capacity, Mr. Burch 
 is engaged in other important works. 
 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers. 
 
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 URLETT, WILLIAM, Architect, 
 Los Angeles and San Francisco, 
 California, was born in County 
 of Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846, 
 the son of Daniel Curlett and 
 Jane (Robinson) Curlett. He 
 married Celia A. Eisen at Oakland, California, 
 August 12, 1873, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Aleck E. and Ethel A. Curlett. 
 
 Mr. Curlett, who has attained an eminent posi- 
 tion among the architects of 
 America, received his pre- 
 liminary education in private 
 and public schools of his na- 
 tive county up to the year 
 1862, and at that time, when 
 about sixteen years of age, 
 took up the study of archi- 
 tecture. He first became a 
 student in the Art School at 
 Manchester, England, and 
 after two years there, re- 
 turned to Belfast, Ireland, 
 where he continued his stud- 
 ies in the Art School of Bel- 
 fast. He remained there 
 three years and for three 
 years after leaving school, 
 was employed in the offices 
 of several different archi- 
 tects. 
 
 He left Belfast for the 
 United States in August, 
 1871, and arrived at San 
 Francisco, Cal., in September 
 of the same year. 
 
 Almost immediately after 
 his arrival, Mr. Curlett be- 
 came associated with Augus- 
 tus Laver, at that time one 
 of the most celebrated archi- 
 tects of the Pacific Coast and 
 the designer of the old City 
 Hall in San Francisco, which 
 was destroyed in the disaster 
 in 1906. Mr. Curlett was associated with Mr. Laver 
 for some months and aided in the designing of 
 numerous important buildings. Later he opened 
 offices for himself but still retained friendly rela- 
 tions with Mr. Laver and was called in on several 
 occasions by the City Hall Commissioners to assist 
 Mr. Laver on his design for the building. 
 
 From the beginning of his career in San Fran- 
 cisco, Mr. Curlett was regarded as one of the most 
 talented members of his profession and his work, 
 covering a period of more than thirty years, has 
 included many beautiful residences, public build- 
 ings and office structures in different parts of the 
 State. Among the notable office and bank build- 
 ings designed by him in San Francisco are the 
 Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, 
 Shreve Building, Head Building, San Francisco 
 Savings Union Building and various others. An- 
 other strikingly handsome bank building in the 
 Northern part of California designed by Mr. Cur- 
 lett is the California State Bank of Sacramento. 
 
 In addition to the structures named, Mr. Curlett 
 also was chosen as architect for two library build- 
 ings, endowed respectively, by James D. Phelan, 
 former Mayor of San Francisco, and A. B. McCrery. 
 He also designed and erected many splendid San 
 Francisco and vicinity homes, noted for their artis- 
 
 WM. CURLETT 
 
 tic conception. Some of these, numbered among 
 the show places of the region, are the Flood home 
 in Menlo Park, the Flood residence in California 
 Street (done while Mr. Curlett was associated with 
 Mr. Laver), and residences for Will H. Crocker, 
 Judge Sanderson, Robert Sherwood, L. L. Baker, 
 A. N. Drown and E. F. Preston. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Curlett designed two of the most 
 beautiful residences in California, one a half mil- 
 lion dollar home for Mrs. M. Pauline Payne, the 
 other a very elaborate resi- 
 dence for James D. Phelan 
 at Los Gatos, which will be 
 the most up-to-date structure 
 of its kind on the Coast, con- 
 taining as features a great 
 swimming pool and an open 
 air theater. 
 
 In the Southern part of 
 California, especially Los An- 
 geles, Mr. Curlett has many 
 other handsome residences to 
 his credit, these including 
 the homes of Ex-iioveinor 
 Markham, Colonel Dan Free- 
 man, Mrs. Mark Sibley Sev- 
 erance and the late L. J. Rose. 
 Mr. Curlett, who main- 
 tains offices in San Francisco 
 and Los Angeles, spending a 
 few months of each year in 
 both cities, has also designed 
 and supervised the construc- 
 tion of a number of important 
 public buildings in Southern 
 California. Among these are 
 the Los Angeles County 
 Courthouse at Los Angeles, 
 Insane Asylum at San Ber- 
 nardino, and the Courthouse 
 at Fresno, Cal. At the pres- 
 ent time (1912-13) he is en- 
 gaged in the erection at Los 
 Angeles of an office building 
 for the Hon. Frank P. Flint, 
 
 former United States Senator from California, a 
 modern hotel for C. W. Gates, a Los Angeles capi- 
 talist, and a building for the Merchants' National 
 Bank of Los Angeles, which will cost complete 
 approximately one million dollars. 
 
 Among other buildings designed by Mr. Cur- 
 lett in California are the Public Library at Marys- 
 ville, the Insane Asylum at Stockton, and the 
 Sisters' School at Los Angeles, the latter one of 
 the most complete educational institutions in the 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Curlett served as President of the Califor- 
 nia Chapter of the American Institutute of Archi- 
 tects and in 1910 attended the meeting of the 
 American Institute of Architects and was instru- 
 mental in having this organization hold an annual 
 meeting in San Francisco instead of Washington, 
 D. C., the customary meeting place. 
 
 Mr. Curlett served during 1912 as President of 
 the California State Board of Architects, and also 
 is a member of the Advisory Board of Architects for 
 the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was elected 
 Chairman of this board by his- fellow members, but 
 resigned later owing to pressure of private business. 
 Mr. Curlett is a Fellow of the American Institute 
 of Architects and a member of the Bohemian Club, 
 of San Francisco. 
 
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 DR. L. D. RICKETTS 
 
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 ICKETTS, LOUIS DAVIDSON, Con- 
 sulting Mining Engineer, Cananea, 
 Mexico, was born at Elkton, Mary- 
 land, December 19, 1859, the son 
 of Palmer C. Ricketts and Eliza- 
 beth (Getty) Ricketts. He is a 
 brother of Professor Palmer Chamberlain Ricketts, 
 the distinguished engineer and educator, who has 
 been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
 since 1901. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts was graduated from the College of 
 New Jersey, in the class of 1881, with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Science. He was chosen a Fellow 
 in Chemistry and W. S. Ward Fellow in Economic 
 Geology at Princeton University immediately fol- 
 lowing his graduation in 1881 and after two years 
 of study he was given the degree of Doctor of 
 Science (in course). 
 
 Following the completion of his work at Prince- 
 ton, Dr. Ricketts went to Colorado and started to 
 work as a Mine Surveyor. For the fifteen years 
 following, his time was chiefly occupied in recon- 
 naisance work, geological work and mine examin- 
 ation. 
 
 From 1887 to 1890 Dr. Ricketts was Geologist 
 for Wyoming and at the end of that period trans- 
 ferred his operations to the Southwest, where he 
 has since been steadily engaged in large mining 
 projects. He was identified with the acquisition 
 of the property now owned by the Moctezuma Cop- 
 per Co., a subsidiary of Phelps, Dodge & Co., lo- 
 cated at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico. From 1899 to 
 1901, he was General Manager of the property and 
 during his administration the concentrator and re- 
 duction works were completed and the mines put 
 on a dividend-paying basis. 
 
 While Dr. Ricketts has had extensive experience 
 in mine examination and management, identified 
 with most of the large and prosperous mines of the 
 Southwest, his most important work has, undoubt- 
 edly, been in the construction of large modern 
 smelting and concentrating plants. All of the 
 plants erected by him have been successful and 
 have brought about great decrease in the cost of 
 handling the ores. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts designed his first large concen- 
 trators in 1897, when he installed one e^ch for 
 the Detroit Copper Mining Co. at Morenci, Arizona, 
 and the Moctezuma Copper Co. at Nacozari, Mexico. 
 These plants had a capacity of four hundred tons 
 per day each and were among the first to adopt 
 all steel construction, Dr. Ricketts being in per- 
 sonal charge of their design and erection. 
 
 Upon leaving the Moctezuma Copper Co. in 
 1901, Dr. Ricketts went to Globe, Arizona, and there 
 undertook the construction of a surface plant and 
 the reopening of the mines of the Old Dominion 
 Copper Mining & Smelting Co. He took this prop- 
 erty when it was almost wrecked, and under his 
 administration it was put on a sound, producing 
 basis. For the first time in its history it was made 
 into a property of undoubted value as a dividend- 
 payer, this being shown by the rise in its stock 
 value, which advanced without artificial stimula- 
 tion from $4.50 to $65.00 per share. The mines have 
 been producing steadily since he transformed them 
 and are now regarded as being among the best 
 paying properties in Arizona. 
 
 In 1903, Dr. Ricketts accepted appointment to 
 the position of Consulting Engineer to the Cananea 
 Consolidated Copper Co. He took absolute charge 
 of the design and construction of the Company's 
 
 new concentrator and upon the completion of his 
 work, went to Europe, combining pleasure with 
 business, and spent a great deal of time in the in- 
 vestigation of modern engineering practice in the 
 Old World. 
 
 Returning to the United States in 1905, Dr. 
 Ricketts, utilizing the knowledge gained in Europe, 
 constructed a large coal washing plant for the Daw- 
 son Fuel Company, at Dawson, New Mexico. This 
 plant, which has a washing capacity of two hundred 
 tons per hour, is the most modern of its character 
 ever constructed in the United States. Belt con- 
 veyors are largely used in the handling of material 
 and the construction throughout the plant repre- 
 sents the highest type of modern development. 
 
 The various plants constructed by Dr. Ricketts 
 are noted for the excellence of design and material 
 and the sum total of their cost represents many 
 millions of dollars. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts in 1907 became identified with the 
 Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. as President and 
 General Manager and during his administration the 
 works of the company, with the exception of the 
 concentrators, have been completely overhauled 
 and rebuilt, and placed upon a profitable basis. He 
 devotes the greater part of his time to the direction 
 of the company's affairs, but in addition to this, he 
 has been in demand by most of the large mining 
 interests of the Southwest in the capacity of Con- 
 sulting Engineer. 
 
 From his first entry into the Southwestern field, 
 until 1907, Dr. Ricketts has acted in an advisory 
 capacity to the great Phelps Dodge interests. He 
 was chosen Consulting Engineer for the Calumet 
 & Arizona Copper Co. in 1911, advising it in the 
 design and construction of a great smelting plant 
 at Douglas, Arizona. In 1911 also he accepted the 
 post of Consulting Engineer with the Arizona 
 Copper Co., Ltd., of Clifton, Arizona, and immedi- 
 ately took full charge of the design and construc- 
 tion of a new smelting plant which the company is 
 building. He also re-designed and enlarged the 
 Company's concentrators at Clifton. Another in- 
 terest which Dr. Ricketts serves in the capacity of 
 Consulting Engineer is the International Smelting 
 & Refining Co. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts is the author of "The Ores of Lead- 
 ville and Their Modes of Occurrence," 1883; and 
 "Geological Reports of the Geologist of Wyoming," 
 1888, 1890, and various papers for technical socie- 
 ties and periodicals. His paper entitled "Experi- 
 ments in Reverberatory Practice at Cananea, 
 Mexico," secured for him the gold medal of the In- 
 stitution of Mining and Metallurgy of Great Britain 
 for the year 1910. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts is extremely active in the affairs 
 of the Southwest and is interested in various 
 financial and development projects. Among these 
 are the Morenci Water Co., of which he is President 
 and Director, the Gila Valley Bank & Trust Com- 
 pany, of which he is Vice President and Director 
 and he also serves as Director of the Bank of Bis- 
 bee, Bisbee, Arizona, and the Raritan Copper 
 Works. 
 
 Dr. Ricketts is a member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and the Institution of Mining 
 and Metallurgy of Great Britain. He is a member 
 of various clubs, among them the Engineers' Club 
 and the Railroad Club, both of New York. 
 
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 UCK, FRANK HENRY, Fruit 
 Grower, Oil Operator and Capi- 
 talist, San Francisco and Vaca- 
 ville, California, was born in Cort- 
 land County, New York, June 8, 
 1859, the son of Leonard William 
 Buck and Anna Maria (Bellows) Buck. He married 
 Miss Anna Elizabeth Stevenson at Vacaville, Cali- 
 fornia, on April 29, 1886, and to them there have 
 been born two sons, Frank Henry, Jr., and Leonard 
 William Buck. He comes 
 from clean, wholesome stock, 
 English on the paternal side 
 and Irish on the maternal, 
 inheriting from both, charac- 
 teristics which have aided 
 him in achieving his success. 
 Mr. Buck's education, so 
 far as actual schooling is 
 concerned, was limited to 
 the public school of Clinton, 
 Iowa, and to the high school 
 of the same place, from 
 which latter he was gradu- 
 ated when he was only four- 
 teen years of age. Two 
 years later, in 1875, he re- 
 moved with his father to 
 California and with him en- 
 tered the fruit-growing busi- 
 ness, specializing in decidu- 
 ous fruits. That was the be- 
 ginning of his career, his 
 operations having expanded 
 with the years to the point 
 where he is interested in 
 several different lines of ac- 
 tivity and an important fac- 
 tor in the development and 
 success of a score of substantial corporations. 
 
 For the first few years after his arrival in Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Buck confined himself to fruit growing, 
 making a special study of the business, with the 
 result that he built up a reputation that has re- 
 dounded alike to the credit of Vacaville, Solano 
 County, the State of California, and himself. He 
 operates his fruit business under the name of the 
 Frank H. Buck Fruit & Shipping Company, and to 
 all who are familiar with his work for the fruit in- 
 dustry, covering a period of more than thirty-five 
 years, his name is synonymous with the growth of 
 this, one of California's largest and most important 
 branches of commerce. He is President of the 
 company named, and also of the California Fruit 
 Distributors, of Sacramento. 
 
 Aside from his fruit business, Mr. Buck has 
 other extensive interests and since 1898 has been 
 one of the leading oil producers of California. He 
 first became interested in oil in 1898 and the fol- 
 lowing year yielded to the excitement growing out 
 of the discovery of the celebrated Kern County 
 
 FRANK H. BUCK 
 
 fields of California, investing heavily in oil lands 
 and companies at the outset. With characteristic 
 energy he soon took a leading part in the develop- 
 ment of the then new industry and was one of the 
 organizers of the Associated Oil Company, now 
 ranked among the largest and most profitable con- 
 cerns operating in the California fields. He also 
 was a stockholder and Director in the Chicago 
 Crude Oil Company, the Toltec and the Astec Oil 
 Companies. These companies, with several others, 
 were merged into the Asso- 
 ciated Oil Company and he 
 has continued a member of 
 the Board of Directors of the 
 larger concern, being on the 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 Mr. Buck is interested in 
 various other oil corpora- 
 tions, including the Amalga- 
 mated Oil Company, an allied 
 corporation of the Associated 
 Oil Company; the West Coast 
 Oil Company, the Sterling 
 Oil & Development Company, 
 the Associated Pipe Line, 
 the Transportation Company 
 and the Belridge Oil Com- 
 pany, in all of which he holds 
 office as a Director. The 
 last named company has 
 holdings in the Lost Hills 
 District aggregating thirty- 
 one thousand acres of land 
 in process of development. 
 
 Mr. Buck is interested as 
 a stockholder and Director in 
 the Rodeo Land & Water Co., 
 of Los Angeles, which owns 
 3100 acres of land near Los 
 
 Angeles. The townsite of Beverly stands on part 
 of this land. 
 
 Mr. Buck is President of the Booth-Kelly Lum- 
 ber Company, of Eugene, Oregon, and has heavy 
 timber holdings in that section of the Northwest. 
 He also is a Director of the Bakersfield Iron Works. 
 Despite the diversity of his interests, Mr. Buck 
 has taken a keen interest in public affairs in his 
 home town and the State at large for more than a 
 quarter of a century. He was Vice President of the 
 California State Board of Horticulture and for 
 twelve years was President of the Board of 
 Town Trustees of Vacaville (Incorporated), in 
 which position he took a prominent part in the 
 government of the town. 
 
 Mr. Buck is a prominent Mason, a Knight Tem- 
 plar and Odd Fellow, and a member of various 
 clubs, including the Bohemian, of San Francisco; 
 the Pacific-Union of the same city, the San Fran- 
 cisco Golf and Country Club, the Claremont Coun- 
 try Club, of Oakland, California, and the Sutter 
 Club, of Sacramento, California. 
 
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 29 
 
 ONGYEAR, WILLIS DOUGLAS, 
 Banking, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Grass Lake, Jackson 
 County, Michigan, July 2, 1863, 
 the son of Moses Longyear and 
 Maria (Douglas) Longyear. He 
 married Miss Ida A. Mackay at Los Angeles, Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1893, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Douglas M. Longyear and Gwendolyn 
 C. Longyear. Mrs. Longyear was the youngest 
 daughter of Captain A. F. 
 Mackay, a pioneer builder of 
 Los Angeles, who erected 
 many of the large buildings 
 of that city prior to his death. 
 Mr. Longyear is of German 
 and Scotch antecedents, his 
 father's- parents having been 
 of old German stock, natives 
 of Nuremberg, Germany. 
 They came over to the 
 United States early in the 
 nineteenth century, settling 
 first in New York State and 
 later in Michigan. His moth- 
 er was of Scotch descent. 
 Her father, Eli Douglas, was 
 born in Vermont in 1810 and 
 as a young man, in the early 
 thirties, migrated to Southern 
 Michigan, when only the wild 
 animal trails marked the line 
 of travel that is today fol- 
 lowed by railroads and high- 
 ways-. Then it required a 
 strong heart and steady 
 nerve to withstand the hard- 
 ships of the pioneer the 
 days before matches, "when 
 
 grandmother went a mile for fire if so unfortunate 
 as to let the hearthfire go out." 
 
 Mr. Longyear's father was prominent in political 
 and social affairs in the community where he was 
 born and reared and held many important public 
 offices. In the early days- of his business career he 
 was a merchant, and later engaged in stock raising 
 and shipping, being reputed at the time of his 
 death to have the largest sheep holdings in south- 
 ern Michigan. 
 
 Mr. Longyear, who now occupies a position 
 among the leading bankers of the Southwest, was 
 reared in Michigan and received his education in 
 the public schools of Kalamazoo. He was nine 
 years old when his father died and the early plans 
 of his parents as to the future education and 
 career of their son were thwarted. After his 
 father's death, he went to Kalamazoo and resided 
 there with his maternal grandfather. The strong 
 Scotch influence which surrounded his life there 
 had much to do with molding and fixing the princi- 
 ples upon which his future career was built. What 
 
 W. D. LONGYEAR 
 
 he lost in theoretical teaching, however, he made 
 up in practical experience. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years, Mr. Longyear en- 
 tered the employ of the U. S. Government as a 
 clerk in the Registry Division of the Kalamazoo 
 Postoffice. He remained in the Federal service 
 about two years, resigning in 1884, and since that 
 time his life has been spent in the banking business. 
 He first entered the banking field as an em- 
 ploye of the Kalamazoo National Bank, beginning 
 in a minor position, and re- 
 mained with it for about five 
 years, or until the year 1889. 
 During that time he passed 
 through various positions 
 and became thoroughly ac- 
 quainted with the intricacies 
 of National banking. 
 
 Resigning his position 
 with the Kalamazoo institu- 
 tion in November, 1889, Mr. 
 Longyear went to California, 
 locating at Los Angeles, since 
 when he has made that city 
 his home. For the first few 
 months after hit* arrival he 
 was inactive, but early in 1890 
 he became associated with 
 the Security Savings Bank in 
 the capacity of Teller. He 
 held this position for about 
 three years and then was 
 made Assistant Cashier. 
 
 It was in this latter office 
 that Mr. Longyear displayed 
 his abilities most and in 
 1895, upon a change being 
 made in the personnel of the 
 bank, he was elected to the 
 
 offices of Cashier and Secretary, both of which of- 
 fices he fills. Thus, in that first five years, Mr. 
 Longyear, who arrived in Los Angeles practically a 
 stranger, rose from a minor position to a most im- 
 portant one, in one of the strongest banks in the 
 West, the Security Trust & Savings Bank, as the 
 institution is now known. 
 
 In addition to his banking affiliations, Mr. Long- 
 year has been identified with numerous commercial 
 and development projects. He also is interested in 
 real estate in and around Los Angeles, being a 
 stockholder and Director in several corporations. 
 
 Having inherited from his father a tendency to- 
 ward outdoor pursuits, Mr. Longyear has of recent 
 years acquired very substantial holdings in a val- 
 ley adjacent to Los Angeles, so that at some future 
 day he may satisfy that calling, which some men 
 of his profession would term a hobby. 
 
 Mr. Longyear is a Scottish Rite Mason, member 
 of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the 
 California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Crags 
 Country Club, and the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles. 
 
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 STODDARD JESS 
 
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 ESS, STODDARD, Banker, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Fox Lake, Wisconsin, December 
 3, 1856, the son of George Jess 
 and Marion Theresa (Judd) Jess. 
 He married Carrie Helen Cheno- 
 weth at Monroe, Wisconsin, January 15, 1879, and 
 to them there were born two children, Jennie C. 
 (deceased) and George Benjamin Jess. 
 
 The Jess family is of English origin, but has 
 been prominent on this side of the Atlantic for 
 nearly a hundred years, the first member to cross 
 the waters having been John L. P. Jess, the grand- 
 father of Stoddard Jess. He was reared to man- 
 hood in Nova Scotia, but later moved with his 
 family to the United States, settling near Fox 
 Lake, Wisconsin. His son George, father of Stod- 
 dard Jess, was one of those adventurers who 
 crossed the plains in 1850, following the receipt 
 of information about the discovery of gold in Cali- 
 fornia. He prospected for gold for several months, 
 but gave up the effort and returned to his home in 
 Wisconsin, where he later became prominent in 
 banking, political and fraternal affairs. He was 
 a supporter of the Republican party and besides 
 representing his district in the Wisconsin Legis- 
 lature, held various other public offices. On the 
 maternal side of his family Stoddard Jess is de- 
 scended from the early settlers of New York State. 
 His grandfather, Stoddard Judd, served his district 
 in the New York State Assembly for several terms, 
 and later, upon receiving appointment from Presi- 
 dent Polk as Receiver of the United States Land 
 Office at Green Bay, Wisconsin, moved to that 
 State and there spent a large part of his life. He 
 was a member of the first and second Constitu- 
 tional Conventions at which the Constitution of 
 Wisconsin was drawn and later served several 
 terms as Senator and Representative in the State 
 Legislature. 
 
 Stoddard Jess attended the public schools of 
 his native city and was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin in the class of 1876. Immedi- 
 ately upon the conclusion of his college course, he 
 entered the employ of the First National Bank of 
 Fox Lake, Wisconsin, as a clerk and remained 
 there a year. At the end of that time he was 
 taken into the banking house of his father, known 
 as George Jess- & Co. of Waupun, Wisconsin, in the 
 capacity of Cashier. This was considered one of 
 the strongest financial institutions of that time and 
 Mr. Jess, as one of its officers occupied an import- 
 ant place in the business affairs of the town. 
 
 Early in his career Mr. Jess became active in 
 political affairs of Waupun and in addition to serv- 
 ing several terms as a member of the City Council, 
 held the office of Mayor for two years. 
 
 His term expiring in 1885 Mr. Jess declined re- 
 election in order to move to Southern California 
 with his father, whose health had become impaired. 
 Disposing of their interests in Wisconsin, the Jess 
 family transferred their home to Pomona, Cali- 
 fornia, and a few months after their arrival there, 
 Stoddard Jess organized the First National Bank 
 of Pomona, he taking the office of Cashier. He 
 held this office until 1898, when, on the advice of 
 physicians, he gave up all active work and started 
 upon a period of travel in order to regain his 
 health, which had been seriously affected by the 
 strenuous life he had led in business and public 
 affairs. 
 
 When he first located at Pomona, the city was 
 in its infancy and Mr. Jess immediately became one 
 of the factors in its development. He was chosen 
 
 first Treasurer of the city and also took a leading 
 part in the organization of the Pomona Board of 
 Trade, serving as President of that body during the 
 first two years of its existence. For many years 
 he was a member of the Board of Library Trustees 
 of Pomona and served as its President from 1902 
 to 1904. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Jess moved his home to Los Angeles 
 and was chosen Vice President of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Los Angeles, in which office he has 
 continued ever since. This bank ranks high among 
 the monetary institutions of California and is dis- 
 tinguished for the large number of depositors which 
 it serves. Having spent a large part of his life 
 in the banking business and being one of its 
 closest students, Mr. Jess introduced into the First 
 National Bank the united system of Paying and 
 Receiving Tellers. With the idea of lessening con- 
 gestion before the bank's windows, he devised a 
 plan which has proved a great success. In the 
 first place, the old system of separate Receiving 
 and Paying Tellers was abandoned and the bank 
 was divided into a number of alphabetical sections, 
 at which the tellers receive and pay money, as 
 the case may be. The- advantages of the system 
 include the elimination of long waits by customers, 
 closer relations between the bank and its deposi- 
 tors, less bookkeeping and general expedition of 
 business. This addition to the banking methods of 
 the country was eagerly welcomed by the banking 
 fraternity and within a few years was adopted by a 
 number of large institutions- throughout the United 
 States, among the earliest being the Continental 
 & Commercial Bank of Chicago, the Seattle Na- 
 tional Bank of Seattle, Wash., the First National 
 and United States National Banks of Denver, Col- 
 orado, and the Irving Park National Bank of New 
 York City. 
 
 Aside from his position in the First National 
 Bank of Los Angeles, Mr. Jess is a Director of the 
 Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank and is inter- 
 ested in various other enterprises. He is regarded 
 as one of the most conservative bankers of Cali- 
 fornia, is President of the Los Angeles Clearing 
 House Committee and Ex-President of the Cal- 
 fornia State Bankers' Association. As a widely 
 known and 'respected authority in his profession, 
 he has made numerous addresses on banking sub- 
 jects and has written many articles dealing with 
 financial matters. 
 
 From the time he located in Los Angeles Mr. 
 Jess has been among the city's most progressive 
 citizens and has been a figure in nearly every 
 movement inaugurated for the benefit of the city. 
 He was Chairman of the Consolidation Committee 
 which brought about the consolidation of Los An- 
 geles and San Pedro, California, thus giving the 
 former its own harbor, and upon the conclusion of 
 this work, was chosen President of the Harbor 
 Commission of Los Angeles which had charge of 
 the work of building the city's harbor, the original 
 cost of which, including local and federal expendi- 
 tures, exceeded three and a half million dollars. 
 Mr. Jess directed the affairs of the Commission 
 during the early stages of the harbor work, but re- 
 signed in order to devote himself to his private 
 affairs. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Jess is a Republican and an im- 
 portant factor in the local affairs of the party. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, F. & A. M., is a Knight Templar, Mystic 
 Shriner and an Elk. His clubs are the Jonathan, 
 California, Los Angeles Athletic and the Union 
 League of Los Angeles. 
 
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 MITH, MARCUS AURBLIUS, 
 United States Senator, Tucson, 
 Arizona, was born near Cynthi- 
 ana, Kentucky, January 24, 1852, 
 the son of Frank C. Smith and 
 Agnes Ball (Chinn) Smith, a di- 
 rect descendant of Raleigh Chinn and Esther Ball 
 of early Virginia history. 
 
 Senator Smith received his early education in 
 the common schools of his district and later studied 
 in Transylvania University, 
 at Lexington, Kentucky. Fol- 
 lowing the completion of his 
 course he took up the study 
 of law and was admitted to 
 the bar of Kentucky in 1877. 
 He practiced in Kentucky 
 for about three years and in 
 1881 moved to Arizona, locat- 
 ing at Tombstone. Descend- 
 ed of an old Southern family, 
 he was a supporter of the 
 Democratic party and im- 
 mediately began to take an 
 interest in politics. In 1882, 
 a year after his arrival in 
 the Territory, t he was elected 
 Prosecuting Attorney of 
 Cochise County and served a 
 term of two years. 
 
 At that time Arizona had 
 within her borders a motley 
 citizenship and outlawry of 
 various kinds existed. The 
 energy with which Senator 
 Smith prosecuted law-break- 
 ers hanging 5 murderers by 
 verdict of juries in one year 
 had a wholesome effect in 
 
 bringing about a respect for law and order and his 
 record in office was such that in 1886 he was 
 elected Delegate to Congress. 
 
 He served in the Fiftieth Congress and was re- 
 elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty- 
 third, retiring in 1895 after eight years in service. 
 He refused a fifth nomination at that time, but in 
 1897 again became a candidate and was elected 
 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, serving until 1899. In 
 1901 he was elected again, serving until 1903, and 
 in 1905, after another lapse of one term, he was 
 elected a seventh time. At the expiration of his 
 term in 1905 he was re-elected and served until 1909. 
 During the sixteen years he served in Congress, 
 Senator Smith had no vote in the national body, 
 Arizona being a Territory, but notwithstanding this 
 he enjoyed great personal popularity and was at 
 all times a consistent and persistent worker for the 
 interests of Arizona. Through his influence, various 
 acts beneficial to the Territory were passed by 
 Congress and he also was instrumental in obtaining 
 numerous federal appropriations- for public build- 
 
 HON. MARCUS A. SMITH 
 
 ings, irrigation projects and other improvements. 
 He was one of the first to advocate the reclamation 
 of arid lands by the general government and aided 
 in drafting the reclamation act. 
 
 Senator Smith was one of the original advo- 
 cates of single Statehood for Arizona and fought 
 for the admission of the Territory in season and 
 out, for more than twenty years. On four different 
 occasions, after strenuous work on his part, he 
 succeeded in having a Statehood bill passed in the 
 lower house or Congress, but 
 on each occasion it was 
 blocked in the Senate or by 
 executive opposition and 
 failed to pass. His efforts 
 had been so effectual, how- 
 ever, that when he retired 
 from Congress in 1909 it had 
 been agreed in both national 
 platforms that Arizona would 
 be granted Statehood at the 
 next session, and, with the 
 overwhelming sentiment 
 which he had stirred up, a 
 bill was finally passed in 
 1910, known as the "Enabling 
 Act" by which the prelim- 
 inary steps toward State- 
 hood were begun. 
 
 Senator Smith was a po- 
 tent influence in the drafting 
 of the State Constitution and 
 in the first general election, 
 held in December, 1911, was 
 chosen, as a reward for his 
 long service in behalf of his 
 constituents, to be one of the 
 first United States Sena- 
 tors from Arizona. The will 
 
 of the people was ratified at the first session of 
 the State Legislature in 1912, but in the drawing 
 of lots, Senator Smith received the short term, 
 which means that he will serve until 1915. 
 
 Since taking his seat in the Senate, Senator 
 Smith has continued his work in behalf of Arizona 
 and is the father of various measures in the inter- 
 ests of his State. During his entire political career 
 he has been an advocate of progressive policies, 
 and many of his ideas were incorporated in the 
 Arizona Constitution. 
 
 Senator Smith has been the leader of the Dem- 
 ocratic party in Arizona for many years and car- 
 ried it to victory in scores of electoral contests. 
 
 Senator Smith has continued his law practice 
 at all times, but never permitted his private affairs 
 to interfere with public duty and the result has 
 been that his- material success was not as great as 
 his achievements for his State. He has no business 
 interests of consequence outside of his law practice. 
 The Senator is a member of the Old Pueblo Club 
 ot Tucson, the Masonic Order and the Elks. 
 
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 35 
 
 LARK, ELI P., Railroad Interests 
 and Investments, Los Angeles-, 
 California, was born near Iowa 
 City, Iowa, November 25, 1847. 
 He is the son of Timothy B. Clark 
 and Elvira E. (Calkin) Clark. He 
 married Lucy H. Sherman at Prescott, Arizona, 
 April 8, 1880. To them were born four children, 
 Mrs. Katherine Clark Barnard, Mrs. Mary Clark 
 Eversole, Miss Lucy Mason Clark, and Eugene Pay- 
 son Clark. 
 
 When Mr. Clark was eight years old his parents 
 moved to Grinnell, Iowa, where he received his 
 education in the public schools and at Iowa Col- 
 lege, located there. When he was eighteen years 
 of age, he taught his first school. Two years later 
 (1867) the family moved to Southwest Missouri, 
 where he engaged in farming with his father and 
 teaching school during the winter. 
 
 In 1875, Mr. Clark crossed the plains with his 
 team to Prescott, Arizona, the journey taking 
 nearly three months. It was there that he first met 
 his brother-in-law, General M. H. Sherman. Mr. 
 Clark engaged in mercantile pursuits at Prescott, 
 also serving one year as acting Postmaster. In 
 1878 he embarked in the lumber business with A. 
 D. Adams, under the firm name of Clark & Adams. 
 The year prior (in 1877) he was appointed Terri- 
 torial Auditor for Arizona and served five terms, 
 ten years in all. It was while in this position that 
 was formed the friendship between Mr. Clark 
 and General John C. Fremont, then Governor of 
 Arizona. 
 
 While living in Prescott, Mr. Clark first became 
 interested in the railroad question. He aided ma- 
 terially in the passage of a bill by the Legislature 
 in 1885 granting a subsidy of four thousand dollars 
 per mile for a railroad to be built from Prescott to 
 connect with the Atlantic & Pacific Railway at 
 Seligman, Arizona. He was one of the organizers 
 of the original company, being elected its Secretary 
 and Treasurer. The organization was turned over 
 to parties for construction and within a year the 
 Prescott & Arizona Central Railroad was in suc- 
 cessful operation. Ten years later it was suc- 
 ceeded by the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Rail- 
 way. 
 
 In 1891, Mr. Clark went to Los Angeles, where 
 he joined his brother-in-law, General Sherman, in 
 the electric railway field. The Los Angeles Con- 
 solidated Electric Railway Company (now the Los 
 Angeles Railway) was formed, with General Sher- 
 man as President and Mr. Clark the Vice President 
 and General Manager. All the local lines were con- 
 solidated in 1894. Mr. Clark then acquired the local 
 horse car lines in Pasadena and the Pasadena & 
 Los Angeles interurban line was in operation in 
 1895. The same year saw the beginning of the 
 line between Santa Monica and Los Angeles, known 
 as the Los Angeles Pacific Railway. This was 
 opened for traffic April 1, 1896. Mr. Clark was 
 
 President and Manager of the latter company from 
 its organization till the fall of 1909, when the prop- 
 erty passed to the control of the Southern Pacific 
 Company. 
 
 This property was the special pride of Mr. 
 Clark, who, with General Sherman, made it one of 
 the finest interurban railroads in the country. It 
 served to build up the whole foothill country from 
 Los Angeles to the sea. Another important work 
 of Mr. Clark was the planning and the securing of 
 property and rights of way necessary for the first 
 subway projected for Los Angeles. 
 
 When these gentlemen first went to Los An- 
 geles, it was a city of less than fifty thousand in- 
 habitants, on the verge of civic bankruptcy, due 
 to the great financial depression which over- 
 whelmed its people following the collapse of the 
 real estate boom of 1887. But with the building 
 of the first electric railroad the citizens began to 
 take hope, real estate values grew, new residents 
 were attracted, manufacturing increased and the 
 city was started on its way to its present position, 
 with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants 
 and millions of dollars invested in uuildings and 
 manufactures, among the leading cities of the 
 United States. 
 
 The rapid transit facilities inaugurated by Mr. 
 Clark and General Sherman, and carried on by 
 their successors, have resulted in thickly populat- 
 ing the entire country immediately surrounding the 
 city of Los Angeles, thereby increasing its city 
 limits to nearly three times its original area. And 
 it is a source of great satisfaction to them to feel 
 that their twenty years' labor there has contributed 
 so largely to the growth and prosperity of the city 
 of their choice. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Clark organized and became Presi- 
 dent of the Mount Hood Railway & Power Com- 
 pany at Portland, Oregon. Work was pushed rap- 
 idly on power development and the railway and 
 after the project was in successful operation, Mr. 
 Clark disposed of his interests. It is now the prop- 
 erty of Portland railway and power companies. 
 
 Mr. Clark and General Sherman having severed 
 their railroad connections, have given their atten- 
 tion to their private investments, they having sepa- 
 rated their principal properties. 
 
 Mr. Clark is now engaged in the erection of a 
 large reinforced concrete business and hotel block, 
 eleven stories above and two stories below ground, 
 one of the largest in the city. Mr. Clark is Presi- 
 dent of the Clark & Sherman Land Company (a 
 holding company), Vice President of the Main 
 Street Company and of the Sinaloa Land Company. 
 
 He is President of the Board of Trustees of 
 the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, a 
 Trustee for Pomona College, Claremont, California; 
 and a Trustee of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Los Angeles. He is a member of the 
 California Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the 
 University Club and other civic organizations. 
 
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 37 
 
 THOMAS ROBERT, Capital- 
 ist and ex-Senator of the United 
 States, Hueneme, Ventura County, 
 California, was born in Chambers- 
 burg, Franklin County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, December 8, 1841. He is 
 the son of Robert McFarland Bard and Elizabeth 
 Smith (Little) Bard, and descended from a family 
 that traces back to the Middle Ages, with the 
 American branch rich in mighty deeds of patriotism 
 and important factors in the Revolutionary and 
 early colonial period of the nation's history. These 
 latter were among the Scotch-Irish settlers of the 
 Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania, the first of the 
 name being Archibald Bard. 
 
 The latter's son, Richard Bard, married Cather- 
 ine Poe, who probably was a relative of the family 
 of the immortal poet, Edgar Allen Poe, and these 
 two figured in one of the most atrocious Indian out- 
 rages in the history of the United States. Their 
 homestead at Marshall's Mill (now Virginia Mills) 
 was attacked and burned in 1758, and they with 
 their infant child and three other persons who were 
 in the house at the time, were captured by a party 
 of savage Delawares. Three of the captives, includ- 
 ing the infant, were murdered and Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bard suffered indescribable tortures. He finally 
 escaped and more than two years later, by paying 
 a ransom, succeeded in obtaining his wife's release 
 from captivity. 
 
 An interesting incident in this connection is that 
 in 1903, a century and a half later, a great-great- 
 grandson of White Eyes, the Delaware chief, who 
 had been one of the captors of Richard Bard, in a 
 second experience with the savages, appeared in 
 Washington to press an Indian land claim and en- 
 listed the friendly aid of Senator Bard, great-great- 
 grandson of the man who had suffered at the hands 
 of the redmen. 
 
 Richard Bard later became a Justice of the 
 Peace, and while he was in politics for a number 
 of years, his only other public office was as a mem- 
 ber of the Pennsylvania Convention, which, in 
 1788, passed on the Federal Convention Constitu- 
 tion. Richard Bard's brother, David Bard, was a 
 Member of Congress for the fourth, fifth, seventh, 
 eighth, ninth and tenth sessions. 
 
 Other notable ancestors of Senator Bard were 
 Thomas, a son of Richard Bard, who was a militia 
 captain, conspicuous in military affairs in Penn- 
 sylvania after the Revolutionary War; Judge Archi- 
 bald Bard, for twenty-one years on the Bench, and 
 a prominent figure in politics in the early part of 
 the last century; Thomas Bard, great grandfather 
 of the Senator, who, in 1814, organized a company 
 and aided in the defense of Baltimore; Captain 
 Robert Parker, a valiant officer under Washington, 
 who participated in many of the most important 
 battles of the Revolution and who was praised in 
 after years by General Marquis Lafayette for his 
 bravery and kindness to the Marquis when the lat- 
 
 ter was wounded. Captain Parker, after the war, 
 was appointed Collector of Excise for Franklin 
 County and became one of the most prominent 
 citizens in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Senator Bard's father, although he died at the 
 early age of forty-three, was a noted man in his 
 day, and such was the appreciation of his unusual 
 character and force that he might have achieved 
 almost any position had he lived. He was a law- 
 yer. Between 1842 and 1844 he was associated with 
 the Hon. James X. McLanahan, one of the leading 
 lawyers of that period. He soon attained a high 
 position at the bar of his native county, and in 
 his later years enjoyed a wide reputation in the 
 State as a lawyer of great ability. "Mr. Bard was a 
 peculiarly gifted man intellectually," wrote one 
 of his contemporaries; "he had a profound knowl- 
 edge of the law, was ardently devoted to nis por- 
 fession, managed every case entrusted to him 
 with masterly skill and force, and would, had 
 not death removed him in the meridian of his 
 years, been one of the country's grandest jurists. 
 He possessed an active, vigorous, and logical mind, 
 and his legal learning was extensive and profound. 
 His arguments to the court were cogent, and free 
 from prolixity and redundancy. His addresses be- 
 fore a jury were eloquent, convincing and directed 
 toward presenting the strong points of his case 
 clearly and strenuously. He judiciously refrained 
 from dwelling at length on matters of minor im- 
 portance. When he gave a legal opinion to a 
 client on a difficult point of law, he was able to 
 give it confidently, because it was the result of 
 the most painstaking investigation and study. In 
 politics, Senator Bard's father was a Whig, but he 
 was never an aspirant for political office. In 1839, 
 when he was only thirty years old, and the public 
 school system was in its infancy, he was elected 
 a member of the Chambersburg School Board, and 
 he was chosen Chief Burgess of the borough in 
 1847. In 1850 he was nominated for Congress by 
 the Whigs. He was a man of strong convictions, 
 with the courage to avow them. He was con- 
 spicuous as an influential and consistent advocate 
 of temperance at a time when opposition to the 
 Rum Power and Slave Power were alike regarded 
 as a species of fanaticism." 
 
 Senator Bard married Mary Beatrice Gerberd- 
 ing, at San Francisco, California, April 17, 1876, 
 and to them there were born eight children, Rob- 
 ert (deceased), Beryl Beatrice, Mary Louise (now 
 Mrs. R. G. Edwards), Anna Greenwell, Thomas Ger- 
 berding, Elizabeth Parker, Richard and Archibald 
 Philip Bard. 
 
 Left fatherless at the age of ten, the future 
 Senator Bard early developed a self-reliant charac- 
 ter in keeping with the traits of his forbears. He 
 attended the Chambersburg Academy, and at the 
 age of seventeen years began the study of law in 
 the office of Hon. George Chambers, at Chambers- 
 bu-g. Impaired health, however, compelled him to 
 
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 abandon his preparation for the bar and seek a 
 more active business life. He became a member 
 of the forwarding and commission house of Zeller 
 & Company, in 1861, at Hagerstown, Maryland, and 
 also served the Cumberland Valley Railroad at that 
 place until August, 1864. 
 
 Speaking of this part of the Senator's career 
 and events subsequent, G. O. Seilhamer, Esq., in an 
 historical and genealogical work, entitled "The 
 Bard Family: A Chronicle of the Bards," says: 
 
 "During this period he saw some dangerous ser- 
 vice as a volunteer scout in the successive inva- 
 sions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the Con- 
 federates. One day, with a companion, he pene- 
 trated the lines of the enemy and was captured. 
 They were on the point of being hanged as spies, 
 when a sudden rush of Union cavalry rescued them 
 from their distressing situation. In the autumn of 
 1864, Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War, 
 and afterwards president of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road, was in search of a capable young man to take 
 charge of his extensive interests in Southern Cali- 
 fornia, which included oil lands that it was be- 
 lieved would rival the oil regions of Pennsylvania. 
 
 "Mr. Bard was chosen for the work, and after 
 spending several months in Colonel Scott's office, 
 was placed in control of his holdings in Los An- 
 geles, Ventura and Humboldt Counties, comprising 
 about 227,000 acres. These holdings included 
 113,000 acres in Rancho Simi; 26,600, Las Posas; 
 48,000, San Francisco; 10,000, Callegnas; 45,000, 
 El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia; 6600 in the 
 Canada Clara, and 16,000 in the Ojai. 
 
 "At that time there were not more than a 
 dozen Americans in the entire region. It was not 
 long, however, until squatters began to swarm over 
 a part of Scott's land. In the description of the 
 old Rancho la Colonia one line ran from a certain 
 monument to a point on the Santa Barbara chan- 
 nel shore between two esteros. Lagoons were nu- 
 merous along that shore, and it was easy for a de- 
 signing and unscrupulous person to raise a doubt 
 in regard to the two esteros between which the 
 rancho line ran. A Sacramento lawyer asserted 
 that the line ran to a point near where the Hue- 
 neme lighthouse now stands. This was in direct 
 conflict with Scott's claim, and would have de- 
 prived him of about 17,000 acres of as rich, level 
 land as was to be found along the coast. 
 
 "The lawyers sat on the squatters, who at once 
 began to drop down on the 17,000 acres. Scott in- 
 sisted on his claim and Bard was on the ground to 
 defend his rights and to drive the squatters off. 
 The settlers talked 'shoot' and 'hang,' but Bard 
 kept after them. At the outset he had a survey 
 made by the United States Surveyor General, and, 
 as the line fitted the Scott claim, he was unyield- 
 ing in enforcing it. 
 
 "The conflict lasted for years with varying for- 
 tunes. The settlers stole a march on Scott by ob- 
 taining a decision in their favor from the Land 
 
 Office at Washington, but Scott succeeded in hav- 
 ing it reversed, and it has remained reversed to 
 this day. When Grover Cleveland became Presi- 
 dent the squatters made their last attempt to get 
 the Colonia lands, but Attorney General Garland 
 upheld the old Scott line and that was the end 
 of it. 
 
 "During all these years Bard was on the firing 
 line. He had desperate men to deal with, but he 
 never flinched. He kept the courts of the county 
 busy dealing with the cases of the squatters. After 
 he had won he dealt so generously with the men 
 who had been his bitter enemies that they became 
 his friends. 
 
 "While Mr. Bard was Colonel Scott's agent he 
 had some thrilling experiences. The California 
 Petroleum Company was organized to develop the 
 oil on Scott's holdings. Well No. 1 was put down 
 on the Ojai Country, and there Bard made his home 
 when he first went to Southern California. One 
 night in 1874, he was the victim of an attempted 
 "hold-up" while driving to No. 1 on the Ojai with 
 a large sum of money in his possession. He had 
 forgotten his pistol, but the landlord at the hotel 
 where he received the money loaned him an old 
 derringer with which to defend himself in case of 
 attack. He was driving four-in-hand. It was not 
 an easy thing to hold up four bronchos on the run, 
 but on an up-grade a man got in front of the lead- 
 ers, while another came to the forward wheels de- 
 manding Bard's money. Bard blazed away with 
 the ancient derringer, missing his man, but hurt- 
 ing himself with the old weapon, the handle of 
 which burst in his hand. Frightened by the ex- 
 plosion the leaders dashed forward and Bard was 
 out of reach of the highwaymen. 
 
 "Desperadoes among the squatters on the Scott 
 lands and other bad men plotted to take Mr. Bard's 
 life on a number of occasions, but these plots al- 
 ways failed. These antagonisms have passed away, 
 and now he is held in the highest esteem by all 
 classes in Southern California for what he has 
 achieved for the development of his section of the 
 State." 
 
 In the days when Senator Bard started for Cali- 
 fornia the transportation problem was little better 
 than during the rush of '49, and he made the trip 
 by steamer, then via the Isthmus of Panama over- 
 land. Ventura County, in which he makes his 
 home, and wherein his activities have lain princi- 
 pally since his arrival, was a part of Santa Bar- 
 bara. His important responsibility as master of 
 the Scott holdings at once made him the leading 
 business man of the section, but despite the cares 
 of that office and the attendant difficulties and liti- 
 gation, he early took an active part in politics. 
 
 Reaching Ventura in 1865, he was elected two 
 years later to the Board of County Supervisors, and 
 served until 1871. In 1872 he was one of the Com- 
 missioners who organized Ventura County and 
 started the government going. Five years later he 
 
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 ran for State Senator on the Republican ticket in 
 the district made up of Ventura, Santa Barbara 
 and San Luis Obispo counties. He carried the first 
 two, but was defeated by Patrick Murphy, of the 
 last named county, by a slight margin. In 1884 he 
 was a delegate to the Republican National Conven- 
 tion which nominated Elaine for President, and in 
 1892 he was elected a Presidential elector, the only 
 Republican to win in a Democratic landslide. In 
 this contest he received more votes than the three 
 lowest of the Democratic candidates combined. 
 
 The Democratic California Legislature becom- 
 ing deadlocked, in 1899, over the choice of a United 
 States Senator, Mr. Bard was proposed by Dr. 
 Howell for the office in January, 1899, as the man 
 "who would be free from all corporation entangle- 
 ment, and on whose character there could be no 
 stain." He received two votes at that time, but 
 in February, 1900, after the deadlock had existed 
 for more than a year, he was elected at a special 
 session of the Legislature over Colonel Daniel 
 Burns, taking his seat untrammeled by promises to 
 any man or body of men. 
 
 Senator Bard served his State until March 4, 
 1905, and during his tenure in office was conspicu- 
 ous in numerous important legislative campaigns. 
 His most notable works, however, were his effort 
 in behalf of the amendment of the Hay-Pauncefote 
 treaty; his opposition to Cuban reciprocity and the 
 defeat of the Statehood bill intended to join Ari- 
 zona and New Mexico as one State. He stood at 
 all times for the autonomy of Arizona and the sub- 
 sequent admission of the two territories as sep- 
 arate States has vindicated his position. He made 
 several powerful speeches on Cuban reciprocity and 
 the Statehood question, and was in the thick of 
 the battle over both questions. He also contributed 
 to the defeat of the effort to grant public funds to 
 Catholic and other sectarian Indian schools. This 
 latter, it is believed, contributed more than any 
 other one thing to his defeat for re-election. 
 
 His candidacy for re-election, however, was 
 proposed by political friends and others, irrespec- 
 tive of politics, and not by himself. During that 
 contest he said: "My attitude is, in effect, a pro- 
 test against the power of the machine in the State, 
 and if that power is to be continued, free and in- 
 dependent representation in Congress is an im- 
 possibility." 
 
 During his service in the Senate, Senator Bard 
 was Chairman of the Committee on Irrigation, 
 which had to do with enormous problems for the 
 reclamation of the arid wastes of the West, and in 
 this capacity performed remarkable work for the 
 progress and upbuilding of his section. 
 
 He was at one time a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, with 
 the understanding that his membership was to 
 cease after the campaign, as he was not in favor 
 of many of the principles of the League, being 
 especially opposed to the direct election of United 
 States Senators by popular vote and the initiative, 
 referendum and recall. He was able, however, to 
 assist the League in its campaign to "kick the 
 
 Southern Pacific Railroad out of the Republican 
 party in California." 
 
 Senator Bard is a conservative Republican, but 
 at the same time a believer in modern develop- 
 ment of the country's resources. He does not be- 
 lieve in saloons or too much legislation which 
 would hamper the growth of the nation, and advo- 
 cated the Anti-Saloon League of California, though 
 his views differ from those of the Prohibition party 
 in that he prefers the local option solution. 
 
 Senator Bard has been one of the most success- 
 ful business men in America, and has extensive 
 landed interests in Ventura and other counties. His 
 activities extend through various lines of enter- 
 prise, including oil, banking, development, coloni- 
 zation, sugar and manufactures. He is President 
 of the following corporations: Beryl wood Invest- 
 ment Company, Bank of Hueneme, Quimichis Col- 
 ony, Compania Hacienda de Quimichis, Las Posas 
 Water Company, and is a director in the Graham 
 and Loftus Oil Company, Sacramento Valley Sugar 
 Company, and the Potter Hotel Company. 
 
 He was also the first President of the Union Oil 
 Company of California, in 1890; built at Hueneme, 
 in 1871, the first wharf constructed in any open 
 roadstead south of Santa Cruz, and in 1874 con- 
 tracted for the building of the first wharf erected 
 at Santa Monica, California. 
 
 Senator Bard served, by appointment of Gover- 
 nor Gillett, as Regent of the University of Califor- 
 nia, and has been a conspicuous figure in educa- 
 tional advancement in the Golden State. He is a 
 noted floriculturist, and at his home in Hueneme, 
 called "Berylwood," after his eldest daughter, he 
 indulges his taste for gardening. He developed two 
 new roses, one called "Beauty of Berylwood" and 
 the other "Dr. Bard," after his brother, Dr. Cephas 
 Little Bard, a man who in life presented one of the 
 noblest characters his fellows ever came in contact 
 with. He had served as a surgeon in the Civil War, 
 and later settled at Buenaventura, California, 
 where, for many years, he was a real ministering 
 angel to his people. He cared for the sick of the 
 district regardless of their position, and oftentimes, 
 at risk of his own life in swollen stream or on dan- 
 gerous mountain trail, he went forth in the night 
 to care for his suffering neighbors. 
 
 The two brothers, several years ago, built and 
 endowed the beautiful Elizabeth Bard Memorial 
 Hospital, erected in memory of their mother at 
 Buenaventura, and there, in 1902, the doctor, who 
 was its first patient, died shortly after the comple- 
 tion of the building. 
 
 With his brother, Senator Bard founded the 
 Pioneer Society of Ventura County, and is today its 
 President. He is also a prominent member of the 
 F. and A. M., Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, 
 Union League of San Francisco, and the California 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 The home life of Senator Bard, with his family 
 around him and his beautiful home for a setting, is 
 described as ideal. He is a man of fine presence, 
 large frame, magnetic personality and innate hon- 
 esty that prevented him from spending, as the 
 price of a political honor, even a cigar. 
 
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 DR. CEPHAS L. BARD 
 
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 ARD, CEPHAS LITTLE, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, San Buenaven- 
 tura, California, was born at 
 Cham bersburg, Pennsylvania, 
 April 7, 1843, the son of Robert 
 McFarland Bard and Elizabeth S. 
 (Little) Bard. He was married October 25, 1871, 
 to Clara Winter Gerberding, daughter of Christian 
 Otto and Mary J. (Hempson) Gerberding. He died 
 April 20, 1902, and she followed him, January 12, 
 1905. They were the parents of two children, Mary 
 Blanche Bard, now a resident of Chambersburg, 
 and Albert Marius Bard, who died in Brussels, 
 Belgium, in 1905. 
 
 The Bard family, splendidly represented by 
 Doctor Bard and his elder brother, former United 
 States Senator Thomas R. Bard, of California, is 
 one of the oldest and most picturesque in Ameri- 
 ca; but prior to its advent in the New World, in 
 fact, several centuries before the discovery of 
 America, the house of Bard was conspicuous in 
 the history of several of the old countries. While, 
 like many of these families of indistinct origin, 
 its beginnings are misty, careful research seems 
 to fix the first root of the family in Italy, during 
 the latter part of the twelfth century. There are 
 of record at this time several members of the 
 family, whose head was Ugone de Barde. Follow- 
 ing his death his two sons became engaged in 
 fratricidal war, were re-united and finally, after 
 years of turbulent warfare against others, deserted 
 their castles and left the Valley of Aosta. 
 
 It is generally believed they fled to Scotland, 
 where they later became noted warriors, and one 
 of them is mentioned as having signed the safe 
 conduct for William the Lion, granted by Richard 
 of the Lion Heart in the year 1194. They figure 
 frequently in the records of the Wars in England 
 and Scotland. There were various branches of 
 the Bard family in the Old Country and their 
 identification has been difficult to trace. 
 
 The original ancestor in America was Archi- 
 bald Bard, who settled prior to 1740, on "Carroll's 
 Delight," near Fairfield in York (now Adams) 
 County, Pennsylvania. Of his son, Richard Bard, 
 the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Bard, there is 
 an accurate and thrilling history. He learned the 
 trade of miller in his father's mill, probably the 
 first in that section, and after marriage made his 
 home at the base of Sugar Loaf Mountain. The 
 country was at that time, following Braddock's de- 
 feat, infested with Indians and massacres by the 
 savages- were numerous in the region, but the 
 Bards lived safely until April 13, 1758, when nine- 
 teen Redskins of the vicious Delaware Tribe at- 
 tacked their home on "Carroll's Delight." At the 
 time there were in the house Mr. Bard, his wife and 
 seven-months-old boy; his cousin, a little girl and 
 a bound boy. The men beat off the Indians in a 
 hand-to-hand struggle, but realizing that they were 
 greatly out-numbered, surrendered after a time 
 
 upon promise of the Indians that none would be 
 killed. 
 
 The party of six captives, together with two 
 field hands, were bound by the Indians and started 
 toward the latters' camp, several hundred miles 
 away. They had not gone far when the Delawares 
 broke their pledge and killed Thomas Potter, a 
 relative of Richard Bard. Later they killed Mrs. 
 Bard's infant son, and in time killed various others 
 of the party. They practiced the most fiendish 
 kind of cruelties upon the survivors, who were 
 dragged more than forty miles the first day. 
 Richard Bard told of their sufferings in a poem 
 which he wrote later. 
 
 About the second day out he aggravated the anger 
 of his Indian guard and was terribly beaten with 
 a gun, then forced, in his crippled condition, to 
 pack a tremendous load of supplies. Finally, on 
 the night of the fourth day of their captivity, Mr. 
 Bard was sent by one of the Indians to get a pail 
 of water. He never returned, and, by hiding in a 
 hollow log, escaped the searching Indians who 
 hunted him for two days. He then began to make 
 his way back to civilization to get help for the 
 rescue of his wife and friends. But it was nine 
 days before he reached Fort Lyttleton, after near- 
 ly perishing on the way. He was starving, almost 
 naked, his shoes were gone, his feet were torn 
 and poisoned and for a time his life was despaired 
 of. He recovered, however, and then set about 
 rescuing his wife. He went to various parts of 
 the country looking for the Delawares, but it was 
 not until two years and five months that he was 
 able to effect her rescue by ransom. In the mean- 
 time she had undergone almost indescribable hard- 
 ship, had been beaten by the Indian squaws on 
 various occasions and had only been saved from 
 death by being assigned as a substitute for the 
 dead sister of two warriors, to take care of their 
 household. 
 
 Following the release of his wife, Richard Bard 
 purchased a plantation near Mercersburg, Penn., 
 and later became one of the leading citizens of 
 his section. He fought in various subsequent 
 Indian battles, and in the Revolutionary War served 
 under several commanders in the campaigns 
 around Philadelphia. He later served as Justice 
 of the Peace and as a member of the Pennsylvania 
 Convention of 1787, to which the Federal Consti- 
 tution was submitted. He was an anti-Federalist 
 and in the Harrisburg Convention of 1788 fought 
 so hard against ratification of the Constitution 
 that he practically obliterated himself politically. 
 One of his sons, Thomas Bard, the grandfather of 
 Dr. Bard, served as a Captain in the War of 1812. 
 
 Dr. Bard's father, Robert McFarland Bard, up- 
 held the traditions of the family and attained a 
 commanding position at the bar, and a reputation 
 throughout the State of Pennsylvania as a lawyer 
 of great ability. He was a Whig in Politics, but 
 only on one occasion permitted himself to be put 
 
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 up as a candidate for office. He had served for 
 many years on the Chambersburg School Board, 
 and also served as Chief Burgess of the Borough. 
 In 1850 he was nominated for Congress on the Whig 
 ticket, but was defeated by a former law partner, 
 James X. McLanahan. He survived until 1851. 
 
 Dr. Cephas L. Bard, who bore the distinction 
 of being the first American physician holding a 
 diploma to settle in Ventura County, California, 
 inherited his taste for the medical profession from 
 his maternal grandfather, Dr. P. W. Little. The 
 latter was a student under Dr. Benjamin Rush, 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
 was a prominent physician of Mercersburg, Penn- 
 sylvania in the early part of the nineteenth cen- 
 tury. He had two sons who were physicians, Dr. 
 Robert Parker Little, a practitioner of Columbus, 
 Ohio, and Dr. B. Rush Little, who held the post 
 of Professor of Obstetrics in the Keokuk, Iowa, 
 Medical College at the time of his death. Dr. P. 
 W. Little's wife, Mary Parker, was the daughter 
 of Col. Robert Parker, a distinguished officer of 
 the Revolutionary War, and her sister was mar- 
 ried to General Andrew Porter, one of their chil- 
 dren being David Rittenhouse Porter, Governor of 
 Pennsylvania. He was the father of General Horace 
 Porter, late American Ambassador to France. 
 
 Dr. Bard received his classical education at 
 Chambersburg Academy, but from early boyhood 
 he had made up his mind to adopt the medical 
 profession and he had hardly graduated when he 
 entered the office of Dr. A. H. Senseny, a cele- 
 brated physician of Pennsylvania, to prepare for 
 his future career. When he had just got fairly , 
 started in his work, news was received of McClel- 
 lan's reverses at the hands of the Confederates 
 and the embryo doctor decided to leave his studies 
 and enlist in the Union Army. Although he was 
 only slightly past his nineteenth birthday, he be- 
 came a member, on August 11, 1862, of Company 
 A, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, and was sent to the front im- 
 mediately. He participated with his regiment in 
 the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 
 Antietam and the second battle of Bull Run. 
 
 The doctor was mustered out with his regiment 
 on May 20, 1863, and immediately resumed his 
 medical studies. He attended Jefferson Medical 
 College at Philadelphia and was graduated in 1864, 
 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 The war was at its height about that time and 
 instead of going into private practice, Dr. Bard 
 took examination and was appointed an Assistant 
 Surgeon in the Army. He was assigned to the 
 Two Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Pennsyl- 
 vania Volunteers and again went into action. His 
 regiment figured in numerous engagements of more 
 or less importance and Dr. Bard served until the 
 surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. He then 
 returned to his home in Chambersburg and prac- 
 ticed his profession there until 1868. 
 
 In the latter year he moved to California, 
 whither his elder brother, Senator Bard, had pre- 
 ceded him, and settled at San Buenaventura, where 
 he was one of the pioneers. As stated before, he 
 was the first graduate physician to locate in that 
 section, and except for a few brief intervals spent 
 in post-graduate study in Eastern medical colleges, 
 remained there until his death. 
 
 The career of Dr. Bard from the time he set- 
 tled in California was at once a record of brilliant 
 professional achievements and a splendid charac- 
 ter lesson. He was not only a minister to the sick, 
 but a zealous and intelligent laborer for the general 
 development of the community. 
 
 At the first county election in Ventura, Dr. 
 Bard was nominated for the office of Coroner on 
 both tickets then in the field and was unanimous- 
 ly elected. With characteristic self-denial, he de- 
 voted himself to the interests of the public and was 
 kept in office continuously for twenty years. 
 Added to the duties of Coroner were those of 
 Health Officer, and Dr. Bard, a progressive thinker, 
 inaugurated many regulations which served to 
 keep the general public health up to a high stand- 
 ard. 
 
 Dr. Bard also served on various occasions as 
 a member of the Board of Pension Examiners. 
 
 Aside from his official duties, Dr. Bard main- 
 tained a large private practice and into this took 
 the splendid traits of character which made him 
 beloved by his fellows. A writer, summarizing the 
 work of Dr. Bard and his influence in the com- 
 munity he served, declares: 
 
 "He became an integral part of the County a 
 fixed figure in its social and civic life. With him 
 the hardships that befall a country physician with 
 a large practice had no power to draw him to a 
 large city, where the routine of his professional 
 life would be easier and the emoluments greater. 
 He found his reward in the gratitude, love and 
 esteem that the people he served so unselfishly, 
 bestowed upon him. It was a common occurrence 
 with him to risk his life in the roaring Santa Clara 
 when the summons came to him from a patient 
 on a Winter night. 'Oh, I have to do it,' was his 
 own comment on his unselfish devotion to duty. 
 He always felt the keenest satisfaction in the 
 success of his professional efforts. For more than 
 thirty years there was no public highway in Ven- 
 tura County so long, or mountain trail so distant, 
 that it was not traversed by him again and again 
 on his errands of mercy. He knew nearly every 
 man, woman and child in the County; knew their 
 names, their dispositions, their ailments and their 
 limitations. The tenacity of his memory was as 
 marvelous as the accuracy of his knowledge. His 
 quick intuitions made him a leader of men as well 
 as a skillful and unerring physician." 
 
 One of the greatest personal satisfactions of 
 Dr. Bard was his establishment, in association with 
 his brother, the Senator, of a modern hospital at 
 Ventura, California. This institution, named the 
 Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital, in memory of 
 their mother, is complete in every particular and 
 
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 represents the realization of a life-long ambition 
 entertained by Dr. Bard. Had it not been for the 
 multitude of other duties, it is very probable that 
 the hospital would have been built many years 
 sooner, because the doctor had long planned such 
 a building, and had even gone so far as to work 
 out the details of the building, its arrangements 
 and fittings. Finally he was able to start work 
 on the structure and devoted a great deal of time 
 to its erection. It was completed in 1902, the year 
 of Dr. Bard's death, and he entered it in his last 
 illness as the first patient. He passed away with- 
 in the walls of the institution and his death there 
 identified it more closely with his life. It is gen- 
 erally regarded as a monument to his own career, 
 and after his death the Ventura Society of Pio- 
 neers, of which he was the virtual founder, unveiled 
 a bust of him, which is to-day one of the features 
 of the hospital. 
 
 Practically every minute of the day was filled 
 with some duty for Dr. Bard, but in addition to his 
 numerous responsibilities he found time to take an 
 active part in the affairs of his profession, also to 
 contribute to its literature. He served as Presi- 
 dent of the Medical Society of the State of Cali- 
 fornia, and also of the Ventura County Medical 
 Society. He was greatly interested in the youth 
 of the country and an advocate of advanced edu- 
 cational methods. During his tenure of more than 
 ten years as President of the Ventura City School 
 Board he was especially active and watchful of 
 the children and inaugurated numerous reforms 
 looking to the mental and physical betterments 
 of his wards. 
 
 As President of the Ventura County Society of 
 Pioneers, Dr. Bard devoted himself to its work 
 with the same unselfish zeal displayed in his 
 other spheres of activity and to him is given 
 credit for the success of the organization. 
 
 Patriotism was one of the chief characteristics 
 of Dr. Bard and as a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, he was a worker at all times for 
 the perpetuation of the traditions and memories 
 represented by the organization. 
 
 His fathers before him having been members 
 of the Presbyterian church, Dr. Bard abided by 
 the teachings of that faith all his life. 
 
 The doctor, in addition to the organizations al- 
 ready named, also was a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, prominent in Masonic 
 circles and a Knight Templar. His death was 
 mourned by a wide circle of friends and admirers, 
 and the medical societies and other bodies which 
 he had served during life honored his memory by 
 the adoption of resolutions which showed their 
 appreciation of his qualities and attested to the 
 esteem in which he was held. 
 
 His funeral was one of the most notable in the 
 history of Ventura County, remarkable for the 
 fact that people in all walks of life, from all sec- 
 tions of the country, gathered to pay tribute to his 
 
 memory. The "Southern California Practitioner," 
 the official medical publication of that section, and 
 to which Dr. Bard had been a frequent contributor, 
 contained in its issue of May, 1902, the following: 
 
 "His death was a source of grief throughout 
 Southern California, but especially in Ventura, 
 which had for so many years been his home. 
 
 "There was a great outpouring of the people 
 of that County, and thousands took advantage of 
 the opportunity of seeing their dear friend's fea- 
 tures for the last time. On the march from the 
 residence to the railroad station there was led be- 
 hind the hearse the gray horse of the doctor, a 
 noble animal that had shared many of his kind 
 master's hardships, and was almost as well known 
 as he. There was no driver in the seat, and as 
 men saw the significance of this fact they broke 
 down and wept. Over five thousand people gath- 
 ered at the station and waited until the last sign 
 of the train disappeared in the distance, bearing 
 the body away towards Los Angeles, where it was 
 finally cremated. 
 
 "Besides being a great physician and an able 
 surgeon, Dr. Bard was a most delightful writer, 
 and his articles, which appeared from time to time 
 in the 'Southern California Practitioner,' have all 
 been eagerly read by the medical profession." 
 
 The Ventura County Medical Society, of which 
 Dr. Bard was a charter member and life-long sup- 
 porter, passed the following resolutions following 
 the death of its distinguished member: 
 
 "WHEREAS, the members of the medical fra- 
 ternity of Ventura County deeply deplore the death 
 of their colleague, Dr. C. L. Bard, when at the 
 height of his activities for the profession and 
 community 
 
 "BE IT RESOLVED, that we publicly express 
 our sympathy for the bereaved relatives, and our 
 respect for the man who was known by us for 
 so long. 
 
 "Dr. Bard was the first American physician to 
 locate in Ventura County, and during his many 
 years of hard labor, was ever ready to bring to 
 the service of the sick, and the profession, a per- 
 sonality rich in qualities acquired through long 
 years by an honest, fearless and pure soul. 
 
 "His friends were very numerous, and he was 
 ever prompted by a kind heart and generous 
 thought to aid or counsel whenever there was need. 
 His professional ambitions he never allowed to be 
 dimmed by weariness or age, and he was a student 
 to the very last days of his- useful life. 
 
 "This pioneer doctor, this rugged, brainy, gen- 
 tlemanly man has gone from among us, but his 
 personality is a part of each one of us. 
 
 "Of him it cannot be said that he was not with- 
 out honor save in his own country." 
 
 The committee which drafted this resolution 
 was made up of three of the leading members of 
 the medical profession of Southern California and 
 they expressed, in dignified language, the feelings 
 of the rest of the community. 
 
 Resolutions similar to these were passed by 
 the other organizations of which Dr. Bard was a 
 member, these including the Southern California 
 Medical Society, the Medical Society of the State 
 of California, Ventura County Pioneer Society, the 
 Grand Army of the Republic and others. 
 
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 ELLMAN, ISAIAS WILLIAM, SR., 
 Banker, San Francisco ana Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Bavaria, Germany, October 1, 
 1842. He arrived in the city of 
 Los Angeles in 1859; married 
 Miss Esther Neugass, of New York, on the 4th of 
 April, 1870, and as a result of that marriage 
 there are three children, I. W. Hellman, Jr., Clara 
 Hellman Heller, and Florence Hellman Ehrman. 
 
 The story of the un- 
 usually successful career of 
 Mr. Hellman is replete with 
 interesting chapters. Begin- 
 ning with no capital whatso- 
 ever, he has won his way 
 step by step to one of the 
 highest positions in the finan- 
 cial world, and today is 
 known throughout America 
 as one of the most substan- 
 tial financiers of the presen 4 
 day. 
 
 His success was not won 
 without struggles; reared in 
 Bavaria, he received but a 
 meager education in the 
 schools of that country. At 
 the age of seventeen, he left 
 Germany for America, and by 
 the Panama Isthmus route 
 arrived in San Francisco in 
 1859. He remained in that 
 city but a short time, locat- 
 ing in Los Angeles in the 
 same year. 
 
 Being of an industrious 
 frame of mind, he did not re- 
 main idle long in his new 
 home. He sought and found employment as a dry 
 goods clerk in a store in the Arcadia Block on Los 
 Angeles street. In those days that portion of the 
 city was the active business center, and there Mr. 
 Hellman learned his first lesson in business. 
 
 There was little in the young clerk to indicate 
 the later financier and master of the Western bank- 
 ing world, save an untiring energy and determina- 
 tion to succeed, which seemed to dominate him. 
 His close attention to duty and his quick grasp of 
 business principles were characteristics that dis- 
 tinguished him, yet those who knew him little 
 dreamed that he would some day become a finan- 
 cial genius whose name would be almost as famil- 
 iar in New York, London, Paris and Berlin as in 
 his home city. 
 
 It took Mr. Hellman just ten years to save the 
 required amount of capital to start the business of 
 which he had dreamed and determined to build. By 
 this time his name had become known to every 
 business man of Southern California, and when he 
 organized the banking house of Hellman, Temple & 
 
 ISAIAS W. HELLMAN, SR. 
 
 Company he was quickly backed in that project by 
 a corps of substantial business men. He was 
 elected manager and president of the bank at the 
 beginning, and remained in that position until the 
 house was merged into a larger and more influential 
 institution. 
 
 In 1871 he organized the Farmers and Mer- 
 chants' Bank of Los Angeles, today known as the 
 oldest and one of the strongest financial institutions 
 in Southern California. He was appointed cashier 
 and manager of that bank, 
 and for the following twenty 
 years was constantly at its 
 head, directing its countless 
 details and gradually forging 
 ahead as a leader of finance. 
 
 During the years he was 
 the active head of the Farm- 
 ers and Merchants' Bank the 
 reserves of that institution 
 were not the legal twenty-five 
 per cent of the deposits, but 
 ranged from fifty to seventy- 
 five per cent. He regarded 
 his responsibility as a sacred 
 trust, and determined that he 
 would have money on hand 
 when the depositors called 
 for it. He maintained an un- 
 shaken confidence in the pub- 
 lic mind, and when he en- 
 tered upon an enterprise the 
 public at large felt assured 
 that it was a safe under- 
 taking. 
 
 Mr. Hellman's success in 
 bringing his Los Angeles 
 bank into prominence among 
 the financial houses of the 
 West attracted the attention and respect of finan- 
 ciers of the entire Pacific Coast, and in 1901 he was 
 called to San Francisco to reorganize the Nevada 
 Bank, assuming its management and presidency. 
 It was later converted, under the national bank- 
 ing laws, as the Nevada National Bank, and the 
 latter institution consolidated with the Wells 
 Fargo & Company Bank in April, 1905, and became 
 known as the Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank. 
 Mr. nellman continues as president to this date. 
 
 His record in San Francisco since 1901 has been 
 as brilliant, if not more brilliant, than his financial 
 career in Los Angeles. His services in that city 
 have been crowned with success. 
 
 While his achievements in the financial world 
 stand alone, he is a man of many accomplishments. 
 He is master of four languages and is a student of 
 literature. He has been one of the regents of the 
 University of California and is revered and re- 
 spected by thousands of citizens who have pros- 
 pered as a result of his management in financial 
 affairs. 
 
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 ILLER, HENRY, San Fran- 
 
 Ml 
 t cisco, California, Stock-raiser, 
 Land-owner and Capitalist, 
 was born in Brackenheim, 
 Germany, July 21, 1828. 
 His father was a dealer in cattle, and 
 his forefathers on the maternal side were 
 vintners. He reached California in the year 
 1849, first settling in San Francisco, where 
 in the year 1860 he 
 was married to Miss 
 Sarah Wilmot Sheldon, 
 the niece of his first 
 wife, deceased. The sur- 
 viving child of this mar- 
 riage is Mrs. J. Leroy 
 Nickel, born Nellie Sarah 
 Miller. 
 
 From his seventh to his 
 fourteenth year he at- 
 tended the village school, 
 but from the age of eight 
 earned his own living, 
 his assistance to his 
 father offsetting the cost 
 of his maintenance. At 
 school he was noted for 
 his aptitude for figures, 
 his excellent memory and 
 his impatience of control. 
 
 His strong commercial 
 traits, which he later de- 
 veloped to a high degree 
 of efficiency, were evinced 
 at a very early age. At 
 twelve he was in the habit 
 of buying cattle, sheep 
 and goats, generally at a bargain, and driving 
 them to his father's packing house. But 
 chafing under parental training and not lik- 
 ing the prospect of the long apprenticeship 
 necessary, nor the emoluments of ten Prus- 
 sian dollars for his first year's work, he soon 
 after removed to Holland, thence to England, 
 whence in 1847 he came to New York, in 
 every instance changing his abode solely to 
 better his condition. 
 
 After working in New York, first as a 
 gardener for four dollars a month, and then 
 as assistant to a pork butcher for eight dol- 
 lars per thirty days of sixteen hours a day 
 he saved enough money to pay his passage 
 to San Francisco, which he reached in '49, 
 with six dollars in his pocket. 
 
 Having formed the habit of reliance on his 
 own judgment he had no misgivings of the 
 future. He first engaged himself to a French- 
 man to butcher sheep, at the head of Dupont 
 
 HENRY MILLER 
 
 street, now Grant avenue, and worked for 
 him two months, for small wages, doing his 
 own cooking and economizing in every way 
 possible. After the fire of June, 1851, he 
 leased a lot on Jackson street, for $150 cash, 
 erected a one-story building and set up shop 
 as a retail butcher, a business in which he 
 soon became a wholesale dealer. In 1853 he 
 bought and delivered in San Francisco the 
 first herd of cattle ever 
 driven into a San Fran- 
 cisco market. Four years 
 later he purchased, with 
 Mr. Charles Lux, sixteen 
 hundred head of Texas 
 steers, and formed the 
 partnership which was 
 the foundation of the fa- 
 mous firm of Miller & 
 Lux, and which continued 
 for more than twenty- 
 five years, until the death 
 of Mr. Lux. 
 
 The beginning of Mr. 
 Miller's vast investments 
 in country lands was the 
 purchase, on his private 
 account, of the Bloom- 
 field ranch near Gilroy. 
 This consisted at first of 
 1700 acres, which he sub- 
 sequently increased to 30- 
 000 acres. Selected pri- 
 marily as a suitable as- 
 sembling place for the 
 herds of cattle from the 
 southern counties, this 
 land ultimately became very valuable 
 
 Miller & Lux gradually increased their 
 holdings until they covered 750,000 acres in 
 eleven different counties of Californa, and 
 also large tracts in Oregon and Nevada. In 
 1888 it was estimated that they had on this 
 land one hundred thousand cattle and eighty 
 thousand sheep. The area of their grazing 
 land alone is almost equal to that of the 
 State of Rhode Island, and for several 
 years their sales of meat averaged $1,500,000 
 a year. 
 
 Among Mr. Miller's other notable achieve- 
 ments was his organization of the San 
 Joaquin and King's River Canal and Irriga- 
 tion Company, of which in 1876 the firm, in 
 self-defense, got control. 
 
 He is known also for his large charities, 
 and many recipients thereof are indebted to 
 him for their support and education in their 
 early years. 
 
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 AUGHLIN, HOMER, Capi- 
 talist, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at 'Little Beav- 
 er, Columbiana County, Ohio, 
 March 23, 1843. His father 
 was Mathew Laughlin and his mother Maria 
 (Moore) Laughlin, the former of whom was 
 born in Columbiana County in the year 1814, 
 one of the pioneers of Columbiana County, 
 Ohio, engaged for half a 
 century in the milling 
 business at Little Beaver. 
 James Laughlin (the 
 grandfather of Homer 
 Laughlin) was of Scotch- 
 Irish descent, but born in 
 Maryland, passing the 
 latter part of his life in 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 On June 18, 1875, Ho- 
 mer Laughlin married 
 Cornelia Battenberg at 
 Wellsville, Ohio. There 
 were three children, Ho- 
 mer, Jr., Nanita and 
 Gwendolen V. 
 
 Mr. Laughlin received 
 his education, first in the 
 common schools and la- 
 ter Neville Institute. 
 
 On July 12, 1862, Mr. 
 Laughlin enlisted for 
 Civil War service at East 
 Liverpool, Ohio, in Com- 
 pany A, 115th, Ohio Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, remain- 
 ing in service till July 7, 
 1865, when he was mustered out, as Sergeant 
 at Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 As a young man, Mr. Laughlin went to 
 New York where he became associated with 
 his brother, Shakespeare Moore Laughlin, in 
 the wholesale importation of English earth- 
 enware, the firm operating from October 1, 
 1871, to October, 1873, under the firm name 
 of Laughlin Brothers. In September, 1873, 
 this firm built a pottery for the manufacture 
 of fine white earthenware at East Liverpool, 
 Ohio, and continued until 1879, when Mr. 
 Laughlin bought out his brother's interest 
 and personally conducted the business as the 
 Homer Laughlin China Company until 1897, 
 when he removed to California to live a re- 
 tired life. Under his personal management 
 his pottery business grew to be much the 
 largest and leading industry of the kind in 
 the United States. The company while now 
 under other ownership still retains the es- 
 
 HOMER LAUGHLIN 
 
 tablished name of The Homer Laughlin 
 China Company. 
 
 Immediately after taking up his residence 
 here, Mr. Laughlin recognized the possibili- 
 ties of the city and commenced the construc- 
 tion of the Homer Laughlin Building, on 
 Broadway, the first fire-proof office building 
 in Southern California. This undertaking es- 
 tablished a standard for fire-proof construc- 
 tion much in advance of 
 the times. About 1901, 
 he built the building oc- 
 cupied since its construc- 
 tion by Jacoby Brothers, 
 a few doors south of the 
 Homer Laughlin Build- 
 ing. It occupies the site 
 of the old First Methodist 
 Church. 
 
 In 1905, he began the 
 construction of the "An- 
 nex" to the Homer 
 Laughlin Building, it be- 
 ing a typical re-enforced 
 concrete structure, cover- 
 ing a large area and ex- 
 tending to Hill street. It 
 has the distinction of be- 
 ing the first re-enforced 
 concrete building erected 
 in Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Laughlin was held 
 in high esteem by the late 
 President William Mc- 
 Kinley, of whom he was 
 an intimate friend for 
 over thirty years. When 
 President McKinley and his Cabinet visited 
 Los Angeles, he was President of the Recep- 
 tion Committee. 
 
 Mr. Laughlin was for years President of 
 the U. S. Potters' Association and from 1878 
 to 1898 chairman of the executive committee. 
 He received medals from the Centennial Ex- 
 position, Philadelphia, 1876; Cincinnati Ex- 
 position, 1879; World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, Chicago, 1893, for superior manufactory 
 of pottery. 
 
 He has been on the Board of Managers of 
 the American Protective Tariff League since 
 1882; was a member of the First Crusaders 
 party of Knights Templar to Europe, June 1, 
 1871 ; is honorary life member Girvan En- 
 campment of Glasgow, Knights Templar of 
 Scotland ; member Allegheny Commandery 
 No. 35, Knights Templar; member Republi- 
 can Club of New York and California Club, 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 ERON, ERNEST ALVAH, 
 President, Oakland Traction 
 Company, Oakland, Cal., was 
 born in Galena, 111., May 18, 
 1852, the son of Samuel But- 
 tles Heron and Jane (Tippett) Heron. His 
 paternal ancestors came to this country from 
 Scotland and settled in New England ; on the 
 maternal side his forbears were English. 
 
 On June 15, 1892, Mr. 
 Heron was married in 
 Stockton to Miss Eliza- 
 beth Mead D u d 1 e y, 
 daughter of the well 
 known attorney of that 
 city, and their children 
 are William Dudley and 
 Ernest Heron, Jr. 
 
 From 1859 to 1867 he 
 attended the public 
 schools in Galena, two 
 years of this period as a 
 student in the high 
 school, which he left, 
 when he was sixteen 
 years of age, to become a 
 bookkeeper in a business 
 house of his native town. 
 After a few months of 
 this occupation, he trav- 
 eled through the North- 
 west as a salesman for 
 wholesale grocery houses 
 until 1871, when poor 
 health forced him to relax 
 his activities. E. A. HERON 
 
 In April, 1873, Mr. 
 
 Heron came to California and went to work 
 as a bookkeeper for Myers Truett, a specula- 
 tor in lands and similar investments. Within 
 a few months, however, he shifted to San 
 Luis Obispo, where for about a half year he 
 was employed, again as a bookkeeper, by 
 Goldtree Brothers. He then returned to San 
 Francisco and to Myers Truett, but at the 
 end of three months entered the Custom 
 House as an inspector, a position which he 
 retained until December, 1875, when he 
 moved to Oakland and became the private 
 secretary of E. C. Sessions, a banker and real 
 estate operator. 
 
 Mr. Heron's interests on the east side of the 
 bay have been wide and varied and have con- 
 tributed much to the deyelopment of that part 
 of the State. His initiative and progressive 
 instincts were too pronounced to permit him 
 to hold, for any length of time, a subordinate 
 position. In 1876 he was one of the organi- 
 
 zers of the Highland Park-Fruitvale Railway, 
 and in the following year he entered the real 
 estate business on his own account. In this 
 he was active for twenty-five years, devot- 
 ing much of his energy to car line extensions, 
 as a practical means of aiding, not only his 
 own business, but also the community in 
 which he lived. His most important step, 
 perhaps, in this direction was the part he 
 played in 1889, as one of 
 the organizers of the 
 Piedmont Cable Railroad 
 Company, of which he 
 became president. This 
 was absorbed by the 
 present Oakland Trac- 
 tion Company, a corpora- 
 tion which Mr. Heron has 
 served as president since 
 1895. He was also one 
 of the organizers and the 
 president of the San 
 Francisco, Oakland and 
 San Jose Consolidated 
 Railway, now known as 
 the Key Route. This is 
 one of the most important 
 urban and interurban elec- 
 tric transportation sys- 
 tems in the United States, 
 connecting San Francisco 
 with the other bay cities. 
 Its western station is 
 built in deep water in the 
 middle of San Francisco 
 bay, and is connected to 
 the mainland by one of 
 the longest piers in the world, over which the 
 trains fly at a high rate of speed. A line of 
 high-speed ferries runs from San Francisco 
 to the pier station. His tendencies have al- 
 ways been commercial, and these he has de- 
 veloped to the considerable gain of the East 
 Side cities. 
 
 Chief among the activities with which Mr. 
 Heron has become identified are the Realty 
 Syndicate, of which the was formerly vice 
 president, and the First National Bank of 
 Oakland, wherein he is a director. He is 
 also chairman of the building committee of 
 the Oakland Hotel, and vice president of the 
 Bay Cities Securities Company. He is a 
 member of the Oakland Chapter, No. 36, R. 
 A. M., and of the Oakland Commandery, 
 No. 11, K. T. His clubs are the Athenian, 
 the Claremont Country and the Home Club, 
 of Oakland, and the Bohemian of San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 EWMARK, HARRIS, Retired Mer- 
 chant, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Loebau, Germany, 
 July 5, 1834, the son of Philip 
 Newmark and Esther (Cohn) 
 Newmark. He married Sarah 
 Newmark at Los Angeles, March 24, 1858, and to 
 them were born eleven children, five of whom are 
 living. They are Maurice H., Estelle (Mrs. L. 
 Loeb), Emily (Mrs. J. Loew), Ella (Mrs. C. Selig- 
 man), and Marco R. New- 
 mark. The deceased chil- 
 dren were an infant daugh- 
 ter, Philip H., Edward J., 
 Edith and Josephine Rose. 
 
 Mr. Newmark is descend- 
 ed of a family known arid 
 respected in the religious 
 and commercial world of his 
 community. His ancestors on 
 both sides were Rabbis and his 
 father, who was born in 1795, 
 was a merchant in Germany 
 and Sweden in the early part 
 of the nineteenth century. 
 
 Mr. Newmark attended 
 school in Germany, termi- 
 nating his studies when he 
 sailed for Los Angeles, 
 whither his elder brother, 
 Mr. J. P. Newmark, had pre- 
 ceded him. Arriving there 
 Oct. 25, 1853, he joined his 
 brother, who was engaged in 
 business, and ten months 
 later, after acquiring a work- 
 ing knowledge of English 
 and Spanish, started Tor 
 himself. His first venture 
 
 was in 1854, when he associated himself with New- 
 mark, Kremer & Co. In the fall of 1861 he re-or- 
 ganized the firm as Newmark & Kremer, and, after 
 conducting it in this form for some time he with- 
 . drew and organized the house of H. Newmark & 
 Company one of the earliest and then the only 
 important commission establishment in Los An- 
 geles. In 1865, he opened the wholesale grocery 
 house of H. Newmark & Co., under which name 
 it operated until 1886, when he sold out his in- 
 terests and the well known institution of M. A. 
 Newmark & Company developed. 
 
 Mr. Newmark founded the firm when Los An- 
 geles was young; in the days when desert wagons 
 would come once or twice a year from as far East 
 as Salt Lake City to get supplies. In the begin- 
 ning the late General Phineas Banning, another 
 California pioneer, was associated with him. 
 
 Upon relinquishing the management of this 
 business in 1886, Mr. Newmark became active in 
 the affairs of K. Cohn & Company, hide and wool 
 merchants. At the end of ten years the firm was 
 dissolved, he continuing the hide branch and Mr. 
 Cohn the wool business. In 190G he retired, after 
 fifty-three years of commercial activity, and this 
 business now continues under the name of A. 
 Brownstein & Company. 
 
 HARRIS NEWMARK 
 
 What Mr. Newmark did for the commercial up- 
 building of Los Angeles he equaled in other ways 
 which have had an important part m the general 
 development of the city and its environs. He 
 was a pioneer real estate investor and in 1875 
 sold to E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin, 8030 acres of the 
 celebrated Baldwin Ranch, outside of Los Angeles, 
 receiving $200,000 for it. Two years later he 
 bought the Temple Block site (recently sold to 
 Los Angeles for a City Hall site) and organ- 
 ized the Temple Block Co., 
 of which he was President. 
 In 1875, he purchased Vejar 
 Vineyard, in Los Angeles, 
 and the next day the fruit 
 was ruined by frost. The 
 vines recovered, however, 
 and several years later he 
 sold it at a handsome profit. 
 In 1886, he purchased Re- 
 petta Ranch, consisting of 
 5000 acres, and after sub-di- 
 viding part of it into five- 
 acre lots, built the towns of 
 Montebello and Newmark. 
 
 These are typical of the 
 work of Mr. Newmark and 
 show him to have been one 
 of the powerful factors for 
 progress in Los Angeles. 
 He has been an upbuilder at 
 all times, in business and in 
 civic development, and his in- 
 fluence is apparent to-day in 
 the business code of the city, 
 for he inspired confidence 
 and won trade for Los An- 
 geles, and any enterprise 
 with which his name was 
 
 connected always had the confidence of the public. 
 Mr. Newmark was one of the charter members 
 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and 
 one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Board of 
 Trade, serving as a member of its first Board of 
 Directors. He was also one of the organizers of the 
 L. A. Public Library and was President of the 
 L. A. Congregation, B'nai B'rith for many years. 
 
 Mr. Newmark is a man of many philanthropies 
 and in times of disaster has been among the first 
 to aid the sufferers. At the time of the Johnstown 
 flood, he raised a substantial purse Tor the victims 
 within twenty-four hours, it being the first money 
 contribution received by the Governor of Penn- 
 sylvania. He also contributed $20,000 towards the 
 Los Angeles Hebrew Orphans' Home, and has been 
 one of the chief supporters of it since its inception. 
 Mr. Newmark was a charter member of the 
 California Club, and has been a member of Los 
 Angeles Lodge No. 42, F. and A. M., since 1858. He 
 is also a member of the Concordia Club, South- 
 west Museum, National Geographical Society, Na- 
 tional Farm School Association, American Archae- 
 ological Society and many philanthropic organiza- 
 tions. His chief pleasure has been obtained through 
 travel, he having made several trips to Europe in 
 1867. 1887 and 1900. 
 
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 49 
 
 EWMARK, MAURICE 
 HARRIS, wholesale grocer, 
 Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of that city. He was 
 born March 3, 1859. He is 
 the son of Harris Newmark, retired pioneer 
 merchant of Los Angeles and founder 
 of a number of the most substantial 
 enterprises operating today. His mother 
 was Sarah Newmark. On 
 July 3, 1888, he married 
 Rose Newmark at 
 San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia. There is one daugh- 
 ter, Florence Newmark 
 (Kauffman). 
 
 Mr. Newmark attend- 
 ed private and public 
 schools in Los Angeles 
 from 1865 till 1872, when 
 he went to New York 
 and there attended a pri- 
 vate school for one year, 
 after which he went to 
 Paris, France, where he 
 devoted his time to study 
 from 1873 to 1876, in 
 which year he graduated 
 and shortly after returned 
 to Los Angeles. 
 
 Upon his return from 
 his studies in France, Mr. 
 Newmark entered the 
 employ of the H. New- 
 mark Company, the orig- 
 inal house from which 
 springs the present large 
 institution, of which he is vice president, M. 
 A. Newmark and Company. 
 
 The original house was established by his 
 father in 1865, and continued under its origi- 
 nal name, of H. Newmark and Company and 
 under the sole control of its founder until 
 1885. Under the able direction of Harris 
 Newmark, the house, which is the oldest es- 
 tablishment of consequence in Los Angeles, 
 has continued successfully and is today one 
 of the most important commercial houses in 
 the state. 
 
 Up to 1885 Mr. Harris Newmark had as- 
 sociated with him as partners at different 
 periods such well known men as Mr. Kaspare 
 Cohn, Mr. Samuel Cohn (deceased), Mr. M. 
 J. Newmark (deceased), and Mr. M. A. 
 Newmark. 
 
 When in 1885 Mr. Harris Newmark re- 
 tired from active connection with the firm, 
 the name was changed to its present one of 
 
 M. H. NEWMARK 
 
 M. A. Newmark and Company, and M. H. 
 Newmark's interest became that of a full 
 partnership. 
 
 Mr. Newmark has been and is today iden- 
 tified with practically every movement of 
 Southern California intended for civic or 
 commercial betterment possessed of actual 
 merit and worthy of the expenditure of time. 
 He at present holds the important and honor- 
 ary office of harbor commissioner of Los An- 
 geles under appointment 
 by Mayor Alexander. He 
 has been president of the 
 Associated Jobbers since 
 that body was organized 
 thirteen years ago. He 
 has been president ol 
 the Southern California 
 Wholesale Grocers' 
 Association for the past 
 ten years, and has served 
 in one important capacity 
 or another in most of the 
 city organizations, such as 
 the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Merchants and 
 Manufacturers' Associa- 
 tion and the Board of 
 Trade, in all of which he 
 is or has been an active 
 director. He is also a di- 
 rector in the Southwest 
 Museum, an adjunct of 
 the Archaeological Socie- 
 ty of America, established 
 for the purpose of histor- 
 ical research and the pres- 
 ervation of prehistoric 
 and historic relics of the Southwest. 
 
 He is a firm believer in home industry 
 and has backed this policy with his capital and 
 time. As the official head of various commer- 
 cial bodies he has advocated fair and generous 
 policies that have had the effect of bringing 
 business to Los Angeles, and under his ad- 
 ministration determined steps have been 
 taken to bring about a fair equalization of 
 railroad freight rates. 
 
 Among his business enterprises are the 
 following: Vice president Harris Newmark 
 Co., first vice president M. A. Newmark & 
 Co., vice president Los Angeles Brick Co., 
 director Equitable Savings Bank, director 
 Standard Woodenware Co., and director 
 Montebello Land and Water Co. 
 
 He is a member of the Concordia and the 
 Jonathan Clubs. 
 
 Mr. Newmark has a valuable collection of 
 stamps. He also enjoys fishing, and finds 
 time each year to spend with rod and reel. 
 
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 DR. JOHN R. HAYNES 
 
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 AYNES, DR. JOHN RAN- 
 DOLPH, Physician, Los An- 
 geles, California; born Fair- 
 mont Springs, Luzerne Coun- 
 ty, Pennsylvania, June 13, 
 1853 ; Father, James Sydney Haynes ; mother, 
 Elvira Mann (Koons) Haynes. At the age 
 of 21 he received the degrees of M. D. and Ph. 
 D. from the University of Pennsylvania. 
 Eight years later he married Miss Dora Fel- 
 lows of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Owing 
 to the ill health of members of his family he 
 removed to Los Angeles in 1887, after thir- 
 teen years' practice in Philadelphia. Here he 
 engaged in the practice of medicine with his 
 brother Francis, who attained great eminence 
 as a surgeon, but whose brilliant career was 
 in 1898 cut short by death. 
 
 Dr. J. R. Haynes has served as a member 
 of the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, 
 with the exception of a few months' inter- 
 val, from the date of its inception in 1903. In 
 1900 he organized The Direct Legislation 
 League of California and has served as its 
 president up to the present time. 
 
 Dr. Haynes is referred to in the "Califor- 
 nia Outlook" of September 9, 1911, by its 
 editor, Mr. Charles D. Willard, in the follow- 
 ing terms : 
 
 "There is in Dr. John R. Haynes some of the 
 material of which great law-makers are made, also 
 something of the hero and martyr, also a bit of the 
 prophet and seer, and a lot of the keen, vigorous 
 man of affairs. It took all of that to accomplish 
 what he has put to his credit in the State of Cali- 
 fornia. He arrived in Los Angeles from Philadel- 
 phia in 1887 and started right to work for direct 
 legislation. It took ten years to make the people 
 understand what it was, and then five years more 
 to get it into the Los Angeles city charter. He did 
 it; nobody can dispute the honor with him; and he 
 was abused and insulted every inch of the way. 
 For ten years and more he has been urging every 
 State Legislature to let the people vote on a 
 "people's-rule" amendment. At last he won that 
 fight. Incidentally, as mere side issues, it might 
 be mentioned that he is one of the most eminent 
 physicians of California, that he is one of the city's 
 largest property holders, and that he is personally 
 one of the most popular men in that part of the 
 country." 
 
 The foregoing gives some insight into the 
 progressive, practical quality which domi- 
 nates Dr. Haynes' efforts in behalf of all 
 worthy movements calculated by him to be 
 for the greatest good of the greatest number. 
 He was the first to agitate the question of 
 the adoption of the Initiative, Referendum 
 and Recall provisions for the city of Los An- 
 geles, and largely through his untiring 
 energy they became, in 1903, a part of the 
 city's charter. The incorporation of the "Re- 
 
 call" was especially his individual work; the 
 first application of the principle, in fact, into 
 the actual machinery of government. On this 
 account he is known throughout the country 
 as the "Father of the Recall." At the time of 
 its adoption Los Angeles was the only com- 
 munity in the world where a majority of the 
 electors had at any time the power to dis- 
 charge unsatisfactory officials. Since that 
 date the Recall has been adopted by more 
 than two hundred American cities and by 
 three States. 
 
 Immediately after the adoption of these 
 Direct Legislation provisions by the city, Dr. 
 Haynes set to work to secure the same 
 measures for the State ; and after eight years 
 of unremitting effort they were adopted in 
 the election of October 10, 1911, by a ma- 
 jority of 4 to 1. 
 
 An instance of the practical value of the 
 Initiative in government affairs occurred sev- 
 eral years ago, when Dr. Haynes, by its use, 
 compelled the street railways in Los Angeles 
 to equip their cars with efficient fenders, re- 
 sulting in an enormous saving of life. At that 
 time the city of Los Angeles had the highest 
 fatality rate from street car accidents of any 
 city in the world. After correspondence with 
 officials of seventy-four cities in Europe and 
 America, he drew up a safety fender ordi- 
 nance, which, by means of an initiative peti- 
 tion, he forced through an unwilling street- 
 railway-bossed Council, with the result that 
 the superintendent of the company himself 
 some time later voluntarily stated to Dr. 
 Haynes that these fenders, put on as a result 
 of the Initiative ordinance, he estimated to 
 have saved in a comparatively short space of 
 time the lives of two hundred people. 
 
 Dr. Haynes is now endeavoring to reduce 
 the rate of fatality in the coal mines of the 
 United States, which is now five times as 
 great as in Europe. After a personal inspec- 
 tion of European mines and interviews with 
 many experts there and at home, he is stren- 
 uously advocating the establishment of an in- 
 terstate mining commission empowered to 
 prescribe safety regulations. He thinks coal 
 mines still owned by the nation should not be 
 sold, but retained by the Nation and operated 
 either by the government or by leases safe- 
 guarding the interest of the Nation and the 
 lives of the miners. 
 
 Dr. Haynes is a member of a large num- 
 ber of societies and clubs, medical, philan- 
 thropic, civic and social in character, and 
 State, national and even international in the 
 range of their activities. 
 
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 'CORMICK, ERNEST OLI- 
 jj} VER, Vice President of the 
 Southern Pacific Company, in 
 charge of traffic, San Francis- 
 co, was born at Lafayette, In- 
 
 diana, April 3, 1858, the son of O. H. P. Mc- 
 Cormick and Marie Louise (De Vault) Mc- 
 Cormick. In 1899 he came from Cincinnati 
 to San Francisco to take the position of pas- 
 senger traffic manager of 
 the Southern Pacific Com- 
 pany. He was married in 
 1897 at Cincinnati to Miss 
 Lily Henry and is the 
 father of Louise McCor- 
 mick (now Mrs. Robert B. 
 Henderson), Ernest Oliver 
 McCormick, Jr., and Mary 
 Kilgore and Margaret 
 Duer McCormick (twins). 
 
 He obtained his school- 
 room education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Lafayette, 
 Indiana. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. McCormick 
 began his eventful and pro- 
 gressive railway career, as 
 a time-keeper in the con- 
 struction department of the 
 Lake Erie & Western Rail- 
 road. After serving in this 
 capacity, as well as in oth- 
 er positions, he was pro- 
 moted to the post of Gen- 
 eral Agent of the Freight 
 
 Department of the Louis- E o . McCORMICK 
 
 ville, New Albany and Chi- 
 
 cago Railway at Lafayette, Indiana. His next 
 move upward was to the position of General 
 Agent of the Great Eastern freight line at 
 
 Traffic Manager of the Big Four Railroad, 
 with headquarters at Cincinnati. Five years 
 later he moved to California to become Pas- 
 senger Traffic Manager of the Southern Pa- 
 cific Company, at San Francisco. On March 
 i, 1904, he was appointed Assistant Director 
 of Traffic for the Union Pacific and the South- 
 ern Pacific lines; and in May, 1910, he be- 
 came Vice President of the Southern Pacific 
 Company and related lines, 
 in charge of traffic from 
 Portland, Oregon, to El 
 Paso, Texas. 
 
 During this active career 
 Mr. McCormick has seized 
 his opportunities to develop 
 what has become almost a 
 hobby with him, v i z., 
 colonization. Few men, 
 if any, have been individ- 
 ually responsible for the 
 growth of more communi- 
 ties than has E. O. McCor- 
 mick. He not only had 
 much to do with the or- 
 ganization of colonization 
 rates from the East to Cali- 
 fornia, in 1901, but he has 
 also helped materially to 
 bring many important con- 
 ventions to the West. 
 Among his many projects 
 in this and allied directions 
 may be mentioned the pos- 
 tal card mailing day for 
 California, the "Raisin 
 Day" propaganda and oth- 
 
 er similar enterprises. 
 
 Together with his associates he is now de- 
 voting much attention to the problem of pro- 
 
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 Louisville, Kentucky. Subsequently he went vidin the best possible facilities for the thou- 
 
 OVer to the Pasepncrpr F)pr>aH-mpnt nf roi1t-/->orl_ ? . i _ -^ __A_J ...:11 U~ 
 
 over to the Passenger Department of railroad- 
 ing, and became City Passenger Agent of the 
 Monon Route, at Louisville and Chicago. It 
 was during his connection with this road that 
 he began to realize his colonization ideas which 
 have since proved so beneficial to the com- 
 munities in which he operated. Fully appre- 
 ciating the importance, both from the view- 
 point of the railroad and from that of general 
 business of increasing the desirable popula- 
 tion of sparsely settled districts, he was chiefly 
 instrumental in establishing the Ocala and oth- 
 er colonies in Florida. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. McCormick was made General 
 Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Cincinnati, 
 Hamilton & Dayton Railway, a post he re- 
 tained until 1894, when he became Passenger 
 
 sands of visitors who, it is expected, will be 
 attracted to San Francisco by the Panama- 
 Pacific International Exposition to be held 
 in 1915. 
 
 Beyond his railroad connections he is vice 
 president of the American Association of Re- 
 frigeration, ex-president Association of Gen- 
 eral Passenger and Ticket Agents, and a 
 member of the Chicago Association of Com- 
 merce, Home Industry League of California, 
 Merchants' Exchange of San Francisco, and 
 the American Freight Traffic Gulf Associa- 
 tion. Among his clubs are the Pacific-Union, 
 Bohemian, Army and Navy, of San Francisco ; 
 Burlingame Country, of Burlingame , San 
 Mateo County, California; Chicago Club, and 
 the Union League, of Chicago, 
 
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 53 
 
 AYS, JAMES CHARLES, Vice 
 Pres., Park Bank, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Santa Bar- 
 bara, California, May 5, 1850, the 
 son of John C. Kays and Josephine 
 (Burke) Kays. He married Alice 
 Benedict at Boonville, Missouri, January 30, 1883, 
 and to them there have been born four children, 
 James Walter, Ruth Josephine, Cecelia Catherine 
 and Florence Frances Kays. He is of Irish descent, 
 his father having been a na- 
 tive of County Roscommon, 
 Ireland. 
 
 Mr. Kays' education was 
 fragmentary. He attended 
 the public schools of Santa 
 Barbara, but was compelled 
 to give up his studies at the 
 age of thirteen, owing to fin- 
 ancial reverses suffered by 
 his father, and went to work 
 as clerk in the general store 
 of his uncle at Santa Ynez, 
 Cal. He devoted his spare 
 hours to study, however, and 
 when he was about fifteen 
 years of age, matriculated 
 for the Christian Brothers' 
 College at Santa Ynez. He 
 paid his own tuition, but at 
 the end of two years again 
 was forced to give up his 
 studies and work for the 
 maintenance of his family. 
 
 When he was twenty 
 years old, Mr. Kays took up 
 mining in Nevada and in In- 
 yo County, Cal. This was 
 the actual beginning of a 
 career, which, although suc- 
 cessful in the ultimate, was 
 filled with various setbacks. 
 After mining successfully for 
 a time, he located, in 1870, 
 at the town of Cerro Gordo, 
 near Lone Pine, Cal., in the 
 region whence the Los Angeles water supply now 
 flows, and there bought out a small general mer- 
 chandise store. This he operated with success 
 until 1872, when the region was visited by a series 
 of earthquakes which continued at intervals for 
 months, and Mr. Kays sold out his business and 
 left that part of the State. 
 
 He went to Santa Barbara for a time and early 
 in 1874 went to Los Angeles, where he entered 
 the employ of the then leading hardware establish- 
 ment of the city Harper & Long, now known 
 as the Harper, Reynolds Co. He was a Democrat 
 in his political affiliation and early took an inter- 
 est in the affairs of his party. This led, in 1877, 
 to his appointment as Deputy, under County Clerk 
 A. W. Potts, and he later served as Undersheriff 
 with Sheriffs Henry M. Mitchell and W. R. Row- 
 land of Los Angeles County. 
 
 In 1879, Mr. Kays was elected City Treasurer 
 of Los Angeles and was twice re-elected, in 1882 
 and 1884, his administrations being marked for 
 economy in the handling of the city's financial af- 
 fairs and the inauguration of business methods. 
 Upon retiring from office in 1886, Mr. Kays was 
 appointed United States Revenue Stamp Agent 
 for the Los Angeles District under Collector Ellis 
 and served in that capacity until 1887, when he 
 
 JAMES C. KAYS 
 
 resigned to accept the Democratic nomination for 
 sheriff. Los Angeles County then included a vast 
 amount of territory, which has since been changed 
 into other counties, but the campaign was notable 
 for the fact that the Democrats overcame a Re- 
 publican majority of 4000 that year. Mr. Kays served 
 one term and declined a second nomination. 
 
 From 1889 to 1892 Mr. Kays was Receiver and 
 Manager of the Citizens' Water Company, which sup- 
 plied water to the hill section of Los Angeles, and 
 then for about two and a 
 half years operated the plant 
 as trustee for the bondhold- 
 ers of the company. In 1898, 
 when a dispute between the 
 city and the company over 
 the purchase of the water 
 system by the former came 
 to a focus, Mr. Kays was 
 chosen to represent the city 
 on the Arbitration Commis- 
 sion appointed to clear up 
 the situation. The company 
 had demanded a price for 
 the property which the city 
 deemed exorbitant, and the 
 City Council had offered a 
 figure which the company 
 declared was little better 
 than confiscation, with the 
 result that negotiations were 
 deadlocked. Through Mr. 
 Kays a compromise was 
 reached, the city paying 
 $2,000,000 for the property. 
 This price satisfied both 
 sides, and the city has since 
 received the purchase price 
 many times over. 
 
 Mr. Kays embarked in 
 banking in 1902, when he 
 and a group of Los Angeles 
 financiers took over the 
 charter of the Riverside Bank 
 & Trust Co. of Los Angeles, 
 which had been in existence 
 since 1891. They reorganized the institution as the 
 Dollar Savings- Bank & Trust Company, with $50,000 
 capital. A little over a year later the capital was 
 increased to $100,000 and the scope of the bank en- 
 larged. Mr. Kays was made Vice President and 
 later President, until 1907, when the bank became 
 the Park Bank, of which he is now Vice Pres. and 
 his son, James Walter Kays, Cashier. 
 
 Mr. Kays has- figured as administrator of several 
 large estates and as director and trustee in many 
 other financial enterprises. He is esteemed as a 
 substantial business- man and upbuilder and has 
 lent his efforts on many occasions to civic move- 
 ments which have aided in the development of the 
 city. He served as a member, at different times, of 
 the Los Angeles Water Board, the Park Commission 
 and Public Service Commission. 
 
 Mr. Kays has been active in philanthropic works 
 and was one of the organizers of the Associated 
 Charities of Los Angeles, in which he has been 
 Vice Pres. since its inception in 1892. He has 
 served as Treas. and Director of the Chamber of 
 Commerce and is a Director in other organizations. 
 He is a member California Club and Newman 
 Club, the latter an organization of Catholic lay- 
 men, which he served as President and Director 
 for over ten years. 
 
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 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 EWHOUSE, SAMUEL, Min- 
 ing Operator, Capitalist, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born 
 in New York City, in 1854, 
 the son of a family with the 
 
 best American traditions for a number of 
 
 generations. He married Miss Ida H. Sting- 
 ley, descendant of one of the signers of the 
 
 Declaration of Independence, of Virginia, 
 
 in the year 1883. 
 
 He is known in Salt 
 
 Lake City as the man 
 
 who has done more for 
 
 the upbuilding of the 
 
 city than any other, the 
 
 one who converted a 
 
 small country town into 
 
 a modern American city 
 
 of the first class. He is 
 
 one of those men whose 
 
 pride in the city he has 
 
 chosen for his home is 
 
 such that he throws his 
 
 fortune into its advance- 
 ment and beautification, 
 
 and Samuel Newhouse is 
 
 the possessor of an im- 
 mense fortune. 
 
 He was educated in 
 
 the public schools of 
 
 Philadelphia, and for a 
 
 time read law, but in the 
 
 year 1879 he went west to 
 
 Colorado, on the crest of 
 
 the Leadville rush. He 
 
 thought his future was in 
 
 the newspaper field, and 
 
 SAMUEL NEWHOUSE 
 
 such monuments as the Newhouse tunnel, 
 one of the most ambitious bores in the his- 
 tory of mining development, and mining 
 towns like Idaho Springs and Georgetown. 
 He helped upbuild Denver and is responsible 
 for the Denver & Intermountain Railway, an 
 electric interurban which connects Denver 
 and Golden. He moved to Utah in 1896, 
 when his holdings in the latter State became 
 more important than his 
 Denver holdings. He 
 gained control of the 
 Highland Boy mine, at 
 Bingham, Utah, now in- 
 corporated as the Utah 
 Consolidated. The Stand- 
 ard Oil later bought con- 
 trol of this property for 
 $6,000,000. He went into 
 the Boston Consolidated, 
 which owns whole moun- 
 tains of copper ore, and 
 has big interests in the 
 Newhouse and Cactus. 
 He laid out and built the 
 model town of Newhouse, 
 Utah. His interests have 
 become so wide that he 
 has to maintain offices in 
 London and New York, 
 as well as at Salt Lake 
 City. He has bought 
 considerable areas of 
 New York City property 
 and is becoming a big 
 figure in that city. 
 
 What he has done for 
 
 he started a newspaper in the mountain city. 
 
 There was no railroad line to Leadville, 
 and all the essentials of life had to be 
 freighted in from Denver, up mountain 
 canons and over mountain passes. There 
 developed the greatest freighting service 
 that America has ever known, in which 
 thousands of mules were used and fortunes 
 made in months. Newhouse thought this 
 was a good chance, and it proved to be. Be- 
 fore the railroad had reached Leadville he 
 managed to put by his first good stake. 
 
 He put this capital into good mining 
 prospects, and his rise to wealth and position 
 was so rapid that it was marked by days and 
 weeks, and not by years. 
 
 He became a power in Colorado. He did 
 not confine himself to the Leadville district, 
 but entered the Clear Creek country west of 
 Denver, and opened up some of the great 
 silver properties. There he left behind him 
 
 Salt Lake City is likely to become his most 
 striking monument. He was the first man 
 to build a modern steel skyscraper, and he 
 did not stop at that, but built three, and 
 they are among the finest in the western half 
 of the United States. He has also had 
 erected other fine buildings, among them 
 one of the most beautiful of private resi- 
 dences. He owns much residence property, 
 and this he has had improved and beautified 
 in the best style. 
 
 He has brought immense sums of foreign 
 capital, chiefly English, to Utah, to be used 
 in the development of her varied resources, 
 and his credit is high in the world's financial 
 centers. 
 
 In Salt Lake City he is a prominent mem- 
 ber of the Commercial Club and Mining Ex- 
 change, and belongs to the best social clubs. 
 He also is a member of most of the best 
 clubs of New York and London. 
 
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 55 
 
 U L L I V A N, HON. JEREMIAH 
 FRANCIS, Attorney-at-Law and 
 ex-Judge of the Superior Court of 
 San Francisco, was born in Litch- 
 field County, Connecticut, August 
 19, 1851, the son of Michael Sulli- 
 van and Margaret (Bohane) Sullivan, both of whom 
 were of Irish birth. He came to California in April, 
 1852, and on September 13, 1876, was married in 
 San Francisco to Miss Helen M. Bliss, daughter of 
 George D. Bliss, a California 
 pioneer. The children of 
 this marriage are Harry F., 
 Gertrude M. (now Mrs. Ber- 
 nard M. Breeden), Helen 
 Bliss, Jeremiah Francis, Jr., 
 and Marguerite Sullivan. 
 
 During the years 185G- 
 1861 Judge Sullivan attended 
 both public and private 
 schools in Nevada County, 
 California. From 1862 to 
 1870 he was a student at St. 
 Ignatius College, in San 
 Francisco, and in the latter 
 year was graduated B. A. He 
 subsequently took an M. A., 
 and later the honorary de- 
 gree LL.D. from the same in- 
 stitution. He then studied 
 law, both privately and in 
 the office of Winans & Bel- 
 knap, during two years, of 
 which period he taught 
 mathematics, Latin, Greek, 
 English, geography and his- 
 tory at St. Ignatius. In Jan- 
 uary, 1874, he was admitted 
 to practice by the Supreme 
 Court of California, after oral examination in open 
 court. 
 
 Until September, 1876, he practiced his profes- 
 sion on his own account, and was then elected a 
 member of the San Francisco Board of Education. 
 While on that Board he assisted materially in the 
 public investigation which resulted in putting an 
 end to the advance sale of the questions to be sub- 
 mitted by the Board of Examiners to applicants 
 for teachers' certificates. He continued his prac- 
 tice, with increasing success, until September, 1879, 
 when he was elected to the Superior Bench, as one 
 of the original twelve chosen under the Constitu- 
 tion of 1879, which provided Superior Courts for 
 each county, to replace the old District Courts. 
 Judge Sullivan's first term was for five years, but 
 in November, 1884, he was re-elected for a term of 
 six years. In 1889 he resigned to devote himself to 
 private practice, with his brother, Matt I. Sullivan, 
 and has continued the partnership ever since. 
 
 Judge Sullivan's judicial career was eventful, 
 marked by important cases, some of which attract- 
 ed wide public interest, and were sensational to a 
 degree. He was but twenty-eight years old when 
 he conducted his first really important trial. Con- 
 spicuous among the causes that fall in this cate- 
 gory was the case of Burke vs. Flood, one of the 
 
 HON. JEREMIAH SULLIVAN 
 
 famous Bonanza cases, so-called from their relation 
 to the old Comstock lode, at that time yielding fab- 
 ulous returns. This particular case involved the 
 division rights of stockholders on the Comstock, 
 and took on much of the excitement of those stren- 
 uous times. Another celebrated case over which 
 Judge Sullivan presided was that of Cox vs. Mc- 
 Laughlin. But the most sensational and, perhaps, 
 far reaching in its consequences, of all the causes 
 he tried, was that of Sharon vs. Sharon, both the 
 trial and the decision of 
 which created antagonisms 
 that have lasted through 
 years. This was an action 
 brought by Sarah Althea Hill 
 against Senator Wm. Sharon 
 for divorce. She prayed that 
 the contract of Aug. 25, 1880, 
 by virtue of which she de- 
 clared they had been mar- 
 ried, be pronounced legal and 
 valid, that account of prop- 
 erty involved be taken, and 
 the amount of community 
 property involved be taken 
 and amount of community 
 property decided. The sec- 
 ond trial began before Judge 
 Sullivan, March 10, 1884, a 
 jury being waived, and was 
 concluded, after eighty days 
 of trial, Sept. 17 of the same 
 year. He decided in favor of 
 the plaintiff, that the con- 
 tract was genuine, that de- 
 fendant deserted his wife and 
 she was entitled to a divorce 
 and a division of community 
 property. On appeal the Su- 
 preme Court sustained the decision, modifying the 
 amount of alimony and counsel fees allowed. 
 
 In 1886 Judge Sullivan was a candidate for the 
 Supreme Bench. Certain influential elements con- 
 spiring to defeat him, he lost by less than 500 votes 
 in a total of 225,000. Of late years the practice of 
 the firm, Sullivan, Sullivan & Theo. J. Roche, 
 though of a general nature, has been largely in pro- 
 bate matters, including will contests and damage 
 suits, involving death or personal injuries. In these 
 the partners have been remarkably sucecssful. 
 Prominent was the case of Willard R. Zibbell vs. S. 
 P. Co. Zibbell had lost two arms and one leg. Judg- 
 ment, with interest and costs, amounted to upwards 
 of $92,000. The Supreme Court sustained judgment 
 of lower court and awarded to firm's client the larg- 
 est sum ever paid in a damage suit in the United 
 States. 
 
 Beyond his legal and judicial life, Judge Sul- 
 livan has been active in fraternal work. For 
 two terms he was Grand President of the Young 
 Men's Institute; organized the Atlantic jurisdiction 
 of the order. He has, however, concentrated mainly 
 on his profession, especially on strictly legal ques- 
 tions involved, and has gained a wide reputation 
 for courtesy and scholarly attainments, as well as 
 for legal and judicial ability and integrity. 
 
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 UTT, HENRY CURTIS, Rail- 
 road Manager, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Coun- 
 cil Bluffs, Iowa, November 
 12, 1863. His parents were 
 Henry Clay Nutt and Eva (Stringham) 
 Nutt, his father having been President of the 
 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, now a part of 
 the Santa Fe System, up to the time of his 
 death in 1892. 
 
 Mr. Nutt received his 
 early education in the 
 public schools of Council 
 Bluffs and Chicago, and 
 was graduated from the 
 Sheffield Scientific School 
 of Yale University in the 
 class of 1883 with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Phil- 
 osophy. 
 
 Within two months 
 after he left school Mr. 
 Nutt went in for practi- 
 cal railroad work, begin- 
 ning as axeman in the en- 
 gineering department of 
 the Burlington and Mis- 
 souri River Railroad, now 
 one of the important 
 units of the Chicago, 
 Burlington and Quincy 
 line. He remained in the 
 department for about 
 seven years, working in 
 various positions and in 
 1890 was appointed 
 to the position of Train- 
 master of the road at Alliance, Nebraska. 
 
 After holding this position for two years, 
 Mr. Nutt was promoted to be Assistant Su- 
 perintendent of the road, at Edgemont, 
 South Dakota. At the end of a year he was 
 transferred to Sheridan, Wyoming, in the 
 same capacity and held this place for seven 
 years. In 1900 he was made Assistant Super- 
 intendent of Iowa lines for the Burlington 
 road, his headquarters being at Burlington, 
 Iowa. His work in the district so impressed 
 the road's managers that at the end of three 
 years he was made Superintendent of Iowa 
 lines, still retaining headquarters at Burling- 
 ton. 
 
 From this time forward Mr. Nutt's career in 
 the railroad business has been a succession of 
 promotions, each change made by him being 
 to a more important position than its pred- 
 ecessor. In 1905 he was appointed Superin- 
 tendent of the Missouri District for the Chi- 
 
 H. C. NUTT 
 
 cago, Burlington and Quincy, this being per- 
 haps the most important division of the road. 
 His headquarters at this time was at St. 
 Louis and during the year he was stationed 
 there he was one of the most active men in 
 railroad business. 
 
 In 1906 Mr. Nutt left his old road, after be- 
 ing with it for nearly a quarter of a century, 
 and accepted appointment as General Super- 
 intendent of the Michi- 
 gan Central Railroad, 
 with headquarters at De- 
 troit, Michigan. He held 
 this position for about 
 one year and in 1907 was 
 chosen General Manager 
 of the Northern Pacific 
 lines west of Paradise, 
 Montana, making his 
 headquarters at Tacoma, 
 Washington. In this of- 
 fice Mr. Nutt carried a 
 large amount of the re- 
 sponsibility attaching to 
 the road's work of devel- 
 opment in the western 
 part of Canada and the 
 United States and after 
 he had been there for 
 about two years, he was 
 elected Fourth Vice Pres- 
 ident of the road, his rise 
 in the affairs of the com- 
 pany having been one of 
 the most rapid in its his- 
 tory. 
 
 Mr. Nutt was with the 
 
 Northern Pacific for about five years and 
 when R. E. Wells, General Manager of the 
 Los Angeles, San Pedro and Salt Lake Rail- 
 road, resigned his position early in the year 
 1912, the Clark interests prevailed upon him 
 to accept the post. He took up the duties of 
 his office on May 1, 1912, and is now in ac- 
 tive management of its affairs. 
 
 As a practical railroad man, Mr. Nutt 
 ranks with the leaders of the business. He 
 is of the old school of all-round railroad men, 
 capable of taking his place in any department 
 of the service, and while exacting strict dis- 
 cipline, is a kindly and amiable executive. 
 
 He is a member of the St. Louis Club, St. 
 Louis ; Alta and Commercial Clubs, Salt 
 Lake City; University Club, Chicago; Rai- 
 nier and University Clubs, Seattle ; Union, 
 University and Commercial Clubs, Tacoma ; 
 Arlington Club, Portland ; the Gamut and 
 Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, Los Angeles. 
 
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 57 
 
 TONEMAN, GEORGE JOHN, At- 
 torney-at-Law, Phoenix, Arizona, 
 was born in Petersburg, Virginia, 
 May 4, 1868, the son of General 
 George Stoneman and Mary Oliver 
 (Hardisty) Stoneman. He marrieJ 
 Julia Shortridge Hamm at Albuquerque, New Mex- 
 ico, May 29, 1901, and to them there have been 
 born three children, Virginia Hardisty, George and 
 Mary Lejeal Stoneman. Mr. Stoneman's father 
 occupies a notable place in 
 the history of the United 
 States, especially as a states- 
 man and soldier. He was 
 graduated from West Point 
 in the class of 1845 and short- 
 ly after receiving his commis- 
 sion was dispatched to Cal- 
 ifornia, where he served in 
 the Mexican border wars of 
 that period. He had attained 
 the rank of Brigadier Gen- 
 eral at the outbreak of the 
 Civil War and was in charge 
 of the organization of the 
 United States cavalry force 
 for the memorable conflict. 
 He served with distinction 
 throughout the war and at 
 its close was appointed Mil- 
 itary Governor of Virginia, 
 serving there until he was 
 transferred to Wilmington as 
 Commander of the Depart- 
 ment of California. He was 
 retired with the rank of Ma- 
 jor General after service as 
 Commander for four years 
 and soon thereafter became 
 
 a factor in State politics. He was a member of 
 the first Railroad Commission chosen under the 
 new State Constitution of California, and in 1881 
 was elected Governor, serving until 1887. On 
 the maternal side, Mr. Stoneman's ancestors served 
 in the Revolution, one having been on Washing- 
 ton's staff. 
 
 George J. Stoneman received his preliminary 
 education in the public schools of San Francisco 
 and studied law at the University of Michigan. 
 He was graduated with the degree of L. L. B. in 
 the class of 1889. 
 
 He went to Seattle, Washington, where he was 
 admitted to the bar at once, and entered the office 
 of W. Lair Hill, noted as the annotator of the 
 codes of Washington. He remained in this office 
 about a year, or until Mr. Hill took up his code 
 work; then, through a combination of circum- 
 stances, went into the newspaper business as a 
 political reporter on the Seattle "Telegraph." He 
 took an active part in politics and in 1892 was 
 elected City Clerk of Seattle, serving two years. 
 
 GEORGE J. STONEMAN 
 
 Leaving office in May, 1894, Mr. Stoneman was 
 inactive for some time and traveled considerably. 
 He spent ten months in Honolulu and upon leaving 
 there went direct to Arizona. He first located at 
 Winslow and practiced law there for about a year, 
 then moved to Globe, in Gila County, where he 
 was located for several years. He maintained a 
 general practice there for about three years and 
 in 1898 was elected District Attorney of the county. 
 He was twice re-elected and served about five 
 years in all, but resigned be- 
 fore the completion of his 
 third term in order to re- 
 sume his private practice. 
 He specialized in mining and 
 corporation work and was 
 one of the most active men 
 of his profession as long as 
 he continued there. In 1911, 
 however, Mr. Stoneman de- 
 cided to change his residence 
 to Phoenix, the State Capi- 
 tal, and opened offices in 
 that city, where he has re- 
 mained down to date. 
 
 Since locating in Arizona 
 Mr. Stoneman, who is a Dem- 
 ocrat in his political affilia- 
 tions, has become one of the 
 leading men in the legal fra- 
 ternity and also has been ac- 
 tive in the affairs of State. 
 In 1909 he was chosen a 
 member of the Arizona Rail- 
 road Commission and served 
 until the Territory was ad- 
 mitted to Statehood. Al- 
 though the power of the com- 
 mission, during the territor- 
 ial regime, was more or less negative, it succeeded, 
 during Mr. Stoneman's term in office, in bringing 
 about various reforms, the most important being 
 a material reduction in freight rates. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Stoneman was chosen a member of 
 the Board of Law Examiners and holds this posi- 
 tion at the present time (1912). He also served 
 as president of the Arizona Bar Association dur- 
 ing the year 1910. 
 
 Mr. Stoneman, during his residence in Phoenix, 
 has been in partnership with Reese Ling, Demo- 
 cratic National Committeeman from Arizona, under 
 the firm name of Stoneman and Ling, and together 
 they have taken a prominent part in their party's 
 affairs. He has served on various committees and 
 in numerous conventions, and was a delegate to the 
 Democratic National Convention at Denver, Colo- 
 rado, in 1908. 
 
 Mr. Stoneman is a member of the Society of 
 the Cincinnati of Maryland, is a Mason, Shriner 
 and member of the Knights Templar Commandery; 
 Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks' lodge of Phoenix, 
 and belongs to the Arizona Club and Phoenix 
 Country Club. 
 
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 INDLEY, MILTON (deceased), 
 Merchant and Banker, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Guilford County, North Carolina, 
 in the year 1820, the son of David 
 Lindley and Mary (Hadley) Lind- 
 ley- He married Mary A. Banta at Belleville, In- 
 diana, in 1849, and to them there were born nine 
 children, of whom six are living. They are Walter, 
 a physician of Los Angeles; Hervey, a banker of 
 Seattle; William, a physician 
 at Albion, Idano; Albert, a j 
 merchant of San Francisco; 
 Arthur, a contractor of Impe- 
 rial, California; Ida B., who 
 makes the home for Madam 
 Lindley in Los Angeles, and 
 Bertha (Mrs. John E. Coffin) 
 of Whittier. 
 
 Mr. Lindley's paternal an- 
 cestors were Scotch and 
 English, while on the mater- 
 nal side they were Quakers, 
 of English and Irish extrac- 
 tion. His father was a farm- 
 er, who moved to Indiana 
 when the boy was twelve 
 years of age and there Mr. 
 Lindley received his educa- 
 tion, working on the farm 
 until he reached his major- 
 ity. He learned the harness 
 and saddlery making busi- 
 ness, and for twelve years 
 was engaged in this vocation 
 at Monrovia, Indiana. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. Lindley took 
 up general merchandising at 
 Monrovia, but after four 
 
 years, on account of impaired health, he moved 
 to Hendricks County, Indiana, and there went in 
 for farming and outdoor life, returning later to the 
 merchandise business. He remained there for 
 twelve years, with the exception of a short absence 
 when he was sent East by capitalists of his section 
 to study the new national banking system. 
 
 Upon his return to Indiana Mr. Lindley aided 
 in the organization of the First National Bank of 
 Danville, Indiana, remaining with that institution 
 until 1866, when he moved to Minneapolis, Minne- 
 sota. He was in the real estate business there 
 for nine years, or until 1875, when he moved to 
 Los Angeles, having spent two winters in the lat- 
 ter place on account of his health. 
 
 Mr. Lindley purchased forty acres of land ad- 
 joining the western limits of the city and made 
 his home there until 1882, when he sold the prop- 
 erty. During his ownership he devoted the land 
 to fruit culture, but in recent years it has been 
 transformed into what is called Ellendale Place, 
 
 MILTON LINDLEY 
 
 one of the handsome residence sections of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Early in his residence in Los Angeles County 
 Mr. Lindley, a staunch supporter of the Republi- 
 can party, became a factor in politics. In 1879 he 
 was elected county treasurer of Los Angeles Coun- 
 ty and served for three years, holding over one 
 year on account of a change in the State Constitu- 
 tion relative to county officers. In 1884 he was 
 elected a member of the County Board of Super- 
 visors, serving during the 
 years 1885 and 1886. This 
 was the last political po- 
 sition he held, but he never 
 ceased to take an active in- 
 terest in the affairs of the 
 Republican party and was 
 one of its advisers up to 
 within a few years of his 
 death in 1894. 
 
 Mr. Lindley is remem- 
 bered as one of the men who 
 took a prominent part in the 
 upbuilding of Los Angeles, 
 which was only a town of a 
 few thousand inhabitants 
 when he first landed there. 
 He was an enthusiastic be- 
 liever in the future of the 
 city 'and did all in his power 
 to advance its interests. He 
 was an extremely active op- 
 erator in real estate and was 
 one of those pioneers who 
 aided in making the city 
 what it is today. 
 
 While a careful business 
 man, he was also noted for 
 his generosity and gave lib- 
 erally to various church, charitable and educational 
 enterprises, in addition to lending a helping hand 
 to young men in business. He was a man of great 
 principle and public spirit and, besides the part 
 he took in the actual business development of the 
 city, figured on frequent occasions in purely civic 
 movements, intended for the general upbuilding 
 of the section. 
 
 Mr. Lindley's example has been ably followed by 
 his sons, who today are among the leading business 
 and professional men of the West. They are doing 
 their share in carrying to completion the work be- 
 gun by their father and other substantial men of 
 his day. 
 
 He died at his home in Los Angeles May 11, 
 1895, aged 75 years. 
 
 Mr. Lindley's widow still lives in Los Angeles, 
 making her home with her daughter. Although 83 
 years old, she is in excellent health and in posses- 
 sion of all her faculties, and universally beloved by 
 the many who know her. 
 
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 59 
 
 INDLEY, WALTER, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Monrovia, Indiana, January 
 13, 1852. His father was Mil- 
 ton Lindley, distinguished in the history of 
 Los Angeles, and his mother, Mary Eliza- 
 beth (Banta) Lindley. He is of Quaker 
 stock. His father 
 was for several years 
 Treasurer of Los An- 
 geles County and at his 
 death was a member of 
 the Board of Supervisors 
 of the County. On his 
 mother's side his ances- 
 tors fought in the Revolu- 
 tionary, Indian, Mexican 
 and Civil Wars, four of 
 his mother's brothers be- 
 ing United States officers 
 in the latter. 
 
 He is a graduate of 
 Minneapolis High School, 
 Keen's School of Anat- 
 omy, Philadelphia; 'Long 
 Island College Hospital, 
 Brooklyn, New York, 
 leaving the latter in 1875. 
 After graduation he went 
 to Los Angeles to prac- 
 tice medicine and since 
 that time has been one of the greatest con- 
 structive factors in the modernizing of that 
 city. 
 
 As Health Officer of Los Angeles, mem- 
 ber of the Board of Education and Superin- 
 tendent of the County Hospital of Los An- 
 geles in the days when the city was emerg- 
 ing from tht conditions of a Mexican pueblo, 
 Dr. Lindley did much for the future of the 
 place. 
 
 Dr. Lindley was one of the founders of 
 the Los Angeles Orphans' Home, the Los 
 Angeles Humane Society and the College of 
 Medicine of the University of Southern Cal- 
 ifornia, the latter one of the foremost insti- 
 tutions of the kind in the United States. He 
 also founded the Whittier State School of 
 California, a reformatory institution for the 
 youth of both sexes, which has been of in- 
 estimable penologic and educative value. He 
 is President of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 DR. WALTER LINDLEY 
 
 His greatest work, however, is the Cali- 
 fornia Hospital, undoubtedly one of the fin- 
 est private hospitals in the world. He 
 founded the institution and is Secretary and 
 Medical Director. Following the founding 
 of the hospital, he organized the College 
 Training School for Nurses, the first 
 of its kind established in Southern Cal- 
 ifornia. 
 
 He is President of 
 the California State 
 Board of Medical Exami- 
 ners, ex-President of the 
 State Medical Society, 
 former Vice Presi- 
 dent of the National 
 Conference on Charities 
 and Correction, and was 
 appointed by President 
 Grover Cleveland a s 
 Pacific Coast Delegate 
 to the great Inter- 
 national Prison Congress 
 held in Paris in the 
 year 1895. He was given 
 the degree of LL. D. 
 by St. Vincent's Col- 
 lege. 
 
 He is a director of the 
 Farmers and Merchants' 
 Bank of Los Angeles, 
 and holds a position 
 of solid financial integrity. As a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Directors of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and 
 Chairman of the Committee on Publications 
 and Statistics he is doing much toward the 
 advancement of Southern California. His 
 learned and facile pen has found valuable 
 employment in the Southern California Prac- 
 titioner, a publication which he created a 
 quarter of a century ago and which is now 
 the recognized medical journal of the State. 
 This magazine he still edits and publishes. 
 
 His literary works include : "California of 
 the South" (in third edition) ; "Shakespeare's 
 Traducers: an Historical Sketch"; numerous 
 papers and pamphlets on medical, social and 
 climatological subjects. 
 
 Dr. Lindley is a member of the Califor- 
 nia, University and Union League Clubs, the 
 Los Angeles Humane Society and the His- 
 torical Society of Los Angeles. 
 
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 IBSON, JAMES ALEXANDER, 
 Lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Boston, Mass., August 21, 
 1852, the son of Thomas Gibson 
 (killed in Battle of Bisland, La., 
 April 13, 1863, in a Massachusetts 
 regiment) and Mary (Berry) Gibson. Judge Gib- 
 son has been twice wed, his first wife being Sarah 
 Waterman, whom he married at Colton, Cal., June 
 21, 1882, and who died in December, 1888. He mar- 
 ried again July 18, 1894, at 
 Los Angeles, Miss Gertrude 
 Van Norman. By the first 
 union there were two chil- 
 dren, Mary and James A., 
 Jr., and by the second two, 
 Martha and Horace V. Gib- 
 son. 
 
 Judge Gibson received his 
 primary education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Massachusetts, 
 where he made some prepara- 
 tion for a course in mechani- 
 cal engineering for Cornell 
 University, but did not enter. 
 Instead, he took up the study 
 of law, and in 1874 removed 
 from Cambridgeport, Mass., 
 to Colton, Cal., where he 
 continued his readings under 
 William Gregory, formerly a 
 member of the Philadelphia 
 Bar. He completed his stud- 
 ies in 1879, and on June 13 of 
 that year was admitted to 
 practice at San Bernardino, 
 Cal., in the Eighteenth Judi- 
 cial District. On June 28, 
 1880, he was admitted to 
 practice by the Superior Court, and April 19, 1882, 
 before the State Supreme Court of California. At a 
 later date he received recognition by the Federal 
 Courts and the United States Supreme Court. 
 
 Judge Gibson has practiced law continually with 
 the exception of six years when he served in judi- 
 cial positions. He was Superior Judge of San Ber- 
 nardino County from January 1, 1885, to May 14, 
 1889, and was a member of the Supreme Court Com- 
 mission, predecessor of the Appellate Court, from 
 the latter date until January 1, 1891, when he re- 
 signed and located at San Diego. 
 
 The career of Judge Gibson has been one of 
 honor and accomplishment, and his exceptional tal- 
 ents have marked him as one of the most thorough 
 exponents of the law in the entire State. He has 
 served in some of the most important litigations 
 that have arisen in California during the thirty odd 
 years of his practice, including corporation, water, 
 mining, maritime and commercial actions. 
 
 Judge Gibson has been associated always with 
 men of reputation. At San Bernardino he was in 
 
 HON. JAMES A. GIBSON 
 
 partnership with Major H. S. Gregory, General J. D. 
 Boyer and the Hon. Byron Waters ; at San Diego he 
 was in association with John D. Works, present U. 
 S. Senator, and H. L. Titus, under the title of 
 Works, Gibson & Titus. This alliance continued 
 from January, 1891, until 1892, when Judge Works, 
 who had but previously finished a term as Justice of 
 the Supreme Court, opened offices with his son. 
 Judge Gibson and Mr. Titus remained together until 
 1897, when the former moved to Los Angeles, where 
 he became associated with 
 the late Hon. J. D. Bicknell 
 and the late W. J. Trask, as 
 Bicknell, Gibson & Trask, 
 later merging with Messrs. 
 Dunn & Crutcher under the 
 firm name of Bicknell, Gib- 
 son, Trask, Dunn & Crutcher. 
 On the withdrawal of Judge 
 Bicknell, several years ago, 
 Judge Gibson became senior 
 member of the firm, which 
 since the death of Mr. Trask 
 has been known as Gibson, 
 Dunn & Crutcher. 
 
 Judge Gibson has held nu- 
 merous positions of honor in 
 his profession. He was at 
 one time president of the 
 Los Angeles Bar Association 
 and vice president of the 
 American Bar Association. 
 He was recently a member 
 of the General Council of the 
 latter organization, and is 
 chairman of the Section on 
 Constitutional Amendments 
 of the California Bar Asso- 
 ciation and is also a member 
 'of the Board of Trustees of the L. A. County Law 
 Library Assn.; he ranks high in the councils of the 
 NjjX. Geographical Society and the Archaeological 
 Society of America, Southwest Chapter. Despite 
 professional activity, Judge Gibson has found time 
 to aid in military and civic affairs, and was one of 
 the organizers and builders of the famous Bear 
 Valley Dam at San Bernardino. This, the first great 
 dam and reservoir built in the West for irrigation 
 purposes, was put up by the Bear Valley Land and 
 Water Co., the predecessors of the present Bear 
 Valley Mutual Water Co., and pointed the way for 
 tremendous development in the Southwest. He is 
 also interested in other large development projects. 
 
 Judge Gibson, in the eighties, served as Major 
 and Assistant Adjutant General of the First Bri- 
 gade, N. G. C., and Engineer Officer of the same. 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic 
 Shriner and an Elk and holds memberships in the 
 California Club, Union League Club, Jonathan Club 
 and the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles, and the Uni- 
 versity Club of Redlands. 
 
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 has been twice 
 
 HORT, FRANK HAMILTON, At- 
 torney at Law, Fresno, California, 
 was born in Shelby County, Mis- 
 souri, September 12, 1862, the son 
 of Joshua Hamilton Bell Short 
 and Emily (Wharton) Short. He 
 married, his second wife being 
 
 Nellie Curtis, whom he married at Los Angeles, 
 California, March 7, 1897. He has a son, Frank H. 
 Short, Jr., by his former marriage. Judge Short is 
 descended of a family noted 
 in the literary and legal his- 
 tory of the country, its vari- 
 ous branches having settled 
 in Delaware, Pennsylvania 
 and other States. Mrs. Short 
 is related to several of the 
 most prominent families in 
 Southern California. 
 
 Judge Short attended the 
 public schools of Missouri 
 and Nebraska, in which State 
 he resided from 1872 to 1881, 
 and upon moving to Califor- 
 nia in the latter year attend- 
 ed private institutions. For 
 four months prior to moving 
 to the Pacific Coast Judge 
 Short had been a school 
 teacher and for about eight 
 months, at a later date, he 
 taught in Fresno. About this 
 time he took up the study of 
 law. 
 
 In 1882, at twenty-two 
 years of age, Judge Short 
 was elected Justice of the 
 Peace in Fresno and the fol- 
 lowing year was admitted to 
 the practice of law in the 
 State courts of California. He 
 was admitted to practice be- 
 fore the Supreme Court of the 
 United States in 1901. 
 
 From the age of 25 to 35 
 years, Judge Short had a suc- 
 cessful general practice in Fresno, and appeared in 
 numerous criminal cases, among the most impor- 
 tant being "People vs. Richard Heath," "People vs. 
 J. D. Smith," "People vs. Saunders" and others. He 
 also took part in a large number of civil actions 
 and for many years past has been one of the lead- 
 ing counsel in irrigation, light, power and other 
 corporation actions 
 
 Judge Short was retained as special counsel for 
 the State in the "Fresno Rates Case," also the "Oil 
 Rates Case," two litigations which had an impor- 
 tant bearing upon the commercial development of 
 California. He also represented the oil operators 
 of California in the "Scrippers Case," going before 
 the Interior Department, also the various Federal 
 courts, including the United States Supreme Court, 
 and finally won a victory for hrs clients, the case 
 having involved title to a large percentage of the 
 oil-bearing lands in California. 
 
 Judge Short also represented the oil producers 
 of the State when he appeared before Congress in 
 
 1910 as Chairman of the California Oil Men's Dele- 
 gation and his work in this capacity resulted in the 
 passage of the "Oil Relief Bill," a remedial act of 
 
 1911 permitting the issuance of patents to corpora- 
 tions and other assignees of oil land locators. 
 
 He has also had a prominent part in water litiga- 
 
 HON. FRANK 
 
 tion for the Fresno Canal Company and other large 
 concerns, including the Miller & Lux Company. 
 He has represented various other irrigation and 
 electric power corporations in court and before 
 Congress. 
 
 Since 1900 Judge Short has opposed the extreme 
 conservation ideas of Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford 
 Pinchot and others and has appeared before Con- 
 gress and in public debate in support of his con- 
 tentions. He represented his clients before Con- 
 gress on questions involving 
 Federal control and the uses 
 of the public land and ap- 
 peared in debate before vari- 
 ous public gatherings, includ- 
 ing the Irrigation Congresses 
 and the Conservation Con- 
 gress of 1910. He met Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt, former Presi- 
 dent of the United States, in 
 debate before the Common- 
 wealth Club of San Francisco 
 in 1911. In all of his public 
 debates and addresses, Judge 
 Short has advocated that pro- 
 cedure along the lines of 
 Constitutional principles and 
 settled legal rights is not 
 only required, but more bene- 
 ficial than departures along 
 inconsistent lines, especially 
 objecting to all attempts to 
 assert Federal authority in 
 purely State matters. His" 
 published writings also have 
 been along these lines. 
 
 Judge Short has been a 
 consistent and active sup- 
 porter of the Republican par- 
 ty, and during his residence 
 in California has been one 
 of the most substantial work- 
 ers for it. 
 
 From 1888 down to the 
 present time he has been a 
 delegate or an officer of 
 
 nearly every State Convention of his party and on 
 frequent occasions has been a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Conventions. He was sent to St. Louis in 
 1896, when William McKinley was nominated for 
 the Presidency, and to Chicago in 1904, when The- 
 odore Roosevelt received the nomination. He 
 has also been honored in other ways by his 
 party, among which was his attendance at the 
 White House Conference of Governors in 1908. In 
 addition, he has taken part in the work of the Na- 
 tional Geographical Society, the National Civic Fed- 
 eration and various commercial organizations. He 
 was Commissioner of Yosemite Park from 1898 
 until 1906 and Trustee of the San Jose Normal 
 School for four years. 
 
 Judge Short is interested in several important 
 industrial companies in California, being a director, 
 officer or attorney for them. He is Vice President 
 and Director of the Fresno Canal & Irrigation 
 Company, also of the Consolidated Canal Company. 
 He is a Director of the Fresno National Bank, the 
 Fresno Hotel Company and of numerous oil and 
 canal companies. 
 
 His clubs are the Sequoia and Fresno Country 
 Club of Fresno; Pacific Union, Bohemian and Union 
 League of San Francisco. He is also a member of 
 the Masonic fraternity. 
 
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 MAJOR CHARLES HINE 
 
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 INE, CHARLES DeLANO, Vice 
 President and General Manager, 
 Southern Pacific Railroad of Mex- 
 ico and of the Arizona Eastern 
 Railroad, Tucson, Arizona, was 
 born at Vienna, Virginia, a sub- 
 urb of Washington, D. C., March 15, 1867. He is 
 the son of the late Major Orrin Eugene Hine (1836- 
 1899), who served during the Civil War as Major 
 of the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers, and 
 of Alma (DeLano) Hine, born 1843. 
 
 Major Hine, who is one of the best-known rail 
 way executives in America, also one of the young- 
 est, spent his boyhood on a farm and was grad- 
 uated from the high school of Washington, D. C., 
 in the class of 1885. He was in the employ of a 
 contractor for some time after leaving school and 
 then, in a competitive examination at Alexandria, 
 Virginia, won a cadetship at the United States 
 Military Academy, West Point, New York. He was 
 graduated in the class of 1891, standing in the mid- 
 dle of his class, but being first in tactics and in 
 discipline. He took up law in the Cincinnati Law 
 School, was graduated in 1893 and admitted to the 
 bar while serving as Lieutenant in the United 
 States army. 
 
 With these various accomplishments, Major 
 Hine resigned his commission in the army two 
 years later, after having acted both as cadet and 
 as officer, as inspector-instructor at various en- 
 campments of State militia, and took a position as 
 a freight brakeman on the Big Four Route. This 
 was his entry into the railroad business, in which 
 he has continued ever since. He remained with 
 his first company four years in various capacities, 
 including that of Trainmaster of the Cincinnati- 
 Indianapolis subdivision. 
 
 Since he first engaged in railroading in 1895, 
 Major Hine has worked for various railroads and 
 corporations and has held positions in many 
 branches of the service, including brakeman, 
 switchman, yardmaster, emergency conductor, 
 chief clerk, trainmaster, assistant superintendent, 
 right-of-way agent, general superintendent and vice 
 president and general manager. In addition, he has 
 held various unique staff positions while doing spe- 
 cial staff work of different kinds and in 1907-1908 
 was Federal Court Receiver for the Washington, 
 Arlington and Falls Church (electric) Railway. 
 
 Major Hine has long been recognized as an ex- 
 pert in matters of discipline and corporate organ- 
 ization and in July, 1908, was chosen by Julius 
 Kruttschnitt as organization expert of the Union 
 Pacific System Southern Pacific Company (Harri- 
 man Lines). This work held him until December, 
 1911, and in that time he originated and installed 
 on these lines a unit system of organization, known 
 in the railroad world as the "Hine System." 
 
 Upon the completion of this task, Major Hine 
 was elected to the offices he now holds in the 
 Southern Pacific System and since January, 1912, 
 
 has made his headquarters at Tucson, Arizona. 
 There he is in close association with Colonel Epes 
 Randolph, President of these lines, and engaged in 
 extensive railroad development work in Arizona 
 and Old Mexico. 
 
 Major Hine has made special expert reports 
 on numerous small railways and several larger 
 ones, these latter including the Chicago and Alton; 
 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific; St. Louis and 
 San Francisco; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; 
 Erie; Inter-Colonial of Canada; Prince Edward 
 Island; Delaware, Lackawana and Hudson; Georgia 
 and Florida, and the National Railways of Mexico. 
 In 1907, while with Gunn, Richards and Com- 
 pany, Major Hine assisted in the revision of busi- 
 ness methods of the Department of the Interior 
 at Washington, and in 1910, as temporary special 
 representative of President Taft, outlined a pro- 
 gram for improving the organization and methods 
 of all departments of the United States Govern- 
 ment, a work which played an important part in 
 making the administration more economical in the 
 latter half of President Taft's term. 
 
 In addition to his railroad and other expert 
 work, Major Hine has been a farmer and real 
 estate dealer in Virginia, and a magazine and edi- 
 torial writer on special subjects. He is the author 
 of "Letters From an Old Railway Official to His 
 Son." These books appeared weekly in the "Rail- 
 way Age Gazette," the first series in 1904 and the 
 second series in 1911. "Modern Organization," 
 from his pen, appeared serially in "The Engineer- 
 ing Magazine" in 1912. 
 
 Since becoming associated with the Southern 
 Pacific interests Major Hine has spent a great deal 
 of time in handling the details of management of 
 the company's property in Mexico, and during the 
 Orozco rebellion faced danger on several occasions 
 in the performance of his duties. 
 
 Major Hine, despite the fact that he had re- 
 signed from the army, after holding his commission 
 four years, has always taken a keen interest in 
 military affairs and during the Spanish-American 
 war served as Major of United States Volunteers. 
 He served all through the war and was' in the siege 
 of Santiago de Cuba, the fall of which place marked 
 the close of hostilities. He returned to civil life 
 at the conclusion of the war and two years later 
 (1900) was Inspector of Safety Appliances for the 
 Interstate Commerce Commission. 
 
 The Major occupies a unique position in rail- 
 road and industrial circles because of his numerous 
 innovations, and is considered today one of the 
 greatest business experts and efficiency engineers 
 in the United States. He is opposed to red tape 
 and to ultra-specialization, and believes in devel- 
 oping old-fashioned, ail-around men, of which he is 
 a type. He is a bacnelor and makes his home at 
 the Old Pueblo Club in Tucson. His other clubs 
 are the Army and Navy of Washington and of New 
 York, and the American Club in the City of Mexico. 
 
SHURST, HENRY F., United 
 States Senator from Arizona, of 
 Prescott, Arizona, was born in 
 Winnemucca, Nevada, Sept. 13, 
 1874, the son of William H. Ash- 
 urst and Sarah (Bogard) Ashurst. 
 The Senator married Elizabeth L. Reuoe, of Flag- 
 staff, Arizona, in March, 1904. 
 
 He was taken to Arizona by his parents a year 
 after his birth and he has lived there continually 
 since. He received his early 
 education in the public 
 schools of Flagstaff, Arizona, 
 but left school when he was 
 fifteen years of age to be- 
 come a cowboy. He "rode 
 the range" for four years, 
 and at the age of nineteen 
 was appointed Deputy Sher- 
 iff of Coconino County. He 
 served with credit in this 
 office for several months, 
 then became a workman and 
 lumberjack in the mills of 
 the Arizona Lumber Com- 
 pany at Flagstaff. 
 
 In 1895 he began the 
 study of law and the follow- 
 ing year was elected to the 
 Territorial Legislature from 
 Coconino County. He was 
 re-elected in 1898 and in 1899 
 was chosen by his colleagues 
 as Speaker of the House. He 
 proved an excellent presid- 
 ing officer. He was admitted 
 to practice law by the Su- 
 preme Court of Arizona in 
 1897 and has been one 
 
 of the leading attorneys of the State ever 
 since, having been licensed to practice before 
 the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908. 
 He was elected from Coconino County to the 
 Territorial Council or Senate of Arizona, in 1902, 
 and, although a seasoned lawyer, entered the 
 law department of the University of Michigan in 
 1903, and there took special lectures in Law and 
 Political Economy. 
 
 He was elected District Attorney of Coconino 
 County in 1904 and re-elected two years later. Both 
 his terms in this office were characterized by an 
 ability of high order and by an unremitting zealous- 
 ness in the guardianship of the public interests. 
 After leaving the District Attorney's office he de- 
 voted himself to his private practice and during 
 that time figured as attorney in various important 
 litigations. He was an ardent advocate of Arizona's 
 claims to Statehood, however, and campaigned for 
 the progressive Constitution under which Statehood 
 was granted. On October 24, 1911, he was nomi- 
 nated at the direct primary of the Democratic party 
 
 HON. HENRY F. ASHURST 
 
 for the United States Senate and at the first State 
 election, held December 12, 1911, was elected. On 
 March 26, 1912, he received the unanimous vote of 
 the Arizona Legislature and on the following day 
 was formally declared elected. He took his seat 
 April 2, 1912, and in the drawing of lots received 
 the long term, which will expire March 3, 1917. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, a careful student of 
 events and a man of extraordinary physical and 
 mental courage, Senator Ashurst, for many years 
 has been a battler for the 
 progressive public policies, 
 which today have come to be 
 recognized as safeguards of 
 the national life. Among the 
 principles urged by him are 
 the initiative, referendum 
 and recall ; election of United 
 States Senators by direct 
 vote of the people; nomina- 
 tion of all public officers by 
 direct primary; parcels post, 
 and the right of the State to 
 engage in industrial enter- 
 prises. 
 
 During his entire career 
 he has incessantly labored 
 for the advancement of meas- 
 ures tending toward the de- 
 velopment of Arizona and its 
 vast store of valuable re- 
 sources, with especial atten- 
 tion toward securing laws 
 setting apart lands for up- 
 building Arizona's Public 
 School System, and he has 
 long been a veritable crusa- 
 der in behalf of laws that 
 will bring industrial liberty 
 
 for the working classes. Senator Ashurst believes 
 in developing the citizen first, property next. 
 
 The election of the Senator to the office 
 which he now fills was the most sensational politi- 
 cal triumph in the history of Arizona. 
 
 Senator Ashurst had no political machine or 
 powerful influence back of him, while opposed 
 to him was all the power which special in- 
 terests could array. But his previous record in 
 office had won for him tremendous popularity, and 
 this combined with his extraordinary ability as an 
 orator, carried him to victory- 
 
 As a public speaker Senator Ashurst has ac- 
 quired a broad reputation. He ranks with the 
 most powerful orators of the country and this ex- 
 ceptional ability won for him a large number of 
 votes from persons aligned with other parties. 
 
 Since taking his seat in the Senate, he has con- 
 tinued his fight for progressive legislation and as 
 a member of various important committees, has 
 been very effective. He was a prominent figure in 
 the campaign of 1912 in behalf of Woodrow Wilson. 
 
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 OOLE, CHARLES OSCAR, Electri- 
 cal Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born at Saulsbury, Mass., 
 June 17, 1859, the son of Reuben 
 Poole and Mary Agnes (Gorace) 
 Poole. His father was a Mechani- 
 cal Engineer, of Yorkshire, England. 
 
 His family having moved to San Francisco when 
 he was about ten years of age, he spent a large 
 part of his life there. He attended the public 
 schools there and later took 
 special studies in higher 
 mathematics. In 1875 he 
 took up practical mechanics 
 and mining work, and from 
 1879 to 1883 led an extreme- 
 ly active career in mining 
 and engineering. For a time 
 he became the owner and 
 captain of a steamboat in the 
 Northwest, plying the waters 
 of Elliott Bay and Lake Wash- 
 ington. Selling this in 1883, 
 he became Master Mechanic 
 for the Oregon Improvement 
 Co., owners of the Franklyn 
 coal mines, near Seattle, and 
 was in complete charge of 
 all machinery and engineer- 
 ing work for the company. 
 Mr. Poole held this post for 
 about four years and during 
 this time made a special 
 study of electrical engineer- 
 ing realizing the possibilities 
 in that field of industrial de- 
 velopment. 
 
 In 1887, Mr. Poole went to 
 San Francisco, then the cen- 
 ter of electrical activity on the Pacific Coast, and 
 there entered the employ of the California Electric 
 Light Co. He remained in the dynamo department 
 two years, part of the time as foreman, and at the 
 end of that time was made foreman of the repair 
 department. In 1891 he was made Superintendent 
 of Station B, at that time the largest steam driven 
 plant on the Pacific Coast. His work in this place 
 brought him appointment, in 1895, as General Su- 
 perintendent of the Company and he held that 
 office for about a year, when his company, with 
 other electric light interests, was taken over by 
 the Edison Light & Power Company. Following 
 the consolidation, Mr. Poole was retained as Gen- 
 eral Superintendent and for the next four years 
 had the management of the entire electric light 
 and power business of San Francisco, exclusive of 
 its electric railways. 
 
 On February 1, 1900, Mr. Poole resigned his 
 position to become General Superintendent of the 
 Standard Electric Company of California, taking 
 entire charge of its construction and operating de- 
 
 C. O. POOLE 
 
 partments. While in this position Mr. Poole origin- 
 ated and carried to conclusion some of the most 
 important works of his career, especially in the 
 field of long distance high tension power. Under 
 his supervision the Standard built its great power 
 plant at Electra, Cal., with capacity of 15,000 H. P. 
 In addition to this work Mr. Poole was inter- 
 ested in the United Gas & Electric Co., which ac- 
 quired all the electric and gas industries of San 
 Jose, Cal., thus completing a chain of plants circling 
 the Bay of San Francisco for 
 a distance of 100 miles. Much 
 of the business of this com- 
 pany was under the direction 
 of Mr. Poole as Manager and 
 Supervising Engineer. 
 
 In 1903, Mr. Poole became 
 associated with the Hendrie 
 & Bolthoff Manufacturing & 
 Supply Company, as Western 
 Engineer for the Stanley 
 Electric Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, and also was Consult- 
 ing Engineer for the Nevada 
 Power, Mining & Milling 
 Company, which installed a 
 100-mile transmission system 
 from Bishop, California, to 
 Goldfield, Nev. In 1906, he 
 accepted the position of 
 Asst. Gen. Mgr. and Engi- 
 neer for the Nevada Califor- 
 nia Power Co., with head- 
 quarters at Goldfield. He 
 directed the extension of the 
 company's system over the 
 greater part of Southwestern 
 Nevada, the line playing 
 an important part in the 
 
 development of the mining interests of the section. 
 In January, 1910, Mr. Poole formed a partner- 
 ship with R. G. Manifold, as Manifold & Poole, Con- 
 sulting Engineers. They retained the Nevada Min- 
 ing & Milling Co. as one of their clients and in ad- 
 dition have designed and constructed numerous im- 
 portant hydro-electric plants in California and Ne 
 vada. They are Engineers for the Nevada-California 
 Power Co., Sierras Construction Co., Southern Sier- 
 ras Power Co., Hydro-Electric Power Co., Pacific 
 Power Co., and several others. Mr. Poole and his 
 partner designed and supervised construction of the 
 longest high voltage transmission system in the 
 world, from Bishop, Cal., to San Bernerdino, Cal. It 
 is 237 miles long, designed for 150,000 volts. They al- 
 so supervised construction of a 10,000-kilowatt tur- 
 bine plant for use in connection with this system. 
 Mr. Poole has been a prolific writer and lecturer 
 on technical matters. He was a charter member, 
 and officer for many years of the California Elec- 
 trical Society and is a member of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers. 
 
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 UNT, SUMNER P., Architect, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born May 8, 1865, in Brook- 
 lyn, New York; his parents 
 were Stephen P. Hunt and 
 Harriet (Conkling) Hunt. 
 Mr. Hunt was married on January 21, 
 1892, to Miss Mary Hancock Chapman and 
 a daughter was born to them, Louise Hunt. 
 
 He was educated in 
 private schools up to the 
 age of fourteen years, 
 when the profession 01 
 architecture having been 
 selected by him, he stud- 
 ied that art in the office 
 of Clarence B. Cutler 01 
 Troy, New York. Mr. 
 Hunt worked in the of- 
 fice of Mr. Cutler in Troy 
 from 1879 until 1887, and 
 in the office of Mr. Cut- 
 ler in New York until 
 1889, in which year he 
 removed to Los Angeles. 
 
 On arriving in Los 
 Angeles Mr. Hunt was 
 employed in the firm 01 
 Calkins & Haas in that 
 city from 1889 to 1892; 
 by that time his person- 
 ality had been recognized 
 to such an extent in the 
 class of designs he had 
 been turning out that he 
 felt empowered to enter 
 business for himself, and 
 so occupied himself, with a high degree of 
 success, until 1895, when, with Theodore A. 
 Eisen, he formed a partnership under the 
 firm name of Eisen & Hunt, which con- 
 tinued until 1899. 
 
 In 1899 he went into partnership with A. 
 W. Eager, under the title of Hunt & Eager, 
 which extended until 1908, when the firm 
 was altered to read Hunt, Eager & Burns, 
 and in 1910 Mr. Eager retired and the firm 
 has since been termed Hunt & Burns. 
 
 Owing to his long residence in Los 
 Angeles, and his arriving there properly 
 equipped, technically and artistically, it is 
 within bounds to say that probably no one 
 architect has had a greater domination over 
 the creation of a type of elegance and of ap- 
 propriateness and residences and club houses 
 than that established by Sumner P. Hunt. 
 
 A vast number of those who have resided 
 in Los Angeles for any great length of time, 
 
 SUMNER P. HUNT 
 
 and who have erected houses notable for 
 beauty, have employed Mr. Hunt to prepare 
 the plans and execute the work. 
 
 In such varying examples of architectural 
 arts as the notable home of the Los Angeles 
 Country Club, the most complete edifice ol 
 the kind in the country; the Annandale Coun- 
 try Club and the Ebell Club House at Fig- 
 tieroa and Eighteenth street, the effectiveness 
 and impressiveness of Mr. 
 Hunt's work can be stud- 
 ied to advantage, when it 
 will be seen how perma- 
 nently he has marked his 
 talent on the region 
 where he has practised. 
 
 Other examples of his 
 capacity for adaptation ol 
 plan to environment are 
 the beautiful home of the 
 Casa de Rosas, the pri- 
 vate school building at 
 Adams and Hoover 
 streets; the home of Mr. 
 J. F. Francis, at Ninth) 
 and Bonnie Brae streets, 
 the homes of Mr. W. G. 
 Kerckhoff and Mrs. Ross 
 Clark, on Adams street, 
 the homes of Mr. William 
 Lacy and Mr. H. W. 
 O'Melveny, on Wilshire 
 boulevard, and the resi- 
 dence of Mr. T. L. Duque, 
 at New Hampshire ana 
 Seventh streets. And in 
 another direction of art, 
 besides the buildings earlier mentioned, the 
 buildings of the Los Angeles play grounds 
 show the happy versatility and comprehen- 
 sion that have won for Mr. Hunt a most sat- 
 isfactory degree of success and a recognition 
 of his purely artistic capacity as well as the 
 practical side of his profession. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is one of the class of social up- 
 lifters who believe in starting with the child 
 as a working basis for future citizenship, and 
 in laying out the playgrounds he has had in 
 mind not only artistic effect, but plans for 
 teaching the children how to play and at the 
 same time to grow strong. 
 
 Mr. Hunt has been elected a member of 
 the local chapter of the American Institute 
 of Architects; of the Engineers and Archi- 
 tects' Association of Southern California; of 
 the California Club; of the Los Angeles 
 Country Club, the Crags Country Club and 
 the Sunset Club. 
 
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 OLT, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Cap- 
 italist, Redlands, California, was 
 born in Mercer County, Missouri, 
 January 18, 1864, the son of 
 James Holt and Nancy (Brant- 
 ley) Holt. He married Fannie 
 Jones at Gait, Missouri, August 16, 1885, and to 
 them were born two daughters, Chloe and Catha- 
 rine Holt. 
 
 Mr. Holt, who was born on a farm, was a hard 
 worker in his youth and the only schooling he re- 
 ceived was a few months' attendance at the country 
 schools each Winter. He remained on the farm 
 until he was twenty-one years of age, when he 
 decided to go into business for himself. 
 
 His first venture, a general merchandise estab- 
 lishment in a small Missouri town, proved unsuc- 
 cessful financially, but in the five years he was thus 
 engaged he acquired a valuable fund of knowledge 
 as to business affairs and when he sold out his 
 store was well equipped for subsequent efforts. He 
 next went into the banking business in Missouri 
 and conducted his bank for four years very suc- 
 cessfully. He determined to leave Missouri, how- 
 ever, and in 1892, after selling out his bank, went 
 to Colorado, where he worked for a few years in 
 the employ of a large manufacturing concern. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with this house, 
 Mr. Holt went to Southeastern Arizona and estab- 
 lished banking houses at Safford and Globe. He 
 became one of the leading business men in both 
 of these places and during the four years he op- 
 erated there was regarded as one of the most suc- 
 cessful and enterprising men of the section. 
 
 In 1900 he sold out his Arizona interests and 
 moved to Redlands, California, where he began 
 a career of development that has placed him among 
 the wealthiest men of the section and fixed him 
 as one of the most effective modern upbuilders who 
 have ever operated in California or any other part 
 of the West. He became interested in the famous 
 Imperial Valley of California with his arrival at 
 Redlands and immediately began the work of pla- 
 cing it among the great producing sections of the 
 country. Being possessed of considerable wealth, 
 a wonderful business experience and unlimited en- 
 ergy, he embarked in a work, which, at the end of 
 twelve years, stands out sharply in the history of 
 Western development. 
 
 He has not confined his activities to banking, 
 or any other single line of progress, but has en- 
 gaged in a general career of upbuilding which in- 
 cludes practically all phases of modern industry, 
 both agricultural and manufacturing. He saw early 
 the possibilities of the valley and the necessity 
 for a railroad and undertook the building of the 
 first line ever projected to that fertile section of 
 California. He was really the first man to appre- 
 ciate the value of Imperial Valley, but it was not 
 long before the eyes of others were opened, and 
 before he had his railroad completed the Southern 
 Pacific Company made him an offer for it which 
 he could not ignore and he sold the line. 
 
 Assured that the railroad would be put through 
 and the country opened up to settlement and de- 
 velopment, Mr. Holt then turned his attention to 
 other lines and there stand today, as monuments 
 to his work, scores of prosperous enterprises begun 
 by him. He organized five banks in the five prin- 
 cipal towns of Imperial Valley and, with his pre- 
 vious experience in this field, placed all of them 
 upon a paying basis within a very short time. He 
 also led in the organization of numerous business 
 enterprises, including the organization of a tele- 
 
 phone company and the construction of a telephone 
 system throughout the valley. 
 
 Mr. Holt, in due time, started several newspa- 
 pers, which advertised to the world the advantages 
 of the Imperial Vailey, and, as in all of his other 
 ventures, took an active part in the management 
 and direction of them. He established several 
 dairies and built creameries, which are today sup- 
 plying a large part of the dairy products consumed 
 in Los Angeles and other parts of California, and, 
 when the lands began to produce fruits and other 
 crops in abundance, he built a number of packing 
 houses. Here the products of the Valley are pre- 
 pared for shipment to the outside world, canta- 
 loupes being the chief of them. 
 
 As the country grew in population Mr. Holt in- 
 stalled other utilities, including the Holton Inter- 
 urban Railway, which crosses the Valley. He also 
 built electric lighting plants in the five leading 
 towns of the section, and supplemented these with 
 gas and power plants, so that the residents of 
 Imperial Valley, living in a beautiful country, enjoy 
 all the comforts of the modern city. He caused 
 the installation of adequate water systems and also 
 laid out and supervised the construction of a splen- 
 did system of highways which make travel easy 
 and pleasant and compare favorably with any road- 
 ways in the country. 
 
 Several years ago it will be remembered, the 
 Colorado River broke its banks and cut a new chan- 
 nel, and for two years or so poured its waters in 
 the Salton Sink, ultimately forming what is now 
 known as "Salton Sea," a great inland body of 
 water approximately fifty miles long, fifteen miles 
 wide and 100 feet deep at its central point. It was 
 finally turned back into its channel by a wonder- 
 ful piece of engineering work, done under the di- 
 rection of Col. Epes Randolph of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Company, and after more than a 
 million dollars had been expended in vain efforts. 
 
 This break came at a time when the vast work 
 of reclamation and improvement in the Imperial 
 Valley, headed by Mr. Holt, was gaining its great- 
 est momentum and untold damage was done to the 
 section. Only the ultimate checking of the river 
 prevented the complete destruction of this valley, 
 which is now one of the most remarkable sections 
 in the United States, if not in the world, where 
 the desert has been transformed into ranches, and 
 thriving cities. Mr. Holt, perhaps, was the great- 
 est loser in that disastrous period, but he did not 
 reckon on his losses as much as ne did those of 
 the settlers who had been attracted to the country, 
 and he devoted himself tirelessly to rebuilding 
 where the flood had wrought ruin. 
 
 The break of the Colorado, together with the 
 part played in its repair and the upbuilding of the 
 Imperial Valley, was made the climactic feature 
 of the remarkable story written by Harold Bell 
 Wright, himself a resident of the Valley, under 
 the title of "The Winning of Barbara Worth." In 
 this work, Mr. Wright has painted a wonderful 
 picture of the Imperial Valley and the most com- 
 manding figure of the story, a banker named "Jef- 
 ferson Worth," is generally supposed to have been 
 drawn from the life of Mr. Holt. The author, in 
 his foreword, dedicated the work to Mr. Holt in the 
 following terms: 
 
 "To my friend, Mr. W. F. Holt, In appreciation of his 
 life and of his work Jn the Imperial Valley, this story is 
 inscribed." 
 
 Those familiar with the career of Mr. Holt in 
 the Imperial Valley recognize him in the charac- 
 ter of "Jefferson Worth" at once, for in various 
 
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 places in the story the author has sketched his 
 character with the utmost faithfulness. Early in 
 the story he shows the kindly side of his charac- 
 ter, when the banker adopts the infant Barbara, 
 a waif of the desert, and as the story goes on, he 
 shows in turn the man's genius for finance, his 
 power as an organizer and his influence for the 
 upbuilding of the country. 
 
 Interwoven in the story of Barbara Worth is 
 that of the winning of the desert and of a battle 
 between two great financial powers, one headed 
 by "Jefferson Worth," the other by an Easfern 
 magnate, and the description of the first stages of 
 the reclamation work is a fair statement of the 
 idea in Mr. Holt's mind when he first went into 
 Imperial Valley. The author says: 
 
 "Lying within the lines of the ancient beach and 
 thus below the level of the great river, were hundreds of 
 thousands of acres equal in richness_ of soil to the famous 
 delta lands of the Nile. The bringing of water from the 
 river and its distribution through a system of canals and 
 ditches, while a work of great magnitude requiring the 
 expenditure of large sums of money, was, as an engineer 
 ing problem, comparatively simple. 
 
 "As Jefferson Worth gazed at the wonderful scene, 
 a vision of the changes that were to come to that land 
 passed before him. He saw first, following the nearly 
 finished work of the engineers, an army of men beginning 
 at the river and pushing out into the desert with their 
 canals, bringing with them the life-giving water. Soon, 
 with the coming of the water, would begin the coming 
 of the settlers. Hummocks would be leveled, washes and 
 arroyos filled, ditches would be made to the company's 
 canals, and in place of the thin growth of gray-green 
 desert vegetation with the ragged patches of dun earth 
 would come great fields of luxuriant alfalfa, billowing 
 acres of grain, with miles upon miles of orchards, vine- 
 yards and groves. The fierce desert lire would give way 
 to the herds and flocks and home life of the farmer. 
 The railroad would stretch its steel strength into this 
 new world ; towns and cities would come to be where 
 now was only solitude and desolation ; and out from this 
 world-old treasure house vast wealth would pour to 
 enrich the peoples of the earth." 
 
 These things have actually come to pass, and 
 Mr. Holt was the chief factor in bringing them 
 about. 
 
 Closely following the above quoted passage, the 
 author wrote a brief resume of the forces that had 
 gone towards the conquering of the West prior to 
 the advent of "Jefferson Worth," and also included 
 a brief biography of the man which corresponds 
 closely with that of Mr. Holt. Then follows a 
 clearly drawn pen picture of the character of the 
 subject, one part of which reads: 
 
 "Business, to this man, as to many of his kind, was 
 not the mean, sordid grasping and hoarding of money. It 
 was his profession, but it was even more than a profession ; 
 it was the expression of his genius. Still more it was. 
 through him, the expression of the age in which ne 
 lived, the expression of the master passion that in all 
 ages had wrought in the making of the race." 
 
 This, too, is a fair summary of the business 
 motives of Mr. Holt, whose talents and resources 
 have been used in the development of the vast 
 country he aided in upbuilding after having worked 
 his own way from the station of farmboy to that 
 of financier. 
 
 In the working out of Mr. Wright's story of the 
 financing of the many commercial and industrial 
 projects incident to the reclamation and upbuild- 
 ing of the Imperial Valley the works of Mr. Holt 
 are closely paralleled and the author paints in 
 picturesque colors the dramatic part played by the 
 banker during the trying period of inundation 
 which seriously threatened to ruin all that had 
 been accomplished. 
 
 Needless to say, Mr. Holt is an extensive owner 
 of real estate and agricultural lands in the Im- 
 perial Valley, but he has conducted this end of 
 his enterprises with as much regard for the gen- 
 eral good and growth of the country as for his own 
 profit. For instance, he built more than fifty brick 
 
 business buildings in the various towns of the 
 Valley and rented them at moderate rates in order 
 to encourage the establishment of good business 
 houses and thus add to the general improvement 
 of conditions. 
 
 This tells but briefly of the work done by Mr. 
 Holt in behalf of the Imperial Valley, but serves 
 to show the extent of his activities and the fact 
 that he was the chief spirit in the building of this 
 great section, installing all the improvements 
 necessary to the development of a new country. 
 
 The Imperial Valley, however, has not been the 
 only place where he has built for progress, for in 
 the Palo Verde and Coachella valleys he has also 
 operated to a large extent. As in the case of the 
 former, he has helped to give to these two last 
 named sections the benefits of modern invention 
 and is today one of the most active factors in the 
 work of improving them. 
 
 The development of Imperial Valley, however, 
 and the successful operations of new business en- 
 terprises he considers the principal part of his life 
 work. Having begun life as a farmer, he is an 
 expert on agricultural matters and has done a 
 great deal to make the lands of his particular 
 section produce crops in abundance. 
 
 Mr. Holt's one object since locating in Cali- 
 fornia has been to place its fertile valleys in a posi- 
 tion where they will not only compare favorably 
 with the agricultural sections of other parts of the 
 world, but excel them. Development work has 
 been almost a passion with him and he has had 
 little time for interests other than those which 
 fitted in with his general plans for improving the 
 country and populating it. For this reason he has 
 never taken much part in politics, and, although 
 he could probably have any office within the gift 
 of the people of his section, he has never sought 
 nor held public position. 
 
 Mr. Holt today ranks among the leading finan- 
 ciers of Southern California and has been the 
 organizer of numerous corporations which have 
 proved successful. He is President of seven of 
 these, an officer in various others and holds stock 
 in scores of others. The corporations in which he 
 holds the office of President include the Holton 
 Power Company, the Holton Interurban Railway 
 Company, Imperial Valley Gas Company, Coachella 
 Valley Ice and Electric Company, Seeley Township 
 Company and the Los Angeles Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany. 
 
 In all of these enterprises Mr. Holt is the ex- 
 ecutive force and he takes an active part in the 
 affairs of each. Owing to his wide experience in 
 various lines of business, he is exceptionally well 
 qualified to handle the affairs of these companies 
 and it is due, in great measure, to his ability as 
 an organizer and business manager that they have 
 proved successful. 
 
 Although he has accomplished in a few years 
 as much in the way of progress as many other 
 men have in a lifetime of effort, Mr. Holt, who 
 still is in the prime of life and possessed of won- 
 derful vigor, has plans for further development 
 work which will keep him in active business life 
 for many years to come. Unlike many men of 
 accomplishment, his chief characteristic is an ex- 
 treme modesty, which has prevented his work from 
 being generally known, although he enjoys a busi- 
 ness standing equal to that of any man on the 
 Pacific Coast. 
 
 He is not a clubman as the term is generally 
 used, but is a prominent figure in fraternal cir- 
 cles, being a member of the Masons, Knights 
 Templar and the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs 
 to the Elks. 
 
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 NDERSON, ANDREW PETER, 
 Mining Engineer, Los Angeles and 
 Oakland, California, was born in 
 Helsingberg, Sweden, April 8, 
 1862, the son of Andrew Anderson 
 and Laura (Larson) Anderson. 
 He is descended of a family which has long been 
 prominent in church affairs in Sweden, his grand- 
 father having been a Bishop and various other 
 members having held office in the church- He 
 married Marguerite A. Dick- 
 inson at Deming, New Mex- 
 ico, February 12, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Anderson was 
 brought to America by his 
 parents when he was four 
 years of age and his life has 
 been characteristic of those 
 Americans who have won 
 their way to prominence in 
 business and professional 
 lines by their own personal 
 effort. His family settled in 
 the central part of Illinois 
 and Mr. Anderson received a 
 good common school educa- 
 tion, graduating from the 
 High School of Greenview, 
 Menard County, Illinois, in 
 1880. 
 
 Finishing his studies, Mr. 
 Anderson went to Clarksville, 
 Mo., where he entered the 
 employ of a railroad com- 
 pany. Later on he entered the 
 construction branch of rail- 
 roading and was thus en- 
 gaged for nearly two years, 
 working in Missouri, South- 
 ern Iowa and New Mexico, 
 when he became a freighter 
 at Albuquerque, N. M. He 
 followed this for some time, 
 but was stricken with rheu- 
 matism and went to the Hud- 
 
 A. P. ANDERSON 
 
 son Hot Springs in Grant County, New Mexico, in 
 search of relief. 
 
 This was in the days of stage coaches, when 
 railroads were just beginning to penetrate the 
 desert regions and Mr. Anderson worked as stable- 
 man for the owners of the Hot Springs, who 
 operated a line of stages. He remained at the 
 Springs for about fifteen months, when, having re- 
 gained his health sufficiently, he determined to go 
 in search of gold. He began prospecting in New 
 Mexico and wandered from there into Arizona arid 
 Colorado. 
 
 Indians still were plentiful in those parts at the 
 time and the gold-seekers had to be continually on 
 their guard. Mr. Anderson, like the men of his 
 day in that country, went armed and alert for any 
 sign of danger. In 1888 he left off prospecting for 
 a year and served as foreman of the Graphic Mine 
 in Grant County, N. M., going into business for 
 himself at the end of a twelvemonth. He owned 
 and leased various mining properties and worked 
 them with varied success from 1888 until 1892, and 
 at that time was seized with a desire to locate in 
 a more populous part of the country. 
 
 It so happened that in 1892 the town of Velasco, 
 Texas, was in the midst of a real estate boom, the 
 promoters' promises including the building of a 
 
 great harbor. Mr. Anderson went to investigate, 
 but after studying the proposition decided that it 
 was no place for permanent investment and left 
 there for Butte, Montana, where he re-entered the 
 mining business. He leased and developed several 
 claims, working in the mines himself, until 1895, 
 when he joined the rush to Cripple Creek, Colo. 
 
 Mr. Anderson began as a contractor in Cripple 
 Creek, but soon was made foreman of the Ithaca 
 Gold Mining Company's properties, which he oper- 
 ated until 1896, when he 
 went to California for six 
 months. Returning to Crip- 
 ple Creek he mined for a 
 short time, then returned 
 to New Mexico, having ob- 
 tained a lease and option on 
 the Graphic Mine. 
 
 In 1899, Mr. Anderson left 
 New Mexico to go to Cali- 
 fornia again, and there, after 
 eight months as foreman of 
 the Cleveland Gold Mine in 
 Shasta County, he became 
 foreman of the Bully Choop 
 Mine in Trinity County. This 
 he worked for eight months, 
 then was made foreman of 
 the Trinity Copper Mine in 
 Shasta County. One year 
 there and he was called back 
 to the Bully Choop as Super- 
 intendent. This he resigned 
 to become Superintendent of 
 the Sheep Ranch Gold Mine 
 in Calaveras County, Cali- 
 fornia, and after fifteen 
 months there he embarked 
 upon his career as a Mining 
 Engineer. 
 
 Mr. Anderson started in 
 1904 examination work which 
 took him to all parts of the 
 West. He examined many 
 properties during the next 
 succeeding nine months, at the end of that time be- 
 ing made Superintendent of the Mammoth Copper 
 Mining Company of Maine, a subsidiary company of 
 the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Com- 
 pany, which had large holdings in Shasta County, 
 California, and in 1906 he was made General Super- 
 intendent of the mines owned by the United States 
 Smelting, Refining & Mining Company, one of the 
 largest and most substantial companies of its char- 
 acter in the world. Later on he was made Field 
 Engineer, having charge of all exploration work for 
 the company, also holding the position of Consult- 
 ing Engineer. 
 
 In his present important office, Mr. Anderson is 
 the advisory power on all the operating properties 
 of the U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Company, 
 including those mines in Peru, S. A.; Mexico, New- 
 foundland, Utah, California, Oregon, Arizona and 
 New Mexico. 
 
 Starting in life as he did, Mr. Anderson is one 
 of the men who may be justly placed among the 
 list of "self-made men," for his is today one of the 
 leading positions in the mining world. He is highly 
 regarded among his fellows and is a member of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Mines and Oil, the Sierra Madre Club, 
 and the Brotherhood of Elks. 
 
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 WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 
 
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 73 
 
 EARST. WILLIAM ^RANDOLPH, 
 Editor, San Francisco and New 
 York, was born in San Francisco, 
 April 29, 18G3, the son of United 
 States Senator George Hearst and 
 
 Phoebe (Apperson) Hearst. His 
 
 father had great intellectual powers and was a 
 conspicuous figure in the early history of the West. 
 His mother is a noted philanthropist and uplifter, 
 having given vast sums to aid in the education of 
 the poor. She has established numerous kindergar- 
 tens and libraries in various parts of the West and 
 at the present time occupies a place on the Board 
 of Regents of the University of California, to which 
 she gave a building costing approximately four mil- 
 lion dollars. Mr. Hearst married Miss Millicent V. 
 Willson in New York City, April 28, 1903. To them 
 there have been born three children, George, Wil- 
 liam Randolph, Jr., and John Randolph Hearst. 
 
 Mr. Hearst received his elementary education in 
 the public schools of his native city, and later at- 
 tended Harvard University. 
 
 Upon his return to San Francisco after comple- 
 tion of his college career, Mr. Hearst was placed in 
 control of the San Francisco "Examiner" by his 
 father, who had himself up to that time (1886) con- 
 ducted the paper as an organ for the people. This 
 inherited policy Mr. Hearst has never changed; he 
 has made it the guiding principle of all his subse- 
 quent newspaper enterprises. 
 
 After conducting the San Francisco "Examiner" 
 for nine years with a large degree of success, add- 
 ing to its prestige as a journal and its value as a 
 property, Mr. Hearst's progressive spirit sought 
 larger fields. Accordingly, he went to New York, 
 in 1895, and purchased the old New York "Journal," 
 later acquiring the New York "Advertiser," and 
 consolidating the two, issuing morning and after- 
 noon editions. 
 
 The arrival of Mr. Hearst into New York not 
 only changed the journalistic methods of the me- 
 tropolis, but was the beginning of a new era in 
 newspaper operation as a whole. Surrounding him- 
 self with the best talent to be procured, Mr. Hearst 
 projected his ideas and his personality into the field 
 in such a manner that within a short time he was 
 recognized as the embodiment of a new thought in 
 journalism. 
 
 His cardinal principles in the conduct of his 
 papers have been the protection of the people, the 
 correction of government evils, city, state and 
 national, and the enactment of legislation in- 
 tended for the betterment of the people as a 
 whole. 
 
 In following out this policy, Mr. Hearst has been 
 a potential influence in the establishment of pro- 
 gressive reforms, which have purified politics and 
 raised the general moral plane of life in various 
 communities. 
 
 After fighting strenuously for five years in New 
 York, with the "Journal" as a militant power for 
 right, Mr. Hearst invaded Chicago, by establishing 
 the Chicago "American," an afternoon paper. Two 
 years later the Chicago "Examiner," a morning 
 issue, was founded, and that same year the morn- 
 ing edition of the New York "Journal" became 
 known as "The New York American." Eight years 
 ago (1903) he established the Los Angeles "Exami- 
 ner," and a year later the "American" in Boston. 
 He also owns the "Morgen Journal" (New York), 
 the largest and most influential German daily in 
 the United States, and several other weekly and 
 monthly publications. 
 
 All of Mr. Hearst's newspapers are maintained 
 
 along the same general lines as those upon which 
 he conducted his first publication. In their respec- 
 tive fields they are relentless in their efforts for the 
 eradication of corruption in politics* corporation 
 oppression and other evils of local or national 
 extent. 
 
 One of Mr. Hearst's large and most important 
 institutions is the International News Service, origi- 
 nally organized for gathering and distributing news, 
 covering the especially big events of the world for 
 his own publications. It is today one of the largest 
 news agencies in the world and supplies, in addi- 
 tion to his own, hundreds of other large news- 
 papers. It has had a most important influence on 
 the newspaper situation of the world. 
 
 A fact worthy of mention is that Mr. Hearst is 
 a thorough newspaper man. He knows the business 
 in its every detail, from the mechanical to the edi- 
 torial. He is the active director of his various 
 publications. 
 
 Born a Democrat, Mr. Hearst has been a com- 
 manding figure in the affairs of his party, nationally 
 and otherwise. He has fathered many sound poli- 
 cies for the guidance of the organization, and was 
 at one time President of the National Association 
 of Democratic Clubs. At times his ideas have not 
 been in harmony with those of other leaders, and 
 on such occasions he has voiced his sentiments edi- 
 torially and in public speeches. It was such a situ- 
 ation that led to the formation by Mr. Hearst, in 
 February, 1906, of the Independence League, a 
 movement the purpose of which, as avowed by dele- 
 gates in convention at Albany, N. Y., was to over- 
 throw boss rule and corporation control of the Gov- 
 ernment. Its necessity was due to the lack of a di- 
 rect nominations law, which prevented progressive 
 Democrats and Republicans from exercising any 
 voice in the selection of candidates or writing of 
 platforms. The cardinal principles of the Indepen- 
 dence League, as announced in its national 
 platform, were direct nominations, direct election 
 of Senators, income tax, initiative, referendum and 
 recall, postal savings banks, parcels post, inland 
 waterways development, conservation of natural 
 resources, physical valuation of railroads, no injunc- 
 tion without notice and hearing, and all contempt 
 of court cases to be tried by a jury; opposition to 
 child labor and the manufacture and sale of prison- 
 made goods; revision of the tariff; all money to be 
 issued by the Government, and "imprisonment of 
 individuals criminally responsible for trusts, in- 
 stead of merely fining the stockholders." 
 
 The general acceptance of these doctrines today 
 is apparent from their mere enumeration. 
 
 Mr. Hearst served in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
 ninth Congresses, from the Eleventh District in 
 New York, and during his service at Washington 
 originated and carried to successful conclusion, 
 oftentimes in the face of bitter opposition, various 
 measures of reform. He introduced bills increas- 
 ing the powers of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
 mission, and creating the Interstate Commerce 
 Court, the principle of both of which bills has since 
 been enacted into law; a bill to establish the Par- 
 cels Post; a bill for the eight-hour day, and the 
 payment of the prevailing rate of wages by all 
 Federal contractors and sub-contractors; a bill to 
 promote the construction of a national system of 
 good roads; a bill to increase the salaries of the 
 Justices of the Supreme Court; a bill to enlarge 
 the domestic market for farm products and in- 
 crease the industrial uses of denatured alcohol; a 
 bill for the incorporation and regulation of all cor- 
 porations engaged in interstate business under a 
 
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 national incorporation law, adequately protecting 
 the public against watered stocks and bonds; a bill 
 to enable the United States to acquire, maintain 
 and operate electric telegraphs, paying therefor by 
 the sale of bonds redeemable out of net earnings; 
 a bill to authorize the acquisition by the United 
 States of the entire capital stock and property of 
 the Panama Railroad Company, and to provide for 
 the maintenance, operation and development by the 
 Government of the railroad and steamship proper- 
 ties and lines so acquired; a bill constituting a 
 rigid and adequate Federal Corrupt Practices Act; 
 a bill making railroad rebating a criminal offense; 
 and a bill amending the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, 
 strengthening it as a criminal statute and making 
 it apply to combinations and restraints of trade in 
 and monopoly of products of labor. 
 
 Mr. Hearst's battles in the interests of the peo- 
 ple have been numerous and varied, but almost 
 universally successful, and have been of national 
 importance in virtually every instance. Following 
 are some of the notable things he did: 
 
 He frustrated the fuel gas franchise grab in 
 New York, in 1896, worth $50,000,000 to its pro- 
 moters. 
 
 He blocked the Ice Trust's plan to raise its price 
 and started suits to dissolve the combine, in 1900, 
 and forced the price down from 60 to 30 cents a 
 hundred in three months. He fought successfully 
 in Legislature against "dollar gas," and compelled 
 an eighty-cent rate to be put in effect; similar, but 
 shorter, gas fights were inaugurated by him bring- 
 ing about reductions in Boston and Chicago. He 
 brought about the conviction of the president and 
 the payment of depositors in the wrecked Seventh 
 National Bank of New York. He caused the elec- 
 trization of the New York Central Railroad follow- 
 ing a tunnel disaster costing forty lives. At the 
 height of the first anthracite coal strike he pro- 
 duced evidence showing combination between nine 
 Pennsylvania railroads and fought the case with 
 such vigor that the United States Government, 
 under President Taft, brought and won an injunc- 
 tion suit against railroads holding stock of the Tem- 
 ple Iron Company, through which the combination 
 was carried on, the case finally reaching the United 
 States Supreme Court. The effect of this publicity 
 ultimately led to rate reductions by various rail- 
 roads and the radical amendment of the Interstate 
 Commerce law. He started rebating suits against 
 the New York Central, the Delaware, Lackawanna 
 and Western and allied roads for rebating, which 
 resulted in the roads' paying large fines to the 
 Government. 
 
 Mr. Hearst was thanked by Attorney General 
 Moody for his activity in the case against the Sugar 
 Trust for rebating, which resulted in the combine's 
 paying fines aggregating $250,000 and the ultimate 
 exposure of its workings, which caused the corpora- 
 tion to refund millions of dollars to the Govern- 
 ment in unpaid duties. 
 
 He conducted a fight for twenty-five years which 
 resulted in San Francisco getting a municipal water 
 supply and the ownership of street railways. He 
 also produced the first evidence and led in the 
 campaign against the Ruef-Schmitz graft ring in 
 San Francisco, which sent Ruef to prison and freed 
 the city from one of the most oDnoxious systems 
 of corruption in the history of the United States. 
 He also exposed the "120 per cent Miller" syndi- 
 cate swindle. He caused the Southern Pacific and 
 other railroads to rebuild their roads so as to safe- 
 guard human life and directed scores of other fights 
 in the various cities where his papers are pub- 
 lished which saved the people millions of dollars 
 and lightened their burdens in divers ways. 
 
 In his various campaigns Mr. Hearst has been 
 ever ready to espouse the cause of a worthy man 
 or measure, as was indicated in his memorable 
 fight for the adoption of the reciprocity treaty be- 
 tween Canada and the United States. But, on the 
 other hand he has never hesitated to criticise the 
 unworthy actions of any public official, national or 
 local. 
 
 Mr. Hearst, in times of disaster in any part of 
 the world, has been one of the leaders in the work 
 of aiding the poor and alleviating suffering. In 
 1906, when San Francisco was stricken by earth- 
 quake and destroyed by fire, he sent the first relief 
 train into the city, following this with several 
 others, and, altogether, raised $250,000 for the re- 
 lief of the sufferers. 
 
 When news of the catastrophe was heard 
 he immediately instructed all of his papers to 
 spare no expense and to leave no stone unturned in 
 an endeavor to secure all supplies in their respect- 
 ive cities and ship at once to San Francisco. His 
 instructions were to hire special trains or to attach 
 cars to any available train in order to reach the 
 stricken city at the earliest possible moment. From 
 Los Angeles he sent one special passenger train 
 containing provisions, doctors, nurses and medical 
 supplies, and later sent a special from Chicago con- 
 taining one hundred doctors and all available med- 
 ical supplies. The steamer Roanoke sailed from 
 Los Angeles, containing twenty-two carloads of pro- 
 visions, four of which were contributed by Mr. 
 Hearst. Trains, under his lease and orders, were 
 made up in Chicago, New York and Boston, each 
 containing numerous cars, filled by him with pro- 
 visions and clothing. Almost every day one or 
 more cars from the various headquarters estab- 
 lished by Mr. Hearst throughout the country were 
 sent forth containing supplies contributed by him. 
 This was kept up day after day during the entire 
 period of need. 
 
 Five years previously, when Galveston was al- 
 most swept out of existence by flood, Mr. Hearst 
 performed similar services, sending one relief train 
 from Chicago and one from New York, which rushed 
 provisions, doctors and nurses to the scene of trou- 
 ble. He also raised and sent $50,000 cash. 
 
 At other times he contributed freely to the relief 
 of starving thousands during famine periods in 
 India and Cuba and to disaster victims in other 
 parts of the world. To the earthquake sufferers in 
 Italy he sent $35,000, composed of his own and 
 other contributions made through the efforts of his 
 publications. 
 
 By a vigorous editorial campaign and personal 
 effort, Mr. Hearst was instrumental in securing re- 
 forms in the cause of humanity in the Congo dis- 
 trict, where the natives had been the objects of 
 cruelty and oppression unequaled in any other 
 country on the globe. 
 
 Although he has lived in New York the greater 
 part of the time in recent years, Mr. Hearst has 
 lost none of the civic patriotism he felt for San 
 Francisco, and when the matter of the Panama-Pa- 
 cific Exposition was up in Congress, threw all his 
 influence and the weight of his newspapers into 
 the fight which the business men of the Bay City 
 were making for the great fair. His work, with 
 that of the others, finally won the honor for theii 
 city. 
 
 Among his clubs are the Pacific Union, of San 
 Francisco; the Manhattan Club, Union Club, Na- 
 tional Democratic Club, City Lunch Club, Press 
 Club, National Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club 
 and the Atlantic Yacht Club, of New York, and the 
 Chicago Press Club. 
 
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 75 
 
 H E N E Y, WILLIAM ATWELL, 
 Counselor-at-Law (ex- Judge Supe- 
 rior Court), Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts, February 18, 1848, the 
 son of Benjamin Franklin Cheney 
 and Martha (Whitney) Cheney. In 1871, at New 
 Haven, Connecticut, he married Anna E. Skinner 
 of that city, and to them there was born a son, 
 Harvey D. Cheney, now a practicing attorney in 
 Los Angeles. Judge Cheney 
 is descended of notable New 
 England stock, the members 
 of his family on both sides 
 having been distinguished in 
 the history of Massachusetts. 
 Judge Cheney was edu- 
 cated in public schools and 
 private academies of Boston 
 and was trained for the min- 
 istry. He preached for a 
 while after graduating, but 
 soon discovered that was not 
 his vocation and gave it up 
 to study law. Judge Cheney's 
 education was interrupted 
 when he was eighteen years 
 of age by failing health. He 
 left school for a year and 
 spent the time on a trading 
 vessel. 
 
 He made his first trip to 
 California in the latter part 
 of 1867, but after remaining 
 about three years, returned 
 to Boston. In 1875 he again 
 went to California and has 
 made his home there since. 
 He first located in San 
 
 Francisco, then settled in Plumas County and pros- 
 ecuted his law studies. He was admitted to the 
 bar shortly after his arrival and in 1877 was elected 
 Judge of , Plumas County. He remained on the 
 bench until the old Constitution was changed and 
 the new district created, in 1880, and was then 
 elected to the State Senate from the district Plu- 
 mas, Butte and Lassen counties. He served in 
 the Senate for three sessions and during that time 
 was a member of the Judiciary Committee, having 
 in charge the revision of the legal codes. He was 
 at this time also in partnership with Creed Ham- 
 mond of Sacramento. 
 
 In 1882, before the expiration of his term as 
 State Senator, Judge Cheney moved to Los An- 
 geles and there took up the practice of his pro- 
 fession. He also took an active part in politics 
 and stumped the southern part of the State in 
 behalf of the national Republican party. Shortly 
 after his arrival in Los Angeles he was elected a 
 member of the Board of Education and served for 
 a year. He was at this time in partnership with 
 Lieutenant Governor John Mansfield of California. 
 
 HON. W. A. CHENEY 
 
 In 1884 Judge Cheney was elected to the Su- 
 perior Bench of Los Angeles County. He and 
 Judge Anson Brunson were the only judges at that 
 time and, incidentally, the only Republicans who 
 had been elected to the Los Angeles County Bench 
 up to that period. Judge Cheney had charge of 
 the criminal department of the court and for six 
 years administered justice in such manner that 
 his name stands among the most honored in the 
 history of California jurisprudence. 
 
 In 1891 Judge Cheney re- 
 tired from the bench to re- 
 enter private practice and 
 became associated with Cor- 
 nelius Cronin. Shortly after- 
 ward he was chosen Chief 
 Counsel for the Los Angeles 
 Gas and Electric Corporation 
 and subsidiary companies, 
 and has served down to date. 
 Judge Cheney has been 
 one of the staunchest sup- 
 porters of the Republican 
 party in the West for more 
 than a quarter of a century, 
 and, as one of the powerful 
 orators in its ranks, has 
 spoken in dozens of cam- 
 paigns. He was a prominent 
 figure in State, county and 
 district conventions from his 
 entry into politics until press 
 of private business pre- 
 vented longer an active po- 
 litical life. 
 
 He has a philosophy 
 which he has put into prac- 
 tice. It is that a man, to be 
 a successful counselor to 
 
 others, should "know everything about some 
 things and something about every thing." He be- 
 lieves that whatever intellectual power any man 
 may have, whether small or great, it may double 
 itself by rest acquired through a process of alterna- 
 tion. Judge Cheney has exemplified this philosophy 
 by turning his energies to other directions than those 
 in which he temporarily wearied. He is, therefore, 
 no stranger in the field of painting, sculpture and 
 science. It is for this professional and philo- 
 sophic reason and because he believes in getting 
 as much out of life as life has for a man's mind, 
 that his life, despite his public and semi-public ac- 
 tivities, has been that of a student. He has 
 devoted much time to the study and discussion of 
 scientific subjects, including biology, philosophy 
 and sociology. He has been a prolific writer on 
 these and legal matters, one of his principal works 
 being a brief in book form, entitled "Can We Be 
 Sure of Mortality." 
 
 Judge Cheney stands at the top of his profes- 
 sion, is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Associa- 
 tion and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences. He 
 also is lecturer on Constitutional Law at the Uni- 
 versity of Southern California Law School. 
 
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 'CORNICK, WILLIAM SYLVES- 
 TER, Banking, Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, was born in Picton, Prince 
 Edward County, Ontario, Sept. 
 14, 1837, the son of George Mc- 
 Cornick and Mary (Vance) Mc- 
 Cornick. He married Hannah Keogh, at Austin, 
 Nevada, in January, 1867, and to them there were 
 born ten children: William (deceased), Emma W., 
 Henry A., Harry (deceased), Clarence K., Willis S., 
 Lewis B., Anna, Albert V., 
 and Genevieve McCornick. 
 
 Mr. McCornick's parents 
 were farmers and he spent 
 his early days in the trying 
 duties that go with life on a 
 farm. The rudiments of his 
 education he obtained at 
 the public schools of his na- 
 tive town, but he added to it 
 by his own efforts and taught 
 himself many things that 
 did not appear in the curri- 
 culum of the school. He re- 
 mained on the farm until he 
 reached the voting age and 
 then decided to go forth in 
 the world. 
 
 He pointed for the States 
 and the Golden West, which 
 seemed to offer the best op- 
 portunities for fortune, and 
 located at Marysville, Cal., 
 where he first went to work 
 as a rancher. After two 
 years there he went, in 1862, 
 to the mining regions of Ne- 
 vada, the fame of the great 
 Comstock lode having 
 reached him. For the next eleven years he was en- 
 gaged in lumber and mining pursuits in various 
 parts of Nevada and at different times was located 
 at Virginia City, Belmont, Austin and Hamilton. 
 
 From Belmont, where he had rounded out a 
 snug fortune, he went to Salt Lake City, arriving 
 there in May, 1873, and within a month started the 
 banking business of which he is the head today. 
 The house was first known as White and McCor- 
 nick and it continued as such until 1875, when the 
 firm name was changed to McCornick & Company, 
 with Mr. McCornick as sole owner. This house, 
 probably the greatest of its kind in the inter- 
 mountain country and surely one of the greatest 
 factors in the growth of Salt Lake City.was a one- 
 man proposition during the greater part of its days 
 (the one man being Mr. McCornick), but in 1910 it 
 was incorporated as a State Bank, and as such it 
 is conducted today. 
 
 From that first venture Mr. McCornick has be- 
 come the largest individual banker in Salt Lake, 
 and in addition to the great institution which bears 
 
 his name, he has interests in numerous other 
 banks, among them the Utah National, Utah Sav- 
 ings Bank and Trust Company, Garfield Banking 
 Company, Twin Falls Bank and Trust Company, in 
 all of which he is president; First National of 
 Nephi, of which he is vice president, and the First 
 National of Logan, Utah; First National of Park 
 City and First National of Prier City, Utah, in 
 which he holds directorships. His early successes 
 in the mining lands of Nevada gave Mr. McCornick 
 an intimate knowledge which 
 has served as the basis for a 
 wonderful series of invest- 
 ments in that line, and today 
 he holds numerous valuable 
 interests in the various min- 
 ing properties of Utah. He 
 is a heavy stockholder in all 
 of them, organizer of many 
 and officer in most of them. 
 Among his mining con- 
 nections are Silver King 
 Coalition Mining Company, 
 Treasurer and Director; Daly 
 West Mining Company, 
 Treasurer and Director; Cen- 
 tennial-Eureka, the Grand 
 Central. He is also a direc- 
 tor of the American Smelting 
 and Refining Company, the 
 Oregon Short Line Railroad 
 Company, the Utah- Idaho 
 Sugar Company, Utah Light 
 and Railroad Company; Pres- 
 ident Guardian Casualty Com- 
 pany, President Raft River 
 Land and Livestock Company, 
 in Idaho; President Gold 
 Belt Water Company, Utah; 
 Vice President Consolidated Wagon and Machine 
 Company, Vice President Hotel Utah. All of these 
 are active, paying institutions and the brain of Mr. 
 McCornick is an important factor in the policies and 
 success of each, because he gives to them quite as 
 much of his vigorous, energetic methods as he does 
 to his banking. 
 
 While not an active politician, Mr. McCornick is 
 possessed of a great civic pride and has always 
 been ready to serve in any way that would benefit 
 his city. 
 
 He served as a member of the Salt Lake 
 City Council in 1888, and some years later was re- 
 elected and served as President of that body. He 
 was for seventeen years President of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College 
 and did much to advance education. 
 
 He was the first President of the Alta Club, and 
 in addition to his membership in that belongs to the 
 Commercial Club. He is a man of generous im- 
 pulses and his personal philanthropies have been 
 numerous and practical. 
 
 MCCORNICK 
 
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 77 
 
 ERCKHOFF, WILLIAM 
 GEORGE, Capitalist and 
 Banker, President, Pacific 
 Light and Power Corpora- 
 tion, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born March 30, 1856, at Terre Haute, 
 Indiana, the son of George Kerckhoff and 
 Philippine (Newhart) Kerckhoff. He mar- 
 ried Louise Eshman at Terre Haute, Novem- 
 ber 13, 1883. They have 
 two daughters, Gertrude 
 and Marion Kerckhoff. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff received 
 his primary education 
 in the public schools of 
 his native city and at 
 the Gymnasium Lingen, 
 Province Hanover, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 After leaving school, 
 he entered the business 
 of his father in Terre 
 Haute, where he con- 
 tinued until his removal 
 to California in the fall 
 of 1878. This gave him a 
 thorough knowledge of 
 the wholesale saddler and 
 jobbing saddlery hard- 
 ware business. After ar- 
 riving in California he 
 traveled throughout the 
 State and following a 
 thorough investiga- 
 tion he decided that Los 
 Angeles, although then 
 only a city of 10,000 
 people, gave the greatest promise of success. 
 
 The spring following his location at Los 
 Angeles, with two associates,he organized the 
 firm of Jackson, Kerckhoff & Kuzner, lumber 
 dealers, the firm later changing to the Kerck- 
 hoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company, 
 wherein began one of the great industrial 
 enterprises that have done so much to de- 
 velop the resources of Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff with associates established 
 a chain of yards and docks along the south- 
 ern coast of California and wharves at San 
 Pedro (Los Angeles Harbor.) Their timber 
 lands are situated in several Western States, 
 with large mills on the Umpqua River, in 
 Oregon. They own a line of lumber vessels 
 which ply between Pacific Coast ports. The 
 Company, with Mr. Kerckhoff as president, 
 has become one of the gigantic enterprises 
 of the West and the members of it are among 
 the leading lumbermen of the country. 
 
 WILLIAM G. KERCKHOFF 
 
 In 1898, Mr. Kerckhoff sought another 
 outlet for his energies, and with A. C. Balch, 
 organized the San Gabriel Electric Company, 
 which was the pioneer in Southern California 
 water power development for electrical pur- 
 poses. Through this company, which util- 
 ized the water power of the San Gabriel 
 river to generate electricity, Los Angeles, 
 San Bernardino and twelve other cities were 
 furnished with electric 
 lighting and power. This 
 original company was the 
 basis of one of the great- 
 est light and power sys- 
 tems in the world and 
 the work of Mr. Kerck- 
 hoff was a factor domi- 
 nant in its success. In 
 time it was merged into 
 the Pacific Light and 
 Power Corporation, 
 which now distributes 
 light and power to all 
 parts of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 The success of the two 
 pioneer companies was 
 such that Mr. Kerckhoff 
 and his associates subse- 
 quently organized the 
 San Joaquin Light and 
 Power Corporation, and 
 this company now dis- 
 tributes throughout the 
 San Joaquin Valley from 
 Merced to Bakersfield, 
 with its plant and head- 
 quarters located at Fresno. In addition the 
 company owns and operates the electric rail- 
 way and water plants at Fresno. 
 
 In recognition of his ability, Mr. Kerck- 
 hoff was selected by Governor Budd of Cali- 
 fornia as Commissioner to manage the Yo- 
 semite Valley, one of the world's greatest 
 scenic spots. His work in this capacity was 
 so successful that he was reappointed for a 
 second term by Governor Gage. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff has numerous active inter- 
 ests. He is President of the Fresno Irri- 
 gated Farms Co. and of the First National 
 Bank of Kerman, Cal., and is a director in the 
 Farmers and Merchants' National Bank, the 
 Southern Trust Co., both of Los Angeles, 
 and the S. P., L. A. & S. L. Railroad. 
 
 His clubs are: Bohemian and Pacific 
 Union of San Francisco; Jonathan, Los An- 
 geles Country and California, of Los An- 
 geles, and Bolsa Chica Gun Club. 
 
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 D. 
 
 UTLER, SIDNEY ALLCUT, 
 County Supervisor, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born 
 March 10, 1847, at *Milwau- 
 
 kee, Wisconsin, the son of T. 
 
 Butler and Mary Jane (Allcut) Butler. 
 
 He married Kitty Keller at La Crosse, Wis- 
 consin, December 24, 1869, and to them were 
 born two children, Sidney T. and Edward J. 
 Butler. Mr. Butler's 
 grandfather, the Rever- 
 end David Butler, was 
 an Episcopal minister in 
 Troy, New York, during 
 the latter days of George 
 Washington's period and 
 served in the pulpit dur- 
 ing the early years of the 
 nineteenth century. Mr. 
 Butler's uncle, the Rever- 
 end Clement M. Butler, 
 was rector of Trinity 
 Church, Washington, D. 
 C., and served as chaplain 
 of the United States 
 Senate before and during 
 the Civil War. 
 
 Mr. Butler attended 
 the common schools of 
 his native city up to the 
 middle of the Civil War, 
 when he left his books, in 
 1863, and enlisted in a 
 Wisconsin regiment. He 
 was one of the youngest 
 men under arms in the 
 great conflict, taking part 
 
 SIDNEY A. BUTLER 
 
 in numerous engagements, and in 1865, was 
 mustered out. At that time he returned to 
 his studies and for eight months was en- 
 rolled at Flint, Michigan. 
 
 In the fall of 1866, he quit school finally, 
 and went to work as Assistant Agent of the 
 American Express Company at La Crosse, 
 Wisconsin. At the end of two years he left 
 that position to go with Cameron and Com- 
 pany, engaged in railroad construction work. 
 In a short time he was made superintendent 
 of construction for the firm at La Crosse, 
 Wisconsin, and served in that capacity for 
 one year, when he resigned and went to 
 Memphis, Tennessee. During the years 
 1869, 70 and '71, he was assistant agent of 
 the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet 
 Company, but left in the latter year and re- 
 turned to La Crosse for another year of con- 
 struction work. In 1873 he went to Florida 
 as a member of the railroad contracting firm 
 
 of Rossiter and Company, but returned to 
 La Crosse in a year. He then went into the 
 banking business under J. C. Easton, owner 
 of a chain of banks in the Northwest, and 
 from 1874 to 1876 was in charge of the Eas- 
 ton Bank at Wells, Minnesota. He rejoined 
 the Cameron Company as agent at Chicago 
 and for three years was again busy in railroad 
 construction. He left the Cameron Company 
 and went to work with 
 A. A. Robinson, Chief 
 Engineer for Santa Fe 
 Railroad building. His 
 most notable work, per- 
 haps, was the building of 
 the Santa Fe Railroad's 
 branch through the Grand 
 Canyon of the Arkansas 
 River, sometimes called 
 The Royal Gorge. He as- 
 sisted in building the 
 Santa Fe road between 
 Las Vegas and Lamy, N. 
 M., then retired in 1879, 
 and returned to Kansas 
 City, Mo., where he be- 
 came clerk of the Pacific 
 Express Company; in six 
 months he was general 
 agent ; before the end of a 
 year the Pacific and Uni- 
 ted States Express Com- 
 panies consolidated and 
 he was made general 
 agent for both companies. 
 In 1886 he resigned and 
 went to Los Angeles, as- 
 
 sisting in building a railroad to Flagstaff, 
 Arizona. 
 
 In 1889, he was made agent of the Wells 
 Fargo Company at Los Angeles, and held 
 that until 1904, when he was transferred to 
 San Francisco. In 1905, he was made assist- 
 ant superintendent in the Northwest, and the 
 next year put in charge of the San Francisco 
 office, retiring in 1907. He then returned to 
 Los Angeles and was the "father of the good 
 roads movement" there. He organized the 
 Los Angeles County Roads Association. He 
 was one of the men who caused Port San 
 Pedro, Cal., to be made a part of the city. He 
 went abroad in 1909, and in Europe received 
 so many communications asking him to run 
 for Supervisor, that he did so and was elected 
 on the Republican ticket in 1910. He is an 
 ex-director of the L. A. Chamber of Com- 
 merce and was first chairman of the Lincoln- 
 Roosevelt Republican League. 
 
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 79 
 
 ITTINGER, GEORGE E., retired 
 banker, of Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Chicago, Illinois, 
 April 28, 1868. His father was 
 George W. Bittinger, a wholesale 
 grocer of Chicago, and his mother 
 
 Sarah Julie (Pestana) Bittinger. He was married 
 
 in Riverside, California, in 1892, to Laura Franken- 
 
 heimer. They have one child, Merritt A. Bittinger. 
 
 Mr. Bittinger was educated in the public schools of 
 
 Chicago, and was trained for 
 
 business life in the Jackson- 
 ville (Illinois) Business Col- 
 lege, graduating from there 
 
 in 1885. 
 
 The next year he moved 
 
 to California and located at 
 
 Riverside. His first employ- 
 ment there was in the bank 
 
 of the old Riverside Banking 
 
 Company, and he remained 
 
 with that concern in various 
 
 positions until 1893, when he 
 
 resigned to go with the First 
 
 National Bank of Riverside. 
 
 Within two years he was 
 
 made cashier of the bank, 
 
 and during the next eight 
 
 years he brought the bank 
 
 up to a position which made 
 
 it one of the strongest banks 
 
 in the State outside of the 
 
 two principal cities of Los 
 
 Angeles and San Francisco. 
 Although he never sought 
 
 or accepted public office, Mr. 
 
 Bittinger, an ardent Republi- 
 can, took an active interest 
 
 in the affairs of his party 
 
 GEO. E. BITTINGER 
 
 during his stay in Riverside and served at various 
 times on the County and City Central Committees. 
 He was on the Central Committee during the two 
 McKinley campaigns, 1896-1900, and in both in- 
 stances Riverside polled a large majority for the 
 martyr President. 
 
 Mr. Bittinger remained Cashier of the Riverside 
 bank until 1903, when, his record having attracted 
 attention, he was offered the position of Cashier of 
 the Los Angeles National Bank. He accepted and, 
 with seventeen years of banking experience to his 
 credit, he began his duties. He continued as 
 Cashier until the consolidation of his bank with 
 the First National of Los Angeles. Mr. Bittinger 
 was one of the principal factors in this merger, 
 which involved the amalgamation of approximately 
 $20,000,000 in assets. His part in this transaction 
 placed him among the leaders of the financial 
 world in Los Angeles and he was made Vice Presi- 
 dent and Director of the new institution. 
 
 In February, 1910, after having followed the 
 banking business for twenty-four years, Mr. Bit- 
 
 tinger resigned the Vice Presidency of the First 
 National in order to devote himself to his private 
 interests, which by this time were extensive. 
 
 Mr. Bittinger is heavily interested in a variety 
 of substantial projects in Northern California and 
 Oregon, and is aiding largely in the development 
 of the latter State. His interests include lumber, 
 land, etc. 
 
 In addition to his association with the First 
 National Bank, Mr. Bittinger is also interested in 
 the Equitable Savings Bank 
 of Los Angeles, and up to a 
 short time ago was heavily 
 interested and an officer in 
 the Weed Lumber Company, 
 the Klamath Development 
 Company and the California 
 Northeastern Railway Com- 
 pany, three affiliated Oregon 
 enterprises. 
 
 He disposed of his inter- 
 ests in them, the railroad 
 company being sold to the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Bittinger is one of 
 the progressive type of busi- 
 ness men, but he is also 
 interested in matters other 
 than business. 
 
 While he was a resident 
 of the city of Riverside he 
 was a Trustee of the Car- 
 negie Library Board of that 
 place, and also of the Arch- 
 aeological Institute of 
 America. 
 
 He is a member of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, and for two years was on its Board of 
 Directors. 
 
 He was also Chairman, during that period, of the 
 Finance Committee, which has charge of all the 
 funds of the organization, and was a member of 
 the committee which had in charge the entertain- 
 ment of President Taft when he visited Los Angeles 
 in 1909. 
 
 He also served on other committees which had 
 in charge improvement projects fostered by the 
 Chamber of Commerce and intended to better Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 He is prominent in Southern California lodge 
 circles and is one of the leading Masons of the 
 section. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, 
 a Mystic Shriner and a Knight Templar. 
 
 Mr. Bittinger is fond of outdoor life and is an 
 enthusiastic golfer. 
 
 He is also a member of the California Club, the 
 Union League Club and the Annandale Country 
 Club. 
 
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 81 
 
 ETTS, ARTHUR, Merchant, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Holmby, Northamptonshire, Eng- 
 land, June 17, 1862, the son of 
 Richard and Caroline (Coleman) 
 Letts. He married Florence Philp, 
 August 25, 1886, at Toronto, Canada. There are 
 three children, Florence Edna, Gladys (now Mrs. 
 Harold Janss) and Arthur Letts, Jr. 
 
 His father was Richard Letts, a farmer and the 
 eldest son of a. Richard Letts, the same name hav- 
 ing been bestowed on the eldest son for nine gen- 
 erations. The farm was held by a Richard Letts 
 four hundred years ago. 
 
 Until 1874, when he was twelve years old, he 
 attended classes at Rev. Hedges' private school for 
 boys, located near his home. The next three years 
 he spent at the Creaton Grammar School, England. 
 He finished his book education under a private 
 coach, a Mr. Meredith. 
 
 At the age of sixteen he was "articled," the 
 English term for apprenticed, to a good man, pro- 
 prietor of a dry goods store in a small and bustling 
 town of the neighborhood. He served his time 
 with credit, and for the fourth year was engaged at 
 a salary. 
 
 But he did not long remain in this position. 
 His imagination, and also that of his elder 
 brother, had become fired with the word of 
 the opportunities open to the young man in the new 
 world across the Atlantic. Lest they be persuaded 
 to stay by the pleadings of their parents, they did 
 not tell of their intention until they were aboard 
 the steamer at Liverpool. Arthur Letts got as far 
 as Toronto, Canada, and found employment in a 
 large dry goods store. For several years he was 
 with the same firm. 
 
 When the Reil rebellion broke out in the North- 
 west of Canada, he volunteered, eager for a taste 
 of outdoor life and the contact with the wilderness. 
 His position in Toronto was held open for him 
 while he went with his regiment to the scene of the 
 trouble. He was awarded a silver medal and clasp 
 for distinguished service, and a grant of land by the 
 Canadian government. 
 
 In the early nineties he went to Seattle, and 
 went to work the day he arrived. Three days later 
 came Seattle's great fire, and the firm he worked 
 for was wiped out. His buoyant spirit did not look 
 upon the event as a calamity, and although he had 
 not reckoned at once to go into business for him- 
 self, he got together a small stock and began to 
 sell goods in a tent, later renting one of the first 
 storerooms available. 
 
 But he was not satisfied with results in Seattle. 
 By this time he was studying his field with a keener 
 eye, determined to locate in that one spot that had 
 the greatest promise. Los Angeles seemed to be 
 that place. With only $500 in his pocket he arrived 
 in that city in the year 1896. 
 
 Opportunity seemed to be waiting for him. At 
 
 the corner of Fourth and Broadway, then well on 
 the southern edge of the business section, the firm 
 of J. A. Williams & Co. had gone bankrupt. No 
 one in the city seemed to want either the stock or 
 the location. Business was then a half mile to the 
 north. The stock inventoried at $8167. 
 
 With the help of an influential friend, who was 
 impressed with Mr. Letts' knowledge of the busi- 
 ness, a loan of $5000 was secured from the Los 
 Angeles National Bank. This amount was used as 
 the first payment for the bankrupt stock, the bal- 
 ance to be paid in thirty days. He gave the busi- 
 ness the name of the Broadway Department Store, 
 and opened its doors February 24, 1896. At the end 
 of the first week the adjoining store caught fire 
 and the stock of the new department store was 
 seriously damaged by fire. With the insurance 
 money of $1000 the undiscouraged Mr. Letts began 
 business again. 
 
 Then followed a growth more phenomenal than 
 the growth of the city. By 1899 the Broadway oc- 
 cupied the entire ground floor of the Pirtle & Hal- 
 let building. In 1901, the adjoining Hellman build- 
 ing was bought; in 1905 the upper floors of the 
 Pirtle & Hallet building were acquired, and in the 
 ensuing year the Slauson building, adjoining the 
 Hellman. The stock and trade of the store are 
 now among the largest on the Pacific Coast. Mr. 
 Letts is sole owner of the great establishment. 
 
 He has always been interested in education 
 and in the welfare of young people. In his own 
 store he has maintained a school for the younger 
 employes. He has been a liberal giver to the Los 
 Angeles Y. M. C. A., which now has one of the 
 finest buildings in America, and is its president. He 
 is a trustee of the State Normal College, and this is 
 the only political office he has consented to hold. 
 
 Horticulture is his chief hobby. His home, 
 Holmby House, Hollywood, is surrounded by a mag- 
 nificent garden of 30 acres, so filled with a collec- 
 tion of rare and beautiful trees and plants that the 
 United States has made of a section, that devoted 
 to cactus, a substation. He has ransacked the 
 world, in his travels, for specimens. He has of late 
 become an art collector and already has a number 
 of precious marbles, which he has placed in his 
 home and garden. 
 
 His business interests and property holdings 
 outside of the Broadway Department Store are 
 known to be heavy, but he prefers to keep his name 
 out of the directorates of other concerns. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Los An- 
 geles Country Club, Automobile Club, Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Realty Board, 
 Municipal League, Hollywood Board of Trade, Fed- 
 eration Club, all of Los Angeles, and of the Bo- 
 hemian Club of San Francisco. He is president of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association; president 
 Retail Dry Goods Association; member Internation- 
 al Committee, Y. M. C. A.; member Hollywood 
 Lodge, F. and A. M., and a Knight Templar. 
 
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 ILICKE, ALBERT C, Cap- 
 italist, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Coos Coun- 
 ty, Oregon, June 22, 1861. 
 His father was Carl Gustavus 
 Bilicke and his mother was Caroline Sigis- 
 mund Bilicke. At Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 
 10, 1900, he married Gladys Huff, and of this 
 union three children have been born. They 
 are Albert Constant, 
 Nancy Caroline and Carl 
 Archibald. 
 
 Mr. Bilicke came to 
 California in 1868, set- 
 tling in San Francisco, 
 and attended the public 
 schools of that city until 
 1876, when he entered 
 Heald's Business College 
 of the same city. At the 
 age of 17 (1878) Mr. Bil- 
 icke went to Arizona, 
 where he engaged in the 
 hotel business, being 
 made manager of the 
 Cosmopolitan Hotel at 
 Florence, and after two 
 years went to Tomb- 
 stone, Arizona, where he 
 managed the Cosmopoli- 
 tan Hotel of that town 
 and also became interest- 
 ed in mining as superin- 
 tendent of the Pedro 
 Consolidated Mining 
 Company. Returning to 
 California in 1885, Mr. 
 
 A. C. BILICKE 
 
 Bilicke became proprietor of the Ross House, 
 Modesto, and in 1891 became the proprietor 
 of the Pacific Ocean House, Santa Cruz, Cal- 
 ifornia, a famous high-class resort in that day. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Bilicke first came to Los An- 
 geles, and shortly after his arrival became 
 the proprietor of one of the most famous ho- 
 tels of the West of that and the present day, 
 the Hollenbeck Hotel, of which he is still the 
 president and moving spirit. 
 
 Although Mr. Bilicke's interests have 
 grown to great magnitude and are spread 
 far and wide, among which is the magnfficent 
 Hotel Alexandria of Los Angeles, he still has 
 a feeling of affectionate regard and pride in 
 the "Hollenbeck" that no other interest, no 
 matter the magnitude, can lessen. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Bilicke turned his attention 
 to building and organized the Bilicke-Rowan 
 Fireproof Building Company, principally for 
 the purpose of improving in the most modern 
 
 and substantial manner some of the many 
 central business sites which he and his asso- 
 ciates had acquired. Notable among the 
 structures erected by this company stands 
 the palatial Hotel Alexandria, erected in 
 1905, of which he is president and which has 
 added much to the fame and luxurious hotel 
 life of Los Angeles. The success of this under- 
 taking is best told by the fact that the com- 
 pany has just completed 
 an addition or annex con- 
 taining over 300 rooms. 
 He is president of the 
 Bilicke - Rowan Annex 
 Company, the Century 
 Building Company, or- 
 ganized in 1906, and of 
 the Central Fireproof 
 Building Company, or- 
 ganized in the same year. 
 He is also the presiding 
 head of the Chester Fire- 
 proof Building Company, 
 which at this time is 
 erecting the Title Insur- 
 ance Building, a modern 
 office building at Fifth 
 and Spring streets and of 
 which it is proposed to 
 make one of the finest of- 
 fice buildings west of 
 Chicago. 
 
 When the business 
 district of Los Angeles 
 started south along 
 Broadway and Spring 
 streets, Mr. Bilicke dis- 
 
 played his confidence in the future of the city 
 by stepping far ahead and buying choice cor- 
 ners on which he could today take a hand- 
 some profit; but he is not a speculator, he is 
 an investor, with unbounded confidence in 
 Los Angeles, and is backing his judgment 
 with enormous investments in modern im- 
 provements on the properties which he con- 
 trols. His investments are almost entirely 
 of a character that benefit the community at 
 large and add beauty to the city. 
 
 While Mr. Bilicke's charities are general- 
 ly known to be large, he sees to it that the 
 details are confined to the knowledge of him- 
 self and the recipient. 
 
 In addition to the high position Mr. Bil- 
 icke occupies in business, financial and social 
 circles, he is a member of the Jonathan Club, 
 the Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale 
 Golf Club and the Valley Hunt Club of 
 Pasadena. 
 
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 RAINBRD, HENRY GREEN, Physi- 
 cian, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Londonderry, New Hamp- 
 shire, May 23, 1852, the son of 
 Timothy Green Brainerd and 
 Lucinda R. (Dewey) Brainerd. 
 His family on both sides is a noted one in New 
 England, his mother being a cousin of Admiral 
 George Dewey, hero of the battle of Manila Bay, 
 the engagement which gave the United States its 
 first great advantage over 
 Spain during the war of 1898. 
 Dr. Brainerd was twice mar- 
 ried, his first wife being Al- 
 ma Loomis, whom he mar- 
 ried at Manchester, Iowa, 
 May, 15, 1879. Death called 
 her May 10, 1882, and on 
 September 3, 1887, at Chi- 
 cago, Illinois, he took as his 
 bride Fanny Howard. Two 
 children have been born of 
 this union, Henry Howard 
 and Fred Lindley Brainerd. 
 
 Dr. Brainerd received his 
 primary education in Halifax, 
 Massachusetts, but his fam- 
 ily having removed to Iowa, 
 he prepared for College at 
 the Iowa Academy, Grinnell, 
 Iowa, a preparatory branch 
 of Iowa College. Following 
 this he went to Dartmouth 
 College and was graduated 
 with the degree of A. B. in 
 1874. He then entered the 
 medical department of the 
 Iowa State University, and 
 later was appointed Assist- 
 ant Physician to the Iowa State Hospital for the 
 Insane at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He served there 
 for a year and in 1876 enrolled as a student in Rush 
 Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, and received his 
 degree of M. D. there in 1878. 
 
 Dr. Brainerd then returned to Iowa and became 
 Assistant Superintendent of the Iowa Hospital for 
 the Insane at Independence, Iowa. He served in 
 this capacity from 1879 to 1887, except for an in- 
 terval in 1882 and 1883, when he was in attendance 
 at the New York Post Graduate School. 
 
 In 1887, Dr. Brainerd relinquished his position 
 at the Iowa institution and moved to Los Angeles, 
 California, where he opened a private practice 
 r/hich he has continued down to date. From the 
 time of his arrival in Southern California Dr. Brain- 
 erd has held a prominent position in his profession. 
 The year he located in Los Angeles Dr. Brain- 
 erd was appointed Superintendent of the County 
 Hospital and he filled that office continuously from 
 1887 until 1892. Simultaneously he was a member 
 of the faculty of the College of Medicine of the 
 
 DR. H. G. BRAINERD 
 
 University of Southern California and while con- 
 nected with the institution was honored in various 
 ways. From 1887 to 1909, a period of twenty-two 
 years, he occupied the Chair of Neurology, but 
 during that time he also held other important of- 
 fices in the University. From 1889 to 1896 he was 
 Secretary of the Faculty and from 1896 to 1902 
 was Dean of the College of Medicine. 
 
 Since 1909 Dr. Brainerd has been Professor of 
 Neurology in the Los Angeles Department of the 
 College of Medicine, Univer- 
 sity of California. While con- 
 nected with the University 
 of Southern California, Dr. 
 Brainerd organized the Den- 
 tal Department there and 
 was the first Dean of the 
 Dental Faculty. 
 
 Dr. Brainerd's career has 
 been one of honor and 
 worthy accomplishment and 
 he is to-day looked upon as 
 one of the foremost practi- 
 tioners in the United States. 
 He is a member of the lead- 
 ing scientific and profes- 
 sional organizations and in 
 many of them has served as 
 officer. He is an ex-Presi- 
 dent of the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Association 
 and also held the same office 
 in the Clinical and Patho- 
 logical Society of Los An- 
 geles, an organization of lim- 
 ited membership, and made 
 up exclusively of men who 
 brought honor upon the pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Dr. Brainerd is a member of the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Association, the Los Angeles Clini- 
 cal and Pathological Society, Southern California 
 Medical Society, Medical Society of the State of 
 California and the American Medical Association. 
 He is always working for the advancement of 
 his profession, taking an enthusiastic interest in 
 the work of the above organizations, and is an 
 ardent supporter of all professional efforts to 
 further the science of medicine. 
 
 Although his life has been one full of activity, 
 Dr. Brainerd has found time to contribute to the 
 literature of the profession and has to his credit 
 numerous papers on medical subjects. His private 
 life has been that of a scholar, but he has at all 
 times performed the duties of citizenship and is 
 one of the most patriotic men in the work of up- 
 building Los Angeles and the rich country sur- 
 rounding it. 
 
 He holds membership in the California Club 
 and University Club, both Los Angeles institu- 
 tions. 
 
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 LACKSTOCK, NEHEMIAH, Sol- 
 dier, Counselor and Banker, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born near 
 Asheville, North Carolina, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1846. He is descend- 
 ed of an old Scott-Irish Southern 
 family, being the son of James G. Blackstock, M. 
 D., and Elizabeth Ann (Ball) Blackstock. He mar- 
 ried Abbie Smith at Newport, Tennessee, Septem- 
 ber 25, 1868, and to them were born ten children, 
 eight of whom are now liv- 
 ing. 
 
 Mr. Blackstock received 
 his education in private 
 schools of his native State 
 prior to the Civil War and at 
 the conclusion of that strug- 
 gle, in which he served the 
 Confederacy, studied under a 
 private tutor. This was dur- 
 ing the years 1865-68 and, in 
 addition to a general literary 
 course, read for the law. 
 
 Upon the completion of 
 his own education he fol- 
 lowed the vocation of a 
 schoolmaster, teaching a 
 country school near Newport, 
 Tennessee, during the sea- 
 sons of 1868 and 1869. In the 
 latter year he was admitted 
 to the Bar of Tennessee and 
 to the Bar of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, 
 and in 1870 moved to War- 
 rensburg, Missouri. There 
 he had a warm friend in 
 General Francis M. Cockrell, 
 afterwards United States 
 
 Senator and member of the Isthmian Canal Board, 
 and it was upon the motion of this famous Mis- 
 sourian that Mr. Blackstock was admitted to the 
 Bar of that State. 
 
 Mr. Blackstock practiced in the State and Fed- 
 eral Courts of Missouri for three and a half years 
 and in 1875 moved to Los Angeles, and he has made 
 his home there and in Ventura ever since. He re- 
 mained in the city only a brief time at first and 
 then moved to Ventura County, California, shortly 
 after the organization of that county. He prac- 
 ticed law successfully in Ventura for about thirty 
 years, and there, in 1897, Mr. Blackstock was elect- 
 ed State Railroad Commissioner and served four 
 years. His administration was one of the most im- 
 portant in the history of the commission, that body 
 having to deal with various important policies, in- 
 cluding the fixing of passenger, freight and oil rates 
 on the railroads of the State. These measures 
 were the subject of extensive litigation, but ulti- 
 mately were upheld and form the basis of numer- 
 OUF latter-day reforms in the transportation 
 
 N. BLACKSTOCK 
 
 methods and charges prevailing in California. 
 Governor Pardee, in the year 1905, chose Mr. 
 Blackstock for the office of State Banking Com- 
 missioner, to fill the unexpired term of Guy B. 
 Barham, and he at that time changed his resi- 
 dence from Ventura to Los Angeles. So satisfac- 
 torily did he discharge the duties of the office, he 
 was reappointed for the full term of four years. 
 He held the office for about two and a half years 
 more, resigning to enter the banking business. 
 
 He became associated 
 with the Merchants' Bank 
 and Trust Company of Los 
 Angeles as Vice President 
 and Trust Officer and served 
 as such until April 1, 1910, 
 when he resigned as Trust 
 Officer. He still remains a 
 Director and Vice President. 
 In the early part of 1911 
 Mr. Blackstock organized the 
 International Indemnity Com- 
 pany, an indemnity, bonding 
 and burglary insurance com- 
 pany, which has its head- 
 quarters in Los Angeles. He 
 holds the office of President 
 and Chief Counsel of the 
 company and continues a 
 general legal practice. 
 
 Mr. Blackstock's military 
 career was quite as brilliant 
 as has been his later work in 
 the realms of law and fi- 
 nance. At the outbreak of 
 the Civil War he enlisted in 
 the Twenty-Sixth North Caro- 
 lina Cavalry and before it 
 went into active service he 
 
 transferred to the First South Carolina Regular Ar- 
 tillery and served with that regiment until the close 
 of the war. He was with his command in all of its 
 battles, these including numerous engagements in 
 the vicinity of Charleston. He surrendered with 
 Johnson's army at Greensboro, N. C., and marched 
 home, two hundred miles on foot, but immediately 
 joined a company of rangers, remnants of his old 
 regiment, under command of Lieutenant Simpson. 
 They started overland to join E. Kirby Smith in 
 Louisiana, intending, with a large force of ex-Con- 
 federates, to tender their services to Maximilian in 
 Mexico, but before reaching Louisiana news came of 
 the surrender of General Smith and his forces; also 
 receiving unfavorable news from Mexico, the com- 
 pany was disbanded and he returned home to Co- 
 lumbus, N. C. Soon afterward he crossed into 
 Tennessee where he began the study of law. 
 
 Mr. Blackstock is a Republican in politics. He 
 is a prominent Mason, a member of the Los Angeles 
 Bar Association, and of the National Geographical 
 Society. His principal club is the Union League. 
 
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 OODS, HON. SAMUEL D., Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, San Francisco, was 
 born at Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, 
 September 19, 1845, the son of 
 James and Eliza (Ann) Woods. 
 His father, who was a Presbyter- 
 ian clergyman, was sent to California by the 
 Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyter- 
 ian Church to establish a station in Stockton, 
 and in other parts of the state, and after a tedious 
 trip of eight months "around 
 the Horn" reached his desti- 
 nation in February, 1850, 
 bringing with him his wife 
 and four children. He first 
 settled in Stockton, where 
 the early boyhood, and an 
 important part of the man- 
 hood, of Samuel D. Woods 
 were passed. 
 
 After attending the public 
 schools of Stockton and Los 
 Angeles, to which latter 
 place the state of his fath- 
 er's health prompted his 
 father to move, Mr. Woods at 
 the age of nineteen taught 
 school in the Suisun hills, 
 and had for his pupils some 
 of the subsequently notable 
 figures of California history, 
 among them the poet, Edwin 
 Markham. Later he studied 
 law with Hon John Satter- 
 lee, first superior judge of 
 San Francisco, and in 1869 
 was admitted to the Bar. 
 
 He practiced his profes- 
 sion for about ten years 
 
 when, his health failing, he took to mining as a 
 temporary occupation. During the next few years 
 his experience in the open not only stimulated his 
 native love of nature but also lent much romance 
 to his early manhood. His explorations of Death 
 Valley gave him a knowledge of that ill-fated dis- 
 trict that enabled him to assist in the preparation 
 of official maps which have since been improved 
 but little. He explored a large part of the Pacific 
 Coast, both on horseback and on foot. On one trip 
 he rode from Suisun Valley to Seattle, a distance 
 of about 800 miles, consuming three months and 
 using but one horse for the journey. Subsequently 
 he walked across Washington Territory from 
 Olympia to the Columbia River, and tramped alone 
 over the most secluded parts of the Sierras, in Cal- 
 ifornia. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Woods resumed his law practice in 
 Stockton, where he took a notable position both in 
 his profession and in politics. As a Republican he 
 worked industriously, with citizens of various polit- 
 ical faiths, for the welfare of his county and of his 
 
 HON. S. D. WOODS 
 
 state; and although he did not seek office he was 
 elected to Congress, from the old Second District, 
 serving from December, 1899, to March, 1902. 
 
 As a Congressman Mr. Woods was one of the 
 first "Insurgents," so-called, by their opponents. 
 He opposed Roosevelt's plans for Cuban reciproc- 
 ity, and aided in preventing the realization thereof 
 at the general session. In this session he also voted 
 against the Panama Canal project, on the ground 
 of what he deemed the fraud involved in the acqui- 
 sition of the isthmus, having 
 previously voted for the Ni- 
 caragua Canal. On his re- 
 tirement from Congress he 
 resumed his practice in San 
 Francisco, and has been en- 
 gaged therein ever since. His 
 only other political office was 
 that of Judge Advocate, un- 
 der Governor Budd. 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Woods' book, 
 "Lights and Shadows of 
 Life on the Pacific Coast" 
 was published. This records 
 so many of his own personal 
 experiences and reflects so 
 much of his own spirit that 
 a word regarding it is appro- 
 priate here. It is an intense- 
 ly interesting, well written 
 descriptive and critical nar- 
 rative of California, especial- 
 ly of San Francisco, the 
 prominent figures in the pro- 
 fessional, theatrical, com- 
 mercial and public life of 
 the state, from 1849 to the 
 present day. It fairly 
 breathes the author's love of 
 
 nature, and the romance that has persisted from 
 those early days through all the evolution of our 
 city and its surroundings. 
 
 The work is clearly a labor of love and it de- 
 serves a permanent place in the historical annals 
 of California. 
 
 Another phase of Mr. Woods' busy life is shown 
 in the various concerns for which he has been 
 either an officer or attorney. 
 
 Among these corporations are included the fol- 
 lowing: 
 
 Attorney and a Director of the Sierra Rail- 
 way Company of California, Union Hill Mining 
 Company of California, and the Huff Creek Coal 
 Company of West Virginia; Secretary, Bullock 
 Lumber Company; Attorney, Standard Lumber 
 Company; President and Attorney, Realty Holding 
 and Improvement Company; and Secretary and 
 Attorney, Sugar-Pine Timber Company. He has 
 never allowed himself any time for Club-life, and 
 is a member of only the San Francisco Commercial 
 Club. 
 
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 RAHAM, DAVID JAMES, Oil Op- 
 erator, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Birmingham, Schuy- 
 ler County, Illinois, August 22, 
 1858. He is the son of James 
 Harrison Graham and Francis 
 Winnifred (Smith) Graham, both descended from 
 notable American families. His paternal ances- 
 tors were Scotch, who settled in Virginia before 
 the Revolutionary War, and one, Joseph Graham, 
 served under General Lin- 
 coln with such distinction 
 during that struggle that he 
 was breveted General at the 
 fall of Yorktown. David 
 Graham, great-grandfather of 
 Mr. Graham, was a Captain 
 of Virginia Militia during 
 the War of 1812. David 
 Graham, grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, left 
 Virginia in 1829 and settled 
 in Illinois and there he and 
 Mr. Graham's father became 
 prominent in the develop- 
 ment of that part of the 
 country, with the distinction 
 of having established the 
 first lumber and grist mill 
 seen there. William Gra- 
 ham, of the same family, 
 was Secretary of the Navy 
 in the Cabinet of President 
 Fillmore, from 1850 to 1852, 
 at which time he resigned 
 his portfolio to run for Vice 
 President of the United 
 States on the Whig ticket 
 with Winfield Scott. Mr. 
 Graham's great-grandmother 
 on the paternal side was a 
 cousin of James Madison, 
 third President of the United 
 States, and a sister of Joel 
 Sturgeon, who was killed in 
 the battle of the Alamo; his 
 grandmother was a niece of General Leslie Coombs, 
 the famous Governor of Kentucky, and descended 
 from Frances Galloway, who, with her sister, 
 Betsy, and Jemima Boone, was captured by the 
 Indians in 1776. His mother was connected with 
 the Moseleys, Lockets and Salles of Frankfort and 
 Lexington, families famous in Kentucky since the 
 days of Daniel Boone. 
 
 Mr. Graham married Leolela Dodd of Floyd 
 County, Virginia, at Chicago, Illinois, November 
 12, 1881, and they are the parents of one child, 
 Lillian Virginia Graham, born at Chicago on Christ- 
 mas Day, 1883. 
 
 Mr. Graham lived on a farm in his youth, work- 
 ing the soil during the Summer months and at- 
 tending school in Winter. He received his teach- 
 ing in the public schools of Birmingham and 
 Plymouth, Illinois, situated in Schuyler and Han- 
 cock counties, respectively. He left school when 
 he was seventeen years of age and in 1876 went 
 to Sterling, Illinois, to learn the printer's trade. 
 He worked on the "Whiteside Times" there for ap- 
 proximately three years and in 1879 went to Chi- 
 cago, where he worked at his trade. He remained 
 there only a few months, however, and then, in 
 the same year, moved to Montague, Texas, where 
 he worked on the "Texas Northwest," the official 
 
 paper of that vast farming and stock raising coun- 
 try. Mr. Graham set up the first tax list published 
 in that county after the Civil War. He also en- 
 gaged in farming and stock raising while there. 
 Returning to Chicago in 1882, Mr. Graham en- 
 tered the employ of the American Express Com- 
 pany, but left there to go with the Chicago City 
 Railway Company. He held this position until 
 1891 and at that time went to California, locating 
 at Bakersfield. For the next three years he was 
 associated with Charles N. 
 Thurlow as bookkeeper and 
 estimator on contracting 
 work and upon severing his 
 connection with him, re-en- 
 tered the newspaper busi- 
 ness with C. P. Fox. He re- 
 mained in that field only 
 about a year, however, and 
 then went to San Jose. Cali- 
 fornia, in newspaper work. 
 The next year he spent in 
 that place and San Francis- 
 co in newspaper lines. 
 
 The three following years, 
 up until 1899, Mr. Graham was 
 engaged in the printing busi- 
 ness in Oakland, California, 
 and he then turned his at- 
 tention to oil and mining, in 
 which industries he has been 
 engaged down to date. He 
 had examined the Sunset and 
 McKittrick oil districts in 
 California as early as 1892, 
 and when he finally em- 
 barked in the business he 
 was one of the best equipped 
 men in the matter of oil 
 formation and development 
 in that part of the country. 
 His subsequent career at- 
 tests to that, for since the 
 discovery of the product in 
 what is known as the Kern 
 River District in California 
 he has been interested in its development. 
 
 During a greater portion of his time he has 
 been associated with E. J. Miley and J. D. John- 
 ston of Newport, Rhode Island, the three having 
 organized various oil corporations and developed 
 a large area of oil-bearing land. They organized 
 the State Oil Company in 1908, which had large 
 holdings in the McKittrick District, and the King- 
 Alban Oil Company, which have recently been con- 
 solidated under the name of the State Consolidated 
 Oil Company, in which corporation Mr. Graham is 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Graham and associates acquired the 
 great Plumas-Eureka gold mine in Plumas County, 
 California, and he has since been giving a large 
 part of his time to mining interests. He is at the 
 present time a Director of the Johnston-Graham 
 Mining Company, and also of the Saratoga Mining 
 and Development Company in California and has 
 valuable interests in Arizona and Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Graham is an ardent supporter of the pol- 
 icies of the Democratic party. His family for gen- 
 erations has espoused the Democratic party be- 
 cause its members believed in its principles. 
 
 He has never been a member of any fraternity, 
 but holds membership in the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club. 
 
 GRAHAM 
 
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 ADHAM, JAMES EDWARD, Mayor 
 of the City of San Diego and At- 
 torney-at-Law, San Diego, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Macomb, Illinois, 
 December 20, 1864, the son of 
 James Franklin Wadham and 
 Martha King (Ware) Wadham. He married Nellie 
 May George (by adoption Nellie May Lockwood) 
 at San Diego, August 6, 1895, and to them there 
 have been born six children, Martha Lockwood, 
 Helen, Dorothy, Amy, James 
 Edward, Jr., and George Wad- 
 ham. Mayor Wadham is de- 
 scended of a noted English 
 family, one of his great- 
 grandfathers, Nicholas Wad- 
 ham, having been the found- 
 er of Wadham College of Ox- 
 ford. The college was com- 
 pleted and endowed by the 
 founder's widow. 
 
 His family having moved 
 to San Diego when he was 
 five years of age, Mayor Wad- 
 ham has lived there ever 
 since, and is in the class of 
 men who, by their own ef- 
 forts, have risen from news- 
 boy to notable. He attended 
 the grammar and high 
 schools of San Diego until 
 the early eighties and later 
 in life read law under Major 
 Levi Chase, one of the cele- 
 brated lawyers of Southern 
 California. He was admitted 
 to the Bar of California in 
 December, 1886. 
 
 Mayor Wadham began 
 practice before the end of the year 1886 and con- 
 tinued, with more or less success, until the Sum- 
 mer of 1887, when he left his work temporarily and 
 went to Harvard Law School, where he took a 
 special course. He then returned to San Diego 
 and resumed practice. For the next six years 
 Mayor Wadham practiced alone, except for brief 
 affiliations with other attorneys, and in 1897 he 
 formed the firm of Wadham & Stearns, his as- 
 sociate being Frederick W. Stearns. They remained 
 together until 1899, when Mayor Wadham surren- 
 dered his entire practice to Mr. Stearns and, in 
 order to regain his health, retired to devote his time 
 to the management of an extensive ranch of which 
 he was the owner. 
 
 Mayor Wadham re-entered the legal profession 
 in 1902 and for more than a decade has been one 
 of the most active practitioners at the bar of San 
 Diego. He has been at all times among the lead- 
 ers of the profession and appeared in numerous im- 
 portant cases, among them several in which Mrs. 
 Katherine Tingley, "The Purple Mother" of the 
 
 JAMES E. WADHAM 
 
 Theosophical Brotherhood, was involved. As the 
 associate of Judge J. W. McKinley, he aided in 
 winning a victory for Mrs. Tingley in a noted suit 
 for libel, and in 1911 appeared with Judge McKin- 
 ley as counsel for the heirs of Harriet W. Patter- 
 son (deceased), who sued successfully to break 
 the will which gave to Mrs. Tingley the residuum 
 of an estate amounting to $300,000. This latter 
 was one of the most celebrated cases in the annals 
 of California jurisprudence and the longest jury 
 trial on record in San Diego 
 County, having continued for 
 eighty days. 
 
 In January, 1912, Mayor 
 Wadham took into partner- 
 ship T. B. Cosgrove, one of 
 the capable young attorneys 
 of Southern California, and 
 the partnership continues un- 
 der the name of Wadham & 
 Cosgrove- 
 
 Mayor Wadham has been 
 a factor in the politics of 
 San Diego for many years, 
 at all times a firm supporter 
 of the Democratic party and 
 its candidates. When he was 
 twenty-nine years of age he 
 was a candidate for State 
 Senator and, although he 
 lost, it was only by 193 votes, 
 he having cut the Republi- 
 can majority from its normal 
 figure, 1500. He was twice 
 a candidate for Mayor of San 
 Diego, being defeated the 
 first time, but victorious on 
 his second attempt. He 
 was elected in 1911 for a 
 term of two years by a majority of 500 and is the 
 second Mayor to hold office under the commission 
 form of government, under which San Diego oper- 
 ates. 
 
 During his tenure of office Mayor Wadham has 
 proposed numerous measures for the improvement 
 of the city. One of the important measures that 
 he urged was the purchase of a water supply for 
 the city, which, when ratified by the electors, will 
 involve an issue of $4,000,000 bonds and give to 
 San Diego one of the best water supply systems 
 in the country. Mayor Wadham has championed 
 this project from the time he entered office and to 
 his efforts will be largely due, when it comes to 
 pass, the establishment of the municipal owner- 
 ship of the water supply. 
 
 Aside from his public and legal duties, Mayor 
 Wadham is an enthusiastic motorist and good roads 
 advocate and a prominent member of the Masonic 
 fraternity. He has attained the Thirty-second De- 
 gree of the order and also belongs to the Knights 
 Templar and the Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 HENRY FISHER 
 
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 I S H E R , HENRY, Investments, 
 Redlands, California, was born in 
 Pittsburg, Pa., December 18, 1843, 
 the son of John Jacob and Frie- 
 dericka Fisher. His first wife 
 was Mary C. Clark, whom he mar- 
 ried at Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1872, and who 
 died on their first visit to California, in 1893. They 
 had one son, John H., now associated with his 
 father in many of his enterprises. In 1895, at New 
 York City, he married Marion J. Thomas of Wash- 
 ington, D. C., granddaughter of the late Adjutant 
 General Lorenzo Thomas of the U. S. Army. They 
 have three children, Natalia, George MacWhorter 
 and Friedericka. 
 
 Mr. Fisher, standing today with the honored 
 men of the West, who have developed the re- 
 sources of Southern California, has been in active 
 business for nearly half a century, and while build- 
 Ing a fortune for himself has builded for his coun- 
 try and his fellowman. He received his education 
 in the public schools of his native city, and entered 
 the oil business in Oil City, Pa. and vicinity, in 
 1864. Mr. Fisher was one of the first to recognize 
 the future importance of petroleum in the indus- 
 trial and domestic life of the world, and was as 
 much a part of the development of Pennsylvania's 
 petroleum resources as any other single person, be- 
 coming a large producer and shipper and inter- 
 ested in a number of important corporations. Or- 
 ganizing the Fisher Oil Company in the early 
 eighties, he served as President of that corpora- 
 tion until he left Pittsburg and sold out his inter- 
 ests to his brother. He was a Director in the 
 Pittsburg Petroleum Exchange and first President 
 of the Washington Oil Company, organized with a 
 capital of one million dollars, and one of the most 
 successful in the field now controlled by the 
 Standard Oil Company. 
 
 In the beginning of the oil production in Penn- 
 sylvania, transportation facilities were not of the 
 best and, as markets for the product were devel- 
 oped, it behooved the oil men to find an economical 
 method of getting the petroleum to the railroads. 
 Mr. Fisher was one of the originators of the pipe 
 line method of transportation, and was a partner 
 in the first three pipe line companies operating 
 in the Pennsylvania district, devoting a part of his 
 time between the years of 1868 and 1872 to this 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Fisher was also one of the organizers of 
 the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia, which 
 supplies the city of Wheeling with natural gas. 
 He served as a Director in this organization until 
 he left Pittsburg. He helped to organize and 
 served as a Director in the Keystone Bank of Pitts- 
 burg. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Fisher took a much needed vacation 
 and visited Southern California. The climate and 
 promise of the country so impressed him that he 
 decided to transfer his home to that section, and, 
 upon his return to Pittsburg, disposed of most of 
 his interests in that locality. These included val- 
 uable oil lands, gas, banking and other stocks, for 
 he was one of the leading figures in the business 
 life of Western Pennsylvania and possessed of di- 
 versified interests. 
 
 Locating at Redlands, California, at a time when 
 the country was only slightly developed, Mr. Fisher, 
 who had closed one highly successful business ca- 
 reer, entered upon another with the same vigor 
 
 which had characterized his earlier operations- He 
 invested largely in business property in Redlands, 
 and has been one of the most potent influences in 
 the upbuilding of that city. His first work in 
 California was the organization, with others, of 
 the Redlands Electric Light & Power Company 
 and the Southern California Power Company, both 
 of which he assisted largely in financing; these 
 plants were finally merged with the West Side 
 Lighting Company of Los Angel.es, then into the 
 Edison Electric Company, now known as the South- 
 ern California Edison Company, in which Mr. 
 Fisher holds the office of Vice President and Di- 
 rector. 
 
 The above water power companies had an im- 
 portant bearing on the business growth of Red- 
 lands and surrounding country, for, with their 
 formation, a new life was put into the city and it 
 entered into a period of steady growth, which has 
 not subsided after several years. Realizing the 
 importance of transportation facilities, Mr. Fisher 
 organized the Redlands Street Railway Company, 
 the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company and 
 Redlands Central Railway Company, in two of 
 which he held the office of President, maintaining 
 a progressive policy, which aided largely in the de- 
 velopment of the country through which the lines 
 passed and which, at present, is one of the richest 
 and most prosperous in the United States. 
 
 As a banker, Mr. Fisher served for many years 
 as a Director of the First National Bank of Los 
 Angeles, the First National of Redlands and the 
 Redlands National, resigning from these as his 
 many interests made it inconvenient to attend the 
 meetings. 
 
 Of extraordinary forcefulness and resource, 
 quick to see the possibilities of a project and pos- 
 sessed of the ability to carry an enterprise to suc- 
 cess, Mr. Fisher is known through Southern Cali- 
 fornia as a man of scrupulous integrity and fair 
 play. He has been a strenuous worker all of his 
 life, but is fortunate in the possession of unusual 
 endurance and determination, qualities which haVe 
 aided largely in the gratifying success which has 
 attended his efforts. 
 
 Mr. Fisher is a patron of the arts and has spent 
 considerable time traveling in the United States 
 and abroad. His home, one of the handsomest in 
 Redlands, is filled with art treasures, which he has 
 collected during his travels and which have been 
 brought together for their artistic and historic 
 value. Although his life has been filled with im- 
 portant business affairs, Mr. Fisher has not de- 
 voted his time to these alone, but his family has 
 always been identified with the social life of Red- 
 lands, and he helped to organize and served as 
 President of the Redlands Country Club for many 
 years. He is also a member of the University 
 Club of Redlands, the California Club of Los An- 
 geles, and a life member of the Western Pennsyl- 
 vania Exposition Society of Pittsburg. He has 
 never taken an active part in politics and has avoid- 
 ed public attention, but is a public-spirited man, 
 always ready to do his part to help along the wel- 
 fare of his home town Redlands which he con- 
 siders the most delightful place on earth. 
 
 He has been a Director and faithful attendant 
 of the meetings of the Chamber of Commerce of 
 Redlands for many years, serving on numerous 
 committees and taking a leading part in all of its 
 public enterprises. 
 
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 ARSH, NORMAN FOOTE, Archi- 
 tect, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Upper Alton, Illinois, July 
 16, 1871, the seventh son of Eb- 
 enezer Marsh and Kate (Prevost) 
 Marsh. He married Cora Mae 
 Cairns at Polo, Illinois, January 23, 1901, and they 
 are the parents of two children, Norman LeRoy 
 and Marian Elizabeth Marsh. 
 
 Mr. Marsh received his early education in the 
 schools of his native city and 
 was graduated from the high 
 school of Upper Alton in 1886. 
 He then studied art, litera- 
 ture and science at Shurtleff 
 College, Upper Alton, for 
 three years and followed this 
 with attendance at the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois. He re- 
 mained there five years and 
 was graduated from the 
 School of Architecture with 
 the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science in the class of 1897. 
 
 Upon leaving the univer- 
 sity Mr. Marsh went to Chi- 
 cago, Illinois, as lucical en- 
 gineer for the American Lux- 
 fer Prism Company. He re- 
 mained with the company for 
 three years, representing 
 them in various cities, includ- 
 ing New York, Chicago and 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Resigning his position in 
 1900, Mr. Marsh went to Los 
 Angeles and there began his 
 career as an architect. He 
 formed a partnership with 
 
 J. N. Preston under the firm name of Preston & 
 Marsh, and while it lasted they were among the 
 leaders of their profession, their work being con- 
 fined almost exclusively to handsome residences. 
 At the end of a year, however, the partnership was 
 dissolved and Mr. Marsh then formed an alliance 
 with C. H. Russell under the name of Marsh & 
 Russell. 
 
 They remained in association for nearly six 
 years and during that time were engaged in some 
 of the most important architectural work in the 
 Southwest. Their most notable accomplishment, 
 perhaps, was the designing of Venice, California, 
 one of the most unique seashore resorts in the 
 United States. The place is patterned after beau- 
 tiful Venice, Italy, and besides numerous handsome 
 buildings, has a chain of canals through its prin- 
 cipal section, these canals being spanned by pictur- 
 esque bridges- It is the only city of its kind on the 
 Western Continent and stands a monument to the 
 architects. 
 
 NORMAN F. MARSH 
 
 In September, 1907, Messrs. Marsh & Russell dis- 
 solved partnership, the latter going to San Fran- 
 cisco, while Mr. Marsh remained in Los Angeles, 
 continuing his work alone. Since that time he has 
 taken a leading position among the architects of the 
 country, devoting most of his attention to public 
 buildings, including churches, schools, libraries, etc. 
 Among buildings designed by him are the Hol- 
 lywood High School buildings, the first group high 
 school in that part of the country. Another work 
 which has attracted attention 
 to Mr. Marsh is the Pasadena 
 High School, said by Har- 
 lan Updegraff, specialist in 
 school administration, Bu- 
 reau of Education of Wash- 
 ington, D. C., to be the fin- 
 est high school structure in 
 the entire United States. 
 Other buildings designed by 
 Mr. Marsh are the First 
 Methodist Church of Oakland, 
 California; First Methodist 
 Church, Long Beach, Cali- 
 fornia; the First Baptist 
 Church of Pomona, Califor- 
 nia, and the University of 
 Redlands, Redlands, Califor- 
 nia, a handsome group of 
 modern fireproof buildings. 
 
 The most recent work of 
 Mr. Marsh and one of the 
 best productions of his ca- 
 reer is the Columbia Hospital 
 of Los Angeles. This insti- 
 tution is known as the finest 
 of its kind west of New York 
 City and compares favorably 
 with any in the metropolis. 
 
 It is modern in every detail, fireproof, and equipped 
 with every device known to modern science. Its 
 greatest feature, perhaps, is the fact that its san- 
 itation is perfect, due to the installation by Mr. 
 Marsh of a water system for washing all air enter- 
 ing the hospital, which affords absolute protec- 
 tion. 
 
 These are only a few of the structures designed 
 by Mr. Marsh in Southern California, there being 
 in addition numerous fine residences, and buildings 
 in the business district of the city. 
 
 Mr. Marsh makes his home in South Pasadena. 
 There he is a member of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Public Library and Chairman of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Memorial Baptist Church. 
 
 He is an enthusiastic worker for Southern Cali- 
 fornia's upbuilding and, although he is not a club- 
 man, has a wide circle of friends. He is a thirty- 
 second degree Mason, and has been a member of 
 the Southern California Chapter of the American 
 Institute of Architects. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 RASK, FRANK ELLSWORTH, 
 Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Industry, 
 Maine, July 26, 1863, the son of 
 Nathaniel Trask and Betsy Helen 
 (Wills) Trask. He has been 
 twice married, his first wife, Maude R. Smith, whom 
 he married at Escondido, California, December 20, 
 1888, having died in February, 1908. She bore him 
 three sons, Harlan, Olin and Elwood. Mr. Trask 
 took for his second wife 
 Carlotta Thornton, the wed- 
 ding ceremony being per- 
 formed at Los Angeles, July 
 1, 1909. 
 
 Mr. Trask received his 
 early training in the public 
 schools of Bethel, Maine, and 
 Gould's Academy of that 
 place. He entered the Uni- 
 versity of Maine in 1883 and 
 was graduated in 1887 with 
 the degree of Bachelor of 
 Civil Engineering. Three 
 years later his college con- 
 ferred upon him the Master's 
 Degree- Mr. Trask, who is 
 today considered one of the 
 greatest civil engineers in 
 the West and an authority on 
 irrigation matters, has been 
 in active service since his col- 
 lege days. During the last 
 two years of his course he 
 was engaged on hydro- 
 graphic surveys of the Pe- 
 nobscot River under Profes- 
 sor Hamlin and F. P. Stearns, 
 and from August to Decem- 
 ber, 1887, the year of his 
 graduation, was assistant to 
 H. E. Stoddard, a civil en- 
 gineer of Pomona, California, 
 on townsite work in the 
 southern part of that State. 
 
 Since that time he has been engaged in various en- 
 gineering enterprises in California which have 
 given him rank with the leaders of his profession. 
 In the beginning of the year 1888 he became 
 Chief Engineer for the Ontario Land & Improve- 
 ment Company and the San Antonio Water Com- 
 pany, and in this capacity had charge of various 
 important operations. For the latter company he 
 designed and constructed extensions to the irriga- 
 tion systems which it operated and for the former 
 constructed eight miles of street railway. 
 
 About this time Mr. Trask inaugurated a sys- 
 tem of underground tunnels for water develop- 
 ment, and by this method added largely to the 
 water supply of the town and colony of Ontario, 
 and other sections of California. 
 
 In 1889, Mr. Trask was engaged in a number of 
 important works, among them the subdivision of 
 fourteen hundred acres for the Pasadena Rincon 
 Land & Water Company, with surveys for irrigat- 
 ing the tract. Also, he made extensive surveys in 
 Mill Creek Canyon and designed a power plant for 
 the Mentone Sandstone Company in the same year. 
 The year 1890 Mr. Trask served as Consulting 
 Engineer for the Escondido Irrigation District, de- 
 signing its noted "Rock-fill" dam, and in 1891 he 
 was Consulting Engineer to the Sycamore Water 
 
 F. E. TRASK 
 
 Development Comoanv on tunnel work, also being 
 engaged in making surveys for an irrigation sys- 
 tem in the Pomona Orange Belt Irrigation District. 
 During 1894 Mr. Trask made a topographic sur- 
 vey of San Antonio Canyon in California, embrac- 
 ing twenty-four square miles and upon the conclu- 
 sion of this task was chosen Consulting Engineer 
 to the City of Pomona to report upon the most 
 available source of water supply. He was also en- 
 gaged in general practice, his commissions includ- 
 ing that of Consulting En- 
 gineer to the San Antonio 
 Water Company, the Anita 
 Mining & Milling Company 
 of Sonora, Mexico, and vari- 
 ous others. 
 
 In 1900, Mr- Trask closed 
 his offices in Ontario, where 
 he had made headquarters 
 for about thirteen years, and 
 removed to Los Angeles, 
 where he has since been en- 
 gaged in practice. In mov- 
 ing he retained his principal 
 clients and in the years that 
 have intervened has added 
 many more to them, includ- 
 ing the Water Users' Asso- 
 ciation of San Gabriel Valley 
 and a large Eastern clien- 
 tiele for whom he has made 
 various investigations and 
 reports of water develop- 
 ment and power projects on 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Trask in 1911 con- 
 structed the Ontario water 
 system at a cost of $200,000 
 and was chosen to make a 
 report on a like system for 
 the city of Redlands, Cali- 
 fornia, to build which the 
 city voted $600,000 bonds. 
 
 These summarize in brief 
 the activities of Mr. Trask, 
 
 but fail to show adequately the importance of his 
 work. His position as an irrigation expert has 
 caused him to be employed in various litigations 
 and he is generally regarded as one of the chief 
 factors in the development of water in Southern 
 California. Mr. Trask has contributed frequently to 
 engineering journals articles dealing with the water 
 question, and one of them, entitled "Water Conser- 
 vation in Southern California," printed in the 
 "Rural Californian" in June, 1903, has come to be 
 regarded as an authority, the demand for this paper 
 exhausting two special issues. In it Mr. Trask dis- 
 cussed the entire question of irrigation from scien- 
 tific and practical standpoints and pointed out the 
 defects of the various methods of procuring water 
 for agricultural and other purposes. In general, he 
 made a brief for the conservation of water re- 
 sources in the great Southern California di'strict 
 and also outlined a method for doing this, his plan 
 providing for a diversion of the waters and the 
 creation of new water supplies. This system has 
 benn largely adopted and has resulted in a general 
 improvement of the lands and products of the farms. 
 Mr. Trask is a member of the American Society 
 of Civil Engineers, also belongs to the Architects 
 and Engineers' Association of Los Angeles, Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, and the Jonathan Club. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 ISLINGBURY, GEORGE, Mining 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at East Ilsley, Berks 
 County, England, January 1, 1848, 
 the son of Thomas Kislingbury 
 and Hannah (Herman) Kisling- 
 bury. He married Matilda Carlyon at Colton, Boyd 
 County, Kentucky, in the year 1873, and to them 
 there were born three children, May, Nettie and 
 G. D. Kislingbury. Mrs. Kislingbury died in 1890, 
 and five years later Mr. Kis- 
 lingbury married the second 
 time. He took his bride, Lot- 
 tie E. Coleman, at Sail Lake 
 City, Utah, and of this union 
 there are three children, 
 Dorothy, Isabella and Frank- 
 lin Kislingbury. 
 
 Mr. Kislingbury's parents 
 came to the United States in 
 1857 and located at Mineral 
 Point, Wisconsin, where the 
 son was placed in school. He 
 studied in the public schools 
 of Mineral Point until the 
 year 1864, when he deserted 
 his books and joined the 
 Union army for service in 
 the Civil War. He enlisted 
 as a private in Company K, 
 Thirty-seventh Volunteer In- 
 fantry, and was dispatched to 
 the front immediately. He 
 served through the Virginia 
 campaign and participated in 
 the battle of Fort Steadman, 
 Virginia, March 25, 1865. One 
 week later his company was 
 engaged in battle at Fort 
 
 Magoon, near Petersburg, Virginia. Mr. Kisling- 
 bury served until mustered out at the close of 
 hostilities. 
 
 Returning home, Mr. Kislingbury followed min- 
 ing for three years in the lead and zinc mines of 
 Wisconsin. In 1868 he removed to Colorado and 
 engaged in mining there about a year, when he 
 went to Nevada and located at White Pine. Since 
 that time he has been engaged actively in mining 
 and the investigation of mines, his work taking him 
 to all parts of the Western Continent. 
 
 Mr. Kislingbury has the distinction of having 
 been the author of the first metal mine inspection 
 bill presented to any legislature, his measure being 
 passed by the State Legislature of Colorado in 1889. 
 After the passage of the inspection law Mr. Kis- 
 lingbury, recognized as an expert on metal mining, 
 was appointed by Governor Cooper of Colorado to 
 the office of State Mine Inspector. This post he 
 held during the years of 1889 and 1890, and upon 
 leaving office he again took up his life work the 
 examination of mines. 
 
 GEORGE KISLINGBURY 
 
 Mr. Kislingbury is one of the most active men 
 in his profession and has been commissioned by 
 large capitalists to examine and purchase mining 
 properties in various districts. His investigations 
 have included all the mining States and Territories 
 of the United States, Alaska, British Columbia, 
 Vancouver and Prince of Wales Islands, Ontario, 
 Canada; Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala and 
 Mexico. He has examined lead, zinc, copper, gold, 
 silver, cinnabar, coal, iron and baryta properties and 
 his judgment has been ac- 
 cepted as the final word by 
 his clients. At one time in 
 his career Mr. Kislingbury 
 devoted himself exclusively 
 to exploration and examina- 
 tion work for Captain J. R. 
 De Lamar, a New York capi- 
 talist. Mr. Kislingbury, for 
 nine years, was his mining 
 expert, and in search of prop- 
 erties for Captain De Lamar, 
 Mr. Kislingbury traveled to 
 all parts of the American 
 Continent. 
 
 Mr. Kislingbury has been 
 a manager of mines at dif- 
 ferent times and holds a 
 mine manager's certificate, 
 issued by the Examining 
 Board of the State of Wy- 
 oming. Among the mines of 
 which he has been manager 
 in the West, the most impor- 
 tant are the Golden State 
 Mine at Mercur, Utah, and 
 the Bully Hill Mine in Shas- 
 ta County, California. His 
 principal work, however, is 
 
 searching for investments for mining capitalists 
 and his success marks him as one of the most 
 expert examiners of the present day. 
 
 Mr. Kislingbury has never undertaken the pro- 
 motion of mining properties, or the sale of mining 
 stocks, and has always enjoyed the confidence of 
 his clients to such an extent that they invariably 
 have taken over properties which he recommended 
 to them, either in the United States or elsewhere. 
 At the present time (1912) Mr. Kislingbury is en- 
 gaged in the investigation of mining properties of 
 Nevada, California and Old Mexico for wealthy in- 
 vestors, and in 1911 spent five months in a careful 
 examination of the Porcupine District, in Ontario, 
 Canada. 
 
 He is recognized by members of his profession 
 as one of its leading men. Mr. Kislingbury be- 
 longs to the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
 neers, the National Geographical Society, the Ma- 
 sons, Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks. His only club is the Rocky 
 Mountain Club of New York City. 
 
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 93 
 
 ELLMAN, MARCO H., 
 Banker, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in that city, 
 September 14, 1878, the son 
 of Herman W. Hellman and 
 Ida (Heimann) Hellman. His father was 
 one of the pioneer business men of Los An- 
 geles and, at the time of his death, was con- 
 sidered its leading banker and one of the 
 
 wealthiest men in the 
 
 Southwest. Marco H. 
 Hellman married Reta 
 Levis of Visalia, Cal., at 
 Los Angeles, June 10, 
 1908, and to them was 
 born one child, Herman 
 Wallace Hellman. 
 
 Mr. Hellman was edu- 
 cated in the public schools 
 of Los Angeles and later 
 attended Leland Stanford 
 University. After which 
 he started his banking 
 career with the Farmers 
 & Merchants National 
 Bank of Los Angeles. He 
 worked there in various 
 minor positions for a peri- 
 od of time and then v/as 
 made assistant cashier of 
 the institution. He re- 
 mained with that bank for 
 about six years and later 
 resigned to accept a posi- 
 tion as assistant cashier 
 of the Merchants Na- 
 tional Bank of Los An- 
 
 MARCO H. HELLMAN 
 
 geles. He held that position with credit and 
 soon was promoted to cashier, holding that 
 office until he was made vice president of 
 the bank, an active position he now holds. 
 
 He is now president, vice president or 
 director of twenty-one banks and nine in- 
 dustrial corporations and is one of the exec- 
 utors of the great Herman W. Hellman 
 estate. Coming from a family rated among 
 fhe richest in the United States, it is natural 
 that Mr. Hellman, although a young man, 
 should have attained a position of prominence 
 in the financial world. His father before him 
 was a positive financial genius, and when he 
 died, had a multitude of interests, banking, 
 real estate, oil, corporation, etc. 
 
 As executor of the vast estate of his 
 father, it is necessary that Mr. Hellman be 
 an active participant in a great many cor- 
 porations, and this matter of necessity, com- 
 bined with his native ability as a financier 
 
 and business man, puts him in the position 
 of being the most active young banker in the 
 State. As a matter of fact he holds more 
 offices in banks and corporations than any 
 other three men in Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Hellman has always been too busy to 
 engage actively in the political life of his 
 native city, but he has not lacked in civic 
 pride. He is always among the first men to 
 
 help any movement for 
 
 the advancement of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 For instance, when the 
 Owens River Aqueduct 
 project was proposed and 
 money was needed, and 
 the Eastern syndicate 
 only accepted its allotted 
 portion, Mr. Hellman 
 took over and sold the re- 
 maining portion of the 
 bonds for the city, a 
 transaction involving at 
 least a million dollars. 
 With the money obtained 
 so promptly, the city was 
 enabled to go ahead with 
 its work of improvement 
 and the Owens River 
 aqueduct, a remarkable 
 engineering work, soon 
 will be supplying pure 
 water, not only to the 
 City of Los Angeles, but 
 to many towns and vil- 
 lages in the vicinity of 
 the city. 
 
 An interesting incident in the life of Mr. 
 Hellman is that he has spent practically all 
 his days in one spot in Los Angeles. He was 
 born in his father's old mansion at Fourth 
 and Spring Streets, when that corner was 
 part of the residential section of the city. To- 
 day it is in the very center of the business 
 district and in place of the home, with its 
 wide spread of lawn, where young Hellman 
 played as a child, there stands the towering 
 skyscraper, the Herman W. Hellman Build- 
 ing, an imposing monument to the work of 
 his father in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hellman is one of the most popular 
 young financiers in the country and is a 
 member of many clubs. His Los Angeles af- 
 filiations are the Jonathan, Concordia, Union 
 League, Federal and San Gabriel Valley 
 Country Clubs. In addition to these social 
 organizations, he is a Thirty-second Degree 
 Mason, a Mystic Shriner and an Elk. 
 
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 ERCKHOFF, HERMAN HENRY, 
 President of the Avawatz Salt 
 and Gypsum Company, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at Lin- 
 gen, in the Province of Hanover, 
 Germany, January 20, 1867, the 
 son of George Kerckhoff and Philippine (Neuhart) 
 Kerckhoff. Mr. Kerckhoff was married to Anne 
 May Wethern at Los Angeles, October 4, 1899, and 
 to them have been born two sons, Steph- 
 ens and Herman Kerckhoff. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff, although 
 born in Germany and de- 
 scended of German stock, is, 
 in reality, an American, his 
 parents having lived in In- 
 diana for many years before 
 he was born. They moved 
 to Los Angeles when he was 
 a boy and the greater part 
 of his life has been spent in 
 Southern California. 
 
 He attended the public 
 schools of Los Angeles and 
 was graduated from the high 
 school in the class of 1884. 
 He entered the University of 
 California the next year, tak- 
 ing up special studies in 
 chemistry, and would have 
 graduated in the class of 
 1889, but left in the preced- 
 ing year and went on a tour 
 of Europe. 
 
 Returning to Los Angeles 
 in 1889, Mr. Kerckhoff be- 
 came associated with the 
 Kerckhoff-Cuzner Lumber 
 
 H. H. KERCKHOFF 
 
 chosen President of it. This concern has grown 
 into a prosperous industry and Mr. Kerckhoff still 
 is actively engaged in the direction of its affairs. 
 In 1912 Mr. Kerckhoff and other capitalists of 
 Los Angeles organized the Avawatz Salt and Gyp- 
 sum Company and at the present time (1912) is en- 
 gaged in the preliminaries necessary to the begin- 
 ning of operations by this company. These include 
 erection of a modern salt refinery and the building 
 of a railroad sixteen miles in length to the mines 
 of the company in the Death 
 Valley of California. This 
 company promises to become 
 one of the large industrial 
 enterprises of the Pacific 
 Coast, the holdings including 
 immense deposits of high- 
 grade rock salt and gypsum, 
 the latter an important in- 
 gredient in the manufacture 
 of cement and wall plaster. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff has en- 
 tered into the conduct of the 
 company in a manner char- 
 acteristic of him, having sur- 
 rounded himself with the 
 most capable men he could 
 procure for the various de- 
 partments, and then started 
 work on his plant immedi- 
 ately. Confident of the suc- 
 cess of the enterprise, he 
 looks forward to adding an- 
 other great commercial asset 
 to the already large number 
 now forming part of the in- 
 dustrial strength of Southern 
 California. 
 
 and Mill Company, of which his elder brother, Wil- 
 liam G. Kerckhoff, was the organizer and chief 
 owner. Mr. Kerckhoff was appointed manager of 
 the company's branch yard at Pomona, California, 
 and remained in that position for about a year, 
 being at that time promoted to the management of 
 the more important branch of the company's busi- 
 ness at Pasadena. Being a conscientious worker, 
 he impaired his health through overzealousness, 
 and at the end of six months was compelled to give 
 up active business and seek to regain his strength. 
 
 He was only out of active business for a few 
 months, however, resuming his work as manager of 
 the personal affairs of his father, who was a man of 
 many interests in Los Angeles. He managed the 
 affairs of the elder Kerckhoff for several years 
 and upon the death of the latter, organized the 
 Kerckhoff Estate Company, of which he continued 
 as manager. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Kerckhoff, in addition to conducting 
 the family business, organized a corporation known 
 as the Hipolito Screen and Sash Company, being 
 
 The name of Kerckhoff has long been a conspic- 
 uous one in the business life of Los Angeles. The 
 men of the Kerckhoff family have all done their 
 share towards promoting the country and develop- 
 ing its resources. William G. Kerckhoff was one of 
 the pioneers in the adaptation of water for power 
 purposes in Southern California. H. H. Kerckhoff 
 has been associated with him in a great many of his 
 ventures and has lent his aid towards their success. 
 
 Mr. Kerckhoff, in addition to his office as Presi- 
 dent of the Avawatz Salt and Gypsum Company, 
 is a director of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Lumber and 
 Mill Company, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 Kerckhoff Estate Company, and interested in vari- 
 ous other enterprises. 
 
 He is an enthusiast for the upbuilding of the 
 Southwest and a believer in clean government, but 
 he has never taken an active part in politics. 
 
 He is a Scottish Rite Mason, also a member of 
 the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the California 
 Club, Jonathan Club, University Club and the 
 Gamut Club. 
 
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 95 
 
 LEY, ADOLFO, Banker, Her- 
 mosillo, Sonora, Mexico, was 
 born at Gnesen, Prussia, Ger- 
 many, May 24, 1864, the de- 
 scendant of families that have 
 long been prominent in the business and 
 financial affairs of the great Prussian German 
 state. His father was Boas Bley and his 
 mother Bertha Seldner, daughter of a mer- 
 chant. He married Man- 
 uela Rivera, a beautiful 
 Mexican girl, at Guay- 
 mas, Mexico, November 
 19, 1893. 
 
 He was a pupil in the 
 public schools of his na- 
 tive city until he was nine 
 years old and then was 
 placed in the Gnesener 
 Gymnasium, a high 
 school, in which the body 
 as well as the brain of the 
 boy was trained. There 
 the boys were taught 
 gymnastics and physical 
 culture, and the value of 
 this feature of his educa- 
 tion is shown in the 
 physique of Mr. Bley, 
 who, at the age of forty- 
 eight, is a man of won- 
 derful strength and en- 
 durance. Mr. Bley re- 
 mained at the gymna- 
 sium for seven years,' 
 studying Latin and Greek 
 the last three years of his 
 course, but in 1880 left school to go into 
 business life. 
 
 His uncle, a member of the firm of Seld- 
 ner and Von Borstel, had gone to Mexico 
 many years previously and his firm was one 
 of the leading business houses of Guaymas, 
 when young Bley started in first as a book- 
 keeper and remained in that position for 
 seven years, during which time he became 
 thoroughly conversant with the business. In 
 1887, he was made representative of the firm 
 and continued in that capacity until 1890, 
 when, his exceptional ability having done 
 much for the progress of the firm, he was 
 taken in as a partner. He held his interest 
 for more than two years, then withdrew to 
 go into business for himself. 
 
 In 1893, he organized the Bley Hermanos, 
 with his brother Simon, for the conduct of a 
 general merchandise business. They located 
 in Hermosillo and the business was a suc- 
 
 ADOLFO BLEY 
 
 cess from the start. They have added to it 
 continually each year and today they are 
 among the largest importers in the entire 
 republic of Mexico. Mr. Bley's administra- 
 tion of his own business won him a position 
 among the leaders of the commercial world 
 in the State pf Sonora and he came within a 
 very short time to be regarded as one of the 
 state's principal citizens. In 1897, with a 
 splendid record and credit 
 to back him, Mr. Bley 
 associated himself with 
 other enterprising men 
 there and they founded 
 the Banco de Sonora of 
 Hermosillo, now one of 
 the most stable financial 
 institutions in the coun- 
 try. Mr. Bley was elect- 
 ed a director of the new 
 institution and there, as 
 in his first position in life, 
 his ability as an executive 
 was recognized and with- 
 in a short time he was 
 made president of the 
 bank, an office he now 
 holds. 
 
 In the year 1904, Mr. 
 Bley, in company with a 
 number of others, organ- 
 ized the Compania Indus- 
 trial del Pacifico, with a 
 capital of $1,000,000. A 
 large factory was built 
 near Hermosillo, and 
 now is one of the most 
 important industries in the state of Sonora. 
 
 In 1910, he with two prominent Sonora 
 men, obtained another banking concession 
 from the Mexican government and they es- 
 tablished the Mortgage and Farmers Bank, 
 an enterprise capitalized at $2,000,000. The 
 bank began operations in March, 1911, and 
 in six months was a success. Its stockhold- 
 ers are, in the majority, the same as those 
 in the Banco de Sonora. The Banco de So- 
 nora has a capital of $1,500,000, and a surplus 
 of $1,200,000. For the last ten years it has 
 paid dividends of sixteen per cent on its stock. 
 Mr. Bley is Vice President of the Com- 
 pania Naviera del Pacifico, a steamship line 
 operating between Mexican, South American 
 and United States ports. He has been Presi- 
 dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Hermo- 
 sillo, Mexico, for seven years. 
 
 Mr. Bley speaks Spanish like a native, 
 German, English and French. 
 
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 M. F. IHMSEN 
 
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 97 
 
 HMSEN, MAXIMILIAN FREDER- 
 ICK, Publisher, Los Angeles "Ex- 
 aminer," Los Angeles, Gal., was 
 born in Pittsburg, Pa., March 14, 
 1868, the son of Frederick Lorenz 
 Ihmsen and Josephine (Darr) 
 Ihmsen. He married Angeline 
 Arado in New York City, March 17, 1894. 
 
 The Ihmsen family is one of the oldest in Penn- 
 sylvania, where, in the Pittsburg district, they 
 built and operated the first glass factory west of 
 the Allegheny Mountains. This was the begin- 
 ning of one of the biggest industries of that State 
 and the name has been closely identified with the 
 glass business ever since the establishment of the 
 first plant in Pennsylvania. The firm of Ihmsen 
 & Co. was in existence more than 100 years. 
 
 Mr. Ihmsen received his preliminary education 
 in schools of Stuttgart, Germany, and in Allegheny, 
 Pa., public schools, graduating from the high school 
 in the latter place in 1886. He finished his stud- 
 ies at the Pittsburg Catholic College, Pittsburg. 
 Leaving college, Mr. Ihmsen became a clerk in 
 the Pittsburg postoffice for about a year, becoming, 
 in 1888, a reporter on the Pittsburg "Leader." The 
 following year he joined the staff of the Pittsburg 
 "Post." This was at the time of the destruction of 
 Johnstown, Pa., by flood, and Mr. Ihmsen, who was 
 one of the first correspondents that succeeded in 
 making their way to the scene of that disaster, won 
 special distinction by being the first to reach the 
 now historic South Fork Dam in the mountains, the 
 giving way of which had been the cause of the 
 catastrophe. His reports of ju&t how the Johnstown 
 disaster occurred formed one of the journalistic 
 masterpieces of that day and attracted the attention 
 of the entire newspaper world. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Ihmsen was sent to Washington, 
 D. C., as correspondent for the Pittsburg "Post," 
 and the following year became a member of the 
 Washington staff of the New York "Herald." He 
 was thus engaged until 1893, when he was trans- 
 ferred to New York as political reporter for the 
 "Herald." Filling this office, Mr. Ihmsen became 
 one of the best known newspaper men in New 
 York State. He was occupying this position, in 
 1895, when William Randolph Hearst entered the 
 New York newspaper field and engaged him to rep- 
 resent the New York "Journal" at that important 
 post, Albany. The next year he was made City 
 Editor of the "Journal," and two years later, when 
 the Maine was blown up, returned to Washington 
 in charge of the Bureau of the Hearst publications. 
 During the trying and extremely delicate mo- 
 ments preceding the declaration of war with Spain 
 and throughout the war, Mr. Ihmsen was in charge 
 at Washington, the most important seat of news at 
 that time in the country, and the news dispatches 
 from there furnished to the Hearst papers attract- 
 ed world-wide attention. Frequently denied and 
 discredited momentarily, their accuracy was in- 
 variably established and the reputation of these 
 papers for profound insight into international di- 
 plomacy and all that implies to world-news de- 
 velopments, became firmly established. 
 
 He was in charge at Washington when Mr. 
 Hearst's celebrated fight for the abrogation of the 
 Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the immediately suc- 
 ceeding fight for the U. S.'s right to fortify the 
 Panama Canal and absolutely control it, as finally 
 voiced in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, occurred. 
 
 Mr. Ihmsen personally regards his dispatch, an- 
 nouncing the intention of the United States to in- 
 tervene with a military force in China during the 
 Boxer troubles as the most gratifying single incident 
 
 in his newspaper life. This news was so far in ad- 
 vance of apparent developments that the State 
 Department, all the Chancelleries of Europe and 
 most of the newspapers of Europe and America, 
 u^nied its accuracy for many weeks. 
 
 In 1901 he again assumed the duties of City 
 Editor of the "Journal." A year later he became the 
 Political Editor of the New York "American," 
 founded about that time by Mr. Hearst. 
 
 From the time of his entry into New York, Mr. 
 Ihmsen was active in Democratic politics of the 
 city and State. He was one of the originators of 
 the movement for the nomination of William Ran- 
 dolph Hearst for President of the United States 
 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 
 in 1904, and was in personal charge of the Hearst 
 interest on the floor of the convention. He or- 
 ganized the Municipal Ownership League of New 
 York in 1905, and that same year managed Mr. 
 Hearst's campaign as the candidate of that party 
 for the Mayoralty of New York City. This was the 
 time when Mr. Hearst was unquestionably elected 
 to the office of Mayor of New York City, but was 
 counted out after the returns had been held up 
 and doctored by Tammany, constituting one of the 
 political outrages of history. In 1906 he aided in 
 organizing the Independence League, and was 
 chairman of the League State Committee during 
 the Gubernatorial campaign of that year. 
 
 In 1907, during an extraordinary political upris- 
 ing in New York City on the part of members of 
 both of the old line parties, a fusion ticket was 
 placed in the field, headed by Mr. Ihmsen, as 
 candidate for Sheriff of New York County. This 
 nomination Mr. Ihmsen accepted only because 
 the League, by unanimous resolution, asked him to 
 do so, a request that was urged by the Republican 
 leaders as well. Although the Fusion ticket devel- 
 oped strength, it was defeated at the hands of Tam- 
 many, which had practiced the same tactics fol- 
 lowed in the election of 1905. In the returns Mr. 
 Ihmsen was credited with 120,671 votes, and Foley, 
 the Tammany candidate, with 145,388 Mr. Ihmsen 
 running considerably ahead of his ticket. 
 
 Besides his efforts for political reform in New 
 York, Mr. Ihmsen figured in various national cam- 
 paigns, having been secretary of the National Asso- 
 ciation of Democratic Clubs from 1900 to 1904, and 
 a member of the Executive Committee of the Na- 
 tional Democratic Congressional Committee in 1902. 
 
 In the latter part of 1908, Mr. Hearst, recogniz- 
 ing the growing importance of Los Angeles and his 
 interests there, sent Mr. Ihmsen to take charge of 
 the Los Angeles "Examiner." After a brief time 
 spent in studying the field he assumed charge of 
 the "Examiner" in February, 1909, since when he 
 has been the managing director over every depart- 
 ment of that newspaper, a work into which he has 
 thrown his entire force and energy. 
 
 Since Mr. Ihmsen took charge of the "Exam- 
 iner" that paper has attracted national attention 
 throughout the newspaper world owing to its re- 
 markable growth the gains and increases in many 
 instances having established world records. It is 
 to-day the leading newspaper of the Southwest. 
 
 Aside from his part in the upbuilding of the 
 enterprises fathered by Mr. Hearst, with whom he 
 has been closely associated for 17 years, Mr. Ihmsen 
 has devoted himself sincerely to upbuilding Los 
 Angeles and Southern California, and through the 
 policy of encouragement maintained in the "Ex- 
 aminer," has been a potent influence in this work. 
 
 He is a member, Democratic Club and Sphinx 
 Club, New York; and California, Jonathan, Gamut 
 and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, Los Angeles. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 OX, FRANKLIN IVY, Attor- 
 ney at Law, Phoenix, Arizona, 
 was born at Belmont, Texas, 
 December 5, 1856, the son of 
 Ivy Henderson Cox and Mary 
 Jane (Cook) Cox. He married Mrs- Annie 
 Boyd at Phoenix, September 16, 1883. 
 
 Mr. Cox, whose life has run the gamut of 
 Western experience, is a self-educated man, 
 his entire work in schools 
 having been accom- 
 plished in two terms at 
 the Soule University, at 
 C h a p p e 1 Hill, Texas, 
 when he was nine and 
 ten years old. 
 
 At the age of fourteen 
 years he took his place 
 with the cowboys of 
 Texas and ran cattle for 
 several years. Giving 
 this up when he was 
 about eighteen years old, 
 he moved to San Diego 
 County, California, with 
 his parents, where, with 
 J. S. Harbinson, he en- 
 gaged in the production 
 of honey. It was in the 
 long winter evenings 
 spent on the bee ranch 
 that the young man be- 
 gan by himself the read- 
 ing and study which 
 eventually made up for 
 his scant opportunity for 
 schooling as a boy. He 
 continued with Mr. Harbinson for several 
 years, afterward reading law with Chase & 
 Leach, a famous legal firm of San Diego, 
 composed of Major Levi Chase and Wallace 
 Leach, the first mentioned having been one 
 of the most celebrated lawyers in the history 
 of Southern California. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Cox moved to Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona, being in the same year appointed Clerk 
 of the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa 
 County. He was admitted to the Arizona 
 bar in 1880, and in 1884 was elected District 
 Attorney of Maricopa County. He was re- 
 elected to the office three times, serving 
 eight years in all. From the time of his ar- 
 rival down to date he has been an active fac- 
 tor in the politics of Arizona and has been 
 one of the leaders of the Democratic party 
 there for more than twenty years. 
 
 At the end of his fourth term in the office 
 of District Attorney he was offered the Dem- 
 
 FRANK COX 
 
 ocratic nomination for Territorial Delegate 
 to Congress, a nomination which practically 
 meant election, but he declined it, desiring to 
 continue in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion. A year later he was appointed General 
 Attorney in Arizona and New Mexico for the 
 Southern Pacific Company, a post which he 
 has held from 1893 to the present. In this 
 capacity he has figured in a multitude of im- 
 portant litigations bear- 
 ing on land, water and 
 other quasi-public mat- 
 ters and through his 
 work has come to be rec- 
 ognized as one of the 
 leading attorneys in the 
 Southwest 
 
 When Arizona was ad- 
 mitted to Statehood, Mr. 
 Cox was solicited by his 
 friends to sever his con- 
 nection with the South- 
 ern Pacific and become a 
 candidate on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket for election 
 as first United States 
 Senator from the new 
 State. But for business 
 reasons and out of regard 
 for Hon. Marcus A. 
 Smith, his friend and as- 
 sociate in many battles 
 for the Democratic party, 
 he declined, and lent his 
 support to Smith, who 
 was chosen for the office. 
 Mr. Cox is a member 
 
 of the American Bar Association and is one 
 of its four counsellors in the State of Ari- 
 zona. Aside from his legal and political ac- 
 tivities, he has engaged in various business 
 enterprises, especially cattle raising, and is 
 now President of the Black Cattle Company. 
 During the exciting days of the eighties, 
 when Arizona was the stamping ground of 
 warring Indians and lawless characters of 
 every sort, Mr. Cox was one of the men who 
 stood for law and order and took personal 
 part in many thrilling pursuits after outlaws 
 and many exciting prosecutions of criminals. 
 He is a member of Arizona Chapter No. 1, 
 Royal Arch Masons ; Arizona Lodge No. 2, 
 F. & A. M. ; Phoenix Commandery No. 3, 
 Knights Templar, and is Past Potentate of El 
 Zaribah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His 
 clubs are the California and Jonathan of Los 
 Angeles, Cal. ; the Yavapai of Prescott, Ariz., 
 and the Arizona of Phoenix. 
 
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 99 
 
 TONE, HENRY HERBERT, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona, was born in Leeds County, 
 Ontario, Canada, November 22, 
 1863. He is the son of Uriah 
 Stone and Sophia (Arnold) Stone, 
 and a direct descendant of Benedict Arnold, the 
 unfortunate American Revolutionary General, who, 
 after serving the country heroically in the Revolu- 
 tion and waiting in vain for the advancement 
 which his brilliant perform- 
 ances merited, turned to the 
 British. In connection with 
 this, one of the chapters in 
 American history, Dr. Stone 
 possesses numerous relics, 
 among them letters written 
 by Arnold and George Wash- 
 ington, the former's sword, 
 uniform and silk stockings. 
 These mementoes, of great 
 historical value, passed to 
 the Doctor upon the death of 
 his mother, and the silk hose 
 which Arnold wore have now 
 been reduced to ashes, be- 
 ing more than a hundred 
 years old. 
 
 Dr. Stone married Isa- 
 bell M. Walker in 1884 at 
 Perth, Canada, and to them 
 there was born a son, Ken- 
 neth Arnold Stone, at pres- 
 ent connected with the Na- 
 tional Bank of Commerce in 
 Los Angeles, California. 
 
 Dr. Stone received his 
 preliminary e d'u cational 
 training in the Athens High 
 School of Ontario, Canada, and upon its completion, 
 took up the study of medicine in Queens University 
 at Kingston, Canada. He went from there to the 
 Medical Department of Buffalo University, and was 
 graduated in the class of 1884 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 For the first few years after his graduation the 
 Doctor was engaged in general practice in New 
 York City, but gradually he began to specialize in 
 neurology and in 1891, in association with others, 
 established, at Durhamville, New York, the first 
 institution in New York State for the treatment of 
 epileptics. This was a private institution, housed 
 in a splendid old mansion, with Dr. Stone as one 
 of the chief physicians. He was associated with 
 Dr. Carter Gray, the noted alienist and neurologist 
 of the New York Post Graduate College. 
 
 They conducted the institution, known as the 
 New York Home for Epileptics, for several years. 
 Prom this grew Craig Colony, the largest estab- 
 lishment of its kind in the United States, given 
 over exclusively to the training and treatment of 
 
 DR. H. H. STONE 
 
 epileptics, and is a most commendable institution. 
 Moving to Phoenix in 1900, Dr. Stone became a 
 tuberculosis specialist and soon after his arrival 
 there founded Palm Lodge, a private sanitarium 
 for the treatment of this dread malady, in connec- 
 tion with John Archer of St. Paul. He conducted 
 this for several years and finally closed it, but in 
 1904 established another, known as a Charity 
 Camp. This was a public sanitarium and Dr. Stone 
 devoted four years to the treatment of patients 
 who sought health in the pe- 
 culiar climate of Arizona, but 
 lacked the means wherewith 
 to obtain treatment. This 
 camp was the means of sav- 
 ing numerous lives, but in 
 time the Doctor's other in- 
 terests became so great he 
 was compelled to turn it over 
 to a German charitable or- 
 ganization of Phoenix, which 
 still conducts it under the 
 name of Bethany Home and 
 is carrying forward the work 
 which he began. 
 
 Dr. Stone is classed 
 among the experts of his pro- 
 fession in matters pertain- 
 ing to lungs, diet and cli- 
 mate, and, besides his public 
 and private work to check 
 the ravages of tuberculosis, 
 has been a prolific writer for 
 the medical press upon these 
 subjects, particularly with 
 reference to the advantages 
 and disadvantages of Ari- 
 zona's climate in the treat- 
 ment of the disease. 
 
 The Doctor has been a prominent figure in the 
 life of Phoenix for nearly fourteen years, but has 
 never actively engaged in politics during that time, 
 his only public office having been as a member of 
 the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, 
 in which he served for four years. This body, 
 made up of twelve members, has control over the 
 use of the water of the valley, its principal duty 
 being to guard against waste in a country where 
 water is scarce. He is a conservative Republican. 
 
 Dr. Stone is devoting a large part of his time 
 now to the affairs of the Arizona Life Insurance 
 Company, in which he holds the offices of Vice 
 President and Medical Examiner. He is also active 
 in real estate development, but has no other cor- 
 poration affiliations. 
 
 He is a member of the Maricopa County Medi- 
 cal Society, American Medical Association, Na- 
 tional Sanatorium Association and various other 
 professional societies. His clubs are the Los An- 
 geles Country Club, Phoenix Country Club and the 
 Arts Club of Gramercy Park, New York City. 
 
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 OWARD, VOLNEY ERSKINE, In- 
 surance, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in that city February 
 6, 1879, the son of Albert James 
 Howard and Katherine L. (Whit- 
 ing) Howard. He married Hazel 
 Monson at San Francisco, California, June 4, 1912. 
 The Howard Family is one of the oldest and most 
 highly regarded in Southern California, the first 
 of the family to settle there in the early days hav- 
 ing been Judge Volney E. 
 Howard, grandfather of the 
 present Volney E. Howard. 
 Judge Howard was one of 
 the honored members of the 
 California Judiciary for many 
 years and during his service 
 was one of the striking fig- 
 ures of the Bench. He was a 
 lawyer of the old school and 
 an ardent advocate of the 
 doctrine of State's rights, a 
 jurist whose memory is 
 among those most honored 
 in the legal fraternity. 
 
 Volney E. Howard, who is 
 one of the leaders of the in- 
 surance business in Southern 
 California, is a true son of 
 the Golden State. He re- 
 ceived his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools 
 of Los Angeles, graduating 
 in 1899 with the first com- 
 mercial class of the old Com- 
 mercial High School, since 
 re-named the Polytechnic 
 High School of Los Angeles. 
 Following his graduation, 
 
 Mr. Howard decided to take up fire insurance as 
 his field of operation and became a clerk in the 
 office of J. J. Mellus & Co., Los Angeles represen- 
 tatives of several large fire insurance corpora- 
 tions. During the two years he was connected 
 with this firm Mr. Howard learned the details of 
 the business and in 1901 was selected by the Los 
 Angeles agency of the Fire Insurance Association 
 of Philadelphia as its cashier. After serving in 
 this capacity for a year he was chosen by the 
 Aetna Life Insurance Company to take charge of 
 its accident insurance department in Los Angeles. 
 He remained with this company about six years 
 and served in various positions, including those 
 of claim adjuster and manager of the liability 
 department, which latter he organized. 
 
 In 1908, Mr. Howard resigned his position and 
 embarked in the insurance business for himself 
 under the title of Volney E. Howard & Co., Incor- 
 porated. He engaged in general insurance and 
 met with gratifying success from the outset, the 
 first two years' writings of his company being 
 
 VOLNEY E. HOWARD 
 
 in excess of one hundred thousand dollars. 
 At a later date the firm was changed to How- 
 ard & Brundige, and still later, upon the retire- 
 ment of his partner, Mr. Howard styled his com- 
 pany the Consolidated Agency Company, Incor- 
 porated, under which name it has since been 
 known. He is the President and General Manager 
 of the company and is regarded as one of the suc- 
 cessful insurance men of the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Among the companies now represented by Mr. 
 Howard's office are the Cali- 
 fornia Insurance Company, 
 of San Francisco; Occiden- 
 tal Life Insurance Company, 
 of Los Angeles (Accident 
 Department); London Guar- 
 antee & Accident Company, 
 of London, England; Union 
 Marine Insurance Company, 
 of Liverpool; Aetna Fire In- 
 surance Company (Automo- 
 bile Department); London & 
 Lancashire Guarantee & Ac- 
 cident Company (Burglary 
 Department) ; Orient Fire 
 Insurance Company, and the 
 Pelican Fire Insurance Co. 
 
 An enthusiast for the de- 
 velopment of California's 
 natural resources and busi- 
 ness institutions, Mr. How- 
 ard has done a great deal, in 
 a personal way, towards in- 
 creasing the scope and im- 
 portance of California insur- 
 ance corporations, and to his 
 efforts is due a large amount 
 of the business they carry. 
 He is a member of the Los 
 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is particularly 
 interested in the completion of the Los Angeles 
 Harbor project, having followed its development 
 closely from the time he witnessed the first rock 
 sunk at the start of building the Breakwater which 
 now forms the Outer Harbor. 
 
 Mr. Howard enjoys an unusual personal popu- 
 larity among the business men of his city and is 
 one of the leading clubmen there. He is noted as 
 an athlete and is an ardent advocate of outdoor 
 life, for in golf, yachting, etc., he receives his 
 chief recreation. He is prominent member of the 
 Los Angeles Country Club, and was a member of 
 the Board of Directors of that organization, as Sec- 
 retary, at the time the club purchased the land 
 upon which it is now located. The increase in 
 value of this purchase so enriched the club that it 
 built one of the handsomest clubhouses in the world. 
 He also helped organize the Westmoreland Golf 
 Club, later merged with the L. A. Country Club. 
 
 He is member, L. A. Country Club, the L. A. 
 Athletic Club and South Coast Yacht Club. 
 
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 103 
 
 ELTON, JOHN E., Capitalist, Min- 
 ing Interests; Pasadena, Cal., and 
 Nevada, was born in the town of 
 Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, July 4, 
 1857, the son of Benjamin H. and 
 Mary Pelton. He married Kate 
 Anderson, February 28, 1881, at Denver, Colorado. 
 There are four children, Leonora G., Edna D., 
 George S., the oldest son, and Herbert E. Pelton. 
 
 Mr. Pelton went to the public schools of Delta 
 and to the Hamilton (Ohio) High School until he 
 was sixteen. In 1873 he went to Colorado. 
 
 His- career from that time has been full of vicis- 
 situdes, with the romantic climax which charac- 
 terized so many in the great West. Like most of 
 the wealth-seeking young men who went West, he 
 became a miner. For a young man of his years he 
 showed wonderful enterprise and determination to 
 succeed, and began at once to lease and contract, in- 
 stead of being satisfied with the pick and shovel 
 work of the wage-earning miner. The leases he 
 secured proved to be good ones, and before he was 
 twenty he became an owner and operator. 
 
 His field of operations in Colorado extended 
 from Denver and the great gold and silver fields in 
 its immediate vicinity to those of the San Juan and 
 Gunnison district in the southern and south- 
 western part of the State. Frequently he returned 
 to the ground in one mine what he had taken from 
 another, and many times the elusive gold vein 
 pinched out before him just as he thought it was 
 about to yield fortune. But, generally speaking, he 
 did well. When a brilliant prospect failed to ma- 
 terialize, he worked at modest profit some known 
 body of ore. He became an expert on the gold and 
 silver ores of the district and ranked with the en- 
 gineers in the field. 
 
 Like most miners in Colorado, he was heavily 
 interested in silver properties. This was while 
 Colorado was the greatest of the silver States, pro- 
 ducing more than $30,000,000 annually in that 
 metal, and while the money of the United States 
 was on a silver as well as gold basis. When silver 
 was demonetized in 1893, Mr. Pelton was in posses- 
 sion of a number of good silver properties, in the 
 Idaho Springs, the Creede, and the Aspen districts, 
 where are found the largest deposits of silver ores 
 in the world. All these became worse than worth- 
 less. And like most Colorado miners, he changed 
 his search for silver to a search for gold, and did 
 a great deal towards the development of a number 
 of the great gold camps of that State. 
 
 After the silver panic, during the McKinley ad- 
 ministration, he for a time turned his attention to 
 other pursuits. He moved to Montrose in the 
 famous Uncompahgre Valley, Colorado, and bought 
 a herd of cattle, and went into the cattle business 
 on a considerable scale. This was in the wildest 
 and most rugged country in America, where 
 cattle roam not on the flat and easy prairie, but 
 must be followed among the canyons and the crags 
 and in the forests next the snow line 12,000 feet 
 above the sea level. He also went into fruit grow- 
 ing, as it was at that time that the discovery was 
 made that the valleys of Western Colorado were 
 among the best apple and peach-growing sections 
 of America. In the small Uncompahgre community 
 he made himself well known politically. 
 
 It was in these days when efforts were being 
 made to interest the United States Government in 
 
 the work of reclamation that Mr. Pelton, through 
 sheer love of adventure and a comprehensive 
 knowledge of the inestimable benefits which would 
 accrue by reason of a tunnel through the Gunnison 
 Canyon, organized a small crew of men, built a 
 float called the City of Montrose, which afterward 
 figured largely in the history of that eventful 
 period, and undertook to traverse the canyon, a 
 feat no man had attempted before. 
 
 This trip, which Mr. Pelton expected would take 
 but a few days, took two weeks, and was only 
 accomplished after overcoming almost insurmount- 
 able obstacles. The feat of traversing this moun- 
 tain canyon served, however, to convince Mr. Pel- 
 ton that the tunnel project was feasible and he 
 immediately undertook, with his customary energy, 
 to set the wheels in motion. It was largely through 
 Mr. Pelton's tireless efforts that the Government 
 was induced to take up the work of digging the 
 Gunnison Tunnel, which enterprise has since been 
 completed, diverting one of the greatest rivers of 
 the West through a mountain range into another 
 valley. He was rewarded for his large public-spirit 
 and political activity by President McKinley, who 
 appointed him Receiver of Public Moneys for the 
 United States at Montrose. 
 
 The Goldfield excitement had largely subsided 
 and had gone through the period of wild catting and 
 stock jobbing when Mr. Pelton saw his opportunity 
 in Nevada, and left Colorado in 1907, moving to 
 Goldfield. 
 
 It is from this date that the most interesting 
 part of Mr. Pelton's history begins. With the capi- 
 tal he had, he began securing promising properties. 
 He did well, but made no startling profits until he 
 met a well known prospector in the National dis- 
 trict who wished to sell a location which did 
 not seem to indicate more than did a hundred 
 others in the neighborhood. He wanted $20,000 for 
 the prospect. Mr. Pelton saw with his experienced 
 eyes that the expenditure of this sum would be 
 likely to prove a good investment and he made the 
 initial payment at once. 
 
 Within two weeks from that time an almost 
 solid body of gold ore was uncovered on an adjoin- 
 ing claim with the result that the man who sold 
 Mr. Pelton the National mine and those who were 
 associated with him took steps to get the property 
 back. 
 
 It was now that all of Mr. Pelton's resourceful- 
 ness and business sagacity were called into play 
 and for the next few months an absorbing business 
 drama was played with the entire West as the 
 stage and a number of well known mining men as 
 the leading characters. Mr. Pelton finally tri- 
 umphed, and he found himself in possession of 
 what has since proved to be one of the bonanza 
 mines of Nevada. 
 
 Up to 1913, over five million dollars in gold has 
 been taken from this mine and it is still a heavy 
 producer, promising to so continue indefinitely. 
 It has made this modest, unassuming Westerner 
 one of the bonanza kings of the country, as the 
 mine is held at an enormous valuation aside from 
 what it has already yielded. 
 
 Mr. Pelton moved from Nevada to Pasadena in 
 January, 1911, purchasing one of the beautiful 
 homes in the city by the foothills. Here in this 
 congenial atmosphere of beauty and refinement he 
 and his family are living quietly. 
 
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 HOMAS, CHARLES PRES- 
 TON, Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Lin- 
 coln, Missouri, November 12, 
 1864, the son of Eli C. 
 Thomas and Eleanor (Wainwright) Thomas. 
 He married Elsie Beckon at Spokane, Wash- 
 ington, November 6, 1902. 
 
 Dr. Thomas received his early education 
 in the public schools of 
 his native town and fol- 
 lowed this with a two- 
 year course at the Mis- 
 souri State Normal 
 School at Warrensburg, 
 graduating with a certifi- 
 cate as teacher. He taught 
 in the schools of Missouri 
 during the session of 
 1883-84 and moved at 
 that time to Oregon. 
 
 He entered the medical 
 department of the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon and 
 was graduated in 1888, 
 having spent the last 
 year of his studies in the 
 University Hospital. 
 Shortly after his gradua- 
 tion he went to Wilbur, 
 Washington, where he 
 became head of the Med- 
 ical Department of the 
 Central Washington 
 Railroad, then in course 
 of construction- After re- 
 maining at Wilbur for 
 about eighteen months he was transferred 
 to Fairhaven, Washington, and remained 
 there in charge of the company's medical af- 
 fairs for about three years. At the end of 
 that time he moved to Everett, Washing- 
 ton, where he remained until 1896. 
 
 During these eight years Dr. Thomas de- 
 voted several months of each to special 
 study and post graduate work, thus keeping 
 apace of medical progress despite his loca- 
 tion in an undeveloped section of the 
 country. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Thomas located in Spokane, 
 Washington, where he specialized in surgery 
 and for fourteen and a half years was one 
 of the leading surgeons in the North- 
 western section of the United States. Dur- 
 ing this period he was chief surgeon for St. 
 Luke's Hospital and performed thousands of 
 operations. 
 
 Aside from his professional work, Dr. 
 
 DR. C. P. THOMAS 
 
 Thomas was actively engaged in the bank- 
 ing and real estate business in Spokane and 
 occupied a leading position among the busi- 
 ness men of that city. 
 
 In the year 1910 Dr. Thomas visited Los 
 Angeles and, deciding to make his future 
 home there, sold out his banking interests 
 in Spokane, although he retained his real 
 estate holdings in the northern city. He 
 opened offices in Los An- 
 geles in August of the 
 same year and has been 
 engaged in surgical prac- 
 tice there since. 
 
 As in Spokane, Dr. 
 Thomas invaded the 
 banking field in Southern 
 California shortly after 
 his ai rival there. He be- 
 gan by purchasing the 
 Merchants' National Bank 
 of Santa Monica, Cali- 
 fornia, a suburb of Los 
 Angeles, and has occu- 
 pied the office of Presi- 
 dent of the institution 
 since that time. He has 
 added enterprises to this 
 and is also the holder of 
 a large amount of real 
 estate in and about Los 
 Angeles, so that within 
 the short space of two 
 years he came to be rec- 
 ognized as one of the 
 most active factors in 
 the financial operations 
 of the great Southwest. 
 
 Although he has devoted a large portion 
 of his time to business affairs, Dr- Thomas 
 also has steadily maintained his surgical 
 practice and is a member of the various pro- 
 fessional societies, including the Los An- 
 geles County Medical Society, the Medical 
 Society of the State of California and the 
 American Medical Association. The doctor 
 has also contributed occasionally papers to 
 the medical publications on subjects in 
 surgery. 
 
 The doctor is a believer in the future of 
 Southern California and has joined with the 
 forces engaged in the development of Los 
 Angeles and surrounding territory, now in 
 the midst of a growth regarded by experts 
 as one of the most phenomenal in the history 
 of the United States. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
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 105 
 
 IELD, EDWARD SALISBURY, Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Leverett, Massachu- 
 setts, October 30, 1840, the son of 
 De Estang Salisbury Field and 
 Editha (Crocker) Field. He mar- 
 ried Sarah M. Hubbard, daughter of one of the pio- 
 neers of Indianapolis, Indiana, at Indianapolis, June 
 6, 1866, and to them there were born three sons 
 and four daughters. Two of the sons died in in- 
 fancy and the remaining one, 
 Edward Salisbury Field, Jr., 
 is a noted author and artist, 
 known as an artist by the 
 nom de plume of "Childe 
 Harold." The eldest daugh- 
 ter, Helen, is the wife of 
 Murray M. Harris of Los An- 
 geles; the second daughter, 
 Edith, is the wife of Howard 
 L. Rivers, a Los Angeles mer- 
 chant; the third daughter, 
 Carrie, is unmarried, living 
 with her parents at 685 Cor- 
 onado street, and the young- 
 est, Florence, is the wife of 
 Harold L. Wright of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Field is descended 
 from a notable New England 
 family whose members on 
 both sides of the house have 
 played a prominent part in 
 the development of the coun- 
 try. His father was born on 
 the homestead at Leverett, 
 August 24, 1813, and died at 
 the residence of his son in 
 Los Angeles, March 7, 1900. 
 
 His mother died at Monson, Massachusetts, Janu- 
 ary 17, 1888, and he is the only survivor of five 
 children born to them. 
 
 Early in his life Mr. Field's family removed from 
 Leverett to Amherst, Mass., where he received fair 
 education in the public schools. At the age of 
 eighteen he entered upon a five-year apprenticeship 
 to learn the book and paper business. For the first 
 year he received $50 and the second year $75, out 
 of which he had to keep himself. A part of the 
 five years he was at Amherst and Springfield, Mass., 
 and the balance of the time at Troy, New York. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Field went to Indianapolis, Ind., and 
 for a number of years was a partner in the firm 
 of Merrill & Field, law publishers and booksellers. 
 He was active in Christian work there, serving as 
 an Elder in the Second Presbyterian Church, and as 
 President of the Young Men's Christian Assn. 
 
 Leaving Indianapolis in June, 1883, Mr. Field 
 transferred his home to Los Angeles and has lived 
 there since, taking a prominent part in the civic 
 
 E. S. FIELD 
 
 life and upbuilding of that part of the country. 
 He served two terms on the Board of County Su- 
 pervisors, being elected the first time in 1894, and 
 the second time in 1898, he being the first Repub- 
 lican supervisor elected to succeed himself. He was 
 chairman of the board for two years and chairman 
 of the County Hospital for six years, during two 
 years of which he also served on the County Farm 
 Committee, the two most important in the board. 
 Mr. Field has been in the real estate business since 
 locating in Los Angeles and is 
 today one of the active opera- 
 tors, despite the fact that he 
 is past seventy years of age. 
 In 1886 he subdivided what 
 is known as the E. S. Field 
 Occidental Heights tract, ten 
 acres of which was given to 
 Occidental College, a Presby- 
 terian institution. Upon this 
 land the first buildings of the 
 college were erected, Mr. 
 Field being one of the incor- 
 porators and, for several 
 years, President of the Board 
 of Trustees of the college. 
 
 In his realty operations 
 Mr. Field has been interested 
 in the development of numer- 
 ous beautiful residence sec- 
 tions in and around Los An- 
 geles, among them the Holly- 
 wood Ocean View tract, Ar- 
 lington Heights tract, and the 
 Short Line Beach Land Com- 
 pany, of which latter he is 
 President; and the Pacific 
 Wharf & Storage Company, 
 of San Pedro, California. He 
 
 is or has been connected with various other enter- 
 prises of a development nature. 
 
 Mr. Field, who cast his first vote for Abraham 
 Lincoln for President of the United States, has al- 
 ways been a Republican in politics, and has been a 
 pioneer in business, moral and educational enter- 
 prises. As in the days when he was in Indianapolis, 
 he has been an ardent worker in the cause of 
 Christianity. For several years he was an Elder 
 in the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a 
 Director in the Young Men's Christian Association 
 and a member of the State Executive Committee of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association. His voice 
 has often been heard from the platform in the in- 
 terest of the Association and he has often been 
 helpful in laying foundations upon which others 
 have built and largely received the reward. 
 
 Mr. Field's only affiliations outside of his busi- 
 ness and Christian associations, are those of the 
 Union League Club of Los Angeles, and the Royal 
 Arcanum. 
 
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 ULLALLY, THORNWELL, Assist- 
 ant to the President, and acting 
 head of the United Railroads, San 
 Francisco, California, was born 
 at Columbia, S. C., January 17, 
 1868, the son of Francis P. and 
 Elizabeth K. (Adger) Mullally. His father, an Irish- 
 man by birth, was a distinguished Presbyterian 
 clergyman of South Carolina, while his mother was 
 an Adger, an old Southern family of that State. 
 Their son Thornwell came to 
 San Francisco from New 
 York in 1906. 
 
 Mr. Mullally attended 
 Adger College, S. C., the Uni- 
 versity of South Carolina and 
 the Hopkins Grammar 
 School, New Haven, Conn. 
 He was graduated from Yale 
 in '92. While here he was 
 an editor of the Yale Litera- 
 ry Magazine, a member of 
 the "Scroll and Key" Senior 
 Society, and represented 
 Yale in a debate against 
 Harvard in 1892. The faculty 
 awarded him the Thomas 
 Glasby Waterman prize for 
 scholarship, which was given 
 to the man who, in addition 
 to his general high scholar- 
 ship, in the opinion of the 
 faculty, gave the best prom- 
 ise for the future. He was 
 graduated from the New 
 York Law School and sup- 
 plemented that course at the 
 Law School of the University 
 of Virginia, following which 
 he was admitted to the bar of New York City and 
 became a member of the firm of Atterbury & 
 Mullally. 
 
 Until early in the year 1906 Mr. Mullally was an 
 active practitioner in New York, where he became 
 identified with important interests connected with 
 his legal duties, as well as independent of them. 
 But, although he established in that city a reputa- 
 tion for legal and executive ability, he was destined 
 to play a leading part elsewhere as assistant to the 
 president of the United Railroads of San Francisco. 
 He moved to that city in 1906. 
 
 As a record of achievement, both during and im- 
 mediately following the earthquake and fire of 
 April 18, 1906, the work of the United Railroads, 
 as represented by its acting head, Thornwell Mul- 
 lally, is unique in the annals of industrial accom- 
 plishment. From the first moment of realization 
 of what was happening he was the personification 
 of courage, energy and decision. Almost immedi- 
 ately he recognized the immense responsibility 
 resting upon him, and through all the confusion 
 
 THORNWELL MULLALLY 
 
 and obstruction of the days that followed he was 
 obsessed with the sense of his duty to restore the 
 transportation of the city of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Mullally was appointed a member of the 
 Committee of Fifty, which temporarily took over 
 the government of the city. He converted numbers 
 of his uniformed carmen into patrolmen, who proved 
 very effective in preventing disorder. As chairman 
 of the transportation committee of the Committee 
 of Fifty he was able to aid materially in the re- 
 moval of debris and upbuild- 
 ing the city, and by his he- 
 roic efforts in saving some 
 of the power houses from 
 fire and dynamite and in 
 pushing forward the work of 
 reconstruction of the lines, it 
 was possible not only to con- 
 tinue a small part of the car 
 service the day after the 
 quake, but also, after the 
 temporary cessation, to run 
 the first car on Saturday, 
 April 21st, or three days after 
 the first shock. Through the 
 Mayor, he placed the entire 
 car service at the disposal of 
 the city, and for days passen- 
 gers were carried free of 
 charge. He also brought in 
 the first lot of food supplies 
 to reach the city. To quote 
 from General Greely's report: 
 "Considering the difficulties 
 encountered, the most re- 
 markable accomplishment of 
 reconstruction and re-estab- 
 lishment of car service 
 known in street railway his- 
 tory was here exemplified by the United Railroads 
 of San Francisco." 
 
 Mr. Mullally has continued, in Mr. Calhoun's 
 absence, to act as the latter's representative and 
 head of the corporation. The property, it is con- 
 ceded even by its enemies, is magnificently admin- 
 istered. The rolling stock is of the highest grade 
 and the service of the finest. He has taken an active 
 part in the commercial and social life of the city, 
 wherein he is known for his positive character, 
 courtesy and tact. He is also a prominent and 
 popular member of the leading clubs and associa- 
 tions, both here and elsewhere, among them the 
 University Club and Bar Association of New York, 
 and the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, Family and Uni- 
 versity Clubs of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Mullally is a director of the Panama-Pacific 
 International Exposition, a member of its various 
 committees, acting director of concessions, and 
 was active in Washington in securing recognition 
 of the Exposition by the United States Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 
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 RIGHT, EDWARD THOMAS, Civil 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Elgin, Illinois, June 
 30, 1851, the son of Paul Raymond 
 Wright and Emily (Harvey) 
 Wright. Mr. Wright has been 
 twice married, his first wife having been Lucy Nich- 
 olson, whom he married at Cobden, Illinois, Decem- 
 ber 11, 1873. Of this union there were born three 
 children, George, Charles and Grace, the latter now 
 deceased. On March 5, 1912, 
 twelve years after the death 
 of his first wife, Mr. Wright 
 married Capitola B. Wenzil, 
 at San Diego, California. 
 
 Mr. Wright received his 
 primary education in the 
 common schools of his native 
 city and later attended Elgin 
 Academy, but did not com- 
 plete the course there, leav- 
 ing at the age of nineteen 
 years to enter business. 
 
 At that time (1870) he 
 went to New Orleans, Louis- 
 iana, and was appointed 
 Journal Clerk of the State 
 Senate of Louisiana. He re- 
 mained there during one ses- 
 sion of the Legislature, re- 
 signing at the end of six 
 months' service to return to 
 his home in Illinois. He 
 spent the balance of the year 
 on his father's 'arm. In 1871 
 he made plans to go to Colo- 
 rado and learn the stock- 
 raising business. After one 
 year of hardship and cold he 
 changed his mind and went 
 to Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 where he took up the study 
 of landscape architecture in 
 the office of Cleveland & 
 French. After studying the 
 
 profession Mr. Wright represented Cleveland & 
 French for about two years in various parts of the 
 United States, the principal office being in St. Paul, 
 Minnesota. 
 
 In 1874, Mr. Wright went to Chicago, and .opene-1 
 offices with his brother, George F. Wright, as Civil 
 Engineers and Surveyors. They had hardly estab- 
 lished themselves, however, when Mr. Wright's 
 health became impaired and he sought the more 
 congenial climate of Southern California. Locating 
 in Los Angeles in the early part of 1875, Mr. Wright 
 established offices as Civil Engineer and Surveyor 
 and has -since continued in that branch of the 
 profession. He has been honored with public office 
 on frequent occasions. 
 
 Mr. Wright, during his long career in Los An- 
 geles, has taken an active part in the development 
 of the city and vicinity and is regarded as one of 
 the real upbuilders of the Southwest. He has 
 figured as engineer or surveyor in numerous large 
 land operations, his first large contract having been 
 the surveying of the Morris Vinevard Tract in Los 
 Angeles for the Hon. H. K. S. O'Melveny, one of the 
 pioneers of the city. This tract, located at Pico 
 and Main streets, is now in the center of the mod- 
 ern business district of Los Angeles. Another im- 
 portant work done by Mr. Wright during the first 
 
 ED. T. WRIGHT 
 
 years of his residence in Los Angeles was the 
 survey and construction of an irrigation canal, 
 known as the "Cajon Ditch," which supplies water 
 from the Santa Ana River to the Anaheim ranch 
 district near Los Angeles. He also designed and 
 surveyed the Evergreen Cemetery of Los Angeles, 
 a picturesque tract in the eastern part of the city. 
 Mr. Wright, in 1883, was part owner and one of 
 the surveyors of the Watts Subdivision, a vast tract 
 north of the city, which at that time included Glen- 
 dale, Tropico and Eagle 
 Rock, three beautiful and 
 well populated suburbs of Los 
 Angeles. These sections were 
 originally owned between 
 several of the early Spanish 
 settlers and became historic 
 ranches before progress de- 
 manded their sub-division. 
 
 In 1885, about the time he 
 was completing this work, 
 Mr. Wright, in company with 
 three others, purchased 7000 
 acres of land in Cucamonga, 
 California, now a thriving ag- 
 ricultural center, and in- 
 stalled modern improvements 
 which formed the basis of 
 the present town. 
 
 Mr. Wright's work in Los 
 Angeles, combined with his 
 staunch support of the Re- 
 publican party, won him po- 
 litical consideration early in 
 his career. In 1879, within 
 four years of his arrival, he 
 was elected County Survey- 
 or and served in that office 
 until 1882, a period of many 
 public improvements in and 
 around the city. In 1882 he 
 was elected a member of 
 the Board of Education and 
 served as such for two 
 years, his associates being 
 
 Frank A. Gibson, George S. Patten, J. M. Elliott 
 and W. G. Cochran, all important factors in the 
 history of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1884, Mr. Wright was elected County Sur- 
 veyor a second time and served until 1886, at 
 which time he retired from public life temporarily 
 to attend to his private affairs. In 1895, however, 
 he was again called out of retirement by his party 
 and was elected County Surveyor for the third 
 time. Upon the expiration of his term in 1898 he 
 refused to run again and he has been engaged in 
 private work since that time. 
 
 Mr. Wright's various administrations as County 
 Surveyor were marked by numerous improvements 
 which contributed to the progress and growth of 
 the city and county. 
 
 In addition to his professional activities, Mr. 
 Wright has been a factor in the social life of Los 
 .Angeles for many years and was among the 
 fourriprs of what are today the leading clubs 
 of the city. He was a charter member of the 
 Jonathan Club, the California Club and the Union 
 League Club, but has resigned from the latter 
 two. He has boen a member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers for twenty-seven years 
 and is also a member of the Engineers and Archi- 
 tects' Association of Los Angeles. 
 
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 JAMES SLAUSON 
 
 LAUSON, JAMES, Capitalist, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Austin, Nevada, Oct. 7, 1865. His 
 father was Jonathan Sayre Slau- 
 son and his mother Sarah R. 
 (Blum) Slauson. He moved to 
 California when a child, settling in San Francisco 
 in 1870, went to Los Angeles in 1874, where he 
 has since resided. 
 
 In 1880 he began his business career when he 
 entered the Los Angeles County Bank, since dis- 
 incorporated. He remained with this banking firm 
 for five years. 
 
 He accepted the secretaryship of the Azusa 
 Land and Water Company in 1885. In 1890 he set 
 out six hundred acnes of orchard land, owned now 
 by the Azusa Foothill Citrus Company, of which he 
 is president, and from that time has been develop- 
 ing agricultural undertakings in connection with 
 his banking interests. 
 
 Mr. Slauson has been identified with agricul- 
 tural pursuits in Southern California for many 
 years, and his work in dealing with big land or- 
 ganizations and in promoting agricultural enter- 
 prises has been uniformly successful. He is ac- 
 tively interested in a number of corporate organi- 
 zations, among which are the following: Azusa 
 Foothill Citrus Company, president; Azusa Agri- 
 cultural Water Company, president; First National 
 Bank, Azusa, director; Equitable Savings Bank, 
 Los Angeles, director; Western Union Oil Com- 
 pany, director; Sixth Agricultural Association, di- 
 rector; Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, presi- 
 dent. 
 
 He is a director of the California Club, vice 
 president of the Bolsa Chico Gun Club, active mem- 
 ber Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale Country 
 Club, University Club and Sunset Club, of which he 
 was president in 1910. He is a director and treas- 
 urer of the Los Angeles Symphony Association. 
 
 DANA R. WELLER 
 
 ELLER, DANA REID, Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Oneoto, Superior County, 
 Minnesota, March 24, 1874. His 
 father was Levi W. Weller and his 
 mother Cordelia (Woods) Weller. 
 He married Jessica Rhodes in Los Angeles, Cal., 
 October 14, 1897. To them was born a daughter, 
 Katherine Weller. 
 
 Mr. Weller was taken to Los Angeles when he 
 was an infant. He received his education in the 
 grammar schools of Los Angeles, Los Angeles High 
 School, and finally in the Los Angeles Normal. 
 
 Upon leaving school, Mr. Weller entered the of- 
 fice of his present partner, John T. Jones, as a 
 stenographer and student. This was in August, 
 1903. He read law for approximately two years, 
 and in April, 1895, he was admitted to the bar by 
 the Supreme Court of California. In 1899 he was 
 admitted to practice before the District and Circuit 
 Courts of the United States in 1899. With his ad- 
 mission to the bar Mr. Weller was taken into part- 
 nership by Mr. Jones, and the firm has continued 
 down to date under the title of Jones and Weller. 
 In addition to his legal work, Mr. Weller is in- 
 terested in various business organizations. Also he 
 is a conspicuous figure in the military circles of 
 Los Angeles. He served through the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican war as Major of the Seventh California Infan- 
 try, U. S. Volunteers, his service continuing from 
 May to December, 1898; from Sept. 16, 1899, to June 
 30, 1901, he was captain of the Forty-fourth U. S. 
 Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, the latter service being 
 in the Philippines. 
 
 Mr. Weller is a member of the Union League 
 Club of Los Angeles, of which organization he was 
 president in 1909; Chamber of Commerce, San Ga- 
 briel Country Club, Los Angeles City Club, United 
 Spanish War Veterans, Roosevelt Camp No. 9, and 
 Grand Master of Masons in California in 1911. 
 
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 DR. HENDERSON HAYWARD 
 
 AYWARD, HENDERSON, Retired 
 Physician and Banker, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 York County, Pennsylvania, on 
 November 18, 1844. His parents 
 were Dr. Joseph Hayward and 
 Sally (Brearley) Hayward. He was married 
 to Julia Dibble on April 22, 1897, in San Francisco. 
 Dr. Hayward has eight children by a former mar- 
 riage; Julia Brearley Hayward being the daughter 
 of the present Mrs. Hayward. 
 
 Dr. Hayward attended the Cumberland Valley 
 Institute at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, from 
 1855 to 1858. He then studied in the Medical De- 
 partment of the Georgetown University, Washing- 
 ton, D. C., from which he graduated. 
 
 From October, 1864, to April, 1865, Dr. Hayward 
 served as Hospital Steward in the United States 
 Army, under Colonel L. A. Edwards, who on being 
 detailed as Chief Medical Officer of the Bureau 
 of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, ap- 
 pointed him Chief Clerk of the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the Bureau. 
 
 Dr. Hayward spent most of the time of 1869 and 
 1871 regaining his health which had become im- 
 paired, but in 1871 he settled in Delaware County, 
 near Philadelphia and practiced medicine until 
 1893, when his health again became impaired and 
 he had to finally relinquish his practice. He came 
 to Los Angeles in December, 1894, and became a 
 permanent resident. He engaged in the oil busi- 
 ness first, as secretary and treasurer of the Coalin- 
 ga Oil Company and subsequently as director in the 
 Reed Crude and Rice Ranch Oil Companies. In 
 1898 Dr. Hayward became interested in real estate 
 investments and in 1906 retired from all active 
 business pursuits. He is a director of the Security 
 Savings Bank and the Merchants' Bank and Trust 
 Company. He is a member of the Los Angeles 
 Country and the University Clubs. 
 
 WALTER GRESHAM 
 
 RESHAM, WALTER, Attorney-at- 
 law, Galveston, Texas, was born 
 July 22, 1841, in King and Queen 
 County, Virginia, the son of Ed- 
 ward Gresham and Isabella 
 (Mann) Gresham. He married 
 Josephine C. Mann at Galveston, October 28, 1868. 
 There were born nine children, Edward (deceased), 
 Estha, Walter (deceased), William (deceased), Jos- 
 ephine C., T. Dew, Frank S., Beulah and Philip. 
 
 Prior to 1857, he attended the Stevensville 
 Academy in his native county, then entered Edge- 
 hill Academy, remaining until early in 1861, when 
 he enlisted in the Confederate Army. He quit the 
 army and entered the University of Virginia, but 
 re-enlisted the following spring. After a year he 
 returned to the University and stayed there until 
 he received his degree of B. L., June, 1863. A 
 third time he joined the Confederate forces and 
 remained until the surrender at Appomatox in 1865, 
 serving in the 9th and 24th Virginia Cavalry. 
 
 The year following the war's close he went to 
 Galveston and began law practice, taking an active 
 part in politics. He served in the 20th, 21st and 22d 
 Legislatures of Texas and the 53d Congress, secur- 
 ing the Congressional appropriation which made 
 Galveston a deep water port. He was on the com- 
 mittee which formulated the commission form of 
 government for Galveston and obtained from the 
 Legislature the tax donation, which provided that 
 city's protective works against floods. He was 
 Pres. Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and 
 Vice Pres. Nat. Rivers and Harbors Congress. 
 
 Mr. Gresham was in various partnerships, the 
 last being with his son Walter, who died in 1905. In 
 addition to his legal practice, he is president of the 
 Galveston and Western Railway, and formerly sec- 
 ond vice president and director of the Gulf, Colo- 
 rado and Santa Fe Railway and director of the 
 Galveston, La Porte and Houston Railway. 
 
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 ORD, TIREY LAFAYETTE, Attor- 
 ney and General Counsel for the 
 United Railroads, San Francisco, 
 California, was born in Monroe 
 County, Missouri, December 29, 
 1857, the son of Jacob Harrison 
 Ford and Mary Winn (Abernathy) Ford. He comes 
 from a long line of agricultural forbears and was 
 himself born on a farm. In the first ship that 
 sailed from Holland to Virginia, in January, 1700, 
 was a band of French Huguenots whom William, 
 Prince of Orange, after he became King of Eng- 
 land, had invited to make their home in America, 
 and among these first French immigrants were 
 Pierre Faure (later called Peter Ford), his wife 
 and child, his brother, Daniel, and his two sisters. 
 From the time that this Pierre Faure first settled 
 on his allotted land along the James River, in Vir- 
 ginia, to the death of Jacob Harrison Ford, father 
 of the subject of this sketch, in Kansas City, Mis- 
 souri, in November, 1908, his American ancestors 
 have been tillers of the soil. Mr. Ford married 
 Miss Emma Byington, daughter of the Hon. Lewis 
 Byington, one of the leading pioneers of Sierra 
 County, in Downieville, California, February 1, 
 1888. To them were born three children Relda 
 (now Mrs. Fred V. F. Stott) and Byington, and 
 Tirey Lafayette Ford, Jr. 
 
 The phrase "born," or "raised on the farm" has 
 been elevated in America from a term somewhat 
 jocular to one of something like distinction, such 
 is the character of the men chiefly responsible for 
 the elevation. And from milking cows at daybreak, 
 husking corn and performing other feats on some 
 cultivated acres, even though the latter be situated 
 in the Show-Me State of Missouri, to an attorney 
 generalship and the post of general counsel of 
 one of the richest corporations in the country is a 
 progression that doesn't mar the acquired nature 
 of the foregoing phrase. This, in brief, is the ca- 
 reer, at a glance, of General Ford. 
 
 The district school of the county, 1863 to 1873, 
 and the higii school, from which he was graduated 
 in 1876, gave him his early education. During these 
 years, however, he worked at night and on Sat- 
 urdays "doing chores" to pay his expenses, and on 
 the other weekdays rode his father's mules to the 
 schoolhouse. 
 
 When he was 19 years of age he reached Cali- 
 fornia via an emigrant train, February 11, 1877, 
 and started his Western life as a ranch hand in 
 the Sacramento Valley. This healthful, if not 
 especially remunerative, occupation held him in 
 Butte and Colusa counties for the next two years. 
 But on January 1, 1880, stimulated by the posses- 
 sion of a few hundred dollars he had accumulated, 
 and by a legal ambition he had perchance inherited 
 from his mother's father, an attorney, he began the 
 study of the law in the office of Colonel Park Hen- 
 shaw at Chico. Less than three years of this suf- 
 ficed to fit him for admittance to the bar, in August, 
 1882. 
 
 The outlook he found on his return to Chico, 
 however, was not brilliant. With neither office, 
 money nor clients he became depressed and wrote 
 to his father for a little financial encouragement. 
 The sire answered in a letter full of wise advice, 
 but lacking the more substantial stimulus. As the 
 son was not of the quitting variety, however, he 
 managed to make his way to Oroville, where he 
 
 hung out his shingle, and, pending the desired lure 
 thereof, helped his little income by keeping books 
 for some of the merchants of the town. 
 
 In January, 1885, he moved to Downieville, 
 where his legal efforts met with a little better re- 
 ward. His progress thenceforward was rapid, 
 marked by his election in 1888, and again in 1890, 
 to the District Attorneyship of Sierra County, to 
 the State Senate in 1892, wherein he served from 
 1893 to 1895, and, on his change of residence to 
 San Francisco, by his appointment to the attorney- 
 ship of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. 
 
 In all these offices he made a brilliant record. 
 As a Senator he had the special distinction of vot- 
 ing, with only one colleague, against the "free and 
 unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1," 
 and as attorney for the Harbor Commission solved 
 the difficult legal problem, thereby giving to San 
 Francisco the area known as Channel street, now 
 a part of the city's harbor. 
 
 In January, 1899, after considerable opposition 
 frem the regular Republican organization, so called, 
 he became Attorney General of California. The 
 policy to which he adhered throughout his term he 
 outlined to his deputies thus: "With lawmaking and 
 with State policies this office has nothing to do. 
 The Governor and the Legislature will attend to 
 that. Our business is to know the law, to dis- 
 close it as we find it and to protect and maintain 
 the State's legal rights." 
 
 Among his noteworthy acts in this capacity 
 was his argument on rehearing before the Supreme 
 Court whereby he secured a reversal of the former 
 decision touching the inheritance tax on the Le- 
 land Stanford estate and thus converted the $250,- 
 000 involved to the use of the public schools of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 General Ford's appointment, in August, 1902, as 
 general counsel for the United Railroads obliged 
 him to resign his Attorney Generalship. To insure 
 the continuance of the office on the plane he him- 
 self had chosen, he selected for his successor his 
 friend and former mountain neighbor, U. S. Webb, 
 at that time the District Attorney of Plumas 
 County. In this instance he triumphed again over 
 the opposition of the so-called regular Republican 
 organization. 
 
 In April, 1905, after some hesitation, he accepted 
 the appointment from Governor Pardee to member- 
 ship on the State Board of Prison Directors. Here, 
 too, his work has been distinguished by the same 
 system of thoroughness he had applied to all his 
 previous offices. His creation of the special bureau 
 for paroled prisoners, by means of which 985 pris- 
 oners have been paroled, and his able and elab- 
 orate report on the principal reformatories in the 
 United States have added not a little lustre to his 
 record as a public officer. 
 
 General Ford is a member of the Pacific Union, 
 Bohemian, Union League, Press, Transportation, 
 Commercial, Amaurot and Southern Clubs, as well 
 as of the American Academy of Political and Social 
 Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Prison As- 
 sociation, the American Humane Association and 
 the Golden Gate Commandery, K. T. For many 
 years he has been one of the trustees of the Me- 
 chanics' Institute. He is also a golf enthusiast and 
 characteristically has reduced his operations on the 
 links to a system. 
 
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 KEEN, BURTON E., Presi- 
 dent, Amalgamated Oil Co. of 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Wisconsin, Sept. 6, 1868, 
 his parents being Richard 
 Green and Amanda Hill (Bush) Green. 
 On January 14, 1905, Mr. Green mar- 
 ried Miss Lilian Wellborn, a daughter of 
 Judge Olin Wellborn, U. S. Dist. Judge. 
 They have two little 
 daughters, Dorothy and 
 Liliore. 
 
 As a boy he attended 
 the public schools of 
 Wisconsin and the Beav- 
 er Dam Academy of the 
 same State. In 1886 his 
 parents moved to Califor- 
 nia, and in 1889 he grad- 
 uated from the High 
 School of Los Angeles. 
 
 Soon after his gradua- 
 tion he went to Redlands 
 and became interested in 
 orange culture, which he 
 pursued successfully for 
 five years. This occupa- 
 tion did not afford suf- 
 ficient activity and he re- 
 turned to Los Angeles to 
 seek a larger field of busi- 
 ness possibilities. 
 
 At this time the oil 
 industry seemed to offer 
 the greatest opportuni- 
 ties, and associating him- 
 self with M. H. Whittier 
 they entered the oil business under the firm 
 name of Green & Whittier. Mr. Whittier, 
 as a practical oil operator, looked after the 
 drilling operations, while Mr. Green attended 
 to the administrative and financial portion of 
 the business. The first operations confined to 
 the Los Angeles field were undertaken with 
 excellent judgment and satisfactory results. 
 After drilling one of the first wells in the 
 Coalinga district, because of greater activity 
 in the Kern River district they transferred 
 their operations to the vicinity of Bakersfield, 
 and soon had a splendid production. The 
 Green & Whittier Oil Co. was one of the 
 three original companies which were com- 
 bined to form the Associated Oil Co. Mr. 
 Green was elected director and member of the 
 executive committee, and is still one of its 
 board of directors. The Associated Oil Co. 
 probably does the largest volume of business 
 of any oil company on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 BURTON E. GREEN 
 
 In 1905 the Amalgamated Oil Co. was 
 formed, with activities confined principally to 
 Southern California, where it does the bulk 
 of the oil business. Soon after its formation 
 Mr. Green was elected president, and still 
 fills this position. He is also largely interest- 
 ed in and president of the Belridge Oil Co., 
 one of the newer oil companies, which, on ac- 
 count of its tremendous holdings of 32,000 
 acres in the rich Lost 
 Hills district, promises to 
 be an important factor in 
 the oil business of the 
 State. 
 
 Aside from his oil in- 
 terests he is largely inter- 
 ested in the Booth-Kelly 
 Lumber Co., a corpora- 
 tion owning approximate- 
 ly 200,000 acres of excel- 
 lent timber land in Ore- 
 gon and a number of large 
 mills, near several ot 
 which it has been instru- 
 mental in building up 
 towns. Mr. Green is also 
 the largest stockholder in 
 the Rodeo Land & Water 
 Co., a corporation owning 
 a valauble tract of about 
 3000 acres of land near 
 Los Angeles. A portion 
 of it has been subdivided 
 and, as Beverly Hills, is 
 known as one of the most 
 exclusive subdivisions in 
 Southern California. 
 
 Outdoor life appeals strongly to Mr. 
 Green, and whenever his business affairs per- 
 mit he indulges in hunting, fishing, golf and 
 motoring. As a member of the Bolsa Chica 
 Gun Club, the Flatrock Club (whose grounds 
 are in Idaho) and the San Ysidro Rancho Co. 
 of Mexico, he has ample opportunity to grat- 
 ify his shooting and fishing proclivities, while 
 his membership in the Los Angeles and San 
 Francisco Country clubs give him access to 
 the best links to test out his prowess as a 
 golfer. 
 
 His enjoyment of club life is further evi- 
 denced by his membership in the California 
 Club, the Jonathan Club and Crags Country 
 Club of Los Angeles, and the Pacific Union 
 Club and the Bohemian Club of San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 In all of his clubs he has a large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances among whom he is 
 most pleasantly and favorably known. 
 
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 OCHRAN, GEORGE IRA, 
 President of the Pacific Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company, 
 attorney and financier, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Oshawa, Province of Ontario, Canada, 
 on July 1, 1863, son of Rev. George 
 Cochran, D. D., and Catherine Lynch (Da- 
 vidson) Cochran. Mr. Cochran has been 
 twice married. His first 
 wife was Alice Maud Mc- 
 Clung, whom he wedded 
 in Canada on August 6, 
 1890; his second wife was 
 a sister of the first, 
 Isabelle May McClung, 
 and was married to Mr. 
 Cochran in Los Angeles 
 on April 3, 1907. 
 
 His education was had 
 in private schools in To- 
 kyo, Japan ; Collegiate 
 Institute, Toronto, and 
 the University of To- 
 ronto ; he was admitted 
 as barrister-at-law at Os- 
 good Hall, Toronto, 
 shortly after graduation, 
 and was admitted to prac- 
 tice in the Supreme Court 
 of California in February, 
 1888, the year of his ar- 
 rival in Los Angeles, 
 where he has since made 
 his home and the scene of 
 his busy career. 
 
 His primary occupa- 
 
 GEO. I. COCHRAN 
 
 tion of the practice of law, combined with 
 long and studious visits to Europe and the 
 Orient, served to prepare his mind and de- 
 velop his mentality for the tasks which they 
 were to undertake ; qualities which were fur- 
 ther strengthened by an inheritance of strong 
 character and rectitude from his forbears ; his 
 father was a most prominent religious factor 
 in Toronto, and his mother was a descendant 
 of the Wesleys, the founders of the Metho- 
 dist Church ; it is thus an atavistic trait of 
 Mr. Cochran to display those qualities of 
 conscience and of righteousness which carry 
 conviction of his honesty and capacity. 
 
 A recital of his financial positions will 
 serve to show the scope of his business activ- 
 ity: He is president of the Pacific Mutual 
 Life Insurance Co., president of the Pacific 
 Mutual Indemnity Co., director of the Los 
 Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, director of 
 the Southern California Edison Co., director 
 
 of the Broadway Bank & Trust Co., director 
 of the Anglo-California Trust Co. of San 
 Francisco, president of the Rosedale Ceme- 
 tery Association of Los Angeles, director of 
 the Rindge Land & Navigating Co., president 
 of the Holland Land & Water Co., director of 
 the Empire Navigation Co., president of the 
 Southern California Cremation Society, direc- 
 tor of the Seaside Water Co., vice president 
 
 of the Maclay Rancho 
 
 Water Co., and interest- 
 ed as investor in a myr- 
 iad of other enterprises. 
 
 But a formal recital 
 of the positions attained 
 by Mr. Cochran make a 
 faint reflection of his po- 
 tency and activity in 
 business affairs. 
 
 As president of the 
 Pacific Mutual Life In- 
 surance Co., Mr. Cochran 
 finds himself the execu- 
 tive of one of the great 
 insurance associations of 
 the country; one that 
 originated in the West, 
 but which has been con- 
 ducted with such acumen 
 and wisdom as to have 
 become one of the fore- 
 most financial institutions 
 of the country. His life 
 insurance company car- 
 ries over $20,000,000 of 
 investments, supervised 
 and directed by him ; when 
 
 added to this duty are the immense details of 
 his other enterprises, the fact that he is able to 
 conduct all of this business without the os- 
 tentation of exclusiveness that surrounds 
 most great financiers, and that he has main- 
 tained a simplicity and directness of method 
 which marked his earlier years, the steadfast- 
 ness and reliability of the man become ap- 
 parent. He was a member of the Los Angeles 
 City Charter Commission in 1893, is a trustee 
 of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, 
 is a member of the Republican County Cen- 
 tral Committee; he is a trustee of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association, and trustee and 
 treasurer of the University of So. California. 
 He belongs to the California, Jonathan, 
 University, Los Angeles Athletic, Los An- 
 geles Country and Union League clubs, and 
 Federation of Clubs of Los Angeles ; also the 
 Pacific Union and the Bohemian clubs of San 
 Francisco. 
 
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 OLLIDAY, WILLIAM 
 HARRISON, Banker, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born at St. 
 Louis, Mo., July 27, 1863. His 
 father was Samuel Newton 
 Holliday and his mother Maria (Fithian) 
 Holliday. He married Flora Adeline Bald- 
 win at Los Angeles, October 30, 1889, and to 
 them was born one child, Maria Louise Hol- 
 liday. Mr. Holliday re- 
 ceived his early education 
 in the schools of St. Louis 
 and upon completion of 
 his studies there went to 
 Phillips Exeter Academy 
 to prepare for university 
 work. Graduating from 
 the Academy in 1881 he 
 entered Harvard Univer- 
 sity the following year 
 and was graduated in 
 1886. Upon completion 
 of his education Mr. Hol- 
 liday went on a tour of 
 Europe. He remained 
 abroad for an entire year, 
 visiting practically every 
 place of interest in the 
 Old World, and then re- 
 turned to the United 
 States. 
 
 His first employment 
 was in a bank, and the 
 story of his career, begin- 
 ning there, is the chron- 
 icle of a financier growing 
 up with the business. He 
 went to Los Angeles upon his return to his 
 native land, and in May, 1887, became a 
 bookkeeper in the Farmers and Merchants' 
 Bank of that city. He remained there for 
 .two months and then took charge of the 
 books of the old Southern California Na- 
 tional Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 When the Southern California National 
 Bank was succeeded by the Merchants' Na- 
 tional Bank, Mr. Holliday went along with 
 the assets and good will, and has been with 
 that bank ever since, a matter of more than 
 24 years. In quick succession he went from 
 the bookkeeper's desk to the teller's window, 
 from that to assistant cashier, and in 1895 he 
 was made cashier of the institution. This of- 
 fice he held until 1906, when he was elected 
 president of the bank, a trust he has admin- 
 istrated to the present. That, in a few words, 
 is the .story of how Mr. Holliday rose to the 
 top of his profession and acquired the knowl- 
 
 WILLIAM H. HOLLIDAY 
 
 edge which makes him one of the leading 
 financiers of the West, but it does not tell the 
 whole story of his activity in the commercial 
 and banking life of the city of his adoption, 
 for he has not confined himself, in later years, 
 to directing the affairs of one bank. Instead, 
 he is interested in a multitude of concerns 
 and the busy life he leads may be gleaned 
 from the following lists: 
 
 He is president of the 
 First National Bank of 
 Covina, Cal., and is on the 
 Board of Directors of the 
 Security Savings Bank of 
 Los Angeles, the First 
 National Bank of Azusa, 
 Cal. ; First National Bank 
 of Glendale, Cal., and the 
 First National Bank of 
 Artesia, Cal. ; Title Guar- 
 antee and Trust Co. of 
 Los Angeles, and Globe 
 Grain and Milling Co. of 
 the same city. 
 
 The banks in which 
 Mr. Holliday is interested 
 form a financial chain in 
 and around Los Angeles 
 and control many millions 
 of dollars, in the adminis- 
 tration of which he is a 
 powerful factor. 
 
 In addition to the 
 above, other financial as- 
 sociations have claimed 
 much of his attention. 
 For one term he was 
 President and Chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of the Los Angeles Clearing 
 House Association, preceding Mr. Stoddard 
 Jess in that office. 
 
 With one exception Mr. Holliday is the 
 oldest active banker, in point of service, in 
 the City of Los Angeles. He has been con- 
 tinually in harness for nearly a quarter of a 
 century, and, with the exception of the two 
 months he put in with the Farmers and 
 Merchants' Bank when he first went to Los 
 Angeles, has been connected all that time 
 with the same house. 
 
 Individually and as a member of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Holli- 
 day has aided greatly in the upbuilding and 
 modernizing of Los Angeles aYid is regarded 
 as one of its civic leaders. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 Mystic Shriner and a member of the Califor- 
 nia and the Los Angeles Country Clubs. 
 
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 ALCH, ALLAN CHRISTO- 
 PHER, General Manager, Pa- 
 cific Light & Power Co., the 
 Southern California Gas Co., 
 and vice president of the San 
 Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a native of New York 
 State, being born at Valley Falls, March 13, 
 1864. His father was Ebenezer Atwood 
 Balch and his mother 
 Hannah (Hoag) Balch. 
 On April 29, 1891, at 
 Oakland, Cal., he mar- 
 ried Janet Jacks. 
 
 Mr. Balch was edu- 
 c a t e d in the public 
 schools of his native 
 State, including the Cam- 
 bridge High School, after 
 which he entered Cornell 
 University, graduating in 
 1889 with the degrees of 
 M. E. and E. E. 
 
 Immediately after his 
 graduation Mr. Balch de- 
 cided to go West, where 
 greater opportunities 
 were to be found. In 
 1889 he moved to Seattle, 
 where he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Baker, 
 Balch & Co., and shortly 
 after a director and gen- 
 eral manager of the Home 
 Electric Co. of that city. 
 
 This company was 
 merged with several 
 other similar organizations and formed the 
 Union Electrical Company, of which Mr. 
 Balch was made the general manager. He 
 remained in this position for two years, re- 
 signing in 1891 to accept a better office with 
 the Union Power Company of Portland, Ore. 
 He was made manager of that company, 
 which supplied light and power in Portland, 
 especially all power for operation of the 
 street railways there. 
 
 In 1896 he moved to Los Angeles, where 
 he became one of the founders of the San 
 Gabriel Electric Company, the Sierra Power 
 Company and the Mintone Power Company, 
 three large corpora dons with gigantic plans 
 for the future development of power in the 
 Southwest. Later these companies were 
 merged into the corporation known as the 
 Pacific Light and Power Company. Included 
 in this large organization were the San Ber- 
 nardino Gas and Electric Company, the Riv- 
 
 ALLAN C. BALCH 
 
 erside Power Company and the San Antonio 
 Heights Railway Company. 
 
 In conjunction with H. E. Huntington 
 and W. G. Kerckhoff, Mr. Balch purchased 
 the City Gas Company, now the Southern 
 California Gas Company. The management 
 of these gigantic institutions demanded a 
 man of exceptional training. Mr. Balch, with 
 his qualifications consisting of education, ex- 
 perience and executive 
 ability, was selected to 
 occupy the position of 
 general manager of the 
 combined organizations. 
 Other corporations have 
 been merged into the Pa- 
 cific Light and Power 
 Company, all of which 
 come under Mr. Balch's 
 direction. 
 
 In 1902 W. G. Kerck- 
 hoff and Mr. Balch 
 bought the San Joaquin 
 Light and Power Com- 
 pany, bringing the execu- 
 tive offices of that con- 
 cern to Los Angeles. A 
 short time later the gas, 
 railway and power cor- 
 porations of Bakersfield 
 and Merced were pur- 
 chased by them and 
 merged into the immense 
 organization under the 
 general managership of 
 A. G. Wishon. 
 
 Mr. Balch is heavily 
 interested in the Coalinga Water and Elec- 
 tric Company, which is in itself a corporation 
 of no mean consequence ; also in the Fresno 
 Irrigated Farms Company, the Summit Lake 
 Improvement Company and the Lerdo Land 
 Company. He is a large stockholder and 
 holds office in the following: General Man- 
 ager, Pacific Light and Power Company; 
 General Manager, Southern California Gas 
 Company ; Vice President, San Joaquin Light 
 and Power Corporation, and Vice President 
 Coalinga Light and Power Company. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, 
 the Los Angeles Country Club and the Crag's 
 Country Club of Los Angeles ; and also of 
 the Bohemian Club and Pacific Union Club 
 of San Francisco. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 Knight Templar, a Shriner, and while at 
 Cornell University was a member of the 
 Greek Letter Fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. 
 
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 AMPTON, WILLIAM E., Manufac- 
 turer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Illinois, August 18th, 
 1852. His father was William Ed- 
 ward Hampton and his mother 
 
 Matilda M. (Eastin) Hampton. 
 
 He was married to Frances Wilhoit, of Charleston, 
 Illinois, in the private chapel of the Sisters of Prov- 
 idence in Indianapolis, Indiana, by the Right Rever- 
 end Francis Silas iChatard,D.D., Bishop of Vincennes. 
 
 At the age of fifteen years 
 he began his first work in 
 the wholesale and retail gro- 
 cery of Wright-Minton & 
 Co., of Charleston, Illinois. 
 After working in this estab- 
 lishment for three years he 
 became the traveling agent 
 and cashier for the commis- 
 sion house of C. P. Troy & 
 Co,, of New York, remaining 
 in this position until 1876. 
 
 At this time he returned 
 to Charleston, Illinois, and 
 established the dry goods 
 house of Ray & Hampton. In 
 1879 Mr. Hampton purchased 
 the entire interest of his 
 partner and continued in the 
 dry goods business in his 
 own name very successfully 
 until 1886, when he retired 
 and moved to the Pacific 
 Coast, and after living a re- 
 tired life and traveling for 
 two years, moved to San 
 Francisco. 
 
 In 1890 he built a factory 
 in San Francisco for the 
 
 manufacture of patent non-shrinking wooden tanks, 
 and this was the birth of an industry which he has 
 built up until today it is the largest manufacturing 
 concern of its kind in the world. He managed and 
 conducted the original business for two years in the 
 name of "W. E. Hampton" and then changed the 
 name of the business to "Pacific Tank Co., W. E. 
 Hampton, Proprietor," and continued the business 
 under this name for eleven years, having estab- 
 lished branches and agencies throughout the 
 Pacific Coast States and then had the business in- 
 corporated under the name of "Pacific Tank Com- 
 pany," Mr. Hampton retaining the presidency and 
 active management of the business. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Hampton decided to make his home 
 in Los Angeles, moved his residence to this city 
 and built a factory for the manufacture of his 
 product. In 1904 he built another factory at Olym- 
 pia, Washington, and when this was destroyed by 
 fire in 1909, he built a factory in Portland, Oregon, 
 giving him a chain of factories in San Francisco, 
 Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, from which he 
 
 WILLIAM E. HAMPTON 
 
 ships his product to all parts of the world. In 
 1900 Mr. Hampton purchased the controlling in- 
 terest of the California Redwood Pipe Company 
 and organized as its successor the National Wood 
 Pipe Company. A year later he branched out into 
 the manufacturing and contracting business on a 
 larger scale in Los Angeles, organizing the Pacific 
 Coast Planing Mill Company, built a large factory 
 and took the active management of this company. 
 In 1906, the year of the great fire in San Fran- 
 cisco, Mr. Hampton pur- 
 chased the stock and busi- 
 ness of the Mercantile Box 
 Co. of that city, reorganized 
 it and built the plant which 
 he still owns and operates 
 on Berry street in San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 In 1909 the business of 
 the Pacific Tank Company 
 and the National Wood 
 Pipe Company was con- 
 solidated under the cor- 
 porate name of "Pacific Tank 
 & Pipe Company," the com- 
 bined business now being 
 under Mr. Hampton's per- 
 sonal management, and he is 
 today President and General 
 Manager of the manufactur- 
 ing companies which he has 
 established, Pacific Tank & 
 Pipe Company, Pacific Coast 
 Planing Mill Company, Na- 
 tional Wood Pipe Company 
 and Mercantile Box Com- 
 pany, with offices and fac- 
 tories in San Francisco, Los 
 Angeles and Portland, Ore- 
 gon. He also holds directorships in the following 
 companies and organizations: Los Angeles Trust 
 and Savings Bank, Olympia National Bank, Asso- 
 ciated Jobbers of Los Angeles, Municipal League of 
 Los Angeles, Columbus Club of Los Angeles, and is 
 President of the Industrial Realty Company of Los 
 Angeles. He holds a similar position with the Fac- 
 tory Site Company, and is Vice President of the 
 Tidings Publishing Company. 
 
 At the present time he is a member of the Spe- 
 cial Harbor Committee of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, which has in its hands the future of the 
 Los Angeles Harbor. This committee is working 
 in conjunction with the civic authorities on plans 
 by which they hope to make it one of the most 
 important ports to be engaged in world trade with 
 the completion of the Panama Canal. 
 
 Mr. Hampton is Past Grand Knight of the 
 Knights of Columbus of Los Angeles, and is a mem- 
 ber of the California, Jonathan, Newman, Colum- 
 bus and Gamut Clubs of Los Angeles and of the 
 Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 117 
 
 ARTORI, JOSEPH F., 
 Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born on Christmas Day, 
 in the year 1858, at Cedar 
 
 Falls, Iowa, the son of 
 
 Joseph and Theresa (Wangler) Sartori. He 
 married Margaret Rishel, at Le Mars, Iowa, 
 in June, 1886. He received the elementary 
 portion of his education in the public schools 
 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
 then went to Germany, 
 where he spent one year 
 (1877-78) at the Univer- 
 sity of Freiburg. Return- 
 ing to the United States, 
 he entered Cornell Col- 
 lege, at Mount Vernon, 
 Iowa, and was graduated 
 from there with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Sci- 
 ence in 1879. He then en- 
 tered the Law Depart- 
 ment of the University of 
 Michigan at Ann Arbor, 
 and was graduated from 
 there in 1881. 
 
 Upon completion of 
 his college course he en- 
 tered the law office of 
 Leslie M. Shaw (former- 
 ly Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury and now president of 
 a bank in Philadelphia), 
 at Dennison, Iowa, and 
 studied for eight months. 
 He was admitted to the 
 Bar at the end of that 
 time, and from 1882 to 1887 he practiced his 
 profession as a partner of Congressman I. S. 
 Struble, of Iowa. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Sartori gave up his legal prac- 
 tice in Iowa and moved to California, settling 
 March 19, 1887, in the then new town of 
 Monrovia. It was there that he made his first 
 venture into the banking field, establishing 
 the First National Bank of that place. He 
 was its first cashier, and served as such until 
 1889, and is its vice president at the present 
 time. Arriving in California during the years 
 of its great boom, Mr. Sartori saw opportuni- 
 ties for greater successes in the larger field of 
 Los Angeles, and in 1889 he transferred his 
 residence to that city. 
 
 He organized, in February, 1889, the Se- 
 curity Savings Bank, undoubtedly the largest 
 of its kind in the entire Southwest, and has 
 been connected with its management from 
 the day it began business. He was elected 
 
 JOSEPH F. SARTORI 
 
 president of the institution in January, 1895, 
 and has been its executive head since then. At 
 the present time the bank has capital stock 
 and surplus of more than $2,000,000 and total 
 resources exceeding $33,000,000. 
 
 The history of Mr. Sartori's banking ca- 
 reer in Los Angeles would record in detail 
 but one constant succession of advances, en- 
 largements and accretions. He has put into 
 it not only a complete 
 academic knowledge, but 
 practical methods and 
 seemingly unerring judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Coming from Swiss- 
 Italian ancestry of honor- 
 able record and deep im- 
 print on the conscious- 
 ness of the people of that 
 portion of Europe, Mr. 
 Sartori, when he entered 
 the banking world, met 
 with unexpected and 
 hearty support from a 
 great number of persons 
 who had known his fam- 
 ily name in Europe, and 
 to whom the probity and 
 capacity of the Sartoris 
 meant reliability. 
 
 His remarkable in- 
 sight into banking and 
 economic conditions was 
 never better illustrated 
 than in his fight before 
 the California Legisla- 
 ture in 1911 for real re- 
 forms in the State banking laws and over- 
 sight of State financial institutions. He ap- 
 peared before the committees on banks and 
 banking as the leader of the reform forces, 
 and his arguments had a palpable beneficial 
 effect upon the legislation which resulted. 
 
 In addition to his presidency of the Secur- 
 ity Bank in Los Angeles, which is housed in 
 one of the most beautiful structures in the 
 country, Mr. Sartori is vice president of the 
 Monrovia Bank, which he helped to found; 
 has been a director for twelve years in the L. 
 A. Brick Co., and is actively interested in nu- 
 merous ranch properties in and about Cali- 
 fornia. He is also a director of the San Pedro, 
 Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. 
 
 He is president of the California Club and 
 holds memberships in the following: Jona- 
 than, Annandale Golf, Crags Country, L. A. 
 Athletic and the L. A. Country clubs, of 
 which latter he was a charter member. 
 
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 ICKNELL, FREDERICK THOMP- 
 SON, Physician and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Jericho, Chittenden County, Ver- 
 mont, on April 20, 1842, his par- 
 ents being Nathaniel and Fanny 
 Thompson Bicknell. In the family blood is 
 that of Hannah Dustin and R. H. Dana. 
 Dr. Bicknell was twice married, his first wife 
 being Etta Cooper of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, 
 and to them a daughter, now 
 Mrs. Etta Florence Bicknell 
 Zombro, was born at Neosho, 
 Missouri. On December 6, 
 1882, he married Carrie E. 
 Fargo at San Francisco. 
 
 Dr. Bicknell resided in 
 Vermont until 1852, when he 
 moved with his parents to 
 Lake Mills, Jefferson County, 
 Wisconsin, where he worked 
 on his father's farm and at- 
 tended district school until 
 he was seventeen years old. 
 Then he attended Albion 
 Academy, at Albion, Wiscon- 
 sin, where he studied during 
 the fall terms and taught 
 school in the winter terms. 
 On August 15, 1862, he en- 
 listed in the army in Com- 
 pany A, Twenty-third Wis- 
 consin Regiment, and re- 
 mained in active service un- 
 til mustered out at the end of 
 the war, July 4, 1865. 
 
 While in the army his ser- 
 vice was in the Department 
 of the Mississippi, first under 
 General Grant, from the beginning to the end of 
 the Vicksburg campaign. Then through the Red 
 River campaign under General Banks and General 
 A. J. Smith. Then came the Mobile, Alabama, 
 campaign under General Canby. 
 
 Throughout the entire war Dr. Bicknell was a 
 soldier in the ranks, and while his discharge re- 
 cords thirteen pitched battles, it does not tell of the 
 unnumbered skirmishes and scouting expeditions 
 where danger and death were no less in evidence 
 than in the most active battles. A blistered scalp 
 from the sharpshooter's bullet, knocked down by 
 the concussion of a nearby exploding shell, and a 
 gun shattered in his hands, were but a few of the 
 close calls experienced by him. 
 
 Upon receiving his discharge in 1865 he returned 
 to Madison, Wisconsin, and entered the State Uni- 
 versity, studying there and working in summer on 
 the farm until 1867, when he began studying medi- 
 cine in the office of Dr. John Faville of Madison ; he 
 then attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, 
 graduating in 1870. 
 
 DR. F. T. BICKNELL 
 
 In the fall of that same year Dr. Bicknell set- 
 tled in the City of Neosho, Missouri, in partner- 
 ship with Dr. Lewis Wills. In the spring of 1872 
 Dr. Bicknell returned to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and 
 married Etta Cooper, and returned at once to 
 Neosho. A daughter was born to them, but Mrs. 
 Bicknell survived the event but a little more than 
 a month. 
 
 In the fall of 1873 Dr. Bicknell went with his 
 old preceptor, Dr. John Faville, to New York and 
 took a postgraduate course 
 at Bellevue College and Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 After a short return to 
 Wisconsin, he went to Cali- 
 fornia in April, 1874. Find- 
 ing the Panamint mining ex- 
 citement on, he went as 
 physician and surgeon to 
 that region for the Panamint 
 Mining and Milling Com- 
 pany, at that time owned by 
 United States Senators 
 Jones and Stewart of Ne- 
 vada. On the close of the 
 camp he served in the same 
 capacity at the Caso Mine of 
 Darwin, and then practiced 
 at Independence, in Inyo 
 County, where he had charge 
 of the County Hospital. He 
 later went to Bishop Creek, 
 a larger town of the valley. 
 In the summer of 1881 
 Dr. Bicknell returned to 
 Lake Mills, Wisconsin, to get 
 his little daughter, Miss Etta, 
 whom his mother-in-law had 
 been fostering; he there be- 
 came engaged to his present wife, who was Miss 
 Carrie Fargo, and returned to Los Angeles. 
 Miss Fargo came to San Francisco, at which 
 place Dr. Bicknell met her, and the marriage 
 took place December 6, 1882. 
 
 After his marriage Dr. Bicknell returned at once 
 to Los Angeles and since that time his only busi- 
 ness has been the practice of medicine and surgery. 
 Among the leading professional organizations 
 with which Dr. Bicknell is associated are the fol- 
 lowing: He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association and of his State and County 
 societies. He is ex-President Southern California 
 Medical Society; ex-President Los Angeles County 
 Medical Society; ex-President of the California 
 Hospital, and ex-Professor Gyocology of the Medi- 
 cal College of Southern California. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club, of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, and of the Masonic Order, 
 Southern California Lodge, No. 278, F. and A. M. 
 He is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic, Stanton Post. 
 
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 119 
 
 UTTON, WILLIAM JAY, 
 President of the Fireman's 
 Fund Insurance Company, 
 San Francisco, California, was 
 born in Bangor, Maine, Jan- 
 uary 23, 1847, the son of Henry Button and 
 Frances Gushing (Stevens) Button. Of Eng- 
 lish origin, he counts among his distinguished 
 American ancestors his paternal great-grand- 
 father, Colonel Samuel 
 Button of Revolutionary 
 fame, and a maternal for- 
 bear, Chief Justice Gush- 
 ing, who had the addition- 
 al honor of swearing in 
 George Washington as 
 President of the United 
 States. On Becember 
 15, 1868, Mr. Button was 
 married in San Francisco 
 to Miss Mary Grayson 
 Heydenfeldt, and is the 
 father of Robert McMil- 
 lan, Henry Stevens, Wil- 
 liam Grayson, Frank 
 Gushing, Mary Page and 
 Mrs. Gertrude (Button) 
 Howell. 
 
 His education may be 
 summed up as follows: 
 A few years in a primary 
 school in Bangor, the 
 public schools in San 
 Francisco from 1855 to 
 1860, the next three years 
 at the San Francisco 
 High School, and from 
 
 WILLIAM J. BUTTON 
 
 1863 to 1867 at the old City College, where 
 he took a course in classics and higher math- 
 ematics, whence he was graduated into the 
 North British Insurance Co. as junior clerk. 
 
 In a few months he left that company to 
 organize the Marine Bepartment of the Fire- 
 man's Fund. Thenceforth his rise was rapid, 
 marked on the way up by his selection as 
 secretary of the Marine Bepartment in 1869, 
 assistant secretary in 1873, general secretary 
 of the company in 1880, vice president and 
 manager in 1890, and by his election to the 
 presidency in 1900. 
 
 Buring these years Mr. Button has 
 built a lasting reputation as an expert in ma- 
 rine underwriting. His company has today 
 the most extensive system of agents of any 
 American company west of the Ohio River 
 and is the only California organization of any 
 kind represented in every State and city of 
 the United States. 
 
 The Fireman's Fund was a heavy loser in 
 the San Francisco disaster of 1906, and, with 
 all its records burned, its local assets largely 
 unsalable and facing almost 6,000 claims, ag- 
 gregating over $11,000,000, the case certainly 
 looked hopeless. Under Mr. Button's direc- 
 tion a new company the Fireman's Fund 
 Corporation was formed, with a million dol- 
 lars of new capital and a million of surplus. 
 The new corporation then 
 reinsured all the outstand- 
 ing policies and continued 
 the business just as 
 though no disaster had oc- 
 curred. Instead of 35 or 
 40 cents on the dollar, 
 \vhich experts reported 
 might be realized within 
 three years under a re- 
 ceivership, the company 
 paid all policy-holding 
 claimants their first 50 
 cents within three 
 months. Within a year 
 the agency plant and out- 
 standing business 
 throughout the United 
 States were repurchased 
 from the corporation, its 
 stockholders' subscrip- 
 tions returned to them in 
 cash or re-invested in the 
 stock of the old compa- 
 ny, and in April, 1907, the 
 old Fireman's Fund re- 
 sumed its old position. 
 For ten years Mr. But- 
 
 ton was pres. or vice pres. of the Board of 
 Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, and for 20 
 years chairman of legislative committee ; pres. 
 Board of Marine Underwriters of San Fran- 
 cisco 21 years, and 35 years a member of its 
 adjustment committee. He was on the com- 
 mittee of three who selected the executive 
 committee of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
 and is pres. of the Fireman's Fund Insurance 
 Company, Home Fire and Marine Insurance 
 Company, Chairman San Francisco Municipal 
 conference of 1911, vice pres. Merchants' -Ex- 
 change of the California Bevelopment Board, 
 treas, Presidio and Ferries Railroad, chair- 
 man of Trustees First Congregational 
 Church, director San Francisco Chamber of 
 Commerce, vice pres. Hospital for Children 
 and Training School for Nurses. 
 
 Clubs : Union League, Commercial, Pa- 
 cific-Union, Commonwealth, Presidio Golf, S. 
 F. Golf and Country and Claremont Country. 
 
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 RANT, JOSEPH DONO- 
 HOE, President of the Mur- 
 phy-Grant Co., San Fran- 
 cisco, California, was born in 
 that city, March 28, 1858, the 
 son of Adam Grant and Emma F. (Gum- 
 mer) Grant. Of Scotch-English ancestry, he 
 has carried through life the qualities of 
 shrewdness, integrity and affability presumed 
 to inhere in that happy combination. His 
 father, Adam Grant, was a true Highland 
 Scotchman, who went to California in 1850, 
 and in San Francisco founded the pioneer 
 and long famous dry goods house of Murphy, 
 Grant & Co., which his son, Joseph, has suc- 
 cessfully controlled since 1904. The latter 
 was married in Portland, Ore., June 28, 1897, 
 to Miss Edith Macleay, daughter of Donald 
 Macleay, one of Portland's oldest and most 
 noted bankers and merchants. Josephine 
 and Edith Grant are the children of this mar- 
 riage, and Douglas Grant is a son by Mr. 
 Grant's first wife. 
 
 Joseph D. Grant's early education was re- 
 ceived in the Lincoln Grammar, 1866-67; the 
 next three years at the old Washington 
 School, of which Miss Jene Parker was prin- 
 cipal, and from 1870-75 at the Boys' High 
 School. In the latter year he entered the 
 College of Social Science of the University 
 of California, but left one year before grad- 
 uation; a year later he toured the greater 
 part of Europe and the East, and for five 
 months attended the Sorbonne lectures on 
 Political Economy and Literature. 
 
 In 1881 he returned to San Francisco and 
 entered the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co. He 
 began at the bottom and progressed through 
 all the various departments. 
 
 Throughout the greater part of this pe- 
 riod, however, many outside activities, such 
 as his large ranches in California and inter- 
 ests in Oregon claimed his attention, but did 
 not swerve him from his main purpose, the 
 mastery of the details aforesaid. He re- 
 garded as a precious legacy, with all the re- 
 sponsibilities the term implies, his succes- 
 sion to the ownership of the oldest commer- 
 cial house in its own line on the Pacific Coast. 
 In 1904 Mr. Grant became the owner of 
 the business and President of the corpora- 
 tion. Since then the expansion of the trade 
 has been due as much to the efficiency of the 
 management as to the natural growth of the 
 commerce. In the first quarter of the year 
 1906, preceding the great fire, the sales ex- 
 ceeded those of any previous similar period 
 in the history of the house, and this disaster 
 
 called for the maximum of managerial and 
 executive ability. As in the case of every 
 business alike afflicted, entire rehabilitation 
 was a necessity. All sources of supply were 
 cut off, and new stock and new quarters had 
 to be procured. This practical re-creation 
 was begun within seven days after the fire. 
 
 On April 25, 1906, or just one week after 
 the destruction of the business section of San 
 Francisco, the house reopened with a stock 
 of goods in the Tribune Building, Oakland, 
 and on April 18, 1907, the anniversary of the 
 fire, the firm moved into a substantial con- 
 crete building on the corner of Sansome and 
 Market streets. But as soon as the necessary 
 supplies and materials could be secured the 
 Class "A" Adam Grant Building, on the cor- 
 ner of Sansome and Bush streets, was 
 erected on lines that will permit its enlarge- 
 ment to double its present size. This is a 
 model of modern construction for the dis- 
 patch of business and for the convenience of 
 customers ; and therein, on July 25, 1908, or 
 a little more than two years after the earth- 
 quake, the company was completely installed 
 ready for business that now covers this ex- 
 tensive territory : California, Nevada, Ore- 
 gon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Lower Cal- 
 ifornia, Arizona, New Mexico, the Hawaiian 
 Islands, Tahiti and Manila. 
 
 The principal directors of the firm are 
 now Joseph D. Grant, President, and Charles 
 R. Havens, Vice President and Manager. 
 
 Besides his presidency of the Murphy- 
 Grant Co., and of the North Central Improve- 
 ment Association, he is a director of the First 
 National Bank of San Jose, Mercantile Trust 
 Co. of San Francisco, Mercantile National 
 Bank, Security Savings Bank, Donohoe-Kel- 
 ley Banking Co., Natoma Consolidated Co., 
 Coast Counties Light and Power Co., and the 
 Charities Indorsement Committee. 
 
 He is a life trustee of Stanford Univer- 
 sity, as well as of the Academy of Sciences, 
 a member of the Council of the Academy of 
 Pacific Coast History, the American Astro- 
 nomical Society and the Seismological So- 
 ciety, and for two years was President of the 
 S. F. Art Association. His club memberships 
 include the Union, and the Rocky Mountain, 
 of New York; the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, 
 Olympic, Press, of which two last he is a life- 
 member; Golf and Country, and the Com- 
 monwealth, all of San Francisco; Menlo 
 Country and Burlingame Country, of San 
 Mateo, of the latter of which he is also a life 
 member, and the Chi Phi Fraternity of the 
 University of California. 
 
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 OMEROY, ABRAM EHLE, Real 
 Estate Operator and Investments, 
 Los Angeles, California, although 
 born in Athens, Michigan, Octo- 
 ber 2, 1838, is a typical Califor- 
 nian, having moved to that State 
 in January, 1853. His father was Charles W. Pom- 
 eroy and his mother Permelia (Valentine) Pom- 
 eroy. On December 6, 1871, he married Florence 
 A. Wilcox at San Jose, California, and they have 
 one son, Walter V. Pomeroy. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy was edu- 
 cated in the grammar schools 
 of California, and after con- 
 cluding his preparatory 
 schooling entered the Uni- 
 versity of the Pacific at San 
 Jose, California, where he re- 
 ceived the degrees A. B. and 
 A. M., graduating in 1864. 
 
 Shortly after leaving his 
 Alma Mater he was appoint- 
 ed Deputy County Clerk of 
 Santa Clara County, which 
 position he held with such 
 credit that on the completion 
 of his services as Deputy he 
 was elected County Clerk. 
 For eight years he held these 
 two positions, and it is with 
 pleasure that he looks at 
 those early offices at a time 
 when he was a young man 
 just out of college. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy lived in 
 those days in the central and 
 northern portions of the 
 State San Jose, San Fran- 
 cisco and Sacramento. His 
 
 father was a significant force in the building of 
 the little Sacramento and Shingle Springs Rail- 
 road. Associated with him in this project of em- 
 pire and railroad building was the noted engineer, 
 Theodore P. Judah. The latter was a personal 
 friend of the Crockers of San Francisco and played 
 an important part as chief engineer in the construc- 
 tion of the overland roads. 
 
 Railroad building in the early days of California 
 was far different from what it is today. The steel 
 for the rails had to come across the Isthmus or 
 around the Horn, and had to be driven inland by 
 means of ox teams or equally slow transportation. 
 The obstacles were in time overcome, and what Mr. 
 Pomeroy and his associates originally started as the 
 Sacramento and Shingle Springs line eventually 
 was merged into the Central Pacific, the system 
 which forced its mighty steam monsters across 
 the mountains, bringing thousands of Western col- 
 onists to populate the fertile California valleys and 
 form cities. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Pomeroy severed his connections 
 
 A. E. POMEROY 
 
 with all interests in Northern California and in 
 that year settled in Los Angeles. From that date 
 up to the present writing he has been identified 
 with the business, educational and political move- 
 ments in Southern California to such an extent 
 that he is recognized as one of the progressive and 
 representative men of Southern California. 
 
 During his career in Los Angeles his adminis- 
 trative traits were recognized by his appointment 
 as Trustee of the State Normal School at Los An- 
 geles, where he assisted in the 
 advance of that institution to 
 a remarkable degree during 
 \his nine years of service. 
 His work as Chairman of the 
 Los Angeles City Board f 
 Education, during three 
 years, was productive of the 
 most valuable results, his 
 business faculties enabling 
 him to meet and overcome 
 the constantly arising em- 
 barrassment of overcrowded 
 school buildings. 
 
 During his long residence 
 in Los Angeles he has fol- 
 lowed the real estate busi- 
 ness and left his imprint on 
 the geography of the coun- 
 try. He has been a town site 
 promoter of unusual activity. 
 Mr. Pomeroy and assistants 
 promoted the city of Long 
 Beach and the following 
 towns and subdivisions: The 
 Rancho and town of Temec- 
 ula, the Rancho and town of 
 San Jacinto, the town of Al- 
 hambra, of Gardena, of Her- 
 
 mosa Beach, the Providencia Rancho, the town 
 of Burbank, the Grant Tract, the Los Berros Tract 
 in San Luis Obispo, and many tracts and subdi- 
 visions in Glendale, Pomona and neighboring 
 Southern California cities. All of these sections 
 are now well populated and are among the most 
 thriving in the southern part of California. 
 
 Other organizations in which he is interested 
 are the A. E. Pomeroy Company, real estate; mana- 
 ger of the Grant building and vice president of the 
 State Mutual Building and Loan Association. He 
 has been a Trustee of the University of the Pa- 
 cific and is now Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
 of the University of Southern California. 
 
 In these latter positions he has instituted many 
 improvements and his influence has been as strong 
 as he exerted in connection with public education. 
 He has attained the thirty-second degree in 
 Masonry, is a charter member of the California 
 Club and a member of the University, Union 
 League and Federation Clubs, and a charter mem- 
 ber of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 AYMONVILLE, BERNARD, 
 Vice President of the Fire- 
 man's Fund Insurance Com- 
 pany of San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, was born on March 24, 
 1860, at Bowmanville, Cook County, Illinois 
 (now a part of Chicago). His ancestors came 
 from the Ardennes and the Rhine Provinces, 
 where for many generations they were prom- 
 inent in the iron mining 
 and smelting industry. 
 His grandfather, Joseph* 
 Faymonville, settled in 
 the country which subse- 
 quently became Cook 
 County, Illinois, in 1837, 
 when Chicago was still 
 known as Fort Dear- 
 born. He is the son of 
 Tillman J. Faymonville, 
 eldest son of Joseph Fay- 
 monville, above referred 
 to, and of ^Catherine 
 (Fisher) Faymonville. 
 
 Mr. Faymonville was 
 married at San Jose, Cali- 
 fornia, on April 19, 1881, 
 to Miss Dora Belle Ries, 
 a descendant of an old 
 Holland Dutch family of 
 Northern New York. 
 Their three children are 
 Le Roy B. (now de- 
 ceased), Philip R. and 
 Bernard Faymonville, Jr. 
 The family has resided 
 in San Francisco since 
 March, 1882. During 1865 to 1873 he 
 'attended the public schools of. his native 
 town, then took a two years' course in the 
 preparatory school of Professor J. P. Lauth 
 in Chicago. 
 
 He entered the employ of a real estate 
 and brokerage firm in the same city in 1875, 
 and for the two following years applied him- 
 self to mastering the varied duties and work 
 usual to such offices located in a growing 
 and pushing community. 
 
 Broader opportunities and the lure of 
 California drew him to this State in Septem- 
 ber, 1877. Settling first at Fresno, then a 
 newly established county seat, he secured 
 employment in an abstract and real estate 
 office, and soon acquired on his own account 
 a number of insurance agencies. After sev- 
 eral years, by means of perseverance and 
 consolidation, he had built up one of the 
 largest local insurance agencies in Central 
 
 BERNARD FAYMONVILLE 
 
 California, consisting of forty-three com- 
 panies. 
 
 During this period he was also actively 
 interested in promoting the colonization of 
 Fresno County. 
 
 The fire insurance profession appealed to 
 him strongly, and realizing that progress and 
 success depended on broader opportunities 
 and a larger field, he accepted on March 1. 
 1882, the position of Spe- 
 cial Agent for the whole 
 Pacific Coast for the 
 Fireman's Fund Insur- 
 ance Company. 
 
 Since that date he has 
 been continuously in the 
 employ of that distin- 
 g u i s h e d corporation, 
 sharing its successes, as 
 well as the reverses 
 which overtook it during 
 the trying times follow- 
 ing the great San Fran- 
 cisco disaster. From this 
 it emerged stronger and 
 more powerful than ever, 
 and in a manner that will 
 always reflect the great- 
 est credit on the State of 
 California. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Faymon- 
 ville was elected Assist- 
 ant Secretary of the com- 
 pany, and three years 
 later he became its Secre- 
 tary. 
 
 In 1893 he was elected 
 
 Second Vice President and First Vice Presi- 
 dent in 1900. This position he now holds. 
 He is Vice President of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Board of Underwriters of the 
 Pacific, President of the Underwriters' Fire 
 Patrol, and President of the Underwriters' 
 Inspection Bureau. 
 
 He has served as Supervisor and as Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Fire Commissioners of 
 the City of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Faymonville has contributed various 
 articles on insurance to papers and periodi- 
 cals devoted to that subject, and also to 
 associations. 
 
 He is much interested in club life, being 
 a member of the Pacific Union Club, the 
 Bohemian Club, the Olympic Club, and of 
 the San Francisco Golf and Country Club, 
 and the Presidio Golf Club. 
 
 He is also a member of the Country Club 
 of Bear Valley, in Marin County. 
 
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 IRD, ABRAHAM C, Trans- 
 portation Service (retired), 
 Compton, California, born in 
 Pike County, Illinois, March 
 4, 1843. He is the son of the 
 Rev. William H. Bird and Evelyn Bird. In 
 1868 he married Sarah E. Lippincott at Pana, 
 Illinois. There are five surviving children 
 of his marriage, three ot 
 whom are married: Mrs. 
 Alberta Bird Childs, Mrs. 
 Martha B. Olmstead, 
 Mrs. Evelyn B. Huston, 
 Kathryn Bird and Wil- 
 liam H. Bird. 
 
 Mr. Bird attended the 
 public school and acad- 
 emy in Illinois. At the 
 time President Lincoln 
 issued his call for 75,000 
 volunteers in the spring 
 of 1861, Mr. Bird, like 
 many other young men of 
 that period, left school 
 and entered the army as 
 a private. He enlisted in 
 the Twenty-second Illi- 
 nois Infantry. With his 
 regiment he served one 
 year and a half and re- 
 signed by permission in 
 order to enlist for three years in Troop 
 K, Fourth United States Cavalry. He 
 was a soldier of the Union four years 
 and eight months ; during that long period 
 he fought in many of the deadly bat- 
 tles of the Civil War, and remained in the 
 service until after 'Lee had surrendered at 
 A.ppomattox and the last gun had been 
 fired. 
 
 Mr. Bird was mustered out of the service 
 November 28, 1865. He was one of the 
 lucky ones to get early employment after re- 
 turning from the war, and, being determined 
 to succeed, he accepted the first employment 
 that seemed to offer future success. He went 
 to work as night watchman for the St. Louis, 
 Alton and Terre Haute Railroad. He was 
 soon promoted to the position of station 
 clerk. Within a few years he was made 
 general clerk in the freight department of 
 the general office in St. Louis. In the early 
 
 A. C. BIRD 
 
 seventies he resigned that position to become 
 chief clerk of the freight department of the 
 St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Rail- 
 road Company. Within two years he was 
 promoted to the general freight agency of 
 that company. 
 
 On December 31, 1882, he resigned to 
 take a similar position on the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee and St. Paul 
 Railroad, on which road 
 he held several posi- 
 tions, that of freight 
 traffic manager, general 
 traffic manager and 
 third vice president in 
 charge of traffic. He 
 remained with that com- 
 pany continuously for 
 for more than twenty-one 
 years. His experience 
 was invaluable to him in 
 many ways, and when he 
 retired in the spring of 
 1903 it was to accept a 
 somewhat similar offer 
 for the Gould system of 
 roads, being vice presi- 
 dent of each company and 
 traffic director of all. 
 Headquarters were in 
 Chicago. Capability and 
 knowledge of railroad traffic and general af- 
 fairs placed him prominently among the men 
 of the Gould system. 
 
 His long years of constant work in the 
 service of the Middle West railroad brought 
 about a physical collapse, which induced him 
 to withdraw from service in September, 1906. 
 After a long term in the hospital in Denver, 
 and later in a sanitarium at Lamanda Park, 
 California, he retired to a little ranch which 
 he had owned many years, at Compton, Cali- 
 fornia. He takes as much interest in over- 
 looking his affairs now as he took in former 
 years in keeping the trains well filled, and 
 with a great deal more comfort. 
 
 Mr. Bird has always been an active 
 lodge man. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason, a member of the California Club in 
 Los Angeles; he is president of the Comp- 
 ton Chamber of Commerce and is a member 
 of the Board of City Trustees. 
 
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 ASS, ALONZO B., President 
 of the Home Telephone and 
 Telegraph Company, Los An- 
 geles, California, is a native 
 of New York State. He was 
 born July 4, 1856, at Albion. His father was 
 P. C. Cass and his mother Amanda M. (Her- 
 rick) Cass. He was married in Muskogee, 
 Oklahoma, June 21, 1885, to Emily F. Tufts 
 (deceased), to which 
 union there were born 
 eight children, Frank T. 
 Cass, Phil, Louis, Donald, 
 Quincy, Harold, Emily 
 F. and Alonzo B. Cass, 
 Jr. On August 23, 1909, 
 he married Martha T. 
 Muir, at Los Angeles, and 
 adopted her three chil- 
 dren, John, William and 
 Robert. 
 
 Mr. Cass attended the 
 public schools of New 
 York State, and finished 
 his education at the Al- 
 bion Academy, Albion, 
 New York. 
 
 He * started in the 
 business world at Ash 
 Grove, Missouri, in 1879, 
 in the general merchan- 
 dise line as the firm of 
 Green and Cass. From 
 there Mr. Cass moved 
 south to Oklahoma, 
 where at Muskogee he 
 continued in the general 
 merchandise business between the years of 
 1880 and 1887. Two of his brothers, Frank 
 H. and B. H. Cass, with Leo B. Newberry, 
 were his associates, for one year in that city. 
 He was also in the same business in Atoka, 
 Oklahoma, in 1883-1884; at South Canadian 
 in 1884-1886, and at McAllister, Oklahoma, 
 from 1887 up to 1888. He was also a member 
 of the firm of Govigan and Cass, druggists, 
 at Muskogee. 
 
 On arriving in Los Angeles, in 1888, Mr. 
 Cass immediately went into business with 
 his brothers as the firm of Cass Brothers 
 Stove Company, which continued under that 
 name until 1890. In that year the firm be- 
 came known as the Crandall and Cass Com- 
 pany, continuing to 1893. Between the years 
 of 1893-1906, the Company was known as the 
 Cass and Smurr Stove Company, when it 
 came under its present name, Cass, Smurr, 
 Damerel Company. 
 
 During his years in business in Los An- 
 geles, Mr. Cass established a substantial rep- 
 utation for himself among the representative 
 and progressive men of that city. His suc- 
 cess in whatever field he pleased to enter won 
 the hearty endorsement of able men. 
 
 Mr. Cass was one of the original founders 
 of the Central Bank, now the Central Na- 
 tional Bank. His keen perception in the 
 business world and his 
 
 ALONZO B. CASS 
 
 wide acquaintance among 
 men of affairs were 
 forces which worked for 
 the upbuilding of the 
 bank which today is one 
 of the sound institutions 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1906, when the 
 Home Telephone and Tel- 
 egraph Company was 
 forging to the front, Mr. 
 Cass was elected Presi- 
 dent of that corporation. 
 Immediately he set about 
 to make the Company a 
 success. 
 
 Four years later be- 
 cause of his successful 
 work with the Home Tel- 
 ephone Company, in Los 
 Angeles, Mr. Cass was 
 made President of the 
 Bay Cities Home Tele- 
 phone Company of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 When the Home Tele- 
 phone Company was first 
 founded in 1898, Mr. Cass became its first 
 subscriber for stock and has stood by the 
 corporation ever since. He was shortly aft- 
 er elected vice president of the company, 
 and today occupies the position of chief ex- 
 ecutive, directing the tremendous workings 
 of the system. 
 
 He still retains his interest with the Cass, 
 Smurr, Damerel Company, and holds the 
 vice presidency of that firm. He is a director 
 of the Central National Bank, and holds 
 many other important interests. He was 
 president of the Chamber of Commerce in 
 1901, was the first president of the Municipal 
 League and a trustee of the State Normal 
 School for four years. 
 
 He is a member of the California, Jona- 
 than, Sunset, and Union League Clubs of Los 
 Angeles, is vice president of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association, and a member of the 
 Federation and City Clubs. 
 
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 HERMAN, MOSES H., Railroad 
 Builder and Banker, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in West Rupert, 
 Bennington County, Vt., Dec. 3, 
 1853, of sturdy New England 
 stock which dates back far into 
 the colonial days in America and originally came 
 from England. He married in 1885, Harriet E. 
 Pratt, daughter of R. H. Pratt, one of the distin- 
 guished builders of the Central Pacific Railway. 
 They have three children, Robert, Hazeltine and 
 Lucy Sherman. 
 
 He graduated from the Oswego (N. Y.) Normal 
 School. Then, long before he was out of his teens, 
 he taught district school in New York State, leaving 
 before he was twenty to go to Los Angeles. 
 
 He did not stay long in Los Angeles, but went 
 into the sparsely settled territory of Arizona, to the 
 then remote mining town of Prescott. There he 
 continued his calling of teaching until 1876, when 
 he first came to public notice. 
 
 Although only twenty-three, he impressed Gover- 
 nor A. F. K. Stafford of Arizona as the suitable man 
 to represent Arizona at the Philadelphia Exposition 
 or World's Fair in 1876, the first of the series of 
 America's great world displays. His duties kept 
 him at Philadelphia the one summer, after which 
 he started on his return to the Pacific Coast. He 
 took back with him his sister, now the wife of the 
 Hon. E. P. Clark, of Los Angeles. They started the 
 journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama, taking a 
 Pacific Mail steamship at New York. While in the 
 Windward passage, near the island of Cuba, the 
 steamer was wrecked. For three days the disabled 
 vessel was kept afloat, drifting helplessly about, 
 when finally the passengers and crew were rescued 
 by a steamer running from South America to Liver- 
 pool. After various vicissitudes the two reached 
 Los Angeles in safety. 
 
 Upon the return of young Sherman to Arizona, 
 Governor John C. Fremont of Arizona appointed 
 him Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 
 Territory. Arizona had at the time of his acces- 
 sion to office practically no public school system, 
 but he created and organized one so complete that 
 even the most isolated communities could enjoy the 
 benefits of education, a remarkable situation in the 
 West of those early days. When his appointive 
 term was over the office became elective. He was 
 nominated on the Republican ticket and was elect- 
 ed by a large fnajority. Arizona was strongly Dem- 
 ocratic at the time, and he had the added distinction 
 of being the only Republican to be elected to office. 
 During this term the Legislature asked him to re- 
 write the school laws of Arizona. His draft was 
 adopted unanimously without change, and remains 
 the school law of Arizona to this day, after more 
 than thirty years. 
 
 Still less than thirty years of age, he was a con- 
 spicuous public figure in Arizona at the expiration 
 of his second term as school superintendent. He 
 was then immediately appointed Adjutant General 
 of the Territory by Governor F. A. Tritle. He found 
 the National Guard situation as he had found that 
 of the public schools. There was no organization 
 and everything had to be done from the beginning. 
 He was reappointed Adjutant General by Governor 
 
 C. Meyer Zulic, and during this term of office 
 he put the National Guard on a solid basis. 
 
 While he was yet a public official he began the 
 foundation of his business career. In 1884, at the 
 age of thirty-one, he started the Valley Bank of 
 Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona. He was its first presi- 
 dent. This bank has now the largest resources of 
 any in the State. He remained actively interested 
 in its affairs, which prospered, until 1889, when he 
 happened to make a visit to Los Angeles. 
 
 There he discovered a new opportunity. Los An- 
 geles was then just well started on its career of 
 great growth. A syndicate of Chicago men had just 
 completed a costly cable tramway system. The 
 cable system was frequently paralyzed by the win- 
 ter rains, which washed sand into the cable slots, 
 causing delay for days at a time. General Sher- 
 man knew that in a couple of the Eastern cities 
 electric street railway systems had been successful- 
 ly started. It occurred to him that the failure of 
 the cable system left an opening for the electric. 
 He acted at once on the idea, enlisted his brother- 
 in-law, E. P. Clark, raised capital, secured a fran- 
 chise, and built the first tracks of the Los Angeles 
 Railway. General Sherman was the President of 
 the system and Mr. Clark vice president and gen- 
 eral manager. Soon thereafter the electric system 
 absorbed the cable railway. 
 
 The success of the first electric venture was 
 such that the Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric 
 Railway was organized and built to Pasadena and 
 Altadena by Goneml Sherman and Mr. Clark. Later 
 this property, as well as the Los Angeles railway 
 system, was sold to H. E. Huntington. 
 
 The next venture in the electric railway field 
 was the construction by the brothers-in-law of the 
 Los Angeles Pacific Railway to Hollywood, Soldiers' 
 Home, Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Redondo and 
 other points. They covered with a close network 
 all the territory between Los Angeles and the Santa 
 Monica bay beaches. They sold this system to the 
 late E. H. Harriman, not long before his death, for 
 a very large sum of money. 
 
 Mr. Sherman and Mr. Clark were the pioneer 
 electric railway builders of the Pacific Coast, and 
 have the credit of building the greatest interurban 
 system in the world. The systems, now consoli- 
 dated, all of which they started, make Los Angeles 
 an interurban center greater than any half dozen 
 cities in America combined. Mr. Sherman is still a 
 director in all the "Harriman" electric railways in 
 Southern California. 
 
 He did not confine his railroad construction to 
 Los Angeles. As early as 1884 he ouilt the Phoenix 
 Railway. This line he still owns. He extended it 
 in 1910 to Glendale, Arizona, to connect with the 
 Santa Fe system. 
 
 He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Mer- 
 chants' National Bank and the Southern Trust Com- 
 pany of Los Angeles, and has very extensive oil 
 interests. He is a director in many companies and 
 is one of the large property owners of California 
 and Arizona. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, the Jona- 
 than Club, Country Club, Bolsa Chica Gun Club and 
 others of Los Angeles, and of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He is also a member of the Bohemian 
 Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 W. J. HUNSAKER 
 
 UNSAKER, WILLIAM JEFFER- 
 SON, Lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born September 21, 1855, in 
 Contra Costa County, Cal., the son 
 of Nicholas Hunsaker and Lois E. 
 (Hastings) Hunsaker. Lansing 
 Warren Hastings, his maternal grand uncle, was a 
 member of the First Constitutional Convention of 
 California. Mr. Hunsaker married Florence Vir- 
 ginia McFarland February 26, 1879, at San Diego, 
 Cal. There are four children Mary Cameron, 
 Florence King, Rose Margaret and Daniel McFar- 
 land Hunsaker. 
 
 He attended the public schools of Contra Costa 
 County and San Diego up to the age of 16, when he 
 left to learn the printer's trade. He began as a 
 printer's devil on the "Bulletin" in San Diego, 
 worked as a journeyman printer on the "Bulletin" 
 and the San Diego "World" for two years and a 
 half, then took up the study of law in the office of 
 A. C. Baker, afterwards Chief Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of Arizona. He was admitted to the 
 bar by the District Court of San Diego County, 1876, 
 and by the California Supreme Court in 1882; prac- 
 ticed at San Diego, 1876 to 1880, when he located 
 at Tombstone, Ariz., remaining there one year. 
 He then returned to San Diego and in 1882 was 
 elected District Attorney for the county. He 
 served until 1884, when he resumed private prac- 
 tice. In 1886 he formed a partnership with E. W. 
 Britt as Hunsaker and Britt. In 1892 Mr. Hunsaker 
 moved to Los Angeles and has since resided and 
 practiced his profession there. In 1900 he and Mr. 
 Britt resumed their partnership relations, which 
 still continue. Mr. Hunsaker has figured in many 
 notable cases, among others the Robert Crawford 
 Smith and Dalter will contests and the Tingley and 
 Hearne libel cases. He is a member of the Am. 
 Bar Ass'n, Cal. State Bar Ass'n, University, Jona- 
 than and California Clubs. 
 
 WILLIAM BAYLY 
 
 AYLY, WILLIAM, Mining, Los An- 
 geles, California, is a native of 
 Missouri, having been born at Lex- 
 ington, that State, in the year 
 1856. He is the son of Charles B. 
 
 y Bayly and Matilda (Russell) Bay- 
 
 ly. He married Eva Houghton at Del Norte, Colo- 
 rado, in the year of 1876, and to them there have 
 been born two children William Bayly, Jr., and 
 Charles H. Bayly. 
 
 Mr. Bayly is one of those successful American 
 business men who did not have opportunity or 
 time to devote to his education before going out 
 into the world to start his life career. His family 
 having moved from Lexington to St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, when he was a child, he attended the public 
 schools of the latter city in the Civil War period. 
 At the age of 16 years he gave up his studies and 
 decided to seek his fortune in the West. He went 
 to Colorado and engaged in the hardware business 
 with Alva Adams, a pioneer of Colorado, who after- 
 wards became Governor and is today one of the 
 richest men in the Silver State and one of those 
 who have done much to develop tfaat common- 
 wealth. Between them the two young merchants 
 built up a thriving business. 
 
 Mr. Bayly remained in this business for twenty 
 years, during which time he made a considerable 
 fortune. After two decades in the one line, he en- 
 gaged in the mining business and has been in it 
 ever since. He has mined on an extensive scale 
 in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California, and to- 
 day is one of the conspicuous men in the busness. 
 
 He left Denver in 1895 and went to Los Angeles 
 to establish his home. Since becoming a citizen of 
 the Southern California metropolis he has aided in 
 every movement for the development of the city 
 and Southern California. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 GEORGE J. DENIS 
 
 ENIS, GEORGE JULES, Lawyer, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., born, New Or- 
 leans, June 20, 1859; son of Henry 
 Denis and Georgine (Cenas) 
 Denis. Married Alberta Johnston, 
 daughter Gen. Albert Sidney John- 
 ston, Confederate hero, at Los Angeles, Nov. 30, 
 1885. Was one daughter, Alberta Denis (deceased). 
 From his fifth to fourteenth year, Mr. Denis 
 was in France and there received preliminary edu- 
 cation in the Cibot-Melin Institute, Paris. Re- 
 turning to America, attended Beechwood Academy, 
 Osyka, Miss., and Christian Brothers' School at 
 Pass Christian, Miss. Later entered Washington 
 and Lee University, Lexington, Va., graduating 
 1878, with degree A. B. In 1880 was graduated 
 from Tulare University Law School, New Orleans. 
 Practiced law there two years. In 1882, removed 
 to Los Angeles; joined the "Times" as a reporter. 
 In less than a year went to "Herald." After eight- 
 een months with "Herald," he entered law office of 
 S. C. Hubbell as a clerk. May, 1884, became, for 
 one year, editor and owner of "Express," then re- 
 sumed law practice. Was Asst. Dist. Atty., Los An- 
 geles County, 1885-86, and U. S. Dist. Atty. 1888-89. 
 During latter term he, with Joseph H. Call, recov- 
 ered for the U. S. from the S. P. Co. millions acres 
 land. In 1893-97 again served as U. S. Dist. Atty., 
 and inaugurated all prosecutions under Geary Chi- 
 nese Exclusion Act. During term of 1884 the great 
 railroad strike, in which Eugene V. Debs was con- 
 spicuous, occurred. Mr. Denis obtained the only 
 convictions from a jury as result of the disturb- 
 ances. From 1899-03, served as member Code Com- 
 mission, which revised laws of California. In 1886 
 formed partnership with Max Loewenthal, which 
 still exists. For many years firm has been attorneys 
 for S. P. Ry. Co., and in 1907 obtained judgment of 
 $1,500,000 against Cal. Development Co. Member, 
 Calif., Annandale Country and L. A. Country clubs. 
 
 LYNN HELM 
 
 ELM, LYNN, Attorney, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Chicago, 111., Oct. 29, 1857, and is 
 the son of Henry Thomas Helm, a 
 distinguished lawyer of Illinois, 
 and Julia Lathrop Helm. He was 
 married April 26, 1888, in Chicago, to Annie Hor- 
 lock, and three children have been born to them, 
 Elisabeth, Lynn, Jr., and Harold Helm. 
 
 Mr. Helm entered Lake Forest Academy in 1865 
 and there received bis education and preparation 
 for college, leaving in 1875 for Princeton Univer- 
 sity, from which he was graduated in 1879 with the 
 degree of A. B. He received the degree of Master 
 of Arts in 1882. 
 
 After leaving college he studied law in the office 
 of his father, and in 1881 was admitted to practice 
 in Indiana and Illinois. 
 
 He practiced in Chicago until 1896, when he 
 moved to Los Angeles, and since that time has 
 handled many notable cases, among them the Lowe 
 and Dobbins gas cases and the case of Dobbins vs. 
 City of Los Angeles, which he won finally in the 
 Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 He has been Referee in Bankruptcy of the 
 United States District Court of Southern District 
 of California for Los Angeles County since 1901, 
 and also acted as Master in Chancery for the 
 United States Circuit Court in that district. He 
 also has written several legal works and was se- 
 lected as a commissioner to the Conference on Uni- 
 form Laws and contributed much to the new ideas 
 embodied in the work of that body. 
 
 Mr. Helm is a member of the State, City and 
 American Bar Associations and is president of the 
 State Bar Association. 
 
 He is a director of the University Club, and also 
 belongs to the California Club, Los Angeles Country 
 Club, Annandale Country Club and the Crags 
 Country Club. 
 
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 ROWN, FRANK LAMPSON, 
 Capitalist, San Francisco, 
 California, was born at Ken- 
 osha, Wisconsin, March 4, 
 1860, the son of Charles Cur- 
 tis Brown and Katherine Jane Brown. He 
 married Harriet Walker at Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, January 1, 1894, and of their union 
 there have been born three children, Kath- 
 erine (now Mrs. Thorn- 
 ton White), Lawrence 
 Walker and Harriet 
 Walker Brown. 
 
 He began at an early 
 age to fight the battles of 
 life and has been at it 
 ever since, and has been 
 with a constantly enlarg- 
 ing field of operations, as 
 well as a considerable 
 number of victories to 
 his credit. Leaving the 
 St. James Parish School, 
 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
 when he was just twelve 
 years of age, he found 
 employment in the gen- 
 eral offices of the North 
 Western Telephone Com- 
 pany, at Kenosha. The 
 following year he shifted 
 the scene of his youthful 
 activities to the office of 
 the North Western Wov- 
 en Wire Mattress Com- 
 pany, and remained with 
 this corporation for ten 
 years, getting his commercial experience and 
 taking his course in what he has called the 
 "University of Hard Knocks." 
 
 With a degree, of useful knowledge at 
 least, of what the struggle for success means, 
 he moved in 1883 to Portland, Oregon, where 
 he became Secretary of the Staver, Walker 
 Company, and when the firm was succeeded 
 by Mitchell, Lewis and Staver, retained his 
 secretaryship in the new company. He was 
 also made secretary of the Portland Trac- 
 tion Company to the considerable increase 
 of his income and of his opportunities. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Brown moved to San Fran- 
 cisco to act as Pacific Coast agent of the 
 Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company 
 of Worcester, Mass. This was succeeded 
 by the American Steel and Wire Company, 
 with which he remained as Pacific Coast 
 manager until 1900. He then became general 
 sales agent for the Shelby Steel Tube Com- 
 
 pany, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. 
 He had not been in Oakland long, however, 
 before his ideas began to expand, possibly 
 under the influence of the climate and the 
 contagion of progress ; and in 1903 he organ- 
 ized the Pacific Steel and Wire Company for 
 which he became the general manager. With 
 this fresh stimulus to larger endeavors he 
 soon formed the Telephone Electric Equip- 
 ment Company, and later 
 seeing the great promise 
 of the oil fields, and of 
 the development of power 
 in California he organized 
 the Palmer Oil Company, 
 the Great Western Power 
 Company and many other 
 large corporations. 
 
 Mr. Brown has been 
 very active in develop- 
 ment and construction 
 work that will benefit not 
 only the individuals most 
 directly concerned, but 
 also the state at large. 
 And this is especially 
 true of his connections 
 with the preparations for 
 the Panama-Pacific Ex- 
 position. From the start 
 he has been a member of 
 the executive and ex- 
 ploitation committees, so 
 ardent and busy in the 
 cause that his own im- 
 portant private affairs 
 have suffered somewhat. 
 
 FRANK L. BROWN 
 
 Characteristically, he has devoted his ener- 
 gies to the work, and regards whatever suc- 
 cess he may attain therein as a personal as 
 well as a civic duty and triumph. And in the 
 meantime he manages to prove his good 
 citizenship by his activity on the executive 
 committee of the California Development 
 Board, and on the council of the Unitarian 
 Club of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Brown's club life is no exception in 
 the variety of his interests. He is a popular 
 member of the Bohemian, the Cosmos, the 
 Commercial, the Unitarian, Union League 
 and Press Clubs of San Francisco, and of the 
 Claremont Country Club of Oakland, the 
 Arlington of Portland, Oregon; the Lawyers 
 of New York, as well as of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars and Sons of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 Though a San Franciscan in spirit, he 
 has resided in Oakland since 1893. 
 
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 OLE, LOUIS, M., Merchant, 
 Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of Chicago, Illinois, 
 born March 24, 1870. His 
 father is Dr. Samuel Cole, of 
 Chicago, Illinois, and his mother Ricka (Din- 
 kelspiel) Cole. On January 6, 1904, he mar- 
 ried Frida Hellman at Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Cole received his early education in 
 the Grammar and High 
 Schools of Denver. Colo- 
 rado, and later took a 
 business course at the 
 Bryant and Stratton Busi- 
 ness College in Chicago. 
 
 In 1887, he moved to 
 California and entered 
 the employ of the Kutner- 
 Goldstein Company at 
 Hanford, as bookkeeper. 
 He remained at that point 
 in this capacity and that 
 of manager until January, 
 1892, when he was ap- 
 pointed to the position of 
 manager of the com- 
 pany's branch store at 
 Fowler, California. He 
 remained there a few 
 months and then was 
 shifted to Lemoore, Cali- 
 fornia, to take charge of 
 another store for the same 
 company. He managed 
 that business until 1896, 
 when he resigned to go 
 into business for himself. 
 
 LOUIS M. COLE 
 
 He opened a general merchandise store at 
 Huron, Fresno County, California, and soon 
 built up a lucrative trade. He tired of the 
 small town, however, and in 1897, sold out 
 and returned to his native city Chicago. He 
 remained in Chicago from 1897 until 1901 and 
 for two years of that time, 1899 and 1900, was 
 on the road for a Chicago house. 
 
 In the month of January, 1901, he decided 
 to return to California and settled at Bakers- 
 field, occupying the position of general man- 
 ager of another large merchandise concern. 
 He held this place for more than two years 
 and during that time did much to improve the 
 business of his employer. 
 
 October, 1903, Mr. Cole resigned his posi- 
 tion in Bakersfield and moved to Los An- 
 geles with the intention of starting business 
 again for himself. After looking over his 
 ground for two months, he bought into the 
 Simon Levi Company, then in its infancy. 
 
 He has been actively engaged in the affairs 
 of this company ever since and is at present 
 treasurer of the company. 
 
 When he entered the Levi Company, it 
 was only a few months old, with a compara- 
 tively small amount of business. Today it is 
 one of the largest produce and grocer's spe- 
 cialty corporations in the Southwest, doing a 
 yearly business that runs far beyond the mil- 
 lion dollar mark. 
 
 The company has a 
 subsidiary known as the 
 Royal Packing Company 
 and of this Mr. Cole is 
 secretary-treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Cole is a man of 
 diversified interests, 
 which cover many lines 
 in Southern California. 
 In addition to the Simon 
 Levi Company, he is 
 treasurer of the Herman 
 W. Hellman Building in 
 Los Angeles, one of the 
 modern office structures 
 of the city, having held 
 the office since 1908. 
 About a year after he was 
 given this office he was 
 made president of the 
 Purcell, Gray, Gale Com- 
 pany, Inc., a large insur- 
 ance agency company op- 
 erating in California and 
 the entire Southwest. 
 
 Another important con- 
 cern with wnich Mr. Cole 
 became identified in 1909, is the American 
 Warehouse and Realty Company of which 
 he is secretary. 
 
 In the little more than seven years fol- 
 lowing his arrival in Los Angeles, Mr. Cole 
 has risen to a prominent position in com- 
 mercial affairs. He is a director of the 
 Chamber of Commerce and was president of 
 the Produce Exchange covering the years 
 1906-7 and 1907-8. He is an influential, pub- 
 lic-spirited man who is doing much towards 
 the upbuilding of Los Angeles. Mr. Cole 
 has never held any political office, but has 
 always taken a keen interest in politics and 
 is a fighter for clean government. 
 
 He is a member of the Cosmos Club of 
 San Francisco and several clubs in Los An- 
 geles, among them the San Gabriel Valley 
 Country, Los Angeles Athletic and the Con- 
 cordia. He is a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, 
 Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. 
 
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 OWELL, LOUIS WESTON, 
 Mining, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in the town of 
 New Madrid, Missouri, May 
 3, 1866, the son of Edmund 
 Powell and Virginia Nash (Fontaine) Pow- 
 ell. He married Miss Allie Moore Jewell, 
 November 26, 1884, at Hagerstown, Mary- 
 land, and of their union there have come five 
 children Jennie Jewell, Ralph Edmund, 
 Ruth Fontaine, George Benedict and Dor- 
 othy Anne Powell. 
 
 Mr. Powell's education spread over a 
 period of many years and was divided into 
 three parts. First he attended private schools 
 and studied under tutors in his home town, 
 then went to the public schools of St. Louis, 
 Missouri, and finally entered Washington 
 and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia. 
 Immediately upon the conclusion of his 
 college work Mr. Powell engaged in mercan- 
 tile business and other pursuits in Missouri, 
 but removed to Virginia in the early nine- 
 ties and there he became secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Buena Vista Company, a respon- 
 sible concern engaged in mining, manufac- 
 turing and town building. While there Mr. 
 Powell, in a manner characteristic of the 
 man, took an active part in the affairs of 
 Buena Vista and served as a member of the 
 City Council. 
 
 He remained in Buena Vista until the lat- 
 ter part of the year 1895, but at that time 
 moved to Bessemer, Gogebic County, Mich- 
 igan, where he was engaged with Ferdinand 
 Schlesinger. Schlesinger had formerly been 
 the iron ofe king of the Lake Superior dis- 
 trict, owning some of the largest mines, rail- 
 roads and ore boats on the Great Lakes. In 
 the early nineties he had failed in business, 
 and, turning all of his property over to his 
 creditors went to Mexico. There he recouped 
 his shattered fortunes to a considerable de- 
 gree, and it was on his return to the Michi- 
 gan fields that Mr. Powell became associated 
 with him in the iron ore business. During 
 the next five years Mr. Powell worked assid- 
 uously with Schlesinger and in that time 
 aided him greatly in his work of re- 
 establishing himself in the business world. 
 His work in the interests of Schlesinger 
 
 attracted the attention of iron and ore lead- 
 ers to Mr. Powell, and by the beginning of 
 January, 1900, his reputation as an expert and 
 manager had become such that he was pre- 
 vailed upon by the Carnegie Company to en- 
 ter into the work of developing ore properties 
 for it. The Carnegie Company previously had 
 been interested somewhat in the iron ore busi- 
 ness, but at this time decided to go into it 
 more actively than ever before. Accordingly, 
 Mr. Powell was appointed agent for the Oli- 
 ver Iron Mining Company and vice president 
 of the Pittsburg Steamship Company. Both 
 these organizations were subsidiaries of the 
 Carnegie Company and had charge, respec- 
 tively, of the mining and steamship ore trans- 
 portation ends of it. 
 
 Mr. Powell made his headquarters in Du- 
 luth, Minnesota, situated in the heart of the 
 Northern Ore ranges and one of the greatest 
 ore shipping points in the world. There, as 
 in his previous connection with Mr. Schles- 
 inger, Mr. Powell won fame for himself 
 and added largely to his standing in his 
 profession. 
 
 When the United States Steel Corpora- 
 tion, capitalized at $1,000,000,000, was organ- 
 ized, it took in not only the largest steel and 
 iron companies in the United States, but also 
 took the best men from each company to be 
 directing powers in the new concern. The 
 magnitude of the Steel Corporation and its 
 operations is known to everyone and its suc- 
 cess is due largely to the work of the picked 
 men who became the executive heads of its 
 various departments. Mr. Powell was one of 
 these men, chosen for the post of assistant to 
 the president of the Oliver Iron Mining Com- 
 pany, which bore the same relation to the 
 steel combine as it had to the Carnegie Com- 
 pany before the latter was absorbed. To this 
 company was assigned all of the mining busi- 
 ness of the corporation, and Mr. Powell's part 
 in its affairs was even more important than 
 it had been previously. 
 
 In addition to his office as assistant to the 
 president, Mr. Powell was appointed vice 
 president of the steamship company and thus 
 continued the work he had begun several 
 years before in the employ of the Carnegie 
 interests. 
 
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 These two offices gave Mr. Powell direct 
 charge of the mining and transportation de- 
 partments of the world's greatest industrial 
 institution, and subsequently he was placed 
 in charge of its timber land department, 
 which put him actively in charge of all its 
 timber and ore holdings. In this capacity 
 he purchased thousands of acres for his 
 company. 
 
 In January, 1906, after having spent more 
 than ten years in the Northern Ore regions, 
 during which he acquired international prom- 
 inence as a mining operator, Mr. Powell de- 
 serted the iron and steel industry for copper. 
 He resigned his position with the Steel Cor- 
 poration and went at once to Bisbee, Arizona, 
 where he became vice president and general 
 manager of the Calumet and Arizona and 
 allied interests in charge of their mines and 
 smelter operations. 
 
 At this period of his career Mr. Powell 
 began works quite as extensive and important 
 as those he had performed in the interest of 
 the Steel Corporation. They included, in ad- 
 dition to his mining and smelting activities, 
 the building of railroads, property develop- 
 ment and town making. 
 
 This part of his life Mr. Powell justly re- 
 gards with pride, for when he started in the 
 development of the copper properties now 
 known as the Superior and Pittsburg Copper 
 Company his friends and others in the busi- 
 ness thought he was going up against a hope- 
 less task. He persisted, however, matching 
 his faith and experience against the opinions 
 of the men who predicted failure as the only 
 reward for his efforts. He was undertaking a 
 monumental contract in trying to make these 
 properties pay, but with characteristic energy 
 and determination he went at it and continued 
 at it, until today the company's holdings are 
 regarded as some of the best copper enter- 
 prises in the land. 
 
 This successful accomplishment will al- 
 ways stand as a memorial to the ability and 
 perseverance of the man. 
 
 The Superior and Pittsburg was not the 
 only great success of Mr. Powell, however, 
 for when he took charge of the smelter of the 
 Calumet and Arizona it was in an extraordi- 
 narily poor condition. He caused it to be re- 
 built to a large extent and then put in 
 operation. 
 
 Mr. Powell was the main factor in the 
 founding of Warren, Arizona, the beautiful 
 little suburban town just outside of Bisbee, 
 and he constructed the Warren-Bisbee Elec- 
 tric Railroad lines, connecting the two places. 
 
 Warren today is a thriving town and is rap- 
 idly becoming an attractive residence place, 
 Mr. Powell himself making his home there, 
 although his office is in Los Angeles. 
 
 After his first successes in the copper 
 fields of Arizona, Mr. Powell became gen- 
 eral manager of the Cananea Central Copper 
 Company, vice president of the Cananea Con- 
 solidated Copper Company, president of the 
 Cananea-Duluth Copper Company and a num- 
 ber of other corporations subsidiary to the 
 Greene Cananea Copper Company, the lar- 
 gest copper operators in the Southwest and 
 the forces of which were responsible for open- 
 ing up that field. 
 
 All of this work in Arizona Mr. Powell 
 accomplished in the remarkably short period 
 of four years, and at the end of that time, or 
 in July, 1910, resigned his positions with the 
 Calumet and Arizona and the Superior-Pitts- 
 burg companies to devote his time and atten- 
 tion to his private interests. These latter in- 
 clude the Elenita Development Company and 
 the Powmott Development Company, in both 
 of which he occupies the position of presi- 
 dent; the Sierra Madre Consolidated Mining 
 Company and the San Antonio Copper Com- 
 pany, holding directorships in both. 
 
 Mr. Powell is the principal factor in the 
 operations of all of these enterprises and is 
 today among the leading individual copper 
 developers of the Southwest. 
 
 Despite his continuous and close applica- 
 tion to his work, Mr. Powell has taken a keen 
 interest in politics and government wherever 
 he has been, and in addition to his service as 
 City Councilman in Buena Vista, Va., he was 
 Chairman of the Board of County Supervisors 
 of Gogebic County, Michigan, during his 
 residence in that State. He was also a dele- 
 gate from the Territory of Arizona to the Re- 
 publican National Convention in Chicago, in 
 1908, which nominated William H. Taft for 
 the presidency. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers and takes a leading part 
 in the affairs of that body. He is also a thir- 
 ty-second degree Mason. 
 
 His popularity in business as well as so- 
 cial circles is attested by his club member- 
 ships, which include the Kitchi Gammi Club 
 of Duluth, Minnesota; the Old Pueblo Club 
 of Tucson, Arizona, and the Douglas County 
 Club of Arizona; the California and Sierra 
 Madre clubs of Los Angeles, California; the 
 Northland Country Club of Duluth, and the 
 Warren District Country Club of Warren, 
 Arizona. He is also a member of the Broth- 
 erhood of Protective Order of Elks. 
 
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 HIPPS, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Min- 
 ing and Exploration, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Toronto, 
 Canada, December, 20, 1859, the 
 son of Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Phipps. He married Edith I. Belli 
 at Calumet, Michigan, July 18, 1894. 
 
 Major Phipps was descended of a fine old line of 
 Britishers, with the Scotch strain predominant in 
 the family. His forbears for generations had been 
 prominent in the life of the Dominion and various 
 branches attained distinction in the United States. 
 His wife, the daughter of Camillo Belli, an Italian 
 artist, comes also of a notable house, her ancestors 
 having been of the Italian nobility, the possessors 
 of a castle which stands to-day one of the historic 
 landmarks of Italy. 
 
 Major Phipps, noted as a man of high scholarly 
 attainments, received the preliminary part of his 
 education in the public schools of Toronto and 
 though he was graduated from the University of To- 
 ronto, he received a large part of his training at 
 the hands of private tutors. From them he learned 
 the higher subjects, including languages, in several 
 of which he was exceptionally fluent. 
 
 From early boyhood Major Phipps, despite the 
 advantages of travel and a cultured family circle, 
 preferred the out-of-doors for his habitat and his 
 life is pointed to as one of the most picturesque 
 in the West. When he was a young man he joined 
 the Canadian militia as a cadet and because of his 
 exceptional ability as a marksman and woodsman, 
 was promoted to the rank of Major. While serving 
 with his command, Major Phipps saw a great deal of 
 active service in the Northwest, operating in con- 
 junction with the celebrated Northwest Mounted Po- 
 lice. With the daring men of the Mounted Police he 
 endured the many hardships and dangers of their 
 campaigns in the interest of peace and order. For 
 days at a time he was in the saddle, with only 
 short respite for food and sleep, in the pursuit of 
 outlaws of that section, which, in the late sixties 
 and early seventies, was one of the wildest regions 
 on the North American continent. Young militia- 
 men, like Major Phipps, were compelled to under- 
 go unusual hardships and only the strongest of 
 them survived. 
 
 Major Phipps' father was a private banker and 
 stock broker in Toronto, a man of considerable 
 wealth and of substantial standing, and when his 
 two sons, the Major and his brother Frank, had 
 attained the age of sixteen years, they were taken 
 into the bank and there trained for the business. 
 While they learned the details of banking and 
 brokerage they also studied at home under private 
 tutors, so that when they were of age they not 
 only had thorough business training, but also were 
 splendidly educated in literature, languages and 
 the arts. 
 
 After attaining his majority Major Phipps left 
 the employ of his father and went to the North- 
 west, while his brother went into the insurance 
 business and is to-day a prosperous insurance 
 broker of Collinswood, Ontario. Shortly after this 
 the elder Phipps sold out his banking and stock 
 interests and retired from business, while Major 
 Phipps, who had always a tendency to travel, vis- 
 ited various parts of Western Canada and the 
 United States, as a rancher, prospector and hunter. 
 
 finally locating in Calumet, the center of the 
 mineral territory of Northern Michigan. 
 
 With a partner, Major Phipps purchased a small 
 newspaper there and operated it for several years, 
 he assuming the duties of editor. In this capacity 
 he showed unusual talent as a writer and a poet, 
 and, being a man of strong mind, did not hesitate 
 to express himself editorially against evil. Through 
 his virile writings he was enabled to bring about 
 various reforms in the little community, but he also 
 brought upon himself many bitter enmities and much 
 trouble. On one occasion he was arrested and 
 imprisoned for attacking a churchman in his news- 
 paper, but within a short time he was vindicated 
 and given his liberty, the majority of public opin- 
 ion upholding him in his editorial stand. 
 
 While in Northern Michigan Major Phipps took 
 an active interest in mining affairs, in addition to 
 his newspaper work, and was a stockholder in 
 various mining companies, one of which was the 
 celebrated Calumet & Hecla Mine. With the 
 profits he made in these ventures Major Phipps 
 bought into others, some of which proved success- 
 ful, while others were unfortunate. Being a man 
 of keen foresight and a splendid judge of ore lands, 
 he was on the lookout continually for new mining 
 territory and made frequent trips of exploration 
 to various sections in the hunt for properties. 
 
 It was during one of these trips that Major 
 Phipps came upon the property which was destined 
 to make himself and others millionaires and open 
 up to development one of the richest copper mines 
 in the world. He had heard of copper finds in 
 Arizona, so left Michigan and went to the Bisbee- 
 Warren District of the Territory, where he met 
 the locators of what is now known as the Calumet 
 & Arizona Mine. Securing a lease on the proper- 
 ty, the Major immediately set about to organize 
 the Calumet & Arizona Copper Company, having 
 for his associates a number of wealthy Michigan 
 friends who had been his loyal supporters at 
 various hazardous periods in his newspaper career. 
 
 After successfully promoting his company, Ma- 
 jor Phipps returned to Arizona and began the ac- 
 tual work of mining the copper which has since 
 poured millions into the pockets of its owners. 
 The Major was for several years the controlling 
 stockholder and the dominating factor in the Calu- 
 met & Arizona, but sold out his interests a little 
 at a time, until, finally, he retained a comparative- 
 ly small holding. 
 
 Being progressive and enterprising, and a man 
 of unbounded energy, the money he obtained from 
 the sale of his Calumet & Arizona stocks he put 
 into other properties and it was not long before 
 he was one of the largest individual mining oper- 
 ators in the Territory of Arizona. Among other 
 properties owned by him were the Black Diamond 
 Mine in Arizona, also the Dragoon, operated by the 
 Dragoon Copper Company, of which he was Presi- 
 dent. A third notable property controlled by him 
 at one time was the Italie Mine, near Bakersfield, 
 California, operated by the Italie Gold Mining Com- 
 pany, in which he held the office of President. 
 
 During his connection with these properties the 
 Major was unusually active. In the management 
 of his operating properties and the search for new 
 deposits Major Phipps, who was a splendid horse- 
 man, rode thousands of miles and is said to have 
 
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 covered practically every traversable foot of the 
 Territory of Arizona. 
 
 About the time he attained his great success 
 as a copper operator, Major Phipps' attention was 
 attracted to the steel industry, then on the eve of 
 the great consolidation which resulted in the 
 United States Steel Corporation, the billion dollar 
 concern in which his relative, Henry Phipps, was 
 one of the principal factors. With the foresight 
 characteristic of the man, Major Phipps purchased 
 holdings in a number of small steel companies in 
 different parts of the United States and when the 
 great consolidation was brought about took stock 
 in the combine in exchange for his smaller inter- 
 ests. His business judgment in this deal was 
 vindicated by the realization of a handsome for- 
 tune from the increase in the value of his stocks 
 a few years later. 
 
 About the year 1905, Major Phipps, who had 
 been wont to divide his time between Arizona and 
 Pittsburg, established his headquarters in Los An- 
 geles, and there, besides looking after his mining 
 and steel business, became interested in various 
 other business enterprises. One of these was the 
 American Machinery & Construction Company, 
 of which he was a Director, and another was the 
 Mason Smokeless Combustion Company, in which 
 he was President and a heavy stockholder. This 
 company was organized for the manufacture of a 
 patented device designed to arrest smoke from 
 manufacturing plants and thereby add to the clean- 
 liness of municipalities. 
 
 While a man of diversified business interests, 
 Major Phipps was always the cultivated man of 
 many talents, a scholar, poet, literateur, raconteur 
 and fine host. His study of many subjects made him 
 regarded by his friends, who included brilliant 
 writers, artists, lawyers and doctors, as one of the 
 most thoroughly posted men in the United States. 
 He has been described by John McGroarty, a 
 well known California editor, as one of the most 
 profound students of literature and history with 
 whom he had ever come in contact. This was in- 
 stanced in 1911, when Mr. McGroarty was at work 
 on the celebrated "Mission Play," a story of the 
 monastery days in California which was staged 
 in the environment of the historic San Gabriel Mis- 
 sion. Knowing Major Phipps' capacity for histor- 
 ical knowledge, Mr. McGroarty, who was a warm 
 personal friend of the Major, sought his advice on 
 various matters connected with the preparation of 
 this beautiful dramatic effort. The result was that 
 Major Phipps collaborated with him on a part of 
 it and his assistance was later declared by Mr. Mc- 
 Groarty to have been of great value to him. 
 
 In his earlier days Major Phipps was a famous 
 hunter of big game and stalked his quarry from 
 the mountains of America to the wilds of Africa. 
 He had a wonderful fund of hunting anecdotes and 
 some of his exploits formed the basis, at different 
 times, of interesting fiction. He not only was a 
 splendid shot and a huntsman, but he also was an 
 enthusiastic fisherman and in his latter days his 
 collection of fishing tackle, including some excep- 
 tionally fine rods and reels, was one of his choicest 
 treasures. 
 
 The Major's wife shared with him this love of 
 the open country and accompanied him on many 
 of his expeditions. In fact, for several years they 
 spent their vacations in the mountains, taking with 
 
 them some of their closest friends, and spending 
 several months in fishing and hunting. On these 
 expeditions they traveled in a specially appointed 
 camp wagon, drawn by powerful mules, and, having 
 a corps of cooks and attendants, they enjoyed the 
 life of freedom which appealed to both so strongly. 
 At a later period Major Phipps had a magnificent 
 camp wagon constructed from plans drawn by him- 
 self, which contained many original ideas for an 
 outfit of this kind, including a perfectly appointed 
 kitchen and folding beds. This entire establishment 
 was drawn by a span of magnificent horses, valued 
 at $1500 apiece, instead of mules as formerly used. 
 
 In his home life Major Phipps was a lavish host 
 and entertained his intimates frequently at select 
 little banquets, which were notable for their charm 
 of appointment and the interesting forms of en- 
 tertainment. At these gatherings Mrs. Phipps was 
 a gracious hostess and she, being a singer of ex- 
 ceptional talent, aided largely in their success. 
 
 One of Major Phipps' most intimate friends and 
 guests at these affairs was Dr. M. L. Moore, of Los 
 Angeles, who was his physician for five years. 
 Major Phipps and Dr. Moore were born on the 
 same day and it was their custom to celebrate 
 their birthdays together. 
 
 During the Summer of 1911 Major Phipps be- 
 came ill and after being confined to his bed for 
 several weeks, died on August 2, 1911. His demise 
 was a great shock to Mrs. Phipps, for during the 
 seventeen years of their married life they had been 
 inseparable companions. 
 
 Being a man of scholarly instincts, Major Phipps' 
 friends were among the most intellectual class of 
 every community wherein he chanced to be, but 
 he was mourned by many others than his im- 
 mediate circle, for he was a generous philanthropist, 
 noted for the fact that he never sent a supplicant 
 away empty-handed. During the last few years of 
 his life he maintained a private list of benefactions, 
 the beneficiaries being unknown even to his most 
 intimate friends. In this way he gave away thou- 
 sands of dollars annually. One of his best known 
 philanthropies was the sustaining of old friends of 
 his mining days who had not been so fortunate as 
 he in their search for fortune, and it was said of 
 him that he had enabled scores of them to get a 
 new start in life. 
 
 Major Phipps possessed a great deal of individ- 
 uality and this was forcibly illustrated in his per- 
 sonal life and surroundings. He had a penchant 
 for precious stones and possessed a private col- 
 lection of gems, possibly one of the largest and 
 most diversified in the United States. 
 
 He loved the beautiful things in life, and al- 
 though he had mining properties and other busi- 
 ness interests in various parts of the United States 
 and Mexico, to which he could have devoted all his 
 time, he preferred his books or painting (for he 
 was a capable artist in addition to his other accom- 
 plishments) to the mere wealth that his properties 
 represented. 
 
 Following the death of Major Phipps, his widow 
 traveled for some months, but later settled in a 
 beautiful home in Hollywood, Los Angeles. 
 
 Mrs. Phipps has carried on the philanthropies 
 of Major Phipps to a certain extent and plans at a 
 future date to establish a sanitarium on a splendid 
 ranch which she owns near Duarte, California, as 
 a memorial to her husband. 
 
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 139 
 
 
 NOX, FRANK, Banking, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born at 
 Washington, Iowa, the son 
 of William Knox and Eliza- 
 beth (Short) Knox. He mar- 
 ried Julia M. Granby, at Red Oak, Iowa, in 
 1882, and to them there have been born 
 three children : De Witt, George G. and 
 Frances May Knox. His father being a 
 farmer and stock raiser, 
 Mr. Knox spent his early 
 days on the farm. 
 
 He attended the pub- 
 lic schools and wOund up 
 his studies with a brief 
 attendance at Washing- 
 ton Academy, in his na- 
 tive town. 
 
 Mr. Knox began his 
 business career as mes- 
 senger for the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Washing- 
 ton, Iowa, at the age of 
 fifteen years and contin- 
 ued with that organiza- 
 tion until he had attained 
 the position of Assistant 
 Cashier. 
 
 He resigned from that 
 post in 1885 and then 
 moved to Osborne, Kan- 
 sas, where he organized 
 the First National Bank, 
 in which he was one of 
 the principal owners and 
 Cashier. 
 
 This was the real be- 
 ginning of his career as a financier, and in 
 addition to his holdings at Osborne he be- 
 came associated as President and chief owner 
 of two State banks in the Sunflower State. 
 He was actively engaged in the conduct of 
 the three institutions until November, 1889, 
 and at that time he decided to move further 
 West. 
 
 Accordingly he sold out all of his inter- 
 ests in the Kansas institutions and went to 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. He arrived there in 
 January, 1890, and immediately set about 
 organizing the National Bank of the Re- 
 public. 
 
 This concern was opened for business in 
 May, 1890, and Mr. Knox was chosen its 
 president and general manager. 
 
 He has continued as such ever since 
 and has been the directing factor in all its 
 success during the twenty-one years that 
 have elapsed. 
 
 FRANK KNOX 
 
 The bank began business as a brand new 
 enterprise, without any old following, the in- 
 tegrity and financial strength of its backers 
 being its best recommendation. It has grown 
 to be one of the largest financial institutions 
 between Denver and the Pacific Coast, being 
 a Government depository with the largest 
 deposits of any National bank in the State. 
 Mr. Knox's time has been given over al- 
 most entirely to the man- 
 agement of the bank, and 
 as a consequence he has 
 had little opportunity to 
 engage actively in any 
 other business. 
 
 His interests outside 
 of the bank consist of 
 large holdings in real 
 estate in Salt Lake and 
 mining in Utah and 
 Nevada. 
 
 Mr. Knox takes an 
 active part in the affairs 
 of the American Bankers' 
 Association, of which he 
 is a prominent member. 
 He has been chosen vice 
 president for Utah sev- 
 eral times and served one 
 term on the executive 
 council. 
 
 His position in the 
 financial world and his 
 native energy have made 
 him a man conspicuous 
 in the civic upbuilding of 
 Salt 'Lake City, and de- 
 spite his close application to his banking du- 
 ties he has always been among the leaders 
 in any movement which had for its object 
 the betterment of Salt 'Lake City proper and 
 the State of Utah as a whole. 
 
 He is also a generous-hearted philanthro- 
 pist, bestowing his charities with lavish hand 
 and little ostentation. 
 
 Mr. Knox has been an extensive traveler 
 in Europe and the United States and has a 
 remarkable following of friends in financial 
 circles throughout the nation. 
 
 He has always maintained a keen, patri- 
 otic interest in the political affairs of his 
 adopted city, but has never held office. 
 
 A man of striking personality and mag- 
 netism, Mr. Knox is very popular among his 
 associates and is a leading clubman. 
 
 He holds memberships in the Alta Club, 
 the Country Club and the Commercial Club, 
 all of Salt Lake. 
 
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 ELLS, ARTHUR GEORGE, 
 General Manager, Atchison, 
 Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- 
 way Coast Lines, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born 
 at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, November 18, 
 1861, the son of Arthur Wells and Georgina 
 Dora (Ridout) Wells. Mr. Wells comes 
 from a long line of English origin and his 
 grandfather fought under 
 Wellington in Spain 
 against the great Napo- 
 leon. He married Ger- 
 trude Alice Barnard, Oc- 
 tober 15, 1884, at St. 
 Joseph, Missouri. There 
 are two children, Helen 
 A u d 1 e y and Louise 
 Wells. 
 
 Mr. Wells is one of 
 the notable examples of 
 the men who have begun 
 their railroad careers in 
 the humblest positions 
 and through application, 
 tact and ambition have 
 arisen to the highest 
 places. The office he 
 holds now, in 1911, is one 
 of the most important on 
 the railroads of this 
 country. 
 
 He attended the pub- 
 lic and high schools of 
 Guelph, Canada, until he 
 was fifteen years of age, 
 and then at once entered 
 the railway service to acquire an experience 
 which quickly drove him to the top. 
 
 His first work was as an apprentice ma- 
 chinist in the shops of the Kansas City, St. 
 Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad at St. 
 Joseph, Missouri, in the year 1876. 
 
 He was chosen, four years later, for the 
 position of clerk of the mechanical depart- 
 ment of the same road. After satisfactorily 
 filling this position he resigned, and with 
 considerable experience gained he became 
 clerk to the purchasing agent of the Atlantic 
 and Pacific Railroad. 
 
 In March, 1882, he was offered a clerical 
 position at San Marcial, New Mexico, for 
 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- 
 road. 
 
 In June, 1882, he became chief clerk to 
 the general superintendent of the Atlantic 
 and Pacific Railroad at Albuquerque, New 
 Mexico, which became another step in his 
 
 A. G. WELLS 
 
 advancement. In this position he came in 
 touch with every department of railroad 
 management, and it was here that he re- 
 ceived the experiences which qualified him 
 for higher positions. 
 
 He wanted something besides office ex- 
 periences, so he found the place of train- 
 master of the same road open to him. Here 
 he had direct command of the movement of 
 trains, an experience 
 which proved invaluable 
 to him. Shortly after 
 this, October, 1886, he 
 was offered and accepted 
 the office of assistant to 
 the general manager of 
 the Ohio and Mississippi 
 Railway. 
 
 In January, 1890, he 
 accepted the general 
 superintendency of the 
 Ohio, Indiana and West- 
 ern Railway, which was 
 absorbed by the Cleve- 
 land, Cincinnati, Chicago 
 and St. Louis Railway, 
 and was successively su- 
 perintendent of the Peo- 
 ria, Indianapolis and St. 
 Louis divisions of that 
 road. 
 
 The Santa Fe system, 
 in 1893, sought his ser- 
 vices to fill the office of 
 assistant to the first vice 
 president of that great 
 railroad. He qualified in 
 this office and was given the independent 
 general superintendence of the Atlantic and 
 Pacific Railroad, a road where he had been 
 employed in humble capacities during his 
 earlier railway experiences. 
 
 He was general superintendent of the 
 Southern California Railway, and of the San 
 Francisco and San Joaquin Railway, all 
 three branches of the Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe system. Since 1901 he has been 
 general manager of the trio of roads, with 
 residence and general offices at Los Angeles. 
 Mr. Wells has been well liked in every 
 community in which he has settled, and has 
 been given social honors in all of his station 
 cities. At Los Angeles he has been presi- 
 dent of the California Club and is a member 
 of the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco, 
 the Los Angeles Country Club, the Cuya- 
 maca Club of San Diego, and the Commer- 
 cial Club of Albuquerque, New Mexico 
 
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 AMILTON, WALTER RA- 
 LEIGH, Geologist and Engi- 
 neer, San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, was born near Modesto, 
 California, August 10, 1880, 
 the son of Henry Hamilton and Nora (Cough- 
 lin) Hamilton. He married Mattie Dunn at 
 Oroville, California, on May 27, 1905, and to 
 them there was born one child, Fay Ham- 
 ilton. 
 
 From 1886 to 1895 Mr. 
 Hamilton attended the 
 public schools of Stanis- 
 laus County, California, 
 and in the latter year en- 
 tered the University of 
 the Pacific, from which he 
 was graduated into Le- 
 land Stanford University 
 in 1898. This course was 
 interrupted by two years' 
 work in the mines and on 
 dredgers, after which he 
 returned to the Universi- 
 ty and graduated with the 
 degree of A. B. in 1904. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton is an- 
 other instance of the col- 
 lege-trained man who 
 "makes good" as a stu- 
 dent and makes better as 
 a graduate, thus increas- 
 ing the already long roll 
 of honor. A student ath- 
 lete while at Stanford 
 University, where he was 
 a winner of the mile run 
 in the inter-collegiate games, and also as a 
 substitute on the football team, as well as 
 something of a "dig" in his major subjects 
 geology and the natural sicences he has car- 
 ried into his post-graduate life a husky con- 
 stitution and a well-equipped mind, which 
 have contributed much to his success. 
 
 Shortly after his graduation from Stanford 
 Mr. Hamilton began his professional career 
 as engineer of the Standard Consolidated 
 Mining Company, at Bodie. California, and 
 was soon made assistant superintendent. 
 This property changed hands in 1906, and fol- 
 lowing the general "shake up" that occurred 
 Mr. Hamilton left for Manhattan, Nevada, 
 where he was employed for two months as a 
 surveyor. Returning to San Franciso, he 
 secured the position as assayer for the Ymir 
 Gold Mines, Ltd., of British Columbia, but 
 subsequently found that "the principal thing 
 that was limited was the gold." In January, 
 
 W. R. HAMILTON 
 
 1907, he left this limited company, somewhat 
 richer in experience than in substance. 
 
 The next four months found him acting as 
 engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company, from which employ he stepped into 
 the important position of assistant geologist 
 for the Associated Oil Corporation, but after 
 six months in this capacity in the land de- 
 partment he was promoted to the full charge 
 thereof. Here he per- 
 formed the valuable work 
 of organizing the present 
 geological department, of 
 which he became chief 
 geologist, with that title. 
 Here, while acting as ad- 
 viser, he put a staff of 
 competent geologists in 
 the field and laid the 
 foundation of what is to- 
 day the most efficient 
 geological department 
 that any company in the 
 oil field can boast. 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Hamilton 
 became associated with 
 W. P. Hammon as direc- 
 tor of field operations in 
 oil. These are gradually 
 extending and enlarging 
 the scope of his activities, 
 which at present include 
 the Montebello Oil Com- 
 pany, the Oak Ridge, the 
 Gato Ridge, the Coalinga 
 Syndicate and the Oil 
 Field Syndicate Oil Com- 
 panies. As these, however, are in a somewhat 
 tentative state of organization, their names 
 are subject to change. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton is an apt illustration of the 
 value of developing one's natural bent by con- 
 centrating on the work best adapted to the 
 task. In his life he has followed the same 
 habits of devotion to the work in hand that 
 characterized his university experience and 
 has had little time or inclination for clubs and 
 organizations. Those to which he belongs all 
 have bearing on his professional duties, and 
 are the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
 neers, American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, National Geographical Soci- 
 ety and Le Conte Geological Club. He has 
 contributed articles on geological subjects to 
 magazines, the most important, perhaps, of 
 which treatises is his paper, written in col- 
 laboration with Mr. H. H. Kessler, on the 
 "Orbicular Gabbro of Dehesa, California." 
 
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 A. G. SPALDING 
 
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 PALDING, ALBERT GOODWILL, 
 Capitalist, Point Loma and San 
 Diego, California, and Chicago, 
 Illinois, was born at Byron, Ogle 
 County, Illinois, September 2, 1850- 
 His parents were James Lawrence 
 Spalding and Harriet Irene (Goodwill) Spalding. 
 
 The Spalding patronymic is a very old and hon- 
 orable Anglo-Saxon name, probably derived from 
 the town of Spalding, in Lincolnshire, England, 
 which place gained its title from the tribal name, 
 Spaldas, left by the Romans after the conquest. 
 
 The Spaldings trace back their lineage to fhe 
 sea-kings of the Baltic, for they are doubtless of 
 D--p ; sh origin, and all their endowments of spirit, 
 brain and brawn, show them to be still in posses- 
 sion of the strenuous qualities of their fighting 
 Saxou forbears. 
 
 Members of the Spalding family have been 
 prominently known in music, literature, the arts 
 and sciences, from early times. In the commercial 
 world, in the pulpit, as authors, journalists, jurists, - 
 surgeons, and in all the learned professions, the 
 name Spalding appears frequently and in high 
 places. Albert Spalding, namesake and nephew of 
 A. G. Spalding, is now one of the world's most 
 famous violinists. 
 
 The geographical influence of the Spalding 
 family in America is wide-spread, there being 
 towns named Spalding in Illinois, Michigan, Wis- 
 consin, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, Alabama, Iowa 
 and Maine, this name doubtless having been given 
 in recognition of the achievements or personal 
 worthiness of descendants of Edward Spalding, of 
 the Massachusetts Bay colony, who, first coming 
 to Virginia, about A. D. 1619, later took up his 
 home in New England, where he founded the 
 American branch of the Spalding family. 
 
 When Albert G. Spalding was about eight years 
 old, his father died and the lad removed with his 
 mother from Byron to Rockford, Illinois, where he 
 entered the public schools and laid the foundation 
 for his education. 
 
 The Spaldings had always been noted for splen- 
 did physical development, strong, aggressive tem- 
 perament, keen and analytical judgment. It was 
 quite natural then that a scion of such a family 
 should early in life manifest the possession of 
 faculties peculiarly adapting him for the great 
 American game of baseball, which made its advent 
 only a few years in advance of his olrth. He first 
 learned of this pastime from a paroled soldier of 
 the Civil War, who, returning from the front, 
 wounded, brought to Rockford interesting stories 
 of a new game played by soldiers of both armies 
 between engagements on the field of battle. 
 
 Young Spalding soon found himself practicing 
 this new sport with his companions on the com- 
 mons at Rockford. He was quick to acquire the 
 rudiments of the game and gained especial pro- 
 ficiency as a pitcher in a very short time. He first 
 played with the juvenile Pioneers, composed of 
 Rockford school boys, but it was not long until his 
 services were in demand in teams made up of 
 players much older than he. He was secured by 
 the Forest City Club, of Rockford, for which or- 
 ganization he won deserved fame, for the players 
 of that team defeated every ball club of any pre- 
 tensions in the Middle West and then went upon 
 a sensationally victorious journey through the 
 large cities of the East- 
 
 From the Forest Citv amateur club he was in- 
 duced to go to the original Boston Club of profes- 
 sionals, for which organization he won the cham- 
 
 pionship pennant four years in succession 1872-3-4 
 and 5. He then went with some of his Boston 
 teammates to Chicago, in 1876, where, pitching for 
 the White Stockings, of which he was also man- 
 ager, he again won the flag, establishing a record 
 that has never yet been equaled by any profes- 
 sional league pitcher. During these five years, Be 
 played almost daily, pitching in nearly every game. 
 
 In 1876, he was instrumental, with William A. 
 Hulbert, in organizing the National League of 
 Baseball Clubs. This marked an era in the game, 
 for previous to that date all national organizations 
 had been associations of baseball players. 
 
 Coincident with the formation of the great pio- 
 neer major league, Mr. Spalding threw himself, 
 with all the force of his energetic, battling nature, 
 into a fight for the elimination of drunkenness, 
 rowdyism and gambling from the national pastime. 
 To his efforts, as to those of no other man perhaps, 
 is due the fact that these evils, which at one time 
 threatened the very life of America's national 
 game, were driven out. 
 
 Ever since the formation of the National League, 
 until the organization of the National Commission, 
 Mr. Spalding has been prominent in the councils 
 of those who have directed the large affairs of the 
 game, and in 1901, when a concerted effort was 
 made by certain magnates to syndicate baseball as 
 the theatrical interests of the country have been 
 gathered under a trust he made the fight single- 
 handed that resulted in the overthrow of a scheme 
 that would have prostituted a nation's pastime. 
 
 One of the most notable achievements of Mr. 
 Spalding's baseball career was the organization 
 and carrying out of a project to introduce the 
 American game to foreign lands. This he did in 
 1888, by enlisting the services of two teams of star 
 professionals, whom he took on a world girdling 
 voyage, visiting Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, 
 India, Egypt, Italy, France and Great Britain, play- 
 ing games in all those counties, showing its quali- 
 ties before the peoples of the Antipodes, exhibiting 
 its peculiarities with the Sphinx as a back stop, 
 and demonstrating the ability of American base- 
 ball players to acquit themselves with credit in 
 contests with the best of British cricketers at the 
 national game of Great Britain and her colonies. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Spalding published a book entitled 
 "America's National Game," which is the most pre- 
 tentious volume ever written on the subject of 
 baseball. This book has had a very wide sale, 
 which still continues, owing to its historical excel- 
 lence and literary merits. 
 
 While paying a visit to England in 1874, in con- 
 nection with the first trip of American ball players 
 to a foreign country, Mr. Spalding's quick eye de- 
 tected commercial conditions that led to the later 
 establishment of the great sporting goods house of 
 A- G. Spalding & Bros. In seeking to secure an 
 outfit that would equip him to play the game of 
 cricket in good form, Mr. Spalding noted that in 
 London shops everything was specialized. Did he 
 want a cricket ball, he must get it from one house. 
 Did he want a cricket hat or cap, he must go to 
 another. For a cricket uniform or shoes, he had to 
 find the shop of Smith, or Jones, or Robinson. The 
 result of his tedious shopping inspired in his 
 mind the question, Why not have an athletic goods 
 emporium where all the accessories of sport can be 
 bought under one roof? Why should there not be 
 established a house where the uniforms and imple- 
 ments of every form of sport could be purchased? 
 
 The problem thus presented to the ambitious 
 young ball player filled his mind until it found a 
 
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 solution in the formation, in 1876, of a copartner- 
 ship between A. G. Spalding and his brother, J. 
 Walter Spalding, at Chicago. The history of A. G. 
 Spalding & Bros, has no place here, but the fact 
 that the business of the small concern that was 
 founded in 1876 has grown until it requires the aid 
 of an army of employes, and branch houses in all 
 leading cities of the United States, Canada, Great 
 Britain and Australia to meet the demands upon it, 
 is certainly a tribute to the business sagacity of 
 A. G. Spalding, its founder. 
 
 Mr. Spalding has had a political career, brief but 
 sensational. The first primary election of Cali- 
 fornia bearing upon the choice of U. S. Senator, 
 was held August 16, 1910. The last preceding Leg- 
 islature had enacted the first measure providing 
 for such an election. The bill had provoked much 
 discussion and occupied a good deal of the session. 
 Finally, shortly before adjournment, it was enacted 
 into law, receiving the unusual endorsement of a 
 unanimous vote of all members, representing every 
 shade of political partisanship. 
 
 The law as passed provided for a choice of can- 
 didates for the United States Senatorship fty the 
 several legislative districts of the State. It was 
 in accord with the spirit of the Constitution of the 
 United States. It was to safeguard the rights and 
 interests of the people of all sections. It was recog- 
 nized that by no other means could fair represen- 
 tation be given to suburban peoples. It was known 
 that choice of representatives in the upper house 
 of Congress, under popular vote, would mean the 
 selection invariably of candidates from the con- 
 gested localities; that the rural districts, though 
 having plenty of available Senatorial timber, would 
 forever be eliminated, as in other vears. from all 
 hopes of preferment for their favorite sons. 
 
 There had been for a long time in California an 
 unwritten political law that United States Sena- 
 torial representation should alternate between the 
 northern and southern sections of the State; that 
 is. that when the Senator who was to continue in 
 office had his home north of the Tehachapi the one 
 to be elected should live south of that line. It 
 happened that first after the passage of the pri- 
 mary law, the election to be held was to fill the 
 place made vacant in the United States Senate by 
 the expiration of the term of Senator Frank Flint, 
 of Los Angeles- As Hon. Geo. Perkins, the hold- 
 over Senator, was from Oakland, it was conceded 
 that the new candidate should be from the South. 
 
 Senator Flint declining to be a candidate for re- 
 election. Los Angeles placed two Republicans in 
 the field, John D. Works (Lincoln-Roosevelt fac- 
 tion), and Mr. E. A. Meserve, the opposition. 
 
 Prominent citizens of San Diego, and friends 
 from different parts of the State, urged Mr. Spalding 
 to enter the race. He declined the honor, assuring 
 his would-be constituents that he had no political 
 ambitions: had never been a candidate for public 
 office "nd had no faith to believe he could be made 
 United States Senator under existing political con- 
 ditions in California, since he belonged to no fac- 
 tion, but was simply a Republican. His friends, 
 however, were importunate, and he at last con- 
 sented, reluctantly, to be a candidate. 
 
 He had jnst thirty days in which to make his 
 campaign. The primary election was held August 
 10. The result showed that A. G. Spalding had 
 carried the legislative districts of the State, under 
 the nrimarv law, by an overwhelming majority 
 over both his competitors. E. A. Meserve received 
 the vote in five districts. John D. Works had ma- 
 jorities in forty districts, and A. G. Spalding carried 
 seventy-five districts, and, many eminent lawyers 
 
 declared, was clearly entitled to an election by 
 the Legislature under a law of its own enactment. 
 
 Then began a remarkable exhibition of political 
 pulling and hauling to secure the election of John 
 D. Works. The Spalding people contended that in- 
 asmuch as Mr. Spalding had carried a majority of 
 the districts he should be elected U. S. Senator by 
 the Legislature when it assembled. The Works peo- 
 ple held to the view that the popular majority se- 
 cured by Works entitled him to the Senatorship. The 
 controversy raged fiercely over the construction of 
 the primary law and as to whether or not members 
 of the Legislature were bound by the will of the 
 voters in their district as reflected in the election. 
 
 The political organization which was in control 
 of the State and the State Legislature declared 
 that Works should be chosen and Mr. Spalding was 
 defeated. Former U. S. Senator Cornelius Cole of 
 Los Angeles declared this defeat of Mr. Spalding 
 and the election of John D. Works "the most in- 
 famous political outrage of modern times." 
 
 Whatever the merits of the controversy in other 
 respects, the fact remains that the contention in be- 
 half of Spalding's choice was based upon the strict 
 letter of the primary law, while that of his competi- 
 tor was founded solely upon the desires of political 
 party managers. 
 
 Since making his home in California, about a 
 dozen years ago, Mr. Spalding has been deeply in- 
 terested in and closely connected with the good 
 roads movement. He began by personal activity 
 in behalf of road improvement in the vicinity of 
 his home on Point Loma. The excellence of the 
 roads constructed by him, at his own expense, 
 attracted attention of the people of San Diego, who, 
 through the local authorities, urged him to build a 
 similar road connecting the city with Ocean Beach, 
 Roseville and the United States Military and Naval 
 Reservation. This has become famous as one of 
 the best boulevard systems of America. It was 
 largely through Mi. Spalding's personal efforts that 
 the Government was induced to make an appropria- 
 tion of $40,000 for an extension of this system 
 along the crest of Point Loma, to the Old Spanish 
 Lighthouse, a magnificent scenic drive. 
 
 As a result of his boulevard work, he was urged 
 to take charge of a movement to secure a bond is- 
 sue of $1,250,000 for the construction of about 500 
 miles of roads in the back county of San Diego 
 County. The issue carried by a very large majority 
 of the county votes, and a Commission (A. G. Spald- 
 ing, John D. Spreckels and E. W. Scripps) was ap- 
 pointed to undertake the enterprise. The work was 
 placed in the hands of A. B. Fletcher (later Chief 
 Eng., Cal. State Highway Comms.), who laid the 
 foundation for the system. 
 
 Mr. Spalding was elected Vice Pres. of the 
 "Ocean-to-Ocean" Highway Assn., with headquar- 
 ters at Los Angeles; but learning that the organiza- 
 tion proposed to construct the western length 
 through a pathless desert of shifting sands, he de- 
 clined to serve. 
 
 Mr. Spalding is President and executive head 
 of the San Diego Securities Company, having an 
 authorized capital of $2,000,000, with $1,250,000 paid 
 up. The company owns in fee simple several miles 
 of harbor frontage on San Diego Bay, and consid- 
 erably over one thousand acres of beautiful villa 
 property on the scenic crest of Point Loma. It also 
 owns valuable property at National City as well as 
 the land upon which is located the club house and 
 18-hole course of the Point Loma Golf Club. 
 
 Mr. Spalding is a member of the French Legion 
 of Honor, and possesses the medal of that order. 
 He belongs to numerous social and commercial 
 clubs in the larger cities of the country. 
 
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 ARRETT, WILLIAM ERNEST, 
 Consulting Gas Engineer, New 
 York, N. Y., Los Angeles and 
 San Francisco, California, was 
 born in Nashville, Tennessee, Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1870, the son of Albert 
 Read Barrett and Marie Louise (Barnes) Barrett. 
 He married Charlotte Josephine Ricker at Law- 
 rence, Massachusetts, October 13, 1893, and to them 
 there was born a daughter, Gretchen Crommelin 
 Barrett. He is descended of 
 old American stock, his an- 
 cestors on both sides of the 
 family having been men of 
 affairs in the days of the 
 Revolution. One of these, 
 John Crommelin, of New 
 York City, was one of the 
 original organizers of Trinity 
 Parish, and his great grand- 
 uncle, John Barrett, gave 
 his life to the Republic at 
 the Battle of Lexington. 
 Lewis Barnes, his maternal 
 great-g randfather, was a 
 banker at Portsmouth, New 
 Hampshire, and the owner 
 of a line of ocean ships sail- 
 ing between New York and 
 France. B. F. Barrett, his 
 paternal grandfather, estab- 
 lished the Barrett Roofing 
 Company of Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Barrett received his 
 early education in public and 
 private schools of Philadel- 
 phia, Pennsylvania, and also 
 attended the first public man- 
 ual training school in the 
 United States, established by 
 Lieutenant Robert Crawford, 
 of the United States Navy. 
 He concluded his studies at 
 the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, graduating in the class 
 of 1889 with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. 
 
 Prior to his graduation, Mr. Barrett determined 
 to specialize in gas engineering and, following the 
 receipt of his degree, became Assistant Engineer 
 to James E. Leadley, of the Hanley & Leadley Con- 
 struction Company, which had the contract for 
 building a water gas plant for the Philadelphia Gas 
 Improvement Company. He continued in this po- 
 sition for about eight months, resigning to become 
 Assistant Superintendent of the Globe Gas Light 
 Company, of Philadelphia, which was later merged 
 with the United Gas Improvement Company of the 
 same city. Subsequently he became Cadet Engi- 
 neer in the construction department of the corpora- 
 tion and was then promoted to the position of Con- 
 struction Engineer, which he filled until 1893. 
 
 At this time he went to Montgomery, Alabama, 
 as General Manager of the Montgomery Railway 
 & Light Company, remaining there for a year. 
 During this time he brought about the consolida- 
 tion of the two competing companies, thus bringing 
 the business down to an economical basis. 
 
 Returning to Pennsylvania, in 1894, Mr. Barrett 
 took the management of the Lower Merion Gas 
 Company, a subsidiary of the United Gas Improve- 
 ment Company covering the territory from Phila- 
 delphia to Paoli, Pennsylvania. After several years 
 
 W. E. BARRETT 
 
 Mr. Barrett acquired all the electric properties in 
 that section, and in May, 1903, merged these com- 
 panies into the Merion & Radnor Gas & Elec- 
 tric Company, retaining the management of the 
 new concern. 
 
 While a resident of Lower Merion Township, 
 Mr. Barrett, who is a Republican in his political 
 affiliations, was elected a member of the first Board 
 of Commissioners of the Township, serving from 
 1900 to March, 1904. While on the Board he de- 
 signed and supervised the 
 construction of the entire 
 system of drainage in the 
 place, forty-tour miles of 
 sewers, and also was en- 
 gaged in other civic improve- 
 ments. 
 
 In January, 1904, Mr. Bar- 
 rett resigned the manage- 
 ment of the corporation he 
 had organized and went to 
 Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
 where he took charge of the 
 gas department of the Scran- 
 ton Gas & Water Company, 
 remaining in that capacity 
 until 1906. 
 
 Upon leaving Scranton, 
 Mr. Barrett was appointed 
 Chief Consulting Gas Engi- 
 neer for J. G. White & 
 Company, of New York, the 
 largest engineering firm in 
 the world. He still retains 
 this position and during the 
 six years he has occupied it 
 has designed and constructed 
 several notable plants in 
 various parts of the United 
 States. Among others he 
 built the entire gas works at 
 Moline, Illinois, which sup- 
 plies gas to the cities of Mo- 
 line and Rock Island. This 
 was one of the most remark- 
 able engineering feats in the history of gas con- 
 struction, he having completed in seventy-eight 
 days a plant having 3,000,000 feet per day capacity. 
 In the early part of 1912, Mr. Barrett was com- 
 missioned by his company to engineer the con- 
 struction of a 12-inch natural gas pipe line 115 
 miles long, extending from the Midway oil fields 
 of California to the city of Los Angeles. In this 
 work he occupied the unique position of managing 
 himself, he being General Manager and Consult- 
 ing Engineer of the Midway Gas Company, and also 
 Assistant General Manager of the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Gas Company. 
 
 The work in which Mr. Barrett is engaged in 
 California is one of the largest natural gas enter- 
 prises- in the country and an industry of great 
 importance to its home State. 
 
 Mr. Barrett, who is generally considered one of 
 the leading experts of his profession, is a member 
 of the American Gas Institute, New York Electric 
 Society, Natural Gas Association of America, Amer- 
 ican Society of Electrical Engineers-Associate, Illi- 
 nois Gas Association and the Los Angeles Chamber 
 of Mines and Oil. His clubs are the Montana Club, 
 Helena, Montana; Engineers' Club of Northeast 
 Pennsylvania and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
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 YRNE, JOHN JOSEPH, Assistant 
 Passenger Traffic Manager of the 
 Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of the 
 Dominion of Canada. He was 
 born at Hamilton, Ontario, in 
 1859. His father was Andrew W. Byrne and his 
 mother Mary (Flannigan) Byrne. 
 
 In Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 1892, he married 
 Mary Castle. There are three children, Constance, 
 Beatrice and John Castle 
 Byrne. 
 
 He was educated in the 
 schools of Hamilton, Canada, 
 in which city he spent his 
 early life. 
 
 Mr. Byrne has been a 
 railroad man all of his busi- 
 ness life, which began in 
 1873, with the Great Western 
 Railway system in Canada. 
 There he worked his way 
 from the position of office 
 boy in that company, with 
 promotion after promotion 
 following in rapid succes- 
 sion, until today he holds an 
 enviable place in the rail- 
 road world. However, the 
 history of his success has 
 not been a jump from office 
 boy to the top, but has been 
 a series of many merited ad- 
 vances, with years of per- 
 sistent study and the devel- 
 opment of a genius for his 
 chosen work. 
 
 From office boy in the 
 auditor's office of the Great Western Railway he 
 was advanced to clerk in the same office, December 
 19, 1877. 
 
 On October 14, 1880, he became clerk in the 
 General Passenger Agent's office of the Chicago 
 and Alton Railway, with offices at Chicago. From 
 that date until one year later he acted in the ca- 
 pacity of rate clerk on the St. Louis, Iron Moun- 
 tain and Southern Railway. 
 
 His next advance was into the office of the Gen- 
 eral Passenger Department of the Missouri Pacific 
 Railway. 
 
 From January 1, 1882, until March of the fol- 
 lowing year he was employed in the same position 
 with the Michigan Central Railwa>. 
 
 During the next two years he was made secre- 
 tary of the Chicago Railroad Association, with of- 
 fices in that city, and at the same time he acted 
 as chief clerk in the General Passenger office of 
 the Michigan Central system. 
 
 On April 1, 1885, he went to Oregon, where he 
 became the general passenger and ticket agent of 
 the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. 
 
 J. J. BYRNE 
 
 In August, 1887, he was made passenger agent 
 for the Atlantic and Pacific Railway of San Fran- 
 cisco, with headquarters situated in that city. He 
 became a typical Western railroad man, display- 
 ing that interest in the growth and upbuilding of 
 the Far West which was so essential to the pros- 
 perity of his interests. He devoted his princi- 
 pal efforts to colonization work, thereby creat- 
 ing the phenomenal growth of railway sys- 
 tems on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 From December 1, 1887, 
 
 until the following Septem- 
 ber, he acted in the capacity 
 of chief clerk of the Pas- 
 senger Department of the 
 Chicago, Santa Fe and Cali- 
 fornia Railway, with its 
 headquarters located at Chi- 
 cago. He was next made as- 
 sistant general passenger 
 and ticket agent of the road, 
 which office he retained un- 
 til January 1, 1890, when 
 on the consolidation of that 
 system with the Santa Fe 
 lines he went over to the 
 parent organization and re- 
 mained in various capacities 
 up to January 31, 1895, when 
 he took up the important du- 
 ties of assistant passenger 
 traffic manager of that rail- 
 road. Meanwhile he was 
 made general passenger 
 agent for the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Railway, a subsidiary 
 interest, and on March 1, 
 1896, was appointed gen- 
 eral passenger agent of the Atlantic and Pacific 
 Railroads, another Santa Fe interest, both of 
 which were later merged into the growing Santa 
 Fe System. 
 
 On July 1, 1899, he was made general passenger 
 agent of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley 
 Railroad, another line that was ultimately consoli- 
 dated with the Santa Fe system. On October, 1905, 
 he became assistant passenger traffic manager of 
 the Santa Fe Railroad. 
 
 For twenty-seven years he has been in the rail- 
 road profession, during which time he has worked 
 with most of the leading Western and Canadian 
 railroads. When he received a position he stayed 
 with it until he had successfully mastered the du- 
 ties of the office, and as a result he is today ac- 
 knowledged to be one of the best equipped railroad 
 men in the West. His work in behalf of Southern 
 California has been one of the strong factors in 
 the upbuilding of that country. 
 
 He is a member of the California, Sunset, Celtic, 
 Gamut and Los Angeles Country Clubs; belongs to 
 the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. 
 
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 147 
 
 NOOK, CHARLES ED- 
 WARD, Attorney at Law. 
 Oakland, was born in San 
 Francisco, February 19, 1863, 
 the son of William S. and 
 Susan Helen (Louchran) Snook. His pa- 
 ternal ancestors arrived in America, from 
 England, in 1812, and became residents of 
 New York State, while his mother's family, 
 which was of Irish ori- 
 gin, settled in Vermont 
 On February 19, 1889, 
 Charles E. Snook . was 
 married in Oakland to 
 Miss Jennie Wade. The 
 children of this marriage 
 are Charles Wade, born 
 June 19, 1890; Preston 
 Edward, March 9, 1896, 
 and Helen Jean Snook, 
 December 30, 1898. 
 
 From 1868 to 1875 Mr. 
 Snook attended the pri- 
 mary and grammar 
 schools of Oakland, and 
 for the next three years 
 was a student at the Oak- 
 land High School, which 
 he left in 1879 to enter 
 the employ of Goldberg, 
 Bowen & Co., grocers. 
 
 Beginning as a sugar 
 boy he remained with his 
 employers until he be- 
 came a buyer for the 
 house, in January, 1886. 
 During the last two and 
 a half years of this period he studied law 
 under the direction of Judge S. P. Hall, of 
 the Appellate Bench, and on February 1, 
 1886, was admitted to the Bar in San Fran- 
 cisco, prior to this time having been in court 
 but once, and that time for the purpose of 
 seeing a murder trial. 
 
 Immediately after his admittance to the 
 Bar Mr. Snook opened an office, with 
 Messrs. Lowenthal and Sutter, at 220 San- 
 some street, San Francisco, for the general 
 practice of his profession. This at first was 
 of very moderate proportions, but gradually 
 drew him into the land law branch of it, 
 where progress became somewhat more rapid. 
 After one year of this connection he formed a 
 partnership under the firm name of Sutter & 
 Snook, and engaged in a general civil prac- 
 tice, consisting chiefly of mechanics' liens, 
 probate matters, etc. 
 
 In 1888. the political field having: become 
 
 CHARLES 
 
 somewhat attractive to him, Mr. Snook was 
 a candidate for the office of Justice of the 
 Peace, in Oakland, and was elected on the 
 Republican ticket. Taking office, December 
 1, 1887, he served four years, so successfully 
 that he was induced to run for the District 
 Attorneyship of Oakland. In this he was 
 again the victor, and assumed the duties of 
 his position on January 1, 1893. During his 
 six years' incumbency he 
 was prosecutor in a wide 
 variety of cases, includ- 
 ing several murder trials. 
 His work attracted espe- 
 cial interest during his 
 prosecution of the Super- 
 visors of the County of 
 Alameda, who had been 
 charged with paying ex- 
 orbitant bills, with gen- 
 eral extravagance and 
 misconduct in office. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Snook 
 formed a partnership with 
 Mr. S. L. Church, who 
 was his chief deputy in 
 the office of District At- 
 torney. This has been a 
 notably happy combina- 
 tion, developing an ex- 
 tensive and important 
 practice, especially on the 
 east side of the Bay, 
 chiefly in corporation 
 law. Following the cus- 
 E. SNOOK torn prevalent in England, 
 
 and in most large Ameri- 
 can legal firms, the partners have specialized 
 in different branches of the profession, Mr. 
 Snook handling the civil end and Mr. Church 
 the criminal branch of the business. Mr. 
 Snook was Secretary of the State Central 
 Committee under Pardee, and is an enthusi- 
 astic supporter of the Progressive wing 
 of the party. Throughout the Pardee admin- 
 istration he was attorney for the Regents of 
 the University of California, but was retired 
 after serving ten months of the Gillette 
 regime. 
 
 His firm acts as the local attorneys for 
 the W. P. Ry. Co., Oakland & Antioch Ry. 
 Co., Security Bank & Trust Co., Judson Mfg. 
 Co., H. C. Capwell Co., Pacific Coast Lumber 
 & Mill Co., and Hale Bros. He is P. G. M. of 
 the A. O. U. W., a Blue 'Lodge Mason, K. T., 
 and a Mystic Shriner. 
 
 His clubs are the Athenian and the Nile 
 of Oakland. 
 
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 ANNA, GEORGE, Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Salem, Washington County, New 
 York, December 18, 1845, the son 
 of Robert Hanna and Mary Ann 
 (Rea) Hanna. He is of Scotch- 
 Irish descent. He married Julia Mandigo at Auro- 
 ra, Illinois, on Christmas Day, 1872, and to them 
 there were born two children. Rea Hanna, the 
 elder, is now United States Consul at Georgetown, 
 British Guiana. The daugh- 
 ter is Pauline Hanna. 
 
 Mr. Hanna attended the 
 public schools of his native 
 town until he was nine years 
 of age and his parents mov- 
 ing at that time to Illinois, 
 he finished his studies in the 
 public schools of Aurora. 
 
 He began his business 
 career at the age of sixteen 
 years as a clerk in a grocery 
 store. He only remained in 
 that position about a year 
 and then became a clerk in 
 a drug house, where he 
 worked for about two years. 
 His father and brother 
 owned a general merchandise 
 store in Aurora, and in 1865 
 Mr. Hanna bought out the 
 interest of his father, who 
 was desirous of retiring from 
 business. The firm then be- 
 came known as Hanna 
 Brothers and for the next 
 eight years Mr. Hanna de- 
 voted his time to the busi- 
 ness. 
 
 In 1873 the brothers sold 
 their Aurora business and 
 went to Chicago where they 
 engaged in real estate opera- 
 tions. They handled their 
 own property, but, at the end 
 
 of two years sold out and returned to Aurora, 
 where they again engaged in the general mercan- 
 tile business. In 1881, his two brothers, who were in 
 partnership with him, sold their interests in the 
 store and he continued it alone. He was thus en- 
 gaged for about five years, when he made a trip 
 . to California, and was so charmed with the country 
 that he returned the following January. At that 
 time he remained about two months and made some 
 fortunate real estate investments which determined 
 him upon locating permanently in Los Angeles. 
 
 Accordingly, he returned to Illinois, and in Sep- 
 tember, 1887, having disposed of his business there, 
 he moved his family to Los Angeles. He had pur- 
 chased an orange grove in the Vernon district, 
 just outside of the city limits of Los Angeles, on 
 his first trip We&t, and he made his home there. 
 For the first five years he was engaged in orange 
 growing and also took an active part in the affairs 
 of Vernon, being a school Trustee and Deputy 
 County Assessor. 
 
 In the late eighties, Mr. Hanna was appointed 
 Receiver for the Visalia Water Company of Tulare 
 County, California, and within a few months had 
 the property in a paying condition. In 1892, upon 
 closing the receivership, Mr. Hanna leased his 
 orange ranch at Vernon, and located temporarily 
 
 GEO. HANNA 
 
 in Tulare County. There he became interested in 
 various enterprises and accepted the managership 
 of a company which was engaged in extensive ir- 
 rigation projects, one of which was the irrigation 
 ditch from the Kaweah River to Exeter, California, 
 now one of the finest orange-growing sections in 
 the State of California. 
 
 In 1895, Mr. Hanna formed the West Los Angeles 
 Water Company, which supplied water to Hollywood, 
 the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, and other 
 places adjacent to Los An- 
 geles. Later Mr. Hanna and 
 his associates purchased the 
 West Side Water Company 
 of Los Angeles and further 
 extended their territory to 
 include all of the western 
 part of the city proper. Mr. 
 Hanna was one of the princi- 
 pal stockholders of this 
 company and served as Gen- 
 eral Manager for a period of 
 twelve years. During this 
 time he established himself 
 as one of the pioneers in the 
 field of public utilities and 
 aided materially in the up- 
 building of a large part of 
 the West Side of Los Ange- 
 les. In 1904, Mr. Hanna and 
 associates sold the West 
 Side Water Company and a 
 portion of the holdings of the 
 West Los Angeles Company, 
 lying in the city limits, to 
 the City of Los Angeles. 
 Two years later they sold 
 the remaining holdings of 
 the West Los Angeles Com- 
 pany to the Union Hollywood 
 Water Company. 
 
 Previous to the last 
 named deal, Mr. Hanna pur- 
 chased a large interest in 
 the Security Land & Loan 
 
 Company, a corporation of which H. J. Whitley 
 was President and General Manager, and purchased 
 about 50,000 acres of land in the San Joaquin Val- 
 ley. The tract included the towns of Angiola, Cor- 
 coran and Waukena, California. Mr. Hanna as- 
 sumed the duties of local representative of the 
 company and was one of the principal factors in 
 the development of that section of California. 
 He was active in that work for about three 
 years and in 1910 returned to Los Angeles, where 
 he acquired an interest in the Van Nuys and 
 Lankershim Lands in the San Fernando Valley. 
 Since that time he has been active in that locality. 
 Besides the above mentioned company, Mr. 
 Hanna is interested in various other enterprises, 
 these including the Corcoran Water Company, of 
 which he is President; the Security Land & Loan 
 Company, in which he is- Vice-President, and the 
 Corcoran Land Company of which he is President. 
 He is interested in several banks throughout Cali- 
 fornia as a Member of the BoaM of Directors. 
 These are the Home Savings Bank, Los Angeles; 
 First National Bank of Corcoran, Vir^t National 
 Bank of Van Nuys, and the Bank of Lani?rrshim. 
 
 Mr. Hanna is a member of the Hollywood Lodge 
 of Masons and a prominent Republican, although 
 he takes no active part in politics. 
 
 
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 149 
 
 INDLEY, CURTIS HOL- 
 BROOK, Attorney at Law, 
 and President of the San 
 Francisco Bar Association, 
 was born at Marysville, Cali- 
 fornia, December 14, 1850, the son of Charles 
 Lindley and Anna Eliza (Downey) Lindley. 
 His paternal ancestors came to this country 
 from England about the year 1684 and set- 
 tled in Connecticut, while 
 his mother's family, 
 which was of Scotch or- 
 igin, chose Virginia as a 
 place of residence. His 
 forbears on both sides of 
 the house fought in the 
 war for American Inde- 
 pendence. Charles Lind- 
 ley, a graduate of the 
 Yale Law School, reached 
 California in 1849, where 
 he first engaged in the 
 practice of the law, and 
 subsequently became 
 Judge of Yuba County. 
 
 Curtis H. Lindley was 
 married at Santa Clara, 
 California, June 14, 1872, 
 to Miss Lizzie Menden- 
 hall, daughter of Wm. M. 
 Mendenhall, a California 
 Pioneer of 1845. The 
 children of this marriage 
 are Josephine and Curtis 
 M. Lindley. 
 
 After a course in the 
 Grammar School o f 
 Marysville he entered Santa Clara College, 
 Santa Clara, California, in 1863, and re- 
 mained there two years. From 1865 to 1866, 
 inclusive, he was a student at Eagleswood 
 Military Academy, Perth Amboy, N. J. Re- 
 turning to California he attended McClure's 
 Military Academy and the San Francisco 
 High School, during the years 1868-70. In 
 the latter year he entered the University of 
 California, where he remained until 1872, and 
 then, having studied law, in connection with 
 the regular academic work, took his Bar ex- 
 aminations for admittance to practice. 
 
 In the first half of the interval 1866-68 he 
 was apprenticed as a machinist to the Union 
 Iron Works of San Francisco, and in the 
 following year, though under age, enlisted 
 in the Second United States Artillery, but 
 was honorably discharged in 1868. 
 
 Shortly prior to his admittance to the Bar 
 in 1872 he was appointed Secretary of the 
 
 CURTIS H. 
 
 California Code Commission, a position which 
 he filled until the codes were finally adopted 
 and published. In 1882 Mr. Lindley moved 
 to Stockton, and in the following year was 
 appointed City Attorney, serving until the 
 latter part of 1884, when he again shifted the 
 scene of his efforts, this time to Amador 
 County, having been appointed by the Gov- 
 ernor, Superior Judge of that County. He 
 returned to private prac- 
 tice in 1885, and a year 
 later formed a partner- 
 ship, in San Francisco, 
 with Henry Eickhoff, 
 which has continued. 
 
 During these years 
 Judge Lindley estab- 
 lished a reputation not 
 only as an attorney, but 
 also as a student of juris- 
 prudence, and in 1900 
 was made Honorary Pro- 
 fessor in the Department 
 of Jurisprudence of the 
 University of California. 
 In the same year he be- 
 came a lecturer in the 
 same department of the 
 Leland Stanford Jr. Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Though his practice 
 has been of a general na- 
 ture, chiefly devoted to 
 mining, water and gener- 
 al corporation law, the 
 LINDLEY atmosphere in which he 
 
 was born, and his subse- 
 quent experience as a judge in Amador 
 County have inspired him with more than an 
 ordinary interest in the mineral industry. He 
 is the author of "American Law of Mines 
 and Mineral Lands," now in its second edi- 
 tion, and is Honorary Professor of the Law 
 of Mines, University of California. 
 
 In July, 1911 he became a Director of the 
 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to 
 succeed Mr. W. B. Bourn, who resigned. He 
 is also a director of the Natomas Consolidat- 
 ed of Cal., George Wm. Hooper Co., and the 
 Geo. Wm. Hooper Estate Co. For the year 
 1910 he was President of the Cal. Bar Assn., 
 and is now President of the Bar Assn. of San 
 Francisco. He is also a member of the Cal. 
 Academy of Science, American Bar Assn. 
 and associate member of the American Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers. His clubs are the 
 Pacific-Union, University, Commonwealth 
 and Cosmos, all of San Francisco. 
 
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 REENWAY, JOHN CAMPBELL, 
 General Manager of the Calumet 
 & Arizona Mining Company, War- 
 ren, Arizona, was born in Hunts- 
 ville, Alabama, July 6, 1872, the 
 son of Dr. Gilbert Christian 
 Greenway and Alice (White) Greenway. He is 
 descended of a notable line of Southerners, his 
 father and grandfather having been soldiers under 
 the Confederate flag. Isaac Shelby, first Governor 
 of Kentucky, and Captain John Campbell, of King's 
 Mountain fame, two members of the family stand 
 conspicuous in Colonial day history. 
 
 Mr. Greenway, who ranks today with the world's 
 great mine managers, had splendid educational ad- 
 vantages, but to this he added practical experience. 
 He was graduated from the Episcopal High School 
 at Alexandria, Virginia, then entered Andover Acad- 
 emy at Andover, Mass. He attended the University 
 of Virginia and from there went to Yale University, 
 where he received his technical training. He was a 
 conspicuous figure in Yale from his freshman year, 
 when he was chosen a member of the "University" 
 football team. He was graduated with the degree 
 of Ph. B.; was voted President of his class, also the 
 most popular man. He played right end on the 
 famous McCormick and Hinkey football elevens of 
 1892 and 1893 and was catcher for the famous 
 "Dutch" Carter on the 'varsity baseball nines of 
 those years all part of the history of the university. 
 
 Upon leaving college Mr. Greenway sought to 
 learn the practical side of the steel business, be- 
 ginning at the very bottom. His first employment 
 was as helper in the Duquesne furnaces of the 
 Carnegie Steel Company, where he worked for a 
 dollar and thirty-two cents per day. In time he 
 was advanced to the post of foreman of the Me- 
 chanical Department and was thus engaged when 
 the Spanish-American war was declared in 1898. 
 
 Leaving his work, he hastened alone to San 
 Antonio, Texas, and there enlisted as a private in 
 the famous Rough Rider Regiment, of which Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt was Colonel. He served throughout 
 the war with his regiment and, brief though those 
 hostilities were, was twice promoted, on one oc- 
 casion for "bravery and gallantry in action." He 
 was promoted to Second Lieutenant, and at the 
 battle of San Juan Hill was advanced to First Lieu- 
 tenant because of the extraordinary courage dis- 
 played by him in that historic engagement. He 
 was also recommended to Congress by Colonel 
 Roosevelt for the brevet of Captain. In his his- 
 tory of the "Rough Riders," Colonel Roosevelt paid 
 a splendid tribute to Captain Greenway: 
 
 "A strapping fellow, entirely fearless, modest 
 and quiet, with the ability to take care of the men 
 under him so as to bring them to the highest point 
 of soldierly perfection, to be counted upon with 
 absolute certainty in every emergency; not only 
 doing his duty, but always on the watch to find 
 some new duty which he could construe to be his, 
 ready to respond with eagerness to the slightest 
 suggestion of doing something, whether it was 
 dangerous or merely difficult and laborious." 
 
 Returning from Cuba with a splendid war rec- 
 ord, Greenway re-entered the steel business, and, 
 after a year, was promoted Assistant Superinten- 
 dent of the United States Steel Corporation's mines 
 at Ishpeming, Michigan. His work in this connec- 
 tion was of such high caliber that when the Steel. 
 Corporation purchased of J. J. Hill the Great North- 
 ern Iron Ore lease on the Mesaba Range in North- 
 ern Minnesota he was chosen for the post of Gen- 
 eral Superintendent of the undertaking. This was 
 one of the most extensive operations ever launched 
 
 by the great corporation, and Captain Greenway's 
 conduct of it was a personal triumph, almost as 
 celebrated as the famous Hill ore lands themselves. 
 
 Going to the range in the late summer of 1906, 
 Captain Greenway located the town of Coleraine, 
 on the shore of a picturesque lake, and began work 
 immediately. His entire stay in that region was 
 characterized by a perfection of organization, in 
 which regard for the hundreds of men who worked 
 under him was mingled with a strict discipline 
 which made the enterprise one of the great indus- 
 trial successes of his generation. In addition to 
 the actual work of superintending the operation 
 of the plant, Captain Greenway also served as 
 monitor of the town and its people. He encouraged 
 home-building, governed the place with an iron 
 hand in the matter of gambling and other forms of 
 dissipation and, in addition, caused the installation 
 of various utilities and numerous public conven- 
 iences. These latter included a library, a perfectly- 
 equipped hospital, a school building costing $75,000, 
 an athletic field and extensive parks. His other 
 public services included his inducing the Steel Cor- 
 poration to install the sewer, water and light sys- 
 tems of the town without expense to the employes. 
 
 "The World Today," referring to him and his 
 work on the Mesaba Range, characterized him: 
 
 "A man of exemplary habits, who inhibits dissi- 
 pation by example; a tireless worker, this man who 
 does things is of that new type of Americans who 
 can serve corporations and at the same i.ime serve 
 their day and generation." 
 
 Upon the completion of his work in the Mesaba 
 region Captain Greenway, 1910, accepted appoint- 
 ment as General Manager of the mining operations 
 of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company of Bis- 
 bee, Arizona. His offices are located at Warren, 
 a suburb of Bisbee, and in the handling of the af- 
 fairs of the company he has displayed the same 
 talent for effective organization and telling results 
 that distinguished him in his previous work. 
 
 The Calumet & Arizona Mining Company is the 
 lustiest young copper giant of Arizona, now rank- 
 ing as the tenth largest copper producer in the 
 world and just beginning to get into its stride. 
 The Calumet & Arizona Mining Company is the 
 only large copper company in Arizona not running 
 its own stores and railroad, consiiering it both a 
 fair and let live policy to leave such to others. 
 
 The Calumet & Arizona Mining Company is now 
 building the most modern smelter in the world for 
 its increasing tonnage of Bisbee ores, at Douglas, 
 and, under Captain Greenway's aggressive manage- 
 ment, is acquiring additional properties of promise 
 in many Arizona camps. 
 
 In addition to his professional work, Captain 
 Greenway has taken an active personal interest in 
 public affairs and, while he has never been a seeker 
 for public office, has been a steadfast supporter of 
 Colonel Roosevelt in political matters. The two 
 men became close personal friends during Their 
 army days and this has grown steadily stronger. 
 
 Captain Greenway was one of the sponsors of the 
 National Progressive Party and was one of the self- 
 constituted committee which brought that party 
 into being by inviting and personally escorting 
 Colonel Roosevelt to the Progressive National Con- 
 vention, held in Chicago, June, 1912. 
 
 He was elected by the Progressive party as 
 Presidential Elector of the State of Arizona, was a 
 member of the Board of Regents of the University 
 of Arizona, is President of the Yale Alumni Asso- 
 ciation of Arizona. President of the Warren Dis- 
 trict Country Club and a member of the Sons of 
 the American Revolution. 
 
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 DR. E. R. BRADLEY 
 
 RADLEY, EDWARD RICKEY, 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Folsom, Cal., February 24, 1865, 
 the son of Cyrus H. Bradley and 
 Cordelia A. Bradley. On April 18, 
 1894, he married Virginia Burton Williamson at 
 Los Angeles. There was born one child, Gertrude 
 Muriel Bradley. 
 
 Dr. Bradley was taken to Los Angeles, in 1873, 
 and attended school in that city. He graduated 
 from high school in 1885 and entered the College 
 of Medicine, University of Southern California, at 
 Los Angeles. He was graduated with the degree 
 of M. D. in 1888, and put in the next year at the 
 Bellevue M3edical College (N. Y.), receiving a de- 
 gree there in 1889. He then filled a vacancy on 
 the staff of Bellevue Hospital, but resigned to re- 
 turn to Los Angeles and enter private practice. 
 
 Most of his work has been devoted to children. 
 For ten years after returning to Los Angeles, he 
 acted as physician to the Los Angeles Orphans' 
 Home and when his growing practice would not 
 permit him to continue actively in the work of 
 caring for the little sufferers, he served on the 
 consulting staff. At the same time he looks after 
 several smaller institutions. 
 
 A lover of his profession and especially of that 
 branch including infants and children, he spent 
 much time in traveling and visiting the children's 
 hospitals in the Old World, studying methods of 
 the institutions. 
 
 He has also written a number of papers on 
 diseases of children and delivers lectures at 
 mothers' gatherings in which he has given valu- 
 able instruction on the care of children. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles County, Cal- 
 ifornia State and American Medical Associations. 
 He also belongs to the Federation Club, L. A. Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and the Y. M. C. A. 
 
 W. C. PATTERSON 
 
 ATTERSON, WILSON CAMP- 
 BELL, Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 born in Greenfield, O., Jan. 10, 
 1845. The son of Robert D. and 
 Margaret (Hollyday) Patterson. 
 Married Virginia Monette Moore, 
 Jan. 8, 1874, at Chillicothe, O. There are two chil- 
 dren, Ada, now Mrs. Harry R. Callender, and Hazel, 
 now Mrs. John Stuart. 
 
 Mr. Patterson attended district school until fif- 
 teen, then went to Salem Academy, Salem, O., 
 where he was a classmate of Senator Foraker. At 
 eighteen he enlisted in Company A, First Ohio 
 Heavy Artillery, serving from July 4, 1863, to close 
 of war. Re-entered Salem Academy for three 
 months. 
 
 Went to work as clerk in offices of County Clerk, 
 County Treasurer and Probate Judge, Chillicothe! 
 O. In 1869 became bookkeeper for wholesale gro- 
 cery firm, and with them to Jan. 26, 1888, when his 
 health broke down and he went to Los Angeles. 
 
 There became member of wholesale commission 
 firm of Curtis & Patterson, afterward W. C. Patter- 
 son Co. In November, 1898, was elected Pres. L. A. 
 National Bank, and continued as such until consoli- 
 dation with First National Bank, when he was made 
 Vice Pres. of the new bank, a place he still holds. 
 Is director and officer in other important corpora- 
 tions. Was trustee, Whittier Reform School; mem- 
 ber, Cal. State Board of Charities and L. A. Board 
 of Education; director, L. A. Public Library; twice 
 delegate to Washington in fight for free harbor; 
 Pres. L. A. Clearing House and Pres. Chamber of 
 Commerce. 
 
 He is a member and for two years was Pres. 
 University Club; was Pres. Sunset Club, member 
 Union League, Annandale Country and California 
 Clubs, Municipal League, Archaeological Institute 
 and other organizations. He is a Knight Templar 
 and Scottish Rite Mason. 
 
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 DR. GUY COCHRAN 
 
 OCHRAN, DR. GUY, Physician and 
 Chief Surgeon of the San Pedro, 
 Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail- 
 road, Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of Illinois, born September 
 4, 1873. He is the son of Dr. Wil- 
 liam George Cochran and Anna M. (Hunt) Cochran. 
 At San Francisco, June 7, 1899, he married Miss 
 Alice I. Cowen. They have two children, Carolyn 
 and Guy Cochran, Jr. 
 
 Dr. Cochran, having moved to Los Angeles in 
 1880, attended both the public and high schools of 
 that city. He studied at Lawrenceville Preparatory 
 School, N. J., in 1891; entered Stanford University, 
 1892, graduating, 1896, with degree A. B.; went to 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- 
 versity. He received his M. D. in 1900. 
 
 Dr. Cochran next became resident surgeon at 
 the Bellevue Hospital, New York, two years. Dur- 
 ing that time he was assistant demonstrator of 
 anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 At the end of that period he took a year's work at 
 the St. Mary's Children's Hospital, New York, as 
 interne, June, 1903. He then spent several months 
 abroad at medical clinics, returning to America and 
 Los Angeles in 1903. 
 
 He was appointed assistant chief surgeon of the 
 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, 
 and two years later chief surgeon. He is chief sur- 
 geon of the Pacific Telephone Company and of the 
 Los Angeles division of the Standard Oil Company. 
 
 Between 1902 and 1903 he was assistant in 
 physiology for the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, the Los Angeles County and State Medical 
 Society, the Pathological Society, Symposium So- 
 ciety, Bellevue Alumni Association and others. 
 
 His clubs are the California, Annandale Coun- 
 try, Los Angeles Country and Cragg's Country. | 
 
 GRANT JACKSON 
 
 ACKSON, GRANT, Attorney, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Petaluma, Sonoma County, Cali- 
 fornia, June 13, 1869, the son of 
 William Jackson and Mary C. 
 (Francis) Jackson. He is de- 
 scended from an old family of Southerners, his 
 father and great-grandfather having been soldiers. 
 The latter, Robert Jackson, was captain of a com- 
 pany of Tenesseeans in the War of 1812, 
 and his father was a major of Missouri Volunteers 
 who fought for the Union in the Civil War, and 
 represented his county in the Legislature in 1855. 
 The Major was a delegate to the Constitutional Con- 
 vention called by his cousin, the Governor of Mis- 
 souri, for the purpose of passing a secession ordi- 
 nance. He here helped to defeat the efforts to carry 
 Missouri out of the Union, and assisted in deposing 
 the disloyal State Government and the election of a 
 set of officers loyal to the nation. He fought 
 through the entire war. 
 
 After the Civil War, Major Jackson moved to 
 California, and there the son was born. The younger 
 Jackson was educated in the public schools of Lom- 
 poc and Santa Barbara, California. In 1887 he began 
 the study of law in the office of the Hon. W. C. 
 Stratton, a pioneer lawyer then living at Santa 
 Barbara, and in 1891 was admitted to practice by 
 the Supreme Court of California. He practiced at 
 Santa Barbara until 1902, when he moved to Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Since his entry into the life of that city he has 
 had a fruitful practice and has been a conspicuous 
 figure. His offices are at Suite 918 Security Build- 
 ing. He is a Republican in politics, of progressive 
 tendencies; is a member of the Municipal League, 
 Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines, the 
 City Club, and is a Native Son of the Golden West. 
 His clubs are the Gamut and Union League of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 J ATSON, CAPT. WILLIAM, Presi- 
 dent, Matson Navigation Co., San 
 Francisco, was born in Sweden, 
 October 18, 1849. Coming of a 
 seafaring race, he has remained 
 true to his traditions, and by in- 
 herited industry, and not only his ability to make 
 
 his own opportunities, but also to improve them 
 
 when made, he has won a leading place in mari- 
 time and commercial circles on the Pacific Coast. 
 Until he was fourteen 
 
 Years old, he attended public 
 
 schools in Sweden, but even 
 
 then took an intermission of 
 
 a year to go to sea at the 
 
 early age of ten. Returning 
 
 to school, he stayed there 
 
 until 1863, and then sailed 
 
 for New York in the Aurora, 
 
 a Nova Scotian vessel. 
 
 After remaining a short 
 
 time there he took passage 
 
 in the Bridgewater for San 
 
 Francisco, coming around 
 
 the Horn, and not long after 
 
 his arrival secured a berth 
 
 as sailor on the old ship 
 
 John J. 
 
 On this he took a trip to 
 
 Puget Sound and northern 
 
 ports. He then transferred 
 
 to the bark Oakland, return- 
 ing to the Sound, but after 
 
 this trip became a sailor on 
 
 San Francisco Bay on the 
 
 schooner William Frederick. 
 
 At the end of two years he 
 
 was captain of this vessel, 
 
 engaged chiefly in carrying 
 
 CAPT. WILLIAM MATSON 
 
 coal from Mt. Diablo to the Spreckels Sugar Refin- 
 ery, situated then at Eighth and Brannan streets, 
 where, it is interesting to note, Adolph Spreckels 
 was at that time checking the cargoes Captain Mat- 
 son was delivering from his schooner. Captain 
 Matson subsequently was made captain of the 
 schooner Mission Canal, which he used for the 
 same purpose. 
 
 In 1882 Captain Matson built the Emma Claudina 
 to run to the Sandwich Islands, and thenceforward 
 the evolution from a comparatively small business 
 to the present extensive operations of the Matson 
 Navigation Company was rapid. The enterprise 
 began in the carrying of merchandise, especially 
 of plantation stores, to the islands and returning 
 with cargoes of sugar. This led to gradually ex- 
 panding interests at both ends of the line, which 
 kept pace with the commercial development of the 
 country, with which Captain Matson was ever in 
 close touch. After three years he sold the Emma 
 Claudina and built the brig, Lurline, for the same 
 trade. Soon he had three vessels running, and to 
 
 this little fleet he constantly added, gradually re- 
 placing the sailing vessels with iron and steam, as 
 necessity dictated. Successively thereafter the flo- 
 tilla was increased by the Santiago, Roderick Dhu, 
 Falls of Clyde, Marion Chilcott, Monterey, all iron 
 vessels, and then the steamers Hilonian, Enterprise 
 and Rosecrans. The last steamers built, within the 
 past few years, are the Lurline, named after his 
 daughter, the Hyades and the Wilhelmina, each of 
 which vessel has a carrying capacity of about nine 
 thousand tons. 
 
 After the discoveries of 
 oil and the development of 
 the industry, Captain Mat- 
 son had some of his sailing 
 vessels converted into oil 
 carriers, the first to be in- 
 stalled on this coast, and 
 about the same time be- 
 came heavily interested in 
 the oil business itself. To- 
 gether with William Crock- 
 er, William Irwin and John 
 A. Buck he built the pipe 
 line from Gaviota to the 
 Santa Maria oil fields, a dis- 
 tance of forty-five miles, and 
 then constructed one hun- 
 dred and twelve miles more, 
 from Coalinga to Monterey. 
 At the end of four or five 
 years, however, he sold his 
 oil interests to the Associat- 
 ed Oil Company; but a few 
 years ago returned to the 
 fields, organized the Hono- 
 lulu Consolidated Oil Com- 
 pany, and is now more heav- 
 ily interested than ever, his 
 monthly payroll alone averaging about $110,000. 
 
 For many years Captain Matson was a director 
 of the Merchants' Exchange, and for a period was 
 president of the Chamber of Commerce, which ab- 
 sorbed the former body. Although he gives most of 
 his attention to his navigation and oil interests he 
 holds office in many corporations. He is president 
 of the Matson Navigation Co., Honolulu Consolidat- 
 ed Oil Co.. Commercial Petroleum Co., Atlas Won- 
 der Mining Co., Wonder Water Co; director of the 
 National Ice Co., Honolulu Plantation Co., Paauhau 
 Sugar Plantation Co., Hakalau Plantation Co. and 
 others. What little recreation he permits himself 
 he finds chiefly in horesback riding, automobiling 
 and in cultivating his taste for fast trotters, of 
 which he owns some excellent performers. He has 
 also found time to join the clubs and is a member 
 of the Pacific-Union, Bohemian and Commonwealth. 
 One of the high honors conferred upon Cap- 
 tain Matson was his appointment as Consul of 
 Sweden, giving him jurisdiction over the Pacific 
 Coast, Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. 
 
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 ECKETT, DR. WESLEY 
 WILBUR, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Portland, 
 Oregon, May 31, 1857. He is 
 of Lemuel D. Beckett, the first 
 Justice of Peace of Portland, Oregon, 
 and a pioneer of that State, and Sarah 
 S. (Chew) Beckett. On January 1, 1882, he 
 married Iowa Archer at 
 San Luis Obispo, Cali- 
 fornia, there being two 
 sons as a result of the 
 union : Wilbur Archer 
 and Francis H. Beckett. 
 
 Dr. Beckett was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools of California, and 
 at a later period taught 
 school in San Luis Obis- 
 po County, California, for 
 over six years. He grad- 
 uated from the Los An- 
 geles Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University 
 of California, April 11, 
 1888, receiving the de- 
 gree of M. D. He then 
 studied in New York for 
 a period of one year, tak- 
 ing post graduate work 
 at the Post Graduate 
 Hospital of that city. 
 
 After completing his 
 medical education, Dr. 
 Beckett returned to Los 
 Angeles, where he has 
 practiced for a period of over twenty-two 
 years. His medical achievements follow one 
 after another, and today his accomplishments 
 in the medical and scientific world have 
 reached a point where Dr. Beckett is recog- 
 nized as a man of national repute. His re- 
 searches in the field of surgery and materia 
 medica have placed him among the foremost 
 physicians in the country. 
 
 Dr. Beckett's principal work has been in 
 the field of surgery, although he has main- 
 tained a general practice since he first opened 
 his offices. During his years of practice he 
 has been a constant student and has taken an 
 active part in the medical history of South- 
 ern California. He is noted for his readiness 
 to devote his time to the needy poor, having 
 done brilliant work for many poor people. 
 His work in the field of charity deserves 
 much praise. 
 
 Not only in the medical world, but in 
 
 DR. W. W. BECKETT 
 
 civic affairs as well, has Dr. Beckett played 
 a leading role during the last twenty years. 
 In a business way he is associated with a 
 number of influential companies of Los An- 
 geles and holds directorships in a number of 
 organizations. He is not only an executive 
 director, but is also medical director of the 
 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, is 
 treasurer and director of the California Hos- 
 pital and is a director in 
 the following organiza- 
 tions : Pacific Mutual 
 Indemnity Company, Cit- 
 izens' Trust and Savings 
 Bank, Seaside Water 
 Company, Orwood Land 
 Company and the San 
 Pedro Water Company. 
 
 He is a member of 
 and ex-president of the 
 following professional so- 
 cieties: California State 
 Medical Society, South- 
 ern California Medical 
 Society, Los Angeles 
 County Medical Society, 
 and the Los Angeles 
 Clinical and Pathological 
 Society, and is a member 
 of the American Medical 
 Association and the Pa- 
 cific Association of Rail- 
 way Surgeons. During 
 the years 1901 and 1902 
 he served as a member of 
 the Los Angeles City 
 Board of Health. 
 On May 12, 1911, Dr. Beckett was ap- 
 pointed by President Taft First Lieutenant 
 of the Medical Relief Corps of the United 
 States Army. This position will not become 
 an active office unless the United States is 
 at war or unless some deadly plague gets a 
 hold in the army, but at the same time it is 
 a unique distinction, approved by the Presi- 
 dent of the United States and passed through 
 the Senate. 
 
 Dr. Beckett is also Professor of Gynecol- 
 ogy and Surgery of the Los Angeles Medical 
 Department of the University of California. 
 He is a trustee of the University of Southern 
 California and is active in educational circles. 
 His work is not limited to any field, but is 
 known to every progressive movement for 
 the advancement of his community. He is a 
 member of the California, Federation and 
 Union League Clubs of Los Angeles and of 
 the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 OEBIG, JULIUS, Ph. D., Chemical 
 and Mining Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Mettlach, 
 a manufacturing town near the 
 city of Trier, in the Valley of 
 Moselle, Germany, March 9, 1855. 
 His father was Christian Koebig and his mother 
 Julia (Schmeltzer) Koebig. His grandfather on 
 the maternal branch of the family was a promi- 
 nent Professor of Natural Science in the Univer- 
 sity of Trier, Germany. This institution has been 
 a leading University for centuries, but was closed 
 by the great Napoleon at the beginning of the 
 last century during his reconstruction work among 
 the States of the Federation of the Rhine. The 
 Koebigs have been a prominent family of tanners 
 in the city of Homburg, in the Palatia, Germany, 
 for centuries and have furnished many officials 
 and mayors for that city. The first mayor from 
 the family mentioned in German history dates 
 back to the Thirty Years War, 1648, and the tan- 
 nery at Homburg, which has been the property of 
 the Koebigs for centuries, is still owned by the 
 family. On December 5, 1889, at San Francisco, 
 California, Dr. Koebig married Marie P. Kohler, 
 the daughter of Charles Kohler, a prominent wine 
 merchant of that city. There are two daughters, 
 Julie and Theodora, and one son, Hans Koebig. 
 
 Dr. Koebig was educated in the German schools 
 at Karlsruhe, in the Grand Duchy or Baden, one 
 of the States of the German Federation. He took 
 his preparatory studies in the Gymnasium, from 
 which he graduated at the age of sixteen years. 
 He then entered the Technical University of Karls- 
 ruhe, from which he graduated as a Chemical and 
 Mining Engineer in 1874. Upon graduation he was 
 appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the 
 Royal Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany, 
 which he held for a year. 
 
 In the fall of 1875 he entered the German Army 
 as a one-year volunteer and just one year later 
 received the qualification of a commissioned officer. 
 About the same time he was appointed Assistant 
 Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the Uni- 
 versity of Strassburg, Germany. This institution 
 conferred on him, in June, 1878, the degree of 
 Doctor of Philosophy. 
 
 Early in the following year he left the Uni- 
 versity to accept the position of Directing Chemist 
 for the rebuilding and remodeling of the celebrated 
 Aniline Dye Works, near Frankfurt on the Main, 
 Germany. When Dr. Koebig took charge of that 
 business there were only seventeen men in the 
 employ of the company. When he resigned three 
 years later the establishment had grown to such 
 an extent that there were employed almost four 
 hundred men. The Aniline Dye Works is now rec- 
 ognized as one of the largest and most successful 
 of its kind in Germany. 
 
 Upon leaving the position of Directing Chemist 
 at the dye works Dr. Koebig devoted one year to 
 private studies at the Universities of Darmstadt 
 and Munich. While studying there, during the win- 
 ter of 1882, he was called by the European-Ameri- 
 can Tunnel Company of Denver, Colorado, to make 
 an investigation of the mining resources of Gilpin 
 County, Colorado. The object was to construct 
 a working and drainage tunnel to facilitate deep 
 
 mining in the mining properties of the county. 
 The mouth of the tunnel was to be located below 
 Central City, Colorado. This important investiga- 
 tion occupied six months, and in the summer of 
 1883 Dr. Koebig was able to return to Germany. 
 He immediately resumed his scientific study and 
 research work there, continuing it until the winter 
 of 1883. 
 
 Before the year closed he returned to the 
 United States, and, in conjunction with his brother, 
 A. H. Koebig, opened offices at Milwaukee, Wiscon- 
 sin, as Consulting Mining and Chemical Engineers. 
 The chief work accomplished by the Koebigs there 
 was the investigation of the iron deposits in Wis- 
 consin and Michigan and particularly along the 
 Gogebic range. After a thorough study of the 
 mineral resources of this famous range, there ap- 
 peared the first scientific report on the iron de- 
 posits of that region, the work of Dr. Koebig and 
 his brother. 
 
 In the latter part of 1884 Dr. Koebig left Mil- 
 waukee to take charge of silver mines in Calico, 
 California, where both he and his brother were 
 heavily interested. At first this property gave 
 promise of great production, but a fall in the price 
 of silver soon made that mine unprofitable. 
 
 Dr. Koebig settled at San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, in 1886, where he constructed and operated a 
 fertilizer plant in connection with the Mexican 
 Phosphate and Sulphur Company. This business 
 proved a success and Dr. Koebig continued in it 
 for four years, withdrawing in the spring of 1890 
 to enter a new line of his profession. 
 
 At that time he became a member of the firm 
 of Kohler & Frohling, wine merchants in San Fran- 
 cisco, in charge of scientific work. 
 
 Dr. Koebig returned to his favorite engineering 
 profession in 1894, at that time opening offices in 
 San Francisco as a Consulting Chemical and Min- 
 ing Engineer. He developed and maintained a large 
 business in that and surrounding cities, and became 
 known in that section of the State as one of the 
 most substantial men of his profession. He con- 
 tinued in the north until 1902 when he moved his 
 offices to Los Angeles, California, where he has 
 since remained. 
 
 During the years 1894 and 1895, while operat- 
 ing in San Francisco, the University of California, 
 located at Berkeley, California, sought his services 
 as a lecturer and engineer. He traveled through 
 the different counties of the State in the interest of 
 promoting beet sugar in California in connection 
 with the Farmers' Institute. About this period Dr. 
 Koebig also gave a course of lectures on the manu- 
 facture of beet sugar at the University of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Dr. Koebig's principal work has consisted in 
 inspecting mining properties and manufactories. 
 He has also made an extensive study of agriculture. 
 His latest study has dealt with means for the de- 
 velopment of the great untouched resources of 
 Southern California in connection with the estab- 
 lishment of the manufacture of heavy chemicals. 
 
 Dr. Koebig is a member of the Bankers' Club 
 of Los Angeles, the Society of Chemical Industry 
 of London, England, and is Ex-President of the Ger- 
 man General Benevolent Association, which operat- 
 ed the German Hospital at San Francisco. 
 
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 REDERICKS, JOHN D., District 
 Attorney of Los Angeles County, 
 California, was born September 
 10, 1869, at Burgettstown, Penn- 
 sylvania, the son of Rev. James 
 T. Fredericks and Mary (Patter- 
 son) Fredericks. He married, in 1896, Agnes M. 
 Blakeley, and they have four children, Doris, John 
 D., Jr., Deborah, and James B. Fredericks. Mr. 
 Fredericks comes from a professional family, every 
 man on the paternal side in 
 the direct line of descent for 
 more than two hundred 
 years having been either a 
 physician, minister or 
 lawyer. 
 
 He attended the public 
 schools of his native town 
 and Trinity Hall Military 
 Academy, Washington, Pa., 
 until qualified to enter Wash- 
 ington and Jefferson College. 
 He graduated from that insti- 
 tution in 1890 and then 
 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 He taught at the Whittier 
 State School for three years 
 and meanwhile read law. He 
 passed the State Bar exami- 
 nation and opened an office 
 for practice at Los Angeles 
 in 1893. He enjoyed a lucra- 
 tive practice and was, in 
 1899, appointed Deputy Dis- 
 trict Attorney for Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 As deputy he conducted a 
 number of criminal cases 
 with notable success, enough 
 to attract the attention of his party and the voters, 
 and, as a consequence, he was nominated and 
 elected District Attorney of Los Angeles County in 
 1902, and served with such satisfaction that he was 
 re-elected in 1906 and again in 1910. 
 
 In 1906 he handled the famous oiled roads pat- 
 ent litigation, in which the counties and the cities 
 of California tried to break the patent on oiled 
 roads. He maintained for his county and the rest 
 of the counties of California that the process was 
 not patentable, and although the claimants of the 
 patent fought hard, and were of great strength, he 
 was successful and the process became public 
 property. 
 
 But the most notable of all his criminal prosecu- 
 tions was that against the McNamara brothers, 
 which he headed in behalf of Los Angeles County 
 in the year 1911. John J. McNamara, secretary- 
 treasurer of the International Bridge and Structural 
 Iron Workers' Association, and James B. Mc- 
 Namara, his brother, were accused of blowing up 
 the Los Angeles Times building with dynamite, 
 
 JOHN D. FREDERICKS 
 
 with the loss of much property and many lives; 
 also of a score of other dynamiting crimes all over 
 the United States. The case attracted world-wide 
 attention because the charge seemed to implicate 
 union labor in general, and because union men 
 most generally believed them not guilty of the 
 crime and prepared at great length to defend them. 
 It was in this case that W. J. Burns, the detective, 
 figured. Fredericks and Burns and the prosecution 
 generally, were accused by Gompers, head of the 
 American Federation of La- 
 bor, and by Eugene Debs, of 
 a conspiracy against union 
 labor and of a diabolical plot 
 to take the lives of labor 
 leaders. The case aroused 
 class feeling to a higher 
 pitch than it had ever been 
 before in the history of the 
 United States. 
 
 District Attorney Freder- 
 icks made of himself a na- 
 tional figure by the manner 
 in which he brought the trial 
 to a close. He handled the 
 general evidence, and evi- 
 dence which under his per- 
 sonal direction had been se- 
 cured, in such a manner that 
 it became plain to the de- 
 fendants and their attorneys 
 that escape was simply im- 
 possible. 
 
 He discovered alleged at- 
 tempts to bribe jurors and 
 one case where money had 
 been paid over. He undoubt- 
 edly could have convicted the 
 McNamara brothers in open 
 trial, but he fully knew that a very large proportion 
 of the labor union people of the United States and 
 their sympathizers would not have had faith in the 
 action of the court; would think it only the logical 
 sequel of a conspiracy, already suspected and 
 charged; so, with the evidence at hand, he forced 
 the McNamaras to a confession which left not a 
 shred of doubt of the fact of their guilt. 
 
 The outcome of this celebrated case is consid- 
 ered the most important single event in the history 
 of the conflict between capital and labor in the 
 United States, and will no doubt be of incalculable 
 benefit to both bodies. 
 
 He served as adjutant in the Seventh Regiment, 
 California Volunteers, during the Spanish-American 
 war. He is a member of the University Club, 
 the Union League Club and the City Club, 
 the Automobile Club of Los Angeles, the Los An- 
 geles Chamber of Commerce, the Long Beach 
 Commandery of the Knights Templar, the Fra- 
 ternal Brotherhood, the California Club, the Los 
 Angeles Country Club and the Gamut Club. 
 
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 159 
 
 URYEA, EDWIN, JR., Engineering 
 (firm of Duryea, Haehl & Oilman), 
 San Francisco, California, was 
 born in Craigville, Orange County, 
 New York, July 12, 1862, the son 
 of Edwin Duryea and Hannah 
 (Rumsey) Duryea. His first paternal ancestor to 
 reach this country, in 1675, was of Huguenot origin, 
 while the Rumseys were English residents of the 
 Isle of Guernsey. Mr. Duryea married Miss Roberta 
 Vincent Taylor, in December, 
 1888, at Ithaca, New York, 
 and five children have been 
 born of the union, Robert, 
 Margaret, Anne, Philip and 
 Helen Duryea. 
 
 Mr. Duryea had his first 
 schooling in Craigville, in 
 the district school, from 1866 
 to 1876. He was graduated 
 in 1879 from the Chester 
 Academy, and from Cornell 
 University with the class of 
 '83 and the degree of B. C. E. 
 Soon thereafter he started, 
 and from 1883 to 1885 was 
 employed by the Northern 
 Pacific Railroad, first as 
 townsite and special sur- 
 veyor, and later on the con- 
 struction of a large bridge at 
 Duluth, Minn. The following 
 year, while engaged on a 
 bridge to span the Missis- 
 sippi River, near Burlington, 
 Iowa, he rose from the posi- 
 tion of transit man to the su- 
 perintendency of the work. 
 The next few years found 
 him on the construction of costly bridges crossing 
 the Missouri, Mississippi and the Ohio rivers, and 
 involving difficult problems of foundation work, as 
 well as "river control" and "day's labor" under the 
 engineer's direction. 
 
 In 1889 he shifted the scene of his operations to 
 Kansas and Michigan, on railroad surveys and con- 
 struction, and until 1891 was engineer of bridges 
 and building for one thousand miles of railroad sys- 
 tem in the latter State. His next move along the 
 curve was to what his profession deems the impor- 
 tant post of contractor's engineer, or superinten- 
 dent. In this capacity he made surveys and de- 
 signs for two large stockyards near Chicago, in- 
 cluding plans for sewerage, water supply, harbors, 
 etc., and subsequently was associated with the same 
 firm on the change of the horse car line on Third 
 avenue, New York city, to a cable system. Toward 
 the close of this period, 1891-1895, he was contrac- 
 tor's engineer for a $1,000,000 dam for the same 
 city, and contractor's superintendent for other dams 
 for the water supply of New York, in which work 
 
 EDWIN DURYEA, JR. 
 
 he had charge of at least 400 men. 
 
 From 1895 to 1900 Mr. Duryea was resident en- 
 gineer at times on the Brooklyn end of the Wil- 
 liamsburg suspension bridge over the East River, 
 between New York and Brooklyn, and during the 
 latter part of this period acted as assistant engineer 
 on plans and estimates for a proposed bridge over 
 the Hudson River at New York city. Among his 
 notable achievements while in private practice 
 may be mentioned his plans for foundation of Har- 
 lem bridge, designs for rapid 
 transit tunnel under Harlem 
 river, and report to district 
 attorney on safety of New 
 York and Brooklyn suspen- 
 sion bridge and on responsi- 
 bility for neglect involved. 
 
 In December, 1902, Mr. 
 Duryea came to California as 
 chief engineer for the Bay 
 Cities Water Co., and has 
 since been associated with 
 this corporation and with its 
 allied interests. In this con- 
 nection his work has been 
 largely in the field of water 
 supply and power transmis- 
 sion; and his plans for the 
 Santa Clara County water 
 supply, his expert duties as 
 engineer for San Francisco 
 in the water rate suit with 
 the Spring Valley Company, 
 and his testimony for the 
 New Liverpool Salt Com- 
 pany in their famous suit for 
 damages against the Canal 
 Company of the Imperial 
 Valley, wherein the judg- 
 ment depended chiefly upon the engineer's opinion, 
 and has since been affirmed by the Court of Ap- 
 peals in favor of the plaintiff, are among the many 
 factors contributing to the reputation which he 
 brought to this coast. 
 
 After the great fire of 1906 Mr. Duryea was a 
 member of the "Committee of Forty" to advise 
 on the rehabilitation of San Francisco. He was 
 also chairman of the sub-committee on water sup- 
 ply, and general chairman of the committee formed 
 to report on the damage to structures. 
 
 His latest big appointment is that of engineer 
 in charge of the South San Joaquin Irrigation 
 district. 
 
 Among his civic and social connections may be 
 mentioned his four years' trusteeship of Palo Alto 
 and his membership in the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, the Brooklyn Engineers' Club and 
 the Cornell Association of Civil Engineers of New 
 York. 
 
 Mr. Duryea is a thirty-second degree Mason, 
 Scottish Rite. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 ARTIN, JOSEPH, General 
 Manager of the National Ice 
 and Cold Storage Company, 
 San Francisco, California, 
 was born in Fordsham, Che- 
 shire, England, April 21, 1854. He is the son 
 of Joseph Martin and Mary (Grace) Martin, 
 being descended of the Martin stock of Eng- 
 land. Mr. Martin married Belle Green at 
 Sacramento, California, 
 May 23, 1889, and to 
 ihem have been born two 
 children, Joseph Martin, 
 Jr., and Chester Miller 
 Martin. 
 
 Mr. Martin received his 
 general education at Ov- 
 erton College, in his na- 
 tive town. Later he em- 
 barked for America to 
 seek his fortune and ar- 
 rived in San Francisco 
 October 21, 1868, after 
 making the trip from 
 England in the British 
 ship Cordillera, by way 
 of Cape Horn. He has 
 made his home there ever 
 since. 
 
 His first employment 
 was in the ice business 
 and he has been in that 
 field practically ever 
 since, being at the pres- 
 ent time one of the lead- 
 ers of the industry. He 
 remained in San Francis- 
 co until 1872, then made a trip to England 
 and various parts of Europe for his com- 
 pany, returning to the United States the fol- 
 lowing year. 
 
 Later Mr. Martin became a gold miner in 
 California and Nevada, being located for a 
 time at Virginia City. Nevada. In 1875, 
 however, he gave up mining, and, returning 
 to San Francisco, re-engaged in the ice busi- 
 ness, with which he has been identified since. 
 In 1878 he organized the Mountain Ice Com- 
 pany and after operating it with success for 
 five years, formed, in 1883, another comoany 
 known as the Floriston Ice Comoany. Later 
 he aided in the organization of the Union Ice 
 Company. 
 
 Early in the eighties Mr. Martin organ- 
 ized the first company for the shipment of 
 California fruits to Eastern markets under 
 ice. tlrs being the starting ooint for the ores- 
 ent refrigerator car service which is now one 
 
 of the most important industries in the 
 United States and the chief reliance of the 
 great California fruit-growing business. 
 
 Along this same line, Mr. Martin was in- 
 strumental in sending to Australia one of the 
 first ice and cold storage machines ever seen 
 in that country and this formed the basis of 
 the meat-shipping business in the Southern 
 Continent, which now furnishes a large por- 
 tion of the meat con- 
 sumed annually in the 
 British Isles. 
 
 Mr. Martin, aside from 
 being a pioneer in the ice 
 manufacturing business, 
 has been one of its great- 
 est upbuilders, and has 
 done quite as much as 
 any other man to advance 
 the industry, especially 
 on the Pacific Coast. At 
 different times he organ- 
 ized a score or more ice 
 manufacturing and cold 
 storage concerns, each 
 one operating its own 
 plant, and these are now 
 all controlled by the Na- 
 tional Ice and Cold Stoi 
 age Company, which cor- 
 poration he helped to or- 
 ganize and of which he is 
 the directing force at the 
 oresent time. 
 
 Although Mr. Martin 
 has at different times in- 
 vested in various oil and 
 mining propositions, his chief interests have 
 been in the ice and cold storage business. In 
 addition to his position with the National 
 Company, Mr. Martin is Vice President of 
 the Fresno Consumers' Ice Company, and 
 holds the same office in the Nevada National 
 Ice and Cold Storage Company. He is also 
 a Director in the Commercial Petroleum 
 Company and the Atlas Wonder Mining 
 Company, and is Secretary of the Sparks- 
 Reno Electric Railroad. 
 
 In 1909, Mr. Martin went on a tour around 
 the world, primarily to visit the ice and cold 
 storage plants of the various countries, but 
 he also combined business and pleasure, tak- 
 ing the members of his family with him. 
 
 Mr. Martin is a member of the Elks and 
 the Transportation Club, of San Francisco, 
 but he is not a clubman in the accepted mean- 
 ing of the term, for he finds his chief recrea- 
 tion in the home circle. 
 
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 ANNA, RICHARD HENRY, Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of New 
 Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 
 was born at Kankakee, Illinois, 
 July 31, 1878, the son of Isaac 
 Bird Hanna and Belle (Hall) 
 Hanna. He married Clara Zimmer at Santa Fe on 
 February 8, 1905. 
 
 Justice Hanna received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Kankakee, leaving the 
 High School to enter North- 
 western Academy at Evans- 
 ton, Illinois and was gradu- 
 ated in 1898. Shortly after 
 his graduation, Justice Han- 
 na moved to Flagstaff, Ari- 
 zona, where he entered the 
 service of the United States 
 Government as a forest ran- 
 ger. It was while serving in 
 this capacity that he decided 
 to take up the study of law 
 and in 1900 he entered the 
 Law School of the University 
 of Colorado at Boulder, from 
 which he was graduated in 
 the class of 1903 with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
 
 Immediately following the 
 completion of his studies, he 
 moved to New Mexico, locat- 
 ing at Santa Fe, and began 
 practice. In May, 1904, he 
 succeeded to the practice of 
 George W. Knaebel and from 
 that time forward has been 
 one of the leaders of the pro- 
 fession in the Southwest. 
 He was elected Secretary of 
 the New Mexico Territorial 
 Bar Association in 1904 and 
 served until 1907. Also, he was 
 Secretary of the Territorial 
 Law Library Board for seven 
 years (1904-11), resigning 
 this when he became a candidate for the bench. 
 
 In 1909 Justice Hanna formed a partner- 
 ship with Francis C. Wilson under the name 
 of Hanna & Wilson, this continuing until January 
 1, 1912, when he ascended the Bench of the 
 Supreme Court. This- is the only office for which 
 Justice Hanna has ever stood as a candidate 
 and he has the distinction of having been one of 
 the youngest men in the history of the country 
 to be honored by election to such high office. 
 Elected in November, 1911, he drew a term of 
 seven years and since assuming the duties of this 
 important branch of the first State Government 
 of New Mexico he has made a splendid record for 
 fairness and careful handling of the problems 
 which have presented themselves to the court for 
 settlement. 
 
 During his legal career, which extended over 
 a period of nine years, Justice Hanna conducted 
 a general practice, but was looked upon as an 
 authority in irrigation matters. This is one of 
 the most important branches of modern develop- 
 ment in the Southwest and Justice Hanna's pre- 
 vious experience as a forest ranger, together 
 with the great amount of time he devoted to the 
 study of this subject, placed him in a position to 
 deal with this class of litigation more intelligently 
 
 HON. R. H. HANNA 
 
 than attorneys less familiar with that subject. 
 Justice Hanna has been affiliated with the Pro- 
 gressive wing of the Republican party and for ten 
 years has taken an active part in all political cam- 
 paigns in New Mexico, but neither sought nor ac- 
 cepted any public office until he was nominated 
 for the position to which he was elected at the 
 first State election held in his adopted State. His 
 choice as the candidate for the Supreme Court 
 was non-partisan and occasioned an unusual, pop- 
 ular demonstration in which 
 voters of other parties joined. 
 In March, 1911, Justice 
 Hanna was designated as 
 one of a committee of three, 
 by the Progressive Republi- 
 cans of New Mexico, to visit 
 Washington, D. C. for the 
 purpose of working for the 
 so-called Flood Resolution 
 (providing an easier method 
 of amendment of the State 
 Constitution), Governor Hag- 
 trman and General Viljoen, 
 being other members of the 
 committee. Through the co- 
 operation of the Democratic 
 Committee from New Mexico 
 and the Democrats and Pro- 
 gressive Republicans in Con- 
 gress they were successful 
 in gaining their point, over 
 the opposition of all the cor- 
 porate interests in New Mex- 
 ico and the Regular Republi- 
 can organization. Following 
 the adoption of the Flood 
 Resolution by Congress the 
 people of New Mexico rati- 
 fied it by a large majority, 
 thus making the State Con- 
 stitution possible of amend- 
 ment. The position of Jus- 
 tice Hanna and his col- 
 leagues was generally mis- 
 understood and greatly misrepresented and they 
 were charged with opposition to Statehood, but 
 subsequent events proved the correctness of their 
 position. 
 
 To Justice Hanna this appears to be one of the 
 most important features of the new State's Consti- 
 tution because it permits of adjusting the law more 
 readily to the rapidly changing conditions. 
 
 Since a&suming office as a member of the Su- 
 preme Court, Justice Hanna and his associates 
 have had to deal with numerous important and 
 intricate problems of law and in the handling of 
 these he has displayed extraordinary powers of an- 
 alysis. His decisions are distinguished for their 
 clearness and brevity, being stripped of all un- 
 necessary language in arriving at the point. 
 
 Besides his legal activities, Justice Hanna has 
 taken part in the upbuilding of Santa Fe as a 
 city, having served as President of the Santa Fe 
 Commercial Club during the year 1910. He is also 
 a Director of the United States National Bank and 
 Trust Company of Santa Fe. 
 
 Justice Hanna is- a prominent factor in fraternal 
 affairs. His memberships include the Santa Fe 
 Club, Elks and Masons. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, Deputy of the Supreme Council of 
 the A. A. S. R. of Freemasonry. 
 
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 ATCHELDER, GEORGE AIKEN, 
 Vice President E. H. Rollins & 
 Sons, Bonds, San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in that city April 
 13, 1860, the son of Joseph Moody 
 Batchelder and Elizabeth (Aiken) 
 Batchelder. He married Mary Whittemore Kitt- 
 redge, daughter of Jonathan Kittredge, a California 
 pioneer, in San Francisco, March 19, 1885, and two 
 children were born to them, Doris Elizabeth (Mrs. 
 De Lancy Lewis) and Kittredge Batchelder. 
 
 Mr. Batchelder comes in direct descent through 
 eight generations from the Reverend Stephen 
 Batchiler of Hampshire, EnglanJ, who landed in 
 Boston from the "William and Francis" June, 1632. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes speaks of the Reverend 
 Stephen as "that terrible old sinner and ancestor 
 of great men." There has been some controversy 
 a? to the fitness of the first distinction, but of the 
 second there can be no doubt. Among his well- 
 known descendants are Daniel Webster, orator; 
 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet; General Benjamin 
 F. Butler, soldier and lawyer, Wm. Pitt Fessenden, 
 statesman; Caleb Gushing, diplomat; General R. 
 N. Batchelder, Grant's Chief Quartermaster of the 
 Army of the Potomac, and many others of lesser 
 note. George Aiken inherited his wanderlust from 
 the Reverend Stephen, who took his B. A. at St. 
 John's College, Oxford, in 1586, afterwards lived 
 in Holland and England, and sailed for America 
 in 1632, after receiving from Charles I a grant of 
 arms, notable as one of the few given for services 
 performed in America "Vert, a plow in fess; in 
 base the sun rising, Or." He returned to England, 
 dying in 1660, in the one hundredth year of his age. 
 
 George A. Batchelder's mother's family came 
 from Londonderry, in the North of Ireland, in 1660. 
 His forbears proved their patriotism in the Colo- 
 nial, the Revolutionary and the Civil wars. 
 
 Joseph M. Batchelder reached. California in 
 1850, but went to China in the sixties and died of 
 sunstroke at Miyanosta, Japan, in 1893. He raised 
 the sunken steamship Ajax, which had blocked the 
 river at Shanghai; built the first ocean-going 
 steamship constructed in China, the Yangtzi, and 
 was shipowner, transporting the troops of the 
 Mikado in the war with the Tycoon in 1869. 
 
 Mr. Batchelder's education has been varied and 
 somewhat cosmopolitan. In 1866-67 he attended a 
 private school in Shanghai, China; in 1868 a pub- 
 lic school in New Hampshire; the Mount Pleasant 
 Academy, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1869-70; Al- 
 len's English and Classical School, West Newton, 
 Massachusetts, 1871-73; the Japanese Government 
 Business School and the University of Tokio, 
 1874-79, and at the Columbia Law School, Wash- 
 ington, D. C., in 1882-83. This extensive schooling 
 was supplemented by traveling when pirates were 
 afloat and traveling was not merely tripping in 
 express trains and floating hotels, all of which 
 combined to broaden his viewpoints. A three 
 months' voyage to Shanghai, via Honolulu and 
 Foochow, on the barque Valetta, Captain Cavan- 
 augh, in 1866; a cruise in a private yacht through 
 the Inland Sea of Japan, in 1867, while the Tycoon 
 still reigned; a return to San Francisco in March, 
 
 1868, on the China, Captain Cobb, with Anson 
 Burlingame's first Chinese Embassy; back to Mas- 
 sachusetts via Panama in the same year, thence to 
 Japan again in 1873 on the America, Captain Free- 
 man, and from 1873 to 1880 traveling, attending 
 school in Tokio and acting as Assistant Secretary 
 at the United States Legation, form a kaleidoscop- 
 ic record that suggests a course of moving-picture 
 shows. An official touch is added by the fact that 
 the American Government rented, for ten years, as 
 its Legation in Japan, the residence of Mr. Batch- 
 elder's father. 
 
 The roving spirit again seized Mr. Batchelder 
 in 1897 and sent him to Europe in that year; again, 
 in 1902, to the South Seas, and Tahiti in 1904, and 
 around the world in 1907-08. 
 
 Mr. Batchelder's active business life began in 
 1880, when he entered the Quartermaster's Depot, 
 U. S. A., in San Francisco, and rose in two years 
 to the post of chief clerk of the depot. From 1882 
 to 1883 he was a clerk in the War Department at 
 Washington, and in October of the latter year he 
 became treasurer of the Dakota Investment Com- 
 pany at Grand Forks in the Red River Valley of 
 the then Territory of Dakota. 
 
 In 1885 he became an officer of the corporation 
 of E. H. Rollins & Sons as Western manager, and 
 in 1892 went to Denver, Colorado, to take charge 
 of its business there. Two years later, in 1894, he 
 opened the San Francisco branch of the house, 
 which thereby became the pioneer bond house of 
 the Pacific Coast. Since that date he has placed 
 more than thirty millions of outside capital in Cal- 
 ifornia municipalities and corporations. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Batchelder introduced on this Coast 
 the business of dealing solely in municipal and 
 corporation bonds. The San Francisco office force 
 of E. H. Rollins & Sons consisted of a bookkeeper 
 and a stenographer, with a local business of per- 
 haps $500,000 annual volume. Today the estab- 
 lishment embraces twenty-six, with a volume of 
 some $11,000,000 annually. It was not until 1905 
 that the second bond house was established in 
 San Francisco, since which time some half a do/en 
 other houses have been added. 
 
 Mr. Batchelder has been a director of numerous 
 corporations in various States, and amoii.? these 
 his directorship of the Bay Counties Power Com- 
 pany, which broke all previous records for long- 
 distance transmission of electric power, and that 
 of the Western Pacific Railway, the first railroad 
 to brenk into California against the will of the 
 Southern Pacific, are those in which he took great- 
 est pride, officially speaking. 
 
 After the Continental rather than the American 
 custom, he retired from active business at tin age 
 of 50. He is now, he says, "taking life easy after 
 the English and Japanese modes," enjoying his 
 home and giving as much time as he can spare 
 therefrom to certain necessary business interests 
 and to his clubs and societies. Of the latter he 
 has a varied assortment. Among them: The So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, D. C., the Bohemian Club, 
 the Pacific Union Club, the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, California Commandery, and tne 
 Menlo Country Club. 
 
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 m RANK, NATHAN H., Attor- 
 * ney, was born in San Francis- 
 co, California, June 3, 1858, 
 the son of Jacob Frank and 
 Eva (Meyer) Frank. His pa- 
 ternal ancestors were Bavarian Jews and his 
 mother is a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main. 
 He married Charlotte Elizabeth Petterson at 
 San Francisco, September 19, 1881, and they 
 are the parents of five 
 sons and a daughter. Four 
 of the children, including 
 
 the daughter, were at col- 
 lege at the same time, and 
 one son, Irving H. Frank, 
 is now associated with his 
 father in law practice. 
 
 The public schools of 
 Suisun, Solano County, 
 from 1863 to 1873, and 
 then a private course un- 
 der the principal, C. W. 
 Childs, prepared him for 
 the University of Califor- 
 nia, from which he was 
 graduated in 1877 a Ph. B. 
 Two years later he took 
 the degree of L. L. B. 
 from the Columbia Law 
 College of New York, and 
 after waiting a month to 
 become of age he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of New 
 York. 
 
 On his return to San 
 Francisco he associated 
 himself with the firm of 
 Wheaton & Scrivner, patent lawyers, with 
 whom he remained until 1881. He then went 
 to New Mexico to scan the field there. Dis- 
 appointed in the outlook, he returned to 
 San Francisco. Shortly after his second re- 
 turn he entered the office of Milton Andros. 
 After a brief term in a clerical capacity he be- 
 came the partner of Mr. Andros, under the 
 firm name of Andros & Frank, which part- 
 nership lasted until 1900. 
 
 Mr. Frank's practice, though of a general 
 nature, has been chiefly in maritime and in- 
 surance law and in the Federal courts. In 
 the course thereof he has had many cases of 
 public interest and handled practically all the 
 causes on this coast arising out of seizure, as 
 prize, of American vessels and cargoes during 
 the Russo-Japanese War. Important among 
 these is his successful attempt to establish a 
 principle differing from that apparently set- 
 tled by the English law during the Napoleon- 
 
 NATHAN H. FRANK 
 
 ic wars. This law held that a vessel insured 
 against "capture, seizure and detention" was 
 not covered for a loss due to condemnation 
 for carrying false papers. From time imme- 
 morial, however, it had been the practice of 
 vessels engaged in blockade running to carry 
 false papers to enable the vessels to accom- 
 plish their purpose, and the policy gave 
 them the liberty of running the block- 
 ade. But in this case 
 counsel for the insurance 
 company contended that 
 as the steamer was cov- 
 ered by an English policy 
 the English law should 
 govern. Testimony of 
 two of the ablest English 
 barristers, one of whom 
 has since been elevated to 
 the bench of the High 
 Court of Justice of Eng- 
 land, was taken to prove 
 that the loss was not cov- 
 ered by the policy. Mr. 
 Frank, however, took the 
 position that everything 
 usual and customary in 
 accomplishing the voyage 
 was covered by the insur- 
 ance, and hence condem- 
 nation for carrying false 
 papers was within the 
 policy. His contention 
 sustained by the United 
 States Circuit Court and 
 subsequently by the Cir- 
 cuit Court of Appeals, 
 
 discountenanced the old English law. 
 
 Another achievement especially note- 
 worthy is his establishment of the present 
 standard form of charter-party and bill of 
 lading necessitated by the hazardous trade 
 to Alaska, ships for which, at the beginning 
 of the gold excitement, hailed from San Fran- 
 cisco but were chartered by Seattle firms. 
 
 During his extensive experience he has 
 become the attorney for a large variety of 
 companies and interests, which rely upon him 
 with the utmost confidence. Among these 
 are the Barneson-Hibbard Co., J. D. Spreck- 
 els and Bros. Co., Oceanic Steamship Co., the 
 Charles Nelson Co., Robert Dollar S. S. Co., 
 Los Alamos Oil and Development Co., the 
 Alaska Exploration Co., and for many years, 
 as a member of the firm of Andros & Frank, 
 the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 
 
 Mr. Frank has not been very active in club 
 life, though he is a member of several. 
 
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 PIRO, SOLON, Mine Opera- 
 tor, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 was born in Kurnik, Germa- 
 ny, March 1, 1863, the son of 
 Leopold Spiro, and Ernestine 
 (Aschheim) Spiro. He married Ida Mae 
 Marks, October 16, 1909, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Mr. Spiro studied in private schools and 
 business colleges of Germany until 1881, 
 when his uncle, Mayer S. 
 Aschheim, persuaded him 
 to leave the Fatherland 
 and go to Park City, 
 Utah, there to assist in 
 the conduct of a large 
 mercantile establishment. 
 From the day of his ar- 
 rival he began to lay the 
 foundation of his fortune, 
 which has become one of 
 the most substantial in 
 Utah. He devoted him- 
 self to the business of his 
 uncle, but early saw that 
 the real opportunities 
 were in mining. In the 
 Park City district he 
 studied the reduction to- 
 gether with the business 
 of mining generally. 
 
 With the little capital 
 at his command he 
 bought interests in prom- 
 ising claims, as the op- 
 portunities offered. He 
 used the technical knowl- 
 edge which he had ac- 
 quired, to the best advantage, and rarely 
 made a false investment. He began mining 
 on a small scale, but his interests advanced 
 rapidly and he formed a number of success- 
 ful mining companies. About 1899 his min- 
 ing interests became so important that he 
 was compelled to give up his mercantile 
 business and devote all his time to mining. 
 He made money out of going shares. He 
 acquired an intimate knowledge of the 
 various mines of his district, and on the 
 strength of his judgment became a large 
 holder of some of the best investment stocks 
 in Utah. 
 
 One of his greatest strokes of business 
 finesse and practical organization was the 
 formation of the Silver King Consolidated 
 Mining Company, the property of which is 
 rapidly developing into one of the greatest 
 mines in the Park City district. He is presi- 
 dent and general manager of the company, 
 
 SOLON SPIRO 
 
 and in this dual capacity has demonstrated 
 an extraordinary ability both in the financial 
 and development end of the business. 
 
 It has been through his knowledge of the 
 district in which this company's territory is 
 located and his indomitable determination 
 to obtain a square deal that his company 
 holds its present position. At one time he 
 decided that the Silver King Coalition Mines 
 Company, a neighboring 
 property, had trespassed 
 on his company's prop- 
 erty and taken out a large 
 amount of ore. He finally 
 filed a suit to recover the 
 value of it, but was har- 
 assed by counter suits 
 and every possible obsta- 
 cle that the powerful in- 
 terests back of his com- 
 pany's adversary could 
 place in his way. The 
 odds against him in this 
 fight were tremendous, 
 for the Silver King Coali- 
 tion is made up of many 
 of the strongest iiid 
 brainiest financiers in 
 America, and they put up 
 a struggle that lasted for 
 more than three years. 
 Lacking the large finan- 
 cial resources of his op- 
 ponents, he met power 
 with tenacity and put up 
 a battle, which, in addi- 
 tion to being crowned 
 
 with success for his stockholders, will always 
 be remembered as one of the most notable 
 contests in the vivid history of mining in the 
 West. He finally secured judgment for 
 $750,000. 
 
 In addition to his Silver King Consolidated 
 connections, Mr. Spiro is president and gen- 
 eral manager of the Little Bell Consolidated 
 Mining Company, a dividend paying propo- 
 sition, also located in the Park City district; 
 director of the Merchants' Bank of Salt Lake 
 City, Utah, and is also a stockholder in 
 numerous other mining and business ven- 
 tures. 
 
 He is essentially a man of progress and is 
 interested in many ways in the upbuilding of 
 his city. 
 
 He is identified with the Commercial 
 Club of Salt Lake and is a prominent 
 member of the Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks. 
 
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 PRECKELS, ADOLPH 
 BERNARD, Vice Pres., J. D. 
 Spreckels & Bros. Co., San 
 Francisco, was born in that 
 city, January 5, 1857, the 
 son of Claus and Anna C. (Mangels) Spreck- 
 els. His father, Claus Spreckels, who was 
 born in Germany, came from New York to 
 San Francisco in 1856, and his activities in 
 California are today not only an important 
 part of the industrial history of this State 
 but also of the United States and the Ha- 
 waiian Islands. Having become interested 
 in the sugar-growing industry, he established 
 the Bay Sugar Refinery, in 1868, at the cor- 
 ner of Battery and Union streets, and after 
 three or four years of success in this founded 
 the California Sugar Refinery at Eighth and 
 Brannan, in competition with the concern 
 conducted by James Gordan, Wm. T. Cole- 
 man and others. By the use of improved 
 machinery and modern methods he soon got 
 control of the local market, and about 1882 
 moved to the Potrero, where he built the 
 huge establishment his sons are now operat- 
 ing so successfully. About 1876 he had be- 
 gun to buy sugar lands and plantations in 
 the Hawaiian Islands, to which holdings he 
 subsequently largely added. In 1888 he de- 
 termined to fight to a finish the Sugar Trust, 
 which had been trying to force him from the 
 refining field. He built in Philadelphia the 
 largest refinery in the world, carried the 
 battle to the trust's own ground and won a 
 memorable victory. The trust afterwards 
 bought this refinery at his own figures. His 
 largest contribution, perhaps, to the indus- 
 trial development of California was his es- 
 tablishment of the beet sugar industry, first 
 at Watsonville, and then at Salinas. This is 
 now also the largest of its kind in the world, 
 employing thousands of men and proving a 
 great boon especially to the farmers of the 
 State. Another of his important services to 
 California was his pioneer opposition to the 
 Southern Pacific monopoly. This he ex- 
 pressed by aiding in the financing of the San 
 Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, 
 which was subsequently absorbed by the 
 Santa Fe. He was one of California's most 
 public-spirited citizens, ever ready to aid any 
 project he believed to be for the State's best 
 interests. His son, Adolph, together with the 
 latter's brothers, are continuing his activities 
 with conspicuous success, and are among the 
 commercial and financial leaders of the Pa- 
 
 cific Coast. On May 11, 1907, Adolph Spreck- 
 els was married in Philadelphia to Miss Alma 
 de Bretteville, daughter of Victor de Brette- 
 ville, some of whose maternal ancestors 
 played notable parts in the history of France, 
 especially during the French Revolution. 
 The children of this marriage are Alma de 
 Bretteville Spreckels, born Aug. 23, 1910, 
 and Adolph F. Spreckels, Oct. 30, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Spreckels obtained his first schooling 
 in private schools of San Francisco, two of 
 which, that of Dr. Huddart, corner of Bryant 
 and Second streets, and the establishment of 
 George Bates, were among the old land- 
 marks that have passed away. From 1869 to 
 1871 he attended school in Hanover, Ger- 
 many, and after his return to San Francisco 
 was a student at the South Cosmopolitan 
 Grammar School, from '72 to '74. He then 
 entered Heald's Business College, from which 
 he was graduated at the end of nine months. 
 In 1876 Mr. Spreckels began his business 
 career as a clerk in the California Sugar Re- 
 finery at Eighth and Brannan streets. After 
 serving about four years as clerk he became 
 secretary of the company, and in 1881 formed 
 a partnership with his brothers under the 
 firm name of J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., of 
 which he was made vice president, an office 
 he has since retained. 
 
 When the firm was incorporated it be- 
 came the general agent for the Oceanic 
 Steamship Co., with vessels running be- 
 tween San Francisco and the Sandwich 
 Islands. The business was that of general 
 shipping and commission, handling all kinds 
 of freight, as well as a passenger traffic, and 
 confining its trade chiefly to San Francisco 
 and the Islands. This soon grew to very large 
 proportions, which were gradually increased 
 by the acquisition and development of the 
 firm's sugar and plantation interests in Ha- 
 waii. For six or seven years the company 
 ran a line of large steamers to Australia, car- 
 rying freight and passengers, and also be- 
 came agents for the Kosmos Line, which 
 plied chiefly between Hamburg, Germany, 
 and South American and Central American 
 ports. 
 
 For many years the Government of New 
 South Wales had been paying the Spreckels 
 a subsidy for running their vessels. This 
 was finally cut off, but the company still con- 
 tinued the service, until in 1906, shortly after 
 the earthquake, they were obliged to stop 
 what had for some time been a losing ven- 
 
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 ture. Recently, however, the wonderful de- 
 velopment of the fuel oil industry in Califor- 
 nia has combined with the firm's knowledge 
 of commercial needs to prompt the restora- 
 tion of the line, and the brothers are now 
 converting the vessels into oil burners. They 
 are still the agents for the Oceanic Line, in 
 which they are also large stockholders. 
 
 Since the incorporation of the firm its 
 business has developed from a basis of hun- 
 dreds of thousands of dollars to that of many 
 millions, not only through the natural com- 
 mercial expansion of the country, but also 
 through the remarkable growth of the beet 
 sugar industry, which Claus Spreckels had 
 established at Watsonville and Salinas. If 
 any indication of the company's prosperity 
 were needed it would suffice to visit the 
 great refinery in the Potrero, or the beautiful 
 new office building recently completed, in 
 Grecian style of architecture, at the corner of 
 California and Davis streets. 
 
 Beyond Mr. Spreckels' business activities 
 he has found time to prove a useful citizen 
 in other directions. As Park Commissioner 
 under Governor Budd, and during the three 
 administrations of Mayor Phelan, as well as 
 through Mayor Schmitz's term, he has done 
 much for the improvement and beauty of 
 Golden Gate Park. In both the Phelan and 
 Schmitz regimes he was president of the 
 commission, and on Jan. 8 of the present year 
 was again appointed to the Board of Park 
 Commissioners by Mayor Rolph. 
 
 Mr. Spreckels' services as Park Commis- 
 sioner are greater than they are generally 
 known to be. Prompted by his enthusiasm 
 for the general beautification of the park and 
 by his genuine public spirit, he is responsible 
 for some of the most useful and ornamental 
 features in this great pleasure ground. It 
 was he who induced his father to give the 
 beautiful and imposing Music Stand, which 
 is said to be the handsomest in any American 
 park, and which remains a monument to the 
 generosity and thoughtfulness both of father 
 and son. He was also the main factor in the 
 building of the huge stadium which has 
 proved such a boon to the lovers of open-air 
 athletics, young and old, as well as to the 
 amateur drivers of fast trotters that show 
 their paces on the speedway encircling the 
 stadium proper. Another important sugges- 
 tion of Mr. Spreckels for use and adornment 
 of the park is the huge Dutch windmill, near 
 the extreme western edge of the grounds. 
 This has made possible Spreckels Lake, so 
 named after the projector of the windmill, 
 
 and other smaller lakes, into which the mill 
 pumps the necessary water. 
 
 For many years Mr. Spreckels has been a 
 racer and a breeder of thoroughbred horses, 
 and has owned and raised some of the great- 
 est performers in the history of the sport on 
 this coast. Among these were such notable 
 winners as Gallant. Cadmus and the remark- 
 able four-miler, Candid. The most note- 
 worthy of all Mr. Spreckels' thoroughbreds, 
 and said to be the greatest racehorse pro- 
 duced in California, is Dr. Leggo, who won 
 the Burns Handicap, and shortly after an- 
 other great stake over the same distance, a 
 mile and a quarter, at Los Angeles. The 
 Doctor was raised by Mr. Spreckels, and is 
 now in the stud on the stock farm near Napa 
 City. Other famous sires there are Solitaire, 
 which Mr. Spreckels bought from Sir Ed- 
 ward Cassel, after this horse had won the 
 Queen's Vase at Ascot and many other im- 
 portant races in England; Puryer D., an 
 Eastern-bred stallion, and Voorhees, a son of 
 Solitaire. Among the best of the brood mares 
 on the farm is Sevens, which Mr. Spreckels 
 named at the suggestion of a friend, after he 
 had held four sevens on four different occa- 
 sions. 
 
 He is also especially fond of driving 
 horses, of standard-bred stock, and finds his 
 recreation partly in cultivating this taste. 
 Formerly he was an enthusiastic yachtsman, 
 and as owner of the Consuelo and the Lur- 
 line has figured conspicuously in yachting 
 circles. 
 
 Mr. Spreckels is widely known for his af- 
 fability, genial nature and kindliness, but 
 despite these popular qualities has remained 
 aloof from politics and public life, strictly so- 
 called. He has preferred to serve his fellow- 
 men in other ways and has never been lack- 
 ing in benevolence. 
 
 Outside of his connection with the J. D. 
 Spreckels & Brothers Company he has other 
 important business interests requiring his at- 
 tention. Among these are the Western 
 Sugar Company, the Oceanic Steamship 
 Company, of both of which he is vice presi- 
 dent, and the Sunset Monarch Company, of 
 which he is a director. 
 
 His clubs are the Pacific-Union, Bohem- 
 ian, Union League, Merchants, San Fran- 
 cisco Yacht Club and the Olympic Athletic, 
 of which last he is a life-member. 
 
 At present he resides in Sausalito, Marin 
 County, but will soon move into the hand- 
 some home he is building at the corner of 
 Washington and Octavia streets, San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
W. S. HOOK 
 
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 171 
 
 OOK, WILLIAM SPENCER (de- 
 ceased), Capitalist, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Jackson- 
 ville, Illinois, the &on of Cornelius 
 Hook and Ann (Spencer) Hook. 
 He married Mary Barbee, daugh- 
 ter of an eminent Indiana jurist, at Lafayette, In- 
 diana, April 2, 1885. They had two sons, William 
 S. Hook, Jr., and Barbee S. Hook. 
 
 Mr. Hook, who was one of a large family of 
 children, had scant opportunities for education in 
 his youth, being compelled to leave school when he 
 was only twelve years of age to aid in the support 
 of the house. The teaching he had obtained was 
 in the common schools of the district, which at that 
 time were not extensive educational institutions. 
 
 His first position after leaving school was in a 
 general merchandise store at Jacksonville, where 
 he worked for several years in various capacities, 
 but principally as a clerk. He left that place in 
 the late fifties to take a position as a clerk in the 
 private bank of M. P. Ayers & Company, an old 
 established financial institution of Jacksonville. 
 Having been denied adequate educational opportu- 
 nities himself, Mr. Hook learned higher mathe- 
 matics by studying with a younger sister, who was 
 more fortunate than he in this respect. In this way 
 he fitted himself for advancement in the financial 
 world and was rapidly promoted in the Ayers bank. 
 Within a few years Mr. Hook was admitted to 
 partnership and rapidly became one of the leading 
 financiers of that section of the Middle West. He 
 devoted himself exclusively to banking for many 
 years, but in the early eighties decided to enter 
 the broader field of railroad operation. He had 
 plans for the development of the State of Illinois 
 by means of a network of steam railroads and he 
 began work by purchasing the Jacksonville & 
 Southeastern Railroad, a line which tapped a rich 
 section of the State. In rapid succession he added 
 other lines to this and it was not long before he 
 was realizing his plans for opening up Illinois to 
 wider commercial advantages. 
 
 He then turned his attention to street railroads 
 and purchased the horse car lines of Jacksonville 
 and transformed them into electric roads, being one 
 of the earliest men to introduce modern traction 
 facilities in the West. He brought the street rail- 
 way service to a high state of efficiency and then 
 turned his attention again to further improvement 
 of his steam railroad properties. His plans in- 
 cluded the construction of a great steel bridge and 
 other work, but the financial depression of 1893 
 interfered and he was compelled to abandon opera- 
 tions temporarily, although at any other time he 
 could have commanded millions of capital in East- 
 ern financial centers. 
 
 In the spring of 1894, Mr. Hook and his wife 
 went to California on a pleasure trip and halted 
 for a time in Los Angeles. It was not then the 
 metropolitan city of the present and was lacking in 
 many respects, including modern street railway 
 facilities. This feature appealed strongly to Mr. 
 Hook, who had modernized the tractions of his na- 
 tive city, and although he was nearing the age of 
 retirement, he determined to give the city a modern 
 transportation system. Accordingly he arranged 
 for the purchase from the city of a franchise grant- 
 ing him a route through the Southwestern portion 
 of Los Angeles, then returned to Illinois to close 
 out some of his less important business affairs. 
 
 In February, 1895, Mr. Hook and his family re- 
 turned to Los Angeles and there established a per- 
 manent residence. His franchise having been 
 granted the previous August, he began work at 
 once on the construction of his railroad. In Au- 
 gust, 1895, just about a year after the granting of 
 his franchise, he began to operate cars under the 
 name of the Los Angeles Traction Company, of 
 which he and other members of the Hook family 
 were sole owners. 
 
 In the growth of a city no factor is more potent 
 than its street railways. Outlying tracts of land, 
 commanding sweeping vistas of mountain, valley 
 and ocean remain ranch property or lie in fallow 
 fields until touched by a car line, when there soon 
 follows a speedy transformation into graded streets, 
 green lawns, spacious grounds and all that goes to 
 make a desirable residence district, while the 
 ranch land becomes valuable suburban property. 
 Nowhere has there been a more striking illustra- 
 tion of this than in Los Angeles, with its almost 
 unprecedented growth and the rapid expansion of 
 its boundary line, owing unquestionably to its splen- 
 didly equipped electric railway lines. 
 
 With the building of Mr. Hook's first line, run- 
 ning through the Southwestern part of the city, 
 the transportation of Los Angeles was brought up 
 to a modern standard and the territory through 
 which it passed was quickly changed from an un- 
 developed stretch of land into a beautiful residen- 
 tial district. Tracts were opened, real estate 
 values advanced, wide boulevards built and this 
 section, known now as the West Adams District of 
 Los Angeles, is made up of palatial residences and 
 is one of the most exclusive and fashionable home 
 districts in America. Leading the way for others, 
 Mr. Hook, in 1895, built a magnificent residence 
 there and it has long been one of the show places 
 of Los Angeles, being owned now by William H. 
 Holliday, a wealthy banker to whom Mrs. Hook 
 sold the property in 1912. 
 
 His first line proving a success, Mr. Hook built 
 other traction lines in Los Angeles and had plans 
 for the building of an interurban system that would 
 join Los Angeles with Pasadena and Santa Monica, 
 California. He was prevented by failing health, 
 however, from realizing these plans. Never a ro- 
 bust man, he began to feel the effects of his long 
 and active career, and in 1903, after a determined 
 battle against illness, was compelled to retire from 
 participation in active business. Shortly after this 
 he disposed of all his traction interests. 
 
 This practically closed the business career of 
 Mr. Hook, his death ensuing in Philadelphia, Penn- 
 sylvania, less than a year later, .on June 24, 1904. 
 He was laid to rest in his native city. 
 
 During his life Mr. Hook occupied a leading 
 position among the financial interests of the United 
 States and was a staunch supporter of the Republi- 
 can party, but like many other substantial men he 
 devoted himself to business and took no active part 
 in politics. Owing to the diversity of his interests 
 and the fact that he had to conserve all of his 
 efforts for his work, he devoted little or no time to 
 clubs, spending his leisure in resting for the next 
 day's activities. He was liberal but unostentatious 
 in his charities and although he was one of the 
 most enterprising capitalists of the West, was little 
 known outside of business circles. 
 
 His widow and sons survive him. 
 
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 ECHTMAN,ALBERT JOHN, 
 Vice President and Treasurer, 
 Fresno Irrigated Farms Co., 
 San Francisco, Cal., was born 
 in Minneapolis, Minn., July 18, 
 1857, the son of Henry Hechtman and Sophia 
 K. (Weinell) Hechtman. His grandfather 
 came to this country from Bavaria, first set- 
 tled in Erie, Pennsylvania, but subsequently 
 moved to Minneapolis, 
 then known as St. An- 
 thony Falls, and engaged 
 in the real estate busi- 
 ness. Mr. Hechtman's 
 father, a well-known soap 
 manufacturer of Min- 
 neapolis, was a member 
 of the Territorial Legis- 
 lature of 1857. The son 
 went to California in 
 1876, and in December, 
 1880, was married at Mi- 
 nersville to Miss Caroline 
 Cooper. By this mar- 
 riage he is the father of 
 Judson O., born in 1881 ; 
 Henry A., in 1882; Wal- 
 ter I., 1888, and C. Belle 
 Hechtman, 1891. 
 
 Mr. Hechtman attend- 
 ed the public schools of 
 his native town, and for a 
 while he was a student at 
 the business college. In 
 1871 he was graduated 
 from the University of 
 Minnesota, whence he 
 joined his father in the Minnesota Soap Com- 
 pany of St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 After several years in this business he 
 spent several more in traveling and taking 
 life comparatively "easy." He was unhamp- 
 ered by any urgent needs, and was deter- 
 mined to let the strenuous life wait upon the 
 necessity of leading it. Reaching San Fran- 
 cisco in 1876, he went shortly thereafter to 
 his uncle's ranch, which at that time was sit- 
 uated within the present city limits of 'Los 
 Angeles. Here he lived for the next few 
 years, getting a practical experience of ranch 
 life and forming the ideas of irrigation which 
 he has since developed into a positive hobby. 
 Toward the end of this decade he became in- 
 terested in mining, went over into Trinity 
 county, invested in some gravel and quartz 
 properties there, and by working in various 
 capacities acquired a practical knowledge of 
 the business. This experience was valuable, 
 
 A. J. HECHTMAN 
 
 but somewhat costly. In 1880 Mr. Hecht- 
 man shifted the field of his activities to rail- 
 roading, and until 1884 was assistant agent 
 of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, ris- 
 ing, from '85 to '90, to the post of General 
 Agent of the Union Pacific Railway. He 
 then became attracted by the fruit shipping 
 business, wherein he was made vice presi- 
 dent of the Porter Brothers Company, com- 
 posed of Nate R. Sals- 
 bury, Washington Porter 
 and Fred Porter. With 
 them he remained nine 
 years, gradually enlarg- 
 ing his interests until 
 they included the consid- 
 erable number of con- 
 cerns of which he is now 
 an officer. 
 
 During these years Mr. 
 Hechtman was located 
 variously between Los 
 Angeles, S a c r a m e nto, 
 Fresno and Kerman, 
 stimulating his interest in 
 irrigation by much read- 
 ing and practical obser- 
 vation. He has gathered 
 together a large library, 
 and although his tenden- 
 cies have been chiefly 
 commercial, art and liter- 
 ature are with him al- 
 most an avocation. He is 
 fond of automobiling, and 
 was formerly an ardent 
 hunter and angler. 
 Besides his vice presidency of the Fresno 
 Irrigated Farms Company he is vice presi- 
 dent of the First National Bank of Kerman, 
 and the Cal. Stock Food Co. and president of 
 the Abbott Orchard Co. From 1897 to 1902 
 he was a director of the Booth-Kelley Lum- 
 ber Co. and of the Cal. Pine Box & Lumber 
 Co. For three years he was vice president of 
 the Oregon Land & Livestock Co.; formerly 
 a director of the Truckee River General 
 Electric Co., Reno Light, Power and Water 
 Co., and the Floriston Pulp and Paper Co. 
 His clubs and associations are: Pacific- 
 Union, Bohemian, Press, San Francisco Golf 
 and Country; California, of Los Angeles; 
 Sequoia, of Fresno; Sutter, of Sacramento, 
 and the Madera County; Merchants' Ex- 
 change, San Francisco; Cal. Development 
 Board, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 
 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 
 mals and the S. P. C. C. 
 
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 173 
 
 LAYTON, NEPHI W., Man- 
 ager Inland Crystal Salt Com- 
 pany, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 was born in that city October 
 8, 1855. He is the son of 
 William Clayton and Augusta (Braddock) 
 Clayton. He married Sybella White John- 
 son at Salt Lake, June 26, 1884, and of their 
 union there have been five children Sybella 
 W., Charles C., Law- 
 rence, Irving and Robert 
 W. Clayton. 
 
 Mr. Clayton had a 
 very limited opportunity 
 for education and was 
 forced to leave the grade 
 school of Salt Lake, 
 which he had attended, 
 when he was 12 years 
 old and go to work. He 
 has been steadily engaged 
 in business since that 
 time, and as a result of 
 earnest endeavor and in- 
 born ability has attained 
 an eminent position in the 
 business life of his State. 
 His first employment 
 was in a salt mill, where 
 he received wages of 50 
 cents a day. He worked 
 there for several years, 
 but at the same time he 
 
 N. W. CLAYTON 
 
 works after leaving the employ of the Terri- 
 tory was the building of the famous Saltair 
 Pavilion in Utah, which was followed by his 
 assisting in the incorporation and building of 
 the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad, con- 
 necting Salt Lake with the pavilion. These 
 were among the most important improve- 
 ments made in Utah up to that time. 
 
 In addition to these two enterprises and 
 the Crystal Salt Company, 
 Mr. Clayton is interested 
 in various others. Among 
 them are the Clayton In- 
 vestment Company, of 
 which he is president 
 and general manager; 
 the Utah Sulphur Com- 
 pany, the Consolidated 
 Music Company, Delray 
 Salt Company of Detroit 
 and the Clayton Land 
 and Cattle Company. Of 
 all these corporations Mr. 
 Clayton is president and 
 a heavy stockholder. He 
 has numerous minor in- 
 terests scattered through- 
 out the United States. 
 He gives his personal at- 
 tention to the more im- 
 portant ones and is the 
 principal influence in 
 their successful operation. 
 
 was fitting himself for better things in life 
 and spent his nights studying. By his own 
 efforts he was able to teach himself many 
 things he had missed by leaving school, and 
 when he was 17 years of age he obtained a 
 position as office boy in the office of the Ter- 
 ritorial Auditor of Utah. 
 
 He remained in that office in various ca- 
 pacities until he was 21 years of age, and at 
 that time was elected to the position of Ter- 
 ritorial Librarian and Recorder of Marks and 
 Bonds. He retained that for a number of 
 years and then was elected Territorial Audi- 
 tor of Accounts, taking charge of the depart- 
 ment where he had gone, a few years before, 
 as office boy. 
 
 He served as Territorial Auditor until 
 1890, when he resigned to engage in the salt 
 refining business, a field in which he has won 
 a foremost position. Among his earlier 
 
 Mr. Clayton is also a director and stock- 
 holder in the Utah National Bank and holds 
 directorships in numerous smaller corpora- 
 tions. 
 
 He has been active in the affairs of Utah 
 for the greater portion of his life and has 
 been most prominent among the men who de- 
 veloped the resources of that State, bringing 
 it up to a position among the leading com- 
 monwealths of the Union. 
 
 In 1894, in recognition of his services to 
 the State, he was chosen by Governor Caleb 
 W. Webb to be his aide-de-camp, and when 
 Utah was admitted to Statehood was made 
 Commissary General, with the rank of Colo- 
 nel, on the Governor's staff. He continued 
 in that office until 1904. 
 
 He is a member of the Alta, Country and 
 Commercial Clubs of Salt Lake City and is 
 one of the most popular men in the city. 
 
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 AWGOOD, HARRY, Civil and 
 Hydraulic Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of the 
 British Empire, being born in 
 Derbyshire, England, on April 
 28, 1853. He is the son of Wil- 
 liam Hawgood and Sarah A. (Pike) Hawgood. He 
 married Harriet E. McWain of Vermont in 1887 in 
 Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Hawgood received his education in 
 schools of England. He at- 
 tended the City of London 
 School, one of the oldest in- 
 stitutions of its nature in 
 the British Empire, having 
 been founded In 1442; it is 
 closely identified with the 
 Universities of Oxford and 
 Cambridge. While attend- 
 ing this school he was a 
 fellow student of the man 
 who is today at the head of 
 British politics, Premier As- 
 quith. Later he studied 
 civil and mechanical engi- 
 neering on municipal water 
 works, and afterward in one 
 of the largest shipbuilding 
 
 yards on the River Thames. 
 
 Shortly after finishing 
 his studies in England he 
 received in 1874 an appoint- 
 ment which carried him into 
 South Africa, where he was 
 engaged in designing struc- 
 tures for the Cape of Good 
 Hope government railways, 
 serving under a five years' 
 contract. He became Assistant Resident Engineer 
 in the Maintenance Department of the government 
 railways in that region, where he fulfilled his con- 
 tract to the day. He returned to England in 1879, 
 and received commendatory letters from the Brit- 
 ish Government officials, and in 1880 came to 
 America and located at Madison, Wisconsin. Short- 
 ly afterward he was made Assistant Engineer of 
 Construction on the Madison and Milwaukee line 
 of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and his 
 rise in the engineering world was rapid. 
 
 In 1881 he was made Locating Engineer, recon- 
 noitering for extensions of the Utah Northern Rail- 
 way, now the Oregon Short Line, in Idaho and 
 Montana. He continued in this capacity for two 
 years and laid out and constructed some of the 
 most difficult pieces of railway construction known 
 in that region. 
 
 In 1884 he was Resident Engineer in charge of 
 construction from Le Grande to Baker City, Oregon, 
 on the Oregon Railway and Navigation System. 
 
 A year later he resigned to follow private prac- 
 tice in hydraulic and railroad engineering at Port- 
 
 land, Oregon. He met with success and in a short 
 time became Consulting Engineer for the Receiver 
 of the Oregonian Railroad and the Chief Engineer 
 of Construction on the Portland, Willamette Valley 
 Railway. He was appointed by the Governor of 
 Oregon as one of the commissioners to determine 
 and fix the length of the navigable draw-span on the 
 railroad bridge across the Willamette River. In May, 
 1888, after the purchase of the P. and W. V. Railway 
 by the Southern Pacific System, Mr. Hawgood 
 became Resident Engineer 
 for that road and was lo- 
 cated at Los Angeles in 
 charge of the lines between 
 that city and El Paso, Texas. 
 He continued in that posi- 
 tion up to 1894, when he re- 
 signed to enter Into practice 
 as Consulting Engineer. 
 
 When the San Pedro- 
 Santa Monica Harbor contro- 
 versy arose Mr. Hawgood 
 took a prominent part in that 
 matter, making a thorough 
 study of the question. In 
 1896 he made the engineer- 
 ing argument in favor of San 
 Pedro before the Commerce 
 Committee of the United 
 States Senate, and later ar- 
 gued the same question in 
 Los Angeles before what was 
 known as the Walker Harbor 
 Board, a special board ap- 
 pointed by the President of 
 the United States to select 
 
 HARRY HAWGOOD 
 
 draulics and power engineering up to 1900. 
 At that time he accepted the position of 
 Chief Engineer in the location and con- 
 struction of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt 
 Lake Railroad, notable among his structures being 
 the large concrete viaduct over the Santa Ana 
 River near Riverside. In 1904, his services with 
 the railroad company being finished, he resumed 
 practice as Consulting Engineer. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles, in 1888, Mr. Haw- 
 good has been engaged as a hydraulic consulting 
 engineer by the City of Los Angeles and other mu- 
 nicipalities. He has done excellent service for the 
 Los Angeles City Water Company, the Kern River 
 Company, the Pacific Light and Power Company 
 and various others throughout the West. 
 
 Mr. Hawgood has an international reputation. 
 He holds memberships in the following: Institution 
 of Civil Engineers, London; American Society of 
 Civil Engineers; American Railway Engineering 
 Association, and was formerly President of the En- 
 gineers and Architects' Association of So. Cal. He 
 is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 
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 OTTENGER, FRANCIS MARION, 
 Physician, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Sater, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1869. 
 His father was Thomas Pottenger 
 and his mother Hannah Ellen 
 (Sater) Pottenger. On his moth- 
 er's side his ancestry runs direct to Oliver Crom- 
 well. April 5, 1894, Dr. Pottenger married Carrie 
 Burtner, of Germantown, Ohio, and Aug. 29, 1900, 
 married Adelaide Gertrude Babbitt, at Sacramento, 
 Cal. By his second wife 
 there are three children, 
 Francis Marion, Jr., Robert 
 Thomas and Adelaide Marie 
 Pottenger. 
 
 Dr. Pottenger, one of the 
 leading lung specialists in 
 Southern California, and one 
 of the world's leading cru- 
 saders in the fight against 
 tuberculosis, was born on an 
 Ohio farm. He began his 
 studies in the public schools 
 of Sater and in the Prepara- 
 tory Department of Otter- 
 bein University, Westerville, 
 Ohio, for his higher educa- 
 tion, from 1886 to 1888. He 
 then entered the collegiate 
 department of Otterbein, re- 
 maining until 1892, when he 
 was graduated with the de- 
 gree of Ph. B. He obtained 
 the degree of A. M. in 1907, 
 and the honorary degree of 
 LL. D. in 1909. Determining 
 upon medicine for his life 
 work, he spent the next year 
 at the Medical College of 
 
 Ohio. Another year in the Cincinnati College of 
 Medicine and Surgery and he received his degree 
 of M. D., graduating with the highest honors of his 
 class and winning the first gold medal. 
 
 He left school April 3, 1894, two days later was 
 married, and before the end of the month was in 
 Europe, where he spent his honeymoon and did 
 post-graduate work in leading hospitals of the old 
 world, particularly those of Vienna. Returning in 
 December, 1894, he began practice at Norwood, 
 Ohio, and became assistant to Dr. Charles A. L. 
 Reed, a noted surgeon of Cincinnati. About the 
 same time he was made assistant to the Chair of 
 Surgery of his Alma Mater. 
 
 In 1895, his wife developing tuberculosis, Dr. 
 Pottenger surrendered his practice and went to 
 Monrovia, Cal., where he re-engaged in practice. 
 His wife's health failing to improve, he gave up 
 his work a second time and returned to her home, 
 near Dayton, Ohio, there to devote all his time to 
 her care, until she died, in 1898. It had been Dr. 
 Pottenger's intention to specialize in diseases of 
 children and obstetrics, but when his wife died he 
 
 DR. F. M. POTTENGER 
 
 decided that much more important work could be 
 done in tuberculosis, and he took up tuberculosis 
 as a life study. He returned to California to re- 
 sume practice, but in 1900 suspended temporarily 
 while he did post-graduate work in New York. Re- 
 turning to California in 1901, he opened offices in 
 Los Angeles as a tuberculosis specialist, the first 
 ethical physician on the Pacific Coast to specialize 
 in this line. In 1903, in the picturesque and health- 
 ful environs of Monrovia, he established the Pot- 
 tenger Sanatorium for Dis- 
 eases of the Lungs and 
 Throat, which has grown to 
 be one of the famous institu- 
 tions of the world. From a 
 capacity of eleven, it has 
 grown until now it houses 
 more than one hundred pa- 
 tients. The success of the 
 institution as a scientific life 
 saving station has been 
 due to the personal efforts 
 of Dr. Pottenger, who has 
 continually strived for better 
 methods. With this thought 
 in mind, he has visited the 
 leading sanatoria of Europe 
 and America, attended many 
 scientific gatherings and as- 
 sociated with the leaders of 
 the universe in the war 
 against the plague. He has 
 written a book on the sub- 
 ject, in addition to about sev- 
 enty-five separate papers, 
 and has delivered numerous 
 lectures on the subject. 
 
 Through Dr. Pottenger's 
 efforts the Southern Califor- 
 
 nia Anti-Tuberculosis League was founded, and he 
 was its President for three years. 
 
 Among the noted and learned societies of which 
 he is a member, the following are given: The Los 
 Angeles County Medical Association, the Los An- 
 geles Clinical and Pathological Society, the South- 
 ern California Medical Society, the Medical Society 
 of California, the American Medical Association, 
 the American Academy of Medicine, the American 
 Therapeutic Society, the American Climatological 
 Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Asso- 
 ciation; Los Angeles, California, National and In- 
 ternational Associations for the Study and Preven- 
 tion of Tuberculosis, the American Sanatorium 
 Association, the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, the Archaeological Institute of 
 America, and the National Geographical Society. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, the Uni- 
 versity Club and the Gamut Club, of Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 In August, 1911, he was appointed First Lieuten- 
 ant in the Medical Reserve Corps, of the United 
 States Army. 
 
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 177 
 
 AGGARTY, JOHN JOSEPH, Mer- 
 chant, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in London, England, 
 May 25, 1864. He is the son of 
 John Haggarty and Elizabeth Ann 
 (Atkinson) Haggarty, and married 
 Bertha M. Schnider at St. Paul, Minnesota, Au- 
 gust 24, 1901. 
 
 Mr. Haggarty remained in his native England 
 until he had passed his majority, receiving his 
 education and business training there before he 
 crossed the Atlantic to seek his fortune in the 
 United States. He attended the public schools of 
 London, later attending a private boarding school 
 situated in Richmond, Yorkshire. This finished his 
 actual schooling and at the age of nineteen he \vas 
 well equipped for a business career. 
 
 He preferred to learn a special line, however, 
 and so in 1883 apprenticed himself to William Bryer 
 & Company, a large drygoods establishment in 
 King William street, London. He served there 
 four years and in that time became exceptionally 
 proficient in the business, which he had taken se- 
 riously from the start and which he had studied 
 in its every detail. 
 
 Upon the completion of his apprentice term 
 Mr. Haggarty sailed for America, arriving in 1887. 
 His first engagement in the New World was with 
 Nugent Brothers, a large drygoods concern of St. 
 Louis, Missouri. He remained with the firm for 
 about four years, principally as buyer in the gar- 
 ment department, in which he was a specialist. 
 
 Mr. Haggarty left the Nugent Brothers to ac- 
 cept a better position with Scruggs, Vandervourt 
 & Barney, another large house, who appointed him 
 assistant buyer for the firm. He only held the 
 position two years, however, for at the end of that 
 period of time, or in 1893, he went to Duluth, Min- 
 nesota, as a buyer for the Silverstein & Bondy 
 Company of that place. He remained in Duluth 
 for nine years, during which time he established 
 himself firmly in the business life of the city. In 
 1902 the promise of Southern California appealed 
 to him, so, he severed his connection with the Du- 
 luth house and located in Los Angeles. He imme- 
 diately became associated with Jacoby Brothers 
 of that city, as buyer and manager of their gar- 
 ment department. 
 
 During his three years and a half connection 
 with the Jacoby firm Mr. Haggarty built up a tre- 
 mendous business in his particular line and, inci- 
 dentally, saved enough money to go into business 
 for himself on a small scale. He began by secur- 
 ing a building on Broadway, in the center of the 
 Los Angeles business district, and there laid the 
 foundation for one of the most successful busi- 
 nesses in the commercial history of the city. He 
 called his store the New York Cloak and Suit 
 House, an incorporated institution, in which he was 
 President and chief stockholder. The business was 
 started on a comparatively small investment, but 
 within a short time it had leaped to a leading posi- 
 
 tion in the business life of the city and at the pres- 
 ent time Mr. Haggarty estimates that the transac- 
 tions of the house exceed a million dollars an- 
 nually. 
 
 When his first venture had proved a success, due 
 in large measure to his expert knowledge of the 
 business, Mr. Haggarty determined to extend his 
 activities and, accordingly, purchased a controlling 
 interest in another large house known as the Paris 
 Cloak and Suit House. This company is on a par 
 with his first establishment and also does a tre- 
 mendous business. Into it he brought, besides cap- 
 ital, the wide experience and natural business abil- 
 ity which had made him a success in life. He is re- 
 garded today as one of the shrewdest business men 
 in the Southwest and one of the most accomplished 
 buyers in the foreign and domestic markets. 
 
 Mr. Haggarty devotes his personal attention to 
 the management of his stores and notwithstanding 
 the fact that he goes to the New York markets four 
 times a year, makes an annual trip to the fashion 
 centers of Europe. This latter he considers abso- 
 lutely necessary in order that he may keep in close 
 touch with the famous designers and originators, 
 especially those of Paris. He has made his busi- 
 ness a life study and is regarded in the United 
 States and Europe as an authority. 
 
 In addition to his own affairs, Mr. Haggarty is 
 a close student of world politics and of business 
 conditions in general and an accurate reader of the 
 effect of current events upon business. 
 
 he is of an optimistic temperament and a thor- 
 ough believer in the prosperity of the country 
 which he has adopted for his home. 
 
 Mr. Haggarty, in addition to being a successful 
 merchant, is a man of artistic inclinations and has 
 surrounded himself with the best of literature, 
 paintings and music. After settling permanently in 
 Southern California he began to plan a magnificent 
 home for himself. This ideal home is in the fash- 
 ionable West Adams section of Los Angeles. He 
 has christened the place Castle York, and it will 
 long stand as one of the most magnificent private 
 residences on the Pacific Slope. The building is of 
 Norman Gothic architecture, after the style of the 
 Fourteenth century, and cost more than $100,000. 
 It is surrounded by spacious grounds, with sunken 
 gardens and a conservatory of rare plants as two 
 of its most beauteous exterior features. 
 
 The interior of the Castle is in keeping with 
 the artistic feelings of the owner, arranged in ex- 
 cellent taste and with excellent regard for those 
 refinements that are to be found in the home of 
 gentlefolk. In order to enjoy the classic music to 
 which he is a devotee, Mr. Haggarty has caused 
 to be built in the home a magnificent pipe organ, 
 one of the most perfect instruments of its kind 
 privately owned in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Haggarty is a member of the Gamut Club 
 and Los Angeles Athletic Club, but is really not a 
 clubman, his inclinations being towards domes, 
 ticity. 
 
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 ANN, FREDERICK ALEX- 
 ANDER, Railroads, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Market Hill, County Armagh, 
 Ireland, May 7, 1854, the son 
 of William Wann and Margaret (Mitchell) 
 Wann. He married Carrie Van Court, Au- 
 gust, 21, 1901, at Lemmington, England. 
 Mr. Wann is one of the men who has 
 risen gradually and con- 
 sistently to a top position 
 in the railroad world 
 through industry and 
 
 rigid application to duty 
 and through a thorough 
 mastering of the details 
 of railroad operation. He 
 holds today a place 
 among the great man- 
 agers of railroads on the 
 Pacific Coast, and in the 
 course of his career has 
 held offices of c o n - 
 sequence on some of the 
 most important railroad 
 systems in the United 
 States. 
 
 His parents sent him 
 to the Royal School, at 
 Armagh, Ireland, until 
 1868, when he was four- 
 teen years old. He then 
 came to the United 
 States. A few months 
 later he was at Lawrence, 
 Kansas, a clerk in the 
 office of the General Su- 
 perintendent of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. 
 
 Four years later, in 1873, when he was 
 only nineteen years old, he was offered, and 
 accepted, the position of Chief Clerk in the 
 offices of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 
 Railroad at Sedalia, Missouri, a position of 
 responsibility. 
 
 Three years later, 1876, at the age of 
 twenty-two, he was appointed the General 
 Agent in New York City of the Missouri, 
 Kansas and Texas Railroad, and was one of 
 the youngest men to ever hold a railroad 
 position of such importance in the country's 
 largest city. 
 
 He was offered the office, in 1880, of Gen- 
 eral Agent for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago and St. Louis Railway, known as 
 the "Big Four," at St. Louis, Missouri, and 
 after a year he accepted the even more im- 
 portant position of Assistant General Freight 
 Agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad at 
 
 FREDERICK A. WANN 
 
 St. Louis. In the management of the freight 
 department of this system he remained for 
 more than two decades, being advanced to 
 the post of General Freight Agent in 1896, 
 with headquarters at Chicago. 
 
 After eight years as General Freight 
 Agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, he 
 resigned to accept the Vice Presidency of 
 the C., H. & D. Pere Marquette system. 
 He then took his place 
 among the big managers 
 of railroads. He resigned 
 this post to retire to pri- 
 vate life December 31, 
 1905. He made his home 
 at Cape Cod, Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 He did not long re- 
 main in retirement. He 
 was sought out by the 
 new Clark enterprise, the 
 San Pedro, Los Angeles 
 and Salt Lake Railroad, 
 and offered the post of 
 General Traffic Manager. 
 He accepted and took up 
 his headquarters at Los 
 Angeles, in December, 
 1906. 
 
 One of the chief duties 
 of his office was that of 
 organization. The San 
 Pedro, Los Angeles and 
 Salt Lake Railroad had 
 just begun operation and 
 it was necessary to create 
 traffic and to' organize the 
 necessary machinery for its handling, as 
 well as to attend to the necessary duties of 
 administration. For this duty he was par- 
 ticularly chosen because of his long experi- 
 ence at the head of the freight department 
 of the Chicago & Alton road. 
 
 Mr. Wann has, in the five years of his 
 residence in Los Angeles, become much in- 
 terested in the activities of the city, and his 
 name is frequently seen connected with 
 matters of public and semi-public moment. 
 He has been especially interested in the 
 development of Los Angeles harbor at 
 San Pedro, where lies the terminus of the 
 San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail- 
 road. 
 
 In Los Angeles he is a member of the 
 California Club. He also belongs to the Illi- 
 nois Athletic Club of Chicago, the Alta 
 Club of Salt Lake, and the Commercial Club 
 of the s.ame city. 
 
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 UTCHISON, WILLIAM G., 
 Merchant and Manufacturer, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 March 31, 1859, at Plymouth, 
 Pa., the son of James B. 
 Hutchison and Ann (McGuffie) Hutchison. 
 He married Laura Chauvin, October 23, 1894, 
 at Los Angeles, California. 
 
 Mr. Hutchison attended the public schools 
 of his native town and. 
 later, the Wyoming Sem- 
 inary of Kingston, Pa. 
 
 He left school in 1874, 
 when fifteen years old, to 
 work for his father, who 
 owned the Phoenix Coal 
 Company of Pittston, Pa. 
 His father sold out after 
 two years, but he was 
 employed by the new 
 firm, who still continued 
 the business under the 
 original incorporated 
 name. At the age of nine- 
 teen he was made super- 
 intendent of the mines, 
 the youngest mine su- 
 perintendent in the an- 
 thracite coal region. Two 
 years later he resigned 
 his position and such was 
 the esteem in which his 
 employes held him that 
 they presented him with 
 a gold watch and chain. 
 
 He was stirred by a de- 
 sire to go West, and 
 chose Denver, at that time in the midst of its 
 first boom. He was given a position by a gas 
 fixture firm and was their accountant for a 
 number of years, and later in various capaci- 
 ties thoroughly familiarized himself with the 
 business. 
 
 He moved to Los Angeles in September, 
 1887, and went into business for himself. On 
 a small scale at first, as the town demanded, 
 he manufactured lighting fixtures, and con- 
 ducted a retail and wholesale store. His his- 
 tory and that of his business, have been a 
 part of the growth of the City of Los An- 
 geles. He equipped his factory to manufac- 
 ture every variety of gas and electric fix- 
 tures and brought to Los Angeles the most 
 skillful of workmen and artists, until his firm 
 became noted for the artistic work of which 
 it was capable. In the quantity of its yearly 
 output, the firm of W. G. Hutchison Com- 
 pany is one of the largest in the country, sur- 
 
 WM. G. HUTCHISON 
 
 passed only by firms in New York, Chicago 
 and Philadelphia; in the value of its output 
 it has few rivals, owing to the artistic and 
 high-priced work demanded by the excep- 
 tionally wealthy population of Southern 
 California. 
 
 Mr. Hutchison is known in his city as a 
 man unselfishly devoted to the public good. 
 He is a public man of the type that does not 
 seek paid public office, 
 but instead assumes of- 
 fices for which there is no 
 pay except the satisfac- 
 tion derived from helping 
 his city and its inhabi- 
 tants. He has for ten 
 years been a member of 
 the Merchants and Manu- 
 facturers' Association, 
 and on January 18, 1912 : 
 he was chosen its presi- 
 dent, an honor conferred 
 on him by about fourteen 
 hundred of the most in- 
 fluential business men of 
 Los Angeles. This or- 
 ganization is one of the 
 most powerful and effi- 
 cient of its kind in the 
 United States. It has a 
 membership com- 
 posed of practically every 
 man of consequence in 
 Los Angeles and South- 
 ern California. It helps, 
 in the most practical fash- 
 ion, to bring legitimate 
 industries to Los Angeles. It prevents the 
 exploiting of frauds. It has charge of the 
 charitable demands made upon the city's 
 merchants. It critically examines every pub- 
 lic project affecting the business men, and 
 passes upon its worthiness. As a director for 
 a number of terms, Mr. Hutchison has been 
 lavish with his time and energy. His col- 
 leagues elected him to the office of president 
 as a surprise. He is also vice president and 
 director of the L. A. Convention League and 
 a member of the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 His business interests at the present time 
 are concentrated in the W. G. Hutchison 
 Company, of which he is president, and the 
 Phoenix Lighting Fixture Company, of 
 which he is a director. 
 
 He belongs to the California Club, the 
 Los Angeles Country Club, the Union 
 League Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, is 
 a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Shriner. 
 
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 RIGHT, JOHN BITTINGER, At- 
 torney at Law, Tucson, Arizona, 
 was born in Denver, Colorado, 
 January 29, 1872, the son of 
 Charles Weston Wright and Har- 
 riet S. (Pfouts) Wright. He mar- 
 ried Mary P. McPhee, of Denver, in the latter city, 
 October 12, 1897, and to them there have been 
 born four children, Charles M., Jean M., Sallie 
 Angell and Mary Fisher Wright. Mr. Wright is 
 descended of a family which 
 has been prominent in Amer- 
 ican public life since pre- 
 Revolutionary times, five 
 members having served as 
 Governors of as many states. 
 James Wright was the last 
 Colonial Governor of Geor- 
 gia, Silas Wright, Governor of 
 New York, William Wright, 
 Governor of New Jersey, 
 Robert Wright, Governor of 
 Maryland and Joseph Wright 
 Governor of Indiana. Mr. 
 Wright's father was the 
 first Attorney General of 
 the State of Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Wright obtained his 
 preliminary education fn the 
 schools of Denver and then 
 entered the University of 
 Notre Dame, at South Bend, 
 Indiana, where he was a 
 student for five years. Leav- 
 ing Notre Dame he took up 
 the study of law in the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, at Ann 
 Arbor and was graduated in 
 the class of 1894. 
 
 Upon leaving the University, Mr. Wright went 
 to Tucson, Arizona to practice law and has been 
 so engaged ever since. He was successful from 
 the time he arrived there and within two years 
 was one of the leading attorneys of the city. On 
 November 3, 1896, he was elected District Attorney 
 of Yuma County, Arizona, of which Yuma is the 
 County Seat, and served in this capacity in addi- 
 tion to that of City Attorney of Yuma until Janu- 
 ary 1, 1899. At that time he re-entered private 
 practice and took his place among the leaders of 
 the Arizona Bar. 
 
 In 1903, Mr. Wright was appointed City Attor- 
 ney of Tucson and served in mat office during 
 the term, 1904 and 1905. He then returned to 
 private practice, but continued to take an active 
 interest in political and public affairs and since 
 that time has held office at various periods. 
 
 Mr. Wright has been Secretary of the Board of 
 Public School Trustees of Tucson for eight years 
 and for five years has been a member of the Public 
 Library Commission of the same city. 
 
 JOHN B. WRIGHT 
 
 A coincidence in the life of Mr. Wright as com- 
 pared with that of his father is that the latter was 
 chosen first Attorney General of the State of Colo- 
 rado and his son was the last Attorney General of 
 the Territory of Arizona, a position to which he 
 was appointed by Governor Sloan, May 3, 1909, and 
 in which he served until Arizona became a State 
 on February 14, 1912. 
 
 The elder Wright was one of the picturesque 
 figures of the legal profession for many years prior 
 to his death and was gener- 
 ally credited with having 
 done a great deal for the up- 
 building of Arizona. 
 
 John B. Wright has been 
 a stalwart supporter of the 
 Republican party from the 
 time he was able to vote and 
 during his residence in Ari- 
 zona has been one of the 
 leaders in the affairs of the 
 party. He has been in prac- 
 tically all of the Republican 
 State and County Conven- 
 tions of Pima County for the 
 last eighteen years and at 
 various times has served as 
 a member of the State and 
 County Central Committees. 
 Being an orator of unusual 
 power, he has delivered 
 numerous public addresses 
 and is relied upon by his 
 party as one of its strongest 
 assets during campaigns, not 
 only because of his ability 
 as a logical and convincing 
 speaker, but also because he 
 enjoys a remarkable popu- 
 larity throughout the State. 
 
 In addition to his political and professional 
 activities, Mr. Wright has also become interested 
 in a number of business enterprises in Arizona 
 and is a Director of and Attorney for twelve of the 
 largest mining corporations operating in Arizona. 
 He is interested also in a number of cattle, irriga- 
 tion and manufacturing companies, serving as legal 
 adviser to all of them. 
 
 The companies with which Mr. Wright is identi- 
 fied are taking an important part in the develop- 
 ment of Arizona's resources and Mr. Wright, who 
 is generally regarded as one of the enthusiastic 
 workers for the growth of his adopted State, has 
 been one of the guiding factors in all of their oper- 
 ations. He has also figured prominently in various 
 public movements and has lent his efforts, when- 
 ever called upon, to advance the interests of Tucson. 
 Mr. Wright is a member of the Old Pueblo 
 Club of Tucson, the Arizona Society, Sons of the 
 American Revolution and also holds membership 
 in various other organizations. 
 
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 UTHRIDGE, CHARLES FULTON, 
 Deep Sea Dredging, Los Angeles, 
 Gal., was born at Cable, Cham- 
 paign County, Ohio, September 12, 
 1862, the son of Jehu Guthridge 
 and Elizabeth (Middleton) Guth- 
 ridge. His parents were of Scotch descent, both 
 natives of Ohio. Mr. Guthridge married Florence 
 Montgomery at Columbus, Ohio, March 14, 1889, 
 and to them there have been born two sons, Ralph 
 A. and Russell M. Guth- 
 ridge. 
 
 Mr. Guthridge, whose 
 father was engaged in farm- 
 ing in Ohio, spent his boy- 
 hood on the farm, attending 
 public school in the winter 
 months up to his sixteenth 
 year. 
 
 His first venture into 
 business was made when he 
 became a clerk in a drygoods 
 establishment at U r b a n a, 
 Ohio, a position he held until 
 1884. At this time he be- 
 came associated with a large 
 carpet and curtain house in 
 Columbus, Ohio, remaining 
 with it about seven years. 
 
 Resigning his position to 
 become agent for the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Co. of New 
 York, in Franklin County, 
 Ohio, Mr. Guthridge operated 
 successfully in that field for 
 seven years, or until 1896, at 
 which time he decided to re- 
 move to Los Angeles. Short- 
 ly after his arrival there he 
 purchased the Keystone Mills 
 of that city. These mills, the 
 oldest in Southern Califor- 
 nia, were part of the manu- 
 facturing history of Los An- 
 geles, having been estab- 
 lished in the year 1887. 
 
 Under Mr. Guthridge's management they were 
 greatly enlarged and modernized. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Guthridge sold out his milling prop- 
 erty and went into the telephone business, as Su- 
 perintendent and General Manager of the Con- 
 struction Department of the U. S. Long Distance 
 Telephone and Telegraph Co. He was so employed 
 for about a year, and during that time supervised 
 the construction of all the main lines owned by 
 the company from Santa Barbara, Cal., southward. 
 He severed his connection with the company in 
 1903 and, with others, organized the Pacific Coast 
 Telephone Construction Company for the purpose 
 of building independent telephone plants in South- 
 ern California. They organized and constructed 
 the system of the San Fernando Valley and Re- 
 dondo Telephone Co. and the Santa Paula, Oxnard 
 and Santa Monica Telephone companies. In all 
 of these corporations, except the Santa Monica 
 Company, Mr. Guthridge holds the offices of Sec- 
 retary, Treasurer and Director, and took an active 
 part in their management until 1909. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Guthridge became associated with 
 the North American Dredging Company of Nevada, 
 as Secretary 01 the company, but within a short 
 time was elected Vice President and Director. He 
 is also a member of the Board of Directors of the 
 
 C. F. GUTHRIDGE 
 
 North American Dredging Company of Texas. 
 These companies are engaged in deep sea dredg- 
 ing, canal building and harbor improvement, also 
 the manufacture of dredging equipment. Mr. Guth- 
 ridge, as the representative of his company, has 
 been in personal charge of the work of giving Los 
 Angeles a harbor, this work consisting of dredging 
 the entrance to the harbor, deepening channels 
 for the Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company, 
 dredging the harbor at Wilmington, California, a 
 part of the general harbor 
 plans, and the filling of land 
 around the town. They also 
 dug the channel for the Con- 
 solidated Lumber Company, 
 up to their plant, and are en- 
 gaged in making the fill of 
 what is known as the Hunt- 
 ington Concession, the first 
 municipal owned dock, for 
 the city of Los Angeles. It 
 will be known as Municipal 
 Dock, No. 1. 
 
 These works have an im- 
 portant part in the making 
 of Los Angeles Harbor, and 
 Mr. Guthridge's work will 
 figure quite as importantly 
 as that of the engineers. 
 
 This is the greatest pub- 
 lic enterprise ever under- 
 taken by the city of Los An- 
 geles, and upon its comple- 
 tion will have cost many mil- 
 lions of dollars. Los An- 
 geles, as the largest city of 
 Southern California, is ex- 
 pected to reap great benefits 
 through the building of the 
 Panama Canal and although 
 the city proper lies several 
 miles inland from the ocean 
 the splendid harbor, in the 
 building of which Mr. Guth- 
 ridge has been an important 
 factor, will place her among 
 
 the most important Pacific Coast ports of entry. 
 Mr. Guthridge is one of the most substantial 
 business men of the Southwest and devotes the 
 greater part of his time to his work, but he is also 
 a man of great public spirit. He is a mem- 
 ber of the important "Committee on Commerce" 
 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and has 
 rendered valuable assistance in all matters pertain- 
 ing to the commercial expansion of the city. 
 
 He is a Republican and has served his party in 
 various capacities, but never has been a candidate 
 or seeker for any public office. He has, however, 
 held committee appointments and served as dele- 
 gate to various county conventions. 
 
 During his residence in Ohio Mr. Guthridge 
 served for three years as a member of the Third 
 Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and retired with 
 the rank of sergeant. His company was one of 
 those called years ago to quell a riot in Cincinnati. 
 Mr. Guthridge also is prominent in fraternal 
 circles, being a member of Marathon Lodge No. 
 182, Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, and 
 Al Borak Temple No. 75, D. O. K. K. He first 
 became affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at 
 Columbus, Ohio, being initiated on the same even- 
 ing as the late President William McKinley, who 
 was at that time Governor of Ohio. 
 
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 ENMAN, WILLIAM, Attor- 
 ney and Publicist, San Fran- 
 cisco, California, was born in 
 San Francisco in 1872, the 
 son of James Denman and 
 Helen V. (Jordan) Denman. His father was 
 principal of the first school in San Francisco 
 under the State system and retired fifty-one 
 years later as the president of the Board of 
 Education. He is thor- 
 oughly American, his 
 first American ancestor 
 having arrived in 1631. 
 
 He was married in 
 San Francisco, April 4, 
 1905, to Leslie Van Ness, 
 daughter of the well- 
 known lawyer Thomas 
 C. Van Ness. 
 
 From 1881 to 1885 
 Mr. Denman attended 
 the Clement Grammar 
 School ; from 1885 to 1886 
 the old Lincoln Gram- 
 mar, and was graduated 
 from Lowell High in 
 1889. Prior to entering 
 the University of Califor- 
 nia in 1890, he punched 
 cattle in Nevada for a 
 year, an experience that 
 stood him in good stead 
 years later at the time of 
 the great fire in San 
 Francisco, when he im- 
 pressed over a hundred 
 teams, sometimes at the 
 point of the pistol, and had food supplies 
 moving from the transport dock through the 
 cinders to the refugee camps while the city 
 was yet burning. 
 
 After his graduation from the Univer- 
 sity, in 1894, he took one year in the 
 Hastings College of the Law, then en- 
 tered the Harvard Law School and was 
 graduated therefrom in 1897 with the degree 
 of LL. B. Although taking an active part in 
 both athletic and military life at the Univer- 
 sity, he became a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa, the honor society. Returning to 
 California, he was admitted to the State Bar 
 in 1898, and immediately began active prac- 
 tice. 
 
 Mr. Denman's professional experience 
 has been of a widely diversified nature, both 
 in the Federal and in the State courts, and 
 marked by a number of important cases, 
 especially in maritime law. The litigation 
 
 WILLIAM DENMAN 
 
 growing out of the sinking of the Rio de Ja- 
 neiro, the explosion of the Progreso, the col- 
 lision of the Columbia and San Pedro, as well 
 as other causes he argued in the Admiralty 
 courts, aroused interest both in the profes- 
 sion and in the community at large. From 
 1902 to 1906 Mr. Denman was lecturer and 
 assistant professor of law in the Hastings 
 College and the University of California. 
 
 In 1911 he formed a 
 partnership with George 
 Stanley Arnold under the 
 name of Denman & Ar- 
 nold, the firm conducting 
 a general practice, with 
 offices in the Merchants' 
 Exchange building in San 
 Francisco. He became a 
 member of the non-parti- 
 san party when yet in col- 
 lege. His faith in the 
 ultimate removal of the 
 national parties from mu- 
 nicipal elections was jus- 
 tified nearly twenty years 
 later by the acceptance 
 by San Francisco of the 
 charter amendment 
 drafted by him prohibit- 
 ing party nominations 
 and party designations 
 on the ballot. 
 
 In 1908 the Mayor ap- 
 pointed him chairman of 
 a committee of public cit- 
 izens to report on the 
 causes of municipal cor- 
 ruption in San Francisco, and as chairman 
 he drafted the report subsequently known 
 by his name. Mr. Denman has also been 
 very active in the work of the Bar As- 
 sociation and organized the State-wide 
 movement for the non-partisan election of 
 judges. He campaigned, however, in opposi- 
 tion to the recall of judges at popular elec- 
 tions, advocating simplified procedure before 
 the Legislature. He defended the constitu- 
 tionality of the eight-hour law for women, 
 his opposition to the attempt by the Ameri- 
 can Protective Association to inject re- 
 ligion into politics, his drafting of the major- 
 ity election law now in force in San Fran- 
 cisco and his organization of the campaign 
 for its passage. 
 
 He is a member of the University, the Pa- 
 cific-Union, the Unitarian, the Common- 
 wealth and the Sierra clubs, as well as the 
 Bar Association. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 OOTH, HIRAM EVANS, At- 
 torney - at - Law, Salt Lake 
 City, Utah, was born on a 
 farm near Postville, Iowa, Oc- 
 tober 25, 1860, the son of Jos- 
 eph Booth and Caroline (Bishop) Booth. He 
 is descended from the ancient Booth family 
 of Lancashire and Yorkshire, England. Mr. 
 Booth was twice married, his first wife being 
 Carrie M. Robinson, 
 whom he married August 
 26, 1886, and who was 
 claimed by death in De- 
 cember of the following 
 year. One child, Viola 
 Katherine, was born to 
 them. On May 29, 1889, 
 Mr. Booth married Lil- 
 lian B. Redhead, at Post- 
 ville, and of this union 
 there are two children, 
 Mrs. C. E. W. Bowers 
 and Irma A. Booth. 
 
 Mr. Booth was educa- 
 ted in the public schools 
 of Iowa and also studied 
 under private tutors. He 
 read law with the Hon. 
 Frank Shinn of Carson, 
 Iowa, and was admitted 
 to practice in the Su- 
 preme Court of that State 
 in 1885. After admission 
 
 HIRAM E. BOOTH 
 
 to the bar he purchased a half interest in the 
 Carson Critic and was the editor and man- 
 ager of it from 1885 to 1887, when he formed 
 a law partnership with Mr. Shinn, withdraw- 
 ing in 1888 to go to Utah. He was admitted 
 to practice by the Supreme Court of Utah in 
 1889 and has practiced there continually 
 since. He formed a partnership with John 
 G. Gray and later E. O. Lee entered the firm, 
 which was known as Booth, Lee & Gray. In 
 1898 Mr. Gray went to Seattle and Judge 
 M. L. Ritchie, now of the Utah State District 
 Court, entered the firm, but retired from it 
 in 1907, when he was re-elected to the bench, 
 and later State Senator Carl A. Badger took 
 his place in the firm. Other partners were 
 taken in and the firm is now known as Booth, 
 Lee, Badger, Rich & Parke. Messrs. Booth 
 and Lee have been in partnership longer than 
 any other law firm in Utah. Mr. Booth has 
 
 held office frequently, as follows: Elected 
 to upper House of last Territorial Legisla- 
 ture of Utah, serving in 1894; elected to first 
 State Senate of Utah, 1896; member Execu- 
 tive Committee Republican party in Utah, 
 1904; appointed by President Roosevelt 
 U. S. Attorney for Utah, 1906; reappointed 
 by President Taft June 27, 1910, and is now 
 serving in that capacity; appointed Judge Ad- 
 vocate General for Utah 
 by Governor Spry in 
 January, 1909, and is a 
 Colonel on the Governor's 
 Staff. 
 
 As United States At- 
 torney Mr. Booth was as- 
 sociated with Hon. Fred 
 A. Maynard in the coal 
 land fraud cases in Utah, 
 which resulted in a vic- 
 tory for the Government, 
 and was also associated 
 with Messrs. Kellogg and 
 Severance in the merger 
 suit brought by the Unit- 
 ed States against the 
 Union Pacific, Oregon 
 Short Line, Southern Pa- 
 cific and other railroads 
 to dissolve an unlawful 
 merger: The case is pend- 
 ing on appeal in the Su- 
 preme Court of the Unit- 
 ed States. Both these cases are among the 
 most notable actions in which the Govern- 
 ment has sought to protect its lands and to 
 force coroporations to operate in accordance 
 with the laws of the United States. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Booth was one of the incor- 
 porators and president of the Intermountain 
 Republican Printing Company, publishers of 
 the Intermountain Republican, which was 
 consolidated in 1909 with the Salt Lake Her- 
 ald and is now known as the Herald- 
 Republican. 
 
 Mr. Booth is the inventor and patentee of 
 the "claraphone," used on commercial phono- 
 graphs and leased to the Columbia Phono- 
 graph Company. He has also invented im- 
 provements for telephone receivers. 
 
 He is a member of the Commercial Club 
 of Salt Lake City and has been in Wasatch 
 Lodge, A. F. and A. M., since 1892. 
 
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 185 
 
 COTT, JOSEPH, Attorney at Law, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Penrith, County of Cumberland, 
 England, July 16, 1867. His father 
 was Joseph Scott, of Scotch bor- 
 der stock, and his mother, Mary 
 (Donnelly) Scott, was a native of Wexford, Ireland. 
 On June 6, 1898, he married Bertha Roth at Los 
 Angeles, California. To them were born eight chil- 
 dren: Joseph, Jr., Mary, Alfonso, George, Cuthbert, 
 John Patrick, Helen, and Josephine. 
 
 Mr. Scott received his first education in his na- 
 tive country, where he attended Ushaw College, 
 Durham, from 1880 until 1888. He matriculated 
 with honors at London University in 1887, being the 
 gold medalist of his class. At St. Bonaventure's 
 College, Allegany, N. Y., he received the degree of 
 A. M. in 1893, and the honorary degree of Ph. D. at 
 Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, California, in 1907. 
 Mr. Scott came to America from England in 
 1889, and entered into journalistic work in New 
 York City. In this he had little remuneration and 
 about that period he had the hardest struggles of 
 his life. He was unused to manual work, but dur- 
 ing his financial difficulty he took employment of 
 various kinds, in some cases consisting of the 
 hardest kinds of physical labor. In 1890, St. Bona- 
 venture's College, Alleghany, N. Y., accepted his 
 application for the position of Senior Professor of 
 Rhetoric and English Literature. He held this po- 
 sition until 1893, when he resigned and removed to 
 Los Angeles, where he took up the study of law. 
 He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court 
 of California in April, 1894, and subsequently in 
 the Supreme Court of the United States, and has 
 recently been admitted to the Supreme Court of 
 Arizona, owing to the large litigation requiring his 
 attention in Arizona. 
 
 His varied attainments have given him a re- 
 markable professional career. Gifted with a force- 
 ful and impressive delivery frank and outspoken 
 to a fault he has the happy faculty of impressing 
 both court and jury with the sincerity of his pur- 
 poses. 
 
 The following is a pen picture of Mr. Scott, as 
 seen by Mr. H. D. Wheeler, a writer of San Fran- 
 cisco, California: 
 
 "He's the two-fistedest, fightin'st Irishman that 
 ever stepped as a lawyer into a California court. 
 
 "Give a man an average mental equipment and 
 a superb physical make-up; put him through a 
 course of book-learning, hod-carrying, teaching, law- 
 practicing and prominent citizening among the real 
 elite of a big city and when you shoot him out at 
 the other end, it's a bet that you'll find 'something 
 different.' 
 
 "Ever ready to join an issue, he strikes boldly, 
 fearlessly, confidently his weapon the passionate, 
 compelling eloquence that God gave the Irish." 
 
 In the limited time left from his busy life as a 
 lawyer, he has found time to engage himself in 
 
 civic affairs in which he has become a leading fac- 
 tor, especially in matters educational, and thus 
 furthering the interest and growth of Los Angeles 
 and Southern California. His energy and enthusi- 
 asm in this line won for him from President Taft the 
 compliment of being "California's greatest booster." 
 He is therefore greatly in demand on numerous 
 public occasions throughout the State and nation 
 and has frequently been called upon, by reason of 
 his felicity of speech, to represent the city of Los 
 Angeles upon social and civic occasions. He was 
 the principal speaker in behalf of the city of Los 
 Angeles at the banquet given upon the visit of 
 President Taft to Los Angeles in 1908, and presided 
 as toastmaster at the banquet in honor of the 
 Admirals and officers of the battleship fleet of the 
 United States Navy on its memorable trip around 
 the world in 1908. 
 
 Mr. Scott is now and has been for the last six 
 years one of the Directors of the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, and during his term as President 
 of the Chamber of Commerce in 1910, he was one of 
 the representatives of the California delegation 
 sent to Washington to fight for the World's Exposi- 
 tion to be held at San Francisco, and his successful 
 work in that behalf won praise on every hand for 
 which he was honored by being elected honorary 
 Vice President of the Panama-Pacific International 
 Exposition Company. He is a well-known figure 
 throughout the State of California, stimulating as- 
 semblies by his vigorous speeches to boost for Cali- 
 fornia and extolling the boundless resources of the 
 State. 
 
 In the last eight years he has been a member of 
 the non-partisan Board of Education of the city of 
 Los Angeles, and has served for five years as its 
 President. He has been one of the mainstays of 
 the School Department in divorcing it from politics 
 and in securing efficiency and merit alone as the 
 only tests for the teachers. 
 
 His work in behalf of the teaching force of the 
 city of Los Angeles in insisting upon recognition 
 of their right to adequate remuneration attracted 
 the attention of the National Educational Associa- 
 tion in consequence of which he was invited to 
 address them upon that subject in 1911, which he 
 did with characteristic force and earnestness so as 
 to compel attention to the subject, the result being 
 that a committee was appointed to determine the 
 best ways and means of promoting the purposes 
 set forth in his address. 
 
 He is Vice President of the Southwest Museum, 
 and also a member of the Executive Committee of 
 the Southwest Society, and the Archaeological In- 
 stitute of America. He is a member of the Los An- 
 geles Bar Association, California State Bar Associa- 
 tion, and the American Bar Association. 
 
 His club affiliations are the California, the Un- 
 ion League, the Sunset, the Newman, the Los An- 
 geles Athletic, and the Celtic Clubs; honorary mem- 
 ber, City Teachers' Club. 
 
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 WILLIS G. HUNT 
 
 UNT, WILLIS GUSTAVUS, Mer- 
 chant, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born on a farm in Unity, 
 Me., in 1862. His father was 
 Gustavus A. Hunt and his mother 
 Ellen Susan (Ayer) Hunt. He 
 married Miss Mariam Eskridge, March 23, 1911, at 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hunt received his education in the public 
 schools of his native State, and left home at the 
 age of 18, and went into a wholesale dry goods 
 house in Portland, Maine. He remained with this 
 company fo r five years, four years of which he 
 was on the road as traveling salesman. After 
 that he went to Boston and traveled for another 
 dry goods house for four years more. 
 
 At the age of 26 he went to Los Angeles, Cal., 
 and engaged in the wholesale paper business, as 
 manager of a branch house of the Pacific Roll 
 Paper Company of San Francisco. After about 
 one year he bought out the stock of the Pacific 
 Roll Paper Company and engaged in the paper 
 business on his own account. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is president and general manager 
 of the Pioneer Paper Company, but devotes most 
 of his time to the oil refining and roofing paper 
 manufacturing business, which is run in connec- 
 tion with the paper company. 
 
 He is one of the most progressive men of the 
 city of Los Angeles, and the industry of which 
 he is the head is one of great commercial im- 
 portance. He has always taken part in any move- 
 ment having for its object the betterment of his 
 adopted city, and is one of the great Southwestern 
 boomers. He is also interested in developing a 
 large lemon and orange ranch at Upland, Cal., and 
 owns much property. 
 
 He is prominent in social circles in the city, 
 holding memberships in the California Club, Jona- 
 than Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
 R. I. ROGERS 
 
 OGERS, ROBERT IRWIN, Bank- 
 ing, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at El Paso, Woodford County, 
 Illinois, November 22, 1868, the 
 son of Samuel Talmadge Rogers 
 and Mary Virginia (Pickrell) 
 Rogers. He married Mabel Josephine Clement, 
 June 28, 1895, at Willoughby, Ohio. 
 
 He attended the public schools of El Paso, Illi- 
 nois, and later the high schools of the same town. 
 Then he went to Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, 
 and completed his course there. To finish his edu- 
 cation he went abroad, attending the Teichmann- 
 ische Institute at Leipsic, Germany, for two years. 
 Mr. Rogers returned to America in 1891. On 
 March 28th of the same year he went to Pasadena. 
 He started to work for the National Bank of Cali- 
 fornia at Los Angeles, October 11, 1891. Two 
 months later he was advanced to the receiving 
 tellership; four years later he was made paying 
 teller. January 1, 1900, he was made assistant 
 cashier. Went to the First National Bank of 
 Pasadena, February, 1905. 
 
 As cashier, he remained with that institution 
 two years, and then returned to the National Bank 
 of California, at Los Angeles, as cashier, in Janu- 
 ary, 1907. He was elected vice president of the 
 institution the same year. 
 
 His business interests have grown, and he is 
 now an investor in various other enterprises and 
 properties. 
 
 Mr. Rogers is a stockholder and director in the 
 bank with which he has been identified so many 
 years, and also a stockholder and director of the 
 First National Bank of Pasadena and the Pasadena 
 Savings & Trust Co. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Los 
 Angeles; Los Angeles Country Club, Crags Country 
 Club and University Club, of Los Angeles, and the 
 Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena. 
 
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 ROY P. HILLMAN 
 
 ILLMAN, ROY PALMER, Banker, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Mantorville, Minnesota, 
 January 21, 1879. His father was 
 William F. Hillman and his 
 mother was Emma Palmer. At 
 Los Angeles, October 22, 1902, he married Grace 
 Laubersheimer. 
 
 Mr. Hillman came to Los Angeles from his na- 
 tive state in January, 1888, attending the gram- 
 mar school, and later graduating from the high 
 school in 1899. He was first employed by the De- 
 partment of Electricity of Los Angeles, until 1900, 
 when he accepted the position of messenger and 
 clearing house clerk in the Los Angeles National 
 Bank, which position with subsequent promotions 
 he held until 1902. He then accepted the position 
 of note teller with the German-American Savings 
 Bank, which he held for a year, and in 1903 was 
 made paying teller in the Southwestern National 
 Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1904, in connection with Charles E. Anthony 
 and his son, Earle C. Anthony, Mr. Hillman in- 
 corporated the Western Motor Car Company, and 
 engaged actively in the automobile business until 
 December, 1904. The banking business had taken 
 great hold on Mr. Hillman, and in January, 1905, 
 he again entered the employ of tne German-Amer- 
 ican Savings Bank, and later in the same year 
 was elected assistant cashier. In 1909 he was 
 elected secretary of this bank, and now holds the 
 dual position of secretary and assistant cashier. 
 Mr. Hillman was president of the Automobile Club 
 of Southern California during the year 1910. 
 
 Mr. Hillman is well known in financial circles 
 and is president of the Crystal Salt Company. He 
 is a member of the California, Union League and 
 City Clubs of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel 
 Valley Country Club. He is also a member of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 MARK G. JONES 
 
 ONES, MARK GORDON, Presi- 
 dent Merchants' Bank and Trust 
 Company, Los Angeles, was born 
 at San Francisco, December 22, 
 1859. His father was John Jones, 
 a pioneer merchant, who went to 
 Australia from England, and from Australia came 
 to California with a shipload of mercnandise, land- 
 ing at Monterey in 1850. His mother was Doria 
 Deighton-Jones. On February 11, 1885, he married 
 Blanche E. McDonald, at Los Angeles. They have 
 three children, Deighton G. McD., Mark McD., 
 and Francis M. McD. 
 
 Mr. Jones attended the old Los Angeles High 
 school, and later entered St. Augustine's College, 
 Benicia, Cal., graduating in 1879. 
 
 After his graduation he went to Los Angeles 
 to manage the estate of his mother. After her 
 death (March, 1908) he was appointed adminis- 
 trator. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Jones was elected to the office of 
 county treasurer of Los Angeles County, and 
 served until 1893. He was re-elected to the office, 
 the term expiring January, 1907. He has the dis- 
 tinction of being the only incumbent renominated 
 for any county office up to that date. In 1906 he 
 was the chief organizer of the Inglewood Park 
 Cemetery Association, and was elected and still 
 is its president and treasurer. In 1908 he was 
 elected to and still retains the presidency of the 
 Merchants' Bank and Trust Company, and is to- 
 day its active head. He also is president of the 
 Merchants' Building Company. 
 
 He is now centering all the estate and his per- 
 sonal interests at Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of Ramona Parlor, Native 
 Sons of the Golden West; Knights Templar, L. A. 
 Commandery, No. 9; Signet Chapter, Southern 
 California Blue Lodge, and Al Malaikah Temple. 
 Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 'NEAR, GEORGE WASH- 
 INGTON, Capitalist, Com- 
 mission and Grain Merchant, 
 San Francisco, Cal., was born 
 at Washington, Maine, on 
 March 27, 1830. His paternal ancestor, John 
 McNear, came from the north of Scotland 
 about the year 1725. He settled in the Pro- 
 vince of Maine, where he became prominent 
 in the Indian wars and 
 was noted for his brav- 
 ery during the trouble- 
 some Colonial times. 
 
 George W. McNear 
 was married in 1859 to 
 Amanda Marie Church, 
 daughter of Reverend Al- 
 bert Church of Bangor, 
 Maine. There are four 
 sons and two daughters. 
 The sons are all substan- 
 tial business men ; the 
 oldest son, George W. 
 McNear, Jr., was many 
 years manager for his 
 father's interests at Liv- 
 erpool, England, and rep- 
 resented the firm on the 
 continent. 
 
 Mr. McNear received 
 his education in his na- 
 tive State, and he early 
 showed a great profi- 
 ciency in mathematics 
 and the study of naviga- 
 tion, the most distin- 
 guished calling of that 
 period. He came from a hardy race of sea- 
 going men and his attention naturally turned 
 to that line. 
 
 At the age of fifteen he went to sea, and 
 after making several voyages in foreign lands 
 and along the Atlantic coast, he landed in 
 New Orleans in February, 1854, at the age of 
 seventeen. Regardless of his youth he was 
 at once given command of a schooner plying 
 on the waters of Mississippi Sound and Lake 
 Pont Chartrain. 
 
 In 1856, at the age of nineteen, he became 
 a part owner and the master of a steamboat 
 plying the same waters, which he managed 
 successfully until 1860. He then decided to 
 dispose of his interest in the South and go to 
 California. 
 
 He left New Orleans in June, 1860, to 
 visit the home of his father in Maine, prepar- 
 atory to his western trip, where he remained 
 a few weeks, and then, in July, he started 
 
 GEORGE W. McNEAR 
 
 from New York for California, via the Isth- 
 mus of Panama. After the usual adventures 
 of the trip, he arrived in San Francisco on 
 August 2, 1860, and joined his brother in 
 Petaluma. The brothers soon formed the 
 partnership of McNear & Brother, commis- 
 sion and grain merchants. 
 
 In March, 1861, the firm opened a branch 
 of the business in San Francisco, and in 1867 
 they sent their first ship- 
 load of wheat to Europe. 
 He withdrew from part- 
 nership with his brother 
 in 1874 and established 
 the house of George W. 
 McNear, now well known 
 all over the world. He 
 commenced shipping 
 grain to Europe on an ex- 
 tensive scale, and has 
 continued to be the lead- 
 ing shipper of the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 Later, Mr. McNear 
 concentrated his shipping 
 facilities at Port Costa, 
 building warehouses and 
 docks where he could 
 load ten deep water ships 
 at a time. In 1894 he ac- 
 quired the flour mills and 
 warehouses of Starr & 
 Co., located at Wheat- 
 port and Vallejo, Cal., the 
 largest establishments of 
 their kind on the Pacific 
 Coast, adding this great 
 milling business to his other large interests. 
 He also owned some twenty-five warehouses 
 in the interior of the State. These, combined 
 with his Port Costa, Wheatport and Vallejo 
 warehouses aggregate a storage capacity of 
 more than 8,000,000 bushels of grain. 
 
 During his busy life Mr. McNear has 
 found time to turn his attention most suc- 
 cessfully to other important interests. He 
 was President of and largely instrumental in 
 building the first electric street railroad sys- 
 tem in Oakland, Cal., and was Pres. of the 
 First National Bank of Oakland. His under- 
 takings are managed with cool judgment, de- 
 termination and energy, and these traits, 
 combined with constant application to busi- 
 ness, have won him his wonderful and most 
 substantial success. He is a member of the 
 best clubs of the Coast and has been one of 
 the staunchest friends of San Francisco, al- 
 ways active in the best public movements. 
 
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 ICE, WINDSOR VOLNEY, 
 Mining and Banking, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born at 
 Riceburg, Province of Que- 
 bec, April 6, 1849, the son of 
 Martin Rice and Permilla (Vincent) Rice. 
 He married Mary Belle Browne, at Dun- 
 ham, Quebec, October 20, 1876, and they 
 have two children (adopted), Isabella and 
 Gordon Rice. 
 
 Mr. Rice received his 
 education in Stanbridge 
 Academy, Stanbridge 
 East, in Quebec, but at 
 the age of sixteen years 
 gave up his studies. He 
 went immediately to 
 Grand Haven, Michigan, 
 and spent eight years in 
 that region, the last four 
 of which he was in charge 
 of the Ottawa Iron 
 Works at Ferrysburg, 
 near Grand Haven. 
 
 At the age of twenty- 
 four Mr. Rice returned to 
 his native town and there 
 formed a partnership 
 with his younger brother 
 under the firm name of 
 Rice Brothers. They 
 conducted a foundry, ma- 
 chine shops, grist and 
 sawmills and were among 
 the most successful 
 young men in the busi- 
 ness life of Quebec. Mr. 
 Rice had studied, while in Michigan, to com- 
 plete the education he interrupted in his 
 youth, and by the time he took charge of 
 his own business was a qualified mechanical 
 engineer. ' 
 
 Although he made a success of his first 
 independent venture, Mr. Rice was not sat- 
 isfied, but sought larger fields, and in 1887, 
 after approximately fifteen years in business, 
 sold out his interests and headed for the 
 mining territory of Utah. 
 
 Fortified with a full knowledge of me- 
 chanics and a wide business experience, he 
 arrived in Park City, April 2, 1887, and it 
 was not long before he was an active figure 
 in the mining industry there. He worked 
 for one year in the office of the Anchor Min- 
 ing Company, but at the end of that period 
 he undertook the management of mining 
 properties. At different times he was in 
 charge of the Anchor, Woodside and other 
 
 W. V. RICE 
 
 companies ; also he served as manager of the 
 Union Concentrating Company, the Park 
 City Water Works Company and the Park 
 City Electric Company. In all of these en- 
 terprises Mr. Rice's progressive methods 
 were a part of their success. 
 
 In time Mr. Rice became one of the big 
 miners in Park City, and was one of the 
 original incorporators of the Silver King 
 Mining Company, own- 
 ers of the most famous 
 silver property ever dis- 
 covered in the world. He 
 is at the present time a 
 director of the Silver 
 King Coalition Mining 
 Company, successor of 
 the original corporation. 
 About twelve years 
 ago Mr. Rice moved to 
 Salt Lake. He was en- 
 gaged in mining in Ne- 
 vada, Idaho and Colorado 
 prior to 1909, but at that 
 time gave up active 
 work, though still retain- 
 ing his interests in those 
 three States. He is now 
 giving practically all of 
 his time to banking and 
 commercial pursuits in 
 Salt 'Lake. 
 
 His affiliations at the 
 present time, in addition 
 to the Silver King Coali- 
 tion, include : First Na- 
 tional Bank, Ely, Ne- 
 vada, President and Director; First Na- 
 tional Bank, Park City, Director ; National 
 Copper Bank, Salt Lake, Vice President 
 and Director; Castle Valley Railroad Com- 
 pany, President and Director; Keith- 
 O'Brien, mercantile, Pres. and Director; 
 Reno Grocery Co., Pres. and Director; Ne- 
 vada Douglas Copper Co., Treas. and Direc- 
 tor; Continental Life Ins. & Investment Co., 
 Sec. and Direc. ; Castle Valley Coal Co. ; 
 Direc. ; Nevada Copper Belt R. R., Direc. 
 
 Mr. Rice is among the most enthusias- 
 tic upbuilders of Salt Lake. He also takes 
 . a keen personal interest in the Y. M. C. A. 
 and for four years was President of the Salt 
 Lake Branch. He resigned a year ago, after 
 becoming one of the largest contributors to 
 a fund "of $150,000 to retire mortgages and 
 other indebtedness on the property. 
 
 His clubs are the Alta, Commercial, Ca- 
 nadian and Country, of Salt Lake City. 
 
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 ERRILL, FREDERICK JAMES 
 HAMILTON, Geologist and Min- 
 ing Engineer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in New York 
 City, April 30, If 61, the son of 
 Hamilton Wilcox Merrill and 
 Louisa (Kauffman) Merrill. The family is descend- 
 ed from Nathaniel Merrill, who emigrated from 
 Suffolk County, England, and settled in Newbury, 
 Massachusetts, in 1635. A son of Nathaniel, John 
 Merrill, migrated to Hart- 
 ford County, Connecticut, 
 and John's great grandson, 
 Jared Merrill, who lived at 
 Simsbury, married Abigail 
 Phelps, a descendant of Wil- 
 liam Phelps, whose family 
 has been identified with the 
 Farmington River Valley. 
 Shortly after the Revolu- 
 tionary War Jared migrated 
 to Whitest.own, Oneida Coun- 
 ty, New York, and later to 
 Byron, G e n e s e e County, 
 where Hamilton Wilcox was 
 born in 1814. He graduated 
 with honor at the United 
 States Military Academy, 
 West Point, in 1838, and 
 served in the Florida and 
 Mexican wars, successively 
 as Second and First Lieuten- 
 ant and Captain in the Sec- 
 ond Regiment of United 
 States Dragoons. In the War 
 with Mexico he was brevetted 
 Major for gallantry at the 
 battle of El Molino del Rey. 
 Major Merrill was after- 
 wards stationed at various 
 
 frontier posts in Texas and in the Indian Territory, 
 and in 1856 retired from the army to practice real 
 estate law in New York City. 
 
 Frederick married Winifred Edgerton in New 
 York City, September 1, 1887, and they are the 
 parents of four children, Louise, Hamilton, Wini- 
 fred and Edgertou. 
 
 Dr. Merrill received splendid educational train 
 ing in his youth, having been a pupil in private 
 schools and a student at Charlier Institute, New 
 York City, from 1876 to 1879, after which he en 
 tered Columbia College School of Arts, where he 
 studied from 1880 to 1883. In the latter year he 
 entered the Columbia School of Mines, and was 
 graduated in 1885 with the degree of Ph. B. Five 
 years later his college conferred upon him the 
 degree of Ph. D. 
 
 For some years after his graduation (1886-1890) 
 Dr. Merrill was Fellow in Geology at Columbia 
 College, and during the same period was an As- 
 sistant in the Geological Survey of the State of 
 New Jersey. His successful work in this field 
 caused him to be appointed Assistant State Geolo- 
 gist of New York, a position he held from 1890 to 
 1893, while at the same time he was Assistant 
 Director of the New York State Museum. In 1894 
 
 DR. F. J. H. MERRILL 
 
 he was appointed Director of the Museum and held 
 this position for ten years. He also served from 
 1899 to 1904 as State Geologist of New York. 
 
 While in the service of his State Dr. Merrill 
 was honored on several occasions by being selected 
 to represent it at various expositions. In 1893 he 
 was Director of the Scientific Exhibit of the State 
 of New York at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, Chicago, and occupied the same position at the 
 Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. In 
 1904 he was Director oi' the 
 Mining Exhibit of New York 
 State at the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, St. Louis, 
 and, upon the conclusion of 
 his duties in this connection, 
 resigned from the State serv- 
 ice to devote himself to the 
 private practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 From 1904 to date Dr. 
 Merrill has been in practice 
 as Consulting Geologist and 
 Mining Engineer, and, as 
 such, occupies a leading po- 
 sition among the experts of 
 his profession. From 1904 
 to 1906, he had offices in 
 New York City and, in the 
 latter year, moved to No- 
 gales, Arizona, where he 
 maintained headquarters for 
 about four years, conducting 
 mining operations in the 
 State of Sonora, Mexico, and 
 making mine examinations in 
 the adjacent regions. In 1910 
 he left Nogales and opened 
 offices in Los Angeles, where 
 he has remained. 
 
 Since locating in the Southwest Dr. Merrill has 
 been engaged in important mining and geological 
 work in the copper, silver and gold deposits of Ari- 
 zona, California and Nevada and of Siualoa, Chihua- 
 hua and Sonora, Mexico, and especially in the dry 
 placers of the latter State. Ho has t.lso examined 
 many oil properties in California, Wyoming and 
 elsewhere. Aside from his active professional 
 work, Dr. Merrill has been a liberal contributor 
 to the literature of his profession. His writings 
 include numerous reports as State Geologist of New 
 York and Director of the New York State Museum, 
 and many contributions to scientific periodicals. 
 He has also prepared and published several geo- 
 logic maps of New York and contributed the geol- 
 ogy of the crystalline rocks to the New York City 
 Folio of the United States Geological Survey. He 
 is a Fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, Geological Society of 
 America, and New York Academy of Sciences; 
 member, American Institute of Mining Engineers; 
 Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, and 
 New England Historic Genealogical Society. 
 
 He is also a member of the Military Order of 
 Foreign Wars; of the University Club of New York 
 City, and of the Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 191 
 
 HRISTY, LLOYD BENNETT, 
 Banker and Mayor of Phoenix, 
 Arizona, was born in Osceola, 
 Iowa, March 10, 1863, the son of 
 Col. William Christy and Carrie 
 (Bennett) Christy. He married 
 Mary Emma Culver at Phoenix, December 23, 1897, 
 and to them there have been born four beautiful 
 girls, Mary, Doris, Margaret and Katherine Christy. 
 Mr. Christy is of Scotch descent, his great-grand- 
 father on the paternal side, 
 the first of the family in 
 America, having come over 
 here by way of Ireland. His 
 maternal ancestors, however, 
 have been in the United 
 States since pre-Revolution- 
 ary times, various members 
 having served in the War for 
 Independence. Mr. Christy's 
 father was one of the leading 
 financiers of Phoenix when 
 he died, but in his earlier 
 days had been a prominent 
 figure in the affairs of Iowa. 
 He served as Lieutenant Col- 
 onel of an Iowa regiment 
 during the Civil War and 
 later was elected to the of- 
 fice of State Treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Christy, who is re- 
 garded as one of the most 
 progressive men of Phoenix, 
 received his preliminary ed- 
 ucation in the public schools 
 of Des Moines, Iowa, being 
 graduated from the High 
 School there in the class of 
 1883. After a lapse of sev- 
 eral years, he entered the 
 University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia and was graduated in 
 1890 with the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Science. 
 
 Practically ever since he 
 
 LLOYD B. CHRISTY 
 
 left college Mr. Christy has been in the banking 
 business and for twenty years has been with one 
 institution the Valley Bank of Phoenix, recognized 
 as the most substantial institution in Arizona. He 
 entered the employ of the bank in 1892 as runner 
 and worked his way up through the various de- 
 partments, until, at the end of eleven years, he 
 had held every office in the place with the excep- 
 tion of Cashier and President. Upon the death, 
 in 1903, of his father, who was President, Mr. 
 Christy succeeded to the office of Cashier, and he 
 has held it from that time down to date. In this 
 capacity he has had practical charge of the bank 
 for several years and by his own personal popu- 
 larity has added considerable to the bank's prestige. 
 Mr. Christy is a Progressive Republican in his 
 political tendencies and, with his brother, Captain 
 Christy, who served in the volunteer army during 
 the Spanish-American war, is among the strongest 
 adherents of Colonel Roosevelt in the Southwest. 
 Politics, however, have been more or less incidental 
 in Mr. Christy's affairs and the office of Mayor is 
 the only one he ever sought or accepted. Being an 
 enthusiastic worker for the growth and advance- 
 ment of Phoenix, he has, during his administration, 
 advocated and put into operation numerous reforms 
 and civic improvements tending to place the city 
 
 among the leading municipalities of the Southwest. 
 For instance, when Mr. Christy was elected to 
 office in May, 1909, there was not a foot of paved 
 street in the city, while in 1912 there is more than 
 two miles of asphalt paving in the central section 
 and plans under way for more. Another issue 
 which he has advocated and will bring to success- 
 ful conclusion is that providing a public park and 
 playground system for the city. 
 
 Early in his term, Mr. Christy brought about the 
 municipal ownership of the 
 Phoenix sewage system. 
 When he assumed the man 
 agement of the city's affairs 
 its sewage system was a 
 small affair, privately owned, 
 and he brought about a bond 
 issue of $400,000 for the pur- 
 chase and extension of it, 
 thus putting the sanitary 
 condition of the city on a 
 higher plane than had ever 
 been known. 
 
 Mayor Christy has also 
 been active against gambling 
 and other forms of vice and, 
 with the aid of the Council, 
 has practically eliminated 
 the objectionable interests 
 from the city. Among other 
 things, he caused the num- 
 ber of saloons to be limited 
 to twenty and imposed ether 
 regulations which make 
 Phoenix one of the best con- 
 ducted municipalities, in this 
 respect, in the United States. 
 In 1911 Mayor Christy ap- 
 pointed a Citizens' Commit- 
 tee of thirty-two members to 
 study the commission form 
 of government and report on 
 a plan for eharter levision, 
 whereby the conduct of 
 city affairs would be placed 
 on a more economical basis than under the couu- 
 cilmanic plan. The commission reported in favor 
 of the change and the voters, at a special election, 
 held June 6, 1912, ratified their recommendation 
 and named an official Charter Commission, to en- 
 gage in the work of revising the charter. 
 
 These are only a few of the works accomplished 
 by Mr. Christy during the first three years of his 
 administration, but they serve to show the sin- 
 cerity of purpose with which he has governed the 
 city. 
 
 In addition to his banking interests and his re- 
 form work, Mr. Christy has other business interests 
 which place him among the most influential men 
 in the city's affairs. He is a Director in several cor- 
 porations, the principal ones being the Arizona Fire 
 Insurance Company, of which he is Treasurer and 
 Director, and the Phoenix Title and Trust Com- 
 pany, wherein he is a Director. 
 
 He is a strong supporter of the Young Men : s 
 Christian Association and aided in raising a fund 
 in excess of $100,000, which was used in the erec- 
 tion of a handsome building in Phoenix. 
 
 Mr. Christy is prominent in Masonic circles, 
 being a member of the Mystic Shrine and Knights 
 Templar. He also belongs to the Sigma Chi fra- 
 ternity. 
 
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 193 
 
 INDSAY, LYCURGUS, Mining Op- 
 erator, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Princeton, Missouri, 
 October 18, 1859, the son of Wil- 
 liam Lindsay and Nancy (Boat- 
 man) Lindsay. He married Eva 
 R. Robson at Newport, Kentucky, in the year 1881, 
 and to them there were born two children, Roberta 
 and Gladys Lindsay. 
 
 Mr. Lindsay, who is recognized as one of the 
 real developers of natural resources in the South- 
 west, has spent the greater part of his life west 
 of the Rocky Mountains. When he was two years 
 old (1861) he was taken by his parents across the 
 plains to California, the family locating in Sonoma 
 County, the center of a great deciduous fruit-grow- 
 ing country. He spent his early childhood there, 
 but later in his boyhood lived in Texas, Kansas, 
 Illinois and other parts of the Middle West. He 
 received his education principally through private 
 teachers and was graduated from the High School 
 at Humboldt, Kansas, in the year 1877, supplement- 
 ing this with a business course in a college at 
 Jacksonville, Illinois. He also received higher 
 instruction from Professor Bickler, a noted edu- 
 cator of Austin, Texas. 
 
 When he was eighteen years of age, Mr. Lind- 
 say embarked in the grain and cattle business in 
 Southeastern Texas and after a few years, moved 
 to Kansas, where he engaged in the cattle and flour 
 milling business. The cattle in that day were 
 driven over the trails from Texas through the In- 
 dian Territory to Kansas and the Northwestern 
 States, and Mr. Lindsay was one of the successful 
 cattlemen of his section. He had a well-equipped 
 and prosperous- flour mill, but in 1889 it was de- 
 stroyed by fire, and instead of rebuilding, he went 
 to Kansas City, Missouri, not far from his birth- 
 place, and engaged in the grain brokerage busi- 
 ness. He continued in that for about three years, 
 but at the end of that period closed his offices and 
 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 For the first year after his return to California, 
 Mr. Lindsay was concerned in various enterprises, 
 but in 1893 transferred his headquarters to No- 
 gales, Arizona, on the International border between 
 the United States and Mexico, and took up mining. 
 This was the beginning of a new phase of his 
 career, one in which he met with numerous trials, 
 but through determination and a natural ability, 
 he overcame his difficulties. His first mining ven- 
 ture was the Mexicana Mine, in the wonderfully 
 rich State of Sonora, Mexico, and later he took 
 charge of the Santa Rosa Lea Mine as Superin- 
 tendent. His success in the handling of these prop- 
 erties quickly placed Mr. Lindsay among the lead- 
 ers of the mining industry in the Southwest and 
 his work since that time, involving the ownership 
 and management of numerous important projects, 
 has been attended almost invariably with success. 
 In 1895, Mr. Lindsay turned his attention to the 
 centuries-old copper mines of Cananea, Mexico, and 
 he located and opened for development what has 
 since proved to be one of the greatest groups in 
 the history of copper. These mines were worked by 
 the early Spanish invaders, but for many years they 
 had resisted the efforts of the best mining experts 
 
 to turn them into paying property. Mr. Lindsay 
 led the way in the development of these mines, 
 which were later divided into sections and worked 
 with great success by various interests. He had a 
 number of rich claims and continued as one of the 
 principal factors in the operation of the district 
 until 1907, when he sold the last of his mines, the 
 Cananea Central, to the Cole-Ryan syndicate of 
 New York. This property is now known as the 
 Greene-Cananea mine and is famous as one of the 
 most productive copper properties in the world. 
 
 Mr. Lindsay was a developing force also in the 
 Denocrita mines, which he later sold to the H. H. 
 Hoffman Syndicate of Cincinnati, Ohio, and which, 
 like the Cananeas, have proved to be among the 
 wealth-producing properties of Northern Sonora. 
 Another valuable property which he held and oper- 
 ated for some time in the northern part of Mexico 
 was the Indiana-Sonora Mine, which he disposed 
 of to the Phelps-Dodge Company, owners of the 
 Copper Queen and other noted mining properties. 
 
 Mr. Lindsay's success in the mining business is 
 partly due to an inherited disposition toward the 
 business, his father having been one of the pioneer 
 mining and milling men at Virginia City, Nevada, 
 when that famous camp was opened. The son still 
 retains interests in several mining companies in 
 Nevada and during the historic Goldfield boom was 
 one of the early operators. Besides his Nevada 
 interests, Mr. Lindsay still retains valuable mine 
 holdings in Mexico, although since the sale of 
 his Cananea property he has been gradually with- 
 drawing from the mining business and expects even- 
 tually to devote himself to other affairs exclu- 
 sively. 
 
 Since 1905, Mr. Lindsay has made his perma- 
 nent home in Los Angeles and has become inter- 
 ested in various enterprises which place him 
 among the substantial men of the community. He 
 is a Director of the Los Angeles Trust Company 
 and one of the largest stockholders in the First 
 National Bank of Los Angeles, two of the strongest 
 financial institutions in the Southwest, in addition 
 to being one of the principal owners and a Director 
 of the First National Bank of Nogales, Arizona. 
 Another important business which claims his at- 
 tention is the Independent Sewer Pipe Works of 
 Los Angeles, of which he is controlling stockholder. 
 This company's plant manufactures all kinds of 
 building material and gives employment to several 
 hundred people. 
 
 His public spirit, as well as that of his asso- 
 ciates, is shown by the exceptionally artistic build- 
 ing in which the Los Angeles Trust Company is 
 housed, a building which is a splendid example of 
 how beauty and utility can be combined. 
 
 Aside from the various interests mentioned, Mr. 
 Lindsay is the owner of an immense amount of 
 land in old Mexico and is engaged in cattle-raising 
 on a large scale, this enterprise being one of the 
 largest cattle and stock ranches in the State of 
 Sonora. 
 
 Although he has never taken an active part in 
 politics, Mr. Lindsay is regarded as one of the 
 strong men of Los Angeles, and a man of great 
 generosity. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, 
 California Club, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 ANN, CHARLES SPENCER, Real 
 Estate Development, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in Val- 
 paraiso, Indiana, October 11, 1872, 
 the son of William Freeman 
 Mann and Louise (Spencer) 
 Mann. His family is one of the oldest in America, 
 he being a descendant of Horace Mann, the cele- 
 brated educator. Mr. Mann married Mary C. Por- 
 ter at Salt Lake City, Utah, November 11, 1902, 
 and to them there have been 
 born two children, Nella 
 Louise and Francis Elizabeth 
 Mann. 
 
 Mr. Mann attended the 
 grammar and high schools of 
 his native city and was 
 graduated from the Univers- 
 ity of Valparaiso in the class 
 of 1890. Following the com- 
 pletion of his college course, 
 Mr. Mann went to Chicago, 
 Illinois, and there entered 
 into the real estate busi- 
 ness. This was in 1891, two 
 years before the opening of 
 the World's Columbian Ex- 
 position, and one of the 
 principal sections handled 
 by his firm was near the 
 Midway Plaisance, at that 
 time an undeveloped sec- 
 tion, but later made world 
 famous as the great amuse- 
 ment thoroughfare of the 
 World's Fair. 
 
 In 1893, Mr. Mann moved 
 to Los Angeles with the in- 
 tention of continuing in the 
 real estate business there, 
 
 but realty at that time was in a period of depres- 
 sion and he obtained employment with a mercan- 
 tile house. He remained with this concern for 
 about three years, when real estate became more 
 active in Los Angeles, ana he re-entered that field 
 as an employe of Easton, Eldridge & Co., one of 
 the largest real estate firms in the city at that 
 time, with holdings in all parts of the State. Mr. 
 Mann was in charge of the company's real estate 
 department in Los Angeles until the year 1902, 
 when he determined to enter upon a business ven- 
 ture of his own. 
 
 Mr. Mann specialized in the sale of properties 
 northwest of the city proper, when a shortage of 
 water existed in that part of Los Angeles, and he, 
 with others, organized the Hollywood Water Com- 
 pany, in 1904, for the purpose of supplying water 
 to the residents of that section known as Holly- 
 wood. Mr. Mann served as President of the com- 
 pany until it was merged, several years later, with 
 the Hollywood Union Water Company. 
 
 CHAS. S. MANN 
 
 Another important phase of Mr. Mann's career 
 as a developer was that dealing with the opening 
 of new residential districts in the beautiful coun- 
 try surrounding Los Angeles. He was a pioneer 
 in presenting the residential possibilities of the 
 various canyons, and in this capacity brought 
 about the settlement of Laurel Canyon in West 
 Hollywood, now one of the beautiful residence dis- 
 tricts of Southern California. This section, now 
 known as "Bungalow Land," was opened in 1907 
 and is now a vast park, with 
 attractive homes and beauti- 
 ful scenery as its chief 
 characteristics. 
 
 Mr. Mann has been one of 
 the most active" men in the 
 development of picturesque 
 locations in the vicinity of 
 Los Angeles and has also 
 taken the lead in various 
 other lines of improvement, 
 all having for their general 
 object the upbuilding of the 
 country. For instance, in 
 1910, he organized a com- 
 pany and constructed the 
 first and only trackless trol- 
 ley in the United States, a 
 transportation line still in 
 operation and the main car 
 line from Hollywood up the 
 canyon to "Bungalow Land." 
 This is one of the unique 
 railways of the world, and 
 quite as practical as those 
 operating over steel rails. 
 
 In the early part of 1912, 
 Mr. Mann organized the 
 Canyon Castle Corporation, 
 one which has for its object 
 
 the operation of a hotel, modeled along the lines 
 of an old feudal castle, but modern in equipment 
 and operation. The structure is not complete as 
 yet, but through it Mr. Mann and his associates 
 hope to make Laurel Canyon one of the great 
 tourist places of the West. 
 
 Associated with Mr. Mann in Canyon Castle 
 Corporation and its hotel project are S. S. Porter, 
 and his father-in-law, both hotel men of broad 
 experience. 
 
 Mr. Mann is ranked with the progressive men 
 of the Southwest and has a substantial standing 
 in commercial circles. Besides the Castle Canyon 
 Corporation, he is President of the Bungalow Land 
 Improvement Company, the Laurel Canyon Land 
 Company and the Laurel Canyon Utilities Com- 
 pany. 
 
 t He is a member of the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, Los Angeles Realty Board, the 
 Jonathan Club and the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks. 
 
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 OBERTS, OSCAR WILSON, Cattle 
 Raiser, San Simon, Arizona, was 
 born near Lexington, Missouri, 
 November 25, 1854, the son of 
 Captain Westley Roberts and 
 Mary (McGee) Roberts. He mar- 
 ried Anna E. Ruch at Los Angeles, California, De- 
 cember 17, 1901. Mrs. Roberts, who was a widow, 
 had a daughter by her former marriage, Miss 
 Semon Ruch (now the wife of Dr. R. L. Byron). 
 
 Mr. Roberts is of old 
 Southern ancestry, his for- 
 bears having settled in Vir- 
 ginia in the Colonial days. 
 His grandfather moved to 
 Kentucky and there his 
 father was born. The latter 
 emigrated to Missouri and in 
 the Civil War served as a 
 Captain under General Price. 
 He had been a Santa Fe 
 freighter and returned to 
 Missouri to enlist in the Con- 
 federate service, sacrificing 
 all of his business interests. 
 He was captured by the 
 Union forces, but was re- 
 leased later and left Missouri 
 with his family in May, 1863. 
 They started across the 
 plains with an ox team, 
 headed for California, but 
 halted at Salt Lake City dur- 
 ing the gold excitement in 
 that region. Later they 
 moved to Montana, where 
 the elder Roberts engaged in 
 the cattle business for sev- 
 eral years. At the end of that time they again took 
 up the trail to California, landing in Los Angeles 
 in October, 1869. The elder Roberts not only was 
 prominent as a cattleman, but also was one of the 
 original locators of Denver, Colorado. He also put 
 down one of the first oil wells in California. 
 
 Oscar W. Roberts received the first part of his 
 education in the public schools of Missouri and Salt 
 Lake City and studied under a private teacher in 
 Montana. He entered the public schools of Los 
 Angeles and later attended St. Vincent's College 
 there. 
 
 In 1873, after leaving school, Mr. Roberts went 
 to Idaho, where his father owned a large cattle 
 ranch on the Snake River. He had been a cowboy 
 since childhood and immediately took his place on 
 the range. He managed his father's business until 
 the latter sold out and returned to Los Angeles 
 in 1876. After selling his cattle the elder Roberts 
 engaged in the oil business in Ventura, California, 
 as superintendent and part owner of the Los An- 
 geles Oil Company, whose property later was sold 
 
 OSCAR W. ROBERTS 
 
 to Messrs. Hardison and Stewart, forming the basis 
 of the Union Oil Company, which they organized. 
 Mr. Roberts aided his father in putting down the 
 first well and in the location of other oil properties 
 which the former owns today. One of these, the 
 Little Sespe, is one of the good producing prop- 
 erties of California at the present time- 
 In 1879 Mr. Roberts was chosen Superintendent 
 of the Frazier gold mine in Ventura County, and 
 operated this until the winter of 1880, when he 
 resigned and went to Ari- 
 zona. He halted at Tucson 
 a short time, went to Tomb- 
 stone and finally located at 
 the old town of Eureka, N. 
 M., a mining camp twenty 
 miles south of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad. Mr. Rob- 
 erts went to work in a mine 
 for a time, later became 
 storekeeper and finally re- 
 sumed the vocation of cattle 
 raiser. Like most men of 
 that day, he experienced 
 many dangers and had nu- 
 merous thrilling escapades. 
 During one week ten men 
 were killed in Eureka, three 
 being shot to death while sit- 
 ting at a table with him. 
 
 While operating the store 
 Mr. Roberts served as Post- 
 master and changed the 
 name of the town from Eure- 
 ka to Hachita. He also was 
 interested in cattle and in 
 1887 gave up the mercantile 
 business to devote himself to 
 his stock interests, which included a ranch near Ha- 
 chita. Haggin, Hearst and Head, owners of the 
 "Diamond A" property, had a large ranch surround- 
 ing his and chose him manager of their business, 
 the largest cattle enterprise in the Southwest. For 
 seven years he had full charge of the ranch. This 
 was when the Apaches were on the warpath, and 
 his work was not lacking in exciting adventures. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Roberts sold out his interests to 
 the "Diamond A" and returned to Los Angeles, en- 
 gaging in real estate, oil and other ventures. How- 
 ever, he renewed his cattle business in Arizona and 
 this has been his principal work since, his ranch 
 being located at San Simon. 
 
 Mr. Roberts has taken an active part in politics 
 and served for many years on the Democratic Cen- 
 tral Committees of Cochise County, Arizona, and 
 Grant County, N. M. He was a candidate for Sheriff 
 of Grant County in 1891, but failed of election, lu 
 1909 he was elected to the Twenty-fifth Arizona 
 Legislature and served until Statehood was granted. 
 Mr. Roberts is a Master Mason, a member of 
 the Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles, and Presi- 
 dent of the Hassayampa Club, an Arizona society. 
 
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 CORE, DR. MELVIN L., 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at South Bend, Indiana, De- 
 cember 20, 1859. He is the 
 son of Dr. Robert Melvin Moore and Maria 
 (Asire) Moore. He married Elizabeth Hol- 
 ler, at South Bend, Indiana, in 1879. They 
 have two children, Dr. Edward Clarence 
 Moore and Lillian, now 
 Mrs. Le Roy Edwards. 
 
 Dr. Moore's male an- 
 cestors were all identified 
 with the medical profes- 
 sion since about the time 
 of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence. His father 
 was the first graduate 
 physician in the State of 
 Ohio and practiced in 
 South Bend and vicinity 
 for more than a score of 
 years, being one of the 
 most highly respected 
 men in the community. 
 
 Dr. Melvin Moore is 
 one of the most thorough 
 men in the profession to- 
 day. He received his 
 early education in the 
 public schools of South 
 Bend, and upon the con- 
 clusion of this work en- 
 tered Valparaiso Univer- 
 sity, at Valparaiso, Ind., 
 where he finished his aca- 
 demic studies in 1878. 
 Leaving his native state that year, he went 
 to Rush Medical College, at Chicago, 111., 
 where he began the study of medicine. He 
 spent three years there and was graduated 
 with the degree of M. D. in 1880. 
 
 Although he was a qualified physician, 
 and could have started in practice at once, 
 Dr. Moore decided that he would study fur- 
 ther in order to better equip himself for his 
 professional career. Accordingly he went to 
 New York and entered Bellevue College. He 
 spent two years there, applying himself prin- 
 cipally to surgery, and in 1882, after two 
 years in the institution, he was given another 
 degree of medicine. After practicing a num- 
 ber of years, Dr. Moore went abroad to study 
 the methods and hospitals of the Old World. 
 He first went to Berlin, where he took post- 
 graduate work under the tutelage of some of 
 Germany's greatest surgeons, and after a con- 
 siderable period there went to Vienna to 
 
 DR. M. L. MOORE 
 
 study under the great specialists of that city. 
 He was highly regarded by his mentors there 
 and was given numerous opportunities to im- 
 prove his knowledge of the subject he desired 
 to master. 
 
 Dr. Moore began practice at South Bend, 
 Ind., where he followed in his father's foot- 
 steps for five years. His health failed him, 
 and in 1887 he left that state and moved to 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 where he has been identi- 
 fied in a professional and 
 social way for over twen- 
 ty-four years. 
 
 He returned to In- 
 diana for a brief interval 
 and then spent a winter 
 in Central Florida. After 
 that short period in the 
 health resorts of Florida 
 he moved permanently to 
 Southern California. 
 
 He formed a partner- 
 ship with Dr. F. T. Bick- 
 nell, of Los Angeles, and 
 they were associated for 
 sixteen years. Both part- 
 ners earned lasting repu- 
 tations. 
 
 Dr. Moore at an early 
 period began the study of 
 gynecology and obstet- 
 rics. His proficiency and 
 ability in those subjects 
 gave him an authorita- 
 tive standing in that 
 branch of the profession 
 and in 1892 he was appointed Professor of 
 Obstetrics at the Medical College of the Uni- 
 versity of California, located at Berkeley. 
 That professorship he has retained for nine- 
 teen years. 
 
 He is most highly respected in profes- 
 sional and social circles of California an J has 
 played a prominent part in the upbuilding of 
 the medical profession of Southern Califor- 
 nia and the entire West. 
 
 Dr. Moore holds membership in the lead- 
 ing professional societies of the country, such 
 as the American Medical Association, Los 
 Angeles County Medical Society, District 
 Medical Society of Southern California, 
 Pathological Society of Los Angeles, and 
 the Medical Society of the State of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 He is an Elk and a member of both 
 the University Club and the California Club 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
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 OORE, DR. EDWARD 
 CLARENCE, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born January 20, 
 1882, at South Bend, Indiana, 
 the son of Dr. Melvin L. Moore and Eliza- 
 beth (Holler) Moore. He married Helen 
 Rowland at Los Angeles, April 18, 1906, and 
 to them have been born two children, Wil- 
 liam Rowland and Helen 
 Elizabeth Moore. 
 
 Dr. Moore is the 
 youngest of a line of phy- 
 sicians noted in America 
 for more than a hundred 
 years, and known partic- 
 ularly in Indiana and 
 in California as men of 
 high scholarly attain- 
 ments. His grandfather, 
 Dr. Robert Moore, was 
 the first graduate physi- 
 cian of the State of In- 
 diana and his father is 
 one of the most prominent 
 physicians in the West. 
 
 Dr. Moore was taken 
 to Los Angeles by his 
 parents when he was 
 three years of age and has 
 spent his life there since 
 that time. He attended 
 the public schools of Los 
 Angeles in his boyhood 
 and upon completion of 
 his high school work went 
 back to his native State, 
 where he studied for one year at Notre Dame 
 University, the famous Hoosier State edu- 
 cational institution. This was the year 1897. 
 The next year he returned to school at Los 
 Angeles, entering the Belmont Preparatory 
 School to fit himself for an admission to the 
 University of California. He was at the 
 preparatory school for two years. 
 
 He determined to follow in the footsteps 
 of his father and early ancestors, and in 
 1900 he was admitted to the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of California. This 
 necessitated four years of study, at the end 
 of which period he was graduated with the 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine in June, 1904. 
 
 Dr. Moore's father at that time, as now, 
 was a leader in the profession in Los An- 
 geles, and as he has studied extensively in 
 the laboratories and hospitals in Europe in 
 fitting himself for his practice, he was ena- 
 bled to give of his great knowledge and ex- 
 
 DR. E. C. MOORE 
 
 perience to his son. The latter, immediately 
 upon passing the State examinations, went 
 into partnership with his father. His pro- 
 fessional life, from the day of starting, was a 
 most active one and for three years he 
 worked with his father, devoting himself 
 principally to surgery. In 1907 there came a 
 period when he felt he could quit his practice 
 for additional study. He went to Rochester, 
 Minnesota, where he be- 
 came clinical assistant to 
 the celebrated brother 
 surgeons, Drs. Mayo, 
 whose famous sanitarium 
 in the little northwestern 
 town is one of the most 
 famous institutions in the 
 world of surgical science. 
 People go to the Mayos 
 from all parts of the 
 world, and some of their 
 feats in surgery have not 
 only startled the medical 
 profession, but have made 
 history for it. To be an 
 associate of these great 
 surgeons is a privilege ac- 
 corded to few men. Dr. 
 Moore was with the 
 Mayos for a year, during 
 which time he aided them 
 in the performance of 
 many of their wonderful 
 operations and gained an 
 experience that is almost 
 invaluable to him. Later, 
 in 1911, he spent three 
 months additional with the Drs. Mayo. 
 
 Returning to Los Angeles in 1908, he re- 
 sumed his practice with his father as chief 
 surgeon of the firm of Drs. Moore, Moore & 
 White, and at the present time handles noth- 
 ing but surgical cases. 
 
 Dr. Moore's expert work in the field of 
 surgery placed him on the faculty of the Los 
 Angeles Dept. of Medicine of the University 
 of Cal., which position he has retained. He 
 was made one of two surgeons to the L. A. 
 Aqueduct Commission and is one of the at- 
 tending surgeons to L. A. County Hospital. 
 He is a Director of the California Hos- 
 pital and is an active member of the Ameri- 
 can Medical Association. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the L. A. Clinical and Pathological So- 
 ciety, L. A. County Medical Society, Cal. 
 State Medical Society and others. He is a 
 member of the California and the Los An- 
 geles Country clubs. 
 
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 OYNER, FRANK HALL, 
 Highway Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, California, is a New 
 Englander by birth, being 
 born at North Egremont, 
 
 Massachusetts, January 20, 1862. His 
 
 father was Looniis M. Joyner and his 
 
 mother Mary L. (Cross) Joyner. Mr. 
 
 Joyner is a direct descendant of Joseph 
 
 Loomis, who settled in 
 
 Windsor, Connecticut, in 
 
 1639, and the original 
 
 founder in America of 
 
 the large Loomis family. 
 
 He is also descended 
 
 from Robert Joyner, one 
 
 of the heroes of the Rev- 
 olutionary War. On 
 
 both sides Mr. Joyner is 
 
 a pure Yankee. He mar- 
 ried Clara Estelle Cur- 
 
 tiss, October 4, 1888, at 
 
 Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 There is one child, Mary 
 
 C. Joyner. 
 
 Mr. Joyner attended a 
 
 district school in North 
 
 Egremont, Mass., and 
 
 later the High School of 
 
 Great Barrington, Mass. 
 
 He studied at Carter's 
 
 Commercial College, 
 
 Pittsfield, Mass., and 
 
 took a course at the 
 
 Massachusetts Agricul- 
 tural College, Amherst. 
 The first actual work 
 
 F. H. 
 
 of his career began in 1881, when he became 
 a chainman with the New York, West Shore 
 and Buffalo Railroad. His intelligent effort 
 won him the advanced position of assistant 
 engineer, which station he held for nearly 
 three years. In 1885 he was made resident 
 engineer for the Wisconsin Central Railroad, 
 with headquarters at Des Plaines, Illinois. 
 There he remained and practiced for the fol- 
 lowing year. 
 
 In the latter part of 1886 Mr. Joyner be- 
 came engineer at the end of track and assist- 
 ant superintendent of construction with the 
 Fitzgerald and Mallory Company, and the D. 
 M. and A., a branch of the Missouri Pacific 
 system. He was continued in this position 
 for a period of over a year. During all this 
 time Mr. Joyner was not merely performing 
 his duty, he was making a deep study all the 
 while of the great engineering problems of 
 the day and seeking that branch which held 
 
 the greatest promise for the future. 
 
 In 1887 he left railroad engineering to 
 take a responsible position with Morrison 
 and Corthell, engineers in Chicago. He was 
 given charge of the preparation of stone for 
 the bridge over the Ohio River at Cairo and 
 bridges over the Mississippi River at St. 
 Louis and at Memphis. He had charge of 
 the construction of a number of minor 
 
 bridges in and around 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 He also filled the of- 
 *fice of City Engineer at 
 Bedford, Indiana, where 
 he continued until the 
 latter part of 1891, when 
 he resigned and at the 
 same time resigned from 
 the Morrison and Cor- 
 thell Company. 
 
 In 1892 he accepted a 
 position with the Pejep- 
 scot Paper Company, one 
 of the largest establish- 
 ments of its kind in the 
 State of Maine. He be- 
 came Assistant Engineer 
 on the construction of 
 dams and pulp mill plants 
 for this company. 
 
 Mr. Joyner took up 
 highway engineering in 
 1896. His first services 
 in that great field were 
 with the Massachusetts 
 
 TOYNER Highway Commission. 
 
 * After two successful years 
 
 he was advanced to Division Engineer in 
 1898, which position he held until February 
 1, 1911, when he resigned to accept the posi- 
 tion of Engineer in charge of Maintenance 
 and Repair of Main Highways of Los An- 
 geles County. 
 
 His fame as a highway engineer had be- 
 come so well known throughout a greater 
 part of the continent that during the early 
 part of 1911 the Los Angeles County High- 
 way Commission, finding themselves in need 
 of a professional head, determined to send 
 for him. 
 
 He accepted their offer and went at once 
 to Los Angeles and took up the duties of the 
 position. 
 
 He held the position until the following 
 July, when he was appointed Chief Engi- 
 neer for the Los Angeles County High- 
 way Commission, which position he holds at 
 the present time. 
 
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 199 
 
 ILSON, JOHN CHARLES, 
 Stock and Bond Broker, San 
 Francisco, was born in San 
 Francisco, July 21, 1870, the 
 son of John Charles and Ag- 
 nes (Cowan) Wilson. His parents, who were 
 of Scotch and English origin, were among the 
 early residents of San Francisco, where his 
 father was well known as a large dealer in 
 cqke and pig iron, and evi- 
 dently transmitted to their 
 son the qualities of shrewd- 
 ness and energy pre- 
 sumed to inhere in the 
 Scotch-English blood. J. 
 C. Wilson, from his boy- 
 hood, has been what is 
 known as a "hustler," and 
 the remarkable success 
 which has attended his 
 efforts bear ample testi- 
 mony to the ability he 
 has put into them. On 
 February 10, 1904, he was 
 married in the old Palace 
 Hotel of San Francisco to 
 Miss Mabel C. Cluff, 
 daughter of the well- 
 known merchant, William 
 Cluff. The children of 
 this marriage are Daniel 
 Lynch, Thomas Cluff and 
 Mabel Wilson. By a for- 
 mer union he is also the 
 father of J. C. Wilson, Jr. 
 After attending the pri- 
 mary and grammar 
 schools of San Francisco he entered Sack- 
 ett's School, in Oakland, where from 1886 to 
 1889, inclusive, he took the regular commer- 
 cial course, together with Latin and the 
 higher mathematics, and studied to equip 
 himself for the business career he had 
 planned, primarily to enter the firm with 
 which his father was connected, that of J. 
 Macdonough & Co. 
 
 From 1890 to 1902 he was a clerk in this 
 house, in which he also had a contingent in- 
 terest. Not being afraid of jolts he took any- 
 thing that came his way, from marking and 
 handling sacks to balancing a ledger, and 
 rose rapidly to a responsible position. In 
 1900 the company sold to the Western Fuel 
 Company, in which Mr. Wilson became a 
 director. This function he discharged for 
 the next two years, but found the business 
 insufficiently active for his abundant en- 
 ergies. He desired something requiring 
 
 T. C. WILSON 
 
 initiative, originality and the traits that make 
 for genuine progress. He found this desider- 
 atum in the course of which he subsequently 
 adopted, that of a broker for clients dealing 
 in stocks, bonds, grains, provisions, oil and 
 similar industries. On September 20, 1905, 
 he became a member of the San Francisco 
 Stock and Bond Exchange, and began the 
 career which has led to his present position 
 of the leading stock 
 broker on the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 The remarkable expan- 
 sion of his business is 
 fairly well indicated by 
 the important connections 
 he has made in the last 
 six years. On September 
 17, 1908, he joined the 
 New York Stock Ex- 
 change, the Chicago 
 Stock Exchange on Sep- 
 tember 19th of the same 
 year, and on August 9, 
 1911, the New York Cot- 
 ton Exchange. 
 
 Through these years 
 Mr. Wilson, by concen- 
 trating his energies on 
 the work in hand, giving 
 his clients every facility, 
 and by an absolute ab- 
 sence of failures winning 
 their confidence, has grad- 
 ually enlarged his busi- 
 ness to a very wide scope. 
 Of this fact the character 
 
 of his eastern correspondents, among them 
 such firms as Harris, Winthrop & Co., is an- 
 other index. 
 
 Outside of his brokerage business he has 
 considerable real estate interests, and a large 
 social acquaintance. Beyond this the many 
 financiers from the East, who visit the coast, 
 are in a measure responsible for Mr. Wilson's 
 reputation as a lavish entertainer. 
 
 For a period of six years, from 1900 to 
 1905, inclusive, Mr. Wilson was a Yosemite 
 Park commissioner, under both Governor 
 Gage and Governor Pardee, but has not oth- 
 erwise been very active politically. He has 
 for years been a prominent and popular 
 clubman, and among his many clubs and or- 
 ganizations are the Pacific-Union, Bohemian. 
 Family, Cosmos and Merchants' Exchange, 
 of S. F. ; Burlingame Country, San Mateo 
 Polo, of San Mateo County ; California, of L. 
 A.; Masons, and K. T. (Cal. Commandery). 
 
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 JACOB BEAN 
 
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 20 1 
 
 EAN JACOB, Retired Lumberman, 
 Alhambra, California, was born in 
 Upper Stillwater, Maine, January 
 19, 1837, the son of Jacob W. Bean 
 and Jane (Danforth) Bean. He 
 married Cynthia A. McPheters at 
 Orono, Maine, October 14, 1860, and to them were 
 born eight children, Charles Robie, Daisy (de- 
 ceased), Roscoe F. (deceased), Willian H., Flor- 
 ence Estelle (deceased), Anne E., Eugene E. and 
 Mary Ella Bean. Of the five surviving children all 
 are married and Mr. Bean has eleven grandchil- 
 dren. Mr. Bean's family is of Scotch origin, the 
 earliest members of record having been seafarers. 
 The family was transplanted to New Hampshire 
 the latter part of the seventeenth century and re- 
 mained there for many generations, later scattering 
 to other parts of New England, and Mr. Bean and 
 his older brother were the first to move Westward. 
 His father was in the transportation business in 
 Maine and served many years as a County official. 
 Mr. Bean received his education in the common 
 schools of Orono, Maine, but at an early age went 
 to work in a general store. He then entered the 
 employ of his father as a freighter, but after a 
 short time when he was of an age when boys 
 usually devote themselves to play, he went into the 
 woods of Maine and entered into the arduous life 
 of the logging camp. Although a boy in years, he 
 was possessed of extraordinary strength and endur- 
 ance, and early took his place among the men of 
 the camp. He worked in various branches of the 
 logging industry and by the time he attained his 
 majority was a proficient lumberman. 
 
 In the early part of 1858, Mr. Bean abandoned 
 the lumber industry to join the gold seekers of 
 California, making the trip to San Francisco by 
 way of the Isthmus of Panama. He joined the 
 prospectors in the Sacramento district, but was un- 
 successful in his quest and before the end of the 
 year gave up the effort and returned to Maine. 
 
 For the next five years he worked in the forests 
 and mills of Maine and in 1863, he and an older 
 brother, Charles Bean, went to Stillwater, Min- 
 nesota. They were immediately employed by Gen- 
 eral S. F. Hersey, one of the pioneer lumberman 
 of Minnesota, as "timber cruisers," and within a 
 short time were admitted as members of the firm 
 of Hersey & Staples, which thereupon became 
 Hersey, Staples & Bean. Mr. Bean was placed in 
 charge of all the logging operations of the firm and 
 spent the greater part of each year in the woods. 
 About 1872 the firm became Hersey, Bean & 
 Brown and some years later, upon the withdrawal 
 of E. S. Brown, it became known as Hersey & 
 Bean, continuing as such until 1900, when the firm 
 practically retired from the lumber business. Dur- 
 ing the days of its activity this firm was one of 
 the largest lumber and mercantile establishments 
 in the Northwest. Its timber holdings in Min- 
 nesota and Wisconsin covered 160,000 acres and 
 during forty years of operation its mills, among 
 the largest and best equipped in that section, cut 
 billions of feet of lumber. Its standing pine cov- 
 ered a vast area in the territory near the St. 
 Croix River and its principal mill, located at Still- 
 water, was valued at $300,000. About 1900 the 
 company wound up its cutting and ceased opera- 
 tions, but its mills were leased for some years to 
 other lumbering concerns, being finally dismantled. 
 The firm of Hersey & Bean still owns about 70,- 
 000 acres of land In Wisconsin and Minnesota, and 
 of recent years has dealt largely in farm lands. 
 Although his original company quit lumbering 
 
 Mr. Bean did not, he having been one of the or- 
 ganizers in 1895, of the Foley-Bean Lumber Com- 
 pany. The company had large interests in what had 
 been the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation in Minne- 
 sota, and its plant at Milaca, one of the most mod- 
 ern in the country, cut 32,000,000 feet annually. In 
 addition to mills, the company owned stores, yards, 
 shops, steamboats and other equipment and em- 
 ployed more than three hundred men. Mr. Bean 
 was a factor in its management until 1906. 
 
 As a lumberman Mr. Bean ranked with the lead- 
 ers and was interested with such men as Frederick 
 Weyerhauser, greatest of all lumber magnates and 
 James J. Hill, the empire builder of the Northwest. 
 He enjoyed the confidence of business men in all 
 parts of the Northwest and during his career of 
 more than sixty years never was questioned on any 
 contract or agreement into which he entered. 
 
 About 1901 he suffered a severe paralytic stroke 
 and was compelled to relinquish the active manage- 
 ment of his properties, but he had trained his sons 
 in the business and turned the management of his 
 affairs over to them. 
 
 Mr. Bean is a heavy individual landowner and has 
 various other interests. One tract in Winconsin held 
 under the name of the Jacob Bean Land Com- 
 pany, contains 27,000 acres. He is President of the 
 Company, but its actual direction is in the hands 
 of his son, W. H. Bean. Several other interests of 
 Mr. Bean are incorporated under the name of the 
 Jacob Bean Investment Company, a famiry corpora- 
 tion, of which he is President. 
 
 Mining has proved an unfortunate field for Mr. 
 Bean from the time of his first venture in Cali- 
 fornia. Later in life, when he had amassed a large 
 fortune he bought a property in Montana, but had 
 to give it up after losing $300,000. He accepted 
 this great loss philosophically, never complaining. 
 
 From the time he was able to vote he has sup- 
 ported the Republican party and was prominent 
 in its affairs in Minnesota. Governor Merriam of 
 Minnesota, appointed him Surveyor General of the 
 Stillwater District in 1888, and he was re-appointed 
 in 1890 by Governor Knute Nelson (later U. S. Sen- 
 ator), serving until 1892. At that time he returned 
 to his private business and consistently declined to 
 accept any public office afterwards. 
 
 Since the year 1893 Mr. Bean has had his home 
 at Alhambra, California, his estate being one of the 
 most beautiful in Southern California. When he 
 purchased the place, which covers 120 acres, it 
 was a barley patch, but since that time Mr. Bean 
 has built a magnificent home and spent thousands 
 of dollars in beautifying the grounds. A large part 
 of the estate is devoted to oranges and forms one 
 of the finest ranches in Los Angeles County. 
 
 In his later years Mr. Bean has spent all of his 
 time at his home and has his recreation in reading 
 and motoring. Although he is seventy-six years 
 of age and endured great suffering at the time he 
 was stricken by paralysis, he stills retains a re- 
 markable amount of physical endurance and takes 
 an active interest in the management of his estate. 
 
 A marked characteristic of Mr. Bean, whose for- 
 tune was builded by hard work, is his generosity, 
 and for many years he has maintained private 
 philanthropies, known only to his- family. 
 
 At seventy-six he is happy in the companionship 
 of his children and grand-children, but up to a 
 short time ago had that of his wife, who shared 
 with him in his success and cheered him in times 
 of stress. They celebrated their golden wedding 
 anniversary October 14, 1910, but within a year 
 she passed away, her death occurring July 1, 1911. 
 
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 ELBY, JAMES EDWARD, 
 Lawyer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born on the Isle 
 of Man, November 8, 1862, 
 the son of William Kelby and 
 Isabella (Brew) Kelby. He married M. 
 Eugenia De Haven at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
 January 17, 1894, and to them there 
 has been born one child, Alta Dahlia Kelby. 
 Mr. Kelby, who came to 
 the United States when 
 he was fifteen years of 
 age, attended an Episco- 
 pal academy and was 
 prepared for college un- 
 der Professor John D. 
 Brown. He intended tak- 
 ing a theological course 
 and entering the ministry 
 as a profession, but a 
 sudden and radical 
 change in his views 
 about that time made it 
 inconsistent for him to 
 enter college and he took 
 up other studies. 
 
 Upon his arrival in this 
 country Mr. Kelby lo- 
 cated at Galena, Illinois, 
 and there became a clerk 
 in a general store. He 
 served in this capacity 
 for several years and 
 while so engaged also 
 took up the study of law 
 with W. D. McHugh. In 
 1887 he moved to Oma- 
 ha, Nebraska, still continuing his law studies, 
 and was admitted to the bar in that State in 
 1889. 
 
 Immediately following his admission to 
 practice, Mr. Kelby entered the office of the 
 late Charles J. Green, attorney for the Burl- 
 ington Railroad, with whom he remained un- 
 til April, 1895. At that time he was ap- 
 pointed assistant to the General Solicitor of 
 the same company, Charles F. Manderson, 
 twice United States Senator from Nebraska. 
 Upon Mr. Manderson's retirement from the 
 position in January, 1907, Mr. Kelby was ap- 
 pointed General Solicitor for the Burlington, 
 and continued to serve in that office for the 
 next five years. 
 
 Toward the latter part of his tenure Mr. 
 Kelby's wife's health became impaired and 
 he determined to move their home to a more 
 congenial climate. Accordingly, in January, 
 1912, he resigned his connection with the 
 
 JAS. E. KELBY 
 
 Burlington, after twenty-three years of ser- 
 vice in the company's law department, and 
 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Kelby immediately formed a partner- 
 ship with George C. Martin, a former asso- 
 ciate in Omaha, and within sixty days after 
 his arrival was appointed attorney in South- 
 ern California for the Union Pacific Railroad, 
 a position he now holds in addition to his 
 private practice. 
 
 During his tenure as 
 General Solicitor for the 
 Burlington, Mr. Kelby 
 figured in numerous im- 
 portant cases for the 
 company, these including 
 the handling of all its 
 land cases and rate issues 
 before the Interstate 
 Commerce Commission 
 and other governmental 
 bodies. 
 
 Mr. Kelby has always 
 been a strong supporter 
 of the Democratic party 
 and during his residence 
 in Nebraska was a prom- 
 inent figure in local and 
 national politics. In the 
 campaign of 1890 and 
 1891 Mr. Kelby took the 
 stump in the interest of 
 William Jennings Bryan, 
 who was at that time 
 running for Congress the 
 first time. Mr. Bryan, who 
 later was to become the 
 leader of the Democratic party and a three- 
 time candidate for the Presidency of the 
 United States, was running in the First Ne- 
 braska District, of which Douglas County 
 was a part and Mr. Kelby delivered numer- 
 ous addresses through that part of the dis- 
 trict. 
 
 From that time on Mr. Kelby was a firm 
 supporter of Bryan, supporting him through 
 his subsequent campaigns. He also was one 
 of the charter members of the Jacksonian 
 Democratic Club of Omaha and had a voice 
 in the affairs of the party councils. 
 
 Mr. Kelby has distinguished himself as an 
 orator, and was one of the strongest speakers 
 in the ranks of the Democratic party. He is 
 a Mason, Knight Templar and member of the 
 Mystic Shrine. His clubs are the Omaha 
 Commercial Club, Omaha Country Club, 
 Palimpsest Club. Chicago Athletic Club and 
 the University Club of Omaha. 
 
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 REENE, COLONEL WILLIAM 
 CORNELL (deceased), Copper 
 Mining, Cattle Owner, and Lum- 
 berman, Cananea, Mexico, and 
 New York, was born August 26, 
 1853, at Duck Creek, Wisconsin, 
 the son of Townsend Greene and Eleanor (Cornell) 
 Greene. Colonel Greene was descended from seri- 
 ous thinking Quaker stock which dates back, on the 
 paternal side, to the beginning of the eighteenth 
 century and on his mother's side to the first set- 
 tlers of Westchester County, New York. Colonel 
 Greene was twice married, his first wife having 
 been Mrs. Ella Moson. Of this union there were 
 two children, one of whom, Mrs. Harry Langslow, 
 of Rochester, New York, is living. His second wife 
 was Miss Mary Proctor, by whom he had six chil- 
 dren, Virginia, William, Frank, Florence, Kirk and 
 Charles Greene. 
 
 Colonel Greene was educated in a private school 
 at Chappaqua, Westchester County, New York, 
 where he spent a greater part of his youth. At the 
 age of sixteen he left school to accept a clerkship 
 with the house of O. H. Angevin & Co., New York 
 City. About 1870, the words of Horace Greeley 
 were ringing in the ears of every American boy: 
 "Young man, go West!" Being fired by ambition, 
 Colonel Greene, a mere boy, left the Empire State 
 and turned to the great West where he was to play 
 such a prominent part later. He secured a posi- 
 tion with the Northern Pacific Railroad, at that 
 time extending its line across- the Dakota Territory. 
 
 Colonel Greene spent only a few months with the 
 Northern Pacific, then went to what is now the site 
 of Fargo, North Dakota. His picturesque career 
 might have been far different had it not been for 
 the fascinating tales of mining and cattle-ranching 
 which reached him from the border Territories of 
 Arizona and New Mexico, but these caused him to 
 try his fortune in the unknown Southwest. Arriv- 
 ing in Arizona in the early seventies, he began his 
 mining career by prospecting in the neighborhood 
 of Prescott. At a little later date, he gave up min- 
 ing temporarily to become a cattleman, and pur- 
 chasing a ranch in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona, 
 with the capital gained in mining ventures, he be- 
 came a successful cattle and land-owner. 
 
 Having retained some mineral interests, he 
 made additional investments in scattered claims 
 throughout Arizona and in three or four years he 
 had gained control of several mining properties. 
 Shortly after his arrival in the Southwest, Colonel 
 Greene had casually visited the site of the future 
 city of Cananea, Mexico, but at that time the place 
 showed only an abandoned mine, broken-down 
 buildings and the ancient pits and shafts that had 
 been sunk by the Aztecs and their successors, the 
 Spaniards, in quest of the fabulous El Dorado. 
 
 On a subsequent visit to Cananea, Colonel 
 Greene was so impressed with the properties in 
 that vicinity that he determined to get possession 
 of them and in 1880 he purchased from the widow 
 of Governor Pesquiera of the State of Sonora, Mex- 
 ico, the Cananea group, consisting of several scat- 
 tered mines and ancient workings. At that time 
 the Cananeas were generally believed to have been 
 worked out and that it would prove profitless to at- 
 tempt to develop them further. Several interests 
 had previously failed in operating the properties 
 and it was thought by mining men of that time that 
 Colonel Greene was wasting capital on a fruitless 
 enterprise. However, his judgment was fully vin- 
 dicated to a point far beyond even his dreams. 
 
 Following the purchase of the properties, there 
 
 ensued a long period of litigation in the courts of 
 Mexico and the United States. He started develop- 
 ment work on a large scale, but had hardly begun 
 active work when several rival interests endeav- 
 ored to prove in the courts that he did not hold 
 proper title to the Cananea mines and it took long 
 years of waiting and toiling before Colonel Greene 
 was able to establish his rights. The litigation 
 cost him thousands of dollars and necessitated nu- 
 merous trips across the continent and to the capital 
 of Mexico. Few men would have possessed the 
 courage and persistency to cling to the struggle 
 with the same grip that he held on Cananea and it 
 was at this stage of his career that the world first 
 realized the striking executive ability and strength 
 of character which marked the man. But through 
 it all, litigation, fighting Yaqui Indians in Mexico 
 and enemies in the United States, Colonel Greene 
 stood the same resolute, indomitable character 
 fearless, immovable, alone. He emerged from the 
 struggle the possessor of the Cananea mines. 
 
 Early in 1897, Colonel Greene organized the 
 Cobre Grande Copper Company and a short time 
 later he pooled several of his smaller organizations 
 into one gigantic corporation and in 1899 organized 
 the Greene Consolidated Copper Company. In a 
 short time what had been a barren waste in the 
 mountains of Sonora became a thriving city of ten 
 thousand persons. As if by magic the city grew, 
 schools, churches, libraries, and a hospital for the 
 employes, were established by Colonel Greene. 
 
 He constructed a modern broad-gauge railroad 
 from the town of Naco, Arizona, to Cananea, built 
 and operated eleven miles of narrow-gauge road on 
 the property and started the Banco de Cananea. 
 
 While reaping his reward from his copper mines, 
 Colonel Greene was equally active in other mineral 
 properties, his cattle and landed interests. In 1906 
 he purchased from the Federal Copper Company a 
 smelter at El Paso, Texas, and the same year or- 
 ganized, with John D. Ryan, of Butte, and Thomas 
 F. Cole, of Duluth, the famous Greene-Cananea 
 Copper Company, which consisted of the consoli- 
 dation of several properties. At a later date the 
 Greene Gold & Silver Company, with properties in 
 Mexico, was organized and shortly afterward 
 Colonel Greene secured valuable Mexican lumber 
 concessions from President Diaz. 
 
 Colonel Greene thereupon became heavily inter- 
 ested in timber and organized the Sierra Madre 
 Land & Water Company, a gigantic corporation 
 with a capitalization of $15,000,000. This organiza- 
 tion owned several million acres of valuable tim- 
 ber lands in Chihuahua and Eastern Sonora, Mex- 
 ico, and it was planned to handle more lumber than 
 any other organization of the kind in the South- 
 west, Colonel Greene being President and the di- 
 recting head of the concern. 
 
 He was President, Greene Cattle Co.; Greene 
 Consolidated Coal Co., Turkey Track Cattle Co., 
 Cananea Realty Co., Greene-Kirk Gold & Silver Co., 
 Greene Consolidated Copper Co., Cananea Consoli- 
 dated Copper Co., Greene Consolidated Gold Co., 
 Greene Gold & Silver Mining Co., Balvanera Mining 
 Co., Belen Mining Co., Cananea Cattle Co., Gyayno- 
 pita Copper Co., International Ore Treating Co., 
 Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railroad Co., 
 Santa Brigida Gold Co., Sierra Madre Land & Lum- 
 ber Co. He was Vice President, Greene-Cananea 
 Copper Co., and a Director, Cananea Central Cop- 
 per Co., and Greene Land & Cattle Co. 
 
 Since the death of Colonel Greene, which oc- 
 curred at Cananea, on August 5, 1911, Mrs. Greene 
 has made her home in Los Angeles. 
 
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 ERRY, WILLIAM HAYES, Los An- 
 geles, Cal. (deceased), was born at 
 Newark, O., Oct. 7, 1832. He was 
 the son of John and Ann Perry. 
 He married Elizabeth Dalton In 
 1858 at Los Angeles. The chil- 
 dren, of whom there are three are: Mrs. Charles 
 M. Wood, Mrs. E. P. Johnson, Jr., and Charles 
 Frederick Perry. 
 
 After receiving his education in the public 
 schools of Newark, Ohio, Mr. 
 Perry, as yet a boy, was ap- 
 prenticed to a cabinetmaker 
 and turner, whose trade he 
 learned and started to fol- 
 low in Newark. 
 
 He gave it up, however, 
 in 1853, and joined a party 
 of men and women, headed 
 by Captain Hollister, (who 
 finally settled at Santa Bar- 
 bara, Cal.), who were on 
 their way to California. The 
 little band of pioneers 
 crossed the Missouri River 
 at Bennett's Ferry, near 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa, and 
 after a perilous journey be- 
 set with the usual hardships, 
 including several attacks by 
 Indians, they arrived in Los 
 Angeles in February of 1854. 
 
 Mr. Perry arrived there 
 with little or no capital, but 
 it was only a short time un- 
 til, through working at his 
 trade, he was able to open 
 the first furniture store in 
 Los Angeles. His stock con- 
 sisted first of goods of his own manufacture, but 
 there were added to it gradually goods which 
 he had sent down from San Francisco. His busi- 
 ness prospered, and in 1856 he took in a partner, 
 one Brady, whom Wallace Woodwortb. bought out 
 in 1858. This partnership continued for the next 
 twenty-five years, or until Mr. Woodworth's death 
 in 1883, under the firm name of Perry & Wood- 
 worth. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Perry obtained a franchise from 
 the city of Los Angeles to light the city with 
 gas, and organized the first gas company, the 
 Los Angeles Gas Company, in which he filled 
 the office of General Manager for five years, 
 when he sold the company to the present cor- 
 poration. 
 
 In 1873, he went into the lumber and build- 
 ing supply business in a very large way, the first 
 organization being incorporated as the W. H. Perry 
 Lumber and Mills Company. This was followed 
 by the organization of the Los Angeles & Hum- 
 boldt Lumber Company at San Pedro, the Pioneer 
 
 WILLIAM HAYES PERRY 
 
 Lumber and Mill Company at Colton, and the 
 Los Angeles Storage Commission and Lumber 
 Company. He set up the first steam engine in 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Perry was elected President and 
 Manager of the Los Angeles City Water Com- 
 pany, which at the time was heavily involved, but 
 under his management it was soon put on a sound 
 basis. He held this office for a period of twenty- 
 five years. 
 
 The principal offices held 
 by him in his latter days 
 were: President, W. H. 
 Perry Lumber and Mill Com- 
 pany; President, Pioneer 
 Lumber and Mill Company; 
 President, Los Angeles City 
 Water Company; President, 
 Crystal Springs Water Com- 
 pany. 
 
 He was a stockholder in 
 and closely identified with 
 many other substantial in- 
 terests throughout the Coast 
 section, including the South- 
 ern California Pipe & Clay 
 Company, of which he was 
 president and director; Cos- 
 mopolis Mill & Trading 
 Company, of Gray's Harbor, 
 Wash., president; Vallejo & 
 Napa Electric Railroad; 
 Charles Nelson Shipping 
 Company, San Francisco; 
 Bard Oil & Asphalt Com- 
 pany, Olinda Crude Oil Com- 
 pany, Gas Consumers' Asso- 
 ciation and National Elec- 
 tric Company, both of San 
 Francisco; Western Union Oil Company, of Santa 
 Barbara, Cal.; Reed Oil Company, of Kern county, 
 Cal., and the Home Telephone Co., of Los Angeles. 
 
 He was also interested in banking and was 
 a firm believer in the promise which the real es- 
 tate business of Los Angeles held forth, with the 
 result that he was one of the most active oper- 
 ators in that field in the city. He served as a 
 director of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of 
 Los Angeles, having been one of the impelling 
 factors in the success of that institution from its 
 earliest days. He was also a stockholder of the 
 American National Bank of Los Angeles, and like- 
 wise identified with the Nevada Bank and the 
 Union Trust Company, of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Perry, despite his manifold business inter- 
 ests and social obligations, had found time to ally 
 himself with the Masonic organization, being a 
 member of the blue lodge, chapter and comman- 
 dery, and was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite 
 Mason. Mr. Perry was public-spirited, charitable 
 and generous. He died October 29, 1906. 
 
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 OTT, FRANK KANNING, Presi- 
 dent of the Frank K. Mott Com- 
 pany and Mayor of Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in San Francisco, 
 January 21, 1866, the son of Peter 
 D. and Fannie (Kanning) Mott. 
 When he was two years old the family moved to 
 Oakland and established their home there. He 
 was married in San Francisco, January 10, 1911, to 
 Mrs. Gertrude Bennett. From 1872 to 1877 he at- 
 tended the Prescott Gram- 
 mar School in Oakland, and 
 on the death of his father, in 
 1877, he was induced by his 
 mother and George F. Began 
 to enter the latter's Classical 
 School, an institution which 
 prepared students for the 
 University. After a year's 
 attempt to digest Latin and 
 Greek roots, for which he 
 had little liking, his desire to 
 contribute to the support of 
 his mother prompted him to 
 seek permanent employment. 
 
 During his year at Mr. 
 Degan's Academy he had 
 made a little money by 
 "carrying a route" in Oak- 
 land for the San Francisco 
 Bulletin, but in 1879, when 
 he was thirteen years old, he 
 found the opening, for which 
 he was looking, in the West- 
 ern Union Telegraph Com- 
 pany. Here he acted as 
 messenger boy, and before 
 the end of the year, when 
 the telephone system was 
 installed, he became clerk, and the first telephone 
 operator in Oakland. 
 
 He was subsequently promoted to the post of as- 
 sistant lineman and collector, but as his income was 
 still insufficient for his needs he abandoned this 
 business, and in 1882 entered the hardware store of 
 George S. Brown as clerk. Brown sold out to W. 
 C. Fife in 1884, but Mr. Mott continued to act as 
 clerk until 1889, when, the business passing to E. 
 A. Howard & Co., he became a partner in the firm. 
 He remained as such until 1899, and then purchased 
 the Howard interest in the Oakland store, which 
 he conducted alone until January 1, 1907. He then 
 sold out to enter the real estate business, in which, 
 as successor to Breed & Bancroft, he is still active. 
 
 Through these years of success in his own pri- 
 vate affairs he was equally busy and effective in 
 other commercial activities. By inducing a number 
 of the Oakland merchants to join a sort of tentative 
 Chamber of Commerce he practically pioneered the 
 movement for the establishment of the Merchants' 
 Exchange, of which he was made a director. He 
 
 FRANK K. MOTT 
 
 was also a director of the Board of Trade and pre- 
 sided at the meetings which were held for the pur- 
 pose of forming the present Chamber of Commerce. 
 The same qualities that have distinguished his 
 business record have been conspicuous in his politi- 
 cal life. At the age of twenty-one he was a dele- 
 gate to the County Convention of 1887, and through 
 successive years he was also a delegate to the City 
 Conventions. His first political office was that of 
 member of the City Council, to which he was ap- 
 pointed, January 1, 1895, by 
 Mayor Pardee. Subsequent- 
 ly elected for the full term, 
 for one year he served as 
 President of the Council. He 
 was renominated for another 
 term, but declined for busi- 
 ness reasons. In 1899 he 
 was again nominated by the 
 Republican Convention, in- 
 dorsed by the Municipal 
 League and elected by a 
 handsome majority. He re- 
 tired in 1901, but, yielding to 
 the importunities of friends, 
 he was nominated in 1905 by 
 the Republicans for Mayor, 
 indorsed by the Municipal 
 League and Democrats, and 
 elected by a large majority. 
 With the same indorsements, 
 plus that of the Union Labor 
 party, he was re-elected in 
 1907, 1909 and 1911, and is 
 strenuously and characteris- 
 tically today carrying out 
 his pledges, to the immense 
 advantage of the city of 
 Oakland. Mayor Mott has 
 
 always been aligned with the elements that stand 
 for public spirit and civic improvement. He is 
 ambitious to unite the various factions into a 
 unified movement for the city's real progress, and 
 the many enterprises successfully undertaken 
 through his administrations for the civic better- 
 ment of Oakland argue eloquently for his sincerity 
 and ability. 
 
 Besides his presidency of the Frank K. Mott 
 Company, he is President and Director of the Pied- 
 mont Hills Improvement Company, the Pleasant 
 Valley Improvement Company, the Suburban De- 
 velopment Company, Humboldt County Land and 
 Development Company; Vice President of the Ma- 
 sonic Temple Association; Director, Security Bank 
 and Trust Company and the Mascot Copper Com- 
 pany. 
 
 His clubs are: Nile, Athenian, of Oakland, and 
 the Union League of San Francisco. He is also a 
 member of the B. P. O. E., Knights of Pythias, 
 Masons, Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, Moose 
 Lodge, and the Native Sons of the Golden West. 
 
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 COTT, ALBERT WOODBURN, Jr., 
 Merchant and Attorney at Law, 
 San Francisco, Cal., was born in 
 San Francisco, Nov. 6, 1869, the 
 son of Albert W. and Georgia C. 
 (Smith) Scott. Of English-Scotch 
 origin, his ancestors were among the early resi- 
 dents of New England, especially of Vermont and 
 Maine. His father, A. W. Scott, came from Ver- 
 mont to San Francisco in 1851, and in 1855 estab- 
 lished himself as a feed mer- 
 chant, dealing in hay, grain 
 and forage of all kinds. He 
 not only built up a great busi- 
 ness, from which the present 
 firm of Scott, Magner & Mii- 
 ler has grown, but also be- 
 came an important factor in 
 public and civic affairs, serv- 
 ing many times as school di- 
 rector, Supervisor and in 
 other municipal capacities. 
 He died December 5, 1908, 
 widely known for his integri- 
 ty, manhood and charitable 
 deeds, in which his wife ably 
 and unassumedly co-operated 
 with him. Their son, who re- 
 tains the Junior in honor of 
 his father's memory, was 
 married in San Francisco to 
 Miss Ruth Pearl Van Vactor, 
 daughter of Judge William 
 Van Vactor of Placer county. 
 
 After a course through the 
 public schools of San Francis- 
 co, A. W. Scott, Jr., entered 
 the Boys' High School, from 
 which he was graduated in 
 1887 into the University of California. Leaving 
 this institution before graduation, he studied law, 
 and in 1903 passed the Supreme Court examina- 
 tions for the bar. Five years later he was also 
 admitted to practice before the United States Su- 
 preme Court. 
 
 From 1891 to 1895 Mr. Scott was in business with 
 his father, but for the next three years devoted 
 himself chiefly to his profession, in partnership 
 with Judge A. A. Sanderson. In 1898, however, he 
 organized the present firm, under the name of 
 Scott & Magner, which was consolidated in 1909 
 with the old-established house of W. A. Miller & 
 Co., and changed to Scott, Magner & Miller, Inc. 
 
 Although this corporation has developed into the 
 largest concern on the Pacific Coast engaged in 
 the shipping and wholesale trading of forage, A. 
 W. Scott, Jr., has been especially prominent in 
 connection with the civic betterment of San Fran- 
 cisco. During the trying period following the 
 great disaster of 1906, he organized an important 
 section of the Red Cross work and was one of the 
 
 A. W. SCOTT, JR. 
 
 most efficient aids in the relief of the sufferers. 
 He next turned his attention to the crying need of 
 clearing the streets of the debris that blocked 
 traffic and progress. Organizing the Citizens' 
 Street Repair Association, of which he was made 
 president, he raised by subscription a fund of 
 $50,000, engaged a large force of workmen, and 
 with the aid of the merchants and draying firms, 
 soon opened the channels of trade. The memora- 
 ble "House Cleaning Day" was Mr. Scott's concep- 
 tion, on which occasion, and 
 inspired by his example, the 
 populace bent to the task of 
 sweeping the streets and 
 carting away the dirt that 
 obstructed them. It is esti- 
 mated that on that day more 
 than 30,000 loads were moved 
 and by this volunteer work 
 of the citizens fully $100,000 
 worth of labor performed. 
 
 Another notable achieve- 
 ment of Mr. Scott was his 
 organizing the Civic League, 
 comprising sixty-five Im- 
 provement Clubs that repre- 
 sented every part of San 
 Francisco. Later he was 
 president of the Industrial 
 Peace Conference, and served 
 on the arbitration commit- 
 tees that endeavored to end 
 the strikes in the telephone, 
 street railway, iron manufac- 
 turing and laundry compa- 
 nies. In the last two men- 
 tioned he was an important 
 factor in the successful set- 
 tlement. His work as a 
 member of the Executive Sanitary Committee in 
 charge of the health campaign when San Francisco 
 stamped out for all time the plague that followed 
 the earthquake and fire was equally noteworthy. 
 
 Mr. Scott was one of the original organizers and 
 directors of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- 
 position, and as chairman of the Congressional 
 Committee and one of the five commissioners that 
 went to Washington to win the fight from New 
 Orleans, he was largely instrumental in San Fran- 
 cisco's victory. 
 
 In recognition of his good work and character a 
 non-partisan convention of 250 merchants of San 
 Francisco assembled and made Mr. Scott their can- 
 didate for Mayor, but to promote harmony he re- 
 tired in favor of Mr. Rolph, the successful aspirant. 
 Mr. Scott is secretary and treasurer of Scott, 
 Magner & Miller, Inc., director of the S. F. Mer- 
 chants' Association, S. F. Life Insurance Co., Death 
 Valley Nitrate Co., of which he is chief owner, and 
 has large mining and realty interests all over Cali- 
 fornia. He is also a member of prominent social 
 clubs of the city. 
 
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 HOUP, PAUL, Railroads, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 San Bernardino, California, in the 
 year 1874, the son of T. V. and 
 Sarah S. Shoup. He married 
 Miss Rose Wilson, of San Fran- 
 cisco, in 1900, and has three children, Carl, Jack 
 and Louise Shoup. 
 
 Mr. Shoup began the education which has 
 helped him climb to a top place in the manage- 
 ment of railroads, at Knox- 
 ville and later Oskaloosa, 
 Iowa, his parents having 
 moved to that State when 
 he was three years old. He 
 continued his education in 
 the high schools of San Ber- 
 nardino, Cal., having re- 
 turned to the place of his 
 birth in 1887. 
 
 As soon as Mr. Shoup had 
 finished his schooling he 
 went, in 1891, to work in a 
 minor position in the me- 
 chanical department of the 
 Santa Fe Railroad, at San 
 Bernardino. He later mas- 
 tered telegraphy believing it 
 to be essential to railroad 
 advancement and soon be- 
 came one of the operators 
 for the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. Then began 
 a period of unusually hard 
 work and of advancements, 
 the rapidity of which later 
 has had few parallels in the 
 railroad world of America. 
 
 In quick succession he 
 
 was ticket clerk, freight clerk, assistant agent, 
 assistant commercial agent, advertising clerk, 
 train service clerk, clerk of rates and divisions and 
 theatrical clerk, in the passenger department of 
 the Southern Pacific Company. In the year 1896 
 he went to San Francisco. His industry, so in- 
 telligently applied, and his familiarity with the 
 administration of railroad affairs, commended him 
 to the attention of the executive offices at San 
 Francisco, and to the special attention of the 
 Assistant General Passenger Agent, and he was 
 chosen as chief clerk to that official. 
 
 Not long after this he received his first exec- 
 utive position, that of District Freight and Pas- 
 senger Agent at San Jose. His record in that office 
 caused him to be chosen Assistant General Freight 
 Agent of the Oregon Short Line, a part of the 
 Harriman System, and when he was thoroughly 
 familiar with the administration of that office he 
 was transferred to the important office of Assistant 
 General Passenger Agent of the Southern Pacific 
 Company, again locating at San Francisco. 
 
 PAUL SHOUP 
 
 His counsel now became so valuable that he 
 was taken into the inner circle of the financial 
 heads, and made assistant general manager of the 
 Southern Pacific Company, in charge of the elec- 
 tric lines of that company. 
 
 Meanwhile the two great systems of electric 
 interurbans, which center about Los Angeles, 
 were being built by Sherman & Clark and H. E. 
 Huntington, until in mileage, capitalization and 
 business the two exceeded all but two of the trans- 
 continental railways in Cali- 
 fornia. By successive pur- 
 chase the Southern Pacific 
 Company acquired all the 
 various units, until in 1910, 
 it was in possession of them 
 all. 
 
 Paul Shoup was chosen 
 Vice President and Manag- 
 ing Director of the combined 
 interurbans of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, now known under the 
 single title of Pacific Electric 
 Railway, the largest and 
 finest system in the world, 
 operating over one thousand 
 miles of highly improved 
 track, and employing thou- 
 sands of men. All of this is 
 under the direction of Paul 
 Shoup, who gives his per- 
 sonal attention at all times 
 to every man and detail of 
 this gigantic system. 
 
 The Southern Pacific 
 Company also owns electric 
 lines at Fresno, Stockton, 
 Sacramento, San Jose, Ala- 
 meda, Oakland, and other 
 
 cities of California, all of which are under his per- 
 sonal charge. 
 
 He is the active Vice President and Managing 
 Director of the Pacific Electric Railway, Visalia 
 Electric Railway, Stockton Electric Railway, 
 Fresno Traction Company, San Jose Railroads and 
 Peninsular Railway. 
 
 Since Mr. Shoup's accession to his present of- 
 fice he and his associates have determined upon 
 the extension of the Los Angeles system of inter- 
 urbans until the whole country south of Tehachapi 
 to San Diego, and from Redlands to the coast, is 
 as intimately connected by electric service as are 
 the various parts of a city. The sum of $100,- 
 000,000 has been voted for the construction of 
 these extensions and to care for underlying bonds. 
 A number of improvements are already under way. 
 The transformation of Southern California, by 
 merging into one both city and country, will be the 
 result. 
 
 Under the direction of Paul Shoup will come the 
 construction and operation of these vast extensions. 
 
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 211 
 
 OSEBERRY, LOUIS HEATON, At- 
 torney, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Oakland, California, 
 February 5, 1880. He is the son 
 of James Swan Roseberry and 
 Emma Jane (Adamson) Roseber- 
 ry. Married Jeannette Morton at Santa Barbara, 
 May 20, 1912. Mr. Roseberry is descended of a 
 family many centuries old. Of Scottish origin, its 
 members scattered to various parts of the Old 
 World several centuries ago, some settling in the 
 North of England, others in the North of Ireland, 
 a third branch in Wales, a fourth in Germany, and 
 a fifth in Austria. One of the early notables of the 
 family was Sir Archibald Primrose, who was ele- 
 vated to the peerage in Scotland in 1700 and in 
 1703 took the title of Earl of Roseberry. The 
 various branches of the family contributed to the 
 early settlers of America, the first dating about 
 1740. The different families were located in Mary- 
 land, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and 
 other Colonies and the men took part in the Revo- 
 lutionary War and the various Indian Wars which 
 marked the early history of the United States. 
 
 Mr. Roseberry received his primary education 
 in the public schools of Visalia, California, and 
 also attended the High School at Oakland from 
 1896 to 1898. He entered Leland Stanford Uni- 
 versity the following year and was graduated in 
 the class of 1903 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. He returned to the University the following 
 year for post-graduate work, but his studies were 
 interrupted by an epidemic of typhoid fever in the 
 vicinity of the University. 
 
 He had studied law at the University and upon 
 leaving there in August, 1904, went to Santa Bar- 
 bara, California, where he continued to read in the 
 offices of Judge B. F. Thomas and Henley C. Booth. 
 At the end of three months he went before the 
 State Supreme Court for examination and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in December, 1904. He imme- 
 diately opened offices in Santa Barbara and con- 
 tinued there until his removal to Los Angeles in 
 the early part of 1912. 
 
 Early in his career as an attorney, Mr. Rose- 
 berry became active in local and State politics in 
 Santa Barbara, espousing the cause of the Progres- 
 sive Republicans. He was the organizer of the 
 Progressive Republican League of Santa Barbara 
 and was one of the most active men in the fight to 
 overthrow what was known as the Old Republican 
 "Organization" of that county. 
 
 In 1908, the year William Howard Taft, as the 
 candidate of the Regular Republican Party, swept 
 the country in his campaign for President, Mr. 
 Rosenberry, a stanch adherent of the progressive 
 policies of the party, was elected to the State Sen- 
 ate of California from the Thirty-third District for 
 a term of four years. His fight against the ma- 
 chine organization of his own party was one of the 
 sensations of the California campaign and his suc- 
 cess had much to do with strengthening the cause 
 of the progressive element in that State. Two 
 years after his election Mr. Roseberry espoused 
 the cause of Hiram Johnson, Progressive Republi- 
 
 can candidate for Governor, and his work in that 
 campign aided materially in the election of his 
 candidate. He served as Chairman of the County 
 Convention and was selected as one of the Dele- 
 gates to the State Convention which nominated 
 Johnson for Governor. 
 
 During the campaign Senator Roseberry took 
 the stump and made numerous speeches in support 
 of the Johnson candidacy. Although a young man 
 his sincerity and ability as an orator had already 
 impressed his constituency, because for several 
 years previous he had appeared as orator on va- 
 rious occasions, delivering addresses on Memorial 
 Day, Fourth of July, etc. 
 
 Senator Roseberry, during the four years of his 
 term, was one of the most energetic and progres- 
 sive members of the State Legislature. He not 
 only introduced numerous bills having for their 
 object the public good, but led his colleagues in 
 battling for their adoption. Among the measures 
 introduced by him and passed were the Roseberry 
 Employers' Liability Law and the Constitutional 
 Amendment (adopted by the voters in 1911)' pro- 
 viding for civil service in all State, County and City 
 offices. Both these acts were introduced in 1911, 
 but two years previously he had introduced what 
 was known as the Roseberry Postal Primary Law, 
 which was later withdrawn in order to make room 
 for the present Primary Law under which Cali- 
 fornia now nominates all candidates for public 
 offices. 
 
 While in the Senate, he also procured for Santa 
 Barbara the State Normal School of Manual Arts 
 and Home Economics for the training of teachers 
 in these branches of education, the only institution 
 of its kind in the United States. 
 
 Senator Roseberry was prevailed upon by Gov- 
 ernor Johnson, in September, 1911, to accept the 
 post of Attorney for the State Board of Health for 
 a term of four years. At the beginning of the 
 year 1912 he was chosen as Trust Attorney for 
 the Security, Trust and Savings Bank of Los An- 
 geles and he now occupies both positions. 
 
 In connection with his position as Trust At- 
 torney for the Security Bank, Senator Roseberry 
 has charge of all matters dealing with trusts, es- 
 tates and legacies and occupies a leading position 
 among the financiers of the West. In addition to 
 his political and legal work, Senator Roseberry, in 
 1911, organized the Sunset Assurance Association, 
 the only mutual insurance company in the State 
 of California. This organization, for which Senator 
 Roseberry is special counsel, operates on the gen- 
 eral assessment plan and, although not very old, 
 has already proved one of the most successful of 
 its kind in the United States. 
 
 Senator Roseberry has been a prolific writer 
 on social, civic and commercial subjects and has 
 devoted much time to the youth of the country, 
 having been for several years a member of the 
 Advisory Board of the Success Magazine. 
 
 He is a member of the California Bar Associa- 
 tion, the National Geographic Society, the Inter- 
 national Peace Society, Native Sons of the Golden 
 West, and the Order of Elks. His clubs are the 
 Jonathan, Gamut and City Clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
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 AN DYKE, HENRY SEW- 
 ARD, Attorney at Law, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Oakland, California, Au- 
 gust 31, 1871, the son of 
 Walter Van Dyke and Rowena (Cooper) 
 Van Dyke. He married Katherine Skiles 
 Moulton at Santa Barbara, California, Jan- 
 uary 20, 1912. Mr. Van Dyke's family is of 
 Dutch origin, the first of 
 the family in America 
 having been John Van 
 Dyke, who came over in 
 the early part of the Sev- 
 enteenth Century. His 
 father was Associate Jus- 
 tice of the Supreme 
 Court of California at 
 the time of his death. 
 His wife is a daughter of 
 E. H. Moulton, President 
 of the Tri-State Tele- 
 phone Company at Min- 
 neapolis, Minnesota. 
 
 Mr. Van Dyke received 
 his early training in the 
 public schools of Oakland 
 and the family removing 
 to Los Angeles in 1886, 
 he entered the High 
 School there and was 
 graduated in 1889. He 
 then entered the Univers- 
 ity of California and was 
 graduated in the class of 
 1893 with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 Upon leaving college Mr. Van Dyke de- 
 cided to take up the study of law and, re- 
 turning to Los Angeles, began reading in 
 the offices of the Clerk of the Federal Court. 
 Within eighteen months he went before 
 the Supreme Court of California for exami- 
 nation and was admitted to the bar on Oc- 
 tober 30, 1894. He did not engage in prac- 
 tice immediately, but decided to continue 
 his studies and entered the office of Joseph 
 Hutchinson of San Francisco as clerk, read- 
 ing law meantime. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Van Dyke parted from Mr. 
 Hutchinson 'and returned to Los Angeles, 
 where he became connected with the office 
 of W. J. Hunsaker, one of the leading law- 
 yers of the city. At the end of a year he 
 opened offices for the practice of law and 
 has been engaged continually since that 
 time (1896). 
 
 Mr. Van Dyke practiced alone until 1898, 
 
 H. S. VAN DYKE 
 
 and in that year closed his Los Angeles of- 
 fice and went to San Francisco, where he 
 was engaged for about five years, but in 
 1903 he returned to Los Angeles and he has 
 maintained his offices there down to date. 
 He became a member of the firm of Lawler, 
 Allen and Van Dyke at that time, the style 
 remaining the same until 1907, when L. W. 
 Jutten joined the firm, the name being 
 changed to Lawler, Allen, 
 Van Dyke and Jutten. 
 This association remained 
 until 1909, when Oscar 
 Lawler, senior member of 
 the firm, resigned to ac- 
 cept appointment as As- 
 sistant United States At- 
 torney General, a position 
 which required his pres- 
 ence in Washington, D.C. 
 Allen, Van Dyde and 
 Jutten continued their 
 work until the firm was 
 amalgamated with that 
 of Gray, Barker and 
 Bowen, shortly after Mr. 
 Lawler's departure. After 
 two years the Honorable 
 Frank P. Flint, whose 
 term as United States 
 Senator from California 
 had just closed, entered 
 the firm and the name was 
 shortened to Flint, Gray 
 and Barker, under which 
 form it is known today. 
 This firm, of which Mr. 
 
 Van Dyke is an active member, is one of the 
 best known in California and enjoys one of 
 the most extensive practices in the entire 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Van Dyke, who ranks high in the legal 
 profession of the Southwest, is a loyal son 
 of California and one of the most enthusiastic 
 workers for the betterment of Los Angeles 
 and the rest of Southern California. 
 
 He is a supporter of the principles of 
 the Republican party, but has never taken 
 an active interest in politics, nor been a 
 seeker for public office. 
 
 Mr. Van Dyke is a member of the Los An- 
 geles Bar Association, the American Bar As- 
 sociation and various clubs, including the 
 Bohemian Club of San Francisco, California 
 Club of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Country 
 Club, and others. 
 
 He is also a member of the Holland Society 
 of N. Y. and the National Economic League. 
 
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 213 
 
 ATES, HOWARD B., Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at San Jose, California, 
 November 23, 1867. He is the son 
 of Freeman Gates and Adelaide 
 (Rhodes) Gates, born respective- 
 ly in New Hampshire and New York. He was 
 married to Dr. Amelia Levinson in San Francisco, 
 California, in 1898. Dr. Gates' father was one of 
 the pioneers of California, arriving in the Golden 
 State in 1850, after a trip by 
 way of Panama. He engaged 
 in mining, but was forced to 
 give up this work on account 
 of poor health. He settled in 
 San Jose in 1852 and organ- 
 ized the first public school 
 system of the city. Later he 
 established a higher place of 
 learning, known as Gates In- 
 stitute, and there many of 
 California's leading men re- 
 ceived their academic train- 
 ing, among them being Del- 
 phin M. Delmas, the noted 
 lawyer; Senator James R. 
 Low, T. S. Montgomery and 
 A. E. Pomeroy, well known 
 in Los Angeles. Among Dr. 
 Gates' connections on the 
 maternal side is Judge Au- 
 gustus L. Rhodes, who served 
 sixteen years on the Supreme 
 Bench of California, solving 
 many of the early intricate 
 problems presented to the 
 court, in such a clear, logical 
 manner as to make him per- 
 manently revered by the legal 
 
 DR. H. B. GATES 
 
 profession of the State. Now, at the age of ninety- 
 three years, he is an honored citizen of the commu- 
 nity where he lives and his home is the mecca of 
 all distinguished visitors to that section. 
 
 Dr. Gates received his early education at his 
 father's institute and later in the public schools 
 of San Jose. The early death of his father caused 
 Dr. Gates and his two brothers Carroll and Eg- 
 bert to enter into business life, so that the doc- 
 tor's road to a professional training, like that of 
 many others who are eventually successful, was 
 filled with obstacles. He finally succeeded in en- 
 tering the University of California with the class 
 of 1891, graduating with the degree of Ph. B. 
 
 Finances were still a serious problem with him, 
 but by obtaining a position as teacher in an 
 evening school he was enabled to take up 
 the study of medicine in Cooper Medical College 
 of San Francisco. There he passed the first two 
 years of his medical course, going to New York 
 City at the end of that period as a student in the 
 New York Homeopathic College and Hospital. He 
 
 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1895, 
 and supplemented this course with post-graduate 
 work in special branches of his profession. 
 
 Concluding his studies, Dr. Gates returned to 
 the city of his birth and began the practice of his 
 profession among the friends and surroundings of 
 his boyhood. Here is found a history of uninter- 
 rupted success and much appreciation from Dr. 
 Gates' friends. He was elected first Health Officer 
 of Santa Clara County, California, serving two years 
 (1898-1899), which work he 
 carried on in addition to his 
 private practice. For five 
 years he was physician to 
 the Orphans' Home, a serv- 
 ice in which he took a great 
 deal of interest and delight. 
 In 1902 Dr. Gates and his 
 wife, also a physician, spent 
 six months in Chicago and 
 New York studying. They 
 returned to San Jose and in 
 1905 Dr. Gates was appointed 
 to take charge of the County 
 Hospital. Here, as in his 
 work as Health Officer, pio- 
 neer work was necessary, as 
 the Santa Clara County Hos- 
 pital, like all similar institu- 
 tions of that date, had not 
 been put on a hospital basis. 
 With the aid of his excep- 
 tionally capable wife ard a 
 very progressive Board of 
 Supervisors, a thoroughly up- 
 to-date hospital and training 
 school was organized and es- 
 tablished, with the result 
 that it is second to none in 
 the State of California at the present time. 
 
 From July, 1906, to July, 1908, Dr. Gates and 
 his wife traveled over Europe, studying under the 
 most famous men in the Universities of Vienna 
 and Berlin, and enjoying at the same time close 
 contact with the peoples of these countries. Upon 
 the conclusion of their two-year stay they returned 
 to San Jose, where he again took up his practice 
 and the hospital work, to which both were devoted. 
 But during his absence his mother and brothers 
 had definitely located in Los Angeles, where the 
 eldest brother, Carroll, had long been one of the 
 leading citizens and anxious to have the family 
 around him to enjoy the never-ending delights of 
 the Southland. So, in order that they might all 
 be together, Dr. Gates and his wife moved to Los 
 Angeles in November, 1909, where he took up 
 practice. 
 
 Dr. Gates is a member of various medical so- 
 cieties and of several clubs, including the Cali- 
 fornia, University and Los Angeles Country Clubs 
 and Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 ENDERSON, CHARLES 
 ANDREW, Electric Rail- 
 ways, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Peoria, 
 Illinois, February 1, 1860. 
 He is the son of John Morrison Henderson 
 and Julia (Bradley) Henderson. 
 
 Mr. Henderson had only about five years' 
 schooling in his youth and his position in the 
 business world he has 
 made for himself. He 
 entered the public school 
 at Peoria when he was 
 six years of age and left 
 in 1871, when he was 
 about eleven, to become 
 a cash boy in a large dry 
 goods establishment in 
 Peoria. Despite his 
 youth he was advanced 
 by his employers to a 
 clerkship and he was 
 working in that capacity 
 when he left, in 1874, to 
 go into the railroad busi- 
 ness. 
 
 His first position in the 
 railroad world was in the 
 Passenger Traffic Depart- 
 ment of the Toledo, Pe- 
 oria and Western Rail- 
 w a y Company, with 
 headquarters in Peoria. 
 After working in that 
 branch of the service for 
 a time, Mr. Henderson 
 was transferred to the 
 Maintenance of Way Department, in which 
 he worked as clerk until the Toledo, Peoria 
 and Western was absorbed by the Wabash 
 Railroad, and he was then transferred to the 
 Transportation Department. 
 
 While with the Wabash, Mr. Henderson 
 was connected, in alternate years, with 
 either the Transportation or Maintenance of 
 Way Department and while in the latter he 
 acquired practical knowledge of the con- 
 struction part of railroading, his work caus- 
 ing him to locate, at different times, in Pe- 
 oria. Springfield, Decatur and Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 In 1889, Mr. Henderson was offered the 
 position of Chief Clerk to the Superintendent 
 of the Jacksonville Southeastern Line, with 
 headquarters at Jacksonville, Illinois, and he 
 thereupon resigned from the Wabash. The 
 Jacksonville Southeastern was controlled at 
 that time by the late William S. Hook and 
 
 C. A. HENDERSON 
 
 Mr. Henderson was associated with him for 
 many years succeeding. In addition to his 
 work as Chief Clerk, Mr. Henderson was 
 Purchasing Agent for the company and rafter 
 serving in this dual capacity for several 
 years, was made General Superintendent of 
 the road, in which position he remained until 
 he retired from the railroad business in 
 Jacksonville, about 1893, or the early part of 
 1894. 
 
 At that time Mr. Hen- 
 derson separated from 
 Mr. Hook, but by a 
 strange coincidence of 
 business they were 
 brought together again 
 in Los Angeles, only 
 this time in electric rail- 
 ways, with Mr. Hender- 
 son in one company and 
 Mr. Hook at the head of 
 another. The latter had 
 started a traction line in 
 Los Angeles in 1894 and 
 Mr. Henderson having 
 gone to visit relatives in 
 that city, was chosen the 
 following year (1895) as 
 Auditor for the Los An- 
 geles Railway Company, 
 rival of the Hook lines. 
 He was also given the 
 duties o f Purchasing 
 Agent for the road and 
 from that time to the 
 present has been one of 
 the leading factors in the 
 work of the company. 
 
 In November, 1910, Mr. Henderson was 
 appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 company, in addition to his other duties and 
 in July, 1911, was made Assistant General 
 Manager of the company, still holding his 
 other offices. In his new position Mr. Hen- 
 derson has had active charge of the larger 
 portion of the electric railways of Los An- 
 geles and is regarded as one of the leading 
 traction men of the Southwest. 
 
 Besides his railway offices, Mr. Henderson 
 has various outside interests, these including 
 the Southwest Land Company, of which he 
 is Vice President. 
 
 Mr. Henderson is a Mason (Knight Tem- 
 plar and Shriner) and holds membership in 
 the leading clubs of Los Angeles, including 
 the California, Jonathan and Gamut Clubs, 
 the Los Angeles Country Club and the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 VERSOLE, HENRY OWEN, 
 Physician, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at his 
 lather's country place, near 
 Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 1877. 
 He is the son of Miller Eversole and Louisa 
 (MacNaughten) Eversole, and married Mary 
 Sherman Clark, second daughter of Eli P. 
 Clark, at Los Angeles, September 15, 1910. 
 
 The doctor's grand- 
 father, .Henry Eversole, 
 left his Virginia home 
 early in the nineteenth 
 century and, with his 
 family, settled in the 
 broad rich farm lands of 
 central Ohio. Miller 
 Eversole, his youngest 
 son, married Louisa, the 
 third daughter of Owen 
 and Susan MacNaughten. 
 Owen MacNaughten's 
 parents came from Scot- 
 land to New York and 
 later went to Ohio and 
 Pennsylvania, where the 
 young Scotchman, Owen, 
 met and married Susan 
 Baker, whose family es- 
 tate is now a part of the 
 city of Philadelphia. 
 
 Miller Eversole's youth 
 was spent mostly in the 
 country and at the age of 
 sixteen years he began 
 teaching school. A few 
 years later found him in 
 college and then teaching languages in 
 Pleasanton Academy, near Lancaster, Ohio. 
 After his marriage he devoted most of his 
 time to managing his country estates. On 
 July 4, 1878, the first anniversary of his 
 son's birth, he was killed by lightning, leav- 
 ing the doctor as his only child. 
 
 Dr. Eversole's early education was under 
 the direction of his grandfather, Owen Mac- 
 Naughten, until the death of the latter, after 
 which he had the advantage of tutors and 
 travel until he reached the age of twenty- 
 one. At this time the Spanish-American 
 War fired his enthusiasm and he sailed from 
 San Francisco, August 11, 1898, for the Phil- 
 ippines, attached to the Volunteer Engineer 
 Corps of the U. S. Army. He contracted 
 fever in Honolulu, and it is due, orobably, to 
 his experience in the temporary hospitals at 
 Honolulu and the long years he spent in 
 search of health, almost irretrievably lost, 
 
 DR. HENRY OWEN EVERSOLE 
 
 that he became interested in the study of 
 medicine; for in 1904 Dr. Eversole entered 
 the Medical Department of the University of 
 California. He was graduated in the class of 
 1908 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 
 and after this he did post-graduate work in 
 the clinics of Columbia and Johns Hopkins 
 Universities, until he left for Europe to do 
 special work in the clinics and laboratories of 
 Drs. Cohenheim, Klem- 
 perer and Pick in Berlin. 
 This was followed bv one 
 year's study in the Uni- 
 versity of Vienna, inter- 
 spersed with practical 
 work in the clinics of Drs. 
 Schlessinger, Kovacs, Von 
 Noorden, Braun, Finger, 
 Cohn and Sterk. Later, he 
 spent several months in 
 the laboratory of Dr. Carl 
 Spengler, the celebrated 
 specialist of Davos Platz, 
 Switzerland's great est 
 health resort, at original 
 research under his per- 
 sonal direction. 
 
 Returning to Los An- 
 geles, he entered upon 
 private practice, devoting 
 the greater time to the 
 study of tuberculosis and 
 at the same time continu- 
 ing the research begun in 
 Europe. 
 
 In the spring: of 1911, 
 Dr. Eversole and his 
 bride returned to Europe, where he spent six 
 months in the clinics of Vienna, Munich 
 and Davos Platz. He returned to Los An- 
 geles in November of the same year and re- 
 sumed his practice. 
 
 Dr. Eversole, who is engaged in a conscien- 
 tious effort to eradicate tuberculosis, con- 
 ducts a free clinic in Los Angeles to which he 
 devotes two days of each week. He has writ- 
 ten various articles on the subject and one of 
 the most important of his works is the trans- 
 lation into English of the researches of Dr. 
 Spengler, who has devoted his life to the 
 study of Immunity and Tuberculosis. 
 
 Dr. Eversole is a member of the various 
 medical and scientific organizations. These 
 include the American Medical Association. 
 California State Medical Society and the Los 
 Angeles County Medical Society. 
 
 He is also a member of the University 
 Club, Nu Sigma Nu, and Theta Nu Epsilon. 
 
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 SBORN, SIDNEY P., Secretary of 
 State of Arizona, Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona, was born in that city May 
 17, 1884, the son of Neri Osborn 
 and Marilla (White) Osborn. He 
 married Miss Marjorie Grant at 
 Los Angeles, California, September 17, 1912. Mr. 
 Osborn, who bears the distinction of being one of 
 the youngest men to hold such an important office in 
 the history of the United States, is descended from 
 Southern ancestry, his father 
 having been a Kentuckian 
 and his mother a native of 
 Texas. The elder Osborn 
 was one of the pioneers of 
 Arizona, having made the 
 trip across the plains with 
 an ox team in 1863. He lo- 
 cated at Phoenix and has 
 made his home there since, 
 being at one time one of the 
 largest landowners in Mari- 
 copa County. 
 
 Sidney P. Osborn received 
 his education in the public 
 schools of Phoenix, graduat- 
 ing from the High School in 
 the class of 1903. For sev- 
 eral years prior to his gradu- 
 ation, however, he had been 
 earning a livelihood as a 
 newspaper carrier, delivering 
 his papers in the early morn- 
 ing prior to the time for re- 
 porting in the classroom. 
 
 Shortly after his gradua- 
 tion Mr. Osborn was chosen 
 private Secretary to J. F. 
 Wilson, Territorial Delegate 
 to Congress from Arizona, 
 and for the next two years 
 he spent the greater part of 
 his time in Washington, 
 D. C. Here he learned "poli- 
 tics," with the result that he 
 
 has- made a remarkable record for a man of his years. 
 Returning to his home town in 1905, he entered 
 the newspaper business as a reporter on the Ari- 
 zona Democrat. Later he worked as a reporter on 
 the Phoenix Sun, a newspaper established by the 
 Rev. Sam Small, the noted evangelist. He remained 
 with the Sun during its brief but brilliant lifetime. 
 He returned to the Democrat upon the closing of 
 the Sun's career and served in various departments 
 of that newspaper, including the editorial, adver- 
 tising and circulation branches and became one of 
 the best all-round newspapermen of Phoenix. 
 
 Politics, however, held the greatest charm for 
 him and since the time he left Washington he has 
 been a prominent figure in the affairs of the Demo- 
 cratic party in Arizona. In 1906 he was elected 
 chairman of the Democratic City Committee of 
 Phoenix and has served as such since (1912). He 
 also served for several years as Secretary of the 
 Maricopa County Committee. 
 
 In 1910, following the passage of the enabling 
 act by which Congress granted Statehood to Ari- 
 zona, Mr. Osborn resigned his newspaper position 
 temporarily and entered vigorously into the cam- 
 paign for election of delegates to the Constitutional 
 Convention and despite his youth was elected a 
 Delegate to the body, defeating several strong Re- 
 
 SIDNEY P. OSBORN 
 
 publicans who were running in Maricopa County. 
 The Constitutional Convention met on October 
 10, 1910, and during the time it continued in session 
 Mr. Osborn took an active part in its deliberations. 
 He served as a member of various committees hav- 
 ing in charge the drafting of the Constitution, 
 among them that on suffrage and elections. Being 
 a keen observer of laws and conditions, Mr. Os- 
 born drafted a recall provision for inclusion in the 
 Constitution and offered it for adoption on the 
 floor of the Convention. 
 There were several similar 
 provisions presented, but the 
 one finally adopted 1 by the 
 framers of the basic law of 
 the State was substantially 
 the same as that offered by 
 Mr. Osborn. It was this meas- 
 ure which brought him 
 prominently to notice in the 
 political field. It will be re- 
 membered that President 
 Taft refused to sign the bill 
 admitting Arizona to State- 
 hood until that part of the 
 recall provision relating to 
 the Judiciary was stricken 
 out. This was done, but at 
 the first session of the Legis- 
 lature the feature was re- 
 turned to the Constitution, 
 thus permitting Mr. Osborn's 
 measure to stand as origin- 
 ally introduced. 
 
 At the close of the Consti- 
 tutional Convention, Mr. Os- 
 born returned to his news- 
 paper work and continued as 
 a reporter until he was called 
 upon to accept the nomina- 
 tion for Secretary of State 
 by the Democratic party. He 
 made a splendid pre-primary 
 campaign and received the 
 nomination at the election 
 
 October 24, 1911, over one of the most influential 
 Democrats in the State. During this campaign 
 Mr. Osborn visited every county in the State and 
 made speeches in nearly every town. He repeated 
 his canvass shortly afterward and at the first gen- 
 eral election December 12, 1911, was elected to 
 office by a majority of 1196. 
 
 Taking office February 14, 1912, Mr. Osborn has 
 since devoted himself to the duties of his office, 
 which were particularly numerous because practi- 
 cally a complete reorganization of the State Gov- 
 ernment was involved. Under the Constitution of 
 Arizona the Secretary of State also is ex-officio 
 Lieutenant Governor and Mr. Osborn, twenty-seven 
 years of age at the time of taking office, will be 
 called upon to act as Governor whenever the Execu- 
 tive should be unable to attend to his duties. 
 
 Although he is not an orator, Mr. Osborn is one 
 of the forceful speakers in the Democratic ranks of 
 Arizona and during the numerous campaigns in 
 which he has figured has been very effective as a 
 debater, largely because of his intimate knowledge 
 of public questions. He was one of the speakers 
 for Woodrow Wilson in the campaign of 1912, which 
 resulted in Mr. Wilson's election to the Presidency. 
 Mr. Osborn is a member of the B. P. O. Elks and 
 the famous Bachelor Club of Phoenix. 
 
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 ARDINER, JOHN PEDEN, Civil 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Creswick, Australia, 
 November 7, 1871, the son of Wil- 
 liam Gardiner and Barbara (Pe- 
 den) Gardiner. He married Vir- 
 ginia M. Bowman at Oakland, California, December 
 26, 1906. 
 
 Mr. Gardiner entered the public school in Gee- 
 long, Victoria, in the year 1880, and after finishing 
 there enrolled in Geelong 
 College, from which he was 
 graduated in 1888. He then 
 entered Melbourne Universi- 
 ty and was graduated in the 
 class of 1893 as a Bachelor 
 of Civil Engineering. 
 
 For approximately two 
 years after he left the uni- 
 versity Mr. Gardiner was en- 
 gaged in engineering work 
 in Melbourne, and in 1895 
 sailed for America. He ar- 
 rived in Los Angeles in Au- 
 gust of the same year and 
 became associated in various 
 electrical and irrigation 
 works, and in 1898 had 
 charge of the engineering 
 work in connection with the 
 building of the Southern 
 California Power Company's 
 plant in the Santa Ana Can- 
 yon, under Mr. E. M. Boggs. 
 
 In December, 1898, Mr. 
 Gardiner left this field to 
 study railroad construction 
 and accepted a position in 
 Kingman, Arizona, to build a 
 
 line to the mines of Chloride, Arizona. Finishing 
 this work in June, 1899, he accepted a position 
 with the Oregon Short Line Railroad, with head- 
 quarters at Salt Lake City, Utah, and remained 
 there until July, 1901. 
 
 At that time Mr. Gardiner became connected 
 with the El Paso Northeastern Railroad System, 
 and after serving for two years as Engineer of 
 Construction, continued his railroad work by accept- 
 ing a position with the Moffatt Railroad, running 
 from Denver to Salt Lake City. 
 
 In March, 1905, he left the Moffatt road to enter 
 the Reclamation Service of the United States, and 
 aided in laying out what was known as the Huntley 
 Project in Montana, but left that in September of 
 the same year and joined the New York Central 
 Railroad. 
 
 He remained with the New York Central Road 
 for about six months, leaving to take charge of the 
 construction of a large mill and cyanide plant at the 
 Guadaloupe Mine in Durango, Mexico. This work 
 
 J. P. GARDINER 
 
 kept him engaged until July, 1907, and upon its 
 completion he made an extensive trip through the 
 lower part of Mexico, returning by way of the Pa- 
 cific Coast, whence he sailed to visit his Austra- 
 lian home. 
 
 When he first came to America Mr. Gardiner's 
 idea was to spend five years in the study of engi- 
 neering practice in this country, with particular 
 attention to electric light and power development, 
 railroad and irrigation problems. At the end of 
 his five years' time, however, 
 Mr. Gardiner found the work 
 in the new country so inter- 
 esting he decided to remain 
 in the United States. 
 
 After a stay in Australia 
 he returned to America in 
 April, 1908, and associated 
 Mmself with Manifold & 
 Poole, Mechanical and Elec- 
 trical Engineers at Los An- 
 geles, engaged in the devel- 
 opment of electric power in 
 Inyo and Mono counties, Cal- 
 ifornia. 
 
 This development work 
 kept Mr. Gardiner occupied 
 for about two years, but in 
 1910 he resigned his con- 
 nection with Manifold & 
 Poole and decided to devote 
 his entire time to caring for 
 his private interests. During 
 his several years in the 
 Western country Mr. Gardi- 
 ner became possessed of con- 
 siderable property and he is 
 at the present time engaged 
 in the development of his 
 holdings in Los Angeles and vicinity. 
 
 Outside of his immediate personal business, Mr. 
 Gardiner holds an interest in the firm of Ball & 
 Welch, Propy, Ld., one of the largest dry-goods 
 establishments in Australia. 
 
 Mr. Gardiner for many years has been an en- 
 thusiastic patron of the arts and has become noted 
 as an amateur collector. He now has an inter- 
 esting private gallery, including several especially 
 noteworthy studies. Because of his artistic incli- 
 nations, he has been honored by election as an 
 associate member of the Southern California Art 
 Club, and to this he devotes a considerable portion 
 of his time, although he is an ardent supporter 
 of any movement which means for the develop- 
 ment of the city in which he has elected to make 
 his future home. 
 
 In addition to his Southern California Art Club 
 membership, Mr. Gardiner is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers and the Jona- 
 than Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 219 
 
 ENNITT, EPHRAIM JAMES, Bank- 
 er, Phoenix, Arizona, was born in 
 Schuyler County, New York, June 
 13, 1853, the son of John McClure 
 Bennett and Clymena M. Shutts. 
 He married Emma Ruth Bennett, 
 eldest daughter of Guy Bennett, at Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona, October 3, 1888. Mr. Bennitt is descended 
 of a family whose American branch is almost as 
 old as the nation itself, the earlier members hav- 
 ing settled in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania 
 in pre-revolutionary times. Later, members of 
 the family transferred their residence to the 
 Chemung Valley of New York, where Mr. Bennitt's 
 grandfather, Colonel Green Bennett, was a promi- 
 nent figure in military affairs. 
 
 Mr. Bennitt received his early training in the 
 public schools of his native county and upon the 
 completion of his studies there, attended Alfred 
 University, at Alfred, New York. He left in his 
 sophomore year to enter the civil engineering de- 
 partment of Union College at Schenectady, New 
 York, from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1875, with the degree of C. E. 
 
 Mr. Bennitt, who has been one of the practical 
 upbuilders of Phoenix and Salt River Valley, left 
 his home in Watkins, New York, early in June, 
 1875, for Junction City, Kansas, then the Western- 
 most railroad point, whence they intended to start 
 for the gold fields of Arizona. Before they started, 
 they were joined by Mr. Bennitt's father, mother and 
 younger brother, and the four became part of a train 
 of eighty persons who journeyed with ox teams 
 across the continent. They arrived at Prescott, 
 Arizona, near the site of Fort Whipple, then the 
 military headquarters for the Southwest, on Nov- 
 ember 3, 1875, after five months on the road. 
 
 The Winter of 1875-76, Mr. Bennitt, with some 
 of the party who had come with him, spent in the 
 Bradshaw Mountain district mining for gold, but 
 were unsuccessful and he, with a friend, George 
 C. Waddell, went into the general mercantile busi- 
 ness at Tiger Mine, near the Bradshaw basin. 
 They conducted this store for several years, or un- 
 til the mine was closed down in 1880. 
 
 With Emil Eckhoff, Mr. Bennitt then spent sev- 
 eral months in the survey and location of a rail- 
 road planned by its promoter, Charles A. Hensey, 
 of Philadelphia, to run between Phoenix and old 
 Maricopa, about ten miles west of where the pres- 
 ent city of Maricopa stands. Owing to his inabil- 
 ity to get satisfactory rates for the handling of 
 supplies and material for this road, which was the 
 first projected under the Territorial Exemption 
 Act, it never got beyond the survey stage. 
 
 When it became definitely known that the road 
 could not be built, Mr. Bennitt returned to Pres- 
 cott and opened offices for the practice of his 
 profession, but closed them in about a year and ac- 
 cepted a position as clerk in the general store of 
 M. Goldwater & Sons. He remained in this posi- 
 tion for about two years, then in company with 
 Colonel William Christy, went to Phoenix, where 
 he has remained since. With Colonel Christy, Mr. 
 Bennitt organized and opened the First National 
 Bank of Phoenix in October, 1882. It was the first 
 Bank to operate with federal charter in Arizona. 
 Six months after opening, it went into liquidation 
 as a National Bank, and Mr. Bennitt and his asso- 
 ciates organized the Valley Bank, as it is known 
 to-day. This Bank, starting with a capital of 
 $50,000 has grown to be the largest financial in- 
 stitution in the State of Arizona. The capital was 
 increased to $100,000 by the suspension of cash 
 
 dividends for three years, at the end of which time 
 a hundred per cent stock dividend was declared. 
 Mr. Bennitt started in as Assistant Cashier of the 
 original bank and for ten years worked unceasing- 
 ly, with the result that at the end of a decade, 
 failing health caused him to resign his active con- 
 nection with the bank, although he still remained 
 a stockholder and director. 
 
 About this time Mr. Bennitt opened a loan and 
 investment business, which he has continued 
 under the name of E. J. Bennitt & Company, 
 and for several years devoted himself to this al- 
 most exclusively. In 1891 he had regained his 
 strength and with James A. Fleming and P. J. Cole, 
 organized the Phoenix National Bank on March 12, 
 1892, he taking the office of Cashier. He occupied 
 this post for about three years, then resigned and 
 resumed his own business exclusively. He con- 
 fined his attention to it until 1903, when, upon the 
 death of Colonel Christy, he again actively engaged 
 in the management of the Valley Bank, as Presi- 
 dent, a position he still retains. 
 
 Mr. Bennitt, for thirty years, has been one of 
 the financial leaders of Phoenix and has been one 
 of the principal factors in the development of the 
 city and its tributary territory. As a banker and 
 business man, he was aided in the projection of 
 various irrigation works, including the Arizona 
 Canal, which traverses the Salt River Valley for 
 forty miles and has been the means of reclaiming 
 a vast section of country for agricultural purposes. 
 He also helped organize the first Commercial Club 
 of Phoenix and also the Phoenix Board of Trade. 
 
 In the early days, he lent himself to every move- 
 ment intended for the betterment of the city and 
 the increase of its commercial importance, and, 
 with certain others, opened and operated a private 
 thoroughfare, a Boulevard, known as Central Ave- 
 nue, which is the most beautiful thoroughfare in 
 Salt River Valley. He also took an active interest 
 in social affairs and was among the organizers of 
 the first fire company and athletic club in Phoenix. 
 He helped organize Trinity Episcopal Mission, later 
 made a pro-Cathedral, and has served as a member 
 of the vestry since its formation. 
 
 Mr. Bennitt was one of the organizers of the 
 Maricopa Club, now known as the Arizona Club, 
 of Phoenix, and also was a leading figure in Mason- 
 ic affairs for many years. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, helped to organize the Knights 
 Templar Commandery and was the second Com- 
 mander in 1894. He was elected Grand Commander 
 for Arizona, in 1895, and also served during 1900 
 as Imperial Potentate of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 For many years, Mr. Bennitt, who is a Demo- 
 crat in his political beliefs, took an active part in 
 the affairs of his party and served several terms 
 as City Treasurer of Phoenix, but has steadfastly 
 declined to accept any strictly political office. 
 
 For several years past, Mr. Bennitt has been a 
 member of the Board of Governors of the Salt 
 River Valley Water Users' Association, which is 
 composed of the water users in Salt River Valley 
 who receive water from the Roosevelt Reservoir. 
 It is the governing body of the great irrigating 
 and electrical supply system of the Valley. 
 
 These are just a few of the enterprises with 
 which Mr. Bennitt has been connected, but they 
 serve to illustrate the part he has taken in the up- 
 building of the City. Aside from the interests al- 
 ready mentioned, Mr. Bennitt is concerned in vari- 
 ous commercial enterprises, including Goldwater 
 Bros., the McNeil Co. and the Alhambra Brick & 
 Tile Co., all agents in the growth of the City. 
 
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 ELMER E. COLE 
 
 OLE, ELMER E., Real Estate, Los 
 Angeles, Gal., was born in New 
 Hampshire, December 21, 1863. 
 He is the son of H. L. Cole and 
 Emily (Phipps) Cole. He mar- 
 ried Laura M. Mayhew at Minne- 
 apolis, Minn., in 1893, and to them have been born 
 two sons, Lloyd and Harold Cole. 
 
 Mr. Cole attended the public schools of Port- 
 land, Maine, and Boston, Mass., until he was six- 
 teen years old. At the age of eighteen he was a 
 traveling salesman for a Boston cutlery company, 
 and continued in that capacity until he was twenty- 
 three years of age, when he resigned and went to 
 Minneapolis, embarking in the real estate business. 
 He dealt principally in farming and ranch lands 
 and for thirteen years was an important factor in 
 developing that section. During these thirteen 
 years he met with both success and reverses, but 
 lie kept at it and subsequently achieved a lasting 
 success. In 1900 he sold his interests in the Northwest 
 and moved to Los Angeles. He immediately opened 
 "brokerage offices, dealing in stocks, bonds and min- 
 ing properties. He remained at this occupation 
 until 1905, when he gave up the stock and bond 
 end of his business and confined himself to real 
 estate and lands. He holds extensive mining in- 
 terests, extending from Northern California to Old 
 Mexico. Since engaging in the real estate business in 
 Los Angeles, Mr. Cole has handled some large 
 deals in acreage tracts, among them being the sale 
 of 1500 acres south of Playa del Rey, California. 
 He deals extensively in city property and is the 
 owner of some of the most valuable real estate in 
 the business center of Los Angeles. 
 
 He formerly was a member of the Los Angeles 
 Stock Exchange, and is a member of the Chamber 
 of Commerce, Realty Board, Masons, Los Angeles 
 Automobile Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, 
 Gamut Club and California Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 M. S. HELLMAN 
 
 ELLMAN, MAURICE S., Banker, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in that 
 city, September 3, 1864. He is the 
 son of the late Samuel Hellman 
 and Adelaide (Adler) Hellman, his 
 family being identified with the 
 business and financial history of Los Angeles for 
 many years. He married Alice Schwarzschild, at 
 San Francisco, Cal., July 16, 1889, and to them there 
 have been born three children, Melville S., Lucile S. 
 and S. Jack Hellman. 
 
 Mr. Hellman was educated in the schools of his 
 native city and graduated from high school, with an 
 exceptional record, in 1880. 
 
 Two years after he left school he went into the 
 stationery business with his father, and at the end 
 of three years, when his father decided to give up 
 the business, he, with a partner named Stassforth, 
 bought the business and continued it under the 
 firm name of the Hellman-Stassforth Company 
 This association existed up to 1894, when Mr. Hell 
 man sold out his interest and went into the bond 
 brokerage business with J. F. Sartori. 
 
 One year after this he was elected vice presi- 
 dent of the Security Savings Bank, and he gave up 
 all outside business connections to devote himself 
 exclusively to banking. He has remained vice presi- 
 dent of the bank down to date and in addition is in- 
 terested in other banking institutions, holding the 
 vice presidency and directorship of the Title Insur- 
 ance and Trust Company. In keeping with the his- 
 tory of his family, Mr. Hellman has become one of 
 the leading bankers of Los Angeles and is an im- 
 portant factor in the development of that city. 
 
 He takes an active interest in the public affairs 
 of Los Angeles. He is also an ardent booster and 
 belongs to most of the civic clubs and improvement 
 associations. 
 
 He is a member of the Concordia Club and the 
 Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 DR. CHAS. C. BROWNING 
 
 ROWNING, CHARLES CLIFTON, 
 
 Physician, Los Angeles, California. 
 Born May 25, 1861, Denver, Illinois. 
 Son of Enoch Clifton Browning 
 and Sophia Louisa (Pennock) 
 
 Browning. Married Helen E. Til- 
 
 lapaugh at Denver, Illinois, August 26, 1885. They 
 have one child, Helen Gilberta Browning. 
 
 Dr. Browning attended preparatory school, Shel- 
 byville, Missouri, 1878-79; Shelbina College, 1880; 
 Christian University, 1881; Missouri State Univer- 
 sity, 1881-83, receiving degree of M. D. Practiced 
 in Illinois until 1888. At the University of City of 
 New York, 1888-89. 
 
 Served interneships at the New York House Re- 
 lief and the Insane Asylum, Blackwell's Island. 
 In 1891 he went to Califiornia, locating at San 
 Jacinto. Remained there until 1893, then went to 
 Highland, California, and in 1905 moved to Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 He was Medical Director Pottenger Sanatorium, 
 Monrovia, from 1905 to April, 1910; incorporator 
 and vice president Pottenger Sanatorium Company; 
 organizer and first vice-president First Bank of 
 Highland; incorporator and first secretary High- 
 land Domestic Water Company; incorporator of San 
 Bernardino County Savings Bank; incorporator and 
 vice-president Highland Fruit Growers' Association; 
 member of staff Medical Department University of 
 Southern California; ex-president of the Redlands 
 Medical Society, San Bernardino County Medica 1 
 Society and the Highland Library Club. 
 
 Member of all the important medical societies, 
 National, International, California and Los Angeles 
 Associations for the Study and Prevention of Tu- 
 berculosis, and National Child Labor Society. Also 
 of Monrovia Board of Trade and Municipal Water- 
 ways Association. Belongs to University and City 
 Clubs of Los Angeles; Elks, Knights Templar, Mys- 
 tic Shrine and Eastern Star. 
 
 J. WISEMAN MACDONALD 
 
 ACDONALD, JAMES WISEMAN, 
 Attorney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in Mazomanie, 
 Wisconsin, Jan. 17, 1866, the son 
 of Allan Macdonald and Eleanor 
 (Wiseman) Macdonald. He is a 
 descendant of the famed Macdonalds of Clan Ran- 
 ald, of the Western Highlands of Scotland, whose 
 name is frequently mentioned in song and story. 
 He married Jane Boland in San Francisco, June 23, 
 1902. They have three children, Allan, Eleanor 
 and James Wiseman Macdonald, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Macdonald, although born an American, 
 spent his boyhood and part of his early manhood in 
 England. His father died in 1869, and the mother 
 took the children back to England to her original 
 home where she was born. He was educated at the 
 Grant School, a private institution at Burnly, Lan- 
 cashire, England, conducted by the late W. M. 
 Grant, one of the best known educators of England. 
 On the death of his mother he immediately re- 
 turned to America, coming to Los Angeles in 1891. 
 
 In 1892 he was admitted to the bar before the 
 Supreme Court of California. 
 
 He has served two terms as trustee of the L. A. 
 Bar Association, and was Lecturer on Corporations 
 for the University of So. Cal. He is a director and 
 attorney for the Park Bank of L. A., and president 
 of the Dimond Estate Co. of S. F., a close corpora- 
 tion having large real estate holdings in and near 
 that city. He has been for many years legal ad- 
 viser of the Catholic Bishops of Monterey and of 
 Los Angeles. He is a member of the Knights of 
 Columbus and of the California Club. 
 
 An interesting phase of the history of the Mac- 
 donald family is that for several generations they 
 were under the displeasure of the present royal 
 family on account of their adherence to the Stuart 
 cause and the part they took in the Jacobite wars 
 of 1715 and 1745. 
 
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 DMONDSON, HORACE WILLIAM, 
 Mining Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Bradford, 
 England, June 23, 1877, the son 
 of Joseph Souden Edmondson and 
 Maria Louise (Wray) Edmondson. 
 He married Louise M. Sahlberg of Osage City, 
 Kansas,, at Santa Ana, California, May 25, 1909. 
 Mr. Edmondson, who is one of the practical men 
 of the mining world and an engineer of experience, 
 has spent the greater part of 
 his life in the United States. 
 He was brought over here by 
 his parents in childhood and 
 spent his boyhood in the city 
 of New York. He received 
 his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of the 
 metropolis and followed this 
 with two years' attendance 
 at the College of the City of 
 New York, in the civil en- 
 gineering department. 
 
 Leaving school when he 
 was eighteen years of age, 
 Mr. Edmondson went to the 
 West and from that time 
 down to date has been ac- 
 tively engaged in mining 
 work, holding at the present 
 time commissions from one 
 of the most successful min- 
 ing corporations in the 
 United States. From 1895 
 to 1905 Mr. Edmondson was 
 employed in various engineer- 
 ing and mining operations, 
 working in Alaska, Montana, 
 Idaho, Oregon and other 
 
 parts of the Northwest. He had charge of under- 
 ground work, assaying and other branches of min- 
 ing engineering in these different sections and 
 also spent a large part of the ten years in the 
 management of mines. 
 
 By the year 1905 Mr. Edmondson was estab- 
 lished as one of the expert metallurgical mining 
 engineers of the country and in that year was 
 appointed General Manager of the Parral Corpora- 
 tion, Limited, which owned extensive mining prop- 
 erty in Parral, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and 
 served in this capacity for more than a year. At 
 the same time he was Consulting Engineer for the 
 Balsas Valley Company, operating in Mexico- 
 Resigning his commission with the Parral Cor- 
 poration, Mr. Edmondson took up the duties of 
 General Superintendent and Constructing Engineer 
 for the Rio Plata Mining Company. This com- 
 pany owns valuable silver deposits In Chihuahua 
 and Mr. Edmondson had charge of the construc- 
 tion of the plant which has turned out a large 
 
 H. W. EDMONDSON 
 
 amount of silver bullion in the last few years. 
 In 1907, his work completed for the Rio Plata 
 Mining Co., Mr. Edmondson accepted the position 
 as Manager for the Quebradillas mine, mill and 
 smelter in Parral and operated the work for more 
 than a year. In addition to his duties in his posi- 
 tion, Mr. Edmondson maintained a general practice 
 as Consulting Engineer and made examinations for 
 various mining interests in Mexico. 
 
 The Rio Plata Mining Company offering him the 
 position of General Superin- 
 tendent of its property in 
 1909, Mr. Edmondson ac- 
 cepted it and has been with 
 the company continually 
 since. For the first two 
 years after rejoining the 
 company he spent practically 
 all of his time at the mines 
 in Mexico, but in 1911, with 
 the work of Consulting Engi- 
 neer added to his responsi- 
 bilities, his field was greatly 
 enlarged and for about a 
 year he has been engaged in 
 mine examinations for his 
 company, not only in Mex- 
 ico, but in sections of the 
 United States and Canada. 
 In this work Mr. Edmondson 
 has been in close associa- 
 tion with D. W. Shanks, Vice 
 President and General Man- 
 ager of the company, and 
 one of the successful mining 
 operators of the United 
 States. It was largely 
 through the efforts of Mr. 
 Shanks and the men he 
 
 gathered around him that the Rio Plata was placed 
 among the paying properties of Mexico. 
 
 It is worthy of note in connection with this prop- 
 erty that Pasqual Orozco, leader of the revolution 
 of 1912 against the Madero Government in Mexico, 
 was a freight contractor engaged in the transporta- 
 tion of silver ore from the mine just prior to the 
 revolutionary outbreak in 1910 which resulted in 
 the overthrow of Diaz. 
 
 Mr. Edmondson, who is a giant in physique, has 
 had a picturesque career in Mexico, where war and 
 rebellion have existed all around the scene of his 
 operations, but dislikes reference to this phase of 
 his life. He prefers to be known for his profes- 
 sion only and in this he has attained a splendid 
 standing. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers and of the Mexican Institute 
 of Mining Metallurgy of Mexico City. He is also 
 prominent in Masonic circles, with the Thirty-second 
 Degree rank, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine- 
 
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 AIN, FERDINAND RAN- 
 DALL, President, Southern 
 Counties Gas Company, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Chatham, New York, May 
 3, 1861, the son of Milton Bain and Charlotte 
 M. (Nash) Bain. He has been twice mar- 
 ried, his first wife having been Hattie J. 
 Kenworthy, whom he married at Pough- 
 keepsie, New York, De- 
 cember 9, 1885. To them 
 there were born three 
 daughters, Ethel, Mary 
 and Kathleen Bain. His 
 second wife was Ger- 
 trude M. Benchley-Miller, 
 whom he married in New 
 York City, February 1, 
 1911. 
 
 Mr. Bain received his 
 preliminary education in 
 private schools of Dover 
 Plains, New York, and 
 was graduated from 
 Bishop's Preparatory 
 School at Poughkeepsie, 
 New York, in 1878. His 
 parents dying that year, 
 he gave up his plans for 
 a college career and en- 
 gaged in the real estate 
 and investment business 
 in Poughkeepsie. 
 
 Mr. Bain was engaged 
 in this field for about 
 twenty-five years and 
 during that time was one 
 of the prominent figures in the financial and 
 political life of the city. Early in his career 
 he purchased the street railway system of 
 Poughkeepsie, known as the Poughkeepsie 
 and Wappingers Falls Railroad and served 
 for two years as its President and General 
 Manager. He sold the property to another 
 syndicate at that time and shortly afterward, 
 in company with Former Governor Benjamin 
 . Odell, Jr., of Newburgh, purchased the 
 Electric Light and Gas Company of New- 
 burgh, New York. He was elected President 
 of this corporation and served in that capac- 
 ity for a year, when he sold his interest in 
 order to look after other affairs. 
 
 From this time on Mr. Bain branched out 
 in various financial lines and for many years 
 was one of the conspicuous figures in bank- 
 ing, realty, railroad and other utility corpo- 
 rations. He held the office of President for 
 two years in the Poughkeepsie Gas and Elec- 
 
 FERDINAND R. BAIN 
 
 trie Company and for several years after 
 leaving that office retained a large interest in 
 the company. While he was President of 
 the company he also held the same office in 
 the Varick Realty Company, which owned a 
 square block of property in New York's busi- 
 ness district, the site of one of the largest 
 mercantile buildings in the metropolis. He 
 maintained offices at 35 Wall street. 
 
 He still had extensive 
 interests in Poughkeepsie 
 and other parts of New 
 York at this time, being 
 a director in the Farmers 
 and Manufacturers' Na- 
 tional Bank of that city 
 and an officer in various 
 other corporations. In 
 1904 his New York busi- 
 ness had increased to 
 such an extent he was 
 compelled to relinquish 
 his real estate and invest- 
 ment enterprises in 
 Poughkeepsie, with the 
 exception of the gas and 
 bank holdings, and trans- 
 fer his headquarters to 
 New York City. 
 
 For about seven years 
 he was practically inac- 
 tive and spent this time 
 principally in traveling 
 Europe. He purchased a 
 large interest in the 
 Southern Counties Gas 
 Company, a corporation 
 which had taken in many of the gas plants of 
 the Southern part of California, and was 
 elected Vice President and General Manager. 
 Within a short time he was elected President 
 of the company. 
 
 In Poughkeepsie Mr. Bain was active in 
 civic affairs, was elected a member of the 
 Board of Aldermen in 1886 and re-elected in 
 1888. At the expiration of his second term 
 he was elected Supervisor for two years. 
 
 In 1894 he was appointed City Assessor for 
 the purpose of reorganizing the assessment 
 system of the city and held the office two 
 years. He was Secretary for fourteen years 
 of the Dutchess County Agricultural Society, 
 resigning when he moved to New York City. 
 Mr. Bain is a member of the Down Town 
 Club, and the Republican Club of New York ; 
 the Gamut, L. A. Country Club and the Un- 
 ion League of Los Angeles; also the L. A. 
 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 AY, CASSIUS MASON, Refrigerat- 
 ing Engineer and Inventor, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 North East, Pennsylvania, Novem- 
 ber 17, 1862, the son of Ira R. 
 Gay and Diana (Mason) Gay. He 
 married Julia I. Fessenden at Chicago, Illinois, 
 September 20, 1885, and to them there have been 
 born six children, Byron S., Norman H., Ira F., 
 Edith A., Bertha A. and Cassias- Mason Gay, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Gay received a public 
 school education, graduating 
 from the Westfleld, New 
 York, High School in 1880, 
 and followed this with a 
 year's study at Bryant & 
 Stratton's Commercial Col- 
 lege, Buffalo, New York, and 
 later took a post-graduate 
 course in mathematics and 
 physics under a private tu- 
 tor. 
 
 His father being engaged 
 in the flour milling business, 
 Mr. Gay's first work was in 
 that line. After remaining 
 in that business for some 
 time, he left his father to be- 
 come Secretary to the Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Flint & 
 Pere Marquette Railroad. He 
 remained in that capacity un- 
 til 1884, when he resigned to 
 take a position with the Con- 
 solidated Ice Machine Com- 
 pany of Chicago. He was 
 with this concern about six 
 
 years- then, in 1890, organized C. M. GAY 
 
 the Carthage Ice & Cold 
 
 Storage Company, at Carthage Mo. Mr. Gay held 
 the controlling interest in the company and also 
 served as General Manager. In 1893 he sold his 
 interest and went to Winfield, Kansas, where he 
 organized the Winfield Ice & Cold Storage Com- 
 pany. 
 
 This company he conducted until 1895 and then 
 sold out to J. P. Baden, at the same time being 
 appointed Manager of the Baden interests. The 
 capital of the Company being steadily increased, 
 its operations were similarly broadened until, in 
 1900, the produce business it handled was the 
 largest of any plant in the West. While manag- 
 ing the Winfield business Mr. Gay had, in 1896, 
 designed and erected the Southern Ice & Cold 
 Storage Company's plant at Fort Worth, Texas. 
 In 1897, Mr. Gay went abroad and investigated 
 the development and practice of Refrigeration in 
 foreign countries. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Gay severed his connection with the 
 Baden interests to become Manager of the Pitts- 
 burg office of The Vilter Manufacturing Company, 
 
 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also acted as Con- 
 sulting Engineer and Refrigerating Expert for the 
 Company, maintaining his headquarters in Pitts- 
 burg until the year 1905, when he transferred to 
 Los Angeles as General Coast Representative for 
 his Company. There he has taken a leading po- 
 sition among professional men. 
 
 In 1907, Mr. Gay was sought out by the Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company to solve the problem of pre- 
 cooling fruits directly in cars so that they could 
 be transported great dis- 
 tances. He conducted a se- 
 ries of experiments and other 
 investigations into the condi- 
 tions of railroad refrigerator 
 service, and the result was 
 the designing and patent- 
 ing by him of a system of 
 pre-cooling in cars which 
 upon trial proved so entirely 
 successful that the Santa Fe 
 Railroad adopted his designs 
 and patents and built a great 
 pre-cooling and icing station 
 at San Bernardino, Cali- 
 fornia. This plant was de- 
 signed and constructed by 
 Mr. Gay. It has an ice-mak- 
 ing capacity of 80,000 tons 
 of ice per annum, ice storage 
 capacity of 30,000 tons, a 
 pre-cooling capacity of 120 
 cars per day, and a car icing 
 capacity of 240 cars per day. 
 Experts acknowledge this 
 to be the largest and most 
 efficient plant of its kind in 
 the world, and the pre-cool- 
 ing of fruits by the train- 
 load prior to their being shipped to distant 
 markets marked an epoch in the history of trans- 
 portation. Mr. Gay, with his system of balanced 
 air circulation in cars, not only shortened the time 
 of handling and transportation of perishable fruits, 
 but also made certain the preservation of their 
 fresh qualities. This means much to California, 
 adding greatly to the value of her large fruit 
 industry. 
 
 For many years a contributor to leading en- 
 gineering journals and a recognized authority in 
 refrigeration, his inventions in the new field of 
 railroad pre-cooling work has placed him in the 
 first rank as a successful pioneer and inventor in 
 this field. 
 
 Mr. Gay is a member of the International and 
 American Association of Refrigerating Engineers. 
 He is also a member of the Los Angeles Chamber 
 of Commerce and in fraternal circles is a Thirty- 
 second Degree Mason. His clubs are the Los An- 
 geles Athletic and the Athenian, of Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
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 COTT, IRVING MURRAY (de- 
 ceased), Ironmaster, Mechanical 
 Engineer and Ship Builder, San 
 Francisco, CaL, was born at "He- 
 bron Mills," Baltimore County, 
 Maryland, December 25, 1837. He 
 was the son of John and Elizabeth (Littig) Scott 
 and the great-great-grandson of Abraham and Eliza- 
 beth Dyer Scott, who emigrated to America from 
 Cumberland, England, in 1722, bringing a certificate 
 of good standing in the Eng- 
 lish Society of Friends. Abra- 
 ham Scott purchased a tract 
 of land in Maryland, known 
 as "Old Regulation," from 
 Lord Baltimore in 1723, and 
 there established a grist 
 mill, a fulling mill, a tan 
 yard and store, and from 
 these mills the place became 
 known as "Hebron Mills," 
 and there Irving Murray 
 Scott was born one hundred 
 and fifteen years after his 
 ancestor came to America, 
 and there his sister still re- 
 sides. 
 
 He married Laura Hord, 
 daughter of John Redd and 
 Seaneth Tennis of Kentucky, 
 October 7, 1863, and is sur- 
 vived by two children, Alice 
 Webb and Laurance Irving 
 Scott. 
 
 From "Old Nick," the 
 miller at Hebron Mills, he 
 first acquired a taste for 
 knowledge and mechanics. 
 
 He attended the public 
 schools and later the Milton 
 Academy, where he studied 
 for three years under John 
 Emerson Lamb. Leaving 
 there, he declined his 
 father's offer of a profes- 
 sional course, preferring mechanics, and he accord- 
 ingly was apprenticed to Obed Hussey, of Balti- 
 more, inventor of the reaping machine, with whom 
 he learned the engineering and wood-working 
 trades. Completing this, he worked for several 
 years in Baltimore supervising the construction of 
 engines, meantime devoting his leisure to study. 
 He enrolled in the Mechanics' Institute, dividing 
 his time between mechanical drawing, German and 
 lectures. In 1860 Mr. Scott was engaged as a 
 draughtsman by the Union Iron Works of San 
 Francisco, which at that time employed only 22 
 men, and was chiefly engaged in manufacture of 
 mining machinery. In 1861 became chief draughts- 
 man, and in 1863 a partner in business, with posi- 
 tion of Superintendent, which was later changed to 
 Gen. Mgr., a post he held until his death. Under 
 his guidance the Union Iron Works became a mam- 
 moth iron and ship building concern, with millions 
 of capital and thousands of men in its employ. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Scott made a trip around the world 
 with James Fair, studying closely the shipyards of 
 England and France. When he returned he practi- 
 cally rebuilt the Union Iron Plant in San Francisco, 
 and in 1884, when it became a corporation, he 
 caused shipbuilding to be made a part of its work. 
 In addition to private vessels, it has built numerous 
 
 IRVING M. SCOTT 
 
 warships for the United States and other govern- 
 ments. The battleship "Oregon," at the time of its 
 completion one of the most powerful battleships in 
 the world, was its product. In 1898 Mr. Scott went 
 to St. Petersburg to advise the Russian Govern- 
 ment on battleship construction. 
 
 Mr. Scott was largely interested in banking, 
 mining and other fields, and to him was largely due 
 the development of the Clipper Gap Iron Co., one of 
 the richest in California. Incidentally he was the 
 inventor of improved cut-off 
 engines and other machines, 
 and designed the machinery 
 for the famous Comstock 
 Mines. He was vitally inter- 
 ested in educational, histori- 
 cal and literary affairs; was 
 president of the Art Associa- 
 tion of the Mechanics' Insti- 
 tute; regent of the Univer- 
 sity of California; trustee of 
 the Leland Stanford, Jr., 
 University and the Free Li- 
 brary; president of the S. F. 
 Art Association, Washington 
 Irving Literary Society, Addi- 
 sonian Literary Society and 
 the Howard Street Literary 
 Society, and in 1880 was pres- 
 ident of the Authors' Carni- 
 val. He served several terms 
 as president of Mechanics' In- 
 stitute. He was a fluent writ- 
 er and has contributed to 
 magazines upon labor and 
 other subjects. As early as 
 1869 Mr. Scott won the com- 
 mendation of William Sew- 
 ard for an address delivered 
 before the Mechanics' Insti- 
 tute, and in later years was 
 a popular speaker at public 
 gatherings and patriotic 
 events, having delivered ora- 
 tions at the unveiling of 
 
 statues to Francis Scott Key and Starr King in 
 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He was a mem- 
 ber of the State Prison Board under Governor 
 Stoneman, and member of the staff of Governor 
 Perkins of California. 
 
 He was at one time a candidate for the State 
 Senate. He also served as president, in 1891, of the 
 Cal. Commission to the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion. In 1892 he made a second trip to Europe. 
 
 He was nominated for State Senator and dele- 
 gate to form the State Constitution; member of the 
 Freeholders to form Charter of San Francisco, 1895; 
 appointed member of the Hundred to formulate a 
 Charter for S. F., 1896; elected Rep. presidential 
 elector, 1886; Pres., Commercial Museum of S. F., 
 1900; Chairman of Committee to receive President 
 McKinley, 1901; spoken of for Vice President of the 
 United States during McKinley's campaign for 
 President; made Doctor of Philosophy by Santa 
 Clara College for distinguished services to the State 
 in 1901. 
 
 He was a member of the Pacific-Union, Bur- 
 lingame, Army and Navy, University, Bohemian, 
 Union League, Press Clubs and Society of the 
 American Wars, of San Francisco, and the Lawyers' 
 Club and National Arts Society of New York. 
 Mr. Scott died in San Francisco, April 28, 1903. 
 
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 TANTON, WILLIAM, Retired At- 
 torney, Capitalist, Pasadena, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Salem, Ohio, 
 August 28, 1832, the son of Dr. 
 Benjamin Stanton and Martha 
 (Townsend) Stanton. He has been 
 twice married, his first wife having been Ellen K. 
 Irish, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whom he wed 
 in 1870. She died in 1897, leaving him a daughter, 
 Emily Stanton, now Mrs. Oliver S. Picher, wife of 
 the General Manager of the Picher Lead Works, 
 Joplin, Missouri. He married a second time in 
 1903, his wife being Mrs. Sophronia (Harbaugh) 
 Nevin. 
 
 Mr. Stanton attended the primary schools near 
 his home until he was sixteen years of age and for 
 the next three years attended a select school. At 
 the age of nineteen he determined upon civil en- 
 gineering as a profession and took a position as 
 rodman in a corps engaged in surveying what is 
 now the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 
 through Ohio and Indiana. He gave this up at the 
 end of three years, however, and turned his atten- 
 tion to the study of law in the Cincinnati Law 
 School. 
 
 Admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1859, immediately 
 following his graduation, Mr. Stanton opened 
 offices in Cincinnati for the practice of his profes- 
 sion, and during the sixteen years he remained in 
 practice was one of the prominent attorneys of Cin- 
 cinnati. He allied himself with the Republican 
 party early in his career and two years after he 
 entered professional ranks was elected to the State 
 Legislature as the representative of his district. 
 Mr. Stanton served three terms in the Ohio House, 
 from 1861 to 1867, and during that time took a 
 leading part in the handling of various important 
 legislative acts. He was a member of the Judiciary 
 Committee and was Chairman of the Committee on 
 Public Schools of the House. The period during 
 which he served in the Legislature was one of the 
 most important in its history. He figured in two 
 notable Senatorial contests, casting his vote for 
 Benjamin F. Wade on one occasion and for John 
 Sherman on another in their contests for seats in 
 the United States Senate. 
 
 In 1867, upon his retirement from public life, 
 Mr. Stanton resumed the active practice of his 
 profession in Cincinnati and continued it until 1875, 
 when, on account of failing health, he closed his 
 offices and moved to New Brighton, Pennsylvania. 
 After three years there he moved to Sewickley, 
 near Pittsburg. He lived there for several years 
 and took an active interest in the welfare of the 
 town, serving two terms as Burgess. The improve- 
 ments he made to his home place in Sewickley fur- 
 nished the inspiration to other property owners 
 and resulted in the establishment of a beautiful 
 residence district. In Pittsburg, Mr. Stanton 
 erected the Stanton Building, then one of the large 
 and substantial office buildings of that city. 
 
 During a visit to Southern California in 1889, 
 Mr. Stanton spent some time at Pasadena and be- 
 came so charmed with the country that he pur- 
 chased Grace Hill, the site of his present home, 
 comprising thirteen acres of land. He erected his 
 residence there in 1890 and since that time has 
 made it his home. When he first saw the place 
 the possibilities of it appealed to him, but the 
 property had only been slightly improved. During 
 the twenty-two years that have elapsed, however, 
 he has improved it each year with the result that 
 Grace Hill is one of the beautiful private residence 
 parks of the country. It consists of a splendid 
 sweep of land, rising to an elevation, which gives 
 a commanding view of the picturesque country sur- 
 rounding it. 
 
 When he first took possession of Grace Hill, Mr. 
 Stanton planted rows of ornamental and fruit trees 
 and through the careful handling of a corps of gar- 
 deners the homestead has been transformed into a 
 place of beauty with acres of green lawn, orchards 
 and many varieties of flora. 
 
 From the time he located in Pasadena, Mr. 
 Stanton took an active interest in the affairs of the 
 town and has been one of its ardent upbuilders, 
 having seen it change from a village into a modern 
 city, noted for the number and magnificence of its 
 mansions, and become the winter rendezvous of 
 wealthy tourists from all parts of the world. 
 
 Mr. Stanton had faith in the future of the city 
 from the day he first saw it and during the years 
 that have intervened was one of the active oper- 
 ators in real estate, with the result that he is 
 a heavy landowner. He bought and still owns the 
 Stanton Building, in the business center of Pasa- 
 dena, and also has other interests. 
 
 Of recent years, Mr. Stanton has led a retired 
 life, but formerly was active in various lines. 
 Among his affiliations was the Pasadena National 
 Bank, of which he was Vice President and Director 
 for many years. 
 
 From the time when he, as Chairman of the 
 Committee on Public Schools in the Legislature of 
 Ohio, led in the inauguration of improvements in 
 the school system of that State, Mr. Stanton has 
 been an advocate of educational advancement and 
 he had only been in Pasadena a few years when 
 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of Throop 
 Polytechnic Institute, an educational institution 
 located there. He served for more than ten years, 
 resigning in 1908 when he gave up his other public 
 duties. Mr. Stanton is esteemed by the people of 
 Pasadena as one of the city's strongest and most 
 public-spirited citizens and, having followed the 
 precepts of his Quaker ancestors, is noted among 
 his fellowmen for his fair dealing and sense of 
 justice. 
 
 He has splendid business and social standing, 
 and is a member of the Valley Hunt Club, of Pasa- 
 dena, and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity as 
 a member of Corona Lodge, No. 324, F. & A. M. 
 
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 ILLIAMS, WILLIAM AL- 
 FRED, Chief Geologist of the 
 Associated Oil Company of 
 San Francisco, was born in 
 San Francisco, August 25, 
 1880, the son of William Alfred and Lucy A. 
 (Goodell) Williams. His paternal ancestors 
 were large land owners in Devonshire, Eng- 
 land, while on his mother's side he is descended 
 from the Griswolds, a 
 prominent New England 
 family. His father came 
 to America in 1863, first 
 settling in New Hamp- 
 shire, where he was well 
 known as a raiser of fancy 
 stock, but subsequently 
 moved to California to 
 take charge of the New 
 England colony at Fresno, 
 an intention which, how- 
 ever, was never realized. 
 
 W. A. Williams at- 
 tended various primary 
 and grammar schools in 
 San Francisco and San 
 Miguel, San Luis Obispo 
 County, was graduated in 
 1899 from the Paso Robles 
 High School, entered Stan- 
 ford University in the fall 
 of that year, and in 1903 
 took therefrom his A. B. 
 degree in geology and 
 mining. In 1902 and 1903 
 he was appointed assistant 
 instructor there in miner- 
 
 W. A. WILLIAMS 
 
 States. Early in 1906 he became mill fore- 
 man under Mr. W. A. Pomeroy in Chihuahua, 
 Mexico, and later was mine foreman for the 
 same company. After two years of this ex- 
 perience he returned to California, where, in 
 September, 1908, he entered the employ of the 
 Associated Oil Company as geologist, under 
 W. R. Hamilton. 
 
 Until 1910, when Mr. Williams was ap- 
 pointed chief geologist, 
 his field experience as a 
 geologist covered work in 
 California, Texas, Mexico 
 and South America. As 
 chief geologist he reports 
 on lands submitted to the 
 company for its considera- 
 tion, and assists in the 
 acquired properties. He 
 has continued the work of 
 mapping geologically a 
 large part of the state and 
 working in detail the geol- 
 ogy of the possible oil ter- 
 ritory as outlined by his 
 predecessor. As a result 
 of these labors it is prob- 
 able that the Associated 
 Oil Company has avail- 
 able the most nearly com- 
 plete first-hand geological 
 knowledge not only of the 
 oil fields of California, but 
 also of the state as a whole. 
 In all this Mr. Williams 
 has been ably assisted by 
 an efficient staff both in 
 
 alogy, field geology and topographical survey- 
 ing, a valuable training of which he has since 
 made excellent use. 
 
 In the fall of 1903 he entered the service of 
 the United States Geological Survey as field 
 assistant, under F. L. Ransome, who was at 
 that time working in the Couer d'Alene dis- 
 trict, Idaho ; and the next year he was engaged 
 on the Santa Cruz Quadrangle, in California, 
 under Dr. J. C. Branner. 
 
 Mr. Williams was in the employ of the 
 Guggenheim interests in 1904, under Mr. O. B. 
 Perry. He left to accept a position with Horace 
 Pomeroy, then superintendent of the King of 
 Arizona Gold Mine in Yuma County, Arizona. 
 Then followed several years of practical expe- 
 rience in different mines in Nevada, Arizona, 
 Montana and Idaho, wherein he worked in 
 various capacities, both in mine and mill, and 
 obtained a knowledge of mining and milling 
 methods in vogue in the Western United 
 
 the office and in the field. 
 
 He has also one of the most extensive oil 
 libraries on the Pacific Coast, for which he has 
 a complete index system whereby every article 
 of importance published on the subject of pe- 
 troleum is readily available for reference. A 
 fair measure of the great success he has at- 
 tained is the recognized standing of his depart- 
 ment today among prominent oil men, and 
 ample evidence of the trustworthiness of his 
 judgment is found in the many satisfactory 
 reports he has made to his company. 
 
 Mr. Williams is not only conservative in 
 his professional duties, but also in his private 
 and social life. While at Stanford he was a 
 non-fraternity man, and has since remained 
 aloof from clubs, determined to give the best 
 that is in him to attain the greatest measure 
 of success possible. The only organization of 
 which he is a member is the American Society 
 of Mining Engineers. 
 
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 RAKE, CHARLES RIVERS, 
 
 Capitalist, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Walnut 
 Prairie, Clark County, Illinois, 
 July 26, 1843. His father was 
 Charles Drake and his mother before 
 her marriage was Mahala Jane Jeter. His 
 paternal line traces back to the gallant 
 commander, Sir Francis Drake. Mr. Drake's 
 wife was Mrs. Kate As- 
 trea Seeley, whom he 
 married in Tucson, Ari- 
 zona, April 30, 1890; as 
 issue of this marriage is 
 Marguerite Rivers Drake. 
 Mr. Drake has been twice 
 married, his first wife 
 having been Agripine 
 Moreno, whom he mar- 
 ried in Tucson, Arizona, 
 in July of 1872. Of this 
 union were born Jean 
 G., William Lord, Albert 
 Garfield, Elizabeth Jane 
 and Pinita Rivers Drake. 
 Mr. Drake had a pub- 
 lic school education and 
 at an early age began his 
 conquest of fortune, 
 which he soon achieved. 
 He is a man whose name 
 is synonymous with the 
 upbuilding of the West, 
 particularly of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Drake began his 
 business life by qualify- 
 ing as drug clerk, which 
 occupation he filled until 1863, when he en- 
 tered the United States Navy, volunteer ser- 
 vice, beginning with the post of acting mas- 
 ter's mate in the War of the Rebellion, 1863 
 to 1865. During his enlistment he served in 
 the Mississippi Squadron under Admiral D. 
 D. Porter. At the end of the war he re- 
 signed and re-entered his former occupation 
 in New York. Later he was made hospital 
 steward in the United States Army service, 
 and was assigned to duty under General 
 Crook, then commanding the Department of 
 Arizona, where in 1871 he was stationed at 
 Fort Lowell, Tucson. In 1875 he retired to 
 civil life and took up his residence at Tucson, 
 where he was made Assistant Postmaster 
 and Assistant United States Depositary, un- 
 til 1880. In 1881 he was elected County Re- 
 corder of Pima County, and was again chosen 
 for that office in 1883. During those years 
 he conducted a general insurance, brokerage 
 
 CHARLES R. DRAKE 
 
 and real estate business throughout Arizona. 
 While conducting his insurance and brok- 
 erage business, Colonel Drake was appointed 
 by President Harrison to the office of Re- 
 ceiver of Public Moneys at the U. S. Land 
 office in Tucson. During his residence of 
 thirty years in Arizona he filled innumerable 
 political positions, including two elections to 
 the Territorial Senate and as president of 
 that body. 
 
 In 1893 Colonel Drake 
 organized the famous firm 
 in the Southwest of Nor- 
 ton & Drake, associating 
 himself with the late 
 Major John H. Norton. 
 This concern undertook 
 labor contracts for the 
 Southern Pacific Com- 
 pany, and through that 
 business and numerous 
 other investments Colonel 
 Drake amassed a reason- 
 able fortune and moved to 
 Los Angeles in 1900 with 
 the intention of living a 
 retired life, but he saw so 
 many opportunities for 
 his talents that he found 
 it hard to break away 
 from his life training, and 
 as a result has continued 
 in active business life. 
 
 His principal efforts 
 since moving to Los An- 
 geles have been along 
 lines of development in 
 and about Long Beach, the popular and sub- 
 stantial beach city. Through his investments 
 he has become one of the most vitally inter- 
 ested men in the upbuilding of that city. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles Colonel 
 Drake has become president, general man- 
 ager and director of the Seaside Water Com- 
 pany, and occupies the same positions with 
 the San Pedro Water Company, the Long 
 Beach Bath House and Amusement Com- 
 pany and the Seaside Investment Company, 
 the corporation which owns and operates the 
 great Virginia Hotel of Long Beach, which is 
 undoubtedly the finest example of a beach 
 hotel on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, 
 Los Angeles Country Club, Chamber of Com- 
 merce of Los Angeles, Chamber of Commerce 
 of Long Beach, Hotel Virginia Country Club, 
 Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fel- 
 lows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
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 ORRISON, ALEXANDER 
 FRANCIS, Attorney-at-Law, 
 San Francisco, Cal., was born 
 in Weymouth, Mass., Feb. 22, 
 1856, the son of Archibald 
 Morrison and Ellen (Hart) Morrison. As he 
 came to San Francisco in 1864, when he was 
 eight years old, and has grown up with the 
 city, he is generally regarded as a true San 
 Franciscan. On April 
 27, 1893, he was married, 
 at Turner, Oregon, to 
 Miss May B. Treat. 
 
 After a course in the 
 public schools of San 
 Francisco he attended the 
 Boys' High School, from 
 1872 to 1874, and then 
 entered the University of 
 California, from which 
 he was graduated A. B. 
 with the Class of 78. In 
 1881 he took the degree 
 of LL. B. from the Has- 
 tings College of the Law 
 and began the active 
 practice of his profes- 
 sion. 
 
 While he was a stu- 
 dent at Hastings he sup- 
 plemented his studies 
 with some practical ex- 
 perience in the law office 
 of Cope & Boyd, and not 
 long after his admission 
 to the bar, in 1881, he 
 formed a partnership 
 with Thomas V. O'Brien, under the name of 
 O'Brien & Morrison. In 1889 this was 
 changed to O'Brien, Morrison & Dainger- 
 field. 
 
 Two years later Mr. Morrison withdrew 
 from this firm and formed an alliance with 
 the late C. E. A. Foerster, which continued 
 until the latter's death, in 1898. 
 
 Hon. W. B. Cope having joined the firm 
 in 1896, the title remained Morrison & Cope 
 until 1906, when it became Morrison, Cope 
 & Brobeck, and on the death of Judge Cope, 
 in 1908, Morrison & Brobeck. The present 
 firm of Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck was 
 formed in 1910. 
 
 During these years Mr. Morrison's prac- 
 tice has been of a general nature, but chieflj 
 in corporation law, wherein his skill and 
 character have won him an unusual degree 
 of respect and confidence. Almost from the 
 start he has had charge of cases involving 
 
 A. F. MORRISON 
 
 important questions and interests. Con- 
 spicuous among these was his attorneyship 
 for the settlement of the George Crocker 
 Trust, and also for the estate of Col. Charles 
 F. Crocker. 
 
 His identification with the Crocker inter- 
 ests, especially as they relate to the public, 
 was still more prominent in the part he 
 played in the proceedings whereby the debt 
 of the Central Pacific 
 Railroad Company was 
 readjusted and the prop- 
 erty of that company ac- 
 quired by the Southern 
 Pacific. 
 
 In fact, his success in 
 bringing about settle- 
 ments and relations as 
 harmonious and satisfac- 
 tory as the conditions 
 will permit has been as 
 pronounced as is his rep- 
 utation for diffidence and 
 trustworthiness. 
 
 Mr. Morrison's special 
 hobby is historical read- 
 ing, and in the pursuit 
 thereof he has collected 
 what is probably the 
 largest private library of 
 historical works to be 
 found in the State. It 
 comprises more than ten 
 thousand well selected 
 volumes. 
 
 Among the various 
 corporations of which he 
 
 is a director are the Crocker Estate Com- 
 pany, the Crocker, Huffman Land ind 
 Water Company, the Crocker National 
 Bank of San Francisco, the Western Sugar 
 Refining Company, the Spreckels Sugar 
 Company, the National Ice and Cold Storage 
 Company, the Parrafine Paint Company and 
 others. 
 
 Mr. Morrison is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Historical Association, the Pacific Coast 
 Historical Society, the California Academy 
 of Sciences, the National Geographical So- 
 ciety, the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science and the American Eco- 
 nomic Society. In each of these organiza- 
 tions, which have for the objects modern ac- 
 complishment, Mr. Morrison is an enthusi- 
 astic worker and takes an active part. 
 
 He is a member of the Pacific-Union 
 Club, the University Club, the Commercial 
 Club and the University of California. 
 
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 231 
 
 INKLE, FREDERICK CE- 
 CIL, Consulting Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, California, is 
 a native of Viroqua, Wis- 
 consin, where he wa born 
 May 5, 1865. His father was Thurston 
 Finkle and his mother was Sophia (Mich- 
 elet) Finkle, a descendant of the cele- 
 brated French historian, Jules Michelet. 
 
 Mr. Finkle was mar- 
 ried on September 18, 
 1901, in San Francisco, to 
 Miss Priscilla Ann Jones, 
 a son being born of the 
 union, Frederick Cecil 
 Finkle, Jr. 
 
 After graduating from 
 the public schools of his 
 native town, Mr. Finkle 
 took a special course of 
 engineering at the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, ex- 
 tending from 1882 until 
 1887, when he came to 
 California, settling at San 
 Bernardino, where he at 
 once plunged into impor- 
 tant engineering employ- 
 ment. 
 
 From 1887 until 1888 
 he was chief engineer for 
 the North Riverside Land 
 and Water Company, the 
 Jarupa Land and Water 
 Company, and the Vivi- 
 enda Water Company, for 
 irrigation systems costing 
 approximately six hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 From 1889 to 1893 he was city engineer 
 of San Bernardino, during the construction 
 of the water works, of streets, and many 
 other municipal improvements, and at the 
 same time as consulting engineer for the 
 State of California for water works and for 
 sewer systems for state institutions. 
 
 From 1893 to 1897 Mr. Finkle was chief 
 engineer for the East Riverside Irrigation 
 district, the Riverside-Highland Water Com- 
 pany and the Grapeland Irrigation district, 
 and from 1897 to 1906 he served notably as 
 chief engineer for the Southern California 
 Edison Company and allied concerns, in 
 charge of designs and construction of seven 
 hydro-electric power plants costing ten mil- 
 lion dollars. 
 
 Since 1906 Mr. Finkle has been retained 
 as consulting engineer and expert in hy- 
 draulic work 'for a score of irrigation and 
 
 F. C. FINKLE 
 
 water supply companies in California, Ore- 
 gon, Colorado, Arizona, Mexico and other 
 regions. He is consulting engineer for thirty 
 or more large corporations, partly mutual 
 water companies and partly public service 
 corporations. Among these are: All the 
 mutual water companies in the Imperial 
 Valley, Cal. ; the Southern California Edison 
 Company, Arrowhead Reservoir and Power 
 Company, Redlands and 
 Yucaipa Land and Water 
 Company, Mount Hood 
 Railway and Power Com- 
 pany of Portland, Ore., 
 and many others. 
 
 Mr. Finkle's most im- 
 portant works and those 
 which have attracted 
 world-wide attention are 
 the Kern River plant No. 
 1 of the Edison Company, 
 the largest impulse water 
 wheel plant in the world; 
 Mill Creek No. 3 plant of 
 the Edison Company, op- 
 erating under nearly 
 2000 foot head, and Ar- 
 rowhead Dam at 'Little 
 Bear Valley, the highest 
 earth dam in the world. 
 
 Mr. Finkle ranks as 
 one of but few men who 
 are considered the high- 
 est authorities on hy- 
 draulic power, irrigation 
 and domestic water sup- 
 ply, and hydrographic 
 geology in the world. He has contributed 
 somewhat to engineering publications on 
 these subjects. 
 
 He built and owns the Finkle Building, 
 Los Angeles, a beautiful eight-story rein- 
 forced concrete structure occupied by the 
 Hotel Snow ; he owns the Monitor Apart- 
 ments at Ocean Park and other properties. 
 
 As a conservative Democrat Mr. Finkle 
 has taken occasional interest in politics. He 
 belongs to the American Institute of Electri- 
 cal Engineers, the American Society of Irri- 
 gation Engineers, the So. Cal. Engineers and 
 Architects' Association and the So. Cal. Chap- 
 ter of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers. He is a member of the California 
 Club of Los Angeles, the Bohemia Club and 
 Sierra Club of San Francisco, the Denver 
 Club of Denver, the Automobile Club of So. 
 Cal., and the Automobile Association of 
 America. 
 
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 OUDGE, HERBERT J., At- 
 torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, a native of Lon- 
 don, England, was born in 
 1863, on April 26; his parents 
 were Nathaniel Edmund Goudge and Agnes 
 (Bateman) Goudge. 
 
 He was married on February 1, 1891, to 
 Miss Nellie Agnes Tighe, in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Goudge 
 have three children: 
 Agnes, George Philip 
 and Mildred Goudge. 
 
 He attended first the 
 City of London School, 
 then the City of London 
 College, and then Kings 
 College in London, fol- 
 lowing a course of legal 
 studies, for which he had 
 a natural inclination. 
 
 But finding his health 
 failing, he was forced to 
 forego the professional 
 career contemplated and 
 begin a quest for 
 strength, one that hap- 
 pily proved eminently 
 successful. 
 
 He spent two years in 
 travel about his own 
 country and on the con- 
 tinent of Europe, after- 
 wards coming to New 
 York, where a branch of 
 his family have lived for 
 generations. There he 
 
 HERBERT J. GOUDGE 
 
 Almost immediately (1894) he was ad- 
 mitted to practice before the Supreme Court 
 of the State of California, and in 1907 he at- 
 tained the right to appear before the highest 
 tribunal of the country and successfully ar- 
 gued his first case before the United States 
 Supreme Court. 
 
 Soon after his admission to the California 
 bar Mr. Goudge found that his business 
 grew so rapidly that 
 he was encouraged to 
 place himself in a larger 
 circle and more pro- 
 nounced center of affairs, 
 so he removed to Los 
 Angeles in 1895, where 
 he engaged in the 
 practice of his profes- 
 sion. 
 
 He took a decided in- 
 terest in municipal af- 
 fairs, and was led to ac- 
 cept the position of First 
 Assistant City Attorney 
 in 1901, a place that he 
 continued to fill with 
 credit to himself and val- 
 uable results to the city 
 until 1906. 
 
 During his term -of of- 
 fice Mr. Goudge distin- 
 guished himself by his 
 work in connection w^th 
 the legislation required 
 by the tremendous 
 growth of the city. 
 
 Both in construc- 
 
 remained for a short time and then projected a 
 lengthy journey to Panama, which he under- 
 took and which led him later to the west 
 coast of Central America and Mexico, and 
 finally to San Francisco, where he arrived in 
 1888. 
 
 California presented its varied attrac- 
 tions and resources to him, and after travers- 
 ing the State from San Francisco to San 
 Diego, with a view to a life in the open, he 
 entered farming, moving to Ventura County, 
 where he set out a very large tract of land 
 to citrus and deciduous fruits. 
 
 While pursuing the life of a farmer with 
 a high degree of success, Mr. Goudge 
 found the lure of the law still insistent, and 
 he resumed his readings and studies, adapt- 
 ing himself readily to the requirements of 
 the profession as existing in California, and 
 was admitted to practice in the Superior 
 Courts of Ventura County in 1893. 
 
 tive legislation and in the presentation 
 of such matters before the Senate and 
 Assembly at Sacramento Mr. Goudge 
 proved of great worth to the community. 
 He played ?. prominent part in many impor- 
 tant events in the history of the city, such as 
 the taking over of the City Water Company's 
 plant, the acquisition of the Owens River 
 water rights and the preservation of the Los 
 Angeles River bed from private exploitation. 
 On his retirement from office Mr. Goudge 
 became a member of the new firm of Coch- 
 ran, Williams, Goudge and Chandler, which 
 after the retirement of Mr. George I. Coch- 
 ran from practice became Williams, Goudge 
 and Chandler. He is a director of the Home 
 Savings Bank and president of the Cotenants 
 Co. He is a member of the Southwest So- 
 ciety, Archaeological Institute of America 
 and L. A. County Horticultural Society, the 
 California, Union League and Sunset Clubs. 
 
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 233 
 
 OOD, WILLIAM, Chief En- 
 gineer of the Southern Pacific 
 Company, San Francisco, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born at Concord, 
 New Hampshire, Feb. 4, 
 1846, the son of Joseph Edward Hood and 
 Maria (Savage) Hood, His ancestors, who 
 were chiefly English, with a blend of Scotch, 
 were among the early settlers of New Eng- 
 land, his father's family 
 choosing Massachusetts, 
 and his mother's people 
 Vermont, as their respec- 
 tive places of residence. 
 Joseph E. Hood, a grad- 
 uate of Dartmouth, with 
 the class of '41, was a 
 well-known journalist in 
 New England, and for 
 sixteen years an editorial 
 writer of the Springfield 
 Republican. Coming of 
 clean, wholesome, sturdy 
 stock, on both sides of 
 the house, William Hood 
 has evidently inherited 
 the essentially New Eng- 
 land characteristics of en- 
 ergy, ambition, and con- 
 scientious devotion to the 
 work in hand. 
 
 From the time he was 
 eight years old to the out- 
 break of the Civil War he 
 attended public schools in 
 Boston and in Spring- 
 field, Massachusetts. Not 
 long after the beginning of hostilities he en- 
 listed as a private soldier in Company A, 46th 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and 
 not only carried, but also fired a musket, 
 through the war, until shortly after the bat- 
 tle of Gettysburg. He then returned home 
 to complete his education. Though he had 
 been prepared for the academic course his 
 ambition to be an engineer prompted him to 
 enter a scientific school. Choosing the B. S. 
 Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth he 
 studied there until 1867, and in May of the 
 same year began his professional career in 
 California, with a field engineering party, in 
 the employ of the Central Pacific Railroad 
 Company. 
 
 Beginning as an axeman he rose in a few 
 months to the post of assistant engineer of 
 the Central Pacific, at that time building the 
 road, with Chinese labor, between Cisco and 
 Truckee. Ninety-one and a half miles had 
 
 WILLIAM HOOD 
 
 been completed to Cisco, and after the twen- 
 ty-seven and seven-tenths miles were finished 
 to Truckee the construction moved rapidly 
 toward Salt Lake. In May, 1869, the Central 
 Pacific rails met those of the Union Pacific 
 on Promentory Mountain, Utah. Mr. Hood 
 then returned to the Sacramento Valley and 
 began work on the road which the Centra] 
 Pacific was building from Marysville, Cali- 
 fornia, to Ashland, Ore- 
 gon. From that time up 
 to the present, while con- 
 structing many thousands 
 of miles of road he has 
 held these positions: 
 1875-83, Chief Assistant 
 Engineer of the Central 
 Pacific ; from June to Oc- 
 tober 10, 1883, Chief As- 
 sistant Engineer of the 
 Southern Pacific ; 1883- 
 85, Chief Engineer of the 
 C. P. ; and is now Chief 
 Engineer of the Southern 
 Pacific Company. 
 
 Among his especially 
 noteworthy achievements, 
 under Mr. Harriman's 
 control, is the reconstruc- 
 tion of the Central Pacific 
 between Reno, Nevada, 
 and Ogden, Utah, includ- 
 ing the Ogden and Lucin 
 cut-off, across Great Salt 
 Lake. He is now busy 
 on the double track be- 
 tween Sacramento and 
 Ogden and on the road now building from a 
 point opposite Mt. Shasta, California, to Na- 
 tron, Oregon, by way of Klamath Lake as 
 well as on sundry other railroad construc- 
 tion. Mr. Hood's reputation as a construc- 
 tive engineer is too well known to require 
 comment. His remarkable sense and mem- 
 ory for detail, topography and other essen- 
 tials of success have caused his associates to 
 regard him as a "law unto himself." But 
 though strictly an engineer, in all that term 
 implies, he is not above riding a hobby or 
 two. Chief among these is his recreation of 
 tramping in the hills and making studies, 
 with .his camera, in black and white, and in 
 color photography. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers and the 
 American Association for Advancement of 
 Science. His clubs are : Pacific-Union, Bo- 
 hemian and Olympic of San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia and Jonathan of. Los Angeles. 
 
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 ARTINEZ, FELIX, Investments, 
 El Paso, Texas, was born in Taos 
 County, New Mexico, March 29, 
 1857, the son of Felix Martinez 
 and Reyes (Cordova) Martinez. 
 He married Virginia Buster at 
 Las Vegas, New Mexico, September 24, 1880, and 
 to them there have been born six children, Felix, 
 Jr., Alejandro, (deceased), Alfonso M., Reyes, Ho- 
 racio (deceased) and Virginia Martinez. The 
 name Martinez is one of the most honored in the 
 history of Spanish America, with numerous repre- 
 sentatives of the family noted in the military and 
 civic annals of the vast domain that was formerly 
 ruled by Spain. From one of these, Don Felix 
 Martinez, Captain General and Governor of the 
 Province of New Mexico in 1715, Felix Martinez 
 is directly descended, and the family has been 
 prominent in the affairs of New Mexico from the 
 time of the Captain General to the present day. 
 
 Mr. Martinez, a prominent figure and leader 
 for many years in political, financial and industrial 
 affairs of the Southwest, received his early edu- 
 cation through private tutors and later spent four 
 years in St. Mary's College, at Mora, New Mexico. 
 He supplemented this with three years' study in a 
 private school in Denver, Colorado. 
 
 The first position held by Mr. Martinez was that 
 of general salesman for a firm in Denver and 
 Pueblo, but in 1877, when he was just about twenty 
 years of age, he embarked in business for him- 
 self as the proprietor of a general mercantile 
 store, at El Moro, Colorado. He only remained 
 there about two years however, moving in 1879 to 
 Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he engaged in busi- 
 ness on a large scale. In addition to conducting 
 a mercantile establishment, he also engaged in 
 buying and selling live stock and sheep, and in 
 lumber manufacturing enterprises and was well 
 started on the way to fortune, when his property 
 was visited by fire and he lost practically every 
 dollar he had in the world. 
 
 Right here the man showed extraordinary cour- 
 age. The disaster came upon him on September 
 18, 1880, within a few days of the date set for his 
 wedding, but undismayed, he went ahead with his 
 wedding preparations, and on September 24, six 
 days after seeing his fortune swept away, he was 
 married. 
 
 Mr. Martinez was not of the kind that waste 
 time in weeping over his losses, however, but set 
 about the recuperation of his fortune. Prior to the 
 fire he had established splendid credit in business 
 and financial circles and through this he was en- 
 abled to get a new start at once. The Eastern 
 wholesale houses readily let him have all the stock 
 he wanted to re-establish his store, while from the 
 First National Bank of Las Vegas he obtained a 
 loan of $2000. 
 
 Despite the fact that he had to pay eighteen 
 per cent per annum, the prevailing rate of interest 
 at that time, on his loan, Mr. Martinez was suc- 
 cessful from the outset and soon was cleared of 
 debt and among the most prosperous men of his 
 community. He conducted his store and other 
 interests until 1886, selling out in the latter year 
 to engage in an entirely new line of activity. 
 
 Foreseeing that the West was a land of prom- 
 ise, destined to lure thousands of homeseekers 
 from the older sections of the East, Mr. Martinez 
 entered into the real estate business, giving espe- 
 cial attention to the building of homes which he 
 sold to settlers on the installment plan. This not 
 only proved a profitable investment for him, but 
 iave numerous men the opportunity to start their 
 
 lives anew, as home owners possessed of an op- 
 portunity they had never known before. 
 
 Mr. Martinez also became interested in various 
 industrial and development pursuits at this time, 
 and met with success in all of his ventures. He 
 had, however, gone into politics quite actively and, 
 being a liberal contributor, suffered heavy drains 
 upon his resources. 
 
 Beginning his political activity about the year 
 1884, when San Miguel was the banner Republi- 
 can County of the Territory of New Mexico, Mr. 
 Martinez worked tirelessly for the Democratic 
 party, with the result that through his influence, 
 the latter organization became the dominant factor 
 in the political affairs of the Territory and con- 
 tinued in power for many years afterwards. Mr. 
 Martinez, for nearly fourteen years, was the leader 
 of his party in San Miguel County and through his 
 many successes there became the leader of the 
 party throughout the Territory. 
 
 Early in his political career, Mr. Martinez was 
 a candidate for election to the office of County 
 Treasurer in San Miguel, and although the county 
 was overwhelmingly Republican he only failed of 
 election by a few votes. Two years later, in 1886, 
 he was the Democratic candidate for the office 
 of County Assessor and was elected, this victory 
 changing the political complexion of the County. 
 He served as Assessor for two years and in 1888 
 was elected a member of the Territorial House of 
 Representatives. He served in this capacity until 
 1892, when he was elected to the New Mexico 
 Senate from San Miguel. He also held office as 
 District Clerk during the Cleveland administra- 
 tion. 
 
 In the same year Mr. Martinez was elected 
 Chairman of the New Mexico delegation to the 
 Democratic National Convention and in the delib- 
 erations of that body was an active factor. It 
 will be remembered that Grover Cleveland, put 
 forward for the nomination, was strenuously op- 
 posed by certain elements in the party and his 
 selection was made possible only through a com- 
 bination on the part of the delegates from the 
 various Territories. Mr. Martinez, looked upon as 
 one of the most astute politicians in the Demo- 
 cratic ranks, organized this combine and held the 
 key to the situation which resulted in the nomi- 
 nation of Cleveland and made possible his election 
 to the Presidency the second time. 
 
 Returning to New Mexico, Mr. Martinez contin- 
 ued to direct the fortunes of the Democratic party 
 for several years after this, but in 1897 moved 
 his headquarters to the larger field afforded by 
 El Paso, although he still retained valuable inter- 
 ests in New Mexico. At that time he practically 
 retired from active politics, but has maintained 
 his interest in the Democratic party and still sup- 
 ports it. He has never permitted his name to be 
 put forward since 1893 as a candidate for any of- 
 fice. His friends in New Mexico, following the ad- 
 mission of the Territory to Statehood in 1911, 
 tried to prevail upon him to become a candidate 
 for election as the first United States Senator from 
 the new State. 
 
 Although he transferred his activities and resi- 
 dence part of the time from New Mexico to Texas, 
 the people of the former State have such confi- 
 dence in the integrity of Mr. Martinez, his remark- 
 able genius for organization and management of in- 
 dustrial ventures- and business development, that 
 there seemed to be a unanimous feeling on the 
 part of those interested in the progress of the 
 new State to choose him as United States Senator 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 regardless of politics. It was generally conceded 
 that he could do more for the new State than any 
 other man who could be found, and it was stated 
 at that time that the State would suffer if party 
 plans should prevent him from being selected. 
 
 Mr. Martinez persistently refused to become a 
 candidate, however, but nevertheless the leaders of 
 the Democratic side of the New Mexican Legisla- 
 ture put him forward as a candidate and many 
 members of the Republican side promised to sup- 
 port him, owing to the fact that they could not 
 agree at that time on a candidate of their own. 
 Later, however, the Republicans became reunited, 
 and being in control of the Legislature, elected 
 one of their own party. The failure to elect him 
 did not disturb Mr. Martinez, for while he was 
 sensible of the compliment the people of New Mex- 
 ico paid him, he was satisfied to remain in the re- 
 tirement he had sought for himself several years 
 previously. 
 
 Ever since Mr. Martinez moved to El Paso, he 
 has been a potential factor in the development of 
 that city. He became identified with numerous en- 
 terprises for its upbuilding almost immediately 
 after his arrival, one of these being the organiza- 
 tion of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, in 
 which he has been an indefatigable worker. 
 
 Mr. Martinez embarked in the real estate busi- 
 ness upon his arrival there and through his plan 
 of selling property on small monthly payments, met 
 with the same success that had attended his efforts 
 in earlier years in Las Vegas. His operations be- 
 came so extensive that he opened up numerous 
 additions to the city of El Paso, and in this way 
 has been instrumental, according to statistics, in 
 building up more than one-half of the present city. 
 
 In addition to these activities, Mr. Martinez 
 has been in the forefront of every industrial im- 
 provement of consequence in El Paso during the 
 years he has been in the city, these including the 
 organization of a new electric railway system, 
 modern water works, Union depot, a great cement 
 factory, numerous real estate companies, develop- 
 ment companies and other affiliated enterprises. 
 
 The climax of Mr. Martinez's civic efforts and 
 perhaps the most notable achievement for the 
 public good of his entire career was the organiza- 
 tion of the El Paso Valley Water Users' Associa- 
 tion. He devoted himself to the accomplishment 
 of the organization persistently for eight years, 
 it being necessary for him to bring the Republic 
 of Mexico and the States of Texas and New Mexi- 
 co to an agreement on the division of the waters 
 of the Rio Grande River. This entailed consider- 
 able legislation, a special treaty between the gov- 
 ernments of Mexico and the United States and the 
 surmounting of numerous other obstacles of va- 
 rious kinds. 
 
 One less determined than Mr. Martinez proba- 
 bly would have been discouraged many times dur- 
 ing the campaign and abandoned the work, but he 
 kept it alive despite all opposition and finally had 
 the satisfaction of bringing about the greatest 
 irrigation project in the United States, and, in 
 some respects, in the whole world, known to-day 
 as the Rio Grande Project. This project has been 
 and is the chief factor in the development of El 
 Paso and surrounding country, and its benefits 
 are multiplying as the work progresses. He has 
 been in charge of the irrigation canal system in 
 the El Paso Valley for the past five years. 
 
 Mr. Martinez commands quite as much consid- 
 eration south of the International Boundary as he 
 
 does on the American side, and, by his many acts 
 of friendly interest, has come to be an influence 
 in the councils of Mexican affairs. It was through 
 his efforts and initiative that the historic meeting 
 between President Taft of the United States and 
 President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico was arranged in 
 1909, and when the two executives met, and in the 
 banquet tendered by President Diaz to President 
 Taft at Juarez, Mr. Martinez took a prominent 
 part in the attendant ceremonies, and was selected 
 to present the golden goblets to the Presidents as 
 mementos of the occasion. At a later date, when 
 Diaz was forced to flee the country and Mexico 
 was torn by civil war, Mr. Martinez initiated the 
 movement that culminated in the successful peace 
 negotiations between the Madero and Diaz forces, 
 thus bringing about peace in the country for the 
 time. 
 
 Despite the fact that he has figured so promi- 
 nently in public affairs, the great secret of Mr. 
 Martinez's success has been his ability to elimi- 
 nate himself from figuring in many places where 
 he should be credited with leading. By his adroit- 
 ness he takes second, third or fourth place or is 
 entirely unknown in matters, where, in truth, he 
 was the main factor. The great desire with him 
 has always been to get the thing done without 
 reference to himself. 
 
 In business affairs of El Paso it has been dem- 
 onstrated on many occasions that the people 
 would rather take his judgment than that of any 
 other man in his section of the State, believing 
 they can follow him with the greatest certainty of 
 success. This is due to the fact that Mr. Martinez 
 has been an untiring worker for the upbuilding of 
 the city and has never lost an opportunity to give 
 to the city any improvement which he thought 
 would be for her benefit. It was with this idea in 
 mind that he fostered the various industries noted 
 above. He also was one of the chief factors in giv- 
 ing to the city a new railroad system the El Paso 
 & Southwestern, which has grown to be one of the 
 most important railroad lines in the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Martinez, in addition to his private invest- 
 ments and his work for the public good, is inter- 
 ested in numerous business enterprises, to all of 
 which he gives a part of his time and counsel. 
 He is a Director in the First National Bank of El 
 Paso, Chairman of the Executive Committee and 
 Secretary of the El Paso Valley Waters Users' 
 Association, President of the Central Building & 
 Improvement Company, President or the Interna- 
 tional Improvement Company, President of the El 
 Paso Realty & Investment Company, Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the Southwestern Portland Cement Com- 
 pany and Director in the First Mortgage Company 
 of El Paso. He also is President of the Martinez 
 Publishing Company of Las Vegas, New Mexico. 
 He is now interested in several publications, and 
 has been the publisher of several daily newspa- 
 pers in New Mexico and Texas, during the last 
 twenty-five years. 
 
 He is stockholder or adviser in many other 
 concerns, but those noted above serve to show 
 the diversity of the man's interests. 
 
 Mr. Martinez, who is respected as a man of 
 highest principle and sense of honor, is a deep 
 student of affairs, an original thinker and philoso- 
 pher, an eloquent and forceful speaker, and a natu- 
 ral leader. He is unselfish in his devotion to the 
 public and esteemed as one of the most valuable 
 factors in the development of the resources of 
 the country. 
 
BYRNE 
 
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 YRNE, CALLAGHAN, Capitalist, 
 (Deceased), Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in New Orleans, 
 Louisiana. He died October 1, 
 1908, leaving one son, Callaghan 
 Byrne, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Byrne left his New Orleans home in child- 
 hood and the greater part of his life was spent in 
 California. The family first located in San Fran- 
 cisco, and Mr. Byrne received his education there. 
 He first attended the Parochial schools of San 
 Francisco and later was graduated from St. 
 Ignatius College, of the same city. 
 
 Upon leaving college Mr. Byrne entered the 
 service of the San Francisco and North Pacific 
 Railroad Company, known as the Donahue Line, in 
 a minor capacity, and within a short time was 
 promoted to the position of Assistant Passenger 
 and Ticket Agent. Later he was appointed to the 
 office of Cashier of the road, and from this position 
 advanced to that of Auditor. 
 
 During his boyhood Mr. Byrne associated with 
 men of large real estate interests, and although 
 he began his career in the railroad business, later 
 in life engaged in real estate on such a scale as 
 to bring credit to himself and the city of Los 
 Angeles. He first visited Los Angeles in 1882, 
 while he was still in the railroad service, stopping 
 off there with his mother on their way to the 
 Mardi Gras fete in his native city of New Orleans. 
 He was so impressed with the Southern California 
 city during that brief visit that he became at once 
 one of its greatest advocates and urged his rela- 
 tives and friends to invest in property there. 
 Finally, in 1886, he with his mother and his brother, 
 James W. Byrne, a business man of San Francisco, 
 made some investments in Los Angeles, and in 
 1892 Mr. Byrne located there permanently. 
 
 From the time of his advent in Los Angeles 
 until his death Mr. Byrne was one of the active 
 forces in the upbuilding of the city and is credited 
 with having had an extraordinary influence on 
 the general growth and advancement of the city. 
 Soon after his arrival there, Mr. Byrne, with the 
 foresight that was one of his chief characteristics, 
 saw the need of a modern office building in a city 
 of &uch great promise and set about drawing plans 
 for such a structure. Aided by his brother, he soon 
 had his plans completed and work was started on 
 the Byrne Building, at Third and Broadway, the 
 first modern office building erected in Los Angeles. 
 The building is five stories high, with a ground 
 space of 120 by 105 feet, is of classical design and 
 architecture. It had the added distinction at the 
 time of its erection, of being built witn the most 
 expensive brick ever used up to that time in Los 
 Angeles, this being the celebrated Roman brick 
 of Lincoln, Placer County, California. 
 
 The Byrne Building gave an impetus to large 
 construction on Broadway, now the main artery 
 of Los Angeles, and served as a model for many of 
 its successors. One of the cardinal principles of 
 Mr. Byrne's life was to have quality in all things 
 rather than quantity, and this idea is carried out 
 in his building, one of the chief characteristics of 
 
 its design being an arrangement that would give 
 sunlight in all offices at all times during the day. 
 In throwing open the building to occupancy Mr. 
 Byrne instituted restrictions that compelled the 
 merchants to establish a fashionable shopping dis- 
 trict, and he rented the offices only to tenants of 
 the highest professional and business standing. 
 
 His efforts to maintain the very best stand- 
 ards on Broadway were as a duty to Mr. Byrne, 
 and it is said of him that he did more to impart 
 dignity and character to that thoroughfare than 
 any other one man of his time. This was instanced 
 in many ways. At one time in the early stages 
 of the development of the street as a business 
 center an attempt was made to locate a saloon 
 on it, and Mr. Byrne immediately started a cru- 
 sade in opposition to the plan, with the result that 
 the saloon was barred, and there never has been 
 one located on Broadway from Second to Sixth 
 Street, a distance of half a mile. This condition is 
 unequaled anywhere in a non-prohibition town, 
 and one result of Mr. Byrne's fight for a clean 
 thoroughfare was a tremendous increase in prop- 
 erty values which have grown steadily since. 
 
 Another unique feature of Broadway, due to 
 Mr. Byrne's efforts, is the lack of trolley poles on 
 the sidewalks, although double tracks run the 
 length of the street. When electric cars were 
 first projected in Los Angeles, he made a proposal 
 to the city and the property owners that the sup- 
 porting wires of the trolley system be run to the 
 buildings on either side of Broadwey in order to 
 keep the section clear of unsightly poles. This 
 was adopted and the appearance of the street 
 thus enhanced. 
 
 These are characteristic instances of Mr. 
 Byrne's work for the betterment of Los Angeles, 
 but numerous others could be cited, for as a mem- 
 ber of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce he 
 was one of the most active workers in the city's 
 behalf, and as Chairman of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce Committee on Fiesta he aided largely in 
 the success of the city's annual celebration. 
 
 Mr. Byrne, despite his efforts for the public 
 good, was a man of retiring disposition and never 
 participated actively in political affairs, his aver- 
 sion to holding office extending even so far as 
 banks and other corporations. He preferred to be 
 free to travel whenever his affairs would permit 
 of such recreation, and during his vacations he 
 traveled all over Europe and the United States. 
 He was accompanied by members of his family 
 on these tours and, being of a literary and artistic 
 temperament, found enjoyment in the collection 
 of paintings, sculpture, rare literary prizes and 
 various works of art. During their years of travel 
 the family gathered a splendid collection of paint- 
 ings, marble, bronze statuary, bric-a-brac and a 
 valuable library, all of which were lost in the 
 disaster which overwhelmed San Francisco in 1906. 
 
 Mr. Byrne enjoyed the confidence of business 
 men all over the country, and had numerous loyal 
 friends, but his only affiliation outside of home and 
 business circles was the Jonathan Club of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 ORGAN, OCTAVIUS, Archi- 
 tect, 'Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Canterbury, Eng- 
 land, on October 20, 1850. 
 Giles Chapman Morgan was 
 his father and Caroline Tyler (Adams) 
 Morgan was his mother. Mr. Morgan 
 was married in 1884 to Margaret Susan Wel- 
 ier Offenbacker, and two children have been 
 born of the union, Octav- 
 ius Weller and Jessie Car- 
 oline Morgan. 
 
 Mr. Morgan was edu- 
 cated at Kent House 
 Academy, at the Thomas 
 Cross Classic School, and 
 at the Sydney Cooper Art 
 School in Canterbury. 
 
 It was during his pre- 
 liminary education that 
 he began the study of his 
 profession, as he was at 
 the same time employed 
 in Canterbury in the of- 
 fice of F. A. Gilhaus, an 
 architect and contractor 
 of high repute in Eng- 
 land. He followed this 
 practical study for five 
 years, when he decided to 
 seek his fortune in a new 
 country, and selected the 
 United States as the 
 scene of his efforts. 
 
 He arrived in this 
 country in 1871, coming 
 via Canada and locating 
 
 OCTAVIUS MORGAN 
 
 in Denver, Colorado, where he found employ- 
 ment for a time in the office of a Mr. Nichols, 
 who, as was the practice in those days, com- 
 bined the work of an architect with that of 
 a builder and contractor. 
 
 Denver was at that time in an incipient 
 stage of development and architecture was 
 about the least thing in demand; the city 
 only had a population of four thousand and 
 at the time he was there Mr. Morgan saw 
 two thousand Ute Indians camped in the 
 Platte River bottoms. 
 
 Mining was the absorbing occupation 
 then, and Mr. Morgan soon quitted the office 
 for the mountains and traversed the greater 
 portion of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah 
 and Nevada, seeking on his golden quest, il- 
 lusive fortune ; finally he came to California, 
 still mining, and secured a claim on Lytle 
 Creek in San Bernardino county; but his at- 
 tention was soon called to the rapidly grow- 
 
 ing Los Angeles, and he abandoned his pan 
 and rocker and made his home in that city. 
 He reached Los Angeles in June, 1874, hav- 
 ing been three years on his journey from 
 Denver. 
 
 He immediately saw the professional pos- 
 sibilities of the city and associated himself at 
 once with R. F. Kysor, a pioneer architect; 
 this firm continued until 1888, when Mr. 
 Kysor retired from business and since that 
 time the concern has been 
 Morgan and Walls. Mr. 
 Morgan has incessantly 
 followed his vocation ex- 
 cepting a time spent in 
 1878-80 in a tour of the 
 East, and again in 1898- 
 90, when he traveled in 
 Europe. 
 
 To Mr. Morgan be- 
 longs the proud record of 
 having up to a few years 
 ago done fully one-third 
 of all the architectural 
 work of the city ; even 
 now, when the building 
 operations have grown 
 from the $600,000 which 
 it was when he began his 
 professional career, to the 
 enormous total of $12,- 
 000,000 per annum, he 
 continues to do ten per 
 cent of the work. 
 
 Some of his principal 
 works have been, the 
 city's first modern hos- 
 pital, the Sisters of 
 Charity hospital and the first high school, on 
 the site of the present Court House. More 
 recent buildings are the Farmers and Mer- 
 chants' Bank edifice, the Van Nuys and the 
 W. P. Story buildings; he built the original 
 residences on both the Kerckhoff and the I. 
 W. Hellman lots, tearing them down in the 
 course of time to replace them with the pres- 
 ent modern business blocks. 
 
 His activity has always been displayed in 
 city affairs, and he has invariably been with 
 the progressive elements of the community; 
 in 1898, and again in 1900, he served as a 
 member of the Freeholders' Charter Board. 
 
 He is a member and a past president of 
 the Engineers and Architects' Association, 
 the Southern California Chapter of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects, and the Califor- 
 nia State Board of Architecture ; a member of 
 the California and Jonathan clubs, a Mason 
 and an Odd Fellow. 
 
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 LIVER, FRANK, Mining and Con- 
 structing Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of England, 
 born at Bury St. Edmunds, June 
 13, 1861. He is the son of George 
 John Oliver and Maria Agnes 
 (Loder) Oliver, and married Sarah Emma Mould at 
 Melbourne, Australia, August 18, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Oliver, who has an international reputation 
 in his profession, received the preliminary part of 
 his education in the Gram- 
 mar School of his native 
 town, then studied for a year 
 and a half under a private 
 tutor, George Griffith, M. A. 
 Later he studied under W. A. 
 Coates, B. A., C. E., for sev- 
 eral years, taking a full 
 course in Engineering. 
 
 Upon the completion of 
 his studies, Mr. Oliver en- 
 tered the employ of a firm of 
 mechanical engineers in his 
 native town, serving two 
 years of an apprenticeship. 
 For three more years he was 
 engaged with E. R. and F. 
 Turner, engineers, of Ips- 
 wich, England, with whom he 
 completed his apprenticeship. 
 When he received his diplo- 
 ma, he was engaged under 
 contract as Supervising En- 
 gineer for Dickinson & Com- 
 pany, an engineering firm en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of 
 machinery for the production 
 of nitrates and silver in 
 South America. His work 
 
 lay between Iquiqui and Antofagasta, Chili, and dur- 
 ing much of the time he was in close association 
 with Colonel North, of nitrate fame. 
 
 In 1883, Mr. Oliver returned to England and 
 after a Visit of several months, left in the fall of 
 the same year for Melbourne, Australia, where he 
 became associated with the Melbourne Cable Car 
 Company, as Constructing Engineer. This was the 
 first cable system in that section of the world, and 
 all of the gripmen and conductors, in addition to 
 the supervising car builders, were imported from 
 San Francisco. 
 
 Upon the completion of his work with the cable 
 car system, Mr. Oliver took up mining in Australia, 
 in association with Mr. Ramsay Thompson of the 
 Long Tunnel Mining Company, whose properties 
 were located at Walhalla, Gippsland, Victoria. Later 
 he was placed in charge of the property known as 
 the Blue Jacket, on the lower Jordan River, in the 
 Mount Lookout district of Victoria, and during the 
 two years he was there developed the mine and in- 
 stalled a large amount of machinery. When this 
 
 was finished, he went to England for another vis-it, 
 and after a six months' stay, returned to Mel- 
 bourne, where he engaged in a general engineering 
 practice. For a year and a half he conducted an 
 independent business, but he was then sought by 
 Messrs. Thompson & Son, contracting engineers, of 
 Castlemaine, Victoria, on construction of the sew- 
 age pumping plant for the city of Melbourne. The 
 great Australian metropolis is built in a basin and 
 all sewage has to be pumped out of it under vacuum 
 pressure, a physical condition 
 which afforded unusual en- 
 gineering difficulties. 
 
 His work on the Mel- 
 bourne system ended, Mr. 
 Oliver made another trip to 
 his home in England and re- 
 mained in the mother coun- 
 try for about twelve months. 
 He then accepted a contract, 
 in 1896, with the British 
 America Corporation, which 
 took him to Rossland, British 
 Columbia, as Assistant Gen- 
 eral Manager of their mining 
 properties, which included 
 the Le Roy, Nickel Plate, 
 Josie and others. He was 
 engaged there for more than 
 three years and about the 
 year 1900 gave up his work 
 to come into the United 
 States. He first located in 
 Colorado and for the next 
 four years was engaged in 
 general engineering and min- 
 ing work, and in 1904, was 
 appointed by A. D. Parker, 
 Vice President of the Colo- 
 rado Southern Railroad, as mining manager for 
 the Florence Goldfield Mining Company. Mr. Oliver 
 was in the Goldfield district for more than three 
 years and also managed the Little Florence Mining 
 Co. and the Frances Mohawk. 
 
 In 1908, Mr. Oliver was engaged in quicksilver 
 mining in the Pacific Coast Range of Mountains, 
 but in 1909, he became interested in oil and gave 
 up his mining work temporarily to engage in the 
 petroleum business. Locating in Los Angeles, he 
 turned his attention to the oil fields in the Midway 
 district of Kern County, California, and for two 
 years was active as an operator in that territory. 
 In 1911, however, he sold out his oil interests and 
 resumed his engineering work, establishing offices 
 in Los Angeles. He had a general practice, but the 
 greater part of his time was spent on projects in 
 New Mexico and Lower California. He has con- 
 tinued his interest in some of the latter. 
 
 In 1912, he became President of the Western 
 Excavator & Development Company, engaged in 
 the Southwest in various important enterprises. 
 
 FRANK OLIVER 
 
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 ALL, ALBERT BACON, United 
 States Senator from New Mexico, 
 Three Rivers, New Mexico, was 
 born at Frankfort, Kentucky, No- 
 vember 26, 1861. He is the son of 
 William R. Fall and Edmonia 
 (Taylor) Fall. He married Emma Morgan at 
 Woodbury, Tennessee, May 8, 1883, and to them 
 there have been born four children, John Morgan, 
 Alexina (Mrs. C. C. Chase), Carolyn (Mrs. M. T. 
 Everhart) and Jouett Fall. 
 The Senator's family origin- 
 ated in Spain, but was trans- 
 planted centuries ago to Scot- 
 land, his grandfather, the 
 first to settle in America, 
 going to Kentucky, in 1808. 
 The Senator also traces his 
 family back to Sir Nicholas 
 Bacon, the father of Sir 
 Francis Bacon. 
 
 Senator Fall received the 
 rudiments of his education in 
 the country schools of Ken- 
 tucky and Tennessee, but the 
 main part of his teaching 
 was at the hands of his 
 grandfather, who was a 
 Scotch-Englishman of culture 
 and the son of an ex-army 
 officer. His father having 
 joined the Confederate forces 
 shortly after the Senator's 
 birth, the latter spent much 
 of his boyhood with his 
 grandparents and was tu- 
 tored by them. 
 
 When he was twelve 
 years of age Senator Fall 
 went to work for his living, 
 his family having suffered 
 terrific losses during the war. 
 He first worked in a cotton 
 factory at Nashville, Tenn., 
 but later became a drug clerk 
 
 and worked at various other occupations until he 
 was sixteen years of age. Returning to Kentucky 
 about this time, he became a country school 
 teacher and took up the study of law, reading at 
 night. He mastered the law, but did not apply for 
 admission to practice until many years afterwards. 
 
 In 1881, Senator Fall left his native State and 
 headed for the West, which has been his home al- 
 most continually since. He first went to the Indian 
 Territory, where he became a cowboy, and punched 
 cattle for some time, finally going to Texas, where 
 he rode the range for a few years more. 
 
 About 1883, Senator Fall located at Clarkes- 
 ville, Texas, and went into the land business there, 
 also purchased several silver mining claims in the 
 vicinity of Zacetecas, Mexico. Making Clarkesville 
 his headquarters, he made numerous trips to 
 Mexico and also operated in lands in other parts 
 of the South, one of his chief properties being a 
 plantation on the Red River in Arkansas. 
 
 Since that time Senator Fall has been inter- 
 ested in cattle, real estate and mining operations, 
 in addition to having various other interests. Leav- 
 ing Clarkesville in 1886, the Senator took his 
 family to Las Cruces, New Mexico, and established 
 a residence there, but he was engaged in mining 
 at Kingston, Sierra County, New Mexico. He later 
 
 HON. ALBERT B. FALL 
 
 located in Las Cruces and engaged in the real 
 estate business, also became a farmer on an ex- 
 tensive scale. About a year later he became asso- 
 ciated with a lawyer named Nelson M. Lowry, but 
 did not practice until 1889, when he was admitted 
 to the Bar of New Mexico, after which he became 
 an active member of the legal profession. 
 
 On his locating in Las Cruce&, Senator Fall 
 began to take an interest in politics and probably 
 was the first "insurgent" so-called in the United 
 States. In 1890 he was 
 elected to the Lower House 
 of the Territorial Legislature 
 'as an independent Democrat 
 and became one of the lead- 
 ers of that body almost im- 
 mediately. He was chosen 
 Chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee, also acted as 
 floor leader and Chairman of 
 the Democratic caucus. Dur- 
 ing this term he helped draw 
 the first free school law en- 
 acted in New Mexico, this 
 being the basis of the pres- 
 ent public school system in 
 the State and the first time 
 the Territory ever had an 
 organized public educational 
 plan. 
 
 In 1892 the Senator was 
 elected to the Territorial 
 Council or Senate of New 
 Mexico and during the ses- 
 sion of that Legislature also 
 acted as floor leader and man- 
 ager of much important 
 legislation. Before the expi- 
 ration of his term, he was ap- 
 pointed, in 1893, by President 
 Grover Cleveland to be As- 
 sociate Justice of the New 
 Mexico Supreme Court. After 
 serving six months he re- 
 signed in order to devote 
 
 himself to his private business, but his resignation 
 was not accepted and he served in all two years, 
 at the end of which time he returned to the man- 
 agement of his law practice and other private 
 business affairs. 
 
 After enjoying less than a year of private life 
 he was re-elected in 1896 to the Territorial Council 
 from Donna Ana and other Southern Counties, and 
 in this Legislature, as in previous ones, he was one 
 of the leaders, serving upon the Judiciary and 
 Finance Committees. About this time Senator 
 Fall began to break away from the regular Demo- 
 cratic organization. He had been an independent 
 for many years and during this session maintained 
 a neutral attitude, not affiliating; with either of the 
 old line parties. In 1897, while he still served 
 as Councilor, he was appointed Attorney General 
 of New Mexico bv Acting Governor Miller and 
 served for nearly a year, or until the new Terri- 
 torial administration took office. 
 
 His term expiring in 1898, about the time of 
 the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Sen- 
 ator Fall returned to Las Cruces and organized a 
 company for service in Cuba. This organization, 
 known as Company H, First Territorial Regiment, 
 United States Volunteers, with Senator Fall as its 
 Captain, was first intended for service in the 
 
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 Philippine Islands, but later the plans were 
 changed and they were started towards Cuba. 
 After going into camp in Georgia, Senator Fall, 
 who had been on courtmartial duty the greater 
 part of the time, was detached from his command 
 and assigned to General Sanger's staff as "Sani- 
 tary Inspector of Matanzas," but this plan was 
 changed and Senator Fall was stationed in Wash- 
 ington, D. C., on special duty, remaining there 
 until he returned to Georgia to be mustered out 
 with his company in March, 1899. 
 
 For many years prior to 1898, Senator Fall had 
 been associated in the law business with W. A. 
 Hawkins, now General Attorney for the Phelps- 
 Dodge Railroad and their mining interests and the 
 head of a large law firm, in connection with vari- 
 ous Pecos Valley enterprises, especially the Ele- 
 phant Butte Reservoir Company, and when he re- 
 turned to his law practice in Las Cruces, he also 
 established a co-partnership with Mr. Hawkins, 
 John Franklin and Leigh Clark of El Paso. In 
 this connection, Senator Fall attended to all the 
 firm's legal business in New Mexico and in asso- 
 ciation with Mr. Hawkins took part in the work of 
 perfecting plans for the El Paso & Northeastern 
 Railroad to Santa Rosa and across to Dawson, 
 New Mexico, which opened up large areas of coal 
 lands, now owned by the Phelps-Dodge interests. 
 This partnership continued until 1904, when Sen- 
 ator Fall gave up active law work and decided to 
 devote himself to other interests, he having at all 
 times maintained extensive mining holdings in 
 New Mexico and in Old Mexico. 
 
 It was about this time that the Senator became 
 engaged in one of the most important works of 
 his career. In Mexico, he acquired a million and 
 a half acres of land in the States of Chihuahua and 
 Sonora and later turned this, with other proper- 
 ties, over to Colonel William C. Greene, the famous 
 mining operator. He thereupon became a partner 
 of Colonel Greene in some of his great operations 
 and also acted as general counsel for the various 
 Greene enterprises, about twenty in all, including 
 lumber, mining and railroad companies. 
 
 Colonel Greene, at this stage of his picturesque 
 career, was entering upon a gigantic plan of de- 
 velopment in the various lines indicated and Sen- 
 ator Fall was his adviser from that time practically 
 until the death of the celebrated copper magnate. 
 Besides acting as general counsel for the Greene 
 companies, he also held office in several of them, 
 including the Greene Gold & Silver Company, the 
 Sierra Madre Land & Lumber Company, the Rio 
 Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railroad Company 
 of which he was Vice President, and the Sierra 
 Madre & Pacific Railroad Company, in which he 
 held the office of President. But the Senator, about 
 the year 1906, sold the greater part of his interest 
 in the Greene affairs, and went back to the hand- 
 ling of his own properties in New Mexico. It is 
 of record that Colonel Greene had millions of dol- 
 lars staked on his numerous ventures, and when 
 the financial panic of 1907 came he was one of the 
 men who suffered most. The blow broke Colonel 
 Greene's health and he was compelled to go 
 to Japan to recuperate. Senator Fall was sum- 
 moned, as being the man most familiar with the 
 workings of the Greene business, to straighten out 
 the tangled interests of his former partner and he 
 left a sickbed to go into Mexico and untangle the 
 maze into which the Greene affairs were plunged. 
 This done, he returned to his own personal inter- 
 ests, but has since acted in an advisory capacity 
 to Colonel Greene's widow in various legal matters. 
 
 Although he was actively engaged in business 
 
 affairs, Senator Fall did not retire from politics, 
 for he was elected to the Territorial Council a 
 third time in 1902, being nominated on both the 
 Democratic and Republican tickets of his district, 
 but affiliating with the Republicans as an inde- 
 pendent. In this session he represented practically 
 the entire Southern half of New Mexico. 
 
 In 1907 the Territory of New Mexico was 
 threatened with a multitude of land litigations and 
 Senator Fall, at the urgent request of President 
 Roosevelt and Governor Curry, accepted appoint- 
 ment as Attorney General, but only served for 
 about three months. 
 
 Retiring from the Attorney Generalship, Sen- 
 ator Fall again confined himself to his private 
 interests until 1909, when he was nominated and 
 elected as a Non-Partisan Delegate to the Con- 
 stitutional Convention, at which the basic law of 
 the State of New Mexico was framed. He served 
 as Chairman of the Legislative Committee and on 
 other committees and took a leading part in the 
 drafting of the corporation commission law and 
 other important sections of the Constitution on 
 which New Mexico was admitted to Statehood. 
 
 Generally recognized as one of the important 
 factors in the legal and industrial upbuilding of 
 New Mexico, Senator Fall was elected by the Leg- 
 islature at its first meeting in March, 1912, to 
 represent the new State in the United States Sen- 
 ate. By one of those chances of custom, he drew 
 the so-called short term in office, which meant that 
 he should serve about one year, or until March 3, 
 1913. At a later meeting of the State Legislature, 
 however, in June, 1912, he was again elected to 
 the Senate, this time for a term of six years, so 
 that in reality he was honored by a seven-year 
 term in office and is scheduled to represent New 
 Mexico at Washington until March 3, 1919. 
 
 Senator Fall immediately took a prominent 
 place in the affairs of the Senate and was assigned 
 to a number of committees not u&uallv given to 
 new members. Among these are the Committees 
 on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, District of Colum- 
 bia and Patents and Irrigation. When the Senate 
 directed the Committee on Foreign Affairs towards 
 the close of the session of 1912, to investigate and 
 report whether certain American corporations had 
 been involved in the Madero and Orozco revolu- 
 tions in Mexico, and the revolution in the Island 
 of Cuba, Senator Fall, though not a member of 
 that Committee, was chosen by special resolution 
 of the Senate to take part in that investigation, 
 and he, with Senator William Alden Smith of Mich- 
 igan, had full charge of the subsequent inquiries. 
 
 In reality a part of the history of New Mexico 
 himself, Senator Fall has made a feature of his- 
 torical works dealing with the Territory and this 
 forms a large part of his private library, which is 
 one of the largest in the Southwest. His home at 
 Three Rivers, or Salinas, is one of refinement and 
 culture, set in the midst of a splendid ranch of 
 five thousand acres. There the Senator maintains 
 a large establishment, and grows not only fruits, 
 flowers and vegetables on a large scale, but also 
 has a magnificent stock farm, whereon he breeds- 
 fine horses. He also has another ranch of 35,000 
 acres and is an extensive cattle raiser. 
 
 He is a substantial man and enjoys widespread 
 personal popularity. He has a magnificent family 
 and gets the most of his enjoyment out of his home, 
 but he also is a member of well known clubs. 
 Among these are the Foreign Club of Chihuahua, 
 Mexico, the Toltec Club of El Paso, and the Man- 
 hattan Club of New York. He also holds member- 
 ship in the B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 ATHAWAY, WILLIAM LEE, San 
 Francisco, California, Manager for 
 California, Nevada and the Ha- 
 waiian Islands of the Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company of New York, 
 was born in Providence, Rhode 
 Island, February 15, 1867, the son of William H. 
 Hathaway and Mary (Clancy) Hathaway. His pa- 
 ternal origin is of the old Puritan stock, with its 
 source in the Isle of Wight, while his maternal an- 
 cestors were Irish and English landowners. Mr. 
 Hathaway's paternal grandfather was prominent 
 among the early settlers of Oregon, to which terri- 
 tory he came from New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 
 the late thirties; and he, together with his com- 
 panions who first cast their lot in the Umpqua Val- 
 ley, below Roseburg, became the progenitors of 
 nearly every important family of Douglas County. 
 
 On May 13, 1893, Mr. Hathaway was married at 
 Colusa, California, to Miss Caro Paulson and they 
 are the parents of two daughters, Marie Craig and 
 Mabel Clancy Hathaway. 
 
 William L. Hathaway's early boyhood was 
 passed in Oregon, his father having been the first 
 of Captain Hathaway's relatives to join him there, 
 in 1868. He attended the public schools in Ashland, 
 Oregon, and later, when his family moved to Cali- 
 fornia, which State they had first reached a few 
 days before the big earthquake of 1868, he con- 
 tinued his schooling at Yreka, transferring thence 
 to Colusa. After a two years' course in the night 
 school of the Atkinson Business College at Sacra- 
 mento, during which time he was employed by the 
 firm of Waterhouse & Lester, wholesalers of wagon 
 materials, he engaged in the real estate and broker- 
 age business in the Puget Sound country, dealing 
 largely in timber lands. Returning to California in 
 1892, he entered the employ of the Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company of New York, through A. B. 
 Forbes, at that time the company's chief represent- 
 ative on the Coast. 
 
 Since his entrance into the insurance world Mr. 
 Hathaway's work has been closely connected with 
 the agency end of the business. He early con- 
 ceived the idea of transforming the previously ex- 
 isting methods to a system that has formed the 
 basis of the present procedure. This consisted 
 largely in eliminating the extravagant cost of get- 
 ting business and in educating for insurance young 
 men who were doing fairly well in other walks of 
 life. He acted on the theory that a man capable 
 of success in other activities could succeed in life 
 insurance. Strong in this belief, he organized in the 
 insurance world a new force, which has proved a 
 benefit to the companies and to the agents alike. 
 Naturally, his ideas and work attracted wide at- 
 tention and led to an extension, which the company 
 called upon him to achieve, throughout the United 
 States. During the years that he was absent on 
 this mission he visited every important city in 
 
 America and Canada and traveled abroad as well. 
 
 His absorbing ambition to become the head of 
 the San Francisco office prompted him to reject 
 many flattering offers of a choice of locations else- 
 where and to return to that city, where, on January 
 1, 1906, he took charge of the local office. He was 
 well on the way toward the development of the busi- 
 ness when the great disaster befell. 
 
 During those trying days Mr. Hathaway's en- 
 thusiastic advocacy of a return of all the business 
 houses to their old stands and his re-establishment 
 of his own company in its own quarters, "almost 
 before the pavements were cold," were potent influ- 
 ences in encouraging others to follow his example. 
 His company was not only the first to transact 
 any business in the burnt financial district, but it 
 is well known that the results of his trips to New 
 York to divert some of those millions to the parched 
 business channels of San Francisco are responsible 
 for about $20,000,000 of real money contributed to 
 the rebuilding of the city. The general recognition 
 of his great work has helped him not only in his 
 insurance business, but also in his connection with 
 the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company, which, 
 both in the early struggles, and later through his 
 memberships of the Ways and Means, the Counties 
 and other important committees, he has greatly 
 aided in the quest for funds and by the force of 
 example. 
 
 His abundant energies are now focused on the 
 idea he has conceived for a Panama-Pacific World's 
 Insurance Congress in San Francisco in the year 
 1915. In this connection he has traveled much in 
 the East, and his work for this great end has re- 
 ceived the heartiest encouragement from the presi- 
 dents of all the leading insurance companies in 
 America and in foreign countries. Mr. Hathaway, 
 as chairman of the congress, whose membership 
 includes the presidents of all the California insur- 
 ance companies, and every prominent business man 
 connected therewith in San Francisco, feels justly 
 proud of the honor conferred upon him. 
 
 But his greatest service for his city and state 
 is to be found in his share of the honors of victory 
 in the memorable fight for the Exposition. When 
 the battle was waging in Washington this insurance 
 association, under Mr. Hathaway's direction, who 
 as chairman conducted the operations, did such 
 heroic service that the papers of New Orleans gave 
 as one of the three 'principal reasons why that city 
 lost the fight the fact that all the big Eastern in- 
 surance companies were lined up for San Francisco. 
 
 He is prominent in the affairs of the National 
 Association of Life Underwriters, the Chamber of 
 Commerce of San Francisco and the Home Indus- 
 try League, and is a member of the Press Club and 
 the Presidio Golf Club. He devotes much time and 
 energy to all business organizations connected with 
 the upbuilding of the city and State, and has con- 
 tributed as a writer to insurance publications. 
 
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 REW, FRANCK C., Attorney (firm 
 Metson, Drew & McKenzie), San 
 Francisco, California, was born at 
 San Jose, that State, May 31, 1861, 
 the son of John R. Drew and 
 Mary Francis (Dowling) Drew. 
 He married Mrs. Helen P. White (formerly Miss 
 Ramsay) in San Francisco, April 7, 1900. 
 
 After a course through the Lincoln Primary and 
 the Lincoln Grammar Schools of San Francisco, the 
 latter of which he left in 
 1876, he took two years in 
 the Boys' High School, but 
 the desire, coupled with the 
 necessity, of earning his liv- 
 ing, prevented his gradua- 
 tion. The real struggle be- 
 gan there, and he showed 
 the qualities that have char- 
 acterized his subsequent 
 progress. During this school- 
 ing he was in the habit of 
 rising at 2:30 a. m. to sell 
 papers on the street and also 
 to deliver them on his routes. 
 In 1879, when he was 17 
 years old, he entered the pub- 
 lishing house of Bacon & 
 Co., where he became a book 
 and job printer and proof 
 reader. But the progressive 
 bee was already in his bon- 
 net, so at night he studied 
 shorthand to qualify as a 
 stenographer. These efforts 
 were rewarded a few years 
 later, in 1883, by a position as 
 amanuensis with Eppinger & 
 Co., wheat operators. 
 
 FRANCK C. DREW 
 
 Here he remained until 1887, and then entered, 
 in the same capacity, the House of Siegfried & 
 Brandenstein, tea importers. Losing his position 
 two years later, he went over to the San Francisco 
 Call as compositor and proofreader, but after an- 
 other two years became the stenographer in the 
 law office of Patrick Reddy. 
 
 This position he retained until 1894, in which 
 year he was appointed stenographer to Governor 
 James H. Budd. At the end of three months, how- 
 ever, he returned to the office of Patrick Reddy, 
 but retained his allegiance to the Governor, be- 
 coming, in fact, his chief political adviser. From 
 this point he was an active worker in the ranks 
 of the Democratic party. 
 
 Upon the appointment of Rhodes Borden as 
 Judge of the Superior Court, Mr. Drew was made 
 official snorthand reporter in Department 11. He 
 held the same position under Judge Lawlor and 
 managed both his and Borden's political campaigns. 
 After another course of night study, this time of 
 the law, he was admitted, in 1903 to the bar and 
 
 soon became a member of the firm of Campbell, 
 .Metson & Drew, which changed subsequently to the 
 present title of Metson, Drew & McKenzie. 
 
 By a curious turn of fate this firm was em- 
 ployed, in 1905, to prosecute Mr. Drew's old em- 
 ployer, Eppinger, who had been indicted on the 
 charge of issuing false warehouse receipts. Senti- 
 ment proving stronger than the lure of success and 
 dollars, Mr. Drew refused to associate himself with 
 the prosecution. Among other important cases 
 with which his name is 
 prominently linked may be 
 mentioned that of the Peo- 
 ple vs. Eugene Schmitz, 
 Mayor of San Francisco, and 
 the People vs. Rankin, who 
 was accused of hypothecat- 
 ing some of the Ocean Shore 
 bonds. In the latter of these 
 Mr. Drew was the leading 
 counsel for the defense and 
 in the former associate 
 counsel. 
 
 Mr. Drew's marriage, in 
 1900, indirectly enlarged his 
 field of activities. To pre- 
 vent a strike, wherein much 
 diplomacy was necessary, he 
 became president and super- 
 intendent of the L. E. White 
 Lumber Company and spent 
 two years in close study of 
 the business, at the same 
 time that he was preparing 
 himself for admittance to 
 the bar. Under his manage- 
 ment the assets of the com- 
 pany grew from half a mil- 
 lion to five million dollars, 
 and incidentally made him a holder of many acres 
 of sugar pine lands in the Southern part of the 
 State. 
 
 This foregoing industry, however, has appar- 
 ently only stimulated Mr. Drew's desire to find 
 recreation in his favorite hobbies, the study of 
 French and Esperanto, in the former of which he 
 is skillful and in the latter an expert. 
 
 He has also found time to contribute articles 
 and verses to the newspapers and to keep alive 
 his interest in his clubs and societies, among 
 which are the Bohemian, the Family and the 
 Press clubs, the San Francisco Bar Association, 
 Touring Club of France, Native Sons of the Golden 
 West, the Eagles, the Redmen, the American 
 Geographical Society, the Dolphin Swimming and 
 Rowing Club, the American Esperanto Association, 
 the French Society for the Development of Pho 
 netics and the International Association of Es- 
 peranto Jurists. 
 
 He is an exempt member of San Francisco 
 Typographical Union No. 21. 
 
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 ONATY, RT. REV. THOMAS 
 JAMES, Roman Catholic Bishop 
 of Monterey and Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of Ireland, 
 having been born in Kilnaleck, 
 County Cavan, Ireland, August 1, 
 1847. His father was Patrick Conaty and his 
 mother Alice (Lynch) Conaty. He comes from old 
 Milesian stock, inhabitants of Ireland for centuries. 
 Bishop Conaty came to Massachusetts with his 
 parents May 10, 1850, and 
 was educated in the public 
 schools of Taunton, that 
 State. On December 30, 
 1863, he entered Montreal 
 College, Canada, where he 
 studied for a brief period. In 
 September, 1867, he entered 
 the junior class of the Holy 
 Cross College, Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, and gradu- 
 ated with the degree of A. 
 B., July, 1869. He then en- 
 tered the Grand Seminary at 
 Montreal, and was ordained 
 priest December 21, 1872. He 
 received the degree of D. D. 
 from the Georgetown Uni- 
 versity in July, 1889, and 
 that of J. C. D. from Laval 
 University of Quebec, Decem- 
 ber, 1896. 
 
 On January 1, 1873, Bish- 
 op Conaty was made assist- 
 ant Pastor of St. John's 
 Church, Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts. He remained in 
 this position for seven years, 
 winning a large acquain- 
 tance through his genial disposition and strong 
 personality. For his labors in that locality he was 
 made Pastor of the Sacred Heart Church of Wor- 
 cester January 10, 1880. 
 
 His education, breadth of mind and knowledge 
 of educational subjects caused him to be elected 
 a member of the School Board of that city, which 
 office he filled, exercising the highest sense of 
 duty toward the general public, for fourteen con- 
 secutive years. Many of the best educational 
 measures passed by that board while Bishop Con- 
 aty was a member are accredited to his liberal 
 and far-reaching policies. Another civic recogni- 
 tion was his election as Trustee of the Worcester 
 Public Library. His counsel was productive of the 
 best results and he was re-elected for another term 
 of six years. 
 
 Pope Leo XIII appointed him Rector of the 
 Oatholic University of America at Washington, 
 D. C., October 22, 1896. Here he remained for 
 six years. He was appointed by Leo XIII as 
 
 RT. REV. THOS. J. CONATY 
 
 Domestic Prelate of the Pope in the latter part 
 of 1897. In 1901 his great ability was again recog- 
 nized by the Head of the Roman Catholic Church 
 when he was honored with the office of Titular 
 Bishop of Samos. 
 
 On November 24 of the same year he was con- 
 secrated Bishop by Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore, 
 Maryland. 
 
 On March 27, 1903, he was appointed Bishop of 
 Monterey and Los Angeles, taking active charge of 
 that diocese in June of the 
 same year, with headquar- 
 ters in Los Angeles. 
 
 From July, 1892, until 
 1896 he served as President 
 of the Catholic Summer 
 School of America at Platts- 
 burg, New York. He was 
 President of the Catholic 
 Total Abstinence Union of 
 America, 1886-1888, and is an 
 advocate of that movement 
 in its fullest extent. From 
 1900 to 1903 he was Presi- 
 dent of the Conference of 
 Catholic Colleges of America. 
 Bishop Conaty has always 
 been identified with the Par- 
 liamentary movement in 
 America for reforms in Ire- 
 land, and has worked for 
 better conditions in his na- 
 tive country throughout his 
 entire life. He advocates 
 radical educational, political 
 and social reforms. 
 
 He is the author of nu- 
 merous works, among them 
 being the "New Testament 
 Studies" (1896) and the Catholic School and Home 
 Magazine (1892-96). His literary efforts are not 
 limited to one subject, but cover a large field of re- 
 ligious, educational and civic subjects. 
 
 As a pulpit orator he stands in the foremost 
 rank. As a public speaker and lecturer he has 
 attained great prominence. As an American citi- 
 zen he stands for what is highest and best in 
 citizenship. 
 
 Bishop Conaty, being of broad mind and pro- 
 gressive instincts, takes an active interest in the 
 development of the country over which he exercises 
 religious jurisdiction and has been concerned in nu- 
 merous movements for the moral and civic better- 
 ment of Los Angeles. He has been connected with 
 numerous plans for the uplifting of the public mind. 
 He is a member of the Newman Club, Sunset 
 Club, California and University Clubs of Los An- 
 geles, the Municipal League and the Choral Society. 
 He is associate member of the G. A. R. Post 10, 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
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 ICHARDSON, WILLIAM ED- 
 WARD, President and General 
 Manager of the Compania Con- 
 structora Richardson, S. A., Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Frederick City, Maryland, Novem- 
 ber 23, 1870. His parents were 
 Richardson and Jane Briscoe 
 He married Marion Edna 
 
 Ignatius Davis 
 (Ramsburgh) Richardson. 
 Hord at Central City, Nebraska, April 4, 1903, and 
 to them there have been born three children, Wil- 
 liam Hord, Thomas Benton 
 Hord (deceased) and Jane 
 Beatrice Richardson. Mr. 
 Richardson is descended from 
 an old Southern family, the 
 first ancestor in America hav- 
 ing been William Richardson, 
 who came over from England 
 in 1655 and settled at West 
 River, Ann Arundel County, 
 Maryland. The family home 
 was in Maryland from that 
 time until several years after 
 the Civil War, and various 
 members served in the sev- 
 eral wars of the country, 
 Captain William Richardson 
 and Colonel John Lynn hav- 
 ing attained distinction in the 
 Revolution. 
 
 In the spring of 1871 Mr. 
 Richardson's parents moved 
 from the old home in Mary- 
 land to Clarks, Nebraska, 
 where they purchased a large 
 amount of land and estab- 
 lished a new home. There he 
 spent his boyhood, attending 
 the common schools of the 
 district until he was nearly 
 eighteen years of age. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Richardson 
 gave up school and entered 
 the employ of the Union Pa- 
 cific Railroad in a minor po- 
 sition. He was- stationed at 
 Clarks and Schuyler, Nebras- 
 ka, at different times, and remained with the com- 
 pany for about two years and a half, acquiring a 
 knowledge of telegraphy during this period. 
 
 In the spring of 1891 Mr. Richardson left the 
 employ of the Union Pacific R. R. and went to So- 
 nora, Mexico, joining there his elder brother Davis, 
 who had gone to Mexico in 1889, and who was en- 
 gaged in mining busine&s in that country. During 
 a period of eighteen years, from 1891 to 1909, the 
 year in which the death of Mr. Davis Richardson 
 occurred, Mr. Richardson and hi& brother, together 
 with another brother, Frank, were closely asso- 
 ciated in mining operations carried on in that part 
 of old Mexico. These operations, which were quite 
 extensive and at times quite successful, were han- 
 dled through a partnership corporation called 
 "Richardson Brothers Company," with offices in 
 Los Angeles, California. During this- period of 
 eighteen years, although at all times closely inter- 
 ested and associated with his brothers in- mining 
 ventures, Mr. Richardson for a period of six and a 
 half years was employed as assistant to the Mining 
 Engineer of the La Dura Mill & Mining Company 
 at La Dura, Sonora, Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Richardson, who had become one of the 
 practical mining engineers of Sonora, resigned his 
 position with the La Dura Mill & Mining Company 
 
 W. E. RICHARDSON 
 
 in November, 1898, and took charge, in the capacity 
 of Vice President and General Manager, of the La 
 Bufa Mines, a notable Sonora property, which was 
 at that time controlled by Richardson Brothers 
 Company, they owning a majority interest in it. 
 Mr. Richardson was actively engaged in this ca- 
 pacity for nearly ten years, and until work was 
 temporarily discontinued in the spring of 1908, on 
 account of Yaqui Indian depredations in and 
 surrounding Sonora. 
 
 In 1905 Richardson Brothers Company incor- 
 porated the Compania Con- 
 structora Richardson, S. A., 
 with Davis Richardson as 
 President and W. E. Richard- 
 son as Vice President. In 
 1909, following the death of 
 his brother, W. E. Richard- 
 son became President and 
 General Manager of this 
 company, which is engaged 
 in one of the most gigantic 
 development enterprises of 
 the North American conti- 
 nent, the building of the nec- 
 essary storage and diversion 
 dams, together with the 
 requisite canals for the dis- 
 tribution of water, to place 
 under irrigation nearly one 
 million acres of land compris- 
 ing the entire area known as 
 "Yaqui Valley," located on 
 the Yaqui River in the State 
 of Sonora, Mexico. 
 
 Since 1908, the year he gave 
 up active mining, Mr. Rich- 
 ardson has been the directing 
 force in the affairs of this 
 company, which was origin- 
 ated by his brother. He has- 
 come to be regarded one of 
 the West's great developers. 
 The Compania Construe- 
 tora Richardson, S. A., is the 
 operating company under 
 which this great work is be- 
 ing done and which, when 
 
 completed, will comprise one of the most remark- 
 able pieces of irrigation engineering on this conti- 
 nent. The holding company through which the cap- 
 ital for this project is secured is tne Yaqui Delta 
 Land & Water Company, of Delaware. Among Mr. 
 Richardson's associates in this great enterprise are 
 Mr. John Hays Hammond, the greatest Mining En- 
 gineer in the world, and Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, 
 the noted capitalist. Another great undertaking 
 which owes its commencement to Mr. Richardson 
 in part is the Southern Pacific West Coast Railroad 
 of Mexico, built from Guaymas to Tepic, a distance 
 of over 800 miles. The original concession for the 
 building of the road was secured from the Mexi- 
 can Government by Messrs. Davis and W. E. Rich- 
 ardson and later by them was transferred to the 
 Southern Pacific Company under a guarantee that 
 the road would be built. This secured a railroad 
 for the Yaqui Valley which was of vital importance 
 to their irrigation project. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is also interested in various im- 
 portant mining ventures, and is President of the 
 Bufa Mining Company previously mentioned. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is a member of the Lawyers', 
 New York Athletic Club, and Rocky Mountain 
 Club of New York, American Club of Mexico City, 
 and the California Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 249 
 
 IBBET, HERBERT AUSTIN, Vice 
 President and Manager Compania 
 Constructora Richardson, S. A., 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 24, 1877, 
 the son of John Wesley Sibbet 
 and Anna Elizabeth (Fry) Sibbet. 
 He married Mary Oliver Sampson at Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, December 26th, 1899. There has been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Sibbet three daughters, Anna 
 May Sibbet, Laura Belle Sibbet and Nan Sibbet. 
 
 Mr. Sibbet, who is iden- 
 tified with the diversion of 
 the entire Yaqui River of 
 Sonora, Mexico, to irrigate 
 nearly a million acres of 
 land in the Yaqui Valley, re- 
 ceived his education in the 
 schools of his native city. 
 Passing through the gram- 
 mar grades, he entered 
 Hughes High School of Cin- 
 cinnati in 1893, and was 
 graduated in the class of 
 1897. The same year he en- 
 tered the University of Cin- 
 cinnati, remaining there un- 
 til 1900. 
 
 At the conclusion of his 
 college work, Mr. Sibbet 
 moved to Los Angeles, where 
 he became Advertising Man- 
 ager of the "Oil Era" and 
 "Oil, Mining and Finance," 
 two trade publications de- 
 voted, as their titles indicate, 
 to the interests of the special 
 lines named, and by serving 
 in this capacity until 1903 
 he became familiar with the 
 many opportunities for de- 
 velopment work afforded by 
 the great Southwest. 
 
 In 1902, while engaged in 
 newspaper work, he became 
 interested in mining in the 
 State of Sonora, Mexico, and 
 since severing his connection with the publications 
 mentioned has been exclusively engaged in mining 
 and development work in that country. 
 
 Mr. Sibbet, in 1903, became associated with 
 the Richardson Brothers Company of Los Angeles 
 in the promotion of the railroad now known as 
 the "West Coast Route" of the Southern Pacific 
 Railway of Mexico, and also in the promotion of 
 the Yaqui Valley Land & Irrigation Project. 
 Within a year the Compania Constructora Rich- 
 ardson, S. A., was organized to carry on the enter- 
 prises above mentioned, Mr. Sibbet being a Direc- 
 tor of the Company, and although the railroad 
 project was soon sold to the Southern Pacific Com- 
 pany, which carried it to completion, the irrigation 
 project was retained by the Richardson Company 
 and associates among whom is John Hays Ham- 
 mond, the famous mining and civil engineer, and 
 Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, the well-known capi- 
 talist. 
 
 This project, conducted in the valley of the 
 Yaqui River, is one of the most extensive ever 
 undertaken on the North American Continent, and 
 one which will result ultimately in the colonization 
 of a large part of northern Mexico. The work 
 was begun about 1902, when Porfirio Diaz was at 
 the head of the Mexican Republic, and with the 
 
 II. A. SIBBET 
 
 encouragement extended by him and his suc- 
 cessors, the American engineers have succeeded in 
 this gigantic undertaking to a degree that has far 
 surpassed their earlier hopes. 
 
 For many years capital and American energy 
 have been engaged in Mexico, but these were con- 
 fined to cattle and mining, for the most part, and 
 it was not until the Richardson project was inaug- 
 urated that agriculture under irrigation on a large 
 scale was attempted. With characteristic enter- 
 prise, the work has been carried on steadily in the 
 face of tremendous obstacles, 
 including the delays incident 
 to political disturbances and 
 to wars with the Yaqui In- 
 dians, last of the uncon- 
 quered tribes of America. 
 The plans of the Yaqui 
 project include the construc- 
 tion of more than 3000 miles 
 of irrigation canals, a new 
 diversion dam and intake 
 gates to cost approximately 
 $800,000, and a storage reser- 
 voir, which in height of dam 
 and storage capacity will ex- 
 ceed the great Roosevelt 
 Dam and Reservoir in Ari- 
 zona. All of this work is now 
 under way, and 400 miles of 
 canals already completed 
 make water available to over 
 100,000 acres, 30,000 of which 
 are now (1913) under cultiva- 
 tion. It is hoped to complete 
 the work in the year 1918 at 
 a total cost of approximately 
 $12,000,000. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Sibbet, in the 
 interests of the Compania 
 Constructora Richardson, S. 
 A., moved to New York, 
 where he maintained offices 
 for three years, and was in- 
 strumental in obtaining co-op- 
 eration of powerful interests 
 in financing the project. 
 
 To Mr. Sibbet's efforts while in New York is 
 largely due the acquisition of 300,000 acres of 
 land to the holdings of his Company, the land in 
 question having been held for many years by an 
 organization known as the Sonora & Sinaloa 
 Irrigation Company. This Company, however, had 
 for years been inactive and the property had 
 become greatly entangled. Mr. Sibbet devoted a 
 large part of two years to obtaining this land and 
 disentangling it, but was successful finally, and 
 this vast tract was added to the already large 
 holdings of the Compania Constructora Richard- 
 son, S. A., in the Yaqui Valley. 
 
 In the promotion of the Yaqui Valley irrigation 
 project, Mr. Sibbet has been one of the important 
 factors, and his judgment and foresight have 
 proved of great value to his associates in the 
 handling of the numerous problems confronting 
 them. Following his departure from New York 
 in 1908, he returned to Los Angeles and was 
 elected Vice President and Manager of the Com- 
 pania Constructora Richardson, S. A. He is also 
 Director, Yaqui Delta Land & Water Co.; Vice Pres- 
 ident, Richardson Construction Co., and Director, 
 Richardson Brothers' Co. and Bufa Mining, Milling 
 & Smelting Co. 
 
 He is a member, University Club, Los Angeles. 
 
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 251 
 
 ACKARD, BURDETT ADEN, Bank- 
 er, cattle raiser and farmer, Doug- 
 las, Arizona, was born in Port- 
 ville, New York, November 1, 1847, 
 the son of Ashley Giles Packard 
 and Virtue Vorancy (Crandall) 
 Packard. He has been twice married, his first 
 wife, Ella Lewis, whom he married at Portville, 
 November 27, 1879, having died in that place April 
 2, 1893. To them were born three children, Ger- 
 trude L. (now Mrs. Max B. Cottrell), Ashley B. 
 and Dorothea Packard. He married the second 
 time at Tucson, Arizona, on June 27, 1902, taking 
 for his bride Carlotta Wood Holbrook. 
 
 Mr. Packard comes of a family of hardy Amer- 
 icans, noted for the longevity of its members. His 
 grandparents were early pioneers of western New 
 York and northeast Pennsylvania, where they 
 had gone from their native States, Rhode Island 
 and Connecticut. His paternal grandfather was a 
 tanner by profession and in his day was a promi- 
 nent citizen of Tioga County, Penn. His wife, Mr. 
 Packard's grandmother, was the mother of thirteen 
 children who lived to man and womanhood. She 
 was 107 years of age when she died. She had five 
 sons in the Civil War, one of whom was the father 
 of Mr. Packard, and all lived through the struggle, 
 returning home at the close of hostilities. On the 
 maternal side Mr. Packard's grandparents also 
 were long-lived. Captain M. M. Crandall, his grand- 
 father, was prominent in the affairs of New York 
 State and received his title as a reward for serv- 
 ice in the New York militia. He was ninety-three 
 years of age when he died and his wife, who had 
 borne eleven children, also lived to a fine old age. 
 Mr. Packard's father was a lumberman on the Alle- 
 gheny River and also conducted a large farm at 
 Portville where B. A. Packard was born and lived 
 to be seventy-six years of age, his wife attaining 
 the age of seventy-eight. 
 
 Mr. Packard received his early education in 
 the public schools of his native town, and during 
 the winters of 1864 and 1865 was a student in a 
 private sehool at Ceres, McKean County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, conducted by Miss Maria King, a Quakeress. 
 He concluded his studies there in the winter of 
 1865-66 and in February of the latter year entered 
 the employ of J. R. Archibald as clerk in a general 
 merchandise store at Millgrove, New York. He 
 remained with the house for about six years, serv- 
 ing as manager of the store during the last two 
 years. 
 
 On June 1, 1873, Mr. Packard, emulating the 
 example of "Jim" Fiske and other notable Ameri- 
 cans, embarked in a wholesale Yankee notion busi- 
 ness. He had three wagons and drove from town 
 to town in Western New York and Pennsylvania 
 for several years, but his venture did not prove 
 altogether successful and he next formed a part- 
 nership with M. B. Bennie at Rixford, Pennsyl- 
 vania, in the Bradford-McKean County oil district. 
 They engaged in a general oil well, supply and 
 hardware business, which was incorporated under 
 the name of Bennie and Packard. In January, 
 1877, he joined M. C. Guider in a similar enter- 
 prise at Coleville, Pennsylvania, this house operat- 
 ing as M. C. Guider & Company. 
 
 Mr. Packard served as manager of both houses 
 and in addition to the duties attaching to this 
 dual position, was actively engaged in the produc- 
 tion of oil. He remained in business until Jan- 
 uary 1, 1880, but sold out his interests at that time 
 and moved to the then far West. He had pur- 
 chased stock in the Vizna and Silver Cloud mines 
 in the Tombstone mining district and he made his 
 headquarters at Tombstone, Arizona. This was 
 the beginning of his career as a mine operator and 
 he has continued to operate from that time down to 
 date, his properties being located in Arizona and 
 the State of Sonora, Mexico. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Packard engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness in Cochise County, Arizona, and two years 
 later formed the company known as the Packard 
 Cattle Company, with large herds on the ranges 
 of Cochise County and Sonora, where he had early 
 acquired the ownership of an extent of land. He 
 is still engaged in cattle raising on a large scale 
 and at the present time, through the Packards' 
 Investment Company, a corporation composed of 
 members of his family, owns one hundred thousand 
 acres of land in Sonora, stocked with high-grade 
 and pure-bred cattle. This company also owns a 
 magnificent, highly improved farm in the Salt 
 River Valley, near Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 During his long residence in Arizona Mr. Pack- 
 ard has taken an active and important part in the 
 upbuilding of that section of the Southwest and 
 has been a commanding figure in the financial 
 growth of the country. In 1897 he aided in the or- 
 ganization of the Bank of Bisbee and was a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Directors of that institution 
 from the time of its organization until June, 1910. 
 He also served as President and General Managing 
 Director of the Moctezuma Banking Company at 
 Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, for several years and 
 President and Managing Director of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Douglas, Arizona, one of the strong 
 financial institutions of the West. 
 
 Mr. Packard, in addition to his business inter- 
 ests, has also taken an active part in the political 
 affairs of Arizona. He has always been a firm 
 supporter of the Democratic party and its candi- 
 dates and was the Representative of his district 
 in the Upper House of the Arizona Legislature for 
 eight years. He has also figured prominently in 
 the conventions of his party and three times was 
 elected delegate from Arizona to the national con- 
 vention of the Democratic party. 
 
 He has been one of the leaders in civic enter- 
 prise ever since he first located in Arizona and 
 as one of the enthusiastic members of the direc- 
 torate of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce has 
 given liberally of his time and fortune to various 
 movements having for their object the upbuilding 
 of the c;ty. 
 
 Mr. Packard has been an extensive traveler, 
 having visited practically every part of the civil- 
 ized world. He has been in every State of the 
 Union, most of the countries of Europe and in 1910 
 made an extended trip to the Orient, spending con- 
 siderable time in China, Japan and the Philippine 
 Islands. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, 
 member of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 UBBARD, A. G., Banker, Redlands, 
 California, was born in Northern 
 Wisconsin, in 1846, the son of 
 Frederick Hubbard and Anna 
 Kubbard. He married Lura Allan 
 Spoor of Michigan, on August 15, 
 1888. To them were born four children, Herbert 
 L. Hubbard, aged twenty-three years, who gradu- 
 ated from Stanford University in May, 1912; Mabel 
 G. Hubbard, aged seventeen years, now living at 
 home; Marie Hubbard, who 
 died in infancy, and Lura 
 Hubbard, born November 15, 
 1910. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard graduated 
 from the public schools near 
 his home, and acquiring a 
 good knowledge of chemistry, 
 metallurgy and mining engi- 
 neering, cut short his college 
 career and left in 1865 to seek 
 his fortune. He determined 
 to go to the Southwest. There 
 being no railroads at that 
 time, he started from the 
 Missouri River, going over 
 the old Santa Fe Trail. He 
 made a temporary halt at 
 San Antonio, Texas, and after 
 spending a few months in 
 the neighborhood of San An- 
 tonio, he started over the 
 "Staked Plains," crossing the 
 Rio Grande where El Paso 
 now is, and made his way to 
 the City of Mexico. On his 
 way back he visited a num- 
 ber of mining camps, but 
 continued his travel to the 
 
 Northwestern part of Texas and from there headed 
 across the plains for the Pacific Coast. He reached 
 the California line on the Colorado River at the 
 mouth of Bill Williams Fork in the Fall of 1867, 
 and there, he soon afterwards, took charge of the 
 Grand Central Copper Mine, in Arizona. 12 miles 
 Ea&t of the California line, for an English syndicate. 
 Mr. Hubbard next superintended the Planet Cop- 
 per Mines in the same mining camp with great 
 success and from that time until 1893 maie mining 
 his exclusive business, serving as- superintendent 
 of mines, mills and reduction works in addition 
 to doing a great deal of expert work in Arizona, 
 California, Nevada and Mexico. 
 
 For the last twelve or fifteen years of his 
 mining career Mr. Hubbard had as an equal part- 
 ner, George W. Bowers of San Francisco. During 
 their operations- as owners, Mr. Hubbard and Mr. 
 Bowers owned several valuable properties, among 
 them being the Clip Mine about seventy-five miles 
 above Yuma, and after that the most notable one, 
 the Harqua Hala Bonanza, of Yuma County, Ari- 
 
 A. G. HUBBARD 
 
 zona, which they operated at great profit for sev- 
 eral years and then sold to an English syndicate 
 in 1893. Mr. Bowers died about the time the final 
 negotiations for the sale of that property were 
 being closed. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard, whos-e hard work of the early 
 days has been rewarded with a comfortable fortune, 
 is generally credited with being on 5 of the factors 
 responsible for the upbuilding of that wonderful 
 section of the Southwest known as the Imperial 
 Valley of California. This 
 country not many years ago 
 was mostly desert land, but 
 through the energy and en- 
 gineering ability of men like 
 Mr. W. F. Holt, Mr. Hubbard 
 and others, it has- been re- 
 claimed and to-day is one of 
 the most prosperous agricul- 
 tural sections of the United 
 States. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard is very large- 
 ly interested with Mr. Holt 
 and numerous other capital- 
 ists in what is known as the 
 Holton Power Company and 
 the Holton Inter-Urban Rail- 
 way Company, also in the 
 control of the water power 
 for developing electricity. 
 They furnish all the electric- 
 al power used for the ice 
 plants and lighting system, 
 also for numerous other pur- 
 poses throughout the entire 
 Imperial Valley. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard is a large 
 orange grower in Redlands, 
 and is also interested in va- 
 rious other enterprises which form part of the 
 development of Arizona and Southern California. 
 He is largely interested in Phoenix, Arizona, 
 both in real estate and banking, and besides his 
 railway and agricultural interests, is heavily in- 
 terested in banking in Southern California. 
 
 He is President of the Citizens-' National Bank 
 of Redlands, President of the First National Bank 
 of San Jacinto and is interested in several of the 
 leading banking institutions in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard is regarded as- one of those men 
 who have done their full share of the work of de- 
 veloping the resources of Southern California and 
 Arizona. He has never failed to aid any move- 
 ment of a public or private nature having for its 
 object the betterment of humanity or the country. 
 He is unusually public-spirited and a generous 
 contributor to the general growth of the section 
 in which he has made his home. 
 
 He is a 32nd Degree Mason, and a member of 
 the Univers-ity Club, the Redlands Country Club 
 and the Redlands Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 OOD, JAMES, Superintend- 
 ent, Calumet & Arizona 
 Copper and Smelting Com- 
 pany, Douglas, Arizona, was 
 born at Lachuta, Argentine 
 County, Canada, March 27, 1860, the son of 
 John Wood and Grace (Wilson) Wood. 
 His family is one of the oldest on the Amer- 
 ican Continent and traces back for more 
 than three hundred years 
 in a direct line. He mar- 
 ried Mary Ames at Ana- 
 conda, Montana, May 24, 
 1891, and to them there 
 were born seven chil- 
 dren, John H., Thomas 
 Albert, James Jr., Earl, 
 Grace, Mary and Carlton 
 Wood. 
 
 Like a great many men 
 who have made a success 
 of their lives in the 
 United States, Mr. Wood 
 had only scant educa- 
 tional advantages in his 
 youth and with the ex- 
 ception of a few brief 
 months in the country 
 schools of his district, 
 has educated himself. 
 From the time he was 
 about nine years of age 
 until he reached the age 
 of seventeen he worked 
 on his father's farm and 
 the lumber mills of 
 
 in 
 
 Canada, and in 1877 left 
 
 home for the western part of the United 
 
 States. 
 
 First locating at Fort Benton, Montana, 
 he worked for about three years in the em- 
 ploy of his uncle, who was a cattleman there, 
 and in 1881 went to Butte, Montana, where 
 he 'started in the copper business. He began 
 in the freighting service of the Montana Cop- 
 per Company, now the Boston-Montana 
 Copper Company. He worked in this capac- 
 ity for about two years, part of the time in 
 hauling material for the company's smelting 
 plant at Mitreville, Montana. He followed 
 this with work in the mining end of the com- 
 pany's holdings at Anaconda, Montana, and 
 then returned to the cattle business. He 
 went to the Gerton Ranch outside of Butte. 
 as manager, and conducted this property for 
 nearly two years. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wood resigned his position 
 and returned to Butte, where he re-entered 
 
 JAMES WOOD 
 
 the copper business as a puncher on the con- 
 verter plant of the Parrot Smelter. He re- 
 mained there for about six years, working in 
 various capacities, and in 1890 went to the 
 Anaconda Smelter as Manager of the experi- 
 mental plant of the converters. He had by 
 this time come to be regarded as one of the 
 expert smelter men of the West and in 1892 
 accepted a position with the Nichols Chem- 
 ical Company, in charge 
 of the construction of a 
 converter plant at Laurel 
 Hill, New York. Upon 
 the completion of the 
 plant, he managed it for 
 about six months, then 
 returned to the West and 
 located at Durango, Colo- 
 rado, as Superintendent 
 of the Standard Smelter. 
 Later he went to Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, with 
 the Salt Lake Copper 
 Company and remained 
 in charge of its smelter 
 plant for about two years. 
 In 1893 Mr- Wood was 
 called to Arizona by the 
 famous Copper Queen 
 Company and placed in 
 charge of its converter 
 department. He remained 
 with this company for 
 more than nine years, 
 the last five of which he 
 had entire charge of its 
 smelter operations, over 
 about four hundred men. In 1902 Mr. Wood, 
 who had purchased an interest in various 
 copper mining properties, joined the Calumet 
 and Arizona Copper Company as Superin- 
 tendent of its smelter works at Douglas. 
 
 When Mr. Wood took charge of the com- 
 pany's plant it had a capacity of five hundred 
 tons of smelted ore daily, but owing to the 
 vast increase in the production of copper 
 within recent years this has been more than 
 quadrupled, so that the plant over which Mr. 
 Wood has supervision smelts 2200 tons each 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Wood is one of the practical men of the 
 copper business and in addition to holding 
 stock in the Calumet and Arizona and other 
 copper corporations, is a stockholder and di- 
 rector of the First National Bank of Douglas. 
 He is a Mason, Shriner and Knight Temp- 
 lar, also a member of the Douglas Country 
 Club. 
 
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 HON. R. F. DEL VALLE 
 
 EL VALLE, HON. REGINALDO 
 FRANCISCO, Attorney at Law, 
 Los Angeles, Gal. Was born there 
 Dec. 15, 1854. His father was 
 Ygnacio Del Valle and his mother 
 Ysabel (Varela) Del Valle. On 
 Sept. 2, 1890, he married Helen M. White Cayatile 
 in San Francisco. There is one child, Lucretia 
 Louise Del Valle. 
 
 Mr. Del Valle entered St. Vincent's College in 
 1867, remaining until June, 1871; then went to 
 Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal., where he 
 graduated with the degree Bachelor of Sciences 
 June, 1873. 
 
 His first venture in the law was at Los Angeles, 
 where he opened practice shortly after he was 
 admitted to plead in the Supreme Court. In 1879 
 he was elected to the State Assembly of California 
 from Los Angeles on the Democratic ticket and was 
 re-elected in 1880. In this year he was Presi- 
 dential Elector for Hancock and English. A year 
 later received complimentary vote for Speaker. 
 In 1882 he was elected Senator from Los An- 
 geles County and served four years, part as presi- 
 dent pro tern. In 1884 ran for Congress. Four 
 years later he was chairman State Convention at 
 Los Angeles, and in 1890 was nominated for Lieut. 
 Gov. In 1892 he was chairman of the Committee 
 on Resolutions of the State Convention at Fresno. 
 He was admitted to practice before the Supreme 
 Court of the United States in 1893. In 1894 he 
 was chairman Democratic State Convention at 
 San Francisco. He has been a member of every 
 State convention for more than thirty years, has 
 been a campaign orator and was a delegate to the 
 Democratic National Convention of 1900 at Kansas 
 City. He is an authority on parliamentary law. 
 
 At present he is a member of the Board of 
 Public Service in charge of the Water Department 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 BENJ. F. BLEDSOE 
 
 LEDSOE, BENJAMIN F., Judge of 
 Superior Court, San Bernardino, 
 California, was born February 8, 
 1874, in San Bernardino. 
 
 His father was Robert E. Bled- 
 soe and his mother Althea Bot- 
 toms. He is a descendant of Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, 
 United States Senator from Kentucky. 
 
 Judge Bledsoe married Katharine Marvin Shep- 
 ler at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1899. 
 There are two children, Barbara Shepler and 
 Frances Priscilla Bledsoe. 
 
 He attended the public schools of San Bernar- 
 dino until 1891, and then entered Leland Stanford, 
 Jr., University, graduating in 1896. 
 
 He was admitted to the Bar and was his father's 
 law partner until 1901, when he was elected Judge 
 of the Superior Court. He was re-elected without 
 opposition in 1906. 
 
 At the state primary election in 1910 Judge 
 Bledsoe was nominated by the Democratic party 
 to run for the office of Associate Justice of the 
 Supreme Court. 
 
 He is a director in the Farmers' Exchange Na- 
 tional Bank of San Bernardino, the Golden State 
 Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and other 
 business enterprises. 
 
 From 1898-1900 he was United States Referee 
 in Bankruptcy, San Bernardino County. Member 
 Board of Library Trustees since 1899, and has been 
 president of that body since 1907. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Alumni Association of Stanford Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 He is grand chancellor Knights of Pythias (1911- 
 12) ; grand orator Grand Lodge of Masons (1908- 
 09); grand warder Knights Templar (1911-12), and 
 a member Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi, college 
 fraternities. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 CHARLES N. CAMPBELL 
 
 AMPBELL, CHARLES NICHOLAS, 
 Wells-Fargo & Co. Express 
 Superintendent, Western Texas 
 Division, San Antonio, Texas. 
 Born at Kodiac, Alaska, May 13, 
 1870. His father was John Au- 
 gustus Campbell and his mother Sophia B. (Pav- 
 loff) Campbell. Married Cora Dale Barnhill, Jan- 
 uary 19, 1893, at Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Educated in public schools, Moberly, Mo 1876- 
 1883. 
 
 February 10, 1886, entered service Wells-Fargo 
 & Co. as a clerk at Houston, Texas. His pro- 
 motions speak more eloquently than anything else 
 that could be said regarding his worth. From 
 Houston he was sent to Kansas City, Mo., October 
 24, 1888, as Clerk; January 8, 1891, Chief Clerk to 
 Supt. Kansas City, Mo.; March 1, 1892, Cashier, 
 Kansas City, Mo.; January 9, 1893, Agent, Las Ve- 
 gas, New Mexico; Nov. 22, 1893, Agent, Wichita, 
 Kas.; February 3, 1896, Agent, Colorado Springs, 
 Colo.; May 1, 1897, Route Agent, Colorado Springs; 
 July 1, 1898, Route Agent, Salt Lake City, Utah; 
 April 20, 1900, Route Agent, San Francisco; July 11, 
 1900, Agent Los Angeles; January 1, 1905, General 
 Agent, Los Angeles, in charge of Los Angeles of- 
 fice, and territory covered by electric lines; Aug. 
 1, 1911, Supt. Western Texas Division, San Antonio, 
 in charge of business opened up over new lines. 
 
 A member for three year enlistment of the Na- 
 tional Guard, Missouri, Battery B; Nov. 25, 1890. 
 made Corporal; July 17, 1891, appointed First Ser- 
 geant. 
 
 Member of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles; 
 charter member West Lake Lodge No. 392, F. and 
 A. M.; King Solomon Lodge of Perfection No. 3, 
 Los Angeles Consistory No. 3, A. and A.; Scottish 
 Rite of Freemasonry; Los Angeles Chapter No. 33, 
 R. A. M.; Golden West Commandery No. 43, Knights 
 Templar; Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. 
 
 HON. GAVIN W. CRAIG 
 
 RAIG, GAVIN WILLIAM, Jurist, 
 Los Angeles, Gal., was born in 
 Scotia, Greeley County, Neb., June 
 22, 1878. He is the son of Gavin 
 Ralston Craig and Emma Edwards 
 (Morse) Craig. Judge Craig mar- 
 ried Berdena Healy Brownsberger April 11, 1903, at 
 Los Angeles. To them was born Florida Jean Craig. 
 
 Judge Craig began his education in the public 
 schools of Nebraska, but in 1890 was taken to Cali- 
 fornia, where he continued in the public schools of 
 Ukiah. In 1891 the family moved to Pomona, Cal., 
 where he graduated from high school in 1897. In 
 1899 he entered the College of Law, University of 
 Southern California, and graduated with the de- 
 gree LL. B. in 1901. At the same time he took a 
 course in the Brownsberger Business College. 
 
 Admitted to bar in 1901, immediately began 
 practice in the office of Byron Waters, Los An- 
 geles; 1901 to 1903, associated with Edwin A. 
 Meserve; 1903-4, deputy and stenographer in office 
 of District Attorney, Los Angeles; May, 1904, was 
 made secretary of the College of Law in his Alma 
 Mater. Served six years teaching torts, elementary 
 law, Blackstone, real property and water rights; 
 now a member Board of Control of the University 
 and teaches the last three subjects, in addition to 
 sureties. 
 
 In May, 1908, appointed Court Commissioner of 
 Los Angeles County, and in November, 1910, was 
 elected on Republican ticket to Superior Bench. 
 Resigned as Commissioner January 1, 1911, to 
 assume judicial duties. In 1908 he wrote an author- 
 itative case book, "Craig on Water Rights and 
 Irrigation Law in the Western States." 
 
 He was thrice president of the U. S. C. alumni 
 association, is a Scottish Rite Mason, Mystic 
 Shriner, Woodman of the World and a member of 
 the Fraternal Brotherhood. His clubs are the 
 Celtic, Gamut and Metropolitan. 
 
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 257 
 
 OODRICH, BEN, Attorney at Law, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 on a farm near Anderson, Grimes 
 County, Texas, September 23, 
 1839, the son of Benjamin Briggs 
 Goodrich and Serena (Caruthers) 
 Goodrich. He is descended from a notable Texas 
 family, his father having been one of the signers 
 of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention which 
 formed the Republic of Texas. He later served 
 as a member of Congress of the Republic of Texas. 
 Mr. Goodrich married Mary F. Terrell in Grimes 
 County, Texas, May 17, 1865, and to them there 
 were born three daughters, Mary (wife of W. C. 
 Read), Sarah (wife of Judge J. A. Street, of Salt 
 Lake City), and Cora (Mrs. Robt. D. Clarke, of 
 Peoria, 111.) 
 
 Mr. Goodrich received his early education in 
 private schools of his section, later attending St. 
 Paul's Episcopal College, at Anderson, and Austin 
 College, at Huntsville, Texas. In 1861, however, 
 at the outbreak of the Civil War he left his studies 
 and enlisted in the Confederate Army, as a private 
 in Company G, Fourth Texas Regiment, serving 
 under General John B. Hood. Later he commanded 
 Company D, Eighth Infantry, serving as First Lieu- 
 tenant and Commander of the Company under 
 General Dick Taylor, during the greater part of 
 the War. 
 
 In the battles against General Banks, conduct- 
 ing the Red River Campaign, Lieutenant Goodrich 
 and about 800 other Confederates- were taken pris- 
 oners by Banks' forces at Pleasant Hill, La., and 
 were held in captivity eleven days, when they were 
 set free because of the inability of Banks to get 
 his gunboats and transports down the river. Lieu- 
 tenant Goodrich continued to fight for the Confed- 
 erate cause throughout the South and was one of 
 the last men to lay down arms. 
 
 Returning to his home in June, 1865, Mr. Good- 
 rich began the study of law under Judge John R. 
 Kennard, of Anderson, and after his admis- 
 sion to practice was in partnership with Judge 
 Kennard for two years. He next formed a partner- 
 ship with Major H. H. Boone, subsequently Attor- 
 ney General of Texas. In 1877 this partnership 
 was dissolved, Mr. Goodrich moving to Sherman, 
 Texas, where for the next three years he was in 
 association with W. C. Brack. 
 
 In 1880, Mr. Goodrich moved to Arizona and 
 there began a career which placed him, in time, 
 among the leaders of his profession and made him 
 one of the most important men in public life. He 
 practiced at Tucson for a year, but moved to Tomb- 
 stone when Pima County was divided and Cochise 
 County formed from part of it. 
 
 He began practice at once, in partnership with 
 Honorable Marcus A. Smith, eight times Territorial 
 Delegate to Congress from Arizona and later 
 United States Senator from Arizona. Within a 
 
 short time Mr. Goodrich was one of the active 
 factors in the politics of Tombstone and Cochise 
 County. In association with Mr. Smith, he figured 
 in numerous State and local campaigns and through 
 their leadership the Democratic party was carried 
 to victory on many occasions. 
 
 In 1883, Mr. Goodrich was elected Treasurer of 
 Cochise County and held office for two years. 
 After a s-hort period in private practice he was 
 elected, in 1887, to the office of District Attorney. 
 During this period he also served as a member 
 of the Code Commission for the revision of the 
 laws of Arizona. 
 
 Leaving Tombstone in the latter part of 1888, 
 Mr. Goodrich went to Phoenix, where he formed a 
 partnership with Judge Webster Street, afterwards 
 a member of the Arizona Supreme Court, and re- 
 mained with him until 1890, going at that time to 
 San Diego, California. He was in partnership there 
 with Hunsaker & Britt for two years and with 
 Mr. Hunsaker upon their removal to Los Angeles, 
 in 1892. Subsequently he formed a partnership 
 with A. B. McCutcheon, which lasted five years. 
 
 Mr. Goodrich is known as one of the leading 
 mining lawyers of the Southwest and for many 
 years acted as counsel for several of the largest 
 copper corporations in that section. In 1902, he 
 returned to Tombstone to attend to the legal busi- 
 ness of the Tombstone Consolidated Mines Com- 
 pany and the Imperial Copper Company, and re- 
 mained there for nine years. During this time 
 he again took a prominent part in politics and in 
 1907 served as a member of the Territorial Coun- 
 cil, or Senate of Arizona. He had the distinction 
 of introducing in that session of the Legislature 
 the first bill ever offered in Arizona providing for 
 woman suffrage. 
 
 This measure failed of adoption at that time, 
 but the question continued a political issue until 
 it finally was adopted by popular vote at the gen- 
 eral election, November 5, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Goodrich was one of the most highly es- 
 teemed public men in Arizona and it has been said 
 that his removal to Los Angeles, in 1911, pre- 
 vented him from being chosen first Governor of 
 the State of Arizona. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles Mr. Goodrich 
 has maintained an extensive law practice, devoting 
 himself largely to mining, corporation and pro- 
 bate practice. Among other notable cases, he had 
 charge of the estate of the late Colonel W. C. 
 Greene of Cananea copper fame. 
 
 Colonel Greene died leaving a large estate, but 
 owing to the magnitude of his operations, the 
 property was greatly entangled and upon Mr. Good- 
 rich fell the part of the legal work connected with 
 the settling of the estate, which is still in process 
 of administration. 
 
 Mr. Goodrich has no fraternal affiliations ex- 
 cept the Masons, of which he has been a member 
 for many years. 
 
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 'BRIEN, CHARLES 
 FRANCIS, Real Estate and 
 Farming, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Worces- 
 ter, Massachusetts, the son of 
 Thomas J. O'Brien and Ellen F. (O'Cal- 
 laghan) O'Brien. He married Catherine A. 
 Hegarty at Los Angeles, October 13, 1909. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien received his education in the 
 public schools of Wor- 
 c e s t e r, Massachusetts, 
 and soon after finishing 
 his studies, moved west 
 to Kansas City, Missouri. 
 He located there in 1883 
 and went to work in a 
 clothing store for $4 per 
 week. His next position 
 was with Bradstreet's 
 Mercantile Agency in 
 which connection he re- 
 mained for about a year 
 and a half. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. O'Brien 
 went into the real estate 
 business in Kansas City 
 and operated there for 
 about three years, during 
 the boom period which 
 started Kansas City to- 
 wards its present posi- 
 tion among the large 
 cities of the country. He 
 cleared about $25,000 in 
 this time, but lost it dur- 
 ing the period of depres- 
 sion which began about 
 1888 and culminated in the financial panic 
 of 1893. 
 
 Upon retiring from the real estate business 
 in 1891 Mr. O'Brien took up newspaper work 
 as a reporter on the Kansas City Times. He 
 continued in this until 1893, when he went to 
 California for his health. He purchased a 
 ranch in Beverly Hills, near Los Angeles, 
 and remained there until 1896, when he re- 
 turned to Kansas City and re-engaged in the 
 newspaper business, becoming City Editor 
 of the Kansas City Times. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien was holding down the City 
 Editor's desk at the outbreak of the Spanish- 
 American war in 1898, and resigned his posi- 
 tion to enlist in the Volunteer Army. He was 
 made Captain of Company A, Fifth Missouri 
 Volunteer Infantry, and served until the 
 close of hostilities. His regiment saw no 
 actual service, however, being held in reserve 
 with thousands of others at various camps in 
 
 CHARLES F. O'BRIEN 
 
 the United States. His command got no 
 closer to Cuba than Chickamauga Park. 
 
 At the close of the war Mr. O'Brien went 
 back to newspaper work as staff correspond- 
 ent and political writer for the Kansas City 
 Times. At the end of two years, however, 
 he resigned and went to San Francisco, 
 where he became a real estate operator. He 
 was there for about nine years and during 
 the greater part of the 
 time specialized in colo- 
 nization work. He dealt 
 largely in irrigated lands 
 and having become a 
 practical farmer during 
 the three years he spent 
 on his ranch near Los 
 Angeles, he engaged in 
 farming and fruit grow- 
 ing in the Sacramento 
 Valley and elsewhere in 
 California. In 1909 he 
 left the northern part of 
 the State for Los An- 
 geles, where he has since 
 been engaged in the real 
 r-state business under the 
 name of the Charles F. 
 O'Brien Company. 
 
 In addition to his real- 
 ty holdings, Mr. O'Brien 
 has extensive farming 
 lands and is engaged ac- 
 tively in that field. He 
 has also devoted consid- 
 erable time to coloniza- 
 tion work in Mexico. 
 
 As General Land Sales Agent of the Com- 
 pania Constructora Richardson (Richardson 
 Construction Company), an enterprise 
 backed by wealthy Americans, one of whom 
 is John Hays Hammond, Mr. O'Brien has 
 had charge of the colonization of large tracts 
 of irrigated lands in Mexico and is himself 
 farming on an extensive scale in the Yaqui 
 Valley, Sonora, Mexico, at the present time. 
 The Richardson Company owns 750,000 
 acres of land in the Yaqui Valley and to Mr. 
 O'Brien has been entrusted the work of pro- 
 curing colonists for this property, one of the 
 most important colonization campaigns in 
 the history of the Mexican Republic. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien, since locating in Southern 
 California, has become one of the leaders in 
 realty work and has devoted himself so con- 
 sistently to business that he has had no time 
 for outside interests. His club is the Jona- 
 than, Los Angeles. 
 
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 AMSDELL, WILLIAM ROBERT, 
 
 Rn Mining, Los Angeles, California, 
 ^ was born in Dodge County, Min- 
 nesota, June 7, 1860, the son of 
 Henry Ramsdell and Ellen (Car- 
 ver) Ramsdell, the latter being a 
 direct descendent of John Carver, the first Gov- 
 ernor of Plymouth Colony. Mr. Ramsdell married 
 Florabel McCall at Spokane, Washington, Decem- 
 ber 28, 1897. They have two children, Henry and 
 Wilma Ramsdell. 
 
 As a farmer boy, Mr. 
 Ramsdell got his rudimen- 
 tary education in the country 
 schools. Later he graduated 
 at Wasioja, Minnesota, in the 
 Wesleyan Methodist Semi- 
 nary, from there entering 
 the University of Iowa, at 
 Iowa City, but never gradu- 
 ated. 
 
 Before he had attained 
 his majority he went to Col- 
 orado, going from there to 
 Idaho and Montana, and for 
 a number of years, largely 
 through the spirit of adven- 
 ture and travel, he worked 
 as cowboy, railroad oper- 
 ator, prospector, etc. In 1884 
 Mr. Ramsdell settled at To- 
 bacco Plains, Montana, 
 where he and his brother en- 
 gaged in the cattle business. 
 His operations grew rapidly 
 and his name became prom- 
 inently associated in the de- 
 velopment of Northern Mon- 
 tana. The Indians were bad 
 
 at this time and Mr. Ramsdell on several occasions 
 was in command of armed bodies of settlers who 
 finally brought the Red Men to terms, and restored 
 an orderly condition to that part of the frontier. Mr. 
 Ramsdell later on became interested in the mercan- 
 tile business at Egan's Landing in the Flathead 
 country, and his natural fitness as a political lead- 
 er brought him prominently before the people. 
 He first entered politics, and was elected, as one 
 of the five Constitutional Members from Missoula 
 County to the Constitutional Convention of Mon- 
 tana in 1889. Mr. Ramsdell was the second young- 
 est member of this body. The same year, it is 
 stated, he was in reality elected on the Democratic 
 ticket to the State Legislature, but was counted 
 out by a Republican Board of Supervisors. 
 
 His next political honors were gained as the 
 head of the Peoples' Party in 1892, when he was 
 elected State Senator from Flathead County, which 
 had been formed from a portion of Missoula County. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell has always been a Progressive 
 in Politics, and when the Peoples' Party move- 
 
 WILLIAM ROBERT RAMSDELL 
 
 ment started in 1892, he joined it. His ability as 
 an orator and organizer soon carried him to the 
 front rank of the party in the State. When he 
 entered the party he was but little known politic- 
 ally in the State outside of his county, and fiad 
 neither wealth nor strong friends to aid him; how- 
 ever, his natural fitness as a leader, and particu- 
 larly his gift as an orator, soon made him one of 
 the most prominent men in his party. In 1894 he 
 was honored by the caucus nomination of his party 
 to the United States Senate, 
 and in 189G, in the Peoples' 
 Party Convention at Helena, 
 Montana, he came within a 
 few votes of being nomi- 
 nated for Governor, the nom- 
 ination being equivalent to 
 election, as it was a fusion 
 of all the Free Silver Parties 
 of the State. 
 
 On account of ill health, 
 Mr. Ramsdell withdrew from 
 politics, closed up his mer- 
 cantile business and perman- 
 ently took up mining. 
 
 His operations in the min- 
 ing world have carried him 
 all over the Continent and 
 he has been associated with 
 many big men and enter- 
 prises, and has scored some 
 notable successes. Among 
 his successful mining ven- 
 tures may be mentioned the 
 "First Thought" mine at 
 Bossburg, Washington, cred- 
 ited with the greatest pro- 
 duction of any mine in the 
 State. In this he was associ- 
 ated with Pat Burns, the "Cattle King" of Canada. 
 Later on he bought the New Perdrara Onyx Com- 
 pany, of Lower California, Mexico, in which he is 
 heavily interested. This company now produces the 
 greater part of the world's high grade onyx. 
 
 In 1900, Mr. Ramsdell went to Old Mexico and 
 became interested in the Hostotipaquillo District, 
 in the State of Jalisco; here he bought and de- 
 veloped El Favor and Casados, two of the big mines 
 of Mexico. In addition to the above he has owned 
 several other mining properties of lesser promi- 
 nence and value. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell's success as a mining man, con- 
 sidering the number and value of the properties he 
 has owned, entitles him to rank among the foremost 
 men of the mining world. His success has been won 
 by sound judgment and persistent energy. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell is a home man as distinguished 
 from a club man; he is literary in his tastes, and 
 his progressive tendencies, as a reformer, will un- 
 doubtedly bring him into prominence again in the 
 arena of politics. 
 
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 EDWARD LEE, Attorney- 
 at-Law, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Allen County, Kan- 
 sas, November 22, 1874, the son 
 of Jessie Payne and Clara Francis 
 (Cave) Payne. He married Grace 
 Finch at Los Angeles, October 10, 1900, and to 
 them there have been born two children, Lee Finch 
 and Clarence Edward Payne. 
 
 His family moving to Pomona, California, when 
 he was a lad, Mr. Payne spent 
 his boyhood in Southern Cal- 
 ifornia and received his edu- 
 cation in the public schools 
 of Pomona. Upon the com- 
 pletion of his high school 
 course Mr. Payne entered the 
 Law College of the Univer- 
 sity of California and was 
 graduated in the class of 1898 
 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Laws. 
 
 Immediately after his 
 graduation Mr. Payne locat- 
 ed in Los Angeles with the 
 law firm of Jones & Wel- 
 ler as a clerk. Having been 
 admitted to the bar, he was 
 qualified to take charge of a 
 large part of the office busi- 
 ness, such as drawing up pa- 
 pers, briefing cases, etc. He 
 remained with the firm about 
 two years and during that 
 time gained a splendid prac- 
 tical experience. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Payne became 
 assistant to E. E. Milliken, 
 attorney for the Los Angelep Traction Company, 
 and also engaged in private practice. He was asso- 
 ciated with Mr. Milliken for the next two years, or 
 until the Los Angeles Traction Company was con- 
 solidated with the Pacific Electric Railway Com- 
 pany, at which time he entered the office of George 
 P. Adams and James C. Rives, two notable mem- 
 bers of the California Bar. His work with them 
 extended over a period of two years, at the end of 
 which time, his own practice having grown to con- 
 siderable proportions, he resigned and opened 
 offices. He went into partnership with Clifton Ax- 
 tell and practiced with him for about five years, 
 the partnership being dissolved in 1909. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Payne has practiced alone 
 and has met with unusual success. The long asso- 
 ciation with older members of the profession and 
 the intimate connection he had with various im- 
 portant litigations furnished Mr. Payne with a 
 knowledge vouchsafed to very few young attorneys. 
 The result was that when he began practice in- 
 dependently he was in a position to handle difficult 
 
 EDWARD L. PAYNE 
 
 problems in such manner that his career has been 
 one of gratifying successes and he is regarded as 
 one of the leading attorneys of the city of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 In addition to his professional work, Mr. Payne 
 has taken an active interest in public affairs and 
 development of the country of which Los Angeles 
 is the capital. He is largely interested in real 
 estate in Los Angeles and Southern California, and 
 was one of the organizers of the Southwest Home 
 Building Company, a corpora- 
 tion engaged in the buying 
 and selling of real estate 
 and the building of homes. 
 Los Angeles is unique in the 
 possession of more owned 
 homes than any other city of 
 its size in the United States, 
 and this is largely due to the 
 fact that the home building 
 system there is different 
 from any other in existence. 
 Corporations like the South- 
 west Home Building Com- 
 pany, of which Mr. Payne is 
 Secretary and Attorney, build 
 hundreds of homes annually 
 and encourage men of limit- 
 ed means to buy by erecting 
 the houses for them, giving 
 them a deed outright and 
 permitting them to pay for 
 it in small installments. 
 
 The result of this system 
 is that more wage-earners are 
 home-owners in the South- 
 western metropolis than any 
 place else, and Mr. Payne is 
 body of men who have made this 
 
 one of that 
 possible. 
 
 Being a member of the Chamber of Commerce 
 of Los Angeles and a man of great physical energy, 
 Mr. Payne has taken a part in various movements 
 calculated to be for the betterment of business and 
 civic conditions- 
 Mr. Payne is a prominent factor in the political 
 affairs of the city. He has been identified with the 
 Progressive wing of the Republican party ever since 
 the inception of the idea and he has served for sev- 
 eral years as a member of the Executive Committee. 
 He was a candidate for the nomination for Judge of 
 the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in the 
 primary election of September 3, 1912, but failed of 
 election. 
 
 Mr. Payne enjoys a splendid professional and 
 business standing in Los Angeles. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
 a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias and of the Phi Delta Chi 
 college fraternity. 
 
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 HITTEMORE, CHARLES O., Vice 
 President and General Counsel, Las 
 Vegas and Tonopah Railway, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, June 29, 
 1862, the son of Joseph Whitte- 
 more and Matilda (Busby) Whittemore. He mar- 
 ried Sarah L. Brown November 26, 1886, at Salt 
 Lake City, and to them there have been born two 
 daughters, June and Leigh, and a son, Joseph R. 
 Whittemore. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore is of that 
 class of Americans known as 
 "self-made." His father dying 
 when the boy was 14 years 
 of age, the latter eldest 
 of a family of five went to 
 work at various occupations, 
 the while contributing to the 
 support of the family and 
 earning enough for his own 
 education. He attended St. 
 Mark's School, Salt Lake 
 City, and was graduated with 
 honors in 1882. He received 
 a gold medal for highest ex- 
 cellence in his class and still 
 prizes the trophy. 
 
 Upon leaving school Mr. 
 Whittemore entered the law 
 offices of Philip T. Van Zile, 
 then United States Attorney 
 for the territory of Utah, and 
 read for a year. He was ad- 
 mitted to practice in 1883 
 and almost immediately was 
 appointed Assistant City At- 
 torney of Salt Lake City. He 
 served until October of that 
 
 year, when he resigned to take a special course at 
 Columbia Law School, New York City. 
 
 Leaving Columbia in 1884, Mr. Whittemore re- 
 turned to Salt Lake City and re-engaged in prac- 
 tice. As an active young attorney Mr. Whittemore 
 entered politics and was one of the signers of the 
 original call for the organization of the Republican 
 party in Utah. This was in the early nineties, 
 when new political lines were forming there. In 
 1894 he was elected County Attorney of Salt Lake 
 County and in 1895, when Utah was admitted as a 
 State, became the first State's Attorney of the 
 County. 
 
 He was a leading factor in the campaign of 1896, 
 which resulted in McKinley's election to the Presi- 
 dency, and in 1898 was appointed by the martyr 
 President to be United States Attorney for his dis- 
 trict. He served in that capacity until 1902. Some 
 years before this, however, Mr. Whittemore had 
 branched into what was destined to be the most 
 conspicuous work of his career. With others, he 
 advanced the idea for a railroad linking Txas An- 
 
 C. O. WHITTEMORE 
 
 geles and Salt Lake City, and as far back as 1893 
 made a trip to Los Angeles in promotion of this 
 plan. Later, in 1896, he made the trip overland in 
 a wagon, blazing a route for the road. By contin- 
 uous effort he and his associates created interest 
 in the project, and about 1900 the aid of Senator 
 W. A. Clark of Montana was enlisted. The out- 
 come was the incorporation in 1901 of the San 
 Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, link- 
 ing two great commercial centers and opening up 
 one of the richest stretches 
 of territory in the West and 
 forming the last link in one 
 of the three great trans-con- 
 tinental highways. 
 
 Mr. Whmemore was one 
 of the incorporators of the 
 road and secured all the 
 right of way for the line in 
 Utah and Nevada. He re- 
 mained with it as general 
 attorney through its forma- 
 tive and constructive peri- 
 ods until 1907, when the Las 
 Vegas and Tonopah Railroad, 
 another Clark line, was built 
 into Goldfield. Nevada. He 
 was made vice president and 
 general counsel of the new 
 road, positions he still holds. 
 In addition to his railroad 
 affiliations, Mr. Whittemore 
 has aided in the development 
 of several important mining 
 properties in Southern Ne- 
 vada and oil properties in 
 California. He is president 
 of the Goldfield Merger 
 Mines Company, a $5,000,000 
 
 corporation, formed by the consolidation of five 
 valuable mining properties, and vice president of 
 the Goldfield Deep Mines Company, capitalized at 
 $10,000,000. Also he is president of the Las Vegas 
 Land and Water Company, founders of the town 
 of Las Vegas, Nevada. 
 
 He maintains a general legal practice in Los 
 Angeles, devoting himself to corporation matters. 
 He moved to Los Angeles in 1907 and has taken 
 an active part in movements for the upbuilding of 
 the city and Southern California. He has figured 
 in some notable litigations, one of which, the "Yard 
 decision" case, caused the passage by Congress of a 
 new act protecting oil land purchasers. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore's life has been so taken up 
 with work that he has had no time for out-of-doors 
 recreation, although he does hold memberships in 
 the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles and the Alta 
 Club of Salt Lake City. He is essentially a home 
 lover and takes great pride in his family, his son 
 being a student in the law department of Leland 
 Stanford University. 
 
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 L. E. DADMUN 
 
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 263 
 
 ADMUN, LEWIS ERVING, Attor- 
 ney, San Diego, California, was 
 born in Charleston, Illinois, July 
 23, 1872. He is the son of Daniel 
 Dadmun and Mary Jane (Rus- 
 sell) Dadmun, and married Mary 
 E. Annis at National City, California, April 3, 1895. 
 To them there were born four children, one of 
 whom is deceased. The three surviving are Erving 
 E., Dorothy and Sarah Elizabeth Dadmun. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun received his education in the com- 
 mon schools of Illinois and Arkansas and studied 
 law later in life while engaged in earning his living. 
 He was compelled to seek his own livelihood 
 at an early age. His family moved from Illinois 
 to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and he spent several 
 years there, until the removal of the family to San 
 Diego in 1888. He remained there a few months 
 and after seeing his parents settled, went *to Chi- 
 cago, where he became Distributing Agent for a 
 syndicate of raisin growers in California. It was 
 while thus employed that he took up law, devoting 
 his evenings to study. 
 
 He returned to San Diego in 1892, took the Bar 
 examination and began the practice of the law in 
 August of the following year. The first part of his 
 career was only partially successful and for this 
 reason he visited various States in search of a 
 better location. He spent several months in Lin- 
 coln and Omaha, Nebraska, intending to open of- 
 fices in the former, but, after working with other 
 attorneys for a brief period, made up his mind that 
 Nebraska offered hardly better promise than did 
 California. Returning to San Diego, he conducted 
 a number of cases, then started on another tour of 
 investigation, which led him to the insular posses- 
 sions of the United States. 
 
 He arrived in the Philippine Islands in 1901, 
 when the rebellion was still on, and met with seri- 
 ous difficulty in traveling. It was his intention to 
 establish practice in Manila, but, owing to the un- 
 settled conditions and apparent indefinite time 
 when these conditions would reach a normal level, 
 he left there. He visited Honolulu, then traveled 
 through China and Japan for several months. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun returned to San Diego in the early 
 part of 1902 and resumed his practice. 
 
 Recognized today as one of the most successful 
 attorneys at the Bar of Southern California, he 
 has figured in a number of cases which have be- 
 come important parts of the legal history of the 
 State. Early in his career he was retained by 
 certain farming interests in the Otay Valley of 
 Southern California to prosecute a suit against a 
 water corporation, which they charged with causing 
 damage amounting almost to ruination of their 
 crops. This action, entitled "Bauers et al. vs. 
 Southern California Mountain Water Company," in- 
 volved more than half a million dollars. The farm- 
 ers alleged that the company, by the construction 
 
 of a dam across the Otay River above their prop- 
 erty, had caused the death of their fruit trees and 
 other crops, with attendant damage. By his con- 
 duct of this case, Mr. Dadmun won recognition as 
 one of the competent lawyers before the court at 
 that time. 
 
 Another notable case in which Mr. Dadmun ap- 
 peared, and one in which he won an important vic- 
 tory, was known as the case of the U. S. vs. 
 Schooner Lou. This vessel, one of the historic old 
 craft of the Pacific trade, was seized by the Col- 
 lector of Customs and a fine imposed upon her 
 owners for alleged violation of the admiralty laws. 
 Mr. Dadmun defended the owners and obtained a 
 ruling from the United States Court supporting his 
 contention that it was outside the province of Col- 
 lectors of Ports to levy fines upon vessels, a prac- 
 tice which had held for many years. He thus es- 
 tablished a precedent which has continued. 
 
 Besides the cases noted, Mr. Dadmun has han- 
 dled many other important cases, both civil and 
 criminal, and at frequent intervals has been called 
 in by city or State to act as special counsel for 
 the prosecution in certain actions. His record of 
 victories is one of the most complete of any man 
 in the profession at San Diego. In 1907 he served 
 as Special Prosecutor for the city in several cases 
 and also in the same year successfully conducted, 
 as Prosecuting Attorney, a crusade for civic reform 
 at National City, where he has his home. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun, because of his prominence in legal 
 circles, has been urged on frequent occasions to 
 run for various offices, but, although he has always 
 taken a keen interest in political affairs, only once 
 bent to the wishes of his friends far enough to 
 seek office. This was in 1910, when, after consider- 
 able urging on the part of various citizens, he be- 
 came a candidate for the nomination for District 
 Attorney of San Diego County on the Republican 
 ticket. He was defeated at the primary, however, 
 and since then has not permitted his name to be 
 mentioned in connection with any public office. 
 
 In addition to his work in the legal profession, 
 Mr. Dadmun has a diversity of other interests and 
 is a heavy real estate owner at National City. He 
 is a Director of the San Diego County Poultry As- 
 sociation and also acts as counsel for a number of 
 corporations, but most of his spare time he de- 
 votes to his ranch interests. He is the owner of 
 a 580-acre property north of San Diego, is a breeder 
 of fine cattle and horses, and reputed to have on 
 his ranch some of the finest horseflesh in the West. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun is an enthusiast for the future of 
 San Diego and contiguous territory and has lent 
 his services, for many years, to various movements 
 having for their object the upbuilding of this sec- 
 tion of Southern California. 
 
 His only affiliations are an honorary member- 
 ship in the T. M. A., and his membership in the 
 K. of P. 
 
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 OTT, JOHN GRIFFIN, At- 
 torney-at-Law (Mott & Dil- 
 lon), Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in that city 
 August 3, 1874, the son of 
 Thomas Mott and Ascension (Sepulveda) 
 Mott. He married Lila Jean Fairchild at 
 Los Angeles, February 23, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Mott, member of a devout Catholic 
 family, received his pri- 
 mary education in St. 
 Vincent's College of Los 
 Angeles, and later re- 
 ceived the degrees of 
 Bachelor of Letters and 
 Bachelor of Laws from 
 Notre Dame University, 
 where he was a student 
 during the years 1895 
 and 1896. From the In- 
 diana institution he went 
 to the Catholic Univer- 
 sity of America at Wash- 
 ington, D. C., and there 
 received the degree of 
 Master of Laws. Bishop 
 Conaty, now head of the 
 diocese of Los Angeles, 
 was rector of the univer- 
 sity at that time, having 
 been appointed by Pope 
 Leo XIII about the time 
 that Mr. Mott became a 
 student. 
 
 Mr. Mott returned to 
 Los Angeles immediately 
 upon the conclusion of 
 
 JOHN G. MOTT 
 
 his studies and began the practice of his pro- 
 fession. After approximately four years in 
 offices by himself, he formed a partnership 
 with R. J. Dillon, which has continued down 
 to date. Mr. Mott has made a specialty of 
 corporation and probate law and during his 
 many years of practice has figured in some 
 notable cases. 
 
 He is intensely interested in various 
 movements for the upbuilding of Los An- 
 geles and vicinity and was one of the prin- 
 cipal factors in the preliminary work of con- 
 solidating Los Angeles and San Pedro, a 
 move which made Los Angeles a seaport 
 and placed it in line for the benefits prom- 
 ised by the Panama Canal. He also figured 
 prominently in the campaign for selling 
 bonds for the Owens River Aqueduct, mod- 
 ern work which revolutionized the water 
 system of the city of Los Angeles. When 
 the United States Government was consider- 
 
 ing the erection of a Federal building at Los 
 Angeles, Mr. Mott was chosen by certain 
 property owners desirous of providing the 
 site for the building to look after their in- 
 terests. In this capacity he made a notable 
 fight, carrying his case to Washington. He 
 appeared before the House of Representa- 
 tives and Senate in his effort to win the prize 
 his clients sought, and, following this, pre- 
 sented his case at the 
 White House itself. He 
 finally persuaded Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt, who was 
 then President, of the 
 justness of his cause and 
 the executive signed the 
 bill. 
 
 These are only a few 
 of the important matters 
 in which Mr. Mott has 
 figured, but they serve to 
 show the character of 
 work with which he has 
 been identified. 
 
 He is prominently 
 identified with the Re- 
 publican party of Cali- 
 fornia and has performed 
 telling service for that 
 organization, having 
 taken the stump for it in 
 local and State cam- 
 paigns. Mr. Mott is, by 
 common consent, placed 
 among the leading ora- 
 tors of the West and 
 some of his speeches are 
 remembered as beautiful eloquence perfect 
 specimens of word architecture. His ad- 
 dress at the farewell banquet to Bishop 
 Montgomery is referred to as a magnificently 
 blended tribute to the retiring prelate who 
 had won the love and affection of the city 
 wherein he was a spiritual guide. 
 
 Mr. Mott's father, Hon. Thomas D. 
 Mott, was one of the pioneers of California, 
 who crossed the plains in 1849, and a man 
 who took a leading part in the early develop- 
 ment of the State. From him the subject of 
 this sketch inherited his gift of oratory. 
 
 Mr. Mott enjoys a high professional 
 standing in Los Angeles and the State, and 
 is a member of the Los Angeles and Los An- 
 geles County Bar Associations. He is Past 
 Exalted Ruler of the Los Angeles Lodge of 
 Elks, member of the Native Sons of the 
 Golden West, Knights of Columbus, Crags 
 Country, Jonathan and California Clubs. 
 
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 265 
 
 ARLAND, WILLIAM MAY, 
 Real Estate Dealer, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Westport, Maine, March 
 31, 1866. His father was 
 Jonathan May Garland and his mother 
 Rebecca Heal (Jewett) Garland. From his 
 parents, who were of sturdy New England 
 stock, he inherited that 
 spirit of thrift and 
 aggressiveness which has 
 made him such a promi- 
 nent figure in the making 
 of "The City Beautiful" of 
 today. At Dunkirk, New 
 York, October 12, 1898, 
 he married Blanche Hin- 
 man, and to them two 
 sons have been born, 
 William Marshall and 
 John Jewett Garland. 
 
 Mr. Garland was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools of Waterville, 
 Maine. 
 
 After his graduation 
 from high school he 
 went to Boston and en- 
 tered the employ of a 
 wholesale and retail 
 crockery house. After a 
 year spent at this occu- 
 pation he decided to quit 
 merchandising, and as his 
 father owned an orange grove and operated a 
 stage line at Daytona, Florida, he went there 
 and was employed by his father until 1884. 
 The call of the West had attracted his atten- 
 tion, and he located in Chicago, where he se- 
 cured employment in the Merchants' Nation- 
 al Bank as messenger. In less than six years 
 he was appointed receiving teller in the Il- 
 linois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. 
 Notwithstanding this rapid rise in banking, 
 by reason of physicians' advice Mr. Garland 
 determined to go further west, and settled 
 upon Los Angeles, arriving in that city in 
 the winter of 1890. He obtained there the 
 position of auditor of the old Pacific Cable 
 Railway Company, which supplied the trans- 
 portation service to the city a score of years 
 ago. Mr. Garland was not long to discover the 
 great possibilities of real estate operations, 
 and at the end of three years' service with 
 the transportation lines he embarked in the 
 
 real estate business. He has always been 
 optimistic about Los Angeles as a home city, 
 and has made some notable prophecies as to 
 the wonderful growth in area and population. 
 His latest prediction is that by the last of 
 1920 Los Angeles will have a population of 
 1,000,000. 
 
 The first important realty deal put through 
 by Mr. Garland was the 
 subdivision of the Wil- 
 shire Boulevard Tract, 
 which was put on the 
 market in 1896. At that 
 time the whole section 
 was unimproved and 
 somewhat remote. To- 
 day it is noted as having 
 some of the finest resi- 
 dences in the city, and is 
 easily one of the famous 
 show spots of the city. 
 Mr. Garland's closer in- 
 terest, however, has been 
 given to business prop- 
 erty, and he has been 
 especially successful in 
 keeping well in advance 
 of the trend of business 
 
 WILLIAM MAY GARLAND 
 
 improvement. 
 
 Mr. Garland was one 
 of the organizers of the 
 Los Angeles Realty 
 Board, and is now its 
 president. He is officer and director in sev- 
 eral prominent corporations of the city, and 
 in addition is a director of the Los Angeles 
 Trust and Savings Bank. He served two 
 years on the Los Angeles Board of Library 
 Directors and a similar term on the Board of 
 Education. He is a staunch Republican and 
 was a delegate to the National Convention 
 which met at Philadelphia in 1900, when Mc- 
 Kinley and Roosevelt were nominated. He 
 was also the member from California of the 
 notification committee which visited Canton, 
 Ohio, to notify Major McKinley of his elec- 
 tion to the Presidency. 
 
 Mr. Garland was Lieutenant Colonel and 
 Aide-de-Camp on the staff of ex-Governor 
 Gillett, and is a member of the Los Angeles, 
 Pasadena and Annandale Country clubs, and 
 of the Los Angeles Athletic, Jonathan and 
 Bolsa Chica Gun clubs and California Club, 
 of which he was president during 1908. 
 
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 ARSHALL, EDWIN JESSOP, Capi- 
 talist and Banker, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Baltimore, 
 Maryland, March 18, 1860, the son 
 of H. Vincent Marshall and 
 Amanda C. (Jessop) Marshall. He 
 married Sallie McLemore, June 1, 1892, at Galves- 
 ton, Texas. There is one son, Marcus McLemore 
 Marshall, born July 9, 1893. 
 
 The Marshalls are one of the noted families of 
 America. The first of the name came to America 
 in 1682, one Abraham Marshall, and settled in Ches- 
 ter, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society 
 of Friends, or, as they are generally known, 
 Quakers, and was a member of the colony of Wil- 
 liam Penn. The family in England in the genera- 
 tions before his coming produced men of note, and 
 distinguished members reside in Scotland today. 
 
 Abraham Marshall was the father of nine chil- 
 dren. His eighth son was Humphrey Marshall, the 
 first great American botanist, and one of the ablest 
 that this country has produced. Humphrey Mar- 
 shall gave to the city of West Chester a park that 
 is today unique in America, and is very highly 
 prized by that community. He gathered, from the 
 different localities of the temperate zone, the finest 
 varieties of useful and ornamental trees and set 
 them out, and there they stand today, one hundred 
 and sixty years old or older, the pioneers of many 
 varieties now common to the United States. The 
 park is frequently visited by landscape architects 
 and botanists who want to know just how certain 
 trees in their maturity will look. Humphrey Mar- 
 shall duplicated this park on his own estate on the 
 Brandywine river, and it has been preserved 
 through the centuries to the present day by its own- 
 ers, a branch of the Marshall family. 
 
 E. J. Marshall is a descendant of the third son 
 of the first settler, one John Marshall, who had a 
 family of eight children. His sixth was Abraham, 
 who had twelve children, nine of them sons, and 
 his seventh, Abraham, was Mr. Marshall's grand- 
 father. 
 
 Several of his grandfather's brothers had ca- 
 reers that could be called romantic, even though 
 the Quaker blood in their veins suggested and 
 even demanded peaceful and settled lives. One, 
 George, went to Spain, and then to Cuba, and won 
 the heart and hand of the daughter of the Captain 
 General of Cuba. In the service of Spain, he led 
 an adventurous life, and died a romantic death in 
 his prime. 
 
 Another brother went to sea at the age of fifteen. 
 Nearly all of the crew on his ship were taken down 
 with yellow fever and died. The Marshall boy 
 brought the ship into St. Augustine, Florida, with 
 the help of one or two sailors, and there he was 
 stricken and died himself. Vincent, another of the 
 granduncles, became a famous physician, at Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. His son, Vincent, moved to San 
 Francisco, where he aided in the organization of 
 the San Francisco Gas Company. He owned the 
 
 three houses located on the highest point of San 
 Francisco, which miraculously escaped the great 
 disaster of April 16, 1906. He left half his prop- 
 erty to his niece, Helen Marshall, whose sister, Dr. 
 Clara Marshall, is dean of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, Women's Medical Department, one of the 
 most famous women in medicine in the United 
 States. 
 
 Abraham Marshall, the grandfather, had a ca- 
 reer that in life was interesting and in his death 
 tragic. He was a lawyer, and, in order to settle a 
 certain estate for which he was attorney, he was 
 compelled to ride horseback all the way from Phila- 
 delphia to Illinois. He received as his fee a large 
 tract of land in Illinois, then of little value, but 
 which with the populating of that State increased 
 rapidly in worth. 
 
 The young lawyer became a big figure in the 
 Illinois community, and the county of Marshall, Illi- 
 nois, was named in his honor. During the war be- 
 tween Mexico and Texas, when Texas was fighting 
 for its independence, he was persuaded that in the 
 event the Texans were successful there would be 
 great opportunities opened. 
 
 He made the journey by boat down the Missis- 
 sippi to New Orleans, and from there to Galveston 
 with a company of men. He and his men were at 
 once sent to the front, and in a few days was 
 fought the battle of San Jacinto, the decisive 
 struggle of the war, in which the army of the Mex- 
 ican general, Santa Ana, was wiped out. Santa Ana 
 himself was taken prisoner and General Houston 
 delivered the prisoner to the charge of Captain 
 Abraham Marshall. A few weeks later Marshall 
 was taken with a fever, and one night, in his de- 
 lirium, he wandered off into the wilderness. He 
 was never seen or heard of again. Years later a 
 noted phrenologist and General Greene, chief of 
 staff for General Houston, wandering around in that 
 vicinity of Texas, happened to pick up a naked 
 skull. For his amusement the phrenologist read 
 what he thought must have been the character of 
 the possessor of the skull in life. General Greene 
 had known Captain Marshall in life, and he was so 
 struck with the similarity of the reading and the 
 character of Captain Marshall that he wrote a let- 
 ter saying that he thought he had found the cap- 
 tain's skull. This letter is now in the possession of 
 E. J. Marshall. 
 
 John Marshall, the greatest of the chief jus- 
 tices of the United States Supreme Court, who 
 really fixed and defined the position of the Supreme 
 Court in the United States Government, is of the 
 same family, descended from the branch that set- 
 tled in Virginia. 
 
 In spite of the fact that the chief tenet of the 
 faith of the Quakers was an abhorrence of fight- 
 ing, the Abraham Marshall who lived at the time 
 of the War of the Revolution organized a company, 
 of which he was captain, and reported to General 
 Braddock, who was then waging a campaign near 
 the Marshall farm on the Brandywine river. The 
 
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 company at once saw fighting. 
 
 But the Society of Friends, of which Marshall 
 was one of the most prominent members, in spite 
 of their patriotism did not approve of warfare. 
 They sent him a communication that unless he 
 stopped his unholy conduct they would read him 
 out of the society. He was a God-fearing man, and 
 put his religion before his fighting. He resigned 
 from the captaincy, and the grandfather of General 
 McClelland, of Civil War fame, was elected by the 
 company in his stead. 
 
 Years later General Palmer, founder of Colo- 
 rado Springs, who was a member of the Society 
 of Friends, was taken to task for the offense of 
 fighting in the Civil War, but he wrote a letter so 
 eloquent in his defense that he was retained by the 
 society, and the letter is now treasured in the 
 archives of Chester County. 
 
 The original Marshall farm of two hundred 
 acres, on the Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, is still 
 owned by a member of the family. The house is 
 a stone one of two stories, in an excellent state 
 of preservation. One of the treasured documents 
 is the deed to the farm, yellow with age, signed 
 by William Penn, and in connection with which 
 there are several letters from William Penn. They 
 are kept in the original wallet belonging to the 
 original grantee. These documents are of priceless 
 historical value. 
 
 Allied closely with the Marshalls of Chester 
 County is the Sharpless family; so closely, in fact, 
 through intermarriage, that the two families are 
 as one. The importance of the two families in 
 Chester County is curiously evidenced in the Ches- 
 ter County National Bank, which has been in ex- 
 istence for two hundred years. It is still housed 
 in a beautiful banking house designed by the archi- 
 tect of the National Capitol at Washington. In tne 
 directors' room of this bank hang numerous por- 
 traits of former Marshalls and Sharpless who have 
 been presidents of the bank, and the present head 
 is a Sharpless. 
 
 The Marshalls have played their part in the de- 
 velopment of the United States. The family, with 
 its connections, now numbers in the thousands, and 
 they are found in every part of the Republic and 
 in many lines of endeavor. 
 
 Mr. Marshall's father, H. Vincent Marshall, was 
 a chemist, who at one time was connected with 
 the house of Sharp & Doane, of Baltimore, one of 
 the large chemical manufacturing houses of the 
 United States. 
 
 E. J. Marshall's early education was obtained 
 in the country schools in the vicinity of Baltimore 
 and in Illinois. When he had reached the age of 
 fifteen he received an appointment, through Presi- 
 dent Grant, to West Point, but owing to the Quaker 
 traditions and the fact that Rush Roberts, an uncle, 
 who about the same time was put on General 
 Grant's Peace Commission, sent to confer with the 
 Sioux Indians, visited Mr. Marshall's father on his 
 return and objected strenuously to the West Point 
 
 course, the boy did not enter the school. 
 
 It was a sore disappointment; so much so that 
 he determined to end his studies then and there 
 and go out into the world for himself. He cast 
 himself adrift, penniless, before he was sixteen 
 years old. iis first experiences were more than or- 
 dinarily distressing. He was willing to work, and 
 found work, but he was at the very start brought 
 face to face with some of the sternest realities of 
 life. 
 
 His first position of consequence was when he 
 was at the age of fifteen. He was given a clerk- 
 ship at St. Louis in a railroad office, a place he 
 was given as a reward for exceptional integrity 
 shown in an incident in which he suffered some 
 unpleasant consequences. 
 
 His next place was with the Central Pacific, 
 now a part of the Union Pacific, at Atchison, Kan- 
 sas. He fell sick, and during his illness Jay Gould 
 bought the Central Pacific and the offices were 
 transferred to St. Louis. Recovering, he went to 
 the Great Lakes, and for several months, in his 
 enfeebled condition, the boy roughed it on a 
 steamer. In Chicago he met the superintendent of 
 the Pullman Palace Car Company, who gave him a 
 position as Pullman palace car conductor, running 
 out of St. Louis. This was in 1878, at the age of 
 eighteen. He met Frank P. Killeen, General Man- 
 ager of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, a part 
 of the present extensive Santa Fe system, who 
 made him his private secretary, a position he held 
 for two years, when he was transferred to the 
 transportation department, of which he was later 
 put in charge as master of transportation. 
 
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe bought the 
 road, and, in the process of absorption, there was a 
 shake-up in the entire official body. Mr. Marshall, 
 however, kept his office for about a year under the 
 new management. 
 
 He had, meanwhile, bought a ranch near Lam- 
 pasas, Texas, with about $2000 which he had saved 
 from his salary. He formed a partnership with a 
 man and together they bought herds of sheep. They 
 started in well, but the tariff on wool was suddenly 
 stricken off by Congress, and in a, day their busi- 
 ness was rendered unprofitable. The partnership 
 was dissolved, and he took the land while the other 
 took the livestock. 
 
 Just at this time he was offered the position of 
 cashier of the new First National Bank of Lam- 
 pasas, Texas. 
 
 For the next seventeen years he lived the life 
 of a busy, hard-working American. He was cashier 
 of the bank, and finally became its president. He 
 managed his ranch and familiarized himself with 
 the cattle business, which he made profitable. He 
 handled increasingly large herds, and before the 
 end of the seventeen-year period had amassed what 
 would be considered by many a comfortable com- 
 petence. 
 
 The turning point in his career came in 1900. 
 Into the activity of his life were introduced inci- 
 
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 dents spectacular beyond all his expectations. He 
 was taking a herd of two thousand head of cattle 
 to the Osage Indian Reservation, in Oklahoma, 
 where he had leased some Indian land, when he 
 received word that a great oil gusher had been 
 struck at Beaumont, Texas, flowing eighty thou- 
 sand barrels a day. He was himself not inclined 
 to pay much attention to the oil discovery, but was 
 persuaded by one of the directors of his bank, and 
 a valued associate, to come and look over the 
 field. 
 
 Tue Beaumont oil field, like every other to 
 which there is a rush, had been snapped up for 
 miles around, and the most fanciful prices pre- 
 vailed. There was one tract of fifteen acres over 
 which a whole confusion of interests were fight- 
 ing. Mr. Marshall and his associate, Swayne, de- 
 cided that here was their opportunity. They got 
 together the warring interests, among whom were 
 those represented by Governor Hogg of Texas, and 
 formed the now historic Hogg-Swayne Syndicate. 
 There were five men in the syndicate, Marshall, 
 Campbell, Hogg and two others, and each took a 
 fifth. 
 
 The syndicate agreed to cover all claims at a 
 price of $315,000. The total price was to be paid 
 in sixty days and the initial payment was to be 
 $30,000. 
 
 Mr. Marshall was made trustee and handled all 
 the finances. An hour after the agreement was 
 reached, when the checks were still in Mr. Mar- 
 shall's pocket, an attorney by the name of Rose 
 appeared and said he had an option on two-and-a- 
 half acres which he insisted on exercising. He 
 brought $100,000 with him in $1000 bank notes, pre- 
 pared to pay cash for the option. If he were not 
 permitted to buy the option he was prepared to sue. 
 Rather than face litigation at that time, Mr. Mar- 
 shall and the syndicate accepted the offer and took 
 the $100,000. 
 
 It was never necessary to use the $30,000 in 
 checks. 
 
 Dry holes had been sunk all around Spindle Top, 
 which resulted in concentrating all the rush on 
 Spindle Top itself. The same day the syndicate 
 advertised that they would sell leases at the rate 
 of $100,000 an acre. Towne, a former candidate for 
 the Presidency of the United States on the Populist 
 ticket, who had stepped aside to make way for 
 Watson, bought a lease on a quarter acre for 
 $28,500 cash. Three more were sold before night. 
 Practically all the $315,000 which had been paid 
 for the property was at once paid off. In thirty 
 days enough leases were sold to cover the cost 
 and leave a net profit of $300,000, and the syndi- 
 cate still had half of its fifteen acres. 
 
 An English syndicate here came _in and made 
 an offer of $2,000,000 for the half that was left. 
 They deposited $25,000 while the bargain was 
 pending and Mr. Marshall went to London to com- 
 plete the negotiations. He arranged to build two 
 pipe lines from Beaumont to the coast at Port 
 
 Arthur, near by, and to build five steel tanks each 
 of a storage capacity of 55,000 barrels. When this 
 was done the Englishmen were prepared to pay 
 the $2,000,000. At a cost of $150,000 the pipe line 
 and storage plant was put in, under the supervision 
 of a former Standard Oil manager, but the English- 
 men never closed on their option. 
 
 Mr. Marshall and his associates were, there- 
 fore, compelled to continue in the oil business. 
 They spent $200,000 more on the storage plant. 
 The storage facilities were still not enough to take 
 care of the oil that was offered them, and the 
 business was growing to unexpected magnitude. 
 
 It was decided to interest more capital, and a 
 committee went to New York, where they con- 
 ferred with John W. Gates, Ellwood, J. S. Culinan 
 and others. They came to an understanding. 
 Meanwhile Mr. Marshall, J. S. Culinan and Camp- 
 bell formed "The Texas Company," and to the 
 stock of this concern Gates and his associates 
 subscribed. 
 
 The Texas Company is now the second largest 
 oil company in the world. It has a capital of 
 $50,000,000. It has pipe lines covering Texas, Okla- 
 homa and Kansas, and competes with the Standard 
 Oil Company in twenty states. Mr. Marshall was 
 its first treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Marshall then went to Paris, on another 
 mission, and on his return made arrangements tc 
 close out his oil interests and go to California. 
 Mrs. Marshall and their son had been in California 
 the greater part of three years for the sake of the 
 son's health. He arrived in Los Angeles January 
 1, 1904. 
 
 The famous Spindle Top had a comparatively 
 short life. Wells were sunk so closely together 
 that no one got much oil, and finally, through care- 
 lessness, salt water was admitted to the oil bearing 
 strata. The seven and a half acres on which the 
 syndicate had an offer of $2,000,000 is now practi- 
 cally worthless. He sold his last block of Texas 
 Company stock to John W. Gates in 1906. 
 
 He assumed the office of vice president of the 
 Southwestern National Bank of Los Angeles on 
 the day of his arrival, and he was connected with 
 it in that capacity until its consolidation with the 
 First National Bank, in 1905. He was offered an 
 official position with the enlarged bank, but his 
 private interests had become so large that he 
 declined. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival at Los Angeles he be- 
 gan looking around for opportunities to buy 
 ranches, his favorite form of investment. J. S. 
 Torrance offered him five adjacent ranches in Santa 
 Barbara County, on which oil wells were being 
 drilled. He offered him the five, with a total acre- 
 age of 63,000, retaining the oil rights, but he bought 
 only three of them. This is now one of the model 
 ranches of California, containing 42,000 acres. It 
 is located north of the city of Santa Barbara and 
 fronts the Pacific Ocean for fifteen miles. 
 
 On it at the present time are 4000 head of pure 
 
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 Hereford cattle, pronounced by experts to be the 
 finest herd in the world. They have been very 
 profitable, a thousand head being sold each year 
 at special prices. The ranch has already paid for 
 itself, and is now valued around one million dollars. 
 Fifteen thousand acres are under cultivation and a 
 thousand acres are under lease to a sugar com- 
 pany for the growing of sugar beets. 
 
 Since 1904 he has also bought the famous Chino 
 Ranch, whose lands are located between Pomona, 
 Riverside and Corona, California. Associated with 
 him in this purchase are J. S. Torrance, E. T. Earl, 
 J. S. Cravens and Isaac Milbank. Mr. Marshall is 
 president of the company. 
 
 The area of the Chino ranch when bought was 
 46,000 acres. Water was developed and other im- 
 provements made, and a portion of the property 
 put on the market. Twenty thousand acres have 
 been sold to small settlers. Some of the most thick- 
 ly settled portions of Southern California surround 
 the property, which has grown to be exceedingly 
 valuable. 
 
 Since the purchase of the Chino property he has 
 bought the Grand Canyon ranch, for which was 
 paid $250,000. This is used as a breeding ground 
 for the Chino property. On this property he owns 
 all the water sources, and has piped this water dis- 
 tances of ten to fifteen miles that it might be 
 available for the livestock. He can now run from 
 fifteen thousand to twenty thousand head of cattle 
 on this ranch. 
 
 But the largest of his ranches is the Palomas, 
 in Mexico. This is, in fact, the largest ranch in 
 the world, two million acres, within fence. This, 
 also, he has acquired since coming to Los Angeles. 
 The north line stretches across the entire southern 
 boundary of New Mexico, a distance of 170 miles. 
 On this he runs one of the world's largest herds of 
 cattle. This property is not entirely grazing land. 
 Probably 200,000 acres can be reclaimed by irri- 
 gation. One of the largest artesian belts in Amer- 
 ica runs through it, and a section is watered by a 
 fine river. Only a part of this area has up to the 
 present time been reclaimed. He has associated 
 with him in this property J. S. Torrance and H. S. 
 Stephenson. 
 
 He is president of the Sinaloa Land Company, a 
 company that owns 1,500,000 acres in the state of 
 Sinaloa, Mexico. He was induced to become presi- 
 dent and manager of the company in order to carry 
 on development more rapidly. The company origi- 
 nally obtained the land in payment for a survey 
 of the state of Sinaloa. The land is not in one 
 tract, but is scattered all over the state. A plant 
 irrigating 100,000 acres of land has just been com- 
 pleted. The water is drawn from the Culiacan 
 river and spread over the valley lands adjacent. 
 
 The Sinaloa lands are especially valuable be- 
 cause they are well watered, with a rainfall of 
 thirty-five inches and upward annually, and five 
 large rivers flowing through them. Upwards of 
 $2,000,000 has been spent on surveying and develop- 
 
 ment work. With the opening of the Panama 
 Canal the lands will be colonized. 
 
 A summary shows the enormous scale on which 
 he operates. He is easily one of the largest stock 
 growers of the country; very few can be classed 
 with him. His combined herds number 100,000. On 
 the three ranches, Grand Canyon, Santa Barbara 
 County, Palomas and Chino, considering the size of 
 the herds on each property, each stands in a class 
 by itself, unequaled in breeding and in the quantity 
 of production. 
 
 He is one of the largest farmers in the United 
 States and in the world. He cultivates 15,000 acres 
 on the Santa Barbara ranch, 20,000 acres -on the 
 Chino ranch, and 5000 to 6000 acres in Mexico. This 
 makes a total of 40,000 acres under plow. 
 
 Although there has been much of the spectacu- 
 lar in his business career, it can be said that prac- 
 tically all of Mr. Marshall's success has been due 
 to good judgment and hard work. Through seven- 
 teen years of close application to the duties of his 
 various offices in the Lampasas Bank, and his good 
 judgment in the management of his farm, he pros- 
 pered until, when his great chance came, he was 
 ready to take it. Even then he did not plunge 
 recklessly as even staid business men are tempted 
 to do; costly as it appeared he bought the abso- 
 lutely proven oil ground of Spindle Top itself. His 
 part in the formation of the Texas Company earned 
 him a place as one of the big oil operators of the 
 United States, but his career in oil could be 
 stricken out entirely and he would yet have 
 reached approximately his present standing. After 
 he had drawn his profit out of the oil business, 
 hardly more than the profits of straight invest- 
 ment, he went back to his original callings of 
 banking, livestock and farms. And it is in these 
 that his thoroughness, managerial ability, and 
 knowledge of the business have had their greatest 
 reward. He took hold of great tracts of land and 
 increased their value five-fold. 
 
 He is the president of the Chino Land and 
 Water Company, Sinaloa Land and Water Com- 
 pany, Palomas Land and Water Company, Grand 
 Canyon Cattle Company and Jesus Maria Rancho. 
 
 He is a director of the Los Angeles Trust Com- 
 pany, First National Bank of Los Angeles, Pacific 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company, Home Telephone 
 and Telegraph Company of Los Angeles, Home Tel- 
 ephone Company of San Francisco, and over thirty 
 other companies. He is vice president of the J. H. 
 Adams Company, of Los Angeles, one of the strong- 
 est bond houses in the United States, with a capi- 
 tal of $3,500,000, and which deals solely in bonds. 
 
 He is part owner in the Central Building, the 
 Security Building and the Chester Building, three 
 of the largest steel office blocks in Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of the California, Jonathan, Los 
 Angeles Athletic, Los Angeles Country, Pasadena 
 Country and Bolsa Chica Gun clubs, of Los Angeles 
 and Pasadena, and also of the Bohemian of San 
 Francisco. 
 
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 UINT, SUMNER J., Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Lawrence, Mass., 
 April 28, 1872, the son of Charles 
 A. Quint and Maria (Burroughs) 
 Quint. He married Stella Mar- 
 garet Wilson at Los Angeles, June 11, 1902, and 
 to them there have been born two children, George 
 Waldo and Sumner Wilson Quint. 
 
 Dr. Quint is descended from an old New England 
 family, the first member in 
 America having been Elder 
 William Wentworth, who 
 came over the sea from Eng- 
 land early in the seventeenth 
 century. Other ancestors of 
 Dr. Quint included Captain 
 Moses Butler, who command- 
 ed a Company at the capture 
 of Louisburg, and the latter's 
 son, Chas. Butler, who served 
 in the Revolutionary War. 
 
 Dr. Sumner J. Quint, who 
 is one of the able surgeons 
 of Southern California, re- 
 ceived his early education in 
 the high school of Sanford, 
 Me., Y. M. C. A. night school, 
 Portsmouth, N. H., and New 
 Hampshire Conference Sem- 
 inary (1893 to 1895). Moving 
 to Pomona, Gal., in 1895, he 
 entered Pomona College, and 
 in 1896, went to the College 
 of Medicine of the Univer- 
 sity of Southern California. 
 He was graduated with the 
 degree of M. D. in 1899. His 
 preceptors were Drs. Norman 
 Bridge and George L. Cole, 
 two noted physicians of Los 
 Angeles. During his career 
 at college, Dr. Quint was 
 one of the notable leaders of 
 his class, both in fellowship and scholarship. 
 
 Following his graduation, Dr. Quint became an 
 interne in the California Hospital of Los Angeles, 
 remaining until 1900, when he became attached 
 to the U.,S. Marine Hospital. In 1901 he was ap- 
 pointed Assistant Health Officer of Los Angeles, 
 retaining this office until 1905. 
 
 Dr. Quint was chosen Junior Chief Police Sur- 
 geon of Los Angeles in 1905, succeeding shortly 
 to the post of Senior Chief Police Surgeon. In 
 this capacity he made a remarkable record, his 
 administration being particularly distinguished for 
 the advancement in methods of handling municipal 
 cases. He conceived the idea of detaching the Re- 
 ceiving Hospital, as the Los Angeles municipal 
 institution is known, from the city police station 
 and through his influence a separate building was 
 erected, a modern structure with modern equip- 
 ment. He had much to do with planning the hos- 
 pital and is credited generally as having given to 
 the city one of its most valuable municipal assets. 
 
 Dr. Quint, although he had worked hard to pro- 
 cure the new hospital, did not remain with the 
 city service long enough to see his ideas fully 
 carried out, but left the post of Chief Police Sur- 
 geon in 1910, after about five years of successful 
 work, to become Chief Surgeon of the French 
 
 DR. SUMNER J. QUINT 
 
 Hospital of Los Angeles, in which capacity he still 
 serves (1913). He has also acted during this 
 period as Medical Examiner for the Provident Sav- 
 ings Life Assurance Company of New York and the 
 Occidental Life Insurance Company of California. 
 During the last two years of his career at the 
 University of Southern California Medical College, 
 Dr. Quint was Official Druggist of the institution and 
 in 1901, was appointed Instructor in Materia Medica 
 at the University, resigning this in 1907 to take 
 the post of instructor in Sur- 
 gery. The Medical College 
 of the University of Southern 
 California has since become 
 a part of the State Univer- 
 sity, known as the University 
 of California, and Dr. Quint, 
 who has probably had more 
 experience in general sur- 
 gery than any other surgeon 
 of his age in the State of 
 California, is regarded as one 
 of the valuable members of 
 the faculty. 
 
 Dr. Quint has written 
 many articles on surgery for 
 the Los Angeles County Med- 
 ical Society and his opinion 
 on all matters pertaining to 
 this branch of medical prac- 
 tice is highly respected by 
 the surgeons of his State. 
 
 While at College, Dr. 
 Quint became a member of 
 Nu Sigma Nu and Theta Nu 
 Epsilon, Greek Letter socie- 
 ties and has since that time 
 taken an active interest in 
 fraternal affairs, being a 
 member also of the Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of 
 Elks, Royal Arch Masons, 
 (Thirty Second Degree), the 
 Mystic Shrine and the Fra- 
 ternal Champions, of which he is Supreme Medical 
 Director. 
 
 He is a charter member of the Los Angeles 
 Clinical and Pathological Society, and holds mem- 
 bership in the American Medical Association, Los 
 Angeles County Medical Association, Medical So- 
 ciety of the State of California and the Alumni 
 Association of the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Dr. Quint is a great lover of outdoor sports, 
 doing active work in his college days on the base- 
 ball and football teams, and now spends con- 
 siderable time playing golf. He is also a member 
 of the Automobile Club of Southern California 
 and of the American Automobile Association, and 
 takes great pleasure in driving his six-cylinder, 
 48 horsepower Franklin around Southern Cali- 
 fornia. He has been Chief Surgeon at many of 
 the automobile races, and Chief Surgeon for the 
 aviation meets at Los Angeles. He is also con- 
 nected with the Red Cross Society, and numerous 
 organizations of a charitable nature. 
 
 Dr. Quint enjoys a personal popularity within 
 and without the confines of the medical fraternity. 
 His clubs include the University, Union League, 
 Knickerbocker and Pomona College, also the San 
 Gabriel Country Club. 
 
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 ASHION, JAMBS A., Railroad 
 Builder, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Glengarry County, 
 Dominion of Canada, May 13, I860,, 
 his parents being sturdy repre- 
 sentatives of the Canadian type. 
 His father was Daniel Cashion and his mother Jane 
 (Burton) Cashion. He married Jessie McDonnell 
 at Ventura, California, December 24, 1900, and to 
 them there have been born two children, Jean 
 Elizabeth and James Angus 
 Cashion. 
 
 Mr. Cashion attended the 
 common schools of his native 
 county and remained in Can- 
 ada until he was 19 years old, 
 at which time he went to 
 Kansas. Kansas at that peri- 
 od was in the midst of great 
 railroad construction and Mr. 
 Cashion embarked in that 
 business, which he has fol- 
 lowed ever since and in 
 which he is now engaged. 
 
 Starting in 1879 as a mule 
 driver in a construction 
 camp, he learned the busi- 
 ness with such rapidity he 
 was made a foreman in six 
 months. From that time on 
 his life has been one of hard 
 work and progress, until to- 
 day, with thousands of miles 
 of railroad attesting his abil- 
 ity, the name of Cashion is 
 known from the Missouri to 
 the Pacific. 
 
 Mr. Cashion's field of op- 
 erations has oeen in Kansas, 
 
 Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Old 
 Mexico, and during this time some of the largest 
 railroad construction enterprises, especially in Old 
 Mexico, have been successfully concluded under 
 his direction and supervision. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Cashion was superintendent of con- 
 struction for Grant & McDonald on the line from 
 Arkansas City, Kansas, down into the Indian Ter- 
 ritory, through that section on which Guthrie and 
 other thriving towns now stand. At that time 
 there were no towns in that barren country and 
 the stations were named as the road was built. 
 This was one of Mr. Cashion's earliest successes 
 and was followed by numerous others during the 
 next fifteen years. 
 
 Mr. Cashion began his important Arizona ac- 
 tivities in 1901, by which time he had become vice 
 president, general manager and one of the princi- 
 pal owners of the Grant Brothers Construction 
 Company. His first road there was the Prescott 
 & Eastern, running from Mayer to Crown King, 
 with a branch to Poland. This was attended with 
 great difficulty, the route passing through a par- 
 ticularly rough stretch of country. About the time 
 
 J. A. CASHION 
 
 this line was completed Mr. Cashion began the 
 construction of the Phoenix & Eastern (now the 
 Arizona & Eastern), extending 100 miles from 
 Phoenix to Winkelman. This was completed in 1903. 
 The Arizona & California Road, running from 
 Wickenburg to Parker, on the Colorado River, a 
 distance of 108 miles, was the next one completed, 
 in 1905. This was an unusually strenuous period 
 for Mr. Cashion, for about that same time he built 
 the Rio Puerco cut-off from Belen to Del Rio, 
 in New Mexico, and the Ari- 
 zona Southern Road from 
 Red Rock to Silver Bell, in 
 Arizona. 
 
 As the three operations 
 mentioned above were near- 
 ing completion Mr. Cashion 
 invaded Old Mexico for the 
 Southern Pacific Company, 
 and there for the last six 
 years or more has been at 
 work carving ways through 
 the rough country of the Re- 
 public to the south. In that 
 comparatively short period 
 of time he has constructed 
 more than 1000 miles, and 
 many miles of it have oeen 
 through solid rock, necessi- 
 tating, in addition to diffi- 
 cult grading, the building of 
 numerous tunnels. 
 
 His first road in Mexico 
 was that reaching from No- 
 gales to Cananea, and was 
 followed by the building of 
 the line from Corral, in the 
 State of Sonora, up the 
 Yaqui River to Tonichi. This 
 is 100 miles long, through a wild, rocky canyon. 
 Another hard piece of construction was that from 
 Nocozari to Montezuma. 
 
 The most notable line, however, built in Mexico 
 by Mr. Cashion is the 800 miles from Corral to 
 Tepic, running through parts of the States of So- 
 nora, Sinaloa and the Territory of Tepic, with 
 branches extending from Navajoa to Alamos and 
 from Quila to El Dorado, in the sugar region. Mr. 
 Cashion has also built hundreds of miles of railroad 
 in the States of California and Colorado. 
 
 He is today, and has been for years, vice presi- 
 dent and general manager of the Grant Brothers 
 Construction Company, of Los Angeles, and is also 
 vice president and a director of the Hibernian Sav- 
 ings bank of that city. 
 
 Aside from his construction enterprises and 
 banking interests, Mr. Cashion is a heavy land- 
 holder in the famous Salt River Valley of Arizona, 
 where his ranches, of the finest soil in the vaney, 
 are pointed out as models. These ranches are 
 stocked with the best horses, mules and cattle in 
 that section of the Great Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Cashion's only lodge affiliation is the B. P. O. 
 Elks, and he is a life member of Los Angeles 
 Lodge, No. 99. 
 
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 ATTISON, FITCH C. E., 
 
 M g Physician and Surgeon, Pas- 
 1 adena, Cal., was born at Lou- 
 isville, Ky., May 4, 1861, the 
 son of Samuel J. Mattison 
 and Kate (Jenning) Mattison. He married 
 Helen Blake, deceased, January 24, 1889. 
 There is one child, Bessie Mattison, born De- 
 cember 12, 1890. Dr. Mattison is a descend- 
 ant of a family that ante- 
 dates the Revolution on 
 both the paternal and the 
 maternal side, and whose 
 men have fought against 
 the Indians, in the Revo- 
 lution, and Mexican and 
 the Civil Wars. 
 
 He was given a first 
 class education in the 
 schools thought best fitted 
 for him. Zachary Taylor 
 Pindell's, at Annapolis, 
 Maryland, was his first 
 school, and the Maryland 
 Institute of Baltimore 
 added to his knowledge. 
 For training in the medi- 
 cal profession he sought 
 the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons at Chicago, 
 and there he received his 
 degree as Doctor of Med- 
 icine. 
 
 While he studied he 
 worked and earned his 
 way. After leaving the 
 Maryland Institute he 
 was given a job in his father's store in Balti- 
 more. When he was twenty he struck out 
 independently for himself and decided to go 
 to Chicago. There he entered upon an ener- 
 getic career. 
 
 He went to work for the Pocket Railway 
 Guide Company, and was made first assist- 
 ant secretary. Later, as his knowledge of 
 the business grew, he was made editor of 
 the Guide. Meanwhile, he became a part 
 owner in a drup- store located in Chicago, 
 and his interest in the concern naturally led 
 to his study of medicine. It was then that 
 he entered the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons. 
 
 After his graduation he located in Chicago 
 and practiced both medicine and surgery 
 from 1888 until 1898, when he moved to Pas- 
 adena. He resumed his practice in that 
 city, making a specialty of surgery, 
 and is now recognized as one of the 
 
 DR. F. C. E. MATTISON 
 
 most efficient surgeons in the West. Not 
 long after his arrival in Southern Cali- 
 fornia he was offered the post of surgeon of 
 the Southern Pacific Railway, which he ac- 
 cepted and still holds. 
 
 The State of California has honored him 
 by an appointment as one of the State Board 
 of Medical Examiners. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the Public Health Commission of the 
 State of California, and 
 he has acted as chairman 
 of that organization. In 
 this he was able to pro- 
 mote what has always 
 been one of his chief in- 
 terests, the safeguarding 
 of the public health. He 
 has been for a number of 
 years chairman of the Los 
 Angeles County Milk 
 Commission, and the 
 work he has done in this 
 connection has been a 
 model of efficiency, and 
 has attracted the atten- 
 tion of the health depart- 
 ments of the American 
 cities. 
 
 The capital that he has 
 accumulated in his indus- 
 try he has invested in sev- 
 e r a 1 substantial enter- 
 prises ; notable among 
 these is the Pasadena Sav- 
 ings and Trust Company, 
 one of the big institutions 
 of the kind in the State, 
 of which he is a director. He is accounted 
 one of the financially solid men of Pasadena. 
 He is a member and director of the Board 
 of Trade. 
 
 He is a member of all the more important 
 medical associations, both local and national. 
 Among them are the American Medical As- 
 sociation, the California State Medical Asso- 
 ciation, the Los Angeles County Medical As- 
 sociation, the Pacific Association of Railway 
 Surgeons, Clinical and Pathological Society, 
 American Society for the Advancement of 
 Science, the American Medical Milk Com- 
 mission. 
 
 He is prominent in society and in the club 
 life of Pasaden? He is president of the 
 Overland Club of Pasadena; member Los 
 Angeles University Club ; member Annan- 
 dale Country Club, Valley Hunt Club, Tuna 
 Club, and of others in Chicago and Southern 
 California. 
 
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 A T E S, HENRY SEARS 
 (Bates & Chesebrough), Ship- 
 ping and Commission, San 
 Francisco, California, was 
 born in San Rafael, that State, 
 April 27, 1879, the son of Marshall Asha 
 Bates and Elizabeth (Sears) Bates. He is of 
 Virginian descent on his father's side and of 
 New England ancestry on the maternal side, 
 his mother having been 
 the daughter of Judge 
 Sears, a jurist well known 
 in the East. On March 
 18, 1903, Mr. Bates mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Gladys 
 Merrill, in San Francisco, 
 and to them there have 
 been born three children: 
 Merrill, Henry Sears, Jr., 
 and Gerald Bates. 
 
 Mr. Bates received his 
 early education at the Pa- 
 cific Heights Grammar 
 School and at the Broad- 
 way School, San Francis- 
 co; attended the Mount 
 Tamalpais Academy in 
 San Rafael and the Low- 
 ell High of San Francisco 
 from 1891 to 1895, was 
 graduated from Boone's 
 Academy, Berkeley, in 
 1897, and left the Univer- 
 sity of California in 1898, 
 in his sophomore year, to 
 engage in mining in Mari- 
 posa and Calaveras coun- 
 ties. In 1900 he went to Nome, Alaska, where 
 he roughed it for awhile, ran a boat on the 
 Yukon and gained an experience valuable 
 from both a physical and business viewpoint. 
 Possibly the germ of his present large ideas 
 of shipping and development was born in that 
 Yukon venture and stimulated by his subse- 
 quent progress in the brokerage line. At all 
 events, in 1901 he entered the marine broker- 
 age business with M. A. Newell as an ad- 
 juster. Here he rapidly learned the details of 
 the office, and in 1903 became a clerk in the 
 firm of Johnson & Higgins, marine brokers, 
 where he rose, in 1905, to the head of the ad- 
 justing department, a recognized authority 
 on marine adjusting. 
 
 The February, 1911, number of "Ocean 
 Travel and Traffic" contains an article by Mr. 
 Bates, sketching the history of his company 
 and indicating the "probable effects the Pana- 
 ma Canal will have upon California's trade 
 
 H. S. BATES 
 
 with the Gulf and Atlantic ports." Excerpts 
 from this contribution shed much interesting 
 light upon the subject treated, as well as on 
 Mr. Bates' commercial intelligence. He tells 
 us that in July, 1907, the firm "started in busi- 
 ness and, naturally, owing to the previous ex- 
 perience of both partners, decided to confine 
 itself to shipping and marine brokerage." 
 The positions previously held by Mr. Chese- 
 brough and himself had 
 given them an accurate 
 knowledge of the trade by 
 sea via the port of San 
 Francisco, and had ena- 
 bled them to perceive the 
 great opportunities which 
 the trade between Atlan- 
 tic and Pacific ports of- 
 fered young men of ex- 
 perience in the shipping 
 business. They were 
 "firmly convinced that the 
 tonnage of our country 
 had increased far beyond 
 an equivalent to that of 
 the sugar exported f rom 
 Hawaii," which had been 
 the basis of the American 
 Hawaiian Steamship 
 Company's business, and 
 that "a large part of the 
 cargo previously routed 
 'all rail' from the mills to 
 the seaboard would be 
 diverted to the water car- 
 rier." 
 
 Mr. Bates believes 
 that all this is but a forerunner of that "which 
 will move after the completion of the canal." 
 He concludes with a frank admission that "we 
 have tried, first, to lay a foundation for a busi- 
 ness for ourselves, to be brought about by the 
 Panama Canal, and, secondly, that we have 
 tried to do something toward the develop- 
 ment of our State and its wonderful resources 
 in the trade between the cities of San Francis- 
 co, Los Angeles, and Gulf and Atlantic ports." 
 He is a type of the young business man in 
 whom intelligence and energy, plus foresight 
 and broadness of view, have made a sum of 
 remarkable success. It is largely through 
 these qualities that his company, though still 
 in its infancy, has developed a trade surpass- 
 ing his expectations. 
 
 He is a member of the Bohemian Club, 
 University Club, Merchants' Exchange, San 
 Francisco Golf, Tivoli Club of Panama and 
 California State Automobile Association. 
 
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 HESEBROUGH, ARTHUR 
 SEWALL (Bates & Chese- 
 brough), Shipping and Com- 
 mission, San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Oakland, 
 September 23, 1877, the son of Andronicus 
 Chesebrough and Edith (Saunders) Chese- 
 brough. Of New England descent, with 
 English ancestry on both sides of the house, 
 wherein his forbear, Cap- 
 tain Robert Chesebrough, 
 was a conspicuous mem- 
 ber, he inherits the sturdy 
 characteristics, mentally 
 and physically, which 
 have enabled him to win 
 at a comparatively early 
 age a notable prominence 
 in the business world. 
 
 Mr. Chesebrough was 
 married in San Francisco, 
 January 18, 1911, to Miss 
 Elizabeth N e w h a 1 1, 
 daughter of William 
 Mayo Newhall, a son of 
 one of the pioneer mer- 
 chants of the city. 
 
 His first schooling was 
 provided by the Pacific 
 Heights Grammar School 
 of San Francisco. From 
 there he entered the Low- 
 ell High School, and in 
 1897 was graduated into 
 the University of Califor- 
 nia, which he left in 1899. 
 While there he played an 
 active part in the fraternity and athletic life 
 of the place, as a member of the Chi Phi, the 
 Theta Nu Epsilon, the Skull and Keys and 
 the 'Varsity Nine. 
 
 For several years following his departure 
 from the University he made use of what 
 scientific knowledge he had acquired there in 
 the mines of Amador, Calaveras and Mariposa 
 Counties, gaining a practical experience that 
 led to a trip to Korea in the interests of the 
 Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. Two 
 years of the Orient evidently sufficed for him, 
 for he returned to San Francisco and entered 
 the shipping and commission firm of Wil- 
 liams, Dimond & Co. With this corporation 
 he remained until 1907, when he severed his 
 connection therewith to become a partner of 
 the combination upon which he is at present 
 concentrating his commercial energies. 
 
 Since the formation of this thriving firm 
 Mr. Chesebrough has been so active therein 
 
 A. S. CHESEBROUGH 
 
 that any sketch of its rapid development must 
 necessarily include him. His connection 
 therewith he naturally regards as the most 
 important part of his business life. Largely 
 through his own energetic efforts the business 
 has gone ahead with such leaps/ and bounds 
 as to attract the attention of everyone inter- 
 ested in the expansion of our commerce. Its 
 progress reminds one of the amazing upbuild- 
 ing of the new San Fran- 
 cisco, and symbolizes the 
 spirit that inspired that 
 marvel of modern push. 
 
 The firm first started 
 with the transportation of 
 merchandise in sailing 
 ships from San Francisco 
 to New York, the vessels 
 returning with coal. West- 
 bound cargo was soon 
 added, a branch opened in 
 Phialdelphia and the bus- 
 iness so expanded as to 
 warrant the use of tramp 
 steamers operated via the 
 Straits of Magellan. This 
 was, in fact, the first 
 tramp steamship service 
 around Cape Horn. 
 
 But not content with 
 this success, the young 
 progressives began to 
 reach out for the trade 
 via the Isthmus of Pan- 
 ama, to compete with the 
 Pacific Mail Company 
 After numerous negotia- 
 tions with the Secretary of War and the of- 
 ficials of the Panama Railroad Company, the 
 firm was granted the through-billing privi- 
 lege, in September, 1907, and on the 1st of 
 October inaugurated the service. This has 
 met with gratifying success, as indicated by 
 the statement that during the first month of 
 the service and "in the face of numerous ob- 
 stacles and delay, occasioned by inexperience 
 and the newness of the service, they cleared 
 from San Francisco 10,000 tons, which 
 may be expressed, in the way of comparison, 
 as 25 per cent more tonnage in one month 
 than the Pacific Mail Steamship company car- 
 ried during the whole year that they started 
 in business. This service has been recently 
 supplemented by one from the Isthmus to 
 New Orleans, which has developed to propor- 
 tions highly encouraging to all concerned. It 
 is believed that the Panama Canal will give it 
 an even greater importance commercially. 
 
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 277 
 
 EITH, DAVID, Capitalist, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born at Ma- 
 bou, Cape Breton Island, Nova 
 Scotia, May 27, 1847, the son of 
 John Keith and Margaret (Ness) 
 Keith. He married Miss Mary 
 Ferguson of Salt Lake City and is the father of 
 four children, Mrs. Richard S. Eskridge of Seattle, 
 Washington, Mrs. Albert C. Allen of Medford, Ore- 
 gon, Miss Margaret Keith and David Keith, Jr., 
 who is now attending school in Connecticut. 
 
 Mr. Keith had no advantages of riches at birth, 
 and his schooling was limited to a few years at 
 the public schools of his native town. At a tender 
 age, however, he went to work in the mines of 
 Nova Scotia, but gave this up before long because 
 the love of adventure was strong within him. He 
 ran away to sea while still a boy, but tired of the 
 life of a sailor after a time, and thought that war 
 offered him a better chance for adventure. The 
 Civil War beginning, he tried to enter the Federal 
 Army, but his sea captain, who had become at- 
 tached to him, interposed an obstacle that even 
 young Keith could not overcome. The captain dis- 
 closed the extreme youth of the would-be soldier 
 and he was barred from the ranks. 
 
 Balked in this ambition, he went to California, 
 and in 1867, after a brief period spent in the 
 Golden State, journeyed to Nevada. He was em- 
 ployed for a time as construction boss in the build- 
 ing of the Southern Pacific Railroad near Reno, 
 but left this in due time to go back to his original 
 work of mining. That this was his destined field 
 would seem to have been proved by the events 
 which followed in his life. 
 
 He first obtained employment in the great 
 Comstock mines, and by his intelligent work at- 
 tracted attention which placed him, in quick suc- 
 cession, in positions of trust and responsibility io 
 the operations of that famous property. 
 
 On the decline of the celebrated Comstock camp 
 he moved to Park City, Utah, arriving there in 
 1883. He accepted a position as foreman of On- 
 tario No, 3, and later became superintendent. 
 
 It was in the management of the Ontario that 
 the really great abilities of Mr. Keith as a mining 
 man came to general notice. 
 
 After several years' association with that en- 
 terprise he became a mine owner. Here we ar- 
 rive at the point where he was transformed from 
 a manager into one of the greatest men in the his- 
 tory of mining in the United States. In partner- 
 ship with Thomas Kearns (later United States 
 Senator from Utah), John Judge and Al Emery, 
 he began taking leases on mining claims, from 
 which enterprise sprang the fabulous Silver King 
 mine, the most famous silver property in the world 
 and one which has not only made multi-millionaires 
 of its promoters and their families, but added im- 
 mensely tothe visible wealth of the State. 
 
 This silver treasury has been declared the most 
 
 important factor in the growth and development 
 of Utah and Salt Lake City, and few men, if any, 
 have had more to do with the upbuilding of the 
 capital than David Keith. 
 
 He, in a great measure, became the silver king 
 of Utah, and the successful work in making of a 
 mere prospect the wonderful Silver King mine has 
 been of such varied and picturesque coloring that 
 if the story were presented in its many interest- 
 ing details it would read like a story from the 
 "Arabian Nights." 
 
 Salt Lake City itself may be taken as an ever- 
 lasting monument to the work of the Silver King 
 developers, for almost all of the wealth which the 
 mine poured into the laps of its owners has been 
 used by them in making of Utah's capital a "City 
 Beautiful" in every sense of the term. The money 
 wrested from the mountains has been kept at home, 
 and no man is more public spirited in the use of his 
 part of it than is David Keith. 
 
 The range of his activities has been a wide one 
 and of almost incalculable value in making a mod- 
 ern commonwealth out of the rugged territory of 
 Utah. 
 
 He has been engaged in mining, mercantile, 
 banking, real estate and other lines of endeavor 
 and into each he has put the force of a progressive 
 character and the unlimited energy which has 
 marked him all through life. 
 
 Aside from his work in developing the Silver 
 King, Mr. Keith organized the Keith-O'Brien Com- 
 pany, one of the greatest mercantile establish- 
 ments in the Trans-mountain States, but about two 
 years ago he disposed of his interest in the latter 
 to David F. Walker, although the name of the firm 
 remains the same. 
 
 At the present time he is president of the Sil- 
 ver King Coalition Mines Co., president Salt Lake 
 Tribune Publishing Co., president First National 
 Bank of Park City, Utah, director of the National 
 Copper Bank of Salt Lake, director Las Vegas & 
 Tonopah Railroad, director National Bank of the 
 Republic, Salt Lake City, and a large bond and 
 stockholder in the San Pedro, Las Vegas, Los An- 
 geles and Salt Lake Railroad. In addition to these 
 connections, Mr. Keith is the owner of large real 
 estate and property interests in Salt Lake, as well 
 as large timber tracts. He has always devoted part 
 of his time to his city and State and has been one 
 of the prime movers in any enterprise which had 
 for its object the betterment of either. He has 
 taken a patriotic interest in politics, and was a 
 member of the Legislature which adopted the Con- 
 stitution of the State, but beyond this he has 
 neither sought nor held political office. 
 
 Mr. Keith is a man of personality and his club 
 memberships testify to his popularity. They are: 
 Alta, Commercial, Elks and Salt Lake County, of 
 Salt Lake; California Club, of Los Angeles; Rocky 
 Mountain Club, of New York City. He finds a 
 recreation in reading, his library of standard works 
 being one of the most complete in the West. 
 
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 'GARRY, MICHAEL JOS- 
 EPH, Attorney at Law, Los 
 Angeles, California was born 
 in Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 
 1872. His father was D. M. 
 McGarry and his mother Margaret (Mc- 
 Caughan) McGarry. He married Mary Eva- 
 line Quinlan, May 13, 1898. Their children 
 are Florence, Paul, Madeline and Evaline. 
 
 Mr. McGarry spent 
 his childhood in Chicago, 
 where his father was a 
 large coal operator. Later 
 the elder McGarry be- 
 came a conspicuous fig- 
 ure in the life of Los An- 
 geles. He was active in 
 politics and served two 
 terms in the City Council, 
 during which time nu- 
 merous measures for the 
 improvement of the city 
 were put into effect. He 
 also was a director of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, an organiza- 
 tion of civic upbuilders, 
 and was on the Board of 
 Directors of the First 
 National Bank of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. McGarry's educa- 
 tion was a careful one, 
 covering a period of many 
 years, and obtained on 
 both sides of the Atlantic 
 Ocean. He began in the 
 
 M. J. McGARRY 
 
 All Saints School of Chicago, but his parents 
 deciding to go west he was compelled when 
 a lad of nine, to halt his studies. His family 
 settled in Los Angeles in 1881 and there the 
 boy was placed in St. Vincent's College, one 
 of the leading educational institutions of the 
 west. He studied there for several years, in 
 preparation for college and then went to Ire- 
 land, where he became a student at the Clon- 
 gowes Wood College, County Kildare. In 
 1890 he returned to the United States and 
 enrolled in Notre Dame University, Notre 
 Dame, Indiana. There he remained until 
 1894, when he received the degree LL. B. 
 In 1911, he received the A. M. degree from 
 St. Vincent's College. 
 
 Mr. McGarry was admitted to the Bar at 
 South Bend, Indiana, in the same month of 
 his graduation from Notre Dame Univer- 
 sity and to the California Bar, October 9, 
 of the same year. He began practice at 
 
 Los Angeles where he has continued since. 
 He has always been a staunch Democrat 
 in politics and has played a prominent part 
 in numerous campaigns in Los Angeles He 
 has served twice as a member of the Park 
 Commission of Los Angeles and once as a 
 member of the Fire Board. His first term as 
 a member of the Park Commission was under 
 Mayor Snyder and later he acted under 
 Mayor McAleer. While 
 he was on the Park Com- 
 mission, numerous im- 
 provements were made in 
 the park system of the 
 city, Mr. McGarry having 
 proposed and pushed 
 through to completion 
 the installation of city wa- 
 ter in the South Park 
 District. As a fire com- 
 missioner Mr. McGarry 
 instigated many reforms 
 and helped others to 
 adoption, with the result 
 that Los Angeles toJay is 
 freer from fire than any 
 other city of its size in the 
 United States. 
 
 Mr. McGarry still is 
 active in politics in Los 
 Angeles, and has always 
 been an advocate of good 
 government in city and 
 state. 
 
 Mr. McGarry has pur- 
 sued a general legal prac- 
 tice and has scored many 
 notable successes. Most of his work has 
 been in Los Angeles and vicinity. He has 
 also been an active factor in real estate devel- 
 opment and is president of the McGarry 
 Realty Company of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a man of strong personality ; an as- 
 siduous scholar, fond of good literature and is 
 an authority on Shakespeare. He is a deep 
 student of history. 
 
 He is prominently identified with many of 
 the larger clubs and legal organizations of 
 Southern California, and is an active lodge 
 man. He is a charter member of the New- 
 man Club, belongs to the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and was Past Exalted Ruler of the B. 
 P. O. Elks, No. 99, Los Angeles. He is a 
 member of the Knights of Columbus, and at 
 one time was its Lecturer; was twice State 
 President of the Ancient Order of Hibern- 
 ians, of the State of California, and is a mem- 
 ber of the County and State Bar Associations. 
 
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 HOMAS, WILLIAM, senior partner 
 of the firm of Thomas, Beedy and 
 Lanagan, Attorneys at Law, San 
 Francisco, was born in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, September 5, 1853, 
 the son of Benjamin Franklin 
 Thomas and Mary Ann (Park) Thomas. Both his 
 paternal and maternal ancestors were among the 
 early residents of New England, where they won 
 distinction in various walks of life. His great- 
 grandfather, Isaiah Thomas, 
 who was a close personal 
 friend of Benjamin Franklin, 
 was founder of the famous 
 publication, "The Worcester 
 Spy," as well as the "Ameri- 
 can Antiquarian Society," and 
 for many years was postmas- 
 ter of Worcester. Benjamin 
 F. Thomas, the father of Wil- 
 liam Thomas, was one of New 
 England's greatest orators 
 and lawyers, a Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Massachu- 
 setts, a member of Congress, 
 and President of the Suffolk 
 Bar Association, in Boston. 
 His son, William, came to 
 California in May, 1877, and 
 settled in San Francisco, 
 where he is known as one of 
 the leading corporation law- 
 yers of the State. In March, 
 1875, he was married in Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., to Miss Emma 
 Gay. The children of this 
 marriage are Molly (now Mrs. 
 Latham McMullin), Helen 
 (now Mrs. Kimble), Benja- 
 min, and Gertrude Thomas. 
 
 After attending the public schools of Massachu- 
 setts Mr. Thomas entered Harvard University, in 
 1869, when he was but fifteen years old. He was 
 graduated therefrom A. B., with the class of '73, and 
 in 1876 took the degree of L.L. B. from the Har- 
 vard Law School, in the following year coming to 
 San Francisco. 
 
 During the thirty-four years that Mr. Thomas 
 has practiced his profession in San Francisco he 
 has been a living illustration of the value of the 
 training provided by Harvard University, and the 
 famous Harvard Law School, to those who care to 
 take advantage thereof. From the start his efforts 
 met with a success which has grown steadily with 
 the years, and which has led to his present promi- 
 nent position among the attorneys and financiers 
 of the State. In the latter respect he has become 
 almost as well known as in the former, heredity 
 and training having directed him into channels 
 where the greatest opportunities are to be found by 
 the men capable of grasping them. 
 
 His first important venture beyond the practice 
 of the law was as organizer of the California Fruit 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS 
 
 Canners' Association, of which he was the first 
 president, for three years. This is today one of the 
 largest industrials of the State. He was and is 
 president of the Pioneer Land Company, which was 
 the pioneer corporation of the Tulare County Cilrus 
 Belt, and the promoter and patron of the flourishing 
 town of Porterville. 
 
 He was also the organizer of the California Title 
 Insurance and Trust Company, and for many years 
 he was the chairman of its legal staff. 
 
 Although Mr. Thomas' 
 practice has been of the non- 
 sensational order, confined 
 largely to corporation law, 
 some of his cases have at- 
 tracted wide public interest. 
 Among these was that of 
 Waite vs. the City of Santa 
 Cruz. This involved about 
 $360,000, a defective bond is- 
 sue, and eight years of liti- 
 gation. It was carried back 
 and forth from court to court, 
 went to the United States 
 Supreme Court and back to 
 the Circuit Court of Appeals 
 in Seattle, and was finally 
 won for the plaintiff by Mr. 
 Thomas, who had a writ of 
 mandate issued compelling 
 the Common Council of Santa 
 Cruz to levy the tax. 
 
 After the great fire of 1906 
 Mr. Thomas took a promi- 
 nent position as attorney for 
 the insured. In this connec- 
 tion, he went to Europe, 
 accompanied by Oscar 
 Sutro, in the fall of 1906, 
 in the grim pursuit of four German fire 
 insurance companies, which had "welched." He 
 represented on that trip some sixty law firms, 
 who turned over to him and Mr. Sutro the claims 
 of their clients. They succeeded in making settle- 
 ments securing $7,000,000 for San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Thomas' political and civic activities have 
 been limited to a Police Commissionership, from 
 which he resigned after five days, because he "didn't 
 like it," and to his Trusteeship, for two years, of 
 the Home for Feeble Minded Children. In his prac- 
 tice he has co-operated with other well-known law- 
 yers of the city, his partnerships having undergone 
 the following changes of name: Chickering & 
 Thomas, Thomas & Gerstle, to the present firm of 
 Thomas, Beedy & Lanagan. He is also a director in 
 many other financial and industrial institutions. 
 His clubs and associations are: The University (of 
 which hf was the first President), Harvard of San 
 Francisco (President for two years), California 
 Water and Forest Association (first President), 
 Harvard Law School Association (Vice President), 
 Commonwealth Club (charter member), and the 
 Bohemian of San Francisco. 
 
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 ATCH, PHILANDER ELLS- 
 WORTH, Banker, President 
 of the National Bank of Long 
 Beach, Long Beach, Cal., was 
 born at New Preston, Litch- 
 field County, Connecticut, on July 25, 
 1861. His father was John Hatch and his 
 mother was Diana L. (Canfield) Hatch. Mr. 
 Hatch was married on November 7, 1883, to 
 Miss Elouise C. Norton 
 in Guilford, Conn. They 
 have two children, John 
 Ellsworth and Eleanor 
 Norton Hatch. 
 
 After attending the 
 public schools of New 
 Milford until 1875, Mr. 
 Hatch went to Whittle- 
 sey's academy, New Pres- 
 ton, Conn., where he 
 studied for two years, 
 taking a preparatory 
 course. From there he 
 went to the Yale Busi- 
 ness College, which he at- 
 tended until 1879, when 
 he graduated with high 
 honors. 
 
 His first work was 
 done in July, 1879, soon 
 after he had graduated 
 from Yale Business Col- 
 lege. Mr. Hatch then 
 connected himself with 
 the firm of Sargant & Co. 
 of New Haven, Conn., 
 where he acted as entry 
 and discount clerk, which position he held for 
 two years. The next year he spent with Peck 
 & Bishop, also of New Haven, where he held 
 the position of bookkeeper. Leaving Peck & 
 Bishop, he accepted a position as bookkeeper 
 and cashier with H. B. Armstrong & Co. He 
 retained this position for five years, resigning 
 to go to Kenesaw, Neb. 
 
 Arriving at Kenesaw he immediately ac- 
 cepted the position of cashier of the Kenesaw 
 Exchange Bank. This was in 1887, and Mr. 
 Hatch retained the same position with this 
 bank until October, 1894, when he removed 
 direct to Long Beach, where he has resided 
 since that time. 
 
 After settling in Long Beach, and thor- 
 oughly studying the needs of the city, he or- 
 ganized the Bank of Long Beach and became 
 its first cashier in April, 1896. He retained 
 this position for six years, when the bank of 
 Long Beach was converted into the National 
 
 P. E. HATCH 
 
 Bank of Long Beach in 1902. In 1907 Mr. 
 Hatch became the vice president of this bank, 
 and in 1908 he was elected its president. In 
 1901 he organized the Long Beach Savings 
 Bank. This institution is affiliated with the 
 National Bank of Long Beach and Mr. Hatch 
 is its vice president and manager. 
 
 In 1905 he organized the Bank of Wil- 
 mington, and was the president of the insti- 
 tution for the follow- 
 ing three years. About 
 this time the bank was 
 nationalized and Mr. 
 Hatch sold all his inter- 
 ests therein. 
 
 He became the presi- 
 dent of the Long Beach 
 Consolidated Gas Co. in 
 1910, when the Long 
 Beach Gas Co and Inner 
 Harbor consolidated. 
 
 In addition to the 
 above Mr. Hatch is a 
 member of many other 
 leading enterprises, 
 among which are the 
 Western Steam Naviga- 
 tion Co., of which he is 
 secretary and treasurer; 
 the Long Beach Sash & 
 Door Co., of which he is 
 director, and of the Mu- 
 tual Building Loan Asso- 
 ciation, of which he is 
 treasurer. He is also a 
 very large realty owner. 
 In 1894, when Mr. 
 
 Hatch first settled in Long Beach, the city, in 
 a commercial way, was still in its infancy. 
 Since that period vast changes have 
 taken place. Manufacturing and ship- 
 building establishments have located there, 
 magnificent office, hotel and residence struc- 
 tures have gone up until Long Beach is to- 
 day a modern, prosperous city, built on a firm 
 foundation. 
 
 In all of this vast development work Mr. 
 Hatch has been a leading spirit, devoting a 
 great deal of time and capital to furthering 
 all sound projects that were calculated to be 
 of the greatest good to the city and commu- 
 nity in general. 
 
 Mr. Hatch is a member of the Jonathan 
 Club of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and the Long Beach Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, of which latter he has 
 been a member for twelve years and its presi- 
 dent for ten years. 
 
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 O N T A NA, M ARK JOHN, 
 General Manager of the Cali- 
 fornia Fruit Canners' Associ- 
 ation, San Francisco., Cal., and 
 father of the Italian-Swiss 
 Agricultural Colony of California, was born 
 at Cerisola, Province of Genoa, Italy, May, 
 1849, the son of Giuseppe Fontana and Boro 
 (Bianca) Fontana. While a child his 
 father brought him to 
 America and settled in 
 New York City. In 1867 
 the son came to Califor- 
 nia, and in June, 1877, was 
 married at San Leandro, 
 Alameda county, to Miss 
 Nellie Jones. The chil- 
 dren of this marriage are 
 Margaret, Mark, Jr., Ro- 
 land and Richard Fontana. 
 Mr. Fontana's educa- 
 tion, like his subsequent 
 success in life, was gained 
 under very trying condi- 
 tions. When he was ten 
 years of age he attended 
 a private night school in 
 New York City for about 
 six months, paying a dol- 
 lar a month for the priv- 
 ilege. Subsequently he 
 entered' an English night 
 school in the same city, 
 but his lack of means 
 conspired with his desire 
 to get a firm grip on the 
 American language to 
 
 M. J. FONTANA 
 
 force him into the task of educating himself. 
 
 For a while during this schooling he sold 
 papers and worked in an umbrella factory in 
 the day time, but about the year 1861 he 
 struck the first turning point on the rocky 
 road and moved into smoother traveling as 
 office and general utility boy in the fruit and 
 commission house of West, Titus & Co. 
 Here in a few years he rose to the position 
 of salesman. In 1867, catching the "gold 
 fever," he started for California, and on Jan- 
 uary 3 of the following year reached San 
 Francisco with one hundred dollars carefully 
 fastened in one of his inside pockets. 
 
 The "gold fields," however, on closer in- 
 spection, proved disappointing. Disgusted 
 at the outlook, he advertised in the papers 
 for "any kind of work," but received no re- 
 sponse. Chancing one day upon a young 
 man whom he had known in New York, he 
 made a defensive and offensive alliance with 
 
 him to support each other until one of them 
 should find employment, Fontana doing the 
 supporting while his companion occupied 
 himself chiefly in painting word pictures of 
 the "hard times." As his little roll was 
 about to disappear under the double strain 
 imposed upon it, the companion told Mr. 
 Fontana of a "job" to be had in a bar- 
 ber shop of the Washington Baths. In 
 his zeal to get it he 
 promised the purveyor of 
 the glad tidings ten dol- 
 lars on condition that 
 his application proved 
 successful. This it was, 
 and involved, among oth 
 er things, steady occupa- 
 tion from 6 a. m. to 11 p. 
 m., scrubbing floors, 
 washing out bath tubs, 
 and other edifying exer- 
 cise. He endured this for 
 about a year, and then 
 drifted into the fruit busi- 
 ness, in the employ of A. 
 Galli & Co. In this he 
 evidently "found him- 
 self," for within two years 
 he was admitted as a 
 partner in the firm. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Fontana 
 became a partner of C. M. 
 Volkman in fruit and 
 commission, but thinking 
 that he could do better in 
 the shipping business, he 
 formed a partnership with 
 
 G. Ginnochio, and subsequently bought him 
 out. 'Later, in 1880, he shifted his operations 
 to the canning industry and formed the firm 
 of M. J. Fontana & Co., which in 1891 became 
 Fontana & Co. In 1893, on the retirement 
 of his associate, Mr. Cowing, he took in as 
 partner S. L. Goldstein, and two years later 
 William Fries. This combination sold in 
 1898 to the California Fruit Growers' Asso- 
 ciation, of which Mr. Fontana is the General 
 Superintendent, Wm. Fries President and S. 
 L. Goldstein Treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Fontana served as a Supervisor under 
 the Phelan administration. He is a director 
 and member of the executive board of the 
 California Fruit Canners' Association, Cali- 
 fornia Wine Association, Italian and Ameri- 
 can Bank, the E. B. and A. L. Stone Co., 
 Italian-Swiss Agricultural Colony, and a 
 member of the San Francisco Commercial 
 and the Olympic Clubs. 
 
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 283 
 
 ORTER, WARREN REY- 
 NOLDS, President, Western 
 States Life Ins. Co. and ex- 
 Lieut. Gov. Cal., San Francis- 
 co and Watsonville, Cal., was 
 born at Santa Cruz, Cal., March 30, 1861, the 
 son of John Thomas and Fanny (Cummings) 
 Porter. His paternal and maternal ances- 
 tors were respectively of English and Scotch 
 origin, the former settling in Massachusetts 
 early in the eighteenth century, and the lat- 
 ter about the same time going to Canada. 
 John T. Porter came to California in the 
 spring of 1850, bearing a letter from Daniel 
 Webster to the Postmaster of San Francisco, 
 from whom he secured the position which 
 had been promised him. The mother of 
 Warren R. Porter reached the State in 1857, 
 and afterwards taught school in Watson- 
 ville and Santa Cruz. On August 23, 1893, 
 their son, Warren, was married in Berkeley 
 to Miss Mary E. Easton, daughter of the 
 Rev. G. A. Easton. The children of this 
 marriage are John Easton, Mary Francis, 
 Thomas Bishop and Warren R. Porter, Jr. 
 (deceased). From 1868 to 1870 Mr. Porter 
 attended the Sequel Primary School at So- 
 quel, and in the latter year entered Mr. 
 Beasley's private school at Santa Cruz, 
 where he remained until 1873. About a year 
 at the Watsonville Grammar School, two 
 years with the Rev. D. O. Kelley of Watson- 
 ville, and the next twelve months at Mrs. 
 Magee's establishment, in the same town, 
 prepared him for the St. Augustine Military 
 Academy at Benicia, from which he was 
 graduated in 1880 at the age of nineteen. 
 
 During these years, however, he did not 
 depend entirely upon the schoolroom for his 
 education, for from the early age of ten to 
 sixteen he was gaining a practical experience 
 of ranch life, valuable from both a physical 
 and a moral view-point. The best part of 
 these years he devoted to dealing in horses 
 and cattle, as well as to the breeding of both. 
 When he was but fourteen years old he was 
 a vaquero and expert breaker of horses, 
 which is something more than a "broncho 
 buster." But after his graduation from the 
 Military Academy he returned to Watson- 
 ville, and under the persuasion of Dr. Chas. 
 Ford, at that time President of the Bank of 
 Watsonville, became a clerk in the bank. He 
 was ambitious to be a doctor, to follow in the 
 footsteps of some of his forbears who had 
 distinguished themselves as physicians and 
 surgeons. His father also, though he had 
 himself become a successful financier and 
 wished his son to learn the value of money, 
 
 was in favor of the professional career for 
 him. After careful consideration of the mat- 
 ter, the son decided for the business life. 
 Thenceforward he became interested in 
 banking and financial affairs, studying to im- 
 prove himself and eager to enlarge the scope 
 of his activities. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Porter left the Bank of Wat- 
 sonville to become bookkeeper of the 'Loma 
 Prieta Lumber Co., and in the following year 
 was made secretary of the corporation, a post 
 which he retained until 1904. Early in 1888 
 he was one of the organizers of the Pajaro 
 Valley National Bank, and also of the Pajaro 
 Valley Savings Bank. On the death of his 
 father, in 1900, he was elected to succeed him 
 as president of both these institutions, and 
 has held the offices ever since. In the same 
 year his responsibilities were considerably 
 enlarged by the management of his father's 
 estate, as well as by his presidency of the 
 John T. Porter Company. 
 
 The civic and political life of Warren R. 
 Porter has been noteworthy. In 1899 Gov- 
 ernor Gage appointed him a member of the 
 Board of Prison Directors, whereon he served 
 with distinction through the administration. 
 He was a presidential elector in 1900, and in 
 1906 was elected Lieut.-Governor of Califor- 
 nia. In this capacity he was far more than a 
 figure-head. During his term of office, and 
 in Governor Gillett's absences, he was vir- 
 tually Governor. His relations with the lat- 
 ter were very intimate, growing as they did 
 not only from active association, but also 
 from Governor Gillett's respect for the abil- 
 ity Mr. Porter had displayed both during 
 and following the campaign. His political 
 acumen was especially evidenced by his suc- 
 cess in winning the coast counties from the 
 Pardee forces; and throughout his incum- 
 bency as Lieut.-Governor and as acting Gov- 
 ernor he had the respect of both branches of 
 the Legislature. In 1907 he was again ap- 
 pointed prison director, this time by Gover- 
 nor Gillett. He retired from the field of poli- 
 tics to devote himself to his own increasingly 
 important affairs, and with the distinction of 
 never having been defeated. 
 
 Besides the offices he holds in the com- 
 panies mentioned above, Mr. Porter is presi- 
 dent of the Granite Rock Co., Sisquoc In- 
 vestment Co., and director of the Anglo-Cal- 
 ifornia Trust Co. His clubs are the Pacific- 
 Union, Family, Union League, Press, Olym- 
 pic, all of San Francisco, and the Sutter, of 
 Sacramento. He is also a Mason, Knight 
 Templar, Elk and a Native Son of the 
 Golden West. 
 
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 ARWOOD, ALFRED 
 JAMES, Attorney at Law, 
 San Francisco, California, 
 was born in that city, April 
 30, 1881, the son of Henry 
 
 Harwood and Jane (McNerney) Harwood. 
 
 His father was a well known mining man of 
 
 the early days of California, who came to the 
 
 State in 1850 and tried his luck with varying 
 
 success, along the Ameri- 
 can river, subsequently 
 
 shifting his operations to 
 
 the Fraser river of British 
 
 Columbia. Mr. H a r- 
 
 wood comes of a very 
 
 sturdy English stock, 
 
 with a liberal graft, in 
 
 the botanical meaning of 
 
 the term, of distinguished 
 
 forbears. Among the lat- 
 ter his great-uncle, Sir 
 
 Robert John Coghan, 
 
 was a general, under 
 
 Wellington, and won 
 
 glory by his bravery in 
 
 the battles of Salamanca 
 
 and Talavera; while his 
 
 great grandfather, Sir 
 
 Owen Pell, was an ad- 
 
 m i r a 1 in the British 
 
 Navy. A paternal grand- 
 father, a native of Eng- 
 land, went to Canada in 
 
 the early part of the last 
 
 century, and was a 
 
 magistrate of H a 1 1 o n 
 
 County, Ontario, for 
 
 A. J. HARWOOD 
 
 many years; while a maternal grandfather 
 was a prominent architect of Dublin, Ireland. 
 The force of heredity is in strong evidence 
 here, and A. J. Harwood has all the physi- 
 cal, and many of the mental, characteristics 
 of a pure-blooded Englishman, even to the 
 point of deferring marriage longer than is the 
 wont of Americans, for he is still a bachelor. 
 His education has been exceptional, if 
 not unique. Until he was eighteen he re- 
 ceived most of his schooling at home, largely 
 under the direction of his mother, a highly 
 cultivated woman, who seems to have in- 
 stilled in him a genuine thirst for knowl- 
 edge. With this incentive, probably the 
 most essential stimulus to rapid progress, 
 he was able to profit much by the private 
 instruction subsequently given him by 
 various professors. At the age of twenty- 
 one he began to study law, of his own initia- 
 tive, adopting the case system which the 
 
 Harvard Law School at Cambridge had the 
 honor of originating. This method of study 
 still further developed the independence of 
 thought and reliance upon self which his 
 previous education had fostered. With as 
 excellent an equipment as he could have 
 obtained from a process with which he was 
 in less perfect sympathy he was admitted to 
 the Bar in 1905, and soon thereafter began 
 the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Mr. Harwood's legal 
 beginnings were some- 
 what unusually for- 
 tunate, for as assistant to 
 the firm o f Bishop, 
 Wheeler & Hoefler, the 
 predecessor of the present 
 partnership, he had the 
 advantage of valuable 
 associations and a large 
 business. On the retire- 
 ment of Mr. Wheeler in 
 1905 his duties and ex- 
 perience were materially 
 increased, and in the fol- 
 lowing year he was ad- 
 mitted to partnership, the 
 title becoming Bishop, 
 Hoefler, Cook & Har- 
 wood. 
 
 His practice has been 
 entirely of a civil nature, 
 largely in corporation 
 law, wherein a knowledge 
 of commercial theory 
 and practice is an es- 
 sential of success. In this connection he has 
 become attorney for a number of important 
 concerns, such as The San Francisco 
 Breweries Ltd., the City Street Improve- 
 ment Company, and others. He is one of 
 those men who have sufficient versatility 
 to be at one time a little uncertain of their 
 proper sphere of action, but whose adapt- 
 ability enables them to find success and con- 
 tentment in 'the field they finally choose. Mu. 
 Harwood formerly fluctuated between medi- 
 cine and law as a choice of professions, but 
 he has evidently "found himself" in the lat- 
 ter. His English inheritance again appears 
 in his wholesome, breezy, affable personality 
 as well as in his fondness for outloor life 
 and he relaxes variously, on horseback, on 
 the tennis courts and on the golf links. 
 
 His club activity is confined to the follow- 
 ing organizations : Bohemian, Olympic Ath- 
 letic, Presidio Golf, California Lawn Tennis. 
 
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 285 
 
 ODER, ARTHUR E., Civil 
 Engineer, Division Engineer 
 State Highway Commission, 
 San Francisco, Cal., was born 
 at Coshocton, Ohio, in 1881, 
 the son of Isaac >Loder and Mary E. (Baugh- 
 man) Loder. He married Aimee Comstock 
 Strecker, November 19, 1909, at Peoria, 111. 
 He has won for himself recognition as one 
 of the leading road-build- 
 ers of America. He is 
 the pioneer user, on a 
 large scale, of the oiled 
 macadam road surface, 
 the first surface in the 
 West to give promise of 
 Success for automobiles. 
 It promises to revolution- 
 ize highway construction 
 in the United States. 
 
 He was given a good 
 education. Attended the 
 common schools of 
 Worthington, Ind., grad- 
 uated from high school, 
 and then entered Purdue 
 University, Indiana. He 
 took a course in civil en- 
 gineering, and graduated 
 with the degree that gave 
 him the title of Civil En- 
 gineer, with the class of 
 1904. He sought practi- 
 cal experience as well as 
 school training, and even 
 before his graduation 
 spent two seasons as as- 
 sistant engineer of maintenance on the Bal- 
 timore & Ohio Railroad at Pittsburg and 
 Connellsville, Pa. 
 
 After graduation he took a position under 
 the civil service in the U. S. Office of Public 
 Roads at Washington, D. C, and for three 
 years was first assistant engineer in charge 
 of construction of government roads through- 
 out the Middle West and Northwestern 
 states. He also did considerable road and 
 park building at the national capital and in 
 the State of Virginia, including boulevards 
 for the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk, Va. 
 While in the government service he was 
 chosen to make preliminary surveys and es- 
 timates for a system of roads, trails and 
 bridges through the Grand Teton forests in 
 Jackson Hole, Wyo. He won, while with the 
 government, an enviable reputation as a road 
 and boulevard engineer, and, as a conse- 
 quence, in 1907 was chosen Chief Engineer 
 
 ARTHUR E. LODER 
 
 of the Los Angeles County Highway Com- 
 mission. His work in that position was 
 notable. 
 
 It was while in that position that he pio- 
 neered his new form of pavement, building 
 the first improved motor roads in the county, 
 roads that are playing a most important part 
 in the development of that section of South- 
 ern California, because they make accessible 
 to tourists every day in 
 the year the scenic attrac- 
 tions for which that sec- 
 tion is famous. He served 
 four years under two 
 highway commissions 
 and three boards of super- 
 visors, and under their di- 
 rection built 300 miles of 
 paved highway which 
 cost $3,500,000. 
 
 In this work he in- 
 stalled and operated suc- 
 cessfully one of the first 
 large county rock crush- 
 ing plants in America, 
 producing rock at a cost 
 considerably less than 
 private quarries. He also 
 caused the leasing for ten 
 years of another quarry 
 on most favorable terms. 
 One leading achievement 
 of his administration was 
 the building of the New- 
 hall tunnel, a concrete 
 lined highway tunnel 
 through the summit of 
 the Santa Susanna mountains at the old San 
 Fernando Pass. At the end of his second 
 term, in July, 1911, he resigned from his po- 
 sition as chief engineer of the Highway Com- 
 mission of Los Angeles to conduct a private 
 business as civil and consulting engineer. 
 He was appointed consulting engineer of the 
 United States Office of Public Roads, Wash- 
 ington, D. C., to prepare government publi- 
 cations on roads, pavements, and rock pro- 
 duction. After California appropriated $18,- 
 000,000 for the construction of paved roads to 
 cover the entire State, he was chosen division 
 engineer of the State Commission, with head- 
 quarters at San Francisco. He assumed this 
 office Jan. 1, 1912. He is destined to play an 
 important part in the construction of one of 
 the greatest systems of highways ever built 
 in ancient or modern times. 
 
 He is a member of the Engineers and Ar- 
 chitects' Association of Southern California. 
 
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 FRANK A. KEITH 
 
 EITH, FRANK ALLEN, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in the 
 year 1870, at Detroit, Michigan, 
 the son of John Wallace Keith 
 and Fannie Louis (Allen) Keith. 
 He married Susan Banwell in 
 1896, at Chicago, Illinois, and they have two chil- 
 dren, Frank Allen, Jr., and John Banwell Keith. 
 
 Mr. Keith was educated in the public schools of 
 Detroit and St. Paul's Academy, of that city. 
 
 Immediately after concluding his studies he 
 went West and located in Colorado, where he be- 
 came surveyor for the Iron Silver Mining Company, 
 at Leadville. This was the beginning of a life that 
 has been spent in mining and engineering work in 
 Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. After leav- 
 ing the Leadville company, he held successively 
 the following positions: Engineer of the Eureka 
 Hill Mining Company at Tintic, Utah; ore pur- 
 chaser, for the Arkansas Valley Smelting Company, 
 at Leadville; assistant manager, Union Smelting 
 Company at Leadville; engineer, De Lamar Nevada 
 Mines Company, in Nevada; general superintend- 
 ent of the Bamberger De Lamar Mines Company; 
 engineer, Guggenheim Exploration Company; gen- 
 eral manager, Tonopah Mining Company, of Ne- 
 vada. These firms are among the most important in 
 the mining industry of America and the offices he 
 occupied have been among the most responsible. 
 He remained in Nevada until 1908, when he moved 
 to San Francisco, where he opened offices as a gen- 
 eral mining engineer. After two years he moved to 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Keith is one of the leaders in his profession 
 and is member of the American Institute of Mining 
 Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical So- 
 ciety of America. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, California and Sierra Madre Clubs of Los 
 Angeles and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York. 
 
 WALTER R. WHEAT 
 
 HEAT, WALTER ROSS, Oil and 
 Real Estate, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Wheaton, Du 
 Page County, Illinois, October 13, 
 1869. His father was Captain 
 James L. Wheat and his mother 
 Maria S. (Hart) Wheat. Mr. Wheat married at Los 
 Angeles, June 14, 1909, Elizabeth Collins Crossley. 
 They have one son, Gilbert Collins Wheat. 
 
 Mr. Wheat attended the schools of Joliet, 111., and 
 Racine, Wis., until 1887. He received his first busi- 
 ness training in a severe twelve-hour-a-day school of 
 a Boston wholesale produce house. Three years 
 (1890-3) he devoted to the railroad business at Chi- 
 cago in the auditor's office of the Railway Switch- 
 ing Association at the Union Stock Yards, and with 
 the General Manager's Association. In December, 
 1893, he went to San Francisco, where he put in a 
 year and a half in the wholesale meat business. In 
 1895 he moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 During the fifteen years spent in Los Angeles 
 Mr. Wheat's life has been a busy one, devoting 
 his energies successively to the proprietorship of 
 the Los Angeles Military Academy, secretaryship 
 of the Abbot-Kinney Company during the building 
 of Venice-of-California, and at banking, real estate 
 and the oil business. 
 
 He drilled many oil wells in Los Angeles and 
 Kern Counties. He was one of the pioneers of the 
 Sunset-Midway field and organized many of the suc- 
 cessful operating companies. 
 
 He is vice president of the Bank of Venice and 
 secretary of the following: Collins Oil Company, 
 Thirty-two Oil Company, Wilson Oil Company, 
 Western Crude Oil Company and Westside Oil 
 Company. 
 
 He is a member of the City Club, Chamber of 
 Commerce, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Country 
 Club, Municipal League, Military Order of Loyal 
 Legion and the Automobile Club of California. 
 
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 E. M. DURANT 
 
 URANT, EDWARD M., Manufac- 
 turer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Brooklyn, New York, 
 in 1867. His father was Edward 
 G. Durant and his mother Caro- 
 line (Darling) Durant. He mar- 
 ried Mary Case at Los Angeles, in 1893. They have 
 three children: Harlan E., Raymond C. and Alice 
 C. Durant. 
 
 Mr. Durant was educated in the public schools 
 of Racine, Wisconsin, and in the Racine High 
 School. 
 
 His first business employment was with a large 
 manufacturing plant in Racine, where he remained 
 for three years. He moved to Los Angeles, arriv- 
 ing there in 1887. 
 
 Shortly after settling in Los Angeles he went 
 into the business of manufacturing sewer pipe 
 goods, with headquarters located in that city. He 
 became interested in the Pacific Clay Manufactur- 
 ing Co. of that city and remained with them for a 
 number of years. During this time he worked in 
 every branch of the business from mining clay and 
 making pipe to a responsible position in the office. 
 
 When the Pacific Clay Manufacturing Co. was 
 bought by the Pacific Sewer Pipe Co., Mr. Durant 
 was elected to the office of president of the new 
 corporation. Since that time he has acted as 
 President and Manager and during his tenure the 
 Pacific Sewer Pipe Co. has acquired two large 
 plants in Los Angeles, two at Corona and one at 
 Elsinore, California. He is also interested in gyp- 
 sum mining and is President of the Pacific Coast 
 Gypsum Co. He has large clay deposits at Elsi- 
 nore which supply the branch plant at that place. 
 Prom a modest beginning and small capital he has 
 built up one of the largest concerns of the kind on 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Durant is a member of the Jonathan Club of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 J. J. DORAN 
 
 - | Q R A N, JOHN J., Stocks and 
 Bonds, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Perth, Ontario, Can- 
 ada, August 31, 1870, the son of 
 Judge John Doran and Mary 
 Philomena (Lynn) Doran. His 
 father took a prominent part in municipal affairs 
 and for over twenty years was Judge of the Dis- 
 trict of Nipissing, Canada. Retiring in 1888, Judge 
 Doran went with his family to Los Angeles. 
 
 The family, on both the maternal and the pater- 
 nal branches, is one of the oldest in Canada. John 
 J. Doran's paternal grandfather was one of the pio- 
 neer merchants of Perth, Ontario; he lived during 
 the Revolutionary War and saw fighting in the War 
 of 1812. On the maternal side the family traces 
 back five generations to the historic Bishop of Good- 
 nough, of Carlisle, England. There have been many 
 highly cultured and brilliant men on both sides, both 
 in the old homesteaus in England and in their new 
 homes in Canada, men chiefly in the church and the 
 professions. 
 
 Mr. Doran took a French course in the Jesuit 
 College, Montreal, later being graduated from St. 
 Michael's College, Toronto, Canada. His first busi- 
 ness enterprise after arriving in Los Angeles was 
 a book store. After several successful years he 
 disposed of this interest to take up the brokerage 
 business, dealing in investments, stocks and bonds, 
 being one of the first established in this field. 
 
 Mr. Doran is one of the most progressive citi- 
 zens of Los Angeles, belonging to a number of or- 
 ganizations which tend for the betterment of the 
 city. He has earned the reputation of honorable 
 and just dealings with his numerous associates 
 and today is the head of one of the leading houses, 
 dealing in listed and unlisted securities on the 
 Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Doran is a member of the Knights of Co- 
 lumbus and the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ONDEE, ALBERT JAMES, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Vinton County, Ohio, May 1, 
 1859, the son of Dr. Asa Condee 
 and Eliza J. (Jsrnlnger) Condee. 
 He married Tillie Y. Linville at 
 San Bernardino, California, on December 20, 1881, 
 and they have one child, Ruth Marie Condee. 
 
 Mr. Condee attended the public schools ot his 
 native county, and later attended Heald's Business 
 College at San Francisco, California, being grad- 
 uated from there in 1877. He first arrived in Cali- 
 fornia from St. Louis, Missouri, in March, 1874, 
 locating at San Diego. His first employment in 
 the Golden State was with the Stonewall Jackson 
 Mine, located at Julian, California. This property 
 was later purchased by ex-Governor Waterman of 
 California. Mr. Condee spent the year 1876 in San 
 Bernardino and in the year 1877 went to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he attended college. 
 
 In January, 1878, he went to Arizona and took 
 a position as agent for a firm of Government con- 
 tractors who had the contract for furnishing mule 
 transportation for all Government freight in the 
 Territory. They also handled the freight for mer- 
 chants in Tucson, Prescott, Phoenix, Globe and 
 other points, besides most of the mining machinery 
 going into the Territory that year. 
 
 This was before the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 had reached Fort Yuma, and most of the freight 
 was carried by water from San Francisco to Yuma 
 by way of the Gulf of California. In 1879 the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad had crossed the Colorado 
 River and commenced building east. 
 
 The Indians were then quite numerous and it 
 required a great many soldiers at the different 
 posts to keep them on the reservations. While 
 Mr. Condee was not connected with the army in 
 any way, he was acquainted with a great many of 
 the noted army officers and Indian fighters, among 
 them General Fremont, General Craig and others. 
 Besides the military friendships he had formed, 
 Mr. Condee enjoyed a wide acquaintance among 
 the prominent mining men and merchants of the 
 Territory. He it was who made the contract for 
 transportation of the first mining machinery that 
 was taken into Tombstone, Arizona, hauling it 
 with mules. 
 
 After spending two years in Arizona, Mr. Con- 
 dee returned to San Bernardino (1880) and en- 
 gaged in the drug business there. He married 
 there and conducted his drug business for about 
 two years, when he turned his attention to other 
 matters. In 1884 he became interested in large 
 tracts of timber land and in water and power de- 
 velopment in the San Bernardino Mountains. In 
 1885 he held leases on nine thousand acres of land, 
 then used for grazing purposes, but which now 
 includes the sites of the towns of Rialto and Bloom- 
 ington, California. He followed this, in 1886, with 
 the acquisition of a large tract of land in the north- 
 ern part of the San Jacinto Valley and there en- 
 gaged in grain raising on a large scale, having 
 two thousand acres under cultivation at one time. 
 Later Mr. Condee became interested in the Bear 
 Valley Irrigation Company and in 1891 was one of 
 the organizers of the Alessandro Irrigation Dis- 
 trict, formed under the Wright Irrigation Law. 
 
 He was by this time recognized as one of the sub- 
 stantial men of the community and in 1893, after 
 taking part in the formation of the County of 
 Riverside, California, was elected its first county 
 clerk. He served in that office for two terms, 
 relinquishing it to re-enter business. 
 
 In 1900 he went back to mining, making his 
 headquarters in Los Angeles, and he has continued 
 in it down to the present. He became associated 
 in December, 1903, with Frederick H. Rindge, a 
 California capitalist, and was sent to Colombia, 
 South America, where he remained for two years 
 in charge of mining interests for himself and as- 
 sociates. Upon completion of his work there he 
 returned to Los Angeles and in 1906 was engaged 
 in mining in California and Mexico, and in 1907 
 was sent to Alaska to look after the interests of 
 the Three Friends Mining Company. There he 
 spent the seasons of 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910, 
 being in charge of the dredging on the Solomon 
 River. The winter of 1910 Mr. Condee spent in 
 New York City and while there disposed of the 
 Three Friends Mine to the American Tobacco Com- 
 pany. It is recorded that a dredge on this mine 
 took out one-half million dollars in twenty-one 
 working months. 
 
 Mr. Condee inherited his liking for the mining 
 business from his father, who was one of the pio- 
 neers of California in 1849. The elder Condee suc- 
 ceeded in taking out more than $50,000 from placer 
 mines on the Feather River in California and re- 
 turned to Ohio in 1853. He studied medicine and 
 continued in the profession for more than twenty- 
 five years, but still retained his interest in mining 
 and other lines of activity. In 1866 he sank two 
 oil wells in Ohio and in 1870 became interested 
 in the development of large tracts of coal lands in 
 the southwestern part of Missouri. In the early 
 seventies he also acquired an extensive tract of 
 iron land in southern Missouri and built a large 
 iron furnace, but owing to the financial panic of 
 1873-1874 the venture proved unsuccessful. 
 
 The spirit of the pioneer was handed down to 
 his son by Dr. Condee and the younger man's life 
 has been one of intense activity, often carrying 
 him into places untouched by the developer's hand. 
 He has the distinction of having traveled from the 
 Equator to the Arctic Circle in the same year. He 
 made his first trip to Los Angeles in 1874 in a 
 stage coach and also made his first journey from 
 Los Angeles to Arizona in a stage. During his 
 long service as a business man and in public of- 
 fice, Mr. Condee has been called upon to perform 
 various duties in connection with the upbuilding 
 of the country and has taken an active part in 
 the history-making of the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Condee is an ardent believer in the future 
 of Los Angeles and the Southwest and is one of 
 the most enthusiastic supporters of any movement 
 that has for its object their betterment. 
 
 He is still in active business, having had charge 
 of the Rindge Company's mining interests since 
 1903, the properties being scattered in South 
 America, Alaska, Mexico and California. He is 
 also president of the Moapa Gypsum Company. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers, the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Mines and Oil, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 
 and the Fraternal Brotherhood. 
 
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 URTIS, URI BALCOM, President, 
 Macomber Rotary Engine Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Curtis, Steuben Coun- 
 ty, New York, April 18, 1869, the 
 son of Daniel Blackman Curtis 
 and Mary Aceneth (Brown) Curtis. He married 
 Martha Florence Voiers at Los Angeles, June 20, 
 1912. He is of English descent, his ancestors hav- 
 ing been among the early settlers of New York State. 
 
 Mr. Curtis received the 
 early part of his education 
 in the schools of his native 
 town, leaving there in 1886 
 to go to Chicago. He en- 
 tered the Manual Training 
 School of Chicago and was 
 graduated in 1889. 
 
 Prior to leaving school 
 Mr. Curtis was employed by 
 his uncle, Uri Balcom, at 
 that time one of the large 
 lumber dealers and buifders 
 of the city, but upon finish- 
 ing his schooling he became 
 a salesman for another lum- 
 ber firm, known as Cook & 
 Rathbone. He only remain- 
 ed in the lumber business 
 about two years, however, 
 becoming in 1892, a sales- 
 man for Chase & Sanborn, 
 the Boston coffee importing 
 house. It was a natural step 
 from this line of activity for 
 Mr. Curtis to go into the 
 wholesale grocery business 
 and in 1894 he was appointed 
 Western Distributing Agent 
 
 for E. C. Hazard & Company, wholesale grocers of 
 New York. He maintained offices in Chicago and 
 managed the company's business in the territory 
 west of Buffalo for about four years. 
 
 In 1898, Mr. Curtis went to California, and in 
 association with his brother, George H. Curtis, un- 
 dertook the operation of a gold mine at Johannes- 
 burg, California. This district has been a liberal 
 producer of fortunes for many years, but Mr. 
 Curtis remained there only about two years, going 
 into the oil business in 1900. He entered the cele- 
 brated Sunset fields of California and was one of 
 the first men to drill for oil in that section. 
 
 At the end of a year, however, he abandoned 
 the oil business, and joined the rush to Tonopah, 
 Nevada, which was at that time the center of a 
 new gold strike. Being among the early arrivals, 
 Mr. Curtis staked out several claims and for some 
 time was exceptionally active in the development 
 of the camp. Among others, he opened up the 
 Jim Butler and Tonopah Belmont mines, and was 
 instrumental in the organization of the first com- 
 
 URI B. CURTIS 
 
 pany for providing Tonopah with a water system. 
 This company was known as the Crystal Water 
 Company and built a plant capable of furnishing 
 50,000 gallons of water daily. This was commen- 
 surate with the size of Tonopah at that time, but 
 within a short time the town had grown to such 
 proportions the plant had to be enlarged. 
 
 Some years later, eight men of Tonopah "grub- 
 staked" Al Myers and Tom Murphy, the discov- 
 erers of Goldfield, Nevada's greatest camp, and 
 Mr. Curtis purchased the in- 
 terest of one of these back- 
 ers, with the result that 
 when gold was discovered 
 by the prospectors, he was 
 one of the first ten men to 
 be located in claims. He was 
 one of the original owners 
 of the Combination Mine, so- 
 called because the original 
 ten men were its owners, 
 and upon the opening of the 
 Goldfield district he went 
 there. He maintained his 
 residence in* Tonopah, how- 
 ever, and within a short time 
 had mining interests in sev- 
 eral parts of the State. The 
 most important of these, 
 though, were in the Goldfield 
 and Bullfrog districts. He 
 operated for several years 
 with success, but in 1910 
 gave up mining and has not 
 ventured into that field since. 
 Going to San Francisco, 
 in 1910, Mr. Curtis spent 
 some time there, though not 
 actually engaged in business, 
 
 and the latter part of the same year went to Los 
 Angeles, where he has since been located. He pur- 
 chased an interest in the Macomber Rotary Engine 
 Company, and was elected its President. 
 
 In the management of this company Mr. Curtis 
 has made a place for himself among the manufac- 
 turing interests of Los Angeles. The Macomber 
 Company produces the Macomber rotary engine, 
 an invention of Walter G. Macomber. This engine, 
 said by technical experts to be a fine application 
 of the science of equilibrism, is so built that all 
 of its parts revolve except the frame, and it has 
 been adopted to a large extent in the equipment 
 of areoplanes, where its balancing properties have 
 a peculiar value. It is stated that the Macomber 
 Engine is adding a great deal towards the ad- 
 vancement of the science of air navigation. 
 
 Mr. Curtis is a member of the Bohemian Club, 
 of San Francisco, and during his residence in Chi- 
 cago was a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, 
 of which he was one of the original organizers. 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
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 OLTER, FREDERICK TUTTLE, 
 Cattle and Lands, Springerville, 
 Arizona, was born at Neutreoso, 
 Apache County, Arizona, P^ebruary 
 2, 1879, the son of James G. Col- 
 ter and Rosa (Rudd) Colter. He 
 married Miss Duge Phelps at Springerville, Novem- 
 ber 17, 1904. Mr. Colter's paternal ancestors were 
 prominent in public affairs for many generations 
 in Nova Scotia and his father was one of the pio- 
 neer cattlemen of Arizona 
 and New Mexico. He located 
 in the latter State in 1873 
 and his ranch at Alma was 
 the scene of a three-day 
 fight, in 1881, between a 
 band of 325 Apache Indians, 
 led by Chief Geronimo and a 
 party of twenty-seven white 
 men. In this engagement the 
 elder Colter lost cattle and 
 horses valued at $30,000. 
 
 Fred T. Colter, who is one 
 of the leaders of the Demo- 
 cratic party in Arizona, re- 
 ceived his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of 
 his native county and con- 
 cluded with a commercial 
 course in the Pueblo (Colo- 
 rado) Business College, in 
 1900. He spent his early 
 days in the cattle business 
 with his father, but at the 
 age of fourteen left home 
 and went to work as a cow- 
 boy for W. H. Phelps, a 
 wealthy cattle raiser of Ari- 
 zona. It was while thus em- 
 ployed that he educated him- 
 self, going to school at odd 
 times. 
 
 In 1899, Mr. Colter was 
 chosen Manager, and later 
 became partner with Mr. 
 
 Phelps, continuing for nearly five years. In 1904, 
 with about 300 head of cattle, Mr- Colter estab- 
 lished an independent business and later added 
 sheep and horses to his holdings. He now has 
 about 3000 head of cattle, 6000 sheep and 500 
 horses. 
 
 Besides his operations as a stockman, Mr. Colter 
 has been engaged for several years in the develop- 
 ment of the agricultural resources of his section 
 of the country and has approximately 1400 acres 
 of irrigated land in Apache County. In 1907 
 he began the building of reservoirs at the head of 
 the Little Colorado River and since that time has 
 constructed five of these. In 1910 he joined in the 
 work of constructing the Lyman Reservoir, which 
 has about 15,000 acres under it, 1000 being owned 
 by Mr. Colter. This work, completed in the Sum- 
 mer of 1912, is one of the largest irrigation enter- 
 prises in Arizona, having twenty-five miles of 
 canals. The system was completed at a cost of 
 about $200,000, with Mr. Colter as one of the prin- 
 cipal factors in its construction. He is now plan- 
 ning the erection of another reservoir in New Mex- 
 ico. These operations, in which Mr. Colter takes 
 an active personal interest, are important in the 
 reclamation of wide areas of cultivable land in the 
 new States of Arizona and New Mexico. 
 
 FRED T. COLTER 
 
 Since 1905, Mr. Colter has been conspicuous in 
 the political life of Arizona and is the leader 
 of the Democratic party in his county.' In 1907 he 
 was elected County Supervisor, serving five years. 
 In 1910, while still holding the office of Super- 
 visor, Mr. Colter was elected Delegate to the Con- 
 stitutional Convention at which the organic law of 
 Arizona was formulated. He served as Chairman of 
 the Committee on Mode of Amending, Schedules 
 and Miscellaneous, and during all the sessions 
 fought consistently for pro- 
 gressive measures and the 
 rights of the people, but at 
 the same time opposed vari- 
 ous radical measures which 
 he considered a detriment to 
 the future of the new State. 
 He made a determined effort 
 to incorporate a section on 
 health and sanitation, but it 
 failed of adoption. 
 
 From the time of the 
 Constitutional Convention 
 down to date, Mr- Colter has 
 been a member of the Demo- 
 cratic State Executive Com- 
 mittee and in 1911, at the 
 first State election held in 
 Arizona, was a candidate for 
 Senator from his county. He 
 was defeated by a small ma- 
 jority. 
 
 Because of his intimate 
 knowledge of the cattle busi- 
 ness, Mr. Colter was chosen 
 by Governor Hunt of Arizona 
 for the office of State Sani- 
 tary Commissioner. He as- 
 sumed the duties of office 
 in April, 1912. He is 
 also Vice President of the 
 Arizona Cattle Growers' As- 
 sociation. 
 
 During his political activ- 
 ity Mr. Colter has been actu- 
 ated by a sincere desire to improve the conditions 
 of the State and its people and to him is due much 
 credit for benefiting the conditions of the poorer 
 people of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Colter, although a young man, is ranked 
 with the successful men of his State and in addi- 
 tion to the interests already mentioned, is an active 
 worker for good roads and the realty development 
 of Arizona. Co-operating with the National High- 
 way Commission, he made strenuous efforts to have 
 the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway routed through his 
 section of Arizona, in the hope that it would aid 
 in the development of the State. 
 
 Mr- Colter is an ardent and intelligent worker 
 for Arizona's progress and one of her substantial 
 citizens. He is a heavy landowner in his own sec- 
 tion and also holds one hundred acres of splendid 
 property on Central avenue, a beautiful boulevard 
 of Phoenix, Arizona, where he contemplates build- 
 ing a winter home. Because of activity in public 
 matters he spends a great deal of his time at the 
 State Capital. 
 
 Because of the diversity of his interests, Mr. 
 Colter is not conspicuous in club or fraternal or- 
 ganizations, his only affiliations being with the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
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 [RDNO, JOHN JOSEPH, 
 Editor, Safford, Arizona, was 
 born in Logan, Utah, April 
 10, 1868, the son of N. W. 
 Birdno and Mary (Farrell) 
 Birdno. He married Ella May Johnson at 
 Thatcher, Arizona, December 27, 1889, and 
 to them there have been born three daugh- 
 ters, Mildred May, Blanche Elizabeth, and 
 Mary Lorraine Birdno. 
 Mr. Birdno, who is one 
 of the most persistent 
 workers for the develop- 
 ment of Arizona's re- 
 sources, attended public 
 school in Utah, but at the 
 age of eight years went 
 into a print shop and has 
 remained in the business 
 ever since. In addition 
 to supporting himself, 
 Mr. Birdno acquired his 
 education and by the 
 time he was eighteen 
 years of age had quali- 
 fied as a school teacher. 
 Leaving Utah in 1884, 
 Mr. Birdno moved to 
 Arizona and has been a 
 resident of the State ever 
 since. At the time of his 
 arrival the Apache In- 
 dians were on the war- 
 path and during the next 
 few years committed 
 some of their worst 
 crimes. Mr. Birdno 
 taught school for sev- 
 eral years after his arrival, but gave up this 
 vocation in 1895, when he established the 
 Graham "Guardian," now the leading news- 
 paper of that section of the country. He has 
 been the editor and sole owner of this publi- 
 cation and through its columns has preached 
 incessantly for the upbuilding of the great 
 Gila Valley of Arizona. A man of force and 
 clear-sightedness, his editorials have been an 
 important factor in the promoting of the in- 
 terests of the Valley. 
 
 Mr. Birdno has been prominent in political 
 affairs from the time he reached his majority 
 and during this period has taken a leading 
 part for the Democratic party in every 
 campaign, State or local. He is Chair- 
 man of the Democratic State Executive 
 Committee and served for sixteen years as 
 Chairman of his County Committee, but de- 
 spite his prominence and influence, never has 
 stood as a candidate for office. He was, how- 
 
 JOHN J. BIRDNO 
 
 ever, appointed Assessor of Graham County 
 and served in that capacity for ten years. In 
 1905 he raised the assessments on mining 
 properties several million dollars and brought 
 the wrath of the mining corporations upon 
 himself. They took the matter into court 
 and Mr. Birdno was compelled to defend ac- 
 tion. There were numerous cases, but he 
 finally was victorious in all of them and the 
 result was that the bur- 
 den of taxation on the 
 people was reduced one- 
 half. 
 
 Mr. Birdno's record 
 was such that it created 
 admiration all over the 
 State and caused Gov- 
 ernor Kibbey (Republi- 
 can) to declare in a re- 
 port to the Secretary of 
 the Interior that he was 
 the only Assessor in the 
 Territory of Arizona do- 
 ing his duty. Mr. Birdno 
 is recognized the State 
 over as an authority on 
 taxation and was one of 
 the leading advocates of 
 the creation of Arizona's 
 Tax Commission, a pro- 
 gressive board with pow- 
 er to compel equal taxa- 
 tion. 
 
 During the Twenty- 
 first Legislative Council 
 session at which the Ter- 
 ritorial Laws were reco- 
 dified, Mr. Birdno served 
 as Chief Clerk of the body. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Birdno was chosen by the 
 Democrats to head the State Executive Com- 
 mittee and in this capacity it devolved upon 
 him to direct the party in the first general 
 election held after Arizona was admitted to 
 Statehood. He made a personal campaign in 
 all parts of the State, and, largely through his 
 efforts, every candidate on the Democratic 
 ticket was elected to office, from the Gover- 
 nor down. This was one of the most com- 
 plete victories in the history of State politics. 
 Mr. Birdno, a determined supporter of 
 Woodrow Wilson for President, did efficient 
 work through his paper. 
 
 He has been one of the leaders in the de- 
 velopment of Gila Valley and is an enthusi- 
 astic member and Director of the Graham 
 County Chamber of Commerce. He also is 
 President of the Gila Valley Fair Associa- 
 tion and a Director of the Bank of Safford. 
 
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 ma- 
 
 AYNARD, REA ED- 
 WARDS, Civil and Mining 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Tipton, 
 Iowa, July 17, 1870, the son 
 of Dr- Henry H. Maynard and Susan H. 
 (Edwards) Maynard. The Maynard and 
 Edwards families are among the oldest in 
 the United States, Mr. Maynard's 
 ternal grandfather, Gen. 
 John Edwards, having 
 been a noted officer of 
 the Union Army in the 
 Civil War and his father 
 a noted surgeon during 
 the war and in Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Since his eleventh year 
 Mr. Maynard has been a 
 resident of California 
 and received his educa- 
 tion in the schools of the 
 city of Los Angeles. 
 After leaving high school 
 he entered Leland Stan- 
 ford, Jr. University and 
 was graduated in 1894 
 with the degree of A.B. 
 in Mechanical Engineer- 
 ing. He supplemented 
 this with a year at trie 
 Colorado School of 
 Mines, graduating in 
 1896 with the degree of 
 Engineer of Mines. 
 
 Following his gradua- 
 tion, Mr. Maynard went 
 to Arizona and there became associated with 
 the Standard Mine Company. He was thus 
 engaged for about a year, resigning at the 
 end of that time to go to the Hawaiian 
 Islands. He remained in the Islands for ap- 
 proximately five yeais and during that time 
 was engaged in extensive engineering 
 projects, which formed a large part of the 
 modern improvement and development work 
 in that country. 
 
 His chief work was the building of rail- 
 roads for various corporations in Hawaii, 
 these including the Honolulu Plantation 
 Company, the Kona Sugar Company and the 
 Hawaiian Agriculture Company. He also 
 designed and supervised the building of va- 
 rious municipal improvements in the city of 
 Honolulu, serving as engineer for the Gov- 
 ernment there for more than a year. 
 
 On the completion of his tasks in Hawaii, 
 Mr. Maynard, who had won a splendid repu- 
 
 R. E. MAYNARD 
 
 tation for himself in those few years, -was 
 employed by W. P. Hammon, of San Fran- 
 cisco, to report on tin mining properties in 
 Southern Asia. Mr. Maynard was engaged 
 on this work for about a year, and in 1905 
 returned to San Francisco, having been out 
 of the United States for about six years. 
 
 In San Francisco Mr. Maynard accepted 
 the position of Superintendent of Construc- 
 tion for the Pacific Gas 
 and Electric Company, 
 having charge of their 
 work for about a year. 
 He then resigned to be- 
 come a Director in the 
 California Nevada Elec- 
 tric Power Company, in 
 which he had purchased 
 an interest. This com- 
 pany was engaged in va- 
 rious important power 
 projects in the West and 
 for nearly two years Mr. 
 Maynard aided in the 
 work to the exclusion of 
 everything else. In 1908, 
 however, he bought an 
 interest in the Globe 
 Construction Company, 
 and took an active part 
 in its affairs also. 
 
 Disposing of his other 
 interests in 1910, Mr. 
 Maynard became Chief 
 Engineer for Captain 
 John Barneson and E. J. 
 de Sabla, of San Fran- 
 cisco, in the handling of various projects and 
 also was chosen Chief Engineer for the Gen- 
 eral Petroleum Company, General Construc- 
 tion Company and the General Pipe Line 
 Company of California, three affiliated con- 
 cerns in which Messrs. Barneson and De 
 Sabla were heavily interested. He is engaged 
 in directing the construction work of these 
 companies at the present time (1912-13), all 
 projects of vast magnitude. 
 
 Mr. Maynard is one of the highly regarded 
 men of Los Angeles, both professionally and 
 as a substantial man of business. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers and is also prominent in 
 fraternal and club circles. He is a member of 
 the Honolulu Lodge of Elks and a Thirty- 
 Second Degree Mason, member of the Shrine, 
 and other organizations in Los Angeles. He 
 is also a member of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion of the United States. 
 
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 295 
 
 ALM, GEORGE MICHAEL, Capi- 
 talist, Phoenix, Arizona, was born 
 in Columbus, Ohio, March 7, 1855. 
 He is of German-Dutch descent, 
 the son of Michael Halm, a pio- 
 neer furniture manufacturer of 
 Ohio, and Mary (Markely) Halm. He married Kath- 
 leen Gainsford at Columbus, Nov. 14, 1889, and to 
 them there have been born two sons, Arthur G. 
 and George Willis Halm. 
 
 Mr. Halm received his early education in the 
 public schools of Columbus, graduating from the 
 high school in 1873. He then entered Ohio Wes- 
 leyan University and received the degree A. B. in 
 1876. After reading a year with Ingersoll & 
 Williamson at Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Halm went to 
 Harvard Law School, graduating in 1878. Return- 
 ing to Ohio, he was admitted to the bar and began 
 practice as a member of the firm of Eddy & Halm 
 in Cleveland. 
 
 Within a few months he was appointed Assist- 
 ant County Solicitor and served for two years. Re- 
 suming his private practice in 1880, Mr. Halm was 
 active for two years more, when his father's fail- 
 ing health caused him to abandon law and return 
 to Columbus, where he assumed charge of the elder 
 Halm's furniture manufacturing business. He was 
 thus engaged for eight years and at the end of 
 that time sold out the business and moved to Cin- 
 cinnati, where he engaged in the coal and coke 
 business as President and General Manager of the 
 North Bend Coal Company. He directed this con- 
 cern for about seven years, then sold his interest 
 and organized the Marmet-Halm Coal & Coke 
 Company, of which he was Vice President and 
 General Manager for approximately nine years. 
 
 In 1906 Mr. Halm withdrew from this company 
 and for several months maintained an independent 
 coal business; but some time previous to this he 
 had toured the West and become so impressed with 
 the possibilities of Phoenix and vicinity that he de- 
 termined to move there and, accordingly, in the 
 latter part of 1906, disposed of all his Cincinnati 
 interests and went to the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Halm's advent into Phoenix was signalized 
 by his purchase of a large amount of land, and 
 since that time he has been one of the most active 
 factors in the development of the Salt River and 
 Buckeye valleys. Of his original purchase more 
 than 1000 acres he retains a magnificent orange 
 grove on the outskirts of Phoenix, where he built 
 his home. He also owns 1000 acres of alfalfa land 
 in the Buckeye Valley of Arizona and is interested 
 in the Avondale Company, a development corpora- 
 tion which transformed 5000 acres of desert land 
 into profitable farms, located about sixteen miles 
 west of Phoenix. 
 
 Aside from land operations, Mr. Halm has also 
 been prominent in financial and political affairs of 
 Arizona and is regarded as one of the most sub- 
 
 stantial business men of the Southwest. In 1908 
 he was elected Vice President and Director of the 
 Valley Bank of Phoenix, the largest financial in- 
 stitution in Arizona, of which he was the largest 
 stockholder. In 1909 he organized the Phoenix & 
 Buckeye Railroad of Arizona, serving as President 
 until the road was sold, in 1910, to the Southern 
 Pacific Company. This line extends forty-five miles 
 west from Phoenix, through a promising agricul- 
 tural district. 
 
 Mr. Halm, in 1910, aided in the organization 
 of the Arizona Fire Insurance Company, the first 
 of its kind formed in the Territory, and as Presi- 
 dent has directed its affairs from the date of its 
 incorporation. 
 
 As one of the large orange growers of Arizona, 
 Mr. Halm has been a prominent factor in that in- 
 dustry and for two years was President of the 
 Arizona Orange Association, a co-operative organi- 
 zation, which protects the interests of the growers 
 and markets their product. He was also a member 
 for four years of the Board of Governors of the Salt 
 River Valley Water Users' Association, another 
 co-operative body, which safeguards the water sup- 
 ply of the section. 
 
 Mr. Halm is Vice President of the Adams Hotel 
 Company and was one of its organizers. This com- 
 pany built and maintains the Adams Hotel of Phoe- 
 nix, a magnificent modern concrete, fireproof struc- 
 ture, the largest in Arizona and one of the best in 
 the United States. 
 
 Despite his diverse business interests, Mr. Halm 
 has been active in politics, at all times a supporter 
 of the Republican party. During his residence in 
 Cincinnati he was a member of the Blaine Club 
 and since locating in Arizona has been recognized 
 as one of the leaders of the party. He has served 
 at various times as convention delegate and mem- 
 ber of the Central committees, and twice ran for 
 office. He was a candidate in 1908 for State Sen- 
 ator and in 1910 for delegate to the Constitutional 
 Convention, at which the basic law of Arizona was 
 drafted. 
 
 During his early days in Cleveland Mr. Halm 
 took an interest in military affairs and was one 
 of the original members of the First City Troop 
 of Cleveland, one of the crack military organiza- 
 tions of the country. 
 
 Mr. Halm has been a consistent worker for the 
 growth of Phoenix and the State at large and in 
 1909 served as Commissioner of the Arizona State 
 Fair. He is at the present time interested in a 
 number of concerns engaged in the development of 
 the city. 
 
 Mr. Halm and his family spend about three 
 months of each year at the beach resorts of South- 
 ern California. He is well known as a mem- 
 ber of the California Club of Los Angeles. He is 
 also a member of the Queen City Club, Cincinnati; 
 Arizona Club and Phoenix Country Club of Phoenix. 
 
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 ERRY, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
 Capitalist, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, is a native of that city, born 
 July 16, 1864, the son of William 
 Hayes Perry and Elizabeth M. 
 (Dalton) Perry. He married Ada 
 B. Sargent in Los Angeles, May 4, 1896, and to 
 them there have been born two children, Marion 
 Rebecca and John Sargent Perry. Mr. Perry 
 is of pioneer stock and the present head of a fam- 
 ily noted in commercial and 
 social circles as one of Cali- 
 fornia's representa tive 
 houses. His maternal grand- 
 father, George Dalton, was 
 among the Forty-niners and 
 his own father was one of a 
 small party of settlers who 
 crossed the plains in 1853. 
 
 Charles F. Perry received 
 his education in the public 
 and high schools of Los An- 
 geles, at that time conducted 
 under one roof, on the site 
 of the present magnificent 
 County Courthouse. 
 
 Leaving school when he 
 was about nineteen years of 
 age, Mr. Perry, who pos- 
 sessed the characteristics of 
 his forefathers, decided to 
 make his own career, with- 
 out the aid of his father, 
 then a man of great wealth 
 and influence in Los An- 
 geles, who could have given 
 to his son all the power of 
 his position to help him in 
 getting a start. Instead, 
 
 however, the younger Perry found employment in 
 a large cannery in Los Angeles, beginning as an 
 ordinary laborer and working up during the year 
 he remained with the company to a point where 
 he was an all-round man, having served in a num- 
 ber of different capacities. 
 
 At the end of his first year, his father, who 
 was President and principal owner of the W. H. 
 Perry Mill and Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, 
 decided to have Mr. Perry learn the lumber busi- 
 ness in all of its branches in order that he would 
 be fitted to succeed him in the management of the 
 properties when he should retire from active life. 
 Accordingly, Mr. Perry went to work in the yards 
 of the company as a laborer and by his own efforts 
 won promotion to the position of foreman of the 
 yards, holding this until he resigned in 1891, after 
 seven years in the business. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Perry left the lumber business tem- 
 porarily and became an Inspector for the Los An- 
 geles City Water Company, of which his father 
 was President at the time and was thus occupied 
 
 C. F. PERRY 
 
 for about two years. At the end of that time, he 
 returned to the lumber business, going this time 
 into the logging branch. The company of which 
 his father was the head owned various lum- 
 ber schooners and extensive timber lands in the 
 State of Washington and Mr. Perry went to the 
 lumber camps. There he learned the cutting and 
 logging end of the business and later was made 
 Manager of one of the company's mills. 
 
 Mr. Perry was in the timber regions for about 
 ten years in all and during 
 that time experienced all the 
 hardships of life in a lumber 
 camp, taking his chances 
 with the other men regard- 
 less of the fact that his 
 father was the owner of the 
 company for which they 
 worked. 
 
 About the year 1903 the 
 elder Perry decided to retire 
 from business, on account of 
 failing health, so transferred 
 all of his lumber interests to 
 the Consolidated Lumber 
 Company and the Charles 
 Nelson Lumber Company. 
 With this change, Mr. Perry, 
 the son, became associated 
 with the E. K. Wood Lumber 
 Company in Bellingham, 
 Washington, as Inspector of 
 Exports. He was thus en- 
 gaged until 1906, when he 
 was called home on account 
 of the death of his father. 
 
 The elder Perry having 
 been a man of diversified in- 
 terests, including real estate, 
 
 manufacturing and banking enterprises, the es- 
 tate left by him was a large one and the son was 
 chosen by the other heirs to take charge of its 
 management. He has since devoted his time to 
 the conduct of the estate, which has grown to 
 even larger proportions under his management. 
 
 Mr. Perry is generally regarded as one of the 
 substantial business men of the Southwest and has 
 been a factor, like his father betore him, in the 
 development of Southern California. 
 
 His chief recreation, during the Summer 
 months, is deep-sea fishing, he being a member of 
 the famous Tuna Club, of Catalina Island, whose 
 members are among the most noted anglers in the 
 world. During the season Catalina is the Mecca 
 of sportsmen from all parts of the world, who 
 match their ability against the fighting strength 
 of the big fish of the Pacific, and Mr. Perry is one 
 of the men who have made record catches. 
 
 In addition to the Tuna Club, Mr. Perry is a 
 member of B. P. O. Elks, No. 99, of Los Angeles, 
 and the Kul Shan Club, Bellingham, Wash. 
 
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 AND, CARLTON H., Mining Engi- 
 neer, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Portage City, Wisconsin, 
 July 4, 1859, the son of George 
 H. Hand and Helen Mar (Ketch- 
 urn) Hand. He married Amelia 
 S. Ream at Yankton, South Dakota, June 5, 1893, 
 and to them there have been born two children, 
 Arthur S. and Helen M. Hand. He is descended 
 of good old American ancestry, the paternal and 
 maternal branches- of the 
 family having been repre- 
 sented in the United States 
 since 1648, when they came 
 over from England. 
 
 His family having moved 
 to the Northwest when he 
 was a child, Mr. Hand re- 
 ceived his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools 
 of Yankton, South Dakota, 
 and was graduated from the 
 high school there. He then 
 decided upon mining as a 
 profession and entered the 
 Colorado State School of 
 Mines, at Golden, Colorado, 
 where he remained for three 
 years, or until he was com- 
 pelled, in 1882, to give up 
 his studies on account of ill 
 health. He went to Silver 
 City, New Mexico, then the 
 center of mining activity, to 
 recuperate, but immediately 
 became active in mining af- 
 fairs. 
 
 For about a year after he 
 located in Silver City, Mr. 
 
 Hand worked as- Assayer and Chemist for various 
 mining companies, but at the end of that period 
 became an independent mine examiner, and re- 
 ported on a number of properties, some of which 
 have since become famous as the producers of 
 large returns for their owners. 
 
 Upon leaving New Mexico, in 1885, Mr. Hand 
 went to Philipsburg, Montana, where he entered 
 the employ of the Granite Mountain Mining Com- 
 pany, composed of St. Louis capitalists, and at 
 that time regarded as one of the powerful mining 
 syndicates of the United States. He was appointed 
 Assayer and Chemist and remained with the Com- 
 pany in that capacity some eighteen months, re- 
 signing to enter business for himself in Butte. 
 
 Here Mr. Hand became associated with H. C. 
 Carney in the purchase of an assaying business 
 at Butte, Montana, and, under the firm name of 
 Carney & Hand, they began the operation of a 
 general assay and mine engineering practice, Mr. 
 Hand had charge of the engineering branch of the 
 work, while his partner conducted the assay de- 
 partment. This partnership continued for about 
 twelve years and during two years of that time, 
 Mr. Hand's time was almost entirely taken up 
 with expert work in the interest of a syndicate 
 of capitalists, principally stockholders of the Gran- 
 
 C. H. HAND 
 
 ite Mountain Mining Company, with which he had 
 formerly been associated. He examined numerous 
 properties for this syndicate throughout the west- 
 ern states. The failure of the syndicate to accept 
 his advice as to the purchase of certain properties, 
 caused his resignation. Later his judgment was 
 vindicated, one of the properties having paid over 
 sixty millions in dividends and the other, while 
 much less, still paid several millions. 
 
 His practice also included at various times ex- 
 
 tensive examinations- for 
 
 other mining corporations. 
 During his residence in Butte 
 he was frequently employed 
 professionally in the exten- 
 sive mining litigation that 
 took place between the great 
 copper companies of that dis- 
 trict. 
 
 The firm of Carney & 
 Hand was dissolved in 1898, 
 and Mr. Hand then became 
 Manager for owners of the 
 celebrated Payne silver mine, 
 in the Slocan District of 
 British Columbia. This prop- 
 erty is noted as one of the 
 great fortune yielders of a 
 territory rich in lead, silver 
 and zinc, and for about two 
 years and a half Mr. Hand 
 was in full charge of all its 
 operations. Resigning his 
 position in 1901, he returned 
 to the United States and took 
 up the duties of Manager for 
 the Watseca Mining Com- 
 pany, operating at Rochester, 
 Montana, remaining there 
 
 for about four years. As part of his work for 
 this company, Mr. Hand made a trip, to the Island 
 of Celebes, in the Dutch East Indies, and spent 
 several months examining copper properties. 
 
 Following his return to the United States, Mr. 
 Hand spent several years in the examination of 
 mining properties for different companies and in 
 this work traveled all over the western part of the 
 United States, also going into Old Mexico and 
 British Columbia. He was attracted to Southern 
 California about 1908, and opened offices at Los 
 Angeles for the practice of his profession, being 
 steadily engaged there since that time. For a 
 short time after his arrival he was active in oil 
 development in the Kern River section of Califor- 
 nia and still is interested in several oil enterprises, 
 but the greater part of his time is taken up with 
 his mining work. 
 
 In addition to serving in an engineering capac- 
 ity for a large number of concerns, Mr. Hand is 
 Consulting Engineer for the International Mines 
 Development Company, which operates properties 
 in Arizona, British Columbia and other sections. 
 
 Mr. Hand ranks high among mining experts. 
 He is a member of the American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers, the American Mining Congress and 
 the Sierra Madre Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 CKARDT, HUGO, Engineer 
 and Contractor, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Kirch- 
 horde, Germany, July 3, 1875. 
 He is the son of August Eck- 
 ardt and Frederike (Pohl) Eckardt. He mar- 
 ried Winifred W. Bleecker at Los Angeles, 
 March 24, 1909. 
 
 Mr. Eckardt received his early education 
 in the schools of Dort- 
 mund, Germany, and 
 later attended the Uni- 
 versity o f Darmstadt. 
 While at the latter insti- 
 tution Mr. Eckardt made 
 an especial study of con- 
 crete construction and 
 before his graduation he 
 was sent to the Univers- 
 ity of Danzig by his gov- 
 ernment to serve as an 
 assistant professor in the 
 teaching o f reinforced 
 concrete construction. 
 While in this position 
 he was honored further 
 by his government's pla- 
 cing him in charge of all 
 tests of reinforced con 
 crete for its improve- 
 ments. After finishing 
 this work he left the uni- 
 versity for a time to take 
 a position with the Gute- 
 hoffnungshuette at Ober- 
 hausen as a bridge and 
 structural engineer, in 
 which capacity he was sent to various for- 
 eign countries, including England, France, 
 Russia, Spain, Greece and the north coast of 
 Africa. During this time he was engaged in 
 building bridges, cranes, drydocks, and large 
 manufacturing plants. 
 
 After a considerable period in this work, 
 Mr. Eckardt returned to the University of 
 Danzig and was appointed Assistant Profes- 
 sor for bridges and reinforced concrete con- 
 struction. He held this position until he was 
 graduated in 1905 with the degree of Regier- 
 ungs Baumeister (Government Engineer). 
 
 The German government, with character- 
 istic enterprise, determined, when San Fran- 
 cisco was visited by earthquake and fire in 
 1906, to ascertain the effect on reinforced 
 concrete buildings of the double disaster. 
 Mr. Eckardt, because of his prominence in 
 that particular line of work, was chosen, with 
 Professor Kohnke, another German expert, 
 
 to make a special trip across the Atlantic 
 Ocean and the American Continent to investi- 
 gate the subject. He and Professor Kohnke 
 spent two months in San Francisco and upon 
 the completion of their work for the Impe- 
 rial Government, Mr. Eckardt decided to re- 
 main in America. 
 
 His first position in the United States was 
 with the Reinforced Concrete Construction 
 Company, as Chief En- 
 gineer, with headquar- 
 ters in New York City. 
 He only remained in that 
 position a few months, 
 however, leaving it be- 
 cause he preferred to live 
 on the I'acific Coast, 
 which had made a strong 
 appeal to him during his 
 few months of investiga- 
 tion in San Francisco. 
 Accordingly, he went to 
 Los Angeles and became 
 associated with Carl 
 Leonardt, one of the 
 leading building contrac- 
 tors of the United States. 
 At that time Mr. Leon- 
 ardt was beginning a pe- 
 riod of reinforced con- 
 crete construction which 
 was to make him famous 
 and give Los Angeles 
 some of the finest mod- 
 ern buildings in the coun- 
 try. Mr. Eckardt, his 
 name being known as 
 one of the experts in that field, was selected 
 by Mr. Leonardt as Chief Engineer and Su- 
 perintendent of his operations. 
 
 Beginning in November, 1906, Mr. Eck- 
 ardt remained with Mr. Leonardt until Janu- 
 ary, 1911, and during that time had charge of 
 the construction of numerous skyscrapers 
 and private residences. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with Mr. 
 Leonardt, Mr. Eckardt established himself in 
 business in Los Angeles, where he has been 
 engaged to date, doing a general engineering 
 and contracting business. His work has been 
 confined to no particular branch of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 In addition to his engineering operations 
 and teaching, Mr. Eckardt has been a liberal 
 contributor to technical publications on the 
 subjects of engineering and construction and 
 associated branches. His only affiliation out- 
 side of business being the Masonic Order. 
 
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 RBISON, THOMAS JAMES, 
 Physician, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Rawul 
 Pindee, India, November 13, 
 1866, the son of James Orbi- 
 son and Nancy Donlop (Harris) Orbison. 
 He married Virginia Gile at Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania, February 25, 1901, and to them 
 there have been born two daughters, Virginia 
 and Joan Winsor Orbi- 
 son. Dr. Orbison is de- 
 scended from the old 
 Scotch-Irish stock, his 
 father's family having 
 been represented in the 
 days of the Normans, 
 when the name was 
 spelled Od' Baldeston. On 
 the maternal side the 
 names of many of the 
 men have been prominent, 
 among them Colonel 
 James Donlop, James and 
 John Harris, John Elliott, 
 William Ashman and 
 others. Dr. Orbison's 
 father and mother were 
 both missionaries in the 
 Presbyterian Church and 
 were prosecuting their 
 work in India when he 
 was born. 
 
 Dr. Orbison was 
 brought to the United 
 States in early childhood, 
 the family settling in 
 Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. 
 He attended the academy there and followed 
 with attendance at Haverford College. He 
 was there four years and left just before 
 graduation, in 1888. 
 
 His first work after leaving school was in 
 the employ of the Centre Iron Company, of 
 Bellefonte, it being his early intention to 
 learn and follow the iron manufacturing busi- 
 ness. He remained there about three years 
 and then, in 1891, accepted an opportunity 
 to go to New York in the electrical engineer- 
 ing department of the Union Switch & Signal 
 Company. While in that position he took 
 part in the transformation of the New York 
 Central Railroad's signal and switching 
 system from the old hand lever methods to 
 the electrical and pneumatic. 
 
 Dr. Orbison left the company in 1893 and 
 the following year enrolled in the Medical 
 Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania at Philadelphia. After four years of 
 
 DR. THOMAS J. ORBISON 
 
 study he was graduated with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine in 1898. The war of the 
 United States against Spain then being in 
 progress, he enlisted with the famous City 
 Troop of Philadelphia as a private and saw 
 active ser.vice on the Island of Porto Rico. 
 The City Troop is one of the oldest and most 
 celebrated military organizations in the 
 United States, having been the first body of 
 men organized to oppose 
 the British in the Revolu- 
 tionary War. It was then 
 known as the First Troop, 
 Philadelphia City Cav- 
 alry, and served as Wash- 
 ington's bodyguard. 
 
 In 1899, upon his re- 
 turn from the war, Dr. 
 Orbison entered the 
 Pennsylvania Hospital at 
 Philadelphia, the oldest 
 institution of its kind in 
 America, and served there 
 for two years as Resident 
 Physician. Upon leaving 
 there he began private 
 practice in Philadelphia, 
 specializing in the treat- 
 ment of nervous diseases. 
 In addition, he was on 
 the staff of the Univers- 
 ity, Polyclinic and Ortho- 
 pedic Hospitals, of Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 He practiced in Phila- 
 delphia for approximately 
 six years. In 1907, how- 
 ever, he decided to move to California, and 
 locate at Los Angeles. 
 
 He has been a close student at all times and 
 has been a liberal contributor to the literature 
 of his profession, having written numerous 
 papers on neurological subjects for the Jour- 
 nal of Mental and Nervous Diseases and the 
 American Journal of Medical Sciences and 
 other journals. 
 
 Dr. Orbison is Professor of Therapeutics 
 in the Los Angeles Medical Department of 
 the University of California. He is a member 
 of the leading professional societies and served 
 in 1911 as President of the Pasadena Branch 
 of the Los Angeles County Medical Society. 
 He belongs to the American Medical Assn., 
 the Philadelphia Neurological Society and the 
 Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological So- 
 ciety. He is a Phi Kappa Sigma man, Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania Chapter, and belongs to 
 the University Barge Club of Philadelphia. 
 
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 ARSON, JOHN MANUEL, Capital- 
 ist, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in that city April 12, 1862, 
 the son of George Carson and 
 Dona Victoria de Dominguez. 
 He married Miss Kate Smythe in 
 San Francisco, California, November 24. 1891, and 
 to them there have been born four children, John 
 Victor, George Earl, Valerie S. and Gladys G. Carson. 
 He is descended from a family whose history is 
 so intertwined with that of California and Los An- 
 geles that mention of it is here made necessary. 
 The names of Carson and Dominguez are integral 
 and important parts of the history of California, 
 the latter dating back for a hundred years, the for- 
 mer from the days immediately following the Mex- 
 ican War. A century ago what is now Los Angeles 
 County, with the great city of Los Angeles as its 
 heart, was divided into five great ranchos, owned 
 by Spanish gentlemen whose acres spread for miles 
 and whose flocks and herds, cared for by an army 
 of servants, ranged into the thousands. 
 
 Of the five ranchos mentioned at this time, 
 when California was like a transplanted bit of ro- 
 mantic old Spain, the great San Pedro or Domin- 
 guez Rancho was occupied under provisional grant, 
 by Don Juan Jose Dominguez. It comprised ten 
 and a half leagues (approximately 50,000 acres), 
 and from it have been cut various towns, and agri- 
 cultural districts which rank with the richest sec- 
 tions of the West today. 
 
 Following the death of the original owner, it 
 was granted on December 31, 1822, by the Spanish 
 Governor, Pablo de Sola, to Sergeant Cristobal 
 Dominguez, nephew and heir of Don Juan Jose. 
 Three years later, upon the death of Cristobal, it 
 descended to his son, Don Manuel Dominguez, 
 then a brilliant young man of twenty-two years. 
 
 Cultured, splendidly educated and a man of ex- 
 traordinary individuality and mental power, this 
 man, the grandfather of Mr. Carson, played a con- 
 spicuous part in the affairs of California and Los 
 Angeles during one of the most stirring and tragic 
 periods of their history. He was in public life during 
 the Spanish regime, the Mexican dominance and 
 when the United States took over the Territory of 
 California. In 1828 he was elected and served as a 
 member of the "Illustrious Ayuntamiento" of the 
 City of Los Angeles, and the following year was 
 chosen a delegate to nominate representatives to 
 the Mexican Congress. 
 
 In 1832 Don Manuel Dominguez was made First 
 Alcalde and Judge of the First Instance for the city 
 of Los Angeles; in 1833-34 he served as Territorial 
 Representative for Los Angeles County in the Mex- 
 ican Congress, being called in the latter year to 
 a conference at Monterey for the secularization 
 of the missions. In 1839 he was elected Second 
 Alcalde of the city of Los Angeles; in 1842, was 
 again elected First Alcalde and Judge of the First 
 
 Instance, and in May, 1843, Prefect for the second 
 district of California. It was during this time that 
 two military companies were formed for the de- 
 fense of the county, he serving as Captain of one 
 of them until the office was suppressed the follow- 
 ing year. , 
 
 In 1849 he represented Los Angeles County in 
 the Constitutional Convention at Monterey, where 
 was drawn the first Constitution of California. 
 Three years later he was elected County Super- 
 visor, and after a splendid record, retired to pri- 
 vate life. He was importuned many times to ac- 
 cept other public honors, but consistently refused 
 in order to devote himself to the management of 
 his private affairs. 
 
 In 1855 the San Pedro Rancho was apportioned 
 between Don Manuel, his brother and his two 
 nephews, he buying an extra quarter in addition to 
 his portion, so that one-half of the vast estate re- 
 mained with him. Of the 25,000 acres which he 
 retained a large part has since been sold. The 
 townsite of Redondo Beach, also Terminal Island 
 at San Pedro were once a part of this rancho. 
 
 Don Manuel was married in 1827 to Senorita 
 Marie Engracia Cota, daughter of Don Guillermo 
 Cota, Mexican Commissioner, and their union was 
 blessed by ten children, of whom six daughters 
 survived after the parents passed away. Don Man- 
 uel was called October 11, 1882, his death ter- 
 minating a relationship which had existed for thirty- 
 five years. Companions united in their aims and 
 ambitions in life, Don Manuel and his wife were 
 not long separated by death, her demise occurring 
 a few months later, on March 16, 1883. 
 
 Following the death of the mother the estate 
 was divided between the six daughters, Dona Vic- 
 toria, mother of Mr. Carson, receiving more than 
 4,000 acres. 
 
 The old adobe house on Dominguez ranch, where 
 Don Manuel made his home for fifty-five years, has 
 always been kept in an excellent state of preserva- 
 tion. However, within recent years It has been put 
 in perfect condition and stands as one of the 
 picturesque landmarks of Southern California. It 
 is the intention to preserve the house in its present 
 good condition and hand it down from one genera- 
 tion of the family to another. 
 
 Don Manuel was highly respected as a man of 
 unimpeachable integrity and honor, a gentleman of 
 fine old Spanish-American type, and one whose 
 memory is revered by his family and friends. 
 
 The Carson and Dominguez blood was united 
 in 1857, when George Carson, member of an old 
 eastern family and a veteran of the Mexican War, 
 wooed and won Senorita Victoria. His parents were 
 both natives of New York State, where he spent 
 his boyhood, later moving to St. Charles, Illinois. 
 He enlisted under Colonel Newberry and served 
 until the close of the Mexican War, being mus- 
 tered out of service at Santa Fe. After spending 
 
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 some time at the latter place and in old Mexico, 
 as a trader, he finally located at Los Angeles in 
 1853. For many years he conducted a large hard- 
 ware establishment on Commercial street, in Los 
 Angeles, in partnership with a friend named San- 
 ford, but sold out his interest in 1862 to take the 
 management of San Pedro Rancho, in itself a vast 
 business enterprise. 
 
 At first Mr. Carson devoted his attention 
 mainly to sheep-raising, but later added to this a 
 large stock of fine bred horses and cattle, and 
 also went into agriculture on a large scale. He 
 was active in this until his death in 1901, and was 
 one of the largest stockraisers in the Southwest. 
 He was also prominent in Masonry. 
 
 His widow, five daughters and five sons still 
 live on the old place, which has been managed for 
 many years by John Carson. 
 
 John Carson, who is regarded as one of the 
 substantial business men in Los Angeles, received 
 the early part of his education in the public schools 
 of Los Angeles and later was an honor student at 
 Santa Clara College. 
 
 Upon the completion of his studies he returned 
 to Rancho San Pedro and became assistant to his 
 father in the management of that vast estate. 
 Later he operated a portion of it on his own ac- 
 count and upon the death of his father assumed 
 complete charge of the property. 
 
 For nine years or more Mr. Carson operated 
 that portion of the ranch belonging to his imme- 
 diate family, but in 1910 the property of two of the 
 heirs was amalgamated, and the Dominguez Estate 
 Company organized for the purpose of handling it. 
 Mr. Carson was chosen a Director of the company 
 and General Manager of the property and under 
 his supervision this property has been brought 
 to an almost perfect state of development. There 
 still remain of the original ranch about 17,500 
 acres, practically every acre of it now being under 
 cultivation. 
 
 In addition to the Dominguez Estate Company, 
 Mr. Carson also is the General Manager of the 
 Dominguez Water Company, which furnishes the 
 water necessary to the cultivation of the land, and 
 keeps about four hundred head of cattle, he being 
 the only one of the present generation to retain 
 the traditional stock interests of the family. 
 
 "Dominguez Ranch," as it is generally called to- 
 day, has been the scene of many notable gatherings 
 in years past and one of the fine hospitalities of its 
 owners, originated by the father of Mr. Carson, was 
 a great barbecue to which the friends of the family, 
 to the number of several hundred were invited each 
 year. These gatherings are recalled as the acme of 
 entertainment, and, although they were discontin- 
 ued for several years following the death of the 
 elder Carson, his son has recently revived them 
 and intends to make them a feature of the social 
 life at the family place for the years to come. 
 
 Besides the operation of the family estate, Mr. 
 Carson has other business interests to which he 
 devotes a large part of his time. Among these are 
 the Automatic Flagman Company and the Auto- 
 matic Distributing Company. He holds the office 
 of President in each of the'se corporations and is 
 the active factor in their management. The first 
 named company manufactures an automatic rail- 
 way signal, which has been adopted by various 
 railroads in the West, and which has proved one 
 of the valuable safeguards introduced into railroad 
 operation in recent years. 
 
 This device, operated by electricity, is made up 
 of a circular metal danger signal which sways to 
 and fro like a pendulum on the approach of a train, 
 while a bell rings simultaneously, thus giving 
 double warning to vehicles and pedestrians nearing 
 railway crossings. At night another safeguard is 
 added, a red light flashing in the center of the 
 signal. Since its installation on railway lines of 
 the West, the "Automatic Flagman" has operated 
 with splendid success and is generally credited 
 with having prevented many disasters. 
 
 The other company, the Automatic Distributing 
 Company, serves an equally important purpose in 
 business, its product being a distributing device 
 whose chief asset is economy in the presentation 
 to the public of newspapers, etc. It, like the "Auto- 
 matic Flagman," also has been generously adopted. 
 
 Although he is a man of great personal popu- 
 larity and recognized for his unusual ability, Mr. 
 Carson has remained out of politics. Had he so 
 elected, he could probably have had any number 
 of offices of public trust, but consistently refused 
 all suggestions of this nature because of his aver- 
 sion to appearing in the limelight. Also, he pre- 
 fers to render his services to his State in the more 
 practical way of developing the resources of her 
 land. In this latter field he stands with the leaders 
 of development in the Southwest. A great land- 
 owner himself, he has operated to the best advan- 
 tage and his production of crops have added to the 
 general prosperity of the State. He has also aided 
 largely in the development of other projects. As a 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce of Los An- 
 geles, he has figured in numerous movements hav- 
 ing for their object the general betterment of the 
 city and the surrounding country. 
 
 Several years ago, when the Pacific Electric 
 Railway Company built its splendid interurban 
 line from Los Angeles to Long Beach, California, 
 with its right of way lying througn the former 
 Dominguez property, it paid a tribute to the work 
 of Mr. Carson and his father by naming one of its 
 stations "Carson," after the family. 
 
 Mr. Carson is a man of extraordinary amiability 
 and counts his friends by the hundreds. 
 
 His fraternal affiliations are the Royal Arcanum, 
 the Knights of the Maccabees, Foresters and the 
 B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 ENTON, EUGENE ELIAS, Invest- 
 ment Broker, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Clyde, Ohio, 
 June 20, 1876, the son of George 
 Downs and Carrie C. Denton. He 
 married Jennie S. Ward, at Clyde, 
 November 29, 1899, and to them there have been 
 born two children, Helen lone and Marie Harriet 
 Denton. Mr. Denton is descended from one of the 
 very old New England families, five of the Denton 
 brothers having come to 
 America shortly after the 
 Mayflower party. 
 
 Mr. Denton, who is one 
 of the progressive business 
 spirits of the Southwest, be- 
 longs with the list of suc- 
 cessful Americans who have 
 carved their own careers and 
 made the world at large their 
 schoolhouse. He attended 
 the public schools of his na- 
 tive town and entered High 
 school, but left in the second 
 year of his course and went 
 to work. 
 
 This was in 1891 and his 
 first position was that of 
 clerk in a clothing establish- 
 ment at Clyde. About a year 
 after he became connected 
 with the establishment, the 
 owner became ill and Mr. 
 Denton, then a lad of six- 
 teen years, was given the 
 sole management of the 
 business. He carried this 
 responsibility for about 
 six months, then, his em- 
 ployer having recovered his 
 health, Mr. Denton resigned 
 and went West with his 
 mother. 
 
 Locating in San Diego, 
 California, in the latter part 
 
 of 1893, Mr. Denton, shortly afterwards obtained 
 employment with the Gregory-Damon Abstract 
 Company, and for four years was engaged in record 
 and research work. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Denton went into business for him- 
 self as a broker and real estate operator, and in 
 that same year was elected to the City Council of 
 San Diego for a term of two years. During his 
 service in that body he orginated the celebrated 
 Denton ordinance, a historic piece of legislation 
 which caused the San Diego Flume Company to 
 sell out its distributing system to the City of San 
 Diego and retire from business. This company, 
 owned by an English syndicate, was accused of 
 various mi&deeds and Mr. Denton, as one of the 
 Board of Delegates, was one of the leaders in the 
 opposition to it. His activity in this matter en- 
 gendered so much hostility that Mr. Denton felt 
 its effects in his business and transferred his 
 operations to Los Angeles, where he has been lo- 
 cated since. 
 
 At the time he became involved in the political 
 controversy which caused him to abandon San 
 Diego as a field of activity, Mr. Denton owned a 
 half interest in the famous San Pasqual ranch, 
 one of the greatest alfalfa properties in San Diego 
 County, and also had other large real estate hold- 
 
 E. E. DENTON 
 
 ings, but he quickly disposed of all of them. 
 After locating in Los Angeles, Mr. Denton 
 was engaged in general brokerage business, and for 
 the last six years has been one of the most active 
 men in the field. He has made a specialty of small 
 deals and in this way has built up one of the most 
 substantial business enterprises in Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Denton organized the California Pa- 
 cific Investment Company, a private corpora- 
 tion, in which he is President and Director. 
 This Company, in conjunc- 
 tion with the Lone Pine Mill 
 & Lumber Company, of 
 which he is President and 
 General Manager, is engaged 
 in mammoth development en- 
 terprises in Southern Califor- 
 nia. The company purchased 
 six hundred acres of highly 
 attractive land on the slope 
 of the Sierras and Mr. Den- 
 ton and his associates are 
 engaged in the building of 
 an elaborate summer resort, 
 seven thousand feet above 
 sea level, to be known as 
 "The Big Pines," and it is 
 the aim of the promoters 
 to make it the "Adirondacks 
 of the Pacific." This is one 
 of the most ambitious resort 
 enterprises of the Coast, in- 
 cluding in its plans a great 
 summer hotel and club 
 house for the use of profes- 
 sional and business men. It 
 is located under the brow of 
 Mount Baldy, twelve miles 
 from the Santa Fe Railway 
 in Los Angeles County, and 
 will be reached by means of 
 a "trackless trolley." 
 
 This latter, being built by 
 the Lone Pine Utilities Com- 
 pany, of which Mr. Denton is 
 
 Vice President, Director and General Manager, is 
 an innovation in American transportation methods, 
 although it has been operated for many years with 
 great practical and financial success in various 
 parts of Europe. It is the first of its kind to be 
 built in the United States and will cover a dis- 
 tance of twelve miles, ascending the mountain to 
 the resort, which is located seven thousand feet 
 above sea level. The plans for the road call for 
 modern, high power electric equipment, the trains 
 to be operated to and from "The Big Pines" on a 
 fast schedule. As General Manager of the Lone 
 Pine Utilities Company, which was incorporated 
 under the laws of California in May, 1911, Mr. 
 Denton had charge of all the preliminary details 
 of the trackless trolley, such as securing the rights- 
 of-way and directing construction. 
 
 The "Big Pines" project is one which will take 
 two years to complete and it is estimated that it 
 will cost more than a million dollars before it is 
 ready for the reception of visitors and residents. 
 
 Southern California is noted for its beautiful 
 resorts and it is the plan of Mr. Denton and his 
 associates to make theirs one of the greatest on 
 the Pacific Coast, and one of the show places 
 to be visited by the thousands who go to Cali- 
 fornia in 1915 for the Panama Exposition. 
 
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 OAK, DAVID PERRY, Cap- 
 italist, San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in the town 
 of Cameron, Missouri, Janu- 
 ary 27, 1866, the son of 
 Thomas Doak and Sarah (Coffing) Doak. 
 Mr. Doak received his early education in 
 the public schools of his native town and 
 subsequently took a course at the Macon 
 City College of Macon, 
 Missouri. Upon com- 
 pletion of this part of his 
 studies he immediately 
 embarked on his com- 
 mercial career and from 
 that day down to date 
 has been continually en- 
 gaged. His career, be- 
 gun with banking, has 
 coursed through railroad 
 construction and the sur- 
 veying of terminals to 
 the organization of mod- 
 ern steel plants, and he 
 is now president of the 
 Pacific Coast Steel Com- 
 pany. His has been an 
 evolution natural, if 
 somewhat metallic, for a 
 man whose constitution 
 has absorbed something 
 like the powerful mate- 
 rial in which he has 
 worked and whose large 
 ideas have been backed 
 
 by the ability to execute rj p rjQAK 
 
 them. 
 
 Mr. Doak first entered business life in a 
 bank at Kendall, Kansas. In this he con- 
 tinued from 1886 to 1889, and then, after ad- 
 vancing through various stages in that field, 
 changed to railroad construction, in which he 
 was busy for the next four years. 
 
 In 1893 he became President and Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Missouri Smelting Co. 
 at St. Louis, but in 1899 left this office to en- 
 gage in the surveying of terminals and vari- 
 ous lines for certain transcontinental roads 
 that desired to extend their operations to the 
 Pacific Coast. He was active in this work 
 until 1903, when he was made President, in 
 full charge of the construction of the Pana- 
 ma-American R. R. of Mexico. By the com- 
 pletion of this he connected the Mexican 
 lines with the railroads of Guatemala, and 
 subsequently sold to the Mexican Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 During these years of varied experience 
 
 in somewhat similar fields his ideas of devel- 
 opment and construction work were expand- 
 ing and led him to shift his operations to 
 what he deemed the most promising ground 
 for them. He had come to California from 
 St. Louis in 1899, and was not slow to sense 
 the great possibilities to be realized by imag- 
 ination and energy. So from 1910 to 1911 we 
 find him engaged in constructing the first 
 modern steel plant on the 
 Pacific Coast. This has 
 since been consolidated 
 with the Seattle Com- 
 pany and the Portland 
 Rolling Mills, under the 
 name of the Pacific Coast 
 Steel Co. The business 
 has expanded to huge 
 proportions, and has add- 
 ed much to the import- 
 ance of this section of the 
 country as an industrial 
 Promised Land. 
 
 Of recent years Mr. 
 Doak has devoted much 
 of his time to the devel- 
 opment of his water 
 rights on the McCloud 
 River. He owns ten thou- 
 sand acres of land in 
 Shasta County, adjacent 
 to this river, and therein 
 has a watershed capable 
 of supplying 80,000 inch- 
 es, or 500,000,000 gallons 
 of water per day. This 
 he naturally regards as a 
 formidable rival of any company in the field, 
 and is determined to demonstrate its practi- 
 cability in this respect. 
 
 It is planned to bring this water through 
 a concrete aqueduct down the Sacramento 
 Valley, and furnish the towns and cities 
 along its course, with a view to ultimately 
 supplying San Francisco and the other bay 
 cities. Having generally succeeded in ma- 
 terializing his large views of things, Mr. 
 Doak is confident that this last will not prove 
 an exception in his progressive march toward 
 the goal he has sighted. 
 
 While he has many big interests he con- 
 centrates chiefly on his water rights, the Pa- 
 cific Coast Steel Co., the Doak Sheet Steel 
 Co. and the Standard Corrugated Pipe Co., of 
 all which he is president. He is a member of 
 the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco and 
 the ranking clubs of St. Louis, Mo., but de- 
 votes most of his time to his business. 
 
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 ROST, CHARLES HENRY, 
 Manufacturer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Ithaca, 
 New York, June 9, 1844. His 
 father was George Pepperell 
 Frost and his mother Eliza Little (Benja- 
 min) Frost. He married Helen I. Sherman, 
 November 19, 1869, at Davenport, Iowa, and 
 to them were born two children, Lida E. 
 (Mrs. L. J. Huff) and 
 Howard Frost. 
 
 Mr. Frost is a descend- 
 ant of one of George 
 Washington's most val- 
 iant soldiers, his grand- 
 father, Captain George 
 Pepperell Frost, having 
 served with him through- 
 out the Revolutionary 
 period, in most of the big 
 battles which led, ulti- 
 mately, to the freedom of 
 the United States. 
 
 He received his pri- 
 mary education in the 
 public and private schools 
 of Ithaca, N. Y., and Chi- 
 cago, Illinois, having at- 
 tended the Ithaca Acad- 
 emy at the former place. 
 He finished his studies at 
 Baker's High School, 
 Quincy, Illinois. 
 
 He attended school up 
 to the year 1862, when, 
 upon President Lincoln's 
 second call for volunteers, 
 he deserted his school books to join the 
 Union army. He was beneath the legal age 
 limit and his father refused to permit him to 
 enlist as a fighting man, so he went into the 
 commissary department of the government 
 as a citizen employe, with headquarters at 
 Chicago. He remained in that capacity for 
 two years, when he was transferred to the 
 quartermaster's department at Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, being promoted to the post of cashier. 
 Here he remained two years more, and in 
 1866 he resigned to go with the Home Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Co. of Cincinnati. He 
 was connected with the company for three 
 years, the latter part of which period he was 
 secretary. In 1868 he resigned his position 
 with this company to join the United States 
 Life Insurance Company of New York as 
 manager of its Western department. With 
 this corporation he remained until 1877. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Frost organized a pressed 
 
 CHARLES H. FROST 
 
 brick company at Chicago, capitalized at 
 $500,000, and has remained in that business 
 down to date. He was made general man- 
 ager of this original company and for nearly 
 ten years directed the working of it. The 
 company was a success from the beginning 
 and at the end of nine years Mr. Frost had 
 amassed an independent fortune. 
 
 At that time he sold his interests and de- 
 cided to move West, set- 
 tling at Pasadena, Cali- 
 fornia. He determined to 
 re-enter business and in 
 1887 organized the Los 
 Angeles Pressed Brick 
 Co., with himself as pres- 
 ident and general mana- 
 ger. The company built a 
 large plant at Los An- 
 geles and in the twenty- 
 four years that have 
 elapsed since its organiza- 
 tion has grown to be one 
 of the most important in- 
 dustrial institutions in the 
 West. It has a capital 
 stock of $500,000, and a 
 partial list of the stock- 
 holders associated with 
 Mr. Frost includes some 
 of the most successful 
 men in Southern Califor- 
 nia. A few of his asso- 
 ciates in this company 
 follow : 
 
 H. E. Huntington, W. 
 G. Kerckhoff, I. N. Van 
 
 Nuys, William H. Allen, J. E. Fishburn, J. 
 M. Elliott, W. C. Patterson, West Hughes, 
 W. D. Woolwine, J. Ross Clark, O. T. John- 
 son, J. M. C. Marble, Dan Murphy and How- 
 ard Frost. 
 
 In addition to the main plant at Los An- 
 geles, the company operates two other large 
 factories, one at Santa Monica, California, 
 and another at Point Richmond, California, 
 all under the general direction of Mr. Frost. 
 He has extended the business of his company 
 from British Columbia to Old Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Frost has been an active figure in the 
 upbuilding of Los Angeles and is considered 
 one of the most progressive men in that city. 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club, and 
 during his residence in Chicago was a mem- 
 ber of the Union League and Illinois clubs. 
 He also held membership in the Building 
 Trade Club of New York. He is a thirty-sec- 
 ond degree Mason. 
 
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 WITCHELL, RALPH EMERSON, 
 Attorney, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 
 was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 
 November 29, 1859, the son of 
 Daniel Sawin Twitchell and Delia 
 (Scott) Twitchell. He married 
 Miss Margaret Olivia Collins of St. Joseph, Mis- 
 souri, at that place, December 9, 1885. She died 
 in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Twitchell received his primary education 
 in private and public schools of Missouri and at- 
 tended the University of Kansas from 1877 to 1880. 
 He studied law at the University of Michigan, and 
 was graduated in 1882 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Laws. He was admitted to practice in the 
 courts of Michigan, but having lived in the West 
 for some years prior to his college career, he went 
 to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and there began his pro- 
 fessional career. 
 
 In 1883, Mr. Twitchell was chosen by the Atchi- 
 son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co. as one of 
 its legal counselors in the Territory of New Mexico 
 and he has served in that capacity since that date, 
 a period covering thirty years. 
 
 From the date of his entry into New Mexico Mr. 
 Twitchell, although a member of the legal pro- 
 fession, has taken an active interest in the de- 
 velopment of the country, and in many ways has 
 been one of the potent factors in its advancement, 
 politically, commercially and from an industrial 
 standpoint. As an attache of the great Santa Fe 
 Railroad System, he has caused the development 
 of a great deal of territory in the present State of 
 New Mexico, but aside from that he has loaned his 
 assistance to the upbuilding of the country in vari- 
 ous ways. 
 
 When he first went into New Mexico, it, like 
 most of the Southwestern part of the United States 
 at that time, was an arid stretch of land, and, for 
 the most part, the habitat of lawless whites, war- 
 ring Indians and ill-fed cattle. The resources of 
 the country were unsuspected or deliberately ig- 
 nored; where thousands of acres of land are under 
 cultivation in the present day there was only end- 
 less plains, with here and there clumps of mesquite, 
 cactus or sagebrush. For the most part it was a 
 dreary, desolate waste. 
 
 Realizing the promise of the land, Mr. Twitchell, 
 early in his residence in the Territory, gave up 
 part of his time to the study of the problem of 
 irrigation and land development. As early as 1889, 
 nearly a quarter of a century ago, Mr. Twitchell 
 was advocating the principles of reclamation and 
 conservation, phases of the national life that are 
 now recognized as great units of public policy. 
 
 Individually and in association with others, Mr. 
 Twitchell preached the gospel of reclamation 
 through irrigation for many years, and while he 
 worked practically alone during the early stages 
 of his campaign, he finally saw the awakening of 
 the entire nation to the realization of the necessity 
 of developing the farm lands of the West and the 
 conservation of the country's resources. He was 
 among the organizers of the conservation movement 
 and through his instrumentality large sections of 
 land in New Mexico have been reclaimed, with the 
 result that the State is rapidly making a place for 
 itself among the agricultural sections of the Union. 
 Through his writings and his speeches, Mr. 
 
 Twitchell won rank for himself among the progres- 
 sive thinkers of the country, and at the Eighteenth 
 National Irrigation Congress, held at Spokane, 
 Washington, was chosen first Vice President of the 
 organization. He is recognized as the leading pub- 
 lic speaker of his State and has achieved a lasting 
 reputation as a lecturer. 
 
 The reclamation of the West, which has aston- 
 ished the world within recent years, has been one 
 of the guiding principles of Mr. Twitchell's life, 
 but he has not devoted all of his time to this one 
 subject. Recognized for his professional ability, he 
 has been one of the leaders of the Bar in the 
 Southwest for many years and served as President 
 of the New Mexico Bar Association during 1888 and 
 1889. He had been a supporter of the Republican 
 party for many years and upon entering into the 
 practice of his profession took an active interest in 
 politics. In 1889 he was appointed District At- 
 torney of First Judicial District of New Mexico, 
 and served until 1892. 
 
 In 1893 he was elected Mayor of Santa Fe, New 
 Mexico. Other than these positions, Mr. Twitchell 
 has never held or sought public office, but has 
 maintained his interest in politics, and served two 
 years (1902-03) as Chairman of the Territorial Com- 
 mittee of the Republican party. Like most other 
 men having the interest of the community in mind, 
 he was an ardent advocate of Statehood for New 
 Mexico and was one of those who did effectual work 
 in obtaining it. 
 
 As the representative of the Santa Fe Railroad, 
 Mr. Twitchell has aided in the industrial develop- 
 ment of New Mexico and brought about the organi- 
 zation of various corporations, among them the New 
 Mexico Town Company and the Eastern Railroad 
 Company of New Mexico. He served as a member 
 of the Board of Directors and legal adviser to these 
 corporations and acts in similar capacity for vari- 
 ous other collateral corporations of the Santa Fe 
 interests, organized under the laws of New Mexico. 
 
 A thorough student of history, Mr. Twitchell de- 
 voted several years to an investigation of the his- 
 torical record of New Mexico, from the time of the 
 Spanish occupation, and is one of the greatest au- 
 thorities on the subject in the United States. He 
 has served for many years as Vice President of 
 the New Mexico Historical Society and is the author 
 of various works on the subject. In 1909, he pub- 
 lished "The Military Occupation of New Mexico, 
 1846 to 1851," and subsequently published "Lead- 
 ing Facts of New Mexican History." Both of these 
 works are notable for the accuracy of detail which 
 they contain and for their clear analyses. In addi- 
 tion Mr. Twitchell has written numerous mono- 
 graphs dealing with the history of the Southwest. 
 
 Along with his other public endeavors, Mr. 
 Twitchell has been an ardent advocate of good 
 roads and was one of the moving spirits in the 
 organization of the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Asso- 
 ciation, formed for the purpose of enlisting Federal 
 and State aid in the building of a transcontinental 
 highway. He has taken a prominent part in the 
 affairs of the Association and at the annual meet- 
 ing, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in November, 
 1912, was elected Vice President for New Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Twitchell is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church; is prominent in fraternal and social circles, 
 being a Mason, member of the B. P. O. E. and the 
 Las Vegas Commercial Club. 
 
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 RARER, EDWARD CLARENCE, 
 Real Estate and Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a native of 
 Mercer County, Illinois, born Au- 
 gust 27, 1874. He is the son of 
 Edward M. Sharer and Martha 
 (Simpson) Sharer, and is descended of a line of 
 Americans who have served their country in its 
 various wars. 
 
 Mr. Sharer married Myrtle Hemenway at Colo- 
 rado Springs, Colorado, and 
 to them there have been 
 born two daughters, Eliza- 
 beth Eloise and Martha 
 Catherine Sharer. 
 
 The preliminary part of 
 his education Mr. Sharer re- 
 ceived in the district schools 
 of his native county and for 
 one year was a student at 
 the Aledo (Illinois) High 
 Schools. He then spent a 
 year at the Davenport 
 (Iowa) Business College, go- 
 ing from there to Drexel 
 Institute, Philadelphia, 
 where he was graduated in 
 1896. Upon the completion 
 of his business training, Mr. 
 Sharer accepted a position 
 as teacher in the Flint Nor- 
 mal College, Flint, Michigan, 
 and was thus engaged for 
 two terms (1896-7). He re- 
 signed in the latter year to 
 take up the study of law and 
 was graduated from Kent Col- 
 lege of Law, Chicago, in 1899, 
 with the degree of LL.B. 
 
 Mr. Sharer, who is now one of a set of finan- 
 ciers engaged in a vast number of development 
 projects in various parts of the United States, did 
 not take up law as a profession, but went to Colo- 
 rado Springs, where he became Private Secretary 
 to James Renwick McKinnie, a capitalist whose 
 name has been connected with numerous large 
 Western enterprises for many years. Within a 
 short time Mr. Sharer acquired an interest in the 
 business operated by Mr. McKinnie and R. P. 
 Davie, and has since been associated with them in 
 the development and operation of their large en- 
 terprises. These include beet sugar growing and 
 the building of beet sugar factories; the develop- 
 ment and operation of irrigation projects, mining 
 and oil lands. Their properties are located in 
 Colorado, Wyoming, Western Kansas, California, 
 Arizona, New Mexico and Florida, and embrace a 
 variety of important projects. 
 
 Mr. Sharer's associates built and are operating 
 at present the beet sugar factories at Grand June 
 tion, Colorado, and Garden City, Kansas, Mr. 
 
 E. C. SHARER 
 
 Sharer being Secretary and Treasurer of the West- 
 ern Sugar and Land Company, which operates the 
 former. He is also a Director of the Southwestern 
 Sugar and Land Company, which owns the beet 
 sugar plant at Glendale, Arizona, and with his asso- 
 ciates is interested in the development and sale 
 of lands in the Everglades of Florida, being Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer of the Everglades Sugar and 
 Land Company. This is one of the great develop- 
 ment projects of recent years and involves the 
 reclamation of more than a 
 million acres of hitherto 
 valueless lands. 
 
 Other enterprises in 
 which he is interested with 
 Messrs. McKinnie and Davie, 
 are: 
 
 The Grand Junction Town 
 and Development Company, 
 which has large property 
 holdings at that place, he be- 
 ing Secretary and Treasurer 
 and a Director. 
 
 The Loma Land Sales 
 Company, Vice President; 
 the Western States Securi- 
 ties Company, Vice Presi- 
 dent and Treasurer, and the 
 Colorado Savings Bank of 
 Colorado Springs, of which 
 he is a Director. 
 
 In the early part of 1912, 
 Mr. Sharer, with his associ- 
 ates, organized the Sharer 
 Investment Company, for the 
 purpose of handling their 
 properties in California, and 
 he is now devoting a large 
 part of his time to its affairs, 
 having headquarters in Los Angeles. 
 
 This company is now regarded as one of the im- 
 portant concerns of the Southwest and is doing a 
 great deal for the development of the lands and 
 resources of that section, especially in the im- 
 provement of agricultural lands and the advance- 
 ment of the beet sugar industry. 
 
 During his residence in Colorado, Mr. Sharer, 
 who is a Republican, took an active part in poli- 
 tics, and served for three years as Chairman of 
 the Republican County Central Committee of El 
 Paso County, Colorado. In this capacity he di- 
 rected the campaign for the election of President 
 Taft in 1908, in his part of the country. Since 
 locating in Los Angeles, however, Mr. Sharer has 
 not taken any actual part in political affairs, al- 
 though he continues as a staunch adherent of the 
 principles of the Republican party. 
 
 Mr. Sharer is a Mason and Odd Fellow, also a 
 member of the El Paso Club, of Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado, and the Pike's Peak Club also of Colo- 
 rado Springs. 
 
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 ENDERSON, THOMAS LA- 
 MONT, Secretary of the Avawatz 
 Salt & Gypsum Company, Incor- 
 porated, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Kingston, Canada, 
 March 18, 1869, the son of William 
 P. Henderson and Janet (Dunnett) Henderson. He 
 was married to Miss- Myrtella Eddo at Riverside, 
 California, on May 7, 1906. 
 
 Mr. Henderson spent his boyhood and received 
 his early education at San 
 Jose, California, later study- 
 ing under private tutors, fit- 
 ting himself to be a civil and 
 mining engineer, a profession 
 he later rounded out with 
 practical experience in Ari- 
 zona, Nevada and New 
 Mexico. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Henderson re- 
 ceived his first business train- 
 ing when he entered the em- 
 ploy of M. E. Chapin at Santa 
 Monica, California, who con- 
 ducted a large general mer- 
 cantile business. Resigning 
 in 1891 he went to Arizona 
 and New Mexico where for 
 the next six years he engaged 
 in the mining and mercantile 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Henderson was one of 
 the first to identify himself 
 with the rich gold discoveries 
 in southern Nevada and for a 
 number of years was promi- 
 nently identified with the de- 
 velopment of Searchlight, El 
 Dorado Canyon, and other 
 
 famous camps in the southern part of that State. 
 He became a United States Deputy Mineral Sur- 
 veyor and as such his activities extended into the 
 neighboring States of Arizona and California. As 
 a practical mining engineer his services were 
 widely sought and for a time he was with the 
 famous Quartette Mining Company at Searchlight, 
 Nevada. Throughout his residence in Searchlight 
 he held the important office of mining recorder. 
 His mineral maps, issued at this time, furnished 
 the first authentic data published on this extreme 
 southern part of Nevada. Throughout his residence 
 he was considered an authority on all things per- 
 taining to mining and the geography of the coun- 
 try. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Henderson went to Los Angeles 
 and since that time has made that city his head- 
 quarters. Since locating there he has been con- 
 nected with a number of important development en- 
 terprises with H. H. Kerckhoff and others. The 
 work has included mining and other ventures, in 
 all of which Mr. Henderson has taken an active 
 
 T. L. HENDERSON 
 
 part as partner, adviser and consulting engineer. 
 Mr. Henderson's greatest mining success began 
 about the year 1909, when, together with his asso- 
 ciates, he acquired and successfully promoted very 
 extensive and valuable deposits- of rock salt, rock 
 gypsum and other earth minerals located near 
 the extreme southern end of Death Valley, in San 
 Bernardino County, California. This corporation, 
 in which Mr. Henderson is Secretary and one of 
 the principal stockholders, is known as the Ava- 
 watz Salt & Gypsum Com- 
 pany. 
 
 As field manager Mr. 
 Henderson has widely ex- 
 plored the estate which cov- 
 ers an area nine miles long 
 by fully half a mile in aver- 
 age width. 
 
 Because of his wide ex- 
 perience in engineering and 
 mining affairs and his inti- 
 mate knowledge of the coun- 
 try, Mr. Henderson's associ- 
 ates entrusted to him the 
 practical planning and con- 
 struction of the company's 
 plants and improvements, 
 these including a modern 
 salt refinery, plaster mill and 
 a branch railroad sixteen 
 miles in length which con- 
 nects the company's prop- 
 erty with the Tonopah & 
 Tidewater Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Henderson devoted 
 the greater part of three 
 years to the work of getting 
 the enterprise under way, 
 and, being firmly convinced 
 of the future of the industry as a commercial fac- 
 tor in Southern California, plans to make it his 
 chief business. He is, however, a stockholder in 
 the Calumet & California Copper Company, holding 
 the office of Secretary of the corporation and also 
 serving as its Field Manager. 
 
 Mr. Henderson makes his headquarters in Los 
 Angeles, but he spends a considerable portion of 
 each year in the desert lands, engaged in explora- 
 tion and engineering work. 
 
 During his residence in Los Angeles, Mr. Hen- 
 derson has devoted himself strictly to business. 
 He has taken no active part in politics, but at 
 all times has taken an active interest in every 
 question pertaining to the welfare or advancement 
 of the mining industry. He is known as a thorough, 
 capable and conscientious engineer and ranks high 
 among the members of this profession and the busi- 
 ness men of his locality. 
 
 Mr. Henderson is an enthusiastic member of 
 the Sierra Madre Club, Los Angeles, and the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Mines and Oil. 
 
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 ESTING, CHARLES WILLIAM, 
 Bonds and Insurance, San Diego, 
 California, was born in Richmond, 
 Indiana, January 8, 1874, the son 
 of Henry Frederick Oesting and 
 Elizabeth (Weber) Oesting. He 
 married Edythe Choate in San Diego, July 28, 1900, 
 and to them there was born a daughter, Doris Eliza- 
 beth Oesting, now eleven years of age. Mr. Oesting's 
 family, on the paternal side, has been prominent 
 in German public life for 
 many generations, the eldest 
 son of each generation hav- 
 ing served as Governor of 
 the Province of Oldenburg. 
 His maternal grandfather 
 was the founder of Earlham 
 College at Richmond, Indiana. 
 Mr. Oesting received his 
 educational training in the 
 Lutheran Seminary at Rich- 
 mond, but in addition to his 
 practical studies devoted 
 seven years to music and is 
 today an accomplished mu- 
 sician. He studied under Dr. 
 Van der Stucken of Cincin- 
 nati, one of the world's great- 
 est modern interpreters, Di- 
 rector for many years of the 
 Cincinnati Symphony Orches- 
 tra and of the celebrated 
 May Musical Festival of the 
 Queen City. 
 
 Mr. Oesting spent his 
 early boyhood in Richmond 
 and Cincinnati, where his 
 father was a wealthy mer- 
 chant, and in 1887 moved to 
 San Diego with his parents. He remained there 
 for about six months and then returned to Indiana 
 to re-enter school. Upon the completion of his 
 course in 1890, he went to San Francisco and en- 
 tered the office of a broker as clerk, a position he 
 held for approximately two years. 
 
 In 1892 he returned to San Diego and went into 
 the wholesale grain and commission business with 
 his father, having a small interest in the house. 
 After four years of activity in this field he deter- 
 mined to go into the bond business and was* ap- 
 pointed Manager for the San Diego territory of 
 Arthur Nason, bond and investment broker. His 
 record within the first two years of his connection 
 with this house resulted in his being chosen an 
 equal partner in the business and in 1898 he bought 
 a half interest, the firm then being styled Nason & 
 Oesting. He continued in charge of the San Diego 
 branch and in addition established an office in Los 
 Angeles, which he conducted from 1902 until 1911. 
 After nine years in partnership, Mr. Oesting in 
 June, 1907, withdrew and engaged in business for 
 
 CHARLES W. OESTIXG 
 
 himself. Since that time he has been one of the 
 active men in business circles of San Diego and 
 now holds a leading position among the men in his 
 line of business. He is Southwestern representa- 
 tive of the Home Insurance Company of New York, 
 the Sun Insurance Company of London and the 
 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of 
 Baltimore and besides his San Diego business, com- 
 mands a large clientele in Los Angeles, where he 
 plans to reopen a branch in the near future. 
 
 Mr. Oesting, who is one of 
 the popular men of San 
 Diego, has taken a keen per- 
 sonal interest in the politics 
 ^V of the city, as a member of 
 
 the regular Republican or- 
 ganization, but never has 
 been a candidate for public 
 office. His position in the 
 public service was as a mem- 
 ber of the State Harbor 
 Board of California, to which 
 he was appointed in 1899 and 
 twice reappointed, serving 
 three terms in all. During 
 the greater part of his twelve 
 years' connection with the 
 Board, Mr. Oesting was its 
 President and in this ca- 
 pacity he led in various im- 
 provements and measures 
 which brought the harbors of 
 the State up to their present 
 high standard and saved to 
 the Commonwealth millions 
 of dollars. He retired from 
 this office when the harbor 
 of San Diego, over which he 
 had kept a watchful eye, was 
 turned over to the city authorities. During his 
 connection with the harbor work of the State Mr. 
 Oesting conducted a progressive and enterprising 
 campaign for improvement and also issued numer- 
 ous encouraging articles which advertised the ad- 
 vantages of the various harbors to the world. 
 
 Mr. Oesting has taken an active part in the up- 
 building of San Diego and vicinity and is largely 
 interested in a number of building corporations. 
 He is also an extensive operator in real estate and 
 the owner of a splendid ranch near San Diego. He 
 has recently become President of the Ammex Mo- 
 tion Picture Company and is also Vice President of 
 the Independence Stone Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, the 
 Cuyamaca Club, Coronado Country Club, and Elks. 
 He is an enthusiastic motorist and has taken 
 a prominent part in automobile affairs in his sec- 
 tion. He is also an enthusiastic musician and seeks 
 recreation, much of the time, in the enjoyment of 
 music, having a splendid pipe organ as one of the 
 features of his home. 
 
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 AYLOR, HARRY P., Mining, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 February 10, 1876, the son of 
 Gilbert H. Taylor and Eliza 
 Jane (Riley) Taylor. He married Lois 
 Meade Nesmith at St. Paul, Minnesota, De- 
 cember 30, 1903, and to them there have been 
 born three children, Georgia Nesmith, John 
 Gilbert and Jerome Ne- 
 smith Taylor. 
 
 Mr. Taylor received 
 his preliminary education 
 in the public school of 
 Hailey, Idaho, supple- 
 menting this with a 
 course at Oberlin Acad- 
 emy, Oberlin, Ohio, and 
 a year's special study at 
 Cornell University. He 
 finished his education in 
 the Colorado School of 
 Mines, graduating in the 
 class of 1900 with the de- 
 gree o f Engineer o f 
 Mines. 
 
 Almost from the day of 
 his graduation Mr. Taylor 
 has been steadily en- 
 gaged in mining, and in 
 twelve years has estab- 
 lished himself as one of 
 the successful men of his 
 profession. 
 
 Leaving school, he first 
 went to Oregon and spent 
 the years 1900-01 super- 
 intending mining operations on properties 
 owned by officials of the Oregon Railway 
 and Navigation Company. He resigned in 
 the last named year and became an examiner 
 of mining properties for various individuals 
 and corporations. His investigations cov- 
 ered a period of about four years and during 
 that time he explored mining territory in 
 Idaho, Nevada, Montana and British Co- 
 lumbia. 
 
 In 1905 he resumed actual mining work, 
 going to Goldfield, Nevada, as Superinten- 
 dent of the Mohawk- Jumbo Lease Company, 
 which afterwards became one of the divi- 
 dend-paying concerns of the State. At the 
 time he entered Goldfield the boom of the 
 famous camp was at its height and he was in 
 the midst of the excitement. Some time after 
 his arrival there he was employed by the 
 Jumbo Extension Mining Company as an ex- 
 pert witness in their controversy with the 
 
 Consolidated Mines Company, one of the his- 
 toric litigations of Goldfield. Subsequently 
 Mr. Taylor brought about a compromise be- 
 tween the contending parties and the suit 
 was dropped. 
 
 Upon leaving the Jumbo Company he was 
 appointed Consulting Engineer for the Flor- 
 ence Goldfield Mining Company, having 
 charge of all the leases on the Florence prop- 
 erties. After holding this 
 position for a time he de- 
 cided to go into mining 
 as an independent opera- 
 tor, and purchased a lease 
 from the Florence Gold- 
 field, afterwards organiz- 
 ing it, with two former 
 classmates, into the En- 
 gineers' Lease Company. 
 Under Mr. Taylor's direc- 
 tion this property was de- 
 veloped into one of the 
 profitable properties of 
 Nevada, it being of rec- 
 ord that ore valued at 
 one million two hundred 
 thousand dollars was ta- 
 ken out of the property in 
 a space of fourteen weeks. 
 This was the most re- 
 markably quick produc- 
 tion ever known in the 
 historv of Nevada, and has 
 stood as a mining record. 
 Mr. Taylor and his as- 
 sociates operated this 
 property with great suc- 
 cess until 1909, when they disposed of their 
 interests and he moved to Los Ansreles. He 
 has lived there since that time, occupying a 
 magnificent home which he has built in the 
 fashionable Berkeley Square section of the 
 city. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles Mr. Taylor 
 has become interested in oil and mining en- 
 terprises in California, and also holds a val- 
 uable property in Old Mexico. His oil hold- 
 ings are operated under the Kern Four Oil 
 Company and the Engineers Oil Company, 
 both of which he organized and in both of 
 which he is President and General Manager. 
 His mining work is done through the Potrero 
 Mining Company, in which he also holds the 
 office of President. 
 
 Mr. Taylor is a member of the Los An- 
 geles Country Club, of the California Club 
 and of the Alta Club, of Salt Lake City, 
 Utah. 
 
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 HON. S. C. EVANS 
 
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 313 
 
 VANS, SAMUEL C., Farming and 
 Real Estate, Riverside, California, 
 was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 
 November 22, 1866, the son of 
 Samuel Gary Evans and Minerva 
 (Catlin) Evans. He married Edith 
 Southworth at Stockton, California, June 5, 1891, 
 and to them there have been born two children, 
 Errol Southworth Evans and Samuel Evans. 
 
 The Evans family moved from Indiana to Cali- 
 fornia in 1876 and located at Riverside, where the 
 elder Evans was one of the pioneers in the develop- 
 ment of that section of the country. He was a 
 heavy land owner and many of the improvements 
 begun by him have been carried to completion by 
 his son. 
 
 Samuel C. Evans received his primary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Riverside, where he 
 was a pupil from 1876 to 1882, and in 1883 he at- 
 tended school at Jacksonville, Illinois. For one 
 year he was a cadet in Litton Springs Military 
 Academy, in Sonoma County, California, and for 
 four years attended the University of the Pacific, 
 at San Jose, California. He was graduated from 
 there with the class of 1889, receiving the degree 
 of Bachelor of Philosophy. 
 
 Mr. Evans also read law for one year, but did 
 not carry his studies to completion, turning his 
 talents instead to agriculture and land improve- 
 ment. Since 1889, the year of his graduation, Mr. 
 Evans has been actively engaged in business for 
 himself in the cultivation of the soil, leveling lands, 
 putting in irrigation plants and selling farms. 
 
 He is and has been for many years and ardent 
 advocate of the "Back to the Land" movement and 
 has fostered it to a large extent by selling farms 
 to actual settlers at encouraging prices. Many 
 years ago his father organized the Riverside Land 
 and Irrigation Company, and Mr. Evans, who now 
 holds the office of President and General Mana- 
 ger, conducts his farming operations through it. 
 He has planted and sold to settlers many hundred 
 acres of citrus- and alfalfa lands, and is himself an 
 extensive grower of alfalfa, apples and other prod- 
 ucts. He also has large stock interests. 
 
 Mr. Evans is a man of great spirit and for 
 many years has been one of the potent influences 
 for the upbuilding of his city and the country sur- 
 rounding it, a liberal contributor of his energy and 
 capital in all movements having for their purpose 
 the uplift or improvement of his community. 
 
 Not content with originating and carrying to 
 conclusion various important public improvements, 
 he has added largely to the welfare of Riverside on 
 various occasions by practical gifts to the city. 
 Among other things, he gave a magnificent piece 
 of property, known as Evans Athletic Park, for the 
 benefit of the school children of Riverside. He 
 gave the city a house and lot for headquarters of 
 the Associated Charities of Riverside; donated a 
 handsome brick building and grounds at the village 
 of Casa Blanca, for use as a branch library and 
 fire hall; and besides these gave to the city of 
 Riverside valuable lands and water rights for what 
 is known as Fairmont Park. 
 
 Park improvements and the betterment of the 
 public school conditions of his city have been sub- 
 jects to which Mr. Evans has always given a great 
 deal of personal attention. He was elected a mem- 
 
 ber of the Board of Education of Riverside in 1895 
 and served for twelve years, resigning in 1906 to 
 become Chairman of the Board of Freeholders, 
 which framed a special charter for the government 
 of the city. 
 
 Following the completion of the charter, Mr. 
 Evans, who is a Republican in politics, became a 
 candidate for Mayor, and was elected by a large 
 majority. He held office from 1907 to the early 
 part of 1912 and during that time not only was a 
 consistent advocate of progressive policies, but 
 made his administration notable for many modern 
 improvements to the city. These involved street 
 and park improvements to a large extent and he 
 was especially active in behalf of the latter. 
 
 Mr. Evans personally agitated the improvement 
 by the city of Fairmont Park, which his generos- 
 ity made possible, and urged the installation of a 
 children's- playground, including 6wimming tank. 
 The result of this agitation was the voting by the 
 people of $30,000 worth of bonds, the expending 
 of which was left almost entirely to his judgment, 
 as President of the Riverside Park Board, the citi- 
 zens feeling confident that the city would get 
 value received for its money. 
 
 Mr. Evans' record in the Mayor's chair, one of 
 the most creditable in the city's history, was due 
 in large part to the fact that he had made a spe- 
 cial study of municipal government as a science. 
 He is a member of the National League of Munici- 
 palities, also of the California League of Munici- 
 palities, of which he served as President in the 
 year 1910, and has taken an active interest in all 
 of their deliberations. Along this line, he made 
 a trip around the world, and spent one year study- 
 ing social and economic conditions in foreign 
 countries. He has also visited and studied the 
 governmental methods in a number of the larger 
 American cities and has devoted considerable time 
 to the social problems which confront these cities. 
 
 Being a thorough business man and one of 
 great enterprise, Mr. Evans conducted the city 
 government of Riverside on a business basis and 
 this policy, added to his wide knowledge of civic 
 methods and his earnest efforts for the advance- 
 ment of the city, won for him an unusual popular- 
 ity with the people at large. The result was that 
 when he retired from the office of Mayor he was 
 put forward by his friends as a candidate for the 
 Republican nomination for Congress in the Eleventh 
 California District. After a stirring campaign, he 
 was chosen as the nominee of his party on Sep- 
 tember 3, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Evans is generally credited with taking an 
 active part in politics from purely patriotic motives, 
 his desire being to do all in his power to better 
 living conditions and governmental methods in the 
 interest of his fellow man. He is independently 
 wealthy, the owner of valuable property in and 
 around Riverside, and has little to gain except that 
 which will benefit the entire community, from pub- 
 lic office. 
 
 Because of his enthusiastic labors in behalf of 
 his city Mr. Evans has been honored in various 
 ways by his fellow townsmen and in 1911 was 
 elected President of the Riverside Chamber of Com- 
 merce, in which office he has put forth his best 
 efforts for the city. He also is a member of the 
 Southwest Museum, and of the Phi Kappa Psi 
 fraternity. 
 
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 RIFFITH, FREDERICK 
 TOMLINSON, Business 
 Man, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in that city October 
 15, 1863. He is the son of 
 John McKim Griffith and Sarah (West) 
 Griffith. He married Eleanor Hurd at Syra- 
 cure, New York, June 1, 1894, and to them 
 there was born one child, Margaret Griffith. 
 
 The Griffiths are of 
 Welsh origin and one of 
 the oldest and most aris- 
 tocratic families in Amer- 
 ica. They settled in 
 Maryland in Colonial 
 days, and the men served 
 in both the Revolutionary 
 and Civil Wars. Mr- 
 Griffith's father went to 
 California in 1853, located 
 Los Angeles seven 
 
 in 
 
 years later and there be- 
 came one of the leading 
 lumbermen of the period. 
 In addition to his lumber 
 operations, he operated 
 stages between Los An- 
 geles and Wilmington, 
 Cal., and later to Yuma, 
 Ariz., in opposition to 
 that other noted Cali- 
 fornia pioneer, Hon. 
 Phineas Banning. 
 
 F. T. Griffith received 
 his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of 
 Los Angeles and later 
 attended St. Matthew's Military Academy at 
 San Mateo, Cal., being graduated in 1884. 
 He then spent a year at Ross' Finishing 
 Academy, at Media, Pa. 
 
 Returning to Los Angeles in 1885, Mr. 
 Griffith entered the employ of his father, 
 then operating the Griffith-Lynch Lumber 
 Company. Although he began at the bottom, 
 Mr. Griffith advanced rapidly and in 1890, 
 less than five years from the time he started, 
 had passed from yard laborer to the position 
 of foreman, then into the sales department 
 and finally to the position of General Man- 
 ager. 
 
 After handling the company's business 
 successfully for two years, Mr. Griffith, in 
 1892. obtained a leave of absence and went to 
 Europe, where he remained for two years. 
 Returnine- in 1894, he resumed the manage- 
 ment of the lumber company for two years, 
 then became Secretary of the Western Com- 
 
 F. T. GRIFFITH 
 
 mercial Company of Los Angeles, a cement, 
 lime and plaster concern. At the end of a 
 year he returned to his father's company and 
 for the next few years devoted himself to 
 handling its affairs- As the representative 
 of the company on the Los Angeles Board of 
 Trade he was elected a Director of the body 
 in 1900 and served for a year. 
 
 In 1905 the elder Griffith sold his lumber 
 company, dying shortly 
 afterwards, and Mr. Grif- 
 fith then spent several 
 years traveling in various 
 parts of the United 
 States. Part of the time 
 he devoted to looking 
 over oil and mining prop- 
 erty in the West. 
 
 Mr. Griffith became a 
 stockholder and salesman 
 of the Riverside Portland 
 Cement Company in 
 1910 and since his con- 
 nection with it has been 
 an influence in building 
 the company up to pro- 
 portions it had never 
 known before. In addi- 
 tion to this he has other 
 interests, having become 
 one of the organizers, in 
 1912, of the Avawatz Salt 
 and Gypsum Company 
 of California, an enter- 
 prise which gives prom- 
 ise of becoming one of 
 the important industries 
 of the Southwest. The company controls a 
 large deposit of rock salt of the richest qual- 
 ity in Death Valley and also a fine deposit of 
 gypsum, used in the manufacture of wall 
 plaster. In the enterprise Mr. Griffith is asso- 
 ciated with a number of the leading business 
 men of Los Angeles. He holds the office cvf 
 Vice President and General Manager. 
 
 Mr. Griffith is associated in the Oro Del 
 Norte Co. of San Francisco, which is en- 
 gaged in the extraction of gold and platinum 
 from magnetized iron beach sand (known as 
 "black sand"), by a special process. The 
 company owns a plant at Crescent City, Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Griffith being a member of the 
 Board of Directors and Business Manager. 
 He is a member of the Society of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution, of the Los An- 
 geles Country Club, Jonathan Club of Los 
 Angeles, also the Bohemian Club and South- 
 ern Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 315 
 
 URTON, JOHN ARTHUR, 
 Railroad Constructor, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, No- 
 vember 11, 1868, the son of 
 Benjamin Burton and Isabella (McDonald) 
 Burton. His parents were natives of the 
 eastern part of what was at the time known 
 as Upper Canada. His mother and father 
 were of Scotch descent, 
 the latter also having a 
 strain of hardy Irish 
 blood. 
 
 Mr. Burton was reared 
 
 in Alexandria, Ontario, 
 and graduated from its 
 High School at the age 
 of sixteen years. Imme- 
 diately thereafter he ob- 
 tained a position as clerk 
 in the Alexandria Post- 
 office and branch of 
 the Government Savings 
 Bank. While at school 
 Mr. Burton had spent his 
 spare evening hours at 
 the local telegraph office 
 and there mastered the 
 key, becoming an expert 
 telegrapher while yet in 
 his teens. This proved 
 of great help to him 
 when he began his busi- 
 ness career, for at the 
 end of a year he was 
 Chief Postoffice Clerk, 
 Chief of the Savings 
 Bank Department and in 
 charge of the Government telegraph office. 
 
 While working for the Government he 
 had attracted the attention of local business 
 men and when he resigned, because of ill 
 health, Mr. Burton was offered an opportu- 
 nity to go into the banking business, but he 
 was obliged to decline it, and, on advice of 
 his physician, sought out-of-door employ- 
 ment. 
 
 Leaving home in October, 1886, Mr. Bur- 
 ton became a timekeeper on the Santa Fe 
 Railroad, then building in Oklahoma, and 
 later went to Colorado, following the same 
 line of work. He took a course in a commer- 
 cial college at Topeka, Kas., and graduated 
 therefrom at the head of a large class in 1889. 
 In that same year he was taken to San Fran- 
 cisco, California, by A. A. Grant, the famous 
 railroad builder, and placed in charge of the 
 latter's business there. He remained with Mr. 
 Grant in charge of his business and in a con- 
 
 J. A. BURTON 
 
 fidential capacity until the latter died in 1901. 
 Mr. Burton was an executor of Mr. Grant's 
 will and for years a trustee of his estate, 
 and was, under court appointment, the 
 receiver for the California & Nevada Rail- 
 road, which, under his receivership, was 
 finally sold to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company. 
 
 In 1903 the well-known, pioneer firm of 
 Grant Brothers, railroad 
 builders, which had 
 brought more than 
 one transcontinental line 
 across the rough West- 
 ern plains and mountains, 
 was incorporated under 
 the title of Grant Broth- 
 ers Construction Com- 
 pany. An interest in the 
 corporation was tendered 
 Mr. Burton and upon 
 his acceptance he was 
 elected a Director and 
 Secretary of the com- 
 pany, both of which of- 
 fices he has retained. 
 
 Mr. Burton has under 
 his direction the financial 
 end of the business of the 
 construction c o m p any, 
 which runs into millions 
 of dollars annually. Dur- 
 ing a large portion of the 
 work in Mexico, Mr. Bur- 
 ton was at the front and 
 organized the numerous 
 offices which had to be 
 operated in connection 
 with this extensive work. 
 
 Upon becoming connected with Grant 
 Brothers' Construction Company, Mr. Bur- 
 ton moved his home from San Francisco to 
 Los Angeles. He has always had great con- 
 fidence in the future of Southern California 
 generally, and in Los Angeles in particular, 
 and as illustrative of his convictions he has 
 built a handsome residence there and in- 
 vested heavily in real estate and other sub- 
 stantial fields. 
 
 Mr. Burton has been a worker all of his 
 life, his prominence in his chosen field is 
 due to his untiring energy, indefatigable in- 
 dustry and his persistent desire to do his 
 work well. He is essentially a home lover, 
 and his chief pleasure lies in the society of 
 his wife and children. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club and the Elks. 
 
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 OACH, CLARENCE WILMER, 
 Mine Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Guthrie 
 County, Iowa, October 18, 1879, 
 the son of I. N. Roach and Mi- 
 nerva (Hawkins) Roach. He 
 married Ethel V. Bowerman in Los Angeles, April 
 2, 1908. 
 
 Mr. Roach, who is essentially a self-made man, 
 was brought to California in early childhood and 
 received a common school 
 education in San Bernardino 
 County and supplemented 
 this in later life with a thor- 
 ough education in law and 
 mining, having studied for 
 the former in the Los An- 
 geles Law Department of 
 the American Extension 
 University. 
 
 Mr. Roach started to 
 work at an early age, going 
 into the mechanical depart- 
 ment of the San Bernardino 
 Daily Sun, where he learned 
 the printer's trade. He 
 worked as a printer on other 
 publications and in 1891 went 
 to North Ontario, California, 
 where he started a trade 
 journal known as "The Hare 
 and Fowl," a publication de- 
 voted to the fancy poultry 
 and Belgian hare industries. 
 He conducted this paper for 
 about three months, then 
 sold it and went to work for 
 the Cucamonga Water Com- 
 pany of California in the en- 
 gineering department. It was in this work tHat 
 Mr. Roach first took up practical engineering, 
 studying mining and mineralogy during his spare 
 time. 
 
 After two years Mr. Roach took up mining as 
 a profession and for the next three years was en- 
 gaged in prospecting in Death Valley, California, 
 and the Funeral Range. In 1896 he abandoned 
 mining temporarily and settling in Los Angeles, 
 became Superintendent for W. B. Raymond & Co., 
 wholesale grain dealers. Later he became Super- 
 intendent for the Buckhorn Mining & Milling 
 Company, at Dulzura, California, and resigned that 
 after about six months to return to the mining 
 business for himself. 
 
 His prospecting work for the next few years 
 was confined to the Colorado and Mojave Deserts, 
 but it did not prove profitable and in 1903 Mr. 
 Roach returned to civilization and the newspaper 
 business. He served for two years as advertising 
 manager of the Orange County (Cal.) Tribune, but 
 so strong a hold did the gold-hunting fever have 
 
 C. W. ROACH 
 
 upon him he resigned to re-enter the mining field. 
 In 1905 Mr. Roach went to the Gold Park min- 
 ing district in Riverside County, California, and 
 has operated there with success since that time. 
 He first discovered the Anaconda mine and after 
 working it for a time sold out to a syndicate of 
 capitalists. He then spent a year prospecting and 
 testing properties in the Gold Park district with 
 the result that he became interested in several 
 valuable claims. He became associated with the 
 Gold Park Consolidated 
 Mines and because of his 
 wide experience, was placed 
 in charge of the company's 
 operations. These included 
 the management of fifty-two 
 mining claims and among 
 the notable properties thus 
 developed are the Black 
 Warrior, Oro Copia, Caledon 
 and the Boss Mines. Later 
 on he organized the Oil & 
 Metals Leasing Company, 
 which operated in the Gold 
 Park and Twenty-nine Palms 
 districts. Their holdings in- 
 cluded the Queen Mine, 
 which has yielded more than 
 $250,000; the Lost Horse 
 mine, which produced more 
 than $300,000, and several 
 other claims. 
 
 After developing and 
 working these holdings for a 
 considerable period, Mr. 
 Roach brought about the 
 consolidation of several dif- 
 ferent corporations in the 
 Gold Park and Twenty-nine 
 
 Palms territory under the name of the Consoli- 
 dated Gold Mines of California. This company, 
 capitalized at $5,000,000, includes practically every 
 operating company in the districts named and 
 controls all the principal mining claims there. 
 Mr. Roach was elected President and General Man- 
 ager of the new company and is now actively en- 
 gaged in the work of installing modern machinery 
 for the operation of the various properties. 
 
 In addition to his actual work in the mining 
 business, Mr. Roach has been a prolific writer on 
 mining matters and is the publisher at present of 
 the Gold Park Mining News, a newspaper devoted 
 to the upbuilding and advertisement of the country 
 in which he has worked for more than six 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Roach is not a club member, having been 
 too busily engaged in the mining fields of recent 
 years to devote much time to outside interests. 
 He is, however, a member of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles Chamber 
 of Mines and Oil. 
 
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 317 
 
 ARMER, OLLEF OSCAR, Contrac- 
 tor, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Vinna, Louisiana, No- 
 vember 30, 1877, the son of As- 
 bury Lee Farmer and Ida V. 
 (Fowler) Farmer. He married 
 Nellie Worst at Los Angeles, August 19, 1900, and 
 to them there have been born two children, Paul- 
 ine V. and Albert O. Farmer. 
 
 Mr. Farmer received his primary education in 
 the Log Cabin School at 
 Weatherford, Texas, a pri- 
 vate institution, in which he 
 remained for two years. He 
 then entered the public 
 schools and was graduated 
 in 1892. He followed this 
 with a year's attendance at 
 the Weatherford Business 
 College, leaving there to go 
 into business. 
 
 His first year after leav- 
 ing school he spent in the 
 drygoods and merchandise 
 store of his father, but in 
 1896 he accepted a position 
 with J. R. Lewis & Company, 
 hardware merchants in 
 Weatherford, and for the 
 next two years was busy in 
 that capacity. 
 
 In 1898 he determined to 
 move to the Pacific Coast, 
 and located in August of that 
 year at Los Angeles. His 
 career since that time has 
 been a series of successes, 
 with a substantial position in 
 the business life of the 
 
 Southwestern Metropolis as the reward for his con- 
 scientious work. Like many men of the West, he 
 began at the bottom of the ladder. He first worked 
 in a Los Angeles department store, but after four 
 months he left this to take a position with the Los 
 Angeles Electric Company. He held this for nearly 
 two years, or until Octber, 1900. 
 
 Leaving the electric company, Mr. Farmer rest- 
 ed for about two months and then became con- 
 nected with the Sunset Telephone & Telegraph 
 Company of Los Angeles, making a specialty of 
 underground conduit systems. He remained with 
 that corporation from January, 1901, until April, 
 1907, during which time he made a reputation for 
 himself in his particular line, and resigned to 
 take a position with the Western Paving Company. 
 Within three months he was offered a better op- 
 portunity for advancement by the Barber Asphalt 
 Paving Company, so went with that concern. 
 
 Although he started in as a team foreman, Mr. 
 Farmer's ability as a road builder was quickly rec- 
 ognized and he was soon promoted to a better po- 
 
 O. O. FARMER 
 
 sition. When he left the Barber Company in Feb- 
 ruary, 1911, after nearly four years of service, he 
 was superintendent of the Company's work for the 
 entire Southern California district. 
 
 At that time Mr. Farmer resigned to go into 
 business for himself, organizing the Imperial En- 
 gineering & Construction Company, with himself 
 as President and Treasurer. During the first year 
 he was in business Mr. Farmer did a large 
 amount of road construction in the country around 
 Los Angeles, one of his prin- 
 cipal accomplishments being 
 the building of a splendid 
 boulevard through the foot- 
 hills from Pasadena, Califor 
 nia, to Monrovia, California. 
 Southern California in re- 
 cent years has become noted 
 for its fine boulevards and 
 Mr. Farmer is one of the men 
 who is helping to give the 
 State this fame. He has 
 made a study of road condi- 
 tions for many years and 
 during his many years in 
 that line has come to be 
 recognized as an expert. 
 
 While he was with the 
 Barber Asphalt Paving Com- 
 pany Mr. Farmer had direct 
 supervision of some of its 
 most notable pieces of work, 
 these including the Sunset 
 boulevard, one of the finest 
 roads in the West; the 
 Whittier Road and a vast 
 amount of paving within the 
 city of Los Angeles, which 
 now ranks among the leading 
 cities of the world in miles of paved streets. 
 
 During his connection with the Sunset Tele- 
 phone Company Mr. Farmer was in charge of the 
 underground conduit work in various cities of 
 the Pacific Coast and put down the first four 
 hundred pairs of telephone cables in the Los Ange- 
 les underground system. He also put in the 
 Phoenix, Arizona; Riverside, Cal.; San Bernardino, 
 Cal.; San Diego, Cal.; Ocean Park, Cal.; Santa 
 Barbara, Cal., and the Salem, Oregon, systems, in 
 addition to extensions to the Portland, Ore., and 
 Tacoma, Wash., systems. 
 
 Mr. Farmer has never taken an active part in 
 politics, and consequently never has held public 
 office, but he is an enthusiastic worker for the 
 upbuilding of Los Angeles and Southern California. 
 He is not a club man, but prefers the society of 
 his home circle. 
 
 He is interested in fraternal matters and has 
 membership in the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows since 1897. He has been a member of 
 the Knights of Maccabees since 1900. 
 
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 'NEIL, PATRICK HENRY, Stock- 
 man, Real Estate Dealer and 
 Banker, Paulkton, South Dakota, 
 and Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in New Richmond, Wiscon- 
 sin, February 16, 1866, the son of 
 Thomas O'Neil and Johanna (Harty) O'Neil. He 
 married Annie Carlin at Zell, South Dakota, June 
 13, 1888, and to them there have been born five 
 children, Louis B., Mary Ellen, Ignatius P., John 
 T. and Henry A. O'Neil. 
 
 Mr. O'Neil, who has interests scattered all over 
 the West, from the Dakotas to the "Mexican line, 
 is a typical Westerner and essentially a self-made 
 man. He received his education in the schools of 
 his native town and was graduated from the high 
 school there in the class of 1882. 
 
 Shortly after he finished his schooling his par- 
 ents moved from Wisconsin to South Dakota, lo- 
 cating at Miller in the fall of 1882. For the first 
 two years Mr. O'Neil worked on a farm, but left 
 the country in the latter part of 1884 and went to 
 Faulkton, South Dakota, where he obtained em- 
 ployment in a meat market. Three months after 
 his arrival bis employer sold him a half interest 
 in the business and together they operated the 
 market for about two years, when Mr. O'Neil 
 bought his partner's interest, thereby becoming 
 sole owner. 
 
 This was the beginning of his entry into the 
 cattle business, of which he is one of the most 
 prominent representatives in the country at the 
 present time. He operated his meat market for 
 ten years and during that time also invested what 
 money he could spare in cattle and sheep. Each 
 year he added to his herds and each year he has 
 been going more extensively into cattle and sheep 
 raising. 
 
 As Mr. O'Neil's herds steadily increased he saw 
 the necessity for owning his own land, and at every 
 opportunity he invested in real estate. The result 
 of this progressive policy is that he is today rec- 
 ognized as the largest individual land owner and 
 cattle raiser in the State of South Dakota. Besides 
 operating his own large business, Mr. O'Neil has 
 been a consistent worker for the live stock indus- 
 try in general and has been one of the men most 
 prominent in its advancement in recent years. Be- 
 cause of his activity and intimate knowledge of 
 the business he was chosen by Governor Crawford 
 of South Dakota to represent the State at the 
 American National Live Stock Association's con- 
 vention, held in Los Angeles, California, in 1909. 
 At that meeting he was elected a member of the 
 Executive Board of the Association, also a mem- 
 ber of the Committee on Transportation and took 
 a leading part in the deliberations of the body. 
 Since that time he has had various other important 
 duties in connection with the industry. In 1910 he 
 was one of five delegates chosen to represent the 
 American National Live Stock Association at the 
 National Conservation Congress, held in St. Paul, 
 Minnesota, serving as a member of the Committee 
 on Resolutions of said Congress. The following 
 January Mr. O'Neil, in addition to his other ap- 
 pointments, was chosen a member of the Committee 
 on Resolutions of the American National Live Stock 
 Association at its meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, 
 and in this capacity had to do with the drafting 
 of various pieces of important legislation affecting 
 the cattle business of the country. 
 
 In December of the same year Mr. O'Neil was 
 chosen Chairman of the Live Stock Sanitary Boards 
 
 for the National Live Stock Association meeting 
 at Denver, Colorado. In addition to the duties 
 connected with this post, Mr. O'Neil has served the 
 State of South Dakota since 1909 as a member of 
 the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, having been 
 appointed by Governor Vessey. The importance of 
 this branch of the cattle industry is shown by the 
 fact that the Sanitary Boards have jurisdiction 
 over every head of cattle within the borders of a 
 State and are responsible for the health of the 
 animals and the prevention of diseases which 
 might affect the meat. Thus, as Chairman of the 
 National Live Stock Association Sanitary Boards, 
 Mr. O'Neil is an important factor in the guardian- 
 ship of cattle and the public health, so far as the 
 latter is affected by the use of meat as food. 
 
 In addition to his cattle business in South Da- 
 kota, Mr. O'Neil is also interested in a number of 
 financial institutions there and within the last year 
 has invested heavily in real estate and develop- 
 ment projects in Southern California, where he 
 maintains a beautiful home. He is Vice President 
 and Director of the Merchants' Bank of Faulkton, 
 South Dakota, and holds the same offices in the 
 Bank of Cresbard, Cresbard, South Dakota, and the 
 First State Bank of Onaka, South Dakota. Other 
 enterprises in which he is a Director are the North- 
 ern Casualty Company of Aberdeen, South Dakota, 
 and the Dakota Western Assurance Company of 
 Watertown. 
 
 Through the operations of these various enter- 
 prises and his own real estate transactions Mr. 
 O'Neil has had a prominent part in the develop- 
 ment of his adopted State and is generally regard- 
 ed as one of her most substantial citizens. 
 
 Recently he has sold out a large part of his 
 property in South Dakota and has reinvested in 
 Southern California projects. Among others Mr. 
 O'Neil bought, in February, 1912, a beautiful home 
 at 1257 Manhattan Place, on the site of the old 
 Country Club; also bought a business corner on 
 Eighth and Flower; is also heavily interested in 
 several tracts around Wilmington. 
 
 Mr. O'Neil has great faith in the future of Los 
 Angeles and Southern California in general and will 
 shortly make his permanent home in Los Angeles. 
 
 Naturally, because of his position in the busi- 
 ness and commercial life of South Dakota, Mr. 
 O'Neil has been a prominent and active factor in 
 the politics of the State for many years, as an en- 
 thusiastic worker for the Republican party. He has 
 been in many campaigns and has held various com- 
 mittee positions in his party, but never has per- 
 mitted his name to be used as a candidate for any 
 public office. He was elected a delegate to the 
 National Republican Convention, held at Chicago 
 in 1908, and helped to nominate William H. Taft 
 for the Presidency. Also he served as a member 
 of the Faulkton City School Board for ten years. 
 This, however, was not an elective office. 
 
 Because of the great amount of good he has done 
 for South Dakota, he was appointed by Governor 
 Crawford to represent the State at the National 
 Corn Exposition, held in Omaha in 1908, and he has 
 had various other honors paid him in this way. 
 
 Mr. O'Neil is not a clubman in the accepted 
 meaning of the word, although he is extremely pop- 
 ular with his fellows. He served as President of 
 the Faulkton Commercial Club for two terms and is 
 President of the Old Settlers' Picnic Association, 
 but these organizations are partially civic in their 
 object and through them he has been able to do 
 much towards advancing the interests of the city. 
 
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 MONETTE, MELVIN 
 JEREMIAH, Banker, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Marion 
 County, Ohio, August 
 24, 1847, the son of 
 Abraham Monette and 
 Catherine (Braucher) 
 Monette. His family is 
 one of the oldest in the 
 world, extending back 
 prior to the twelfth 
 century, when it was 
 one of the noble houses 
 of France. His Amer- 
 ican ancestors were 
 Huguenot refugees and 
 soldiers in the Revolu- 
 tion. He married Olive 
 Adelaide Hull, Jan. 5, 
 1869. They have two boys, Orra Eugene, now a 
 prominent attorney of Los Angeles, and Clark Fre- 
 mont Monette, deceased. 
 
 Mr. Monette, raised on a farm, obtained his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Ohio. Remained a 
 farmer until 21, then engaged in the cattle business 
 in Chicago. In 1881 he was President and Director, 
 Second National Bank, Bucyrus, Ohio; 1897-98, stock 
 broker at Cripple Creek, Colo., and interested in 
 mining; 1898 to 1905, ranch owner and cattleman 
 in Nebraska; later part owner in famous Mohawk 
 mine in Goldfield, Nev.; went to Los Angeles, 1907. 
 Pres. and Direc. Am. Nat. Bank, L. A.; Los Angeles- 
 Nevada Mining Stock Exchange and the Monette 
 Mining & Milling Co. Clubs: Elks, Calif., Country, 
 Union League, L. A.; Absarben, Omaha; Society of 
 Colonial Wars and Sons of the Revolution. 
 
 HUTCHINSON, 
 GEORGE LEWIS, Phy- 
 sician and Surgeon, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Linn 
 County, Iowa, May 8, 
 1859, the son of Walter 
 Hutchinson and Ann 
 E. (Gates) Hutchinson. 
 He is descended from 
 an old line of New 
 England settlers, one 
 of his ancestors being 
 Governor Hutchinson, 
 the last Colonial Gov- 
 ernor of Massachu- 
 setts. His father, a 
 Union soldier, died 
 during the Civil War 
 in the Red River Ex- 
 pedition. Dr. Hutchinson married Lillie M. Davis 
 at Colton, California, June 14, 1888, and to them 
 were born two children, Ruth and Edith Hutchin- 
 son. He graduated from the State Normal School at 
 Fredonia, N. Y., in 1879; taught school for a year, 
 then took up medicine graduating from Long Island 
 College Hospital in 1884; served as Interne for a 
 year, then moved to Colton, California. Practiced 
 for fourteen years, then moved to Los Angeles. For 
 the next nine years he was railway surgeon and 
 in 1908 he became manager and surgeon of the 
 Crocker Street Hospital, but resigned in 191x, to 
 resume railway practice. 
 
 He is a member of the leading medical and 
 scientific associations; Knights Templar, Masons, 
 Elks, Knights of Pythias and Mystic Shriners. 
 Clubs: Jonathan, Union League, of Los Angeles. 
 
 M'V A Y, WILLIAM 
 EDWARD, Banker, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Dixon, 111., October 
 25, 1864, the son of 
 William J. McVay and 
 Sarah Moore (Strain) 
 McVay. H e married 
 Kate Bryant, March 12, 
 1889, at Princeton, 111., 
 and to them there have 
 been born five children, 
 Laura E., Helene S., 
 Silence K., Frances H., 
 and William Bryant 
 McVay. 
 
 Mr. McVay gradu- 
 ated from High School 
 at Dixon, 111.; later at- 
 tended Bryant and 
 
 Stratton's Business College, Chicago. Went into 
 the City National Bank of Dixon in 1885, and re- 
 mained until 1887, when he moved to Los Angeles. 
 He assisted in the organization of the Security 
 Loan and Trust Company there, becoming its first 
 secretary. From this institution grew the Union 
 Bank of Savings, organized by Mr. McVay and 
 others. He was the first cashier, serving in that 
 capacity until the Union was consolidated with the 
 German-American Savings Bank, in 1906. Mr. Mc- 
 Vay became vice president of the new organization 
 and has continued as such. He is a forceful factor 
 in the financial affairs of the city. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club and the 
 University Club of Los Angeles. He is a trustee 
 of Occidental College and of the Whittier State 
 School. 
 
 SHENK, JOHN W., 
 Attorney, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born 
 February 7, 1875, at 
 Shelbourne, Vermont, 
 the son of Rev. J. W. 
 Shenk, and of Susanna 
 C. Shenk. He married 
 Lenah R. Custer, June 
 29, 1907, at South Pasa- 
 dena, California. 
 
 Mr. Shenk attended 
 the common schools of 
 Central City and Oma- 
 ha, Nebraska, whither 
 his parents moved in 
 his childhood. H e 
 graduated from the 
 Omaha High School in 
 1895. He attended 
 Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from that 
 institution in 1900. He took his law course at the 
 University of Michigan. 
 
 He learned the printer's trade and was foreman 
 of a print shop in Omaha. He went to Los Angeles 
 in September, 1900, and was admitted to the Cali- 
 fornia bar in October, 1903. He was chosen Deputy 
 City Attorney in 1906, and elected City Attorney, 
 August 10, 1910. He was re-elected City Attorney 
 December 5, 1911. 
 
 He enlisted in the Spanish-American War, being 
 a member of Company K, Fourth Ohio Volunteer 
 Infantry, and was with General Nelson A. Miles in 
 the invasion of Porto Rico. He belongs to the 
 Union League Club of Los Angeles, San Gabriel 
 Country Club, is a thirty-second degree Mason and 
 a Shriner. 
 
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 ROWLAND, WILILAM 
 RICHARD, Capitalist, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born on La Puente 
 Rancho, Los Angeles 
 County, November 10, 
 1846, the son of John 
 Rowland and Dona In- 
 carnacion Martinez 
 
 Rowland. On July 12, 
 1871, he married Dona 
 Manuela, daughter of 
 Col. Isaac Williams, of 
 El Rancho del Chino, 
 and Dona Jesus Villa- 
 nueva de Williams. To 
 this union two chil- 
 dren were born, Miss 
 Nina Rowland and Mrs. 
 Clarence Moore. 
 He received his education in the pubic schools 
 and the private school of William Wolfskill, Los 
 Angeles, and at Santa Clara College, where he 
 studied during 1858, 1859 and I860. 
 
 In 1871 he was elected Sheriff of Los Angeles 
 County, which office he filled for about five years, 
 under the trying conditions existing in those early 
 days. He was for many years prominent in politics. 
 In 1884 Mr. Rowland and Burdette Chandler 
 started to bore for oil in the hills of Puente Rancho. 
 After several attempts to discover petroleum they 
 met with success and the Puente Oil Company is 
 today one of the most successful and oldest com- 
 panies of California. Mr. Rowland is still active 
 in this company, holding the office of president and 
 giving practically all of his time to its welfare. 
 He is a member of the California Club. 
 
 ROGERS, GEORGE 
 ALFRED, Merchant 
 and Contractor, Los An- 
 geles, California, was 
 born March 26, 1876, at 
 Plattsburg, New York, 
 the son of Robert H. 
 Rogers and Hattie M. 
 (Schutt) Rogers. On 
 March 26, 1907, he mar- 
 ried Ethel S. Benson at 
 Long Beach. There are 
 two children, Helen 
 Faye and George Al- 
 fred Rogers, Jr. 
 
 He was educated in 
 the schools of Platts- 
 burg and then went to 
 Cornell University, 
 where he received his 
 LL.B. in June, 1897. 
 
 After graduation he went into general contract- 
 ing. He built the roads and water systems for the 
 United States government barracks at Plattsburg 
 and at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, dredged and re- 
 moved rock for the government in New York 
 harbor, Boston harbor, and Newport. Later he 
 built water systems in North and South Carolina. 
 
 He went to Los Angeles, November, 1905, and 
 took up the sale of road making machinery and 
 contractors' supplies. Is building roads for Los 
 Angeles County. 
 
 He is a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa Col- 
 lege Fraternity, the Masonic Order, the Cornell 
 Club of Southern California, the University Club 
 of Los Angeles, the City Club of Los Angeles and 
 the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 HUBBARD, ALBERT 
 ALLEN, President of 
 the Board of Public 
 Works of Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born at 
 Charleston, N. H., No- 
 v e m b e r 17, 1846. He 
 is the son of Hor- 
 ace Hubbard and Mar- 
 cia W. (Putman) Hub- 
 bard. He married 
 Olivia Ferrier, October 
 8, 1878, at Atlantic, 
 Iowa. To them there 
 have been born two 
 sons, Horace Clarence 
 and Albert F. Hub- 
 bard. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard was 
 educated at the Kim- 
 ball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. His first ven- 
 ture was made at Atlantic, Iowa, whither he went 
 when he was about 22 years of age and engaged in 
 the retail lumber business. He remained there for 
 about fifteen years, when he sold out and went to 
 Los Angeles. There he, in December, 1883, with 
 Thomas Goss and Edward Simons, organized the 
 City Brick Company, and was elected secretary- 
 treasurer of that concern. Upon the purchase of the 
 holdings of the company, in 1899, by the Los An- 
 geles Brick Company, he retired from business. In 
 1906 he was selected by a committee from the 
 Chamber of Commerce to be a member of the Board 
 of Public Works, and was re-elected in 1910, and 
 is now serving his second term. 
 
 He is a Knight Templar, a Mystic Shriner and a 
 member of the California Club. 
 
 DWYER, JOHN JO- 
 SEPH, Attorney at Law 
 and President of the 
 Harbor Commission, 
 San Francisco, was born 
 in San Francisco, No- 
 vember 2, 1861, the son 
 of Jeremiah and Sarah 
 (McMahon) Dwyer. He 
 is essentially a product 
 of San Francisco and 
 vicinity, where his life 
 has been passed. On 
 February 4, 1905, he 
 was married in that 
 city to Miss Bertha Lin- 
 coln, with whom he re- 
 sides at 442 Ashbury 
 street, San Francisco. 
 
 After a course 
 
 through the public schools of San Francisco, includ- 
 ing the Boys' High School, he entered the Univer- 
 sity of California, from which he was graduated 
 A. B. with the class of '82. Three years later he 
 took the degree of L.L. B. from the Hastings Law 
 College. 
 
 Outside of his legal career Mr. Dwyer has won 
 a wide reputation as a champion of political and 
 civic purity. In these causes he has worked hard 
 and conscientiously, always true to his ideals, which 
 have placed men and measures above political expe- 
 diency. In the early part of August, 1911, he was 
 appointed by Governor Johnson to the Presidency 
 of the Harbor Commission. 
 
 Mr. Dwyer is also an ex-Lieutenant Colonel of 
 the National Guard, and has contributed to the 
 press, on political and economic subjects. 
 
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 OTHSCHILD, JOSEPH, Attorney 
 at Law, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in that city October 5, 
 1857, the son of Henry Rothschild 
 and Hannah (Mossheim) Roth- 
 schild. He married Hannah K. 
 Tauber at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 31, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Rothschild received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of San Francisco and 
 was graduated from California State University. 
 He then entered Yale Uni- 
 versity and was graduated in 
 the class of 1879. His col- 
 lege career was character- 
 ized by an unusual popular- 
 ity and at the conclusion of 
 his course he was voted the 
 most popular member of his 
 class, being presented with 
 the Scales of Justice, an 
 honor peculiar to Yale. 
 
 Following his graduation, 
 Mr. Rothschild was admitted 
 to practice by the Supreme 
 Court of Connecticut, but did 
 not enter upon his career 
 there, returning shortly after- 
 ward to San Francisco, where 
 he was admitted by the Su- 
 preme Court of California. 
 In 1895, when he had at- 
 tained a position among the 
 leading attorneys of the 
 West, he was admitted to 
 practice before the Supreme 
 Court of the United States. 
 Mr. Rothschild's career in 
 the legal profession has been 
 one of uninterrupted success, 
 
 marked at frequent intervals with brilliant victories 
 in the courts of California and the United States. 
 He has practiced in all branches of civil law, but 
 from the beginning of his career made a specialty 
 of commercial litigation and in this latter field is 
 recognized as one of the leading authorities. His 
 clientele is made up of some of the largest and 
 most important mercantile houses of the Coast, 
 many of which he has represented for twenty 
 years. 
 
 In March of 1911, the law firm of Rothschild, 
 Rosenheim, Schooler & Miller was formed, he be- 
 ing the senior member. 
 
 In his professional work, Mr. Rothschild is noted 
 for his- clear analyses of problems involved in liti- 
 gation and for the absence of decorative phrase- 
 ology in his pleadings. His arguments are confined 
 to facts, delivered in clear, concise language, de- 
 void of bombast. To his simple, but forceful ora- 
 tory and the extraordinary power of logic he pos- 
 sesses, is attributed a great deal of his success. 
 His professional career has been one of almost 
 
 JOSEPH ROTHSCHILD 
 
 ceaseless activity, but withal Mr. Rothschild has 
 been a public-spirited citizen, interested at all 
 times- in the growth and advancement of his city. 
 In 1906, when San Francisco was bowed by calam- 
 ity and gripped by chaos, Mr. Rothschild was one 
 of the first men to start in upon the work of re- 
 building which has placed a new city, within a few 
 years, on the site of the ruins. He was one of the 
 moving factors in the organization of the South of 
 Market Street Improvement Association, which 
 played an important part in 
 the rejuvenation of the 
 flame-swept district, and has 
 served as President since its 
 organization. 
 
 He serves as a member of 
 the Executive Committee of 
 the San Francisco Civic 
 League and the Greater San 
 Francisco Committee and is 
 Vice President of the Exposi- 
 tion Committee of Improve- 
 ment Clubs. In all of these 
 bodies Mr. Rothschild is an 
 enthusiastic worker. 
 
 He was elected and served 
 as a member of the San Fran- 
 cisco Board of Education in 
 1889 and 1890. He served as 
 President of the Democratic 
 County Committee, and as 
 Vice President and Acting 
 Chairman, State Central 
 Committee from 1902 to 1906. 
 As one of the leading Jew- 
 ish citizens of San Francisco, 
 Mr. Rothschild has been hon- 
 ored by his people on fre- 
 quent occasions by election 
 
 to positions of trust. He is Past President of the 
 Independent Order B'nai B'rith, Past President of 
 the Unity Lodge, B'nai B'rith ; Past President of the 
 Free Sons of Israel, Past President of the Board of 
 Relief, B'nai B'rith, and ex-Vice President of the 
 Young Men's Hebrew Association. He went as a 
 Delegate of the district to the Constitution Grand 
 Lodge, B'nai B'rith, the International Congress of 
 the Order at Richmond, Virginia, in June, 1890, and 
 was there elected Judge of the Court of Appeals of 
 the Constitution Grand Lodge, B'nai B'rith, and in 
 May, 1895, at Cincinnati, Ohio, was re-elected. He 
 served in this office ten years in all, and also has 
 served for ten years as President of the B'nai 
 B'rith Hall Association. 
 
 He devotes time to business interests, being a 
 stockholder or officer in various enterprises. 
 
 He is a member of San Francisco Lodge, Royal 
 Arch Masons; Doric Lodge, No. 216, F. & A. M.; 
 Native Sons of the Golden West (ex-Pres.) ; Golden 
 Shore Council, No. 5, United Friends of the Pacific 
 (ex-Pres.); the Yale Club and Concordia Club. 
 
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 UESS, HARRY JOSEPH, Real Es- 
 tate, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, May 
 28, 1883, the son of William Emil 
 Ruess and Katherine (Heit) 
 Ruess. He married Alice Wood- 
 ward Godbe at Los Angeles, June 21, 1908, and to 
 them there has been born a son, Joe Wallace Ruess. 
 His great-grandfather on the paternal side served 
 in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and was with 
 him at the battle of Moscow. 
 His maternal grandfather 
 was a soldier in the Civil 
 War. 
 
 Mr. Ruess was taken to 
 Los Angeles by his parents 
 when he was less than five 
 years of age and has made 
 that city his home ever since. 
 He received his primary ed- 
 ucation in the public schools 
 of the city and also attend- 
 ed Los Angeles High School 
 and the State Normal School 
 there. He supplemented this 
 with six months of study at 
 the Los Angeles Business 
 College, where he learned 
 stenography. 
 
 For the first six months 
 after leaving the business 
 college Mr. Ruess worked as 
 student telegraph operator 
 for the Santa Fe Railroad 
 at Monrovia, California, 
 but he left this to accept a 
 position as stenographer in 
 the office of the Chief En- 
 gineer of the San Pedro, Salt 
 Lake and Los Angeles Railroad and there began a 
 career of several years as a railroad stenographer, 
 a field in which he established a reputation as one 
 of the most expert of his profession. 
 
 After one year he entered the office of the 
 Operating Department of the Santa Fe at Needles, 
 California, and served there for nearly two years. 
 In 1903 he became associated with the California 
 Citrus Union, but resigned at the end of six months 
 to return to railroad work, becoming associated 
 with the Southern Pacific. 
 
 In August, 1903, he was offered a better posi- 
 tion in the Traffic Department of the Salt Lake 
 Road, as stenographer and clerk, and he returned 
 to its employ. He served in that capacity until 
 March, 1905, and then was selected by the General 
 Manager of the road as stenographer and confiden- 
 tial clerk. At the end of six months he obtained 
 a transfer to Chicago, where he was associated 
 with the General Agent of the company, but the 
 weather in the Illinois metropolis did not appeal 
 to him and he went back to Los Angeles 
 
 H. J. RUESS 
 
 and the balmy climate of Southern California. 
 The first year after returning to Los Angeles 
 Mr. Ruess was associated with the Westinghouse 
 Electric and Manufacturing Company of Los An- 
 geles, but left its employ upon being appointed, in 
 November, 1906, to the office of Assistant Secre- 
 tary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Mines. He 
 served in that office during the organization period 
 of the Chamber and in March, 1907, resigned to 
 re-enter the railroad business, this time in the 
 Traffic Department of the 
 Las Vegas and Tonopah 
 Railroad. While in this posi- 
 tion Mr. Ruess commenced 
 to give serious study to the 
 real estate and land business 
 with the idea of embarking 
 in that field for himself. 
 
 He remained with the 
 company until 1909 and then 
 resigned his place to go into 
 the real estate business. He 
 formed a partnership with E. 
 W. Gillett, with whom he 
 had been associated in the 
 railroad business, and to- 
 gether they began operations 
 in Southern California. The 
 first two years were spent 
 largely in the study of condi- 
 tions in Los Angeles and 
 surrounding country, but Mr. 
 Ruess foresaw great oppor- 
 tunities in the future when 
 the Panama Canal should be 
 opened and Los Angeles 
 made one of the principal 
 ports of the Western World. 
 His partner, however, did 
 not share his optimism and Mr. Ruess, early in 
 1912, bought the interest of Mr. Gillett. He reor- 
 ganized his firm under the name of H. J. Ruesa 
 & Company and has an active corps of salesmen 
 with him and is today engaged in the handling 
 and development of various tracts which he has ac- 
 quired. 
 
 These properties are not confined to any one 
 section, but are located in various parts of the 
 State, from San Francisco as far south as San 
 Diego, California, and include both residence and 
 farming lands. 
 
 Although he has been in the business only a 
 few years, Mr. Ruess is one of the most active 
 young realty dealers in Southern California and 
 occupies a firm place there in the business world. 
 He is enthusiastic for the upbuilding of Los 
 Angeles and Southern California, and, while he is 
 ready to aid any movement having the betterment 
 of the city and vicinity for its object, he confines 
 himself strictly to business and takes no active 
 part in politics or club life. 
 
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 'ALLISTER, JAMES PINKER- 
 TON, Manufacturer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in London 
 Derry County, Ireland, August 25, 
 1842, the son of John McAllister 
 and Elizabeth (Pinkerton) McAl- 
 lister. He married Elizabeth McAllister at Vir- 
 ginia City, Nevada, June 4, 1873, and to them there 
 have been born two children, Lillian (Mrs. C. A. 
 King) and Frank Allister McAllister. 
 
 Mr. McAllister is one of those men who have 
 had to make their own way in the world. 
 His father died when Mr. McAllister was an infant 
 and he lost his mother when he was only ten years 
 of age. Orphaned at such an early age, his strug- 
 gles began at once. He attended the National 
 Schools of Ireland until he was fifteen years of age, 
 but having no home ties he became a world wan- 
 derer, his travels finally leading to America. 
 
 He sailed from Liverpool in February, 1857, and 
 landed in New York with thirty shillings in his 
 pocket. He had no friends or acquaintances in 
 this country, nor any definite idea of what he was 
 to do for a living. He was fortunate, however, in 
 obtaining employment on a farm in Orange County, 
 New York, for in his employers he found true 
 friends and was provided with a good home. He 
 worked for the meager sum of four dollars a 
 month, however, and remained on the farm for 
 about a year. 
 
 In 1858, Mr. McAllister bade farewell to his 
 friends, whom he still regards as fine types of 
 Americans, and went out in search of employment 
 which would pay him better for his services. He 
 halted at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for a season and 
 worked on the river boats, but in the Spring he 
 left this life and obtained employment, although 
 he was only seventeen years of age, as a driver in 
 the Pittsburg Fire Department. 
 
 This place he filled only a few months, however, 
 for in the Fall of 1860 he started for the Pacific 
 Coast and landed in San Francisco in December. 
 He was not of the body of men lured by the stories 
 of the golden harvest in California, but was moved 
 by a boy's curiosity to see the "Big Trees" of 
 Calaveras County. After gazing upon the great 
 natural curiosities, he turned his attention to 
 placer mining, but barely made a living. 
 
 After mining for several years in California, 
 Mr. McAllister left in November, 1863, for Vir- 
 ginia City, Nevada, with his blankets on his back 
 and $2.50 in gold dust in his pockets. He had be- 
 fore him a journey of two hundred miles over 
 snow-clad mountains. At Stanislaus River, desir- 
 ing to hoard his small supply of money as much 
 as possible, he sought to work his way across 
 on the ferry, but the ferryman refused to permit 
 him to do so and Mr. McAllister, ignoring the fact 
 that the water was ice cold, tied his outfit on his 
 back and swam across. After reaching the other 
 side he rested for a time, then donned snowshoes 
 and resumed his journey across the mountains. 
 At Silver Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 
 he obtained employment on a ranch, receiving for 
 
 his labor a dollar a day. He chopped trees all day 
 and at night slept in a buffalo robe, with the snow 
 for his bed. At the end of two weeks he left this 
 place and took up his walk to Virginia City, arriv- 
 ing there in the early part of 1864. 
 
 Mr. McAllister's first position in Virginia City 
 was with the Fulton Foundry of that place. He 
 began as an apprentice boy and remained with the 
 company for nineteen years, resigning in 1882 
 the position of General Manager of the plant. 
 
 Leaving Virginia City, Mr. McAllister went to 
 Tombstone, Arizona, to take employment as a ma- 
 chinist in a foundry there, but before the deal was 
 closed he had purchased the plant in which he in- 
 tended to work and thereupon began the operation 
 of the Tombstone Foundry and Machine Shop. For 
 eleven years he was thus engaged and during that 
 time was one of the leading men of the town. He 
 served as a member of the Board of Supervisors 
 for one term and it was while he held office that 
 an attempt was made to rid the country of Geroni- 
 mo and his savage followers. A large reward was 
 offered for the Chief and a lesser amount for each 
 member of his tribe, but the whites were unable 
 to capture or kill the redskins and the rewards 
 were never claimed. 
 
 Mr. McAllister is not one of the men who tell 
 of their Indian fighting days, although the early 
 part of his residence in Arizona was during the 
 time when the Apaches were most active. He was 
 intimately acquainted with General Miles and Cap- 
 tain Lawton, also "Hualapai" Clark, for many years 
 Chief of the Hualapai Indians, and did his share 
 in resisting the attacks of the redmen, but dis- 
 claims any title of Indian fighter, for the reason 
 that practically all the men who really fought the 
 Indians paid for it with their lives. 
 
 In 1893, Mr. McAllister transferred his manufac- 
 turing business to Los Angeles and he has been 
 steadily engaged there since that time, operating 
 for many years in a small factory. In 1900, how- 
 ever, he built a modern plant, known as the Fulton 
 Engine Works, and this ranks today with the lead- 
 ing establishments of the kind in the United States. 
 He incorporated his company several years ago, 
 increasing the capital and scope of it, and through 
 his direction of its affairs, as President of the 
 Board of Directors, he has made it one of the most 
 successful enterprises in the Southwest. 
 
 Although he is regarded as one of the most 
 public-spirited men in Los Angeles, Mr. McAllister 
 has never taken an active part in politics. During 
 his residence in Nevada and Arizona, however, he 
 was a worker for the Republican party and on va- 
 rious occasions held public office. He served two 
 years as School Trustee in Virginia City, and also 
 held the same office for two years in Tombstone. 
 He next was elected Supervisor. He served four 
 years as Treasurer and Tax Collector of Cochise 
 County, Arizona. 
 
 Mr. McAllister is prominent in Masonic circles, 
 having taken all the degrees, and also belongs to 
 the Mystic Shrine. He is a member, Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce and the Gamut Club. 
 
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 IEFER, HUGO A., Physician 
 and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in St. 
 Paul, Minnesota, March 6, 
 1870, the son of John Kiefer 
 and Johanna Celia (Weinel) Kiefer. He is 
 descended from fine old German stock, both of 
 his parents having been born in the Father- 
 land. He was married in 1902, and is the 
 father of one child, John 
 Gordon Kiefer. 
 
 Dr. Kiefer was taken to 
 Los Angeles from Min- 
 nesota when he was five 
 years of age and has 
 made his home in that 
 city permanently since 
 that time. He attended 
 the public schools of Los 
 Angeles and upon the 
 completion of his prelim- 
 inary education, entered 
 Leland Stanford Univer- 
 sity. He was graduated 
 from there in the class of 
 1894 with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts. He 
 then decided upon the 
 study of medicine and en- 
 tered the Medical De- 
 partment of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania at 
 Philadelphia. Graduating 
 in June, 1897, with the 
 degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine, he took a post- 
 graduate course in gen- 
 eral medicine and surgery at the Philadelphia 
 Polyclinic, remaining there during the 
 months of July, August and September. 
 
 Upon completion of his studies, Dr. Kiefer 
 returned to Los Angeles and entered into 
 general practice, continuing from October, 
 
 1897, to September, 1898, inclusive. He then 
 gave up his practice temporarily to make a 
 special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat, 
 going first to the Philadelphia Polyclinic. 
 After studying there for a while, he entered 
 the Wills Eye Hospital, and next was con- 
 nected with the Jefferson Medical College of 
 Philadelphia, remaining there from October, 
 
 1898, to April, 1899, inclusive. During this 
 time he served as one of the assistants in the 
 eye clinic of the Polyclinic and also was as- 
 sistant to Dr. Kyle, a noted Philadelphia 
 specialist, in the ear, nose and throat depart- 
 ment of Jefferson Medical College. 
 
 In May, 1899, Dr. Kiefer sailed for Europe 
 
 DR. HUGO A. KIEFER 
 
 and spent the next six months of that year 
 studying in the various hospitals of Vienna. 
 Leaving the Austrian capital in October, he 
 went to Germany, and spent the months of 
 November and December, 1899, studying in 
 the Kaiserliche and Koenigliche University at 
 Halle, under Dr. Schwartze. As in Austria, 
 he received special instruction in his chosen 
 lines, and upon leaving Germany, went to 
 London, England, where, 
 from January to May, 
 (inclusive) 1900, he 
 studied in various laree 
 hospitals, among them the 
 Royal London Opthalmic. 
 From London Dr. 
 Kiefer went to Paris, 
 France, and worked in 
 the clinics of the French 
 capitol during the months 
 of June and July. 
 
 With this splendid Old 
 World training and prac- 
 tical experience, Dr. 
 Kiefer returned to his 
 Los Angeles offices dur- 
 ing the late summer of 
 1900 and resumed his 
 private practice, taking 
 up eye, ear, nose and 
 throat treatment exclu- 
 sively. The same year he 
 became connected with 
 the Medical Department 
 of the University of 
 Southern California, serv- 
 ing successively as As- 
 sistant Instructor and Associate Professor 
 of Opthalmology. 
 
 When the Los Angeles institution became 
 affiliated with the State University of Cali- 
 fornia, Dr. Kiefer retained his post as As- 
 sistant Professor of Opthalmology, and still 
 retains it (1913), his services having ex- 
 tended over a period of twelve years. He 
 also is a member of the staff of lecturers at 
 the Los Angeles Training School for Nurses, 
 conducted in connection with the Sisters' 
 Hospital of that city. 
 
 Dr. Kiefer has been elected to member- 
 ship in the Eye and Ear Section of the Los 
 Angeles County Medical Association. 
 
 Besides membership in the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Association, the Doctor be- 
 longs to the Southern California Medical As- 
 sociation, the California State Medical So- 
 ciety, the American Medical Association and 
 the American Academy of Medicine. 
 
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 327 
 
 ELLS, HENRY WILSON, Elec- 
 trical and Constructing Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 February 15, 1865, the son of W. 
 S. Wells and Elizabeth Jane 
 (Shoff) Wells. He is descended from one of the 
 Puritan families whose record extends back to 
 the times prior to the voyage of the Mayflower. 
 Mr. Wells has been twice married, his first wife 
 having been Ida B. Estes, 
 whom he wedded in Clear- 
 field County, Pennsylvania, 
 June 22, 1882. She died in 
 1893 after bearing him three 
 children, Bessie (Mrs. Katzet 
 of Detroit), Roberta (Mrs. 
 George W. Cook of Chatham, 
 Ontario) and Jeannette 
 (Mrs. Woods of Chicago). 
 His second wife was Hallie 
 E. Marsh, whom he married 
 at Philadelphia, June 12, 1895. 
 Of this union there is one 
 son, William A. Wells of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Wells received his 
 early education in the pub- 
 lic schols of Osceola, Penn- 
 sylvania, graduating from 
 High School in 1886. He en- 
 tered the Massachusetts In- 
 stitute of Technology in 1889, 
 but withdrew at the end of 
 two years. 
 
 At various times in his 
 youth Mr. Wells broke his 
 studies to go to work, his first 
 position being that of fireman 
 on the Louisville Railroad 
 at Birmingham, Alabama. He 
 began in 1883 and in 1885 
 was promoted to the post of 
 engineer. He ran an engine 
 for about a year, then gave 
 up his railroad work to finish his schooling. 
 
 Upon leaving the Massachusetts Institute in 
 1891, Mr. Wells took up electrical engineering in 
 connection with the Westinghouse interests of 
 Pittsburg. Several times during his service with 
 this company he was sent to England in charge 
 of large electrical construction work. 
 
 After about three years in this position, Mr. 
 Wells resigned and became associated with Thomas 
 A. Edison, the wizard of electricity at Edison, New 
 Jersey. Mr. Wells was constructing engineer of 
 the Edison concentrator plant at that place and 
 during the two years he was employed by Edison 
 came to know the great inventor very intimately. 
 They were closely associated in the work and spent 
 many hours together, either in the hills after the 
 close of the day's labors or in the workshop. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Wells severed his connection with 
 Edison and in association with Antonio C. Pesano, 
 former Vice President and General Manager of the 
 George V. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia, went to 
 Detroit and engaged in building ship yards for the 
 Great Lakes Engineering Works. Mr. Wells was 
 Constructing Engineer of the Company and during 
 his stay there supervised the building of more than 
 a score of large vessels, including the "George B. 
 Ketchum," and the "Tinesta," the largest passenger 
 
 H. W. WELLS 
 
 boat on the lakes at that time, a 10,000-ton ship, 
 and several others. This vessel was six hundred 
 and twenty-one feet long and proved a sensation in 
 ship-building when she was first put into service. 
 In 1901, Mr. Wells gave up his interest in the 
 shipbuilding plant and shipyards which he and his 
 partner controlled and accepted a position with the 
 International Harvester Co. as Purchasing Agent 
 and Mechanical Engineer, with headquarters at 
 Chicago. This was a position of great responsibility 
 for Mr. Wells had charge of 
 all machinery, buildings and 
 docks for the company, build- 
 ing the tractor works and 
 supervising all plants con- 
 structed by the Harvester 
 Co. in different parts of the 
 world during the period of 
 1906 and 1911. Four of the 
 great plants built by him are 
 in European countries, one 
 located at Lubertzky, Russia, 
 about fifteen miles from Mos- 
 cow; another at Norrkoping, 
 Sweden; a third at Nord, 
 near Croix, France, and a 
 fourth at Neuss near Dussel- 
 dorff, Germany. 
 
 An interesting fact in con- 
 nection with this work is 
 that the machinery for the 
 four plants was all ordered 
 in one contract, thus form- 
 ing probably the largest 
 single order for machinery 
 ever made in the United 
 States. Mr. Wells figured 
 out the plans and machinery 
 for all of them and issued a 
 single order for the supply. 
 In 1911, Mr. Wells suc- 
 cumbed to overwork and be- 
 came a victim of neuritis and 
 nervousness to such an ex- 
 tent that he was compelled 
 
 to retire from active business temporarily. He 
 spent several months in Argentine, South America, 
 then went to Los Angeles, December, 1911. In 
 company with Edward Double of the Union Tool 
 Co. of that city, Mr. Wells organized the Pacific 
 Metal Products Co., he being elected President and 
 General Manager of the concern, which incorpor- 
 ated, July, 1912, with a half million dollar capital. 
 The Pacific Metal Products Co. will be one of 
 the largest manufacturers of steel barrels and 
 chains, automobile trucks and tractor plows in the 
 United States, with a plant comprising six build- 
 ings, one of which is seven hundred feet long, and 
 five of a length of 300 feet each. In locating the 
 Company's plant Mr. Wells and his associates be- 
 came founders of the town of Torrance, Cal. They 
 began the erection of their plant in April, 1912, and 
 by the first of August, a few days after the Com- 
 pany was incorporated, had five of the buildings 
 completed. 
 
 Mr. Wells is a stockholder in the International 
 Harvester Co. and the Windsor Machine Co. of 
 Windsor, Vt., but does not hold office in them. 
 
 In Chicago, Mr. Wells retains his memberships 
 in the South Shore Country Club, Illinois Athletic 
 Club, Chicago Athletic Club, and the Illinois Cham- 
 ber of Commerce. 
 
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 HAPPELLET, FELIX, Mining and 
 Oil Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, April 26, 1877, the son of 
 Felix Chappellet and Milvia 
 (Frick) Chappellet. He married 
 Mabel Clare Dimon at San Jose, California, Febru- 
 ary 15, 1902, and to them there have been born 
 three sons, Felix, Cyril and Henry Chappellet. Mr. 
 Chappellet is a member of one of California's 
 pioneer families, his father 
 having been one of the im- 
 mortal Forty-niners and one 
 of the prominent mining 
 operators in the earlier days 
 of the State. 
 
 Mr. Chappellet received 
 his primary education in the 
 public schools of his native 
 city, but the mining instinct 
 being strong in him and it 
 being his father's wish that 
 he should take up mining as 
 his vocation, he spent a great 
 deal of his boyhood working 
 around the mines in which 
 his father was interested. 
 Later he attended the Van 
 Der Naillen mining school 
 and took a special course in 
 assaying at the State Assay 
 Office, being accredited an 
 assayer in 1894. 
 
 Following the completion 
 of his studies, Mr. Chappellet 
 went to work for the May- 
 flower Gravel Mining Com- 
 pany, in Placer County, Cali- 
 fornia, his father being 
 President of the corporation 
 at the time. He worked in 
 the practical branch of min- 
 ing for about a year, then 
 left his father to become 
 Superintendent of the Eureka 
 
 Gravel Mines in the same county. He was then 
 only a boy in years, but he had had many seasons 
 of practical mining experience, having lived in an 
 atmosphere of mining all his life, and proved him- 
 self fully competent to discharge the duties of the 
 position. 
 
 After working for the Eureka Company for 
 approximately five years, during which time he 
 made one of the best records in the State in the 
 tunnel work, Mr. Chappellet resigned the Super- 
 intendency to go to Mexico, where he became Su- 
 perintendent of the Santa Rosalia Mining Com- 
 pany at Arizpa, in the State of Sonora. He re- 
 mained in charge of these mines for about a year, 
 then returned to California for four years. During 
 this latter period he had charge as Superintendent 
 of the Mohican Mining & Milling Company's mines 
 in Tuolumne County, California. 
 
 In 1905 he received an exceptionally tempting 
 offer to return to Mexico as Assistant Manager of 
 the Santa Eulalia Exploration Company, so re- 
 signed his position and went to the State of Chi- 
 huahua, where his new company's properties were 
 located. These included the San Andear, San 
 Antonio Chico and the Buena Tierra Mines. This 
 latter is one of the largest silver and lead proper- 
 ties in operation in the Republic of Mexico, its 
 
 F. CHAPPELLET 
 
 monthly shipments of ore averaging four thousand 
 tons. When Mr. Chappellet became associated 
 with the controlling company these various prop- 
 erties were just being developed and during the 
 time he was connected with the enterprise he had 
 a large part in this development work. In addition 
 to his duties with this company, however, Mr. 
 Chappellet's services were in demand by other 
 mining corporations and during the three years he 
 was in Chihuahua he also served as Superintendent 
 and" Consulting Engineer of 
 the San Juan Grande Mining 
 Company and the El Cristo 
 and Democratia Mining Com- 
 pany, both American owned 
 properties. 
 
 In the latter part of 1908, 
 Mr. Chappellet severed his 
 Mexican connections and re- 
 turned to California. It was 
 just about this time, how- 
 ever, that the oil business 
 was taking on boom propor- 
 tions in the State and he 
 turned his attention to this 
 field. For nearly two years 
 he did little more than study 
 conditions and estimate pros- 
 pects for the future of the 
 industry, but in November, 
 1910, he plunged actively into 
 the oil fields and has been 
 steadily engaged in the busi- 
 ness since. He bought an 
 interest in the Midway 
 Premier Oil Company, which 
 owned about forty acres of 
 proved land in the famous 
 Midway fields of California, 
 and immediately became one 
 of the principal factors in the 
 management of the enter- 
 prise. When he became as- 
 sociated with the company it 
 had only one well, but he put 
 
 down four others in quick succession, all of them 
 proving good producers, and when he sold out his 
 interest at the end of a year, his company was 
 shipping an average of one thousand barrels per 
 day. 
 
 In December, 1911, Mr. Chappellet was ap- 
 pointed Superintendent of the Delaware Union Oil 
 Company's property at Fullerton, California, which 
 is one of the largest and oldest properties in that 
 field and formerly was owned by Payne Whitney, 
 the Waterbury Wire Rope Company and other New 
 York capital. On May 1, 1912, this property was 
 sold to the General Petroleum Company, one of 
 the large companies of California, and Mr. Chap- 
 pellet, was appointed Manager of its Southern 
 Division. 
 
 In addition to the operation of numerous wells, 
 the General Petroleum Company is engaged in 
 various other branches, including refining and pipe 
 lines. Mr. Chappellet has the management of all 
 its operations south of the Tehachapi Range. 
 
 Mr. Chappellet, who is a comparatively young 
 man, is one of the practical developers of the re- 
 sources of California and is highly regarded as 
 one of her successful and substantial business men. 
 He is prominent in Masonic circles, being a Knight 
 Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 329 
 
 ONES, CLAUDE MORRIS, Manu- 
 facturer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in McKinney, Collin 
 County, Texas, December 7, 1861, 
 the son of Martin Van Buren 
 Jones and Bettie (Morris) Jones. 
 He married Jessie Fair Van Sickle at Los Angeles, 
 November 4, 1891, and to them there have been 
 born two daughters, Margaret Lucile and Marion 
 Ellen Jones. He is of Welsh-English stock, the 
 families on both sides of the 
 house being among the old- 
 est of British record. On 
 the maternal side he is de- 
 scended of the Tunstalls, 
 many members of the name 
 being noted in the history 
 of England and on recoid to- 
 day in Westminster Abbey. 
 Among them are Bishop 
 Tunstall, Bishop of London 
 during the reign of Queen 
 Anne, and Bishop Tunstall of 
 Fontaine Abbey, one of the 
 historic ruins of England. 
 Another was Sir Cuthbert 
 Tunstall, Kniglit of the Gar- 
 ter, whose portrait may be 
 seen today in the Hall of 
 Knights, in Windsor Palace. 
 American members of the 
 family were prominent in 
 the South before and during 
 the Civil War as Cabinet offi- 
 cers, and, like many others, 
 they lost their fortunes as 
 the result of that struggle. 
 Mr. Jones' paternal grand- 
 father was Jesse R. Jones, 
 
 prominent in Masonic circles of Texas, and the 
 owner of a large plantation near Houston. His 
 own father was a physician and a soldier in the 
 Confederate Army during the Civil War. 
 
 Mr. Jones received the basis of his education 
 in the public schools of Milford, Texas, and supple- 
 mented this with a commercial course in the Tehu- 
 acana Hills College, graduating in the class of 1880. 
 Upon completing his education, Mr. Jones went 
 to work as clerk in the mercantile establishment 
 of his uncle, N. R. Rutherford, at Milford, and for 
 the next few years devoted his attention to this 
 business. Like many others, however, he had a 
 desire to see California, and this ambition per- 
 sisted so strongly that in 1883 he left his Texas 
 home and went to Los Angeles. He has remained 
 there ever since and is to-day one of the substan- 
 tial business men of the Southwest. 
 
 The day after his arrival in what is now the 
 metropolis of the Southwest, Mr. Jones obtained 
 employment as orange picker and packer for J. C. 
 Sheppard, at Washington Gardens, afterwards 
 
 known as Luna Park. At the conclusion of the 
 orange season he went to work for the Los Angeles 
 Furniture Company in the carpet department, re- 
 maining there for about two years. 
 
 With the knowledge gained in this position and 
 the money he had saved from his earnings, he 
 was able to take a half interest in a carpet estab- 
 lishment, having for his partner one John Bloeser. 
 He was engaged in this business from 1885 to 
 1887, selling out his interest at the latter time to 
 organize the Milwaukee Fur- 
 niture Company. He had for 
 associates in this venture 
 two experienced furniture 
 men and he served as Presi- 
 dent of the concern. He was 
 just well established in this 
 business, however, when he 
 got the oil fever and decided 
 to go into the oil business. 
 He was among the pioneers 
 of the industry in California, 
 beginning operations about 
 the year 1889. In this he 
 was associated with his un- 
 cle, Humboldt Tunstall Mor- 
 ris, the enterprise being 
 known as the Morris-Jones 
 Oil Company, and for many 
 years they were among the 
 leading oil men of Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 In addition to producing 
 petroleum they were engaged 
 in the refining business, be- 
 ing associated with a large 
 refinery at Los Angeles un- 
 der the name of the Hercu- 
 les Refining Company. Mr. 
 Jones was a Director of this company and also 
 acted as President of the Morris-Jones Oil Com- 
 pany, continuing in the oil business with remark- 
 able success for eighteen years, selling out in 1907. 
 Mr. Jones then decided to devote his time to 
 Los Angeles real estate. In 1891, he had purchased, 
 for $1200, a five-acre tract in what is now a thickly 
 populated section of the city. He began by putting 
 this property on the market. He has been an exten- 
 sive operator in real estate ever since, but in ad- 
 dition is President and a heavy stockholder in the 
 Knox Auto & Wagon Manufacturing Co., of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Jones has been an enthusiastic worker for 
 Los Angeles and her upbuilding, and in addition to 
 his own business enterprises, which have formed a 
 part of her development, has aided various public 
 movements. During the early part of his residence 
 in Los Angeles, he was a member of the Eagle 
 Corps, at that time a leading military organization. 
 A home lover he finds his greatest pleasure in the 
 association of his family. 
 
 M. JONES 
 
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 CHARLES F. AXELSON 
 
 XELSON, CHARLES FREDERIC, 
 Machinist and Foundryman, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born at Paxton, 
 111., June 25, 1864. His father was 
 Nels Frederic Axelson and his 
 mother Mary Christen (Magnu- 
 son) Axelson. He married Carrie May Bratton at 
 Topeka, Kan., on Dec. 2, 1885. There are two chil- 
 dren, Delbert F. Axelson and Jule C. Axelson. 
 
 Mr. Axelson attended the public schools of Blue 
 Rapids, Kan., where his parents had moved from 
 Illinois. Up to the time that he was fourteen years 
 of age attended school, finishing grammar grades. 
 During his later school days he put in his spare 
 time herding cattle for ten cents per day. 
 
 Between the ages eleven and thirteen Mr. Axel- 
 son worked in a woolen mill, and at the same time 
 found time for advanced school study. Between the 
 ages of sixteen and nineteen he served as an ap- 
 prentice in the machine shops of Price Brothers of 
 Blue Rapids, Kan. 
 
 After finishing his term as apprentice Mr. Axel- 
 son moved to Leavenworth, Kan., where he worked 
 for some time. Later at Beloit and Topeka, Kan., 
 he was engaged as head foreman for different firms. 
 
 He went to Santa Ana, Cal., where he formed a 
 partnership in the foundry and machine business 
 with his brother, G. A. Axelson, and George Willin- 
 ton as the Acme Iron Works. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Axelson went to Los Angeles, where 
 he opened his present foundry and machine busi- 
 ness, the firm at the present time being the Axel- 
 son Machine Company. 
 
 Mr. Axelson is a member of the Founders and 
 Employers' Association of Los Angeles, and of the 
 National Association of Manufacturers of the 
 United States. He is a member of the Sierra 
 Madre Club and a charter member of the Chamber 
 of Commerce and Merchants and Manufacturers' 
 Association of Los Angeles. 
 
 JONATHAN LANE 
 
 ANE, JONATHAN, Lawyer, Hous- 
 ton, Texas, was born in Fayette 
 County, Texas, October 15, 1855, 
 the son of Rev. Charles Joseph 
 Lane and Ellen E. (Crockett) 
 Lane. On both sides of his house 
 Mr. Lane is descended from notable Texas families. 
 He married Miss Alma Harrison at Flatonia, Texas, 
 December 28, 1880. 
 
 He attended a private school at Oso, Fayette 
 County, and later studied under tutors at home. 
 He remained on the farm until he had attained the 
 age of eighteen, then became clerk and part owner 
 in the general store of Harrison & Lane at Fla- 
 tonia. He remained there until January 1, 1885, 
 and having perfected himself in law during his 
 spare hours, began practice. He still retains his 
 interest in the general store. 
 
 He started in law as a member of the firm of 
 Phelps & Lane, at La Grange, Texas, which part- 
 nership lasted until 1889; for ten years his firm 
 was Brown & Lane. In 1899 he moved to Hous- 
 ton, and there became a member of the firm of 
 Brown, Lane & Granwood, which was dissolved 
 in 1901. He practiced alone for a time, then 
 formed the present firm of Lane, Wolters & Storey. 
 
 Mr. Lane occupies a leading position among 
 the corporation attorneys, besides acting in nu- 
 merous cases for the county. He is also counsel 
 for many insurance, railroad, lumber, rice and trust 
 companies. Is connected with the Union National 
 Bank and Bankers' Trust Company of Houston, 
 Texas, as director and is president of the Guaran- 
 tee Life Insurance Company of Houston. 
 
 From the age of twenty-eight to thirty-two he 
 was a member of the State Senate of Texas. 
 
 Mr. Lane is a prominent Mason, having taken 
 all degrees, and is also a Knight of Pythias, Knight 
 of Honor, member of the A. O. U. W. and the 
 Red Men. 
 
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 331 
 
 J. E. FARNSWORTH 
 
 ARNSWORTH, JOSEPH EAST- 
 
 F MAN, Vice President and Gen- 
 eral Manager Southwestern Tele- 
 graph and Telephone Company, 
 Dallas-, Texas, was born in Man- 
 chester, N. H., January 31, 1862. 
 
 Mr. Farnsworth received his education in the 
 common schools of his native city, but early in 
 youth left his studies and became interested in 
 the telephone business, which he learned in all 
 its details. He worked in various capacities and 
 in 1882 went to Texas, where he entered the em- 
 ploy of the Southwestern Telegraph and Tele- 
 phone Company, which is affiliated with the great 
 Bell Telephone system. He has been with that 
 corporation for the last quarter of a century, and 
 today, as Vice President and General Manager of 
 the company at Dallas, is regarded as one of the 
 ablest men in the telephone business. 
 
 In this position Mr. Farnsworth has taken an 
 active part in the development of the country 
 around Dallas and is one of the most respected 
 business men in that most progressive of Texas 
 cities. He has not confined his activities to Dal- 
 las, however, but is known all over the Lone Star 
 State, having been a conspicuous factor in busi- 
 ness affairs throughout the State for the last fif- 
 teen years or more. 
 
 Under his direction the lines of his company 
 have been greatly extended and the service vastly 
 improved. He has given to that section of Texas 
 a modern system of communication which has 
 aided materially in the development and coloniza- 
 tion of vast stretches of hitherto prairie lands. 
 
 Mr. Farnsworth is a prominent Mason and one 
 of the most enthusiastic members of the Dallas 
 Lodge of Elks, who, by their enterprise, won the 
 1908 national reunion of the Order for the Texas 
 metropolis in competition with other cities at 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 M. P. SNYDER 
 
 NYDER, MEREDITH PINXTON, 
 Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Winston-Salem, N. C., 
 Oct. 22, 1859, the son of K. D. 
 Snyder and Elizabeth (Hire) Sny- 
 der. He married May Ross, Feb. 
 14, 1899, at the Coronado Hotel, San Diego, Cal. 
 Mr. Snyder was educated in the public schools 
 of North Carolina, at the Bethany and Schylo Acad- 
 emy, and at Yadkin College, N. C. Immediately 
 upon leaving Yadkin, in 1880, he went to Los An- 
 geles. In 1891 he was elected Police Commissioner 
 of the city and served until 1894, when he was 
 elected City Councilman. 
 
 He served as Mayor of Los Angeles three times. 
 He held the office during 1897 and 1898, and was 
 again elected in 1900, serving two consecutive 
 terms, and making altogether six years in the office 
 of chief executive of the city. At the end of his 
 third term private affairs prevented his acceptance 
 of another nomination. 
 
 Los Angeles progressed immeasurably while he 
 was Mayor, and many reforms which made a mod- 
 ern city of the Southern California metropolis 
 originated with him. To enumerate these would be 
 almost impossible. One, however, in which he took 
 a great personal interest was the merging of San 
 Pedro and Wilmington, Cal., with Los Angeles, thus 
 giving the latter an outlet to the sea. He was on 
 the committee which brought about the merger. 
 
 Mr. Snyder was a member of the first military 
 organization in Southern California, the Eagle Core 
 Company, and is today one of the leading finan- 
 ciers. He is president of the California Savings 
 Bank, Lomita Land & Water Co., vice president 
 Western Building Investment Co., director Gardena 
 Bank & Trust Co. and the Los Angeles Abstract 
 & Trust Co. He is a Mason, Shriner, Knight Tem- 
 plar, Elk, and member of the Jonathan Club and 
 Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 333 
 
 UBBELL, JOHN LORENZO, Ari- 
 zona State Senator and Indian 
 Trader, Ganado, Apache County. 
 Arizona, was born in Pajanto, 
 New Mexico, November 27, 1853. 
 He is of Danish and Spanish 
 descent, the son of Sentiajo L. Hubbell and Juli- 
 anita (Gutierrez) Hubbell. He married Lina Rubi 
 at St. Johns, Arizona, in June, 1879, and to them 
 there have been born four children, Adela (Mrs. 
 Forrest M. Parker), Barbara (Mrs. Charles Good- 
 man), Lorenzo and Roman Hubbell. The Senator's 
 forbears were men of great fighting qualities; on 
 the paternal side he is a lineal descendant of 
 Danes, who, centuries ago, won part of England 
 from King Alfred the Great; his maternal ances- 
 tors came out of Toledo, Spain, three generations 
 back, and settled in New Mexico. 
 
 Senator Hubbell, who has been a factor in the 
 politics of Arizona for about forty years, is one 
 of the most picturesque men of the Southwest and 
 a living link between the old and the new order of 
 things. He is practically self-educated, his actual 
 schooling having been limited to about nineteen 
 months' attendance at St. Michael's College, Santa 
 Fe, New Mexico, and McFarland's Private School 
 of the same city. 
 
 During the early part of his life he worked with 
 his father, but at the age of eighteen was appoint- 
 ed Assistant Postmaster at Albuquerque, New Mex- 
 ico, and after about a year in that place, went to 
 Santa Fe, where he worked as clerk in the post- 
 office. In march, 1872, he left the Government 
 service and went to work for Henry Reed, post 
 trader at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. Since that 
 time he has spent practically all of his life in deal- 
 ing with the Indians of the Arizona and New Mex- 
 ico tribes. He won the friendship of the Indians 
 and others while managing the Reed store at Fort 
 Wingate and at the end of a year opened another 
 store for his employer at Fort Defiance, Arizona. 
 After conducting this enterprise successfully for 
 about a year, the Senator resigned and rode across 
 the country to Utah, on a horse-buying expedition. 
 During this trip he stopped for a week at the house 
 of John D. Lee, one of the leaders in the Mountain 
 Meadows massacre, which had occurred some years 
 previous to his arrival, and Lee was at the time 
 being sought by the authorities. He later paid the 
 penalty for his participation in the attack on the 
 band of travelers annihilated on the Mountain 
 Meadows, being executed on the spot where the 
 massacre occurred. 
 
 Upon his return to Fort Defiance from Utah, 
 Senator Hubbell sold his horses and took a posi- 
 tion offered him in the Government service as in- 
 terpreter and Superintendent of Labor, a position 
 he held for about three years. Leaving this, he 
 went to Albuquerque and worked for Stober, Mc- 
 Clure & Company, General Merchants. He left this 
 after more than a year and went to a point thirty- 
 
 five miles north of Fort Wingate, on the Navajo In- 
 dian Reservation, where he established the first 
 trading store among the Navajos outside of mili- 
 tary protection. A few years later he purchased 
 a store at Ganado, and two years later went there 
 to manage it, with the result that he has made his 
 home there, with the exception of a few years, 
 ever since. His first store, which was located at 
 Manuelito Springs, in the Chusca Valley, the former 
 being named for Manuelito, the warring Chief of 
 the Navajos, was sold out when he moved to 
 Ganado. 
 
 After six months at this latter place, the Sena- 
 tor felt the need of the civilizing influence of the 
 white man's association, so went to Albuquerque, 
 where, for about a year, he was with Stober, Mc- 
 Clure & Company, as clerk and wool buyer. In 
 1878 the Senator opened a store at St. Johns, Ari- 
 zona, and also became a heavy owner of sheep. 
 He was a large operator in wool and this fact 
 caused him to be a central figure in the war be- 
 tween the cattle and sheepmen of that day, he be- 
 ing the leader of the sheep interests in that section. 
 
 He maintained his store at St. Johns for several 
 years, but closed it out in the late eighties and 
 moved permanently to Ganado, where he makes his 
 headquarters, supplying from there his other four 
 stores, located at different points in the Navajo 
 country. One of these is at Ream's Canyon, Ari- 
 zona, another at Oraibe, Arizona, the third at Cedar 
 Springs, Arizona, and the fourth at Cornfields, Ari- 
 zona. The Senator is known as the greatest Indian 
 trader of the Southwest, but few persons having 
 any definite notion of the amount of business he 
 handles. In the first place, he enjoys the fullest 
 confidence of the Indians and supplies them with 
 clothing, wagons, farm implements, etc., receiving 
 in return blankets, pottery and other handiwork 
 of the Red Men, which he sends to the markets of 
 the civilized world. His principal export is the 
 celebrated Navajo Indian blanket, the magnitude 
 of his operations being indicated by the fact that 
 during the year 1911 he handled more than two 
 million pounds of freight. All of his supplies are 
 freighted by team, owing to the fact that the near- 
 est railroad point is sixty miles from Ganado. The 
 Senator maintains sixty-five head of draft horses 
 and also runs five mail routes. 
 
 During his long career in the political field, Sen- 
 ator Hubbell has been an advocate of justice for 
 the masses and a keen supporter of the Republican 
 party. He was elected Sheriff of Apache County in 
 1884 and served for two years, during which time 
 he was the central figure of one of the most his- 
 toric and dramatic situations in the political his- 
 tory of the United States. Shortly after taking of- 
 fice, he went to visit his store, 100 miles away from 
 the County Seat, and during his absence his polit- 
 ical opponents declared his office vacant and, with 
 the aid of the courts, named another to his office. 
 He was notified of the plan and, after riding 100 
 
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 miles between suns, managed to arrive at his office 
 a few hours before the time for transferring it. 
 
 He knew his opponents had imported a band 
 of heavily-armed desperate gun-men, so called 
 around himself a band of determined men, supe- 
 rior in number to the opposing force. When he 
 appeared in court his men were stationed at the 
 windows and doors; the enemy crowded the court- 
 room. His so-called successor endeavored to as- 
 sume authority, but Sheriff Hubbell stopped him 
 and demanded of the court to know why he had 
 been dispossessed of his office. The Judge offered 
 an explanation unsatisfactory to Hubbell and he 
 delivered an address to the court, based on the fact 
 that he had committed no wrong which would justi- 
 fy his removal and that he could only be removed 
 after a regular trial by a jury of his peers. He 
 then took possession of the court's prisoners and 
 placed them in jail. The next day he served no- 
 tice upon the men imported to aid in his removal 
 that they must quit the town within two hours. 
 This had the desired effect, the men fled and the 
 Senator remained in possession of his office until 
 the expiration of his term. He was a candidate 
 for re-election, but was defeated, owing to a com- 
 bination of various interests opposed to him. 
 
 This is but a mild incident of one of the most 
 exciting chapters in the history of early-day West- 
 ern politics, wherein Senator Hubbell, hundreds of 
 miles from a railroad, maintained peace and order 
 against tremendous odds. He was a minus figure 
 in politics for several years after leaving the Sher- 
 iff's office, but in 1893 had won back his previous 
 support and was elected to the Territorial Council 
 of Arizona, which corresponds to a State Senate. 
 He served one term and then returned to his busi- 
 ness, although he continued as an active factor in 
 the politics of his county. 
 
 He was a candidate for Delegate to the Consti- 
 tutional Convention in 1910, at which the basic law 
 of the State of Arizona was drafted, but was de- 
 feated by four votes. In the first general election 
 the following year, however, he ran for the Senate 
 and was elected over the man who had previously 
 defeated him, thus gaining the honor of being one 
 of the first Senators of the new State. He took 
 office February 14, 1912, and has been the leader 
 of the minority in the Legislature since, winning 
 numerous victories despite the great odds against 
 him. 
 
 During his long career in public life the Sen- 
 ator has been a persistent worker for the advance- 
 ment of his State and the people within its borders. 
 In his first term as a Senator he fathered and car- 
 ried to successful issue the law providing water 
 protection for the farmers of the State and in the 
 present session has championed all worthy legis- 
 lation, regardless of party, having for its object the 
 alleviation of the condition of the poor man. Being 
 of Spanish extraction himself, he has at all times 
 been a fighter for the interests of the Mexican cit- 
 
 izens of Arizona and made a brilliant fight against 
 the retention of the educational qualification, which 
 meant disfranchisement for thousands of voters to 
 whom English educational advantages had been de- 
 nied. 
 
 The Senator is at the present time Chairman of 
 the Republican State Central Committee and for 
 many years has been one of the most influential 
 men in the affairs of the party in the Southwest. 
 
 In the contest of the Taft and Roosevelt forces 
 in the State Convention, preceding the National Re- 
 publican Convention, of 1912, he won the delegation 
 for the former after one of the most remarkable 
 campaigns against overwhelming odds ever known 
 to the party. He was chosen a member of the 
 Arizona Delegation to the Chicago Convention that 
 year and also went as a Delegate to Philadelphia 
 in 1900, when the immortal McKinley and Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt were nominated for President and 
 Vice President, respectively. 
 
 At the Convention of 1912, it will be remem- 
 bered, there were numerous contesting delegations 
 and the deciding of these contests resulted in the 
 withdrawing of the Roosevelt forces from the Con- 
 vention and the subsequent organization of the 
 Bull Moose party, which named Roosevelt and 
 Johnson for President and Vice President. 
 
 Senator Hubbell supported the Taft cause from 
 first to last and was active in the President's be- 
 half all during the remarkable campaign. In recog- 
 nition of his victory at the State Convention, Presi- 
 dent Taft caused to be sent to Senator Hubbell a 
 personal telegram of congratulation. 
 
 Senator Hubbell is a man of boundless gener- 
 osity, and humanitarianism is one of his chief char- 
 acteristics. This has been shown at various times 
 in his career, particularly in seeking justice for the 
 Indian and the Spanish-Americans of Arizona. He 
 has appeared before Congressional Committees on 
 various occasions in behalf of these peoples and 
 has secured for them just treatment in land and 
 other legislation. 
 
 An indication of the tenacity of purpose and 
 determination which are marked characteristics 
 of the Senator is presented in the fact that he 
 labored before Congress for twenty-four years in 
 the effort to get a bill passed giving him a patent 
 to the land on which his home stands at Ganado. 
 It is located almost in the center of the Navajo 
 Indian Reservation and the Government was loath 
 to give him possession. Owing to the facts that he 
 had done so much for the country and its people, 
 however, and had developed the land, installed ir- 
 rigation, etc., a special bill was finally passed 
 granting him the patent as a reward for his work. 
 
 The Senator has so devoted his life to business 
 and affairs of State that he has little time for social 
 or fraternal organizations and consequently does 
 not figure in club circles. His only affiliation is 
 with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
 of which he is a life member. 
 
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 UNT, MYRON, Architect, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born on 
 February 27, 1868, at Sunderland, 
 Massachusetts, his parents being 
 Myron Hunt, ST., and Hannah 
 (Miller) Hunt. In 1893 he mar- 
 ried Miss Harriette H. Boardman. Three sons and 
 a daughter have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. 
 
 After completing the course of the grammar 
 schools in Chicago, where the family early removed, 
 and graduating at the Lake 
 View High School. Mr. 
 Hunt attended the North- 
 western University for two 
 years with the Class of 1892, 
 from which school he went 
 to the Massachusetts Insti- 
 tute of Technology, taking 
 the special course in 
 architecture. After com- 
 pleting the special architec- 
 tural course at the Institute, 
 Mr. Hunt went to Europe, 
 and during 1895 and 1896, by 
 actual view and study of the 
 great architectural monu- 
 ments, further prepared him- 
 self for the important works 
 which were to come to him. 
 
 In the beginning of his ca- 
 reer Mr. Hunt served as 
 draughtsman, first for Hart- 
 well and Richardson, archi- 
 tects, of Boston, entering 
 this work in 1894. In a sim- 
 ilar capacity he worked for 
 Jenny and Mundie; for 
 Henry Ives Cobb, and for 
 Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, 
 all well known Chicago firms, 
 between the years 1897 and 
 1899, when the young man 
 found himself in such posi- 
 tion that he felt justified 
 in starting out for him- 
 self and he began an independent practice in Chi- 
 cago. This continued from 1899 until 1903, during 
 which period Mr. Hunt made a specialty of apart- 
 ments and residences. In 1903 he moved from 
 Chicago to Los Angeles as a result of illness in his 
 family. In 1904 he formed a business partnership 
 with Mr. Elmer Grey, who had come to Los An- 
 geles from Milwaukee. This partnership was dis- 
 solved in October, 1910. The result of its work 
 can be found in remarkably frequent and varying 
 works of beauty and practical adaptability. 
 
 Instances of these achievements are: The Den- 
 Jian warehouses in San Francisco; additions to 
 the Mary Lamb Hotel in Pasadena; the Ingraham 
 Hotel of Los Angeles; the remodeled Casa Loma 
 Hotel in Redlands; and of particular moment, the 
 residence of H. E. Huntington, on his property for- 
 merly known as the Shorb Ranch, adjacent to Pas- 
 adena; this structure is possibly the most ambi- 
 tious and complete private residence in the State, 
 and is a worthy setting for the varied art treasures 
 which its owner is installing in it. 
 
 Other most delightful residences erected by the 
 firm of Hunt and Grey are those of Messrs. How- 
 ard E. Huntington at Oak Knoll; H. S. McKee, 
 Monrovia; Lee Phillips, Los Angeles; Walter 
 
 MYRON HUNT 
 
 Leeds, Los Angeles; G. W. Wattles, Hollywood; 
 Dr. Guy Cochran, Los Angeles; E. M. Neustadt, 
 Los Angeles; G. W. Winter, Los Angeles; R. C. 
 Gillis, Santa Monica; L. A. Nares, Beverly; H. W. 
 Bailey, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena; Dr. Web- 
 ster Merrifield, in the same locality; John J. 
 Mitchell, Pasadena; S. P. Calef, Santa Barbara. 
 The erection of the Gillespie Villa, Santa Bar- 
 bara, was also superintended by this firm for New 
 York architects. 
 
 The firm also designed 
 the Throop Polytechnic In- 
 stitute buildings, in Pasa- 
 dena, and the dormitory for 
 Pomona College. 
 
 Since the dissolution of 
 the firm Mr. Hunt has under- 
 taken the erection of the en- 
 tire group of buildings for 
 Occidental College, and is 
 completing the unfinished 
 Throop Institute buildings. 
 He is also finishing for the 
 dissolved firm residences for 
 E. M. Taylor, Altadena, and 
 for E. F. Robbins, Oak Knoll, 
 and the First Congregational 
 Church at Riverside. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is also official 
 architect for Pomona College, 
 Occidental College, Whittier 
 College, the George Junior 
 Republic and the Hotel Mary- 
 land. 
 
 He is also erecting from 
 his own designs notable resi- 
 dences for Russell Taylor in 
 Los Angeles; for John P. 
 Wilson, Pasadena, and has 
 under way at this writing the 
 home for the Elks' Order at 
 Pasadena and a residence for 
 former U. S. Senator Thomas 
 R. Bard at Oxnard. 
 
 The result of Mr. Hunt's 
 
 having been one of the architects of Mr. H. E. Hunt- 
 ington's now famous San Gabriel Valley residence 
 has been his recent appointment as architect for 
 the preparation of the drawings looking toward the 
 improvement of an entire city square measuring 
 600 feet in each direction, at Main St., Eleventh 
 St., Twelfth St. and Hill St., in Los Angeles, owned 
 by Mr. Huntington, upon a portion of which Mr. 
 Hunt is about to erect for Mr. Huntington a twelve- 
 story fireproof steel office building, for the use of 
 Mr. Huntington's various corporations and sub-cor- 
 porations and for the purpose of ordinary office 
 rental. The building, measuring 200 feet square, is 
 a part of a group of buildings of such importance 
 that they are destined to become the nucleus of 
 one of the main business centers of the city. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is the author of numerous architec- 
 tural magazine articles on the subjects of apart- 
 ments and also on gardens. 
 
 He is a Fellow of American Institute of Archi- 
 tects ('08), president of the Architectural Club of 
 Los Angeles and one of the ex-presidents of the 
 Southern California Chapter of the American Insti- 
 tute of Architects. He is a member of the Califor- 
 nia Club, University Club, Gamut Club, Architec- 
 tural Club, Valley Hunt, Twilight and Tuna Clubs. 
 
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 AW, DR. H A R T L A N D, 
 
 President of the Viavi Com- 
 pany, Inc., San Francisco, 
 Cal., was born near Sheffield, 
 England, July 7, 1858, son of 
 Crossley Law and Rebecca (Brown) Law. 
 In 1866 his parents brought him to Chicago, 
 Illinois, where, in December, 1884, he was 
 married to Miss Ada Ward. The children of 
 this marriage are Harold 
 Ward and Hubert Ed- 
 ward Law. 
 
 He attended the public 
 schools of Chicago, 
 Northwestern College at 
 Naperville, 1879-89, and 
 the old Chicago Univer- 
 sity, 1881-92, paying his 
 way through college by 
 selling sub scription 
 books. He was graduated 
 from Hahnemann Medi- 
 cal College, San Francis- 
 co, in 1893. 
 
 In 1884 Hartland Law 
 and his brother, H. E. 
 Law, came to San Fran- 
 cisco and engaged in the 
 publishing business under 
 the firm name of Law, 
 King & Law. Subse- 
 quently the firm moved to 
 Chicago and purchased 
 the control of the West- 
 ern Publishing Company, 
 but disposed of this a lit- 
 tle later. 
 
 DR. HARTLAND LAW 
 
 an interesting ceremonial event. He was 
 also a member of the original committee of 
 the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 
 tion, as well as of the finance committee that 
 raised the money to secure it, and it was 
 largely through the efforts of the Law Broth- 
 ers that the Harbor View section was made 
 possible as a site for Exposition. 
 
 Dr. Law was a member of the oringinal 
 Greater San Francisco 
 committee; he represent- 
 ed the Merchants' Asso- 
 ciation on the committee 
 that secured the high- 
 pressure water system 
 for San Francisco. He 
 built the Crossley build- 
 ing. Seventeen days be- 
 fore the earthquake and 
 fire he and his brother, 
 H. E. Law, exchanged 
 the Crossley and Rialto 
 buildings and other prop- 
 erty for the Fairmount 
 Hotel, at that time un- 
 completed. The fire add- 
 ed nearly two million dol- 
 lars to the cost of comple- 
 tion. The opening of this 
 hostelry was celebrated 
 on the first anniversary 
 of the fire by the most 
 numerously attended ban- 
 quet ever served in a San 
 Francisco hotel. Later 
 they exchanged back f he 
 Fairmount with Mrs. 
 
 In 1886 Dr. Law and H. E. Law returned 
 to San Francisco, and here they originated 
 and developed the Viavi System of Treat- 
 ment, in connection with which they have 
 built up the world-wide business of The 
 Viavi Company, Inc. Both Dr. Law and his 
 brother regard Viavi The Viavi System of 
 Treatment, a high development of domestic 
 medication as their greatest achievement 
 and the most essential part of their own de- 
 velopment and career. 
 
 While Dr. Law has made Viavi his life 
 work, he has been active in public and quasi- 
 public matters. He was one of the organiz- 
 ers of the First Baptist Church of Berkeley, 
 served a number of years as a director of the 
 San Francisco Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation and was chairman of the finance com- 
 mittee that paid off the debt on the old As- 
 sociation building, the burning of the mort- 
 gage on which by President Roosevelt wns 
 
 Herman Oelrichs, acquiring in the exchange 
 twelve blocks of land adjoining the Fort Ma- 
 son military reservation, for which they have 
 planned extensive harbor improvements 
 Since the fire, also, Dr. Law has built a resi 
 dence in Presidio Terrace, the Alder Sanitc- 
 rium building, has rebuilt the Rialto, and 
 with his brother, has built the Viavi build- 
 ing, on Pine street. All of these are costly 
 buildings and architecturally are ornaments 
 of San Francisco. Dr. Law is one of those 
 men who has thrown every dollar of his 
 means into the reconstruction of the Bay 
 City, as much out of loyalty as for reasons of 
 investment, and his faith has been justified. 
 He has been president of the Presidio 
 Golf Club, is now president of the San Fran- 
 cisco Tunnel Association, Presidio Terrace 
 Association, director of the Merchants' As- 
 sociation, a member of the Union League, 
 and a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
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 ETTEBONE, HENRY 
 
 WELLS, Manufacturing, Los 
 angeles, Cal., was born at 
 Dorancetown, Pa., September 
 4, 1860. He is the son of Ja- 
 cob Sharpes Pettebone and Sarah (William- 
 son) Pettebone. He married Bertha R. Web- 
 ber, since deceased, at Los Angeles, Cal., 
 March 15, 1899. 
 
 He is a direct descendant of John Pette- 
 bone, a French Hugue- 
 
 not, who fled the massa- 
 cre of St. Bartholomew in 
 the Seventeenth century ; 
 first settled in England, 
 and later, in 1660, crossed 
 the Atlantic and made his 
 home at Windsor, Conn. 
 There, four years later, he 
 married Sarah Eggleston. 
 Subsequently he moved to 
 Simsburg, Conn., where 
 he reared a large family. 
 One of his sons, Noah, 
 went to Pennsylvania in 
 1769, settling in the Wy- 
 oming Valley; two other 
 sons were killed in Indian 
 massacres. 
 
 He was educated in the 
 public schools of Pennsyl- 
 vania. He also studied in 
 the Wyoming Commer- 
 cial College until the 
 spring of 1878, when he 
 graduated. 
 
 Shortly after leaving 
 the college he was com- 
 
 H. W. PETTEBONE 
 
 facturing, and warehouses were soon neces- 
 sary to house the stocks. At the present 
 time the firm is one of the leaders in its 
 line in the Southwest, with a manufactur- 
 ing and wholesale trade of a large volume, 
 in addition to its retail trade stores in the 
 city of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Pettebone was president of the com- 
 pany from its organization until August 1, 
 1910, when poor health forced him to resign. 
 He is still, however, hold- 
 ing the position of secre- 
 tary, an office where his 
 duties are not very ardu- 
 ous. He is considered 
 in Los Angeles one of 
 its most successful busi- 
 ness men, and one of the 
 men who, in a manufac- 
 turing sense, have placed 
 that city on the map of 
 the world. 
 
 He joined the United 
 Commercial Travelers in 
 1895, at Fort Worth, Tex., 
 and he has maintained his 
 membership to the pres- 
 ent time. 
 
 His firm holds mem- 
 bership in the Merchants 
 and Manufacturers' Asso- 
 ciation, a powerful organ- 
 ization of the business 
 men of Los Angeles, who 
 sway public opinion and 
 legislation. 
 
 He is also a member 
 of the Chamber of Com- 
 
 pelled to move to Colorado for his health. 
 He obtained employment with the firm of R. 
 Douglas and Company as traveling salesman, 
 and remained with them, with his headquar- 
 ters in Denver, until the year 1889. 
 
 In that year he resigned to become trav- 
 eling salesman for the St. Louis Glass and 
 Queensware Company. He was assigned to 
 the Southwestern territory. In this position 
 he continued to work until June 17, 1897, 
 when he took up his permanent residence at 
 Los Angeles, California. 
 
 In that city he was first employed by the 
 W. G. Hutchison Company, manufacturers 
 of gas and electric fixtures. In their employ- 
 ment he worked until November, 1901, when 
 he became one of the organizers of the Forve- 
 Pettebone Company, gas and electric fixture 
 retailers. 
 
 This partnership prospered in the ensuing 
 years. To the retail trade was added manu- 
 
 merce, and is always in line with the pro- 
 gressives of that enterprising public body. 
 The Municipal League, which is deeply in- 
 terested in clean politics and in the general 
 welfare of Los Angeles, is another outlet for 
 his public spirit. 
 
 He is an owner of property in Los An- 
 geles and has invested his spare capital in 
 local enterprises. He is a firm believer in the 
 future greatness of his city. 
 
 He has a summer home at Venice, the 
 nearest beach to Los Angeles, and spends 
 the greater part of the year at that residen- 
 tial resort. He is a great enthusiast on the 
 subject of surf bathing, and in his fight for 
 health has become a great devotee of swim- 
 ming and outdoor sports in general. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club, 
 life member of the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club, a Mason, a Knight Templar and a 
 Shriner. 
 
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 339 
 
 HAPPELL, DELOS ALLEN, Civil 
 Engineer and Capitalist, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in Wil- 
 liamson, Wayne County, New 
 York, April 29, 1846, the son of 
 Allen Darwin Chappell and Lydia 
 DeLano (Hart) Chappell. He married Miss May C. 
 Hastings at Trinidad, Colorado, December 19, 1883, 
 and to them there were born two children, Jean 
 Louise and Delos Allen Chappell, Jr. 
 
 The record of Mr. Chappell's ancestors is rich 
 in historical data, the various generations having 
 been represented in the Revolutionary, Mexican 
 and Civil Wars. The founder of the family in 
 America was George Chappell of London, England, 
 who came over in the ship "Christian" in the 
 spring of 1634. He located at Windsor, Connecti- 
 cut, but moved in 1649 to New London, Connecti- 
 cut, where one branch of the family still resides. 
 The paternal grandmother of Mr. Chappell was 
 Betsy Allen, niece of Colonel Ethan Allen, a Ver- 
 monter whose achievements in the Revolutionary 
 War form one of the most stirring chapters in 
 American history. Mr. Chappell's father was born 
 in Vermont, but later moved to New York State, 
 where he was a prosperous farmer and held a com- 
 mission as Captain under Governor William H. 
 Seward of that State. He died in 1899 in his eighty- 
 fourth year. 
 
 Mr. Chappell's wife was also descended of 
 Colonial stock, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo 
 Hastings, formerly of Lexington, Massachusetts. 
 Nineteen of her relatives were among the historic 
 "Minute Men" in the first battle of the Revolution, 
 fought on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775. Mrs. 
 Chappell died July 8, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Chappell, looked upon as one of the factors 
 in the industrial growth of the country west of 
 the Rockies, spent his boyhood on a farm in Michi- 
 gan, whither his family had moved from New York. 
 He attended a public school in the vicinity of 
 Kalamazoo, Michigan, until he was fourteen years 
 of age, then went to Olivet College, where he pre- 
 pared for entrance to the University of Michigan. 
 He enrolled in the University in 1866 and studied 
 there two terms, when he was compelled to give 
 up his college work and remain on his father's 
 farm, the elder Chappell having been incapacitated 
 through an accident. 
 
 For the next five years Mr. Chappell managed 
 the farm, but kept up his studies at home, and in 
 1873 had affairs in such shape that he was able 
 to go to Chicago, Illinois, and engage in business. 
 He began as an Engineer and Contractor and for 
 several years enjoyed unusual success, his work 
 taking him to various parts of the Middle West, 
 and on some occasions, into New England. 
 
 In 1879 at the behest of the citizens of Trinidad, 
 Colorado, Mr. Chappell made his first trip to the 
 then far West. He began operations by building, 
 from his own plans and with his own resources, 
 the first water works system of Trinidad, and 
 through this gave a great impetus to building in 
 that place. He spent much time in Colorado during 
 the next few years and became so impressed with 
 the promise of the country that in 1883, after ten 
 years of successful operation in Chicago, he closed 
 his offices in the latter place and moved to Trini- 
 dad. Since that time he has been an active and 
 important factor in business in the western part 
 of the United States. 
 
 One of his earliest ventures was the purchase 
 of a quarter interest in the First National Bank of 
 
 Trinidad, and about the same time he became in- 
 terested in coal and coke development in Southern 
 Colorado. Later, Mr. Chappell was one of a group 
 of financiers who acquired about thirty thousand 
 acres of coal lands, divided among several mines 
 located in Las Animas, Huerfano and Fremont 
 Counties. These were later merged under the name 
 of the Victor Fuel Company, and Mr. Chappell be- 
 came one of the directing forces of the corporation. 
 The headquarters of the company were located in 
 Denver and Mr. Chappell, after disposing of the 
 Trinidad Water Works to the city, moved his home 
 to the Colorado capital. 
 
 In Denver as in Trinidad, Mr. Chappell soon 
 became known as one of the progressive business 
 men and the Victor Fuel Company was considered 
 the largest enterprise of its kind in the State. Mr. 
 Chappell first located in Denver in 1898, and four 
 years later, in the middle of the year 1902, organ- 
 ized the Capitol National Bank. He was associated 
 with H. J. Alexander in this venture. 
 
 In 1905 after more than twenty years of active 
 business life in Colorado, Mr. Chappell decided to 
 take a long rest, and in order to be absolutely free 
 from business cares, sold his interest in the Victor 
 Fuel Company to John C. Osgood, a noted Colorado 
 financier known as one of the "Big Four" of the 
 Colorado Fuel & Iron Company group of capitalists. 
 Going at once to Europe, Mr. Chappell traveled for 
 two years, returning to Denver in 1907. 
 
 Shortly after his return Mr. Chappell was 
 elected President of the Nevada-California Power 
 Company and the Hydro-Electric Company, and for 
 the last five years has devoted himself almost ex- 
 clusively to the affairs of these companies, which 
 are engaged in electric light and power projects 
 of great magnitude in Nevada and Southern Cali- 
 fornia. These companies, since their formation, 
 have constructed various long-distance high-power 
 transmission lines supplying light and power to 
 Goldfield, Rawhide, and other parts of Nevada, and 
 now has in course of construction, through the 
 Southern Sierras Power Company, a subsidiary, a 
 high-voltage transmission line from Bishop to San 
 Bernardino, California. This line, two hundred and 
 forty miles in length, is at this writing, the longest 
 of its kind in the world and Mr. Chappell, as one 
 of the executive forces and engineering experts of 
 the company, has had a large part in its planning 
 and building. 
 
 In order to be closer to the base of operations 
 on the Bishop-San Bernardino line, Mr. Chappell 
 moved his offices to Los Angeles in 1911 and has 
 been there almost continuously since. Prior to 
 that, he had been accusomed to spend a part of 
 each year in Southern California, although he main- 
 tained his permanent residence in Denver. 
 
 Mr. Chappell has other interests outside of the 
 power companies and devotes to them a part of his 
 time and energies. Although he is past sixty-six 
 years of age, Mr. Chappell still devotes many hours 
 a day to his business and performs his duties with 
 the same vim and decision as characterized his 
 efforts at the outset of his business career in Colo- 
 rado. He is generally regarded as one of the au- 
 thorities in practical engineering and in the man- 
 agement of his various corporations has been noted 
 for his unusual executive ability and faculty for 
 organization. 
 
 Mr. Chappell is a member of various organiza- 
 tions in the West, including the Denver Club, Den- 
 ver Country Club, and the Santa Barbara (Cal.) 
 Country Club. 
 
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 ANKERSHIM, COLONEL 
 JAMES BOON, Capitalist, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Charleston, Mo., March 24, 
 1850. His father was Isaac 
 Lankershim, a native of Bavaria, and his 
 mother Annis L. (Moore) Lankershim. Isaac 
 Lankershim was one of the early land holders 
 of California and on settling there in 1860 se- 
 cured some of the finest 
 ranching lands in that 
 State. Colonel Lanker- 
 shim married Caroline A. 
 Jones at Los Angeles in 
 1881. Of the union there 
 are John I. and Doria 
 Constance Lankershim. 
 
 Colonel Lankershim spent 
 his early boyhood in his 
 native State, and at the 
 age of ten moved with his 
 father to San Francisco, 
 where the latter became 
 engaged in land enter- 
 prises. His early educa- 
 tion was obtained in the 
 public and high schools 
 and in the Collegiate 
 School of San Francisco, 
 from which he graduated. 
 Upon finishing his stud- 
 ies, Colonel Lankershim 
 took charge of one of his 
 father's ranches, located 
 near Fresno, consisting of 
 15,000 acres. He contin- 
 ued in the capacity of 
 manager of that ranch for one year, conduct- 
 ing general farming and the raising of live- 
 stock. In 1870 he left Fresno to take charge of 
 the "El Cahone Rancho," located near San Die- 
 go. This wonderful grant had approximately 
 48,000 acres of land, which Colonel Lankershim 
 utilized for grazing his stock. 
 
 In 1872 he moved to Los Angeles, where he 
 has since made his permanent home. On his 
 arrival in that city he took charge of the Lan- 
 kershim holdings known as the famous "San 
 Fernando Rancho," covering 60,000 acres in 
 the San Fernando Valley. 
 
 In 1885 he built the beautiful Lankershim 
 residence in Los Angeles. He still managed 
 the "San Fernando Rancho," but devoted his 
 time largely to the Los Angeles property. Two 
 years later he made the first sub-division of the 
 San Fernando Rancho, cutting off 12,000 acres 
 into smaller tracts. He held the remaining 
 48,000 acres of land until 1910, when the fam- 
 
 COL. J. B. LANKERSHIM 
 
 ily estate was divided, and sold it at that time 
 to the Lankershim- Van Nuys Land Company, 
 which is today sub-dividing and selling in 
 smaller tracts. 
 
 Being a successful business man and a pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen, his arrival in Los Angeles 
 City was a step forward in the business life of 
 that place. In 1886 he was elected President 
 of the Main Street Savings Bank, and contin- 
 ued in that office until his 
 retirement in 1900. In 
 1890 he erected the Lan- 
 kershim Building, Third 
 and Spring Streets, in 
 which he still retains of- 
 fices. He organized the 
 Los Angeles Farming and 
 Milling Company, and in 
 1905 built the beautiful 
 Lankershim Hotel, which 
 stands today as one of the 
 finest hotels in Southern 
 California. He erected 
 the San Fernando Build- 
 ing in 1908, and three 
 years later added two 
 stories to this structure. 
 
 In 1907 Colonel Lanker- 
 shim was elected President 
 of the Bank of Southern 
 California, but resigned 
 two years later to look 
 after his private affairs. 
 He has been endeavoring 
 to retire since 1900, and 
 now devotes his time to 
 little other than his exten- 
 sive private interests. He was Park Commis- 
 sioner of Los Angeles under Mayor M. P. 
 Snyder, and was a Los Angeles delegate to 
 Washington in the interest of San Pedro Har- 
 bor. He organized the Los Angeles Cavalry 
 Troop under Governor Gage and was ap- 
 pointed Captain of that organization. Under 
 Governor Pardee he was made Colonel of the 
 Staff of the National Guard of California. 
 
 He has toured the world on several occa- 
 sions, and has spent much of his time of late 
 years in London, Paris and Berlin. He is 
 well informed on the antique mosques of 
 India and the ruins of Greece and Rome, 
 having made them a serious study. 
 
 Colonel Lankershim is a member of the Cal- 
 ifornia, Jonathan, Union League and Los An- 
 geles Athletic Clubs of Los Angeles and the 
 Bohemian and Union League Clubs of San 
 Francisco; 32d degree Mason, also member 
 Gamut and Ellis Clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ETSON, WIL'LIAM 
 HENRY, Lawyer, San Fran- 
 cisco, Cal., was born in that 
 city, March 18, 1863, the son 
 of John E. Metson and Eliza- 
 beth Wigglesworth (Fanning) Metson. His 
 paternal American ancestors were Quakers, 
 while on the maternal side he is of combined 
 Irish and German descent. In April, 1893, 
 he was married, in San 
 Francisco, to Miss Jose- 
 phine Kercheval, and is 
 the father of Wilfred 
 Graham Metson. 
 
 For a while he attend- 
 ed the public schools of 
 San Francisco, but when 
 very young moved to 
 Virginia City, Nevada, 
 where he entered the Gold 
 Hill High School. In 
 1879, at the age of six- 
 teen, he went to Bodie 
 and began the study of 
 the law in the office of 
 the Hon. Patrick Reddy. 
 When the latter opened 
 offices in San Francisco 
 Mr. Metson accompanied 
 him, and while continu- 
 ing his studies under Mr. 
 Reddy's direction he also 
 became a student in the 
 Hastings College of the 
 Law, from which he was 
 graduated in 1886. Im- 
 mediately thereafter he 
 began the practice of his profession in Mr. 
 Reddy's offices. 
 
 In November, 1889, Mr. Metson became 
 a member of the firm of Reddy, Campbell & 
 Metson, and until 1900 was an active partner 
 of this successful combination. During these 
 years, although he sought no political prefer- 
 ment, he was honored by appointments under 
 both Democratic and Republican Governors. 
 He was Yosemite Park Commissioner under 
 Governors Budd, Gage and Pardee. Subse- 
 quently he was President of the San Fran- 
 cisco Park Commission, through the adminis- 
 trations of various mayors, and still holds 
 this position. During these years also he 
 was a lieutenant in the National Guard. 
 
 His reputation as a successful mining 
 lawyer created a demand for his services in 
 the extensive litigation that followed the 
 opening of the Nome gold fields, and in the 
 spring of 1900 he went to Alaska. There he 
 
 W. H. METSON 
 
 not only acquired valuable mining interests, 
 but also helped to make history as the lead- 
 ing counsel for the Pioneer Mining Company 
 in the famous -cases that grew out of the at- 
 tempt of some politicians, headed by Alex- 
 ander McKenzie, to defraud the holders of 
 certain claims of their property. His decision 
 and firmness, especially in rejecting all over- 
 tures for a compromise, had much to do 
 with the ultimate tri- 
 umph of his clients. 
 
 Since this experience 
 in Alaska Mr. Metson 
 has considerably enlarged 
 his field of operations and 
 established a reputation 
 not only as an able law- 
 yer but also as a success- 
 ful financier. His mining 
 interests include valuable 
 holdings in California, 
 Nevada, Washington and 
 Alaska. Beyond this he 
 has branched into farm- 
 ing and agriculture, and 
 as principal owner of the 
 Goetjen - Metson Com- 
 pany he is possessor of 
 rich farm lands on the 
 Sacramento River, sup- 
 plying asparagus, beans 
 and other vegetables to 
 the markets of the world. 
 Through the various 
 changes of the firm's title 
 he has retained his part- 
 nership, until today he is 
 senior member of the present firm of Metson, 
 Drew & McKenzie. Conspicuous among his 
 celebrated cases was his defense of ex-Mayor 
 Schmitz, during the so-called "graft prosecu- 
 tion," and it was largely through his efforts 
 that the indictments against Schmitz were 
 declared invalid. 
 
 His extensive financial, as well as legal 
 connections, have led to directorships in a 
 number of important corporations in and out 
 of the State, among the latter of which may 
 be mentioned the Scandinavian Bank of 
 Seattle. Like other active men, he has his 
 hobbies and recreations. Horses, riding, fish- 
 ing and hunting are chief among these, and 
 in the pursuit of the last mentioned he is a 
 member of a number of gun clubs. His other 
 clubs are the Pacific-Union, Bohemian and 
 Union League of San Francisco. He is also 
 a past president, as well as a past grand trus- 
 tee, of the Native Sons of the Golden West. 
 
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 ANZIGER, JAKE MORRIS, 
 Attorney and Oil Operator, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in New York City, May 
 7, 1882. His father was Mor- 
 ris Danziger and his mother Lena (Mendel- 
 son) Danziger. At Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 July 25, 1900, he married Daisy C. Canfield, 
 by which marriage there are two children, 
 
 Daisy Canfield and Beth 
 
 Chloe Danziger. 
 
 M r. Danziger was 
 taken to Los Angeles, 
 California, when he was 
 one year old and obtained 
 his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of that city, 
 later taking a course at 
 the Los Angeles Poly- 
 technic High School. He 
 studied law at the Uni- 
 versity of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 After further studies 
 in law he was admitted to 
 the Bar in Los Angeles, 
 October, 1903, when he 
 immediately went into 
 practice for himself, and 
 since that time has be- 
 come one of the most 
 prominent corporation at- 
 torneys on the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 In 1905, Mr. Danziger 
 became associated as 
 counsel with a coterie of 
 
 J. M. DANZIGER 
 
 oil and petroleum men and now is one of the 
 most important factors in that line in the 
 Southwest. He is associated with C. A. Can- 
 field, E. L. Doheny, Dr. Norman Bridge and 
 others, whose names are linked with the dis- 
 covery and development of oil fields, both in 
 Southern California and in old Mexico. 
 
 His first work was in the Golden State as 
 legal adviser for C. A. Canfield. When Mr. 
 Canfield and his associate turned their money 
 into Mexico, for the development of the large 
 properties of the Mexican Petroleum Com- 
 pany, he became interested with them. The 
 operations in Mexico cover a wide range of 
 territory and the properties are regarded as 
 some of the best investments in the repub- 
 lic of the South. Another important en- 
 terprise controlled by these men is the 
 Mexican National Gas Company, of Mex- 
 ico City, the corporation having installed 
 a modern gas plant in the capital city, 
 
 which now furnishes all the gas used there. 
 These properties represent investments of 
 millions of dollars. It would seem that these 
 works alone would be enough to keep a man 
 busy, but Mr. Danziger is one of the kind 
 that thrives on hard work and he counts 
 among his activities nearly a score of cor- 
 porations. 
 
 In 1906 he was made counsel for the oil 
 department of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad, retaining his 
 position with them until 
 1909, when he resigned to 
 devote his entire attenv 
 tion to the furtherance of 
 the companies in which he 
 was interested. 
 
 Mr. Danziger became 
 the manager of the Land 
 Department of the Amer- 
 ican Oilfields Company on 
 its organization and has 
 since been interested 
 largely in that company. 
 He also looks after the 
 legal phases of the com- 
 pany's business. 
 
 His work at the pres- 
 ent time is entirely in the 
 interest of oil and petrol- 
 eum corporations ; the 
 American Oilfields Com- 
 pany, the Mexican Petrol- 
 eum Company, and the 
 National Oil and Gypsum 
 Company being among 
 the prominent ones. He 
 
 is manager of the Land Department and a di- 
 rector in the first named company, is a direc- 
 tor in the Herastein Petroleum Company, 
 manager of the Bankers' Oil Company, presi- 
 dent of both the Ruby and Opal Oil Compa- 
 nies, is the treasurer of the Jade Oil Compa- 
 ny, and a director in the Mexican National 
 Gas Company. He is also treasurer of the 
 Sapphire Oil Company. 
 
 Interested as he is in so many progres- 
 sive concerns, it is a natural sequence that 
 Mr. Danziger should be regarded as one of 
 the upbuilders of the Southwest. He has 
 aided materially in any movement that had 
 for its object the betterment of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Danziger is a member of the L. A. 
 Athletic Club, the Sierra Madre Country 
 Club, is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second 
 degree, and a member of the Elks Lodge No. 
 99. He is a Shriner and is a Republican in 
 politics. 
 
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 343 
 
 EARSON, BENJAMIN 
 FRANKLIN, General Super- 
 intendent of the California 
 Edison Company, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Middlesex County, England, September 19, 
 1868, a descendant of the distinguished old 
 Pearson family of Salopia. His father was 
 Benjamin Pearson and his mother Sarah 
 Louis (Maile) Pearson. 
 He married Florence 
 Louise Wyatt at Red- 
 lands, California, July 30, 
 1892, by which union 
 there are two sons, Harols 
 Benjamin and Robert 
 Rolland Pearson. 
 
 Mr. Pearson was edu- 
 cated in St. Mary's 
 School, of Cowley, and 
 the Uxbridge Grammar 
 School, England. 
 
 At the age of fourteen 
 years Mr. Pearson was 
 apprenticed to the Grand 
 Junction Company of 
 England as a steam en- 
 gineer and fitter. He 
 made a study of steam 
 and mechanical engineer- 
 ing and at the early age of 
 eighteen years held a ma- 
 rine license under the 
 London Board of Exam- 
 iners. He remained in 
 England until he was 
 twenty years of age, 
 when he decided to cross the Atlantic with 
 the determination to build a career in the 
 United States. 
 
 During one and a half years he followed 
 various occupations throughout Europe and 
 the United States, arriving in Los Angeles in 
 January, 1889. He was then following steam 
 and sanitary engineering as a profession and 
 in 1896 began specialization in Hydro-Elec- 
 tric work. 
 
 In 1896, Mr. Pearson entered the employ 
 of the Southern California Edison Company, 
 with which corporation he has been identified 
 for fifteen years. Beginning with the com- 
 pany at the lowest rung of the ladder he did 
 not hesitate to engage in laboring work, be- 
 ing determined to ground himself thoroughly 
 in what has become one of the most import- 
 ant engineering and industrial factors in the 
 United States. During the years following 
 he was repeatedly advanced through all the 
 
 B. F. PEARSON 
 
 grades, owing to his mechanical and execu- 
 tive ability, until he was appointed General 
 Superintendent of that great corporation. 
 
 He has devoted almost all of his attention 
 to the success of the corporation, dealing 
 fairly with everyone, using his ability to its 
 fullest extent in the interest of the company. 
 Mr. Pearson has always been identified 
 with the Republican party while at the same 
 time being in sympathy 
 with any non-partisan or 
 partisan progressive pol- 
 icy. He stands squarely 
 for the people and boasts 
 that he would rather be 
 known as a friend of "the 
 man who works" than 
 anything else. He is 
 honest and fearless in the 
 stand he takes with ref- 
 erence to his beliefs and 
 the principles he consid- 
 ers essential in public or 
 patriotic private life. 
 
 Mr. Pearson still is in 
 the prime of life and 
 works on an average of 
 eighteen hours a day. He 
 is well known as a phil- 
 anthropist throughout 
 Southern California, and 
 after his day's work is 
 done, devotes his spare 
 hours to helping those 
 who are not so fortunate 
 as he. He has spent a 
 number of years in tem- 
 perance and rescue work and has started hun- 
 dreds of men in the right direction always 
 ready to extend a helping hand to any man 
 "down and out." 
 
 He has been instrumental in liberating on 
 parole scores of prisoners from San Quentin 
 and Folsom prisons in California, and is fa- 
 miliarly known to the great majority as "Un- 
 cle Ben." Due to his efforts, hundreds of 
 men have been turned from lives of crime and 
 placed on the right track; and those who 
 were a charge to the state are now enjoying 
 the privileges of citizenship, wage earners 
 and supporting their families. 
 
 In the early part of 1911, he was appointed 
 by Governor Johnson a Trustee of the Whit- 
 tier State Reform School. He is a director 
 of the Union and City Rescue Missions and 
 of the Prison Parole League. 
 
 He is a member of the American Insti- 
 tute of Electrical Engineers. 
 
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 345 
 
 RNOLD, RALPH, Consulting Geol- 
 ogist and Petroleum Engineer, Los 
 Angeles, California, and New York 
 City, was born in Marshalltown, 
 Iowa, April 14, 1875, the son of 
 Delos Arnold, a native of New 
 York State, and Hannah Richardson (Mercer) Ar- 
 nold, of Ohio. He married Frankie Winninette 
 Stokes, daughter of Frank Stokes and Oraletta 
 (Newell) Stokes, of South Pasadena, California, 
 July 12, 1899. Mr. Arnold's father was one of the 
 early pioneers- of Iowa and later in life attained 
 distinction in scientific and political circles. 
 
 When he was about five years of age, Mr. 
 Arnold's parents transferred their home to Cali- 
 fornia, locating at Pasadena, and he has maintained 
 his residence in that city ever since. From his 
 early childhood, a considerable part of which was 
 spent in traveling, Mr. Arnold took a deep interest 
 in scientific subjects and in this was encouraged 
 by his parents, with the result that almost his en- 
 tire life has been devoted to science and he stands 
 today among the distinguished scientific men of the 
 United States. His first efforts were along the 
 lines of ornithology and oology, and as a result of 
 these early studies he still retains one of the finest 
 collections of California birds and eggs in that 
 State. His general education was thorough and 
 complete. Beginning with attendance in the gram- 
 mar schools of Pasadena, California, he was grad- 
 uated from the Pas-adena High School in 1894 and 
 from Throop Polytechnic Institute in 1896. He re- 
 ceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Leland 
 Stanford, Jr. University in 1899, Master of Arts in 
 1900, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1902. 
 
 Mr. Arnold was Assistant in Mineralogy at Stan- 
 ford University 1898-1899, and Assistant in Geology 
 1900-1903; Physical Director and Instructor in 
 Physics and Chemistry at Hoitt's School, Menlo 
 Park, California, 1899-1900. He held an appoint- 
 ment as Field Assistant on the U. S. Geological 
 Survey from 1900-1903, and beginning with 1903 de- 
 voted his entire time to this bureau, holding the 
 position of Geologic Aid 1903-1905, Paleontologist 
 1905-1908, Geologist 1908-1909. His work for the 
 Government included a reconnaissance of the Ter- 
 tiary formations of the Pacific Coast of the United 
 States, and following this he was put in charge of 
 the Government's investigations in the California 
 oil fields. Mr. Arnold resigned from the Govern- 
 ment service on June 1, 1909, and since that time 
 the sphere of his professional activities has grad- 
 ually expanded to include most of the oil fields of 
 the United States, Mexico and South America. 
 
 During the time he has been in private practice, 
 Mr. Arnold, in addition to his strictly technical ac- 
 tivities, has assisted in devising plans- for financing 
 several large enterprises, a class of work requiring 
 the highest type of engineering and financial abil- 
 ity. In his professional capacity he has rendered 
 service to many individual oil companies and syn- 
 dicates, many of them of foreign personnel, and has 
 been connected with most of the important Cali- 
 fornia oil deals consummated within recent years. 
 
 Among his more important works have been the 
 preparation of reports and appraisals used in 
 financing the following: Union Oil Company of 
 California, Esperanza Consolidated Oil Company 
 (now the General Petroleum Company), Palmer 
 Union Oil Company, Midwest Oil Company (of 
 Wyoming), various companies controlled by W. P. 
 Hammon in California and John Hays Hammond in 
 Mexico, and properties held under option by the 
 South African Gold Fields, Ltd., in Trinidad. The 
 
 listing of the securities of the Mexican Petroleum 
 Company and the California Petroleum Corporation 
 on the New York Stock Exchange was due in large 
 measure to Mr. Arnold's reports on the holdings of 
 these companies. The most important work that 
 Mr. Arnold has yet undertaken is the organization 
 and direction of an economic geologic survey of 
 the oil resources of Venezuela, probably the most 
 extensive operation of its kind ever undertaken in 
 South America, no less than twenty-five American 
 geologists and numerous natives being employed 
 in the investigations. 
 
 Mr. Arnold has served as Consulting Geologist 
 and Engineer for the General Asphalt Company and 
 its subsidiaries, the "New York & Bermudez, Trini- 
 dad Lake and Caribbean petroleum companies, and 
 for the Oak Ridge, Montebello, Alliance, Esperanza 
 Consolidated, Coalinga Kettleman, and many other 
 California oil companies. He is a Director of the 
 Pan-American Hardwoods Company, and profes- 
 sional correspondent of Thompson & Hunter, of 
 London, England. He also serves the United 
 States Bureau of Mines in the capacity of Consult- 
 ing Petroleum Engineer and holds a temporary 
 scientific assignment (1912-13) with the United 
 States Geological Survey. 
 
 Despite the multiplicity of his duties, Mr. Ar- 
 nold continues a student of scientific affairs and in 
 addition to the actual professional achievements 
 with which he is credited, has been a prolific 
 writer on technical subjects. Some of the more 
 important contributions to science from the pen 
 of Mr. Arnold are the following: 
 
 "The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Ma- 
 rine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, Cali- 
 fornia," a memoir of the California Academy of 
 Sciences, consisting of 400 pages and fifty plates; 
 "Recent and Fossil Pectens of California," Pro- 
 fessional Paper, No. 47, United States Geological 
 Survey; "Fossils of the Coalinga District, Califor- 
 nia," Bulletin No. 396, U. S. Geological Survey. 
 
 He also was co-author, in collaboration, with 
 George H. Eldridge, Robert Anderson, and H. R. 
 Johnson, of seven Bulletins of the United States 
 Geological Survey Nos. 309, 317, 321, 322, 357, 
 398 and 406 descriptive of the California oil fields 
 and various phases of the oil industry; and aside 
 from these, has written more than fifty other ar- 
 ticles and papers relating to the geology, paleon- 
 tology, oil and other mineral resources of California, 
 Oregon, Washington, and Trinidad, British West 
 Indies, published in various scientific and technical 
 publications. 
 
 Mr. Arnold is a Fellow of the Geological Society 
 of America, of the Paleontological Society of Amer- 
 ica, of the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, of the Geological Society (Lon- 
 don), and of the Royal Geographical Society of 
 Great Britain. He is a member of the Mining and 
 Metallurgical Society, American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers, California Academy of Sciences, 
 National Geographic Society, Washington (D. C.) 
 Academy of Sciences, Geological Society of Wash- 
 ington, Biological Society of Washington, Seismo- 
 logical Society of America, Malacological Society 
 of London, Cooper Ornithological Club, and the Le 
 Conte Geological Club. 
 
 Aside from his professional and technical affili- 
 ations, Mr. Arnold belongs to the Cosmos Club of 
 Washington, D. C., and was a charter member of 
 the University Club of the same city, resigning 
 when he left the Capital. His other clubs are the 
 Gamut of Los Angeles and the famous Growlers, of 
 Coalinga, California. 
 
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 MERY, GRBNVILLE C., Educator 
 and Head Master of the Harvard 
 School, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born July 19, 1843, at Ripley, 
 Maine. His father was John G. 
 Emery, and his mother Mary Stan- 
 ley (Jones) Emery. January 27, 1871, at Liver- 
 more Falls, Maine, he married Ella Rhoda Pike, 
 and of this union seven children have been born. 
 They are Ellen R., Mary R., Bertrand G., Laura J., 
 Ella Pike, Grenville Pike, and 
 John Emery. 
 
 Mr. Emery seems to have 
 been destined for the duties 
 of an educator, for after his 
 public school days were com- 
 pleted, which were in the 
 common schools of his native 
 state, he entered Corinna 
 Union Academy, Maine, as a 
 student and assistant to the 
 principal, and remained four 
 years. After this he at- 
 tended the Maine State Sem- 
 inary, 1861-64; Bates College, 
 Lewiston, Maine, 1864-68; and 
 studied at Gottingen, Ger- 
 many, 1882-83. He received 
 the degree A. B. from Bates 
 College in 1868, and A. M. in 
 1869. Years afterward, 1904, 
 he received the degree, 
 Litt. D. 
 
 He became an instructor 
 in the Maine State Seminary 
 at Lewiston and served in 
 this capacity during the years 
 1868 and 1869. He was given 
 the principalship of the High 
 
 GRENVILLE C. EMERY 
 
 School and the Superintendency of the schools of 
 Auburn, Maine, in 1870, and continued in these posi- 
 tions until an offer came from Michigan, where he 
 became principal of the Grand Rapids High School. 
 This position he retained through the term of 
 1871-72, after which he returned to the New Eng- 
 land states. 
 
 His next position as an educator was that of 
 sub-master of the Lawrence Grammar School, Bos- 
 ton, Mass., which position he held successfully 
 until 1881, when he resigned to study in Germany. 
 He went to Germany and at the University of Got- 
 tingen, took up studies pertaining to his profession 
 during the years 1881-82. 
 
 On returning to America he became master in 
 the Boston Latin School, and remained there until 
 1897. During his services in Boston he endeared 
 himself to the pupils and parents by the personal 
 Interest which he took in each individual pupil, 
 and became widely known throughout that vicinity 
 for his thoroughness in teaching and his original 
 methods. 
 
 During this teaching period, Mr. Emery became, 
 in conjunction with Mr. Bradbury, Headmaster of 
 
 the Cambridge Latin School, the author of a num- 
 ber of works in mathematics, particularly in Alge- 
 bra, which are today used by many of the high 
 and secondary schools of the country. Among his 
 best known and most successful works are the fol- 
 lowing: "Academic Algebra" (Bradbury and Em- 
 ery), 1890; "Academic Algebra" (Teachers' Edi- 
 tion), 1890; "Algebra for Beginners" (Bradbury and 
 Emery), 1894; and "Key to Algebra for Beginners," 
 1896. In June, 1897, Mr. Emery left Boston for Los 
 Angeles, where he has been 
 identified with its education- 
 al circles ever since. 
 
 On arriving there in 1899 
 he immediately entered 
 upon educational work, as 
 principal of the Los Angeles 
 Military Academy. 
 
 In the fall of 1900 he found- 
 ed the now famous Harvard 
 School of Los Angeles, mili- 
 tary drill being a feature, and 
 became its Head Master. 
 
 Under his leadership the 
 school has steadily grown to 
 a preparatory school of the 
 first rank, and now has its 
 graduates in Harvard, Yale, 
 Princeton, Cornell, Stanford, 
 the Universities of Califor- 
 nia and Virginia; or as grad- 
 uates from those universi- 
 ties, pursuing successful 
 business or professional 
 work in this and other 
 cities of the country. 
 
 Mr. Emery expects to re- 
 tain the Headmastership of 
 the Harvard School but a 
 A chartered corporation 
 of the Episcopal Church 
 has recently purchased the institution, and 
 it will be known hereafter as "The Har- 
 vard School upon the Emery Foundation." Joseph 
 H. Johnson, Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, in 
 virtue of his office, is its president, and it has been 
 his desire and that of the advisory board with him 
 that Mr. Emery's name be perpetuated in the title 
 of the school, owing to the generous terms under 
 which the school has been sold to the church. Mr. 
 Emery is to retain the head mastership only until a 
 fitting successor can be found for him. The school, 
 as delivered by Mr. Emery to the church, is a beau- 
 tiful property, a magnificent group of ornamental 
 buildings, occupying an extensive square, in the 
 heart of the best residence section of Los Angeles, 
 with one of the chief interurban lines running past 
 its gates. In the words of Bishop Johnson "It 
 shall be regarded always as a monument to the 
 liberality of Mr. and Mrs. Emery, to whom lasting 
 credit is due as the founders of the institution." 
 Mr. Emery has made of the school a success 
 and will retire with a record of worthy accom- 
 plishment. 
 
 short 
 under 
 
 time longer, 
 the auspices 
 
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 AW, HERBERT EDWARD, P. C. 
 S., of London, Vice President of 
 The Viavi Company, Inc., and 
 president and treasurer of the 
 Anglo-American Securities Com- 
 pany of San Francisco, California, 
 was born near Sheffield, England, December 5, 
 1864, the son of Crossley Law and Rebecca 
 (Brown) Law, and in 1866 came with his parents 
 to the United States, settling in the city of Chicago. 
 
 There he attended the 
 public schools and the Ger- 
 man-American Institute, be- 
 came proficient in German 
 and an instructor in the In- 
 stitute. Soon afterwards he 
 was made confidential sec- 
 retary of E. C. Potter, man- 
 ager of the North Chicago 
 Rolling Mills, out of which 
 the United States Steel Cor- 
 poration was developed. 
 
 He joined his brother, 
 Hartland Law, in selling 
 subscription books and in 
 1884, under the firm name of 
 Law, King & Law, they rep- 
 resented the Western Pub- 
 lishing House of Chicago in 
 San Francisco. In 1886 they 
 purchased a controlling in- 
 terest in the Western Pub- 
 lishing House, but disposed 
 of it soon afterwards and re- 
 turned the same year to San 
 Francisco. Here they began 
 the development of the Viavi 
 System of Treatment. Mr. 
 Law has been largely the or- 
 ganizing power in the Viavi business, than which 
 he deemed no other of his numerous interests 
 more important nor more essentially a part of him- 
 self. He has been the animating force, combining 
 and directing the separate efforts, great or small, 
 of every individual ever connected with the or- 
 ganization into one consistent result. One of the 
 unique features of the Viavi business is the method 
 of sale. It is based wholly on personal contact, 
 a principle which is now almost universal in all 
 lines of business. The Laws have developed an 
 organization in which thousands have received 
 practical training and in which more than 10,000 
 active workers are at the present time engaged 
 in spreading the Viavi teachings and selling the 
 Viavi Preparations in more than twenty different 
 countries. 
 
 Mr. Law's activities have been important in 
 other fields. It has been said that, with his 
 brother Dr. Hartland Law, he has been the largest 
 real estate operator in San Francisco during the 
 past twenty years. No individual has built so 
 
 HERBERT E. LAW 
 
 many high-class buildings in so short a time. He 
 has touched no property which he has not im- 
 proved. His first operations were in the region 
 northwest of Van Ness avenue and Vallejo street. 
 Coming to the downtown section, among others 
 he has owned and improved property at Mission 
 and Main streets, Mission and Annie streets, Mis- 
 sion and New Montgomery streets, and then on 
 Market street, near Third street, where he built 
 the splendid Monadnock building. 
 
 Just before the fire, with 
 his brother he bought the 
 Fairmont Hotel. Restoring 
 it after the fire cost $1,840,- 
 000. The reconstruction of 
 the Fairmont gave direction 
 and emphasis to that fine 
 thing we now know as the 
 San Francisco spirit. In the 
 three years Immediately 
 after the fire $7,000,000 
 passed through his office in 
 rebuilding, exchanging and 
 restoring to sound position 
 his and his brother's hold- 
 ings. 
 
 After leasing the Fairmont 
 to the Palace Hotel Com- 
 pany the Law brothers ex- 
 changed it back to Mrs. Her- 
 man Oelrichs, securing, 
 through the exchange, forty 
 acres of water front proper- 
 ty adjoining the military res- 
 ervation of Fort Mason. Po- 
 tentially valuable, it was in- 
 accessible. The completion 
 of the tunnel now authorized 
 through the Fort Mason prop- 
 erty will make it accessible and they are planning 
 to make it the site of a great rail and ocean ter- 
 minal. 
 
 Mr. Law acted as chairman of the Street 
 Changes, General Widening and Grading of Streets 
 Committee, whose work complemented the Burn- 
 ham plan for a San Francisco splendid and beau- 
 tiful. 
 
 In 1910 he negotiated with the Chinese Gov- 
 ernment on behalf of the Western Steel Corpora- 
 tion, of which he was then president, the largest 
 contract China had made up to that time. He was 
 energetically interested in the Panama-Pacific In- 
 ternational Exposition and he and his brother made 
 possible the use of the Harbor View region as a 
 part of the site. 
 
 He was for many years a director of the Mer- 
 chants' Association, is . a director of Wells-Fargo 
 Nevada National Bank and other large corpora- 
 tions; is a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Lon- 
 don, a member of the Union League Club, and has 
 been an extensive traveler. 
 
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 OFFEY, TITIAN J., Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Pitts- 
 burg, Pennsylvania, July 6, 
 1874, the son of Henry T. 
 
 Coffey and Frances J. (Baldwin) Coffey. 
 
 He is of Scotch-Irish descent. He married 
 
 Miss Eva Elizabeth Keating, March 30, 
 
 1909, at Los Angeles, California. There is 
 
 one son, Marvin Keating 
 
 Coffey. 
 
 Dr. Coffey attended 
 
 the Shattuck School, Far- 
 
 ibault, Minnesota, during 
 
 the years 1891 and 1892. 
 
 In the latter year he 
 
 moved to Peoria, Illinois, 
 
 and there attended the 
 
 high school, from which 
 
 he graduated in the year 
 
 1894. Moving to Chi- 
 cago, he was a student at 
 
 the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity Medical Depart- 
 ment between the years 
 
 1894 and 1897. In the 
 
 latter year he moved from 
 
 Chicago to Los Angeles, 
 
 California, and registered 
 
 at the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of 
 
 Southern California, 
 
 where he studied during 
 
 the terms of 1897 and 
 
 1898, and was awarded 
 
 his degree of Doctor of 
 
 Medicine June 2 of the 
 
 DR. TITIAN J. COFFEY 
 
 latter year. He took a post-graduate course 
 in medicine at the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania the following year, graduating with 
 advanced honors June 15, 1899. 
 
 While he was studying he was also get- 
 ting hospital experience. During the year 
 1898 he spent several months as interne at 
 the Los Angeles County Hospital. 
 
 In order to master some special prob- 
 lems in medicine he went to Chicago five 
 years later (1903), and served as interne at 
 the Chicago Lying-in Hospital for several 
 months. 
 
 He returned to Los Angeles after his 
 course at the University of Pennsylvania, 
 and opened offices for the practice of gen- 
 eral medicine and surgery, and soon estab- 
 lished a firm reputation, both professionally 
 and socially. He is chief of staff at the pres- 
 ent time of the Obstetric Department of the 
 Los Angeles County Hospital. Study of the 
 
 means to further the public health has ap- 
 pealed to him especially. He has investi- 
 gated the problem of the proper sanitation 
 of cities and of housing. 
 
 Los Angeles has recognized his services 
 along these lines, and he is at the present 
 time Chairman of the Los Angeles Housing 
 Commission. This organization he helped to 
 found in February, 1906. It concerns itself 
 directly with the proper 
 construction of r e s i - 
 dences, factories, office 
 buildings and business 
 houses, so that the health 
 of the occupants may not 
 be endangered, and one 
 of its chief functions is to 
 bring its influence to bear 
 on the legislative bodies 
 which have these matters 
 directly under their con- 
 trol. He has gained even 
 national recognition for 
 his disinterested labors 
 along this line, and has 
 been elected one of the 
 directors of the National 
 Housing Association. He 
 is also a member of the 
 board of directors of 
 the Juvenile Improve- 
 ment Association. 
 
 He has also made a 
 special study of tubercu- 
 losis, and has been elect- 
 ed a member of the board 
 of directors of the Cali- 
 fornia Association for the Study and Preven- 
 tion of Tuberculosis. 
 
 His activity in medical and professional 
 circles is evidenced by the memberships 
 which he holds in medical societies, of which 
 the following are the most prominent: The 
 American Medical Association, the State 
 Medical Society of California, the Medical 
 Society of Southern California, the Los An- 
 geles County Medical Society, the Los An- 
 geles Clinical and Pathological Society, and 
 the Los Angeles Academy of Science. 
 
 The University of California has recog- 
 nized his learning by appointing him to the 
 position of Assistant Professor of Obstetrics 
 in its medical department. 
 
 Dr. Coffey holds membership in the Uni- 
 versity Club, the City Club and the Municipal 
 League. 
 
 He is also a member of the Chamber of 
 Commerce of Los Angeles. 
 
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 349 
 
 ILLS, WM. LeMOYNE, Sur- 
 geon, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born August 10, 1853, at 
 Washington Penn., the son 
 of John A. Wills and Char- 
 lotte (LeMoyne) Wills. He married Susan 
 Glassell Patton, November 23, 1904, at San 
 Francisco, Cal. His mother's father, Dr. F. 
 Julius 'LeMoyne, was a noted physician and 
 surgeon who built the 
 first crematory in the 
 United States, at Wash- 
 ington, Penn. 
 
 Dr. Wills was educat- 
 ed at the public schools 
 of Washington, Penn., at 
 the Emerson Institute at 
 Washington, D. C; 
 Washington and Jeffer- 
 son College, and at Har- 
 vard, being a member of 
 the Class of 1876. He re- 
 ceived his degree as Doc- 
 tor of Medicine at the 
 University of Pennsyl- 
 v a n i a, Class of 1882. 
 He took post-graduate 
 courses at various times 
 at home and abroad. 
 
 After his graduation 
 he served parts of two 
 years as interne at the 
 West Penn Hospital, at 
 Pittsburg, Penn. In 1883 
 he went to Los Angeles, 
 where he has since re- 
 sided, practicing his pro- 
 fession. He was one of the pioneer faculty 
 of the Medical Department of the University 
 of Southern California, and there taught 
 Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy for eighteen 
 years. He was then Professor of Clinical 
 Surgery for six years. 
 
 He was one of the promoters of crema- 
 tion in the West, a project which was insti- 
 gated by his father and mother, and was a 
 director and secretary of the Cremation So- 
 ciety of Southern California, established in 
 1887. This society built the third crematory 
 ever built in the United States. He was 
 later president of the society for ten years, 
 until 1905, when it was merged with the 
 Rosedale Cemetery Company. 
 
 Dr. Wills became interested in local Los 
 Anegles politics in 1892, and helped clean up 
 the Second Ward. He was instrumental, in 
 part, in laying the foundation for the present 
 non-partisan school board. He was a mem- 
 
 DR. W. LeMOYNE WILLS 
 
 ber of the Los Angeles City Board of Edu- 
 cation from 1893 to 1897. He was chosen a 
 member of the California State Board of 
 Health in 1903, and has been kept on the 
 board continually since that date. His pres- 
 ent term will not run out until 1914. He was 
 vice president of the State Board of Health 
 during the term of 1909-11, and was a mem- 
 ber of the Sixth District Agricultural Asso- 
 ciation, 1906-10. He has 
 been especially active in 
 good government work 
 and is a member of the 
 Municipal League and of 
 the Good Government 
 Association. He was ac- 
 tive in the first campaign 
 for city ownership of the 
 water company in 1894. 
 
 He has written papers 
 on a variety of subjects, 
 especially on bone and 
 lung surgery. He read 
 the first original research 
 paper on lung surgery be- 
 fore the California State 
 Medical Society in 1892, 
 which has been often 
 quoted. He has devoted 
 much time to lung surg- 
 ery since and to fracture 
 work. 
 
 Dr. Wills has always 
 been an enthusiastic 
 horseman, a breeder and 
 owner of fine horses. 
 
 He was appointed to 
 his position on the Sixth District Agricul- 
 tural Association by Governor Pardee, and he 
 had much to do with the saving, through liti- 
 gation, of Agricultural Park to the city of 
 Los Angeles and the State of California. 
 
 He was one of the founders of the Los 
 Angeles Driving Club in 1897 and did much 
 to foster the construction of good roads. 
 
 He is a member of the L. A. County Med- 
 ical Assn., California State Medical Society, 
 and of the American Medical Assn. He was 
 president of the L. A. County Medical Assn. 
 in 1889, president of the Southern California 
 District Medical Assn. 1890-1891, and presi- 
 dent of the California State Medical Society, 
 1895-96; was one of the founders and chief 
 surgeon, Children's Hospital, 1902-5. He is a 
 member of the California, University, Sunset 
 City, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, 
 and College Men's clubs; City Municipal 
 League and Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 DR. H. P. BARTON 
 
 ARTON, HERBERT PARKS, Sur- 
 geon, President and General Man- 
 ager, Clara Barton Hospital, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in Wor- 
 cester, Mass., Dec. 25, 1866. His 
 father was Samuel R. Barton and 
 his mother Amelia L. (Parks) Barton. Dr. Barton 
 is a nephew of Clara Barton of Red Cross fame. He 
 married on October 18, 1890, Miss Frances John- 
 stone Vasseur, in Brooklyn, N. Y. They have one 
 son, Chandler Parks Barton. 
 
 Dr. Barton was educated in the public schools 
 of Oxford, Mass., graduating from high school in 
 1882. He then attended Worcester Academy and 
 Hinman's Business College. Leaving them he con- 
 ducted a fire insurance agency in Webster, Mass., 
 until 1889, when he entered the Jefferson Medical 
 College in Philadelphia, from which he graduated 
 in 1890. Did post-graduate work in the Manhattan 
 Eye and Ear Hospital and the N. Y. Polytechnic in 
 1892. 
 
 In 1891 and 1892 Dr. Barton practiced his pro- 
 fession in New York City, during which time he 
 was a member of the Board of Health. 
 
 He moved to Denver, Colo., in 1892, where he 
 practiced, but had to return to Worcester, Mass., be- 
 cause of poor health. He practiced there four years. 
 
 In 1897 Dr. Barton went to Ontario, Cal., assist- 
 ing in organizing the Board of Health. He was also 
 one of the Board of Library Trustees of that city. 
 After staying two and one-half years, he went to 
 Los Angeles, where he practiced, and in 1904 organ- 
 ized the Clara Barton Hospital. He belongs to the 
 Los Angeles County Medical Society, California 
 State Medical Society, American Medical Associa- 
 tion and Los Angeles Academy of Medicine. He is 
 a member Jonathan Club, Gamut Club, Los Angeles 
 Country Club, Los Angeles Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. 
 E., thirty-second degree member Los Angeles Scot- 
 tish Rite and belongs to Al Malaikah Shrine. 
 
 C. J. CURTIS 
 
 URTIS, CLINTON JAMES, Presi- 
 dent and Manager of the Los An- 
 geles Dock and Terminal Com- 
 pany Long Beach, Cal. He was 
 born at Winona, Minnesota, Au- 
 gust 21, 1870. Herman E. Curtis 
 was his father and his mother was Mary M. Camp. 
 On April 17, 1901, he married Lulu M. Kimberly at 
 Redlands, Cal. There are three children, Caleb 
 Camp, John Kimberly and Helen Kimberly Curtis. 
 
 Mr. Curtis was educated at Phillips' Academy, 
 Andover, Mass., which he attended from 1887 to 
 1890, graduating in the latter year. He next entered 
 Yale University, in which college he was a member 
 of the class of 1894. Illness compelled his with- 
 drawal during his sophomore year. 
 
 He went to California in the spring of 1893, and 
 settled at Redlands, to recuperate and interest 
 himself in growing oranges. Between the years 
 1897 and 1905 he engaged in orange shipping from 
 that district. In 1897 he became owner of the 
 West American Fruit Company of that city and 
 brought that corporation into the foremost ranks 
 as an orange shipping concern. He became a di- 
 rector in the California Citrus Association. 
 
 In January, 1906, he sold his interests in the 
 orange shipping business, resigned from the Cali- 
 fornia Citrus Association, and accepted his present 
 position with the Los Angeles Dock and Terminal 
 Company. Since that time he has had the presi- 
 dency and managership of that corporation and 
 his work in Southern California in the interest of 
 that company is widely known. 
 
 He still retains certain of his old interests at 
 Redlands, where he is a director in the Redlands 
 National Bank and the Union Savings Bank. 
 
 Mr. Curtis is a member of the University Club 
 of Redlands and of the Long Beach Chamber of 
 Commerce and president of Virginia Country Club 
 of Long Beach. 
 
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 HON. GEORGE H. HUTTON 
 
 UTTON, GEORGE HOWARD, 
 Judge of the Superior Court of 
 the State of California for Los 
 Angeles County, was born Au- 
 gust 5, 1870, at Drummond, Can- 
 ada. His father was Joseph An- 
 drew Hutton and his mother Harriett Bridgman 
 Button. He married Dolores Egleston, September 
 1, 1897, at Chatfield, Minnesota. One son was born, 
 George Robert Egleston Hutton. Judge Hutton 
 came to California in 1897 and located at Santa 
 Monica, where he has since made his home. 
 
 Judge Hutton received his preparatory educa- 
 tion at Hamilton University, St. Paul, of which in- 
 stitution his uncle, Rev. George H. Bridgman, was 
 president. He attended the State University at St. 
 Paul and later the College of Law of the Univer- 
 sity of Minnesota at Minneapolis. He was admit- 
 ted to practice in 1893. In 1906 he was elected 
 Judge of the Superior Court for the County of Los 
 Angeles for a term of six years. 
 
 He was engaged, prior to his election, in a suc- 
 cessful practice and was for seven years attorney 
 for former Senator John P. Jones, whose vast in- 
 terests required much legal work. He was also a 
 trustee under the will of the late J. W. Keating 
 and increased notably this famous fortune. 
 
 Judge Hutton is regarded as an authority upon 
 water laws of the Western States, which knowl- 
 edge has brought him fame. He has been frequent- 
 ly called upon to address national irrigation con- 
 gresses, and has tried many important water cases 
 in every county in Southern California. He is an 
 ardent advocate of the application of civil law prin- 
 ciples to arid countries. It is notable that of the 
 many cases he has tried he has never had a water 
 case reversed. Judge Hutton has enthusiastically 
 taken up the study of geology and hydraulics. 
 
 He is prominent in the Masonic order and is a 
 member of the California Club. 
 
 ISIDORE B. DOCKWEILER 
 
 OCKWEILER, ISIDORE B., Attor- 
 ney, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in that city on December 
 28, 1867. His father was Henry 
 Dockweiler, a Bavarian by birth, 
 and his mother, Margaretha 
 Sugg, was an Alsatian. On June 30, 1891, he mar- 
 ried Miss Gertrude Reeve at San Francisco. They 
 have eleven children. 
 
 Mr. Dockweiler was educated at St. Vincent's 
 College, Los Angeles, from which he received a 
 commercial diploma in 1883 and the degree of A. 
 B., 1887; A. M., 1889, and the honorary degree qf 
 L. L. M. in 1905 and L. L. D. in 1911. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Dockweiler was employed as a 
 bookkeeper, which position he held for two years, 
 leaving to return to college. After graduating in 
 1887 he engaged in surveying for one year and then 
 commenced to study law. He was admitted to the 
 California bar on October 14, 1889, and thereafter 
 to the bar of the Federal Courts in California and 
 the United States Supreme Court. 
 
 He has been a trustee of St. Vincent's College 
 since October 1, 1890. He was a director of the 
 Los Angeles Public Library from 1897 to 1899, and 
 from February, 1901, to February 2, 1911. He is a 
 trustee of the State Normal School at San Diego, 
 California, having been commissioned to serve 
 from December, 1898, to July, 1912. Mr. Dock- 
 weiler was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of 
 California on the Democratic ticket in 1902 and a 
 delegate from California to the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention of 1908. 
 
 Mr. Dockweiler is a member of the California, 
 Gamut and Newman clubs; Chamber of Commerce, 
 Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of 
 America; Los Angeles Bar Association, American 
 Bar Association, Native Sons of the Golden West, 
 B. P. O. E., Knights of Columbus, Young Men's 
 Institute, and the Royal Arcanum. 
 
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 ETS, JOHN, Banking, Tucson, 
 Arizona, was born in Morgan 
 City, Utah, March 28, 1875, the 
 son of Timothy Mets and Anna 
 (Hausman) Mets. He married 
 Pauline Wood at Tucson, March 
 19, 1903, and to them there have been born two 
 children, Virginia Anna and John Mets, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Mets, who has taken his place among the 
 active workers for the development of the South- 
 west, has spent the greater part of his life in 
 Arizona. He received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of Mesa, Arizona, and was 
 graduated from the State Normal School at Tempe, 
 Arizona, in the class of 1894. 
 
 Upon graduation Mr. Mets was appointed prin- 
 cipal of the Lehi, Arizona, schools, retaining this 
 position from September, 1894, until September, 
 1897. He was at this time appointed Principal of 
 the schools at Florence, Arizona, and served 
 there for two years. From Florence he was trans- 
 ferred to Mesa City, Arizona, as District Principal 
 of the schools there. During his several years of 
 service as a teacher Mr. Mets devoted himself to 
 educational expansion and impressing upon the 
 parents of the various districts the necessity for 
 higher education for their children. In this way 
 he caused a vast increase in attendance at the 
 schools, with the result that from Lehi and Flor- 
 ence alone more than a hundred students have 
 passed successfully through the State Normal 
 School and received teachers' certificates. 
 
 Mr. Mets resigned his post as District Principal 
 of the Mesa City schools in April, 1900, to accept 
 appointment as Deputy United States Marshal, a 
 position which necessitated his removal to Tucson. 
 He was in the Federal service for more than two 
 years, or until September, 1902, and at that time 
 entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. He remained there only a few 
 months, however, resigning in January, 1903, to 
 accept the position of Clerk of the Board of Super- 
 visors of Pima County, Arizona, of which Tucson is 
 the county seat. 
 
 While in this capacity Mr. Mets became an ac- 
 tive factor in the politics of Tucson, also taking 
 an interest in the business affairs of the city. With- 
 in three months after taking up his duties in the 
 Board of Supervisors, Mr. Mets organized the Ari- 
 zona Building and Loan Association, an institution 
 which has grown to a position of importance and of 
 which he has served as Secretary from the time of 
 its organization down to date. In January, 1908, 
 he organized the Merchants' Bank and Trust Com- 
 pany, resigning his position with the County to de- 
 vote himself exclusively to the bank. He was 
 elected Vice President of the institution and con- 
 tinues to serve in that office. 
 
 Within recent years Mr. Mets has turned his 
 attention to the development of the agricultural 
 resources of Tucson's supporting country. Al- 
 though Tucson is one of the oldest cities in 
 America and for many years has been an important 
 part of the Southwest, it occupied the unique po- 
 sition of having to import practically all of its 
 foodstuffs, a matter which meant the sending away 
 annually of millions of dollars from trade channels 
 of the city. Mr. Mets was one of the men who 
 
 set about to correct this condition and sought ways 
 of making the land surrounding Tucson produce 
 sufficient for the requirements of the city's popu- 
 lation. 
 
 By his own efforts, together with a large amount 
 of outside capital, Mr. Mets has gone a long way 
 toward correcting this condition and has organized 
 several development concerns which are today en- 
 gaged in the work of reclaiming the land and turn- 
 ing the desert into farms. Among these are the 
 Rillito Farms Company, of which he is Secretary 
 and Treasurer; the Canao Ranch Company, where- 
 in he holds the same offices, and the Tucson Farms 
 Company. 
 
 These concerns, through irrigation, have con- 
 verted thousands of acres of land into productive 
 farms, and in addition have colonized that part of 
 the country where in previous times it was unin- 
 habited save for the creatures of the desert. This 
 work, centered principally in the Santa Cruz Val- 
 ley of Arizona, is one of the most important recla- 
 mation enterprises in the history of the South- 
 west, and Mr. Mets, who was the moving spirit in 
 these various organizations, has been one of the 
 principal factors in it. He is sincere in his efforts 
 to rectify the unnatural condition which has ex- 
 isted so long in the matter of Tucson's food supply 
 and has devoted himself largely to aiding the new 
 settlers in the work of agriculture. The success 
 of his efforts is attested by the fact that within a 
 year after the first farms were opened to settle- 
 ment they were producing alfalfa, oats and other 
 products in abundance. 
 
 Since entering the banking business Mr. Mets 
 has taken no part in the politics of his city, but 
 for several years prior to that time was one of the 
 leaders in the councils of the Republican party. 
 He was appointed Secretary of the County Central 
 Committee in 1903 and served for two years. At 
 that time he was chosen Chairman of the Commit- 
 tee, also of the Republican Central Committee of 
 Tucson and held both offices for three years, or 
 until he resigned in 1908. 
 
 In addition to his other activities, Mr. Mets has 
 been a worker for the upbuilding of Tucson and 
 as President of the Chamber of Commerce, an of- 
 fice he has occupied for two years, has been a 
 leader in many important movements in the in- 
 terest of the city. His most important accom- 
 plishments were in the line of railroad betterment, 
 and in this capacity he figured as one of the prin- 
 cipal forces in bringing to Tucson the El Paso & 
 Southwestern Railroad, thus giving to the city an- 
 other important line. He also helped in the work 
 of bringing the Southern Pacific Company of Mex- 
 ico into the city, thereby making Tucson an im- 
 portant terminal point. 
 
 A believer in the importance of good roads, 
 Mr. Mets, since his tenure as President of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, has taken a personal in- 
 terest in the building of roads to various resorts 
 in the vicinity of Tucson, with the result that the 
 city is the center of a splendid system of high- 
 ways leading through the mountains. 
 
 Mr. Mets is a Director of the Old Pueblo Club 
 of Tucson, Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks' Lodge 
 of that city, and at the present time one of Its 
 directors. 
 
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 EARNS, THOMAS, Capital- 
 ist and Publisher, Salt Lake 
 City, Utah, was born April 
 11, 1862, near Woodstock, in 
 O x n a r d County, Ontario, 
 Canada, the son of Thomas Kearns and Mar- 
 garet (Maher) Kearns. He married Jennie 
 Judge, September 19, 1890, at Park City, 
 Utah, and to them there have been born three 
 children Edmund J., 
 Thomas F. and Helen 
 Marie Kearns. 
 
 Senator Kearns, whose 
 name is inseparably 
 linked with the history of 
 the State of Utah, started 
 forth in life with only a 
 public school education 
 and early began the bat- 
 tle for success. In the 
 seventies his family 
 moved from Canada to 
 Holt County, Nebraska, 
 where they settled upon 
 a farm, and there the boy 
 went to work. He tired 
 of farm life after a time, 
 however, his belief being 
 that greater opportunities 
 lay in the mining dis- 
 tricts and that there his 
 ambitions stood a better 
 chance. He left the farm 
 and his first work in con- 
 nection with mining was 
 as a freighter moving 
 supplies into the Black 
 Hills. He gave this up soon and went to 
 work as a miner for the Homestake Mining 
 Company at Lead, South Dakota. When he 
 arrived at the age of 21 he left the Black 
 Hills and went to Utah. He first halted at 
 Salt Lake City, but soon moved to Park City, 
 and there got a place in the Ontario Mine, 
 then the greatest silver mine in the world. 
 
 It was here that his determination to suc- 
 ceed showed itself most forcibly. After 
 working his shift in the mine he spent his 
 time in prospecting and the study of geology, 
 and in this way became a miner of excep- 
 tional ability and knowledge. This incessant 
 business of work and study he kept up for 
 seven years, and at the end of that time he 
 struck a vein of silver and his fortune was 
 made. 
 
 His first shipment brought him $20,000, 
 and most of this he devoted to a home and 
 life competence for his parents. From this 
 
 HON. THOMAS KEARNS 
 
 time forward he went up the ladder of suc- 
 cess. His first mine continued to pay, then 
 he became interested in the Silver King prop- 
 erties, the most famous silver property in the 
 United States. He still owns part of this 
 under the name of the Silver King Coalition. 
 He became a millionaire through this mine 
 and has reinvested his wealth in Utah, a large 
 portion of it in choice Salt Lake real estate. 
 Senator Kearns has 
 been a conspicuous figure 
 in the political growth of 
 Utah and has served the 
 people in various public 
 offices. He was a mem- 
 ber of the City Council 
 of Park City during his 
 stay in that place; was a 
 membei of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention that 
 drafted the Constitution 
 of the State of Utah; 
 member of the State Leg- 
 islature; delegate to the 
 National Republican con- 
 ventions of 1896 and 1900, 
 and in 1901 was elected 
 to the United States Sen- 
 ate. He served there un- 
 til 1905, and during that 
 time aided in the passage 
 of much legislation for 
 the good of Utah and the 
 rest of the Western 
 country. 
 
 The Senator has not 
 confined his time to min- 
 ing, however, but is interested in many other 
 lines, including railroads, banking and pub- 
 lishing. He is one of the heaviest stockhold- 
 ers in the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt 
 Lake Railroad and is a director in that cor- 
 poration. He is the principal owner and pub- 
 lisher of the Salt Lake Tribune, a powerful 
 newspaper; is a director in three banks and a 
 stockholder in many other corporations be- 
 sides those mentioned. 
 
 He is a firm believer in the future of Salt 
 Lake and Utah and has done everything in 
 his power to aid in their upbuilding. With 
 Mrs. Kearns, he has engaged in many charita- 
 ble works, their good offices being conducted 
 without any ostentation. Hundreds of chil- 
 dren in Utah and other places have benefited 
 by the benefactions of Senator and Mrs. 
 Kearns through the Kearns-St. Ann's Or- 
 phanage. He has instituted numerous re- 
 forms to add to the comfort of his employes. 
 
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 'GLURE, FRANK D., Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in Fremont 
 County, Iowa, July 11, 1871. 
 He is the son of E. B. Mc- 
 Clure and Harriet A. (Britton) McClure. 
 He married Angie C. Nugent at Kokoka, 
 Missouri, June 1, 1896. 
 
 He was brought to Visalia, Cal., in 1884. 
 He graduated from the 
 Stockton Normal in 1891. 
 After completing his 
 course there he entered 
 the Valparaiso, Indiana, 
 University, where he re- 
 ceived his degree as 
 Bachelor of Science in 
 1894. He took up the 
 study of the law at the 
 same institution and re- 
 ceived his LL.B. in the 
 spring of 1896. 
 
 His first independent 
 venture was at Stockton, 
 where he opened an of- 
 fice in 1896. The follow- 
 ing year he moved to 
 Visalia, Tulare County, 
 and at that place, he 
 practiced his profession 
 until 1900. There fol- 
 lowed the Bakersfield oil 
 boom and the rapid 
 growth of that city, to 
 which he moved his busi- 
 ness and became ac- 
 quainted with oil litiga- 
 tions in all their many phases. He prac- 
 ticed there until 1907, when he went to the 
 larger opportunities offered by Los Angeles. 
 
 His first location was in the Union 
 Trust Building, but later he moved to the 
 Douglas Building. He very quickly made 
 
 F. D. McCLURE 
 
 also factions which were against the develop- 
 ment of the harbor. Attorney McClure 
 worked hard and soon found himself in the 
 midst of the fight. He was sent to Wash- 
 ington as sole representative in 1908, and 
 argued the case of the Los Angeles harbor be- 
 fore the war department of the government. 
 He succeeded in his efforts in having the 
 harbor lines established, and the government 
 is at the present time 
 busier in the develop- 
 ment of San Pedro and 
 Wilmington harbors than 
 in any other harbor in the 
 country. 
 
 He held his position 
 as City Attorney of Wil- 
 mington until the consoli- 
 dation of 1909, when the 
 entire harbor district be- 
 came part of the City of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 While at Wilmington 
 he was not only City At- 
 torney, but actively as- 
 sisted in the dredging 
 work. 
 
 Meanwhile his private 
 practice was maintained. 
 He was chosen as the at- 
 torney for the Consoli- 
 dated Lumber Company. 
 He still looks after the 
 legal affairs of that com- 
 pany. 
 
 He is now a member 
 of the law firm of Wood- 
 ruff & McClure, general legal practitioners 
 of Los Angeles. He specializes in corpora- 
 tion, oil and mining law, aside from the 
 general practice. 
 
 While at Bakersfield he helped to organ- 
 ize many of the oil companies, so that he 
 
 himself acquainted with the business and became fully acquainted with the corpora- 
 
 legal fraternity, and in less than a year was 
 appointed city attorney of Wilmington. 
 
 It was while City Attorney of Wilming- 
 ton that his labors have attracted the great- 
 est public attention. Los Angeles, and what 
 was then Wilmington and San Pedro, were 
 fighting for the development of the harbor. 
 Locally the importance of the harbor was 
 appreciated, but the national government 
 knew little about it. There was an immense 
 amount of work to be done, in the construc- 
 tion of the harbor, and in the establishment 
 of the harbor lines, and it could be done 
 only with the help of Congress. There were 
 
 tion laws of California and the various 
 states, and he took part in many of the im- 
 portant trials in which the oil laws of the 
 State of California were developed. 
 
 He has represented clients before the 
 Circuit Court of the United States on a 
 number of occasions, and his office handles 
 a great deal of legal business from outside 
 the State. 
 
 Mr. McClure is a member of the Lodge 
 of Elks and a Mason, and he is also promi- 
 nently identified with the various legal 
 fraternities of the city and the State of 
 California. 
 
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 ATROW, HENRY, Mining, 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, was born 
 at Miamisburg, Ohio, June 22, 
 1878, of a family whose ances- 
 tors settled in Ohio in the days 
 when it was known as the Western Reserve. He 
 married Miss Charlotte May Bettles of Salt 
 Lake City, April 7, 1904. There are two chil- 
 dren, Alfred Newton and Henry Catrow, Jr 
 
 Mr. Catrow is known in 
 Utah as one of the youth- 
 ful wizards of mining, be- 
 cause, through his own ef- 
 forts and enterprise, he has 
 succeeded in becoming one 
 of the heaviest stockhold- 
 ers in two of the greatest 
 copper companies in Utah 
 and the United States, the 
 Ohio Copper Mine and the 
 Utah Copper Company, of 
 Bingham, Utah. He is 
 ranked among the big ope- 
 rators of the West. 
 
 He received his early 
 education in the public 
 schools of Miamisburg. 
 He was then sent to the 
 Pennsylvania Military Col- 
 lege at Chester, Pennsylva- 
 nia, where he did the bulk 
 of his high school and col- 
 lege work. Intent on mak- 
 ing an attorney of himself, 
 he studied through the en- 
 tire legal course of the law 
 department of the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 
 graduated in the year 1903. 
 
 The West made its appeal to him as a place 
 of opportunity, and he went direct to Salt Lake 
 City, June, 1903. His chance came to him in 
 mining and not in the law. 
 
 The mountain of copper en the shores of 
 Great Salt Lake had not then been fully ex- 
 ploited or even explored. Several men were 
 trying to open up a section oi it, which they 
 believed contained very valuable deposits. 
 Young Catrow thought he could promote it, 
 and he was given the chance. He went back to 
 Ohio and succeeded in raising the necessary 
 money. He took hold of the property himself, 
 and applying all his energy to the task, suc- 
 ceeded in converting the Ohio into one of the 
 heaviest producers of the Bingham district. 
 He drove the great Columbia tunnel, through 
 which the first ores were taken out on the 
 Bingham side and treated at Winnamuck mill, 
 
 HENRY CATROW 
 
 and he was instrumental in having driven the 
 Mascotte tunnel and the Ohio Copper shaft, 
 two of the notable accomplishments of copper 
 mining in Utah, and was one of those behind 
 the building of the great 3,000-ton reduction 
 mill at Lanark. For a time F. Augustus Heinze 
 had control of the property, but there has never 
 been a time when Mr. Catrow has not been one 
 of the heaviest stockholders, and has not been 
 actively engaged in its de- 
 velopment. 
 
 He has bought real 
 estate in Salt Lake City, 
 and has made of himself 
 one of its substantial and 
 dependable citizens. He is 
 making all of his invest- 
 ments in Utah. 
 
 After the success of the 
 Ohio Copper was assured, 
 Mr. Catrow had the 
 chance to buy into the 
 Utah Copper Company, an 
 immense corporation, one 
 on which Utah's reputa- 
 tion as one of the world's 
 great producers of copper 
 is founded. 
 
 In politics he has taken 
 but little interest, chiefly 
 because he has not had the 
 time, but is mightily alive 
 to anything that concerns 
 the welfare of his city and 
 state. 
 
 He is popular socially, 
 in university and club cir- 
 cles. He is an active member of the Univer- 
 sity Club of Salt Lake City, one of the finest 
 institutions of the kind in the West. He is a 
 member of the famous Commercial Club of 
 Salt Lake and is glad to be called upon when- 
 ever that body has any need of him. He is a 
 Thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
 He is held up as an example of the typi- 
 cal young American of the present day, who, 
 regardless of the education he may ; have 
 had or the refinement of the home from 
 which he comes, is ready to turn his hand to 
 any honorable work. He comes from a fam- 
 ily in which good breeding is a tradition, and 
 was himself equipped with the best educa- 
 tion his vicinity could afford. He was even 
 ready to forego the profession he had 
 learned. He entered the rough mining 
 country ready to mix with rough men and to 
 do any task necessity might impose, in order 
 that he might have a chance at fortune. 
 
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 EESEMAN, CHARLES 
 JOHN, Merchant, Oakland, 
 California, was born in 
 Charleston, S. C., April 10, 
 1871, the son of Gerhard F. 
 and Louisa (Nordhausen) Heeseman. His 
 father, Gerhard F. Heeseman, was born in 
 Germany, but when very young went to 
 America, and first made his home in Charles- 
 ton, S. C. On November 
 5, 1849, he reached Cali- 
 fornia, and though he 
 subsequently returned to 
 Charleston for a while, he 
 is a pioneer of this State. 
 On his return to Califor- 
 nia in May, 1883, he 
 brought his family with 
 him and settled in Oak- 
 land, where his son, C. J. 
 Heeseman, has since be- 
 come a successful and 
 prominent citizen. The 
 latter was married there 
 on June 27, 1901, to Miss 
 Luella Kesler, daughter 
 of J. W. Kesler. 
 
 From 1877 to 1883 Mr. 
 Heeseman attended the 
 primary school in Charles- 
 ton. Moving to Oakland, 
 California, in the latter 
 year, he was a student at 
 the Tompkins Grammar, 
 and also at the Lincoln 
 School, during the next 
 three or four years. In 
 1887 he entered Heald's Business College, in 
 San Francisco, where for a year he took a 
 commercial course to equip himself for the 
 business career he had planned. 
 
 Mr. Heeseman's active business life began 
 in 1888, in the employ of Kohlberg, Straus & 
 Frohman, dry goods merchants of San Fran- 
 cisco. Here he was placed in charge of the 
 country department ^and remained therein 
 six months. He then went over to the house 
 of Kahn Brothers, for whom he worked for 
 the next four years, at the end of which pe- 
 riod he entered the employ of his uncles, C. 
 and A. Nordhausen, clothiers. Beginning as 
 a clerk, he rose, through the seven years of 
 his connection with this firm, to the post of 
 manager, and on the death of both of his em- 
 ployers, bought out the business, with his 
 savings, and also with the understanding 
 that if he "made good" he could continue the 
 enterprise. That he has supported his end of 
 
 C. J. HEESEMAN 
 
 the agreement the present condition of his 
 affairs is ample testimony. From what was 
 about the smallest business of its kind in the 
 State, he has built, in the short space of 
 twelve years, one of the largest concerns in 
 this line on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 After purchasing the Nordhausen in- 
 terests, he started with a store, twenty by 
 sixty feet, at the corner of Broadway and 
 Eleventh street, Oak- 
 land. On December 
 8, 1900, he moved to his 
 present location, 1107- 
 1113 Washington street, 
 where, until 1909, he oc- 
 cupied the ground floor, 
 and then took the entire 
 building, which he altered 
 to meet the requirements 
 of his expanded trade. 
 This includes everything 
 in the line of men's out- 
 fitting, not only supplying 
 the local demand, but 
 also doing a large mail- 
 order business. Mr. 
 Heeseman has recently 
 completed a handsome 
 building of his own, at 
 Clay and Fourteenth 
 streets, into which he will 
 move when it becomes 
 convenient to do so. Be- 
 sides this, he has acquired 
 valuable real estate in 
 Oakland, and is regarded 
 as one of her most 
 substantial and public spirited residents. For 
 a dozen years he has been a director and 
 treasurer of the Oakland Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He is also a director of the Security 
 Bank and Trust Company, and a member of 
 the advisory board of the West Oakland 
 Home of the Boys' Retreat. As a club man 
 he is an active participant in club entertain- 
 ments and amateur theatricals, wherein his 
 talents are in great demand. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Lambs and the National Demo- 
 cratic of New York; Bohemian, Family 
 and Southern of San Francisco; Athenian, 
 Nile (of which last he was president for 
 three years and a director for ten), Rotary, 
 Oakland Motor (director), and the California 
 Automobile Club of California. His fraternal 
 orders are the Masons, of which he has been 
 through all the grades, Elks, Knights of 
 Pythias, Woodmen of the World, and many 
 others. 
 
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 359 
 
 ELL, HARMON, Counselor at Law, 
 Oakland, California, was- born in 
 that city March 23, 1855, the son 
 of the Reverend Dr. Samuel B. 
 Bell and Sophie B. (Walsworth) 
 Bell. He married Miss Katherine 
 Wilson at San Francisco on January 16, 1880, and 
 they have two children living, Traylor W., who is 
 associated with his father in law practice, and 
 Joseph S. Bell. 
 
 Mr. Bell's paternal ancestors were New York- 
 ers, originally Scotch, and on the maternal side he 
 is of Revolutionary stock, partly English and Hol- 
 land Dutch. His- father, a Presbyterian clergyman, 
 was prominent in religious and political circles, 
 noted for progressive ideas, his ability as an orator 
 and his unswerving honesty. He was a pioneer in 
 the Golden State and built the First Presbyterian 
 Church in Oakland, afterwards serving as its pas- 
 tor. He was one of the organizers of the Repub- 
 lican party in the State of California and in 1857 
 was elected to the State Senate from Santa Clara 
 and Alameda Counties, this being the first time 
 that the Republican party had been represented in 
 either branch of the California Legislature and its 
 representation then consisting only of Dr. Bell and 
 the San Francisco delegate. Dr. Bell served 
 through that session and that of 1858, the Califor- 
 nia Legislature then meeting annually, and was in 
 the State Assembly during the Thirteenth Se&sion, 
 this being at the most stirring period of the Civil 
 War. Dr. Bell was a great friend of the noted Cal- 
 ifornian, Baker, and was himself a strong and log- 
 ical speaker. He took part in the promotion of 
 various important acts of legislation and had the 
 distinction of introducing into the Legislature the 
 first bill for the establishment of the University of 
 California, now one of the great educational insti- 
 tutions of America. He had previously helped to 
 found the California College and had seen the ad- 
 vantage of merging it into what has since come to 
 be one of the strongest universities on the conti- 
 nent and the pride of the State of California. 
 
 Harmon Bell's wife was the daughter of two 
 pioneer Californians, her father having been A. C. J. 
 Wilson of Santa Barbara, who was one of the first 
 men to get gold during the rush of 1849. 
 
 Mr. Bell's father being called to different re- 
 ligious charges while the son was in his youth, the 
 latter's education necessarily was divided, fre- 
 quently interrupted and obtained in various institu- 
 tions. But despite the many interruptions it was 
 exceptionally thorough and he also had the added 
 advantage of his father's assistance in his studies, 
 the latter then being in the prime of his activities. 
 The son's first early training was provided by the 
 Lyons Academy, Lyons, New York, he next attend- 
 ing Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he re- 
 mained only a short time. His final schoolroom work 
 was done in Washington College, a private institu- 
 tion of Alameda, California, and he then determined 
 
 upon law as a profession and took up its study. 
 
 Mr. Bell began his legal training in the office of 
 Dirlam & Lehman, of Mansfield, Ohio, whither his 
 father had taken him in 1875. Moving thence to 
 Kansas City, Missouri, the following year, he com- 
 pleted his preparation for the profession in the of- 
 fice of Judge Turner A. Gill, and on May 1, 1878, 
 was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
 Missouri. Having inherited an inclination for poli- 
 tics from his father, Mr. Bell allied himself with 
 the Republican party in Kansas City, and in 1881 
 was elected to the Missouri House of Representa- 
 tives. He served during that year and the next 
 and was one of the few Republican representatives 
 in the Legislature at that time. 
 
 For twenty years Mr. Bell devoted himself to 
 his profession in Kansas City and during that time 
 advanced to a position among the leaders of the 
 Bar of the city. 
 
 His practice was of a general nature, chiefly 
 civil, with only an occasional venture into the de- 
 vious lanes of criminal law, and though it was 
 marked by a number of important cases, it was 
 not enlivened by any noteworthy relief from the 
 monotony of ordinary legal routine. His first case 
 at the bar, however, was illumined by an amusing 
 incident that furnished significant evidence of 
 young Bell's powers of observation. The case had 
 not progressed far before he saw that the presiding 
 Judge had a decided admiration for the feminine 
 propensity of getting in the last word. But the 
 opposing counsel subsequently made the same dis- 
 covery. Thenceforth the proceedings developed 
 into a sort of mental catch-as-catch-can contest for 
 the ultimate syllable. Whether skill or endurance 
 was responsible for the victory has not appeared; 
 but at all events young Bell won the case. 
 
 His success in this, his first appearance in court 
 in the capacity of counsel, served to encourage Mr. 
 Bell and probably had an effect upon his whole 
 future career, because he recalled vividly the cir- 
 cumstances of that first contest and his knowledge 
 of human nature has since been one of his chief 
 assets. 
 
 In 1898, after nearly a quarter of a century in 
 other sections of the country, Mr. Bell returned to 
 his native California and opened offices for the 
 practice of his profession in San Francisco, where 
 he remained for about six years. 
 
 From the outset he made a specialty of corpora- 
 tion practice and in a period of approximately 
 fifteen years has attained position among the lead- 
 ing counselors of the Pacific Coast. His success in 
 the handling of corporation matters had much to 
 do with his summons to Oakland, in 1904, to be- 
 come the attorney for the Oakland Traction Com- 
 pany, and his labors since that time have been 
 little short of monumental. 
 
 Previous to his advent all of the Oakland corpo- 
 ration's properties had been in separate lines, but 
 with his advice the owners were able to bring about 
 
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 a consolidation which resulted in Oakland having 
 one of the most efficient electric railway systems 
 in the United States, this being one of the chief 
 factors in the marvelous growth within a few years 
 of Oakland and its environs. Mr. Bell drew up all 
 the papers for the establishment of the Key Route 
 Company, and allied corporations operating in op- 
 position to the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany's ferry lines, and he had charge of all the legal 
 business of the combined companies, which in- 
 cluded the Oakland Traction Company, the Key 
 Route Co. and the Realty Syndicate of Oakland. 
 
 In March, 1911, the electric lines of Oakland, to- 
 gether with the connecting lines of ferries, were 
 consolidated under the name of the San Francisco- 
 Oakland Terminal Railways-, and Mr. Bell, as Chief 
 Counsel for the Oakland interests, had a large part 
 in the completion of the merger which brought 
 about one of the largest traction corporations of 
 the United States. 
 
 Mr. Bell has continued as Chief Counsel for the 
 San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways and in 
 this capacity has been one of the potent influences 
 for harmonious conduct of the big company's busi- 
 ness. Since the beginning of his- connection with 
 the traction interests of Oakland Mr. Bell's practice 
 has been confined almost entirely to their affairs 
 and he has also expanded his knowledge of busi- 
 ness affairs to such an extent that he is almost an 
 essential part of the concern. The necessity of 
 keeping in touch with the decisions in corporation 
 cases, with the development of business, with the 
 field for bond issues that will appeal to the invest- 
 ing public, requires a legal and commercial acu- 
 men that proves Mr. Bell to be a close student of 
 all pertaining to those features of his Interests. 
 Necessarily, his work for the traction interests 
 of Oakland and San Francisco has involved mani- 
 fold duties and a versatility of unusually high de- 
 gree. The bond issues and damage suits alone have 
 constituted a task to which a capacity of a lesser 
 magnitude than that of Mr. Bell would have suc- 
 cumbed, but for many years he had personal charge 
 of all these cases and only recently relinquished the 
 handling of the damage suits to his assistants. 
 
 A large part of Mr. Bell's- success has been due 
 to his coolness and keen knowledge of human na- 
 ture. It has been the policy of fairness, originated 
 in the mind of Mr. Bell, which has aided in the 
 success of the traction enterprises of the Bay cities 
 and has helped along in the development of those 
 municipalities, for in the wake of modern electric 
 transportation facilities- Oakland, San Francisco 
 and other communities have greatly expanded and 
 real estate values- advanced as population increased. 
 
 In addition to his labors for the traction inter- 
 ests mentioned, Mr. Bell is the head of the law firm 
 of Bell, Bell & Smith of Oakland. This firm, 
 formed in September, 1911, is made up of himself, 
 his son, Traylor W. Bell, and Stanley J. Smith, son 
 of Judge Stanley A. Smith, of Downleville, Califor- 
 
 nia. The two younger men are among the most 
 promising of California attorneys-. Mr. Bell's son 
 inherited an inclination for the law and after a 
 splendid educational training was admitted to the 
 bar of California in May, 1905. He immediately 
 engaged in practice with his father under the firm 
 name of Bell & Bell, and after more than six years 
 together they took in Mr. Smith, with the result 
 that the firm is one of the leading law associations 
 of California. The younger members are asso- 
 ciated with Mr. Bell in his work for various trac- 
 tion corporations, but the firm also conducts a 
 general legal business, a large part of which is 
 handled by the junior members. 
 
 Despite the manifold demands of his practice, 
 Harmon Bell avoids the narrowness of outlook that 
 comes from long confinement in one branch of the 
 law even so wide a field as corporation law. He 
 has at all times been a supporter of the Republican 
 party, although not over active in political affairs, 
 and has taken a strong interest in public works of 
 Oakland and San Francisco. In the trying days 
 following the disaster of 1906, when San Francisco 
 was leveled by earthquake and fire, Mr. Bell threw 
 all his energy into the work of relief and did a 
 great deal towards alleviating the sufferings of the 
 stricken people. The Oakland Traction Company 
 put its ferries into service within a few hours after 
 the shock was felt by San Francisco and by pro- 
 viding beds and medical aid for the refugees helped 
 cons-iderably in restoring the confidence of the 
 people. 
 
 In the great tangle of legal problems and liti- 
 gation caused by the disaster attendant upon the 
 work of restoring normal conditions Mr. Bell was 
 a powerful factor and not only steered his clientele 
 safely through the maze, but also lent his advice in 
 the straightening out of affairs for others. 
 
 Always a supporter of projects for the benefit 
 of the Bay section, Mr. Bell was an advocate, from 
 the beginning, of the plan for holding a World 
 Fair at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the 
 opening of the Panama Canal and has extended his 
 assistance in many directions. 
 
 Mr. Bell has collected a large library of general 
 literature and finds relaxation in its stimulating 
 atmosphere. Standard and the best modern fiction 
 are his chief diversion, his zest for which is- en- 
 livened by the congenial tastes of his wife, with 
 whom he is especially fond of reading. 
 
 While not a clubman, in the strict meaning of 
 the term, Mr. Bell manages to devote a moment 
 now and then to the several associations of which 
 he is a member. Among the most prominent of 
 these are the Athenian Club and the Claremont 
 Golf and Country Club, both of Oakland, and the 
 Transportation and Commonwealth Clubs- of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 He is a Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine, 
 Knights Templar, B. P. O. Elks, and the Native 
 Sons of the Golden West. 
 
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 361 
 
 INDLEY, ALBERT, President of 
 the Order of Railway Employees' 
 Publishing Company, and of the 
 Order of Railway Employees' Fi- 
 nance Society, San Francisco, 
 was born at Clayton, Indiana, 
 June 13, 1864, the son of Milton Lindley and Mary 
 E. (Banta) Lindley. His father, of Scotch-English 
 origin, was born in North Carolina of Quaker 
 parentage, but before reaching manhood went to 
 Indiana where he became a 
 farmer, merchant and bank- 
 re. In 1866 the family moved 
 to Minneapolis whence, in 
 1875, they came to Los An- 
 geles. There Milton Lind- 
 ley was one of the leading 
 citizens, for several years 
 County Treasurer, later a 
 member of the County Board 
 of Supervisors and Chair- 
 man of its Finance Commit- 
 tee. 
 
 The mother of Albert 
 Lindley is of Dutch family, 
 her Holland ancestors hav- 
 ing settled on Manhattan 
 Island in 1659. Her grand- 
 father and three of her un- 
 cles were in the Revolu- 
 tionary War. Others of her 
 forbears fought in the War 
 of 1812, as well as in the 
 war with Mexico, and her 
 four brothers were officers 
 in the Civil War. She is 
 still living with her eldest 
 daughter in Los Angeles, at 
 the advanced age of eighty- 
 two; and her broad charities and graciousness 
 have won for her the love and veneration of the 
 many of several generations who have been blessed 
 with her acquaintance. 
 
 For several years Albert Lindley attended the 
 grammar school and high school of Minneapolis. 
 In 1880 he entered the University of Southern Cal- 
 ifornia, in Los Angeles, where he was one of the 
 first students enrolled, and whence he was grad- 
 uated in 1883, with the degree of B. A. 
 
 The first few years after graduation he was con- 
 nected with his brother, Hervey, in the lumber 
 business in Iowa and Dakota. Returning to 
 Los Angeles in 1887 he engaged in fruit raising, 
 farming and in a variety of other activities. From 
 1894 to 1900 inclusive he was keeper of the arch- 
 ives in the Department of State; but having pur- 
 chased the Southern Hotel of Bakersfield in the 
 latter part of the '90's he shifted thither the scene 
 of his operations. While there he took an active 
 part in political and fraternal matters, as an out- 
 let for his dynamic energies, as well as for the ad- 
 
 ALBERT LINDLEY 
 
 vancement of his own and his associates' interests. 
 In 1902 he disposed of his Bakersfield holdings, 
 shortly thereafter becoming superintendent of the 
 construction of the Klamath Lake Railroad, and 
 later superintendent of the operations of the line. 
 His next post was that of Secretary of the State 
 Agricultural Society. This he held for two years, 
 and in 1905 was appointed by Governor Pardee 
 State Building and Loan Commissioner, but toward 
 the end of 1910 resigned to devote himself to the 
 Order of Railway Employees, 
 and the management of his 
 own properties. 
 
 On January 1, 1910, Mr. 
 Lindley took charge of the 
 Railway Employees' Maga- 
 zine and the financial affairs 
 of the Order. Since then 
 both have been moving for- 
 ward toward the large des- 
 tiny he has planned for them. 
 He has overcome the handi- 
 cap imposed by the fact 
 that the Order lacked the 
 authorization of the railroads 
 to operate over their lines 
 and to accept paymasters' 
 deduction orders from em- 
 ployees, until today this priv- 
 ilege has been extended to 
 the Order by more than 
 thirty railways, including 
 four transcontinental sys- 
 tems. He purposes to aid in 
 bringing fifty thousand men 
 into the O. R. E. within the 
 next two years, and ultimate- 
 ly to establish lodges in 
 every great railway center 
 from the Pacific to the Atlantic. 
 
 Mr. Lindley has been prominent in the councils 
 of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company ever 
 since its inception. He was one of the original 
 members of the Committee of Ways and Means, 
 and took a leading part in the campaign for the 
 bond issue that made the Exposition possible. In 
 the latter respect his work was especially impor- 
 tant in Los Angeles County and throughout South- 
 ern California, where in a few weeks he changed 
 the whole sentiment and was perhaps the chief 
 factor in winning the day for the bonds by a large 
 majority. Was member Reception Committee dur- 
 ing President Taft's visit to San Francisco. 
 
 Beyond the foregoing activities, his outside 
 interests include investments in industrial stocks, 
 real estate and farming in various parts of Cali- 
 fornia. His clubs are the Union League, Common- 
 wealth, Elks and the Lagunitas. He is a public- 
 spirited, generous citizen, a hard fighter, when 
 fighting is necessary, a delightful companion, a 
 true friend and an able financier. 
 
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 AXEY, JOHN J., Capitalist, 
 Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of Ireland, having 
 been born in Tipperary on 
 June 14, 1839. His father was 
 Patrick Maxey and his mother was 
 Margaret (Slingsby) Maxey. Mr. Maxey 
 married in Atchison, Kansas, February 10, 
 1865, Miss Anna Burk. Six children have 
 been born to them. 
 
 When he was four 
 years old Mr. Maxey was 
 brought to the United 
 States and lived at St. 
 Joseph, Missouri, where 
 he grew up, and attended 
 the public schools of that 
 place until 1859, when he 
 launched out for himself 
 into a career which was 
 to be marked by extraor- 
 dinary activity and adven- 
 ture. 
 
 His first business ex- 
 perience was in engaging 
 in the wagon and carriage 
 business in Western Mis- 
 souri. He prospered, but 
 the Civil War brought 
 disorder and uncertainty 
 in the region he was 
 working in, and he was 
 forced to abandon his ef- 
 forts as an independent 
 dealer in the towns where 
 he had opened his busi- 
 ness; soon the struggles 
 
 JOHN J. MAXEY 
 
 going on through the country caused him to 
 return to St. Joseph, where he was obliged 
 for a time to work as an employe in a wagon 
 and carriage concern. 
 
 In the year 1861 there were two avenues 
 which engaged the attention of men of bold 
 activities ; one was the South, where the con- 
 flict was being waged, and the other was the 
 then really wild West, with its mysteries and 
 its promises of wealth. Mr. Maxey chose the 
 latter, and in that same year left St. Joseph 
 with a party who made Denver their object, 
 and their means of transportation were 
 wagons drawn by oxen. 
 
 On arriving at Denver Mr. Maxey at once 
 found an opening for the knowledge he had 
 already gained; he set up in the blacksmith- 
 ing and wagon business, making the outfit- 
 ting of "prairie schooners" a large part of his 
 business, for at that era Denver was the out- 
 post and outfitting point for those who had 
 
 in view the hazardous journey to California. 
 In 1862, when Mr. Maxey was but twen- 
 ty-three years of age, he was engaged by the 
 famous Ben Holliday as a mechanic, going 
 back and forth with the Holliday stages 
 shoeing their horses and repairing the 
 coaches. 
 
 That was the time of adventure with the 
 hostile Indians, and Mr. Maxey had his share 
 
 of those perils in his trips 
 
 from the Missouri River 
 to California; in the win- 
 ter of 1865 he was en- 
 gaged in a running fight 
 with Indians in the now 
 staid and commonplace 
 region between Denver 
 and Atchison, Kansas, 
 and to save his life had to 
 lose the coach. 
 
 In the spring of 1866 
 Mr. Maxey engaged 
 again in coach repairing 
 and general blacksmith- 
 ing in Denver, but in 
 1868 became associated as 
 a partner in business with 
 W. J. Kinsey. In 1868 
 this association was dis- 
 solved and Mr. Maxey 
 went into business again 
 for himself, adding farm 
 implements to his stock. 
 At the same time he en- 
 gaged in the livestock 
 business on a large ranch 
 he had acquired. 
 
 So well did he prosecute his affairs that 
 in 1876 he sold out his varied interests and 
 moved to Los Angeles. After arriving in Cali- 
 fornia he found a pleasant occupation in 
 orange culture, and in looking after his per- 
 sonal interests, which consist of large estates 
 in Denver and Los Angeles. 
 
 All of his property Mr. Maxey adminis- 
 ters through the J. J. Maxey corporation, of 
 which he is president. 
 
 He is a man of most entertaining charac- 
 ter. His stories of the pioneer days would 
 form the most interesting reading for future 
 generations. He had an intimate acquaint- 
 ance with most of the noted characters of the 
 West, men we can but hear about now or see 
 imitated in a Wild West show. 
 
 He possesses an intimate knowledge of 
 the early Los Angeles and remembers well 
 the small beginning of most of the great 
 financial institutions of that city. 
 
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 363 
 
 OCKWEILER, JOHN HEN- 
 RY, Civil Engineer, San 
 Francisco, California, was 
 born in Lancaster, New 
 York, February 20, 1864, the 
 son of Henry Dockweiler and Margaretha 
 (Sugg) Dockweiler, the former of whom 
 came from Bavaria while the latter was an 
 Alsatian by birth. Mr. Dockweiler was mar- 
 ried in Los Angeles, Oc- 
 tober 21, 1902, to Miss 
 Martha A. Schultheis. 
 
 Mr. Dockweiler went 
 to Los Angeles when he 
 was but six months old, 
 and may therefore be 
 classed as a Native Son. 
 He first attended a pre- 
 paratory school there, and 
 from 1872 to the end of 
 1878 was a student at St. 
 Vincent's College in the 
 same city. For a period 
 of eighteen months, be- 
 ginning in 1879, he was 
 employed in a hotel in Los 
 Angeles as bellboy and 
 storeroom keeper. He 
 then entered the office of 
 the City Surveyor of Los 
 Angeles, where he re- 
 mained until September, 
 1881, when he joined a 
 railroad surveying party 
 and worked under locat- 
 ing and constructing en- 
 gineers to the end of 1883. 
 He re-entered St. Vincent's College at the 
 beginning of 1884, remaining there two 
 years. At the beginning of 1886 he again 
 secured employment in the office of the City 
 Surveyor, but left in the spring of 1887 to 
 open an office for himself, engaged in the 
 general practice of surveying. During this 
 period he was employed as one of the engi- 
 neers on the construction of the cable rail- 
 way system in Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1891 he became City Engineer of Los 
 Angeles, serving four years, until the end of 
 1894. In 1895 and 1896 he was engaged in 
 general engineering work, and in 1897 again 
 became City Engineer, serving for two years. 
 While City Engineer he devoted considera- 
 ble time to the problems of water supply for 
 the city and the litigation connected there- 
 with. He resumed private practice in 1899 
 and for the next five years was active in gen- 
 eral engineering and in the investigation of 
 
 J. H. DOCKWEILER 
 
 mining properties. In January, 1904, he 
 went to San Francisco in the capacity of con- 
 sulting engineer to the City Attorney of that 
 city, in the litigation pending between the 
 Spring Valley Water Works and the City of 
 San Francisco, and has held that position to 
 the present date. He became consulting en- 
 gineer in 1906 to the city of Oakland in the 
 litigation between the Contra Costa Water 
 Company and the city 
 of Oakland, which posi- 
 tion he still retains. In 
 1908 he was appointed 
 consulting engineer to 
 the City Council of Oak- 
 land in the matter of wa- 
 ter rates, which position 
 he still holds. He also 
 served in a consulting ca- 
 pacity to other communi- 
 ties in the matter of wa- 
 ter supplies. In 1906 he 
 proposed the project of 
 the formation of a muni- 
 cipal water district for all 
 cities around the Bay of 
 San Francisco, which was 
 put into legal shape by 
 the City Attorney of San 
 Francisco, Percy V. 
 Long, and the City At- 
 torney of Oakland, the 
 late John E. McElroy. 
 This law is known as the 
 Municipal Water District 
 Act and was passed by 
 the Legislature of Cali- 
 fornia in 1909. This is the pet project and 
 hobby of Mr. Dockweiler, and is the only so- 
 lution which, in his opinion, will settle the 
 water problem which is confronting the ever 
 increasing population in the region of the 
 Bay of San Francisco. 
 
 His card index is an object lesson of the 
 ease with which the minutest detail in con- 
 nection with important lawsuits running over 
 many years can be instantly located. The 
 testimony given in two of the principal water 
 rate suits has been typed on more than 75,000 
 cards, which have been indexed and cross- 
 indexed under thousands of headings. 
 
 His military, social and technical connec- 
 tions may be summed up in his membership 
 of the Corps of Engineers of the National 
 Guard, with the rank of Major; Common- 
 wealth Club of San Francisco, American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers and Engineers and 
 Architects' Society of Southern California. 
 
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 365 
 
 LDRIDGE, WALTER HULL, Min- 
 ing and Metallurgical Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Brooklyn, New York, Septem- 
 ber 8, 1867. He is the son of Vol- 
 ney Aldridge and Harriet Eliza- 
 beth (Hull) Aldridge. He married Nancy Tuttle 
 at Rossland, British Columbia, January 11, 1899, 
 and to them there have been born three children, 
 Katherine, Duncan and Walter Aldridge. 
 
 Mr. Aldridge is a descendant of Commodore 
 Isaac Hull, commander of the historic old "Con- 
 stitution," which wrought such havoc with the 
 British ships during the war of 1812; General 
 William Hull of Revolutionary fame, who was with 
 Washington at the battles of Princeton and Tren- 
 ton, and Commodore Perry, the hero of the battle 
 of Lake Erie. 
 
 Mr. Aldridge received his primary education in 
 the public schools of Brooklyn, leaving to enter 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He followed this 
 with attendance at Columbia University in New 
 York City and was graduated from the latter in- 
 stitution in June, 1887, as Engineer of Mines. 
 Almost immediately after his graduation Mr. Ald- 
 ridge became Assayer for the Colorado Smelting 
 Company, which owned the famous Madonna Mine 
 and a smelting plant at Pueblo, Colorado, 'ihis 
 company was controlled by Abram S. Hewitt, New 
 York City's noted Mayor; General Davis of 
 New York, and the Seligmans, bankers, and 
 Anton Eilers, the latter being General Manager, and 
 Otto Hahn, Superintendent. Mr. Aldridge later be- 
 came Chemist and Metallurgist for the company. 
 In 1892, after five years of successful work in 
 his chosen lines, Mr. Aldridge left the Colorado 
 company to become manager of the United Smelt- 
 ing & Refining Company, which was owned by the 
 same group of capitalists. This company operated 
 a large custom smelting plant at East Helena, 
 Montana, another at Great Falls, Montana, and a 
 refinery at South Chicago. The United was ab- 
 sorbed by the American Smelting & Refining Com- 
 pany after Mr. Aldridge severed his connection 
 with it to take a position with Sir William Van 
 Home, President of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, 
 and afterwards with Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, who 
 became President. He was placed in charge of all 
 the mining and metallurgical work of the railroad, 
 and soon was among the foremost mining men of 
 the American Continent. During his connection 
 with the railroad he established extensive lead and 
 copper works at Trail, B. C., and an electrolytic 
 lead refinery. This latter was the first plant of 
 its kind the world ever saw and has since played 
 an important part in the industrial history of 
 Canada. Through that institution, Canada pro- 
 duced its first refined lead, silver and gold, Mr. 
 Aldridge thus being responsible for the introduc- 
 tion into the Dominion of one of its most impor- 
 tant modern industries. An interesting historical 
 feature in connection with the plant is the fact 
 that it produced for Japan most of the lead which 
 
 that nation used during the memorable war with 
 Russia, the contest that made Japan a nation of 
 the first class and awakened the rest of the civil- 
 ized peoples to the fact that the Mikado's country 
 was entitled to rank as a world power. 
 
 Mr. Aldridge's next big work, following the in- 
 stallation of the electrolytic works, was the de- 
 velopment of the Hosmer and Bankhead coal 
 mines. The dust from the Bankhead coal, which is 
 semi-anthracite, was utilized for the manufacture 
 of coal dust briquettes, which were produced for 
 the first time on a commercial scale by the Zwoyer 
 process. 
 
 The metal mining interests of the railroad conv 
 pany were incorporated under the name of the 
 Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company, which 
 controlled many of British Columbia's largest lead, 
 silver, gold and copper mines, as well as the large 
 reduction works at Trail. 
 
 Mr. Aldridge resigned his position as Managing 
 Director of the Consolidated Smelting and Refining 
 Company and other Canadian Pacific Railway in- 
 stitutions to become associated with William B. 
 Thompson of the Gunn-Thompson Company of New 
 York. Mr. Aldridge has charge of Mr. Thompson's 
 extensive mining interests, which include Inspira- 
 tion Copper Company (Managing Director), Mason 
 Valley Mines Company (Consulting Engineer), Mag- 
 ma Copper Company (Consulting Engineer), Gunn- 
 Quealy Coal Company (Consulting Engineer) and 
 the Mines Company of America. As Managing Di- 
 rector of the Inspiration Copper Company, which, 
 after consolidation with the Cole-Ryan Syndicate's 
 Live Oak mine, has forty-five million tons of two 
 per cent copper ore, Mr. Aldridge had supervision 
 of the extensive mine development and concentra- 
 tor, which will involve a capital outlay of $7,000,000. 
 Associated in these companies with Mr. Thomp- 
 son are some of the principal men in the Amal- 
 gamated Copper and United States Steel groups 
 of financiers, besides other large New York inter- 
 ests. 
 
 In addition to the companies already mentioned, 
 Mr. Aldridge is a Director in the Consolidated Min- 
 ing & Smelting Company, the Hosmer Mines Com- 
 pany, the Bankhead Mines Company and the High 
 River Wheat & Cattle Company, the latter four 
 being Canadian corporations. 
 
 Mr. Aldridge is a member of the American Elec- 
 tro-Chemical Society, South Bethlehem, Pa.; Cana- 
 dian Institute of Mining Engineers, Institution of 
 Mining and Metallurgy, London, E. C. ; American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers and the Mining and 
 Metallurgical Society of America. 
 
 His clubs are the Rocky Mountain Club, New 
 York; Down Town Association, New York; Cali- 
 fornia Club, Los Angeles', California; Los Angeles 
 Country Club, Los Angeles; Sierra Madre Club, 
 Los Angeles; Gamut Club, Los Angeles; Alta 
 Club, Salt Lake City, Utah; Spokane Club, Spo- 
 kane, Washington; Manitoba Club, Winnipeg, Can- 
 ada; Nelson Club, Nelson, British Columbia, and 
 Rossland Club, Rossland, British Columbia. 
 
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 THEODORE MARTIN 
 
 ARTIN, THEODORE, Attorney and 
 Counselor at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in the city of 
 Quebec, Canada, the son of Theo- 
 dore and Isabella Martin. He mar- 
 ried Frances M. McClure at Salida, 
 Colorado. They have one son, Theodore F. Martin. 
 
 When a small boy, after his father's death, Mr. 
 Martin's mother moved to Chicago. There he re- 
 ceived his boyhood education, later going to Colo- 
 rado, where he studied law and was admitted to 
 the bar by the Supreme Court of that State. 
 
 Forming a co-partnership with the Hon. Charles 
 S. Libby, with offices in both Salida and Buena 
 Vista., he selected mining law and land office pro- 
 cedure as a specialty, and soon became prominent 
 by reason of his connection with some of the promi- 
 nent mining cases in that and the adjoining Lead- 
 ville district. 
 
 He went into politics and soon made himself 
 felt. His grasp of party affairs, his eloquence, his 
 popularity with the leaders of his party and with 
 the public brought him quick success. He became a 
 well known public figure. 
 
 In 1891 he was elected District Attorney of the 
 Eleventh Judicial District of Colorado, embracing 
 the counties of Chaffee, Park, Custer and Fremont, 
 and was very successful in that capacity. 
 
 Moving to California in 1895, he has been ac- 
 tively engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 His law library, especially with reference to works 
 which treat of his specialty, is one of the best in 
 the State. 
 
 He is the author of "Martin's Mining Law and 
 Land Office Procedure." This work, which appeared 
 in 1908, has been well received by the legal profes- 
 sion and is considered an authority on the subjects 
 treated. 
 
 Mr. Martin is a member of the Jonathan, Union 
 League and Sierra Madre clubs. 
 
 H. H. ROSE 
 
 OSE, HENRY HOWARD, City Jus- 
 tice, ex-officio Police Judge, Law- 
 yer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Taycheedah, Fond du Lac 
 County, Wis., Nov. 27, 1856. He 
 is the son of Henry Fontaine Rose 
 and Mary Ward (Howard) Rose. He married Ger- 
 trude Golden Ruggles (deceased), of Fond du Lac, 
 Aug. 20, 1884. She died May 28, 1909, since when 
 he contracted a second marriage with Leonie E. 
 Klein at Ventura, Cal. There is one son by the first 
 marriage, Augustus Ruggles Rose. 
 
 He attended St. Paul's Parish School and the 
 Fond du Lac High School. Then he studied law in 
 the office of his father at Fond du Lac, Wis. He 
 was admitted to the bar July 8, 1881. 
 
 Judge Rose was employed as traveling auditor 
 for Warder, Bushnell & Co. of Chicago for one year, 
 then was given a similar position with the Wheel 
 and Seeder Co. of Fond du Lac, and later with the 
 Fuller & Johnson Co. of Madison, Wis. In 1885 he 
 entered the firm of Briggs & Rose, dealers in farm 
 machinery, at Fond du Lac, and was a partner in 
 this business until 1888. He then traveled for 
 pleasure for a while, and in the fall of 1888 he went 
 to Pasadena, Cal., where he resumed law practice. 
 
 In Pasadena he soon made himself a public fig- 
 ure on account of his interest in civic affairs. Two 
 years after his arrival he was nominated and 
 elected to his first office. 
 
 Made Justice of the Peace of Pasadena Town- 
 ship, 1890; 1891 to 1893, City Recorder of Pasa- 
 dena; Deputy Dist. Atty., Los Angeles County, 1903 
 to 1905; since March, 1905, City Justice, Los An- 
 geles. He was a member of the Fond du Lac 
 National Guards from 1880 to 1888. 
 
 He is a member of the California, Caledonian 
 and Celtic clubs, the Elks, So. Cal. Rod and Reel 
 Assn. and L. A. Bar Assn.; also to Arlington Lodge, 
 F. and A. M., Crown Chapter, No. 72, Pasadena. 
 
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 H. J. LBLANDE 
 
 ELANDE, HARRY JASON, Coun- 
 ty Clerk, Los Angeles County, was 
 born October 28, 1871, at Sonora, 
 California. His father was Peter 
 J. Lelande, and his mother Adele 
 (St. Cyr) Lelande. On August 
 19, 1895, he married Mary Winifred Davidson at 
 Pasadena, Cal. Their children are Reginald D., 
 Grace Dorothy, Marjorie Helen. Davidson S. and 
 Patricia. Mr. Lelande has resided in Los Angeles 
 thirty-nine years. 
 
 Attended Los Angeles schools until 1890, then 
 went to Phillips' Academy at Andover, Mass.; Shef- 
 field Scientific Dept. of Yale in 1890. In November, 
 1892, he purchased the interest of R. L. McKnight, 
 of Edwards & McKnight, booksellers and stationers. 
 In 1894 he purchased the interest of Mr. Edwards 
 and disposed of the business in 1895. Formed a 
 partnership with Victor Wankowski in the fire in- 
 surance business, and also had the agency for 
 the Continental Building and Loan Associa- 
 tion of San Francisco. He accepted a position in 
 the City Assessor's office in 1899, and was Deputy 
 City Assessor, 1899 to 1900; Correspondence Clerk 
 in the City Tax Collector's office, 1900 to 1902; 
 City Clerk, 1903 to 1910, inclusive. He was elected 
 County Clerk, November, 1910, assuming duties in 
 that office January, 1911. Mr. Lelande polled the 
 highest vote on the Republican ticket. 
 
 He is director, Bankers' Guaranty Loan Co.; 
 Grizzly Bear Publishing Co.; secretary, Vernon 
 Athletic Association; director, American Machine 
 Tool Co., and of the Gates Oil Co. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Cooper Ornithological Club and member 
 of many reform and scientific societies. 
 
 Mr. Lelande is a member of the Union League, 
 Los Angeles Athletic, Gamut, City Federation and 
 Ellis Clubs, Hollenbeck Lodge of Masons, Elks 
 Lodge No. 99. 
 
 ED. W. HOPKINS 
 
 OPKINS, ED. W., County Assessor 
 for Los Angeles County, Califor- 
 nia. Born March 25, 1863, at Os- 
 kaloosa, Iowa, the son of John Y. 
 Hopkins and Mary (Needham) 
 Hopkins. He married Martha L. 
 McVicker at Los Angeles, April 4, 1895, and is the 
 father of six children: Mary, Ella, Ruth, John, Bes- 
 sie and Helen Hopkins. 
 
 He received a common school education and in 
 time took up reading of law and prepared himself 
 for the Bar. He was admitted to practice by the 
 Supreme Court of Iowa in the year 1887. 
 
 After getting his parchment he moved from 
 Iowa to Kansas and there practiced his profession, 
 but it did not yield much of a living in those days 
 and he moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1889. There 
 he obtained a position as traveling auditor and 
 collector for a machine house and remained with 
 that firm until he went to Los Angeles in 1891. 
 
 Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Mr. Hop- 
 kins took up real estate, opening offices on West 
 Fourth street. He later took into the firm a part- 
 ner, and they maintained a profitable trade up to 
 1895, when Mr. Hopkins sold his share to accept 
 an appointment as Deputy Assessor of Los Angeles 
 County. While in the real estate business the 
 firm handled a considerable amount of downtown 
 property and his work in that line was crowned 
 with success. 
 
 He held the position of Deputy Assessor for 
 twelve years, and in 1907 Ben Ward, the Assessor 
 made him Chief Deputy. That year Mr. Ward died 
 and Mr. Hopkins was appointed County Assessor 
 by the Board of Supervisors to fill the unexpired 
 term of Ward. He was elected County Assessor in 
 1910, and has served nearly a year of his term. 
 
 Mr. Hopkins is a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 Mystic Shriner, Knight of Pythias and a member of 
 Union League and City Clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
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 EWCOMB, ARTHUR T., 
 Physician and Surgeon, Pasa- 
 dena, California, was born in 
 Killawog, New York State, 
 in the year 1871, the son of 
 Franklin T. Newcomb and Elizabeth 
 (Thurston) Newcomb. He married Olive 
 Stratton of Pasadena in 1895. 
 
 He was educated chiefly in the best of the 
 private schools of New 
 York State. He was first 
 sent to Homer Academy, 
 a noted school for boys, 
 and when he had com- 
 pleted the course there, he 
 was transferred to the 
 Cortland Normal Acad- 
 emy, where he received 
 his higher education. To 
 qualify htm for business 
 he was sent to the Wells 
 Business College at Syra- 
 cuse, New York. 
 
 He decided upon a med- 
 ical career, and entered 
 the Baltimore Medical 
 College, Baltimore, Mary- 
 land. He went there the 
 allotted number of years, 
 taking a course in medi- 
 cine and surgery, and was 
 graduated with the class 
 of 1893. 
 
 Although in possession 
 of his degree as Doctor 
 of Medicine he did not 
 think himself qualified to 
 practice. He went to the most famous post- 
 graduate school in America, Johns Hopkins, 
 at Baltimore, and took considerable work in 
 advanced courses. 
 
 He has been a student of his profession 
 throughout his life, stopping his practice 
 when necessary in order to master some 
 phase of his work, some problem or disease 
 that had presented itself. Five years later 
 he went to the University of Chicago, where 
 meanwhile had been gathered some of the 
 best medical educators in America, and took 
 additional work. He has, from time to time, 
 made a careful study of the clinics in New 
 York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and at the 
 Mayos in Rochester, Minnesota. 
 
 His thorough training recommended him 
 to the United States government and for four 
 years he had a medical post under the Sur- 
 geon General of the United States. He then 
 determined upon a private practice. 
 
 DR. A. T. NEWCOMB 
 
 He opened an office in Baltimore, and en- 
 gaged in a general practice, with uniform 
 success, because his work as United States 
 surgeon had made him well known. There 
 he remained for two years, until the attrac- 
 tions of Southern California, and the oppor- 
 tunities of Pasadena, decided him to make 
 his future home in that city. 
 
 He opened an office in Pasadena in the 
 year 1900, and at once his 
 business became lucra- 
 tive. He became known 
 as a careful practitioner, 
 who studied each case 
 with exceeding care. He 
 has now built up a wide 
 clientele, and is family 
 physician to many of the 
 noted families of the win- 
 ter city of millionaires. 
 
 Dr. Newcomb has been 
 a hard worker in the many 
 medical societies of which 
 he is a member. One of 
 the most important to 
 which he belongs is the 
 Medical Chirurgical Fac- 
 ulty of Maryland. He 
 has attended the sessions 
 of the American Medical 
 Association, and of the 
 International Congress of 
 Tuberculosis, in both of 
 which he is a member. 
 He is especially interested 
 in the work of the latter 
 organization, which con- 
 centrates the world-wide effort of the med- 
 ical profession to suppress the great White 
 Plague. Since coming to the State of Cali- 
 fornia, he has maintained his interest in the 
 medical societies, which he believes are pow- 
 erful factors in maintaining a high standard 
 of skill in the profession. He is a member 
 of the California State Medical Association, 
 also of the Los Angeles County Medical As- 
 sociation. He is one of the most active mem- 
 bers of the Clinical and Pathological Society 
 of the State, and of the Pasadena Medical 
 Society. 
 
 He is well known socially, and is a mem- 
 ber of the best clubs of Southern California, 
 in addition to the strictly learned and tech- 
 nical societies. He is a member of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Los Angeles, the Annandale 
 Country Club and the Overland Club of Pasa- 
 dena, and of the Southern California Auto- 
 mobile Club, and Catalina Tuna Club. 
 
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 'GURRIN, FRANK E., Bank- 
 
 Mc er, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 was born in Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan, April 2, 1861. He 
 is the son of Manis McGur- 
 rin and Ellen (Malone) McGurrin. He 
 married Jane Darling at Paw Paw, Michi- 
 gan, June 30, 1886, and to them there was 
 born one child, Frank Leland McGurrin, 
 who died in his second 
 year. 
 
 Mr. McGurrin was ed- 
 ucated in the public 
 schools of his native city, 
 but quit the schoolroom 
 when he was sixteen 
 years of age and entered 
 the office of D. E. Cor- 
 bitt, attorney, where he 
 was a clerk and at the 
 same time studied law. 
 He was in the office 
 for approximately seven 
 years, and although he 
 was still a youth his 
 power of application as- 
 serted itself, and in addi- 
 tion to reading Black- 
 stone, he studied litera- 
 ture, mathematics and 
 music under private in- 
 structors. 
 
 He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1884, but did 
 not begin the practice of 
 his profession. 
 
 He had previously 
 
 learned shorthand and typewriting. He took 
 up stenography and became a court reporter. 
 He was one of the masters of that profession 
 while he followed it, and at one time held 
 the championship of the United States in 
 both branches of it. 
 
 Mr. McGurrin won national fame as a re- 
 sult of his victory in his professional con- 
 tests, and when he went to Salt Lake City, 
 in 1886, two years after he had qualified as 
 a lawyer, he was readily appointed a court 
 reporter for the United States Court. His 
 proficiency in his work, added to his knowl- 
 edge of law, made him a valued official of 
 the court, and during the several years that 
 he held his position he was one of the most 
 thorough and capable men in the service of 
 the judiciary. 
 
 After a few years Mr. McGurrin went 
 into the business of loans and investments, 
 and there built the foundation for a career 
 
 FRANK E. McGURRIN 
 
 which has made him one of the notably suc- 
 cessful men in Utah's world of finance. He 
 made a success of his first venture and by 
 wise management amassed a fortune within 
 a short time sufficient to justify him in 
 branching out. Accordingly, in 1904, he or- 
 ganized the Salt Lake Security and Trust 
 Company, an institution which has grown in 
 strength and importance until today it is rec- 
 ognized as one of the 
 most stable in the West. 
 It now has a capital of 
 $300,000, and an earned 
 surplus of $100,000, a 
 record that few banking 
 houses can boast in seven 
 years of existence. In 
 addition to this, it has 
 paid regular dividends of 
 eight per cent ever since 
 its organization. Mr. Mc- 
 Gurrin is president of it, 
 and it is due in large 
 measure to his manager- 
 ial ability that the bank 
 has attained its present 
 position. 
 
 The Security, how- 
 ever, is not the only bank 
 in whose success Mr. Mc- 
 Gurrin has been a factor, 
 for he is President of the 
 Commercial Bank of 
 Tooele, Utah. In addi- 
 tion to that he is Presi- 
 dent of the Inter-Moun- 
 tain Lumber Company 
 and a director of the Inter-Mountain Life In- 
 surance and the Mutual Realty Company. All 
 of these corporations are in active operation, 
 and to each of them Mr. McGurrin gives a 
 portion of his time, taking a leading part in 
 the policies that guide them. 
 
 He is a tireless worker and because of his 
 varied interests is compelled to apply him- 
 self closely to business, but he finds time to 
 join in any movement that is intended to 
 upbuild and improve his adopted city, and 
 is known as one of the most patriotic citi- 
 zens and most generous philanthropists in 
 Salt Lake. 
 
 Mr. McGurrin is a noted golfer and for 
 three successive years held the golfing cham- 
 pionship of the State of Utah. He is also a 
 leading clubman and holds membership in 
 the following: Alta, Commercial and Coun- 
 try clubs, of Salt Lake City, and the Victoria 
 Club, of Riverside, California. 
 
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 D. D. BUICK 
 
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 UICK, DAVID DUNBAR, Oil and 
 Mine Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Arbroth, Scot- 
 land, September 17, 1854, the son 
 of Alexander Buick and Jane 
 (Roger) Buick. He married Car- 
 rie Catherine Schwinck at Detroit, Michigan, Nov- 
 ember 27, 1878, and to them there have been born 
 four children, Thomas D., Frances Jane, Maybelle 
 Lucille and Wynton R. Buick. 
 
 Mr. Buick was brought to this country when he 
 was two years of age, the family settling in Detroit, 
 and there he made his home for the next forty- 
 seven years. His father died when the boy was 
 five years old and the latter had to shift for him- 
 self at an early age. He received his education 
 in the Bishop public school of Detroit, but even 
 in childhood displayed the energy which has been 
 one of the factors in a life of uninterrupted suc- 
 cesses. He left school at the age of eleven to go 
 to work on a farm, but for some years prior to 
 that time had devoted certain hours of each day 
 to a newspaper route which he controlled. 
 
 After three years of farm life, Mr. Buick, in 
 1869, returned to Detroit and took up the occupa- 
 tion of brass finisher as an apprentice. Later 
 when he was recognized as an expert finisher, he 
 was chosen foreman of the plant where he had 
 learned the business and remained with the com- 
 pany until 1882. He then went into business for 
 himself, in partnership with William Sherwood, 
 the firm being known as Buick & Sherwood, man- 
 ufacturers of plumber's supplies, and at that time 
 the largest of its kind in the United States. They 
 conducted this business with great success for 
 eighteen years, selling out in 1900 to the Standard 
 Sanitary Manufacturing Co., of which Mr. Buick 
 was one of the organizers. Mr. Buick continued 
 as one of the members of the new concern for 
 about a year, contributing towards its upbuilding 
 several valuable inventions of his own. 
 
 Up to this time Mr. Buick had made a success 
 of every enterprise with which he was associated, 
 but he was destined for still greater fame and 
 achievement. For some time Mr. Buick had been 
 experimenting with the automobile and continued 
 his experiments after he went into the manufac- 
 ture, in the latter part of 1901, of marine and sta- 
 tionary engines, in Detroit. In the beginning of 
 1903 he produced his first automobile engine and 
 thereupon began building a complete motor car. 
 For a time, however, he was almost alone in his 
 enthusiasm, but within a few months he completed 
 his car, and interested several of the officers of the 
 Flint Wagon Works. 
 
 Mr. Buick drove the car from Detroit to Flint, 
 Michigan, demonstrating the practicability of the 
 automobile which was destined to become famous 
 under the name of "Buick." This resulted in the 
 organization, on September 3, 1903, of the Buick 
 Motor Company. 
 
 The headquarters of the Company were at Flint, 
 where the machines were constructed, and the 
 first year of its existence thirty-seven cars were 
 turned out. From that time on the success of the 
 Buick automobile was assured. Mr. Buick at first 
 engaged only in the manufacture of the engines 
 for the automobiles, but later, with the increasing 
 demand for the cars, his company established 
 
 the extensive plant at Flint, which has been the 
 home of the Buick automobile ever since. 
 
 It is interesting to note that Mr. Buick, who 
 later withdrew from the automobile company on 
 account of ill health and went to Los Angeles, 
 where he has since turned his attention to other 
 lines of industry, has seen borne out a prophecy 
 made by him years ago. It was in 1903 or the early 
 part of 1904, during a consultation with the offi- 
 cers of his company regarding the sales of auto- 
 mobiles, that he declared with enthusiasm that the 
 end of twenty years would find only the surface 
 of the business scratched that in time horse- 
 drawn vehicles would be little more than reminders 
 of a past age. In his mind's eye he could see the 
 immense traffic of the automobile as it is known 
 to-day and he predicted to his associates the uni- 
 versal adoption of the automobile for business and 
 pleasure. They were skeptical, but willing to be 
 convinced, and Buick, the inventor, aided largely 
 in the work of convincing them. 
 
 The picture sketched by him when the auto- 
 mobile was in its infancy has since become a reali- 
 ty, with hundreds of thousands of cars in daily 
 use and the business itself regarded as the most 
 gigantic manufacturing line in the United States. 
 
 Early in 1910, the year following Mr. Buick's 
 removal from Flint to Los Angeles, he took charge 
 of the affairs of the Buick Oil Company, of which 
 he is President. The company has been one of the 
 successful operating companies in the California 
 fields, and had one well, known as Buick No. 1, 
 which produced 900,000 barrels of oil in ten months 
 of operation. Another well, Buick No. 3, came in 
 as a gusher and produced 550,000 barrels in a period 
 of four months. This was one of the most sensa- 
 tional gushers in the history of California oil, being 
 ranked second in size of flow. 
 
 As President and General Manager of this com- 
 pany, Mr. Buick has been extremely active in the 
 oil business, and has spent a great deal of time 
 in the fields, personally directing operations, being 
 qualified, because of his own engineering ability, 
 to handle the work in all its detail. 
 
 In addition to his oil interests, Mr. Buick also 
 has been engaged for some time in mining in Cal- 
 ifornia. He is President, General Manager and 
 chief stockholder of a company operating on the 
 mother lode at Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, 
 and in this, as in his other enterprises, has met 
 with splendid success. 
 
 Mr. Buick, during the few years he has been 
 a resident of California, has become known as one 
 of the State and is generally regarded as one who 
 has helped largely in developing her resources. 
 
 While he is distinguished for having made a 
 success of all his ventures, Mr. Buick's greatest 
 success came to him late in life, for he was forty- 
 nine years of age when he organized the Buick 
 Motor Company; but since that time all of his ven- 
 tures have been attended with extraordinarily 
 large rewards. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles, Mr. Buick has 
 built a handsome home in one of the fashionable 
 residence sections of the city and his family has 
 taken an active part in the social life in California. 
 
 His only affiliation outside of business circles, 
 is the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ANNER, RICHARD ROB- 
 ERT, Lawyer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born March 
 30, 1858, at San Juan, San 
 Benito County, California, the 
 son of Albert Miles Tanner and Lovina 
 (Bickmore) Tanner. On the paternal side 
 he is descended from Captain Miles Stand- 
 ish, the Puritan, renowned in history and 
 tradition. He has been 
 married twice, the second 
 time to Sebaldina M. 
 Bontty, February 1, 1894, 
 at Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia. There is one daugh- 
 ter, Nora Ormsby (nee) 
 Tanner, by his former 
 wife, who was Miss Eliz- 
 abeth J. Robinson, daugh- 
 ter of Judge Henry Rob- 
 inson, of Ventura, Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Mr. Tanner attended 
 the schools of Monterey, 
 Santa Cruz County, Cali- 
 fornia, until he was four- 
 teen years old, then, in 
 1871, the family moved to 
 Ventura County, and 
 there he finished his 
 schooling. 
 
 He began his business 
 career as assistant post- 
 master of San Buena Ven- 
 tura. Meanwhile, he read 
 law, and by the time he 
 moved to Santa Monica, 
 in the year 1884, was in a position to be 
 admitted to the bar, which he was in that 
 year. 
 
 Mr. Tanner practiced alone in Santa 
 Monica for awhile, but soon formed a part- 
 nership there with Andrew T. Lewis. This 
 continued until Mr. Lewis' removal to Port- 
 land, Oregon, in 1888. 
 
 Then began a long, steady and prosper- 
 ous career. In the year 1888, he was ap- 
 pointed to the post of city attorney of Santa 
 Monica, and did the work of the office until 
 1901, a continuous stretch of thirteen years. 
 By that time he was too busy with his pri- 
 vate work and stepped out, contenting him- 
 self with serving occasionally as deputy city 
 attorney, to be called only when his city 
 needs him in a case of more than ordinary 
 importance. He was deputy district attor- 
 ney of Los Angeles County under F. P. 
 Kelly for two years. 
 
 RICHARD R. TANNER 
 
 He formed a partnership with Fred H. 
 Taft in the year 1894, and this association 
 has continued ever since. In 1907 S. W. 
 Odell was added to the firm, and three years 
 later R. A. Odell and H. W. Taft became 
 members. The legal business has been large 
 and of a general character. Offices are con- 
 ducted at Santa Monica, Los Angeles and 
 Pasadena, the most important cities of Los 
 Angeles County. At- 
 torney Tanner is an au- 
 thority on land titles, 
 and is said to know the 
 history of every section 
 of land in his region. 
 
 The firm represents 
 many great corporations, 
 but owing to his remark- 
 able knowledge of land 
 ownership, he has been 
 retained as attorney for 
 one of the biggest ab- 
 stract companies of 
 Southern California, the 
 Title Guarantee and Trust 
 Company of Los Angeles. 
 The law has not been 
 Attorney Tanner's sole 
 interest. He has invested 
 in various enterprises, and 
 generally with success. 
 
 Mr. Tanner can truly 
 be said to be a native son 
 of California. His father 
 was here before the For- 
 ty-Niners, and was quite 
 a noted man of his day. 
 He was a member of the famous Mormon 
 Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Philip 
 St. George Cook. He was in a number of 
 exploits that made his name known to every 
 Californian. He was a man of exceptional 
 daring and full of resource in the face of 
 danger. He had all the typical manly virtues 
 of the Western pioneer. 
 
 Mr. Tanner belongs to the National 
 Geographic Society and to the Los Angeles 
 Bar Association. 
 
 He is a member of the Free and Accepted 
 Masons, Lodge No. 307; Santa Monica Bay 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 97 ; Thirty- 
 second degree member of the Los Angeles 
 Consistory Scottish Rite Masons, Al Malai- 
 kah Temple, Mystic Shrine; Santa Monica 
 Lodge, No. 438, Independent Order of For- 
 esters; Seaside Lodge, No. 369, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and of various other 
 fraternal orders. 
 
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 373 
 
 EONARDT, CARL, Capital- 
 ist, Contracting, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Lue- 
 denscherdt, Westphalia, Ger- 
 many, in 1855. He had three 
 children, Clara, Adolph and Emily Leon- 
 ardt (now Mrs. F. H. Powell). 
 
 Mr. Leonardt, who is now one of the 
 most famous contractors in the United 
 States and one of the 
 greatest constructors in 
 the West, received his 
 schooling in Germany, 
 and was graduated in 
 r e m e n t chemistry at 
 Aachen, that country. 
 After working for some 
 time in cement manufac- 
 ture, in the Fatherland, 
 Mr. Leonardt was called 
 to the United States, in 
 1885, to take charge of a 
 cement, plant project in 
 the State of Texas, of 
 which he eventually be- 
 came head chemist. 
 
 He remained in the 
 Texas fields for two 
 years, and then he went 
 to Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, where he has been 
 located since. 
 
 Mr. Leonardt's career 
 in the Southern Califor- 
 nia metropolis has been 
 one of success and dis- 
 tinction since the day he 
 started, and in addition to this he has 
 become recognized as one of the most scien- 
 tific and reliable cement and concrete con- 
 structors in the business. 
 
 His work is reflected in almost every 
 kind of work into which these wonderful 
 substances are used and numerous private 
 mansions, public buildings and factories 
 stand as monuments to him. 
 
 As his entire time has been passed in 
 this line of endeavor, it is necessary to in- 
 dicate the accomplishments of this man dur- 
 ing his business career, to publish herewith 
 a list of some of the buildings to which his 
 name is affixed as the builder. Among them 
 are the Los Angeles Hall of Records, the 
 Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, a perfect 
 example of artistic concrete construction; 
 the Los Angeles County Hospital, the Pa- 
 cific Electric Building, the H. W. Hellman 
 Building, the Turnverein Building, and ware- 
 
 CARL LEONARDT 
 
 houses, large reservoirs and sewer outfall 
 from factory to ocean, for the Chino Beet 
 Sugar Company; also factory buildings for 
 the American Beet Sugar Company at Ox- 
 nard, Ventura County, California, and for 
 the Oxnard Company at Rocky Ford, Colo- 
 rado; Holly Sugar factory, at Huntington 
 Beach, California; Hotel Green, Pasadena; 
 Laughlin Building, Pasadena ; concrete vats, 
 basement, floors, side- 
 walks, etc., for the Cud- 
 ahy Packing Company, 
 Los Angeles; the Suits 
 Block, Santa Monica, 
 Cal. ; swimming pools at 
 Redondo Beach and 
 Santa Monica, Califor- 
 nia; jail at Bakersfield, 
 Cal. ; Hamburger Build- 
 ing, Los Angeles, and the 
 Grant Hotel, San Diego, 
 Cal., and sixteen flat 
 buildings, in Los An- 
 geles, for Madame Sev- 
 erance, a wealthy Cali- 
 fornian. 
 
 The Grant Hotel, San 
 Diego, and the big build- 
 ings mentioned in Los 
 Angeles, are all modern, 
 fireproof structures, of 
 the skyscraper class, and, 
 taken altogether, they 
 form the main portion of 
 the big buildings in the 
 city of Los Angeles. Mr. 
 Leonardt is picked for 
 the greater part of the big cement undertak- 
 ings in the Southwest, particularly those re- 
 quiring expert knowledge of the subject. 
 
 Besides the work mentioned, Mr. Leon- 
 ardt built the Portland Cement Co. factory 
 at El Paso, Texas, and he is one of the di- 
 rectors and heaviest stockholders of that 
 corporation. During his twenty-five years 
 in Los Angeles, he has also become inter- 
 ested in many other enterprises, and today 
 ranks among the most engrossed business 
 men of that city. 
 
 In recent years he joined with the pio- 
 neers of oil development in California, and 
 has invested liberally in that field, holding 
 office and directorships in many of the more 
 substantial oil companies. He is a tireless 
 worker and spends practically every one of 
 the waking hours in business. He is one of 
 the real upbuilders and civic boomers of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 MITH, REA, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at De Kalb, Illi- 
 nois, November 16, 1876, the 
 son of Everett Russell Smith 
 and of Addie M. (Griswold) Smith. He mar- 
 ried Georgia Deering Knight, April 21, 1903, 
 at Los Angeles. They have two children, 
 Everett Russell and Gordon Knight Smith. 
 
 The family, which is 
 of colonial stock, settled 
 among the Indians of Ver- 
 mont not many years after 
 the landing at Plymouth 
 Rock. They did their part 
 in the Indian fighting, and 
 later in the War of the 
 Revolution. By marriage 
 the family was related to 
 many of the notable figures 
 of Vermont in the days of 
 the Revolution. Dr. Smith's 
 father, Everett Russell 
 Smith, is a distinguished 
 practicing physician of 
 Los Angeles, with import- 
 ant business connections 
 and an enviable record. 
 
 The boy was first edu- 
 cated in the schools of De 
 Kalb. At the age of ten 
 his parents decided that 
 the balmy climate of South- 
 ern California was prefera- 
 ble to that of Illinois, and ' 
 moved to Covina. He was 
 sent to the grammar 
 
 DR. REA SMITH 
 
 He returned to Los Angeles in the year 
 1903, and was admitted as a partner of his 
 father into the general practice of medicine and 
 of surgery. Under this favorable association 
 the skill which he gained in medical school and 
 hospital has been bettered, and he has gained 
 an enviable record. 
 
 He has been following a general practice, 
 but his chief reputation has been built upon 
 surgical successes, surgery 
 now forming the bulk of 
 his work. 
 
 The practice of father 
 and son has become so ex- 
 tensive that they have as- 
 sociated themselves with a 
 third physician of note, 
 Dr. C. W. Anderson. The 
 firm is now known as the 
 E. R. & Rea Smith 6- 
 C. W. Anderson Company, 
 physicians and surgeons. 
 Of late years the elder Dr. 
 Smith has been gradually 
 withdrawing from prac- 
 tice, because of the press 
 of other business and his 
 desire to retire. The re- 
 sponsibilities of the firm 
 have been largely shifted 
 to the shoulders of Dr. 
 Rea Smith. 
 
 Dr. Smith keeps in 
 touch with the medical 
 profession through the 
 medical associations. He 
 is a member of the Amer- 
 
 schools of Los Angeles, and later to the Los 
 Angeles City High School, from which he 
 graduated in 1895. He was then sent to the 
 Leland Stanford Junior University. There he 
 was interested in athletics, and made good 
 records in several lines of physical endeavor, 
 as well as in his studies. He graduated with 
 the class in 1899. 
 
 The following autumn he was sent to the 
 University of Pennsylvania Medical College, 
 one of the notable medical institutions of the 
 United States. He took the complete course 
 there, also interesting himself in athletics, and 
 received his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 
 the year 1902. Desiring to supplement the 
 technical and scientific training of the book and 
 the lecture room of the medical college with 
 practical experience in the hospitals, he enlisted 
 himself as interne in the hospital of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania and faced a rigid pre 
 paratory practice for a full year. 
 
 ican Medical Association, the Clinical and 
 Pathological Society of Los Angeles, and of 
 other local and State professional societies. 
 
 Dr. Smith has made himself one of the 
 substantial citizens of Los Angeles. He has 
 invested his capital in the real estate of his 
 home city and of the territory surrounding. 
 He takes an interest in all civic affairs, par- 
 ticularly those which have to do with the bet- 
 tering of the city. Questions of public health 
 especially appeal to him. He is a student of 
 hospital construction and management. 
 
 He believes in recreation and plenty of it. 
 He takes a vacation annually, and lives in the 
 outdoors, fishing for trout in the mountains, 
 hunting and motoring. He has not yet given 
 up the sports of his college days. 
 
 Dr. Smith is a member of the California 
 Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and of the 
 collegiate societies of the Zeta Psi and the Phi 
 Aloha Siema. 
 
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 375 
 
 OTTER, E. L., Proprietor, 
 Van Nuys Hotel, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born Septem- 
 ber n, 1866, at Mt. Vernon, 
 Ohio, his father being David 
 Hale Potter and his mother Rebecca J. (Sut- 
 ton) Potter. He married Jessie Buell, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1902, at Evanston, Illinois. There 
 is one child, Helen Buell Potter. Mr. Potter 
 was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Delaware 
 and Columbus, Ohio, the 
 family having removed to 
 the latter city when he 
 was a child 
 
 He first embarked on 
 a railroad career with the 
 Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 
 road at Columbus, where 
 he started in an unim- 
 portant capacity. He was 
 employed in a number of 
 positions by that corpora- 
 tion, his advancement be- 
 ing rapid. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Potter 
 quit railroading to start 
 in an entirely new field, 
 that of hotel management 
 and ownership. 
 
 He built a large hotel 
 at Seabreeze, Florida, one 
 of the garden spots for 
 tourists from all parts of 
 the American continent. 
 In time it became one of 
 the best known all-season 
 
 E. L. POTTER 
 
 At the same time he looks after the Clar- 
 endon, at Seabreeze, Florida, and after his 
 hotel and landed interests at Bretton Woods, 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 He has scattered hotel interests in several 
 parts of the country, but finds his time well 
 occupied in Los Angeles, where the tourist 
 rush, during the regular tourist season, is equal 
 to that of any city in the United States. 
 
 The new Clarendon is 
 the only absolutely fire- 
 proof hotel in Florida, the 
 only fireproof strictly re- 
 sort hotel. There are 
 many fireproof hotels in 
 the large cities which are 
 kept open during the en- 
 tire year, but the Claren- 
 don Hotel is the only one 
 of such construction that 
 keeps open during the 
 Florida season of four 
 months only. It is, at the 
 same time, one of the most 
 beautiful hotels in the 
 United States. The build- 
 ing sets in a park of beau- 
 tiful palms and faces the 
 Atlantic ocean. 
 
 Mr. Potter has busi- 
 ness affiliations with the 
 Mt. Washington Hotel, at 
 Bretton Woods, New 
 Hampshire, a magnificent 
 structure that cost the sum 
 of five million dollars, and 
 also with the Mt. Pleas- 
 
 hotels in the country. He had the entire man- 
 agement in his hands, superintended and con- 
 trolled the business end of the establishment, 
 and made of the hotel a center of social life. 
 In seven years he enlarged the hotel from fifty 
 rooms to four hundred. 
 
 On February 14, 1909, a fire broke out in 
 the hotel in some unknown manner, and in a 
 few short hours the great Seabreeze Hotel was 
 in ruins. 
 
 Such a disaster would have completely up- 
 set the ordinary man, but Mr. Potter decided 
 that he would rebuild the hotel and move West 
 to Los Angeles. 
 
 With the plans for the new house, known 
 today as the Clarendon well under way, he 
 settled at Los Angeles in June, 1909. The 
 27th of the next month he purchased the Van 
 Nuys Hotel from Milo M. Potter, leasing the 
 building from I. N. Van Nuys for twelve and 
 one-half years. 
 
 ant Hotel at Bretton Woods, another splendid 
 property. 
 
 These four fine hotels, located in three of 
 the greatest tourist and pleasure resort centers 
 of America, are operated so that they work to- 
 gether perfectly, and they are considered sec- 
 ond to none in the quality of the service they 
 give. 
 
 Mr. Potter is President of the Van Nuys, 
 the Clarendon Hotel, Seabreeze, Florida, and of 
 his interests in New Hampshire. 
 
 He is prominent in club circles of Los An- 
 geles and other cities where his business inter- 
 ests are located. He holds memberships in sev- 
 eral social and business organizations of Los 
 Angeles. They are the Elks, California and Co- 
 lumbus clubs, Chamber of Commerce, Mer- 
 chants and Manufacturers' Assn., So. Cal. Ho- 
 tel Mens' Assn. He is fond of golfing and 
 motoring, spending many days in pursuit of 
 both these recreative sports in the country. 
 
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 377 
 
 AMESON, JAMES WILLIAM, Cap- 
 italist, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Humboldt County, 
 California, June 9, 1862, the son 
 of Benjamin T. Jameson and Mar- 
 tha J. (McDaniel) Jameson. He 
 Smith at Oakland, California, De- 
 He is descended from one of the 
 whose original members came 
 
 married Ida M. 
 cember 9, 1900. 
 Southern families 
 over from Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Jameson, who is known to fame chiefly as 
 the discoverer of the famous Midway Oil fields in 
 California, has had an active and varied career. 
 He attended the public schools of his native county 
 until 1879, but his father, having died a short time 
 prior to this, he gave up his studies to attend to 
 the management of the Jameson farm. He was 
 thus occupied until 1882, when he received ap- 
 pointment as a school teacher and for the next 
 three years he taught in the schools of Humboldt 
 County. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Jameson left the school room and 
 went to work for the Calico Mining & Reduction 
 Company at Daggett, California, as a bookkeeper, 
 but only remained there about a year, resigning 
 in 1886 to conduct the Pahrump Ranch in Nye 
 County, Nevada, in which he had purchased an 
 interest. At the end of another twelvemonth he 
 sold this property and moved to Tehachapi, Kern 
 County, California, where he was engaged in the 
 real estate business for a year and a half. 
 
 The teaching instinct was strong in him, how- 
 ever, and in the fall of 1888 he went to San Fran- 
 cisco, there to accept a position as professor of 
 bookkeeping and commercial law in the San Fran- 
 cisco Business College. At the end of six months 
 he resigned and went to Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 where, in company with N. B. Johnson, he estab- 
 lished the Salt Lake Business College. They con- 
 ducted this enterprise jointly for about six years, 
 Mr. Jameson disposing of his interest to his part- 
 ner in 1895. 
 
 During his spare time in Salt Lake Mr. Jameson 
 had taken up the study of law and in 1892 he was 
 admitted to practice before the State Supreme 
 Court of Utah. He left Salt Lake shortly after that, 
 although he still retained his interest in the busi- 
 ness college, and again located in Tehachapi, Kern 
 County, and was admitted to practice by the Su- 
 preme Court of California. For the first year he 
 was in partnership with Judge T. H. Wells, former- 
 ly of Nevada, but they separated at the end of that 
 period and for the next four years Mr. Jameson 
 practiced alone. Owing to the droughts of 1893 to 
 1897 and the consequent disaster which overcame 
 many of his clients, who were farmers, Mr. Jame- 
 son closed his offices, intending to resume practice 
 when conditions became better. 
 
 He never has, however, for in seeking another 
 line of operation he experienced so much good for- 
 tune he has been engaged since that time in look- 
 
 ing after his interests. He began looking over 
 mining properties in the West in 1897 and in this 
 way became interested in the contracting business 
 in the desert mining country of California. From 
 this he drifted in 1899, into the mining brokerage 
 business, and it was while thus engaged that he 
 became interested in oil. He went into Kern 
 County, California, as a prospector and locator, with 
 T. J. Wrampelmeier as his partner, and discovered 
 what is now known to the world as the Midway 
 District, judged by experts and shown by facts 
 to be one of the greatest oil producing sections in 
 the world. 
 
 In 1900 they made a forty-year lease to a syndi- 
 cate of veteran Los Angeles oil operators, Messrs. 
 Chanslor, Doheny and Canfield, who were in a 
 position to handle the project properly. The tract, 
 which embraced eight thousand acres of what was 
 believed to be very rich oil land, has since become 
 a part of the industrial history of California. 
 The lessees formed a company to drill for oil in 
 various parts of the land and later the Santa Fe 
 Railroad, which had done a great deal towards 
 having oil adopted as a fuel, bought the company's 
 rights. The railroad company has operated the 
 property since that time. 
 
 Mr. Jameson still retains an interest in this 
 property and other oil property, being Vice Presi- 
 dent and Director of the Mount Diablo Oil Mining 
 & Development Company and a Director in the 
 Ruby Oil Company, but he is equally prominent in 
 other lines, particularly the production of lime. He 
 became interested in lime in Tehachapi and organ- 
 ized the Jameson Lime Company, of which he is 
 still President, General Manager and controlling 
 stockholder. This company owns and operates what 
 is stated to be the largest lime deposits on the 
 Pacific Coast. This property, which is thirty-five 
 hundred acres in extent, also contains valuable 
 fruit lands, and was opened by Mr. Jameson. 
 
 Mr. Jameson laid out the original townsites of 
 Taft and Fellows, California, which have since be- 
 come important towns from a business standpoint. 
 He still owns and leases those original sites. 
 
 Mr. Jameson has attained a position among the 
 most substantial business men of Southern Cali- 
 fornia and is today one of the largest operators 
 in that section, having, in addition to his offices in 
 Los Angeles, offices in Tehachapi, Fellows and Taft 
 in Kern County, among which he divides his time. 
 
 Besides the actual work he has done in the 
 development of California resources, Mr. Jameson 
 has been a contributor to various mechanical and 
 scientific publications on oil and lime subjects, in 
 both of which lines he is regarded as an authority, 
 and these have aided largely in advertising to the 
 world at large the advantages of the State. 
 
 Mr. Jameson is one of those men who devote 
 the greater part of their spare time to their homes, 
 and his only outside social affiliation is the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 AMISON, WILLIAM H., At- 
 torney, and ex-Judge of the 
 Superior Court of Los An- 
 geles County, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Plain- 
 well, Michigan, March 12, 1869. His 
 father was Eleazer W. Jamison and 
 his mother Catherine (Shearer) Jamison. 
 On September 13, 1892, he married 
 Abbie Norton at Grand 
 Rapids, Michigan. 
 
 Mr. Jamison was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools of Grand Rapids. 
 Michigan, and was grad- 
 uated from the high 
 school of that city. He 
 then attended the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan and 
 in 1889 received the de- 
 gree of LL. B. 
 
 Shortly after graduT 
 ating from college he 
 opened a general law 
 practice in Grand Rapids 
 where he continued until 
 1892. His firm there was 
 known as that of Marsh 
 and Jamison. Legal op- 
 portunities in California 
 seemed to have influ- 
 enced him at this period, 
 and after his marriage on 
 September 13, 1892, he 
 moved to Los Angeles, 
 arriving at that place on WILLIAM 
 
 September 20 of that year. 
 
 Immediately after arriving in Los Angeles 
 he became examining attorney for the Guar- 
 anty Abstract Company, serving in this ca- 
 pacity from 1892 to 1897. In this latter year 
 he was made vice president and attorney for 
 the Fidelity Abstract Company, which posi- 
 tion he retained until 1899. From 1899 until 
 1904 he was the examining attorney, Title 
 Insurance and Trust Company. 
 
 As a young man his rise was rapid and 
 his name became known to the leaders of 
 every walk of life in Los Angeles. For the 
 next four years he was made associate 
 counsel for the Title Insurance and Trust 
 Company, and his ability became in- 
 valuable to that corporation. He con- 
 tinued in that responsible position until 
 1908, when his numerous achievements at- 
 tracted the attention of Governor Gillett, 
 who appointed him Judge of the Superior 
 Court of Los Angeles County, to fill the un- 
 
 expired term of Judge B. N. Smith, deceased. 
 His appointment to this responsible office 
 was met with marked approval from both 
 the bar and the people at large. Dur- 
 ing his services on the bench Judge Jamison 
 became an important factor in the progress 
 of his home city. He worked faithfully with 
 the interests of the community at heart. 
 
 On the expiration of his official term, in 
 
 1909, he became general 
 counsel for the- Los An- 
 geles Abstract and Trust 
 Company, filling that po- 
 sition until September 1, 
 
 1910, since when he has 
 been following his gen- 
 eral law practice. 
 
 By reason of his long 
 and varied experience in 
 the title and trust busi- 
 ness, Judge Jamison is re- 
 garded as an expert in 
 trust and probate mat- 
 ters. He has also special- 
 ized in corporation ana 
 constitutional law. 
 
 He has written nu- 
 merous articles for the 
 press and has been a 
 great help to law stu- 
 dents and attorneys on 
 probate and technical 
 matters relating to the 
 title and trust business. 
 
 As a student of cor- 
 poration and constitution- 
 al law he has reached a 
 point in his career where probably no other 
 member of the California bar is more thor- 
 oughly posted on such matters. His splen- 
 did grasp of these branches has been shown 
 in many instances. 
 
 Judge Jamison has at the present time an 
 extensive and profitable law practice. Years 
 of hard and constant study, coupled with in- 
 valuable experience both in the practice of 
 law and in relation to real estate transactions, 
 have placed him among the foremost attor- 
 neys of the Los Angeles Bar. 
 
 Aside from his legal practice, he is Secre- 
 tary of the Southwestern Hardwood Timber 
 Co. and Vice President of the J. P. Creque 
 Building Co., and Treasurer of the Univer- 
 sity Club Holding Company. He is an ac- 
 tive member of the Jonathan, University and 
 Union League clubs of Los Angeles and is 
 widely known and respected throughout 
 Southern California. 
 
 H. JAMISON 
 
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 379 
 
 'BRIDE, JAMES HARVEY, 
 
 Mg. Physician, Pasadena, Califor- 
 I nia, was born in La Fayette. 
 Oregon, January 23, 1849, 
 son of Dr. James and Mahala 
 (Miller) McBride. He married Evangeline 
 Ackley of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, Septem- 
 ber 20, 1887. There are two children. 
 
 He was given his primary education in 
 the public schools of Ore- 
 gon, and later attended 
 the McMinnville College, 
 Oregon. 
 
 Choosing medicine for 
 a profession, he went to 
 New York City and en- 
 tered Bellevue Hospital 
 Medical College. He 
 graduated in the year 
 1873, receiving his degree 
 as Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 He first saw active 
 service as physician on 
 the house staff of Char- 
 ity Hospital, on Black- 
 well's Island. He re- 
 tained this position for 
 two years. 
 
 He was appointed As- 
 sistant Superintendent of 
 the Wisconsin State Hos- 
 pital for the Insane at 
 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and 
 was later appointed to 
 the superintendency of 
 the Hospital for Insane 
 at Milwaukee. 
 
 After a service of five years he founded 
 the Milwaukee Sanitarium for Nervous Dis- 
 eases. This was opened in the year 1884, 
 and was successfully conducted and grew to 
 large proportions until the year 1895, when 
 it was sold. 
 
 He made a prolonged trip to Europe and 
 the Orient, and in 1897, located at Pasadena. 
 Later he founded the Southern California 
 Sanitarium for Nervous Diseases, and of this 
 he has been medical director since. 
 
 He has been an educator and was profes- 
 sor of the diseases of the nervous system in 
 the Chicago Polyclinic Medical College from 
 1890 to 1895, when he resigned to visit 
 Europe. 
 
 The doctor was president, in 1910, of the 
 American Academy of Medicine, a national 
 organization, devoted to medical sociology. 
 
 Dr. McBride is a specialist in nervous and 
 mental diseases. He was an expert witness in 
 
 DR. JAMES H. McBRIDE 
 
 the trial of Guiteau, the assassin of President 
 James A. Garfield, and testified that he be- 
 lieved Guiteau insane. 
 
 Soon after graduating from medical col- 
 lege he made original researches in physiol- 
 ogy and therapeutics, the results of some 
 of which were published Among these 
 were: 
 
 Experiments on the effects of Nitrate of 
 Amyl on the circulation 
 of the brain of dogs and 
 the use of this remedy in 
 the treatment of epilepsy. 
 Published in 1875. 
 
 Experiments in the lo- 
 calization of the function 
 of the brain of dogs. 
 1874-5. 
 
 The production of epi- 
 lepsy in dogs and rabbits. 
 1875. 
 
 Investigations into the 
 minute anatomy of the 
 brain. 1876. 
 
 The following are titles 
 of some of his contribu- 
 tions to medical litera- 
 ture: 
 
 Epileptic insanity and 
 the criminal responsibili- 
 ty of epileptics. 1894. 
 
 The treatment of the 
 morphine habit. 1900. 
 
 The management of 
 the neurasthenic. 1901. 
 
 Ideals of the medical 
 teacher. 1903. 
 Health and education of girls. 1904. 
 The individual and the social organism. 
 1911. 
 
 In addition, he has written many addresses 
 of a popular character and notes of travel. 
 
 The doctor has led a busy life and has 
 had little time for politics, except to take the 
 interest characteristic of all men who favor 
 clean government. He has never sought nor 
 held public office, except for those semi-pub- 
 lic positions to which he has been called in 
 his profession. 
 
 He is a member of the following socie- 
 ties: Royal Society of Arts of Great Brit- 
 ain, American Academy of Medicine, Ameri- 
 can Neurological Association, American Med- 
 ico-Psychological Association, American 
 Medical Association, American Climatologi- 
 cal Association, American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, and a member 
 of the California State Medical Society. 
 
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 OLMES, GUSTAVUS S., 
 Hotel Owner and Investor, 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, was 
 born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 October 14, 1860, the son oi 
 Dr. I. Holmes and Margaret M. Holmes. 
 Mr. Holmes received his education in the 
 public schools of Cincinnati and finished at 
 the Hughes High School, where he was a 
 fellow student of Presi- 
 dent William H. Taft. 
 
 Mr. Holmes left Cin- 
 cinnati and went to Den- 
 ver, Colorado, for his 
 health, and after a short 
 time there moved to Col- 
 orado Springs, in the same 
 State. Soon afterward 
 he took up ranching on 
 the ground where Crip- 
 ple Creek now stands, 
 and for eight years rode 
 the range. This life 
 thoroughly restored him 
 to health. 
 
 He sold but his ranch 
 in Colorado and went to 
 Salt Lake City, where he 
 became the owner of 
 much real estate, which 
 included the ground on 
 which was built the 
 Knutsford, one of the 
 leading hotels of that place. He has been in- 
 terested there ever since, passing through 
 many vicissitudes, but holding on always be- 
 cause of his faith in the future of his adopted 
 city. The ground where the Knutsford 
 stands was purchased by Messrs. Holmes, 
 Ricketts and others for $85,000, and donated 
 to the men who erected the Knutsford. Mr. 
 Holmes then leased the hotel and expended 
 $150,000 in furnishing it. He still is the 
 owner. Mr. Holmes also owns and conducts 
 the Hotel Semloh, a commercial hotel of 250 
 rooms, which is already the leading popular 
 priced hotel in the city 
 
 He has disposed of The Angelus, a lead- 
 ing hostelry of 'Los Angeles, which he 
 opened and conducted successfully for some 
 vears. When he first went to Salt Lake, 
 Mr. Holmes, in connection with men con- 
 cerned in the building of the Colorado Mid- 
 
 G. S. HOLMES 
 
 land Railroad, took options on and bought 
 blocks of vacant land. In 1889 the others 
 sold at a great advance. Mr. Holmes held 
 his on account of prospects and it has grown 
 to be of great value. 
 
 Salt Lake City is one of the great mining 
 centers of the United States, and Mr. Holmes, 
 like nearly all other men of means in that 
 city, is interested in mining. He has, at one 
 time or another, been a 
 stockholder in several of 
 the more important silver, 
 copper and gold compan- 
 ies, and his investments 
 have usually been profit- 
 able. 
 
 How successful he has 
 been in his general invest- 
 ments, his hotel manage- 
 ment and in his real es- 
 tate holdings, is indicated 
 by the fact that he is 
 known to be the fifth or 
 sixth largest taxpayer in 
 Salt Lake County, Utah. 
 His wealth is reckoned in 
 seven figures and all of 
 this wealth he is known to 
 have made himself. 
 
 He is a man of great 
 public spirit, and hopes to 
 see the day when Salt 
 Lake City will take its 
 place as one of the four great commercial 
 centers west of Chicago. He belongs to the 
 Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, which, 
 owing to its wide membership, activity and 
 unique organization, is famous all over the 
 United States, and he has had not a little to 
 do with its fame. He has backed every 
 movement for the advancement of the city, 
 in politics, industry and appearance, and 
 has backed his faith by repeatedly making in- 
 vestments which were ahead of the day. 
 
 He is a member of numerous clubs in Salt 
 Lake City and other parts of the West, and 
 belongs to nearly every secret organization 
 of importance in the United States. He has 
 a wonderful circle of friends which extends to 
 all parts of the country, and he is one of the 
 most generous men in Salt Lake City. He 
 has done much philanthropic work in a quiet, 
 unostentatious way. 
 
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 REFETHEN, EUGENE ED- 
 GAR, junior partner of the 
 firm of Chapman & Trefethen, 
 Attorneys at Law, Oakland, 
 was born in Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, January 11, 1875, the son of Eugene 
 A. and Ada S. (Van Sickle) Trefethen. In 
 the first half of the seventeenth century his 
 father's family, which was of Welsh origin, 
 came from England and 
 settled in the State of 
 Maine, while his mother's 
 ancestors were among the 
 early Dutch residents of 
 New York. His father 
 reached California about 
 the year 1869, where he 
 became interested in rail- 
 roading and in timber 
 lands. Eugene E. Tre- 
 fethen was practically 
 raised on the east side of 
 the Bay, and on August 
 31, 1905, was married in 
 San Francisco to Miss 
 Georgia Van Voorhies 
 Carroll. The children of 
 this marriage are Carol 
 A. Trefethen, Dorothy J. 
 Trefethen and Eugene E. 
 Trefethen Jr. 
 
 From 1883 to 1889 Mr. 
 Trefethen attended the 
 old Lafayette Grammar 
 School and the Cole 
 School of Oakland. He 
 was a student at the Oak- 
 land High School from January, 1890, to De- 
 cember, 1892, and after graduation in the lat- 
 ter year took a post-graduate course in the 
 same institution. In 1893 he entered the Uni- 
 versity of California, but shortly before the 
 close of his course in the College of Social Sci- 
 ence an injury to his eye compelled him to 
 leave without his degree. Two years later, 
 however, he returned to the University, and 
 was graduated Ph. B., with the class of '99. 
 While there he was especially prominent in 
 debating and also as a varsity contestant for 
 intercollegiate honors in the half-mile run. 
 
 The two years that Mr. Trefethen re- 
 mained away from the University, '97-'98, he 
 spent in Alaska, mining, chopping wood, 
 which he sold to the steamers on the Yukon, 
 and packing provisions on his back, at so 
 much a pound. Among his companions in 
 this strenuous existence were the now well- 
 known author, Rex Beach, and other celebri- 
 
 EUGENE E 
 
 ties. From more than one viewpoint the ex- 
 perience was a valuable preparation for Mr. 
 Trefethen's subsequent career. 
 
 After his graduation from the University 
 he took a course in shorthand and typewrit- 
 ing, and in September, 1899, entered the law 
 office of Chapman & Clift, as stenog- 
 rapher and clerk. In his spare moments he 
 studied law, and on September 11, 1901, was 
 admitted to practice be- 
 fore the Supreme Court. 
 The firm of Chapman & 
 Clift dissolving in 1902, 
 Mr. Trefethen remained 
 in Mr. Chapman's em- 
 ploy, as an assistant at- 
 torney, in which capacity 
 he proved his worth suf- 
 ficiently to be chosen, in 
 June, 1910, as -a partner, 
 under the firm name of 
 Chapman & Trefethen. 
 
 The firm's practice in 
 recent years, especially 
 since Mr. Chapman's ap- 
 pointment as trial coun- 
 sel for the Oakland Trac- 
 tion Company, has been 
 chiefly in corporation 
 law. Formerly, however, 
 their work was largely on 
 the other side of the 
 fence, in the prosecution 
 of damage cases. In some 
 of these, in which Mr. 
 Trefethen was associate 
 
 . . i ' i.' ef 
 
 counsel for the plaintiff, 
 important questions of law were settled. This 
 was especially so in the case of James vs. 
 the Oakland Traction Company, in which 
 suit was brought for $15,000 damages fot 
 personal injury. It was determined that a 
 person riding on a car was entitled to have 
 exercised in his behalf and as one of the ele- 
 ments of the contract of carriage, the degree 
 of care in its propulsion required by statute. 
 Before the trial the law had been repealed. 
 It was contended by counsel for plaintiff that 
 the latter was still entitled to the benefit of 
 the law, which was in force at the time of 
 the accident. 
 
 Although Mr. Trefethen had intended at 
 one time to be a mining engineer, since he 
 has "found himself" in the law he has con- 
 centrated his energies on his steadily grow- 
 ing practice. His club life is confined to the 
 Nile Club of Oakland and to the Royal Ar- 
 canum, a fraternal order. 
 
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 OSCAR A. TRIPPET 
 
 RIPPET, OSCAR A., Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born March 6, 1856, in Gibson 
 County, Indiana, the son of Caleb 
 Trippet and Mary M. (Fentress) 
 Trippet. He married Cora Lari- 
 more, November 5, 1902, at St. Louis, Missouri. 
 There are two children, Larimore Oscar and Fran- 
 cis Oscar Trippet. 
 
 Mr. Trippet attended the common schools of 
 Indiana; took a one-yea? course at the Indiana 
 State Normal, and a one-year course in the law 
 department of the University of Virginia in 1878-79. 
 He passed the bar examination in the year 1879 
 and began practice at once. After a few months, 
 in 1879, he was appointed deputy prosecuting attor- 
 ney of Du Bois County, Indiana, serving under his 
 brother, who was district attorney at the time. 
 Practiced law and served a term as Senator in the 
 Indiana Legislature until 1887, when he moved to 
 San Diego, California. There he associated him- 
 self with Judge W. T. McNeely. The latter retired 
 after two years, and Attorney Trippet continued 
 practice alone, until 1901, with unusual success, rep- 
 resenting many important corporations. He opened a 
 law office in Los Angeles in 1901, and did business 
 alone until 1911, when he formed a partnership with 
 Ward Chapman, M. L. Chapman and J. E. Biby. 
 This firm is attorney for the National Bank of Cal- 
 ifornia, California Vegetable Union, the Economic 
 Gas Company and other corporations. He helped 
 organize the Home Telephone Company of Los An- 
 geles in 1902, and since its organization has been 
 its attorney. 
 
 In 1896 he was California delegate to the Na- 
 tional Democratic convention held in Chicago. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Uni- 
 versity Club, president Los Angeles Bar Associa- 
 tion, member governing council American Bar Asso- 
 ciation, and a Mason. 
 
 DR. H. L. SHEPHERD 
 
 HEPHERD, HOVEY LEARNED, 
 Physician, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Belfast, Maine, 
 August 16, 1869, the son of Free- 
 man Weeks Shepherd and of 
 Martha B. (Dodge) Shepherd, 
 both descendants of English stock that settled in 
 Massachusetts and Maine several generations ago. 
 The schools of Belfast, Maine, made the first 
 contribution to his education, and when he had 
 finished the primary grades, he was sent to Kents 
 Hill Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine, where he fin- 
 ished with the class of 1888. And then he was 
 sent to that hub of education, Boston. After four 
 years in the College of Liberal Arts of Boston Uni- 
 versity, he was awarded the degree of Ph. B. He 
 acquired his medical education in the School of 
 Medicine of the same university, getting his M. D. 
 in 1895. 
 
 He made his first venture in Springfield, Massa- 
 chusetts. Then, in 1897, he moved to Winchester, 
 Mass. He was appointed lecturer in materia 
 medica at Boston University, an appointment 
 which was a recognition of his brilliant scholarship 
 while a student in that institution. The university 
 advanced him to an associate professorship in the 
 year 1900, and he held the position until his re- 
 moval to Los. Angeles in the year 1909. 
 
 At Los Angeles he associated himself with the 
 late Dr. E. C. Buell, and he has succeeded him in 
 his practice. He is the medical examiner and tem- 
 porary General Agent for California for the Empire 
 Life Insurance Company of Seattle, Washington. 
 
 He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeo- 
 pathic Medical Society, of the Los Angeles County 
 Medical Society, the Southern California Medical 
 Society, the California State Medical Society, and 
 of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He be- 
 longs to the Sierra Madre and the Gamut Clubs, 
 is a 32d degree Mason and a Shriner. 
 
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 JOHN ALTON 
 
 LTON, JOHN, Assistant Cashier, 
 Farmers and Merchants' Nation- 
 al Bank, Los Angeles, California, 
 is a native of Manchester, Eng- 
 land, where he was born March 
 26, 1851. His father and mother 
 
 were John Alton and Emma Rumball Alton. 
 
 Mr. Alton married Mary P. Kennedy, February, 
 1884, at Manchester, England, and they have as a 
 result of the union three children: Francis Mitch- 
 ell, Ethel Mary Noel and George Lindsay Alton. 
 
 Mr. Alton was given a thorough education of the 
 
 kind England affords. He attended Sedgley Park 
 
 College, Staffordshire, England. He was well versed 
 
 "in the classics. He completed his course in 1866. 
 
 He immediately entered the employ of the Man- 
 chester and Liverpool District Banking Co., at Man- 
 chester, one of the largest financial institutions of 
 that great commercial city, which has connections 
 all over the world. He rose through various posi- 
 tions to an important office in 1884. 
 
 Travel then attracted him, and a desire to rest 
 after eighteen years of steady service. At Santa 
 Monica he found a considerable colony of English. 
 He decided to become one of them. 
 
 Mr. Alton located at Santa Monica, where he 
 resided until he entered the service of the Farm- 
 ers and Merchants' Bank, now the Farmers and 
 Merchants' National Bank (Los Angeles) in De- 
 cember, 1886, when he removed to Los Angeles, 
 where he has since resided. 
 
 Mr. Alton is one of the most prominent Catho- 
 lics in Southern California. He is president of the 
 Newman Club; a member of the Knights of Co- 
 lumbus; of the Catholic Knights of America and 
 the Catholic Order of Foresters, being the first 
 chief ranger appointed in California. 
 
 He is president of the Los Angeles Cricket 
 Club and a member of the San Gabriel Valley 
 Country Club. 
 
 J. O. CASHIN 
 
 ASHIN, J. O., Ice Manufacturer, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Nevada City, California, in 
 October, 1866. His father is John 
 Cashin of San Francisco and his 
 mother was Margaret (Grace) 
 Cashin. He married Henrietta Heinzman at Los 
 Angeles in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Cashin received his education in the public 
 schools of San Francisco. He entered business 
 with his father, John Cashin, in San Francisco, and 
 up to 1892 worked in company with him for the 
 Union Ice Company of that city. At that time John 
 Cashin withdrew from the Union Ice Company and 
 established what is today known as the National 
 Ice and Cold Storage Company. 
 
 In comparison with the Union Ice Company, 
 with which Mr. Cashin had been associated, the 
 new establishment was but a small firm in the 
 beginning. That was in 1892. Today the National 
 Ice and Cold Storage Company has twenty-three 
 branch plants, a big central station in San Fran- 
 cisco and a similar manufactory in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Cashin, with the experience that he had 
 acquired with the Union Company, continued with 
 the new corporation, and when the Los Angeles 
 establishment was built he was stationed at that 
 city as superintendent. The Los Angeles plant 
 is valued at nearly a million dollars. The cold 
 storage department contains 700,000 cubic feet of 
 space and is equipped with the latest machinery. 
 Like most men of business, he has been drawn 
 into various other enterprises and is a heavy 
 owner of property. 
 
 Mr. Cashin never has taken any active part in 
 politics, but he is an enthusiast over his adopted 
 city. He always is in the forefront whenever there 
 is any movement for the upbuilding of Los Angeles 
 and Southern California and he is considered one 
 ot" its most progressive citizens. 
 
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 DR. WEST HUGHES 
 
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 385 
 
 UGHES, HENRY WEST (Retired 
 Physician), President, Union 
 Trust Company, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Tulip, Dallas 
 County, Arkansas, April 3, 1858, 
 the son of George W. Hughes and 
 Martha Wyche (Butler) Hughes. He married Cora 
 Jarvis at Louisville, Kentucky, June 8, 1892. 
 
 In his youth, Dr. Hughes had splendid educa- 
 tional advantages. He attended private schools in 
 his native town until he was- sixteen years of age, 
 then went to the University of Virginia, whence 
 he was graduated in the class of 1879 with the de- 
 gree of Master of Arts. He then determined to go 
 abroad and while in Europe took up the study of 
 medicine. He spent about three years on the Con- 
 tinent, studying in schools of Vienna, Paris, Berlin 
 and other cities and during that period traveled 
 extensively in the different countries, making a 
 special study of the language and people of each. 
 Returning to the United States in the fall of 
 1882, he entered the Medical School of Harvard 
 University, remained there one year, and then en- 
 rolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 of New York City. He was graduated with the de- 
 gree of Doctor of Medicine in 1885 and then, by 
 competitive examination, obtained a position on the 
 surgical staff of the New York Hospital, the oldest 
 in America, it having been founded by King George 
 III. in 1771. His stay of a year and a half in this 
 institution afforded him opportunities for gaining 
 the practical experience which stood him in fine 
 stead during the years of his- subsequent practice. 
 In addition to this Dr. Hughes spent a year in 
 clinical work in a special hospital for diseases of 
 the throat and nose, and in the Eye and Ear In- 
 firmary on diseases of those organs. Upon leaving 
 the latter institution, Dr. Hughes became con- 
 nected with the medical examiners' staff of a large 
 life insurance company in New York and remained 
 in that work for about eight months, at the same 
 time keeping up a constant study in the medical 
 field. 
 
 On January 1, 1888, Dr. Hughes left New York 
 for California, making the trip by way of the Isth- 
 mus of Panama. At that time the Isthmus was in 
 the control of the French syndicate which first 
 essayed the building of the Panama Canal and in 
 the course of his tedious journey across the country 
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific side Dr. Hughes 
 noted millions of dollars' worth of expensive ma- 
 chinery lying on the ground exposed to the ele- 
 ments, much of this machinery never having been 
 used. This wastefulness greatly impressed Dr. 
 Hughes at the time and has- always served to him 
 as a partial explanation of the failure on the part 
 of the French to accomplish the work of building 
 the Canal, it being left to the United States to com- 
 plete this, the greatest engineering project in the 
 history of the world. 
 
 Dr. Hughes landed in San Francisco, California, 
 thirty days after sailing from New York, but went 
 immediately to Los Angeles, where he has made 
 his home since. Shortly after he settled at Los 
 Angeles, a serious epidemic of smallpox ensued at 
 San Fernando, a short distance from the city, and 
 Dr. Hughes, volunteering his services, was placed 
 in charge of the work of eradicating the disease. 
 To the exclusion of all other interests, he devoted 
 
 himself to checking the . plague and after many 
 weeks of labor, during which he was on duty night 
 and day, the efforts of himself and nis assistants 
 were rewarded with success, they having stamped 
 out an epidemic which at the outset threatened 
 the lives of hundreds of persons. 
 
 Returning to Los Angeles when the epidemic 
 was at an end, Dr. Hughes opened offices at No. 
 175 North Spring street, then in the center of the 
 city's business district, and for fourteen years fol- 
 lowing was prominently identified with the ad- 
 vancement of medical practice in Los Angeles and 
 Southern California. He maintained practice of a 
 general character, but made a specialty of surgery 
 and the treatment of diseases of the nose and 
 throat. In 1900 his father died and two years later 
 Dr. Hughes retired from practice, finding it im- 
 possible otherwise to take care of his business in- 
 terests and those of his father's estate properly. 
 
 Since that time (1902) Dr. Hughes has been one 
 of the leading business men of Los Angeles and 
 has had an active part in the growth of the city 
 and Southern California in general. He deals ex- 
 tensively in real estate and also is interested as 
 officer or stockholder, in numerous substantial 
 corporations. These include, beside the Union 
 Trust Company, a strong financial institution, the 
 Associated Bank Corporation, of which he is 
 Treasurer, and the Los Angeles Pressed Brick 
 Company, in which he holds the office of Secretary. 
 As one of the progressive men of the city, Dr. 
 Hughes has been identified with various civic 
 movements of importance and is credited with hav- 
 ing been one of the most valuable aids in the gen- 
 eral upbuilding of Los Angeles-. 
 
 Aside from his business and public interests, Dr. 
 Hughes devotes a great part of his time and money 
 to collecting oil paintings and in this is ably as- 
 sisted by his charming wife. It is their ambition 
 to found an art gallery, with the intention of ulti- 
 mately presenting it to the city of Los Angeles. 
 They have already made a magnificent beginning, 
 their collection containing the works of various 
 masters, being among the best private collections in 
 the West. The Barbizon school is represented by 
 a beautiful Corot, a striking Jules Dupre, and an 
 exquisite Daubigny. Other artists represented in 
 the collection are H. W. Mesdag, Robert Schleich 
 of Munich, Wierusz Kowalski, and the great Hen- 
 ner, as well as- most of the leading artists of 
 Southern California. The most highly prized of 
 all their collection, however, are eight master- 
 pieces by that greatest of all California artists, 
 William Keith, with whom Dr. and Mrs. Hughes 
 were intimately acquainted. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Hughes are enthusiastists, and in 
 their artistic home, at 500 West Twenty-third 
 street, Los Angeles, the true lover of art, even 
 though a stranger, is a welcome visitor; for they 
 generously believe that the best thing about the 
 possession of beautiful works of art is the pleasure 
 they may give to others. 
 
 Dr. Hughes, in addition to his devotion to art, 
 is an enthusiastic golfer, hunter and fisherman, 
 and seeks recreation in each field. He is a Thirty- 
 second degree Mason, life member of the Mystic 
 Shrine, and holds membership in the University 
 Club of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, and the Annandale Country Club. 
 
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 ILLIAMS, WILLIAM J. : 
 Attorney-at-Law, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born 
 May 10, 1864, at Cavanville, 
 Ontario, Canada, the son of 
 William Williams and Mary (Brennan) 
 Williams. He was married to Lena G. 
 Meade at Washington, D. C, and has one 
 child, a daughter, Esther Dorothy Williams. 
 
 Mr. Williams studied 
 at the public schools in 
 various towns of the Pro- 
 vince of Ontario, Canada, 
 and when he had finished 
 his primary education, 
 entered the University of 
 Toronto. He took a com- 
 plete course, getting his 
 degree as Bachelor of 
 Arts after four years, and 
 two years later his Bach- 
 elor of Laws. He was 
 admitted to the practice 
 of law, made "Solicitor 
 and Barrister" by the 
 i^aw Society of Upper 
 Canada, June, 1890. 
 
 The firm of Mulock, 
 Miller & Company, of 
 Toronto, made a place 
 for him, and he prepared 
 cases and argued before 
 the courts of that city un- 
 til 1893. He meanwhile 
 saw an opportunity in 
 Southern California, 
 where there is a large and 
 
 influential Canadian colony, 
 move in the fall of 1893, and after a little pre- 
 liminary preparation, in order to adapt his 
 knowledge to the American legal forms, he 
 was admitted to practice in the courts of 
 California. He associated himself with 
 George I. Cochran under the firm name of 
 Cochran & Williams. 
 
 The firm did an extensive business from 
 the start, specializing in land matters. In 
 the year 1906, Mr. Cochran resigned in order 
 to accept the presidency of the Pacific Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, one of the largest 
 institutions of the kind in the country. Mr. 
 Williams, in order to take better care of the 
 extensive affairs of the firm, associated him- 
 self with Herbert J. Goudge, Norman Wil- 
 liams and Charles L. Chandler, under the 
 firm name of Williams, Goudge & Chandler, 
 which is one of the large legal firms of the 
 city today. Mr. Williams' practice has been 
 
 and now is largely devoted to the organiza- 
 tion and care of corporations, principally 
 those organized in connection with land and 
 water development. He has launched some 
 of the most important corporations in the 
 State. 
 
 Of late years his legal knowledge has been 
 largely devoted to the management of his own 
 properties and to the corporations in which 
 he is himself a stock- 
 holder. He saw in South- 
 ern California, like many 
 of the other now promi- 
 nent men, unusual op- 
 portunities in land and 
 water development, and 
 his surplus capital has 
 gone into these channels. 
 He organized and is 
 President of the Citi- 
 zens' Water Company of 
 San Jacinto, a system 
 that supplies water to 
 the City of San Jacinto, 
 as well as to the agricul- 
 tural territory surround- 
 ing. He is Vice Presi- 
 'lent of the San Jacinto 
 Land Company, which is 
 one of the biggest own- 
 ers of valuable lands in 
 that vicinity. He is a 
 director of the Middle 
 River Navigation and 
 Canal Company, and is a 
 
 W. J. WILLIAMS ? irect ? r of , th Jr Rin , d S e 
 
 Land and Navigation 
 
 He made the Company, one of the richest corporations on 
 
 the Pacific Coast, which owns many miles of 
 territory abutting on the shores of the Pacific 
 Ocean, and which operates fruit and cattle 
 ranches, steamship lines and other enterprises. 
 
 He is one of the directors of the Ar- 
 tesian Water Company, the Maclay Rancho 
 Water Company, the Development Build- 
 ing Company, and also of the Cotenants 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Williams has been active in public 
 affairs, but has had no ambition to hold pub- 
 lic office. He supports every movement for 
 the beautification and betterment of the 
 cities of Southern California. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 member of the Pentalpha Lodge No. 202, 
 the Shriners, and of several other secret 
 societies. He also holds membership in the 
 California Club and the Annandale Country 
 Club. 
 
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 ACOBSON, TONY, Mining, 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, was 
 born in that city Sept. 2, 1869, 
 the son of Anton Jacobson 
 and Matilda (Norene) Jacob- 
 son. He married Annie Sherwood Motsch, 
 September 7, 1892, at Pioche, Nevada. They 
 are the parents of seven children, Adelina, 
 Alex J., Katherine M., Frankie, Mamie, An- 
 toinette and Alta Jacob- 
 
 son. 
 
 num- 
 
 
 Mr. Jacobson 
 bers among the success- 
 ful men of the Great 
 West who may be termed 
 self-made. He was denied 
 the advantages of an ed- 
 ucation in his youth and 
 has taught himself as he 
 went through life. When 
 he was a boy ten years 
 of age he went to work 
 on a farm in Utah and for 
 the next four years was 
 engaged in that line of 
 work. Then began min- 
 ing and learned the busi- 
 ness in its every phase, 
 going from the smallest 
 position in the mine to 
 the post of Superinten- 
 dent. He was employed 
 for the most part in Utah, 
 but also worked in other 
 states. 
 
 All the time he was 
 working in the mines Mr. 
 Jacobson was studying to perfect himself in 
 business methods and when he reached the 
 aee of thirtv years was able to take his place 
 among the leaders of his community. 
 
 Leaving his mine labors as an employee, 
 in 1899, he went into business for himself 
 and for three years, or until 1902, operated 
 properties at Alta and Stockton, Utah, under 
 leases and bonds. He prospered in this field, 
 due as much to his executive ability and 
 managerial methods as to his practical 
 knowledge of mining, and in 1902 had earned 
 a financial standing which enabled him to 
 organize a company of his own. In that year 
 he incorporated the Columbus Consolidated 
 Mining Company, and has been director and 
 manager of it ever since. This company ac- 
 quired valuable mining property in the state 
 of Utah and was the basis of one of the most 
 extensive mining syndicate in that part 
 of the country. He is at present pres- 
 
 TONY JACOBSON 
 
 ident and director of the company also. 
 Four years after the formation of the orig- 
 inal company, Mr. Jacobson organized the 
 South Columbus Consolidated Mining Com- 
 pany, and the success of his first venture 
 made him the unanimous choice for manager 
 of the new concern. He was manager and 
 director of it until 1910, when he surrendered 
 the reins to others. 
 
 The same year of 
 that company's start, Mr. 
 Jacobson brought into 
 existence what is known 
 as the Columbus Exten- 
 sion Mining Company, 
 and, as in the case of the 
 others, he became man- 
 ager and director and is 
 today president of it. 
 
 The fourth company 
 of which Mr. Jacobson 
 was the originator was 
 the Alta Consolidated 
 Mining Company, started 
 in 1911, and of this he is 
 also president and man- 
 ager. 
 
 The combined hold- 
 ings and capital of these 
 several companies run 
 into large figures and Mr. 
 Jacobson is the principal 
 factor in their operations. 
 He personally looks after 
 the business of each and 
 it is due to his expert 
 knowledge and careful di- 
 rection that they are successes. All of the 
 companies are on a paying basis and Mr. Ja- 
 cobson recognized as the impelling force, in 
 their conduct, is ranked among the most cap- 
 able mine operators in Utah. 
 
 Despite his activity in the management 
 of his various interests, Mr. Jacobson has 
 found time to aid in the development of his 
 native state and has done many things for 
 the civic betterment of Salt Lake City. He 
 is a member of the Commercial Club of that 
 city, an institution which has taken the lead 
 in many measures for the improvement of 
 the municipality, and has served on many 
 of its progressive committees. 
 
 With his time practically all taken up 
 with his business interests, Mr. Jacobson 
 has had little opportunity for play and as a 
 result he does not belong to many clubs. 
 His only social affiliation is the Alta Club of 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
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 HURCHILL, OWEN HUM- 
 PHREYS, Retired Capitalist, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Mechanicsburg, Sangamon Coun- 
 ty, Illinois, June 16, 1841. He is 
 a son of Willoughby Churchill 
 and Martha Elizabeth (Humphreys) Churchill. He 
 married Frances Alberta Porter at Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, April 20, 1882, and to them were born three 
 children, Marion (Mrs. David Henry McCartney), 
 Gertrude (Mrs. Francis Pier- 
 pont Davis), and Owen Por- 
 ter Churchill. Mr. Church- 
 ill's ancestors on both sides 
 were Southerners, his father 
 and mother having been born 
 in Kentucky and his grand- 
 father, George Churchill, in 
 Virginia. 
 
 Mr. Churchill is one of the 
 few survivors of that race of 
 men who braved the perils 
 of the Indian-infested West- 
 ern plains that the present 
 great American empire might 
 be claimed for the white man. 
 In 1851, when he was a lad 
 not quite ten years of age, 
 his father and mother, in 
 whom the pioneer spirit was 
 strong, took him with their 
 other children across the 
 plains. They used prairie 
 schooners, drawn by oxen, 
 and were part of a wagon 
 train containing 100 wagons 
 and about 400 persons. 
 
 An entire summer was 
 consumed in making the jour- 
 ney from Illinois to Oregon, 
 and it was one of the most 
 hazardous trips recorded in 
 that day of dangers. Many 
 Indian tribes were on the 
 warpath and the train had 
 
 many adventurous and discouraging experiences 
 with the redskins, terminating in skirmishes with 
 loss of life on both sides. On one occasion 
 the caravan became strung out for about 
 three miles and a Mrs. Scott, with her 
 wagons and horses, was detached. As the Scott 
 party was crossing the Raft River, it was attacked 
 by Indians, who killed Mrs. Scott and family, with 
 the exception of her fourteen-year-old son, who es- 
 caped by jumping into the river and hiding among 
 the willows that overlapped the water. The In- 
 dians escaped with the horses. As soon as the 
 attack became known to the rest of the train, 
 twenty-five men were sent in pursuit. After travel- 
 ing twenty-five miles they discovered the Indians 
 camped on a high plateau. Fighting followed and 
 several of the white men were killed and wounded. 
 The survivors, parched with thirst and suffering 
 from wounds, were obliged to give up the effort to 
 punish the marauders, and returned to the train, 
 leaving two mortally wounded men behind. They 
 intended to return for these unfortunates, but the 
 leaders of the train decided they couldn't afford 
 to lose any more men or time in the rescue, and 
 moved onward. 
 
 After leaving the Missouri River at Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, the travelers saw no white face until 
 they reached Fort Laramie. From there until they 
 
 O. H. CHURCHILL 
 
 neared Fort Dalles, Oregon, the only white man 
 they met was, as he recalls, Johnny Grant, living 
 at Fort Hall. One sad recollection of the journey 
 was the death of Mr. Churchill's mother, who be- 
 came ill and died at The Dalles, just as they were 
 reaching civilization. 
 
 The Churchill family located in the Umpqua 
 Valley and remained there for six years. Mr. 
 Churchill finished his educatio'n in the schools of 
 Oregon, also mastering the Chinook Indian jargon, 
 
 which he can still converse in 
 
 with fluency. At the age of 
 seventeen, having contracted 
 the gold fever, he started out 
 as a prospector. 
 
 He first began prospecting 
 in British Columbia and then 
 worked back through Wash- 
 ington and Idaho, continuing 
 in this pursuit for about six 
 years. He had indifferent 
 luck until 1863, when he 
 struck it fairly rich at Boise 
 Basin, Idaho. 
 
 During his mining days 
 Mr. Churchill had several 
 thrilling adventures with the 
 Indians and also suffered 
 many hardships. One time, in 
 order to save his own life, he 
 was compelled to knock out 
 one of the redskins, and 
 this incident forms one 
 of the most thrilling anec- 
 dotes in his career. While 
 only a boy of seventeen, he 
 was prospecting at Rock 
 Creek, British Columbia, with 
 a Doctor Bell. They deter- 
 mined to go to the deserted 
 camp of Samilkameen, with 
 the intention of securing 
 tools left by stampeding min- 
 ers. 
 
 After riding thirty miles 
 
 they came to the Okanagan River, where they em- 
 ployed two Indians to carry them across in canoes, 
 and also to cross the Samilkameen River, three 
 miles farther on. It was agreed that the Indians 
 were to cross them on their return, at which time 
 the miners would pay them a pair of twenty-dollar 
 blankets. 
 
 When the prospectors returned to the Samilka- 
 meen they unpacked their horses and drove them 
 into the water. The beasts swam across and were 
 caught by the Indians on the opposite shore and tied 
 to trees. The Indians then crossed the river and in- 
 formed the white men that they would not ferry them 
 back unless their pay was doubled. Churchill and 
 Bell balked. The Indians threatened the pair and, 
 under orders of Dr. Bell, Churchill struck one of the 
 redmen with a pick handle. He fell and the other 
 Indian fled, pursued by Bell. He escaped and set 
 up such a wild yelling that the miners feared other 
 members of his tribe might be attracted. An ex- 
 amination proved that Churchill's Indian had been 
 disposed of by the blow from the pick handle, so 
 the miners packed their goods in the canoes and 
 hurriedly crossed. 
 
 They made for the Okanagan River, near the 
 Indian village of Tonasket, anticipating trouble be- 
 cause of the absence of the Indians. Fortunately, 
 they fell in with a party of fourteen miners from 
 
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 Caribou who took them in and the entire outfit 
 was crossed by the Indians. While packing, a 
 miner shot an Indian. Confusion followed and 
 Mr. Churchill and his partner, realizing the danger 
 of a massacre, started on a run from the camp. 
 They took a side trail and reached Rock Creek in 
 safety, although they learned later that the In- 
 dians had pursued the rest of the party. 
 
 An instance displaying Mr. Churchill's endur- 
 ance and aid to companions occurred when three 
 of them, heading for a new discovery at Salmon 
 River, Idaho, had to cross Commerce Prairie, a 
 bleak plateau of thirty miles, covered with a foot 
 of crusted snow. One of them gave out entirely, 
 and as there were no trees, wood or shelter, they 
 couldn't stop, so Mr. Churchill carried the prostrate 
 man for two miles and the other miner shouldered 
 the three packs until they reached a camp of min- 
 ers at Whitebird. 
 
 One dismal morning, when it was about sixty 
 degrees or more below zero, he was standing on 
 the threshold of his miner's cabin facing starvation. 
 His partner and himself rolled up their blankets, 
 three pounds of salt, a box of matches, a half loaf 
 of bread and a pressed miner's pan and put 
 them on their backs, strapped their snow shoes to 
 their feet, grabbed their guns and started for the 
 Salmon River Mountains, where it was reported 
 there was wild game. 
 
 By noon they had covered 100 miles, and Mr. 
 Churchill, having shot a grouse, they made camp 
 at once in a clearing. After their meal they went 
 out to hunt food for the next meal, and while they 
 were away their blankets and most of their pro- 
 visions were burned. Thus, in a temperature av- 
 eraging sixty degrees below zero, they were with- 
 out covering and for twenty-nine days suffered in- 
 tensely. Leaving there they started back to their 
 mining camp with fifty-eight grouse, and after these 
 were consumed took their gold dust and went to 
 Slate Creek, where they had heard provisions were 
 to be had. However, when they reached there the 
 provisions had not arrived and for one week they 
 were compelled to live at an Indian boarding house, 
 where they were charged three dollars a meal. 
 When the pack train arrived, each bought 105 
 pounds of provisions and they packed it on their 
 back to their camp, forty miles away. 
 
 After following the prospector's life for six 
 years Mr. Churchill engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness in Oregon and continued in the same business 
 through Washington, Idaho and Montana, where he 
 was one of the pioneers. 
 
 An interesting coincidence in connection with 
 Mr. Churchill's success as a cattleman occurred in 
 18G4. Fourteen years previously he had known, 
 crossing the plains, a young man named H. H. Snow, 
 but lost track of him afterward. With $10,300, 
 which he made out of his mining operations at 
 Boise, Mr. Churchill had embarked in the cattle 
 business at Walla Walla, Washington. He had 
 about 650 head of cattle, when he accidentally met 
 Snow and renewed old acquaintance. He offered to 
 sell his cattle to Snow for $40 a head, but the lat- 
 ter could not take them and instead urged Mr. 
 Churchill to take the stock to Montana, where he 
 assured him he could get $100 a head. He did so 
 and sold his cattle for more than $100 a head. 
 Mr. Churchill never saw his friend again to thank 
 him for his very good counsel and heard nothing 
 of him until 1908, when he was informed by a Wash- 
 ington man that Snow had died twenty years pre- 
 viously. 
 
 In 1869 he made a trip to Texas, where he 
 bought a herd of cattle and while driving them to 
 Montana, passing through Utah, near Soda Springs, 
 Mr. Churchill forced three thieving redskins to re- 
 lease a cow, which they had stolen from his herds. 
 He approached them and, although they leveled 
 their guns at him, he continued and by sheer nerve, 
 forced them to flee. Having recovered his cow, he 
 was leisurely heading towards camp when suddenly 
 thirty Indians swarmed up the bank directly on 
 him; three of them, probably the same he had en- 
 countered before, pointed their rifles at him, but 
 the others, being friendly, jumped in between. For 
 ten minutes he was held and while they were dis- 
 puting over his fate, several opened a gap for him 
 and whispered, "you go," and he fled. 
 
 This incident caused Mr. Churchill to regard 
 Indians as more humane than many white despera- 
 does he met in later life. He finally located at Sun 
 River, where he continued in the cattle business 
 with profitable results. 
 
 Still another experience came to him near Sun 
 River, Montana, while he was riding up a gulch on 
 a buffalo trail, gathering cattle. On the hillside 
 above him he saw an Indian leaning on his rifle. 
 Mr. Churchill could have avoided the savage by 
 going far out of his way, but decided to risk riding 
 by him. As he reached the nearest point to the 
 redskin, they both started shooting; four shots 
 apiece were fired. Mr. Churchill, having no more 
 cartridges, ran his horse, bounding and jumping 
 down the crooked canon, not noticing the trail as 
 closely as he should. While glancing back at the 
 Indian, who remained on the same spot, he plunged 
 over a perpendicular bluff of thirty feet, landing 
 in the soft sand. While he was not hurt, he had 
 become separated from his horse and had to con- 
 tinue on foot to camp. The following: morning he 
 and his friend, J. R. Cox, returned to the scene 
 to look for his horse and the Indian, but both had 
 disappeared. 
 
 He remained at Sun River until the latter part 
 of 1883, when he disposed of his interests to R. B. 
 Harrison, ex-President Benjamin Harrison and as- 
 sociates. 
 
 During his stay at Sun River Mr. Churchill was 
 also a stockholder and director in two of the pio- 
 neer banks of Montana. When he left Montana 
 his departure was the occasion for a commemora- 
 tive tribute on the part of the Helena (Montana) 
 Herald, the editor of which wrote an article prais- 
 ing the works of Mr. Churchill and thanking him 
 for his part in the development of the country. 
 
 In 1884 he moved with his family to Los Angeles 
 and became heavily interested in real estate and 
 other lines of business, which added to his fortune. 
 He was one of the charter members of the organ- 
 ization, in 1889, of the National Bank of California 
 and was the second largest stockholder in that 
 institution. For about ten years he was a Vice 
 President of the bank, and still retains his place on 
 the Board of Directors. 
 
 Mr. Churchill has been one of the prominent 
 figures in the development of Los Angeles and 
 Southern California, and, although he is now prac- 
 tically retired from business life, still maintains 
 a deep interest in the welfare of his adopted city. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Chamber of 
 Commerce and still retains membership in it. 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Churchill incorporated his personal 
 holdings into the O. H. Churchill Company, In- 
 corporated. 
 
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 I. N. VAN NUYS 
 
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 AN NUYS, ISAAC NEWTON (de- 
 ceased), Capitalist, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at West 
 Sparta, New York, November 20, 
 1835. His father was Peter Van 
 Nuys and his- mother Harriet 
 (Kerr) Van Nuys. In 1880 he married Susanna H. 
 Lankershim, a daughter of Isaac Lankershim, at 
 Los Angeles. There are three children Annis H., 
 James Benton, one of the substantial business men 
 of Los Angeles, and Kate Van Nuys. 
 
 In his childhood he attended the public schools 
 of West Sparta, New York, supplementing this by 
 entering the Academy of Lima (N. Y.), where he 
 was a student for one year. During his school 
 years he assisted his father on the family farm. 
 
 At the end of Mr. Van Nuys' school days his en- 
 tire time and attention was devoted to agricultural 
 pursuits, at which he became a master, until 1865, 
 when he removed to California in search of health, 
 new opportunities and an ideal agricultural coun- 
 try. His first location in California was at Napa, 
 from where he shortly removed to Monticello, Cal- 
 ifornia, and entered the mercantile field as pro- 
 prietor of a large country store. After several 
 years spent in the mercantile line he again turned 
 to the soil, and in 1868, in company with Mr. Lank- 
 ershim and others, he purchased what has since 
 become famous as the Van Nuys and Lankershim 
 Ranches, located in the fertile San Fernando Val- 
 ley, just outside of the present boundary line of 
 Los Angeles. This enormous property, comprising 
 more than 60,000 acres, he devoted to stock raising, 
 principally sheep. He" continued stock raising until 
 1873, when he began raising grain. 
 
 In 1871, Mr. Van Nuys disposed of his store at 
 Monticello and removed to Los Angeles. The city 
 little realized that it was welcoming a man destined 
 to become so great and important a factor in its 
 upbuilding. Here he did his part in both private 
 and public life in a manner that has enriched the 
 city and has added to its social and business stand- 
 ing. His labors for civic development and his 
 standard of integrity have been recognized by all 
 who knew him. 
 
 Mr. Van Nuys had the distinction of having 
 been the first man to demonstrate by actual results 
 that wheat, by the use of the right kind of seed 
 and proper treatment of the same, could be raised 
 successfuly in Los Angeles County. From the time 
 of the early Spaniards this has been tried, but 
 every attempt prior to Mr. Van Nuys' advent had 
 proved so discouraging that the idea of raising 
 wheat profitably in Los Angeles County had about 
 been abandoned as an impossibility. Mr. Van 
 Nuys, however, profited by the mistakes of his 
 predecessors, and in 1876, against the advice of old 
 settlers and friends, rented a large tract of land 
 from the company of which he was a member, 
 carefully selected and prepared his seed and sowed 
 his wheat. The result the first year was enough 
 grain to send nearly three full cargoes abroad. 
 
 This was the beginning of the wheat industry 
 in Los Angeles County and, with Mr. Van Nuys as 
 leader, farmers generally took up wheat raising, 
 with the result that many of them made huge for- 
 tunes. As earlv as 1888, Mr. Van Nuys and asso- 
 ciates produced 510,000 bushels of wheat on their 
 land, and for years afterwards Mr. Van Nuys was 
 engaged in wheat raising and the milling business. 
 From the standpoint of historic interest at this 
 time, when Los Angeles is in the act of developing 
 an ideal harbor at San Pedro, the fact is of utmost 
 importance that Mr. Van Nuys, in 1876, sent forth 
 
 the first two vessels loaded with wheat to clear 
 from San Pedro (Los Angeles) Harbor. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Van Nuys and Mr. Isaac Lanker- 
 shim organized the Los Angeles Farming & Milling 
 Company for the principal purpose of milling their 
 own vast holdings of wheat, but which soon con- 
 sumed most of the wheat raised in Southern Cali- 
 fornia. This business has continued to thrive and 
 is one of the substantial institutions of the city. 
 
 In 1896 he built the famous Van Nuys Hotel, 
 which has attained an enviable international rep- 
 utation. This property his heirs still own. 
 
 Mr. Van Nuys controlled the Van Nuys and 
 Lankershim Ranchos until the spring of 1910, when 
 he and his associates disposed of their entire hold- 
 ings to a syndicate who have subdivided the prop- 
 erty into small country estates and built magnifi- 
 cent boulevards and have been instrumental in 
 having the traction lines enter the property, plac- 
 ing them within easy reach of Los Angeles. This 
 deal constituted one of the largest realty transac- 
 tions of the Southwest and has involved an expendi- 
 ture in improvements estimated at $2,000,000. 
 
 One of the principal business corners owned by 
 Mr. Van Nuys is at the corner of Seventh and 
 Spring streets. On this property he, in 1911, 
 started the erection of one of the finest and largest 
 office buildings in the West. It is interesting to 
 note that on the site where this magnificent mod- 
 ern office building stands but recently stood the 
 original Van Nuys homestead. 
 
 At the time of Mr. Van Nuys' purchase of this 
 property (1880) it was considered far in the out- 
 skirts of the city, but in a short period the growth 
 of the city surrounded it with modern buildings 
 until it became the heart of the business district. 
 
 Mr. Van Nuys was active in the transaction of 
 business up to within a short time prior to his 
 death, on February 12, 1912, but owing to the ex- 
 tensive interests which demanded his time, grad- 
 ually shifted the management of many of them to 
 his son, J. B. Van Nuys, with the result that when 
 illness finally compelled the father to relinquish 
 the cares of business, the son succeeded to his 
 place in the affairs of Los Angeles. Among other 
 duties, he supervised the completion of the I. N. 
 Van Nuys Building, an eleven-story structure and 
 one of the most impressive in the city. 
 
 In addition to his real estate and milling inter- 
 ests, the late Mr. Van Nuys, who was a factor in 
 financial affairs, served as Vice President of the 
 Farmers & Merchants' Bank, and as Director of 
 the Union Bank of Savings. He also was a Director 
 of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company. 
 
 By his business associates Mr. Van Nuys was 
 respected for his strict integrity and high sense of 
 honor and as a man of exceptional courage. This 
 latter characteristic was demonstrated on one occa- 
 sion in such a way as to become historic in business 
 circles of Los Angeles. The occurrence happened 
 at a directors' meeting of a bank in which Mr. Van 
 Nuys was an officer. One of the board made a 
 proposition which the latter considered open to 
 criticism and in the discussion which followed his 
 protest they almost came to blows. Mr. Van Nuys, 
 by standing firm and displaying his characteristic 
 determination when feeling he was right, forced 
 the other to abandon the plan. 
 
 Mr. Van Nuys was prominent in fraternal and 
 club circles. He was a member of Pentalpha 
 Lodge, F. and A. M., Signet Chapter, Los Angeles 
 Commandery, and Al Malaikah Temple, Mystic 
 Shrine. He belonged to the California Club and 
 Crags Country Club. 
 
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 AVENS, FRANK COLTON, Presi- 
 dent of the People's Water Com- 
 pany and Capitalist, Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Sag Harbor, 
 N. Y., Nov. 21, 1848, the son of 
 W i c k h a m Sayre Havens and 
 Sarah (Darling) Havens. His paternal ancestors 
 were among the early settlers of Long Island, and 
 for several generations were engaged in the whal- 
 ing industry, making their home among the hardy 
 habitants of Sag Harbor. 
 Members of the family 
 fought in the American Rev- 
 olutionary War and other- 
 wise proved their patriotism. 
 
 Mr. F. C. Havens reached 
 California February 8, 1866, 
 settling first in San Fran- 
 cisco, but ultimately in Oak- 
 land. In February, 1873, he 
 was married in Virginia 
 City to Miss Sadie Bell, de- 
 ceased; and in May, 1892, to 
 Miss Lila Rand. His chil- 
 dren are Wickham, Harold, 
 Seyd and Paul Havens. 
 
 Until he was fifteen years 
 old Mr. Havens attended the 
 village school of Sag Har- 
 bor, and on April 16, 1864, 
 left New York for China, on 
 the S. S. Oriflamme, to be- 
 gin the active business life 
 in which he has since 
 achieved so notable a suc- 
 cess. 
 
 For about a year and a 
 half he was assistant purser 
 on the steamer Kinshaw, 
 running on the Canton river. Leaving China in De- 
 cember, 1865, he crossed the Pacific on the Ori- 
 flamme, which was the first steamship to traverse 
 this ocean on the eastward trip. 
 
 His first employment in San Francisco was that 
 of office boy and clerk in the Savings and Loan 
 Society's Bank on Clay street. At the end of ten 
 years, realizing that he could get no higher than 
 his position of teller, he "got out," and formed a 
 partnership with Mr. Van Dyke Hubbard in the 
 stock brokerage business. From 1880 to 1884 he 
 was a member of the S. F. Stock Exchange, during 
 which period he established the Home Benefit Life 
 Association, which went out of business in 1892. In 
 1889 he organized the American Investment Union 
 of New York, and in 1892 the Mutual Investment 
 Union. This latter was absorbed by the Realty 
 Syndicate in 1895, which Mr. Havens organized in 
 that year. 
 
 The vast operations of this corporation, of which 
 until recently Mr. Havens was the moving spirit, 
 are little understood by those unfamiliar with the 
 
 FRANK C. HAVENS 
 
 facts. Before its consolidation with the Oakland 
 Traction Company and the Key Route it had accu- 
 mulated, under his management, fully 13,000 acres 
 of valuable land, making a sky line from Mills Col- 
 lege, near Leona Heights, to North Berkeley, as 
 well as large holdings in central Oakland. On its 
 six per cent certificates, which were made convert- 
 ible into real estate, more than $12,000,000 were 
 raised, all of which went into the development of 
 Oakland and vicinity. Mr. Havens originated the 
 idea of consolidating the 
 street railways of Oakland 
 into the Oakland Traction 
 Company and of amalgamat- 
 ing this with the Key Route, 
 which was also his concep- 
 tion, and with the Realty 
 Syndicate, the parent com- 
 pany. In this he was asso- 
 ciated with Mr. F. M. Smith, 
 but his was the brain that 
 conceived the original idea 
 of consolidating traction in- 
 terests with real estate. 
 
 After seeing the company 
 through the trying period 
 following the disaster of 
 1906, Mr. Havens resigned 
 from the active management 
 of the Realty Syndicate and 
 organized the People's Water 
 Company of Oakland. Of 
 this he assumed the manage- 
 ment in June, 1910, and at 
 the annual meeting of the 
 same year took the presi- 
 dency of the corporation. He 
 is now devoting his best en- 
 ergies to this concern and to 
 
 the Mahogany, Eucalyptus Land Co., of which he is 
 also the president. In this last, which has for its 
 chief object the forestration of the bare hills be- 
 hind Oakland and Berkeley, his unbounded enthusi- 
 asm is working a miracle of benefit to that country. 
 The company has already planted hundreds of 
 thousands of trees, which before long will immeas- 
 urably enhance the beauty of the east side of the 
 bay. Beyond these activities and his marked in- 
 terest in the artistic side of life, among the notable 
 expressions of which are his contributions to the 
 beautiful Piedmont Park and the Art Gallery 
 therein, he allows himself little time from his 
 exacting business affairs. Like many of our other 
 notable performers he is extremely reticent touch- 
 ing his own achievements and good works, pre- 
 ferring to labor as far as possible from the pale of 
 publicity. 
 
 He is a member of various clubs, among which 
 are the Pacific-Union, of San Francisco; Athenian, 
 of Oakland; Rocky Mountain, of New York; New 
 York Yacht Club and other yacht clubs of the East. 
 
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 393 
 
 OHNSON, THEODORE AUGUS- 
 TUS, Lands and Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Geneseo, Illinois, December 13, 
 1864, the son of Louis M. Johnson 
 and Anna (Erickson) Johnson. He 
 married Anna E. Rush at Tallula, Illinois, January 
 18, 1894. Mr. Johnson is descended from a sturdy 
 American family, his father having been a pioneer 
 in the development of Illinois, whither he migrated 
 in the late forties. Mrs. John- 
 son also comes of old Ameri- 
 can ancestry, one of her 
 paternal ancestors having 
 been Dr. Benjamin Rush, a 
 signer of the Declaration of 
 Independence and one of the 
 most celebrated physicians 
 of his time. 
 
 Mr. Johnson attended the 
 public schools of his native 
 town until he was fourteen 
 years of age, when he com- 
 menced a very active busi- 
 ness life which has recorded 
 many successes. 
 
 Endowed with a natural 
 aptitude for commercial busi- 
 ness, Mr. Johnson, at the age 
 of fourteen, entered the em- 
 ploy of Taylor Williams, at 
 that time the largest indi- 
 vidual coal operator in the 
 State of Illinois and the own- 
 er of an extensive mercantile 
 business. He began as a 
 clerk in the Williams store 
 at Cleveland, Illinois. When 
 only nineteen years of age, 
 he was made buyer and Gen- 
 eral Manager of the store 
 which his firm established at 
 St. David, Illinois, and re- 
 mained there for two years. 
 After the two years at 
 
 St. David Mr. Johnson went (in 1885) to Kendall, 
 Hamilton County, in western Kansas, taking a posi- 
 tion as bookkeeper in the Kendall Exchange Bank 
 where he was promoted within a few months first 
 to the position of Assistant Cashier and then to that 
 of Cashier. At the same time Mr. Johnson took a 
 very active part in the government of the town, 
 serving as City Clerk and County Officer and doing 
 his full share of the very active work of new 
 County organization. Later, Mr. Johnson estab- 
 lished a branch bank for the Kendall Exchange 
 Bank in Johnson City, Stanton County, Kansas. 
 
 In 1887, Mr. Johnson, with his associates, sold 
 out their banking interests in that section and 
 moved to Kansas City, where he assisted in the 
 organization of the United States Bank. This later 
 was reorganized under the national banking laws 
 as the Aetna National Bank and Mr. Johnson, who 
 had been Assistant Cashier of the institution from 
 its inception, remained there until 1890 when he 
 resigned and went to St. Louis, Missouri, to become 
 Secretary and General Manager of The Aetna Loan 
 Company, occupying this position until 1896, when 
 he first became interested in the mining business. 
 He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Missouri 
 Smelting Company, and later assisted in organizing 
 and acted as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federal 
 
 T. A. JOHNSON 
 
 Lead Company, whose property was in the St. 
 Francois County district of Missouri. This prop- 
 erty was subsequently sold to the Guggenheim in- 
 terests. Mr. Johnson was also one of the organiz- 
 ers and operators of the Missouri Copper Company, 
 which at that time held the distinction of being the 
 only mine producing copper commercially in a 
 State noted for its lead and zinc deposits. 
 
 About 1901, Mr. Johnson left Missouri for a 
 trip through the West and during the next year 
 visited practically every im- 
 portant mining camp there, 
 including those of Idaho, 
 Washington, Oregon, Mon- 
 tana, California and Nevada. 
 The result of his observa- 
 tions was the formation of 
 a partnership with Carl F. 
 Schader of Los Angeles, and, 
 under the name of the 
 Schader-Johnson Company, 
 they operated various mining 
 properties, the most import- 
 ant of which was the Nevada- 
 Keystone in southeastern Ne- 
 vada. During the five years 
 of this co-partnership several 
 important mining operations 
 were brought to a very suc- 
 cessful issue by this firm. 
 
 Mr. Johnson later man- 
 aged the Johnnie Mining & 
 Milling Company for about 
 two years and also served as 
 Secretary of the Pan-Ameri- 
 can Railroad, a line in 
 Mexico over three hundred 
 miles long which has since 
 been taken over by the Mexi- 
 can Government. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Johnson or- 
 ganized the Provident Invest- 
 ment Company and has since 
 directed its affairs as Presi- 
 dent. This company is en- 
 gaged in the real estate business with offices in 
 Los Angeles, San Francisco and Modoc, Surprise 
 Valley. It is the owner of the townsite of Modoc 
 and has purchased a large acreage of rich Surprise 
 Valley ranch lands, much of which Mr. Johnson's 
 company plans to put into orchard. 
 
 Mr. Johnson has also secured for his company 
 a large interest in a great gravity irrigation system 
 now approaching the construction stage and which, 
 it is claimed, will irrigate over 50,000 acres of land 
 on the east side of Surprise Valley. 
 
 To any undertaking with which he becomes con- 
 nected and which is concerned in the up-building 
 of the State of California, Mr. Johnson brings un- 
 bounded enthusiasm, coupled with a very high de- 
 gree of careful business judgment and executive 
 ability. It is these qualities which have been 
 steadily recognized by his many friends through- 
 out the central west, who have interested them- 
 selves financially in various California development 
 operations embracing railroad and townsite build- 
 ing and irrigation and land development undertak- 
 ings with which Mr. Johnson has been identified. 
 He was one of the organizers and is a Director 
 of the Sierra Madre Club, Los Angeles; belongs to 
 the B. P. O. E., No. 99, and is a member, San 
 Gabriel Valley Country Club. 
 
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 ALKER, PERCIVAL JOHN, Presi- 
 dent of the P. J. Walker Company, 
 Incorporated, San Francisco, was 
 born in Oakland, Gal., April 21, 
 1875, the son of John C. and Mary 
 (Miller) Walker. His parents, who 
 were English Canadians by birth, went to Califor- 
 nia by way of the Isthmus of Panama, in the early 
 fifties, and first settled in San Francisco, where Mr. 
 John C. Walker engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes, but subse- 
 quently, his health failing, 
 became a farmer and dairy- 
 man on the east side of the 
 Bay. There P. J. Walker 
 passed his early youth, and 
 on June 24, 1903, was mar- 
 ried in Sacramento to Miss 
 Edith Jennings Lynn. The 
 children of this marriage are 
 Marjorie Edith and Percival 
 J. Walker, Jr. 
 
 From 1880 to 1887 Mr. 
 Walker attended the Frank- 
 lin Grammar School in Oak- 
 land and was graduated there- 
 from in the latter year, after 
 which he entered the Oak- 
 land High School, but left be- 
 fore graduation. 
 
 For the first few years 
 after leaving the High School 
 he was a little doubtful as to 
 the career he should choose. 
 At the age of eighteen he be- 
 gan to learn the bricklaying 
 trade, partly as a preparation 
 for the contracting business, 
 and for two years studied law 
 at night, with the half-formed intention of becom- 
 ing a lawyer. But after some investigation of 
 these two fields, and a closer study of himself, he 
 concluded that the building and contracting indus- 
 try possessed superior advantages, for him, at 
 least. In this the remarkable success he has at- 
 tained is ample evidence of the soundness of his 
 youthful judgment. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Walker entered the contracting field 
 in San Francico, against a large number of com- 
 petitors, and with just twelve dollars capital that 
 he could call his own. That despite these odds he 
 has not only more than held his own but has also 
 actually distanced most of his rivals in the race 
 for building contracts the present condition of his 
 business is conclusive testimony. It is no exagger- 
 ation to say that during the sixteen years of his 
 activity in the field of his choice he has developed 
 the largest building business in central California. 
 Since the fire alone he has been associated in the 
 construction of one hundred and ten buildings, 
 most of them important both from the contractor's 
 viewpoint and from that of the public. They are 
 
 P. J. WALKER 
 
 mostly steel-frame, fireproof structures. In Oak- 
 land Mr. Walker's company has constructed prac- 
 tically every important building erected there 
 in recent years, and has acquired a reputation 
 for speed and efficiency in completing its con- 
 tracts. 
 
 This success has been due not only to the ex- 
 cellent equipment and the systematic methods for 
 which his company is known, but largely to the 
 aggressive, though genial, personality of which those 
 methods are expressions. 
 System and P. J. Walker are 
 almost synonymous. In this 
 he regards organization and 
 the proper delegation of au- 
 thority as the main factors, 
 for he has learned by experi- 
 ence and observation that 
 failure, or at least lack of 
 progress, attends the inabil- 
 ity to sense the value of 
 those factors. 
 
 It is worthy of note that a 
 Walker building, that of the 
 California Electric Works, al- 
 though completely embraced 
 by the flames was the only 
 structure so threatened that 
 was practically unscathed by 
 the conflagration of 1906. 
 This phenomenon was due 
 largely to the fact that this 
 building was provided with 
 metal window frames and 
 wire-glass, the first in San 
 Francisco to be so equipped. 
 Beyond his constructive ac- 
 tivity Mr. Walker is espe- 
 cially prominent in auto- 
 mobile circles, and was one of the pioneer motorists 
 of the State. As President of the California State 
 Automobile Association, as well as of the California 
 State Highway League, he is more than an enthusi- 
 ast. He is known far and wide as an expert referee 
 of motor contests, and recently refereed the Glidden 
 tour, in which he added much to his already en- 
 viable reputation in this direction. He is also one 
 of the executive committee of the American Auto- 
 mobile Association. He has contributed many arti- 
 cles, chiefly on activity in motoring circles and in 
 road building in California, especially to The 
 Motorist, and to The American Motorist. 
 
 As a participant in club entertainments he was 
 formerly in great demand, notably as a raconteur 
 and monologist, but has left that field to his brother. 
 For other interests than these he has allowed him- 
 self little time. His clubs are: The Bohemian, 
 Union League and Commonwealth of San Francisco, 
 and the Athenian, Claremont Country and Nile of 
 Oakland. He was somewhat active in Masonic cir- 
 cles during the years right after reaching his ma- 
 jority, and became a Knight Templar, 32nd degree 
 Mason and Shriner before his 25th year. 
 
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 OOD, JOHN PERRY, Judge Supe- 
 rior Court, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Baltimore, Md., March 30, 
 1879, the son of Rev. John A. 
 Wood and Ida L. (Perry) Wood. 
 His father is a Methodist minister 
 noted for his eloquence and good works. Judge 
 Wood married Claudine B. Hazen of New York City, 
 June 17, 1911, at Pasadena, Cal. 
 
 When two weeks old he was taken to Pennsyl- 
 vania and there received his 
 earliest schooling. Graduat- 
 ing from the Everett, Penn., 
 High School, he entered 
 Dickinson College, and in 
 1900 had received from his 
 alma mater both his B. A. and 
 A. M. degrees. He entered 
 the Yale Law School, gradu- 
 ating in 1902. 
 
 After leaving the law 
 school Mr. Wood located in 
 Los Angeles, and after a year 
 with one of the leading law 
 firms of that city, he opened 
 his own office in Pasadena. 
 In May, 1905, upon the elec- 
 tion of a city administration 
 pledged to certain reforms, he 
 was asked to accept the ap- 
 pointive office of Judge of 
 the Police Court of Pasadena. 
 After a year he was appointed 
 to the office of City Attorney. 
 He threw himself into the 
 work of solving the city's 
 problems and was soon recog- 
 nized as the brains of the 
 administration. He held the 
 office for four years, under two different administra- 
 tions, looking after the city's legal affairs and 
 directing its policies toward the entire dissolution 
 of the public's business from all private interests. 
 His work for Pasadena has been of advantage to 
 the cause of cities generally. The city was involved 
 in a dispute with a powerful lighting concern over 
 the lighting service given the city and its residents. 
 Investigation was made and it was decided that the 
 electricity supplied for the city street lighting was 
 only one-third of the amount required by the city's 
 contract. Then Mr. Wood discovered that the light- 
 ing contract was unlawful, and advised the City 
 Council that the lighting concern could recover 
 nothing. Under a former administration an attempt 
 had been made to evade a law limiting city lighting 
 contracts to one year by a scheme of leasing the 
 distributing system to the city for a long term of 
 years, and buying energy year by year, the leasing 
 contract calling for two-thirds of the total price. 
 The city offered to pay fifty per cent of the com- 
 pany's demand. The company refused and kept 
 
 HON. J. P. WOOD 
 
 on furnishing light under the contract, presenting 
 its bills each month and having them refused. After 
 a large amount was piled up suit was commenced 
 in the Federal courts. The City Attorney de- 
 murred the company out of both the lower and the 
 Appellate courts, and the company received nothing. 
 It was in this controversy that Pasadena's mu- 
 nicipal lighting project was born, the people voting 
 bonds for that purpose. The company went into 
 the courts to enjoin their sale and bond buyers were 
 scared off. The city took 
 money from its treasury to 
 start a street lighting plant, 
 and certain citizens sued to 
 enjoin this. The city was 
 harassed with numerous law- 
 suits in both the State and 
 Federal courts. All of these 
 suits City Attorney Wood 
 won for the city. In the 
 end the bonds were sold and 
 a plant built which furnishes 
 light to the people at five 
 cents per kilowatt, with a 
 profit to the city, as against 
 the twelve and a half cent 
 rate previously charged by 
 the private concern. The lat- 
 ter now sells at four cents per 
 kilowatt, but the city's plant 
 prospers. 
 
 In 1908, the Bell Tele- 
 phone & Telegraph Company 
 were claiming the right to 
 have their poles and wires in 
 the streets of California cit- 
 ies without franchises from 
 the city. Their old franchises 
 were expiring, and they were 
 claiming rights as interstate lines under old acts 
 of Congress, and under various State statutes gotten 
 in the days before the people woke up. This was 
 probably the City Attorney's hardest fight, but the 
 cause of the cities was finally won. 
 
 Mr. Wood became highly respected by the 
 public as a lawyer and a vigorous advocate of the 
 square deal. As a result, at the elections in 1910 
 the Lincoln-Roosevelt League of Los Angeles 
 County put him up as a candidate for the 
 office of Judge of the Superior Court. This was 
 without his solicitation and somewhat against his 
 will, for he desired to continue in the work he was 
 doing, but he was elected by a comfortable majority, 
 and has occupied the office since the 1st of Janu- 
 ary, 1911. 
 
 Judge Wood has always been associated with the 
 better movements for political reform in Southern 
 California. He belongs to the Masonic Order, and 
 is a member of the Overland Club and the Annan- 
 dale Country Club of Pasadena and the Union 
 League Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 E. J. MILEY 
 
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 397 
 
 ILEY, EMMOR JEROME, Oil Op- 
 erator, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in St. Glair County, Illi- 
 nois, October 22, 1873, the son of 
 George C. Miley and Nancy (Wild- 
 ermann) Miley. Fort Miley at 
 San Francisco, is named in honor of his brother, 
 John David Miley, one of the heroes of the Cuban 
 and Philippine campaigns. He went to Cuba as 
 First Lieutenant of the Regulars and was Chief 
 Aide to General Shafter. For his services in the 
 Spanish-American war he was brevetted Briga- 
 dier General and given the rank of Lieutenant 
 Colonel in the Volunteer Army. After the Cuban 
 campaign he went to the Philippine Islands, as 
 Inspector General of that Department, and while 
 in that service was claimed by death. 
 
 His parents having died when he was very 
 young, E. J. Miley left his native county at the age 
 of seventeen years, after he had gone through the 
 public schools there. He finished his education in 
 the High School of San Francisco in 1895. 
 
 Mr. Miley became a business man immediately 
 after leaving high school. He had spent a great 
 part of his life on farms and ranches when he 
 was not going to school and his first venture was 
 in this line. He began by leasing bearing fruit 
 orchards in Solano County, California, and shipping 
 the product to outside markets. He engaged in 
 this for about five years with considerable success. 
 
 During .the last year of his connection with the 
 fruit industry, Mr. Miley began to turn his atten- 
 tion to oil, which, at that time was just looming 
 up as the great industrial possibility of California, 
 and in 1900, after selling his fruit business, he 
 formed a partnership with Joseph B. Dabney for 
 the purpose of engaging in the oil business. To- 
 gether they leased a large tract of land in the 
 McKittrick oil district, in the San Joaquin Valley 
 of California. They began drilling for oil immedi- 
 ately and during their first year put down ten 
 wells. 
 
 In January, 1901, Mr. Miley sold his interest in 
 the firm to the Dabney Oil Company, which had 
 been formed by his partner, and he sought other 
 associates. He soon became interested in the Sil- 
 ver Bow Oil Company, which had holdings in the 
 McKittrick and Midway oil districts. The latter, 
 which has since become known as one of the 
 world's greatest oil producing districts, was at 
 that time practically undeveloped and Mr. Miley 
 put down one of the pioneer wells there. He held 
 stock in the company and was General Manager 
 for California, (the company being a Montana cor- 
 poration) until 1903. During that time he drilled 
 five wells, in the McKittrick District, in addition 
 to the one in the Midway field. 
 
 The oil business having taken a slump in 1903, 
 Mr. Miley's company shut down operations and he 
 went prospecting for himself. He drilled several 
 wells during this year, but the market remaining 
 
 inactive, he, too, left off operations and engaged 
 in mining in Nevada. He became interested in 
 copper mines and started development of some 
 property, but met with reverses in 1906 when the 
 disaster which visited San Francisco in that year 
 caused a financial depression which extended into 
 Nevada. He remained there until the latter 
 part of 1907, however, and then went to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he became associated with the Sum- 
 mit Construction Company, which was engaged in 
 the work of rebuilding the city. 
 
 Mr. Miley remained there until 1908, when he 
 again became active in the oil business and re- 
 turned to the McKittrick field, where he still had 
 extensive interests. He formed a partnership with 
 David J. Graham under the name of the State Oil 
 Company, which they incorporated in January, 
 1908. Together they leased and bought lands and 
 began work at once, Mr. Miley acting as President 
 and General Manager of the company. They con- 
 tinued their work until March, 1911, when the State 
 Consolidated Oil Company was formed by taking 
 over the holdings of the State Oil Company and 
 several properties held personally by Messrs. Gra- 
 ham and Miley, the latter being elected President 
 and General Manager of the new corporation. 
 
 Mr. Miley and Mr. Graham still retain valuable 
 property interests in the McKittrick, Front and 
 Midway districts, aside from the holdings of their 
 company. Mr. Miley is also a Director on the 
 Board of the Providence Oil Company. 
 
 Despite the fact that he is one of the youngest 
 operators in the California oil fields, Mr. Miley is 
 regarded as one of its leaders, and in 1910, when 
 the National Congress called upon oil men of Cali- 
 fornia for a report upon the industry, he was one 
 of the first men chosen on what is officially known 
 as the California Oil Men's Washington delegation. 
 Because of his extensive knowledge of the field, 
 Mr. Miley greatly aided his fellow members of the 
 committee in conducting the necessary investi- 
 gation and preparing the data desired by them for 
 presentation to Congress. The result was a docu- 
 ment so complete in historical and statistical 
 data that Mr. Miley was personally complimented 
 by the Congressional Committee having the mat- 
 ter in charge. 
 
 Owing to the withdrawal of millions of acres 
 of land, the oil operators were placed in a serious 
 condition by the government and the report sub- 
 mitted by Mr. Miley, containing detailed data on 
 every acre of land, every well and the combined 
 production of the California field, influenced Con- 
 gress in drafting new laws to clear up titles and 
 protect investors against loss by government regu- 
 lations. 
 
 His work in this connection placed Mr. Miley 
 among the national figures in the oil industry. 
 
 Mr. Miley devotes most of his time to his busi- 
 ness and his family, his only affiliation being with 
 the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 SYDNEY SMITH 
 
 MITH, SYDNEY, Capitalist, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Toronto, Canada, in 1869. His 
 father was C. Sydney Smith and 
 his mother Diana Waters (Allan) 
 Smith. He is a direct descendant 
 of Colonel William Allan, well-known to Canadians. 
 In 1889 he married Lois M. Yount, in California. 
 There is one son, Sydney Howard Smith. 
 
 Mr. Smith obtained his education at Tassie Col- 
 lege, Gait, Canada, and Trinity College, Port Hope, 
 Canada. He studied medicine. He then attended 
 Day's Commercial College, Toronto. Leaving col- 
 lege, he made a tour of the world, returning to 
 Canada prepared to enter business. 
 
 Mr. Smith devoted considerable time to studying 
 mining conditions. He went West to develop the 
 famous Sun and Moon Mine of Idaho Springs, Col- 
 orado. Shortly after this he became interested in 
 mining in Mexico, where he at one time was a 
 heavy investor. He opened and started the consoli- 
 dation of all the mines of Austin, Nevada, a transac- 
 tion profitable to himself and associates. 
 
 Although practically retired from active business, 
 Mr. Smith retains his interest in his mining and oil 
 properties. He is Vice President of the France- 
 Wellman Oil Company. 
 
 Since his retirement he has traveled extensively 
 both throughout this continent and in Europe, hav- 
 ing made a second trip around the globe. Mr. Smu*i 
 is fond of motoring, and belongs to several auto- 
 mobile clubs. He and his son spend a great many 
 hours together on their motoring tours and outing 
 trips. His son has been in attendance at St. An- 
 drews College, Toronto, Canada, for the past ten 
 years. He located in Los Angeles in 1909. 
 
 He is a member, South Shore Country Club, Chi- 
 cago; Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago; Cleveland 
 (Ohio) Country Club, Chicago Automobile Club and 
 Los Angeles Automobile Club. 
 
 F. P. GREGSON 
 
 REGSON, FREDERICK PATRICK, 
 Traffic Manager of the Associated 
 Jobbers of Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Brooklyn, New 
 York, March 17, 1861, the son of 
 John Proctor Gregson of Water- 
 ford, Ireland, and Marie Laramie. He received his 
 education in the public school of Cairo, Illinois. 
 
 At the age of thirteen years he quit school and 
 became a messenger for the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road at Cairo, studying the telegraph business at 
 the same time. A year later he became an operator 
 and agent at a small station. From that time on 
 he occupied various positions on various roads, with 
 a view of getting a thorough practical education in 
 the various branches of railroading. 
 
 In 1887 he came to Los Angeles from Texas and 
 entered the service of the Southern California 
 Railway. He filled positions in the train and station 
 branches for eleven years and in 1898 was appointed 
 Chief Clerk of the Traffic Department of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad at Los Angeles, under Edward Cham- 
 bers. He remained in the position until 1908, when 
 he resigned to take his present position. 
 
 Since his tenure of office his city of Los Angeles 
 has waged a struggle for commercial recognition, 
 and for a share of the markets of California and 
 the adjacent inland states. Railroad freight rates 
 had been so adjusted by the railroads .entering 
 California as to make it practically Impossible for 
 Los Angeles to transact any jobbing business. The 
 high rates on products from the East made living 
 high. Mr. Gregson has always been at the fore- 
 front of the fight to get for Los Angeles the rates 
 it thought it deserved. Appeals were made to the 
 Interstate Commerce Commission and to the Rail- 
 way Commission of California. In the framing of 
 the appeals, in the gathering of the data, Mr. Greg- 
 son has been of great help on account of his ex- 
 perience with railroad traffic. 
 
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 CHARLES S. KENT 
 
 ENT, CHARLES SUMNER, Pa- 
 cific Coast Manager of the Bar- 
 ber Asphalt Paving Co., Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Buffalo, 
 N. Y., Feb. 6, 1873. He is the 
 son of William M. Kent and 
 Susan E. (Philips) Kent. He married Josephine 
 MacPherson in 1904 at Buffalo. 
 
 Mr. Kent's early education was limited to at- 
 tendance at the public schools of his native city. 
 Upon finishing his primary studies, Mr. Kent en- 
 tered an architect's office to learn that profession, 
 and he studied for four years, at the end of which 
 time he was compelled to give it up on account of 
 ill health. During this period Mr. Kent went to 
 Europe to study Old World architecture and was 
 occupied thus for six months, visiting fourteen 
 countries. 
 
 Upon relinquishing his ambitions to become an 
 architect, Mr. Kent rested for a considerable period 
 of time, then became connected with the Barber 
 Asphalt Paving Co., with which concern he has con- 
 tinued down to date. He first went to work for the 
 company in June, 1892, and his career since then 
 has been a series of successes in his chosen field. 
 He was promoted rapidly and for several years be- 
 fore moving West was superintendent of the com- 
 pany in Buffalo and western New York State. In 
 February, 1904, he was appointed District Manager 
 of California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. 
 His record in that position for the next two years 
 was such that he was named Pacific Coast Manager 
 for the Barber Company, and is now in complete 
 charge of its business in all that territory west 
 of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Kent is regarded as 
 one of the leading asphalt experts, and is a man of 
 great executive ability. He has never taken any 
 active part in politics or fraternal matters, but is 
 a popular clubman, holding membership in the 
 California and Gamut clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
 HON. CURTIS D. WILBUR 
 
 ILBUR, CURTIS D., Judge of the 
 Superior Court, of Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born May 10, 1867, in 
 Boonesboro, Iowa, the son of 
 Dwight L. and Edna M. (Lyman) 
 Wilbur. The father was a soldier 
 in the Civil War and a practicing physician in 
 Ohio. Judge Wilbur has been twice married, on 
 November 9, 1893, to Ella Chilson, who died Decem- 
 ber, 1896, and the second time to Olive Doolittle, 
 January 13, 1898. He has four children. 
 
 Judge Wilbur worked on a farm and attended 
 the public schools of Iowa until the family moved 
 to North Dakota in 1883. There he worked in a 
 tile factory, looking after the machinery, and 
 meanwhile attended the high school. In the year 
 1884 he was appointed to the Naval Academy of 
 Annapolis. He studied the full term of four years 
 and graduated in 1888, the third in his class. Dur- 
 ing his last year he was cadet lieutenant. On his 
 graduation he resigned from the navy and, in 1888, 
 went to California. 
 
 During the first year after his arrival he taught 
 school at the McPherron Academy and studied law. 
 After eighteen months devoted exclusively to study 
 he was admitted to the bar. 
 
 He practiced his profession successfully from 
 1890 to 1903, when he was elected to the bench. 
 Four of these years he served as chief deputy dis- 
 trict attorney of Los Angeles County. 
 
 He was elected Judge of the Superior Court in 
 1903 and has had a notable career on the bench. 
 Was re-elected in November, 1908, to serve until 
 1915, receiving the largest majority on the Republi- 
 can ticket. He has been in charge of the juvenile 
 court since 1903, and has put thousands of boys 
 and young men and hundreds of girls on probation 
 successfully. 
 
 Judge Wilbur is a member of the University and 
 the Union League Clubs and of the A. O. U. W. 
 
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 CHMIDT, WALTER AU- 
 GUST, Chemical Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in that city August 26, 
 1883, the son of August 
 Schmidt and Adelhaid (Ott) Schmidt, two of 
 the early residents of Southern Cailfornia. 
 His father, who was a pioneer carriage man- 
 ufacturer in Los Angeles, first arrived in 
 California in 1868. He 
 settled in Los Angeles the 
 following year, and was 
 married there in 1877. 
 
 Walter A. Schmidt re- 
 ceived the preliminary 
 part of his education in 
 the public schools of Los 
 Angeles, graduating from 
 the High School in the 
 class of 1902. He then 
 entered the College of 
 Chemistry of the Uni- 
 versity of California and 
 was graduated in 1906 
 with the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Science. While at 
 college Mr. Schmidt took 
 an active part in athlet- 
 ics and was stroke on 
 the Varsity crew. Mr. 
 Schmidt was also elected 
 to Sigma Xi, an academic 
 scientific society. 
 
 Following his gradua- 
 tion, Mr. Schmidt re- 
 turned to Los Angeles 
 and took over the busi- 
 ness management of his father's estate, de- 
 voting his time to this for two years subse- 
 quently. In 1908 he opened offices in Los 
 Angeles for the practice of his profession of 
 Chemical Engineering, and in addition to his 
 general work served in special capacities for 
 the Western Precipitation Company, at that 
 time a San Francisco corporation. He was 
 thus engaged until the spring of 1910, when 
 he took up the study of various scientific 
 problems and devoted his entire time to 
 them. These included the control of smelter 
 fumes and the application of the Cottrell Pre- 
 cipitation Processes to the problem of the 
 control of injurious dust arising from Port- 
 land cement factories. 
 
 To the average person the value of these 
 works may not be wholly apparent, but to 
 those who have lived in the vicinity of either 
 a smelting plant or a cement factory the un- 
 pleasant fumes and injurious dusts are quite 
 
 WALTER A. SCHMIDT 
 
 well known ; and the results of Mr. Schmidt's 
 work have had not only an economizing ef- 
 fect upon the industries, but show a marked 
 improvement in the health of the work- 
 men and the general public. The funda- 
 mentals of Mr. Schmidt's processes are the 
 discoveries of Frederick G. Cottrell. 
 
 With the reorganization of the Western 
 Precipitation Company in 1911, Mr. Schmidt, 
 although a man compar- 
 atively young in years, 
 was chosen President and 
 General Manager of the 
 corporation, .and in this 
 dual capacity has con- 
 tinued his scientific ex- 
 periments, in addition to 
 conducting the general 
 engineering business of 
 the company. 
 
 Mr. Schmidt is also 
 President of a similar 
 company known ais the 
 International Precipita- 
 tion Company, whose 
 home office is located in 
 Los Angeles, and through 
 it he holds patent rights 
 on the Electrical Precipi- 
 tation Processes for the 
 control of smoke, dusts, 
 and chemical fumes, in 
 most of the foreign coun- 
 tries. Besides specializ- 
 ing in electro-chemistry 
 the company takes up 
 special development of 
 engineering processes, questions of chemical 
 fumes and allied problems, and is equipping 
 some of the largest of industrial plants. 
 
 Mr. Schmidt is a member of the American 
 Chemical Society, and maintains an active 
 interest in the progress of the science; and 
 through his own experiments and writings, 
 has attained a position among the substan- 
 tial men of the profession. 
 
 Mr. Schmidt has been interested for many 
 years in social and civic problems of Los An- 
 geles and served for three years as President 
 of the Humane Commission. He was ap- 
 pointed to this office by Mayor Alexander, 
 when about twenty-six years of age, and ad- 
 ministered its affairs until his other interests 
 compelled his resignation in June, 1912. His 
 work was characterized by enthusiasm and 
 intelligence. 
 
 Mr. Schmidt is a member of the University 
 Club, Gamut Club, and Sierra Madre Club. 
 
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 401 
 
 ELLMAN, IRVING HER- 
 MAN, Vice President, All 
 Night and Day Bank, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a na- 
 tive of that city, having been 
 born on property where the 
 Herman W. Hellman Building now stands 
 on May 10, 1883. His father was Herman 
 W. Hellman (deceased), known as one of 
 the most successful 
 financiers and business 
 men of the West, and for 
 forty years a leader in 
 Southern California. He 
 married Florence Marx, 
 November 30, 1911, at 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hellman spent his 
 youth in Southern Cali- 
 fornia and was first edu- 
 cated in the grammar and 
 high schools of Los An- 
 geles. After graduating 
 from the Los Angeles 
 High School he took a 
 special course in engi- 
 neering at the Armour 
 School of Technology, 
 Chicago. He also stud- 
 ied under four engineers 
 of different nationalities 
 and specialized in the 
 study of reinforced con- 
 crete. He pursued the 
 study of concrete con- 
 struction for several 
 years, returning to Los 
 
 IRVING H. HELLMAN 
 
 estate, which position he holds today. The 
 extensive interests of the estate cover bank- 
 ing, buildings, unimproved city properties, 
 ranch lands and enormous holdings in unim- 
 proved lands, scattered over a greater part 
 of California. There are also numerous 
 other possessions throughout the entire 
 country, all of which require conservative 
 business management and close attention. 
 
 Mr. Hellman's per- 
 sonal interests are exten- 
 sive and growing, and, 
 combining them with the 
 affairs of the estate, he 
 finds himself surrounded 
 on every side with busi- 
 ness duties, his director- 
 ships and offices demand- 
 ing about all of his time. 
 At present he holds di- 
 rectorships in the follow- 
 ing companies : Califor- 
 nia Clay Manufacturing 
 Company ; Mexican As- 
 sociated Oil Company; 
 California Midway Oil 
 Company; Purcell, Gray 
 and Gale Company, and 
 the Southwest Portland 
 Cement Company of El 
 Paso, Texas. He has ex- 
 tensive banking interests 
 and holds a prominent 
 position among the finan- 
 ciers of the Southwest. 
 He is a director of the 
 Merchants' National 
 
 Angeles in 1906, to enter active business. 
 
 Shortly after his return to his home city 
 Mr. Hellman took the civil service examina- 
 tion, June 6, 1906, passing with a very high 
 record. He became the first reinforced con- 
 crete engineer for the City of Los Angeles. 
 His business was to pass for the city the 
 plans for all of the reinforced buildings and 
 structures to be put up in Los Angeles. He 
 also inspected them while under construc- 
 tion and passed on the work when com- 
 pleted. One of the best examples of that 
 work that came under his supervision was 
 the Temple Auditorium, one of the largest 
 structures of its kind in the West. He con- 
 tinued in this position for one and one-half 
 years, resigning at the time of his father's 
 death to look after the enormous affairs of 
 the Herman W. Hellman Estate. 
 
 During the first part of 1908 Mr. Hell- 
 man was made active manager of his father's 
 
 Bank, of the All Night and Day Bank; of 
 the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of 
 the First National Bank of Puente and of 
 several other country banks. Mr. Hellman 
 is also interested in the Security Savings 
 Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is prominent in active movements^n 
 Southern California for a greater city, and in- 
 terested in questions involving the develop- 
 ment of Los Angeles, such as the harbor 
 question and the aqueduct or in financing 
 enterprises that mean the development of the 
 country's resources. In the Southwest his 
 cycle of activities covers almost every section. 
 
 He is a member of the West Shore Gun 
 Club, the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, 
 Union League Club, Concordia Club; a life 
 member of the Shrine, a Thirty-second de- 
 gree Mason, an Elk, a member of the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club and an automobile, golf 
 and hunting enthusiast. 
 
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 UNTINGTON, HENRY EDWARDS, 
 Capitalist, Railroad Builder and 
 Industrial Captain, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born Feb. 27, 1850, at 
 Oneonta, N. Y., the son of Solon 
 Huntington and Harriet (Saund- 
 ers) Huntington. His father was a man of means 
 and a respected citizen in the section in which he 
 lived. His uncle, Collis P. Huntington, was one of 
 the great railroad builders of the West. 
 
 The family is an old one, of English descent. 
 The first of the name settled in Norwich, Conn., in 
 1632, shortly after the founding of the colony. He 
 brought education and good traditions with him, 
 and his descendants have left creditable records 
 behind them. 
 
 Although Collis P. Huntington, the uncle, the 
 master for a generation of the Southern Pacific, 
 was the first to achieve greatness in railroads, and 
 his fortune and influence had much to do with the 
 position of H. E. Huntington, yet the latter has cre- 
 ated a great independent career for himself. It is, 
 in fact, because of his great ability and success in 
 various ventures that C. P. Huntington chose him 
 as his successor. And he has laid an independent 
 foundation for an even greater fortune, has created 
 an entirely new system of railroads, not yielding in 
 importance even to his uncle's achievements, and in 
 the upbuilding of a city and section has taken a part 
 that is perhaps unique in America. He is known 
 as the greatest electric railroad builder in the world. 
 He was educated in the public and private 
 schools of his native town. At a comparatively 
 early age he went into a hardware store in Oneonta. 
 When twenty years old he went with one of the 
 large hardware firms of New York City, and re- 
 mained in their employ for a number of years. His 
 next business was at St. Albans, W. Va., in lumber- 
 ing and lumber manufacturing, which he followed 
 six years. 
 
 The experience he had gathered in the lumber 
 business recommended him to Collis P. Huntington, 
 and the latter appointed him to the responsible post 
 of Superintendent of Construction of the Hunting- 
 ton lines, then building from Louisville to New Or- 
 leans, known as the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwest- 
 ern. In 1884 he was superintendent; in 1885 re- 
 ceiver, and from 1886 to 1890, vice president and 
 general manager of the Kentucky Central Railway. 
 From 1890 to 1892 he was vice president and gen- 
 eral manager of the Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big 
 Sandy, and Ohio Valley Railways. His next move 
 was to the Southern Pacific, his uncle's greatest 
 system, and he was, in turn, assistant to the presi- 
 dent (1892-1900), second vice president (March- 
 June, 1900), and first vice president. 
 
 Shortly after taking up his headquarters in San 
 Francisco he acquired the San Francisco street rail- 
 ways. In 1898 he sold this property and began to 
 buy into the Los Angeles street railroads. The de- 
 velopment of the Los Angeles street railway system 
 and of the radiating interurban electric system, 
 which began with the date of his entry, constitute 
 the unique achievement of his life. 
 
 One by one he bought up all competing lines 
 until he was sole owner of the street system. He 
 extended until the whole great area of the city was 
 a solid network of tracks, and the mileage and the 
 number of cars operated made it the second or third 
 largest urban system in the United States. 
 
 He bought an existing electric line to Pasadena, 
 incorporated it under the name of the Pacific Elec- 
 
 tric, and began a campaign of construction. He 
 built an immense station of skyscraper construction 
 as the nucleus in Los Angeles. Then he laid tracks 
 to outlying districts, until it was by far the greatest 
 interurban system on earth, with a thousand miles 
 of double and quadruple tracks, and a valuation of 
 approximately $100,000,000. The result was the 
 transformation of Los Angeles into a great modern 
 city and the development of the country within a 
 fifty-mile radius to the highest standard of civi- 
 lized life. 
 
 In addition he bought or built, chiefly the latter, 
 the Los Angeles Interurban Railway, Los Angeles 
 & Redondo Railway, routes running from the city 
 to the beaches; the San Bernardino Valley Traction 
 Co., San Bernardino Interurban, Redlands Central, 
 and Riverside & Arlington, all important traction 
 lines in the orange belt, with scores of miles of 
 track. His final work was the formation of a plan 
 which is to unite in an electric network all that part 
 of California from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and 
 from the ocean back to Redlands, creating a sys- 
 tem with more than 2000 miles double and quad- 
 ruple track. At this stage he sold out to the South- 
 ern Pacific, who, however, will continue his plans. 
 
 He is an officer in numberless important corpora- 
 tions, and is the chief figure in power development 
 in Southern California, dominant in companies 
 whose combined capital runs close to the $100,000,000 
 mark. He is the greatest single land owner in 
 Southern California, owning tens of thousands of 
 acres of city and country property. He is a director 
 in the Huntington Land & Improvement Co., L. A. 
 Railway-Land Co., Huntington Redondo Co., Oak 
 Knoll Co.; vice president and director San Gabriel 
 Valley Water Co., Pacific Light & Power Co., and a 
 director in eleven other California companies and 
 banks. He is chairman of the Newport News Ship- 
 building & Drydock Co., one of the largest ship- 
 building concerns in America, which has built many 
 of the biggest United States battleships. He is a 
 director of the Chicago & Alton Ry., Clover Leaf 
 Ry., Central Pacific, Colorado & Southern Ry., Des 
 Moines & Fort Dodge Ry., Iowa Central Ry., C. & O. 
 Ry., Minnesota & St. Louis Ry., Oregon & California 
 Ry., Toledo, St. Louis & Newton Ry., Occidental & 
 Oriental Steamship Co. 
 
 His activities are legion. His property holdings 
 range from hotels to farms. He is the greatest 
 builder of resorts on the Pacific Coast, probably in 
 the world, and has created entire resort cities. He 
 is the great force which has been behind the phe- 
 nomenal growth of Southern California, a growth 
 without comparison in its quality as well as in 
 quantity, that has created Los Angeles and more 
 than a score of the most beautifully built and highly 
 improved cities in the country. 
 
 He has built, near Pasadena, a country estate of 
 rare beauty, in an unrivaled setting of mountains 
 and orange groves. There he has brought a price- 
 less collection of art treasures, and a library cost- 
 ing in the millions. In the great park surrounding 
 he is having planted one of the most comprehensive 
 tropical botanical gardens to be found on the 
 continent. 
 
 Mr Huntington is, or has been, a member of the 
 Metropolitan, Union League, City Midday clubs, of 
 New York City; the California, Jonathan, Los An- 
 geles Country, of Los Angeles; Pasadena Country, 
 San Gabriel Country, Bolsa Chica, of Pasadena; the 
 Pacific Union, the Bohemian, and the Unitarian, of 
 San Francisco; and the Oneonta Club of Onponta 
 New Yorb 
 
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 USH, JUDSON R A N- 
 DOLPH, Attorney-at-Law, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Green County, Pa., March 
 9, 1865, the son of John L. S. 
 Rush and Dorcas (Parcell) Rush. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth V. Atwood, April 6, 1898, at 
 Los Angeles. Attorney Rush's family on the 
 father's side is one of the oldest in Pennsyl- 
 vania, dating back five 
 generations. The first of 
 the Rushes came from 
 Europe, and immediately 
 settled in the Indian 
 country. He himself was 
 a noted Indian fighter, 
 and the names of his de- 
 scendants of the next two 
 or three generations fre- 
 quently appear in the an- 
 nals of Indian warfare. 
 The family was very 
 faithful to the old Rush 
 homestead, and Attorney 
 Rush himself was born 
 in the same house as his 
 grandfather. 
 
 Mr. Rush received his 
 common school education 
 in Iowa. In 1881 he went 
 to Santa Ana, Cal. The 
 cowboy's life appealed to 
 him, and he punched cows 
 for the next three years, 
 particularly on the great 
 Chino ranch and over the 
 Mojave desert. He lived 
 the life of the typical young westerner. He 
 spent much time in the mountains hunting. 
 In 1886 he removed to Pasadena and went 
 into the dairy business with his father. 
 
 He was a pioneer in the oil industry and 
 worked on the first well in the Fullerton dis- 
 trict. He took an active part in the develop- 
 ment of the field and made himself thorough- 
 ly familiar with the industry which has now 
 become such an important one in California. 
 His next venture was in meat markets in 
 Monrovia and El Monte, which he ran suc- 
 cessfully for three years and then sold out. 
 While in it he became interested in the life 
 and politics of the community and was elect- 
 ed justice of the peace at El Monte. He 
 served from 1890 until 1892. 
 
 It was while he was justice of the peace 
 that his mind first turned to the law, and he 
 determined to become a member of the legal 
 profession. He studied and read the law, un- 
 
 JUDSON R. RUSH 
 
 der his own guidance, and successfully passed 
 the bar examination in 1893. He then re- 
 moved to Los Angeles, and a few months 
 later was appointed one of the deputy dis- 
 trict attorneys. He served in this capacity 
 until Jan. 7, 1895. Le Compte Davis was a 
 deputy district attorney during the same term 
 and on the expiration of the term the two en- 
 tered upon a partnership. They began prac- 
 tice the afternoon of the 
 day they stepped out 
 of office, and within 
 two hours were trying 
 their first case. They had 
 their quarters in the old 
 Rogers building, which is 
 now the site of the new 
 Hall of Records. Frank 
 R. Willis was a member 
 of the firm for six years, 
 the combination then be- 
 ing known as Davis, 
 Rush & Willis. When 
 Attorney Willis was 
 elected to the Superior 
 Court judgeship, he with- 
 drew from the partner- 
 ship. 
 
 The firm of which At- 
 torney Rush is a member 
 has been retained in 
 many of the noted cases 
 that have come before the 
 courts of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. Its practice has 
 been steady and the work 
 along all lines of the law. 
 The firm has handled many Oregon and 
 Washington cases, as well as those originat- 
 ing in California. In 1908, the year William 
 H. Taft, with his magnificent political organ- 
 ization, was elected United States President, 
 Mr. Rush accepted the Democratic nomina- 
 tion for Congress in the Seventh California 
 district. His opponent was James D. Mac- 
 Lachlan, a Republican who had been in 
 Washington for many years. Despite the 
 fact that it was a Republican year, and Mr. 
 Rush had only thirty days to make his cam- 
 paign, he ran far ahead of his own ticket. He 
 was defeated, but by a greatly reduced 
 majority. 
 
 Attorney Rush is a member of the Los 
 Angeles Bar Association. He is a thirty- 
 second degree Mason, a Shriner, and a mem- 
 ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks. He is also a member of the Gamut 
 Club. 
 
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 RNOLD, BION JOSEPH, Electrical 
 Engineer. Born in Michigan, 
 1861. Son of Joseph and Geral- 
 dine Reynolds Arnold. Received 
 early education public schools of 
 Ashland, Nebraska, and in Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska. Showed marked inclination 
 for mechanics early and under the adverse condi- 
 tions of a new country, where machine shops and 
 technical schools were unknown, made numerous 
 mechanical devices, among 
 them being a small steam en- 
 gine at twelve; a full sized 
 working bicycle at seventeen 
 and a complete miniature 
 working locomotive at eight- 
 een. Spent vacations when 
 in school at practical engi- 
 neering work, and graduated 
 from Hillsdale College with 
 the degree of B. S. in 1884; 
 M. S. 1887; honorary M. Ph. 
 1889; post-graduate work 
 electrical engineering, Cor- 
 nell, 1888-89; E. E. from Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska, for 
 course of technical lectures, 
 in 1898; honorary D. Sc., Ar- 
 mour Institute, 1907; honor- 
 ary Doctor Engineering, Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska, 1911; 
 President American Institute 
 Electrical Engineers, 1903-04; 
 delegate from this Institute to 
 International Electrical Con- 
 gress, Paris, 1900; First Vice 
 President and Chairman Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, St. 
 Louis-, 1904; President, West- 
 ern Society of Engineers during 1906 and 1907. 
 After graduation was general agent for an en- 
 gine company; draftsman for the Allis Company, 
 Milwaukee (now Allis-Chalmers) ; chief designer 
 Iowa Iron Works, Dubuque; mechanical engineer, 
 Chicago Great Western Railway, St. Paul. 
 
 Upon leaving Cornell in 1889 took charge of St. 
 Louis office Thomson-Houston Company, and later 
 acted as Consulting Engineer of its Chicago office. 
 Acted in similar capacity for the Columbian Intra- 
 mural Railway, Chicago World's Fair, the first ele- 
 vated electric road in the United States. 
 
 October, 1893, opened office as an independent 
 Consulting Engineer. In this capacity has been em- 
 ployed by many large corporations and municipali- 
 ties, being recognized as one of the foremost en- 
 gineers of the country. 
 
 Organized the Arnold Company in 1895, one of 
 the most successful engineering organizations in 
 the United States, carrying on engineering and con- 
 struction work for many leading steam railways 
 and industrial concerns throughout the country. 
 
 BION J. ARNOLD 
 
 In 1896 developed and took the responsibility of 
 first applying the rotary converter sub-station stor- 
 age battery high tension system of electric railway, 
 by utilizing it on the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric 
 road. This immediately became standard and was 
 exemplified in its highest type in the installation 
 of the New York Central terminal. Was a pioneer 
 in single phase alternating current railway work 
 and conducted at his own expense a series of ex- 
 periments, 1900-04, which was largely instrumental 
 in causing the rapid develop- 
 ment of the single phase al- 
 ternating current railway 
 system. A number of steam 
 roads have since adopted the 
 single phase system, among 
 them being the New York, 
 New Haven & Hartford R. R. 
 and the Grand Trunk Rail- 
 way. Acted as Consulting En- 
 gineer for the latter company 
 in the design and installation 
 of the electrification of the 
 St. Clair tunnel. 
 
 In 1902, the city of Chi- 
 cago selected him to make a 
 thorough study and report of 
 its traction system. This re- 
 port formed the basis of the 
 1907 ordinances, under which 
 Chicago is getting one of the 
 finest street car systems in 
 the world. As Chairman and 
 Chief Engineer of the Board 
 of Supervising Engineers, he 
 is largely responsible for 
 this work. Also served on 
 various Chicago commissions 
 valuing surface car lines. In 
 1911 submitted complete plans for a comprehensive 
 subway system to the City Council Local Transpor- 
 tation Committee. 
 
 Prepared series of reports upon the subway sys- 
 tem of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company 
 when acting as Consulting Engineer for the Public 
 Service Commission, First District, State of New 
 York. Also acted as director of appraisals in the 
 valuation of all surface street railway properties 
 of New York and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. 
 Has recently devoted much time to the solution 
 of public utility problems and has submitted reports 
 upon the traction systems of Pittsburg, Providence 
 and Los Angeles. Is now engaged in similar 
 studies for the cities of San Francisco and Toronto. 
 Has just presented a report to the Interurban 
 Rapid Transit Commission, upon a comprehensive 
 system of interurban terminals for Cincinnati, pro- 
 viding rapid transit to the heart of the city and is 
 now making, for the Federal Court, an appraisal 
 of the properties of the Metropolitan Street Rail- 
 way, Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
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 RENNAN, THOMAS M., Merchant, 
 Banker and State Representative, 
 Parker, Arizona, was born in 
 Christian County, Illinois, Sep- 
 tember 22, 1870, the son of John 
 L. Drennan and Henrietta Dren- 
 nan. He married Blanche J. Soule of Los Angeles, 
 Cal., December 10, 1900, and to them there has 
 been born a daughter, Mary Henrietta Drennan. 
 
 Mr. Drennan spent his boyhood on the farm of 
 his father in Illinois and at- 
 tended the public schools of 
 Christian County until he 
 had passed his thirteenth 
 year. Since that time he 
 has educated himself and 
 earned his own living. 
 
 Leaving home when he 
 was about fourteen years of 
 age, he first went to work 
 as head clerk for his older 
 brother, who was in the 
 abstract and real estate 
 business at Taylorville, Illi- 
 nois. During the nine years 
 he remained with him, Mr. 
 Drennan learned the busi- 
 ness and obtained an in- 
 sight into banking which he 
 used to advantage in later 
 years. 
 
 In 1893, Mr. Drennan left 
 his brother and went to Chi- 
 cago, 111., in the employ of 
 the U. S. Government as 
 Deputy Customs Collector at 
 the World's Columbian Ex- 
 position. His duties involved 
 the checking of all foreign 
 exhibits brought into the 
 Electricity and Mining 
 Buildings of the World's 
 Fair, a work which held 
 him until the close of the 
 Exposition. At the conclu- 
 sion of the Fair's run, he was retained in the 
 Government employ, assigned in 1894 to the Indian 
 Service, as Agency Clerk of the Colorado River 
 Indian Reservation, with headquarters at Parker, 
 Arizona. He also was appointed Postmaster at 
 Parker, then only a small trading post, and re- 
 tained both positions until he resigned in June, 
 1900, to go into business on his own account. 
 
 Upon leaving the Government service, Mr. Dren- 
 nan went into the mining business and built a 
 stamp mill on the California side of the Colorado 
 River. He operated this for about two years, but 
 at the end of that time sold his plant and closed 
 the mine. He then moved to Los Angeles and en- 
 gaged in the real estate business there, although 
 he still retained mining properties in Arizona and 
 California. In 1904, after about two years in the 
 Los Angeles field, he gave up the realty business 
 and returned to Arizona, where he began the de- 
 velopment of new gold and copper properties near 
 Parker. He has been interested in mining from 
 that time down to date and from 1905 to 1907, in 
 addition to other duties, served as Superintendent 
 of the Quartz King Mining Company, whose prop- 
 erty was located near Parker. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Drennan organized the Colorado 
 River Supply Company, of which he is President, 
 
 T. M. DRENNAN 
 
 and as the directing force in this mercantile enter- 
 prise has been a power for progress in the up- 
 building of the town of Parker and surrounding 
 country. Among other things- he secured fran- 
 chises for and promoted various public utilities, 
 including telephones, power, gas, electric light and 
 water companies for the improvement of the city. 
 He also organized the Parker Bank & Trust Com- 
 pkny, in October, 1910, and has served as Presi- 
 dent of the institution since its formation. 
 
 Because of his active ef- 
 forts in the upbuilding of his 
 section, Mr. Drennan, who is 
 a Democrat, has become a 
 prominent figure in political 
 affairs, and at the first gen- 
 eral election after Arizona 
 was admitted to Statehood, 
 was elected to the State 
 House of Representatives 
 from Yuma County. 
 
 For many years the ques- 
 tion of the opening of the 
 town of Parker to settlement 
 has been in dispute and Mr. 
 Drennan made, as one of the 
 chief planks of his platform, 
 a pledge to work for the rati- 
 fication of the Carey Act, a 
 Congressional measure which 
 provides that adequate irri- 
 gation shall be provided be- 
 fore this land can be taken 
 up. The Parker Irrigation 
 project, including a huge 
 dam, second in size only to 
 the Roosevelt dam above 
 Phoenix, is part of the plans 
 for irrigating the Indian 
 lands around Parker, and Mr. 
 Drennan, as one of the sin- 
 cere workers for the upbuild- 
 ing of the town, has been 
 tireless in his labors for the 
 succe&s of the project. 
 
 During his service in the Arizona House of Rep- 
 resentatives, Mr. Drennan stood at all times for 
 constructive legislation and is generally credited 
 with having had an important influence upon the 
 progressive measures which marked the first Legis-- 
 lature of the new State, and which attracted the 
 attention of the entire country. 
 
 In the summer of 1912, Mr. Drennan was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Hunt of Arizona, as a member 
 of an advisory committee of five, to represent Ari- 
 zona in the work being carried on by the World's 
 Permanent Exposition at Washington, D. C. With 
 his thorough knowledge of conditions and the work 
 being done to develop the lands and resources of 
 Arizona, Mr. Drennan is in a position to aid greatly 
 in advancing the interests of his adopted State. 
 
 Aside frcvn his public service, Mr. Drennan is 
 one of the most popular men in the State of Arizona 
 and is prominent in club and fraternal circles. He 
 is a member of the State Democratic Club of Ari- 
 zona; the B. P. O. Elks, of Prescott, Arizona; the 
 Sierra Madre Club, of Los Angeles; Knights of 
 Pythias, of Anaheim, California; Uniform Rank 
 Knights of Pythias, Yuma, Arizona; American Em- 
 ba&sy Association, of New York; American Mining 
 Congress, Yuma County Commercial Club, and 
 Parker Board of Trade. 
 
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 ACKLING, DANIEL COWAN, Vice 
 President and General Manager of 
 the Utah Copper Company, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born near 
 Appleton City, Bates County, Mis- 
 souri, Aug. 14, 1869, the son of 
 Daniel Jackling and Lydia Jane (Dunn) Jackling. 
 He married Jennie B. Sullivan, at Albany, New 
 York, in 1896. 
 
 Colonel Jackling spent the early part of his 
 life on a farm in Missouri and received the pre- 
 liminaries of his education in the public and high 
 schools. Subsequently he attended the State 
 Normal School, at Warrensburg, Missouri, and 
 after completing his studies there, entered the 
 Missouri School of Mines, at Rolla, taking a course 
 in mining engineering and metallurgy, graduating 
 in 1892, with the degree of Metallurgical Engineer. 
 In 1892 and '93 he took a post-graduate course and 
 accepted the position of assistant professor of 
 Chemistry and Metallurgy at the School of Mines. 
 He was an instructor for a year, then went forth 
 to the real work of his career. 
 
 Seeking a practical and thorough knowledge 
 of mining, he began as an ordinary miner and as- 
 sayer in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado, and 
 later, in 1894, quit that to devote himself to the 
 labors of a chemist and metallurgist in the same 
 district. In 1896 he left the Colorado field and 
 went to Mercur, Utah, where he met with instant 
 success. 
 
 The first big accomplishment of Colonel Jack- 
 ling's career came in 1897, when he was appointed 
 superintendent in charge of the construction of the 
 great metallurgical works of the Consolidated 
 Mercur Gold Mines, of Mercur, Utah. He was en- 
 gaged for three years in the building and operation 
 of this plant, but in 1900 gave it up to engage in 
 general work, and for the next three years figured 
 in various important consultation, construction and 
 operating capacities in the states of Washington, 
 Colorado and Utah. 
 
 Prior to this time, however, his attention had 
 been drawn to the wonderful possibilities and re- 
 sources of Bingham, Utah, and he made up his 
 mind that at some time he would undertake the 
 development of that section. 
 
 Accordingly, in 1903, he organized the Utah Cop- 
 per Company, and at once began the development 
 work he had planned years before. He was made 
 Vice President and General Manager of the com- 
 pany's properties and has been in active command 
 Of its operations since the day of its organization. 
 That was the foundation of Colonel Jackling's po- 
 sition as one of the big figures in the copper in- 
 dustry of the United States, and since then he has 
 become interested in many other concerns. 
 
 These companies, with the positions he holds 
 in each, are: Ray Consolidated Copper Company, 
 vice president and general manager; Nevada Con- 
 
 solidated Company, vice president; Nevada North- 
 ern Railroad, vice president; Bingham and Garfield 
 Railway, vice president and general manager; Ray 
 and Gila Valley Railway, vice president and general 
 manager; Utah National Bank, director; McCormick 
 & Co., Bankers, Salt Lake, vice president; Garfield 
 Banking Company, vice president; Salt Lake Se- 
 curity and Trust Company, director; Utah Hotel 
 Company, director; Utah Hotel Operating Company, 
 president; Utah Fire Clay Company, director. 
 
 In addition he is a heavy stockholder in the 
 First National Bank of Denver, Colorado; United 
 States Sugar and Land Company, of Garden City, 
 Kansas; United Iron Works, Oakland, California; 
 Kansas City Structural Iron Company, and many 
 others. 
 
 The position occupied in the mining world by 
 Colonel Jackling is unique, not only for the rather 
 brief period of time in which it has been attained, 
 but because in some respects it stands singularly 
 alone. Most noted mining men of the day owe 
 recognition to their ability in determining the ex- 
 istence and value of ore bodies and their relation 
 to mineralogical and geographical conditions. 
 
 Colonel Jackling's pre-eminence is due to his 
 work in making commercially profitable bodies of 
 ore that at large would be deemed almost worth- 
 less. It may be said that the Utah Copper Com- 
 pany, because of his metallurgical knowledge, cov- 
 ering the widest and most practical grasp of the 
 subject, was really the pioneer in making commer- 
 cially profitable the handling of large bodies of cop- 
 per ore of such low grade as had been looked upon 
 previously as so much waste. 
 
 From a three hundred ton mill which he erected 
 at Bingham for experimental purposes, one now 
 handling eight hundred tons is in operation there, 
 and another one with a capacity of seven thousand 
 tons daily is running at Garfield, Utah. When the 
 small quantity of copper in the ore is considered, 
 the vast tonnage of copper produced is little less 
 than marvelous. 
 
 Colonel Jackling was attached to the honorary 
 staff of Governor Peabody of Colorado, 1903-4, with 
 the rank of colonel, and has been a member of the 
 staff of Governor Spry of Utah for three years. He 
 was commissioner for Utah to the Alaska-Yukon- 
 Pacific Exposition in 1909. Aside from these moie 
 or less honorary offices Colonel Jackling has always 
 and positively declined political preferment, and 
 while he takes an active interest in party progress 
 he believes that he can best serve the interests of 
 his State by devoting himself to practical business 
 improvement. 
 
 His clubs are Alta, University, Commercial and 
 Country of Salt Lake City, California of Los An- 
 geles, Rocky Mountain of New York, El Paso of 
 Colorado Springs. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Mining Engineers and the Metal- 
 lurgical Society of America. 
 
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 EXTER, STEPHEN BYRON, Real 
 Estate and Industrial Promoter, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Boston, Massachusetts, March 
 22, 1869, the son of John W. Dex- 
 ter and Emma (Denmead) Dexter. 
 He married Miss Louie Schryber at Polo, Illinois, 
 June 16, 1893, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Byron Russell and Martin Schryber 
 Dexter. Descended from an early New England 
 family, Dr. Dexter's ances- 
 tors for generations have 
 been prominent in public af- 
 fairs. His great-great-grand- 
 uncle, Samuel Dexter, served 
 as Secretary of War in the 
 Cabinet of President John 
 Adams during the year 1800. 
 
 Dr. Dexter was educated 
 for the ministry and spent a 
 large part of his life in relig- 
 ious endeavor. He attended 
 the grammar and high 
 schools of Boston until the 
 year 1881, then went to Suf- 
 field Institute in Connecticut 
 for several months. He fol- 
 lowed this with brief study 
 in a preparatory school of 
 New York City. 
 
 It was shortly after this, 
 when about seventeen years 
 of age, that Dr. Dexter felt 
 the call to the Christian 
 ministry. He first entered 
 upon the work as an assist- 
 ant to Dr. S. P. Henson, hav- 
 ing charge of the work at 
 Raymond Chapel, after- 
 wards associating with Dr. R. 
 E. Torrey, the famous evan- 
 gelist. Later he became ac- 
 quainted with such celebrated 
 men as Dr. A. J. Gordon, a 
 great Boston preacher; Rev. 
 
 Wilbur Chapman and Alexander, the noted singing 
 evangelist. His zeal and sincerity during various 
 campaigns attracted the attention of Dwight L. 
 Moody, known all over the world for his evange- 
 listic efforts, and the latter was so impressed that 
 he offered to pay the tuition of Dr. Dexter in pre- 
 paring for the ministry. The latter accepted the 
 offer and entered Chicago Bible School, where he 
 studied for two years, supplementing this with five 
 years at the University of Chicago, from which he 
 was graduated in 1897 with the degree D.D. 
 
 Beginning his career as an ordained minister, 
 Dr. Dexter's first charge was the Humbolt Baptist 
 Church, Chicago, to which he was called. He 
 served there about four years and in 1901 received 
 a call to Emmanuel Baptist Church, Chicago, 
 where he was in association with the Rev. Johnson 
 Meyers, D.D. for part of the time. 
 
 Possessed of unusual ability as an organizer 
 and executive, Dr. Dexter was called upon to per- 
 form numerous duties outside of his pulpit and 
 spent much time in travel as a lecturer on tem- 
 perance and the work of the Y. M. C. A. In this 
 connection he was chosen President of the Million 
 Voters' League, a quasi-religious organization in 
 Ohio and Illinois, whose members were pledged 
 to vote for the adoption of temperance legislation. 
 
 S. B. DEXTER 
 
 While conducting this campaign, Dr. Dexter was 
 invited to Washington by Secretary Root, to dis- 
 cu&s the army canteen problem, and was appointed 
 to investigate the closing of the canteens at Fort 
 Sheridan, 111. In his report, he took a stand against 
 saloons outside the gates of army posts, stating 
 there was less injury from canteens within the gar- 
 risons than from the saloons outside. This report 
 was decried by the ultra-temperance advocates and 
 Dr. Dexter suffered great persecution, but the 
 press, President McKinley 
 and Secretary Root received 
 his views with favor. 
 
 In 1903, Dr. Dexter was 
 called to Princeton, 111., 
 where he engaged in church 
 and missionary work for four 
 churches- during the next 
 year. In 1904, he was called 
 to the Park Place Baptist 
 Church, Aurora, 111., and re- 
 mained there about five years. 
 During this charge Dr. 
 Dexter attracted the atten- 
 tion of the country by his pro- 
 gressive ideas. He estab- 
 lished a lodging house for 
 men in connection with the 
 church, providing for fifty 
 men. This, personally con- 
 ducted by him, proved a 
 success and was a valuable 
 adjunct to the church work. 
 One of his ideas, however, 
 shocked the deacons; he an- 
 nounced from the pulpit 
 that he favored flirting 
 in churches. At first blush 
 this seemed the ultimate of 
 radicalism, but Dr. Dexter de- 
 clared he had personally con- 
 ducted an investigation of 
 amusement places in Aurora, 
 and had come to the conclu- 
 sion that flirtations within 
 
 the confines of the church, under the hallowed in- 
 fluences of divine love and church society, were 
 preferable to the sudden bewitching and beguiling 
 flirtations of dance halls. 
 
 In 1909, after more than twenty years of church 
 work, Dr. Dexter decided to abandon it for com- 
 mercial life, and became Manager for the Pittsburg 
 Life Trust & Insurance Co. He had under his su- 
 pervision thirty-one counties in Illinois, but in 1911 
 resigned and moved to the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Dr. Dexter first organized the Golden West 
 Home Builders of Los Angeles, but in May, 1912, sold 
 this and organized the Securities Investment Co., 
 with the insurance of mortgages and bonds as its 
 object. He is President of this company and also 
 of the Guarantee Fund & Investment Co. He is 
 also President, Spring Street Investment Co.; Vice 
 President, Tungsten Consolidated Co.; Vice Pres- 
 ident, Pacific Tunnel Co., and Vice President, Spiral 
 Amusement Co. 
 
 The main part of Dr. Dexter's business is trans- 
 acted through the S. B. Dexter Syndicate Co., of 
 which he is President and chief stockholder. 
 
 He retains interest in church affairs as a mem- 
 ber of Temple Baptist Church in Los Angeles. He 
 is member, Masons, Knights of Pythias, and the 
 Gamut and Sierra Madre Clubs. 
 
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 411 
 
 AGE, BENJAMIN EDWIN, Attor- 
 ney, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at North Haven, Connecticut, 
 October 16, 1877, the son of Dr. 
 Benjamin Maltby Page and Cor- 
 nelia (Blakeslee) Page. He mar- 
 ried Miss Marie Markham, the eldest daughter of 
 California's distinguished former Governor, Hon. 
 Henry Harrison Markham, at Pasadena, California, 
 March 1, 1906, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Eleanor and 
 Benjamin Markham Page. 
 Mr. Page is descended of 
 early New England stock, 
 his family, paternal and ma- 
 ternal, having been repre- 
 sented there for many gen- 
 erations. His father was a 
 prominent physician of 
 Cleveland, Ohio, who moved 
 to California on account of 
 ill-health in 1873; his grand- 
 father, the Reverend Benja- 
 min St. John Page, was a 
 graduate of Yale Theological 
 School and a noted clergy- 
 man of the Congregational 
 and Presbyterian churches 
 for many years; his paternal 
 great-grandfather was en- 
 gaged for many years as a 
 merchant in the West India 
 trade and later became a 
 manufacturer in New Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Mr. Page has spent the 
 greater part of his life in 
 Southern California and re- 
 ceived his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Pasadena, graduating 
 from High School in the class of 1895. He was 
 graduated from Leland Stanford, Jr. University in 
 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then 
 took up the study of law in Columbia Law School, 
 New York, from which he received the degree of 
 Bachelor of Laws in 1902. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation, Mr. Page was 
 admitted to practice before the courts of New York 
 State and shortly afterward returned to California, 
 where he also was admitted. Later he was ad- 
 mitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. 
 Mr. Page began practice in Los Angeles in the 
 office of the firm of Bicknell, Gibson & Trask, but 
 after a few months he formed a partnership with 
 the late Clarence A. Miller, under the firm name of 
 Miller & Page, this continuing until the death of 
 Mr. Miller in the early part of 1906. In December 
 of that year, Mr. Page formed a partnership with 
 Joseph R. Patton, who, at Mr. Page's request, 
 moved to Los Angeles from San Jose, California. 
 After a few years successful work, however, death 
 
 BENJAMIN E. PAGE 
 
 again visited the offices of Mr. Page, his partner 
 dying in the early part of 1910. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Page has practiced alone, 
 making specialties of corporation, banking, mining 
 and insurance law, serving as legal adviser for a 
 number of important financial institutions in the 
 West. These include the Merchants' Bank & Trust 
 Co. (about to become the Hellman Commercial Sav- 
 ings & Trust Co.) and other banks; the California 
 business of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 
 Co., the Occidental Life In- 
 surance Co., and various 
 similar concerns. He also is 
 the counsel for the Los An- 
 geles Realty Board, the Civic 
 Center Assn., and a number of 
 the leading real estate firms. 
 Through his successful 
 representation of the institu- 
 tions and firms mentioned, 
 Mr. Page has attained promi- 
 nence as one of the versatile 
 members of the profession. In 
 addition to the above clientele 
 he ha.s an extensive mining 
 practice and has successfully 
 represented, in corporate and 
 financial affairs, a number of 
 important copper companies 
 of Arizona and Nevada. He 
 is generally regarded as an 
 authority in certain branches 
 of mining law. 
 
 Mr. Page is known in the 
 city of Pasadena, where he 
 has made his home during 
 his residence in California, 
 as one who takes a deep 
 interest in all movements 
 for the betterment of municipal and civic affairs, 
 and he has been especially interested in the devel- 
 opment of the educational facilities of his city. For 
 several years he was a member of the Pasadena 
 Board of Education, and was its Chairman on four 
 successive occasions a mark of the appreciation of 
 his fellow members of his energetic activities in the 
 improvement of the local educational system. 
 
 As is natural of one who has lived in Southern 
 California for so many years, and witnessed its mar- 
 velous growth, Mr. Page has ever held a most op- 
 timistic view of its future, and has been himself of 
 material assistance in helping in the development of 
 Los Angeles through the placing of funds of impor- 
 tant financial institutions wiih which he has become 
 connected in the course of his practice. Millions of 
 dollars from these institutions have been invested 
 in the County under his advice and supervision. 
 
 Mr. Page is a member of the Los Angeles County 
 Bar Association, the California Club of Los An- 
 geles, the Midwick Country Club, and the Valley 
 Hunt Club of Pasadena, and the Twilight Club. 
 
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 ETERS, DIXIE L., Real Estate and 
 Oil Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, is a native of Kentucky, 
 born on a farm near Paris, Octo- 
 ber 24, 1874. His father was Ab- 
 bie Peters and his mother Sallie 
 A. (Crandall) Peters. He married Jennie Corrigan 
 at Covington, Kentucky, October 26, 1896; there 
 are two children, Claude and Ben Peters. 
 
 Mr. Peters received his primary education in 
 the country schools near 
 Paris, Kentucky, and from 
 there went to the High 
 School of Lexington. He did 
 not finish, however, but left 
 when he was about fourteen 
 years of age to earn a living 
 for himself. 
 
 Almost from the time he 
 left school Mr. Peters has 
 been a successful business 
 man. He first obtained em- 
 ployment in 1889, in a wall 
 paper establishment in Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, and re- 
 mained there a year, during 
 which time he acquired a 
 knowledge of business details. 
 In 1890, he moved to Chatta- 
 nooga, Tennessee, and ob- 
 tained employment in an- 
 other wall paper establish- 
 ment. Within three months, 
 although he was then a youth 
 only about sixteen years of 
 age, he purchased the busi- 
 ness from his employer and 
 became an active business 
 man in the Lookout Moun- 
 tain city. After operating his business for about five 
 years, Mr. Peters sold out in the latter part of 
 1895 and within a short time was appointed South- 
 ern Agent for the Lake Carriers' Oil Company, 
 which had headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Al- 
 though he was then barely twenty-one years of age 
 Mr. Peters was one of the highest paid men in 
 the company's service, receiving a salary of $500 
 monthly and expenses-, and at that time was one 
 of the few men of his years receiving such an 
 amount. He continued as Southern Agent for the 
 Company for about a year and a half and then 
 made up his mind to go into the oil business for 
 himself. 
 
 Casting about for a location, he decided to es- 
 tablish himself in Atlanta, Georgia, and accord- 
 ingly, at the beginning of the year 1897, he opened 
 his offices in that city. He bought and sold oil 
 in large quantities and within a short space of 
 time was operating an extensive delivery service. 
 He had quite as many tank wagons in operation 
 as any of his competitors and was classed with 
 
 D. L. PETERS 
 
 the leading business men of the city. Within two 
 years he had so firmly established himself that the 
 Standard Oil Company purchased his business and 
 he received from the larger concern a handsome 
 profit for his investment. 
 
 For the three years succeeding the sale of his 
 Atlanta interests Mr. Peters- engaged in various 
 enterprises, more or less successful, and in 1900 
 went to California, locating in Los Angeles. The 
 Southern California capital was at that time en- 
 tering upon a period of prog- 
 ress which has continued 
 almost without interruption, 
 and Mr. Peters invested 
 heavily in real estate. He 
 soon became an active realty 
 operator, because he believ- 
 ed in the future of the South- 
 ern California metropolis and 
 his judgment has since been 
 vindicated by the almost un- 
 paralleled increase in realty 
 values there. 
 
 In 1908, after more than 
 seven years as a dealer in 
 city and suburban lands, Mr. 
 Peters became interes-ted in 
 the oil industry of California 
 and in the same year entered 
 the petroleum fields on a 
 large scale. The oil fields 
 of California, now recognized 
 as among the greatest in the 
 history of petroleum, have 
 yielded vast fortunes to hun- 
 dreds of men within a few 
 years, and Mr. Peters, from 
 the time he engaged in the 
 business-, has been regarded 
 
 as one of the competent operators there, the result 
 of his previous experience in the business. 
 
 Mr. Peters began his career in the California 
 fields by purchasing oil lands and contracting, but 
 within a short time he became an independent oper- 
 ator. During the few years he has been in the oil 
 business he has been the impelling force in the suc- 
 cess of several well known companies. His first 
 company was the Dixie National Oil Co., which was 
 followed by the Piru Monarch Oil Co., of which he 
 is a Director; the Ventura Oil Co., of which he is 
 Secretary, and the Maricopa Union Oil Co., of which 
 he is President. He also organized the Orange 
 County Gas Co., of Cal., and takes an active part in 
 its affairs. 
 
 Mr. Peters served six years as a member of the 
 National Guard of Kentucky. 
 
 He is closely affiliated with the progressive 
 business interests of Los Angeles, being a member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of 
 Mines and Oil and the Municipal League. He is 
 also a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 413 
 
 ROST, FRANK WADHAM, Secre- 
 tary, United Properties Company, 
 San Francisco, California, was 
 born in that city April 29, 1867, 
 the son of Horatio Frost and Mary 
 L. (Wadham) Frost. He married 
 Aletta Garreston at Haywards, California, February 
 26, 1895, and to them there were born three chil- 
 dren, Harlan Garreston, Dudley Wadham and 
 Phyllis Frost. His father and mother were among 
 the pioneers of California. 
 
 Mr. Frost, who has partici- 
 pated in the development of 
 the street railway business of 
 the cities on San Francisco 
 Bay, almost from the begin- 
 ning of such development, 
 has spent practically all his 
 life in that section. He re- 
 ceived his education in the 
 public schools of San Fran- 
 cisco and at Lincoln Gram- 
 mar School of the same city, 
 and began his business career 
 in the employ of a large paint 
 and oil concern of San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 He remained in his first 
 position for about three years 
 and for three years more was 
 in the employ of the Overland 
 Packing Company of San 
 Francisco, as- clerk. He next 
 entered the service of the 
 United States Government as 
 teller in the Money Order de- 
 partment of the San Fran- 
 cisco Postoffice and remained 
 in that capacity for a little 
 over two years, leaving to enter the business field. 
 In 1893 Mr. Frost took a position as receiving 
 clerk for the Oakland Consolidated Street Railway 
 Company of Oakland, California. This company, 
 organized by Messrs. George W. McNear, John W. 
 Colemari and J. E. McElrath, owned the first elec- 
 tric railway system built in either Oakland or San 
 Francisco, and formed the basis of the present rail- 
 way system centering on San Francisco Bay. The 
 F. M. Smith interests purchased control of the com- 
 pany in the latter part of 1893 and a little later 
 acquired control of the Central Avenue Railway 
 Company and the Alameda, Oakland & Piedmont 
 Electric Railway Company and consolidated them 
 all into one corporation. Following this there were 
 six other different mergers, each taking in a sepa- 
 rate railroad, and the corporation is now known as 
 the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways-. This 
 company, embracing the East Bay cities electric 
 lines, connects with all the Oakland street railways 
 and also those lines embraced in what is known as 
 "The Key Route," altogether, making a vast system. 
 
 F. W. FROST 
 
 Mr. Frost held office as Assistant Secretary of the 
 company during its various changes and in 1911 
 was elected Secretary of the San Francisco-Oakland 
 Terminal Railways. About the same time he was 
 elected Secretary of the United Properties Company 
 of California, a holding corporation. 
 
 Mr. Frost's election to the latter position, occur- 
 ring on January 13, 1911, marked the eighteenth 
 anniversary of his entry into the railroad business. 
 Since he firs-t began his career in electric rail- 
 ways, Mr. Frost has devoted 
 himself exclusively to his 
 work and has been one of the 
 important factors in their 
 management. Incidentally he 
 has had a prominent part in 
 the development of the city 
 of Oakland, for a large part 
 of the growth of the city 
 has been due to the street 
 railways. Prior to the in- 
 auguration of the street rail- 
 way system, Oakland, like 
 other cities, was cramped, 
 but with the coming of the 
 street railways- the munici- 
 pal area was extended, real 
 estate values increased and 
 the city started towards its 
 present position among the 
 important municipalities of 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Frost, in the capacity 
 of Assistant Secretary of the 
 Oakland Railroads, took an 
 active part in the relief work 
 following the San Francisco 
 disaster of 1906. His com- 
 pany was little affected by 
 
 the earthquake, its sole damage consisting of In- 
 jury to one boat, which was knocked off the ways. 
 The ferry and railway lines were in operation a 
 few hours after the shock occurred and the com- 
 pany did a great deal to alleviate the sufferings of 
 the people of San Francisco. Refugees were car- 
 ried across the bay in thousands and the company 
 furnished hundreds- of cots which were placed in 
 the parks for the people, while the company's 
 offices were turned into temporary hospitals and 
 its employes engaged in relief work. Mr. Frost 
 had the direction of the greater part of this work 
 and labored night and day for the sufferers until 
 conditions were brought back to normal. 
 
 Aside from his office in the United Properties 
 Company, Mr. Frost is Secretary of various sub- 
 sidiaries of that corporation and is a prominent fig- 
 ure in the business circles of San Francisco and 
 Oakland, but has never taken any active part in 
 politics or public affairs. His only affiliation out- 
 side of his business is with the Transportation 
 Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 415 
 
 NRUH, HIRAM AUGUSTUS, Man- 
 ager and Executor, estate of E. J. 
 (Lucky) Baldwin, Arcadia, Cali- 
 fornia, was born November 1, 
 1845, at Valparaiso, Indiana, the 
 son of Joseph Unruh and Abigail 
 (Bowman) Unruh. On the paternal side he is of 
 German descent, while his mother is of the original 
 Quaker stock that first settled in Pennsylvania. He 
 married Jane Anne Dunn, October 10, 1868, at 
 Gold Run, Cal. He has two sons, Joseph Andrew 
 and David Spencer Unruh. 
 
 Mr. Unruh is a soldier, railroad man, construct- 
 ing engineer, banker, electrician and all-around 
 business man of the highest caliber, and has had 
 the varied education to fit him for a successful 
 career in all these occupations. He lived and 
 fought through the Civil War, and his was no hum- 
 drum part, but among the most romantic and se- 
 vere. He is a part of the early development of 
 the West, one of the Pathfinders, one of the men 
 the work of whose hands is seen in many thriving 
 industries and great institutions, and whose names 
 should be written wherever a history of the West 
 is compiled. 
 
 His parents entered him at Carley's Institute, 
 now the Indiana State Normal School, at Valpa- 
 raiso, Ind. But before he had finished his course 
 the great War of the Rebellion broke out, and 
 patriotism made an irresistible appeal. The boy 
 of sixteen answered the first call for volunteers. 
 
 He enlisted with the Twentieth Indiana Volun- 
 teer Infantry, Company C, May 1, 1861, and, boy 
 though he was, was made a non-commissioned 
 officer. The regiment was sent to the front, and 
 stationed on Chicamacomico Island, North Caro- 
 lina. Mr. Unruh, along with hundreds of others, 
 after a desperate battle, was captured by the 
 overwhelming Confederate force. He was among 
 the earliest confined in Libby Prison. Five months 
 he suffered there, then was taken to Columbia, 
 South Carolina, as one of the hostages for the 
 rebel privateers captured by the North. He was 
 released and honorably discharged from the 
 service, by reason of being a "prisoner of war on 
 parole." He began his parole in June, 1862. 
 
 The North began capturing prisoners in num- 
 bers, to balance those that were caught by the 
 Confederate Army, so he was formally exchanged a 
 few months later. He did not feel that he had 
 yet done his duty in fighting for the Union, so he 
 re-enlisted at the close of 1862 in Company K, 
 First United States Marine Artillery Volunteers, 
 known better as the Burnside Coast Guards and 
 famed as the only U. S. volunteer corps of its kind 
 in existence during the war. The position of these 
 guards was one of the anomalies of the Civil War. 
 They were kept in active service for two years, only 
 to be honorably discharged on the ground that 
 there was "no Congressional authority for organi- 
 zation." By that time the war was over. 
 
 Mr. Unruh at once studied telegraphy, and be- 
 came an operator for the Western Union Telegraph 
 Company. He then accepted a better position with 
 Wells, Fargo & Co., at Southern San Juan and Wat- 
 sonville, Cal., as agent, and held it from July, 1866, 
 to January, 1867. 
 
 Then began the period of his pioneering. The 
 Central Pacific was under construction, an event 
 
 or as much contemporary importance and Interest 
 as the digging of the Panama Canal is today. He 
 joined the telegraph construction crews building 
 the first railroad telegraph line over the Sierra Ne- 
 vadas, and was well ahead of the first whistle of 
 the locomotive as the line was pushed eastward 
 into the desert. When the line was completed he 
 was promoted to advance agent and operator. This 
 place he held until 1869, when he was given the 
 office of assistant freight agent of the Central Pa- 
 cific at San Francisco. 
 
 He saw the beginning of the freight traffic over 
 the new transcontinental railroad, and, although 
 San Francisco and California were not then in an 
 advanced state of development, the growth of the 
 traffic was almost dramatic. He began with one 
 clerk, and the opening weeks the two had hardly 
 enough to do, aside from the necessary work of 
 organization. Then came the flood. In less than 
 five years under Mr. Unruh were eighty-four clerks, 
 and they were hardly able to handle the business. 
 He resigned in 1874 and the office was at once 
 reorganized. The duties he had performed were 
 divided among five men. 
 
 He joined the L. E. Wertheimer wholesale 
 tobacco firm, and was with them until 1877. He 
 moved to Highland Springs, Lake County, in that 
 year and joined the Eureka and Palisade Railroad, 
 remaining with them in various official capacities 
 until 1879. Meanwhile, he had become acquainted 
 with the late E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, and the larter 
 persuaded him to take charge of his vast estates 
 and business interests. In 1879, he took over this 
 responsibility, which required him to move to 
 Arcadia (in Southern California) in 1884. He has 
 been so occupied since. 
 
 In the management of the Baldwin property, 
 and, since Mr. Baldwin's death, of the estate, Mr. 
 Unruh has handled a wide variety of business 
 enterprises. The Baldwin ranch is an immense 
 property, containing many square miles in the San 
 Gabriel Valley. Mr. Unruh has laid out several 
 towns, all of which are growing rapidly, owing to 
 the unusual beauty of the sites. He made the 
 property yield all the money that Mr. Baldwin 
 needed during life in his various costly occupations. 
 This alone gave him a reputation as a clever 
 financier. He is a merchant, running a number of 
 big stores. He operates hotels; he personally keeps 
 an eye on mines; he has laid out water systems, 
 and manages them; he operates gas, light and 
 power plants of no mean magnitude. On the farm 
 proper he is a fruit grower, stock grower, and gen- 
 eral all-around agriculturist. 
 
 Among his historic achievements was the first 
 test of the Bell telephone for distance in 1877. He 
 found the limit then to be eighteen miles. About 
 1883, he laid the first underground electric light 
 cable in San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Unruh has, meanwhile, been active in other 
 ways. He is president of the Ramera Oil Company. 
 He is a director of the Los Angeles Racing Associa- 
 tion. As a banker he is a director of the Monrovia 
 First National Bank. He is also director of the 
 San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Company, and 
 president of the Southern California Floral Com- 
 pany. 
 
 He belongs to the Masonic order and to the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
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 JOSEPH MESMER 
 
 ESMER, JOSEPH, Pres., North L. 
 A. Development Co., Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born at Tippecanoe City, 
 Miami County, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1855, 
 the son of Louis Mesmer and 
 Katherine (Forst) Mesmer; mar- 
 ried Rose Elizabeth Bushard at Los Angeles, April 
 22, 1879, and to them there have been born six 
 children, Louis Francis, Marie Josephine Perier, 
 Clarence Woodman, Junietta Lucille, Beatrice Eva- 
 lynne and Aloysius Joseph Mesmer. 
 
 He went with his parents to Los Angeles, Sept., 
 1859, going by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He 
 received a primary education in the schools of Los 
 Angeles and finished at the College of Strasburg, 
 in Germany. Shortly after his return from Ger- 
 many he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1878 
 he entered the shoe business, opening the Queen 
 Shoe Store. In 1896 he sold out, and with his fam- 
 ily went traveling. He was abroad over a year. 
 
 He returned to Los Angeles and became identi- 
 fied with the St. Louis Fire Brick and Clay Co., a 
 concern of which he is president and a heavy stock- 
 holder. He is also president of the N. E. W. Com- 
 mercial and Improvement Association. 
 
 Mr. Mesmer has twice served in a public ca- 
 pacity, once as a member of the Freeholder's Char- 
 ter Commission, to frame up a charter for the City 
 of Los Angeles, and at another time as Park Com- 
 missioner. He was chairman of a committee of 
 three who were instrumental in the location of the 
 Federal Building on the Downey block site, and is 
 one of the most energetic workers for a City Beau- 
 tiful, to be built on a comprehensive plan. He 
 belongs to a number of improvement clubs. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Jonathan 
 Club, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Knights 
 of America, L. A. Catholic Beneficial Assn., a life 
 member of St. Vincent de Paul Society, and direc- 
 tor of the L. A. County Pioneers' Society. 
 
 FERNAND PARMENTIER 
 
 ARMENTIER, FERNAND, Archi- 
 tect, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Paris, France, May 28, 1865, the 
 son of Ferdinand Alexis Parmen- 
 tier and Caroline Sophie (Engel) 
 Parmentier. He received his ed- 
 ucation abroad, attending the College at Guebwille, 
 Alsace. His collegiate education complete, he came 
 to the United States, and later studied architecture 
 at Chicago. 
 
 He entered into partnership with W. I. Beman in 
 1888 for the practice of architecture. This part- 
 nership continued for five years, to be dissolved in 
 1893, when he associated himself with Frederick 
 Baumann. During his time in Chicago he built the 
 office building of the Chicago City Railway, the 
 Cooper Block, the McKee Block, the Sheridan Club 
 House, Hyde Park Club House, the residence of Dr. 
 Almon Brooks and others. 
 
 He came to California, November, 1893, first to 
 Santa Barbara. In the spring of 1894 he came to 
 Los Angeles. He received his certificate for the 
 practice of architecture in California, Aug. 30, 1901. 
 Since that time he has designed the First Church 
 of Christ, Scientist, the French Hospital, the Mas- 
 carel Building, factory for L. J. Christopher, Cam- 
 bria-Union apartment house, Pellisier apartment 
 house, residences of G. Pellisier, L. Schirm, J. V. 
 Elliott, C. G. Hale and others. 
 
 He was a member of the Illinois Chapter Ameri- 
 can Institute of Architects, while in Chicago, and is 
 at present a member of the American Institute of 
 Architects, member of the Southern California 
 Chapter American Institute of Architects, and he 
 has been Secretary of this organization since Oct. 
 21, 1904. 
 
 He is also a member of the Engineers and Archi- 
 tects' Association of Southern California. While in 
 Chicago he was also one of the earlier members of 
 the Chicago Architectural Club. 
 
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 417 
 
 THOMAS HUGHES 
 
 J. W. SUMMERFIELD 
 
 UGHES, THOMAS, Manufacturer, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Rice's Landing, Greene County, 
 Pa., August 25, 1859, the son of 
 James Hughes and Fanny Cline. 
 He was married in June, 1881, to 
 Mrs. Perry Mosher in New Mexico. 
 
 He received his education in the common 
 schools of his home town, and when he was nine- 
 teen years of age went to Kansas to work, and 
 thence, in 1880, to Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he 
 engaged in the contracting business. He stayed 
 there until 1883, but, foreseeing the growth of Los 
 Angeles, went there. His first work was in a plan- 
 ing mill, where he formed the basis of his success 
 later in Jife. 
 
 After working a year, he invested his capital, 
 five hundred dollars, in two machines and went 
 into the sash business for himself. He had suc- 
 cess and in 1896 organized the firm of Hughes 
 Brothers, changing this in 1902 to the Hughes 
 Manufacturing Company, of which he is president. 
 His plant today represents a value of $700,000, em- 
 ploys five hundred men and is considered the larg- 
 est of its kind in the West. 
 
 He also is active in oil production, having with 
 Ed. Strassburg organized the American Oil Com- 
 pany, one of the first formed in the Southwest. 
 This company has been a steady producer, and has 
 been one of the most conservative and profitable. 
 He has helped organize other companies. He is the 
 owner of considerable property in Los Angeles and 
 in the adjacent cities of Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Hughes is a purist in business and politics, 
 and although he has never held public office has 
 done much to aid the city and keep its politics 
 clean. 
 
 He is an Elk, a member of the Driving Club, 
 Los Angeles Country Club, San Gabriel Country 
 Club and former president of the Union Club. 
 
 UMMERFIELD, JOHNSON WY- 
 ATT, Attorney-at-Law and Justice 
 of the Peace, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, Cal., is a native of Indiana, 
 having been born at Vernon, that 
 State, November 20, 1869, the son 
 of Johnson Wyatt Summerfield and Catherine Jane 
 McClaskey. He was married at Santa Ana, Cal., 
 December 5, 1908, to Phoebe F. Labory, daughter of 
 Leonard J. Labory. One child, Catherine Jane 
 Summerfield, has been born to them. 
 
 He received a common school education and 
 spent part of his boyhood in Utah, the family mov- 
 ing to Santa Monica in 1883. He finished his pre- 
 liminary schooling in Los Angeles and in the late 
 eighties entered the University of California Col- 
 lege of Law, from which he was graduated in 1891. 
 He did not immediately enter into the practice 
 of law, but learned shorthand, and in 1895 was en- 
 gaged as a shorthand reporter. He continued at 
 this until 1898. The next year he became asso- 
 ciated with District Attorney James C. Rives, now 
 Superior Judge, and remained with him until 1902. 
 
 In that year he took up active practice, and for 
 five years was a pleader, but in 1907 he was elected 
 to Justice of the Peace and has continued in that 
 office since, having been re-elected in 1910. 
 
 He is considered one of the best men who has 
 ever occupied the bench in a justice court. He is 
 popular with the public, his associate justices and 
 with the attorneys who practice before him. 
 
 Justice Summerfield has been a prominent fig- 
 ure in lodge matters for several years and at the 
 present time is a member of the B. P. O. E., Eagles, 
 Independent Order of Foresters, Knights of Pyth- 
 ias, Modern Woodmen, Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, Foresters of America and Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons. 
 
 He is a member of the Metropolitan Club and 
 the Jonathan Club. 
 
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 ON DON, EDWARD BIRDSALL, 
 Mining, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Chappaqua, West- 
 chester County, New York, March 
 14, 1861, the son of Edward M. Con- 
 don and Anna Elizabeth Birdsall. 
 He married Ida Gillette Mercer at San Rafael, Cal- 
 ifornia, and to them there was born a son, Edward 
 Birdsall Condon, Jr. Mrs. Condon died February 
 19, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Condon, who is of Quaker descent, spent 
 his boyhood in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., and received his pre- 
 liminary education in private 
 and public schools of that 
 city. He first attended a pri- 
 vate juvenile school, then 
 went through high school 
 and the Brooklyn Polytech- 
 nic Institute. He after- 
 wards attended Wabash Col- 
 lege and was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College in the 
 class of 1882. Mr. Condon was 
 gifted with a remarkable fac- 
 ulty for the acquirement and 
 retention of knowledge, and 
 when he was twelve years of 
 age passed examinations for 
 Harvard University. Be- 
 cause of his extreme youth, 
 however, he was not permit- 
 ted to enter and instead was 
 sent away by his father for 
 five years- in order that his 
 physical development might 
 equal his mental. 
 
 Following his graduation 
 from Dartmouth, Mr. Condon 
 took up teaching as a pro- 
 fession and for approximate- 
 ly ten years- was engaged in 
 the private schools of New 
 York, principally the old Co- 
 lumbia Grammar School, at 
 that time the largest in the 
 
 metropolis, studied law and was admitted to prac- 
 tice in the courts of New York in 1904. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Condon established the Condon 
 School on Fifth Avenue in New York and con- 
 ducted it for three years, as one of the most exclu- 
 sive and high-priced educational institutions in the 
 United States. He disposed of it, however, and in 
 1894 engaged in an entirely different line of busi- 
 ness, that of a railroad contractor for the Phila- 
 delphia & Reading Railroad Company. He re- 
 mained in this field for about two years and in 
 1896 became associated with the Postal Telegraph 
 Company in a similar capacity for about a year. 
 
 Mr. Condon, in 1897, took up the mining busi- 
 ness and has been active in it, with brief interrup- 
 tions, since that time. He was early in the Klon- 
 dike country and was- one of the first to locate at 
 Dawson, Yukon Territory. He began his career 
 there as a practical miner and prospector and 
 within a very short time came to be regarded as 
 one of the strong men of the camp. Because of his 
 diversified knowledge of law and other subjects, he 
 was chosen Chairman of the Committee on Mines 
 of the Yukon Board of Trade and served in this 
 position for four years. Under the Canadian laws 
 the Boards of Trade of that country perform judi- 
 
 E. B. CONDON 
 
 cial functions corresponding to those of the Su- 
 perior Courts 'in the United States, their decisions 
 in all matters coming before them, when recorded, 
 have the same force and dignity of those emanating 
 from courts of record, and can be reversed only 
 through appellate action. As practically all of the 
 business of the Yukon Territory was connected 
 with mining, ninety per cent of all judicial matters 
 came before the committee of which Mr. Condon 
 was Chairman and which was clothed with judicial 
 authority to settle all disputes. 
 
 After serving four years 
 as Chairman of this commit- 
 tee, Mr. Condon declined to 
 serve a fifth because the 
 Canadian authorities of the 
 county notified him that he 
 would have to swear alle- 
 giance to the British Crown 
 if he accepted a re-election. 
 This was at a time when po- 
 litical affairs in the Yukon 
 country were in a turmoil. 
 The Canadians, about 1903, 
 had organized the Territory 
 under their own laws, and 
 most of the Americans had 
 sold their claims and left the 
 country. About a year prior 
 to this Mr. Condon, as Chair- 
 man of the Committee on 
 Mines, had averted serious 
 international difficulty be- 
 cause of the antagonism be- 
 tween the Canadians and 
 Americans and he handled 
 the situation with such deli- 
 cacy and diplomacy that the 
 anniversary of the birth of the 
 Queen of England was cele- 
 brated along with the Fourth 
 of July by British and Ameri- 
 can settlers alike. 
 
 It was not long after this 
 that Mr. Condon sold his 
 holdings in the Yukon coun- 
 try and returned to the United States. Since that 
 time he has been steadily engaged in mining enter- 
 prises. He is principally occupied by the General 
 Securities Co. of Los Angeles, of which he is Pres- 
 ident, and he has been active also in the operation 
 of the Arizona Empire Copper Company, with mines 
 near Parker, Arizona. This property is only par- 
 tially developed, but has been declared to be one of 
 the richest copper mines in the United States. 
 
 Since embarking in the development of South- 
 western resources, Mr. Condon has established his 
 home in Los Angeles, intending to remain there. 
 
 Mr. Condon has at all times been a supporter 
 of the Democratic party and in 1892 was offered 
 the nomination for Congress from one of the New 
 York districts by Richard Croker and the late 
 William C. Whitney, then the dominant factors of 
 the Democratic party in the Empire State. Mr. 
 Condon declined the offer, however, and George B. 
 McClellan, afterwards Mayor of New York City, 
 was given the nomination. Mr. Condon declined po- 
 litical honor at that time because of unwillingness 
 to engage in public life and, with the exception of 
 the time he served the Yukon Board of Trade as 
 Chairman of its Committee on Mines, has never 
 held public office. 
 
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 OIT, HENRY AUGUSTUS, Finan- 
 cial Underwriter, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Philadel- 
 phia, Pennsylvania, December 3, 
 1875, the son of Edward Woolsey 
 Coit and Caroline (Moore) Coit. 
 He married Kathryne Howard at Los Angeles, 
 September 21, 1912. His is one cf the noted 
 American families, his great uncle, Henry A. Coit, 
 having been the first man to bring grand opera to 
 American shores. He after- 
 
 ward became a promi- 
 nent sugar factor in New 
 York City. Mr. Colt's father 
 was President of the Read- 
 ing Iron Works at Reading, 
 Pa., and the latter's brother 
 was the founder and head of 
 the St. Paul School at Con- 
 cord, New Hampshire. 
 
 Mr. Coit received his early 
 education in private schools 
 of Philadelphia, but during 
 the greater part of his youth 
 studied under private tutons. 
 Moving to St. Louis, he en- 
 tered Smith's Academy, a 
 preparatory school, and in 
 1893 became a student at 
 Washington University, St. 
 Louis. He was prominent in 
 athletics and noted as one of 
 the greatest football players 
 in the Middle West. 
 
 Leaving school in 1895, 
 Mr. Coit embarked in busi- 
 ness as a crude drug broker, 
 but sold out a year later. 
 He then purchased an inter- 
 est in the Missouri Tele- 
 phone Manufacturing Co. and 
 occupied the position of sales 
 manager until he later sold 
 his interest. In 1897 he be- 
 came engaged in the con- 
 struction of telephone exchanges and long dis- 
 tance lines, and organized the Telephone Exchange 
 & Construction Co., with himself as President. As- 
 sociated with him were several well known busi- 
 ness men of St. Louis, among them J. C. Howe, 
 Treasurer, St. Louis, Peoria & Northwestern R. R.; 
 and Robert L. McLaran, an attorney. 
 
 Mr. Coit and associates operated on a large 
 scale, building the telephone exchanges at Terre 
 Haute, Ind.; Nebraska City and Syracuse, Neb.; 
 Baton Rouge, La., and Meridian, Miss. The plant 
 at Terre Haute was the largest independent tele- 
 phone exchange in the country and the first oper- 
 ated on the central energy multiple lamp line sys- 
 tem. 
 
 The company of which Mr. Coit was the head 
 was instrumental in giving to many small cities 
 and towns modern utilities, its method of operation 
 being the construction and operation of plants un- 
 til they were on a paying basis, when they would 
 turn them over to the municipality or local capital- 
 ists. 
 
 Mr. Coit directed the affairs of the company for 
 about three years, disposing of his interest in 1900 
 to engage in a different line of business. In 1902, 
 after handling various financial enterprises he be- 
 came associated with Paul Cable in the transfor- 
 
 HENRY A. COIT 
 
 mation of the Santa Fe line between Las Vegas- 
 and Las Vegas Hot Springs (New Mexico) into an 
 electric interurban road, this being the first in the 
 West. He was active in the preliminary work, but 
 before the line was completed he went to California 
 to visit his- father, who had settled there after re- 
 tiring from business. 
 
 He remained at Corona for about a year, and in 
 1904 moved to Los Angeles, where he opened brok- 
 erage offices. He finally specialized in the under- 
 writing of financial enter- 
 prises and has continued in 
 this field. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Coit organized 
 the Burbank State Bank, at 
 Burbank, Gal., and despite 
 the fact that it was born in 
 a year of financial panic the 
 institution has thrived and 
 ranks among the substantial 
 banking institutions of 
 Southern California. Two 
 years afterwards he turned 
 his attention to San Diego, 
 and in association with Louis 
 J. Wilde organized the Fed- 
 eral Building Co., which 
 erected the American Na- 
 tional Bank building there, 
 an eleven-story structure, 
 and the first to exceed six 
 stories. 
 
 The same year Mr. Coit, 
 acting for Los Angeles capi- 
 talists, purchased the Bank 
 of Southern California, be- 
 coming Secretary and Direc- 
 tor, and was active in the 
 management of it until it was 
 sold in 1911 to interests 
 which changed the name to 
 Globe Savings Bank. Dur- 
 ing the greater part of his 
 connection with the bank he 
 represented the controlling 
 interests and was active in all of its operations. 
 
 While engaged in handling the affairs of the 
 Bank of Southern California, Mr. Coit organized 
 the Yucaipa Land Co., which owned nine thousand 
 acres of ranch land in the Yucaipa Valley of Cal. 
 He was associated with Los Angeles and several 
 local and mid-western capitalists in this venture. 
 
 Early in 1910, Mr. Coit acted as the agent ot 
 the Southern California Cement Co. (now the Riv- 
 erside Port. Cement Co.) in the sale of its under- 
 written bonds. 
 
 About the same time Mr. Coit became active in 
 the financing of the Tejunga Water & Power Co., 
 to which he has devoted much of his time. 
 
 Mr. Coit, early in 1912, organized and financed 
 the Oxnard Eucalyptus Mills, at Oxnard, Cal., the 
 first mill in the U. S. for the utilization, on a large 
 commercial scale, of eucalyptus timber. This mill, 
 with a capacity of 25,000 feet of finished material a 
 day, is engaged in a general manufacturing busi- 
 ness, and gives promi&e of developing into one 
 of the important State industries. 
 
 Mr. Coit is a book-lover and owns one of the 
 most select libraries in Southern California. Mrs. 
 Coit joins M"r. Coit in his taste along these lines. 
 
 Mr. Coit is a member of the Los Angeles Ath- 
 letic Club, and the Cuyamaca Club of San Diego. 
 
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 421 
 
 ALL, WILLIAM HAMMOND, Con- 
 sulting and Constructing Engi- 
 neer, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in Hagerstown, Mary- 
 land, February 12, 1846, the son 
 of John Buchanan Hall and Anna 
 Maria (Hammond) Hall. In 1870, at San Fran- 
 cisco, he married Emma Kate Fitzhugh, of the dis- 
 tinguished Southern family of that name. They 
 have three daughters, Anna Hammond, Margaret 
 Fitzhugh and Katharine Buchanan Hall. 
 
 Arriving in California at the age of seven, Mr. 
 Hall's school-room education was confined to a 
 private academy, from 1858 to 1865, under the tu- 
 telage of an Episcopal clergyman. It was intended 
 that he should enter the West Point Military 
 Academy, and his schooling was directed to that 
 end, but the outbreak of the Civil War caused his 
 parents to abandon these plans. Shortly after the 
 close of the war he became a computer and 
 draughtsman in the office of Col. R. S. Williamson 
 of the U. S. Engineer Corps. 
 
 His first work under Col. Williamson in the 
 field was as an assistant in the barometrical meas- 
 uring of the snow-clad peaks in Oregon. He next 
 became a rod-man and subsequently a surveyor on 
 topographic service for fortification purposes, un- 
 der the U. S. Board of Engineers for the Pacific 
 Coast. He was also a draughtsman in the same 
 employ. Therein he participated as field engineer, 
 computer and draughtsman in the surveys of lo- 
 calities for the purposes of fortification, light- 
 houses, harbors of refuge and navigation. These 
 ranged from San Diego Harbor to and including 
 Neah Bay, the southernmost and northernmost 
 harbors then on the Pacific Coast (1866-1870). In 
 this period he was also on the surveys of the rapids 
 of the upper Columbia and Willamette rivers, 
 Oregon, for the improvement of navigation; and 
 these activities were supplemented by his topo- 
 graphic contouring of the peninsula of San Fran- 
 cisco, especially the Presidio Reservation and 
 Point Lobos, again for fortifications, as well as by 
 his hydrographic work for the harbors of San Diego 
 and San Francisco. 
 
 In August, 1870, Mr. Hall was awarded the con- 
 tract, by the first Board of Park Commissioners of 
 San Francisco, for the topographic survey of the 
 Golden Gate Park Reservation. 
 
 In August, 1871, after his plans had been ac- 
 cepted by the Commission, he was appointed En- 
 gineer and Superintendent of Parks, and in this 
 capacity, until 1876, reclaimed the sand wastes and 
 planned and improved Golden Gate Park. The next 
 two years, in the joint employ of the Bank of Cali- 
 fornia and the then Nevada Bank, he was in charge, 
 as engineer, of extensive land and water properties 
 in the San Joaquin Valley, including the canals 
 which have since made Fresno famous. 
 
 Under an act of Legislature providing for investi- 
 gation of problems of irrigation, river improvement, 
 reclamation and disposal of mining debris, Gover- 
 nor William Irwin, in May, 1878, appointed Mr. Hall 
 first State Engineer of California. He was four 
 times reappointed to this office and served until his 
 
 resignation in February, 1889. It is only just to say 
 that the extensive irrigation, water storage and 
 river and reclamation surveys and examinations 
 made by the State Engineering Department under 
 his supervision have constituted the basis of work 
 and reports of a number of State and other authori- 
 ties since that time, who have received credit there- 
 for. The State Engineer's reports of that period, 
 which were the first systematic studies of the sub- 
 ject in this country, have also served as guides for 
 many reports in later years. 
 
 In March, 1889, Mr. Hall was appointed Supervis- 
 ing Engineer of the United States Irrigation Investi- 
 gation (the predecessor of the United States Recla- 
 mation Service) for all the region west of the Rocky 
 Mountains, and served until the end of June, 1890. 
 Therein he was one of the three engineers who or- 
 ganized and managed the first United States Gov- 
 ernment irrigation investigation. Here, too, the 
 methods and reports of those years have shaped 
 similar work ever since. From July, 1890, to June, 
 1896, while in private practice as a civil engineer, 
 he was in charge of important irrigation and 
 water supply work in the southern and central 
 parts of California and in the State of Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 The next step in Mr. Hall's progression was to 
 Europe and South Africa, in 1896. Until 1898 he 
 was in this latter country, and in London, acting 
 as Consulting Engineer on Irrigation and Water 
 Works. During this period he was in charge of 
 the construction of a large plant for supplying 
 water to the principal mines about Johannesburg, 
 in the Transvaal, for the Cecil Rhodes and Werner 
 Beit Syndicate. Under a contract with the Com- 
 missioner of Public Works of the Cape Colo- 
 nial Government he made an extended report on 
 irrigation and drafted a new water and irrigation 
 law. Zest was given to his stay in this country 
 by the unique experience of having to serve pro- 
 fessionally and intimately two warring factions at 
 daggers' points with each other in other words, 
 to make a report on irrigation in Rhodesia, to the 
 Rt. Hon. Cecil Rhodes, and on the other hand, an 
 examination for water storage for irrigation for 
 President Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic. 
 
 The year 1899 finds Mr. Hall in the Russian Em- 
 pire. Here he made examinations and reports on 
 irrigation and great canal projects in the Russian 
 Transcaucasus and in Central Asia to the Minister 
 of Agriculture, M. Yermoloff, and on similar works 
 in the Merve Oasis, to the minister in charge of 
 the Imperial Estates, Prince Viasemski. 
 
 He returned to California in 1900, where until 
 the present time he has been engaged chiefly in 
 the management of properties for investment and 
 development. In this connection he acquired con- 
 trol of properties in the Lake Eleanor and Cherry 
 Creek water sheds, which have since been selected 
 by the city of San Francisco for a water supply. 
 
 Mr. Hall has confined his membership to the 
 American society of Civil Engineers, in which he 
 is the holder of the Norman Medal, and to the Pa- 
 cific-Union Club, from which he resigned when he 
 went abroad in 1896. 
 
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 OHNSTON, TOM LEMUEL, Law- 
 yer, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Seguin, Texas, February 
 25, 1862, the son of Thomas 
 Dickey Johnston and Catherine 
 K. (Calvert) Johnston. He is 
 descended from one of the noted families of the 
 South, among his ancestors being Lord Baltimore, 
 who first settled Maryland Colony, and James Hall, 
 one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence. Mr. Johnston married 
 Lula Freeman at Seguin, 
 Texas, September 30, 1885, 
 and to them there was born 
 a daughter, Miss Clair John- 
 ston, who is now one of the 
 beautiful and brilliant young 
 women in Southern Cali- 
 fornia society circles. 
 
 Mr. Johnston, who bears 
 the distinction of having re- 
 ceived the largest fee in the 
 legitimate practice of law 
 ever made South of the Ma- 
 son and Dixon Line, spent 
 most of his life in the Lone 
 Staf State and received the 
 larger part of his education- 
 al training in its schools. 
 Following his attendance at 
 the public schools of San 
 Antonio, Texas, he entered 
 St. Mary's College at the 
 same place. He next be- 
 came a student at Bingham 
 School in North Carolina, 
 where he received the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 The degree of Master of 
 
 Arts he received later at St. Mary's University in 
 Galveston, Texas. He also studied at McNeal's Col- 
 lege in Texas and read law for six years under 
 private tutors. 
 
 Despite these many years of study, Mr. John- 
 ston had barely attained his majority when he 
 was admitted to the practice of law in the courts 
 of Texas. A man of great natural ability, with 
 the splendid education he received to supplement 
 it, he met with succe&s from the very beginning 
 of his career. He first opened offices in 
 his native town Seguin, but moved to Galveston 
 within a few months because of the greater field 
 offered in the larger city. As in his home town, 
 he met with gratifying success and during the 
 three years that he remained in Galveston was 
 one of the most active of the younger men in the 
 profession of law. However, he decided to return 
 to Seguin where he resumed his practice and took 
 an active interest in the political affairs of the 
 place. He was elected Prosecutor on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket shortly after his return and held the 
 
 TOM L. JOHNSTON 
 
 office for a term of four years, when he was re- 
 elected (1890) for a second term of four years. Dur- 
 ing his tenure of office Mr. Johnston established a 
 reputation for thoroughness in the preparation 
 of his cases and also won recognition as an orator 
 of unusual power. He appeared, during the eight 
 years he served as a public officer, in many cele- 
 brated criminal cases, and his success in these, 
 together with that attending his efforts in several 
 notable actions since locating in California, has 
 given him wide repute in pro- 
 fessional circles. 
 
 Besides his work in crim- 
 inal cases, however, Mr. 
 Johnston has handled a 
 large amount of civil prac- 
 tice and one case in this 
 branch of judicial procedure, 
 that in which he received 
 the great fee referred to 
 above, attracted attention all 
 over the South at the time 
 of its trial. This action was 
 known as the Twohig Will 
 Contest, Mr. Johnston repre- 
 senting the heirs in the suit. 
 Twohig, the testator, was one 
 of the wealthy men of San 
 Antonio and died leaving an 
 estate valued at one million 
 six hundred thousand dol- 
 lars. Certain heirs had tried 
 in vain to acquire their 
 part of the property involved 
 and finally offered Mr. John- 
 ston one-half of all they real- 
 ized if he would undertake 
 their cause and carry it to 
 conclusion. It was a case 
 
 generally regarded as hopeless and Mr. Johnston 
 had little to encourage- him to make a fight. He 
 did, however, and he fought so well that the final 
 decision was in his favor, carrying with it the en- 
 tire estate. His clients readily and willingly turned 
 over to him $800,000 as his fee and he received the 
 congratulations of the profe&sion all over the South 
 for the great victory he had won. 
 
 Mr. Johnston gave up his practice in Texas in 
 1908, after having been one of the leaders of the 
 Bar there for more than a quarter of a century, 
 and went to Los Angeles, where he has since been 
 located in the practice of his profession. 
 
 Since his arrival in California, Mr. Johnston 
 has taken no active part in politics, but still is a 
 staunch supporter of the Republican party princi- 
 ples, which he espoused in Texas in 1900. 
 
 Endowed with the natural grace and culture of 
 the old South, Mr. Johnston and his family early 
 took their place in the exclusive society of Los 
 Angeles and are to-day noted for the entertain- 
 ments which they give at their beautiful home. 
 
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 423 
 
 LETCHER, PAUL BATTELLE, 
 Real Estate and Building, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Kansas City, Missouri, June 13, 
 1887, the son of William Scott 
 Fletcher and Elizabeth D. (Bat- 
 telle) Fletcher. He married Ruth Elma Whiffen 
 at Los Angeles, January 22, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Fletcher began his education in the grammar 
 schools of Kansas City, but his studies were inter- 
 rupted by the removal of his 
 family to San Diego, in 1894. 
 He attended school there for 
 a short time, but he was 
 halted again when the fam- 
 ily, in 1896, changed resi- 
 dence to Los Angeles. Mr. 
 Fletcher there made his third 
 start in school for an educa- 
 tion and finished in the High 
 School, being graduated in 
 the summer of 1906. While 
 attending school he was in 
 the employ of the Los An- 
 geles Record in various ca- 
 pacities from carrier to re- 
 porter and when he was 
 graduated from High School 
 had had considerable ex- 
 perience in the newspaper 
 business. Following his 
 graduation, Mr. Fletcher at- 
 tended the University of 
 Southern California for a 
 year, going north in 1907 
 with the intention of enter- 
 ing the University of Cali- 
 fornia at Berkeley for the 
 purpose of studying law, but 
 
 the death of his father compelled him to return 
 home and seek employment. 
 
 Early in 1908 he became a salesman for Robert 
 Marsh & Company, realty operators in Los Angeles. 
 He remained there for several months, then en- 
 tered the employ of O. A. Vickrey, in the same 
 line of business. After a year with Mr. Vickrey, 
 Mr. Fletcher determined to go into business for 
 himself and opened offices in the Douglas Building, 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 He had gratifying success from the start and 
 within a short time decided to go into the business 
 on a larger scale. The result was the incorpora- 
 tion in February, 1911, of the Suburban Develop- 
 ment Company of Southern California, with Mr. 
 Fletcher as Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 company. 
 
 Mr. Fletcher's company has made a specialty of 
 subdivisions and has taken an active part in the 
 suburban development around Los Angeles. The 
 Southern California metropolis, for several years 
 past, has been the magnet for thousands of home- 
 
 PAUL B. FLETCHER 
 
 seekers, and according to statistics has more home- 
 owners than any other city of its size in the 
 United States. 
 
 While he was alone Mr. Fletcher operated in 
 various sections of Los Angeles, both as a broker 
 and subdivider, also building a good many homes 
 which sold readily. He specialized, however, in 
 acreage, selling many large tracts from the old 
 Glassell Estate in the Eagle Rock section, and in 
 that way has taken a leading position among the 
 subdividers and builders- of 
 the city. Altogether he has 
 built or had to do with 
 scores of modern homes in 
 which to house the new- 
 comers to that section of 
 the country. 
 
 Glassell Park, the name 
 given to this tract, is thirty- 
 two acres in extent, and with 
 the residences and improve- 
 ments installed by Mr. 
 Fletcher's company in the 
 summer of 1911 it was trans- 
 formed into one of the at- 
 tractive suburban districts of 
 Los Angeles. The opening 
 up of this subdivision gave 
 an impetus to real estate 
 values all around it and from 
 a stubble field country it 
 rapidly changed into a place 
 of beautiful homes and 
 parks, with wide, well-paved 
 streets. When this section 
 had been built up, Mr. 
 Fletcher and his associates 
 acquired another large tract, 
 more than ninety-three acres 
 
 in extent, immediately adjoining their original 
 purchase, and followed the same system of im- 
 provement. 
 
 His position naturally makes of Mr. Fletcher an 
 enthusiastic worker for the betterment of Los 
 Angeles and vicinity and he is an ardent supporter 
 of any movement having this for its object. He is 
 Republican in his political belief, but has taken 
 little active part in politics. On one occasion, 
 when his father-in-law, Frederick J. Whiffen, was 
 a candidate for the City Council of Los Angeles, 
 Mr. Fletcher aligned himself with the Good Gov- 
 ernment forces and was able to aid materially in 
 Mr. Whiffen's election. That, however, was his 
 only venture into the political field, and he has 
 applied himself, for the most part, to the work of 
 building homes- for the newcomers to Los Angeles 
 and to advertising the beauties and advantages of 
 the city to the rest of the world. 
 
 Mr. Fletcher is a member of the alumni chap- 
 ter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, the Sierra Madre 
 Club and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 AVIDSON, PAUL BECK, 
 Contracting, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, August 5, 1887, 
 the son of Arthur Nicholas 
 Davidson and Addie (Pirnie) Davidson. He 
 married Grace Louise Ramsay at Piru, Cali- 
 fornia, May 30, 1911. 
 
 His family having moved to Los Angeles 
 when he was a child five 
 years of age, Mr. David- 
 son received his education 
 there and may rightly be 
 classed as a Californian. 
 He received his prelim- 
 inary training in the pub- 
 lic schools of Los An- 
 geles and upon the open- 
 ing of the Harvard Mili- 
 tary School in the same 
 city, enrolled there and 
 remained until 1905. He 
 then went to Leland 
 Stanford University. At 
 a subsequent date he took 
 a course in Structural 
 Engineering with the In- 
 ternational Correspond- 
 ence Schools and received 
 a certificate. 
 
 For a brief period after 
 qualifying as a Struc- 
 tural Engineer, Mr. Da- 
 vidson was in the real es- 
 tate business, as agent 
 for his father. He gave 
 this up to go into the 
 
 PAUL B. DAVIDSON 
 
 Alta Planing Mill, where he studied the mill 
 and drafting end of his profession in all de- 
 partments, making special experiments in 
 concrete and concrete construction after his 
 regular hours. 
 
 About six months after the San Francisco 
 disaster of 1906, Mr. Davidson made a trip 
 to that city for the purpose of investigating 
 the effect of the earthquake on building in 
 general, and on concrete and brick in particu- 
 lar. Upon his return to Los Angeles he en- 
 tered the employ of F. O. Engstrum, to 
 familiarize himself further with concrete 
 construction. 
 
 Following his resignation from this posi- 
 tion Mr. Davidson was connected with the 
 test of the Pacific Light & Power Com- 
 pany's plant at Redondo Beach, and from 
 there he went to Piru, California, to aid in 
 the erection of the Piru Oil and Land Com- 
 pany's fruit drying sheds. 
 
 In the latter part of August, 1908, Mr. Da- 
 
 vidson and his brother, John P. Davidson, 
 determined to go into the contracting busi- 
 ness for themselves and opened offices in 
 their father's barn. They began building 
 homes to sell and within two months their 
 business had grown to such an extent they 
 had to seek larger offices and even these 
 soon proved too small for their purposes and 
 they had to expand their headquarters a 
 second time. The broth- 
 ers made a specialty of 
 modern houses, employ- 
 ing only the best labor 
 and the highest grade 
 material and their suc- 
 cess grew apace of their 
 reputation. 
 
 In June, 1909, the 
 Davidson Construction 
 Company was incorpor- 
 ated under the laws of 
 the State of California, 
 with Mr. Davidson as 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 Although a comparative- 
 ly young man, he made 
 such a thorough study of 
 his business that he is 
 recognized as a progres- 
 sive, enterprising con- 
 tractor and endeavors to 
 keep abreast of all im- 
 provements which may 
 come to his line of work. 
 He is an indefatigable 
 worker and his ambitipn 
 is to make his firm one of 
 the best known in the country. He was 
 also the originator of his company's field 
 system, an innovation that has proved of in- 
 estimable value. 
 
 The Designing Department of the com- 
 pany's business, organized by Mr. David- 
 son, is one of its important features, and is 
 on a par with the best architectural offices 
 in Los Angeles, both in efficiency and origi- 
 nality of work. 
 
 Mr. Davidson is a member of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Los Angeles ; Southern 
 California Lodge, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, Los Angeles ; Los Angeles Con- 
 sistory No. 3, Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
 tish Rite Masons ; Al Malaikah Temple, 
 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the 
 Mystic Shrine ; Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce and the Architectural Club. 
 He also belongs to the Master Builders' 
 Association of Los Angeles and the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Technology. 
 
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 425 
 
 TEDDOM, CALVIN B., Con- 
 tracting, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born near Rich- 
 mond, Indiana, January 14, 
 1878, the son of Isaac P. C. 
 Steddom and Lucinda P. (Puckett) Steddom. 
 He married Helen May Cattanach at Los 
 Angeles, August 31, 1904, and to them there 
 have been born three children, Eleanor 
 Frances, Helen Margaret 
 and Carol Bernice Sted- 
 dom. 
 
 Mr. Steddom received 
 his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of his district 
 and remained at home 
 until the year 1898, when 
 he accompanied a sick 
 brother to Los Angeles. 
 He intended remaining 
 there only a few months, 
 but after a short stay de- 
 cided to make his home 
 in Southern California. 
 
 His first work in Los 
 Angeles was in the em- 
 ploy of the Southern Pa- 
 cific Railroad Company 
 as a mechanic in the car 
 repair department and he 
 remained there for about 
 two years. He then ac- 
 cepted a position with L. 
 L. Newerf, a leading 
 builder of Los Angeles, 
 as foreman, and in this 
 capacity began to take an 
 active interest in the building business. He 
 remained in the employ of Mr. Newerf for 
 about three years and resigned to go into 
 business for himself as a contractor. 
 
 Mr. Steddom operated with success for 
 several years, and in 1907, the year of the 
 financial panic which gripped the entire 
 country, organized the Eagle Rock Building 
 Company, of which he is President and Gen- 
 eral Manager. As the directing force of this 
 company, Mr. Steddom has been very suc- 
 cessful and for several years has been active- 
 ly engaged in building in Los Angeles and 
 vicinity. 
 
 Within recent years Los Angeles and its 
 suburbs have experienced an unprecedented 
 growth, the population of the city having 
 grown nearly a quarter of a million, and this 
 has necessitated the construction of thou- 
 sands of houses. Mr. Steddom, as one of the 
 enterprising men of the city, has been among 
 
 C. B. STEDDOM 
 
 the most active of the builders, especially in 
 the Eagle Rock district near the city. This 
 section of Los Angeles has enjoyed phenome- 
 nal growth in real estate and other lines, and 
 Mr. Steddom is credited with having done 
 quite as much as any individual for the up- 
 building of the town. He has also builded 
 largely in Santa Monica, Monrovia, Pomona 
 and other Southern California towns which 
 are sharing in the general 
 prosperity of the section. 
 Mr. Steddom has been 
 a conscientious worker 
 all his life and his success 
 is due, in large measure, 
 to the fact that he applied 
 himself industriously to 
 any task in hand and 
 spared neither time nor 
 effort to acquire complete 
 knowledge of the work in 
 which he was engaged. 
 
 Besides the construc- 
 tion of hundreds of 
 homes, Mr. Steddom's 
 company also has erected 
 a number of large mod- 
 ern buildings in various 
 parts of Los Angeles 
 County, in the construc- 
 tion of which Mr. Sted- 
 dom has taken an active 
 personal interest. An ex- 
 pert builder himself, he 
 has surrounded himself 
 with talented assistants, 
 but devotes his own time 
 to the supervision of the work entrusted to 
 the company. 
 
 Mr. Steddom, aside from his building op- 
 erations, is interested in various other de- 
 velopment enterprises in Los Angeles and 
 is one of the enthusiastic men engaged in 
 the upbuilding of the city and the country 
 surrounding it. He is one of the popular 
 men of the city, but has never taken an ac- 
 tive part in politics, preferring to give his 
 spare time to the advancement of the public 
 interest by lending aid to civic movements. 
 
 Mr. Steddom is a prominent figure in fra- 
 ternal circles, being a member of the Fra- 
 ternal Brotherhood, the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Loyal Order of Moose. He 
 also belongs to the Sierra Madre Club, an 
 organization composed of men with mining 
 and business interests connected with the 
 development of the resources of the South- 
 west. 
 
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 C, J. KUBACH 
 
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 427 
 
 UBACH, C. J., Contractor, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Germany in 1855. He 
 received his education in the 
 public schools of that coun^ 
 try, where he remained until eighteen 
 years of age. As a boy he learned 
 the contracting business from his father, who 
 was a master builder in a small town, located 
 near Heidelberg, Germany. He continued 
 with his father until 1873, when a desire to 
 see more of the world caused him to move to 
 America. 
 
 He went to Pittsburg, Pa., where an uncle 
 was living, and there entered school for one 
 year, learning the English language. He then 
 returned to contracting work for a year and a 
 half in Pittsburg. 
 
 In 1875 he moved to San Francisco and 
 obtained a position with a company known 
 as Herrman and Von Bostle, builders. He 
 remained in their employ for one year, when 
 he moved to Virginia City, Nevada. There 
 he started in as a millwright in the mining 
 district. He followed that business for fifteen 
 months, when he moved to Los Angeles in 
 1878. 
 
 When Mr. Kubach arrived in Southern 
 California there was little to denote the fu- 
 ture city of 350,000 population, and the open- 
 ing of a business in that day meant a long 
 and hard struggle. He originally opened a 
 small shop on East First street, but in 1884 
 he opened a larger one at First and Vine 
 streets; by that time he was taking part in 
 the construction of many of the largest build- 
 ings put up in Los Angeles in those days. 
 
 In 1885, shortly after Mr. Kubach had 
 opened his business career in Los Angeles, 
 he married in that city a young lady from a 
 prominent family. There are two children, as 
 a result of this union, Rose Cecilia and So- 
 phie Octavia Kubach. 
 
 He built the noted Stimson residence, one 
 of the most beautiful homes of Los Angeles 
 at the time of its construction. He made the 
 acquaintance then of Mr. Stimson, for whom 
 he erected a number of buildings, including 
 the foundation of the present Stimson block, 
 in which building he established his offices. 
 
 A pioneer contractor of Los Angeles, he 
 developed his business as the city progressed. 
 He has taken contracts for many of the larg- 
 est buildings in Los Angeles. In the sur- 
 rounding towns he also has been active, hav- 
 ing constructed blocks in San Diego, River- 
 side, Redlands and many other places. 
 
 On March 7, 1903, Mr. Kubach organized 
 the C. J. Kubach Company, the present firm, 
 
 of which he is president. His nephew, Mr. 
 George Schneider, is his able assistant, secre- 
 tary, treasurer and superintendent, having in 
 his care a large part of the business end of 
 that organization. Before the above date the 
 firm was known as C. J. Kubach. 
 
 In 1904 he moved his offices to the Pacific 
 Electric building, where he has been located 
 since. His business kept pace with the great 
 growth of the city, and as the concrete and 
 steel structures became an assured success, 
 Mr. Kubach became one of the efficient con- 
 tractors in that line. He built the magnificent 
 Alexandria Hotel Annex, one of the finest 
 examples of a modern hostelry in the West. 
 He has erected numerous buildings for the 
 Los Angeles Railway Company, built the 
 First National Bank building of Riverside 
 and a number of buildings at Del Mar, San 
 Diego County. He also constructed the 
 Wright & Callender building and the Chris- 
 tian Science Church building of Los Angeles. 
 
 During his years of work as a contractor 
 in Los Angeles, Mr. Kubach has constructed 
 buildings the total value of which reach the 
 enormous sum of $8,000,000. Had he been a 
 man of ordinary ability, he would have been 
 satisfied with Los Angeles and its environs 
 as a field for his labors. But today, in look- 
 ing over the work that has been accomplish- 
 ed by him during the thirty years spent in 
 Southern California, buildings of the high- 
 est type of workmanship are found through- 
 out that region as far north as the Tehach- 
 api Pass and as far south as San Diego, 
 which will stand for many years as monu- 
 ments of his constructive ability. He has 
 built blocks in such progressive cities as 
 Riverside, Redlands, Santa Barbara, Pasa- 
 dena and many of the beautiful centers that 
 are typical of Southern California. 
 
 In 1904, on the organization of the K. and 
 K. Brick Company, because of his exceptional 
 record as a contractor and because of his 
 prominence in the field of building and con- 
 struction, Mr. Kubach was made president 
 of that corporation. He became one of the 
 organizers of that company and since 1904 
 has had its management and chief business 
 affairs entirely in his hands. The growth of 
 this corporation from a small organization 
 to one of the largest brick concerns in South- 
 ern California, with a capitalization of 
 $120,000, was due largely to the excellent 
 management of Mr. Kubach. He was one 
 of the organizers of the Rice Ranch Oil Com- 
 pany and is its present president. 
 
 Mr. Kubach is a member of the Masonic 
 Fraternity and of the Jonathan Club of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 ENNEDY, WILLIAM HOWE, 
 Stocks and Bonds, Vice President 
 Fierce-Kennedy Brokerage Co., 
 Los Angeles and San Francisco, 
 Cal., was born in Des Moines, 
 Iowa, February 12, 1872, the son 
 of Doctor Josiah Forest Kennedy and Mary Cath- 
 erine (Reigart) Kennedy. He married Mary Adelle 
 Satterlee at Dunlap, Iowa, June 16, 1897, and to 
 them has been born two sons, Donald Satterlee 
 Kennedy and William Howe 
 Kennedy, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy is of Scotch 
 and Irish ancestry, both sides 
 having been represented by 
 men notable in the history of 
 the two countries. One of 
 the early members of the 
 family was James Kennedy, 
 Bishop of St. Andrews', in 
 Scotland during the reign ot 
 James II. A later member of 
 the family, his great-great- 
 grandfather was William 
 Kennedy, a noted Scotchman, 
 who married a sister of Lord 
 North, Prime Minister of 
 England before and during 
 the Revolutionary War. Lord 
 North was one of the most 
 prominent men in the reign 
 of King George the III, and 
 was credited with having 
 more influence with his King 
 than any man in public life 
 at that time. After a nota- 
 bly brilliant career he retired 
 as the Earl of Guilford. For 
 five years before his death he 
 was totally blind. During 
 the Civil War, Mr. Kennedy's 
 father, Dr. Josiah Forest Ken- 
 nedy was a surgeon in the 
 regular army, receiving his 
 appointment direct from Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. While in service he was surgeon of 
 the Officers' Hospital at Washington, D. C. Later 
 removing to Des Moines he was elected Secretary 
 and Treasurer of the State Board of Health, and 
 Secretary and Treasurer of the State Board of 
 Medical Examiners and held these positions for 
 twenty-three consecutive years, the longest record 
 ever held by any public official in the State of 
 Iowa, with the exception of the late United States 
 Senator William Allison. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy's wife is a member of the family 
 of which the late Bishop Satterlee of Washington, 
 D. C. was a notable representative. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy received his primary education in 
 the public schools of Des Moines and later com- 
 pleted his studies at Highland Park College and 
 the Baptist College of the same city. Leaving 
 college in 1892 Mr. Kennedy traveled for two years, 
 and during that time visited many parts of the 
 United States and Mexico. Returning to Des 
 Moines in 1894 he passed a civil service examina- 
 tion for position in the United States Postoffice 
 there, but remained in the Government employ 
 only a short time. In 1896 Mr. Kennedy entered 
 the employ of the Northwestern Life & Savings 
 Company of Des Moines, as special representative, 
 and there began the career in which he has earned 
 
 W. H. KENNEDY 
 
 a name for himself as one of the expert sales man- 
 agers of the United States. From the position of 
 special representative of this institution he was 
 soon elected to the position of Manager of Agents 
 and Director of the Company. As Manager of 
 Agents he had charge of one of the largest agency 
 forces in the United States-, including some 1500 
 men scattered over all parts of the Union. He held 
 this position for seven years. His dexterous 
 management of the agents employed and his 
 ability to influence men of 
 large affairs, resulted in the 
 sale of millions of dollars of 
 bonds for that institution 
 throughout the country. In 
 1912 Mr. Kennedy resigned 
 his position and went to 
 Philadelphia, Pa., as General 
 Eastern Manager of the Na- 
 tional Life & Trust Co., and 
 remained there for the next 
 two years. At the end of 
 that period he accepted a po- 
 sition as Superintendent of 
 Agents- of the selling branch 
 of the Middlesex Banking 
 Company with headquarters 
 in New York City, and or- 
 ganized a selling force of 
 about two hundred and fifty 
 agents. He is credited with 
 having directed the sale of 
 $2,700,000 of bonds in the 
 last fourteen months of his 
 connection with that com- 
 pany. Of this amount he 
 personally disposed of over 
 $300,000 worth. In 1906, Mr. 
 Kennedy decided to go into 
 business for himself, and 
 opened brokerage offices in 
 New York and Philadelphia. 
 During the next five yeara 
 he was unusually active in 
 the sale of timber lands and 
 
 listed and unlisted securities, meeting with splendid 
 success. 
 
 In October, 1911, he gave up his business in 
 the East and moved, with his family, to Los Angeles, 
 where he has since been located. 
 
 In company with Dr. V. Mott Pierce, the pro- 
 prietary medicine manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y., 
 W. O. Statton, banker and beet sugar manufacturer 
 of Los Angeles, and Karl K. Kennedy, a brother, 
 Mr. Kennedy organized the Fierce-Kennedy Broker- 
 age Company, and opened offices in Los- Angeles 
 and San Francisco. 
 
 This company operates extensively in listed and 
 unlisted securities. Since the organization of the 
 business the company has handled several import- 
 ant issues of stock with startling success, it has 
 been stated, and has taken a front rank among the 
 active stock and bond concerns of the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy, who takes little interest in poli- 
 tics or outside interests, enjoys an unusually high 
 standing in stock and bond circles as manager 
 and salesman and has been declared in various 
 letters from bankers and others, to be one of the 
 most capable men in the United States in these 
 lines. He is a member of the Sierra Madre Club 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
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 429 
 
 EACH, EVERETT CHARLES, 
 Physician, Surgeon and Physical 
 Education Expert, Los Angeles, 
 California, born in Independence, 
 Kansas, May 22nd, 1880, son of 
 Charles Theodore Beach and 
 Elizabeth A. (Bridgeman) Beach. 
 
 Dr. Beach began his education in the public 
 schools; moved to California in 1889; moved to 
 Connecticut in 1897; attended the District High 
 School at Litchfield, two 
 years-; attended Williston 
 Seminary at East Hampton, 
 Mass., 1899-1901, returned to 
 California in 1901, attended 
 Stanford University 1901-1903, 
 entered the Baltimore Medi- 
 cal College 1903, graduated 
 in 1908 with honors. One 
 year post-graduate study and 
 chief Resident Pathologist at 
 the Maryland General Hospi- 
 tal. Completed his under- 
 graduate work in the Univer- 
 sity of Southern California in 
 1911, receiving the degree 
 A. B. 
 
 Dr. Beach, one of the 
 leading Physical Education 
 experts in the U. S., has been 
 teaching since 1899. He was 
 Gymnasium Asst., at Willis- 
 ton Seminary 1899-01. Stu- 
 dent Asst., in Stanford Uni- 
 versity 1901-03; was Physical 
 Director of Hoitt's Prepara- 
 tory School, Menlo Park, 
 Cal., 1902-03. During the five 
 years he was in Maryland, he 
 
 held several positions simultaneously. He was As- 
 sistant Physical Director Central Y. M. C. A. Balti- 
 more, 1903-04. Physical Director and Organizer of 
 Social Centers throughout Maryland, 1903-08. Phys- 
 ical Director of the College of Preparatory School 
 1904-06, of the University School 1907-08, the Nurses' 
 Training School of Sheppard-Pratt Hospital 1907-08, 
 the Maryland Swimming Club 1907-08; the Balti- 
 more Athletic Club 1906-08, Public Playgrounds, 
 1904-08. He also served as Laboratory Assistant 
 and Demonstrator in Pathology in the Baltimore 
 Medical College, 1903-08. 
 
 Besides being a skillful boxer, wrestler, swim- 
 mer, gymnast and a practical instructor in all 
 forms of gymnastics and athletics, Dr. Beach has 
 taught Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Theory of 
 Gymnastics, the Nature, Function and Administra- 
 tion of Play; Physical and Medical Diagnosis; 
 First Aid Administration and Military Hygiene and 
 Sanitation. 
 
 Dr. Beach is conceded to be an authority on 
 the Laws of Amateurism, is Chairman of the Regis- 
 
 DR. EVERETT C. BEACH 
 
 tration Committee of the Southern Pacific Associa- 
 tion of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United 
 States; is a member of the governing council of 
 the Physical Education Association of the Pacific 
 Coast, and has served on other prominent local, 
 State and national committees. 
 
 While at Stanford University, Dr. Beach was 
 prominent in athletics and other student body af- 
 fairs. Since coming to Southern California he has 
 been a conspicuous figure in the reorganization of 
 inter-scholastic athletics and 
 has done much to place 
 these activities on a sane 
 educational basis. 
 
 Since locating in Los An- 
 geles, in 1908, Dr. Beach has 
 been head of the department 
 of Physical Education in the 
 Los Angeles High Schools, 
 Director of Physical Educa- 
 tion, Los Angeles Elemen- 
 tary Schools, Examining Sur- 
 geon, Seventh Regiment, Na- 
 tional Guard of California, 
 with the rank of First Lieu- 
 tenant; Instructor in the 
 Department of Physical Edu- 
 cation, University of South- 
 ern California. Head of the 
 Department of Physical Edu- 
 cation, University of Califor- 
 nia Summer Sessions 1909-12, 
 and Director of Corrective 
 Development of the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club, Field 
 Lecturer for the Playgrounds 
 and Recreation Association of 
 America, and Lecturer in the 
 Department of Education, 
 University of California. 
 
 In each of these several capacities, Dr. Beach 
 labors tirelessly for the advancement of science 
 and his influence is shown by the high standard of 
 physical development and general health of the 
 students who come within his instruction. 
 
 The Doctor opened practice in 1909, and in addi- 
 tion to his professional work, has written on phys- 
 ical education and medical topics and is Editor of 
 the Pacific Coast Physician Editorial Bulletin. 
 
 Dr. Beach belongs to the following professional 
 organizations: The Los Angeles, Pacific Coast and 
 American Physical Education Associations; Amer- 
 ican School Hygiene Association, Los- Angeles 
 County and California State Medical Societies, and 
 the American Medical Association. 
 
 Aside from his strictly professional affiliations, 
 Dr. Beach holds membership in the University 
 Club, Stanford Club, Los Angeles City and Southern 
 California School Masters' Clubs, and the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club. He also belongs to the Phi 
 Phi Fraternity. 
 
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 E. W. FREEMAN 
 
 REEMAN, HONORABLE EDWIN 
 W., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Galesville, 
 Wisconsin, October 1, 1860. His 
 father was George Y. Freeman and 
 his mother Ann Hollinhead. He 
 married twice. His first wife was Maude Fauver, 
 of La Crosse, Wis., and his present wife was Car- 
 rie Stone, whom he married at Riverside, Cal., Aug. 
 19, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Freeman received a common schooling 
 which was followed by attendance at the university 
 in Galesville, Wisconsin. After securing a good 
 collegiate education, he studied law with his father, 
 Judge G. Y. Freeman, who had a large law practice 
 in Northwestern Wisconsin. 
 
 In the spring of 1887, having been admitted to 
 the bar, he came to Los Angeles, and for a time was 
 a clerk in the law office of the late Judge W. P. 
 Gardiner, but soon went to San Bernardino, Cali- 
 fornia, as clerk in the office of Judge H. C. Rolfe, 
 with whom he soon became associated as a partner. 
 He stayed in San Bernardino until May, 1892, when 
 he accepted the attorneyship for the South River- 
 side Land and Water Company, Citizens' Bank and 
 Temescal Water Company, and moved to South 
 Riverside, then to San Bernardino County, but now 
 the City of Corona, in Riverside County. 
 
 In 1893 the County of Riverside was formed from 
 portions of San Bernardino and San Diego Coun- 
 ties, and Mr. Freeman was elected to represent it 
 as its first Assemblyman in the Legislature of 1895. 
 In the spring of 1898 he accepted the presidency 
 of the Citizens' National Bank of Corona, and the 
 business greatly increased under his management, 
 but he found that the bank occupied so much time 
 it interfered with his law practice, and he resigned 
 for that reason. 
 
 In February, 1899, he moved to Los Angeles, 
 where he is now enjoying a large civil law practice. 
 
 A. H. WOOLLACOTT, JR. 
 
 OOLLACOTT, A. H., Stocks and 
 Bonds, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born July 22, 1884, at Los 
 Angeles, the son of H. J. Woolla- 
 cott and Mary D. Woollacott. 
 
 H. J. Woollacott, the father, 
 was for twenty years a stock broker and for many 
 years president of one of the larger trust and 
 banking companies of Los Angeles. He was emi- 
 nently successful and became known throughout the 
 United States. He was a broker on Wall Street 
 in New York at one time, and in Los Angeles be- 
 came active in real estate to the extent that he 
 was among the largest tax payers of the city for 
 years. 
 
 A. H. Woollacott, was educated in the schools 
 of Los Angeles, and when he was given the choice 
 of a course at the university or in practical busi- 
 ness experience, chose the latter. He went into 
 his father's offices, and learned the details of the 
 brokerage business. He took charge of his father's 
 business in 1907, and the firm is counted one of the 
 most substantial. With the development of Los 
 Angeles as the center of the oil industry of South- 
 ern California, and of the Nevada gold fields, the 
 business has greatly increased. He maintains a 
 private wire to San Francisco and deals exten- 
 sively in bonds. 
 
 Mr. Woollacott has inherited a large estate 
 from his father, and a large part of his time is 
 spent in looking after its administration. He has 
 became largely interested in Mexican copper. He 
 is a director of the Los Angeles Jalisco Mines 
 Company, secretary and treasurer of the Butte 
 Lode Mining Company, president of Mojave Min- 
 ing and Milling Company and secretary of the Cali- 
 fornia Warehouse Company. 
 
 He is a member of the South Coast Yacht Club, 
 the Jonathan Club and the Los Angeles Stock Ex- 
 change. 
 
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 M. G. COOPER 
 
 OOPER, MILTON G., Wholesale 
 Dry Goods, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Springdale, Ohio, Octo- 
 ber, 1873. His father was 
 Thomas Cooper and his mother 
 Sarah (Gilbert) Cooper. He 
 married Miss Hattie Cooper, in Kansas City, Mo., 
 June, 1895. To them was born one child, Stuart 
 Cooper. 
 
 Mr. Cooper attended the public schools of his 
 native city until he was fifteen years of age, when 
 his family removed to Missouri, and he went to 
 work for the Burnham, Hanna, Munger Dry 
 Goods Company, of Kansas City, one of the largest 
 firms of its kind in the United States. He re- 
 mained with the one house for more than fifteen 
 years. He began as a stock room boy, then be- 
 came stock clerk, and during his many years of 
 service occupied various other positions, until 
 finally he became one of its traveling salesmen, 
 with his territory embracing the Southwestern 
 states. 
 
 In 1895 he established headquarters in Los An- 
 geles, Cal., for the Burnham, Hanna, Munger Com- 
 pany, and for eleven years traveled out of that 
 city. He continued in this work up to the year 
 1906, when, with two other partners, he decided 
 to go into business for himself. The Cooper, Coate 
 & Casey Dry Goods Company was incorporated to 
 transact a wholesale dry goods business. Mr. 
 Cooper was elected president and general man- 
 ager of the firm, and has directed its destinies 
 since. The business was started on a compara- 
 tively small scale, but it has grown continuously 
 and at the present time is one of the largest whole- 
 sale houses on the Coast, with salesmen spread 
 over the entire Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Cooper is president of the L. A. Wholesale 
 Dry Goods Association, and is one of the leading 
 young business men of Los Angeles. 
 
 J. B. MORROW 
 
 O R R O W, JOHN BENJAMIN, 
 Motor Vehicles, Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born at Gibraltar, 
 Michigan, June 10, 1865, the son 
 of George Morrow and Mary (Al- 
 ford) Morrow. He married Maize 
 F. Gotshall, at Miles, Iowa, November 6, 1889, and 
 there are three children, Helen M., George A., and 
 Benjamin S. Morrow. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools of Tren- 
 ton, Michigan, and graduated in 1882. He went to 
 work for the Canada Southern Railroad, and until 
 1888 was in their shops, drove an engine, and was 
 train dispatcher. Then he became a commercial 
 telegraph operator, worked in many cities, and in 
 1892 was employed by Edward L. Brewster & Co., 
 stock brokers, of Chicago. In 1894, W. H. and J. H. 
 Moore, capitalists, who controlled the Diamond 
 Match Co., New York Biscuit Co., and Rock Island 
 Railroad, employed him in a confidential capacity. 
 He left them to join the Chicago Board of Trade. 
 He identified himself with Schwartz, Dupee & Co., 
 among the largest stock and grain brokers in the 
 world, with J. F. Harris & Co., and in 1904, when 
 the firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. was formed he 
 became a partner, handling the Chicago and West- 
 ern end of their business. In 1907, when the firm 
 dissolved, he associated himself with John H. 
 Wrenn & Co., of Chicago, and after a year with J. J. 
 Townsend & Co., brokers, in 1910, he moved to Los 
 Angeles. There he formed the firm of Morrow, 
 Loomis & Co., and has become one of the largest 
 handlers of automobiles on the Coast. He is a di- 
 rector of the firm of Wagner & Co., Chicago, and 
 other eastern corporations. 
 
 He is a member of the South Shore Country 
 Club, Exmore Golf Club, Germania Club, Chicago 
 Yacht Club and Chicago Athletic Club, of Chicago, 
 and the Delavan Yacht Club of Delavan, Wis- 
 consin. 
 
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 J. B. CORYELL 
 
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 433 
 
 ORYELL, JOSEPH BELLEAU, 
 Capitalist, San Francisco, Cal., 
 was born in that city June 4, 1871. 
 He is the son of Dr. John R. Cory- 
 ell, a noted physician, and Zoe ( 
 Christine (Belleau) Coryell, and on 
 both his maternal and paternal sides his descent is 
 from forebears who distinguished themselves in the 
 Old South. The Coryells were among those old 
 families which formed the aristocracy and whose 
 members have been celebrated in song and story 
 for their courtliness and gentle breeding. His an- 
 cestry dates back to the earliest days of the Ameri- 
 can colonies, and his people were among the inti- 
 mate members of General George Washington's 
 circle of friends. George Coryell, his great uncle, 
 was one of the pallbearers who carried the body of 
 the first President to the grave. Another branch 
 of Mr. Coryell's family was the Frelinghuysens, of 
 New Jersey, one of whom, Hon. F. T. Frelinghuy- 
 sen, was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Presi- 
 dent Arthur, from 1881 to 1885. 
 
 Mr. Coryell was married in San Francisco, April 
 18, 1900, to Miss Mabel Lloyd Jessup. They have 
 three children, Royal, Gordon, and Sibyl Coryell. 
 
 He attended St. Ignatius College, in San Fran- 
 cisco, from 1881 to 1884, inclusive, and upon com- 
 pletion of his studies there took a course in the 
 classics and mathematics at Santa Clara College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1887. While this 
 preparation was not especially well adapted to the 
 busine&s career Mr. Coryell had decided upon for 
 himself, it evidently nourished the germ of the 
 large ideas which he subsequently developed and 
 aided him in the attainment of the success tnat 
 has come to him in business life. 
 
 Less- than a year after his graduation from 
 Santa Clara, Mr. Coryell opened a small office in 
 San Francisco for the conduct of a real estate 
 business, at that time (1888) a promising field of 
 endeavor. By dint of much vigilance and activity 
 on his part this business grew apace and ultimately 
 led him, by an evolution that seemed logical at the 
 time, into mining and other forms of investment. 
 But he devoted himself, for the most part, to the 
 acquisition of well-situated land, and today is said 
 to own more spur-track property than any other 
 landholder in the entire city of San Francisco. 
 
 The promise that Mr. Coryell saw lurking in 
 those districts at that early day has been largely 
 realized by the extension of the Sixteenth Street 
 and Santa Fe lines. In the twenty-odd years that 
 have passed since he made those investments, Mr. 
 Coryell's activities have expanded into a variety of 
 fields, including many more mines, stocks, bonds, 
 additional real estate and other lucrative holdings. 
 
 More recently Mr. Coryell acquired a large tract 
 of land on Islais Creek, a channel adjoining the 
 new harbor area of San Francisco. This latter is 
 now (1913) in process of condemnation by the 
 State of California under authority of what is 
 
 known as the Indian Basin Act and will be the 
 principal part of the Bay City's gigantic harbor 
 improvement plans. Mr. Coryell's holdings in this 
 district are the largest of any individual land- 
 owner and it is his plan to develop them as fast as 
 the public improvements are made. 
 
 Mr. Coryell has many other interests aside from 
 those mentioned and at one time was in close alli- 
 ance with the enterprises of the late E. H. Harri- 
 man and still is interested in Harriman affairs. He 
 was at one time offered the Presidency of a rail- 
 road company, but declined it, preferring to devote 
 himself to his private investments. 
 
 Mr. Coryell is especially interested in the devel- 
 opment of openings for capital, both domestic and 
 foreign, and in this way has acquired possessions 
 in various lines outside of the State of California. 
 Necessarily, Mr. Coryell has been instrumental, in 
 a large measure, in the development of the State's 
 resources, and has figured in numerous deals which 
 have provided new industries for it. 
 
 All of this applied energy in the upbuilding of 
 the country and the exploitation of its wonderful 
 opportunities for investors has, of course, tended 
 to reconcile Mr. Coryell to his early resistance of 
 a temptation, inherited from his father, to verse 
 himself in the laws of medicine and take up the 
 work in which his father was a distinguished figure. 
 
 He has been a loyal son of San Francisco and 
 while not active in political or public affairs gen- 
 erally, has done his share towards the advance- 
 ment of the city's interests. He was an active 
 and powerful force in the upbuilding of the city 
 for many years prior to the disaster which ruined 
 San Francisco in April, 1906, and was among the 
 leaders when it came to rebuilding and rejuvenat- 
 ing the city in the trying days which followed. In 
 this connection he has been an enthusiastic 
 worker in behalf of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
 which will celebrate in 1915 the opening of the 
 Panama Canal and also serve to demonstrate to 
 the world at large the greatness of the city, which, 
 through the efforts of her citizens, has, in the 
 space of a few short years, risen from ashes to a 
 position among the great municipalities of the 
 country. 
 
 Mr. Coryell has a beautiful home in Menlo Park, 
 San Mateo County, California, and there finds a 
 great deal of enjoyment in orchid culture; his 
 orchid beds, which are among the most extensive 
 owned by any individual in the United States, em- 
 brace fourteen hothouses. In one of these hothouses 
 alone Mr. Coryell has one hundred and twenty-five 
 varieties and his blooms have won fame for their 
 grower and San Mateo County. 
 
 From his home life he spares a little time to 
 his clubs, among which are the Pacific Union, the 
 Burlingame, the Menlo Country Club, McCloud 
 Country Club, and the Country Club of Marin 
 County. He is also a life member of the California 
 Society of Pioneers. 
 
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 OTTER, COL. DELBERT MAX- 
 WELL, Mining, Clifton, Arizona, 
 was born in Canton, Ohio, De- 
 cember 25, 1863, the son of H. 
 Bentley Potter and Arminda C. 
 (Carter) Potter. He married Lizzie 
 S. Dorsey at Paola, Kansas, October 31, 1882, and 
 to them there have been born four children, Olive 
 May, Delbert Dorsey, Lloyd Vernon and Raymond 
 Maxwell Potter. He is of old American ancestry, 
 Potter County in Pennsyl- 
 vania having been named in 
 honor of that branch of the 
 family from which he is di- 
 rectly descended. 
 
 Colonel Potter, who is one 
 of the survivors of the fron- 
 tier days in the Southwest, 
 received his early education 
 in the public schools of his 
 native town, and later spent 
 two years in high school at 
 Muscatine, Iowa, but left his 
 studies at the age of eighteen 
 and went further west to 
 seek his fortune in mining. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Arizona 
 in 1881, he began prospecting 
 with Hank Dorsey, an ex- 
 perienced mining man and 
 the discoverer of the Green- 
 lee camp in the Clifton- 
 Morenci district. They located 
 their first claims in the noted 
 Telegraph mining district of 
 Grant County, New Mexico, 
 and in the fall of the same 
 year located several mines at 
 Dos Cabasas, Arizona. They 
 
 began shipping ore from their properties in 1882, 
 but in doing so had to overcome tremendous 
 obstacles. 
 
 From the outset of his career as a miner Colonel 
 Potter was more or less successful, and while he 
 underwent hardships and experienced the heart- 
 breaking disappointments that go with the life of 
 a prospector, he finally achieved succe&s and has 
 since been actively engaged in large mining enter- 
 prises. In 1885 he located mines in the Greenlee 
 Gold Mountain mining district, and has been the 
 owner and operator of various other mining prop- 
 erties in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico con- 
 tinuously during the last thirty years. 
 
 While he was engaged in mining practically all 
 the time, Colonel Potter also rendered valuable 
 services to the Government in the suppression of 
 Indian uprisings. From the earliest days of his 
 arrival in the Southwest until peaceful conditions 
 were brought about, Colonel Potter acted on 
 various occasions as guide and scout, notifying 
 settlers of danger and warning the United States 
 
 COL. DELL M. POTTER 
 
 troops of the whereabouts of the Indians. During 
 the last outbreak of the Apaches, led by the 
 fiercest of all war chiefs, Geronimo, Colonel Potter 
 acted as guide and scout for Troop H, of the 
 Eighth Cavalry, and distinguished himself for 
 bravery during that campaign. He trailed the band 
 of Indians who ambushed the soldiers on Dry 
 Creek, and was only a few hours behind the red- 
 s-kins when the battle took place there, in which 
 several soldiers were killed. 
 
 Later on Colonel Potter 
 was appointed Deputy United 
 States Marshal for the South- 
 ern District of New Mexico, 
 under Marshal Romero, and 
 also served as Chief Deputy 
 Sheriff under Sheriff White- 
 hill, one of the historic 
 figures during the exciting 
 days of the Southwest. 
 
 During all this time, how- 
 ever, Colonel Potter was en- 
 gaged in the development of 
 mining properties as fast as 
 he could procure the funds, 
 and has kept up his activities 
 in mining ever since, having 
 patented more than forty 
 mines. An interesting fact 
 in connection with Colonel 
 Potter's work as a pros- 
 pector concerns the site of 
 his present homestead on 
 the San Francisco river, in 
 the hills to the north of 
 Clifton, Arizona. It is one 
 of the most beautiful homes 
 in the Southwest, built from 
 plans originated by Colonel 
 
 Potter, and provides an air of civilization for an 
 otherwise wild and uninviting stretch of country. 
 Colonel Potter, in his business ventures, has 
 not only been very successful personally, but also 
 has contributed largely to the development of the 
 reources of Arizona. He was first attracted to the 
 Clifton mining district about 1885, and, as noted 
 before, located a number of mining properties, 
 including gold, silver and copper, and most of 
 these he owns at this time (1913). He is a stock- 
 holder in various companies, but his chief mining 
 connection, perhaps, is the Sierra de Oro Gold 
 Mining & Milling Company of Arizona, Limited, 
 which he organized and in which he serves as 
 General Manager and Director. 
 
 One of his most valuable contributions to mining 
 advancement was the building of the Clifton 
 Northern Railroad, a narrow-gauge line extending 
 from the smelter plant of the Shannon Copper 
 Company at Clifton, through the town of Clifton 
 to the Eastern part of the Clifton-Morenci mining 
 district. He sold control of this railroad, but still 
 
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 retains- an interest and is one of its Directors. 
 
 The most recent enterprise of Colonel Potter is 
 the Arizona Power & Water Company, one of the 
 largest irrigation projects undertaken in recent 
 years in Arizona. It is the Colonel's plan to 
 develop through this company's plant twelve thou- 
 sand horse power and hold sufficient water in 
 storage to irrigate the entire Gila Valley. 
 
 Although this company was capitalized at five 
 million dollars, Colonel Potter carried the entire 
 preliminary expense and did not offer a single share 
 of stock for sale until the work had been success- 
 fully launched. He has made it a principle of his 
 life not to invite others to risk their capital in any 
 of his enterprises until he has satisfied himself that 
 the matter in hand would justify his own invest- 
 ment. In this he has earned the confidence of the 
 people and is regarded as- one of the most sub- 
 stantial business men in the State of Arizona. 
 
 Aside from the mining and other projects men- 
 tioned Colonel Potter is heavily interested in cattle 
 and is one of the large shippers of Arizona. 
 
 Colonel Potter early realized the necessity of 
 good roads in the promotion of prosperity in the 
 land and the upbuilding of the nation, particularly 
 the Southwestern section, and has for many years 
 been a consistent and persistent advocate of such 
 improvements. About 1906, after several years of 
 labor for local good roads in Arizona, he inaugu- 
 rated a movement for an organization, national in 
 character, whose object should be the co-opera- 
 tion of the various States of the Union in securing 
 Federal aid in the building of National highways. 
 In public addresses and in writings Colonel Potter 
 kept up a continual campaign, and his efforts were 
 finally rewarded, in 1911, by the formation of the 
 Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association, which has in 
 charge the plans for a highway which shall start at 
 the Atlantic and cross the continent in a southwest- 
 erly direction to the Pacific Coast. 
 
 This association was launched at a convention 
 of good roads enthusiasts from all parts of the 
 country, held at Phoenix, Arizona, in December, 
 1911, and the following year an allied body, known 
 as the Old Trails Association, was formed at a 
 meeting held at Kansas City, Mo. The first named 
 organization comprises the Southwestern States, 
 principally; the second, the Central States, and 
 still a third embraces the Southern States. 
 
 It is the plan of Colonel Potter, the recognized 
 projector of the national movement, to have all 
 the States embraced in these various affiliated 
 bodies combine to influence Congress to ratify the 
 movement and vote Federal funds- to defray half the 
 expense, the individual States paying the other half. 
 
 When Colonel Potter first took up the advocacy 
 of good roads he was almost alone, but his propa- 
 ganda gained new recruits as the years wore on, 
 with the result that it is one of the most important 
 topics in Arizona, and he is given credit for having 
 aroused this great enthusiasm. 
 
 Since the organization of the several associations 
 mentioned various meetings of importance have 
 been held by them, and in all of their deliberations 
 Colonel Potter has been an active and enthusiastic 
 participant. He is Vice President for Arizona of 
 the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association, a mem- 
 ber of the Executive Committee of the Old Trails 
 Association and has been an indefatigable worker 
 for the raising of funds necessary to the inaugura- 
 tion of the work. 
 
 Colonel Potter, by telegram and letter, and 
 personally, worked incessantly for the inclusion in 
 their platforms, by both the leading political 
 parties, of a readable plank declaring for Federal 
 aid for highway construction. He made his cam- 
 paign on unbiased, non-political lines, appealing 
 to the leaders of both the Republican and Demo- 
 cratic parties, but claims none of the credit 
 attaching to the actual framing of the provision 
 which Woodrow Wilson looked upon as one of the 
 causes contributing to the success of the Demo- 
 cratic ticket at the polls in 1912. Mr. Wilson, 
 following his election to the Presidency, wrote 
 Colonel Potter a personal letter of appreciation 
 for his work in this respect. 
 
 The beginning of work for the great highway has 
 been delayed owing to a difference of opinion 
 among the leaders of the movement as to the route 
 to be traversed, Colonel Potter standing for the 
 route which he considered would be for the best 
 interests of the country in general. This line fol- 
 lows the old National Pike, Boon's Lick Road, and 
 the Santa Fe Trail, thence across New Mexico and 
 Arizona to Southern California, with the terminus 
 at Los Angeles. It is generally believed that this 
 route will be the one decided upon by Congress. 
 
 In addition to his activities in business and good 
 roads movements, Colonel Potter has for many 
 years been a leader in the affairs of the Repub- 
 lican party in Arizona, and although he has never 
 been an aspirant for public office, has served the 
 party in various official capacities. 
 
 Because of his prominence in public affairs and 
 his record for military service, he was appointed 
 Paymaster General of the National Guard of 
 Arizona, with the rank of Colonel, serving on the 
 staff of Governor Richard E. Sloan. 
 
 Colonel Potter is generally recognized as one 
 of the men who have made possible the advance- 
 ment of Arizona's interests, and is one of the 
 popular men of the State, and a strong advocate of 
 higher education. He has given his own children 
 splendid educational advantages, his son being a 
 graduate of a military school in New Mexico and 
 the University of Arizona, while his daughter was 
 graduated from one of the leading private schools 
 of Los Angeles, Cal. He is noted for his hospitality 
 and his home near Clifton is the scene of many 
 notable gatherings each year. 
 
 Colonel Potter is- a member of the B. P. O. Elks, 
 Woodmen of the World, and other orders. 
 
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 'DOWELL, ELMER ROOT, At- 
 torney at Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Freeport, Il- 
 linois, July 26, 1869, the son of 
 Elmer Root McDowell and Caro- 
 line Elizabeth (Baker) McDowell. 
 Mr. McDowell, who is one of the versatile men 
 in the legal profession, attended the public schools 
 of Illinois and other institutions. In his youth he 
 served as a page in the Illinois State Senate for 
 three sessions, during the 
 years 1881, 1883 and 1885. 
 When not so engaged Mr. 
 McDowell attended school or 
 college. After giving up his 
 position in the Senate he be- 
 came a messenger for P. D. 
 Armour & Co., packers, of 
 Chicago. He remained with 
 them for a few months only, 
 next becoming a clerk for 
 N. C. Frederickson & Co., 
 western land dealers, whose 
 headquarters were in Chi- 
 cago. He was with the firm 
 until 1889, when he was com- 
 pelled, on account of im- 
 paired health, to resign. 
 
 For a year Mr. McDowell 
 was unable to work and when 
 he had recovered his strength 
 sufficiently he took up the 
 study of dentistry. 
 
 He entered the College of 
 Dentistry of the Lake Forest 
 University, Chicago. He was 
 associated as Assistant with 
 Dr. J. W. Whipple after grad- 
 uating and later served in the 
 same capacity with his 
 brother, Dr. F. H. B. 
 McDowell. Ill health again 
 forced him to give up busi- 
 ness for a time and when he 
 was able to work again he 
 
 entered the employ of the United States Govern- 
 ment as clerk in the United States Appraiser's 
 warehouse at Chicago. He held this for about six 
 months and then was promoted through Civil Ser- 
 vice to the position of United States Customs 
 Clerk and Storekeeper of the Appraiser's store, 
 serving under John M. Clark, Collector of the Port 
 of Chicago and General R. N. Pearson, United 
 States Appraiser at the same nort. He WPP com- 
 pelled to resign this position October 31, 1893, on 
 account of a recurrence of ill health. 
 
 Mr. McDowell immediately started to California 
 in search of health and located in Los Angeles. 
 For the first two years afterward he worked as a 
 bookkeeper and then accepted a position with the 
 mercantile firm of T. F. Miller & Co., at Jerome, 
 Arizona. He held that position for about a year 
 and then was placed in charge of the sawmill and 
 brick making plant of the United Verde Copper Co. 
 After six months in this place he was appointed 
 to a clerkship in the general offices of the United 
 Verde & Pacific Railway and within a short time 
 was advanced to Chief Clerk and Assistant Auditor 
 of the Company. 
 
 While in Jerome Mr. McDowell took an active 
 Interest in the affairs of the town and in 1898 was 
 made Town Clerk, Treasurer, Tax Collector and 
 
 Assessor. He held these offices for about two 
 years and resigned in June, 1900, to travel. He 
 visited his old home in Illinois, then toured Wis- 
 consin, Iowa, North Dakota and other states, re- 
 turning to Arizona in December of the same year. 
 He located in Phoenix and at once became As- 
 sistant Secretary of the Carnival and Street Fair 
 there. 
 
 Mr. McDowell's stay in Phoenix was brief, for 
 in April, 1901, he moved to Prescott, Arizona. He 
 was in the office of the Tax 
 Assessor there for three 
 months and then engaged in 
 mining in the McCabe mining 
 district. Following this Mr. 
 McDowell organized the min- 
 ing brokerage firm of Mc- 
 Dowell, Biles & Monette and 
 also the Federal Investment 
 Building & Loan Association, 
 of which he was Vice Presi- 
 dent. He operated in Pres- 
 cott for about two years and 
 then moved to Los Angeles, 
 where he made headquarters. 
 He continued his brokerage 
 business there, operating 
 mines in Arizona and Cala- 
 veras County, California. 
 
 In September, 1904, how- 
 ever, Mr. McDowell deter- 
 mined to make law his pro- 
 fession, so sold out his min- 
 ing interests and enrolled as 
 a student in the University of 
 Southern California College 
 of Law. He was graduated 
 with the degree of LL. B. in 
 1906 and later took a post 
 graduate course, being 
 awarded the degree of Master 
 of Laws June 17, 1909. 
 
 Immediately following his 
 admission to the Bar Mr. Mc- 
 Dowell opened offices with 
 
 Charles E. Haas, but the partnership was dissolved 
 a few months later when Mr. Haas accepted ap- 
 pointment as Deputy City Attorney of Los Angeles. 
 Mr. McDowell has continued his practice since 
 then, being associated at various times with some 
 of the leading members of the Los Angeles Bar. 
 These included Arthur L. Veitch, now Deputy Dis- 
 trict Attorney of Los Angeles County; Kemper B. 
 Campbell and William Hazlett. Since the last of 
 those associations were dissolved he has been asso- 
 ciated with E. Earl Crandall. 
 
 In addition to his activities in the legal profes- 
 sion Mr. McDowell has other interests, public and 
 private, which make call upon his time. He is 
 President of the Los Angeles Humane Society for 
 Children and Vice President of the State Humane 
 Society, Director of the Sharon Farms Company, 
 member of the Advisory Board of the Pyramid In- 
 vestment Company and a Director of the New 
 Method Co-operative Laundry Company of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. McDowell is a Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk and 
 Knight of Pythias. He is a member of Union 
 League Club, the Los Angeles University Club, the 
 Gamut Club ,the Celtic Club, the City Club, and the 
 Metronolitan Club, of which latter he is President 
 and Director. 
 
 MCDOWELL 
 
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 OBINSON, FRANK N BALL. Physi- 
 cian, Monrovia, California, was 
 born in Camden, New Jersey, May 
 30, 1874, the son of Heber Chase 
 Robinson and Martha Neely (Tay- 
 lor) Robinson. He married Mary 
 Beatrice Martin, of Trenton, New Jersey, at Azusa, 
 California, June 14, 1909. Dr. Robinson is descended 
 from an old American family, his maternal great- 
 grandfather having been Captain of the First Foot 
 Infantry of Philadelphia, 
 which saw service with "Mad 
 Anthony" Wayne at the his- 
 toric battle of Brandywine. 
 
 Dr. Robinson attended the 
 public schools of Camden un- 
 til 1885, then entered the 
 Friends' School of that city. 
 In 1887 he became a student 
 at the Friends' Central School 
 in Philadelphia, and upon 
 the completion of his course 
 in 1890, took a preparatory 
 medical course at the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, Phil- 
 adelphia. In 1891, he en- 
 rolled in the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University and 
 was graduated in the class 
 of 1895 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine, with 
 honorable mention for his- 
 Thesis. 
 
 Following his graduation, 
 Dr. Robinson served for a 
 brief period as Assistant in 
 the Genito-Urinary Depart- 
 ment of the University of 
 Pennsylvania Hospital and 
 
 left that to become Assistant to Professor McClure 
 in the Wills Eye Hospital of Philadelphia. He 
 remained in that capacity for a year and then be- 
 came Assistant to Professor Gibbs, throat and ear 
 specialist, serving for a year. During the years 
 1896, 1897 and 1898, Doctor Robin&on held the post 
 of Chief Surgeon of the Nose and Throat Depart- 
 ment of the Camden City Dispensary, and in 1899, 
 was elected Coroner of Camden County, New Jersey. 
 Dr. Robinson held the office of Coroner until 
 1902, at which time he was elected a member of 
 the Camden City Council and he served his section 
 of the city for about five years giving up his office 
 in 1907 when he moved to California. 
 
 For two years after his location in Southern 
 California, Dr. Robinson was the Assistant Medical 
 Director of the Pottenger Sanitarium, and in this 
 capacity, made a place for himself among the lead- 
 ing physicians of the Southwest. For several 
 years prior to his removal from New Jersey, 
 he had been among those scientists who de- 
 voted a great deal of time to the study of tubercu- 
 
 losis and, during the years 1906 and 1907, served as 
 Vice President of the New Jersey Society for the 
 Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis. 
 
 Upon leaving the Sanitarium in 1909, Dr. Rob- 
 inson established private practice in Monrovia and 
 since that time has specialized in the treatment 
 of tuberculosis and gastro-intestinal diseases, in 
 both of which branches he is considered an 
 authority. 
 
 Aside from his professional work, Dr. Rob- 
 inson is a deep student and 
 a persistent seeker for 
 knowledge. In 1899, four 
 years after he had begun his 
 professional career, he went 
 to Europe for post-graduate 
 work, studying for a time 
 under Nothnagle, von Neus- 
 ser, Politzer and Wieder- 
 hofer in Vienna. Later he 
 studied at the Pasteur Insti- 
 tute in Paris, and in 1903, 
 again returned to Europe. 
 On this visit he studied with 
 Franz Winkle, of Munich, ex- 
 pert in ob&tetrics, and during 
 the same year spent some 
 time in hospitals of Berlin 
 in the study of internal medi- 
 cine. 
 
 Devoted to his work, Dr. 
 Robinson has been a prolific 
 writer on medical topics and 
 has been a liberal contribu- 
 tor to the scientific journals. 
 His writings have dealt prin- 
 cipally with tuberculosis- and 
 
 FRANK NEALL ROBINSON, M. D. have been given publication 
 
 in the Monthly Cyclopedia 
 
 and Medical Bulletin, Medical Review, of St. Louis, 
 Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, of New York, and 
 the Southern California Practitioner, the organ of 
 the Southern California Medical Society. 
 
 In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Robin- 
 son has taken an active interest in the development 
 of the resources of California, and in the promo- 
 tion of his adopted town, Monrovia. 
 
 His outside interests include various corpora- 
 tions, in which he is represented as stockholder 
 or officer, devoted to the development of real 
 estate or oil. Among others he is Director of the 
 Midway Basin Oil Company. 
 
 Dr. Robinson's professional affiliations include 
 honorary membership in the Philadelphia Medical 
 Society, Camden County and City Medical Societies, 
 and membership in the Los Angeles County Medical 
 Society and the Medical Society of the State of 
 California. He also is ex-President of the Foothill 
 Medical Society. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club, Los An- 
 geles, and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. 
 
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 439 
 
 RUMMOND, HARRISON IRWIN, 
 Banker, Pasadena, California, and 
 St. Louis, Missouri, was born in 
 Alton, Illinois, December 14, 1869, 
 the son of James T. Drummond 
 and Bethia (Randle) Drummond 
 He married Mary W. Prickett at St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, November 22, 1892, and to them were born 
 twin children, Harrison and Georgianna Drummond. 
 Mr. Drummond is descended from an illustrious 
 Southern family, its original locale in Virginia, 
 where for generations the plantation was the scene 
 af those beautiful hospitalities which were charac- 
 teristic of the old South. 
 
 Mr. Drummond in 1906 transferred his home to 
 Southern California, where he has taken his place 
 among the substantial business and social leaders 
 of that section. He spent the greater part of his 
 life in the middle West. Born to riches, he had 
 the advantage of culture and a splendid education, 
 but withal, has the democratic distinction of hav- 
 ing won his own way in the business world. He 
 received the primary part of his education in the 
 German Lutheran School at Alton, later attending 
 Wyman Institute at Upper Alton, Illinois. From 
 there he went to the Episcopal Academy of Con- 
 necticut, situated at Cheshire, that State, and 
 there prepared for his university course. He was 
 graduated from the academy in 1887, and the fol- 
 lowing year became a student in Sheffield Scien- 
 tific School (Yale University), from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1890, after having studied 
 there two years. 
 
 For generations the Drummonds had been to- 
 bacco raisers and at the time of Mr. Drummond's 
 graduation his father's company was conducting 
 one of the greatest tobacco industries in the world. 
 In his youth he had learned much about the busi- 
 ness of his ancestors, but it was the desire of his 
 father, the controlling spirit in the Drummond To- 
 bacco Company, that the son should ultimately suc- 
 ceed to the management of this great enterprise, 
 and so started him in at the bottom to learn the 
 business in its every department. 
 
 Beginning in one of the smallest positions in 
 the factory, he worked through the various grades 
 and at the end of two years was appointed Assis- 
 tant Superintendent of the plant in St. Louis. In 
 this position his responsibilities were largely in- 
 creased and he discharged his duties with the same 
 conscientiousness and zeal he would have displayed 
 had he not been the owner's son. In due time he 
 was promoted to the position of Superintendent 
 of the company and held this position for approxi- 
 mately six years. During this period he had full 
 charge of the manufacturing branch of the busi- 
 ness and carried a large part of the very great re- 
 sponsibility of management. 
 
 Having qualified as a practical tobacco manu- 
 facturer, Mr. Drummond was elected by the board 
 
 of directors to the Presidency of the Drummond 
 Tobacco Company, succeeding his father, who was 
 called by death about this time. From that time 
 forward Mr. Drummond was one of the leading 
 figures in the tobacco industry in the United States. 
 He retained the office of President until his com- 
 pany, like many others, was taken in as part of 
 the Continental Tobacco Company, thus forming 
 one of the most gigantic business enterprises in 
 the world. The new corporation was capitalized 
 at one hundred million dollars, of which Mr. Drum- 
 mond held a large part, and he, being recognized 
 as one of the great tobacco experts of the world 
 at the time, was elected First Vice President and 
 Director of the Continental Company, also holding 
 a place on the Board of Directors of the American 
 Tobacco Company, the parent organization. 
 
 His new offices necessitated the removal of Mr. 
 Drummond from St. Louis to New York, and dur- 
 ing the next two years he was one of the chief 
 factors, with James V. Duke, in the direction of 
 the combine's affairs. In 1901, however, his con- 
 tracts with the tobacco companies expired and he 
 resigned his offices, determined to retire from the 
 business for all time. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with the Ameri- 
 can Tobacco Company Mr. Drummond returned to 
 St. Louis, where he still retained large interests, 
 principally banking, and determined upon devoting 
 himself to their direction. In 1894, when he was 
 still a young man, he had been elected Director of 
 the Merchants-Laclede National Bank of St. Louis, 
 and five years later became a director and member 
 of the executive board of the Mississippi Valley 
 Trust Company of the same city. He applied him- 
 self almost exclusively to the banking business 
 for the first few years after his return to St. Louis, 
 but also took an active interest in the public af- 
 fairs of the city. When the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition was organized he was chosen as one 
 of the directors of the enterprise and proved one 
 of the most active factors ' in the success of the 
 World's Fair, held at St. Louis in 1904. Besides 
 serving as one of the executive board, he also was 
 Chairman of the Committee on Police and a member 
 of the Committee on Concessions. These were two 
 of the most important sections of the great under- 
 taking and his responsibilities were such that he 
 devoted most of his time to them, with the result 
 that at the close of the exposition he was declared 
 one of the factors to whom the success of it was 
 very largely due. 
 
 For the next two years following the close of 
 the exposition Mr. Drummond confined himself to 
 his banking interests and a few movements ol a 
 civic nature, but in 1906 resigned his offices in the 
 banks and most of his other corporations and de- 
 cided to transfer his home to California. It was 
 his original intention to locate in Santa Barbara, 
 but on his way there he halted for a brief visit 
 
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 at Pasadena and was so impressed with the beau- 
 ties of the Crown City that he decided to remain 
 there permanently. He purchased a beautiful home 
 within a short time after his arrival and for the 
 first few years spent his time in travel and recre- 
 ation, not engaging actively in any business. In 
 the early part of 1912, however, he took part in 
 the formation of the Security National Bank of 
 Pasadena, now one of the important financial or- 
 ganizations of the city. 
 
 Ernest H. May, one of the best known finan- 
 ciers in the West, is President of the bank, which 
 has $100,000 capital and a splendid building, while 
 Mr. Drummond is Vice President and Director. As 
 in his previous banking ventures, Mr. Drummond 
 has given to this all of his time and energy, and, 
 with Mr. May, has placed the bank among the 
 most substantial financial institutions in Southern 
 California. 
 
 Mr. Drummond is- a prominent figure in the 
 affairs of the Pasadena Rose Tournament Associa- 
 tion, under the auspices of which the Crown City's 
 annual floral carnival is held, and had the distinc- 
 tion, in 1913, of being chosen first "King of Ar- 
 cady," the highest honor of the celebration. The 
 choice of Mr. Drummond for this honor was a 
 s-plendid tribute to his personal popularity, owing 
 to the fact that it was the first time a "King" had 
 been named to rule over the carnival since the 
 origin of the fete, nearly a quarter of a century 
 before. 
 
 In the work of the Rose Tournament Associa- 
 tion, Mr. Drummond has been one of its most en- 
 thusiastic members. This carnival, which began 
 in a small way in 1889, is unique among public 
 celebrations- of the world in that it is held on New 
 Year's Day and only natural flowers are used in 
 the decorations. The sight of thousands of fresh 
 blooms when most other parts of the country are 
 buried in snow, and fresh flowers are a luxury, 
 serves- to draw thousands of tourists to Pasadena 
 each New Year's Day, and in 1913 the visitors to 
 the city were estimated at 200,000 in number. 
 
 Realizing that the Rose Tournament is one of 
 the city's greatest assets, the progressive business 
 men of Pasadena, of whom Mr. Drummond is one, 
 spare neither time nor money in preparing for the 
 event. They are among the most practical workers 
 for the advancement of the city's interests. 
 
 The Drummonds have taken their place among 
 the leaders of the exclusive society for which Pas- 
 adena is noted, their affairs during the Winter 
 season being among the most notable given there. 
 In years past Mr. Drummond was a prominent 
 figure in the social life of St. Louis and the East- 
 ern resorts and was celebrated as a yachtsman. 
 He spent part of each year at Bar Harbor, occupy- 
 ing the Steepways or some other fashionable cot- 
 tage, and also indulged himself in his favorite 
 recreation, his big steam yacht, "White Heather," 
 being one of the most magnificent private vessels 
 
 on the Atlantic coast. Mr. Drummond has taken 
 many notable voyages in the "White Heather," 
 cruising to many parts of the world. 
 
 While in the East Mr. Drummond belonged to 
 a number of fashionable clubs and was an enthui- 
 astic amateur golfer. This sport he still indulges 
 in in various parts of the country, holding member- 
 ships in several of the most noted country clubs of 
 the United States. 
 
 Born of ancestry famous for its hospitality, Mr. 
 Drummond has always been a splendid host, and 
 during his visits to the family home in Alton, 
 Illinois, entertains on a lavish scale. 
 
 Although he makes his home for the greater 
 part of the year in Pasadena, Mr. Drummond still 
 directs the Drummond family interests in St. Louis, 
 as President of the Drummond Realty & Trust 
 Company, through which he manages the large es- 
 tate left by his father. 
 
 Another enterprise in which Mr. Drummond is 
 interested is the Western Hardwood Company, a 
 California institution, of which he is a director. 
 
 Mr. Drummond is a Democrat in his political 
 affiliations and during his residence in St. Louis 
 was an important figure in the party's affairs. He 
 received the Democratic nomination for Congress 
 in the Eleventh district of St. Louis in 1896, but, 
 although he was quite a young man to receive such 
 an honor, he declined it. Later he was chosen a 
 member of the staff of Governor Lon V. Stephens 
 of Missouri, and served for four years as Quarter- 
 master General. He was also appointed by Gover- 
 nor Stephens to the office of Police Commissioner 
 of St. Louis, but resigned it after serving a few 
 months, his private affairs compelling him to re- 
 linquish the post. Mr. Drummoud still is an en- 
 thusiastic supporter of the Democratic party, but 
 has taken no active part in politics since his re- 
 moval to California. 
 
 Endowed with an unusual amount of energy, 
 Mr. Drummond has been a worker and has done his 
 share to develop the industries and resources of 
 the country, and even though he determined to 
 retire from active business life the interests re- 
 tained by him were such as to keep him in touch 
 with various important enterprises. Also he has 
 applied himself to various movements for the bet- 
 terment of civic conditions in Pasadena and is gen- 
 erally regarded as one of the enthusiastic citizens 
 of the Southern California social capital. 
 
 Mr. Drummond is a member of clubs in various 
 parts of the United States, his memberships in- 
 cluding the Pasadena Country Club, Midwick Coun- 
 try Club of the same place, the University Club 
 of New York, the St. Louis Club and the Mount 
 Deseret Country Club of Bar Harbor, being a life 
 member of the latter two. He also belongs to the 
 New York Yacht Club and the Larchmont Yacht 
 Club, and formerly was a member of the Ardsley 
 Club, one of the fashionable organizations near 
 Dobbs' Ferry, on the Hudson. 
 
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 441 
 
 USTIN, JOHN CORNELEY 
 WILSON, Architect, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Bodicote, near Banbury, Ox 
 
 fordshire, England, February 
 
 13, 1870. He is the son of Richard Wilson 
 Austin and Jane Elizabeth Austin of Eng- 
 land. He has been married twice, the second 
 'marriage being in 1902, when he was wedded 
 to Hilda Violet Mytton 
 in Los Angeles. By the 
 first marriage there is one 
 child, Dorothy Austin, 
 and by the second there 
 are five children, Mar- 
 jorie, Ada, William, Hilda 
 and Angela. 
 
 Mr. Austin was edu- 
 cated in private schools 
 of England and at various 
 times was under the di- 
 rection of a tutor. He 
 went through an architec- 
 tural apprentice course in 
 England while studying 
 in the offices of William 
 S. Barwick, architect. 
 
 At the age of twenty- 
 one, moved by a desire to 
 see the world, he came to 
 America, and settled at 
 Philadelphia. This was 
 in 1891, at which time he 
 entered the employ of 
 Benjamin Linfoot, one of 
 the prominent architects 
 o f Philadelphia, with 
 
 JOHN C. W. AUSTIN 
 
 whom he remained for one year. He then 
 returned to England, where he again went 
 into the offices of the Barwick firm. 
 
 His stay in England was brief; three 
 months after taking his position with the 
 Barwick Company he again sailed for the 
 United States. This time he continued west 
 and crossed the continent, settling at San 
 Francisco. He sought and found employ- 
 ment with the firm of William Mooser and 
 C. J. Devlin, with whom he stayed for two 
 and a half years. At the end of that period 
 he returned to England, where he visited his 
 relatives for three months. 
 
 On returning to San Francisco he went 
 with his former employers, but the great rush 
 to Los Angeles and Southern California was 
 then attracting the attention of the entire 
 country and Mr. Austin joined in the rush to 
 that city. He arrived there in 1894 and has 
 since made it his home. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Los Angeles Mr. Aus- 
 tin worked for several firms, among them be- 
 ing Morgan and Walls, but two years later 
 opened offices for himself. From that date 
 he gradually worked his way to the front and 
 is now recognized as one of the leading archi- 
 tects in the West. 
 
 He has constructed everything from a 
 mission style building to the most up-to-date 
 and modern sky-scraper 
 and has played a leading 
 role in the rapid architec- 
 tural development of Los 
 Angeles and Southern 
 California. His business 
 extends all through the 
 Southwest and embraces 
 some of the most noted 
 structures of the Pacific 
 Coast. His work is rep- 
 resented east as far as 
 Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
 and in Arizona and 
 Washington and British 
 Columbia. 
 
 Among his best ex- 
 amples of construction 
 are the following: Wright 
 and Callender Building; 
 the Potter Hotel, at Santa 
 Barbara ; the Virginia 
 Hotel, of Long Beach; 
 many local schools and 
 churches ; Madam Erskine 
 M. Ross' beautiful home 
 at Vermont and Wilshire 
 boulevards ; the First 
 
 Methodist churches of both Los Angeles and 
 Pasadena; the California and Angelus Hos- 
 pitals; Harvard Military School, Ontario 
 High School, Grand Avenue School, Twelfth 
 and E. Street Grammar School of San Diego ; 
 every building constructed in Del Mar; the 
 Darby, Freemont, Leighton, Hershey Arms 
 and Alvarado hotels of this city. 
 
 Besides his many business interests, which 
 are scattered over a greater part of the State, 
 he is deeply interested in the cause of the 
 needy and is at the present time President of 
 the L. A. Humane Society for Children ; a 
 member of the L. A. Chapter of the American 
 Institute of Architects and an associate mem- 
 ber of the national body. He is a member of 
 the Jonathan Club and Sierra Madre Club of 
 this city and of the L. A. Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He is a thirty-second degree Mason 
 and a member of the Mystic Shrine, Al Malai- 
 kah Temple. 
 
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 LEXANDER, GEORGE, 
 Mayor of Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born near Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, September 21, 
 1839, the son of William 
 Alexander and Mary (Cleland) Alexander. 
 The family came to America in 1850, first 
 settling in Chicago, Illinois. There they 
 lived for about five years, and early in 1856 
 journeyed to Iowa, where . 
 the elder Alexander pur- 
 chased a large acreage of 
 government land and be- 
 gan work as an agricul- 
 turist. Mr. Alexander 
 married Annie Yeiser in 
 Iowa in April, 1862, and 
 to them were born three 
 children, two of whom, 
 Lydia A. and Frank A. 
 Alexander, are still liv- 
 ing. The son is a promi- 
 nent merchant of Red- 
 lands, California. 
 
 Mr. Alexander's educa- 
 tional opportunities were 
 extremely limited and he 
 began life as a newsboy 
 in Chicago at the age of 
 twelve years. This occu- 
 pation held him until the 
 family went to Iowa, and 
 then he became a farmer, 
 helping his father with 
 his crops. He remained 
 on the farm until 'about 
 the time of his marriage, 
 and four months after his wedding he vol- 
 unteered for service in the Civil War, enlist- 
 ing in the Union Army. 
 
 He served in numerous battles and re- 
 mained under arms until the conclusion of 
 the War, in 1865. He was with General 
 Grant's army in the campaign around Vicks- 
 burg and was under General Banks in the 
 Red River campaign.. His regiment was 
 then transferred to the East and placed 
 in General Sheridan's command, serving 
 throughout the Shenandoah Valley cam- 
 paign. Mr. Alexander was a witness of 
 Sheridan's famous ride from Winchester to 
 Cedar Creek. 
 
 When he was mustered out of service 
 Mr. Alexander had to start life over again, 
 and his first position was in a grain ware- 
 house, where he received wages of $40 per 
 month. He stayed with the firm for five 
 years and during that time became an expert 
 
 HON. GEORGE ALEXANDER 
 
 in the grain business, drawing a salary of 
 $100, when he quit to go into the grain ware- 
 house business for himself. In 1874 he went 
 to Toledo, Iowa, establishing a business 
 there, and a year later took up a similar 
 enterprise at Dysart, Iowa. In 1886, when 
 he had four large warehouses and a great 
 shipping business under his control, he and 
 his wife visited California and he decided to 
 make his future home 
 there. 
 
 Returning to Iowa, he 
 sold out his interests and 
 went to Los Angeles. 
 He spent some time 
 looking over the business 
 field and finally built a 
 feed mill. This he con- 
 ducted approximately 
 two years, and then, in 
 1890, entered the political 
 field. 
 
 His first public office 
 was that of Inspector in 
 the City Street Depart- 
 ment, under E. H. Hutch- 
 inson. His ability won 
 him rapid promotion, and 
 in 1893 he was made 
 Chief Deputy. Two years 
 in this position and he 
 entered the County Re- 
 corder's office as a clerk, 
 but by the time he left 
 that office, in 1898, ' he 
 was Chief Deputy Re- 
 corder. In 1899 he re- 
 turned to the Street Dept., and remained 
 there until elected to the Board of County 
 Supervisors, in January, 1901, a position he 
 held eight years. During that time he made 
 a record for honest service and protection of 
 the people's interests. He won a great fight in 
 1902, against the majority of the Board of 
 County Hospital contracts. He carried the 
 matter successfully through the courts. He 
 made another notable battle when he took a 
 stand, advocated by the Los Angeles Exami- 
 ner, against the award by private bid of 
 $3,500,000 for building County good roads. 
 
 In 1909 he was chosen Mayor of Los An- 
 geles when the people had recalled the for- 
 mer Mayor from office. At the regular elec- 
 tion the following fall he was retained in 
 that office and has filled it down to date. He is 
 a Mason, K. T., member G. A. R., Municipal 
 League, City Club, Chamber of Commerce, 
 Moose Lodge and Union League of L. A. 
 
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 443 
 
 OOTH, WILLIS H., Bank- 
 ing and Real Estate, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born 
 in Winnemucca, Nevada, on 
 February 15, 1874, the son of 
 L. Booth and Ellen Ann (Bratt) Booth. He 
 married Chancie Ferris, in Los Angeles, Jan- 
 uary 21, 1899, and to them there has been 
 born one child, Ferris H. Booth. Mr. Booth 
 missed by five years be- 
 coming a son of Califor- 
 nia, for it was at that age 
 that he was taken to Los 
 Angeles, where he has 
 grown up with the city, 
 being educated in its pub- 
 lic schools and the 'Uni- 
 versity of California. 
 
 His family owning the 
 firm of L. Booth & Sons, 
 a large machinery house 
 of Los Angeles, Mr. 
 Booth, upon the comple- 
 tion of his education, in 
 1895, entered at once in 
 that business, being made 
 treasurer of the firm. He 
 held this office for ap- 
 proximately thirteen 
 years, becoming a com- 
 mercial and a civic factor. 
 In 1908 the Booth Com- 
 pany was consolidated 
 with the Smith Machin- 
 ery Company, under the 
 name of the Smith-Booth- 
 Usher Company, at the 
 present time one of the leaders in its line 
 on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Booth was elected 
 secretary of the new firm, a position he still 
 retains. 
 
 Two years prior to the merger of the 
 machinery concerns, Mr. Booth aided in the 
 organization of the Pacific Electric Heating 
 Company, a concern manufacturing electric 
 heating appliances at Ontario, California, 
 and he was elected vice president of it. This 
 company has a large plant as its California 
 base and in addition has branch factories in 
 Chicago, New York, Vancouver, B. C, and 
 Toronto, Canada. The whole put together 
 make it one of the large modern electric in- 
 dustries, with most promising prospects for 
 the future. 
 
 Although he devotes a great deal of his 
 time to this corporation's affairs, Mr. Booth 
 has other interests which claim his attention 
 and into each of which he injects the spirit 
 
 WILLIS H. BOOTH 
 
 of progress. He was elected vice president 
 of the Equitable Savings Bank, one of the 
 large Los Angeles financial institutions, in 
 1908, and still occupies that office. He is 
 also treasurer of the Booth Investment Com- 
 pany, a Booth family corporation, with real 
 estate and other holdings in and about the 
 city. Mr. Booth has been one of the con- 
 spicuous men in the growth and improve- 
 ment of Los Angeles and 
 has figured in practically 
 every movement having 
 for its object the improve- 
 ment of the city and its 
 establishment as a metro- 
 politan municipality. 
 
 He was elected presi- 
 dent of the Chamber of 
 Commerce of Los An- 
 geles in 1909, and during 
 his administration numer- 
 ous plans for the upbuild- 
 ing of the city were origi- 
 nated and carried to a 
 successful issue. One 
 work in which he was 
 most active was the an- 
 nexation of San Pedro to 
 Los Angeles, a transfor- 
 mation that made Los 
 Angeles a deep water 
 port and placed it in line 
 for the commercial bene- 
 fits that are sure to ac- 
 crue to the entire Pacific 
 Coast with the opening of 
 the Panama Canal. Work 
 of building a modern harbor is now in 
 progress and Mr. Booth has been an ardent 
 advocate of this at all times. 
 
 He was president of the Associated 
 Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast 
 in 1910, and under his leadership a commer- 
 cial delegation, made up of leading men in 
 all the organizations in the association, 
 toured the Orient in a study of conditions 
 and to devise means for increasing American 
 strength in that part of the world. 
 
 He is Commander of Los Angeles 
 Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, and 
 holds membership in the leading clubs 
 of his city, among them the Jonathan Club, 
 Sunset Club, California Club and the Los 
 Angeles Country Club. 
 
 Mr. Booth has been an ardent supporter 
 of higher education. He has recently been 
 honored by being chosen a director of Occi- 
 dental College. 
 
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 F. J. WOODWARD 
 
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 445 
 
 OODWARD, FRANK J., President 
 and Manager of the F. J. Wood- 
 ward Company, Incorporated, Oak- 
 land, California, was born near 
 Mission San Jose, in Alameda 
 County, California, on September 
 27, 1870. He is the foster son of James and Eliza- 
 beth Woodward. He married Miss Dell Chapman, 
 daughter of the Reverend Doctor E. S. Chapman, at 
 Oakland, California, August 11, 1892. Of their union 
 there are three children, Gwendolen Dell, born 
 April 1, 1894; Phyllis Fay, born March 18, 1896, and 
 Ervin Chapman Woodward, born June 9, 1899. 
 
 Mr. Woodward's father went to California in the 
 year 1869, settling in Alameda County, and the son, 
 who has spent practically all his days in California, 
 has been prominently identified with the practical 
 growth and development of that section. From 
 the outset, Mr. Woodward was trained for a busi- 
 ness career. He attended Franklin Grammar 
 School in Oakland, from 1876 to 1884, and during 
 the following year was a student at Oakland High 
 School. Leaving there he took up a commercial 
 course in Heald's Business College, of San Fran- 
 cisco, and graduated from that institution in 1886. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of his educational work Mr. 
 Woodward obtained employment with the real es- 
 tate firm of Woodward & Gamble, of Oakland, in 
 the capacity of cashier, and served in this position 
 for about four years. He then became confidential 
 man and private secretary to E. C. Sessions, of 
 Oakland, a celebrated financier of the Pacific Coast, 
 whos-e interests included banking, real estate and 
 street railways. Mr. Sessions is recalled as one of 
 California's most progressive investors and capital- 
 ists, the builder of street railways and one of the 
 pioneer developers of the water front district of 
 Oakland. He also was instrumental, to a great ex- 
 tent, in the general improvement of real estate in 
 Oakland. 
 
 Mr. Woodward was associated with Mr. Ses- 
 sions for about five years, during the most active 
 stage of his career, and in the confidential capacity 
 occupied by him was enabled to gain a tremendous 
 amount of practical knowledge about the organiza- 
 tion and operation of great financial enterprises. 
 
 This experience, gained by participation in some 
 of the most important undertakings of the time in 
 Oakland and San Francisco, proved of inestimable 
 value to Mr. Woodward and has been largely in- 
 strumental in his own subsequent success as a 
 financier and adviser of financial institutions. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Woodward resigned his position with 
 Mr. Sessions to accept appointment by the Superior 
 Court of Alameda County, California, as Receiver 
 for the Highland Park & Fruitvale Railway Com- 
 pany. His previous knowledge of street railway 
 affairs was such that Mr. Woodward's administra- 
 tion resulted in the company being restored to a 
 firm basis, and within two years and a half the re- 
 ceivership was concluded and the road sold to the 
 Oakland Traction Company. 
 
 His success in handling this company immedi- 
 ately placed Mr. Woodward among the prominent 
 business men of Oakland, although he was barely 
 twenty-five years of age when he undertook the 
 responsibility imposed upon him by the court. 
 
 Following the sale of the Highland Park & 
 Fruitvale Railway to the Oakland Traction inter- 
 ests, Mr. Woodward took over the management of 
 the W. J. Dingee real estate interests, a position in- 
 volving the handling of much valuable property and 
 requiring considerable managerial ability. After 
 handling the business for about a year, Mr. Wood- 
 ward, in 1899, purchased the Dingee holdings and 
 organized the real estate firm of Woodward, Wat- 
 son & Co. For the next three years Mr. Woodward 
 devoted himself to the management of the com- 
 pany's business, but at the end of that period with- 
 drew from it and associated himself with Henry A. 
 Butters, another well-known capitalist of Oakland. 
 Together they organized the Realty Bonds & 
 Finance Company, Mr. Woodward taking the posi- 
 tion of Vice President and Manager, and for about 
 five years succeeding he devoted practically all of 
 his time and energy to this, one of the flourishing 
 investment enterprises of Oakland. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Woodward sold out his interest in 
 the Realty Bonds & Finance Company and retired 
 for a time from brokerage business. 
 
 Later Mr. Woodward organized the F. J. Wood- 
 ward Company, Incorporated, which is engaged in 
 the buying, developing and selling of property. He, 
 as President and Manager of the concern, has been 
 one of its dominant factors and has placed it among 
 the s-trong institutions of Oakland. 
 
 During his many years of business activity, Mr. 
 Woodward has earned a wide reputation for keen 
 judgment and loyalty to the best interests of Oak- 
 land and its environs. He has promoted and man- 
 aged some of the most important realty enterprises 
 ever undertaken on the east side of San Francisco 
 Bay, and is generally regarded by the investing 
 public as an authority on realty and other finance. 
 
 A man of great public spirit, Mr. Woodward has 
 for many years been closely identified with the pro- 
 gressive elements of Oakland and has figured in 
 various civic movements inaugurated for the ad- 
 vancement of the city's interests. He was espe- 
 cially active in relief work following the disaster 
 which visited San Francisco in 1906, and was one 
 of the men who helped to establish the reputation 
 of Oakland for generosity. 
 
 Mr. Woodward belongs to the conservative wing 
 of the Republican party and has always supported 
 the principles of the organization, but he is not an 
 active participant in political affairs except insofar 
 as he has stood at all times for the men and move- 
 ments which he considered best for the country. 
 
 He is prominent in fraternal circles in Oakland, 
 being a member of Live Oak Lodge, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons; Oakland Lodge No. 171, B. P. O. 
 Elks, and the Native Sons of the Golden West. He 
 also is a member of the Athenian Club of Oakland. 
 
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 447 
 
 RINGLE, WILLIAM BULL, 
 Attorney and Counselor-at- 
 Law, San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Oakland, 
 Cal., Sept. 14, 1872, the son of 
 Edward J. Pringle and Cornelia Covington 
 (Johnson) Pringle. His father was for many 
 years a noted lawyer in San Francisco, and 
 in 1899 was appointed Judge of the Supreme 
 Court Commission of Cal- 
 ifornia. Among his an- 
 cestors who distinguished 
 themselves in South Car- 
 olina, especially notewor- 
 thy was his great-grand- 
 father, Hon. John Julius 
 Pringle, of Charleston, 
 who on the 26th of Sep- 
 tember, 1789, was ap- 
 pointed by George Wash- 
 ington Judge of the Dis- 
 trict of South Carolina, 
 and who, on June 15, 
 1809, declined the United 
 States Attorney General- 
 s h i p offered him by 
 Thomas Jefferson, at that 
 time President of the 
 United States. In con- 
 nection with this histori- 
 cal tender of office an in- 
 teresting incident grew 
 out of one of President 
 Taft's visits to the South 
 during his campaign. 
 While calling at the Prin- 
 gle home in Charleston 
 he saw the original document containing the 
 above-mentioned offer from President Jeffer- 
 son, and remarked: "Pringle, Pringle I 
 don't remember any Attorney General by that 
 name !" "Yes," replied the lady of the house, 
 "but in those days the office sought the man, 
 not the man the office. Mr. Pringle declined 
 the offer." 
 
 On his maternal side Mr. Pringle is a 
 great-great grandson of the Revolutionary 
 heroine, Rebecca Motte, and through his con- 
 nections has a personal pride in much of the 
 early history of South Carolina. On Dec. 19, 
 1899, he was married in Oakland, Cal., to 
 Miss Isabel Hutchinson, the children of which 
 union are William Bull Pringle, Jr., born 
 Sept. 16, 1903, and Anne Isabel Pringle, born 
 Oct. 16, 1905. 
 
 After a course through the Oakland gram- 
 mar school he entered Boone's Academy, in 
 Berkeley, where he prepared for Yale Univer- 
 
 WILLIAM B. 
 
 sity, and later became a member of the class 
 of '95. Afterward attended Yale Law School, 
 transferring to Hastings College of the Law, 
 San Francisco, from which he took the degree 
 of LL. B. in 1895. 
 
 In the latter year he began his professional 
 life as a clerk in the law office of his father, 
 Edward J. Pringle. Three years later he be- 
 came a member of the firm of Pringle, Monroe 
 & Pringle. In 1899 the 
 firm was changed to Prin- 
 gle & Pringle, of which 
 he and his brother, Ed- 
 ward J. Pringle, Jr., were 
 the junior partners. Short- 
 ly thereafter his father re- 
 tired from the firm to be- 
 come Judge of the Su- 
 preme Court Commis- 
 sion, and the firm Pringle 
 & Pringle has continued 
 to the present time, being 
 composed of the two 
 brothers. 
 
 In 1895-96 Mr. Prin- 
 gle was a member and 
 President of the Oakland 
 City Council, and since 
 that time has been inter- 
 ested in real estate. Of 
 late years his enterprise 
 has extended to securing 
 of long leases as an aid to 
 the rebuilding of the city. 
 Among the expressions of 
 PRINGLE his activity in this di- 
 
 rection are the Russ 
 Building, the Turpin Hotel and the Terminal 
 Hotel. He is President of the Convention 
 League, formed for the purpose of attracting 
 important conventions to San Francisco. 
 
 He reads much on economic subjects, 
 upon which he has positive views. He is well 
 known as a football enthusiast and expert 
 and for a number of years coached the Re- 
 liance Club eleven to victory over the best 
 teams on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 In addition to his membership in the firm 
 of Pringle & Pringle, he is President of the 
 Montgomery Street Investment Co., Powell 
 Street Investment Co., Terminal Investment 
 Co.; vice president S. F. Suburban Home 
 Bldg. Society, Columbia Theater Co., Secre- 
 tary Direct Line Telephone Co., and director 
 of the United Milk Co. 
 
 His clubs are: Pacific-Union, Burlingame 
 Country, Mira Monte Gun and the Com- 
 monwealth. 
 
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 ASTON, EDWARD EUGENE, 
 President Engineers' Exploration 
 Company, Ltd., Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, January 5, 1878. His father 
 is John Ammen Easton, Ph. D., 
 L. L. D., and his mother Laura (Browder) Easton. 
 Mr. Easton is descended from a long line of Ameri- 
 can ancestry, dating back to the days when Mary- 
 land and Virginia were first settled. His family both 
 on the paternal and maternal 
 sides fought through the 
 Revolutionary War, and were 
 prominent in settling up the 
 country after the Republic 
 was formed. Mr. Easton is 
 also related to Admiral Dan- 
 iel Ammen, U. S. N. 
 
 On April 23, 1906, he mar- 
 ried Elise Holliday at Berke- 
 ley, California. Three chil- 
 dren have been born, Nancy, 
 Jean Elise and Edward Mon- 
 tague Easton. 
 
 Mr. Easton was educated 
 in the public schools of Cin- 
 cinnati, including the high 
 school of that city. He went 
 abroad and at Vienna and 
 Paris studied chemistry and 
 engineering (civil and min- 
 ing) for a period of three 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Easton has experi- 
 enced a very active and pic- 
 turesque career, having been 
 engaged as a war correspon- 
 dent, explorer, author, engi- 
 neer and in several other 
 
 capacities in distant parts of the world. In his ex- 
 plorations and travels he has visited a great many 
 of the world's most inaccessible regions, including 
 portions of Africa, South America, the Orient and 
 other little explored countries. 
 
 His first venture in the active business world 
 was at Kansas City, where he followed newspaper 
 work for the Kansas City Journal, and when the 
 war with Spain broke out he was sent to Cuba as a 
 certified special war correspondent for that publi- 
 cation. Returning home, he was appointed private 
 secretary in the Interior Department at Washing- 
 ton, D. C., which position he resigned in 1899 in 
 order to go with an exploring expedition into South 
 Africa. While there he was made war correspon- 
 dent during the Boer War for the New York Jour- 
 nal, also for Harper's Monthly and Harper's 
 Weekly. 
 
 He had the distinction of being certified as a 
 war correspondent by Sir Alfred Milner, British 
 High Commissioner of South Africa, and also later 
 by President Steyn of the Orange Free States and 
 by President Kruger of the Transvaal. 
 
 In 1902, with the closing of the war, he resumed 
 his exploration work, making an examination of 
 the mineral deposits in East Africa and traversing 
 the regions north of the Zambesi River. A year 
 
 E. E. EASTON 
 
 later he was given charge of an expedition in the 
 Malay Peninsula and in Borneo for a French-Dutch 
 syndicate. His success was such that in the year 
 following he was detailed on a similar expedition 
 to the famed Atlas Mountains and along the north- 
 ern border of the Sahara Desert. In 1905 he ex- 
 plored the jungles of Spanish Honduras, known as 
 one of the most dangerous regions for a white man 
 in all the world. 
 
 After spending a brief period in New York he 
 moved to Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia in 1906, and since that 
 time he has made that city 
 his permanent residence. 
 
 He has written consider- 
 ably for magazines and peri- 
 odicals, contributing such 
 articles as "Inside the Boer 
 Lines" (Harper's Month- 
 ly, 1900), and the "Battle of 
 Pepworth Hill" (Harper's 
 Weekly, 1900). 
 
 His achievements since 
 moving to Los Angeles have 
 been largely in California 
 and in the northwestern re- 
 gions of Mexico. Two of his 
 best accomplishments were 
 the securing of the Cinco 
 Minas Mines, located in the 
 far Hostotipaquillo district, 
 Jalisco, Mexico, for a syndi- 
 cate of Eastern capitalists 
 and the purchasing of 32,000 
 acres of land in the Colorado 
 River delta. This territory 
 lies in the heart of the Im- 
 perial Valley region, and as a 
 result of his work he was 
 
 honored with the presidency of the Imperial Valley 
 Land and Irrigation Company of Lower California, 
 S. A. Mr. Easton sold one-half of this land to John 
 Cudahy, the packer, while the remaining portion he 
 has retained in his own corporation. He owns a 
 controlling interest in this company. 
 
 As an explorer, war correspondent and author 
 he has seen and written about many of the most in- 
 teresting movements of the present day, including 
 two modern wars. His scientific research work has 
 brought him under the notice of the foremost scien- 
 tists and engineers of the day. He is president of 
 the Engineers' Exploration Company, Ltd., and is a 
 leading spirit in the life of that organization. He 
 is a member of the National Geographic Society; 
 his work in exploring many of the unknown por- 
 tions of the world having won him an enviable po- 
 sition among the members of this society. 
 
 Mr. Easton is now permanently located in Los 
 Angeles, where he continues to carry out his liter- 
 ary and scientific pursuits as well as the more 
 prosaic business undertakings. He takes an active 
 part in the welfare of his home city and is a mem- 
 ber of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of 
 Mines and Oils, and of the Jonathan and Gamut 
 clubs of the city. 
 
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 449 
 
 ILGER, FRANK WILLIAM, Secre- 
 tary, Treasurer and Manager, 
 Oakland Paving Co., and of the 
 Blake & Bilger Co., Oakland, Cal., 
 was born at Willow Springs, Ore- 
 gon, August 2, 1868, the son of 
 William F. Bilger and Pauline (Hauser) Bilger. He 
 is of German descent on both sides of the house 
 and seems to have inherited his quarry-operating 
 and road-building proclivities from his paternal 
 grandfather, who was a Bur- 
 gomaster in Trossingen, Ger- 
 many, and for many years 
 operated stone quarries and 
 was active in constructive 
 work in various parts of the 
 Empire. 
 
 Mr. Bilger was married in 
 Oakland, December 19, 1894, 
 to Miss Carrie S. Siebe, 
 daughter of George Siebe, 
 for many years an official of 
 the San Francisco Customs 
 House. Their children are 
 Anson S., Marion A., William 
 F. and Frank W. Bilger, Jr. 
 Mental and physical alert- 
 ness, ambition to get ahead 
 and avidity for any kind of 
 work that came to hand have 
 been the dynamos that have 
 supplied the live wire that 
 Mr. Bilger has proved him- 
 self to be. His actual school- 
 ing was of the intermittent 
 kind. Coming from Jackson- 
 ville, Oregon, in May, 1875, 
 he attended the grammar 
 school in San Leandro, Ala- 
 
 meda County, until 1883, and for the next two 
 years tried to qualify as a farmer on his father's 
 ranch at Vacaville, Solano County. Tiring of this 
 uncongenial monotony, he secured employment, in 
 1885, in Bowman's Drug Store, Oakland, as errand 
 boy, window washer and about everything else he 
 was asked to be. During this strenuous appren- 
 ticeship he entered the Department of Pharmacy 
 of the University of California, from which he was 
 graduated in 1889, with the degree of Ph. G. His 
 ambition to add an M. D. to this designation, how- 
 ever, was sidetracked by opportunity, for which he 
 was ever on the watch. Pending his intended ma- 
 triculation in the Cooper Medical College he be- 
 came a collector for the Oakland Paving Company, 
 liked the work, remained and was promoted to 
 bookkeeper. On the death of one of the owners he 
 was elected a trustee of the company, and later 
 was made secretary and treasurer. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Bilger, with Mr. Anson S. Blake, or- 
 ganized the Blake & Bilger Company, contractors 
 for all kinds of work connected with the paving 
 
 FRANK W. BILGER 
 
 business. He has focused his commercial energies 
 on these concerns, and together with his associates 
 has developed them to large proportions. A super- 
 fluity of energy, however, will generally find an 
 outlet in more than one channel a fact which Mr. 
 Bilger has well exemplified. For years he was a 
 director of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, in 
 which capacity he became a close observer and a 
 student of organization work. Largely through his 
 intelligent efforts the membership of the chamber 
 was greatly increased, and 
 in 1906, on the consolidation 
 with the Board of Trade, he 
 was made its first vice presi- 
 dent. The next year he 
 was chosen president of 
 the body. 
 
 Immediately after the fire 
 of 1906 Mr. Bilger became 
 very active in the relief 
 work. Dropping his private 
 business he co-operated with 
 the business men of San 
 Francisco and was one of 
 the most ardent of all the 
 Good Samaritans in that 
 beneficent field. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Bilger or- 
 ganized the Harbor Bank 
 and was its first president, 
 acting at the same time as 
 director of the Oakland 
 Bank of Commerce. Beyond 
 all this he has been a very 
 live Republican, for six years 
 chairman of the City Cen- 
 tral Committee, manager of 
 Mayor Mott's campaign in 
 1905 and state campaign 
 
 manager for Alden Anderson, candidate for Gover- 
 nor in 1910. His prominence and success in fra- 
 ternal circles have been equally marked. He or- 
 ganized the Alameda County Shriners' Club, for 
 four years held together the disintegrating ele- 
 ments, and in April, 1910, had the Imperial Council, 
 in session at New Orleans, grant the charter for 
 Aahmes Temple, Oakland's new shrine. He was 
 elected the first Illustrious Potentate of the temple 
 and still retains the office. He is a member of the 
 Yerba Buena Lodge, F. & A. M.; of the Oakland 
 Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M.; Oakland Commandery, 
 K. T.; Oakland Consistory, A. A. R. S.; Woodmen 
 of the World, and an Elk. 
 
 He belongs also to the Nile, the Deutscher and 
 the Athenian Clubs of Oakland, and is the tenth 
 life member of the Society of American Magicians, 
 an order whose chief object is the prevention of 
 exposure of the tricks by which public entertainers 
 in this field earn their living and whose efforts 
 have done a great deal toward keeping the myster- 
 ies of the art among the fascinations of the stage. 
 
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 H. C. MERRITT 
 
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 ERRITT, H. C., Investment Bank- 
 er, Pasadena, Cal., was born at 
 Duluth, Aug. 17, 1872, the son of 
 Lewis J. Merritt and Eunice An- 
 nette (Wood) Merritt. He mar- 
 ried Rosaline Calistine Haben of 
 Saginaw, Mich, (granddaughter of Gen. Olivier, of 
 Napoleon's staff), July 13, 1892. They have two 
 children, Hulett Clinton, Jr., born Oct. 15, 1893, and 
 Rosaline Eunice Merritt, born Nov. 3, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Merritt is a descendant of the French Hu- 
 guenots who were driven from France, settled in 
 England and moved to America in Colonial times, 
 and of William Wright, an early pilgrim father, who 
 came across the Atlantic in the ship "Fortune" in 
 1621 with his wife Priscilla. Every generation that 
 followed the original William Wright had its men of 
 consequence. There was Sir James Wright, the 
 last royal governor of Georgia, of the Colonial days, 
 who was born in 1714. Silas Wright, governor of 
 New York and U. S. Senator; William Wright, gov- 
 ernor of New Jersey and U. S. Senator; Robert 
 Wright, governor of Maryland; James Wright, gov- 
 ernor of Indiana, and Richard Wright, one of the 
 founders of Methodism in this country. 
 
 General Wesley Merritt of the United States 
 army is a descendant of a related family. 
 
 Mr. Merritt's grandfather was one of the found- 
 ers of Duluth, in 1854. His homestead of 160 acres 
 is today the heart of the Duluth business district, 
 covered with skyscrapers and warehouses. 
 
 Mr. Merritt graduated from a business college at 
 the age of sixteen and was immediately taken into 
 full partnership in the real estate and investment 
 banking business by his father under the firm name 
 of L. J. Merritt & Son, in Duluth. Within three 
 years this concern became the largest, strongest 
 and most aggressive investment house in the North- 
 west. 
 
 Hulett C. Merritt, with his father and uncles, 
 financed and built the Duluth, Missabe & Northern 
 Railway, connecting the world's greatest iron ore 
 deposit in the Missabe range with Lake Superior. 
 At the age of twenty-one, which was as early as he 
 was legally eligible, he became a director of this 
 railway, which has a greater record for profit than 
 any other railway- line in the world. Representing 
 his firm, who owned two-thirds of the capital stock 
 of the Missabe Mountain Iron Co., he conducted 
 successfully the negotiations with that great steel 
 magnate of Pittsburg, Henry W. Oliver, who for 
 himself and the Carnegie Steel Co. leased from the 
 Missabe Mountain Iron Co. their great ore mine, 
 paying 65 cents a ton royalty and guaranteeing to 
 mine not less than 400,000 tons annually. This 
 was the highest royalty ever obtained for the 
 lease of an iron mine in the history of the iron 
 trade. His work in this deal won for Mr. Merritt 
 a national reputation as a negotiator. 
 
 He next helped form the Lake Superior Consoli- 
 dated Iron Mines, known as the Merritt-Rockefeller 
 Syndicate, and in the enterprise he was the largest 
 stockholder outside of John D. Rockefeller. In April, 
 1901, the Merritt-Rockefeller Syndicate turned over 
 all the ore and railway holdings to the U. S. Steel 
 Corporation for $81,000,000. one of the largest single 
 
 financial transactions recorded in America. Through 
 these transactions Hulett C. Merritt became one of 
 the ten principal members of the U. S. Steel Cor- 
 poration. 
 
 The U. S. Steel Corporation, as is generally 
 known, is the greatest single corporation on earth. 
 At its organization it represented a capital close to 
 one and three-quarter billions of dollars. It began 
 at once to dominate the iron and steel industry of 
 the world. Its employes number 240,000 and its an- 
 nual production reads like a resume of the wealth 
 of a great nation. To be one of the first ten men 
 controlling such a corporation was the distinction 
 achieved by Mr. Merritt before he had passed his 
 twenty-eighth birthday. 
 
 On the Pacific Coast Mr. Merritt has been as 
 active as in Minnesota. He has been president and 
 treasurer of the United Electric, Gas & Power Co., 
 controlling the electric light and gas plants of sev- 
 enteen cities in Southern California, and the street 
 railway system of Santa Barbara. The company 
 has been consolidated with the Southern California 
 Edison Company. 
 
 During the panic of 1907 he bought, for spot cash, 
 two of the best downtown business corners of Los 
 Angeles. He financed the Olds, Wortman & King 
 building of Portland, Ore., covering an entire city 
 block and the largest building in the city. He was 
 vice president of the West Adams Heights Associa- 
 tion, with Henry E. Huntington, who also was vice 
 president, and Frederick H. Rindge, president. 
 
 His activities, at the present time, are concen- 
 trated in several important companies. He is presi- 
 dent and treasurer of the Spring Street Co. and the 
 Pacific States Corporation, owning several million 
 dollars' worth of business and residence property in 
 Los Angeles and Pasadena. He controls the Tagus 
 Ranch Co., California Farmland Co., and the Su- 
 perior Beet Sugar Corp., owning together a sugar 
 factory, which has been in successful operation for 
 three years, and 10,000 acres of the most valuable 
 agricultural land in California. He is president and 
 treasurer of the Merritt Banking & Mercantile Co. 
 and Itasca Mercantile Co. of Minnesota, operating 
 banks and department stores in Minnesota. He is 
 president of the Missabe Co., a concern of varied ac- 
 tivities in the iron region of Lake Superior. He is 
 president of the Pacific Co., the Hill Street Co., Mer- 
 ritt Building Co., and Merritt Bond Syndicate; presi- 
 dent Wolvin Building Co., owners of one of the larg- 
 est office buildings in Duluth, occupied entirely by 
 the U. S. Steel Corporation. He is a director with 
 James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill in the North Star 
 Iron Co. (Great Northern Iron Ore Properties). He 
 holds directorates in innumerable financial, public 
 utility, banking, manufacturing and mercantile cor- 
 porations. 
 
 He has been, for a number of years, chairman 
 of the board of trustees of the First Methodist 
 Church of Pasadena. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Country 
 Club, Annandale Club, Bolsa Chica Gun Club, all of 
 Southern California, and of clubs in Duluth and New 
 York City. 
 
 He maintains offices in Los Angeles, Duluth and 
 New York City. 
 
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 J. T. SCOTT 
 
 COTT, JOHN THADDEUS, Banker, 
 Houston, Tex., was born at Cam- 
 den, Miss., Oct. 10, 1870, the son 
 of John T. Scott and Delitha 
 (Hamblen) Scott. He married 
 Mattie Campbell, June 7, 1893, at 
 Houston, and to them have been born four children, 
 John Thaddeus, Jr., Margaret, Martha and Dorothy 
 Scott. 
 
 Mr. Scott obtained his education in the public 
 schools of his native town and of Houston, com- 
 pleting his studies with a commercial course in a 
 Houston business college, in July, 1887. Immedi- 
 ately he obtained a position as assistant bookkeep- 
 er in a wholesale drug house in Houston, and re- 
 mained in that place until 1890, when he was made 
 general bookkeeper for the same concern. He 
 served in that capacity until Jan. 1, 1893, when he 
 became head bookkeeper for the First National 
 Bank of Houston. 
 
 That was the beginning of his banking career, 
 and after handling the bank's books for five years 
 he was elected in September, 1898, Assistant Cash- 
 ier. His record in this office was such that after 
 four years he was promoted to be Cashier. He was 
 in that position six years, and upon the death of 
 the bank's President, in 1908, was elected Vice Pres. 
 and Manager, both of which positions he retains. 
 
 Mr. Scott is Treas. and Director, Great Southern 
 Life Insurance Co.; Vice Pres. and Director Tyler 
 County Lumber Co., Secy, and Treas. Houston Stock 
 Yards Co., Pres. J. C. Hill Lumber Co. and Eureka 
 Ice Co., Vice Pres. Oriental Textile Mills. He is a 
 director in each of these. 
 
 Mr. Scott stands among the leaders of finance 
 and business in Houston, a just reward for a life of 
 earnest endeavor. He is a member of the Houston 
 Country Club, Houston Club and the Thalian Club, 
 and is an official member of the First Methodist 
 Church. 
 
 DR. J. W. TRUEWORTHY 
 
 RUEWORTHY, JOHN WESLEY, 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Troy, New York, May 28, 1843, the 
 son of William and Mary (Finney) 
 
 Trueworthy. 
 
 He was left an orphan at the age of seven and 
 was reared on the farm of a friend in Illinois. He 
 attended the public schools of Montgomery County, 
 Illinois, and Hillsboro Academy, at Hillsboro, 111., 
 until he was seventeen years old, then, at the first 
 call for three months' volunteers by President Lin- 
 coln, he enlisted. After serving his time he was 
 honorably discharged and did not re-enlist for the 
 reason that he was not eligible owing to disability 
 caused from exposure and sickness during his 
 service in the army. 
 
 Dr. Trueworthy studied medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan and at the Rush Medical at 
 Chicago, graduating from the latter in 1865. 
 
 He practiced at Donaldson, 111., at Emporia, 
 Kans., and Kansas City, Mo. He organized the Cen- 
 tral Bank of Kansas City and was its president two 
 years. In the year 1892 he moved to Los Angeles, 
 and there has been in active practice since. 
 
 Offices he has held are: County physician and 
 coroner, Lyon county, Kans.; member school board, 
 Emporia; president and director, Los Angeles 
 Public Library. Dr. Trueworthy was a personal 
 friend of Grover Cleveland, who appointed him U. S. 
 Pension Examiner at Emporia. 
 
 He is a member of the California, University 
 and Sierra Clubs; belongs to the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Sequoia League, the Archaeological So- 
 ciety, the Shriners, Knights Templar, the Gamut 
 Club, College Men's Association and University of 
 Michigan Alumni Association. He was at one time 
 president of the Academy of Medicine of Los An- 
 geles, and belongs to all the important national, 
 State and local medical societies. 
 
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 453 
 
 HON. G. M. PITTMAN 
 
 ITTMAN, GODWIN MONTEREY, 
 Judge and Attorney-at-Law, San 
 Bernardino, Cal., was born Oct. 28, 
 1886, at Owatouna, Minn., the son 
 of Dr. H. Pittman and Josephine 
 (Monterey) Pittman. His grand- 
 father on the maternal side is Antonio Monterey, 
 one of the cattle kings of Arizona. 
 
 When two years old his parents brought him to 
 Oro Grande, Cal. He was educated in the public 
 schools of San Bernardino. He studied law in the 
 office of Attorney Byron Waters of San Bernardino 
 and was admitted to the bar July 22, 1908. 
 
 He began the practice of law in 1908,. as a part- 
 ner of Byron Waters. In the year 1909 went into 
 partnership with Raymond E. Hodge. This part- 
 nership was afterwards dissolved and he went into 
 practice for himself, doing a general legal business. 
 Some of the important cases in which Attorney 
 Pittman has taken part are those of Whittram vs. 
 the County of San Bernardino; chief counsel for 
 the defence in the Whitehead murder case. He 
 was special prosecutor for the Mexican Govern- 
 ment in the case of the People vs. Magill. He has 
 the distinction of not having lost a single case in 
 which he has taken part. 
 
 He was chosen to succeed Senator H. M. Willis 
 as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the 
 County of San Bernardino Law Library in 1908. 
 He entered politics and was elected Municipal 
 Judge of San Bernardino, Nov. 8, 1910. He has the 
 distinction of being the youngest judge on the 
 bench in California. 
 
 Judge Pittman enlisted as private in Company 
 K, 7th Infantry, and was promoted to Company 
 Clerk and later to Quartermaster Sergeant. 
 
 He has been Past Worthy Conductor of San 
 Bernardino Aerie No. 506. Was nominated for the 
 presidency of the same lodge, January, 1911, but 
 declined. 
 
 H. F. STEWART 
 
 TEWART, HUGH FORD, Banking 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Oneonta, New York, the son of 
 James Stewart and Harriet F. 
 (Ford) Stewart. He married 
 Alice Graves September 15, 1904, 
 at Los Angeles, and has two children living, Hugh 
 Ford Stewart, Jr., and Alice Howard Stewart. Grif- 
 fith Graves Stewart, another son, died January 4, 
 1908. 
 
 He was taught in the common schools of Oneon- 
 ta, and attended the State Normal College. But 
 the chief education has been in that school which 
 has graduated so many successful men, the rail- 
 road. 
 
 Just after leaving school, in 1899, he went to 
 San Francisco and entered the employ of the South- 
 ern Pacific, in the passenger department. He held 
 this position suitably for two years, and was then 
 transferred to Los Angeles. There his office was 
 known as the Traveling Passenger Agent. 
 
 After only four years of service, his wide-awake 
 qualities and the success with which he handled 
 his position attracted the attention of the Pacific 
 Electric Railway. In spite of his youth they offered 
 him the place of General Passenger Agent. 
 
 He had his ambition set upon a banking career, 
 however, and after two years he arranged with the 
 Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank to become 
 their assistant cashier. Not long after, the Mer- 
 cantile Trust and Savings Bank and the Southern 
 Trust Company were consolidated and he was 
 chosen the vice president of the combination, later 
 being elected vice president and manager. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute of 
 Banking. He is a man socially inclined, and be- 
 longs to the Masons, the California Club, the San 
 Gabriel Valley Country Club, the Valley Country 
 Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the South- 
 ern California Automobile Club. 
 
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 'ALEER, OWEN, Vice President 
 and General Manager of the Re- 
 public Iron and Steel Company, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Liscard, Canada, Febru- 
 ary 3, 1858. His father was Owen 
 McAleer and his mother Mary (Miller) McAleer. 
 He was married in Los Angeles April 5, 1898, to 
 Gertrude E. Mullally. He came to Los Angeles 
 from Youngstown, Ohio, in February, 1888. 
 
 Mr. McAleer received his 
 education in the public 
 schools of Youngstown, Ohio, 
 and began his business ca- 
 reer when but a small boy 
 in the boiler works of W. B. 
 Pollock. He remained at this 
 work until he became pro- 
 prietor of an establishment, 
 which he later disposed of. 
 When he came to California 
 in 1888 he entered the em- 
 ploy of the Baker Iron Works 
 as superintendent of the 
 boiler department and there 
 made the first boiler ever 
 manufactured in Los An- 
 geles. He continued with 
 this firm until 1906. Then 
 he entered into a partner- 
 ship with Nat Wilshire, form- 
 ing the Republic Iron and 
 Steel Company. He is vice 
 president of the McAleer 
 Land and Water Company, 
 president of the Cashier Cop- 
 per Company and president 
 of the Surprise Valley Water 
 Company. He is a staunch, regular line Republican. 
 
 His first public office was on the Examining 
 Board of Engineers in 1901 and 1902. His next was 
 as Councilman from the First Ward, where he 
 made an excellent record. He fought for universal 
 transfers; had a law passed making the life of a 
 railway franchise twenty-one years; had an ordi- 
 nance passed making it unlawful to gamble on 
 horse races; assisted in establishing the first 
 Municipal Machine Shop and in the establishing of 
 the First Playground on Violet Street. A large de- 
 ficit confronted the Council when Mr. McAleer was 
 a member, but at the close of the term there was a 
 splendid balance with all current debts paid. 
 
 Upon this record Mr. McAleer was importuned 
 to run for Mayor, which he did and was elected 
 by the largest majority ever polled previous. 
 
 During his administration the Owens River 
 project was launched, and he was one of the party 
 that made the first investigation and fathered the 
 enterprise in its infancy. Mr. McAleer was the 
 
 OWEN McALEER 
 
 means of the city's becoming possessed of a street 
 railway by confiscating the South Park franchise. 
 It is stated that the constant upneaval and op- 
 position he met with in office, due to his de- 
 sire to carry out the wishes of the people and the 
 opposition he met with from those seeking per- 
 sonal gains, caused the beginning of the reform in 
 municipal politics. 
 
 During his term of office he vetoed thirty-five 
 acts of Legislation passed by the City Council, among 
 which the following are of 
 most notable importance: 
 Against thirty - nine - year 
 street railway franchise on 
 Vermont avenue ; against 
 ordinance placing tax on 
 privilege of performing man- 
 ual labor; against increased 
 gas rate ordinance; against 
 acceptance of City Hall site 
 north of Temple street; 
 against contract for pur- 
 chase of voting machines; 
 against spur track on Third 
 street and Central avenue; 
 against spur track crossing 
 twenty-one public streets in 
 the southwest portion of the 
 city; against use of the Los 
 Angeles River bed for street 
 railway purposes (subse- 
 quently known as the notori- 
 ous "River Bed Franchise") ; 
 against the giving to the 
 Southern Pacific Railway 
 Company of East Fifth street 
 easterly of Central avenue; 
 against proposed charter 
 amendment repealing twenty-one-year franchises 
 and permitting the carrying of freight by street rail- 
 ways; against advertising signs over sidewalks; 
 against steam railway spur track on Date street, 
 and against abolishing Gas Meter Inspector. 
 
 He advocated adoption of legislation providing 
 for the following: Municipal ownership of gas 
 plant; prohibiting freight cars running on street 
 railways; appointment of committee for proper 
 celebration of the "Owens River Aqueduct Prop- 
 osition"; against allowance of desecration of the 
 Stars and Stripes; the collection of license on 
 street cars; extension of time for payment of 
 city taxes, to allow citizens to contribute funds for 
 the relief of San Francisco; granted leave of ab- 
 sence by the City Council for the purpose of ascer- 
 taining the feasibility of bringing to the City of 
 Los Angeles water from the Owens River Valley, 
 and twice disapproved demand for $36,400, cover- 
 ing purchase of voting machines. 
 
 He is member Union League, Elks' and Sierra 
 Madre Club. 
 
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 455 
 
 ORGAN, ELMER ELLSWORTH, 
 
 MReal Estate and Investment, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 a log cabin at De Witt, Iowa, on 
 September 13, 1861, the son of 
 Isaac Fisher Morgan and Sarah 
 Elizabeth (Williams) Morgan. He was united in 
 marriage to Nina May Golden at Moline, Illinois, 
 on October 17, 1906, and to them there has been 
 born a daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Morgan. Mr. 
 Morgan i s of German and 
 English descent, his paternal 
 grandparents having been 
 Quakers and his maternal 
 forbears adherents of the 
 Methodist faith. The former 
 were members of an old Ken- 
 tucky family, also prominent 
 in Georgia, and the latter 
 were among the early settlers 
 of Tennessee. A direct de- 
 scendant of General Daniel 
 Morgan, of Revolutionary 
 fame, Mr. Morgan's father 
 served the Union in Company 
 A, Twenty-sixth Iowa Volun- 
 teer Infantry, for three years 
 during the Civil War and at 
 the close of the struggle, set- 
 tled on a farm in Scott 
 County, Iowa. He removed to 
 another farm in Powshiek 
 County, Iowa, in the early 
 seventies. 
 
 The larger part of his 
 boyhood Mr. Morgan spent on 
 the plains and he began to 
 work when he was about five 
 years of age. When he was 
 six years old he dropped corn 
 from the first Brown corn 
 planter used in eastern Iowa. 
 He had no schooling what- 
 ever during his boyhood and 
 was his own instructor with 
 
 the exception of four months s-pent in a small acad- 
 emy at De Witt, Iowa, when he was twenty-two 
 years of age. He passed the teacher's examination 
 at Clinton, Iowa, and expected to teach school for 
 a livelihood, but in the meantime visited Moline, 
 Illinois, and there became a student at law with 
 W. A. Meese, one of the foremost attorneys of that 
 section at the time. 
 
 Mr. Morgan read law for about two years and 
 during that time also became interested actively in 
 the real estate and collection business, with the 
 result that in 1886 he abandoned his- law studies and 
 devoted himself exclusively to real estate. This was 
 not his first business venture, however, for when 
 he was only sixteen years of age he had embarked 
 in the cattle business and gained a wide experience 
 in that line. He drove cattle from Iowa through 
 Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana 
 and the Dakotas and was compelled to go through a 
 great number of hardships, having to encounter the 
 Indians and cattle thieves, both of which classes 
 were very numerous in those days. 
 
 During his long residence in Moline, Mr. Morgan 
 was one of its most enterprising business men, 
 imbued with an extraordinary amount of public 
 spirit. A Republican in politics, he took a keen in- 
 terest in political affairs but never was active in 
 
 ELMER E. MORGAN 
 
 the party. He had the honor, however, of holding 
 various important public offices outside of the 
 political field and was greatly interested in the up- 
 building of the old plow city of Moline. He was 
 President of the Moline Club, known throughout 
 Illinois- as one of the wideawake clubs of the State, 
 and in this capacity raised the money in one day 
 to build the beautiful Manufacturers' Hotel of Mo- 
 line. He also raised the money to build their first 
 modern theater and helped to establish several 
 important manufacturing en- 
 terprises. 
 
 Mr. Morgan was deeply in- 
 terested in procuring what is 
 known as the Moline Lock on 
 the Rock Island Arsenal and 
 aided in the success of many 
 oiher projects-. 
 
 Mr. Morgan joined the 
 llinois National Guard in 
 1884 as a private and worked 
 his way up to Major and Ad- 
 jutant General of the Third 
 Brigade, Illinois National 
 Guard, resigning therefrom 
 on the first day of February, 
 1912, with the rank of Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel (retired). He 
 participated in several impor- 
 tant maneuvers and riots dur- 
 ing his time of service and 
 also organized the Tenth Illi- 
 nois Volunteer Infantry, 
 known also as the Clendenin 
 Provisional Regiment, for 
 service in the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican war. They never were 
 called out of the State, but 
 were held ready to leave at 
 any time. He assisted in the 
 organization of the Army and 
 Navy League. 
 
 Mr. Morgan sold out his- 
 business in Moline in Jan., 
 1912, and on Feb. 9, of the 
 
 same year, located in Los Angeles, Cal. Before he 
 left Moline, the business men, manufacturers and 
 friends of Mr. Morgan tendered him a public ban- 
 quet, at which he was presented with a gold watch 
 and chain, a diamond stud and a gold knife with 
 diamond setting. The old soldiers of the city also 
 banqueted him and in addition to presenting him 
 with a beautiful watch charm, gave him a me- 
 morial in appreciation of the good he had done for 
 the old veterans and their widows. 
 
 A man of unusual endurance powers, Mr. Mor- 
 gan, in 1896, toured Europe on a bicycle, making in 
 all 4,000 miles- and before leaving for the Old 
 Country, had toured over 1,000 miles in the United 
 States. He visited England, Ireland, Scotland, 
 Wales, France, Holland and Belgium, and still keeps 
 in perfect condition the machine on which he rode. 
 
 He has always taken a great interest in irriga- 
 tion and navigation and has attended several of the 
 National Rivers and Harbors Congresses at Wash- 
 ington, D. C., also the meetings of the National 
 Boards of Trade. 
 
 He belongs to the Masons, Elks, Redmen, Knights 
 of Pythias, Select Knights and also is a Turner. He 
 leans towards the Unitarian Church and was one of 
 four who built the First Unitarian Church of Mo- 
 line, Illinois. 
 
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 457 
 
 ONES, HON. JOHN PERCIVAL, 
 Santa Monica, California, Capi- 
 talist and ex-Senator of the 
 United States, was born at The 
 Hay by the River Wye, Hereford- 
 shire, England, close to the Welsh 
 border, January 27, 1829, the son of Thomas Jones 
 and Mary (Pugh) Jones. He married Hannah Cor- 
 nelia Greathouse, widow of George Greathouse, in 
 1861, and they had one son, Roy. His first wife 
 died in 1871 and he married Georgina Frances Sulli- 
 van in 1875, and to them there were born three 
 daughters, Alice, Marion and Georgina. 
 
 The Jones family came to America when the fu- 
 ture Senator was only two years old and settled at 
 Cleveland, Ohio, then a town of only a few thou- 
 sand inhabitants and known as the heart of the 
 Western Reserve. He attended the public schools 
 of Cleveland, and after graduating from the high 
 school attended a private school for some time, 
 then went to work for a shipping firm, and later 
 obtained employment in a local bank. 
 
 In 1849, when young Jones was just twenty 
 years of age, came the discovery of gold in Califor- 
 nia. The hard times following the Mexican War 
 had produced great restlessness and discontent 
 throughout the country, so that the tales of fabu- 
 lous wealth to be found in California brought about 
 the most spectacular migratory rush in the annals 
 of the world. 
 
 A number of the most adventurous young men 
 of Cleveland, of whom Jones was one, organized a 
 party and chartered the small bark, Eureka, of less 
 than 160 tons displacement, and on September 26, 
 1849, set sail for the coast of California. They 
 went through the new Welland Canal, which was so 
 narrow that it was necessary to trim down the 
 sides of the bark in order that she might pass 
 through, on down the St. Lawrence and then along 
 two continents and around Cape Horn. 
 
 The little vessel was scarcely seaworthy when 
 she started, but in spite of numerous adventures 
 she made the trip in safety, and in April, 1850, 
 after a voyage occupying nearly nine months, sailed 
 into the harbor of San Francisco. 
 
 Of all the ship's company including the crew, 
 Senator Jones is now the only survivor. 
 
 After landing in California, he remained in 
 San Francisco for a while, but before long pro- 
 ceeded to the gold fields of Trinity County and 
 washed gold from the sands of its streams. Some- 
 times he worked in the employ of others, but most 
 of the time he was mining for himself. As with 
 most of the early pioneers, small fortunes came 
 and went, and throughout the vicissitudes of 
 the search he managed to prove one fact 
 of great value that he possessed boldness of 
 character and utter fearlessness of all conse- 
 quences. He fought a good fight with fate, and he 
 had to be ready to fight good men. He looked death 
 in the face frequently enough in his contact with the 
 
 reckless characters that peopled the goldfields, 
 and he did it so unflinchingly that he was elected 
 to that greatest of all offices of the early West, the 
 one that carried with it the highest tribute to 
 character, the office of Sheriff. He held the office 
 successfully and good men respected, while bad 
 men feared him. He was long remembered by the 
 latter class in California. He took his dangerous 
 post in the late fifties and held it until 1863. 
 
 In 1863 he was elected to represent Shasta and 
 Trinity Counties in the California State Senate, 
 and was fairly started on a political career that 
 continued almost without interruption for a period 
 of more than forty years. He represented the two 
 counties as State Senator until 1867, when he was 
 nominated Lieutenant Governor on the Republican 
 ticket. The ticket was defeated, but his nomina- 
 tion indicated that he had become a man of power 
 in the State. 
 
 Senator Jones had in reality two parallel careers 
 one in politics and the other in finance. In both he 
 was more than ordinarily successful. Each was in a 
 measure responsible for the other, because his 
 success in business and investment recommended 
 him to public office, and his clear-headedness in 
 politics won the confidence of the men of business. 
 
 He left California in the year 1868, just after 
 his defeat for the lieutenant governorship, and 
 went to Virginia City, Nevada, the scene of 
 the magic Comstock Lode, easily the most wonder- 
 ful treasury of wealth the world has yet unearthed 
 and which made millionaire's in great numbers. He 
 went as superintendent of the Crown Point mines, 
 of which he was a part owner. 
 
 The game of politics was in his blood. He had 
 no sooner arrived at Virginia City than he began 
 to play it with the same energy as in California. 
 Nevada was really a California overflow. He knew 
 all of the men of consequence personally and all 
 of them knew the former Sheriff of Trinity county. 
 In less than three years' time he was candidate for 
 the greatest office Nevada had to give, the United 
 States Senatorship. His force, popularity and gen- 
 eralship swept aside opposition and won him the 
 election in 1872. 
 
 He became known as Nevada's perpetual Sena- 
 tor. He held the honor for thirty years, or five 
 terms. At every election he won easily. He gave 
 Nevada an influence in the affairs of the United 
 States out of all proportion to the importance of 
 the State at that time. This pleased the people of 
 Nevada and they kept him at Washington as long as 
 he chose to stay. 
 
 He never failed to give his support to any 
 measure that promised good to the West, and 
 particularly to his own State. Nevada got fully 
 its share of appropriations, and with Senator Jones 
 on the watch no measure that would hurt the 
 Pacific States got through without a fight. He 
 managed to get the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home for 
 Southern California, although to persuade Con- 
 
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 gress he and his partner, Colonel R. S. Baker, 
 donated three hundred acres of its site. 
 
 For this he has the gratitude of thousands of 
 old soldiers, because there, in that almost ideal 
 climate, the veterans of the Civil War can have 
 their lives prolonged a decade of years, and live in 
 a comfort impossible in the wintry East. 
 
 He led a successful fight for the exclusion of 
 the Chinese, and thereby saved the western half 
 of the continent to the white man. He has not 
 always received the credit he deserves for this 
 fight, as it is the opinion of many that without his 
 efforts the Chinese would never have been ex- 
 cluded. 
 
 He himself believes that one of his most im- 
 portant actions, and one most far reaching in its 
 effect, was his earnest opposition to the Force 
 Bill. This bill provided for the employment of the 
 Federal army in the elections of the South to com- 
 pel the Southerners not to interfere with the col- 
 ored voters. Feeling ran high at the time, but now 
 everybody realizes that the passage of such a bill 
 would have precipitated another Civil War. 
 
 He was a consistent supporter of fiat money, ac- 
 cepting bimetalism as the best available comprom- 
 ise obtainable at the time, but basing his conten- 
 tions upon the principles of a scientific currency 
 dependent upon the quantitative theory of money. 
 He is known as one of the most astute financiers in 
 the United States and for many years has been con- 
 sidered an authority on such matters. 
 
 Because of his thorough understanding of the 
 money question, the Senate, in 1876, appointed him 
 a member of the Silver Commission, of which he 
 was made chairman, and he later prepared a re- 
 port for the commission, which was a fundamental 
 treatise on money. In recognition of his knowledge 
 of the subject, President Harrison in 1892 named 
 him a delegate to the International Monetary Con- 
 ference at Brussels. 
 
 While preparing for his work at this conference 
 the Senator went over the ground so thoroughly 
 that his gold-silver report was characterized as the 
 most conclusive documentary presentation of the 
 facts that our nation has seen. At the final confer- 
 ence at Brussels, the Senator's argument con- 
 sumed two days, and when printed reached the 
 astonishing length of 200,000 words. This achieve- 
 ment stamped Senator Jones as one of our leading 
 financial thinkers, as well as one of the greatest 
 statistical authorities the country has known in 
 public life. 
 
 The Senator's mind is and always has been, 
 from early years, a storehouse of statistical 
 information, and he has the unusual faculty of mak- 
 ing columns of figures and tables tell a story as 
 fascinating as a novel. 
 
 His leading speech on money, delivered in the 
 Senate, made a large volume and was a fundamen- 
 tal treatise of the science of money. It is perhaps 
 the most complete history and exposition of the 
 quantitative theory which has ever been written. 
 
 But one of the greatest services of his public 
 life was his investigation and presentation of the 
 principles of protection. In 1890 he delivered in 
 the Senate a treatise on the subject in a speech en- 
 titled, "Shall the Republic do its own work?" which 
 was so convincing and fundamental that more than 
 a million copies were reprinted by the National 
 Republican Committee and by the American Pro- 
 tective Tariff League and circulated throughout the 
 United States. 
 
 The personality of Senator Jones is one of the 
 traditions of the United States Senate. He is a 
 man of powerful physique and has kept his strength 
 well into the eighties. 
 
 His known fearlessness, the piercing quality of 
 his eye and his naturally dominating appearance 
 is also unusual, and few men are armed with 
 such keenness of logic and such a wealth of 
 facts. 
 
 He was always a convincing debater, and, al- 
 though he made no pretensions to oratory, he had 
 a beautiful speaking voice and was a master of 
 English. He was a political tactician of the high 
 est order and his opponents dreaded his resource 
 fulness. 
 
 He is known to all his friends as a great wit 
 and story teller and his most serious speeches are 
 interspersed with illustrations so apt that they grip 
 the mind more powerfully than a column of argu- 
 ment. 
 
 He used to sit for hours in the cloak room 
 of the Senate surrounded by a group of his col- 
 leagues, telling anecdotes and discussing questions 
 of the hour. It was thus that he acquired the per- 
 sonal influence which gave him so much power. 
 
 At the time of his election to the Senate he had 
 made a great fortune in mining, and during his 
 long career he has always been associated with the 
 mining development, not only of California and 
 Nevada, but of Alaska, Mexico and Colorado. He 
 was one of the original company which opened the 
 great Treadwell Mine, near Juneau, Alaska. 
 
 In addition to his mining interests he has in- 
 vested largely in real estate, and still owns several 
 large ranches. 
 
 In 1875 he laid out the town of Santa Monica, 
 on the San Vicente Rancho, which he owned in 
 partnership with Col. R. S. Baker. He built the 
 first railroad from Los Angeles to Santa Monica, 
 intending to continue it to Independence. Subse- 
 quently this road was sold to the Southern Pacific. 
 He has now disposed of most of his interests around 
 Santa Monica, but still lives in the old homestead 
 there which the family has occupied for 20 years. 
 
 He has belonged to innumerable clubs in Ne- 
 vada, San Francisco, New York, Washington and 
 Los Angeles and retains his membership in several 
 of them. 
 
 Although January 27, 1912, was his eighty-third 
 birthday, he is still an active man, taking a keen 
 interest in the affairs of the world. 
 
 Ed. Note : Senator Jones was called by death Nov. 27. 1912. 
 
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 459 
 
 OWLAND, SAMUEL PRUDENCIO, 
 Investments, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Los Angeles 
 County, April 28, 1865, the son of 
 Thomas Rowland and Zenobia 
 (Yorba) Rowland. He married 
 Maggie A. Temple in Los Angeles, November 16, 
 1889, and to them there were born five children, 
 Roevena, Theresa, Samuel J., Marguerite and Evan- 
 geline Rowland. 
 
 The Rowland family 
 stands pre-eminent among 
 the old houses of Southern 
 California, the first of the 
 name to settle there having 
 been his grandfather, John 
 Rowland, member of a promi- 
 nent Maryland family. Early 
 in the Nineteenth century 
 John Rowland made his way 
 across the then unsettled 
 Western continent and 
 stopped in New Mexico, 
 where for several years he 
 worked as a gold miner. In 
 1841, in company with Wil- 
 liam Workman, his partner, 
 he moved to Southern Cali- 
 fornia and they hunted gold 
 there for a short time. They 
 returned to New Mexico, 
 however, and settled their 
 affairs there, after which 
 they returned to California, 
 taking with them B. D. Wil- 
 son, D. W. Alexander, John 
 Reed, William Perdue and 
 Samuel Carpenter, all of 
 whom became prosperous 
 
 residents of Los Angeles and had much to do with 
 the early history of the city. Mr. Rowland and his 
 partner, Mr. Workman, secured, by Federal grant, 
 the Puente Ranch, comprising 48,000 acres in Los 
 Angeles County, and they settled there to spend the 
 remainder of their lives. In 1869 John Rowland 
 divided his property among his children, including 
 the father of Mr. Rowland, giving to each about 
 3000 acres of land and a thousand head of cattle. 
 Mrs. S. P. Rowland is also descended from a 
 notable family, prominent during the days of Span- 
 ish rule in California. 
 
 Mr. Rowland began his education in the country 
 schools of the county where he was born and later 
 attended St. Vincent's Academy at Los Angeles for 
 two years. Upon leaving there he entered the 
 employ of C. Laux, one of the best-known chemists 
 in the State of California at that time, and it was 
 while in association with him that Mr. Rowland 
 became a student in the Medical Department of the 
 University of Southern California. 
 
 Leaving college, Mr. Rowland engaged in the 
 
 S. P. ROWLAND 
 
 drug business and in a short time was the owner 
 of several stores in Los Angeles, having an estab- 
 lishment in the old Commercial Depot of Los An- 
 geles and another in what is known as the Boyle 
 Heights district of the city. After conducting his 
 business successfully for about six years, Mr. Row- 
 land returned to the ranch which had been given 
 him by his father. From 1890 to 1903 he was in 
 the commission business at Rancho La Puente, but 
 since that latter date he has been engaged prin- 
 cipally as an investor and to- 
 day is one of the heaviest 
 land owners in the southern 
 part of California. 
 
 His interests include: 
 Ownership in a company 
 known as the Cross Land 
 Company, of which he is 
 President, and which controls 
 about 2000 acres of land in 
 Rancho La Puente; 
 
 Cross Water Company, of 
 which he is Vice President, 
 and which owns one of the 
 finest modern pumping plants 
 in the West; 
 
 F u 1 1 e r t o n -Whittier Oil 
 Company, of which he is 
 President; 
 
 A tract of land in Brook- 
 line Heights, and numerous 
 other reel estate holdings. 
 
 Mr. Rowland is a Repub- 
 lican in politics and at vari- 
 ous times has been an office- 
 holder and one of the most 
 active workers for the suc- 
 cess of the party. He served 
 for several years as Justice 
 
 of the Peace of Rowland Township, named after his 
 family, and was twice appointed a Deputy Sheriff in 
 Los Angeles County, the last time in charge of the 
 criminal department of the office. 
 
 He was a member of the Board of Trustees of 
 Rowland district for twenty years and during fif- 
 teen years of that time served as president of the 
 board. 
 
 In addition to his prominence in financial cir- 
 cles and public life, Mr. Rowland is a leader in 
 fraternal circles, haying the distinction of being 
 one of the charter members of the Native Sons of 
 the Golden West and a charter member of the For- 
 esters of America. He is also a member of the 
 Red Men and the Fraternal Brotherhood, Lodge 
 No. 1. 
 
 Mr. Rowland has always been one of the most 
 enthusiastic workers for the development and up- 
 building of Los Angeles and Southern California 
 and has been a liberal supporter of all worthy 
 movements or enterprises having for their object 
 the betterment of that section. 
 
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 'NEIL, JOHN VINCENT, Contrac- 
 tor, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Benacadie, Cape Breton 
 County, Nova Scotia, May 4, 1858, 
 the son of Donald Edward Mc- 
 Neil and Catherine McNeil. He 
 married Christina E. McDonald, of Colchester, 
 Nova Scotia, at Los Angeles, Feb. 20, 1887, and to 
 them there have been born eleven children, Donald 
 (now a student at St. Vincent's College, Missouri), 
 Margaret Ann (who died at 
 the age of twenty years after 
 becoming a nun in the 
 Dominican order, where she 
 was known as Sister Mer- 
 cedes), Lawrence G., Lily 
 M., Catherine R., Andrew M., 
 Edward J., Joseph, Bruce D. 
 (deceased) and Mary McNeil. 
 He is of Scotch descent, his 
 forbears going from the Isle 
 of Barra, Scotland, to Nova 
 Scotia where they were 
 among the early settlers. 
 
 Mr. McNeil received the 
 primary part of his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of 
 Cape Breton County, Nova 
 Scotia, and later attended an 
 academy there, graduating in 
 the class of 1878. Following 
 the completion of his own 
 education, he became a school 
 teacher and followed this vo- 
 cation for about three years. 
 
 In 1881, having saved a 
 considerable amount of his 
 earnings, Mr. McNeil gave up 
 his school work and em- 
 barked in the general merchandise business, estab- 
 lishing a small store in his native district. He ap- 
 plied himself to this for three years, but at the end 
 of that time found he was not making any con- 
 siderable progress, so determined to seek better op- 
 portunities in the United States. With that ob- 
 ject in view, he sold out his store at Benacadie and 
 went to Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 Upon arriving there he was determined to learn 
 the carpenter trade and obtained employment in 
 this branch of work. He was ambitious to advance, 
 so devoted his evenings to study and eventually 
 sought special instruction in architecture and 
 building construction. Within a comparatively 
 short time he was qualified to handle larger opera- 
 tions and served as superintendent of construction 
 on various important structural enterprises in 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 In 1886 he moved to Los Angeles, which at that 
 time was entering upon a period of great develop- 
 ment. Upon his arrival in Southern California, 
 however, Mr. McNeil was unable to make connec- 
 
 J. V. McNEIL 
 
 tions such as he desired and was forced to take em- 
 ployment for a time as a mechanic. However, at 
 the end of a few months he was entrusted with the 
 superintendency of building construction for his 
 employer. 
 
 Mr. McNeil worked on a salary for nearly two 
 years, but in 1888 found himself in a position to 
 engage in business for himself as a contractor. He 
 operated successfully until 1891, but at that time 
 his business slumped to such an extent that he 
 suspended temporarily and 
 was compelled to seek em- 
 ployment with larger con- 
 cerns. He again worked as 
 superintendent for some 
 time, but as soon as condi- 
 tions righted themselves he 
 reopened his own offices and 
 has since been engaged as a 
 building contractor. 
 
 During this period of ap- 
 proximately twenty years as 
 a contractor, Mr. McNeil 
 greatly enlarged his activi- 
 ties, putting up magnificent 
 structures in most of the im- 
 portant centers of the South- 
 western States. He is one 
 of the successful builders of 
 Southern California. He has 
 made a specialty of concrete 
 and heavy construction and 
 has erected numerous large 
 public and private buildings, 
 including schools, office 
 buildings, manufacturing 
 plants, hotels and residences. 
 Some of his more notable 
 buildings are the Polytechnic 
 
 High School Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles; Santa 
 Rita Hotel, Tucson, Ariz.; California Building, Ra- 
 phael Building, M. A. Newmark Building, Newmark 
 Brothers Building, Glass Building, Cohn & Gold- 
 water Building and numerous others in Los An- 
 geles and over the Southwest. 
 
 In addition to contracting, Mr. McNeil has been 
 active in real estate development in and around 
 Los Angeles and has made numerous investments, 
 most of which turned out profitably. Despite the 
 setbacks which he experienced during the early 
 part of his residence in Los Angeles, he always 
 maintained unfaltering faith in the future growth 
 and greatness of the city and has been one of the 
 sincere workers for its development. He is a 
 member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 
 and is recognized as one of the substantial busi- 
 ness men of the city. He has lent his assistance and 
 encouragement to numerous civic movements which 
 have helped in the city's general advancement. 
 
 He is a member of the Knights of Columbus 
 and the Municipal League of Los Angeles. 
 
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 OSTER, FRED L., Secretary, The 
 Alfalfa Farming & Dairying Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Concordia, Kansas, 
 October 27, 1881, the son of Rose- 
 land Lusk Foster and Charlotte 
 Liween (Johnson) Foster. He married Lulu May 
 Hare at Kansas City, Missouri, September 16, 1903, 
 and to them there have been born three children, 
 Paul L., Myrtle L. and Myron L. Foster. He is of 
 British blood, his father hav- 
 ing been of English-Irish de- 
 scent while his mother's 
 family, an old one of Scot- 
 land, traces- back in direct 
 line to the time of Mary, 
 Queen of Scots. 
 
 Mr. Fosters father was a 
 cattleman in Kansas and 
 when the boy was about six 
 years of age, moved the fam- 
 ily home to the western part 
 of the State, where he ac- 
 quired a ranch sixty thous- 
 and acres in extent. Mr. 
 Foster attended the public 
 schools of Winfield, Kas., and 
 was graduated from the high 
 school there in the year 1897. 
 He then entered St. John's 
 Lutheran College at Winfield, 
 Kansas, and was graduated 
 in the class of 1899 with the 
 degrees of A. B. and M. A. 
 
 Upon the completion of 
 his studies Mr. Foster enter- 
 ed the employ of Stafford & 
 Albright, a real estate and 
 abstract firm of Winfield, as 
 
 stenographer, and remained in that employ for 
 about eight months. He then took charge of the 
 abstract department of Johnson Brothers, of the 
 same place, and remained with them until the 
 early part of 1900. 
 
 Leaving the abstract business, Mr. Foster went 
 to his father's cattle ranch, then in Oklahoma, 
 and took charge of the property during the spring 
 round-up, but left in June of the same year (1900) 
 and became associated with the Minneapolis 
 Threshing Machine Company, as Assistant Mana- 
 ger of the office at Kansas City, Mo. This branch 
 of the company handled all of its business west 
 of Kansas City, which amounted approximately to 
 a million and a half dollars annually, and Mr. 
 Foster held office until the latter part of 1905. 
 
 Upon resigning his position with the Minne- 
 apolis Threshing Machine Company, Mr. Foster 
 went to Leavenworth, Kas., as Assistant to the 
 Treasurer of the Great Western Manufacturing 
 Company, and held this position for about two 
 years. He then went into the mining business, 
 
 F. L. FOSTER 
 
 taking up the management of several properties 
 owned by his father in the locality known as the 
 Quapaw Reservation in the Indian Territory. This 
 held him for about a year and upon the sale of 
 the properties in 1908, he transferred his home 
 to Los Angeles, where he has since made his 
 headquarters while operating in various business 
 enterprises. 
 
 His first important venture in the Southwest 
 was in Mexico. As the representative of a syndi- 
 cate of bankers he went to 
 Mexico City and visited va- 
 rious other parts of the re- 
 public, buying up large tracts 
 of land for colonization pur- 
 poses. The Madero revolu- 
 tion of 1910 interrupted his 
 work, however, and Mr. Fos- 
 ter returned to the United 
 States after passing through 
 several thrilling experiences 
 as the result of the condi- 
 tion of war then existing. 
 Before he left Mexico, Mr. 
 Foster acquired a large 
 amount of farming land and 
 retained about 52,000 acres, 
 awaiting the settlement of 
 the troubles there. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Foster helped 
 in the financial organization 
 of the Pacific Coast Mail Or- 
 der House, said to be the 
 largest concern of its kind 
 (co-operative) in the world. 
 This company has since tak- 
 en its place among the im- 
 portant commercial institu- 
 tions of Los Angeles and has 
 
 met with an unusual amount of success. Follow- 
 ing the launching of this concern, Mr. Foster also 
 aided in financing the Western Underwriting & 
 Mortgage Company, of San Diego, California. 
 
 Mr. Foster, in the Summer of 1912, took up the 
 organization of the Alfalfa Farming & Dairying 
 Company, a mutual farming corporation capital- 
 ized at $1,000,000, and stated to be the largest 
 farming concern of its kind in existence. The 
 company entered actively into business in June, 
 1912, and since that time has acquired a large 
 amount of land, including the Hansen Ranch, at 
 Corcoran, California, a property celebrated as one 
 of the greatest alfalfa ranches in the world. In 
 addition, the company operates a string of alfalfa 
 and dairy farms extending from San Francisco to 
 Corcoran, California. 
 
 Aside from his business operations, Mr. Foster 
 takes an active interest in social and civic affairs 
 in Los Angeles and is a member of various organ- 
 izations, including the Los Angeles Athletic Club, 
 Gamut Club, and the B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 463 
 
 ARGENT, EDWIN W., Attorney 
 and Vice President of the Title 
 Guarantee & Trust Company of 
 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Oregon, Dane 
 County, Wisconsin, August 15, 
 1848. His father was Croydon Sargent and his 
 mother Lucy W. (Hutchinson) Sargent. He mar- 
 ried Ella Bar at Sterling, Illinois, on August 30, 
 1876, and to them there has been born a daughter, 
 Lillian Sargent. 
 
 Mr. Sargent, who has occupied a leading posi- 
 tion among the professional and business men for 
 many years, was reared in his native State. After 
 completing his preliminary education he matricu- 
 lated at the University of Wisconsin, Liberal Arts 
 Department, in the year 1868, and continued his 
 studies there until the latter part of 1870. He then 
 moved to Iowa, and in 1873 entered the Law De- 
 partment of the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, 
 graduating the following year with his law degree. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation Mr. Sargent 
 was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
 Iowa, and going to Denison, Iowa, opened his 
 offices. He remained in practice there for approxi- 
 mately five years, and in 1879 moved to Atchison, 
 Kansas, where he pursued the business of his pro- 
 fession until 1886. During that time he came to 
 be known as one of the strong men of the profes- 
 sion, enjoyed a lucrative practice and achieved 
 considerable note as a specialist in land titles. 
 
 In 1886, upon relinquishing his practice in Atchi- 
 son, Mr. Sargent moved to Los Angeles and has re- 
 mained there ever since. When he first arrived in 
 the Southern California metropolis, it was only a 
 small town, but even then gave promise of the 
 greatness it has achieved since among the large 
 cities of the country, and Mr. Sargent, in his ca- 
 pacity as a title expert, aided materially in the de- 
 velopment of the real estate business, the growth 
 of which has been almost phenomenal. 
 
 His land title business in Kansas had made Mr. 
 Sargent familiar with the activities of the guaranty 
 title and abstract companies and he knew the op- 
 portunities they offered. He discovered upon lo- 
 cating in Los Angeles that there were no guaranty 
 title companies in existence there and that land 
 titles, under the system then in vogue, were given 
 without any guarantee. He immediately set about 
 the correction of this and other evils connected 
 with property transactions, and through his inno- 
 vations came to be known as "The Father of the 
 Land Title Business" in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Sargent made his impression upon the com- 
 munity by establishing as evidence of title in Los 
 Angeles City and County the "Certificate of Title," 
 practically in the form in which it is used today 
 in real estate transfers and has been for more 
 than twenty-five years. 
 
 In 1887 Los Angeles enjoyed a tremendous 
 boom in real estate, and during this historic 
 period of activity there were many persons en- 
 gaged in the abstract business who thrived wholly 
 upon searching the records by the name index for 
 the investigation of title, making expensive abstracts 
 and obtaining expensive legal opinions of lawyers 
 upon the same. With his wide experience in the 
 law and his intimate knowledge of the title and 
 abstract business, Mr. Sargent devised a plan for 
 putting an end to what he considered an extor- 
 tionate practice, and with it the basis of the land 
 title business of Los Angeles was formed. The 
 
 change was brought about, in the first place, by 
 the organization of the Los Angeles Abstract Com- 
 pany early in 1887, conceived in a spirit of fair 
 dealing and on a comprehensive scale, with Mr. 
 Sargent and several wealthy men of Los Angeles 
 as its organizers. 
 
 This company adopted what is known as the 
 "property system," by following the title to each 
 individual piece of land by the different references 
 that are made by all instruments affecting the title. 
 The company merely completed an abstract plant 
 in the fall of 1887, and then began making full and 
 unlimited certificates of title at a moderate price, 
 upon any and all real estate in the City of Los 
 Angeles and Los Angeles County. 
 
 It was the unusual legal ability brought to this 
 company by Mr. Sargent that enabled it to issue 
 Certificates of Title, and the community soon 
 learned that for a moderate price they obtained 
 the most competent legal opinion that could be 
 given on titles to real estate. These unlimited 
 Certificates of Title soon commanded the con- 
 fidence of real estate dealers, money lenders and 
 banks, and in a few years there was a complete 
 change in the business of furnishing evidence of 
 title, which was done quickly and at a great deal 
 less expense than under the former system. It 
 is conceded that Mr. Sargent, with his energy and 
 force of character, took the leading part in the 
 establishment of the Unlimited Certificate as the 
 universal and accepted means and evidence of 
 title employed by persons in the real estate trans- 
 actions of Loe- Angeles County. 
 
 The Los Angeles Abstract Company being a 
 success- from the start, the business was soon ex- 
 panded by the absorption of other firms, and in 
 1894, it was reorganized and the name changed to 
 that of the Title Insurance & Trust Company. The 
 following year Mr. Sargent resigned from this 
 institution and organized another, known as the 
 Title Guarantee & Trust Company, both of which 
 are now rated among the largest concerns of the 
 kind in the United States. They employ scores 
 of men in their clerical departments, require the 
 services of many lawyers and transact business of 
 immense proportions. Each is housed in a splendid 
 office building, among the handomest of Los An- 
 geles skyscrapers, the one known as the Title In- 
 surance & Trust Building, the other as the Title 
 Guarantee & Trust Building. 
 
 Mr. Sargent's residence in Los Angeles has cov- 
 ered the period of its greatest growth and the com- 
 panies of which he has been the organizer have 
 handled a large percentage of the titles to Los An- 
 gles property. In the management of these com- 
 panies Mr. Sargent has been one of the dominant 
 factors, and few men are more intimately ac- 
 quainted with the history of ownership of acres 
 and lots in Southern California. 
 
 Aside from his own business interests Mr. Sar- 
 gent is one of those men who is quietly yet effec- 
 tively behind every public movement which con- 
 cerns his city. He recognizes that part of his suc- 
 cess is due to the rapid growth of Los Angeles 
 and of the territory surrounding, and has always 
 been willing with both work and means to assist 
 in all enterprises for the public good. He is not 
 an active factor in politics, but is an advocate of 
 a beautiful and well governed city. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic Order, is a 
 Knight Templar and Shriner and a member of 
 the Jonathan Club. 
 
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 LPAUGH, EDWIN KITCHEN, 
 Orange Grower and President of 
 the Provident Pledge Corpora- 
 tion, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Asbury, New Jersey, 
 February 28, 1853, the son of John 
 R. Alpaugh and Sarah Ann (Ingham) Alpaugh. He 
 married Sarah E. Slack, daughter of General James 
 R. Slack, at Huntington, Indiana, May 17, 1882 and 
 to them there was born a daughter, Mary I. Al- 
 paugh. Mr. Alpaugh is de- 
 scended from Colonial stock, 
 connected on the maternal 
 side with the Runkle and 
 Ingham families of New Jer- 
 sey. The Runkles trace back 
 in direct line to the middle 
 ages, at which time they 
 were among the nobility of 
 Germany. The first of this 
 branch in America was Adam 
 Runkle, the great - great - 
 grandfather of Mr. Alpaugh, 
 and a man of prominence 
 and great religious fervor 
 during the Revolutionary 
 period. His son, William, 
 great-grandfather of Mr. Al- 
 paugh, was a wealthy farmer 
 and land owner of New Jer- 
 sey, noted as one of the com- 
 manding men of his section. 
 His daughter married Jona- 
 than W. Ingham and they 
 were the parents of Mr. Al- 
 paugh's mother. 
 
 Mr. Alpaugh spent his 
 childhood in New Jersey and 
 from 1860 to 1863 attended 
 
 an academy at Clinton, N. J., but the family re- 
 moving to Indiana in 1863, the greater part of his 
 life was spent in the latter State. His parents lo- 
 cated on a farm and he helped his father during 
 the greater part of each year, going to the country 
 school for about three months out of the twelve. 
 Concluding his schooling when he was about six- 
 teen years of age Mr. Alpaugh worked on the farm 
 of his father until 1871, when he moved to Wabash, 
 Indiana, and went into the drug business. 
 
 For the next two years Mr. Alpaugh confined 
 his time to the drug business in Wabash and in 
 Lagro, Indiana, and in 1873 moved to Huntington, 
 Indiana, where he obtained employment as a clerk 
 in a drug store. The confining life of stores told 
 on his health in time, and in 1876 he gave up the 
 drug business, in which he had become known as 
 a capable pharmacist, and went to Tennessee, 
 where he worked in the woods for three years. 
 
 Returning to Huntington, Indiana, in 1879, Mr. 
 Alpaugh embarked in the drug business for him- 
 self and conducted a store there for about five 
 
 EDWIN K. ALPAUGH 
 
 years, but sold it out at the end of that time and 
 went into the lumber business with his brother- 
 in-law. They operated under the name of Slack 
 & Alpaugh, and for more than ten years, Mr. Al- 
 paugh was active in the business, but sold out 
 his interest in 1895 and practically retired from 
 active business for several years. 
 
 Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Alpaugh traveled 
 through the northwestern part of the United States 
 for some time, going as far north as Alaska and then 
 returned to Indiana by way 
 of the Pacific Coast. They 
 halted in Los Angeles for a 
 time and Mr. Alpaugh was 
 so impressed with Southern 
 California during his brief 
 stay there that he sold his 
 home in Indiana in 1898 and 
 returned to Los Angeles, in 
 and near where he has made 
 his home ever since. 
 
 For about two years Mr. 
 Alpaugh was not actively en- 
 gaged in business, but in the 
 early part of 1900 he pur- 
 chased thirty acres of the 
 finest Valencia orange land 
 from the L. J. Rose Sunny 
 Slope estate, one of the 
 celebrated fruit ranches of 
 Southern California, and has 
 been engaged as an orange 
 grower since that time. He 
 makes his home on the ranch, 
 and in addition to having been 
 for many years a large ship- 
 per of fruit from his own land, 
 is Vice President of the Cit- 
 rus Cove Ranch Company. 
 In 1911, upon the organization of the Provi- 
 dent Pledge Company of Los Angeles, Mr. Al- 
 paugh, who had devoted himself exclusively to 
 orange growing, was called from his ranch to take 
 the office of President of the concern. The Provi- 
 dent Pledge Corporation is capitalized at $500,000 
 and was organized for the purpose of lending money 
 at a minimum rate of interest, with the result that 
 it has served to free Los Angeles, to a great extent, 
 from the loan shark evil. 
 
 Mr. Alpaugh devotes a large part of his time to 
 business, but also continues as one of the large 
 individual orange growers of Southern California. 
 During the time he was engaged in the drug 
 business, Mr. Alpaugh took an active interest in 
 scientific matters and was a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society for the Advancement of Science, but 
 upon retiring from the business he gave up his 
 membership. He continues his studies of scientific 
 subjects, but his only affiliation outside of business 
 circles is the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, 
 and the Cazadores Gun Club, near Los Patos. 
 
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 465 
 
 OULSTON, JOHN BISHOP, Presi- 
 dent, Crown City National Bank, 
 Pasadena, Cal., was born at Ellis- 
 burg, Pa., May 22, 1869, the son 
 of John Coulston and Stella Char- 
 lotte (Bishop) Coulston. He mar- 
 ried Nora V. Seibert at Austin, Pennsylvania, No- 
 vember 10, 1891, and to them there have been 
 born two sons, John T. and George S. Coulston, 
 and a daughter, Lillian M. Coulston. 
 
 Mr. Coulston had only a 
 common school education 
 and worked on his father's 
 farm until he was seventeen 
 years of age. In 1887 he 
 went to Austin, Pa., and 
 there became Assistant Post- 
 master, a position he held 
 until 1890. He then entered 
 the employ of the F. H. & C. 
 W. Goodyear Lumber Com- 
 pany and also was engaged 
 in the drug business for sev- 
 eral years, until he moved to 
 Coudersport, Pa., in 1894. 
 
 At that time he became 
 interested in the natural gas 
 business and served as Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer of sev- 
 eral gas companies in North- 
 western Pennsylvania and 
 Southwestern New York, 
 representing the T. N. Barns- 
 dall interests. He also 
 turned his attention to bank- 
 ing and organized the Cou- 
 dersport Trust Company and 
 several affiliated banks in 
 that section of the country. 
 
 Prom that time forward Mr. Coulston has been 
 actively engaged in the banking business and until 
 he transferred his residence to Southern Cali- 
 fornia was one of the leading financiers in North- 
 western Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Coulston made a visit to Pasadena, 
 California, as a tourist seeking relief from asthma, 
 and the following year, after disposing of his in- 
 terests in Pennsylvania, transferred his home to 
 the Crown City. Shortly after his arrival Mr. 
 Coulston organized the Covina National Bank, at 
 Covina, California, adjacent to Pasadena, and the 
 Colton National Bank of Colton, California, in 
 both of which institutions he filled the office of 
 President. These organizations marked the be- 
 ginning of Mr. Coulston's career in the banking 
 affairs of Southern California and in the years 
 that have followed he has figured in numerous 
 others. He was one of the organizers of the Na- 
 tional Bank of Riverside, California, and also of 
 the Traders Bank of Los Angeles, in which he 
 holds the office of Vice President. 
 
 J. B. COULSTON 
 
 In 1907 he purchased the Crown City Bank, 
 then a small State institution located at East 
 Pasadena, and two years later caused it to be 
 Nationalized. The history of this bank, since Mr. 
 Coulston took over its management, has been 
 most remarkable. In 1907 it had deposits of only 
 $41,000, and in 1912, a period of about five years, 
 had more than a million and a quarter dollars on 
 deposit and ranked among the strongest monetary 
 institutions of California and the West. 
 
 Mr. Coulston's success in 
 the upbuilding of this bank 
 has been characteristic of 
 his work in behalf of va- 
 rious others with which he 
 has been connected, and in 
 addition to the institutions 
 mentioned, he has been a 
 factor in the growth of the 
 following : 
 
 Crown City Savings & 
 Trust Company, of which he 
 is President; the First Na- 
 tional Bank of San Pedro, 
 Gal., of which he is a Direc- 
 tor; the First National 
 Bank of South Pasadena, in 
 which he is- a Director, and 
 the South Pasadena Savings 
 Bank, in which he is also a 
 Director. 
 
 Aside from his banking 
 connection, Mr. Coulston is 
 largely interested in the cit- 
 rus industry, with extensive 
 orange ranches at Covina 
 and Glendora, Cal. His 
 Wildwood ranch at the lat- 
 ter place is one of the show 
 
 places of Southern California. He is also actively 
 engaged in the development of water for irriga- 
 tion purposes in Southern California, and has been 
 a Director of several large irrigation companies. 
 
 Mr. Coulston's diversified interests command a 
 large part of his time, but nevertheless he takes an 
 active interest in civic affairs of Pasadena, although 
 he is not in politics. For four years he has been a 
 Director of the Tournament of Roses Association, 
 and has been one of the men responsible for the 
 success of the organization in recent years. This 
 association's chief object is the promotion of the 
 world-famous "Tournament of Roses," the beautiful 
 carnival held on New Year's Day at Pasadena each 
 year, to which thousands of touri&ts are attracted. 
 Mr. Coulston has a beautiful home at Altadena, 
 surrounded by a grove of choice tropical and sub- 
 tropical fruit trees. He is President of the Altadena 
 Country Club and belongs to the Annandale Coun- 
 try Club, the Overland Club of Pasadena, and the 
 Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. He is a Thirty- 
 second degree Mason, member, Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 ARTIN, GEORGE GUSHING, At- 
 torney, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Minonk, Illinois, De- 
 cember 10, 1875, the son of Eu- 
 clid Martin and Luelle (Gushing) 
 Martin. He is descended from 
 one of the most notable of the old families of Vir- 
 ginia, the Martins having given numerous men to 
 the military and professional ranks of the nation. 
 He married Helene Smith at Los Angeles, Novem- 
 ber 3, 1903, and is the father 
 of Adelaide Helen, Gaylor 
 Georgia, Euclid II and Vir- 
 ginia Rose Martin. 
 
 Euclid Martin, the father, 
 now a resident of Pasadena, 
 was for many years one of 
 the most prominent citizens 
 of the State of Nebraska. 
 During his residence in that 
 State, he was identified with 
 practically every movement 
 of importance undertaken by 
 the citizens for the benefit 
 of the State, and particularly 
 for the City of Omaha, of 
 which he was a resident. 
 
 He was for many years 
 Chairman of the Democratic 
 State Central Committee, 
 was a member of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of the 
 World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion at Chicago. He was 
 President of the Omaha Board 
 of Trade, the Omaha Com- 
 mercial Club, the Omaha 
 Business Men's Association, 
 the Nebraska-Iowa Grain Co., 
 
 Parlin-Orendorff & Martin Co., and the Martin An- 
 derson Co. He was postmaster of Omaha, a per- 
 sonal friend of Grover Cleveland, Adlai Stevenson 
 and J. Sterling Morton, and was tendered a ban- 
 quet on his leaving Omaha for California, by the 
 citizens of Omaha, and was at the banquet pre- 
 sented with a handsome loving cup as a memento 
 of the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. 
 
 Mr. Martin's family having moved further West 
 when he was a youth, most of his younger days 
 were spent in Nebraska. He attended the public 
 schools of Omaha and was graduated from the 
 high school there, after which he went to Phillips 
 Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He followed 
 this with a course at Heidleberg, Germany's 
 famous educational seat, and upon his re- 
 turn to the United States entered the University 
 of Wisconsin, at Madison, from which he was 
 graduated. 
 
 Upon leaving school Mr. Martin decided to study 
 law as a profession and was fortunate in being 
 taken into the office of two of the most noted 
 
 GEORGE C. MARTIN 
 
 jurists produced by the United States in recent 
 times. They were John C. Spooner, for many years 
 one of the leaders of the United States Senate, 
 and A. L. Sanborn, who has gained fame as United 
 States District Judge in Wisconsin. Mr. Martin 
 read law under these two famous practitioners and 
 later attended the law school of the University of 
 Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in the 
 year 1899. 
 
 After he was admitted to practice, Mr. Martin 
 became a member of the law 
 firm of Duffie, Gaines, Kelby 
 & Martin, one of the lead- 
 ing firms in Nebraska. E. R. 
 Duffie, the senior member of 
 the firm, later became a Jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of 
 Nebraska and James E. Kel- 
 by, another member gained 
 fame as the General Counsel 
 for the Chicago, Burlington 
 & Quincy Railroad. Mr. 
 Martin practiced in Omaha 
 for approximately six years 
 and then removed to Los An- 
 geles, where he was admitted 
 to practice in California, and 
 opened offices which he has 
 since maintained. He prac- 
 ticed alone for the first seven 
 years after his arrival there 
 and then, in 1912, his former 
 partner, Mr. Kelly, having 
 moved to Los Angeles, they 
 formed a new partnership 
 there. 
 
 In addition to his work in 
 the legal profession, Mr. 
 Martin has won distinc- 
 tion in other lines of endeavor, notably as an in- 
 ventor and writer. He is the inventor of a number 
 of practical devices, but the most important one, 
 perhaps, is the Martin Shock Absorber, which is 
 manufactured in Los Angeles by the Martin Shock 
 Absorber Company, of which he is President and 
 principal stockholder. 
 
 Mr. Martin's writings have been along scientific 
 lines and consist principally of articles for the 
 technical press of the country. In his legal work 
 he has made a specialty of patent causes and was 
 connected with various important cases for the 
 United Motor Company, and others. 
 
 Since his arrival in Los Angeles he has become 
 intimately identified with public affairs in the city 
 and State. 
 
 He has taken an active interest in politics- and 
 for a time was a member of the Los Angeles County 
 Central Democratic Committee. 
 
 He is a member of the Psi Upsilon and Phi 
 Delta Phi college fraternities, also of the California 
 Club and Gamut Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 467 
 
 ADNER, ALBERT EDWIN, Bank- 
 ing and Investments, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in San Fran- 
 cisco, California, June 28, 1874, 
 the son of Edwin Ladner and 
 Nancy Clark (Nowlin) Ladner. 
 He married Maud Withers at Salinas, California, 
 May 9, 1894, and to them there have been born 
 four children two daughters, Marguerite and Mil- 
 dred, and two sons, Ernest and Raymond Ladner. 
 
 Mr. Ladner attended the 
 public schools of Petaluma, 
 California, until he was fif- 
 teen years of age, but from 
 that time forward has been 
 earning his own livelihood, 
 and has won a place for him- 
 self in the business world 
 through his own efforts. He 
 began his career in 1889 as a 
 clerk in a small country 
 store at San Luis Obispo, 
 California, and remained 
 there for about two years. 
 
 Returning to San Fran- 
 cisco in 1891, Mr. Ladner en- 
 tered the employ of the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company and worked in va- 
 rious capacities for the next 
 few years, being Assistant 
 Station Agent at Monterey, 
 when he resigned in 1894. He 
 gave up railroading in order 
 to take over the manage- 
 ment of his father's cattle 
 ranch, which he purchased 
 outright some time later and 
 which he continues to retain. 
 
 For several years prior to 1902 Mr. Ladner in- 
 terested himself in various mining enterprises and 
 for three years operated a quicksilver mine, which 
 he later sold to Los Angeles capitalists. Following 
 this he went to Los Angeles in search of an invest- 
 ment and within a short time embarked in the 
 grocery business at San Pedro (Los Angeles Har- 
 bor), but sold this out at the expiration of a few 
 months and re-engaged in mining. 
 
 From this he turned, in time, to concrete con- 
 struction and superintended the erection of sta- 
 tions for the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad on its 
 new line into Las Vegas. In addition he built nu- 
 merous mining plant buildings and did other work 
 in the Colorado Desert country. He continued in 
 the construction business until 1908, disposing of 
 his interest at that time to take up the develop- 
 ment of an alfalfa ranch which he had purchased 
 in Southern California. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Ladner directed his attention to 
 financial matters and in association with others or- 
 ganized the Anchor Brokerage Company, which 
 
 A. E. LADNER 
 
 brought about the formation of the Anchor Fire 
 Insurance Company. This company later was 
 merged with the California National Life Insurance 
 Company and Mr. Ladner, as one of the principal 
 factors in the original concern, had a prominent 
 part in the amalgamation. 
 
 In 1911, through the Anchor Brokerage Com- 
 pany, acting as a holding corporation, the Pyramid 
 Investment Company was organized in Los An- 
 geles and this has since become one of the factors 
 in the home building busi- 
 ness of that city. Mr. Lad- 
 ner was elected to the Board 
 of Directors and made Man- 
 ager of the company, a posi- 
 tion he held for more than a 
 year, devoting his time to 
 getting the concern started 
 on a sound basis. 
 
 Los Angeles, like most 
 other cities of its size, was 
 beset for many years by the 
 "loan shark" evil in its va- 
 rious phases and the usuri- 
 ous rates- of interest charged 
 became so great that in the 
 early part of 1912, a 
 civic crusade against that 
 class of business resulted 
 in the prosecution of nu- 
 merous firms and individuals. 
 A direct result of this cru- 
 sade was the organization 
 of the Provident Pledge Com- 
 pany, capitalized at $1,000,- 
 000, for the purpose of lend- 
 ing money at a minimum 
 rate of interest, ins-tead of 
 at 10 and 20 per cent per 
 
 month, as had been the practice. Mr. Ladner 
 aided in the organization of this company, which 
 is incorporated under the laws of California, and 
 was made Vice President and Treasurer of the 
 concern. 
 
 In addition to this company, Mr. Ladner is in- 
 terested in various other enterprises, among them 
 the Bank of Lancaster 'Lancaster, California), in 
 which he is- Secretary, Treasurer and Director; 
 Lancaster Land & Loan Company, of which he is 
 President and the Pyramid Investment Company 
 in which he is a Director. 
 
 He takes an active interest in the affairs of 
 each of these companies, but devotes the greater 
 part of his time to the management of the Provi- 
 dent Pledge Company. 
 
 Mr. Ladner is a prominent member of the Ma- 
 sonic Fraternity in Los Angeles, having member- 
 ship in Pentalpha Lodge, No. 202, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, Los Angeles Consistory, No. 3, Scottish 
 Rite, and the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to 
 the Metropolitan Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 469 
 
 OBBS, JOHN HENRY, Mining, Los 
 Angeles and Pasadena, California, 
 was born in Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado, January 22, 1874, the 
 son of James Thomas Hobbs and 
 Mary (Dalton) Hobbs. He mar- 
 ried Charlotte Estep at Colorado Springs, June 26, 
 1898, and to them there has been born a daughter, 
 Catharine Wray Hobbs. 
 
 Mr. Hobbs spent the greater part of his life in 
 his native State and attended the public schools 
 there. At a later date he completed a business 
 course in a college at Colorado Springs and was 
 graduated in the class of 1894. 
 
 Immediately after the completion of his educa- 
 tion, Mr. Hobbs, who had devoted special attention 
 to the study of banking, entered the offices of Clar- 
 .ence Edsall & Company, a brokerage firm of Colo- 
 rado Springs, and at the end of eighteen months re- 
 signed to go into the employ of the El Paso Na- 
 tional Bank of that city. He retained his position 
 there until the beginning of the year 1896. 
 
 At that time, Mr. Hobbs, in conjunction with 
 the Edsall interests, took up mining and has been 
 interested in mining enterprises since that time, 
 his operations taking him to various mining 
 fields of the United States and Mexico. His 
 first venture was in the latter country, where he 
 mined successfully until 1898, and at the end of 
 the two-year period he returned to Colorado, locat- 
 ing at Cripple Creek. He was then taken into the 
 brokerage firm of Edsall, Key & Company as an 
 equal partner, and was given the management of 
 all the mining properties which the firm controlled. 
 These he managed until 1907, at which time he 
 went to New York City and opened brokerage of- 
 fices at No. 1 Wall Street, under the firm name of 
 Hobbs & Seeley. 
 
 Through his knowledge of mining and his affilia- 
 tion with various important mining men of the 
 West, he soon built up an extensive stock business 
 and during the time he remained in Wall Street 
 was extremely active. While in New York, Mr. 
 Hobbs became associated with John Hays Ham- 
 mond, the eminent mining expert and engineer, and 
 together they went to California in October, 1908, 
 becoming jointly interested in the Tom Reed Gold 
 Mines Company of Arizona and the Pacific Mines 
 Company of California. The former was one of the 
 most productive properties ever worked in the 
 Southwest, but the holdings of the Pacific Mines 
 Company exceed it in value. This company, whicn 
 is owned by five prominent mining men of New 
 York and Los Angeles, has one mine which pro- 
 duces one hundred and fifty tons of ore daily, the 
 gold value being unu&ually high. Mr. Hobbs is a 
 Director of the company and one of the active fac- 
 tors in its management. 
 
 Mr. Hobbs at one time held the controlling in- 
 terest and the office of President in the Nugget 
 Mining & Milling Company, which, in 1899, became 
 involved in a very serious and bitter litigation 
 with the Doctor & Chief Mining Company and the 
 Jackpot Mining Company of Colorado. The litiga- 
 tion continued for more than a year and was 
 finally terminated in 1900 by the consolidation of 
 the three companies into what is known as the 
 
 Doctor Jackpot Mining Company of Colorado. 
 Mr. Hobbs was an active factor in the litigation 
 and also the peacemaker, the merger of the con- 
 testing companies being brought about largely 
 through his efforts. Since the reorganization he 
 has served as Secretary, Treasurer and Director of 
 the Doctor Jackpot Mining Company, one of whose 
 mines has produced gold valued at more than three 
 and a half million dollars. 
 
 In 1905, Mr. Hobbs acquired the lease on what 
 was known as Stratton's Independence, Limited, a 
 valuable property in the Cripple Creek district of 
 Colorado. This mine was valued at ten million dol- 
 lars and was considered the most important lease 
 in the Cripple Creek region at that time. 
 
 In his mining operations, Mr. Hobbs has com- 
 bined the abilities of the practical engineer with 
 those of the financier and in both branches of the 
 business- has proved unusually successful. 
 
 Mr. Hobbs devotes himself assiduously to his 
 work, but at the same time is a prominent figure in 
 club and social circles of Southern California and 
 is an ardent devotee of the sport of Polo. He 
 played Polo in Denver and Colorado Springs for 
 several years before transferring his- home to Cali- 
 fornia and is regarded as one of the experts of the 
 game. He is the owner of a stable of pedigreed 
 ponies and ever since his location in the Southwest 
 has been a conspicuous figure in the matches played 
 between the teams of Southern California and va- 
 rious foreign players visiting the United States. 
 In 1910, he was a member of the championship 
 t'eam of Coronado Beach, winners of the State tro- 
 phy, and the following year played as a member of 
 the Pasadena Polo Club team, one of the fastest in 
 the United States. In 1912, Mr. Hobbs was elected 
 Captain of the Coronado Country Club team, made 
 up of brilliant players who have proved their abili- 
 ties in matches with the world's best Poloists. Polo 
 being the principal sport of the winter season in 
 Southern California, Mr. Hobbs figures prominently 
 in the Polo &et and enjoys unusual personal popu- 
 larity. 
 
 In addition to the mining projects already men- 
 tioned, Mr. Hobbs is interested in several others, 
 these including the La Luz Mines Company, of 
 Guanajuato, Mexico, of which he is President, and 
 the Empire Copper Company, in which he also 
 holds the office of President. This latter concern 
 has been operating in Idaho for more than seven 
 years and during that time Mr. Hobbs has been 
 the directing force. He is possessed of grit and 
 determination, and during the sixteen years he 
 has been in the mining business has contributed 
 materially to the upbuilding of the various sections, 
 where he has operated. 
 
 Mr. Hobbs maintains his offices in Los Angeles, 
 but has his residence in Pasadena, California, the 
 beautiful winter resort where many of the notables 
 of the United States have their homes. Mr. Hobbs 
 is a member of several clubs there, including the 
 Pasadena Polo Club, Pasadena Country Club, and 
 the Midwick Country Club. His other club affilia- 
 tions include the Denver Club and Denver Country 
 Club of Denver, Colorado; El Paso Club and Chey- 
 enne Mountain Country Club, of Colorado Springs; 
 *nd the Rocky Mountain Club, of New York City. 
 
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 'NEALL, GROSVENOR PIXLEY, 
 Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Idaho 
 Springs, Colorado, November 27, 
 1872, the son of Dr. Jefferson 
 Cyrus O'Neall and Josephine 
 (Pixley) O'Neall. He married Frances Grace 
 Church Dampier at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 
 17, 1900, and to them there has been born a son, 
 Grosvenor Pixley Hugh O'Neall. While his family 
 has been prominent in 
 America eince 1730 ana Mr. 
 O'Neall, of the sixth genera- 
 tion, is distinctly and typi- 
 cally American, there are 
 combined in him four strains 
 Irish, Scotch, English and 
 Dutch. He is directly de- 
 scended from the Earls of 
 Tyrone, Ireland, and one of 
 his early ancestors was Sir 
 Tristram Coffin of Nantucket. 
 The American branch of 
 the family was of Quaker 
 belief and resided for four 
 generations in Newberry, 
 South Carolina. Chief Jus- 
 tice John Belton O'Neall of 
 the Supreme Court of South 
 Carolina, was the head of the 
 family and the most promi- 
 nent member during his life- 
 time. During the Revolu- 
 tionary War four of Mr. 
 O'Neall's great-great grand- 
 uncles were under arms. One, 
 Major James O'Neall, was 
 on the Staff of General 
 Washington, and a younger 
 
 brother was a drummer boy in the Continental 
 Army. Two others, British sympathizers, served 
 the Crown, as Colonel and Captain, respectively, 
 in the English Army. Mr. O'Neall's great-great- 
 grandfather, brother of these four soldiers, was a 
 devout Quaker and refused to bear arms against 
 his fellow-man, but his sympathies were with the 
 Colonials and he furnished the American forces 
 with a large amount of supplies. 
 
 The O'Neall and allied families have been 
 prominent in the affairs of the South since their 
 earliest days, various members having served in 
 Congress or held other positions of trust. One of 
 these is Governor Emmet O'Neal, of Alabama. On 
 the paternal side, Mr. O'Neall is connected with 
 the Coffin, Gilbert and Cary families, all noted 
 names in the South, and on the maternal side he 
 is connected with the Kipp, Radcliffe, Sturgis, 
 Noxon and Pixley families of New York and 
 Massachusetts, and the Clarks, of Hartford, Conn. 
 Mr. O'Neall received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of Massachusetts and later 
 
 GROSVENOR P. O'NEALL 
 
 attended Holderness Church School, at Plymouth, 
 New Hampshire. He was graduated from Wash- 
 ington College, at Tacoma, Washington, in 1892, 
 and in 1895 took up the study of law in the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota. He was graduated in the 
 class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
 Admitted to practice in the courts of Minne- 
 sota shortly after his graduation, Mr. O'Neall be- 
 gan his professional career in the office of Morphy, 
 Ewing & Gilbert, a law firm of St. Paul. He re- 
 mained with this firm for 
 about a year, at which time 
 it was dissolved, and he then 
 became associated with Phil- 
 lip Gilbert, who had been a 
 member of it. He was with 
 Mr. Gilbert for a short time 
 and then opened offices 
 alone. 
 
 Early in his career Mr. 
 O'Neall became affiliated 
 with the Republican party in 
 St. Paul, and took an active 
 part in the local and State 
 campaigns. He was one of 
 the organizers of the first 
 Roosevelt Club in the coun- 
 try and served as its chair- 
 man for a time. In 1901 he 
 was nominated for County 
 Attorney, but failed of elec- 
 tion, being defeated by a 
 small majority. 
 
 The stress of his profes- 
 sional work and political ac- 
 tivity greatly impaired 
 the health of Mr. O'Neall, 
 and in 1903 he was com- 
 pelled to give up his work 
 
 in St. Paul and quit the cold climate of the North 
 for the more congenial climate of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. Locating at Los Angeles, he was admitted 
 to the bar and practiced there for about a year. 
 He then went to New York City as attorney for sev- 
 eral large corporation interests and during the next 
 two years devoted himself almost exclusively to 
 corporation law. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. O'Neall was chosen attorney for 
 the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad 
 Company, with headquarters in Seattle, Wash- 
 ington, and went to the latter city. He continued 
 as attorney for the railroad for about five years, 
 resigning in March, 1911, to return to Los Angeles, 
 where he has been engaged in general practice. 
 Mr. O'Neall has devoted himself to his profes- 
 sion and is reckoned among its successful mem- 
 bers. He has taken an interest in public affairs 
 during his entire career and, while a resident of 
 Seattle, served in the National Guard of Wash- 
 ington. He is a Master Mason and a member of 
 the American Bar Association. 
 
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 471 
 
 RAHAM, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
 President, Graham Farm Lands 
 Company, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Coryell County, Texas, 
 Oct. 21, 1868, the son of Otis Den- 
 ton Graham and Martha (Thorn- 
 
 ton) Graham. Of Scotch-English ancestry, he 
 
 has carried through life the qualities of shrewd- 
 
 ness, integrity and affability presumed to inhere 
 
 in that strong combination. Mr. Graham was mar- 
 
 ried in 1887 and later di- 
 
 vorced. He has three chil- 
 
 dren, Nettie May, Bertha and 
 
 Cecil Franklin Graham. 
 Mr. Graham began at an 
 
 early age to fight the battles 
 
 of life and has been at it 
 
 ever since. He has been 
 
 successful in accumulating 
 
 three fortunes. His educa- 
 
 tion was received at inter- 
 
 vals from the district school, 
 
 and when not there attend- 
 
 ing, he worked on his father's 
 
 farm. At the age of eighteen 
 
 he had accumulated enough 
 
 capital through his own en- 
 
 ergy, to lease a tract of farm- 
 
 ing land. This same farm Mr. 
 
 Graham later bought with 
 
 money accumulated as a re- 
 
 sult of his intelligent indus- 
 
 try. 
 In 1891, on account of ill 
 
 health, he sold his farm and 
 
 moved to New Mexico, where 
 
 he established a mercantile 
 
 store at Carlsbad and later, 
 
 one at Roswell. During the 
 
 few years that Mr. Graham 
 
 was in New Mexico outside 
 
 activities, such as real estate 
 
 and mining, claimed his at- 
 
 tention a good deal of the 
 
 time. He later sold his 
 
 B. F. GRAHAM 
 
 ests in New Mexico and in 1896 moved to Arizona, 
 where he started a mercantile store at Bisbee. He 
 also engaged in real estate there and operated 
 mining properties in that vicinity. Soon he be- 
 came a general broker and after two years gave 
 up the mercantile business in order to devote his 
 time exclusively to the promotion and development 
 of new mining properties. In 1903 his operations 
 spread to Douglas, Arizona, and thence in differ- 
 ent parts of that State and in Old Mexico. 
 
 Three years later Mr. Graham, who had come 
 into possession of properties representing 
 nearly three million dollars, encountered a heavy 
 loss. 
 
 After this experience he went to Los Angeles, 
 California, where he remained but a short time 
 before securing an option on a valuable mine in 
 British Columbia, but after going to the northern 
 fields he saw greater possibilities in the timber 
 industry. He was in the territory hardly thirty 
 days before he had secured a tract of twenty 
 thousand acres of timber. This he sold in a 
 very short time, netting for himself a very hand- 
 some profit. In October of the same year he se- 
 cured 100,000 acres of timber located on what is 
 now known as Graham Island, and immediately 
 organized the Graham Island Lumber Company, 
 
 a company of which he is now the sole owner. 
 He has since sold all of the timber on Graham 
 Island, and has disposed of a large part of other 
 timber holdings which he had accumulated. Mr. 
 Graham met with phenomenal success in his timber 
 deals during that year, with the result that he 
 switched from mining to timber and real estate 
 operations. By 1910 he had secured large land 
 holdings in California and Oregon, and also a sixty- 
 eight thousand-acre plantation in Mexico, part of 
 which is in coffee and con- 
 taining 600,000 trees. Mr. 
 Graham soon became one of 
 the largest land operators on 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 
 From 1910 until 1912 he 
 spent the time in looking 
 after his properties, and in- 
 vestigating properties offered 
 in large tracts in Southern 
 California suitable for sub- 
 division purposes on a large 
 scale. Mr. Graham was suc- 
 cessful in finding, twenty 
 miles west of the city of 
 Fresno, seventy-two thousand 
 acres known as the J. G. 
 James ranch. After spending 
 three months bringing this 
 deal to a close it was con- 
 summated for a sum stated 
 to aggregate three million 
 dollars. He closed the deal 
 July 24th, 1912, and this tract 
 constitutes one of the largest, 
 owned and controlled by one 
 man, in the State of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Mr. Graham began at once 
 with the development of this 
 vast tract of land by organiz- 
 ing the Graham Farm Lands 
 Company. He is the Presi- 
 dent and General Manager of 
 the company and is also the 
 
 managing director of all its operations. He has 
 turned over to the company the entire seventy-two 
 thousand acres with its present town-site of Tran- 
 quillity and a new one to be named Graham. 
 
 Graham is to be the principal town of Graham 
 Ranch and is located in the exact center of the 
 property and on the line of the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad. The country surrounding Graham is be- 
 ing laid out in farms of all sizes, irrigation ditches 
 and roads are being built and the water supply 
 put in shape to immediately take care of the land. 
 The future of the town is practically assured by 
 the improvements being installed and fertility of 
 the soil of the vast farming country tributary. 
 
 Mr. Graham is now devoting his entire time to 
 carrying out his idea of making the Graham Ranch 
 the most successful farming community in the West. 
 He is laying it out in small farms of from two acres 
 up, thus making for the man with small means a 
 place which will yield him returns, acre for acre, 
 equal to those earned by the large farm owners. 
 
 Mr. Graham is a member of the Jonathan Club 
 of Los Angeles, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, 
 of the Southern Club of Chicago, of the Glenn Oak 
 Country Club of Chicago, of the Chicago Athletic 
 Club, and of the Chamber of Commerce of Chicago 
 and also the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. 
 
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 BYRON MAUZY 
 
 AUZY, BYRON, Piano Manufac- 
 turer and Merchant, San Fran- 
 cisco, Cal., was born in Rushville, 
 Ind., March 31, 1860, the son of 
 Reuben D. Mauzy and Rachel 
 (Caldwell) Mauzy. He married 
 Ellen Tillman Schroth at San Francisco, April 15, 
 1891. Mr. Mauzy attended the public schools of his 
 native town up to the year 1875, when he moved to 
 San Francisco. There he entered high school for 
 two years, and then went out into the world to 
 carve a career for himself. 
 
 He learned the piano trade and worked at that 
 for seven years. At the end of that period (1884) 
 Mr. Mauzy embarked in business for himself, and 
 has continued down to date. He has enlarged his 
 field of operations during the 27 years in which he 
 has been in business, and today, in addition to con- 
 ducting one of the finest and most widely known 
 piano salesrooms on the Pacific Coast, he is a man- 
 ufacturer and importer, handling some of the 
 world's most noted instruments. 
 
 He is a director of the Down Town Association, 
 and has also been Treasurer and Director for five 
 years of the Merchants' Association, a body devoted 
 to commercial progress. He is a director of the 
 Mechanics' Institute, having held that office for 
 many years. 
 
 He has taken a prominent part in the progres- 
 sive politics of San Francisco, and in 1907 was a 
 candidate for Mayor on the Lincoln-Roosevelt Re- 
 publican ticket. In 1911 was elected Supervisor, 
 two-year term. 
 
 He is a member of the Bohemian, Union League, 
 Olympic, Commonwealth, Elks and Rotary Clubs, in 
 addition to being a member of the Masonic orders, 
 a Knight Templar, Eastern Star and Shriner, 32d- 
 degree Mason, Scottish Rite, Son of the American 
 Revolution, Vice President and Director of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 A. W. ROSS 
 
 OSS, ALVAH WARREN, Real Es- 
 tate and Investments, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Des 
 Moines, la., Oct. 15, 1878, the son 
 of William C. Ross and Sarah A. 
 Ross. He married Jennie S. 
 Rounsefell, Feb. 10, 1902, at Los Angeles. There is 
 one child, Wilfred Gordon Ross. 
 
 He finished the public schools of Des Moines, 
 la., and in 1893 he was brought to Los Angeles, 
 where he attended the Woodbury Business College. 
 He studied law under private instruction for a 
 couple of years, but only as a preparation for busi- 
 ness and not with the intention of practice. 
 
 In 1900 he engaged in the real estate and in- 
 vestment business, which is still his principal in- 
 terest. He at first made a specialty of building and 
 selling homes. There was a big demand for such 
 houses at that time and he had considerable suc- 
 cess. He then branched out and began the pur- 
 chase of suburban tracts, adjacent to the city, and 
 their development into building lots. These tracts 
 he improved according to the best residential stand- 
 ards, cutting and paving streets, laying sidewalks 
 and bordering the streets with trees and flowers 
 and placing gas, water and light mains. Most of 
 the tracts have now been included within the city 
 limits. He developed one of the first subdivisions 
 of the now famous Wilshire district, where the fin- 
 est residences are being built. 
 
 Mr. Ross is heavily interested in the oil busi- 
 ness in the San Joaquin Valley and other fields. He 
 is Secretary and Treasurer of the Oil Development 
 Co., and Secretary and Treasurer of the Los An- 
 geles-Kern Oil Co. He is a director in the Zahn 
 Roller Bearing Co. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, the Union League Club, Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, and the Los Angeles Realty 
 Board. 
 
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 A. H. KOEBiG, JR. 
 
 OEBIG, ADOLF H., Jr., Civil En- 
 gineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at San Bernardino, Cali- 
 fornia, August 5, 1886. He is the 
 son of A. H. Koebig, Sr., and 
 Helene M. ((Kieffer) Koebig. 
 He received his primary education in the public 
 schools of San Bernardino and Harvard Military 
 Academy, located at Los Angeles. He attended the 
 University of Southern California in 1901, and for 
 two years subsequently was a student at Leland 
 Stanford University in California. He then went 
 to Amherst College to specialize in geology and 
 mechanics. 
 
 Upon the completion of his studies he returned 
 to Los Angeles, where his father had been in busi- 
 ness for a number of years, and was immediately 
 appointed assistant engineer of the Los Angeles 
 Harbor Company, then engaged in heavy construc- 
 tion work. During the year that he continued 
 with the company took an active part in building 
 the harbor at San Pedro, Port of Los Angeles. 
 
 Leaving the harbor company, he went into busi- 
 ness with his father under the firm name of Koebig 
 & Koebig, acting as his chief lieutenant, and for 
 about three years was busy in various important 
 construction works. 
 
 Early in 1909 he was appointed Reinforced Con- 
 crete Engineer and Inspector for the Los Angeles 
 Board of Public Works and remained in that 
 capacity for eight months, resigning to become 
 assistant engineer of the Ramona Power and Irri- 
 gation Company. At the beginning of 1910 he be- 
 came assistant engineer to his father in the work 
 of the Chucawalla Development Company, a vast 
 Irrigation project in California, Arizona and Ne- 
 vada, in which the elder Koebig is the consulting 
 engineer. Mr. Koebig is a member of the Engi- 
 neers and Architects' Association of Los Angeles 
 and the University Club. 
 
 CLARENCE DROWN 
 
 ROWN, CLARENCE G., Theatrical 
 Manager, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Chicago, Illinois, 
 August 11, 1870, the son of Oscar 
 A Drown and Matilda (Gogan) 
 Drown. August 3, 1895, he married 
 Giace Groth, at Wanatah, Indiana, and to them 
 was born one daughter, Grace Hope Drown. 
 
 Mr. Drown was educated in the public schools 
 of Chicago, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana. After 
 finishing his preliminary education, he entered 
 Notre Dame University, the famous Indiana edu- 
 cational institution. In 1893, he went on the stage 
 and for one year was an actor, associated with the 
 Abbey-Schoeffield-Grau Companies. 
 
 From 1894 to 1898, he was with the H. B. 
 Thearle Amusement Company and Pain Fire- 
 works Company in the capacities of stage di- 
 rector and business manager. In 1898 he re- 
 signed these positions to go with Stair and Havlin, 
 and was a company manager for that syndicate 
 until the latter part of 1899, when he left it to join 
 the Orpheum forces at Chicago. For three years 
 he was manager of the Orpheum Road Show, the 
 largest vaudeville attraction put out by the com- 
 pany, and in 1903 he was appointed manager of 
 the Orpheum Theater at Los Angeles. He has con- 
 tinued in that capacity down to date. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles, Mr. Drown has 
 become one of the most conspicuous men in the 
 theatrical profession there. In addition to the Or- 
 pheum he has had the management of the Grand 
 Opera House, Los Angeles, since 1906, and in the 
 summer of 1911, when the Lyceum Theater of 
 Los Angeles, was built, took the management of 
 that. 
 
 Mr. Drown is a member of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufac- 
 turers' Association and Municipal League of that 
 city, and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 475 
 
 ACKNEY, LESLIE SYLVESTER, 
 Capitalist, land dealer, inventor 
 and manufacturer, Los Angeles, 
 California, and St. Paul, Minne- 
 sota, was born at Prescott, Prov- 
 ince of Ontario, Canada, Septem- 
 ber 17, 1859. Mr. Hackney is the son of William 
 Hackney and Catherine (Bradley) Hackney, both 
 of whom are from a direct line of Scotch ancestry. 
 He was married December 28, 1888, to Miss Lillian 
 Rolf at St. James, Minnesota, and their home has 
 been blessed with seven children, six of whom are 
 living, William, Grace, Edna, Leslie, Lyle and Lil- 
 lian. 
 
 Mr. Hackney's early childhood was spent in 
 Canada and at the age of three years, his parents 
 moved from Canada to St. Lawrence County, New 
 York State. When a lad of six years his father 
 moved from New York State to Watonwan County, 
 Minnesota, where he took up a homestead. Here 
 young Hackney received his early education and 
 grew to young manhood. 
 
 Shortly after Mr. Hackney became of age he 
 engaged in the selling of farm machinery and 
 opened an agency and distributing point at Madelia, 
 Minnesota. This business was later transferred to 
 St. James, Minnesota, and the field of operations 
 extended. 
 
 During the time in which Mr. Hackney was en- 
 gaged in this line of business he met many farmers 
 who were selling their farms at advanced prices 
 and moving farther west to take up cheaper land. 
 This gave him the vision for his large land busi- 
 ness, which he later built up. He realized the 
 ever-present increasing demand for farm lands and 
 the fact that cheap lands would soon be a thing of 
 the past. Starting out with his acquaintance with 
 a large number of wealthy farmers, he immediately 
 began a successful farm land business and in 
 1897 opened offices at St. Paul, Minnesota, there to 
 begin one of the most aggressive campaigns for 
 colonization work ever started up to that time in 
 the Northwest. During these early years he fre- 
 quently closed large deals ranging anywhere from 
 5000 to 600,000 acres. This business led to larger 
 work and in 1900 the Hackney-Boynton Land Com- 
 pany was incorporated with Mr. Hackney as Presi- 
 dent, and in the Fall of that year this company pur- 
 chased from the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany a tract of land including 1,250,000 acres along 
 the main line of the Northern Pacific Railway in 
 North Dakota. This deal involved the largest acre- 
 age of any deal ever closed in the history of the 
 Northwest and possibly no other deal in the history 
 of the country, outside of the Government making 
 the Louisiana Purchase, ever covered as large an 
 acreage. Mr. Hackney directed a vigorous and ag- 
 gressive campaign of colonization work and estab- 
 lished a selling force of over 1500 agents, scattered 
 throughout the North and Middle West. The result 
 of this work was that the Hackney-Boynton Land 
 Company kept up an average sales record for two 
 years of over one thousand acres per day. The 
 original purchase of over one million acres was re- 
 duced about 50 per cent, a large part of the land 
 being sold to actual settlers, who are now occupy- 
 ing and improving it. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Hackney incorporated his second 
 large company, the Hackney Land Credit Company, 
 
 which has large offices in its own building, known 
 as the Hackney Building, St. Paul. This company 
 deals extensively in farm lands, city property, mort- 
 gages and bonds. Associated with Mr. Hackney in 
 this company are his two brothers, Joseph M. Hack- 
 ney, Secretary-Treasurer, and William L. Hackney 
 as Vice President, Mr. Leslie S. Hackney being 
 President and General Manager. 
 
 In addition to the large corporate interests of 
 Mr. Hackney, he also has a great deal of property 
 in his own name. His holdings in Central North 
 Dakota are about one hundred and fifty thousand 
 acres, valued at from $20.00 to $35.00 per acre. He 
 has a considerable acreage in Minnesota and quite 
 a little property on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 During the years that Mr. Hackney was en- 
 gaged in selling and colonizing the lands, he saw 
 the need of power machinery for farm work and 
 invented one of the most unique pieces of farm ma- 
 chinery made the Hackney Auto Plow an auto- 
 mobile tractor and plow combined. This plow, it is 
 stated, is adapted to the small or medium sized 
 farm, ranging from 160 acres up. It can also be 
 used in connection with farm work for all purposes 
 where power is needed, such as grinding feed, saw- 
 ing wood, pumping water for irrigation and running 
 cream separators. 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Hackney incorporated his third com- 
 pany, known as the Hackney Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, of which he is President, with two of his 
 brothers holding other offices in the company. In 
 addition to the Hackney Auto Plow, the company 
 manufactures a large line of farm implements and 
 specialties. 
 
 Another important invention of Mr. Hackney's 
 is the Hackney System of Ventilation, a combina- 
 tion of the Plenum and Exhaust Systems so ar- 
 ranged as to bring in fresh air and take out the foul, 
 with a special arrangement for keeping the air at 
 a certain temperature. This method of ventilation 
 has been patented and a fourth company organized 
 in order to manufacture the product and keep the 
 business separate from his other lines. This fourth 
 company is known as the Hackney Ventilating 
 Company, with Leslie S. Hackney as President. 
 
 Several very practical devices- have been in- 
 vented by Mr. Hackney, of which the Hackney 
 Auto Plow and the Hackney System of Ventilation 
 are the two most important. He is also interested 
 in several other large enterprises in the Central 
 and Middle West. 
 
 The home office and principal headquarters of 
 Mr. Hackney's business enterprises are in the 
 Hackney Building, St. Paul, Minnesota. He spends 
 his winters in Pasadena, California, where his resi- 
 dence is one of the "show places" of the city. 
 
 Mr. Hackney is known as a self-made man. He 
 worked hard to get started in life and has never 
 lost an opportunity to improve his time by increas- 
 ing his business and developing products that will 
 be of benefit to humanity. He has given consider- 
 able to charitable work and is a man in whom 
 public spirit abounds. 
 
 His interest in commercial bodies is shown by 
 his membership in the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, the Pasadena Board of Trade, the St. 
 Paul Commercial Club, St. Paul, Minnesota, and 
 the St. Paul Associated Board of Commerce. 
 
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 WILLIAM H. CROCKER 
 
 PRESIDENT, CROCKER NATIONAL BANK, SAN FRANCISCO 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 477 
 
 INGS BURY, WILLIAM JERE, 
 Banker, Tempe, Arizona, was 
 born in San Antonio, Texas, Au- 
 gust 15, 1858, the son of William 
 George Kingsbury and Elizabeth 
 Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury mar- 
 ried Viola C. West at Tempe, Arizona, August 16, 
 1891. To them were born two children, Katheren, 
 (deceased) and William West Kingsbury. 
 
 Mr. Kingsbury is of English descent. His 
 genealogy, as known, begins 
 with Gilbert de Kingsbury, 
 the incumbent of St. Peter's 
 Church at Kingsbury, War- 
 wickshire, England in 1300. 
 The first members of the 
 Kingsbury family immigrated 
 to America in 1630, com- 
 ing in the "Talbot," a ship of 
 Governor Winthrop's fleet, 
 and settled in New England. 
 Daniel Webster, the greatest 
 orator this country has pro- 
 duced, was descended from 
 a Kingsbury through his 
 mother, Abigail Eastman ; 
 Frances Folsom Cleveland, 
 widow of the late President, 
 Grover Cleveland, is also de- 
 scended from the Kingsbury- 
 Eastman line. 
 
 Mr. Kingsbury is an 
 alumnus of Washington & Lee 
 University, Lexington, Vir- 
 ginia, having graduated with 
 the class of 1879, with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Law. 
 
 He began the active prac- 
 tice of law at San Antonio, W> J- KINGSBURY 
 Texas, in 1880, in association with J. H. McLeary, 
 afterwards Attorney General of the State, and con- 
 tinued to practice in that city until 1882, when in 
 company with a former college mate, George J. 
 Denis, now a leading lawyer in Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, he moved to Los Angeles, and formed the 
 law partnership of Kingsbury & Denis. Mr. Kings- 
 bury continued practice until 1884, when he went to 
 Europe to visit his father, then the European Agent 
 for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., with head- 
 quarters in London, England. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Kingsbury returned to San Antonio 
 for the purpose of looking after his father's exten- 
 sive property interests and continued the practice 
 of law until 1887, when he moved to Arizona, and 
 settled at Tempe, nine miles from Phoenix. 
 
 Mr. Kingsbury has been more prominently 
 identified with the development of Tempe and the 
 surrounding locality than any other man there. 
 He has erected more than a score of buildings, prin- 
 cipally business blocks which he owns, notably, the 
 Casa Loma Hotel, famous as the only hotel in the 
 
 world that guarantees the sun to shine over it 
 every day in the year "You do not pay if the Sun 
 doe&n't shine" an advertisement that has attracted 
 tourists from every part of the country. 
 
 He has redeemed from its desert state, more than 
 three thousand acres of arid land which includes 
 an alfalfa farm of about one thousand acres, one of 
 the most beautiful farms of its kind in the West. 
 In 1897 he was- elected President of the Farmers 
 & Merchants' Bank of Tempe, which under his 
 management has grown to 
 be one of the State's leading 
 financial institutions, with a 
 capital stock of $50,000.00, 
 most of which he owns. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Kingsbury pur- 
 chased an entire brand of cat- 
 tle and a range having an 
 area of about twenty miles 
 square, at Hillside, Arizona. 
 This business has grown, un- 
 til his annual calf brand now 
 exceeds fifteen hundred head. 
 These cattle are shipped to 
 Tempe, where they are fat- 
 tened, then sold. 
 
 Mr. Kingsbury has done 
 much towards securing ap- 
 propriations and advancing 
 the facilities of the State 
 Normal School at Tempe to 
 its present high standard. In 
 1908 he created a fund, 
 known as the "Kingsbury 
 Senior Assistance Fund," 
 which is loaned on the recom- 
 mendation of a committee to 
 Senior students, when neces- 
 sary to enable them to finish 
 
 their graduating year. The fund has enabled many 
 students to secure their diplomas when, without it, 
 they would have had to quit school. 
 
 He has always been active in advancing the 
 principles of Democracy, and although importuned, 
 he has never held any office excepting that of City 
 Attorney, to which he was appointed in 1906, and 
 served for three consecutive terms. 
 
 He is a member, California Club, Los Angeles; 
 Arizona Club, Country Club and Automobile Club, 
 all of Phoenix; Phoenix and Tempe Boards of 
 Trade, and other associations. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the K. of P., the I. O. O. F., and W. O. W. 
 
 His home at Tempe has one of the most beautiful 
 private parks in the Southwest, being almost trop- 
 ical in the abundance and variety of its growth. 
 His collection of Indian baskets, purchased direct 
 from the Indians and containing over three hundred 
 specimens, is one of the finest and largest collec- 
 tions in the country. Everybody, whether friend or 
 stranger, is given a cordial welcome to his home, 
 which in all, is one of the show places in Arizona. 
 
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 ECK, EDWARD ELISHA, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, was born in War- 
 saw, Wyoming County, New 
 York, April 3, 1864, the son of 
 Elisha S. Peck and Melvina A. 
 (Mynard) Peck. He married May 
 Kelly Goold at Petoskey, Michigan, May 10, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Peck's early life was one of considerable 
 hardship, and his success in attaining a position 
 among the leading mining men of the West is due 
 entirely to his own efforts. 
 His father was killed in bat- 
 tle during the Civil War and 
 the son was denied the ad- 
 vantages enjoyed by other 
 boys. When he grew old 
 enough he went to the coun- 
 try schools of his native town 
 and later worked on farms 
 nearby for his board and a 
 chance to go to school, the ac- 
 quirement of an education be- 
 ing at that time his chief am- 
 bition. 
 
 He continued as a farmer 
 until 1881, when he went to 
 work as clerk in a store at 
 Petoskey, Michigan, and re- 
 mained in that capacity for 
 about two years. In 1883 he 
 embarked in business for 
 himself as proprietor of a lap- 
 idary shop, where he conduct- 
 ed a thriving business in the 
 cutting and polishing of 
 stones found by tourists and 
 others at Petoskey. He de- 
 voted himself to this until 
 1886, when he went into part- 
 nership in the hardware business with Olin M. 
 Goold, whose daughter he married a year later. 
 They moved their stock to Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
 and Mr. Peck then continued to aid in the manage- 
 ment of the store for about three years. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Peck turned his attention to the cafe 
 business in Grand Rapids, and in 1895 opened a 
 cafe of his own in that city. By his own per- 
 sonality he built up a prosperous business within a 
 short time, but when his success seemed assured, he 
 was caught, in 1897, in a financial panic, and was 
 compelled to suspend business. He lost all the 
 money he had invested in the establishment, and in 
 addition was heavily in debt, but he spent little 
 time in regrets, and, instead, accepted the first posi- 
 tion that presented itself, that of clerk in a grocery, 
 and in that capacity started to work to rebuild his 
 fortunes. For the next six years he was engaged in 
 the grocery business on a salary, but in that time 
 he saved his money conscientiously and finally paid 
 off all that he owed. 
 
 With what he had left, Mr. Peck went to Los 
 
 ED. E. PECK 
 
 Angeles, and, turning back to his old profession as 
 a lapidist, obtained employment with the California 
 Gem Company. He remained with this concern only 
 a short time, however, organizing a business of his 
 own with William Burkhardt, as the firm of Peck & 
 Burkhardt. They were successful from the begin- 
 ning of their operations, and Mr. Peck, with his 
 share of the profits, purchased a tourquoise mine at 
 Mineral Park, Arizona. Shortly afterward he sold 
 a part of this property at a price sufficient to pay 
 for the entire mine and used 
 the proceeds for development 
 work. He gave a great deal 
 of his time to this mine, but 
 he also continued his interest 
 in the firm of Peck & Burk- 
 hardt, and in 1906 they reor- 
 ganized the business as the 
 Los Angeles Gem Company, 
 capitalized at $60,000. Latei 
 he purchased the interest of 
 Mr. Burkhardt and has been 
 practically in complete con- 
 trol of the company since that 
 time, holding office of Presi- 
 dent and General Manager. 
 
 In 1908 Mr. Peck pur- 
 chased two more mining prop- 
 erties, both gem deposits, in 
 Nevada, and since that time 
 he has been an active factor 
 in mining operations of the 
 West. He organized the In- 
 ternational Mines Develop- 
 ment Company in 1910, this 
 being capitalized at one mil- 
 lion dollars, and as President 
 and General Manager, he has 
 been the directing force in 
 
 its work. The company owns a valuable gold and 
 silver property in Northern Arizona, known as the 
 George Washington Mine, and although the opera- 
 tions have been somewhat limited, the ore showed 
 a value of $245 per ton. The ore shoot of this prop- 
 erty is considered one of the richest in the country 
 and in the early stages of development indicates a 
 tremendous depth. It is the plan of Mr. Peck and 
 his associates, some of whom are well-known busi- 
 ness men of the Southwest, to install modern ma- 
 chinery and work six claims on a large scale. 
 
 Aside from the properties mentioned, Mr. Peck 
 also has valuable holdings in British Columbia and 
 several mines in the San Gabriel Canyon of South- 
 ern California. , 
 
 Mr. Peck is devoting himself almost exclusively 
 to mining, his conduct of the Los Angeles Gem 
 Company being subsidiary to his gem mining. 
 
 He takes an active interest in the work of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Mines and Oil. Aside 
 from this organization, his only other membership 
 is in the Knights- of Pythias. 
 
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 479 
 
 LEITZ, GEORGE LEONARD, 
 Lumber and Grain, Detroit, Mich., 
 and Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in the former city October 
 10, 1874, the son of John P. Fleitz 
 and Elizabeth (Mark) Fleitz. He 
 married Miss Lola Hartnett at St. Loais, Mo., July 
 29, 1908. Mr. Fleitz is de&cended from an ancient 
 European family whose members for many genera- 
 tions have been prominent in military, medical and 
 judicial circles. In 1815, 
 when the great Napoleon 
 was engaged in his historic 
 attempt to conquer all Eu- 
 rope, a granduncle of Mr. 
 Fleitz, with five sons, fought 
 in the Imperial Army. At 
 the Battle of Waterloo, Major 
 Fleitz fought with such gal- 
 lantry that he was awarded 
 the Diamond Cross for cour- 
 age. Other members of the 
 family were prominent in 
 other spheres and Mr. Fleitz, 
 on his various visits to Eu- 
 rope, often goes to the scenes 
 of the successes made by his 
 distinguished ancestors hun- 
 dreds of years ago. 
 
 Mr. F 1 e i t z's maternal 
 grandfather, John Mark, and 
 his father, John P. Fleitz, 
 were among the prominent 
 lumber and grain operators 
 of Detroit. They were both 
 pioneers in that section of 
 the country and engaged in 
 the lumber industry as far 
 back as fifty years ago. Dur- 
 ing the intervening period their interests have ex- 
 panded largely and form one of the important in- 
 dustries of Michigan, although the founders of the 
 business have long since passed away. 
 
 Mr. Fleitz spent his boyhood days in the great 
 timber regious of Michigan and there grew up with 
 the lumber industry. His earliest recollections are 
 of the vast forests of that portion of the country, 
 now practically destroyed, but which were then 
 among the finest in the North. He received his 
 preliminary education in the public schools of De- 
 troit and later entered Detroit College (now De- 
 troit University), where he remained until the 
 time of his father's death. 
 
 Upon leaving his studies, Mr. Fleitz entered ac- 
 tively into the management of his father's business 
 and has been so engaged ever since, having attained 
 a position among the leading lumber and grain 
 operators of Michigan. 
 
 One of the principal interests of Mr. Fleitz is 
 the United States Frumentum Company, of Detroit, 
 a well known cereal manufacturing concern, 
 
 GEORGE L. FLEITZ 
 
 which is the outgrowth of his father's early grain 
 business. He has served as Vice President and 
 Manager of the company since 1896 and in that 
 time has built it up to a place among the large 
 manufacturing enterprises of the country, this be- 
 ing largely due to the thorough knowledge of the 
 grain and cereal business possessed by Mr. Fleitz. 
 Another enterprise which commands a part of 
 Mr. Fleitz's time is the Marsh Tire Company of 
 Detroit, of which he is Treasurer, but his chief in- 
 terests are his lumber hold- 
 ings, a large portion of which 
 are in the Pacific Coast 
 States Oregon, Washington 
 and California. It is a his- 
 torical fact that Michigan, for 
 many years, was one of the 
 greatest lumber producing 
 States of the country, but 
 with the cutting of the timber 
 the industry gradually began 
 to decline, and Mr. Fleitz, as 
 a man of keen foresight, 
 gradually acquired large tim- 
 ber holdings in the West. In 
 many instances he purchased 
 entire forests. He controls 
 several large tracts in Oregon 
 and Washington, being ac- 
 tively engaged in lumbering 
 operations in both States, 
 and also has a valuable 
 Sequoia tract in T u 1 a r e 
 County, California. On this 
 latter property is located the 
 celebrated Fleitz Forest, 
 which is noted for its gi- 
 gantic Redwood trees. 
 
 Mr. Fleitz maintains his 
 
 headquarters in Detroit and spends the greater part 
 of each year there, but he also visits his Western 
 properties on frequent occasions and as the direct- 
 ing force of a widespread enterprise has under his 
 command an army of men. His father having 
 been a practical man, the son was trained in 
 the business from childhood and served his ap- 
 prenticeship the same as other men. He underwent 
 all the hardships attendant upon life in the lumber 
 camps and by the time he was called upon to as- 
 sume the responsibility of handling his father's 
 business, had passed through the various stages of 
 the work and was an expert lumberman. 
 
 Owing to the fact that his interests are scat- 
 tered so broadly over the United States, Mr. Fleitz 
 has never taken an active part in politics, but he 
 advocates a busines-s-like government. 
 
 Mr. Fleitz finds a great deal of recreation in 
 motoring and has traveled all over Europe and the 
 United States. He is a member of the Grosse Point 
 Country Club, the Detroit Boat Club and the De- 
 troit Automobile Club. 
 
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 481 
 
 YLIE, HERBERT GEORGE, Gen- 
 eral Manager, Mexican Petroleum 
 Company, Los Angeles, Cal., and 
 Mexico, was born at Dublin, Ire- 
 land, Oct. 20, 1867, the son of Rev. 
 J. B. Wylie and Jane (McBride) 
 Wylie. The father has been a preacher for a half 
 century at Belfast, Ireland, and is one of the most 
 respected divines in the United Kingdom, who left 
 a successful business to take up the work of re- 
 ligion. Mr. Wylie married Nellie F. Mills at San 
 Diego, July 2, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Wylie was sent to the Royal Belfast Insti- 
 tute, Ireland, and studied there until nineteen years 
 old, when (about 1886) he came to the United 
 States. 
 
 He first located at St. Louis, and entered the 
 real estate firm of William C. Wilson & Co., but 
 moved to San Diego, Cal., in 1887, where he planted 
 160 acres to lemons and oranges, disposing of the 
 property after six years and moving to Los An- 
 geles. Mr. Wylie then formed a partnership with 
 J. S. Maltman for the purpose of doing contract 
 drilling in the Los Angeles oil fields, but shortly 
 after (1893) conducted the business alone. 
 
 He drilled for Turner Bros, for a time, and then 
 began operations for himself, bringing in several 
 producers. He later sold his interests to George 
 Squires and again contracted alone until 1898, when 
 the Bakersfield discoveries attracted his attention. 
 
 He entered, as one of the partners, the Petro- 
 leum Development Company, which was the first to 
 interest the railroads of the Pacific Coast in oil as 
 a source of fuel for locomotives. In 1902 the Atchi- 
 &on, Topeka & Santa Fe purchased the company 
 and its properties, and in August of that year Mr. 
 Wylie went with the Mexican Petroleum Company 
 of Los Angeles and Mexico as general superintend- 
 ent of all their properties. In the fall of that year 
 he began the active supervision of a development 
 without a parallel even in that most remarkable of 
 all industries. 
 
 The oil fields of the Mexican Petroleum Co., and 
 of the Huasteca Petroleum Co., a subsidiary cor- 
 poration, are located on the eastern slope of Mex- 
 ico, in the territory adjacent to the Port of Tam- 
 pico, on the Gulf of Mexico. The Mexican Petroleum 
 Co. and its affiliated interests constitute one of the 
 most tremendous oil enterprises in the world. The 
 extent of the proved territory and the scale on 
 which the property is being developed, promise a 
 future almost beyond imagination. 
 
 Herbert G. Wylie is the veritable developer of 
 the property. He did not furnish the vast capital, 
 but in every detail of the practical work of develop- 
 ing he has been the directing figure. The part that 
 he has played has not been that of a mere master of 
 men, but of a master of the forces of nature as well. 
 
 There were only three wells on the properties 
 of the company when he took charge. Backed by 
 the almost unlimited capital of the Doheny group 
 of operators, he was soon bringing in one big well 
 after another. He was shortly made general man- 
 ager of the entire company. 
 
 In 1906 the Huasteca Petroleum Company was 
 organized, and he was made vice president and gen- 
 eral manager while still holding his office in the 
 parent concern. Later he was given power of at- 
 torney over all the Doheny interests in Mexico, 
 which, according to conservative estimate, represent 
 more than $80,000,000. 
 
 He drilled the great No. 7 well, at Casiano, Mex- 
 
 ico, the fame of which is due not only to the im- 
 mensity of production, but because of the fact that 
 this production has been mastered and confined 
 The force of this well was almost equal to the one 
 on the shores of the Tuxpan River, out of which 
 six million barrels of oil have been lost, and which, 
 when it caught fire, offered a spectacle rivaling that 
 of a volcanic eruption. 
 
 Well No. 7, Huasteca Petroleum Co., came in at 
 60,000 barrels a day, a quantity rivaling that of 
 the Tuxpan well, but Mr. Wylie devised a capping 
 and valve that confined the gusher so that its flow 
 could be perfectly controlled in spite of its pres- 
 sure of more than 280 pounds to the square inch. 
 Its flow has been cut down to 25,000 barrels a day. 
 He also brought in Well No. 6, almost rivaling the 
 famous No. 7, and again it was done without 
 wasting a barrel. 
 
 After these stupendous producers had been mas- 
 tered there came the problems of storage and 
 marketing. To master these problems required 
 operations on a gigantic scale, and in one of the 
 most difficult countries on earth, but the way in 
 which Mr. Wylie has accomplished the task has 
 been one of the most spectacular details of the 
 enterprise. 
 
 Thousands of men were thrown into the work 
 of construction. Two parallel pipe lines were laid 
 from the fields to the Port of Tampico, where an 
 oil city has been built for the handling and shipping 
 of the product. One of the lines was laid while wells 
 Nos. 6 and 7 were being drilled, and was finished in 
 time to save the oil. The company, under his man- 
 agement, is now engaged in building additional stor- 
 age capacity of ten million barrels at Tampico. 
 
 Mr. Wylie's work can be reckoned one of the 
 great industrial achievements of the American con- 
 tinent. The following, clipped from an article in a 
 daily paper, on the Mexican Petroleum Company, is 
 worthy of quotation: 
 
 'Within the shadow of the crumbling temples and pyra- 
 mids of a former civilization, whose relics down there in 
 Vera Cruz today offer a fascinating puzzle to archaeolo- 
 gists, a. new chapter in the history of Mexico has been 
 started. In a way, the story of modern Egypt, with its 
 ruined temples and pyramids, fits that particular part of 
 Mexico where Los Angeles men are directing the country's 
 awakening and bringing about a revival of the industry 
 and thrift, intelligence and enterprise, represented by the 
 architectural triumphs, the ruins of which are now the 
 monuments of that civilization that perished hundreds and 
 perhaps thousands of years ago. 
 
 "More effective than treaty or standing army in pre- 
 serving the peace and tranquillity of Mexico are such en- 
 terprises as that of the Mexican Petroleum Company, Ltd. 
 Steady employment, fair compensation and regular pay 
 days appeal just as strongly to the native Mexican as to 
 the native of the United States. 
 
 Insurrections thrive on discontent, and during the re- 
 cent revolution in Mexico it was demonstrated that, 
 thanks to the development activities of the Mexican Pe- 
 troleum, Ltd. there was no discontent among the native 
 population in the zone of the company's operations. Dur- 
 ing the revolution, the only army in that district was a 
 peaceful army, commanded by that great industrial gen- 
 eral, Herbert G. Wylie. That army, equipped with the 
 weapons of industry, fought with the jungle for a right 
 of way for the company's railroad and pipelines, fought 
 and conquered the great oil gushers until they were mnde 
 captive and peaceful factors in the new life of the region. 
 
 In addition to his interests with the corpora- 
 tions mentioned, he is a stockholder in the 
 National Gas Company of Mexico, American Oil 
 Fields Company of Los Angeles, of which he is a 
 director, and the American Petroleum Company of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Wylie has his principal residence in Los 
 Angeles, but maintains several places of residence 
 in the Mexican fields. 
 
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 AVIS, FRANK, Mining Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Red Oak, Iowa, December 24, 1862, 
 the son of John Miles Davis and 
 Vironicy (Hunt) Davis. He mar- 
 ^ ried Laura E. Lewis at Alameda, 
 Cal., January 15, 1888, and to them there was born 
 a daughter, Elizabeth Davis. Mr. Davis is de- 
 scended from one of the Colonial families of Mary- 
 land, who emigrated in 1836, from Little Gunwater, 
 a village near Baltimore, to 
 Fort Recovery, Ohio. Mr. 
 Davis' father was then six 
 years old, and was reared in 
 Ohio, but following his mar- 
 riage, moved to Iowa. There 
 the son was born and when 
 he was two years old the 
 family again moved, going 
 across the continent with 
 horse and ox teams. After a 
 tedious journey, during which 
 they were compelled to bat- 
 tle with Indians, the family 
 settled in the Willamette 
 Valley of Oregon. The elder 
 Davis is one of the few per- 
 sons living who pioneered 
 from the Atlantic Ocean to 
 the Pacific; he celebrated 
 his sixtieth wedding anniver- 
 sary September 10, 1912. 
 
 Frank Davis spent his 
 boyhood in the vicinity of Sa- 
 lem and Portland, Oregon, 
 and received his early educa- 
 tion in the country schools. 
 He attended the High School 
 of East Portland and, return- 
 ing to Salem, studied chemis- 
 try, metallurgy and mine en- 
 gineering under private in- 
 structors. 
 
 In 1882, Mr. Davis left Sa- 
 lem and went to New Mexico, 
 
 where he became an assayer in the Organ Mining 
 camp. The Apache Indians were on the warpath 
 during the time he was in New Mexico and Mr. 
 Davis figured in several engagements with them. 
 
 During the early part of 1884, Mr. Davis went 
 to the Coeur d'Alene mining region, but remained 
 there only a short while, and next began prospect- 
 ing for gold in the southern part of Oregon. At 
 the beginning of 1885, he drifted down to the gold 
 placer mines of the New River district in Trinity 
 County, California; thence to Shasta County, Cali- 
 fornia, prospecting at various places on the way. 
 In Shasta County he met with his first notable suc- 
 cess, discovering the Clipper Mine, a gold quartz 
 property, which he developed and sold in 1886. 
 
 For the next two years he was engaged in the 
 examination and investigation of mining properties, 
 and early in 1888 went to British Columbia, visiting 
 various prospective mining sections, including tne 
 Tompson River and Upper Frazier River regions. 
 He was among the first to recognize the possibili- 
 ties of the Lake Tesia coal fields near Kamloops. 
 
 In the fall of 1888, Mr. Davis was employed by 
 the Melrose Smelting & Refining Works, located at 
 East Oakland, Cal. He held several important po- 
 sitions, but resigned in 1890 to resume mining, 
 going to Lower California. There he developed the 
 
 FRANK DAVIS 
 
 Calmalli gold mines, afterwards the property of 
 the Ybarra Gold Mining Co., and for six years was 
 engaged in the metallurgical operations of the com- 
 pany's works. He resigned in 1896 and became af- 
 filiated with the famous Rawhide-App Consolidated 
 mines on the Mother Lode near Jamestown, Cal. 
 For the next three years he was engaged as gen- 
 eral metallurgist for the company, achieving nota- 
 ble success in the economic chloridization process. 
 He left this in 1900 to make a special exploration 
 tour in Mexico which was 
 to result in his becoming 
 one of the active mining men 
 in that country. 
 
 Mr. Davis began his Mexi- 
 can operations by making ex- 
 tensive investigations in the 
 interior of the State of So- 
 nora, and in 1902 was ap- 
 pointed General Manager of 
 the Yaqui Smelting & Refin- 
 ing Co. He installed the 
 company's plants on the 
 Yaqui River and also was en- 
 gaged in general mine en- 
 gineering, his work taking 
 him into many parts of Mexi- 
 co. He acted as Consulting 
 Engineer to a number of com- 
 panies simultaneously and in 
 this way was an important 
 factor in the development of 
 some notable mining proper- 
 ties. Among the more im- 
 portant of these is the Los 
 Animas Mine, belonging to 
 the Wyman Mining Company, 
 situated at San Xavier, So- 
 nora. A. V. Baumann, of Fre- 
 mont, Ohio, and others con- 
 trol this property. 
 
 For the first six years 
 after going to Mexico, his 
 operations never brought him 
 nearer than ninety miles to a 
 railroad and as a result he and his men were com- 
 pelled, because of the numerous bands of mur- 
 derous Yaqui Indians at large in the country, to 
 become scouts and marksmen. Oftentimes Mr. 
 Davis carried large sums of money with him 
 and had to ride long distances through Indian- 
 infested regions. He had many experiences with 
 the Yaquis, but in each instance, by a display of 
 courage and knowledge of the Indian methods of 
 warfare, escaped safely. On one occasion he and 
 two companions, mounted on horses, were caught 
 in a canyon between two forces of Yaquis. Know- 
 ing the Indian trait of not attacking a party with- 
 out first ascertaining its strength, Mr. Davis in- 
 structed his men to spread out in single file and in 
 this formation the three rode safely through the 
 Yaquis, who, fifty strong, were hidden in the brush. 
 In 1911, Mr. Davis, who had spent the greater 
 part of twelve years in the wilds of Mexico, was 
 called East by a syndicate of capitalists who de- 
 sired his advice on some mining ventures and he 
 has been engaged since that time in engineering 
 work for these interests. Among other duties he 
 serves as Consulting Engineer for several groups 
 of property in which he holds interest, among them 
 the Fuerte River Copper Company and the Reiniger 
 Mining & Smelting Company. 
 
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 483 
 
 OOTAN, JOHN THOMAS, Mana- 
 ger, Amalgamated Oil Company, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Ala- 
 bama, August 5, 1871, the son of 
 John Thomas Wootan and Mary 
 Ellen (Smith) Wootan. He married Margaret Eu- 
 nice Kirkpatrick February 12, 1908, at Los Angeles, 
 and to them have been born two sons, John 
 Thomas, Jr., and James Kirkpatrick Wootan. 
 
 Mr. Wootan was edu- 
 cated both in Missouri and 
 Illinois. He attended the 
 district schools of St. Louis- 
 and studied in the public 
 schools there from 1880 to 
 1886. The family moving to 
 Ashley, Illinois, about this 
 time, Mr. Wootan completed 
 his studies in schools of 
 that place, concluding his 
 education in 1888. 
 
 From his earliest boy- 
 hood Mr. Wootan has been 
 self-supporting, having be- 
 gun to earn a livelihood dur- 
 ing the vacation periods, 
 when he worked at various 
 boys' occupations, taking any 
 kind of employment that pre- 
 sented it&elf. His first im- 
 portant position came to him 
 when he was eighteen years 
 of age, he being appointed 
 foreman of a broom factory, 
 one of the important indus- 
 tries of Ashley, Illinois. 
 
 He resigned this post in 
 1890, however, to engage in 
 railroad work as an employe of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad Company. Before the end of the year, he 
 went to California, and he has been a resident of 
 that State practically ever since. He first located 
 in Tulare County, California, and for the next two 
 years or more was engaged in farming. In 1894 he 
 was- appointed agent in Siskiyou County, Califor- 
 nia, for the Singer Manufacturing Company and 
 made such a splendid record during that year that 
 he was promoted, in 1895, to the position of Travel- 
 ing Supervisor for the company. This is one of the 
 important branches of the Singer Manufacturing 
 Company's business system, the Traveling Super- 
 visor having under him numerous agencies and su- 
 pervision of their selling methods. 
 
 Mr. Wootan's territory included various Califor- 
 nia counties north of Mariposa, and the entire State 
 of Nevada. His work kept him in the field most of 
 the time and during the two years he held the po- 
 sition of Supervisor he familiarized himself with 
 geological formation, general business conditions 
 and the people of the sections through which he 
 
 JNO. T. WOOTAN 
 
 traveled. The knowledge thus gained stood him in 
 good stead and was of particular value to him when 
 he embarked in the oil business, with which he has 
 been connected since the year 1900. 
 
 Upon leaving the employ of the Singer Manu- 
 facturing Company in 1896, Mr. Wootan became as- 
 sociated with a firm at Selma, California, and re- 
 mained there for the next four years. He then en- 
 tered the oil business as an employe of the El Do- 
 rado Oil Company and Clarence J. Berry, one of 
 the successful operators of 
 Southern California, and con- 
 tinued there until the early 
 part of 1903, when he became 
 a clerk for the Associated Oil 
 Company of California on the 
 San Joaquin Division, at Oil 
 Center, Cal. From that time 
 on his career has been 
 one of successive advance- 
 ment in the bus-mess. In 
 time he became Chief Clerk 
 for the Associated Oil Com- 
 pany and later was made As- 
 sistant to the General Super- 
 intendent of the company. 
 
 In September, 1907, Mr. 
 Wootan moved to Los An- 
 geles as Superintendent of 
 Shipments and Purchasing 
 Agent for the Amalgamated 
 Oil Company and affiliated 
 concerns, and upon the re- 
 tirement of F. B. Henderson 
 as General Manager of the 
 Amalgamated Oil Company, 
 on October 1, 1911, was ap- 
 pointed to the office. The 
 Amalgamated Oil Company, 
 which i& controlled by the same interests which 
 predominate in the Associated Oil Company, is one 
 of the largest and most successful in the United 
 States, and Mr. Wootan, as General Manager of it, 
 occupies an important position in the industry. 
 His duties, in addition to handling the operations 
 of the Amalgamated Oil Company, entail also the 
 management of the West Coast Oil Company, Salt 
 Lake Oil Company and the Arcturus Oil Company, 
 all of which are affiliated with the main corporation. 
 He has made a study of the industry in all its 
 phases and while a greater part of his work has 
 been in connection with the executive end of the 
 business, he also is a practical man in the field and 
 is generally regarded as one of the most competent, 
 all-round oil men in California. 
 
 Mr. Wootan- devotes himself almost wholly to his 
 work and spends a great deal of time in the oil 
 fields, but he also is a figure in fraternal and social 
 circles, being a member of the Masonic Order, the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of 
 the Sierra Madre Club. 
 
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 INCKLE, WILLIAM, Vice 
 President and General Man- 
 ager, Pacific Packing Com- 
 pany, Colton, California, was 
 born in Philadelphia, Penn- 
 sylvania, July 26, 1877, the son of Charles 
 F. Hinckle and Katherine E. (Chambers) 
 Hinckle. He was married in 1903 and is the 
 father of two children, Margaret E. Hinckle 
 and William Hinckle, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Hinckle, who is a 
 member of an old Phila- 
 delphia family, was edu- 
 cated in the schools of the 
 Quaker City and prepared 
 for college at Delancey 
 School, a noted Philadel- 
 phia institution. In 1895 
 he entered the University 
 of Pennsylvania, but was 
 compelled to leave the fol- 
 lowing year owing to fail- 
 ing health, superinduced 
 by overstudy. 
 
 Following his departure 
 from college, Mr. Hinckle, 
 on the advice of his physi- 
 cian, traveled to various 
 parts of the country in 
 search of health, and in 
 1900 visited Southern 
 California. Locating at 
 Riverside, California, he 
 became interested in the 
 citrus fruit industry and 
 purchased several large 
 tracts of land which he 
 turned into orange and lemon groves. He 
 has been actively interested in the fruit busi- 
 ness from that time to date and has taken a 
 prominent part in the introduction of new 
 methods for the handling of the product. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Hinckle became interested in 
 the Orange Growers' Cash Association at 
 Redlands and assumed the office of General 
 Manager. He conducted its affairs until 
 1910, when he sold his interest and took up 
 the auction method of selling citrus fruits. 
 
 In 1911 Mr. Hinckle associated himself 
 with J. W. Sutphen of Los Angeles, and to- 
 gether they organized the Pacific Packing 
 Company, a corporation designed to estab- 
 lish a chain of packing houses in Southern 
 California for the handling of citrus fruits. 
 The shipping of this product has long been 
 one of the chief problems of this, a leading 
 industry of Southern California, and under 
 the plan of Mr. Hinckle's company much of 
 
 WILLIAM HINCKLE 
 
 the difficulty is overcome, the citrus growers 
 being afforded facilities for packing their fruit 
 and selling it at the point of production, thus 
 eliminating the risk to the growers of ship- 
 ping their fruits East without a definite price 
 or sale being made until the car arrives at 
 its destination. 
 
 The citrus industry of California repre- 
 sents from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 capi- 
 tal invested, ten thou- 
 . sand growers are inter- 
 ested in the cultivation of 
 the fruit and more than 
 100,000 persons depend 
 on it for a livelihood. It 
 is an enormous business, 
 as many as 50,000 car- 
 loads of fruit being 
 shipped in one year, and 
 is growing in extent 
 every year. Until the 
 advent of the Pacific 
 Fruit Packing Company, 
 most of the fruit was 
 shipped to the Eastern 
 markets in refrigerator 
 cars, but the growers 
 were compelled to meet 
 great losses, due to risks 
 in transit of the fruit de- 
 caying, wreckage, con- 
 gested market conditions 
 upon arrival, and in addi- 
 tion to these, were under 
 heavy expense in various 
 other ways. 
 
 Through the applica- 
 tion of the principles Mr. Hinckle and asso- 
 ciates are working for, a large part of this 
 liability is taken off the shoulders of the 
 growers, as Eastern buyers assume these 
 risks in procuring and paying for the citrus 
 supply in California. 
 
 From the time he engaged in the fruit 
 industry Mr. Hinckle has made a study of 
 the business and has conducted numerous 
 independent experiments, with the result 
 that he has introduced more scientific meth- 
 ods of packing and has aided in many other 
 ways in the advancement of the industry. 
 Aside from his fruit interests, Mr. Hinckle 
 is -interested in several other enterprises. 
 
 Mr. Hinckle is a member of the University 
 Club of Redlands, California, with which he 
 has been connected for a number of years, 
 and also belongs to the Riverside Country 
 Club of Riverside, California, and the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 485 
 
 ARTIN, JAMES RUFUS, 
 Banking (member of the firm 
 of Torrance, Marshall & 
 Company), Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Buffalo, 
 New York, November 28, 1875, the son of 
 William Allen Martin and Isabella (Walls) 
 Martin. He married Pauline Elizabeth Corn- 
 well at Los Angeles, on July 2, 1901, and 
 to them there has been 
 born a daughter, Mar- 
 garet Cornwell Martin. 
 
 Mr. Martin, who has 
 attained a position among 
 the successful business 
 men of the Southwest, 
 has spent the greater 
 part of his life in South- 
 ern California, having re- 
 moved to Los Angeles 
 when he was eleven 
 years of age. Prior to his 
 removal there he had at- 
 tended the public schools 
 of Buffalo, but following 
 the death of his parents, 
 left his native city. He 
 continued his studies in 
 the public schools of Los 
 Angeles and attended the 
 High School there, but 
 left in 1895 to earn a 
 livelihood. 
 
 Entering the employ of 
 the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company in Los 
 Angeles, Mr. Martin took 
 up the study of telegraphy and after working 
 in Los Angeles for a time was transferred to 
 one of the company's stations on the Colo- 
 rado Desert. Despite the loneliness of the 
 post, Mr. Martin stuck to it for about three 
 years and in addition to his railroad duties, 
 was engaged in the general merchandise 
 business, in which he met with success. 
 
 His faithfulness to the company's interests 
 caused Mr. Martin to be promoted, in 1899, 
 to the position of Freight and Ticket Agent 
 for the Southern Pacific Company at its sta- 
 tion in Pasadena, California. This is one of 
 the important offices of the company in 
 Southern California and Mr. Martin re- 
 mained in charge of the two deoartments for 
 about three years, or until 1902, when he 
 abandoned the railroad business and entered 
 the employ of Adams, Phillips & Co., one of 
 the leading private banking firms of the 
 West, with its principal office, Los Angeles. 
 
 JAMES R. MARTIN 
 
 Mr. Martin began his career with the firm 
 as a bond salesman and handled securities 
 for the house for about one year, becoming 
 at that time a member of the firm. He has 
 been an active factor in the brokerage busi- 
 ness from that time to the present (1913). 
 Since Mr. Martin became a member of the 
 firm it has undergone several changes of 
 name, but through all these changes he has 
 continued in an active 
 capacity. In August, 
 1907, the house became 
 known as J. H. Adams & 
 Company, and under this 
 name operated for ap- 
 proximately five years. 
 In July, 1912, upon the 
 retirement of Mr. Adams, 
 the firm was reorganized 
 and has since been known 
 as Torrance, Marshall & 
 Company. 
 
 This firm has grown to 
 be one of the most im- 
 portant financial houses 
 of the country and has 
 played an important part 
 in the promotion of new 
 industries and the gen- 
 eral development of the 
 Southwest, devoting par- 
 ticular attention to the 
 advancement of South- 
 ern California enterprises. 
 With the backing of this 
 company numerous proj- 
 ects, industrial and other- 
 wise, have been financed and made possible 
 of success. It has operated largely in govern- 
 ment, municipal, school and public service 
 corporation bonds, and has been instrumental 
 in giving to various sections of Southern 
 California modern utilities which have great- 
 ly aided in the general growth of those com- 
 munities. The company has been especially 
 active in the financing of irrigation, light, 
 power and land development corporations. 
 The group of men comprising the firm are 
 among the most enterprising in the city and 
 Mr. Martin is credited with being one of its 
 most active members. 
 
 Mr. Martin obtains his recreation in golf 
 and other outdoor exercises. He is a member 
 of the Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale 
 Country Club, Midwick Country Club of 
 Pasadena, the California Club of Los An- 
 geles, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the 
 leading club of its kind in the West. 
 
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 FRANCIS E. BACON 
 
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 487 
 
 AGON, FRANCIS EUGENE, Re- 
 tired Merchant, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Fulton, N. Y., August 
 12, 1851, the son of Dr. Charles G. 
 Bacon and Mary M. (Whitaker) 
 Bacon. He has been twice mar- 
 ried, his first wife having been Miss Gertrude P. 
 Andrews, whom he married at Lyons-, N. Y., in 1872. 
 He was wedded a second time, at Clifton Springs, 
 N. Y., on July 3, 1902, to Miss Cora May Hiscox. 
 The Bacon family is of English origin, having been 
 transplanted to New England during Colonial 
 times. The great-grandfather of Mr. Bacon was 
 wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Bacon's 
 father, who died in 1906, aged ninety-two years, 
 was the oldest resident of Fulton, N. Y., had served 
 several terms as President of the Oswego County 
 Medical Society and was one of the founders of 
 Falley Seminary at Fulton. He was noted as the 
 only physician in America who had attended every 
 semi-annual meeting of a medical society for fifty 
 years. His death was mourned by the entire city 
 of Fulton, all business houses closing on the day 
 of his funeral in honor of his memory. 
 
 The Bacon family had been prominent in med- 
 ical circles for many generations and it was the 
 wish of his father that Francis E. Bacon should 
 adopt that profession. The latter, however, de- 
 cided to become a merchant, and when he was 
 about fourteen years old apprenticed himself to 
 a merchant of Fulton. 
 
 At the end of eighteen months, Mr. Bacon, fol- 
 lowing the advice of his father, gave up his work 
 and entered Falley Seminary, where his father at 
 one time was an instructor. His studies there 
 completed, Mr. Bacon accepted appointment as- a 
 school teacher and taught for one term, but at the 
 end of the session he returned to the dry goods 
 business as a clerk in the store of B. J. Dyer & Co., 
 of Fulton. Mr. Bacon within two years came to be 
 regarded as an expert, and accepted a better posi- 
 tion in another store of Fulton, but ultimately re- 
 turned to the Dyer establishment as a part owner 
 of the business. While still retaining his interest 
 in the Dyer Company he bought the store where 
 he had worked as a clerk only a few years before, 
 and under the name of Francis E. Bacon & Co. 
 built this up to the point where it was the leading 
 store of the town. When he had placed this new 
 business on a firm basis, he withdrew from B. J. 
 Dyer & Co. and devoted himself to the former. 
 
 In 1894 his health became impaired through 
 overwork and he was compelled to give up the 
 management of his store. Having acquired other 
 interests in Fulton, including leather, lumber and 
 the Fulton Machine Works, of which he was Pres- 
 ident, he retired from the merchandise business 
 and devoted a year to these outside affairs, most 
 of his work in connection therewith being out of 
 doors. Mr. Bacon's health was restored in this 
 way, and he then availed himself of an opportunity 
 to establish a department store in the city of Syra- 
 cuse, N. Y. He invited a former partner, Mr. Chap- 
 pell, to join him in this enterprise and the firm of 
 Bacon, Chappell & Co. was established. They be- 
 gan operations on a comparatively modest basis, 
 but with Mr. Bacon as the directing force, the busi- 
 ness finally became one of the principal commer- 
 cial establishments of that section. 
 
 Mr. Bacon continued in active charge of the 
 business until 1910, but his ceaseless activity in 
 private and public affairs again impaired his health 
 and he was compelled to abandon his work. He 
 had wintered in Los Angeles for some years prior, 
 
 so went there on this occasion to recuperate, but 
 has made that city his home ever since. 
 
 While he practically retired from business life 
 in 1910, Mr. Bacon still retained his interests in 
 Syracuse and did not finally dispose of his holdings 
 in the store until the summer of 1912, when, during 
 a visit to Syracuse, he was offered a large price 
 for his business and he sold out. By a strange co- 
 incidence, he wound up his business career, after 
 forty years of success, by selling to a man of the 
 same name as his- first sponsor in business, Dyer, 
 although the two men were in no way related. 
 
 During his residence of fifteen years in Syra- 
 cuse Mr. Bacon was one of its most prominent 
 men. When he first went to the city in the year 
 1895 it was greatly undeveloped and it boasted of 
 only two modern paved streets. He immediately 
 became a factor in public affairs and later, as Pres- 
 ident of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, led 
 in many movements which aided in the upbuilding 
 of the city and the increase of its commercial im- 
 portance. He served five years as President of 
 the Chamber of Commerce and with his associates 
 kept up a continual campaign in the interest of 
 Syracuse, being responsible for the location there 
 of scores of manufacturing institutions, thus lift- 
 ing the city from an obscure place to one among 
 the leading manufacturing cities of the U. S. 
 
 Mr. Bacon was tireless in his efforts to adver- 
 tise Syracuse and was responsible for many noted 
 personages visiting the city. Among others he had 
 as his gue'sts and guests of the city, President Wil- 
 liam McKinley, President Theodore Roosevelt, the 
 late Senator Mark Hanna, Leslie M. Shaw, Secre- 
 tary of the Treasury, and numerous others. Large- 
 ly through his efforts Syracuse was included in the 
 itinerary of Prince Henry of Prussia during his 
 notable tour of the United States and Mr. Bacon 
 figured prominently in the attendant ceremonies. 
 
 One of Mr. Bacon's distinguished achievements 
 for Syracuse was the securing of a new Federal 
 building. He headed a delegation which went to 
 Washington to secure the appropriation of a sum 
 of money for this purpose and aided in the selec- 
 tion of the site. Mr. Bacon placed the Syracuse 
 Chamber of Commerce among the strongest institu- 
 tions of the kind in the country and for four years 
 was its representative at the annual meetings of 
 the National Board of Trade. He served during 
 that time as a member of the Council of the latter 
 organization. 
 
 While he was devoted to the work of upbuilding 
 Syracuse, Mr. Bacon was also active in church and 
 charitable lines. He brought about the organiza- 
 tion of the Associated Charities of Syracuse, which, 
 working in conjunction with the Syracuse Society 
 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, had charge 
 of all public aid. Mr. Bacon was President of both. 
 
 Prior to his removal to Syracuse Mr. Bacon had 
 served for fifteen years as a member of the Fulton 
 Board of Education, and during eight years of the 
 period, as President. He also served two years as 
 President of the Oswego County Sunday School As- 
 sociation and was for many years a member of the 
 Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Church of 
 Fulton, which he had helped to build. He personal- 
 ly procured a large part of the funds used in build- 
 ing the church and performed a similar service for 
 the Methodist Church of Syracuse. 
 
 Mr. Bacon, on two occasions, was urged to ac- 
 cept nomination for Mayor of the city of Syracuse, 
 but in each instance declined. 
 
 He is a Mason, member of the Citizens' Club of 
 Syracuse and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 AURELIO SANDOVAL 
 
 ANDOVAL, AURELIO, Fisheries, 
 Los Angeles, California, one of 
 the greatest of Mexican born 
 business men, was born June 28, 
 1863, at Ures, Sonora, Mexico, the 
 son of Jose U. Sandoval and 
 Beatriz Ortiz Sandoval. He married Louise Parodi, 
 July 4, 1906, at Los Angeles. There are two chil- 
 dren, by a former wife, Adela and Aurelia Sandoval. 
 Mr. Sandoval was taught in a private school 
 at Guaymas, fconora. Then he was apprenticed in 
 business to his father, himself one of the biggest 
 merchants of his section. Later he was taken in 
 as a partner in his father's numerous enterprises, 
 which included wholesale merchandising, banking 
 and mining. In 1888, he formed the firm of P. 
 Sandoval & Co., with his brother, and opened a 
 banking house at Nogales, Sonora. He is still in 
 that firm, and it is known throughout Mexico and 
 the United States as well as a financial institution 
 of high credit and great resources. 
 
 Then he obtained from the Mexican government 
 one of the most valuable grants ever given to 
 one man, on condition of its full development. 
 This was the exclusive fishing right on the 
 West Coast of Mexico from Guaymas north to the 
 mouth of the Colorado River, and to all the water 
 that surrounds the peninsula of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. This includes several thousand miles of 
 sea coast. The entire coast is extremely rich in 
 sea food, such as oysters, lobsters and crabs, not 
 to mention the vas' shoals of edible fish. Valuable 
 pearl fisheries have been found and are being 
 worked. Los Angeles forms the best market for 
 the sea food, and to that city Mr. Sandoval removed 
 in 1904. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce, and the Merchants and 
 Manufacturers' Association. 
 
 HON. FRANK R. WILLIS 
 
 ILLIS, FRANK R., Judge of the 
 Superior Court, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at North Adams, 
 Massachusetts, August 17, 1854, 
 the son of Albert Willis and Laura 
 
 P. (White) Willis. He married 
 
 at Iowa City, Iowa, March 8, 1882. There are two 
 children, William H. and Fred A. Willis. 
 
 The family moved to Iowa in his youth, and he 
 was educated there. He attended the State Nor- 
 mal of Iowa, with the class of 1879. His higher 
 education was obtained at the State University of 
 Iowa, and there he received his law degree in 1881. 
 
 Judge Willis began to practice law at Cherokee, 
 Iowa, July 1, 1881, and continued there until 1883. 
 In that year he removed to Los Angeles. 
 
 He practiced for two years, meanwhile becom- 
 ing known in politics, and in 1886 was chosen at- 
 torney for the public administrator. In 1888 he 
 was chosen City Attorney for Redondo Beach and 
 held the place four years. Then, for eight years, 
 performed the duties of the office of Assistant Dis- 
 trict Attorney for Los Angeles County. 
 
 He was elected judge of the Superior Court of 
 Los Angeles County in the year 1908. He has given 
 special attention to the expedition of cases, in or- 
 der that the administration of justice might not 
 cost his county too much money, and has the re- 
 markable record of disposing of more than 400 
 cases per annum. 
 
 Judge Willis is a noted criminologist. He has 
 put into practice the probation system now on the 
 penal code of California. He makes his proba- 
 tioners put money into the savings bank to show 
 their good faith in reform. He had in 1911, 150 
 probationers earning an average of $15 per week. 
 
 He has been, since 1901, Professor of Criminal 
 Law and Procedure at the University of Southern 
 California. He is a member of the Union League 
 and the Gamut Clubs. 
 
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 489 
 
 R. B. YOUNG 
 
 OUNG, ROBERT B., Architect, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Huntington County, Canada, April 
 1, 1855, the son of Alexander 
 Young and Mary Ann (Dowler) 
 Young. He married Mary C. Wil- 
 son, January 2, 1880, at Denver, Colorado. There 
 are two children, Frank Wilson and Mary Eliza- 
 beth (Young) Moore. 
 
 Mr. Young studied in the public schools of 
 Canada, and after he had chosen architecture as 
 his profession moved to Denver. There he studied 
 the art of construction and of architecture design- 
 ing until 1881. 
 
 In that year he moved to San Francisco, and 
 after working there awhile he decided that Los 
 Angeles offered a better field, and removed to that 
 city, where he opened an office for himself. 
 
 He can be reckoned as one of the pioneer archi- 
 tects of Los Angeles, as there were but few build- 
 ings of any consequence when he started business; 
 few, indeed, that had needed the services of an 
 architect. Today the embodiments of his designs 
 are to be found in every corner of that city, and in 
 every other city of Southern California. 
 
 Among the notable buildings of which he was 
 architect are the Hollenbeck Hotel; the Braum 
 Building, which was the highest building in the 
 city at the time of its construction; the Lankershim 
 Block, and many fine residences. He built the in- 
 dustrial school at Whittier. Examples of his work 
 are to be found in Bakersfield, Stockton, Pomona, 
 California, and Yuma, Arizona. He has built many 
 Catholic school buildings in California and several 
 churches in the diocese of Los Angeles and Mon- 
 terey. In the list of the big Los Angeles business 
 blocks which he designed are the Lankershim 
 
 FRANK W. YOUNG 
 
 Hotel, the Broadway and Occidental Block, West- 
 minster, Lexington, and other hotels, Barker Bros.' 
 building, California Furniture building, and Black- 
 stone Dry Goods Company building. There are 
 many apartment houses, residences and lesser busi- 
 ness blocks. At the present time he has under 
 construction the largest apartment house in South- 
 ern California, the Seminole, for Orena Bros.; an- 
 other of almost equal size, the Gerold, for F. E. 
 Engstrum; others for C. G. Craig, Miss M. C. May- 
 hew, and a seven-story hotel building, the largest 
 in point of area and number of rooms, for him- 
 self. 
 
 He is vice-president of the Southern California 
 Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 
 He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the 
 Jonathan Club and the Elks. 
 
 YOUNG, FRANK WILSON, Architect, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at Los Angeles, June 
 30, 1885, the son of Robert B. Young and Mary C. 
 (Wilson) Young. He is unmarried. 
 
 Mr. Young received his schooling at St. Vin- 
 cent's College, Los Angeles; St. Mary's College, at 
 Oakland, Cal., and received his training as archi- 
 tect in the office of his father. 
 
 Immediately after he finished his schooling, 
 and had served his apprenticeship, he was made a 
 member of his father's firm, the R. B. Young & 
 Son Company, architects, and he has been active 
 in its business ever since. 
 
 He has had the active outside work directing 
 the construction of most of the large buildings de- 
 signed by the office referred to above. 
 
 He is a member of the Southern California 
 Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 
 
 He has joined the Jonathan Club, the Elks, and 
 the Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club and the Native Sons of the Golden West. 
 
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 ULLGARDT, LOUIS CHRISTIAN, 
 
 M*J Architect, San Francisco, Califor- 
 \ nia, was born in Washington, 
 Franklin County, Missouri, Janu- 
 ary 18, 1866, the son of John Chris- 
 tian Mullgardt and Wilhelmina 
 (Hausgen) Mullgardt. He married Laura R. Stef- 
 fens at Chicago, Illinois, June 9, 1897. They have 
 two children, Alexander S. and John L. C. 
 Mullgardt, thirteen and six years old, respectively. 
 
 Mr. Mullgardt's work is well 
 known on both sides of the 
 Atlantic. He received his pre- 
 liminary education in public 
 and private schools of his na- 
 tive town and in the summer 
 of 1881 went to St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, where he took up the 
 study of architecture in the 
 offices of O. J. Wilhelmi and 
 Ernest C. Janssen and later 
 James Stewart, well-known 
 members of the profession. 
 He also studied in the Poly- 
 technic Institute and Depart- 
 ment of Fine Arts of Wash- 
 ington University. 
 
 In the winter of 1885 Mr. 
 Mullgardt went to Boston, 
 Massachusetts, as a student 
 in the office of H. H. Richard- 
 son, Brookline, Mass., and 
 subsequently with Mr. Rich- 
 ardson's successors, Shepley, 
 Rutan & Coolidge of Boston. 
 He also studied with Peabody 
 & Stearns and Brigham & 
 Spofford of Boston. During 
 the years of 1889 and 1890 he 
 
 was a special student at Harvard University. 
 With the training and experience gained during 
 his student years, Mr. Mullgardt went to Chicago 
 in 1891, and until 1893, was Designer-in-Chief in the 
 offices of Henry Ives Cobb. Among the buildings 
 designed by him while serving in that capacity are 
 the following: Newberry Library, Cook County Ab- 
 stract Building, Chicago Athletic Association Build- 
 ing, University of Chicago and the Fisheries Build- 
 ing at the World's Columbian Exposition. 
 
 His exceptional talent and training placed Mr. 
 Mullgardt among the few recognized leading Archi- 
 tectural Designers of the middle West. In 1893 he 
 went to St. Louis to enter private practice. He 
 continued there about nine years, having added to 
 his reputation in designing and erecting numerous 
 private and public structures. Among the more 
 notable were the designs of the Abolitionist Monu- 
 ment to Elijah Parish Lovejoy, publisher, erected 
 at Alton, 111., by the State of Illinois; the University 
 Club, St. Louis; Boyer Pneumatic Tool factories at 
 Detroit, Mich., and St. Louis, Mo., and the Arlington 
 
 Hotel and Bath House, a stately group of buildings 
 at Hot Springs, Arkansas. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Mullgardt went to Manchester, Eng- 
 land, in conjunction with James C. Stewart of New 
 York, respecting the construction of the New Mid- 
 land Grand Hotel. In 1903 he went from Manchester 
 to London, opened offices on Somerset Street, 
 where he remained during that year and the next, 
 engaged in conjunction with Messrs. Colcutt and 
 Hamp in planning the extensions of the celebrated 
 Savoy Hotel on the Strand; 
 also alterations on the old 
 buildings of the Savoy on the 
 Embankment. This is one of 
 the historic hotels on the 
 other side of the Atlantic, 
 and Mr. Mullgardt's selection 
 for this work costing over 
 $2,000,000 was a tribute alike 
 to American architecture and 
 to Mr. Mullgardt. 
 
 During the period covering 
 his work on the Savoy Hotel, 
 Mr. Mullgardt fulfilled other 
 commissions in the British 
 Isles. He remained in Lon- 
 don until the year 1905, when 
 illness in his family necessi- 
 tated return to the United 
 States. Among the archi- 
 tectural works of Mr. Mull- 
 gardt in Great Britain were 
 the designs for electric pow- 
 er stations for the British 
 Westinghouse Company, Hey- 
 sham Harbour and at Neas- 
 den, for the Metropolitan Un- 
 derground Railway of Lon- 
 don. He also designed a large 
 
 factory for the British Consolidated Pneumatic Tool 
 Company at Frazerburg, Scotland, and two electric 
 power stations in the Clyde Valley, Scotland. 
 
 From London, Mr. Mullgardt went almost direct- 
 ly to San Francisco in 1905 and has resided there 
 and in Berkeley since. He entered private practice 
 in San Francisco in 1905 and has been chiefly en- 
 gaged in California Country Residence Architecture. 
 In addition to his private practice, Mr. Mull- 
 gardt is engaged in designing the "East Court" of 
 the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, hav- 
 ing been appointed a member, Architectural Com- 
 mission which is planning the International Fair to 
 celebrate the Panama Canal completion in 1915. 
 
 Mr. Mullgardt is Fellow member, American In- 
 stitute of Architects, Washington, D. C., and life 
 member, Harvard Engineers Club. He belongs to 
 the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and is honor- 
 ary member of the San Francisco Press- Club and 
 of the Outdoor Art League. He has made art a life 
 study and has lectured and written numerously on 
 the fine arts relative to architecture. 
 
 L. C. MULLGARDT 
 
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 491 
 
 KITE, CHARLES HENRY, Re- 
 tired Banker, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Saratoga 
 County, New York, April 10, 1840, 
 the son of James Madison White 
 and Charlotte (Cole) White. Re- 
 married Agnes E. Hall at Glens Falls, New York, 
 on January 2, 1867, and to them there were born, 
 three children, Walter Everett (deceased), Ger- 
 trude Dorcas White (Mrs. George R. Field) and 
 Julia Stella White (Mrs. F. 
 E. Culver), Mrs. White 
 died in 1899. 
 
 Mr. White, who has at- 
 tained an eminent position 
 in business affairs of the 
 West, is essentially a self- 
 made man and rose to his 
 present place solely by his 
 own efforts. He attended 
 the public schools of Glens 
 Falls, New York, and was a 
 student at Glens Falls Acad- 
 emy of the same place, but 
 was compelled to give up his 
 studies when he was twelve 
 years of age and aid in the 
 support of the family. He 
 began to earn his livelihood 
 in the store of Albert Hall of 
 Glens Falls, whose daughter 
 he married some years later. 
 Starting as a clerk he con- 
 tinued in the employ of Mr. 
 Hall for twelve years, and 
 at the end of that period he 
 and a partner purchased the 
 store, and conducted it for 
 about seven years. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. White, who is now strong and active 
 at the age of 72, was adjudged by physicians to be, 
 hopelessly afflicted with tuberculosis, and his ten- 
 ure of life was considered to be only a matter of a 
 few months. On the advice of one physician, how- 
 ever, he went to Colorado in the hope of effecting 
 a cure, and after a brief stay in Denver, went to 
 Colorado Springs, where he made his home for 
 thirty years subsequently, becoming during that 
 time one of the strongest men of that section in 
 financial, real estate, mining and public affairs. 
 
 Associated with three other gentlemen, Mr. 
 White in 1873 organized the El Paso County Bank 
 of Colorado Springs, but he took no active part in its 
 affairs until 1876, when he was restored to health. 
 At that time he accepted a place on the Board of 
 Directors and became active in the business. 
 This was the beginning of his new career, for upon 
 leaving New York State he had disposed of all his 
 interests there, believing that he would be unable 
 to participate in business again. With his returning 
 health, however, the energy and determination 
 
 C. H. WHITE 
 
 characteristic of the man came back and for twenty 
 years he was one of the dominant factors in the 
 affairs of the El Paso County Bank, and the El 
 Paso National Bank of Colorado, with which the 
 El Paso County Bank was merged in 1896, making 
 this one of the strongest monetary institutions in 
 the State of Colorado. He was a Director and of- 
 ficial of the latter institution for several years. 
 
 In addition to his banking and real estate inter- 
 ests in Colorado Springs, Mr. White also was one of 
 the active mining men of the 
 West, being a successful op- 
 erator in Leadville and Crip- 
 ple Creek during and after 
 their historic booms. He still 
 retains valuable properties in 
 Cripple Creek. 
 
 Although he had little 
 taste for politics, Mr. White 
 was one of the prominent 
 figures in public affairs of 
 Colorado Springs and served 
 two terms as Town Trustee, 
 as the Aldermen were known. 
 He also served two years 
 as a member of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Institute 
 for the Education of the 
 Mute and Blind of Colorado. 
 In 1903 Mr. White went to 
 Los Angeles with his young- 
 est daughter, who was in fail- 
 ing health, in order that she 
 might have the benefit of the 
 climate, and he has made that 
 city his home. It was his de- 
 sire to retire from active 
 business at that time, but 
 he gradually became in- 
 terested in real estate and other investments, and 
 is compelled to devote time to them. 
 
 Mr. White took part in the organization, in 1911, 
 of the Klamath River Canning Co., engaged in the 
 canning of salmon on the Klamath River. The com- 
 pany was organized for the purpose of marketing a 
 select product, and Mr. White, as a member of the 
 Board of Directors and Secretary and Treasurer 
 during the first year, was a factor in its success, 
 and is today its largest stockholder. He is a stock- 
 holder in various other enterprises. 
 
 During his entire career Mr White has refrained, 
 as far as possible, from appearing in the public 
 eye, and has never been a seeker for public office, 
 preferring to perform his duty to the State and 
 his fellow men through the development of the 
 country's resources. At all times strong for the 
 advancement of the public interest and a man of 
 genial temperament, Mr. White is regarded as one 
 of the solid citizens of the West. He is Vice Presi- 
 dent and Director, Sierra Madre Club, Los Angeles, 
 and member, San Gabriel Valley Country Club. 
 
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 GEORGE U. YOUNG 
 
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 493 
 
 OUNG, GEORGE ULYSSES, Min- 
 ing, Phoenix, Arizona, was born 
 in Hamburg, Indiana, February 
 10, 1867, the son of John Alex- 
 ander Young and Mary E. (Wil- 
 son) Young. He married Ellen 
 M. Smith at Williams, Arizona, September 26, 1900, 
 and to them there have been born three children, 
 George U., Jr., Helen Evelyn and Edna Lucille 
 Young. He is descended of a family old in the 
 history of England and one which was numbered 
 among the earliest of the Virginia settlers. 
 
 Mr. Young, who has spent his life in various vo- 
 cations, including teacher, editor, railroad man, 
 miner, etc., received his early education in the 
 schools of his native State, but left when he was 
 twelve years old. His family moved to Kansas 
 at that time and for three years he was engaged in 
 farming. A giant physically, he seemed older than 
 he really was, and at the age of fifteen was called 
 from the wheat field to the school room. He re- 
 ceived his teacher's certificate at Lincoln Center, 
 Kansas, in a competitive examination and was as- 
 signed to a school seven miles from his home. He 
 was paid twenty dollars for his first month's 
 labors, but after that his compensation was in- 
 creased and he held his post for two years, being 
 then transferred to another school. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Young was appointed Superintend- 
 ent of Schools for Strong City, Kansas, and while 
 in the office took up the study of law. He also 
 learned several other occupations, including paint- 
 ing and brick moulding and during the next three 
 years worked for a limited period in each. In 
 1890 Mr. Young went before Justice Doster of 
 the Kansas Supreme Court for examination and 
 was admitted to the bar, the examining justice at 
 the time declaring his work to have been the best 
 he ever witnessed. 
 
 For six months Mr. Young practiced with bril- 
 liant success, but at that time voluntarily retired 
 because of personal prejudice against certain 
 methods of conduct in his profession and took up 
 railroad construction work. In the employ of 
 Lantry Brothers, he worked on the construction of 
 the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad, now 
 a part of the Santa Fe system, for about three 
 years, and then located at Williams, Arizona, 
 where he became an engineman for the Santa 
 Fe. While thus engaged he purchased the Wil- 
 liams News, a weekly newspaper, which he con- 
 ducted for several years, and in addition was 
 chosen principal of the Williams public school. 
 
 Mr. Young attended to his various duties for 
 about four years and in 1898 began the construc- 
 tion of the first railroad to the Grand Canyon of 
 Arizona. His partner in this enterprise was 
 "Bucky" O'Neill, celebrated as the first man who 
 volunteered for service In the Spanish-American 
 war and one who gave his life early in the 
 struggle. Mr. Young continued the construction 
 
 of his road single-handed, but was unable to carry 
 it to conclusion, and finally it passed into the 
 hands of the Santa Fe Company, who completed it. 
 
 Mr. Young resumed his work as an engineman 
 for several years, but was on the lookout for 
 opportunities, and in 1903 went into the mining 
 fields of Arizona as a prospector. In 1904 he ac- 
 quired the Madeizelle Derby Mine, a gold and 
 copper property containing twenty-five claims, 
 which he has been working ever since. Six years 
 later he became the owner of the Goldfield Mine, 
 located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and this, too, 
 he is working. It comprises 216 acres of gold- 
 bearing land and promises to become one of the 
 profitable mining properties of the West. 
 
 These two are the principal properties with 
 which Mr. Young has been identified, but through 
 them he has come to be regarded as one of the 
 successful operators of the region. 
 
 For several years past Mr. Young has been a 
 prominent figure in the Republican party of Ari- 
 zona and is being considered among the probable 
 candidates for the party's nomination for Gov- 
 ernor in the next general election. In May, 1909, 
 he was appointed Territorial Secretary under 
 Governor Sloan, a position which also included 
 the duties of Insurance Commissioner and Acting 
 Governor. Mr. Young attracted the attention of 
 the entire country to Arizona while acting as 
 Governor in the absence of Judge Sloan and certi- 
 fied the first constitution of the new State. 
 
 He was a candidate for the Gubernatorial nomi- 
 nation on the Republican ticket at the primaries 
 preceding the first general election in the State 
 of Arizona, but was defeated. He continued to 
 hold office, however, until Arizona was declared 
 a State in February, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Young has gained considerable local repute 
 as a political prophet and on numerous occasions 
 has seen his predictions of future events come to 
 realization. He has also written considerably 
 along this line and one of his addresses, dealing 
 with the psychology of government, contained a 
 prophecy which received vindication several 
 years later, when Theodore Roosevelt, believed at 
 the time of writing forever eliminated as a Presi- 
 dential possibility, came out of retirement in 1912 
 and made his famous contest for the Republican 
 nomination for President. 
 
 Mr. Young has been a factor among the pro- 
 gressive Republicans ever since his entry Into 
 politics, but he has also been keenly interested 
 in the development of Arizona; and as President 
 and General Manager of the Young Mines Com- 
 pany and of the Madeizelle Mining Company has 
 done his share towards the utilization of the 
 country's resources. 
 
 He is a Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine, the 
 Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of the 
 World. He also belongs to the Yavapai Club of 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
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 OFFEE, LAWRENCE WILLIAM, 
 Real Estate, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Runnia, Denmark, 
 March 5, 1876, the son of Peter 
 L. Coffee and Maggie (Larsen) 
 Coffee. He married Clara Ellen 
 De Voll at Stockton, California, May 12, 1897, and 
 to them there has been born a son, Lawrence Wil- 
 liam Coffee, Jr. Mr. Coffee's family is an extremely 
 old one in Denmark and several centuries ago was 
 among the ruling families of 
 the country. 
 
 Mr. Coffee was brought to 
 the United States in early 
 childhood and has spent the 
 greater part of his life in 
 California. The family first 
 settled in Stanislaus County, 
 California, where he attended 
 the schools of the district. He 
 left school, however, and 
 went to work, first on a farm 
 and later in the employ of a 
 California horse breeder. It 
 was while in this position 
 that Mr. Coffee learned the 
 bu&iness of horse-raising, 
 and before he had attained 
 his majority he was regarded 
 as an expert judge of horse- 
 flesh. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Coffee went to 
 San Francisco and engaged 
 in the shoe business, devot- 
 ing his evenings to study at 
 a business college of the city. 
 At the end of a year, how- 
 ever, he entered the real es- 
 tate business in San Fran- 
 cisco as an employe of the G. H. Umbsen Company, 
 one of the largest firms in the city at that 
 time, and he has devoted practically all of his time 
 since then to this line of operation. 
 
 For a large part of the time that he was asso- 
 ciated with this company, Mr. Coffee was Manager 
 of its County Lands Department, and in 1896 went 
 to Europe to study European colonization methods 
 and also to bring back to the United States a party 
 of colonists. This was not his first trip to Europe, 
 he having gone there several years previously to 
 settle up the estate of his grandmother. 
 
 Returning to the United States in 1897, Mr. 
 Coffee continued with his firm for several years 
 longer, and in 1905 purchased an interest in the 
 J. W. Wright Company, real estate operators. He 
 took the position of Manager of the company's af- 
 fairs and was in charge when San Francisco was 
 destroyed by fire in April, 1906. His company lost 
 heavily in the disaster, but before the flames were 
 quite extinguished, Mr. Coffee, with characteristic 
 energy, had erected a temporary office at his home 
 
 L. W. COFFEE 
 
 in the Richmond District and resumed bu&iness. 
 He had been operating thus for a week before his 
 partner put in an appearance, and it is believed 
 that Mr. Coffee was the first business man in San 
 Francisco to resume operations after being wiped 
 out by the fire. 
 
 The years 1907 and 1908 Mr. Coffee devoted 
 almost entirely to the development of Point Rich- 
 mond, California, an industrial town across the bay 
 from San Francisco. At first the town only had a 
 few hundred inhabitants, but 
 with the establishment there 
 of large refineries by the 
 Standard Oil Company, the 
 place began to grow, and Mr. 
 Coffee was one of the real 
 estate men who operated 
 there during the attendant 
 boom. He sold the greater 
 part of the business and resi- 
 dential property taken up by 
 the new settlers of Point 
 Richmond, and in the im- 
 provement of his firm's hold- 
 ings built twelve miles of 
 concrete walks. He also was 
 instrumental in raising a 
 bonus among the people of 
 Point Richmond to bring the 
 Pullman Palace Car Com- 
 pany shops to that place, and 
 conducted his campaign with 
 such success that the shops 
 were located there, thus giv- 
 ing to Point Richmond an- 
 other important industry. 
 
 Mr. Coffee, prior to taking 
 up the Point Richmond work, 
 had, in 1907, conducted an- 
 other large operation at Glen Arbor, California. 
 He laid out the town, installed an electric light 
 system and water works, and sold seven hundred 
 residence lots. This town is located on the San 
 Lorenzo River, and Mr. Coffee, who retains large 
 interests there, has a handsome country place, 
 which is one of the town's features. 
 
 Mr. Coffee, in 1907, acquired large holdings in 
 lime quarries in Santa Cruz County, Cal., and has 
 devoted considerable time to their handling. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Coffee became Manager of the Bal- 
 boa Realty Co., of Los Angeles. This company is 
 actively engaged in the development of a large 
 beach project (Balboa Island). He is also promot- 
 ing 300,000 acres in Mexico which it is planned to 
 improve and colonize with American farmers. 
 
 Other interests with which Mr. Coffee is associ- 
 ated are the San Francisco-Portland Cement Co., in 
 which he is a heavy stockholder, and the People's 
 Land Co., San Francisco, of which he is President. 
 Mr. Coffee i& a Mason and a member of the 
 Republican Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 495 
 
 OHNSON, BENJAMIN, Merchant, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in St. Paul, Minnesota, January 
 31, 1871, the son of Edward P. 
 Johnson and America Frances 
 (Blasdel) Johnson. He married 
 Minnie B. Guiteau, at Los Angeles, February 28, 
 1893, and to them there have been born two chil- 
 dren, Estelle Marie and Dorothy Louise Johnson. 
 Mr. Johnson's family is one of the oldest in the 
 United States, the early mem- 
 bers having been among the 
 settlers of Maryland Colony. 
 His paternal great-grand- 
 father was one of the first 
 Colonial governors of Mary- 
 land. 
 
 Mr. Johnson has spent the 
 greater part of his life in Los 
 Angeles, and received his 
 education there. His parents 
 moved there when he was 
 about five years of age, and 
 that has been the family 
 home since that time. He at- 
 tended the public schools of 
 Los Angeles, and then spent 
 two years at the University 
 of Southern California. 
 
 Leaving college, Mr. John- 
 son entered the employ of the 
 Los Angeles Furniture Com- 
 pany, in which his father 
 was a part owner, intending 
 to learn that business in its 
 various branches. He served 
 in all departments of the 
 company's plant, and in 1907 
 was elected President of it, 
 
 succeeding to the office which his father had held 
 prior to selling his interest in the business. 
 
 Mr. Johnson continued as executive head of 
 the company, one of the largest furniture manufac- 
 turing concerns on the Pacific Coast, for about 
 two years, but sold out his holdings in it in 1909 
 and retired from the Presidency. 
 
 Since then he has devoted his time to an en- 
 tirely different field of activity, having organized 
 shortly after quitting the furniture business the 
 Los Angeles Public Market Company, of which he 
 is President. This institution is unique in the 
 West, and has the distinction of owning one of 
 the largest wholesale public markets in the world, 
 covering, as it does, eighteen acres of land. It is 
 the clearing house for all classes- of produce grown 
 in Southern California, and is the heart of the 
 produce commission district of Los Angeles, being 
 surrounded on all sides by the leading wholesale 
 houses of the Southwest, of that character, they be- 
 ing tenants of the market company. 
 
 As the head of the Los Angeles Public Market 
 
 BENJAMIN JOHNSON 
 
 Company, Mr. Johnson is one of the leading 
 authorities on all subjects pertaining to the 
 products of Southern California, and has been a 
 factor in presenting these products to the world at 
 large. Prior to the formation of the Los Angeles 
 Public Market Company the fruits and vegetables 
 of Southern California were only partially known 
 to the rest of the country, but with the establish- 
 ment of a central trading point prices became 
 stable and standardized, and new methods for the 
 handling of the crops of the 
 section were inaugurated. In 
 this work Mr. Johnson took 
 a leading part, and for it is 
 credited with having greatly 
 aided in the development of 
 California commerce. 
 
 In addition to his part in 
 the affairs of the market 
 company, Mr. Johnson is in- 
 terested in several allied 
 concerns, among them the 
 Commercial Warehouse Com- 
 pany and the Klein-Simpson 
 Fruit Company, in both of 
 which he is a Director. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is a man of 
 great public spirit, and has 
 been an active worker in the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce for many years. 
 He is also a veteran of the 
 Spanish-American War, hav- 
 ing served in both the Cuban 
 and Philippine campaigns. In 
 1898, at the outbreak of the 
 war, he was appointed Cap- 
 tain and Quartermaster of 
 the Volunteer Army by Presi- 
 dent McKinley and assigned to General Shafter's 
 Staff. He served with Shatter throughout the 
 campaign in Cuba, and then went to the Philippine 
 Islands, where he remained for two years. During 
 this time the native rebellion was at its height and 
 Mr. Johnson's command participated in many nota- 
 ble engagements. He saw active service practically 
 all the time he was in the Islands, and was among 
 those men who displayed extraordinary courage un- 
 der fire. 
 
 When quiet had been restored in the Islands, Mr. 
 Johnson resigned his commission and returned to 
 Los Angeles, where he has been steadily engaged 
 in business since. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is a Republican in his political 
 affiliations, but has never taken a very active part 
 in political affairs. He is, however, prominent in 
 fraternal and club circles of Los Angeles, being a 
 Thirty-Second Degree Mason, member of the 
 Mystic Shrine, Army and Navy Club of Washing- 
 ton, D. C., California Club of Los Angeles and the 
 Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 1 INNEY, CHARLES EMERY, Min- 
 ing, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Cambridge City, Indiana, 
 February 20, 18tiO, the son of Jas- 
 per Finney and Sarah A. (Crane) 
 Finney. He married Alice Gary 
 
 Jones at Connersville, Indiana, May 15, 1889, and to 
 them there have been born five children, Charles 
 Emery Finney, Jr., Edgar Lawrence Finney, Wal- 
 ter Finney, Katherine Finney and Emily Finney. 
 
 Mr. Finney received his ele- 
 mentary training in the pub- 
 lic schools of Indianapolis, 
 leaving there in September, 
 1875, to become a student in 
 the Preparatory School of De 
 Pauw University at Green- 
 castle, Indiana. Completing 
 his preparatory work in June, 
 1877, he entered De Pauw 
 University the following Sep- 
 tember and was graduated in 
 1881 with the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Arts. Three years later 
 the degree of Master of Arts 
 was conferred upon him. 
 
 From the time he left school 
 in 1881 down to the present, 
 Mr. Finney's life has been one 
 of ceaseless activity and pro- 
 gression. He was clerk in a 
 book house at Indianapolis 
 during the first year after 
 concluding his studies and 
 followed this with a year's 
 service as clerk in the offices 
 of the Hoosac Tunnel Line in 
 Indianapolis. From 1883 to 
 1885 he was a clerk for the 
 
 White Star Line Transit Company, but gave this 
 up when he was appointed Chief Clerk of the In- 
 dianapolis Division Freight Office of the Cleveland, 
 Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis (Big Four) 
 Railway Company. 
 
 After one year in charge of the Indianapolis 
 office, Mr. Finney was appointed General Western 
 Freight Agent for the Big Four Route, with head- 
 quarters at Kansas City, Missouri. After serving 
 in this capacity for about two years, Mr. Finney 
 severed his connection with the railroad company 
 to become Traffic Manager of the Consolidated 
 Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company, this 
 marking his advent into the mining business. 
 
 Mr. Finney served in various capacities with 
 the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refin- 
 ing Company until 1895, when he was made Man- 
 ager of the concern. During the first seven 
 years of his connection with the company he was 
 on the Board of Directors and also held Director- 
 ships in the Arkansas Valley Smelting Company 
 of Leadville, Colorado; the El Paso Smelting Com- 
 
 C. E. FINNEY 
 
 pany of El Paso, Texas, and the Mexican Ore Com- 
 pany, also located at El Paso. In 1897 he became 
 a member of the Board of Directors of the United 
 Zinc & Chemical Company of Kansas City. 
 
 In the year 1899, Mr. Finney, who had come to 
 be known as one of the expert smelting men of 
 the country, gave up the management of the Kan- 
 sas City concern and its affiliated companies and 
 went to New York as Manager for M. Guggenheim's 
 Sons, taking charge of their refining and smelting 
 plants and mining interests 
 in various parts of the coun- 
 try. He was occupied in this 
 position for approximately 
 two years, when, in 1901, the 
 Guggenheim properties were 
 merged into the American 
 Smelting & Refining Com- 
 pany, at which time Mr. Fin- 
 ney became a member of the 
 Operating Committee of the 
 latter corporation, in charge 
 of the operation of its twenty- 
 five large plants. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Finney became 
 associated with Benjamin 
 Guggenheim in the organiza- 
 tion of the Power & Mining 
 Machinery Company, of Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., and served as a 
 Director of the company un- 
 til some time in the latter 
 part of the year 1904. 
 
 Severing his connection 
 with the Milwaukee concern, 
 Mr. Finney was elected Vice 
 President and General Man- 
 ager of the Arizona Smelting 
 Company, of Humboldt, Ari- 
 zona, also serving as a member of the Board of 
 Directors. The company's works were constructed 
 under the direction of Mr. Finney and he began 
 their operation in March, 1906. In addition to his 
 duties with this company, Mr. Finnoy served, dur- 
 ing the year 1906, as a Director of the Prescott 
 National Bank, of Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Finney became President and Direc- 
 tor in a number of copper companies, among which 
 are the London-Arizona Copper Company, the Lon- 
 don Range Copper Company, London Shamrock 
 Copper Company, Ball Copper Company and the 
 Vekol Range Copper Company, all of which prop- 
 erties are located in Gila County, Arizona. 
 
 Although most of his interests are in Arizona, 
 Mr. Finney found it more convenient to transfer 
 his headquarters to Los Angeles. He maintains 
 offices there, under the name of Finney & Co. 
 Mr. Finney is a member of the Lawyers' Club, 
 New York; Highland Club, Summit, N. J.; Canoe 
 Brook Country Club, Summit, N. J.; Monday Night 
 Club (Literary), Summit, N. J. 
 
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 BED, GEORGE WILLIAM, Attor- 
 ney at Law, Oakland, Cal., was 
 born in Vassalboro, Maine, June 
 14, 1852, the son of William and 
 Hannah Carleton (Hall) Reed. 
 Coming to Oakland when he was 
 about four years old he has grown up with that 
 city and has attained a notable position. On Janu- 
 ary 15, 1891, some years after the death of his first 
 wife, he was married to Miss Georgia Alice Brown. 
 By the first marriage he is 
 the father of Mabel Linden 
 Reed (now Mrs. Harry A. 
 Lane of Los Angeles) and 
 Clarence Munroe Reed, mem- 
 ber of the firm of Reed, Black 
 & Reed. Another son, Rus- 
 sell Albert Reed, died at the 
 age of seventy-one years. 
 
 From 1858 to 1864 Mr. 
 Reed attended the public 
 schools of Oakland, subse- 
 quently entering the Brayton 
 School of the same city, and 
 in '72 was graduated from the 
 University of California. 
 
 He then studied law with 
 the intention of beginning his 
 3egal career as soon as possi- 
 ble, but at the end of four 
 years was appointed Deputy 
 County Clerk, under his 
 brother, Charles G. Reed. 
 This position he held for four 
 years, continuing his law 
 studies in the meantime, and 
 in December, 1879, was ad- 
 mitted to practice. 
 
 Until 1883 Mr. Reed was a 
 law clerk in the office of A. A. Moore, at which 
 time he became a partner of the firm of Moore & 
 Reed, which soon built up an extensive and profit- 
 able business. In 1888 he was elected District At- 
 torney of Alameda County, and was re-elected in 
 1890. Not long after the expiration of his second 
 term he formed the partnership of Reed & Nus- 
 baumer. This for eleven years was one of the 
 leading legal firms of Oakland, doing a large civil 
 business, especially in probate matters and damage 
 cases. At the end of this period Mr. Reed organized 
 the present firm of Reed, Black & Reed, which in 
 addition to an extensive probate practice has a con- 
 siderable corporation clientele. 
 
 Among the especially important cases with which 
 Mr. Reed was associated, and in which points of law 
 were settled for the State of California, was that of 
 Bacon vs. Davis, which involved the question of a 
 real estate contract to sell property, and a large 
 piece of land on Broadway. This was bitterly con- 
 tested, and the judgment of the Court of Appeals, 
 which had reversed the decision of the lower court, 
 
 G. W. REED 
 
 was confirmed by the Supreme Court's denial of 
 the petition for a rehearing. Still more noteworthy 
 was the case, which is now a leading one, of Mar- 
 tial Davoust vs. the City of Alameda. The wife of 
 the plaintiff while walking on the streets of Ala- 
 meda had been killed by a broken electric wire, and 
 the corporation held that as a public concern it was 
 not liable. Through the efforts of Mr. Reed and his 
 associates this point was established: "Although 
 municipal corporations are not liable for the negli- 
 gence of their officers or serv- 
 ants when acting in their 
 governmental, political or 
 public capacity, in the ab- 
 sence of a statute permitting 
 it, yet when the injury arises 
 from the exercise of mere pro- 
 prietary and private rights 
 they are liable for negligence, 
 like individuals or private 
 corporations." The Butters 
 will contest, in which Mr. 
 Reed was one of the counsel, 
 attracted wide interest, both 
 in the profession and with 
 the public generally. This was 
 a contest to set aside the will 
 of Lucie B. Butters, which 
 involved half a million dol- 
 lars, for the benefit of eight 
 heirs, all of whom now get 
 an equal share. 
 
 Mr. Reed has always been 
 an ardent and active Repub- 
 lican. From 1907 to 1908, in- 
 clusive, he was chairman of 
 the Republican County Cen- 
 tral Committee, and was also 
 a delegate to the national 
 conventions of 1900, 1904 and 1908. He was a 
 member of Victor Metcalf's Congressional Commit- 
 tee, and is still on that of Joseph R. Knowland. 
 
 While at the University Mr. Reed was a mem- 
 ber of the Varsity baseball nine, and is still an 
 ardent "fan." The indulgence of this taste and 
 that of angling in California's mountain streams 
 are about the only forms of recreation he permits 
 himself. 
 
 His firm are now attorneys for the Union Sav- 
 ings Bank of Oakland, the Permanent Guarantee 
 and Loan Society, and several other corporations. 
 He is also a trustee of the Cogswell Polytechnic 
 College of San Francisco, and a director of the 
 California Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind 
 at Berkeley. 
 
 He is a Mason, a Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks, 
 an Odd Fellow and a member of the State of Maine 
 Association. 
 
 He is a member of the Athenian Club of Oak- 
 land and the Zeta Psi Fraternity of the University 
 of California. 
 
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 HENRY EICKHOFF 
 
 ICKHOFF, HENRY, Attorney, San 
 Francisco, California, was born in 
 New York City January 17, 1856. 
 His father, Anthony Eickhoff, of 
 German birth, was a prominent 
 philologist and journalist in New 
 York, at one time Congressman and subsequently 
 in the Treasury Department, under Cleveland, 
 where he had charge of the Consular Service. Mr. 
 Eickhoffs mother, Elisa Neuenschwander, was of 
 Swiss origin. 
 
 On September 13, 1882, he was married in San 
 Francisco to Miss Jessie M. Lowe, and is the father 
 of Gregory H., Victor, Tekla and Henry Eickhoff, Jr. 
 
 His early education was obtained in the public 
 and private schools of New York City, followed by 
 a business and classical course at the St. Francis 
 Xavier Academy. He was graduated from the Co- 
 lumbia Law College in 1875, and in June of the 
 same year came to San Francisco, where he began 
 his professional career as clerk for Paul Neumann, 
 whose partner he became two years later, continu- 
 ing as such until 1883, when Mr. Neumann was 
 appointed Attorney General of Hawaii. For several 
 years thereafter he practiced alone with encour- 
 aging success, and in 1886 entered into partnership 
 with Judge Curtis H. Lindley, under the present 
 title of Lindley & Eickhoff. 
 
 Mr. Eickhoff's temperament and inherited lean- 
 ings soon prompted his activity in reform move- 
 ments. With J. J. Dwyer, Judge Jeremiah F. Sulli- 
 van, Sam H. Daniels and A. A. Watkins he was one 
 of the reorganization committee that ousted Chris 
 Buckley from political control of San Francisco, 
 and was Trustee of San Rafael. His interest in 
 club life has also been keen. He is ex-president of 
 the Cosmos Club, a Mason and a member of the San 
 Francisco Commercial and the Merchants' Ex- 
 change Clubs, of the German Benevolent Associa- 
 tion and of a number of other organizations. 
 
 GEORGE BURNHAM 
 
 URNHAM, GEORGE, real estate 
 investments, San Diego, Cal., was 
 born in London, Eng., December 
 28, 1868; son of James Burnham 
 and Ann Drusilla (Steele) Burn- 
 ham. Married Neva May Ashley, 
 at Jackson, Minn., October, 1890. They have six 
 children living, one, Beth, having died at age of 
 two years. The others are Harold, Percy, Helen, 
 Lawrence, Virginia and Ben Burnham. 
 
 Mr. Burnham was denied educational advan- 
 tages, and is perforce a self-made man. He landed in 
 New York, July 5, 1881, and went to Wykoff, Minn.; 
 located at Jackson, Minn., in 1881, in clothing 
 business with M. B. Hutchinson. In 1895, Hutchin- 
 son retired and firm became Burnham Brothers. In 
 1901 he sold out, went to Spokane and incorporated 
 the Ashley-Burnham Land Company. In 1903 he 
 sold Spokane interests and moved to National City, 
 Cal., opening real estate offices in San Diego, six 
 miles away, with C. A. Scott. Latter retiring, in 
 1908, he incorporated as George Burnham & Co. 
 In 1911 he incorporated the San Diego Securities 
 Company, a $2,000,000 corporation. 
 
 In Minnesota, he was a member of Jackson City 
 Council, secretary Board of Education, secretary 
 Library Board and president Jackson County Agri- 
 cultural Society, of which he is a life member. 
 Was president San Diego Chamber of Commerce, 
 1910, and delegate with Associated Chambers of 
 Commerce of the Pacific Coast on Oriental tour. 
 Among incorporators Panama-California Exposi- 
 tion, San Diego, and now fourth vice president, di- 
 rector and member executive committee. Was also 
 president Board of Education, National City. 
 
 Mr. Burnham is Eminent Commander San Diego 
 Commandery, No. 25, Knights Templar; Mystic 
 Shriner, trustee Elks Lodge, director Elks Building 
 Association, and a Mason. Member Aero Club and 
 vice president Cuyamaca Club, San Diego. 
 
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 GESNER WILLIAMS 
 
 ILLIAMS, GESNER, Lawyer, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Gainesville, Alabama, December 
 15, 1867. His father was David 
 Hitt Williams and his mother 
 Eugenia Florida (Hutton) Wil- 
 liams. Mr. Williams went to Los Angeles from De- 
 mopolis, Ala., in 1903, and immediately became asso- 
 ciated with A. W. Hutton under the firm name of 
 Hutton and Williams. He married Jennie Graydon 
 Knox at Demopolis on September 7, 1892. There 
 is one daughter, Graydon Williams. 
 
 Mr. Williams was educated in the public schools 
 of Gainesville until 1884. From 1884 until 1888 he 
 attended the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing- 
 ton, Virginia. From 1888 until 1890 he attended 
 the University of Virginia. During the summer of 
 1885 he attended the Eastman National Business 
 College at Poughkeepsie, New York. 
 
 From 1893 until 1897 Mr. Williams practiced 
 law with the firm of Clarke and Williams at De- 
 mopolis, Alabama. He was attorney for the South- 
 ern Railway Company for nine years and was one 
 of the attorneys who broke the "Oiled Roads Pat- 
 ent." He was associated with the counsel for the 
 plaintiff Anita Baldwin in her contest of Lucky 
 Baldwin's will, one of the most famous cases in 
 the annals of litigation in California. In 1906 Mr. 
 Williams helped to organize the Independence 
 party in California. In 1908 he was a member of the 
 national committee of the Independence party. He 
 was a member of the National Guard of Alabama 
 from 1892 until 1902. He was mayor of Demopolis 
 from 1895 until 1897, and city attorney from 1897 
 until 1903. He was a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention of Alabama in 1901 and civic judge in 
 1898. He is an Elk, Knight of Pythias and Odd Fel- 
 low. He is also an officer in several commercial 
 companies. He received a degree from the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia in 1890. 
 
 HON. A. W. HUTTON 
 
 UTTON, AURELIUS WINFIELD, 
 Attorney, member of the firm of 
 Hutton & Williams, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born July 23, 1847, at 
 Hopewell P. O., Greene County, 
 Ala., son of Dr. Aquila D. Hutton 
 and Elizabeth H. (Tutt) Hutton. His grandfather 
 was Gen. Joseph Hutton and his grandmother 
 Nancy Calhoun, cousin of John C. Calhoun. He 
 was married in Los Angeles February 24, 1874, to 
 Kate Irene Travis, and they had ten children, of 
 whom Mignonette, William B., Helen, Elizabeth, 
 Travis C. and Eugenia are living. 
 
 Judge Hutton attended the "old field schools" 
 in Alabama until 1863, when he joined the Cadet 
 Corps of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, serving as a cadet 
 to the end of the Civil War and rendering some 
 service in the Confederate army. 
 
 From 1866 to 1867 he read law under Bliss & 
 Snedecor at Gainesville, Mr. Bliss having been a 
 class mate of Franklin Pierce, afterward President. 
 In the fall of 1867 Judge Hutton entered the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia Law Dept., and was graduated 
 in a year. He went to Los Angeles in April, 1869. 
 
 Judge Hutton wrote the first special charter of 
 Los Angeles in 1874. He was the first judge to 
 decide against the S. P. Ry. in its claims to lands 
 granted to the A. & P. R. Company. He was special 
 counsel for the United States in the "Itata cases" 
 for violation of the U. S. neutrality laws during 
 Chilean revolution. In 1872 he was elected City 
 Atty., and re-elected in 1874. In 1887 was appointed 
 Superior Judge L. A. County; in 1889 U. S. Dist. 
 Atty. pro tern for the So. Dist., Cal. He was an 
 original stockholder of the San Gabriel Orange 
 Grove Assn., which founded Pasadena. He served 
 twice as Maj. Gen., Pacific Div., U. C. V., is a mem- 
 ber L. A. Pioneer Society, L. A. Bar Assn., Sam 
 Davis Camp, U. C. V., L. A. Chamber of Commerce 
 and Golden Rule Lodge, I. O. O. F., Los Angeles. 
 
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 INTERHALTER, WILHELM 
 KARL, Consulting Agriculturist, 
 San Francisco and Los Angeles, 
 was born in Munich, Bavaria, 
 Germany, February 12, 1868. His 
 father was Leopold Winterhalter, 
 M. D., and his mother Minna (Fischborn) Winter- 
 halter. He came to America in 1893 and was mar- 
 ried to Nellie Humphreys in San Francisco, October 
 19, 1898. They have one child, Eleanore Gwendo- 
 lyn, born in San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Winterhalter comes from 
 an old family of physicians, 
 dating back to 1721. His an- 
 cestors were mostly court 
 physicians to the Grand 
 Dukes and Kings of Bavaria 
 up to 1850, and also num- 
 bered among them were 
 painters of reputation, sol- 
 diers and merchants. 
 
 Mr. Winterhalter was ed- 
 ucated in Munich and Traun- 
 stein, graduating from the 
 Real Gymnasium in 1885; 
 then went for ten months to 
 Chateau de Gourchevaux, 
 near Morat, Switzerland, to 
 perfect himself in the French 
 language. 
 
 He then went as appren- 
 tice for one year to Hanover 
 on a large Rittergut near 
 Wunstorf, in order to become 
 acquainted with practical ag- 
 riculture, before entering the 
 Agricultural Academy Weih- 
 enstephan, near Munich, Ba- 
 varia, from which he was 
 
 graduated with highest honors in 1889. He then 
 accepted a position as agricultural manager of a 
 large domain at Remstaedt, near Gotha, Thuringen, 
 Germany, which position he held until October, 
 1901. In order to broaden his knowledge in agri- 
 culture and forestry he accepted a position as field 
 superintendent and assistant forester at the Royal 
 Domain, Sarvar, Hungary. 
 
 In May, 1893, he came to the United States on 
 a leave of absence to visit the Chicago World's 
 Fair and California. Being charmed with Califor- 
 nia, he decided not to return to Europe, but owing 
 to the hard times of 1893, the seeming impossibil- 
 ity of business to his liking, a trip to Alaska, late in 
 September, 1893, was undertaken. Severe hardships 
 were encountered on this trip, which finally ended 
 on Wood Island, but after a couple of months of 
 employment at the trading station of the North 
 American Commercial Company he then proceeded 
 on a hunting expedition with a few natives south- 
 ward to Unalaska. From there by steamer to St. 
 Michaels, then up the Yukon for 600 miles and back 
 to St. Michaels, and as far north as Point Barrow. 
 Returning in August, 1894, on a coaling vessel to 
 San Francisco, he shortly afterwards joined the ex- 
 perimental station of the Kern County Land Com- 
 
 W. K. WINTERHALTER 
 
 pany at Bakersfield. After its discontinuance he 
 took up the study of practical irrigation. 
 
 In the fall of 1895 he went to the University of 
 California as post graduate student, and in Janu- 
 ary, 1896, he was appointed secretary to professor 
 Hilgard until January, 1897, when he went to the 
 Sacramento Valley to engage in the dairy business 
 to obtain practical experience in that line. He re- 
 turned to Berkeley to the office of Professor Hilgard 
 in August of the same year for five months, and 
 then accepted the superin- 
 tendency of the Spreckels 
 ranch of 12,000 acres at King 
 City until October. After his 
 marriage and a short vaca- 
 tion he was engaged by the 
 American Beet Sugar Com- 
 pany as agriculturist at their 
 Oxnard factory, having had 
 thorough experience in this 
 branch at Hanover, Thurin- 
 gen and Hungary. 
 
 In January, 1900, he went 
 for them to the Arkansas 
 Valley, Colorado, and took 
 charge of the agricultural 
 work in that State and in 
 Kansas and New Mexico, in- 
 troducing beet culture in 
 those States. He remained 
 at Rockyford, where the first 
 factory had been construct- 
 ed, until November, 1904, 
 when he was appointed man- 
 ager of the second sugar fac- 
 tory in the Arkansas Valley, 
 at Lamar, which was built in 
 1905. He remained in charge 
 of that factory and of the 
 
 development of 10,000 acres of land and of the La- 
 mar Canal, which had been purchased, until March, 
 1907, when he was sent by the president of the 
 company to Europe for the purpose of studying the 
 agricultural situation in the leading beet sugar 
 countries, with instructions to go over the ground 
 thoroughly and without time limit. He traveled 
 and visited sixty-seven sugar factories, and the lar- 
 gest seed-breeding establishments in Germany, Hol- 
 land, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria, 
 Poland and Bohemia, and returned to the United 
 States in 1908. 
 
 He was then appointed to the position of con- 
 sulting agriculturist for the company's six factories, 
 in California, Colorado and Nebraska, which place 
 he filled until January, 1911, when he removed to 
 California, having resigned his position after twelve 
 years' service and established himself as consulting 
 agriculturist in the purchase of land, establishment 
 and operation of ranches, under irrigation or with- 
 out. However, he continued to make beet culture 
 and its many branches a specialty. 
 
 Mr. Winterhalter makes his principal headquar- 
 ters in San Francisco, California, with offices in 
 the Humboldt Savings Bank Building, on Market 
 street. 
 
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 UNN, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, 
 Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Douglas, 
 Michigan, August 2, 1861, the son 
 of George E. Dunn and Ellen V. 
 (Dickinson) Dunn. He married 
 Nellie M. Briggs, January 3, 1883, at Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Mr. Dunn received his preliminary education 
 in the Allegan High School at Allegan, Michigan, 
 and later attended a prepara- 
 tory school, following this 
 with one year in the Law De- 
 partment of the University 
 of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 
 In 1885 he moved to Los An- 
 geles, where he continued his 
 law studies, and was admit- 
 ted to the Bar of California 
 in 1887. He has been active 
 in the practice of Law in Los 
 Angeles since that time and 
 has attained a substantial po- 
 sition among the leading at- 
 torneys of the West. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Dunn was ap- 
 pointed Assistant City Attor- 
 ney of Los Angeles and 
 served in that capacity for 
 four years, at the end of 
 which time he was elected 
 City Attorney, serving for 
 four years more. During this 
 period he represented the city 
 in various important litiga- 
 tions, chief among the cases 
 being the so-called "water 
 suits." These were the out- 
 growth of a dispute between 
 
 the city and the Los Angeles Water Co. over the 
 amount to be paid by the city for the company's 
 property. The controversy was submitted to arbi- 
 tration, but the company refused to accept the de- 
 cision of the arbitrators, enjoined the city from 
 issuing bonds and filed various other actions. Mr. 
 Dunn handled the city's side in all these suits and, 
 after the expiration of his term in office was re- 
 tained as Special Counsel for the city. Finally, 
 after much bitter fighting, he came out victorious. 
 As a member of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn 
 & Crutcher, one of the most important on the 
 Pacific Coast, Mr. Dunn has confined himself en- 
 tirely to corporation law, a great deal of his work 
 being done in connection with Hon. James A. Gib- 
 son, former Judge of the Superior Court of San 
 Bernardino County, California. For many years Mr. 
 Dunn served as legal adviser to the Pacific Elec- 
 tric Railway Company, the Los Angeles Railway 
 Company, the Los Angeles-Redondo Railway Com- 
 pany, the Huntington Land Company and other of 
 the gigantic enterprises in Southern California, of 
 which Henry E. Huntington is or has been the head. 
 In 1909 Mr. Huntington disposed of the Pacific 
 Electric Railway and the Redondo road, together 
 
 W. E. DUNN 
 
 with all his other interurban lines connecting Los 
 Angeles with contiguous territory, to the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Company, but retained for himself 
 the Los Angeles local lines. This was one of the 
 largest transactions, railway or otherwise, ever 
 consummated in the West and Mr. Dunn prepared 
 and handled for Mr. Huntington most of the de- 
 tails connected with the enormous transfer. The 
 successful outcome of these negotiations, which 
 were perfected down to the minutest detail, justi- 
 fied fully the confidence 
 which the Huntington inter- 
 ests had placed in Mr. Dunn. 
 After Mr. Huntington sold 
 the Pacific Electric Railway 
 he entered more actively 
 than ever into the develop- 
 ment of the Los Angeles 
 Railway Company's lines and 
 the Huntington Land Co., 
 and Mr. Dunn, while con- 
 tinuing in his legal capacity, 
 has kept a supervisory eye 
 over all the vast Huntington 
 interests in the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Dunn is a man of 
 great force and strength of 
 character, and deals constant- 
 ly with questions of the most 
 vital nature in the legal 
 world. As the one man most 
 intimately acquainted with 
 the inner details of Mr. Hunt- 
 ington's plans, he has been 
 compelled to look after the 
 relations existing between 
 Los Angeles City and County 
 and the enterprises of his 
 chief. Though anything of 
 
 a political character in connection with his- profes- 
 sional work has always been very distasteful to 
 Mr. Dunn, it falls to him, in his legal capacity, to 
 direct all proposals, applications and defenses for 
 or affecting the Huntington interests, before the 
 City Council and County Supervisors; and in this 
 way he has been of monumental service to the city 
 and county, as well as to the direct interests which 
 he represents, and his achievements are distinctly 
 apparent in much of the great development 
 that has taken place in Southern California in re- 
 cent years. 
 
 During his years of activity in California, Mr. 
 Dunn has been a staunch supporter of the Repub- 
 lican party and one of its strongest and ablest 
 members. 
 
 In his business and professional work he is 
 conservative, with the faculty of being able to 
 look into the future without over-estimating, and 
 it is to this attribute, added to his native ability 
 and aggressiveness, that his success is largely due. 
 He is a member of the California Club, Jonathan 
 Club, Los Angeles Country Club and the Bolsa 
 Chica Gun Club, and is prominent in the affairs of 
 the Los Angeles Bar Association. 
 
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 ST1 
 
 ARNESON, CAPTAIN JOHN, Cap- 
 italist, San Francisco and Los An- 
 geles, California, is a native of 
 Scotland, born on January 1, 1862. 
 He is the son of James Barneson 
 and Elizabeth Rose (Bremner) 
 Barneson. He married Harriet E. Harris at Syd- 
 ney, Australia, January 8, 1886, and to them there 
 have been born four children, John Leslie Barne- 
 son, Muriel E. Barneson, Lionel T. Barneson and 
 Harold J. Barneson. 
 
 Captain Barneson, who has been one of the 
 most important figures in commerce and develop- 
 ment on the Pacific Coast for some years past, 
 spent a considerable portion of his boyhood in 
 New South Wales. He received his education in 
 the public schools there, this being limited, how- 
 ever, to attendance between the years 1872 and 
 1876. Descended from an old Scotch family in 
 whom love of the sea was a strong characteristic, 
 Captain Barneson, in 1876, gave up his books and 
 accepted employment with an English marine cor- 
 poration operating vessels in the Australian, Lon- 
 don and China trades. He began his career as an 
 apprentice seaman on a "tea clipper," and al- 
 though he was only a boy of fourteen years, he 
 endured all the trials of a sailor's life with the 
 fortitude of a veteran. 
 
 In 1879, at the end of three years of service 
 before the mast, Captain Barneson, who had learned 
 the science of navigation in its various branches, 
 was promoted to the rank of Third Officer of his 
 ship. He served in this capacity for about a year 
 and in 1880 was moved up to the position of Second 
 Officer. From this he went rapidly to the post 
 of First Officer, and in this capacity, on board the 
 English bark "Wollahra," he made his first trip 
 to San Francisco in 1882. Prior to this time he 
 had sailed between English, Chinese and Australian 
 ports and was familiar with the various cities of 
 those countries, but his work had never taken him 
 to America, to which country he had always been 
 strongly attracted. 
 
 Captain Barneson served as First Officer of the 
 bark "Wollahra" for approximately three years, 
 although, in 1883, upon attaining his majority, he 
 passed the necessary examinations at London and 
 received his Captain's papers. In 1885 he was 
 placed in command of the English clipper ship 
 "George Thompson," running in the Pacific trade. 
 He remained in charge of this vessel for about 
 five years, and in December, 1890, resigned his 
 commission and retired from the sea after nearly 
 fifteen years of continuous service. 
 
 Following his abandonment of life as a sailor, 
 Captain Barneson settled on Puget Sound and en- 
 gaged in the shipping commission and stevedore 
 business. His previous practical experience in the 
 service and his extensive acquaintance with ship 
 owners and sailors placed him among the leading 
 men of the business, and from the outset he met 
 
 with that success so marked throughout his 
 career. 
 
 For eight years Captain Barneson devoted him- 
 self exclusively to this business, but in June, 1898, 
 following the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
 War, he left Puget Sound in command of the S. S. 
 "Arizona" and entered the service of the United 
 States Government as Commander of that vessel, 
 which had been transformed into a transport. The 
 Federal Government at this time was engaged in 
 the transportation of soldiers to the Philippine 
 Islands to take possession of Manila and Captain 
 Barneson, sailing from San Francisco in charge 
 of the "Arizona," took troops to the scene of war. 
 He also carried troops to Honolulu, Hawaii. 
 
 After a period engaged in the transportation 
 of soldiers, Captain Barneson retired from the Gov- 
 ernment service and returned to the Puget Sound 
 country. He did not remain there long, however, 
 moving his headquarters to San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, in 1899, and there continuing in the ship- 
 ping business for some time. 
 
 Upon the formation by the United States Gov- 
 ernment of the permanent Army Transport Service, 
 some months after he located at San Francisco, 
 Captain Barneson, whose previous work as captain 
 of the Troopship "Arizona" had been highly ap- 
 proved by the Government officials, was appointed 
 to the position of Marine Superintendent. In this 
 capacity he had complete supervision over all ves- 
 sels engaged in the transportation of troops from 
 this country to the Insular possessions of the 
 United States in the Pacific and was one of the 
 most important officials of the service. His duties 
 in this position covered practically everything con- 
 nected with the movement of troops except the 
 actual command of the soldiers. He had to inspect 
 every ship, see that it was in first-class condition 
 from the standpoints of seaworthiness and sanita- 
 tion, provide supplies and have them put on board, 
 and generally oversee everything connected with the 
 sailing of the vessels. In 1900, however, Captain 
 Barneson resigned from this post and re-entered 
 the shipping business, again at San Francisco. 
 
 This virtually wound up the career of Captain 
 Barneson so far as it related to the sea, for since 
 that time he has been engaged in various of 
 the most important commercial and development 
 projects on the Pacific Coast big things which 
 have placed him among the most powerful business 
 men of the West. 
 
 About the time that Captain Barneson gave up 
 his position in the United States transport service, 
 the oil business of California was taking on im- 
 portant proportions, and he turned his attention 
 to this line of operation, with the result that he 
 has become one of the conspicuous, yet always 
 substantial, figures in the petroleum industry of 
 California. He is a producer in a big way, and, 
 more important still to the industry, he is furnish- 
 ing outlets for the product. 
 
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 The California oil fields, as their history shows, 
 have, within a comparatively few years, come to 
 be regarded as among the best and most productive 
 in the world. Many millions of dollars are in- 
 vested there, millions of dollars have been made 
 from it, and the business ranks as the leading 
 wealth producer of the State. Numerous sections 
 of the country have been developed and populated 
 as a result of the oil discoveries, and Captain 
 Barneson, who has associated with him other of 
 the leading men in the producing and marketing 
 of the product, is generally credited with having 
 had an important influence in this work of advance- 
 ment. He has been identified, at different times, 
 with numerous important concerns, but his chief 
 affiliation at this time (1913) is with the General 
 Petroleum Company, the General Pipe Line Com- 
 pany and subsidiary interests one of the largest 
 and most important group of organizations asso- 
 ciated with the oil industry in the State. He nat- 
 urally drifted to the larger end of the business 
 he could not help it, and, besides, little things don't 
 look right in association with him he's a big man. 
 
 Captain Barneson is a man cut out for big 
 things he looks big, thinks big and acts big. He 
 has a big back and chest, a big head and a big 
 hand. When you grasp hi& hand you somehow 
 feel the power of the man that is back of his 
 handshake, and instinctively know that you are 
 in the presence of things big. 
 
 Even the smallest of the business affairs with 
 which he has ever been associated he has handled 
 in a big way and they quickly became big affairs. 
 
 Early in his career as an oil operator, Captain 
 Barneson realized the importance of pipe lines in 
 the transportation of oil, and to this branch of the 
 business he has devoted a great deal of time and 
 energy. In association with Captain William Mat- 
 son, a well known capitalist of San Francisco, he 
 aided in the organization of the Coalinga Oil Trans- 
 portation Company, and together they built the 
 first pipe line in California, from the celebrated 
 Coalinga fields, in the heart of the California oil 
 region, to the coast city of Monterey, California. 
 Through this pipe line, which is one hundred and 
 thirteen miles in length and still operating, the 
 first Coalinga oils were delivered to Monterey, and 
 from there by ship to various Pacific Coast and 
 Hawaiian ports. This line, which at the time of 
 its construction was the longest in California and 
 pumped more oil than any other pipe line in the 
 State, marked a new era in Caliornia oil produc- 
 tion and resulted in a tremendous saving of time 
 and money to its owners. 
 
 The General Petroleum Company, of which Cap- 
 tain Barneson is Vice President and Managing 
 Director, is one of the largest concerns operating 
 in the California fields, and he, as the executive 
 force in its affairs, has been largely responsible for 
 the progress it has made. The company has wells 
 operating in the richest fields of California, pro- 
 
 ducing thousands of carrels of oil per day, operates 
 its own refineries and ranks among the leading 
 shippers of oil in the United States. 
 
 The General Pipe Line Company, of which he 
 is President, was organized in the year 1911 for 
 the purpose of building a pipe line to connect the 
 properties of the General Petroleum Company in 
 the famous Midway oil fields of California with 
 the city of Los Angeles and the port of San Pedro, 
 California (Los Angeles Harbor), and for the pur- 
 pose of distributing the General Petroleum Com- 
 pany's oils to foreign ports. This line, which is 
 one hundred and eighty-three miles in length, is 
 an eight-inch main line with feeders in the field. 
 It has twelve powerful pumping stations, in the 
 planning of which Captain Barneson had an active 
 part, and the entire project cost in the neighbor- 
 hood of four million dollars. An interesting fact 
 in connection with this pipe line is the rapidity 
 with which it was built. Work on it was begun 
 some time in the month of September, 1912, and 
 by the first of March of the following year oil was 
 being delivered through it, the entire period of 
 construction being somewhat less than six months. 
 
 The combined business of the General Petro- 
 leum Company and the General Pipe Line Com- 
 pany is among the largest in California, and they 
 also form an important chapter in the history of 
 California oil production and commercial advance- 
 ment. Starting in business during the year 1910, 
 the General Petroleum Company, in which Captain 
 Barneson is a dominant factor, has made one of 
 the most remarkable advances in commercial an- 
 nals. Its lands are to be found all over the State 
 of California, where oil beds are, and by its acqui- 
 sition, in the latter part of 1912, of the Union Oil 
 Company's holdings, it became the largest owner 
 of oil land in that State. With the completion of 
 its various pipe line projects it ultimately will have 
 the greatest mileage of pipe lines in the State and 
 also the largest fleet of oil-carrying ships engaged 
 in the foreign trade. 
 
 Captain Barneson devotes- the greater portion 
 of his time to the "General" companies, being at all 
 times in close touch with field operations and the 
 thousand and one other details. But he also has 
 a multitude of other interests. To all of them he 
 gives close attention. Among these latter are the 
 General Construction Company, of which he is 
 President; the Wabash Oil Company, of which he is 
 President; the Las Flores Land & Oil Company, 
 of which he is President; Coalinga Kettleman Oil 
 Company, Vice President; Sauer Dough Oil Com- 
 pany, of which he is a Director; Bankline Oil Com- 
 pany, of which he is President; Union Oil Company, 
 Director; Union Provident, Director, and a multi- 
 tude of other concerns connected directly or indi- 
 rectly with the oil business-. 
 
 The Wabash Oil Company, mentioned above, 
 was one of the most remarkable undertakings with 
 which Captain Barneson has been identified. Or- 
 
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 ganizing it about the year 1908, he was in active 
 control of its operations for about three and a half 
 years, and it was one of the most successful com- 
 panies in the field. Stockholders who went into it 
 with Captain Barneson at the time it was organized 
 paid thirty-five cents a share for their stock and 
 during the three and a half year period they were 
 paid dividends of forty-six cents per share. He 
 finally brought about negotiations which resulted 
 in the sale of the property at a price which paid 
 the stockholders one dollar and seventy-two cents 
 per share. 
 
 As President or Director of various land and im- 
 provement companies he is interested in land de- 
 velopment in various sections of California and is, 
 as in everything he is identified with, an influential 
 factor in their operations. These companies in- 
 clude the San Vicente Land Company, Santa Bar- 
 bara Improvement Company, Residential Develop- 
 ment Company, San Mateo Improvement Company 
 and others. He also serves as President of the San 
 Mateo Hotel Company, Barneson-Hibberd Company, 
 Barneson-Hibberd Warehouse Company, Macondray 
 & Company and the Tyee Whaling Company. 
 
 He has various other interests all big but 
 these serve to show the diversity of his operations. 
 The great majority of the concerns with which he 
 is identified are engaged, in one way or another, in 
 the development of the resources of the country. 
 
 During his residence of more than ten years in 
 San Francisco, Captain Barneson has been one of 
 the most enterprising and progressive business men 
 in the city and in behalf of the city. He is not 
 an active participant in political affairs and never 
 had any ambition to hold public office, but he does 
 take a keen interest in all things relating to the 
 welfare or advancement of San Francisco, political- 
 ly and otherwise, and has shown his devotion on 
 many occasions. 
 
 He has been a member of the San Francisco 
 Chamber of Commerce from his earliest days in 
 that city and during the intervening period has 
 been closely identified with the various civic move- 
 ments inaugurated by the organization. He was a 
 Director for many years and also served for a time 
 as Vice President of the Chamber. During those 
 years of office he was extraordinarily active in the 
 work of the body and helped in a lavish way to 
 entertain the various important visitors from for- 
 eign countries, one notable group being the dele- 
 gates from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce 
 who made a tour of the United States several years 
 ago, which resulted in adding much to the trade 
 relations of the two countries, and did a great deal 
 toward re-establishing the friendly feeling existing 
 between the governments. 
 
 In 1906, following the earthquake and fire disas- 
 ter which placed the city in ruins, Captain Barne- 
 son was one of the first men to start on the work 
 of regeneration and in addition to giving valuable 
 aid to the sufferers during that trying period, led in 
 
 the work of rebuilding which has made a new city 
 of San Francisco, greater in every way than it was 
 before the disaster. 
 
 Captain Barneson has been one of the most en- 
 thusiastic advocates of the Panama-Pacific Exposi- 
 tion which, in 1915, will celebrate the opening of 
 the Panama Canal with a world's fair, and as one 
 of the Directors of the company which is to build 
 the fair, has had an active part in the planning of it. 
 
 He was one of the original members of the com- 
 mittee which caused San Francisco to be chosen by 
 Congress as the scene of the fair, and although he 
 sought to evade the honor of being one of the build- 
 ers of the exposition, he was selected as a member 
 of the Board of Directors. Once selected, however, 
 he went into the work vigorously and has been tire- 
 less in the work of perfecting the organization. 
 
 It is San Francisco's desire, with the exposition, 
 to show to the world the work that has been done 
 by its citizens, and Captain Barneson, as one of the 
 men who have been actively engaged in this work, 
 entered into the proposition with all of his excep- 
 tionally great energy. 
 
 Captain Barneson is essentially a self-made man. 
 Beginning, as he did, in the capacity of a sailor 
 boy, he was compelled to fight his way at all times, 
 and it was purely through determination, combined 
 with physical ability of an exceptional order, that 
 he was enabled to overcome the difficulties which 
 he encountered. The experience he gained at sea, 
 however, the hard work and strict discipline which 
 prevailed, has proved invaluable to him and has 
 been responsible for a large part of his success. To 
 his wonderul physical powers he owes much. En- 
 dowed with great strength and endurance, he 
 has been enabled to accomplish an extraordinary 
 amount of work in his life, and on many occasions 
 has accepted tasks which were given him because 
 of his power to "stay" and accomplish. 
 
 During his days as a sailor Captain Barneson 
 visited many parts of the world, but since retiring 
 from the sea he has also done a great amount of 
 traveling and has visited various sections of the 
 United States and Europe, his business extending 
 to the most remote parts of the globe. 
 
 Captain Barneson is a man of unusual personal 
 magnetism and is one of the most popular men in 
 business and social circles on the Pacific Coast 
 He is of affable temperament, devoted to his family 
 and his work. He maintains offices in San Fran- 
 cisco and Los Angeles, but his home is in the 
 former city, and he divides his time between the 
 two places. 
 
 In addition to his prominence in business circles, 
 he also is a well known clubman, his membership 
 including the Pacific-Union Club, Union League 
 Club, Olympic Club, Press Club, Bohemian Club, 
 Commercial Club and San Francisco Yacht Club, 
 all of San Francisco; the California Club of Los 
 Angeles and the San Mateo Polo Club, of which he 
 is Vice President. 
 
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 OOPER, CHARLES APPLE- 
 TON, President of the C. A. 
 Hooper Co., Shipping and 
 Lumber, San Francisco, was 
 born in Bangor, Me., March 
 14, 1843, tne son f J onn an d Martha Stanwood 
 (Perry) Hooper. His first ancestor to come 
 from England to America was Wm. Hooper, age 
 i8,who arrived in the good ship "James." Oth- 
 ers came later and set- 
 tled in various parts of 
 New England, chiefly in 
 the country about Red- 
 ding, Mass., and Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., where some 
 of their descendants still 
 live. Members of the fam- 
 ily fought in the American 
 Revolutionary War. John 
 Perry, Jr., Mr. Hooper's 
 maternal grandfather, had 
 the distinction of establish- 
 ing the first Sunday school 
 in the United States in 
 1811, in Brunswick, Me., 
 where a memorial window 
 in the church attests the 
 fact and the date thereof; 
 and on the Stanwood side 
 a great-grandfather gave 
 to Bowdoin College some 
 of the ground on which 
 that institution now stands. 
 Charles A. Hooper came to 
 California in 1863, where 
 he is today one of the lead- 
 ing merchants of the state. 
 
 C. A. HOOPER 
 
 occupation in this State was in the Ply- 
 mouth mine in Amador county, where for 
 about a year he assisted his father, who had 
 reached California in 1851 and become inter- 
 ested in mining. Returning to San Francisco 
 in 1865, he established the firm of C. A. 
 Hooper & Co., at Fourth and Townsend 
 streets, on the ground now occupied by the San 
 Jose depot. Here for a few years he did a 
 thriving business, buying 
 and selling lumber, supply- 
 ing not only the city but 
 also the country districts, 
 especially around San Jose 
 and up the rivers tributary 
 to the bay of San Fran- 
 cisco. He remained in this 
 location until forced out 
 by "Steam" Paddy 
 Hughes, a well-known con- 
 tractor and character of 
 the times, who had the 
 contract to fill in Mission 
 Bay. 
 
 About the year 1867 Mr. 
 Hooper took in William 
 Lockerman as a partner, 
 the firm becoming Hooper 
 & Lockerman, but at the 
 end of two years bought 
 him out and resumed the 
 title of C. A. Hooper & 
 Co. When his brother 
 George William Hooper, 
 came of age, in 1869, he 
 became a member of the 
 firm, which had gradually 
 
 He was married on June 7th, 1880, in Browns- 
 ville, Me., to Miss Ida Geneva Snow, and by 
 this marriage is the father of Isabel Martha 
 (Creed) and Idoline Snow (Crosby) the 
 former married to Wigginton E. Creed and 
 the latter to Sumner Crosby. 
 
 Mr. Hooper attended the Hawes grammar 
 school in South Boston, and took his certifi- 
 cate therefrom in 1858, when he entered the 
 Eno-lish High school, but left after one rear 
 to enter the employ of his uncle, Wm. S. Perry, 
 lumber merchant. 
 
 Beginning as clerk he rose in the short space 
 of two years through the positions of book- 
 keeper and salesman to the active superin- 
 tendency of the yard, and then, at the age of 
 eighteen enlisted in the 43rd Massachusetts 
 Volunteers, a "nine months" regiment, for 
 service in the Civil War. After serving for 
 one vear he was discharged, pnd came to 
 the State of California in 1863. His first 
 
 enlarged its business to a wholesale trade. In 
 the early eighties the firm began to manufac- 
 ture lumber, establishing their mills in Hum- 
 boldt County. 
 
 Mr. C. A. Hooper has organized many lumber 
 companies. In the early 70s he, with others, 
 formed the Sacramento Lumber Co., and 
 became its president. About 1881 he organ- 
 ized the L. W. Blinn Co. for Arizona busi- 
 ness. He then bought out the Russ Lumber 
 & Milling Co., of San Diego, which he reor- 
 ganized. The other companies he successive- 
 ly formed are the So. Cal. Lumber Co., Ore- 
 gon & California Lumber Co., Redwood Man- 
 ufacturers Co., and in 1907 the Big Lagoon 
 Lumber Co. Another noteworthy achieve- 
 ment of Mr. Hooper was the foundation of 
 the now flourishing town of Pittsburg at Los 
 Medanos, Contra Costa County. 
 
 His clubs are the Union League and Pacific 
 Union of San Francisco. 
 
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 507 
 
 OHNSON, SAMUEL ORA- 
 MEL, President of the S. S. 
 Johnson Company, San Fran- 
 cisco, Cal., was born at How- 
 ard City, Mich., March 9, 
 1881, the ' son of Samuel S. and Emma 
 (Gibbs) Johnson. His father, a well known 
 lumberman from the County Glengarry, Can- 
 ada, acquired large timber interests in the 
 middle West, and subse- 
 quently in Oregon and 
 California, and evidently 
 transmitted to his son 
 that love for the forest 
 which he himself had 
 brought from his own na- 
 tive country. On Dec. 5, 
 1906, he was married in 
 the College Chapel at 
 Fairbault, Minn., to Miss 
 Katharine Horrigan, and 
 the surviving children of 
 this marriage are Kath- 
 arine and Samuel S. 
 Johnson. 
 
 Mr. Johnson attended 
 the public school at Bar- 
 num, Minn., but in the 
 fall of 1894 entered the 
 Shattuck School at Fair- 
 bault, from which he was 
 graduated in 1898. Dur- 
 ing the winters of 1902-3 
 and 1903-4 he took a spe- 
 cial course in law and 
 mechanical engineering 
 at the University of Min- 
 nesota. While at school at Barnum he spent 
 his vacations in the sawmills and logging 
 camps, and subsequently when he was a stu- 
 dent at Fairbault he was again adding to his 
 experience in the same mills and yards. Im- 
 mediately upon his graduation from Shat- 
 tuck he started out with his pack on his back 
 to cruise timber in northern Minnesota. He 
 spent two winters in the woods, scaling logs 
 the first and in charge of a logging camp the 
 second. In the summer he worked in all the 
 different departments of the business, and 
 became thoroughly familiar therewith. From 
 1900 to 1904 he was in charge of the mill and 
 yards at Cloquet, where he ran successfully 
 the first large sawmill that was ever operated 
 during the extremely cold Minnesota winter. 
 In April, 1904, he left the University of Min- 
 nesota to join his father, who had gone to 
 California in January of that year. The first 
 seven months after his arrival Mr. Johnson 
 
 S. O. JOHNSON 
 
 passed in the forests of northern California 
 and eastern Oregon. Here he bought thou- 
 sands of acres of pine timber. 
 
 In December, 1905, on the death of his 
 father, he took charge of the McCloud River 
 Lumber Co., of which the latter had been 
 president and a large owner. He left this in 
 1908 to go to San Francisco, where he has 
 since been chiefly engaged in managing his 
 own affairs, consisting 
 mainly of his lumber in- 
 terests and the Klamath 
 Falls townsite property. 
 
 In July, 1909, Mr. 
 Johnson became president 
 of the Klamath Develop- 
 ment Co., of Klamath 
 Falls, Ore., and devotes 
 much of his energy to 
 these interests. Mr. John- 
 son regards as the most 
 worthy action of his life 
 his presentation, in 1908, 
 in the name of the S. S. 
 Johnson Co., of the Shat- 
 tuck Armory to the Shat- 
 tuck Military School, as 
 a memorial to his father. 
 Besides his presidency 
 of the S. S. Johnson Co. 
 and the Klamath Devel- 
 opment Co., he is presi- 
 dent of the Hot Springs 
 Co., Des Chutes Lumber 
 Co., Des Chutes Booming 
 Co. and Big Basin Lum- 
 ber Co. ; vice presi- 
 
 dent Weed Lumber Co., Willamette Railroad 
 Co., the Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co., and 
 the First National Bank of Weed, Cal., and a 
 director of the Pacific Coast Redwood Co. He 
 is also secretary and treasurer of the Kla- 
 math Investment Co. and owner of valuable 
 properties in Klamath Falls, including the 
 magnificent White Pelican Hotel. This last 
 is a monument to southern Oregon as well as 
 to the untiring energy of Mr. Johnson, the 
 moving spirit in its erection. It is second to 
 none on the coast and unique in that it util- 
 izes hot water from its famous hot springs 
 for its Hammam Baths, as well for heating 
 the building throughout. 
 
 His clubs are: The Pacific Union, Clare- 
 mont Country, Bohemian, Family, Common- 
 wealth and Klamath Country. He is also a 
 Master and Royal Arch Mason and a member 
 of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College Frater- 
 nity. 
 
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 MICHAEL F. SHANNON 
 
 HANNON, MICHAEL FRANCIS, 
 Deputy District Attorney, Los An- 
 geles Co., Cal., was born in that 
 city, July 28, 1887. He is the son 
 of Michael Shannon and Nellie 
 (Holmes) Shannon and married 
 Agnes Brown in Los Angeles, October 21, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Shannon received the primary part of his 
 education in the public schools of Los Angeles and 
 at St. Vincent's College. He entered the Law De- 
 partment of the University of Michigan in 1906 and 
 was graduated with the class of 1909 with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Laws. 
 
 Following his graduation, Mr. Shannon was ad- 
 mitted to practice in Michigan, then returned to 
 Los Angeles, where he also was admitted. He was 
 associated with Hunsaker & Britt and later opened 
 offices in partnership with P. N. Meyers under the 
 firm name of Meyers & Shannon, and has been 
 practicing successfully from that time down to date. 
 
 The partnership with Mr. Meyers continued un- 
 til January 1, 1911, when Mr. Shannon was ap- 
 pointed to the staff of District Attorney Fredericks 
 of Los- Angeles County, and he has devoted the 
 larger part of his time to the duties of the position 
 since. 
 
 Mr. Shannon, since entering the public service, 
 has figured in various important cases, particularly 
 in the prosecution of criminals, and has made a 
 splendid record. 
 
 A& a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce he takes an active interest in all move- 
 ments for the good of the city and is a director in 
 the business known as the S. C. Brown Plumbing 
 Company. 
 
 He is prominent in club and fraternal circles, 
 being an officer of Los Angeles Lodge No. 99, B. 
 P. O. Elks, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
 He also belongs- to the Los Angeles Athletic Club, 
 Knickerbocker Club and the Union League. 
 
 W. J. WALLACE 
 
 ALLACE, WALTER JOHN, Real 
 Estate and Investments, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Alham- 
 bra, that State, September 22, 
 1882, the son of James Charles 
 Wallace and Martha Elizabeth 
 (Wilson) Wallace. He is a member of one of the 
 pioneer families of Southern California, his grand- 
 father, B. D. Wilson, for whom Mount Wilson and 
 Wilson Lake were named, being among the Forty- 
 niners. He first located in what is now Pasadena, 
 then an Indian village. Mr. Wallace married Earlda 
 Marguerite Baker at Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 1912. 
 
 After passing through the public schools of Al- 
 hambra, Mr. Wallace, in 1900, graduated from 
 Woodbury Business College, then entered the Den- 
 tal Department of the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, graduating in 1903, degree, D. D. S. 
 
 Following his graduation Dr. Wallace immedi- 
 ately took up the practice of his- profession, but was 
 compelled to abandon it two years later owing to 
 an accident. Upon the advice of physicians he did 
 not resume practice, but took employment as Col- 
 lector for the Edison Electric Co. He was pro- 
 moted rapidly until he attained the position of gen- 
 eral right-of-way agent for the company, holding 
 this until his resignation, June 1, 1911. 
 
 For a year prior to leaving the Edison Co. he 
 had been interested in the Sierra Vista Ranch Co. 
 as President and General Manager, a corporation 
 which he organized in 1910 for the purpose of de- 
 veloping and selling fruit ranches. Since the Sum- 
 mer of 1911 he has devoted his entire time to its 
 affairs. Its holdings consist of 3000 acres of fine 
 ranch land in the San Joaquin Valley and include 
 the Wallace Nursery, of Alhambra. In addition to 
 his offices in the Sierra Vista Ranch Co., Mr. Wal- 
 lace is V. Pres. and Treas., Pacific Gasoline Co. 
 
 He belongs, Annandale Country Club, San Gabriel 
 Valley Country Club and South Coast Yacht Club. 
 
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 H. M. DOUGHERTY 
 
 OUGHERTY, HENRY MICHAEL, 
 Civil Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 Feb. 2, 1877, the son of John 
 Dougherty and Clara (Covert) 
 Dougherty. He married Lucy 
 Winifred Taft at Burlington, Vt, in June, 1902. They 
 had three children, John Taft, Margaret Lois and 
 Dorothy Anne Dougherty. (The fir&t two survive.) 
 Mr. Dougherty received his education in private 
 schools in the East. In 1894, he entered the Univ. 
 of Penna., remaining there two years, and in 1897 
 was appointed a Cadet at the U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, West Point, N. Y. Graduating, Feb., 1901, he 
 entered the Army with the rank of Second Lieut., 
 and served until May, 1903, then resigned, follow- 
 ing the loss of his suit for mandamus to compel the 
 then Secretary of War to rank officers of the Ar- 
 tillery Corps according to the law of 1901. 
 
 Entering civil life, Mr. Dougherty, as Engineer 
 in Charge for the N. Y. Continental Jewell Filtra- 
 tion Co., supervised the building of Oak Lane Res- 
 ervoir, at Philadelphia; building of the Charleston, 
 S. C., Dry Dock and other construction at the 
 Charleston Navy Yard. In 1908 he became asso- 
 ciated with J. G. White & Co., Inc., general con- 
 sulting and contracting engineers of New York, and 
 first represented them in the construction of the 
 Idaho-Oregon Light & Power Co.'s development at 
 Copperfield, Ore. In 1909 he was sent to California 
 in charge of betterment construction for the San 
 Joaquin Light & Power Co. Upon completion of 
 this he constructed the Midway Gas Co.'s natural 
 gas pipe line from the Midway oil fields of Cali- 
 fornia to Los Angeles, 110 miles, and one of the 
 principal enterprises under way in Southern Cali- 
 fornia in 1912-13, which, upon completion, will form 
 an important industrial improvement. 
 
 He is member, American Association of Civil 
 Engineers and Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
 JAMES S. BENNETT 
 
 STl 
 
 ENNETT, JAMES STARK, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Sherburne, N. 
 Y., May 7, 1879, the son of George 
 Calder Bennett and Ella J. 
 (Stark) Bennett. He married 
 Ethelwyn Foote at Pasadena, California, Oct. 8, 
 1907, and they have three children, Louise, Caro- 
 line and Constance. 
 
 Having moved to California in childhood, the 
 greater part of Mr. Bennett's life has been passed 
 there. He attended the schools of Pomona, Cal., 
 graduating from Pomona College in 1903, with the 
 degree of L. B. He then went to Columbia Uni- 
 versity, New York, and in 1905 received the degree 
 of Master of Arts from the Faculty of Political 
 Science. In 1906 he was graduated from Columbia 
 Law School with the degree of LL. B., and had 
 completed residence work for the degree of Doctor 
 of Philosophy, but has never returned to the Uni- 
 versity to take the degree. 
 
 While in public school Mr. Bennett engaged in 
 the retail shoe business at Pomona, with A. S. 
 Avery, and continued in that business during the 
 years 1899-1900. During 1904-05, while he was a 
 student at Columbia, he taught English to adult 
 foreigners in the night schools of New York City. 
 
 Mr. Bennett was admitted to the Bar of New 
 York in 1905, but he did not practice until he re- 
 turned to his home in 1906. Admitted in Califor- 
 nia, in July, 1906, Mr. Bennett became associated 
 with Hunsaker & Britt, Los Angeles, and remained 
 with them until September, 1909. He then asso- 
 ciated with E. J. Fleming for two years, and since 
 Feb., 1912, in partnership with Garfield R. Jones. 
 
 He is active in Republican politics and a mem- 
 ber of the State Central Committee of California. 
 
 He is member, University Club, Los Angeles; 
 Political Science Club of Columbia University, and 
 L. A. Bar Assn. Resides Pasadena. 
 
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 INDBLOM, ERIK OLOF, President 
 of the Swedish-American Bank of 
 San Francisco, was born at Da- 
 larna, Sweden, June 27, 1857, the 
 son of Olof Lindblom and Brita 
 (Olofson) Lindblom. His father 
 was a school teacher of that place, which, one of 
 the most rugged and barren on the face of the 
 habitable globe, fostered a hardy race, of which 
 Erik Lindblom has proved himself to be a worthy 
 sample. He was married in San Francisco, June 
 1, 1903, to Miss Hanna Sadie Ulrika Sparman, and 
 by a former marriage is the father of Brita and 
 Olof Lindblom. 
 
 He attended the Hede public school in Sweden, 
 and was graduated therefrom in 1871. During the 
 next four years he was intermittently a pupil at 
 the London Polytechnic School of the Y. M. C. A., 
 while working in that city at the trade of tailor, 
 which he had learned. 
 
 After spending five and a half years In London 
 and traveling over a considerable part of Europe, 
 he sailed for America, arriving in New York in 
 1886. Here he again worked at his trade until 
 1888, when he moved to Butte City, Montana, 
 where he continued the same occupation and at 
 the same time became interested in gravel min- 
 ing. On September 15, 1893, he reached San Fran- 
 cisco, resumed his trade, subsequently moving to 
 Oakland and opening an establishment of his own. 
 During these years his interest in mining was 
 growing, stimulated by studying, reading, attend- 
 ing Professor George Davidson's lectures on Alaska 
 and by the tales of gold discoveries. On April 27, 
 1898, his imagination still further fired by the sub- 
 stantially backed reports of the new "gold fields" 
 of Alaska, he abandoned the weary grind of his 
 trade and shipped before the mast in the bark 
 Alaska, commanded by Captain Cogan. His experi- 
 ences in the Northwest, which taxed his grit and 
 hardy constitution to the utmost, and where he 
 made one of the most wonderful discoveries of gold 
 in the history of the precious metals, form, per- 
 haps, the most romantic chapter in the story of 
 a very remarkable life. 
 
 Landing on the shore of Grantley Harbor, July 
 5, 1898, whither Captain Cogan had sent him and 
 some other sailors for fresh water, he determined 
 to leave the vessel and try to reach Golovin Bay, 
 where he knew there was a mission and trading 
 post. He was without food and had no conception 
 of the difficulties to be encountered in that sea- 
 son of floods. Acting on the advice of a prospec- 
 tor whom he chanced to meet, he started back for 
 Port Clarence, in the hope of finding that the bark 
 had sailed. When he came within sight of the 
 harbor he saw the vessel riding at anchor and con 
 eluded that his presence thereon was still desired. 
 From this critical situation, however, he was aided 
 to escape by an Eskimo chief, Promarshuk, who 
 took him in his boat made of walrus hide, covered 
 him with foul-smelling skins, and paddled him 
 within touching distance of the Alaska. Boarding 
 the bark, the chief, with five dollars Mr. Lindblom 
 had given him for the purpose, bought a 
 dozen sea biscuits, returned to his boat and 
 slipped out of the harbor, then away to free- 
 
 dom from Captain Cogan's kind of hospitality. 
 Stopping at the mouth of the Egoshoruk River, 
 now known as Snake River, the spot where Nome 
 is situated, Mr. Lindblom prospected, and on the 
 bar at the mouth of Dry Creek found colors. Ar- 
 riving July 27, with his Eskimo pilot, at Dexter's 
 trading station on Golovin Bay, Mr. Lindblom told 
 the trader of his discovery. Dexter wished to send 
 him back on a prospecting trip, but he preferred 
 the work offered him by N. O. Hultberg, the mis- 
 sionary of the station. He first prospected in this 
 region on Ophir Creek. Meeting subsequently with 
 John Brynteson and Jafet Lindeberg, the former of 
 whom, after Lindblom's discovery, had also found 
 prospects in what is now known as the Nome 
 country, he joined forces with them, and in an old 
 scow rigged for the occasion the three set out on a 
 100-mile sea voyage through stormy weather for 
 the Snake River. On September 15, 1898, they 
 landed at the mouth and began prospecting. One 
 week later they made discoveries and locations on 
 Anvil Creek. Later they panned about fifty dol- 
 lars in gold dust, and, putting it in shotgun shells, 
 returned to Golovin Bay. By the beginning of win- 
 ter, acting on expert advice, they had gone back to 
 the Nome district and measured and staked their 
 claims in compliance with the law of the land. 
 Within three days' panning in Snow Gulch and 
 Anvil Creek the three partners extracted more 
 than $1800 worth of gold dust. Mr. Lindblom thus 
 not only laid the foundation for the fortune which 
 good judgment and management has since swelled 
 to generous proportions, but was thereby the origi- 
 nal discoverer of the Nome gold fields. 
 
 He returned to California in 1899 and invested 
 in real estate. Going to Mexico in 1901 he became 
 interested in electric light, water and telephone 
 development, bought out Thomas Lane and secured 
 absolute control of the Parral Electric, Water and 
 Telephone Company of Parral, Mexico. Gradually 
 he enlarged his real estate, mining and other oper- 
 ations, and together with Captain Matson and oth- 
 ers, in 1908, established the Swedish- American 
 Bank, which in 1910 amalgamated with the Inter- 
 national Banking Corporation. 
 
 Mr. Lindblom is today president and sole owner 
 of the French Gulch Mining Co., Greeneville Min- 
 ing Co., Parral Electric, Water and Telephone Co., 
 president of the Swedish-American Bank of San 
 Francisco, vice president of the Pioneer Mining 
 Co. of Nome, Alaska; a member of the advisory 
 board of the International Banking Corporation, 
 and a director of the Davidson-Ward Lumber Co. 
 and of the Claremont Hotel Co. His clubs and as- 
 sociations are: The Swedish Club, of Seattle; Arc- 
 tic, of Seattle (life member); Olympic, Swedish 
 Society of S. F. (life member), B. P. O. E. No. 171 
 (life member), Islam Temple, Shriners (life mem- 
 ber), Odin Lodge, I. O. O. F. No. 393; Balder Lodge, 
 F. and A. M., No. 393 (life member); King Solo- 
 mon's Chapter No. 95, R. A. M. (life member) ; Cal- 
 ifornia Commandery No. 1, K. T. (life member); 
 Cal. Consistory No. 5 (life member), and Califor- 
 nia Chapter No. 183, O. E. S. (life member) He is 
 a shrewd, but quiet and modest personality, in no 
 way spoiled by his success in life. 
 
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 AUM, FRANK GEORGE, Hydro- 
 Electric Engineer, San Francisco, 
 California, was born at Sainte 
 Genevieve, Missouri, July 18, 
 1870, the son of Christian Baum 
 and Mrs. Klein Baum. He mar- 
 ried Mary Elizabeth Dawson, at Butte, Montana, 
 on July 18, 1901. They have three children, Esther, 
 Helen and Adah Baum. 
 
 Mr. Baum received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of San 
 Francisco and entered Le- 
 land Stanford, Jr., Uni- 
 versity in 1894. He was 
 graduated in 1898 with the 
 degree of A. B. in Electrical 
 Engineering and the follow- 
 ing year received the degree 
 of Electrical Engineer. 
 
 He began his professional 
 career in 1899 in the em- 
 ploy of the Standard Elec- 
 tric Company of California, 
 taking up high-tension trans- 
 mission work, but after a 
 short time he entered the 
 works of the Stanley Electric 
 Company of Pittsfield, Mass. 
 He remained there about a 
 year, returning to California 
 in 1900 to accept appoint- 
 ment as instructor in Elec- 
 trical Engineering at Leland 
 Stanford, Jr., University. He 
 served in this capacity until 
 1902, being engaged in the 
 meantime in special work 
 in electrical energy trans- 
 mission for the Bay Counties 
 Power Company and other 
 institutions, 
 
 In March, 1902, following 
 his resignation from the 
 faculty of the University, 
 Mr. Baum became electri- 
 cal engineer of the California Gas & Elec- 
 tric Corporation, being advanced within a short 
 time to the position of Transmission Engineer 
 and Superintendent of the same concern, having 
 charge of all hydraulic and electrical construction 
 and of operation. His duties included the design 
 and installation of about 50,000 kilowatts of elec- 
 trical machinery, 35,000 kilowatts of which is op- 
 erated by water-power, and in addition he designed 
 and installed numerous- sub-stations. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Baum incorporated the firm of F. 
 G. Baum & Company, and since that time has 
 practiced as a consulting engineer, with special 
 reference to hydro-electric power development, 
 and in this capacity has done work for practically 
 every large energy transmission company on the 
 Pacific Coast. He holds a commission as Chief 
 Engineer for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, 
 in charge of all hydro-electric development, and 
 also is engaged (1913) in the installation of large 
 hydraulic systems in California and in Peru, South 
 America. 
 
 Mr. Baum's success in the field of electricity 
 has been largely due to his own resourcefulness 
 and originality and in addition to his work in the 
 installation of great power plants has also in- 
 troduced numerous valuable innovations. Among 
 
 F. G. BAUM 
 
 other things he invented the outdoor high-tension 
 switch used throughout the Pacific Gas & Electric 
 Company's system, and which is being introduced 
 quite generally in the Western transmission sys- 
 tems. He also put into practical form the type of 
 high-tension oil switch now used throughout the 
 system of the company which he now serves as 
 Chief Engineer, and which has since been adopted 
 by many others. 
 
 A thorough student of all phases- of elec- 
 trical science, Mr. Baum 
 has written prolifically on 
 its many subjects and 
 has- been a liberal con- 
 tributor to the technical 
 press. His writings have 
 included articles and trea- 
 tises on Electric Energy 
 Transmission, Transformers, 
 A 1 t e rnators, Synchro- 
 nous Motors and Converters, 
 these being subdivided into 
 discussions on the Regulation 
 of Transmission Systems; 
 Effect of Wave-Form on 
 Capacity of Transmission 
 Lines; Surges in Transmis- 
 sion Systems; Conditions of 
 Maximum Transformer Effi- 
 ciency; Effect of Magnetic 
 Leakage on Transformer 
 Regulation; Effect of Lead- 
 ing and Lagging Currents on 
 Transformer Regulation; Ef- 
 fect of Armature Current on 
 the Wave-Form of Alterna- 
 tors; Synchronous React- 
 ance; Synchronous Motor 
 Stability and Overload Ca- 
 pacity Curves. 
 
 In conjunction with the 
 late Dr. F. A. C. Perrine, Mr. 
 Baum, in 1900, presented the 
 first paper published on the 
 calculation of the charging 
 
 current in three-phase transmission lines, and de- 
 veloped his method of calculating the regulation of 
 transmission systems, which forms the basis- of his 
 "Alternating-Current Calculating Device," pub- 
 lished in 1902. 
 
 The same year, in his- paper on "Surges in 
 Transmission Systems," presented before the Pa- 
 cific Coast Transmission Association, he pointed 
 out for the first time in a practical way a simple 
 method of calculating the rise in pressure due to 
 surges in transmission systems. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Baum presented a notable paper 
 before the International Electrical Congress at the 
 World's Fair in St. Louis, on High-Tension, Long 
 Distance Transmission and Control. 
 
 Mr. Baum, in addition to the writings noted 
 above, is the author of a book entitled "The Alter- 
 nating-Current Transformer" and is the inventor 
 of a device whereby the regulation of an alter- 
 nating-current line may be simply calculated. 
 
 In scientific and technical societies and associa- 
 tions, Mr. Baum is a member of the High-Tension 
 Transmission Committee of the American Institute 
 of Electrical Engineers, and ex-Vice President of 
 that body, and also belongs to the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers and the American So- 
 ciety of Mechanical Engineers. 
 
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 513 
 
 RIGHT, HAROLD BELL, Author, 
 Meloland, California, was born in 
 Rome, Oneida County, N. Y., May 
 4, 1872, the son of William A. 
 Wright and Alma T. (Watson) 
 Wright. He married Frances 
 Elizabeth Long, at Buffalo, N. Y., July 18, 1899. 
 They have three sons, Gilbert Hunger, Paul Wil- 
 liams, and Norman Hall Wright. 
 
 Mr. Wright is of Anglo-Saxon descent on the 
 paternal side of the family, 
 but his maternal ancestors 
 were French. The first of 
 the family to settle in Amer- 
 ica came over about 1640 and 
 located in New England, but 
 later generations moved to 
 the Mohawk Valley of New 
 York, where certain of the 
 French Huguenots had set- 
 tled, and there his parents 
 were married. 
 
 Mr. Wright has made his 
 position among the great 
 writers of his time solely by 
 his own eirorts. His fatner 
 was a contracting carpenter, 
 a practical man possessed of 
 great moral force; his moth- 
 er was more of an artistic 
 temperament; and the char- 
 acteristics of each were 
 blended in the son. The ru- 
 diments of his education Mr. 
 Wright obtained from his 
 mother, who also encouraged 
 in him talent as a painter 
 which displayed itself when 
 he was a mere child. She 
 died when he was ten years 
 of age, and Mr. Wright con- 
 tinued his studies in the 
 common schools of the dis- 
 trict. Later, he spent two 
 years in the preparatory de- 
 partment of Hiram College, at Hiram, Ohio, but 
 did not graduate and he is, for the most part, self- 
 educated. 
 
 Mr. Wright began his career in 1887 as a painter 
 and decorator and followed this vocation until 
 1892, when he turned his attention seriously to 
 landscape painting, to which he devoted himself for 
 five years, but relinquished it in 1897 to enter the 
 ministry. He was appointed pastor of the Christian 
 (Disciple) Church at Pierce City, Missouri. 
 
 From the beginning of his ministerial career, 
 which continued for about eleven years, Mr. 
 Wright's labors were marked by the same sincerity 
 and zeal that had characterized his previous efforts. 
 He remained in Pierce City about a year, then was 
 transferred to Pittsburg, Kansas, where he worked 
 for five years. At the end of this period he was 
 called to the Forest Avenue Church in Kansas City, 
 Missouri, a charge he held until 1905. He next had 
 a church at Lebanon, Missouri, in the Ozark Moun- 
 tains, for two years, and in 1907 was appointed to 
 the pastorate of the Christian (Disciples) Church 
 at Redlands, California. 
 
 This brought about a turning point in his career, 
 for in 1908 he resigned and joined the pioneers of 
 the great Imperial Valley of California. He has 
 since made his- home there, devoting himself to his 
 
 HAROLD BELL WRIGHT 
 
 writing and the management of his ranch, known 
 as Tecolote Rancho, one of the picturesque places 
 of the Southwest. 
 
 Several years prior to his removal to California, 
 Mr. Wright had fixed a place for himself in the 
 literary world through his first book, "That Printer 
 of Udell's" (1902). This story, written while he 
 was engaged in his religious duties, attracted at- 
 tention to the author because of the originality of 
 his- style and his power of description. His second 
 work, "The Shepherd of the 
 Hills" (1907), was a tale of 
 the Ozarks and was hailed 
 as a masterpiece. 
 
 In 1909, Mr. Wright pub- 
 lished "The Calling of Dan 
 Matthews," a powerful story, 
 surpassing his previous ef- 
 forts in character study. In 
 1910 he gave to the world 
 "The Uncrowned King." 
 
 The greatest of all Mr. 
 Wright's works was pub- 
 lished in 1911 "The Win- 
 ning of Barbara Worth." 
 This story of the reclamation 
 of the Imperial Valley has 
 been declared the greatest 
 novel of modern times and 
 ran more than a million 
 copies. The Imperial Valley 
 and the men who made it 
 gave Mr. Wright the inspira- 
 tion for this powerful story. 
 Arriving in the country in 
 1907, he witnessed many of 
 the events which form the 
 main features, and is gener- 
 ally believed to have drawn 
 his characters from life, 
 thus- making of "The Win- 
 ning of Barbara Worth" an 
 almost exact history of the 
 section. 
 
 As late as 1900, the vast 
 
 expanse of land known as Imperial Valley was part 
 of the great Colorado Desert, but through the ef- 
 forts of a small band of pioneers it was reclaimed 
 by irrigation, and a quarter of a million acres of 
 dry land transformed into prosperous ranches and 
 towns. However, all that had been achieved by the 
 pioneers was threatened with destruction through 
 the break of the Colorado River from its natural 
 channel. It was only saved by heroic effort. 
 
 To Mr. Wright the magic-like work of the build- 
 ers and protectors of Imperial Valley made a most 
 remarkable appeal and into "The Winning of Bar- 
 bara Worth" he wrote an epic of the desert. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Wright produced another work, 
 "Their Yesterdays," a beautiful symbolic story in 
 which love and goodness- are idealized. This will 
 be followed by "The Eyes of the World." 
 
 Mr. Wright's books, in each of which he has 
 some message for his fellows, made a wonderful 
 appeal to readers the world over, and their com- 
 bined sales exceeded three million copies' "The 
 Shepherd of the Hills" has been dramatized and 
 others are being prepared for stage production. 
 
 Between Mr. Wright and his publisher, Mr. E. W. 
 Reynolds, there exists a bond of extraordinary sym- 
 pathy. Their relations are those of friends and 
 partners. 
 
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 TORY, FRANCIS QUARLES, 
 Fruit Grower, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born at Waukesha, Wis., July 
 18, 1845, the son of John P. and 
 Elizabeth (Quarles) Story. He 
 married Charlotte Forrester Dev- 
 ereux, daughter of Gen. George 
 H. Devereux, of Salem, Mass., in 1876. She died 1897. 
 
 Mr. Story was graduated from high school at 
 Waukesha before he was 16 years old and then 
 taught school for a term. He then entered and was 
 graduated from Eastman Commercial College, at 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He be- 
 came assistant, then head 
 bookkeeper in a wool house at 
 Boston, but the next year re- 
 signed and entered the "sort- 
 ing room" of one of the firm's 
 mills, working 12 hours a day 
 for six months without remu- 
 neration. He next entered a 
 Boston wool house and 
 worked 9 hours a day for 
 three months, and then 
 opened offices as a wool 
 broker, and later bought into 
 a wool scouring mill and 
 studied wool shrinkage. He 
 succeeded, by 1872, in mak- 
 ing a modest competence, but 
 the great Boston fire of that 
 year wiped this out and left 
 him $10,000 in debt. 
 
 Through friends he was 
 enabled to pay his obliga- 
 tions and by hard work suc- 
 ceeded, in a few years, in 
 making another competence, 
 but his health was broken 
 and he was compelled to re- 
 tire from business in Boston. 
 
 In 1877, Mr. Story moved 
 to San Francisco, and be- 
 came interested with B. P. 
 Flint & Co., wool dealers. In 
 1883 he moved to Alhambra, 
 Cal., built a home and set 
 out an orange orchard. He 
 has been a leading figure in the citrus fruit busi- 
 ness ever since, as grower and shipper, and has 
 done much to advance the industry. He has been 
 Pres. of the Alhambra Orange Growers' Ass'n. since 
 its formation in 1896; Pres., Semi-Tropic Fruit Ex- 
 change since 1897; Vice Pres., Southern Cal. Fruit 
 Exchange since 1897, and Pres. of the Cal. Fruit 
 Growers' Exchange since its formation. 
 
 This latter is the greatest co-operative organi- 
 zation in the world, over sixty per cent of the cit- 
 rus crop of California being marketed through it. 
 During 1911-12 it shipped 20,033,933 boxes of 
 oranges, which netted the growers f. o. b. Cal., 
 $37,599,845.16, without a penny loss by bad debts. 
 
 Mr. Story also is President of the Fruit Grow- 
 ers' Supply Co., which is capitalized at $838,000, 
 and saves the growers over $500,000 annually. 
 
 Joining the L. A. Chamber of Commerce in 
 1891, Mr. Story was elected Director in 1896, Pres- 
 ident in 1902, and has been on the directorate ever 
 since. He has served as Chairman or member of 
 some of its most important committees. In 1897 
 he was Chairman of its Citrus Tariff Committee, 
 which secured a tariff of one cent a pound on 
 oranges and lemons. In this same connection, he 
 has been Chairman since 1907 of the Exec. Com. 
 of the Citrus Protective League, which, during 
 that time, has secured a reduction of freight on 
 
 F. Q. STORY 
 
 oranges of 10 cents per 100 Ibs. (an annual sav- 
 ing of over $1,000,000 to growers) ; secured an in- 
 crease tariff duty of one-half cent a pound on lem- 
 ons, defeated the railroads' attempt to increase 
 freight rates on lemons and also caused a reduction 
 in refrigeration rates. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Story, under the auspices of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, headed the local executive 
 committee of the National Educational Ass'n., and 
 with Judge Charles Silent, raised $23,000 for the 
 convention of 1899; and in 1907, he headed a simi- 
 lar committee with Judge Silent and raised for the 
 same purpose about $22,- 
 000. The two conventions, 
 which attracted about fifty 
 thousand people to Los Ange- 
 les, were among the largest 
 in the history of the N. E. 
 A. and brought from the 
 Secretary of the N. E. A. and 
 the Chamber of Commerce 
 special resolutions prais- 
 ing, in extraordinarily high 
 terms, the work of Mr. Story 
 and his associates. Similar 
 resolutions were passed fol- 
 lowing his work as Chairman 
 of the Citizens' Relief Com- 
 mittee, which raised more 
 than $300,000 in money and 
 supplies for San Francisco 
 sufferers in 1906. 
 
 In 1903 he was Chairman 
 of the Chamber's General 
 Methodist Conference Com- 
 mittee, which raised funds 
 and entertained the Interna- 
 tional Methodist Conference 
 in Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. Story served 
 as Chairman of the Chamber 
 of Commerce Building Com- 
 mittee, which raised $350,000 
 to buy property and erect its 
 building. 
 
 Mr. Story was Chairman 
 of the Exec. Com. of the Nic- 
 araguan Canal Assn. until 
 1899, when Congress chose the Panama route for the 
 canal. He has also been a prominent worker for 
 conservation of national resources. He is one of 
 California's representatives on the National Con- 
 servation Commission and State Vice Pres. or Dir. 
 since its formation, of the National Irrigation As- 
 sociation, whose work induced the Government to 
 expend $70,000,000 to reclaim arid lands. He is also 
 Pres. of the Arizona & Cal. Conservation Commis- 
 sion, which seeks to effect control of floods and the 
 reclamation of some 8,000,000 acres of desert lands 
 which will be commercially tributary to Los An- 
 geles. He was also Chairman of the Chamber of 
 Commerce Committee to raise funds to build fire 
 breaks and reforest the reserves of the San Gabriel 
 Valley, a work which was finally taken up by the 
 United States Government. 
 
 Early in his residence in Southern California 
 (1887) Mr. Story aided in organizing the San 
 Gabriel Valley Transit Railway and was its General 
 Manager or Treasurer until it was sold to the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company. 
 
 He is President of the Los Angeles City Direc- 
 tory Co., Director First National Bank, Los An- 
 geles, and Alhambra National Bank 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Los 
 Angeles, and President of the San Gabriel Valley 
 Country Club. 
 
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 HANNON, CHARLES METCALFE, 
 Capitali&t, Los Angeles, Cal., and 
 Tucson, Ariz., was born on a 
 farm near Lexington, Mo., Aug. 7, 
 1853, the son of John S. and 
 Elizabeth (Metcalfe) Shannon. He 
 married Mollie L. Betterton, at 
 Dallas, Texas, October 13, 1885. 
 
 His paternal ancestors settled in Pennsylvania 
 in the 17th century, later members having moved 
 to Kentucky and Missouri. One of his relatives, 
 Gen. John R. Baylor of Texas, was an officer in 
 the Confederate Army and 
 figured in various daring ex- 
 ploits, then on Feb. 14, 1862, 
 he divided the territory of 
 New Mexico, creating what 
 is now Arizona. After de- 
 claring it an independent 
 territory, he proclaimed him- 
 self Governor, and his claim 
 was recognized by President 
 Jefferson Davis of the Con- 
 federacy. Mr. Shannon later 
 played a prominent part in 
 the Territory. 
 
 Mr. Shannon received the 
 early part of his education in 
 the public schools of his dis- 
 trict, later attending an 
 academy in Kentucky. 
 
 Following his graduation 
 in 1870 he went to Silver 
 City, New Mex., where two 
 of his uncles, by name Met- 
 calfe, had engaged in silver 
 mining, and there began his 
 mining career. After work- 
 ing around Silver City for 
 about a year, he joined a 
 party in which his uncle was 
 a leader, and went overland 
 to what is now Clifton, Ariz., 
 in the hunt for new mining 
 properties. There they 
 pitched camp and Mr. Shan- 
 non helped to build the first 
 log house. His uncle gave 
 
 the town its name, also named the towns of Globe 
 and Metcalfe, Ariz. 
 
 On their first visit to this section of Arizona, 
 Mr. Shannon's- uncle located numerous mining prop- 
 erties and among them was the famous Shannon 
 Mine at Metcalfe, which he located in the name 
 of his nephew and which the latter operated for 
 nearly thirty years. 
 
 Leaving Clifton, Mr. Shannon's party returned 
 to Silver City, New Mex. This was his headquar- 
 ters for many years- subsequent, although he lo- 
 cated for limited periods at other places, including 
 Globe, Ariz., Las Cruces, N. Mex., and El Paso, 
 Texas. At different times he engaged in newspaper 
 work and cattle raising. 
 
 Shortly after his return to Silver City, Mr. 
 Shannon was stricken by typhoid fever, which 
 nearly robbed him of his eyesight, and for a year 
 or more he had to live in a room of dungeon 
 blackness. This had an effect upon his future, in- 
 terfering greatly with his mining operations-. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Shannon took an interest in the 
 "Silver Belt," a newspaper at Globe, Ariz., to 
 which he devoted part of his time. He went 
 to Las Cruces about 1880 and there joined a 
 famous Texas editor, named Newman, in a news- 
 paper enterprise, which, while it lasted, was re- 
 
 C. M. SHANNON 
 
 markable for its independence and the number 
 of difficulties their policy engendered. Mr. Shan- 
 non next started the "Lone Star," a daily paper 
 at El Paso, Texas, in 1882, but in 1883 ne gave 
 up his interest and returned to Silver City, where 
 he founded the "Silver City Sentinel." This he 
 edited for some years, selling it in 1888 to enter 
 the cattle business. However, in 1890 he returned 
 actively to his mining operations and devoted the 
 greater portion of his time to the Shannon Mine. 
 He worked it alone for many years, but owing to 
 the lack of transportation facilities and the exces- 
 sive rates charged on ore, 
 he decided, in 1900, to 
 sell the property, which he 
 had held for twenty-nine 
 years and eight months. The 
 mine was bonded and sold to 
 the Shannon Copper Com- 
 pany, a syndicate of wealthy 
 Easterners who were in a po- 
 sition to conduct it along 
 modern lines. This company 
 has since built a railroad to 
 the mine, erected a great 
 smelter at Clifton and in- 
 stalled powerful machinery. 
 More than $19,000,000 of ore 
 has been taken out in twelve 
 years. Mr. Shannon still re- 
 tains an intere&t in the com- 
 pany, but is devoting a great 
 deal of time to timber opera- 
 tions in the West. 
 
 During his many years' 
 residence in Arizona, Mr. 
 Shannon was an important 
 factor in the Democratic po- 
 litical life of the Territory. 
 He was appointed Collector 
 of Internal Revenue for the 
 District of New Mexico and 
 Arizona by President Cleve- 
 land and served four years, 
 his office requiring him to 
 live during that time at Santa 
 Fe, N. Mex. He maintained 
 his residence in Arizona, 
 
 however, and was twice elected to the Territorial 
 Council, or Senate, first in 1893, and again in 1900. 
 He was also Democratic National Committeeman 
 from Arizona from 1892 to 1896. It was generally 
 believed that he would be the first Governor of 
 Arizona when she was granted Statehood. Illness 
 prevented him from accepting the nomination. 
 
 Mr. Shannon is one of those men who passed 
 through what has been called the "wild and 
 woolly days" of the West. When he began his 
 life in New Mexico and Arizona there were no 
 railroads and Indians were numerous. He had 
 many narrow escapes from the redskins. While 
 he was editor of the "Silver City Sentinel" he fig- 
 ured in a battle with escaped prisoners, including 
 four desperate train robbers, and was one of the 
 posse who brought the men to bay after a battle 
 lasting all day, in which five men were killed. 
 
 Despite the hardships of the times, the exciting 
 experiences of border life and frequent illness, 
 Mr. Shannon, at 59 years of age, shows very little 
 traces of the hard life he endured. 
 
 He is a Mason, a member Mystic Shrine, a 
 Knight Templar, an Elk and member, California, 
 Jonathan and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs-, Los An- 
 geles, the Old Pueblo Club of Tucson, and the 
 Hassayampas, another Arizona organization. 
 
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 E. A. MONTGOMERY 
 
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 ONTGOMERY, ERNEST ALEX- 
 ANDER, Capitalist and Mine 
 Operator, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Toronto, Canada, 
 November 24, 1863, the son of 
 Alexander Montgomery and Jane 
 (Chapman) Montgomery. He married Miss An- 
 toinette Schwarz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
 erick Schwarz, at New York City, July 23, 1912. 
 Mr. Montgomery is of Scotch descent, his paternal 
 granduncle having been General Richard Montgom- 
 ery, who fell while heroically fighting in the Battle 
 of Quebec in 1775. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery, who occupies a position 
 among the successful mining operators of the 
 West, received his early education in the public 
 schools of Toronto, and later studied in those of 
 Stuart, Iowa, whither his parents had moved. 
 
 His boyhood was spent on the family farm in 
 Iowa, but in 1884, when he had attained his ma- 
 jority, he decided to strike out for himself and 
 made his way to Idaho, where he engaged in mining. 
 He met with only meager success there, however, 
 so changed his operations to the State of Washing- 
 ton, where he spent some time in prospecting. There, 
 as in Idaho, he found the field unpromising, and 
 after working in various other sections of the West 
 he went to Nevada in the year 1901, and there 
 helped to organize and develop what is known as 
 the Montgomery District. It was in this region that 
 he brought his long experience into play, and his 
 years of disappointment and hardship were re- 
 warded with success. One of the early properties 
 developed by him in Nevada was the Johnnie Mine, 
 which netted him a small fortune, but which has 
 since become a property of note. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery's energy next directed him to 
 Inyo County, California, where he developed the 
 World Beater and O Be Joyful properties. 
 
 Returning to Nevada in 1903, Mr. Montgomery 
 located at Tonopah and there became identified 
 with the Los Angeles, Daggett & Tonopah Railway 
 Company, which commissioned him to report on 
 the districts which would be tributary to the road. 
 His intimate knowledge of the country enabled him 
 to perform this work in such a manner that he 
 foresaw very closely the tonnage of freight that 
 would accrue to a railway in that section, and it 
 was upon his judgment, to a great extent, that the 
 promoters of the line began its construction. The 
 railway was begun by the original company, but 
 they did not complete it, the Las Vegas & Tonopah 
 and Tonopah & Tidewater Railways, two Clark 
 enterprises, taking over the road. 
 
 In 1904,, Mr. Montgomery returned to mining and 
 outfitting, prospected the region surrounding Tono- 
 pah, Nevada. In September of that year he lo- 
 cated the once celebrated Shoshone Mine in the 
 Bullfrog District of Nevada, a property which 
 he developed rapidly, and at the end of six- 
 teen months it had made such a remark- 
 able showing that Charles M. Schwab, the steel 
 magnate, and his financial associates, sought to 
 purchase it. The result of the negotiations was the 
 sale of this property, together with the Polaris 
 mine, a neighboring property which Mr. Mont- 
 gomery also owned, to the Montgomery-Shoshone 
 Mines Company, which was organized to take over 
 Mr. Montgomery's holdings. He retained a large 
 interest in the new company. 
 
 By the time the Shoshine deal was consummated, 
 Mr. Montgomery had acquired a comfortable fortune 
 but he did not relax in his mining activity, and in 
 1905, after examining various properties, obtained 
 
 control of the Skiddo Mines, a property located in 
 the Panamint Mountain Range of California, on the 
 edge of the Death Valley. He immediately began 
 working these mines on a scientific and extensive 
 scale, spending a large sum of money in develop- 
 ment work, the installation of machinery, erection 
 of a mill and the construction of a pipe line twenty 
 miles in length, from which a supply of water is 
 furnished sufficient to operate a fifteen-stamp mill. 
 The entire investment represented a capital outlay 
 of about half a million dollars, which has been 
 practically equaled in dividends during the few 
 years the property has been in operation. 
 
 Aside from the development of the mines already 
 mentioned, Mr. Montgomery has been identified 
 with various others. He was among the pioneers in 
 the great camp of Goldfield, Nevada, and was one of 
 the original twenty property owners of that district 
 who, in the autumn of 1903, held a meeting at which 
 the camp was organized and christened Goldfield. 
 
 Since 1910 Mr. Montgomery has devoted much 
 of his time to the development of several new 
 mining properties, one of which is in Mexico and 
 another in the camp of National, Nevada. The most 
 promising, in the opinion of Mr. Montgomery, is 
 the Mexican property, which adjoins the famous 
 El Monte Mine in the Guanajuato District. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery is regarded as one of the 
 practical mining engineers of the country, and 
 also is versed in the financial end of the business, 
 but his present position is not entirely a matter 
 of discovery. In the early days of his work he 
 underwent many hardships and heart-breaking 
 disappointments. A great portion of his life was 
 passed on the Nevada and California deserts, and 
 in those isolated places he was compelled to treat 
 a great deal with the Indians. By his fairness and 
 consideration of the red men he came to be re- 
 garded by them as their friend, and his fame as a 
 decent, honorable man is known to every Indian 
 of the desert country. Mr. Montgomery unhesitat- 
 ingly declares that he owes much of his success to 
 the friendship of the Indians, who, because of their 
 trust in him, overcame the prejudice and suspicion 
 with which they always regarded white men, and 
 gave him assistance in his prospecting work. 
 
 Aside from his mine holdings, Mr. Montgomery 
 of recent years has also been active in oil develop- 
 ment in Mexico, having large interests in the 
 Tampico fields of that country. He is a Director 
 of the Mexican Premier Oil Company and is also 
 Vice President of the Topila Petroleum Co., which 
 has brought in a well producing about one thou- 
 sand barrels a day. 
 
 He is largely interested in realty, and is a Di- 
 rector of the Calif. Savings Bank, Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery has made Los Angeles his 
 headquarters since 1904, although he had been in 
 that city at various times for nearly fifteen years 
 previously. Since locating there permanently he 
 has done a great deal toward establishing the 
 city's prestige as a mining center and devoted 
 endless time and capital to having the American 
 Mining Congress meet there in 1910. He is Vice 
 President and Director of the latter; Director, 
 Chamber of Mines and Oil, and member, American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers. 
 
 He has traveled extensively in the United 
 States, Europe and the Orient, and is a prominent 
 figure in fraternal and club circles, being a Mason, 
 Mystic Shriner, President of the Sierra Madre Club 
 of Los Angeles and member of the Jonathan Club, 
 Los Angeles; Rocky Mountain Club and Chemical 
 Club, New York, and American Club, Mexico City. 
 
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 EWMAN, GUSTAVUS OLIVIO, 
 Chief Engineer, Pacific Light & 
 Power Corporation, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Frotuna, 
 Sweden, December 18, 1844. His 
 father was Per Gustav Nyman 
 (English spelling, Newman) and his mother Jeana 
 Fredericka (Hesselius) Nyman. His family is 
 noted in the religious and professional history of 
 Sweden, one of his grandfathers having been a Mag- 
 ister Campanius (Professor) 
 and one of the early 
 settlers in Pennsylvania. He 
 founded and built the Old 
 Swedes' Church, one of the 
 historic landmarks of Phila- 
 delphia, in 1646. This fa- 
 mous old house of worship 
 still stands, and is used reg- 
 ularly. Mr. Newman married 
 Mary Emma Miller at River- 
 side, California, July 19, 1876, 
 and to them were born four 
 children, Rolph R., a civil 
 engineer at Riverside, Cal.; 
 Olivia E., and Miller and 
 Davis Newman, twin boys. 
 
 Mr. Newman received his 
 early education in the com- 
 mon schools of Fellingsbro 
 and Gotlunda, Sweden, and 
 went from the latter place to 
 Caroline University, at Ore- 
 bro, Sweden. He remained 
 there until 1859 and then en- 
 tered the Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute of Orebro, from which 
 he was graduated, July 30, 
 1863. Mr. Newman was sec- 
 ond highest man in his class 
 and it being the custom of 
 the Swedish Government to 
 give the two leading scholars 
 of each graduating class 
 State positions, he was made 
 
 Assistant Engineer of the Government Railroad. 
 He entered the Government service immediate- 
 ly after leaving school, and it being his desire to 
 accomplish something in the world of machinery, 
 he took a position three years later in the Chris- 
 tinehamns Railroad and Machine shops in Sweden. 
 In 1868, Mr. Newman came to the U. S. in order 
 to follow his ambition in the engineering field. 
 He had a splendid letter to John Erickson, of 
 New York, builder of the "Monitor," from the lat- 
 ter's brother, Nils Erickson, Chief of the Govern- 
 ment Railroad of Sweden. Mr. Erickson, however, 
 told Mr. Newman that if he was the fine engineer 
 his recommendation stated he was, he should re- 
 turn to Sweden and work out its problems. Mr. 
 Newman did not have the money to return at that 
 time, so drifted towards the West. 
 
 His first position in the United States was un- 
 der O. Chanute, a famous bridge builder of the 
 middle West, who was engaged at that time in the 
 construction of a bridge at Kansas City, Mo. This 
 was the first bridge across the Missouri River, and 
 before it was completed Mr. Newman, who began 
 as a carpenter, was Asst. Engineer of the work. 
 
 In 1869, upon completion of the bridge, Mr. New- 
 man became connected with the Fort Scott & Gulf 
 Railroad and served as Assistant Engineer on the 
 
 G. O. NEWMAN 
 
 first survey for the road through the Indian Terri- 
 tory. He remained with this company about a year 
 and then went to Rulo, Neb., to collect data on the 
 Burlington Southwestern Railroad, which the 
 "Atchison" afterwards purchased and extended 
 from Rulo to Lincoln, Mr. Newman acting as Asst. 
 Engineer in charge of survey and construction. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Newman was transferred to Tomah, 
 Wis., in charge of the building of the Wisconsin 
 Valley Railroad, which extended from Tomah to 
 Wausau, Wis. He held the 
 position of Asst. Engineer in 
 charge of surveys and con- 
 struction until Christmas, 
 1874, when he obtained a 
 leave to go to California and 
 claim his bride. 
 
 Mr. Newman arrived at 
 Riverside in 1875, and one 
 year later he married and de- 
 cided to remain there in part- 
 nership with his father-in- 
 law, C. C. Miller, an engi- 
 neer, with whom he laid out 
 the famous Magnolia Ave. 
 Their first intricate work of 
 importance was the construc- 
 tion, in '76-77, of the Lower 
 Canal for the Riverside Ca- 
 nal & Irrig. Co. Immediately 
 following they constructed 
 the Orange County Canal 
 C78). In '78-80 they engaged 
 in subdividing lands for the 
 Riverside Land & Irrig. Co. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Newman en- 
 tered the service of the U. S. 
 Geological Survey under 
 Clarence King, and with his 
 chief, Maj. F. A. Clark, made 
 a topographical map of the 
 400 square miles known as 
 the Eureka mining district in 
 Nevada. Upon leaving the 
 Federal service he became 
 
 Asst. Engineer on the construction of the Atlantic 
 & Pacific Railroad, and remained in its employ until 
 it was bought by the Southern Pacific Co. in 1882. 
 He then went with the Central Pacific in charge of 
 bridge and masonry work, also of the construction 
 of the road from Redding, Cal., north through the 
 Sacramento Canyon to Delta, Cal. In 1884, the work 
 having been stopped at Delta, he returned to River- 
 side as- Chief Engineer for the Riverside Water Co., 
 a position he held twelve years. 
 
 During this time he perfected the Riverside irri- 
 gation system, the first really good irrigation sy&- 
 tem in California, and numerous engineers from 
 Europe, Australia, Canada and the U. S. visited 
 him to get information on irrigation. Mr. New- 
 man was also the first man to establish the relation 
 between a miner's- inch and a cubic foot per second, 
 which he did in the sumer of 1876. 
 
 In 1897, Mr. Newman was engaged as Chief En- 
 gineer for A. C. Balch, manager of the San Gabriel 
 Electric Co., and when this concern was purchased 
 by the Pac. Light & Power Co. he was retained by 
 the latter. He has been a principal factor in mod- 
 ernizing the hydraulic business of the Southwest. 
 He is a member, California Club, Masons, 
 Knights Templar and Mystic Shrine, and of En- 
 gineers & Architects Assn. of Southern California. 
 
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 519 
 
 EE, BRADNER WELLS, Attorney- 
 at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at East Groveland, N. Y., 
 May 4, 1850, the son of David 
 Richard Lee and Elizabeth North- 
 run (Wells) Lee. He is a great 
 grandson of Captain Thoma& Lee, 
 of the Fifth New York Continental Line, War of the 
 Revolution. He married Helena Farrar at Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., Oct. 16, 1883, and to them there have 
 been born two sons, Bradner Wells Lee, Jr., and 
 Kenyon Farrar Lee, who were educated at Stan- 
 ford University, admitted 
 1912 to practice and associa- 
 ted with their father. Mr. 
 Lee is a nephew of Col. G. 
 Wiley Wells, for many years 
 a noted lawyer of the South 
 and later of the Pacific 
 Coast. Col. Wells served for 
 two terms as U. S. Dist. At- 
 torney for the Northern Dis- 
 trict of Mississippi, was a 
 member of the Forty-fourth 
 Congress from the 2nd Mis- 
 sissippi District and later 
 was U. S. Consul-General at 
 Shanghai, China. Mrs. Lee's 
 father was- Col. William 
 Humphrey Farrar, a cele- 
 brated lawyer of Washing- 
 ton, D. C., who received his 
 legal training under Hon. 
 Daniel Webster and Hon. 
 Caleb Gushing. He was a 
 descendant of one of the old- 
 est Colonial families in Mas- 
 sachusetts, many of whose 
 members achieved distinc- 
 tion in Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary affairs, at the Bar, 
 upon the Bench and as col- 
 lege professors. 
 
 Mr. Lee received his pre- 
 liminary education in the 
 public schools of his native 
 town and later under private 
 tutors. He read law with Col. 
 
 Wells, and was admitted to the Bar by the U. S. 
 Dist. Court for the Northern Di&t. of Mississippi, in 
 1871, and in 1875 to the Bar of the Supreme Court, 
 Dist. of Columbia. 
 
 Following his admission, Mr. Lee was appointed 
 Asst. U. S. Dist. Attorney for Northern Miss., and 
 held this position until 1879, serving one year 
 meantime (1875) as Acting U. S. Dist. Attorney. In 
 the spring of 1879 he moved to Los Angeles and 
 there entered the law office of Brunson & Wells 
 as managing clerk, being admitted to practice in 
 the California Supreme Court, April 30, that year. 
 In 1883 Mr. Lee became a member of the firm, 
 which was styled Brunson, Wells & Lee, and two 
 years later it was changed to Wells, Van Dyke & 
 Lee. He practiced in the State courts until 1887, 
 when he was- admitted to Federal practice in the 
 U. S. Circuit Court for the Southern Dist. of Cali- 
 fornia. The following year he was admitted to the 
 U. S. Dist. Court. In 1889 the firm of which he was 
 a member became Wells, Guthrie & Lee, and in 
 1890 it became Wells, Monroe & Lee. In 1893 it was 
 Wells & Lee and in 1896, upon the entry of Judge 
 John D. Works (later U. S. Senator from Califor- 
 nia) it became Wells, Works & Lee. Col. Wells 
 retiring in 1896, on account of ill health, it became 
 Works & Lee, continuing as such until 1901, when 
 the entry of Judge Works' son, caused it to become 
 
 BRADNER W. LEE 
 
 Works, Lee & Works. In 1908 Mr. Lee withdrew 
 from the firm and practiced alone. In 1912 his two 
 sons became associated with him. 
 
 Mr. Lee has been one of the strong factors for 
 progress. He joined the Chamber of Commerce 
 in 1894 and has been one of its active members, 
 serving for many years on its Law, and later on 
 its Harbor Committee. Since 1910 he has been 
 serving as a Director and Chairman of the Law 
 Committee. He also represented the Chamber 
 on various committees appointed to welcome and 
 entertain Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and 
 Taft, Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury Shaw and others. 
 
 In 1911 Mr. Lee was chosen 
 Chairman of a Citizens' Com- 
 mittee of one hundred busi- 
 ness and professional men 
 who joined in a non-partisan 
 movement when the Social- 
 ists- threatened to gain con- 
 trol of the city government. 
 He was the campaign leader 
 and carried the allies to vic- 
 tory at the polls. In 1912-13 
 he served as head of a com- 
 mittee which mapped out a 
 policy for the advancement 
 of Los Angeles and So. Cal. 
 Mr. Lee owns the Wells 
 Law Library of 6000 volumes 
 (formerly owned by his un- 
 cle), the largest private one 
 in the Southwest. 
 
 He has never sought and 
 has consistently refused pub- 
 lic office, one notable occa- 
 sion being in 1895, when Gov. 
 Pardee of California offered 
 to appoint him to the Supe- 
 rior Bench of Los Angeles-. In 
 1896 he was elected Chairman 
 of the Republican County 
 Central Committee of Los 
 Angeles, serving until 1910. 
 From 1902 to 1904 he was a 
 member of the Executive 
 Committee and the Cam- 
 paign Committee of the Republican State Central 
 Committee. In 1906 he was Chairman of the Los 
 Angeles County Republican Convention. 
 
 Mr. Lee has served as a Trustee of the Cal. State 
 Library since 1897, his present term expiring in 
 1914, and in 1900 was a delegate to the Natl. For- 
 estry & Irrigation Convention at Chicago. 
 
 He is a Director of the Murphy Oil Company at 
 Whittier, Cal.; served as Director of City and 
 County Bank since its organization; Attorney for the 
 executor of the estate of the late Elias J. Baldwin, 
 and actively participated in all the litigation con- 
 nected with the administration of the estate. 
 
 He is a member of the Union League Club and 
 the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, having been a 
 charter member and Director of the latter for two 
 terms. He is a Mason, Knight Templar and 
 Shriner; charter member, Judge Advocate and Vice 
 Commander of the California Commandery of the 
 Military Order of Foreign Wars; Director, First 
 Historian and Chancellor of the California Society 
 of Colonial Wars; Director, Treasurer, Vice Presi- 
 dent and President of the California Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution; member, Judiciary Com- 
 mittee of Los Angeles Bar Association; member of 
 the California, and of the American Bar Assns., also 
 Southwest Society Archaeological Institute of 
 America, and N. Y. State Society of California. 
 
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 DR. C. E. STONER 
 
 TONER, DR. CLARENCE E., Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of Maryland, 
 born in Frederick County. He is 
 the son of Ephraim Stoner and 
 
 Margaret (Smith) Stoner. He 
 
 married Gertrude C. Mead in Los Angeles, March 
 26, 1896. 
 
 Dr. Stoner studied in the schools of his native 
 town and was graduated from the high school in 
 1887. Three years later he removed to Los An- 
 geles, California, and entered the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of California. He finished 
 the course in three years and was graduated with 
 the degree of M. D. in 1893. 
 
 Immediately upon leaving college, Dr. Stoner 
 began the practice of his profession in Los An- 
 geles, becoming associated with Dr. Henry Worth- 
 ington, a pioneer practitioner of Los Angeles City 
 and County. He remained with Dr. Worthington 
 for four or five years. At the end of that period 
 Dr. Worthington died. 
 
 Dr. Stoner has continued in the practice of 
 general medicine and surgery with especial at- 
 tention to sanitation and preventive medicine. 
 
 He expects within the near future to spend a 
 year abroad studying and visiting the clinics of 
 London, Paris and Berlin. 
 
 Dr. Stoner is interested in the Mt. Diablo Oil 
 Company of Los Angeles, and for more than ten 
 years has been a director of that company. An- 
 other organization in which he is a heavy stock- 
 holder is the California National Life Insurance 
 Company of San Diego, California. He is chief 
 medical examiner for the company and other in- 
 surance companies. 
 
 Dr. Stoner is a member of numerous medical 
 and scientific societies, and in addition belongs to 
 the Elks and Fraternal Order of Eagles, Sierra 
 Madre, and Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 THOMAS H. FRANKLIN 
 
 RAN KLIN, THOMAS HENRY, 
 Lawyer, San Antonio, Tex., was 
 born in Ascension Parish, La., 
 March 4, 1854, the son of George 
 Anson Franklin and Mary J. (Clif- 
 ton) Franklin. On his father's 
 side he is descended from an old Maryland family 
 and on his mother's comes from the Pickens family 
 of South Carolina. He married Marianna Jackson, 
 of Worcester County, Md., at Baltimore, Jan. 18, 
 1883, and they had two children, a son, J. Clifton, 
 now deceased, and a daughter Marianna Catherine 
 Franklin. 
 
 Mr. Franklin's education was confined to private 
 schools. He read law and in 1874 was admitted to 
 practice in Louisiana. Began practice in Donald- 
 sonville, La., partner of Felix Poche, subsequently 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. In Jan- 
 uary, 1876, he moved to Texas, becoming partner of 
 Major W. O. Hutchison, in San Marcos. During 
 years 1881 and 1882 was District Attorney for the 
 Judicial District composed of Blanco, Hays, Cald- 
 well, Bastrop, Fayette and Austin Counties. Moved 
 to San Antonio in 1885, going into partnership with 
 Fred Cocke and Leroy G. Denman. Mr. Cocke re- 
 tired, and Judge Denman became a Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Texas in 1894. He resigned five 
 years later and re-entered partnership with Mr. 
 Franklin. The firm is now Denman, Franklin & 
 McGown. 
 
 Mr. Franklin has served as President of the 
 State Bar Association and is a member of the 
 American Academy of Social and Political Science, 
 American Peace and Arbitration League, Texas 
 State Historical Society, Municipal League, Na- 
 tional Child Labor Commission, Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art and others. 
 
 Clubs : National Arts and Reform, of N. Y. ; San 
 Antonio, Travis, S. A. Country, International S. A. 
 Press, Casino, Turnverein and Beethoven. 
 
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 W. H. O'BRYAN 
 
 'BRYAN, WILLIAM H., Land In- 
 vestments, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Oakfield, Wis., April 25, 
 1868, the son of William O'Bryan 
 and Elizabeth (Putman) O'Bryan. 
 He married Lilore Keese at Santa 
 Rosa, Cal., in 1895. There are three children, Wil- 
 liam Cedric, Lyndal and Elise O'Bryan. 
 
 He was educated in the common schools of Min- 
 nesota up to the age of 17. Afterwards he became a 
 school teacher and taught intermittently in Minne- 
 sota and South Dakota until the age of 21. In 1890 
 he went to Lead, S. D., and was associated with the 
 Homestake Co., one of the most famous of the 
 world's mining companies. During the years 1892 
 and 1893 he was engaged in newspaper work in 
 Deadwood, S. D. After four years in the gold dis- 
 trict of the Black Hills he went to California, ar- 
 riving at Santa Rosa in 1894, where he was engaged 
 in severa industrial enterprises until the year 1900, 
 when he located in Los Angeles. Since arriving 
 there he has been chiefly interested in the develop- 
 ment of agricultural communities, having first 
 taken an active part in the colonization of the Im- 
 perial Valley in California, and later taking up the 
 development and colonization of large tracts of land 
 in the San Joaquin Valley, notably on the great 
 Kern River Delta, comprising something more than 
 100,000 acres, nearly every acre of which has passed 
 under nis hands, the two most noted colonies placed 
 thereon being the white colony at Alpaugh and the 
 exclusive colored colony at Allensworth. 
 
 He is now arranging to extend his operations to 
 Central and South American countries, which af- 
 ford much greater opportunities for successful de- 
 velopment and ultimate colonization. He is the 
 controlling factor in several development com- 
 panies. 
 
 He is a member of the Union League Club of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 DR. FRED C. SHURTLEFF 
 
 HURTLEFF, FRED C., Surgeon, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Somerset, Massachusetts, Octo- 
 ber 18, 1867, the son of Frank A. 
 Shurtleff, M. D., and Abbie 
 (Davis) Shurtleff. William A. 
 Shurtleff, the first ancestor of the name in Amer- 
 ica, came over with the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620, in 
 the Mayflower. He was the first practicing sur- 
 veyor on American soil. Dr. Shurtleff married 
 Wencesloa Flores, November 17, 1897, at Los An- 
 geles. They have one son, Frederico L. Shurtleff. 
 
 Dr. Shurtleff studied in the Fall River, Mass., 
 high school, and at the University of the City of 
 New York. He practiced at the Long Island Col- 
 lege Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, where he 
 received his M. D. in 1891, and then was profes- 
 sor of surgery at the Boston College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons. 
 
 After three years he removed to Indian Ter- 
 ritory and was railway surgeon for the Santa Fe 
 and the Rock Island and Choctaw railroads, and 
 deputy sheriff and emergency surgeon for the 
 man-hunting posses of the territory. He moved 
 to Los Angeles in 1896, and opened an office for 
 the practice of medicine. He also went into the 
 cattle business and was one of the partners of 
 the Rancho Casa Loma of San Jacinto and of the 
 S. & M. Cattle Ranch. He has a long lease of 19,000 
 acres of fine grazing land in Orange county, with 
 never less than a thousand fine cattle. 
 
 Dr. Shurtleff enlisted in the Spanish War and 
 was made major-surgeon of the Spanish-American 
 Cavalry; later major and chief of scouts of the 
 California rangers. He is a deputy sheriff of Los 
 Angeles County. 
 
 He is a former vice president of the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Assn. and a former president of the 
 Los Angeles Academy of Medicine. He is also the 
 organizer of the Vaquero Club and a Mason. 
 
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 CHUYLER, JAMES DIX, Consult- 
 ing Hydraulic Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Ithaca, N. 
 Y., May 11, 1848, the son of Philip 
 Church Schuyler and Lucy M. 
 (Dix) Schuyler. He married Mary 
 Ingalls Tuliper, July 25, 1889, at San Diego, Cal. 
 
 Mr. Schuyler began his engineering career in 
 1869, on locating the western end of the Kansas 
 Pacific Railway, in the days when it was necessary 
 to fight the Indians as well as 
 to combat the elements of 
 nature in a wild country. 
 Many thrilling adventures 
 and hair-breadth escapes re- 
 sulted, and in one battle he 
 was seriously wounded. 
 
 In 1882-83 he was appoint- 
 ed chief engineer and gen- 
 eral superintendent of the 
 Sinaloa & Durango Railway 
 in Mexico, returning to Cali- 
 fornia in 1883 to avoid yel- 
 low fever. During 1884-85 he 
 built a section of the San 
 Francisco sea-wall as one of 
 a firm of contractors and the 
 engineer in charge. In 1890- 
 91 he designed and super- 
 vised the building of the 
 Hemet dam in Riverside 
 County, California, the high- 
 est masonry structure in the 
 State. During subsequent 
 years Mr. Schuyler devoted 
 special attention to hy- 
 draulic engineering in gen- 
 eral, designing and building 
 water works in many cities 
 and towns, including Denver, 
 Colorado; Portland, Oregon, and numerous others. 
 In the years 1903-04-05 he was employed 
 as the consulting engineer for the build- 
 ing of the great dam on Snake River at the head of 
 the Twin Falls Canal, probably the largest irriga- 
 tion system in America, and held a similar relation 
 to the American Beet Sugar Co. in California and 
 Colorado during a period of nine years of irrigation 
 and water supply development. In the course of his 
 long practice he has been called upon to act in an 
 advisory capacity for a very large number of irri- 
 gation projects, power development projects and 
 domestic water-supply works throughout Western 
 America, and in the midst of his other activities he 
 made such a specialty of the constructing of dams 
 by the interesting and novel process of hydraulic 
 sluicing as to have become a recognized authority 
 among engineers the world over on that subject. 
 One of his first works of this type was the Lake 
 Francis Dam, built for the Bay Counties Power 
 Company in Yuba County, California. 
 
 As consulting engineer of the Great Western 
 Power Co. of California, he was foremost in point- 
 ing out the rare possibilities of a project which has 
 since become the largest power development in the 
 State. Much of his time has been engaged in plan- 
 ning and building extensive works for power and 
 irrigation in Mexico, Hawaii, Japan, Brazil and 
 
 JAMES D. SCHUYLER 
 
 throughout the Western States of America. In 1907 
 Mr. Schuyler was a member of a board of three 
 consulting engineers selected to report on the plans 
 for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, bringing water from 
 the Owens River, a distance of some 250 miles. 
 Changes in location of the aqueduct which were 
 suggested by him and subsequently adopted at the 
 recommendation of the board, resulted in a saving 
 of some twenty-five miles of heavy construction, 
 which would have cost several millions. This is 
 generally regarded as the 
 most distinguished service 
 he has accomplished for the 
 public, a service meeting 
 with fullest recognition by 
 those familiar with the facts. 
 He was consulting engi- 
 neer to Waialua Plantation, 
 Hawaii, on the construction 
 of the highest dam on the 
 islands, chiefly built by sluic- 
 ing; was also consulting en- 
 gineer for Territorial Gov- 
 ernment of Hawaii on Nuu- 
 anu dam, Honolulu, and for 
 U. S. Indian Bureau on build- 
 ing of Zuni dam, New Mex- 
 ico. He was consulting engi- 
 neer for the British Colum- 
 bia Electric Ry. Co. and Van- 
 couver Power Co. on dam 
 construction, the reclama- 
 tion of swamp lands, etc. 
 
 Mr. Schuyler was appoint- 
 ed in January, 1909, by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt to accom- 
 pany President-elect Taft to 
 Panama as one of seven en- 
 gineers to report on canal 
 plans, the Gatun dam, etc. 
 The unanimous report of this board of en- 
 gineers was in favor of carrying out the plan 
 adopted by Congress for a lock-canal, but recom- 
 mended a modification of the height and slopes of 
 the Gatun dam, lowering it by twenty feet. 
 
 Mr. Schuyler is past vice president, American 
 Society of Civil Engineers; member, Institution of 
 Civil Engineers of London, Eng.; Technical Society 
 of Pacific Coast, Engineers and Architects' Assn. of 
 So. Cal., Franklin Institute, American Geographical 
 Society. He is author of "Reservoirs for Irrigation, 
 Water Power and Domestic Water Supply," a work 
 on dams, of 600 quarto pages, published by John 
 Wiley & Sons, 1908 (Revised and Enlarged), a stan- 
 dard work on this subject, being the especial author- 
 ity on the use of sluicing in dam construction. Also 
 author of numerous contributions to engineering so- 
 cieties, two of which won the Thos. Fitch Rowland 
 prize in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He 
 has written various reports for the U. S. Geological 
 Survey, published at different times in public docu- 
 ments, 'as well as sundry reports on irrigation for 
 the State of California. He is a charter member of 
 the California Club of Los Angeles and a member of 
 the Union League Club of Los Angeles. He went to 
 California in 1873 from Colorado, and took perma- 
 nent residence in Los Angeles in 1893. He is count- 
 ed one of the foremost engineers in the world. 
 
 Ed. Note: Mr. Schuyler died Sept., 1912. 
 
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 RYOR, ISAAC THOMAS, Banking, 
 Lands and Live Stock, San An- 
 tonio, Texas, was born at Tampa, 
 Florida, June 22, 1852, the son of 
 David Christopher Pryor and 
 Emma Almira (McKissack) Pryor. 
 He has been twice married, his first wife, whom he 
 married October 1, 1878, in Austin, Texas, having 
 been Sallie Rapp. To them three children were 
 born, David M., Emma A., and Isaac T. Pryor, Jr. 
 Mr. Pryor was married a second time at Columbus, 
 Texas, to Mrs. Myra Stafford Early, June 7, 1893. 
 He is one of America's cattle kings, one of the 
 class who, with the passing of the pioneer West, 
 are now more often found in romance than reality. 
 He came to the great grass plains shortly after 
 the Civil War, and rode the range when it was 
 open from Texas to Montana. He was himself 
 one of the men who made the character of the 
 cowboy one of the loved American traditions be- 
 cause his own nature was a summary of all his 
 picturesque and sturdy virtues. Even before the 
 days when he had achieved wealth, the name of 
 Ike Pryor was known from the Canadian line to 
 the Gulf among the cow men, and it was generally 
 spoken with affection. He had the shrewdness, so 
 often lacking in the frontiersman, to grow with 
 the country. He was not one of those who mourned 
 when the fences of civilization cut down the free- 
 dom of the range. He bought his own land and 
 fenced his herds. He adapted himself intelligently 
 to the changing conditions, even welcomed them 
 because he knew they were for the best. From the 
 cattle man of the open range he changed to the 
 cattle grower of the cultivated farm, and when 
 the cities began to grow where his herds used to 
 roam he became a business man of the modern 
 type, a president of banks and insurance compa- 
 nies. He is today one of those Western business 
 men, not so numerous, who is an interesting com- 
 pound of pioneer simplicity and modern industrial 
 culture. 
 
 Both of Mr. Pryor's parents died before the boy 
 was six years old, and as a result his life has been 
 of his own moulding. 
 
 Mr. Pryor's education was confined to three 
 years attendance in the country schools of Tennes- 
 see and North Alabama, and at the age of ten years 
 he was earning a living, his first work being as 
 news vender during the Civil War. From 1862 to 
 1864 he followed the Union Army, selling news- 
 papers, and was at the battles of Murfreesboro, 
 Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Pryor moved to Texas from the 
 northern part of Alabama, whither he went at the 
 conclusion of the war, and located on a farm near 
 Austin, where he worked for fifteen dollars a 
 month. After a year of this he embarked in the 
 occupation of driving cattle from Texas to the 
 Northwestern States and Territories and thus en- 
 tered the business in which he was destined later 
 
 to stand out as one of the greatest leaders. From 
 cowboy he became a rancher and later, by pro- 
 pressive methods, acquired the ownership of thou- 
 sands of acres with herds of cattle numbering five 
 figures. 
 
 "Ike" Pryor, as he is affectionately called by his 
 friends and the name by which he is known in all 
 parts of the country, stands at the very top of the 
 cattle industry in the United States, and has been 
 a forceful factor in the organization, regulation and 
 improvement of the business. He served two years 
 as president of the Texas Live Stock Association, 
 three years as President of the Cattle Raisers' As- 
 sociation of Texas, one year as chairman of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of the Trans-Mississippi Com- 
 mercial Congress, one year as its president, one 
 year as chairman of its Congressional Committee, 
 and he was chairman of the Live Stock Transpor- 
 tation Association, which secured the amendment 
 twenty-eight-hour law to thirty-six hours in which 
 stock could remain aboard cars. During the 
 Roosevelt administration he was one of the men at 
 the head of the American Live Stock Association 
 when that body engaged in the notable struggle 
 with the railroad for efficient service and finally 
 compelled them to furnish cattle cars when wanted. 
 
 In these various offices he has been an untiring 
 worker for the good of the business, and it is due 
 largely to his experience and ability that the trade 
 has been put on its present high plane. 
 
 In addition t ohis cattle interests, Mr. Pryor Is 
 a heavy land owner and is actively engaged in that 
 business. He also has holdings in other concerns, 
 including banks, insurance and development proj- 
 ects. He is president of the Mascot Land and Cat- 
 tle Company; president of the Texas Surety and 
 Insurance Company of San Antonio; president of 
 the Zavala Lan dand Water Company, San Antonio; 
 vice president of the Evans-Snyder-Buel Company, 
 live stock commissioners, with offices in Kansas 
 City, St. Louis, San Antonio, Fort Worth and other 
 great cattle centers. He is vice president of R. E. 
 Stafford & Company, bankers, Columbus, Texas; is 
 ex-president of the Texas and Colorado Land and 
 Cattle Co.; ex-president of the Stafford Land and 
 Cattle Co.; ex-president of the City National Bank 
 of San Antonio. He was formerly manager of the 
 King County Land and Cattle Co. and of Pryor 
 Brothers & Co., but relinquished these on account 
 of his numerous other duties. 
 
 During his many years of active business life, 
 Mr. Pryor has been in a multitude of ventures, but 
 a large proportion of them he has been compelled 
 to give up because he could not find time to attend 
 to them all. Mr. Pryor is a millionaire several 
 times over and enjoys a remarkable popularity in 
 his home State and in business circles at large. 
 He has been urged time and again by the news- 
 papers and hordes of friends to run for Governor of 
 Texas, but he has steadfastly declined because he 
 does not care for politics. 
 
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 ANNER, WILSON GUSTIN, In- 
 vestments, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Preble County, 
 Ohio, April 7, 1857, the son of 
 Michael L. Tanner and Mary 
 (Banta) Tanner. He married 
 Emma Miller at Dayton, Ohio, April 20, 1882, and 
 to them there were born two children, Mary (de- 
 ceased) and Flora Tanner. The Tanner family was 
 prominent in Virginia for many generations and 
 Mr. Tanner's father, who represented a wholesale 
 grocery firm for many years, was among the lead- 
 ing members- of the Order of Odd Fellows, and a 
 supporter of the Republican party in Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Tanner, whose family moved to Dayton, 
 Ohio, when he was about eight years old, received 
 his education in the public schools of that city. He 
 gave up his studies when he was sixteen, but from 
 the time he was twelve years of age until he was 
 fourteen, had spent his vacation months working 
 as a clerk, and from fourteen to eighteen devoted 
 most of his time to farming. At the age of seven- 
 teen, however, Mr. Tanner was teaching in a win- 
 ter school, an occupation which he followed for 
 about three years. 
 
 When he was twenty years of age he became 
 bookkeeper for a firm in Dayton, and three years 
 later was superintendent of the book store depart- 
 ment of the United Brethren Publishing Company 
 in that city. He filled this position for eight years, 
 resigning at the end of that time to engage in the 
 banking business as- Cashier for the Mutual Home 
 & Savings Association. 
 
 In 1892, after four years as Cashier of the above 
 named concern, Mr. Tanner went into business for 
 himself, forming a partnership with August F. 
 Diers in the shoe business, under the firm name 
 of Diers & Tanner. Mr. Tanner was very success- 
 ful in this venture and attained a place among the 
 leading business men of Dayton, but at the end of 
 about five years was compelled to retire from busi- 
 ness on account of ill health, and so disposed of his 
 interest to his partner. 
 
 In 1897, shortly after retiring from the shoe 
 business, Mr. Tanner moved to California, where 
 he first located at San Diego. He only re- 
 mained there a short time, however, moving to 
 Los Angeles to take a position as assistant buyer 
 for the shoe department of a large department 
 store there. He retained this position about four 
 years, resigning to accept appointment as instruc- 
 tor in the Los Angeles Commercial High School. 
 He was placed at the head of the Bookkeeping 
 and Commercial Arithmetic Department and served 
 for about four years. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Tanner became Cashier of the Dol- 
 lar Savings Bank & Trust Company of Los An- 
 geles, and when that institution was merged in 
 1907 with the Park Bank he was retained in the 
 same capacity for some time, later being appointed 
 Vice President. He retained this office until Oc- 
 
 tober, 1912, when he resigned to devote his atten- 
 tion to other affairs. 
 
 Mr. Tanner's chief interest, since severing his 
 connection with the bank, has been in the Pyra- 
 mid Investment Company, of which he is Secretary 
 a,nd Manager. He was one of the organizers of this 
 company, which was incorporated in September, 
 1911, and has been a potential factor in its success. 
 The company, which includes among its officers 
 and directors men prominent in business and pro- 
 fessional circles of Los Angeles-, was formed for 
 the purpose of engaging in a general real estate 
 business, but more especially in what is known in 
 Los Angeles as "home building business." 
 
 In this latter field it has become part of the 
 unique system of development which is adding 
 largely to the population of Los Angeles and giving 
 it place among the leading home cities of the 
 United States. Within recent years thousands 
 of homes have been built by these companies and 
 sold to the public on easy terms, with the result 
 that many persons of small means have been en- 
 abled to have their own homes, a fact which has 
 given the population of the city more permanency 
 than any other single influence. Mr. Tanner en- 
 tered into the work of his company with enthu- 
 siasm, having in charge the subdivision of various 
 tracts of land into residence sites and the building 
 thereon of attractive bungalow homes. 
 
 Mr. Tanner has never been active in politics, 
 but has taken a keen interest in religious and 
 uplift work during the greater part of his life. 
 While a resident of Dayton, Ohio, he was a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trade, served as Chairman of 
 the Board of Trustees and class leader of the High 
 Street United Brethren Church. For fifteen years 
 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of that city. 
 Upon transferring his residence to Southern Cali- 
 fornia he continued his interest in these matters 
 and has been one of the prominent workers in 
 church circles. For twelve years he has been Su- 
 perintendent of the First United Brethren Sunday 
 School, is First Vice Chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of the Los Angeles Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association, and a member of the Central Com- 
 mittee of the Sunday School Association of South- 
 ern California. He also is Treasurer of the Los 
 Angeles County Sunday School Association. 
 
 Mr. Tanner, whose work has always been char- 
 acterized by a spirit of absolute fairness, is highly 
 regarded in business circles as a man of honesty 
 and integrity, and in addition to his labors for the 
 church, takes great interest in fraternal affairs. 
 
 He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, 
 a Knight Templar, Odd Fellow, and member of the 
 Independent Order of Foresters. He also belongs 
 to the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. 
 His clubs are the Union League and Federation, of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 HEELER, ROY BRADLEY, Bond&, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Appleton, Wisconsin, Septem- 
 ber 27, 1882, the son of Nathaniel 
 Milliman Wheeler and Clara 
 (Bradley) Wheeler. He married 
 Helen Angeline Stoughton at Pasadena, Cali- 
 fornia, November 1, 1911. He is of New England 
 ancestry, the early members of his family hav- 
 ing settled in Connecticut in 1646. They were 
 farmers and later, when the 
 family scattered to New York, 
 this still formed the chief 
 pur&uit of the men. Various 
 members of the Wheeler fam- 
 ily served in the Revolution- 
 ary War in Connecticut and 
 New York companies. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was taken to 
 Los Angeles by his parents 
 when he was a child three 
 years of age and the greater 
 part of his life has been spent 
 in that city. He attended 
 the public schools of Los An- 
 geles and Pa&adena until his 
 twelfth year, then became a 
 student in Belmont School at 
 Belmont, California, graduat- 
 ing in the class of 1900. For 
 a year following he traveled 
 in Europe, but returning to 
 the United States in 1901 he 
 entered Harvard University 
 and was graduated in 1905 
 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. 
 
 At the conclusion of his 
 college career, Mr. Wheeler 
 
 made a second trip to Europe and spent the Sum- 
 mer of 1905 in travel. Returning to Los Angeles, 
 he entered the newspaper business as a reporter 
 on the Los Angeles Times. With his splendid 
 education and experience gained by travel added 
 to a natural talent for the work he became a pro- 
 ficient newspaper man and was promoted to va- 
 rious editorships within a comparatively brief 
 period. At one time he held the desk of Automo- 
 bile Editor and later was Literary Editor of the 
 Times. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was in the employ of the Times 
 for about three years, but he found editorial work 
 too confining, and took a trip to the Hawaiian 
 I&lands for a stay of several months in Honolulu 
 and other parts of the Islands. 
 
 Instead of returning to the newspaper business, 
 however, he decided to go into the financial field 
 and his judgment has been more than verified by 
 the success he has attained within a few years in 
 that line of activity. He began on January 1, 1909, 
 by entering the firm of James H. Adams & Com- 
 
 ROY BRADLEY WHEELER 
 
 pany, one of the leading stock and bond banking 
 houses of the West, and fourteen months later be- 
 came a member of the company. Upon a change 
 in the organization of the company in December, 
 
 1911, he was made Assistant Secretary. In July, 
 
 1912, Mr. Adams retired from business and the old 
 firm was succeeded by the new house of Torrance, 
 Marshall & Company, of which Mr. Wheeler be- 
 came Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 In this company Mr. Wheeler is associated with 
 some of the most powerful 
 financiers of the West and 
 with them is engaged in va- 
 rious development projects. 
 As large operators in bonds, 
 the company has financed a 
 vast number of corporations 
 and Mr. Wheeler is either a 
 Director or Secretary in a 
 great many of them. He is 
 Secretary of the Dominguez 
 Land Company, Southern Ex- 
 tension Company, Western 
 Fireproof Building Company, 
 Merchants' Fireproof Build- 
 ing Company, South Park 
 Land Company, Ventura 
 County Power Company, S'an 
 Miguel Company, Whittier 
 Extension Company, Fontana 
 Water Company, Fontana 
 Land & Water Company, 
 Grand Canyon Cattle Com- 
 pany and the Nadeau Exten- 
 sion Company. 
 
 Besides holding these of- 
 fices, he is a Director of 
 the following: Mercantile 
 Fireproof Building Company, 
 
 Western Extension Company, Standard Fireproof 
 Building Company, Traders' Fireproof Building Com- 
 pany, Fontana Company, Interurban Land Company, 
 Fontana Development Company, Southern Counties 
 Gas Company of California and the Fontana Union 
 Water Company. He is also President of the Rialto 
 Domestic Water Company and Tract 349 Mutual 
 Water Company. 
 
 Practically all of the business enterprises with 
 which Mr. Wheeler is identified are ones that have 
 a substantial bearing upon the development of the 
 Southwest. The land and water companies are in 
 reality, the backbone of progress in Southern Cali- 
 fornia and wonderful strides are being made 
 through the agency of such companies as those 
 with which Mr. Wheeler is identified. The great 
 majority of these companies are in active operation. 
 Mr. Wheeler finds time to take an interest in 
 other works, being a member of the American Eco- 
 nomic Assn. and the National Geographic Society. 
 He is a member of the University Club, Annan- 
 dale Country Club and Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 UCE, EDGAR AUGUSTINE, Attor- 
 ney at Law, San Diego, California, 
 was born in that city May 20, 
 1881, the son of Moses Augustine 
 Luce and Adelaide (Montania) 
 Luce. 
 
 Mr. Luce attended the public schools of his na- 
 tive city and was graduated from the High School 
 in the class of 1899. The following year he en- 
 tered Leland Stanford, Jr. University, at Palo Alto, 
 California, and was gradu- 
 ated from the Law Depart- 
 ment in 1905 with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 Immediately after gradu- 
 ating, Mr. Luce was admitted 
 to the practice of law and 
 began in September, 1905, as 
 a member of the firm of 
 Luce, Sloane & Luce, of 
 which his father, a leading 
 member of the San Diego 
 Bar, was the senior member. 
 He was quickly recognized as 
 an unusually capable attor- 
 ney, and after four years of 
 practice, was appointed Dep- 
 uty City Attorney and City 
 Prosecutor of San Diego. 
 
 Mr. Luce was born with 
 the instinct of political re- 
 form and even before he left 
 college had taken an active 
 interest in political affairs. 
 When he began his profes- 
 sional life in San Diego he 
 immediately entered into po- 
 litical activity, espousing the 
 cause of the Progressive Re- 
 publicans. He was an active factor in the work of 
 the party and one of the most ardent agents for 
 reform in the city. 
 
 It was Mr. Luce's sincere efforts in this direc- 
 tion which caused his appointment to the office of 
 City Prosecutor of San Diego and during the period 
 he held this post, was instrumental, with the city's 
 efficient Police Department, in making the city one 
 of the cleanest, from a moral standpoint, in the 
 United States. He took up the prosecution of 
 illicit liquor traffic and other social evils, and the 
 result of his work was a permanent civic reforma- 
 tion, making the city one of the most attractive 
 municipalities in the country. 
 
 Among his other political activities, Mr. Luce 
 was one of the active leaders in the movement and 
 successful campaign for a charter amendment that 
 gave to San Diego the Commission form of govern- 
 ment. This was the first city in California to adopt 
 that form of municipal administration. 
 
 Mr. Luce was also one of the organizers, in 
 1906, of the Roosevelt Republican League of San 
 
 EDGAR A. LUCE 
 
 Diego, which has for its purpose the overthrow of 
 the local political machine of the city. In 1907 the 
 members of this club formed themselves into the 
 Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League of San Diego 
 and became a part of the State-wide movement 
 bearing that name. Mr. Luce was elected Secre- 
 tary of the League, which position he has occupied 
 ever since. He was a tireless worker in behalf of 
 Hiram Johnson, who was elected Governor of Cali- 
 fornia in 1910, and who two years later was nomi- 
 nated for Vice President of 
 the United States on the Pro- 
 gressive Republican, or 
 "Bull Moose" ticket with 
 Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. 
 Luce took the stump and 
 made numerous addresses in 
 behalf of his candidate. Pos- 
 sessed of unusual resource- 
 fulness as a speaker, he was 
 one of the strong men in the 
 Johnson ranks. 
 
 While Mr. Luce has de- 
 voted a large part of his 
 time to political affairs, he 
 has not neglected his pro- 
 fessional work and ranks to- 
 day among the successful 
 pleaders at the San Diego 
 Bar. He was a candidate for 
 the nomination for District 
 Attorney at the Republican 
 primaries in 1910, following 
 his resignation as Deputy 
 City Attorney, but was un- 
 successful. 
 
 The firm of Luce, Sloane 
 & Luce was changed in May, 
 1911, to Luce & Luce, with 
 
 Mr. Luce and his father sharing the duties of the 
 office. In addition to his legal work, Mr. Luce 
 has become actively interested in various business 
 concerns in San Diego, as stockholder, officer or 
 attorney. 
 
 He is Secretary and Director of the Progressive 
 Building Company, Director of the Golden Hill 
 Land and Building Company, Director of the Land 
 and Investment Company, and a Director of the 
 Frank Turnbull Company. He also acts as asso- 
 ciate legal adviser to several others. 
 
 Mr. Luce takes a prominent part in all move- 
 ments having for their object the improvement of 
 San Diego and is one of active workers in the San 
 Diego Civic Association, leading or supporting vari- 
 ous progressive campaigns of a social or economic 
 charater. 
 
 Mr. Luce also belongs to a number cf fraternal 
 and social organizations, including the San Diego 
 Country Club, University Club, San Diego Rowing 
 Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 
 and the Native Sons of the Golden West, San Diego 
 Parlor. 
 
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 OW, WILBER OLIN, Real Estate 
 and Investments, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Minneap- 
 olis, Minnesota, September 21, 
 1860, the son of Justin Sylvanius 
 Dow and Naomi (Moore) Dow. 
 His grandfather was John Wesley Dow, a noted 
 Methodist clergyman descended of Lorenzo Dow, 
 the noted ecclesiast, who served the Methodist 
 Church for many years in the early part of the 
 Eighteenth century and later became an interna- 
 tional figure through his joining the Catholic 
 Church and because of his eccentricities and zeal. 
 Mr. Dow married Irene Eladsit Bowen at Santa 
 Cruz, California, December 26, 1886, and to them 
 there have been born five children, Tisdale, Justin, 
 Wilber O., Jr., Naomi A. (deceased), lone E. and 
 Adelaide D. Dow. 
 
 Mr. Dow received the first part of his education 
 in the public schools of Minneapolis and continued 
 his studies at intervals on the Pacific Coast, attend- 
 ing school in San Mateo, California, Pescadero and 
 Los Angeles. He was graduated from the Los An- 
 geles Business College in 1878, when he was less 
 than eighteen years of age- 
 Mr. Dow, whose life has been a progression 
 of successes won by hard work, has risen from 
 chore boy on a farm to the direction of a corpo- 
 ration with a million dollars of capital and is today 
 engaged in one of the most gigantic home-building 
 enterprises in the Southwest, where all records in 
 this respect have been shattered within recent 
 years. He spent his early days upon the farm of 
 his father and moved with his parents, in 1875, 
 to California. At that time the Southern Pacific 
 was the only main line railroad in the State, al- 
 though he traveled on the Central Pacific to Sac- 
 ramento. From there the family went to San Fran- 
 cisco by boat and in 1876 Mr. Dow located in Los 
 Angeles, then a city of about five thousand inhab- 
 itants. 
 
 During all the time he was attending school 
 Mr. Dow was engaged in work of one sort or an- 
 other, including farming and contracting, but when 
 he finished his business course in 1878 he went into 
 the railroad business in the service of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Company. His first work was in 
 the surveying department, which he followed for 
 several years, then he became a civil engineer and 
 from this went to firing a locomotive. He "fired" 
 for about seventeen months between Los Angeles 
 and Tucson, Arizona, at a time when travel over 
 the desert in this section was a matter of hard- 
 ship, but he stuck to his post and was rewarded 
 in the early part of 1882 with appointment as lo- 
 comotive engineer. He served in this capacity 
 until the fall of 1887, the last two years of this 
 time as engineer of the "Overland Limited." Even 
 in those early days Mr. Dow was noted as one of 
 the most capable men who sat at a throttle, he 
 having developed as high as .seventy-three miles 
 an hour with his train at one time. Devotion to 
 duty has been one of the man's strongest character- 
 istics and in his engineering days has been known 
 to remain at his post for sixty-three hours on a 
 stretch, without sleep or rest. 
 
 While serving as an engineer, Mr. Dow was also 
 interested in a variety of small commercial enter- 
 prises and when he gave up railroading on ac- 
 count of ill health, he decided to devote himself 
 to his private business. Within a short time after 
 he quit the road he went into partnership with 
 Walter Mallard, later Assessor of the city of Los 
 Angeles, in the wholesale coal business, they pur- 
 
 chasing the holdings of Mellus & Dickerson. Their 
 yards were located at that time on Fourth and 
 Broadway, the principal retail thoroughfares of Los 
 Angeles. On the site there now stands a large 
 modern department store. 
 
 Mr. Dow disposed of his interest in the property 
 later and purchased the coal business of Walter 
 Maxwell & Company, another large wholesale con- 
 cern, and this he conducted until 1890, when he sold 
 out and engaged in the real estate, mining and in- 
 vestment business. He had for a partner in his realty 
 operations L. M. Grider, and continued in associa- 
 tion with him for about seven years. At that time 
 the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Dow organ- 
 ized the Dow Real Estate Company, a corporation 
 of which he was president. About the same time 
 he organized the Home Real Estate Company, sub- 
 dividing large tracts of land and building homes. 
 Both of these ventures proved successful, but Mr. 
 Dow, in time, closed out his interests and became 
 identified with the Pasadena Park & Improvement 
 Company as General Manager, in which capacity 
 he had charge of the subdivision of Pasadena 
 Heights, containing 320 acres. 
 
 Upon the completion of this work Mr. Dow sold 
 out his interest and after four years, in which he 
 looked after his other investments, organized the 
 Sunset Park Land Company and the Dow, Smith 
 Company, in both of which he was President and 
 General Manager. 
 
 Mr. Dow still is interested in these companies, 
 in addition to the Central California Farms Com- 
 pany, of which he is Vice President and General 
 Manager, but the greatest work of his life and the 
 one to which he devotes the greater part of his 
 time at present is the Railway Realty and Invest- 
 ment Company. This corporation, which was or- 
 ganized by Mr. Dow and his associates in June, 
 1911, is unique in that it is owned by railroad 
 men, operated by railroad men and devoted to the 
 interests of railroad men. It is one of the most 
 substantial and active development corporations 
 in the United States, serving the two-fold purpose 
 of building homes and cultivating the agricultural 
 resources of Southern California and of providing 
 safe investment for the railroad man that he may 
 have something tangible to rely upon when "the 
 age limit" shall have put him out of active service. 
 
 Within the first nine months of its operation 
 the company had $300,000 of paid-in capital and had 
 declared four dividends on a basis of twelve per 
 cent per annum and is today engaged in the build- 
 ing of homes and the handling of more than 46,000 
 acres of fertile orange land in the famous Delano- 
 Porterville orange district of California, which is 
 being held for the men of the railway service. 
 
 Mr. Dow, having spent so many years in the 
 real estate business in Los Angeles, has had an 
 active part in the upbuilding of the city and sur- 
 rounding territory and is firmly of the opinion that 
 it will rank with the great centers of the world. 
 
 He has devoted a large part of his time to the 
 education of his children and one of his sons is 
 today a celebrated artist and caricaturist. He is 
 a home lover, but at the same time a man of 
 affairs. Always a staunch supporter of the Repub- 
 lican party, he has supported its candidates and 
 many years ago was one of the active campaigners 
 in behalf of Milton Lindley, candidate for County 
 Treasurer of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Dow was a member of the National Guard 
 of California for many years, in Company A of the 
 First Regiment. He was a charter member of the 
 Union League of Los Angeles. 
 
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 *! IGHIERA, LEON FOR- 
 TUNE, Sculptor, Los An- 
 geles, California, is a native 
 of France, born at Nice, April 
 1, 1872. He is the son of 
 Louis Fighiera and Rachel (De Berio) 
 Fighiera, both members of illustrious families 
 of France. He married Miss Louise Nicolas, 
 daughter of Pierre Nicolas, one of Califor- 
 nia's pioneer citizens, at 
 Fullerton, California, Jan- 
 uary 25, 1909. 
 
 Monsieur Fighiera was 
 born in an atmosphere of 
 artistic refinement. He be- 
 gan the study of his art 
 in early childhood and has 
 devoted his life to it. His 
 elementary education he 
 obtained in the schools of 
 Nice, then attended a pre- 
 paratory school at Lyons, 
 France, and from there 
 went direct to the Acad- 
 emic Nationale des Beaux 
 Arts in Paris. He was 
 graduated from there in 
 1899 and continued his 
 studies in the Royal 
 Academy at Rome, from 
 which he graduated in 
 1902. After completing 
 his studies in Rome he 
 went direct to Carrara, 
 Italy, there to perfect 
 himself in the sculpture 
 of marble. He was a pu- 
 pil at Carrara of the famous Nicoli and was 
 sent forth by the master a finished sculptor. 
 Nicoli was not the only great teacher under 
 whom M. Fighiera studied, for at Rome his 
 instructors were Signer Fontana and Gan- 
 gerie, while at Paris and Nice he was a pupil 
 of Falguiere and Borsani. These men, re- 
 garded as modern masters, form the elite of 
 the Italian and French sculptors. 
 
 In 1904, upon his return from Carrara, M. 
 Fighiera was nominated by the Government 
 to serve in the Fourteenth Corps d'Armes, 
 to fulfill the obligation devolving upon every 
 male citizen of France. His Government, 
 however, recognized him as an artist and in- 
 stead of exacting active military service un- 
 der arms, commanded him to give of his tal- 
 ent to the country. This he did in the shape 
 of a military monument, dedicated to the 
 Twenty-first, Ninety-ninth and One Hundred 
 and Fifty-ninth Regiments of Infantry. This 
 
 LEON FIGHIERA 
 
 magnificent piece of sculpture, carved out of 
 the beautiful rose marble of the Alps, was 
 placed in the Necropolis of Gap, France, and 
 there stands today an everlasting tribute to 
 the artist and his country. 
 
 M. Fighiera opened a studio in the year 
 1905 in his native city Nice and there cre- 
 ated numerous subjects which placed him 
 among the leaders in the world of art and as- 
 sured him of a brilliant 
 future. Among his prin- 
 cipal works at that time 
 were the Monument de la 
 Douleur for the Isperti 
 family, in the Cemetery 
 of Nice. 
 
 "Penelope," in marble, 
 for M. Rossi, of Nice. 
 
 "Spasme of Christ," for 
 the Fraternity of Peni- 
 tents at Nice. 
 
 "Sauveteur," in bronze, 
 for the Vicomtesse Vi- 
 gier d'Oria. 
 
 "Eroe and Leandre." 
 for M. Giroux, of Lyons, 
 France. 
 
 "Le Corsaire," for M. 
 Meyer, of Paris. 
 
 These represent only a 
 few of the more notable 
 pieces created by M. 
 Fighiera, but they were 
 characteristic of his art 
 and gave him a firm place 
 in the esteem of critics 
 and fellow-artists. 
 
 M. Fighiera would have continued his 
 career in his native France had not fate, in 
 the summer of 1905, decreed that he should 
 meet, while traveling through the country, 
 Miss Louise Nicolas, a beautiful American 
 girl, daughter of a noted California financier. 
 Despite the entreaties of his parents, M. 
 Fighiera came to America and located in Los 
 Angeles, December 14, 1908. Less than two 
 months later, having been welcomed by his 
 fiancee's family, they were married. 
 
 Soon after marriage M. Fighiera went to 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, to do some commercial 
 sculpture, but stayed there only about a year, 
 returning to Los Angeles. He opened the In- 
 ternational Statuary Company, which he has 
 since sold. He then opened a private studio 
 and as in the past will exhibit his works in the 
 International Salons and Academies of Art. 
 M. Fighiera is a member, L. A. Chamber 
 of Commerce and Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 531 
 
 ARBER, RAYMOND JEN- 
 NESS, Mining Engineer, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 in Epping, New Hampshire, 
 August 12, 1884, the son of 
 Albert Oilman Barber and Annie Estelle 
 (Skerrye) Barber. The family of Barber is 
 one of the oldest in the United States, the first 
 American ancestor having been Robert Bar- 
 ber, who emigrated from 
 Yorkshire, England, in 
 1690, and settled in Exe- 
 ter, New Hampshire. The 
 line of descent is traced 
 through his son Robert, 
 who married Sarah Bean ; 
 their son Daniel, who 
 married Sarah Parsons, 
 thence through their son 
 Daniel, who married Sa- 
 rah Coffin ; their son Dan- 
 iel, who married Hannah 
 Holt Oilman, and their 
 son James, who married 
 Lucinda Jenness and was 
 the grandfather of Ray- 
 mond Jenness Barber. 
 Daniel Barber, of the 
 third generation, became 
 a Lieutenant in the Con- 
 tinental Army and his son 
 Daniel also took part in 
 the Revolution, fighting 
 at the Battle of Bunker 
 Hill. 
 
 Ray J. Barber married 
 Mabel Leonard at Nor- 
 wood, New York, June 20, 1906, and to them 
 there have been born two sons, Raymond J., 
 Jr., and Cedric Leonard Barber. 
 
 Mr. Barber received his primary education 
 in the Bigelow Grammar School, Newton, 
 Massachusetts, then prepared for college in 
 various institutions. Removing to Los An- 
 geles in 1899, he attended the High School 
 there for a few months, then went to Tilton 
 Seminary, at Tilton, New Hampshire, and 
 followed this with attendance at the Newton, 
 Massachusetts, High School, from which he 
 was graduated in 1902. He entered the Mass- 
 achusetts Institute of Technology the same 
 year and was graduated in 1906. 
 
 Following the completion of his studies, 
 Mr. Barber was sent West by the Boston 
 Consolidated Mining Company, his first posi- 
 tion being in the engineering department of 
 the comoany's property at Bingham Canyon, 
 Utah. He remained there only a few months 
 
 RAY J. BARBER 
 
 and upon finishing his task did work in other 
 mining camps in western United States and 
 Mexico. For the next two years he was not 
 permanently located at any point, but moved 
 from one camp to another, holding various 
 positions and familiarizing himself with the 
 practical operation of mines and mills. After 
 about two years of this experience he re- 
 turned to Boston and there engaged in busi- 
 ness for the purpose of ac- 
 quiring an insight into ad- 
 ministrative and financial 
 methods. 
 
 In the summer of 1910, 
 Mr. Barber went direct to 
 Los Angeles, now the 
 metallurgical and mining 
 capitol of the United 
 States, and there opened 
 offices for the practice of 
 his profession. Entering 
 upon his work at the be- 
 ginning of one of the most 
 remarkable periods of de- 
 velopment in metal min- 
 ing that the industry has 
 ever known, Mr. Barber 
 met with success from the 
 outset of his career and 
 has been one of the 
 active men of his profes- 
 sion in the Southwest. He 
 has a splendid profes- 
 sional standing and an ex- 
 tensive clientele. 
 
 For nearly three years 
 Mr. Barber has been en- 
 gaged almost exclusively in the examination 
 of gold, silver and copper properties in vari- 
 ous parts of the United States and Old Mex- 
 ico, especially in Oregon, California, Nevada, 
 Utah and Arizona. The copper industry in 
 the latter State has assumed such immense 
 proportions within the last few years that it 
 now ranks as the leading copper producing 
 section of the Union. He is (1912-13) .en- 
 gaged in special investigations of properties 
 in the copper belt of Arizona, which have 
 attracted the attention of Eastern capitalists. 
 Mr. Barber is fortified with splendid tech- 
 nical training and practical experience in the 
 active operation of mines. He is a member 
 of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
 neers and the Los Angeles Chamber of Mines 
 and Oil. He also belongs to the Delta Tau 
 Delta Fraternity, Technology Club of South- 
 ern California, New England College Club, 
 and the Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 UNTINGTON, RICHARD JOSEPH, 
 Pacific Coast Manager Otis Ele- 
 vator Company, San Francisco, 
 was bom at Springfield, Mass., 
 March 15, 1870, the son of Loring 
 and Lucy Hannah (Dransfield) 
 Huntington. He married Abbie Jane Wallace at 
 Springfield, Mass., and there is one child, Virginia 
 Huntington. 
 
 Mr. Huntington was educated in the Springfield 
 public schools until 1888, when he went into the 
 employ of the Smith & Wesson Manufacturing 
 Company. 
 
 He worked five years for this concern becoming 
 an expert in sighting target rifles and revolvers. 
 In 1893 he entered the employ of the Elektron 
 Manufacturing Company, builders of electric ele- 
 vators and other electric machinery. He was pro- 
 moted rapidly while in their employ, until, in 1902, 
 he was appointed New York manager for the con- 
 cern. After four years in this responsible office he 
 caught the eye of the Otis Elevator Company, and, 
 in 1906, became associated with them. 
 
 In 1907 he was sent to Los Angeles, in charge 
 of the Southern California department. He took 
 care of the immense business incident to the 
 growth of that section in a manner so satisfactory 
 to the home company that he was advanced to the 
 post of Pacific Coast Manager, in charge of all 
 sales and installation in Washington, Oregon, Cali- 
 fornia, adjacent states and Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 He is a man of affairs aside from his Otis con- 
 nections. He is a director of the Prudential Finan- 
 cing Company of Los Angeles, and vice president of 
 the Prudential Improvement Company. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan and the Rotary 
 clubs, the Chamber of Commerce, the San Fran- 
 cisco Commercial Club, the Humane Society, the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Y. 
 M. C. A., and the National Geographic Society. 
 
 O. E. FARISH 
 
 ARISH, OSCAR EUGENE, Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Chatham County, 
 North Carolina, July 20, 1868. His 
 father was John W. Farish and 
 his mother Mary Ann Harris. He 
 went to ix>8 Angeles in June, 1895, and was mar- 
 ried to Alice Aspinall Grindrod at Pasadena, De- 
 cember 4, 1895. To them were born Muriel Es- 
 teiie ana Gwendolen. He received his education 
 in the public schools of Arkansas. 
 
 Mr. Farish first entered the service of the 
 Southern Express Company, holding positions of 
 responsibility at Little Rock, Arkansas; at Mem- 
 phis, Knoxville and Bristol, Tennessee; at Lynch- 
 burg, Roanoke and Norfolk, Virginia, and at Ocala, 
 Florida. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, he 
 entered the employ of the Los Angeles Elec- 
 tric Company, resigning after two years to engage 
 in business for himself as real estate and oil op- 
 erator. In 1902 Mr. Farish formed a partnership 
 with William W. Mines, under the firm name of 
 Mines and Farish, for the purpose of conducting 
 a general real estate and rental business, the 
 firm today being recognized as one of the lead- 
 ers in the local field. 
 
 He was a member of the City Council in 1903-04. 
 President of the Los Angeles Realty Board, and was 
 a member of the consolidation committee of fifteen 
 under whose guidance Los Angeles, Wilmington 
 and San Pedro became the seaport city of Los 
 Angeles. He was vice president for one term of 
 the State Realty Federation. 
 
 Mr. Farish is a member of the California Club, 
 the Federation Club, the City Club, the Municipal 
 League, the Realty Board, the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, Chamber of Mines, Knights of Pythias, the 
 Independent Order of Foresters, Fraternal Broth- 
 erhood, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
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 EDWARD DAVIS 
 
 AVIS, EDWARD, Proprietor, Hotel 
 Lankershim, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Pittsburg, Pa., 
 Jan. 25, 1851. His father was U. 
 B. Davis and his mother Maria 
 (Graham) Davis. He married 
 Mary Smith on Dec. 25, 1877, at Wamego, Kansas. 
 
 Mr. Davis was educated in the common and 
 grammar schools of Pennsylvania, where he spent 
 the early part of his life. 
 
 As a young man he began his career as a rail- 
 road employe in his native State, which occupation 
 he followed for eleven years. He was thrifty and 
 accumulated a little capital. At the end of this 
 period he moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he owned 
 and operated a restaurant for over six years. 
 
 Denver then began its period of rapid growth. 
 Its great tourist business appeared to offer unusual 
 opportunities in the hotel and restaurant line. He 
 sold out his St. Paul establishment and moved to 
 the Colorado city. He bought and operated hotels, 
 and there, for fourteen years, he was the owner of 
 various hotels, ten years of which period he was 
 the proprietor of the noted Metropole Hotel. He 
 profited greatly by his stay in that city. 
 
 In 1904 he left Colorado and located in Los An- 
 geles. Early in 1905 he secured a half interest in 
 the lease of the Hotel Lankershim, which has since 
 become one of the most popular hostelries of the 
 city. 
 
 At the time of the opening of the Lankershim 
 Hotel it was far removed from the business center, 
 but that Mr. Davis was wise in his move is proved 
 by the fact that today the hotel is surrounded on 
 all sides by a number of the leading stores and busi- 
 ness houses of Los Angeles, with the trend of 
 growth pushing far beyond. 
 
 Mr. Davis is widely known in California as a 
 hotel man and has built up for himself an enviable 
 reputation as a host. 
 
 FRANKLIN P. BURCH 
 
 URCH, FRANKLIN PRESTON, 
 Retired Capitalist, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Blooming- 
 ton, Illinois, December 5, 1861, the 
 son of James Madison Burch and 
 Jennie L. (McClunn) Burch. He 
 married Mary Ella Gilkey, August 26, 1893, at 
 Pueblo, Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Burch received his education in the schools 
 of his native town, graduating from high school in 
 1878. He went to New Mexico when nineteen years 
 old, but remained there only a short time, when he 
 crossed into Texas and located at San Angelo. 
 
 In partnership with E. L. House he was one of 
 the first to introduce flocks into Western Texas. 
 He raised sheep successfully for three years and 
 then went to Arizona in search of gold. He pros- 
 pected in the Santa Rita Mountain region and then 
 took as a partner Joe Music. Together they did 
 placer mining with more or less success for about 
 four years. 
 
 A marvelous boom sprang up in Los Angeles, 
 and in 1884 Mr. Burch quit the pick and went to 
 that city. He first took up real estate speculation, 
 but gradually developed a real estate and invest- 
 ment brokerage business. In 1890 he gave that 
 up to go to the silver beds of Colorado. In part- 
 nership with Thomas Duncan he became a silver 
 miner at Leadville, working with gratifying suc- 
 cess until the price of silver dropped in 1894. 
 
 Mr. Burch returned to Los Angeles and entered 
 the U. S. Customs Office. He was stationed at 
 Santa Monica, Cal.. and remained in the Govern- 
 ment service until he resumed the brokerage busi- 
 ness in Los Angeles in 1897. He retired from busi- 
 ness, giving up his seat on the Los Angeles Stock 
 Exchange, in 1909. 
 
 He is a member of the Elks, Union League, 
 Sierra Madre and Automobile Clubs of Los An- 
 geles, and the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 535 
 
 HEARER, PRANK, Civil and Land- 
 scape Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born at Aberdeen, 
 Scotland, September 3, 1875, the 
 son of Frank and Margaret Shear- 
 er, of good old Scotch stock. 
 
 He attended the Cairnbanna Public School of 
 County Aberdeen, Scotland, between the years 1880 
 and 1888; then for two years he worked on a farm, 
 and for five years more was in the employ of the 
 Duke of Richmond & Gordon, indentured as an 
 apprentice for three years to study practical gar- 
 dening and was afterwards in charge of the con- 
 servatories. He resumed his student life in the 
 year 1896 at the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh 
 Scotland, and he attended its lectures and recita- 
 tions during that and the succeeding year. He also 
 entered the Whiteley Business College, Edinburgh, 
 in 1896, and secured a scholarship from the British 
 Government in the same year, which enabled him 
 to enter the College of Forestry and Engineering, 
 University of Edinburgh. He continued his courses 
 at the business college while studying at the Uni- 
 versity of Edinburgh during the years and in the 
 classes of 1896, 1897 and 1898. 
 
 The scholarship to the University of Edinburgh, 
 which was given him by the British Government, 
 entitled him to an exceptionally valuable educa- 
 tion. Part of his course was practical work, con- 
 nected with the reconstruction and remodeling of 
 the Royal Botanical Gardens, and the rearrange- 
 ment of the plants in its various departments. He 
 helped rearrange the Herbaceous Plant Depart- 
 ment, the Alpine Plant Department, the Arboretum, 
 and the Economic Plant Collection, under glass. 
 The Royal Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh are 
 among the most important in the United Kingdom 
 and contain innumerable valuable specimens. His 
 course familiarized him with the care of almost 
 every known variety of tree, shrub and plant, 
 whether decorative or useful. An important part of 
 his education was a complete preparation in civil 
 engineering, and he was given both technical and 
 practical work in the field. He graduated with a 
 Certificate of Distinction from the University of 
 Edinburgh in the year 1898. 
 
 His first actual work was before he attended 
 the University, when, as a boy of thirteen, he la- 
 bored on a farm. After two years of this manual 
 labor, he wa? indentured for three years as an ap- 
 prentice on the estate of the Duke of Richmond 
 & Gordon, at Gordon Castle, Morayshire, Scotland. 
 This was an exceptional privilege, for which a bond 
 had to be given and an annual payment. The 
 Duke's estate is one of the finest on the islands, 
 with formal gardens, orchards and farms conducted 
 in the most scientific manner and of large area. 
 The men in charge are expert gardeners, landscape 
 architects and scientific agriculturists. His work 
 as an apprentice was to learn the care of the plants, 
 outdoors and under glass, where all manner of 
 fruits, flowers and vegetables of the temperate 
 and tropic zones are raised with artificial heat, 
 protected from the severe northern climate of 
 Scotland. These gardens of the Duke of Richmond 
 are of many acres extent, sufficient to supply the 
 ducal family and guests with all the exotic fruits 
 and flowers. At the expiration of his apprentice- 
 ship Mr. Shearer, then only eighteen years old, was 
 appointed florist and decorator, in charge of the 
 conservatories of the estate for two years. 
 
 Then for one year he was on the Coltness es- 
 tate, Wishaw, Scotland, the property of James 
 
 Houldsworth, the English steel manufacturer. This 
 position he held until he was given his scholarship 
 to the University of Edinburgh, secured owing to 
 exceptional attainments in gardening sciences. 
 
 On the completion of his university course he 
 was appointed overseer in charge of all construc- 
 tion and outdoor work connected with the Royal 
 Botanical Garden and Arboretum at Edinburgh. 
 
 At the age of twenty-six he left the employ of 
 the British Government to come to the United 
 States, where he saw great opportunities for a 
 landscape architect skilled in botany as well. He 
 secured immediately the work of landscape con- 
 struction on the Tilden estate on the Hudson. 
 While there he accepted the offer of a position as 
 landscape engineer on the Castle Gould estate on 
 Long Island, the property of Howard Gould. A year 
 later he took a three years' contract to lay out and 
 construct the private estates belonging to members 
 of the Carnegie family on Cumberland Island, 
 Florida. This was a task of considerable magni- 
 tude, requiring the labor of several hundred men 
 continuously during the three years. The greater 
 portion of the island was transformed into a tropic 
 park, intersected by boulevards. 
 
 On completing this work he was made Chief 
 Engineer of the Shenandoah Land and Irrigation 
 Company of Southwestern Colorado, a concern with 
 ambitious plans. For that firm he made extensive 
 surveys, and then in 1906 he became associated 
 with the Denver Park Department as Construction 
 Engineer on park extensions and boulevards. He 
 built Denver's first boulevard. Later he was made 
 Superintendent of Parks in the Highland Division. 
 
 He went to Los Angeles in 1908 to engage in the 
 citrus business in the Cahuenga Valley and later 
 took up his work as Landscape Engineer, being em- 
 ployed on several of the estates at Hollywood. He 
 attracted the attention of the Los Angeles City 
 Park Department and they offered him the position 
 of Landscape Engineer in 1910. He was made Su- 
 perintendent of Parks for the city later in 1910. 
 
 He found in his last position his greatest op- 
 portunity. Los Angeles had hardly a nucleus of a 
 park system when he took hold, but since his in- 
 cumbency has begun a development which will give 
 it one of the greatest park systems in the United 
 States, with thousands of acres of land of the most 
 beautiful natural topography, and which it will be 
 the task of Mr. Shearer to improve with boulevards, 
 paths, lawns, gardens, trees and flowers. Under his 
 superintendency, the city is planning to spend many 
 millions of dollars. This work will give him an 
 opportunity to make use of all his varied knowl- 
 edge of plants, because in the climate of Los An- 
 geles will grow the tropical verdure of Mexico, as 
 well as the hardy flower and tree of Scotland. 
 And to this work he took an exceptionally wide 
 experience, one which ranges from the near Arctic 
 to the Tropic, from the precise and minute knowl- 
 edge of each plant, to the comprehensive scope of 
 the landscape architect and engineer who is able 
 to devise a whole city system. 
 
 One of the important developments by Mr. Shear- 
 er in the maintenance of parks has been the auto- 
 matic system' of lawn irrigation, by which the cost of 
 maintenance has been reduced fully 80 per cent, the 
 reduction paying for installation within three years. 
 
 While in Scotland he served three years as a 
 volunteer in the British army and in addition to hia 
 office of Overseer in the Royal Botanical Gardens 
 of Edinburgh was custodian of the Government 
 Meteorological Station. 
 
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 ILLIGAN, JOHN JOSEPH, 
 Surety Bonds and Casualty 
 and Liability Insurance, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 in Brooklyn, New York, Jan- 
 uary 23, 1880, the son of Daniel Gilligan and 
 Catherine (Cooney) Gilligan. He married 
 Margaret A. Goodwin at Denver, Colorado, 
 June 15, 1909, and to them there have been 
 born two children, Joseph 
 and Francis Gerald Gilli- 
 gan. 
 
 Mr. Gilligan received 
 his education in the 
 schools of Irvington-on- 
 Hudson, N. Y., being 
 graduated from the high 
 school there in the class 
 of 1898. Upon leaving 
 school he went to New 
 York City and obtained 
 eVnployment in the office 
 of a Wall Street broker. 
 He remained in that po- 
 sition about a year and 
 then entered the First 
 National Bank of New 
 York as a clerk. He 
 served in that capacity 
 for about a year and re- 
 signed to go into busi- 
 ness with his father, a 
 contractor i n interior 
 decorations, with offices 
 in Irvington, N. Y. 
 
 He remained with his 
 father about three years 
 
 and in that time aided him in the designing 
 and execution of numerous artistic decora- 
 tions. In 1903, Mr. Gilligan parted company 
 with his father and decided to move West. 
 He first went to Kansas and there led a life 
 in the open, working as a ranchman and cow- 
 boy for the better part of a year. Fascinated 
 by the free life he had been leading, Mr. Gil- 
 ligan made up his mind to settle in the coun- 
 try and accordingly took up a homestead of 
 160 acres. At the end of a few months, how- 
 ever, the longing for the city came upon him 
 and he returned to New York. 
 
 For a year after his return Mr. Gilligan 
 was in the employ of F. A. Foster & Co., one 
 of the largest cotton goods and art drapery 
 houses in the world. He worked as city 
 salesman for the company for a year and 
 then turned to the West again. He first went 
 to Denver, Colorado, but remained there 
 only a short time, joining the 1905 rush to 
 
 JOHN J. GILLIGAN 
 
 Goldfield, Nevada. For another year he was 
 engaged in mining and prospecting, but the 
 yield was unsatisfactory and he gave it up. 
 Returning to Denver he became connected 
 with the American Surety Company of New 
 York and was appointed Assistant Manager 
 for four States Colorado, Wyoming, Ari- 
 zona and New Mexico. He soon found that 
 this was his proper field and determined to 
 remain permanently in 
 the surety business. 
 
 He managed the busi- 
 ness of his company with 
 great success for several 
 years and in 1909, having 
 been attracted by Los 
 Angeles, resigned his po- 
 sition in order that he 
 might make Southern 
 California his home. He 
 was appointed special 
 agent there for the Fi- 
 delity and Casualty Com- 
 pany of New York. His 
 work in the southern 
 part of California so im- 
 pressed his company that 
 he was transferred to the 
 larger field of which San 
 Francisco was the center. 
 He remained there only a 
 short time, resigning his 
 position in December, 
 1910, to accept appoint- 
 ment as Casualty Man- 
 ager, covering the State 
 of California for the Fi- 
 delity and Deposit Company of Maryland. 
 
 This company, of which former Governor 
 Warfield of Maryland is President, is one of 
 the strongest of its kind in the world, and 
 Mr. Gilligan's work with them was rewarded 
 in the early part of 1912 with his appoint- 
 ment as Southwestern Manager of the com- 
 pany's interests. His territory includes all 
 of Southern California, Arizona and New 
 Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Gilligan has established himself as an 
 expert in liability insurance and its allied 
 branches and today occupies a responsible 
 position in his line of activity. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California he 
 has taken an active part in the life of the city 
 and is also a participant in the affairs of the 
 Knights of Columbus. He is a member of 
 the American Institute of Banking, the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club, and the Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
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 OODRICH, EDWIN GIL- 
 MORE, Physician and Sur- 
 geon, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Fulton, Wis- 
 consin, October 19, 1867, the 
 son of George Washington Goodrich and 
 Mary Asenith (Cutlin) Goodrich. He mar- 
 ried Ruth Anna Prosser at Kearney, Nebras- 
 ka, December 19, 1890, and to them there 
 have been born two chil- 
 dren, Ayleen Ellen and 
 Edwin Glenn Goodrich. 
 Dr. Goodrich began his 
 education in the public 
 schools of Janesville, 
 Wisconsin, but quit his 
 studies when he was fif- 
 teen years of age when 
 his family moved to Ne- 
 braska and for the next 
 two years worked on the 
 farm of his father, which 
 was located near North- 
 west Minden, Nebraska. 
 When he was less than 
 seventeen years of age 
 the Doctor left his father's 
 farm and started out to 
 make his own way in the 
 world. He first went to 
 Axtell, Nebraska, where 
 he became a clerk in a 
 hotel and remained there 
 for about a year. He was 
 of a self-reliant nature, 
 with higher ambitions in 
 life, and for several years 
 after leaving the hotel 
 business, traveled to va- 
 rious parts of Nebraska in different capaci- 
 ties. He worked in different lines for the 
 next few years and mastered several crafts, 
 including the manufacture of harvester ma- 
 chinery. In association with C. D. Ayres, at 
 Kearney, Nebraska, he came to be regarded 
 as an expert in harvester machine construc- 
 tion and remained there until he moved to 
 Cozad, Nebraska, in 1890, a period of about 
 two and a half years. 
 
 At Cozad Dr. Goodrich went into business 
 for himself and conducted a store for about 
 two years, but at the end of that time sold 
 out and moved further west. Locating in 
 Los Angeles in 1892, he worked for several 
 years in commercial lines, and while so en- 
 gaged became interested in the study of med- 
 icine, a profession which he fully determined 
 to follow as soon as practical. He devoted 
 his leisure time to reading medical works 
 and in 1899 he entered the Medical College of 
 
 DR. E. G. GOODRICH 
 
 the University of Southern California. After 
 four years of study he was graduated with 
 the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation, Dr. 
 Goodrich passed the examinations for a post 
 as interne in the County Hospital of Los 
 Angeles and he served there for several 
 years. In addition to his duties at the hos- 
 pital, he was assigned to other public work, 
 this including the care 
 of all surgical cases at 
 the public institutions, 
 such as the County Jail 
 and the Detention Home. 
 When this latter depart- 
 ment was established, 
 Dr. Goodrich was chosen 
 as chief physician and 
 surgeon and he handled 
 the first cases brought to 
 the attention of the med- 
 ical authorities of that 
 institution. He also had 
 charge of the medical 
 work for the Associated 
 Charities of Los Angeles 
 and in this capacity was 
 called upon to minister to 
 thousands of the city's 
 needy. Dr. Goodrich was 
 engaged in this public 
 work for about a year 
 and during that time 
 came to be known as one 
 of the most competent 
 physicians and surgeons 
 who had served the coun- 
 ty in many years. 
 
 In 1904, he decided to 
 
 go into private practice and opened offices In 
 Los Angeles, but at the end of three years 
 he was prevailed upon to accept another pub- 
 lic office, being appointed Assistant Police 
 Surgeon for the city of Los Angeles. He per- 
 formed the duties of this office in addition to 
 his private work and about the same time or- 
 ganized the Fraternal Hospital Association 
 of Los Angeles. He was chosen as surgeon 
 for this institution and he has handled all of 
 its surgical cases for the last five years. 
 
 Dr. Goodrich is one of the prominent sur- 
 geons of the Southwest. In addition to the 
 work already mentioned, he is physician to 
 various fraternal organizations in Los An- 
 geles, these including the Modern Woodmen, 
 Woodmen of the World, Independent Fores- 
 ters and the Odd Fellows. He holds mem- 
 bership in all of these orders and in addition 
 is prominent in Masonic circles in the South- 
 ern California district. 
 
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 Mr. 
 
 ANE, FULTON, Mining and Civil 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oc- 
 tober 26, 1881, the son of Joseph 
 Randolph Lane and Katherine 
 (Fulton) Lane. 
 Lane, who occupies an important place 
 
 among the engineers of the Southwest, has lived 
 in various parts of the United States and, as a 
 result, his education was obtained in several differ- 
 ent institutions. The prelim- 
 inary portion he received in 
 the public schools of Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, and Seattle, Wash- 
 ington. He finished his stud- 
 ies at Leland Stanford Uni- 
 versity in California, gradu- 
 ating in the class of 1906 
 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Science. 
 
 During the time that he 
 was in college Mr. Lane was 
 actively engaged in engineer- 
 ing works, serving for a 
 time as assistant engineer of 
 the Bay City Water Company 
 of San Francisco. He also 
 had considerable mining ex- 
 perience, being employed by 
 the Chicago Mining Company 
 of San Francisco and the 
 Piute Mining Company of 
 Bakersfield, California. 
 
 His first assignment after 
 leaving the university was 
 with the California Debris 
 Commission, which he served 
 in the capacity of assistant 
 engineer. This board was 
 
 under the direction of the United States Engineer- 
 ing Corps at San Francisco, and Mr. Lane was 
 engaged in its work for about eight months. 
 
 At the termination of his work for the commis- 
 sion, Mr. Lane formed a partnership with A. M. 
 Strong of Bishop, California, for the conduct of a 
 general engineering business under the firm name 
 of Strong and Lane. In addition to their engineer- 
 ing work, they maintained an assaying office and 
 handled considerable mining business, including 
 numerous examinations of properties of their cli- 
 ents. He continued at Bishop for about two years, 
 at the end of which time the firm was dissolved, 
 but during its existence Strong and Lane were 
 among the most active engineers in the district. 
 Their work included a number of mining commis- 
 sions, the most important of which, perhaps, was 
 that of consulting engineers to the Four Metals 
 Mining Company. This mine is one of the richest 
 opened up in the United States, more than $23,000,- 
 000 worth of ore having been taken out of it. 
 
 FULTON LANE 
 
 Following the dissolution of his firm, Mr. Lane 
 went to Los Angeles and there became a member 
 of the engineering corps of the Los Angeles Aque- 
 duct. This project, one of the greatest municipal 
 waterway enterprises ever undertaken in the 
 United States, involving the expenditure of many 
 millions of dollars in bringing pure water to Los 
 Angeles and surrounding territory a distance of 
 more than two hundred miles. 
 
 Mr. Lane first became associated with this work 
 as assistant division engineer 
 on what is known as the Jaw- 
 bone Division, but at the end 
 of eight months was appoint- 
 ed active division engineer 
 in charge of the Majave Di- 
 vision, where he was super- 
 intendent of construction, 
 and in this capacity he su- 
 pervised the construction of 
 a large section of the great 
 aqueduct. It was at this 
 time that the Jawbone, Free- 
 man, Antelope Valley and 
 Mojave division was consol- 
 idated and known by the one 
 name and this branch of the 
 work was one of the most 
 extensive in the whole enter- 
 prise. 
 
 Mr. Lane proved himself 
 an engineer of exceptional 
 resourcefulness and execu- 
 tive ability in this work and 
 won for himself great com- 
 mendation for his perform- 
 ances during the two years 
 of his service. He resigned, 
 however, in September, 1911, 
 
 to resume his private practice and he opened 
 offices in Los Angeles, engaging in important en- 
 gineering work in New Mexico, California and other 
 sections of the West. 
 
 Owing to the establishment of State Public 
 Utilities Commissions, there has been a new field 
 of work formed, known as engineering valuations. 
 To this field Mr. Lane has contributed largely as 
 an expert since locating in Los Angeles. Among 
 his most important pieces of work of this kind has 
 been the valuation of the Spring Valley Water Com- 
 pany, San Francisco, Cal., for the purpose of sale, 
 and the San Diego Flume Company, San Diego, 
 Cal., for the purpose of fixing rates. 
 
 Los Angeles has within recent years become the 
 center of large engineering enterprises whose work 
 is the development of the resources of the section. 
 Mr. Lane is among the most sincere of the engi- 
 neers thus employed. He is a member of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Mines and Oil and the University Club. 
 
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 539 
 
 KITE, THOMAS PATRICK, At- 
 torney at Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, is a native of that city, 
 born September 27, 1888. He is 
 the son of Peter White and Cath- 
 erine (Clark) White, of Irish 
 lineage. His father was born in Ireland, but has 
 been a resident of California since his twenty-first 
 year. 
 
 Mr. White received his preliminary education 
 in the Catholic parochial 
 schools of Los Angeles and 
 followed this with attendance 
 at St. Vincent's High School 
 of the same city, being gradu- 
 ated in the class of 1904. 
 He then attended St. Vin- 
 cent's College for a term, but 
 did not finish, going to work 
 instead. After a lapse of sev- 
 eral years, during which he 
 earned his own livelihood, 
 Mr. White, in 1908, entered 
 the University of Southern 
 California, College of Law, 
 and was graduated in the 
 class of 1911 with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Laws. He was 
 admitted to the practice of 
 his profession by the District 
 Court of Appeals, Second 
 Appellate District, on June 
 19, 1911, and in the same 
 year was admitted to practice 
 in the United States Circuit 
 and District Courts of Cali- 
 fornia. He became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Randall, 
 Bartlett & White of Los An- 
 geles, and has been active in legal practice since. 
 Mr. White has had considerably more experi- 
 ence in business and professional circles than most 
 young attorneys, and the immediate success at- 
 tending his efforts placed him among the prominent 
 practitioners of Southern California. From the 
 time he left St. Vincent's College until he entered 
 the College of Law he was in the railroad business, 
 being connected with the Atchison, Topeka & 
 Santa Fe Company. He began as Rate Clerk in 
 the Los Angeles general offices of the company, 
 then served in various capacities and when he re- 
 signed in 1908, to study for his professional career, 
 was occupying the position of Assistant to the 
 Trainmaster at Needles, California, one of the 
 important division points on the Santa Fe trans- 
 continental system. 
 
 During his entire connection with the railroad, 
 however, Mr. White cherished an ambition to be- 
 come a member of the legal profession and worked 
 with that end in view at all times. He devoted 
 most of his spare time to special study and was 
 
 THOS. P. WHITE 
 
 unusually well prepared when he entered the 
 College. 
 
 Possessed of extraordinary oratorical gifts, Mr. 
 White attained prominence during his college 
 career as a debater and represented the University 
 of Southern California in several important con- 
 tests. He was its chief reliance in the intercollegi- 
 ate debate against the Cornell University team 
 in 1910 and also in the contest with the University 
 of Washington the following year. 
 
 Since his graduation Mr. 
 White's ability as a speaker 
 has been recognized and he 
 has been unusually active in 
 political and civic life in Los 
 Angeles. He early espoused 
 the cause of the Republican 
 party and when he was just 
 twenty-one years of age was 
 elected as a delegate to the 
 Los Angeles County Republi- 
 can Convention. He has been 
 one of the party's campaign 
 speakers ever since that time 
 and has also spoken in behalf 
 of various public improve- 
 ments. 
 
 A clear thinker and a man 
 of progressive ideas, Mr. 
 White was chosen, shortly 
 after his admission to prac- 
 tice, as attorney for the 
 Boards of Education of sev- 
 eral Union High School Dis- 
 tricts in Los Angeles County 
 and still acts in that capacity. 
 He also takes a prominent 
 part in Catholic affairs in 
 California, being Financial 
 
 Secretary of the Los Angeles Council of the 
 Knights of Columbus and Grand President of the 
 California Jurisdiction of the Young Men's Institute. 
 This organization, made up of members of the 
 Catholic faith, is one of the leading fraternal or- 
 ganizations of the United States and in California 
 has an unusually large membership. Mr. White 
 has been prominent in its affairs for several years 
 and has held various offices, including that of Vice 
 President of the Grand Council. He was elected to 
 the office of Grand President at the Institute's con- 
 vention, held on August 2L 1912, at Vallejo, Cali- 
 fornia, and had the distinction of being the first 
 man fro Los Angeles to attain that office in 
 twenty-eight years. His election was celebrated by 
 a testimonial banquet a short time later, at which 
 Bishop Conaty, head of the Catholic diocese of Los 
 Angeles, public officials and numerous other promi- 
 nent men were present. 
 
 He is a member of Delta Chi legal fraternity, 
 Los Angeles Bar Association, Native Sons of the 
 Golden West, and Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 CHLOESSER, ALFRED GUIDO 
 RUDOLPH, retired Physician, 
 Capitalist and Art Connoisseur, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Chicago, Illinois, April 19, 1851, 
 the son of Rudolph and Amalia 
 (Hoffmann) Schloesser. He married Emma M. R. 
 McDonell, daughter of General A. A. McDonell, in 
 Chicago, November 19, 1874. There are four chil- 
 dren, Alexander R. Schloesser, Mrs. J. G. Barnett, 
 Mrs. George F. Stone and Mrs. Eric E. Eastman. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser, although born amid luxurious 
 surroundings, began his career at the bottom of 
 the ladder. He first attended the grammar schools 
 of Chicago, and then the Select High School of 
 Professor C. J. Belleke, a noted instructor of his 
 day. The school was an exclusive private institu- 
 tion, and Dr. Schloesser studied there under pri- 
 vate tutors for a time, later attending Concordia 
 College at Fort Wayne, Ind., a theological institute. 
 He graduated in medicine from Rush Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago, in 1871. 
 
 Leaving Rush Medical College with high honors, 
 Dr. Schloesser took post graduate courses at the 
 Universities of Wurzburg, Heidelberg, Vienna, Ber- 
 lin, Paris and London. While he was a student at 
 Vienna in 1873, he volunteered as assistant physi- 
 cian in the Imperial Royal Allgemeines Kranken- 
 haus, during the cholera epidemic. He made a 
 special study of dermatology and laryngology, 
 and after his return to Chicago, he practiced along 
 those lines for several years. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser comes of a family prominent 
 in Germany and America. His father, Rudolph 
 Schloesser, built one of the first pretentious office 
 buildings in Chicago after the great conflagration 
 in 1871. The building was known as the Schloesser 
 Block. The elder Schloesser was a successful 
 banker and real estate operator in Chicago for 
 many years. He was one of the most prominent 
 pioneers of Chicago, an associate of Potter Palmer, 
 Marshall Field and Pullman. 
 
 Many of Dr. Schloesser's ancestors frequented 
 the royal courts of Germany. A great aunt, who 
 was a singer of rare talent, won the heart of Count 
 Paul von Hopffgarten with her beautiful soprano 
 voice, and their marriage was one of the most 
 pleasing romances of the German empire of that 
 day. Count von Hopffgarten was Lord Chamber- 
 lain to Frederick William III of Prussia, a man as 
 popular and distinguished in the affairs of govern- 
 ment as his wife was beautiful and talented. 
 
 Count von Hopffgarten was captain of Alexan- 
 der's regiment, named in honor of Alexander III of 
 Russia. This regiment was the favorite bodyguard 
 of Emperor William I, grandfather of the present 
 German Emperor. It was first formed by Frederick 
 the Great of Prussia, and it was necessary for 
 every member of the guard to be six feet tall. To 
 be captain it was necessary for Count von Hopff- 
 
 garten to boast of twelve ancestral noblemen and 
 an income of 12,000 thalers or $10,000 a year to 
 maintain his social position. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser's mother was Amalia Hoffmann, 
 one of the aristocratic von Groppe family of Ger- 
 many. Her brother, Francis A. Hoffmann, was an 
 attorney of high standing, and served as Lieuten- 
 ant-Governor of Illinois with Governor Richard 
 Yates during the Civil War. Mr. Hoffmann pos- 
 sessed a magnetic personality and was an eloquent 
 orator. With his powerful voice, he persuaded 
 many a farmer's son to fight for the preservation 
 of the Union, and he further distinguished himself 
 by not only organizing, but fully equipping a com- 
 pany of cavalry at his own expense. This cavalry 
 was known as the Hoffmann Dragoons. His loyalty 
 and zeal in the cause won him the merited friend- 
 ship of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 A cousin of Dr. Schloesser's was the famous 
 General Victor von Vahlkamph, whom Emperor Wil- 
 liam I personally decorated with the Order of the 
 Iron Cross for bravery, the highest decoration for 
 bravery to be conferred in the German Empire. 
 The General was sent before Paris in 1871, when 
 an army of 85,000 men were caught in an ambus- 
 cade. He was given carte blanche orders by Field 
 Marshal Count von Moltke to use his own judg- 
 ment in saving the army, and with this responsi- 
 bility on his shoulders, he extricated the men with- 
 out a single loss. 
 
 The famous Field Marshal Count von Moltke 
 was a relative of Dr. Schloesser's by marriage. 
 During one of his trips to Europe, Dr. Schloesser 
 was entertained by him on his estate in Silesia. 
 One of Von Moltke's nephews married Dr. Schloes- 
 ser's sister. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser was a close friend of James G. 
 Blaine, and at the solicitation of a mutual friend, 
 a member of the House of Representatives at that 
 time, the Secretary of State gave Dr. Schloesser a 
 letter of introduction to the ambassadors, ministers 
 and consuls of the United States abroad. This let- 
 ter, which Dr. Schloesser values as a priceless 
 relic of the famous statesman, follows: 
 
 "Department of State, 
 
 "Washington, Dec. 8, 1890. 
 "To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the 
 
 United States: 
 
 "Gentlemen At the instance of the Honorable 
 George E. Adams, a member of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives from Illinois, I herewith introduce to 
 you Dr. Alfred G. Schloesser of Chicago, and ask 
 for him your official courtesies. 
 
 "I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 
 
 "JAMES G. BLAINE." 
 
 Through this letter Dr. Schloesser had audi- 
 ences with the royal houses. During that trip, 
 made in 1891, he was the guest of General Lew 
 Wallace, then minister at Constantinople. His 
 visit to General A. A. Thomas and the King at 
 Stockholm, Sweden, resulted in his introduction to 
 the Royal Central Institute, the great medical in- 
 
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 stitute of Stockholm, and his study of the Ling 
 system of treating spinal curvatures, on which 
 later he wrote an extensive treatise. 
 
 On his visit to Constantinople, Dr. Schloesser 
 was presented by General Wallace to the Sultan 
 Abdul Hamid, who is now a prisoner at Salonika. 
 On this occasion, the Sultan honored him with an 
 invitation to drink coffee, after which he was 
 ushered into one of the windows of the Palace, 
 where, with the Sultan, he reviewed 30,000 troops. 
 During his sojourn in Turkey, Dr. Schloesser was 
 also signally honored by General Wallace, who 
 gave him his cavas, or personal bodyguard, as an 
 escort. 
 
 On one of his tours of the world, Dr. Schloesser 
 was within 700 miles of the North Pole. 
 
 In 1894, Dr. Schloesser bought a mining pros- 
 pect in Lassen county, California, for which he 
 paid $10,000. This he quickly developed into a 
 property which yielded a net profit of $25,000 a 
 month. Although owner, he worked his way up 
 from pick and shovel man to the asasy office in 
 order to become thoroughly familiar with mining. 
 He built a 100-ton cyanide mill on the property, 
 the first in Lassen county. 
 
 His experience in the mining business is char- 
 acteristic of his whole career. He began at the 
 bottom, working his way up, battling with the 
 obstacles and overcoming them with brain and 
 brawn, until at last he found himself the master 
 of one of the most prosperous mining properties 
 in the West. 
 
 Attracted by the climate, Dr. Schloesser went 
 to Los Angeles in 1909, engaging in the bond in- 
 vestment, real estate and loan business, handling 
 mostly his personal funds and estate. He has 
 transferred most of his holdings from the East to 
 Los Angeles and Hollywood. 
 
 One of his most valuable properties is the land 
 on which is located the Corn Exchange National 
 Bank building of Chicago, now valued at $1,250,- 
 000. He is at the present time contemplating the 
 construction of a $2,000,000 hotel at Hollywood, a 
 suburb of Los Angeles, where he resides. There 
 he lives in Castle Sans Souci of Schloesser Ter- 
 race. The castle is of Tudor-Gothic style and is 
 one of the most beautiful in California. It contains 
 twenty-three rooms, and includes a Baronial Hall 
 and a Louis XV drawing room. 
 
 Into this "castle without care," Dr. Schloesser 
 has brought some of the most famous art treasures 
 of the old world. It contains famous paintings by 
 old masters, ancient wood carvings fantastic and 
 weird, and vases and tapestries that have been 
 the admiration of tourists from other countries 
 who have met the doctor on his trips abroad, or 
 who have come to him with letters of introduction 
 from his famous and titled kinsmen in Germany. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser has been a liberal patron of the 
 artists of the present day, and has in his castle 
 
 some of the most famous works of his late friend 
 and neighbor, Paul de Longpre. Among these are 
 "Wild Roses," de Longpre's second best work, and 
 his "Poinsettas" and "Poppies." A remarkable 
 original painting of an Italian peasant girl by F. 
 Andreatti, entitled "Pleasant Recollections," hangs 
 in Dr. Schloesser's private study. In the art gal- 
 lery of the castle and in the halls may be seen 
 Field's "Coming On of the Storm," "Dutch In- 
 terior" by Van der Hyse, a copy of Corregio's 
 "Jupiter and Antioch" by Alexandre, a copy of 
 Titian's "Model" by Alexandre, "Shoeing the 
 Mare" by Lancier, "Satyr Conversing With Peas- 
 ant" by Jordens, Madame Le Brun's "Marie An- 
 toinette With Rose," "Dignity and Impudence" by 
 Lancier, "Siege of Chinatown" by Rodgers, 
 "Charles I" by Van Dyke, the most famous picture 
 ever painted by him of Charles I; Messonier's 
 "Poet" by Alexandre, an original picture of a 
 German army officer entitled "In a Quandary," by 
 Jean Berne Belle Cour, a pupil of Messonier; a 
 picture of Maximillian I before the siege of Merse- 
 bourg, painted by Molkenboer after Albert Duerer, 
 a famous tapestry by Ben Volkmer after Boucher, 
 a portrait by Mme. Le Brun of her daughter, a 
 copy of Peter Paul Rubens' "Consequences of 
 War," a portrait of Peter Paul Rubens' second 
 wife and son by Professor Huehne of Munich, a 
 famous wood carving adorned with cherubs ex- 
 pressing every mood, a vase made of clay adorned 
 with cherubs representing night and morning, and 
 exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair; a Carrara 
 marble bust of Victoria Collona, poetess of Italy. 
 These are only a few of the art treasures in this 
 wonder castle, and Dr. Schloesser adds to his col- 
 lection every year. 
 
 The grounds of Castle Sans Souci were laid out 
 by Nils Emitslof, a famous European landscape 
 artist, and when completely developed will be un- 
 surpassed in landscape artistry in this country. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser possesses a Gothic coat of mail 
 of the Fifteenth Century handed down to him from 
 his ancestors. His coat of arms a key, rosettes, 
 helmet, shield and wings are frescoed on the ceil- 
 ing of the baronial hall, as are also the coat of 
 arms of Mrs. Schloesser. 
 
 Two lions made of Carrara marble, and which 
 are 144 years old, adorn the entrance to the castle, 
 and also bear the Schloesser coat of arms. These 
 lions formerly adorned the entrance to the palace 
 of the last Doge of Venice. 
 
 The inside of the castle contains marble 
 statutes imported from Italy to conform with the 
 style of architecture. 
 
 Dr. Schloesser is a member of the Masons, 
 Commandery No. 9, is a Knight Templar and a 
 Shriner. He belongs to the Jonathan Club, the 
 Gamut Club, the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Hollywood Club, and the Hollywood 
 Board of Trade. 
 
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 543 
 
 ONES, ELMER RAY, General Su- 
 perintendent, Wells, Fargo & Co., 
 Express, Los Angeles, Cal., and 
 Vice President of La Compania 
 Mexicana de Express, S. A., of 
 Mexico, was born in Granby, Mis- 
 souri, February 26, 1874, the son of Thomas L. G. 
 Jones and Sarah Jane (Bailey) Jones. He is of 
 Scotch and Welsh ancestry on the paternal side 
 and descended from prominent Kentuckians on the 
 maternal side of the family. 
 Mr. Jones' education was 
 obtained in several different 
 institutions, and, like his 
 business career, was of his 
 own making. He attended 
 the public schools of Webb 
 City, Missouri, in his youth 
 and later became a special 
 student at the University of 
 Missouri. Following this he 
 took a special course in Eng- 
 lish and oratory at North- 
 western University, Chicago, 
 Illinois. Many years later, 
 upon his removal to the Pa- 
 cific Coast, he determined to 
 add to his educational equip- 
 ment and took up the study 
 of law in the University of 
 Southern California and was 
 admitted to the bar of Cali- 
 fornia, but never engaged in 
 practice. In addition, he 
 studied the Spanish language 
 and became a fluent writer 
 and speaker m this tongue, 
 applying it with the same 
 proficiency as he does Eng- 
 lish. 
 
 Beginning as a newspaper 
 agent when he was a boy in 
 school at Webb City, Mo., 
 Mr. Jones has made his way 
 to a place among the promi- 
 nent young business men of the Southwest. Dur- 
 ing his boyhood he worked at various occupations 
 and at the age of nineteen years was appointed 
 agent at Webb City for Wells, Fargo & Company. 
 This was the beginning of his career in the ex- 
 press business, in which, after approximately 
 twenty years of continuous service, he has ad- 
 vanced to a position of prominence and great re- 
 sponsibility. He retained his position at Webb 
 City for about two years and at the end of that 
 period was promoted to the agency of the Wells, 
 Fargo & Company at Pittsburg, Kansas, a more 
 important point. 
 
 Three years afterwards, in 1898, he was ad- 
 vanced to the position of Route Agent for Wells, 
 Fargo & Company, his first official position with 
 the company. He made his headquarters at Joplin, 
 Missouri, for eight years and then transferred his 
 offices to Hutchinson, Kansas, from which point he 
 directed the company's business over a large part 
 of the Middle West. 
 
 In 1907, Mr. Jones was appointed Assistant 
 General Agent for the company at Los Angeles, 
 California, and held that post for about two years. 
 Then, his work having been unusually successful, 
 he was sent to Mexico as Assistant General Man- 
 ager of the company's interests- in that country, 
 
 ELMER R. JONES 
 
 with headquarters at Mexico City. From this point 
 forward his advancement was rapid. In January, 
 1910, a few months after leaving Los Angeles, he 
 was elected President and General Manager of La 
 Compania Mexicana de Express, S. A., as Wells, 
 Fargo & Company is known in Mexico. In this 
 capacity Mr. Jones had entire charge of the com- 
 pany's vast system in that country for more than 
 a year. 
 
 At this time, Wells, Fargo & Company inaugu- 
 rated a policy of placing its 
 most efficient men, as gen- 
 eral superintendents, 
 charge of its various 
 graphical departments, and 
 Mr. Jones, whose administra- 
 tion in Mexico had been at- 
 tended with great success, 
 was recalled to Los Angeles 
 to take office as General Su- 
 perintendent of the South- 
 western Department. This 
 territory includes Southern 
 California, Utah, Nevada, 
 Colorado, Arizona, New Mex- 
 ico, and the West Coast of 
 old Mexico. In addition to 
 the duties of this position, he 
 has been held in an official 
 position with La Compania 
 Mexicana de Express, S. A., 
 holding since he left Mexico, 
 the office of Vice President. 
 Because of his thorough 
 knowledge of the Spanish 
 language and of business 
 conditions in the republic to 
 the south, he has an impor- 
 tant part in the affairs of the 
 company. 
 
 Despite the responsibili- 
 ties of his position with the 
 express company, Mr. Jones 
 takes an ardent Interest in 
 public affairs of Los Angeles, 
 
 and during his first residence in that city distin- 
 guished himself as a worker for the Young Men's 
 Christian Association there. He was one of the or- 
 ganizers of a memorable campaign having for its 
 object the increase of the Association's membership 
 to five thousand. He aided in the formation of the 
 "Five Thousand Club," and as its President directed 
 the early part of the work, but was compelled to 
 leave Los Angeles for Mexico City before the con- 
 clusion of the campaign. The work he had begun 
 proved a brilliant success and to him was given a 
 great deal of the credit for placing the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of Los Angeles among 
 the strongest branches of the organization. The 
 Los Angeles "Express," commenting on this, said: 
 "Few men did more to boost the membership 
 and intrench the Association solidly in Los An- 
 geles. He organized and was made President of the 
 '5000 Club,' which had as its chief aim the raising 
 of the membership to 5000. Mr. Jones was forced 
 to leave Los Angeles before this was achieved, but 
 the work of the club resulted in the achievement in 
 a whirlwind campaign and Mr. Jones was given 
 much credit." 
 
 Upon his return to Los Angeles he again became 
 active in the Y. M. C. A. In the Masonic fraternity 
 he is a Knight Templar and a Shriner. 
 
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 ANDREWS.HARRY, 
 Real Estate, Loans and 
 Insurance, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in 
 Chicago, Illinois, Au- 
 gust 10, 1868, the son 
 of Robert Kennedy An- 
 drews and Mary (Black- 
 man) Andrews. Mar- 
 ried Laura Elizabeth 
 Lyman May 23, 1906, at 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 He attended gram- 
 mar and high schools 
 at Marengo, Illinois, but 
 did not graduate. He 
 engaged in various 
 lines of business as a 
 young man and in 1897 
 became a city salesman 
 for the National Biscuit Company in Des Moines, 
 Iowa. After three years he accepted a position 
 with H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 
 vania, traveling for five years over Western Iowa 
 territory. 
 
 In 1905 made a visit to Los Angeles, California, 
 and has been there since. Sold real estate for 
 Barry Brothers for a year, then entered business 
 for himself. Has continued down to date, making 
 a specialty of high-class residence property in the 
 Wilshire boulevard district. He has placed on the 
 market a number of subdivisions. 
 
 Member of the following organizations, located 
 in Los Angeles: Municipal League, Federation 
 Club, Auto Club of Southern California, Realty 
 Board and California State Realty Federation'; 
 also Masonic bodies. 
 
 CURRAN, ROBERT 
 GARNER, Printer and 
 Publisher, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at 
 Jeffersonville, Indiana, 
 June 18, 1870. Son of 
 Robert E. Curran and 
 Pauline (Garner) Cur- 
 ran. Married Caroline 
 A. Cook at Los Angeles 
 February 24, 1897. 
 
 Attended schools in 
 Jeffersonville and 
 
 Charlestown, Ind., and 
 Sioux Rapids, la. Went 
 to California in 1884, 
 attended the high 
 school of Ventura, Cal- 
 ifornia. Started in the 
 newspaper business at 
 Santa Barbara, California, 1886; with Ventura Free 
 Press in 1887. In 1888-89 worked on father's pa- 
 pers at Nordhoff and Ventura. Went until 1894 to 
 the University of Southern California, where he 
 edited and published the college paper from his 
 own plant. Formed a partnership, sold interest 
 after three years; managed Press Clipping Bureau 
 five years; organizer and first president Southwest 
 Printers' Supply Company; sold interest and trav- 
 eled for a Chicago type foundry; organized Pacific 
 Steam Economizer Company, 1903, and Keller 
 Steam Economizer Company at St. Louis Exposi- 
 tion; re-entered publishing and printing business, 
 Los Angeles, 1906; publisher Western Insur- 
 ance News, president Curran Printing Company, 
 member Sigma Chi Fraternity, City Club and Union 
 League of Los Angeles. 
 
 BENT, ARTHUR 
 S., Contracting, Los 
 Angeles, California, 
 was born at Dowievllle, 
 California, in 1863. He 
 is the son of Henry K. 
 Bent and Jennie 
 (Crawford) Bent. His 
 ancestors were minute 
 men and officers in the 
 Revolutionary War. 
 He married in Los An- 
 geles, in 1888, Eliza J. 
 McKee. They have two 
 children, Ellen and 
 Crawford H. Bent. He 
 was taken to Los An- 
 geles from Massachu- 
 setts when 6 years old 
 and received his edu- 
 cation in the grammar and high schools of 
 that city. Finishing school he went into the 
 newspaper business. He was a reporter on 
 the Los Angeles Times and Herald, and in 
 1881 was city editor of the Los Angeles Express. 
 He then went with the Banning Company at San 
 Pedro and remained for five years. Was for a 
 number of years general manager of the Pacific 
 Clay manufacturing Company of Los Angeles and 
 Corona. In 1888 he began for himself the business 
 of general contracting, in which he is now engaged. 
 He has executed many important irrigation, con- 
 crete and macadam road contracts throughout the 
 West and Mexico and maintains offices in Denver 
 and Seattle. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club and sev- 
 eral learned societies. 
 
 CHANDLER, LEO 
 S., Banker, Los An- 
 geles, California, was 
 born at St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, September 4, 
 1878, the son of Jeffer- 
 son Chandler and Cath- 
 erine (O'Toole) Chand- 
 ler. Married Louise 
 Towell McFarland in 
 February, 1907, at Los 
 Angeles. To them two 
 children have been 
 born, Dan McFarland 
 and Thomas Alden 
 Chandler. 
 
 He attended the St. 
 Louis University, St. 
 Louis, then was sent to 
 Stanton Military Acad- 
 emy. To prepare for college he went to the famous 
 Lawrenceville, New Jersey, school. Before com- 
 pleting his course his family moved to Los Angeles, 
 in the year 1894. Two years later he entered the 
 Leland Stanford University. He studied through 
 three years, until the spring of 1899. Then he 
 left to engage in U. S. Transport Service. Purser 
 of Transport Warren, which took the Fourteenth 
 Regiment to China during the Boxer Rebellion. In 
 May, 1900, resigned for place in general manager's 
 office Salt Lake Railroad. Left in 1905 to join Los 
 Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, with which he 
 has continued to date as trust officer. He studied 
 law after leaving college; admitted to bar in 1906. 
 
 Mr. Chandler is a member of the Phi Delta Phi 
 and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternities and the 
 California Club. 
 
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 BARLOW, WALTER 
 JARVIS, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in 
 Ossining, New York, 
 January 22, 1868, the 
 son of William Henry 
 Barlow and Catherine 
 Stratton (Lent) Bar- 
 low. Ancestors origi- 
 nal American colonists. 
 Married Marion Brooks 
 Patterson at Los An- 
 geles in 1898. Three 
 children born to them, 
 W. J., Jr.; Catherine 
 Lent and Ella Brooks. 
 Graduated at Mount 
 Pleasant Military Acad- 
 emy, 1885, New York 
 State; graduated Columbia University 1889, degree 
 A. B.; received degree M. D. at Columbia Univer- 
 sity in 1892. His first practice was as house physi- 
 cian at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City; 
 then he was house surgeon at Sloane Maternity 
 Hospital, New York; instructor Post Graduate 
 School of New York. 
 
 Went to California in 1895; in private practice 
 since 1895. Dean and professor of Clinical Medi- 
 cine, Los Angeles Department, College of Medi- 
 cine, University of California; vice president of 
 American Academy of Medicine, member of Ameri- 
 can Climatological Association and President Los 
 Angeles Medical Association; secretary-treasurer 
 the Barlow Sanatorium. 
 
 Clubs: California and University, Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and Phi Pho Sigma Fraternity. 
 
 KRESS, GEORGE H., 
 Physician, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born at Cin- 
 cinnati, O., December 
 23, 1874, the son of Hen- 
 ry Kress and Salome 
 (Kern) Kress. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Hamil- 
 ton Hill, a college class- 
 mate, June 16, 1903, at 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 He graduated from 
 Hughes High School, 
 Cincinnati, in 1892; re- 
 ceived his degree, after 
 four years of study, 
 from the University of 
 Cincinnati in the year 
 1896, and then took up 
 the study of medicine 
 at the same university. He received the degree ot 
 M. D. in 1899. Dr. Kress at once became resi- 
 dent physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital, 
 Cincinnati; appointed assistant surgeon at the Na- 
 tional Soldiers' Hospital, Dayton, O., 1900-1903; 
 went to Los Angeles to engage in private practice. 
 Conspicuous in medical affairs and prominent in 
 fight against tuberculosis. Chairman of the State 
 Tuberculosis Commission to investigate tuberculo- 
 sis in California. Member of all the important medi- 
 cal and scientific societies; has written prolifically 
 on health subjects, having received the gold and 
 silver medals from the International Tuberculosis 
 Congress for educational leaflets, 1908. Secretary 
 of Faculty and Professor of Hygiene, Los Angeles 
 department, State University of California Medical 
 School. Member, University Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 FITZHUGH- 
 THORNTON, Archi- 
 tect, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 since 1895. Born In- 
 dianapolis, Ind., 1864. 
 Parents, Lee Mason 
 and Anna Harrison 
 (Thornton) Fitzhugh. 
 Educated in Indianap- 
 olis and Cincinnati. 
 Studied art under Mr. 
 Charles J. Fiscus of 
 Indianapolis. Studied, 
 afterward taught archi- 
 tecture for four years, 
 Ohio Mechanics' Insti- 
 tute, Cincinnati. Took 
 special course in struc- 
 tural steel in Chicago. 
 After about eight years 
 In well known Eastern offices, began prac- 
 tice in Cincinnati, designing buildings for the Amer- 
 ican Cotton Seed Oil Company, Russell-Morgan 
 Printing Company, "Big Four," and "C. & O." 
 Railways. 
 
 In Los Angeles he has built the Pacific Electric 
 Building, with the Jonathan Club and its roof gar- 
 den, the Territorial Penitentiary and the Insane 
 Hospital of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Fitzhugh drafted the first building ordi- 
 nance of Cincinnati, and served on the Los An- 
 geles Building Ordinance Commission of 1905-6 and 
 the Theater Commission of the latter year. 
 
 Dr. Matthew Thornton, one of the architects 
 of the National Capitol Building, was in Mr. Fitz- 
 hugh's maternal line. He is a member of the 
 Southern California Chapter, A. I. A. 
 
 BLACK, GEORGE 
 NATHAN, Real Estate, 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in San Fran- 
 cisco, California, June 
 17, 1876, the son of 
 Samuel Black and Ros- 
 alie (Newman) Black. 
 
 Began life as a 
 newsboy, went through 
 the grammar school 
 and high schools of Los 
 Angeles, to which city 
 he went when he was 9 
 years old. 
 
 Leaving school, he 
 went to work in a de- 
 partment store, and aft- 
 er a few years entered 
 the real estate busi- 
 ness, in which he has remained to date. Is junior 
 partner of the firm of Black Brothers. 
 
 Mr. Black, although yet a young man, has had a 
 notable political career. He is a Republican and 
 honored by his party. He has served on its State, 
 city and county executive committees at Los 
 Angeles. He was entrusted, in 1908, with the man- 
 agement of the Taft campaign in Los Angeles 
 County. He was chairman of the Republican City 
 Convention in 1908. Governor Gillett of California 
 made him Lieutenant-Colonel on his staff. He has 
 not yet been a candidate for office, although urged 
 repeatedly. 
 
 Past Grand President Independent Order B'nai 
 B'rith, Past Master Westgate Lodge, F. and A. M., 
 member Governing Committee Los Angeles Realty 
 Board. 
 
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 INGFIELD, GEORGE, Mining, 
 Reno, Nevada, was born in Fort 
 Smith, Arkansas, August 16, 1876, 
 the son of Thomas Y. Wingfield 
 and Martha M. Wingfield. He 
 married Maud Murdoch at San 
 Francisco, California. In his childhood, Mr. Wing- 
 field went to the West, and his life has been 
 passed there, in a manner typical of the country 
 and filled to the brim with the excitement that has 
 characterized the growth of that part of the 
 land. 
 
 Every mining boom has its central figure. Just 
 like Cripple Creek had its Stratton, so have Gold- 
 field and Tonopah their Wingfield. He is the em- 
 bodiment of the romance of this latest of gold ex- 
 citements. 
 
 His career differs from that of the other big fig- 
 ures of former booms. Most of the other men were 
 discoverers, and luck played the chief part in their 
 rise to wealth. Mr. Wingfield could not exactly be 
 called the discoverer of either Goldfield or Tonopah. 
 His fortune came more through personal endeavor. 
 He is the man who put mining in the Nevada 
 camps on a business basis. He took prospects and 
 converted them into great mines. He organized 
 mining companies that mined. He is a born leader 
 of men, an organizer, and to this perhaps is due 
 the most of his success. 
 
 Before going to Nevada, in 1897, Mr. Wingfield 
 had been a cowboy in Southeastern Oregon, where 
 his father was engaged in the cattle business, and 
 even prior to this he had led a varied and colorful 
 life, fairly typical of his occupation in that country. 
 His first mining venture in Nevada was in the 
 copper mines about Golconda. This stripped him 
 of practically all he possessed, but he had caught 
 the "gold fever" and was not discouraged. On 
 May 7, 1901, he settled temporarily in Tonopah, 
 buying mining stocks and claims which subse- 
 quently netted him a handsome profit. From there 
 he moved to Goldfield, where he was the first man 
 to put money into the mines, and bought the Sand 
 storm, Kendall, Columbia and other promising prop- 
 erties. Together with his associates he took a 
 lease on the Florence, from which they made about 
 $750,000, in the meantime, from 1904 to 1906, pur- 
 chasing all the inside territory, including the Mo- 
 hawk, Laguna and various others. During the 
 earlier years of his stay in Nevada he had banks 
 in Tonopah, Reno and Carson, but sold them in 
 1902-'06 and started others in Goldfield, Tonopah 
 and Reno. 
 
 In 1906 he added the Red Top and the Jumbo to 
 his holdings, and in the same year organized the 
 Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, compris- 
 ing the Mohawk, Red Top, Jumbo and Laguna. He 
 then purchased the Goldfield Mining Company's 
 properties, which he merged with the Consolidated. 
 Later he bought out the Combination Mines Com- 
 pany, and added this, too, thus converting six or- 
 
 ganized mining companies into one huge corpora- 
 tion. Of this, which has produced more than $42,- 
 000,000 in the past six years, Mr. Wingfield is the 
 president and chief owner. 
 
 Until April, 1909, he was associated with U. S. 
 Senator Nixon in most of his enterprises, but in 
 that year the partnership was dissolved, the Sen- 
 ator taking all the banking and real estate inter- 
 ests except the John S. Cook Banking Company, 
 of Goldfield, of which property Mr. Wingfield is 
 now the sole owner. 
 
 In addition to these holdings he has large in- 
 terests in California and Nevada, including live 
 stock and oil fields. He was one of the organizers 
 of the Nevada Petroleum Company, whose proper- 
 ties are chiefly in Coalinga, and is still heavily in- 
 terested therein. 
 
 One of the greatest services Mr. Wingfield has 
 rendered Nevada, and the mining industry as well, 
 was the fight he waged successfully against the In- 
 dustrial Workers of the World and the Western 
 Federation of Miners, which in that country were 
 practically identical. They were composed largely 
 of dishwashers, roustabouts and malcontents who 
 strove to control the labor situation in the mines. 
 Strikes, often on a pretext, were frequent, and 
 much high-grade ore was stolen from the Consoli- 
 dated properties. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield was determined to submit to no 
 dictation from these Orders, and to do the con- 
 trolling himself. Though he knew that his life 
 was in constant danger at the hands of those who 
 had threatened it, he moved among them as if quite 
 oblivious of the conditions surrounding him. By 
 this demeanor he not only won the respect of his 
 friends, but also contributed much to the first de- 
 cisive defeat the Federation and the I. W. W. had 
 suffered in Nevada. He finally succeeded in driv- 
 ing the trouble makers out of the country and re- 
 placed them with men loyal to his own interests. 
 Since then the mines have been well conducted, to 
 the great benefit of all concerned. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield gives the observer an impression 
 of quiet determination and of a refusal to be flus- 
 tered by his extraordinary success. For a man of 
 his years and training he has remarkable poise, 
 and among his friends he is known for his substan- 
 tial remembrances of his former comrades in ad- 
 versity, especially of those who assisted him when 
 he needed assistance. Mr. Wingfield is said to 
 be one of those rare mortals who never forget a 
 favor. 
 
 He is a member of the Bohemian Club of San 
 Francisco, the Press Club of San Francisco, the 
 Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles, Reno Commer- 
 cial Club, Rocky Mountain Club of New York, and 
 is one of the most prominent members of the B. 
 P. O. E. in the West. He it was who donated sev- 
 eral thousand dollars in a lump sum in order to 
 complete the building of the Elks' Home in Gold- 
 field. 
 
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 LLIOTT, KARL, Real Estate, 
 Building and Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Greensboro, Indiana, January 25, 
 1885, the son of Nathan H. Elliott 
 
 and Eva (Bowman) Elliott. Mr. 
 
 Elliott married Ada Sellers at Pasadena, California, 
 June 4, 1910, and to them there has been born a 
 daughter, Adrienne Elliott. 
 
 Mr. Elliott's parents left Indiana about the year 
 1890 and went to California, 
 first locating at San Jose, 
 later at Glendora, and finally 
 at Pasadena, where they es- 
 tablished a permanent resi- 
 dence. 
 
 He received his prelim- 
 inary education in the gram- 
 mar schools of Pasadena, 
 then entered the preparatory 
 department of the Univer- 
 sity of Southern California, 
 from which he was gradu- 
 ated. He then entered the 
 University and studied for 
 about two years, but at that 
 time left to enter business 
 life. 
 
 Mr. Elliott first went to 
 work, in 1900, for the Pasa- 
 dena Electric Railway Com- 
 pany (now the Pacific Elec- 
 tric Railway Co.), while he 
 was going to school. He 
 worked in all departments of 
 (he railroad, including 
 clerical and mechanical 
 branches, and despite his 
 youth, was entrusted with 
 various responsible positions. 
 
 Mr. Elliott was at different times in charge of 
 the Southern Division Mechanical Department of 
 the above corporation, wherein he had charge of 
 about seventy-five cars, and the Electrical Depart- 
 ment of the Northern Division of the company's 
 system. Later on he became Chief Clerk in the 
 Mechanical Department, with a subdivision, the 
 Electrical Department, under his supervision. 
 
 In 1908, Mr. Elliott embarked in the real estate 
 and building field, in which he has met with un- 
 usual success. Severing his connection with the 
 Pasadena Railway Company, he purchased an in- 
 terest in the Original Home Builders of Los An- 
 geles, a development enterprise which has since 
 become firmly established in the business life of 
 Southern California. He was elected President of 
 the company almost immediately, and at once took 
 up his duties in that capacity. 
 
 When Mr. Elliott became the head of the Home 
 Builders it was not very strong financially, its 
 total capital at the time being about $10,000. 
 
 KARL ELLIOTT 
 
 Largely through his managerial ability and pro- 
 gressive methods the concern has grown steadily 
 until, in 1912, it had assets approximately half a 
 million dollars in value. 
 
 The Original Home Builders of Los Angeles 
 have taken an active part in the development of 
 Los Angeles and vicinity, the company's method 
 of operation being the purchase of large tracts of 
 land, which are later subdivided into residence lots 
 and homes built thereon, for sale. The company 
 became particularly active 
 during the year 1912, open- 
 ing up for improvement sev- 
 eral large stretches of terri- 
 tory in the outlying sections 
 of Los Angeles. One notable 
 purchase was that of 117 
 acres between Los Angeles 
 and Glendale, a suburb, for- 
 merly a part of the Glassell 
 Estate. This will be known 
 as Wrighton Place. Another 
 tract, comprising forty acres 
 of land in the Southwestern 
 part of Los Angeles, will be 
 known as Elliott Place, so 
 named in honor of Mr. El- 
 liott, and will be subdivided 
 and built up within the next 
 few years, it is stated. 
 
 The Home Builders of 
 Los Angeles occupies an ad- 
 vantageous position in its 
 business field in the South- 
 west in that it owns its mills 
 and lumber yards where its 
 building material is pre- 
 pared. In addition to the 
 parent concern, which is the 
 
 second oldest of the kind in Los Angeles, Mr. El- 
 liott is the dominating factor in several other 
 allied concerns. These include the Elliott Supply 
 Company, of which he is President, a corporation 
 which handles the building material for the Home 
 Builders of Los Angeles; the Elliott, Wright & 
 Company, a general stock, bond and investment 
 firm which handles the general financial affairs of 
 the original company, and also provides a guaranty 
 fund for the stockholders of the Home Builders of 
 Los Angeles. He also is Treasurer of the Wright 
 Builders. 
 
 His business interests naturally make Mr. El- 
 liott one of the most enthusiastic workers for the 
 upbuilding of Los Ongeles and Southern California 
 and through his companies, he has helped to at- 
 tract many new citizens to that section. 
 
 Mr. Elliott is a member of the University Club, 
 of Los Angeles; Los Angeles Athletic Club of the 
 same city, and of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, Alpha 
 Upsilon Chapter, of the University of Southern 
 California. 
 
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 ITCHELL, CLYDE WITHERS, 
 Mining, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in San Marcos, Texas, 
 April 2, 1873, the son of Lafayette 
 Withers Mitchell and Mary Lou 
 (Ellison) Mitchell. He married 
 Elizabeth Moore at Tropico, California, July 13, 
 1896, and to them there have been born three 
 children, Gerald, Dorothy and Donald Mitchell. Mr. 
 Mitchell's family is one of the oldest in the South, 
 and his grandfather, Colonel 
 James Ellison, served in the 
 United States Army during 
 the war with Mexico. His 
 father served four years in 
 the Confederate Army. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell's family 
 moved to Los Angeles when 
 he was twelve years of age 
 and he has since made his 
 home there, with the excep- 
 tion of slight interruptions. 
 He attended the public schools 
 of Los- Angeles, during 1885- 
 1887, and 1887-1889 he was a 
 student at McPherson's 
 Academy, a well known pri- 
 vate school of the city. Fin- 
 ishing there, he worked for 
 about two years and in 1890 
 began to study Mine Engi- 
 neering at the Colorado 
 School of Mines, Golden, 
 Colorado, graduating in 1892, 
 with the degree of E. M. 
 
 For the first five years 
 after receiving his degree 
 Mr. Mitchell worked for va- 
 rious mining interests of the 
 
 West and in 1897 entered the employ of the 
 Phelps-Dodge Mining Company as metallurgist. 
 
 He was stationed at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, 
 where the Moctezuma Copper Company, a subsid- 
 iary corporation of the Phelps-Dodge interests, 
 operates one of the best producing mines in that 
 section of the country. He remained there for 
 five years and during that time, in addition to 
 his professional work, was engaged in important 
 metallurgical experiments. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with the Phelps- 
 Dodge Company in 1902, Mr. Mitchell was appointed 
 Superintendent of the Black Diamond Copper Com- 
 pany's smelter in Arizona and remained in charge 
 of the plant for about four years. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Mitchell organized the Pacific Cop- 
 per Mining Company, at Prescott, Arizona, a cor- 
 poration financed by Kansas City capitalists, and 
 one in which he still retains the offices of first 
 Vice President and Consulting Engineer. John 
 Kelley, of Kansas City, was the principal owner of 
 this property, as well as the famous El Tigre Mine, 
 
 CLYDE W. MITCHELL 
 
 in Sonora, Mexico. After two years with the Pa- 
 cific Copper Mining Company, Mr. Mitchell was 
 appointed Consulting Engineer of El Tigre Mine 
 and while acting in this capacity was sent to New 
 York by the owners to negotiate the sale of the 
 property to the Lewisohns, bankers. This deal 
 fell through because of a difference on price and 
 Mr. Mitchell was then authorized to open ne- 
 gotiations with a syndicate of English capitalists, 
 but this also failed and the property, considered 
 one of the rich gold mines 
 of the American Continent, 
 has remained with its origi- 
 nal owners. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell relinquished 
 his connection with the Mex- 
 ican property in 1908, but he 
 still is associated with the 
 Kansas City capitalists in 
 their American enterprises 
 and acts as Consulting Engi- 
 neer for the Pacific Copper 
 Mining Company. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Mitchell's at- 
 tention was turned to South- 
 ern Arizona and as Secretary 
 and Treasurer of the Arizona 
 Empire Copper Mines Com- 
 pany, he has been engaged in 
 the development of a valua- 
 ble copper property at Par- 
 ker, Arizona. He also has a 
 mine at Tuolumne, California, 
 which he is working. 
 
 Aside from his mining 
 operations, Mr. Mitchell for 
 several years has been ac- 
 tively interested in real es- 
 tate in Southern California, 
 
 especially in the Sierra Madre district, where he 
 has a beautiful home. He is a member of the 
 Sierra Madre Board of Trade and an active partici- 
 pant in the affairs of the town, which he has 
 aided in upbuilding and which has, in the last 
 few years, come so noticeably to the front as a 
 residence place of great natural beauty. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell occupies a strong position in min- 
 ing, affairs in the Southwest and in 1909 was chosen 
 by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, of 
 which he is a member, to represent the city at the 
 American Mining Congress, held that year in the 
 Southwestern Center. 
 
 In addition to the interests mentioned, Mr. 
 Mitchell is President of the Sierra Madre Hotel 
 Company. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic order, the 
 Sierra Madre Club and Gamut Club of Los An- 
 geles, the Southern Club of San Francisco, and 
 National Geographic Society of Washington. He 
 also holds membership in the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Mines and Oil. 
 
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 ENNEDY, KARL KEENER. Secre- 
 tary, Fierce-Kennedy Brokerage 
 Company, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Des Moines, Iowa, 
 January 1, 1876. He is the son 
 of Josiah Forest Kennedy and 
 Mary Catherine (Reigart) Kennedy, descended of 
 Scotch and Irish stock which traces back for more 
 than three hundred years. His great-great-grand- 
 uncle was Lord North, Prime Minister of England 
 during the reign of King 
 George III, upon whose 
 shoulders much of the re- 
 sponsibility for the Revolu- 
 tionary War was placed. 
 Lord North's sister was mar- 
 ried to William Kennedy, 
 great-great-grandfather of 
 Mr. Kennedy, a notable 
 Scotchman of the times. An 
 earlier member of the Ken- 
 nedy family is believed to 
 have been James Kennedy, 
 Bishop of St. Andrews dur- 
 ing the reign of King 
 James II. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy attended the 
 grammar and high schools of 
 Des Moines, graduating from 
 the latter in the class of 1895. 
 He then spent three years 
 in the University of Ten- 
 nessee. Leaving college in 
 1898, Mr. Kennedy was ap- 
 pointed Assistant Secretary 
 of the State Board of Medical 
 Examiners, of which his 
 father was Secretary and 
 served in that capacity for 
 about a year and a half. 
 
 Resigning his position 
 with the State Board in 
 1900, Mr. Kennedy went to 
 Phoenix, Arizona, where he 
 engaged in the banking busi- 
 ness for a short time in the employ of the Valley 
 Bank of that city. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. Kennedy visited Los Angeles for a 
 short time, then returned to his home in Des 
 Moines, where he became interested in the insur- 
 ance business. He was thus engaged for the next 
 two years, his travels taking him to many parts 
 of the West, including Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, 
 Oregon and Washington. He made his headquar- 
 ters in Portland, Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy organized the Occidental Oyster 
 Company at Bay Center, Washington, in 1903, and 
 this has since come to be one of the important en- 
 terprises of that section. For some time he took 
 an active part in the management of the company, 
 but other duties caused him to give up the work, 
 although he still retains an interest in the concern. 
 Leaving the Northwest in 1906, Mr. Kennedy 
 went to Los Angeles and there started the forma- 
 tion of the Occidental Life Insurance Company. 
 This corporation, which is now one of the firmly es- 
 tablished insurance enterprises of California, had 
 a somewhat precarious beginning, due to the San 
 Francisco disaster. Mr. Kennedy, who had entire 
 charee of the sale of stock for the comoany, had 
 disposed of all but $15,000 worth of the issue, and 
 a meeting had been called for April 19, 1903, to 
 
 KARL K. KENNEDY 
 
 consider the disposal of this balance. On April 18, 
 San Francisco was visited by fire and earthquake, 
 thus upsetting financial conditions throughout the 
 Pacific Coast country. 
 
 When the company finally was organized, Mr. 
 Kennedy was chosen Secretary, Director and Super- 
 intendent of Agents. He also had the honor of 
 nominating Honorable Edwin H. Conger, former 
 American Minister to China, the man who was the 
 official representative of this country during the 
 Boxer uprising, for first Presi- 
 dent of the Company. Al- 
 though he had worked hard 
 for the organization of the 
 Company, Mr. Kennedy re- 
 mained with it less than a 
 year, resigning his offices in 
 1907, to go into the brokerage 
 business. He made a special- 
 ty of Mexican lands and his 
 investigations took him fre- 
 quently into the wild regions 
 of the West Coast of Mexico. 
 On one of his trips through 
 the Tepic district, before the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad 
 had been built into the coun- 
 try, Mr. Kennedy had an en- 
 counter that nearly cost him 
 his life. 
 
 Owing to the intense heat 
 he, like many others, 
 traveled by horseback at 
 night. He was making his 
 way through the mountains 
 on one of these trips when he 
 was suddenly held up by 
 bandits. He resisted the de- 
 mands of the robbers and 
 finally, after a struggle, es- 
 caped them. This was an in- 
 cident characteristic of the 
 West Coast at that time, 
 when Yaqui Indians and na- 
 tive bandits were continually 
 on the lookout for travelers. 
 
 Returning to the United States in 1908, Mr. 
 Kennedy organized the Walker-Heck Oil Company 
 and engaged in oil operation in California, also 
 going in for mining at Goldfield, Nevada, where he 
 worked the Commonwealth property for some time. 
 He remained in these lines less than three 
 years, however, giving up both in 1911, to assist 
 in the organization of the Pyramid Investment 
 Company, of which he is a Director. 
 
 This company, which is made up of Los Angeles 
 business men, was organized for the purpose of 
 building and selling homes, a field of operation 
 unique in Los Angeles and one which has- resulted 
 in greatly increasing the population of the city. 
 Mr. Kennedy was an active factor in launching the 
 company and later, in the same year, upon the or- 
 ganization of the Fierce-Kennedy Brokerage Com- 
 pany, in which his brother, W. H. Kennedy, is one 
 of the principal figures, Mr. Kennedy became asso- 
 ciated with the company as Secretary and Director. 
 In addition to these, he is a Director of the Lan- 
 caster Land & Loan Company. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy, aside from his business activities, 
 i& prominent in fraternal circles, being a Thirty- 
 second Degree Mason. He also holds membership 
 in the Metropolitan Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ILLIAN, LLOYD JOHN, Invest- 
 ments, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, 
 May 8, 1880, the son of Thomas 
 Killian and Mary (Zelczny) Kil- 
 lian. He married Alma Theresa 
 Zoeller-Jamieson at Pasadena, California, Septem- 
 ber 12, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Killian, who is a member of one of the most 
 important investment concerns on the Pacific Coast, 
 is a true product of the new 
 West. He received the early 
 part of his education in the 
 public schools of his native 
 town and in 1898 entered the 
 University of Nebraska, tak- 
 ing up scientific studies. He 
 did not finish there, however, 
 but stopped in his Junior 
 year to take up business. 
 
 Mr. Killian entered the 
 mercantile and banking busi- 
 ness with his father and 
 brothers at Wahoo, Nebras- 
 ka. The Killians were at 
 that time the owners of a 
 chain of stores in Nebraska 
 and Iowa and theirs was one 
 of the most important entet- 
 prises in that section of the 
 Middle West. Mr. Killian 
 was appointed manager of 
 the drygoods department, 
 having in charge the buying 
 for all the stores, and con- 
 tinued in that capacity for 
 about five years. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Killian went 
 to California, locating in Pas- 
 adena, there applying in his operations the busi- 
 ness knowledge he had gained in association with 
 his father and brothers in their mercantile estab- 
 lishments. Like many other men of means who 
 go to Southern California, he was charmed by the 
 beauties of the country, with its mountains and 
 flowered valleys, and he immediately saw an op- 
 portunity in the real estate field. Accordingly, he, 
 with others, organized the Arrowhead Realty Cor- 
 poration, which was incorporated in August, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Killian was elected Secretary, Treasurer and 
 Manager of the company which began by purchas- 
 ing four thousand acres of land in San Bernardino 
 County, and immediately turned half of the tract 
 into a vineyard. This is today one of the most 
 extensive and successful grape-growing sections 
 in Southern California, more than two thousand 
 acres being in production at the present time 
 (1912). Mr. Killian was one of the dominant 
 factors of this company, which devoted a large 
 amount of capital to the development and improve- 
 ment of its land, with the result that a large num- 
 
 L. J. KILLIAN 
 
 ber of home owners were attracted to the lands, 
 which they put on the market. 
 
 For four years Mr. Killian devoted his entire 
 time to the upbuilding of this land and remained 
 in active charge of the work until the improve- 
 ments were matured. He then sold out, in 1911, 
 and moved to Los Angeles, where he has since 
 been located. For the first few months after his 
 arrival he was inactive, but later he became asso- 
 ciated with G. M. Purcell and R. B- Dickinson in the 
 firm of Purcell, Dickinson & 
 Killian, now recognized as 
 one of the substantial finan- 
 cial houses of the city of Los 
 Angeles, and members of the 
 Los Angeles Stock Exchange. 
 They are engaged in general 
 investment enterprises, in- 
 cluding stocks, bonds and in- 
 surance. The men who com 
 pose the firm are generally 
 regarded as among the suc- 
 cessful business builders of 
 Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Killian, aside from 
 his actual business, is one 
 of the most enthusiastic 
 men within the confines of 
 California and an ardent ad- 
 vocate of the lands and op- 
 portunities for fortune af- 
 forded there. He never loses 
 an opportunity to praise the 
 fruit lands, especially of this 
 particular section, and is 
 himself the possessor of a 
 splendid ranch in the San 
 Joaquin Valley, comprising 
 about four hundred and 
 also has other small holdings 
 this property, located in one 
 
 eighty acres. He 
 
 in California, but 
 
 of the richest valleys on the American Continent, 
 
 is his chief pride, and he has devoted much time 
 
 and money to its improvement. He has a home in 
 
 Los Angeles, but spends part of each year on his 
 
 ranch. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California, Mr. Kil- 
 lian, who has a genial personality, has won a large 
 number of friends and is one of the most popular 
 young clubmen of the Southwest. Being an enthusi- 
 astic golfer, he is a member of the San Gabriel 
 Country Club and of the Annandale Country Club, 
 and also holds membership in the Pasadena Polo 
 Club. His other clubs are the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club and the Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles, 
 the Pasadena Athletic Club and the Overland Club 
 of Pasadena. 
 
 Mr. Killian is prominent in fraternal circles, 
 being a Mason, member of the Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks, and Theta Nu Epsilon 
 and Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternities. 
 
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 'BRIEN, JAMES FRANCIS, Capi- 
 talist and Inventor, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Black 
 Creek, Wisconsin, March 18, 1875. 
 He is the son of James O'Brien 
 and Elizabeth (Haase) O'Brien. He 
 married Williamina de Grant Barclay in Los An- 
 geles, October 25, 1911. Mrs. O'Brien is the 
 youngest daughter of James Barclay, member of 
 the historically famous family, the Barclays, of 
 Urie, Scotland. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien received his primary education in 
 the public schools of his native town, but when he 
 was only a child began the study of telegraphy and 
 at the age of eight was a competent operator, en- 
 joying the distinction of being the youngest teleg- 
 rapher in the United States. At the age of nine 
 he was in charge of the Black Creek railroad sta- 
 tion. Moving with his parents to Wausau, Wiscon- 
 sin, he worked nights as telegrapher while attend- 
 ing High School. 
 
 His first position was with the Green Bay and 
 Western Railroad. After completing his studies at 
 Wausau, he entered the employ of the Chicago and 
 Northwestern Railroad at Wausau, Wisconsin, as 
 Ticket Agent and Telegraph Operator and in time 
 was made Train Dispatcher. From there on he 
 served in various responsible positions both in 
 the Traffic and Operating Departments of the rail- 
 road, his abilities securing rapid promotion for 
 him. He later, in connection with the Chicago and 
 Northwestern Railroad, worked for the Pere Mar- 
 quette and Ann Arbor Railroads in the systematiz- 
 ing and development of the "Car Ferry" business 
 across Lake Michigan in connection with these 
 three systems; and for six years, from 1899 to 1905, 
 was manager for these roads, jointly, at Mani- 
 towoc, Wisconsin. During the years 1905 and 1906 
 he was Assistant to the General Manager of the 
 Chicago and Northwestern on lines west of the 
 Missouri River and Omaha, but left them, after 
 twenty years of service, upon completion of the 
 Wyoming and Northwestern, a subsidiary com- 
 pany. 
 
 During Mr. O'Brien's railroad career he took up 
 the study of law, chemistry and mechanics, 
 and in 1906 gave up the railroad business to 
 attend to his own affairs, having perfected several 
 inventions during his connection with the Chicago 
 and Northwestern Railroad. His principal inven- 
 tion is "Utahnite," a blasting powder for which Mr. 
 O'Brien discovered and patented the "Cold Proc- 
 ess," chemical formula, and also perfected the non- 
 confined, frictionless mechanical means used in 
 the manufacture of "Utahnite." After patenting 
 this process he formed the Utahnite Safety Powder 
 Company (parent company), of which he is Presi- 
 dent, and since 1907 he has devoted the major por- 
 tion of his time to its development and production, 
 in the many "Utahnite" plants located at various 
 points, and supplying the United States, Canada 
 and Mexico. 
 
 "Utahnite," in the opinion of experts, is des- 
 tined to play an important part in the future of 
 mining and other industries. It is held to be more 
 powerful than dynamite or nitro-glycerine pow- 
 ders, while it lacks the dangerous qualities of these 
 explosives. When he invented it, Mr. O'Brien had 
 in mind an ambition to perfect a safe mechanical 
 means for its manufacture, as well as the produc- 
 
 tion of a safety blasting powder, thereby rendering 
 work in the mines and other places less hazardous 
 to the workmen and thus reduce the number of 
 fatalities recorded yearly in this particular line of 
 work; at the same time making for economy and 
 commercial stability in the manufacture of powder 
 as a business. The result was the production of 
 the remarkably simple, safe "Utahnite" machinery 
 and of a powder substance which, while it pos- 
 sesses tremendous blasting power, also reduces 
 danger to a minimum and lacks the objectionable 
 gases, flame, smoke, and deteriorating character- 
 istics of other explosives. Mr. O'Brien also has 
 adapted his invention to other lines of industry, 
 agriculture and quarrying, and by its use is becom- 
 ing one of the leading factors in modern develop- 
 ment work in the Western States and other sec- 
 tions of the country. 
 
 "Utahnite," however, is not the only invention 
 which bears Mr. O'Brien's name. Among others is 
 the "Publiciscope," a device which has had an im- 
 portant and revolutionary effect upon advertising. 
 Another of his productions is a patented device, 
 a combined gas and steam generator, designed for 
 economizing on fuel and reducing the first cost of 
 power plants. These, like "Utahnite," have found 
 a place in their respective fields and are in prac- 
 tical use today in all parts of the United States. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien is also heavily interested in the West 
 Coast Development Company of Bandon, Coos Coun- 
 ty, Oregon, which company has large holdings of 
 timber and mineral lands and owns the terminals 
 at Bandon and other Coast points in Oregon, from 
 which points the West Coast Development Com- 
 pany has recently completed the promotion of the 
 Bandon & Eastern Railroad Co., a railroad over 
 200 miles in length from Port Orford to Bandon 
 and thence to Grant's Pass connecting with the 
 Southern Pacific Railway at the latter point. The 
 construction of this road is now under way; having 
 been financed by Eastern and English capital. 
 
 Mr. O'Brien is also President and General Man- 
 ager of the American Steel & Drill Company, manu- 
 facturing a leading, automatic ai rand water feed, 
 piston drill and patented hollow-rolled steel. 
 
 In addition to his railroad and manufacturing 
 interests, Mr. O'Brien is heavily interested in irri- 
 gation projects in various Western States and is 
 taking an active part in land development. With 
 others he is engaged in the rehabilitation of South 
 Antelope Valley, California, through large irriga- 
 tion projects, being a Director in the Palmdale 
 Land Company and the Palmdale Water Com- 
 pany. He has joined the ranks of practical 
 men who are building up that part of the country 
 and is one of the enthusiastic workers for the bet- 
 terment of Los Angeles and vicinity. He has in- 
 vested largely in Los Angeles real estate and has 
 made his home there since his arrival in 1907. 
 He is also an active member of the American 
 Railway Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce; the Chamber of Mines and Oil, the 
 Sierra Madre Club, B. P. O. Elks, and the Y. M. 
 C. A. of Los Angeles. 
 
 While he has never taken any active part in 
 politics or sought public office, Mr. O'Brien is 
 aligned with the Progressive element of the Repub- 
 lican party and has done considerable to advance 
 its doctrines. 
 
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 H. ALBAN REEVES 
 
 EEVES, HERBERT ALBAN, Archi- 
 tect, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in London, England, Novem- 
 ber 20, 1869, the son of H. A. 
 Wooster Reeves, a Fellow of the 
 Royal Institute of British Archi- 
 timma (Uffindel) Reeves. He married 
 Goodman in London, England, 
 
 tects, and 
 Harriet Elizabeth 
 in 1890. 
 
 After attending private schools in England he 
 was sent to Albert Memorial College, Framlingham, 
 Suffolk, England, and later went to King's College! 
 Somerset House, London, England. His college 
 education complete, he studied his profession in 
 his father's office and at the Architectural Associa- 
 tion, London, England. He then married. 
 
 He came to the United States in 1891, and began 
 practice in New York City and designed many 
 buildings of more or less importance in New York 
 and its surroundings, his last New York building 
 being "The Schuyler Arms Hotel." The rush of 
 construction in Los Angeles then attracted him and 
 he came to that city in 1906. 
 
 Since arriving in Los Angeles he has designed 
 and superintended the construction of several resi- 
 dences, the International Bank Building, the Po- 
 mona City Hall, the Eagle Rock Bank, and is now 
 engaged on several structures for the Southern 
 California Edison Company. 
 
 His specialty is business buildings, hotels, apart- 
 ment houses and high-class residences, and for this 
 kind of work he has found a big opportunity in Los 
 Angeles and in Southern California generally. 
 
 By special enlistment and examination he was 
 admitted to the Royal Engineers of the British 
 Army, before his departure for America. He bought 
 his discharge. 
 
 He is a member of the Southern California 
 Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and 
 the University Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 H. I. BETTIb 
 
 ETTIS, HORACE INGERSOLL, 
 Auditor of the San Pedro, Los 
 Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Salem, Mass., April 20, 1863. 
 
 He is the son of John B. Bettis 
 
 and Harriett (Bacon) Bettis. 
 
 Mr. Bettis was educated in the public schools 
 of Salem, Mass., and at the Norwich University of 
 Vermont. After minor positions with the Thomson 
 Houston Electric Company, this firm sent him to 
 Atlanta, Ga. There he was connected with the or- 
 ganization of the Atlanta Consolidated Street Rail- 
 way, and was at different times Asst. Sec. and 
 Treas. and later Gen. Mgr. of that company. In 
 1893 he went to New York as Auditor of the Street 
 Railways in New Jersey, which were controlled by 
 General Louis Fitzgerald of the Mercantile Trust 
 Co. and the Equitable Life Insurance Co. Two 
 years later, at Washington, D. C., he was Auditor 
 of Disbursements for the Southern Railway Co. 
 
 He moved to Omaha, Neb., in 1898 as Asst. Gen. 
 Auditor of the Union Pacific R. R., and from that 
 city moved to Los Angeles, in 1903. When he left 
 Nebraska he was commissioned by Harriman to 
 represent him on the Board of Directors of the San 
 Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake R. R. and to act 
 as Auditor of that system. Mr. Bettis has also 
 been the Harriman representative on the Directory 
 of the Pacific Eelctric Ry. and the Los Angeles 
 Interurban Ry. 
 
 Besides his interests in the Salt Lake R. R. Mr 
 Bettis is Vice Pres. and Auditor of the Las Vegas 
 Land and Water Co., as well as a Director, Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer of the Tampico Petroleum Co. 
 Clubs: California, the Los Angeles Country, 
 Gamut. He belongs to Los Angeles Commandery 
 Number Nine, Knights Templar, Signet Chapter 
 Number Fifty-seven, Royal Arch Mason, and Al 
 Malaikah Temple A. A. O. N. M. 8. 
 
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 GEN. C. F. A. LAST 
 
 AST, CARL F. A., Wine Merchant, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born on 
 Island Ruegen, Germany, Oct. 17, 
 1861, the son of Carl J. C. Last 
 and Louise (Lemmen) Last. He 
 married Agnes W. Menzies at San 
 Francisco, Cal., Dec. 30, 1886, and to them there 
 has been born one child, Stewart Menzies Last. 
 
 Gen. Last was brought to this country in his 
 early childhood, his family first locating in Wiscon- 
 sin. In 1868 his parents moved to San Francisco, 
 and for the next eighteen years he called that city 
 his home. He attended the public schools of San 
 Francisco, but left when he was thirteen years old 
 and became apprentice to an engraver. He mas- 
 tered the engraver's art, but instead of following 
 that profession he became a bookkeeper for Wil- 
 merding & Co. of San Francisco, remaining with 
 them seven years. His conscientious efforts won 
 him the confidence and esteem of his employers to 
 such an extent that they backed him in the enter- 
 prise which he owns today. 
 
 It was on Aug. 14, 1886, that Gen. Last pur- 
 chased an interest in the firm of Joe Bayer & Co. of 
 Los Angeles. After five years he formed a new 
 partnership with F. E. Fisk, under the firm name 
 of Last & Fisk. Within a year he bought out Fisk's 
 interest, and then conducted the business from 1892 
 until 1908 as C. F. A. Last. In June of the latter 
 year he incorporated under the title of the C. F. A. 
 Last Company. In addition to his wine business, 
 Gen. Last, with his former partner, Joe Bayer, put 
 down the first oil well in Los Angeles City, in 1893. 
 Gen. Last is Retired Brigadier General of the 
 California National Guards. He is also Past Mas- 
 ter of Los Angeles Lodge No. 42, F. & A. M., and 
 served as chairman of the Democratic County Cen- 
 tral Committee in 1892. His clubs are: California 
 and Jonathan, Los Angeles, Army and Navy and 
 Union League of San Francisco. 
 
 W. ONA MORTON 
 
 ORTON, WILLIAM ONA, Attorney- 
 at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Lafayette County, Ala., 
 July 30, 1868, the son of Dr. Wil- 
 liam Addison Morton and Eliza- 
 beth J. (Moore) Morton; married 
 Maude Hunter and has one son, William Taylor 
 Morton. He was educated in the public schools of 
 Texas, at the Springtown Male and Female Insti- 
 tute, Fort Worth Business College and Fort Worth 
 University, taking degrees at each; became a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of McLean, Booth & Morton, 
 Fort Worth, in 1898; moved to Los Angeles in 1902 
 and became a member of the firm of Morton, Hou- 
 ser & Jones (Judge Houser now being on the Su- 
 perior bench). Was nominated for Congress on the 
 Democratic ticket in 1904 and ran several thousand 
 votes ahead of his ticket. 
 
 Was nominated for Attorney General on the 
 Democratic ticket for California in 1906; became a 
 member of the Civil Service Commission of the 
 City of Los Angeles to fill the unexpired term of 
 the late L. B. McCutcheon in 1907; reappointed on 
 Civil Service Commission in 1908; term expires in 
 1912; now President of the Civil Service Commis- 
 sion. 
 
 He taught school in public and private institu- 
 tions of Texas for eight years, finishing the law 
 course in the Fort Worth University while teaching 
 in that institution. He was for one year professor 
 of corporation law in the Legal Department of the 
 University of California, and resigned that position 
 on account of pressing professional duties. 
 
 He belongs to the Masons, Elks, Woodmen of 
 the World, Women of Woodcraft, Texas State So- 
 ciety, Fraternal Brotherhood, Improved Order of 
 Red Men, Jefferson Club and other social organiza- 
 tions; official director and general counsel for sev- 
 eral corporations; senior member of the law firm 
 of Morton, Riddle, Hollzer & Morton. 
 
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 A R T I N, ROBERT MEAD, 
 Mining and Oil, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Elgin, 
 Kane County, Illinois, May 
 26, 1868, the son of Robert 
 Mead Martin and Cornelia (Sherman) Mar- 
 tin. He is a grandson of Colonel Richard B. 
 Martin and of Henry Sherman, who built the 
 first butter factory in Elgin, Kane County, 
 Illinois, gave the site 
 where the famous Elgin 
 Watch Company's plant 
 is located and was gener- 
 ally regarded as one of 
 the prominent men of his 
 day. Mr. Martin married 
 Emma A. Brown at Red 
 Cloud, Nebraska, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1892, and to them 
 there have been born two 
 children, Dorothy and 
 Helen Martin. 
 
 Mr. Martin received 
 his early training in the 
 public schools of Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa, and later 
 attended school in Elgin, 
 finishing in the academic 
 department of Northwest- 
 ern University. Upon 
 the completion of his 
 studies there he took a 
 special course in banking 
 at the Worthington Drew 
 Business College. 
 
 Upon graduation from 
 that institution, Mr. Mar- 
 tin moved with his family to Red Cloud, 
 Nebraska, and there engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business with his father. This was in 
 the year 1886 and Mr. Martin remained with 
 his father until 1894, when he went to Crip- 
 ple Creek, Colorado, then the mecca of the 
 fortune hunters of the land, and engaged in 
 the mining business. He remained at Crip- 
 ple Creek until after that camp had been vis- 
 ited by two great fires and he then migrated 
 to California and Arizona, where he became 
 associated with Governor Louis Wofley in 
 the mining business. They were in partner- 
 ship until the death of Mr. Wofley, in 1910, 
 and during that time carried on various de- 
 velopment enterprises. Together they devel- 
 oped the Climax Mine, eighteen miles west of 
 Prescott, Arizona, the first gold quartz mine 
 discovered north of the Gila River. He is 
 the President and General Manager of the 
 Climax Mining Company at the present time. 
 
 R. M. MARTIN 
 
 In 1901 Mr. Martin had established his 
 home in Los Angeles and he there became 
 interested in real estate and oil enterprises, 
 the magnitude of which caused him, in 1903, 
 to dispose of a considerable portion of his in- 
 terests in Arizona. From that time down to 
 date he has been engaged principally in the 
 oil business and has acquired valuable hold- 
 ings in various parts of the California oil 
 fields, principally in Ven- 
 tura County. In addition 
 to the erection of two 
 large oil refineries, Mr. 
 Martin has been active in 
 the drilling of wells and 
 the production of oil. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Martin 
 financed the Granite Se- 
 curities Company for the 
 purpose of warranting 
 corporation bonds. This 
 company is now consid- 
 ered the largest guarantee 
 company of its character 
 in the United States, and 
 Mr. Martin has been an 
 active factor in the suc- 
 cess of the concern. Two 
 years after its organiza- 
 tion he bought control of 
 the company, and in 1909 
 assumed the Presidency 
 and General Management 
 of it, both of which posi- 
 tions he occupies at pres- 
 ent. In addition to the 
 duties of this company 
 and his other enterprises, Mr. Martin has 
 taken up a large development project with 
 Colonel Robert Hunter of Washington, D. C. 
 In the Spring of 1911 they acquired 1,070,- 
 000 acres of land in Southwestern Arizona 
 and are at the present time at work upon a 
 plan of colonization which they expect to put 
 into effect in 1915. This is one of the most 
 important individual attempts at colonizing 
 that part of the country that has ever been 
 attempted. 
 
 Owing to the nature of his business in- 
 terests, Mr. Martin has come to be regarded 
 as one of the most practical developers and 
 upbuilders the Southwest possesses. 
 
 Mr. Martin is a stanch supporter of the pol- 
 icies of the Republican party and also is ac- 
 tively engaged in the work of the Methodist 
 Church. He belongs to the Masons, the Fra- 
 ternal Brotherhood and the Ancient Order 
 United Workmen. 
 
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 GORE, ALBERT WIL- 
 LIAM, Physician and Sur- 
 geon, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in that city 
 July 21, 1876, the son of Rob- 
 ert Steele Moore and Lucy Campbell (Dur- 
 rett) Moore. He married Anna May Kuehn 
 at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 3, 1904, and 
 to them there have been born two children, 
 Jack Kuehn and Richard 
 William Moore. Dr. 
 Moore, who was the 
 third of a family of four 
 children, comes of dis- 
 tinguished American 
 stock, its members for 
 generations having been 
 prominent in professional 
 and business lines. His 
 uncle, Captain Charles 
 Moore, served the Con- 
 federate cause in the 
 Civil War. 
 
 Dr. Moore received his 
 preliminary education in 
 Los Angeles, graduating 
 from the high school in 
 the class of 1896. For 
 four years after this he 
 worked with a large com- 
 mercial establishment in 
 Los Angeles, and in 1900 
 took up the study of 
 medicine in the Univers- 
 ity of Southern California 
 Medical College. H e 
 was graduated in 1904 
 with the degree of M.D. He then went to 
 Philadelphia and took post-graduate work 
 in the Presbyterian and University Hos- 
 pitals, receiving the degree of M.D. from the 
 University of Pennsylvania in 1905. 
 
 For one year before his graduation from 
 University of Southern California he was As- 
 sistant Police Surgeon of the city of Los An- 
 geles, but resigned this upon receiving his 
 degree and opened offices for practice. 
 
 In 1906, two years after his graduation, Dr. 
 Moore was appointed a member of the Los 
 Angeles Board of Health, under Mayor Harp- 
 er, and during his tenure of office conducted 
 one of the most notable campaigns in the 
 interest of public health in the history of the 
 city. As a member of the Pure Milk Com- 
 mission, he led the fight of that body for the 
 purification of the milk supply of the city and 
 was instrumental in giving certified milk to 
 Los Angeles. In that crusade Dr. Moore 
 
 DR. ALBERT W. MOORE 
 
 devoted his own time to the inspection of 
 dairies in and around Los Angeles and 
 caused a complete reorganization of methods 
 in many of them. This one regulation in the 
 health rules of Los Angeles has had an im- 
 portant influence upon the public health, the 
 mortality record among infants of the city 
 being reduced to a point far below that of 
 any municipality of the same size in the 
 United States- Dr. Moore 
 continued a member of 
 the Board of Health un- 
 til 1910. 
 
 In 1908 he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the 
 Board of Medical Exam- 
 iners of the Los Angeles 
 Civil Service Commission 
 and remained in that ca- 
 pacity until 1911. He 
 is at present (1912) a 
 member of the Board of 
 Medical Examiners for 
 the Public Schools of Los 
 Angeles. In this capacity 
 he has been overseer of 
 thousands of children and 
 to his careful examina- 
 tion and watchfulness is 
 largely due the high 
 standard of health in the 
 public schools of Los An- 
 geles. He is regarded as 
 an expert on diseases of 
 children and has devoted 
 a large part of his pro- 
 fessional career to the 
 study of their ills and the treatment thereof. 
 Aside from his public school work he has 
 been physician to the Los Angeles Orphans' 
 Home for five years, and for three years was 
 psysician to the Children's Hospital of Los 
 Angeles. Also, he was Dean of the Training 
 School of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los 
 Angeles, until the early part of 1912. 
 
 At the present time (1912-13) he is surgeon 
 in the Los Angeles district for the Maryland 
 Casualty Company of Baltimore and for the 
 Continental Casualty Company of Illinois. 
 
 Dr. Moore is a member of the Public Health 
 Committee of the Los Angeles County Medi- 
 cal Society. He also belongs to the Medical 
 Society of the State of California and the 
 American Medical Association. He is a 
 Thirty-Third Degree Mason, member of the 
 Municipal League of Los Angeles, the Uni- 
 versity Club and the Native Sons of the 
 Golden West, Ramona Chapter. 
 
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 HANKS, DAVID WILLIAM, Mm 
 ing, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Amelia Courthouse, Vir- 
 ginia, February 2, 1866, the son 
 of David William Shanks and 
 Juliet (Irvine) Shanks. He mar- 
 ried Fannie Sydnor Cartmell of Winchester, Va., 
 at Los Angeles, July 11, 1894, and after eighteen 
 years of ideal married life, Mrs. Shanks died in 
 the summer of 1912. 
 
 Mr. Shanks is- descended from one of the oldest 
 and most notable families in Virginia, various 
 members being distinguished in the history of the 
 country. Among these was his great-grandfather, 
 Colonel William Cabell of Virginia, one of the dis- 
 tinguished men of Revolutionary days. Another 
 notable relative of Mr. Shanks was his great uncle, 
 Governor Francis J. Thomas, one of the most fa- 
 mous statesmen produced by Maryland. 
 
 Mr. Shanks received his preliminary education 
 in public and private schools of Virginia, going 
 from the Fancy Hill Academy to the Washington 
 and Lee University of Lexington, Virginia. Leav- 
 ing college in 1885, he went to western Colorado 
 and there engaged in the cattle business for him- 
 self. 
 
 The Ute Indian Reservation on the Grand 
 River had just been thrown open by the Govern- 
 ment and Mr. Shanks- was one of the first white 
 men to settle in that part of the country. He was 
 at that time just about twenty-one years of age, 
 one of the youngest cattle men in the country, 
 but, despite his youth, acted as captain of the 
 round-up each year. He had under his command 
 all the independent cattle men of the region, which 
 embraced a territory one hundred miles long and 
 fifty miles wide, while the cattle handled and 
 shipped each year numbered many thousands. 
 
 He remained in the cattle business for about 
 four years, then sold out his interests, in 1889, and 
 returned to his home in Virginia. For the next 
 two years he was engaged in the real estate and 
 land business in the Old Dominion, with headquar- 
 ters at Glasgow, Virginia. He was a member of 
 the Board of Directors and the Executive Commit- 
 tee of the Rockbridge Company, a corporation, 
 capitalized at $600,000, which was at that time 
 engaged in building the town of Glasgow. General 
 Fitzhugh Lee, the famous Virginia warrior, hero of 
 two wars, was President of the company, and Mr. 
 Shanks was- one of the active factors in this devel- 
 opment enterprise. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Shanks again went West, locating 
 this time in Arizona, as General Manager of the 
 Citrus Canal Company. For the next three years 
 he was in charge of the operations of that com- 
 pany, which was engaged in the development of 
 lands on the Gila River in Arizona. This has 
 since become one of the richest and most highly 
 cultivated sections of the State. He resigned his 
 position in 1895 and early in the following year 
 
 took up the study of mining. He was thus engaged 
 for two years and was also occupied part of the 
 time in the examination of mining properties, but 
 in 1898, when news of the discovery of gold in the 
 Klondike region reached the States, he joined the 
 historic rush to the Far Northern fields. He was 
 one of the pioneers in that region, which later be- 
 came the mecca of fortune-seekers from every walk 
 of life and from all part of the globe; he underwent 
 the hardships which befell the men who first ven- 
 tured into the country, including isolation from 
 the rest of the world for months at a time, subsist- 
 ing on inferior food, living in temperature so cold 
 as to tax the endurance of the most hardy men, 
 and various other sufferings which only those who 
 experienced them can appreciate. 
 
 Mr. Shanks was engaged in gold mining in 
 Alaska for more than a year and returned in 1899 
 to the States. He was appointed General Managei 
 of the Tecopa Mining & Smelting Company, 
 which operated a lead smelter near Death Valley, 
 California. He owned a considerable interest in 
 the company and was in complete charge of its 
 operations for about a year. He sold out at the 
 end of that time, however, and became associated 
 with the late Mr. W. G. Nevin, General Manager of 
 the Santa Fe Railroad System, in the examina- 
 tion of mining properties in the United States 
 and Mexico. 
 
 After working with Mr. Nevin for about a year 
 Mr. Shanks, in 1901, became Assistant Manager in 
 Mexico of the Mexican Petroleum Company, one 
 of the largest oil concerns operating in that Re- 
 public. He was engaged in the oil business until 
 1903, and then returned to mining, this time as 
 General Manager of the Almoloya Mining Company, 
 which controlled large properties in the State of 
 Chihuahua, Mexico. 
 
 In this position Mr. Shanks became one of the 
 best known mining men in the Republic of Mexico, 
 and also one of the best-informed men on the min- 
 eral wealth of the country. He managed the com- 
 pany's properties until 1906 and left his position 
 to become General Manager of the Rio Plata Min- 
 ing Company, also located in the rich State of 
 Chihuahua. 
 
 In connection with this latter company, of 
 which he is General Manager at the present time 
 (1913), Mr. Shanks performed one of the most 
 notable feats in his career. The property, a val- 
 uable silver mine, had been purchased from a 
 wealthy Mexican under the agreement that the 
 purchasing company, of which Mr. Shanks was a 
 member, should erect a complete stamp mill and 
 reduction plant in one hundred and forty-eight days. 
 It was the belief of the seller that this could not 
 be done, because the property was located one 
 hundred and ten miles from a railroad and every 
 piece of machinery had to be transported by mules 
 over a wild, mountainous country. 
 
 However, Mr. Shanks undertook to do the 
 
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 work and hauled the necessary machinery, amount- 
 ing to over one million pounds, across the moun- 
 tains. By almost superhuman effort he built the 
 plant and had it in complete shape, ready for work 
 in 147 days, one day ahead of schedule and then, 
 in the presence of several prominent government 
 officials of Mexico, started the plant in actual 
 operation. The original owner of the property, 
 who thought the work impossible of accomplish- 
 ment and had expectations of the plant and prop- 
 erty reverting to him, wept when he saw that his 
 plans were shattered. 
 
 The Rio Plata Mine, starting in this impressive 
 manner, has been in steady operation since 1906, 
 and has proved one of the most valuable silver 
 holdings in the entire Republic of Mexico, its yield 
 to the middle of the year, 1912, approximating one 
 hundred and ten tons of pure silver, which has 
 netted the owners a profit of $825,000. 
 
 An interesting phase of Mr. Shanks' operation 
 of the Rio Plata property was his acquaintance 
 with General Pasquale Orozco, the noted Mexican 
 revolutionist, who helped Francisco Madero over- 
 throw the Diaz Government and later, becoming 
 dissatisfied with Madero's conduct of the country's 
 affairs, joined the revolution against the latter. 
 Orozco was a contractor in the mining fields of 
 Chihuahua and was employed by Mr. Shanks at 
 various times to transport large quantities- of sil- 
 ver bullion from the Rio Plata Mine to the rail- 
 road, whence it was shipped to the United States. 
 
 In November, 1910, Orozco was engaged by Mr. 
 Shanks- to haul a large consignment of silver from 
 the mine to the shipping point. He left the mine 
 on November 10, of that year, delivered the silver 
 to the express company on the 16th of the month, 
 and four days later took the field at the head of 
 a band of rebels whom he led to victory at Juarez. 
 Orozco and his men ignored the fortune in silver 
 which had been entrusted to their care, but did 
 appropriate "the rifles with which Mr. Shanks had 
 supplied him and his helpers for the purpose of 
 guarding the shipment. These rifles he used in 
 his subsequent campaign, which resulted in his 
 capture of Juarez, this being the deciding battle 
 which caused the downfall of the Diaz government 
 and the elevation of Madero to the Presidency. 
 
 In 1912, when Orozco rebelled against Madero, 
 his former chief, and took the field against him, 
 Mr. Shanks had occasion to visit Mexico in con- 
 nection with his mining interests. The country 
 was in a state of war and Chihuahua, where the 
 principal mines- of Mr. Shanks' company are lo- 
 cated, was the center of strife. It was a hazard- 
 ous undertaking to travel through the country, but 
 Mr. Shanks passed through safely, being accorded 
 safe conduct by General Orozco, who continued to 
 be the friend of the American mining man. 
 
 Besides the Rio Plata Mine, Mr. Shanks is in- 
 terested in other development work in the West, 
 including large placer operations in Trinity Coun- 
 
 ty, California. In this field he is General Manager 
 of the Trinity Gold Mining & Reduction Company 
 and of the Trinity Consolidated Hydraulic Mining 
 Company, and is also Vice Pre&ident of the Trinity 
 Exploration Company. 
 
 These various companies- are among the prin- 
 cipal operators in that part of the country and 
 have erected, under the supervision of Mr. Shanks, 
 three of the country's largest and most thoroughly 
 equipped placer mining plants. 
 
 In 1909, Mr. Shanks erected for the Trinity Gold 
 Mining & Reduction Company a 200-ton cyanide 
 plant which has given its owners $9000 a month 
 net profit since, a period covering nearly four 
 years. In 1911 he erected a plant for the Trinity 
 Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Company, at a cost 
 of $250,000, and this is operating with 3000 inches 
 of water under a pressure of 450 feet. 
 
 The three companies with which Mr. Shanks is 
 connected control practically all the placer mines 
 in the famous Weaverville District of California, 
 one of the most productive districts of the kind in 
 the world. It was first opened in 1849 and has 
 been worked at various times and by different 
 methods since. One property under Mr. Shanks' 
 supervision has been producing since 1854, but up 
 to 1911 had only yielded about a million and a half 
 dollars. Under the modern methods employed by 
 Mr. Shanks its owners expect the yield to greatly 
 exceed that in the next few years. 
 
 Mr. Shanks is regarded as one of the 
 most efficient and successful men who ever oper- 
 ated in the gold and silver fields of the United 
 States and Mexico and stands among the foremost 
 developers of their mineral resources. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Shanks and several associates- or- 
 ganized the E. B. Salsig Lumber Company, with 
 headquarters in San Francisco, Cal. This company 
 purchased twenty-four thousand acres of redwood 
 timber lands in the northern part of California and 
 the development of this- property is now numbered 
 among the important lumber projects- of the Pacific 
 Coast, Mr. Shanks being one of the active factors 
 in the affairs of the company. 
 
 Mr. Shanks has never taken an active part in 
 politics, but numbers among his friends some of 
 the leading statesmen of the American Continent. 
 He has devoted his entire life to development 
 work and is enthusiastic in the work of upbuilding 
 Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Shanks first established his- residence in 
 the city of Los Angeles in the year 1893 and has 
 lived there ever since. He has a handsome home 
 in the fashionable West Adams district of the 
 city. He is an ardent motorist and has driven his 
 high-power machine over wide stretches of the 
 United States and Mexico. 
 
 He is a member of the Sierra Madre Club and 
 the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles; the Toltec Club, 
 of El Paso, Texas, and of the Chihuahua Foreign 
 Club, of the city of Chihuahua, Mexico. 
 
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 UNN, WALTER THOMAS, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in La Salle 
 County, Illinois, June 4, 1879, the 
 son of Luther V. Gunn and Alice 
 E. (Rogers) Gunn. He married 
 Vina L. Dayton at Danville, Illinois, June 29, 1904, 
 and to them there have been born two children, 
 Horace Edson and Marjorie Gunn. He is of 
 English descent and his paternal great uncle, the 
 Rev. Walter Gunn, for whom 
 he was named, was a mis- 
 sionary to India. He lost his 
 life in the siege of Cawnpore 
 during the Mutiny of 1857, 
 when the natives rose simul- 
 taneously in various parts of 
 the country. 
 
 Mr. Gunn, who is an at- 
 torney of wide experience, 
 received his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the common schools 
 of Vermilion County, Illinois, 
 later attended high school at 
 Hoopeston, Illinois, and was 
 graduated from Greer College 
 in the class of 1898 with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 He then entered the Law De- 
 partment of Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity at Bloomington, In- 
 diana, and was graduated in 
 1901. He was admitted to 
 the Illinois Bar the same 
 year. 
 
 Opening offices at Danville, 
 Illinois, Mr. Gunn practiced 
 alone for about two years, 
 but in 1903 formed a partner- 
 ship with J. W. Keeslor, State's Attorney, of Ver- 
 milion County, Illinois, and was named by Mr. 
 Keeslor as Assistant State's Attorney, an office 
 in which he served until 1908. During this time 
 Mr. Gunn figured prominently in several notable 
 cases, among them the trial of a band of men 
 indicted for participation in the lynching of a 
 negro at Danville in 1903. This act was followed 
 by serious rioting in the city and other acts of 
 violence, which caused the State troops to be 
 called out. Fourteen men were tried on the charge 
 of participation in the lynching and subsequent 
 acts of lawlessness and all were convicted, this 
 being the first time on record where such convic- 
 tion was obtained. Mr. Gunn was one of the active 
 attorneys for the State in this prosecution. 
 
 Another important case in which Mr. Gunn ap- 
 peared as counsel for the State was that of the 
 prosecution of Manager Davis, who was charged 
 with manslaughter growing out of the Iroquois 
 Theater fire in Chicago, in which more than six 
 hundred persons lost their lives. 
 
 WALTER T. GUNN 
 
 In 1906 Mr. Gunn was appointed Master in 
 Chancery of the United States Circuit Court for 
 the Eastern District of Illinois, and held this 
 office until he left the State in the latter part of 
 1911 to transfer his home to Southern California. 
 During the ten years of his residence in Dan- 
 ville Mr. Gunn was active in political affairs as a 
 member of the Republican party, and served one 
 term as Alderman. In the capacity of Master in 
 Chancery he heard many of the cases involving 
 oil rights, following the dis- 
 covery of oil in Illinois, and 
 also acted as Special Master 
 in fixing the valuation of 
 street car properties in the 
 controversy between the City 
 of Belleville, Illinois, and the 
 East St. Louis Suburban 
 Railway Company. 
 
 Although he was active in 
 public affairs during this 
 entire period, Mr. Gunn also 
 maintained his private prac- 
 tice, devoting most of his time 
 to the handling of oil and cor- 
 poration matters. He figured 
 in numerous cases of this 
 character, and was generally 
 regarded as an authority on 
 the laws regarding them. 
 
 Mr. Gunn, between the 
 years 1903 and 1906, was a 
 member of the National 
 Guard of Illinois, but resigned 
 at the end of three years' 
 service. 
 
 Since locating in Los An- 
 geles, in October, 1911, Mr. 
 Gunn has met with gratifying 
 
 success in his professional work, and has estab- 
 lished himself among the strong members of the 
 Bar of Southern California. His splendid profes- 
 sional record gave him ready welcome to a posi- 
 tion among the progressive members of the Bar and 
 in his work he is associated with some of its most 
 successful exponents. He maintains a general legal 
 practice, but specializes in oil and mining law. 
 
 In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Gunn also 
 is interested in various- commercial enterprises, 
 among them the American Glass Sand Company, of 
 which he is a Director. Endowed with an unusual 
 amount of energy, Mr. Gunn takes an active part 
 in the various concerns in which he is interested 
 and which he serves as legal counsel. Although 
 comparatively new in Los Angeles, he takes a keen 
 interest in various movements for its advancement. 
 Mr. Gunn is a member of the Sierra Madre 
 Club of Los Angeles, the Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, Masons, Knights of Pythias, 
 Modern Woodmen of America and the Court of 
 Honor. 
 
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 563 
 
 'DONALD, WILLIAM C., first 
 Governor of the State of New 
 Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 
 was born at Jordanville, New 
 York, July 25, 1858, the son of 
 John McDonald and Lydia Mar- 
 shall (Biggs) McDonald. He married Frances J. 
 McCourt at Las Vegas, New Mex., Aug. 31, 1891, 
 and to them was born a daughter, Frances Mc- 
 Donald (Mrs. T. A. Spencer). He is of Scotch 
 descent and numerous men of note are found in 
 the family record. 
 
 Governor McDonald, who, in his private ca- 
 pacity, is one of the largest cattle raisers in the 
 Southwest, received his primary education in the 
 public schools of his native county (Herkimer) and 
 later attended Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, N. 
 Y. While attending the latter institution he also 
 taught school in central New York, his career as 
 a teacher covering the period from 1875 to 1877. 
 
 Upon finishing his academic work, Governor Mc- 
 Donald took up the study of law in Mohawk, New 
 York, but about the time he finished reading moved 
 to the West, so that he was admitted to practice at 
 Fort Scott, Kansas, instead of in New York. He 
 remained at Fort Scott only a few months, so did 
 not practice his profession. In May, 1880, he 
 moved further West, locating at White Oaks, New 
 Mex. There he obtained employment as a clerk 
 in a general store, remaining at it for about a year. 
 
 In 1881, during the administration of Chester A. 
 Arthur as President of the United States, Gover- 
 nor McDonald, who had made a study of engineer- 
 ing matters, was appointed United States Deputy 
 Mineral Surveyor for the Territory of New Mexico 
 and served for about nine years, or until 1890. 
 During this time he also maintained a private prac- 
 tice as Civil Engineer and engaged in the construc- 
 tion (jf various underground workings. 
 
 Resigning his position with the Government in 
 1890, Governor McDonald engaged in the cattle 
 business as- Manager of the Carrizozo Cattle Com- 
 pany, and has devoted his time to this and similar 
 enterprises since, also dealing in lands. 
 
 Governor McDonald is one of the survivors of 
 that race of men who, braving the dangers of the 
 frontier in its wildest days, brought about the re- 
 generation of the great Southwest and made pos- 
 sible the prosperity and progress that has since 
 become characteristic of that section of the United 
 States. The country was overrun at the time Gov- 
 ernor McDonald engaged in the cattle business, 
 with "rustlers" and other undesirable, desperate 
 characters and he was one of the men who, by the 
 exercise of courage and firmness, succeeded ulti- 
 mately in driving them from the country. This 
 was accomplished only after years of bitter strug- 
 gle, during which many men lost their lives, but 
 Governor McDonald never found it necessary to 
 use a weapon in maintaining law and order. 
 
 The Carrizozo Cattle Company, with which the 
 
 Governor has been so long connected, is only one 
 of his interests. He has acquired control of the 
 El Capitan Live Stock Company, perhaps the larg- 
 est enterprise of its kind in New Mexico, and while 
 he holds no office in its organization, is the domi- 
 nating factor in its operations. Between the two 
 concerns he controls many thousand head of cattle 
 and sheep, scattered over an immense range. 
 
 Governor McDonald, from his early manhood, 
 has taken an active interest in political affairs as 
 a supporter of the principles of the Democratic 
 party, and was one of the organizers of that party 
 in New Mexico. The organization was effected in 
 1884 and in the election that Fall he was elected 
 Assessor for Lincoln County. He served one term 
 (1885-87) and then retired temporarily to his pri- 
 vate work. In 1890 he was elected a member of 
 the House of Representatives on the Democratic 
 ticket and served until 1892. During this term he 
 worked consistently for an adequate public school 
 system, and even at that early date was a crusader 
 for good roads, a movement which has come to be 
 of national importance. During all of his life as a 
 public official these have been among improve- 
 ments for which he has labored. 
 
 In 1895 Governor McDonald was elected Chair- 
 man of the Lincoln County Commissioners, serv- 
 ing for two years. The Board of which he was 
 head was notable for the fact that, by good man- 
 agement, it brought Lincoln County* out of debt. 
 
 As one of the largest cattle raisers in the Terri- 
 tory, he was chosen a member of the New Mexico 
 Cattle Sanitary Board, serving until 1911. 
 
 He was chosen Chairman of the Democratic 
 Central Territorial Committee in 1910, and, largely 
 due to his personal efforts, the organization was 
 brought to such a state of perfection that at the 
 first State election in New Mexico the party was 
 victorious. It so happened that Governor McDon- 
 ald was picked by the party as its standard bearer 
 in this contest and elected to office Nov. 7, 1911. 
 
 Since taking up the affairs of the State as 
 Chief Executive, Governor McDonald has pursued 
 a policy of government along business lines, 
 whereby the Commonwealth is conducted on a pro- 
 gressive, economical basis. One of his earliest re- 
 forms was that by which office holders, elected to 
 serve the State, were compelled to do so, and not 
 delegate their duties to other persons, as had been 
 the practice for many years. Other important poli- 
 cies of Governor McDonald's program included the 
 establishment of the schools of the State on a firm 
 basis, the improvement of the highways and the 
 maintenance of a clean judiciary system. 
 
 The Governor, whose term of office expires in 
 1916, is a firm believer in the future of his adopted 
 State, and in the conduct of his office puts into 
 practical use his belief that men and parties should 
 be subservient to the State. 
 
 Governor McDonald's home is on a magnificent 
 ranch at Carrizozo, New Mexico. 
 
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 BRYAN CALLAGHAN 
 
 ALLAGHAN, BRYAN, Lawyer, 
 San Antonio, Texas, was born in 
 that city in April, 1852, the son of 
 Bryan Callaghan and Conception 
 (Ramon) Callaghan. He married 
 Adele Guilbeau at San Antonio, 
 May 15, 1879, and of the union there are six chil- 
 dren, Rosaria, Conception, James, Bryan, Charles 
 and Alfred B. Callaghan. 
 
 Mr. Callaghan has spent his life in the city of his 
 birth and is one of the leading attorneys of the Lone 
 Star State. He was fortunate in having unlimited 
 educational advantages and studied both in this 
 country and abroad. He attended St. Mary's College 
 in San Antonio two years, and for six years after he 
 left that institution studied at Montpellier, France. 
 During his stay abroad he traveled all through 
 Europe. Shortly after his arrival home Mr. Cal- 
 laghan entered the law department of the University 
 of Virginia and was graduated there in 1876. That 
 same summer he was admitted to practice in San 
 Antonio. 
 
 Mr. Callaghan's career since his admittance to 
 the bar has been marked with many decided suc- 
 cesses, both political and professional. He was still 
 a young man when he was elected Alderman in San 
 Antonio and acted in that capacity for two years. 
 Next he was elected to the office of County Judge 
 and served on the bench for four years. Subsequent- 
 ly he was elected County Recorder, retaining that 
 office for one term of two years. 
 
 Mr. Callaghan was elected Mayor of San Antonio 
 fourteen years ago and he has continued as chief 
 executive of the city since that time, being regularly 
 re-elected. During his incumbency San Antonio has 
 seen its most progressive days and Mayor Callaghan 
 has been one of the most important factors in the 
 growth of the city. 
 
 Mr. Callaghan is a man of many accomplishments 
 and speaks French and Spanish fluently. 
 
 LE COMPTE DAVIS 
 
 AVIS, LE COMPTE, Lawyer, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Mercer County, Kentucky, May 1, 
 1864, the son of Henry Clay Davis 
 and Josephine (Le Compte) Davis. 
 He married Edythe Gilman at 
 Ventura, California, April 18, 1908. 
 
 He was educated in the common schools of his 
 native state and finished with a course in law at 
 Centre College, Danville, Ky., from which he was 
 graduated in 1887, with the degree L. B. He was 
 admitted to the bar in Kentucky that year, but did 
 not practice there. Instead, he went immediately 
 to Los Angeles and began practice. 
 
 During the twenty-three years in which he has 
 been a member of the bar, Mr. Davis has made a 
 reputation as a criminal lawyer and eloquent 
 pleader. He served one term of two years as As- 
 sistant District Attorney of Los Angeles County, 
 under H. C. Dillon, and, upon retiring in 1895, 
 established a partnership with Judson R. Rush, as 
 Davis & Rush. 
 
 Davis and Rush have appeared in sixty murder 
 trials, successfully defending the majority of their 
 clients. Mr. Davis was associated in the defense of 
 the celebrated "McNamara dynamiting cases," fol- 
 lowing which he was associated in the defense of 
 Clarence Darrow, the noted attorney, accused of 
 bribery as an outgrowth of these cases. In 1908 he 
 defended Dr. Hedderly, Warren Gillellen and R. C. 
 Kenny, accused in the Oregon land fraud cases, se- 
 curing acquittals in two instances. He was also a 
 successful pleader for the defendants in the Imper- 
 ial Valley land fraud cases in 1909. 
 
 Mr. Davis leads a scholar's life, reading liberally 
 of philosophy, history, science and biogiaphy. His 
 private library contains more than 3500 volumes 
 and his collection of old engravings, antique books 
 and paintings is one of rare value. He is a member 
 of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 
 
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 565 
 
 HORACE S. WILSON 
 
 ILSON, HORACE SANDES, At- 
 torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Los Angeles, 
 December 9, 1883. He is the son 
 of Percy R. Wilson and Emily 
 Alice (Sandes) Wilson. He mar- 
 ried Maybelle Louise Harmon, June 8, 1909, at San 
 Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Wilson's father was one of the best known 
 men of Southern California, a highly respected 
 man of means and great influential standing, who 
 had been a lawyer and banker in Los Angeles for 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was educated in California. He was 
 first sent to the grammar schools of Los Angeles 
 County, and when he had finished these, took the 
 course at Harvard School, Los Angeles, which cor- 
 responds to the public high school course. He is 
 a graduate of that school of the year 1904. The 
 following autumn he went to the Leland Stanford 
 Junior University, at Palo Alto, California. He at- 
 tended that institution for three and one-half 
 years, when he returned to Los Angeles to take 
 the bar examination, which he passed in July, 1908, 
 and immediately began the practice of law in the 
 office of his father. He continued in partnership 
 with his father until the latter's death, in Decem- 
 ber, 1909. 
 
 Since his father's death, Mr. Wilson has been 
 associated with Oscar C. Mueller, and has appeared 
 before the bench and as consulting attorney in all 
 branches of the law. 
 
 He is a loyal son of California, with civic pride 
 as one of his strongest characteristics, and is ever 
 alert to aid any movement for the advancement of 
 Los Angeles or the rich country which surrounds 
 it. He has never sought nor held public office, nor 
 is he active in politics. 
 
 Mr. Wilson is a member of the University Club 
 and of the California Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 A. F. WEBSTER 
 
 EBSTER, ALFRED FRANCIS, 
 Real Estate and Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California^ was born at 
 Mankato, Minnesota, the son of 
 Sanford Webster and Phennettia 
 (Washburn) Webster. He is a 
 descendant of Daniel Webster, reckoned, perhaps, 
 the greatest of American orators. He married 
 Anna Woodbury, Jan. 28, 1889, at his former home 
 in Nebraska. There is one child, Hazel Webster. 
 
 Mr. Webster spent his early days on a farm, re- 
 ceiving his education meanwhile. He was graduated 
 from the Hastings, Neb., High School, June 30, 1885, 
 and entered Hastings College, graduating two years 
 later. He entered a wholesale grocery house, but at 
 the end of a year was compelled, on account of ill 
 health, to abandon this. He went into Wyoming 
 and became a cowboy. After two years he went to 
 Kansas as manager of a large ranch. Two years 
 later he married and decided to go into business for 
 himself, and embarked in the fruit business in Ar- 
 kansas. This proving unprofitable he gave it up to 
 enter the wholesale department of Marshall Field 
 & Co., Chicago. While so engaged he mastered the 
 art of photography and at the end of a year opened 
 a studio in Beaver City, Neb., where he became 
 prominent in politics, being for a number of years 
 a member of the Republican State Central Commit- 
 tee as Secretary and Chairman. His handling of 
 vacation excursions to Colorado and the Black Hills 
 caused his selection by the Burlington to take 
 charge of excursion business out of Omaha. Later, 
 going to Chicago, he became a member of the Bos- 
 ton and Los Angeles Excursion Co. He resigned to 
 go into real estate in 1903, at Denver, Colo., and in 
 1904 at Los Angeles and Ocean Park, Cal. He be- 
 longs to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 
 which he organized and of which he was the first 
 president. He is a Mason, Elk and K. of P. 
 
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 ARRET, ALEXANDER BUCHAN- 
 AN, Merchant and Capitalist, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Henderson, Kentucky, 
 February 1, 1863, the son of Wil- 
 liam T. Barret and Bettie 
 (Towles) Barret. He married Bessie McJohnston 
 of Owensboro, Kentucky, at Los Angeles-, Califor- 
 nia, March 14, 1900. 
 
 Mr. Barret attended the public schools at Hen- 
 derson and private schools 
 in Virginia until seventeen 
 years of age, when, owing to 
 financial reverses- in his fam- 
 ily, he started to make his 
 own livelihood. Soon after- 
 ward he obtained employ- 
 ment in a wholesale grocery 
 and has been engaged in this 
 business almost continuously 
 since, working from the bot- 
 tom to his present position 
 of Vice President and Man- 
 ager of the firm of Stetson- 
 Barret Company. 
 
 In 1886, a wholesale gro- 
 cery was established in Hen- 
 derson by John W. Wilhoyte 
 and Fred H. Frayser, who 
 placed Mr. Barret in charge 
 of their books. By looking 
 after the books at night, Mr. 
 Barret was able to act as 
 salesman in the daylight 
 hours and by his devotion to 
 duty earned a working inter- 
 e&t in the firm. Being of an 
 ambitious nature, he was en- 
 abled, by work and economy, 
 to purchase the interest of Mr. Frayser in 1894. 
 The firm's name was then changed to Barret & 
 Wilhoyte, Mr. Barret assuming the general man- 
 agement of the business. The following year Mr. 
 Wilhoyte suffered a stroke of paralysis- from which 
 he never recovered, and the entire responsibility 
 of the business fell upon Mr. Barret's shoulders. 
 He conducted it for six months, at which time 
 Charles W. Wilhoyte, an elder brother of Mr. Bar- 
 ret's partner and junior member of the firm of 
 R. P. McJohnston, joined with Mr. Barret in pur- 
 chasing the McJohnston interests in Owensboro, 
 Ky. They then consolidated the two houses at 
 Owensboro, with Mr. Barret as general manager. 
 In 1898 Charles W. Wilhoyte was killed in a run- 
 away accident and Mr. Barret continued the busi- 
 ness alone, in addition to looking after the intere&ts 
 of Mr. Wilhoyte's heirs. 
 
 In the fall of 1901 Mr. Barret sold out his Ken- 
 tucky business, having decided to make Los An- 
 geles his home. In 1902 Mr. Barret and W. W. 
 Johnston organized the Johnston-Barret Dry Goods- 
 
 A. B. BARRET 
 
 Company, of Los Angeles, Mr. Barret being Vice 
 President and financial manager of the house. In 
 1906 he sold out his interest to re-enter the whole- 
 sale grocery field, becoming a partner of A. L. 
 Stetson under the corporate name of Stetson- 
 Barret Company. He is Vice President and Treas- 
 urer of this company, which is one of the largest on 
 the Pacific Coast. The company ranks among the 
 largest importers and distributors of that section 
 and through a policy of fair dealing, consistently 
 maintained since its incep- 
 tion, has built up an exten- 
 sive business throughout 
 Southern California, Nevada 
 and Arizona. Mr. Barret is 
 an active force in the man- 
 agement of the company and 
 devotes practically all of his 
 time to its affairs. Owing to 
 his previous wide experience 
 in the wholesale grocery 
 business Mr. Barret has been 
 one of the most important 
 forces in the upbuilding of 
 his firm to its present place 
 among the large commercial 
 establishments of Los An- 
 geles and Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 In addition to the Stetson- 
 Barret Company, Mr. Barret 
 is interested in several oil 
 companies and various im- 
 portant enterprises through- 
 out the Southwest. 
 
 Since adopting Los An- 
 geles as his home Mr. Barret 
 has established himself as 
 one of the substantial busi- 
 ness men of the city and has taken an active part in 
 the social and commercial life of the community. He 
 was a Director of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Mines and Oil for two years, and during 1908-09 
 served as First Vice President. He was a Director 
 also of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Associa- 
 tion of Los Angeles during the years 1909-1910. He 
 is still a member of these organizations, and in ad- 
 dition is an active member and worker of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Jobbers' 
 Association, of Lo& Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Barret is an enthusiastic worker for the 
 improvement of Los Angeles, and is in the fore- 
 front of men confident of the future of the Southern 
 California metropolis. 
 
 He is a keen sportsman and during the season 
 is a frequent visitor to the preserves of his shoot- 
 ing club. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, Los An- 
 geles Country Club and holds life membership in 
 the Los Angeles Athletic Club, besides being a 
 member of the Blue Wing Shooting Club. 
 
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 567 
 
 INSEY, CHARLES HART, Attorney 
 at Law (member of the firm of 
 Clarke & Kinsey), San Francisco, 
 California, was born in Eureka, 
 Humboldt County, California, Jan- 
 uary 5, 1876, the son of Louis 
 Thompson Kinsey and Sarah Jane (Hart) Kinsey. 
 He married Miss Alice Benicia Hulse at San Fran- 
 cisco on October 19, 1907. Mr. Kinsey is descended 
 from the oldest stock in the United States. His 
 paternal ancestors were Eng- 
 lish, while on the maternal 
 side his forbears were Eng- 
 lish and Dutch. The earliest 
 members of the family in 
 America were residents of 
 Pennsylvania when Philadel- 
 phia, now the third largest 
 city of the Union, was but a 
 village. His paternal grand- 
 father crossed the plains with 
 an ox team in 1851, settling 
 first in Oregon, but in the fol- 
 lowing year moved to Cali- 
 fornia and ultimately located 
 in Siskiyou County, where the 
 father of Mr. Kinsey was 
 born. For twenty-five years 
 Mr. Kinsey's father was a 
 leading banker of Eureka and 
 a prominent factor in the af- 
 fairs of Humboldt County, 
 California. He filled various 
 county offices and also served 
 one term as Mayor of the 
 town of Eureka. Mr. Kin- 
 sey's mother's family also 
 were among the pioneer set- 
 tlers of California, they hav- 
 ing come around the Horn in a sailing vessel which 
 landed them at San Francisco in the year 1850. 
 
 Mr. Kinsey, now ranked as one of the successful 
 corporation lawyers of the Pacific Coast, spent his 
 boyhood and a part of his early manhood in his 
 native town and in Humboldt County. He received 
 his preliminary education in the public schools of 
 Eureka and was graduated from the High School 
 of that place in the class of 1893. The following 
 year he entered Leland Stanford, Jr., University 
 at Palo Alto, California, and was a student there 
 until 1895, but left at the conclusion of his second 
 term to take up the study of law. He studied at 
 the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco for 
 about two years, but trouble with his eyes obliged 
 him to leave before his graduation and he returned 
 to his home in Eureka. 
 
 After a short stay at home, Mr. Kinsey, who 
 was unable at that time to engage in reading of 
 any sort, went to a ranch in Humboldt County and 
 there became a cowboy. He followed this life for 
 about eight years, and during that time was almost 
 
 C. H. KINSEY 
 
 continually in the saddle as cowboy, foreman or 
 superintendent of the ranch. He had attained this 
 latter position, which involved the management of 
 a property five thousand acres in extent, together 
 with several thousand head of cattle, only after 
 the most strenuous work, and was serving as super- 
 intendent at the time he gave up ranching. His 
 life outdoors during those several years proved of 
 benefit to Mr. Kinsey's eyes and also gave him a 
 robust constitution. He was fascinated with the 
 work, but at the same time 
 always retained his ambition 
 to enter the legal profession, 
 and whenever it was possible 
 studied his law books. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Kinsey passed 
 the bar examinations and 
 was admitted to practice in 
 the Supreme Court of Califor- 
 nia. He began practice short- 
 ly afterward in the office of 
 Jordan, Rowe & Brann, one 
 of the established firms of 
 San Francisco. It was headed 
 by William H. Jordan, one of 
 the leaders of the San Fran- 
 cisco bar, former speaker of 
 the California Assembly and a 
 factor in educational affairs. 
 During the two years he was 
 associated with the firm Mr. 
 Kinsey, who acted as both 
 clerk and lawyer, was thrown 
 in close contact with Mr. Jor- 
 dan, and through that expe- 
 rienced attorney, gained a 
 wide knowledge. 
 
 Leaving the firm of 
 Jordan, Rowe & Brann in 
 
 1909, Mr. Kinsey practiced alone for about a year, 
 and in 1910 formed the partnership of Clarke & 
 Kinsey, the senior member of the firm being Fabius 
 M. Clarke of Indiana, who had had many years' ex- 
 perience in the courts of Indiana, Ohio and other 
 States. He had been in retirement for a few years 
 prior to forming the partnership with Mr. Kinsey, 
 but since that time has been very active. They are 
 known among the strong men of the profession. 
 
 Mr. Kinsey's practice is confined chiefly to coun- 
 seling and corporation law, and he seldom appears 
 in court. He has had several important divorce 
 actions, which he handled successfully, but outside 
 of these, his labors have been confined to acting as 
 consulting attorney for various concerns, among 
 them several leading oil companies of California. 
 
 Mr. Kinsey is an amateur musician of ability 
 and during his days at Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer- 
 sity was- a member of the college band. He seeks 
 recreation in fishing and hunting; belongs to the 
 Union League and Commonwealth Clubs of San 
 Francisco and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
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 569 
 
 UPEE, WALTER HAMLIN, Capi- 
 talist, Coronado Beach, California, 
 was born in the city of Chicago, 
 111., July 17, 1874. He is the son 
 of John and Evelyn Dupee. He 
 married Agnes Florence Kennett 
 at Chicago, November 7, 1900, and to them there 
 have been born two children, Evelyn and Wal- 
 ter Hamlin Dupee, Jr. Mr. Dupee is of French 
 descent, the original member of the family in 
 America having come over from France in the 
 latter part of the eighteenth century. For several 
 generations the Dupees resided in New England, 
 but later members moved to the West. 
 
 Mr. Dupee received his early education in the 
 University School of Chicago, and later was a 
 student at Harvard School of the same city, but 
 left when he was about sixteen years of age and 
 began his career as a clerk in the office of 
 Schwartz-Dupee & Company, an old-established 
 stock and grain brokerage firm of Chicago, of 
 which his father was one of the founders. In this 
 capacity he learned the rudiments of the busine&s 
 and was promoted, as time went on, to more re- 
 sponsible positions, until he finally acquired an 
 interest in the firm. 
 
 In 1897, after serving about seven years in the 
 brokerage business, Mr. Dupee left Chicago and 
 went We&t in search of investments. He finally 
 went to Lower California, in the Republic of 
 Mexico, and there purchased about seventy-five 
 thousand acres of land for investment purposes. 
 For some time he was- engaged in the raising of 
 horses and cattle on these lands, but ultimately 
 sold his stock and also much of the land, although 
 he still owns a large part of the original purchase. 
 
 Mr. Dupee continued his interest in financial 
 affairs in Chicago, and in 1905 became a partner 
 of Charles G. Gates, son of the late John W. 
 Gates, the noted financier, in the firm of C. G. 
 Gates- & Company. This company, which had 
 brokerage offices all over the United States and 
 in various foreign countries, was the largest insti- 
 tution of the kind in the world. Mr. Dupee was 
 one of the active factors in the management of 
 the Chicago headquarters of the firm for three 
 years, but upon the dissolution of the company in 
 1907 retired from active business-, and since that 
 time has confined his operations to investment 
 enterprises, consisting chiefly of stocks and bonds. 
 
 In 1908 Mr. Dupee, to whom Southern California 
 had made a strong appeal during previous vi&its 
 to that section, transferred his home to the beau- 
 tiful Island of Coronado, adjacent to San Diego, 
 California, and has kept his- residence there since. 
 
 A born lover of horses, Mr. Dupee learned to 
 ride in his youth, and while at school took up the 
 sport of Polo. He played for several years in and 
 around Chicago, and since locating in California 
 has become known as one of the crack players of 
 the United States, having figured in numerous 
 important matches-. He became a member of the 
 Coronado Beach Country Club and also of the 
 Coronado Beach Polo Club shortly after his arrival 
 there, and is credited with having done a great 
 deal towards creating enthusiasm for the game on 
 the Pacific Coast. He played in several matches in 
 1908, and the following season was one of the or- 
 ganizers of the crack Coronado Country Club four. 
 
 This team was- made up of Mr. Dupee, Lord 
 
 Innes-Ker and Lord Tweedmouth of England, and 
 Major Colin G. Ross, former commander of the 
 Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, all known as 
 hard-riding, expert players. They met the best 
 teams of the Southern California League during 
 that season, and gave their competitors a hard 
 run for the championship. 
 
 The next season (1910) Mr. Dupee's team was 
 changed somewhat, consisting of himself, Major 
 Ross, Harry Scott and Cheevar Cowdin. This four 
 made one of the best records in the history of 
 Polo in Southern California, but their play was 
 exceeded by the team of which Mr. Dupee was 
 Captain in the season of 1911. With him in the 
 latter season were Lords Tweedmouth and Herbert 
 and Lucian Gower, brilliant players, and while 
 there were various changes in the make-up of the 
 team during the season, Mr. Dupee played in prac- 
 tically every game. On January 18, 1911, at Pasa- 
 dena, California, Mr. Dupee's team, of which he 
 was Captain, defeated the Pasadena Polo Club four 
 by a score of 16J4 goals to 8%, after giving the 
 Pasadena players a handicap of eight goals. This 
 was the first game played on the Pacific Coast 
 under the American rules. 
 
 This victory placed Mr. Dupee's team in the 
 finals for the championship, and in the deciding 
 game of the season, played on January 21, 1911, 
 between the Coronado four and the Santa Barbara 
 team, the former won the honor. In this contest 
 Mr. Dupee played an exceptionally brilliant game, 
 and was one of the chief factors- in the victory of 
 his team, which carried off the silver cups awarded 
 as trophies. 
 
 On March 4 of the same year Mr. Dupee and 
 Major Ross, as members of a picked team, called 
 the "Blues," defeated another picked team, the 
 "Whites," in a historic battle at Coronado Beach. 
 The play was characterized by the fastest polo 
 work ever seen on the green at Coronado, and 
 the victors, who carried away the championship of 
 Coronado, were awarded four silver cups, donated 
 by Mr. John Dupee, father of Walter Dupee. 
 
 At the close of the Southern California season 
 in 1911 Mr. Dupee, who is an ardent enthusiast 
 at all times, loaned several of his Polo ponies to 
 his friends of the East to be used in the Inter- 
 national match between the American and Eng- 
 lish teams, which was won by the former. 
 
 Mr Dupee plays the game of Polo simply for 
 the love of the sport, and is the owner of one of 
 the finest stables of thoroughbred ponies in the 
 United States. These number forty-five, and several 
 of them are among the crack ponies of the game, 
 celebrated for their intelligence, speed and staying 
 powers. He maintains these ponies for the use ot 
 himself and his friends and has never been known 
 to traffic in them. 
 
 Mr Dupee is not interested in politics or public 
 affairs and devotes his time exclusively to his pri- 
 vate interests. He travels in Europe and the United 
 States to a considerable extent, but spends the 
 greater part of his time in Southern California, 
 where he is popular in social and club circles. 
 
 Aside from his memberships in the Coronado 
 Beach Country Club and the Coronado Beach Polo 
 Club he belongs to the Pasadena Polo Club, the 
 Chicago Club, Chicago Athletic Club and the Chi- 
 cago Yacht Club, the three latter, Chicago's most 
 noted clubs. 
 
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 ONES, CHARLES COLCOCK, Con- 
 sulting Mining Engineer and Met- 
 allurgist, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Augusta, Georgia, 
 July 28, 1865, the second son of 
 Joseph Jones, M. D., LL. D., and 
 Caroline Susan (Davis) Jones. 
 
 The original ancestor in America was of the 
 "Jones of Liverpool" family, and settled at Charles- 
 ton, South Carolina, in 1687; later the family 
 moved to Georgia, where 
 large plantations were ac- 
 quired in Liberty County, 
 near Savannah. 
 
 In October, 1779, Major 
 John Jones (the great-great- 
 grandfather of Mr. Jones), 
 Aide-de-Camp to General 
 Lachlan Mclntosh, fell at the 
 siege of Savannah leading 
 the assault on the British po- 
 sition. Jones Street, Savan- 
 nah, was named in his mem- 
 ory. 
 
 On the maternal side Mr. 
 Jones has French Huguenot 
 blood through the Girardeau 
 family, and claims Scottish 
 descent from the Red Comyn 
 of Inverness, through the 
 Gumming family of Maryland 
 and Georgia. Charles Col- 
 cock Jones, his grandfather 
 of Liberty County, Georgia, 
 was a prominent minister in 
 the affairs of tbs Presbyte- 
 rian Church. 
 
 Charles Colcock Jones, 
 Jr., his uncle, has a national 
 
 reputation as the Historian of Georgia, and writer 
 on American Archaeology. Joseph Jones, M. D., 
 LL. D., father of Mr. Jones, was for many years, 
 up to the time of his death in 1896, Professor of 
 Chemistry and Clinical Medicine in the Tulane Uni- 
 versity of New Orleans, Louisiana, and has an in- 
 ternational reputation based on his researches and 
 writings on fevers, particularly yellow fever, and 
 general hygiene; in addition he is known through 
 the publication by the Smithsonian Institute of his 
 early researches on the blood and a volume on the 
 Mound Builders of the Mississippi Valley. 
 
 In May, 1898, Mr. Jones married at Atlanta, 
 Georgia, Elizabeth Clayton King, of Augusta, 
 Georgia, a direct descendant in the eighth genera- 
 tion from Governor William Bradford of Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Mr. Jones was graduated in Mechanics in 1884 
 from the Louisiana State University at Baton 
 Rouge, Louisiana, and in 1887 received his degree" 
 in Mining and Metallurgy from Lehigh University, 
 South Bethlehem, Pa., immediately entering as a 
 
 C. COLCOCK JONES 
 
 "learner" in the Blast Furnace Department of the 
 Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steelton, Pa. He 
 rose rapidly to the position of Assistant Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 In 1889, Mr. Jones went to Virginia, remaining 
 there until 1896, in charge of iron furnaces, iron 
 mines and collieries, the last four years operating 
 the Coeburn Colliery Company, a personally con- 
 trolled colliery in the Clinch River (Virginia) field. 
 He then spent two years in the Appalachian 
 gold field and in traveling, re- 
 moving in 1898 to Marquette, 
 Michigan, as Manager and 
 Engineer of the large iron in- 
 terests of the Breitung Es- 
 tate and Edward N. Breitung. 
 In November, 1902, he 
 was called to California by 
 the Mountain Copper Com- 
 pany, Ltd., of Shasta County, 
 to rehabilitate the Iron 
 Mountain mines, which were 
 on fire and in a generally 
 wrecked condition. After 
 much dangerous work, Mr. 
 Jones successfully installed a 
 system of ventilation and 
 workings that for the first 
 time in the history of mining 
 controlled underground py- 
 ritic fire, insured the safety 
 of miners and allowed the ex- 
 traction of ore otherwise lost. 
 The next few years were 
 spent as Examining Engineer 
 for the company and espe- 
 cially in the search for phos- 
 phates, in order to utilize 
 waste sulphur from copper 
 
 smelters as sulphuric acid in the manufacture of 
 commercial fertilizers with the result that he dis- 
 covered and opened the largest known deposits in 
 the world in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, credit be- 
 ing given him for it in publications- of U. S. Geolog- 
 ical Survey, and Technical Press. 
 
 The opening of this phosphate field was epochal 
 as far as the Pacific Coast is concerned, and of large 
 importance to the whole country; placed as it is in 
 the interior, this "backbone" of the Nation can't be 
 stripped to benefit Europe as was Carolina and 
 Florida. Phosphate rock from this field is being 
 manufactured into fertilizer for California by the 
 Mt. Copper Co. and Stauffer Chem. Co., San Fran- 
 cisco, and Am. Agricultural Chem. Co., Los Angeles. 
 In 1904, Mr. Jones established an office as Con- 
 sulting Engineer in Salt Lake City, and in January, 
 1906, removed to Los Angeles, from which point he 
 is engaged at times from Alaska to Mexico. He 
 owns large iron mines in California. 
 
 Member, Am. Institute Mining Engineers, Sons 
 of Revolution in Cal. and Sierra Madre Club. 
 
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 3 ILL, IRVING J., Architect, San 
 Diego, Cal., was born in Tully, N. 
 Y., April 26, 1870, the son of 
 Joseph Gill and Cynthia C. (Scul- 
 len) Gill. 
 
 He attended the Madison Street 
 School of Syracuse, N. Y., and began his architec- 
 tural work as a student in the office of Ellis G. 
 Hall, of Syracuse, in 1889. The following year he 
 studied under J. L. Silsby in Chicago, and in 1891 
 was a pupil of Messrs. Ader 
 & Sullivan of Chicago. He 
 was appointed a member of 
 the Architectural Staff of the 
 World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion in 1892, but his health 
 became impaired and he was 
 compelled to resign his posi- 
 tion, going to Southern Cali- 
 fornia to recuperate. 
 
 Locating at San Diego, 
 Cal., Mr. Gill spent several 
 months resting, and in 1893, 
 having regained his health, 
 opened an office there for 
 the practice of his profession. 
 In 1901 Mr. Gill returned to 
 the East, where for the next 
 few years he was engaged in 
 the design and construction 
 of various buildings, but de- 
 voted himself principally to 
 private residences. Among 
 the notable homes built by 
 him were those of Albert H. 
 Olmstead, at Newport, R. I.; 
 Miss Ellen Mason, at New- 
 port, R. I.; Mrs. Shaw-Safe, 
 at East Greenwich, R. I.; 
 Miss Sarah Birkhead, at 
 Portsmouth, R. I.; Louis 
 Butler McCagg, at Bar Har- 
 bor, Maine. 
 
 Returning to California in 
 the latter part of 1904, Mr. 
 
 Gill resumed his work in San Diego, and has since 
 maintained his offices there. In the interim he 
 has been among the leading architects of that sec- 
 tion and is classed by authorities on the subject 
 as one of the eminent members of the profession 
 in America. 
 
 One of the notable works of Mr. Gill was the 
 design and construction, in 1911, of a community 
 of model cottages at Sierra Madre, California, at 
 the base of the Sierra Madre Mountains. 
 
 "The Craftsman," a publication devoted to archi- 
 tecture and allied subjects, was inspired by the 
 Sierra Madre group to pay a splendid tribute to 
 the art of Mr. Gill, stating in part: 
 
 "In the West, where man not only dares to be 
 honest but is encouraged in every way to express 
 himself, there has arisen a simpler and more dis- 
 tinctive architecture. One architect of the Coast, 
 Irving J. Gill, after wandering for years among the 
 inspired work of the past Grecian, Roman, Italian, 
 early English groping hopefully through the maze 
 that every architect is forced by custom and edu- 
 cation to thread, dissatisfied with the best that he 
 could produce and convinced of the absurdity and 
 dishonesty of plagiarism, has had the courage to 
 throw aside every accepted belief of the present 
 day and start afresh with the simplest forms, the 
 
 IRVING J. GILL 
 
 straight line, the pier, lintel and arch. And he 
 uses these without ornamentation, save for the 
 natural grace of a clinging vine that is allowed to 
 trail about a doorway or droop over the severe line 
 of the roof. Instead of delving into the past works 
 of great men, trying to adapt what has been, to the 
 conditions of the present, he bends his efforts to 
 determine what should be, regardless of precedent. 
 By this return to fundamental needs, he has hit 
 upon an architecture so simple and beautiful that 
 restless tourists, practical 
 business men, workmen, 
 architects and artists turn 
 aside from their work or 
 play on the highway just for 
 the pleasure of seeing so 
 satisfying a thing as a house 
 of his designing. 
 
 "The houses that Mr. Gill 
 designs stand so pre-emi- 
 nently for permanence in 
 their simplicity that they can 
 no more be disregarded than 
 the old Missions, and are as 
 surely influencing the archi- 
 tecture of the West." 
 
 In the same issue of "The 
 Craftsman" the editor of the 
 publication spoke of Mr. Gill's 
 work in the following terms: 
 "While we find still in Mr. 
 Gill's . . . cottages the 
 influence of the early Span- 
 ish architecture, which really 
 means the influence of the 
 Moors through the Spaniards, 
 we also find the creative 
 spirit, the fearless use of the 
 brain by the man who knows 
 how to work." 
 
 One of the most beautiful 
 and efficient productions by 
 Mr. Gill is the Wilde Foun- 
 tain in the civic center of 
 San Diego, an electric affair 
 
 of alternating colors which was designed and built 
 by Mr. Gill for L. J. Wilde who presented it to the 
 city. This is regarded as one of the most artistic 
 fountains in America. 
 
 In the early part of 1912 Mr. Gill was chosen 
 by the Dominguez Land Company, a great Califor- 
 nia corporation, to design and supervise the con- 
 struction of a model industrial city. This town, 
 known as Torrance, lies near Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, and will be made up of factories of various 
 description, administration buildings and all that 
 goes to make an ideal manufacturing or industrial 
 city, in one division, while another is set aside ac 
 the residence section and will be made up of the 
 homes, schools, library, parks, children's play- 
 grounds; the whole having paved streets and every 
 modern facility, which will add to the convenience, 
 beauty and sanitation of the place. 
 
 Mr. Gill has devoted himself to this work to 
 the exclusion of practically everything else, al- 
 though he conducts his offices in San Diego and 
 holds commissions for many important structures 
 in various parts of Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Gill is a member of the Southern California 
 Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 
 and his only other affiliation outside of business is 
 with the Gamut Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 PRY, HON. WILLIAM, Gover- 
 nor of the State of Utah, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born at 
 Windsor, County of Berkshire, 
 England, January 11, 1864, the son 
 
 of Philip Spry and Sarah (Field) 
 
 Spry. He married Mary Alice Wrathall of Grants- 
 ville, Utah, July 10, 1890. 
 
 In 1875, when he was about eleven years of age, 
 Governor Spry was brought to the United States 
 by his parents and they set- 
 tled in Utah, both being 
 members of the Church of 
 the Latter Day Saints. The 
 son was given a common 
 school education and worked 
 on a farm until he attained 
 his majority. 
 
 From 1891 to 1893, Gover- 
 nor Spry was connected with 
 Zion's Co-operative Mercan- 
 tile Institution, a general 
 merchandise house, the larg- 
 est in the Rocky Mountain 
 region, and an adjunct of the 
 Mormon Church. This estab- 
 lishment is one of the most 
 important enterprises of 
 Utah. Founded in 1868, it 
 has transacted business 
 which averages $3,000,000 
 per annum for the entire 
 period of its- existence. Its 
 main store is at Salt Lake 
 City, but it also has branches 
 at Provo and Idaho Falls, 
 Idaho, and operates a shoe 
 factory and a clothing fac- 
 tory. Governor Spry was 
 with the Salt Lake house for only about two years, 
 but during that time he was an important factor 
 in its affairs and also greatly expanded his own 
 knowledge of business affairs. 
 
 Upon leaving the great store, Governor Spry 
 engaged in farming and stockraising on a large 
 scale and continued these operations until 1904, 
 when he disposed of a large part of his interests. 
 He still is a large landowner and is interested in 
 various financial and industrial enterprises, being 
 a Director of the Merchants Bank of Salt Lake 
 City and several other institutions. 
 
 Governor Spry has been an important factor in 
 the affairs of the Republican party of Utah for 
 many years and prior to his election to the office 
 of Chief Executive of the State had served in 
 several other public capacities. From 1894 to 
 1896 he served as County Collector of Tooele 
 County and upon relinquishing that office was 
 elected to the City Council of Grantsville, Utah. 
 He served in that body continuously for seven 
 years, retiring from the office in 1903. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM SPRY 
 
 Ranked as one of the authorities on lands and 
 land products of his State, Governor Spry was ap- 
 pointed President of the State Board of Land Com- 
 missioners of Utah in 1905 and served in this po- 
 sition until 1906, when he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident Theodore Roosevelt to the office of United 
 States Marshal for the State of Utah. He was 
 serving in that Federal capacity in 1908, when he 
 was proposed for the nomination of Governor of 
 Utah on the Republican ticket, whereupon he re- 
 signed from the office of 
 Marshal. He was elected 
 Governor by a large majority 
 at the subsequent election 
 and took office in 1909. He 
 was re-elected in 1912 to 
 hold office until the year 
 1917. 
 
 Governor Spry's adminis- 
 tration has been marked by 
 independence of action and 
 progressiveness on his part 
 and under his guidance the 
 State has made advances in 
 many ways, especially in the 
 increase of agricultural en- 
 terprises. He is an enthusi- 
 ast on agricultural develop- 
 ment and is generally con- 
 ceded to be the leading au- 
 thority on Utah lands in that 
 State. He has lent his sup- 
 port to irrigation and other 
 movements of a national 
 character and was one of 
 the striking figures at the 
 National Farm Land Con- 
 gress held at Chicago in No- 
 vember, 1909. 
 Shortly after taking office of Governor for the 
 first time, Governor Spry, as the representative of 
 his State, went to Camden, New Jersey, and there 
 officiated at the launching of the Battleship Utah, 
 which was christened by his daughter, Miss Mary 
 Alice Spry. This vessel, which was constructed 
 in the fastest time on record, was at the time 
 of its launching the largest ship in the American 
 Navy and one of the largest in the world, being 
 521 feet in length and having a displacement of 
 21,875 tons. 
 
 Governor Spry is devoted to the interests of 
 his State, which he has helped greatly in adver- 
 tising its advantages to the world, and is one of 
 the most popular officials who ever filled the 
 Chief Executive's chair in Utah. He is a promi- 
 nent figure in the affairs of the Mormon Church, 
 having formerly been one of its missionaries, and 
 is a force in the Republican party, which he served 
 as Chairman of the State Central Committee. 
 
 He is a member of the Commercial Club, and the 
 Alta Club of Salt Lake City. 
 
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 573 
 
 ENDLING, GEORGE XAVIER, 
 Lumber, San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, was born in New York City, 
 September 12, 1861, the son of 
 Joseph Wendling and Mary Jose- 
 phine Wendling. He married Inez 
 Cross at Elk City, Kansas, December 17, 1886, and 
 to them there was born a daughter, Martha Flor- 
 ence Wendling. 
 
 Mr. Wendling's parents transferred their home 
 from New York to Keokuk, 
 Iowa, when he was very young 
 and he received his educa- 
 tion in the common schools 
 of the latter city and at 
 Montobella, Illinois. At the 
 age of fifteen- Mr. Wendling 
 went into the lumber busi- 
 ness in the employ of C. W. 
 Goodlander Lumber Com- 
 pany at Weir City, Kansas, 
 and this has been his field of 
 operations ever since, a period 
 covering more than thirty- 
 five years of active work. 
 
 He remained in his first po- 
 sition about three years, and 
 at the end of that time be- 
 came Assistant Manager of 
 the retail yard of the Long- 
 Bell Lumber Company at 
 Cherry Vale, Kansas. At the 
 conclusion of two years he 
 was transferred to the same 
 company's yards at Caldwell, 
 Kansas, and remained there 
 until he moved to California, 
 which he did in January, 1888. 
 Locating at Fresno, Califor- 
 nia at that time, Mr. Wendling associated himself 
 with Prescott & Pierce, a retail lumber firm, but at 
 the end of two years embarked in business on his 
 own account at Hanford, California, where he in- 
 corporated the Wendling Lumber Company for 
 $100,000. He began active operations on a small 
 scale, later establishing yards throughout the fruit- 
 growing region of California, supplying a large part 
 of the lumber used in the manufacture of fruit 
 boxes, which alone constituted a large business. 
 
 The demand for these boxes became so great 
 that on February 22, 1897, Mr. Wendling assumed 
 the management of the Pine Box Manufacturers' 
 Agency, San Francisco, where his knowledge of 
 the lumber and fruit business proved of great 
 value to the organization. He not only handled 
 the business of the agency, but worked out its 
 tariffs and other problems, resigning in November, 
 1899, after he had placed the organization on a 
 firm, practical basis. 
 
 Mr. Wendling then reorganized the Wendling 
 Lumber Company increasing the capital to $500,000, 
 
 G. X. WENDLING 
 
 and expanded his business, making a specialty of 
 carload shipments of California redwood, redwood 
 shingles, California pines and northern fir lumber. 
 Later the Wendling-Nathan Lumber Company was 
 formed to succeed to the business of the Wendling 
 Lumber Company. The business has steadily grown 
 from that time (1900) and is now one of the most 
 extensive enterprises of the kind on the Pacific 
 Coast, distributing lumber and its products through- 
 out the entire United States and Canada. 
 
 From 1900 to 1904 Mr. Wen- 
 dling acquired several other 
 lumber interests, among them 
 the Weed Lumber Company, 
 which was organized in 1903. 
 Mr. Wendling now serves as 
 President of this latter cor- 
 poration and also holds office 
 in various others, whose com- 
 bined activities form an im- 
 portant part of the lumber 
 business on the Pacific Coast. 
 Among them are the Cali- 
 fornia Pine Box & Lumber 
 Company, of which he is Pres- 
 ident; the Napa Lumber Com- 
 pany, of which he is Presi- 
 dent; Big Basin Lumber Com- 
 pany, President, and the Stan- 
 islaus Lumber Company, of 
 which he is Vice President. 
 
 Aside from his lumber hold- 
 ings, Mr. Wendling is engaged 
 in several other important en- 
 terprises, the chief of these 
 being the Klamath Develop- 
 ment Company, in which he 
 serves as Vice President. 
 This Company is engaged in 
 
 the development of a large stretch of territory in 
 Southern Oregon, its operations including land, 
 lumber and railroads. 
 
 Mr. Wendling, who devotes a part of his time to 
 the affairs of all the companies in which he is in- 
 terested, is, in addition to the companies named, a 
 Director of the Anglo & London Paris Natl. Bank. 
 From the time of his arrival in California Mr. 
 Wendling has taken an active part in commercial 
 development and as a member of the California 
 State Board of Trade was one of the most enthu- 
 siastic workers for the upbuilding of the State and 
 the development of its resources. He takes no 
 part in politics, but has devoted a great deal of 
 effort to the betterment of San Francisco and was 
 one of the first to advocate the Panama-Pacific Ex- 
 position at San Francisco, in 1915. 
 
 Mr. Wendling is a member of the Pacific Union 
 Club, Bohemian Club, Family Club and Transporta- 
 tion Club, of San Francisco; the Sutter Club of 
 Sacramento, Cal.; Sequoia Club of Fresno, Cal., and 
 the Jonathan Club, of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
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 JAMES V. BALDWIN 
 
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 575 
 
 ALDWIN, JAMES VINING, Real 
 Estate Operator, Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born at Weston, 
 Ohio, October 25, 1870. His father 
 was Edward Baldwin and his 
 
 mother was Harriet M. (Taylor) 
 
 Baldwin. He was reared in Ohio, receiving his pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools of his home 
 town. He graduated from high school in 1889 and 
 the following fall entered the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity at Delaware, Ohio, where he remained for 
 two years. 
 
 Shortly after leaving college he entered the 
 mercantile business in Weston, Ohio. During the 
 years that followed he achieved unusual success 
 in his first business venture. His wide acquaint- 
 ance in his native city, coupled with a shrewd busi- 
 ness head and a liberal education, placed him in 
 the front ranks. He managed and directed the 
 business for six years, selling out his entire inter- 
 ests in 1898. 
 
 For several years he had been contemplating re- 
 moval to the Pacific Coast and at this time, with no 
 business connections- to hold him back, he left his 
 home city, going direct to Los Angeles, California. 
 He located in Los Angeles in the latter part of 1898, 
 and immediately entered the real estate business. 
 At the time of Mr. Baldwin's arrival Los An- 
 geles had but recently passed through a period of 
 depression and was approaching a remarkable 
 growth, which continued for a number of years. 
 Mr. Baldwin, realizing that the city had a great 
 future, invested heavily in real estate, both in the 
 then outlying districts and in the closer-in sections 
 of the city. He grasped the highest cla&s of prop- 
 erties and became one of the leading realty pro- 
 moters of the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin made a specialty of the best class 
 of subdivisions and has played a most important 
 role in the rapid growth and development of the 
 western and southwestern sections of Los Angeles 
 the best and most desirable residence district of 
 that city. He has handled a number of the finest 
 tracts in that section of the community; has bought 
 barren acreage and turned it into residence tracts 
 which rapidly built up with many of the fine resi- 
 dences of which Los Angeles is- so justly proud. 
 
 His best-known tracts are those in the West Ad- 
 ams and Wilshire Boulevard sections, and com- 
 prise the highest class of subdivisions, such as- 
 West Adams Heights, Westmoreland Heights, Wel- 
 lington Place, Westminster Place, Larchmont 
 Heights, Wilshire Hills, Wilshire Heights and many 
 other similar properties in other first-class resi- 
 dence sections. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin was the first real estate operator 
 to buy up acreage and start the improvement of 
 subdivisions in the now exclusive Wilshire district, 
 and he has- been the largest realty operator in that 
 portion of the city. His far-sightedness and belief 
 in the city's future have caused him to reach out 
 
 far beyond the generally supposed limits to which 
 the city would expand for many years, and in al- 
 most every instance the growth has almost imme- 
 diately caught up to him, confirming his judgment. 
 It was this advanced judgment that has made him 
 one of the most successful operators in Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 The enterprise of Mr. Baldwin was forcibly il- 
 lustrated when he. set out on his campaign to pop- 
 ularize the beautiful Wilshire District. When he 
 first took hold of the property it was a wide- 
 spreading, undeveloped stretch of open country, 
 used principally for cattle-grazing, but recognizing 
 its potential pos&ibilities as a residence section, 
 he inaugurated improvements of various kinds and 
 also caused the building of a street railroad, 
 which, upon its completion, he turned over to the 
 controlling railway interests of the city. This line, 
 which was built at a cost of $59,000, put up by Mr. 
 Baldwin and others, was presented to the railway 
 company as- a gift. The result of the building of 
 this road was the opening up of the territory 
 through which it pass-ed. 
 
 The Wilshire section has become an exclusive 
 residence district, with numerous handsome homes 
 and wide boulevards- to greet the eye where for- 
 merly there was naught but unimproved land. It is 
 generally conceded to be one of the most attract- 
 ive parts of Los Angeles and compares favorably 
 with many of the celebrated private residence dis- 
 tricts of the country. 
 
 His method of upbuilding the various sections 
 with which he has been identified is characteri&tic 
 of Mr. Baldwin's force and progressiveness, and his 
 prudence in selecting only those locations where 
 the natural advantages are such that rapid settle- 
 ment by the most desirable class is- practically as- 
 sured in advance, has been fully demonstrated. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin is always- found among that group 
 of Los Angeles men who enter into everything 
 that pertains to the development, growth and wel- 
 fare of a Greater Los Angeles. He watches with 
 keenest interest the development of the Los An- 
 geles Harbor, the Owens River project and other 
 similar movements that have a local or national 
 bearing on the welfare of the city. He has been 
 identified with and is one of the leading spirits in 
 the growth of the Los Angeles- Realty Board, an 
 organization formed for the purpose of protecting 
 the best interests of dealer and customer alike, and 
 seeing that the business is conducted on the highest 
 plane. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin is interested in a number of indus- 
 trial and manufacturing projects and is a director 
 in the California Savings Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 A man of genial personality, he is a conspicuous 
 figure in the social life of Los Angeles and is one 
 of the leading clubmen. He is a member of the 
 California Club, the Jonathan Club, the Los- An- 
 geles Country Club and of the South Coast Yacht 
 Club. He resides at the California Club. 
 
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 OULE, WILLIAM EDMUND, Oil 
 Well Development, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Pontiac, 
 Michigan, August 21, 1847, the 
 son of William and Bridget Youle. 
 He married Mary Murphy at 
 Pontiac, Michigan, January 10, 1870, and to them 
 there were born two children, Charles and May 
 Youle. Mr. Youle is of British -ancestry, one 
 generation removed, his father having been a 
 native of England, while his 
 mother was born in Ireland. 
 Mr. Youle attended the 
 public schools of his native 
 city until he was fifteen years 
 of age, but at that time gave 
 up his studies to seek a 
 place for himself in the 
 business world, and a year 
 later went to the oil fields 
 of Pennsylvania, which were 
 then in a greatly undeveloped 
 condition. 
 
 Although a boy in years, 
 Mr. Youle began immediately 
 as a driller and contractor, 
 and for thirteen years was 
 one of the most active young 
 men in the Pennsylvania 
 fields. He also operated in 
 the West Virginia fields and 
 aided there, as in Pennsyl- 
 vania, in the development of 
 the industry. He was in the 
 forefront of the developers 
 of that day, and led in the 
 search for new territory. He 
 knew the business. He was 
 an expert driller, a capable 
 executive and able to handle the product from the 
 selection of the land to the marketing of the oil. 
 Because of his versatility he won the reputation 
 of being one of the most practical and competent 
 men in the business. He drilled scores of wells 
 during his work in the Pennsylvania and West Vir- 
 ginia fields, and his success was one of the features 
 of the stories which reached the outside world of 
 the wonderful wealth that had been unearthed in 
 Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 
 
 As has been told many times before, the days 
 of the oil boom in Pennsylvania, when the 
 petroleum beds were first discovered and tapped, 
 were among the most exciting and picturesque in 
 the industrial history of the United States. It can 
 be compared only to the discovery of gold in 
 California and the Klondyke. Men made fortunes 
 and threw them away, confident that there were 
 others to be made when the first had vanished. 
 Other men, however, realizing the importance 
 of oil to the future of the country, kept their 
 head and devoted themselves to the solid develop- 
 
 W. E. YOULE 
 
 ment of the business. The Rockefellers, the 
 Teagles, the Tillotsons, the McDonalds, Mr. Youle 
 and others were in this latter class, and they are 
 the men who nursed the industry through its in- 
 fancy, led it through its formative stages and, 
 finally, brought it up to the point where it is one 
 of the greatest factors in the world's progress. 
 
 A pioneer in the oil industry, Mr. Youle ex- 
 perienced the usual obstacles to be overcome in 
 every new undertaking, and, while vast sums have 
 come to his possession from 
 his work of the earlier days, 
 a large part of it necessarily 
 went in his efforts to inter- 
 est others and in further 
 pushing the development of 
 a great natural resource that 
 at first met with little sym- 
 pathy. The result is that to- 
 day Mr. Youle is in most 
 comfortable circumstances, 
 but does not claim to have 
 accumulated wealth any- 
 thing like some of the vast 
 fortunes made by other men, 
 some of whom were associa- 
 ted with him, and others who 
 followed in his wake. 
 
 Mr. Youle has been a 
 hard worker all his life and 
 most of his success has been 
 due to his willingness to at- 
 tack a problem with all his 
 physical and mental ener- 
 gies. At one point of his 
 career in the Pennsylvania 
 regions, Mr. Youle, in addi- 
 tion to his work as a con- 
 tractor, held office as Super- 
 intendent of the United States Oil Company at Oil 
 City, Pa., and under his direction the property of 
 the company was made one of the most profitable 
 in the field. His efforts in connection with the de- 
 velopment of this company, along with his other 
 successes, attracted attention to him all over the 
 country, and as a result, when a company of prom- 
 inent Californians wanted some one to inaugurate 
 the oil business in that State, Mr. Youle was se- 
 lected to handle the problem. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Youle was engaged by ex-Mayor 
 Bryant of San Francisco and D. G. Scofield to drill 
 a test well. He took men who had worked with 
 him in the eastern fields to a point near Newhall, 
 Cal., and there put down the first paying oil well 
 ever drilled in the Golden State. This well 
 proved a producer from the start and it was the 
 beginning of an era of development in California 
 that has brought fortunes to the men engaged in 
 it and has placed the industry at the head of the 
 wealth-producing channels of the State. From that 
 time forward Mr. Youle has been one of the most 
 
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 active men in the oil business, and has been identi- 
 fied with practically every successful field. 
 
 After proving the Newhall field by drilling a 
 number of producing wells, Mr. Youle, in 1880, 
 went to Moody's Gulch, in Santa Clara County, Cal., 
 and there proved a field, the oil being of very light 
 gravity. In 1884 he moved to the Puente oil re- 
 gion of California and repeated his successes. 
 
 Six years after he put down his first well in the 
 Puente District the attention of oil men generally 
 was called to seepages in that part of Kern County, 
 Cal., known now as the Sunset fields, and Mr. Youle 
 went there as a contracting well driller. He was 
 "the" first to arrive and to appreciate the advan- 
 tages of the country and he remained in that ter- 
 ritory from 1890 to 1901. During those eleven 
 years he was almost ceaseless in his activities and 
 not only aided largely in the development of the 
 Sunset field but also of the McKittrick and Midway 
 fields, the latter being regarded as the richest oil 
 district ever found on the American Continent. 
 Mr. Youle put down over fifty wells in these fields. 
 
 The oil industry in California has resulted in 
 the establishment of several thriving towns. The 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company, quick to rec- 
 ognize the commercial importance of the petroleum 
 fields, first constructed a branch railroad to the 
 McKittrick district and later to the Sunset and 
 Midway centers. With the introduction of the rail- 
 road into the new oil country, thousands- of set- 
 tlers went there, and Mr. Youle, as one of the first 
 successful operators, was one of the basic factors 
 in the section's growth. 
 
 Mr. Youle is justly called the pioneer of the 
 California oil business because, with the first well 
 in the Newhall district in 1877, he was first to 
 demonstrate the practicability of oil producing in 
 the State. He was a discoverer; and after being 
 the first to prove that drilling was capable of ac- 
 complishment, he led in the opening up of new 
 territory and pointed the way to petroleum beds 
 that others had never dreamed existed. Prior to 
 his advent in California various college professors 
 and noted geologists, consulted in the matter by 
 prospective investors, had declared that there was 
 no oil to be found in the State; but Mr. Youle and 
 his associates demonstrated in the best kind of 
 way by drilling that it was there, and as a re- 
 sult thousands of wells are now pumping, and mil- 
 lions of dollars are invested in the California fields 
 the world's richest and most productive oil lands. 
 
 During his career in California, which has 
 spanned a period of almost forty years, Mr. Youle 
 has personally supervised the drilling of more than 
 one hundred and fifty wells and today is known 
 as "the" veteran of the business. He applied 
 methods which made deep wells feasible, and much 
 of the credit for finding oil at extreme depths, after 
 the higher levels had failed to produce, is due to 
 him, although he disclaims the honor. 
 
 Mr. Youle's efforts in the discovery and pro- 
 
 duction of oil have not been without difficulties 
 other than those presented by nature herself; 
 on many occasions his experience was matched 
 against that and the theories of others, but 
 he developed numerous properties successfully 
 against their opposition. Oftentimes he was con- 
 demned for persisting in sinking his drill hundreds 
 of feet below what was then considered the oil 
 level, his critics declaring that it was impossible 
 to drill to the depths contemplated by him. He 
 persisted, however, and his judgment was finally 
 vindicated by striking oil at the lower levels. 
 
 In all his operations Mr. Youle has been guided 
 by one thing the firm conviction that California is 
 full of oil, this conviction being based on his great 
 experience in the various fields of the United States. 
 
 In addition to his actual work in the fields, Mr. 
 Youle has also been an important factor in the de- 
 velopment of uses for oil. He handled the first car- 
 load of oil that was used for fuel purposes in Los 
 Angeles, this being delivered to the Lankershim 
 Flour Mills of that city. This was one of the very 
 earliest instances of the use of oil for fuel, but to- 
 day it has become general for domestic use, trans- 
 portation and industrial lines. 
 
 As is well known, the use of crude petroleum 
 for fuel was delayed for a long time because it was 
 not thought by business men and manufacturers 
 that enough could be produced to make it worth 
 while for the large corporations to install oil- 
 burning plants in place of the coal-consuming kind. 
 The rapid development of the California fields, 
 however, and the production of oil in such tremen- 
 dous quantities, swept away this opposition. Mr. 
 Youle was a strong advocate of the new fuel. 
 
 Recognized as one of the country's greatest 
 authorities on oil and oil-bearing lands, Mr. Youle's 
 counsel is sought on numerous occasions. His 
 judgment on oil matters is accepted as the la&t 
 word and through him many hundred thousands of 
 dollars have been safely invested in the business, 
 while at the same time many other thousands have 
 been saved to those who otherwise might have in- 
 vested in losing propositions. Many men who have 
 made fortunes in oil lay their success to his advice. 
 
 Despite his fifty years of work, Mr. Youle is 
 still in harness and takes an active part in the va- 
 rious enterprises in which he is interested. His 
 outdoor life in the fields has kept him a strong, 
 vigorous, well-preserved man. 
 
 Mr. Youle has maintained his residence in Los 
 Angeles since the late seventies and has lent his 
 aid to various civic movements which have served 
 to place the city among the great American busi- 
 ness centers, but has never taken a very active 
 part in politics, nor has he ever had any ambition 
 to hold public office. He is not a clubman, but 
 gives most of his spare time to the quiet enjoy- 
 ment of his home and family. He finds relaxation 
 in travel and in 1912 spent several months in visit- 
 ing Europe and the British Isles. 
 
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 AMIESON, NATHANIEL FREDE- 
 RICK, President, Hibernian Home 
 Builders, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 
 March 13, 1880, the son of William 
 Stewart Jamieson and Isabella 
 (MacDowell) Jamieson. He married Faye Sawin at 
 Los Angeles, October 16, 1910, and to them there 
 was born a daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth Jamieson. 
 He is descended of old Scotch stock, being related, 
 on his father's side, to the 
 Duke of Orange, while on the 
 maternal side of the family 
 he is connected with the 
 House of Stewart. 
 
 Mr. Jamieson spent his boy- 
 hood in Scotland, and until he 
 was 14 years of age had the 
 advantages of private school 
 training. Coming to the 
 United States when he was 15 
 years old, he entered the 
 State Normal School of Ver- 
 mont, and after two years' at- 
 tendance there, became a stu- 
 dent in Dartmouth University. 
 He was a member of the class 
 of 1899, but did not finish the 
 course, leaving at the end of 
 the year 1897. Before the 
 opening of the next college 
 year the Spanish-American 
 war ensued, and Mr. Jamie- 
 son, although barely past his 
 eighteenth birthday, volun- 
 teered for service. 
 
 He enlisted in the Third 
 United States Cavalry and 
 served with his command in 
 the Philippine Islands for more than two years. In 
 1900 he was appointed Lieutenant of Artillery and 
 saw a great deal of active service in various parts 
 of the Islands. He was then stationed at Narra- 
 gansett Bay, was transferred to San Francisco and 
 also served some time in Alaska, resigning his com- 
 mission in 1906, after about eight years' service. 
 
 During his career in the army Mr. Jamieson 
 passed through many active engagements. During 
 the years 1900 and 1901 he was stationed for the 
 greater part of the time on the Island of Panay, of 
 which Iloilo, the second largest city in the Philip- 
 pine group, is the capital. The insurrectos, headed 
 by Aguinaldo, were then most active on Panay, 
 and Mr. Jamieson's company was engaged almost 
 continually in the effort to subdue them. Skir- 
 mishes were of almost daily occurrence, and in one 
 engagement Mr. Jamieson was severely wounded. 
 He was- confined to the hospital for a long period, 
 but upon his recovery of health immediately re- 
 turned to his command and active service. 
 
 Mr. Jamieson was engaged in the battles of Mt. 
 
 N. F. JAMIESON 
 
 Putian and Balangtaug, near the town of Jaro, on 
 the Island of Panay, under General Edwin A. Rice. 
 His display of courage in both these engagements 
 caused his commanding officer to make special 
 mention of him for gallantry in action. 
 
 When his command was brought back to the 
 United States, Mr. Jamieson was put on special 
 duty for some time as Adjutant of Fort Baker, Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Following his resignation from the army, Mr. 
 Jamieson took up mine en- 
 gineering, and was engaged 
 in this profession for several 
 years afterwards, his work 
 taking him into all parts of 
 the West, but principally in 
 Nevada, Arizona and old Mex- 
 ico. He gave up mining after 
 his marriage in 1910 and em- 
 barked in the brokerage busi- 
 ness at Los Angeles, handling 
 stocks, bonds and real estate. 
 His career as a business man 
 has been quite as successful 
 as his military record, and he 
 is now numbered among the 
 progressive men of the city. 
 
 After conducting his bro- 
 kerage offices for about a year 
 Mr. Jamieson organized the 
 Hibernian Home Builders, of 
 which he is President, and 
 has taken an active part in 
 the development pf Los An- 
 geles and vicinity as a home 
 country. The home-build- 
 ing business in Los Angeles 
 within recent years has grown 
 to such enormous proportions 
 as to astonish the rest of the country, the city rank- 
 ing today as the leader, for its size, in the number 
 of home owners. This is due, in large measure, to 
 the system of home-building followed by such in- 
 stitutions as that of which Mr. Jamieson is the 
 head, whereby persons of moderate income are en- 
 abled to purchase homes for about the same amount 
 of money they would pay in rent within a very 
 short time, and on terms that work no greater 
 hardship than the monthly installment of rent. 
 It is also responsible for a large part of the city's 
 development along permanent lines. 
 
 To the system of home building and selling, is 
 largely due the great increase in population and val- 
 uation with which Los Angeles- County is credited. 
 The Hibernian Home Builders, under the direc- 
 tion of Mr. Jamieson, has made great progress, be- 
 ing a Los Angeles concern in personnel and capital, 
 and it is now among the firmly established business 
 institutions. To Mr. Jamieson is due much of the 
 credit for this marked growth and the promising 
 outlook of his company. 
 
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 ERRILL, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
 President, United States Oil Gas 
 Producer Company, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Beloit, 
 Wisconsin, May 4, 1849, the son 
 of David Merrill and Agnes 
 (Fonda) Merrill. He married Maria Durham at 
 
 Beloit, June 19, 1876, and to them were born three 
 
 sons and three daughters, John Benjamin, Bessie, 
 
 Lillian, Bruce, Grayson and Marguerite Merrill. 
 Mr. Merrill has had an 
 
 unusually varied career, as 
 
 farmer, soldier, clergyman 
 
 and financier. Like many 
 
 successful men, he was 
 
 reared on a farm, his- fa- 
 ther's place being four miles 
 
 north of Beloit, Wis., on the 
 
 banks of the beautiful Rock 
 
 River. He went to school in 
 
 winter and worked on the 
 
 farm in summer. Up at 5 
 
 a. m., winter and summer, he 
 
 began each day by milking 
 
 four cows by lantern light, in 
 
 winter, and closed the day, 
 
 milking the same cows by 
 
 light of the same lantern. 
 When thirteen years of 
 
 age he went to Beloit and 
 
 entered the grammar school. 
 
 At fifteen years- of age, he 
 
 enlisted in the 40th Wiscon- 
 sin Volunteers for service in 
 
 the Civil War and went to 
 
 Memphis, Tenn., where he 
 
 saw much service guarding 
 
 supply trains and posts. Dur- 
 ing his term of service, his 
 
 record shows he was not once excused from duty. 
 Returning to Beloit at the clo&e of the War, Mr. 
 Merrill entered high school and afterward Beloit 
 College, from which he was graduated in 1872 with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Five years later 
 his college conferred the degree of M. A. upon him. 
 Upon graduating from Beloit, he went to San 
 Francisco, Cal., and there began to study for the 
 ministry. In 1875 he was ordained in the Presby- 
 terian Church and for the next twelve years held 
 pastorates in various parts of the Southwest, in- 
 cluding El Paso, Texas; Prescott, Arizona, and 
 Riverside, Cal., and also served his church for a 
 time in Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Resigning from the ministry in 1887, on account 
 of impaired health, Mr. Merrill engaged in orange 
 culture in Southern California for some time, then 
 became interested in various real estate enter- 
 prises in that section. He also spent three years 
 in New York City in the brokerage business, re- 
 turning at the end of that time to Los Angeles, 
 where he re-embarked in the land development 
 
 JOHN A. MERRILL 
 
 business. Since that time he has been one of the 
 active factors in the upbuilding of Southern Cali- 
 fornia and has been the organizer and President of 
 numerous important companies, among them the 
 following: 
 
 The Sunset Commercial Co., which purchased 
 100,000 acres of water rights in the Imperial Valley 
 and opened all the territory east of the Salton River. 
 
 The Manhattan Beach Co., which purchased two 
 miles of ocean front and built up Manhattan 
 Beach, one of the Southern 
 California seashore resorts. 
 
 The Riverside Heights Co., 
 which purchased 700 acres of 
 land on Mt. Washington. 
 
 The Glendale Realty Co., 
 which purchased practically 
 all of the property at Glen- 
 dale, Cal., between Glendale 
 and Central avenues and 
 Fourth and Sixth streets, 
 also the Battle Creek Sani- 
 tarium property at Glendale. 
 The California Home- 
 Seekers Co., which purchased 
 11,000 acres at Corcoran, Cal., 
 in the San Joaquin Valley. 
 This land was sold to H. J. 
 Whitley and associates, who 
 have developed a modern city. 
 The Central Land Co., 
 which purchased two thou- 
 sand acres twenty-five miles 
 south of Corcoran. 
 
 The Tipton Townsite and 
 Improvement Co., which pur- 
 chased and sold 2200 lots at 
 Tipton, eleven miles south of 
 Tulare, Cal. 
 
 The El Paso Commercial Co., which purchased 
 1200 lots at El Paso, Tex., in a bare hill section 
 which has since been developed into Sunset 
 Heights, the handsome residential district. 
 
 In addition to these, Mr. Merrill organized the 
 U. S. Oil Gas Producer Co. and the Natl. Oil Gas 
 Producer Co., serving as President of the former 
 and Director and Secretary of the latter. These he 
 considers his most important enterprises. 
 
 For many years Mr. Merrill has been interested 
 in public and church affairs in Los Angeles, having 
 raised large sums of money for Occidental College 
 and others. He was one of the founders and Direc- 
 tors of the League of Justice, and is an active Di- 
 rector of the Union Rescue Mission, is a Director 
 of the Southern Cal. Peace Society, and has been 
 Pres. of the Federation Club and Dana Bartlett 
 Bethlehem Inst. He also has been a member of the 
 L. A. Cham, of Com. and Municipal League for 
 many years. 
 
 Mr. Merrill's father was an Elder of the Presby- 
 terian Church for forty years. 
 
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 EMONDINO, PETER CHARLES, 
 Physician and Surgeon, San 
 Diego, California, was born in 
 Turin, Italy, February 10, 1846, 
 the son of Angelo Remondino and 
 Carolina (Ellena) Remondino. He 
 married Sophia Ann Earle, great grand-daughter 
 of Sir James Earle, M. D. and grand-daughter of 
 Henry Earle, M. D. of London, England, who had 
 been re&iding for some years in San Diego, Cali- 
 fornia, on September 27, 1877, and to them were 
 born four children, Carrie (now the wife of Dr. 
 B. V. Franklin), Frederick Earle, Louisa (now Mrs. 
 Stahel), and Charles H. E. Remondino, M. D. The 
 Doctor is descended from one of the oldest Italian 
 houses, which has been noted for the scientific 
 bend of mind and attainments of its members 
 since the middle of the fourteenth century. The 
 first Remondino of prominence was a professor 
 of anatomy in the Univer&ity of Bologna, wherein 
 he performed the first dissection of a human 
 cadaver made in Europe, in the latter part of the 
 fourteenth century. From these dissections were 
 made elaborate anatomical plates, the first known 
 to have been made directly from the human body. 
 The work, which underwent numerous editions, 
 served as the text book on anatomy in the various 
 European Universities' for over three centuries. 
 So celebrated was this anatomist, as related by 
 Tiraboschi, in his history of Italian Literature, 
 that after his death the honor of having given 
 him birth was claimed by four different towns of 
 Northern Italy, including Milan and Florence. 
 
 Although the first members of the family were 
 known by the name of Remondino, this being the 
 name given by the Dizionario Biografico, one 
 branch of the family has since adopted the patri- 
 cian Italian custom of using the plural, or Remon- 
 dini; whilst another branch, following the style 
 of the older Italians connected with either the fine 
 arts or the profession, who Latinized their names, 
 as happened in the case of the anatomist above 
 named, employed the Latinized name by removing 
 the prefix Re, leaving the name Mondinus, or its 
 Italian synonym Mondino. 
 
 Dr. Remondino, who enjoys an international 
 reputation as a scientist, military surgeon, author 
 and dilettante, wa& brought to America by his 
 father in the spring of 1854. After a year in New 
 York City, during which the Doctor attended pri- 
 vate school, to learn the language of his new home, 
 they moved West to Minnesota, where he re- 
 ceived an education in the early common district 
 schools of that Territory. At first it was his inten- 
 tion to enter the College of the Propaganda in 
 Rome for the purpose of taking religious orders and 
 devoting his life to the Church, but in 1861, guided 
 by the natural and more instinctive propensities- of 
 his family, he relinquished his preparations for a 
 clerical life, and engaged in the study of medicine. 
 In the Fall of 1862, Dr. Remondino, although 
 only in his sixteenth year, volunteered in a Militia 
 Company that took part against the Sioux Indian 
 outbreak which threatened to overwhelm the 
 State. The following year on the advice of his 
 preceptor, Dr. Francis H. Milligan, the Doctor 
 repaired to Philadelphia to engage in a Summer 
 course of anatomy and surgery, and to do practical 
 work as a medical cadet, in the Military Hospitals 
 with which Philadelphia then abounded. That 
 winter while continuing his hospital experience he 
 attended his first course of medical lectures, at Jef- 
 ferson Medical College. At the close of these, in 
 company with a number of other medical students 
 
 who were likewise desirous of experiencing active 
 surgical service in the field, he obtained a position 
 as medical cadet in the General Hospital at An- 
 napolis, Md., from whence, after the battles of May, 
 1864, he was s-ent to do duty in the field hospitals 
 at City Point, Va. With the opening of the winter 
 session that year, he returned to Jefferson Medical 
 College, and graduated in March, 1865. He returned 
 at once to the army where, as an Acting Assistant 
 Surgeon, he was placed in charge of wards 20 and 
 21, Hampton General Hospital, Virginia, until de- 
 tached to serve as Surgeon to Battery F, Third 
 Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, with which he re- 
 mained until mustered out in November, 1865. 
 
 At the close of the Civil War he returned to Min- 
 nesota and engaged in private practice until the 
 declaration of war by the Republic of France, on 
 September 4, 1870, when he immediately sailed for 
 France. He offered his services to the French Gov- 
 ernment as a Volunteer Surgeon and was accepted. 
 He served at first in the South of France, with the 
 armies operating between Tours and Paris; but 
 later was &ent North into Normandy to join a 
 regiment of Francs-Tireurs which had just been 
 formed. He served with this corps throughout 
 the campaign in Normandy and at the close of 
 hostilities was attached to the Artillery and made 
 Surgeon of Fort St. Addresse, the principal fortress 
 overlooking the city of Havre. 
 
 The Doctor took part in the engagements between 
 the retreating French from Amiens to Rouen and 
 Havre and the advancing first Prussian army corps 
 under Manteufel. He enjoys the distinction of being 
 the only American citizen, who, during that war, 
 served with a commission in the regular army of 
 France; having been so commissioned as a Surgeon 
 with the rank of Captain when transferred from the 
 Francs-Tireures to the artillery of the Garde Na- 
 tionale Nobilisee, and attached as Surgeon to the 
 Artillery Legion of the Seine-Inferieure; the mis- 
 take that a foreigner had been so commissioned was 
 not discovered until the dissolution of the Artillery 
 at the close of the war. In October of 1911, forty 
 years after the close of the Franco-Prussian war, 
 the Doctor made a visit to France and went over 
 the campaigning ground; one object of the visit be- 
 ing to receive a medal which the French govern- 
 ment had voted to all the survivors in that conflict. 
 
 After the peace he went to England and spent 
 two months visiting clinics in London hospitals. He 
 then made a short trip to Italy and Switzerland, re- 
 turning to Minnesota, where he resumed practice. 
 In the Fall of 1873 he moved to San Diego, Cal., 
 which has since then been his home. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California, Doctor 
 Remondino has attained an eminence in his pro- 
 fession unexcelled by any of his contemporaries, 
 and has contributed largely to the literature 
 and progress of medical science. He has oc- 
 cupied many important positions amongst the pro- 
 fessions of the State, having been Vice President 
 of the California Medical State Society; President 
 of the Southern California Medical Society and 
 President of the San Diego County and Medical 
 Society, besides having been for eight years a 
 prominent member of the State Board of Health 
 of California and for over thirty years prominently 
 connected with the San Diego Board of Health, of 
 which he was the first President, a position which 
 he filled for many succeeding terms. The Doctor 
 has been connected with the American Public 
 Health Association, is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, and the Medical Societies of 
 his own State, and is also a member of the New 
 
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 York Medico-Legal Society. For the last three 
 years- he has occupied the chair of the History of 
 Medicine and Medical Biblography in the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles, now the 
 Medical Department of the University of Southern 
 California. 
 
 The Doctor has long been known for his contri- 
 butions to medical literature and for approximately 
 twenty-five years has been engaged in the prepara- 
 tion of a comprehensive history of medicine on 
 lines different from those usually followed by 
 writers, who dealt generally with the different 
 epochs and schools, leaving unmentioned the undu- 
 lating and evolutionary processes through which 
 have traveled the various subjects that go to com- 
 pose the more practical parts of the science. 
 
 In his history, which will comprise about sixty 
 separate volumes, Dr. Remondino has subdivided 
 his subjects into a series of volumes covering the 
 evolutionary record of the more common and im- 
 portant subjects of both medicine and surgery. He 
 has devoted several volumes to the history of mili- 
 tary surgery and medicine, having acquired in the 
 military hospitals and on the battlefields a vast 
 fund of knowledge on the subject. 
 
 He has made a collection of purely military 
 weapons to be used in a volume devoted to the evo- 
 lution of arms and to illustrate the wounds which 
 they inflicted. This collection comprises the differ- 
 ent forms of arms from implements of the stone 
 age to the latest repeating rifles. The American 
 collection consists of over 250 specimens that have 
 been used in the army since the French and Indian 
 campaigns. 
 
 One interesting weapon is an old "Brown Bess," 
 or British regulation musket, carried by a soldier 
 of the Forty-second Highlanders, under the com- 
 mand of Colonel Bousquet when at Fort Pitt, where 
 Pittsburg stands. Another, belonging to the Revo- 
 lutionary period, formed part of a shipment which 
 were purchased in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, Lee 
 and Dean, the three American Commissioners. 
 
 Another relic of the Civil War is a heavy cavalry 
 revolver which was used by the Confederates. It is 
 of the Colonel Le Mat design, with two barrels and 
 a nine-chamber cylinder. 
 
 In addition to the hundreds of guns, the arms 
 collection contains swords, sabres, lances, and other 
 edged weapons from various countries. To these 
 are added the various forms of defensive armor. 
 
 The Doctor has gathered a most comprehensive 
 library dealing with the subject of portable arms 
 and military history. 
 
 Among the most interesting and instructive con- 
 tributions to the history of the Franco-Prussian 
 War in Normandy, written by M. Louis Brindeau 
 .of Havre, France, a member of the French Senate, 
 were those of Dr. Remondino. In these articles Dr. 
 Remondino wrote a graphic and exhaustive account 
 of the retreat of General Briand's Army Corps, to 
 which he was at the time attached as Surgeon of 
 Francs-Tireures. 
 
 The Doctor has written on practically every 
 subject in medicine, meteorology and other sci- 
 ences. His earlier papers were mostly devoted to 
 the discu&sion of demographic subjects, i. e., ine- 
 briety, climate, as it relates to medicine, sociologic 
 subjects as come within the province of medicine, 
 the vast field of hygiene and preventive medicine 
 with relation to obscure or important cases in 
 medicine or surgery, and sketches illustrative of 
 the evolution of some subjects. 
 
 Among the Doctor's best known writings are 
 "The Imperative Need of Strict Sanitary Regula- 
 tion Against the Spread of Consumption in South- 
 ern California," and an exhaustive report of the 
 
 "Suppression of Inebriety," prepared and read be- 
 fore the State Board of Health of California. 
 
 Of his more important writings on climatic sub- 
 jects, mention may be made of his "Mediterranean 
 Shores of America," which contained a disserta- 
 tion with very complete tables illustrative of the 
 physical and meterological conditions of the whole 
 region of Southern California, published in book 
 form, in 1892, by F. A. Davis & Co., Philadelphia. 
 
 'The Modern Climatic Treatment of Invalids 
 with Pulmonary Consumption in Southern Cali- 
 fornia," published by George S. Davis of Detroit, in 
 1893, was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Thomas 
 A. Davis, the author's friend and a famous surgeon 
 who served in the later Indian campaigns of the 
 West. 
 
 The Doctor has written scores of other treatises, 
 discussions and pamphlets on climatic and medical 
 subjects and one of his books, "History of Circum- 
 cision," issued 1891 by F. A. Davis & Co., was 
 adopted in all the English-speaking countries of the 
 world as the leading authority on the subject. The 
 run of this book approximated half a million copies 
 and the Doctor is preparing a new volume on the 
 same subject. 
 
 In July, 1892, there appeared the first issue of 
 the "National Popular Monthly Review," from the 
 presses of J. Harrison White (formerly publisher 
 and manager of the Journal of the American Medi- 
 cal Association) of which Dr. Remondino accepted 
 editorship. It was devoted to preventive medicine 
 and applied Sociology, on which Dr. Remondino was 
 then regarded an authority. During his connection 
 with this journal Dr. Remondino contributed ex- 
 tensively to its pages. Among his notable special 
 articles, was one discussing the relations of Ath- 
 leticism and Pugilism to longevity, in which the Doc- 
 tor reviewed the lives and deaths of the leading 
 prize ring celebrities. The issue containing this ar- 
 ticle was immediately exhausted, so great was the 
 interest it excited in the medical profession. 
 
 Other of his notable articles were: "The Rationale 
 of Inebriety Cures," "Heredity and Suicide," "Im- 
 portance of the Care of the Second and Third Dec- 
 ades of Life," "Influence of the French Revolution 
 on the State of Medicine," "Moral and Physical 
 Evils of Poor Ventilation," "Miracles and Medi- 
 cine," "Patience and Endurance of the Human 
 Stomach," and many others. 
 
 Among the new works in process of being 
 written is a history in itself of Mary of Magdala 
 and her place in art, and for his purposes Dr. 
 Remondino has gathered from the out-of-the-way 
 corners of the Old World a copy of practically 
 every Mary Magdalen ever painted or sculptured. 
 
 In furtherance of his tastes and pursuits, the 
 Doctor's private medical, historical and philosoph- 
 ical collections of books probably exceeds any one 
 private library in the same lines in the United 
 States. That section which deals particularly with 
 the history of medicine is one of the largest collec- 
 tions on the subject in the United States, private 
 or public, and is the result of more than forty years 
 research in Europe and America. That part which 
 deals with military medicine and surgery contains 
 the works of all the older authors, and has been 
 supplemented by the yearly reports pertaining to 
 the army medical and surgical departments of vari- 
 ous countries. The library, in its entirety, contains 
 approximately fifteen thousand volumes. 
 
 Despite his attention to his private practice, lit- 
 erary work and other duties, the Doctor finds leisure 
 for recreation and seeks it in the classical music of 
 such composers as Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, 
 Leoncavallo, Puccini, Tomas, Gounod, Wagner, Au- 
 ber and Mascagni. 
 
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 583 
 
 ALLEGOS, DON RAFAEL MARIA, 
 Founder and Director of the Gal- 
 legos School of Languages, and 
 of the Latin-American Informa- 
 tion Bureau, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia; was born at Riobamba, 
 Ecuador, South America, December 22, 1885. He 
 is of noble lineage, descended of men strong in the 
 history of Latin-America. His father was Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Don Manuel Maria Gallegos, late vet- 
 eran Commander of the 
 Ecuadorean Army, and his 
 mother Senora Dona Agueda 
 (de Castro) Gallegos. He 
 married Miss Ella Blanche 
 Lininger at San Francisco, 
 California, April 11, 1908. 
 
 Professor Gallegos re- 
 ceived his grammar and high 
 school education in the 
 "Escuelas de los Hermanos 
 Cristianos," at Riobamba. 
 He then entered the Govern- 
 ment School of Liberal Arts 
 at Quito, Ecuador, and fol- 
 lowing the completion of his 
 course there he attended the 
 National Institute. He next 
 spent two years in the Gov- 
 ernment Military College of 
 Ecuador. 
 
 Immediately after leaving 
 the latter institution, Profes- 
 sor Gallegos began his ca- 
 reer as an educator, writer 
 and journalist, having in his 
 charge, at various times, de- 
 partments in the principal 
 institutions of learning of 
 Ecuador. Later, with the 
 desire of broadening his edu- 
 cation, he set to traveling 
 and lecturing as a source of 
 both pleasure and study. 
 Having visited most of the 
 South American countries, he halted in Lima, Peru, 
 where he made higher studies in History, Philology, 
 Literature, Philosophy and Languages, and was 
 later appointed Superintendent and Instructor in 
 the National Institute. 
 
 He was the youngest man who had ever filled 
 this important post, and when he resigned, 
 after two years of brilliant success there, it 
 was with regret that he was permitted to leave. 
 He left South America in 1905, bound for the 
 United States, visiting all the Central American 
 Republics on this journey, familiarizing himself 
 with their educational and political system. He 
 arrived at San Francisco in September of the same 
 year, and went directly to Los Angeles, California, 
 where he became connected with several of the 
 leading educational institutions, and contributed to 
 various well-known journals of Los Angeles and 
 San Francisco. In the same year he founded the 
 Gallegos School of Languages, which he has been 
 conducting ever since. 
 
 A most clever linguist and brilliant scholar, 
 Professor Gallegos soon won a wide reputation as 
 an eloquent public speaker, forceful and correct 
 writer and excellent instructor. Endowed with in- 
 herited culture, which, coupled with his extraordi- 
 nary intellectual faculties, gave him immediately 
 
 a place of honor in the social, literary and educa- 
 tional circles of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- 
 fornia. His own popularity brought success to his 
 school from the outset, and the professor has num- 
 bered among his students not only the youth of Los 
 Angeles' best families, but also the heads of these 
 families, men prominent in the public, professional 
 and business life of the city. 
 
 The thoroughness of his own knowledge of 
 languages has caused Professor Gallegos to be con- 
 
 suited on frequent occasions 
 
 by some of the principal in- 
 stitutions of learning in the 
 United States upon difficult 
 and intricate points concern- 
 ing the Spanish and English 
 languages and their litera- 
 ture; and many of his de- 
 cisions in such cases have 
 been placed among the best 
 authorities on these subjects. 
 With the desire to devote 
 himself to the field of diplo- 
 macy, Prof. Gallegos, who is 
 making a great success of his 
 life through his own efforts, 
 unaided by any outside influ- 
 ences, entered the University 
 of Southern California Col- 
 lege of Law in 1909, as a 
 student and instructor, and 
 has since devoted a large 
 part of his time to these du- 
 ties. It is his intention, fol- 
 lowing graduation in 1914, to 
 take a post in the diplomatic 
 service of the United States 
 or his native land. This 
 seems a splendid choice, for, 
 in addition to an unusually 
 cultivated talent, and his 
 mastery of the languages, 
 the Professor has the digni- 
 fied and distinguished bear- 
 ing, culture and politeness of 
 
 his noble forebears, practical political, business and 
 military knowledge, and all other attributes which 
 are indispensable to make a successful diplomatist. 
 In accord with his plans, he was offered and ac- 
 cepted appointment, in May, 1912, as Chancellor of 
 the Peruvian Consulate at Los Angeles, and is 
 now serving in that official capacity. 
 
 Some few years ago he founded in Los Angeles, 
 impulsed by purely patriotic motives, the Latin- 
 American Information Bureau, a unique institution 
 where correct and educational information is im- 
 parted to the people of this country, about the 
 wonderful history, progress, culture and develop- 
 ment of the South and Central American nations. 
 In that manner he has been rendering an in- 
 valuable service to all the American Republics, and 
 has thus most efficiently co-operated with the Pan- 
 American Union of Washington. He is regarded as 
 an authority in all matters pertaining to these 
 countries, and has written much and spoken many 
 times before numerous official bodies of California. 
 He is essentially a student and devotes a great 
 part of his time to study, and he takes pride in 
 his excellent private library which comprises near- 
 ly five thousand volumes of works on Art, History, 
 Literature, Philosophy, Science, Biography, etc; 
 many of them being rare and of inestimable value. 
 
 M. GALLEGOS 
 
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 FLOYD G. DESSERY 
 
 ESSERY, FLOYD GOSSETT, Civil 
 and Hydraulic Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born Feb. 10, 1879, 
 at Leavenworth, Kan., the son of 
 Alfred B. Dessery and Mary M. 
 (Gossett) Dessery. He married 
 Julia M. Morrison at Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 1905, and 
 to them were born two children, Floyd Gordon and 
 Gerald Morrison Dessery. 
 
 Locating in Los Angeles in 18b7, Mr. Dessery at- 
 tended the schools there and left the high school in 
 1898, enlisting in the army shortly afterward. He 
 served through the Spanish-American war and the 
 Philippine campaign with the Third U. S. Artillery 
 and with the Engineer Corps. He participated in 
 seventeen engagements and upon his return to 
 America was awarded special medals by Congress 
 and the State of California. 
 
 Returning to civil life in 1900, Mr. Dessery went 
 to work in the Engineering Dept. of the City of Los 
 Angeles, later making hydrographic investigations 
 for the City Water Dept. In 1901-02 he was with the 
 Salt Lake R. R., and the next three years with the 
 Pac. Elec. Co. as engineer in the Construction Dept. 
 He then became Asst. Engineer on surveys for 
 Long Beach Harbor, leaving this to become special 
 engineer of Wilmington, Cal. Following this he was 
 City Engineer of Covina. Mr. Dessery was employed 
 as an expert in the famous Malibu Ranch suit and 
 the Tide Lands litigation for Los Angeles and Long 
 Beach, and in the appraisal of the water system of 
 Huntington Park, Cal. He is hydraulic engineer for 
 the American Beet Sugar Co. at Oxnard, Cal., the 
 Patterson Ranch Co., and various other projects. 
 
 He is a member of the firm of Dessery & West. 
 He is a member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, Amer. Water Works Assn., Eng. & Arch- 
 itects' Assn. of So. Cal., L. A. and Covina Chambers 
 of Commerce, Covina Country Club and the Gamut 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 FRANK WIGGINS 
 
 IGGINS, FRANK, Secretary of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Com- 
 merce, was born in Richmond, 
 Ind., Nov. 8, 1849, the son of 
 Charles O. Wiggins and Mary 
 (Marshall) Wiggins. He married 
 Amanda P. Wiggins at Los Angeles, May 5, 1886. 
 Mr. Wiggins' parents were both members of the So- 
 ciety of Friends and he received his education in 
 the schools of that sect. 
 
 His father was the owner of a large saddlery 
 business, and it was there he received his first 
 business training. He managed the business until 
 1886, when failing health sent him to California. In 
 February, 1889, Mr. Wiggins had recovered his 
 health sufficiently to re-enter business, and he be- 
 came connected with the L. A. Chamber of Com- 
 merce, then in its infancy. Since that time he has 
 been intimately connected with every movement 
 for the upbuilding of Los Angeles or the advertise- 
 ment of the State. He was first in charge of ex- 
 hibits for the Chamber, a position in which he be- 
 came a recognized expert. Some of the exhibits 
 which he handled were: The Orange Carnival, Chi- 
 cago, 1891; Southern California display, World's 
 Fair, Chicago, 1893; Midwinter Fair, Atlanta, 1894; 
 Los Angeles exhibit at Omaha, Neb., 1896, and at 
 Buffalo, 1901. Mr. Wiggins and Jas. A. Filcher were 
 California Commissioners to the St. Louis World's 
 Fair in 1904. They held the same commissions to 
 the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in 1909. Mr. Wig- 
 gins was State Commissioner to the Lewis Clark 
 Exposition and at the Jamestown Exposition; rep- 
 resented the Los Angeles County Exhibit. He also 
 established the permanent Southern California ex- 
 hibit in Atlantic City, N. J., in 1905, and will play an 
 important part in the Exposition at San Francisco, 
 1915. In 1895 Mr. Wiggins was made Supt. of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, and in 1897 was elected Sec- 
 retary, a position he has filled down to date. 
 
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 585 
 
 DR. EDWARD T. DILLON 
 
 ILLON, EDWARD THOMAS, Sur- 
 geon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in that city on April 13, 1877, and 
 has resided there since. He is the 
 son of Richard Dillon and Mary 
 (Hennessy) Dillon. In 1907 he 
 was married to Miss Laura Lynn Doran and has 
 two children, Edward Thomas, Jr., and Mary Philo- 
 mena. 
 
 Dr. Dillon received his collegiate and profes- 
 sional education and training in California institu- 
 tions, having attended the grammar and high 
 schools of Los Angeles, and finishing in the scien- 
 tific course of St. Vincent's College, where he re- 
 ceived his degree in 1897. In the fall of the same 
 year he entered the Medical Department of the 
 University of California, and was graduated after a 
 four years' course with the class of 1901. 
 
 Before engaging in practice, Dr. Dillon was for 
 two years one of the resident physicians at the Los 
 Angeles Cbunty Hospital, during the incumbency of 
 Dr. E. A. Bryant, the noted surgeon, as chief of the 
 medical and surgical staff of that institution. 
 
 After completion of his hospital work he became 
 associated in private practice with Dr. Bryant, and 
 also served as one of the latter's assistants in 
 charge of the medical department of the several 
 electric railway systems centering in Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1908 Dr. Dillon was apointed Division Surgeon 
 of the Southern Pacific, having charge of its medi- 
 cal department from Yuma, Ariz., to Bakersfield, 
 Cal. In 1910 he resigned to devote his entire time 
 to private practice. Dr. Dillon has devoted much of 
 his time to the L. A. Infirmary, better known as the 
 Sisters' Hospital, and is now surgeon in charge. Dr. 
 Dillon is affiliated with the National, State and 
 County medical associations and Pacific Assn. of 
 Railwav Surgeons, and contributes to their litera- 
 ture. He is also actively identified with local social 
 clubs and kindred organizations. 
 
 DR. LEON J. ROTH 
 
 OTH, DR. LEON JOSEPH, Urolo- 
 gist and Dermatologist, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., a son of E. D. and Ju- 
 lia (Georget) Roth, was born Dec. 
 31, 1873, at Los Angeles. Dr. 
 Roth was married to Miss Rilla 
 Wrench of New York on May 7, 1911. 
 
 After completing his public school education in 
 Los Angeles he entered the University of Califor- 
 nia, and in 1896 acquired his first professional de- 
 gree. Later he further pursued his studies, and 
 graduated from the College of Medicine, Univer- 
 sity of Southern California, in 1901. 
 
 He was appointed interne at the Los Angeles 
 County Hospital, under Dr. E. A. Bryant, and after 
 terminating his services became associated with 
 Dr. Hubert Nadeau, and entered into the general 
 practice of medicine. For five years he was the 
 senior attending physician to the French Hospital, 
 and part of this time assistant surgeon in the Sev- 
 enth Regiment, N. G. C. 
 
 He relinquished his large practice in 1908, going 
 abroad for special medical research, and matricu- 
 lated in the University of Paris for three semesters. 
 During this time he was provisional interne at 
 Necker Hospital in the service of Prof. Albarran, 
 and externe in the clinic at the St. Louis Hospital, 
 under Prof. Gaucher. Dr. Roth also visited many 
 of the leading institutions of Europe and the 
 United States before returning to Los Angeles, 
 where he has resumed practice in his special 
 branches, in association with Dr. E. T. Dillon. 
 
 Dr. Roth is a member of the American Medical 
 Assn.. the State and County Medical Societies, the 
 Symposium Society of L. A., Assn. of Military Sur- 
 geons of the U. S., American Urological Assn., and 
 1'Association Francaise d'Urologie, and is Consult- 
 ing Urologist and Dermatologist of the Sisters' Hos- 
 pital at Los Angeles. Member of the Jonathan and 
 University clubs and of Greek Letter societies. 
 
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 ILLER, A. BLANCHARD, President 
 of Fontana Development Com- 
 pany, Rialto, California, was born 
 at Richlands, North Carolina, 
 September 5, 1878, the son of 
 Joseph Kempster Miller and Eliza 
 (Blanchard) Miller. He is of distinguished an- 
 cestry, being descended on the maternal side from 
 Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the 
 Battle of Lake Erie, and Gurdon Saltonstall, the 
 Congregational minister who served as Colonial 
 Governor of Connecticut and was instrumental in 
 locating Yale University at New Haven. 
 
 Mr. Miller, who has won distinction as one of 
 the successful young business men of the South- 
 west, spent his boyhood in Washington, D. C., and 
 received his preliminary education in the public 
 schools of that city. Upon locating in California, 
 in 1893, he continued his studies in the High School 
 of Riverside County and then spent a year in 
 Pomona College at Claremont, California, prepar- 
 ing for a course at the University of California. 
 He did not enter the latter, however, taking up 
 business life instead. 
 
 Beginning his career in 1897, he began farming 
 in the Ferris Valley of Southern California, with 
 approximately five hundred acres of land in cul- 
 tivation, chiefly in grain. He was successful from 
 the outset, and kept increasing his operations until, 
 in 1901, at the end of his fourth year, he had more 
 than five thousand acres in cultivation. Dry years 
 and poor prices for his grain interfered with his 
 operations later on, and so he embarked in the 
 contracting business, in addition to farming, be- 
 ginning by renting part of his live stock to the 
 Grant Brothers' Construction Co., then engaged in 
 building the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake 
 Railroad (Salt Lake Route) for the Clark interests. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Miller turned his attention to the 
 famous Imperial Valley of California, first as a 
 contractor and later as a developer. He built a 
 large portion of the canal system that waters what 
 is known as "Section 8" of the Imperial Valley, and 
 also graded much of the townsite of Brawley. 
 
 The next year (1905), in association with E. D. 
 Roberts, H. E. Harris, E. J. Eisenmayer and other 
 interests of San Bernardino, California; he leased 
 from the Fontana Development Co., then con- 
 trolled by the San Francisco Savings Union, eight 
 thousand acres of that company's land near Rialto, 
 California. At the time of making this deal Mr. 
 Miller also took an option on the land with the 
 right to purchase it outright. After farming the 
 land to grain for a year, Mr. Miller, with the in- 
 terests named and another partner, Thomas F. 
 Keefe, organized the Fontana Land & Water Co., 
 which corporation immediately contracted to buy 
 the San Francisco Savings Union's interest in the 
 Fontana Development Co., owning nineteen thou- 
 sand acres of land in San Bernardino County, and 
 more than seventy-five per cent of the flow of Lytle 
 Creek. They thereupon began the development of 
 the land through irrigation, making it one of the 
 most valuable tracts in that country. 
 
 Although he was actively engaged with the Fon- 
 tana Development project, Mr. Miller continued 
 his contracting business and in 1906 built for the 
 United States Government the first levees on the 
 Yuma project, constructing them on the Colo- 
 rado River for twelve miles below the town of 
 Yuma, Arizona. Mr. Miller was accorded great 
 credit for the solidity of this work, and before 
 
 leaving Arizona entered into negotiations with J. G. 
 White & Co., Engineers, of New York to take the 
 building of the California side of the Yuma Dam 
 off their hands. These negotiations went as far 
 as the White Company signing the contracts, but 
 his increasing responsibilities of the Fontana Com- 
 pany caused him to abandon his plan. 
 
 Early in the year 1907 Mr. Miller, acting alone, 
 purchased the Lakeview Ranch in Riverside County, 
 a property six thousand acres- in extent. He farmed 
 on the land for a season, but later in the same year 
 organized the Nuevo Land Co. and sold the Lake- 
 view property, together with his farming equip- 
 ment, to that company. Prior to Mr. Miller's pur- 
 chase of the Lakeview property it had been greatly 
 entangled, there being about a score of owners, but 
 he cleared the title and turned the property over to 
 his company without any entanglements. 
 
 Mr. Miller continued the operation of the 
 Fontana Land & Water Co.'s land& for two years 
 more, and then took over the interests of Messrs. 
 Roberts, Harris and others in the property, becom- 
 ing associated at that time with Messrs. James- H. 
 Adams, E. J. Marshall and J. S. Torrance, well- 
 known bankers of Los Angeles, in the conduct of 
 the property held by the company. They immedi- 
 ately began to develop more water, and to build an 
 extensive irrigation system. The building of the ca- 
 nals was under the direct supervision of Mr. Miller, 
 and claimed his time for more than two years. 
 
 Aside from the work of irrigating the lands of 
 his company, Mr. Miller, as President and Manager, 
 directs the planting and sale of lands to farmers, 
 and during the year 1911 planted more than one 
 thousand acres of orange and lemon trees, the larg- 
 est acreage ever planted in citrus- fruits by a single 
 concern in one year up to that time. 
 
 Through his work in the development and 
 handling of the Fontana Land & Water Co.'s 
 project Mr. Miller has taken rank with those men 
 who are credited with being the real developers of 
 the resources of the Southwest, and is regarded as 
 one of the potent factors for progress in that sec- 
 tion of the country. 
 
 A reorganization of the Fontana projects under 
 the name of the Fontana Company, with greatly 
 enlarged capital, was begun in June, 1912, to take 
 care of the business of both the Fontana De- 
 velopment Co. and the Fontana Land & Water Co. 
 The completion of this reorganization plan, in 
 which Mr. Miller is an important factor, will mean 
 the dissolution of the two companies named. 
 
 In the meantime, in addition to the offices held 
 by him in the Fontana Land & Water Co. Mr. 
 Miller is one of the principals in several allied 
 concerns, among them the Fontana Development 
 Company, of which he is President and Manager; 
 the Fontana Water Company, in which he is Vice 
 President and Manager; the Rialto Domestic Water 
 Company, in which he holds the position of 
 Manager, and the Lytle Creek Water Company, of 
 which he is President. 
 
 All of these companies are in active operation 
 and Mr. Miller divides his time and energies- be- 
 tween them. He is thoroughly interested in the up- 
 building of the Imperial Valley and Southern Cali- 
 fornia in general, and takes an active part in va- 
 rious civic movements, but has no time for politics. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club and 
 South Coast Yacht Club, Los Angeles, and Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Elks, Riverside, Cal. 
 
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 ELLISSIER, GERMAIN (De- 
 ceased), Capitalist and Sheep 
 Raiser, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Hautes-Alpes, in 
 the South of France, September 
 24, 1849, the son of John Francois 
 Pellissier and Adelaide (Bellue) Pellissier. He 
 married Marie Julie Darfeuille, a native of Paris, 
 at San Francisco, California, June 6, 1876, and to 
 them there were born two daughters, Marie Louise 
 and Adelaide. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier, the young- 
 est of a family of ten chil- 
 dren, was of one of the old 
 houses of France. The home- 
 stead in which he was born, 
 a picturesque stone structure, 
 stands after more than one 
 hundred and fifty years, a his- 
 toric landmark of Hautes- 
 Alpes. His father was a 
 stockman and farmer, a man 
 of position and culture, who 
 died in 1866 at the age of 
 seventy. 
 
 Germain Pellissier, who is 
 remembered as one of the 
 pioneers in the upbuilding of 
 Southern Cailfornia, was 
 reared on the estate of his 
 father until he reached the 
 age of seventeen. He had 
 attended the public schools 
 of his district meantime, and 
 worked with his father in the 
 raising of sheep, so that, de- 
 spite his youth, he was thor- 
 oughly familiar with the de- 
 tails of the industry. 
 
 In 1867, within a year of 
 the death of his father, Mr. 
 Pellissier, determined to visit 
 America. He was possessed 
 of some money, and, full of 
 the adventurous spirit of 
 
 youth, felt that the New World offered better 
 promise for a young man than did his own France. 
 He arrived in San Francisco, February 2, 1867, and 
 for the next few months studied the conditions 
 of that part of the State, but in August, decided 
 to visit Southern California, and located at Los 
 Angeles, which immediately presented to him ad- 
 vantages so alluring that he decided to make his 
 home there permanently. 
 
 At this time Los Angeles was a pueblo, with 
 only a few thousand inhabitants and an actual 
 municipal area of twenty-eight square miles, while 
 in 1913 the city limits of Los Angeles comprise 107.62. 
 Mr. Pellissier established his residence at Seventh 
 and Olive streets, then outside the city limits, but 
 a district which became one of the important busi- 
 ness centers of Los Angeles. He remained tfiere 
 for twenty-eight years, having built in 1888, the 
 Pellissier Block, which at that time represented 
 the most advanced type of business building. This 
 property still is retained in the family, but the 
 home was transferred many years ago to Cahuenga 
 Boulevard, where the family has since resided. 
 
 It is an interesting historical fact and a com- 
 mentary on the great appreciation of realty values 
 in Los Angeles that the land where the home is 
 situated could have been purchased by Mr. Pel- 
 
 GERMAIN PELLISSIER 
 
 lissier, upon his arrival in the city for $1.25 an 
 acre. Several years later he purchased 200 acres 
 for $25 an acre, and this same land is now valued 
 at thousands of dollars per acre. The greater part 
 of the property is still owned by the Pellissier 
 family, but certain portions of it were sold and 
 the district is now one of the very attractive resi- 
 dence sections of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier entered the sheep raising busi- 
 ness shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, and 
 soon became one of the most 
 extensive herdsmen in the 
 Southwest. His flocks ranged 
 over three counties and were 
 counted by the thousands. 
 He was a student of the wool 
 industry and early found that 
 the climate of Southern Cali- 
 fornia was conducive to large 
 .rfgr*r yields, so he devoted the 
 
 greater part of his time to the 
 improvement of his stock. He 
 bettered the breed by impor- 
 tation from France and Aus- 
 tralia and so long as he con- 
 tinued in the business, was 
 the owner of the finest sheep 
 in Southern California. In one 
 year he made a record by 
 obtaining a shearing of sixty- 
 two and one-half pounds from 
 one buck. Afterwards a buck 
 raised by him was sold in 
 Australia, perhaps the great- 
 est sheep-raising country in 
 the world, for $2200. He was 
 chiefly noted as the breeder 
 of the famous Rambouillet 
 strain. 
 
 Towards the latter part of 
 his life, Mr. Pellissier retired 
 from the sheep-raising in- 
 dustry and as Los Angeles be- 
 gan to grow he concluded to 
 dispose of much of his land 
 for subdivision purposes and reduced the original 
 two hundred acres to about eighty. 
 
 All during his residence in Los Angeles, Mr. 
 Pellissier was an enthusiastic worker for her up- 
 building and gave liberally of time and money to 
 further the interests of the city. He was a Repub- 
 lican and aided his party to success in various cam- 
 paigns, but never sought or accepted public office. 
 He was prominent also in financial circles and at 
 one time was an officer and stockholder in seven 
 different banks. A man of fine business talent and 
 mature judgment, he was an important factor in 
 their deliberations. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier served for many years as Presi- 
 dent of the French Benevolent Society of Los An- 
 geles. He was regarded as one of the substantial 
 business men, held membership in various organiz- 
 ations devoted to civic betterment and enjoyed the 
 esteem of the entire community. 
 
 He was fond of travel, and on various occasions, 
 accompanied by members of his family, made ex- 
 tended tours of Europe. He not only visited his 
 birthplace in France, but traveled through other 
 countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Austria 
 and Italy. 
 
 He was- called bv death January 15, 1908, and is 
 survived by his wife and two daughters. 
 
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 589 
 
 'CARTHY, JOHN HARVEY, Cali- 
 fornia Real Estate and Land Oper- 
 ator, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in San Diego, California, 
 May 4, 1870; his parents being 
 Daniel O. and Amanda (An- 
 derson) McCarthy. At Santa Ana, California, he 
 was married to Mary Patterson, daughter of a dis- 
 tinguished family. A son, William Harvey Mc- 
 Carthy, blessed this union August 2, 1908. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy was edu- 
 cated by a private tutor, and 
 in the San Francisco schools. 
 He attended Laurel Hall Mil- 
 itary Academy at San Ma- 
 teo, California, until 1887, at 
 which time he left to pre- 
 pare for a business career. 
 In 1888, D. O. McCarthy 
 organized a large mercantile 
 firm, taking his son J. Har- 
 vey in partnership, and 
 opened with headquarters at 
 Siempreviva, California. Aft- 
 er three years of successful 
 life, Mr. McCarthy yielded to 
 the lure of journalism, and 
 selling his interest in the 
 mercantile business, he lo- 
 cated in San Diego, and es- 
 tablished the "Morning Vi- 
 dette," a live news sheet, 
 which he published profitably 
 for several years. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy, with won- 
 derful foresight, recognized 
 Los Angeles as the coming 
 metropolis of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, so, disposing of his 
 
 San Diego interests, he came to Los Angeles where 
 he immediately became an important factor in 
 realty operations. 
 
 He was a charter member of the Pioneer Invest- 
 ment & Trust Company, active operators in finan- 
 cial and realty circles of Los Angeles, and was 
 elected its President and General Manager. Due 
 chiefly to its- executive head's energy and ability, 
 this concern opened several valuable residence 
 subdivisions in the path of the city's greatest 
 growth. Among these were the University Place 
 of eighty acres in the Southwest; Windermere, in 
 the Western end of the city, and Cresta Del Ar- 
 royo, in the Boyle Heights section. These districts 
 are among the valuable residence properties of 
 Los Angeles, and are lasting monuments to the 
 foresight of the men responsible for their promo- 
 tion and development. 
 
 Still retaining his seat on the directorate of the 
 Pioneer Investment & Trust Company, Mr. McCar- 
 thy organized and became President and General 
 Manager of the Planada Development Company, in- 
 
 j. HARVEY MCCARTHY 
 
 corporated under the laws of California, with the 
 object in view of establishing a model city and 
 farming community. Several thousand acres in 
 Merced County, on the main line of the Santa Fe 
 Railroad, were purchased and development work 
 commenced at once. The building of a model city 
 was started, after plans prepared by Wilbur David 
 Cook, an expert of international reputation on mu- 
 nicipal matters. In a year from its start, Planada 
 had a bank, a $50,000 hotel, electric lights, water 
 system, graded, curbed and 
 palm-lined streets, schools, 
 public parks and playgrounds, 
 and scores of comfortable 
 houses- an enviable record 
 for new towns made possi- 
 ble by the energetic methods 
 of Mr. McCarthy and his as- 
 sociates. On the farms sur- 
 rounding Planada, experi- 
 ments were constantly being 
 made by an agricultural ex- 
 pert in Mr. McCarthy's em- 
 ploy, and the results applied 
 to benefit Planada farmers 
 so as to assist them in get- 
 ting increased production. 
 
 Several months later, the 
 Planada Development Cor- 
 poration, with a capital of 
 $500,000, was organized to 
 take over the Planada Devel- 
 opment Company in order to 
 increase its efficiency, and 
 Mr. McCarthy was elected 
 President of the new corpor- 
 ation. Planada has risen 
 from a barley field to a city 
 and its farms to an impor- 
 tant place among the food-producing regions of the 
 State, in a little more than a year from the day 
 Mr. McCarthy stood on the ground for the first 
 time and recognized its possibilities. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy is also Vice President of the Bank 
 of Planada and Vice President of the Planada 
 Water Company both positions carrying much re- 
 sponsibility and requiring an efficient and ener- 
 getic man to administer them. 
 
 In the Democratic party of California, Mr. Mc- 
 Carthy is a power having been a Delegate to the 
 St. Louis Convention in 1904 that nominated Alton 
 B. Parker for President. He is a close personal 
 friend of William Jennings Bryan and has enter- 
 tained him several times on occasion of his visits 
 to California. Although prominent in politics, he 
 has declined several times to run for various im- 
 portant offices. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy are prominent in Los 
 Angeles and Southern California social life and 
 their palatial residence is often the scene of bril- 
 liant social functions. 
 
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 DWELL, THOMAS, Doctor of Med- 
 icine, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Montgomery County. 
 Tennessee, Sept. 21, 1837. He is 
 the son of William Solomon 
 Powell and Sallie (Holloway) 
 Powell. He has been twice married, his first 
 wife, Margaret lanthe Rife, whom he married at 
 her mother's country home in Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky, on December 18th, 1859, having borne him 
 eight children. They are 
 Charles Thomas, lanthe Flor- 
 ence, William Rife, Arthur 
 Leon, Effie May, Nellie Caro- 
 line, George Fideles and 
 Verne Q. Powell. His sec- 
 ond wife, Clarissa Jeannette 
 Pond, whom he married June 
 25, 1893, has borne him one 
 child, Ruth Jeannette Powell. 
 Dr. Powell, who is dis- 
 tinguished for his original 
 investigations and writings 
 in explanation of the activi- 
 ties of life, normal and ab- 
 normal, attended the public 
 and private schools of Mont- 
 gomery County, Tenn., grad- 
 uating later (1858) from the 
 New York Medical College 
 of New York City the first 
 institution in the United 
 States to establish a higher 
 standard of medical educa- 
 tion, and hence the fore- 
 runner of the present sys- 
 tem of medical education. 
 
 He entered upon his 
 chosen career in the latter 
 
 part of 1859, locating thirty miles northwest of 
 his birthplace in a thickly populated country dis- 
 trict, in Trigg County of Kentucky, where he still 
 lived when the Civil War began. Nearly all his 
 relatives were slave-holders, and yet he actively 
 opposed the secession movement, and with the 
 result of carrying his district in behalf of the 
 Stars and Stripes in each of the three elections 
 that were held with the view of taking his adopted 
 State out of the Union. He was a member of the 
 "Union League" of that perilous period, and took 
 part in the enlistment of the men composing the 
 regiment of Unionists organized at Hopkinsville, 
 Ky., by Colonel Buckner of that city. 
 
 A short time after the Bowling Green conven- 
 tion took action, professing to add the south half 
 of the State to the Confederacy and providing for 
 a draft in the interest thereof, Dr. Powell and 
 family, together with fifty-four of his fellow loy- 
 alists, seeing no other way of escaping service in 
 a cause for which they had no sympathy, em- 
 barked on a United States gunboat for Paducah, 
 
 DR. THOMAS POWELL 
 
 Kentucky, arriving at that point soon after Gen- 
 eral Grant took command thereof. A few months 
 later he yielded to the importunities of relatives 
 residing in Indiana, locating in a thickly populated 
 country district in Rush County, where he re- 
 mained for many years. In 1878 he moved to Dan- 
 ville, Indiana, where he established what he be- 
 lieved to be the most up-to-date office of the period, 
 embracing, as it did, not only the latest measures 
 and apparatus then in vogue, but several steam- 
 propelled therapeutic appli- 
 ances of his own invention. 
 
 In 1884, when modern 
 medicine was rapidly ap- 
 proaching the zenith of its 
 world-wide regnancy, Dr. 
 Powell determined to take a 
 post-graduate course, and 
 with the hope of meeting a 
 long-felt want a better un- 
 derstanding of medical prob- 
 lems than he had been able 
 to obtain from the medical 
 literature of the period 
 making choice of the then ex- 
 isting Medical Department of 
 the University of Nebraska 
 an institution that appealed 
 to him, by reason of the fact 
 that all three of the then pre- 
 vailing systems Regular, 
 Eclectic and Homeopathic 
 were embraced therein. 
 
 This institution was to all 
 appearances well-manned and 
 up-to-date in its equipment 
 and teachings and yet it did 
 not meet the expectations of 
 Dr. Powell, as a medical 
 
 student. Its teachings served, not to gratify, 
 but to intensify Dr. Powell's professional craving 
 because even they did not supply the missing links 
 of the current teaching. Wherefore, he set out 
 with the determination to solve, if possible, both 
 the confessedly and the obviously unsolved prob- 
 lems of Modern Medicine. The most important of 
 the former class- were those pertaining to the 
 susceptibility of the body to morbific agencies, cli- 
 matic, sporadic and bacteriologic. Authorities had 
 gone no further than to realize and admit that 
 both congestion and infection depend upon a pre- 
 existing condition of which a lowered vitality is 
 the most conspicuous feature. 
 
 To the newly fledged investigator, if to 
 no other person, it appeared that the solution 
 of this problem called for a knowledge of the 
 agency to which a lowered vitality naturally re- 
 fers the power that lies at the bottom of the 
 vital activities, evidencing its right to the distinc- 
 tion of being the law-giving principle by bearing 
 the same relation to the activities of the vital 
 
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 realm that gravitation does to those of the phys- 
 ical universe. 
 
 In short, Dr. Powell has spent more than a 
 quarter of a century in the attempt to detect and 
 remedy the deficiencies of the current teaching, 
 and with the result of the production of an en- 
 tirely new and original medical philosophy, the 
 details of which he published in 1909 in the shape 
 of a medical work of 600 pages, entitled "Funda- 
 mentals and Requirements of Health and Disease." 
 
 His first achievement was effected in 1885 and 
 consisted in a most complete and logical solution 
 of the problems of Nutrition and Muscular Con- 
 traction, negating the current teaching by show- 
 ing: (1) that nutrition consists, not in the rebuild- 
 ing of worn-out tissues, as authorities had as- 
 serted, but in the filling and refilling of the cells 
 of which the motor mechanisms, nervous and 
 muscular, are composed; (2) that the living ma- 
 chine owes its energies, mental, nervous, thermal 
 and propulsive, to the oxidation, not of its tissues, 
 as authorities have declared, but of the carbon of 
 the food stored in the cells thereof; (3) that 
 it owes its every motion to the Vitomotive 
 Power the power of expanding carbon dioxide 
 gas the form of energy which is revolutionizing 
 the world's travel, and, as- Dr. Powell puts it "by 
 sending the 'Horseless Carriage' in triumphal ele- 
 gance along the highways of civilization." 
 
 In the January, 1886, number of the Kansas 
 City Medical Index, Dr. Powell published an illus- 
 trated article on this subject. In the winter of 
 1888, the light afforded by the foregoing dis- 
 coveries enabled him to detect what he holds 
 to be the great underlying cause of disease the 
 thing that renders the body "susceptible" to 
 "colds" and infections; that gives rise to such 
 troublous conditions as congestion, inflammation, 
 and tissue starvation, and that caps the climax of 
 its essential virulence by taking the shape of 
 catarrhal matter, Milliary Tubercles and Cancer 
 Cells. Because of its wondrous virulence and ver- 
 satility this substance has been given the new 
 and fairly distinctive name of Pathogen a term 
 that the discoverer thereof constructed from the 
 Greek roots path which means to suffer and gen 
 which means to generate or produce. 
 
 In the winter of 1894-95, Dr. Powell published in 
 the Medical Brief, of St. Louis, a series of six 
 articles on the subject of his discoveries, entitled 
 "Exact Science in Medicine Its Necessity, Its 
 Hindrances, and Its Basis," the immediate effect 
 being a flood of complimentary letters. 
 
 In the latter part of 1896 he demonstrated on 
 three separate occasions, and by experiments 
 made upon his own body, that he had discovered 
 how to render the human body immune to infective 
 organisms. 
 
 A little later (December, 1896) he was induced 
 by parties who had heard of his discoveries to 
 adopt Los Angeles, California, as the basis of his 
 future operations. Soon after his arrival in Los 
 
 Angeles he repeated the tests above referred to, 
 demonstrating under the supervision of many 
 physicians, and by experiments made, as before, 
 upon his own body, that when a man has been 
 freed from what he had found to be the basic and 
 predisposing cause of disease Pathogen he is 
 perfectly immune, the vilest germs then known to 
 science malignant pustule, tuberculosis, glanders, 
 diphtheria and typhoid fever having been intro- 
 duced into his body by every available route, from 
 ingestion to hypodermic inoculation, without pro- 
 ducing the slightest discernible injury. 
 
 In 1900, Dr. Powell originated the Electro-Dy- 
 namic method of eradicating deep-seated disorders 
 comprehending a combination of agencies, me- 
 chanical and electrical, whereby the requisite reme- 
 dies are forced from the surface of the body, where 
 they must of necessity be applied, through the skin 
 and into the deep-seated areas where the basic 
 cause of the trouble Pathogen is imbedded, as it 
 is in a multitude of maladies, the result of a timely 
 and duly faithful effort of the kind being the cure 
 of a great variety of problematic, disorders, includ- 
 ing several of the so-called incurables diabetes, 
 Bright's disease, dropsy, heart disease, apoplexy, 
 paralysis, nervous debility and locomotor ataxia. 
 
 There is much in Dr. Powell's theses to justify 
 the conclusion that he has made an epoch- 
 making discovery that he has obtained a definite 
 knowledge both of the power that rules on vital 
 plane, as gravitation does on the physical, and of 
 the rules by which it is governed, the principia, it 
 would seem, of the domain of Animated Nature. 
 
 The May, 1910, issue of "The Medical World" 
 states: 
 
 "The first part of the book, or 'The New Vital 
 Philosophy/ explains the movements of the living 
 organism by showing that they are produced by the 
 vito-motive power; that this agent has a dynamic 
 equivalent of forty atmospheres; what this mighty 
 power is; from what element of food it is devel- 
 oped; and how it sets the vital machinery in mo- 
 tion. Part two is entitled, 'The New Etiology and 
 Pathology,' and explains the various morbid proc- 
 esses, from congestion and inflammation to necro- 
 sis, carcinosis, and tuberculosis, by disclosing the 
 remote and hitherto unsuspected cause thereof. 
 Part three is entitled, 'The New Prophylaxis and 
 Therapeusis.' It discloses the measures, medicinal, 
 electrical, mechanical, thermal, manual and regi- 
 menal, required for the elimination of pathogen. 
 . . . The theory is novel, and opposed to any- 
 thing heretofore accepted, and the book is very 
 readable. We cannot venture any opinion as to how 
 successful it may be in proselyting the profession, 
 but we unhesitatingly accord the attribute of hon- 
 esty and enthusiasm to the author. . . ." 
 
 Dr. Powell is a member of several social and 
 scientific organizations, among which are the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, the Celtic Club, American Pub. 
 Health Association, American Health League, 
 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, American Association for the Study and Pre- 
 vention of Infant Mortality, and the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Academy of Sciences. 
 
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 BROWN, HARRING- 
 TON, Oil Refiner, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was 
 born January 1, 1856, 
 in Washington, D. C., 
 the son of William 
 Van Horn Brown and 
 Adelaide J. (Harring- 
 ton) Brown. He mar- 
 ried Minnie T o 1 a n d 
 Glassell at Los An- 
 geles, Dec. 13, 1882. 
 
 He studied in pri- 
 vate schools of his na- 
 tive city, until he en- 
 tered the preparatory 
 department of Colum- 
 bian University 
 ( George Washington ) , 
 and from there he 
 went to Princeton University, graduating in 1876, 
 with the degree A. B. He then entered Columbian 
 University Law School and studied for two years. 
 He was graduated in 1878, with degree LL. B., but 
 never engaged in practice. He went to Los An- 
 geles shortly after graduating and became a fruit 
 grower. He remained at this only a short time, 
 giving it up in 1890 to engage in the oil refining 
 business. He has remained in that business down 
 to date, at present being President of the Southern 
 Refining Company. 
 
 Mr. Brown is a member of the National Geo- 
 graphic Society, National Municipal League, Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, and Merchants and Manufac- 
 turers' Association of Los Angeles. His clubs are 
 the University, Jefferson, Princeton, College Men's 
 and Los Angeles Country, all of Los Angeles. 
 
 BARHAM, GUY B., 
 Custom House and In- 
 ternal Revenue Broker, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at "The 
 Dalles," Ore., March 
 21, 1864. His father 
 was Richard M. Bar- 
 ham and his mother 
 Martha Medora (Ar- 
 nold) B a r h a m. He 
 married at Detroit, 
 Mich., August 4, 1903, 
 Marie Humphreys 
 Baby. One child, now 
 deceased, was born to 
 them. 
 
 His parents moved 
 to Watsonville, Cal., in 
 1866; then went to 
 Anaheim, Cal., in 1873. Became a resident of Los 
 Angeles in 1882. Educated in public schools of Los 
 Angeles County and High School of Anaheim, 
 California. 
 
 He has had a varied and busy career. At the 
 age of 21 he became a railway postal clerk. He 
 liked the employ of Uncle Sam, and in 1888 he be- 
 came Deputy Collector Internal Revenue Service 
 at Los Angeles. He resigned in 1890 to go into the 
 Customs House and Internal Revenue Brokerage 
 business for himself. Went into politics and was 
 Police Commissioner, Los Angeles, 1895-'96; Presi- 
 dent Board of Bank Commissioners of California, 
 1902-'06. 
 
 Clubs: Los Angeles Country, Jonathan, Califor- 
 nia, Elks, of Los Angeles; Bohemian, of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 HUMPHREYS, WIL- 
 LIAM MORGAN, Mem- 
 ber Board of Public 
 Works, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at 
 St. Louis, Missouri, Oc- 
 tober 12, 1864, the son 
 of John F. Humphreys 
 and Fannie C. (Math- 
 ews) Humphreys. He 
 married Amelia Marie 
 Seeberger, April 25, 
 1895, at Monmouth, Il- 
 linois, and to them 
 there has been born 
 one child, Helen Hum- 
 phreys. 
 
 Mr. Humphreys be- 
 gan life equipped with 
 a thorough education, 
 having attended St. Louis University, St. Mary's 
 College, St. Louis; St. Louis Law School and St. 
 Vincent's College, Los Angeles. He received the 
 honorary degree of A. M. from St. Vincent's in 1911. 
 After graduating from St. Louis Law School in 1889 
 with LL. B., he returned to Los Angeles, whither his 
 family had moved in 1883, and went into the land 
 business on a large scale. He bought large tracts 
 adjacent to the city, subdivided them into lots, cut 
 streets, laid sidewalks, and planted palms and trees. 
 He has done notable improvement work and has 
 been a factor in the upbuilding of Los Angeles, 
 served two terms as Park Commissioner, one as As- 
 sistant Postmaster and one on the Board of Public 
 Works. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic 
 Shriner, Knight Templar and Elk. 
 
 LEWIS, WALTER 
 A., Auditor of Los An- 
 geles County, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., Sept. 30, 
 1864, the son of John 
 Lewis and Julia Brew- 
 ster (Clark) Lewis. He 
 married Edith Blades 
 at Pomona, Cal., May 
 3, 1892. 
 
 He started his edu- 
 cation in the schools of 
 Chicago, but left there 
 in 1877; in 1881 went 
 to high school, Kansas 
 City, Mo., where he 
 studied two years. Be- 
 gan in 1881 as weigh- 
 master in Union Ele- 
 vator, Kansas City, serving two years. Employed 
 in Kansas City Branch Great Western Type Foun- 
 dry, 1883-1886. Then went into printing business, 
 until 1887, when he went to Pomona, Cal., where 
 he still resides. He first went to work in California 
 in the musical instrument establishment of R. S. 
 Bassett, dealing in real estate on side. In June, 
 1888, went into real estate and insurance alone, 
 continuing to January, 1911. That year he was 
 elected Auditor of Los Angeles County on the Re- 
 publican ticket. Mr. Lewis served ten years as sec- 
 retary of Del Monte Irrigation Company, same with 
 Irrigation Company of Pomona, and nine years as 
 secretary Kingsley Tract Water Company, all of 
 Pomona. Served in National Guard of California, 
 1887 to 1897. 
 
 Member Union League Club, Los Angeles. 
 
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 593 
 
 HUNT, JOHN NEW- 
 ELL, Treasurer, Los 
 Angeles County, Los 
 Angeles, California, 
 was born in De Witt 
 County, Illinois, Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1863, the son 
 of Dr. John B. Hunt 
 and Sarah E. (Bar- 
 nett) Hunt. He mar- 
 ried Hattie P. Collins, 
 at Los Angeles, De- 
 cember 7, 1887, and to 
 them there have been 
 born three children, 
 Harry C., Grace C. and 
 Edward T. Hunt. 
 
 Mr. Hunt received 
 his education in the 
 common schools of 
 
 Clinton, Illinois. He spent his young manhood in 
 Illinois, engaging in various lines of business, and 
 in 1882 moved to California, where he engaged in 
 ranching and commercial lines for several years. 
 From 1887 to 1894 he was engaged in the banking 
 business with the Southern California Savings 
 Bank. From 1895 to 1907 he was Deputy Tax Col- 
 lector of Los Angeles County, and left that posi- 
 tion in the latter year to assume the office of 
 County Treasurer, to which he had been elected 
 in November, 1906. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is a man of high principles and an 
 ardent worker for the advancement of the city in 
 which he has elected to make his home. He is ever 
 ready to aid any movement calculated to benefit 
 Los Angeles. He is a member of the Union League 
 Club of Los Angeles and the Scottish Rite Masons. 
 
 WHITE, PERCIVAL 
 GORDON, Physician 
 and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born 
 June 13, 1880, at Wood- 
 stock, Ontario, Canada, 
 the son of Lieutenant 
 Colonel John White and 
 Jane (MacWhirter) 
 White. He married Jes- 
 sie May Rosene, Janu- 
 ary 26, 1911, at Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Dr. White received 
 his primary education 
 at the Woodstock Colle- 
 giate, Woodstock, Can- 
 ada, graduating in 1899. 
 He at once entered 
 McGill University and 
 graduated in medicine in June, 1905, with the de- 
 grees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Sur- 
 gery. 
 
 He was then appointed to the Resident Staff 
 of the Montreal General Hospital, where he ac- 
 quired wide experience in medicine, surgery and 
 pathology, being associated in this institution 
 with most of the noted medical men of Canada. 
 After spending several months in Europe, where 
 he visited many of the world's most famous hos- 
 pitals, Dr. White returned to the United States, 
 and went to Los Angeles, locating there in April, 
 1909. 
 
 Dr. White is a member of various scientific and 
 professional organizations, these including the 
 American Medical Association, Los Angeles County 
 Medical Society and the Symposium Society. 
 
 WEIK, FRED G., Real 
 Estate, Investments 
 and fire insurance, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at All- 
 merbach, province of 
 Bachnang, Germany, 
 September 14, 1873. He 
 married Miss Anna 
 Ilmer at Pasadena in 
 1898. There are three 
 children, Helen, Mar- 
 guerite and William 
 H. Weik. 
 
 Mr. Weik was taught 
 in the public schools 
 of New York and be- 
 fore that in Germany, 
 
 but his schooling was 
 
 of short duration. He 
 
 arrived at Monrovia, Cal., in 1887, after a residence 
 of several years in New York City. He worked in 
 a bakery at Monrovia, and later went to Pasadena, 
 where he worked in the bakery which he after- 
 wards bought. 
 
 He foresaw the growth of the Southern Califor- 
 nia cities and bought property in many of the most 
 promising ones. Much of it he has held and it 
 has enhanced greatly in value. 
 
 In the year 1905 he engaged in the real estate 
 and loan business, and is known as one of the 
 most accurate appraisers in the State. 
 
 He was formerly president of the Los Angeles 
 Lodge, No. 12, of the O. A. H. S., and is now 
 treasurer. He is a member of the Sons of Her- 
 mann, Turn Verein and Schwaben Verein, Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, Foresters and German Alliance. 
 
 W A C K E R EARTH, 
 AUGUST, Architect, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Hessia, Ger- 
 many, May 8, 1859, the 
 son of Henry and Mar- 
 tha Elizabeth (Trau) 
 Wackerbarth. His fore- 
 fathers were soldiers 
 and farmers to times 
 immemorial. He mar- 
 ried Lottie Adams, 
 June 6, 1887, at Monte 
 Vista, Cal. There are 
 three children, Augus- 
 ta Esther Fragner, 
 Henry O., and George 
 A. Wackerbarth. 
 
 Mr. Wackerbarth at- 
 tended the technical 
 schools of Holzminden, Brunswick, the Polytechnic 
 Institute at Langensalza, Province of Saxony, and 
 graduated from the latter in the spring of 1876. 
 
 He traveled Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, 
 Belgium, England and other European countries 
 before he came to America. He arrived in New 
 York, July 2, 1878. He went to Independence, la., 
 and then moved to Chicago, where he remained 
 until 1882. He arrived in Los Angeles, November 
 22, 1882. Mr. Wackerbarth is treasurer and was 
 one of the founders of the Southern California 
 Chapter of American Institute of Architects, is a 
 Mason, charter member of the Southern California 
 Engineers and Architects' Association, Knights 
 Templar, and Pioneer Society of Los Angeles 
 County and National Geographic Society of the 
 United States of America. 
 
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 NDERSON, J. CRAMPTON, 
 General Manager of the 
 American Petroleum and 
 American Oilfields Compa- 
 nies, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born October 26, 1877, at Mason, Texas. 
 He is the son of Elbridge T. and Sarah 
 J. Anderson. He married Daysie M. Bet- 
 zold in Los Angeles on June 17, 1899. 
 
 While Mr. Anderson 
 was .still a youth, he 
 moved from Texas to 
 Phoenix, Arizona. A few 
 years later he went 
 to Los Angeles, where he 
 has ever since been iden- 
 tified prominently with 
 enterprises for the devel- 
 opment of the matchless 
 resources of the great 
 Southwest. In the remote 
 locality in which his boy- 
 hood was passed, he had 
 but limited educational 
 advantages and he en- 
 tered upon his business 
 career with practically 
 no capital but a sound 
 business head. 
 
 His early business 
 ventures were in the re- 
 munerative field of min- 
 ing. His interests were 
 scattered over California, 
 Oregon, Nevada and Ari- 
 zona, meeting with suc- 
 cess in his numerous un- 
 dertakings. In the course of a few years he 
 became an authority on mining. 
 
 From mining for metals it was but a step 
 to mining for oil, and Mr. Anderson, perceiv- 
 ing early the possibilities of California's great 
 petroleum industry, enrolled himself with the 
 constructive forces engaged in developing it. 
 He made a deep study of petroleum resources 
 and conditions in California, at a time when 
 the possibilities of the great industry were 
 still largely locked up in the secret depths of 
 the earth. In the course of his association 
 with several oil producing corporations, he 
 gained proficiency in the details of the oil 
 business, and he sought and won a place 
 among the men who are now doing the things 
 that have drawn the eyes of the world upon 
 California's oil fields. 
 
 The American Petroleum Company, a 
 $15,000,000 corporation, was launched in Feb- 
 ruary, 1908, by Edward L. Doheny, Dr. Nor- 
 
 J. C. ANDERSON 
 
 man Bridge and Mr. Anderson. That com- 
 pany today is one of the largest producers of 
 petroleum in California, and Mr. Anderson is 
 its Vice President as well as General Man- 
 ager. 
 
 The success of the American Petroleum 
 Company forms one of the bright chapters of 
 the history of California oil. It had a tremen- 
 dous influence for further development, and 
 to none did it appeal more 
 effectively than to the 
 men who had accom- 
 plished that success. The 
 direct and inevitable re- 
 sult was the organization 
 of another corporation, 
 The American Oilfields 
 Company, with a capitali- 
 zation of $25,000,000, to 
 operate along the lines 
 of its highly prosperous 
 predecessor. Associated 
 .with Mr. Doheny, Dr. 
 Bridge and Mr. Anderson, 
 in the formation of this 
 latter company, in Febru- 
 ary, 1910, were C. A. Can- 
 field, Thomas A. O'Don- 
 nell, J. M. Danziger, L. A. 
 McCray and E. S. Gos- 
 ney. The American Oil- 
 fields Company has dupli- 
 cated the splendid results 
 of the American Petrole- 
 um Company. Both cor- 
 porations have steadily 
 coined the petroleum of 
 the San Joaquin Valley into gold at a rate 
 that has turned a total of $3,000,000 divi- 
 dends into the hands of the stockholders. 
 
 In contemplating such results, Mr. An- 
 derson may do so with the satisfaction of 
 having been an active factor in producing 
 them. 
 
 From his Los Angeles office, as General 
 Manager of both these companies, he directs 
 the details of their activities where their der- 
 ricks rise like forests on the plains and hills 
 of Midway and Coalinga. 
 
 In addition to carrying the tremendous 
 responsibilities that he assumes in connec- 
 tion with the management of these two 
 great companies, he is the President of the 
 Midland Oil Company in the Midway field, 
 and is also General Manager of the Niles 
 Lease Oil Company in the Salt Lake field. 
 
 He is active in Los Angeles civic affairs, 
 but does not hold any club memberships. 
 
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 EYLER, CHARLES 
 JOSEPH, President of the 
 Union Hollywood Water 
 Company, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, is a native of Ohio, 
 being born at Hamilton, Ohio, December 7, 
 1856. His father was Christian Heyler and 
 his mother Lena Heyler. He married Eliza- 
 beth E. Hinsdale at Los Angeles on Decem- 
 ber 23, 1909. 
 
 He was educated in 
 the public schools of 
 Hamilton, Ohio, where 
 he spent his boyhood, but 
 upon the completion of 
 his education he went to 
 San Jose, California, set- 
 tling in that city in the 
 year 1878. He had not 
 been there long before he 
 established himself in the 
 mercantile business. He 
 first started with a small 
 store, but later expanded 
 it until it was one of the 
 important businesses in 
 the place. He remained 
 in harness about eight 
 years and then sold out 
 to go into real estate. 
 
 He put all of his 
 money into his new ven- 
 ture and soon was one of 
 the most active operators 
 in San Jose. He opened 
 up a number of splendid 
 residence sections and 
 figured in some of the largest deals trans- 
 acted at that time. He also took an active 
 part in the civic welfare of the city and was 
 regarded as one of its leading citizens. After 
 eleven years of activity, however, he decided 
 to leave there for the southern part of the 
 state. 
 
 This was in the year 1901, when Los An- 
 geles was entering upon the boom which at- 
 tracted thousands of people and millions of 
 dollars to that city and Mr. Heyler was one 
 of those who went there for the purpose of 
 investment. He immediately re-entered the 
 real estate business in his new field, at first 
 devoting his time to residence property. In 
 this connection, he succeeded in acquiring a 
 number of desirable tracts in the western 
 part of the city, improved them and opened 
 them up for residences. That section is now 
 one of the most beautiful residence districts 
 in Los Angeles. 
 
 C. J. HEYLER 
 
 In time, Mr. Heyler turned his attention 
 to business property and today is the owner 
 of some valuable ground in the center of 'Los 
 Angeles and in towns adjacent to it. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Heyler purchased the West 
 L. A. Water Co. and on reorganization named 
 it the Union Hollywood Water Company, of 
 Hollywood, California, and from that date 
 has been the leading factor in the develop- 
 ment of that company. 
 He has been its active 
 head since he purchased 
 the corporation, acting as 
 President and General 
 Manager. Since he took 
 over this large public 
 service organization it has 
 undergone a remarkable 
 change and is today one 
 of the large companies of 
 its kind in Southern Cali- 
 fornia, and represents a 
 great expenditure of 
 money. He has devoted 
 a greater part of his time, 
 money and brains to the 
 welfare of that corpora- 
 tion, and in an endeavor 
 to keep up with the de- 
 mands of the rapidly 
 growing city. 
 
 When he took charge 
 of the company it had fif- 
 teen hundred consumers, 
 and the list has now 
 grown to six thousand ; 
 similarly, its pipe 
 
 six 
 
 its pipe line 
 mileage has grown from 67 miles to 200. 
 
 Mr. Heyler is still interested in the realty 
 business in Los Angeles and Southern Cali- 
 fornia. At the present time he is President 
 of the C. J. Heyler Realty Company. 
 
 He has also a number of holdings in oil 
 properties throughout the Southern part of 
 the state and is the owner of mining prop- 
 erties in California and other sections of the 
 Southwest. He is director in the California 
 Midway Oil Company, and holds a similar 
 position with the Choix Mining Company. 
 
 Mr. Heyler is widely known through his 
 business interests in and about Los Angeles, 
 and during the last ten years has taken a 
 prominent part in the growth of that city. 
 
 He is a member of several organizations 
 of Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Realty Board 
 and Automobile Club of Southern California, 
 all influential organizations. 
 
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 ARSH, ROBERT, Real Estate, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Charleston, Illinois, 
 January 20, 1874, the son of 
 Joseph E. Marsh and Martha 
 J. (Atwood) Marsh. He married Cecile Loth- 
 rop at Alhambra, California, April 12, 1898, 
 and of the union there have been two children, 
 Florence L. and Martha J. Marsh. 
 
 The preliminaries of his education he re- 
 ceived in the public schools of Little Rock, 
 Arkansas, and concluded with a year in the 
 high school of Los Angeles. Mr. Marsh's 
 parents moved to Little Rock when he was a 
 child, then in 1888 journeyed to San Diego, 
 California, remaining there for three years. In 
 1891 the family moved to Los Angeles, .and 
 there Mr. Marsh has remained down to date. 
 
 Leaving high school in 1892, without waiting 
 to graduate, Mr. Marsh immediately started 
 forth to make a career for himself. Like many 
 other successful men, his beginning was small. 
 He first went to work in the book store of E. T. 
 Cook, the bookseller, and after four years left 
 that establishment and associated himself with 
 a men's furnishing house in Los Angeles. He 
 remained in this line for approximately two 
 years more and then, in 1898, moved to New 
 Orleans, Louisiana, where he engaged in the 
 wholesale and retail coal business, remaining 
 about two years. Late in 1899 Mr. Marsh 
 gave up his interests there and returned to Los 
 Angeles, to embark upon one of the most 
 active and successful careers in that continually 
 growing community. 
 
 Mr. Marsh plunged into the swirl of real 
 estate activity in the early part of 1900 and his 
 name is identified intimately with the develop- 
 ment of Los Angeles since that time. He went 
 in for big things from the very outset, and 
 during the eleven years that have intervened 
 has been instrumental in opening up numerous 
 large residence tracts, more of which are today 
 exclusive home districts. 
 
 This class of operations, however, has not 
 claimed all his attention. In addition, he has 
 dealt largely in business and suburban prop- 
 erties. In this latter field he has been one of 
 the leading factors for the upbuilding of the 
 outlying districts of Los Angeles. Southern 
 California has had one of the most phenomenal 
 growths in population of any section in the 
 United States and the beautiful suburbs have 
 attracted the larger percentage of the new 
 people. 
 
 It is due to such men as Mr. Marsh that 
 large stretches of country, until a few years ago 
 
 ranch lands, have been transformed into beau- 
 tiful, flowering residence parks, built up with 
 handsome homes, with those modern improve- 
 ments and conveniences which make life worth 
 living. 
 
 Notable among the fine residence tracts 
 which were laid out and improved by Mr. 
 Marsh are Country Club Park, Western 
 Heights, Westchester Place, Country Club 
 Terrace, Arlington Heigths Terrace and Mount 
 Washington. Each of these is now built up 
 with handsome residences and compare favor- 
 ably with many of the older fashionable sec- 
 tions of the United States. 
 
 Mr. Marsh's principal business affiliation 
 is Robert Marsh & Co., but he is interested in 
 a number of other enterprises, the combined 
 operations of which make him one of the con- 
 spicuous business men of the Southwest. He 
 has large holdings in the business section of 
 Los Angeles and at this writing is planning for 
 the erection of a skyscraper. 
 
 By his work of developing real estate prop- 
 erty Mr. Marsh necessarily has been thrown 
 into the midst of all movements intended for 
 the betterment of Los Angeles and the South- 
 west and his name has been linked with nearly 
 every large proposition in the past decade hav- 
 ing to do with the progress of that section. 
 
 In 1908 he was appointed on the Los An- 
 geles Chamber of Commerce committee having 
 in hand the labor of securing a Union Depot 
 for Los Angeles. This is a public improvement 
 that has long been needed in that city and for 
 three years Mr. Marsh and his associates have 
 been strenuously at work, trying to get the rail- 
 roads to build the station. Partial success has 
 rewarded their efforts, but they are still work- 
 ing on it and Mr. Marsh is one of the leaders 
 in the fight. 
 
 In addition to this, Mr. Marsh was one of 
 the active factors in the campaign that led to 
 the annexation of San Pedro, California, to Los 
 Angeles, whereby the latter city was given a 
 municipal harbor and placed in a position of 
 importance as an outlet to the Panama Canal. 
 
 Mr. Marsh is a valued me-riber of tb : Los 
 Angeles Realty Board, and at one time was 
 vice president of that organization. 
 
 Despite all his business and civic enter- 
 prises, Mr. Marsh is an enthusiastic lodge 
 member and clubman. He is a Mystic Shriner, 
 member of the B. P. O. E., Jonathan Club, Cal- 
 ifornia Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los 
 Angeles Country Club, Craes Country Club, 
 San Gabriel Valley Country Club and the Bolsa 
 Chico Gun Club. 
 
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 OBBINS, MILTON HOLLEY, JR., 
 Vice President, Union Ice Com- 
 pany, San Francisco, California, 
 was born at Lakeville, Connecti- 
 cut, January 27, 1871, the son of 
 Milton H. and Anna (Bostwick) 
 Robbins. His father's family were among the early 
 settlers of Connecticut, where some of them subse- 
 quently engaged in the iron business and became 
 especially prominent during the war of the Revolu- 
 tion as manufacturers of can- 
 non. They also had the dis- 
 tinction of having made the 
 anchor for the frigate Con- 
 stitution. It was a cousin of 
 the family, Alexander Hoi- 
 ley, Governor of Connecticut, 
 who brought to this country 
 the process of making Bes- 
 semer steel. Mr. Robbins' 
 brother is the ninth Samuel 
 Robbins, and the old farm in 
 Connecticut has never been 
 out of the family. 
 
 On August 24, 1895, he 
 was married in New York to 
 Miss Annie E. Stayner. The 
 children of this marriage are 
 Sally S., Mary E., and Isa- 
 belle Robbins. 
 
 From 1877 to 1887 Mr. 
 Robbins attended private 
 schools in Lakeville, and for 
 two years was a student at 
 Lehigh University. He then 
 entered Yale University, 
 whence he was graduated 
 with the class of '91. 
 
 After his graduation from 
 Yale he spent some months with the banking 
 house of Robbins, Burrall & Co., but left this to 
 enter the shops of the Elevator Company. Here he 
 turned to account his scientific education in master- 
 ing the mechanical details of the business, and for 
 four years devoted his energies to this end. Until 
 1893 he was established in the East, chiefly at Bos- 
 ton and Springfield, Massachusetts. He was then 
 sent to Chicago, but in 1899 returned to Massachu- 
 setts and for a year again resided in Boston. In 
 1900 he was at Kansas City; from 1901 to 1904 at 
 New Orleans; 1904 to 1906 at Houston, Texas, 
 whence in the latter year he went to California. 
 From these various points he traveled all over the 
 United States, covering the field over and over 
 again, attending to the building of factories and 
 extending the enterprise. After having tried four 
 years of this mechanical side of the business, for 
 which his schooling had equipped him, he found 
 himself better qualified for executive and adminis- 
 trative work. 
 
 During these years Mr. Robbins has focused his 
 
 M. H. ROBBINS, JR. 
 
 energies on the work in hand, conducting it with 
 the same zeal as if it were entirely his own, and 
 thereby becoming a very important factor in the 
 growth of the business. From his San Francisco 
 office he controlled the trade in all the Pacific Coast 
 States, as well as Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and the 
 Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 Mr. Robbins is now Vice President of the Union 
 Ice Company, with headquarters at San Francisco. 
 He resigned from the Otis Elevator Company to 
 accept his present position 
 during December, 1911. He 
 is virtually the head of the 
 Union Ice Company, as E. W. 
 Hopkins, the President, is 
 now retiring from active 
 work. His office is one of 
 the most important in busi- 
 ness on the Pacific Coast. 
 The Union Ice Company is a 
 corporation of immense cap- 
 ital, with valuable properties 
 scattered over the greater 
 part of California. It sup- 
 plies ice to a population of 
 more than 2,000,000 in an ice- 
 less country, and the manu- 
 facturing and transportation 
 problems are endless. 
 
 As an outgrowth of his 
 business interests and of his 
 shifting environment, Mr. 
 Robbins has become deeply 
 interested in the growth of 
 cities and civic improvement. 
 Especially in San Francisco 
 he has taken an active part 
 in public matters of this na- 
 ture. He had not been long 
 in the city before he was elected President of the 
 Merchants' Association, and when the principal 
 civic bodies were consolidated, in what is now 
 known as the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 
 he was made the President. 
 
 While in this important office he was naturally 
 one of the prime movers in every public movement. 
 The Chamber of Commerce, and he as its president, 
 was responsible for much that is good in the recon- 
 struction of San Francisco, and particularly for the 
 arousing of that spirit which has made it possible 
 for the earthquake stricken city to almost com- 
 pletely recover from its calamity. 
 
 Partly for information in his own business, and 
 also as a relaxation from the exacting routine, he 
 reads much, chiefly along technical lines. His 
 other forms of recreation are tennis and chopping 
 wood. Beyond these activities he has not had time 
 for a variety of interests, and his ciub life is con- 
 fined to his membership in the Pacific-Union Club, 
 the Union League Club and the Commercial Club, 
 of which last he is vice president. 
 
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 ARTLETT, DANA WEBSTER, 
 D.D., Clergyman, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Bangor, 
 Maine, October 27, 1860, the son 
 of Daniel Webster Bartlett and 
 Mary (Crosby) Bartlett. He 
 married Mattie McCullough at Socorro, New 
 Mexico, Sept. 12, 1887, and to them there have 
 been born five daughters, Margaret (Mrs. I. C. 
 Louis), Eloise, Lucille, Esther and Beulah. They 
 also have an adopted son, a 
 Hualapai Indian child. 
 
 Dr. Bartlett received his 
 early education in the schools 
 of Grinnell, Iowa, and was 
 graduated from Iowa College 
 at Grinnell in 1882. He then 
 started the Park Academy, at 
 Park City, Utah, and con- 
 ducted it as principal until 
 1884, when he gave up teach- 
 ing to enter Yale Theological 
 Seminary, at New Haven, 
 Conn. In 1886 he went to 
 Chicago Theological Semi- 
 nary, and upon graduation in 
 1887, went to St. Louis, Mo., 
 where he took charge of the 
 Union Church in the tene- 
 ment district of that city. 
 
 In 1892 Dr. Bartlett gave 
 up his work in St. Louis and 
 went to Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, as pastor of Phillips 
 Church. He filled this charge 
 until he removed to Los An- 
 geles in 1896. 
 
 From the time of his ar- 
 rival in Los Angeles, where 
 he took charge of the Beth- 
 lehem Institutional Church, 
 Dr. Bartlett has been contin- 
 ually engaged in uplift work, 
 with such good effect that he 
 has been referred to in pub- 
 lic as "the most useful citizen in Los Angeles." 
 
 From Bethlehem Institutional Church, a com- 
 paratively small affair, Dr. Bartlett has developed 
 the Bethlehem Institute, one of the most effective 
 rescue projects in the United States, and for more 
 than fifteen years he devoted himself unselfishly 
 and tirelessly to his work. His object throughout 
 his work has been to assist the unfortunate and 
 help the "down and out" to another chance; to re- 
 claim as many as possible from the human drift and 
 wreckage to lives of usefulness; to drain the slums 
 and prevent their re-establishment; to keep young 
 and old from sinking into what has been termed 
 "the submerged tenth." 
 
 To prove the sincerity of his purpose, Dr. Bart- 
 lett has made his home among the people he 
 serves-, raising his family in the environment he 
 seeks to abolish; and the success of Bethlehem 
 Institute is his reward. From almost nothing the 
 Institute has grown until it covers six city lots, 
 maintaining a free dispensary, bathhouses for men 
 and women, a shoemaker shop, free employment 
 bureau, a Coffee Club, reading room, library and 
 social hall and Boys' Athletic Club. It maintains 
 night schools for Mexicans, Russians, Japanese, 
 Greeks, Italians and other foreign peoples. Dr. 
 Bartlett is (1913) planning to widen the scope of 
 
 REV. DR. DANA W. BARTLETT 
 
 the Institute until it meets an ideal which he has 
 long cherished. 
 
 Dr. Bartlett's work in the eradication of poverty 
 and suffering and the abolishment of slums in Los 
 Angeles has placed him among the leading social 
 uplifters of the country and also has served to 
 place his adopted city among the most advanced 
 municipalities. 
 
 Aside from his work in connection with Bethle- 
 hem Institute, Dr. Bartlett also has been an active 
 force in civic affairs of 
 Los Angeles and has aided 
 largely in the moral progress 
 of the city. He also has been 
 among the practical workers, 
 being one of the Directors 
 of the Municipal Housing 
 Association of Los Angeles 
 and Chairman of the City 
 Planning Committee, to 
 which position he was ap- 
 pointed by Mayor George 
 Alexander of Los Angeles in 
 1910 and continues to fill. 
 He also is a Director of the 
 National City Planning Com- 
 mission and his efforts in 
 this work have been largely 
 directed to the elimination 
 of slums, although in Los 
 Angeles- these have been 
 practically wiped out. 
 
 In 1906 Dr. Bartlett was 
 persuaded, on account of his 
 activity for civic betterment 
 and his advocacy of cleanli- 
 ness in politics and govern- 
 ment, to accept the nomina- 
 tion on a non-partisan ticket 
 for the City Council of Los 
 Angeles. He failed of elec- 
 tion, but in his campaign im- 
 planted various progressive 
 ideas which have since 
 played an important part in 
 the direction of the city's destinies. 
 
 Owing to his intimate knowledge of the foreign- 
 ers within the State of California and his abilities 
 to aid their conditions of living, Dr. Bartlett was 
 appointed in 1912 to a position on the California 
 State Immigration Commission by Governor John- 
 son and the same year was chosen Chairman of 
 the Pacific Coast Immigration Study League, which 
 he helped to organize at Tacoma, Washington, and 
 which it is hoped will do a great deal towards solv- 
 ing the many problems encountered daily. 
 
 Dr. Bartlett, upon whom Grinnell College con- 
 ferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1911, is 
 recognized as one of the most forceful men of the 
 Congregational Church and has attained distinc- 
 tion both as orator and lecturer. He also has 
 been a prolific writer on social and economic sub- 
 jects and is the author of two notable books, "The 
 Better City," published in 1908, and "The Better 
 Country," published in 1911. Both these works 
 have been welcomed as splendid inspirations to 
 social workers and humanity in general for a fu- 
 ture ideal civilization. 
 
 Dr. Bartlett is democratic in his views and en- 
 joys widespread popularity among all classes. 
 
 He is a member of the City and of the Federa- 
 tion Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 DR. ALBERT SOILAND 
 
 OILAND, ALBERT, Roentgenol- 
 ogist, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Stavanger, Norway, May 5, 
 1873, the son of Edward Soiland 
 and Axelina (Halverson) Soiland. 
 He married Dagfine Berner 
 Svendsen at Stavanger, Sept. 17, 1902. 
 
 Dr. Soiland began his education in Norway, but 
 his family having moved to Chicago, 111., when he 
 was about ten years of age, he completed his 
 studies in this country. He entered the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois Medical Dept., but moved to Los 
 Angeles later and was graduated from the Medical 
 College of the Univ. of Sou. Cal. in 1900 with the 
 degree of M. D. 
 
 Dr. Soiland was surgeon-in-chief to the Spencer 
 & Crowell Lumber Company, in Louisiana, for a 
 year, and returned to Los Angeles in 1901. Early 
 in his career he took up the study of the Roentgen 
 X-Ray and was a pioneer in the electro-therapeutic 
 branch of medicine. For several years he has 
 been Instructor in X-Ray and electro-therapeutics 
 in the Los Angeles Department of the University 
 of California Medical College, is Roentgenologist to 
 the leading hospitals of Los Angeles and Radio- 
 grapher to various railroads. He has written lib- 
 erally on scientific topics- and has twice gone 
 abroad for special study. He received a certificate 
 from Finsen Institute, at Copenhagen, in 1905. Dr. 
 Soiland also spent the year of 1910 in European 
 study and special work. 
 
 Dr. Soiland is a member of the Amer. Medical 
 Ass'n., Med. Soc. of the State of California, L. A. 
 County Med. Soc., L. A. Clinical & Pathological Soc. 
 and the American Roentgen Ray Society. He is a 
 thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, Elk and 
 member of Phi Rho Sigma fraternity. His clubs* 
 are the South Coast Yacht, California, Gamut and 
 Los Angeles Athletic, of Los Angeles, and the Tuna 
 Club, of Avalon, Catalina Island. 
 
 C. B. EYER 
 
 YER, CLARENDON BENNETT, 
 Capitalist, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Wakarusa, Ind., July 1, 
 1865, the son of Daniel Eyer and 
 Nancy A. (Bennett) Eyer. He 
 married Cora A. Knowlton at 
 Winterset, la., Oct. 16, 1888, and is the father of 
 three children, Marguerite K., William K. and 
 Clarendon B. Eyer, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Eyer received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of Highland Park, and Lake 
 Forest Academy, in Illinois. He was graduated from 
 the Law Department of the University of Michigan 
 in 1888 with the degree of L. B. and began practice 
 in Chicago the same year with K. R. Smoot. 
 
 For approximately twenty years Mr. Eyer was a 
 prominent figure in Republican politics in Chicago, 
 and for some time represented Evanston in the 
 City Council. When Theodore Roosevelt was nom- 
 inated, in 1904, to succeed himself as President of 
 the U. S., Mr. Eyer took an active part in the cam- 
 paign and was chairman of the reception commit- 
 tee which welcomed Mr. Roo&evelt to Chicago on 
 his tour of the West. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Eyer gave up law and moved to Los 
 Angeles, where he has since become a factor in 
 development projects. He first purchased five 
 thousand acres at Beaumont, Cal., and later organ- 
 ized the Beaumont Land & Water Co., of which he 
 is President and General Manager, to improve this 
 property. It is- now a beautiful section of irrigated 
 groves and orchards, with apples as the predomi- 
 nating product. Mr. Eyer also organized the Beau- 
 mont Bank and served as President of the town 
 school board for two years. 
 
 In addition to the Beaumont project, Mr. Eyer 
 is President of the Assets Realization Co. and Vice 
 President of the San Gorgiono Water Co. 
 
 He is a Mason, Knight Templar and a member 
 of the California and Los- Angeles Athletic Clubs. 
 
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 DR. GEO. L. COLE 
 
 OLE, DR. GEORGE LLEWEL- 
 LYN, Physician and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Eaton, New York, November 14, 
 1861, the son of Sidney A. Cole 
 and Lydia A. (Choate) Cole. In 
 1888 he married Miss- Harriet E. Shoecraft of Onei- 
 da, N. Y. The original of the family in America 
 was James Cole, who came from England and set- 
 tled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1633. Later 
 members of the family won distinction and rend- 
 ered valiant service on behalf of their country in 
 the Revolutionary War. 
 
 After his training in the public schools, Dr. 
 Cole entered White's Academy in Oneida, N. Y., 
 after which he took the Medical preparatory course 
 at Cornell University and then entered Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, New York, from which he 
 graduated in 1886. The following year he settled 
 in Los Angeles, where he has attained an eminent 
 position and is regarded as one of the leading phy- 
 sicians of the West. 
 
 He has been prominently identified with the 
 growth of the medical profession in Southern Cali- 
 fornia and has been signally honored by his fellows, 
 having been Health Commissioner for the city, 
 President of the Los Angeles Medical Association, 
 the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, 
 the Southern California Medical Society and for 
 the long period of twenty years, a member of the 
 faculty of the Medical Department of the University 
 of California. 
 
 On three occasions he has left his practice and 
 visited Vienna, Berlin, Edinburgh and London for 
 post-graduate work. 
 
 Dr. Cole has devoted his life to his profession, 
 and is a man of scholarly attainments. He enjoys 
 the highest standing in the community, both as a 
 citizen and in a professional way, and is a member 
 v>f the best clubs. 
 
 JAS. W. REAGAN 
 
 EAGAN, JAMES WILLIAM, Civil 
 Engineer, Long Beach, California, 
 was born near Mapleton, Kansas, 
 July 21, 1864, the son of Patrick 
 Reagan and Catherine Trayner 
 Reagan. He married Charlotte 
 Stromfeldt at Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 1891, 
 and to them there were born two sons, William 
 Nilson and Frank Stromfeldt Reagan. 
 
 Mr. Reagan received his early education in 
 schools of Bourbon Co., Kas., and later St. Francis 
 Jesuit College, graduating in 1883. For the follow- 
 ing year he was Professor of Latin there. 
 
 After a year as instructor Mr. Reagan became 
 Locating Engineer for the Mi&souri Pacific R. R., 
 then building, and for the next five years was en- 
 gaged in railroad location and construction. In 
 1889 he resigned to take charge of construction 
 and location work for the Mexican Southern R. R. 
 
 Returning to U. S. in 1891, he was appointed 
 Chief Engineer for Beaver River Irrigation Co., and 
 with others was engaged in general irrigation en- 
 gineering work until 1896, when he went to South 
 Africa as Engineer and Contractor. His principal 
 work there was the designing of a $5,000,000 sew- 
 age system for the City of Johannesburg. 
 
 In 1900, returned to America and was immedi- 
 ately engaged by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
 Railroad Co. to locate and construct branch from 
 Coffeyville, Kas., to Oklahoma City. Work com- 
 pleted late in 1901 and next two years he was- en- 
 gaged in general engineering throughout U. S. In 
 1903 was selected to re-locate Big Four Railroad's 
 reconstructed line between Indianapolis and Terre 
 Haute, Ind., a stretch of which was considered 
 among the heaviest work in U. S. In 1904 the 
 Southern Pacific engaged Mr.. Reagan for work in 
 Arizona and Mexico. Has been working in the 
 Southwest since. He is Chief Engineer for the Los 
 Angeles & San Fernando Electric Ry., Los Angeles. 
 
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 'CAN, DAVID CHAMBERS, Invent- 
 or, owner McCan Mechanical 
 Works, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at New Orleans, Louisi- 
 ana, July 9, 1884. His father was 
 Charles Patterson McCan and his 
 mother Mary G. (Tobin) McCan. He married Mrs. 
 George H. Yenowine, a daughter of H. N. Smith, of 
 Wisconsin, March, 1904. Mrs. McCan is one of the 
 most prominent club women in Southern California 
 and has played a leading part 
 in the great progress and up- 
 building of the club circles of 
 Los Angeles and Southern 
 California. She has been for 
 two years president of the 
 Southern California Woman's 
 Press Club, is president of 
 the Friday Morning Club, 
 chairman of the Miscellane- 
 ous Collection of the Fine 
 Arts League and chairman of 
 publicity of the Political 
 Equality League of Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Mr. McCan began his edu- 
 cation in New Orleans, but at 
 an early age moved to Eu- 
 rope, where he was reared. 
 He obtained his education in 
 private schools and colleges 
 of England, France and Ger- 
 many. Up to the time of his 
 manhood he traveled exten- 
 sivley, visiting practically all 
 of the leading countries of 
 Europe, during which he mas- 
 tered several languages. He 
 spent a number of years 
 touring Japan, China, Ceylon, India, Egypt and 
 the United States. 
 
 Upon his return to America Mr. McCan went 
 into the foundry and machine business. He contin- 
 ued in that for several years and at an early age 
 was regarded as one of the most scientific foun- 
 ders in the United States. His father, grandfather 
 and great-grandfather had been in the foundry 
 and machine business, and his ability was a natural 
 inheritance. 
 
 In 1905 he went to Los Angeles, California, to 
 go into business for himself, establishing the 
 McCan Mechanical Works, of which he is sole 
 owner. His plant, 450 feet long by 75 feet wide, 
 built for the manufacture of modern mechanical 
 apparatus, consists of a pattern shop, iron and 
 brass foundries and a machine shop, equipped 
 with special machines, of which there are more 
 than twenty different types. Castings up to four- 
 teen feet in diameter, can be handled. 
 
 The notable examples of his work are the ob- 
 server's platform for the Mount Wilson telescope 
 
 D. C. McCAN 
 
 camera, the plates and ball-races for the spectro- 
 heliograph apparatus, and the 8% -foot mill to be 
 used in grinding the "Hooker Lens" for the Car- 
 negie Institute of Washington, D. C. He has han- 
 dled some of the most delicate and scientifically 
 accurate work in the world, and contracts for the 
 largest corporations and companies of the West; 
 also the United States War Department and City of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. McCan's career has been productive of a 
 number of useful inventions 
 which are of infinite value to 
 the manufacturing world. Al- 
 though still a young man, he 
 has won international repu- 
 tation as an inventor, and is 
 regarded as one of the most 
 scientific men in the mechan- 
 ical business today. While 
 he was in the foundry busi- 
 ness he originated a number 
 of valuable devices, but his 
 most important work in this 
 line was the invention of the 
 McCan Wood Shaving Com- 
 pressor, a machine which 
 promises to revolutionize the 
 wood fuel industry of the 
 United States and which was 
 evolved after four years of 
 experimentation. 
 
 It is estimated that the 
 United States has lost over 
 $500,000,000 during the last 
 forty years through an ina- 
 bility to utilize all the wood 
 shavings and sawdust of 
 sawmills and planing mills. 
 Mr. McCan proposes to make 
 by his invention wood for fuel purposes by com- 
 pressing this waste into blocks. To this end he 
 built in his plant an entire equipment rated firstly, 
 to filter the wood shavings and sawdust from any 
 foreign material; secondly, to measure each charge 
 as a complete block, and, thirdly, a machine which 
 in one revolution makes a block and ejects it in a 
 conveyor leading into sacks. No binder, chemical 
 or foreign substance, is used other than the way 
 the material is compressed and the pressure em- 
 ployed, which is 20,000 pounds to the square inch. 
 Blocks made of sawdust as fine as flour, when fin- 
 ished, are as hard as lignum-vitae. They may be 
 sawed in two or more pieces and the parts will re- 
 main solid. 
 
 Mr. McCan has done some literary work along 
 purely scientific -lines, and in addition to this has 
 been a well-known writer of verse and editorials 
 for a number of years. He is a member of the 
 California Club and is known in other professional 
 organizations and orders. He is always ready to 
 aid any movement for the betterment of his city. 
 
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 AMPBELL, KEMPER B., Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Adel, the county 
 seat of Dallas County, Iowa, July 
 5, 1881. In that county his father, 
 Dr. Solon B. Campbell, was a 
 practicing physician for twenty years and was 
 prominent in educational circles. His mother was 
 Sarah Caroline (Otterman) Campbell. At the age 
 of four years he was sent to the public school of 
 Adel, Iowa, and at eleven 
 had entered high school. 
 
 Upon the death of his 
 father the family moved to 
 Pomona, California, where 
 he again entered school, 
 graduating from the High 
 School with an excellent 
 record in 1899. In 1900 he 
 graduated from Williams 
 Business College and took a 
 postgraduate course at the 
 High School. He later grad- 
 uated from Brownsberger 
 Home School at Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 He accepted a position 
 with the National Bank at 
 Pomona, which he held until 
 he moved to Moneta, Cal., 
 where he was engaged in 
 the canning business with 
 his brothers, serving for sev- 
 eral years as Secretary and 
 Superintendent of the Mo- 
 neta Canning Co. 
 
 In 1904 nis brother, Ver- 
 non Campbell, having dis- 
 covered and perfected the 
 
 process of canning ripe olives, he became interested 
 with him in the establishment of the American 
 Olive Company, which, under their directorship, be- 
 came the largest olive packing concern in the world. 
 
 Mr. Campbell found the long awaited oppor- 
 tunity in 1904 to enter the Law Department of the 
 University of Southern California, which he did, 
 graduating in 1907. 
 
 During his college career he was voted every 
 place of honor at the command of his fellow stu- 
 dents and won all competitive prizes. 
 
 He served in turn as President of his class, 
 President of the student body, President of the 
 Lyceum. President of the Phi Delta Phi and as 
 Editor of the Law Department of the University 
 Courier. For two successive years he won first 
 place in debate over more than a score of con- 
 testants, and successfully represented the Law 
 College and University on the rostrum. The last 
 year of his attendance he won first place in the 
 College of Law in oratory. In scholarship he was 
 awarded the Alumni gold medal for the highest 
 average ever attained in the College of Law, which 
 record still remains the high mark in that insti- 
 tution. 
 
 After graduating with the degree LL. B., he im- 
 mediately opened law offices. In 1908 he became a 
 
 KEMPER B. CAMPBELL 
 
 member of the faculty of the College of Law, fill- 
 ing the chairs of Torts and Damages. In 1909 his 
 Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of 
 Master of Laws. In 1910 he was also appointed 
 instructor and lecturer on Real Property and pre- 
 sided as Judge of the Practice Court. During the 
 year 1910 he was elected President of the Alumni 
 of the University of Southern California College of 
 Law. 
 
 Mr. Campbell is the author of a hand-book on 
 "Torts," used in the College 
 of Law, and has in prepara- 
 tion a more elaborate text 
 on thai subject. 
 
 He won his first laurels 
 within six months after his 
 admission in the successful 
 defense of "Sig" Barbour, 
 charged with the murder of 
 Benjamin Johnson. Among 
 others of his cases which 
 have attracted considerable 
 public attention are People 
 vs. Ybarra and Griffith vs. 
 Griffith. 
 
 He early allied himself 
 with the "Reform" forces in 
 politics, winning his first 
 victory by changing the po- 
 litical complexion of the 
 largest p r e c i n ct in the 
 county. In March, 1910, 
 when the Insurgents were 
 marshalling their forces for 
 the most strenuous cam- 
 paign in the history of Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Campbell was 
 unanimously chosen by the 
 Lincoln-Roosevelt Republi- 
 can League as Secretary and Campaign Manager 
 for Los Angeles County, with supervisory duties in 
 other counties South of Fresno. 
 
 Containing a large portion of the entire Repub- 
 lican vote in the State, Los Angeles County was 
 recognized as the campaign battleground of the 
 Republican State primary election. 
 
 Given full leeway, he perfected an organization 
 which was the envy and despair of the "machine" 
 forces, the result being the nomination and elec- 
 tion of almost the entire State, county and town- 
 ship tickets of the League. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was perhaps the least surprised 
 of the leaders in the new movement when it was 
 found that his organization also controlled rhe Los 
 Angeles Republican County Convention by over 
 one hundred votes. By winning this convention 
 for the Insurgents, they were enabled to sand to 
 the State Convention at San Francisco eighty "Re- 
 form" delegates, without whom the State Conven- 
 tion would have been controlled by the "Rogular" 
 wing of the party. Mr. Campbell is Vice Pres. of 
 the Metropolitan Club, Secretary of the Lincoln- 
 Roosevelt Republican League and a member of the 
 following: City Club, L. A. Bar Association, Califor- 
 nia Bar Association, Gamut Club, Knights of Pyth- 
 ias and Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi. 
 
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 ARSH, MARTIN CHARLES, Con- 
 tractor, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born October 16, 1851, at 
 Grosse Isle, Quebec, Canada. His 
 parents were Martin L. Marsh and 
 Mary (McKenna) Marsh. Mr. 
 Marsh married Miss Mary Agnes Fox in San Fran- 
 cisco, California, on May 6, 1878. Four children 
 have been born to this union John Dumont, Martin 
 C., Jr.; Edward B. and Georgina M. Marsh. 
 
 After a primary education 
 derived from the Thome 
 School, the Christian Broth- 
 ers' School and the Jesuit 
 College :n Quebec, Mr. Marsh 
 emigrated to the United 
 States and for a short time 
 was a student at the College 
 of the City of New York. 
 
 He engaged in the hotel 
 business and followed this 
 occupation for twenty-two 
 years in the most noted ho- 
 tels of New York, San Fran- 
 cisco, Los Angeles and other 
 cities. 
 
 Mr. Marsh began this 
 long and successful hotel ca- 
 reer as an elevator boy in 
 the service of the famous old 
 Fifth Avenue Hotel in New 
 York in 1864, in the days 
 when that house was the 
 greatest hotel in the United 
 States. By 1868 he had ad- 
 vanced to the capacity of 
 clerk at the St. Charles Ho- 
 tel, New Orleans, La. Then 
 he became clerk of the West 
 
 MARTIN C. MARSH 
 
 divers manners from 1882 until 1887, when the 
 wonderful strides being made by the city induced 
 him to enter the contracting business. 
 
 This established his natural bent and capacity 
 for such work, and his name soon sprang into 
 prominence, and he was associated with most of 
 the important works undertaken in Southern 
 California. 
 
 In 1890 he became associated with Mr. Adolph 
 Ramish, and since that time his efforts have been 
 largely devoted to railway 
 construction, though in street 
 and boulevard projections his 
 work has been notable. As 
 Highway Commissioner he 
 supervised the construction 
 of Sunset boulevard, extend- 
 ing between Los Angeles and 
 Hollywood. 
 
 The Randsburg Railway 
 work was under Mr. Marsh, 
 a bit of construction through 
 a desert country that re- 
 quired resources and courage 
 to build. Mr. Marsh's firm 
 also constructed two sec- 
 tions of the Coast Line of 
 the Southern Pacific Railway 
 between Los Angeles and 
 San Francisco. 
 
 In fact, there are few 
 towns in Southern California 
 which have not called upon 
 Mr. Marsh and his associate 
 at the initiatory stages of de- 
 velopment for quick and ex- 
 tensive work of roadway or 
 railway. 
 
 Mr. Marsh has always 
 
 End Hotel at Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1869, 
 in the days when Long Branch was the greatest 
 resort in the United States, and was cashier in 
 the Brevoort House in New York from 1870 to 1876, 
 when he became steward of the Buckingham Hotel 
 in New York, and in the latter year, his fame hav- 
 ing reached San Francisco, he was brought to that 
 city under contract to serve as clerk of the Occi- 
 dental Hotel, where he remained for two years, 
 and where he made the acquaintance of the most 
 noted men of California of the early days. He 
 then became manager of the Tamalpais Hotel at 
 San Rafael for the summer of 1879. 
 
 Mr. Marsh went to Los Angeles in 1880 and at 
 once took charge of the much noted hostelry at 
 that time, the Pico House, as proprietor, where 
 he remained until 1882. In those days the Pico 
 Jouse was the scene of the greatest social and 
 political events of the Southwest. 
 
 As a result of a constantly successful occupa- 
 tion during the past years, Mr. Marsh had accumu- 
 lated a considerable capital and was occupied in 
 
 taken an interest in politics and has assiduously 
 sustained his views as a Democrat. 
 
 He served as a member of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, representing the Second Ward of the City of 
 Los Angeles for two years. 
 
 He was State Commissioner of the Sixth Agri- 
 cultural District for eight years, serving under the 
 administrations of both Governor Budd and Gov- 
 ernor Henry T. Gage. 
 
 More recently he completed a term as Highway 
 Commissioner for the County of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Marsh formerly was vice chairman of the 
 Democratic State Central Committee and served as 
 a member of that committee for twelve years. He 
 has served as chairman of the Democratic County 
 Central Committee, as well as secretary of that 
 body, and was three times chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic City Central Committee of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Jef- 
 ferson Club and the Order of Elks, and is president 
 of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Loretto 
 Parish. 
 
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 605 
 
 ACOMBER, WALTER GLENN, 
 
 President and General Manager of 
 the Macomber Rotary Engine Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Battle Creek, Mich., June 30, 
 1871, the son of Zebedee Macomber 
 and Clara (Wright) Macomber. He married Mabel 
 Godsmark, June 14, 1894, at Bedford, Michigan. 
 Mr. Macomber has one daughter, Ina L. Macomber. 
 
 Mr. Macomber was educated in the common 
 schools of Bedford, Michigan, 
 and studied in his home 
 town until 18 years of age. 
 Between the ages of 29 and 
 33 years he studied mechan- 
 ical engineering and quali- 
 fied in that profession. 
 
 Mr. Macomber comes by 
 his inventive genius natural- 
 ly, his father before him hav- 
 ing been a practical engineer 
 who contributed largely to 
 the origination of the first 
 traction engine, a mechanical 
 vehicle that has practically 
 revolutionized agricultural 
 methods, and today is one of 
 the most important tools used 
 in farming. 
 
 Mr. Macomber's bent dis- 
 played itself when he was a 
 boy going to school, and he 
 spent most of the hours when 
 he was not studying in the 
 workshop of his father. These 
 were the hours that other 
 boys usually spent at play, 
 but the young inventor got 
 more pleasure from "making 
 
 things" than he did from games. At 12 years of 
 age he was as well versed in mechanics and me- 
 chanical appliances as numerous men who follow 
 those vocations in life. 
 
 His first invention came when he was 14 years 
 of age. At that time he constructed a miniature 
 steam engine, complete in every detail. He used 
 an ordinary teakettle for a boiler, and even with 
 the meager power developed from this was able to 
 get great speed out of his invention. Within a 
 year after his initial production he had built, with 
 his own hands and without any assistance, a self- 
 inking printing press, running with remarkable ac- 
 curacy. This accomplishment surprised and de- 
 lighted the boy and his father, and the latter then 
 taught his son all he could about the mechanical 
 arts. 
 
 When he was 21 years of age he started in the 
 photographic business at Augusta, a suburb of Bat- 
 tle Creek, Michigan, and remained in it three 
 years. Although this line of work was attractive 
 to Mr. Macomber, he fully realized that his real 
 
 life work lay within the mechanical arts. There- 
 fore at an opportune time he accepted a position 
 with the Croesus Mining Company at Johannes- 
 burg, California, as engineer. This position he 
 held for over two years. 
 
 From the Croesus Mining Company Mr. Macom- 
 ber changed to the Radcliffe Mines, near Ballarat, 
 California, where he was given the superintend- 
 ency in the mechanical department. This position 
 Mr. Macomber held for three years. He next be- 
 came affiliated with the 
 Randsburg Water Company, 
 at Randsburg, California. It 
 was while here that his abil- 
 ity in mechanics became 
 manifest. Three pumping 
 plants were operated by gas 
 engines, the wells being 
 some three miles apart, and 
 each formerly necessitated 
 an engineer. By an inven- 
 tion of his own Mr. Macom- 
 ber operated the three by 
 telephone. He could sit in 
 his office and instantly tell 
 how any plant was working, 
 and stop it if not working 
 properly. 
 
 It was while operating the 
 wells near Randsburg that 
 Mr. Macomber invented the 
 rotary engine, an absolutely 
 new idea in engineering con- 
 struction, and one which was 
 destined to make him one of 
 the leading inventors of his 
 time. This engine, which is 
 known as the Macomber Ro- 
 tary, is a fine application of 
 
 the science of equilibrium and has created wonder- 
 ment in the world of engineering. It proved a valu- 
 ble addition to the development of aviation and is 
 looked upon as a solution of the problem of aerial 
 vibration, which in the past had thrown many aero- 
 planes off their balance and caused disaster to the 
 man and the machine. The Macomber Rotary is 
 set in perfect balance and so constructed that every 
 part of the appliance revolves except the frame. 
 
 Following the perfecting of his engine, Mr. Ma- 
 comber patented it in all its parts, and, going to 
 Los Angeles in 1909, organized a company for its 
 manufacture. 
 
 Since that time he has devoted all his energies 
 to the concern, and is now reaping the reward of 
 ability and endeavor, while at the same time mak- 
 ing plans for a greater future. 
 
 Owing to the busy and studious life he has led, 
 Mr. Macomber never became a clubman or lodge 
 member, and all the spare moments he can take 
 from his business he devotes to his home and his 
 family. 
 
 G. MACOMBER 
 
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 607 
 
 RVINE, JAMES, Capitalist, San 
 Francisco, California, was born 
 in that city October 16, 1867, the 
 son of James Irvine and Nettie 
 H. (Rice) Irvine. He married 
 Frances Anita Plum (now de- 
 ceased) at San Francisco, in 1892, and to them 
 were born three children, James Irvine, Jr., Kath- 
 arine H. and Myford P. Irvine.. 
 
 Mr. Irvine is descended from one of the notable 
 men of America, Harvey Rice, his maternal grand- 
 father, having been one of the upbuilders of the 
 city of Cleveland, Ohio. Born in June, 1800, he 
 went from Corway, Massachusetts, to Cleveland 
 about the year 1832, when the population of the 
 place hardly exceeded four hundred persons. He 
 remained there until his death, at the age of ninety- 
 two years, and during the period of sixty years was 
 one of the leaders of public affairs, being con- 
 nected in many ways with the early history of the 
 city. He held public office at various times, served 
 as State Senator, wrote a history of the Western 
 Reserve and founded the public school system of 
 Cleveland. After his death a monument of the 
 founder was erected to his memory by the school 
 children of Cleveland, and it stands to-day in Wade 
 Park of that city. 
 
 James Irvine, who is regarded as one of the most 
 active forces engaged in the development of Cali- 
 fornia's resources, received a part of his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Cleveland, but con- 
 cluded his studies in a private school of Califor- 
 nia, being graduated therefrom in 1889. His 
 mother having died when he was seven years of 
 age and his father when he was about eighteen, 
 Mr. Irvine was compelled, while still going to 
 school, to handle various important business affairs 
 connected with the estate of his father. 
 
 Mr. Irvine inherited considerable property from 
 his parents, but it was not in a producing condi- 
 tion and in addition, carried about $200,000 encum- 
 brance. Consequently, it became his duty, when 
 he was twenty-two years of age and just through 
 with his schooling, to embark upon the serious 
 work of a business man. He set about developing 
 the property to which he had been made heir, but 
 it was a gigantic undertaking, for soon after he 
 assumed care of the property the country ex- 
 perienced one of its severest business panics, and 
 it was not until ten years of hard work and steady 
 application had gone by that he had the property 
 restored to a sound condition. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Irvine has been steadily 
 engaged in business enterprises of many kinds and 
 is to-day classed as one of the substantial men of 
 the Pacific Coast. His life has been one of un- 
 ceasing activity, but it has also been a highly suc- 
 cessful one and he is in a position to witness and 
 enjoy the splendid effect of his efforts to develop 
 the lands and industries of his native State. 
 
 Mr. Irvine has lent his time, money and brain 
 
 to a multitude of interests, including railroads, 
 manufactures, agriculture, insurance, oil, mining 
 and other productive enterprises, but his chief 
 work, perhaps, has been land improvement, subdi- 
 visions and the other branches of real estate 
 operation. 
 
 To Mr. Irvine is due a large part of the credit 
 for establishing in California what has become one 
 of its chief industries the ripe olive canning busi- 
 ness. This line of commerce was opened up many 
 years ago and its career has been one of uncertain 
 success at times, but Mr. Irvine has worked con- 
 sistently to upbuild the industry, often in the face 
 of greatly unsatisfactory and discouraging condi- 
 tions, and has been one of the principals in 
 placing the business in its present firm position. 
 For some time past the consumption of ripe olives 
 has been steadily on the increase and at this time 
 (1913) the annual output of the California can- 
 neries amounts to hundreds of thousands of gallons. 
 In the same way as he was the leader in the de- 
 velopment of the business, he is at the head of its 
 maintenance, being a Director and the largest stock- 
 holder in the American Olive Company, the parent 
 concern and the largest ripe olive canning organi- 
 zation in California. 
 
 Similarly, Mr. Irvine has- been one of the chief 
 supporters of the beet sugar industry in California, 
 the leading sugar producing State of the Union, 
 and is the principal factor in more than one con- 
 cern engaged in the beet sugar industry in that 
 State. The production of sugar in California was 
 begun about the year 1880 and in 1912 the output 
 of its factories was estimated at 300,000,000 pounds. 
 Of this amount the Santa Ana Co-Operative Beet 
 Sugar Company, of which Mr. Irvine is President 
 and the largest stockholder, produced 20,000,000 
 pounds, or one-tenth of the total output of the 
 State. This company has a model, up-to-date plant 
 at Santa Ana, California, which makes from ten 
 thousand to fifteen thousand tons of sugar annually, 
 at times exceeding the latter amount, and Mr. 
 Irvine, as the dominant force in the operations of 
 the concern, has direct supervision of this great 
 industry. 
 
 Another important enterprise in which Mr. 
 Irvine is connected is the Southern California 
 Sugar Company, which has a large sugar refinery 
 near Santa Ana, and in this, as in the Santa Ana 
 Co-Operative Beet Sugar Company, he is the largest 
 individual stockholder. These two factories are 
 among the largest in the State of California and, 
 employing many men the year round, form an im- 
 portant part of the industrial life of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Mr. Irvine is the owner of approximately one 
 hundred and four thousand acres of land in various 
 sections and ranks as one of the largest land- 
 owners of the West. Unlike many others, how- 
 ever, he believes in developing the land and has a 
 large percentage of his vast holdings under culti- 
 
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 vation. In connection with his agricultural de- 
 velopment, Mr. Irvine has set out and owns directly 
 or holds a large interest in more than three thou- 
 sand acres of orchards, wherein are grown oranges, 
 lemons, olives, walnuts and apricots, these being 
 some of the chief products of California. 
 
 On account of his extensive land holdings- and 
 agricultural interests, Mr. Irvine has devoted a 
 great deal of time and money to the development 
 of irrigation and in this respect has been one of 
 the most progressive men in California. 
 
 Although he devotes a large part of his time to 
 agriculture and land improvement in general and 
 has done so for many years, this field of activity 
 has not claimed all of his attention, his ability as 
 a financier, business organizer and executive hav- 
 ing been employed in numerous other enterprises. 
 For instance, at various times he has been an active 
 factor in mining affairs of the Southwest, in oil 
 development and other ventures. He was a stock- 
 holder of the Senator Oil Company, and served a 
 portion of the time as its President until it was 
 absorbed with various other companies, by the 
 Associated Oil Company. 
 
 This latter is now one of the largest producing 
 companies in the California oil fields and has been 
 one of the leading companies- in the development 
 of the great petroleum industry of that State. Mr. 
 Irvine still holds stock in this company and also is 
 a large stockholder in the North American Oil 
 Consolidated Company, having served as a member 
 of the Board of Directors of the latter organization. 
 
 In general, Mr. Irvine handles his real estate 
 and other investment operations through the 
 Irvine Company, an incorporated institution whose 
 home offices are at Charleston, West Virginia, but 
 he is also interested in many outside concerns of 
 an industrial or development character. These in- 
 clude the Telephone Hygienic Company, of which 
 he is a large stockholder and Director, and the 
 Home Telephone Company of California, in which 
 he is a bond and stockholder. 
 
 Mr. Irvine is also a stockholder and Director 
 of the California Electric Generating Company 
 and of the Great Western Power Company, the 
 last named being one of the leading light, and 
 power concerns of the Pacific Coast. For seven 
 years Mr. Irvine served as a member of the Board 
 of Directors of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of California, but resigned this duty 
 when the home office of the company was removed 
 from San Francisco to Los Angeles, after con- 
 solidation of that company with the Conservative 
 Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1911 Mr. Irvine reorganized the San Fran- 
 cisco, Vallejo & Napa Valley Electric Railway 
 Company and since that time has been President 
 and the controlling stockholder of the new cor- 
 poration, which is known as the San Francisco, 
 Napa & Calistoga Railroad Company. This road, 
 since Mr. Irvine took hold of it, has been developed 
 
 to the point where it is one of the prosperous cor- 
 porations of the State and he devotes a consider- 
 able part of his time to its affairs. 
 
 For three years Mr. Irvine was a Director of the 
 Western National Bank of San Francisco, but 
 resigned at the end of that time in order to be 
 able to look after the vast number of other inter- 
 ests which claimed his attention. He is, however, 
 a Director in several other more or less important 
 concerns, aside from those already mentioned as 
 claiming the larger portion of his attention. 
 
 The ins-titutions mentioned serve to show the 
 diversity of his interests and activities, which are 
 scattered all over the State of California, and, in 
 fact, much of the West. He makes his home and 
 headquarters at San Francisco, but he also spends 
 a great deal of time on his- ranch near Santa Ana, 
 California, one of the most extensive private prop- 
 ecties in that section of the State. 
 
 Devoted to his city, Mr. Irvine has been a con- 
 spicuous figure in the work of rebuilding San Fran- 
 cisco following the dis-aster of 1906, and at that time 
 was of material assistance in relieving the suffer- 
 ings of the people. He was among the early advo- 
 cates of the Panama Pacific Exposition, which will 
 celebrate in 1915 the opening of the Panama Canal, 
 and has aided largely in the work attendant upon 
 preparations for this event, the greatest public en- 
 terprise in the history of California. 
 
 Mr. Irvine is not an active factor in politics 
 and has never had any desire for public office, 
 although he has aided in various movements of a 
 civic nature which have served to advance the 
 interests of San Francisco and other places. He is 
 admittedly one of the powers for good on the Pa- 
 cific Coast, but does not take particular credit to 
 himself for the many great works he has accom- 
 plished in his comparatively short career, in be- 
 half of his fellows and the country at large. 
 
 Mr. Irvine is a lover of travel, having visited 
 almost every point of interest in Canada, the 
 United States, Mexico and the coast line of Alaska. 
 He also has made an extended trip around the 
 world, visiting Europe, the Orient and various 
 other sections of the globe. 
 
 When the cares of business permit, Mr. Irvine 
 seeks recreation in fishing and hunting, and be- 
 longs to a number of clubs which number in their 
 memberships some of the most expert anglers in 
 the United States. These clubs include the Catalina 
 Tuna Club, of Catalina Island; the San Francisco 
 Fly-Casting Club and the Webber Lake Club. The 
 Tuna Club of Catalina is one of the most noted 
 organizations of the kind in the world, its members 
 playing for big fish only. Mr. Irvine has obtained 
 the club's blue and gold buttons, which are awarded 
 to the fisherman catching the largest tuna and 
 albicore on light tackle. 
 
 In addition to the clubs mentioned, Mr. Irvine 
 is a member of the Bohemian and Olympic Clubs, 
 two of the leading organizations of San Francisco. 
 
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 609 
 
 LARK, J. ROSS, Banking and Rail- 
 roading, Los Angeles, California, 
 is a native of Connellsville, Penn- 
 sylvania, born April 10, 1850. His 
 father was John Clark and his 
 mother Mary (Andrews) Clark. 
 He married Miriam A. Evans on April 16, 1878, at 
 Butte, Montana. There were two children, Ella H., 
 now Mrs. Henry C. Lee, and Walter M. Clark, who 
 died a hero with the sinking of the Titanic. 
 
 He received his early edu- 
 cation in the public schools 
 of his native State and con- 
 cluded his studies with a 
 course in the Academy of 
 Bentonsport, Iowa. 
 
 When Mr. Clark grew up 
 his position, environments 
 and opportunities were far 
 different than those of the 
 young men of today. To- 
 wards the setting sun 
 stretched that vast country 
 known to Americans as the 
 Great West. It was indeed 
 to be a Greater West, for it 
 was just entering on that 
 phenomenal period of growth 
 that has had no equal in the 
 history of the world. It was 
 young, wild and undeveloped. 
 The Indians had not yet 
 been subdued, the vast min- 
 eral deposits lay untouched, 
 unlimited timber tracts 
 stretched away toward the 
 mountains and the thousand 
 and one industries that were 
 later to add to the wealth 
 and power of the country were unknown. Mr. 
 Clark decided to try his fortunes there and, leav- 
 ing Iowa in 1871, went directly to Montana, then 
 one of the most rugged yet wealthy regions of the 
 West. He went into business in the vicinity of 
 Butte, Montana, with his brother, Senator William 
 A. Clark, who had preceded him to Montana by 
 several years. It was a hard struggle in those 
 days. There were no railroads; stages being the 
 only means of transportation known in those 
 wilds. It took the strongest kind of character, 
 courage and persistency to face the trials which 
 confronted the pioneer, but all through the years 
 that followed, Mr. Clark, determinate, remained in 
 that country, and its history is linked largely with 
 his success. 
 
 Between the years 1871 and 1893, Mr. Clark 
 was engaged in banking and mining throughout 
 the Montana district, being closely associated with 
 his brother in many of the largest copper mining 
 enterprises of the Northwest. In 1876, the same 
 year in which General Custer fought his battle on 
 
 J. ROSS CLARK 
 
 the Little Big Horn river, the Clarks established 
 a private bank at Butte, Montana, which financial 
 institution is still in operation. 
 
 Mr. Clark became heavily interested in numer- 
 ous mineral deals, in the building of smelters and 
 in other industries adapted to the Montana country. 
 He was identified with every great move for the 
 development of that State as well as with the 
 neighboring territories; with the founding of cities, 
 construction of railroads, organization of terri- 
 torial government, and in fact 
 his work is part of the his- 
 tory of Montana. 
 
 In 1892 he moved to Los 
 Angeles, where he saw an 
 immense field for operation, 
 and where his family could 
 live amid more beautiful sur- 
 roundings. Mr. Clark's rec- 
 ord in Southern California 
 has been as brilliant as it 
 was in Montana, and he has 
 shared in the development of 
 Los Angeles to 'a high de- 
 gree. In 1896 he built the 
 Los Alamitos sugar factory 
 in Southern California, which 
 he managed for several 
 years. He has since turned 
 this business over to his son, 
 Walter M. Clark, who holds 
 the position of manager. 
 
 As vice president of the 
 Salt Lake railroad, of which 
 his brother, the Senator, is 
 the principal genius, Mr. 
 Clark has made a conspic- 
 uous success. He is also a 
 liberal philanthropist and 
 aids many worthy institutions. Perhaps his most 
 generous assistance was rendered when the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of Los Angeles was in 
 severe straits. Ever ready and willing to put his 
 shoulder to the wheel, Mr. Clark took charge of 
 the destinies of the association, and after a long, 
 hard campaign for new life, new home and new 
 funds, he put the association in the position it 
 occupies today a splendid institution, with 
 branches in all parts of the city, engaged in a 
 wonderful work. 
 
 He is deeply interested .in many Southern Cali- 
 fornia corporations, is Vice President of the Los 
 Alamitos Sugar Company and is a Director and 
 Vice President of the Citizens' National Bank of 
 Los Angeles. He is identified with many of the 
 larger movements for a Greater Los Angeles and 
 has played the part of a distinguished factor in 
 the growth of the Southwest. He is a member of 
 the California, the Jonathan and Sierra Madre clubs, 
 the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and the Silver 
 Bow' Club of Butte, Montana. 
 
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 CHARLES CAS SAT DAVIS 
 
 AVIS, CHARLES CASSAT, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., is 
 a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 where he was born on October 5, 
 1851. His father was Timothy J. 
 Davis and his mother was Caro- 
 line Mary Cassat, a descendant of the Guizot fam- 
 ily of France, the name Guizot having been Angli- 
 cized to Cassat. The family were Huguenots and 
 were driven out of France at the time of the re- 
 ligious struggles. Later they were driven out of 
 Holland and came to America. 
 
 Mr. Davis was educated in the public schools of 
 Cincinnati and Ohio Wesleyan University, from 
 which he graduated (A. B.) in 1873. In 1876 this 
 university conferred on him the degree of M. A. 
 Mr. Davis studied at the Law College at Cin- 
 cinnati, and later the Law College of Columbia 
 University, graduating 1875 with degree LL. B. 
 
 Mr. Davis practiced in Cincinnati until 1885. 
 He was an active member, director and attorney of 
 one of the largest organizations of its kind in the 
 world, the Ohio State Society for the Prevention of 
 Cruelty to Animals. He also was a member of the 
 Ohio State Legislature during 1880 and 1881. In 
 the fall of 1885 Mr. Davis moved to Los Angeles, 
 where he still is following a profitable practice. 
 
 He was elected to the Board of Education, serv- 
 ing in 1899 and 1900. It was during this time that 
 the notorious Webb ring was broken up, driving 
 two members to exile and placing Mr. Davis in the 
 presidency, which office he held three successive 
 years. Far-reaching reforms were made in admin- 
 istration and manual training for boys and girls, 
 baths and other advancements introduced into the 
 local school system. In 1904 he was again elected 
 to the Board of Education on a non-partisan ticket, 
 but resigned after one year. 
 
 He is a member of the University, Jonathan, 
 Sunset and Municipal clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
 EARL C. PECK 
 
 ECK, EARL CURTIS, Attorney at 
 Law, Los Angeles-, California, 
 was born November 1, 1881, at 
 Stratford, Connecticut, the son of 
 Wilfred M. Peck and Emily Jose- 
 phine (Curtis) Peck. Both on the 
 maternal and paternal side the family goes back 
 to the first settlers of New England, and there are 
 many famous names, particularly in the Peck 
 branch, which has been prominent in education. 
 He is married, having been united with Ethel Rose 
 Wilson, on April 7, 1910, in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Peck attended the Stratford, Connecticut 
 schools until the age of twelve. Then his family 
 removed to Riverside, California. There he en- 
 tered the Riverside High School, and graduated in 
 the year 1900. In 1901 he entered the University 
 of California, in which institution he studied two 
 years. He became ambitious to enter the legal pro- 
 fession and removed to Los Angeles. He attended 
 the sessions of the law school of the University of 
 Southern California, and was admitted to the bar 
 in the year 1909. 
 
 While he was attending the University of 
 Southern California Law School he was also work- 
 ing. He was first in the employ of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad, and remained with them two 
 years. He left the Southern Pacific to accept a 
 place with the Pacific Electric Railway, and from 
 there he went to the Los Angeles Gas and Electric 
 Company. He left the employ of the latter com- 
 pany in 1910. 
 
 Mr. Peck opened an office in January of the lat- 
 ter year, in the Equitable Savings Bank building, 
 and has been busy with a general practice since 
 that date, his success in the profession having been 
 almost instantaneous. 
 
 He is a member of the legal fraternity of the 
 Phi Delta Phi of the Beatty Chapter of the Uni- 
 versity of Southern California College of Law. 
 
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 JOHN LLEWELLYN 
 
 LEWELLYN, JOHN, Manufac- 
 turer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Wales, May 27, 1873, the son of 
 David Llewellyn and Hannah 
 (Janes) Llewellyn. He comes of 
 a family of noted ironmasters 
 and is at present Assistant Secretary of the Llewel- 
 lyn Iron Works, Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Llewellyn passed his early childhood in San 
 Francisco, being brought to this country at the age 
 of eleven years, when the family crossed the water. 
 While there he studied under private tutors for 
 three years, and in 1888, when his mother moved 
 the home to Los Angeles, he entered a business 
 college, graduating in 1892. 
 
 He went to work with the Llewellyn Company 
 immediately after leaving school and has been 
 with it ever since. At the present time, in addition 
 to his position as assistant secretary, he is man- 
 ager of the elevator department, which handles 
 some of the largest elevator contracts in the West. 
 
 One of the most striking characteristics of Mr. 
 Llewellyn is determination, and this was forcibly 
 illustrated in San Francisco after the calamitous 
 fire and earthquake, when he went into that city 
 as one of the actual rebuilders and installed the 
 first elevator constructed in a building subsequent 
 to that disastrous period. He met with tremendous 
 labor difficulties, but finally overcame these, and 
 accomplished the work he had set out to do. This 
 elevator was put in under his personal direction. 
 
 Under his supervision elevators have been in- 
 stalled in most of the skyscrapers in Los Angeles, 
 notablv the Alexandria Hotel, Chester, Higgins and 
 Union Oil buildings, Los Angeles Hall of Records, 
 and the new Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
 Mr. Llewellyn is a leading business man and is 
 a member of the California, Jonathan, Sierra, Los 
 Angeles Athletic, Los Angeles Country and Los An- 
 geles Automobile clubs. He is a 32d degree Mason. 
 
 WILLITTS J. HOLE 
 
 WILLITTS j^ capitalist, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born at 
 Madison, Indiana, October 9, 
 1858, the son of William and Ma- 
 tilda (Hasley) Hole. He mar- 
 ried Mary B. Weeks, June 12, 
 1889, at North Vernon, Indiana. There is one 
 daughter, Agnes Marion Hole. 
 
 The family's history can be traced back many 
 years in Devonshire, England. Dean Hole, of 
 Rochester, England, is of the family. The founder 
 of the American branch of the family sailed from 
 Plymouth, England, in 1740. 
 
 Mr. Hole graduated from the Louisville, Ky., 
 High School and then entered the Bryant and 
 Stratton Business College, from which he gradu- 
 ated in 1880. After that he took the Chautauqua 
 Literary Course, graduating in 1887. 
 
 He became the owner of a chair factory in 
 North Vernon in 1889. In time he became a con- 
 tractor and builder, and, studying architecture, de- 
 signed his own buildings. He moved to Los An- 
 geles in 1893 and bought a tract of land in the 
 La Habra Valley, which he laid out and sold, and 
 as a consequence he is known as the "Father of 
 La Habra." In 1897, he was made resident agent 
 at Los Angeles of the Stearns Rancho Company 
 of San Francisco. He has bought -and subdi- 
 vided some of the largest areas in California. 
 
 His land holdings are extensive both in Cali- 
 fornia and Mexico. He is a representative of the 
 Asociacion Financiera Internacional, one of the 
 largest financial institutions in Mexico. He is 
 controlling owner of the Arden Plaster Company 
 of Arden, Nebraska, owning the largest gypsum 
 mine in the United States. He is a director of 
 the Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of the Jonathan Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, and is a 
 Thirty-second Degree Mason. 
 
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 ENNINGSEN, ROBERT MARTIN, 
 Constructing Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Marebo, Denmark, March 4, 1858, 
 the son of John Henry Henning- 
 sen and Anne (Sine) Henningsen. 
 He married Agnes C. Sansam at Oakland, Cal., 
 April 4, 1906. They have an adopted son, Frederick 
 A. Henningsen. 
 
 Mr. Hennings-en's parents brought him to Amer- 
 ica when he was a child, 
 locating at Oshkosh, Wis., 
 and there he spent the early 
 part of his life. He attended 
 the public and high schools 
 of Oshkosh and followed this 
 with studies at the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, but did not 
 finish the course. 
 
 Leaving college in 1882, 
 Mr. Henningsen went to 
 work with his elder brother, 
 a constructing engineer of 
 Oshkosh. He later became 
 a partner in the business, 
 handling various important 
 operations until 1889, when 
 he disposed of his interest 
 in order to go West. 
 
 Early in 1890 Mr. Hen- 
 ningsen located at Tacoma, 
 Wash., and there organized 
 the Western Woodenware 
 Co., a corporation which he 
 served as President for ap- 
 proximately six years. Dur- 
 ing this period he brought 
 the bus-mess up to a point 
 where it was one of the 
 leading enterprises of its 
 kind in the Northwest. In 
 1897, however, he succumbed 
 to the excitement of the gold 
 find in the Klondyke, so dis- 
 posed of his interest in the 
 woodenware company, resigned his office and 
 joined the army of gold-seekers then pushing to- 
 wards the far North. 
 
 He went to Dawson City, Alaska, then the cen- 
 ter of the excitement, and plunged actively into 
 the life of the place, his previous experience as an 
 engineer giving him somewhat of an advantage 
 over those men who did not possess engineering 
 knowledge. In addition to working various claims 
 of his own, he grubstaked others in return for an 
 interest in the claims located. 
 
 He also operated in the Atland mining district 
 and for the next few years was one of the active 
 men of the region, enduring the hardships and 
 reaping the rewards that went with life in that 
 country. He had numerous trying experiences in 
 the Klondyke and on one occa&ion tramped 
 eighteen hundred miles over the snow and ice, 
 driving a six-dog team attached to a pack sledge. 
 He covered the distance in sixty days, a feat which 
 won for him considerable renown in the region. 
 
 In 1901. after nearly four years in the Klon- 
 dyke, Mr. Henningsen abandoned mining and took 
 a contract with the United States Government for 
 the construction of life saving stations along the 
 southwest coast of Alaska. This work took more 
 than a year and upon its completion he was given 
 
 R. M. HENNINGSEN 
 
 another Government contract, to design and con- 
 struct the military post now known as Fort Law- 
 ton, at Seattle, Wash. This, one of the most mod- 
 ern army posts in the U. S., was finished by Mr. 
 Henningsen in 1903. 
 
 After fulfilling his contracts with the Govern- 
 ment, Mr. Henningsen went to Nevada, where gold 
 had recently been found, and was there engaged 
 to design and construct many of the stamp mills 
 now in operation at Goldfield. Among others he 
 built the plant of the Flor- 
 ence Mining Co., the Combi- 
 nation Mining Co. and the 
 Western Purchasing Co. In- 
 cidentally, Mr. Henningsen 
 became interested in various 
 mining properties and for 
 five years was in the famous 
 gold camp. 
 
 Like many other men of 
 the Goldfield boom, Mr. Hen- 
 ningsen, in 1908, turned to 
 Los Angeles for a residence, 
 and there engaged in engi- 
 neering work and several 
 profitable investment enter- 
 prises. He became inter- 
 ested in oil development at 
 Bakersfield, Cal., within a 
 short time after his arrival 
 at Los Angeles, and secured 
 one of the large producing 
 wells in the Midway field. 
 This well flowed an average 
 of forty thousand barrels a 
 day, according to estimates, 
 for six months, at the end of 
 which time it was brought 
 under control. Mr. Hen- 
 ningsen organized the Mid- 
 way Five Oil Co. ior the 
 operation of this well and 
 served as its President until 
 1911, when he sold his in- 
 terest and went back to 
 
 mining, which has occupied most of his time since. 
 He organized the Battleship Mining Co., which 
 owns valuable property in the vicinity of Lords- 
 burg, New Mex.; and as President of this company 
 he is now among the men who are putting their 
 money and their energies into the work of develop- 
 ing the resources of the country. 
 
 He is also Vice President of the Western Ex- 
 cavator & Development Co., a project involving the 
 improvement of a tract of land several thousand 
 acres in extent in the rich Sacramento Valley, Cal. 
 This valley, which is well supplied with water, is 
 exceedingly fertile and is destined to become one 
 of the garden spots of the State. 
 
 Mr. Henningsen is not only engaged in the en- 
 terprises mentioned, but also is aiding others- in 
 their development work, as a member of the firm 
 of Oliver & Henningsen, Civil and Mining Engi- 
 neers, with headquarters in Los Angeles. Oliver 
 & Henningsen are closely allied with the vast sys- 
 tem of development now being carried on in all 
 parts of the Southwest and are reckoned among 
 the leading engineers. 
 
 Mr. Henningsen is a member of the Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks, Los Angeles Lodge 
 No. 99, and is a life member of the Seattle Athletic 
 Club, Seattle, Washington. 
 
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 USSELL, EDWIN HERBERT, 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Lowell, Massachusetts, March 16, 
 1857, the son of Leonard Murray 
 Russell and Nancy Perry (Hop- 
 kins) Russell. He has been twice married, the 
 issue of the first marriage being Mary Gertrude 
 Russell, Nita L. (wife of Allen H. Johnson) and 
 Leonard Walter Russell. On July 2, 1902, he 
 married Marie Conception 
 Carmelita Mercedes Ana de 
 Toro, daughter of Juan de 
 Toro and Maria Olvera de 
 Toro, and granddaughter of 
 the Hon. Augustin Olvera, 
 Secretary of the last Mexi- 
 can Legislature in California, 
 Peace Commissioner with 
 Fremont in 1847 and the first 
 County Judge of Los Angeles 
 elected when the county was 
 created in 1853. One daugh- 
 ter has been born to them, 
 Marie Marguerite Russell, 
 born in 1903. 
 
 The Doctor is descended 
 from an old New England 
 family, the pioneers of 
 which, three brothers from 
 Sutherlandshire, Scotland, 
 having settled in Lunenburg, 
 Massachusetts, in 1703. One 
 ancestor and four of his 
 sons were members of the 
 famous Lunenburg Company 
 and marched all day, June 17, 
 1775, arriving at the battle 
 of Bunker's Hill in time to 
 
 cover the retreat of the American troops over 
 Boston Neck. On his mother's side, the Doctor is 
 of Colonial stock, her progenitors being among the 
 first of the Penobscot Bay settlers when Maine 
 was only a province of Massachusetts. 
 
 Dr. Russell received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of his native city, graduating 
 from the Lowell High School in 1873. He took up 
 the study of medicine a short time after this and 
 was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine in 1880 from Boston University. Prior to 
 graduating from this latter institution the Doctor, 
 in 1877, moved to California and began the prac- 
 tice of medicine, succeeding the late Dr. E. Howe, 
 of Florence, California, who was one of the earlier 
 pioneer physicians of Southern California. It was 
 in 1879 that Dr. Russell returned to Massachusetts 
 and completed his studies at Boston University. 
 
 Following his graduation, Dr. Russell served 
 for a time as Assistant Physician to the Dio Lewis 
 Sanitarium, at Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. 
 He returned to California and resumed his prac- 
 
 DR. E. H. RUSSELL 
 
 tice at Florence, remaining there until 1884. He 
 then went to San Francisco and served for some 
 months as Resident Physician of the San Fran- 
 cisco Homeopathic Hospital, but gave this up to 
 establish private practice at Visalia, California. 
 
 Dr. Russell was in practice at Visalia about 
 four years and during that time was unusually 
 successful, but in 1888 he transferred his offices 
 to Santa Monica, California, where he was en- 
 gaged until 1890. In the latter year he removed to 
 Redondo, becoming physi- 
 cian for the Redondo Rail- 
 way and Beach Company. 
 At the close of the year, he 
 decided to seek a larger 
 field, so resigned his posi- 
 tion and moved to Los An- 
 geles, where he has been in 
 practice continually since. 
 
 After conducting a gen- 
 eral practice for several 
 years, Dr. Russell in 1898 
 made a specialty of mental 
 and nervous diseases and is 
 today regarded as one of the 
 leading experts in that 
 branch of medical practice. 
 In addition to handling a 
 great number of interesting 
 cases, the Doctor has writ- 
 ten various articles on these 
 subjects for newspapers 
 and medical journals, many 
 of his analyses being re- 
 garded as authoritative on 
 the subjects treated. 
 
 Dr. Russell has been an 
 unusually busy member of 
 the medical profession and 
 
 has had small opportunity for outside interests, 
 but, nevertheless, is an enthusiastic worker for up- 
 building of the section in which he has made his 
 home, aiding, whenever possible, any movement 
 having for its object the betterment of local con- 
 ditions. Being a man of progressive ideas, he 
 has at all times stood for advancement in his own 
 profession and in public policy. 
 
 The Doctor has, with Gustave W. Haas, been 
 identified with the Institute of Mechanical Orth- 
 opedics, serving as Physician-in-Charge since the 
 inception of the Haas Method. This new departure 
 in the field of orthopedics has met with unusual 
 success. 
 
 With the exception of a brief term as a Justice 
 of the Peace, he has held no political office and 
 the attractions of home and a choice social circle 
 have more than been an offset for the lack of 
 club and social organization memberships. Like 
 others of the pioneer physicians of Los Angeles 
 he has been more conspicuous in the hearts and 
 homes of his patrons, than in the public eye. 
 
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 YERS, JOHN HENRY WIL- 
 BERT, Capitalist, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Jan- 
 uary 27, 1874, the son of E. 
 H. Myers and Amelia S. (Landwer) Myers. 
 He married Lillian Robertson at Pittsburg, 
 February 2, 1897, and to them there has been 
 born a daughter, Laura Irene Myers. 
 
 Mr. Myers, who is de- 
 scended of an old Penn- 
 sylvania family, received 
 the early part of his edu- 
 cation in the public 
 schools of Pittsburg, 
 later attending Shadyside 
 Academy, of the same 
 city, and Hiram College, 
 at Hiram, Ohio. At the 
 latter institution he 
 earned a reputation as 
 one of the greatest all- 
 round athletes the college 
 had ever boasted, and 
 was one of the active fac- 
 tors in the development 
 of athletics at the institu- 
 tion. He played on both 
 the varsity football and 
 baseball teams. 
 
 Following the comple- 
 tion of his studies at Hi- 
 ram, Mr. Myers returned 
 to Pittsburg and became 
 associated in business 
 with his father, who was 
 of the substantial 
 
 J. H. W. MYERS 
 
 one 
 
 business men of the city and a veteran oork 
 packer. The firm was known as E. H. Myers 
 & Co., and for about ten years, or until 1902, 
 Mr. Myers aided his father in the conduct of 
 the business. He worked in various capaci- 
 ties and, learning the business, was finally 
 given a resoonsible position in the mana- 
 gerial end of the company. 
 
 In 1902, Mr. Myers, who had been a keen 
 observer of the trend of realty values in 
 Pittsburg, resigned his connection with the 
 packing company of his father and went into 
 the real estate business, having his main 
 offices in Pittsburg. He was one of the suc- 
 cessful ooerators there for about four years, 
 but in 1906 sold out his interests in the city 
 of his birth because of the illness of his little 
 daughter, and determined to move to the 
 balmy climate of Southern California in or- 
 der to rebuild her health. He arrived in Los 
 Angeles in March, and after locating his fam- 
 
 ily, entered the employ of the Llewellyn Iron 
 Works of Los Angeles, with whom he re- 
 mained for nearly three years. 
 
 As in Pittsburg, Mr. Myers observed busi- 
 ness conditions and opportunities very close- 
 ly during this first period of his residence in 
 Los Angeles and finally decided that the oil 
 business promised the greatest opportunity 
 for investment. He resigned his position 
 with the Llewellyn Iron 
 Works and entered into 
 the oil refining business 
 as one of the organizers 
 of the United Oil Refin- 
 ery Company of Los An- 
 geles. He was elected 
 Vice President of the 
 company and was one of 
 the active managers of its 
 affairs. He continued as 
 such for nearly three 
 years, but sold out his in- 
 terest in May, 1912, and 
 since that time has been 
 engaged in general invest- 
 ment enterprises. Among 
 other interests he holds 
 stock in various oil and 
 mining properties which 
 attracted his attention in 
 Arizona and Mexico. 
 
 There is and will be 
 for ages to come a tre- 
 mendous amount ot de- 
 velopment work going on 
 in the Southwestern part 
 of the United States, but 
 there also is a vast amount of virgin territory 
 consisting of copper, gold, oil and other min- 
 eral products. Capitalists in all parts of the 
 United States and even in foreign countries 
 will be turning their attention constantly to 
 this territory and it will be one of the most 
 nrcsperous and thriving sections, from an in- 
 dustrial standpoint, in the entire Union. Mr. 
 Myers, like these others, realizes that the 
 country possesses untold wealth which has 
 remained untouched through the centuries 
 and it is his intention to do his part in help- 
 ing to develop the resources of the land. 
 
 Though comparatively a very young man, 
 Mr. Myers has a wide knowledge and experi- 
 ence and is employing them to the best ad- 
 vantage for himself and associates. 
 
 He is a member of several of the leading 
 clubs, including the Jonathan and the Los 
 Angeles Country Club. He also is a member 
 of the B. P. O. Elks, L. A. Lodge No. 99. 
 
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 AVIE, ROBERT PARSELL, 
 Sugar Manufacturer and 
 Land Owner, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Flush- 
 ing, Genesee County, Mich- 
 igan, August 22, 1867. His father was Ly- 
 man Ellis Davie, and his mother was Puella 
 L. Davie. He married Martha Hays at 
 Pueblo, Colorado, October 15, 1890. As a 
 result of this marriage 
 there were six children, 
 Sydney R. (deceased), 
 Marjorie Puella, Rachel 
 Leah (deceased), Lois 
 Elizabeth, Martha Fran- 
 ces, and Robert Parsell 
 Davie, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Davie obtained 
 his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Flushing, 
 Michigan, and in a dis- 
 trict school near his 
 father's farm. He taught 
 himself pharmacy. 
 
 He moved west to 
 Colorado in 1888, when 
 Cripple Creek was a Mec- 
 ca for mining men. He 
 followed several lines 
 with more or less success, 
 and in 1890 became own- 
 er of a drug store in that 
 city, continuing until 
 1895, when he moved to 
 Colorado Springs, Colo- 
 rado. 
 
 At that time he had 
 become interested in the real estate business 
 in Colorado Springs. In association with J. 
 R. McKinnie, now a successful realty opera- 
 tor in Los Angeles, California, he organized 
 the McKinnie-Davie Realty Company. At 
 the same time Mr. Davie became interested 
 in mining enterprises in Cripple Creek, and 
 he and Mr. McKinnie were influential in 
 financing several enterprises in that district. 
 Later Mr. Davie formed a number of cor- 
 porations that are today flourishing in the 
 Colorado country. 
 
 Napoleon B. Broward, Governor of Flor- 
 ida at the time, conceived the idea of drain- 
 ing the great Everglade country of that state 
 and hundreds of thousands of acres of sub- 
 merged lands. Mr. Davie at that time be- 
 came interested in Florida property. He as- 
 sisted Governor Broward with the problem, 
 and as a result the state is now reclaiming 
 several million acres. 
 
 R. P. DAVIE 
 
 In 1901 he with Mr. J. R. McKinnie or- 
 ganized the Western Sugar and Land Com- 
 pany at Grand Junction, Colorado, for the 
 purpose of taking over the defunct beet sugar 
 factory there. The task was a tremendous 
 one, for the farmers of that region were op- 
 posed to it by reason of previous failures, but 
 Mr. Davie with Mr. McKinnie staid with the 
 proposition and in three years had developed 
 one of the greatest indus- 
 tries in the country. 
 
 A similar achievement 
 was the construction of 
 the United States Sugar 
 & 'Land Company fac- 
 tory at Garden City, 
 Kansas, which marked 
 the beginning of the beet 
 industry in that section. 
 
 In 1908 he took hold 
 of the Southwestern Su- 
 gar and Land Company 
 factory at Glendale, Ari- 
 zona, which had been a 
 complete failure in the 
 hands of a company of 
 English capitalists, re- 
 modeled the factory, and 
 persuaded the farmers in 
 that region to take up the 
 sugar beet industry, and 
 in three years has turned 
 that region into a sugar 
 producing section. To- 
 day it is recognized as 
 one of the largest indus- 
 tries in Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Davie moved to Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, late in 1909, and has since been per- 
 manently located in that city. He retains 
 large interest, both mining and realty, in 
 Colorado, Florida and Arizona, but is now 
 interested in several California enterprises. 
 He is Vice President of the Western Sugar 
 and Land Company, President of the South- 
 western Sugar and Land Company, Vice 
 President of the Everglades Sugar and Land 
 Company, Director in the Colorado Title and 
 Trust Company of Colorado Springs, and a 
 Director of the Valley Bank of Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club of 
 Los Angeles, the Annandale Country Club of 
 Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Country Club, 
 The Denver Club of Denver, Colorado, El 
 Paso Club of Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
 Pikes Peak Club of Colorado Springs, and is 
 a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
 
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 AMMON, WENDELL PHI- 
 LUCIUS, Dredge - Mining 
 Operator, San Francisco, Cal., 
 was born at Conneautville, 
 Crawford county, Penn., May 
 23, 1854, the son of Marshall M. and Harriet 
 S. (Cooper) Hammon. His paternal ances- 
 tors settled in Providence, R. I., about the 
 year 1726, subsequently moving to Ithaca, 
 N. Y., whence his grandfather went to Craw- 
 ford county, Penn. Mr. Hammon himself 
 came to California in November, 1875, estab- 
 lishing himself first in Oakland. On April 4, 
 1881, he was married in Placerville, El Do- 
 rado county, to Miss Mary Augusta Kenney, 
 daughter of Ephraim Kenney, a well known 
 mining man of that county. Of this marriage 
 the children are: George K., born February 
 5, 1882; Wendell C, born February 23, 1890; 
 and Glenn A. Hammon, February 27, 1895. 
 
 After a course through the primary and 
 grammar schools of Conneautville Mr. Ham- 
 mon attended the Normal School in Edinboro, 
 Erie county, but left in 1875, before gradua- 
 tion, to come to California. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival in this State he 
 secured a position as salesman for the fruit 
 importing house of L. Green & Sons of 
 Perry, Ohio. Two years later he engaged in 
 the nursery business on his own account and 
 in a few years became one of the leading au- 
 thorities in California on fruit growing. In 
 1890 he went to Butte county and planted a 
 large orchard near the Feather River, about 
 ten miles below Oroville. For the next ten 
 years he devoted himself chiefly to this indus- 
 try, but also gave some attention to mining in 
 Arizona, Eastern Oregon and Idaho. It was 
 in Butte, however, on his own property, that 
 he first shook hands with Fortune, financially 
 speaking, and became the chief instrument in 
 the development of an industry that has been 
 of untold importance to the country about 
 Oroville, and of great benefit to the whole 
 State. 
 
 He had done a little mining in 1896 in the 
 flats along the Feather River, below Oroville. 
 These had been worked by Chinese miners, 
 with their crude methods of rockers and 
 ground sluices, in the early '70s, and gold 
 was known to be there, but few, if any, sus- 
 pected that it would pay to work it on a 
 large scale. While digging a well to supply 
 a huge centrifugal pump with all the water 
 he needed, Mr. Hammon was struck by the 
 appearance of the gravel encountered. Pan- 
 ning it, he found it contained good values 
 that would pay to mine. Encouraged to go 
 further, he secured an option on about a 
 
 thousand acres and prospected the whole 
 flat. He was soon satisfied that the whole 
 basin was gold-bearing, but not that it could 
 be mined profitably. Though many attempts 
 had been previously made on the Pacific 
 Coast and elsewhere to dredge for gold, they 
 had never been very successful, and Mr. 
 Hammon was looking for a method of 
 handling a large body of gravel at a low cost. 
 In the quest his attention was called to the 
 type of dredger used at that time on the big 
 drainage canal building at Chicago. After 
 consulting with engineers, who reported fa- 
 vorably on the practicability of this style of 
 dredger for mining the Feather River flats, 
 he had one constructed by the Risdon Iron 
 Works of San Francisco, and put in opera- 
 tion on March 1, 1898, for the Feather River 
 Exploration Company, of which he was the 
 head, and which had purchased a thousand 
 acres of the gold-bearing bottom land. 
 
 All this, however, was not accomplished by 
 the wave of a wizard's wand. Many experi- 
 ments had to be made and much money ex- 
 pended, and that, too, in the face of abundant 
 skepticism, during which the fate of Oroville 
 "hung in the balance," before unqualified suc- 
 cess crowned the efforts of those who had 
 the courage of their convictions. This first 
 dredge was finally improved to a point where 
 it could be operated to the satisfaction of all 
 concerned. Since those early experiments Mr. 
 Hammon and his associates have secured con- 
 trol of about ten thousand acres operated by 
 gold dredges to the number of thirty, distrib- 
 uted among three counties, as follows : Butte, 
 8; Yuba, 13; and Sacramento, 9. In the lan- 
 guage of the Bulletin issued by the California 
 Mining Bureau : "Progress in this important 
 industry is due in a great measure to the en- 
 terprise and successful operations of Mr. 
 Hammon and his associates. Couch dredge 
 No. 1, the first successful bucket elevator 
 dredge put in commission in the State, was 
 financed by Mr. Hammon and the late Thom- 
 as Couch. It is eminently fitting that Mr. 
 Hammon should be the leading gold-dredging 
 operator in California, and in control of the 
 largest companies of this kind in America." 
 
 Among the corporations of which he is an 
 officer, he is Pres., Yuba Construction Co., 
 Truckee River General Electric Co., Keystone 
 Dredging Co. ; vice president and director 
 Natomas Consolidated Co., managing director 
 Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields Co.; vice 
 president and general manager of the Oro- 
 ville Dredging Co., Ltd., and director of the 
 Northern Electric Ry. His clubs are : Rocky 
 Mountain of N. Y. ; Pacific Union, Bohemian, 
 Union League and Olympic of San Francisco. 
 
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 A. M. ROSENSTIRN 
 
 OSENSTIRN, ALFRED MAX- 
 WELL, Real Estate, San Francis- 
 co, California, was born in that 
 city on July 4, 1883, the son of Dr. 
 Julius Rosenstirn and Johanna 
 (Baer) Rosenstirn. He married 
 Sylvia Talbot at San Francisco, February 23, 1910, 
 and to them there has been born a daughter, Sylvia 
 Talbot Rosenstirn. 
 
 Mr. Rosenstirn received his early education in 
 the public schools- of San Francisco and later at- 
 tended Belmont Academy, graduating from there 
 in 1901. 
 
 Upon completing his education, Mr. Rosenstirn 
 entered the employ of the Union Trust Company 
 of San Francisco and remained with that institu- 
 tion about four years, leaving at the end of that 
 time to go into the real estate business in the em- 
 ploy of A. J. Rich & Co. He soon familiarized him- 
 self with the business and in 1906, three weeks be- 
 fore San Francisco was visited by earthquake and 
 fire, he embarked in the business on his own ac- 
 count, in association with A. L. Harrigan and L. A. 
 Wiedemuller. In spite of the chaotic conditions 
 which ensued in San Francisco after the disaster 
 the three partners maintained their business and 
 during the next five years were numbered among 
 the successful firms of the city. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. Rosenstirn withdrew from the firm 
 and established offices for himself, continuing the 
 operations he had begun previously, and during 
 the first year handled nearly a million and a half 
 dollars' worth of real estate, principally business 
 property. Among other properties sold by him 
 were the Ivy Ranch in Alameda County, California, 
 which he sold for $250,000 and Clifton Court Delta 
 Lands, for $175,000. 
 
 Mr. Rosenstirn is among the progressive young 
 men of San Francisco, and has figured to some ex- 
 tent in local politics. 
 
 R. D. LAPHAM 
 
 APHAM, ROGER DEARBORN, 
 Agent, American-Hawaiian Steam- 
 ship Company, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in New York, N. 
 Y., December 6, 1883, the son of 
 Lewis H. Lapham and Antoinette 
 (Dearborn) Lapham. He married Helen B. Abbot 
 in Brooklyn, New York, October 30, 1907, and to 
 them there have been born three children, Lewis 
 A., Carol and Edna Lapham. 
 
 Mr. Lapham received his preliminary education 
 in private schools of New York City and was grad- 
 uated from Harvard University in the class of 1905, 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 Upon the completion of his collegiate career, 
 Mr. Lapham returned to his home in New York 
 and in that city entered the employ of the Ameri- 
 can-Hawaiian Steamship Company as a clerk in 
 the Auditor's office. From this position he was 
 promoted to various others, and in 1909 was 
 chosen Assistant Secretary of the company. 
 
 After a year in the main offices, Mr. Lapham, 
 in 1910, was transferred to Seattle, Washington, 
 continuing as Assistant Secretary until the latter 
 part of 1911, when he was appointed joint Agent 
 for the company with H. W. Roberts, in charge of 
 the company's Northwestern territory. 
 
 In March, 1912, upon the death of H. P. Durdan, 
 who had been the representative of the company 
 for Los Angeles previous to his death, Mr. Lapham 
 was appointed to the post of Southern California 
 agent for the company, filling that office since 
 that time. This is one of the more important po- 
 sitions in the service of the American-Hawaiian 
 Company, due to the fact that Los Angeles, the 
 principal port of that section, is the clearing point 
 for a tremendous amount of shipping for the great 
 Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Lapham is a member of the University Club 
 and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 A. B. ALLISON 
 
 LLISON, ALEX BARTLEBAUGH, 
 Business Man, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Nodoway 
 County, Mo., January 22, 1872, the 
 son of Robert Tate Allison and 
 Lucetta Jane (Osborne) Allison. 
 He married Lucille A. Allison at Crowley, La., Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1898, and to them there was born a son, 
 Donald Lyons Allison. 
 
 Mr. Allison spent his boyhood on a farm near 
 Newton, Kas., also attending public school, and in 
 1891 was graduated from Lawrence Business Col- 
 lege (Lawrence, Kas.). His first employment after 
 completing school was- with the Harvey County 
 Roller Mills at Newton, then with the Atlantic & 
 Pacific Ry. Co., at Needles, Cal. In the winter of 
 1894 he took a course in stenography at the Healds 
 Business College at San Francisco, and from there 
 went to Crowley, La., where he resided from 1895 
 to 1909. 
 
 During his residence in Louisiana, Mr. Allison 
 assisted in the organization and management of 
 several rice milling and irrigation companies; was 
 also a director in the Crowley State Bank and 
 served as its cashier in 1907. Having been for a 
 number of years Secretary of the Rice Millers' As- 
 sociation and the Rice Association of America, he 
 has an extended acquaintance throughout the rice 
 belt of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. 
 
 Mr. Allison moved to Los Angeles in October, 
 
 1909, and for one year was Secretary and Treasurer 
 of the Weber-Duller Co., contractors. Since May, 
 
 1910, he has been the Assistant Secretary and office 
 manager of the Buick Oil Co. He is also a member 
 of the partnership of Ackland & Allison, con- 
 tractors and builders, to which he devotes a part 
 of his time. 
 
 Mr. Allison is a Blue Lodge and Royal Arch 
 Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner and member of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 JAMES S. WALLACE 
 
 ALLACE, JAMES SHIELDS, Audi- 
 tor, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Newville, Pennsylvania, 
 September 8, 1873. His father 
 was William Jackson Wallace and 
 his mother Mary Graham 
 (Shields) Wallace. Mr. Wallace is a great-grand 
 nephew of Colonel John Wallace and a grandson 
 of the noted United Presbyterian minister, James 
 Shields. He is a distant relative of the McCor- 
 micks of Chicago. He married, at Los Angeles, 
 California, Miss Bernice Davison, November 16, 
 1911. 
 
 Mr. Wallace received his early education in the 
 public schools of his home city and later attended 
 the Cumberland Valley State Normal School for 
 one year. He then entered the Iron City College 
 of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, graduating in April, 1891. 
 After leaving school he was engaged as a stenog- 
 rapher and bookkeeper in Pittsburg until 1897, 
 when he accepted a position as assistant manager 
 of the H. W. Johns- Manufacturing Co., of Chicago. 
 In 1901 Mr. Wallace determined to settle in 
 California, where he engaged in the fruit busi- 
 ness for one year. He then accepted a position 
 as chief accountant for the United Electric, Gas 
 and Power Company of Los Angeles, California, 
 with which organization he remained for approxi- 
 mately one year. Shortly after this he became 
 associated with the Protective Savings Mutual 
 Building and Loan Association of Los Angeles as 
 the cashier, which position he held until 1906. 
 From that time up to 1910 he was engaged in the 
 profession of a Public Accountant as the Manager 
 of the The Audit Company of that city. 
 
 Mr. Wallace has since been associated with The 
 United Oil Co., and is also an officer and Director 
 in several other oil companies. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club and Elks Lodge No. 99 of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ARRIS, ELLIS MARVIN, Stock 
 Broker, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Abingdon, Washing- 
 ton County, Virginia, April 3, 
 1883, the son of Thomas D. Harris 
 and Elizabeth H. (Clark) Harris. 
 He married Pearl Creel, at Butler, Pennsylvania, 
 December 16, 1908, and to them there has been 
 born a daughter, Ruth Frances Harris. Mr. Harris' 
 family has lived in Virginia for many gener- 
 ations and various mem- 
 bers served in the Confed- 
 erate Army during the Civil 
 War. 
 
 Mr. Harris received the 
 primary part of his educa- 
 tion in the common schools 
 of his native town and later 
 attended the Martha Wash- 
 ington School, a private in- 
 stitution of Abingdon, Vir- 
 ginia, but gave up his studies 
 when he was sixteen years 
 of age and began to earn his 
 own livelihood. 
 
 He learned telegraphy in 
 the service of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad at Cisco, 
 Illinois, and remained with 
 this company until 1899. He 
 then entered the employ of 
 the Wabash Railroad at De- 
 catur, Illinois, as teleprapher 
 and train dispatcher and 
 served in this capacity for 
 about four years. Leaving 
 the Wabash service, Mr. Har- 
 ris went to Springfield, Mis- 
 souri, in the employ of the 
 
 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad (Frisco Sys- 
 tem) as telegrapher and train dispatcher and 
 stayed there until August, 1905, when he resigned 
 to accept a position as Manager for the Western 
 Union Telegraph Company at Washington, Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 After a year at Washington, Mr. Harris was 
 promoted by the Western Union Company to the 
 position of Traveling Auditor and Solicitor for the 
 company, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Penn- 
 sylvania. He held this position until the year 1908, 
 when he resigned and moved to San Francisco, 
 California. 
 
 He became connected with J. C. Wilson & Com- 
 pany, a stock and bond house, with offices in va- 
 rious parts of the Southwest, starting in as an op- 
 erator in the San Francisco office. With his pre- 
 vious extensive experience and the intelligence 
 with which he handled his work, Mr. Harris soon 
 won the attention of his firm and in 1911, after 
 three years of active work in the stock business, 
 was appointed Manager of the company's offices in 
 
 E. M. HARRIS 
 
 San Diego, California. He remained there about a 
 year and in 1912 was appointed to the larger field 
 of Los Angeles, as Manager of the office there, in 
 charge of all the company's affairs in that district. 
 This is one of the most important branches of 
 the J. C. Wilson & Company's systems and the se- 
 lection of Mr. Harris for the position of Manager 
 was a distinct recognition of his services for the 
 company. J. C. Wilson & Company, of which J. C. 
 Wilson is the head, is one of the largest stock bro- 
 kerage concerns in the United 
 States. It has the distinction 
 of having put into operation 
 the first exclusively private 
 stock wire between Los Ange- 
 les, Chicago and New York. A 
 feature of the business is the 
 extension of courtesy to tour- 
 ists interested in market af- 
 fairs, who are visiting on the 
 Pacific Coast. They are per- 
 mitted to use the wire in 
 communicating with their 
 Eastern brokers and are thus 
 freed of business worries, al- 
 though they are thousands of 
 miles from home. The intro- 
 duction of this wire courtesy, 
 as it is called, by the Wilson 
 offices has served to attract 
 to Los Angeles and other 
 cities where the company has 
 offices, a great many men of 
 wealth who are interested in 
 stock exchange affairs or 
 other financial matters. The 
 company is a member of the 
 New York Stock Exchange, 
 the New York Cotton Ex- 
 change, Chicago Board of Trade and the Stock & 
 Bond Exchange of San Francisco, with two offices in 
 San Francisco, one in Los Angeles and others in San 
 Diego, Pasadena and Coronado Beach, California; 
 Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington, and Van- 
 couver, British Columbia. It handles a tremendous 
 amount of stock and bond business and its transac- 
 tions equal those of many other large brokerage 
 houses combined. 
 
 A large part of his success is attributed by Mr. 
 Wilson to the men he has had associated with him 
 and of these Mr. Harris has proved one of the 
 most capable and conscientious. During his stay 
 in San Diego he greatly increased the business of 
 the company there, and since taking charge of the 
 Los Angeles office he has added largely to its trans- 
 actions, this being due to his personality and his 
 evident knowledge of stock exchange and the gen- 
 eral financial affairs of the country. 
 
 Mr. Harris gives practically all of his time to 
 his business and is not a clubman, preferring to 
 spend his leisure time with his family. 
 
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 EACH, HOWARD ELMER, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Prague, Bohemia, 
 Sept. 1. 1883. He is of Scotch 
 extraction, the son of S. Reach 
 and Regina (Setland) Reach. 
 
 Mr. Reach was reared in Bohemia and given the 
 best educational advantages of that place and 
 Germany. He received the preliminary part 
 of his education in the public schools of Prague, 
 and upon leaving high 
 school attended the Uni- 
 versity of Prague for about a 
 year, and then entered . the 
 University of Heidelberg, Ger- 
 many's most celebrated in- 
 stitution of learning. He was 
 graduated with the degree of 
 Doctor of Laws in 1905. 
 
 Shortly after leaving the 
 University Mr. Reach ac- 
 cepted the proposal of a Bo- 
 hemian newspaper that he 
 sail for the United States, 
 arrive in New York penni- 
 less, and earn his livelihood 
 for one year without assist- 
 ance from his family or 
 friends in Europe. Confident 
 of his ability to make his 
 way under these conditions, 
 Mr. Reach arrived in New 
 York and immediately began 
 what proved tg be one of the 
 severest tests of his life. He 
 worked at any occupation he 
 could find and endured many 
 hardships in the great city, 
 but at the end of the year he 
 
 was awarded the purse his paper had promised if he 
 succeeded in his attempt. During his first year 
 Mr. Reach wrote the story of his experiences in 
 America, and for a year after he had won, con- 
 tinued to send special articles to the publication. 
 
 Mr. Reach was admitted to practice in the 
 courts of New York and later was admitted to 
 practice in several other States, including New 
 Jersey, Indiana and California. His first affiliation 
 in the United States was with the Pinkerton De- 
 tective Agency, as a member of its legal staff. He 
 served as Traveling Counsel for this concern for 
 more than two years and during that time figured 
 in several important cases, among them the prose- 
 cution of Harry Orchard and officers of the West- 
 ern Federation of Miners in connection with the 
 assassination of former Governor Steunenberg of 
 Idaho. Mr. Reach had a prominent part in the 
 preparation of evidence and greatly aided the State 
 Attorneys in the trial of the cases. 
 
 During his connection with the Pinkerton 
 Agency Mr. Reach's work took him to all parts of 
 
 HOWARD E. REACH 
 
 the United States and required unusual versatility 
 in the knowledge of law, including banking, cor- 
 poration and the criminal branches. He was thus 
 engaged until June, 1910, when his work en a 
 noted case took him to California and he de- 
 cided to remain there. Following his resigna- 
 tion, he opened offices in Los Angeles, was ad- 
 mitted to practice and soon attained a place among 
 the successful members of his profession. He was 
 associated for a time with the firm of Crouch & 
 Crouch, but later practiced 
 alone. In 1911 he formed a 
 partnership with the late 
 Frank Pratt, a brilliant attor- 
 ney of Los Angeles, and this 
 continued until the latter part 
 of 1912, when Mr. Pratt was 
 claimed by death. Mr. Reach, 
 during the greater part of this 
 association, handled most of 
 the business for the firm and 
 was a figure in several nota- 
 ble litigations. 
 
 In the year 1907, prior to lo- 
 cating permanently in Califor- 
 nia, Mr. Reach was retained to 
 oppose the movement for re- 
 moval of the State Capital 
 from Sacramento to Berke- 
 ley, California. This propo- 
 sition, generally regarded as 
 a political scheme, not only 
 aroused the people of Sacra- 
 mento, but brought forth a 
 protest from the entire State 
 of California. Public senti- 
 ment prevented the comple- 
 tion of the plan and Mr. 
 Reach was one of the most 
 
 active factors in the entire affair, it being generally 
 admitted that he was largely instrumental in the 
 defeat of the scheme. 
 
 In addition to his professional practice, Mr. 
 Reach has been active in other lines in Los An- 
 geles, and in August, 1911, aided in the organiza- 
 tion of the Royal Securities Company, a California 
 corporation devoted to the handling of municipal 
 bonds. He was chosen Vice President and General 
 Manager of the company's business and also has 
 charge of its legal affairs. 
 
 Despite the handicap under which he started his 
 career in the United States, Mr. Reach's work has 
 been unusually successful and he is highly regarded 
 personally and as a business man. He is considered 
 an authority on banking and corporation law and 
 during his brief residence in Southern California 
 has taken an active interest in the affairs of Los 
 Angeles, city and county. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the 
 Los Angeles Bar Association, the Union League 
 Club and the University Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ARKER, WILLIAM AL- 
 FRED, Merchant, Los Ange- 
 California, is a native of Owen- 
 burg, Indiana, born March n, 
 
 1864, the son of O. T. Barker 
 
 and Arene (Record) Barker. He married 
 Pauline Berman, at Los Angeles, August 19, 
 1887, and to them there were born two children, 
 Everett, an art student, and Lawrence, now 
 attending Yale University. 
 
 Mr. Barker's childhood 
 was spent in his native 
 Indiana home, but at an 
 early age his family moved 
 to Colorado and it was in 
 the public schools of that 
 State that he received his 
 education. He prepared 
 for college, and in 1880 re- 
 ceived an appointment 
 from Colorado to the 
 United States Naval Acad- 
 emy at Annapolis, Mary- 
 land. He had nearly com- 
 pleted his studies when, in 
 1883, Congress passed an 
 act limiting the classes to 
 ten men only, because of a 
 surplus of naval officers. 
 As a result of this action 
 numerous cadets resigned 
 from the academy and Mr. 
 Barker was among them. 
 
 Immediately after quit- 
 ting Annapolis Mr. Barker 
 went to Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, whither his family 
 had moved, and there went to work in a 
 small capacity for the firm of Barker and 
 Allen, merchants, of which his father was a 
 member. 
 
 After a year with this firm Mr. Barker's 
 father bought out Mr. Allen and organized the 
 firm of O. T. Barker and Sons, taking Mr. Bar- 
 ker in as one of the partners. The latter re- 
 mained with the firm for three years, working 
 in various capacities, then withdrew in 1887 
 to work for the Milwaukee Furniture Company 
 in the capacity of general salesman. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Barker organized the firm of 
 Bailey and Barker Bros. A year later Mr. 
 Bailey retired and the firm name was changed 
 to Barker Bros., and Mr. W. A. Barker was 
 acting as secretary and treasurer of this firm 
 until 1906. 
 
 He in that year organized the Pacific Pur- 
 chasing Company, one of the most ambitious 
 concerns in the commercial history of the West. 
 
 W. A. BARKER 
 
 This company owned seven wholesale and re- 
 tail furniture stores, and for two years was a 
 tremendous success; its business being reputed 
 to be the largest of the kind in the country. 
 In 1908, however, owing to the anti-trust agi- 
 tation, it came under the consideration of the 
 Federal authorities. Mr. Barker was presi- 
 dent at that time. After a trial, which is his- 
 toric in corporation affairs, it was decided that 
 the ownership of so many 
 stores constituted a monop- 
 oly- in restraint of trade, 
 and Mr. Barker willingly 
 bowed to the decree of the 
 court and dissolved the 
 concern. 
 
 His prominence in this 
 matter made Mr. Barker 
 one of the most conspicu- 
 ous business men on the 
 Pacific Coast, his forma- 
 tion of the purchasing 
 company having shown 
 him an executive organ- 
 izer of exceptional ability. 
 Following the dissolu- 
 tion of the Pacific Pur- 
 chasing Company Mr. Bar- 
 ker devoted his entire at- 
 tention to the business of 
 Barker Brothers, and in 
 1910 was elected to the 
 presidency of the firm, a 
 position he still occupies. 
 He has been a director of 
 the Merchants National 
 Bank for years. 
 
 Mr. Barker has been a director and office 
 holder in several mining and oil enterprises, 
 and retains interests in some of the substantial 
 ones. He has also been conspicuous in the 
 politics of Los Angeles, but outside of serving 
 on the executive staff of the city and county 
 central committees, has never been a public 
 official. 
 
 He quit political work in 1907, after sev- 
 enteen years in the arena, but he still retains 
 a keen interest, as a layman, in the destinies 
 of his party, besides being concerned in the 
 progress of the city. Mr. Barker has crossed 
 the American continent eighty-two times, a 
 record equaled by few persons. 
 
 He is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and the Merchants and Manufacturers 
 Association of Los Angeles, and holds member- 
 ships in the University, Jonathan, California, 
 Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country 
 Clubs. 
 
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 BBOTT, WILLIAM MAR- 
 TIN, General Attorney for 
 the United Railroads, San 
 Francisco, California, was 
 born in that city, March 17, 
 1872, the son of William Abbott and Anna- 
 bell Casselman Abbott. Descending from 
 a race of Devonshire lawyers, in whose blood 
 the fighting strain was especially prominent 
 in Mr. Abbott's grand- 
 father, who fought under 
 Wellington, he has re- 
 mained true to his tradi- 
 tions, and furnished fair- 
 ly strong evidence that 
 heredity is still a potent 
 force. 
 
 Mr. Abbott was mar- 
 ried in San Francisco, 
 August 3, 1895, to Miss 
 Anna Josephine Mac- 
 Vean, and is the father 
 of two sons, William 
 Lindley Abbott and Ti- 
 rey Casselman Abbott. 
 
 The John Swett 
 Grammar School, 1887; 
 the Boys' High School, 
 1890, and the Hastings 
 College of the Law, 1893, 
 were his successive grad- 
 uating mile-posts. 
 
 Immediately upon his 
 final graduation, with 
 the degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws, and when he was 
 just of age, Mr. Abbott 
 began the practice of his profession. For 
 two years he met with encouraging success. 
 In 1895 Mr. Cross, in whose office he had 
 supplemented his studies while he was a law 
 student, made him a member of the firm of 
 Cross, Ford, Kelley and Abbott. 
 
 On the dissolution of this firm two years 
 later Mr. Abbott resumed his individual prac- 
 tice, but in 1898 Tirey L. Ford, who had be- 
 come Attorney General of California, ap- 
 pointed him Deputy Attorney General. He 
 was placed in charge of the opinion depart- 
 ment, a quasi-judicial post that offered a 
 splendid opportunity for brilliant work and 
 invaluable experience. Here he had to deal 
 with requests for opinions from the Governor, 
 State officers and institutions, the district at- 
 torneys of the State and other similar 
 sources. During his term of office he played 
 a prominent part in the Atlantic and Pacific 
 Tax Cases, following them to the United 
 
 WILLIAM M. ABBOTT 
 
 States Supreme Court, and attracted flatter- 
 ing attention by his able handling of them. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Abbott became Assistant 
 General Counsel for the United Railroads. He 
 was one of the attorneys for Brown Brothers, 
 the Baltimore syndicate which purchased the 
 properties now owned by the United Rail- 
 roads, and was active in the consolidation of 
 all the street railways. 
 
 Shortly after the big 
 fire in 1906 Mr. Abbott 
 was associated with the 
 defense in the so-called 
 graft prosecution, where- 
 in his legal knowledge 
 and judgment materially 
 aided the preparation of 
 his clients' cases. In 1910 
 he was appointed Gen- 
 eral Attorney for the 
 United Railroads. 
 
 He is president of the 
 Market Street Railway 
 Company, the San Fran- 
 cisco and San Mateo 
 Electric Railway Com- 
 pany, the Metropolitan 
 Railway Company, and is 
 vice president of the 
 South San Francisco 
 Railroad and power Com- 
 pany and a director of 
 the United Railroads 
 Company. 
 
 Until recent years he 
 was very active politi- 
 cally and has been a 
 delegate to all of the Republican State and 
 local conventions. 
 
 Mr. Abbott's club and social activities are 
 wide and varied. He is a member of the 
 National Geographical Society, the Ameri- 
 can Academy of Political and Social Sci- 
 ences, the Academy of Pacific Coast History, 
 and is treasurer and ex-vice president of the 
 California Historical Landmark League. He 
 belongs to the Union League, the Bohemian 
 Club, the California Tennis Club and to the 
 B. P. O. Elks, of which last he is Past Ex- 
 alted Ruler. He has filled all the offices of 
 the local lodge of the N. S. G. W. and is at 
 present a member of Stanford Parlor No. 76, 
 N. S. G. W. He is a member of California 
 Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., California Chapter 
 No. 5, R. A. M., Knights Templar, California 
 Commandery No. 1 ; a Mystic Shriner and a 
 member of the legal fraternity, the Phi 
 Delta Phi. 
 
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 ARES, LLEWELYN ARTHUR, 
 Capitalist, Fresno, California, was 
 born in Haverford West, Pem- 
 brokeshire, England, July 19, 
 1860, the son of Owen Alex- 
 ander Nares and Emily Mar- 
 garet (Lewellin) Nares. He married Kathryn 
 Evans, at Los Angeles, California, January 
 26, 1909. His family is one of prominence 
 in England, his uncle having been Admiral Sir 
 George Strong Nares, K. C. B. Admiral Nares was 
 born in 1831, and entered the British Navy when 
 he was about 14 years of age. He was made a 
 Vice Admiral in 1892, but as early as 1873 had 
 command of the "Challenger Expedition." During 
 the years 1875 and 1876 he achieved fame as 
 commander of the British Government Arctic 
 Expedition, which made notable progress in the 
 world's search for the North Pole. Later in life 
 (1879-96) he served as Professional Adviser to the 
 British Board of Trade and also was Acting Con- 
 servator of the River Mersey. 
 
 Mr. Nares, who has attained prominence in 
 Canada and the United States as a financier and 
 developer, spent his boyhood in England, but the 
 greater part of his life has been passed in America. 
 He received his preliminary education in the 
 Haverford West Grammar School and the Mon- 
 mouth Grammar School, and concluded his studies 
 at the Godolphin School in London. 
 
 Finishing his educational work in 1876, Mr. 
 Nares embarked upon his business career in the 
 employ of the National Provincial Bank at Haver- 
 ford West, and filled this position for about two 
 years. In 1878 he went to London, and there 
 entered the service of the Delhi & London Bank. 
 He remained in the metropolis during the years 
 1878 and 1879, leaving in the latter year for Mon- 
 treal, Canada, where he became connected with 
 the Bank of British North America. In 1881, 
 attracted by prosperous reports from the Canadian 
 Northwest, he went to Winnipeg and, after survey 
 work in the Canadian Rockies, entered the Mer- 
 chants' Bank of Canada, with which he remained 
 till 1884. In that year, it will be remembered, the 
 second rebellion by Louis Riel, the half-breed 
 Indian who had led a revolt against the constituted 
 authorities in 1869-70, occurred, and Mr. Nares was 
 one of the loyal Britishers who volunteered their 
 services at the closing engagements in suppressing 
 the rebels. 
 
 Following the rebellion, Mr. Nares embarked 
 in business for himself as the financial representa- 
 tive of English capitalists seeking conservative 
 investments in the Northwest Territory. Because 
 of his long experience in banking affairs and his 
 intimate knowledge of Canada and business condi- 
 tions there, Mr. Nares soon met with success in 
 this field, and finally organized the firm of Nares, 
 Robinson & Black, which still is in existence. This 
 firm conducted a tremendous amount of business, 
 making large investments in land and other enter- 
 prises for English capitalists. 
 
 In 1894, after approximately ten years of suc- 
 cessful operation in British America, Mr. Nares 
 entered the United States as the representative of 
 his English clients, and made various investments 
 for them in California and elsewhere. He has been 
 identified with these interests ever since, and his 
 operations now extend to all parts of the Western 
 and Southern United States, although the greater 
 part of them are in California. The interests rep- 
 
 resented by Mr. Nares had made their initial 
 investment in California as early as 1881, but they 
 did not make much progress until Mr. Nares took 
 hold of their projects. Since he took charge of 
 the investors' enterprises they have acquired 95 per 
 cent of all the irrigation canals on the north side 
 of the Kings River, and the area irrigated has 
 increased in this period from eighty thousand acres 
 to more than four hundred thousand acres. 
 
 Under the direction of Mr. Nares, lands acquired 
 by the companies- about the time he entered the 
 work have been greatly developed and colonized. 
 Subsequent land purchases by these and other 
 interests have been developed and form part of one 
 of the most extensive and successful colonization 
 projects on the American Continent. The various 
 colonization enterprises extend for fifty miles along 
 Kings River and a veritable garden of good land, 
 of which the Laguna De Tache grant, comprising 
 about sixty-eight thousand acres, was the first and 
 principal part, has been reclaimed and thrown 
 open to settlement. 
 
 With Mr. Nares the perfection of irrigation and 
 the development of the lands so that they will yield 
 the greatest amount of good to mankind has be- 
 come a life work. 
 
 The operations conducted under the supervision 
 of Mr. Nares have been among the most stupendous 
 in the history of Western development. Twenty 
 miles of river channel have been cut by dredgers, 
 seventeen miles of railroad constructed, one hun- 
 dred miles of river levees erected and irrigation 
 and drainage ditches, with the necessary weirs, 
 gates, flumes and drops put in. The irrigation 
 system now has more than five hundred miles of 
 main canals, and there are in excess of four thous- 
 and miles of laterals and farmers' ditches. There 
 still remain about two hundred thousand acres, 
 which, in the not distant future, Mr. Nares hopes 
 to develop and put to the highest beneficial use, 
 making his ambition for a perfect agricultural 
 achievement an accomplished fact. 
 
 A summary of what has already been accom- 
 plished through the management of Mr. Nares in 
 land and water development reviews a wonderful 
 work in this line. While it has meant a notable 
 financial return to the interests he represents, it 
 has also meant that the great section of land in the 
 "Kingdom of Kings River," theretofore useless be- 
 cause of lack of water, has been reclaimed and 
 turned over to the farmer, at a reasonable figure, 
 for cultivation. It has brought thousands of peo- 
 ple to California and has been one of the chief 
 units in the development of the "back to nature" 
 movement insofar as it applies to California. 
 
 Despite the fact that he has seen the virtual 
 realization of the vision he had many years ago, 
 Mr. Nares is not a dreamer. He is a practical 
 business man and as such stands among the 
 most successful men in his part of the country, 
 being an officer, stockholder or Director in various 
 important enterprises. He is President of the 
 Fre&no Canal & Irrigation Company, the Consol- 
 idated Canal Company, Summit Lake Investment 
 Company, Kings River Reclamation Company and 
 the Laton & Western Railroad Company, and also 
 holds office as Managing Director of the Laguna 
 Lands, Limited. 
 
 He is essentially a man of large financial and 
 business affairs, with no political affiliations. He 
 is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles; 
 the Fresno Sequoia Club, and a Director of the 
 Sunnyside Country Club, Fresno. 
 
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 G. RAY HORTON 
 
 ORTON, GEORGE RAY, Attorney, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born at 
 Marengo, Iowa, December 14, 1875, 
 the son of John Milton Horton and 
 Kate Anne (Morse) Horton, the 
 former a descendant of John Han- 
 cock, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
 the latter a descendant of Samuel F. B. Morse, 
 inventor of the electric telegraph. He was married 
 in Los Angeles, to Jessie Balch, June 5, 1902. They 
 have a daughter, Helen Balch Horton. 
 
 He was brought to Ontario, Cal., April 5, 1885. He 
 received his preliminary education In the Ontario 
 schools, and was graduated from Pomona College in 
 1898, with the degree of A. B., magna cum laude. In 
 1908 he received his LL.B. from the University of 
 Southern California College of Law. 
 
 Mr. Horton learned the printing trade in his 
 youth, earning money to pay for his education. 
 From 1898 to 1899, he was editor of the Ontario 
 Record, and for seven years subsequently worked 
 on the leading newspapers of Los Angeles. 
 
 He was associated with United States Senator 
 Frank P. Flint as student and practitioner. He 
 was minute clerk of the California Senate, session 
 1907; Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles 
 County, 1907 to 1910; First Assistant United States 
 Attorney for Southern District of California, 1910- 
 1911. In the latter year he was appointed Chief 
 Trial Deputy in the District Attorney's office, Los 
 Angeles County, and still retains that office; par- 
 ticipated in McNamara murder cases; member law 
 firm of Jennings and Horton, Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Horton is president of the Castaline Com- 
 pany, manufacturing a type-slug machine, in the 
 invention of which he aided. 
 
 He is a member Chamber of Commerce, Univer- 
 sity, Metropolitan and Pomona College clubs; 32d 
 degree Mason, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, D O. K. 
 K., W. O. W., and Phi Delta Phi, Legal Fraternity. 
 
 WM. L. VALENTINE 
 
 ALENTINE, WILLIAM LUCAS, 
 Oil, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born March 8, 1870, in Mendocino 
 County, California, ihe son of Wil- 
 liam Valentine and Susan (Lucas) 
 Valentine. He married Louie 
 Chandler Robinson, May 27, 1896, at Los Angeles 
 and has four children. 
 
 Mr. Valentine is a graduate of the Lincoln Gram- 
 mar School of San Francisco, 1885. He attended 
 the Commercial High School of San Francisco for 
 an additional year. 
 
 He went to work for Carrick, Williams & Wright 
 Company of San Francisco in the lumber and box 
 business. He resigned to take a place with the 
 Easton Eldridge Company, one of the largest real 
 estate firms of San Francisco. He worked in the 
 various departments of the firm until 1893, when 
 he was put in charge of a branch office at Los 
 Angeles, under the direction of Major George 
 Easton. He resigned in 1900 to organize the Fuller- 
 ton Oil Company, a corporation capitalized for 
 $600,000. The new company began with the owner- 
 ship of fifty acres of proven oil land. With a single 
 assessment, oil in quantity was found. From the 
 profits an additional 380 acres were bought. The 
 reports of the concern in 1911 state that 
 $651,000 in dividends had been paid and that there 
 was no debt. Mr. Valentine is the largest stock- 
 holder and is secretary and general manager of 
 its affairs. 
 
 He was chosen a director in the Merchants' 
 National Bank of Los Angeles in 1910, and is now 
 well started in big business. 
 
 He is a director of the California Club, director 
 of the Automobile Club of Southern California, 
 member of the Cerritos Gun Club, Bolsa Chica Gun 
 Club, South Bay Shooting Club and San Gabriel 
 Valley Country Club. He is a junior member of 
 the Society of California Pioneers. 
 
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 LOUIS F. VETTER 
 
 ETTER, LOUIS FISHER, Surety 
 Bonds and General Insurance, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 March 22, 1857, at Washington, 
 Illinois. His father was Anthony 
 Vetter-Hoefer and his mother 
 Anna D. Fisher. Mr. Vetter came to California in 
 1883 from Salt Lake City, and located first in San 
 Francisco. He came to Los Angeles in 1886 and 
 about 1888 had his name legally changed to Vetter. 
 Mr. Vetter was educated in the public schools 
 and Cole's Business College, Peoria, Illinois. He 
 was a newsboy at Peoria until about 1867 and then 
 worked on a farm in Indiana for three years. He 
 began learning the upholstery trade in Peoria in 
 1874, and followed that occupation in various cities 
 until 1881. He then became assistant manager at 
 Salt Lake City for R. G. Dun and Company, and con- 
 tinued with the company until 1891, the last three 
 years with them as manager of the branch 
 office in Los Angeles. He then became engaged in 
 the general insurance and surety bond business. 
 During his employment with R. G. Dun and Com- 
 pany he established the firm's branch offices in 
 San Diego, Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, besides 
 assisting in establishing the Los Angeles office. 
 Mr. Vetter served on the Board of Fire Com- 
 missioners of Los Angeles one full term under 
 Mayor Frank Rader and part of another term un- 
 der Mayor M. P. Snyder, 1895-96-97. He was a 
 member of the City Council one term of two years, 
 1899-1901. 
 
 He is a member of the Bohemian Club, San 
 Francisco; the California Club; Sunset Club, of 
 which he is treasurer; of Hollenbeck Lodge, No. 
 319, F. and A. M., Signet Chapter, No. 57, R. A. 
 M.; Los Angeles Commandery, No. 9, K. T.; Al 
 Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and a mem- 
 ber by demit of Los Angeles Lodge, No. 99, B. 
 P. O. E. 
 
 WALTER F. HAAS 
 
 AAS, WALTER F., Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 Nov. 12, 1869, in the town of Cali- 
 fornia, Mo. His father was John 
 B. Haas and his mother Lina W. 
 Bruere. 
 
 Mr. Haas gained his education in the grammar 
 schools of California, Mo., and the high schools of 
 Los Angeles. He studied law in the office of 
 Houghton, Silent & Campbell, of Los Angetes. 
 
 On May 30, 1884, Mr. Haas came to California, 
 settling in Los Angeles. He immediately started 
 the practice of law and was admitted to the Su- 
 preme Court of California, April 7, 1891. The fol- 
 lowing year he was admitted to the United States 
 District Court, United States Circuit, and United 
 States Circuit Court of Appeals. 
 
 From 1899 until 1900 he was City Attorney of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 He formed a law partnership with Frank Gar- 
 rett, July 1, 1901. On April 1, 1906, the firm was 
 increased by the addition of Harry L. Dunnigan. 
 Mr. Garrett died in March, 1911, since which time 
 the firm has been known as Haas & Dunnigan. 
 They have conducted a general civil practice with 
 water laws and corporation laws as specialties. 
 
 In addition to his extensive law practice, 
 Mr. Haas is a member of many corporations, 
 among which are the Tampico Land, Lumber & 
 Development Co., of which he is president; the 
 German-American Savings Bank, as director; the 
 C. J. Kubach Co., as vice president; the K. & K. 
 Brick Co., as director, and the Fidelia Investment 
 Co., of which he is president. 
 
 Mr. Haas is also a member of many clubs and 
 associations. He belongs to the Union League 
 Club, the Bar Association, the Palestine Lodge 
 No. 351, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite Masons, and a 
 member of the L. A. Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 ORTON, JOHN H. (deceased 
 February 7, 1911), Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Boston, Mass., in the year 
 1844. He married Mrs. Mary 
 Van Doren. There is one daughter, Miss 
 Amy Marie Norton. 
 
 Mr. Norton received his primary educa- 
 tion in Boston, and graduated from the Bos- 
 ton High School. After 
 leaving school, and before 
 he was twenty years of 
 age, he joined the great 
 movement westward. 
 
 He spent one year in 
 Kansas and went from 
 there to Las Animas, Col- 
 orado, then a frontier 
 town. There he engaged, 
 on a small scale at first., 
 as storekeeper. Later he 
 worked as a sheep and 
 cattle herder, and finally 
 became a large stock 
 owner on his own ac- 
 count, accumulating his 
 first capital. After a time 
 he sold out and undertook 
 what was in that day a 
 journey of exploration 
 into a wild land, as dan- 
 gerous as any exploration 
 tour in Africa, on account 
 of the hostile Indians. He 
 traveled by stage and 
 p r a i ri e schooner, 850 
 miles to Tucson, Arizona, 
 consuming more than two months in the trip. 
 Soon after arriving in Arizona he was ap- 
 pointed by the Government as post trader at 
 Fort Grant, 120 miles from Tucson. The 
 only way to get supplies into the fort was 
 by way of Trinidad, two months' journey by 
 mule team, and every pound had to be 
 brought across mountains and deserts prac- 
 tically unmarked by roads. But his knowl- 
 edge and experience in freighting supplies 
 gave him the necessary assurance to organ- 
 ize the famous company of Norton & Stew- 
 art, the firm that developed the most re- 
 markable stage system in America, if not in 
 the world. They covered the entire State of 
 Arizona with their network of stage lines, 
 and in spite of holdups of the most dramatic 
 character and lack of roads, their service was 
 almost as regular as that of the railroads 
 today. 
 
 He was cattle buyer in Mexico for the 
 
 JOHN H. NORTON 
 
 government of the United States just pre- 
 vious to this venture. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Norton founded the town of 
 Willcox, Arizona, naming it after his inti- 
 mate friend, General Willcox, who was then 
 in command of the United States troops in 
 the Southwest. His partner, Stewart, died, 
 and shortly after Mr. Norton organized the 
 Norton-Morgan Commercial Company, be- 
 coming its president. 
 
 He went to Los An- 
 geles in 1893, and imme- 
 diately became interested 
 in some of the largest in- 
 stitutions of that city. He 
 became a stockholder and 
 was elected a director of 
 the Citizens' National 
 Bank. He also became 
 interested in the Los An- 
 geles Trust Company, and 
 was elected one of the di- 
 rectors of that institution. 
 He invested heavily in 
 Los Angeles real estate, 
 and among his posses- 
 sions at the time of his 
 death was the Jevne 
 block, a beautiful, modern 
 structure at the corner of 
 Sixth and Broadway. He 
 incorporated the firm of 
 J. H. Norton Co., railroad 
 contractors, which com- 
 pany did a great deal of 
 heavy railroad construc- 
 tion in the Southwest. 
 After his arrival in Los Angeles he in- 
 terested himself greatly in public affairs. He 
 was active for the betterment and growth 
 of the city, and was a director of the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce. For three years he was a 
 member of the Board of Water Commission- 
 ers. He was an active Republican, and twice 
 was sent as delegate to national conventions. 
 He was considered one of the more suc- 
 cessful of Los Angeles men and one of the 
 most aggressive of the type that developed 
 the Southwest. His fortune, known to be 
 large at his death, he earned for himself. 
 He generally won in his ventures because he 
 was a brave man and capable of undertaking 
 any kind of legitimate work, whether driv- 
 ing a stage team in Arizona or sitting at a 
 desk in a banking office in Los Angeles. He 
 was a member of the California, Jonathan 
 and L. A. Country clubs, besides a number of 
 civic and political organizations. 
 
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 ROWNSTEIN, DANIEL J., 
 Wholesale Merchant and 
 Manufacturer, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., is a native of California, 
 having been born at Red 
 Bluff, in the northern part of the State, Janu- 
 ary 3, 1870. His father was Jacob Brown- 
 stein and his mother Bertha (Newmark) 
 Brownstein. On January 8, 1903, he married 
 Caroline Blanchard in 
 Los Angeles. There is 
 one son, Robert Grant 
 Brownstein. 
 
 Mr. Brownstein spent 
 his early youth in the 
 north of California, par- 
 ticularly around Red 
 Bluff and in the moun- 
 tainous regions just 
 south of snow-capped 
 Shasta. When the fam- 
 ily moved to San Fran- 
 cisco he attended the 
 public schools of that 
 city and entered the 
 Boys' High School, 
 where he was graduated 
 in 1887. 
 
 Shortly after finishing 
 his studies in high school 
 Mr. Brownstein moved to 
 Southern California and 
 settled permanently in 
 Los Angeles in the latter 
 part of the year 1887. 
 His first and only work 
 in the employ of others 
 he obtained shortly after his arrival. He was 
 given a position in the wholesale house of 
 Jacoby Brothers, pioneer clothiers of Los 
 Angeles, and remained with that firm in va- 
 rious capacities for eight years, or until the 
 firm quit the wholesale business in 1895. 
 
 With the retirement of the Jacoby Broth- 
 ers from the wholesale field, Mr. Brownstein 
 determined to take their places, and conse- 
 quently he organized the firm of Brownstein, 
 Newmark and Louis, his partners in the ven- 
 ture being Henry W. Louis and P. A. New- 
 mark. The three men were practical whole- 
 sale clothiers and they combined their efforts 
 to make the enterprise a success. 
 
 Starting business in the old Baker Block, 
 Los Angeles, with one room and a basement 
 for their store, the firm expanded until it re- 
 quired three stores and basements in the 
 Baker Block to house its stock. At the end 
 of ten years, or in 1905', the company moved 
 
 D. J. BROWNSTEIN 
 
 to a new four-story building and has occu- 
 pied it down to date. 
 
 Mr. Brownstein's company added manu- 
 facturing to their business about 1899, the de- 
 partment now employing about four hundred 
 people. The company now has under con- 
 struction a plant which will be put into op- 
 eration in 1912, giving employment to one 
 thousand workers. 
 
 On Jan. 1, 1911, Mr. P. 
 A. Newmark, after an as- 
 sociation with Mr. 
 Brownstein and Mr. 
 Louis for more than fif- 
 teen years, withdrew 
 from the firm, selling his 
 interest to Mr. Brown- 
 stein and his partner. 
 The business was then 
 incorporated under the 
 style, Brownstein-Louis 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Brownstein has 
 been an important factor 
 in the commercial and 
 manufacturing develop- 
 ment of Los Angeles and 
 is prominently associated 
 with everything that 
 stands for the advance- 
 ment of Los Angeles' 
 business interests. 
 
 As a member of the 
 Board of Directors of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Oils and Mines in 1910, 
 he was chairman of the 
 Committee on Mercantile Affairs and was the 
 directing force in all of its activities and re- 
 forms. During his retention of this office the 
 committee was instrumental in the establish- 
 ment of rules and reforms of a progressive 
 nature which now play an important part in 
 the conduct of mining and oil affairs. 
 
 He is also a prominent member of the Los 
 Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers' As- 
 sociation, having been on the roster of that 
 organization since its formation fifteen years 
 ago. He has always taken a deep interest in 
 its affairs and is a liberal contributor in all 
 matters that mean the upbuilding of the city. 
 Mr. Brownstein is one of the leading 
 Masons on the Pacific Coast and is a Knight 
 Commander of the Court of Honor of the 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- 
 masonry. He is also a member of the Mys- 
 tic Shriners and of the Native Sons of the 
 Golden West. 
 
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 631 
 
 ESLEY, CAPTAIN JAMES CAMP- 
 BELL, Mining, United States and 
 Mexico, residing at Coronado 
 Beach, Cal., was born in London, 
 England, November 12, 1874, the 
 son of Bryan Charles Besley and 
 Mary Ann (Harvey) Besley. 
 
 Captain Besley is a member of one of the oldest 
 families in England, whose members have served the 
 Crown in war and peace for generations. His father 
 was Inspector General of Forces in Australia and 
 other British provinces and an extensive landowner. 
 
 Captain Besley's boyhood was spent in various 
 parts of the British Empire, but largely in Australia, 
 where his father was stationed for many years. He 
 received his primary education at the Christian 
 Brothers' College of Adelaide, Australia, but when 
 he was about twelve years of age entered Prince 
 Albert College in Adelaide. Three years later he 
 returned to England and entered Eton to prepare 
 for Oxford. He finished at Eton in 1893 and imme- 
 diately entered Oxford, but did not finish at the 
 latter institution, leaving at the end of two years 
 to take up the study of mining and metallurgy. He 
 studied for a time at the Royal School of Mines 
 in London, but finished at the Broken Hill School 
 of Mines in New South Wales. This school, lo- 
 cated in the heart of the celebrated Broken Hill 
 mining district, is one of the largest institutions of 
 the kind in the world. It is one of the features of 
 the great Broken Hill mining district, the center of 
 one of the greatest pastoral tracts of Australia and 
 the country's principal silver mining region. 
 
 Upon receiving his degree as Engineer of Mines 
 in 1896, Captain Besley entered the service of the 
 Broken Hill Proprietary Company, owners of the 
 celebrated "Proprietary" mine. This property, in 
 the working of which more than three thousand 
 men are employed, is noted as one of the greatest 
 producers of silver in the world. Captain Besley 
 was engaged in surveys, engineering and metal- 
 lurgical work for approximately two years, but in 
 the latter part of 1897 resigned his position and 
 joined the rush to the goldfields of Kalgoorlie and 
 Coolgardie, in the western part of Australia, which 
 are now known among the great gold producing 
 regions of the world. Captain Besley acquired 
 some valuable mining claims in this district and 
 worked them with great profit for about a year. 
 
 In 1898, however, upon learning of the discov- 
 ery of gold in Alaska, he disposed of his holdings 
 in the Coolgardie district and set out for the Klon- 
 dike region, unmindful of the fact that his desti- 
 nation was more than ten thousand miles away. 
 Arriving at Alaska, he joined the stampede to Daw- 
 son City and was among the earliest locators in 
 that region, staking out five claims which he im- 
 mediately began to work. During the first six 
 months of his stay there Captain Besley took out 
 approximately a quarter of a million dollars' worth 
 of gold, and added to this materially during the 
 
 rest of his stay in the country, covering a period 
 of approximately eighteen months. 
 
 Endowed with remarkable physical endurance 
 and trained to withstand hardships, he was un- 
 affected by the rigorous weather and other trials 
 which confronted the men of the region. He fig- 
 ured in many thrilling episodes during his year 
 and a half in the country, and Besley Creek, tribu- 
 tary to the Klondike, where he discovered gold in 
 great quantities, was named in his honor. It was 
 in this district also that he rescued two comrades 
 from death by cold and starvation. 
 
 At the outbreak of the Boer War, Captain Bes- 
 ley, loyal to England, left the Klondike and 
 hastened home to offer his services to his coun- 
 try. He was commissioned Junior Lieutenant 
 in "Kitchener's Fighting Scouts," and immediately 
 sailed for South Africa. This command was made 
 up of men experienced in the wild regions of South 
 Africa and other countries, who knew the duties 
 of scouts, were inured to hardship and capable of 
 holding their own in a fight. In his youth, Captain 
 Besley, accompanying his father, had spent con 
 siderable time in South Africa and was well ac- 
 quainted with the country. Added to this was the 
 experience he had gained in the bush country of 
 Australia and desolate regions of Alaska, and this, 
 combined with extraordinary ability as a marks- 
 man and a rider, made him a peculiarly well 
 equipped member of the select band of soldiers to 
 which he had been assigned. 
 
 Reaching South Africa, Captain Besley and the 
 rest of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts were placed 
 under command of Colonel Johann W. Colen- 
 brander, a veteran of the Rhodes campaigns in 
 Matabeleland and one of the distinguished soldiers 
 of South Africa. Led by Colonel Colenbrander, the 
 column started through the northern Transvaal 
 country, at that time alive with Boers, and their 
 progress was marked by numerous engagements 
 with the enemy. Their objective point was Kru- 
 gersdorp, but before they reached there Colonel 
 Colenbrander received a request from Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Plumer (later Major-General Sir Herbert 
 Plumer, K. C. B.) for a man to undertake the haz- 
 ardous task of penetrating the Boer lines outside of 
 Mafeking with dispatches for General Sir Baden- 
 Powell, who was under siege at the latter place. 
 
 Colonel Colenbrander selected Captain Besley 
 for the task, and he in turn chose a companion to 
 accompany him on the journey. Arriving at 
 Zeerust, a small town in the Transvaal, about 130 
 miles west of Pretoria, they were met by Colonel 
 Plumer's command and Captain Besley and his 
 companion, receiving their orders, started off on 
 their dangerous mission. They were compelled to 
 "feel" their way for a distance of 120 miles, owing 
 to the fact that the Boers were thick and capture 
 might have meant death. But aside from that, they 
 were compelled to undergo other hardships, includ- 
 ing hunger, thirst and lack of sleep. 
 
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 In due time, however, Captain Besley, after 
 passing through the Boer lines several times, 
 finally reached Mafeking and delivered to General 
 Baden-Powell the dispatches notifying him that re- 
 lief was near at hand. This done, he started back 
 to his command and had to undergo the same perils 
 through which he had previously passed and 
 walked or crept the entire distance of 120 miles. 
 
 This accomplishment won for Captain Besley 
 the admiration and appreciation of Colonel Plumer, 
 himself a veteran of the Soudan and other cam- 
 paigns, and he immediately recommended the scout 
 for promotion, the rank of Captain being conferred 
 upon him shortly afterward. This feat on the part 
 of Besley, while one of the most sensational in- 
 stances of individual courage during the entire 
 war, was not the only one accomplished by him, his 
 record being replete with many others. 
 
 About two months after his return from Mafe- 
 king he was leading a party of scouts and ran into 
 a Boer ambush. A battle between the small party 
 of Britishers and the more numerous Boers ensued 
 and Besley fell, shot through the arm and through 
 the side. The scouting party was captured and 
 Captain Besley was- held a prisoner for two months 
 before he was exchanged for a Boer soldier. 
 
 Shortly after his return to his command, Cap- 
 tain Besley was attached to the Bushveldt Carbi- 
 neers, commanded by Major Charles Ross, another 
 noted fighter, and saw extraordinary service under 
 him. At the end of three months Major Ross was 
 transferred to another command, and Captain Bes- 
 ley, now commissioned Major, was placed at the head 
 of the Carbineers. He commanded them in their 
 operations from the northern Transvaal down to 
 Bloemfontein, in Orange Free State, where they 
 were stationed until the close of the war. 
 
 Captain Besley was in service about two years 
 and four months and in that period distinguished 
 himself in numerous ways. Upon his retirement, 
 however, he discarded the title of Major. 
 
 At the conclusion of his military service, Captain 
 Besley was engaged as a special engineer by Cecil 
 John Rhodes, the immortal empire builder of South 
 Africa, to write a geological and topographical re- 
 port on a large area of territory in which he was 
 interested. This finished, the Captain, in whom 
 love of nature is strong, went on an extended hunt- 
 ing trip in the African wilds, in search of big game. 
 Later, following the death of Rhodes, Captain Be&- 
 ley was chosen as one of a mounted guard of honor 
 at the funeral and escorted the body of the great 
 leader from Bulawajo to the tomb in the Matoppos, 
 a distance of thirty-one miles. The casket was con- 
 veyed on a gun carriage and was deposited in a 
 tomb in the wilderness, with only a tablet to mark 
 the resting place of one of the world's great men. 
 
 Soon after this event, Captain Besley returned 
 to the United States and went immediately to Alas- 
 ka. He remained in the Klondike a short time, but 
 finally sold out his interests there and left, his trip 
 
 having covered the period between the close of 
 navigation in 1902 and its opening early in 1903. 
 
 Captain Besley at that time turned his attention 
 to mining in Mexico and visited several different 
 sections of that country in search of investments, 
 purchasing and later selling the Noche Buena 
 Yaqui R., near Syopa, and the San Carlos, in the 
 Matapa district. He finally purchased a mine in 
 northern Sonora, known as the Cerro de Plata 
 mine, a valuable silver property, and began active 
 development work in 1908, operating the property 
 continuously since that time. He erected a ten- 
 stamp mill and other improvements and has 
 worked the mine profitably for more than four 
 years. Like other foreign property owners, he suf- 
 fered considerably through raids by rebels during 
 the Madero and Orozco revolutions, but did not halt 
 his work for any great time. 
 
 Captain Besley owns a copper property on the 
 West Coast of Mexico, near the Gulf of California. 
 He also has other mining interests in Mexico and 
 the United States. 
 
 For some years Captain Besley, besides his min- 
 ing work, has been engaged in cattle raising in 
 Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, where he has a ranch 
 of more than fifty thousand acres. This property, 
 like his mine, suffered greatly at the hands of van- 
 dals during the war. The rebels not only confis- 
 cated many head of cattle, but committed other 
 depredations. Captain Besley, however, was too 
 good a soldier to complain and holds nothing but 
 the kindliest feelings toward the people of Mexico. 
 
 Aside from his prominence in mining affairs, 
 he is also noted as one of the best Polo players 
 in America. During his days at Oxford he was 
 active in athletic affairs and has since played Polo 
 in various parts of the world, including England, 
 Africa, Australia and the United States. He began 
 playing in Southern California about 1907 and since 
 that time has been one of the picturesque figures 
 of the game, being regarded as one of the be&t 
 players on the Pacific Coast. In 1908 he organized 
 a team known as the Hermosillos, and entered the 
 Southern California tournament, with the result 
 that they won the Junior Championship for that 
 year. He has since played on several different 
 teams and during the seasons of 1911 and 1912 
 played on the English team at Coronado. His play 
 is marked by remarkable skill and daring and 
 splendid horsemanship. He has a stable of Polo 
 ponies, regarded as among the best in the country. 
 
 Captain Besley is a Life Member of the American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers and a member of 
 the Mining and Metallurgical Society of Great 
 Britain. He also is a well known clubman, being a 
 member of the Rugby Polo Club, of England; Turf 
 and Travelers' Club, of London; Melbourne Club, 
 of Melbourne, Australia; Manhattan and Knicker- 
 bocker Clubs, of New York; Pasadena Polo Club, 
 of Pasadena, Cal.; Riverside Polo Club, of River- 
 side, Cal., and the Coronado Country Club. 
 
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 633 
 
 OSENHEIM, ALFRED F. ( Archi- 
 tect, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in St. Louis, June 10, 1859. 
 His father was Morris Rosen- 
 heim and his mother, before mar- 
 i iage, was Mathilda Ottenheimer. 
 In 1884 he married Frances Graham Wheelock, at 
 Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 His equipment for the important works which 
 have stamped his name permanently on the history 
 of Los Angeles was thorough; 
 from the public schools of 
 St. Louis he went in 1872 to 
 Hassel's Institute at Frank- 
 fort-on-Main, Germany, stay- 
 ing there over two years and 
 achieving an absorption of 
 broad European standards 
 which were to be of great 
 value to him in later life. He 
 returned to this country and 
 during the terms 1874-79 he 
 was a student at Washing- 
 ton University in St. Louis. 
 The years 1879-81 he spent 
 at Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology in Boston, as 
 a "special student" in archi- 
 tecture, entering the same as 
 a third year "regular" on the 
 strength of the record made 
 at St. Louis. 
 
 In 1884, after his mar- 
 riage, he returned to his na- 
 tive city, St. Louis, where he 
 began his professional career 
 by entering the employ of 
 Major Francis D. Lee, then 
 by far the leading architect 
 of that city. 
 
 Mr. Rosenheim's progress was rapid and fore- 
 casted the remarkable success he was to attain; for 
 Major Lee died in August of 1885, and in that brief 
 space of time Mr. Rosenheim found himself in a po- 
 sition to practice on his own account and succeeded 
 to the business of his late employer January 1, 1886. 
 At once he was placed in a foremost position in 
 his profession by the number and importance of his 
 undertakings; from this date until his removal to 
 Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 1903, his work was constant 
 and varied in all important departments of con- 
 struction; all classes of structures mark his efforts 
 in and about St. Louis, and as far north as Minne- 
 apolis, south as far as New Orleans and east as far 
 as Boston. 
 
 The knowledge of the quality of his work and 
 his comprehensiveness spread to such an extent 
 that when in 1903 the late Herman W. Hellman de- 
 vised his project of erecting the monument to his 
 memory the magnificent structure on the north- 
 east corner of Fourth and Spring streets, he se- 
 lected Mr. Rosenheim as his architect, after care- 
 fully investigating his record and personally in- 
 specting his work in the East. Mr. Rosenheim 
 moved to Los Angeles Feb. 1, 1903, to commence 
 actual operations on the H. W. Hellman Building. 
 The result was such a commanding success that 
 
 Mr. Rosenheim found his services in great demand, 
 and opened permanent offices in Los Angeles, 
 where many of his creations in beauty and utility 
 are found among the most imposing of the buildings 
 which grace the city. 
 
 His next important undertaking was the mag- 
 nificent building of the Hamburger Department 
 Store at Eighth street and Broadway, an edifice 
 which has been pronounced by experts to be the 
 equal of any and superior to most of similar estab- 
 lishments of the world. An- 
 other and most impressively 
 beautiful edifice from the 
 capacity of Mr. Rosenheim's 
 brain is the remarkable Sec- 
 ond Church of Christ, Scien- 
 tist, on West Adams street, 
 which is deservedly a build- 
 ing of great pride to its 
 congregation and a show 
 place for visitors of discern- 
 ment of the beautiful. 
 
 Other equally important 
 structures created by Mr. 
 Rosenheim are "Mercantile 
 Place," the original Security 
 Banking Room in the Hell- 
 man Building; the premises 
 occupied by Montgomery 
 Brothers, Jewelers; banking 
 room of the Merchants' 
 National Bank, buildings for 
 Anheuser-Busch and the 
 Los Angeles Brewery. The 
 list includes buildings for 
 the Hicks-Hager Estate, for 
 Newmark Brothers, Wm. H. 
 Clune and for many others. 
 
 His capacity for the de- 
 signing, both in point of ef- 
 fectiveness and resourceful- 
 ness, has been shown in his 
 plans for the offices occupied 
 by James H. Adams and 
 Company, R. A. Rowan and 
 
 Company, Robert Marsh and Company and many 
 others. Cafe Bristol and the Bristol Pier (Santa 
 Monica) are also his work. 
 
 In no less degree than his work for commer- 
 cial undertakings has Mr. Rosenheim achieved a 
 deserved renown as a designer of beautiful homes. 
 Those who have seen the houses occupied by Mr. 
 Carl Leonardt, Robert Marsh, E. W. Britt, John 
 Howze, Edward L. Doheny, D. A. Hamburger, A. C. 
 Bird, Jas. B. True have enjoyed the symmetry and 
 adroitness of perception of environment shown by 
 Mr. Rosenheim. 
 
 Mr. Rosenheim is a "Fellow Member" of the 
 American Institute of Architects and a member of 
 its Directory; he is a member of the Southern Cal- 
 ifornia Chapter of the American Institute of Archi- 
 tects and has been its past president for three con- 
 secutive terms; he is a member and director of the 
 Engineers and Architects' Association of Southern 
 California and is its past president; he is also pres- 
 ident of Architectural League of the Pacific Coast; 
 member Municipal Art Commission of the City of 
 Los Angeles; president Fine Arts League of Los 
 Angeles; member Los Angeles Architectural Club; 
 member Board of Governors of Museum of History, 
 Science and Art, at Exposition Park, and member 
 of the American Society for Testing Materials. 
 
 F. ROSENHEIM 
 
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 HITTIER, M. H., Oil Operator, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born at Cari- 
 bou, Maine, March 11, 1867, the 
 son of C. G. and Ruth (Keech) 
 Whittier. He married, in Los 
 Angeles, March 13, 1900, Joanna 
 
 E. Williams of Illinois. Four children were born 
 
 to them, Donald, Leland, Paul and Helen. 
 
 Mr. Whittier's educational opportunities were 
 
 limited to a few years' attendance at the public 
 
 schools of his native town. 
 
 He started out for himself 
 
 early in life, however, and 
 
 the world at large has been 
 
 his university. 
 
 At the age of twenty-four 
 he went to California, locat- 
 ing at Santa Paula, where he 
 secured employment as a 
 farm hand, but later got a 
 position in the oil fields with 
 the Union Oil Company, 
 where he learned the oil 
 business. He worked for a 
 short time in various capac- 
 ities, when oil was discov- 
 ered in Los Angeles, and he 
 associated himself in a co- 
 partnership with Mr. Thomas 
 A. O'Donnell, they becoming 
 drilling contractors. As they 
 became more familiar with 
 the oil industry they 
 branched out as producers 
 and oil operators for them- 
 selves. Later Mr. Whittier 
 secured interests in what is 
 known as the Coalinga field. 
 Subsequently he became in- 
 terested in the Kern River region, and was so im- 
 pressed with the bright prospects that he aban- 
 doned all interests in the Coalinga field and con- 
 fined himself to the Kern River district. In this 
 new field he was interested in the Green & Whit- 
 tier Oil Company, the Kern Oil Company and the 
 Shamrock Oil Company. Later these companies 
 were merged into what is known as the Associated 
 Oil Company. Mr. Whittier was an important factor 
 in the organization of this company, being its 
 largest stockholder at the time of its inception, and 
 he is now one of the board of directors. The 
 Associated Oil Company is one of the largest oil 
 companies in the State of California, having its 
 own pipe lines, shops and marketing facilities. 
 
 In addition to these holdings he is a large stock- 
 holder and director in the following companies: 
 The Rodeo Land and Water Company, which con- 
 sists of 3100 acres of valuable land lying west of 
 the city of Los Angeles, where the townsite of 
 Beverly is located, one of the most charming 
 residence districts in the vicinity of Los Angeles; 
 
 M. H. WHITTIER 
 
 also the Amalgamated Oil Company, Titicaca Oil 
 Company of South America, Hondo Oil Company, 
 the Inca Oil Company and various oil interests in 
 Oklahoma. He has recently acquired large interests 
 in the Lost Hills district, and, with others, has 
 organized the Belridge Oil Company, whose hold- 
 ings consist of 31,000 acres of land in that district, 
 which they are rapidly developing. He is manag- 
 ing director and vice president of this company. 
 Mr. Whittier is known as one of the most prac- 
 tical oil men in California, 
 and his judgment on lands 
 has been vindicated in nearly 
 every venture he has under- 
 taken. At the present time 
 his offices are located in the 
 Pacific Electric building with 
 the Amalgamated Oil Com- 
 pany, and from there he 
 directs the operations of his 
 various interests. 
 
 Being interested in the 
 proper training of the youth 
 of the land, he has given a 
 large part of his time and not 
 a small amount of money in 
 the prosecution of efforts to 
 correct the lives of friendless 
 boys who have not had the 
 advantages of home and 
 training. He is vice president 
 and director of the McKinley 
 Home for Boys at Gardena, 
 California. 
 
 Mr. Whittier is a man of 
 unlimited energy, but ap- 
 plies this to his own busi- 
 ness and his charitable 
 works rather than to public 
 affairs. He has never taken an active part in poli- 
 tics, nor has he ever held a public office, but he is 
 a believer in clean government and he has at all 
 times been ready to aid any movement that had for 
 its object the upbuilding of Los Angeles or the de- 
 velopment of that country which is netting wealth 
 to those who care to work it. 
 
 He is a lover of hunting and fishing, his favorite 
 diversion being angling for speckled beauties in the 
 mountain streams of California. But better than 
 all else he loves his home. No amount of financial 
 success, nothing that tends toward gain or glory, 
 can possibly compare with his love for his family 
 and home, both of which border closely upon the 
 ideal. 
 
 He is a man of generous instincts and is a 
 liberal giver to charity. 
 
 Mr. Whittier holds membership in the Jonathan 
 Club, the Sierra Madre Club and the Chamber of 
 Commerce of Los Angeles, and is a 32d degree Ma- 
 son, being a member of Al Malaikah Temple of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 'DONNELL, THOMAS ARTHUR, 
 Oil Producer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at McCain, 
 Pennsylvania, June 26, 1870. He 
 is the son of Thomas O'Donnell 
 and Myra (Parsons) O'Donnell. 
 He married Miss Lilly Woods, at Los Angeles, 
 August 28, 1896, and they have two children, Ruth 
 and Doris. 
 
 Mr. O'Donnell was educated in the common 
 schools of his native town, 
 but left at an early age and 
 went out into the life that 
 was to fit him for his present 
 position, vice-president and 
 field manager of two of the 
 largest oil companies operat- 
 ing in the United States. 
 
 At the age of 12 years, 
 Mr. O'Donnell, who had been 
 working for some time as a 
 newsboy in Pennsylvania, 
 left his native State and 
 went to Colorado, locating at 
 Florence, in the region of 
 gold mines and oil. His first 
 position when he arrived in 
 Colorado was with a grocery 
 store and for the two years 
 following he remained there, 
 working in an all-round ca- 
 pacity. 
 
 His ambition extended be- 
 yond the limits of a grocery 
 store, however, and it was 
 only natural that he should 
 seek a place in the more lu- 
 crative, more exciting and 
 more strenuous mining busi- 
 ness. Quitting his place in the store he sought 
 and obtained work in a gold mine and for the 
 next five years was actively engaged with the pick 
 and shovel. At the age of 19 years he was a 
 thoroughly experienced miner. 
 
 This was not the level he sought, for in 1889 he 
 gave up mining and moved to California, where 
 he went into the oil business in the employ of the 
 Union Oil Company in Ventura County. He re- 
 mained with that company for four years and dur- 
 ing that time mastered the oil business as few 
 men had. 
 
 Now came the turning point in his career. 
 Leaving the Union Oil Company's service in 1893, 
 Mr. O'Donnell moved from Ventura to Los Angeles, 
 and there met E. L. Doheny, a wealthy man and 
 one of the pioneers in the development of oil in 
 California. At that time the possibilities of the 
 California oil territory were intruding themselves 
 upon investors and Mr. Doheny was one of the 
 first to recognize them and Mr. O'Donnell became 
 one of his best lieutenants. 
 
 THOMAS A. O'DONNELL 
 
 But Mr. O'Donnell, too, saw the promise that the 
 oil fields held, and he decided very soon to go into 
 business for himself. After he had worked for 
 Mr. Doheny about a year, he formed partnership 
 with M. H. Whittier, another whose name is in the 
 list of pioneer oil seekers, and they went into the 
 business of drilling wells. This was the beginning 
 of a career that was to land Mr. O'Donnell among 
 the leaders of the oil industry. The partnership 
 with Mr. Whittier continued for five years and at 
 the conclusion of that period, 
 Mr. O'Donnell decided to con- 
 tinue alone. Accordingly, 
 the partnership was dis- 
 solved and he became an in- 
 dependent driller, operator 
 and oil land speculator. 
 
 At the end of three years 
 the one-time newsboy was 
 recognized as an independent 
 oil factor, having properties 
 scattered in all parts of Cali- 
 fornia. In 1902, he entered 
 the Coalinga, California, 
 field, and his success there 
 has been one of the most re- 
 markable on record. He or- 
 ganized several companies 
 and financed many of them 
 himself. 
 
 In 1909, he, in association 
 with E. L. Doheny and others 
 organized the American Oil 
 Fields Company, and this 
 company's success has put 
 his name in that group which 
 includes Canfield, Doheny, 
 Bridge, and others, regarded 
 as the real developers of the 
 
 California fields. Mr. O'Donnell is vice-president 
 and field manager of that corporation; also he 
 holds the same position in the American Petroleum 
 Company. These two oil companies are among the 
 largest independent concerns in the United States. 
 They control wide areas of the best oil lands in the 
 most productive districts of California. In actual 
 production of crude petroleum at the present time 
 they have no rivals but one in the United States. 
 Their combined storage capacity is in the millions 
 of barrels. The rapidity of the rise of these two 
 great oil corporations has been without a rival in 
 the Pacific Coast oil fields, and they can increase 
 the volume of production at any time to far greater 
 proportions. In addition to these, he is a member of 
 the executive board of the Independent Oil Pro- 
 ducers' Association and holds directorships in sev- 
 eral smaller companies. 
 
 Mr. O'Donnell is a thirty-second degree Mason, 
 a Mystic Shriner and an Elk. He holds member- 
 ship in the Jonathan and Sierra Madre Clubs, of 
 Los Angeles, and the Growler's Club, of Coalinga. 
 
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 G. W. HARRIS 
 
 ARRIS, GUY WALTER, Civil En- 
 gineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Neosho Falls, Kan- 
 sas, March 7, 1878, the son of A. 
 G. Harris and Hattie (Ricketts) 
 Harris. He married Maud Leslie 
 at Amarillo, Texas, June 20, 1908. 
 
 Mr. Harris, who is an engineer of recognized 
 ability and splendid professional standing, received 
 his training in the school of practical experience. 
 Graduating from the High School of Kansas City, 
 Missouri, in 1896, he entered the railway business 
 as a rodman in the engineering department of the 
 Santa Fe Railroad at Williams, Arizona, and since 
 that time has been actively engaged. From May, 
 1899, to 1900, he was a rodman for the same com- 
 pany, with headquarters at Las Vegas, New Mex- 
 ico. He was then transferred to Pueblo, Colorado, 
 as transitman, and was- thus engaged until July, 
 1903, when he was promoted to the position of As- 
 sistant Engineer of the road, with headquarters at 
 Pueblo. 
 
 .For the next two years and a half Mr. Harris 
 was engaged in various works for the Santa Fe, 
 and in January, 1906, accepted a position as As- 
 sistant Engineer in charge of reconstruction and 
 grade revision on the P. & N. T. and S. K. of T. 
 Railways, being located at Amarillo, Texas. This 
 work kept him busy until March, 1909, at which 
 time he was appointed Chief Engineer of Construc- 
 tion for the P. & N. T. road. He held this position 
 until April, 1912, when he was chos-en by the Santa 
 Fe Company to be Chief Engineer of its Coast 
 Lines, which position he retains at the present 
 time, making his home in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Harris is an Associate Member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers, also holds mem- 
 bership in the American Railway Engineers' Asso- 
 ciation, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the 
 Brotherhood of Elks. 
 
 WALTER J. HORGAN 
 
 ORGAN, WALTER JOHN, Attor- 
 ney, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in that city May 7, 1879, the 
 son of Timothy Horgan and Mar- 
 guerite (McDonald) Horgan. 
 
 Mr. Horgan received his early 
 education in the public schools of Los Angeles and 
 in 1893 entered St. Vincent's College of that city. 
 He was graduated from there in the sum- 
 mer of 1896 and in the fall of the same year en- 
 rolled as a student in the law department of the 
 University of Southern California. He was grad- 
 uated in 1899 and was admitted to practice by the 
 Supreme Court of California in October (1899). 
 
 Upon his admission to the bar Mr. Horgan went 
 into the office of Horace H. Appel, a well-known 
 attorney of Los Angeles, and remained in asso- 
 ciation with him for about two years and then 
 opened offices for himself. He practiced success- 
 fully for about ten years, but at the end of that 
 time his health was impaired and he was com- 
 pelled to quit active work for almost a year. 
 
 Abandoning his work in November, 1909, he 
 started on a tour of Mexico, seeking rest and 
 health, and traveled for many months through the 
 western coast country of the Southern republic. 
 While down there he busied himself with study of 
 the Mexican law and before his return to Los An- 
 geles, in October, 1910, had a working knowledge 
 of the statutes. He is also versed in the Spanish 
 and French languages, and his knowledge of the 
 Mexican code he has used to advantage. 
 
 Mr. Horgan has always been a patriotic son 
 of Los Angeles, one of his chief ambitions being 
 to make the Los Angeles educational system among 
 the best in the world. He gave four years of his 
 time, from 1901 to 1905, to the work, serving as 
 a member of the Board of Education. 
 
 Mr. Horgan is a member of the Archaeological 
 Society of Southern California. 
 
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 DR. C. B. WALSWORTH 
 
 ALSWORTH, CHESTER BYRON, 
 Physician, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Richmond, Mo., Aug. 3, 
 1869, the son of Henry Theodore 
 and Jennie B. (Clark) Walsworth. 
 His father is a direct descendant 
 of Lord Chancellor Walsworth, whose name occurs 
 in English history. He married Mae Zulu Bailey at 
 Ouray, Colo., July 30, 1901. There are two children, 
 Henry Theodore and Clark Bailey Walsworth. 
 
 Dr. Walsworth attended the primary schools of 
 California and later of the State of Washington, 
 whither his family moved. He attended the Uni- 
 versity of the State of Washington until 1888. 
 
 While yet fresh from college he opened an 
 abstract and title office at Olympia, WasLington. 
 Later, he had the distinction, rare in one so 
 young, of being one of the founders of a city which 
 today is already of considerable population. He 
 helped found Everett, Washington. A large part 
 of Everett is helu under his title. 
 
 During the gold excitement of 1896, in Idaho 
 and Colcrado, mining and milling attracted his at- 
 tention. He became an expert metallurgist and 
 mining engineer. He accumulated a considerable 
 fortune, and then decided to study medicine, an am- 
 bition he had long cherished. He received his de- 
 gree in 1903. 
 
 He located in Los Angeles, California, where he 
 has since built up a large and very profitable prac- 
 tice. 
 
 He finds time to give some attention to oil 
 and mining, and is the president of the Consoli- 
 dated Midway Chief Oil Company, with several 
 wells; president of the Grizzly Ridge Mining Com- 
 pany, and director in several other enterprises. He 
 is a fraternal man, belonging to the Free Masons, 
 Knights of Pythias, Yeoman, Modern Woodmen, 
 American Nobles, Royal Neighbors and other fra- 
 ternal organizations. 
 
 BEN WHITE 
 
 KITE, BEN, Real Estate Broker, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Campo Seco, California, Jan- 
 uary 18, 1870, the son of John 
 White and Catherine (McGrath) 
 White. He married Anna D. Ross, 
 May, 1903, at San Jose, California. There are five 
 children, Ben, Carroll, Melba, Dorothy and Clarence 
 White. 
 
 Mr. White's father emigrated from Scotland 
 when nineteen years old, settling at Boston. There 
 he married, four years later, Catherine McGrath, 
 who had but lately come from Ireland. He was a 
 captain of infantry during the Civil War, and served 
 with honor. After the war he engaged in the 
 hotel business at San Francisco. 
 
 Ben White was taught in the country schools of 
 Contra Costa County, Cal., until the age of fifteen. 
 Then he moved to San Francisco, where he began 
 a business education. 
 
 He entered a real estate office and was put to 
 work, at one time or another, on all the details of 
 the land business. In the year 1892, when he was 
 twenty-two years old, he had learned enough to 
 enter business for himself. 
 
 He went to Los Angeles, as the place in Cali- 
 fornia of greatest promise, and opened an office. 
 Had been frugal and had saved some capital, so 
 invested judiciously for himself, and became so 
 well acquainted with values that he was always 
 able to point out good purchases to his customers. 
 His business grew with great rapidity, and in the 
 year 1911, in his office and on his properties, in Los 
 Angeles, he had more than twenty-five employes. 
 He has become very heavily interested in country 
 property in all parts of California. 
 
 He is a member of the Elks, the Jonathan Club, 
 Chamber of Commerce, Municipal League, Knights 
 of Columbus, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Knights of 
 Maccabees and Los Angeles Realty Board. 
 
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 639. 
 
 ULLIVAN, EDWARD J., Real Es- 
 tate Operator and Developer, Los 
 Angeles and San Diego, Cal., was 
 born at Limerick, Ireland, on May 
 26, 1873, the son of John Sullivan 
 and Elizabeth Carey Sullivan. He 
 is a descendant of an ancient and illustrious Celtic 
 family, and traces his lineage back to the first Kings 
 of Ireland, who reigned many centuries ago. The 
 family is on record as having played an important 
 role in the destinies of their native land long before 
 its members emigrated from Limerick, to New 
 York and New England. General John Sullivan, of 
 Revolutionary fame, friend, aide and confidant of 
 Washington, was a member of this- family and in 
 commemoration of his devotion to the Republic in 
 fighting the combined forces of England and her 
 Indian allies, the State of New York has named 
 Sullivan County for him, while various cities in 
 New York and other States have honored his mem- 
 ory by naming streets for him. Other members of 
 the family have been prominent in commercial, lit-- 
 erary, legal and political life. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan, who has had a picturesque career 
 as politician, diplomat and business man, was 
 brought to New York from Ireland in boyhood. He 
 received his preliminary education in the Christian 
 Brothers' and public schools of his native place, and 
 later studied under a private tutor. With his 
 father he engaged in general commercial pursuits 
 for some time and later took up the study of com- 
 mercial law with the intention of entering the legal 
 profession. He gave this up, however, after hav- 
 ing acquired a course in commercial law, and re- 
 turned to the field of commerce. For several years 
 thereafter he conducted an extensive and success- 
 ful business in New York and New England. 
 
 While actively engaged in business, Mr. Sullivan, 
 who had taken an active part in politics, devoted 
 much of his spare time to writing special articles 
 for newspapers and magazines, and to delivering 
 lectures on social and political subjects. He had 
 made a close study of the tariff question and, being 
 one of the best informed men of his section on this 
 subject, spoke frequently on it. 
 
 Before he had attained his majority Mr. Sulli- 
 van was active in behalf of the Republican party 
 and in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison and Levi 
 P. Morton were nominated for President and Vice 
 President, respectively, he went on the stump for 
 them and was one of the most ardent workers for 
 their success. After the election President Harri- 
 son expressed his appreciation of Mr. Sullivan's 
 services, and thereafter there existed between the 
 President and the younger man a strong friendship. 
 During this campaign Mr. Sullivan contributed 
 numerous magazine and newspaper articles on the 
 questions at issue and spoke in several States in be- 
 half of the ticket. His work won him the admira- 
 tion of that illustrious statesman, James G. Blaine. 
 From that time forward Mr. Sullivan has been 
 
 active in Republican politics. He enjoyed the con- 
 fidence of President McKinley and rendered him 
 valuable services in his Presidential contest, con- 
 tributing liberally of his own means to aid in his 
 election. Mr. McKinley personally thanked him 
 and offered him an appointment in the diplomatic 
 service, which he declined. Mr. Sullivan has in his 
 possession the Peace Flag which floated over the 
 Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition 
 in Buffalo when McKinley was assassinated and 
 hopes to see it ultimately fly over the Palace of 
 Peace at The Hague, as President McKinley was 
 the first to proclaim universal peace among the 
 nations. He also has autographed photos and other 
 mementoes of the martyred President. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan believes he is the original Roose- 
 velt man. In August, 1895, when Theodore 
 Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of New York 
 City he delivered an address predicting Roosevelt's 
 elevation to the Presidency of the United States. 
 Later, in Roosevelt's campaigns for Governor of 
 New York, Vice President and President of the 
 United States, Mr. Sullivan campaigned for him in 
 various States, and in appreciation of his services 
 Mr. Roosevelt tendered him a diplomatic post. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan had among his indorsers at that 
 time many men of prominence, among them Levi P. 
 Morton, former Vice President of the United States; 
 Hon. B. F. Tracy, former Secretary of the Navy; 
 Thomas C. Platt, United States Senator from New 
 York; Stewart L. Woodford, former United States 
 Minister to Spain; United States Senator Mark 
 Hanna, B. B. Odell, Jr., Governor of New York; 
 Seth Low, Mayor of New York City; John A. Mc- 
 Call, President of the New York Life Insurance 
 Company; John D. Crimmins, banker; John Mitch- 
 ell, President of the United Mine Workers of Amer- 
 ica, and numerous other men of position in com- 
 mercial and public life. He first was stationed at 
 Erzereum, Turkey, and later went to Trebizond, 
 Turkey, where he earned the title of "the Commer- 
 cial Diplomat" because of his aggressive work in 
 the interest of American Commerce. 
 
 While in Turkey, Mr. Sullivan pleaded the cause 
 of the Armenian people and secured from them 
 some valuable concessions from the Ottoman gov- 
 ernment. He has been honored by them on vari- 
 ous occasions. 
 
 When he resigned his position in 1906 his depar- 
 ture was made the occasion of a great popular dem- 
 onstration on the part of the people, whose admira- 
 tion he had won. 
 
 Following his resignation from the diplomatic 
 service in 1906, Mr. Sullivan returned to New York 
 City and there engaged in the real estate business, 
 developing property in Long Island. He also owned 
 property in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Pitts- 
 burg and other cities. In 1907 he transferred his 
 activities to Southern California, locating first at 
 Los Angeles. He shortly acquired valuable real 
 estate holdings in both Los Angeles and San 
 
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 Diego, and opened extensive offices in both cities. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan is unusually active in affairs of San 
 Diego and has been of particular service in the mat- 
 ter of its harbor development, for on his travels he 
 made a special study of harbor conditions in all 
 parts of the world and has at his finger ends accu- 
 rate data on the harbors and commerce of the globe. 
 
 He has been one of the extensive real estate 
 operators of Southern California, subdividing and 
 developing large tracts of land in Los Angeles- and 
 San Diego, specializing in business and industrial 
 property. In Los Angeles he became interested in 
 exclusive residence property, while in San Diego 
 he fathered the development of that section known 
 as "Mission Beach," which promises to become one 
 of the important sections of that city. 
 
 Although comparatively new in Southern Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Sullivan has come to be known as one 
 of its enthusiastic advocates, because of his ex- 
 treme faith in its future growth. He is- tireless in 
 his efforts to advance the interests of the country 
 and, being a capable writer, has greatly added to 
 the literature on the subject. 
 
 Progressive in thought and action, Mr. Sullivan 
 is at the same time thorough and usually carries 
 to conclusion any work he undertakes. He has 
 come to be regarded as among one of the most suc- 
 cessful business men of that part of the country, 
 where enterprising men from all sections of the 
 United States are engaged in one of the greatest 
 development campaigns in the history of the 
 United States. 
 
 In addition to his political work, Mr. Sullivan 
 has been prominent in various other ways. In 1888, 
 during the historic strike and lockout at the Car- 
 negie Steel works, Homestead, Pa., he acted as 
 one of the mediators- in bringing about an agree- 
 ment between the conflicting parties. He also 
 offered his services to the government during the 
 Spanish-American War, but the conflict was of such 
 short duration he was not called into action. Presi- 
 dent McKinley, however, thanked him for his offer. 
 On another occasion, when the racial prejudice 
 brought about an attack on the Jewish citizens of 
 New York, Mr. Sullivan came to their defens-e in 
 public addresses and newspaper articles and re- 
 ceived the thanks of the leaders of the race for his 
 work in their behalf. 
 
 Naturally proud of his lineage, ancestry and the 
 glorious traditions and history of his motherland, he 
 has been the steadfast friend and champion of the 
 Irish race, and the Irish leaders have recognized his 
 devotion, and his moral and material support to 
 their cause. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan, who is regarded as an authority on 
 tariff and insurance, has been an extensive traveler, 
 having visited the principal cities of Great Britain 
 and Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, 
 Italy, Austria, Greece, Switzerland, Norway, 
 Sweden, Turkey, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Central 
 and South America. In all of these countries he 
 
 made an exhaustive study of social, economic and 
 political conditions, was the guest of numeroas 
 Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade and 
 high government officials and was brought into 
 close association with the great leaders. During 
 his travels in Mexico he formed very close friend- 
 ships with Presidents Diaz and Madero. He was 
 received in private audience by His Holiness, Pop! 
 Pius X, who accorded him recognition for his serv- 
 ices in the cau&e of humanity and justice. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan has written some notable pamphlets 
 and books, among them being: "Blaine as an 
 American and Statesman," "Protection Versus Free 
 Trade," "The Relative Rights of Capital and Labor," 
 "The Places I Visited and the People I Met," 
 ''Rambles Through the British Isles," "Here and 
 There Through Europe," "Ireland's Right to Self- 
 Government," "The Destruction of Ireland's Indus- 
 tries and Commerce by England," "The Story of 
 Our Economic Laws," and "The Flag I Have Not 
 Seen in Foreign Lands." 
 
 Mr. Sullivan's writings, as the titles indicate, 
 cover a wide range of subjects, to many of which he 
 has devoted a great amount of serious study. He 
 is an able public speaker and lecturer on special 
 topics and has had a great deal of experience on 
 the public platform. He is especially in demand as 
 a speaker on the tariff and insurance subjects. 
 
 With the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of 
 the life insurance business he took a course of study 
 in the Columbia University, New York, and had as 
 tutor the late Charleton T. Lewis, Actuary for the 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. 
 
 In politics, while Mr. Sullivan has always been a 
 staunch supporter of the Republican Party, as his 
 record indicates, with the changes made neces- 
 sary by the progress of the country and altering 
 economic conditions, he has endeavored to keep 
 abreast of them, and though he still adheres to the 
 basic principles of his original affiliation, he is an 
 ardent supporter of that branch which is called 
 "Progressive" and is a loyal friend and admirer of 
 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, their friendship having 
 dated from a time prior to Mr. Roosevelt's election 
 as Governor of New York State. 
 
 While a resident of New York, Mr. Sullivan was 
 active in various national and local organizations 
 of a social, literary or political nature, including 
 the Catholic Club Society of the Genesee, the 
 Army and Navy League, the Commercial Travelers' 
 Association, Tariff Club, Ninth Assembly District 
 Republican Club, American Flag Association, 
 American-Irish Historical Society and the Columbus 
 Literary Society. He is also an honorary member 
 of several clubs in Europe, that distinction having 
 been conferred on him during his visits there. He 
 still retains his membership in many of them. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California, Mr. Sulli- 
 van has been an active member of both the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego 
 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 641 
 
 ARNEY, THOMAS HUMPHREY 
 BENNETT, Outdoor Advertising, 
 Los Angeles, and Oakland, Gal., 
 was born at Petaluma, Cal., Nov. 
 12, 1858, the son of Robert Var- 
 ney and Elizabeth Hathaway 
 (Bennett) Varney. He married Elizabeth Isabel 
 Hall at San Francisco, Feb. 9, 1895, and to them 
 were born three children, Walter T., Maud 
 Ella, and Eva May Varney, now Mrs. Smith. 
 
 Mr. Varney, who at the 
 present time is one of the 
 master advertisers of the 
 world and an important link 
 in the chain of modern busi- 
 ness, was educated in the 
 public schools of San Fran- 
 cisco, leaving high school 
 when he was 17 years of 
 age. He began as office boy 
 for the wholesale grocery 
 firm of Newton Bros. & Co., 
 California and Front streets, 
 San Francisco, and later be- 
 came bill clerk, shipping 
 clerk and bookkeeper, re- 
 maining with the firm eight 
 years, or until it retired from 
 business, at which time he 
 was head bookkeeper. 
 
 He then became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Morris & 
 Varney in the heavy hard- 
 ware business, having the 
 Coast agency for Sweets & 
 Sanderson's steel and a gen- 
 eral wholesale trade with 
 machinists and blacksmiths. 
 Later Mr. Varney became 
 
 sole proprietor of the business. In 1888 bicycles 
 were added to his stock and eventually became his 
 sole business. He had the Coast agency for the 
 Rambler bicycle and G. & J. Clincher tires, and in 
 both did an enormous business. During this time 
 bicycle racing was the rage and the Rambler was 
 victorious in many of the most important events. 
 
 About this stage of his career Mr. Varney en- 
 gaged in an enterprise which later was to make his 
 name and fame known from ocean to ocean. He be- 
 came a silent partner of Len D. Owens in the street 
 car advertising business and later a heavy stock- 
 holder in the California Adsigns Co., which he 
 and his partner subsequently bought. At that time 
 and for about eight years Mr. Varney was presi- 
 dent of the Bank of Livermore, Livermore, Cal. 
 
 Owens & Varney consolidated with Siebe & 
 Green, forming the corporation of Owens, Varney 
 & Green. The latter two bought out the interest of 
 Owens and also acquired several concerns in 
 Southern California, thus becoming the exclusive 
 owners of the outdoor advertising business in San 
 
 THOMAS H. B. VARNEY 
 
 Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, San Jose, 
 Los Angeles and a number of smaller towns in 
 Southern and Northern California. 
 
 About the time of this great centralization of 
 the business by Varney & Green, San Francisco 
 was visited by the terrible fire which reduced the 
 city to ruins, and in the general disaster they lost 
 thousands of dollars by the destruction of their 
 billboards. Many were chopped down and used as 
 firewood by the sufferers, there being no other 
 wood available. With char- 
 acteristic energy Varney and 
 Green immediately turned 
 their talents to good. While 
 the ruins were still smoking 
 the people of San Francisco 
 were given great relief and 
 new heart to rebuild the 
 city by a poster which read: 
 
 WORK 
 
 Morn, Noon and Night 
 and Make Dear New 
 
 San Francisco 
 1,000,000 by 1915. 
 
 These posters covered 
 smoking brick walls all over 
 the city and served to reju- 
 venate the spirit of the 
 stricken people. Mr. Varney 
 has never ceased to praise 
 his men who erected these 
 signs of hope, because they 
 walked over hot bricks with 
 torn and cut shoes in order 
 to perform their duty. In 
 the rebuilding of the city of 
 San Francisco Varney & 
 Green erected the New Or- 
 pheum, the Princess and the 
 
 Valencia theaters. Later they dissolved partner- 
 ship, and Mr. Varney became the sole owner of the 
 outdoor advertising plants in Los Angeles, Oak- 
 land, Alameda and Berkeley. 
 
 Mr. Varney is and has been for many years a 
 director of the National Poster Advertising Asso 
 ciation of the United States and Canada, and also 
 served as President of that organization for the 
 full term allowed. 
 
 To his work and energy can be largely at- 
 tributed the great advancement and improvement 
 in this great advertising medium and in the ser- 
 vice and results given the advertiser by outdoor 
 publicity. 
 
 He is a persistent and consistent advertiser of 
 his home State, and has lent himself to numerous 
 movements for the upbuilding of California. He 
 has never taken an active part in politics and con- 
 sequently has never held public office. He is, how- 
 ever, an advocate of clean government. 
 
 Mr. Varney is a life member of the Union 
 League of Los Angeles. 
 
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 UELLER, OSCAR C, Attor- 
 ney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of Den- 
 ver, Colorado, where he was 
 born September 7, 1876. He 
 is the son of Otto Mueller and Nettie 
 (Kette) Mueller. On April 5, 1900, at Los 
 Angeles, he married Ivy S. Schoder, of which 
 union there is one child, 
 Douglas S. Mueller. 
 
 When Mr. Mueller 
 was a child of but four 
 years of age his family 
 moved to California and 
 settled at Los Angeles. 
 He entered the public 
 schools of that city in 
 1881. From 1890 to 1892 
 he studied at the Berkeley 
 Gymnasium, Berkeley, 
 California, when he re- 
 turned to Los Angeles 
 and during the two years 
 following was a student 
 at Occidental College oi 
 that city. 
 
 After finishing his 
 studies at Occidental Col- 
 lege he took up the study 
 of law in the offices of the 
 late Judge W. H. Wilde OSCAR C. 
 
 of Los Angeles, where he remained during the 
 years 1895, 1896 and 1897. He read law exten- 
 sively and his special readings were centered 
 on corporation and probate matters. In 1898 
 he took a brief law course at the University 
 of Virginia. 
 
 On returning from his law studies in the 
 East, he commenced the practice of law in 
 Los Angeles, and has continued in this pro- 
 fession down to date. His labors in that city 
 have been attended with decided success and 
 he is now marked as an attorney of wide re- 
 pute. He has become the attorney for many 
 of the leading Los Angeles corporations. He 
 is the legal adviser for numerous large es- 
 tates, a class of work that forms a consider- 
 able part of his professional duties. 
 
 Aside from his local corporation work 
 he is associated with quite a number of 
 large outside corporations, whose coast or 
 southwestern representative he is in all 
 
 legal affairs necessitating attention there. 
 During recent years Mr. Mueller has fig- 
 ured prominently in the Federal courts in ir- 
 rigation litigation and has had much to do 
 with the establishment of the validity of 
 bonds issued in connection with irrigation 
 projects. One of his notable cases in this line 
 of work was that of the People of the State of 
 California versus the 
 Ferris Irrigation Dis- 
 trict, which was fought 
 out in the Supreme Court 
 of the State. 
 
 Mr. Mueller was one 
 of the originators of the 
 annexation project b y 
 which the town of San 
 Pedro was annexed to 
 the city of Los Angeles. 
 When the movement in 
 1906 obtained sufficient 
 impetus, the Chamber of 
 Commerce of Los An- 
 geles appointed a com- 
 mittee known as the 
 Consolidation Committee, 
 with "Mr. Mueller as 
 chairman, and these men 
 were instrumental in 
 bringing about the final 
 MUELLER annexation to the city of 
 
 the little ocean town, making Los Angeles 
 a seaport city. 
 
 He is a typical Southern Californian, and 
 anything that speaks for the welfare 
 of the community receives his moral 
 and financial approval and support. As a 
 man interested in Los Angeles and its prog- 
 ress, he has served two terms as director of 
 the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and 
 similarly for the Los Angeles Bar Associa- 
 tion. He is a believer in clean politics and 
 v/orks with his party to that end. He is an 
 active Republican. 
 
 He is a worker in the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and has done much to fur- 
 ther the cause of that organization. 
 
 He is well known in the club and lodge 
 circles of Los Angeles, where he is a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic Orders of both Rites. 
 
 He is also a member of the California 
 Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and of the 
 Jonathan Club. 
 
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 643 
 
 ORGRAGE, WILBERT, At- 
 torney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Cas- 
 tine, Maine, January 3, 1869, 
 the son of Andrew Jackson 
 Morgrage and Priscilla Cole 
 (Fenton) Morgrage. He married Louise Mil- 
 ler of Auburndale, Massachusetts, on De- 
 cember 28, 1896, and to them there has 
 been born a daughter, Priscilla Morgrage. 
 
 Mr. Morgrage received 
 his early education in the 
 public schools of Castine, 
 Maine, and in 1889 was 
 graduated from the East- 
 ern State Normal School 
 of Maine. During the 
 years 1889 and 1890 he 
 occupied the position of 
 Principal of the Union 
 High School at Union, 
 Maine, leaving in the 
 spring of the latter year 
 to enter the employ of 
 the city of Newton, 
 Massachusetts, in the 
 City Engineer's office. 
 He was identified with 
 this work until January, 
 1893. 
 
 Mr. Morgrage then en- 
 tered the Harvard Law 
 School, where he received 
 his legal education, grad- 
 uating in the class of 
 1895. He was admitted 
 to practice in the courts of 
 Massachusetts the same 
 year. In 1896 Mr. Mor- 
 grage was associated with 
 Joseph Willard of Boston and in 1897 opened 
 an office on his own account. In 1898 he en- 
 tered into partnership with the Honorable 
 Charles M. Bruce of Boston, the firm name 
 being Bruce & Morgrage. The firm's busi- 
 ness was largely corporation work and ex- 
 tended over a period of about five years. 
 
 During the years 1903, 1904 and 1905 busi- 
 ness affairs called Mr. Morgrage to the Pa- 
 cific Coast and in 1906 he closed his Boston 
 offices, moving with his family to Los An- 
 geles, California. 
 
 He became identified with the Canfield 
 interests in the California oil fields, operating 
 principally in the Kern River and the Mid- 
 way-Maricopa districts. The men with 
 whom Mr. Morgrage was associated, C. A. 
 Canfield and others, are among the largest 
 oil producers in the California fields and for 
 several years he was actively engaged with 
 them, to the exclusion of all other business. 
 In 1912 Mr. Morgrage resumed the prac- 
 
 WILBERT MORGRAGE 
 
 tice of his profession, with offices in Los 
 Angeles. He confines his law work to cor- 
 poration practice entirely, but still retains 
 his oil interests and devotes a considerable 
 share of his time to this business, as officer, 
 stockholder or legal adviser for various com- 
 panies. He is the American Director and 
 representative of the Societe Generale Beige 
 de Petrol en Californe, a Belgian corporation, 
 operating in the Kern River region, and is 
 Secretary and Attorney 
 for the Ruby Oil Com- 
 pany and the Jade Oil 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Morgrage also is 
 attorney for the Spellacy- 
 Thomson- Montgomery 
 oil interests on the East 
 coast of Mexico and is 
 interested on his own ac- 
 count in Mexican oil and 
 farming lands. He fig- 
 ured, as one of the loca- 
 tors of oil lands covered 
 by the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Company's land 
 grants in Kern County, 
 California, in the Govern- 
 ment action against the 
 railroad corporation now 
 (1913) pending in the 
 courts. 
 
 One of the notable 
 cases in which Mr. Mor- 
 grage appeared after re- 
 suming the practice of 
 law in Los Angeles was 
 that of the Sepulveda 
 heirs versus the City of 
 Los Angeles, Southern 
 Pacific Railroad, Pacific Electric Railway, 
 San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail- 
 way Company, Santa Fe Railway et al., in 
 which the plaintiffs, represented by Mr. Mor- 
 grage, sought to recover certain property at 
 San Pedro, Cal. (Los Angeles Harbor), 
 known as tide lands. 
 
 In addition to his oil interests and his legal 
 activities, Mr. Morgrage is active in several 
 other lines and is a factor in land develop- 
 ment near Los Angeles, being Secretary and 
 attorney for the Harbor View Land Com- 
 pany, operating adjacent to Los Angeles 
 Harbor. The section in which this com- 
 pany's tract lies is expected to be the scene 
 of great real estate activity with the open- 
 ing of the Los Angeles Harbor, on which 
 the city, State and Federal governments are 
 spending millions of dollars. 
 
 Mr. Morgrage is a member of the Cali- 
 fornia Bar Association, Sierra Madre Club 
 and the Harvard Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 AGAN, DR. RALPH, Sur- 
 geon, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at St. Paul, 
 Minnesota, May 13, 1872, the 
 son of Dr. Martin Hagan and 
 Rose M. (Armstrong) Hagan. He married 
 Mamie A. Berke at Los Angeles, May 12, 
 1897. Dr. Hagan's father was a practicing 
 physician in Minnesota for many years and 
 distinguished himself as 
 a field surgeon during the 
 Civil War, serving in 
 many battles. He moved 
 to Los Angeles in 1884 
 and immediately became 
 a public figure. He 
 served as Health Officer 
 of Los Angeles, 1887-88, 
 and was County Physi- 
 cian from 1893 to 1895. 
 He took an active part in 
 the city's affairs until his 
 death in 1902. 
 
 During his early boy- 
 hood, Dr. Hagan's father 
 took him on an extensive 
 tour, on which they vis- 
 ited many countries, and 
 settled for a time at Hon- 
 olulu, Hawaiian Islands. 
 They resided on the beau- 
 tiful Pacific island for a 
 short time, during the 
 reign of the celebrated 
 Queen Liliuokalani, until 
 they moved to Los An- 
 geles. Dr. Ralph Hagan 
 
 DR. RALPH HAGAN 
 
 was educated in the public schools of Los 
 Angeles and graduated from the high school. 
 He then entered the Medical Department of 
 the University of California and was gradu- 
 ated with the degree of M. D., June 4, 1895. 
 The last two years of his college course he 
 served as druggist in the Los Angeles 
 County Hospital and upon graduation was 
 made house surgeon of that institution. 
 
 He served at this post one year, and in 
 1897 was made police surgeon for the City 
 of Los Angeles. This position he filled four 
 years, giving it up in 1901 to begin private 
 practice. Since that time he has devoted his 
 time to his own work, the only public office 
 held by him in the interim being that of 
 Police Commissioner for Los Angeles, which 
 duty he filled during the years 1904-05, under 
 the administration of Mayor McAleer. 
 
 Dr. Hagan startled the medical profes- 
 sion shortly after he became Police Surgeon 
 
 by performing a daring operation on one of 
 his patients. The victim, a man, had re- 
 ceived a terrible gunshot wound in the abdo- 
 men and all hope of saving his life had been 
 given up. Dr. Hagan, however, performed 
 an exceptional operation upon the man and 
 the latter ultimately recovered. This was 
 the first successful operation of its kind in 
 the West and won for Dr. Hagan a firm po- 
 sition in the ranks of his 
 profession. 
 
 For eight years after 
 he left the office of Po- 
 lice Surgeon of Los An- 
 geles, Dr. Hagan engaged 
 in general medical prac- 
 tice, but at the end of 
 that period he became a 
 specialist in surgery and 
 has devoted himself to 
 that branch of the profes- 
 sion since that time. He 
 is a man of manifold in- 
 terests and, besides his 
 private work is actively 
 concerned in four large 
 hospitals of Los Angeles, 
 to each of which he de- 
 votes a great deal of per- 
 sonal attention. He is 
 a stockholder and staff 
 member of the Angeles, 
 Pacific and Emergency 
 Hospitals and consulting 
 surgeon to the Sisters' 
 Hospital. As a member 
 of the Los Angeles 
 
 Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile 
 Club of Southern California he has done 
 much for the improvement of the city proper 
 and in addition has been a leader in the plans 
 for good roads and boulevard building. He 
 is an enthusiastic sportsman and spends all 
 of his spare time out-of-doors. 
 
 He is an expert reinsman and amateur 
 driver and automobilist, and also is one of 
 the best huntsmen in the West Shore Gun 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 Besides the clubs heretofore mentioned, 
 Dr. Hagan holds a life membership in the 
 Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club. He is a member of the 
 Southern California Lodge of Masons, a life 
 member and Past Exalted Ruler of Los An- 
 geles Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. Elks, a mem- 
 ber of the Sierra Madre Club of Los An- 
 geles and of numerous medical and other 
 scientific organizations. 
 
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 645 
 
 REGORY, MILES S., Broker, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Licking County, near 
 Newark, Ohio, August 12, 
 1870. His father was Josiah 
 Gregory and his mother Sadie F. Gregory. 
 He is descended from a long line of fighting 
 Americans who served in both the Revolu- 
 tionary and Civil wars. The farthest dis- 
 tant American ancestor 
 of whom Mr. Gregory 
 has any trace was James 
 Gregory, who settled in 
 America in 1696. How- 
 ever, he can trace his 
 family history back as 
 far as 887, when the 
 Gregorys were a mighty 
 clan in Scotland. Mr. 
 Gregory has been twice 
 married, his second wife 
 being Ivy Irene Trott, 
 whom he married at Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, March 
 4, 1908. By his first 
 marriage there were two 
 children, Miles S., Jr., 
 and Marietta Gregory. 
 
 He obtained his edu- 
 cation in the common 
 schools of Newark, Ohio, 
 and a business college of 
 that city. Although his 
 father was in good finan- 
 cial circumstances, young 
 Gregory, at the age of 
 seven years, began sell- 
 
 MILES S. GREGORY 
 
 tion of apartment houses for speculation and 
 made a success of that until 1903, when he 
 decided to leave Chicago for Los Angeles. 
 
 For eleven years of the time he was in 
 Chicago he took an active part in politics, 
 and after establishing himself in the real 
 estate business in Los Angeles he there en- 
 tered the political field. He served as a 
 member of the Los Angeles City Council 
 during 1910 and 1911 and 
 in 1911 was a candidate 
 for Mayor. 
 
 Mr. Gregory's suc- 
 cess in Chicago business 
 pursuits was more than 
 duplicated in Los An- 
 geles. Starting in the 
 real estate business, he 
 has added to that a stock 
 and bond brokerage 
 business and today is 
 one of the successful 
 men in that line in the 
 city. He joined the Los 
 Angeles Stock Exchange 
 in 1906, and since has 
 been an influential mem- 
 ber of that body. At the 
 present time he is a 
 member of the Board of 
 Directors of the Ex- 
 change. 
 
 Aside from his brok- 
 erage business, Mr. Greg- 
 ory has participated in 
 the organization of a 
 number of other business 
 
 ing newspapers and earned enough to keep 
 him at school until he was seventeen years 
 old. 
 
 At that time he quit school and went on 
 the road establishing libraries for the 
 "Courier" of Newark. He was forced to re- 
 sign this position six months later, when his 
 father died, and the family moved immedi- 
 ately to Chicago, 111. He went with the 
 Santa Fe Railroad for a time, but resigned 
 and engaged in the insurance business, his 
 first commission being forty-five cents, which 
 he has kept to this day as a memento. 
 
 When he was nineteen years old he estab- 
 lished a real estate business with Charles O. 
 Nelson, under the firm name of Gregory & 
 Nelson. After four months Nelson with- 
 drew, at Gregory's request, and Gregory 
 continued alone. He made a tremendous 
 success until 1894, when the real estate busi- 
 ness slumped. He then began the construc- 
 
 enterprises. Among them are the Traders' 
 Oil Company, of which he is a director, and 
 the Johnnie Mining and Milling Company, of 
 which he is secretary and treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Gregory has been progressive in poli- 
 tics ever since he started as a young man 
 back in Chicago. Since entering the political 
 field in Los Angeles he has been an advocate 
 for clean government, more parks and a com- 
 plete boulevard system for the city. Another 
 ideal of his is beautiful residence districts, 
 and to advance this he purchased twenty-two 
 residence lots near his own home, to be held 
 without profit until the proper kind of homes 
 are pledged to be built. 
 
 He is secretary of the Union League Club 
 of Los Angeles, and in addition holds mem- 
 berships in the San Gabriel Country Club, 
 the Elks, Mystic Shriners, Knights Templar, 
 Masons and the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce. 
 
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 TRONG, FRANK R., Real 
 Estate Operator, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of San 
 Diego, where he was born 
 January 5, 1871, his parents 
 being Dr. D. W. and Mary A. Strong. 
 
 Like most of the notable men of the 
 country, Mr. Strong's education was derived 
 from the public schools and business col- 
 leges of his native city. 
 After leaving school 
 he entered business life at 
 the age of eighteen, as an 
 employe of the famous 
 firm of Easton, Eldridge 
 and Company, in San 
 Diego. He remained with 
 this firm until 1891, when 
 he found himself so well 
 equipped in sagacity that 
 he succeeded to the San 
 Diego business of the 
 firm, and formed a part- 
 nership with M. D. Arms 
 under the name of Strong 
 and Arms, meeting with 
 such a degree of success 
 as to encourage him to 
 seek a wider field. With 
 that end in view he re- 
 moved to Los Angeles in 
 1895, and formed a part- 
 nership with Mr. F. B. 
 Wilde, a former member 
 of the Easton and Eld- 
 ridge concern, and be- 
 gan business under the 
 style of Wilde and Strong; excellent results 
 attended the career of this firm, which con- 
 tinued until 1900, when Mr. Wilde decided to 
 retire from business activity, and Mr. Strong 
 formed a new partnership with Mr. G. W. 
 Dickinson, who as well had been a San 
 Diegan, and business was continued by the 
 new concern of Strong and Dickinson. 
 
 The new firm at once engaged in subdi- 
 viding large properties and placing them on 
 the market; they successfully handled in 
 rapid succession eighty such subdivisions. 
 
 Few real estate operators have had more 
 to do with the imperial development of Los 
 Angeles and Southern California than had 
 Mr. Strong. He acquired large holdings 
 himself, and thus has not only been a dealer 
 deriving profits from his transactions, but has 
 become the owner of farms and business 
 properties which in themselves form hand- 
 some fortunes. 
 
 FRANK R. STRONG 
 
 One of his business structures is on 
 Fourth street, between Main and Los An- 
 geles streets; another is on Fifth street, be- 
 tween Broadway and Hill, and Mr. Strong is 
 also the owner of several most valuable pieces 
 of property, notably the southwest corner of 
 Ninth and Spring streets, with Mr. Robert 
 Marsh. This is a location which by many it 
 is believed will be the center of the business 
 activity of the city in the 
 near future. He owns 
 also the corner of Sev- 
 enth street and Central 
 avenue, as well as the 
 southwest corner oi 
 Ninth and Central ave- 
 nue, which is occupied by 
 a two-story business 
 building. 
 
 He has acquired ex- 
 tensive farming lands, 
 which have become his 
 particular charge. He 
 owns two large ranches 
 near La Mirada, twenty 
 miles from Los Angeles; 
 a very large ranch in the 
 Coachella Valley, that is 
 now being planted in cot- 
 ton, alfalfa and dates; 
 these and a 2000-acre 
 grain ranch at San Ja- 
 cinto smilingly evidence 
 Mr. Strong's capacity as 
 a farmer. 
 
 Besides being senior 
 member of the firm 
 of Strong and Dickinson, he is president of 
 the Western Building and Investment Com- 
 pany, president of the Pasadena Park Im- 
 provement Company, president of the Subur- 
 ban Improvement Company, president of the 
 Cottage Terrace Tract, vice president of the 
 Rimpau Heights Company, Alamitos Bay 
 Improvement Company, Alamitos Develop- 
 ment Company, Los Angeles Beach Com- 
 pany, Short Line Beach Company; a director 
 in the British-American Oil Company, the 
 North Midway Oil Company, the Gold 
 Standard Investment Company, the Com- 
 mercial National Bank, the Figueroa 
 Heights Company, the Howard Park Com- 
 pany, and the Crenshaw Investment Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Mr. Strong is a member of Ramona 
 Parlor Native Sons of the Golden West and 
 of the Union League Club, both of Los An- 
 geles. 
 
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 647 
 
 O B I N G I E R , ANDREW 
 STEWART, Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a na- 
 tive of Laurelville, Pennsyl- 
 vania, where he was born De- 
 cember 22, 1862. His parents were Jacob 
 Lobingier and Lillian Findley (Stewart) 
 Lobingier; among his notable ancestors 
 were Christopher Lobingier, colonial Hugue- 
 not, and Judge John Lob- 
 ingier. Dr. Lobingier 
 was married on Novem- 
 ber 2, 1889, to Miss Kate 
 Reynolds at Mt. Pleasant, 
 Pennsylvania, and one 
 daughter, Gladys, was 
 born to them. 
 
 As a boy, Dr. Lobin- 
 gier was prepared for col- 
 lege at the Mt. Pleasant 
 Institute at Mt. Pleasant, 
 Pennsylvania, 1880-83. He 
 entered the University of 
 Michigan at Ann Arbor, 
 where he took his A. B. 
 degree in 1886. Immedi- 
 ately on completing his 
 regular course at the Uni- 
 versity, he took up the 
 study of medicine and 
 surgery, completing it and 
 taking his degree of M. 
 D. in 1889. 
 
 At the conclusion of 
 his college career, Dr. 
 Lobingier went to Den- 
 ver, Colorado, and opened 
 an office for the practice of medicine. Soon 
 he was elected to the professorship of Bac- 
 teriology and Pathology in the Gross Medical 
 College. Two years later he was elected to 
 the chair of Pathology and Surgical Pathol- 
 ogy in the University of Colorado at Denver 
 and was a member of the faculty of that in- 
 stitution for eleven years. 
 
 During that time he successively held the 
 chairs of Clinical Surgery and Chief of the 
 Surgical Clinic (1893), Principles of Surgery 
 and Clinical Surgery and Surgeon to the 
 University Hospital (1896). He was Chief 
 of the Department of Surgery in the Univer- 
 sity for the subsequent six years, but re- 
 signed on account of impaired health, April, 
 1902, and went to Los Angeles. 
 
 In Denver he was a charter member of 
 the Denver City Troop and Acting Surgeon 
 of the Second Colorado Regiment during the 
 Leadville riots. He was also treasurer of 
 
 DR. A. S. LOBINGIER 
 
 the troop and for several years secretary of 
 the Colorado State Medical Society. 
 
 In June, 1902, he attended the British 
 Medical Association meeting in Manchester, 
 England, then spent the summer and autumn 
 in the study of surgery with the leading 
 surgeons of Heidelberg, Berlin, Paris, Vien- 
 na, and London, after which he returned to 
 Los Angeles to engage in surgical practice. 
 In 1906, he devoted a sec- 
 ond period of study under 
 the great surgeons of 
 Europe. 
 
 Dr. Lobingier takes a 
 very natural and proper 
 pride in his ancestry, 
 which, on his father's side 
 is of Huguenot stock and 
 on his mother's Scotch. 
 His paternal ancestors 
 were driven from their 
 homes in France as a re- 
 sult of the revocation of 
 the Edict of Nantes, 
 which removed their 
 guarantees of safety and 
 religious freedom. 
 
 In the wide-spread ex- 
 odus from France which 
 followed, and which ex- 
 tended to England, and to 
 the United States, Dr. 
 Lobingier's paternal for- 
 bears selected the United 
 States as their refuge, and 
 sailed for America in 
 1727. Arriving in this 
 country, they made their homes in Lancaster 
 County, Pennsylvania. The original colonist 
 of the family was Christopher Lobingier. His 
 son of the same name was very active in the 
 Revolution, and in the founding of the com- 
 monwealth of Pennsylvania. He was a 
 close friend of Benjamin Franklin, and was 
 a member of the first conference committee, 
 the committee to raise troops, a member of 
 the constitutional convention, and a member 
 of the first legislature of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Dr. Lobingier is a member of the Los 
 Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, 
 L. A. County Medical Society, Southern Cal- 
 ifornia Medical Association, California State 
 Medical Society, American Medical Associa- 
 tion, American Academy of Medicine, L. A. 
 Academy of Sciences and the National Geo- 
 graphical Society. His clubs are: The Cal. 
 University, Valley Country, Annandale 
 Country, and Gamut Clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
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 LEISHHACKER, HERBERT, 
 Banker, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in that city November 2, 
 1872, the son of Aron Fleishhacker 
 and Delia (Stern) Fleishhacker. 
 He is of German-American descent 
 on both sides of his family and is a combination of 
 the sturdy and energetic characteristics of his race. 
 He married Miss May Belle Greenbaum at San 
 Francisco on August 9, 1905, and is the father of 
 two children, Marjorie and Herbert Fleish- 
 hacker, Jr. 
 
 The schooling of Mr. Fleishhacker, in view of 
 his later achievements, may be described as scant. 
 It consisted of eight years, between 1878 and 1886, 
 in the grammar schools in his native city and less 
 than one year in Heald's Business College. With 
 the commercial training he received in the latter 
 institution he hastened to go into business. 
 
 In 1887 he entered his fathers' paper business 
 as a bookkeeper and remained in this capacity for 
 about a year and a half. He then tried the manu- 
 facturing end of it, on which he got a sufficient 
 grip in the next four years to enable him to go on 
 the road as a salesman for the house. His success 
 in this direction was rapid and pronounced, but 
 not fast enough to keep pace with his expanding 
 ideas. These were naturally enlarged by his trav- 
 els and growing ambitions, which were continually 
 on the watch for new fields wherein to cultivate 
 the knowledge he had already acquired. The or- 
 ganization of new enterprises became the logical 
 outlet for his abundant energies, and Oregon 
 seemed to him at the time the surest thing in prom- 
 ised lands; so in Oregon City he established the 
 first paper mills of that part of the world. Later 
 on he organized a large lumber company near Eu- 
 gene, in the same State, and then shifted the scene 
 of his endeavors to his native State. Here he start- 
 ed the dynamos going for the Electric Power Com- 
 pany of Floriston, California, and subsequently or- 
 ganized other power concerns in various parts of 
 this State, gradually enlarging his operations until 
 he had more than a dozen power and manufactur- 
 ing plants in full swing. 
 
 Mr. Fleishhacker's financial talents, however, 
 seemed predestined to seek their most proper chan- 
 nel, and to find it in the banking business. In 1907 
 he signalized his arrival in that center of the finan- 
 cial world by becoming manager of the London, 
 Paris and American Bank, already a solidly estab- 
 lished house. The same remarkable vitality he 
 had infused in every other enterprise he had 
 grasped was soon imparted to this and marked by 
 a steady growth. Even then his name was fre- 
 quently heard on the street, with flattening em- 
 phasis on the term, "Comer." 
 
 On March 1, 1909, the Anglo-California Bank, 
 Ltd., was absorbed by the London, Paris and 
 American and the title changed to the Anglo and 
 London Paris National Bank, with Mr. Fleishhacker 
 
 as manager and vice president. Two years later, in 
 March, 1911, he was elected to the presidency of 
 the new corporation, which is now in the front 
 rank of American national banks. 
 
 An idea of the growth of this institution may 
 be gleaned by this statement, somewhat reluctantly 
 made by Mr. Fleishhacker: When he assumed the 
 management of the London, Paris and American 
 Bank, in the summer of 1907, the deposits were 
 four and a half millions. The absorption of the 
 Anglo-California Bank swelled these to the sum of 
 fifteen millions, and since then, under his manage- 
 ment, they have expanded to the great total of 
 twenty-six millions. 
 
 The Anglo and London Paris National Bank 
 does a larger foreign exchange business than any 
 other bank in San Francisco. Their connections in 
 the Orient and throughout the European countries 
 are with the largest and strongest banking con- 
 cerns operating in foreign parts. This is one of 
 the main features of their business, and there is 
 hardly any large transaction with the Orient or the 
 European centers that is not handled through this 
 progressive bank. Its board of directors is com- 
 posed of men of vast experience and representing 
 the largest financial and commercial interests on 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 
 While Mr. Fleishhacker's position as adminis- 
 trative head of this great financial enterprise takes 
 up the greater portion of his time, it is not the 
 only one he holds. His interests are numerous and 
 varied, and almost every institution in which he 
 is stockholder commands part of his time as offi- 
 cer, director or general adviser. Besides his presi- 
 dency of the Anglo and London Paris National 
 Bank, he is heavily interested in the Floriston Land 
 and Power Company, a concern of which he is 
 president; the Reno Traction Company, wherein 
 he is also president, and the Anglo California Trust 
 Company, of which he is vice president. 
 
 He is also a large owner in and vice president 
 of the following companies: The Central Califor- 
 nia Traction, the City Electric and the Great West- 
 ern Power. Additional to these offices, he holds di- 
 rectorships in the Crown-Columbia Pulp and Paper 
 Company, the Floriston Pulp and Paper Company, 
 the Swiss-American Bank and other corporations. 
 
 By this list it will be seen that Mr. Fleishhacker 
 is a man of multitudinous responsibilities. The 
 corporations named above are all operating and 
 represent investments of millions. They are among 
 the important industries of California and comprise 
 in their stockholders' lists many of the most in- 
 fluential and progressive men of that State. 
 
 Because of his widely scattered business affili- 
 ations, Mr. Fleishhacker has had little opportunity 
 to devote to social affairs, although he holds mem- 
 berships in several clubs. 
 
 Most of his leisure time he devotes to his 
 family, however, their home life being close to the 
 ideal of happiness. 
 
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 ALVERT, JOHN WILLIAM, 
 Manufacturer of Ice, Azusa, 
 Cal., was born at Huntington, 
 Ind., September 30, 1855. His 
 father was Ira Calvert and 
 his mother was Racheal (Jones) Calvert, 
 natives of Ohio. Mr. Calvert traces his fam- 
 ily back to the early days of Colonial Amer- 
 ica, and comes from well known and distin- 
 guished American 
 ancestors. He is a direct 
 descendant of George 
 Calvert, Lord Baltimore, 
 the celebrated Governor 
 of Maryland. At La- 
 manda Park, Cal., Sept. 
 11, 1890, he married Ella 
 L. Eaton. They have 
 two children, Peyton 
 E. and John W. Cal- 
 vert, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Calvert was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools of Laurence 
 County, Illinois, and later 
 took a complete course in 
 the Normal school at La- 
 doga, Indiana, being grad- 
 uated there in June, 1878. 
 His early boyhood was 
 spent in Indiana, but 
 when he was ten years of 
 age, his parents moved to 
 Laurence County, Illinois, 
 in which State he grew to 
 manhood. Outside of his 
 studies he was occupied 
 in working on his father's farm. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Calvert was appointed Re- 
 corder of Deeds of Laurence County, 111., and 
 served in this capacity for two years. Fol- 
 lowing this service he was elected for four 
 years County Clerk of the same county and 
 fulfilled the duties of the office with distinc- 
 tion. At the expiration of his official term he 
 was offered a position in Los Angeles, which 
 he determined to accept. 
 
 He moved to California from Laurence- 
 ville, 111., in 1886. Southern California was 
 then in the height of its boom, and he ac- 
 cepted a position with the Kerckhoff-Cuzner 
 Mill & Lumber Co., one of the largest organ- 
 izations of its kind in the Southwest. 
 
 It was this offer which had attracted him 
 from his home city. He was agent for this 
 company at various Southern California 
 towns, such as Lamanda Park, where he first 
 located ; Pomona, Azusa and Covina for a 
 
 J. W. CALVERT 
 
 number of years, and through his connection 
 became one of the best known men in the 
 country. 
 
 In 1899 he became interested in and was 
 made manager of the Azusa Ice & Cold Stor- 
 age Co., at Azusa, Cal., which connection he 
 still holds. His headquarters are located in 
 that city and he is identified there with many 
 of the movements for improvement and de- 
 velopment. He has made 
 a deep study of the ice and 
 cold storage business and 
 is one of the leading au- 
 thorities on that subject 
 in the Southwest. 
 
 Besides his chief busi- 
 ness he is active in many 
 other interests in his 
 home city and keeps a 
 close watch on the civic 
 welfare of the county. He 
 is a Highway Comm'S- 
 sioner of Los Angeles 
 County, his term being 
 that of the years 1910 and 
 1911. He has worked for 
 the better road move- 
 ment in Los Angeles 
 County, being one of the 
 committee under whose 
 direction the enormous 
 sum voted for road im- 
 provement has been ex- 
 pended. He is a good 
 road enthusiast. 
 
 Aside from the above 
 he is director and secre- 
 tary of the Azusa Masonic Building Associa- 
 tion and director and vice president of the 
 United States National Bank of Azusa. 
 
 Mr. Calvert is very prominent in Masonic 
 circles, being a member of all York Rite and 
 Scottish Rite Masonic bodies with the excep- 
 tion of Supreme Council of the Thirty-second 
 degree Scottish Rite. He has given a great 
 deal of his time to Masonic work and is a 
 liberal contributor to Masonic homes and the 
 organization and building of Masonic Tem- 
 ples. He is a Mystic Shriner and an Elk. 
 
 He is active in his public duties and takes 
 a prominent part in the public movements of 
 his home town and the county. As a thor- 
 ough business man and as a progressive cit- 
 izen he is widely known throughout Southern 
 California. He has a comfortable residence 
 at Azusa, and outside of his business hou^s 
 finds a great deal of time to spend with his 
 family. 
 
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 ORKS, LEWIS REED, At- 
 torney, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Vevay, In- 
 diana, December 28th, 1869. 
 His father is the present Uni- 
 ted States Senator, John Downey Works, 
 and his mother Alice (Banta) Works. On 
 August 28th, 1903, Mr. Works married Har- 
 riett Laura Wilson, of Los Angeles. Mr. 
 Works has one son, 
 Pierce Works, born Jan- 
 uary 2, 1896, by a pre- 
 vious marriage. 
 
 Mr. Works received 
 his education beginning 
 at Miss Drummond's 
 school for children in Ve- 
 vay, Indiana, his birth- 
 place, and then by attend- 
 ing the public schools of 
 Vevay and of San Diego 
 and San Francisco, Cali- 
 fornia, having removed to 
 San Diego from Indiana, 
 with his distinguished 
 father, in April, 1883. He 
 is also a graduate of the 
 San Diego Commercial 
 College. He was admit- 
 ted to the Bar in Febru- 
 ary, 1892. 
 
 Upon his admission to 
 the bar he entered part- 
 nership with his father in 
 San Diego, the firm doing 
 business under the name 
 of Works and Works. 
 
 LEWIS R. WORKS 
 
 The style of this firm later became Works, 
 Works and Ingle, and later still returned to 
 the title of Works and Works. 
 
 Entering the field of politics, Mr. Works 
 was in 1898 elected as a member of the State 
 Assembly, and served from January, 1899, to 
 January, 1901. 
 
 On the completion of his term of service 
 in the State Assembly, Mr. Works went to 
 Los Angeles, where his father had located in 
 the meantime, where he entered partnership 
 with his father and Bradner W. Lee, under 
 the firm name of Works, Lee and Works, 
 (September 1st, 1901). 
 
 Mr. Works attended closely to his prac- 
 tice and took very little part in politics, but 
 was from February 1, 1907, to January 1, 
 1909, first assistant City Attorney of Los An- 
 geles, a position he resigned in order to form 
 the law partnership of John D. Works and 
 Lewis R. Works. On the retirement of John 
 
 D. Works from active practice, as a result of 
 his election to the United States Senate, the 
 firm was dissolved and since that time Mr. 
 Works has conducted a successful practice by 
 himself. 
 
 In July, 1911, Mr. Works was appointed 
 on the Board of Public Utilities of Los An- 
 geles and was elected its President, a place 
 he now holds. 
 
 As an active partici- 
 pant in public affairs, Mr. 
 Works began at an early 
 age to show those charac- 
 teristics which have be- 
 come a dominant part of 
 his life, and which have 
 brought him forward to 
 a prominent point of in- 
 terest and effect, in all 
 matters appertaining to 
 the welfare not only of 
 the city which he has 
 adopted as his home, but 
 of the state and nation as 
 well. 
 
 For example, when as 
 a very young man he 
 learned of the movement 
 to organize a naval mili- 
 tia force in California, he 
 jumped enthusiastically 
 into the agitation, and 
 was a charter member of 
 Company A, the first one 
 organized in the State 
 and which was made up 
 of San Diego young men. 
 As matters of ethical interest, he finds en- 
 tertainment in being a member of the Archae- 
 ological Institute of America and of the Na- 
 tional Geographical Society. 
 
 Actively and in a militant spirit, he be- 
 longs to the City Club of Los Angeles, to the 
 Good Government Organization of Los An- 
 geles, to the College Equal Suffrage Asso- 
 ciation as an honorary member, to the Na- 
 tional Municipal League, to the Los Angeles 
 Municipal League, and to the Chamber of 
 Commerce, the Severance Club and the 
 Gamut Club. 
 
 In all matters which he undertakes, 
 whether it be for the city or for his club, he 
 goes at them with all his energy, and he is 
 regarded as one of the most progressive 
 young men in the Southwest. His secret 
 order is that of the Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks, of which he is Past Ex- 
 alted Ruler of San Diego Lodge No. 168. 
 
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 FREDERICK H. TAFT 
 
 AFT, FREDERICK HARRIS, At- 
 torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born April 4, 1857, at 
 Pierrepont Manor, Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, New York, the son of Stephen 
 Harris Taft and Mary Antoinette 
 (Burnham) Taft. He married Frances Maria 
 Welch, February 23, 1881, .at Humboldt, Iowa. 
 Three children were born, Alice Marie, who died 
 in infancy, Muriel Charlena (Shutt) and Harris 
 Welch Taft. 
 
 Both families, those of the father and the 
 mother, have been in America more than 220 years. 
 Mr. Taft was taught in the public schools of 
 Humboldt, Iowa. When he had completed these 
 he studied at Humboldt College and got his Bach- 
 elor of Arts in the year 1878. He attended the law 
 course of the Northwestern University of Sioux 
 City, Iowa, after a lapse of more than a decade, in 
 order to qualify himself for the law, and was ad- 
 mitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Iowa 
 at Des Moines, May 11, 1892. Associated as 
 Sawyer & Taft, he immediately began practice in 
 Sioux City. 
 
 Mixed in with his educational career was an 
 early activity in the newspaper field. At seventeen 
 he became owner and editor of the Humboldt 
 Kosmos, the official Republican weekly of his 
 county. 
 
 He founded the Hardin County Citizen at Iowa 
 Falls, in 1883. The following year he became as- 
 sociated with George E. Roberts, now director of 
 the United States Mints, as editor of the Fort 
 Dodge Messenger. From 1888 to 1892 he was edi- 
 tor and superintendent of the Sioux City News- 
 paper Union. 
 
 Mr. Taft moved to California, January 1, 1893, 
 and helped found the firm of Tanner & Taft, now 
 Tanner, Taft & Odell. The main office has been 
 In Los Angeles since 1897. 
 
 WILLIAM M. HIATT 
 
 IATT, WILLIAM M., Attorney, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born at 
 Lynnville, Iowa, March 24, 1868, 
 the son of John C. and Esther 
 (Macy) Hiatt. He has been twice 
 married. His first wife was Clara 
 Meredith, whom he married at Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
 August 4, 1903. They had one child, John Meredith 
 Hiatt. She died soon after his birth. He married 
 Winifred M. Nauerth at Los Angeles, November 
 10, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Hiatt attended the high school of his native 
 town and Penn College at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He 
 taught school in Iowa, and later in the Island of 
 Jamaica, where his parents were missionary super- 
 intendents for the Society of Friends. 
 
 He went to Whittier, California, in 1887. There, 
 with his father, he founded the Whittier Graphic, 
 the first newspaper printed in the town. After a 
 year they sold out and started a newspaper at New- 
 berg, Oregon. This they sold out after another year 
 and returned to Whittier. 
 
 He entered the law offices of Henry C. Dillon, 
 District Attorney of Los Angeles County, in 1892, 
 and read law. He was admitted to the bar by the 
 Supreme Court of California, April 4, 1893. He 
 began his practice in Whittier and was chosen 
 attorney for the incorporation of the City of Whit- 
 tier, and was its first City Attorney. Early in the 
 year 1901 he became attorney for the Title Insur- 
 ance and Trust Company of Los Angeles. This place 
 he resigned in 1904 to take care of his private prac- 
 tice in the firm of Hiatt & Selby of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hiatt invested heavily in Whittier oil land, 
 and in Pasadena and Los Angeles property. He 
 lives on a forty-acre orange and walnut grove near 
 Rivera, California. 
 
 He is a member of many legal associations, of 
 the Jonathan and Union League clubs of Los 
 Angeles, and of the Hillside club of Whittier. 
 

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 WM. FITZHERBERT-WEST 
 
 ITZHERBERT - WEST, WILLIAM, 
 Oil Producer and Land Owner, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Titusville, Pennsylvania, February 
 11, 1865, the son of George Fitz- 
 herbert-West and Emma Fade. He 
 was married in Los Angeles, September 10, 1896, to 
 Helen Zobieski Ball. They are the parents of two 
 children, George and Montgomery Paulison Fitz- 
 herbert-West. 
 
 In his childhood he was taken to North Adams, 
 Massachusetts, and there attended school. He was 
 at Drury Academy from 1872 to 1880, and upon 
 leaving there went to work in the Berkshire Na- 
 tional Bank of North Adams. He was with this 
 bank and the North Adams National Bank for 
 nearly ten years. 
 
 In the spring of 1892 he took a trip through the 
 West. He was won by Los Angeles, and in October 
 of the same year returned there to make his home. 
 He engaged in the land business, with Tomas McD. 
 Potter, and they bought fifty-five acres at Jefferson 
 and Main streets. 
 
 After disposing of this tract of land he ac- 
 quired property on West Adams street, known as 
 "Westacres," which he subdivided and placed on 
 the market. 
 
 He started in the oil business in 1899, and was 
 president of the Continental Oil Company, operating 
 in the Kern River field. Then there came a slump 
 in oil, and he returned to land operations in Holly- 
 wood. In 1907, he organized and became president 
 of the American Crude Oil Company. 
 
 One of Mr. Fitzherbert-West's big operations is 
 a 7221-acre tract on the mesa near San Diego, which 
 he will irrigate, subdivide into small ranches and 
 place on the market. 
 
 Mr. Fitzherbert-West is a member of the Annan- 
 dale Country Club, the Bakersfield Club and the 
 Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
 DR. JOHN Y. OLDHAM 
 
 LDHAM, JOHN Y., Physician, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Newcastle, Henry county, Ky., 
 March 19, 1866, the son of William 
 Bryan Oldham and Laura Anne 
 (Matthews) Oldham. He married 
 Mary Stuart Flood, March 29, 1887, at Louisville, 
 Ky. Mrs. Oldham died May 10, 1910. There are 
 two children, John Henry and William Bryan 
 Oldham. He married Mrs. Annie Stuart Myrick 
 at Los Angeles July 19, 1911. His maternal great 
 grandmother, Sarah McDowell, was a daughter of 
 Major General Joseph McDowell of the Revolu- 
 tionary War, a sister of General Joseph McDowell 
 of Ohio, sister-in-law to Governor Allen Trimble 
 of Ohio, cousin of Governor James McDowell of 
 Virginia, aunt of Governor John P. Gain s of Ore- 
 gon, sister-in-law of Colonel L. Ford of the United 
 States army. 
 
 He was educated at Henry County College, at 
 the Kentucky State College, Lexington, Ky., at 
 Central University of Richmond, Ky., and is a 
 graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine of 
 Louisville, June, 1885. 
 
 In June, 1885, he entered the office of Dr. Dud- 
 ley S. Reynolds of Louisville as associate. In 1887 
 he moved to Lexington and opened an office, con- 
 fining his practice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose 
 and thoart. He moved to Los Angeles in 1902 
 and resumed his practice. He associated himself 
 with Dr. B. F. Church in 1905 and since the retire- 
 ment of the latter, in 1909, has been alone. 
 
 He is the assistant medical director of the 
 Golden State Life Insurance Company. He is a 
 member of all the national and local medical socie- 
 ties, the Lexington Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., Mer- 
 rick Lodge, No. 31, I. O. O. F., Ancient Essenic 
 Order, No. 262, Past Exalted Ruler and life member 
 of the B. P. O. E., of Lexington, member of the 
 California Club. 
 
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 ORAN, P. J., Contractor, Indus-trial 
 Captain, Capitalist, Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, was born in Yorkshire, 
 England, January 23, 1864, the son 
 of Laurence Moran of Mayo Coun- 
 ty, Ireland, and of Bridget (Dur- 
 kin) Moran of County Sligo, Ireland. He married 
 Dollie Shoebridge of Salt Lake City in 1891, and 
 there are six children, four boys and two girls. 
 
 He was left fatherless at the age of seven, and 
 was compelled to go to work when only 10 years 
 old. His education was acquired in the workshop, 
 and by dint of hard individual study in later years. 
 He came to America when 14 years old, land- 
 ing in Baltimore in April, 1878. After four 
 months in that city he went to Cincinnati, where 
 he was apprenticed to a steam fitter. After mas- 
 tering this trade he went to Chicago, and there 
 worked as journeyman fitter until 1887, when he 
 removed to Omaha. At this place he lingered a 
 few months, and then went on to Salt Lake City, 
 which has been his home ever since. 
 
 The first two years in Salt Lake City he worked 
 at his trade, and then his enterprise asserted 
 itself and he went into business as a contractor 
 in steam heating and ventilating. He began to 
 prosper at once. 
 
 He put in most of the heating plants in the 
 public school buildings of Salt Lake City; also 
 those of the new State University in Salt Lake, 
 the Agricultural College at Logan, and the ma- 
 jority of the big business blocks and residences, 
 churches and schools throughout the state. 
 
 In the year 1900 he was awarded the contract 
 by the city for the installation of a new water 
 works, a plant of the first magnitude, costing 
 many millions of dollars. An important detail of 
 it is the Big Cottonwood conduit, which flanks 
 the Wasatch range overlooking Salt Lake Valley 
 for a distance of ten miles. A man may walk 
 erect through the conduit and it carries a large 
 part of Salt Lake City's water supply. It is con- 
 sidered one of the finest pieces of work in the 
 United States. 
 
 He entered the paving business in 1903, and 
 has laid most of the asphalt on the streets of 
 Salt Lake, of Ogden and a great deal in other 
 cities of the West and Middle West. The P. J. 
 Moran asphalt plant is one of the largest and 
 most complete in America and employs an army 
 of workmen. 
 
 He put in the concrete masonry for the plant 
 of the American Smelting and Refining Com- 
 pany at Garfield, Utah, the largest smelter of 
 its kind in the world. He built the power produc- 
 ing plant for the Utah Light and Railway Com- 
 pany. This plant is located in Weber Canyon, 
 Utah, and is an immense piece of work, consist- 
 ing of a stave pipe line 74 inches in diameter 
 terminating in a generating station which de- 
 
 velops many thousands of electric horsepower. He 
 built the high line water conduit leading from 
 City Creek Canyon, and he has done practically 
 all the other work of enlargement on the Salt Lake 
 City water supply system during the last twelve 
 years. He is now engaged in the building of the 
 Pacific Reclamation Company's irrigation dam to 
 conserve the water of Bishop Creek near Wells, 
 Nevada, a work which will result in the reclama- 
 tion of tens of thousands of acres of land and 
 the creation of a new city called Metropolis. He 
 has been the constructor for many other enter- 
 prises, some of equal and many of lesser im- 
 portance than those mentioned. 
 
 He is one of the five incorporators of the Nation- 
 al Copper Bank of Salt Lake, already a powerful 
 financial institution and is a big stockholder and 
 director in the Keith-O'Brien Company, which 
 operates Salt Lake City's largest department 
 store. 
 
 When concrete construction came into general 
 use, and about the time he was given the con- 
 tract for the concrete work on the Garfield smelt- 
 er, Mr. Moran organized the Portland Cement 
 Company of Utah. He is the principal stockhold- 
 er and president. The company operates one of 
 the largest cement plants in America, and em- 
 ploys one of the largest forces of men in Utah. 
 He invested in coal lands, and incorporated the 
 Federal Coal Company, of which he is now vice 
 president and general manager. 
 
 He has invested heavily in Salt Lake real es- 
 tate, and is considered one of the largest owners 
 of property in the city. 
 
 Mr. Moran has interested himself in politics. 
 The Liberal party elected him to the State Senate 
 in 1891 and he served out his term, making him- 
 self felt in the framing of legislation. The same 
 party chose him a member of the City Council in 
 1892, and he served for a term of two years from 
 the fourth precinct of Salt Lake City. Since that 
 time his big business interests have prevented 
 him from accepting office, although always close- 
 ly in touch with the affairs of the city and state. 
 
 A summary of his business affiliations is as 
 follows: President, general manager and sole 
 owner of the P. J. Moran Contracting Company; 
 director of the National Copper Bank, Utah; di- 
 rector in the Keith-O'Brien Company, department 
 stores; president of the Portland Cement Com- 
 pany, Utah; vice president and general manager 
 of the Federal Coal Company, Utah; and a director 
 and stockholder in many other minor concerns, 
 notably real estate concerns which operate his 
 holdings. 
 
 He is a director in the Alta Club of Salt Lake, 
 and an active member of the Commercial Club. 
 He spends much time and is well known in Los 
 Angeles, and has been elected a member of the 
 California Club of that city. 
 
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 UESSEN, EDMUND, Mining En- 
 gineer, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in Chicago, Illinois, 
 August 10, 1868, the son of 
 Edmund Juessen and Antonia 
 (Schurz) Juessen. He married 
 Jennie Josephine Peabody at Lewiston, Idaho, Sep- 
 tember 23, 1895, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Edmund Peabody Juessen and Jean 
 Josephine Juessen. He is of German descent, his 
 mother having been a sister 
 of Carl Schurz, the noted 
 German patriot, soldier and 
 litterateur. Schurz, it will be 
 remembered, was concerned 
 in the revolt of 1848-49 and 
 was forced to flee Germany, 
 but later returned secretly 
 and effected the escape from 
 the Fortress of Spandau of 
 his friend, Professor Kinkel. 
 His subsequent career in 
 America, as a soldier, diplo- 
 mat and Senator, marked him 
 as one of the most powerful 
 men of his day. 
 
 Mr. Juessen, who is ranked 
 among the leading mining ex- 
 perts of the United States, 
 received careful preparation 
 for his profession, being af- 
 forded exceptional education- 
 al opportunities-. Following 
 the completion of his pre- 
 liminary education in the 
 schools of this country, he 
 went to Europe for special 
 study and for about eight 
 years attended some of the 
 principal universities of the Old World. He was 
 a student at the Austrian School of Mines, Leoben, 
 Austria, for two years (1883-85) and then entered 
 the Saxon School of Mines at Freiberg, Saxony, 
 remaining there until 1887. In the latter year he 
 went to the University of Austria at Vienna, re- 
 mained there two years and in the fall of 1889 
 entered the University of Zurich in Switzerland. 
 He was graduated from the latter institution in 
 1890 with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 
 
 During his stay in Europe Mr. Juessen spent a 
 great deal of time in travel and in observation of 
 the different countries and returned to the United 
 States- with a thorough knowledge of the various 
 peoples and the languages. 
 
 For a time after his return to this country Mr. 
 Juessen was a member of the faculty of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, but his life, for the most part, 
 has been spent in mining work. He served the 
 Federal Government in the United States Geologi- 
 cal Survey for approximately two years (1890-92), 
 but gave this up to go into mine engineering work, 
 
 EDMUND JUESSEN 
 
 at which he has since been steadily engaged. 
 During the eighteen years or more that he has 
 devoted himself to professional work Mr. Juessen 
 has visited practically every important mining sec- 
 tion of America, his examination and engineering 
 work taking him from British Columbia on the 
 North to Mexico on the South, while he also worked 
 in the States of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Ne- 
 vada, California and Arizona. 
 
 Among his more important works were those of 
 Consulting Engineer to the 
 Mines Exploration Company, 
 General Superintendent of 
 the Decatur Mines Syndicate, 
 Limited; General Manager of 
 the Idaho Company at Lew- 
 iston, Idaho, and General 
 Manager of the Pittsburg 
 Silver Peak Mining Company 
 at Blair, Nevada. This latter 
 was one of the richest gold 
 properties in the State, 
 and Mr. Juessen, as the mana- 
 gerial head, had an important 
 part in its development. 
 
 Mr. Juessen is known as 
 a strict disciplinarian in his 
 work, but he also is extreme- 
 ly human in his treatment of 
 the men under him, and dur- 
 ing his management of the 
 Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold 
 Mining Company's property, 
 endeared himself to the 
 workmen because of the in- 
 terest he took in their wel- 
 fare. He not only made their 
 working conditions among the 
 best in the mining regions of 
 the West, but also built, among the first structures 
 after taking charge of the property, a modern hos- 
 pital. He originated a benefit system in which the 
 company paid part of the expenses, which proved 
 a boon to the workingmen. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with the Silver 
 Peak interests, Mr. Juessen was engaged for some 
 time in special examination and exploration work 
 and ultimately became associated with Charles 
 Sweeney, one of the well-known mining men of the 
 West, as Consulting Engineer and expert for va- 
 rious properties owned by him or his companies. 
 In this capacity Mr. Juessen has been one of the 
 active men in the engineering field. He is also 
 Consulting Engineer for Senator William Flinn, 
 the Pittsburg millionaire traction magnate and con- 
 tractor, who has large mining interests. 
 
 Mr. Juessen, aside from his professional stand- 
 ing, enjoys wide personal popularity. He is a mem- 
 ber of various technical and professional organiza- 
 tions and belongs to the Alta Club of Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, and the Spokane Club of Spokane, Wash. 
 
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 657 
 
 URNHAM, MAJOR FREDERICK 
 RUSSELL, Pasadena, Cal., Soldier, 
 Scout, Frontiersman and Mining 
 Expert, was born near Mankato, 
 Minn., May 11, 1861. Son of Rev. 
 Edwin Otway Burnham and Re- 
 becca Elizabeth (Russell) Burn- 
 
 ham. Married Blanche Blick, at Prescott, la., Feb. 
 6, 1884. Three children were born, Roderick D., 
 Bruce B., and Nada Burnham. Latter died of fever 
 and starvation in siege of Bulawajo (Matabele 
 campaign), South Africa. Major Burnham is de- 
 scended of a family noted 
 in every American war, in- 
 cluding the French and In- 
 dian wars. His father was a 
 Kentuckian, a pioneer mis- 
 sionary among the Indians 
 of Minn. The family passed 
 through the uprising of Red 
 Cloud at New Ulm, Minn., 
 and on another occasion his 
 mother, carrying him, fled 
 from her home and hid the 
 boy in bushes until the In- 
 dians had been driven away. 
 The Major attended 
 schools in Iowa and Cali- 
 fornia, whither the family 
 moved in 1870, but his- real 
 education was in the open. 
 Richard Harding Davis, writ- 
 ing of Burnham in "Real 
 Soldiers of Fortune," says: 
 
 "Some men are born scouts, 
 others by training become scouts. 
 From his father Burnham inher- 
 ited his instinct for woodcraft, 
 and to this instinct which in him 
 is as keen as in a wild deer or a 
 mountain lion, he has added in 
 the jungle and on the prairie and 
 mountain ranges, years of the 
 hardest, most relentless school- 
 ing. In those years he has trained 
 himself to endure the most ap- 
 palling fatigue, hunger, thirst and 
 wounds ; has subdued the brain 
 to infinite patience, has learned 
 to force every nerve of his body 
 to absolute obedience ; to still 
 even the beating of his heart." 
 
 Major Burnham's father died when the lad was 
 eleven years old, and the son worked for two years 
 as a mounted messenger for the Western Union 
 Telegraph Co. He was known as the hardest rider 
 in Southern California. At fourteen he b^egan his 
 life as a scout and frontiersman, and for the next 
 few years wandered over Arizona, Mexico, Cali- 
 fornia and other parts of the Southwest. In 1878 
 he went to the frontier of Texas as a cowboy and 
 buffalo hunter, also doing police duty. In 1880 he 
 moved to Arizona, and became a prospector and a 
 scout in the Indian wars. 
 
 In 1882, because of his daring, expert knowledge 
 of woodcraft and absolute fearlessness, Major Burn- 
 ham was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Final County, 
 Ariz., but served only a year, returning to his cat- 
 tle and mining interests, scattered from Mexico to 
 British Columbia. About 1884, he purchased an 
 orange grove at Pasadena, Cal., but after a few 
 weeks of inactivity, went back to frontier life. 
 
 Major Burnham, when he heard of the work of 
 John Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, decided to go to 
 that country. He sailed, in 1893, with his wife and 
 small son. The first Matabele uprising was in prog- 
 ress, so he went to Rhodesia and volunteered his 
 services to the British. 
 
 Here Major Burnham began the life of brilliant 
 
 daring which placed him among the world's famous 
 soldiers. His knowledge gained in the Indian wars 
 was brought into play and he became one of the 
 chief advisors of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. 
 The most historic event in the war was Major Alan 
 Wilson's attempt, with 344 picked men, to capture 
 Lobengula, the Matabele King, who was guarded 
 by 3000 warriors. Burnham and Ingram were of 
 this party and distinguished themselves. The at- 
 tempt of Wilson failed, he and most of his men being 
 massacred. Burnham, Ingram and another man were 
 sent for reinforcements and after a thrilling trip, 
 reached Major Forbes' com- 
 mand, but he was engaged in 
 a desperate battle and unable 
 to go to Wilson's aid. Burn- 
 ham and his comrades joined 
 Forbes and helped fight to 
 safety. Wilson's dash was 
 made the subject of a war 
 drama, with Burnham as one 
 of the heroic figures, causing 
 great enthusiasm throughout 
 Great Britain, and Henseman, 
 in his history of Rhodesia, re- 
 ferring to it, says: 
 
 "One hardly knows which to 
 most admire, the men who went 
 on this dangerous errand, through 
 brush swarming with natives, or 
 those who remained behind bat- 
 tling against overwhelming odds." 
 
 For his services the Gov- 
 ernment and Cecil Rhodes 
 gave Burnham and his com- 
 panions 300 square miles of 
 land, also the chartered com- 
 pany gave him a campaign 
 medal and an engraved watch. 
 
 Returning to Rhodesia in 
 1896, Major Burnham took 
 part in the second Matabele 
 uprising and distinguished 
 himself by destroying the na- 
 tive King, Umlimo, in a cave 
 in the mountains, which act 
 put an end to the rebellion. 
 MAJOR F. R. BURNHAM. D. S. O. Burnham and his companion, 
 
 who broke through the na- 
 tive lines to get their man, had a thrilling escape. 
 
 Shortly after this Burnham left South Africa, 
 and after a brief stay in California, went to the 
 Klondike as a prospector. Upon hearing of the 
 Spanish-American war he rushed back to the U. S. 
 to volunteer his services, but was- too late. Colonel 
 Roosevelt regretted this as much as Burnham and 
 paid him a great tribute in his book. 
 
 Burnham returned to the Klondike, but in 1900, 
 upon being offered the post of Chief of Scouts by 
 Field Marshal Lord Roberts, joined the British army 
 in South Africa and served through the Boer war, re- 
 ceiving great honors from the British people. Upon 
 being invalided home, he was greeted by London as 
 a hero, and commanded by Queen Victoria to dine 
 and spend a night at Osborne House. He received 
 the campaign medal and was presented by King Ed- 
 ward, personally, after the death of the Queen, with 
 the Cross of the Distinguished Service Order. He 
 was given the rank of Major in the British Army, 
 presented with a purse of gold, and received a per- 
 sonal letter of praise from Lord Roberts. 
 
 Major Burnham is associated in the Yaqui Delta 
 Land & Water Co.'s development of a large tract of 
 land in old Mexico, with John Hays Hammond, com- 
 panion of earlier days in the service of Cecil Rhodes. 
 
 Major Burnham is a member of the Masonic order. 
 
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 FRED N. ARNOLDY 
 
 RNOLDY, FRED N., Attorney at 
 Law, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Tipton, Kansas, June 24, 
 1883. He is the son of Conrad 
 Arnoldy and Margaret E. (Ott- 
 ley) Arnoldy. 
 
 Mr. Arnoldy obtained his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Kansas. He was raised on his 
 father's farm; went to school in the winter and 
 worked on the farm during the summer months. 
 After completing his preparatory studies he en- 
 tered the Kansas Wesleyan College, and after 
 spending the regular period at the college, gradu- 
 ated in the month of June, 1904. 
 
 He immediately moved to California and lo- 
 cated permanently at Los Angeles. His first asso- 
 ciations were with the Banning Company, owners 
 of Santa Catalina Island, and he remained in the 
 employ of that corporation for about two years. 
 
 His next venture was in the realty business, in 
 which he met with success. He became identified 
 with several Los Angeles realty companies, chief of 
 which was the Security Land and Loan Co. 
 
 Mr. Arnoldy made up his mind to study law. 
 This he did, and in 1908 was admitted to the Los 
 Angeles bar. He began practice and opened offices 
 in the Central Building, and on completion of the 
 Trust and Savings Building moved his office there. 
 He has developed a practice in Los Angeles and 
 Bakersfield and throughout the San Joaquin Val- 
 ley, numbering among his clients some of the oil 
 producing and prominent realty companies of 
 Southern California. 
 
 Corporation law is Mr. Arnoldy's specialty. 
 
 He is an active member of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association of Los Angeles and of the 
 Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Los 
 Angeles Council of the Knights of Columbus, of 
 which he is an officer, and is a member of the 
 Metropolitan and Gamut clubs. 
 
 ADOLPH RAMISH 
 
 AMISH, ADOLPH, General Con- 
 tracting, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Grass Valley, Cali- 
 fornia, August 19,1862. His father 
 was Louis Ramish and his mother, 
 Amanda (Lewis) Ramish, both 
 natives of Germany. He married Dellaphene 
 Speck, at Los Angeles, February 14, 1903. 
 
 He was in Berlin from the age of four to eleven 
 years and attended private schools in that city. 
 He returned to the United States in 1873, and went 
 immediately to San Francisco, where he resumed 
 his studies. At the age of seventeen he was en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business. Two years later 
 he entered the employ of Claus Spreckels, the 
 famous sugar king. Mr. Ramish was given the po- 
 sition of assistant cashier and was sent to the 
 Sandwich Islands, acting as Assistant United 
 States Consul. He tired of life in the far-away 
 islands after two years, resigned his position and 
 returned to San Francisco. 
 
 Upon arriving in the United States, Mr. Ramish 
 went to Los Angeles. He first engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business, but later he organized, with 
 Charles F. Off, the Pacific Truck and Transfer 
 Company. In 1887, Mr. Ramish sold his interest in 
 the truck business, which is now known as the 
 Pioneer Company, and formed a partnership with 
 Martin C. Marsh, one of the oldest contractors in 
 the southwestern part of the country. He person- 
 ally promoted and built the Belasco Theater in 
 Los Angeles, and as half owner of it, was actively 
 engaged in its management and direction up to the 
 fall of 1910. Mr. Ramish has since started construc- 
 tion of the Adolphus, another handsome theater. 
 
 Mr. Ramish has become heavily interested in 
 oil and mining stocks. He is a prominent Mason, 
 an Elk and First Grand officer of the Native Sons 
 of the Golden West, in which organization he was 
 one of the earliest charter members. 
 
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 GURNEY E. NEWLIN 
 
 EWLIN, GURNEY ELWOOD, At- 
 torney at Law, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born at Lawrence Kan., No- 
 vember 11, 1880, the son of 
 Thomas Elwood and Laurie 
 (Hadley) Newlin. 
 
 When 6 years old his parents brought him to Los 
 Angeles, later removing to Whittier, of which city 
 his father was one of the founders. He started his 
 schooling at the public schools of that town. He 
 was then sent to the high schools of Los Angeles, 
 graduating in 1898. 
 
 He then went East to Haverford College, Haver- 
 ford, Pa., and there studied two years. The two 
 last years of his college career were spent at the 
 University of California, where he received his de- 
 gree of B. L. in the year 1902. The following 
 autumn he went to Cambridge, Mass., and entered 
 the most renowned of law schools, that of Harvard, 
 and there remained throughout the three-year 
 course. He received his degree of LL.B. in 1905. 
 
 He began practice with Percy R. Wilson. In 
 January, 1907, he was made attorney for the Los 
 Angeles Pacific Company. He was advanced to the 
 post of general attorney of the Los Angeles Pacific 
 in 1910, in entire charge of their legal business. 
 
 His general practice became so great that he 
 was compelled to resign March 1, 1911. He is a 
 director in various companies. 
 
 He is a member of the Bohemian Club of San 
 Francisco, California Club of Los Angeles, of which 
 he was director and secretary from 1908 to 1910; 
 Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club. Gamut Club, Catalina Yacht Club, University 
 of California Club, Harvard Club of Southern Cali- 
 fornia and President of the Southern California 
 Alumni Association of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 Fraternity. He is a member of the American Bar 
 Association, California State Bar Association and 
 the Los Angeles Bar Association. 
 
 MAX MULLER 
 
 ULLER, MAX, Banker, Hermosillo, 
 Sonora, Mexico, was born in 
 Lubeck, Germany, September 4, 
 1864, the son of Rudolph Carl 
 Muller and Ida (Tuerk) Muller. 
 His grandfather was professor of 
 history and ancient languages at the University of 
 Rostock. Mr. Muller married Kathe Holthusen of 
 Hanover, Germany, at El Paso, Texas, January 9, 
 1897. 
 
 Mr. Muller was educated at the Real Gymnasium 
 in Lubeck, and graduated with a diploma. He then 
 served one year in the German army and was pro- 
 moted to the rank of under-sheriff. 
 
 Leaving the army, Mr. Muller entered a wholesale 
 house at Lubeck, and there, in four years, received 
 a thorough commercial training. He left in 1885, 
 to become cashier and head bookkeeper for the firm 
 of Ketelsur & Degetau, at El Pas<., Texas. He was 
 with them until October, 1889, then became manager 
 of the El Paso National Bank in Paso Del Norte. 
 He was unusually successful, and at the end of five 
 years, after strongly entrenching himself in the 
 community, went in for private banking under the 
 firm name of Farrell & Muller at Paso Del Norte. In 
 the latter part of 1897 they sold out their business 
 and Mr. Muller became manager of Banco de Sonora. 
 at Hermosillo, Mexico, which opened its doors in 
 January, 1898. Later he was elected president. 
 
 In addition to his banking, Mr. Muller is one of a 
 group of progressive men who are doing a great deal 
 toward developing that part of Mexico, and he has 
 been instrumental in showing the way for profitable 
 investment in mines and lands throughout the State 
 of Sonora. He is interested in a number of enter- 
 prises, among them the Mortgage and Agricultural 
 Bank of Hermosillo, capitalized at $2,000,000, of 
 which he is president. He is also a director of the 
 Sonora Telephone Company, and is a director in a 
 large cracker company. 
 
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 661 
 
 TANTON, ERASTUS JAMES (de- 
 ceased), Lumber, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Angelica, N. Y., in 
 1856. His father was Erastus H. 
 Stanton, born in New York State 
 in 1816, the son of a pioneer New 
 Yorker who served in the War of 1812. Mr. Stan- 
 ton's father moved to Rockton, 111., early in his 
 business career and there invested in large land 
 interests. Later he became a banker and merchant 
 in the Illinois-Wisconsin country and in 1868 moved 
 to Ionia, Mich., engaging in the mercantile busi- 
 ness and at the same time made extensive invest- 
 ments, for that period, in the lumber business at 
 Stanton and Sheridan, Mich., the former being 
 named for him. He was for several terms a Sena- 
 tor from Ionia and Montcalm Counties in the State 
 Legislature. Mr. Stanton's mother was born in 
 Greene County in 1820. One of her brothers, Ly- 
 man Sanford, was a Justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New York, and another brother, Truman S., was 
 Attorney General. Mr. Stanton married Fannie 
 Boynton in October, 1880, at Albion, Mich. They 
 had five children: Dede, Helen, Lillian, Leroy and 
 Adelaide, Dede and Helen being deceased. 
 
 Mr. Stanton received a common school educa- 
 tion in Ionia, Mich. 
 
 At the age of sixteen he was assisting his father 
 in his lumber bu&iness, and later in its management 
 until closed out in 1880. He moved to Saginaw, 
 Michigan, in 1884, then the largest lumber manu- 
 facturing district in the world. Up to this time 
 lumber was practically sold on the docks and trans- 
 ported to market via water. That year he took 
 charge of the Sales department of the Saginaw 
 Lumber & Salt Company, one of Michigan's larg- 
 est concerns, sorted the lumber into all the grades 
 for commercial use and marketed it by rail. In 
 1893 his- health failed and he moved to Arizona to 
 assist in the development of the properties of the 
 Saginaw Lumber Company at Williams. At this 
 time there was only one saw-mill in Arizona. Mr. 
 Stanton obtained competitive rates from the Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company, and shipped the first lum- 
 ber to the West and California. He organized the 
 sales for 'this company and made and shipped the 
 first fruit box to Southern California and devel- 
 oped the first box business in Arizona, shipping 
 into California and Mexico. This pioneer effort has 
 Bince grown to an immense business at Williams 
 and Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Stanton moved to Los Angeles, 
 where he resided until he died, January 24, 1913. 
 His- first effort there was the box and lumber busi- 
 ness, confined to California products. This grew 
 into an immense industry and was the beginning of 
 the use of the native California woods, sugar and 
 white pine. 
 
 In 1897 he assisted in the organization of the 
 California Pine Box Company, which was- an asso- 
 ciation of mills formed for the purpose of the de- 
 
 velopment of the box business to absorb the lower 
 grades of sugar and white pine, for the manufac- 
 ture of fruit boxes on a uniform basis and to devel- 
 op market results. This he built up to one of the 
 largest industries- of the State. The output runs 
 into the hundreds of millions of feet and the em- 
 ployment of thousands of men. 
 
 In 1900 the California Sugar & White Pine 
 Agency was formed for grading the lumber for 
 Eastern and foreign trade. Most large mills were 
 included, and millions of feet of California 
 sugar and white pine are exported and sold in 
 Eastern States. Mr. Stanton was a member of the 
 company and agent for all the Southwestern 
 territory. The yards were started in 1896. Los 
 Angeles then had a population of 65,000, but no 
 hardwoods were sold to speak of. This pioneer 
 yard is the largest and most complete in the West 
 and its imports and exports of large volume. 
 
 The business established by Mr. Stanton grew 
 steadily with the years and up to 1912 he handled it 
 exclusively. At that time, however, he took into 
 partnership his son, Leroy H. Stanton, the firm be- 
 coming E. J. Stanton & Son. They made a specialty 
 of high-grade lumber, their stock of maple, birch, 
 beech, mahogany and other woods being one of the 
 largest on the Pacific Coast. In addition, the firm 
 is an importer of foreign cabinet woods on a large 
 scale, these including rosewood, African walnut and 
 mahogany. Their imports come largely from Santo 
 Domingo, Peru, Mexico, Africa and the Philippine 
 Islands. Mr. Stanton, during his long experience, 
 brought the import branch of his business up to the 
 same plane as the domestic end, in which he was 
 one of the best informed men in the country. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stanton was a Republican. He 
 was a self-made man, his first capital being his 
 knowledge of the lumber business. He always took 
 an interest in the conservation and development of 
 the lumber interests of his State and the West. 
 
 Mr. Stanton was devoted to the work of upbuild- 
 ing Los Angeles and was an active force in civic 
 affairs. 
 
 Among the many important buildings in whose 
 erection he and his company played a part were the 
 Potter Hotel, at Santa Barbara, Cal.; Lankershim 
 Hotel, Los Angeles; Hotel Wentworth, Pasadena, 
 Cal.; Spreckels Theater, San Diego, Cal., and nu- 
 merous large office buildings. 
 
 Among the interests of which he was an officer 
 are: E. J. Stanton & Son, Wholesale and Retail 
 Lumber; the Klamath River Lumber Company, Di- 
 rector; the California Sugar & White Pine Agency, 
 Agent, Southwestern territory. 
 
 Mr. Stanton was a member of the Jonathan, Un- 
 ion League, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles 
 Country Clubs; the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- 
 merce, Chamber of Mines, Los Angeles Com- 
 mandery No. 9, Knights Templar, Los Angeles 
 Consistory No. 3, thirty-second degree Mason, Al 
 Malaikah Shrine and B. P. O. E., No. 99. 
 
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 T ANTON, ERASTUS H. (De- 
 ceased), Lumberman and Manu- 
 facturer, Ionia, Michigan, was born 
 at Durham, Greene County, New 
 York, November 13, 1816, the son 
 of Rufus H. Stanton and Martha 
 (Niles-) Stanton. He married Mary Sanford at 
 Greenville, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1840, and to them were 
 born five children, Adelaide, Mary Alice, Charles 
 H., Erastus J. and Edward B. Stanton. Mr. Stanton 
 was of Welsh and Scotch an- 
 cestry, his paternal grand- 
 father having lived in Con- 
 necticut and New York State 
 prior to the beginning of the 
 eighteenth century. His 
 mother was descended of 
 Scotch Quakers who fled 
 Great Britain to escape relig- 
 ious persecution during the 
 reign of King Charles II. His 
 father served in the War of 
 1812. 
 
 Mr. Stanton, who attained 
 prominence in political and 
 business circles of the mid- 
 dle West, received his edu- 
 cation in the public schools 
 and an academy of his na- 
 tive town and supplemented 
 his studies with extensive 
 reading. He began life as an 
 apprentice boy in a mercan- 
 tile establishment at Rens- 
 selaerville, N. Y., and went 
 into business for himself at 
 Greenville, N. Y., in 1837. 
 
 .After twelve years Mr. 
 Stanton moved to Rockton, 
 
 Illinois, and purchased a farm about a mile from the 
 Wisconsin State line. He remained in that section, 
 engaged in farming, banking and mercantile pur- 
 suits for approximately eighteen years, going then 
 to Ionia, Mich., where he lived until his death in 1886. 
 At Ionia Mr. Stanton resumed the mercantile 
 business and conducted it until he engaged in lum- 
 ber operations at Stanton and Sheridan, Michigan, 
 having mills at both places. He was an active 
 factor in business life until 1883, when he retired. 
 During his long life Mr. Stanton, who was dis- 
 tinguished for his integrity and fine traits of char- 
 acter, was active in many enterprises and was a 
 prominent figure in public affairs. He founded the 
 town of Stanton, Michigan, and in 1872, when the 
 Ionia & Stanton railroad project was inaugurated, 
 he was elected a Director and Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the company and filled these offices until 
 the road was absorbed some years later by the 
 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan Company. 
 
 Mr. Stanton attracted attention to himself early 
 in his business career and in 1838, a year after he 
 
 ERASTUS H. STANTON 
 
 had embarked in business for himself at Green- 
 ville, N. Y., he was commissioned by Governor 
 Marcy of that State to be Quartermaster of the 
 37th Brigade of State troops. He served for four 
 years. 
 
 In 1861, while a resident of Illinois, he was 
 chosen by General Yates (later Governor of the 
 State), as his military aide and in this capacity 
 made a tour of inspection to the several Illinois 
 regiments encamped with the Department of North 
 Missouri to see that the men 
 were properly equipped with 
 clothing, food, arms and 
 other necessities. 
 
 Mr. Stanton began his po- 
 litical life as a Democrat, 
 but severed his connection 
 with that party as early as 
 1856, and from that time for- 
 ward was a staunch sup- 
 porter of the Republican 
 party. While in New York 
 State and Illinois- he was 
 honored on various occasions 
 with public office, serving, 
 among other positions, as a 
 supervisor. In 1879 he was 
 elected Mayor of Ionia, Mich- 
 igan, and re-elected the next 
 year. 
 
 At the end of his second 
 term as Mayor he was elect- 
 ed to represent the Twenty- 
 fourth District of Michigan 
 in the State Senate, and dur- 
 ing his two years as a mem- 
 ber of that body was one of 
 the leaders. He declined a 
 renomination in 1882, in or- 
 der to retire to private life, but at the urgent so- 
 licitation of his friends, he permitted his name to 
 be used as a candidate for the nomination for 
 State Treasurer of Michigan. He was too modest 
 to make a personal canvass, however, and even re- 
 fused to go before the State Convention, held that 
 year at Kalamazoo, and aid his own candidacy. 
 The result was that he failed to receive the nom- 
 ination and, learning that certain ones had broken 
 their pledges to him, he retired from politics. 
 
 He spent his last years quietly, leaving his busi- 
 ness to his sons, one of whom, E. J. Stanton of Los 
 Angeles, attained a strong position there. 
 
 Mr. Stanton's death occurred at Ionia on May 
 8, 1886, and "The Ionia Sentinel" summed up the 
 man as follows: 
 
 "As a neighbor he was kind and considerate to 
 others; as a citizen, upright and just; as a business 
 man, honest and honorable in all his dealings; as 
 a Legislator, incorruptible and fearless; as a friend, 
 ever true." 
 
 No greater tribute could be paid any man. 
 
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 663 
 
 YATT, HENRY CLAY, (Deceased), 
 Theatrical Manager, Los Ange- 
 les, California, was born at Rich- 
 mond, Va., June 29, 1849, the son 
 of William A. Wyatt and Lucy 
 (Downey) Wyatt. He was a 
 
 member of a family prominent in Virginia for 
 
 many generations, his father's ancestors having 
 
 been English while his mother was of Irish de- 
 scent. He married at Richmond, Va., about 1872. 
 
 They had four children, one 
 
 son and three daughters, of 
 
 whom one son and one 
 
 daughter are living. 
 
 Mr. Wyatt received his 
 
 education in private schools 
 
 of Virginia, but abandoned 
 
 his studies when he was 
 
 about fifteen years of age 
 
 and offered his services to 
 
 the Confederate cause. He 
 
 enlisted at Richmond in the 
 
 First Virginia Regiment, as 
 
 a drummer boy and was at- 
 tached to Kemper's Brigade 
 
 in Pickett's Division. He saw 
 
 one year of active service 
 
 and then was mustered out 
 
 with his regiment following 
 
 Lee's surrender. 
 
 Two years after the war's 
 
 close Mr. Wyatt, then only 
 
 about eighteen years of age, 
 
 began his theatrical career, 
 
 in which he was to achieve 
 
 note later, as Treasurer of 
 
 the old Richmond Theater 
 
 in Richmond, Va. He con- 
 tinued in this capacity until 
 
 1870, when he resigned and 
 
 embarked in business for 
 
 himself as the proprietor 
 
 of a music house known as 
 
 the Richmond Music Em- 
 
 H. C. WYATT 
 
 ponum. 
 
 He continued his interest in theatrical affairs 
 and in 1874, in company with Col. John McCaull, 
 of opera fame, and John F. Allen, opened the 
 Mozart Hall of Richmond, he having the manage- 
 ment of the institution. Soon he became identified 
 with other theatrical enterprises and in addition 
 to his Richmond business, managed theaters in 
 Petersburg, Norfolk and several smaller Virginia 
 towns. His success in the handling of these sev- 
 eral houses caused Mr. Wyatt to be chosen by 
 John T. Ford, the famous theatrical magnate of 
 Baltimore, in whose Washington theater Presi- 
 dent Lincoln was shot by Booth, as Manager of 
 the tour of the Emma Thursby Concert Company, 
 made up of Miss Thursby, Will T. Carleton, bari- 
 tone; Alfred Pease, pianist; Emil Toedt, violinist, 
 and George W. Calby, accompanist. 
 
 Mr. Wyatt received on this tour one of the 
 largest salaries ever paid to a manager up to that 
 time and upon the completion organized the orig- 
 inal Mendelssohn Quintette Club, which he had on 
 tour for about a year. He next managed the con- 
 cert tour of the great Wilhelmj and Glister Satter, 
 a noted pianist. 
 
 Mr. Wyatt then managed Steinway Hall in New 
 York City for a time, and, being possessed of a rich 
 tenor voice, organized "The California Quartette," 
 
 which attained distinction in theatrical circles. 
 This marked Mr. Wyatt's advent into California, 
 the quartette, after four weeks with Emerson's San 
 Francisco Minstrels, being re-engaged for eighty 
 weeks. Mr. Wyatt, singing first tenor, won a splen- 
 did reputation with these minstrels, which were 
 headed by the famous Billy Emerson, and at the 
 conclusion of the eighty weeks' engagement, organ- 
 ized the H. C. Wyatt, Courtright & Hawkins Min- 
 strels, playing on the Pacific Coast a year. He 
 wound up an engagement of 
 eleven weeks at the Bush St. 
 Theater, San Francisco, then 
 went to Los Angeles, where 
 the company was reorgan- 
 ized as the Wyatt, Arlington 
 & Gerard Minstrels. 
 
 Determining to make his 
 permanent home in Los An- 
 geles, Mr. Wyatt, in the 
 early part of 1886, gave up 
 playing and obtained the 
 management of the Grand 
 Opera House of Los Angeles-. 
 Later he added to this the 
 management of the Los An- 
 geles Theater, and then took 
 over the management of the- 
 aters of Riverside, Pasadena, 
 San Bernardino, and San Di- 
 ego, forming a complete 
 Southern California circuit. 
 In his numerous houses he 
 played the Klaw & Erlanger 
 attractions, having been the 
 representative of that noted 
 syndicate, in Southern Cali- 
 fornia since 1882. 
 
 During the season of 1888, 
 Mr. Wyatt managed H. C. 
 Wyatt's English Opera Com- 
 pany over the Southern Cali- 
 fornia circuit, but from that 
 time forward devoted him- 
 self exclusively to the man- 
 agement of the several theaters in which he was 
 interested. 
 
 Realizing the necessity for a larger and more 
 modern theater in Los Angeles, Mr. Wyatt, in 1903, 
 induced John Mason, a Los Angeles capitalist, to 
 build the Mason Opera House, he aiding in its de- 
 sign and planning. Upon the completion of the 
 house, which was at that time the finest theater in 
 California, Mr. Wyatt became sole lessee and man- 
 ager, occupying this position until his death, which 
 occurred after a brief illness, on July 25, 1910. 
 Since that time his theatrical interests- have been 
 under the management of his son, W. C. Wyatt, 
 who had been his father's assistant. 
 
 Mr. Wyatt, considered the dean of theatrical 
 managers in Southern California, was President of 
 the Los Angeles Theatrical Managers' Association, 
 and for many years prior to his death represented 
 the Actors' Fund of America in Los Angeles. He 
 was a man of many talents, a composer and mu- 
 sician of ability. He was a member of the United 
 Confederate Veterans and of the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, and was one of the founders of 
 Lodge 99, B. P. O. Elks, of Los Angeles. He also 
 belonged to the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, the 
 Friars' Club of New York, and the Los Angeles Hu- 
 mane Society. He was a life member of the Elks. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 ORGANSTERN, ALFRED 
 J., Attorney-at-Law, San Di- 
 ego, California, was born at 
 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
 April 30, 1869, the son of 
 Jacob Morganstern and Henrietta (May) 
 Morganstern. He has been twice married. 
 His first wife was Katharine Donnelly, 
 whom he married at Eau Claire, March 22, 
 1889. She died after 
 bearing him two children, 
 Josephine (now the wife 
 of Dr. R. J. McAdory of 
 Los Angeles), and Laura 
 (now Mrs. E. M. Harris 
 of Pittsburg:). His sec- 
 ond marriage was to Ber- 
 tha Edgington Strouse at 
 San Francisco, February 
 24, 1902, and to them 
 there has been born a son, 
 A. J. Morganstern, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Morganstern re- 
 ceived his primary edu- 
 cation in the public 
 school of Pittsburgr and 
 was graduated from the 
 high school of St. Paul, 
 Minnesota. He had mas- 
 tered stenography and 
 shortly after leaving 
 school was appointed to 
 the position of Court Ste- 
 nographer. While serving 
 in this capacity he read 
 law and upon attaining: 
 his majority, he was ad- 
 mitted to practice in the courts of Wisconsin. 
 Within a few months after he began prac- 
 tice he was called in as associate counsel for 
 the Wisconsin Central Railroad in the settle- 
 ment of lieu land cases by which the railroad 
 recovered an immense amount of land. This 
 case, which was one of the most important 
 in the history of Wisconsin jurisprudence up 
 to that time, resulted from squatters taking 
 possession of lands owned by the railroad 
 and Mr. Morganstern aided in the passage of 
 a grant by Congress by which the company 
 received several million acres of land in lieu 
 of those which had been taken by outside 
 parties. 
 
 In 1891, closely following the settlement of 
 the lieu lands litigation, Mr. Morganstern 
 moved to San Francisco and after admission 
 to the courts of California, began practice 
 there. He remained in that city about fifteen 
 years, during fourteen of which he was in 
 
 A. J. MORGANSTERN 
 
 close affiliation with the political leaders of 
 the day. In the early nineties he defended 
 certain legislators who were mentioned in 
 connection with the workings of the Coyote 
 Scalp Bill, a California statute providing a 
 bounty for all the animals slain within the 
 State limits. 
 
 It was charged at the time that the 
 Legislature had been generally corrupted 
 
 and Mr. Morganstern, by 
 
 means of a subpoena, tel- 
 egraphed to the State 
 line, caused the arrest 
 of an express messenger 
 and his return to Sacra- 
 mento with a shipment 
 of telegrams bearing on 
 the charges. More than 
 fifteen thousand tele- 
 grams were read by the 
 investigating committee, 
 with the result that Mr. 
 Morganstern's clients 
 were declared not guilty 
 of the acts with which 
 they were charged. 
 
 During his many years 
 of activity in the ranks 
 of the San Francisco Re- 
 publican organization, 
 Mr. Morganstern drafted 
 numerous pieces of legis- 
 lation which stand today 
 upon the Statute Books of 
 California, relating to the 
 method and conduct of 
 elections and the govern- 
 ment of municipalities. He began to with- 
 draw from politics about 1900, and now de- 
 votes himself almost exclusively to practice. 
 In 1905 he moved to Los Angeles and prac- 
 ticed there for about three years, when he 
 moved to San Diego, where he engaged in 
 practice. He has had unusual success in both 
 civil and criminal cases, attaining a degree of 
 prominence in the legal profession. 
 
 During his days of political activity, Mr. 
 Morganstern was on the county and State 
 central committees of the Republican party, 
 but never held public office. He was a per- 
 sonal friend of President McKinley, whose 
 guest he was upon numerous occasions dur- 
 ing the Ohioan's occupancy of the White 
 House, and in 1898 made a tour of the South 
 with him as his personal guest. 
 
 He is a member of South Gate Lodge No. 
 320, F. & A. M., and is dictator of the San 
 Diego Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose. 
 
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 665 
 
 ILKINSON, HENRY BAN- 
 NISTER, Attorney; Pres. 
 Phoenix Title & Trust Co., 
 Phoenix, Arizona, was born 
 at Mount Morris, Illinois, 
 July 31, 1870. He is a son of Rufus -H. Wil- 
 kinson and Adelia (Quackenbush) Wilkin- 
 son, descended from two of the oldest fam- 
 ilies in America. His maternal ancestors 
 
 were among the earliest __ 
 
 Dutch settlers of New 
 York and allied to the 
 noted Quackenbush fam- 
 ily of that State. The 
 Wilkinsons emigrated 
 from Great Britain to 
 the United States early 
 in the life of the new 
 country. Both sides have 
 given men to every war 
 in the nation's history, 
 from the French and In- 
 dian Campaigns down to 
 date, with the exception 
 of the Mexican War. 
 General James Wilkin- 
 son, one of the notable 
 figures of the War of 
 1812, was of the same 
 family. 
 
 Mr. Wilkinson received 
 his primary education in 
 the public schools of 
 Illinois and was gradu- 
 ated from Northwestern 
 Academy at Evanston, 
 Illinois, in 1890. He en- 
 tered Northwestern Uni- 
 versity the following year as a member of the 
 class of 1894, but at the close of his Fresh- 
 man year was compelled to give up his 
 studies on account of serious illness. 
 
 In 1892, Mr. Wilkinson became a school 
 teacher in St. Charles, Illinois, and after one 
 year was appointed Superintendent of 
 Schools for that place. He retained this po- 
 sition for two years, resigning in 1895 to take 
 up the study of law at Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. He was graduated in 1897 with the 
 degree of LL.B., and was immed'atelv ad- 
 mitted to practice before the Supreme Court 
 of the State of Illinois. 
 
 He entered the office of Charles S. McNett, 
 of Chicago, with whom he had been working 
 a year previous to his graduation, but within 
 a few months the recurrence of ill health 
 forced him to abandon the law temporarily 
 for a less confining occupation. He was ar>- 
 pointed Assistant Superintendent of Schools 
 for Kane County, Illinois, and held that posi- 
 
 H. B. WILKINSON 
 
 tion for two years, resigning in October, 
 1899, because his health continued poor. 
 
 Leaving Illinois, Mr. Wilkinson moved di- 
 rectly to Phoenix, Arizona, and has remained 
 there continually since. He took a desk in 
 the office of L. H. Chalmers, one of the noted 
 attorneys of the Southwest, and a year later 
 became a partner, the firm being known as 
 Chalmers & Wilkinson. Mr. Chalmers had 
 figured in various cele- 
 brated cases and when 
 Mr. Wilkinson became a 
 member of the firm it 
 handled a large part of 
 the important corporation 
 litigation. Its clientele 
 included the Pacific Gas 
 & Electric Company, 
 American Smelting & 
 Refining Company, Phoe- 
 nix National Bank, Ray 
 Consolidated Copper 
 Company, and other min- 
 ing concerns. They also 
 represented the Santa Fe 
 Railroad in Arizona Ter- 
 ritory. 
 
 In 1910, Mr. Wilkinson 
 organized the Phoenix 
 Title & Trust Com- 
 pany and in November, 
 1911, eighteen months 
 after the company was 
 formed, withdrew from 
 the firm of Chalmers & 
 Wilkinson in order to de- 
 vote more time to his 
 new company, in which 
 he now holds the active office of President. 
 Mr. Wilkinson has been, in the interest of 
 the Republican party, a member of various 
 committees and a delegate at different times 
 to the party conventions. He served as Cu- 
 rator of the Territorial Library, appointed by 
 Governors Murphy, Brodie and Sloan, and 
 was Territorial Librarian when Arizona be- 
 came a State. He ran for District Attorney 
 of Maricopa County, but was defeated by 
 George Purdy Bullard, now State Attorney 
 General. This was the only occasion upon 
 which he ever sought office. 
 
 He is President, Phoenix Title & Trust 
 Company, Vice Pres., Arizona Seed Co., 
 Director, Phoenix Board of Trade, Direc- 
 tor and Attorney for the Home Build- 
 ers of Phoenix, and same for the Phoenix 
 Building & Loan Assn. He is member, Ari- 
 zona Club, Modern Woodmen, Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and President, Ari- 
 zona State Bar Association. 
 
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 HON. STEPHEN W. DORSEY 
 
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 ORSEY, HON. STEPHEN WAL- 
 LACE, Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 California, and London, England, 
 was born at Benson, Vermont, 
 February 28, 1844, the son of John 
 W. and Marie H. Dorsey. He mar- 
 ried Laura Bigelow, daughter of John P. Bigelow, 
 of Washington, D. C., and London, England, in the 
 latter city, in 1901. He is of French antecedents 
 and a member of a distinguished New England 
 family. 
 
 Senator Dorsey spent his boyhood on the farm 
 of his father, attending the public schools of the 
 district meantime, and in 1858 went to Oberlin, 
 Ohio, where he became a student in Oberlin 
 College. 
 
 On April 19, 1861, he responded to the call of 
 President Lincoln and enlisted in the Union Army 
 as a private for what was then thought to be three 
 months' service. At the end of that period he re- 
 enlisted (August 1, 1861) in the First Ohio Light 
 Artillery. He served from then until the end of 
 the war, was in more than twenty important bat- 
 tles, was wounded four times and received numer- 
 ous promotions for gallantry in action. He was 
 first promoted to the rank of Corporal, then, in 
 quick succession, to Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, 
 First Lieutenant, Captain and Major, and in 1865, 
 when he was only twenty-one years of age, at- 
 tained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was 
 actively engaged in the battles of Phillippi, Rich 
 Mountain, Carrick's Ford, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, 
 Perrysville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout 
 Mountain and Missionary Ridge. In all of these 
 engagements he was a member of the corps of 
 General George H. Thomas, but in January, 1864, 
 was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, going 
 east with Generals Grant and Sheridan. With 
 them he took part in the battles of the Wilderness, 
 Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor and Peters- 
 burg. In August, 1864, he went with the Sixth 
 Corps to the defense of Washington and was in 
 battles immediately adjoining the national capital, 
 including Winchester, Cedar Creek and all other 
 engagements during the Sheridan campaign of 
 that year. In January, 1865, he returned with his 
 command to Petersburg and engaged in the battles 
 leading to the capture of Petersburg, of Sailor 
 Creek, and, finally, of Appomattox. 
 
 During the war Senator Dorsey became a friend 
 of Thomas A. Scott, then an Assistant Secretary 
 of War (later President of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road system), whose duties included the control of 
 the transportation of troops and supples. By his 
 association in this work, Senator Dorsey saw the 
 possibilities of a railroad career, and at the con- 
 clusion of the war became, through Mr. Scott, 
 actively identified with the railroad business in 
 the Southwest, assisting in the reorganization and 
 construction of lines which had been demoralized 
 during the years of hostility. Following this he 
 took an active part in the incorporation and con- 
 struction, as Chief Engineer, of various railroads 
 in the South, including the Texas & Pacific, Little 
 Rock & Fort Smith and the Arkansas Central. 
 
 In order to devote his time fully to his work, 
 "Senator Dorsey made his home in Arkansas and, 
 while actively engaged in his railroad enterprises, 
 became an important factor in the politics of that 
 section. As a strong supporter of the Republican 
 party, he was soon recognized as one of its leaders 
 and in 1868 was elected delegate to the Republican 
 National Convention which nominated General U. 
 
 S. Grant, his old commander, for the Presidency of 
 the United States. He also attended the National 
 Conventions of 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1884 and served 
 as a member of the Republican National Committee 
 during those years. In 1872 he was Assistant 
 Secretary of the Committee, in 1876 was Vice 
 Chairman and in 1880 was Chairman, having charge 
 of the campaign which resulted in the election of 
 President Garfield. 
 
 Though not a candidate for office, he was elected 
 United States Senator in 1875, in opposition to 
 Thomas M. Bowen, the "Carpet Bag Candidate." 
 Senator Dorsey received practically the entire 
 Democratic vote in addition to the solid Republican 
 vote, receiving one hundred and four votes in the 
 Legislature out of a total of one hundred and 
 nineteen. 
 
 Senator Dorsey immediately became a con- 
 spicuous figure in the Senate. On the first day of 
 his service he was appointed a member of the im- 
 portant Appropriation Committee, Chairman of the 
 District of Columbia Committee and a member of 
 the Railroad Committee, which positions he oc- 
 cupied during his entire service. 
 
 In 1881, as a result of a bitter contest between 
 the Elaine wing of the Republican party and the 
 Conkling-Grant wing, which Senator Dorsey ad- 
 vocated, the Elaine faction attacked him, charging 
 him with frauds in the mail service. A trial last- 
 ing nearly a year followed, and the prosecution 
 gathered more than 12,000 letters which Senator 
 Dorsey had written, in the hope of finding evidence 
 of a compromising nature, but failed. The United 
 States judge sitting in the case stated in his charge 
 to the jury that there was no cause of action and 
 no evidence that Senator Dorsey was in any way 
 connected with any fraud or conspiracy. He was 
 acquitted without the jurors leaving their seats. 
 
 Since that time Senator Dorsey has taken no 
 active part in public affairs, devoting himself en- 
 tirely to his private interests. 
 
 For many years Senator Dorsey has been active 
 in mining affairs. Some time prior to 1873 he had 
 become interested in the business, and in that year 
 acquired an interest, with the late Senator Chaffee 
 of Colorado, in mines of Central City, Colorado. 
 They operated together for several years, and in 
 1878 became interested in mines at Leadville, Colo- 
 rado, where they met with great success. Senator 
 Dorsey also was interested at this time in the 
 Silver Cliff and Aspen mines, the latter a notable 
 silver property. In 1891, at the time of the Cripple 
 Creek discoveries, he acquired properties there 
 which he retained for many years afterwards. 
 
 In addition to his Colorado successes, Senator 
 Dorsey early became interested in mining in the 
 Southwest. He has- been for many years interested 
 in properties in Arizona, Southern California and 
 Sonora, Mexico, his Arizona holdings including an 
 interest in the Gold Roads Extension Company and 
 in the copper district of Clifton. 
 
 The Senator has been extremely active in all 
 of the properties with which he was connected, and 
 from Los Angeles, where he has made his home 
 since 1898, he has- directed his different companies. 
 
 Senator Dorsey is a member of the Royal Geo- 
 graphical Society, the Royal Archaeological Society, 
 the Society of Engineers and Metallurgy, the Inter- 
 national Club, and the Phillis Court Club (Henley), 
 all of London, England; the Army & Navy Club of 
 New York, and the Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion; the California Club, the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, the 
 latter three of Los Angeles, California. 
 
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 EUGENE OVERTON 
 
 VERTON, EUGENE, Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Fort Grant, Ariz., May 11, 1880, 
 the son of Captain Gilbert E. 
 Overton and Jane D. (Watkins) 
 Overton. His father being an 
 army officer, he traveled considerably in his early 
 youth and received his education in various parts 
 of the United States and in France, availing himself 
 of every opportunity to study. 
 
 He studied in France during 1890 and 1891 and 
 then returned to Washington, D. C., going to school 
 there until 1893. In the latter year the family 
 moved to Los- Angeles and he entered school there, 
 graduating from High School in 1899. 
 
 Upon leaving school he went to Arizona and 
 for six months was engaged in mining. He gave 
 this up, however, to study law and returned to Los 
 Angeles, where he entered the office of Lee & 
 Scott. Later the firm was changed to Lee, Scott, 
 Bailey & Chase. Mr. Overton had the advantage 
 of studying under all of these men and in 1902 was 
 admitted to the Bar. He continued with the firm 
 after graduation and during one of several changes- 
 was admitted to partnership, the firm becoming 
 Lee, Chase, Overton & Valentine. 
 
 On January 1, 1911, the firm was dissolved and 
 a new one formed, known as Chase, Overton & 
 Lyman, which has continued and numbers among 
 the substantial firms of the profession. 
 
 Mr. Overton is one of the few members- of the 
 Bar who had no college work, having gained his 
 knowledge of the law by his association with ex- 
 perienced pleaders. Since his admission to prac- 
 tice he has become one of the most successful 
 young attorneys in the Southwe&t. He specializes 
 in corporation work. 
 
 He is a member of the Sunset Yacht Club, the 
 California Club, Los Angeles Country Club and 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 
 
 GARFIELD R. JONES 
 
 ONES, GARFIELD R., Attorney, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 26, 1881, 
 the son- of William Hugh Jones 
 and Elizabeth (Owen) Jones. He 
 married Leta Hartshorn at Evans- 
 ton, 111., January 6, 1904, and they have two chil- 
 dren, Ruth Elizabeth and Eleanor Jones. 
 
 Mr. Jones' preliminary education was received 
 in Evanston, and by many years of foreign travel. 
 He graduated from Yale Law School in 1902, re- 
 ceiving the degree LL. B., Cum Laude, and the fol- 
 lowing year he received the degree LL. M., Magna 
 Cum Laude. While at Yale he was an editor of 
 Yale Law Journal and Joseph Parker Roman Law 
 Essayist for 1903. 
 
 He did not engage in practice until 1904. He 
 was then employed as special attorney by the In- 
 ternational Harvester Company to act for its sev- 
 eral subsidiary companies and to attend to the in- 
 terstate relations of the parent corporation. 
 
 In January, 1907, Mr. Jones severed his connec- 
 tion with the Harvester Company and went to 
 Pasadena, where he formed a law partners-hip with 
 J. P. Wood, who later became a Judge of the Su- 
 perior Court of Los Angeles County. This firm 
 was dissolved in September, 1907, and Mr. Jones 
 practiced alone until February, 1912, when he 
 formed another partnership with James S. Ben- 
 nett, which continues to date. 
 
 Besides his law practice, Mr. Jones has other 
 interests, including the Pan-American Hardwoods 
 Company and the Realty Investors Company of 
 Southern California. He is a Director in both. 
 
 He is a member of the Yale Law Society of 
 Corbey Court, the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, the Graduates Club of New 
 Haven, Conn.; Overland Club, Pasadena; Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club, Annandale and Midwick Coun- 
 try Clubs of Los Angeles and Pasadena. 
 
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 DR. C. B. NICHOLS 
 
 ICHOLS, CHARLES BYRON, Phy- 
 sician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born at Enfield, N. H., 
 June 30, 1847, the son of 
 Humphrey Nichols and Matilda 
 (Jones) Nichols. He is of Ameri- 
 can ancestry dating back nearly two centuries. He 
 married Lizy Mattocks (now deceased), at Han- 
 over, N. H., in December, 1871. They had one son, 
 William Mattocks Nichols, who died in 1905. In 
 March, 1895, at Denver, Colo., Dr. Nichols married 
 Mrs. Linnie B. Shy. 
 
 Dr. Nichols began his education in the public 
 and high schools of Enfield, then entered Kimball 
 Union Academy, at Meriden, N. H., where he re- 
 mained until 1863. In October, 1864, he was made 
 Acting Third Assistant Engineer, U. S. N., and par- 
 ticipated in the Atlantic Blockade, the battle of 
 Fort Fisher and several lesser affairs. At the close 
 of the war he made a trip around the world on 
 board the U. S. S. Shenandoah. He continued in 
 the Navy, visiting many of the famous cities of 
 the Old World during the cruise of the Shenandoah. 
 In 1869 he was honorably discharged, at Boston, 
 and entered Dartmouth University, graduating in 
 Nov., 1871, with the degree of M. D. 
 
 In 1898 Dr. Nichols entered the Army for ser- 
 vice in the Spanish-American War, served two 
 years as Post Surgeon at Fort Wingate, N. M., and 
 then went to the Philippine Islands. He was pro- 
 moted to a Captaincy, later became Major, and 
 handled a serious cholera epidemic in the Province 
 of Tarlac. 
 
 Locating in Los Angeles in 1903, Dr. Nichols has 
 been there since, and is a member of the L. A. 
 County Med. Ass'n., Sou. Cal. Med. Soc., L. A. Clin- 
 ical and Pathological Soc., and the American Med. 
 A&s'n. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight 
 Templar, Shriner, and a member of the University 
 Club. 
 
 W. D. WHELAN 
 
 HELAN, WELDON DEVERELL, 
 Insurance, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Tullamore, Kings County, 
 Ireland, December 7, 1859, the 
 son of Robert Whelan and Mary 
 (Deverell) Whelan, and grandson 
 of Capt. Patrick Whelan, who served under Wel- 
 lington at the Battle of Waterloo in the Royal En- 
 gineers, or, as it was then called, the "Sappers and 
 Miners." Mr. Whelan married Emily Cruise, daugh- 
 ter of William Vere Cruise of Menagh, County Tip- 
 perary, June 2, 1883, and to them were born three 
 children, Weldon D., Jr., Florence, and Blanche 
 Whelan. 
 
 Mr. Whelan received his education in the pri- 
 vate schools of Tullamore and Bates Academy, of 
 Dublin. Leaving school in 1877, he entered the 
 National Bank of Ireland as Junior Clerk, and later 
 was promoted to Teller. He held this until April, 
 1883, when he sailed for California, arriving there 
 two months later. 
 
 Purchasing a fruit ranch within thirty days of 
 his arrival in Los Angeles, Mr. Whelan embarked 
 in buisness as a fruit grower and continued in that 
 capacity for the next succeeding thirteen years. In 
 1894 he went into the insurance business and was 
 appointed representative in his district for the 
 Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Fran- 
 cisco. His success the first two years led him, in 
 1896, to go into the insurance field permanently 
 and he has been in the business ever since, having 
 leased his ranch that year and opened offices in 
 Los Angeles. After conducting his work for four 
 years, Mr. Whelan's company, in 1900, appointed 
 him Special Agent for the entire Southern Califor- 
 nia and Arizona territory, which field he controls. 
 In addition to his insurance business, Mr. 
 Whelan is a heavy real estate owner and a stock- 
 holder in various banks. He is a Republican and a 
 member of the California Club. 
 
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 ULLEN, THOMAS PATRICK, Rail- 
 way Superintendent, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Highland, 
 Wisconsin, January 15, 1864, the 
 son of James Cullen and Margaret 
 (Ford) Cullen. He married 
 Josephine Myer at Glendive, Montana, February 21, 
 1887, and to them there have been born five chil- 
 dren, Roy (deceased), Thomas, Jr., Ruth, Josephine 
 and Helen Cullen. Mr. Cullen's parents were both 
 born in Ireland, but were 
 brought to the United States 
 in childhood and spent the 
 earlier part of their lives in 
 Boston, Massachusetts. After 
 they were married they 
 moved to Wisconsin and re- 
 mained there until called by 
 death. 
 
 Mr. Cullen, who is one of 
 the old school of practical, 
 all - around railroad men, 
 trained before the day of 
 specialization, received his 
 primary education in the 
 public schools of his native 
 town. He left the school- 
 room when he was seventeen 
 years of age, however, to go 
 into the railroad business 
 and this has been his field of 
 operation ever since, a mat- 
 ter of about thirty years' ac- 
 tive service. 
 
 Mr. Cullen first began his 
 railroad career in the year 
 1882, when he obtained a po- 
 sition in the employ of the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad 
 
 Company at Glendive, Montana. The company was 
 at that time building through the State of Montana 
 and Mr. Cullen worked in the Construction Depart- 
 ment for about a year. Having learned the busi- 
 ness of road-building during this time, he decided 
 to qualify as a trainman and took a position as 
 brakeman on one of the Northern Pacific freight 
 divisions. He worked in this capacity for about 
 two years and in 1885 was placed in charge of a 
 train as conductor. He also was placed in charge 
 of reconstruction on part of the line and supervised 
 this work for about two years. 
 
 In 1887, Mr. Cullen was appointed General 
 Yardmaster for the Northern Pacific at Glendive, 
 and held this position for about one year, returning 
 at the end of the period to the freight service of 
 the road. For the next three years he remained in 
 this branch of the business, then was promoted to 
 the position of passenger conductor, in which he 
 continued for twelve years, or until 1902. At that 
 time he was offered the post of Superintendent of 
 the Los Angeles Division of the San Pedro, Los 
 
 THOMAS P. CULLEN 
 
 Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company ("the Salt 
 Lake Route"), by the President, Mr. W. A. Clark, 
 and accepted. He immediately removed to Los An- 
 geles and has held this position for ten years. He 
 brought to it the fruits of twenty years' experience 
 in all departments of the railroad business and dur- 
 ing his tenure of office has been an important fac- 
 tor in the management of the practical part of the 
 road's operation. When he first joined the company 
 it was in its infancy, but it has- since developed into 
 one of the leading railroads 
 of the West and has been in- 
 strumental in opening up a 
 splendid section of territory, 
 in addition to reducing the 
 time of travel between the 
 East and the West. 
 
 During his long residence 
 in Montana, Mr. Cullen, who 
 is a Democrat in his political 
 affiliation, took an active 
 part in politics and for many 
 years was regarded as one of 
 the leaders of the party. He 
 enjoyed an unusual personal 
 popularity, but consistently 
 refused to accept nomination 
 for public office until 1892, 
 when he was chosen as a 
 candidate for State Senator 
 on the Democratic ticket and 
 elected. He was re-elected 
 twice afterwards and served 
 in all about twelve years. 
 
 It was during his time in 
 the Senate that the famous 
 Clark-Daly struggle for the 
 control of the politics of 
 Montana ensued. These two 
 
 factions, led respectively by William A. Clark and 
 Marcus Daly, both recognized among the great cop- 
 per magnates of the world, kept up their rivalry for 
 many years and the deciding battle finally was 
 fought in the Legislature of 1901, when Mr. Clark 
 was chosen United States Senator. The latter had 
 been twice chosen for the honor prior to that time, 
 but on one occasion, in 1890, was denied his seat, 
 and on another (1898), resigned when a contest 
 was inaugurated by his opponents, preferring to 
 give up his seat, rather than have it questioned. 
 
 Mr. Cullen, during his entire career in the Mon- 
 tana Senate, was a great admirer of Mr. Clark, and 
 supported him unswervingly from the beginning to 
 the end of the celebrated battle. He was generally 
 credited with having had an important part in 
 bringing about ultimate success for the Clark cause. 
 Since transferring his home to Los Angeles, Mr. 
 Cullen has taken only passive interest in political 
 affairs and has devoted himself almost exclusively 
 to his position as Superintendent of the "Salt Lake 
 Railroad." 
 
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 671 
 
 EYNOLDS, CECIL EDWARD, M. 
 R. C. S., L. R. C. P., Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, Gal., was 
 born at Paxton Hall, the family 
 place, in St. Neots, Hunts, Eng- 
 land, Nov. 24, 1880. He is the son 
 of Edward Reynolds and Alice (Fisher-Brown) Rey- 
 nolds. On his paternal grandmother's side the fam- 
 ily traces in direct line to the year 1400, one of his an- 
 cestors at that time having been gentleman-usher to 
 King Henry the Fourth. The 
 Reynolds family has been 
 prominent in England for 
 more than three hundred 
 years and in its- history ap- 
 pear numerous men of note. 
 Among these are Richard 
 Reynolds, Bishop of Lincoln, 
 and the builder of Paxton 
 Hall, which has been the 
 homestead of the Reynolds 
 line since 1725. Another was 
 the Bishop's son, Dr. George 
 Reynolds, Chancellor of Pet- 
 erborough. Mary Reynolds, a 
 first cousin, became the Bar- 
 oness D'Arcy de Knayth and 
 Conyers. Her daughters, Mar- 
 cia Amelia and Violet, married 
 respectively, the Fourth Earl 
 of Yarborough and the Fourth 
 Earl of Powis, Viscount Clive. 
 His primary education he 
 received in various private 
 institutions in England and 
 Europe, these including Bel- 
 vedere Belmont, at Brighton; 
 Malvern College, at Worces- 
 ter, and Villa Longchamps, at 
 Lausanne, Switzerland, where 
 he played in the champion- 
 ship football team of all Switz- 
 erland, and later in the inter- 
 hospital cup team, London. 
 From there he entered upon 
 the study of medicine and surgery, withstanding 
 all the tests of the unusually severe English stand- 
 ards. He entered the University College and Hos- 
 pital, London, in 1898, and was graduated in 1904, 
 receiving M. R. C. S. (Member of the Royal College 
 of Surgeons, of England), and L. R. C. P. (Licenti- 
 ate Royal College of Physicians). He received the 
 Fellowes Medal in the Senior Class of Clinical Medi- 
 cine in University College (1902-03). Several years 
 later (1910), after he had been in successful prac- 
 tice, he received from Cambridge University the 
 Diploma in Public Health, the highest qualification 
 in State Medicine. 
 
 After his graduation in 1904, Dr. Reynolds be- 
 came a House Surgeon in University College Hos- 
 pital, London, one of the large institutions of the 
 metropolis, where, for the next two years he was 
 engaged. For a time he was Assistant Demonstra- 
 tor of Anatomy, then Obstetric Assistant, Clinical 
 Assistant to the Out-Patients and Electrical Depart- 
 ment, General House Surgeon and House Surgeon 
 to the Throat and Ear Department. 
 
 In 1906, Dr. Reynolds served as Surgeon to the 
 Orient Royal Mail Steamship Company, and later 
 was Deputy Anaesthetist to the Central London 
 Throat and Ear Hospital, and Honorary Anaesthet- 
 ist to the Sussex County Hospital. He was in the 
 
 DR. CECIL E. REYNOLDS 
 
 latter position about a year and a half and also was 
 engaged during that time in private practice in 
 Sussex. 
 
 From Sussex, Dr. Reynolds went to Berkshire, 
 where he served for more than a year as Assistant 
 Medical Officer for Berkshire County. In 1910, he 
 made application for the responsible post of 
 School Medical Officer to the London County 
 Council and received the appointment after many 
 of the leading medical and surgical authorities of 
 England had recommended 
 him for it. One of his en- 
 dorsers at that time was Sir 
 Victor Horsley, F. R. S., F. R. 
 C. S., who wrote of Dr. Rey- 
 nolds, thus: 
 
 "Being for a very long time 
 acquainted with the work of Dr. 
 Reynolds, I am very glad to of- 
 fer my testimony in favour of 
 his appointment as Medical In- 
 spector of School Children. His 
 career at University College Hos- 
 pital, where I had the opportu- 
 nity of observing his work, was 
 a distinguished one, and he 
 gained a comprehensive general 
 knowledge by taking up the va- 
 rious posts, and availing him- 
 self to the fullest possible de- 
 gree of the opportunities they 
 afforded. In all his work. Dr. 
 Reynolds has been indefatigable 
 In perfecting his knowledge as a 
 physician and surgeon, with the 
 result that, both in diagnosis 
 and treatment, he is a highly 
 skilled practitioner. 
 
 "His knowledge of hospital 
 duty is extensive, and he has 
 had a wide experience of re- 
 sponsibility, having held chief 
 appointments in University Col- 
 lege Hospital. His clinical ex- 
 perience has been very large, 
 and therefore he is in every way 
 fitted to take the responsibile 
 position he now seeks. He takes 
 the greatest interest in his pro- 
 fession, is of a most kindly and 
 courteous disposition, and as a 
 colleague would prove most help- 
 ful." 
 
 Dr. Reynolds served as 
 Medical Officer of Health to 
 
 the London County Council for approximately a 
 year and during that time made a splendid record 
 because of his conscientious performance of the 
 duty connected with the post and his unusual in- 
 terest in the health of the hundreds of children 
 who came under his jurisdiction. Having been so 
 continuously an observer of child life and the afflic- 
 tions to which children fall heir, he came to be re- 
 garded as an expert in this particular branch of his 
 profession and wrote variously on the subjects con- 
 nected with it. He devoted particular attention to 
 hygiene in these papers and strove to instruct par- 
 ents in this important phase of child care. 
 
 Upon the expiration of his term, Dr. Reynolds 
 resigned his office as School Doctor and sailed for 
 America. He landed in Los Angeles in September, 
 1911. He carried with him the finest kind of pro- 
 fessional recommendations and was immediately 
 welcomed by the medical fraternity of Southern 
 California as a valuable addition to their ranks. 
 
 Since he began practice there, in associa- 
 tion with Dr. F. M. Pottenger, the noted lung spe- 
 cialist, Dr. Reynolds has met with unusual success 
 and is the head of an extensive practice in surgery 
 and medicine. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds is a constant student and devotes 
 practically all of his time to his profession. 
 
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 J. F. CLEAVELAND 
 
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 673 
 
 LEAVELAND, JOHN FREDERIC, 
 Banker, Phoenix, Arizona, was 
 born in Denver, Colorado, No- 
 vember 30, 1878, the son of John 
 Riddle Cleaveland and Helen 
 Bateman Cleaveland. He is a di- 
 rect descendant of General Moses Cleaveland, sol- 
 dier, educator, philosopher, philanthropist and 
 founder of the city of Cleveland, Ohio. He married 
 Zelma Bailey at Phoenix, March 11, 1908, and to 
 tbem has been born one son, John Bailey Cleave- 
 land. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland received his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Denver, graduating 
 from the high school of that city in the class of 
 1897. He then entered the University of Colorado, 
 but left at the end of his sophomore year to take 
 up the study of law in the office of Thomas Ward 
 of Denver. Although qualified to do so, he has 
 never practiced law. He went instead to Morenci, 
 Arizona, where he entered the employ of the De- 
 troit Copper Company. After two years' service 
 with this company he accepted the superintendency 
 of the Morenci Water Company. While connected 
 with this company Mr. Cleaveland, in 1902, be- 
 came the owner of the Morenci Leader and the 
 Solomonsville Bulletin, two weekly papers devoted 
 to the mining development of Arizona. In 1906 he 
 resigned his position with the water company and 
 for the next two years gave his time to the man- 
 agement of these two publications. 
 
 He moved to Phoenix in 1908, after a brilliant 
 career in the political field, and in May, 1910, be- 
 came interested in the Union Bank & Trust Com- 
 pany, of which he was elected Cashier. In July, 
 1911, he was elected President of the institution. 
 Mr. Cleaveland, who has been active in politics 
 for more than ten years, is a Progressive Repub- 
 lican an indefatigable worker and a possible 
 candidate for Governor at the next State election. 
 In 1902 he was elected Chairman of the Graham 
 County Republican Central Committee, serving 
 also as a member of the Territorial Executive Com- 
 mittee; in 1906, when he was but 28, he was elected 
 a member of the council of the Twenty-fourth Leg- 
 islature. His victory in this election remains one 
 of the historic events in the politics of Graham 
 County. This is one of the strongholds of Democ- 
 racy and he is the only Republican ever elected to 
 the Legislature from there. His opponent was the 
 speaker of the Lower House and Mr. Cleaveland's 
 victory by more than three hundred majority, after 
 he had made a horseback canvass, was one of the 
 greatest surprises in the political records of the 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland was chosen floor leader of the 
 majority and elected president pro tempore of the 
 Senate, and under his leadership numerous statute 
 reforms were adopted. Among these was the Bul- 
 lion Tax Law, increasing the taxation on mine pro- 
 ductions, thus giving to the State an increase of 
 more than 100 per cent in yearly revenues. Acts 
 were passed for the regulation of saloons, abolition 
 of gambling and other vice. The entire school 
 law of Arizona was revised, greater efficiency of 
 teachers being required and an increase of salaries 
 allowed. The schools of the State have always 
 been a particular study with Mr. Cleaveland and 
 he has served as a member of the visiting board of 
 the two State normal schools with the result that 
 various progressive methods have been incorpo- 
 rated into the managerial system. Another branch 
 of public policy which has claimed a great deal of 
 his attention is that of prison reform, and during 
 
 his service in the Legislature he was instrumental 
 in having adopted certain legislation for the cor- 
 rection of the methods used in the treatment of 
 prisoners, one of the most important being the in- 
 stitution of the indeterminate sentence law, under 
 which a prisoner is given a chance to reform and 
 gain his liberty through good behavior. 
 
 At the conclusion of his legislative work in 1908 
 Mr. Cleaveland was chosen by Governor Kibbey, 
 in recognition of his record in the Senate, to as- 
 sist him in his official duties as confidential sec- 
 retary. In this capacity he proved himself an in- 
 valuable official. Recognizing his ability, Judge 
 Sloan, when appointed Governor, retained him in 
 the office and during their association he wielded 
 even more influence than he had previously. When 
 he became interested in banking affairs in the 
 spring of 1910, Mr. Cleaveland tried to resign this 
 office, but he was not relieved until nearly a year 
 later. 
 
 In 1911, at the first general State election, Mr. 
 Cleaveland, nominated for Secretary of State by 
 the Republicans, although not elected, led his 
 ticket by approximately one thousand votes. Mr. 
 Cleaveland has served Phoenix as chairman of 
 a Citizens' Committee of thirty-one, chosen to re- 
 vise the city charter preparatory to installing the 
 commission form of government, and he was elect- 
 ed by the voters on June 6, 1912, to be a member 
 of the official Charter Revision Commission. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland was made President of the 
 State Roosevelt Clubs and led the fight for the 
 Presidential primaries. This failed of adoption 
 because the State Executive Committee was not in 
 sympathy with the plan and a direct result was 
 a split at the State convention, held in Tucson, 
 where the Roosevelt supporters refused to accept 
 the program of the Executive Committee and held 
 an independent convention, at which national del- 
 egates were chosen. Mr. Cleaveland was the unan- 
 imous choice of the Progressives for Republican 
 National Committeeman for Arizona. Mr. Cleave- 
 land enjoys a remarkable popularity among the 
 members of both wings of the party and it is gen- 
 erally believed that he will be the next nominee of 
 the Republicans for Governor of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland is looked upon as one of the 
 most enterprising men in the city and has devoted 
 himself willingly to all public matters which have 
 for their object the betterment of civic conditions. 
 Besides his banking interests already mentioned, 
 Mr. Cleaveland is interested in farming and stock- 
 raising in the Salt River Valley and is also identi- 
 fied with companies which are developing proper- 
 ties in the Copper Mountain district of Greenlee 
 and Final counties. 
 
 He is Treasurer of the Arizona Life Insurance 
 Company, a Director of Home Builders, Treasurer 
 of Consolidated Mines Company of Arizona, a Direc- 
 tor of the Capital Savings Investment Company, 
 President, La Belle Place Improvement Company, 
 Director, of the Buckeye Valley Bank and Presi- 
 dent of New Dendora Canal Company. He is a 
 member of the Arizona Bankers' Association and of 
 the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association and an 
 active worker in the Phoenix Board of Trade. He 
 is supreme representative for Arizona of the 
 Knights of Pythias and ranking major of the Uni- 
 form Rank of same order. He is actively inter- 
 ested in the work of the Y. M. C. A., being a Direc- 
 tor of the Phoenix branch. He is also a member 
 of the Arizona Club, Phoenix Country Club, Young 
 Men's Phoenix Club and of Phoenix Lodge 
 B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 DR. EDWARD SWIFT 
 
 WIFT, PERCY EDWARD, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Bayonne, 
 New Jersey, August 18, 1886, the 
 son of Thomas Percy Swift and of 
 
 Margaret Christine ( Hannan ) 
 
 Swift. Dr. Swift received his primary education at 
 Trinity School, New York City. From 1903 to 1905 
 he attended the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, New 
 York. From 1905 to 1906, inclusive, he attended 
 the Columbia Grammar School, New York City. 
 From 1906 to 1910 he attended the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, and then did post graduate 
 work at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. He 
 specialized in surgery while at this hospital. He 
 passed the New York state medical examination in 
 June of 1910, with high credit. 
 
 Dr. Swift removed to Los Angeles in August, 
 1910. Immediately on his arrival he became asso- 
 ciated with Dr. Coffey and began active practice. 
 
 His record satisfied the regents of the Univer- 
 sity of California and he was chosen, in spite of 
 his youth, instructor in clinical surgery in the Los 
 Angeles Department of the Medical College of the 
 State Institution. He accepted this place January 
 1, 1910, six months after getting his degree from 
 Columbia University. He is now lecturing on his 
 second term. 
 
 He also finds time for a private practice. 
 This is now on all the ailments of which the 
 medical profession treats, but he is planning to 
 specialize on surgery later. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles County 
 Medical Society, of the California State Medical 
 Society, and of the American Medical Association. 
 
 In college and professional school he was in- 
 vited to join the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the Nu 
 Sigma. Nu, and he takes part in the counsels and 
 entertainments of these Greek letter societies in 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 CHARLES STANSBURY 
 
 TANSBURY, CHARLES, Contract- 
 or, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born March 4, 1865, at Pescadaro, 
 California, just south of San Fran- 
 cisco. He is the son of M. Stans- 
 bury and Susan J. (Cotton) Stans- 
 bury. He married Anna L. Ledbetter, January, 
 1901, at Los Angeles, and to them were born two 
 children, Charles and Katherine Stansbury. 
 
 When he was a child Mr. Stansbury removed 
 with his parents to Santa Cruz, California, and 
 there he attended the public schools until 1879. At 
 that time he was fourteen years of age and his first 
 work was on a farm. He continued as a farmer 
 until he was eighteen years of age, when his parents 
 removed to Los Angeles. 
 
 His father established a coal business there and 
 young Stansbury went with him as a partner of the 
 firm of Stansbury & Company. At the end of seven 
 years his father retired from the business and he 
 and his brother, G. F. Stansbury, continued it under 
 the name of Stansbury Brothers. They dealt mostly 
 in wholesale and grew so rapidly they in a short 
 time were operating three large yards and had 
 branches all over the City of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1898 the brothers sold out to Brett & Backus, 
 and Mr. Stansbury put his capital in contracting, 
 and has since become one of the leading contrac- 
 tors of the city. He has built roads and railroad 
 grades in all parts of the Southwest, but maintains 
 his headquarters in Los Angeles. Sunset boulevara 
 in Los Angeles is a fine example of his work. 
 
 In addition to his contracting, Mr. Stansbury 
 has dealt largely in tracts in and about Los An- 
 geles, and is a stockholder and director in the 
 Western Lumber Company and the Pacific Sewer 
 Pipe Company. 
 
 He is a Native Son of the Golden West, Mason, 
 member of the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank, 
 B. P. O. E., and Knights Templar. 
 
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 DR. J. K. CARSON 
 
 ARSON, JOHN KINGSLEY, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Jackson- 
 ville, 111., March 18, 1853, the son 
 of James Kendall Carson, Jr., and 
 *& Elizabeth (Walker) Carson. He 
 married Nellie M. Haley, of New York, at Los An- 
 geles, Sept. 7, 1892, and to them were born two 
 daughters, Nellie Kingsetta and Annie Allene Car- 
 son. The official march of the National Educators' 
 Association, at its meeting in Los Angeles, was 
 named Kingsetta March in honor of his eldest 
 daughter. The doctor is of Scotch-Irish descent, his 
 family having settled in America before the Revo- 
 lutionary War. His- grandfather was one of General 
 Washington's bodyguard. 
 
 Dr. Carson received his early education in the 
 common schools of St. Louis, Mo., and later at- 
 tended Missouri Medical College, graduating with 
 the degree of M. D. in 1883. He served as interne 
 at the Female Hospital, St. Louis, for a year, then 
 began practice in Southwestern Missouri. Leaving 
 there he went to Los Angeles in 1887. 
 
 In addition to hi& practice, Dr. Carson has 
 been prominent in various enterprises which have 
 aided in the progress of the city. He was one of 
 the founders of the Pacific Hospital of Los Angeles, 
 also one of the original members cf the Consoli- 
 dated Realty Company, in which he is a Director. 
 Other interests with which he has identified him- 
 self are the Watts Mine & Supply Company, in 
 which he is a Director, and the Wolfskill Oil Com- 
 pany, of which he is President. 
 
 The Doctor is Medical Examiner in Los Angeles 
 for the Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, Mac- 
 cabees, Fraternal Brotherhood and Fraternal Aid. 
 Be&ides belonging to these, he is a member of the 
 Masons, thirty-second degree, and Al Malaikah Tem- 
 ple, of the Mystic Shrine, having taken all of the 
 Scottish Rite Degrees. 
 
 HON. D. L. CUNNINGHAM 
 
 UNNINGHAM, DONNELL LA 
 FAYETTE, Judge of the Supreme 
 Court of Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz., 
 was born at Gaylesville, Ala., 
 April 21, 1866, the son of Ebenezer 
 Cunningham and Martha (Clay- 
 ton) Cunningham. He married Mrs. Louisa (Cor- 
 nelius) Leavenworth at Tombstone, Ariz., March 
 10, 1904. 
 
 Judge Cunningham received his education in 
 Gaylesville High School, and studied . law in the 
 office of John L. Burnett, later a Congressman from 
 Alabama. He was admitted to the Alabama Bar 
 Dec. 23, 1887. He began practice at As-heville, Ala., 
 in 1888, and during that year he also edited a 
 weekly newspaper, "The St. Clair Advance." In 
 the Spring of 1889 he moved to Fort Payne, Ala., 
 and practiced there until 1893, serving a year mean- 
 time as Justice of the Peace. He went to Trinidad, 
 Colo., in 1893 and the next year to Cripple Creek, 
 Colo., where he practiced a few months and then 
 went into mining and stock brokerage. He left 
 Cripple Creek early in 1897, practically penniless, 
 caused by a disastrous fire in 1896, which destroyed 
 most of the town, ruining financially, many men. 
 He traveled overland to Flagstaff, Ariz., and 
 was occupied at common labor, including work in a 
 lumber mill, grocery s-tore, etc., until October, 1898, 
 when he became identified with the District Attor- 
 ney's office as an employee. In February, 1899, 
 he opened law offices in Williams, Ariz., and served 
 during 1900 as City Attorney. In 1902 he moved 
 to Tombstone, Ariz., where he remained until 1912, 
 when he moved to Phoenix. He served as District 
 Attorney of Cochise County from Oct., 1903, to Dec., 
 1904, being appointed to fill a vacancy, and in 1910 
 was elected a delegate to the Arizona Constitu- 
 tional Convention. In December, 1911, he was 
 elected Judge of the Supreme Court, which term 
 will expire with 1914. 
 
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 ANNELLS, SAMUEL 
 DAVID (Deceased), Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Morgan 
 County, 111., Aug. 17, 1844, the 
 son of David Andrew Rannells 
 and Cynthia Ann (McKee) Rannells. He mar- 
 ried Jane Hoge Sackett at Nottingham, Ohio, 
 March 11, 1869, and to them there were born 
 four children, John W. Rannells (deceased), 
 Clara C. Rannells (de- 
 ceased), Alfred W. Ran- 
 nells and Evelyn B. Ran- 
 nells. Mr. Rannells was 
 descended of a line of 
 Presbyterian ministers 
 and his wife the same, her 
 father and grandfather 
 having been well-known 
 members of the clergy. 
 
 Mr. Rannells, who at- 
 tained a position among 
 the real estate developers 
 and upbuilders of South- 
 ern California, following 
 a similar work in the 
 middle West, received 
 his early education in the 
 schools of his native 
 State. He prepared for 
 college at North Sanga- 
 mon Academy and then 
 concluded his studies at 
 Washington & Jefferson 
 College in Washington, 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Fired by patriotism, 
 Mr. Rannells, although a 
 boy in years, abandoned 
 his college career at the 
 beginning of the Civil 
 War and enlisted for service as a private in 
 the 101st Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was 
 immediately sent to the front and was with his 
 regiment in several important engagements, 
 being seriously wounded in one of these bat- 
 tles. Upon recovering from his wound, how- 
 ever, he re-enlisted, this time as a member 
 of the 133rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and 
 it was not long before he was in action again. 
 He displayed such unusual courage in one of 
 his battles that he was promoted to the rank 
 of Lieutenant and as such, after serving 
 throughout the war, was mustered out at its 
 conclusion with one of the finest records 
 possessed by any man in his command. 
 
 Returning to his home after the war. Mr. 
 Rannells taught in the district schools of 
 Illinois for several terms and in 1869, follow- 
 ing his marriage, moved to Grand Island, 
 Nebraska, where he engaged in the real es- 
 tate business. He operated in Nebraska 
 
 SAMUEL D. RANNELLS 
 
 with great success for the next eighteen 
 years, but in 1887 sold out his interests there 
 and transferred his activities to Los Angeles, 
 which, in that year, experienced one of the 
 most remarkable real estate booms in its 
 history. Mr. Rannells immediately became 
 one of the active real estate men of the city 
 and continued in that business up to the time 
 of his death, on January 1, 1912. 
 
 During the twenty-five years that he was 
 engaged in business in 
 Los Angeles, Mr. Rannells 
 was one of the potent 
 forces for the upbuilding 
 of the city and is credited 
 with having been instru- 
 mental in the develop- 
 ment of several fine resi- 
 dence sections. When he 
 first arrived the city was 
 restricted in area and 
 population, but gave 
 promise of attaining a 
 position among the im- 
 portant cities of the coun- 
 try, and Mr. Rannells, 
 who was possessed of an 
 unusual amount of en- 
 ergy, had a large part in 
 the city's growth. He 
 was especially active in 
 the Northwest section of 
 Los Angeles and also led 
 the way in opening up 
 the Sunset Boulevard ter- 
 ritory, this latter district 
 being one of the beauti- 
 ful sections of the city. 
 
 Operating under the 
 name of the Rannells 
 Land Company, Mr. Ran- 
 nells improved a large tract of land in the 
 Palo Verde Valley of Riverside County, Cali- 
 fornia, and in the development of this prop- 
 erty established the town of Rannells. The 
 last few years of his life, Mr. Rannells de- 
 voted to the upbuilding of this town and it 
 has grown to be an important trading center, 
 located in the midst of one of the choicest 
 agricultural districts in Southern California. 
 As President of the company, Mr. Rannells 
 handled the greater part of its affairs, al- 
 though with him were several well-known 
 men and his son, John W. Rannells. 
 
 Mr. Rannells belonged to various civic 
 bodies and other organizations, including 
 the North-East-West Improvement Assn., 
 the Chamber of Commerce and the Los An- 
 geles Realty Board. He was one of the 
 founders of the Emmanuel Presbyterian 
 Church of Los Angeles and took a deep in- 
 terest in religious affairs. 
 
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 677 
 
 ANNELLS, JOHN WILL- 
 IAM (Deceased), Attorney 
 and Real Estate Operator, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born October 10, 1870, at 
 Murrayville, Morgan County, 
 Illinois, the son of Samuel David Rannells 
 and Jane Hoge (Sackett) Rannells. His an- 
 cestors were among the pioneers of the mid- 
 dle West, prominent for generations in the 
 work of the Presbyterian 
 Church. His father, a 
 veteran of the Civil War, 
 was among the promi- 
 nent real estate men 
 of Los Angeles and was 
 a factor in the devel- 
 opment of the city, his 
 labors covering a period 
 of twenty-five years. The 
 town of Rannells, Califor- 
 nia, was founded and de- 
 veloped by him. 
 
 J. W. Rannells, who 
 ranked with the success- 
 ful business men of the 
 Southwest, spent his boy- 
 hood in Nebraska, where 
 his father had located and 
 engaged in the real estate 
 business. He attended 
 school at Grand Island. 
 Nebraska, and later was 
 a student at Hastings Col- 
 lege, Hastings, Nebraska, 
 whence he was graduated. 
 Upon finishing his aca- 
 demic work, Mr. Rannells 
 moved to California with 
 his father and took up the 
 study of law in the office of T. M. Stewart, a 
 well-known Los Angeles attorney, and read 
 for about three years. At that time he passed 
 the examination before the California State 
 Board of Law Examiners and was admitted 
 to practice. He immediately opened offices 
 in the old McDonald Block on North Main 
 street, Los Angeles, and was engaged in 
 practice up to the time of his death, a space 
 of about sixteen years. 
 
 In the meantime, however, Mr. Rannells 
 was also actively engaged in the real estate 
 and land business in association with his 
 father and his brother, Alfred W. Rannells. 
 In 1904 they incorporated the Rannells Land 
 Company, he being elected Secretary and 
 Treasurer of it, in addition to handling its 
 legal affairs. He served as Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Company until his father's 
 death, Jan. 1, 1912, and at that time succeeded 
 him in the Presidency, an office he filled until 
 he was claimed by death on June 23, 1912. 
 
 J. W. RANNELLS 
 
 The Rannells Land Company is one of the 
 substantial real estate concerns of Southern 
 California and figured in a great deal of de- 
 velopment work in that section. The elder 
 Rannells, in addition to developing several 
 sections of the city of Los Angeles, acquired 
 extensive holdings in the Palo Verde Valley 
 of Riverside County, and after the formation 
 of the Rannells Land Company, laid out the 
 town of Rannells, California, and, with the 
 aid of his sons, built it 
 up to a thriving place. J. 
 W. Rannells was enthusi- 
 astic over the Palo Verde 
 Valley and devoted a 
 large part of his ener- 
 gies to its settlement, a 
 work in which he was 
 successful, for the section 
 rapidly became one of the 
 wealth-producing agricul- 
 tural districts. 
 
 Mr. Rannells was also 
 of material assistance to 
 his father in the improve- 
 ment of the hill section in 
 the northwestern part of 
 Los Angeles, their motto 
 in this work being the ex- 
 pansion of the city of Los 
 Aneeles. The slogan, 
 "We sell the Hills," 
 which aided them largely 
 in their campaign, was so 
 distinctive as to become 
 a byword in the city. 
 
 In his professional and 
 business capacities, Mr. 
 Rannells carried an extra- 
 ordinary amount of re- 
 sponsibility, for, after the death of his 
 father, the management of the business 
 of the Rannells Land Company devolved 
 upon him and in addition to his land opera- 
 tions he was also engaged in building on a 
 large scale. He also took active interest in 
 civic affairs and was one of the leading spirits 
 in the work of the North-East-West Im- 
 provement Association. He was keenly in- 
 terested in the affairs of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal 
 League of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles 
 Realty Board, the National Association of 
 Realty Exchanges and similar bodies. 
 
 Mr. Rannells met death in an automobile 
 accident at Los Angeles and was mourned 
 by a large circle of friends, for he was con- 
 sidered one of the most popular men in busi 
 ness and social circles of the city. He was a 
 prominent Mason, member of the Mystic 
 Shrine, a Knight Templar and an Elk, and 
 member, Union League, Los Angeles. 
 
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 URNfiLL, GEORGE EDWIN, Phil- 
 osopher, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Hartford, Connecti- 
 cut, July 9, 1863, the son of Ed- 
 win Burnell and Mary (Malloy) 
 Burnell. He married Mary Irene 
 Lamoreaux at Chicago, Illinois, November 11, 1891, 
 and to them was born a daughter, Genevieve Mary 
 Burnell. 
 
 Mr. Burnell, who is known today in all parts 
 of the world as one of the leading thinkers of 
 modern times, received his practical education in 
 the schools of Minneapolis and Chicago. He was 
 graduated from the High School of the former city 
 and then went to the University of Minnesota, 
 from which he was graduated with the degree of 
 B. L. Following this, Mr. Burnell went to Chicago, 
 where he entered Morgan Park Theological Semi- 
 nary, with the intention of studying for the min- 
 is-try. He was a student there under the late Dr. 
 William R. Harper, the noted educator who closed 
 his career as President of Chicago University. Mr. 
 Burnell also studied at the Union Theological Sem- 
 inary of Chicago, and while there devoted much 
 time to the study of the so-called dead languages, 
 such as Hebrew and Sanscrit. 
 
 For more than twenty-five years Mr. Burnell 
 has devoted himself to a study of metaphysical 
 subjects, with particular attention to an interpre- 
 tation of Sacred Literature. His views on this lat- 
 ter subject have found expression in a series of 
 remarkable lectures, covering a diversity of sub- 
 jects which he has treated in a manner so original 
 as to attract the attention of scholars throughout 
 the world. He was first brought to public notice 
 when, as a high school student, he was called upon 
 to deliver an oration on the assassination of Presi- 
 dent James A. Garfield. His point of view and 
 method of thought expression, even at that early 
 age, made him an object of wonder to savants. 
 
 The versatility of his mental processes and his 
 prolific ability have increased steadily since that 
 time, until today there are of record more than 
 one thousand reports on various subjects which 
 he has discussed in his lectures. To enumerate 
 all of these would require a volume of space, but a 
 few of the lecture subjects will serve to indicate 
 the power and extent of Mr. Burnell's philosophical 
 researches. Among them are: 
 
 "Administry," "Aphorism XV: Science of 
 Faith"; "Challenge: Chargement of Soul"; "Churn- 
 ing: Aryan Justice Classic"; "Crucifixion: Cosmic 
 Tragedy"; "Grail Cup: Tragedy of England"; "Ham- 
 let: Study in Insanity"; "Jalalud Din: Dynamic 
 Man"; "Meditation: Isolation"; "Merlin: Gospel of 
 Adventure"; "Nibblers: Mental Lockjaw"; "Parsi- 
 fal: Summoning Innocence"; "Prophets: Their Bio- 
 logical Value"; "Pentecost: Only in Word Is God"; 
 "Static Theatre: Message of Drama"; "Vyasa: The 
 Immortal." 
 
 His serial lectures, or groups of thought under 
 general subjects, include: 
 
 "Experience," "Freedom of Life," "Immortals," 
 "Minerva," "Omar Khayyam," "Religion," "Trag- 
 edy," "Healing," "Intellect," "Mountain," "Par- 
 ables," "Rocking Stone," "Samaritanism," "Wealth," 
 "Authority," "Intelligence," "Intuitional Areas," 
 "Luminous Areas," "Meditation," "Rational Em- 
 pire," "Super-World," "Virtue," "Super-Classics," 
 "Super-Justice," "Volitional Empire," "Super-Juris- 
 prudence," "Aggression," "Flambeaux," "Ens Ra- 
 tionis." 
 
 These latter series include original discussion 
 and interpretation of practically every phase of 
 the title subjects. Some of them, like "Flambeaux," 
 include two hundred separate and distinct treat- 
 ments of the original subject. 
 
 In his study of these many subjects Mr. Burnell 
 has followed no previous school of philosophy, hav- 
 ing read the teachings of practically all the great 
 thinkers of history and then placed his own inter- 
 pretation upon the subject at hand. He has not 
 confined his investigations to religious matters, 
 although his reasonings in this particular field 
 have caused him to be placed on an eminence in 
 the world of modern letters. An indication of his 
 method of reasoning is found in one of his lectures, 
 which belongs to the group "Ens Rationis" and 
 bears the general title, "Lordly Residence." This 
 is subdivided into two parts, namely: "Another 
 Abode Than Space" and "Refuge for the Re- 
 leased." 
 
 His thought in the first part takes the line that 
 "space is an entity of origin instead of an eternal, 
 infinite being." He then proceeds to explain that 
 all things material dwell in the soul, rather than 
 the soul being a part of them, and asserts that the 
 soul, having always existed and being everlasting, 
 is the only real abiding place. 
 
 At one point he says: 
 
 "The Supreme Person, the only person there is, 
 a veritable personality, a form, a shape, who cre- 
 ated space and the mind and all beings upon the 
 ground, and placed the sun and the moon and the 
 stars, is never visible to any being in this crea- 
 tion, with one definite, simple, provided exception. 
 Suppose a certain strong, irresistible mind should 
 create a personal being that was just like himself, 
 and surround him with a supposed environment, 
 and shut him into that by the faculties of his own 
 mind, established upon certain laws that would 
 definitely force him to move in the limits inter- 
 minably of that creation: For such a being there 
 would be no rational possibility of escape. He 
 could not by any chance break away from that 
 creation, because there would be nothing to him 
 different from that creation by virtue of which 
 he could break away from it. If, on the other hand, 
 this strong, irresistible person should himself, with 
 his own irresistible and strong mind, establish 
 somewhere in the created personality of this being, 
 or in any one of the beings with which this cre- 
 ated entity supposed himself to be associated, or 
 in any of the objects which were created about 
 him, and this supreme, irresistible person should 
 actually, by his genuine form and person, occupy 
 this state of mind or creation, at that point would 
 be a possible escape. Had there been no such 
 
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 arrangement in this world, in this universe, there 
 would never have been any doctrine of escape at 
 all. All there would have been would consist in 
 a sense of advancing from one form or orbit of 
 experience to another, in the sense of betterment 
 in the sense of amelioration. 
 
 "Most human beings, however much they strug- 
 gle for truth, find it difficult to relieve themselves 
 of the feeling that they must change into a better 
 state before they can be hopeful of the supreme 
 advantage of insight and emancipation. This is 
 because they have not touched that Supreme Per- 
 son at all, nor do they actually know of that spot 
 in the human person, physical, flesh, or anywhere 
 in the objects of existence which touch actually, 
 the entity that does not need any change, but being 
 what it is, is truth, is emancipate, is complete, is 
 genuine, is all-knowing, all-perfect, eternal, satis- 
 fied. Once only actually in touch with that Su- 
 preme Person they no longer look upon the truth 
 as a change of worlds, as a betterment of life, as 
 an amelioration of conditions, as an advantage or 
 disadvantage, or any other explanation that con- 
 cerns good and evil, right and wrong, up and down, 
 in and out, or any of the arts of opposition. 
 
 "Now, as a matter of actual fact, there does 
 exist in the person, the real form of every entity 
 in the universe, this genuine, unchangeable being, 
 who is the strong, irresistible mind, who is the 
 abode of Heaven and earth and sky and mind and 
 all objects, subjective and gross. Human beings 
 are in the habit of thinking themselves to be cer- 
 tain persons with certain attachments, responsi- 
 bilities, conditions, forms, by virtue of which they 
 are distinguished and known by name, locality, 
 time. Their birth, their place of residence, whom 
 they belong with, their associates, their general 
 appearance constitute and make up their experi- 
 ential sanity. But this self that does actually re- 
 side forever in the genuine residence contains 
 them, and lives, containing the whole universe, in 
 actual substance and form, in their own body. 
 
 "The debate arose because the location of this 
 Supreme Person was so definitely described that 
 the text of the description seemed to inevitably 
 infer that it must be the individual, separate self 
 that was referred to, instead of the Supreme Per- 
 son. For the text says: 
 
 " 'Where like spokes in the nave of a wheel the 
 
 arteries meet, 
 He moves about becoming manifold. 
 
 " 'He moves about becoming manifold 
 
 Within the heart, where the arteries meet, 
 
 Like spokes fastened to the nave. 
 
 Meditate on that Self! 
 
 Hail to you, 
 
 That you may cross beyond the sea of darkness.' 
 
 "Now, the description was so definite in the per- 
 son of flesh that the debate arose, and prolonged in 
 discussion and led out into interminable histories, 
 that this self, this eternal self located beside the 
 arteries of the flesh, containing all the worlds and 
 the Heavens, must be the separate self that was 
 by some process of association with worlds and 
 experience to learn how to contain and dominate 
 all things. 
 
 "If a person lacks sanction in bettering himself, 
 he secures it by a sympathetic sense of bettering 
 others; but he does not come any nearer to that 
 eternal self, concerning whom there is no approach 
 or falling away. But this very self, near to the 
 arteries of the heart, contained and is not con- 
 tained, is the abode of the Universe, the sun and 
 
 the moon and the stars, and of all beings; is not 
 upon any journey, but is forever still; does not 
 have to overcome space to secure a sense of per- 
 manent residence; does not have to overcome time 
 in order to be released from that continual pro- 
 crastination which the orbits of things seduce." 
 
 One of the important lectures by Mr. Burnell, 
 and one in which he told his listeners frankly what 
 he thought of them, analyzing their mental atti- 
 tudes in great detail, was entitled "Nibblers: Medi- 
 cine for Mental Lockjaw Applied." In part, he 
 said: 
 
 ''I can almost tell the nibbler by looking at 
 him and some of them are here. But that is not 
 the particular point about it. The particular point 
 is, they cannot open their mouths and bite. They 
 have lockjaw of the soul. * * * 
 
 "It is stated that the truth which is proposed 
 by this teaching is not offering any human being 
 a remedy for his condition. He is supposed to 
 approach it under the auspices of the idea that his 
 condition, physical mental, is not such that the only 
 infinite truth, the eternal God, could condescend to 
 remedy. Patchiness ethical training, religious 
 fervor, cultures and symbolism, the reading of the 
 poets emancipations from prejudices, that occur 
 through associations with material investigations, 
 which we are obviously in the presence of testi- 
 mony sufficient to prove that individuals in such 
 associations attain to certain mental maturities, 
 how can I say it to you, that such maturings are 
 worthless? How can I say it to you that faithful- 
 ness and devotion are blasphemy? How can I say 
 it to you so that you will see that everything you 
 do to become what you are is an insult to what 
 you are? 
 
 "And how can I say it so that you will get done 
 with this mental meandering, this prowling and 
 browsing? When will you stop, and not wait for 
 the Sphinx to petrify you with dismay? What shall 
 I say to you that there can come an evanishment 
 to your career of failure? What can I say? Think 
 you that that omnipotent soul and omniscience 
 within you cares for your mediocre surrenderings, 
 your wages in meditation, and presentation of your- 
 self to the teaching and all the several things you 
 do every moment in your life to win a little better 
 credit with your own mental premises, as if you 
 should appoint unto yourself a path and then pat 
 yourself on the back for walking in it for the sake 
 of an accumulation of approval? Is it not insanity? 
 set yourself a stunt, accomplish it and sing your 
 applause! And the eternal soul says, 'I am against 
 thee and all thy progress.' For the simple reason 
 that the truth is what you are not what you are 
 going to make yourself; not even what you are 
 going to discover yourself to be. 
 
 "Omniscience is not on a journey of discovery. 
 Then, you say: 'What is this that has cheated me 
 so that I should think so differently of myself, so 
 unsatisfactorily.' What? Because you cannot stand 
 it to have somebody who knows, walk up to you 
 and 'twist you around', as Plato says, 'in that vio- 
 lent and criminal fashion that is required.' Plato 
 used to say and he was a very mild man, not a 
 violent man at all, and he said: 'Not one of the 
 walking images of their own estimation, not one 
 of these painted pictures on their cosmic airs, look- 
 ing at their own opinions, at their own convictions 
 and certainties, doing devotion to their own laws 
 and prejudices and imprisonments, not one of them 
 shall ever have escape from the case in which he 
 has secreted himself, until there shall come along 
 
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 one magnificent, reckless, ruthless awakened soul 
 that will tear him from the socket of his hypnotism.' 
 
 "Listen! Awakening from mental prejudice is 
 surgical, the birth-pains thereof. I know where 
 the arnica box is; I know where the chloroform 
 bottle is. Ten million are taking mental chloro- 
 form in the United States now. Why? Because 
 they were prescient of the birth-pangs of their 
 mind. How many people, let me ask you, how 
 many people out of these ten million are going to 
 enter into the new mind-born race? * * * 
 
 "I will tell you something now: That unless 
 you are going to get somebody to wring the neck 
 of your estimates, the great figures of the elements 
 and the astral busy-bodies will know what to do 
 with you. That is not a threat. That is just read- 
 ing your own mind that is all. That is reading 
 your own covenant. You signed a covenant with 
 the elements of this world, also with the elements 
 of your mind, that if you did not attain immortality 
 you would be distributed, for beings who would, 
 beings yet unborn. Why, then, should I talk to 
 you? Know that in the world, unless so be that you 
 have sincerely, in the depths of your soul, signed 
 a covenant with the truth, signed a covenant in the 
 very blood of your will with the truth, what truth? 
 THE truth. You do not even know of it. It is 
 buying a cat in a bag for ignorance to covenant 
 with truth when in the conviction that they do not 
 know the truth. 
 
 "Let me tell you a little psychological fact: 
 Suppose you do not know what the truth is at all 
 you have just heard the word; you have heard 
 certain psychological symptoms advertised as be- 
 ing characteristic of those who have the truth; 
 that is, that they will be able to heal the sick, 
 raise the dead, and do those little items; charac- 
 terized by certain marvelous astonishing behaviors, 
 but supposing on the strength of that advertise- 
 ment, which seems so grand and so great, like as 
 if it would say to you, 'If you know the truth you 
 shall escape all evil, the very universe will crawl 
 to you and offer its services to you like a slave'. 
 
 "That is quite an advertisement, you see, and 
 the more ignorant you are the more the advertise- 
 ment takes. Listen! Suppose you have accepted 
 on that advertisement and you have some diffi- 
 culties you would like to have settled up, maybe 
 your bodies are occupied by one of these infesta- 
 tions called disease; maybe your affairs are rather 
 crumbling and disappointing; whatever it is, the 
 advertisement of the knowledge of the truth 
 reaches you and appeals to you not only on the 
 ground that it is the truth, but on the ground of 
 your greed. * * * 
 
 "This is the one thing that I wish to say to 
 you: If you can think of anything to say to your- 
 self that will distress you, say it. It is very awak- 
 ening, don't you know. I suppose that the device 
 of evil as a total unreality is most excellent. 
 Destroyed in the awakening. I will recommend, 
 therefore, this one thing to you that even though 
 you carry with you the conviction that you are 
 an ignorant being, not yet born in the mind, so 
 that when you are even, say, a mind-born man or 
 woman you can hardly contemplate the meaning 
 of it, so convinced are you of what it is to be a 
 sense-born being, existing in the several items of 
 human experience that are credentialed to you by 
 the senses; that is, a sense-born being. And when 
 we say mind-born, your mind bats its eyes and 
 blinks and wonders about what divine thing that 
 may be. * * * 
 
 "There is a tremendous stream of mental re- 
 freshment flowing throughout the civilized world. 
 
 These are days, great days, and history shall busy 
 itself with the most stupendous intellects that the 
 cosmos can furnish. See that you stand in with 
 that imminent and almost inevitable possibility of 
 being born mentally. I say therefore, this: Keep 
 your mind in the atmosphere of liberty. Do not 
 contract any covenants with any of the proposi- 
 tions which your ignorance shall suggest; and 
 when that mind opens its mouth to breathe for the 
 first time the airs of its life, it shall find about 
 you and within you a magnetism of freedom, an 
 atmosphere of freedom, so beautiful to its new, 
 dawning existence. The mind-born people of these 
 states shall be pre-eminent in the several years 
 that are immediately to come; and those who do 
 not receive this quickening of the mind shall be- 
 come as animals in the presence of this kingly 
 race." 
 
 Mr. Burnell's philosophy deals with the belief 
 that the realization of truth will be the solution of 
 the problems which beset mankind and that this 
 solution cannot be brought about through the lab- 
 oratory method of the scientists. 
 
 Mr. Burnell, in his life of study and investiga- 
 tion, has been a searcher for truth and his teach- 
 ings, while not in the form of dogma, have spread 
 to the corners of the earth by their own momen- 
 tum; for among his listeners are some of the most 
 serious-minded men and women of the world today. 
 While not in any sense a cult, his followers have 
 taken his messages as the results of sincere effort 
 to interpret and explain higher problems of exis- 
 tence. In all of his researches he has had the 
 sympathetic aid of his wife, who is a student quite 
 as sincere and successful as himself. 
 
 Although he has been a student all his life, 
 Mr. Burnell, an independently wealthy man, has 
 also been successful in practical lines of business 
 endeavor. In 1889, when he was attending college 
 in Chicago, he, in partnership with a schoolmate, 
 participated in a realty operation that netted them 
 a large profit. This particular accomplishment in- 
 volved the opening of Auburn Park, a suburb of 
 Chicago. 
 
 When he located in California several years 
 ago, Mr. Burnell became interested in the devel- 
 opment of farming lands as an investor and is 
 today an officer and stockholder in several corpo- 
 rations engaged in this business. They include the 
 California Irrigated Farms Company, of which he 
 is President and Director; the San Joaquin Farms 
 Company, of which he is President and Director, 
 and the Rich Groves Land Company, in which he 
 holds similar office. 
 
 Another phase of the man is that of clergyman. 
 Although he never affiliated with any church, he 
 is a qualified minister, having been licensed to 
 preach and to perform other ministerial offices 
 by the Supreme Court of Minnesota. 
 
 He is a Phi Delta Theta man and a member of 
 several clubs, including the California Club, Los 
 Angeles Country Club, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and the Olympic Club of San Fran- 
 cisco. His outdoor recreation is obtained from golf. 
 
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 HENRY HAUSER 
 
 AUSER, HENRY, President H. 
 Hauser Contracting Company, 
 railroad contractors, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at St. Louis, 
 Missouri, March 29, 1855, the son 
 of Frederick Hauser and Phil- 
 lipena (Diehl) Hauser. On October 3, 1904, he 
 married Margaret S. Hartes at Los Angeles. 
 
 His boyhood was spent in Illinois, where he re- 
 ceived his early education in the public schools. 
 He was graduated a civil engineer in 1878 by the 
 University of Illinois, and immediately was ap- 
 pointed assistant engineer of construction of the 
 Illinois Central Railroad. 
 
 Early in 1879 he was assistant engineer of the 
 United States Coast Survey, but shortly resigned to 
 become engineer of construction for the Santa Fe 
 railroad, supervising construction of the main line 
 through New Mexico and Arizona, branches in Ari- 
 zona, Kansas and New Mexico, and also the line 
 from Chicago to Kansas City. In 1889 he became 
 . engineer and manager for B. Lanty Sons, contract- 
 ors for the building of the Pike's Peak road and 
 the S. F., P. & P. Ry. in Arizona. The Pike's Peak 
 road is one of the world's engineering wonders. 
 He was with this company until 1904, during which 
 time they built the Belen cut-off in New Mexico 
 for the Santa Fe west of Albuquerque. He re- 
 moved from Arizona to Los Angeles in 1900. 
 
 From 1904 to '06 he was manager and engineer 
 of the Lanty-Sharp Contracting Company. In 1906 
 the Sharp-Hauser Contracting Company was formed, 
 with Mr. Hauser vice president. In 1909 he drew 
 out and organized his present company. 
 
 Mr. Hauser has been connected with the Santa 
 Fe Railroad directly or indirectly, for thirty-two 
 years. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club of Los 
 Angeles, and is a thirty-second degree member of 
 the Masons. 
 
 DR. R. WERNIGK 
 
 ERNIGK, REINHARDT, Physician, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 at Monee, Illinois, January 19, 
 1861, the son of Theodore Wer- 
 nigk and Louisa (Pletch) Wer- 
 nigk. He married Helen Hill, 
 June 17, 1902, at Montgomery, New York. 
 
 Dr. Wernigk's ancestors have lived in Southern 
 Bavaria, and it is on record that there has been a 
 direct line of physicians since the year 1520. His 
 great grandfather on his mother's side, was a sur- 
 geon in Napoleon's army. 
 
 He attended the Monee, Illinois, high schools. 
 After graduation he went to the school of his 
 father at Speyer, Bavaria, Germany, and received 
 his Master of Arts degree in the year 1880. He re- 
 turned to the United States to attend Rush Medi- 
 cal College and earned his right to practice with 
 the class of 1882. 
 
 He located first at Marshall, Texas, and did well, 
 remaining until May, 1887. He then removed to 
 Los Angeles, and has built up a lucrative practice 
 in that city. 
 
 It has been the tradition of the family that each 
 succeeding generation should add some little thing 
 to the knowledge of medicine and of the curative 
 arts. Every one of them has engaged in original 
 research. Dr. Wernigk is following the tradition of 
 the house, and has already written papers on sev- 
 eral original topics. He keeps pace with the ad- 
 vance of the medical sciences by extensive reading 
 and study, by following closely the work of the 
 great investigators, and by travel. 
 
 He belongs to the various medical associations, 
 the most important of them, being the American 
 Medical Association. 
 
 He is a lover of out-door sports, like hunting and 
 fishing, and takes his vacations in that way. He 
 belongs to the Jonathan Club, and several shooting 
 and fishing clubs. 
 
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 ARTHUR L. VEITCH 
 
 EITCH, ARTHUR L., Attorney-at- 
 Law, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born at Mayville, Michigan, July 
 5, 1884, the son of Arthur Veitch 
 and Martha Cordelia (Choate) 
 Veitch. The father is a descendant 
 of the Highland Scotch clan of that name. The 
 mother is of the Choates and the Todds of New 
 England. There has always been at least one 
 lawyer to each generation of the Choates and Todds, 
 so that the profession may well be considered 
 hereditary. Mr. Veitch married Gertrude E. Mesplou, 
 July 5, 1909, at Los Angeles. There is one son, 
 Frederick Arthur Veitch. 
 
 Mr. Veitch attended the public schools of the State 
 of Michigan until the year 1901, when he moved 
 to Los Angeles. He entered the Los Angeles High 
 school and graduated with the class of 1902. He 
 entered the University of Southern California, 
 studied in the academic department and in the law 
 department, and received his degree of bachelor of 
 laws with the class of 1907. He took a post-grad- 
 uate course the following year and earned the de- 
 gree of master of laws. 
 
 He engaged in the general practice of the law 
 and during the ensuing year of 1908 took part in 
 several noted criminal cases as attorney for the 
 defense. His work attracted the attention of the 
 district attorney, and when a vacancy occurred he 
 was chosen one of the deputies. He joined the 
 district staff in May, 1909. 
 
 Mr. Veitch was one of the deputies chosen for 
 the task of assisting the district attorney in prose- 
 cuting the Los Angeles Times dynamiting cases. 
 This trial, owing to the fact that the executives of 
 one of the most important labor unions were in- 
 volved, attracted international attention. 
 
 Mr. Veitch is one of the founders of the Metro- 
 politan Club of Los Angeles, and belongs to a num- 
 ber of college and other societies. 
 
 FRED LATIMER 
 
 ATIMER, FRED, Real Estate 
 Broker, Los Angeles, Cal., is a na- 
 tive of Canada, born at Ottawa, 
 the Dominion capital, December 
 14, 1878. He is the son of Hugh 
 Latimer and Mary (Hastey) Lati 
 mer, both members of old Canadian families. 
 
 Mr. Latimer was taken to California by his par- 
 ents when he was twelve years old. They first 
 located at Riverside, that State. He remained 
 there for nine years, during which time he at- 
 tended the public schools, graduating from the 
 Riverside High School in 1897. 
 
 In 1899, removed to Los Angeles, and there 
 studied pharmacy. After mastering this profes- 
 sion he, in 1901, associated himself with James V. 
 Baldwin in the realty business and they have con- 
 tinued in business together since that time. The 
 firm has made a specialty of subdivisions in high- 
 class residence property, some of the more notable 
 sections opened up by them being the West Adams 
 Heights and Westmoreland Heights tracts. They 
 have also traded extensively in the Wilshire Boule- 
 vard district, one of the most beautiful home places 
 in the Southwest, and put on Wellington Place, 
 Westminster Place, Larchmont Heights and Wil- 
 shire Heights. 
 
 In addition to his realty business Mr. Latimer 
 is a large fruit grower. He owns two fine ranches 
 at Ontario, Cal., in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and 
 grows oranges on a large scale. He gives much of 
 his time to this work and is one of the leading in- 
 dividual growers in California. His father also is a 
 prominent orange producer and owns extensive 
 groves throughout Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Latimer is a member of the Jonathan and 
 Los Angeles Country clubs of Los Angeles, and, be- 
 ing an enthusiastic fisherman is a member of the 
 Tuna Club, of Catalina Island, an organization 
 made up of expert anglers. 
 
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 RASER, ALEXANDER ROSBOR- 
 OUGH, Realty and Investments, 
 Ocean Park, Cal., was born at St. 
 Johns, N. B., Feb. 1, 1856, the son 
 of James I. Fraser and Leah (Ros- 
 borough) Fraser. His father was 
 a timber owner who operated successfully in the 
 forests of Canada and Michigan. Mr. Fraser mar- 
 ried Appalona Wedge, at Yale, Mich., July 17, 1877, 
 and to them were born two daughters and a son, 
 the latter Earl Alexander Fraser, being associated 
 in business with his father. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Fraser's parents moved to Michigan, 
 where the father was a pioneer timberman. There 
 he spent his boyhood, working with his father. In 
 1871 a great fire swept the timber regions, destroy- 
 ing two entire counties and the Erasers, with others, 
 lost everything. After this disaster, Mr. Fraser 
 stayed with his father for five years, helping him to 
 rebuild his fortunes, and at the age of twenty quit 
 the wilderness to engage in business for himself. 
 
 He located at Spring Hill, Mich., where he owned 
 and operated a cheese factory. After a year there 
 he moved his plant to Amadore, Sanilac County, at 
 the same time opening an implement factory at 
 Yale, Mich. This business was in a flourishing con- 
 dition when, in 1881, that county was destroyed by 
 fire and the farmers were wiped out financially, and 
 as they were many of them debtors of Mr. Fraser, 
 his business was practically ruined. His health be- 
 gan to fail about this time, but he remained in busi- 
 ness long enough to help the neighborhood recover 
 from the effects of fire; then in 1885 he sold out and 
 moved to California. 
 
 He landed at Los Angeles, March 11, 1885, and 
 almost immediately entered the real estate business 
 as a member of the firm of T. C. Narramore & Co. 
 After a year he drew out and associated himself 
 with the F. D. Lanterman Realty Co., in which con- 
 nection he remained for about two years, partici- 
 pating in the opening of several attractive Los An- 
 geles tracts. He then returned to his former firm, 
 but after a brief period, organized the A. R. Fraser 
 Realty Co. and branched out alone. Two years he 
 operated singly, then took F. D. Lanterman into 
 partnership under the title of the Fraser & Lanter- 
 man Realty Co. 
 
 In 1891 he organized the firm of Frazer, Cook & 
 Pearsons, one of the largest in the city at that time 
 and the first real estate office to be opened in Los 
 Angeles to the south of the City Hall. Their offices 
 were then at 244 Broadway. The firm operated for 
 three years and then Mr. Fraser again went into 
 business for himself. About this time he was ap- 
 pointed Secretary of the Street Commissioner s de- 
 partment, which had charge of the opening and 
 widening of many streets in Los Angeles. He con- 
 tinued this work, in addition to his own business, 
 until 1900, when he went to Ocean Park. 
 
 This was the turning point in his career and the 
 one which was to place him among the real develop- 
 ers of the Southwest. For fifteen years the Santa 
 Fe Railroad had been trying to make a resort out 
 of the tracts in the Santa Monica district, at what 
 is known as Ocean Park, but had failed dismally. 
 Mr. Fraser, associated with George Hart, then took 
 up the Santa Fe holdings, a tract of thirteen acres 
 The land was, for the most part, barren sand dunes. 
 There were barely twenty-five inhabitants and the 
 total assessment on the tract was $4500. 
 
 Mr. Fraser and his partner immediately set to 
 work to build a town. They laid out streets, in- 
 stalled a sewer system and cut the land up into 
 building lots. Within a year the assessment on the 
 
 land had jumped to $65,000, with $50,000 additional 
 on improvements, mostly residences. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Fraser added to his holdings by the 
 purchase of the interest of T. H. Dudley, who owned 
 half of the Kinney lands on the Ocean Front. In 
 1904 he purchased the Recreation Gun Club tract, 
 which had an ocean frontage of 4000 feet. This was 
 bought for $135,000, and after it was improved the 
 lots brought $800,000. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Fraser began the real work of mak- 
 ing a great resort out of Ocean Park. At that time 
 he built the Ocean Park Casino, at a cost of $35,000, 
 and in 1905 erected the Ocean Park Bath House, a 
 magnificent structure, costing $185,000. In 1906 he 
 built the Ocean Park Auditorium at a cost exceed- 
 ing $100,000, and that same year also put up the 
 Masonic Temple and the Decatur Hotel, the former 
 costing $45,000, the latter $80,000. 
 
 The latest and greatest of all Mr. Fraser's build- 
 ings came in the early part of 1911 when "Fraser's 
 Million Dollar Pier," the largest and finest structure 
 of its kind in the world, was completed. It extends 
 1000 feet over the ocean and houses a multitude of 
 amusements, including a beautiful dancing pavilion. 
 
 Besides these notable operations, Mr. Fraser 
 built numerous improvements in Ocean Park, and is 
 the man responsible for the construction of the 
 cement promenade which joins Ocean Park with 
 Venice. For many months the project of a board- 
 walk between the two cities had been discussed, and 
 Mr. Fraser, returning in May, 1906, from a tour of 
 the Orient, found matters shaping up for the pas- 
 sage of the ordinance authorizing it. He proposed 
 that the promenade should be of cement, but was 
 opposed in this idea by all the Councilmen, the May- 
 ors of the two cities and the three newspapers pub- 
 lished in Venice and Ocean Park. Born a fighter, 
 Mr. Fraser would not back down, and fought so hard 
 for his proposition that it was finally adopted, many 
 of the Councilmen voting for the ordinance against 
 their better judgment. Early in 1907 the cement 
 promenade, a mile and a quarter in length and 
 thirty feet in width, was completed, and it now 
 forms one of the greatest improvements of its kind 
 in the world. Those who had opposed it now admit 
 its economic and lasting advantages. 
 
 This promenade not only provided a modern link 
 between the two resorts, but immediately raised the 
 valuation on beach property $1,000,000. 
 
 Other large properties opened by Mr. Fraser 
 were the Ocean Park Heights tract, and a strip lying 
 between Playa del Rey and Venice. He improved 
 these properties for residence purposes and put 
 them on a par with any of the Southern California 
 localities. His interests are scattered over a large 
 portion of the West, with the nucleus of his holdings 
 located in the Ocean Park district. He has timber 
 interests in the north of California and possesses 
 lands and ranch properties in the Imperial Valley. 
 He owns three-fourths of the Ocean Park Bath 
 House, two-thirds of the Masonic Temple, and is 
 president of the Topango Improvement Co., which 
 possesses 600 acres north of Santa Monica, Cal. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Past 
 Master of the Ocean Park Lodge, F. & A. M. ; a Mys- 
 tic Shriner and Past Grand Patron of the Eastern 
 Star in the State of California. He also belongs to 
 the Elks, Foresters, Maccabees, and holds member- 
 ships in the Jonathan and L. A. Country Clubs of 
 Los Angeles, and the Breakers Club of Ocean Park. 
 
 EDITOR'S NOTE On September 3, 1912. Ocean Park, 
 California, was visited by a. disastrous fire which destroyed 
 the greater part of the buildings owned by Mr. Praser and 
 caused a loss of several hundred thousand dollars. 
 
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 ANDOLPH, CLAIBORNE PRICE 
 Live Stock and Contracting, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Montgomery County, Missouri, 
 August 10, 1861, the son of Fred- 
 erick Monroe Randolph and Eliza 
 (Hammond) Randolph. He married Adele Reyes in 
 Los Angeles, March 10, 1895, and to them there have 
 been born five children, Mary Bethel, Claiborne 
 Price, Jr., John, Irene and Lee Jennings Randolph. 
 
 Mr. Randolph's mother 
 died when he was eighteen 
 months old and he was reared 
 by fo&ter parents. He worked 
 on the farm of his foster 
 father until 1876, at which 
 time the family moved to 
 California, and he has spent 
 the greater part of his life 
 in the latter State. He re- 
 ceived his education in the 
 public schools of Independ- 
 ence, California, but the 
 principal part of his training 
 he received in the world of 
 business and experience. 
 
 About the year 1880, Mr. 
 Randolph, who had worked 
 at various occupations for 
 about three years, engaged 
 in mining in the Mammoth 
 Mining District of Mono 
 County, California, and later 
 mined and prospected in the 
 region around Bodie, Cal., 
 and Candelaria, Nev. He 
 gave up the life in 1881, how- 
 ever, and went to Oakland, 
 California, where he became 
 
 a salesman for the Singer Manufacturing Company. 
 His next connection was with T. B. Laycock & 
 Company, of Indianapolis, Ind., with whom he re- 
 mained four years, and subsequent to this he was 
 in the employ of J. W. Morris, a wholesale and 
 retail grocer of Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Randolph embarked in the contract- 
 ing business and this has been his field practically 
 ever since, his work taking him to various sec- 
 tions of the West. He began a& timekeeper and 
 assistant manager for a contractor named S. S. 
 Watson and remained with him for approximately 
 two years, being active during that period in vari- 
 ous important building operations. 
 
 Mr. Randolph, in 1891, was engaged in canal 
 building, being superintendent of construction of 
 the Tulare Canal in California, and completed the 
 work early in 1892. He then accepted a position 
 as superintendent for a large contracting firm in 
 Texas, being engaged in large enterprises in dif- 
 ferent parts of the Lone Star State for several 
 years. Upon leaving Texas he went to Rantana, 
 
 C. P. RANDOLPH 
 
 Arizona, where he was with the Grant Brothers 
 Construction Company, engaged in railroad build- 
 ing. Other important work of Mr. Randolph in 
 Arizona included the building of the Gila Canal, 
 a large irrigation project. He began on this work 
 as camp boss and finished as superintendent of 
 construction. For two years after the completion 
 of this enterprise Mr. Randolph worked for a con- 
 tracting firm, and in 1895 embarked in business for 
 himself, as contractor in grade construction. He 
 met with success from the 
 outset and during the nine 
 years of his activity he fig- 
 ured in a great deal of de- 
 velopment work in the South. 
 In 1904 Mr. Randolph took 
 a position in the Department 
 of Streets of the City of Los 
 Angeles and remained about 
 a year, returning at the end 
 of that time to his own busi- 
 ness. His work since that 
 time has been principally in 
 the improvement of real es- 
 tate tracts in and around 
 Los Angeles, his operations 
 including a large amount of 
 work at Venice and Ocean 
 Park, Cal., two seashore cit- 
 ies; Alamitos Bay and vari- 
 ous residence tracts in the 
 city proper. 
 
 Mr. Randolph also was an 
 active factor in the improve- 
 ment of Imperial Valley, Cal., 
 where he owns a farm and is 
 interested in live stock, hav- 
 ing a great many head of val- 
 uable mules. He has devoted 
 
 considerable time to the raising of these animals. 
 Since 1908 a large part of his business has consisted 
 of renting mules to grading contractors and others. 
 The real estate operations of Mr. Randolph in- 
 cluded the subdivision and improvement of the 
 Venice Park Tract near Los Angeles, he having 
 opened it up and personally financed it. 
 
 Mr. Randolph's success in life has been brought 
 about through his close application to duty and an 
 ever-present ambition to improve himself by study, 
 and he has given the benefit of his experience to 
 other young men through the medium of books 
 and correspondence. He is the author of a unique 
 analytical work entitled "Randolph's Cost of Con- 
 struction, Contractors' and Engineers' Guide," in 
 the writing of which he devoted nearly four years. 
 In this work Mr. Randolph shows the exact cost of 
 materials and building, with the value of every 
 known implement used in the construction, and also 
 has made a careful analysis of the working value of 
 a man, as compared with that of animals. 
 He is a member of the Gamut Club. 
 
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 'DONALD, PATRICK JOS- 
 EPH, Manufacturer and Con- 
 tractor, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Ireland, 
 St. Patrick's Day, 1863. His 
 father was Lawrence McDonald and his 
 mother Margaret (Foley) McDonald. He 
 married Carrie Louise Mann at Fresno, Cali- 
 fornia, January 28, 1891, and to them have 
 been born four children, 
 Lawrence Earl, Ethel 
 May, Jennie Beal and 
 David Eugene McDonald. 
 He attended the Na- 
 tional School of Ireland 
 for three years and fol- 
 lowed that with eight 
 years at St. Michael's 
 College, at New Ross, 
 County Wexford. H i s 
 textbook education fin- 
 ished, he left college and 
 became an apprentice in 
 the carpenter and con- 
 tracting business. After 
 four years of service he 
 received his license as a 
 competent artisan and be- 
 gan work when he was 
 eighteen years of age. 
 
 Soon after he became 
 a licensed workman, Mr. 
 McDonald bade farewell 
 to the Emerald Isle and 
 sailed across the sea to 
 America. He first located 
 in Chicago, Illinois, going 
 
 p. j. MCDONALD 
 
 to work in 1881 for a building firm known 
 as Hennessy Brothers. With them he re- 
 mained three years, then quit the construc- 
 tion end of his trade to learn mill work. 
 
 He was employed in the mill of Campbell 
 Brothers, Chicago, and stayed with them 
 three years, the last twelve months of which 
 he was foreman of the cabinet department 
 of the plant. 
 
 With six years of actual experience in all 
 branches of the business, Mr. McDonald 
 went to the great Southwest. He located in 
 San Diego, California, where he obtained em- 
 ployment with the L. A. Fitch Company, 
 builders, of that city. He stayed with them 
 two years, and was foreman of construction 
 and superintendent of the mill department. 
 
 Upon leaving Fitch and San Diego, in 
 1889, he went to Fresno, California, where 
 he was put in the dual position of foreman 
 and estimator for the Mechanics' Planing 
 
 Mill Company, in which capacities he con- 
 tinued for three years. From Fresno Mr. 
 McDonald moved to Madera, California, 
 where he was given the superintendency of 
 the Madera Flume and Trading Company. 
 He was in charge of the factory and yards of 
 the company for two years, but in 1895 he 
 was offered the post of superintendent and 
 estimator for the San Pedro Lumber Com- 
 pany, at San Pedro, Cali- 
 fornia, one of the largest 
 lumber receiving ports in 
 the United States and 
 the place where Los An- 
 geles gets an outlet to the 
 sea. He became an im- 
 portant factor in the 
 business of the lumber 
 company and remained 
 there for five years. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. McDon- 
 ald bought the Los An- 
 geles Planing Mill Com- 
 pany. He is president 
 and general manager and 
 his wife is vice president. 
 For five years after he 
 purchased it the company 
 operated in a small plant, 
 but in 1905 a reincorpora- 
 tion was effected with 
 $200,000 capital and him- 
 self and family as sole 
 owners ; a new mill, 
 equipped with modern 
 machinery and covering 
 sixty thousand square 
 
 feet, was completed and the business moved. 
 Under Mr. McDonald's management it has 
 become one of the most important industrial 
 concerns in Southern California. 
 
 Four years ago Mr. McDonald added a 
 general building and contracting department 
 to his business, and today numerous beauti- 
 ful residences and public buildings stand to 
 the credit of the firm. 
 
 Mr. McDonald is active in trade circles, 
 being a member of the Master Builders' 
 Association, Builders' Exchange, Credit 
 Men's Association, Merchants and Manufac- 
 turers' Association, Southern California Mill 
 Owners' Association and the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 He holds memberships in the Elks, the 
 Jonathan Club and the Newman Club of 
 Los Angeles; he is also a member of the 
 Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order 
 of Hibernians. 
 
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 OLLARD, JOHN WESLEY, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los- Angeles, 
 California, was born in Oakland, 
 Illinois, July 8, 1860, the son of 
 George W. Pollard and Elizabeth 
 (Hoard) Pollard. He is of Eng- 
 lish descent, his grandfather having settled in Mass- 
 achusetts in the eaily part of the nineteenth cen- 
 tury. His father, however, migrated to Illinois. Dr. 
 Pollard married Elinor Caldwell at St. Johns, Michi- 
 gan, March 29, 1891. 
 
 Dr. Pollard's mother died 
 when he was six years of age 
 and he lost his father when 
 he was twelve. He received 
 his primary education in the 
 public schools of Newman 
 and Tuscola, Illinois, follow- 
 ing this with attendance at 
 an Academy in Paris, Illinois-. 
 He was graduated from there 
 in 1881 and for approximately 
 three years and a half after 
 leaving school was engaged 
 in teaching. He then took up 
 the study of medicine at the 
 Cincinnati College of Medi- 
 cine and Surgery (now the 
 Medical Department of the 
 University of Cincinnati), and 
 in 1889 was graduated with 
 the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine. 
 
 Practically every year 
 since his graduation and de- 
 spite the fact that he has be- 
 come one of the succes&ful 
 practitioners of the West, 
 Dr. Pollard has taken post 
 graduate work in some special line of his profes- 
 sion. In 1891 he went to the Chicago Polyclinic 
 College and Hospital; in 1893 and in 1907 he at- 
 tended the Post Graduate Medical College and 
 Hospital at Chicago; in 1899 he took a special 
 course at the Chicago Post Graduate School of 
 Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery, and at other 
 times- he has taken up other special subjects, devot- 
 ing a part of each year to work in some large medi- 
 cal institution of the East. In this way he has kept 
 abreast of practically every important advance 
 made in his profession by the famous surgeons of 
 the Eastern institutions. 
 
 Following his graduation in 1889, Dr. Pollard lo- 
 cated in St. Johns, Michigan, and there opened pri- 
 vate practice. He remained there from that time 
 until 1902, and during the greater part of that pe- 
 riod was looked upon as the leader of the profession 
 there. In addition to his private practice, he was 
 honored at various times with public or semi-public 
 offices. For instance he served as City Health Of- 
 ficer of St. Johns and also as County Physician. In 
 
 DR. J. W. POLLARD 
 
 1894 he was appointed United States Pension Ex- 
 aminer for Michigan and held this post for approxi- 
 mately three years. He also was the delegate from 
 Michigan one year to the meeting of the American 
 Medical As&ociation when it held its sessions in 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 In 1902, after about twelve years of successful 
 work in St. Johns, Dr. Pollard decided to move to 
 the Pacific Coast and accordingly he located at Los 
 Angeles, where he has continued the succes&ful 
 career he had already begun 
 in Michigan. Since his ar- 
 rival in the Southern Cali- 
 fornia metropolis, Dr. Pollard 
 has won a leading position 
 among the members of his 
 profession and is today re- 
 garded as one of the mo&t ex- 
 pert surgeons in the country, 
 making a specialty of gyne- 
 cology and abdominal sur- 
 gery. 
 
 In addition to his private 
 practice, Dr. Pollard is a 
 stockholder in the Clara Bar- 
 ton Hospital of Los Angeles 
 and the Los Angeles Fire In- 
 surance Company, being Sur- 
 geon of the former institu- 
 tion. 
 
 He has performed innum- 
 erable successful operations 
 and also has been a liberal 
 contributor to the scientific 
 and professional journals, 
 having written various pa- 
 pers dealing with gynecology. 
 Dr. Pollard has never tak- 
 en any active part in political 
 affairs, but has- at all times been a staunch sup- 
 porter of the policies of the Democratic party. 
 
 Dr. Pollard is one of the best known men in 
 Los Angeles, an ardent advocate of athletics and 
 outdoor life and is noted for his perpetual good 
 humor. His circle of friends is extensive, not only 
 in professional ranks, but among laymen as well. 
 
 Keenly interested in all matters connected with 
 the advance of his profession, Dr. Pollard is active 
 in the affairs of various important professional and 
 technical organizations. His memberships include 
 the American Association of Life Insurance Exam- 
 ining Surgeons. His fraternal affiliations include 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Odd 
 Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America, and 
 Knights of Pythias. 
 
 For many years of his residence in Michigan, Dr. 
 Pollard was a member of the State National Guard, 
 being Surgeon of -the 2nd Regiment, Infantry. 
 
 Dr. Pollard, who resides at the Hotel Lanker- 
 shim, has acted as House Physician there since his 
 residence in Los Angeles. 
 
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 VERILL, GEORGE ED- 
 WARD, Oil and Oil Land 
 Operator, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 is a native of Iowa, being 
 born at Fairfield, that state, 
 
 1864. His parents were 
 and Anna S. (Wells) 
 
 22, 
 
 S. Averill 
 
 October 
 Norman 
 Averill. 
 
 On April 26, 1896, Mr. Averill was mar- 
 ried to Miss Mamie E. 
 Williams at Los Angeles. 
 They have one son, Nor- 
 man W. Averill. 
 
 Mr. Averill came with 
 his parents to California 
 in 1879, and settled first 
 at Garden Grove, coming 
 to Los Angeles in 1880. 
 
 He attended the Los 
 Angeles High school up 
 to 1882, when he entered 
 the service of the Pacific 
 Telephone and Telegraph 
 Company, and became the 
 second manager for the 
 company in Los Angeles. 
 
 On leaving the employ 
 of the telephone company 
 Mr. Averill secured a po- 
 sition with the firm of W. 
 C. Furrey Company, 
 hardware merchants, 
 then at 159-169 North 
 Spring street, where he 
 learned bookkeeping un- 
 der the tutelage of Mr* 
 P. H. Lemmert; in 1885 
 
 GEORGE E. AVERILL 
 
 August, 1905, he was made the sales agent 
 for the Associated Oil Company, his terri- 
 tory being Southern California, with head- 
 quarters in the Pacific Electric Building. 
 
 This position Mr. Averill held with un- 
 varying and technical knowledge to as good 
 advantage for himself as could any one else, 
 so he went into business as an oil broker, 
 selling oil lands and leases as a broker, and 
 has continued ever 
 since, though acquiring 
 interests in several com- 
 panies. Mr. Averill, by 
 straightforward and hon- 
 est methods, and by de- 
 manding the same oi 
 those with whom he 
 deals, enjoys the confi- 
 dence of the oil magnates 
 of this region and of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 His careful considera- 
 tion and long experience 
 in the oil business in the 
 various fields of Califor- 
 n i a has enabled Mr. 
 Averill to be recognized 
 as a thoroughly reliable 
 man and whose good 
 judgment in matters per- 
 taining to oil lands is 
 recognized by the pros- 
 pective investor as well as 
 by the oil men. 
 
 Mr. Averill has been 
 successful in closing a 
 number of deals on oil 
 
 he became an employe of the Germain Fruit 
 Company, and in November of that year he 
 took full charge of the books of that large 
 concern, and was the firm's bookkeeper and 
 then cashier until 1894, when he was placed 
 in charge of the office work of the Porter 
 Brothers of Chicago, in their Los Angeles 
 and Sacramento offices, remaining five years 
 with this concern. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Averill joined forces with 
 the Earl Fruit Company in Sacramento and 
 Los Angeles, having full charge of their ma- 
 terial department, purchasing the supplies 
 of box and packing material and distribut- 
 ing the same to the various shipping 
 agencies. 
 
 In 1902 Mrs. Averill's health became af- 
 fected, and it was thought best to move to 
 San Francisco, where Mr. Averill entered the 
 employ of the J. K. Armsby Company, 
 where he remained for three years, and in 
 
 properties in the past two years, all of which 
 have been good money makers for the pur- 
 chasers. - 
 
 He came to California with his father, 
 mother and brother. His brother, John M. 
 Averill, was drowned in 1882 in the reservoir 
 in East Los Angeles, just east of what is 
 known as the Indian Village; his father, N. 
 S. Averill, was for fourteen years prior to his 
 death, in January, 1911, secretary of the 
 Board of Education of the City of Los An- 
 geles, and left a heritage of fair name and 
 sincerity that no money could buy. 
 
 Mr. Averill's mother has been connected 
 with the schools, and various educational and 
 literary institutions of the city, as teacher, 
 principal, superintendent, and finally was 
 member of the Board of Education and hon- 
 orary member of nearly all of the clubs and 
 societies of the city, and was, as well, a 
 founder of the Los Angeles Y. W. C. A. 
 
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 691 
 
 OOK, CARROLL, Attorney. Ex- 
 Judge of the Superior Court, San 
 Francisco, California, was born 
 in that city January 15, 1855, the 
 son of Elisha Cook, and William- 
 etta (Hoff) Cook of New York 
 City. His paternal ancestors were Hollanders, and 
 the maternal English and German. 
 
 He comes of a family of lawyers, his father 
 having been one of the celebrated practitioners in 
 New York State and California, while the latter's 
 two brothers, Eli and Josiah Cook, attained dis- 
 tinction as the leaders of the bar of Buffalo, New 
 York. Following in the footsteps of their father 
 and uncles, Judge Cook and his brother, William 
 Hoff Cook, have long been among the honored 
 members of the bar of San Francisco. 
 
 Judge Cook has been twice married, his first 
 wife being Lena Stow, daughter of the Hon. W. 
 W. Stow of San Francisco, and of that union there 
 were born two daughters, Elsie and Houston Cook. 
 Mrs. Cook died in March, 1899, and on April 10, 
 1901, he married a second time, his wife being 
 Bessie Grim, daughter of A. K. Grim of Alameda 
 County, California. 
 
 Judge Cook received his first mental training 
 in the well-known private school of George Bates 
 in San Francisco. In 1870, when he was fifteen 
 years of age, he left the Boys' High School to enter 
 the St. Augustine Academy at Benicia, but was 
 obliged by the death of his father to leave six 
 months before graduation. 
 
 For two years he was occupied as a clerk, 
 and then went to Union College, Schenectady, New 
 York, for a year, at the end of which period he 
 moved to Buffalo, where he began the practical 
 study of law in the office of his uncle, Josiah 
 Cook, at that time one of the noted attorneys of 
 New York State. Returning to California, he con- 
 tinued his studies under the observant eyes of 
 Judge Delos Lake, and in 1874 was admitted to 
 the bar of the Supreme Court of California. 
 
 The following year he began active practice, 
 which he continued with encouraging success until 
 1884, when he was appointed First Assistant United 
 States Attorney for the term of four years. This 
 post he resigned in 1888 and resumed his private 
 practice until 1896, in which year he was elected 
 Judge of the Superior Court of California. At the 
 end of his first term of six years he was re-elected 
 for six years more, and on the expiration of this 
 second term January 1, 1909, he again became a 
 private in the legal ranks, and has been fighting 
 hard therein ever since. 
 
 Judge Cook's official career, as well as his 
 practice, has been lime-lighted by cases whose 
 dramatic and legal interest have attracted national, 
 if not worldwide, attention. In the famous trial 
 of Cordelia Botkin he rendered the first decision 
 for a crime committed in two States, a ruling 
 
 which the United States Supreme Court upheld. 
 Mrs. Botkin was tried and convicted of sending 
 poisoned candy to Mrs. John Dunning and her sis- 
 ter, of Wilmington, Delaware, the two women 
 dying as the result of eating the drugged sweets. 
 The case was one of the most noted in the crimi- 
 nal annals of the country and extended over a long 
 period of time. But at the conclusion of all the 
 litigation the woman was finally sentenced to 
 serve out her life as a prisoner. She was confined 
 in the San Francisco County Jail until the earth- 
 quake of 1906, at which time she was transferred to 
 San Quentin Penitentiary, where she died. 
 
 In the case of the "Gas Pipe Thugs" one culprit 
 pleaded guilty, and Judge Cook sentenced him to 
 the gallows without a jury trial. Again the Ap- 
 pellate Court affirmed him. He also sentenced to 
 death the "criminal of the century," Theodore 
 Durrant, in the notorious belfry murder trial. Dur- 
 rant was convicted in November, 1895, of killing 
 two young women, and his trial was one of the 
 most celebrated in the history of the country. He 
 fought desperately, but finally was hanged in 1898. 
 after three years of litigation. 
 
 In the famous case of John McNulty, who had 
 received the death penalty from the Superior Court, 
 and for whom the gallows had been erected eight 
 different times, Judge Cook acting a& his counsel, 
 stayed the execution and finally carried the case to 
 the Supreme Court of the United States where he 
 saved his client's neck by securing him a term of 
 six years in the Penitentiary. 
 
 It has been often presumed that the judicial 
 mind is of a fiber different from that of the bar- 
 rister, that the qualities which make for success 
 on the bench are opposed to those required at the 
 bar. To this rule, however, if it be one, the career 
 of Carroll Cook is a shining exception. His record 
 as Judge and advocate has made an indelible 
 impression on the legal history of California. 
 
 Endowed with unusual analytical ability, and be- 
 ing a clear thinker, Judge Cook was enabled to 
 solve rapidly and sharply the problems which pre- 
 sented themselves to him in his service as a jurist. 
 
 Since his retirement from the bench Judge 
 Cook's practice has been confined largely to the 
 defense of the accused. With his rapidly expand- 
 ing clientele, and his duties as chief counsel of the 
 Chinese Six Companies and other large corpora- 
 tions, Judge Cook has been one of the most active 
 attorneys- in practice at the Bar of California. 
 
 He finds relaxation in the management of his 
 beautiful ranch of 1700 acres, in Sonoma County, 
 where he raises blooded hogs and cattle "blue 
 ribbon winners" at the live stock shows. 
 
 Judge Cook i& a member of the Union League 
 Club of San Francisco, and is a prominent figure 
 in fraternal circles, being a member of the Scottish 
 Rite Masons, Knights Templar, Order of Eastern 
 Star, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Druids. 
 
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 G. A. DAVIDSON 
 
 AVIDSON, GILBERT AUBREY, 
 Banker, San Diego, Cal., was born 
 in Kentville, N. S., June 21, 1S6S, 
 the son of George A. Davidson and 
 Eliza (Palmeter) Davidson. He 
 married Rosetta Harben at Los 
 Angeles, Cal., Oct. 21, 1896. They have a son, 
 G. A. Davidson, Jr. He is descended of one of the 
 Colonial Governors of Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Davidson was educated in Kings County 
 Academy, Nova Scotia, and in 1886 moved to San 
 Diego, Cal. He became head bookkeeper for the 
 Santa Fe Railroad and in 1888 was appointed 
 Cashier and Paymaster at Los Angeles. In 1905 
 he became Auditor for the Santa Fe coast lines. 
 
 Resigning in May, 1907, Mr. Davidson went to 
 San Diego and there organized the Southern Trust 
 & Savings Bank, a corporation capitalized at $250,- 
 000, he being President. The bank was licensed 
 for business July 1, 1907, and on Oct. 1, 1907, began 
 business with deposits of $278,515.24. Within a 
 year the deposits had nearly tripled, and on April 
 18, 1912, about four and a half years after the bank 
 had opened, the deposits amounted to $2,020,919.51, 
 a total increase of nearly 700 per cent. 
 
 Mr. Davidson was elected President of the San 
 Diego Chamber of Commerce in 1909 and during 
 that year originated various progressive projects, 
 among them the Panama California Exposition. 
 The citizens raised several million dollars for this 
 project, and Mr. Davidson, as Second Vice Presi- 
 dent and Chairman of the Executive Committee of 
 the Panama California Exposition Company, has 
 been one of the enthusiastic workers for the suc- 
 cess of the great fair in San Diego in 1915. 
 
 Mr. Davidson is President of the Y. M. C. A., 
 Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church and a 
 member of the Cuyamaca Club, San Diego Country 
 Club, University Club, Order of Panama, B. P. O. 
 Elks and the San Diego Aero Club. 
 
 HON. R. H. DOW 
 
 OW, ROSCOE H., Mayor, Santa 
 Monica, Cal., was born in Canter- 
 bury, New Brunswick Province, 
 Canada, Jan. 26, 1873, son of John 
 Wesley and Hattie (Tibbetts) 
 Dow. He married Nellie K. Gil- 
 lard at Bay City, Mich., Oct. 19, 1903. 
 
 Mr. Dow spent his early life in Booth Bay, Me., 
 and attended the public schools there until he was 
 twelve years old, when his- father, who was in the 
 lumber business, moved to Bay City, Mich. There 
 he attended public school and business college, later 
 spending two years at Olivet College (Mich.). 
 
 In 1891, Mr. Dow entered the employ of his 
 father, who was superintendent of a large 1 amber 
 concern, and remained in that business about two 
 years. He was appointed Deputy City Clerk of Bay 
 City when 19 years of age, serving four years, and 
 also held a commission as Game Warden of Bay 
 County, Mich. In 1894 he was elected Justice of the 
 Peace, being the youngest judicial officer in the 
 State at that time. He served the State in several 
 capacities during the administration of Gov. Pingree. 
 
 In 1903 he moved to Santa Monica, Cal., and en- 
 tered the employ of the Southwest Warehouse Co., 
 later becoming local Mgr. there. He was with them 
 about six years. In 1907, he was elected to the City 
 Council and re-elected two years later, serving sec- 
 ond term as Pres. of Council. In Nov., 1911, he was 
 elected Mayor of Santa Monica as an independent 
 candidate, and appointed an Advisory Board of 
 seven women to aid in the city government. 
 
 Aside from his political activities, Mayor Dow is 
 interested in several bu&iness concerns, among 
 them the Santa Monica Home Builders and the 
 Rose Spring Valley Water Co., of Inyo County, Cal., 
 in both of which he is a Director. He was one of 
 the original advocates of the famous Santa Monica 
 automobile road race, an annual event. 
 
 He is a Mason, Mystic Shriner and Elk. 
 
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 HON. WM. R. HERVEY 
 
 ERVEY, WILLIAM RHODES, 
 Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Somerville, Tenn., March 
 26, 1870, the son of William 
 Blount Hervey and Joanna 
 (Rhodes) Hervey. He married 
 Browning Clarke at Los Angeles, June 1, 1907, and 
 has one son, Rhodes Browning Hervey. 
 
 Judge Hervey attended Central Collegiate In- 
 stitute, at Altus, Ark., and the high school at Mor- 
 rillton, Ark. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Arkansas in 1890 with the degrees of A. B. 
 and B. S., and from the law dept., University of 
 Michigan, in 1894, with the degree of LL. B. 
 
 In 1887 Judge Hervey moved to Santa Ana, Cal- 
 ifornia, with his family, and after graduation was 
 admitted to the Bar (Sept. 1, 1894) at Los Angeles-, 
 where he has remained since. He made a specialty 
 of corporation, banking and probate practice until 
 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Los 
 Angeles County, serving from Feb. 1, 1909, until 
 January, 1911, when, upon retiring from the bench, 
 was elected Vice President of the Los Angeles 
 Tru&t & Savings Bank and Manager of the Trust 
 Department, an office requiring technical legal 
 training and a knowledge of banking theory and 
 practice. Prior to affiliating with this- bank, Judge 
 Hervey had served as Pres., American Savings 
 Bank of Los Angeles, First Vice Pres., American 
 National Bank; Dir., Merchants' Bank & Trust Co.; 
 Dir., Citizens' National Bank, and a member, Exec. 
 Com., L. A. Clearing House Ass'n. 
 
 Judge Hervey, outside hie- vocation, has special- 
 ized in the study of Roman Law and History, Gov- 
 ernmental Finance and the French Revolution. He 
 served three years as Secretary of the L. A. Bar 
 Ass'n. and during 1902-03 as a Tru&tee. 
 
 He is a Thirty-third degree Mason and a mem- 
 ber of the L. A. Co-mtry Club, California, Jonathan 
 and University Clubs. 
 
 A. R. BAUM 
 
 AUM, ALEXANDER ROBERT, 
 Attorney, San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia; born there May G, 1865, son 
 of Charles and Eliza (Schleiden) 
 Baum, '49ers. Married July 31, 
 1888, to Louise Scott at Healds- 
 burg, Cal. Children: Charles and Ethel (twins, 
 Ethel died 1909); Alexander Newcomb, Dorothy 
 Louise and Robert Scott Baum. Grandnephew of 
 Dr. Rcdolph Schleiden, minister of Hanseatic 
 League during Lincoln's administration. 
 
 Primary schooling at Bates' Academy, S. F.; 
 when 8 years old was sent to Germany, attending 
 the gymnasium at Freiburg; later in Karlsruhe, 
 Baden. Returned September, 1881; entered Uni- 
 versity of California for short term; then prepared 
 at Bates' Gymnasium for Harvard, which univer- 
 sity he entered in the class of '87, remaining 
 through Junior year, when called home on account 
 of his father's illness. 
 
 At Harvard was a member of his class crew and 
 later of 'Varsity crew. Member of Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon Fraternity and Hasty Pudding Club. 
 
 In 1886-87 studied law in office of Van Ness- & 
 Roche till admitted to practice by Supreme Court 
 in May, 1S88. In 1896 entered into partnership with 
 T. E. K. Cormac and Denis Donohoe, Jr., under firm 
 name of Cormac & Donohoe & Baum, attorneys for 
 H. B. M. Consul General and various foreign and 
 domestic corporations. After eight years withdrew 
 from firm. In earthquake, 190G, seriously injured in 
 collapsing building and compelled to give up all 
 work for one year. Saffered serious property losses-. 
 Since Fall, 1907, practiced alone. Nominated for 
 the Legislature in 1890 and served several terms on 
 Executive Com., Democratic State Central Com. 
 
 After the fire resigned from Pacific Union and 
 other clubs about the Bay; is member, Sutter Club, 
 Sacramento, and life member, Press Club, San 
 Francisco, and of Society of Cal. Pioneers. 
 
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 TRATTON, HOWARD 
 CLARENCE, Oil and Mining 
 Operator, San Francisco, was 
 born in Cadiz, Ohio, September 
 14, 1861, the son of Howard 
 Whittlesey and Mary (White) Stratton. On 
 the paternal side of the house he comes of an 
 old English family, authentic records of which 
 date back to the fourteenth century, and whose 
 American descendants were 
 among the early colonists 
 of Virginia, Long Island, 
 Massachusetts, Connecticut 
 and New Jersey. His ma- 
 ternal ancestors, who were 
 originally Welsh, settled in 
 Pennsylvania. The first of 
 the Strattons to reach 
 America came to Virginia 
 in the Spring of 1628, 
 Joseph Stratton by name, 
 bringing with him his grant 
 of land of 500 acres. The 
 following year he was a 
 member of the House of 
 Burgesses. A great many 
 of the name Stratton saw 
 military service in the Co- 
 lonial wars, the French and 
 Indian war and in the War 
 of the Revolution, most of 
 them as officers. Mr. How- 
 ard Stratton's grandfather, 
 William Obediah Stratton, 
 only son of William and 
 Mary Ann (Howard) 
 Stratton, was born in Balti- 
 more, Md., and was one of the first settlers of 
 Ohio, a clergyman by occupation. Another 
 American ancestor of note was Elisha Whit- 
 tlesey, Controller of the United States Treasury 
 under Lincoln. 
 
 On April 12, 1882, Mr. H. C. Stratton was 
 married in Portland, Ore., to Miss Cora Alice 
 Cox, and is the father of Vivien S. (Charles- 
 ton) and Clarence Melville Stratton. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Stratton left the grammar school 
 of Warren, Ohio, and from 1870 to 1875 
 attended the public schools of lola and Oswego, 
 Kansas. He then moved to Albany, Oregon, 
 where until 1878 he was a student in the Albany 
 Collegiate Institute, which he left in that year 
 to become a "devil" in a printing office of 
 that town. 
 
 After following this trade for about three 
 years he decided, in 1880, that there was "noth- 
 ing in it" for him, at least. He then entered 
 the Bureau of the Merchants' Exchange of 
 
 H. C. STRATTOX 
 
 Portland, Oregon, and through 1880-1881 was 
 engaged chiefly in making reports on the mar- 
 kets, shipping intelligence, etc. At the end of 
 this period he became Secretary to the Purchas- 
 ing Agent of the Oregon Railway and Naviga- 
 tion Company, the road of which was then 
 under construction by Henry Villard, and 
 remained with them until the completion of the 
 system in 1884. His next occupation was that 
 of bookkeeper in the Port- 
 land Savings Bank, for 
 which he was chosen 
 among the various com- 
 petitors. In this capacity 
 he showed such aptitude 
 that at the end of a year 
 he was elected cashier, over 
 the heads of all the other 
 employes in line for the 
 promotion. Under his 
 supervision the bank's bus- 
 iness grew from the com- 
 paratively small figure of 
 $800,000 to that of $4,000.- 
 ooo. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Stratton 
 came to California to enter 
 the oil business, and has 
 been identified therewith 
 ever since. With character- 
 istic alertness and energy 
 he threw himself into this 
 new occupation, wherein he 
 has achieved a notable suc- 
 cess. The great possibili- 
 ties of the Midway fields 
 in Kern County appealed 
 to him strongly, and he became one of the 
 pioneer operators there. Shortly afterwards he 
 organized the Midway Oil Company of Oregon, 
 becoming owner also of the Stratton Water 
 Company that supplies water for the Midway 
 field. Seeming to develop "oil sense," he dis- 
 covered the now famous Palmer Oil Field 
 which he brought to the attention of his 
 associate, Frank L. Brown, and of which 
 Charles E. Ladd of Portland is a director and 
 one of the large stockholders. 
 
 While in Oregon Mr. Stratton was a private 
 in the Oregon militia for three years. His 
 leanings are all financial and commercial He 
 is president and director of the Stratton 
 Water Co. and secretary and director of the 
 Palmer Oil Co., Palmer Oil Jr. Co., San Juan 
 Portland Cement Co., and the San Juan Pa- 
 cific Ry. Co. He was formerly a member of 
 the Arlington Club of Portland, Ore., and of 
 the Cosmos Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 95 
 
 OMINGUEZ, FRANK ED- 
 WARD, Attorney - at - Law, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in that city, May 11, 
 1876. He is the son of Ro- 
 sario and Guadalupe Gallardo Dominguez. 
 On May 11, 1898, he married Jessie Street 
 in his home city. There has been born to 
 them one child, Helen Gertrude Dominguez. 
 
 Mr. Dominguez spent 
 his boyhood days in Los 
 Angeles and vicinity, 
 where his education was 
 attained. He attended 
 the grammar and prepar- 
 atory schools and then 
 registered at St. Vincent's 
 College, Los Angeles. 
 
 At the age of twelve 
 Mr. Dominguez went into 
 the City Engineer's office, 
 working under the direc- 
 tion of Eaton Dockweiler, 
 Chief Deputy under John 
 Drain, then Street Super- 
 intendent of Los Angeles. 
 During these early years 
 Mr. Dominguez gave con- 
 siderable amount of his 
 spare time to the study of 
 law and at the age of 
 twenty-one was admitted 
 to the Los Angeles bar. 
 
 FRANK E. DOMINGUEZ 
 
 Not long after his admittance to the bar 
 he became Deputy County Clerk. This was 
 under Charles Bell, now Senator. His next 
 public position was that of Clerk in the Court 
 under Judge M. T. Allen. 
 
 At this time the national interest was 
 growing in the Philippines, where the United 
 States was reorganizing the governmental 
 system of the islands. Mr. Dominguez left 
 Los Angeles and went to the Philippines with 
 the Taft Commission. He was in the Gov- 
 ernment service nearly two years and at one 
 time was Judge Taft's interpreter. 
 
 During his service with the Government 
 in the Philippines Mr. Dominguez became 
 well acquainted, and after his work under the 
 Taft Commission was completed he decided 
 to open a law practice there. For the next 
 
 four years he was busily engaged with a 
 profitable practice, and during that time vis- 
 ited throughout the islands, studied the con- 
 dition of the natives and is today well in- 
 formed on the islands in general. 
 
 While there he was attorney for Emilio 
 Aguinaldo, the famous insurgent chief of the 
 Philippine natives. While acting in this ca- 
 pacity he learned a great deal about the na- 
 tives of the islands and 
 of their history. His 
 work for Emilio Aguin- 
 aldo occupied a consider- 
 able amount of time and 
 brought him intc nation- 
 al prominence. 
 
 He returned to Los 
 Angeles after his work in 
 the islands and opened a 
 law practice. A little 
 later he was appointed on 
 a commission represent- 
 ing the State of Colorado 
 at the Mexican Centen- 
 nial with the Hon. M. 
 Tarpez and Col. George 
 Pippy. 
 
 During his work in 
 Los Angeles since his re- 
 turn from Mexico and the 
 Philippines he has been 
 associated with Earl Rog- 
 ers in the practice of law. 
 He is well known here and is today one of 
 the prominent practicing attorneys of the 
 city. His ability to speak and read the Span- 
 ish and Mexican languages makes him a val- 
 uable man in handling cases that deal with 
 those peoples. His varied experiences abroad 
 and in Mexico have been of material value to 
 him in his profession, and today he if, profit- 
 ing by these years of experience. 
 
 Born with the gift of eloquence and pos- 
 sessed of a naturally strong voice, Mr. Do- 
 minguez has won recognition as an orator 
 and is one of the accomplished jury pleaders 
 before the Bar of Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Dominguez is a great man for home 
 life, and when not engaged in the practice or 
 study of law may be found at home with 
 his family. 
 
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 697 
 
 HORN, JOSEPH FRANKLIN, Min- 
 ing, Goldfleld, Nevada, was born 
 in Mariposa County, California, 
 December 1, 1878, the son of Jo- 
 seph Franklin Thorn and Bessie 
 (Collins) Thorn. On November 
 15, 1908, Mr. Thorn was married to Miss Minnie 
 Sweeney, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, daughter of 
 Captain Sweeney, commander of the ill-fated steam- 
 er "Oceanic," which was burned, or lost at sea, about 
 1887. He comes- of a family whose men have been 
 engaged in mining for generations, his mother, a 
 native of England, being a member of a family well 
 known in the mining district of Cornwall, England. 
 His father, descended of a prominent Southern 
 family, was born in Mariposa County, Cal., in the 
 year 1850, when the California gold rush was at 
 its height. He later became one of the best-known 
 mining men of the West, and his three sons fol- 
 lowed in his footsteps, one of whom was killed on 
 duty in Korea, and another, George M. Thorn, is 
 now engaged in mining in South Africa. 
 
 J. F. Thorn, who has made a splendid record as 
 a mining engineer and manager, attended the pub- 
 lic schools of Mariposa County until he was fifteen 
 years of age, but gave up his studies at that time 
 to go into mining with his father. Later in life, 
 however, he studied two years at the Van Der 
 Nailen School in Berkeley, California, and also en- 
 gaged in a special course of professional studies 
 under private teachers while actively mining. 
 
 He began his career in 1893 as an apprentice 
 machinist in the mechanical department of the 
 Horseshoe mine in Mariposa County, his father 
 being Manager of the property at the time. At 
 the end of two years he completed his apprentice- 
 ship and then went in for actual mine work at 
 Quartz Mountain, another property of which his 
 father was Manager. He worked in the mines 
 there for about two years, then left his father and 
 worked for about a year in other mining camps. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Thorn became a protege of John H. 
 Mackenzie, one of the leading mine engineers and 
 operators of the West, and has been intimately 
 associated with him in a professional way ever 
 since. He first began with Mr. Mackenzie at what 
 is known as the Mariposa Grant, a gold quartz 
 property in Mariposa County, California, owned by 
 the London Exploration Company. He served as 
 Mechanical Engineer there for approximately three 
 years, the last six months of which he aided in the 
 construction of a power dam across Merced River. 
 
 At the conclusion of this work he was invited 
 by Mr. Mackenzie to go with him to British Colum- 
 bia, where the latter had been given charge of the 
 Le Roi Mine, the largest and most productive in 
 that region. It was then practically at a stand- 
 s-till on account of serious labor troubles and Mr. 
 Mackenzie, picking several of his most reliable 
 men, in a very short time had the entire property 
 
 operating at full capacity and on a paying basis. 
 
 Mr. Thorn was appointed by his superior as 
 shift boss in the mine and began operations at 
 once. He remained there for about a year and 
 then was chosen by Mr. Mackenzie to go to Korea 
 as Superintendent of the Oriental Consolidated 
 Mine, one of the largest gold properties in the 
 world. This mine is located in the northern part 
 of Korea, near the Manchuria line, and the posi- 
 tion held by Mr. Thorn was one fraught with many 
 perils outside of those of his work. 
 
 Mr. Thorn had taken a younger brother, M. H. 
 Thorn, with him, who later met death in a myste- 
 rious manner, it never being established whether 
 he fell down a shaft accidentally or was thrown 
 down by inimical natives. Mr. Thorn himself also 
 had a narrow escape from death at the hands of 
 the natives on one occasion, the Koreans felling 
 him with a hurled stone during a fight brought on 
 by his refusal to surrender up for execution two 
 young Americans who had violated one of the laws 
 of the country. He lay unconscious for one week 
 following the assault by the infuriated natives. 
 
 Mr. Thorn continued as Superintendent of the 
 Oriental Consolidated Mine until the early part of 
 1907, and during that time was continuously on 
 duty, except for those times when he came back to 
 the U. S. with the body of his brother or made trips 
 into Manchuria, Japan or dis-tant parts of Korea. 
 
 Upon his return to the United States in 1907, 
 Mr. Thorn rejoined Mr. Mackenzie, becoming Man- 
 ager of the Buster Mine, east of Lewis-ton, Idaho. 
 This was another gold property, owned by Mr. Mac- 
 kenzie and his associates, the firm being known as 
 Bradley, Mackenzie & Riqua. Mr. Thorn operated 
 this property successfully for two years and then 
 went to Round Mountain, Nevada, as Superinten- 
 dent for the Round Mountain Mining Company. 
 He was in that position nearly a year, resigning 
 to go to Goldfield, Nevada, as Assistant Manager 
 of the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company. 
 
 This latter concern is one of the most famous 
 mining companies in the country, its property rank- 
 ing as the richest producer, for its size, in the his- 
 tory of the world. It has paid many millions of 
 dollars in dividends and still is producing gold at 
 a profit of approximately $5,000,000 per year. 
 
 On January 1, 1911, Mr. Thorn was appointed 
 General Manager of the Goldfield Consolidated and 
 has continued in that capacity ever since. During 
 the two years he has had charge of the property 
 he has reduced the cost of mining and milling con- 
 siderably. This economy in operation of one of 
 the most fabulously rich properties ever known 
 has placed him among the most successful practi- 
 cal mining men of the country, despite the fact 
 that he is one of the youngest men holding a posi- 
 tion of such great responsibility. 
 
 He belongs to the Native Sons of the Golden West, 
 and his father is reckoned its oldest living member. 
 
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 YSERT, WALTER V., Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Dan- 
 ville, Illinois, May 30, 1881. 
 His father was Joseph Dysert 
 and his mother Abagail (Vinson) Dysert. He 
 married Maybelle C. Fox at Danville, Illi- 
 nois, December 20, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Dysert obtained his common school 
 education in his native 
 State and graduated from 
 the O a k w o o d High 
 School, Vermillion Coun- 
 ty, Illinois, in 1900, after 
 which he determined to 
 follow law as a profes- 
 sion. To that end he 
 read and studied law in 
 the offices of Illinois 
 State Attorney S. G. 
 Wilson, at Danville, for 
 nearly two years and fa- 
 miliarized himself with 
 State and civic duties. 
 He then entered the Illi- 
 nois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity Law School at 
 Bloomington, and gradu- 
 ated therefrom on June 
 11, 1901, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of Illi- 
 nois the same month. 
 
 Mr. Dysert had 
 scarcely been admitted 
 to the bar when he be- 
 came associated with 
 Colonel George T. Buck- 
 
 WALTER 
 
 ingham, in practice at Danville. That was 
 on September 1, 1901. Five months later, 
 because of his unusual activity and thorough 
 satisfaction, he became associated in part- 
 nership with Colonel Buckingham under the 
 firm name of Buckingham and Dysert, which 
 association continued in the general practice 
 of law, with Mr. Dysert numbering among 
 the prominent and promising lawyers of that 
 section of the State. He continued with 
 Colonel Buckingham for about four years, 
 withdrawing from the firm on January 1, 
 1906. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage, which oc- 
 curred about that time, Mr. Dysert opened 
 an office of his own. His clear record as an 
 attorney won him much and favorable prom- 
 inence in his neighborhood. During the 
 same year in which he engaged in practice 
 alone he became a candidate for the Forty- 
 fifth General Assembly of Illinois, as a Pro- 
 
 gressive Republican from the Twenty-sec- 
 ond Senatorial District. After a vigorous 
 campaign he was elected to that office, re- 
 ceiving more votes at the election than did 
 Joseph G. Cannon, who served so long as 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. He 
 served one term in the Legislature, but re- 
 fused to be a candidate for re-election, becom- 
 ing actively identified with the "Anti-Joseph 
 G. Cannon" Republican 
 organization in the Eight- 
 eenth Congressional Dis- 
 trict of Illinois, and was 
 strongly urged to become 
 the candidate for Con- 
 gress by the "Anti-Can- 
 non" followers. His side 
 was taken by many of the 
 newspapers of his com- 
 munity, but he refused to 
 continue in politics, pre- 
 ferring success in his pro- 
 f e s s i o n to legislative 
 honors. 
 
 Mr. Dysert has al- 
 ways held a very profit- 
 able clientele and from 
 the close of his legislative 
 term until November 1, 
 1910, a period of four 
 years, he was very ac- 
 tive in his home city, po- 
 litically and in profes' 
 sional lines. 
 
 He moved to Los An- 
 v nv<;FT?T geles, arriving in that 
 
 city during the latter part 
 of 1910, and immediately entered practice. 
 
 Mr. Dysert has been unusually active in 
 the trial of litigated cases in the courts of 
 many states. 
 
 He has had an unusually large number 
 of cases in the courts of appeals, both State 
 and Federal. 
 
 He has handled much litigation for and 
 against corporations, has defended twelve 
 homicide cases, and has established a bril- 
 liant record during his brief residence in 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Dysert is an accomplished speaker, is 
 a deep reader and a thorough student 
 of law. 
 
 He has made numerous speeches on holi- 
 day programs, such as Memorial and Inde- 
 pendence Day orations. 
 
 Mr. Dysert is identified with many social 
 organizations and fraternal societies and 
 clubs of this city. 
 
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 H O R P E, DR. ARTHUR 
 CLYDE, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Northfield, 
 Minn., Dec. 19, 1866, the son 
 of George C. and Adelaide 
 (Carpenter) Thorpe. He married Miss Flor- 
 ence Chase at Lankershim, Cal., Nov. 30, 
 1910. 
 
 His father was a man of influence in his 
 section of Minnesota. He 
 was a real estate operator 
 on a considerable scale 
 and a factor in politics. 
 
 Dr. Thorpe attended 
 the grammar schools, and 
 graduated from the high 
 school of his native city. 
 
 Although a youth 
 under twenty he was 
 given the office of Dep- 
 uty County Treasurer of 
 Stevens County, Minne- 
 sota. He fulfilled the du- 
 ties of the office with 
 great credit to himself 
 for a period of a year and 
 eight months, when his 
 term expired. 
 
 His friends urged him 
 to run for the office of 
 County Treasurer, and, 
 although he thought his 
 youth would be a handi- 
 cap, he was elected. He 
 had, at the time of his 
 election, just passed his 
 majority. He had the dis- 
 tinction of being the youngest County Treas- 
 urer in the United States, the youngest man 
 to occupy an elective office of such conse- 
 quence in the history of the country. Had 
 he been any younger he would have been 
 ineligible not only to hold any elective office 
 but even to vote. At the expiration of his 
 first term he was a candidate again, and was 
 again easily elected. 
 
 He wanted a profession, and decided on 
 medicine. He entered the University of 
 Minnesota Medical Department, and grad- 
 uated in the spring of 1897. 
 
 While a student at the university he 
 bought a drug store, and this he operated 
 while learning his profession. The labora- 
 tory of the drug store gave him the oppor- 
 tunity for many independent chemical ex- 
 periments. 
 
 After his graduation he entered a Minne- 
 apolis hospital to gain practical experience 
 
 DR. A. C. THORPE 
 
 With six months' hospital experience be- 
 hind him he moved to San Gabriel, Cal., and 
 there began to practice. 
 
 In 1899, after two years at San Gabriel, 
 he moved to Los Angeles. His first office 
 was at the corner of Seventh and Figueroa. 
 He later moved to the Byrne Building, and, 
 in 1905, to the Grant Building, where he is 
 at the present time. He is specializing in 
 nose and throat diseases, 
 and in surgery, but con- 
 ducts a general practice. 
 During the early part of 
 his career he studied tu- 
 berculosis, and he has 
 the reputation among his 
 medical associates of be- 
 ing one of the best in- 
 formed of physicians on 
 the diseases of the lungs 
 and throat. 
 
 He has entered fully 
 into the life of the city 
 which he has chosen for 
 his home. He has been 
 identified with many of 
 the movements for civic 
 betterment. He has in- 
 vested his capital in real 
 estate in Los Angeles 
 and Southern California. 
 He is a stockholder in 
 several corporations and 
 is in a number of busi- 
 ness ventures. 
 
 Dr. Thorpe is an ener- 
 getic, active worker in the 
 various medical societies of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. He is also a member of all the im- 
 portant local, State and national medical 
 societies. Among them are included the 
 California State Medical Society, the Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Association, the Hennepin 
 County Medical Society of Minnesota and 
 the International Surgeons' Club of Roches- 
 ter, Minnesota. 
 
 Dr. Thorpe is an enthusiastic devotee of 
 outdoor sports, in the pursuit of which he 
 spends a considerable part of his spare 
 time. 
 
 He is a club man, and belongs to the 
 Jonathan Club, the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, the University Club, the Pacific Gun 
 Club, the Tuna Fishing Club of Catalina 
 Island, the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason and 
 Shriner. 
 
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 ANSBURGH, GUSTAVE 
 ALBERT, Architect, San 
 Francisco. California, was 
 born at Panama, January 7, 
 1876, the son of Simon Laza- 
 rus Lansburgh and Rebecca (Pyke) Lans- 
 burgh. His paternal ancestors were Ger- 
 mans, while on the maternal side he is of 
 Portuguese and Spanish descent. S. L. Lans- 
 burgh, his father, was 
 one of the largest ship 
 chandlers on the Pacific 
 Coast, and a maternal 
 grandfather was the au- 
 thor of the famous 
 "Pyke's Catechism." Mr. 
 Lansburgh was married 
 in San Francisco, in 
 June, 1908, to Miss Irene 
 Muzzy, the children of 
 which marriage are Ruth 
 and Lawrence Lans- 
 burgh. 
 
 From 1884 to 1892 he 
 attended the Grammar 
 School at San Francisco 
 and then spent a year at 
 the Cogswell School and 
 another at the Lowell 
 High. In 1894 he entered 
 the University of Califor- 
 nia, but left there in 1896 
 to travel in Europe. 
 
 He became a student 
 in the Ecole des Beaux 
 Arts, of Paris, France, in 
 1901, took the regular 
 
 G. ALBERT LANSBURGH 
 
 course of architecture, painting, modeling, 
 sculpture, engineering, the history of archi- 
 tecture, etc., and was graduated in 1906, with 
 the degree of "Architecte diplome par le Gou- 
 vernement." In his last year there he won 
 the medal of the Society of French Architects 
 which was awarded at the Grand Salon of the 
 Champs Elysees. 
 
 While in Europe he traveled extensively, 
 partly as a student and partly for mere pleas- 
 ure, and continued this combined course in 
 the Orient. Returning to San Francisco at 
 the end of May, 1906, shortly after the fire, he 
 began the active practice of his profession, 
 under unusually auspicious conditions. 
 
 Mr. Lansburgh's first important works in 
 San Francisco are the two Gunst buildings, 
 one at the corner of Third and Mission 
 streets, and the other at Geary and Powell. 
 In the former especially he has followed his 
 preference for the modern French Renais- 
 
 sance, and has achieved a notable triumph 
 therein. Among his other noteworthy struc- 
 tures are the San Francisco Orpheum, San- 
 ford Sachs Building, Lumberman's Building, 
 Newman & Levinson's, the restoration of the 
 Temple Emanuel, the Hotel Manx and the 
 Gunst residence. Besides these he has fitted 
 up the Emporium, won the competition for 
 the Concordia Club and B'nai B'rith Building, 
 and designed many im- 
 posing mausoleums in 
 San Mateo County. He 
 has recently completed 
 the new Orpheum in Los 
 Angeles, thereby carrying 
 off another artistic palm. 
 An attempt, largely 
 successful, to express 
 purely American ideas is 
 a striking characteristic 
 of Mr. Lansburgh's re- 
 cent work. In other 
 words he is trying to de- 
 velop a strictly American 
 form of architecture. A 
 fondness for color, pos- 
 sibly inherited from his 
 Spanish and Portuguese 
 forbears, is evident in the 
 polychrome to which his 
 taste seems to run. A 
 conspicuously good ex- 
 ample of his polychrome 
 work is the new Los An- 
 geles Orpheum. He vir- 
 tually introduced this 
 style to the far West, but 
 though he favors it, together with stone, terra 
 cotta and the like, he believes in adapting 
 the material to the needs, and especially in 
 making the character of the building show 
 the use to which it is to be put. Always 
 artistic, with a decided architectural bent, he 
 has concentrated on his specialty to the con- 
 considerable gain of San Francisco. He is a 
 skillful musician and an accomplished decorator. 
 It was he who designed the decorations for the 
 Taft Banquet given at the Palace Hotel on the 
 eve of the ceremonies of the ground breaking 
 for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was for- 
 merly an acrobatic star of the Olympic Club and 
 a champion wrestler, but now limits his ath- 
 letic enthusiasms to automobiling and golf. 
 Mr. Lansburgh is a member of the Beaux 
 Arts Society, Diplome Society, San Francis- 
 co Chapter American Institute of Architects, 
 Concordia Club and Argonaut Club of San 
 Francisco. 
 
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 701 
 
 HANDLER, CHARLES L., 
 Attorney at Law, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Davenport, Iowa, on May 30, 
 1878. He married Gisela 
 Pluemer at Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 6, 
 1906, two children being born as a result of 
 this union, Sarah Fischer and Davis Pluemer 
 Chandler. Mr. Chand- 
 ler studied in the 
 grammar and high 
 schools of Pueblo, Colo- 
 rado, up to 1892, when he 
 entered the University of 
 N e b r a sk a- Preparatory 
 School. He remained 
 there until 1894, when he 
 returned to Denver, Colo- 
 rado, studying at the 
 Woodworth Business Col- 
 lege of that place. He 
 entered the University of 
 Denver in 1896, being 
 graduated from that in- 
 stitution in 1900 with the 
 degree LL. B. The fol- 
 lowing year, being desir- 
 ous of finishing his law 
 education with so*nc 
 Eastern studies, he en- 
 tered Cornell University 
 
 CHAS. L. CHANDLER 
 
 His employment with the Yellow Poplar 
 Lumber Company brought him in touch w'tb 
 one of the vital questions of the day, that of 
 conservation of tn^ natural resources, parti"- 
 ularly in the field of timber and forest re- 
 serves. 
 
 In 1903 he resigned his position in Ohio, 
 settling in Los Angeles in September of that 
 year. He again resumed 
 his legal work, becoming 
 connected with the firm 
 of Cochran and Williams, 
 attorneys, and for two 
 years following he . on- 
 tinned with that firm. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Chan <ler 
 became a member of the 
 firm of Williams, Gou !gc 
 and Chandler, attorneys 
 at law. This firm has a 
 large practice in Los An- 
 geles, being attorneys for 
 a number of the larger 
 corporations and organi- 
 zations of that city, 
 among which are the Pa- 
 cific Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company, the 
 Broadway Bank and 
 Trust Company, Citizens' 
 Trust and Savings Bank, 
 
 at Ithaca, New York, receiving the degree 
 LL. B. in 1901. 
 
 Mr. Chandler was admitted to the Bar in 
 Denver, Colorado, in January, 1900, and dur- 
 ing the latter part of 1901 and part of 1902, 
 he was, in the employ of Fillius and Davis, 
 Denver attorneys. 
 
 From this employment in Denver. Colo- 
 rado, he went to New York City, becoming 
 associated with the Yellow Poplar Lumber 
 Company of Ironton, Ohio, owned and con- 
 trolled by his uncle, the late F. C. Fischer, 
 prominent in the lumber world. He pur- 
 chased and became an expert in the exam- 
 ination of timber land titles for that company 
 throughout the Southern States, visiting a 
 number of the famous timber regions of the 
 Southeastern and Northwestern portions of 
 the United States, and studying the timber 
 conditions of the country. 
 
 Needles Light and Power Company, Home 
 Savings Bank, Seaside Water Company and 
 Los Angeles Abstract and Trust Company. 
 
 The firm now maintains a large practice, 
 with Mr. Chandler as one of the active attor- 
 neys of the organization. He is largely in- 
 terested in a number of Los Angeles enter- 
 prises such as the Seaboard Land Security 
 Company, of which organization he is the 
 President. He is Vice President of the Mid- 
 way Light and Power Company, the Needles 
 Light and Power Company, and holds a sim- 
 ilar position with the Seaboard Metal works. 
 His extensive experience in corporation work 
 makes him a valuable member of the firm. 
 
 He is a member of the Westlake Lodge, 
 F. and A. M., Scottish Rite, and has been 
 honored with the Presidency of the Cornell 
 University Club of Southern California, of 
 which he was one of the organizers. 
 
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 P. H. SMITH 
 
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 703 
 
 MITH, PEARL HAWLEY, Capital- 
 ist, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, May 
 18, 1861, the son of Simon Smith 
 and Jane (Kelly) Smith. He 
 married Blanche Dewey Cooke at 
 New Orleans, Louisiana. He has- two children, 
 Seville and Pearl Hawley Smith, Jr. Mr. Smith 
 is of Dutch-Irish descent. His father served in 
 the Civil War as a cavalryman under Captain 
 Winslow in the Fourth Iowa Regiment, and his 
 mother was noted in Iowa for her philanthropies 
 and her interest in church affairs. 
 
 Mr. Smith, who is ranked with the business 
 men of large affairs, in this country, was not 
 favored with riches in his youth. He began his 
 education in the public schools of Mount Pleasant, 
 Iowa, and later, in his desire to obtain higher 
 education, swept the rooms and built the fires 
 of Howe's Academy in order to pay for his 
 tuition. He had as his teacher there S. C. Howe, 
 son of the celebrated Professor Samuel Howe, 
 who had taught many famous men, among them 
 General William T. Sherman and Benjamin Har- 
 rison, afterwards President of the United States. 
 Leaving Howe's Academy, Mr. Smith went to the 
 Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant and 
 there concluded his education. 
 
 Following his graduation, Mr. Smith, who had 
 heard of the great ore discoveries in the Mesaba 
 Range in Minnesota, decided to go there in 
 search of fortune, and as a result of his pros- 
 pecting trip, discovered and located a strip of 
 valuable iron ore land. This tract, 154 acres in 
 extent, had been overlooked by the United States 
 surveyors when they were platting the country 
 into townships and sections and, as it was vir- 
 tually "no man's land," Mr. Smith, then hardly 
 more than a boy in years, "squatted" on the prop- 
 erty. Up to this point his progress had been 
 comparatively easy, but he was destined to go 
 through one of the bitterest battles in the his- 
 tory of the Minnesota iron fields. The powerful 
 interests that had acquired the bulk of the iron 
 lands, soon learned that the Smith property was one 
 of the richest in iron in the entire State of Min- 
 nesota, and sought to get possession of it. They 
 tried coercion and cajolery, and in other ways 
 sought to drive him out of the country, but Mr. 
 Smith, in whom tenacity is a strong character- 
 istic, resisted at every point their attempts to 
 dispossess him. He fought to retain possession 
 of the land for fifteen years. At the end of that 
 time the Federal Government granted him clear 
 title, thus making him one of the Mesaba Iron 
 Kings. This land he has leased for several years 
 to M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, of which 
 the late United States Senator Mark Hanna was 
 the head, and which is now conducted by his es- 
 tate together with his sons and associates. Mr. 
 Smith has reaped a large fortune from his iron 
 
 holdings, but in the days when he was fighting 
 for the property he underwent hardships and 
 suffering that only a man of his great physical 
 strength could have endured. He is gigantic in 
 build, standing six feet and three inches in height 
 and is endowed with great strength. While at 
 college he was a noted athlete and held the record 
 in his day for throwing a baseball, he having 
 propelled the sphere a distance of three hundred 
 and ninety-four feet and two inches. He also was 
 a splendid swimmer, boxer and wrestler, and dur- 
 ing his college days devoted a great deal of time 
 to these sports. It wa& this training which en- 
 abled him to endure the rigors of winter, year 
 after year during his land fight, for in that time 
 he was compelled to live on the land, and passed 
 months in his cabin, located in a wilderness miles 
 away from civilization. 
 
 In addition to his iron holdings in Minnesota, 
 Mr. Smith is identified with other successful lines 
 of activity, to which he has lent his force and capi- 
 tal. In these, a& in all enterprises with which he is 
 associated, he is a leading factor. He has made 
 most of his investments in real estate and mineral 
 lands and was the organizer of the Smith & McLaren 
 Company, owners of 9000 acres of coal lands in the 
 Mendota District of the State of Washington. This 
 property is operated under the name of the Men- 
 dota Coal & Coke Company. Mr. Smith and 
 Mr. McLaren purchased these lands soon after 
 the former had won out in his Mesaba ore fight, 
 and he has been the directing force in the devel- 
 opment of the business, which, owing to the 
 scarcity of coal on the Pacific Coast, has become 
 one of the important commercial enterprises of 
 the West. 
 
 Mr. Smith devotes most of his time to his busi- 
 ness, but since 1908, when he established his home 
 at Los Angeles, he has been engaged in gathering 
 an art collection, and is the possessor of one of the 
 notable collections of the West. 
 
 Among his pictures is a Venetian scene by 
 Mourin; "Perplexity," a character study by A. 
 Palau; "The Storm," a waterscape by Donovan; 
 "Reveries of a Bachelor," by Mary Hinkson; two 
 paintings by Yeend King; "North Sea Fishermen," 
 by Fraser, of London; "Hot Toddy," by Harwood, 
 and several others. In addition, Mr. Smith has a 
 splendid collection of Oriental rugs and rare speci- 
 mens of precious stones. 
 
 Mr. Smith travels extensively and is a well 
 known figure in the leading art centers of Europe, 
 which he frequents on his trips abroad, in search 
 of rare works to add to his collection. 
 
 He is not actively interested in politics, but is 
 keen for the growth of Los Angeles and has lent 
 his assistance to various- movements of a civic na- 
 ture. He is also prominent in club and fraternal 
 circles, being a member of the California Club, Los 
 Angeles Country Club, Order of Elks-, and several 
 educational clubs and associations. 
 
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 COWARD, HER- 
 BERT CAMPBELL, 
 General Manager of 
 the California Salt Co., 
 San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Oak- 
 land, California, No- 
 vember 24, 1870. Both 
 his father, Hamilton 
 Graham Coward, and 
 his mother, Mary 
 (Leas) Coward, were 
 Marylanders and de- 
 scended from Revolu- 
 tionary stock, original- 
 ly English. He mar- 
 ried in Oakland, Janu- 
 ary, 1909, Miss Eloise 
 Terol, and is the father 
 of two daughters, Net- 
 Mr. Coward's schooling 
 was scant, consisting in all of three years, from 
 1879 to 1882, in the grammar school of Oakland. 
 
 He first worked in the hardware store of George 
 S. Browne, at Oakland. He saved money and 
 bought an interest with his brother, M. G. Coward, 
 in the Sausalito News, and worked in the engineer- 
 ing department of the State Harbor Commission. 
 In 1891 he started in the salt business in a small 
 way in Oakland. 
 
 In October, 3910, he incorporated the Continen- 
 tal Salt and Chemical Company in Alameda County, 
 and on the absorption of this concern by the Salt 
 Trust, thirty days later, withdrew and formed the 
 California Salt Company. This company supplies 
 the markets along the coast of California, Wash- 
 ington, Oregon, Alaska and in the Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 tie and Phyllis Coward. 
 
 RIGGINS,. PHILIP B., 
 Physician, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born 
 January 27, 1877, at 
 Sheffield, Iowa, the son 
 of Paden B. Riggins and 
 Lydia (Loomis) Rig- 
 gins. He married Kath- 
 ryn Nisbet September 
 17, 1898, at Atlanta, 
 Georgia. There are two 
 children, Philip Byron 
 and Prentice Lanier 
 Riggins. 
 
 He received his pri- 
 mary education at the 
 Sheffield schools. Re- 
 moving to Santa Moni- 
 ca, in 1893, he gradu- 
 ated from the hiarh 
 schools of that city the same year. He attended 
 Stanford University and graduated from the legal 
 department in the year 1897. 
 
 He went to Atlanta, Georgia, for a time and 
 there married. He then went to Los Angeles in 
 1902, and, choosing medicine as his profession, at- 
 tended the University of California School of Medi- 
 cine until he received his qualifying degree in 1907. 
 
 He at once began practice. He is at the present 
 time chief surgeon of the large firm of Shattuck- 
 Edinger, Railroad Contractors, and assistant sur- 
 geon of the Pacific Electric Railway, the Los An- 
 geles Railway, the Pacific Light and Power Com- 
 pany and Fairchilds-Gilmore-Wilton Company. 
 
 To all of these firms he is of special value be- 
 cause of his legal knowledge. He belongs to the 
 better known clubs of his city. 
 
 DURBAN, HARRY 
 PATTERSON, Steam- 
 ship Agent, Los An- 
 geles, California, was 
 born in Hamilton, On- 
 tario, Canada, Febru- 
 ary 2, 1871, the son of 
 William Durdan and 
 Isabella (Hall) Durdan. 
 He was educated in 
 the common schools 
 and Collegiate Institute 
 of his home city. 
 
 After leaving school 
 he engaged in the 
 transportation b u s i - 
 ness and entered the 
 service of the Grand 
 Trunk Railway, later 
 the Canadian Pacific 
 Railway and afterward the Hill railroads, serving 
 in various capacities until he resigned and went 
 into the steamship business in New York City. He 
 has been in that line ever since. At one time he 
 represented in New York six different steamship 
 companies running to the Far East China, Japan, 
 Philippines, etc. and early in 1910 went with the 
 American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. He was 
 made Southern California agent for the company, 
 and in September, 1910, went to Los Angeles, where 
 he has the responsible task of building up the grow- 
 ing passenger, export and import business of the 
 new Los Angeles harbor. 
 
 Mr. Durdan is a prominent clubman, holding 
 memberships in the Jonathan Club, San Gabriel 
 Valley Country Club, San Diego Country Club and 
 the Japan Society. 
 
 HANCE, CHARLES 
 HEWITT, City Treas- 
 urer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Montgom- 
 ery County, Missouri, 
 March 11, 1837, the son 
 of John Hance and 
 Catherine (Hewitt) 
 Hance. His grandfath- 
 er, Adam Hance, was a 
 soldier in George Wash- 
 ington's Army and was 
 present at the surren- 
 der of Lord Cornwallis. 
 On October 27, 1864, he 
 married Sarah Cather- 
 i n e Henderson, near 
 Columbia, Missouri. 
 There are three chil- 
 dren, Minnie B., For- 
 rest B., and Lucille Elma Hance. 
 
 He removed to St. Louis, Mo., and attended pub- 
 lic schools. In 1859, took a stock of goods across 
 the plains to Denver. Enlisted in Confederate Army 
 and served to July 28, 1862, when he lost his right 
 arm in battle of Moore's Hill, Mo. Was clerk, Cir- 
 cuit Court, and ex-Officio Recorder, also Clerk, Court 
 of Common Pleas, Randolph County, Mo., two terms, 
 1874 to 1882. He moved to California, 1883. Located 
 at San Jose, then Los Angeles in 1885. Was in drug 
 business there, 1885 to 1894, when he retired. City 
 Clerk of Los Angeles, 1896-1902, three terms. Assist- 
 ant Cashier and Secretary of Title Guarantee and 
 Trust Company, four years. In 1906, elected City 
 Treasurer, and re-elected, 1909. He is a Democrat, 
 member Good Government Organization and the 
 City Club. 
 
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 FRANCIS, JOHN 
 HAYWOOD, Educator, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Preble 
 County, Ohio, May 18, 
 1867, the son of George 
 Francis and Mary 
 (Fall) Francis. He 
 married L. Lou Hott 
 at Woodbridge, Cali- 
 fornia, June 4, 1892. 
 They have two chil- 
 dren, George Haywood 
 and James Francis. 
 
 Professor Francis re- 
 ceived his early educa- 
 tion in the schools of 
 his native State and 
 was graduated from 
 O 1 1 e rbein University, 
 Waterville, Ohio, with the degree of A. M. In 1892 
 he went to California and located at Stockton. He 
 attended San Joaquin Valley College, Woodbridge, 
 California, graduating with the degrees A. B., A. M. 
 In 1896 he left Stockton and went to Los Angeles 
 to become a teacher. 
 
 Since his arrival in Los Angeles, Professor 
 Francis has become one of the leading educators 
 of the city and in 1910 was chosen Superintendent 
 of Schools. He is noted as an advocate of tech- 
 nical education and is the founder of the Poly- 
 technic High School of Los Angeles. He served as 
 its principal from 1905 to 1910. 
 
 Professor Francis is a member of the Academy 
 of Science and the National Educational Associa- 
 tion and belongs to University Club, Los Angeles, 
 and to the Archaeological Institute of America. 
 
 HERRON, RUFUS 
 H., oil, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., April 
 20, 1849. 
 
 He received his pri- 
 mary education in the 
 schools of Pittsburgh 
 and was graduated 
 from Western Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. 
 The Pennsylvania oil 
 fields were just then 
 being opened up and 
 the whole East was in 
 a state of excitement. 
 Fortunes were being 
 won and lost. He nat- 
 urally joined the rush 
 to the fields. At one 
 
 time or another he engaged in every form of enter- 
 prise known to the oil business. He became ac- 
 quainted with it from every angle. For a number 
 of years he was engaged in the oil well supply 
 business at Pittsburgh. In 1893 he sold out this 
 business and went to California, locating at Los 
 Angeles. There he engaged in the oil business 
 and has been in it since. Organized the first 
 Oil Exchange in California at Los Angeles and was 
 president of it; vice president San Francisco Oil 
 Exchange. One of the heaviest oil operators in the 
 State and has done much to legitimately develop 
 the industry. 
 
 Member Army and Navy Club of California, 
 Loyal Legion, U. S. A., California Club of Los An- 
 geles, Knights Templar, Mystic Shriners and is a 
 thirty-second degree Mason. 
 
 DICKINSON, WIL- 
 LIAM RICHARD, Drug- 
 gist, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, born at Carroll- 
 ton, Mo., Oct. 27, 1862, 
 son of Richard Whitlow 
 Dickinson and Laura 
 (Ann) Dickinson. He 
 married Celestia Maud 
 Warson, Aug. 20, 1890, 
 at Snohomish, Wash. 
 There is one child, 
 Laurel Dickinson. 
 
 Attended public 
 schools of Kansas City, 
 Mo., and from his thir- 
 teenth to his sixteenth 
 year worked outside of 
 school hours as drug- 
 gist apprentice. At six- 
 teen he went to Deadwood, S. D., with Black Hills 
 gold rush. From there he went to Central City 
 and Lead, S. D., as drug clerk. 
 
 In 1884 entered partnership with F. J. Cornes, 
 in Central City, S. D. Later bought a drug store 
 in Lead, and followed with three more, under the 
 name of Dickinson Drug Co. In 1904, retired and 
 traveled; went to Los Angeles same year. In 
 1908, bought the Dean Drug Co., and re-entered 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Dickinson originally was a Democrat, ap- 
 pointed in 1884, Postmaster, Central City, S. D., 
 by President Cleveland; served seven years. Be- 
 came Republican during free silver agitation. 
 
 Member Union League Club, Scottish Rite 
 Masons and the Knights Templar. President Cali- 
 fornia Pharmaceutical Association. 
 
 HANDLEY, LORIN 
 ANDREW, City Clerk, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born February 
 12, 1881, at Franklin, 
 Indiana, the son of Jo- 
 siah Handy Handley 
 and Nancy Jane (Carn- 
 ine) Handley. He is a 
 descendant of Matthew 
 Handley and Daniel 
 Boone. He married 
 Elizabeth Jane Bald- 
 ridge at Mt. Carmel, 
 Illinois, July 12, 1905. 
 Two children, Joseph 
 B, and Donald L. Hand- 
 ley, were born to them. 
 
 Attended schools of 
 Johnson County, Indi- 
 ana, graduated Hanover College, Hanover, Indi- 
 ana, 1902. Graduated from Princeton with M. A. 
 in 1904; took course in Theology in Princeton 
 Theological Seminary, graduating 1905. Studied 
 Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence under 
 Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton, and 
 later Governor of New Jersey. In 1905, was 
 called to the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy, 
 at Emporia College, Kansas, also teaching interna- 
 tional law and economics. In 1907 resigned for 
 position in Occidental College, Los Angeles, where 
 he taught three years. Became interested in poli- 
 tics and quit professorship to run for Congress. Ac- 
 tive in Good Government movement; elected City 
 Clerk in December, 1910. Prominent in church 
 work. Member Jefferson, Old Hickory, Federation, 
 City Clubs and Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 CORE, STANLEY, Attorney 
 at Law, San Francisco, was 
 born at Oakland, California, 
 June 9, 1880, the son of Al- 
 bert Alphonso and Jaqueline 
 (Hall) Moore. Both his paternal and ma- 
 ternal ancestors fought in the war of the 
 Revolution, the former of Scotch-Irish, and 
 the latter of English, origin. From both 
 sides also he inherits his 
 legal abilities. His pa- 
 ternal grandmother was 
 a sister of the late Hon. 
 H. K. S. O'Melveny of 
 Los Angeles, a noted 
 member of the California 
 Bar, and his mother was 
 a sister of the Hon. Sam- 
 uel P. Hall, District At- 
 torney of Alameda Coun- 
 ty, and subsequently Su- 
 perior Judge of the same 
 county. His father's fam- 
 ily are among the oldest 
 residents of Monroe 
 County, Illinois, having 
 settled at Waterloo in 
 1778, when the county 
 was a part of the State 
 of Virginia. A. A. Moore, 
 who was born there, 
 came with his parents, in 
 1885, to Alameda County, 
 California, and has since 
 established a reputation 
 as one of the ablest law- 
 yers of this State. 
 
 Mr. Moore attended the Grammar School 
 in Oakland, and in 1894 entered the Oakland 
 High School, where he remained for one 
 year. For the next two years he was a 
 student at Boone's Academy, Berkeley, and 
 was graduated thence, in 1897, into the Uni- 
 versity of California, from which institution 
 he took the degree of B. A. in 1901. While 
 there he not only shaped his studies toward 
 the legal career he had in view, but also 
 studied law in his father's office, and in 
 December of the same year as his gradua- 
 tion passed his examinations for the Bar. 
 
 The year following his admittance to 
 practice he became Deputy District Attorney 
 of Alameda County, and held this position 
 until the middle of 1903, when he entered 
 his father's office as an assistant. He con- 
 tinued in this capacity until January 1, 1911. 
 at which date he became a partner in the 
 firm of A. A. Moore & Stanley Moore. 
 
 STANLEY MOORE 
 
 While the bulk of the firm's practice has 
 been confined to civil law, mainly in the de- 
 fense of damage suits, Mr. Moore's skillful 
 handling of important criminal cases has 
 attracted wide attention. In these his orig- 
 inal methods of examination, cross-examina- 
 tion and pleading, which have contributed 
 much to his success in his civil suits, have 
 also swelled his reputation as an advocate. 
 During the so-called 
 "graft prosecution" he 
 was associate counsel in 
 the Calhoun case, and in 
 the conduct of the defense 
 was an able assistant of 
 his associates. 
 
 He attracted the atten- 
 tion of the public in San 
 Francisco and in the 
 State at large by the part 
 he took in this trial. In 
 spite of his youth, he was 
 intrusted with some of 
 the most important de- 
 tails. He won the re- 
 spect of associates and op- 
 posing counsel alike. 
 
 Mr. Moore's ambitions 
 have always been legal 
 and have absorbed most 
 of his attention, permit- 
 ting him little time for 
 other interests. He re- 
 gards the important af- 
 fairs entrusted to him as a 
 serious and ethical re- 
 sponsibility which can be 
 pfioperly discharged only through concentra- 
 tion and infinite pains. To him the conduct of 
 a trial, as well as the examination of the 
 questions of law involved, is in the nature of 
 a scientific study fruitful of the same kind of 
 pleasure, with the intensely human element 
 added. Partly as a result of his view he has 
 been engaged in more trial cases than perhaps 
 any other lawyer of his age in the State. 
 
 He has become intimately familiar with 
 politics, owing to his office as deputy district 
 attorney. He is already one of the most active 
 political workers and is consulted on all im- 
 portant party matters. He has already been 
 mentioned for public office. He belongs to the 
 local bar association, and is alive to all that 
 happens in the profession. 
 
 While at college he was a member of the 
 various student societies. He still maintains 
 his college affiliations, and belongs to the 
 Alumni Society. 
 
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 707 
 
 ARREN, CHARLES A., Oil 
 Operator and Capitalist, San 
 Francisco, was born in San 
 Francisco, April 23, 1885, the 
 son of Charles A. and Ada 
 (Smith) Warren. Of English origin on both 
 sides of the house, his ancestors have been 
 patriotic Americans for generations ; and con- 
 spicuous among those who distinguished them- 
 selves on the battle field 
 was General Warren, who 
 fell at Bunker Hill. Charles 
 A. Warren, Sr., came to 
 California about the year 
 1 86 1, where he became 
 one of the leading con- 
 tractors of the State. His 
 son, Charles, may be said 
 to have grown up in the 
 business, in which he has 
 proved himself an able 
 partner. On September 
 n, 1907, he was married in 
 San Francisco to Miss 
 Claudine Cotton, daughter 
 of Judge Aylett P. Cotton, 
 and is the father of one 
 child, Claudine Warren, 
 
 Mr. Warren's early edu- 
 cation was obtained in the 
 public schools of San Fran- 
 cisco, including the Har- 
 rison Primary and the Pa- 
 cific Heights Grammar 
 School. He then entered 
 Santa Clara College, which 
 completed his preparation 
 for the University of California. He was a 
 student at the latter institution from 1903 to 
 1906, in the College of Agriculture, but left 
 before graduation to become a junior partner 
 in the Charles A. Warren Company, and in 
 the Warren Improvement Company, having 
 studied the contracting br?incss while at 
 school and at college, serving a practical ap- 
 prentice^hip as well. 
 
 These companies were engaged in general 
 contracting, devoting their attention chiefly, 
 however, to railroad construction and street 
 work. But beyond this branch of the business 
 they did much to develop the city, both before 
 and after the great disaster of April, 1906. In 
 the former period the old North Beach sea 
 wall is one of the important monuments to 
 their enterprise and efficiency. Thev also ex- 
 cavated the ground for Stmve Lake, one of 
 the beauty spots in Golden Gate Park. 
 
 Amons: their other noteworthv excavations 
 
 CHAS. A. WARREN 
 
 and improvements in San Francisco and vi- 
 cinity were their preparation of the ground for 
 the Mid-Winter Fair in the park, the excava- 
 tion for the St. Francis Hotel, for the Annex, 
 and for the present "Examiner" building and 
 Fairmont Hotel, the leveling of the sand hills 
 at North Beach and Fort Mason and the con- 
 struction of the Santa Fe sea-wall on China 
 Basin. They also built the road-bed for the 
 Petaluma and Santa Rosa 
 Electric Railway, and that 
 for the extension of North 
 Western Pacific from Wil- 
 lits to Sherwood, and re- 
 claimed the marsh lands 
 around San Mateo and 
 Burlingame, where they 
 built numerous roads. 
 
 In 1908 Mr. Warren re- 
 tired from active contract- 
 ing. Since then he has 
 given his attention to his 
 duties of administrator of 
 the estate of his father, 
 Charles A. Warren, and of 
 jrnardian for his brother, 
 H. O. Warren, as well as 
 to his large oil and ranch 
 interests. To the latter, 
 which include a thousand 
 acres near Warm Springs, 
 Alameda County, Cali- 
 fornia, on which he raises 
 alfalfa, barley, cattle and 
 dairy products, he gives 
 most of his spare time. He 
 has always been interested 
 in ranching and has had much valuable ex- 
 perience therein. 
 
 In the oil fields Mr. Warren's ventures 
 have been extensive. He was one of the first 
 to sense the great possibilities of the Coalinga 
 district, and to enter there as an investor, 
 proving up about eleven thousand acres of 
 rich oil land. 
 
 Recently he has added banking to his list 
 of activities and is devoting considerable at- 
 tention to it. 
 
 He is at present a director of the Pleas- 
 ant Valley Farming Company, Charles A. 
 Warren Company, the Merchants' National 
 Bank, and he was formerly a director of 
 the Swedish-American Bank, of San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 He holds memberships in the following 
 clubs : The University, Bohemian, Growlers 
 (an oilmen's association), and the Merchants' 
 Exchange. 
 
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 .709 
 
 ELLS, HON. EDMUND WILLIAM, 
 Lawyer, Prescott, Arizona, was 
 born in Lancaster, Ohio, Febru- 
 ary 14, 1846, the son of Edmund 
 William Wells and Mary Louise 
 (Arnold) Wells. He married Miss 
 Rosalind G. Banghart at Prescott, Ariz., Oct. 5, 1869. 
 There have been born five children, Elmer W., 
 Helen M., Frank O., Gertrude M. and Irene M. Wells. 
 Judge Wells, who has been a factor in the trans- 
 formation of Arizona from a wild, uninviting ter- 
 ritory into one of the richest and most prosperous 
 States of the Union, has been a resident of the 
 West since he was seven years of age. His father 
 at that time moved from Lancaster, Ohio, to Oska- 
 loosa, la., and engaged in the general merchandise 
 business. The son was given an exceptionally good 
 education in the public schools of Oskaloosa, sup- 
 plemented by study under private tutors. 
 
 He remained at Oskaloosa until sixteen years of 
 age and then journeyed to the mining regions of 
 Colorado, determined to make his- own way in the 
 world. He remained there about two years, work- 
 ing at any occupation he found, including that of 
 laborer in the mines and lumber camps and as a 
 clerk in a store. He also served an apprenticeship 
 in the office of the Central City Register, a news- 
 paper published at Central City, Colo. 
 
 In 1864 Judge Wells, in company with five other 
 young men of the mining region, left Denver, Colo- 
 rado, on an expedition of exploration into the San 
 Francisco Mountains, in northern Arizona, which 
 was supposed to be a rich mineral field. They 
 arrived at Prescott, the newly established seat of 
 the Territorial Government, in July of that year, 
 and that city has since been the center of his activi- 
 ties. Fort Whipple was located near Prescott as a 
 protection to the inhabitants from the hostile In- 
 dians of the region and Judge Wells, with his com- 
 panions, took contracts to supply the U. S. Govern- 
 ment forces with timbers from the surrounding pine 
 forests with which to build a stockade post. It was 
 hazardous work, but Judge Wells and his associates 
 fulfilled their contracts and he later went into the 
 employ of the Quartermaster and Commissary De- 
 partment in charge of Government supplies. 
 
 In this capacity he was placed in the midst of 
 the operations against the Indians, his duties in- 
 cluding rationing and supplying provisions to scout- 
 ing parties of soldiers sent into the hostile Indian 
 sections. Occasionally he accompanied the scout- 
 ing parties on their expeditions and had consid- 
 erable experience with the wild Apaches who in- 
 fested the country. Although he was never harmed 
 personally, he sustained losses of livestock and 
 other property by the Apache raids. When Camp 
 Lincoln, afterwards Camp Verde, was opened on 
 the Verde River, in the heart of the Tonto Apache 
 country, Judge Wells was sent in charge of quarter- 
 master and commissary stores and outfitted the 
 scouting parties operating against the redskins. 
 
 In 1867 Judge Wells was appointed to the posi- 
 tion of Clerk of the United States District Court 
 at Prescott. and served in that capacity up to the 
 year 1874. During that time he pursued the study 
 of law under the direction of Captain J. P. Har- 
 grave, who ranked then as one of the leading Con- 
 stitutional lawyers- on the Pacific Coast. Admitted 
 to practice law in the Supreme Court of the Ter- 
 ritory in 1875, Judge Wells formed a partnership 
 with Judge John A. Rush of Sacramento, Cali- 
 fornia, noted as an authority on mining law. The 
 firm was first known as Rush & Wells. Later 
 Judge Sumner Howard, ex-Chief Justice of the Ter- 
 ritory, was taken into the partnership, the firm 
 being afterwards known as Rush, Wells & Howard, 
 and continued for fourteen years, when it was dis- 
 solved, Judge Wells retiring from practice in order 
 to devote himself to his private affairs, which by 
 this time required his undivided attention. 
 
 His interests included banking, mining, stock- 
 raising, farming and various other industries which 
 have made him one of the strong developing forces 
 of the country. Since 1882 he has been identified 
 with the Bank of Arizona, at Prescott, having be- 
 gun as stockholder, Vice Pres. and Director, now 
 being its President. He is associated with other 
 financial and mining enterprises. 
 
 Judge Wells has been a consistent Republican 
 all his life and has been an important figure in the 
 party's affairs in Arizona and the Southwest. In 
 addition to serving as Clerk of the U. S. Court, he 
 has held several prominent offices in his county and 
 served several terms in the upper house of the 
 Territorial Legislature of Arizona. 
 
 In 1883 he was, by the U. S. Attorney General, 
 appointed Asst. U. S. Attorney for Arizona. In 1887 
 he was appointed by Governor Zulick (Dem.) one 
 of three commissioners to revise and compile the 
 laws of Arizona. 
 
 In 1891, President Harrison appointed him Asso- 
 ciate Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court and 
 in 1903 he was appointed Attorney General of Ari- 
 zona under Governor Brodie. 
 
 In 1910 Judge Wells was elected a member of 
 the Constitutional Convention, which framed the 
 law on which Arizona was admitted to Statehood, 
 and was one of the prominent figures in the de- 
 liberations of that body. At the primary, pre- 
 ceding the first general election in 1911, he was 
 nominated by the Republicans of Arizona for Gov- 
 ernor and made a splendid race for the office, but 
 the election resulting in a Democratic landslide, he 
 failed of success. This defeat did not affect Judge 
 Wells' enthusiasm, however, and he has- continued 
 his efforts for the upbuilding of the State. 
 
 Judge Wells is a leading member of the Masonic 
 fraternity, being a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Ma- 
 son; member, Mystic Shrine and Knights Templar. 
 Also a member, National Geographic Society, Wash- 
 ington, D. C., and a Vice President of the Arizona 
 Pioneer Historical Society. 
 
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 E L B O U R N, OCLASCO 
 CARLOS, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Dark 
 County, Ohio, January 28, 
 1871, the son of Edward Lawrence Wei- 
 bourn and Martha (Jones) Welbourn. He 
 is of English descent and can trace back his 
 ancestry to John of Welbourn, who was 
 born in 1389, near Lin- 
 coln, England. 
 
 He married Annie 
 Lloyd, June 23, 1909, at 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. 
 Welbourn is the daugh- 
 ter of John Uri Lloyd, 
 author of several popu- 
 lar and scientific literary 
 productions, notably 
 "Stringtown on the 
 Pike," and "Etidorpha." 
 
 Dr. Welbourn went 
 to the public schools of 
 Union City, Indiana, and 
 afterwards attended Beth- 
 a n y College, Bethany, 
 West Virginia, receiving 
 the Bachelor of Science 
 degree. He next studied 
 at the Eclectic Medical 
 Co 1 1 e g e, at Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and there got his 
 degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine, in 1891. 
 
 He has been a stu- 
 dent in the arts and in 
 his profession the greater 
 
 DR. O. C. WELBOURN 
 
 part of his life, however, and did not stop 
 with the completion of his regular school 
 and college courses. He was awarded the 
 degree of Master of Arts by his alma mater, 
 Bethany, in the year 1907, for advanced 
 scholarship worthy of the honor. His medi- 
 cal studies were not complete until he had 
 made a trip to Europe and had worked with 
 the great surgeons of London, Paris, Berlin 
 and Vienna. 
 
 Dr. Welbourn began practice in Union 
 City, Indiana, but the opportunities there did 
 not satisfy him, so he moved to Long Beach. 
 California, in the year 1894, when that city 
 was little more than a promise. He was on 
 the spot to get the full benefit of the ensu- 
 ing boom, and was compelled to work night 
 and day for five years. In 1899 he thought 
 that he deserved a rest, and so he went 
 abroad, to travel and study. He was absent 
 during a period of two years, and before he 
 
 was through he had encircled the world. 
 He re-located in the city of Los Angeles in 
 1901, and made a specialty of surgical 
 gynecology, and he has practiced this spe- 
 cialty since. 
 
 Since taking up the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Los Angeles, he has been chosen 
 Professor of Gynecology at the California 
 Eclectic Medical College, and is an active 
 lecturer. He founded, in 
 the year 1904, the Los 
 Angeles Journal of Eclec- 
 tic Medicine, and did its 
 editorial writing and con- 
 tributed learned articles. 
 In the year 1907 the 
 journal was combined 
 with the California Medi- 
 cal Journal, of San Fran- 
 cisco, and the name of 
 the publication was 
 changed to the California 
 Eclectic Medical Journal. 
 He still holds the posi- 
 tion of editor and chief 
 contributor to the larger 
 journal. 
 
 Dr. Welbourn found- 
 ed the Westlake Hospital, 
 in the year 1907, and he 
 is the president and ex- 
 ecutive head of the insti- 
 tution at present. The 
 hospital has grown so 
 rapidly that its present 
 quarters are inadequate 
 and plans have now been 
 
 drawn for a big concrete fireproof building. 
 Dr. Welbourn's chief occupations at the 
 present time, aside from his medical prac- 
 tice, which is extensive, are : President 
 of the Westlake Hospital, President of the 
 California Eclectic Medical College, and 
 Editor of the California Eclectic Medical 
 Journal. 
 
 His activity has brought him into inti- 
 mate and frequent contact with his fellows, 
 and he is a member of many professional 
 societies. 
 
 He is ex-President of the Los Angeles 
 County Eclectic Society, ex-President of the 
 Southern California Eclectic Medical Asso- 
 ciation, ex-President of the California Eclec- 
 tic Medical Society, and a member of the 
 National Eclectic Medical Society. 
 
 He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, 
 and a member of the Jonathan Club, of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 711 
 
 BRUNSWIG, LUCIEN N., 
 
 Wholesale and Manufactur- 
 ing Chemist and Druggist, 
 'Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of Montmedy, France. 
 He was educated at the College of Etain, De- 
 partment of Meuse, France, where he spent 
 the early part of his life. He was married 
 twice, his first wife having been Annie Mer- 
 cer of Independence, Mo., 
 who died in New Orleans 
 in 1892. His second wife, 
 Marguerite Wogan, is 
 a native of New Or- 
 leans. By his first mar- 
 riage he has four children 
 three daughters, now 
 married, and a son, who is 
 connected with the Bruns- 
 wig Drug Co. By his 
 second marriage he has a 
 daughter 11 years of age. 
 On coming to America 
 Mr. Brunswig made his 
 first extensive effort in 
 the commercial world by 
 entering the wholesale 
 and retail drug business. 
 He subsequently estab- 
 lished himself prominent- 
 ly in the wholesale drug 
 world at Fort Worth, 
 Texas, in 1876. In 1882 
 he accepted a junior part- 
 nership in the firm of Fin- 
 lay & Brunswig at New 
 Orleans. At the death 
 of his partner, Mr. Finlay, 
 
 L. N. BRUNSWIG 
 
 Mr. Brunswig 
 
 became sole owner of the firm, and from that 
 time up to 1903 the house was known as 
 L. N. Brunswig & Company. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Brunswig disposed of his New 
 Orleans business, at which time he retired 
 temporarily for a much-needed rest, and en- 
 joyed a two years' vacation in Europe. 
 
 Mr. Brunswig has always given untiring 
 attention to the direction of his wholesale 
 drug business, raising it to the first rank in 
 New Orleans and indeed the entire South- 
 west. He became known throughout the city 
 as a progressive business man who partici- 
 pated in all matter for the advancement of the 
 community. He served four years as Police 
 Commissioner in New Orleans, and was also 
 vice president of the Athenee Louisianais, 
 a valued member of the Louisiana His- 
 torical Society, president of the French Soci- 
 ety and vice president of the Board of Trade. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Brunswig determined to establish 
 a branch of his New Orleans business in Los 
 Angeles, which city was just beginning to 
 attract attention as a distributing center. 
 This he did, placing it under the direction of 
 F. W. Braun, who remained managing part- 
 ner, the interest of the latter being ultimate- 
 ly purchased by Mr. Brunswig, who changed 
 the name of the concern to the Brunswig 
 Drug Company, with 
 branches at San Diego 
 and Guaymas, Mexico. 
 This venture of Mr. 
 Brunswig early in 1888 in 
 establishing a large 
 wholesale drug house in 
 Los Angeles seemed to 
 less far-sighted men of 
 affairs almost impossible 
 of success. On the con- 
 trary, the judgment of 
 the founder was vindi- 
 cated from the beginning, 
 and it was by unusual en- 
 ergy and aggressiveness 
 that the stock and re- 
 sources of the firm were 
 constantly maintained at 
 the required standard, in 
 keeping with the rapid 
 development of Los An- 
 geles and its tributary 
 territory. 
 
 The Brunswig Drug 
 Company has developed 
 the largest wholesale 
 drug business on the 
 Coast, blending with it a complete manufac- 
 turing chemical and pharmaceutical labora- 
 tory. From the modest beginning established 
 as a result of a thorough conception of what 
 the future contained, its affairs have grown 
 until now its annual business exceeds by a 
 large margin the most sanguine expectations. 
 
 Mr. Brunswig's residence, 2640 W. Adams 
 street, Los Angeles, is one of the most beauti- 
 ful places in the city. It has 180 feet front- 
 age on West Adams street, is 500 feet deep, 
 laid out in handsome terraces, and the rear 
 facade has 350 feet. The grounds are among 
 the most attractive in Southern California, 
 the residence itself being modeled after 
 the style of the French Renaissance chateaux. 
 One of the most charming features of this 
 place is the Italian gardens, with flora of 
 every description. Mr. Brunswig is a mem- 
 ber of the California Club of 'Los Angeles 
 and of the Los Angeles Country Club. 
 
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 USH, WILLIAM E., Automo- 
 biles, Los Angeles, Californ- 
 ia, was born at Vriesland, 
 Michigan, September 18, 1870. 
 He is the son of Simon Bush 
 and Gertrude (Tromden) Bush. He married 
 Henrietta Sweet, at Georgestown, Michigan, 
 May 20, 1896. 
 
 He received his primary education in the 
 public schools of Grand 
 Rapids, Michigan, whith- 
 er his parents had moved 
 when he was a child, and 
 then entered the High 
 School of that city. He 
 remained at school until 
 he was fifteen years of 
 age, when he left to learn 
 mechanics, a line in which 
 he became expert and 
 with which he has been 
 associated in all branches 
 to the present day. He 
 learned his trade in Grand 
 Rapids, and after graduat- 
 ing from the apprentice 
 class, became a traveling 
 mechanic. He followed 
 his trade in Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan, and in other 
 states. He was recog- 
 nized as an expert. 
 
 After several years 
 spent working for other 
 people, Mr. Bush, who 
 had saved some consider- 
 able money, decided in 
 1900, to go into business for himself. His 
 first venture was made at South Bend, Indi- 
 ana, where he formed a partnership known as 
 Bush and Palmateer, builders of stationary 
 and marine gas engines. Although the busi- 
 ness was a paying proposition from the start, 
 .Mr. Bush, after two years, decided that he 
 wanted to go further west, so he sold out his 
 interest in the firm and moved to Los An- 
 geles, where he has since remained. 
 
 In 1902, the automobile boom was attain- 
 ing its height in Southern California, and Mr. 
 Bush, with his thorough mechanical knowl- 
 edge, decided to enter that field. He opened 
 first an automobile machine shop, making re- 
 pairs and building new parts. He quickly 
 won a reputation in the business and succeed- 
 ed accordingly. From a small beginning, he 
 branched out into a large automobile agency 
 and moved to a larger plant. This place, 
 however, he soon outgrew, and he next built 
 
 a mammoth place, one of the largest auto- 
 bile buildings in the West and today it is 
 one of the leading motor headquarters of 
 Southern California. 
 
 When he first went into business in Los 
 Angeles, Mr. Bush was associated with John 
 Burge, another expert mechanic, and did busi- 
 ness under the firm name of Bush and Burge. 
 This partnership continued two years, when 
 Mr. Bush bought out the 
 interest of Burge. In Jan- 
 uary, 1906, Mr. Bush took 
 in another partner, the 
 firm under this arrange- 
 ment being known as 
 Bush and Shields. This 
 partnership did not last 
 long, however, for in Sep- 
 tember of the same year, 
 Mr. Shields sold out his 
 interest and Bush contin- 
 ued business alone. The 
 various changes in the 
 name of the firm did not 
 seem to have any effect 
 upon the business, for, un- 
 der Mr. Bush's personal 
 management, it continued 
 to grow. In addition to 
 his motor car business, 
 he is a director of the 
 Glendora Irrigating Com- 
 pany. 
 
 In the automobile busi- 
 ness in Los Angeles he 
 is a leading factor in all 
 movements for the bet- 
 terment of the trade. 
 
 He was at one time president of the Auto- 
 mobile Dealers' Association of Southern Cal- 
 ifornia, and at present is a member of the 
 Board of Directors of that organization, 
 which has done a good deal for good roads 
 in Los Angeles County, and, in fact, in all 
 of the Southwest. Mr. Bush is also a mem- 
 ber of the Union League Club, Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and the San Gabriel Valley 
 Club. He is prominent in the Mystic Shrine, 
 being a member of the Al Malaikah Tem- 
 ple, Los Angeles, and the Plymouth Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar, of Plymouth, 
 Indiana. 
 
 He is a member of the Technical Board 
 of the Los Angeles branch, American Auto- 
 mobile Association. In this connection he 
 has been one of the officials in charge of all 
 the automobile races in the vicinity of South- 
 ern California for the last two vears. 
 
 E. BUSH 
 
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 OEBIG, ADOLPH H., Con- 
 sulting, Civil and Hydraulic 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, is a native of Prussia, 
 having been born at Mottlash, 
 in that country, on May 17, 1852. His 
 father, Christian Callus Koebig, and his 
 mother, Julia (Schmeltzer) Koebig, de- 
 scended from a number of distinguished an- 
 cestors. Mr. Koebig mar- 
 ried Miss Maria Helene 
 Kieffer on January 31, 
 1880, at Metz, Germany; 
 four children have been 
 born : Dr. W. C. Koebig, 
 A. H. Koebig, Jr., C. E. 
 Koebig and Kurt J. 
 Koebig. 
 
 Mr. Koebig availed 
 himself of the best educa- 
 tional facilities in his na- 
 tive land; he is a gradu- 
 ate of the Royal Gym- 
 nasium of Karlsruhe and 
 of the Royal Engineering 
 departments of the Uni- 
 versities of Karlsruhe, 
 Heidelberg and Berlin, 
 graduating from Karls- 
 ruhe in 1876. 
 
 After his entrance into 
 the activities of life, Mr. 
 Koebig soon came to the 
 United States and lived 
 and practiced his profes- 
 sion for a time in Mil- 
 waukee, Wisconsin, but 
 
 A. H. KOEBIG, SR. 
 
 ber of important Eastern railway lines. 
 It was in 1888 that Mr. Koebig began the 
 practice of hydraulic engineering as a spe- 
 cialized work, as he foresaw the immense de- 
 velopment that must inure to that branch of 
 science in this country; he naturally made a 
 particular study of irrigation and of hydro- 
 static power in the West, and in Mexico he 
 held the position of consulting and of chief 
 engineer in a great num- 
 ber of the most notable 
 companies in that region, 
 performing the prelimi- 
 nary investigations, the 
 planning, and the con- 
 struction of a great many 
 of the foremost enter- 
 prises. 
 
 He also took an active 
 part as adviser and ex- 
 pert in some of the most 
 important litigations re- 
 garding water works and 
 resources that have taken 
 place in the West. His 
 retention as consulting 
 engineer and adviser by a 
 number of municipalities 
 resulted in great public 
 benefit. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Koebig 
 associated himself with 
 his son professionally, and 
 formed the present firm 
 of Koebig & Koebig, 
 continuing the same line 
 of work that had made 
 
 in 1885 he v~ent to California and made his 
 home in Los Angeles and has since here re- 
 mained. 
 
 Mr. Koebig is now the senior member of 
 the firm of Koebig & Koebig, consulting 
 engineers ;. is a director of the Ramona 
 Power and Irrigation Company, and is chief 
 consulting engineer for the Chuckawalla De- 
 velopment Company. 
 
 After completing his studies in Germany, 
 and serving in the military profession as an 
 officer of the army, and securing his honor- 
 able discharge, Mr. Koebig took up the study 
 of engineering in earnest, having the natural 
 bent in that direction of occupation. He 
 soon entered the government service as an 
 engineer in the department of water, munici- 
 pal roadways and railways departments. 
 
 He removed to this country in 1880, and 
 was at once employed as assistant resident 
 and locating engineer in the service of a num- 
 
 the father's reputation and which has brought 
 the son into eminence. 
 
 The firm of Koebig & Koebig is now 
 employed in many of the great water devel- 
 opment undertakings that are doing so much 
 toward making the Southwestern empire the 
 garden spot of the world. 
 
 The firm is retained as consulting en- 
 gineer for the Ramona Power and Irrigation 
 Company, and for the Chuckawalla Develop- 
 ment Company. This latter company, it is 
 stated, is one of the largest irrigation com- 
 panies with the most important works in the 
 entire west. 
 
 Mr. Koebig is an active member of the 
 Engineers and Architects' Club of Los An- 
 geles and of the Geographical Society. 
 
 He is a member of the California and 
 University clubs, of the Los Angeles Coun- 
 try Club and the San Gabriel Country 
 Club. 
 
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 SAMUEL W. GUNDAKER 
 
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 UNDAKER, SAMUEL WILSON, 
 Mining, Tucson, Arizona, was 
 born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
 December 31, 1864, the son of 
 Jacob and Mary Gandaker. He 
 has been twice married, his sec- 
 ond wife having been Aldine Warner, whom 
 he married at Portland, Oregon, September, 1906. 
 By his first union Mr. Gundaker is the father 
 of five children, Charles, Paul, Harry, Samuel and 
 Alene Gundaker. He is descended of a fine old 
 Pennsylvania family, his original ancestors in 
 America having come over in the days of 
 William Penn. His father was a merchant in 
 Lancaster for many years and was prominent 
 in the political affairs of the city, holding various 
 offices of tru&t and responsibility. 
 
 Mr. Gundaker, who is one of the picturesque 
 mining men of the West, with a life story that in- 
 tertwines with the history of a dozen mining sec- 
 tions, belongs to that category of Americans called 
 "self made." His actual schooling was limited 
 to a few years in the public schools of his native 
 town, for when he was about fifteen years of age 
 his father, one of the practical minded men of 
 his day, indentured the boy as an apprentice in 
 the machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 at Altoona, Pennsylvania. There he remained for 
 the full term of four years and worked so con- 
 scientiously that when he finished his probationary 
 period and came forth a journeyman machinist he 
 was one of the experts of his craft. To this pri- 
 mary knowledge he added so much in later years 
 that at the present time, although he is in other 
 lines of activity, he is classed as one of the me- 
 chanical experts of the United States. 
 
 In 1883, at the conclusion of his apprenticeship, 
 Mr. Gundaker left Pennsylvania for the West, 
 where the greater part of his life has been spent. 
 He first went to Colorado and entered the employ 
 of the Union Pacific Railroad as a machinist, but 
 after about a year returned to the East and went 
 to work for the Federal Government as a ma- 
 chinist on gun carriages in the ordnance depart- 
 ment of the Navy Yard at Washington, D. C. He 
 aided in the building of the big guns of the Gov- 
 ernment for about two years, but gave up this 
 work in 1886 in order to return to the West, which 
 had a peculiar lure for him. 
 
 On this second trip he picked out one of the 
 most exciting places on the map at that time 
 Pocatello, Idaho, a mining camp with all the char- 
 acteristics of the so-called wild and woolly West. 
 Still following his trade, he joined the machinist 
 forces of the Oregon Short Line at Pocatello and 
 was thus engaged for two years, during which 
 time he established an unusual personal popularity. 
 An expert craftsman, possessed of an amiable dis- 
 position, unfaltering courage, inborn honesty and 
 ability to take care of himself in any kind of an 
 encounter, he won a host of friends and in 1888 
 
 was appointed first City Marshal of Pocatello. 
 Prior to this time the law of might ruled strong 
 and each man was, more or less, his own judge. 
 The result was the development of such hard 
 bands as the "Soapy" Smith gang and the War 
 Bonnet cowboys, who, for many years, rode hard 
 and shot easy, and generally terrorized the country. 
 The raids of these men are part of the history of 
 the West, and Mr. Gundaker, as Marshal, wa& one of 
 the quieting influences that caused the disappear- 
 ance of these characters and the establishment 
 of law and order. He is one of the men who omit 
 details in referring to those days, but the fact re- 
 mains, he brought order out of chaos during the 
 time he held office. 
 
 At the end of twelve months as City Marshal, 
 Mr. Gundaker resigned, in 1889, to accept appoint- 
 ment as Deputy United States Marshal for the 
 Southeastern District of Idaho and served the Gov- 
 ernment in this capacity for about two years. Dur- 
 ing his term of office the historic manifesto abol- 
 ishing polygamy was issued and Mr. Gundaker was 
 called upon to serve processes upon those mem- 
 bers of the Mormon faith who came within the 
 order of the Government. As United States Mar- 
 shal he had many exciting experiences, but these, 
 too, he passes over in a general way. 
 
 In 1893, Mr. Gundaker was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor McConnell of Idaho to the office of State 
 Examiner of Engineers and Boiler Inspector, being 
 the first man to hold this office in the State. He 
 held it for two years and at the end of that time 
 gave it up to go into the mining business, with 
 which he has been identified continuously and con- 
 spicuously ever since. 
 
 He became interested in gold mining in the 
 Neal District of Idaho and in lead mining in the 
 Wood River region, operating there with consid- 
 erable success until the year 1900, at which time 
 he gave up mining temporarily and moved to San 
 Francisco. There he became a manufacturer of a 
 boiler compound in partners-hip with Robert Gray- 
 son, of the famous Grayson family of California. 
 He was thus engaged for about two years, selling 
 out his interest then to go to Alaska. 
 
 He landed at Nome and joined the army of 
 prospectors there, staking out a number of claims 
 in various parts of the Seward Peninsula. He 
 prospected in that region for about two years, and 
 met with the average success of the district, but 
 was not satisfied with the results he obtained. So, 
 in 1904, upon hearing of the new strike at Fair- 
 banks, he determined upon going there. Like the 
 other men who risked their lives in Alaska during 
 those days, he cared not for the dangers of the life 
 so much as the life itself. He chartered the stern- 
 wheeler "Independence" at Nome with a cargo of 
 supplies and went up the Yukon to the Fairbanks 
 country, landing there when there was only a 
 handful of men to make a town. 
 
 Selling part of his supplies, he immediately 
 
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 went prospecting and located several claims on 
 Fairbanks Creek. These were placer and he 
 worked for several months, but with only a fair 
 return of gold. It was while thus engaged, how- 
 ever, that he met with an experience which re- 
 sulted in his making one of the most remarkable 
 and hazardous trips in the knowledge of the men. 
 accustomed to braving the many dangers and ex- 
 treme hardships of the frozen North. 
 
 An Esquimo drifted into the camp at Fairbanks 
 and met Mr. Gundaker. With him this child of 
 the snow country brought a sample of tin ore 
 and told Mr. Gundaker that he had found it on 
 Cape Prince of Wales, which, as the geographies 
 show, is almost at the top of the world, lying at 
 the very edge of the Arctic Ocean. To Mr. Gun- 
 daker this presented great promise, and, despite 
 the hardships to be encountered, he made the 
 trip to the Cape to satisfy himself that there ex- 
 isted such a mine of tin as the Esquimo described, 
 which, to the experienced mind of Mr. Gundaker, 
 showed the purest metal of the kind he had ever 
 seen or even heard of. His visit to the Cape satis- 
 fied him, so he rushed back to the United States 
 to secure financial backing enough to enable him 
 to work this mine, which lay so far from the 
 civilized world. 
 
 Arriving at Spokane, Washington, with his 
 specimens, he interested the late Mace Campbell, 
 of the firm of Campbell & Finch, in his claims at 
 the top of the world, where the Arctic and the 
 Behring seas join. Then, in opposition to the 
 views of his partners, he determined to go back to 
 Cape Prince of Wales and prepare the property 
 for working at once. To the men who know the 
 country this seemed like a mission foolhardy in 
 the extreme, because it meant travel over two 
 thousand miles of ice in a land where men are 
 lost every year and where each man who enters 
 takes his life in his hands. Gundaker, however, was 
 determined to get into the country before naviga- 
 tion opened, so sailed from Seattle on March 5, 
 1905, for the North. 
 
 His journey as far as Valdez, Alaska, was com- 
 paratively easy, being made on a steamer and in 
 comfort. From there, however, it was a dreary 
 trudge, beset with hardships and dangers in many 
 forms. He made up his outfit at Valdez, taking 
 a sled and six dogs for the trip. He took only a 
 small supply of food, depending upon the Govern- 
 ment stations along the route to furnish him with 
 food during the early part of the journey. From 
 Valdez, the start of the dash, he went across the 
 ice to the Tanenah River at Fairbanks, his former 
 scene of operations, and there had the only real 
 rest he allowed himself during the great journey. 
 He stayed there a few days, meeting old friends 
 and new arguments against his desire to go to the 
 Arctic, then worked his way down the Tanenah to 
 Fort Gibbons, on the Yukon River. 
 
 From Fort Gibbons he went down the Yukon to 
 
 Coltag and crossed the Portage (a ninety-mile 
 range of snow mountains) from Coltag to Unanec- 
 leek on Norton Sound. From there to Isaac's Point 
 was forty miles across the drifting ice and in this 
 particular stretch of the trip Mr. Gundaker took 
 more chances than on any other. The ice was just 
 beginning to break up and drift and thus presented 
 its most dangerous side to the traveler. At times 
 the water of the sea touched the bellies of his 
 dogs and it was only the instinct of the beasts, 
 Mr. Gundaker thinks, that carried him safely across 
 the ice to the Point. 
 
 Leaving Isaac's Point, Mr. Gundaker worked 
 across Goliphan Bay to Solomon, on the Behring 
 Sea, and from there plodded across the ice to Nome. 
 Here again he rested for a brief period while he 
 took on supplies for himself and his dogs, because 
 from that point on he would encounter no Govern- 
 ment stations and he had to carry his food with 
 him. After some changes in his team and other 
 preparations, he set out from Nome and next 
 stopped at Teller. From there he made Cape York, 
 crossing a mountain range and thence, following 
 the Behring Sea, he went direct to Cape Prince of 
 Wales, where the tin deposits, on which he had 
 staked his all, were located. 
 
 To the lay reader this may not convey a full 
 comprehension of what that trip meant. First, it 
 was two thousand miles over the ice by a lone man, 
 and to save his dogs, he trotted much of the way 
 with them, riding on the sled only for brief periods. 
 Men of the North appreciate the unusual endur- 
 ance powers necessary for such a trip, for not only 
 has the traveler to endure the hardships natural to 
 the climate, but must care for his dogs as if they 
 were infants, because the beasts, after long absence 
 from many humans, become untractable and their 
 driver has to nurse them as he would children. This 
 Mr. Gundaker had to do in addition to enduring the 
 other hardships of the trip, and his journey is re- 
 called today as one of the most remarkable in the 
 knowledge of the men of the North. 
 
 However, after making this arduous journey 
 and covering his long trail in sixty days, Mr. Gun- 
 daker, who reached his destination before the first 
 boat of the season arrived, met with one of many 
 great disappointments of his life. He remained on 
 the Cape of Prince of Wales all that Summer and 
 examined his claims only to find that they ran 
 to frozen earth and the visible supply of ore was 
 not enough to warrant operations as planned. 
 
 Consequently, he started back to the United 
 States, bringing with him two of the dogs he had 
 started with from Valdez. He had changed his 
 team members often during his trip north, but 
 these two dogs withstood all trials and went with 
 him to his destination. 
 
 It took Mr. Gundaker until the Fall of 1906 to 
 return to the "States," and after straightening out 
 his affairs in Spokane, he headed for Nevada, then 
 
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 717 
 
 the center of mining excitement. He landed at 
 Goldfleld in the Winter of 1906 and there, in part- 
 nership with Matt Meehan, a friend of his early 
 Klondike days, entered upon another chapter of 
 his mining career. They purchased the Florence 
 Fraction and other properties and worked them for 
 about a year and a half with fair success. His 
 partner was stricken suddenly and died in his arms, 
 however, and not long afterward Mr. Gundaker left 
 the Goldfleld region and mining. 
 
 Going to Tonopah, Nevada, an older camp than 
 Goldfield, he became a hotel man and ran the Mer- 
 chants' Hotel at Tonopah for some time, but with 
 the opening of Rawhide he went there and resumed 
 his mining work. He bought several claims in the 
 new camp and also organized a company which 
 financed the building of the first water works the 
 town knew. To this latter enterprise he devoted 
 the larger part of his time, not taking a very active 
 part in the actual mining. 
 
 In the latter part of 1907, however, when gold 
 was discovered at what is now National City, Ne- 
 vada, he resumed mining with a vengeance. This 
 town was located by one Jesse L. Workman, and 
 Mr. Gundaker was one of the first men to bond a 
 paying claim in the district. From Workman he 
 obtained a bond on what is now known as the 
 National Mines Company property. He worked the 
 claim individually until he saw that it was one of 
 the very rich mines discovered in recent years, 
 then organized the National Mines Company, 
 with himself as President and General Mana- 
 ger. This company had a capital stock of one mil- 
 lion dollars and in its first stages Mr. Gundaker, 
 with his combined knowledge of mining and me- 
 chanics, was the chief factor in the development of 
 this, a fabulously rich gold property. It is noted as 
 the producer of some of the finest high-grade ore 
 ever brought out of the ground in the United States. 
 His first shipment of ore, after striking the high 
 grade, was one hundred and thirty three pounds, 
 which assayed, or, rather, produced $10,045.45 net. 
 Also, six tons of ore from this property netted 
 $100,000 per ton at a later date. However, Mr. 
 Gundaker had not the capital with which to work 
 the mine properly and the control -passed to a firm 
 of Chicago capitalists, he selling out his interest 
 and resigning his offices when this occurred. This 
 property has since proven the bonanza it prom- 
 ised, but Mr. Gundaker, like many other practical 
 miners, did not harvest its wealth. 
 
 When he sold out, however, he received a for- 
 tune, but he left Nevada and went in search of a 
 new field. He motored over California and visited 
 many mining regions, but did not locate at any. 
 From California he rode into Arizona and became 
 interested in several properties there. One of 
 these, the Mohawk mine, at Mammoth, Arizona, 
 he bonded and for about a year he has worked it, 
 operating a thirty stamp mill. 
 
 In the latter part of 1911, during one of his au- 
 tomobile pilgrimages, he came across a copper prop- 
 erty located sixty-five miles south of Tucson and 
 thirteen miles north of the International border 
 separating Mexico from the United States. This, 
 known as the Papago Chief, was owned by a Mexi- 
 can and to the experienced eye of Mr. Gundaker 
 presented wonderful possibilities for wealth. He 
 bought the property outright and began working 
 it in a small way. Located in so-called virgin terri- 
 tory, it had not attracted the attention of the great 
 copper corporations of Arizona, and he found in his 
 property, copper ore which promises to prove as 
 rich as any in this, the greatest copper-producing 
 State in the Union, if not in the world. He ac- 
 quired control early in 1912, and four months after 
 becoming the owner of it, sold a half interest to 
 Charles Sweeney, one of the greatest mining mag- 
 nates of America, famous as one of the great Coeur 
 d'Alene operators, and a world-famous lead mag- 
 nate. Together, they are now operating the prop- 
 erty on a large scale, having installed a modern 
 mining plant and smelter. 
 
 To Mr. Gundaker this is apparently one of the 
 greatest copper deposits ever discovered, but he is 
 not staking his entire fortune on it, for he has a 
 number of other properties in Arizona and Nevada, 
 including the First National, located out of Na- 
 tional City, the scene of one other great discovery 
 on his part. This property adjoins the National 
 Mines Company holdings and is generally regarded 
 as a claim quite as promising as its sister property. 
 Mr. Gundaker, with Mr. Sweeney, who is a friend 
 of his earlier days, they having served at the same 
 time as Marshals in Idaho, is a survivor of the old 
 West and a picturesque part of the history of the 
 country, but, despite the trying life he has led, shows 
 little of it in his personal appearance. Close to fifty 
 years of age, he could pass for a much younger man, 
 because his countenance shows little of the strain 
 he has undergone during his life in the great mining 
 camps. Also, he still retains the athletic ability 
 and physical power which made him noted in his 
 earlier days. He is a man of generous instincts 
 and accustomed to depend entirely upon his own 
 resources in emergencies, but in recent years he 
 has made a partner of his wife and frankly admits 
 that her counsel and practical knowledge of mining 
 affairs has been of great assistance to him. 
 
 When he is not employed in business affairs 
 Mr. Gundaker finds his chief recreation in the 
 family circle; and while he formerly appeared on 
 the roster of a number of the leading clubs of the 
 West, his only remaining affiliations are the Old 
 Pueblo Club, the famous Tucson organization, and 
 the B. P. O. Elks. He is a life member of the latter, 
 attached to No. 229 of Moscow, Idaho. 
 
 NOTE At the time of going to press with this form 
 of the Press Reference Library, Mr. Gundaker passed 
 away (September 18, 1912). By his death the West has 
 lost one of its most able men. 
 
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 OLTERHOFF, GODFREY, 
 JR., Assistant Treasurer of 
 the Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe Railway Company, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1860. He 
 is the son of Godfrey Holterhoff and Helena 
 C. (Guysi) Holterhoff. He married Louise 
 Schaeffer, Sept. 5, 1889, at Los Angeles, Cal., 
 and has one daughter, 
 Leila S. Holterhoff. 
 
 Mr. Holterhoff at- 
 tended the public schools 
 of Cincinnati and was 
 graduated from the 
 Woodward High School, 
 that city, in the year 
 1877. 
 
 Upon leaving school 
 he went to work with his 
 father, and stayed with 
 him for the better part of 
 a year, when he left to 
 become bookkeeper for a 
 large tobacco house in 
 Cincinnati. He held this 
 position for about a year 
 also, but in October, 
 1879, his health became 
 impaired and he decided 
 to go to California. He 
 located that same month 
 at Los Angeles, subse- 
 quently going to San 
 Diego, and for more than 
 a year was recuperating 
 his health. 
 
 In the fall of 1880, his strength having re- 
 turned to him, he entered the railroad busi- 
 ness as secretary to the managing agent of a 
 syndicate which organized and built the 
 California Southern Railroad. From this po- 
 sition he became one of the most active men 
 in the development of the new company and 
 its successor, the Southern California Ry. Co. 
 At various times he was in the office and lo- 
 cal agent of the company at San Diego, in 
 the engineering department, and in the ac- 
 counting and financial departments. Latter- 
 ly he was cashier and paymaster of the com- 
 pany, until 1893, when he was made secre- 
 tary and treasurer. 
 
 Ten years later the road was acquired by 
 the Santa Fe Railroad, and Mr. Holterhoff 
 was made Asst. Treas. and Asst. Secy, of the 
 Santa Fe Coast lines, comprising all that ter- 
 ritory west of Albuquerque, N. M. This put 
 him in charge of the financial department of 
 
 GODFREY HOLTERHOFF 
 
 the company in its far western territory. Al- 
 though the So. Cal. Ry. Co. was only formal- 
 ly taken over by the Santa Fe in 1903, the 
 latter corporation had virtually owned it 
 from its inception, and so, in reality, Mr. Hol- 
 terhoff has been with the parent company 
 since he first entered the railroad business, 
 more than thirty years ago. In addition to 
 his railroad duties, Mr. Holterhoff is inter- 
 ested in orange groves, oil 
 and land properties, and 
 numerous other enter- 
 prises, both commercial 
 and manufacturing. 
 
 He is an officer or di- 
 rector in over thirty cor- 
 porations, twenty of 
 which are controlled by 
 the Santa Fe, and include 
 railroad, land and other 
 organizations. His per- 
 sonal interests include 
 the Brea Canyon Oil 
 Company, Los. Angeles 
 Cherokee Oil Company, 
 Kings County Develop- 
 ment Company, East 
 Highland Improvement 
 Company, California Port- 
 land Cement Company. 
 Hawthorne F u r n i t ure 
 Mfg. Company and south- 
 ern Trust and Savings 
 Bank of San Diego. 
 All of these corpora- 
 tions are going con- 
 cerns and in each 
 of them Mr. Holterhoff is an active factor, 
 holding office either as director, or as sec- 
 retary and treasurer. His ability as a finan- 
 cier has made him a conspicuous figure in 
 the development of Southern California, and 
 in most of the corporations of which he 
 is a member the financial work is in his 
 hands. 
 
 Mr. Holterhoff is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, but has never been active in the politi- 
 cal field, nor has he ever sought for public 
 office. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, 
 the Sunset Club, the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, the Crags Country Club, the Cerritos 
 Gun Club and the Landmarks Club, all of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 He also holds memberships in the South- 
 western Society of the Archaeological Insti- 
 tute of America and the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce. 
 
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 EE, DONALD MUSGRAVE, 
 Automobiles, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Lan- 
 sing, Michigan, August 12, 
 1880, the son of Herbert A. 
 Lee and Sadie (Musgrave) Lee. He mar- 
 ried Etta Stewart at Portland, Oregon, 
 August 18, 1904, and to them there has 
 been born one child, Thomas Stewart Lee. 
 
 Mr. Lee attended the 
 public schools of Chi- 
 cago, whither he had 
 moved in his youth, and 
 was graduated from the 
 Northwestern Military 
 Academy in 1897. 
 
 Immediately upon the 
 conclusion of his studies 
 Mr. Lee moved to De- 
 t r o i t, Michigan, and 
 there went to work as a 
 clerk in a wholesale dry 
 goods establishment. He 
 remained with that firm 
 just ten months, how- 
 ever, and at the termina- 
 tion of that period de- 
 cided to go into business 
 for himself. He sought 
 the West as his field of 
 operations and located in 
 Seattle, Washington, in 
 the year 1898. 
 
 He went into the 
 lumber, timber and 
 shingle business at Sum- 
 mit, Washington, his op- 
 erations including the management of a 
 shingle mill, of which he was sole owner, 
 and a logging camp, in which he was the 
 directing head. 
 
 In due time Mr. Lee became an exten- 
 sive shipper of shingles, a large proportion 
 of the product of his mill being sold in the 
 Western States. He remained in the mill 
 business until 1902, when he sold out his 
 interests and entered the automobile field, 
 one in which he has since been conspicu- 
 ously successful. 
 
 His first automobile connection was in 
 the states of Oregon and Washington, for 
 which territory he was appointed general 
 agent of the Cadillac Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. His headquarters were in Seattle, and 
 from this point he directed the operations of 
 branch agencies in Tacoma and Portland. 
 Within two years Mr. Lee had made such 
 a fine record that he was chosen by his 
 
 DONALD M. LEE 
 
 company to open up the field in and about 
 Los Angeles, which at that time, 1904, was 
 not largely populated with motor cars. 
 With the taking up of the California busi- 
 ness he surrendered his Northwestern terri- 
 tory. 
 
 By progressive methods and a careful 
 use of the experience he had acquired in the 
 north, and by his personal popularity, Mr. 
 Lee and his work grew in 
 importance, and it was 
 not very long before he 
 was a leader in the au- 
 tomobile field. 
 
 In 1908 he opened a 
 branch office in Pasa- 
 d e n a, California, and 
 three years later (July, 
 1911), when his success 
 had won him the position 
 of manager for the en- 
 tire State of California, 
 he established branches 
 in San Francisco and 
 Oakland. At the present 
 time Mr. Lee has under 
 his supervision, for the 
 Cadillac Company, thirty- 
 seven sub-dealers and up- 
 ward of a hundred em- 
 ployes. In the year 1911 
 his company sold more 
 than six hundred cars in 
 the State of California, a 
 remarkable record. 
 
 Mr. Lee's position 
 among automobile men 
 
 in the United States is a firm one and due 
 entirely to his own efforts. He began life 
 with little financial strength, but by enter- 
 prising methods and native ability has won 
 for himself a place among the successful 
 business men of the Pacific Coast. He has 
 also placed his company in the forefront 
 in the territory over which he has control, 
 and at one time his cars held all road records 
 in the State of California, especially be- 
 tween the two principal cities of Los An- 
 geles and San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Lee is held in high esteem in busi- 
 ness circles in Los Angeles, and is one of 
 the most popular men in the State. 
 
 He holds memberships in the Annan- 
 dale Country Club, the Automobile Club of 
 Southern California and the California State 
 Automobile Association. In the work of 
 these two latter organizations he is a promi- 
 nent factor. 
 
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 T. C. DOBBINS 
 
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 OBBINS, TIMOTHY C., Consulting 
 and Electrical Engineer and In- 
 ventor, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Liudley, Grundy Co., Mo., 
 the son of Thomas Dobbins and 
 Sarah (Kirkpatrick) Dobbins. He 
 has been twice married, his first wife having died. 
 He married Mary Harris at Telluride, Colo., Jan. 27, 
 1897. Mr. Dobbins, the youngest of fifteen children, 
 is descended from a family noted for longevity. 
 His father was one of the first men to make the 
 trip across the Continent in the late forties, walk- 
 ing beside an ox team the entire distance. He was 
 among the earliest gold hunters in California, 'and 
 within a comparatively short space of time had won 
 a fortune. He started back to his old home in 
 Illinois, but, in Missouri, located on some Govern- 
 ment land. He lived to be eighty-seven and was 
 the oldest Mason in Missouri when he died. 
 
 Mr. Dobbins received his early education in the 
 common schools of his native town and later at- 
 tended the State Normal School at Kirksville, Mo. 
 He left there in 1881 and the next year was a 
 student at the State Normal School, Warrensburg, 
 Mo. In 1882 he took a year's business course in 
 the Marysville (Mo.) Business College. 
 
 Upon leaving college Mr. Dobbins studied teleg- 
 raphy and went to Western Missouri with the 
 Western Union Tel. Co., but at the end of a year 
 gave it up as too confining. He took a position 
 as trainman on the Wabash Railroad, working for 
 six months out of Moberly, Mo. His next position 
 was with the Union Pacific at Kansas City, where 
 he remained about a year. In the latter part of 
 1885 he went to Ottumwa, Iowa, with the C., B. & Q. 
 Road as locomotive fireman until the Brotherhood 
 strike in 1887, when he abandoned railroading. 
 
 During his several years with roads Mr. Dob- 
 bins worked on the trains and in the shops, and 
 when he left the Burlington was an all-round me- 
 chanic and engineer. He went from Ottumwa to 
 Chicago and obtained a position with the Western 
 Electric Co. in order to learn electrical engineer- 
 ing. He began as an apprentice, despite his knowl- 
 edge of mechanics, and for eight months worked 
 for fifty cents per day, but as his fortune now runs 
 into six figures, it attests to his success. 
 
 In two years' time the Electric Construction Co. 
 chose him to superintend the wiring of the Mo- 
 nadnock Block, then the largest fireproof building 
 in Chicago. He was later selected by the General 
 Electric Co. for an important position on its staff. 
 He was with the latter company six years, engaged 
 in the construction of electric street railways in 
 North Chicago, North Evanston and Quincy, 111.; 
 Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa, Iowa, and St. Louis, 
 Mo., concluding with the construction of the Cicero 
 Proviso line in West Chicago. 
 
 For ten months he was connected with the elec- 
 trical department of the World's Fair at Chicago, 
 in charge of underground construction. He also 
 worked on the installation of the Intermural Rail- 
 way and was made traveling inspector of the road. 
 At the close of the World's Fair Mr. Dobbins 
 went to Telluride, Colo., where, for three years he 
 was Superintendent of the Telluride Electric Light 
 & Power Co. Later he undertook electrical con- 
 tract work in various parts of the West. While 
 living at Santa Rosa, New Mex., he was offered the 
 position of Engineer for the underground electrical 
 construction at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
 in 1902, but declined and in a short time went to 
 Grand Encampment, Wyo., as Chief Electrical 
 Engineer for the North American Copper Co. 
 
 Under the supervision of Mr. Dobbins a general 
 electrical plant was erected, including a power 
 house, sawmills, twelve miles of wood stave pipe 
 line and a lighting system, one of the most com- 
 plete in this country at the time, costing in round 
 numbers, about one million dollars. 
 
 In 1904 he was made Constructing Engineer for 
 Hendrie & Boldhoff of Denver, electrical machinery 
 manufacturers, and for two years was engaged in 
 the installation of plants throughout the West. 
 Among others for them was, in 1905, the installa- 
 tion of a steam plant at Laramie, Wyo., for the 
 Laramie Light & Power Co., a 1500 h. p. plant. 
 
 In 1906 he became affiliated with the Nevada- 
 California Power Co. as Constructing Engineer, and 
 embarked on the most important part of his entire 
 career. This company for many years has been 
 engaged in the erection of electrical plants and the 
 construction of high-voltage transmission systems, 
 and Mr. Dobbins, because of his superior knowl- 
 edge in this branch of his profession, has been 
 given the actual building of these. He constructed 
 the company's main transmission lines from Bishop, 
 Cal., and transmitted power to Goldfield, Tonopab 
 and other points, hundreds of miles distant. 
 
 Mr. Dobbins is (1913) engaged on the most im- 
 portant work of his- career. In 1911 he took a con- 
 tract to construct for the Southern Sierras Power 
 Co., a subsidiary of the Nevada-California Power 
 Co., a high-voltage transmission line from Bishop to 
 San Bernardino, Cal. When completed, it will be 
 the longest high-power transmission line in the 
 world. It is composed of six aluminum steel corded 
 cables, s-trung on a series of high steel towers, and 
 is regarded as a great engineering feat. 
 
 There are two thousand towers, placed over ter- 
 ritory of every description, much of it mountainous ; 
 these structures range from seventy-five feet in 
 height on an average, to eighty feet where the 
 transmission line is carried over railroads, and 
 their construction was a problem which Mr. Dob- 
 bins was called upon to solve for himself, which 
 he did, employing the most highly developed scien- 
 tific methods, taking into consideration varying 
 temperatures and heights, but the work, so far, is 
 declared by famous engineers to be wonderfully 
 accurate. The entire work will cost in the neigh- 
 borhood of $2,000,000. The total weight will be 
 about 6000 tons* and will transmit 110,000 volts. 
 
 This operation is being watched by engineering 
 and electrical experts of the country, and when com- 
 pleted much of the credit for its success will be 
 due Mr. Dobbins. 
 
 Mr. Dobbins enjoys a splendid reputation for 
 accomplishment and is regarded one of the most 
 resourceful engineers in the country. His resource- 
 fulness has found another outlet in the creation 
 of a number of practical articles, which figure 
 largely in certain commercial lines. The first was 
 an electric cigar lighter, which he patented in 1897 
 and sold. It is in universal use and, while he real- 
 ized a handsome profit on it, it did not compare 
 with the success attending the Dobbins Blow-Out 
 Chain, patented in 1910. This consists of a series 
 of chains for use on tires- in cases of rips or tears, 
 and has proven of such value that it is now a part 
 of the equipment of a quarter-million automobiles. 
 Mr. Dobbins sold this to the Weed Chain Tire Grip 
 Co. of New York, on a royalty. 
 
 Mr. Dobbins- is a member of the Sierra Madre 
 Club, composed of mining men, including engineers 
 and other affiliated interests. He also belongs to 
 the Royal Arch Masons, Maccabees and Woodmen 
 of the World. 
 
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 VAKIAN, JOHN CASPAR, Civil 
 and Hydraulic Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Harpoot, 
 Armenia, March 1, 1875, the son 
 of Harootune Caspar Avakian 
 and Hripsime (Hottoyan) Ava- 
 kian. His father was a charter 
 teacher and Dean of the Faculty in the Euphrates 
 College, Harpoot, founded by the American Mis- 
 sionaries. In this position he served for forty-four 
 years. 
 
 The son received his primary education in the 
 elementary branch of Eu- 
 phrates College, but his 
 father decided to give him 
 the better educational ad- 
 vantages to be had in Amer- 
 ica. The Turkish law for- 
 bidding members of the 
 Christian races to leave the 
 country, it was necessary 
 that Mr. Avakian, then a lad 
 twelve years of age, flee the 
 country surreptitiously. Ac- 
 companied by an uncle, 
 young Avakian barely es- 
 caped with his life across 
 the frontier into Russia, but 
 afterwards traveled easily 
 through the Czar's domain 
 and Germany, sailing from 
 Hamburg for the II. S. Leav- 
 ing Harpoot, April 1, 1888, he 
 arrived in Troy, New York, 
 June 16, of that year. 
 
 At Troy Mr. Avakian en- 
 tered school, applying him- 
 self industriously in master- 
 ing the English language, 
 and despite the fact that he 
 was compelled to suspend 
 his studies in order to earn 
 money to support himself, 
 he was graduated from Cook 
 Academy at Montour Falls, 
 N. Y., in the class of 1894. 
 He had found it necessary to 
 earn his own living, because 
 
 wages in his native country were so small, it would 
 not have supported him had his devoted father sent 
 him his entire salary. 
 
 Filled with the love of his people and resent- 
 ment towards- the powers that oppressed them, 
 Mr. Avakian, at the age of sixteen, became a lec- 
 turer on "The Eastern Question," in which he dealt 
 in detail with the persecutions- suffered by the 
 Christians of the Turkish Empire. In the spring 
 of 1895, while a student in Colgate Univ., Hamilton, 
 N. Y., he suffered heavy loss in the fire which swept 
 the town, this forcing another halt in his education. 
 About this time there occurred Armenian mas- 
 sacres in which about 600,000 innocent and defense- 
 less Christians were slaughtered by the Turks-. Mr. 
 Avakian set out on a lecture tour to arouse Ameri- 
 can sympathy and raise funds to rescue his rela- 
 tives and others from death. He continued his- tour 
 through New England and Canada until the out- 
 break of the Spanish-American War, when he gave 
 up his crusade and became associated with R. B. 
 Davis-, known as "The Baking Powder King," as his 
 personal traveling representative. 
 
 Late in 1898 Mr. Avakian entered Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., and was grad- 
 uated in the class of 1902 with the degree of Civil 
 Engineer. He then was employed by the Lehigh 
 Valley R. R., first at Sayre, Pa., later at Buffalo, 
 
 J. C. AVAKIAN 
 
 N. Y., where he was engaged in designing and im- 
 proving yards and shops for the company. 
 
 Mr. Avakian was chosen, in 1903, Locating En- 
 gineer for the Buffalo, Dunkirk & Western R. R. 
 and in this capacity located about 75 miles- of main 
 line from the State line of Ohio to the city of 
 Buffalo. Upon the completion of this work Mr. 
 Avakian brought his sister and her family from 
 Armenia to Los Angeles, Cal., intending himself 
 to return to Buffalo. Becoming impressed with 
 Los Angeles, however, he opened offices there for 
 the general practice of his profession and a short 
 time later became Asst. En- 
 gineer in the U. S. Reclama- 
 tion Service, at that time in 
 its first stages. He was 
 placed in charge of the pre- 
 liminary estimate on the 
 cos-t of the "Yuma Project,' 
 and after the project was ap- 
 proved at Washington, was 
 transferred to Yuma, Ariz., 
 where he took charge of the 
 office. He remained in this 
 position until the spring of 
 1906, spending the summer 
 of 1905, however, on the 
 Klamath Project, at Klamath, 
 Oregon. 
 
 In June, 1906, Mr. Avakian 
 resigned his commission with 
 the Government, in order to 
 conduct his private business 
 in Los Angeles and he has 
 since been thus engaged. 
 
 Mr. Avakian, in 1907, un- 
 dertook what has resulted in 
 one of the great development 
 enterprises of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. While engaged in 
 professional work in River- 
 side, Cal., he noticed a tract 
 of 17,000 acres of land, orig- 
 inally a Spanish grant known 
 as- "Rancho La Sierra" and 
 considered hopeless for agri- 
 cultural purposes, while all 
 around it was land in 
 oranges, lemons and other fruits, valued at from 
 $1200 to $4000 per acre. 
 
 After six months of careful investigation and 
 work, Mr. Avakian concluded that enough water 
 could be developed in an adjoining valley to irri- 
 gate at leas-t a part of the ranch. Then, in the face 
 of opposition and criticism amounting almost to an 
 attack upon his integrity and mental condition, he 
 secured a contract on about 9000 acres of the tract 
 and organized a company for the purpose of re- 
 claiming it. This corporation, known as the River- 
 side Groves- & Water Co., with an authorized cap- 
 ital of $1,000,000, immediately began the work of 
 reclamation. The result was that within three 
 years this land, which was considered high at $10 
 per acre, was selling for $350 per acre and ranked 
 with the prosperous fruit growing sections of 
 Southern California. 
 
 This work has- been considered one of the best 
 examples of development in Southern California, 
 and Mr. Avakian, discoverer of the land and Pres- 
 ident of the company, was the dominating force in 
 the furtherance of the project. He continued in 
 charge until April 15, 1912, when he was compelled 
 to relinquish his office owing to ill health. 
 
 Mr. Avakian enjoys a splendid professional 
 standing and is ranked as- one of the substantial 
 men of Los Angeles. 
 
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 723 
 
 ITTMAN, KEY, U. S. Senator (At- 
 torney), Tonopah, Nev., was born 
 at Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. 19, 1872; 
 son of Hon. William Buckner Pitt- 
 man and Katie (Key) Pittman. 
 Married Miss Mimosa Gates, de- 
 scendant of a prominent California 
 family, at Nome, Alaska, July 9, 1900. Mr. Pittman 
 is a great-great grandnephew of Francis Scott Key, 
 who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." 
 
 Mr. Pittman was educated, Southern Presby- 
 terian University, Clarksville, Tenn., and in 1890 
 moved to Seattle, Wash. In 
 1892 he commenced to prac- 
 tice law in Seattle, but later 
 moved to Mount Vernon, 
 Wash., attracted by mining 
 litigation. 
 
 In 1897 he went to the 
 Klondike. In Dawson, being 
 prohibited from practicing 
 law in Canadian territory, he 
 worked for about two years 
 as a common miner. Here 
 he advised the Australians, 
 banded together in a society 
 to oppose corruption and in- 
 tolerance of Canadian gov- 
 ernment officials. 
 
 In 1899 he went to Nome, 
 just discovered. He immedi- 
 ately engaged in the practice 
 of law, and prevented the 
 miners from being driven off 
 the beach, where the sand is 
 rich in gold, by the U. S. sol- 
 diers. He called a mass 
 meeting and took a leading 
 part in the organization of a 
 "consent" form of govern- 
 ment to preserve law and or- 
 der in Nome during the win- 
 ter, there being no other law 
 in existence at that time. He 
 became Prosecuting Attorney 
 under this form of govern- 
 ment, and before courts that 
 had no other jurisdiction 
 than the consent of the community, prosecuted and 
 had punished the violators of law and order. He 
 became head of the society known as the Arctic 
 Brotherhood. 
 
 Mr. Pittman joined in the defense of the miners 
 when "Spoilers" descended upon Alaska to rob 
 them of their claims, and did not stop until the 
 Judge, was removed and the U. S. Atty., Court Com- 
 missioner and Court Adviser arrested, tried and im- 
 prisoned, and the gang compelled to disgorge. 
 
 In 1901, Mr. Pittman went to the new camp of 
 Tonopah, Nev. He was immediately employed in a 
 mining suit involving hundreds of thousands of dol- 
 lars and in another case, protested the patent of a 
 mining company, on behalf of 500 families who had 
 built their homes on the land and were about to be 
 thrown off, and compelled the companies to grant 
 to these families the surface of the mining claims 
 for their homes. He placed the Jumbo Mining Co., 
 one of the companies thai went into the hands of 
 the great Goldfleld Consolidated Mining Co., in the 
 hands of a receiver and kept it there in a fight 
 against some of the ablest and most resourceful 
 lawyers in the West. He conducted to a successful 
 termination the apex litigation on behalf of the 
 Tonopah Extension Mining Co. against the Mac- 
 Namara Mining Co. 
 
 Mr. Pittman is general counsel for a number of 
 
 HON. KEY PITTMAN 
 
 large mining corporations; is Vice Pres. of Nevada 
 First Natl. Bank, and is connected with various 
 business and mining enterprises throughout Nevada. 
 He has been active in Nevada politics during all 
 his time there, constantly fighting for the Demo- 
 cratic party. He is a firm believer in the right of 
 Labor to organize; has always favored laws that 
 will protect the life and health of all citizens and 
 has always favored legislation that would give 
 greater power to the masses in government control. 
 Mr. Pittman has been appointed to many posi- 
 tions of honor. In 1904, he was appointed by the 
 Supreme Court of Nevada 
 to represent the State at 
 the International Congress of 
 Jurists and Lawyers at the 
 St. Louis Exposition and at 
 the same time was appointed 
 by the Governor, a representa- 
 tive of Nevada at the Expo- 
 sition. In 1906, he was ap- 
 pointed by the Governor as 
 special State representative 
 to the Lewis and Clark Expo- 
 sition, Portland. In 1908, he 
 was a delegate of the State of 
 Nevada to the National Irri- 
 gation Congress at Sacra- 
 mento, Cal. 
 
 In 1910, in a bitter con- 
 test, he became the primary 
 nominee of the Democratic 
 party for U. S. Senator, by an 
 overwhelming majority, but 
 was defeated by the late Sen- 
 ator George S. Nixon. The 
 Republicans in the succeed- 
 ing Legislature introduced a 
 joint concurrent resolution 
 which was unanimously 
 adopted by the Senate and 
 the Assembly and personally 
 signed by the Governor, 
 Lieut.-Gov., Speaker of the 
 Assembly and every member 
 of the Senate and Assembly 
 of Nevada, wherein it stated: 
 "That he has earned the last- 
 ing regard of his political opponents by the fair, 
 able and honorable campaign made by him in his 
 fight for the Senatorial toga, thereby making a 
 record of which every true Nevadan may well 
 be proud." 
 
 Mr. Pittman was unanimously elected by the 
 Democrats of the State as Delegate to the National 
 Convention at Baltimore (1912), and there acted as 
 Chairman of that delegation and a member of the 
 Presidential Notification Committee. After the con- 
 vention he was appointed on the board of advisers 
 for the Wilson-Marshall campaign. 
 
 At the September, 1912, primaries, he was the 
 unanimous choice of his party for the nomination 
 to the U. S. Senate and was elected, Nov., 1912. 
 
 Mr. Pittman is not only a profound student and 
 lawyer, but is recognized as a forceful debater and 
 eloquent speaker. He has been acting as a cam- 
 paign orator in nearly every campaign since 1896, 
 when he first spoke in western Washington on be- 
 half of William Jennings Bryan. Besides his po- 
 litical speeches, he has made a great many ad- 
 dresses on social and civic matters to various asso- 
 ciations and societies. 
 
 Mr. Pittman is a Thirty-second degree Mason 
 (life member, Islam Temple and the Shrine) ; mem- 
 ber, Benevolent Protective Order Elks, Loyal Order 
 of Moose, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. 
 
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 OLGATE, CHARLES ERN- 
 EST, Physician, Los Angeles, 
 California, is of English 
 birth, having come into 
 the world at Bramley, York- 
 shire, England, on September 25, 1876. His 
 father was Alfred Holgate and his mother 
 before her marriage was Miss Eliza Crab- 
 tree. He was married in 1904 to Miss 
 Annie Brown, in Los An- 
 geles, and has a son, 
 Charles Gordon Holgate. 
 His early education 
 was had at the Bramley 
 National Schools up to 
 the age of twelve, when 
 he studied by himself 
 until he was able to enter 
 the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons in Los An- 
 geles, now of the Univer- 
 sity of Southern Califor- 
 nia, where he studied 
 from 1904 to 1906, taking 
 his degree of M. D. 
 
 Dr. Holgate is a self- 
 made man and has reason 
 to be proud of the fact. 
 
 He had a strenuous 
 youth; when but twelve 
 years old he entered one 
 of Yorkshire's big woolen 
 factories, where he 
 was employed for two 
 years, and then he secured employment in a 
 steel mill under his father, where he worked 
 four years. This life at his age caused him 
 to become restless, and, in a spirit of ad- 
 venture, he enlisted in the Seventeenth West 
 Yorkshire Infantry Regiment, in 1895, and 
 served until 1896, when he found barrack 
 existence not at all to his liking and he came 
 to the United States in March of 1896. Here 
 he lived for several years on the farm of his 
 uncle, David Crabtree, working on his uncle's 
 farm and for neighbors, and was fortunate 
 enough to later enter the employ of Dr. E. 
 C. Austin of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, who gave 
 the young man the best of advice, in that 
 he should obtain a profession ; Dr. Austin 
 opened to Dr. Holgate his own library, and 
 to this kindness and interest Dr. Holgate 
 frankly attributes his chance to engage in the 
 study of medicine. 
 
 While delving into the medical books 
 
 DR. CHARLES 
 
 continuously Dr. Holgate worked in Chicago 
 as a carpenter and painter and was em- 
 ployed on the Chicago and Northwestern 
 Railway, and in the summer of 1891 he made 
 his way to Denver and worked at ranching 
 and did some prospecting. But during all the 
 time from the era when at twelve he was 
 obliged to leave his school and struggle for 
 existence, Dr. Holgate never for a moment 
 forsook his ambition 
 to secure a college 
 education, and he man- 
 aged to win out; he se- 
 cured employment on the 
 Frater ranch, at Charter 
 Oak, and meanwhile en- 
 tered the Pacific Hos- 
 pital in September, 1902, 
 and left for college in 
 September, 1904. 
 
 Securing his degree in 
 1908, and carrying away 
 the class honors, he was 
 not satisfied with that 
 success, but plunged into 
 the intricacies of law, and 
 was admitted to prac- 
 tice August, 1910. 
 
 Since that time he 
 found his medical prac- 
 tice grew too rapidly to 
 E. HOLGATE admit of his giving any 
 attention to his legal 
 acquirements. But he accomplished his fixed 
 purpose in not only acquiring proficiency in 
 one profession but in two. 
 
 His work at college was so conscientious 
 and purposeful that in 1906 he was awarded 
 the first gold medal ever given at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1908 
 he gained the senior class medal. 
 
 Dr. Holgate is an enthusiast in all out-of- 
 door sports. 
 
 He has also an almost religious belief in 
 the future of the Pacific Coast, a belief he has 
 evidenced by his works; this prompted him 
 to become an active member of the Los An- 
 geles Chamber of Commerce. He takes 
 an equally active part in the affairs of the 
 Y. M. C. A. Besides his membership in the 
 organization named he belongs to the Los 
 Angeles Camp, Woodmen of the World, and 
 to the Loyal Order of Moose and the Sons 
 of St. George. 
 
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 725 
 
 EWLETT, EUGENE E., At- 
 torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of that 
 State. He was born at Peta- 
 luma, June, 1878. His father 
 was Fred Hewlett and his mother Cleora M.- 
 Hewlett. On October 20, 1905, at Oakland, 
 California, he was married to lone H. C. 
 Ford. 
 
 Mr. Hewlett spent his 
 boyhood days in Peta- 
 1 u m a, California, and 
 later, when the family 
 moved to San Francisco, 
 he there attended the 
 public schools. After 
 completing his prepara- 
 tory education in that 
 city he entered the Uni- 
 versity of California, at 
 Berkeley, where he stud- 
 ied law. He received the 
 degree of B. L. in 1900 
 from that university and 
 determined to go East to 
 finish his law education. 
 He attended the Harvard 
 University, Law College, 
 for three years, receiving 
 the degree of LL.B. from 
 that institution in 1903. 
 
 years of continued practice, Mr. Hewlett 
 withdrew from the firm, retaining offices 
 for himself in the Pacific Electric Building, 
 Los Angeles, still keeping his San Francisco 
 offices. 
 
 Since 1910 he has continued practice 
 alone, mostly general in character, in Los 
 Angeles, and on the opening of the magnifi- 
 cent new Trust and Sav j 
 ings Building, at the cor- 
 ner of Sixth and Spring 
 streets, he located his 
 offices there in a hand- 
 some suite. His office 
 in San Francisco is lo- 
 cated in the Monadnock 
 Building. 
 
 Mr. Hewlett's affairs 
 necessitate his dividing 
 his time between Los 
 Angeles and the northern 
 city. 
 
 He has a large law 
 library of several thou- 
 sand volumes and makes 
 it a point to add to this 
 collection of booki 
 on every possible occa- 
 sion. 
 
 He is prominently 
 connected in both Los 
 
 Returning to San Francisco, he received 
 the same mark of distinction from 
 the Hastings Law School in the same 
 year. 
 
 His first venture in the legal world was 
 made in San Francisco, where he opened up 
 a general law practice. Being his home city, 
 and having a large acquaintance there, his 
 rise was rapid and for over a year he con- 
 tinued to practice alone. 
 
 Mr. Hewlett moved to Los Angeles in 
 the latter part of 1904, becoming a member 
 of the firm of Hewlett, Bancroft and Ballan- 
 tine, with offices located both in San Fran- 
 cisco and Los Angeles. This association 
 has had a flourishing general law practice, 
 particularly in Los Angeles. The firm, al- 
 though following a general practice, special- 
 ized on corporation law. In 1910, after six 
 
 E. E. HEWLETT 
 
 Angeles and San Francisco in a social as well 
 as in a professional way. 
 
 He is a believer in good government 
 work and aids all of the better movements 
 for the upbuilding of state and city. 
 
 Mr. Hewlett is a member of the Cali- 
 fornia Club, the Jonathan Club of Los An- 
 geles, and of the Annandale Country Club, 
 Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Country 
 Club. 
 
 He is also a member of the University 
 Club of San Francisco. When attending 
 college he was a member of the D. K. E. 
 Fraternity. 
 
 Mr. Hewlett is fond of motoring and 
 finds time to spend in this recreative pas- 
 time. 
 
 He has a beautiful residence located at 
 Oak Knoll, Pasadena. 
 
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 COL. W. J. HOGAN 
 
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 727 
 
 OGAN, WILLIAM JAMES, Retired, 
 Pasadena, California, was born in 
 Louisville, Kentucky, March 12, 
 1845, the son of David Francis Ho- 
 gan and Mary Buley (Vogdes) Ho- 
 gan. He married Emma Clara Al- 
 ter at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1872, and 
 they had one son, Francis Griffiths Hogan, now 
 one of the leading real estate operators of Pasa- 
 dena. Mr. Hogan's parents were both natives of 
 Philadelphia, but his paternal grandfather, Patrick 
 Hogan, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who 
 came over to this country and was engaged as a 
 commission merchant in Philadelphia for many 
 years. His maternal grandfather, also a merchant 
 of Philadelphia, and his great uncle, General Vog- 
 des, was an officer in the Colonial Army. 
 
 Mr. Hogan, who is well known as a lover of fine 
 horses, and in financial circles, attended public and 
 private schools of Louisville, Kentucky, in his boy- 
 hood and later attended a college at Norristown, 
 Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, known at that 
 time as the Arrin Male College. 
 
 At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Mr. 
 Hogan was at his home in Louisville, but was too 
 young to bear arms. He entered the service of the 
 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad about 
 the middle of 1862, but in the early part of 1863 
 gave up his position and entered the Commissary 
 Department of the United States Government ser- 
 vice. He served in this capacity during the con- 
 tinuance of the war and for about six or eight 
 months following the close of hostilities. 
 
 Upon leaving the Government service, Mr. Ho- 
 gan was out of employment for a short time and 
 next went to work for a cotton and tobacco buyer 
 of Louisville. He remained in that position for 
 about a year and then entered the banking business 
 as clerk in a large brokerage house of Louisville. 
 From the brokerage office he entered the employ of 
 the State bank known as the Falls City Bank, Louis- 
 ville, and worked in various capacities- for the next 
 five years, but at the end of that time decided it 
 was too confining and so left the business to enter 
 commercial life. 
 
 Going to Philadelphia, Pa., he accepted employ- 
 ment with a wholesale house as a traveling sales- 
 man and was thus engaged for the next five years-. 
 Returning to his native city of Louisville, Mr. Ho- 
 gan embarked in business for himself, owning a 
 store in which he made a specialty of fancy goods. 
 He began in a modest way, but through his careful 
 management of the house, it was gradually in- 
 creased and when he retired from the business, 
 after twenty-one years, it was one of the important 
 commercial houses of Loui&ville. 
 
 Since selling out his business in Louisville, Mr. 
 Hogan has not been active in commercial pursuits. 
 He devotes time, however, to looking after his in- 
 vestments in real estate, stocks and bonds. 
 
 During his long residence in Louisville, Mr. Ho- 
 
 gan took an energetic interest in civic and social 
 affairs and while he was not active in politics al- 
 ways took a keen interest in the city government. 
 
 From his boyhood, Mr. Hogan was interestel in 
 good horses and for many years has been identified 
 with the Louisville Horse Show Association and 
 other kindred bodies. The Louisville Horse Show 
 Association, which is celebrated for the splendid 
 annual exhibit held in that city under its auspices, 
 is one of the oldest organizations of the kind in 
 America and Mr. Hogan served a term as its Presi- 
 dent, a distinction conferred upon those men who 
 are deemed to be the most active in the breeding 
 and protection of fine animals. 
 
 Following his removal to Pasadena, Mr. Hogan 
 not only maintained his interest in fine horses, but 
 interested the people of that section in them and as 
 a result organized the first horse show ever held 
 in the Crown City. He also was the prime mover 
 in the formation of the Southern California Horse 
 Show Association and served as its Vice President 
 for some time. Under its auspices the horse show 
 was made one of the annual features of the winter 
 season at Pasadena and Mr. Hogan, as a friend of 
 the horse, worked indefatigably for the improve- 
 ment of the breed. Being a horse owner himself, 
 he has continued to be identified with all move- 
 ments for the benefit of the animals and was one 
 of the strong advocates of a constitutional amend- 
 ment submitted to the voters in 1912 for the restor- 
 ation of racing in California. The sport was legis- 
 lated out of existence because of the evils it bred, 
 but Mr. Hogan, with several hundred other well 
 known men of California who love good horses, 
 sought to reintroduce it in order to encourage 
 breeding. They so framed their plan as to elimin- 
 ate the obnoxious features and to conduct racing on 
 a clean basis, but the opposition to the sport was 
 so great that the amendment was defeated. 
 
 In addition to his labors for the success of the 
 Pasadena Horse Show, Mr. Hogan is interested in 
 the Polo matches which form a part of the social 
 life of Southern California each year and is also an 
 active factor in the world-famous Tournament of 
 Roses Association, which conducts the annual car- 
 nival of flowers at Pasadena on New Year's Day. 
 This celebration, which has for its sponsors the 
 leading citizens of Pasadena, has come to be re- 
 garded as one of the most beautiful public affairs 
 in the United States arid attracts thousands of 
 viistors to Pasadena each year. Mr. Hogan was 
 elected an honorary member of the Association and 
 is one of the enthusiastic workers for its success. 
 
 Mr. Hogan has been interested in various other 
 civic movements in Pasadena and because of his 
 un&elfish work for the advancement of his adopted 
 city was elected an honorary member of the Pasa- 
 dena Board of Trade. 
 
 He is a member of the Pendennis Club, Louis- 
 ville, Ky.; Annandale Country Club, Overland Club, 
 Midwick Country Club and Polo Club, Pasadena. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 ARTIN, ALBERT C, Archi- 
 tect and Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 La Salle, Illinois, September 
 16, 1879. He is the son of 
 John Martin and Margaret (Carey) Martin. 
 On October 15, 1907, he married at Oxnard, 
 California, Carolyn Borchard. There are two 
 children as a result of this marriage, Evelyn 
 M. and Margaret M. Mar- 
 tin. 
 
 Mr. Martin's educa- 
 tion was obtained mostly 
 in Illinois. He attended 
 St. Patrick's Parochial 
 School in La Salle, Illi- 
 nois, graduating in 1894. 
 He then became a student 
 of architecture and engin- 
 eering at the University 
 of Illinois, located at 
 Champaign, Illinois, start- 
 ing in 1897. Up to 1902, 
 he studied constantly at 
 that college, being grad- 
 uated in June of that year 
 with the B. S. degree in 
 Architectural Engineer- 
 ing. 
 
 Shortly after graduat- 
 ing from the University 
 of Illinois, Mr. Martin be- 
 came a draftsman for the 
 Brown, Ketcham Iron 
 Works of Indianapolis, 
 Indiana. He continued 
 with the company for 
 more than a year and then resigned his posi- 
 tion to enter another branch of his profession 
 that of testing steel and iron. 
 
 Mr. Martin's next position was that of in- 
 spector of steel for the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company in the mills and shops in and around 
 Pittsburg. He was in this position for about 
 a year and qualified as an expert. Having 
 learned all about the manufacture of steel and 
 iron in the great mills he next turned his at- 
 tention to steel construction. Resigning his 
 post with the railroad company, he joined the 
 forces of the Cambria Steel Company, at 
 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, now a branch of 
 the United States Steel Corporation, and for 
 several months he was a designer and esti- 
 mator of steel construction. 
 
 In the latter part of 1903, he left Pennsyl- 
 vania and went to Los Angeles, California, 
 arriving there January 6, 1904. This move 
 was prompted by the offer of a position 
 
 A. C. MARTIN 
 
 which he accepted as Superintendent of Con- 
 struction for Carl Leonardt and Company, 
 one of the largest contracting firms in that 
 section of the United States. He remained 
 with the company for more than a year and 
 during that time supervised the construction 
 of some of the largest buildings put up in 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Upon resigning from the Carl Leonardt 
 Company, Mr. Martin be- 
 came engineer of con- 
 struction for A. F. Rosen- 
 heim, architect, continu- 
 ing with him over four 
 years. 
 
 In September, 1908, 
 Mr. Martin resigned his 
 position with that firm, 
 and opened offices for 
 himself as an architect 
 and engineer. He has 
 handled several of the 
 larger buildings in Los 
 Angeles and has put up 
 structures in most sec- 
 tions of Southern Califor- 
 nia. At the present time 
 he is building the Court 
 House of Ventura Coun- 
 ty and an eight-story of- 
 fice building at Vancouv- 
 er, British Columbia. 
 
 The Higgins Office 
 Building, of Los Ange- 
 les, is an excellent exam- 
 ple of his work. 
 
 Combining as he does 
 the qualities of engineer, architect and struc- 
 tural expert, Mr. Martin has taken a leading 
 position in the ranks of his profession and is 
 regarded as one of the most thorough men in 
 his line in the country. He is sought in the 
 planning and construction of large buildings 
 in nearly every city in the West and at the 
 present time has numerous large contracts in 
 hand. 
 
 Close application to detail and originality 
 of design have won him the confidence of 
 property owners, and his ideas are going far 
 in building development of the Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Martin is a member of the Architects 
 and Engineers Society of Los Angeles, 
 Southern California Chapter of A. I. A., As- 
 sociate Member of the American Institute of 
 Architects and of the Los Angeles Architec- 
 tural Club. He is a member of the Newman 
 Club of Los Angeles and is a Knight of Col- 
 umbus. 
 
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 729 
 
 TIRDIVANT, WASHBURN 
 B., Southern California Man- 
 ager, Phoenix Mutual Life 
 Insurance Co., Los Angeles, 
 was born at Wilson, Wiscon- 
 sin, September 29, 1860. His father was John 
 J. Stirdivant and his mother Eliza (Bryant) 
 Stirdivant. On June 20, 1892, he married 
 Ella Frances Besant at Milwaukee, Wiscon- 
 sin. To them were born 
 Earl B. Stirdivant, Mil- 
 dred A. Stirdivant, Bry- 
 ant Stirdivant and Evelyn 
 E. Stirdivant. 
 
 He obtained his edu- 
 cation in the country and 
 high schools of his native 
 state. 
 
 At the age of fifteen 
 he entered the grocery 
 business in Wisconsin 
 and for seven years con- 
 tinued in this work. At 
 the end of that time he 
 left the grocery business 
 to engage as an appren- 
 tice in a drug store where 
 he remained for two years 
 following. Then for one 
 year he was engaged in 
 the shoe business. His 
 health having partly 
 failed, he quit work and traveled in the South 
 and West for more than three years. 
 
 At the end of his travels, he obtained a 
 position with the Grand Union Tea Company 
 in 1887, and for three years he remained with 
 that corporation. 
 
 In 1890, he determined to enter business 
 for himself. At this time he incorporated the 
 Boston Tea Company of Sheboygan, Wiscon- 
 sin, with himself as sole proprietor. He suc- 
 cessfully operated this concern for a period of 
 about three years in Wisconsin, made it a 
 paying proposition and was able to set aside 
 a fair amount of capital. 
 
 His next venture was in the insurance 
 business. He identified himself with the 
 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company 
 under the management of James S. Norris of 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became efficient 
 
 W. B. STIRDIVANT 
 
 in this line of work, and in a short time had 
 worked up a substantial business. His work 
 at that place was so attended with success 
 that in 1894 he was appointed to fill the posi- 
 tion of District Manager of the company at 
 Janesville, Wis. Two years later he was ad- 
 vanced again, being stationed at Los Angeles, 
 California, where he became the Southern 
 California agent of the Phoenix Mutual Life 
 Insurance Co. From 
 that period down to date 
 he has had charge of the 
 important Southern Cali- 
 fornia end of the compa- 
 ny's interests. 
 
 In 1902 he was ad- 
 vanced to the position of 
 manager of the compa- 
 ny's extensive business in 
 Southern California and 
 today continues in that 
 capacity. Under his man- 
 agement the company, 
 which has headquarters 
 at Hartford, Connnecti- 
 cut, and branches all over 
 the country, now claims 
 the Los Angeles branch 
 as one of its strongest lo- 
 cations. Mr. Stirdivant's 
 territory covers every- 
 thing south of Tehachapi. 
 
 His many policy holders in Southern Califor- 
 nia in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company assure him of a larger success in 
 the future. 
 
 Since going to Southern California, Mr. 
 Stirdivant has played an active part in the 
 community's welfare. At the present time he 
 resides in Pasadena, California. In that place 
 he is a member of the Tournament of Roses 
 Committee, an enterprise which annually at- 
 tracts the interests of the world. He is a 
 member of the Pasadena Board of Trade and 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association of 
 that city. 
 
 In Los Angeles he is a member of the 
 Jonathan, Union League and City Clubs. He 
 : s also an active member of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, one of the leading 
 civic organizations of the Southland. 
 
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 JOHN W. HUNTSBERGER 
 
 UNTSBERGER, JOHN WELKER, 
 Attorney-at-Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Wayne 
 County, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1879, the 
 son of Isaac Deal Huntsberger and 
 ?&J Elizabeth (Kurtz) Huntsberger. 
 
 His parents moved to Kansas during his child- 
 hood and Mr. Huntsberger was educated in the 
 schools of the Sunflower State, later attending 
 Washburn Academy and Washburn College at 
 Topeka. He was graduated from the Law depart- 
 ment of the latter in 1908. 
 
 Following his graduation, Mr. Huntsberger 
 went to Baxter Springs, Kansas, and engaged in 
 the practice of law with Samuel H. Smith, of that 
 place. He remained there only about six months, 
 however, severing the partnership at the end of 
 that time to locate in Los Angeles. He was imme- 
 diately admitted to the Bar of California and has 
 been actively engaged in the practice of law 
 since April, 1909. 
 
 Within a year after settling in Los Angeles, 
 Mr. Huntsberger, who is a Democrat, was nomi- 
 nated by his party for the office of Justice of the 
 Peace, but failed of election. He is active in the 
 city campaigns, and i& a member of the Los Angeles 
 County Central Democratic Committee. In 1912 
 he was put forward as a candidate for election to 
 the State Assembly from the Sixty-Fourth District. 
 
 Mr. Huntsberger has recent] 17 become inter- 
 ested, as a stockholder and director, in the 
 Sequoia Building & Investment Company, engaged 
 in the upbuilding of new residence sections in Los 
 Angeles. This company has a capital of $250,000 
 and includes in its directorate a number of promi- 
 nent Los Angeles busines& men. 
 
 Mr. Fnntsberger is a member of the Metro- 
 politan, Laywers and Jefferson Clubs, the Im- 
 proved Order of Redmen and the Kansas Society 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 F. O. WALLSCHLAEGER 
 
 ALLSCHLAEGER, FRITZ OSCAR, 
 Secretary, Citrus- Protective 
 League, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Milwaukee, Wiscon- 
 sin, April 30, 1888, the son of 
 Henry Wallschlaeger, Jr., and 
 Minnie H. (Meyer) Wallschlaeger. 
 
 Mr. Wallschlaeger received his primary educa- 
 tion in Trinity Church School of Milwaukee and 
 later attended the public schools of the same city, 
 but left when he was fifteen years of age and en- 
 tered the employ of hi& father in the woodworking 
 business. 
 
 From 1904 to 1908 Mr. Wallschlaeger worked 
 for several firms in Milwaukee, serving in the po- 
 sitions of office boy, stenographer, clerk and ship- 
 ping clerk, and in August, 1908, he went to Wash- 
 ington, D. C., as stenographer in the Department of 
 Agriculture. He left the departmnet as an expert 
 in Farm Accounting, in December, 1910. 
 
 It was while in the employ of the Government 
 that Mr. Wallschlaeger became acquainted with 
 G. Harold Powell, at that time Acting Chief of the 
 Bureau of Plant Industry, and he resigned his po- 
 sition with the Government to join Mr. Powell in 
 Los Angeles as his assistant in the Citrus Pro- 
 tective League, of which he was Secretary and 
 Manager. Mr. Wall&chlaeger remained in that ca- 
 pacity until September 1, 1912, when he succeeded 
 Mr. Powell as Secretary of the Citrus Protective 
 League, the latter having taken up another office. 
 
 The Citrus Protective League is a voluntary 
 organization of orange and lemon growers in Cali- 
 fornia and has come to be one of the most import- 
 ant adjuncts of the industry, representing an in- 
 vested capital of approximately $200,000,000 and 
 ten thousand growers. It ha& been very effectual 
 in the protection of the growers and shippers in 
 the matter of railroad rates and tariff legislation, 
 and the problems before it are of great importance. 
 
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 DR. O. M. JUSTICE 
 
 USTICE, OSWALD MIDDLETON, 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Llangol- 
 len, Denvenshire, Wales, May 6, 
 1876, the son of Philip Justice 
 and Elizabeth (Pickering) Justice. 
 He is a descendant of Lord Olive, the brilliant young 
 English soldier, who not only established British 
 domination in India by force of arms, but later laid 
 the foundation of his country's present commer- 
 cial supremacy in the Empire. 
 
 Dr. Justice received his primary education from 
 private tutors and followed with four years at Bed- 
 ford Modern School, in England. He then spent 
 two years at Rugby, and at the age of fifteen, in 
 company with several other English lads, sailed 
 for America. They landed at Halifax, N. S., and 
 from there went to a farm in Iowa, where Dr. 
 Justice remained a year. 
 
 In 1892 he went to Rochester, Minn., and took up 
 the study of medicine under the famous Mayo 
 Brothers, noted throughout the civilized world for 
 surgical achievements. He received his degree in 
 1897, and in 1898 was appointed interne at St. 
 Mary's Hospital, in Minneapolis. At the end of a 
 year he was appointed by the State Board of 
 Control, Asst. Physician of the Hospital for the In- 
 sane, St. Peter, Minn., a post he held for a year. 
 
 Upon leaving the service of the State, Dr. Jus- 
 tice practiced for a time at Elysian, Minn., and in 
 the fall of 1903 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 Dr. Justice is the holder of valuable oil and 
 ranch lands in California and also has mining in- 
 terests in Sonora, Mexico, the latter being oper- 
 ated by the Elaugaje Mining Co., of which he is 
 President and chief stockholder. 
 
 Dr. Justice is a member of the Mississippi Val- 
 ley Medical Association, the Masons, K. of P., Odd 
 Fellows and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
 W. H. CODE 
 
 ODE, WILLIAM HENRY, Consult- 
 ing Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Saginaw, Mich., No- 
 vember 22, 1864; the son of James 
 Code and Elizabeth Code. He 
 married Martha E. Devlin -at Bay 
 City, Mich., on the 14th day of September, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Code received his primary education in the 
 public schools of Saginaw and Harrisville, Mich., 
 entering the University of Michigan for a special 
 course in engineering, 1888-1890. 
 
 In 1890 he went West, engaging in railroad 
 construction for the Union Pacific Railroad at Chey- 
 enne, Wyo. In 1891 he was appointed Assistant 
 State Engineer of Wyoming under Elwood Mead 
 and officiated for one year. In 1892 Mr. Code was 
 chos-en Chief Engineer of the Consolidated Canal 
 System in the Salt River Valley of Arizona, being 
 engaged there approximately ten years. The last 
 two years he was also Special Agent for the United 
 States Department of Agriculture in irrigation in- 
 vestigations, which later brought about his appoint- 
 ment by President Roosevelt in 1902, to Chief Irri- 
 gation Engineer of the United States Indian Serv- 
 ice. He was reappointed in 1906, and in 1910 Mr. 
 Code had general charge of all irrigation work on 
 the Indian Reservations throughout the West, 
 expending approximately $1,000,000 per annum. He 
 also served as Consulting Engineer, United States 
 Reclamation Service. 
 
 In 1911 Mr. Code was one of three advisory 
 engineers chosen to report on the method of water 
 distribution of the $23,000,000 Los Angeles aque- 
 duct. On November 1, 1911, he formed a partner- 
 ship with John H. Quinton, as Quinton & Code, 
 Consulting Engineers. He is Vice President of the 
 Mesa City Bank, Mesa, Ariz. 
 
 He is- a member of Chamber of Commerce, Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers, and the University 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 C. A. BURCHAM 
 
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 URCHAM, CHARLES AUSTIN, 
 Mining Operator, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Vallejo, 
 California, on November 6, 1859. 
 His father was John Burcham, 
 one of the early California pio- 
 neers, and his mother Almeda (Taylor) Burcham. 
 He married Dr. Rose La Monte at Los Angeles, 
 December 10, 1887. Mrs. Burcham, who is a native 
 of New York, of Scotch and French ancestry, has 
 the dual distinction of having been the first woman 
 physician in San Bernardino, California, and of be- 
 ing a directing force in the practical operation of a 
 great gold mine. She had attained a prominent po- 
 sition in the medical profession, as physician and 
 surgeon, before she became identified with her hus- 
 band's- mining enterprises and in the latter field 
 has become noted as one of the most capable busi- 
 ness women in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Burcham, who has been one of the com- 
 manding figures in Southern California for many 
 years, was reared in Vallejo and San Francisco, 
 California. He attended the common schools of 
 the latter city and supplemented this schooling 
 with attendance at the Pacific Business College at 
 San Francisco. Upon the completion of his educa- 
 tion, in the late seventies, when mining stocks 
 offered an attractive field for investment, Mr. 
 Burcham became active in stock speculation and 
 by the time he was twenty-one years of age had 
 accumulated a small fortune. 
 
 With his father and an older brother, Mr. 
 Burcham, in 1880, went to San Bernardino County, 
 in Southern California, and purchased a ranch of 
 five thousand acres, situated about twenty-five 
 miles north of the town of San Bernardino, at the 
 headwaters of the Mojave River. They immedi- 
 ately embarked in the cattle raising business on a 
 large scale and for the next twelve years Mr. 
 Burcham devoted the greater part of his time to 
 this work, although at various times he made pros- 
 pecting trips into the desert country in search of 
 gold. Mr. Burcham owned and operated more than 
 four thousand acres of range and grazing lands 
 with approximately two thousand head of cattle. 
 A large part of his cattle he imported from Ari- 
 zona and sold in the Southern California market. 
 
 As a result of his cattle business, Mr. Burcham 
 eventually opened a wholesale and retail provision 
 house in San Bernardino, which flourished with the 
 same success as did his stock-raising. 
 
 About 1894 Mr. Burcham disposed of his cattle 
 interests in order to devote his time to mining, 
 which to him presented more promise than the cat- 
 tle business. He prospected in the region of what 
 is now Randsburg, California, but without much 
 success, largely due to the fact that he had not 
 perfected his studies of mineralogy, metallurgy and 
 other branches of mining to which he had given 
 serious attention. He was not disheartened, how- 
 ever, but continued his studies and his hunt for 
 
 gold. Finally, on April 21, 1895, after a year or 
 more devoted to prospecting, he reached Summit, 
 a town on the edge of the Mojave Desert, and there 
 met John Singleton and F. M. Mooers, two other 
 prospectors. They formed a three-cornered part- 
 nership and started on a prospecting trip ip. 
 Kern County, California, now the center of the 
 oil production of California, expecting to remain 
 on the desert for an unlimited period. 
 
 After many days of wandering on the Mojave 
 Desert, they came suddenly upon free gold in pay- 
 ing quantities at the foot of some hills and far- 
 ther up discovered the wonderful quartz deposits 
 that have since become celebrated among West- 
 ern mines under the name of the Yellow Aster 
 Mine, so christened by the three partners. 
 
 Mr. Burcham and his friends were jubilant over 
 their find and returned to Randsburg, which town 
 they have since aided largely in upbuilding, for the 
 purpose of organizing a corporation for working 
 the mine. The organization then formed was the 
 Yellow Aster Mining & Milling Company, which 
 still operates the property, with John Singleton, 
 President; Mr. Burcham, Vice President; Dr. Rose 
 L. Burcham, Secretary; C. H. Mooers, Second Vice 
 President, and Ward Chapman, Attorney. It is a 
 close corporation and all of the officers and direct- 
 ors are residents of Los Angeles. 
 
 As soon as possible after the formation of their 
 company, Mr. Burcham and his associates set 
 about improving their property and have added to 
 their plant every year since, with the result that it 
 is one of the most completely equipped gold mines 
 in the Southwest. More than two million tons of 
 ore, averaging three dollars- per ton in value, have 
 been taken out and there still remain to be mined 
 about eight million tons, which is already blocked 
 out. 
 
 Mr. Burcham spends the greater part of his 
 time at the mine, while his wife, in her capacity 
 of Secretary, oversees the office end of the busi- 
 ness, and has been, with her husband, one of the 
 contributing factors in the success of the great en- 
 terprise. Endowed with a remarkable business- tal- 
 ent, she has been a real and valuable partner to her 
 husband and he gives a large part of credit to her 
 ability as an organizer and executive. 
 
 In addition to the Yellow Aster Mine & Milling 
 Company, Mr. Burcham is interested in several 
 other important projects, being President of the 
 Calico Mining Company, President of the Rand 
 Mercantile Company and President of the Phoenix 
 Development Company. All of these concerns are 
 located in the Southwest and aside from them Mr. 
 Burcham is also heavily interested in real estate. 
 
 Mr. Burcham and his wife have a beautiful 
 home in Los Angeles, where, during the season 
 they are hosts to their friends, who are numerous. 
 Mr. Burcham is a member of the Odd Fellows, 
 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Califor- 
 nia Club and Jonathan Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 EESE, WILLIAM KIRKE, 
 JR., Mining Engineer, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 in Washington, D. C, August 
 13, 1876, the son of William 
 Kirke Reese and Minnie (Bartley) Reese. 
 He married Miss Bird Chanslor at Los An- 
 geles, July 31, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Reese is descended of men who have 
 been prominent in military and civil life, 
 members on both sides of the familv hav- 
 ing been nationally famous. On the pa- 
 ternal side he is a nephew of the late 
 General William Tecumseh Sherman and 
 United States Senator John Sherman, and a 
 second cousin of General Nelson A. Miles. 
 
 His grandfather, Colonel H. B. Reese, was 
 an officer in the United States Army, and his 
 great grandfather, Major Reese, was a dis- 
 tinguished soldier of the Civil War. His ma- 
 ternal great grandfather was Governor of 
 Ohio and the latter's son, Judge Bartley, 
 served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Ohio and also as Governor of the Buckeye 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Reese received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in private schools of Philadelphia, Penn- 
 sylvania, and was graduated from Golden 
 College in 1897, with the degrees of Mechan- 
 ical Engineer and Civil Engineer. 
 
 Following his graduation, Mr. Reese went 
 West and located first in Colorado, where he 
 went into the mining business, thereby sup- 
 plementing his technical education with 
 practical experience. He worked in the mines 
 there for nearly three years, leaving in 1900 
 to go to California. He became associated 
 with the Expose Treasure Mine at Majoba, 
 California, and was employed for about two 
 years and a half. 
 
 In 1903, Mr. Reese went into Old Mexico 
 to examine mining property for himself and 
 also as the representative of English capital- 
 ists. In addition, he also carried a commis- 
 sion from the McArthur-Forrest Company, a 
 Scotch firm which had patented a cyanide 
 process and was desirous of locating mining 
 property in Mexico. 
 
 His work took Mr. Reese to all parts of 
 the Republic to the South and he was busily 
 engaged in examination and exploration 
 work for about five years, becoming in that 
 
 time an expert judge of Mexican ore lands. 
 He found a number of promising properties, 
 but did not retain any for himself, returning 
 to the United States to prosecute his work 
 in 1908. 
 
 At that time he resigned his commissions 
 from the foreign syndicates he had represented 
 and went into business on his own account, 
 purchasing mining interests in California and 
 other parts of the West. He mined for gold, 
 silver and copper, principally in the States 
 of California and Oregon, and in four years' 
 time had amassed a fortune of comfortable 
 proportions. 
 
 In January, 1912, he and his associates 
 bought the Crystal Salt Mine at Saltus, Cali- 
 fornia, a corporation which had been in busi- 
 ness about six years, and he has begun the 
 actual work of producing and refining salt on 
 a large scale. As Vice President, Director 
 and General Manager of the Crystal Salt 
 Company, he has entire charge of the com- 
 pany's plans, which include the erection of a 
 salt refinery at Los Angeles, at a cost of 
 $100,000. 
 
 His company owns six thousand acres 
 of salt deposits, the principal mine being 
 located twelve miles from Bagdad, Cali- 
 fornia. The operations of the company have 
 not only brought a new industry to Los An- 
 geles, but also form an important part of the 
 development of the resources of California. 
 
 Although he is devoting a large part of his 
 time to his salt company, Mr. Reese still re- 
 tains valuable mining properties and is ac- 
 tively interested in their development. 
 
 The principal company in which Mr. Reese 
 is interested is the Edith Mining Company, 
 of Portland, Oregon, of which he is Presi- 
 dent and Director. 
 
 Despite the fact that members of his fam- 
 ily for generations have achieved great 
 prominence in public affairs, Mr. Reese is 
 not actively interested in politics, although 
 he is a supporter of the principles of the Re- 
 publican party. 
 
 He settled permanently in Los Angeles in 
 1911 and is now regarded as one of the most 
 successful men of his profession in that sec- 
 tion. 
 
 His club is the University, of Denver, 
 Colorado. 
 
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 ANKA, ROBERT, Mining En- 
 gineer, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Chicago, Illi- 
 nois. He is the son of Joseph 
 Lanka and Regina Lanka. He 
 married Hattie B. Craig at Los Angeles in 
 June, 1905, and to them there have been born 
 two children, Anges Lenore and Robert Craig 
 Lanka. 
 
 Mr. Lanka, who is one of the successful 
 mining engineers of the West, is essentially 
 a self-made man. He attended the grammar 
 and high schools of Chicago, Illinois, leaving 
 the latter after one year's attendance to take 
 up art at the Chicago Art Institute. At the 
 end of a year, however, he gave up his studies 
 and went to work in the art department of a 
 large lithographing establishment. He con- 
 tinued in this line for several years, and when 
 he was about twenty years of age moved to 
 the Northwest, locating in the State of 
 Oregon. 
 
 Determining upon mining as a career, he 
 studied mine engineering in the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in the class of 1900 with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Science. For several years prior 
 to entering college Mr. Lanka had obtained 
 practical experience in the mining camps of 
 Eastern Oregon and the Mother Lode coun- 
 try of California. In this way, and with his 
 art work, Mr. Lanka earned enough to pay 
 his own way through college. He worked in 
 various capacities in the mining fields during 
 his vacation months, as assayer, millman, 
 and mine foreman, and during his study 
 months he supported himself through his art 
 productions. 
 
 Upon leaving college Mr. Lanka practi- 
 cally abandoned his art work for the mining 
 business, and has continued in this latter pro- 
 fession, working principally in Nevada and 
 Old Mexico. In the former section Mr. 
 Lanka was unusually active and was one of 
 the pioneers during the early days of the 
 strike in the Bullfrog district. He was among 
 the earliest arrivals in various other Nevada 
 camps also, and had the distinction and ad- 
 vantage of being the first Assayer to estab- 
 lish offices in Goldfield following the great 
 gold strike at that celebrated mining camp. 
 Since 1910 Mr. Lanka has been in close 
 
 association as Consulting Engineer with 
 E. A. ("Bob") Montgomery, of Los Angeles, 
 one of the solid men who made fame and for- 
 tune for themselves during the boom days of 
 Goldfield. Mr. Montgomery, who is a prac- 
 tical mining man himself, has, since Mr. 
 Lanka joined him, depended largely upon the 
 judgment of the latter in the examination of 
 properties in the United States and Mexico. 
 
 In recent years metal mining in Mexico 
 and the southwestern part of the United 
 States has experienced an unprecedented 
 activity, and in the general development the 
 expert engineers of the mining business have 
 led the way. Mr. Lanka, as a geologist and 
 engineer of wide experience, has been one 
 of those men who have taken an active part 
 in this work, and through his reports on prop- 
 erties has had an influence in inducing capital 
 to invest in mining. 
 
 Mr. Lanka has been a mining operator on 
 his own account, being in possession of valu- 
 able properties in Old Mexico, and also serv- 
 ing as Vice President of the Leon Grande 
 Mining Company. 
 
 Mr. Lanka pays scant attention to politics, 
 but earlier in his life took a great interest in 
 military affairs. At the outbreak of the 
 Spanish-American War he volunteered his 
 services and was assigned to the Second 
 United States Volunteer Engineer Corps. He 
 served in the capacity of topographical 
 draughtsman during the tenure of the war 
 and was mustered out after peace had been 
 declared. 
 
 It was upon his return from the army that 
 Mr. Lanka took up the study of mine en- 
 gineering seriously, graduating, as before 
 stated, within two years. 
 
 Mr. Lanka takes considerable interest in 
 fraternal affairs and is a prominent member 
 of the Masons. He belongs to the Blue 
 Lodge, Goldfield (Nevada) Consistory, and 
 Kerak Temple, of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
 also a member of the Sierra Madre Club of 
 Los Angeles, the leading social and business 
 organization of the mining men and men in- 
 terested in lines affiliated with mining, in the 
 Southwest. 
 
 Mr. Lanka maintains his offices in Los 
 Angeles, but has his residence in Ocean Park, 
 California, a seashore suburb of Los Angeles. 
 
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 ART, GEORGE ALAND- 
 SON, Hotel Proprietor, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Freedom, Ohio, November 
 5, 1870, the son of H. A. Hart 
 and Ordelia M. (Gleason) Hart. He mar- 
 ried Ida M. Belden at West Farmington, 
 Ohio, September 5, 1894. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 his native State, working, 
 after his studies each day, 
 on his father's farm. He 
 remained there until he 
 was eighteen years of age, 
 at which time (1888) he 
 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 He went to work in the 
 Natick House, then the 
 largest and best located 
 hotel in the city, and re- 
 mained in its employ for 
 two years. At that time 
 his father, who had lo- 
 cated at Los Angeles in 
 1882, purchased the Nat- 
 ick House and took his 
 two sons, G. A. and D. H. 
 Hart, into partnership 
 with him, the three men 
 conducting the hotel, 
 which was headquarters 
 for the leading mining 
 and oil men of the coun- 
 try. For two years they 
 worked together and upon 
 the death of Mr. Hart, Sr., 
 in 1892, the brothers be- 
 came sole proprietors of the house and have 
 operated together from that time on, each 
 contributing the best of his talents and ef- 
 forts to make the success that has come to 
 them. 
 
 Mr. Hart was a close student of develop- 
 ment and watched the growth of Los An- 
 geles and the Southwest carefully, convinced 
 that that section of the United States was 
 destined to become a great center of trade 
 and population. Being of progressive build, 
 he and his brother were continually on the 
 outlook for opportunities, and on July 19, 
 1903, they purchased the Rosslyn Hotel, lo- 
 cated on South Main Street. They made an 
 addition by adding to it the Lexington Ho- 
 tel, conducting the two under the name of 
 the Rosslyn, by which name the hostelry 
 is known today. The management of 
 the Harts has placed it among the 
 principal hotels of Southern California. 
 
 GEORGE A. HART 
 
 With the growth of the city and the ad- 
 vance of real estate in Los Angeles, Mr. Hart 
 and his brother made many extensive pur- 
 chases for investment purposes, their hold- 
 ings including large tracts in and near the 
 city. In 1909, they became interested in ten 
 thousand acres of land in Tulare County, 
 California, and there built the town of Terra 
 Bella. After laying out the town, building 
 streets and making other 
 improvements, they erect- 
 ed a large hotel at a cost 
 of $25,000, thus providing 
 at the very birth of the 
 place a modern caravan- 
 sary. They participated 
 in the organization of the 
 First National Bank of 
 Terra Bella, with G. A. 
 Hart as president, and 
 constructed a modern 
 business block in that 
 place. 
 
 The year after they 
 opened the town of Terra 
 Bella, Mr. Hart and his 
 brother bought the town- 
 site of Richgrove, also in 
 Tulare County, and there, 
 as in the case of their for- 
 mer venture, soon had a 
 promising little city laid 
 out, with another hotel as 
 one of its features. 
 
 Mr. Hart bought realty 
 in Hollywood and vicin- 
 ity and at the time when 
 
 the Los Angeles beach resorts were but 
 dreams he purchased heavily in that region, 
 and today is the owner of considerable valu- 
 able Ocean Park real estate. When that re- 
 sort was thrown open to the public he had 
 charge of the realty operations and it is large- 
 ly due to his management that that city grew 
 from a barren stretch of sand to a modern 
 seaside resort. 
 
 Mr. Hart is also the owner of vast tracts 
 of farming property in both Tulare and 
 Kings County. He is the executive head of a 
 number of realty companies and organiza- 
 tions of Southern California. He is President 
 of the Lindsey Orchard and Vineyard Com- 
 pany ; President of the Terra Bella Develop- 
 ment Company, and holds a similar position 
 with the Richgrove Land Co. He belongs to 
 the Hotel Men's Association of Los Angeles, 
 is a Mason, Los Angeles Consistory Number 
 3, of the Scottish Rite, and a Shriner. 
 
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 EHYMER, L. E., Manager of 
 Musical and Dramatic Celeb- 
 rities, and of Temple Auditor- 
 ium, 'Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born near Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 November 5, 1862, near the homestead of the 
 poet, Miss Phoebe Cary. His father was 
 Aaron Behymer, his mother having been 
 Miss Charlotte Leach. One paternal ances- 
 tor was Jonathan Behy- 
 mer, first ferryman at 
 Harper's Ferry, an early 
 settler o f Claremont 
 County, Ohio, and a com- 
 panion of Daniel Boone; 
 on the maternal side Dr. 
 Edwin Leach, the cele- 
 brated physician and 
 scientist of Edinburg, 
 Scotland, is chronicled. 
 Mr. Behymer married 
 Miss Menette Sparks, 
 niece of Jared Sparks, 
 the historian, at High- 
 more, Dakota Territory, 
 January, 1886. The issue 
 of the marriage are, Gle- 
 narvon, Enid and Elsie 
 Behymer. 
 
 Mr. Behymer was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools, graduating at 
 Shelbyville high school in 
 111., May 30, 1881. He then 
 attended the Northwest 
 Normal School, Stanber- 
 ry, Mo., 1881-1882. 
 
 L. E. BEHYMER 
 
 the Maurice Grau Opera Company ; Madame 
 Sarah Bernhardt, the San Carlos Opera 
 Company; Madames Nordica, Schumann- 
 Heink and Gadski; Ben Greet; the Dam- 
 rosch Orchestra and the Russian Symphony 
 Orchestra. 
 
 It was through his influence that Madame 
 Adelina Patti was heard in Los Angeles, that 
 La Boheme received its first performance 
 there; that Madame Mel- 
 ba sang for the first time 
 there, her role of Mimi ; 
 that Fritzi Scheff made 
 her first bow there in this 
 country, and that Mad- 
 ame Modjeska entrusted 
 to his care a large portion 
 of her affairs. 
 
 He is the manager of 
 the Auditorium Theater, 
 representing the Sam S. 
 and Lee Shubert interests 
 in Los Angeles, 
 
 He is also manager of 
 Simpson Auditorium, rep- 
 resentative of the leading 
 vocalists and instrumen- 
 talists of the world during 
 their western tours ; he 
 also manages the Los An- 
 geles Symphony Orches- 
 tra, and the Woman's 
 Symphony Orchestra, and 
 has done so ever since the 
 formation of these organ- 
 izations. 
 
 Mr. Behymer has been 
 
 While a resident of Dakota, he was made 
 territorial commissioner from Hyde County, 
 serving 1884-85 and part of 1886. 
 
 Mr. Behymer went to Los Angeles, June 
 9, 1886, and entered the employ of Stoll and 
 Thayer, assuming charge of the book shelves. 
 He also did literary reviewing for the Herald. 
 He became connected in business ways with 
 Manager H. C. Wyatt, then of the Grand 
 Opera House, and with McClain and Leh- 
 man, managers, Hazard's Pavilion ; since 
 that time he has been identified with all dra- 
 matic, musical and literary movements of 
 the city. There has never been a fiesta, a 
 Shrine minstrel or a charity circus perform- 
 ance where Mr. Behymer has not assisted ; 
 his effective work during the late Aviation 
 Meet showed the managerial ability, which 
 secured for him in earlier years the manage- 
 ment of the western tours of such organiza- 
 tions as the Metropolitan Opera Company; 
 
 elected officer of the French Academy by the 
 Minister of Public Instruction and the Chief 
 of the Cabinet of Beaux-Arts, this occurring 
 on March 1, 1908, and six months later he re- 
 ceived the Decoration of The Palms at the 
 same hands. 
 
 As one of the first members of Lodge No. 
 99, B. P. O. E., Mr. Behymer has participated 
 in all of the work of that Order for the past 
 eighteen years. 
 
 He is an active member of Temple A. A. 
 O. N. M. S. Al Malaikah ; a 32d degree mem- 
 ber of the L. A. Consistory No. 3, Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Rite of Free-Masonry; a 
 member of King Solomon Lodge of Perfec- 
 tion No. 3; the Robert Bruce Chapter, Rose 
 Croix No. 3 of 'Los Angeles; Hollenbeck 
 Lodge No. 319, F. and A. M., and East Gate 
 Lodge, No. 103, R. A. M. He is vice president 
 of the Gamut Club and president of the 
 Progress Club. 
 
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 AMILTON, DR. FELIX LOUIS AB- 
 NER, President, Baltimore Oil 
 Company, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Stone County, Ar- 
 kansas, April 28, 1861, his father 
 being Abner Hamilton and his 
 mother Mary Ann (Pitman) Hamilton. He has been 
 twice married, his first wife having been Sallie 
 Robinson, whom he married at Bellefonte, Arkan- 
 sas, January 17, 1885. Of this union there were 
 born to him two sons, James Austin Gervis and 
 Herman Bryan Hamilton. His second marriage oc- 
 curred at Odessa, Texas, December 20, 1906, his 
 bride being Miss- Cynthia Hogg. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton, who has been identified with de- 
 velopment work in the West for many years, is es- 
 sentially a self-made man. He received no educa- 
 tional opportunities until he was nearly twenty 
 years of age and when he did finally enter school 
 he received his teaching in several different institu- 
 tions. He first became a student at the union coun- 
 try school, located in Boone County, Arkansas, and 
 remained there for about three months. He fol- 
 lowed this with three months' attendance at the 
 Bellefonte Academy, also located in Boone County, 
 and then entered the Riley Hill Academy, where he 
 remained for seven months, thu& having only thir- 
 teen months' of schooling altogether. 
 
 After finishing at Riley Hill Academy, in 1884, 
 Dr. Hamilton continued his studies and also began 
 teaching in a small country school. The same year 
 he took up the study of medicine under Dr. Leoni- 
 das Kirbey, at Harrison, Arkansas, and read with 
 him until he entered the Missouri Medical College, 
 at St. Louis, Missouri, in September, 1886. In the 
 meantime he had been continuously engaged as a 
 country schoolmaster, earning enough to pay for 
 his course at college. He was graduated from Mis- 
 souri Medical College in the class of 1888, with the 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton had prepared himself so thor- 
 oughly for his profession that upon his return to 
 Arkansas and entrance into the ranks of the physi- 
 cians of that State, he was appointed (April 1, 
 1888), to a place on the Arkansas State Board of 
 Medical Examiners, which examined and licensed 
 candidates for the profession. His preceptor, Dr. 
 Leonidas Kirbey, was a member of the board also, 
 and it was upon his recommendation that Dr. Ham- 
 ilton received his appointment. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton served on the State Board and 
 was actively engaged in the practice of medicine 
 and surgery at Bellefonte, Arkansas-, from the time 
 of his admission until January, 1890, when he re- 
 signed his post and moved to Erin Springs, in what 
 was then the Indian Territory. He practiced there 
 with gratifying success for about three years, and 
 then located at Pryor Creek, in the Indian Terri- 
 tory, where he remained from January of the year 
 1893 to November of the same year. 
 
 About this time Dr. Hamilton, with five years of 
 
 actual experience to his credit, decided to devote a 
 year to special study, so relinquished his practice 
 and went to New York City, where he became a 
 student in the New York Polyclinic Hospital Insti- 
 tute. Returning to the Indian Territory in 1894, Dr. 
 Hamilton located in the town of Waggoner and re- 
 sumed practice. He remained there for approxi- 
 mately three years and in 1897, transferred his 
 offices to Visalia, in Tulare County, California. He 
 remained there for more than a year, but during 
 the period between November, 1898, and the end of 
 the year 1902 he was engaged in professional work 
 in several different localities. From Visalia he 
 went to Flagstaff, Arizona, but after practicing 
 there for a few months, returned to Waggoner, In- 
 dian Territory. Leaving there in October, 1900, he 
 went to Silver City, New Mexico, and practiced for 
 three months, going thence to Safford, Arizona. In 
 the fall of 1901, he again returned to Waggoner and 
 practiced there until the close of the year 1902. 
 
 Realizing the opportunity for development in all 
 parts of the West and Southwest, Dr. Hamilton, in 
 January, 1903, gave up medical practice temporarily 
 to engage in the land business and his- success more 
 than justified the change. His first important en- 
 terprise was the opening and colonization of a tract, 
 several thousand acres in extent, in the Creek Na- 
 tion of the Indian Territory. He divided the land 
 into plantations and then placed upon it more 
 than a hundred families, all of whom were engaged 
 in cotton raising. Dr. Hamilton introduced modern 
 methods- of cotton culture among the people and the 
 enterprise, one of the most extensive agricultural 
 ventures the Indian Territory had ever known, re- 
 sulted in a large addition to its productiveness 
 and general wealth. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton was engaged in farm land develop- 
 ment until 1906 and then spent a year at El Paso, 
 Texas. In January, 1907, he settled at Texico, New 
 Mexico, and resumed his medical practice. He was 
 not content there, however, and in November of the 
 same year, established practice at El Centro, Cali- 
 fornia, where he stayed for more than twelve 
 months. He next went to Las Cruces, New Mexico, 
 remaining in practice there until July, 1909, when 
 he moved to Los Angeles. He has been there ever 
 since, engaged in active business. 
 
 At the time when he arrived in the Southern Cali- 
 fornia metropolis the oil business was claiming the 
 attention of investors in that section of the country 
 and Dr. Hamilton, who had made a success of his 
 other business ventures, determined to enter into 
 that field of development. Accordingly, he organ- 
 ized the Hamilton Oil & Gas Company, which he 
 operated for about a year, selling out his interest 
 in the concern in June, 1910. Before a month had 
 passed, Dr. Hamilton formed a new corporation, 
 known as the Baltimore Oil Company, and as Presi- 
 dent of this company, has had active charge of its- 
 affairs since its organization. 
 
 Member, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 RIFFITH, GEORGE PER- 
 RY, Contractor, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 the historic town of Erie, 
 Pennsylvania, May 8, 1868. 
 He is the son of George P. Griffith and Ella 
 (Richards) Griffith. He married Mary 
 Matthews in 1893 at Scranton, Pennsylvania. 
 There are two sons, Richard Matthews and 
 George Perry Griffith. 
 
 He derived his educa- 
 tion in the 
 
 common 
 
 schools of Erie, Pennsyl- 
 vania, where he spent the 
 early part of his life. 
 
 Mr. Griffith began his 
 career as clerk in the Ma- 
 rine National Bank of 
 Erie, Pennsylvania, at 
 the age of 15 years, and 
 for two years following 
 he continued his work in 
 the financial house. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Griffith 
 gave up his position in 
 the bank to embark in an- 
 other line of endeavor. 
 At that time asphalt was 
 just coming into general 
 recognition as a superior 
 paving material, and the 
 business offered to the 
 young men of that day 
 as much promise of for- 
 tune as do some of the 
 new things of today. The 
 Barber Asphalt Company 
 being the pioneer and largest asphalt con- 
 cern in the United States, Mr. Griffith ob- 
 tained employment with them in New York 
 
 That was the beginning of his career as 
 an asphalt man, and for fifteen years he re- 
 mained with the original company. He 
 started in a minor position, but by the time 
 he left the company he was nationally rated 
 as an expert on asphalt matters and was New 
 York manager for the Barber corporation. 
 The period during which Mr. Griffith was 
 connected with the company was one in 
 which asphalt made its greatest progress as 
 an industrial element. He severed his con- 
 nection with the Barber Company in 1901. 
 
 At that time Mr. Griffith looked to the 
 broad Western country for a new field. He 
 left New York and settled in San Francisco, 
 where he became associated with the Alcatraz 
 Company, a concern of which he was made 
 president and general manager. While in 
 
 GEO. P. GRIFFITH 
 
 charge of the affairs of this concern he han- 
 dled numerous large contracts, but at the end 
 of two years he yielded to inducements of- 
 fered him by the General Asphalt Company 
 of Philadelphia, and he went there to become 
 one of the directing heads of it. 
 
 This was the year 1903, and he spent the 
 next twelve months in active operation of 
 the company's business. His work in Phila- 
 delphia added considera- 
 bly to Mr. Griffith's busi- 
 ness reputation, and 
 when at the end of a year 
 he resigned to accept an- 
 other position his serv- 
 ices were sought by vari- 
 ous large asphalt con- 
 cerns of the country. 
 
 His two years in San 
 Francisco, however, had 
 put the love of the West 
 in his blood, and when he 
 received an offer from 
 Seattle, Washington, he 
 again renounced the East 
 and headed for the big 
 city of the North Pacific 
 Coast. He bought an in- 
 terest in the Independent 
 Asphalt Paving Compa- 
 ny and was elected presi- 
 dent of that corporation. 
 He also took the position 
 of general manager of it. 
 An attractive offer 
 from 'Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, caused him to re- 
 sign his Seattle office for the vice presidency 
 of the Fairchild, Gilmore, Wilton Company 
 of Los Angeles, where he settled permanent- 
 ly at that time. 
 
 Mr. Griffith is a man of good reputation 
 in his line of work, being recognized as an 
 authority in every branch of asphalt work. 
 At the present time, in addition to his con- 
 nection with the Fairchild, Gilmore, Wil- 
 ton Company, he is president of the Hercules 
 Oil Refining Company, and is vice president 
 of the Reinforced Concrete Pipe Company, 
 both of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of several professional 
 organizations of the Pacific Coast, and has 
 been for many years a member of the 
 Engineers' Club of New York and of the 
 Scranton Engineers' Club of Scranton, Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 ELLISSIER, FRANK FIEDLE, Vice 
 President, Los Angeles Creamery 
 Company, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Faix, Hautes-Alpes, 
 France, November 12, 1873, the 
 son of Francois Pellissier and Jus- 
 tine (Gamier) Pellissier. He married Marie Valla 
 at Whittier, California, December 8, 1895, and to 
 them there have been born three children, Frank 
 L., Leon A., and Lawrence Raymond Pellissier. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier is a member 
 of one of the old families 
 of the south of France and 
 he received careful training 
 in the schools of his native 
 country before coming to the 
 United States. Graduating 
 from Aucelle School in 1888, 
 Mr. Pellissier sailed shortly 
 afterwards for America, go- 
 ing directly to Los Angeles-, 
 where his uncle, Germain 
 Pellissier, was engaged in 
 business. He first went to 
 work for his uncle, then, with 
 that enterprise which has 
 been so characteristic of his 
 success, leased 160 acres of 
 land in what is now the 
 fashionable Wilshire district 
 of Los Angeles, and engaged 
 in the dairying business. This 
 was within a few weeks after 
 his arrival in Los Angeles 
 and when he was but a boy. 
 However, he was full of busi- 
 ness and had his eyes open 
 for the main opportunity. He 
 had a vision of the future 
 Los- Angeles and felt that if 
 he could once get in the lead 
 in his chosen field he would 
 manage to keep there and 
 that one point has been his 
 inspiring guide ever since. 
 
 At the end of his first two months in Los An- 
 geles he determined to take the lead, so formed a 
 partnership with his two cousins and engaged in 
 the milk business on a larger scale. At that time 
 Los Angeles was only a small city and Mr. Pellis- 
 sier's firm supplied a large part of the milk u&ed by 
 the residents. As the city grew, however, he en- 
 larged his facilities and in 1894 it had grown from a 
 small beginning to a large and substantial estab- 
 lishment. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier took over the entire business in 
 1894 and conducted it until the latter part of 1895, 
 when he sold out his interest, in order to live a 
 semi-retired life, and engaged in farming on the his- 
 toric Rancho Paso de Bartolo, the former home 
 ranch of Don Pio Pico, the last Governor of Cali- 
 fornia under Mexican rule. This famous property 
 Mr. Pellissier purchased in 1897. 
 
 Mr. Pellis&ier was engaged in farming on these 
 lands for several years following, but in 1902 en- 
 gaged in the milk business in Los Angeles on a 
 wholesale scale, turned his ranch into a large dairy 
 farm and there retained his residence. 
 
 For the next three years Mr. Pellissier con- 
 ducted his business with great success and in 1905 
 turned it into the Alpine Farm & Dairy Company, 
 of which he was elected Secretary. This company 
 
 F. F. PELLISSIER 
 
 conducted business- for about a year and at the end 
 of that time Mr. Pellissier, with several others, or- 
 ganized the Los Angeles Creamery Company, which 
 immediately became the principal factor in the 
 dairy business of Southern California. Mr. Pellis- 
 iser was actively interested in the organization of 
 the new company and has served as Vice President 
 since its formation. 
 
 The Los Angeles Creamery Company was organ- 
 ized in 1907 for the purpose of economizing in the 
 handling of the milk supply 
 and for the centralizing of 
 pasteurization ; and during 
 the few years of its existence 
 it has become one of the 
 most important enterprises 
 in Southern California. In 
 addition to a main plant, 
 modern in all details, the 
 company has two butter fac- 
 tories and various branch 
 plants in and near Los An- 
 geles. The milk is brought 
 into the city from the farms 
 and dairies of the company 
 and is then put through an 
 elaborate process of pasteur- 
 ization at the main plant. 
 The company supplies Los 
 Angeles and nearby towns 
 with approximately 15,000 
 gallons of milk daily and op- 
 erates 100 delivery wagons. 
 Its business runs into mil- 
 lions of dollars annually. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier has been an 
 important factor in the direc- 
 tion of the company's affairs 
 and in addition he has be- 
 come the second largest in- 
 dividual milk producer in the 
 State of California, a consid- 
 erable achievement in itself. 
 He is thoroughly interested 
 in his business, and is gener- 
 ally credited with having been responsible for vari- 
 ous important improvements in the handling of 
 milk and also for raising the standard to a point 
 where all milk handled by his company averages 
 4.25 pounds in butter fat, this being considerably 
 in excess of the legal requirements established by 
 the city of Los Angeles. He is credited with having 
 done more than any other one man in improving 
 the general conditions surrounding the milk busi- 
 ness for both the consumer and the producer. 
 
 Outside of his immediate business, Mr. Pellissier 
 is interested in a number of other important busi- 
 ness enterprises, chief among them being the Citrus 
 Grove Heights Company, of which he is President. 
 This company is engaged in subdividing about 800 
 acres of the finest citrus fruit land in Southern Cali- 
 fornia, this land being part of his famous Rancho 
 Paso de Bartolo. 
 
 Mr. Pellissier is ranked among the substantial 
 business men of Southern California and has been 
 a hard worker for its building for many years, and 
 all of his own investments have been in substan- 
 tial improvements. 
 
 He is a member of the Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks and was a charter member of 
 the Legion Francaise, a French society in which he 
 still takes an active interest. 
 
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 DROMGOLD, REU- 
 BEN WISOR, Real Es- 
 state, Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born in 
 Loysville, Perry County, 
 Pennsylvania, March 1, 
 1855. He is the son of 
 Manasseh Dromgold 
 and Sarah (Loy) Drom- 
 gold. He married Nellie 
 M. Squire at Los An- 
 geles, January 1, 1890. 
 They have one son, 
 George C. Dromgold. 
 
 He was educated in 
 the schools of his na- 
 tive county. He became 
 a school teacher. Later 
 he learned the trade of 
 sign painter and deco- 
 rator. In 1880 he went to Missouri, stayed two 
 years, went to Colorado for one year, and in 1883 
 he moved to Los Angeles, where he took up paint- 
 ing and contracting, the paint and oil business and 
 real estate. He branched out into the sign business 
 in the year 1890 and soon built up one of the largest 
 establishments in the West. 
 
 He was nominated and elected to the City Coun- 
 cil of Los Angeles, serving from 1907 to 1910. He 
 fathered the plan for the monumental bridge and 
 viaduct on North Broadway and backed all public 
 improvements. 
 
 In the year 1910 he took up the real estate busi- 
 ness again. 
 
 He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic 
 Shriner, Elk, member Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, and Los Angeles Pioneer Society. 
 
 MANNING, CHAS. 
 DEWEY, ranch owner 
 and County Supervisor, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Bowmanville, 
 Ont, Canada, October 
 24, 1847, the son of C. 
 L. R. Manning and 
 Jane (Baker) Manning. 
 He married May E. 
 Kinne, September 4, 
 1871. They have three 
 children, Olive, C. C., 
 and Leo Roy Manning. 
 
 In his boyhood Mr. 
 Manning's family re- 
 moved to Illinois, and 
 he received his educa- 
 tion in the public 
 schools of Rockton. He 
 
 enlisted in the Civil War at Rockton, becoming a 
 private in Company I, Ninth Illinois Cav- 
 alry, January 4, 1864. He was promoted to 
 the rank of sergeant, which he held when mus- 
 tered out, October 31, 1865. He returned to Rock- 
 ton, and, in 1868, went into the harness and sad- 
 dlery business with his father. In 1882 he emi- 
 grated to Rock Rapids, Iowa, where he resumed 
 business. He became a prominent figure in the 
 affairs of the town, serving as treasurer of Lyons 
 county, Iowa, from 1889 to 1893. Shortly after 
 the conclusion of his term he sold his interests 
 and moved to California, where he has lived since. 
 He has bought ranch properties in California, and 
 has entered politics. He was elected Supervisor 
 and has served since 1907. Member City Club and 
 Union League, Los Angeles. 
 
 KLEINBER- 
 GER, VICTOR G., Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in 
 Louisville, Kentucky, 
 August 22, 1881, the 
 son of William Klein- 
 berger and Henrietta 
 (Helprin) Kleinberger. 
 He married Gladys 
 Erskine at Los An- 
 geles, in 1903, and to 
 them there have been 
 born two children, Ers- 
 kine H. and Dorothy 
 Kleinberger. 
 
 Mr. Kleinberger re- 
 ceived his education in 
 schools of Lakewood, 
 N. J., then went to Los 
 
 Angeles. He was in various lines of business 
 and about eight years ago organized the Victor G. 
 Kleinberger Company, realty operators. His spe- 
 cialty is subdivisions and he has improved and 
 opened fifteen large tracts, and sold close to 2000 
 city lots, some of which are exclusive residence 
 districts. He is considered one of the most suc- 
 cessful of the younger real estate operators of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Kleinberger is fond of travel and is also an 
 enthusiastic golfer, motorist and fisherman. He is 
 a director of the Annandale Country Club and is a 
 member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los 
 Angeles Realty Board and the Los Angeles Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, also member Legislation Com- 
 mittee of the State Realty Federation and Southern 
 California Auto Club. 
 
 CHANDLER, JEF- 
 FERSON PAUL, Attor- 
 ney, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at St. 
 Joseph, Missouri, Janu- 
 ary 6, 1873, the son of 
 Jefferson Chandler and 
 Catherine (O'Toole) 
 Chandler. He married 
 Elizabeth Shankland, 
 June 1, 1904, at Los An- 
 geles, California. 
 
 He attended the 
 public schools at Wash- 
 ington, D. C., then took 
 a preparatory course at 
 Georgetown University, 
 Washington, going 
 thence to Princeton 
 University, New Jer- 
 sey, where he graduated in 1893. He studied law 
 at Columbian Law College in Washington. He was 
 admitted to practice in the courts of California the 
 year 1895. He practiced law alone until he went 
 into partnership with J. H. Shankland in 1904, the 
 firm of Shankland and Chandler continuing to date. 
 He is considered a conscientious and able attorney, 
 who masters every case with unusual completeness. 
 His knowledge of the law has become wide. He 
 has fought cases before every court in the State. 
 He represents many important corporations and his 
 firm does a large business outside the State. 
 He is a Democrat and takes an active interest in 
 politics, but never sought or held public office. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Country 
 Club, California Club and Princeton Club of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
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 PORTER, FRANK 
 MONROE, Attorney, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was- 
 born in Waushara 
 County, Wis., Aug. 15, 
 1857, the son of Clinton 
 Hiram Porter and Mary 
 (Monroe) Porter. He 
 married Suella Bill- 
 meyer, Aug. 10, 1893, 
 and they have one 
 child, Margaret Porter. 
 Mr. Porter spent his 
 boyhood at Randolph, 
 Wis., and moved from 
 there to Madison, Wis., 
 in 1875. He was gradu- 
 ated from the Univers- 
 ity of Wisconsin in 1881 
 with the degree of A. B., 
 and from the Law Dept. in 1883. He obtained the 
 degree of LL. M. from the Univ. of Sou. Cal. in 1908. 
 He moved to California in 1887, opened a law 
 office and has been practicing there since. In 1904, 
 with Judge Gavin W. Craig and others, he reorgan- 
 ized the Los Angeles Law School, which became a 
 part of the Univ. of Sou. Cal. He has been Dean of 
 the School since that time and also is in active 
 management of the College of Law. This college 
 now has enrollment of over 500 and is one of the 
 largest law schools of the United States-. In 1910, 
 Mr. Porter formed the firm of Porter, Morgan & 
 Parrot, with Vincent Morgan and Kent K. Parrot. 
 
 He is a member of the University, City and Met- 
 ropolitan Clubs, of Los Angeles; Sunset Gun Club 
 and the Casa La Roca Country Club. He also at- 
 tends the University Methodist Episcopal Club. 
 
 HALL, GILES 
 STARK, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born at Ionia, 
 Mich., Mar. 3, 1869, the 
 son of Henry Gilbert 
 Hall and Jane (Cong- 
 don) Hall. He married 
 Louise Sinclair Hobbie 
 at Battle Creek, Mich., 
 June 18, 1901. They 
 have two children, 
 Giles Stark, Jr., and 
 Virginia Stephens Hall. 
 Dr. Hall attended 
 the public schools of 
 his town, Maryland Mil- 
 i t a r y Academy and 
 Rush Medical College, 
 Chicago, graduating 
 from the latter in 1897, with the degree of M. D. 
 The first year after his graduation Dr. Hall 
 spent in the County Hospital at Tombstone, Ariz., 
 where he had care of men of the mining camp, 
 and, upon leaving there, went to Nacozari, Sonora, 
 Mexico, as Chief Surgeon for the Moctezuma Copper 
 Company. He remained there about five years and 
 in 1904 moved to Los Angeles and permanently 
 located. 
 
 He was appointed Assistant Surgeon for the Pa- 
 cific Electric Railroad Co. shortly after his arrival 
 in Los Angeles and served until Aug., 1910, when he 
 was- appointed Division Surgeon for the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles County Med- 
 ical Association, American Medical Association, 
 and of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles. 
 
 STOOKEY, DR. LY- 
 M A N BRUMBAUGH, 
 Professor of Physiol- 
 ogy, Univ. of Sou. Cal., 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Belleville, 111., 
 July 30, 1878, the son of 
 Dr. Lyman Polk Stook- 
 ey and Louise (Brum- 
 baugh) Stookey. Mar- 
 ried Margaret Powell, 
 granddaughter of Gen. 
 W. H. Powell, U. S. A., 
 at Belleville, Dec. 31, 
 1903. He received his 
 early education in pub- 
 lic schools of Belle- 
 ville and was graduated 
 from Yale in 1902 with 
 A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. 
 Held graduate scholarships in Physiology two years. 
 Research Physiologist, N. Y. State Pathological 
 Laboratory, 1902-04. Graduate student, Med. Dept., 
 Univ. of Strassburg (Germany), 1904-06. 
 
 In 1906 he was given the Chair of Physiology in 
 the Univ. of Sou. Cal., serving to date. Same year 
 elected Fellow of the Amer. Assn. for Advancement 
 of Science and appointed American Editor of the 
 International Year Book of Chemical Physiology 
 and Pathology. Author of over 40 researches in 
 physiology and medicine, published in American 
 and foreign medical journals and referred to in text- 
 books. Pathologist of Western States Life Ins. Co. 
 
 Member of following National societies: Amer. 
 Physiology Soc., Amer. Soc. of Biological Chemists, 
 Amer. Soc. of Experimental Medicine, Amer. Med. 
 Assn., and University Club, Los Angeles. 
 
 O'CONNOR, JOHN 
 
 HENRY, Attorney at 
 Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at 
 Downey, California, 
 February 13, 1883, the 
 son of Patrick O'Con- 
 nor and Jane (Henry) 
 O'Connor. 
 
 Mr. O'Connor at- 
 tended the public 
 schools of his native 
 city, following this 
 with a course at St. 
 Vincent's College, from 
 which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1904 with the 
 degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. He entered the 
 Law Department of tne 
 University of Southern California and received the 
 degree of LL.B. in 1909. During the last year of 
 his attendance at the University, Mr. O'Connor 
 also studied law in the office of Henry C. Dillon. 
 
 Mr. O'Connor was admitted to practice January 
 19, 1909, and in August of the same year formed 
 his partnership with H. L. Lewis of Los Angeles. 
 
 Prior to taking up the study of law Mr. O'Con- 
 nor was a member of the faculty of St. Vincent's 
 College, being instructor in the academic depart- 
 ment of the institution. 
 
 Since entering the professional ranks Mr. 
 O'Connor has met with gratifying success and is 
 one of the leading young attorneys of Southern 
 California. 
 
 Mr. O'Connor is a member of the Phi Delta Phi, 
 legal fraternity. 
 
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 'KINNIE, JAMES RENWICK, Real- 
 ty and Investments, Los Angeles, 
 California, and Colorado Springs, 
 Colo., was born in Harrison Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, October 8, 1846. He is 
 the son of E. K. McKinnie and 
 Ruhamah (Drummond) McKinnie. He married 
 Anna McCarty, September 20, 1904, at St. Louis, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Mr. McKinnie received his education in the 
 schools of his native State, graduating from high 
 school in 1861. He became a teacher in country 
 schools and continued as such until 1863, when he 
 took up arms for the Union. He served in the 
 army from 1863 to the conclusion of the Civil War 
 in 1865, and during those two years participated in 
 numerous engagements. 
 
 Returning from the battle fields, Mr. McKinnie 
 again became a teacher. He trained the youth of 
 his native State for five years, then deserted the 
 prosaic life of a schoolroom for the more exciting 
 one of a gold hunter. 
 
 Mr. McKinnie, who is a representative man of 
 the West, was among the pioneers in the Colorado 
 silver and gold fields. He arrivel in that State in 
 1870 and immediately went in for gold and silver 
 mining in the San Juan country. He was fairly 
 successful there, but did not confine his operations 
 to that district. He prospected in all parts of Col- 
 orado, and after nine years had accumulated a 
 considerable fortune. In 1879 he located at Colo- 
 rado Springs, from where he conducted his mining 
 business. 
 
 Even in those days tne gold excitement was 
 strong in Colorado, and Mr. McKinnie, with his 
 mining experience, soon became one of the lead- 
 ing men of that section. In 1883 he reorganized 
 the Exchange National Bank of Colorado Springs 
 and was elected its president. He served as presi- 
 dent of tne bank for ten years, and then, his otner 
 interests demanding more of his time, he resigned, 
 being unable to devote as much attention to the 
 business as he thought he should. He was made 
 vice president of the bank, however, and still holds 
 that office. 
 
 About the time that Mr. McKinnie became in- 
 terested in banking he also became an active fac- 
 tor in the real estate business of Colorado Springs 
 and acquired large tracts of land in and around the 
 city, and today has valuable and extensive holdings. 
 Mr. McKinnie has undertaken some very large 
 development projects, and to him is due many of 
 the marvelous feats of irrigation and reclamation 
 in the United States. 
 
 For instance, in 1905 he, with R. P. Davie, be- 
 gan the reclamation of the submerged lands of the 
 Florida Everglades. It was a gigantic undertaking 
 and necessitated not only daring, but great engi- 
 neering ability. This work was really the greatest 
 piece of development that has taken place in the 
 State of Florida and is one that will always be re- 
 garded as a monument to the progressiveness of 
 Springs and the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs. 
 
 the men who were concerned in it. With Gov- 
 ernor Broward as the patron of the work, Mr. 
 McKinnie and Mr. Davie purchased 110,000 acres 
 of swamp land for reclamation purposes, and 
 they then set to work to drain it by means 
 of modern canals. That work is not yet 
 complete, but its successful outcome is assured, for 
 already more than 25,00 acres have been drained 
 and put in cultivation by the Everglades Sugar and 
 Land Company, which was organized by Mr. Mc- 
 Kinnie in 1906 and is today one of the most im- 
 portant corporations in Florida. 
 
 After this work had been successfully started, 
 Mr. McKinnie and his partner, in 1907, organized 
 the Southwestern Sugar and Land Company and 
 purchased a large tract of land located in the Salt 
 River Valley, Arizona. This land was an arid 
 waste at that time and regarded as unfit for any 
 purpose. Under the hands of these masterful de- 
 velopers, however, the land has been thoroughly 
 irrigated, and where once there was naught but 
 desert there are today widespreading fields of 
 wheat, sugar beets and alfalfa, all of which are pro- 
 duced in great quantities, the crops each year 
 growing larger. 
 
 This work, in its way, was quite as monumental 
 a task as that in Florida, and its accomplishment 
 placed Mr. McKinnie in the forefront of Western 
 developers. He was the pioneer in beet-sugar 
 growing in Colorado and Kansas and built the first 
 beet-sugar factories in those States. 
 
 Mr. McKinnie also has heavy land interests in 
 Soutnern California, and in order to be near them 
 built a home in Los Angeles three years ago. He 
 now spends part of his time there each year, man- 
 aging his properties in that section of the country. 
 He maintains headquarters in Colorado Springs, 
 however, and there transacts most of his business. 
 
 In addition to his land projects, Mr. McKinnie 
 has also gone in for oil, and in it, like everything 
 else he has taken hold of, has scored a success. 
 His oil holdings are in the California fields and his 
 wells are among the best in that State. He oper- 
 ates under the name of the Palmer Annex Oil Com- 
 pany, of which he is secretary and treasurer. 
 
 His principal interests and his positions in each 
 are as follows: Southwestern Sugar and Land 
 Company, president; Everglades Sugar and Land 
 Company, president; Sheridan (Wyoming) Land 
 and Irrigation Company, president; Western States 
 Securities Company, president; Grand Junction 
 Town and Development Company, president; West- 
 ern Sugar and Land Company, vice president; U. S. 
 Sugar and Land Company, director. 
 
 Mr. McKinnie, besides being prominent as one 
 of the big business men of the West, is a well- 
 known clubman and lodge member. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army of the Republic and takes 
 a leading part in the affairs of the veterans. He 
 is an Elk, and holds memberships in the following 
 clubs: Colorado Springs Country Club, Denver 
 Club of Denver, Pike's Peak Club of Colorado 
 
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 HITTINGTON, JOHN WIL- 
 LIAM, General Agent of the 
 Aetna Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in England, 
 July 21, 1867. His father was John Whit- 
 tington and his mother Lydia (Colbon) 
 Whittington. In 1895 he married Ida May 
 
 Belville in Los Angeles, 
 children, Wayne Colbon, 
 John Wentworth, Dor- 
 othy Winifred and Wil- 
 liam Edmund Whitting- 
 ton. 
 
 Mr. Whittington was 
 educated in the public 
 schools of England, but 
 took no higher studies at 
 that time. In 1900 he 
 took a special course at 
 the University of South- 
 ern California, in Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 As a young man, his 
 first business effort was 
 with the Midland Rail- 
 road, in England. His 
 first employment with 
 this system was as a 
 booking agent. The rail- 
 road business did not ap- 
 peal to him strongly as a 
 life profession, and in 
 1887 he became associated 
 
 There are four 
 
 JOHN W. WHITTINGTON 
 
 Newark, New Jersey. He remained with 
 this corporation for three years, at the end 
 of which time he became the Southern Cali- 
 fornia general agent for the Aetna Life In- 
 surance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. 
 Since 1903 he has been associated with 
 the Aetna Life Insurance Company. For two 
 years he was President of the Los Angeles 
 Life Underwriters' Association, and man- 
 aged and directed the 
 campaign which brought 
 to the city of Los An- 
 geles the National Asso- 
 ciation Convention, 
 which was held here in 
 1908. 
 
 During 1909 and 1910 
 he was President of the 
 National Life Under- 
 w r i t e r s' Association. 
 During these two years 
 he made a deep study of 
 life insurance as regulat- 
 ed throughout the coun- 
 try today. It was during 
 this period that he visited 
 practically all of the life 
 underwriters' associations 
 throughout this country, 
 as well as in Canada, in- 
 vestigating conditions of 
 the various association 
 branches. He spent over 
 
 with Dr. Ber- 
 nardo's Homes for Destitute Children, sit- 
 uated in London, England. At the same time 
 he was connected with the Wesleyan East 
 England Mission in London. Mr. Whitting- 
 ton was deeply interested in this work. 
 
 He resigned his position in England, and 
 in 1890 came to Los Angeles, where he has 
 been situated from that time up to the pres- 
 ent writing. On arriving here, he sought 
 and found employment with M. A. Newmark 
 & Company, with which firm he was con- 
 nected for ten years. 
 
 In 1900 he was given an opportunity and 
 entered the life insurance business, which he 
 has followed from that time on. 
 
 His first work along this line was with 
 the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company of 
 
 four months in traveling from city to city, 
 covering over 18,000 miles on the trip. 
 
 Mr. Whittington, who has made a deep 
 study of life insurance for the past eleven 
 years, is considered to be one of the best life 
 insurance authorities in the West, and he has 
 done much for the benefit and development 
 of the work since taking up his residence in 
 Los Angeles, where he is well known. 
 
 Aside from his business associations, he 
 is a prominent citizen of Los Angeles and is 
 a director of the S. P. C. A. He is a member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce and the Union 
 League Club of Los Angeles and of the 
 Sierra Club of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Whittington is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason and is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
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 747 
 
 OROSCO, OLIVER, Theatri- 
 cal Enterprises, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Logan, 
 Utah, in 1875 and as a child 
 went to San Francisco. At 
 the age of nine years he began work- 
 ing at nights in the box office of the 
 old Morosco Theater, on Howard street, 
 going to school in the daytime. At the age 
 of fourteen he became a 
 full-fledged t h e a t r i cai 
 manager, alternating be- 
 tween the management of 
 the first-class combina- 
 tion theater in San Jose, 
 the Auditorium, and act- 
 ing as treasurer, business 
 manager and press agent 
 of the old Grand Opera 
 House, San Francisco, 
 California. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Morosco 
 came to Los Angeles, 
 bringing his wife and son, 
 and took the Burbank 
 Theater, after thirteen 
 people had failed in it. 
 He inaugurated the first 
 high-class stock company 
 in Southern California, 
 and ever since has met 
 with consistent success. 
 He is now known all over 
 America as one of the 
 most successful theatri- 
 cal men of America. Af- 
 ter the success of the 
 Burbank was assured Mr. Morosco began 
 adding more theaters to his holdings, and 
 built the handsome Majestic Theater, which 
 is conducted as the first-class combination 
 house of the city. Afterwards he acquired 
 an interest with Frederick Belasco of San 
 Francisco, George Baker of Portland, Ore- 
 gon, and Harry W. Bishop of Oakland, Cali- 
 fornia, in stock theaters throughout the 
 Northwest, numbering six in all. 
 
 During Mr. Morosco's brief career, for he 
 is still a young man, he has not only man- 
 aged theaters, but has written plays which 
 have had long and successful runs, and re- 
 cently he entered the Eastern field as a pro- 
 ducer, but he religiously sticks to Los An- 
 geles as his home. It is due to Oliver Mo- 
 rosco that stock company work has reached 
 such a high plane of excellence. He pro- 
 duces the best class of high royalty plays, 
 and his company is the highest salaried or- 
 
 OLIVER MOROSCO 
 
 ganization of its kind in the world. In addi- 
 tion to maintaining this expensive company, 
 Mr. Morosco has instituted the custom of 
 bringing stars to the Burbank for special en- 
 gagements. Among these are Richard Ben- 
 nett, formerly leading man for Maude Adams 
 and now one of the Liebler and Company 
 stars; Edgar Selwyn, the successful author- 
 actor, and Margaret Illington. 
 
 A unique feature of 
 Mr. Morosco's career as 
 a producing manager is 
 that he has never met 
 with failure, every new 
 play that has received its 
 premiere at the Burbank 
 having been enthusiasti- 
 cally received. Every 
 new play he produces 
 must first be gone over 
 thoroughly by himself, 
 and at times he changes 
 manuscripts for authors 
 or makes suggestions for 
 improvements. His far- 
 sightedness in these mat- 
 ters is proved by the 
 success of Burbank first 
 productions, which al- 
 ways have enjoyed runs. 
 Mr. Morosco, aside 
 from controlling the play 
 market of America for 
 the West, also has the 
 franchise for the high- 
 class traveling attrac- 
 tions for his home city, 
 Los Angeles, and also the franchise for the 
 medium priced traveling attractions, the for- 
 mer going to his Majestic Theater and the 
 latter to the Lyceum, which was remod- 
 eled this summer (1911) from the former 
 Orpheum. 
 
 In the spring of 1911 the Morosco-Black- 
 wood Company was formed, in which are 
 consolidated all of Mr. Morosco's Los An- 
 geles theatrical interests mentioned, and 
 also the Belasco Theater interests, which in- 
 clude the present Belasco Theater and a mag- 
 nificent new theater to be completed in 1912 
 on Broadway, near Eighth street. Mr. 
 Morosco is president of the Morosco-Black- 
 wood Company and has absolute control of 
 the productions on each stage controlled by 
 the organization. 
 
 Apparently the only field which this in- 
 defatigable manager has not entered is 
 vaudeville. 
 
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 ROY B. KING 
 
 ING, ROY BROOKS, Real Estate, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Bristol, Tenn., Feb. 23, 1873, 
 the son of Joseph Lynn King and 
 Ademlia (Brooks) King. He mar- 
 ried Cora Mae Hurley at Bristol, 
 Tennessee, on August 12, 1901. 
 
 Mr. King received a common school education 
 at Bristol and followed this with a year's course 
 at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Business College. He 
 then returned to Bristol and entered King College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1892. 
 
 Upon completing his studies, Mr. King went to 
 Paterson, N. J., and entered the electric car shops 
 there with the intention of mastering the electric 
 railway business. At the end of two years he 
 was made Auditor of the Paterson Street Railway 
 Company, remaining with them about five years. 
 
 In 1899 he resigned and went to New York, 
 where he was connected with the Auditor's office 
 of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company for 
 about two years. Leaving there in 1901 he went 
 to Pittsburg, Pa., and was made Assistant Super- 
 intendent of Electrical Construction for the Pitts- 
 burg, McKeesport & Connsville Railway Company. 
 He resigned this place at the end of two years 
 and in 1903 moved to Los Angeles. 
 
 For a year after arriving in Los Angeles, Mr. 
 King was connected with the Electrical Construc- 
 tion Dept. of the Pacific Electric Railway Com- 
 pany, but gave this up to enter the real estate 
 field. He was manager of the House and Lot Dept. 
 of Mines & Farish until they dissolved partnership 
 in the early part of 1912, at which time he organ- 
 ized a firm of his own with Myron H. Wells. Un- 
 der the name of King & Wells, with W. W. Mines 
 & Co., they are engaged in the realty business. 
 
 He is member, Los Angeles Realty Board and 
 the Chamber of Commerce; the California, Los- An- 
 geles Athletic and Los Angeles Country Clubs. 
 
 MYRON H. WELLS 
 
 ELLS, MYRON HURLBERT, Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Marion, Iowa, Mar. 27, 
 1881, the son of Wm. B. Wells 
 and Florence Hall (Smedley) 
 Wells. He married Carrie Mc- 
 Lain Day at Long Beach, Cal., May 17, 1907. He is 
 descended of men who have fought in all the Amer- 
 ican wars, notable members being Thomas Wells, 
 first Treasurer and fourth Governor of Connecticut 
 Colony; Gideon Wells, Sec. of the Navy under Lin- 
 coln, and John Wells, a noted N. Y. lawyer. 
 
 Mr. Wells was educated in public schools of 
 Marion, la., Coe College, Cedar Rapids, la., and 
 Cedar Rapids Business College. In 1895 he be- 
 came stenographer to the Mayor of Cedar Rapids 
 and official Court Reporter. In 1897 he became a 
 traveling salesman for a typewriter mfg. concern 
 and a year later was appointed Inspector of Small 
 Arms at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. Two 
 years later he entered the employ of the Chicago, 
 Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R., serving for one year. 
 In 1901 Mr. Wells went to California as a 
 traveling salesman, and going into old Mexico, be- 
 came interested in mining. Two years later he 
 went in for mine development in Inyo County, 
 Cal., and Arizona and also opened offices as a stock 
 broker in Los Angeles. In 1907 he entered real es- 
 tate at Long Beach, Cal. He was an organizer 
 and first Secretary, Long Beach Realty Board. 
 
 In 1910 he became associated in real estate 
 with the Wright & Callender Co., and later was 
 connected with Mines & Farish. In 1912 he became 
 a member of the firm of King & Wells, real estate, 
 operating with the W. W. Mines Co. 
 
 Mr. Wells is a member of the Long Beach 
 Realty Board and Chamber of Commerce, L. A. 
 Realty Board and Chamber of Commerce, Virginia 
 Country Club, Long Beach; L. A. Athletic Club 
 and B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 SEELEY W. MUDD 
 
 UDD, SEELEY WINTERSMITH, 
 Engineer of Mines, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in Kirkwood, Mo., 
 Aug. 16, 1861. Son of Henry 
 Thomas and Elizabeth S. (Hodgen) 
 Mudd. Married, Delia Mulock in 
 Colorado. Children, Harvey S. and Seeley G. Mudd. 
 Mr. Mudd received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of Kirkwood, Mo., attended High 
 School in St. Louis, and in 1883 was graduated from 
 Washington University with degree of Engineer of 
 Mines. Since graduation, has been actively en- 
 gaged in mining and is a leading member of his 
 profession. His first position was with the St. 
 Louis Smelting & Ref. Co., from 1883 to 1885 as 
 Assayer and Suptndt, copper dept. In 1885, he 
 went to Leadville, Colo. He remained there and in 
 Denver about 17 years. In 1887 he became Mgr. of 
 the Small Hopes Cons'l'd. Mining Co., and of the 
 Boreel Mining Co., and was in charge 25 years, or 
 until 1913, "when operations discontinued. He en- 
 gaged at the s-ame time in other mining ventures. 
 From May, 1899, to April, 1902, he was Mgr. Ibex 
 Mining Co. (Little Johnnies Mine), Leadville, and 
 from May, 1902, to June, 1904, Cons. Engr. in the 
 West, for New Jersey Zinc Co. In 1903 he moved to 
 Los Angeles, retaining interests in Colorado enter- 
 prises. He served the Guggenheim Exploration Co. 
 and Am. Smelting & Refining Co. as Cons. Engr. 
 from March, 1904, to Dec., 1905. From Dec., 1904 to 
 1909, he was Pre&. and Gen. Mgr. Queen Esther 
 Mining & Milling Co., in Calif. He organized, with 
 others, the Ray Consol. Copper Co. and the Gila 
 Copper Co., in 1907. A late interest was the Pa- 
 cific Mines Corporation. 
 
 Member, Am. Inst. M. Engineers; Mining & Me- 
 tallurgical Soc. of Am.; Inst. of Mining & Metal- 
 lurgy, England. Clubs, Rocky Mountain, N. Y.; Cal- 
 ifornia, L. A. Country, Annandale Country, and 
 Sierra Madre Clubs of Los Angeles. 
 
 DR. E. D. SEAMAN 
 
 EAMAN, EDGAR D., Physician 
 and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 10, 
 1855. He is descended of pre-Rev- 
 olutionary stock, the son of John 
 Seaman and Susan (Hopkins) Sea- 
 man. His- grandfather, who lived to be 96 years of 
 age, was a soldier in the Continental Army. Dr. 
 Seaman married Martha Alexander at Wilmington, 
 Cal. (Los Angeles), Nov. 7, 1888. There were born, 
 Mary Edna and Martha Elizabeth Seaman. 
 
 Dr. Seaman received his preliminary education 
 in the District School of Tompkins County, New 
 York, and the Ithaca Academy. He attended this 
 latter institution during the Fall months and taught 
 in a smaller school through the winters. He en- 
 tered the Medical Department of the University of 
 Michigan in 1880, but left after two terms and went 
 to the Medical Department of Columbia University, 
 New York City, graduating with the degree of Doc- 
 tor of Medicine in 1883. He followed this with a 
 short postgraduate course at the New York Post- 
 Graduate Medical College. 
 
 In 1884 Dr. Seaman began practice at Branch- 
 port, Yates County, New York, and also practiced 
 for a few months (Winter '86) at Rochester. Leav- 
 ing there, he returned to New York City, and took 
 a special course at the New York Post-Graduate 
 Medical School, studying and practicing under Dr. 
 Mittendorf. During the same year he also studied 
 at the Skin and Cancer Hospital of New York. 
 
 Because of ill health he left New York in No- 
 vember, 1886, and went to Wilmington, California, 
 where he began active practice. He remained 
 there 12 years, moving to Los Angeles in 1898. 
 
 Dr. Seaman is a member of the County Medical 
 Society of Los Angeles, the Yates County (N. Y.) 
 Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation. He is a Mason, member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows and the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 TIMSON, EZRA THOMAS, Lum- 
 berman, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born at Big Rapids, Mecosta 
 County, Michigan, August 18, 1861, 
 the son of Thomas D. Stimson and 
 Acacia J. (Spencer) Stimson. He 
 married Anna C. Waters at Muskegon, Michigan, 
 April 13, 1886. He is descended of a family long 
 prominent in the commercial progress of the coun- 
 try, his father having been a pioneer lumberman 
 and the founder of a gigantic business which he 
 and his brothers are now conducting. 
 
 Mr. Stimson's father was of Welsh descent, pos- 
 sessed of the ruggedness for which Welshmen are 
 noted. For many years prior to moving to the far 
 West he had been one of the leading lumbermen of 
 Michigan and was the head of an extensive business. 
 He had large timber holdings in northern Michigan, 
 with mills at Muskegon, and accumulated a large 
 fortune before he retired from business and trans- 
 ferred his residence to Los Angeles, where at first 
 he sought only rest and recreation. He did not re- 
 main inactive long, but planned and built the Stim- 
 son Building, at that time one of the finest build- 
 ings of the West and still one of the imposing 
 structures of Los Angeles. He died in 1898, but the 
 lumber business founded by him is still carried on 
 by his sons, B. T., Charles D. and F. S. Stimson. 
 E. T. Stimson received his early education in 
 the public schools of Big Rapids, Michigan, and 
 later attended Fairbault Military Academy, in Min- 
 nesota, leaving the latter institution in 1883 to go 
 into the lumber business with his father 
 
 Going to Muskegon, where his father's mills 
 were located, Mr. Stimson began in a minor ca- 
 pacity, it being the idea of his father to train him 
 thoroughly in the manufacturing end of the busi- 
 ness. He passed through the various grades and 
 in 1887, when the elder Stimson established a lum- 
 ber yard at South Chicago, Illinois, he was sent 
 there as its first foreman. 
 
 Mr. Stimson was in charge of the business at 
 South Chicago until 1890, and then went to Seattle, 
 Washington, where, with his brothers, Charles D. 
 and Frederick S. Stimson, he purchased large tim- 
 ber properties and built two lumber mills which 
 are still in operation under the ownership of the 
 Stimson Mill Company. These mills have been 
 among the important units of the lumber industry 
 of the Northwest from the time they were estab- 
 lished and Mr. Stimson, as Treasurer of the com- 
 pany, takes an active part in their management. 
 Although he has made his home in Los Angeles 
 since some time during the year 1892, he spends 
 some part of each year in the North. 
 
 Mr. Stimson first went to Los Angeles to estab- 
 lish a wholesale and retail lumber yard to distrib- 
 ute through Southern California and the Southwest 
 in general the products of the mills owned by his 
 company at Seattle. He conducted this enterprise 
 with great success for about eighteen years, or un- 
 
 til 1910, when he disposed of it in order to look 
 after other interests and to manage the estate of 
 his father. 
 
 He is still heavily interested with his brothers 
 in lumbering operations in the State of Washing- 
 ton, their mills at Seattle, where they maintain 
 their headquarters, having a capacity of 125,000 feet 
 of lumber per day. The holdings of the three 
 brothers are the largest of any on the Pacific 
 Coast, it being estimated that they have enough 
 timber in sight to keep their mills running at full 
 capacity for the next twenty-five years. 
 
 In addition to his lumber interests, Mr. Stimson, 
 for many years, has been actively interested in 
 petroleum production in Southern California and 
 Mexico, and in this branch of industry is associ- 
 ated with several of the leading oil producers of 
 the United States and Mexico. 
 
 In company with the above, all of whom are 
 well known capitalists of the Southwest, headed by 
 E. L. Doheny and C. A. Canfield, he, in 1902, acted 
 as one of the incorporators of the Mexican Petro- 
 leum Company, Ltd., to operate in Mexico. This 
 company was the forerunner of numerous other 
 American-owned oil corporations in Mexico and is 
 rated among the largest producing companies in 
 North America, having large holdings of oil lands, 
 numerous wells and various subsidiaries. The 
 National Gas Company of Mexico, which supplies 
 the lighting and fuel gas used in Mexico City and 
 other places in the Republic, being one of the 
 latter. 
 
 Mr. Stimson has various other interests in Los 
 Angeles and Southern California, and has under his 
 management the Stimson Building, owned by the 
 Stimson Estate. He also is a factor in the financial 
 affairs of the city, being a member of the Board of 
 Directors of the Merchants' National Bank of Los 
 Angeles, one of the strong financial institutions of 
 the West. 
 
 Recognized as one of the progressive men of the 
 city, he takes an active part in civic affairs of a 
 non-political nature, but never has ventured into 
 the political field. His father before him was in- 
 tensely interested in the upbuilding of Los Angeles 
 and Mr. Stimson, ever since his residence there, 
 has given up much of his time to movements for 
 the general improvement of the city. 
 
 As a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, he has taken an active part in various 
 civic enterprises fathered by that organization, and 
 is generally regarded as one of the energetic work- 
 ers in the membership of the body. 
 
 He devotes the greater part of his time to busi- 
 ness affairs, but despite the diversity of his inter- 
 ests finds time for recreation in golf and automo- 
 biling. He also has traveled extensively in the 
 United States and Europe and is a member of the 
 leading clubs of Los Angeles, these including the 
 California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Jona- 
 than Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 VERHARDY, MATHEW 
 W,. President of the Palace 
 Market Company, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., is a native of 
 Leavenworth, Kan., where he 
 was born October 8, 1862, his parents being 
 Jacob Everhardy and Mary P. (Shoemaker) 
 Everhardy. 
 
 He was married on May 17, 1893, to Miss 
 Elizabeth A. Platt at Los _ = ^^ = . = __ 
 Angeles, and has two 
 children, John Raymond 
 Everhardy and Elizabeth 
 Everhardy. 
 
 Mr. Everhardy's edu- 
 cation was derived from 
 public and private 
 schools in Leavenworth 
 up to the time when he 
 was fifteen years of age, 
 when he began his work 
 of building up a career. 
 
 At that age, in the 
 year of 1876, his father, 
 with the assistance of his 
 son, devised a project of 
 going to the Northwest 
 Pacific Coast for the pur- 
 pose of buying cattle and 
 horses and driving them 
 back across the continent. 
 
 They left Leaven- 
 worth in a sleigh, cross- 
 ing the Missouri River on 
 the ice; the journey was 
 a memorable one. They 
 went to Omaha on the 
 
 M. W. EVERHARDY 
 
 Missouri Pacific and thence to San Francisco 
 in an emigrant car attached to a freight train 
 the journey occupying fourteen days over the 
 Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. 
 
 From San Francisco Mr. Everhardy and 
 his companions embarked on the old side- 
 wheel steamer The Ancon, for Portland, Ore., 
 the plan being to buy the herds of cattle and 
 horses in eastern Oregon and drive them back 
 across the plains to Cheyenne and Laramie 
 City, the country between being at that time 
 practically an unknown wilderness. 
 
 The outfits were purchased at The Dalles, 
 and then on to Prineville, Ore., where the cat- 
 tle and horses were purchased. When all 
 were collected these amounted to 3600 head, 
 divided into two herds of 1800 each, and the 
 little company started back over the 1400 
 miles of unknown wilderness, through hostile 
 bands of Indians and presenting every wild- 
 animal terror and every natural drawback 
 
 that an untraveled wilderness possessed. 
 Mr. Everhardy followed this vocation, haz- 
 arduous as it was, for four years, with a 
 great degree of success. 
 
 His next venture was made at Tombstone, 
 Arizona, the picturesque mining town which 
 was the scene of many early day exciting epi- 
 sodes. Here he embarked in the meat and 
 cattle business with continued success crown- 
 ing his efforts; so much 
 so that he gradually ex- 
 tended his business to 
 Bisbee and Benson, and 
 he acquired an extensive 
 cattle range on the San 
 Pedro River, in Cochise 
 County, in Arizona. 
 
 This proved highly re- 
 munerative for a time, 
 but there came a continu- 
 ous season of droughts 
 which produced such a 
 series of disasters that 
 Mr. Everhardy decided to 
 give up this side of his 
 enterprises, and having 
 heard about the attrac- 
 tions of Southern Califor- 
 nia, he went to the neigh- 
 borhood of Santa Ana 
 and Anaheim, locating in 
 1887. In 1890 he removed 
 to Los Angeles and en- 
 gaged in business there. 
 He has succeeded to an 
 extent that has placed 
 him among the foremost 
 in the business and financial world of the 
 Southwest. 
 
 An indication of the extent of his vari- 
 ous business interests is given in the fact of 
 his being the president of the following 
 named corporations, all of which are the cre- 
 ations of his industry and talent: 
 
 The Palace Market incorporation, with a 
 wholesale house at Fourth and Central ave- 
 nue; the Palace Produce Company, at 359- 
 363 Central avenue ; the Palace Markets, at 
 622 South Broadway and 303 South Spring 
 streets, retail stores. 
 
 Mr. Everhardy is also a director of the 
 Mexican Associated Oil Company and a 
 member of the Advisory Board of the Com- 
 monwealth Home Builders. 
 
 He is a member of Los Angeles Lodge 99, 
 B. P. O. E. ; West Gate Los Angeles Chapter, 
 and Los Angeles Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar, Royal Arcanum and the Jonathan Club. 
 
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 RIDHAM, RICHARD W., 
 Manufacturer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born March 
 7, 1856, in London, Canada, 
 son of W. C. and Elizabeth 
 Pridham. He married Althea L. Hait, June 3, 
 1891, in New York City. 
 
 Mr. Pridham attended the public schools of 
 Canada to the age of twelve, and then a busi- 
 ness college for two years. 
 When fourteen years old 
 he went to work in a book 
 bindery at Toronto, Can- 
 ada. He worked with the 
 same firm for ten years, 
 thoroughly mastering the 
 trade. In 1880, when 
 twenty-four years old, he 
 left Canada for Chicago, 
 where he found occupa- 
 tion at his trade and work- 
 ed for six months. 
 
 He went to San Fran- 
 cisco in 1880, and has re- 
 sided in California ever 
 since. He worked in San 
 Francisco two years and 
 then decided that he had 
 been in the employ of 
 others long enough. He 
 looked about for a prom- 
 ising city in which to lo- 
 cate and chose Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 At the age of twenty-six 
 he opened a little manu- 
 factory of his own. That 
 manufactory is still in existence, but 
 of a size and importance hardly even 
 suggested by the little enterprise of thirty 
 years ago. At first bookbinding was the sole 
 line of effort, but he soon added to it the first 
 paper box factory in Southern California, and 
 later printing. At the present time he employs 
 one hundred and twenty-five men and women, 
 and goods are shipped all over the western half 
 of the United States and to the Pacific Islands. 
 
 Of late years he has engaged in public af- 
 fairs. He was elected Supervisor of Los An- 
 geles County, November, 1908, and has served 
 in that capacity to the present day. When the 
 Good Roads Committee was organized he re- 
 fused to take the office of chairman, desiring 
 some one else to have the honor, but once in 
 the harness, he has been one of the central 
 figures in the construction of good roads in 
 Los Angeles County. He insisted in the pur- 
 chase by the county of the rock quarries, which 
 
 R. W. PRIDHAM 
 
 meant the saving of hundreds of thousands of 
 dollars. Since his accession to office more than 
 240 miles of paved highways have been com- 
 pleted and many miles more are under con- 
 struction. These roads are being built under a 
 $3>5oo,ooo bond issue. He was one of the 
 prime movers in the arrangements which led 
 to the construction of the mammoth concrete 
 bridge connecting Pasadena and Garvanza, 
 costing $160,000, the 
 most ambitious highway 
 bridge yet attempted in 
 Southern California. 
 
 He was elected chairman 
 of the Board of supervis- 
 ors in 1911. One of his 
 first accomplishments in 
 this important office was 
 to establish a county pur- 
 chasing department. He 
 expects to save the county 
 through this department, 
 which will be headed by 
 experts, between $50,000 
 and $75,000 annually. He 
 was one of the strongest 
 opponents of the payment 
 of $236,700 for the furni- 
 ture of the Los Angeles 
 Hall of Records. 
 
 With the majority of 
 the Board of Supervisors 
 against him, he managed 
 to have Dr. C. H. Whit- 
 man appointed Superinten- 
 dent of the County Hos- 
 pital, under whose super- 
 intendency the hospital is said to have great- 
 ly improved. Between 1905 and 1908, he was 
 chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City 
 of South Pasadena. 
 
 He is a member of the Merchants and 
 Manufacturers' Association of Los Angeles, 
 and was at one time a director. He is an ac- 
 tive supporter of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce. 
 
 He belongs to the Municipal League, and 
 furthers every movement for the benefit of the 
 city and county. He is trusted and admired 
 as one of the sincerely unselfish men in the 
 public life of Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Pridham also holds membership in 
 the Jobbers' Association, and is a member of 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
 the Shriners, the Free and Accepted Masons, 
 and the Woodmen of the World. He belongs 
 to the Annandale Country Club, the Union 
 League Club and the Jonathan Club. 
 
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 OLLIER, FRANK C, Attor- 
 ney at Law, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Cen- 
 tral City, Colorado, Septem- 
 ber 14, 1878. His father was 
 D. C. Collier and his mother Mattie M. 
 (Johnson) Collier. At Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, December 11, 1905, he married Lucy 
 Kate Pinkerton. 
 
 He spent his boyhood 
 days in San Diego Coun- 
 ty, California. There he 
 attended the public 
 schools, graduating from 
 the high school of that 
 city in 1896. He went 
 East to college, studied 
 at the University of Mich- 
 igan, graduating from that 
 college in 1901 with the 
 degree LL. B. 
 
 He was admitted to 
 practice in the same year 
 by the Supreme Courts 
 of Michigan and Califor- 
 nia and later, in 1903, by 
 the United States District 
 and Circuit Courts. In 
 1908 he was admitted to 
 practice before the U. S. 
 Supreme Court. He be- 
 
 FRANK C. 
 
 came a member of the firm of Collier and 
 Smith of San Diego, composed of D. C. Col- 
 lier, Jr., now Col. D. C. Collier, director gen- 
 eral of the 1915 exposition at that city; Sam 
 Ferry Smith and Frank C. Collier, taking the 
 position of a junior partner. The firm al- 
 ready had a large and substantial practice. 
 Mr. Collier's work being efficient and worthy 
 of note. He remained with the San Diego 
 firm for over a year, then removed to Ari- 
 zona, where he saw greater opportunities for 
 a young attorney. 
 
 He practiced at Prescott, Arizona, dur- 
 ing the year 1902, becoming associated with 
 several of the prominent corporations and 
 mining organizations of that territory. His 
 record while in Arizona was that of a suc- 
 cessful attorney and he returned from Ari- 
 zona the following year locating in Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Mr. Collier renewed his practice in Los 
 Angeles in 1903, and practiced there alone 
 for the next three years, his specialty being 
 that of corporation law. His intimate knowl- 
 edge of affairs relative to the Southwest, spe- 
 cifically Arizona, and his success in those 
 territories in a legal way was of particular 
 advantage to him. In 1906, Mr. Collier 
 formed a partnership 
 with John W. Kemp, the 
 firm taking the name of 
 Kemp and Collier. This 
 association lasted until 
 1908, when Mr. Collier 
 left Los Angeles in the 
 interest of some special 
 affairs abroad. 
 
 He went to London, 
 England, where he pur- 
 sued special work for 
 about eight months, his 
 work necessitating his 
 visiting many interesting 
 places while there which 
 broadened his knowledge 
 of the world. He ac- 
 quired an interesting un- 
 derstanding of the work- 
 ings of the British legal 
 world, at the same time 
 continuing special work. 
 Mr. Collier returned to Los Angeles in 
 the latter part of 1909, where he became an 
 associate in the firm of Collier and Clark. Mr. 
 Oliver O. Clark was a young Los Angeles 
 attorney, recently graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Southern California. The firm es- 
 tablished offices in the H. W. Hellman Build- 
 ing and retain that location at the present 
 time. They became active attorneys for the 
 Los Angeles Wholesale Jewelers' Board of 
 Trade, Baltimore Oil Company, the Los An- 
 geles Record, Anaconda Petroleum Co., Ed- 
 mund G. Peycke Co., Freconee Company, 
 and many other large interests. 
 
 Mr. Collier has varied interests besides 
 his law work, particularly in the oil line. He 
 is Secretary of the Anaconda Petroleum Co., 
 the Freconee Co., Assistant Secretary of the 
 Baltimore Oil Company and is an influential 
 man in those corporations. He is a member 
 of the Jonathan Club, the Municipal League, 
 and is a Thirty-second Degree Mason. 
 
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 755 
 
 OL'LIER, DAVID CHAS., 
 Real Estate, San Diego, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in a log 
 cabin in the mining camp of 
 Central City, Colorado, Au- 
 gust 14, 1871, the son of David C. Collier and 
 Mattie M. (Johnson) Collier. On his father's 
 side he comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry, while 
 on his mother's there is English and New 
 England stock. He mar- 
 ried Ella Copley, January 
 1, 1896, at San Diego, 
 and to them there have 
 been born two children, 
 David Copley and Ira 
 Clifton Collier. 
 
 Mr. Collier began 
 business life at an early 
 age, fortified only by a 
 high school education but 
 endowed with the char- 
 acteristics that make for 
 success in the business 
 world. 
 
 In March, 1885, be- 
 fore he had passed his 
 fourteenth birthday, he 
 entered the employ of the 
 First National Bank of 
 San Diego, whither his 
 parents had moved the 
 previous year. That was 
 the beginning of an ac- 
 tive life as banker, law- 
 yer, railroad builder and 
 territorial developer. He 
 remained with the bank 
 
 D. C. COLLIER 
 
 until October, 1886, then went to work in the 
 law offices of Collier & Mulford, of which firm 
 his father was senior partner. He remained 
 there a year, then entered the California Na- 
 tional Bank, with which he remained until 
 July, 1888. He was next a clerk in the medi- 
 cal department of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 at Denver, remaining there until 1890, when 
 he returned to San Diego and his father's 
 law office. He resumed his studies and was 
 admitted to the Bar August 21, 1891. He 
 went into partnership with his father and 
 was with him, through various changes in 
 the firm personnel, until 1905, when he or- 
 ganized, with H. A. Howard, the Ralston 
 Realty Company. The name was changed in 
 1908 to D. C. Collier & Co. 
 
 He has been prominent in the subdivision 
 of large tracts into building lots and has been 
 an important factor in the general develop- 
 ment of the city of San Diego. He is an ex- 
 
 tensive property owner, and in addition is 
 largely interested in gold and gem mining 
 and onyx and marble deposits. He is also 
 interested in oil and ranch lands. 
 
 One of the most conspicuous works in his 
 career was the building of the Point Loma 
 Railroad. He started this work in 1908, and 
 when it was completed, early in 1909, sold it 
 to J. D. Spreckels. Other companies of which 
 he is president are the 
 Western Investment Co. 
 and the Santa Maria 
 Land and Water Co. 
 
 Mr. Collier has been 
 one of the most conspic- 
 uous men in the advance- 
 ment of San Diego and is 
 Director General of the 
 Panama California Expo- 
 sition, which will be held 
 at San Diego in 1915. 
 This is one of the most 
 ambitious enterprises 
 ever undertaken in San 
 Diego and Mr. Collier 
 has been the leading spir- 
 it in it. Another field in 
 which he is a leader is 
 aviation. He has personal- 
 ly directed three success- 
 ful meets at San Diego, 
 where the greatest flyers 
 in the world participated. 
 Mr. Collier takes an 
 active interest in politics, 
 but has sought office 
 only once. This was in 
 1902, when he made a spirited independent 
 campaign for the Republican nomination for 
 Congress, but was defeated. He was a Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel on the staff of Governor Gil- 
 lette of California from 1907 to 1910. He is 
 ex-president and director of the San Diego 
 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Collier holds membership in the Na- 
 tional Geographical Society, American Insti- 
 tue of Political Science, California Historical 
 Society and American Forestry Association. 
 He holds memberships in the following 
 clubs : New York A. C. and Rocky 
 Mountain Club of New York, Pacific Union, 
 Union League, Bohemian and Army and 
 Navy Clubs of San Francisco, Jonathan Club, 
 Los Angeles; Toltec Club, El Paso, Texas; 
 Cuyamaca Club, San Diego Yacht Club, San 
 Diego Rowing Club, Country Club and Ca- 
 brillo Club, San Diego ; Coronado Country 
 Club and Colorado Traffic Club, Denver. 
 
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 757 
 
 YERS, ALVA DE WITT, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in La Grande, Iowa, July 18, 1872, 
 the son of William Conrad Myers 
 and Caroline Elizabeth (Wait- 
 man) Myers. Mr. Myers has been 
 thrice married, his first wife having been Edna 
 Roth, whom he married at Cripple Creek, Colorado, 
 1895. She was claimed by death July 19, 1896. 
 About ten years later Mr. Myers married Martha 
 Summers at San Diego, California, but temper- 
 amental differences parted them in April, 1909. On 
 August 3, 1912, he married Hedrig Loblinski at 
 Long Beach, Cal. 
 
 Mr. Myers, who is one of the most picturesque 
 of the latter day Westerners, is a self-made man. 
 His educational opportunities were limited to about 
 three years in the public schools of his native 
 town, and from the time he left school at the age 
 of thirteen, against the wishes of his parents, he 
 has carried the responsibility of this life upon his 
 own shoulders. 
 
 In the latter part of 1884 Mr. Myers' father 
 moved to Kansas and became a ranch owner. The 
 son worked with him for about a year and then, 
 while less than fifteen years of age, left home to 
 begin a business life. He first went to the Indian 
 Territory and worked for several months at odd 
 jobs, then went to St. Louis, where he joined the 
 men who worked the lumber rafts on the Missis- 
 sippi. In 1888 he pointed for the mining camps of 
 Colorado. 
 
 He was still a boy, but readily obtained work 
 in the mines and worked with pick and shovel in 
 the various camps of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, 
 Washington and Oregon. Upon the discovery of 
 Cripple Creek he joined the rush there. 
 
 For the next four years Mr. Myers mined in 
 and around Cripple Creek, but in 1896 moved to the 
 Northwest and worked in Oregon and Washington 
 until 1902, when Tonopah, Nevada, was discovered. 
 He went there and remained in that region for 
 about a year, but after having been at mining work 
 for seventeen years found himself hardly better 
 off in the world's goods than on the day he entered 
 Colorado. Accordingly, he and his partner bought 
 an outfit and set off in search of new territory. 
 The camp of Goldfield, Nevada, one of the world's 
 greatest gold centers and most picturesque mining 
 camps, is the result of that trip, for Mr. Myers 
 and his associates were the discoverers and build- 
 ers of the town. From that time, May 24, 1903, 
 when they first struck gold, Mr. Myers has been 
 among the mining notables. 
 
 When Mr. Myers and his companion started out 
 from Tonopah their chief assets were experience 
 and determination and the subsequent success was 
 due to these characteristics. During several 
 months that they spent working a prospect in what 
 is now known as the Gold Mountain district, Mr. 
 Myers frequently conferred with his partner about 
 trying Columbia Mountain, which, to his experi- 
 enced eye, presented attractive mineral possibili- 
 ties. Finally he went to the mountain, and after a 
 hunt for water, pitched camp and began to work. The 
 result was the Combination Mine, which first re- 
 warded its workers on the 24th day of May, 1903. 
 In October, 1903, Mr. Myers named the camp and 
 district Goldfield and as such it remains today. 
 
 The Combination Mine was followed by other 
 big producers, including the Combination Fraction, 
 Silver Peak and C. O. D. Mines. Next he found 
 
 what has proved to be the greatest property in 
 the Goldfield district and one of the greatest gold 
 properties the world ever knew, the Mohawk Mine. 
 Mr. Myers worked all of these properties and for 
 the Mohawk alone received, when he sold his in- 
 terest, $400,000. The Combination Mine, his first 
 discovery, he sold for $75,000. 
 
 Following the christening of the town as Gold- 
 field, Mr. Myers was made chief executive or Presi- 
 dent of the district organization and in this capac- 
 ity was called upon to act as referee in all cases 
 of trouble over claims, etc., and through his fair 
 handling of the questions involved, prevented much 
 trouble and litigation. 
 
 Through Mr. Myer's leadership commercial en- 
 terprises were launched and other channels of 
 wealth opened. He was also one of the organizers 
 of the Goldfield Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 In addition to his gold mining interests, Mr. 
 Myers was a powerful factor in the copper devel- 
 opment of Nevada. He was largely interested in 
 the Ely Calumet, Rickard Ely, Ely Western and 
 the United Ely, all located at Ely, Nevada. 
 
 Mr. Myers' enthusiasm, generosity and confi- 
 dence in his followers, however, brought disaster 
 upon him when he was at the zenith of his success. 
 In addition to giving away thousands of dollars 
 in cash, he indorsed notes innumerable and guar- 
 anteed various claims and corporations with the 
 result that in a few years his entire fortune was 
 swept away. 
 
 In 1906 Mr. Myers had built a home in Long 
 Beach, California, at a cost of more than $200,000, 
 one of the show places of Southern California, and 
 when the crash came in 1910 this mansion, a fund 
 of useful knowledge and his determination were 
 his only assets. 
 
 Mr. Myers immediately set to work to rebuild 
 his fortune, choosing the famous Panamint mines, 
 in California as his vehicle. These properties, 
 which had produced $5,000,000 during a brief boom 
 period in the seventies, had lain idle for more than 
 thirty years. Before they were closed on account 
 of litigation due to the Apex law, their owners, 
 after paying $110 per ton freight costs on all the 
 ore extracted, had realized a net profit of $3,000,000. 
 Mr. Myers, who knew the history of the property, 
 acquired title to it from all of the old claimants. 
 Geological experts estimate that there is a vast 
 amount of commercial ore in sight and Mr. Myers 
 and associates have already begun the extraction 
 of it. In addition to this, Mr. Myers controls four 
 hundred acres of ore land in the great Ely copper 
 camp. 
 
 Other valuable properties which Mr. Myers has 
 acquired include the Silver Peak Camp Bird, at 
 Silver Peak, Nevada, and valuable placer claims 
 in the Alamos district of S'onora and Chihuahua, 
 Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Myers first went to Southern California in 
 1904, when he was known all over the United 
 States as the founder of Goldfield. He foresaw 
 Los Angeles as the mining center of the West and 
 two years later he returned and tmilt his magnifi- 
 cent home at Long Beach. This he has since sold 
 to Jotham Bixby. 
 
 Mr. Myers was one of the organizers of the 
 Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles, now the lead- 
 ing engineers' club of the West, and of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Mines and Oil. He is a char- 
 ter member of the Rocky Mountain Club, New 
 York, and also belongs to Montezuma Club, Gold- 
 field, the B. P. O. Elks and Odd Fellows. 
 
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 HENRY F. BROWN 
 
 ROWN, HENRY FRANCIS, Capi- 
 talist, Minneapolis, Minn., was 
 born in East Baldwin, Me., Oct. 
 10, 1837, the son of Cyrus S. 
 Brown and Mary (Burnham) 
 Brown. He married Susan Fair- 
 field at Saco, Me., July 19, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Brown was educated in schools of East 
 Baldwin, Fryeburg Academy and Limerick (Me.) 
 Academy. Taught school in Wi&consin, 1856-59, 
 going then to Minnesota. He engaged in lumber- 
 ing there and for thirty-six years was one of the 
 largest operators in the Northwest, finally selling 
 out his mills and yards in 1896. He also was a 
 prominent iron ore producer, his holdings on the 
 famous Mesaba Range now being leased to the 
 United States Steel Corporation. 
 
 Since 1867, Mr. Brown has conducted a large 
 shorthorn cattle breeding establishment on the out- 
 skirts of Minneapolis and during that time has held 
 thirty-four annual auction sales. He served as 
 President of the American Shorthorn Breeders' 
 Ass'n, 1906-08, and is now one of its Directors. He 
 is also a member of the Board of Directors of the 
 North American Telegraph Co., which he helped to 
 organize. 
 
 Mr. Brown served for several years as Presi- 
 dent of the Union National Bank of Minneapolis, 
 but his chief remaining interest is the Browndale 
 Farm, Inc., of which he is Pres. and Treas. He 
 also is heavily interested in Minneapolis real 
 estate. 
 
 Mr. Brown is an ardent advocate of good roads 
 and spends a great deal of time in travel, passing 
 a part of each winter in Southern California. 
 
 He has been a lifelong Republican and in 1884 
 was chosen a Presidential Elector for Benjamin 
 Harrison. He is a member of the Minneapolis Au- 
 tomobile Club, Minneapolis Commercial Club and 
 the Saddle and Sirloin Club, of Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 R. W. RICHARDSON 
 
 ICHARDSON, ROBERT WILLIAM, 
 Attorney, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Millersburg, Ky., Sept. 29, 
 1851, son of State Senator Ed- 
 ward Henry Richardson of Mis- 
 souri, and Mary Ellen (Kennedy) 
 Richardson. He married Martha J. Halliburton 
 at Louisiana, Mo., Oct. 15, 1872. They have one 
 son, Edward G. Richardson. 
 
 Mr. Richardson received his early education in 
 the public schools of St. Louis. Worked as clerk 
 in a wholesale mercantile house, St. Louis, then 
 became traveling salesman, but in 1880 opened a 
 store of his own at Warsaw, Mo. Moved to Boli- 
 var, Mo., in 1885. Studied law under J. B. Upton, 
 admitted to practice in 1888, and became a partner 
 of Mr. Upton until 1889, when he moved to Omaha 
 and formed firm of Richardson & De France. In 
 1895 became partner of J. H. Blair, until he moved 
 to Los Angeles in 1905, where he practices alone. 
 
 In 1896, as member, Trans-Mississippi Congress, 
 proposed resolution creating Trans-Mississippi Ex- 
 position, held in Omaha in 1898. Served as Expo- 
 sition Commissioner for West, member, Press 
 Committee and A&st. to Pres. of Exposition. 
 
 Perfected organization of Nat. Good Roads 
 Assn., Chicago, 1900, and chosen Sec. of it. Ap- 
 pointed Dist. Commsr. for office of Public Roads by 
 the U. S. Gov. During next four years had charge 
 of six special trains engaged in experimental good 
 roads work over country. Delivered addresses, 
 built roads and organized experimental schools 
 and exhibits for Buffalo, St. Louis, Portland and 
 Charleston Expositions. Resigned 1905. Has writ- 
 ten prolifically on the subject of good roads. 
 
 In 1912 was nominated for Assemblyman, 75th 
 District, Los Angeles. President, Federation of 
 State and Provincial Organizations of Southern 
 California, embracing about sixty societies, with 
 aggregate membership of 300,000. Member, Cal. 
 Bar Assn. and Knickerbocker Club, of Los Angeles. 
 
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 759 
 
 DR. G. A. SCROGGS 
 
 C R O G G S, GUSTAVUS ADOL- 
 PHUS, Physician and Surgeon, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in New Castle, Pa., the son of Dr. 
 John Alexander Scroggs and 
 Mary Jane (Thompson) Scroggs. 
 He married Alexina C. Gatzmer (now deceased) at 
 Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Scroggs is a descendant of 
 the old Scotch (Protestant) Irish stock. One of 
 his ancestors- was Sir William Scroggs, Knight, 
 Lord Chief Justice of England. It was he who 
 wrote many of the laws of England, some of which 
 stand today, and the doctor is in possession of one 
 of his books published in the seventeenth century. 
 Others members of the Scroggs family served in 
 each of the three wars of the Crusaders; the Wars 
 of the Roses, Revolutionary War, Mexican War, 
 Civil War and Spanish-American War. 
 
 Dr. Scroggs- received his primary education in 
 schools of Galena, Illinois, finished his academic 
 education in Ohio and then took up the study of 
 medicine at Jefferson Medical College, from which 
 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. Follow- 
 ing the receipt of his degree, the doctor served as 
 interne in several Philadelphia hospitals, then 
 moved to Eas-t Liverpool, Ohio, where he practiced 
 for some time. Later he moved to Beaver, Beaver 
 County, Pa., where he was made physician for the 
 County Home, also for Beaver College, and main- 
 tained private practice for some years, then went to 
 Arizona as physician to a large mining camp. 
 
 Dr. Scroggs finally moved to Los Angeles in 
 1903, and there has become one of the widely 
 known physicians and surgeons-, his friends in- 
 cluding all classes. He is Chief Examiner for the 
 Pacific Athletic Club, a member of the Los Angeles 
 County Medical Association, Medical Society of the 
 State of California and the American Medical As- 
 sociation. His clubs- are the Jonathan and Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club. 
 
 HON. LEROY A. WRIGHT 
 
 RIGHT, LEROY AUGUSTUS, 
 State Senator and Attorney at 
 Law, San Diego, Cal., was born 
 in New London, Ind., Feb. 10, 
 1863, the son of Luna C. Wright 
 and Gulielma (Easterling) 
 Wright. He has been twice married, his first wife 
 having died. His second wife was Ida M. Heffle- 
 man, whom he married at San Diego, Cal., June 1, 
 1898. Their children are Lester and Evelyn Wright. 
 Senator Wright received his early educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Kansas, and 
 in 1878 entered the State Normal School, receiv- 
 ing his diploma, 1883; taught at Normal School 
 until 1884, when he entered the publishing busi- 
 ness. In 1886 became City Editor of the Topeka 
 State Journal, Topeka, Kas. In 1887, moved to 
 San Diego, entering the railroad business. Be- 
 came City Editor of the San Diego Union and 
 purchased an interest in the San Diego Sun in 
 1889. In 1890, while Clerk of Superior Court of 
 San Diego County, he took up study of law under 
 John D. Works, later U. S. Senator. He was ad- 
 mitted to practice in 1891. He was Trustee of 
 the Carnegie Library of San Diego and, 1906, was 
 chosen a Park Commissioner, serving until 1911. 
 Elected to State Senate in 1906 and re-elected, 
 1910. In 1907, with others, he drafted the direct 
 primary amendment to Cal. State Constitution, 
 adopted in 1909. He was Chairman of the State 
 Harbor Examining Board in 1907. 
 
 Senator Wright is a staunch Republican, Di- 
 rector and Attorney for the So. Title and Guaranty 
 Co., and Attorney for the Bank of Commerce and 
 Trust Co., in which he is a stockholder. He was an 
 original member, Panama Cal. Exposition Co. 
 
 The Senator is a member of the Cuyamaca 
 Club, San Diego Country Club, San Francisco 
 Press Club, Sutter Club, Sacramento; Masons, B. 
 P. O. Elks. He is also an ex-member of the Na- 
 tional Guard of Cal., from 1889-92, 7th Regiment. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 LASS, REV. JOSEPH SARS- 
 FIELD, Pastor St. Vincent's 
 Catholic Church, and president 
 of the St. Vincent's College, 
 Los Angeles, California. He 
 was born at Bushnell, Illinois, March 13, 1874. 
 He is the son of James Glass and Mary Edith 
 Kelly. 
 
 He began his education in the Parochial 
 Schools of Sedalia, Mis- 
 souri, where he remained 
 for several years. Going 
 to Los Angeles in 1887, he 
 entered St. Vincent's Col- 
 lege, which was later to be- 
 come the scene of his great- 
 est activities and achieve- 
 ments. He remained at St. 
 Vincent's for a period of 
 four years ,then returned to 
 Missouri and entered the 
 St. Mary's Apostolic Col- 
 lege of Perryville, Mis- 
 souri. After completing 
 his course of study in that 
 institution he entered the 
 Novitiate of the Congrega- 
 tion of the Mission in 1891 
 and later became a student 
 at St. Mary's Seminary in 
 Perry County, Missouri, in 
 which institution he made 
 his course in Philosophy 
 and Theology. He was ordained a priest by 
 Bishop George Montgomery in St. Vincent's 
 church, Los Angeles, August 15, 1897. 
 
 After finishing his education in the United 
 States he went to Rome, where, with its pre- 
 dominant religious atmosphere and its connec- 
 tions with the historic Catholic Church and 
 monuments of ancient and Christian Rome, he 
 became a student of philosophy and theology. 
 He attended the University of the Propoganda, 
 and graduated from the University of the Mi- 
 nerva in 1899 with the degree of D. D. 
 
 On returning to the United States in the same 
 year he became a faculty member of the St. 
 Mary's Seminary at Perryville. His specialty 
 at that institution was Dogmatic Theology, 
 which subject he taught during the school term 
 of 1899 and 1900. During the following year 
 
 REV. JOSEPH S. GLASS 
 
 he taught Moral Theology at the same semi- 
 nary, and while he was connected with it he 
 filled the office of Director of Seminarians. 
 
 Dr. Glass was appointed President of St. Vin- 
 cent's College, Los Angeles, in June, 1901. At 
 the same time he was made pastor of St. Vin- 
 cent's Church of that city, both of which re- 
 sponsible positions he still occupies. 
 
 Since taking charge of St. Vincent's College, 
 Father Glass has raised 
 the standard of that insti- 
 tution to an exceedingly 
 high mark, and today it 
 ranks among the first edu- 
 cational institutions of the 
 West. 
 
 Shortly after he be- 
 came president of that col- 
 lege the attendance greatly 
 increased and it was neces- 
 sary to build a large addi- 
 tion to the college building. 
 He has given St. Vincent's 
 College a full university 
 course and has introduced 
 both civil and mechanical 
 engineering branches. 
 
 Dr. Glass is recognized 
 as one of the foremost edu- 
 cators in Southern Cali- 
 fornia. He has written 
 some notable articles on 
 educational and religious 
 subjects. By reason of his interests in many 
 educational, religious and literary organizations 
 Dr. Glass holds memberships in a number of 
 organizations of national scope. He is a mem- 
 ber of Bishop Conaty's Diocesan Council, of 
 the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles 
 Public Library, and is Honorary President of 
 the Alumni Society of St. Vincent's College. 
 He is also Chaplain of the Central Council of 
 the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. 
 
 He holds memberships in the University Club, 
 Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Fores- 
 ters, Young Men's Institute and the Ancient 
 Order of Hibernians. 
 
 Dr. Glass is actively concerned in the affairs 
 of all of these organizations and his counsel is 
 an important factor in the guidance of their 
 members. 
 
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 'CRAY, LOUIS ALLAN, Oil 
 
 Mg Producer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Pennsylvania, 
 May 7, 1865. His father was 
 A. M. McCray and his mother 
 Selina (Parsons) McCray. He was married 
 to Mary Branson July 1, 1900, at Ventura, 
 Cal., and of their union there have been 
 three children, Irene, Blanche and Rita Mc- 
 Cray, at the present time 
 three handsome young 
 women. 
 
 Mr. McCray spent his 
 early boyhood in the 
 great oil fields of his na- 
 tive State and New York 
 State. At the age of six- 
 teen years he left school 
 and immediately took up 
 active work among the 
 wells. 
 
 He first began as a 
 pumper, but in 1886, 
 when a temporary lull 
 overtook the industry in 
 the two states where he 
 was working, he with his 
 father and brothers, all 
 practiced oil men, jour- 
 neyed westward to Cali- 
 fornia, where the oil busi- 
 ness was then in its in- 
 fancy. At the time the 
 McCrays arrived there 
 were only three oil com- 
 panies in the State, the 
 Puente Co. at Fullerton, 
 Pacific Coast Oil Co. at Newhall, and Hardi- 
 son-Stewart Co., which was operating in Ven- 
 tura County. The Hardison-Stewart Co. 
 later became the Union Oil Co. of California. 
 Mr. McCray was employed by the Union 
 Oil Co;, in a minor capacity at first, but was 
 steadily advanced on account of his thorough 
 knowledge and efficiency to many responsible 
 positions with the corporation. He remained 
 with this company ten years, and then, when 
 oil was discovered in the city of Los Angeles, 
 he and his brother, M. L. McCray, formed a 
 partnership and went into the well contract- 
 ing business. They were among the very first 
 to get into active operation in the field, and 
 they soon saw that there was a great future 
 in the development of oil property. 
 
 Accordingly, they set about acquiring land 
 leases and immediately began active opera- 
 tions in the Los Angeles field on their own 
 account. Because of their complete mastery 
 
 L. A. McCRAY 
 
 of the business in all its details they took a 
 leading position. They drilled their own wells, 
 handled and marketed all of the oil pumped 
 from them, and at one time were the largest 
 producing organization in the Los Angeles 
 field. An indication of their activity and en- 
 terprise is shown by the fact that at one pe- 
 riod they had fifty-three wells in operation. 
 At the time of the oil boom in the northern 
 and other sections of Cal- 
 ifornia, the McCrays de- 
 cided these larger fields 
 should be their sphere oi 
 endeavor, so they sold 
 out their Los Angeles in- 
 terests and turned their 
 attention to leasing and 
 developing lands in the 
 newer districts. Here 
 they met with success 
 greater than that which 
 had attended their efforts 
 in the Los Angeles field 
 and later they sold their 
 properties to the Ameri- 
 can Oil Fields Co., of 
 which Mr. McCray is 
 now a heavy stockholder 
 and director. 
 
 He also formed a 
 partnership with Thos 
 A. O'Donnell, and to- 
 gether they became in- 
 terested with E. L. Do- 
 heny, another pioneer oil 
 man, in the American 
 Petroleum Company, one 
 of the best known concerns of its kind in 
 the West. The McCrays, Doheny, Canfield, 
 O'Donnell and a few others are recognized 
 as the real developers of oil in the Golden 
 State. 
 
 Besides the corporations already men- 
 tioned, Mr. McCray is heavily interested in 
 others. He is a director and stockholder in 
 the Midland Oil Co., the Circle Oil Co., Sec- 
 tion One Oil Co., J. F. Lucey Supply Co., 
 and is a stockholder in the Mexican Gas 
 Co. and the El Segundo Land and Develop- 
 ment Co. 
 
 Two years ago Mr. McCray retired from 
 the active management of any of his com- 
 panies and is now devoting his time to the 
 building of a beautiful home among the 
 foothills of Hollywood, an attractive suburb 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is an active member of the Masonic 
 Fraternity and also of the Hollywood Club. 
 
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 CHRISTIAN HENNE 
 
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 763 
 
 ENNE, CHRISTIAN, 2D., (De- 
 ceased), Mining and Mechanical 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in that city February 20, 
 1874, the son of Christian Henne 
 and Helena (Buehn) Henne. He 
 married Miss Jane Louise Greenop of Liverpool, 
 England, in October, 1904, and to them there 
 was born a son, Christopher Henne, 3d. Mr. 
 Henne was a brother-in-law of R. A. Rowan, also 
 of Nat Wilshire, both prominent in the affairs of 
 Los Angeles. His family, which originally came 
 to the United States from Germany, is one of the 
 noted pioneer families of Los Angeles, its mem- 
 bers having played an important part in the early 
 development and history-making of the Southern 
 California metropolis. His grandfather was 
 George Friedrich Henne and his grandmother 
 Anna Barbara Weick. 
 
 His father was a pioneer business man of Los 
 Angeles in the early stages of its development and 
 the owner of a considerable amount of real estate 
 in what is now the heart of the business district 
 of that city. Mr. Henne was born on property 
 that has since become the site of the Citizens' 
 National Bank Building, at the corner of Third and 
 Main streets, Los Angeles, the very center of 
 commercial activity, at this time (1913). In the 
 days when Mr. Henne was a boy, however, that 
 neighborhood was the aristocratic residence dis- 
 trict of Los Angeles. In those days there lived 
 along what is now the business part of Main 
 street such old Los Angeles families as the Hell- 
 mans, the Kerckhoffs, the Motts, the Governor 
 Downey family, the Dominguez family, the Tom 
 Rowans, the Maxwells and many others. The trend 
 of business- toward the South and Southwest has 
 caused the passing of these landmarks which have 
 been replaced by modern business structures and 
 little idea can be had of the hospitable homes that 
 but a few short years ago gave way in the process 
 of the city's transformation from yesterday into 
 today. 
 
 Mr. Henne received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools of Los Angeles, after which 
 he took a course in a business college. He was 
 then fourteen years of age and was sent to Europe 
 for technical training. In 1892, after four years 
 of study, he was graduated with a degree from 
 Technikum Mittweida, an old-established and cele- 
 brated engineering school of Saxony, after which 
 he returned to his home in Los Angeles. 
 
 The year following his return from his 
 European studies, Mr. Henne enrolled as a student 
 in Leland Stanford, Jr., University, taking up the 
 mechanical engineering course, and was graduated 
 in the class of 1897 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. Not satisfied with the knowledge he had 
 already gained, he went to New York City for the 
 purpo&e of perfecting his education and there 
 
 took post-graduate work in the famous engineering 
 department of Columbia University, being awarded 
 the degree of Engineer of Mines in 1900. 
 
 Thus splendidly equipped, Mr. Henne returned 
 to California and immediately engaged in the ac- 
 tive work of his profession. He was regarded as 
 one of the able men in his line and for the first 
 two years after he left Columbia University was 
 busily engaged as a Consulting Engineer in Los 
 Angeles and other parts of the West, where scien- 
 tific mining methods were being employed in the 
 development of the country's resources. In 1902, 
 when he was entering upon a brilliant career, Mr. 
 Henne's health began to fail and he was compelled 
 to give up his professional work to a considerable 
 extent. 
 
 Mr. Henne then began traveling in the hope 
 of regaining his health and for the last four years 
 of his life resided at various times in Arizona, 
 Colorado and California. His search was in vain, 
 however, and although he was possessed of 
 wealth sufficient to satisfy his every need, death 
 claimed him, on the twelfth day of December, 1906. 
 
 Mr. Henne was a man of fine instincts, and 
 travel in various parts of the world had made him 
 one of the most cultured and polished men of his 
 day. Before becoming a student at Leland Stan- 
 ford, Jr., University he had traveled to all parts 
 of the globe, not as a tourist or sightseer, but 
 as a student of the countries he visited and their 
 peoples. For instance, he spent considerable time 
 living in China and Japan. He lived among the 
 natives of those interesting countries and in this 
 way learned their languages and their ways of 
 living. 
 
 Mr. Henne was- a linguist of note, and could 
 speak, besides English, the languages of France, 
 Germany, Spain, China, and Japan, and also had 
 mastered the Chinook Indian tongue. He was a 
 deep student of the literature and customs of these 
 different peoples. 
 
 He was of an inventive turn of mind and dur- 
 ing his school days and later, during his business 
 life, spent much of his time perfecting machinery 
 of his own design. Because of his thorough train- 
 ing in the United States, and Europe his advice 
 was frequently sought by fellow members of the 
 engineering profession on matters of importance, 
 and he was generally recognized as one of the 
 leading members of the profession, as well as an 
 engineer of great future promise, at the time of 
 his death. 
 
 Mr. Henne was popular among his fellows, and 
 his death, coming as it did when he was approach- 
 ing the prime of life, was a shock to his numerous 
 friends. 
 
 He was a member of the Delta Upsilon Frater- 
 nity of Columbia University, and also belonged to 
 the University Club of San Francisco and the 
 California Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 OOK, JOSEPH EDWARDS, 
 Manufacturers' Agent and 
 Warehousing, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in New 
 York City, December 3, 1854. 
 His father was Charles W. Cook and his 
 mother Charlotte R. (Folger) Cook. Mr. 
 Cook has been married twice, his second 
 marriage taking place at Chicago, Illinois, 
 November 19, 1900. By 
 his first wife he had one 
 child, Morris M. Cook, 
 born at Oakland, Califor- 
 nia, and by his second 
 wife, Josephine Cook, 
 born at Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Cook was reared 
 partly in California and 
 partly in the New Eng- 
 land States. He attended 
 the public schools of San 
 Francisco between the 
 years 1862 and 1864. Dur- 
 ing the following three 
 years he studied at New- 
 buryport, Massachusetts, 
 and at Brooklyn, New 
 York, between 1867 and 
 1869. In 1870 he re- 
 turned to the Pacific 
 Coast, attending Heald's 
 Business College of San 
 Francisco during that 
 year. He entered the brokerage business for 
 himself in that city in 1871, and up to 1886 
 followed that business with varied successes. 
 Between the years 1870 and 1873 he was a 
 member of the City Guard of the First Regi- 
 ment of San Francisco. 
 
 In 1886 he located at Los Angeles. He 
 associated himself with William T. Coleman 
 & Co. of that city in the capacity of manager 
 of that firm. A year later Mr. Cook became 
 a member of the firm known as Cook & Lang- 
 ley, fruit business and warehousing, which 
 ultimately evolved into the present concern, 
 known as the J. E. Cook Mercantile Com- 
 pany. The house has since been incorporated. 
 Not a great while after the establishment of 
 the house Mr. Cook bought the interests, and 
 from that time until today has been the chief 
 
 J. E. COOK 
 
 spirit in the development and progress of that 
 corporation. This corporation is the agent 
 for many of the largest producers and manu- 
 facturers in the United States, besides repre- 
 senting Government interests. It is proprie- 
 tor of the large Merchants' Warehouse and 
 of the U. S. Customs Bonded Warehouse No. 
 1, United States Bonded Warehouse No. 8, 
 the United States General Bonded Ware- 
 house No. 3, and South- 
 ern California agent for 
 the Quaker Oats Com- 
 pany, Church & Dwight 
 Company, D. Ghirardelli 
 Company, Proctor & 
 Gamble Company, C. B. 
 Knox Company, Fels & 
 Company, Douglas & 
 Company, Hawaiian 
 Pineapple Products Com- 
 pany, Western Chemical 
 Company, Phoenix Pack- 
 ing Company, and a great 
 number of the largest 
 salmon, oyster and 
 canned corn industries 
 throughout the United 
 States. 
 
 The success of the es- 
 tablishment is due very 
 largely to the keen and 
 discriminating business 
 ability of Mr. Cook and 
 to his far-sighted policies. His management 
 has brought the firm into the front ranks 
 of the business circles of the Pacific Coast, 
 his persistency and personality being a con- 
 trolling factor in the upbuilding of the en- 
 terprise. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Cook is the 
 President and Manager of the firm, and he 
 Has many other business interests which 
 share a fair proportion of his time. 
 
 He is a director in the Los Angeles Coun- 
 try Club and in the Country Club Land Asso- 
 ciation and Realty Company. 
 
 Mr. Cook is active in the club affairs of 
 Los Angeles, and he has been a member 
 of the California Club since 1889. He is now 
 Vice President of the Los Angeles Country 
 Club. 
 
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 R Y A N, E L D E N P., Real 
 Estate Operator, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Jefferson, Texas, March 28, 
 1857. His father was E. P. 
 Bryan and his mother, Mary (Jurman) 
 Bryan. He married Georgie Hendricks on 
 May 13, 1876, at Dallas, Texas. There are 
 two children, Bessie Bryan, now Mrs. L. T. 
 
 Bradford, and Minnie 
 
 Bryan. 
 
 H i s education wa'si 
 mostly in a private coun- 
 try school in Texas, and 
 his boyhood days were 
 spent in the country. He 
 remained on his father's 
 farm, which was typical 
 of the boys of that day, 
 until he was 19 years of 
 age, when he left the 
 country and moved to 
 the city of Dallas. Here 
 he engaged in the mer- 
 cantile line, and for fully 
 ten years put in his time 
 establishing and develop- 
 ing his business. 
 
 In 1886 he heard re- 
 ports of the wonderful 
 opportunities offered in 
 California, and he made 
 up his mind to go still 
 farther west, and with that end in view he 
 disposed of his interests in. Texas and moved 
 to Los Angeles, where he arrived on Decem- 
 ber 11 of that year, and where he has been lo- 
 cated. up to the present time. 
 
 For one year he put in his time in resting 
 and looking over properties in and about Los 
 Angeles, and at the end of that time was 
 prepared to invest in the realty business. He 
 has now been in that business over twenty- 
 five years in Los Angeles, and numbers 
 among the pioneer realty dealers of the city. 
 
 He first entered business alone, but later 
 associated himself with the firm known as 
 Bryan & Clark. They handled principally 
 downtown business properties, but invest- 
 ed to some extent in outlying districts. 
 
 The firm name changed to that of Bryan 
 & Bradford with offices situated at the pres- 
 ent time in the new Trust and Savings 
 
 E. P. BRYAN 
 
 Building, Los Angeles. The present firm 
 owns large tracts of lands in the suburban 
 and outlying districts. 
 
 When H. E. Huntingdon first invested in 
 Southern California, some twenty years ago, 
 his first property purchased in Southern Cali- 
 fornia, amounting to something over $100,- 
 000, was bought from Mr. Bryan, who was 
 at that time very prominent in realty cir- 
 cles in Los Angeles. 
 Since then he has han- 
 dled many deals in excess 
 of that, but at that period 
 it was a record-breaking 
 purchase. At the pres- 
 ent day Mr. Bryan has 
 large holdings in the 
 western and southwest- 
 ern portions of Los An- 
 geles. S u ch desirable 
 tracts as that of West- 
 moreland and others in 
 that vicinity are among 
 the best examples of land 
 placed on the market by 
 Mr. Bryan and his firm. 
 Numerous other tfacts in 
 the residence districts 
 have been purchased, 
 subdivided and improved 
 and placed on the mar- 
 ket by Mr. Bryan and 
 his partner. 
 Mr. Bryan is now heavily interested in 
 the downtown business center of Los An- 
 geels, where he owns a number of very val- 
 uable properties. He was one of the earliest 
 real estate dealers to foresee the future 
 giowth of Los Angeles toward the south- 
 west portion of the city, and accordingly in- 
 vested in property in that direction. His 
 firm is at present one of the prominent realty 
 companies of that city, where it does a large 
 and solid business. 
 
 Mr. Bryan shares to a great extent in the 
 meteoric development of Los Angeles and 
 immediate vicinity, and is one of the many 
 factors working for the future of the city. 
 
 Mr. Bryan is most favorably known 
 throughout the vicinity of Los Angeles in a 
 business and social way. He is a member 
 of the California Club of that city and of 
 the Country Club. 
 
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 ELLAR, HARRY, Magi- 
 cian (Retired), Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Erie, 
 Pennsylvania, July 11, 1849, 
 
 the son of Francis P. Kellar. 
 
 He married Eva Medley, of Melbourne, Aus- 
 tralia, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 1, 
 1887. Mr. Kellar spent his early days in 
 Erie and Ohio, and his education was ob- 
 tained in both places. He 
 graduated from the 
 Painesville, Ohio, school 
 and immediately went 
 into the theatrical busi- 
 ness, for which he had 
 shown remarkable lean- 
 ings all during his boy- 
 hood. 
 
 His first engagement 
 was with a magician 
 known as the "Fakir of 
 Ava," and a year as as- 
 sistant to this noted illu- 
 sionist implanted in him 
 an ambition to become a 
 magician himself. From 
 that time until he retired, 
 a few years ago, acknowl- 
 edged by press and pub- 
 lic the greatest living ma- 
 gician, Kellar applied 
 himself to the mastery of 
 his art. His brain and 
 his hand were as one. He 
 mystified, confound- 
 ed and charmed his audi- 
 tors, and even today his 
 
 HARRY KELLAR 
 
 creations resist solution. In 1867 he became 
 business manager for Davenport Brothers, 
 spirit mediums, and with them made the 
 first of a life of great tours. The company 
 traveled in practically every part of the 
 United States, and during that time the fu- 
 ture great Kellar learned a lot of the world. 
 He was with that combination approximate- 
 ly four years, and then joined Fay, under the 
 name of Fay and Kellar. The pair toured 
 Mexico and South America between 1871 
 and 1873, and during that time Kellar laid 
 the foundation of a fame that was to last for 
 all time in the world of magic. 
 
 Upon separating from Fay, Mr. Kellar 
 organized a company consisting of himself 
 and two Oriental magicians under the title 
 of Kellar, Ling Look and Yamadeva, Royal 
 Illusionists. These three played in many 
 foreign lands, their tour taking them through 
 South America, Africa, Australia, India, 
 
 China, Philippine Islands and Japan. They 
 were a sensation wherever they appeared, 
 but the tour was ended in China, where Ling 
 Look and Yamadeva died, in 1877. 
 
 Kellar's next alliance was with J. H. 
 Cunard, under the name of Kellar and Cu- 
 nard, and for the next five years they trav- 
 eled together, showing in many lands where 
 magic was part of the religion and history of 
 the peoples. This tour 
 took them through India, 
 Burmah, Siam, Java, Per- 
 sia, Asia Minor, Egypt 
 and numerous Mediterra- 
 nean ports. In 1884 the 
 partners separated and 
 Kellar returned to his na- 
 tive America, a leader in 
 his art and famous in the 
 four corners of the globe. 
 Kellar's career on the 
 stage fills a chapter in the 
 realm of magic that is 
 surpassed by none. En- 
 dowed with a remarkably 
 original mind, nimble 
 hands and a faculty for 
 magic, he brought his art 
 up to a point in which 
 cleverness and refinement 
 intermingled, while his 
 illusions mystified. For 
 nearly a quarter of a cen- 
 tury he was continually 
 before the American pub- 
 lic and during that time 
 millions of people saw 
 
 
 him. He evolved numerous pieces of magic 
 that defied imitation or solution, and when he 
 retired from the stage only his successor, to 
 whom he turned over his secrets, knew how 
 he had accomplished them. 
 
 At various times he had trouble with 
 would-be imitators and often figured in mat- 
 ters that, to his highly sensitive and refined 
 mentality, were distasteful. When he retired, 
 however, it was with the affection of millions 
 of persons who had been charmed and edified 
 by his efforts. Upon leaving the stage Mr. 
 Kellar settled in Los Angeles, and there he 
 lives surrounded by an atmosphere of refine- 
 ment and pleasant recollections. During his 
 life he accumulated a handsome fortune, and 
 of this he gives liberally in unostentatious 
 philanthropy. He is a man of marked intel- 
 lectual accomplishments and finds his recrea- 
 tion in those fields which appeal to the 
 scholar. 
 
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 AGNER, JAMES R. H., Real 
 Estate, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Detroit, 
 Michigan, September 22, 1870. 
 His father was Robert Wag- 
 ner and his mother Mary 'Leicester 
 (Hornibrook) Wagner. On November 4, 
 1894, he married Mabel E. Monahan, 
 at Cleveland, Ohio. To them were born 
 Arline Leicester, Harriet 
 Handy and Mary Leices- 
 ter Wagner. 
 
 Mr. Wagner's educa- 
 tion was obtained in the 
 Cass School of Detroit. 
 
 His first employment 
 as a boy was with the 
 American Exchange Na- 
 tional Bank of Detroit, 
 where he acted in the ca- 
 pacity of messenger for 
 the years 1886 and 1887. 
 During the succeeding 
 two years he was receiv- 
 ing teller and individual 
 bookkeeper in the Penin- 
 sular Savings Bank of 
 Detroit. Between the 
 years 1890 and 1894 he 
 was traveling salesman 
 for a Detroit tobacco 
 firm. He worked for the 
 wholesale tobacco house 
 of R. Wagner & Co., and 
 ably fitted himself for an 
 active career with the 
 largest tobacco institu- 
 tion in the world. 
 
 Deities cigarette factory, and Mr. Wagner 
 was given charge of the sales in all the East- 
 ern States. 
 
 In 1901, after many years in the tobacco 
 business, Mr. Wagner gave it up to go with 
 the New York "Commercial," one of the 
 oldest daily financial papers in America. His 
 initial business trip for this newspaper was 
 one which carried him over the entire United 
 States, and eventually to 
 Los Angeles. In that city 
 he expected to spend only 
 a short time, but one 
 month's stay convinced 
 him that there was no 
 other place on earth for 
 him. This was about 
 April 1, 1901, at a time 
 when Southern California 
 was in the height of its 
 floral beauty and growth. 
 He had just arrived from 
 the north, where the 
 blizzards and snowstorms 
 were raging. He imme- 
 diately sent his family 
 word to pack and come to 
 California. 
 
 Mr. Wagner associat- 
 ed himself with the Wil- 
 liam R. Staats Co. of Pas- 
 adena for one year. From 
 there he went to Santa 
 Barbara and organized 
 the Santa Barbara Realty 
 & Trust Co. His asso- 
 ciates there were Harri- 
 
 In 1895 he started in New York City with 
 the American Tobacco Co. as a retail sales- 
 man. His first efforts, in three months, at- 
 tracted attention and he was sent to Boston. 
 In six months he was stationed at Philadel- 
 phia, doing special work for the fine smok- 
 ing department of the corporation. 
 
 In 1897 he was sent to Nashville, Tenn., 
 to supervise the States of Mississippi, Ala- 
 bama and Tennessee. His work covered 
 largely the Old Virginia Cheroot depart- 
 ment. With a year of success in the South 
 he was transferred to Virginia and North 
 Carolina in order to take charge of the cheap 
 smoking and cheroots. In 1899 he was called 
 to New York and given charge of a national 
 campaign on a new brand of cheroots. This 
 work covered the United States east of the 
 Rocky Mountains. A year later the Ameri- 
 can Tobacco Co. acquired the Egyptian 
 
 TAS. R. H. WAGNER 
 
 ciates tnere were 
 
 son T. Kendall and D. T. Perkins of the Pot- 
 ter Hotel Co. ; George Edwards, president of 
 the Commercial Bank of Santa Barbara, and 
 William R. Staats of Pasadena. 
 
 Outside of the general real estate business 
 in Santa Barbara he secured a franchise for 
 the Home Telephone Co. and was instrumen- 
 tal in building the plant. He was an officer 
 of that organization for two years. In 1905 
 R. A. Rowan prevailed upon him to handle 
 Venice of America, then in the infancy of its 
 organization. He became the general agent 
 in the organization of that resort, and since 
 that time has been prominently identified in 
 the realty business of So. Cal. He has han- 
 dled with success Venice of America, Venice 
 Annex, Normandy Hill, Florencita Park, the 
 Cudahy Ranch, Bell Flower Acres and the 
 Owens Valley Lands. Mr. Wagner is second 
 vice president L. A. Realty Board; member, 
 Chamber of Commerce and California Club. 
 
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 LMADA, JESUS, Agricultural and 
 Industrial Investments, Culiacan, 
 Sinaloa, Mexico, was born in Cu- 
 liacan, June 17, 1853, the son of 
 Ponciano Almada and Laura (de 
 La Vega) Almada. He married 
 Dolores- (Salido) Almada at Alamos, Sonora, Mex- 
 ico, May 5, 1890, and to them have been born five 
 children, Laura, Aurora, Celida, Jesus and George 
 Almada. 
 
 The history of the Almada and de la Vega fam- 
 ilies is an integral part of the his-tory of the devel- 
 opment of northern Mexico during the last century. 
 The Almada family came from Spain to the Alamos 
 district in the State of Sonora about one hundred 
 years ago. Originally three brothers came over, 
 they being Antonio Benigno Almada, Jose Maria 
 Almada and Jesus Almada. The last named is the 
 direct ancestor of Mr. Almada, being his grand 
 father. Soon after the arrival of the three brothers- 
 in Mexico they were joined by a fourth and togeth- 
 er the quartette engaged actively in mining and 
 agriculture. Between them they owned hundreds 
 of thousands of acres of land, practically all of the 
 territory now embraced in the town and section of 
 Alamos, and theirs were known as the richest 
 mines of the time. In time they all became wealthy 
 and influential men, and their descendants are 
 among the leading citizens of the States of Sinaloa 
 and Sonora. 
 
 On the maternal g-ide of the house, Mr. Almada 
 is descended of another notable line, whose activi- 
 ties ran more to public affairs than did those of the 
 Almadas. The De La Vegan men for generations 
 have been prominent in military and governmental 
 circles in Mexico and have had a part in the gen- 
 eral improvement of laws and political methods of 
 their country. Many of them held important public 
 office, and the great-grandfather of Mr. Almada, 
 Don Rafael De La Vegas, served for many years as- 
 Governor of the State of Sinaloa. Elected about 
 the year 1848, he held office until his death. 
 
 Mr. Almada, who is recognized as one of the 
 chief factors in the commercial and industrial 
 progress of Sinaloa in recent years, received his 
 education in private schools of his- native city, 
 studying until he was about fourteen years of age. 
 At that time he made his first venture into busi- 
 ness affairs and has devoted himself to commercial 
 life continuously since then, a period extending 
 over forty-five years. 
 
 He began his career as part owner of a mercan- 
 tile store in Culiacan, in partnership with his 
 brother. Together the brothers, in whom the busi- 
 ness instinct was strong, operated with great suc- 
 cess and built their store into one of the principal 
 business houses of the State. At the age of twenty- 
 two years, however, Mr. Almada became ambitious- 
 for the accomplishment of larger things and turned 
 his attention to mining in the Culiacan district. 
 
 He met with quite as great success in this field 
 
 as he had in the mercantile business and as- the 
 owner of the La Rastra Mine in Cosala and El 
 Rosario Mine in San Jose de las Bocas, was re- 
 garded as one of the rich men of the country. 
 
 About the year 1889 Mr. Almada embarked in 
 agriculture on a large scale, operating as a s-ugar 
 grower in addition to conducting his mining inter- 
 ests. He purchased a plantation of seventy thou- 
 sand acres and formed the Almada Sugar Refining 
 Company, with himself as Treasurer. In this he 
 was a&sociated with his elder brother and their 
 plant at Culiacan, with a capacity of eight million 
 kilos, or eight hundred and eighty tons, was one 
 of the largest Indus-trial enterprises in the Republic. 
 
 Mr. Almada remained in active management of 
 this industry for more than twenty years, but in 
 1910 sold out his interest, preparatory to taking a 
 well-earned re,'t, although he still retains his min- 
 ing and other interests in Sinaloa. 
 
 Generally recognized as one of the potent fac- 
 tors in the upbuilding of his section of Mexico, Mr. 
 Almada could have had many po&ts of honor in the 
 public service during his long career, but public 
 life and politics made no appeal to him and he con- 
 sistently kept out of them. His services to his 
 country in other ways, however, were numerous 
 and valuable and in the promotion of his own vast 
 busine&s enterprises he contributed largely to the 
 general prosperity of his State. 
 
 The Almada family is among the leaders of so- 
 cial life in Mexico and their home at Culiacan is 
 one of the handsomest places in the entire land. 
 Mr. Almada's daughters are noted for their wonder- 
 ful beauty and in the United States, as- well as their 
 own country, are regarded among the lovely young 
 women of America. 
 
 It was partly on account of his daughters that 
 Mr. Almada decided, in 1910, to move to the United 
 States temporarily, and the family located in Los 
 Angeles, California, where the daughters were 
 placed in school. They became extremely popular 
 among the younger society folk and were gener- 
 ously entertained and their home; in turn, was the 
 scene of many interesting social affairs at which 
 they were hostesses. 
 
 Shortly after Mr. Almada left Culiacan, Mexico 
 was torn by political dissension which culminated 
 in the Madero revolution and the overthrow of the 
 Diaz government. In this, as in the subsequent re- 
 bellion led by Pa&quale Orozco, Mr. Almada took 
 no part, although his large property interests in the 
 State of Sinaloa were endangered on both occa- 
 sions. As noted before, he had never taken any 
 active part in politics and when the differences 
 brought civil war upon the country Mr. Almada 
 maintained an absolutely neutral attitude and was 
 one of those men who waited patiently for peace, 
 hoping that whatever the result might be, it would 
 prove for the best interests of his country, and per- 
 mit to resume, the commercial advance to which 
 they had bent their energies. 
 
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 EDWARD T. YOUMANS 
 
 OUMANS, EDWARD TOWNER, 
 Real Estate, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 
 11, 1869, the son of Edward B. 
 Youmans and Louise (Towner) 
 Youmans. He married Louise 
 Billings at Elmira, Jan. 18, 1893. There is one 
 child, Dorothy Helena Youmans. Mr. Youmans' 
 father was Asst. Sec. of the Treasury during the first 
 administration of President Cleveland, and was a 
 law partner of Hon. David B. Hill of New York. 
 
 Mr. Youmans began his education in the public 
 schools- of Elmira, but later attended Phillips Exe- 
 ter and the Lawrenceville (N. J.) Academy. In 1888 
 he left Phillips Exeter and traveled in Europe for 
 about eight months. 
 
 Returning to the U. S. in 1889, he was appointed 
 private secretary to the Supt. of the U. S. Treasury, 
 and later was given a position in the office of the 
 Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate. In 1892 he 
 was oppointed Librarian of the State Assembly of 
 New York. In New York City (1893) he helped in 
 the organization of the Associated Merchants of 
 New York, a mercantile agency, and was its Presi- 
 dent for eleven years. He was interested in oil and 
 timber land in Northern Penn., comprising about 
 40,000 acres of land, during 1904-'05-'06. 
 
 In 1907, Mr. Youmans became Gen. Mgr. of the 
 Credit Clearing House of N. Y., resigning in 1909 to 
 go to Los Angeles. He became associated in 
 1910 with F. D. Cornell in the purchase of a 43,000- 
 acre tract in Riverside County, Cal., known as 
 Rancho El Sobrante de San Jacinto. A corporation 
 was- formed to develop it, known as the El Sobrante 
 Land Co., with Mr. Youmans as President. 
 
 Mr. Youmans is a member of the Commercial 
 Law League of America, Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, Los Angeles Realty Board, Automobile 
 Club of So. Cal., the Union League of Los Angeles, 
 and the Victoria Club of Riverside, Cal. 
 
 F. D. CORNELL 
 
 ORNELL, FAY DEY, Real Estate, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Nebraska, July 2, 1880. He is the 
 son of William H. Cornell and Ad- 
 die (Dey) Cornell, and is a great 
 nephew of Ezra Cornell, founder 
 of Cornell University. He married Bertha Bessey, 
 at Oakland, Cal., April 26, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Cornell was educated in the public schools 
 of his native State, graduating from the High 
 School al* Syracuse, Neb., in 1896. He spent two 
 years at Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 In 1899, Mr. Cornell first located at Oakland, 
 Cal., and became Secretary of the Jubiles Incubator 
 Co., later going to Sunnyvale, Cal., where the com- 
 pany erected a large factory near San Francisco 
 Bay. He remained with that concern until the San 
 Francisco disaster in 1906. Injuries sustained then 
 made impossible any activity for nearly a year. 
 Upon recovery in February, 1907, he moved to Los 
 Angeles and became interested in real e&tate. 
 
 In 1910, Mr. Cornell organized the El Sobrante 
 Land Co., which purchased a tract of 43,000 acres 
 known as Rancho El Sobrante de San Jacinto, Riv- 
 erside County, also developed a water system and 
 valuable mineral rights. 
 
 The land is being subdivided, and sales of 
 nearly $750,000 have already been made. The com- 
 pany, of which Mr. Cornell is Sec. and Treas., has 
 properties valued at several million dollars, the 
 purpose of the owners being to develop, subdivide 
 and sell its lands. 
 
 In July, 1912, the F. D. Cornell Co., Inc., was 
 organized, with a paid-up capital of $375,000, with 
 a directorate of seven successful and representa- 
 tive operators and bankers of Los Angeles. The 
 company owns control of the El Sobrante Land Co., 
 as well as other great tracts. 
 
 Mr. Cornell is a member of the Los Angeles 
 Realty Board and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 WM. F. BIXBY 
 
 ^ f ^ = ^ IXBY, WILLIAM FLINT, Civil and 
 Hydraulic Engineer, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born there September 
 1, 1878. He is the son of Augus- 
 tus S. Bixby and Mary L. (Good- 
 win) Bixby. 
 
 Mr. Bixby received his primary education in the 
 public schools of Los Angeles and Sierra Madre, 
 Cal., and graduated from Throop Polytechnic In- 
 stitute, Pasadena, Cal., in 1898. He was then taken 
 into the office of Austin & Skilling, architects, and 
 worked under John C. Austin until 1902, when he 
 entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, 
 N. Y., and graduated in 1906 with the degree of 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 While studying for his degree Mr. Bixby was 
 engaged in practical engineering work as rodman 
 for the Schenectady (N. Y.) Railway Company, as 
 engineer and foreman for the Hudson River Tele- 
 phone Company, and draughtsman for Sanderson 
 & Porter, civil engineers of New York. Returning 
 to Los Angeles in 1906, he immediately became 
 Assistant City Engineer and Surveyor. He resigned 
 this in October, 1907, and organized the firm of 
 Bixby & White with Arthur B. White. Their prac- 
 tice includes irrigation, municipal, structural and 
 sanitary engineering. One of Mr. Bixby's most im- 
 portant operations was the subdivision and improve- 
 ment of a tract of 200 acres in Los Angeles. He also 
 has made extensive surveys in Kern County, Cal. 
 Mr. Bixby holds appointments as City Engineer 
 for the towns of Sierra Madre and Eagle Rock, 
 Cal., in charge of municipal improvements. 
 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
 Commerce, Los Angeles Chamber of Mines and 
 Oil, Pasadena (Cal.) Board of Trade, Sierra Madre 
 Board of Trade and the Engineers and Architects' 
 Association of Los Angeles. He is also an asso- 
 ciate member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers. 
 
 J. W. FRENCH 
 
 RENCH, JAMES WILLIAM, Ma- 
 chinery, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born on a farm near Colfax, 
 Iowa, December 3, 1859, the son 
 of Thomas Andrew French and 
 Elizabeth (Harmon) French. He 
 married Nettie Wood at Harlan, Iowa, on Novem- 
 ber 22, 1883, and to them there were born two chil- 
 dren, Gertrude and Irene French. 
 
 Mr. French was educated in the common schools 
 of Iowa and spent his youth on his father's farm. 
 He left there in 1885 and went to Kirkman, Iowa, 
 where he went into the drug business. He re- 
 mained in that line for about five years and in 1888 
 was elected Auditor of Shelby County, Iowa, in 
 which office he served until 1895. He was appoint 
 ed postmaster of Harlan, Iowa, by President Grover 
 Cleveland on Feb. 18, 1896, and served four years. 
 When he left office, Mr. French embarked in 
 the hardware business in Harlan, remaining until 
 1902, and serving a term meanwhile as a member 
 of the City Council of Harlan. He sold his busi- 
 ness and became associated with the Austin-West- 
 ern Company, Ltd., of Chicago, heavy machinery 
 builders, as traveling salesman and Manager of the 
 Iowa territory. He worked in that section for about 
 a year and then was transferred to the Pacific 
 Coast as General Agent. He held this position until 
 May, 1911, when he was named Southwestern Man- 
 ager for the company, having charge of its business 
 in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. 
 Two of the largest plants in the country, one at 
 Los Angeles, the other at San Dimas, California, 
 were installed by Mr. French. 
 
 Mr. French is a member of the L,os Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce, honorary member of the 
 Jonathan Club, a Mystic Shriner and Knight Tem- 
 plar. 
 
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 AUSER, JULIUS, President 
 Hauser Packing Company, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born Jan. 7, 1847, at Kretz- 
 engen, Baden, Germany, the 
 son of Michael Hauser and R. (Federer) 
 Hauser. He married Caroline Heigett, Sep- 
 tember 11, 1878, at Sacramento, California. 
 They are the parents of six children, E. C., 
 H. J., L. A., F. M., Lou- 
 ise W., and C. F. Hauser. 
 Mr. Hauser was edu- 
 cated in the public 
 schools of his native 
 country until he was 
 fourteen years old. He 
 was then withdrawn 
 from school and put to 
 work on his father's 
 farm. After two and a 
 half years he was appren- 
 ticed to a butcher. At 
 the age of eighteen, with 
 a working knowledge of 
 the trade, he went to 
 Alsace to seek his for- 
 tune, but two years later 
 he migrated to Switzer- 
 land, locating at the City 
 of Zurich. He worked in 
 a meat establishment six 
 months, when he became 
 dissatisfied with the pros- 
 pects ahead of him in 
 Europe and decided to 
 join the great flow of 
 German emigrants to 
 America. He returned to Baden to take a 
 farewell look at his parents and relatives, 
 and sailed for New York in 1867, just after 
 he had reached his majority. 
 
 He had only four dollars in his pocket 
 when he arrived in the United States, and 
 he. had to face the problem of immediate 
 work. He found it aboard a coal boat ply- 
 ing on the Hudson River, at one dollar a day. 
 A chance to work on a farm in New York 
 State offered, and he decided to accept it. 
 For the ensuing six months he drew pay at 
 the rate of $15 per month, but that winter 
 gave up the work. He went to Poughkeep- 
 sie, New York, and finally found work at 
 his trade and worked in the same shop two 
 years until 1870, when he went to California. 
 He located first in the small town of 
 Washington, across the river from Sacra- 
 mento, California, and as he had only $75, 
 took work in a meat shop. After eight 
 
 JULIUS 
 
 months' work he bought out a small place. 
 At the end of one year he saw that he 
 would succeed and made his brother, Valen- 
 tine Hauser, his partner. He ran the busi- 
 ness for twelve years. In 1882 he sold the 
 entire business to his brother. 
 
 After a month in Sacramento he went to 
 Los Angeles, and there at once bought out a 
 meat market at the corner of First and Main 
 streets, and conducted 
 the business for thirteen 
 years. In 1895 he bought 
 out the Mott market, 
 which had partially 
 failed, adding it to his al- 
 ready large business, 
 which he moved to larger 
 quarters. 
 
 In 1891 he opened a 
 small packing house on 
 West Washington street, 
 seven miles from the 
 Court House. This 
 thrived and he made con- 
 stant additions, until 
 1904, when the business 
 had reached such a vol- 
 ume that a new location 
 had to be sought. He in- 
 corporated the firm of 
 the Hauser Packing Com- 
 pany, a close corporation, 
 taking in his five sons. 
 He then built the present 
 great plant, which was 
 not finished until 1906, 
 and which covers twenty 
 acres of ground. The business is one of the 
 largest enterprises in the Southwest. It does 
 an annual business of over $3,000,000. The 
 name of Hauser is now known all over the 
 country, their products being exported to 
 Mexico, England, Japan, Germany, Austra- 
 lia, Honolulu and other foreign countries. 
 
 He is today president and active head of 
 the Hauser Packing Company. E. C. Hauser 
 is vice president. H. J. Hauser is secretary, 
 L. A. Hauser treasurer, and F. M. Hauser 
 superintendent. 
 
 He is a member of the Merchants and 
 Manufacturers' Association, American Meat 
 Packers' Association, Chamber of Commerce, 
 Los Angeles Board of Trade and Retailers 
 and Jobbers' Association of Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Hauser belongs to a number of fra- 
 ternal orders, among them the Elks, Masons, 
 Odd Fellows and Shriners. He is of the 
 thirty-second degree of Masonry. 
 
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 [ESENDANGER, T., Real 
 Estate and Building, Los 
 Angeles, California, was 
 born June 8, 1851, in Switz- 
 erland, the son of John and 
 Katherine Wiesendanger. Mr. Wiesendan- 
 ger comes of a good Swiss family, one in 
 which education has been a tradition. He 
 was taught in private schools, and finally in 
 the University of Ge- 
 neva, one of the most 
 famous institutions of 
 learning in Europe; re- 
 ceived his degree in 1873. 
 He began teaching 
 as a career in his native 
 land. The United States 
 appealed to his imagina- 
 tion, however, and he be- 
 came restless enough to 
 cross the water in the 
 year 1884, going direct 
 to Los Angeles. 
 
 His ability and his 
 knowledge were recog- 
 nized by the then new 
 University of Southern 
 California, and he was 
 given a professorship in 
 that institution, and con- 
 tinued as a teacher until 
 1886, when he quit his 
 profession to enter active 
 business. 
 
 The subdivision busi- 
 ness appealed to him the 
 most, on account of the 
 rapid growth of the city, and he improved 
 one tract after another. Among the tracts 
 which he converted from farm to city are 
 the Wiesendanger Tract, the Wiesendanger 
 City Tract, Waverly Tract, Park Villa Tract 
 and others now in the heart of the city. 
 While engaged in this line of the realty busi- 
 ness, he built 620 houses and sold over 6000 
 lots. In 1902 he built the first apartment 
 house in Los Angeles, known as the Roose- 
 velt Apartments, so named because it was 
 the purpose of the builder to adapt it special- 
 ly to tenants with children. This has been 
 a hobby of Mr. Wiesendanger's, to encourage 
 children rather than the opposite, and he has 
 managed to have most of his apartments so 
 built that they will not be in the way of 
 other tenants in the place. The first Roose- 
 velt was an immediate success, so he has 
 from time to time built other apartment 
 houses, until by 1911 he had built forty. He 
 
 T. WIESENDANGER 
 
 has over 1000 families as his personal 
 tenants, and is getting more. 
 
 Mr. Wiesendanger is an inventor, and has 
 turned his mind especially to the elimination 
 of the drudgery of housekeeping. He has 
 made and patented innumerable devices for 
 apartment houses, so that housework has 
 been reduced to the minimum, and the ser- 
 vant question has ceased to be troublesome. 
 In a group of apartments 
 that he owns in a single 
 block he has created a 
 private playground for 
 the children, and he has 
 parked and equipped it 
 with all of the best fea- 
 tures to be found in the 
 city playgrounds. 
 
 He takes a great in- 
 terest in public affairs, 
 but as a student of social 
 affairs chiefly. He has 
 belonged to many civic 
 clubs whose purpose has 
 been the beautification 
 of the city and the bet- 
 terment of public im- 
 provements. 
 
 Mr. Wiesendanger is 
 a member of the Good 
 Government League of 
 Los Angeles, but he has 
 never been a candidate 
 for public office. 
 
 Among the apart- 
 ments owned and oper- 
 ated by Mr. Wiesendan- 
 ger are the following: The Park Apart- 
 ments, the Seattle Apartments, the Golden 
 Apartments, the Gaviota Apartments, the 
 St. Louis Apartments, Boston Apartments, 
 Denver Apartments, Michigan Apartments, 
 Geneva Apartments, New York Apartments, 
 Chicago Apartments, the Florence Apart- 
 ments, the Roosevelt Apartments, the Taft 
 Apartments, Marengo Apartments, Helvetia 
 Apartments, Alhambra Apartments, Port- 
 land Apartments, Pittsburg Apartments, 
 Oakland Apartments, Lucerne Apartments, 
 Goleta Apartments, Ramona Apartments, 
 and many of lesser size. 
 
 These include altogether over one thou- 
 sand apartments. He is still the owner of 
 considerable suburban property. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club, 
 the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and a number of other or- 
 ganizations, trade and social. 
 
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 UTPHEN, JOSEPH WALWORTH, 
 President, Pacific Packing Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
 July 15, 1883, the son of Paul 
 Frederick Sutphen and Bertha 
 (Davies) Sutphen. He married Miss Georgia Bab- 
 cock at Cleveland, Ohio, June 17, 1908, and to them 
 there has been born a son, Joseph Walworth Sut- 
 phen, Jr. Mr. Sutphen is descended of a family 
 prominent in American affairs since 1652, when one 
 of the early members was a Burgomaster of New 
 Amsterdam, as New York was then known. Both 
 sides of the family have been represented in the 
 wars of the United States, Colonel George Davies, 
 an officer of the Union Army during the Civil War 
 having been his grandfather. 
 
 Mr. Sutphen was educated in private institutions 
 of the East, his first schooling being at Newark 
 Academy, Newark, New Jersey. He then went to 
 William Penn Charter School at Philadelphia, Pa., 
 and followed this with attendance at the University 
 School, Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1902. He then spent two years in Case 
 School of Applied Science, the scientific branch of 
 Western Reserve University, but left to take up the 
 study of law in the Law Department of the same 
 institution. He was graduated in 1907 with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
 
 At the conclusion of his studies, Mr. Sutphen 
 was admitted to the Bar of Ohio and entered the 
 offices of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, a firm of 
 celebrated corporation attorneys of Cleveland. The 
 members of this firm are among the leaders of the 
 Ohio Bar and Mr. Sutphen, who was associated 
 with them for about three years, gained an amount 
 of valuable experience not usually afforded the 
 younger members of the Bar. 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Sutphen severed his Cleveland con- 
 nections and moved to Los Angeles, where, in Sep- 
 tember of that year, he opened offices for the prac- 
 tice of his profession. He made a study of the 
 fruit industry and the transportation methods ap- 
 plied to it and within a short time became recog- 
 nized as an authority on the laws dealing with these 
 subjects. He became so closely identified with the 
 citrus fruit business that at the end of his first 
 year in Southern California he practically gave up 
 his law practice to organize the Pacific Packing 
 Company, a progressive concern, of which he has 
 been President practically from its inception. 
 
 Although it is comparatively young, this company 
 has already come to be regarded as one of the im- 
 portant adjuncts of the great citrus industry in 
 California. It is engaged in the packing and ship- 
 ping of citrus fruits and has 17 plants in California 
 and Idaho, but the real inspiration for the company 
 and foundation on which it rests is the system of 
 drawing the Eastern buyers to the California mar- 
 kets, or source of supply, thus completely revolu- 
 tionizing the method of shipping fruit. 
 
 For many years the citrus fruit growers, out 
 side of those members of great co-operative organ 
 izations, have shipped their fruits to Eastern mar- 
 kets without knowing what they would be paid for 
 the product. They assumed all risks of deprecia- 
 tion in transit and demoralized or overstocked mar- 
 kets, and were compelled to take practically any 
 price offered for the fruit, waiting from thirty to 
 ninety days for their receipts. The buyers, on the 
 other hand, were often forced to buy fruit of all 
 sizes to get some of a size they especially desired 
 and experienced various other inconveniences. In 
 fact, in many cases the business was a losing prop- 
 osition to both buyer and seller. 
 
 It was to obviate these various evils and to elim- 
 inate the expense of the middleman that Mr. Sut- 
 phen and his associates evolved their plan of selling 
 for cash at the source of supply as expressed in the 
 Pacific Packing Company. The result of this has 
 been that the grower receives the best price for his 
 fruit, receives payment at once and the buyer is 
 given the opportunity of selecting his stock before 
 it is placed on the cars. The first year of its ex- 
 istence the Pacific Packing Company shipped one 
 thousand carloads of oranges and lemons and its 
 operations have grown steadily since. 
 
 In connection with the work of the Pacific Pack- 
 ing Company Mr. Sutphen and his associates or- 
 ganized the California Fruit Auction Company, 
 through which the selling of the crop is con- 
 ducted. This company has proved of great benefit 
 to the grower, the effect on the market of selling 
 for cash in California being most pronounced. 
 The market there is governed by supply and de- 
 mand, this demand depending solely upon condi- 
 tions in the combined markets of the United States 
 and Canada and not upon those of any particular 
 city or section. 
 
 Mr. Sutphen serves as a member of the Board 
 of Directors of the California Fruit Auction Com- 
 pany and as such has an important part in its af- 
 fairs and in those of the general industry, the en- 
 tire citrus fruit product being valued at many mil- 
 lions of dollars. 
 
 The companies with which Mr. Sutphen is con- 
 nected have won the confidence and support of a 
 large percentage of citrus fruit growers who have 
 benefited by the new method of marketing the 
 fruit. The packing houses, located in the best 
 citrus-producing districts, are equipped with mod- 
 ern machinery, insuring to the growers the highest 
 grade of workmanship in grading and packing, 
 while the auction business is in the hands of men 
 highly trained in the selling of citrus fruits. 
 
 Mr. Sutphen still maintains his law practice, but 
 as he confines himself to fruit and transportation 
 law he may be said to be more closely connected 
 with the fruit industry than with the legal profes- 
 sion. He is a member of Beta Theta Phi Club, of 
 New York, and in Southern California is a member 
 of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 REM, FRANK MILON, Min- 
 ing and Investments, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah, was born 
 in Ray County, Mo., Sept. 26, 
 1874, the son of A. J. Orem 
 and Martha Ann (Leabo) Orem. He mar- 
 ried Orla Mays, at Dubuque, Iowa, Sep- 
 tember 8th, 1899. They have two children, 
 Hollis Milon Orem and Media Orem. His 
 ancestry can be traced 
 back to the Mayflow- 
 er, the original Pil- 
 grim ship of 1620. All of 
 his forefathers came to 
 this country prior to the 
 Revolution, and one of 
 them held a commission 
 in the Revolutionary 
 army. The name is a fa- 
 miliar one in the chroni- 
 cles of the early days. 
 
 He attended the public 
 schools of Excelsior 
 Springs, Mo., and then 
 entered the Law Depart- 
 ment of the University of 
 Michigan, receiving his 
 degree of LL. D. with the 
 class of 1899. 
 
 He began the practice 
 of law in Salt Lake City 
 a few weeks after his 
 graduation. This he con- 
 tinued for a number of 
 years, principally in a 
 consulting capacity for FRANK 
 
 corporations. 
 
 He early became interested in mining, in 
 association with his father and other mem- 
 bers of his family. Their properties became 
 very productive, the Orem operations becom- 
 ing more and more extensive, until, finally, 
 he thought it advisable to give up the active 
 practice of law. During the last five years 
 he has not accepted any legal cases, although 
 he holds a general oversight of legal matters 
 connected with the various Orem interests. 
 He is secretary and treasurer of most of the 
 enterprises in which the corporation of A. 
 J. Orem & Co. is interested, and has a general 
 supervision of office work for its different 
 interests. A. J. Orem & Co. is A. J. Orem 
 and family incorporated. 
 
 The company has a Boston office, in charge 
 of the head of the firm, assisted by H. C. 
 Joy, a brother-in-law of Frank M. Orem. 
 The Boston office does a general brokerage 
 and promotion business, having in view the 
 
 raising of money to finance the Orem com- 
 pany's different enterprises. The Salt Lake 
 City office has charge of the operating end 
 of the business. 
 
 Mr. Orem's interests cover a wide range 
 of activity, including especially copper min- 
 ing, coal mining, railroads, general construc- 
 tion and merchandising. All of the enter- 
 prises are operated on a considerable scale. 
 The company owns two 
 railroads the Nevada 
 Copper Belt Railroad Co. 
 and the Castle Valley 
 Railroad Co. The former 
 penetrates the well-known 
 copper belt of Nevada, in 
 which the Orems are op- 
 erators, and the latter a 
 busy coal field of Utah. 
 Mr. Orem is treasurer of 
 both railroads, which 
 were built primarily to 
 serve the Orem mines. He 
 is treasurer of the Castle 
 Valley Coal Co., which is 
 one of the largest coal 
 producers in the inter- 
 mountain district. He is 
 assistant treasurer and 
 acting treasury officer of 
 the Nevada Douglas Cop- 
 per Co., which is the op- 
 erating name of the Orem 
 copper interests. The 
 mercantile business of the 
 
 M. OREM fa n y u is incorporated 
 
 under the name ot the 
 Mohrland Mercantile Co., and of this firm he 
 is treasurer. 
 
 He is president of the Mason & Douglas 
 Construction Co. and also performs the 
 duties of treasurer. The construction com- 
 pany accepts contracts for work on a large 
 scale, and has successfully handled a number 
 of important contracts in Utah and Nevada. 
 
 Although well in touch with political af- 
 fairs in his State and city, Mr. Orem has 
 never held a political office and has no politi- 
 cal ambitions. He is content to further^the 
 interests of Utah and of the communities 
 where his capital is invested by productive 
 enterprise. With his father and brothers, he 
 gets the credit in Salt Lake City- of being 
 one of the most active forces in the growth 
 and progress of that city. The enterprises 
 which he has helped create have given em- 
 ployment to thousands of men, and they 
 have produced millions in wealth. 
 
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 REM, WALTER CLAUDE, 
 Mining, Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, was born in Ray Coun- 
 ty, Missouri, May 23, 1873, 
 the son of A. J. Orem and 
 Martha A. (Leabo) Orem. His father, who 
 was formerly a school teacher and later a 
 merchant, now head of the firm of A. J. Orem 
 & Co. of Boston, Mass., and Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, and his mother, 
 were both of English an- 
 cestry, the former's for- 
 bears having come to 
 America in the Mayflow- 
 er. Mr. Orem married Ma- 
 bel G. Emery at Wapello, 
 Iowa, Dec. 19, 1894, and 
 to them there have been 
 born five children, Wil- 
 liam W., Gladys M., Mar- 
 garet R., Albert E., and 
 Horace J. Orem. 
 
 Mr. Orem, who has at- 
 tained remarkable success 
 in Copper and Coal min- 
 ing, attended the public 
 schools of Kansas City 
 and vicinity, finishing his 
 education when he was 
 about seventeen years of 
 age. 
 
 He went to Salt Lake 
 City in 1890, and took a 
 position as traveling 
 salesman for a dry goods 
 house, in which line he re- 
 mained for about seven 
 years. He found this occupation too slow for 
 his ambitions, however, and decided to enter 
 the mining business, which appealed to him 
 because of its seemingly unlimited possibili- 
 ties for fortune and activity. His first real 
 work in this latter field came when he, with 
 others, obtained an interest in the Red Wing 
 Mine, a copper and lead deposit at Bing- 
 ham, Utah. Two years after he first became 
 connected with this proposition he was made 
 its manager and also of the York property, 
 both of which had a past history and fair 
 productive record, but with little in sight at 
 that time. 
 
 The York was later merged with a num- 
 ber of surrounding properties into what is 
 now well known as the Utah Apex Mining 
 Co. Of this company, Mr. Orem was man- 
 ager for the first six years after its organ- 
 ization, but then resigned in order to devote 
 his time more fully to his own properties, 
 
 W. C. OREM 
 
 for which he had large plans in the way of 
 development. 
 
 It was at this stage of his career that Mr. 
 Orem began to expand his operations in a 
 way that has placed him among the lead- 
 ing mining men of the country, with interests 
 in Utah and Nevada that keep him contin- 
 ually active. 
 
 At the present time he is vice-president 
 and manager of the oper- 
 ating department of A. J. 
 Orem & Co. of Salt Lake 
 City and Boston, who are 
 successful copper and coal 
 mining operators on a 
 large scale throughout 
 the Western States, with 
 prominent capital connec- 
 tions in New York and 
 other parts of the world. 
 This company owns and 
 operates at Yerington, 
 Nev., a number of prop- 
 erties, the chief of which 
 is the Nevada Douglas 
 Copper Co., producer of 
 high-grade copper ore. 
 The developed ore in the 
 mine of this company is 
 valued by experts in the 
 millions. Mr. Orem is 
 general manager of this 
 work and is largely inter- 
 ested in it personally. He 
 is also President of the 
 Nevada Copper Belt 
 Railroad, a line extending 
 through a rich copper mining and agricultural 
 section of Western Nevada, and is a heavy 
 stockholder, with the office of director in the 
 Castle Valley Coal Co. and treasurer and 
 director of the Castle Valley Railroad Co., in 
 Eastern Utah. The Castle Valley Coal Co. is 
 the holder of one of the largest and richest 
 coal deposits in the West, and in its manage- 
 ment Mr. Orem is an active factor. In addi- 
 tion to the corporations mentioned, Mr. Orem 
 is treasurer of the Mohrland Mercantile Co. 
 and director of the Maxfield Vinegar Co., and 
 has recently been elected as a director of the 
 Continental National Bank of Salt Lake City. 
 He is a member of the American Mining 
 Congress, and is a prominent member of the 
 Commercial Club of Salt Lake City. He is a 
 man of Christian instincts and practices and 
 belongs to the Immanuel Baptist Church of 
 Salt Lake and is a director in the Young 
 Men's Christian Association. 
 
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 JEROME NEWMAN 
 
 EWMAN, JEROME, Civil Engi- 
 neer, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in that city, April 16, 
 1862, the son of Edward Newman 
 and Johanna (Bendan) Newman. 
 He married Louise J. Moore at 
 Tacoma, Wash., September 24, 1892, and they have 
 two children, Grace and Edward Newman. 
 
 Mr. Newman graduated at the University of Cal- 
 ifornia in 1883, and afterwards spent three years 
 in scientific study at the Polytechnic School at 
 Charlottenburg, Germany. 
 
 Returning to San Francisco, Mr. Newman was 
 in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad for 
 a year, and for two years more was engaged in gen- 
 eral work. In 1890, as Assistant Engineer of the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad, he had charge of the 
 double tracking of a portion of that line near Ta- 
 coma, remaining with the company until 1893. In 
 1895 he was engaged as bridge draughtsman with 
 the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway, 
 later becoming chief draughts-man with this com- 
 pany until 1900, when he entered the service of the 
 Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco as 
 office assistant to the Chief Engineer. 
 
 In 1904 Mr. Newman was office engineer of the 
 Salt Lake Railroad on the construction of 300 miles 
 of line between Daggett, Cal., and Caliente, Nev., 
 and the next year returned to the service of the 
 Southern Pacific. In 1907 he became construction 
 engineer of the North Coast Railway in eastern 
 Washington, and from 1907 until 1912 served as 
 office assistant to William Hood, Chief Engineer 
 of the Southern Pacific. In 1912 Mr. Newman was 
 appointed Assistant State Engineer in charge of 
 the important office of harbor improvements at 
 San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Newman is a member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, a thirty-second degree 
 Mason and a Shriner. 
 
 W. M. THOMAS 
 
 HOMAS, WILLIAM M., Consulting 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 7, 1877, 
 the son of Major John S. Thomas 
 and Ellen C. Thomas. He mar- 
 ried Cecilia J. Feenan, of Holly- 
 wood, Cal., Oct. 3, 1912. His father, a successful 
 architect, builder and inventor, with more than fifty 
 patented products to his credit, held a commission 
 under Leland Stanford, Governor of California. 
 
 Mr. Thomas received his preliminary education 
 in public schools of St. Louis and Chicago, attend- 
 ed Jesuit College, Chicago, and studied Architec- 
 ture at the Art Institute and Art Acamedy, Chicago. 
 
 As architect for the Terminal R. R. Ass'n of St. 
 Louis, he had charge of the designing and architec- 
 tural dept. of their great $20,000,000 terminal. Upon 
 its completion Mr. Thomas became Structural En- 
 gineer for the Southern Pacific R. R. at Tucson, 
 Ariz., and later was Bridge Inspector and Asst. 
 Engineer of the S. P. Mexican lines. 
 
 In 1906 he moved to California and as Engineer 
 for John Martin, Pres. of the Pacific Coast Light & 
 Power Co. designed and built at Santa Cruz, Cal., 
 the first bridge of the "Thomas System" in Cali- 
 fornia. In 1908 he formed a partnership with W. 
 S. Post, a well-known engineer of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, locating in Los Angeles. Thomas & Post 
 have since designed and built many structures un- 
 der the "Thomas System," among them a bridge at 
 Oceanside, Cal., another at the San Lucas Crossing 
 of the Santa Ynez River, in Santa Barbara County, 
 and one at Bakersfield, Cal., 1050 feet in length. 
 
 Although Mr. Thomas is best known for his 
 bridge construction, he has invented other practi- 
 cal building methods, among them the Thomas 
 Floor System. He has eleven other patents grant- 
 ed or pending, pertaining to concrete construction. 
 
 Mr. Thomas is an Associate Member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers. 
 
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 ELON G. GALUSHA 
 
 ALUSHA, ELON GILBERT, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Rochester, N. Y., August 
 25, 1877, the son of Charles Col- 
 gate Galusha and Margaret Eliza- 
 beth (Gilbert) Galusha, his family 
 on both sides ranking with the oldest in New York 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Galusha was graduated from the Rochester 
 High School in 1895, entered the University of 
 Rochester and was graduated in the class of 1899 
 with the degree of A. B. He received the A. M. 
 degree at the conclusion of a post-graduate course. 
 He was graduated from the Albany Law School 
 with the degree of LL. B. and an honorary mention 
 for his work on the subject of Corporation Law. 
 While attending the Law School he was engaged in 
 reading in the office of Messrs. Mead & Hatt, of 
 Albany, N. Y., and also studied under Hon. A. J. 
 Rodenbech, now Judge of the Court of Claims, N. 
 Y. Admitted to practice, he became associated 
 with John Voorhis & Sons, of Rochester, and in 
 December, 1902, moved to Los Angeles. He im- 
 mediately entered the office of John D. Pope and 
 upon his motion was admitted to practice April 6, 
 1903, by the Supreme Court of Cal. Mr. Galusha 
 was in association with Mr. Pope about two years 
 and at the end of that time opened offices for him- 
 self. 
 
 He has made a specialty of corporation law and 
 probate work and today occupies a splendid posi- 
 tion in his profession. He is a member of the fac- 
 ulty of the New Southwestern College of Law and 
 has written several documents on Legal Procedure. 
 He is also a member of the Los Angeles Bar Assn. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Philbert Min- 
 ing Co. and serves as Director, also being a Direc- 
 tor of the New Era Food Co. He is a Republican, 
 member of the University Club of Los Angeles, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 
 
 G. IVAN PEOPLES 
 
 EOPLES, GRANVILLE IVAN, 
 Manufacturer, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born at Shell City, Mo., Nov. 
 7, 1886, the son of Granville M. 
 Peoples and Jannie S. (Herrick) 
 Peoples. He married Bessie Hell- 
 yar at Los Angeles Nov. 3, 1909. He is of German 
 extraction, his father's family having come over 
 from the Fatherland in the early days of the U. S. 
 His father was a wealthy contractor in Colorado 
 and his grandfather a noted Civil Engineer who 
 did considerable work for the United States Gov- 
 ernment on the Mississippi River. 
 
 Mr. Peoples received his early education in Den- 
 ver, leaving there in 1901, when his family moved 
 to Los Angeles. He became an apprentice in an 
 architect's office and also took up Civil Engineering. 
 He studied both professions for about three and a 
 half years, qualifying as an Architectural Engineer 
 in 1904. 
 
 The increasing use of concrete led Mr. Peoples 
 into a special study of its merits and into experi- 
 mental research, with the result that he became 
 actively interested in a firm manufacturing concrete 
 products. In 1910, he organized and was one of the 
 incorporators of the Cement Products & Construc- 
 tion Co., now serving as President. He is also a 
 Director of the Scheiber Concrete Roof Tile Co. of 
 Cal., specialists in the manufacture of cement prod- 
 ucts. He has made a continual study of the manu- 
 facture and use of Portland cements, conducting 
 an experimental dept. as an adjunct of his original 
 company. His company has erected many public 
 and quasi-public buildings in Southern California 
 and has done much in the development and use of 
 ornamental concrete. Some examples of his work 
 in Los Angeles are the Auditorium Hotel, Colum- 
 bia Hospital, and Arroyo Seco Bridge, and orna- 
 mental concrete construction in Central Park. 
 
 Mr. Peoples is a member of the Rotary Club, 
 Los Angeles. 
 
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 781 
 
 KEEN, JACOB CHARLES, Presi- 
 dent of the J. Charles Green Com- 
 pany, San Francisco, California, 
 was born at Kempen, Germany, 
 Sept. 1, 1869, son of Solomon 
 Green and Helen (Conn) Green. 
 His father was a well known glass manufacturer 
 of Kempen. He was married in Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, Dec. 25. 1904, to Miss Mae Gibbons, and is 
 the father of one child, Herbert Green. 
 
 From 1875 to 1880 Mr. Green attended the com- 
 mon school in Kempen, and then took a two years' 
 course in the Gymnase of the same town. In 1882 
 he went to California and for the next three years 
 was a pupil at the South Cosmopolitan grammar 
 school of San Francisco. During this period he 
 was selling newspapers on the street, in this way 
 earning the expenses of his schooling. Grammar 
 school through, he entered the circulation depart- 
 ment of the Evening Post, working there for three 
 years; then going over to the Evening Bulletin 
 for one year, where he was a sort of factotum and 
 assistant manager, and at the end of this time he 
 had gained knowledge enough to start a newspaper 
 of his own. This confidence was justified, in 1890, 
 by the success of three papers the California 
 Dramatic and Sporting News, the Pacific Coast 
 Home Monthly, and the Sunday Comfort, of all of 
 which he was publisher, proprietor and business 
 manager. Having advanced their circulation and 
 advertising departments to encouraging propor- 
 tions, he sold out to enter the general advertising 
 field. This included covers for bills of fare, dra- 
 matic amusement weeklies, and a patent cover 
 which he invented to show advertising on the 
 cover pages of magazines after their distribution. 
 In 1894 he entered the bill board advertising busi- 
 ness on his own account, and on December 26 of the 
 following year the firm of Siebe & Green was 
 formed, becoming a competitor of the California 
 Advertising Sign Company, at that time in control 
 of the field in San Francisco. During the evolu- 
 tion of this firm and up to the present, J. Charles 
 Green symbolized the progressiveness that has 
 actuated it. In 1898 the firm of Owens & Varney, 
 which had bought out the California Advertising 
 Sign Company, consolidated with Siebe & Green, 
 under the firm name of Owens, Varney & Green. 
 Subsequently both the Siebe and the Owens inter- 
 ests were sold to J. Charles Green and Thomas H. 
 B. Varney, under the firm name of Varney & Green. 
 In 1908 J. Charles Green and Mr. Varney di- 
 vided the business, the former retaining that of 
 San Francisco and the northern part of California. 
 After the earthquake of 1906 Mr. Green proved 
 himself one of the most public spirited and re- 
 sourceful of San Francisco's citizens. None was 
 more optimistic and courageous than he; and the 
 posters reading, "Work morn, noon and night, and 
 make dear San Francisco one million by 1915," 
 which he donated to the city, bearing their message 
 
 of hope and confidence in the future, are said to 
 have had an inspiring effect on the decisive move- 
 ment for the great Exposition of 1915. 
 
 At the great convention, held at Washington with 
 regard to the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 
 tion, there were deputations from almost all the large 
 cities, each anxious to secure the right to hold the 
 exposition within its own city. Mr. Green inter- 
 viewed the members of the San Francisco delega- 
 tion before they left for the capital, urging them 
 to do all in their power to get the honor for their 
 city. Also, he ordered 100 posters, 100 by 10 feet, 
 bearing the words, "Get San Francisco the Exposi- 
 tion," and had them posted up all over the city of 
 Washington. When the San Franciscans arrived 
 they were greeted by these posters all over the 
 national capital and it put a fighting spirit into 
 them that helped to win the day. Six minutes 
 after the announcement had been made of San 
 Francisco's victory he had that city covered with 
 huge posters conveying the news and praising the 
 work of the delegation. His action in this instance 
 was voluntary and inspired by patriotism. It had 
 the effect of instilling confidence into the mem- 
 bers of the delegation and of instilling in the 
 minds of the citizens of San Francisco apprecia- 
 tion of what the delegation had done for the city. 
 From that time forward Mr. Green has been one of 
 the hardest workers for the success of the great ex- 
 position, and his hobby can truly be said to be the 
 success of San Francisco herself. 
 
 Among the notable expressions of his efforts 
 in this direction, since 1906, were the building of 
 the Princess, the Valencia and the Orpheum Thea- 
 ters and the Auditorium building; and among the 
 strongest proofs of his marvelous power of in- 
 stilling his enthusiasm into others is the loyalty 
 and pull-together spirit of his employes. 
 
 The rise of Mr. Green from the position of a 
 newsboy, alone in a new country, unable to speak 
 its language, to that of a leader of civic enterprise 
 and the head of a great business has been one of 
 the most remarkable in the annals of San Fran- 
 cisco. To persons unfamiliar with the subject, 
 the extent of Mr. Green's operations is surprising. 
 In his advertising business he has 275 employes, 
 100 of whom are artists and designers. He has a 
 monthly pay roll of $25,000, while for space in 
 San Franci&co he pays a rental of $70,000 per an- 
 num. He has invested in steel and wooden boards 
 $750,000, and utilizes nine motor cars and thirty- 
 eight horse-drawn vehicles to handle the material 
 used. 
 
 Mr. Green is President of the Valencia Street 
 Improvement Co., the Grauman Skating Rink Co., 
 and the Market Street Improvement Co. of San 
 Jose; and he is a member of the following clubs 
 and associations: The Army and Navy, S. F. Ad. 
 Club, Rotary Club, Home Industry League, Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, Paint Association of America, 
 Association of Bill Posters of America. 
 
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 OLLOCK, JAMES ALBERT, 
 Banker and Broker, Salt Lake 
 City, Utah, was born in 
 Clarksville, Pike County, Mo., 
 June 10, 1863. His father was 
 Joseph Pollock and his mother Mary Jane 
 (Hicks) Pollock. He married Evelyn Prince 
 Dorr at Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1897. Two 
 children have been born, James Arlin and 
 Evelyn Dorr Pollock. 
 
 Mr. Pollock's educa- 
 tion was obtained in the 
 public schools and Burns 
 Academy of St. Louis, 
 Mo., and in addition he 
 studied under private tu- 
 tors. His ability as a 
 financier displayed itself 
 early in his life, but for 
 the first few years after 
 leaving school he had no 
 particular business ex- 
 cept looking after some 
 private investments. He 
 confined himself to per- 
 sonal affairs until 1889, 
 and at that time moved 
 to Denver, Col., arriving 
 there in the spring of the 
 year. He was appointed 
 Clearing House Manager 
 for the Denver Stock Ex- 
 change, and held this po- 
 sition for several months, 
 displaying an extraordi- 
 nary grasp of financial 
 affairs and winning a firm 
 position in the regard of bankers and others 
 with whom he had dealings. He resigned 
 his Denver position to go to Salt Lake, where 
 he settled June 17, 1890, and became Secre- 
 tary of the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Ex- 
 change. Shortly after his arrival he organ- 
 ized the firm of James A. Pollock & Co., of 
 which he is today the senior partner. 
 
 This company is commonly supposed to 
 have the largest brokerage business in the 
 inter-mountain region and has the reputa- 
 tion of having brought more money to Utah 
 and surrounding states for mining invest- 
 ments of a strictly legitimate character than 
 any other banking or brokerage firm in the 
 entire western country. Millions of dollars 
 have been handled by the firm and it has 
 been one of the real, practical factors in the 
 development of the resources of the country. 
 Mr. Pollock, who is the personification of 
 progress, has been among the leaders of 
 
 J. A. POLLOCK 
 
 finance in Salt Lake from the day he arrived 
 there, and an instance of his modern methods 
 was the establishment, soon after he began 
 business, of the first private wire system en- 
 tering the inter-mountain section. This en- 
 ables the Pollock house to keep in constant 
 touch with all other cities where stock, grain 
 and cotton exchanges are located. At the 
 time of the establishment of his banking and 
 brokerage business there 
 were few Utah stocks 
 known outside the State, 
 but with the foresight 
 that has characterized all 
 his acts, Mr. Pollock set 
 about to make these 
 stock issues known all 
 over the country. In 
 this he has been eminent- 
 ly successful, and experi- 
 enced financiers state au- 
 thoritatively that he has 
 done more than any 
 other one man in placing 
 before the investing pub- 
 lic the many excellent 
 propositions upon which 
 the latter day success of 
 Utah has been built. 
 
 His pre-eminence as 
 an authority on all west- 
 ern securities is well rec- 
 ognized, and as President 
 of the Salt Lake Stock 
 and Mining Exchange, a 
 position he has held for 
 many years, he is con- 
 sulted largely by persons seeking safe places 
 of investment for their money. 
 
 Mr. Pollock does not take an active part 
 in politics, but he is a patriotic and tireless 
 worker for any movement that has for its ob- 
 ject the upbuilding and betterment of his city 
 and State. The only office he has ever held 
 or sought to hold is that of President of the 
 Mining Exchange, and his administration has 
 been so successful the members are loath to 
 permit him to retire. 
 
 He is a director of the banking firm of 
 McCornick & Co., another notable institu- 
 tion, and the Michigan-Utah Mining Co., one 
 of the largest and most valuable mining 
 propositions in the State. He is a member of 
 the Alta, Commercial and Country Clubs of 
 Salt Lake; Flat Rock Club, Idaho; Califor- 
 nia Club, Los Angeles, and the Pasadena 
 Country and the Valley Clubs, of Pasadena, 
 California. 
 
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 OSSHOLDER, WILLIAM 
 
 Me JOHN, Attorney-at-Law, San 
 Diego, Cal., was born August 
 2 7> T ^S7> at Martinsburg, in 
 Knox County, Ohio, the son 
 of Squire Humphrey Mossholder and Mary 
 Eliza (Robinson) Mossholder. He married 
 Jennie Prentice, at Viroqua, Wis., Sept. 26, 
 1 88 1, and two children were born of that union, 
 Marks Prentice Moss- 
 holder and Rusk P. Moss- 
 holder. 
 
 Mr. Mossholder was 
 graduated from the Ne- 
 braska Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Philosophy, 
 and from the Law Depart- 
 ment of the University of 
 the State of Iowa with the 
 degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws. 
 
 Since then he has had 
 an interesting and a busy 
 legal career. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Supreme 
 Court of Iowa and to the 
 United States courts. He 
 practiced his profession at 
 Osceola, Polk County, Ne- 
 braska, and it was not long 
 before he was elected 
 County Judge, not a usual 
 honor for one so young. 
 He occupied the office for 
 a term, and then, in De- 
 cember of 1885, he moved 
 to San Diego, California. San Diego was then 
 only a promise of the city that was to be, little 
 better than a Mexican pueblo, much as the Mis- 
 sion padres had left it. Only a few thousands 
 of white settlers had as yet discovered its re- 
 markable climate and beautiful bay, and it was 
 in the days of the beginnings of Coronado and 
 its world famous resort. Coming as he did 
 nearly thirty years ago, he is considered one of 
 the pioneer lawyers, and much of the interest- 
 ing history of the growing city has passed 
 under his eye. He has taken part in much of 
 the important litigation that has passed through 
 its courts. 
 
 He formed a partnership with Hon. Watson 
 Parrish, who formerly was a member of the 
 Legislature of Nebraska, and also a Govern- 
 ment director of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 Company. He subsequently retired from the 
 firm on account of ill health, and Mr. Moss- 
 holder continued in the practice. Few men 
 
 W. J. MOSSHOLDER 
 
 are more familiar with the political traditions 
 of San Diego. 
 
 His practice has always kept him too busy 
 for him to seek office or any form of political 
 preferment, but his voice has been heard in 
 every issue of importance. He has displayed 
 more than his share of public spirit in every- 
 thing that concerned the real progress of San 
 Diego. He has belonged to the commercial as- 
 sociations and public im- 
 provement societies and 
 has always been willing to 
 work when the labor 
 promised any substantial 
 benefit to his city. 
 
 He is well known so- 
 cially and knows about 
 every man of consequence 
 in San Diego and his part 
 of the country. He is 
 quite familiar with his 
 State of California, over 
 which he has traveled 
 much for purposes of busi- 
 ness and recreation. 
 
 In addition to his legal 
 work Mr. Mossholder 
 has been quite active in 
 lodge matters, being one 
 of the most energetic 
 workers for the growth 
 of the Order of Masonry 
 in his section of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 He is a Past Master, 
 Past High Priest, Past 
 Commander, Past Thrice 
 Illustrious Master, Past Royal Patron, Past 
 Patron, and Past Grand Patron of the Grand 
 Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 He is at present the Venerable Master of 
 Constans Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite 
 Masonry, of San Diego; member of Al Mal- 
 aikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, First Vice 
 President and a Director of the Scottish Rite 
 Cathedral of San Diego, and President of San 
 Diego Chapter No. 2 of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution of San Diego, and he is also 
 a member of the California State Society. 
 
 Only recently Mr. Mossholder was honored 
 by being elected a Knight Commander of 
 the Court of Honor by the Supreme Coun- 
 cil of the Scottish Rite Masons in Washington, 
 D. C, which is the preliminary step to the 
 thirty-third degree. 
 
 The honors that he holds make him one of 
 the biggest figures in Masonry in America. 
 
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 R. W. SHOEMAKER 
 
 HOEMAKER, RICHARD WOOL- 
 SEY, Consulting Electrical Engi- 
 neer, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Germantown, Pa., July 1, 
 1881. His father was Reginald 
 Heber Shoemaker and his mother 
 Susan (Woolsey) Shoemaker. He married Rachel 
 Steel, April 10, 1908, at Farmington. Mo. 
 
 His parents moved to Southern California in his 
 early childhood and there he was reared in the 
 public schools, graduating from the Pasadena High 
 School in 1899. He attended Throop Polytechnic 
 Institute at Pasadena, Cal., graduating in 1903 from 
 an Electrical Engineering course with degree A. B. 
 Upon finishing his course he immediately be- 
 came connected with the Pacific Electric Railway 
 Company, in the electric department as inspector 
 of construction, remaining in that position for 
 about a year. This was followed for a short time 
 by a position with the Gold Mountain Mining & 
 Milling Company near Kingman, Arizona, as Mas- 
 ter Mechanic. He then became associated as elec- 
 trician with the Copper Queen mines at Bisbee, 
 Ariz. He remained there until January, 1906, 
 when he was engaged by the American Smelting 
 & Refining Company of New York in the capacity 
 of Electrical Engineer at their mines at Flat River, 
 Mo., a position he held until the latter part of 1909, 
 when he decided to enter the field as Consulting En- 
 gineer, and opened offices in Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Shoemaker, during his studies in electrical 
 engineering, invented and patented the first wire- 
 less telegraph detecter, which was a great improve- 
 ment at the time. 
 
 In connection with his profession Mr. Shoe- 
 maker was instrumental in the building of the 
 first "Trackless Trolley" to be built in the United 
 States, operating near Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 He is a member of the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineers, and the Masonic Lodge. 
 
 M. B. O'FARRELL 
 
 'FARRELL, MATTHEW BER- 
 NARD, Land Investments, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Toronto, 
 Canada, Dec. 11, 1882, the son of 
 Andrew O'Farrell and Joanna 
 (Fitzgerald) O'Farrell. He mar- 
 ried Viola Talamantes at Tampico, Mexico, June 
 17, 1908. They have a son, Jose Felipi O'Farrell. 
 
 Mr. O'Farrell received his early education in a 
 country school at Ayton, Ontario, Canada, and spent 
 1899 in preparation for the Catholic priesthood, but 
 abandoned this and entered a commercial school. 
 
 He began work in a wholesale house at Colling- 
 wood, Ontario, Canada, but soon transferred to a 
 lumber firm of the same town and in 1901, after six 
 months gave up his position and went to Montana, 
 U. S., and engaged with a firm of Indiana traders on 
 the Belknap Indian Reservation. After two years 
 he went to Ely, Nev., and became associated with 
 Tex Rickard as a mining broker. 
 
 In 1904, Mr. O'Farrell went to New York City, 
 where he opened brokerage offices with branch of- 
 fices in San Francisco, St. Louis, Detroit, St. Paul, 
 Philadelphia and Toronto. 
 
 After three years, however, Mr. O'Farrell was 
 caught in the financial panic of 1907 and experi- 
 enced such a tremendous setback that his health 
 was impaired and he went to Tampico, Mexico, for 
 recuperation. He remained there for about a year 
 and a half, practically out of business life. 
 
 In 1909, he went to Los Angeles, Cal., and became 
 interested in the oil business with J. E. O'Donnell. 
 
 After about a year, Mr. O'Farrell became identi- 
 fied with the El Segundo Land & Improvement Co. 
 as a salesman, but within a few months was made 
 Secretary and Sales Manager. 
 
 In 1911, Mr. O'Farrell, with his old partner in 
 the oil business, J. E. O'Donnell, formed the firm 
 of O'Donnell & O'Farrell, and engaged in a general 
 real estate and land business. 
 
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 EDWARD G. KUSTER 
 
 USTER, EDWARD GERHARD, 
 Attorney, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Terre Haute, Indiana, 
 August 15, 1878. He is the son of 
 Charles Edward Kuster and 
 Emma (Eshman) Kuster. 
 
 Mr. Kuster's education was begun in the public 
 schools of Terre Haute and Los Angeles. Finish- 
 ing his preliminary work, he went to the Hoehere 
 Burger Schule, Berlin, Germany, for a time, but 
 returned to Los Angeles and was graduated from 
 High School in 1896. He entered the Univ. of 
 Cal. and was graduated with the degree of B. L. 
 He then began reading law in the office of Graves, 
 O'Melveny & Shankland, Los Angeles, took a post- 
 graduate course at the Univ. of Cal. and was ad- 
 mitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Cal., 
 March 13, 1902, and to the U. S. Courts, in 1903. 
 
 Following his admission to the Bar, Mr. Kuster 
 became chief clerk for Graves, O'Melveny & 
 Shankland, and upon the dissolution of the firm 
 was retained in the same capacity by Mr. O'Mel- 
 veny. In 1906 he opened offices in Los Angeles 
 and three years later formed the firm of Kuster, 
 Loeb & Loeb. This was dissolved in 1911 and he 
 has since practiced alone. 
 
 Mr. Kuster has been engaged in general cor- 
 poration and probate practice, devoting special 
 attention to railroad rate cases. In 1908-09 he suc- 
 cessfully represented the L. A. Merchants & Mfrs. 
 Assn. in the "Express Cases," and the Associated 
 Jobbers in the San Pedro Terminal Rate Cases, 
 San Joaquin Valley Rate Cases, L. A. Switching 
 Charge Cases, and others. He is generally recog- 
 nized as an authority on rate matters. 
 
 Mr. Kuster is Coast Representative, American 
 Automobile Assn.; Director, Automobile Club of So. 
 Cal.; member, California, L. A. Athletic, San Ga- 
 briel Valley Country, and University Clubs; also of 
 Delta Upsilon Fraternity. 
 
 DR. REX DUNCAN 
 
 UNCAN, REX DOWLER, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in North 
 Platte, Neb., May 2, 1886, the son 
 of Dr. Charles M. Duncan and 
 Ella Elizabeth (Dowler) Duncan. 
 His paternal grandfather was Col. John Duncan, 
 one of the founders of Monmouth College, and his 
 family was prominent during the Civil War, one 
 uncle was awarded a bronze medal by Congress 
 for gallantry during the war. 
 
 Dr. Duncan received his early education in the 
 public schools of Nebraska, studied medicine at 
 Creighton University, Omaha, for two years, and 
 located in Los Angeles in 1906. He entered the 
 Medical Department of the University of Cali- 
 fornia, received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 
 1909. During his senior year he was undergradu- 
 ate interne at the California Hospital and after 
 graduation served at the Los Angeles County Hos- 
 pital until appointed resident physician at the 
 Sisters' Hospital, Los Angeles. 
 
 January, 1910, Dr. Duncan was appointed Assist- 
 ant Health Officer of Los Angeles and served a 
 year when he resigned and entered into private 
 practice. He was Professor of Laboratory Physiol- 
 ogy in the University of Southern California Dental 
 College, 1910-11, and is instructor in Clinical Medi- 
 cine at the University. He is professor for Dis- 
 eases of Children in the Los Angeles County Train- 
 ing School for Nurses, and a member of the visit- 
 ing staff of the Los Angeles Hospital; he is also 
 Medical Director of the "Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Incas." 
 
 Dr. Duncan holds a commission as First Lieu- 
 tenant in the 7th Regt. National Guards of Cali- 
 fornia, and is a member of the State of California 
 Medical Society, and Los Angeles Medical Society. 
 He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, member of 
 the Mystic Shrine, Phi Sigma and Phi Delta Chi. 
 
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 787 
 
 OOK, CLARENCE WEINY, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Bloomfield, 
 Iowa, August 6, 1875. He is the 
 son of William Henry Cook and 
 Frances Virginia (Hurd) Cook. 
 
 Dr. Cook is descended from a family notable in 
 the history of the Middle West, his grandfather, 
 Captain Norman W. Cook, of Company D, Third 
 Iowa Cavalry, having rendered valiant services for 
 the Union during the Civil War. He was at the 
 battle of Pea Ridge when the Confederates, led by 
 General Mclntosh, charged the Federal lines March 
 7, 1862, and were defeated, their commander being 
 shot from his horse. Dr. Cook's father is still in 
 active business and has been for about fifty years. 
 He was in the banking and merchandise business 
 at Bloomfield for about twenty-five years, in the 
 store which had been conducted by some member 
 of the Cook family for nearly one hundred years. 
 Removing to California about twenty-five years 
 ago, Mr. Cook located at Monrovia, but remained 
 there only about five years and then moved to Los 
 Angeles, where he has been in the banking and 
 brokerage business for twenty years. 
 
 Dr. Cook attended the Grammar schools at 
 Bloomfield, Iowa, until the family moved to Mon- 
 rovia and he finished his preliminary education in 
 the schools at that place, graduating from High 
 School in 1892. His professional training he re- 
 ceived in the Medical Department of the University 
 of Southern California, now the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of California, after a break 
 of twelve years. 
 
 He had been born with the ambition to be a 
 physician and surgeon and after several years in 
 business determined, in 1904, to take up the study 
 of medicine. He was graduated in the class of 
 1908. During his time at college he was prosector 
 under Dr. Clare W. Murphy, one of the most ex- 
 pert anatomists known on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 When Dr. Cook first left school in Monrovia in 
 1892, the family moved to Los Angeles, and the 
 father backed his two sons in business. They were 
 together for a time, but ultimately gave it up and 
 Doctor Cook spent his time in travel. In 1897 he 
 engaged in the building business in Los Angeles 
 and remained in it for about three years, during 
 which time he constructed numerous homes in the 
 fashionable residence districts of the city. 
 
 In 1900 he retired from business temporarily 
 and made a tour of the Eastern portion of the 
 United States, spending some time in Boston, 
 Massachusetts. His vacation lasted for about two 
 years and then he was seized with the desire to 
 return to business. Consequently, in 1902, he re- 
 sumed his building operations in Los Angeles. He 
 was thus engaged only a few months, when he went 
 into the outdoor advertising business, his terri- 
 tory covering a larger part of the Southwestern 
 portion of the United States, especially that sec- 
 tion traversed by the Southern Pacific and the El 
 Paso and Southwestern railroads. 
 
 In addition to his advertising business, Dr. Cook 
 was lessee of the Opera House in Bisbee, Arizona, 
 but he finally sold out his advertising and theatri- 
 cal interests and returned to Los Angeles, where 
 he re-entered the building field for a short time. 
 
 It was then that Dr. Cook's life ambition called. 
 He had been associated with Dr. Edward J. Cook, 
 no relation, by the way, and from him had gained 
 
 considerable knowledge of medicine, so that when 
 he entered the university he was well equipped. 
 
 After being in school six months Dr. Cook be- 
 came Acting Assistant Police Surgeon in the City 
 of Los Angeles, serving as such during his entire 
 career in college and for six months after gradua- 
 tion, an experience which broadened him immeas- 
 urably. He opened offices for the practice of his 
 profession immediately after graduation and has 
 maintained a general practice down to date, being 
 regarded at the present time as one of the leading 
 physicians of the city. In addition to his regular 
 work, Dr. Cook has done numerous other works 
 which have brought him into favorable notice. 
 
 For instance, in 1906, while he was in the midst 
 of his college career, San Francisco was devastated 
 by earthquake and fire. The doctor, with a com- 
 panion, immediately organized a volunteer corps 
 for service in the stricken city. They recruited 
 forty trained nurses and the United States Govern- 
 ment, through the influence of United States Sen- 
 ator Frank P. Flint, of California, having placed a 
 special steamer at their disposal, they hurried to 
 the Bay City. Immediately upon arrival they pro- 
 cured the building of the Woman's Advance Club, 
 located at Golden Gate and Octavia streets, and 
 opened a hospital, which was designated as the 
 Hearst Relief Hospital No. 1, because William Ran- 
 dolph Hearst agreed to pay all expenses of the 
 place. 
 
 Dr. Cook and his aides worked incessantly for 
 fifteen days, administering to sick and injured, and 
 during that time handled two thousand cases, in 
 addition to providing clothing, food, etc., to victims 
 of the disaster. Their services were given as long 
 as needed, but at the end of fifteen days the regular 
 hospitals were able to take care of the victims 
 and Dr. Cook closed his relief station. 
 
 A notable case in the career of Dr. Cook, and 
 one which holds a conspicuous place in the annals 
 of Los Angeles medical practice, came to him on 
 November 19, 1910, when F. L. Coe, a motorcycle 
 officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, was 
 injured. Coe had been pursuing a speed law vio- 
 lator and was riding at the rate of seventy-two 
 miles an hour, when his motorcycle skidded and 
 he was thrown head first against a telegraph pole. 
 The man sustained what is known as a comminuted 
 fracture, his skull being reduced to fragments, his 
 nose broken and both jaw bones splintered. Dr. 
 Cook was called in attendance and performed one 
 of the most delicate surgical operations recorded. 
 His patient was in the hospital for sixteen weeks, 
 closely watched by the physician, and at the end 
 of that time he was released, as sound mentally 
 and physically as ever he had been in his life, and 
 with nothing to show for his terrible accident ex- 
 cept a slight scar where stitches had been. This 
 case attracted the attention of professional and lay 
 public alike and won for Dr. Cook an enduring fame. 
 
 Dr. Cook's only interests are those connected 
 with his profession. He belongs to various pro- 
 fessional organizations, these including the Los 
 Angeles County Medical Society, California State 
 Medical Society and the American Medical Associa- 
 tion. He is also a member of the Nu Sigma Nu 
 and Pheta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 
 
 He is an enthusiastic motorist and hunter, be- 
 ing a member of the Southern California Automo- 
 bile Club, West Shore Gun Club and the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club. He is a member of Westlake 
 Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M. 
 
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 OWAN, GEORGE DODDRIDGE 
 (Deceased), Merchant and Real 
 Estate Operator, Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born at Corfu, New 
 York, September 1, 1844, the son 
 of James and Rebecca Rowan. He 
 married Miss Fannie F. Arnold, of Sand Lake, Rens- 
 selaer County, New York, at Lansing, Michigan, in 
 1873, and to them there were born eight children, 
 Robert A., Frederick S., Earl Bruce, Paul, Ben. G., 
 Philip Doddridge, Fannie F., 
 and Florence Rowan. Mr. 
 Rowan's family was among 
 the early settlers of New 
 York State and his father 
 was a pioneer merchant of 
 the town of Batavia. His 
 wife's father was a woolen 
 manufacturer of Rensselaer 
 County, New York. 
 
 Mr. Rowan was reared in 
 Batavia and attended the 
 schools- of that town during 
 his early boyhood, and sup- 
 plemented this with a course 
 at Hamilton College, Hamil- 
 ton, Ohio, whence he was 
 graduated in 1865, after he 
 had already made a start 
 upon his business career. 
 
 When he was twenty years 
 of age, or two years before 
 he graduated from Hamilton 
 College, Mr. Rowan associ- 
 ated himself with his broth- 
 er-in-law, Mr. E. B. Millar, in 
 the wholesale grocery busi- 
 ness at Lansing, Michigan, 
 under the firm name of E. B. 
 
 Millar & Co. They operated at Lansing for several 
 years, but in the early seventies moved to Chicago, 
 Illinois, where the firm became one of the best 
 known of that city. Mr. Millar managed the main 
 business, while Mr. Rowan carried its trade to the 
 West and finally went to the Orient, making his 
 home in Yokohama, Japan, for more than a year. 
 He withdrew from the firm in 1876, but the house is 
 still in existence in Chicago, under the same name. 
 On account of Mrs. Rowan's failing health, Mr. 
 Rowan moved to Southern California in 1876-77, 
 and located in Los Angeles, then a city of only a 
 few thousand inhabitants. He established a gro- 
 cery store on North Main Street immediately after 
 his arrival in Los Angeles and conducted it suc- 
 cessfully until the year 1884, when he sold out and 
 moved to San Francisco, to engage in the commis- 
 sion business. He was a member of the firm of 
 Jennings & Rowan, commission merchants, for 
 about a year, but returned to Los Angeles in 1885 
 and engaged in the real estate business. 
 
 As one of the pioneer real estate men of the city, 
 
 GEO. D. ROWAN 
 
 Mr. Rowan was identified with its growth to a large 
 extent and aided in attracting to Los Angeles in 
 those early days a large number of the residents 
 who went to increase its population and add to its 
 prestige among the cities of the country. Associ- 
 ated with Mr. Rowan in his early operations were 
 Col. J. B. Lankershim, O. H. Churchill, I. N. Van 
 Nuys and M. Y. Kellam, all men of large affairs, 
 who, like him, saw the city grow to a metropolis. 
 He continued in the real estate business in Los An- 
 geles for several years, being 
 one of the men who partici- 
 pated in the historic boom 
 enjoyed by the city in 1887. 
 Although a period of depres- 
 sion, caused by the financial 
 stringency which was preva- 
 lent in the country during 
 the late eighties and early 
 nineties, followed this boom, 
 the men who had stirred in- 
 terest to its high pitch of 
 boom proportions, were cred- 
 ited with having greatly ad- 
 vanced world interest in the 
 city. Mr. Rowan retired from 
 active business in 1889, but 
 still retained his interest in 
 various large properties and 
 continued in partnership with 
 Colonel Lankershim in land 
 operations until 1898, when 
 the partnership dissolved. 
 
 When he retired from 
 business in 1889, Mr. Rowan 
 transferred his home from 
 Los Angeles to Pasadena, 
 Cal., but lived there only four 
 years, returning to Los An- 
 geles in 1893. He remained there until he was 
 claimed by death on September 2, 1902. 
 
 Mr. Rowan was a great believer in Broadway, 
 even when it was called Fort Street. He acquired 
 much property on this thoroughfare and never 
 parted with a foot of it. He also predicted that Los 
 Angeles would be built solid from the mountains- to 
 the sea, and it now looks as if his ideas would again 
 be proved correct. 
 
 Mr. Rowan is recalled as one of the men who 
 built the foundation for the present greatness of 
 Los Angeles, in the making of which his sons have 
 taken such a prominent part. 
 
 Mr. Rowan enjoyed great personal popularity and 
 was a member of numerous social organizations in 
 Los Angeles and Southern California, but was espe- 
 cially esteemed for his exceptional integrity and fair 
 dealing in business. A gentleman of the old school, 
 he placed honor above all other considerations and 
 in this respect furnished an inspiration for his sons. 
 He was closely identified with church work and 
 was a supporter of all worthy charities. 
 
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 789 
 
 OWAN, ROBERT ARNOLD, Real 
 Estate and Investments, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at Chi- 
 cago, Illinois, August 27, 1876, the 
 eldest son of George Doddridge 
 Rowan and Fannie F. (Arnold) 
 Rowan. He married Laura Schwarz at Los Angeles-, 
 February 28, 1903, and to them there have been 
 born four children Lorraine, Robert A. Jr., George 
 D. and Louis S. Rowan. Mr. Rowan is descended 
 of a family of New York 
 State pioneers, his paternal 
 and maternal grandfathers 
 having been prominent in 
 commercial affairs. His fa- 
 ther was a merchant and 
 real estate operator in Los 
 Angeles and reckoned among 
 the men who started that 
 city to its present greatness. 
 Mr. Rowan was taken to 
 California by his parents in 
 his infancy and has lived in 
 the Southern part of the State 
 ever since. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Pasa- 
 dena, California, where the 
 family home was established 
 in 1877. He gave up his 
 studies in 1893, however, and 
 began his busine&s career, 
 going to New York City. He 
 remained in that city for sev- 
 eral years subsequently, the 
 first year as an employe of 
 Ward & Huntington, export- 
 ers of hardware to South 
 America. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Rowan em- 
 barked in business for himself as a merchandise 
 broker and continued in that line until 1897, when 
 he sold out his interests in New York and returned 
 to Los Angeles to engage in the real estate busi- 
 ness-. This has been his field ever since and his 
 career from that time forward has been one of 
 the most remarkable successes in the business- an- 
 nals of Los Angeles. 
 
 During the year 1898 Mr. Rowan was associated 
 with William May Garland, another successful real 
 estate operator of Los Angeles, and for some time 
 afterwards was engaged with others, but in 1901 
 he went into business for himself. He was suc- 
 cessful from the outset and in 1905, with his sev- 
 eral brothers as partners, he organized the R. A. 
 Rowan Company, with himself as President. As 
 the head of this company Mr. Rowan has con- 
 ducted, from the time of its formation, a campaign 
 of real estate development which placed him 
 among the notable business- men of the Southwest. 
 The operations of his company have included 
 residential tracts and business property in Los 
 
 R. A. ROWAN 
 
 Angeles, but more especially the latter, and in con- 
 nection therewith Mr. Rowan has been the leader 
 in an enormous- amount of building in the city. In 
 association with A. C. Bilicke, he formed the Alex- 
 andria Hotel Company and built the Alexandria 
 Hotel of Los Angeles, one of the most magnificent 
 hostelries on the American Continent, and he is, 
 with Mr. Bilicke, joint owner of the enterprise. 
 The hotel, being absolutely modern in construction 
 and beautiful in appointment, is known from one 
 end of the country to the 
 other and has been a factor 
 in attracting vis-itors and in- 
 vestors to Los Angeles, all 
 of which have aided material- 
 ly in the general growth of 
 the city. Mr. Rowan holds 
 office as Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the company and as 
 such takes an active part in 
 its management. 
 
 Several years ago Mr. 
 Rowan and associates erect- 
 ed a handsome office struc- 
 ture known as the Security 
 Building, next put up the 
 Merchants' National Bank 
 Building, followed it with the 
 Title Insurance Building, an- 
 other stately structure, and 
 has now (1913) in course of 
 erection a fourth, to be 
 known as the Title Guaran- 
 tee Building. All of these 
 buildings are fireproof, of 
 beautiful architecture, and 
 form an important part of 
 the business center of Los 
 Angeles. Their combined cost 
 represents an investment of millions of dollars, 
 and while Mr. Rowan is not alone in these enter- 
 prises he is generally credited with having inspired 
 them and directed the business connected with 
 their construction. 
 
 As his record indicates, Mr. Rowan has devoted 
 himself largely to the improvement of business 
 property, but he has also been active in the general 
 real estate development of Los Angeles, and his 
 company has opened up several important resi- 
 dence sections, among them Windsor Square, an 
 exclusive and restricted district embracing two 
 hundred acres. His property holdings are exten- 
 sive and he is also a stockholder or director in 
 various business concerns. 
 
 Mr. Rowan enjoys wide popularity with all 
 classes in Los Angeles. He is President of the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club, member of the Los Angeles 
 Realty Board, the California Club, Jonathan Club, 
 Los Angeles Country Club, San Gabriel Valley Coun- 
 try Club, Pasadena Country Club, and of many com- 
 mercial and civic organizations. 
 
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 OWAN, PHILIP DODDRIDGE, Sec- 
 retary-Treasurer of R. A. Rowan 
 & Company, Real Estate and In- 
 vestments, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in that city, Septem- 
 ber 11, 1885, the son of George 
 Doddridge Rowan and Fannie F. (Arnold) Rowan. 
 The Rowan family, long prominent in commercial 
 circles of the middle West, has been one of the lead- 
 ing families of Southern California since 1877, and its 
 members have had an impor- 
 tant part in the upbuilding of 
 Los Angeles. George D. Ro- 
 wan, the father of Mr. Ro- 
 wan, was a man of the high- 
 est integrity. He was pos- 
 sessed of a character that in- 
 spired in all who knew him, 
 confidence to a degree, that 
 but few people in this world 
 are able to inspire in others. 
 No man ever questioned his 
 word, but on the contrary, 
 everyone knew that his ad- 
 vice on matters of invest- 
 ment was the best he could 
 give and the same a& he 
 would act upon himself. He 
 was a wholesale grocer in 
 the middle West and on the 
 Pacific Coast during the 
 greater part of his life, but 
 later he became a conspicu- 
 ous figure in real estate in 
 and around Los Angeles, be- 
 ing associated in business 
 with several of the most in- 
 fluential men of his day. 
 He began his career in 
 
 the grocery business in Lansing, Michigan, and sub- 
 sequently moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he and 
 his brother-in-law established one of the largest 
 wholesale tea, coffee, and spice houses in the city. 
 After his removal to Los Angeles in 1877 he became 
 one of the leading business men of that city and 
 for many years prior to his death was one of the 
 most zealous workers in behalf of the city. 
 
 P. D. Rowan received his early education in pub- 
 lic and private schools of Los Angeles and Pasa- 
 dena, California, being a student at different times 
 in the Franklin Public School and Throop Poly- 
 technic Institute, the latter a famous institution of 
 Pasadena. 
 
 Giving up his studies in 1900, Mr. Rowan, who 
 has since become one of the most enterprising 
 young business men of Los Angeles, began his 
 career as a messenger for the Farmers & Mer- 
 chants' Bank, one of the strongest monetary institu- 
 tions of the West. He remained in this position for 
 about eighteen months, giving it up in 1901 to go 
 into the real estate business with his brothers, of 
 
 P. D. 
 
 whom R. A. Rowan, now regarded as the leading 
 factor in large building operations of Los Angeles, 
 was the leader. When the firm of R. A. Rowan & 
 Company was incorporated in 1905, Mr. Rowan, who 
 was one of the incorporators, was elected Treasurer 
 of the company. He served in this office for sev- 
 eral years and in 1912 was elected Secretary, since 
 which time he has filled both offices. 
 
 R. A. Rowan & Co., in the operations of which 
 Mr. Rowan has been an important factor, have, dur- 
 ing the few years of the 
 firm's existence, been instru- 
 mental in the erection of sev- 
 eral modern skyscrapers in 
 Los Angeles. Their opera- 
 tions have been continuous 
 for nearly seven years, one 
 building being started before 
 the other was completed and 
 at other times they have had 
 two or three in course of 
 construction simultaneously. 
 Their investments total many 
 millions of dollars and the 
 buildings erected under their 
 auspices, all located in the 
 center of the Los Angeles 
 business district, are among 
 the finest in the country. 
 Some of the more important 
 structures are the Alexandria 
 Hotel, Security Building, Ti- 
 tle Insurance Building, Title 
 Guarantee Building, Mer- 
 chants' National Bank Build- 
 ing, and numerous others of 
 great importance. 
 
 The Rowan Company 
 is generally credited with 
 
 being one of the great contributing factors in the 
 development of Los Angeles, its activities a&ide 
 from the erection of large structures including the 
 subdivision of numerous high-class tracts which 
 have been transformed into beautiful residence dis- 
 tricts, thus adding largely to the civic beauty. One 
 of the most notable is Windsor Square. 
 
 The success of R. A. Rowan & Company in all of 
 their undertakings is one of the most remarkable 
 records in Los Angeles business annals and P. D. 
 Rowan is credited by his associates with being one 
 of the important factors in its making. In addi- 
 tion to his position as Secretary-Treasurer of this 
 company, Mr. Rowan holds office in various affili- 
 ated corporations, being a Director of the follow- 
 ing: Commercial Fireproof Building Co., Mer- 
 chants' Fireproof Building Co., Bilicke-Rowan 
 Building Co., Barker Block Co., and the Broadway 
 Co. In addition, he serves as Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the two last named. 
 
 His clubs include the California, Jonathan, and 
 Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 791 
 
 ORBES, JAMES BLAIR, Real Es- 
 tate and Investments, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Giand Rapids-, Michigan, Septem- 
 ber 6, 1877, the son of David 
 Forbes and Julia (Squires) 
 Forbes. He married Rena De Lyle at Los Angeles, 
 April 2, 1908. His family is of Scotch origin 
 and through its various branches has been promi- 
 nent in business and political circles for many gen- 
 erations-. Sir John Laird, grand uncle of Mr. 
 Forbes, is a noted railway magnate of Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Forbes received his primary education in 
 private and public schools of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 leaving high school in the last year of his course 
 to go into business. 
 
 Beginning his career as clerk in the Car Ac- 
 countant's office of the West Michigan Railroad 
 Company at a minimum compensation, Mr. Forbes 
 served the railroad for several months, then re- 
 signed to take a position with the Fred Macy Com- 
 pany, of Grand Rapids, a large mail order furniture 
 concern. He started with the company in 1898 in a 
 minor capacity, but within four years he worked 
 through various grades of promotion and in 1902 
 was appointed Manager of the company's branch 
 office in New York City, one of the most important 
 posts in the entire organization. 
 
 Mr. Forbes represented his company in New 
 York for about a year, then resigned to go into 
 business with his father in Grand Rapids, and con- 
 tinued with him until 1904. 
 
 After leaving his father, Mr. Forbes moved to 
 the Southwest and for about a year lived in the 
 open, working first in a lumber mill, then as a 
 cowboy, and finally went to El Paso, Texas, where 
 he entered the newspaper business, in connection 
 with the El Paso Herald. With the knowledge 
 gained in this position and his previous business 
 experience, Mr. Forbes, in 1905, assumed the man- 
 agement of a syndicate of daily papers in Arizona, 
 these including the Bisbee Review, the Douglas In- 
 ternational American, the Tucson Star, and toe 
 Arizona Democrat, of Phoenix. All of these papers 
 are ranked among the leading dailies of the South- 
 west and the handling of them called for extraord- 
 inary executive ability. Mr. Forbes established his 
 headquarters in Los Angeles and from there di- 
 rected the newspapers, following a general policy 
 of encouragement to industries and development 
 enterprises in the various sections. 
 
 Although his management of these newspapers 
 was attended with gratifying success, Mr. Forbes 
 retired from his position within a year after locat- 
 ing in Los Angeles to go into the real estate busi- 
 ness, at that time entering upon a period of activ- 
 ity which has continued unabated for many years. 
 The field offered unusual attractions to Mr. Forbes 
 and he embarked in it with characteristic energy 
 and enthusiasm, the result being that his opera- 
 
 tions have been attended with splendid success. 
 
 At the outset Mr. Forbes interested Michigan 
 friends in his enterprises and since that time has 
 been instrumental in attracting a large amount of 
 Eastern capital to Southern California and has 
 been the directing factor in the organization of a 
 number of real estate, investment and develop- 
 ment projects. His principal corporation is the 
 California-Michigan Land Company, owned princi- 
 pally by Michigan capitalists, in which he holds of- 
 fice as Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager, 
 and in which he is the moving spirit. 
 
 This company subdivided an attractive tract of 
 land adjacent to Los Angeles, known as Michil- 
 linda, and early in 1912 began a campaign of devel- 
 opment which has resulted in the establishment of 
 a splendid residence suburb. It is a place of great 
 natural beauty and under the management of Mr. 
 Forbes was greatly improved with avenues of 
 stately trees, broad winding drives, gardens, pri- 
 vate parks and other modern innovations, with the 
 result that it is ranked among the most desirable 
 home sections in Southern California. 
 
 In addition to the handling of Michillinda's de- 
 velopment, Mr. Forbes also devotes part of his 
 time to other interests, these including the James 
 B. Forbes Company, a general investment concern 
 of which he is President, and the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Land & Securities Company, a corporation 
 capitalized at two million dollars, in which he is 
 Secretary, Treasurer and Manager. This latter 
 company deals in investments in city and suburban 
 lands, also securities, and Mr. Forbes is the domi- 
 nating factor in its success. 
 
 The real estate business in Southern California, 
 thoroughly organized and conducted along scien- 
 tific lines, has opened the eyes of the entire country 
 in recent years, and Mr. Forbes, as the head of the 
 various concerns mentioned, has come to be re- 
 garded as one of the progressive spirits responsible 
 for the continued growth of the business. 
 
 Mr. Forbes is an indefatigable worker and is 
 keenly interested in public affairs, but takes no 
 active part in the politics of the city. He is, how- 
 ever, a member of various important commercial 
 and civic organizations, among them the Los An- 
 geles Realty Board, the California State Realty 
 Board, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and 
 the City Club of Los Angeles. Each of these bodies 
 contributes towards the general advancement of 
 the city and its environs and Mr. Forbes has been 
 one of the most enterprising and energetic sup- 
 porters of their various projects. 
 
 Aside from these affiliations, Mr. Forbes is a 
 member of several social organizations, including 
 the Los Angeles Athletic Club, San Gabriel Valley 
 Golf Club, and the Virginia Country Club, in South- 
 ern California, and the Peninsula Club and Kent 
 Country Club, organizations of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 of which he has been a member for many years. 
 
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 793 
 
 ENNANT, JOHN K., Insurance, 
 Bonds and Mortgages, Los Ange- 
 les, California, was born in Ala- 
 bama, December 7, 1868, the son 
 of Charles W. Tennant and Nancy 
 J. (Daniel) Tennant. He married 
 Miss Clara M. Lewis at Trenton, N. J., on April 4, 
 1890, and to them there has been born a son, John 
 K. Tennant, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Tennant, who is identified with numerous 
 financial affairs in the Southwest, received his pre- 
 liminary education in various institutions of the 
 South and later attended Bowdon College, at Bow- 
 don, Georgia. 
 
 Upon finishing his education, Mr. Tennant went 
 to Guatemala, Central America, in the employ of a 
 railroad contractor then engaged in building a line 
 from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City, known as 
 the Ferro Carreal Del Norte Railroad. He served 
 this company for four years as Assistant Pay- 
 master, returning to the United States in 1894. 
 
 Shortly after his return to this country he em- 
 barked in the insurance business, with which he 
 has been associated continuously since. He began 
 with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, now known as the Illinois Life In- 
 surance Company, and remained with it for about 
 seven years, during the greater part of which time 
 he operated in the Southern States. In 1901, upon 
 the absorption of the Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany by the Illinois Life Insurance Company, Mr. 
 Tennant became a general insurance broker and 
 traveled all over the State of Texas, maintaining 
 headquarters in Dallas and Galveston. He was 
 thu& engaged for about five years and in that time 
 made such a record that the attention of insurance 
 men in general was attracted to him and he was 
 offered various positions. He finally accepted em- 
 ployment with the Texas Life Insurance Company 
 and moved to Waco, Texas, where he made his 
 headquarters. He had the management of the com- 
 pany's business in the States of Louisiana and 
 Mississippi and conducted this business until Jan- 
 uary, 1909, when he was transferred to the manage- 
 ment of the company offices in El Paso, Texas. 
 
 In July, 1909, however, Mr. Tennant, although 
 recognized as one of the successful men in the 
 insurance business in Texas, resigned from the 
 company he had served three years-, disposed of 
 his Texas interests and moved to Southern Cali- 
 fornia, where he has since been active. He first 
 located at Los Angeles, but later went to San 
 Diego, California, which presented a more inviting 
 field at that time for insurance development. 
 
 In June, 1910, Mr. Tennant organized the Na- 
 tional Life Insurance Company, with home offices 
 at San Diego, and assumed the management at once. 
 He still serves as Manager of the concern and, 
 although it is comparatively young it has developed 
 with remarkable rapidity and is one of the grow- 
 ing corporations of the West, with branch offices 
 
 in seven states. A large part of the success of 
 the company is due to the personal efforts of Mr. 
 Tennant, who, in the fifteen years- he devoted to 
 insurance in Texas, came to be known as one of 
 the experts and also developed splendid executive 
 ability. This is apparent in the complete organiza- 
 tion of his company, whose title was changed 
 shortly after its inception to the California Na- 
 tional Life Insurance Company. 
 
 When the insurance project had become firmly 
 established, Mr. Tennant, in 1911, organized 
 the Western Underwriting & Mortgage Company, 
 which has made a place for itself among the 
 substantial financial institutions of the Southwest. 
 Mr. Tennant has been in this, as in his first ven- 
 ture, the dominant factor in the affairs of the com- 
 pany, and as- General Manager has entire charge 
 of its operations. It was shortly after the organi- 
 zation of this company that Mr. Tennant trans- 
 ferred his home to Los Angeles, although he has 
 many interests- in San Diego and other places. 
 
 The success of his other enterprises led Mr. 
 Tennant to seek other opportunities, and in 1912, 
 turning his attention to Arizona, he purchased the 
 controlling interest in the Union Bank & Trust 
 Company of Phoenix. This bank, organized in 1904, 
 is- one of the prosperous monetary institutions of 
 Arizona, its business being confined to trusts and 
 savings. Upon becoming affiliated with the com- 
 pany Mr. Tennant immediately reorganized it, in- 
 creased the capital stock from $100,000 to $1,000,000 
 and took up the duties of General Manager. Thus, 
 with three thriving enterprises under his direction, 
 Mr. Tennant is compelled to divide his time be- 
 tween them and devotes part of each month to each 
 of the three cities in which he is interested. 
 
 In addition to the interests mentioned, Mr. Ten- 
 nant has invested considerably in Southern Cali- 
 fornia real estate and has joined in the work of 
 developing the country with characteristic energy 
 and enthusiasm. He is not interested in political 
 affairs, but takes an active part in civic projects 
 and was among the strongest advocates of the 
 World's Fair to be held in San Diego in 1915 under 
 the name of the Panama California Exposition. 
 This is the greatest public enterprise ever under- 
 taken by the citizens of San Diego, and Mr. Ten- 
 nant, as one of the progressive business men who 
 realize the benefits that will accrue to the city, has 
 done his share to make the project a success. 
 
 Mr. Tennant is thorough in everything he under- 
 takes and is a tireless worker, but he finds time 
 for recreation and is a prominent figure in club and 
 fraternal circles, being especially active in Masonic 
 affairs. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, mem- 
 ber of the Mystic Shrine and Knights Templar, and 
 also belongs to the Benevolent & Protective Order 
 of Elks. His club affiliations include the Los An- 
 geles Athletic Club, Sierra Madre Club, of Los 
 Angeles; Cuyamaca Club of San Diego, and the 
 San Gabriel Valley Country Club. 
 
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 DR. RALPH WILLIAMS 
 
 ILLIAMS, RALPH ROWLETT, 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, California, is a native of 
 Memphis, Tennessee, born on 
 Christmas Day, 1871. He is of 
 Scotch-English descent, his an- 
 cestors having settled in Virginia before the Revo- 
 lutionary War. He is the son of General Joseph 
 Rowlett Williams and Jane Taylor (Wilkins) 
 Williams. He married Hazel V. Kirkpatrick at 
 Los Angeles, June 15, 1910. 
 
 Dr. Williams attended private schools until he 
 was fourteen years of age, then entered the Uni- 
 versity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. During 
 1888-89 he was a student at the College of Letters 
 in California, and upon his removal to Los Angeles 
 in 1890 he took up the study of medicine in the 
 Medical College of the University of Southern Cal- 
 ifornia, being graduated with the degree of M D 
 in 1893. 
 
 Immediately following his graduation, Dr. Wil- 
 liams began practice, in association with Dr. Gran- 
 ville MacGowan for eleven years, specializing in 
 dermatology and genito-urinary diseases. 
 
 Dr. Williams occupies a position among the 
 leaders of the profession of Southern California, 
 and is Professor of Dermatology and Associate Pro- 
 fessor of Urology in the Los Angeles Medical De- 
 partment of the University of California. 
 
 Dr. Williams is a member of the visiting staffs 
 of the Pacific, Columbia and Los Angeles County 
 Hospitals. 
 
 His clubs and associations are: California Club, 
 Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Ameri- 
 can Urological Association, Sixth International 
 Congress of Dermatology, American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, California, Southern California and Los 
 Angeles County Medical Societies. 
 
 DR. W. H. DUDLEY 
 
 UDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born at Madison, 
 Conn., Jan. 1, 1855, the son of 
 Lucian Wellington Dudley and 
 Mary Elizabeth (Page) Dudley. 
 He married Lillian Tracy Pillmore at Butte., Mont., 
 December 25, 1886, and to them was born a son, 
 Ray W. Dudley. 
 
 Dr. Dudley, now a leading specialist of the West, 
 attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
 New York and the University of the City of New 
 York, receiving his degree from the latter in 1882. 
 Following his graduation he went to Norwich, 
 Conn., and practiced there for several years. He 
 then went West, but in 1893 returned to New York 
 as Assistant Resident Surgeon of the New York 
 Opthalmic and Aural Institute, where he remained 
 for one year. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Dudley was appointed Opthalmic 
 and Aural Surgeon to the Easton (Pa.) General 
 Hospital, in which capacity he served nine years. 
 During his residence in Easton, Dr. Dudley served 
 as President of the Northampton Counb r Medical 
 Society and of the Easton Microscope Club. In 
 1905 he moved to Los Angeles and has been in 
 practice there since that time, specializing in the 
 treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat. 
 
 Since 1907 Dr. Dudley has been a member of 
 the faculty of the University of California Medi- 
 cal Department, as instructor in the ear, nose and 
 throat clinic. 
 
 Dr. Dudley is a member of the American Med- 
 ical Association, California State Medical Society, 
 Southern California Medical Society, the Eye, Ear, 
 Nose and Throat Section of the Los Angeles County 
 Medical Association, the American Larvngological, 
 Rhinological and Otological Society and the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Opthalmologv and Oto-Laryng- 
 ology. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 795 
 
 DR. D. C. BARBER 
 
 ARBER, DAVID CASSAT, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in Connersville, 
 Ind., July 3, 1862, the son of 
 Gideon M. Barber and Frances E. 
 (Cassat) Barber. He is of 
 French descent, one of his ancestors being Guizot, 
 historian. He married Nellie B. Yates at San 
 Francisco, April 2, 1892. They have a son, Allyn 
 H. Barber. 
 
 Dr. Barber attended public school and was 
 graduated from Moore's Hill College in Indiana, in 
 1882, with A. B. Received M. A. 1885. He entered 
 Claverack College in New York City to prepare for 
 Yale, but went instead to Miami Medical College, 
 part of the Univ. of Cincin. Received M. D., 1886. 
 
 In 1886 Dr. Barber opened practice in Los An- 
 geles, was appointed Professor of Pathology and 
 Clinical Medicines in the College of Medicine, Univ. 
 Sou. Cal., and ten years later was chosen Professor 
 of Clinical Surgery, since filling these offices. 
 
 In 1891 Dr. Barber was elected to the Bd. of 
 Educ. in Los Angeles and served two terms. From 
 1895 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1907 he was Supt. of 
 Los Angeles County Hospital. With a view of 
 training competent nurses, he established, in con- 
 nection with the hospital, the first school for 
 trained nurses in Sou. Cal., and it has become one of 
 the best schools of the kind in the U. S. Dr. Bar- 
 ber was chief surgeon of the hospital during both 
 his terms and he has since made surgery a spe- 
 cialty. In addition to his lectures, he has written 
 extensively on surgical and medical topics and also 
 is an inventor of note. 
 
 He is a supporter of the Republican Party, mem- 
 ber of the County Central Committee and also be- 
 longs to the L. A. County Med. Ass'n., Sou. Cal. 
 Med. Soc, Med. Soc. of the State of Cal. and Amer. 
 Med. Ass'n. He is a 32d degree Mason, member of 
 the University Club and L. A. Athletic Club. 
 
 j. s. MCKNIGHT 
 
 'KNIGHT, JAMES STUART, Attor- 
 ney, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Green Bay, Wis., Nov. 15, 1883. 
 He is the son of Joseph McKnight 
 and Katherine Alice (Blasius) 
 McKnight. 
 
 He began his- education in Spokane, Wash., con- 
 tinued at Los Angeles and was graduated from 
 Occidental College in 1905. Then entered Univ. of 
 Sou. Cal. College of Law, graduating with LL. B. in 
 1908. During his school days he was engaged in 
 newspaper work on Los Angeles papers, but began 
 practice in June, 1908, immediately after being ad- 
 mitted to the Bar. 
 
 Mr. McKnight makes a specialty of corporation 
 and real e&tate law and is among the prominent at- 
 torneys of Southern California. For several years 
 he handled the legal affairs of several well-known 
 Los Angeles capitalists, among them Frank A. Gar- 
 butt, Director of the Union Oil Co., and in this ca- 
 pacity was called upon to pass on bond issues and 
 title to public lands valuable for oil. 
 
 As attorney for several oil and mining corpora- 
 tions he has figured in numerous important actions 
 involving great sums of money and vast tracts- of 
 land, and serves today as Counsel for many of 
 these concerns, among them the California Midway 
 Oil Co., Midway Royal Petroleum Co., Knicker- 
 bocker Mining & Extract Co. and Palladium Invest- 
 ment Co. He also is actively interested in charita- 
 ble and philanthropic work, acting as Chief Counsel 
 for both the national and local Francis Murphy As- 
 sociations. 
 
 Mr. McKnight is a member of the Faculty of 
 the College of Law, University of Southern Califor- 
 nia, and also holds membership in the Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, of 
 which President William H. Taft, ex-President The- 
 odore Roosevelt and several Justices of the United 
 States Supreme Court are members. 
 
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 ELLER, WILL E., President 
 Globe Grain and Milling 
 Company, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Wood- 
 ville, Mississippi, January 30, 
 1868, the son of Charles E. Keller and Agnes 
 M. (Phares) Keller. Mr. Keller has four 
 sons, Robert L., Will J., Edward McD., and 
 Henry E. Keller. In 1892 Mr. Keller went 
 
 to Los Angeles and there 
 
 began what has become 
 one of the most notable 
 careers in that city of 
 successful men. 
 
 He first embarked in 
 the wholesale grain busi- 
 ness, and expanded it to 
 such an extent that in 
 1898 he organized a man- 
 ufacturing company and 
 built a large mill plant. 
 This was followed by 
 another plant, erected at 
 Colton, Cal., in 1902; the 
 next year they built at 
 San Francisco. This 
 plant later was partially 
 destroyed by fire, but was 
 rebuilt in 1906. Another 
 plant was built at Wood- 
 land, California, in 1905 ; 
 El Paso, Texas, followed 
 in 1909, and San Diego, 
 California, in 1910. 
 
 It was about this time that Mr. Keller 
 became interested in ice manufacturing, and 
 in this line also he was concerned in the 
 erection of several big plants, among them 
 one at El Paso, in 1909; another at Fresno, 
 California, in 1910, and a third at Bakers- 
 field, California, in 1911. 
 
 The combined capacity of the flour mills 
 is 4200 barrels per day of flour and 500 tons 
 of feed. The daily output of the ice plants 
 combined is 336 tons, and they have a total 
 storage capacity of 20,000 tons. Mr. Keller 
 bears the honor of having constructed the 
 first fire-proof flour mills in the West. 
 
 These various ice and flour enterprises 
 are owned and operated by separate com- 
 panies, all organized by Mr. Keller, and in 
 
 W. E. KELLER 
 
 all of which he is the controlling factor, both 
 as to management and policy. Each is a 
 success by itself and they are not in any way 
 interdependent. Through them many hun- 
 dred persons are given work and they form 
 a series of the greatest industrial operations 
 in the western country. The companies and 
 Mr. Keller's connection in each are as fol- 
 lows: Globe Grain and Milling Company, 
 Los Angeles and San 
 Francisco, Presi- 
 dent; Colton Grain and 
 Milling Company, Presi- 
 dent; San Diego Grain 
 and Milling Company, 
 President ; Woodland 
 Grain and Milling Com- 
 pany, President; El Paso 
 Grain and Milling Com- 
 pany, President; Califor- 
 nia and Oregon Grain 
 and Elevator Company, 
 President ; Globe Ice and 
 Cold Storage Company, 
 El Paso, President; Val- 
 ley Ice Company, Fresno 
 and Bakersfield, Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Despite the arduous 
 duties which fall upon 
 him as head of these nu- 
 merous and active con- 
 cerns, Mr. Keller has 
 other interests which claim part of his time, 
 and to all he gives the best that is in him, as 
 organizer, executive or planner. He is a di- 
 rector and stockholder in the Merchants' Na- 
 tional Bank, one of the largest in Los An- 
 geles; also a director of the Ralston Iron 
 Works of San Francisco. 
 
 From this list it is apparent that Mr. Kel- 
 ler is one of the busiest business men in the 
 United States, and necessarily must be a prac- 
 tical improver of the great Pacific Coast coun- 
 try. He has little time for recreation, but 
 when he does take a holiday usually spends it 
 hunting. He holds memberships in the Cali- 
 fornia, Los Angeles Country and Westmin- 
 ster Gun Clubs of Los Angeles, Pacific Union 
 and Transportation Clubs of San Francisco, 
 and the El Paso Country Club, El Paso, Tex. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 797 
 
 LARK, PERCY H., Real 
 Estate and Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a 
 Pennsylvanian by birth, hav- 
 ing been born in Jefferson 
 
 County, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1860. 
 
 His father was Nathaniel Clark and his 
 
 mother Marie (Hanford) Clark. He married 
 
 Hattie E. Youngs at Big Rapids, Michigan, 
 
 November 18, 1885. 
 
 There is one daughter, 
 
 Florence E. Clark. 
 
 Mr. Clark was educated 
 in the public schools of 
 Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
 between 1865 and 1875. 
 He continued his educa- 
 tion, studying at a busi- 
 ness college up to 1880. 
 
 The first venture of Mr. 
 Clark in the business 
 world was in 1884, when 
 he became an employe of 
 the firm of James G. Mc- 
 Elwee & Co., lumber 
 dealers of Big Rapids, 
 Michigan. He started in 
 the capacity of book- 
 keeper and was promoted 
 on several occasions, be- 
 coming manager of the 
 firm in 1886. During his 
 work for this corporation 
 he made a study of the 
 lumber industry from the 
 ground up and mastered 
 the one hundred com- 
 plexities of the business. 
 
 PERCY H. CLARK 
 
 He continued with 
 that company for three years at Big Rapids, 
 Michigan, where in the latter part of 1886 he 
 was advanced to Kansas City as manager for 
 the same concern. 
 
 As manager of the Kansas City branch he 
 directed all of the corporation's interests in 
 that city and the Central West district. He 
 continued during 1887 and 1888 in his Kansas 
 City position, but in 1889 he entered the 
 wholesale lumber trade there, handling the 
 output of a number of the large mills of 
 Arkansas. 
 
 Disposing of his interests in Kansas City 
 in 1890, he moved to Los Angeles, California, 
 and in 1892 became manager of the lumber 
 yards of the Stimson Mill Company. For the 
 next six years he was actively employed with 
 this company in the office of manager. 
 
 In 1899 he resigned his Los Angeles posi- 
 tion to enter the mining industry in Arizona, 
 but returned to Los Angeles in 1901, where 
 
 he became a real estate operator and investor 
 and known as one of the heaviest handlers of 
 property in that part of the State. Mr. Clark 
 has handled a great many tracts of farming 
 lands and pastures in California, up to the 
 present writing amounting to over 100,000 
 acres of such property in the central and 
 southern parts of the State. 
 
 Mr. Clark planned and carried to success- 
 ful completion several 
 townsites and distinctive 
 residence districts, nota- 
 ble in the latter line being 
 the townsite of Beverly 
 and the suburban estates 
 of Beverly Hills, one of 
 the most magnificent resi- 
 dence localities in all the 
 Southwest. It is situated 
 along the foothills, be- 
 tween Los Angeles and 
 the popular beach resorts 
 of Santa Monica, Ocean 
 Park and Venice. On this 
 property, in fulfillment of 
 Mr. Clark's plans, over 
 one hundred thousand 
 dollars has been spent 
 in beautifying it alone, in 
 addition to the vast sums 
 spent on substantial im- 
 provements. Beverly Hills 
 will always remain a mon- 
 ument to Mr. Clark's 
 work and genius. 
 
 Mr. Clark has taken a 
 spirited interest in the 
 
 growth of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- 
 fornia, and was a pioneer in the campaign for 
 good roads. He did much beneficial work in 
 this direction during the year 1910, and is still 
 at it. During the first mentioned period he 
 was Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce 
 Committee on Boulevards, Parks and Roads, 
 and this body recommended numerous im- 
 provements in those three departments. Mr. 
 Clark is vice president and director of the 
 Automobile Club of Southern California, and 
 in this capacity also has done much to fur- 
 ther the cause of good roads. 
 
 Mr. Clark is chairman of the Chamber of 
 Commerce Committee on Municipal and 
 County Affairs. This body handles all mat- 
 ters looking to the benefit of the city and 
 county, politically and otherwise. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, 
 Los Angeles County Club and the Gamut 
 Club, in addition to the Automobile Club of 
 Southern California. 
 
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 ORDON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
 Life Insurance, Phoenix, Arizona, 
 was born in Hamilton, Ontario, 
 Canada, May 29, 1879, the son of 
 Stuart Gordon and Louise Mur- 
 dock. He married Etta S. Hase- 
 meier at Los Angeles, California, August 25, 1910. 
 He is descended of two houses noted in the history 
 of Scotland, one of his relatives having been Gen- 
 eral "Chinese" Gordon, the most heroic bearer of 
 British arms in the modern history of the Empire. 
 The General was his great-grand-uncle, and another 
 of his uncles is Charles W. Gordon (Ralph Conner), 
 celebrated as a writer. The Earl of Aberdeen, one 
 time Governor General of Canada, was his l.hird 
 cousin. 
 
 Mr. Gordon, whose father was rector of a church 
 at Marysville, Canada, for many years, received his 
 education in the public schools of Ontario Prov- 
 ince and qualified for High School in Toronto, but 
 did not enter. Instead, he started out in the busi- 
 ness world. 
 
 His first position was with the wholesale firm 
 of Gowans-Kent & Company of Toronto, Canada, 
 with whom he began as office boy and worked his 
 way up through various positions until he became 
 Assistant Cashier of the House, and finally sales- 
 man, in which position he was serving when he 
 left the firm in 1899. 
 
 For the next year Mr. Gordon was engaged in 
 various mercantile and stock lines as a commission 
 salesman and in 1900 went to British Columbia in 
 search of gold. He prospected for several months 
 and finally, after much hard work, located two gold 
 claims, which promised to repay him for his trou- 
 ble. He was planning to begin operations when 
 the representative of an English syndicate offered 
 him $20,000 for his property and he sold out. 
 
 Before the close of the year 1900 Mr. Gordon 
 went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and there 
 engaged in the salmon industry for several months. 
 Upon leaving there he moved down the Pacific 
 Coast to San Francisco, California, where he en- 
 tered the employ of the Pacific Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company as Agent. He was engaged in the 
 insurance business for about two years and met 
 with considerable success, but his aspirations for 
 better things caused him to give it up and in 1903 
 he located in Los Angeles, where he entered the 
 real estate and investment business. In this field 
 he was unusually successful and, as Southern Cali- 
 fornia, particularly Los Angeles, was at that time 
 entering upon its greatest boom period, he was one 
 of the men who reaped a fortune from the business. 
 After operating alone for about a year, he aided 
 in the organization of the Golden State Realty 
 Company, which was, in reality an outgrowth of 
 his own business, and he continued in association 
 with the new concern for another year. During 
 this time Mr. Gordon and his associates were 
 among the most active real estate operators in 
 Los Angeles and opened up numerous subdivisions 
 which have since become populous districts. They 
 dealt largely in tracts lying between Los Angeles 
 and the ocean and one of these, lying just south 
 of the city, has since developed into a village of 
 large proportions. This place is known as Watts, 
 
 named for the original owner of the land, and is 
 one of the thriving newer towns about Los Angeles. 
 
 In 1905 Mr. Gordon sold out his real estate in- 
 terests in and around Los Angeles and went to 
 Nevada, where he re-entered the mining business. 
 He was engaged there for approximately two years 
 and during that period worked on a number of 
 promising propositions, but these resulted disas- 
 trously and he lost considerable money. He pros- 
 pected in the Goldfield, Tonopah, Rawhide and 
 other districts, but gave up mining for all time when 
 the financial panic of 1907 came on. 
 
 Going to Los Angeles again, he took a position 
 in October, 1908, as salesman for the International 
 Mercantile & Bond Company, remaining with this 
 concern until the following April. He took up vari- 
 ous propositions for several months until October, 
 1909, when he became affiliated with the Pacific 
 Surety Company of San Francisco as salesman. He 
 remained with this company until April, 1910, re- 
 signing at that time to go to Arizona, where he 
 entered the employ of the Arizona Fire Insurance 
 Company of Phoenix. He has been in the insurance 
 business from that time down to date. 
 
 After working in the fire insurance branch until 
 April, 1911, he resigned to form the Arizona Life 
 Insurance Company, of which he holds the office 
 of Secretary and General Manager. This com- 
 pany remained in the formative period for about a 
 year and did not write any business until May 
 of 1912. Within thirty days the company had writ- 
 ten half a million dollars in business, thus estab- 
 lishing a record unparalleled in the history of life 
 insurance business in the United States or any 
 other place. 
 
 The remarkable amount of business was due, 
 in large measure, to the personality of Mr. Gordon, 
 who, as a practical insurance man, wrote more than 
 $100,000 of policies the first two days after the 
 company opened for business. 
 
 The Arizona Life Insurance Company, although 
 in its infancy, is regarded as one of the substan- 
 tial business institutions of the Southwest, having 
 $250,000 capital and surplus, every dollar of which 
 is subscribed or actually paid in. 
 
 In addition to his life insurance duties, Mr. 
 Gordon is Vice President of the National Provident 
 Publicity Company of Oklahoma and Vice President 
 and General Manager of the Pacific Provident Pub- 
 licity Company, an organization similiar to the form- 
 er. These companies are engaged in the distribu- 
 tion of insurance coupons, through trade mediums, 
 these coupons being accepted by every responsible 
 fire or life insurance company as payment of pre- 
 miums. It is the most modern device known to in- 
 surance and Mr. Gordon, who has made the subject 
 a special study, will have the direction of the busi- 
 ness on the Pacific Coast and Southwestern sec- 
 tion of the United States. 
 
 During his two years' residence in Phoenix 
 Mr. Gordon has taken an active interest in the 
 development of the city and surrounding country 
 and is the holder of a large amount of real estate. 
 
 He is a member of the Phoenix Country Club 
 and the Arizona Club, the chief club organizations 
 in that section, and a candidate for fraternal hon- 
 ors, including the Masons and Elks. 
 
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 ISNER, CLARENCE B., Oil 
 Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Friend- 
 ship, New York, August 15, 
 1867, the son of James E. and 
 
 Laura Newman (Bell) Wisner. He married 
 
 Gertrude Dixon at Fargo, North Dakota, 
 
 November 10, 1886. 
 
 Mr. Wisner was educated at the Friend- 
 ship Academy and at 
 
 Hamline University and 
 
 under private tutors. He 
 
 removed to Lisbon, Da- 
 kota Territory, in 1881, 
 
 with his parents. 
 
 He went to work in a 
 
 bank, and, in 1886, was 
 
 cashier of the Bank of 
 
 Lisbon. He retained the 
 
 place for two years. 
 
 In the following year 
 
 he was called upon to 
 
 draft the Dakota State 
 
 Bank Law, in spite of 
 
 his youth, and he is its 
 
 author as it stands to- 
 day in the statutes of 
 
 North Dakota. He next 
 
 assisted in organizing 
 
 the first bank under the 
 
 law. 
 
 Mr. Wisner was the 
 
 manager of the World's 
 
 Fair branch of the Amer- 
 ican Trust & Savings 
 
 Bank, Chicago, in 1893. 
 
 The following year he 
 
 CLARENCE B. WISNER 
 
 organized the West Pullman Bank, private, 
 and this was later reorganized as the State 
 Bank of West Pullman. He was its first 
 Cashier and afterwards Vice President and 
 President. 
 
 In the year 1900 he went to New York as 
 the general manager of the Sills Eddy Mica 
 Company, one of the big concerns in the mica 
 business. Two years later he organized and 
 financed the Dubois Electric & Traction 
 Company, of Dubois, Pennsylvania, consoli- 
 dating the street railway and electric com- 
 panies. 
 
 The next work of importance in which he 
 was engaged was in 1907, when he went to 
 London, England, and organized the British 
 Consolidated Oil Corporation, Limited, which 
 took over valuable producing properties in 
 the Coalinga district. In 1909 he was made 
 general manager of the company, and went 
 to California and took active charge in the 
 
 field. Immediately on his arrival in the oil 
 fields he began to branch out, taking hold of 
 one opportunity after another. He bought, 
 in 1910, the New Era and the P. M. D. O., 
 freehold properties, for the company, and 
 they proved among the most productive in 
 the Coalinga field. He also bought the 
 Gypsy and Mountain Girl leases, 240 acres, 
 in the Midway field, which he afterwards 
 sold to the Petro- 
 leum Properties Syndi- 
 cate, Limited. 
 
 Mr. Wisner was one 
 of the first to realize the 
 importance of electricity 
 in the oil industry, and 
 gave the first big order 
 for pumping motors, 
 which are now coming 
 into general use owing to 
 ecenomy and utility. 
 Later in the year he 
 bought the Guiberson 
 ranch, at Fillmore, of 
 880 acres, 780 acres of 
 which he later sold to 
 the Calumet Oil Com- 
 pany. 
 
 He resigned as Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Eng- 
 lish group of interests 
 March 1, 1911. Since 
 then he has been devot- 
 ing his entire time to his 
 private interests, which 
 have grown to be quite 
 extensive. 
 
 In September, 1911, he purchased 7500 
 acres of foothill fruit land at Snelling, Mer- 
 ced County, which he has subdivided into 
 twenty and forty acre farms under the name 
 of the Figmond Tract. 
 
 The project met with immediate success 
 and a large number of sales have already 
 been made to high-class American people of 
 means, who will form one of the ideal colo- 
 nies of California. 
 
 Mr. Wisner has continued to keep in 
 touch with the banking business, in which 
 he first gained distinction. Since going to 
 Los Angeles he has been quietly and judi- 
 ciously investing in real estate. 
 
 Although not long in Los Angeles he has 
 joined into its social life, and is a member of 
 the Sierra Madre Club and others. He also 
 belongs to the Union League Club of San 
 Francisco, a city to which his business often 
 takes him. 
 
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 ILDE, LOUIS J., Banker, 
 San Diego, Cal., was born in 
 Iowa City, la., July 16, 1865, 
 the son of John and Lucina 
 Wilde. He married Frances 
 E. O'Brien, daughter of James O'Brien, for- 
 mer county auditor of St. Paul, Minn., in 
 that city, and to them there have been born 
 
 four children, Donald E., Richard E., Jack 
 D., and Lucille B. Wilde. 
 Mr. Wilde was edu- 
 cated at Cornell College, 
 
 Mount Vernon, la., and 
 
 at Hyatts Academy, 
 
 Iowa City, la. 
 
 He left his native city 
 
 in 1884 and went to Los 
 
 Angeles, Cal., and for the 
 
 succeeding years was a 
 
 resident of that city, 
 
 where he worked at vari- 
 ous occupations from ele- 
 vator boy up. He was in 
 
 the real estate and insur- 
 ance business about the 
 
 time of the boom, 1893, 
 
 after which he moved to 
 
 St. Paul, where he was in 
 
 the brokerage business 
 
 for nine years more. At 
 
 the end of that time, or 
 
 in 1903, he moved to San 
 
 Diego, Cal., there to 
 
 make his permanent 
 
 home and, as events have 
 
 proved, to become one of 
 
 the principal factors in 
 
 LOUIS J. WILDE 
 
 the growth of that splendid city. A man of 
 large, progressive ideas, possessed of an un- 
 usual faculty for organization and enterprise, 
 his career in San Diego has been a succes- 
 sion of big projects, all of which he has car- 
 ried to successful issue, with the city the 
 gainer in each instance. 
 
 Among some of his worthy endeavors 
 was his instrumentality in bringing into San 
 Diego the first three hundred and fifty thou- 
 sand dollars of outside money for the estab- 
 lishment of the San Diego Home Telephone 
 Co. He also built the beautiful Pickwick 
 Theater; purchased and reorganized the Cit- 
 izens' Savings Bank and organized the Amer- 
 ican National Bank. He is president of the 
 latter institution and is now assisting in the 
 building of a magnificent home for it. In 
 addition, he rebuilt the old Richelieu Build- 
 ing for banking rooms; organized the First 
 National Bank, and led in other works of a 
 
 practical nature. Mr. Wilde's latest and per- 
 haps greatest accomplishment was the re- 
 financing and completion of the U. S. Grant 
 Hotel in San Diego. This is one of the most 
 beautiful modern hotel structures in the 
 Southwest, and Mr. Wilde is credited with 
 being the factor most actively engaged in its 
 building. He not only financed the proposi- 
 tion, but drafted a set of plans by which the 
 hotel was built. The 
 plans of the original ar- 
 chitect were practically 
 ignored, and in the in- 
 terior arrangements Mr 
 Wilde showed a practical 
 as well as artistic ability 
 that astonished his 
 friends. 
 
 In addition to build- 
 ing the hotel, Mr. Wilde 
 designed and caused to be 
 built, on the Plaza, in 
 front of the U. S. Grant 
 Hotel, a magnificent mar- 
 ble fountain, which cost 
 $14,000 and which he 
 gave to the city. 
 
 The people of San 
 Diego are indebted to 
 Mr. Wilde for much of 
 the city's present pros- 
 perity and many of the 
 great enterprises that 
 have been established 
 there. Although conser- 
 vative in a measure, he 
 has always been foremost 
 
 in aiding and fostering every worthy project 
 of importance to the city, lending thereto his 
 influence and extenisve financial support. In 
 this connection, it may be mentioned that he 
 is one of the leading spirits in the San Diego 
 California-Panama Exposition, which will 
 celebrate the final opening of the Panama 
 Canal. 
 
 Mr. Wilde has never sought nor held 
 public office, although he takes a strong in- 
 terest in political affairs on the side of prog- 
 ress and popular government. 
 
 Socially he is one of the most prominent 
 men in the city, and belongs to a number of 
 the leading clubs. 
 
 He is a life member of the San Diego 
 Yacht Club and the Chamber of Commerce, 
 a member of the Masons (Scottish and York 
 Rites), the Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks, the Cuyamaca and the San Diego 
 Country Clubs. 
 
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 DOWNS, ALFRED 
 JONATHAN, Physician 
 and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in 
 El Monte, Cal., March 7, 
 1877. Son of Francis 
 E. and Mary J. (Jones) 
 Downs. Married Mil- 
 dred E. Lewis, at Los 
 Angeles, Cal., Aug. 16, 
 1904. One child, Fran- 
 cis Harbert Downs. Dr. 
 Downs is a great grand- 
 son of Thomas Jones, 
 granted land where 
 Nashville, Tennessee, 
 stands, for gallantry in 
 Revolutionary War. 
 
 Dr. Downs received 
 his education in lead- 
 ing public and private institutions of Cal. and New 
 York City. Began medical studies, 1897, in Univ. 
 of Sou. Cal. Med. Colg. Graduated, 1901, with M. D., 
 from Jefferson Med. Colg., Phila., Pa. Interne, 
 Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., over 18 
 months. 
 
 Began practice, Los Angeles, 1902; associated 
 with Dr. Milbank Johnson five years; District 
 Surgeon, Edi&on Electric Co., 1902-07; District 
 Surgeon, Home Telephone Co., 1906-07. Now In- 
 structor in Gynecology, Med. Dept. Univ. of Sou. 
 Cal., and author of many papers on subject. 
 
 He is a member, Med. Symposium Soc., Los An- 
 geles County Med. Assn., Med. Soc. of State of Cal., 
 Amer. Med. Assn., Union League and City Club, 
 Los Angeles; Masons, and Native Sons of the 
 Golden West. 
 
 SCHROEDER, 
 HARRY CHARLES, 
 Solicitor of United 
 States and Foreign 
 Patents, Trademarks 
 and Copyrights, Oak- 
 land, California, was 
 born in Germany, Sep- 
 tember 6, 1880, the son 
 of Charles and Mary 
 (Blumendorf) Schroe- 
 der. His father and 
 paternal grandfather 
 practiced the mechani- 
 cal electrical engineer- 
 ing business. 
 
 Mr. Schroeder was 
 brought to the United 
 States when he was 
 two years old and spent 
 his- childhood in Chicago, attending the public 
 schools at that place and Northwestern University 
 at Evanston, Illinois. He completed his school 
 training in 1899. 
 
 After this date he spent several years acquiring 
 practical experience in mechanical, electrical and 
 chemical manufacturing lines. After acquiring 
 this practical experience in Kansas City, Chicago 
 and other Eastern cities, he opened offices to prac- 
 tice his profession. 
 
 He has maintained offices in Oakland since 1897 
 and devotes all of his time to his profession, taking 
 only a passive interest in political affairs-. He is, 
 however, prominent in fraternal circles, being a 
 thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a mem- 
 ber of the Mystic Shrine and of the Rotary Club 
 of Oakland. 
 
 GARRET T, E D- 
 WARD HEWITT, Phy- 
 sician and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born 
 at Wilmington, Cal., 
 Nov. 21, 1872, the son 
 of Robt. L. Garrett and 
 Sarah Elizabeth (Mc- 
 Bride) Garrett. He 
 married Josephine Eb- 
 erle at Los Angeles, 
 March 4, 1904, and they 
 have a daughter, Eliza- 
 beth Katherine Garrett. 
 Dr. Garrett gradu- 
 ated from the Los An- 
 geles High School in 
 1892, and after three 
 years with the Wells- 
 Fargo Express Co., en- 
 tered the Medical College of the University of So. 
 Cal., graduating in 1899 with M. D. degree. He 
 spent a year as House Physician of the County 
 Hospital, Fresno, Cal.; then went to Searchlight, 
 Nev., as Surgeon for the Quartette Mining Co. He 
 next served the Golden Cross Mining Co., at Hedges, 
 Cal. Since 1901 has been in practice in Los An- 
 geles. From 1902 to 1905, he was Autopsy Surgeon 
 for the Coroner of L. A. County. From 1907 to 1910 
 he was Police Surgeon and a member of the State 
 Insanity Commission. Since 1906, has been Surgeon 
 for the U. S. Dept. of Justice and is Surg. and Med. 
 Examiner, Aetna Life Ins. Co. and is on visiting 
 staff, Clara Barton Hospital. 
 
 He is a member of Ramona Parlor, N. S. G. W.; 
 of Hollenbeck Lodge, F. & A. M.; the Am. Med. 
 Assn., and L. A. County and Cal. State Med. Socs. 
 
 MORTON, LEWIS 
 BURROWS, Surgeon, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Davenport, la., 
 May 12, 1878, the son of 
 William M. Morton and 
 Jane (Burrows) Mor- 
 ton. He married Caro- 
 line Ellsworth at Iowa 
 Falls, la., Sept. 15, 
 1903. They have one 
 child, Marcia Ellsworth 
 Morton. 
 
 Dr. Morton attended 
 public schools and 
 Ellsworth College, at 
 Iowa Falls, and studied 
 medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of Iowa, gradu- 
 ating' in 1901 with the 
 degree of M. D. From 1901 to 1906, he was assist- 
 ant to his father, Chief Surgeon for the Iowa Short 
 Line R. R. at Iowa Falls. He then took post-gradu- 
 ate work at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, as an in- 
 terne and rejoined his father at Iowa Falls. 
 
 In 1909, Dr. Morton moved to Los Angeles and 
 has been in practice there since, specializing in 
 surgical work. Among other duties he is Attending 
 Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, 
 and is Attending Gynecologist of Graves' Dispen- 
 sary, a part of the Los Angeles Med. Dept. of the 
 University of California. 
 
 Dr. Morton is a member of the Clinical and Path- 
 ological Society, Los Angeles; L. A. County Med. 
 Assoc. and Med. Soc. of the State of Cal. He be- 
 longs to the University Club of Chicago, and Annan- 
 dale Country Club, Los Angeles. 
 
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 ALLEN, HON. MAT- 
 THEW THOMPSON, 
 Presiding Justice, Dis- 
 trict Court of Appeal, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born near Greenville, 
 O., Sept. 17, 1848. Son 
 of Rev. John Allen and 
 Elizabeth (Ash) Allen. 
 Married Mary White- 
 side at Greenville, O., 
 April 23, 1879. 
 
 Justice Allen was ed- 
 ucated in the public 
 schools of Darke Coun- 
 ty, O. Otterbein Uni- 
 versity, Westerville, O. 
 He read law under Hon. 
 D. M. Bradbury, at Win- 
 chester, Ind., and was 
 admitted to the Indiana Bar Sept. 17, 1869. He 
 served a short time as Asst. Pros. Atty., 19th 
 Indiana Circuit, and in 1872, shortly after his return 
 to Greenville, O., began practice there. In 1886 he 
 went to Los Angeles on account of ill-health. Re- 
 sumed practice in 1887 and in 1890-91 was associ- 
 ated with Hon. N. P. Conrey and Clarence A. Miller. 
 Appointed U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of Cal. in 
 1891, and served until 1893, when he resigned and 
 became partner of U. S. Senator Frank P. Flint. 
 Elected Judge, Superior Court of Los Angeles Co., 
 1897, and dissolved partnership. In 1905, appointed 
 by Gov. Pardee, Associate Justice of the Dist. Court 
 of Appeal, becoming Presiding Justice in 1907. 
 
 He was Pres. of the Board of Education, Green- 
 ville, O., 1883 to 1886. Member Los- Angeles Bar 
 Ass'n., Mason and Mystic Shriner. Republican. 
 
 STABLER, LAIRD 
 JOSEPH, Professor of 
 Chemistry, University 
 of Southern California, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Bethany, Ohio, 
 August 27, 1863. His 
 father was Daniel F. 
 Stabler and his mother 
 Rachael A. (Le Sourd) 
 Stabler. He married 
 Miss Maud Lulu Jones-, 
 Aug. 27, 1890, at Ft., 
 Wayne, ind., and to 
 them were born two 
 sons, Dwight W. and 
 Robert L. Stabler. 
 
 He received his ear- 
 ly education at Beth- 
 any, Ohio, later attend- 
 ing the University of Michigan, graduating with 
 honors in 1885 with the degree of Pharmaceutical 
 Chemist. In 1890 he obtained his degree of Bache- 
 lor of Science from Purdue University (Ind.), after 
 which he took a post graduate course at Johns Hop- 
 kins University. In 1896 he received the degree of 
 Master of Science from Purdue University. 
 
 During 1891-1894 Prof. Stabler occupied the chair 
 of Chemistry in Southwestern Kansas College. In 
 1894 he removed to Los Angeles, Cal., associating 
 himself with the University of Southern California 
 as head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean 
 of the College of Pharmacy. Prof. Stabler has made 
 careful study of oil in Cal. and has contributed to 
 the technical journals various important articles. 
 Member, Am. Chemical Soc., Am. Pharmaceutical 
 Soc., and the University Club. 
 
 WEST, FREDERIC 
 BEALL, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in 
 Covington, Kentucky, 
 October 23, 1869, the 
 son of Byron David 
 West and Margaret Me- 
 lissa (Christy) West. 
 
 Dr. West received 
 his early education in 
 the public schools- of 
 Chicago, then attended 
 St. Ignatius College for 
 a year, but left to enter 
 the office of his father, 
 who was in charge of 
 the Michigan Insurance 
 Inspection Bureau. His 
 father was one of the 
 most prominent insurance men of the State of 
 Michigan and for eight years Dr. West was asso- 
 ciated with him as clerk and assistant inspector. 
 In 1896, however, he determined to take up the 
 study of medicine and entered Barnes Medical Uni- 
 versity at St. Louis, Mo., graduating in the class 
 of 1899 with the degree, M. D. Dr. West became a 
 House Physician at St. Mary's Hospital, Grand 
 Rapids, Mich., for about a year, when he moved to 
 Colorado Springs, Colo., and engaged in private 
 practice. After two years he moved to Los Angeles. 
 In addition to his medical work, Dr. West is a 
 clos-e student of the various religious and philo- 
 sophical movements of the day and is affiliated with 
 associations for world betterment. 
 
 He is a member of the State and County Medi- 
 cal Societies and American Medical Association. 
 
 MAYNE, WILLIAM 
 HAWTHORNE, Physi- 
 cian and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Bainbridge, County 
 Down, Ireland, Sept. 
 23, 1872, the son of 
 James Mayne and Lu- 
 cinda (Hawthorne) 
 Mayne. Married Louise 
 Hunter at Los Angeles, 
 June 27, 1900. 
 
 Dr. Mayne attended 
 private schools in Ire- 
 land until sixteen, then 
 moved to Southern Cal- 
 ifornia. Graduated from 
 Santa Ana (Cal.) High 
 School in 1893; attend- 
 ed Leland Stanford, Jr., 
 Univ. two years; graduated, M. D., in 1900, from 
 Med. College of Univ. of Sou. Cal. Prior to gradua- 
 tion Dr. Mayne, in 1899-1900, had charge of Medical 
 Dept. of Los Angeles County Poor Farm. After 
 graduation he went to Clarksville, N. M., and began 
 private practice. 
 
 In 1904, Dr. Mayne took six months' work in N. 
 Y. Post Graduate College, then returned to Los An- 
 geles and took a special course in Physical Diagno- 
 sis. Resumed private practice in 1905. Is Asst. Su- 
 preme Med. Director of the Fraternal Brotherhood 
 and Med. Exam, for Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. 
 
 Dr. Mayne served three years as a member of 
 Co. F, 9th Regt, N. G. C. Member, American Medi- 
 cal Association, L. A. County Medical Association, 
 Medical Society of the State of Cal., Phi Rho Sigma 
 fraternity and University Club, Los Angeles. 
 
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 ORUFP, FREDERICK LINCOLN, 
 Farmer and Land Developer, San 
 Fernando, Cal., was born at Clear 
 Creek, Ind., on the 31st of March, 
 1865. The son of William Henry 
 Boruff and Margaret Eleanor 
 Foster, he comes of sturdy fighting stock a fact 
 well illustrated by his own progressive career. His 
 paternal grandfather was a General in the Finn 
 army at the age of twenty-six, and his grandmother, 
 who was a descendant of Sir Robert Nesbitt, was 
 born on the battle ground of Bannockburn. Mr. 
 Boruff married Mrs. K. C. Porter (formerly Katie 
 Anne Caystile) at San Fernando, February 25, 1908. 
 
 Mr. Boruff received all his actual school educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Indiana and left the 
 grammar school in 1881, at the age of sixteen, to 
 make his own way in the world. Having inherited 
 a strong taste for farming, he immediately went 
 to Iowa to scan the agricultural prospects there. 
 The absence of an encouraging outlook conspired 
 with a roving disposition to send him to New Mex- 
 ico, where for two years he "punched cattle." 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Boruff returned to Macedonia, Iowa, 
 farmed for two more years and then entered the 
 journalistic field as owner and editor of the Botana 
 Valley News, a non-partisan weekly devoted chiefly 
 to agricultural interests. During his editorship he 
 developed a keen interest in the political situation 
 in Iowa and soon became an aggressive Democrat. 
 Throwing all the weight of his influence into the 
 cause, he materially aided his party to win the first 
 State success the Democrats of Iowa had known for 
 twenty-five years. Partly in reward for his efforts 
 he was appointed in 1886 Chief Deputy Auditor of 
 Pottawattamie County under Ira F. Hendricks. 
 
 Politics becoming distasteful to him, Mr. Boruff 
 resigned his office and early in 1887 traveled for 
 the Western Wheeled Scraper Company of Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa. During the next three years he 
 covered the greater part of the United States, do- 
 ing a large jobbing busine&s and acquiring a 
 knowledge of men and detail of which he subse- 
 quently had occasion to avail himself. 
 
 In July, 1890, Mr. Boruff went to Chicago and 
 entered the real estate business, with offices in 
 the old Lakeside Building. For ten years he was 
 a successful realty operator, dealing largely in city 
 and suburban property, and doing much to develop 
 the latter. His interest in politics, and perhaps 
 the hereditary love of a "good scrap" reviving, he 
 organized the Tammany Society of Chicago, and 
 from disintegrated elements built a coherent, har- 
 monious association of thirty-seven thousand mem- 
 bers in twelve hundred precincts. During this time 
 he became a warm personal friend of William Jen- 
 nings Bryan, and also a prolific contributor on po- 
 litical and allied subjects to many papers. 
 
 The strong attraction that California and her 
 agricultural and horticultural possibilities had 
 long held for Mr. Boruff drew him from Chicago to 
 
 this State in the fall of 1900. He first settled in 
 Los Angeles, subsequently moving to San Fer- 
 nando, where he has a model farm and the 
 largest private nursery in California. This prop- 
 erty contains more than 700,000 stock trees, chiefly 
 of oranges, lemons and olives. On olive culture 
 he is an enthusiast, second to none in that part of 
 the world. He has studied the subject in practic- 
 ally all of its phases, historic, economic and 
 botanic. He sees a wonderful future for the indus- 
 try in California, once the importance and feasibil- 
 ity of extensive olive culture are generally real- 
 ized. To him the fertility of California's soil and 
 the magic of her climate seem limitless in their 
 power for good. He believes that there is no effec- 
 tive medicament that cannot either be found or 
 produced in that State. He terms California the 
 "Drug Store of the World," in the best sense of 
 that therapeutic phrase, and cannot understand 
 the slowness of many native sons to sense the vir- 
 tues of their birthplace. However, he is not per- 
 mitting himself to worry over their want of fore- 
 sight and enthusiasm, but is devoting his own 
 energies to the task of justifying his own bound- 
 less faith in his adopted State. He specializes in 
 dry farming and has become an expert in this 
 branch of agriculture, which promises to revolu- 
 tionize farming methods and make arid wastes 
 productive fields. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Boruff organized the Lake Front 
 Improvement Company, a development concern of 
 which he is President. This company has large 
 holdings in the upper end of the San Fernando 
 Valley of California, surrounding the Owens River 
 Reservoir, with more than five miles of frontage 
 on the lake. The entire tract of the company con- 
 tains about 612 acres of land and it is the intention 
 of Mr. Boruff and his associates, who have already 
 done a large amount of improvement work, to de- 
 velop it ultimately into one of the finest residential 
 sections near Los Angeles, with country homes all 
 through the foothill section in which it lies. 
 
 Two features, upon which work was started 
 soon after the company was incorporated, are a 
 sportsman's club, to cost $10,000, which will be the 
 headquarters for hunters and fishermen, and an 
 elegant country club. This club will have splen- 
 did goif links and other features intended to make 
 it a leader of its kind in Southern California. 
 
 Mr. Boruff was a delegate to the Farmers' Na- 
 tional Congress in 1891 and is a member of 
 the National Good Roads Congress, of the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce of Los Angeles, the Jonathan 
 Club, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He is 
 also a Mason, Thirty-second degree, and was the 
 youngest member of that order in Iowa. 
 
 From 1901 to 1905, Mr. Boruff was Manager and 
 Director, Western Development Company; 1902 to 
 1906, President, Porter Land & Water Company. 
 He is Secretary, Sespe Brownstone Company, and 
 President, California Packing Case Company. 
 
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 RIMSLEY, OMA L., Mining, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Jonesburg, Washington County, 
 Tennessee, August 23, 1878, the 
 son of John L. Grimsley and Polly 
 (Hulse) Grimsley. He is a mem- 
 ber of one of the most prominent families of Ten- 
 nessee and a cousin of United States Senator 
 Robert Taylor of that State. He married Ella M. 
 Herron of Cumberland, Ohio, at Santa Ana, Cali- 
 fornia, February 21, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Grimsley, who is in- 
 ternationally famous as a 
 horseman and known as one 
 of the successful mining op- 
 erators of the West, has 
 spent the greater part of his 
 life in the open country. He 
 attended school at Mossy 
 Creek, Tennessee, until he 
 was fifteen years of age and 
 whatever else he learned 
 from books was acquired by 
 study in after years, while 
 working as a cowboy. 
 
 Leaving home in 1893, Mr. 
 Grimsley went to Big Horn 
 Basin, Wyoming, and there 
 obtained employment as a 
 cowboy on the ranch of the 
 Pitchfork Cattle Company. 
 He remained with this com- 
 pany for five years and dur- 
 ing that time spent his even- 
 ings and other spare time in 
 study. It was while work- 
 ing in Wyoming that Mr. 
 Grimsley, then only a youth, 
 heard of the riches to be made in placer mining 
 near Denver, Colorado, and he determined to go 
 there and seek his fortune. Organizing a party of 
 his associates, he went to Breckenridge, Colorado, 
 and immediately engaged in placer mining. 
 
 From the summer of 1899, when they began 
 work, until 1902, thev took out about $25,000, this 
 representing their labors during the summer 
 months only, because the snow lay too heavily on 
 the ground in the winter period to permit of their 
 working their property. Mr. Grimsley left his first 
 location in 1902 with the intention of returning 
 to the cattle business and at Glenwood Springs, 
 Colorado, was prevailed upon to match his riding 
 ability with that of the leading cowboys of the 
 West in a bronco-busting competition. In this 
 he won the world's championship, receiving a cash 
 prize of $1000 and a silver belt valued at $500. 
 His fame as a rider spread to all parts of the 
 world and in November of the same year he was 
 invited to participate in a second bronco-busting 
 contest, held at Buenos Ayres in South America. 
 
 O. L. GRIMSLEY 
 
 This competition occurred early in January, 1903, 
 and Mr. Grimsley again won the championship, 
 which carried $3000 cash and another silver belt 
 as the prize. 
 
 This marked the close of his career as a rider, 
 for shortly after winning the championship Mr. 
 Grimsley resumed his work in placer mining, op- 
 erating in South America, and remained there 
 until the fall of 1905. Although he was very suc- 
 cessful while there, he decided to return to the 
 United States and located at 
 Cripple Creek, Colorado. 
 There he leased quartz prop- 
 erties which he worked with 
 profit until 1907. 
 
 In the latter part of that 
 year he transferred his op- 
 erations to Rawhide, Nevada, 
 where he purchased a quartz 
 mine for $20,000 and after 
 working it for two years sold 
 out for $70,000. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Grimsley went 
 to the La Paz mining district 
 in Yuma County, Arizona, 
 and there purchased a placer 
 mine, which he has been op- 
 erating ever since. In May, 
 1910, he incorporated the 
 New La Paz Mining Com- 
 pany, of which he is Presi- 
 dent and General Manager. 
 The company possesses 426 
 acres in that district, which 
 has been estimated by engi- 
 neers to contain gold gravel 
 worth millions of dollars, 
 waiting to be hydrauliced 
 The company is installing a hundred thousand- 
 dollar plant of modern machinery. 
 
 It was on his way to this property that Mr. 
 Grimsley and a party of friends had a narrow es- 
 cape from death in the Colorado Desert. They 
 started from Los Angeles in an automobile in 
 December, 1911, to go to the La Paz district and 
 were caught in one of the dread sandstorms while 
 in the midst of the desert. They were blinded and 
 half choked by the sand and for four days, the 
 duration of the storm, suffered intensely. Inured 
 as he was to the hardships of the West, Mr. Grims- 
 ley considers this the worst experience he ever had- 
 Aside from the above he has recently organized 
 the Arizona Funding Company and Posos Valley 
 Water Company. He is President and General 
 Manager of the three corporations. 
 
 Mr. Grimsley, in his later years, has given up 
 the horse for the automobile and is one of the 
 most enthusiastic motorists in Los Angeles, being 
 a member of the Automobile Club of Southern Cal- 
 ifornia. He is also a member of the Chamber of 
 Mines and Oil of Los Angeles. 
 
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 GODWIN, PERCIVAL HENRY, 
 Realty and Insurance Broker, San 
 Diego, Cal., was born in Lake 
 City, Colo., Jan. 29, 1882, the son 
 of Nason M. Goodwin and Ro- 
 berta Jane (Wade) Goodwin. He 
 married Laura May Ewart at San Diego, May 15, 
 1906, and to them there have been born two chil- 
 dren, Ewart Wade and Virginia May Goodwin. 
 
 He was educated in San Diego, later studying 
 higher mathematics and law in Denver. 
 
 He went to Denver in 1900, and was a clerk 
 for the Prudential Life Insurance Co. there. From 
 1902 to 1904 he was half owner of the Galloway- 
 Goodwin Co., wholesale and retail grocers at Mont- 
 rose, Colo. In San Diego he bought an interest 
 in Gordon-Goodwin & Co., in which his father was 
 an active partner. 
 
 As President of the Mission Hills Co., was in 
 personal charge of opening Mission Hills, a beau- 
 tiful San Diego residential district. He was also 
 president of the Hercules Cement Co., and in- 
 terested in the Acreage Syndicate of San Diego. 
 
 He is Director of the San Diego Chamber of 
 Commerce and Director Padre of the Order of 
 Panama, and is Director of the Panama California 
 Exposition to be held in San Diego in 1915. He also 
 is a member of the Good Roads Club of San Diego 
 County, San Diego, Imperial Valley and Yuma High- 
 way Assn., ?nd Am. Auto. Assn. 
 
 He is a Republican in politics, life member of 
 the Archaeological Institute of America, thirty- 
 second degree Mason, member of San Diego Con- 
 ristorv, Knights Templar, and El B^hr Temnle of 
 the Mystic Shrine. He also is an Elk, member of 
 Phi Delta Kappa fraternity and an honorary mem- 
 ber of the Society of North American Indians. 
 His clubs are Cuyamaca, San Diego Aero, Rotary, 
 Point Loma Country, an Diego Rowing, Delta 
 Duck, Delta Gun, Juan Dios Trout and the Auto- 
 mobile Club of Southern California. 
 
 FRED. FETTE 
 
 ETTE, FREDERICK, Attorney at 
 Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 13, 1879, 
 the son of Frederick Fette and 
 Anna (Schmidt) Fette. He mar- 
 ried Gertrude G. Grant (nee Ty- 
 ler) at Stockton, Cal., Dec. 13, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Fette was reared in California, received his 
 preliminary education at Collegeville, Cal., went to 
 High School at Stockton for a year and concluded 
 at York's Normal School. 
 
 On Jan. 1, 1899, Mr. Fette entered the office of 
 A. H. Ashley, District Attorney of San Joaquin 
 County, California, and studied law for three years, 
 occasionally attending lectures at the University 
 of California Law School in San Francisco. He 
 was admitted to practice in March, 1902, and ap- 
 pointed Deputy District Attorney of San Joaquin 
 County. He remained in office only a year, form- 
 ing a partnership in 1903, with M. J. Henry. They 
 had offices in Stockton and Tuolumne, Cal., Mr. 
 Fette being in charge of the latter. He remained 
 there until 1907, since which time he has been in 
 Los Angeles. While in Tuolumne, Mr. Fette re- 
 ceived the Republican nomination for District At- 
 torney, but failed of election by the small margin 
 of 17 votes. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles Mr. Fette has at- 
 tained prominence as a practitioner in criminal 
 cases and also has taken active interest in polit- 
 ical and civic affairs. In addition to membership 
 in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, he be- 
 longs to the N. E. W. Improvement Association, 
 and the Bunker Hill District League. While at 
 Stockton he belonged to the National Guard of 
 California, but resigned after two years. 
 
 Mr. Fette is a member of the Los Angeles Bar 
 .Association, the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 City Club, and the B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 W. H. DAVIS 
 
 AVIS, WILLIAM HENRY, General 
 Counsel the Pacific Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company of California, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y., 
 Oct. 8, 1868, the son of Edwin A. 
 Davis and Imogene (Waggoner) Davis. One of his 
 ancestors was Gen. Herkimer, a Revolutionary 
 hero, who was killed in the battle of Oriskany, 
 and for whom the town of Herkimer, N. Y., is 
 named. Mr Oavis ^ is marred at Los Angeles, 
 March 19, 1896, to Bertha Samme. 
 
 His family locating in Marysville, Cal., Mr. 
 Davis was reared and educated there. He entered 
 school at fourteen, following with attendance at 
 Berkeley Gymnasium, a preparatory school, from 
 which he was graduated in 1886. In the Fall of 
 the same year he entered the University of Cali- 
 fornia and was graduated in 1890 with the degree 
 B. L. Mr. Davis took up the s-tudy of IHW under 
 his father, for years on the bench in Yuba and 
 Sutter Counties, California, and at the end of two 
 years was admitted to practice. 
 
 He removed to Los Angeles and practiced until 
 1899, when he accepted appointment as Secretary 
 to Governor Henry T. Gage of California, for his 
 term of four years. Upon its expiration Mr. Davis 
 resumed his law practice in San Francisco, Cal., 
 and there became an active factor in politics. He 
 has always been a staunch supporter of the Repub- 
 lican party and in 1905-06 served as Chairman of 
 the Republican Central Committee for the City and 
 County of San Francisco. In 19"d he served as 
 Secretary of the Republican State Central Com- 
 mittee. In 1909 Mr. Davis retired from politics 
 and accepted his present office. 
 
 Mr. Davis is a prominent member of the Bar- 
 Association, the California, Los Angeles Athletic 
 and Los Angeles Country clubs; Bohemian Club 
 of San Francisco, and Sutter Club of Sacramento. 
 
 EDWARD T. MOORE 
 
 CORE, EDWARD TEMPLETON, 
 Manager, Public Service Corpora- 
 tion, Dallas, Texas, was born in 
 White County, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1866, 
 the son of Edward Gleason Moore 
 and Parmelia Helen Hill. Married 
 Ella Frances Spears at Dallas, Feb. 11, 1902. 
 
 Mr. Moore received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of Tennessee, attended Burrett 
 College at Spencer, Tennessee and finished at the 
 National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio. 
 
 In the latter part of 1887 Mr. Moore began work 
 as the driver of a street car for the Dallas Street 
 Railway Company. After working in this position 
 for a short time he was promoted to the position 
 of foreman in one of the company's car barns. 
 From this he was promoted to the general offices 
 of the company as Cashier and Bookkeeper, then 
 became Secretary and his next step was to the 
 office of Superintendent. Finally, in 1900, he was 
 made Manager of the Street Railway Company, 
 and a short time later became Manager of the 
 Dallas Electric Light and Power Company, which 
 does practically all of the light and power business 
 of the Texas metropolis. In addition, he is Man- 
 ager of the Dallas Consolidated Electric Street 
 Railway Company, the Rapid Transit Railway Com- 
 pany and the Metropolitan Street Railway Com- 
 pany. All of these are Dallas railways. Mr. Moore 
 also is Manager of the Dallas Southern Traction 
 Co. and interurban line, which runs between Dallas- 
 and Waxahachie, Texas, a distance of 31 miles. 
 
 Besides being a Director in the Dallas Consoli- 
 dated Electric Street Railway, he is on the Boards 
 of the American Exchange National Bank and the 
 Southland Life Insurance Company of Dallas. 
 
 He is a Democrat in politics, a Director of the 
 Dallas Y. M. C. A. and a member of the Dallas 
 Chamber of Commerce. His other affiliations are 
 the Dallas Club and Dallas Golf and Country Club. 
 
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 EDWARD DOUBLE 
 
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 811 
 
 OUBLE, EDWARD, President of 
 the Union Tool Company, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at Ti- 
 tusville, Pennsylvania, October 15, 
 1871, the son of Hamilton Double 
 and Mary (Smith) Double. He 
 married Alice Harbard at Santa Paula, California, 
 January 4, 1900, and of their union there has been 
 born a daughter, Helen Double. 
 
 Mr. Double, the head of one of the greatest 
 manufacturing institutions in the West and an im- 
 portant factor in the industrial development of 
 California and the Southwest, received his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Pennsylvania and 
 grew to manhood in that State. 
 
 As a young man Mr. Double became interested 
 in oil production, which was at its height in the 
 Keystone State about that time, and worked for a 
 number of years in the oil fields, in all branches of 
 the business. Born with inventive genius, his nat- 
 ural inclination was towards- the mechanical side 
 of the business, and in time he became interested 
 in the manufacture of tools and appliances for the 
 production of oil. He developed into one of the 
 most skilled tool and machinery men in the oil 
 fields of Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1898, Mr. Double determined to seek a new 
 section of the country where he could enter into 
 business- for himself and as the oil industry of 
 California was just then taking on importance, 
 he went there. He first located at Santa Paula, at 
 that time an important center in the California 
 oil region. 
 
 At Santa Paula, Mr. Double became intimately 
 acquainted with the leading oil producers of that 
 vicinity and associated himself in several invest- 
 ment enterprises of the principal interests. He 
 also established a plant for the manufacture of 
 tools and machinery and during the next five years 
 made it the leading establishment of its kind in 
 the field. 
 
 At the end of the five years, however, he moved 
 his plant to Los Angeles where he has been en- 
 gaged ever since. He had foreseen early that oil 
 was to be one of California's richest products and 
 took advantage of the opportunity to supply the 
 developers with the necessary machinery. At the 
 time he moved his plant, Los Angeles was becom- 
 ing the headquarters for most of the large oil pro- 
 ducers and his business grew until he became one 
 of the chief manufacturers of oil well tools and 
 appurtenances in the Southwest. In time he be- 
 came associated with the Union Tool Company of 
 Los Angeles, and the company has become the 
 largest manufacturers of oil well machinery in the 
 West. Mr. Double is President and General Man- 
 ager of the concern and also one of the largest 
 stockholders. 
 
 The Union Tool Company, in the success of 
 which Mr. Double has been the principal factor, 
 was formed in July, 1908, by the consolidation of 
 
 the American Engineering & Foundry Company 
 and the Union Oil Tool Company, and was capi- 
 talized at $1,200,000. The basic companies had 
 been in existence for about fifteen years prior to 
 that time and were among the important manu- 
 facuring concerns of the Coast, so that the merger 
 centralized their facilities and afforded means for 
 still greater progress in their line. 
 
 Mr. Double's company, which supplies oil well 
 machinery and tools for the entire world, is- among 
 the most gigantic enterprises of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, making a specialty of oil well supplies, gas, 
 gasoline and distillate engines, mining machinery 
 and iron castings. It has- branches in Brea, Orcutt, 
 Coalinga and Midway in the oil fields of Cali- 
 fornia and also a large plant at West Chicago, 
 Illinois, where material not used on the Pacific 
 Coast is handled. 
 
 Mr. Double has invented a number of valuable 
 devices and through him the Union Tool Company 
 has been able to make a number of important im- 
 provements in oil well tools. The company was 
 located for many years in the manufacturing dis- 
 trict of Los Angeles proper, but its business in- 
 creased to such a tremendous extent that it was 
 compelled to build a new plant. This latter, 
 located at Torrance, California, a model industrial 
 city near Los Angeles, covers twenty-five acres of 
 ground and is one of the largest and most com- 
 plete manufacturing institutions in the country. The 
 various buildings, nine in number, are of concrete 
 construction and equipped with the most modern 
 machinery and facilities, with special provision for 
 light and air among the principal features. Mr. 
 Double, conceded to be the most capable manufac- 
 turer of oil well tools on the Pacific Coast, took 
 an active part in the design of the buildings and 
 personally witnessed their construction and the in- 
 stallation of the equipment, with the result that 
 the plant is a model of efficiency. The buildings, 
 land and machinery combined represent an invest- 
 ment of nearly a million dollars. 
 
 Mr. Double, the directing head of this great en- 
 terprise, ranks with the big business men of the 
 West. For more than twenty years he has made 
 the needs of the oil business in the matter of tools 
 his special study and oil operators generally credit 
 him with having been one of the strongest factors 
 in the advancement of the industry, which, in Cali- 
 fornia, is the principal wealth producer of any 
 single line of activity. 
 
 The business interests of Mr. Double occupy the 
 greater part of his time, but he also is deeply in- 
 terested in the welfare of Los Angeles and is one 
 of the potent influences for its development. He 
 has lent his aid to numerous movements for the 
 upbuilding of the city and is one of the uplifting 
 forces of the community. He is a member of the 
 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and also be- 
 longs to the Union League Club, the Jonathan 
 Club, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
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 ARBAUGH, ARTHUR G., Metal- 
 lurgist and Mining Engineer, So- 
 cavon, Mexico, and Goldfleld, Ne- 
 vada, was born in Roseville, 
 Illinois, October 21, 1872, the son 
 of James Alexander Harbaugh 
 and Martha (Chase) Harbaugh. He married Nellie 
 Grimes at Virginia City, Montana, March 10, 1904. 
 Mr. Harbaugh received his primary education 
 in the public schools of Red Oak, Iowa, graduating 
 from the High School in 
 1893. For several years fol- 
 lowing this he earned his 
 own living, then entered 
 Knox College, at Galesburg, 
 Illinois, graduating in 1900 
 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. The following year 
 he took a post-graduate 
 course at the same institu- 
 tion in Chemistry, having 
 determined upon mining as 
 his life work. 
 
 Following the completion 
 of his studies, Mr. Harbaugh 
 went to Butte, Montana, 
 where he began work in the 
 mines of the Amalgamated 
 Copper Company. His work 
 was the same as that of any 
 other miner for a year, but 
 at the end of that time he 
 was given the position of 
 Metallurgist for the Kennett 
 Gold Mining Company at 
 Virginia City, Montana. 
 Leaving this company at the 
 end of another year, he took 
 a position as Superintendent 
 of the sixty-stamp mill and cyanide plant of the 
 Alder Mining Company, also located at Virginia 
 City. He held this post for about two years, then 
 accepted appointment as Engineer for the Boston 
 Exploration Company, his work taking him to the 
 Kemano District of British Columbia. There he 
 had charge of the engineering branch of the opera- 
 tions at the Summer Mines, devoting his time to 
 them for about a year. 
 
 In 1906, Mr. Harbaugh returned to the United 
 States and accepted a position as Assayer for the 
 Montana Tonopah Mines at Tonopah, Nevada, but 
 at the expiration of a year his record was such 
 that he was drafted by the Goldfield Consolidated 
 Mines Company, the largest operators in the Gold- 
 field District, as Assayer in Chief for all of its 
 properties. He remained in this capacity for about 
 three years and during that time had charge of the 
 sampling of all the shipments of high grade ores 
 produced by the various mines of the company. It 
 was here that Mr. Harbaugh, who is a scientist as 
 well as a practical mining man, attracted the atten- 
 
 A. G. HARBAUGH 
 
 tion of the mining fraternity to himself by the de- 
 velopment of a definite system whereby a very 
 large amount of ore and dust from mine and mill, 
 respectively, could be rapidly assayed. 
 
 This innovation, like various others which he 
 introduced after careful experiment, is the result 
 of a definite plan along which Mr. Harbaugh has 
 been working for several years to make mining 
 as economical as possible, because it is his belief 
 that the future of mining will depend upon the suc- 
 cess attending the efforts of 
 the metallurgists to reduce 
 the cost of reduction of ore. 
 While in Oregon several 
 years ago he worked out a 
 method of treating high anti- 
 monial ore by a series of 
 concentrations, the recovery 
 being made, after the values 
 were collected, by means of 
 cyanide, both in the tailings 
 and concentrate of the smel- 
 ter. This method of treat- 
 ment has been of inestim- 
 able value to the mining in- 
 dustry and has been the 
 guiding line for various other 
 experiments looking towards 
 economical handling of ore. 
 
 With Mr. Harbaugh care- 
 ful handling of tonnage and 
 extreme care in the milling 
 of ores to prevent metallur- 
 gical losses, is a fine art; and 
 to perfect himself in this art 
 he is devoting a large part 
 of his time to the study of 
 the science of metallurgy and 
 mining in the hope that his 
 discoveries may be of value to this and future gen- 
 erations. 
 
 Since his Goldfield days, Mr. Harbaugh has 
 been continuously engaged in important mining 
 operations. Upon severing his connection with the 
 Goldfield Consolidated he was engaged by Eastern 
 interests to examine and report on properties in 
 Colorado, Nevada, California and other Western 
 States, being thus employed for about two years. 
 In 1911, he became associated with the Merrill 
 Metallurgical Company of San Francisco and was 
 sent to Mexico as Superintendent of the San Luis 
 Mining Company's property at Socavon, in the San 
 Dimas district of Durango. 
 
 This is a Haggin & Hearst holding, and Mr. 
 Harbaugh is devoting much of his time to the per- 
 fection of a system of economical mining and mill- 
 ing of Mexican ores. In this he is associated with 
 Mr. C. W. Merrill, whom he considers one of the 
 world's greatest metallurgists. 
 
 Mr. Harbaugh is a Scottish Rite Mason, a 
 Knight Templar, and member of the B. P. O. Elks. 
 
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 813 
 
 BERNATHY, JOHN RICHARD 
 ("Captain Jack"), Oklahoma City, 
 Oklahoma, was born in Bosque 
 County, Texas, in 1876, the son 
 of Martin Van Abernathy and 
 Kitty (Williams-) Abernathy. He 
 married Jessie Pearl Jordan at Cleburn, Texas, 
 on the 10th day of March, 1894, and of their 
 union there were born six children, Louie, Tem- 
 ple, Kitty Joe, Goldie, John and Pearl Abernathy. 
 
 Mr. Abernathy, whose life 
 has been one of picturesque 
 coloring, received his pri- 
 mary education in the public 
 schools of Waco, Texas, and 
 finished at the famous Ball 
 High School, in Galveston. 
 He studied music while there 
 and afterwards married the 
 girl who had aided him in 
 this work. 
 
 After leaving school, Mr. 
 Abernathy settled upon the 
 ranch of his father, located 
 in Hill County, Texas, and 
 for the next two years en- 
 gaged in ranching. He then 
 moved to Oklahoma and 
 there began the exciting life 
 that made him one of the 
 most interesting characters 
 of the new West. 
 
 In 1901, when Oklahoma 
 was opened for settlement, 
 Mr. Abernathy became an 
 Undersheriff, serving with 
 Sheriff Painter. In this ca- 
 pacity he was called upon to 
 deal with a desperate class 
 of men, including horse 
 thieves, train robbers and 
 outlaws of every description, 
 but he made such an excel- 
 lent record in the discharge 
 of his duties that he was ap- 
 pointed a Deputy U. S. Marshal for the western 
 part of Oklahoma. He served in this office and 
 then was appointed U. S. Marshal by President 
 Roosevelt, who had been attracted to him by his 
 many displays of bravery. 
 
 It had been Abernathy's chief sport, for many 
 years, to hunt wolves and capture the beasts with 
 his bare hands. He had taken hundreds of the 
 wild animals in this fashion, and when President 
 Roosevelt expressed a desire to go on a wolf hunt 
 Abernathy was chosen as his guide. The hunt was 
 held in Oklahoma and the sterling qualities exhib- 
 ited on that occasion by the Oklahoma Marshal re- 
 sulted in a lifelong friendship between him and the 
 President. For many years afterwards he was one 
 of the most welcome guests at the White House 
 and the Roosevelt home. 
 
 During his tenure as U. S. Marshal, Abernathy 
 had an exciting time and risked his life scores of 
 times in the discharge of his duties. He is a man 
 of extreme modesty and many of his exploits never 
 became public. A few, however, were of such sen- 
 sational character that it was impossible to keep 
 them secret. One of these was the capture of the 
 Jenkins Brothers, lawyers who turned to outlawry 
 for a livelihood. For several years these men had 
 terrorized Oklahoma and they seemed to bear 
 
 CAPT. JACK ABERNATHY 
 
 charmed lives until Abernathy got on their trail. 
 They had robbed banks, held up trains and com- 
 mitted nearly every crime, including murder. 
 After a long chase and a desperate battle, how- 
 ever, Marshal Abernathy brought them to bay and 
 the result was their arrest and conviction on the 
 charge of murder, with life terms in the peniten- 
 tiary. After they had served several years and had 
 shown due repentance, their captor secured execu- 
 tive pardon for them. These men reformed and 
 became good citizens, both 
 returning to the practice of 
 their profession the law. 
 
 Another interesting event 
 in the life of the Marshal was 
 his capture of a band of five 
 bank robbers practically sin- 
 gle-handed. He had been 
 told that the men were plan- 
 ning a midnight raid on the 
 bank and postoffice, so he 
 went to that point, accompa- 
 nied by one deputy. He ar- 
 rived just as the bandits 
 were working on the bank's 
 vault, and called upon them 
 to surrender. They immedi- 
 ately opened fire on Aberna- 
 thy, but the latter, an unerr- 
 ing marksman, returned the 
 fire, and when the smoke had 
 cleared away three of the 
 bandits were dead, the oth- 
 ers prisoners, and Abernathy 
 and his deputy unscathed. 
 
 These are only two inci- 
 dents in the life of Aberna- 
 thy, but they show the tim- 
 ber of the man, whose friends 
 point proudly to the fact that 
 in all his career only one 
 prisoner, a counterfeiter 
 named West, ever got away 
 from him. 
 
 Marshal Abernathy's sons, 
 Louie and Temple, two sturdy young Westerners, 
 have inherited some of the characteristics of their 
 father, as was demonstrated when the boys, one 
 nine and the other six years of age, made a horse- 
 back journey, alone, from Oklahoma to New York 
 City, to welcome Theodore Roosevelt back to 
 America on his return from the African jungles. 
 
 The boys later rode from New York to the Pa- 
 cific Coast, covering more than nine thousand 
 miles on horseback, and became idols of the Amer- 
 ican public for their pluck and hardihood. The 
 father is extremely proud of his sons and on their 
 tour of North America accompanied them every- 
 where, maintaining a parental guardianship over 
 them. He also provided the boys with private 
 teachers so that their education should not be neg- 
 lected while they traveled. 
 
 Mr. Abernathy is a staunch Republican in pol- 
 itics and an unfaltering supporter of Roosevelt. 
 
 He relinquished his office of Marshal in Novem- 
 ber, 1910, after serving for more than six years, but 
 the Government refused to accept his resignation 
 until January, 1911, in the hope that he would re- 
 consider it and continue in office. He bears the 
 distinction of having three commissions from the 
 Government at the same time, to serve which 
 would have kept him in office until 1920. 
 
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 N. C. GOODWIN 
 
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 GODWIN, NATHANIEL CARL, 
 JR., Actor, Santa Monica, Cali- 
 fornia, New York and Boston, 
 was born at Boston, Mass., July 
 25, 1857, the son of Nathaniel 
 Carl and Caroline R. Goodwin. 
 Mr. Goodwin married four times, to women ac- 
 knowledged to be the most beautiful of their day. 
 He first married Eliza Weathersbee, a lovely Eng- 
 lish actress, in 1877. She died in 1887. In 1888 
 he married Mrs. Nella Baker Pease, society beauty 
 of Buffalo, N. Y., but they were divorced in 
 1891. His third marriage was in 1898 with Maxine 
 Elliott, the actress, voted the one most beautiful 
 woman of her generation, and the union endured 
 for nearly ten years, but was also ended by di- 
 vorce. Edna Goodrich, another well known actress 
 and beauty, became his bride in 1908, at Boston, 
 but she also was separated from him in the 
 year 1911. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin was educated in the public schools 
 of Boston and Little Blue Academy, in Maine, grad- 
 uating from the latter in 1873. For a short time 
 after leaving school he was engaged in commercial 
 pursuits, but a talent for mimicry which he dis- 
 played in early youth asserted itself and he first 
 obtained a chance as general utility man at Niblo's 
 Gardens, New York City. His first distinct success 
 was with Stuart Robson in a minor part in "Law 
 in New York." From that time down to date his 
 stage career has been a record of success, and for 
 a generation he was conceded to be the leading 
 actor of high-class comedies on the American 
 stage. Some of his successes were Captain Diet- 
 rich in "Evangeline," in the Gilbert & Sullivan 
 operas, in the part of Bottom in the "Midsummer 
 Night's Dream," "An American Citizen," as Sir Lu- 
 cius OTrigger in "The Rivals," as Shylock in "The 
 Merchant of Venice," and many others. 
 
 In 1908 he retired from the stage to take charge 
 of mining interests at Rawhide, Nevada. At one 
 time these properties were estimated to be worth 
 $4,000,000. They were in the famous Balloon Hill. 
 For months ore worth $2,000 to the ton was ex- 
 tracted from his claims. The money he earned on 
 the stage and drew out of his mines he invested in 
 a hotel at San Francisco, in realty in New York 
 City, in California ranches, and in a beautiful home 
 at Santa Monica. 
 
 He returned to the stage in 1910, and repeated 
 his early successes as a comedian. 
 
 Although comedy parts have been his favorites, 
 his several efforts in tragedy have received high 
 praise, and it is thought he could have been one 
 of the greatest of tragedians had he chosen. Critics 
 accord him a permanent and big place in the his- 
 tory of the American dramatic art. 
 
 He has belonged to innumerable clubs, in vari- 
 ous parts of the country. At the present time he 
 maintains membership in the Green Room Club of 
 London, Lambs, Players and Larchmont Yacht 
 Clubs of New York City. 
 
 AVIS, JOSEPH JEFFERSON, Los 
 Angeles, California, President of 
 the Santa Monica Land and 
 Water Company, is a native of 
 Ottawa, Canada, born August 8, 
 1869. His father was Jefferson 
 Davis, a prominent capitalist and land owner of his 
 home region and a native of Lancaster, England. 
 His mother was also of English origin, the place of 
 her birth being Sussex, England. Mr. Davis mar- 
 ried Miss Emma Volkman, at Santa Monica, Cal., 
 Sept. 11, 1894. There are three sons, Herbert Les- 
 lie, Robert Carlyle and Joseph Jefferson. 
 
 Mr. Davis was educated in the schools of Can- 
 ada and later spent a brief period with his father 
 in business. At the age of twenty-one he left Can- 
 ada for Southern California where he foresaw great 
 opportunities. 
 
 In 1890 he located in the Santa Monica region 
 and engaged in the organization of the United 
 Electric and Gas Company for the purpose of fur- 
 nishing light, power and fuel to the residents of 
 that vicinity. He was made Vice President and 
 General Manager of the company and for ten 
 years was its business head. In 1900 the stock 
 and plant of the company was purchased by the 
 Edison Electric Company, Mr. Davis resigning all 
 interest in that line. 
 
 Mr. Davis soon became interested in land, in 
 1903 purchasing an interest in the Santa Monica 
 Land and Water Company. He also bought large 
 tracts of lands from the San Vicente and the 
 Santa Monica grants and immediately began their 
 improvement. He spent large sums in opening 
 streets, boulevards and tracts and today the great 
 system of highways which stretch for miles around 
 Santa Monica can be traced to the work of Mr. 
 Davis. In 1905 he became associated with R. C. 
 Gillis in the purchasing of new lands in the above 
 region and a few months later, the beautiful tracts 
 of Westgate, Brentwood Park and Carlos Heights 
 were opened. These residential districts border 
 along the foothills and command a grand view of 
 the ocean on the west. 
 
 Mr. Davis has seen Santa Monica, and the back 
 country which stretches toward Hollywood, grow 
 from a small seaside village to a city that prom- 
 ises to become the Newport of the Pacific Coast. 
 And he has been one of the men, in the twenty- 
 two years of his stay, to insist upon the high stand- 
 ard of public and private improvement that has 
 made it the beautiful district that it is. 
 
 During the last few years Mr. Davis has been 
 known as President of the Santa Monica Land 
 and Water Company and as one of the highly suc- 
 cessful men of the Santa Monica district. He has 
 been identified with many other land enterprises 
 and is a director in the Broadway Central Bank of 
 Los Angeles. He holds memberships in several of 
 the largest business, professional and social or- 
 ganizations of both Santa Monica and Los Angeles. 
 Mr. Davis is the owner of one of the most beau- 
 tiful residences in Southern California, situated on 
 the broad boulevard at Westgate. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 DR. L. M. POWERS 
 
 OWERS, LUTHER MILTON, City 
 Health Commissioner, Los An- 
 geles-, Cal., born in New Hanover 
 County, N. C., April 5, 1853, son 
 of William Powers and Lucy J. 
 (Murray) Powers. He married 
 Mary E. Stevenson at Plymouth, N. C., Nov. 28, 
 1881, and to them were born four children Anna 
 (Mrs. E. F. Keller), George D., Lucy and William 
 M. Powers. 
 
 Dr. Powers received primary education in 
 his native county and in Wake Forrest Col- 
 lege (N. C.). Read medicine with Drs. A. D. 
 McDonald and W. J Love, and in 1874 entered 
 Washington University School of Medicine, at 
 Baltimore. Graduated in 1877, with honors of his 
 class. Practiced in Plymouth, N. C., attended 
 Bellevue Medical College (N. Y.), for post-grad- 
 uate work in 1881; College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons (N. Y.), 1884, and New York Polyclinic, 
 in 1885. 
 
 Practiced in North Carolina during this time and 
 for a year after. In 1886 moved to Norfolk, Neb. 
 Went to Los Angeles in 1887. He was- appointed 
 City Health Officer in 1893, served to 1895 and 
 was reappointed in 1897, serving since. 
 
 Los Angeles ranks with the healthiest cities of 
 the world, and that is due, greatly, to the methods 
 and safeguards installed by Dr. Powers, who for 
 many years has held a prominent place among the 
 world's scientists. In 1902, he was chosen by John 
 Hay, Secretary of State, as Pacific Coast represen- 
 tative to the International Congress of Hygiene of 
 the American Republics, at Washington, D. C. 
 
 Dr. Powers is a member of the Am. Med. Ass'n., 
 L. A. County Med. Soc., Sou. Cal. Med. Soc., Med. 
 Soc. of the State of Cal., and was member of the 
 N. C. Med. Soc. He is a Mason, member of the 
 Independent Order of Foresters and L. A. Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and various other organizations. 
 
 L. M. FARNHAM 
 
 ARNHAM, LEWIS MARTIN- 
 DALE, Secretary Pacific Light & 
 Power Corpn., Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born in Bangor, Me., May 26, 
 1864, the son of John N. Farnham 
 and Nancy Melinda (Wentworth) 
 Farnham. He married Faustina Ankeny Gerrish at 
 Milford, Me., Nov. 24, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Farnham, who is of Puritan stock, received 
 his education in the public schools of Bangor, fore- 
 going High School to accept employment in a book 
 store, where he worked eleven years, then entered 
 the employ of the Maine Central Railroad. During 
 the next nine years he served as Accountant, 
 Rate Clerk and Paymaster, and was Cashier of the 
 Local Freight Office when he resigned, in 1898, to 
 go West on account of ill health. 
 
 Locating at Oak Hill, California, Mr. Farnham 
 went to work as storekeeper and bookkeeper for 
 the Napa Quicksilver Mining Co., and later was Su- 
 perintendent of the Aetna Quicksilver Mining Co. 
 In 1903 he went to Los Angeles as Assistant 
 Auditor of the Pacific Light & Power Co., with which 
 he has continued down to the present. From 1903 to 
 1907 he also was Assistant Secretary of the San 
 Joaquin Light & Power Co.; from 1907 to date he 
 has served as Secretary of the San Joaquin Co., and 
 for five years served as Assistant Secretary of the 
 Pacific Light & Power Co., being promoted to Secre- 
 tary in July, 1912, resigning the position of Auditor, 
 occupied since 1907. During 1908-10 he was Secre- 
 tary of the Domestic Gas Co., and since its reor- 
 ganization as the Southern California Gas Co. has 
 held the same office. He also is Secretary of the 
 Coalinga Water & Electric Co., Union Power Co., 
 Lerdo Land Co., and Electric Power Co., all impor- 
 tant public service corporations of So. Cal. He is 
 a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Union League Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 WALTER R. BACON 
 
 AGON, WALTER ROMAYNE, At- 
 torney at Law, San Francisco, 
 Cal., was born at Mexico, Miami 
 County, Ind., September 14, 1857, 
 the son of Francis Marion Bacon 
 and Sarah Felton (Griswold) 
 Bacon. He married Evelyn F. Smith, November 
 24, 1884. 
 
 Mr. Bacon received his early education in the 
 public schools of Indiana, attending the High School 
 at Rochester, Indiana, until the year 1870. He then 
 went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and there attended 
 Parsons' Academy. Leaving the latter institution 
 in 1873, he immediately went to Grand Island, Ne- 
 braska, where he read law in the office of the law 
 firm of Thummel & Platt. In 1886 he was admitted 
 to the Bar of Nebraska and soon entered into the 
 active practice of law for himself. In 1888 Mr. 
 Bacon was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Hall 
 County, Nebraska, in which office he served one 
 term. 
 
 In 1891 he moved to Los Angeles-, Cal., and be- 
 ing admitted to the Bar of California he established 
 a law practice there. He continued practice for 
 eight years, during which time he held the 
 office of General Counsel of the Los Angeles Gas 
 and Electric Co. He was also the President of the 
 Southern California Historical Society for eight 
 years, and was- one of the founders of the Southwest 
 Archaeological Society and Museum of Los Angeles. 
 In 1907 Mr. Bacon moved his business headquarters 
 to San Francisco, where much of his professional 
 work was- centered, and where he has continued in 
 active practice as the attorney for a number of 
 large corporations and estates. 
 
 Mr. Bacon is a strong supporter of all move- 
 ments intended for the betterment of the State. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of 
 the Jonathan and Union League Clubs of Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 GEORGE A. RATHBUN 
 
 ATHBUN, GEORGE ARTHUR, Life 
 Insurance, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Clinton County, Iowa, 
 September 25, 1868, the son of 
 George R. Rathbun and Adeline 
 M. (Button) Rathbun. He mar- 
 ried Alda E. Mills at Omaha, Nebraska, May 15, 
 1895, and to them there was born a daughter, Ruth 
 Marjorie Rathbun. 
 
 Mr. Rathbun attended the public schools of 
 Omaha, and after graduating from the Omaha High 
 School, entered the Omaha Business College, tal- 
 lowing this with a course at Cornell College, Mount 
 Vernon, Iowa. 
 
 In January, 1891, Mr. Rathbun began his busi- 
 ness career as agent for the Fidelity Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company and worked- as such for three 
 years, when he was appointed manager of the com- 
 pany's interests in Nebraska, with headquarters 
 at Omaha. He was transferred, in 1896, to San 
 Francisco, Cal., as manager of that State. He 
 remained there for several years and in 1903 was 
 appointed Pacific Coast Director. 
 
 In the early part of 1904 Mr. Rathbun decided 
 to cast his fortunes with the Equitable Life Assur- 
 ance Company of N. Y. as manager for Colorado. 
 He remained in Denver for more than three years 
 and then, on September 1, 1907, was transferred to 
 Los Angeles as manager for Southern California 
 and part of Nevada, in which position he continues 
 at the present time (1913). 
 
 Mr. Rathbun occupies a leading position in the 
 business. He is Vice President of the General 
 Agency Assn. of the Equitable Society and an ex- 
 ecutive officer of the National Life Underwriters' 
 Assn. He is a member of the California Club, Los 
 Angeles Country Club, Gamut Club, Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and the Automobile Club of Southern 
 California. He is also a prominent Mason, a Knight 
 Templar and member of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
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 ENNIE, JAMES W., General Mana- 
 ger, Shannon Copper Company, 
 Clifton, Arizona, is a native of 
 England, but from the time he fin 
 ished his education, has been a 
 citizen of the world at large, an 
 active force in mining and smelting affairs- in sev- 
 eral different countries. 
 
 Prior to coming to the United States, Mr. Bennie 
 had worked in various provinces of Great Britain, 
 including Canada and Australia, and also had at- 
 tained notable success in the famous Rio Titito 
 District of Spain. 
 
 Coming to the United States in about 1900, he 
 was engaged as General Manager of the Shannon 
 Copper Company and has continued in that capac- 
 ity since that time. His conduct of the property 
 has been characterized by a success extraordinary 
 and he is generally credited with having been one 
 of the chief factors in the work of placing this 
 company among the leading copper producing con- 
 cerns of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Bennie is noted in his profession as one of 
 the most capable mining engineers in the country 
 and is given front rank with the smelting experts, 
 because of the fact that when he first took charge 
 of the Shannon property at Clifton he discarded 
 the existing process of smelting the ore and built 
 an entirely new smelter plant and reduction works, 
 employing a process of his own, modeled after the 
 Rio Tinto methods. 
 
 The Shannon Copper Company was organized 
 in 1900 for the purpose of taking over and operat- 
 ing the Shannon Mine at Metcalf, Arizona, nine 
 miles from Clifton. The company, with which Mr. 
 Bennie became associated shortly after its forma- 
 tion, immediately began the systematic develop- 
 ment of the property, and now owns, in addition to 
 its original mine, many other valuable claims, the 
 great smelter designed and constructed by Mr. 
 Bennie, and a railroad connecting the mines with 
 the smelter. The ore is conveyed from the mines 
 to the shipping bins at the railroad on an incline 
 road 1500 feet in length, the vertical distance be- 
 tween the lower and the upper terminals being 
 800 feet. The incline is a surface tramway with 
 three tracks and the cars, attached to cables. The 
 cars are operated by gravity, a loaded one hauling 
 an empty one up. At the head of this incline is a 
 pet of loading bins which receive ore from the 
 mines. At a point on the incline, 168 feet below the 
 head, are other bins which receive ore from the 
 lower tunnels that connect by trackage with those 
 bins. Thus the ore from the main tunnels is con- 
 veyed direct to bins which unload into the incline 
 cars. 
 
 This system of ore handling, installed by Mr. 
 Bennie, represents an amount of study and the 
 overcoming of numerous engineering difficulties, 
 and is regarded as a splendid piece of work. 
 
 The construction of the mine workings of the 
 Shannon Company has resulted in a tremendous 
 saving in operating expenses. The main double 
 track tunnel is 300 feet below the apex of the 
 mountain, runs 1700 feet and terminates at the sur- 
 
 face of the opposite side of the mountain. From 
 this tunnel drifts have been made in all directions, 
 many of them to the surface and by this method 
 the ore has been thoroughly blocked out and ex- 
 posed. Also from this level many raises have been 
 made to the surface and stopes opened, all the ore 
 thus mined being passed through chutes to the 
 main double track tunnel. 
 
 The mountain, which is opened from all sides, 
 has a capping of hematite of varying thickness, 
 which is said to average about 45 per cent iron. 
 This is utilized by Mr. Bennie as a flux in his smelt- 
 ing process. Within the iron capping are the regu- 
 lar pockets of copper carbonate which usually are 
 very rich. These are azurite and malachites, with 
 some chrysocolla, the last named being a silicate 
 of copper. Below the caprock are mineralized 
 dykes of porphyry and dolomite lime. The copper 
 carbonates and oxidized ores are found mostly in 
 the lime, while in the porphyry are found great 
 bodies of silicious sulphides, with a considerable 
 amount of copper-iron pyrites in irregular bodies. 
 There are also in the porphyry streaks of copper 
 glance in many places. 
 
 Prior to Mr. Bennie being placed in charge of 
 the Shannon workings other engineers had wrestled 
 with the problems presented, but had failed in their 
 efforts to solve them. He being an expert metal- 
 lurgist and experienced in all branches of the 
 mining industry, took up each problem in its turn, 
 worked it out, and finally had the entire project on 
 a paying basis. Since his assumption of the duties 
 of Manager and the introduction of his various im- 
 provements the company has broadened its exten- 
 sions and now has in its employ more than fifteen 
 hundred men. Its output has been more than 
 doubled and its earnings are estimated to be in the 
 neighborhood of nineteen millions of dollars. 
 
 To Mr. Bennie is given a large part of the credit 
 for the success of the enterprise. A thoroughly 
 capable man himself, he is a judge of good men 
 and early surrounded himself with the most tal- 
 ented assistants he could secure. He is most 
 companionable, but also is possessed of an unusual 
 amount of determination" and executive ability. A 
 strict disciplinarian, his working organization op- 
 erates with the smoothness of a machine and pro- 
 duces genuine results for the company. 
 
 While he has been successful in greatly extend- 
 ing the earnings of the company, Mr. Bennie also 
 has been keenly watchful of the welfare of the 
 army of men under him and one of the features 
 of his management of the Shannon property is a 
 splendidly equipped hospital under the care of 
 trained physicians. 
 
 Mr. Bennie has his home on one of the beautiful 
 hills surrounding Clifton and spends a great part 
 of his time with his family, composed of his wife 
 and four children, but he also is well known in va- 
 rious parts of the West, his business frequently 
 taking him to the Pacific Coast. He is regarded as 
 one of the substantial men of Arizona and is ac- 
 corded a place among the men who have worked 
 to develop the resources of that section of the 
 country. 
 
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 819 
 
 AMERON, RALPH HENRY, Min- 
 ing, Grand Canyon, Arizona, was 
 born in Southport, Maine, Octo- 
 ber 21, 1863, the son of Henry 
 Cameron and Abigail Ann (Jones) 
 Cameron. He married Ida May 
 Spaulding at Flagstaff, Arizona, November 25, 
 1895, and to them there have been born two chil- 
 dren, Ralph H., Jr., and Catharine Cameron. 
 
 Mr. Cameron attended the common schools of 
 his native county until he was thirteen years of 
 age and ever since that time has earned his own 
 livelihood, his career having been one of distinct 
 success. Leaving his home in Southport, he joined 
 the Maine coast fishermen and for the next five 
 years was one of the workers in the fleet of fishing 
 craft off New Foundland, the Grand Banks, West- 
 ern Banks and other famed fishing grounds of the 
 Atlantic Ocean. His work was hard during those 
 years, but it gave him physical endurance which 
 was- of great value to him later in life. 
 
 In 1881, Mr. Cameron abandoned the sea and 
 went to Boston, Massachusetts, working for a 
 year in a large dry goods establishment. He re- 
 signed his position at the end of that time and 
 moved to what, in 1882, was the frontier country 
 of the West and where now stands the town oi 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. He went into lumbering and 
 helped to build the first sawmill erected there. 
 After about a year he established a commissary 
 store and conducted it for about twelve months. 
 Selling out his store in 1S85, he went into the 
 sheep-raising business, new, then, to that section. 
 Beginning with about 6,000 head of sheep, Mr. 
 Cameron followed this business for nearly two 
 years, but in the latter part of 1886 sold his flocks 
 and re-engaged in merchandising. At the end of 
 two years more he again sold out and went into 
 mining and cattle raising, in both of which lines 
 he had become interested while operating the 
 store. He bought and shipped thousands of head 
 of cattle for two years, but in 1890 gave up this 
 business to devote himself exclusively to mining. 
 He owned several valuable claims in the Grand 
 Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona's greatest natural 
 wonder, these including gold, silver, copper and 
 platinum properties. This region is now one of the 
 great attractions for travelers-, but in the days 
 when Mr. Cameron began prospecting there, it was 
 one of the wildest sections of the West. 
 
 Prosecuting his mining operations, Mr. Cam- 
 eron and his men built the first roadway in the 
 Grand Canyon, in the winter of 1890-91, known as 
 the Bright Angel Trail. Two years later they 
 built the Grand View Trail. Upon the completion 
 of the latter passway, Mr. Cameron opened up 
 various mining properties, including that known 
 as the Last Chance Copper Mine. This is the only 
 copper mine ever worked on a large scale in Grand 
 Canyon and has produced a great many tons of 
 rich copper ore. Mr. Cameron operated it for about 
 twelve years, but sold it at the end of that time. 
 He still retains other mining interests, however, 
 his holdings including about thirty-eight gold, sil- 
 ver and copper claims. 
 
 Aside from his prominence in mining and other 
 business lines, Mr. Cameron has been one of the 
 
 leaders- of the Republican Party in Arizona for 
 many years and has held various important offices. 
 Upon the organization of the government of Coco- 
 nino County, Arizona, in 1890, he was appointed its 
 first Sheriff by Governor Irwin. He served in the 
 office about a year and in 1895 was returned to 
 the office by the voters. He served two years and 
 was re-elected in 1897. His term expired in 1899 
 and he then refused to accept another nomination, 
 intending to devote his energies exclusively to 
 mining and other personal interests. 
 
 In 1904, however, he was called into politics 
 again by receiving the nomination for Supervisor 
 of Coconino County and upon being elected drew 
 the long term of office, serving until 1909. During 
 this time he served as Chairman of the Board and 
 the administration of the County's affairs was nota- 
 ble for the many works of progress which the 
 Supervisors accomplished. While still serving as 
 Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Mr. Cam- 
 eron, in 1908, was elected Territorial Delegate to 
 Congress, taking his seat in 1909. In this office he 
 made a splendid record, bringing about the adoption 
 of various legislative acts of benefit to Arizona. 
 He was a consistent worker for the admission of 
 Arizona to Statehood and through the passage of 
 the Congressional act enabling Arizona to attain 
 Statehood, continued to serve as Delegate until 
 February, 1912, this being the longest single term 
 served by any Delegate to Congress. 
 
 At the first general election in Arizona Mr. 
 Cameron was the nominee of the Republican Party 
 for the office of United States Senator. He made 
 a splendid race and polled a large vote, but the 
 Democrats swept the State and he failed of elec- 
 tion. He was, however, one of the witnesses to 
 the signature by President Taft of the bill which 
 made Arizona a State. 
 
 Because of his prominence in the affairs of the 
 Republican Party in Arizona, Mr. Cameron for 
 many years has been recognized as a factor in the 
 national councils of the party. In 1896 he was a 
 delegate to the National Republican Convention at 
 St. Louis, Missouri, and voted for the nomination 
 of William McKinley for the Presidency. He has 
 figured conspicuously in State and County conven- 
 tions of Arizona and in 1912 was chosen by the 
 regular convention as National Committeeman 
 from Arizona. Like many other States during that 
 year the Republicans of Arizona were divided into 
 Taft and Roosevelt supporters, and Mr. Cameron, 
 who was a stanch adherent of the former, was 
 seated by the National body prior to the memorable 
 convention at Chicago. He took an active part in 
 the subsequent Presidential campaign and will con- 
 tinue to represent his state in the councils of the 
 Republican Party until 1916. 
 
 Mr. Cameron, recognized as one of the men who 
 have labored hard for the upbuilding of Arizona 
 and the advancement of her interests, is also prom- 
 inent in fraternal and club circles, being a mem- 
 ber of the Masons and Mystic Shrine and twice 
 Past Master of the Flagstaff Lodge of the order. 
 He also belongs to the Benevolent & Protective 
 Order of Elks, Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 Loyal Moose and the National Press Club, of Wash- 
 ' ington, D. C. 
 
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 GEORGE MITCHELL 
 
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 821 
 
 ITCHELL, GEORGE, Mining, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in Swan- 
 sea, Wales, Sept. 28, 1864, the son 
 of Capt. George Mitchell and Ann 
 (Mathews) Mitchell. He married 
 Mary Woodwell at Swansea, Feb. 
 27, 1886, and to them have been born six children, 
 Phillippa, Harry, Alvin, Mazie and George Mitchell, 
 Jr., and Conseulla. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell attended the public schools of his 
 native city, studied under private tutors and was 
 graduated from Morgan Chemical School at Swan- 
 sea, Wales, as a metallurgist, when he was barely 
 sixteen years of age. 
 
 Following his graduation, Mr. Mitchell was ap- 
 pointed sampler and assistant in the laboratory of 
 a metal works at Swansea and remained there 
 about three years, holding at various times the 
 positions of smelter, refiner and reducer of gold, 
 copper and nickel in the metallurgical department 
 of the concern. He was chosen, at the age of nine- 
 teen years, for the position of Superintendent of 
 the smelting department of the South Wales Smelt- 
 ing Co., a large institution of Swansea. He re- 
 mained there for about four years, and during that 
 time handled ores from all parts of the world. 
 
 Thus- far Mr. Mitchell had confined his atten- 
 tion to the scientific side of the mining industry 
 and had had no actual experience in the mines, but 
 he determined to take up that branch, and with 
 this end in view resigned his position, in 1887, and 
 sailed for the United States. He was engaged on 
 his arrival as metallurgist for the Baltimore Smelt- 
 ing Company at its plant in Baltimore, Md., and 
 remained there about a year. For the next few 
 years he was associated with various other smelt- 
 ing and refining plants, arriving ultimately in 
 Montana, then the center of great copper activity. 
 There he aided in the construction of a smelter and 
 converter plant for the Boston-Montana Copper 
 Co. and the Silver Mining & Smelting Co., at Great 
 Falls, and upon completion of the plant was 
 chosen General Foreman of the smelters-. Later 
 he became Assistant Superintendent. Mr. Mitchell 
 at this time perfected and patented the circular 
 fore hearth of the blast furnace, which resulted in 
 the saving of $80,000 monthly over the prevailing 
 methods of smelting, eliminating all re-smelts in 
 the production of copper. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell remained in Montana until late in 
 1894, when, at the solicitation of Senator W. A. 
 Clark, he a&sumed the management of the latter's 
 smelting works at Jerome, Ariz., the site of the 
 United Verde Mine, owned by the Clark interests 
 and the, producer of wonderfully rich ore. 
 
 Not long after his arrival at Jerome Mr. Mitchell 
 saw new opportunities for saving and invented a 
 refining furnace and refining processes which not 
 only resulted in great economy at the time, but 
 have been in use in the great smelting plants ever 
 since. Other inventions by Mr. Mitchell have been 
 the Hot Blast Furnace, the great trough converters, 
 now used throughout the world, and the perfection 
 of a method of increasing the blast pressure on 
 blast furnaces. Perhaps his most valuable inven- 
 tion, however, is the slag steam generator, which 
 utilizes the heat of molten slag in making steam 
 and results in tremendous saving on fuel. 
 
 Since the adoption of the Mitchell inventions 
 and processes in the production of copper, the great 
 companies of Montana, Arizona, Mexico and other 
 sections have saved millions of dollars, it is said. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell left the Clark interests in 1899 to 
 embark upon a mining venture destined to give 
 
 him place among the most successful men in the 
 business. Going into Old Mexico, he acquired the 
 famous Cananea group of mines. These properties, 
 now ranked among the greatest copper producers 
 in the world, have a history centuries old, but to 
 Mr. Mitchell is given credit for making them a 
 profitable investment. They were first worked, 
 according to best records, about 1618, by the early 
 Spaniards, who took the silver and left the slag, 
 containing a fortune in copper, lying upon the 
 dumps. The Daly, Clark, Heinze and other min- 
 ing interests had taken up the claims at various 
 times, but each in turn had failed. Mr. Mitchell 
 realized that the others had failed because they 
 treated it as a mining problem instead of a metal- 
 lurgical one, and he soon arrived at a fluxing 
 process, which, by mixing the ores of different 
 sections of the property, resulted in a vastly im- 
 proved smelting system. 
 
 Following the acquisition of the properties, Mr. 
 Mitchell organized the Cobre Grande Copper Co., 
 but actual work was held up for some time by 
 litigation, the outcome of which was that Mr. 
 Mitchell personally gained control of the lands. 
 Shortly thereafter he merged his holdings with 
 those of the late Col. W. C. Greene, as the Greene 
 Consolidated Mining Co. 
 
 The birth of this latter concern was the birth 
 of a new era of development in that part of Mex- 
 ico, Mr. Mitchell and Col. Greene building many 
 improvements, including a railroad from the mines 
 to Naco, Ariz., the nearest American railway point. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell devoted himself almost exclusively 
 to the Cananea district until 1903, working in close 
 harmony with Col. Greene, but finally withdrew 
 to take charge of the Mitchell Mining Co., which 
 owned valuable timber and mining property in 
 Mexico. For about four years he was engaged in 
 the development of this property, but in 1907 gave 
 it up, and in 1908 took over the management, as 
 President, of the Clara Consolidated Mining Co., 
 believed by him to be great in potential gold, sil- 
 ver and copper values. The properties are located 
 at Swansea, Ariz., a town built by Mr. Mitchell and 
 named by him for his birthplace. He operated 
 these mines for about two years and in 1910 re- 
 signed the management to a foreign syndicate. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell has been devoting his time to other 
 properties in Sinaloa and Durango, Mexico, and 
 the Southwest, and in the Summer of 1912 located 
 one, eight miles from Prescott, Ariz., which he 
 believes will rival in rich ore the United Verde. 
 
 Like many men who have followed the pre- 
 carious business of mining, Mr. Mitchell has 
 experienced setbacks as well as successes, but on 
 the whole his work has been rewarded with sat- 
 isfactory results. His investments have extended 
 at times from Alaska on the North to Chile on 
 the South. He has traveled to practically every 
 mining region on the American Continent, his 
 investigations including mines of South America 
 and nearly every section of North America. 
 
 Although he devotes most of hi& time to mining, 
 he has been a liberal investor in real estate in Los 
 Angeles, which has been his home for many years. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell has written numerous articles on 
 mining and metallurgical topics for the technical 
 press, and is a member of the National Geograph- 
 ical Society and the American Society for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science. 
 
 His clubs include the Rocky Mountain, Lambs, 
 New York Athletic and New York, of New York 
 City, and the California, Jonathan and Sierra 
 Madre of Los Angeles. 
 
822 
 
 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 ELLOWS, THOMAS, Archi- 
 tectural Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Bir- 
 mingham, England, in 1860. 
 His father was Frederick Fel- 
 lows and his mother Mary (Grice) Fellows. 
 He married Mary E. Stewart at Long Beach, 
 California, August 7, 1886. They have two 
 daughters, Ruth and Mary Janet Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Fellows was edu- 
 cated in England, where 
 he attended the public 
 schools of Birmingham, 
 and later took a three-year 
 course in building con- 
 struction at South Kens- 
 ington Division, studying 
 under William Morris. He 
 completed his course in 
 1880, receiving two gov- 
 ernment diplomas for 
 building construction and 
 design, also a diploma and 
 prize in physiology. 
 
 Coming to America in 
 1882, he studied architec- 
 ture one year at Franklin 
 Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 During this year he aided 
 in the construction of the 
 buildings for Bryn Mawr 
 and Lehigh Colleges, in 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 For fifteen years after 
 this he followed architec- 
 tural engineering in vari- 
 ous Eastern and Western 
 cities of the United States, with the exception 
 of one 'year, 1897-8, which he spent in Pitts- 
 burg in the study of steel construction. Leaving 
 Pittsburg, he went to San Francisco, and was 
 appointed building superintendent of the Ris- 
 don Iron Works of that city. He supervised 
 the construction of that company's modern 
 plant, built at a cost of $1,500,000, and it was 
 while in that position that he received a certifi- 
 cate for design from the San Francisco Poly- 
 technic Institute. 
 
 After eighteen months in San Francisco, in 
 association with the Risdon Iron Works, Mr. 
 Fellows moved to Los Angeles, and there 
 opened offices. Since he has been in the South- 
 ern California metropolis he has taken a lead- 
 ing position in his profession, and numerous 
 buildings attest to his artistic and engineer- 
 ing ability. He has led an active life, his 
 work extending to all parts of the Southern 
 California territory, and including both private 
 
 THOMAS FELLOWS 
 
 and public buildings. Among the latter are the 
 Imperial County Court House, Los Angeles 
 Masonic Hall, Los Angeles Pavilion, the Braw- 
 ley stores and office building, two large 
 churches in Los Angeles and various others. 
 
 In 1905, Mr. Fellows acted as building su- 
 perintendent for Architect Whittlesey, and the 
 following year was appointed first Civil Ser- 
 vice Building Inspector for Los Angeles. 
 He served in that capacity 
 for two years, and then re- 
 turned to his private prac- 
 tice. 
 
 In 1909, he was asso- 
 ciated with G. Wharton 
 James in the California 
 Arts and Crafts movement, 
 but since that time has de- 
 voted himself to experi- 
 mental work and inventions 
 relating to building mate- 
 rials and construction, also 
 road and reservoir con- 
 struction, with earth con- 
 crete in lieu of sand and 
 rock concrete. He invented 
 a system of cold storage 
 construction which not 
 only solves the problem of 
 living in desert countries 
 but preserves fruits without 
 ice, ammonia or other ma- 
 chinery. In addition to 
 this he has patented four 
 inventions on his various 
 systems of concrete con- 
 struction. They make it 
 possible to build any kind of solid or hollow 
 concrete structure without forms or moulds 
 and they save from ten to thirty per cent of 
 the cost. 
 
 Mr. Fellows' business affiliations include 
 che Salton Sea Oil Company, of which he is 
 secretary; the Fellows System of Building 
 Construction, of which he is principal owner, 
 and the American Concrete Company, wherein 
 he is a member of the Board of Directors. 
 
 Aside from his architectural accomplish- 
 ments and his prominence as an inventor, Mr. 
 Fellows has won notice as a writer and lecturer. 
 He has written numerous short stories and 
 fables and has been a liberal contributor to tiie 
 scientific press. He has spoken at various times 
 before national conventions on "Sanitary Fire- 
 proof Construction for the Poor." 
 
 He is a member of the Woodmen of the 
 World. Odd Fellows, F. & A. M. and the 
 Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
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 823 
 
 FF, CHARLES FREDER- 
 ICK, Oil Producer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born May 13, 
 1866, at Wheatland, la. His 
 father was the Rev. Charles 
 Frederick Off and his mother Louise (Meis- 
 ter) Off. His father is today an active pastor 
 and has been in the pulpit more than fifty 
 years. Mr. Off married Grace M. Bemis, Oct. 
 8, 1896, at Madison, Wis. 
 There are four children, 
 Lillian Merle, Howard 
 Jerome, Theo. Roosevelt 
 and Chas. Frederick Off, 
 third of the name. 
 
 Mr. Off was educated 
 in the public schools of 
 Wisconsin. At the age of 
 thirteen he obtained a po- 
 sition as clerk in a gen- 
 eral store. Three years 
 later the family moved 
 from Iowa to Denver on 
 account of the mother's ill 
 health, and Mr. Off be- 
 came associated with the 
 firm of Merrian & Co., 
 music dealers, where he 
 remained for three years. 
 In 1893 the family 
 moved to Los Angeles, 
 where Mr. Off opened a 
 stationery store on North 
 Spring street, conducting 
 it two years. He then en- 
 tered the truck and trans- 
 fer business, but at the 
 end of four years was broken in health, and 
 sold his business and interested himself in 
 ranching in Southern California, which he fol- 
 lowed for several years, but dry seasons 
 caused a failure of his crops and practically 
 ruined him financially. 
 
 He engaged in putting down water wells 
 and setting out walnut and orange orchards, 
 following this business with some success 
 until 1895, by which time he had drilled his 
 first oil well in Los Angeles. His ambitions 
 for success in the oil business took life at that 
 time, and for sixteen years his name has been 
 connected with a number of successful oil un- 
 dertakings of Southern California. In 1898 
 he, as one of the organizers of the Whittier 
 Crude Oil Co., of which he became Manager, 
 centered operations about Whittier, where 
 were drilled twelve wells. Later he became 
 associated with the Rice Ranch Oil Co., at a 
 time when it was deeply in debt, and under 
 
 CHARLES F. OFF 
 
 his management six wells were drilled which 
 put the concern on a dividend-paying basis. 
 In 1909 Mr. Off, with several associates, 
 formed the Lake View Oil Co., which later 
 produced the most phenomenal well in the 
 United States, and thereby spread the news 
 of the wonderful oil territory in the State. 
 
 Mr. Off, soon after organization, met with 
 a great deal of dissension among his asso- 
 ciates as to the value of 
 the properties. It re- 
 quired all his will power 
 and persuasive ability to 
 hold the company to- 
 gether, but he had unlim- 
 ited faith in his judgment 
 and induced them to con- 
 tinue till a given amount 
 of development work had 
 been done. 
 
 On March 15, 1910 : 
 his judgment was fully 
 vindicated by the bring- 
 ing in of the famous Lake 
 View gusher. This well 
 began flowing at the rate 
 of 30,000 barrels per day. 
 It was impossible for a 
 long time to control it, 
 and hundreds of thou- 
 sands of barrels of oil 
 were lost. It was finally 
 brought under control, 
 and by working hundreds 
 of men night and day gi- 
 gantic earthen reservoirs 
 were built wherein the 
 oil was stored temporarily. This well kept 
 up its flow for many months, producing a 
 total of 10,000,000 barrels, and owing to that 
 fact it is one of the phenomenal wells in the 
 oil history of the world. 
 
 Early in 1910 Mr. Off, in association with 
 R. D. Wade, organized the Lake View An- 
 nex Oil Co., owning property which required 
 much deeper drilling. They have up to date 
 drilled several wells on that territory, all of 
 which were put down to a depth of 3900 and 
 4900 feet. 
 
 Mr. Off is General Manager of the follow- 
 ing companies: Whittier Crude Oil Co., 
 Ojai Oil Co., Santa Maria Crude Oil Co., and 
 the Lake View Annex Oil Co. 
 
 In 1886, as a young man, Mr. Off became 
 a charter member of the original Company 
 F, of Los Angeles, National Guard of Cali- 
 fornia. He is also a Mason, an Elk and a 
 member of the Union League Club. 
 
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 LAURENCE MACOMBER 
 
 ACOMBER, LAURENCE, Attorney 
 at Law, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Boston, Massachu- 
 setts, May 21, 1885, the son of 
 George Arthur Macomber and 
 Harriett Osgood Macomber. He 
 married Maide Wall in Oakland, California, Decem- 
 ber 5, 1908, and to them there was born a son, 
 George Hampton Macomber. He is descended 
 from one of the old New England families, his an- 
 cestors having come over in the Mayflower, later 
 members serving the Colonies in the Revolution- 
 ary War. 
 
 Mr. Macomber received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in private schools of Boston, but having moved 
 West in his youth, finished his education in Cali- 
 fornia. He was graduated from Throop Poly- 
 technic Institute of Pasadena and then entered the 
 Law School of Leland Stanford, Jr. University. He 
 left college in the early part of 1909 and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Cali- 
 fornia on April 14 of the same year. 
 
 Following his admission to practice, Mr. Ma- 
 comber became associated with Judge S. C. Benson 
 of San Francisco, and remained with him for nearly 
 two years. At that time he moved to Los Angeles 
 and he has been engaged in practice there down to 
 date. He has made a specialty of corporation law 
 and besides his legal work is interested in various 
 industrial and land companies. 
 
 Although he is one of the most active yoiiiig 
 professional men in Los Angeles, Mr. Macomber 
 devotes considerable time to special subjects out- 
 side of his own business and is a student of indus- 
 trial and social problems, taking a special interest 
 in the George Junior Republic at Chino, California. 
 
 Mr. Macomber is a member of the California 
 Bar Association, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, the 
 Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena, City Club of Los 
 Angeles and the Ad Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 DESAIX B. MYERS 
 
 YERS, DESAIX BROWN, Mining 
 Engineer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Washington, D. C., 
 March 25, 1882, the son of Talley- 
 rand D. Myers and Mary (Brown) 
 Myers. He married Edith W. 
 Cutler at Boston, Mass., April 18, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Myers received his preliminary education 
 in the Penn Charter School of Phila., was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Penn. in 1905 with the 
 degree of B. S., and the same year entered Mass. 
 Institute of Technology at Boston, receiving the 
 degree of B. S. in Mining Engineering and Metal- 
 lurgy. He was chosen, in 1907, as Asst. Mineralog- 
 ist and Geologist on the "Technology Expedition" 
 to the Aleutian Islands. 
 
 In 1908, following graduation, Mr. Myers en- 
 tered the employ of the Mine La Motte Lead & 
 Smelting Co. at Mine La Motte, Mo., and within a 
 few months, was appointed Chief Chemist and 
 Engineer. In 1909, he resigned and went to Phoenix, 
 Ariz., on field examinations- for private interests. 
 In October, 1909, Mr. Myers went to Los An- 
 geles and opened offices as a general Mining En- 
 gineer and Geologist. In December, 1909, he went 
 to Mexico for Eastern clients-. Returning to Los 
 Angeles early the following year, he was engaged 
 to make extensive mine examinations and surveys 
 in California and Arizona. This consumed the 
 greater part of two years and since that time he has 
 been engaged chiefly in examinations and surveys 
 in Calaveras County, Cal., and northern Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Myers is a Director, L. A. Chamber of Mines 
 and Oil; member, American Institute of Mining En- 
 gineers and of the Technology Club of So. Cal. He 
 aided in organizing, in 1912, the Society of Mining 
 Engineers of L. A. He belongs to Zeta Psi Fratern- 
 ity, Sigma Chapter of Phila.; University Club, L. 
 A.; is non-res, member, Rittenhouse Club, Phila.; 
 and member, Overland Club, Pasadena, Cal. 
 
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 825 
 
 S. M. SPALDING 
 
 PALDING, SILSBY MORSE, Bonds, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 
 29, 1886, the son of Salathiel Mar- 
 tin Spalding and Sarah Englan- 
 tine (Camp) Spalding. He mar- 
 Canfield at Los Angeles, March 
 
 ried Caroline L. 
 14, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Spalding received the early part of his edu- 
 cation in the schools of Minneapolis. His family 
 moving to Los Angeles in 1896, he finished the pub- 
 lic school course in Los Angeles, and later gradu- 
 ated from Pomona Preparatory School at Pomona, 
 California. He entered Leland Stanford Universfty 
 in 1906, but left at the end of his sophomore year to 
 enter business, having had pre&anted to him an ex- 
 cellent opportunity which he felt he could hardly 
 afford to let pass. 
 
 While yet in college he had been offered a posi- 
 tion with the firm of E. H. Rollins & Sons of Boston, 
 Massachusetts, one of the largest municipal and 
 corporation bond houses in the United States. He 
 served his apprenticeship in the San Francisco 
 branch of this firm, and in 1909 he occupied he po- 
 sition of municipal buyer for the San Francisco 
 office. 
 
 At this time he was transferred to Los Angeles 
 and made a part of the comapny's selling force. 
 His work in this capacity was of such successful 
 order that his company, in June, 1910, promoted 
 him to the position of Manager of its Los Angeles 
 office, in which capacity he is serving at the present 
 time (1912-13). 
 
 Mr. Spalding is a fine example of the successful 
 young business man and in the few years he has 
 been in Los Angeles has attained a most sub- 
 stantial standing. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club, the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club, and the Midwick Country 
 Club of Pasadena, California. 
 
 C. B. GUTHRIE 
 
 25^j UTHRIE, CHARLES BENTLEY, 
 Real Estate Investments, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Cleveland, 
 Ohio, December 9, 1875, the son 
 of Dr. James W. Guthrie and 
 Adda S. (Bentley) Guthrie. He 
 married Pearl C. Coles at Long Beach, Cal., May 
 22, 1905. They have one child, Catherine C. Guth- 
 rie. Mr. Guthrie is of Scotch lineage. 
 
 Mr. Guthrie was graduated from high school 
 at Bedford, la., in 1893, and then taught school for 
 two years in Taylor County, Iowa. In 1895 he be- 
 came a railway mail clerk and served between 
 Chicago and Omaha for about ten years. Resigning 
 in 1905 he moved to Los Angeles and entered the 
 employ of the Los Angeles Abstract & Trust Co., 
 later organizing and becoming manager of its 
 escrow department. 
 
 In 1907 he organized the firm of C. B. Guthrie 
 & Co., real estate operators, and has been in that 
 field ever since. He was President of the company 
 and one of the pioneers in the Ferris Valley of 
 California, a rich alfalfa country; also dealt largely 
 in land between Los Angeles and the Pacific ocean. 
 In 1911 he dissolved his company and aided in 
 forming the Redman-Guthrie Investment Company, 
 of which he is Vice President. This company is 
 actively engaged in real estate operations in Los 
 Angeles and vicinity, Mr. Guthrie being one of the 
 active factors in its management. 
 
 In 1909 Mr. Guthrie represented the State of 
 California at the meeting of the National Farm 
 Congress in Chicago and in 1910 was a delegate to 
 the Natl. Irrigation Congress, held at Pueblo, Colo. 
 Mr. Guthrie is a member of the Los Angeles 
 Realty Board and also holds membership in various 
 fraternal and social organizations of Los Angeles, 
 including the Masons, B. P. O. Elks-, Sierra Madre 
 Club and the Knights of Pythias, of which he is a 
 Past Chancellor. 
 
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 827 
 
 EAGUE, ROBERT M., Citrus 
 Nurseries and Horticulturist, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 May 6, 1864, in Iowa, the son of 
 Crawford P. Teague and Amanda 
 R. (May) Teague. He married 
 Minnie E. Cowan, November 29, 1891, at Pomona 
 California. 
 
 Mr. Teague was taken to the Sacramento Val- 
 ley, California, when only two years old, and 
 there he later attended the public schools. He took 
 three years at the Christian College at Santa 
 Rosa, but did not graduate. 
 
 When he was sixteen years of age, the family 
 moved to Southern California and he went into 
 grain farming at San Dimas with his father and 
 brothers. They worked hard and prospered. 
 
 The citrus industry of Southern California was 
 just then beginning to develop. The science of 
 the care and culture of the orange, lemon and 
 grape fruit was not then as complete as it is 
 now, and the study of the industry offered a wide 
 field for an enterprising brain. Mr. Teague was 
 then twenty-six years old and ambitious. He saw 
 his chance and determined to follow it. 
 
 He leased some land from his father and 
 started a nursery of citrus trees. On one acre of 
 the land he put out 10,000 young trees, but hap- 
 pened to hit the wrong year and made but little 
 on his venture. The following year he had better 
 success. At the end of four years his business had 
 grown to such proportions that he let go all other 
 ventures and put all of his capital into his nurse- 
 ries. In 1896 he planted 20,000 trees; a year later 
 40,000. In 1901 he planted 250,000 trees. It was 
 not all unvarying success, however. The market 
 went down about this period and in three years 
 he lost $45,000. By 1906 the market had recovered 
 and he was selling 260,000 trees. His nurseries 
 are now on a solid footing. 
 
 In the year 1909 an association of individuals 
 was formed in Los Angeles for the purpose of in- 
 vestigating and ascertaining whether or not a 
 feasible plan might be found for the irrigation 
 from the Colorado River of a large tract of desert 
 land in the southeastern portion of Riverside 
 County, believed by those interested to be capable 
 of high development along horticultural and agri- 
 cultural lines, provided abundant irrigation could 
 be afforded at a reasonable cost. The original 
 promoters of this investigation sought and se- 
 cured Mr. Teague's co-operation, and he became 
 interested in The Chucawalla Development Com- 
 pany, organized for the purpose of such investi- 
 gation. He was elected president of the Board of 
 Directors and appointed general manager of the 
 company, and for the past two years has been 
 active in its affairs. 
 
 The problem confronting the campany is one 
 of great magnitude and engineers of prominence 
 now carrying on investigations for the company 
 considered its successful solution difficult. This 
 investigation is still in progress. The Company 
 is not interested in lands and has not encouraged 
 settlement on the government lands within the 
 
 scope of its investigation. If the irrigation prob 
 lem is finally solved successfully by the company, 
 of which Mr. Teague is president, too much credit 
 cannot be given him for his indefatigable labors 
 to that end. In case of failure to solve the prob- 
 lem, the failure will not be due to lack of honest 
 and honorable endeavor along legitimate lines to 
 promote the horticultural and agricultural inter- 
 ests of the state. 
 
 A few figures will give the magnitude of the 
 Chucawalla project, the largest yet conceived in 
 the United States by private enterprise. The 
 Chucawalla valley is located about 400 feet above 
 the level of the Colorado river, and to this height 
 the water must be raised. Between 300,000 and 
 500,000 acres have been declared susceptible of 
 irrigation. The valley is flat, and the soil is deep 
 and rich. Horticultural experts have declared the 
 climatic conditions the most perfect in California 
 for the growing of citrus fruits, oranges and grape 
 fruit in particular. In the event that the valley 
 can be converted into orange groves the result 
 would be the creation of a district in wealth and 
 population the rival of Redlands, Riverside and 
 the San Gabriel valley combined. At the present 
 time the problem is to discover by deep borings 
 whether an enormous dam across the Colorado 
 river, which would be the largest in the world, 
 should be erected, or whether it would be better 
 to install the greatest pumping plant yet im- 
 agined. 
 
 Previous to his interest in the Chucawalla 
 concern he had been instrumental in the develop- 
 ment of other water supplies for Southern Cali- 
 fornia. He helped organize and is president of 
 the Lordsburg Water Company, a concern which 
 irrigates land now worth in the millions. He is 
 also director in the San Dimas Water Company, 
 which furnishes water for the San Dimas district. 
 
 To understand the great importance of Mr. 
 Teague's work to Southern California, one must 
 realize the importance of water for irrigating the 
 lands. The sections that Mr. Teague has inter- 
 ested himself in, like all of the Southwest, re- 
 quire abundant irrigation for citrus fruit and agri- 
 cultural development. The problem of water is 
 one of the greatest confronting the land holder 
 and agriculturist. Without water, practically 
 nothing can be raised on much of the land of 
 Southern California, but with an abundant sup- 
 ply for irrigating purposes this same land may 
 produce the most wonderful crops in the world, 
 of fruits, nuts, alfalfa, and numerous other prod- 
 ducts. The land instantly becomes very valuable 
 both to the owner and the community at large. 
 To undertake such projects as Mr. Teague has 
 been directing require an enterprise worthy of 
 special commendation. 
 
 In spite of his active out-door life and the ex- 
 tent of the territory over which he must travel 
 to take care of his business affairs he has had 
 time to become socially prominent. He is a life 
 member of the Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles, 
 a life member of the Elks, Pomona, Cal., and a 
 member of the Covina Club, Covina, Cal. 
 
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 'CLELLAN, JOHN JASPER, 
 E| Organist, Mormon Taber- 
 nacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 was born at Payson, Utah. 
 April 20, 1874, the son of John 
 Jasper McClellan and Eliza Barbara (Wal- 
 ser) McClellan. He married Mary Douglas 
 at Manti, Utah, July 15, 1896, and to them 
 have been born five children, Mary Geneva, 
 Madeleine Estelle, Doug- 
 las, Dorothy and Flor- 
 ence D. McClellan. 
 
 Prof. McClellan began 
 the study of music, in ad- 
 dition to his other stud- 
 ies, at the age of ten, in 
 his native town. He later 
 went to Saginaw, Mich., 
 and studied for two years 
 with A. W. Platte, after 
 which he went to Ann 
 Arbor, Mich., ultimately 
 graduating from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan 
 Schools of Music, where 
 he was a pupil under 
 Prof. A. A. Stanley, Jo- 
 hann Erich Schmaal, Al- 
 berta Jonas and Xavier 
 Scharwenka. He was 
 a pupil of Ernst Jedliczka 
 of Berlin, Germany. 
 
 While at Ann Arbor 
 he organized the first 
 large orchestra there and 
 acted as its conductor. 
 He was also organist of 
 St. Thomas' Catholic Church and pianist of 
 the University Choral Society. In 1893 he 
 was assistant to Prof. Stanley on the great 
 Columbian organ used at the World's Fair at 
 Chicago, and which later was placed in the 
 hall of the University of Michigan. Follow- 
 ing this he became assistant to Prof. Jonas in 
 the Michigan School of Music, and during 
 the years 1895-96 was teacher of musical 
 theory in the same institution. 
 
 He was professor of Music in the Brig- 
 ham Young University, at Provo, Utah, in 
 1900-01, and in the latter year became a mem- 
 ber of the faculty of the University of Utah 
 in the same capacity. He has been organist 
 of the Mormon Tabernacle since Oct. 1, 1900; 
 conductor of the Salt Lake Opera Company 
 since 1902, and director of the Salt Lake 
 Symphony Orchestra since 1908. 
 
 Prof. McClellan, regarded as the leading 
 musician of Utah, is one of the most success- 
 
 PROF. JOHN J. 
 
 ful teachers of the piano in America and more 
 students have gone from his studio to Euro- 
 pean and Eastern art centers to do advanced 
 music work than from any other studio in 
 Utah. He founded the Utah Conservatory 
 of Music at Salt Lake City, July, 1911, and is 
 dean and head of the pianoforte department 
 of the institution at the present time. He is 
 now at work upon an original new course for 
 the study of the piano, 
 Prof. McClellan is the 
 composer of the "Nation- 
 al Ode to Irrigation," and 
 in addition has written 
 several songs, anthems 
 and instrumental compo- 
 sitions. In 1911 he was 
 official accompanist of 
 the Mormon Tabernacle 
 Choir's triumphal tour 
 from Salt Lake to the 
 New York City Land 
 Show, during which they 
 sang 58 concerts. On this 
 tour Prof. McClellan's 
 ode was sung more than 
 50 times, at a cost ex- 
 ceeding $50,000. It was 
 also sung at the National 
 Irrigation Congresses of 
 Portland, Sacramento and 
 Boise, Idaho, by the Og- 
 den (Utah) Tabernacle 
 Choir of 200 voices, each 
 rendition costing $12,000. 
 McCLELLAN Prof. McClellan has 
 
 won an international rep- 
 utation as a concert organ recitalist, having 
 played in all the leading cities of the Ameri- 
 can continent. He was solo organist in four 
 recitals at the World's Fair in St. Louis, and 
 gave ten solo recitals on the great organ at 
 the Jamestown, Va., Exposition. In addition 
 to these triumphs, he has been called upon to 
 "open" pipe organs in nearly every State. 
 
 Everywhere he ever appeared Prof. Mc- 
 Clellan is known as one of the most thorough 
 musicians and artists of the generation, his 
 devotion to his art being one of his most 
 prominent characteristics. Wherever organs 
 are known, so is the art of McClellan, and for 
 this reason he occupies a leading position in 
 his profession. He is State Pres. for Utah of 
 the Nat. Assn. of Organists and a colleague 
 of the American Guild of Organists. 
 
 In addition to being Dean and Director of 
 the Utah Conservatory of Music, he is Secy, 
 of the Clayton Music Co. of Salt Lake City. 
 
PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 
 
 829 
 
 ATCHER, HERBERT J., Jr., 
 Investment Broker, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born at Sur- 
 rey, Eng., Sept. 15, 1884, the 
 son of Herbert J. and Mary 
 
 Vatcher. He married Lillian C. Craig, at 
 
 Los Angeles, February 28, 1911. 
 
 The family moved in his early childhood 
 
 to Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, but when he 
 
 was nine years old they 
 
 made another move to 
 
 Los Angeles. He was 
 
 taught in the Canadian 
 
 and Pasadena, California, 
 
 public schools and then 
 
 attended the high school 
 
 of the latter city. 
 
 During his vacations, 
 
 and after his school hours, 
 
 Mr. Vatcher worked at 
 
 the Cawston Ostrich 
 
 Farm of South Pasadena, 
 
 and continued in various 
 
 capacities until he was 
 
 twenty years old, when 
 
 he went into the Bank of 
 
 South Pasadena, which 
 
 Mr. Cawston and others 
 
 organized. After a year 
 
 he was advanced to the 
 
 position of assistant cash- 
 ier, and he held that post 
 
 until 1909. 
 When only twenty-five 
 
 years old, Mr. Vatcher 
 
 had a good all-around 
 
 business training and was 
 
 HERBERT J. VATCHER, JR. 
 
 familiar with the handling of finances. He 
 had accumulated some capital and was well 
 acquainted with the men of affairs in South- 
 ern California, so decided to resign his posi- 
 tion to take up an independent enterprise; to 
 that, end he opened offices in Los Angeles 
 as an investmet broker in 1909. 
 
 The Cawston Ostrich Farm was organ- 
 ized into a corporation in the year 1896, and 
 in recognition of his long years of intelli- 
 gent service, he was made a director and 
 secretary. Since his election to that post, the 
 affairs of the company have grown until it 
 is reckoned the largest in the United States. 
 It is an institution of great magnitude, the 
 first to prove that the South African ostrich 
 could be successfully acclimated in Califor- 
 nia, and the owner of several thousand head 
 of ostriches, each of which would command 
 a very high figure if offered for sale. The en- 
 terprise first was started to entertain the 
 
 traveling public as a curiosity, but later it 
 was found that the ostrich appears here in its 
 best plumage, and today the show end is 
 merely incidental. The farm produces an enor- 
 mous value in fine plumes, which are mar- 
 keted all over the world by the company, 
 which employs scores of girls in its plume 
 establishment, in the coloring of the fine 
 feathers and in the making of "Willow" 
 plumes. 
 
 He recently promoted 
 the re-capitalization, fpr 
 $1,200,000, of the Cawston 
 Ostrich Farm, and its sale 
 to a company of bankers. 
 He was elected secretary 
 and managing director of 
 the new concern, and ac- 
 quired a considerable 
 amount of its stock. 
 
 His investment broker- 
 age business has been 
 uniformly successful. He 
 continued as fiduciary 
 agent to Mr. Cawston, 
 who had returned to 
 England, and effected 
 several large deals in this 
 capacity. He prospered so 
 that from one room his 
 business came to occupy 
 a suite of seven rooms in 
 the Los Angeles Trust 
 and Savings building. He 
 has been actively instru- 
 mental in organizing and 
 financing several compa- 
 
 nies. He organized, in 1908, the Investors' 
 Land and Water Company of Ontario, Cali- 
 fornia, for the handling of water rights and 
 orange lands in the vicinity of Ontario, and 
 served as one of its officers. He was a mov- 
 ing spirit in the incorporation of the Cement 
 Products and Construction Company, the 
 product of which plant is so conspicuously 
 represented in the art stone of Central Park 
 and the Auditorium Hotel building. 
 
 He is one of the youngest successful 
 business men in Southern California, and 
 owes his success almost solely to his indus- 
 try, ambition and the intelligence with which 
 he mastered the details of business. 
 
 He is a York Rite and Scottish Rite 
 Mason. 
 
 He belongs to the Union League Club, 
 the Rotary Club, the San Gabriel Valley 
 Country Club and the Elks. He is a member 
 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 
 
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 HITTIER, C. F., Oil Opera- 
 tor, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at Caribou, Me., April 
 30, 1869, the son of C. G. 
 Whittier and Ruth (Keech) 
 Whittier. He married Mattie Weller, April 
 24, 1906, at Los Angeles, and to them have 
 been born two children, Evelyn Lucile and 
 Julian Clyde Whittier. Mr. Whittier spent 
 his early days on the farm 
 of his father and attended 
 the country schools of the 
 district, being compelled 
 in the winter months to 
 walk several miles daily 
 through snowdrifts. 
 
 Many years of hard 
 work on the farm gave 
 Mr. Whittier an excep- 
 tionally strong constitu- 
 tion, and when he left 
 home, at the age of 21, he 
 was equipped almost sole- 
 ly with physical strength 
 and a determination to 
 succeed. He worked at 
 various occupations for a 
 brief time, but, having an 
 ambition to go into busi- 
 ness for himself, he saved 
 his money and in a com- 
 paratively short time he 
 embarked in the general 
 merchandising line at 
 Caribou. His venture 
 proved successful while 
 it lasted, but Mr. Whit- 
 
 C. F. WHITTIER 
 
 tier, through his faith in some friends, met 
 with a business misfortune which cost him 
 everything he owned. He had indorsed a 
 number of notes and he was forced to sacri- 
 fice his business to satisfy the paper, the real 
 borrowers failing to take it up. 
 
 After this experience Mr. Whittier had to 
 begin all over again, and turned to the Maine 
 woods for a livelihood. For two years he en- 
 gaged in logging and lumber business, but at 
 the end of that period abandoned the work 
 and went West. He arrived at Los Angeles 
 in 1898, a short time prior to the Klondike 
 rush, and when the news of the gold discov- 
 eries came he joined the stampede to the 
 Frozen North. He prospected there for a 
 year, but with indifferent success, and he re- 
 turned to Los Angeles. 
 
 It was here that his luck turned. The oil 
 boom was taking hold of the Southern Cali- 
 fornia metropolis, and Mr. Whittier turned 
 
 his attention to the petroleum industry. He 
 began in the fields as a driller, but the busi- 
 ness instinct was in him, and it was not very 
 long before he was buying lands and options 
 for oil hunting. His success inspired confi- 
 dence in others and they readily joined him 
 in forming a company to operate on a large 
 scale. This first company proved a success 
 from its inception, and from that time Mr. 
 Whittier's life has been 
 one of big accomplish- 
 ments. He has been the 
 moving spirit in the for- 
 mation of a number of 
 other successful oil com- 
 panies, and he has aided 
 in the development of the 
 country around Los An- 
 geles and in other parts 
 of California. 
 
 In less than ten years 
 Mr. Whittier, who ar- 
 rived with only 35 cents, 
 was rated as one of the 
 wealthy men in the State. 
 Today he is known inter- 
 nationally as one of the 
 greatest oil operators in 
 the United States. 
 
 His interests cover a 
 wide territory, extending 
 to a number of states, and 
 even into South America. 
 He is president of the 
 United Oil Co., a corpora- 
 tion with $2,000,000 capi- 
 tal, which pays its stock- 
 
 holders 3 per cent dividend quarterly; presi- 
 dent of the Midway Central Oil Co. ; presi- 
 dent of the Middle West Oil Co., operating in 
 Oklahoma; president of the Midnight Oil 
 Co. of California, and a director in the follow- 
 ing: Bulldog Oil Co., of Oklahoma; Titi- 
 caca Oil Co., of South America; Americus 
 Oil Co., of Los Angeles; Colon Oil Co., of 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Most of these enterprises are paying 
 propositions, and to Mr. Whittier's ability is 
 due much of the credit for their success. 
 
 Mr. Whittier has never sought public 
 office, nor taken an active part in politcs. 
 but he has always been ready to aid in the 
 upbuilding of his adopted city and is re- 
 garded as one of the most generous and pub- 
 lic spirited citizens in Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of the B. P. O. E., the 
 Gamut Club of Los Angeles, and the Bakers- 
 field Club, of Bakersfield, California. 
 
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 831 
 
 AYDEN, THOMAS ED- 
 WARD, Lawyer and Educa- 
 tor, San Francisco, California, 
 was born in 1868, in Bleeker, 
 New York, the son of Charles 
 C. and Maria (Howells) Hayden. 
 
 At the age of 12 he left the village school 
 of Williamstown, New York, to become a 
 clerk in the country store. At 13 he accepted 
 a position as teacher of 
 forty-five ungraded pupils 
 in the winter school of 
 the village. In the spring 
 of 1882 he entered Pulaski 
 Academy of Pulaski, New 
 York, attending during 
 the spring and fall terms 
 and paying his expenses 
 by teaching and working 
 at other employments. 
 He was graduated from 
 Pulaski Academy's classi- 
 cal department in 1885, 
 and for the next two 
 years, 1886-87, was prin- 
 cipal of the village school 
 of Fine, New York. His 
 next step was into Hamil- 
 ton College, in 1887, 
 where he became business 
 manager of the Hamilton 
 Literary Magazine, and 
 during his vacations, until 
 1891, stimulated his prac- 
 tical senses by learning 
 the tanner's trade. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Hayden 
 
 was still in Clinton, New York, where he or- 
 ganized the Clinton High School, and until 
 
 1893 was the principal thereof. The years 
 
 1894 to 1900 find him again nomadic, a super- 
 intendent at Waterville and a lecturer on lit- 
 erary and political subjects at the summer 
 schools and the Chautauqua in different parts 
 of New York State. But while he was at 
 Hamilton College he had been reading law 
 and developing his taste for the profession. 
 In addition to the degree of A. B., which he 
 had taken in 1891, he was graduated in the 
 following year with an A. M., cum laude, 
 from a special course in constitutional law. 
 He went to California in 1900, completed his 
 law studies at Stanford, 1901-03, and then 
 opened an office in San Francisco as the head 
 of the firm of Hayden, Alderman and Oakford. 
 This partnership continued, with gratifying 
 success, until shortly after the earthquake in 
 1906, when Mr. Alderman's departure for 
 
 THOMAS E. HAYDEN 
 
 Arizona left the local business in the hands 
 of the two other members of the firm. In 1907 
 Mr. Oakford withdrew to accept a flattering 
 offer elsewhere, and since then Mr. Hayden 
 has practiced alone. 
 
 He had not been established long in San 
 Francisco before he became active in politics 
 This was evidenced chiefly by his candidacy 
 for Congress, as a Democrat, from the Fifth 
 Congressional District, 
 and subsequently by his 
 Assistant City Attorney- 
 ship, under Percy V. 
 Long, in 1908. In the fol- 
 lowing year he became a 
 member and President of 
 the Board of Education. 
 His legal work for the 
 city is especially marked, 
 both by his services as 
 counsel of the Board of 
 Education, acting under 
 his appointment by May- 
 or Taylor, and also as 
 counsel for the city in the 
 final settlement of the 
 eastern boundary of the 
 Presidio Reservation, 
 which had been in dispute 
 for about forty years. In 
 the former capacity he 
 was a leading spirit in the 
 injunction proceedings 
 against Mayor McCar- 
 thy's appointees ; again, 
 in the mandamus pro- 
 ceedings in the case of 
 Bannerman vs. Boyd, against the Auditor, he 
 succeeded in establishing before the Supreme 
 Court a principal of charter interpretation 
 differing widely from the rule believed to 
 have been made in the Carter case, wherein 
 it was held that the Mayor did not have to 
 specify the cause for removal. 
 
 Aside from his legal and educational work, 
 Mr. Hayden has taken interest in oil and min- 
 ing development and is interested financially 
 in both fields. 
 
 In college Mr. Hayden was the senior 
 prize debater and chemist and was a Phi 
 Beta Kappa man, a society that in every re- 
 spect represents the best traditions and 
 scholarship of college life. He is ex-presi- 
 dent of the Iroquois Club, member of the 
 Commonwealth Club, San Francisco Asso- 
 ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tu- 
 berculosis, San Francisco Settlement Asso- 
 ciation and the People's Place. 
 
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 833 
 
 ORTER, WILLIAM STIRLING, 
 First Vice-President and General 
 Manager of the Associated Oil 
 Company, San Francisco, was 
 born at Long Reach, Kings Coun- 
 ty, N. B., June 27th, 1864, the son 
 of Charles A. and Caroline Amelia (Belyea) Porter. 
 His American ancestors were New York Dutch and 
 Scotch-Irish, all except one paternal grandfather 
 having resided in New York, to which the first of 
 them came as early as the seventeenth century. 
 Most of them espoused the British, or Loyalist, 
 cause at the time of the American Revolution and 
 served in the British Army. At the close of the 
 war they received from the British Government 
 grants of land in New Brunswick. Mr. Porter left 
 that country while still a young man and reached 
 California in 1887. On January 5th, 1889, he was 
 married at San Diego to Miss Jessie Grey Young, 
 from which union one child, Hugh Beverly Porter, 
 was born. 
 
 Mr. Porter received a common school education 
 in his native town and then moved to Chicago. 
 
 Shortly after reaching that city he entered the 
 employ of Crane & Co., manufacturers and mer- 
 chants, but in 1887 came to California to act as 
 Assistant to the Manager of their Los Angeles 
 house. He left their employ to become a partner 
 in the firm of John D. Hooker & Co., then manu- 
 facturers at Los Angeles, which concern shortly 
 thereafter reorganized under the name of the John 
 
 D. Hooker Company and added to its other lines 
 that of oil well supplies, Mr. Porter becoming Vice- 
 President and Manager. 
 
 While engaged in the oil well supply business 
 Mr. Porter became thoroughly familiar with the 
 operations of the various oil companies throughout 
 California, as well as with the individuals then 
 prominent in the industry, and with the conditions 
 affecting it. It was during this period that the 
 Kern River oil field was discovered and that Mr. 
 Porter conceived the idea of organizing the pro- 
 ducers of this district into one company. 
 
 Early in the year of 1900 the presidents of five 
 of the largest companies in the Kern River Field 
 entered into an agreement with Mr. Porter to turn 
 over to the new company organized for that pur- 
 pose the properties of their respective companies 
 and accept in exchange bonds and stock for the 
 appraised value of the personal property and stock 
 for the appraised value of the real property. The 
 presidents of the companies were as follows: W. 
 G. Kerckhoff, for Reed Crude Oil Company; Burton 
 
 E. Green, for Green-Whittier Oil Company; C. A. 
 Canfield, for Canfield Oil Company; M. H. Whittier, 
 for Kern Oil Company; John A. Bunting, for San 
 Joaquin Oil & Development Company. 
 
 These companies, through their presidents, 
 agreed to convey their property to the new com- 
 pany and support Mr. Porter in acquiring the entire 
 field, as far as possible, on the same basis. He 
 
 finally secured agreements from the following com- 
 panies, comprising the cream of the Kern River 
 Field, to accept the appraised value placed on their 
 properties and to take stock and bonds in the new 
 company in payment therefor: Aztec, Kansas City, 
 Bear Flag, Vernon, Senator, Queen Esther, Comet, 
 Chicago Crude, Blinn, Toltec, Moneta, Section Five, 
 Wolverine, Bolena, Cortez, Clarence, Hecla, Alva, 
 Omar, Sycamore, Central Point Consolidated, Red 
 Bank, Richmond, Missouri, Hanford-Fresno-Kern 
 River and Mount Diablo Oil Mining and Develop- 
 ment Company, John A. Bunting and Warren Gille- 
 len properties, Shamrock Oil Company Consolidat- 
 ed, Tulare Oil and Mining Company, California 
 Standard and Giant Oil Companies, Standard As- 
 phalt Lease, D. B. Parker et al, Del Monte Lease, 
 Union Land and Oil Company of Georgia. 
 
 The engineers and geologists employed by him 
 to appraise the properties and to fix the relative 
 values thereof were Arthur F. L. Bell, Bernard 
 Bienenfeld and William Mulholland. Their work 
 was so well done that their appraisements, with 
 some comparatively slight changes, were finally ac- 
 cepted by all the companies whose properties were 
 acqain d. 
 
 October 7th, 1901, the Associated Oil Company 
 was incorporated, and on Jnauary 1, 1902, entered 
 actively into the producing and marketing of crude 
 fuel oil in California. 
 
 Before the end of the year 1902 the Associated 
 had added to its holdings the remaining thirty-four 
 companies, twenty-seven of them in the Kern River 
 field and seven in the McKittrick District. Since 
 then it has acquired many thousands of acres of 
 productive oil lands in these and other districts, 
 equipped a considerable fleet of vessels and greatly 
 increased its transportation and distributing facil- 
 ities. 
 
 Mr. Porter has acted as Vice President and Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Associated Oil Company ever 
 since its organization. In addition to this position 
 he has also served as President of the Associated 
 Transportation Company and Associated Pipe Line 
 Company, which companies handle the transporta- 
 tion business of the Associated Oil Company. 
 
 Under Mr. Porter's management the earnings of 
 the company have increased from the first year, 
 1902, when they amounted to but $180,490.63, to the 
 grand total, in 1910, of $3,273,920.79. 
 
 Despite his absorbing business activities he has 
 taken a considerable interest in club life. While at 
 Los Angeles he was for several years a director of 
 the California Club, and for a couple of terms was 
 Vice President thereof. He was also one of the 
 organizers of the Los Angeles Country Club. His 
 clubs at present are: Pacific Union, Bohemian, 
 Union League, Press, Olympic, Automobile of Cali- 
 fornia, S. F. Golf and Country, all of San Fran- 
 cisco; Bakersfield, of Bakersfleld, California; Jona- 
 than, of Los Angeles; McCloud River Country, and 
 Santa Barbara Country. 
 
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 JOHNSON, E D- 
 WARD, Civil Engineer, 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Boston, 
 Mass., Dec. 4, 1876, the 
 son of Edward Johnson 
 and Georgianna P. 
 (Miller) Johnson. He 
 married Gertrude N. 
 Clark at San Diego, 
 Cal., Nov. 25, 1903, and 
 to them there has been 
 born a daughter, Ger- 
 trude Louise Johnson. 
 Mr. Johnson re- 
 ceived the degree of S. 
 B. from the Mass. In- 
 stitute of Technology 
 in 1899. He became 
 Ass't Engineer of the 
 Essez Company at Lawrence, Mass., remaining from 
 1899 to 1900. Resigned to become Hydrographic 
 Surveyor in the U. S. Navy, serving from 1900 to 
 1903, later becoming an Engineer in the U. S. Recla- 
 mation Service. In 1906 he retired to engage in 
 private practice. He then located in San Diego, 
 Cal., moving to Los Angeles, May, 1907. Served as 
 Chairman of the Aqueduct Investigation Board, for 
 investigating the work and conditions on the Owens 
 River Aqueduct, and is Engineering member of the 
 L. A. Harbor Comsn., having charge of constructing 
 the L. A. municipal docks and warehouses. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is a member of the Engineers and 
 Architects' Assn. of So. Cal.; San Diego Country 
 Club, and Cuyamaca Club, San Diego; California 
 Club and University Club, Los Angeles, and Na- 
 tional Geographic Society. 
 
 MILES, JOSEPH 
 HARVEY, Live Stock 
 and Banking, Falls City, 
 Neb., was born in York 
 Co., Pa., Dec. 15, 1850. 
 Son of Stephen B. Miles 
 and Hannah (Scarbor- 
 ough) Miles. Married 
 Sue Easley at Rulo, 
 Neb., Jan. 30, 1882. 
 Children, Mabel O., 
 Stephen B., Joseph T., 
 Warren C., Edna H. 
 and Sue A. Miles. His 
 father, in 1855, was 
 granted first contract 
 for carrying U. S. mails 
 from Independence, 
 Mo., to Salt Lake City. 
 
 Received education 
 in private schools of Pennsylvania and at Ne- 
 braska State Normal School, graduating 1868. Em- 
 barked in cattle business in 1869 and identified with 
 it ever since. Conducted mercantile business at 
 Rulo, Neb., for several years. In 1882 he aided in 
 organizing First Natl. Bank of Falls City, and has 
 served as Director, Cashier, Vice-Pres. and Pres. In 
 1884 organized Bank of Rulo, its President since. 
 In 1890 opened Miles Natl. Bank in York Co., Pa., 
 conducting until 1900. Is Director of Southeast Ne- 
 braska Telephone Co. and a heavy real estate own- 
 er in Neb. and Cal. 
 
 Served on School Board and in City Council and 
 was Mayor of Falls City, 1892-94, 1897-99. Delegate 
 1900 to Natl. Dem. Conv., Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Member K. of P., I. O. O. F., B. P O. E. Clubs, 
 Jonathan and L. A. Country, Los Angeles. 
 
 MORGAN, VIN- 
 CENT, Attorney, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in that city Nov. '20, 
 1882, the son of John 
 C. Morgan and Cecilia 
 (Finn) Morgan and is 
 descended from one of 
 the oldest families in 
 South e r n California. 
 His father was one of 
 the leading lawyers of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Morgan re- 
 ceived his preliminary 
 education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Los An- 
 geles and entered the 
 University of Southern 
 California Law School 
 in 1906. He was graduated with the degree of 
 L. L. B. in 1909. Almost immediately after his ad- 
 mission to practice Mr. Morgan formed the firm of 
 Morgan, Allen & Richardson, but the partnership 
 only lasted for about a year and he then became a 
 member of the firm of Porter, Morgan & Parrot. 
 
 While at the University Mr. Morgan was a mem- 
 ber of Ross Chapter, Phi Alpha Delta, the law 
 school fraternity. In 1910, the year after his gradu- 
 ation, he was elected President of the University of 
 Southern California Law School Alumni Associa- 
 tion. He is a member of the University Faculty, be- 
 ing Instructor in Domestic Relation, Elementary 
 Law and Code Pleading. 
 
 He is a Native Son of the Golden West, member 
 of Ramona Parlor, and belongs to the Metropolitan 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 COWLES, JOSIAH 
 EVANS, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was born in Yad- 
 kin County, N. C., May 
 14, 1855, the son of Jo- 
 siah Cowles, Jr., and 
 Mary (Evans) Cowles. 
 He is a great grandson 
 of Capt. Andrew Car- 
 son of Revolutionary 
 fame; nephew of Mid- 
 shipman Robert Car- 
 son Duval, of Commo- 
 dore Stockton's flag- 
 ship Savannah during 
 his conquest of Cali- 
 fornia; nephew of Col. 
 W. H. H. Cowles, noted 
 Confed. Cavl. officer 
 and 2nd cousin, Kit Carson, scout and Indian fighter. 
 Married lone Virginia Hill, Chicago, Oct. 28, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Cowles received his first education in Find- 
 ley High School and Davenport College, in N. C., 
 and after three years' civil engineering for various 
 railroads, studied medicine at the University of 
 Maryland, graduating in 1880. He practiced at 
 Edgefield, S. C., and in 1886 went to the N. Y. Poly- 
 clinic and Post-Graduate College, and 1887-88 was 
 Physician in Charge, N. Y. Lying-in Asylum and a 
 Lecturer, N. Y. Polyclinic. Located, 1889, Los An- 
 geles and associated with Drs. Walter Lindley and 
 Francis L. Haynes. Later withdrew and established 
 Pacific Sanitarium, which he conducted 8 years, 
 then helped organize, Pacific Hospital. 
 
 Member, Am. Med. Assn., L. A. Co. Med. Soc., So. 
 Cal. Dist. Soc. and the Med. Soc. of State of Cal. 
 
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 ROWLAND, 
 THOMAS (Deceased), 
 Farmer, Puente, Cal., 
 was born in New Mex- 
 ico, Dec. 24, 1838, the 
 son of John Rowland 
 and Dona Incarnacion 
 (Martinez) Rowland. 
 He married Senorita 
 Cenobia Yorba, at Los 
 Angeles, Cal., Jan, 12, 
 1861. They had twelve 
 children, eleven of 
 whom are living. They 
 are: Bernard F., Sam- 
 uel P., Thomas L., Fi- 
 del, Arnet, David, Alex- 
 ander, Alexandra, Aure- 
 lia, John and Albertina. 
 Mr. Rowland's fath- 
 er, one of the pioneers of Southern California, was 
 possessed of a magnificent ranch on San Jose Creek 
 near the present town of Puente, and during his 
 life was one of the prominent men of the section. 
 The son attended s-chools of the district and spent 
 his entire life in farming. Up to the time of his 
 marriage, Mr. Rowland lived and worked with his 
 father, but when he took unto himself a wife his 
 father made him a gift of 2412 acres, a valuable 
 part of Rancho La Puente. One thousand acres- he 
 devoted to grain and other crops; the remainder 
 was held for grazing, he being a large owner of 
 sheep and cattle. 
 
 Mr. Rowland became one of the prosperous cit- 
 izens of Southern California and s-erved for many 
 years as a member of the Board of School Trustees 
 for his county. He was a lifelong Democrat. 
 
 FISH, CHARLES 
 WINTHROP, Physician 
 and Surgeon, Los An- 
 geles-, Cal., was born 
 in Hermitage, Pa., July 
 23, 1860, the son of 
 Ezra T. Fish and Sarah 
 Jane (Campbell) Fish. 
 He married Catherine 
 Goodfellow at Oakland, 
 Cal., August 1, 1894, 
 and has two sons, 
 George W. and Farnum 
 T. Fish, the latter be- 
 ing the youngest li- 
 censed aviator in the 
 world. 
 
 Dr. Fish attended 
 private schools until he 
 entered Indiana State 
 Normal School, and later was graduated from Alle- 
 gheny College, Meadville, Pa., with the degree A. 
 B. He took up medicine at Western Reserve Uni- 
 versity, Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1884 with 
 the degrees M. D. and M. A. 
 
 For nine years succeeding his graduation he 
 practiced at Meadville, interrupting it for a trip to 
 Europe (1886-87). In 1894 he moved to Los An- 
 geles, where he has practiced successfully down to 
 date. He is a Director of the Pacific Hos-pital, Sur- 
 geon for the Arizona Eastern Railway and Medi- 
 cal Examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance 
 Company. 
 
 He is a member of L. A. County and Cal. State 
 Med. Societies and the American Medical Associa- 
 tion. His clubs are the University, Gamut and 
 Jonathan, of Los Angeles. 
 
 TRASK, HON. DUM- 
 MER KIAH, Atty., Los 
 Angeles, Cal., born, 
 Cincinnati, O., July 17, 
 1860, son of Kiah 
 Bailey and Mary Jane 
 (Dunton) Trask. Mar- 
 ried Ida C. Folsom, 
 Stockton, Cal., June, 
 1887. Children, I d a 
 Mary, Walter Folsom, 
 Dorothy Kate Trask. 
 
 Moved to South Jef- 
 ferson, Me. Attended 
 public schools there 
 and in Alna, Me., work- 
 ing in summer. Began 
 teaching school at 17 
 and while teaching stu- 
 died Latin. Graduated, 
 Waterville (Me.) Classical Institute. Moved to Cal., 
 1882. Taught in public schools and was- principal, 
 Stockton Bus. Clg. and Normal Inst. several years. 
 Served on Board of Educ., Stockton. While teach- 
 ing, read law and devoted 1889 to law preparation. 
 Admitted, Cal. Bar, Aug., 1890, began practice, Los 
 Angeles, Sept. In 1895, formed firm Lacy & Trask; 
 1896, entered firm of Brooks & Trask. Nov., 1898, 
 appointed by Gov. Budd, a Judge, Superior Court, 
 Los Angeles Co., term 2 years, and in Nov., 1900, 
 elected to serve 6 years. In 1912 practiced alone, 
 then as Trask, Norton & Brown. Founder and 
 Pres., Consol. Realty Co.; Dir. Calif. Sav. Bank; 
 mem., 1893-94, L. A. Board of Educ., and 1909, L. A. 
 Police Coma; member, K. of P., and was Grand 
 Chancellor of that organization in Cal. Clubs 
 University and Gamut, Los Angeles. 
 
 BOOTHE, EARLE 
 YOUMANS, Motor Car 
 Dealer, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in 
 Derby, Connecticut, 
 September 26, 1882, 
 the son of Charles 
 Beach B o o t h e and 
 Florence L. (Youmans) 
 Boothe. He married 
 Ethel Monypeny, Feb. 
 26, 1908, at Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Boothe began his 
 education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Winona, 
 Minn., but moving to 
 California in 1891, his 
 studies- were inter- 
 rupted for a time. He 
 studied a year at 
 Throop Institute, Pasadena, Cal., then finished at 
 grammar school in Los Angeles. Next attended 
 Belmont School at Belmont, Cal., graduated in 1901, 
 and going to New York City, entered Horace Mann 
 School, preparatory to Columbia University. Taken 
 ill, he was compelled to abandon his studies for 
 about a year. During this- time he was with U. S. 
 Geological Survey, but severed his connection to 
 enter the University of California. After three 
 years left to enter the employ of the Western 
 Wholesale Drug Co., but resigned this in Jan., 1911, 
 and became agent for the National Automobile. 
 
 He is President, National Motor Car Company 
 of Los- Angeles; Secretary, Commonwealth Com- 
 pany, and Director, Motor Car Dealers' Association. 
 
 He is member, University, San Gabriel Country 
 and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, and Phi Kappa Psi. 
 
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 AGINNIS, ALMON POR- 
 
 Mg TER, Tax Commissioner, 
 Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
 Fe Railway, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of Nel- 
 son, Ohio, where he was born Janu- 
 ary 1, 1848. His father was Franklin 
 Maginnis and his mother Lucy Ann (Porter) 
 Maginnis. On December 25, 1878, he mar- 
 ried Alice J. Harpham at 
 Hutchins, Texas, and as 
 a result of this union 
 there are three children, 
 Frank A., Grace and Earl 
 A. Maginnis. 
 
 Mr. Maginnis was ed- 
 ucated in the public 
 schools of Cleveland, 
 Ohio, and graduated from 
 the high school of that 
 city. He also attended 
 the Western Reserve Col- 
 lege, Hudson, Ohio, grad- 
 uating in 1866. 
 
 His first venture into 
 the business world was in 
 1866, shortly after grad- 
 uating from college. He 
 took up civil engineering 
 on the Kansas Pacific 
 Railroad, being employed 
 largely in Kansas and 
 Colorado. He continued 
 for four years. 
 
 In 1872 he went to 
 Texas with the Texas 
 and St. Louis Railroad. 
 With this system he constructed bridges 
 throughout the Lone Star State, a notable 
 piece of work being the bridge of the T. & 
 St. L. Ry., between Texarkana and Waco. At 
 a later period he had timber contracts on the 
 Texas Pacific Railroad, from Marshall west. 
 In 1882, having been in Texas for over ten 
 years, he resigned to accept a position with 
 the Santa Fe Railroad, shortly afterward 
 working up the bond issue of the Chicago, 
 Kansas and Western Railway. In 1885 he 
 bought the right-of-way through Missouri 
 and Iowa for the Chicago line of the Santa 
 Fe. In December, 1887, he went to Califor- 
 nia to take charge of the land department of 
 the Santa Fe system, known as the Pacific 
 Land Improvement Co. This organization 
 was in reality an expansion of the Santa Fe 
 system and Mr. Maginnis was put in full 
 charge. His success in handling this weightv 
 proposition was so marked that he was short- 
 
 A. P. MAGINNIS 
 
 ly made claim agent for the road. Within a 
 short time he was made land commissioner, 
 and later tax commissioner, which important 
 office he now holds. The territory covered 
 under these positions extends from Albu- 
 querque west. 
 
 With the rapid growth of Santa Fe inter- 
 ests the duties of Mr. Maginnis became 
 double. As a result he dropped the claim de- 
 
 partment, as well as the 
 
 land department, retain- 
 ing but the tax commis- 
 sionership. 
 
 Mr. Maginnis has per- 
 sonal interests that are 
 widely distributed. He 
 is president of the Santa 
 Fe Car Icing Co., presi- 
 dent of the Winslow 
 Electric Light & Power 
 Co. and holds a similar 
 position with the Navajo 
 Ice & Cold Storage Co. 
 and the Gate City Ice & 
 Pre-Cooling Co. These in- 
 terests alone demand a 
 considerable amount of 
 Mr. Maginnis' time. 
 
 He is a director in the 
 Mexican Petroleum Co., 
 in which he was one of 
 the original investors. 
 Other corporations and 
 organizations in which he 
 is more or less interested 
 are the Italy Mining Co., 
 the Mason Smokeless 
 Combustion Co., the Mechanical Appliance 
 Co. and the Los Angeles Harbor Co. 
 
 The plant of the Santa Fe Car Icing Co., 
 located at Argentine, Kansas, and that of the 
 Navajo Ice & Cold Storage Co., situated at 
 Winslow, Arizona, are corporations in which 
 Mr. Maginnis owns controlling interests. He 
 possesses similar interests in the Winslow 
 Electric Light & Power Co. The Gate City 
 Ice & Pre-Cooling Co., located at San Ber- 
 nardino, Cal., between the hot Mojave desert 
 and Southern California, possesses a capacity 
 of two hundred and twenty-five tons and has 
 a contract with the Santa Fe system to ice all 
 of the citrus fruit shipped over its lines. This 
 in itself is a concern of great importance to 
 the citrus fruit industry, yet it is but one of 
 many important institutions under the per- 
 sonal direction of Mr. Maginnis. 
 He is a member, California Club. 
 
 Ed. Note : Mr. Maginnis diod Dec. 28, 1911. 
 
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 ULLEN, ARTHUR B., Cloth- 
 ing Merchant, Los Angeles, 
 California, is a native of Wis- 
 consin, having been born in 
 Milwaukee, September 19, 
 
 1874. His father was Andrew Mullen and 
 
 his mother Mary Teresa Mullen. 
 
 Andrew Mullen, Arthur B. Mullen's fa- 
 ther, was one of the most progressive and 
 
 highly respected men of 
 
 Los Angeles, Southern 
 
 California. He was the 
 
 founder of the Mullen 
 
 & Bluett Clothing Com- 
 pany and remained presi- 
 dent of that firm until 
 
 the time of his death, 
 
 March 4, 1899. He was 
 
 appointed by Governor 
 
 Markham to the Board of 
 
 Trustees of the Whittier 
 
 State School and served 
 
 as president of that insti- 
 tution for a number of 
 
 years. He was one of 
 
 the organizers of the Los 
 
 Angeles Chamber of 
 
 Commerce and was its 
 
 treasurer for many years. 
 
 He was also one of the 
 
 organizers and a director 
 
 of the Columbia Trust 
 
 Company, the Citizens 
 
 National Bank and the 
 
 California Clay Manufac- 
 turing Company. He was 
 
 a most enthusiastic work- 
 
 ARTHUR B. MULLEN 
 
 er for the upbuilding of Los Angeles. 
 
 Arthur Mullen was reared and educated 
 in Los Angeles, California. After passing 
 through the grammar schools of that city, he 
 took a brief course in the Los Angeles Busi- 
 ness College. Upon completing these stud- 
 ies, he entered St. Vincent's College, Los 
 Angeles, where he took a college course for 
 several years. He went East, and at Notre 
 Dame University, Indiana, concluded his 
 education. 
 
 Returning to Los Angeles, Mr. Mullen 
 entered the employ of the Mullen & Bluett 
 Clothing Company, at that time located at 
 the corner of First and Spring streets, the 
 high-class business center of Los Angeles. 
 Previous to his college studies he had 
 worked for the firm in various capacities, 
 and after settling to work permanently acted 
 as salesman, clerk and manager of various 
 departments.. In 1901, on the death of Mr. 
 
 Bluett, Mr. Mullen was made manager of 
 the company. He took hold of the firm and 
 for ten years has directed its destinies, dur- 
 ing which period the house has been enlarged 
 six times. By March, 1910, the business had 
 grown so that the company determined to 
 move to the southwestern part of the city, 
 where the business center was fast becoming 
 established. A lease was secured on the 
 ground floor of the new 
 Story Building. The firm 
 has been located since 
 that time in what is per- 
 haps the finest retail 
 storeroom on the Pacific 
 Coast. Mr. Mullen, as 
 manager of the concern, 
 has charge of the business 
 policies of the house, is 
 one of the board of di- 
 rectors and a principal 
 owner. 
 
 Mr. Mullen has other 
 business interests aside 
 from his connection with 
 the Mullen & Bluett 
 Company. He is one of 
 the five heirs to the 
 $1,000,000 Mullen estate, 
 which in itself requires a 
 large share of his atten- 
 tion. He has other large 
 business interests, which 
 include oil, mining, 
 ranching, land and build- 
 ing holdings, many of 
 them located in and 
 about Los Angeles, while others are scat- 
 tered over a greater part of the Southwest. 
 He is a director of the Hibernian Bank 
 of Los Angeles and a prominent member of 
 the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, hav- 
 ing served that organization on numerous 
 occasions both by force of his capital and 
 prestige. He is also a member of the Mer- 
 chants and Manufacturers' Association. His 
 extensive interests make him a prominent 
 factor in the development of the city, and he 
 is one of the first subscribers in all business 
 and civic movements for the advancement of 
 Greater Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Mullen is well known in the club and 
 fraternal circles of Los Angeles. He is a 
 member of the B. P. O. E., 99, and is a mem- 
 ber as well as trustee of the Knights of Co- 
 lumbus. He is vice president and director 
 of the Knickerbocker Club of that city and 
 is a life member of the L. A. Athletic Club. 
 
 Ed. Note: Mr. Mullen dlad Dec'. 10. 1011. 
 
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 UNHAM, WILLIAM PEY- 
 TON, Mining, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born Novem- 
 ber 8, 1862, on a farm in Van 
 Buren County, Iowa. His 
 father was William Pugh Dunham, born in 
 Ohio, and his mother Catherine Elizabeth 
 (Murphy) Dunham, born in Indiana, most of 
 the ancestors coming from Virginia and New 
 Jersey. 
 
 He was married on December 24, 1887, in 
 Chicago, to Susan Vermillion Whiteford, 
 who was born in Junction City, Kansas, the 
 daughter of John Xavier Whiteford, born in 
 Three Rivers, Canada, and Aramenta L. 
 (Wills) Whiteford, born in West Virginia. 
 The couple have two children : James White- 
 ford, born in Chicago in 1893, now associated 
 with his father in his many mining enter- 
 prises, and Virginia Susan Dunham, born in 
 Los Angeles, California, in 1899, attending 
 the Westlake School for Girls, in Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Mr. Dunham received his early education 
 in the public schools of Leavenworth, Kan- 
 sas, and in the high school at that place. 
 
 His first occupation was as clerk in the 
 wholesale hardware house of J. F. Richards 
 & Co. The concern was then doing business 
 at Leavenworth, but later removed to Kan- 
 sas City, Missouri, where it is now doing 
 business as the Richards & Conover Hard- 
 ware Company. Mr. Dunham remained in 
 their employ until about 1884, when he left 
 to embark in the hardware business for him- 
 self at Belleville, Kansas, and did a fairly 
 prosperous business for about seven years. 
 
 In January, 1892, he sold out to engage in 
 mining. He was then thirty years of age. He 
 first went to Creede, Colorado. Remaining 
 there only a short time, he entered the Crip- 
 ple Creek district, where between the years 
 1897 and 1902 he engineered me sale of a 
 number of the largest properties in that 
 district. 
 
 During that time he became interested in 
 Arizona and in Old Mexico, and is now the 
 president and principal owner of the Arizona 
 Hercules Copper Company, whose holdings 
 at Ray, Arizona, adjoin those of the Ray 
 Consolidated Copper Company, the sale 
 of which last he engineered at the time 
 
 it was taken over by the present owners. 
 
 The Arizona Hercules Copper Company 
 is a property of enormous value, having de- 
 veloped bodies of valuable ore of great mag- 
 nitude. 
 
 Mr. Dunham is also the president and 
 principal stockholder of the Ray Develop- 
 ment Company, and practically owns the 
 town and the water system, which has just 
 completed a five-mile fourteen-inch pipe line, 
 with the first unit of 350,000 gallons of a 
 1,000,000-gallon reservoir. 
 
 He is now completing in the town a three- 
 story stone hotel that will have one nundred 
 rooms and will be one of the finest buildings 
 in the new State of Arizona. He is also 
 constructing many new dwellings and build- 
 ings. 
 
 Mr. Dunham is the chief owner in various 
 vast mining enterprises in Old Mexico, 
 among which are the Cuyutlan gold mine, 
 the California gold mine, the Belmont silver- 
 lead properties at Santa Eulalia, the Fortuna 
 and El Oro gold mines, and he is a large 
 stockholder in the Consuelo Mining, Milling 
 and Power Company and the Chihuahua Es- 
 peranza gold mining property in the camp 
 of Dolores. 
 
 He is also vice president and the second 
 largest stockholder of the Pinos Altos Mines 
 Company, in the State of Chihuahua, the 
 ^holdings of which company comprise about 
 40,000 acres of valuable mineral territory. 
 
 Mr. Dunham is also president of the 
 Medallion Oil Company, and is the largest 
 individual stockholder. This company is at 
 present drilling an enormous territory in the 
 Kettleman Hills, south of Coalinga. 
 
 Among the clubs of which he is a mem- 
 ber are the California Club and the Sierra 
 Madre Clubs, both of Los Angeles; the Alta 
 Club, of Salt Lake City, Utah; the El Paso 
 Club, of Colorado Springs, Colorado ; the 
 Rocky Mountain Club, of New York City, 
 New York; the Arizona Club, of Phoenix, 
 Arizona, and the Foreign Club, of Chihuahua, 
 Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Dunham is distinctly a self-made 
 man, and is the leader of all enterprises in 
 which he becomes interested. 
 
 He maintains offices in Los Angeles and 
 San Francisco, California, and at Ray, Ari- 
 zona. 
 
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 ERRY, CLARENCE JESSE, 
 Mining and Oil Operator, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Little Lake, Mendocino 
 County, California, June 23, 
 1867. His father was William J. Berry and 
 his mother Annie Martha (Coates) Berry. 
 He was married to Ethel Dean Bush at Sel- 
 ma, Fresno County, Cal., on March 15, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Berry received 
 his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of his native 
 State and devoted the 
 early part of his life to 
 farming. He moved with 
 his family from Mendo- 
 cino County to Fresno 
 County when he was 
 about seven years old, 
 and there he was reared. 
 He worked on his father's 
 farm as a boy and later 
 became a farmer on his 
 own account, at one time 
 having the largest wheat 
 acreage in that entire 
 section. 
 
 Mr. Berry was born 
 with the blood of pio- 
 neers flowing through his 
 veins, however, and when 
 he was still a young man 
 the desire to hunt gold 
 
 C. J. BERRY 
 
 became so strong in him he gave up his great 
 wheat fields and headed for the "Frozen 
 North" the Klondike country in 1894, 
 long before the Klondike boom. 
 
 When Mr. Berry pointed his way to the 
 barren ice fields of the Far North he had no 
 exact destination in view. His journey was 
 that of a pioneer, beset with all the perils 
 and difficulties of an unopened country. He 
 made his way, after an arduous trip, to what 
 is known as Forty Mile, now an important 
 little Alaskan city, but at that time hardly 
 more than a trading post. He immediately 
 commenced his search for the precious metal, 
 but found this task quite as difficult as the 
 trip itself had been, for there were no saw- 
 mills in the interior of Alaska at that day, and 
 he had to make his own lumber and build his 
 
 own crude machinery. After staking out a 
 claim, he whipsawed enough lumber for 
 sluice boxes, hired a few shovelers and went 
 to work. 
 
 This claim, which was worked with no 
 better facilities than had been those of the 
 pioneers in California, showed paying quan- 
 tities in a short time, and for nearly two 
 years before the rush to the Klondike Mr. 
 Berry was getting out 
 gold in large quantities in 
 Alaska. He worked un- 
 remittingly until the lat- 
 ter part of 1895, and then, 
 with a fortune in nuggets 
 to his credit, made his 
 way back to civilization. 
 It was on this trip he 
 married, in Selma. 
 
 He wedded Miss Bush 
 on March 13, 1896, and 
 that night started on 
 what is perhaps one of 
 the most remarkable wed- 
 ding journeys in history. 
 Instead of seeking the ur- 
 ban luxuries of the big 
 cities, they directed their 
 steps to the frozen fields 
 of Alaska, and it was 
 here that the bride 
 showed herself of nerve 
 and hardihood almost 
 equal to that of her husband. 
 
 They got as far as Forty Mile, prepared 
 to work on the original claim of Mr. Berry, 
 but found the camp excited over reports of 
 a big strike in the vicinity of Dawson City, 
 the district which afterwards became known 
 to the world as the Klondike, made by Mc- 
 Cormick, the well-known Yukon trader. In- 
 stead of working his old claim, Mr. Berry 
 decided to go to the new field. There was 
 no means of transportation except the canoe 
 of the Indian, so, taking one of these, which 
 he had to pole for hundreds of miles up- 
 stream, Mr. Berry set out alone, determined 
 to get into the much-praised new country as 
 soon as possible. 
 
 It was one of the most daring and hazard- 
 ous undertakings in his entire career. 
 
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 Mrs. Berry, who had been left at Forty 
 Mile, waited a long time for his return, but 
 receiving no tidings of him decided to fol- 
 low into the unknown regions farther north. 
 Accordingly, she purchased all the provisions 
 she could in Forty Mile, and when the first 
 steamboat came up the river with the open- 
 ing of navigation in the fall, boarded it. Aft- 
 er a good many days the steamer came upon 
 the lone miner tirelessly poling his way up 
 the stream. He was taken aboard and the 
 trip to Dawson continued. 
 
 Reaching Dawson, Mr. Berry at once 
 staked out a claim. He located on what later 
 became famous as the richest gold creek in 
 the world, El Dorado, the name being given 
 it by the Californian in memory of that other 
 great gold field of his native State. There 
 Mr. Berry located several claims and he im- 
 mediately began sinking holes. He was the 
 first man to get a shaft down to bedrock the 
 first man to strike pay dirt and his discov- 
 ery was the cause of the real rush to the 
 Klondike. 
 
 Mr. Berry's find showed that El Dorado 
 Creek had the richest gold deposits ever dis- 
 covered in a similar area, and in the fall of 
 1896 he had taken out a tremendous amount 
 of the metal. He returned to the United 
 States with nuggets in such abundance that 
 the entire world was startled, and his re- 
 ports of the country started the most stu- 
 pendous gold stampede in the history of the 
 world, not even excepting the days of '49 in 
 California. 
 
 Despite his great good fortune, Mr. Berry 
 retained his equilibrium, refusing to be swept 
 off his feet by the excitement, and from the 
 primitive mine which brought the first gold 
 out of El Dorado Creek he built the modern 
 mining plants which still are producing in 
 large quantities. His mining property known 
 as the Mammoth Mine has eleven miles of 
 ditches and embraces more than five miles 
 of "pay dirt" along Mammoth Creek. This 
 mine is equipped with the largest hydraulic 
 plant in Alaska and is regarded as one of the 
 greatest properties in that country today. 
 
 Another great mine which is owned by 
 Mr. Berry is located on Eagle Creek, Alaska. 
 
 After his many years of hard work in the 
 sterile mining country, Mr. Berry, having 
 thoroughly modernized his business and 
 placed his properties in perfect working or- 
 der, decided to leave the active work to 
 others and seek a more congenial place of 
 residence. He picked out Los Angeles for 
 his home and there he has been located since. 
 
 About the time he located in Los Angeles 
 the country was just awakening to the great 
 oil possibilities in California, and there, as 
 in the golden pioneer days of Alaska, Mr. 
 Berry was stirred by the desire to conquer. 
 He was among the first investors in oil lands, 
 and since has organized three separate oil 
 companies. Mr. Berry was one of the first 
 men in the McKittrick field to get a well 
 down to bedrock, and he was rewarded by a 
 gusher which spouted the product high above 
 the casing. This well marked the beginning 
 of the recent oil boom in the San Joaquin 
 Valley. 
 
 That well was followed by others, and 
 with each new success Mr. Berry's name has 
 grown until he is now known as one of the 
 most extensive mining and oil operators in 
 the United Sates. 
 
 His interests include the two great mines 
 in Alaska, the C. J. Company (oil), the Ethel 
 D. Company (oil), the Mammoth Oil Com- 
 pany and the Eagle Creek, also an oil cor- 
 poration, all located in the Kern River dis- 
 trict, California. Another enterprise is the 
 Berry Development Company of Fresno, Cal. 
 
 The growth of his various operations has 
 had a natural bearing upon the development 
 of the State's resources in general, and also 
 upon the commercial advancement of Los 
 Angeles proper, because of the tremendous 
 amount of business transacted through that 
 city. In addition, Mr. Berry has aided in 
 many movements to improve the city. 
 
 Mr. Berry is a member of the Union 
 League Club of San Francisco, Los Angeles 
 Athletic Club and the Tananah Club of Fair- 
 banks, Alaska. He is a member of the Blue 
 Lodge of Masons of Selma, Cal. ; a life mem- 
 ber of the Mystic Shrine of Islam Temple, 
 San Francisco ; of the Scottish Rite of Fresno 
 and the Knights Templar of the same city. 
 
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 HARLEY HAMILTON 
 
 AMILTON, HARLEY, Conductor 
 Los Angeles Symphony Orches- 
 tra, Los Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Oneida, N. Y., March 8, 1861, 
 the son of Erastus H. Hamilton 
 and Su&an C. (Williams) Hamil- 
 ton. He married Nellie E. Ferris at Tustin, Cal., 
 June 29, 1887. There is one child, Viola Hamilton. 
 Mr. Hamilton's education was derived from pri- 
 vate schools and tutors in New York. He studied 
 music from his earliest childhood and was- gradu- 
 ated from the New York College of Music in 1882, 
 having paid his own tuition by working on a daily 
 newspaper. 
 
 His health became impaired, and soon after his 
 graduation he moved to California, on a ranch near 
 Los Angeles. After a few months he moved to Los- 
 Angeles to practice his art. He remained for about 
 two years, then went to Boston for more complete 
 study. In 1887 he returned to Los Angeles and 
 immediately opened a studio for violin instruction 
 and also became one of the leading professional 
 musicians of the city. 
 
 In 1892 he organized the Woman's Orchestra of 
 Los Angeles, which, in 1912, completed its twen- 
 tieth year of existence. In 1898 he organized the 
 Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, assuming the 
 duties of Conductor, as which he has continued. 
 This organization has had an important bearing on 
 the musical advancement of the city and has given 
 Los Angeles the distinction of being one of 
 the few cities boasting a Symphony Orchestra. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton has devoted himself to the inter- 
 pretation of good music rather than composition, 
 and during his twenty-five years in Los Angeles 
 has- made three trips to European musical centers 
 for study. He enjoys a splendid position profes- 
 sionally and is a member of the City, Gamut, and 
 Los Angeles Athletic Clubs. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, Shriner and Knight Templar. 
 
 G. HAROLD POWELL 
 
 OWELL, GEORGE HAROLD, Gen. 
 Mgr., Cal. Fruit Growers' Ex- 
 change, Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Ghent, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1872, 
 a son of George Townsend Powell 
 and Marcia R. (Chase) Powell. 
 He married Gertrude E. Clarke at Buffalo, N. Y., 
 July 1, 1896. Children, Harold Clarke, George 
 Townsend and Lawrence Chase Powell. 
 
 He was educated in schools of New York State, 
 graduating from College of Agriculture, Cornell 
 Univ., in 1895, with the degree B. S. in Agriculture. 
 Appointed Fellow in Horticulture at Cornell, 1896, 
 and took degree of M. S. in Agriculture. Then be- 
 came Horticulturist at Del. College of Agriculture 
 Experiment Sta., Newark, Del., and in 1901 took 
 charge of fruit storage and transportation investi- 
 gations for U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. These had 
 a far-reaching effect upon commercial fruit hand- 
 ling practices. Appointed, 1910, Assistant Chief, 
 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agricul- 
 ture; served as Acting Chief that year. Located 
 in Los Angeles, 1911, as Sec.-Mgr. of the Citrus 
 Protective League and in campaigns to prevent re- 
 moval of duty on citrus fruits accumulated the most 
 comprehensive data concerning cost of producing 
 oranges and lemons ever brought together in an 
 agricultural industry. Also organized investiga- 
 tions relative to upbuilding the citrus industry. 
 
 In 1912, he was elected Gen. Mgr., Cal. Fruit 
 Growers' Exchange, largest co-operative organiza- 
 tion for distributing fruit crops in the world. His 
 extensive writings for the Government on fruit 
 growing and handling are accepted as authorities. 
 He represented U. S. Govt. at first International 
 Congress of Refrigerating Industries at Paris in 
 1909, and is Vice. Pres. of the third Congress, 
 scheduled for Chicago in 1913. He is Con&ulting 
 Pomologist of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture and a 
 member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
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 EDWARD L. MAYBERRY 
 
 AYBERRY, EDWARD LEODORE, 
 Architectural Engineer, Los An- 
 geles, Cal., was born in Sacra- 
 mento, Cal., Sept. 18, 1871, the 
 son of Edward L. and Emily Jane 
 (Gray) Mayberry. He married Ada 
 Stevens Phillips at Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 24, 1901. 
 
 Taken to Los Angeles County when about six 
 years of age, he received his primary education in 
 public schools, graduating from high school in 1888. 
 He then spent a year at the University of Southern 
 California and another at Business College. 
 
 In 1890 he entered the employ of Shoder-John- 
 ston & Co. (Union Hardware & Metal Co.), resign- 
 ing in two years to enter the University of Cal. 
 and was graduated from that institution in 1896 
 with the degree of B. L. He returned to his for- 
 mer employers and was with them until 1902, when 
 he determined to study engineering. 
 
 Entering the Mass. Inst. of Technology in 1902, 
 he graduated in 1906 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Science. He then returned to Los Angeles, 
 where for Carl Leonardt he became Designing En- 
 gineer and engineered numerous important struc- 
 tures, two of them being the U. S. Grant Hotel 
 and the Union Building, at San Diego. In 1907 he 
 formed a partnership with L. A. Parker. 
 
 Mr. Mayberry is a member of the Engineers' 
 and Architects-' Assn., and University Club of Los 
 Angeles, Sierra Club, San Gabriel Valley Country 
 Club, and the City Club of Long Beach. 
 
 PARKER, LLEWELLYN ADELBERT, Architec- 
 tural Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Den- 
 ver, Colo., Dec. 6, 1882. He is the son of Edgar 
 Daniel Parker and Clara Marie (Haigh) Parker. 
 He married Constance Irene Bulfinch, Feb. 18, 1913. 
 
 Mr. Parker's parents moved to California when 
 he was two years of age and first located at Oak- 
 land. Mr. Parker attended school there until the 
 
 L. A. PARKER 
 
 family moved to Los Angeles-, where he graduated 
 from the High School in 1902. He then became a 
 student in the Mass. Inst. of Technology and gradu- 
 ated in 1906 with the degree of B. S. 
 
 Upon the completion of his studies Mr. Parker 
 returned to California and entered the employ of 
 Charles F. Whittlesy & Co., architects, San Fran- 
 cisco and Los Angeles. He was appointed Design- 
 ing Engineer of the firm, in charge of the Engineer- 
 ing Dept. He remained in that position until 1907, 
 when he entered into partnership with Edward L. 
 Mayberry, who had been his classmate in Boston, as 
 Architectural Engineers, headquarters, Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Parker is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma 
 Fraternity, the Engineers' and Architects' Assn. of 
 Los Angeles, the B. P. O. E., and the University 
 Club of Los Angeles. 
 
 Since joining issues Mayberry & Parker have de- 
 signed and built numerous important structures. 
 They have de&igned and erected nearly a dozen im- 
 portant bridges, including the Linda Vista Viaduct 
 in Pasadena, 65 feet in height and 400 feet in 
 length; the Arroyo Park bridge, near Los Angeles, 
 50 feet high and 355 long the only one of its kind 
 in the world. They also built ten re-inforced con- 
 crete bridges-, for the County of Ventura, from 20 to 
 150 feet in length. 
 
 Other bridge work done by the firm are the Cen- 
 ter street bridge across the Salt River at Phoenix, 
 Ariz., the longest concrete girder bridge in the world 
 two thousand one hundred and fifty feet long 
 with a causeway one thousand feet long. 
 
 Mr. Mayberry and Mr. Parker engineered the 
 Majestic Theater building, the Panorama Theater, 
 Luckenbach building and others in Los Angeles; 
 the Kern County (Cal.) Hall of Records, Pomona 
 (Cal.) City Hall, Long Beach (Cal.) Polytechnic 
 School and the Goodrich, Goldberg and other build- 
 ings at Phoenix, Ariz.; the hotel and station at 
 Williams, Ariz.; Syracuse, Kan., and Needles, Cal., 
 all Santa Fe Railroad buildings-. 
 
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 AND, JAMES D., Farmer, 
 Stock Raiser and Land Deal- 
 er, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
 was born in Shelby County, 
 Alabama, November 25, 1867, 
 the son of Lawson J. Hand and Nancy C. 
 (McLendon) Hand. 
 
 Mr. Hand, who has been a prominent 
 figure in business and political circles of the 
 South and Southwest for many years, is de- 
 scended of one of the old families of the 
 South. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Jemison, Ala- 
 bama, and, having decided upon a business 
 career, followed this with attendance at a 
 commercial college in Lexington, Kentucky. 
 He was graduated from this institution in 
 1883, and immediately returned to Jemison, 
 Alabama, where he embarked in the lumber 
 manufacturing business. The following tells 
 of his career from this time on, according to 
 the best information obtainable : 
 
 From 1883 to 1890 Mr. Hand was one oi 
 the successful lumber operators of Alabama, 
 but gave up his business after seven years 
 of activity in order to live the outdoor life of 
 a cowpuncher, going to Western Texas, 
 where he obtained a place as cowboy on a 
 large ranch, and for nearly two years lived 
 on the range, undergoing all the pleasures 
 and hardships of the life. 
 
 Returning to Alabama in 1891, he re-en- 
 gaged in the lumber manufacturing business, 
 this time making his headquarters at Bay 
 Minette, Baldwin County. For the next ten 
 years he devoted himself to his lumber in- 
 terests, but he also was interested in other 
 lines of activity, including banking and land 
 operation. He organized the Hand Lumber 
 Company at Bay Minette in 1896 and served 
 as its President until 1902, when he disposed 
 of a large share of his holdings, preparatory 
 to moving to New Mexico. He also served 
 as President of the Baldwin County Bank at 
 Bay Minette from 1899 to 1902, and was 
 President of the Hand Lumber Company of 
 that place from 1898 to 1906. 
 
 In 1902, foreseeing great opportunities 
 for development in the West and Southwest, 
 Mr. Hand sold out his lumber interests and 
 other property and went to San Miguel 
 
 County, New Mexico, of which section Las 
 Vegas is the principal business center. Ever 
 since his location there he has been one of 
 the most active forces in the development of 
 the country and is one of the largest land 
 owners. Purchasing the Placita Ranch at 
 Los Alamos, New Mexico, a tract of land 
 sixty-four thousand acres in extent, he or- 
 ganized the Placita Ranch Company, of 
 which he is President, and for more than ten 
 years has been actively engaged in farming 
 and stock raising on a large scale. Latterly, 
 the company, under the direction of Mr. 
 Hand, has expended large sums of money in 
 irrigation projects and has placed part of its 
 vast holdings on the market in small farming 
 tracts. The result is that this section has 
 been largely built up, being transformed from 
 a barren waste into one of the richest agri- 
 cultural sections in the State of New Mexico. 
 Mr. Hand is not only a practical farmer 
 and financier, but has devoted a considerable 
 amount of time to the study of land and 
 water problems and is generally regarded as 
 one of the best-informed men on irrigation 
 and allied subjects in his part of the country. 
 He takes a great deal of interest in irrigation 
 and conservation and has been one of the 
 consistent advocates of these policies for 
 many years. When he first located in New 
 Mexico only a small percentage of the land 
 was under cultivation, the greater part being 
 considered worthless on account of the lack 
 of water for irrigation purposes. 
 
 Into his own operations, Mr. Hand intro- 
 duced scientific methods of farming and irri- 
 gation and also lent his assistance to State 
 and Federal experts working to overcome the 
 difficulties which presented themselves to 
 farmers in general. In this respect he has 
 rendered material aid to the government, and 
 by his own example has demonstrated the 
 possibilities of New Mexico land, which he 
 firmly believes will, if properly handled, rank 
 among the best-producing lands in the 
 country, and add to the State's wealth. 
 
 Aside from the Placita Ranch, Mr. Hand 
 is interested in another great New Mexican 
 land project, known as the Ten Lakes Land 
 Company of Onava, New Mexico. This 
 company, in which Mr. Hand serves as Vice 
 
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 President and General Manager, is capital- 
 ized at $250,000, and is engaged in the sell- 
 ing of land and colonization work. The 
 company established the town of Onava on 
 its property, installed telephone and tele- 
 graph service and has been engaged in one of 
 the most active campaigns in the State. Its 
 lands are traversed by the Atchison, Topeka 
 & Santa Fe Railroad, and are among the best- 
 irrigated properties in the Southwest, its res- 
 ervoirs being supplied from the Sapello River, 
 which rises in the Rocky Mountains and has 
 
 a large drainage area. 
 
 Through the influence of Mr. Hand and 
 associates, who are working for the advance- 
 ment of New Mexico's agricultural interests, 
 thousands of acres have been placed under 
 cultivation and the land which formerly was 
 barren now produces a variety of crops, such 
 as alfalfa, wheat, fruits, corn and garden 
 truck. 
 
 Mr. Hand, in addition to his land opera- 
 tions, is a cattle raiser on a large scale and 
 is interested in various other forms of in- 
 vestment. In 1905 he organized, in Ala- 
 bama, the Navy Cove Harbor Railway Com- 
 pany, and has served as the President of that 
 corporation from the time of its inception. 
 
 Reared in the South, where the Demo- 
 cratic party is strongest, Mr. Hand has been 
 a life-long supporter of that party in politics 
 and has been one of its prominent workers, 
 both in Alabama and in New Mexico, al- 
 though he never held public office. He has. 
 however, been a contributing factor in the 
 successes of the party, giving largely of his 
 time and money for the purpose. He has 
 served as a member of the San Miguel 
 County Central Committee and the New 
 Mexico Territorial Central Committee, and 
 in 1912 was a Delegate to the National Con- 
 vention at Baltimore, Maryland, which nom- 
 inated Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, 
 subsequently elected President of the United 
 States. 
 
 In the memorable campaign preceding 
 that convention, however, Mr. Hand was an 
 ardent supporter of Champ Clark of Mis- 
 souri for the Presidential nomination, labor- 
 ing tirelessly in his behalf, both in the pre- 
 convention campaign and on the floor of the 
 convention itself. He is a great admirer of 
 the Missourian and the failure of the conven- 
 tion to nominate him for the highest office 
 within the gift of the American people was 
 a keen disappointment to Mr. Hand, who 
 was one of the last to give up hope of start- 
 ing Clark on the road to the Presidency. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Hand has not taken 
 
 a very active part in politics, although in 
 former years he figured in nearly every cam- 
 paign of consequence. Recognizing the 
 benefits that would accrue to the country 
 with the granting of Statehood, he was one 
 of the strong advocates of this measure and 
 lent his influence at all times to the proposal 
 to create a State Government. In the first 
 State election following the adoption of the 
 State Constitution he fought with all his 
 energy for the Democratic cause and aided 
 in winning for the party the honor of elect- 
 ing the first State Governor of New Mexico, 
 Hon. William C. McDonald. 
 
 Possessed of an unusual amount of phys- 
 ical energy, Mr. Hand, in addition to his 
 business and political activities, has been a 
 factor in the civic affairs of Las Vegas, New 
 Mexico, where a large part of his business is 
 transacted. He has consistently advertised 
 the advantages of the city as a health resort, 
 and is generally recognized as one of the 
 contributing forces in the growth of the city, 
 which is the center of commercial activity 
 for all San Miguel County business men. 
 
 From his earliest days as a business man 
 Mr. Hand has been noted for an extraordi- 
 nary ability as an executive and organizer, 
 and in the management of his various enter- 
 prises he gives his personal attention to each 
 branch of the business. Continually alert 
 for new opportunities, Mr. Hand's interests 
 in New Mexico have increased with the 
 passing years and he is now said to be one 
 of the largest operators in various lines of 
 industry in the new State. His chief inter- 
 est being land and land products, he has 
 been preaching the doctrine of irrigation for 
 years, with the result that his confidence has 
 been largely assimilated by others and the 
 installation of modern methods of procuring 
 water has added millions of dollars to the 
 wealth of the State. 
 
 Mr. Hand is essentially a business man, 
 with a diversity of interests to claim his at- 
 tention, but he also is intensely human and 
 enjoys widespread popularity in his section 
 of the country, being noted for his amiable 
 temperament. He is a man of most generous 
 instincts and is said to have done a great 
 deal in a substantial way towards bettering 
 the condition of the poor natives of his sec- 
 tion, although his philanthropies are be- 
 stowed in a quiet manner. 
 
 He is a prominent member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, having attained the Thirty- 
 Second Degree, belongs to the Knights of 
 Pythias and the Campfire Club of New 
 York City. 
 
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 YMAN, FRANCIS OSCAR, Manu- 
 facturer, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born near Macedonia, in Sum- 
 mit County, Ohio, May 3, 1839. His 
 father was Albert Wyman and his 
 mother Miranda (Everest) Wy- 
 man. He has been twice married, 
 his first wife having been Mary E. Stephens, whom 
 he married at Green Spring, Ohio, August 25, 1868. 
 There was one son born, Charles Elliott Wyman 
 (deceased). Mrs. Wyman died on June 19, 1874. 
 Mr. Wyman's second marriage occurred at Circle- 
 ville, Ohio, July 25, 1875, his 
 wife being Emma Bailey. Of 
 this union there have been 
 born three children, Elliott 
 B., Florence E. and Julia M. 
 Wyman. 
 
 Mr. Wyman is descended 
 of Anglo-Saxon stock. The 
 original members of the fam- 
 ily in America were among 
 the early settlers of Woburn, 
 Mass., and were important 
 figures in the history of the 
 town. For many years after- 
 wards John Wyman was one 
 of its leading citizens. 
 
 Francis O. Wyman, who 
 has been an important factor 
 in the commercial life of the 
 country for many years, 
 spent the early part of his 
 life in Ohio. He received his 
 preliminary education in the 
 common schools of Mace- 
 donia and during the term of 
 1853-54 was a student at the 
 Western Reserve College, 
 Hudson, Ohio. Later (1857- 
 58) he took a special course 
 in higher mathematics in a 
 school at Genoa, Ottawa 
 County, Ohio. 
 
 In 1855, following the con- 
 clusion of his studies, Mr. 
 Wyman engaged in timber 
 operations in the densely 
 wooded country around the 
 
 town of Genoa, but in 1861, at the outbreak of the 
 Civil War, abandoned his work and answered Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's call for volunteers. He enlisted as a 
 private in Company A, Fourteenth Regiment, Ohio 
 Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of the en- 
 listment period, re-enlisted to serve until the close 
 of the war. He participated in many of the most 
 important battles of the war, including Shiloh and 
 Chickamauga. 
 
 At the Battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, his 
 commander, Colonel Kingsbury, introduced him to 
 General Brandon during the progress of the battle 
 with the remark: "General, here is a man who will 
 do anything you want him to." General Brandon 
 ordered him to call for volunteers, which he did, 
 and taking about 32 men went under orders to the 
 front to investigate and report on what was doing. 
 In performing this duty, Mr. Wyman encountered 
 Longstreet's corps which had just captured a por- 
 tion of the Ninth Indiana Battery, and recaptured it. 
 For this- service, Captain Swollow, of the Ninth In- 
 diana Battery, gave him a note which stated "Such 
 bravery deserves promotion." 
 
 Prior to the charge at Jonesboro, Ga., Sept. 1, 1864, 
 Mr. Wyman had been assigned to the post of acting 
 First Lieutenant. This was just before going into 
 action and he was ordered to take command of his 
 company in case the necessity arose during battle. 
 
 F. O. WYMAN 
 
 At the first volley from the rebels the Captain 
 was mortally wounded and Mr. Wyman took 
 command and his brigade captured the breastworks 
 and held them. As a result orders were issued and 
 read before all companies at the time, which stated 
 that this- charge, capture and retaining of the 
 breastworks was the only positively successful 
 charge of the kind during the Atlanta campaign. A 
 copy of his order is among the prized possessions 
 of Mr. Wyman. 
 
 Immediately after the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., 
 Mr. Wyman was made Sergeant and was in com- 
 mand of his company most of 
 the time until the end of the 
 war. 
 
 The Quartermaster Gen- 
 eral of Ohio, whom Mr. Wy- 
 man met while in Cleveland, 
 saw the note given Mr. Wy- 
 man by Captain Swollow on 
 the battlefield of Chickamau- 
 ga and asked if he could take 
 it to the Governor of Ohio. 
 This he did and as a result, 
 an order from the Adjutant 
 General of Ohio was sent to 
 Mr. Wyman, ordering him to 
 report to his office, at Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, as a commission of 
 First Lieutenant would be 
 given him. The letter con- 
 taining this order miscarried, 
 and did not reach Mr. Wy- 
 man until June, 1864, too late 
 for assignment to the one- 
 year regiment then forming 
 at that time and Mr. Wyman 
 remained with his old regi- 
 ment. On Julj- 21, 1865, Mr. 
 Wyman was mustered out of 
 service as Sergeant. 
 
 At the close of the war 
 Mr. Wyman returned to his 
 home near Genoa, O., and en- 
 gaged in the lime business. 
 In 1866 he organized the 
 firm of F. O. Wyman & Co., 
 and has been in the lime 
 business since, a period of 47 
 
 years. He operated his first plant at Genoa, O., and 
 devoted himself to it exclusively until 1870, when he 
 added a mercantile store, in partnership with L. D. 
 Gregg. As Wyman & Gregg they were associated 
 for 24 years. 
 
 In 1887, Mr. Wyman went to California and en- 
 tered the lime business, having associated with him 
 a number of the leading business men and bankers 
 of California. He secured control of the principal 
 lime manufacturing and selling establishments and 
 pushed them to the highest degree of organization 
 perfection. Since 1902 he has been the controlling 
 force in the lime business of the State of California. 
 He is President, Summit Lime Co.; President, Un- 
 ion Lime Co.; President, Golden State Portland Ce- 
 ment Co., and Vice President, Los Angeles Lime Co. 
 Mr. Wyman is deeply interested in public affairs 
 and has been a life long Republican. In 1872, upon 
 the incorporation of the town of Genoa, Ohio, he 
 was chosen first City Clerk of the town by unani- 
 mous vote and while serving in that office drew up 
 various ordinances which remain a part of the 
 town's laws. He later served on the Genoa School 
 Board and was a member of the Genoa City Coun- 
 cil for many years. Since locating in California, 
 he was at one time a member of the Los Angeles 
 Police Commission. He is a member of Elliott 
 Wyman Post, G. A. R,, of Genoa, O. 
 
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 ELM, FRANKLIN, Contractor, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born in 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, November, 
 22, 1862, the son of Henry and 
 Catherine Helm. He married Miss 
 Perlie Eugene Goldthwaite in New 
 York City on March 19, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Helm received his primary training in the 
 public schools of Indianapolis, later attended 
 Bryant and Stratton's Business College at Chicago 
 and Butler University. 
 
 Entering into partnership with his father in 
 1884, Mr. Helm was in the General Contracting bus- 
 iness at Indianapolis for about a year and in 1885 
 went into the field on his own account. He im- 
 mediately became active in railway construction, 
 his first line, in 1885, being a part of the Indiana 
 Coal Road, extending from Chicago, Illinois, to 
 Brazil, Indiana. The following year he constructed 
 a part of the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw 
 Railway in Ohio. He next operated on the Santa 
 Fe Railway, constructing part of the line from Chi- 
 cago to Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 In 1888, Mr. Helm constructed a branch line for 
 the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad to 
 Findlay, Ohio, and also built a part of the Findlay 
 Water Works system. During the same year and 
 in 1889, he, in connection with James N. Young, of 
 Chicago, and A. G. Yates, former President of the 
 Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway, organ- 
 ized and financed the Toronto, Hamilton & Buf- 
 falo Railway and purchased the Brantford, Water- 
 loo & Lake Erie Railway. Mr. Helm was the 
 leading spirit in these enterprises and later, when 
 the properties were sold to the Canadaian Pacific 
 Railway and the New York Central, who now con- 
 trol them jointly, he personally negotiated the sale. 
 In the case of the New York Central contract he 
 dealt with Cornelius Vanderbilt, of the New York 
 Central, Charles F. Fox, Vice President of the Can- 
 ada Southern, and Mr. Ledyard, President of the 
 Michigan Central Railway. 
 
 From this time down to date Mr. Helm has been 
 one of the leading figures in railway, financial and 
 development circles. In 1892 he financed some of 
 the contractors on the Ohio River Railway, and, 
 during the same year, purchased the control of the 
 Columbus, Lima & Southwestern Railway in Ohio, 
 later disposing of the property. 
 
 In 1893 and 1894 Mr. Helm aided in financing a 
 large tract of coal and iron property in Tennessee, 
 and, later, furnished the capital for the construc- 
 tion of a railroad through the property. In 1895 
 he turned his attention to railway operations in 
 Old Mexico and financed several contractors en- 
 gaged in work on subsidiary lines of the Mexican 
 Central Railway. This held his attention for two 
 years, or until the end of 1896, and in the early part 
 of the next year he aided the owners of the Cape 
 
 Cod Canal project in Massachusetts, making possi- 
 ble the successful construction of this waterway. 
 
 This same year the news of the gold strike in 
 the Klondyke country reached the United States 
 and Mr. Helm financed a number of parties inter- 
 ested in the territory contiguous to Dawson City, 
 Alaska. 
 
 In 1898, Mr. Helm gave up his operations in the 
 United States temporarily and sailed for England, 
 where he made his home until 1901. During this 
 period he was just as active as he had been pre- 
 viously in the United States, being associated with 
 one of the wealthy coal operators of Wales in 
 financing several properties in Spain, Italy and 
 South Africa. 
 
 Shortly after his return to America, Mr. Helm 
 became interested with James McDonald, the New 
 York contractor, in the Westchester Electric Rail- 
 way out of New York, and which was later sold to 
 the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway. 
 
 In 1902, while still interested in this project, 
 Mr. Helm became associated with General A. W. 
 Greely, U. S. A., famous as the leader of the 
 Greely Arctic Expedition, and went with him to 
 Alaska. General Greely was at one time engaged 
 in the location and installation of the longest wire- 
 less system in the world and Mr. Helm spent parts 
 of the years 1902 and 1903 with him while he was 
 engaged in this work. 
 
 Upon his return from the far North, Mr. Helm 
 again became interested in Mexico and during the 
 years of 1904, 1905 and 1906 spent a great deal of 
 time in that country. He furnished the capital for 
 several parties largely interested in development 
 enterprises there; among others was one of the con- 
 tractors who had the contract for the construction 
 of the Tampico Sewer. He made frequent trips to 
 Mexico City, and through the aid of President Diaz 
 and Senor Meriscal, the Mexican Foreign Minister, 
 together with the governors of several Mexican 
 States, the business enterprises with which he was 
 connected were terminated successfully. 
 
 Continuing his activity, Mr. Helm, upon the com- 
 pletion of the Mexican enterprises in which he was 
 interested, engaged in several in the State of Ne- 
 vada. He furnished the capital to several friends 
 having large properties in Nevada and lent his aid 
 to their development. The same year he was in 
 partnership with R. T. McCabe, of New York, who 
 built a part of the system of railways on Long Island, 
 and with him organized and did the preliminary 
 financing of the high speed electric railway project 
 from Boston to Salem, Massachusetts. 
 
 It was about this time that Mr. Helm saw an 
 opportunity to accomplish a great public work In 
 South America, and in 1908 purchased the Colom- 
 bian Railway Concession. He then organized a 
 syndicate to complete the building of the line and 
 had started operations thereon, when a political 
 
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 eruption occurred, causing President Reyes to flee 
 the country, and the entanglements which followed 
 have held the enterprise in check from the year 
 1909, with the outlook for continuing, uncertain. 
 
 Mr. Helm still retains control of the railway 
 concession, however, and intends, at some future 
 time when conditions are more stable, to return 
 to Colombia and carry his plans to completion. 
 
 In 1910, Mr. Helm financed the operations of 
 several large coal and oil properties, and in 1911, 
 began the consideration of the far West as a field 
 for development. He spent the greater part of that 
 year traveling through Northwest Canada and the 
 Pacific Coast states, looking over the field. The 
 result of these observations was his location in 
 Los Angeles, from which point he is now directing 
 several large improvement projects. 
 
 In 1912, Mr. Helm organized the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Utilities Company, incorporated under the 
 laws of California, with bonds- and share capital of 
 twenty million dollars a bond issue having been 
 sanctioned by the Utility Commission. This com- 
 pany was authorized to engage in the building and 
 operation of railroads and other utilities, to issue 
 ten million dollars' worth of bonds and to make 
 investments, and Mr. Helm and his associates are 
 now engaged in the construction of the company's 
 first project. 
 
 Simultaneous with the organization of the South- 
 ern California Utilities Company, Mr. Helm formed 
 the California Riverside Land Company, with a cap- 
 ital of ten million dollars, and the Riversdde-Red- 
 lands Interurban Railway, capitalized at two and a 
 half million dollars, both of which are incorporated 
 under the laws of California. This railroad, a pro- 
 posed, would traverse an unusually rich section of 
 Southern California and will join together more 
 closely two of the section's most prosperous towns. 
 
 Mr. Helm has organized a group of his French 
 and English friends to finance these projects, oper- 
 ating through the Universal Construction & Invest- 
 ment Company, a two-million dollar corporation in 
 which he serves as Director, member of the Execu- 
 tive Committee and General Manager. 
 
 These various operations which Mr. Helm has 
 started will play a large part in the development 
 of the resources of Southern California, where for 
 several years past investors from all parts of the 
 world have been working and receiving large re- 
 wards. Los Angeles, the metropolis of the section, 
 has, within a few years, been transformed from a 
 town of small buildings to a great city of sky- 
 scrapers and commercial importance which make 
 her a source of wonder to the outside world, and 
 the completion of Mr. Helm's projects in this field, 
 it is believed, will add greatly to her already strong 
 position. 
 
 In addition to his Southern California work, Mr. 
 Helm is interested in mining and other lines of in- 
 vestment in Mexico, one of these stated to be a 
 rich silver property which he and associates intend 
 to operate on a large scale. 
 
 The foregoing statements regarding the oper- 
 ations of Mr. Helm in various parts of the United 
 States and in other countries tell inadequately of 
 his contribution to the general upbuilding of the 
 sections in which he has worked, but serve, how- 
 ever, to show the man as a progressive, enterpris- 
 ing American of the type that has helped the 
 country to attain its present position among the 
 nations. His chief characteristic is courage, as 
 shown by his willingness to lend his able support 
 to so many and varied development enterprises. 
 
 He is associated, in his California enterprises, 
 with a group of financiers who have been engaged 
 for several years in the development of oil lands- 
 and other lines in that section and who still are 
 planning for the future of the country. Mr. Helm 
 has been extremely active in the various compa- 
 nies with which he is connected, being in personal 
 charge of many details connected with the organ- 
 ization and initiation of work on these projects. 
 
 Mr. Helm has been too busy to take part in pol- 
 itics in California, but during the days of his activ- 
 ity in the Dominion of Canada, covering that period 
 from 1888 to 1890, took considerable interest in the 
 political affairs of the country, especially in the 
 Province of Ontario, and he aided largely in the 
 election to high position of various friends and 
 associates who attained prominence. Among these 
 were several cabinet officers and members of the 
 Ontario Parliament. 
 
 Mr. Helm also took a keen interest in political 
 and military affairs during his residence in fne 
 State of Indiana. He was at one time a Lieutenant 
 in the National Guard of Indiana and at a later 
 period, served as Major on the Staff of the Honor- 
 able Isaac P. Gray, when the latter was Governor 
 of the State. These, however, were the only posi- 
 tions outside of the business world that he ever 
 held. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California, where 
 his interests will keep him for several years to 
 come, Mr. Helm has purchased a home at Ocean 
 Park, one of the attractive seashore suburbs ad- 
 jacent to the city of Los Angeles, and he intends 
 to make his home there permanently. 
 
 Mr. Helm formerly was a member of several 
 clubs in Eastern cities, but resigned his member- 
 ships upon his removal to California, and his only 
 affiliation there is with the Los Angeles Athletic 
 Club. 
 
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 851 
 
 UNNE, PETER FRANCIS, 
 Attorney-at-Law, San Fran- 
 cisco, California, was born 
 in San Francisco, California, 
 December 29, 1860, the son of 
 Peter Dunne and Margaret (Bergin) Dunne. 
 Both his father and grandfather were among 
 the California pioneers of 1849, merchants, 
 in San Francisco, and subsequently owners 
 of large tracts of land in Santa Clara County. 
 He married Annie Cecilia Haehnlen in Oak- 
 land, California, June 28, 1898, and of their 
 union there have been born three children, 
 Arthur Bergin, Marian Wallace and Marjorie 
 Evelyn Dunne. 
 
 After a general course in the classics Mr. 
 Dunne was graduated from St. Ignatius Col- 
 lege, in 1878, with the degree of Master of 
 Arts, and then took up the study of law in 
 the Hastings College of Law, San Francisco. 
 He was graduated from that institution in 
 1881 a Bachelor of Laws. 
 
 A great power of sustained application 
 and of logical analysis, a ready wit, calm 
 self-possession when occasion most demands 
 it and a natural aptitude form a combination 
 that should win success in any profession, 
 especially the law, and it is undoubtedly the 
 happy blending of these qualities that has 
 gained for Mr. Dunne the distinction he now 
 enjoys as one of the most successful attor- 
 neys on the Pacific Coast and one of the 
 best known professional men in the United 
 States. 
 
 Shortly after his admittance to the Bar 
 his skill in the conduct of his cases began to 
 attract attention, and it was not long before 
 his success in damage suits led one of the 
 largest local corporations to retain him as its 
 attorney at a large salary. 
 
 Thenceforth his reputation and his income 
 grew apace, and during his rise to the post 
 of general attorney for the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Company some of the most impor- 
 tant causes ever tried at the California Bar 
 were entrusted to him. In these his close 
 manner of conducting them, combined with 
 the eloquence of his arguments to the juries, 
 marked him as a brilliant advocate. 
 
 In a celebrated case before the Supreme 
 Court of California the justices spoke of Mr. 
 Dunne's argument as one of the best ever 
 made in the State. This resulted in a re- 
 versal of the judgment favorable to his client. 
 
 Among his other noted cases, that in 
 which, as special prosecutor, he secured, after 
 two mistrials, the conviction of Dimmick for 
 embezzlement while cashier of the U. S. 
 Mint, is especially worthy of mention. An- 
 
 other, and one of the most bitterly contested 
 in the annals of the California Bar, was that 
 of Ames vs. Treadwell. In this Mr. Dunne 
 was counsel for the defendant against four 
 of the leading lawyers of California, and 
 the thunders of applause that greeted the 
 close of his argument forced the judge to 
 clear the overcrowded courtroom. 
 
 The post of general attorney for the 
 Southern Pacific Railway Company is one 
 of the most important legal offices in the 
 United States. Even the routine work of a 
 corporation of the magnitude of the Southern 
 Pacific is of great volume, and often, involv- 
 ing as it does millions of dollars, of prime im- 
 portance. But the Southern Pacific has of 
 late years had to appear in the courts of the 
 state of California and of the United States 
 in some of the greatest litigations on record. 
 And it is in these that Mr. Dunne has dis- 
 tinguished himself. He was attorney for the 
 Southern Pacific in the days when E. H. 
 Harriman was the head of the railroad, and 
 was intimately familiar with the great work 
 of expansion carried on by that greatest of 
 railroad captains. He won the confidence 
 of Harriman, so much so that the latter put 
 him at the head of his great legal array. This 
 was no slight honor, because Harriman, to 
 represent the interests of his tens of thou- 
 sands of miles of railroads, had gathered to- 
 gether probably the greatest group of cor- 
 poration lawyers in the United States. 
 
 In the now celebrated merger case be- 
 fore the United States Circuit Court of Ap- 
 peals, in special session at Denver, Mr. 
 Dunne, as attorney for the Harriman roads, 
 won a national fame. Despite all this, how- 
 ever, the allurements of private practice were 
 so strong that in 1910 he retired from the 
 general attorneyship for the Southern Pacific 
 Company to a membership in his present 
 firm. 
 
 A sample of Mr. Dunne's ready wit was 
 furnished in the Spreckels will contest, 
 wherein he was counsel for the successful 
 litigants, John D. and Adolph Spreckels, 
 who sought to have the will of their father 
 declared invalid. In a hypothetical question 
 which he put to the court he said : 
 
 "Assume, for instance, that I am the 
 owner of the Spreckels building." Probate 
 Judge Coffey interrupted to suggest: "You 
 will be, Mr. Dunne, before this litigation is 
 ended." Mr. Dunne replied : "I thank your 
 Honor for so clearly foreshadowing the re- 
 sult." Mr. Dunne is a member of the Pacific- 
 Union, Olympic, Commonwealth and San 
 Francisco Golf and Country clubs. 
 
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 853 
 
 AIER, JOSEPH (deceased), 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Bavaria, Ger- 
 many, 1851. In 1875, while re- 
 fiding in 'Leavenworth, Kan., 
 he married Mary Schmidt. They had two 
 sons, J. Fred Maier (deceased), and Edward 
 R. Maier. Mr. Maier died at Los Angeles, 
 July 12, 1905. 
 
 Mr. Maier was one of the upbuilders of 
 Los Angeles, who went to that city in its 
 early days when it was little more than a vil- 
 lage and saw it rise to the proportions of a 
 great city. He was one of the most enter- 
 prising of its citizens, and has left an endur- 
 ing business monument behind him. 
 
 He was educated in Germany, and there 
 grew to manhood. There he also learned the 
 brewer's trade. When about twenty years 
 old he came to the United States, like so 
 many young Germans, because of his love of 
 freedom and his distaste for the oppressive 
 aristocratic traditions of the native land. 
 
 He began to work his way West immedi- 
 ately on his arrival in the United States, and 
 in a few months was at Leavenworth, Kan., 
 working at his trade. There he remained un- 
 til 1875, when he went to California. He de- 
 layed a few months at San Francisco, but in 
 the same year was offered a position, which 
 he accepted, by the New York Brewery, lo- 
 cated on Third, street, between Main and 
 Spring streets, Los Angeles. 
 
 The town was growing rapidly, and the 
 enterprise of Mr. Maier kept pace with its 
 growth. He was not content to remain in the 
 employ of others. With his limited savings 
 he had a chance to buy out the Malmstedt in- 
 terests in the Philadelphia Brewery, another 
 brewing company of Los Angeles, and he at 
 once took the management of the plant. 
 
 The property was of no great importance 
 when he took it up, but under his experienced 
 management it grew rapidly, more than keep- 
 ing pace with the growth of the community, 
 until 1893, when he became one of the incor- 
 porators of a new company, the Maier & Zob- 
 elein Co., which took over the property and. 
 began enlargements on an ambitious scale. 
 
 Up to 1905, the year of his death, the plant 
 had grown until it covered many acres of 
 ground in the industrial section of Los An- 
 geles. It was then one of the biggest brew- 
 eries on the Pacific Coast and employed hun- 
 dreds of men. The company had established 
 branch houses over many of the Western 
 states, including Nevada, Arizona, Utah, 
 New Mexico and California, and even in Old 
 Mexico. It had a complete array of buildings, 
 
 ranging from two to six stories in height, with 
 clarifying cellars, bottling plant, stables, gar- 
 age, stock houses, blacksmith shops, paint 
 shops, malt houses, laboratories, malt kilns, 
 mill houses, brew house, malt elevators, re- 
 frigerating cellars, carpenter and cooper 
 shops, and all the other essentials of a mod- 
 ern plant. In each department he had the 
 most improved machinery. The plant alone 
 was an asset worth millions of dollars. 
 
 The conduct of the brewery did not mo- 
 nopolize all his time or capital. He sought in- 
 vestments of the most substantial order ; ones 
 that proved of the greatest benefit to himself, 
 and, as well, to the community where he had 
 made his vast fortune. He was one of the or- 
 ganizers and president of the L. A. County 
 Improvement Co., which laid out Chutes 
 Park, one of the great places of recreation of 
 his city, and successfully conducted this en- 
 terprise, much to the pleasure of the Los An- 
 geles public, to the end of his career. 
 
 During the last ten years of his life he 
 lived in a beautiful home at the corner of 
 Figueroa and Sixteenth streets, in one of the 
 most attractive residential sections of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 In the year 1903 he took a respite from 
 business, and with his family made a seven 
 months' tour of Europe. He visited with 
 especial interest the country of his ancestry 
 and the site of his birth, in Bavaria. 
 
 He was a man much beloved for his gen- 
 erous impulses, and many in less fortunate 
 circumstances have had reason to revere his 
 memory for the innumerable acts of kindness 
 which he had shown them. 
 
 He belonged to many societies and clubs. 
 He joined the Order of the Masons in Los 
 Angeles, becoming a member of the Los An- 
 geles Lodge No. 42. He was also a member 
 of the Consistory, and of Al Malaikah Tem- 
 ple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He belonged to the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was 
 a member of the Recreation Gun Club, of 
 the Turnverein, and of the Germania Club. 
 He held a membership in the National Asso- 
 ciation of Stationary Engineers. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Maier, in 1905, 
 his two sons took up the conduct of the 
 great business which he had established and 
 for the management of which they had been 
 especially qualified. 
 
 J. Fred Maier, the eldest son, became the 
 president of the institution, but after his 
 death, in 1909, the sole surviving son, Ed- 
 ward R. Maier, became president of the 
 company and all of the allied properties in- 
 cluded in the estate. 
 
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 J. FRED MAIER 
 
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 855 
 
 AIER, JOSEPH FREDER- 
 ICK (deceased), former Pres- 
 ident Maier Brewing Co., Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in 
 Los Angeles, June 21, 1876, 
 the son of Joseph Maier and Mary (Schmidt) 
 Maier. He died April 11, 1909, at Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Maier attended the public schools of 
 Los Angeles and its High School, where he 
 graduated. 
 
 His professional training began while 
 he was still attending school and col- 
 lege. He worked in the various departments 
 of the brewery, of which his father was presi- 
 dent, and won considerable practical experi- 
 ence. 
 
 After finishing his course in the Los 
 Angeles High School, he entered the Wahl & 
 Henius Brewery Academy of Chicago, where 
 he received a thorough training in the science 
 and practice of brewing, as carried on in this 
 country and Germany. He was prepared in 
 every way to undertake the management of 
 the great business of his father. 
 
 Although he died at the early age of 
 thirty-three, Fred Maier had already suc- 
 ceeded in making himself one of the most 
 prominent and best liked business men in the 
 city of Los Angeles. He fell heir to the con- 
 trol of the business of his father, Joseph 
 Maier, on the latter's death in 1905. The 
 business was of great magnitude, but he 
 pushed it forward on an even larger scale. 
 He became known for his exceptional gene- 
 rosity, both in public and in private life, and 
 he gave a hearing to every worthy cause. He 
 felt a strong civic pride and interested him- 
 self in everything that meant the advance of 
 his city. 
 
 When he took hold, as president, in 1905, 
 the concern was already the most important 
 brewery in Los Angeles, and one of the larg- 
 est on the Pacific Coast. His father had prac- 
 tically created the great business, transform- 
 ing it from the little Philadelphia brewery 
 with its single building to an institution em- 
 ploying hundreds of men and covering acres 
 of ground. He took control so thoroughly 
 and with such tact that the transition was 
 scarcely felt, and then by his liberal business 
 policy he developed an even greater volume 
 of business. 
 
 In 1909, when his last illness seized him 
 prematurely, the Maier Brewery consisted of 
 a dozen buildings, two to six stories high. It 
 had clarifying cellars, bottling plant, stables, 
 
 garage, stock houses, blacksmith shops, paint 
 shops, malt houses, laboratories, pharmaceu- 
 tical department, malt kilns, mill house, brew 
 house, malt elevators, refrigerating cellars 
 and all the other essentials of a great modern 
 brewery. The business was conducted in a 
 manner to win the respect and good will of 
 all business connections. The estimated 
 value of the plant was nearly $2,000,000. 
 
 He interested himself in sports, and espe- 
 cially baseball, and was one of the chief men 
 in the Vernon Athletic Association, and was 
 its president. This association organized the 
 Vernon Baseball Club, one of the baseball 
 teams of the Pacific Coast League. He fur- 
 nished the bulk of the capital necessary to 
 finance the team, and supported it for the 
 amusement of the city of Los Angeles even 
 in the days long before it got on a paying 
 basis. 
 
 He was president, also succeeding his 
 father, of the L. A. County Improvement Co., 
 which owned Chutes Park, one of the most 
 important places of amusement in Los An- 
 geles. Chutes Park occupies a valuable tract 
 of land near the heart of the city. 
 
 The estate, which with his brother, who 
 was secretary and treasurer of the Maier 
 Brewing Co., he administered, owned con- 
 siderable property in the downtown and sub- 
 urban districts of Los Angeles, and this also 
 he administered so that it gained in value. 
 
 One of his chief accomplishments while 
 in control of the brewery was the extension 
 of its markets. He established branch houses 
 in nearly every important town in Southern 
 California, in Nevada, and in Arizona. He 
 started dozens of thriving agencies in places 
 not large enough to support branch houses. 
 The installation of the branch houses in it- 
 self represented a heavy outlay in capital. 
 
 He was a popular club man, and was 
 asked to join nearly every club of social im- 
 portance in Los Angeles. He belonged to 
 Los Angeles Lodge No. 42, F. & A. M., and 
 in 1902 he was elected Master of the Lodge, 
 an unusual honor for one so young. He be- 
 longed to the Consistory, Knights Templar, 
 Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and 
 other secret societies. He was a member of 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks. He was an active member also of the 
 Jonathan Club, the Recreation Gun Club, 
 and the Chico Gun Club, exclusive social 
 organizations of Los Angeles. 
 
 His interest in public affairs was always 
 lively. He was a member of a number of the 
 public improvement clubs, and his support 
 could always be depended upon. 
 
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 EDWARD R. MATER 
 
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 857 
 
 AIER, EDWARD R., Presi- 
 dent and General Manager of 
 the Maier Brewing Company, 
 Inc., Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Los An- 
 geles, January 5, 1883, the son of Joseph 
 and Mary (Schmidt) Maier. 
 
 He attended the public schools of Los 
 Angeles and a preparatory school at Berke- 
 ley before taking a course at the University 
 of California. He entered the last named 
 institution in the year 1901 and studied one 
 year, going abroad in 1902. 
 
 On his return he decided to enter busi- 
 ness with his father, who had built up one 
 of the largest breweries in California the 
 Maier Brewing Co. 
 
 On July 12, 1905, his father died, and the 
 responsibility of managing the great busi- 
 ness and the estate were left to his elder 
 brother, J. Fred Maier, and to himself. 
 
 His brother became president and man- 
 ager of the brewery. "Fred" Maier, as he was 
 familiarly known, was one of the most popu- 
 lar public figures in Los Angeles. The 
 brewery expanded rapidly under his man- 
 agement. He was particularly noted for his 
 willingness to sacrifice personal interest to 
 the good of the city. He died, in the prime 
 of life, April 11, 1909. On his death the 
 presidency of the company went to Edward 
 R. Maier, and he was left sole manager of 
 the Maier estate. 
 
 Under the management of E. R. Maier 
 the brewing company, already a firm of big 
 proportions, employing hundreds of men, 
 has been pushed ahead until the business is 
 today one of the biggest in the western half 
 of the United States. Its branch houses 
 are found in Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New 
 Mexico, Old Mexico, and all over California. 
 There is even an export trade to the Ha- 
 waiian and Philippine Islands. The brew- 
 ery is equipped with the most modern and 
 scientific plant, all of the machinery and 
 methods being the result of the very best 
 experience in beer making. 
 
 The brewery, which is located on Aliso 
 street, comprises twelve different buildings, 
 ranging from two to six stories in height. 
 There are clarifying cellars, bottling plant, 
 stables, garage, stock houses, blacksmith 
 shops, paint shops, malt house, laboratories, 
 pharmaceutical department, malt kiln, mill 
 house, brew house, malt elevators, refriger- 
 ating cellars, carpenter and cooper shops, 
 and all the other essential departments of a 
 modern plant. Everywhere the most im- 
 
 proved machinery is being used. The con- 
 struction and equipment cost over two mil- 
 lion dollars. 
 
 The conduct of this vast enterprise is not 
 the sole occupation of Mr. Maier. He is a 
 rancher as well. He owns the well known 
 Maier Rancho Selecto, in Ventura county, 
 comprising thousands of acres stocked with 
 fine cattle and horses. He spends a good 
 deal of time on the ranch. 
 
 The estate which he has inherited and 
 manages owns much valuable real estate in 
 Los Angeles. Around the brewery have 
 grown up many allied enterprises, to all of 
 which he must give attention. 
 
 While at high school and college he was 
 an enthusiast in athletics, for which he is 
 physically well fitted. He always played on 
 his nine, and was accounted good enough 
 for professional baseball. He is perhaps a? 
 well known to the world at large as presi 
 dent of the Vernon Athletic Club of LOF 
 Angeles, owner of the Vernon Baseball 
 Club, as he is for his prominence in business 
 He became interested in the club at first be- 
 cause of his love of baseball, but with the 
 growth of the Pacific Coast cities his inter- 
 est became more than mere play. The at- 
 tendance at the games runs into the hun- 
 dreds of thousands annually, and the final 
 games are seen by crowds that rival those 
 of the National and American Leagues. The 
 baseball club and plant now represent a big 
 business in themselves. 
 
 He is immensely interested in the growth 
 of Los Angeles, and is one of the most pop- 
 ular of its citizens. He is an ardent sports- 
 man, and . is a member of the Los Angeles 
 Driving Club, Recreation Gun Club, Chico 
 Gun Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, West- 
 ern Bowling Congress, and is president of 
 the Vernon Baseball Club, and president of 
 the Los Angeles Bowling Association. He 
 belongs to a number of the business clubs, 
 among them the Los Angeles Jobbers' As- 
 sociation, Chamber of Commerce and Mer- 
 chants and Manufacturers' Association. 
 
 Other clubs, social and special, to which 
 he belongs are : Bohemian Club of San 
 Francisco, California Club, Jonathan Club, 
 San Gabriel Country Club, Sierra Madre 
 Club, Gamut Club, Los Angeles Convention 
 League, Los Angeles Rotary Club of South- 
 ern California, Automobile Club of Southern 
 California, the Press Club of Los Angeles, 
 and to the Berkeley D. K. E. college fra- 
 ternity. He is also a prominent Mason and 
 Elk. 
 
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 SAMUEL M. HASKINS 
 
 ASKINS, SAMUEL MOODY, At- 
 torney, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born January 20, 1872, in Salt 
 Lake City, Utah. He is the son of 
 the Rev. Thomas Wilson Haskins 
 and Frances Emily Austin. Mr. 
 Haskins was married April 15, 1902, to Eliza Bon- 
 sail, of Los Angeles, and they have two children, 
 Samuel M., Jr., and Barbara Haskins. 
 
 Mr. Haskins spent his boyhood in New England 
 and the Middle West and went to Los Angeles 
 from Burlington, Vermont, when he was fifteen 
 years of age. He entered the Los Angeles High 
 School in the year 1887, and was graduated two 
 years later. The succeeding year he entered the 
 University of California, taking the academic 
 course, and was graduated in 1893 with the degree 
 
 He decided upon law as a profession, and soon 
 after leaving college took up his studies. After 
 reading two years he was admitted to practice by 
 the Supreme Court of California in the year 1895. 
 He began practice at once, but gave it up tempo- 
 rarily two years later, when he was appointed 
 Clerk of the Los Angeles City Council, serving in 
 this capacity until 1902. 
 
 Upon the expiration of his term as Clerk of the 
 Council he was engaged for legal work by the firm 
 of Dunn and Crutcher, and he remained with them 
 until 1905, when the firm name was changed to 
 Bicknell, Gibson, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher. He 
 continued in association with the new firm, and in 
 1908, when Judge Bicknell withdrew from it, be- 
 came an active member. The name at that time 
 underwent another change, being known as Gib 
 son, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher. 
 
 He is a member of several social organizations 
 in Los Angeles, including the California Club, the 
 Los Angeles Country Club and the San Gabriel 
 Valley Country Club. 
 
 GEORGE L. GARY 
 
 ARY > GEORGE LATHROP, Real 
 Estate, Loans and Insurance, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born in Du 
 Page County, 111., Jan. 18, 1867. 
 His parents were George Perrin 
 Gary and Jeannette H. (Brown) 
 Gary. He married Nettie Le Roy at Lombard, 111., 
 Dec. 20, 1888. They have a son, George Le Roy Gary. 
 Mr. Gary received his preliminary education in 
 the grammar and high schools of Wheaton, 111. 
 (1873-85). Upon finishing high school he went to 
 Chicago College, Chicago, for two years-. 
 
 He began his business career in 1887 as a clerk 
 in the Auditor's office of the Santa Fe Ry. at Chi- 
 cago and was advanced from time to time until 
 1890, when he was made Depmt. Chief of the Joint 
 Freight Dept, resigning this in 1891 to accept a po- 
 sition as general bookkeeper for the Chicago & 
 Northern Pacific Ry., which he filled until he was 
 appointed Traveling Auditor for the company. He 
 then became Asst. General Auditor and when he 
 left the road in 1898 was Asst. Comptroller. 
 
 In 1898 he as-sociated with the Am. Steel & Wire 
 Co., which later became a subsidiary of the U. S. 
 Steel Corp. Mr. Gary was with the company during 
 its transformation period and in 1900 was assigned 
 as auditor of construction accounts for the Illinois 
 Steel Co. in the coal fields of Penn. In April, 1901, 
 he was transferred to New York as Asst. Auditor 
 for the U. S. Steel Corp. and remained there for 
 about four years, being named in 1905 as Auditor of 
 the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co. In 1907 he 
 was made Asst. Sec. of the Co. in addition to Audi- 
 tor, and in 1911 was elected Sec. Within a few 
 months, however, he decided to enter business for 
 hims-elf on the Pacific Coast and moved to Los An- 
 geles, July 4, 1911, and on Sept. 8, incorporated the 
 Associated Invest. Corp. and became its President. 
 He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and 
 the Los Angeles Realty Board. 
 
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 DR. JAMES W. WOOD 
 
 OOD, JAMES WATSON, Physician 
 and Surgeon, Long Beach, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Geneva, New 
 York, November 17, 1856. He mar- 
 ried May McDonald at Palestine, 
 Texas, October 21, 1884, and has 
 one son and one daughter. 
 
 Dr. Wood received his preliminary education in 
 the schools of his native town and took up the 
 study of medicine at Rush Medical College, of Chi- 
 cago. He was graduated in 1883 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine, and began his professional 
 career at Palestine, Texas. Remaining there for 
 about a year, he left, in 1884, for Junata, Neb., and 
 was engaged in private practice at that place until 
 1887, when he decided to go further West. 
 
 Locating at Long Beach, California, in the early 
 part of 1887, Dr. Wood has made his home there 
 ever since and has been one of the active forces in 
 the upbuilding of the city. Three years after his 
 arrival , there he was appointed Health Officer of 
 Long Beach and filled this position until 1898, for- 
 mulating during that period sanitary and health 
 regulations which have been in force ever since 
 and which have had the effect of making Long 
 Beach one of the most healthful and cleanly cities 
 in the United States. In 1898, following his resig- 
 nation from the post of Health Officer, Dr. Wood 
 was elected a member of the Long Beach City Coun- 
 cil and in this- capacity also was of great service to 
 the city, standing at all times for measures intended 
 to advance the city's interests. His term expired 
 in 1900, but he has since served as a member of the 
 Board of Trustees of Long Beach, his tenure of 
 this office covering the period from 1894 to 1906. 
 
 Dr. Wood has been a prolific writer on surgical 
 subjects for the medical press. He is a member of 
 the Los Angeles County Medical Association, South- 
 ern California Medical Society and the Medical So- 
 ciety of the State of California. 
 
 THOS. W. PRIOR 
 
 RIOR, THOMAS WALWORK, 
 Amusement Mgr., Venice, Cal., 
 was born, East Boston, Mass., Oct. 
 27, 1861. Son of William Matthew 
 and Hannah Frances (Walwork) 
 Prior. Married Annie Jane Pond, 
 Chicago, 111., July 17, 1883, and to them there was 
 born a son, Frank Matthew Prior. 
 
 The father of Mr. Prior is a noted portrait 
 painter, many of his works being on exhibition in 
 the Boston Museum of Art. 
 
 Mr. Prior was educated in the East Boston Gram- 
 mar School to 1873, after which he educated him- 
 self. -He took up art and was first newspaper artist 
 and illustrator west of N. Y. as artist on Chicago 
 Daily News late '70's. In 1880 went with Chicago 
 Times under Wilbur F. Storey to fall of '85. Then 
 Treas. Chicago Opera House when it opened, Sept., 
 '85. Became Bus. Mgr., 1886, remaining until 1891. 
 Then managed Digby Bell Opera Co. as owner until 
 1893. Mgr. Schiller Theater, Chicago, '93, and its 
 lessee, '94. 
 
 Engaged in flotation of Cotton Gin Co., Phila., 
 Boston, N. Y. and London, '96-7-8-9. 
 
 Manager, Ferris Wheel, Chicago, '95. Manager 
 York State Folks and Beauty Dr. Musical Comedy, 
 1900-05. Dir., Publicity, White City, Chicago, '06. 
 Same, Riverview Park, Chicago, '07. Dir. Amuse- 
 ments and laid out Forest Park, Chicago, '08. Built 
 the famous Ice Palace, Chicago, and operated it 
 until March, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Prior built "The Race Thru the Clouds," 
 the largest racing roller coaster in the world at 
 Venice, Cal. He operates this and other amuse- 
 ment enterprises on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Mr. Prior is a member of the Union League, Los 
 Angeles, and of the Elks. He was given gratuitous 
 membership in Chicago Lodge, No. 4, of the Elks 
 because of services to the Order. Was dimitted to 
 Santa Monica (Cal.) Lodge, Feb., 1912. 
 
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 Bakersfield, Call- 
 There were two 
 
 ORDON, FREDERIC VER- 
 NON, Oil Investments, Los 
 Angeles, California, is a na- 
 tive of Missouri, being born 
 in Montgomery City, on May 
 
 23, 1875. He is the son of B. F. Gordon and 
 
 Margaret A. Gordon. He was married to 
 
 Mary Smith Langdon at 
 
 fornia, February 20, 1902. 
 
 children, Ruth Langdon 
 
 and Margaret E. Gordon, 
 
 the latter deceased. 
 
 Mr. Gordon moved to 
 Los Angeles when he was 
 eight years of age. He 
 was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of that city, 
 starting on his business 
 career there. 
 
 He entered the employ 
 of the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad, in July, 1891, 
 beginning in the capacity 
 of Assistant Operator and 
 Ticket Agent, at River 
 Station, Los Angeles, and 
 continued as such for 
 over a year. In 1892 he 
 was advanced to Clerk of 
 the Freight Depot, at that 
 station. He was retained 
 in this position until 1898, 
 at the outbreak of the 
 war. 
 
 Mr. Gordon enlisted with the First Com- 
 pany, Volunteer Signal Corps in June, 
 1898, at Los Angeles. Scarcely a month had 
 passed from the date of his enlistment when 
 he was advanced to the position of Corporal, 
 July 1, 1898. In December, 1898, he was 
 given the rank of Sergeant. He was de- 
 tailed on several military expeditions into 
 the interior of the Philippine Islands 
 against the natives and took part in a num- 
 ber of engagements, among which were the 
 following: 
 
 'Manila, August 13, 1898; Laloma 
 Church, February 5 and 6, 1899; Caloo- 
 can, February 10, Tuluhan, March 25 ; Polo, 
 March 26, and Meyecanaghan on the same 
 
 F. V. GORDON 
 Spanish- American 
 
 date; Marloa on the date following; Bocave 
 and Guiguinto on March 29; Mololos, March 
 31 ; Calumpit on April 25 ; Santa Tomas, May 
 4, and San Fernando on the 5th of May, 
 1899. 
 
 Mr. Gordon was on duty under General 
 MacArthur during his Philippine campaign. 
 After the close of the war with the natives, 
 he was mustered out in July, 1899. He took 
 an active part in military 
 affairs for a brief time 
 following and was given 
 the rank of Sergeant in 
 December, 1898. 
 
 On returning to Cali- 
 fornia after the war, Mr. 
 Gordon spent a short per- 
 iod in Los Angeles, No- 
 vember, 1899, then went 
 to Bakersfield, California, 
 with the Santa Fe Rail- 
 road as a night operator. 
 He was advanced to 
 Cashier and was next 
 made Assistant Agent. 
 
 He remained with the 
 Santa Fe until 1902, 
 when he returned to Los 
 Angeles, and engaged in 
 the oil business. His first 
 work in that line was in 
 charge of a large organi- 
 
 zation operating in the west side oil fields of 
 Bakersfield until 1907, when he resigned to 
 enter the oil business for himself. 
 
 Mr. Gordon is one of the large oil land 
 owners of the state, being interested in much 
 of the choicest oil property of the Califor- 
 nia oil fields. 
 
 He is a Director and Assistant Secre- 
 tary of the Thirty-two Oil Co., holds the 
 same position with the Western Crude Oil 
 Co., is a Director and Secretary of the Hale- 
 McLeod Oil Co., of the Four Investment Co. 
 and holds Directorship in the Regal Oil Co. 
 
 Mr. Gordon is a member of the Union 
 League Club, of Los Angeles and San Fran- 
 cisco, of the Sierra Madre Club, Gamut Club, 
 of the Annandale Country Club and the 'Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 OUNG, WILLIAM FRANK- 
 LIN, Real Estate and Oil 
 Lands, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Alden 
 Iowa, March 27, 1867, the 
 son of Duane Young and Mary Ann (Chad- 
 wick) Young. He married Alma Marie 
 Pebbles, February 5, 1896, at Clear Lake, 
 Iowa. There are three children, Ruth Es- 
 telle, Blanche Alma and 
 William F. Young, Jr. 
 
 He attended school at 
 Alden, Iowa, until he 
 graduated from the high 
 school. He then entered 
 Iowa State College at 
 Ames, Iowa. He finished 
 his book schooling in the 
 year 1883. 
 
 He became a mer- 
 chant at Clarion, Iowa 
 and successfully conduct- 
 ed stores until the year 
 1900, when he sold out 
 and went to Oklahoma 
 City, then, with its rapid 
 growth, appearing to of- 
 fer unusual opportuni- 
 ties. 
 
 He went into the real 
 estate, oil, farm loan and 
 general banking business. 
 He helped organize the 
 Security National Bank of Oklahoma City 
 in 1906 and acted as its vice president. 
 He remained with the bank two years, 
 during which time it became firmly estab- 
 lished. 
 
 Mr. Young organized the Young-Carpen- 
 ter Investment Company, in the year 1905. 
 and became its president. The firm ad- 
 vanced considerable sums on farm loans. He 
 operated the company until 1909, retaining 
 the presidency even after his removal to Los 
 Angeles in 1907. He had money invested in 
 the extensive oil fields of Oklahoma and was 
 a director and officer in a number of the best 
 known companies operating in those fields. 
 He was at all times interested in the upbuild- 
 ing of the city wherein he had located, and 
 established a reputation for honesty and bus- 
 iness ability to such a degree that he was ap- 
 pointed to the Oklahoma City office of 
 Receiver of Public Moneys for the United 
 
 States Government in 1902. He held the 
 office until the work was completed, in 1905. 
 and the office discontinued. 
 
 Immediately on his arrival in Los An- 
 geles, in 1907, he organized the Young In- 
 vestment Company, of which he is the presi- 
 dent and principal stockholder. The com- 
 pany does a general investment business in 
 the State of California, particularly in Los 
 Angeles, and it is at pres- 
 ent engaged in the con- 
 struction of a splendid 
 reinforced concrete fire- 
 proof apartment house at 
 the corner of Seventeenth 
 street and -Grand avenue 
 in Los Angeles. 
 
 He is also having 
 built a five-story block in 
 Oklahoma City. 
 
 He took part in the 
 formation of the Well- 
 man Oil Company, a suc- 
 cessful operating com- 
 pany of California. He 
 was the first vice presi- 
 dent and treasurer. The 
 concern owns wells in 
 several of the oil districts 
 of California. 
 
 In 1908 he became in- 
 terested in lands, and par- 
 ticipated in the organiza- 
 tion of the California 
 City Land Company. 
 with headquarters in Los Angeles. These 
 lands are largely located in the San Joaquin 
 Valley, that great interior section of the State 
 which at the present time is being developed 
 so rapidly, and at one time the holdings of 
 the company comprised an area of fifteen 
 thousand acres. 
 
 Except for the position which he held as 
 Receiver of Public Moneys in Oklahoma 
 City, Mr. Young has taken little part in pub- 
 lic life. He has never sought office, nor has 
 he taken an active interest in political affairs. 
 He is, however, vitally interested in the up- 
 building of the great country in which he has 
 made his home and is engaged in develop- 
 ment work in various parts of California. 
 
 He is a member of the California Club 
 and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. 
 He belongs to the Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks and the A. F. & A. M. 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 F. YOUNG 
 
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 EAVITT, ERNEST LA VERNE, 
 Real Estate Broker, Los Angeles, 
 California, was born in Chicago, 
 Illinois, September 21, 1884, the 
 son of Henry Steele Clark Leavitt 
 and Emma F. (Marlette) Leavitt. 
 He married Opal Leone Park at Santa Monica, 
 California, April 23, 1905, and to them there have 
 been born two children, Geraldine Leone and Ron- 
 ald La Verne Leavitt. 
 
 Mr. Leavitt, who is one of the picturesque suc- 
 cesses among the younger business men of South- 
 ern California, has spent a large part of his life 
 in that section, his family having moved from Chi- 
 cago when he was a boy. He attended the public 
 schools of Los Angeles and later was graduated 
 from the High School of Santa Monica, the beauti- 
 ful seashore suburb of Los Angeles. 
 
 The first position held by him after he com- 
 pleted his studies was that of stenographer in the 
 Santa Monica law office of George H. Hutton, later 
 Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles Coun- 
 ty. In 1900, Mr. Leavitt gave up his position with 
 Judge Hutton and entered the employ of the Title 
 Insurance and Trust Company, in the Escrow De- 
 partment. He remained in that capacity for about 
 five years, resigning in 1905 to take over the 
 Escrow Department of the Union Trust and Title 
 Company, upon the organization of that corpora- 
 tion. He directed this department for about a 
 year, then the company sold out to the Title Guar- 
 antee and Trust Company, he being retained to 
 close out the business for them. It was about this 
 time that Mr. Leavitt, who had come to be known 
 as one of the experts in the escrow business in 
 Los Angeles, was called upon by the Los Angeles 
 Abstract Company to close out and straighten up 
 the business of one of its escrow departments 
 which had been sadly neglected during the illness 
 of its clerk. This duty consumed about six months. 
 In 1907, Mr. Leavitt was chosen Auditor and 
 Escrow Manager for the Dollar Savings Bank of 
 Los Angeles and during his connection with that 
 institution versed himself in general banking. He 
 remained with this bank until January, 1911, when 
 he was forced to resign his position on account of 
 ill health. 
 
 This breakdown terminated, for the time being, 
 Mr. Leavitt's career in the banking business, and 
 for several months he was inactive, spending the 
 time solely in the effort to regain his strength. 
 
 For some years real estate in Los Angeles and 
 vicinity has experienced tremendous activity, the 
 city having been greatly enlarged and many 
 suburbs opened up to settlement because of the 
 steadily growing population. Hundreds of thou- 
 sands of new residents were added to the city with- 
 in a few years, and the number of homes built was 
 so great as to place Los Angeles among the leading 
 municipalities of the world in the matter of indi- 
 vidual home-owners. 
 
 For this reason, the real estate field offers un- 
 usual promise to a young man and Mr. Leavitt, 
 upon recovering his health, embarked in the real 
 estate business with his father, one of the veteran 
 realty operators of Southern California; and in 
 this connection the younger man laid the founda- 
 tion for one of the substantially successful careers 
 in the business world of Los Angeles. 
 
 His faculty for quick mastery of knowledge had 
 been demonstrated earlier in his life, as was 
 shown by his selection as escrow man when he 
 was less than seventeen years of age and his sub- 
 sequent promotions in the banking business, when 
 he had hardly passed his majority. 
 
 Leaving his father, Mr. Leavitt obtained the 
 backing of W. H. Clune, a leading capitalist and 
 amusement magnate of Southern California, ana 
 with him, organized the Leavitt Realty and Invest- 
 ment Company. This company was incorporated 
 in January, 1912, with Mr. Leavitt as Vice Presi- 
 dent and Secretary. He was placed in virtual 
 charge of the business and began at once a cam- 
 paign of operation that has brought him to the 
 attention of the realty men of the city, owing to 
 the number and importance of his deals. 
 
 At first Mr. Leavitt confined his attention to busi- 
 ness property within the city of Los Angeles, his 
 first large deal being for a piece of ground on 
 Broadway, in the center of the business district, 
 involving, it is stated, $400,000. He followed this 
 shortly afterwards with another transaction, stated 
 to involve $95,000, and in quick succession con- 
 summated others, at figures ranging from $50,000 
 to $150,000. 
 
 Mr. Leavitt operated so rapidly that before he 
 had been in the field six months he is supposed 
 to have handled more than a million dollars' worth 
 of real estate and was reckoned with the enter- 
 prising business men of the city. Starting as he 
 did, with little capital of his own save his natural 
 business talents, Mr. Leavitt, in less than seven 
 months, became generally considered one of the 
 successful real estate men of Southern California, 
 where real estate has been the sensational com- 
 modity in recent years. 
 
 Owing to the large number of other interests 
 which demanded his attention, Mr. Leavitt's friend 
 and partner, Mr. Clune, on August 1, 1912, decided 
 to withdraw from the company, and Mr. Leavitt 
 purchased his interest, thus becoming practically 
 the sole owner of the business. 
 
 In addition to the deals already quoted, Mr. 
 Leavitt has handled numerous others, including 
 a large amount of property at Long Beach and 
 other seaside cities adjacent to Los Angeles. 
 
 Mr. Leavitt, despite his youth and the success 
 attending his operations, is possessed of coolness 
 and foresight, and is making extensive plans for 
 the future of his company. He finds his recreation 
 chiefly in motoring with his family through the 
 beautiful country of Southern California. 
 
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 AYNES, LLOYD C, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, California, was 
 born in Canaseraga, Alle- 
 ghany County, New York, 
 May 20, 1862. the son of 
 Henry D. Haynes and Helen M. (Whitney) 
 Haynes. He married Dora L. Mayer at 
 Clean, New York, November 19, 1890, and 
 they are the parents of one child, H. Lewis 
 
 Haynes. 
 
 Mr. Haynes attended 
 the public schools of his 
 native town until he was 
 about fifteen years of age, 
 and in 1877 left his books 
 to enter the business 
 world. He first started 
 in a merchandise broker- 
 age business, covering 
 every section of New 
 York State. This he con- 
 ducted with profit until 
 1881, when, at the age of 
 nineteen years, he deter- 
 mined to cast his fortunes 
 with the men in the 
 Pennsylvania oil fields. 
 From that time until the 
 present his life has been 
 one of unceasing activ- 
 ity. 
 
 He located at Brad- 
 ford, Pennsylvania, and 
 there for four years was in the thick of the 
 oil business. He put down numerous wells 
 and also engaged in speculation on the side. 
 
 He reaped a small fortune out of this 
 work, and in 1885 determined to quit the oil 
 business for other lines. 
 
 After closing his oil and land deals, Mr. 
 Haynes determined to go into merchant 
 tailoring on a large scale, and in partnership 
 with F. R. Ackerman, of Clean, New York, 
 he organized a chain of stores in New York 
 State, Pennsylvania and Ohio. 
 
 In 1891 he bought out his partner's inter- 
 est and for the next seven years conducted 
 the business by himself. 
 
 In February, 1898, Mr. Haynes joined 
 the rush to the Alaskan gold fields and lo- 
 cated at Sunrise City. He worked a claim 
 there for about nine months and then moved 
 to Pass Creek, where he mined for one year, 
 
 LLOYD C. HAYNES 
 
 with a gratifying degree of success. At 
 the end of twelve months on Pass 
 Creek Mr. Haynes left the North and re- 
 turned to New York City. He retained his 
 Alaskan holdings for another year, and then 
 disposed of them in order to engage in the 
 bond business in New York. 
 
 He established a branch office in Los 
 Angeles in 1906, and in 1911 decided to make 
 his home in that city. 
 When he first went to 
 Los Angeles in 1906, and 
 established offices, he di- 
 vided his time between 
 there and New York, 
 and at the same time 
 he held several bank- 
 ing offices in South- 
 ern California. When he 
 settled there permanent- 
 ly, however, he found 
 that his private interests 
 did not permit of him 
 giving much time to 
 banking, so he resigned 
 his offices, and now de- 
 votes his time entirely to 
 his own enterprises. 
 
 Mr. Haynes is a large 
 stockholder in the Beav- 
 er Gold Dredging Com- 
 pany, located in Placer 
 County, California. 
 About a year ago, because of his financial 
 ability and his heavy interests in the com- 
 pany, he was elected treasurer of it and still 
 holds that office. 
 
 Another enterprise in which Mr. Haynes 
 is an important factor is the Modoc County 
 Irrigation Co. This concern has exten- 
 sive land holdings in Modoc County, and Mr. 
 Haynes is one of the leading stockholders. 
 This, like his other businesses, takes up a 
 great deal of his time. 
 
 Mr. Haynes has reached that point in 
 life where he feels that he has had his share 
 of activity and he is now about to retire. He 
 is gradually arranging his affairs so that he 
 may retire to the enjoyment of life and the 
 fruits of his many years of labor. 
 
 He is a member of the Sierra Madre Club 
 and the McAleer Gun Club, both Los An- 
 geles organizations. 
 
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 RIMES, CHARLES, Mining, 
 Pasadena, California, is a 
 native of the State of Mary- 
 land, where he was born on 
 September 20, 1859. His 
 father was Charles H. Grimes and his mother 
 Sarah A. (Hobbs) Grimes. He married 
 Florence E. Black, at Pasadena, October 9, 
 1889. They are the parents of two chil- 
 dren, Zillah and Gladys 
 Grimes. 
 
 Mr. Grimes was not 
 well favored in the mat- 
 ter of education in his 
 youth, his studies being 
 confined to the country 
 schools of his native 
 State, and consequently 
 his success in life is due 
 to his own ability. He 
 spent his early days in 
 working on a farm in the 
 State of Maryland, but 
 when he was a young 
 man he left the farm and 
 went to work on a rail- 
 road. 
 
 He continued in the 
 railroad business for sev- 
 eral years, but in Octo- 
 ber, 1885, was attracted 
 by the stories of wonder- 
 ful opportunity to be 
 found in California. This 
 was the boom time of 
 the Golden State and Mr. 
 Grimes was in the great 
 
 CHARLES 
 
 army of fortune hunters who went there at 
 that period. He arrived in Pasadena, and 
 was so struck with the beauties of the place 
 that he decided to make that his future 
 home. 
 
 The first few years after his arrival Mr. 
 Grimes was engaged in various capacities, 
 but being a man of progressive ideas he kept 
 his eyes open for a chance to go into busi- 
 ness for himself. 
 
 Finally, in February, 1892, he embarked 
 in the tobacco business at Pasadena, and 
 about four years later he became proprietor 
 of a restaurant, which he conducted until 
 1910. 
 
 California is a place where opportunities 
 for investment are numerous and Mr. Grimes 
 has interests in many enterprises. But it 
 was not until about three years ago that he 
 really became a factor in the mining field, 
 at that time renouncing practically all other 
 
 business except that of mining. He assisted 
 in the organization of the Tom Reed Gold 
 Mines Company, and was elected president 
 of it, a position he has held down to the 
 present day. After he had served as presi- 
 dent for a year the office of treasurer was 
 added to his duties, and he is now occupy- 
 ing both. The Tom Reed property is lo- 
 cated in Mojave County, Arizona, near the 
 town of Kingman, and is 
 one of the best gold min- 
 ing properties in the 
 United States today. In 
 the three years it has 
 been in existence a tre- 
 mendous amount of ore 
 has 'been mined, and it 
 gives promise of being 
 one of the most produc- 
 tive mines in the 
 country. 
 
 In addition to his in- 
 terests in the Tom Reed 
 Mine, Mr. Grimes is a 
 stockholder in mining en- 
 terprises in other parts of 
 Arizona and in northern 
 California. In the poli- 
 cies of each of these his 
 counsel plays an im- 
 portant part and he has 
 shown keen judgment in 
 the management of the 
 Tom Reed property. 
 
 Another business 
 
 which claims part of Mr. 
 . , . f ,, A 
 Grimes time is the Aus- 
 tin Biscuit Company, of Pasadena, a growing 
 and prosperous concern in which he is one 
 of the principal stockholders and a member 
 of the board of directors. 
 
 Mr. Grimes is not a clubman, but he is 
 prominent in lodge circles in Southern Cali- 
 fornia and has been the recipient of honors 
 from his various fraternal orders. He is a 
 life member of Pasadena Lodge, No. 272, A. 
 F. & A. M., also of the Council Chapter, 
 Royal Arch and Pasadena Commandery, 
 Knights Templar. He belongs to Pasadena 
 Consistory. He is a thirty-second degree 
 member of the Pasadena Consistory, and also 
 belongs to the Maccabees, W. O. W., Elks 
 and the Knights of Pythias. He is a man of 
 more than ordinary civic pride and has taken 
 an active part in various improvements 
 which have tended to make Pasadena almost 
 a model city of beautiful homes and environ- 
 ment. 
 
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 Manufacturer, San Francisco, 
 California, was born in that 
 city, April 17, 1874, the son 
 of George E. Dow and Cora 
 Jane (Leach) Dow. He is of Scotch descent 
 on both sides of the house, his paternal for- 
 bears settling in Massachusetts and his moth- 
 er's family choosing Maine as a residence. 
 He married Lillian J. Wilson in San Fran- 
 cisco, February 22, 1905, and to them were 
 born two boys, Lloyd Wilson and Herbert 
 Edwin Dow. 
 
 Mr. Dow's career is an example of a man 
 who was fitted for a particular work, and 
 who then proceeded to prove that fitness. 
 When a mere boy his father planned that he 
 should take hold of a great business, and he 
 had him educated accordingly. He was a 
 strict believer in discipline, and sent him to 
 the school where stern routine ruled. Mathe- 
 matics and the law he thought other essen- 
 tials of a business man's education, and in 
 these he had the boy carefully trained. 
 
 Mr. Dow received his early education in 
 the public schools of San Francisco, wherein 
 he was a pupil from 1881 to 1890, attending 
 the first six years at the Potrero School and 
 the last three at the Durant Grammar. He 
 then studied at the Belmont Military School 
 until 1892, leaving there at that time to take 
 a special course in mathematics at the Ta- 
 malpais Military Academy. From this in- 
 stitution he entered the Hastings College of 
 Law in 1893, and he remained there for one 
 year in order to better equip himself for the 
 business career he had planned. His objec- 
 tive point was clearly defined and he was 
 making for it as intelligently as he could. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Dow entered the Dow Steam 
 Pump Works as an apprentice. The first six 
 months he spent in the office to learn the de- 
 tails thereof, and then until 1899 worked in 
 the shops to master the mechanical part of 
 the business. When the company incorpo- 
 rated as the George E. Dow Pumping Engine 
 Company he became the first vice president 
 and began to feel that he was a necessary 
 part of the concern, in which that business 
 and family pride could have full swing. With 
 this stimulus, plus his natural ambition, it is 
 not surprising that he got results. 
 
 All the sales were under his direction, and 
 shortly before the fire the whole business 
 passed into his management. Since then the 
 trade has so expanded that he controls the 
 largest works of the kind west of Chicago, 
 dealing in pumping and hydraulic machinery 
 for mines, oil companies, irrigation plants, 
 
 etc. His market extends from San Diego to 
 Vancouver, and includes Honolulu, Manila, 
 Australia and the Orient. He has also reached 
 out for the Eastern markets, and during the 
 last three years has sent eleven carloads of 
 pumps to that part of the continent. 
 
 He is one of those manufacturers who is 
 not only talking about the expansion of 
 American business on the Pacific, but is actu- 
 ally bringing it to pass. In spite of all the 
 handicaps under which American manufac- 
 turers labor when competing against Europe 
 in the export trade, he is making goods for 
 Asia and the other great lands that border on 
 the Pacific waters. 
 
 Besides this he has equipped the oil tank- 
 ers of the Associated Oil Company and simi- 
 larly fitted the Beaver and the Bear, which 
 were brought to this Coast by the Pacific 
 Mail Company. In 1907 he closed a deal for 
 the largest pumping contract that was ever 
 let in the world and which called for a pipe 
 line for the Southern Pacific Company ex- 
 tending from Bakersfield to Port Costa, at 
 a cost of more than a million and a half dol- 
 lars. 
 
 Located as he is on the Pacific Coast, 
 where irrigation and oil development are 
 carried on on a mammoth scale, his firm has 
 had remarkable opportunities, of which he 
 has taken full advantage. The annual output 
 rivals that of America's greatest firms. 
 
 Mr. Dow is one of those men who seem to 
 fit into his business as naturally as a rivet in 
 the hole made for it. It looks as if all he 
 had to do was to step into his father's shoes 
 and then let that family business pride work 
 its will. But fitness for the job has been well 
 backed by not only the ability to hold it, but 
 also by the ambition to improve, if possible, 
 on the pattern. His whole life is a story of 
 a fixed purpose and of a grim determination 
 to prepare himself for its fulfillment. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. 
 Dow has concentrated on his inherited busi- 
 ness and has kept himself in close touch with 
 the development of similar industries 
 throughout the country. But beyond this he 
 manages to give a considerable part of his 
 time to the George E. Dow Estate Company, 
 of which he is the president. All the property 
 owned by the family has been consolidated 
 and the expansion of its holdings is one of the 
 exacting duties of the management. 
 
 Mr. Dow is also a director of the Olympic 
 Salt Water Company, a member of the San 
 Francisco Commercial Club, of the Crystal 
 Gun Club of Newark, California, and a 
 Mason. He is fond of outdoor sports. 
 
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 HOMPSON, BEACH, Geol- 
 ogist and Engineer, San Fran- 
 cisco, was born in Brooklyn, 
 New York, December 5, 1865, 
 the son of Samuel and 
 Emma Root (Hubbard) Thompson. His 
 father, who was known in his day as "Rail- 
 road Thompson," built the first railroad 
 from New Orleans to Mobile, and also the 
 first road from Chicago to 
 Milwaukee. He was a 
 warm personal friend of 
 Abraham Lincoln, served 
 through the Civil War. 
 and was master of trans- 
 portation at the battle of 
 Pittsburg Landing. He 
 was killed in 1867 while 
 laying out the Chicago, 
 Burlington and Quincy 
 Railroad. -Beach Thomp- 
 son came to California in 
 November, 1889, and on 
 February 26, 1896, was 
 married in Berkeley to 
 Miss Augusta Veeder. Of 
 this marriage one child 
 was born, Barbara Beach 
 Thompson. 
 
 He worked his way 
 through the State Nor-t 
 mal School, Oshkosh, 
 Wisconsin, in the years 
 '81 -'84. From 1886 to 1889 
 he was a student at the 
 University of Michigan, 
 from which he was grad- 
 uated with the degree of B. S. and a special 
 diploma in geology. Coming to California 
 in '89 he entered Stanford University, took 
 an A. M. therefrom in 1892, and continued 
 there for another year on his doctor's degree, 
 as an instructor. 
 
 Shortly after severing his connection with 
 Stanford he entered the mining field, in the 
 Fall of '94, in Calaveras County. There he 
 became interested in water rights and in the 
 development of electric power. After a 
 thorough investigation, perceiving the possi- 
 bilities of the Stanislaus River for this pur- 
 pose, he organized the Stanislaus Electric 
 Power Company, drew up the engineering 
 plans, took options on the necessary proper- 
 ties, and raised $6,500,000 in New York city. 
 Subsequently through the financial panic, the 
 failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, 
 which had $1,500,000 on deposit of the com- 
 pany's funds, and the California disaster of 
 
 BEACH THOMPSON 
 
 1906, he lost control of the company, which 
 was reorganized as the Sierra and San Fran- 
 cisco Power Company. 
 
 Mr. Thompson was the first to suggest the 
 use of steel towers for the transmission of 
 electric power. Like many another advanced 
 thinker whose ideas seemed chimerical but 
 were later found to be most practical, he was 
 laughed at at first, especially in New York. 
 The steel towers are now 
 a complete success, sup- 
 porting wires capable of 
 transmitting at 104,000 
 volts pressure. 
 
 Among Beach Thomp- 
 son's valuable contribu- 
 tion, both to the world of 
 science and to that of 
 practical affairs, is the 
 huge Relief dam in Tuol- 
 umne County. This is 140 
 feet high and 560 feet 
 wide, built with a rein- 
 forced concrete face on a 
 rock fill. He also selected 
 the site, and bought the 
 ground in Kennedy's 
 Meadows, for the Sierra 
 and San Francisco Pow- 
 er Company. 
 
 He is now especially 
 interested in wireless te- 
 legraphy, and has the 
 rights for the United 
 States, as well as the ma- 
 rine rights, for the Paul- 
 son Wireless, which is 
 
 now operating between Los Angeles, San 
 Diego, Sacramento, Stockton, Cal. ; Phoenix, 
 Ariz. ; El Paso, and Fort Worth, Tex., and in 
 Kansas City, Mo., and Portland and Medford, 
 Ore. Mr. Thompson was a delegate to the 
 National Convention that nominated Mr. 
 Taft for the Presidency. He was educated 
 for the profession of teaching, but was 
 deflected from his course by politics. He 
 has held the following offices in im- 
 portant companies : Vice Pres. and Direc- 
 tor Sierra & S. F. Power Co., Pres. and Di- 
 rector Metropolitan Light & Power Co., Pres. 
 and Director Tuolumne Water Power Co., 
 Pres. Stanislaus Elec. Power Co., and Pres. 
 San Domingo Mining Co., all of which prop- 
 erties have been purchased by the United 
 Rys. Inv. Co. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Geographical Society, and his clubs are 
 the Pacific-Union, University, Bohemian and 
 the Menlo Country. 
 
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 UINN, JOHN ARCHIBALD, Invest- 
 ments, Los Angeles, California, 
 was born in Toronto, Canada, the 
 son of Thomas Quinn and Cecilia 
 (Fraser) Quinn. He married Lena 
 A. Wooten at Toronto, Canada, the 
 
 1904, and to them there have been born two chil- 
 
 dren, Eugene Howard and Dorothy Cecilia Quinn. 
 Mr. Quinn is descended of a long line of Canadians 
 who have been prominent in the politics and public 
 affairs of the Dominion. His uncle, the Hon. C. 
 F. Fraser, was a member of the Canadian Parlia- 
 ment, and his father was for many years Treasurer 
 of the Central Prison of Canada, a position of im- 
 portance and trust under the Canadian form of 
 government. 
 
 Mr. Quinn received the early part of his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of his native city and 
 completed his studies at De La Salle Institute of 
 Toronto, graduating in the class of 1894. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of his school career Mr. 
 Quinn entered the employ of A. A. Allen & Com- 
 pany, a wholesale hat firm in Toronto, and re- 
 mained with them for four years, during which 
 time he learned the business. In 1898 he left the 
 firm and took a position with a larger house, the 
 Gilleshie-Ansley Company, with whom he was asso- 
 ciated for a year. 
 
 Believing that New York City offered him a bet- 
 ter opportunity for business advancement, Mr. 
 Quinn left his native Canada in 1899 and went 
 there, where for two years he was engaged with 
 a large wholesale hat company. About this time 
 he decided to open an establishment of his own, 
 Accordingly, he returned to Toronto and engaged 
 in the hat and furnishing business. His first store 
 proving a success, he established others, and in 
 time had three stores in operation. He conducted 
 this business for about five years, but in 1906, when 
 he received a splendid offer from the Hackett- 
 Carrhart Company of New York, he sold out his 
 Canadian interests and again went to New York. 
 He became manager of the company, one of the 
 large clothing manufacturing concerns of the coun- 
 try, and during the time he held the office made a 
 record for economical handling of its affairs. 
 
 His work as manager of the Hackett-Carrhart 
 Company attracted the attention of other large 
 concerns and at the end of the year he received 
 an offer to become buyer for the company stores 
 of the great Phelps-Dodge Mining Company, the 
 Copper Queen. This company, one of the largest 
 copper producing corporations in the world, op- 
 erates stores in various parts of the West, for 
 which millions of dollars' worth of stock is pur- 
 chased in New York. Two of these stores, one 
 at Douglas, Arizona, the other at Bisbee, Arizona, 
 are mammoth institutions, which compare favor- 
 ably with the large department stores in the great 
 cities of the United States. Their stock runs into 
 millions and includes everything from mining ma- 
 chinery to the latest creations in Paris gowns and 
 millinery. 
 
 As buyer for this great institution, Mr. Quinn, 
 then only twenty-seven years of age, made his head- 
 quarters in Douglas, Arizona, and while there he 
 became interested in the moving picture business, 
 which he foresaw as one of the future great amuse- 
 ment lines of the United States. For many years 
 moving pictures were not taken seriously by the 
 greater part of the public, being considered catch- 
 penny amusement devices. In the process of evo- 
 
 lution, however, they grew in importance and in- 
 terest and today form one of the largest fields of 
 investment in the United States. By the building 
 of safe theaters, choosing high-class subjects for 
 depiction and employing talented actors, the busi- 
 ness has been placed upon a high plane and com- 
 pares, so far as legitimacy of its attractions go, 
 with the older and better known branch of amuse- 
 ment houses. 
 
 Mr. Quinn was one of the men who realized that 
 this was a line of activity bound to increase in 
 importance and educational value, as well as being 
 a profitable field for investment, so in 1907 he 
 backed his brother in a motion picture theater in 
 Douglas. This proved a great success and Mr. 
 Quinn established theaters in several other cities 
 of Arizona, all of which were splendid successes. 
 In 1909 his theatrical interests had become so 
 great that Mr. Quinn was compelled to devote his 
 entire time to them, so resigned his position with 
 the Phelps-Dodge Company and went into the the- 
 atrical business exclusively. At the end of a year 
 he disposed of a part of his Arizona interests and 
 moved to Los Angeles, where he began by leasing 
 a small house in the business section of the city 
 known as the "Ideal Theater." Close upon this 
 he bought the Bijou and Banner theaters, in part- 
 nership with G. H. McLain, but later they divided 
 their interests, Mr. Quinu disposing of the Bijou 
 and retaining exclusive control of the Banner The- 
 ater. Before the end of the year 1910 Mr. Quinn 
 added to his holdings the Garrick Theater, one of 
 the largest and most beautiful in the city. 
 
 For two years Mr. Quinn made no other im- 
 portant investments, but in 1912 he started ne- 
 gotiations for a long lease on Tally's Theater and 
 building, planning to raise the height of the build- 
 ing to thirteen stories, in keeping with other sky- 
 scraper structures in the city. He finally aban- 
 doned this plan, however, and began negotiations 
 for a more centrally located site and, if successful 
 in securing this, will carry his theater-office build- 
 ing project to completion on this property. The 
 deal will involve a vast amount of money, all told, 
 and the building thus completed would be one of 
 the most imposing in Los Angeles and would have 
 the distinction of being the first motion picture 
 theater in the world to provide an office building 
 structure as part of the building improvements of a 
 city. 
 
 In addition to the above plans, Mr. Quinn also 
 obtained a long lease on another property opposite 
 the site of the New Hotel Rosslyn, a thirteen-story 
 structure, upon which he plans to build one of the 
 finest theaters on the Pacific Coast, with seats for 
 nine hundred spectators. Also, he has another 
 property in San Diego, California, on which he pro- 
 poses building a theater in the near future. 
 
 It is Mr. Quinn's plan to build a chain of the- 
 ater-office buildings in different cities of the Pa- 
 cific Coast. He will make his headquarters in Los 
 Angeles, but his field of operations, including the 
 work of elevating the motion picture business to a 
 higher plane, will extend to all parts of the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 Although he still is a young man, Mr. Quinn 
 has been one of the active and successful men of 
 the Southwest. He is affiliated with the Los An- 
 geles Chamber of Commerce. He makes his home 
 at Ocean Park, one of the seaside resorts adjacent 
 to Los Angeles. 
 
 His club is the Knickerbocker of Los Angeles. 
 
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 POLLOCK, WIL- 
 LIAM SMITH, Banking, 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 was born September 12, 
 1864, at Santa Clara, 
 California, the son of 
 Andrew McClure Pol- 
 lock and of Mary Chris- 
 tina (Meyers) Pollock. 
 He married Mary 
 Louise Saupe, October 
 12, 1886, at Los An- 
 geles. 
 
 Mr. Pollock was ed- 
 ucated at the public 
 schools of Santa Clara 
 until eight years old, 
 and then at the Santa 
 Clara College. 
 
 He was freight 
 handler at Santa Clara for the old narrow gauge 
 line, the South Pacific Coast. He was agent for 
 one year of the "Examiner," then a San Francisco 
 evening paper, and telegraph operator and ticket 
 agent for the Central Pacific Railway. 
 
 From 1883 to 1906 he was with the Southern 
 Pacific Company as telegraph operator, ticket agent 
 and freight agent at various places. 
 
 He was sent to Los Angeles in 1885 and was 
 the agent for the company in the city until 1906. 
 This was his most important railway position. 
 
 Then he was manager of the Auto Despatch Com- 
 pany of that city until he accepted a position with 
 the Security Bank of Los Angeles, remaining with 
 them three years, when his present position of 
 cashier of the International and Exchange Bank 
 was offered and accepted. 
 
 BOLIN, P. J., Con- 
 tractor and Builder, 
 Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Brock- 
 ville, Ontario, Canada, 
 January 11, 1858, the 
 son of John Bolin and 
 Katherine (Dean) Bo- 
 lin. He married Anna 
 Rudesill at Santa Ana, 
 Cal., in 1886. Three 
 children were born 
 Mabel, in 1890, and 
 Lela and Leland, twins, 
 in 1893. 
 
 He attended the pub- 
 lic schools of Ontario, 
 then started to learn 
 the building trade, at 
 which he became an 
 expert before he was twenty-one, when he 
 went to Colorado. There he was in the con- 
 tracting business nearly two years. Then the lure 
 of the "Golden West" enticed him to California, 
 where he finally located in Los Angeles in 1881. 
 He is now one of the leading contractors of that 
 city. Numerous imposing homes and public build- 
 ings have been reared under his direction. 
 
 Aside from his contracting business, he has 
 heavy oil land investments. In 1910 he organized 
 the Ramona Home Oil Company, of which he is 
 active manager. 
 
 He is conspicuous in the civic betterment of 
 Los Angeles and in lodge circles; member Cham- 
 ber of Commerce; Vice Pres. Builders' Exchange; 
 member Elks, Knights of Columbus and Ancient 
 Order of Hibernians. 
 
 MILLSPAUGH, 
 JESSE FONDA, Presi- 
 dent of the State Nor- 
 mal School, Los An- 
 geles, California, was 
 born June, 1855, at Bat- 
 tle Creek, Michigan, 
 son of Jacob and Mary 
 Ann (Decker) Mills- 
 paugh. He married 
 Mary Clark Parsons 
 August, 1886, at Salt 
 Lake City. There are 
 two children, Winne- 
 fred and Helen. 
 
 He has his B. A. and 
 M. A. from the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan. Was 
 for two years principal 
 of the Frankfort (In- 
 diana) High School. Studied medicine, and in 1883 
 obtained his M. D. from the University of Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 Was principal of the Salt Lake Collegiate Insti- 
 tute and later its superintendent. In 1890 he was 
 appointed superintendent of schools of Salt Lake 
 City, whose public school system he, as its first 
 superintendent, organized and developed. In 1899 
 he accepted the presidency of the Winona (Minne- 
 sota) State Normal School, and in 1904, that of the 
 California State Normal School, at Los Angeles. 
 
 He is a member of the University Club, the 
 Delta Upsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa, of the State 
 Board of Education, the National Council of Edu- 
 cation and the National Educational Association, 
 and is the author of numerous papers and addresses 
 on educational subjects. 
 
 ENGSTRUM, PAUL, 
 Superintendent C o n - 
 struction, F. O. Eng- 
 strum Company, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was 
 born at San Diego, 
 Cal., November 24, 
 1886. He is the son of 
 F. O. Engstrum and 
 Elizabeth Caroline 
 Engstrum. He re- 
 ceived his elementary 
 education at the West- 
 ern Military Academy 
 of Illinois, graduating 
 from there in 1903. He 
 then began technical 
 study under private tu- 
 tors, with particular 
 attention to engineer- 
 ing, and in 1907 was a qualified engineer of con- 
 struction. 
 
 On leaving his studies he returned to Los An- 
 geles, where he went to work with his father, one 
 of the leading contractors and construction men in 
 that city. He served in various capacities for a 
 time and later was made superintendent of con- 
 struction for the company, being in charge of all 
 the big work of that concern. He is also superin- 
 tendent of the Concrete Appliance Company, a sub- 
 sidiary of the Engstrum Company. As a structural 
 engineer, Mr. Engstrum has assisted in putting up 
 numerous buildings in Los Angeles, among them 
 the Los Angeles County Hospital, Exposition Build- 
 ing at Exposition Park, Los Angeles; Long Beach, 
 Cal., Edison Plant, and others. He is a member of 
 the Union League Club of Los Angeles. 
 
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 FOSHAY, DR. JAMES 
 A., Supreme President, 
 The Fraternal Brother- 
 hood, Los Angeles, Cal., 
 was born at Cold 
 Springs, N. Y., Nov. 25, 
 1856, the son of An- 
 drew Jackson Foshay 
 and Emelin (Griffin) 
 Foshay. He married 
 Phoebe Powell Miller 
 at Carmel, N. Y., March 
 18, 1885. 
 
 Received early edu- 
 cation N. Y. State; 
 grad. State Normal 
 School, Albany, N. Y. 
 (1889). Received de- 
 gree, A. M. from Uni- 
 versity of So. Cal. and 
 degree, Ph. D. from State Normal College, Albany, 
 N. Y. Taught in public schools, Putnam Co., N. Y. 
 (1879-81), then elected School Comsnr. of the Co., 
 serving to 1887; 1884-86 he was Sec. of the N. Y. 
 Association of School Comsnrs. and Supts. In 1887 
 moved to Cal. and identified with educational work. 
 Was member, School Examining Board, Los An- 
 geles County, 1889-95. In 1893, elected Deputy Su- 
 perintendent of Los Angeles City Schools and 1895 
 made Superintendent. 
 
 When Fraternal Brotherhood was organized in 
 1896, Dr. Foshay was a charter member. The first 
 certificate issued by the Order was issued to him. 
 From 1896 he was closely connected with the Soci- 
 ety as Past Pres. most of time. In Jan., 1906, was 
 elected Supreme President of the Fraternal Broth- 
 erhood but did not assume his new duties until 
 March, owing to his desire to faithfully close his 
 work as School Superintendent. 
 
 Member of the Nat. and Cal. Council of Educa- 
 tion and the Sunset, University, Gamut and Jona- 
 than Clubs; Chr. of Executive Comm. of S. W. Soc., 
 Arch. Inst. of America, and was (1900-1) Grand Mas- 
 ter, Cal. Grand Lodge of Masons. 
 
 HOLBROOK, CHARLES H., JR., Oil Operator, 
 San Francisco, California, was born in Chico, Cali- 
 fornia, August 5, 1871, the son of Charles H. Hoi- 
 brook and Josephine (Bedell) Holbrook. He mar- 
 ried Nellie Vance at San Francisco, California, De- 
 cember 9, 1909. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook, whose father was an extensive 
 lumber operator, received his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of San Francisco. In hi& boyhood he ac- 
 quired a knowledge of the lumber business, but 
 upon leaving school went into the real estate busi- 
 ness as clerk for Easton, Eldridge & Co., one of the 
 largest realty firms in California at that time. At the 
 end of five years he went to Nevada and engaged in 
 the real estate business on his own account, but re- 
 turned to California in 1904, and went into the oil 
 business at Coalinga. He has devoted himself to 
 oil production since that time and is now reckoned 
 among the leaders of that field. He is President of 
 the Dunlop Oil Company, of Midway, California; Di- 
 rector and Secretary of the Mammoth Oil Com- 
 pany; Director and Secretary of the Zier Oil Com- 
 pany, of Coalinga, and President of the St. Albans 
 Oil Company, of Kern River. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook is a prominent Mason and a mem- 
 ber of the Union League and Olympia Clubs of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 T R E NT, LAMAR- 
 TINE CAVAIGNAC, En- 
 gineer & Mfr., Los An- 
 geles, Cal., born, Lon- 
 don, Eng., Dec. 13, 1848, 
 son of Edwin and Au- 
 gusta S. (L u c k e 1 1) 
 Trent. Married Mary De 
 Lome MacLeod at Boul- 
 der, Colo., June 5, 1888. 
 Children, Inez V., Lelia 
 De Lome, Helen, Wal- 
 ter Edwin, Florence, 
 Evelyn and Lamartine 
 Cavaignac, Jr. (dec.). 
 
 Attended private 
 schools, London; sailed 
 for U. S., 1860, locating, 
 New Haven, Conn.; 
 went to sea 3 years. 
 Returned to U. S., 1864, enlisted in Co. F, 47th N. 
 Y. Vol., Civil War. Participated in first and second 
 battles of Fort Fisher, N. C. At close in 1865, en- 
 tered employ of Delamater Iron Works, N. Y., as 
 apprentice. Appointed, 1870, foreman Northern Pa- 
 cific R. R. shops, Brainerd, Minn.; 1872, Engineer, 
 Clark Mine, Copper Harbor, Mich.; 1876, aided in 
 perfecting Frue Vanning Machine and introducing 
 same in U. S. and foreign countries; 1885, mining 
 advisor to Japanese Government; appointed West- 
 ern Mgr. and later elected Director in English cor- 
 poration of Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago; 1894, 
 organized L. C. Trent & Co., Engineers, Salt 
 Lake City; 1898, sold out and went to England, 
 thence to Australia as Mgr. North Mt. Lyell Mine, 
 owned by English syndicate; 1903, went to San 
 Francisco, Cal., purchasing Dairy Farm Mine, which 
 he later sold to Guggenheim interests. Engaged in 
 general engineering until 1907, when he moved to 
 Los Angeles, Cal. Organized L. C. Trent Engineer- 
 ing Co. for manufacture of machinery which he in- 
 vented. Member, Am. Inst. of Mining Engineers. 
 Clubs Union League, San Francisco; Sierra Ma- 
 dre, Los Angeles; Alta, Salt Lake City. 
 
 HAMILTON, MILTON SCOTT, Attorney at 
 Law, Oakland, California, is a native of that city, 
 born November 19, 1874, the son of W. H. H. Ham- 
 ilton and Mary J. Hamilton. He married Miss 
 Katheryn Meyer at Oakland, June 29, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the grammar school of Oakland and was 
 graduated from high school in May, 1892. He next 
 became a student at the University of California 
 and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Philosophy in 1897. Mr. Hamilton was admitted to 
 the Bar of the State of California in May, 1899, and 
 immediately began practice in Oakland, in all the 
 State and Federal Courts. He was admitted to 
 practice before the Supreme Court of the United 
 States in 1904. 
 
 During the time he has been in practice, Mr. 
 Hamilton has been one of the successful members 
 of the California Bar, conducting a general legal 
 business. 
 
 He is prominent in Masonic circles, a member 
 of the Mystic Shrine of Oakland, and also belongs 
 to the University Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 OSS, SAMUEL ARTHUR, 
 Pres., Calaveras Dredging 
 Co., San Francisco, was born 
 in New Berlin, N. Y., July 2, 
 1867, the son of Horace O. 
 and Isabel (White) Moss. His first ancestors 
 to reach America came from England in the 
 Mayflower and settled in Massachusetts. Some 
 of his maternal forbears fought in the War for 
 American Independence, and most of his 
 people, on both sides of the house, since their 
 arrival in this country have been patriotic 
 Americans. His father, Horace O. Moss, 
 who was born in Central, N. Y., subsequent- 
 ly became a well-known banker of Sandusky, 
 Ohio, and in Detroit, although always main- 
 taining his residence in New Berlin, N. Y. 
 
 Born the son of a man of means, and 
 raised among all the comforts and luxuries 
 which the culture of the United States and 
 of Europe could give him, he has yet fol- 
 lowed some hereditary bent of his forefath- 
 ers and gone to new lands to carve out an 
 independent career for himself. As a boy he 
 had a taste of the free life of the West, and 
 although for nine years successful in the 
 East, he turned again in manhood to the 
 Pacific. 
 
 From 1876 to 1878 Samuel A. Moss at- 
 tended the Grammar School of New Berlin. 
 The next few years he spent in Europe, one 
 year as a student at Cannstadt, near Stutt- 
 gart, and two years at Vevey, in Switzerland, 
 on Lake Geneva. On his return to America 
 he entered St. John's School at Syracuse, N. 
 Y., where for three years he took a course in 
 the sciences and the languages, specializing in 
 the former study. He then went to Boston, and 
 from 1886 to 1889 was a student of mechanical 
 engineering at the Institute of Technology, from 
 which he was graduated in the latter year. 
 
 Shortly after his final graduation, and with 
 the intention of learning the business of loco- 
 motive construction, Mr. Moss entered the Bald- 
 win Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. Here 
 his tastes for railroading, especially for the 
 mechanical end of it, prompted him to work as 
 an apprentice in the various departments for 
 about a year. At the end of that period, how- 
 ever, the lure of the mining industry in Cali- 
 fornia drew him to this State, where he has 
 become closely identified with the gold dredging 
 business, as well as with other important 
 interests. 
 
 He first entered the mining field in Eldorado 
 County, and until 1893 was getting practical 
 experience therein. But in that year, a promis- 
 ing opportunity presenting itself, he went to 
 
 Vermont, and for the next nine years was con- 
 nected with the acturial department of the 
 National Life Insurance Company of that State. 
 Returning to California in 1902 he became 
 interested with Wendell P. Hammon in gold 
 dredging and in other similar enterprises as 
 an investor. He himself was especially attracted 
 by the possibilities for this form of mining in 
 Calaveras County, which, though one of the 
 most famous in the State for surface placers, 
 had not been generally considered as a dredg- 
 ing field. The marvelous success, however, 
 of Mr. Hammon's operations in Butte Coun- 
 ty, which at that time were among the sen- 
 sations of the California mining world, and 
 the favorable conditions discovered in Cala- 
 veras, stimulated Mr. Moss to venture in the 
 latter field. The Calaveras Gold Dredging 
 Company was formed, and in 1902 he was 
 elected president thereof. Their holdings 
 comprised an area of about 350 acres along 
 the Calaveras river, near Jenny Lind, averag- 
 ing in depth about 33 feet. In December, 
 1903, a dredge was constructed, equipped with 
 Bucyrus machinery, and in the following 
 year operations were begun. 
 
 These have since been continued with 
 most encouraging success. A great deal of 
 gold has been extracted, the original equip- 
 ment has been repeatedly increased, and a 
 larger area worked. 
 
 He has become a heavy investor in Cali- 
 fornia properties. Although gold mining 
 and dredging are his chief interest, he pays 
 considerable attention to real estate. The 
 development of virgin territories appeals to 
 him especially, whether in mining or farm- 
 ing. He has made himself particularly use- 
 ful to every community to which he has come 
 because he proceeds immediately to improve 
 his holdings, and does not wait for the gen- 
 eral rise in values to bring him profit. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Moss' commercial activi- 
 ties have been confined chiefly to his mining and 
 real estate interests in California and Mexico, 
 especially as they relate to the most economical 
 form of mining yet discovered and to the devel- 
 opment of country properties. The success of 
 his dredging operations has led him to explore 
 Mexico in particular in search of other deposits 
 of gold gravel extensive and deep enough for 
 dredge exploitation. They necessitate frequent 
 trips out of town, thereby providing him with 
 one of the few forms of relaxation his busy 
 life permits. 
 
 Mr. Moss is identified with the Bohemian 
 Club, University and Union League Clubs 
 of San Francisco and the Rocky Mountain 
 Club of New York. 
 
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 873 
 
 HAPMAN, MELVIN C, At- 
 torney (Chapman & Trefe- 
 then, Oakland, California), 
 was born at Westfield, Illi- 
 nois, September 5, 1850, the 
 son of Charles de Grasse and Cynthia (Pal- 
 mer) Chapman. One of his paternal ances- 
 tors, Robert Chapman, came from England in 
 1637 and was among the first settlers at Say- 
 brook, Conn. The ancient homestead in 
 which he lived still is in the possession of 
 the family. Others of Mr. Chapman's for- 
 bears served under Oliver Cromwell and sev- 
 eral were conspicuous in the Revolutionary 
 War, the War of 1812 and in the Civil War. 
 The family has been prominent in commer- 
 cial, professional and political life, winning 
 success as merchants, ministers and lawyers. 
 Mr. Chapman married Lillian Mary Childs in 
 Oakland, California, December 21, 1887, and 
 to them was born only one child, Melvin 
 Chapman, Jr. Mrs. Chapman died several 
 years ago. 
 
 Mr. Chapman is an attorney whom his 
 own profession delights to honor. By the 
 members of the bar of the Bay cities he is 
 adjudged one of the most worthy, and they 
 have so voted him by giving him the posts 
 of honor in their associations. He has held 
 political office and yet has not been counted 
 a politician, because his party has freely 
 given him nominations to the most important 
 offices without his seeking. He has refused 
 nominations, which, had he accepted, might 
 have made him a figure of national promi- 
 nence. He has had a versatile career, and 
 was a successful business man before he was 
 an attorney. His entire life has been an ex- 
 ceptionally busy one and he has thereby fair- 
 ly won his reputation for wisdom and 
 knowledge of the world's affairs. 
 
 Mr. Chapman received the rudiments of 
 his education in the grammar schools of Chi- 
 cago, attending from 1856 to 1867. Upon 
 leaving the grammar school he entered Onar- 
 ga Seminary, in Illinois, and there studied 
 for three years more. He was graduated 
 from that institution in 1870 and then went 
 to work in his father's planing mill and sash 
 and door factory as a bookkeeper. 
 
 After three years in the employ of his fa- 
 ther Mr. Chapman decided to move West and 
 go into business. He first located at San 
 Francisco, California, and there entered the 
 real estate and stock brokerage. For three 
 years more he confined himself to operations 
 in San Francisco entirely, but in 1876 moved 
 his residence and headquarters across the bay 
 to Oakland, where he has been ever since. 
 
 He did not relinquish his interests in San 
 Francisco, however, remaining actively in real 
 estate and stock speculation there until 1882. 
 
 In 1882, however, he wound up his San 
 Francisco business and devoted his energies 
 to Oakland. Without giving up his commer- 
 cial pursuits, he had been studying law there, 
 and it was at this stage of his career that he 
 decided the law was his natural field. 
 
 Immediately upon his admission to the bar 
 Mr. Chapman went into partnership with 
 Roscoe Havens, under the firm name of Chap- 
 man & Havens. This association continued 
 for a period of eight months, but at the end 
 of that time it was dissolved and Mr. Chap- 
 man then continued his practice alone. He 
 was thus engaged until June, 1910, and then 
 he formed his present partnership with Mr. 
 Trefethen. 
 
 During his many years single-handed, Mr. 
 Chapman's method of conducting cases of 
 court became well known. It was his extraor- 
 dinary ability in this line of work which 
 caused the Oakland Traction Co. to select 
 him, in February, 1911, as the chief trial at- 
 torney for all its damage litigations. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Chapman became interested 
 in politics in Oakland and served one term in 
 the State Legislature, where his record at- 
 tracted such favorable attention that he was 
 offered a unanimous renomination. This he 
 declined. In 1891 he was offered a nomina- 
 tion for Congress, but he declined this also, 
 this refusal being prompted by a desire to 
 permit the selection of Joseph McKenna, 
 now an Associate Justice of the United 
 States Supreme Court. That same year, 
 however, he did accept the nomination for 
 Mayor of Oakland, and he was elected by a 
 large majority. His retirement from the con- 
 gressional lists in favor of Justice McKenna 
 was regarded as one of the most generous 
 acts in the history of politics, for Mr. Chap- 
 man's record in the Legislature was so strong 
 that he was practically certain of winning a 
 seat in the House at Washington. 
 
 His renominations, and the successive ef- 
 forts of his party to get him to run for of- 
 fice, are evidence of the satisfaction he gave 
 while attending to his public duties. He has 
 the public confidence, that of his party, and 
 of the associate members of his profession, 
 and has it all the more because it is gen- 
 erally known that he is no seeker after public 
 honors. 
 
 He is president of the Oakland Bar Asso- 
 ciation and of the Oakland Tribune Publish- 
 ing Co. and a member of the Athenian Club 
 of that citv. 
 
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 CRIBNER, OTHELLO, Vice-Presi- 
 dent and Assistant General Man- 
 ager, Associated Oil Co., San Fran- 
 cisco, was- born in Stockton, Cali- 
 fornia, September 13, 1867, the 
 son of James B. and Sophronia 
 (Stone) Scribner. Both his paternal and mater- 
 nal ancestors, the former of whom were of Eng- 
 lish and Scotch origin, and the latter Holland 
 Dutch, were among the early settlers of New Eng- 
 land, chiefly of Maine. Mr. Scribner passed his 
 boyhood in the San Joaquin valley, and was mar- 
 ried to Elsie May Schuler on November 15, 1893. 
 Of this marriage four boys were born, two of whom, 
 Harold and Theodore Edward, are living. His first 
 wife died July 5, 1908. Mr. Scribner was again 
 married on October 19, 1910, in San Francisco, to 
 Miss Florence B. Ives, daughter of Mrs. Eunice 
 Jane Ives. One daughter, Eunice Jane Scribner, is 
 the issue of this marriage. 
 
 Othello Scribner's early education was of a 
 desultory kind, obtained under trying conditions. 
 When he was about nine years old he went to 
 work, for his board and clothes, on a farm north 
 of Stockton, and for a few years thereafter at- 
 tended the public schools of Linden, Gait, Lodi 
 and Woodbridge. For several months he was a 
 student in the high school at Lodi. Thenceforth 
 he devoted himself chiefly to the task of gaining 
 a livelihood. 
 
 His first occupation after leaving the farm was 
 that of clerk in a drug store in Lodi, in 1885. The 
 vim and energy, which have since become so char- 
 acteristic of him, were sufficient, even at that 
 time, to put him in charge of the store at the end 
 of the year. This business he ran successfully 
 until 1887, when he entered the employ of Mr. 
 Case, a druggist of San Jose. He remained with 
 him six months and then went over to the Web- 
 ster Brothers, druggists of Fresno. A year there- 
 after they were burnt out and Mr. Scribner found 
 employment with the underwriters, with whom he 
 worked until 1889. He next shifted his opera- 
 tions to the abstracting business, conducted by 
 Stewart S. Wright, which held him until the fall 
 of 1892, at which turning point in his career he 
 entered the law office of J. B. Menx as clerk, stu- 
 dent and general assistant. Determined to qualify 
 for the, profession, he read law for the next five 
 years every night from seven to eleven o'clock, and 
 in 1896, taking the examinations before the Supreme 
 Court, he was admitted to practice. 
 
 For something less than two years he prac- 
 ticed law, with fair success, in Fresno. He then 
 returned temporarily to the soil and ran a fruit 
 ranch near Wawona, Mariposa county. This prov- 
 ing a losing venture he went to Mexico in 1898 
 to examine lands for the growing of bananas, 
 sugar cane and tobacco for a San Francisco syn- 
 dicate. After seven months of this occupation 
 he returned to California and from 1899 to June, 
 1902, was chief of the U. S. Land Office at Visalia. 
 In the meantime, however, he had found another 
 significant turning point in his busy career. See- 
 ing the great possibilities of the Kern River oil 
 lands, he backed his judgment to the best of his 
 ability and issued from the venture $100,000 ahead. 
 Thenceforth he concentrated his energies on this 
 
 industry, in which he has become one of the most 
 prominent figures. 
 
 In the fall of 1901 Mr. Scribner issued the first 
 circular for the consolidation of the various oil 
 interests active at that time. This project fell 
 through, but in the following year he succeeded in 
 forming the Associated Oil Company, of which he 
 was secretary and assistant manager until 1910, 
 when he resigned to become vice-president and 
 assistant general manager. 
 
 This important and far-reaching consolidation, 
 in which his energy and shrewdness played a 
 leading part, both in the conception and in the 
 execution, involved many properties. Among these 
 were the San Joaquin Oil and Development Com- 
 pany, controlled by John A. Bunting and Mr. 
 Scribner; the Reed Crude Oil, Green and Whittier, 
 Aztec, Chicago Crude, Hecla, Bolena and Alva; Can- 
 field, Senator, Toltec, of which Mr. Scribner was 
 secretary and assistant general manager; Central 
 Point Consolidated, and others. Under his man- 
 agement wonders of organization and development 
 have been accomplished, and about forty com- 
 panies included in the association. His work has 
 been confined chiefly to the general management, 
 the acquisition and development of properties, 
 buying and selling of oil, the transportation and 
 similar activities. 
 
 From 1889 to 1898 Mr. Scribner was a member 
 of the National Guard of California, during the last 
 five years of which period he was captain and 
 adjutant of the Sixth Infantry. In the strike of 
 '94 he played an important part, aiding in the 
 opening of the railway system from Mojave to 
 the Oakland pier. He has also been active polit- 
 ically, especially in the McKinley and Bryan cam- 
 paigns, and in Fresno, in 1896, was secretary of 
 the Republican State Central Committee. He has 
 never, however, sought political office. 
 
 Besides his vice-presidency and assistant gen- 
 eral managership of the Associated Oil, he is a 
 director in all of the following companies, in 
 which he is interested, except the Salt Lake Oil 
 and the Arcturus Oil: Associated Transportation, 
 Associated Supply, Amalgamated Oil, West Coast 
 Oil, Salt Lake Oil, Arcturus Oil, Pacific Petroleum, 
 Inca Oil, Arika Oil, Bakersfield Iron Works, and 
 the Shasta Copper Exploration Company. His 
 clubs are the Bohemian, Family, Press, S. F. Coun- 
 try, Presidio Golf, Union League, all of San Fran- 
 cisco, and the Claremont Country of Oakland. 
 
 Among Mr. Scribner's striking characteristics 
 are his notably keen sense of the duties and re- 
 sponsibilities of life, additional evidence of which 
 is furnished by the fact that until 1893 he took 
 care of his mother, two brothers and a sister. His 
 remarkable success has been due largely to his 
 ability to concentrate on the task in hand until it 
 is finished, and to grasp quickly the gist of a 
 subject. "Exercise and sunshine, work and play," 
 and, as he expresses it, "an executed wrong is 
 more potent for ill than a thousand right concep- 
 tions, unexecuted, are conducive for good," are 
 his mottoes, close adherence to which has also con- 
 tributed to his rewards. 
 
 Like most Californians, he has invested the 
 profits of his business in property of his own city 
 and State, and in other enterprises. He has now 
 heavy individual interests. 
 
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 ANFORD, ALLAN DOUGLAS, At- 
 torney at Law, Waco, Texas, was 
 born in Covington, Tennessee, July 
 3, 1869, the son of William San- 
 ford and Elizabeth (Douglas) San- 
 
 ford. He has been twice married, 
 
 his first wife having been Mary Stella Shepard, of 
 Bryan, Texas, whom he married on January 30, 
 1900. His second wife was- Mrs. Frances Boddie, of 
 Birmingham, Ala., whom he married Nov. 11, 1903. 
 
 Mr. Sanford received his primary education in 
 the common schools of Tennessee and from 1886 to 
 1889 was a student at the Southwestern Presby- 
 terian University, at Clarksville, Tennessee. Shortly 
 after leaving this institution, he moved to Texas 
 and entered the Law Department of the University 
 of Texas, graduating from there in the class of 
 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
 
 Admitted to practice in the courts of Texas im- 
 mediately after he was graduated, Mr. Sanford 
 opened offices at Waco, Texas, and has been ac- 
 tively engaged in the legal profession there ever 
 since. For the first two years of his career, Mr. 
 Sanford practiced alone, but in 1894 the firm of De- 
 pew & Sanford was established, this partnership 
 continuing for about three years. Mr. Sanford then 
 formed the firm of Sanford & Lee, but after about 
 three years this was dissolved, and in the early part 
 of 1900, Mr. Sanford became a member of the firm 
 of Prendergast & Sanford. This, too, was of three 
 years' duration, the partnership being dissolved in 
 1903, when Mr. Sanford was elected Mayor of the 
 city of Waco. He served in this office for two years 
 and at the expiration of his term in 1905, organized 
 the firm of Sanford & Denton. This was succeeded 
 by the firm of Scott & Sanford, which, in 1909, be- 
 came Scott, Sanford & Ross. In 1911, Mr. Sanford 
 withdrew from the firm and he and Mr. W. E. Spell 
 formed the firm of Spell & Sanford, his practice be- 
 ing conducted under this name since. 
 
 In his legal work Mr. Sanford has confined him- 
 self to civil practice and is one of the best known 
 corporation counselors in the State of Texas, being 
 the adviser of various important companies. He is 
 General Attorney and a Director of the National 
 Exchange Fire Insurance Co., and also of the Amic- 
 able Life Insurance Co., and is Assistant General 
 Attorney for the Texas Central Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Sanford has been a consistent supporter of 
 the Democratic party, but outside of his one term 
 as Mayor of Waco and two terms as City Attorney 
 of Waco has never sought or held public office. 
 
 He is a man of great moral force, a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and devoted to the in- 
 terests of his adopted city. He is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, Texas State Bar Asso- 
 ciation, and the Texas State Historical Society. His 
 clubs include the Waco Country Club, Huaco Club 
 (golf and country), and the Philo Club. He belongs 
 to Alpha Tau Omega, Greek letter fraternity. 
 
 ISHER, LEWIS, Attorney at Law 
 (Mayor), Galveston, Tex., was 
 born in Austin, Tex., Oct. 28, 1872, 
 the son of Rhoads Fisher and 
 Sophie (Rollins) Fisher. He mar- 
 ried May Wilmer Masterson at 
 Galveston, Texas, on January 23, 1901. 
 
 Mr. Fisher, who is a prominent figure in irriga- 
 tion development and one of the important factors 
 in the advancement of Galveston, received his early 
 education in the public schools of Texas and fol- 
 lowed this with attendance at St. Edward's College, 
 of Austin. He then entered the University of 
 Texas, studied there for three years and was gradu- 
 ated from the Law Department of that institution 
 with the Degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895. 
 
 Following his admission to the Bar of Texas, 
 Mr. Fisher opened office at Galveston for the prac- 
 tice of his profession. Five years after he began 
 practice he was elected County Attorney of Galves- 
 ton County and in 1902, at the expiration of his 
 term of two years, was elected a Judge of the 
 County Court. He served on the County Bench 
 for three years and in 1905 was elected Judge of 
 the Tenth Judicial District of Texas, serving the 
 State in this capacity for four years. 
 
 In 1909, Mr. Fisher retired from the Bench to 
 accept the Democratic nomination for Mayor of 
 Galveston and in the subsequent campaign was 
 elected by a splendid majority. His term of office 
 expires in May, 1913. 
 
 During his four years as Mayor of Galveston and 
 for many years prior to his election to this office, 
 Mr, Fisher has been one of the progressive spirits 
 of the city and was intimately identified with va- 
 rious important improvements. As Chairman of 
 the Board of County Commissioners, which post he 
 filled in addition to serving as District Judge, he 
 had supervision over the work of constructing the 
 great sea wall at Galveston. This structure was 
 built as a result of the disastrous tidal wave which 
 swept over the city in 1901, devastating the place 
 and causing the loss of thousands of lives. 
 
 Continually on the alert for Galveston's inter- 
 ests, Mr. Fisher, who is Vice President of the 
 Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, has been 
 a persistent advocate of deep waterways and chan- 
 nel improvements there, it being his belief that 
 Galveston is the most favorably situated port on 
 the Southern Coast of the United States. 
 
 In addition to his public work he has also main- 
 tained his law practice and is interested in various 
 charitable enterprises and substantial business con- 
 cerns in the city of Galveston. He is a Director of 
 the Galveston Home for Homeless Children, mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers of the John Sealy 
 Hospital, President of the Alamo Mining & Smelt- 
 ing Company, and a Director of the Galveston 
 Wharf Company. 
 
 Mr. Fisher belongs to the Galveston Club. 
 
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 877 
 
 ATRIZI, ETTORE, Newspaper Edi- 
 tor and Publisher, San Francisco, 
 California, was born in Italy in 
 the year 1870, the son of Giovanni 
 Patrizi and Filomena (Giontella) 
 Patrizi. He is unmarried. 
 
 Mr. Patrizi received his education at the Insti- 
 tute of Superior Studies of Milan, Italy, graduating 
 in 1891 as a Civil Engineer. For nearly two years 
 after leaving school Mr. Patrizi followed- the voca- 
 tion of Civil Engineer in the Italian Government 
 Service. But prior to graduation he had, following 
 a natural inclination, written for several newspa- 
 pers of Milan, and in 1893 gave up engineering to 
 come to America as special correspondent for two 
 1 re Kalian dailies and as Commissioner of Ex- 
 hibits for several firms of Italy and artists of Milan 
 at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 
 
 . Fauizi has been a resident 
 
 of the U. S., chiefly in San Francisco. When San 
 Francisco decided to hold a Midwinter Fair, follow- 
 ing the close of the Chicago World's Fair, Mr. 
 Patrizi was one of the first to agree to lend his ex- 
 hibits, which had formed an important part of the 
 Italian display at Chicago. He decided to remain 
 in San Francisco and immediately engaged as Edi- 
 tor of the "Daily L'ltalia." In 1898 he became sole 
 owner and publisher. It was a four-page publication 
 with a subscription list scarcely more than 1000 and 
 run along old-fashioned lines-, as were other U. S. 
 Italian papers. 
 
 Mr. Patrizi reorganized "L'ltalia" and injected 
 into it the vim and ginger characteristic of its 
 American contemporaries. He increased it from 
 four to eight pages and published in the morning 
 instead of the afternoon; installed a special tele- 
 graphic service, and illustrated it profusely. He 
 immediately began taking an active interest in local 
 affairs. His methods were followed by other Italian 
 publishers of the U. S., including New York. Mr. 
 Patrizi has made of "L'ltalia" the most up-to-date 
 of all foreign papers on the Coast and increased its 
 circulation until it is larger than that of any foreign 
 newspaper west of Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Patrizi takes a wide interest in operatic 
 enterprises and was instrumental in having va- 
 rious important Italian opera companies, of world- 
 famous artists, appear in San Francisco. In this 
 and other ways he has contributed largely to 
 the uplifting of the musical standard of the San 
 Francisco public, and for several years was one of 
 the most enthusiastic advocates for the construction 
 of a grand opera hou&e in San Francisco. He had 
 even carried his plans to the point of framing a 
 project for the construction of such an edifice, when 
 the San Francisco Musical Association proposed the 
 building of a Municipal Opera House, whereupon 
 Mr. Patrizi withdrew his plan in favor of the latter. 
 
 Mr. Patrizi has always lent his assistance to any 
 worthy cause or enterprise in San Francisco, wheth- 
 er limited to his countrymen or for the general wel- 
 fare. As a leader of the Italian residents of the city, 
 he has done much to better their condition. He was 
 one of the original advocates of the 1915 World's 
 Fair and was chosen as a member of the Committee 
 on Ways and Means. 
 
 Mr. Patrizi is Director, Italian Chamber of Com- 
 merce, and Inspector, Italian Free School of San 
 Francisco. He is President, L'ltalia Press Co., Inc., 
 and interested in other enterprises, among them 
 Zappettini-Perasso Co., Inc., which has agency of 
 Italian steamship lines running into San Francisco. 
 
 RESWELL, HARRY THORNTON, 
 Attorney-at-Law, San Francisco, 
 California, was born at Eutaw, 
 Greene County, Alabama, the son 
 of David Creswell and Gertrude 
 (Thornton) Creswell, and may 
 thereby count among his ancestors some of the 
 most distinguished and charming women of the old 
 South, who were chiefly of English origin. 
 
 He was married in San Francisco to Lucy 
 Crittenden Nesbitt, and is the father of Harry 
 Innis Thornton Creswell and Gertrude Crittenden 
 Creswell. 
 
 Mr. Creswell obtained his education in the 
 Greene Springs School, a famous institution of 
 the South in the early days, which was conducted 
 by Professor Henry Tutwiler, at Greene Springs, 
 Hale county, Alabama. Upon completion of his 
 studies there he took up law, and was admitted to 
 practice in the State of Nevada in 1874. 
 
 In the year 1870 Mr. Creswell went to Cali- 
 fornia from Louisiana, and settled first in San 
 Francisco, but moved from there to Belmont, Ne- 
 vada, where, in 1874, his active business and pro- 
 fessional career began. After being admitted to 
 the bar, he soon established a reputation for in- 
 tegrity, firmness, courtesy and skill in the con- 
 duct of his cases, and in the same year was elected 
 to the office of District Attorney of Nye county, 
 Nevada. 
 
 After a successful term of two years he became 
 State Senator from that county, in 1876. 
 
 He then went over into Lauder county and was 
 elected District Attorney in 1880, and served until 
 1887. He was a candidate, in 1886, for the dis- 
 trict judgeship of the State of Nevada, but was 
 defeated. 
 
 Mr. Creswell returned to San Francisco in 
 1887 and resumed the private practice of his pro- 
 fession. This continued until 1892, in which year 
 he was elected City and County Attorney of San 
 Francisco, an office which carried with it at that 
 time a membership on the Board of City Hall 
 Commissioners. 
 
 He had charge of all the civil law business of 
 the City and County of San Francisco, and as a 
 member of the City Hall Commission always in- 
 sisted on the use of materials of California pro- 
 duction and manufacture for the new San Fran- 
 cisco City Hall, at that time in course of construc- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Creswell gave such satisfaction in his pub- 
 lic offices that he was re-elected in 1894, and again 
 in 1896. Two years later, in 1898, he resigned the 
 post to become a member of the well-known firm 
 of Garber, Creswell & Garber, composed of John 
 Garber, Mr. Creswell and Joseph B. Garber. 
 
 Following the earthquake and conflagration of 
 April, 1906, Mr. Creswell was appointed a member 
 of the "Committee of Fifty" chosen to aid the 
 Mayor of San Francisco in the government of the 
 city. He was thereafter made a Police Commis- 
 sioner of San Francisco, but resigned the office 
 before the expiration of his term. Since then he 
 has devoted himself to his law practice, which is 
 chiefly of a civil nature. 
 
 Mr. Creswell is a member of the Pacific-Union 
 Club and the Southern Club of San Francisco. 
 
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 ATTISON, SAMUEL J., 
 Physician and Surgeon, Pasa- 
 dena, California, was born at 
 Annapolis, Maryland, Febru- 
 ary 17, 1875, the son of Sam- 
 uel J. Mattison and Catherine (Jennings) 
 Mattison. He married Ruth Brooks at Pas- 
 adena, California, February 27, 1911. 
 
 Dr. Mattison comes from an ancestry 
 honored in the history of 
 the United States. The 
 men of the family, while 
 not often achieving dis- 
 tinction of the kind that 
 attracts the public atten- 
 tion, have always done 
 their patriotic duty. They 
 have fought against the 
 Indians in the days be- 
 fore the Revolution, and 
 with their axes they 
 helped clear the forests 
 of the frontier. 
 
 The name of Matti- 
 son is found in the list of 
 those who fought for 
 freedom against England, 
 and also among those 
 who enlisted to fight in 
 the Civil War. Every 
 generation has carried on 
 the tradition of good 
 breeding, education and 
 refinement. 
 
 Dr. Mattison attended 
 the public schools of 
 Baltimore. After com- 
 pleting his studies in these he went to work 
 as an accountant in the auditing department 
 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway at Balti- 
 more. He held various places in the auditing 
 department for six years. He next was an 
 accountant with the Southern Railway at 
 Washington, D. C, during two years. 
 
 While he was at Washington he entered 
 the medical department of Columbian, now 
 known as George Washington University. He 
 studied while he attended to his duties as 
 accountant. After completing his first year, 
 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the 
 Medical Department of the Northwestern 
 University. From this institution he received 
 his medical degree in June, 1904. 
 
 He held the post of interne with the 
 Lakeside Hospital of Chicago while a stu- 
 dent at Northwestern University, and for 
 several months he was externe at St. Mary's 
 Hospital, at Chicago. 
 
 He went to Pasadena, California, his pres- 
 ent home, the month following his gradua- 
 tion, in July, 1904, and at once began the 
 practice of his profession. 
 
 He is a surgeon in addition to being a 
 general practitioner. He is a persistent stu- 
 dent, and still devotes a great deal of time 
 to investigation and to the learning of what 
 others have done before him. In his seven 
 years in Southern Cali- 
 fornia he has built up a 
 wide clientele, and is 
 family physician to a 
 number of the famous 
 families of Pasadena. He 
 has already been called 
 as consulting physician. 
 He is on the staff of the 
 Pasadena Hospital. 
 
 While at Baltimore 
 he was a member of the 
 Ariel Rowing Club, one 
 of the famous athletic 
 organizations of 
 the United States. He 
 was one of the oarsmen 
 and took part in a number 
 of notable contests. He is 
 an all-round athlete, and 
 still spends as much time 
 as he can spare in out- 
 door sports and recrea- 
 tions. He is an ardent 
 automobilist and belongs 
 not only to the Automo- 
 
 DR. SAMUEL J. MATTISON bile Club of Southern 
 
 California, but to the 
 American Automobile Association as well. 
 He is interested in public affairs, particu- 
 larly those that concern his city. He is a 
 member of the Pasadena Board of Trade and 
 of the Tournament of Roses Association, 
 an organization of public-spirited citizens 
 which on each New Year's Day gives a 
 flower festival, unique because of its use of 
 real flowers in midwinter. 
 
 He is a member of a number of the Pasa- 
 dena clubs, notably the Valley Hunt Club 
 and the Pasadena Athletic Club, of which 
 latter club he is a director. In his college 
 days he was a member of the A. K. K. He 
 belongs to most of the important medical 
 societies. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, the California State 
 Medical Association, Los Angeles County 
 Medical Association, Southern California 
 Medical Association and Society for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. 
 
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 R. A. FOWLER 
 
 FOWLER, ROBERT ARCHIBALD, Merchant, Los Angeles, Cal., born, Glenwood, la., March 
 13, 1872. Son of Hiram P. Fowler and Matilda (Cattron) Fowler. Educated, Glenwood, la., 
 and Los Angeles, Cal. Firm, Fowler Bros., book sellers. Member, California, Jonathan, L. A. 
 Athletic, City, Rotary, San Gabriel Country and Union League Clubs; Elks, Chamber of Com- 
 merce and Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 RIES, MAX PAUL, Manufac- 
 turer and Exporter of Borax, 
 San Francisco, California, 
 was born at Hamburg, Ger- 
 many, November 17, 1881, the 
 son of Julius Fries and Fanny (Gabriel) 
 Fries. He married Rose Helen Ehrlick at 
 San Francisco, California, May 29, 1910. He 
 is a member of a prominent German famliy, 
 his grandfather, Louis Fries, having been a 
 public man in Hamburg, owner of a large 
 amount of real estate and a stockholder in 
 the Hamburg-American Steamship Company. 
 
 Mr. Fries received his early education in 
 his native city and was graduated from the 
 College of Altona, Germany, in 1899. Fol- 
 lowing this, he took the government exam- 
 ination for military service and because of 
 his exceptional ability as a linguist was called 
 upon to serve only one year in the army. 
 
 His first position in the business world, 
 upon the conclusion of his military service, 
 was with H. H. Jansen & Co., a large ship- 
 ping firm of Hamburg, with whom he re- 
 mained for about a year. He began in a 
 minor capacity with the firm, but, despite his 
 youth, was promoted rapidly, and ultimately 
 was placed in charge of the company's freight 
 department as supervisor. He made up his 
 mind to go to America, however, and in 1903 
 resigned and sailed for New York. 
 
 Upon his arrival in the United States, Mr. 
 Fries was employed by Daniel S. Loughran, 
 a wealthy iron founder and banker of Brook- 
 lyn, New York, as private secretary. In com- 
 pany with his employer he traveled to vari- 
 ous parts of the world, and for two years was 
 on tour. 
 
 In 1906, he determined to go into business 
 for himself and opened brokerage offices in 
 Kansas City, Missouri. He dealt in stocks 
 and bonds there for about four years, when 
 extensive interests on the Coast, which de- 
 veloped in the meantime brought about the 
 necessity of establishing a Pacific Coast 
 branch house, which he did in San Francisco. 
 
 With the establishment of his offices in San 
 Francisco, Mr. Fries moved his residence 
 there and remained in the Bay City until Oc- 
 tober, 1911, at which time he secured con- 
 trol of the United States Borax Company, a 
 corporation capitalized at $2,000,000, and he 
 then transferred his headquarters to Los An- 
 
 geles, where he resided a time, but in Decem- 
 ber, 1912, he returned to San Francisco. 
 
 In less than six months after obtaining 
 control of the United States Company, Mr. 
 Fries followed the original company with the 
 National Borax Company, with the result 
 that he has become one of the principal pro- 
 ducers and exporters of that substance in 
 the United States. 
 
 With mines, stated to be of almost unlim- 
 ited possibilities, in Ventura County, Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Fries has established manufactur- 
 ing plants in various parts of the United 
 States and Europe, particularly Germany 
 and France. These were started on a small 
 scale, but in 1912 Mr. Fries and his associ- 
 ates undertook the improvement and enlarge- 
 ment of their plants along modern lines, ex- 
 pending more than $200,000 on the work of 
 putting in large electric power plants, which 
 will more than double their capacity. 
 
 The future plans of Mr. Fries' companies 
 include the building of a railroad fifty miles 
 in length to connect their mines with a ship- 
 ping point near the town of Bakersfield, Cali- 
 fornia. It is estimated that this road will 
 cost about one million dollars by the time it 
 is completed. 
 
 Since getting control of the borax deposits 
 of Southern California, Mr. Fries, by his op- 
 erations, has attracted the attention of finan- 
 ciers in all parts of the United States and was 
 asked to sell his holdings at various times 
 for sums which would have doubled his in- 
 vestment, but preferred to retain his proper- 
 ties and carry out the plan of development 
 which he had mapped out. 
 
 Aside from his activities in extensive busi- 
 ness affairs, Mr. Fries has attained promi- 
 nence as a patron of the arts, and is today 
 the possessor of a small private gallery con- 
 taining several valuable paintings. He has 
 always taken a great deal of interest in the 
 work of the masters and also is a student of 
 literature and the languages, speaking seven 
 different tongues with equal fluency and as 
 naturally as he uses his native language. 
 
 Mr. Fries is not a clubman, but devotes 
 most of his time outside of business to his 
 home and close friends. However, he is an 
 enthusiastic motorist and the owner of sev- 
 eral high-powered automobiles. His only fra- 
 ternal affiliation is the Knights of Pythias. 
 
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 AITE, MARION PISHON 
 Oil Operator, Electrical En- 
 gineer, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Riverside, 
 California, February 17, 1876, 
 the son of Lyman Cobb Waite and Lillian 
 M. (Sugart) Waite. He married Anna 
 Margaret Olmsted Chapman at Riverside, 
 California, April 4, 1901. There are two 
 children, Eric Lyman 
 and Margaret Anna 
 Waite. Mr. Waite was 
 the second white child 
 born at Riverside, and 
 his father and mother 
 were the first white 
 couple married there. 
 
 Mr. Waite attended 
 the Riverside grammar 
 schools, and later gradu- 
 ated from the Riverside 
 High School. 
 
 When his primary ed- 
 ucation was complete he 
 was sent to Throop 
 Polytechnic Institute at 
 Pasadena, and later to 
 Leland Stanford Junior 
 University at Palo Alto. 
 He graduated with the 
 class of 1900, carrying 
 away two degrees, those 
 of Bachelor of Arts and 
 of Electrical Engineer. 
 
 He went to work for 
 the Edison Electric Com- 
 pany as soon as he left 
 college. He was in the power house for 
 eight months, doing general work, and was 
 next transferred to the Los Angeles power 
 house. He had a chance to use some of his 
 technical knowledge there, and was ad- 
 vanced to a good post in the office. 
 
 His ability by this time was becoming 
 recognized and he was offered a position in 
 the motive power department of the Los 
 Angeles Railway. Later he accepted the posi- 
 tion of consulting and construction engineer 
 for the Western Electric Works. He had 
 not been long in his new position before the 
 proprietor of the concern died and Mr. 
 Waite was given .the chance of buying the 
 business and did so. 
 
 He operated the Western Electric Com- 
 pany for two years successfully and then 
 sold out. 
 
 He had meanwhile gained a wide reputa- 
 tion as electrical engineer, so opened an 
 
 M. P. WAITE 
 
 office as consulting electric engineer, and su- 
 pervised the installation of many of the 
 electric plants in the cities of California and 
 the West, and in the more important office 
 buildings. 
 
 The ' designing of electrical machinerv 
 had always been a favorite occupation, so 
 he branched out in this direction. He not 
 only designed but manufactured, and incor- 
 porated the business 
 under the firm name of 
 Waite, Bailie & Com- 
 pany. The name of the 
 firm was later changed 
 to Bailie, Brandt & Com- 
 pany, when, after four 
 years of thriving busi- 
 ness, he sold out. 
 
 The fortunes that 
 were being created by 
 oil in Southern California 
 attracted him, and he 
 embarked with all his 
 capital and, energy into 
 oil lands, leases and de- 
 velopment. 
 
 He operated alone 
 until 1909, increasing 
 his operations constant- 
 ly, when, with his asso- 
 ciates, he helped organize 
 the "Four Investment 
 Company." 
 
 He is treasurer of this 
 company, which is one 
 of the heavily rated oil 
 concerns of California. 
 Mr. Waite has managed to become in- 
 terested in other affairs. Land especially 
 has looked to him a good form of invest- 
 ment. 
 
 He belongs to the professional societies 
 that are in line with his trade, the Archi- 
 tects and Engineers' Association, the Elec- 
 trical Engineers' Society and the College 
 Men's Association. 
 
 While Mr. Waite was in college he was 
 a fraternity man and became a member of 
 the Phi Delta Theta, the Gamma Etta 
 Kappa and the Gamma Kappa. He is still 
 interested in the social affairs of these 
 fraternities. 
 
 He has joined the Union League Club of 
 San Francisco, the Athletic Club of Los 
 Angeles, the Sierra Madre Club, the Uni- 
 versity Club and the Gamut Club. 
 
 Mr. Waite is also a member of the Stan- 
 ford Club of Southern California. 
 
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 'DONNELL, JAMES E., Petroleum 
 Lands and General Real Estate, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in the land of the origin of oil as 
 an article of commerce Pennsyl- 
 vania December 26, 1874. His 
 father was T. A. O'Donnell, a pioneer in the Penn- 
 sylvania oil fields, and his mother Myra (Parsons) 
 O'Donnell. 
 
 He received his education in the public schools 
 of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Mr. O'Donnell appears to 
 have entered and succeeded 
 in the oil business by force 
 of heredity and environ- 
 ment, as well as by a devel- 
 opment of natural business 
 talents of a remarkably high 
 order, for he began his notable 
 career at the age of 15 years. 
 
 As his father was a pio- 
 neer in business and devel- 
 opment ventures in the 
 Pennsylvania fields, Mr. 
 O'Donnell naturally absorbed 
 the details and practical 
 knowledge which surrounded 
 his daily life as a boy, and 
 as soon as he was able to be 
 of value began to put to 
 practical application the 
 knowledge that he seemed 
 to have intuitively acquired. 
 
 After seeking with more 
 or less degree of success 
 places where he could turn 
 his natural bent to work in 
 oil lands, he adventured as 
 far as Colorado, where his 
 attention was called to the discoveries made in 
 Southern California and the indications that here 
 was to be established a producing region second 
 to no other in the world. 
 
 So in 1891 he left Colorado and came to Cali- 
 fornia, finally selecting Santa Paula as his first 
 place of operating. That the step was well taken 
 is shown by what will be said of his record. 
 
 Officially he is president of the Nacirema Oil 
 Company, field manager and stockholder of the 
 American Oil Fields Company, a large stockholder 
 of the American Petroleum Company and a director 
 of the Bungalow Apartments Company. 
 
 But the official designations and personal promi- 
 nence of Mr. O'Donnell by no means indicate what 
 he has achieved, nor the importance his activities 
 and talents have been to the tremendous oil indus- 
 try of the State. 
 
 Ever since his arrival in 1891 he has been ex- 
 haustless in his efforts and remarkably perceptive 
 in his conclusions regarding opportunities and pos- 
 sibilities in his chosen field of industry. 
 
 JAMES E. O'DONNELL 
 
 His knowledge was gained by actual experience, 
 and to this practical equipment of his mental fac- 
 ulties he applied a strong mentality and analytical 
 power of mind that has placed him in the very 
 lead of men known as reliable and scientific 
 experts. 
 
 As an instance showing this recognition of his 
 peculiar talent, Mr. O'Donnell was from its incep- 
 tion until recently field manager of the American 
 Oilfields Company, a company of a capital of 
 twenty-five million dollars, 
 and which is headed by Mr. 
 E. L. Doheny, the celebrated 
 oil operator both of Califor- 
 nia and of Mexico. The suc- 
 cess of this company is a 
 familiar fact to all those in- 
 terested in oil matters, and 
 is ascribed in no small de- 
 gree to Mr. O'Donnell's qual- 
 ities. 
 
 This is but one of the nu- 
 merous undertakings in 
 which Mr. O'Donnell has 
 been engaged; in the past 
 seven years he has been su- 
 perintendent and consulting 
 superintendent for the fol- 
 lowing notable companies: 
 The Cousins Oil Company, 
 of McKittrick district; the 
 Casmalia Oil Company, of 
 Santa Maria district; the 
 Whittier Oil Company, of 
 McKittrick district; the San 
 Souci Oil Company, the Mc- 
 Kittrick Oil Company, the 
 Grasse Casa Oil Company, 
 Santa Maria district, and the 
 McKittrick Oil Company, McKittrick district. 
 
 Mr. O'Donnell is a very extensive oil land own- 
 er; he has enviable properties in the Midway dis- 
 trict, and the Elk Hills and McKittrick districts in 
 Kern county, beside a large body of oil land in the 
 Salt Creek district in Wyoming; and beyond this 
 owns large blocks of stock and bonds of the Ameri- 
 can Oilfields Company and the American Petroleum 
 and the Mexican Petroleum Companies. 
 
 Both the Union and the American Oilfields Com- 
 panies have been purchasers of extensive oil tracts 
 from him. Despite his business activities Mr. 
 O'Donnell takes a keen personal interest in the af- 
 fairs of Los Angeles and is a ready helper in all 
 movements which tend to improve it as a city and a 
 port. His energy and progressiveness make him a 
 valued factor in the civic enterprises and he has 
 figured largely in successful campaigns for the bet- 
 terment of the Southern California metropolis. 
 
 When not concerned in business affairs Mr. 
 O'Donnell occupies himself for amusement with 
 automobiles as an agreeable fad. 
 
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 CHARLES S. S. FORNEY 
 
 LOS ANGELES, CAL. 
 
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 OZIER, THOMAS BONE, of 
 the firm of Reid & Dozier, At- 
 torneys, San Francisco, Cal., 
 was born at Charles'ton, South 
 Carolina, March 12, 1866, the 
 son of Leonard Franklin Dozier and Agnes 
 (Bone) Dozier. Descending from a line 
 of distinguished lawyers and physicians 
 of South Carolina, among them his grand- 
 father and the latter's brother, Richard Do- 
 zier, Dr. J. Marion Sims, one of whose an- 
 cestors was General Marion of the Revolu- 
 tion, to say nothing of others almost equally 
 well known, Thomas Dozier is an expression 
 of many of the characteristics that made his 
 forbears famous. His father's family was 
 originally French and partly English, while 
 his mother came of a race of Huguenots that 
 settled in Louisiana. His parents took him 
 to California on March 12, 1868, the second 
 anniversary of his birth, as an excellent way, 
 perhaps, of celebrating the event. On April 
 22, 1889, Mr. Dozier was married in San 
 Francisco to Miss Maud Watson, and is the 
 father of four sons, Franklin Watson, 
 Thomas Bone, Irwin Yount and Paul Cut- 
 tino Dozier. 
 
 Mr. Dozier is one of the best known law- 
 yers in the State, and his name has not been 
 infrequently connected with affairs that have 
 attracted the attention of the entire United 
 States. He is known as both a criminal and 
 corporation lawyer. In his younger days he 
 achieved distinction as a criminal lawyer 
 and was successful because of his eloquence 
 and the care with which he mapped out his 
 cases. He made himself feared by criminals 
 as a state prosecutor. 
 
 From the age of five years he attended 
 the public schools of Napa and of San Fran- 
 cisco, until his graduation from the Oak 
 Mound School in 1881. When he was but 
 sixteen years old he entered the University 
 of California, but left there in 1883 to take 
 a private course in the classics, under Pro- 
 fessors Mower and Walker. In 1888 he was 
 graduated from the Hastings Law College, 
 an LL. B., and a few months later he began 
 to practice on his own account, at Redding, 
 Shasta County. 
 
 His natural leanings toward the forensic 
 side of the law carried him at first chiefly 
 into the criminal courts, and there his ability 
 early attracted attention. His reputation in 
 this branch of his profession was subse- 
 quently increased by his appointment as Dis- 
 trict Attorney of Shasta County in January, 
 1899. In the same month of 1905 Governor 
 Pardee offered him the judgeship of Shasta, 
 
 but this honor he refused, chiefly because he 
 did not wish a judicial career. His tastes 
 were for private practice in the courts, espe- 
 cially before juries. To this he returned, 
 and soon established a brilliant record for ac- 
 quittals and skill in the conduct of his cases. 
 On his return to San Francisco in May, 1908, 
 he began to drift away from criminal law 
 into corporation practice. In this he has 
 prospered, chiefly as an adviser of smelting 
 interests and electrical power companies. 
 
 He has also been a prominent figure in 
 several important criminal cases, among them 
 as counsel for James Treadwell, whom he 
 acquitted of the charge of embezzlement, and 
 also as associate with Henry Ach in the de- 
 fense of Abe Ruef. Politically Mr. Dozier 
 has been active and equally versatile. For 
 twenty years he was a delegate to every state 
 convention, and until 1896, when he was one 
 of those who aided in the nomination of 
 Bryan, he was a Democrat. He then trans- 
 ferred his allegiance to the Republicans, in 
 whose ranks he has since been conspicuous, 
 notably as one of the three drafters of the 
 platform of the Santa Cruz convention that 
 nominated James N. Gillett for Governor. 
 
 But he has played the game chiefly as a 
 pastime, and largely because of his interest 
 in civic betterment. His energies, however, 
 have not been confined even to these varied 
 fields of endeavor. They have sought an out- 
 let in military achievements and brought him 
 into the street car strike of 1886, wherein he 
 was a corporal, and also into the railroad 
 strike of 1894, during which he was in com- 
 mand of the troops operating between Red 
 Bluff and Ashland. In that city he distin- 
 guished himself as a disciplinarian and exec- 
 utive and at the end of the trouble was 
 praised for the soldierly manner in which he 
 had acquitted himself. 
 
 Mr. Dozier's technical knowledge of an- 
 atomy, surgery, etc., though acquired only as 
 an amateur, has been very useful to him in 
 his practice of law, especially in suits for 
 damages. Promoted by his keen interest in 
 the marvel of our creation, in the correction 
 of deformities, and in the improvement of 
 the race, it has won for him a reputation 
 among surgeons that leads them to invite 
 him to witness their most scientific opera- 
 tions. They think it a hobby well worth 
 even a busy lawyer's while to ride. 
 
 The family home is at 2401 Jackson street, 
 San Francisco. He is not much of a club- 
 man, limiting that phase of his active life 
 to the Union League, the Army and Navy 
 and the Southern clubs of San Francisco. 
 
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 'MAHON, JOHN JOSEPH, Attor- 
 ney at Law, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Wethersfield, 
 Connecticut, August 31, 1882, the 
 son of James McMahon and Kath- 
 erine (Taft) McMahon. He is of 
 Irish descent, but the family is one of the oldest in 
 the United States, its members having settled in 
 New England during the early days of the Republic. 
 Mr. McMahon attended the public and high 
 schools of Wethersfield and 
 moved to California when he 
 was twenty-one years of age. 
 After leaving the high school 
 of Wethersfield, he entered 
 the employ of the Hartford, 
 Connecticut, Electric Light 
 Company, studying electricity 
 in all its branches. In addi- 
 tion to the practical work he 
 did in the company's plant he 
 was taking a special course 
 in electricity in the Hiler In- 
 stitute of Hartford. At that 
 time he intended following 
 the profession of Electrical 
 Engineering and he still re- 
 tained this ambition when he 
 arrived in Los Angeles in 
 the year 1903. 
 
 Mr. McMahon's first work 
 in California was in the Con- 
 struction Department of the 
 Pacific Light & Power Com- 
 pany, where he was one of 
 the expert constructors of 
 electrical machinery. He re- 
 mained there only about a 
 year, however, resigning his 
 
 place to accept a better position with the Los An- 
 geles Interurban Railway Company, as one of the 
 operators of its principal power plants. While serv- 
 ing in this position, Mr. McMahon met with an acci- 
 dent that caused him to abandon electrical work 
 and practically changed the entire course of his 
 life. His health became impaired as a result of his 
 injury and he was compelled to give up all work for 
 nearly a year. 
 
 In 1905, Mr. McMahon went to the Hawaiian 
 Islands and after a stay there of about six months, 
 returned to the United States, considerably improved, 
 although not entirely recovered from the effects 
 of the accident referred to before. About this time 
 he took up the study of law and was a student in 
 the University of Southern California Law Depart- 
 ment for about two years, but it was not until about 
 the year 1907 that he was strong enough to devote 
 himself to his studies for any sustained length of 
 time. 
 
 Mr. McMahon then took up the work seriously 
 and in 1911 was graduated from the University with 
 
 J. J. McMAHON 
 
 the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted 
 to the Bar almost immediately and opened practice 
 in Los Angeles, but he also took a post-graduate 
 course at the University and in 1912 was awarded 
 the degree of Master of Laws. 
 
 Although he is one of the newer members of the 
 legal profession in Los- Angeles, Mr. McMahon has 
 attained a degree of prominence and has been an 
 active participant in the politics of the city and 
 State. He entered the political field about the year 
 1908 and since that time has 
 been among the forceful 
 speakers and workers in the 
 ranks of the Progressive Re- 
 publicans of California. He 
 has taken the stump in vari- 
 ous campaigns and had a 
 part in the selection of Coun- 
 ty Delegates to the State 
 Convention at which Hiram 
 Johnson, later candidate for 
 Vice President of the United 
 States, was nominated for 
 Governor of California. 
 
 In Los Angeles politics 
 Mr. McMahon is allied with 
 the Good Government forces 
 and during the campaign of 
 George Alexander, in 1911, 
 for re-election as Mayor of 
 the city, he had charge of 
 the speakers' bureau. This 
 was one of the most impor- 
 tant municipal campaigns in 
 the history of the Southern 
 California metropolis, when 
 the Good Government forces 
 of the city were fighting 
 against the introduction of 
 
 Socialism into the affairs of Los Angeles, and the 
 management of the speakers' section had much to 
 do with the ultimate success of the Alexander cause. 
 In 1910, Mr. McMahon took an active part in 
 the campaign of Judge W. P. James for re-election 
 to the District Court of Appeals and in 1912 took 
 up the management of Judge F. M. Houser's cam- 
 paign for re-election to the Superior Court of Los 
 Angeles County. 
 
 Since engaging in the practice of law, Mr. Mc- 
 Mahon has devoted himself assiduously to his work 
 and his only affiliations outside of his professional 
 work are of a political nature in association with 
 the so-called Good Government organization. 
 
 Professionally, Mr. McMahon has been con- 
 nected with a number of business houses, includ- 
 ing building and real estate enterprises. 
 
 Mr. McMahon is a great believer in the future 
 industrial importance of Los Angeles and states 
 that the admirable political and city government 
 conditions make it the most desirable residence 
 city in the country. 
 
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 ALMER, ARTHUR H., Den- 
 tist, Pasadena, California, 
 was born at Susquehanna 
 County, Pennsylvania, De- 
 cember 12, 1858, the son of 
 Charles R. Palmer and Elvira (Kingsley) 
 Palmer. He married Lucy Bacon, November 
 29, 1893, at Pasadena. 
 
 Dr. Palmer attended the public schools of 
 Susquehanna County and 
 finished his high school. 
 Meanwhile, he was kept 
 busy on his father's farm. 
 He decided that dentistry 
 would make a pleasant 
 and profitable occupation, 
 so he entered the Penn- 
 sylvania College of Den- 
 tal Surgery and gradu- 
 ated with honors in the 
 year 1881. 
 
 He first began the prac- 
 tice of his profession in 
 the county seat of his na- 
 tive county, where he 
 thrived for eight years. 
 He then decided to move 
 to a more pleasant cli- 
 mate, and a larger field. 
 Pasadena drew him and 
 he became its citizen in 
 the year 1888, where he 
 has practiced nearly 
 a quarter of a cen- 
 tury and occupies a 
 high position in the 
 dental profession. 
 
 Mr. Palmer has had quite a notable ca- 
 reer in lodge and society circles. He has 
 won prominence in two of the greatest so- 
 cieties in America, the Elks and Masons, and 
 to their membership is known from one end 
 of the United States to the other. Many of 
 the greatest men in the nation belong to 
 these orders, and it takes a man of excep- 
 tional qualifications to win honors amongst 
 them. In Pasadena particularly the mem- 
 berships are of a very high grade, and yet 
 there he has been chosen Grand Exalted 
 Ruler of the Elks. He has been district 
 deputy of the Elks of Southern California, 
 an office of importance. He has often been 
 a delegate to the big national conventions of 
 the Elks, bodies that the nation's cities vie 
 amongst themselves to honor, and has at- 
 tended their sessions at Memphis, Philadel- 
 phia, Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Erie, Cin- 
 cinnati, Reno, Denver and elsewhere. The 
 
 DR. A. H. PALMER 
 
 Masons have also chosen to honor him, and 
 he has been Master of the 'Lodge of Pasa- 
 dena. He has taken every degree of Ma- 
 sonry, from the bottom to the top. His 
 lodge affiliations have been of such import- 
 ance that they have taken a large place in 
 his life. 
 
 He has made architecture, while not a 
 profession, a hobby. He has designed and 
 has had built one of the 
 most beautiful houses of 
 the bungalow type in that 
 land of lovely houses, 
 Southern California, and 
 architects the m- 
 selves have come to ex- 
 amine it. 
 
 He has built up a 
 comfortable fortune, and 
 has invested it wisely, 
 chiefly in property in his 
 home city, and in enter- 
 prises near by. 
 
 He is a stockholder 
 and director in a number 
 of substantial companies, 
 but does not give them 
 much attention, confining 
 himself still to the prac- 
 tice of his profession. 
 
 In the field of recrea- 
 tion he is known as an 
 ardent fisherman. He has 
 sunk his line in the Pa- 
 cific Ocean for fish, big 
 and little, and has whip- 
 ped his fly over most of 
 the best trout streams of the Sierra Nevadas 
 of California. 
 
 The growth of the science and the art of 
 dentistry has naturally been his main inter- 
 est. His own office he keeps equipped with 
 the latest instruments used in the art, and 
 he has himself applied several of his own in- 
 ventions. He follows carefully the practice 
 of the master dentists, and has himself made 
 a number of valuable experiments. He has 
 one of the best dental libraries. He has at- 
 tended the sessions of the National Dental 
 associations, and has been one of the leading 
 workers of the local associations. He was 
 president, for a term, of the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Dental Association, in recognition of 
 his services to the profession. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Pasadena Dental Association. 
 
 He belongs to the Overland Club of Pas- 
 adena and the Elks and the Masons. These 
 manage to consume all his spare time. 
 
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 AWLEY, CHARLES GEO., 
 Physician and Surgeon, Los 
 Angeles, California, was born 
 at Mishicott, Wisconsin, Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1879, and is of Ger- 
 man-English descent. His father was Dr. Geo. 
 Dawley and his mother Jennie M. (Braasch) 
 Dawley. On April 12, 1908, he married 
 Minnie Martin in 
 Los Angeles. A daugh- 
 ter, Margaret Eileen 
 Dawley, has been born to 
 them. 
 
 Dr. Dawley spent his 
 boyhood in Wisconsin, 
 receiving his early educa- 
 tion in the public schools 
 of Manitowoc, Wiscon- 
 sin, which he attended 
 from 1886 to 1894. On 
 September 10, 1894, the 
 family moved to Los An- 
 geles and there young 
 Dawley entered the High 
 School, from which he 
 was graduated in 1899. 
 
 Like his father before 
 him, Dr. Dawley chose 
 the medical profession 
 for his life work, and af- 
 ter finishing his prepara- 
 
 
 
 tory education, he en- 
 tered the College of Medicine of the Uni- 
 versity of Southern California. After study- 
 ing at that institution for four years he 
 was graduated in 1903, with the degree of 
 M. D. 
 
 Shortly after his graduation, Dr. Dawley 
 engaged in the practice of medicine in Los 
 Angeles, his first work being in company 
 with Dr. C. E. Stoner, at that time a man of 
 established reputation and practice in the 
 city. Dr. Dawley gives a great deal of the 
 credit for his subsequent success to the older 
 man, who gave him the benefit of a wide ex- 
 perience at the start of his career. When he 
 first engaged in practice Dr. Dawley applied 
 himself to general medical work, but in a few 
 years found that his talents and inclinations 
 were toward the surgical end of the profes- 
 sion. He devoted a great deal of time to 
 study of the subject and kept abreast of every 
 new development in the profession. Grad- 
 ually he gave more attention to this branch 
 
 of the work, and ultimately did little else. 
 Today he specializes in surgery and is recog- 
 nized as one of the most conscientious prac- 
 titioners in the Southern part of California. 
 Also his library on the science of surgery is 
 one of the most valuable in the City of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 Despite his continued success in his pro- 
 fession, Dr. Dawley has 
 no desire to go into busi- 
 ness alone, and the part- 
 nership with Dr. Stoner, 
 after eight years, in still 
 in effect. 
 
 Dr. Dawley, in addi- 
 tion to his private prac- 
 tice, is one of the visiting 
 physicians of the Sisters 
 Hospital in Los Angeles, 
 and for many years was 
 the head physician of the 
 Los Angeles Aerie of 
 Eagles. He is a member 
 of numerous medical as- 
 sociations, among them 
 the Los Angeles County 
 Medical Society, the Cal- 
 ifornia State Medical So- 
 ciety and the American 
 Medical Association. He 
 takes an active interest 
 in these organizations 
 
 G. DAWLEY 
 
 and devotes much time to their meetings. 
 Apart from his medical profession, Dr. Daw- 
 ley has other interests and holds stock in sev- 
 eral Los Angeles corporations. He is a 
 firm believer in the oil possibilities of the 
 Southwest and many of his interests are in 
 this field. 
 
 Dr. Dawley, like many other professional 
 men who spend much time in offices, is an 
 advocate of outdoor exercise, and several 
 weeks out of each year he spends in the 
 open. His principal recreation is found in 
 deer hunting and during the season hunts in 
 the northern part of Los Angeles County. 
 He has followed deer for more than seven- 
 teen years. 
 
 Dr. Dawley is not a club member, al- 
 though he holds membership in the Los An- 
 geles Aerie, No. 102, Fraternal Order of 
 Eagles. He prefers to spend his spare time 
 at home reading good literature and 
 studying. 
 
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 MWEG, COLONEL FREDERICK 
 JAMES, Advisory Engineer and 
 Manager of Building Operations, 
 San Francisco, was born in Har- 
 risburg, Pennsylvania, the son of 
 Captain John M. Amweg and Mar- 
 garet H. (Fenn) Amweg. His father was a Captain 
 of Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-second 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War, and 
 his ancestors were of old Revolutionary stock, for 
 he is the great-grandson of Theophilus Fenn, a 
 gallant officer of the American forces in Canada 
 under General Wolfe, and is also a lineal descend- 
 ant of Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, an American Fed- 
 eralist, politician and jurist, who served in the 
 Revolutionary War, was a Delegate to the Conti- 
 nental Congress from Massachusetts from 1788 to 
 1796, United States Senator, 1796 to 1799; a Mem- 
 ber of Congress, 1799 to 1801, and Judge of Massa- 
 chusetts' Supreme Court from 1802 to 1813. He is 
 also a nephew of General John Sedgwick, who lost 
 his life at Spottsylvania Courthouse during the 
 Civil war. 
 
 On October 10, 1883, Colonel Amweg was mar- 
 ried in Philadelphia to Miss Blanche E. Parsons, 
 and is the father of two children, Blanche Ethel 
 and Frederick J, Amweg, Jr. 
 
 Colonel Amweg was educated both in private 
 and public schools of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 
 In 1873 he was graduated from the Lancaster High 
 School and in 1876 took the degree of civil engineer 
 from the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania. He 
 had early determined to become an engineer and 
 architect, and concentrated on technical studies to 
 this end. 
 
 Throughout the record of his professional ca- 
 reer one can almost hear the clank of the survey- 
 or's chain and the echo of the builder's hammer. 
 His life is a story of activity and achievement in 
 building operations that touches a large part of 
 America and her possessions. 
 
 Soon after his final graduation he joined the 
 engineering staff of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company and served thereon for nine years, toward 
 the end of which period he acted as assistant engi- 
 neer of bridges and buildings, and was in charge of 
 the inspection over the entire system. 
 
 He was also employed by the City of Philadel- 
 phia to design a cantilever bridge over the Schuyl- 
 kill River, on the line of Market street, and to 
 superintend the construction of this important 
 municipal work. 
 
 From 1887 to 1899 Colonel Amweg conducted 
 an engineering and contracting business in the East 
 and had the active supervision of operations in- 
 volving a great variety of structures, both public 
 and private, and many millions of dollars. 
 
 Among these some of the most noteworthy are: 
 The Annex to the Boys' High School, the Drexel 
 Building and a number of large schoolhouses, all 
 these in Philadelphia; the handsome residence of 
 
 Edward H. Williams, Rosemont, and that of Robert 
 Pitcairn, Pittsburg; the Wernersville Asylum, Wer- 
 nersville; the Baldwin Hotel, Beach Haven, New 
 Jersey; the Academy of Music and the Terry Build- 
 ing, Roanoke, Virginia, and the Union Passenger 
 Station, Kenova, Virginia. 
 
 During this period he was also chief engineer of 
 the City Avenue and Germantown Bridge Company 
 and superintended the erection of the City Avenue 
 Bridge over the Schuylkill River and of the new 
 Radford Bridge, at Radford, Virginia. 
 
 In 1899 Colonel Amweg was called to Honolulu 
 to take charge, as chief engineer of the building 
 and installing of an electric railroad, including car 
 barns, power-house and power plant, at a total cost 
 of more than a million and a half dollars. But while 
 in the islands he did not permit the building busi- 
 ness to languish through lack of energy. His ac- 
 tivities ranged from schools and warehouses to of- 
 fice buildings and wharves. 
 
 A few of his important constructions there are 
 the Brewer Warehouse, the Convent Building, the 
 Lewers & Cooke and the two Mendoca buildings, 
 the Sachs, the Stangenwald, the Normal and Royal 
 Schools and the Hilo wharf at Hilo. After com- 
 pleting the above works he went to San Francisco, 
 in October, 1903, and engaged in the private prac- 
 tice of his profession. 
 
 Evidently the climate of California had no deter- 
 rent effect upon Colonel Amweg's constructive pro- 
 pensities. They have materialized here in the same 
 range and variety that have marked them else- 
 where. 
 
 Among the notable expressions of his ability 
 we find these buildings: The Brandenstein, the 
 Butler, the California Wine Association, the Dorn 
 & Dorn, the Hahnemann Hospital, the Monad- 
 nock, the Rothschild, the Savage-Rae, the Von 
 Dorn Hotel, the Woodward Investment Company, 
 the Berkeley Station (Southern Pacific Railroad), 
 the hospital of the Southern Pacific, the San Mateo 
 Courthouse, the Kern County Courthouse and the 
 reconstruction work of the United Railroads of San 
 Francisco. 
 
 Despite all this absorbing activity he has found 
 time to act as consulting engineer for arbitration 
 committees and to become a member of the follow- 
 ing organizations : The Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Sons of the American Revolution; Corinth- 
 ian Lodge of Masons, of Pennsylvania; Oriental 
 Chapter, 183, Pennsylvania; Golden Gate Command- 
 ery, Knights Templar, of California; Aloha Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine, Honolulu; Philadelphia Lodge of 
 Perfection (fourteenth degree), De Joinville Coun- 
 cil (sixteenth degree), Kilwinig Chapter, Rose Croix 
 (eighteenth degree), all of Pennsylvania; Lodge No. 
 616, B. P. O. E., Honolulu; American Society of 
 Civil Engineers and the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science. 
 
 He is also Chief of Engineers of the National 
 Guard of California, with the rank of Colonel. 
 
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 NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 
 
 ATHEWS, WALTER J., Ar- 
 chitect, Oakland, California, 
 was born at Markesan, Wis- 
 consin, May 2, 1850, the son 
 of Julius C. and Pauline H. 
 (McCraken) Mathews. His paternal ances- 
 tors were Huguenots, who fled from France 
 to England and from thence to America, and 
 settled in Lincoln, Connecticut, while his 
 mother's family were among the early resi- 
 dents of Vermont and New Hampshire. In 
 the old Hollister house of Stamford, Con- 
 necticut, his father's mother, who was a 
 cousin of the Hollisters, descendants of Col- 
 onel Hollister, of Colonial fame, was born. 
 His father moved to Oakland on May 14, 
 1866, and established himself as an architect. 
 In that city, on December 24, 1879, Walter 
 J. Mathews was married to Miss Viola Gates 
 Strawbridge, a lineal descendant of General 
 Gates of the Revolution. The children of 
 this marriage are Mary Pauline and Jose- 
 phine Hope Mathews. 
 
 From 1856 to 1866 Mr. Mathews attended 
 the public school of Markesan, during the 
 winters. In the latter year he went to Oak- 
 land and until 1868 took the common school 
 course, together with some high school work, 
 at the Sweet School, which he left to get a 
 practical training for the profession of archi- 
 tect. 
 
 In 1868 he began as a carpenter, under the 
 direction of his father, and devoted the next 
 seven years to learning the mechanical part 
 of the business, outside of the office. This he 
 entered in 1874, with a view to mastering 
 the details thereof, but in the following year 
 he moved to Los Angeles and formed a part- 
 nership under the firm name of Kysor & 
 Mathews. After two busy years in that city, 
 during which he designed the front elevation 
 of the Catholic Cathedral and other important 
 works, he returned to Oakland and became 
 the junior partner in the well-known firm of 
 J. C. Mathews & Son. He retained this con- 
 nection until 1883, and then took a year's 
 course of travel and study in Europe, chiefly 
 in England, France and Germany. Returning 
 to Oakland, he resumed the practice of his 
 profession on his own account, wherein he 
 has won a wide reputation for thoroughness 
 and skill. 
 
 During his many years' experience as an 
 architect, Mr. Mathers has designed and con- 
 structed a vast number of buildings of various 
 kinds and uses. Among his notable business 
 blocks in Oakland are the Union Savings 
 Bank, the National Central Bank, the Bacon 
 Block and others, and in San Francisco the 
 
 Crellin and the Marye buildings. Chief 
 among the private residences he has designed 
 are the Moses Hopkins, Henry T. Scott, 
 Horace Hill, R. C. Chambers, Dan Earl, John 
 A. Hooper and the Russel Wilson, all in San 
 Francisco; and in Oakland, the F. M. Smith, 
 Thomas Crellin, Senator Perkins, Edwin 
 Goodall, Ray Pennoyer and numerous others. 
 Some of his churches are the St. John Epis- 
 copal and the Unitarian of Oakland; Uni- 
 tarian, Alameda, and the First Christian 
 Church, Berkeley. Public buildings: Irving 
 Station, Angel Island, and Hall of Records, 
 Colusa. Hotels: Ramona, at San Luis Obis- 
 po, and the Redondo Beach Hotel at the lat- 
 ter place. 
 
 During the '90's Mr. Mathews was City 
 Architect of Oakland and in his official capa- 
 city designed several buildings for the city. 
 
 Although he does not emphatically favor 
 any special style of architecture, he is in- 
 clined toward the Gothic, which, he admits, 
 is not adapted to general American needs ; 
 the Byzantine, and, especially for America, 
 the free Renaissance. 
 
 An architect trained with unusual thor- 
 oughness, Mr. Mathews has already numer- 
 ous monuments of his skill standing in al- 
 most every corner of California. These are 
 of every variety, tributes to the versatility 
 of his skill. His work has won the respect 
 and even the admiration of the fellow artists 
 of his profession. He recognizes the full 
 meaning of his business; knows of what im- 
 portance it is in the creation of American 
 cities. He has always striven not only to 
 give his clients the greatest possible useful 
 returns for their invested money, but to add 
 those touches of beauty which make the dif- 
 ference between a building which is a suc- 
 cess and one that is not. In the many in- 
 stances in which he was given considerable 
 rein, and told that beauty was one of the 
 main objects, he has had exceptional success. 
 The great variety of buildings which he has 
 designed has required a technical knowledge 
 of the broadest kind, and a study of many 
 different lines of business, but he has given 
 general satisfaction in every task which he 
 hR<* undertaken. 
 
 Besides his office of City Architect, his 
 only other civic post is his directorship of the 
 Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, in 
 Oakland. He is one of the original members, 
 San Francisco Chapter of the American Insti- 
 tute of Architects; his clubs are, Athenian 
 (one of the original organizers) ; Nile, Clare- 
 mont Country Club, Home and the B. P. O. 
 E., all of Oakland. 
 
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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MOFFATT 
 
 CAPITALIST AND REAL ESTATE OPERATOR, 
 LOS ANGELES, CAL. 
 
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 EBBARD JAMES 
 CHARLES BACON, Attor- 
 ney, San Francisco, Califor- 
 nia, was born at Charleston 
 Village, Quebec, Canada, 
 April 11, 1854, the son of James Josiah Heb- 
 bard and Charlotte (Bacon) Hebbard. His 
 first ancestor to reach this country from Eng- 
 land was Roger Williams, who came in the 
 Mayflower; and on his 
 paternal side he is de- 
 scended from French 
 Huguenots who settled 
 in Canada. Among his 
 distinguished maternal 
 forbears he counts his 
 grandfather, Ebenezer 
 Williams, a Magistrate 
 of 1812, and a great- 
 great-uncle, General Put- 
 nam of the Revolution. 
 Judge Hebbard married 
 Gertrude Elizabeth 
 Gates, and to them were 
 born two children, Har- 
 riet and Gates Hebbard 
 Judge Hebbard's ear- 
 ly schooling consisted 
 largely of his mother's 
 tuition. In 1862 the fam- 
 ily moved from Canada 
 to California and settled 
 first in Nevada City, 
 where the son attended 
 the high school until he 
 was 15 years old. From 
 1869 to 1872 he was a pu- 
 pil of the St. Augustine Military College, 
 Benicia, and upon his graduation was ap- 
 pointed military instructor in St. Matthew's 
 Military School of San Mateo County. 
 
 This position he retained until 1879, and 
 while discharging his duties and helping ma- 
 terially to build up the school he was study- 
 ing law under the direction of General John 
 H. Dickinson, formerly military instructor 
 at Benicia. In that year he began the prac- 
 tice of his profession as an associate of Gen- 
 eral Dickinson, and continued as such until 
 1883, when he severed this successful connec- 
 tion to go to Seattle. 
 
 After a short period of private practice in 
 the North, he accepted the editorship of the 
 Seattle Evening Herald and became an active 
 journalist. But beyond these duties he ac- 
 complished much for that city, both in a mil- 
 itary and a civic way. While acting as mili- 
 tary instructor at San Mateo he had become a 
 
 J. C. B. HEBBARD 
 
 Major of the National Guard of California, 
 and from 1881 to 1882 had been First Lieu- 
 tenant of Company B. Stimulated by this ex- 
 perience, he organized, in 1883 and 1884, and 
 captained the first military company in Seat- 
 tle. He was also chiefly responsible for the 
 establishment of the first fire department 
 there, as well as other important institutions. 
 In 1888 he returned to California and 
 shortly thereafter was 
 elected local Justice of 
 the Peace for one term. 
 Three years later, in 
 1891, he began his event- 
 ful career as Judge of the 
 Superior Court of Cali- 
 fornia. This extended 
 over eighteen years and 
 was marked by much im- 
 portant litigation, involv- 
 ing questions of interpre- 
 tation of law and vast 
 sums of money. Con- 
 spicuous among these 
 cases is that of the fa- 
 mous mining suit, Fox 
 vs. Hale and Norcross, 
 and also that of Emeric 
 vs. Alvarado et al., in 
 which latter thirty years' 
 litigation terminated in 
 the award to 600 tenants 
 of their titles to the land 
 they had occupied. 
 
 Judge Hebbard had 
 the additional distinction 
 of deciding for the State 
 the important tax cases of 1887 of the Central 
 Pacific Railroad, involving a million dollars. 
 In 1909 he retired from the bench with the 
 remarkable record of having had 90 per cent 
 of all his cases affirmed by the appellate 
 courts. Since then he has been engaged in 
 private practice. 
 
 Beyond his judicial and legal talents 
 Judge Hebbard has a marked literary bent. 
 He has contributed largely both in verse and 
 prose to papers and periodicals and regards 
 his work in this field as a soothing recreation. 
 Mr. Hebbard was formerly a well-known 
 writer for the Examiner and other papers. 
 
 He is a man of magnetic personality, 
 genial manner and possessed of a wide circle 
 of friends. His popularity among his fellows 
 is attested by his membership in the follow- 
 ing social and fraternal organizations in San 
 Francisco : Olympic Athletic Club, the Press, 
 the Elks and the Masons (Blue Lodge). 
 
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 ILLSAP, HOMER CURTIS, 
 Attorney-at-Law, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born at 
 Colfax, Iowa, on May 10th, 
 1881, the son of Albert and 
 Melissa (Shepard) Millsap. Mr. Millsap 
 married Bess B. Chancy, of Lima, Ohio, and 
 one child has been born to them, Margerie 
 Elizabeth. Mr. Millsap attended the public 
 schools of his native city, 
 later graduating from the 
 high school at Ashland, 
 Oregon. Upon the com- 
 pletion of his high school 
 education, he entered 
 and graduated from 
 Drake University, at Des 
 Moines, Iowa, and the 
 Iowa College of Law, re- 
 ceiving his degree of 
 LL.B. in 1897. He was 
 then sixteen years of age, 
 and the youngest gradu- 
 ate in the United States 
 up to that time of any re- 
 putable law school. 
 
 Mr. Millsap's fitness 
 for the practice of his 
 profession was r e c o g - 
 nized by Judge Chester 
 C. Cole, ex-Chief Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of 
 Iowa, and he took the 
 boy barrister into his 
 office, where he instruct- 
 ed him in the practical 
 branches of his profes- 
 sion. For two years Mr. Millsap was an 
 active assistant of Judge Cole's. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Millsap left his friend, the 
 ex-Justice, to take up the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Los Angeles, California, and was 
 admitted to practice in California in 1900 and 
 has pursued his profession in the city of Los 
 Angeles since that time. 
 
 Mr. Millsap has specialized in corporation 
 law, and at the present time handles the legal 
 business of nearly a score of important con- 
 cerns in Los Angeles. 
 
 The determination with which Mr. Mill- 
 sap prosecutes his cases is evidenced by the 
 record in the case of The People vs. Murphy. 
 In said case, as attorney for the Brunswick- 
 Balke-Callender Company, he has challenged 
 the validity of an ordinance of South Pasa- 
 dena prohibiting the playing of games of 
 pool and billiards, or the maintenance of pub- 
 lic places for the conduct of these pastimes. 
 
 HOMER C. MILLSAP 
 
 The question has been presented by applica- 
 tion for writ of habeas corpus to the Superior 
 Court, to the Appellate Court, to the Supreme 
 Court of California, and, finally, by appeal 
 from the Superior Court of Los Angeles 
 to the Supreme Court of the United States, 
 where the case is now pending. 
 
 This case is one of national importance, 
 not only because of the millions of dollars 
 placed in jeopardy, but 
 because of the effect it 
 will have upon amuse- 
 ment enterprises in gen- 
 e r a 1 throughout the 
 United States. It is the 
 contention of Mr. Mill- 
 sap and his clients that if 
 the anti-billiard and pool 
 ordinance is declared 
 valid other lines of 
 amusement and business 
 will be in danger of de- 
 struction. Mr. Millsap 
 has had several other im- 
 portant litigations in the 
 California courts recent- 
 ly, in nearly all of which 
 the constitutionality of 
 several laws has been 
 called into question. 
 
 Mr. Millsap, at the 
 outset of his career, was 
 recognized at once, de- 
 spite his youth, as one 
 of the most conscientious 
 and competent practi- 
 tioners in Los Angeles, 
 
 and his success in the first few years follow- 
 ing his entry into the field attested to his 
 ability. In March, 1910, he formed a part- 
 nership with C. Randall Sparks, under the 
 firm name of Millsap & Sparks, but this as- 
 sociation was dissolved in the early part of 
 1911, and Mr. Millsap returned to practice 
 by himself. 
 
 Since his earliest days in Los Angeles he 
 has been a worker for the civic progress of 
 the city and has at all times stood ready to 
 aid in any movement having this for its 
 object. 
 
 He has never held nor sought public or 
 private office of any kind, and although in no 
 sense a politician he has always favored the 
 policies of the Republican party. 
 
 Mr. Millsap is a member of the California 
 and Los Angeles Bar Associations and of 
 the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He is, how- 
 ever, essentially a home lover. 
 
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 THOMAS H. WILLIAMS 
 
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 895 
 
 ILLIAMS, THOMAS HANSFORD, 
 Capitalist, and President of the 
 New California Jockey Club, San 
 Francisco, Cal., was born in Sacra- 
 mento, Cal., December 9, 1859, the 
 son of General Thomas Hansford 
 Williams and Mary Rebecca (Bryant) Williams. 
 For generations his paternal ancestors were resi- 
 dents of Virginia, some of them subsequently mov- 
 ing to Kentucky, while his mother's family were 
 prominent Mississippians. His grandfather, Sherrod 
 Williams, was a member of Congress from Ken- 
 tucky for twelve consecutive terms, and the General 
 Williams who distinguished himself at the battle of 
 Cerro Gordo, and was known thenceforth as "Cerro 
 Gordo" Williams, was a cousin of his father, Thomas 
 H., Sr. The latter came to California in the Spring 
 of '50, where he won fame as an able lawyer and 
 subsequently as one of the largest landowners in 
 the State. He first practiced his profession in Eldo- 
 rado county and then went to Nevada, where he be- 
 came prominently identified with the famous Corn- 
 stock mines. In 1859 he was elected Attorney-Gen- 
 eral of California, and served with distinction for 
 one term, afterwards devoting himself to his prac- 
 tice and to his large land interests. His son, 
 Thomas H., was raised in the country about the 
 Bay of San Francisco, and on March 23, 1901, was 
 married in Oakland to Miss Beatrice Steele, 
 daughter of the well known merchant, E. L. G. 
 Steele. The children of this marriage are Thomas 
 H. Williams, Jr., and Beatrice Steele Williams. 
 
 "Tom" Williams, as he is widely and popularly 
 known, attended the public schools of San Jose, 
 and in 1872 entered the Oakland High School, but 
 left there to become a student in the Golden Gate 
 Academy of Oakland, from which institution he was 
 graduated in 1877 into the University of California. 
 While at the University he was president of his 
 class and a prominent track athlete, but through 
 a misunderstanding between the faculty and him- 
 self he left the institution in 1879. He then en- 
 tered Santa Clara College, from which he was 
 graduated in the Spring of '80, with the degrees 
 of B. S. and B. A. 
 
 Shortly after leaving college Mr. Williams de- 
 voted his energies to his father's properties, which 
 at that time were situated principally in the coun- 
 ties of Sacramento, San Joaquin and Contra Costa. 
 They comprised about one hundred and ten thou- 
 sand acres, mostly fertile land, given over to grain 
 and cattle. Some of them, such as Union Island, in 
 the San Joaquin, and Grand Island, in the Sacra- 
 mento River, were famous for their yield per acre. 
 In the active management of these estates Mr. 
 Williams gained a valuably practical experience as 
 a farmer and rancher, and after eight years, 
 though he continued to exercise general super- 
 vision, he resigned the active care of the business 
 to his brother, Percy. 
 
 In 1887 he entered the contracting business and 
 continued therein for another eight years, in part- 
 nership with Mr. Ferris, under the firm name of 
 
 Ferris & Williams. During this period the firm 
 did much important work in the way of excavating, 
 grading, reclaiming waste lands, digging ship 
 canals, etc. Among their notable achievements in 
 these directions were the grading of Sunset 
 Heights, and the reclaiming of Grand Island and 
 29,000 acres on Robert's Island, which latter prop- 
 erty Mr. Williams and Mr. Ferris bought in 1890 
 from the Glasgow Land Company. They also did 
 considerable contract work for the Government, 
 such as cutting the bends in navigable rivers and 
 building the overflow weir dam in the San Joaquin. 
 
 Since 1888 Mr. Williams has also been active in 
 the racing and breeding of blood-horses, and is 
 perhaps best known for his connection with this 
 industry. In 1889 he moved from the vice-presi- 
 dency to the presidency of the old Blood Horse 
 Association, which in the following year he took 
 over, and formed the California Jockey Club, to the 
 affairs of which he has since been giving much of 
 his attention. He planned the organization pri- 
 marily to do away with the frequent postponements 
 occasioned by the rainy season, and to continue tne 
 racing season throughout the winter. In this he 
 was remarkably successful, the meets improving 
 steadily both in the quality of the horses engaged 
 and in the quantity of attendance, until the crusade 
 against gambling checked the progress in which 
 Mr. Williams was the chief factor. 
 
 On these points he holds emphatic views, which 
 in justice to himself and the cause should be ex- 
 pressed. He has always believed that the gam- 
 bling adjunct should be permitted, under 
 proper control, simply to encourage interest 
 in the sport which he has found by expe- 
 rience could not thrive without that stimulus; and 
 his contention that the game is necessary not only 
 to the breeding of the thoroughbred horse but also 
 to the improvement of the strictly useful variety 
 of the animal is well supported by Major-General 
 Wood, who has publicly stated that on account of 
 the crusade against racing it is now impossible to 
 get a high-class cavalry horse without paying an 
 exorbitant price, and that the infusion of the thor- 
 oughbred strain is essential to the production of 
 the best horse for the army. 
 
 Among Mr. Williams' other interests are the fol- 
 lowing concerns, in which he is an officer: Fed- 
 eral Ballot Machine Company (president) ; Pacific 
 Packing Company, of Guadalajara, Mexico (direc- 
 tor), and president of the Mexican Investment 
 Company; director Shasta Water Company and 
 Jerome Garage Company. His clubs are the Pa- 
 cific-Union, Olympic, Press, San Francisco Golf and 
 Country, of San Francisco; Claremont Country, 
 Athenian and Reliance Athletic, of Oakland; Marin 
 Country, of Marin County; Sutter, of Sacramento; 
 Yosemite, of Stockton; and the Brook, Rocky Moun- 
 tain, and National Hunt and Steeple Chase Asso- 
 ciation of New York, and others. He is not only 
 popular in the world of business, society and sport, 
 but is also known, among his immediate associates, 
 for his great generosity and unostentatious char- 
 ities. 
 
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 OEFLER, LUDWIG MA- 
 THIAS, Attorney, San Fran- 
 cisco, was born at Adrian, Le- 
 nawee County, Mich., Aug. 18, 
 1858, the son of John Phillip 
 Mary Elizabeth (Hoffman) 
 
 Hoefler 
 
 Hoefler. In December, 1889, Mr. Hoefler 
 was married in San Francisco to Miss Emma 
 M. Altemus, and their only child, Edith, now 
 Mrs. Charles Albert Vance, was born on De- 
 cember 9, 1890. 
 
 Until 1873, Mr. Hoefler lived at Adrian, 
 Michigan. Moving to California in 1878, he 
 took the regular three years' course at the 
 Hastings College of the Law in San Fran- 
 cisco, and was graduated LL. B. in 1882. 
 
 His professional career began in the office 
 of the well-known legal firm of Garber, 
 Thornton & Bishop, where while serving his 
 novitiate as a young practitioner he acted as 
 managing clerk. He retained this position 
 through various changes in the personnel of 
 the firm, which was successively known as 
 Garber, Boalt & Bishop, Garber & Bishop, 
 and Bishop & Wheeler, until he became a 
 partner, the new firm being known as Bishop, 
 Wheeler & Hoefler. In 1904 this firm was 
 changed to Bishop & Hoefler; and two years 
 later, upon the death of the late Thomas 
 Benton Bishop, with whom Mr. Hoefler had 
 been associated for over twenty-five years, 
 the present firm of Bishop, Hoefler, Cook & 
 Harwood was formed. 
 
 During this period Mr. Hoefler has been 
 prominently connected with many of the 
 great legal contests which engaged the courts 
 and popular interest. Among these may be 
 mentioned the Blythe Estate contest, the 
 Ryer Estate contest, the Piper Estate con- 
 test, the Miller & Lux litigation, the Fair 
 Estate, the Sutro Estate, the Yoell Will con- 
 test, the Robert P. Hastings Estate, the 
 Moxey Estate, and many other famous con- 
 troversies. Mr. Hoefler's professional prac- 
 tice is concerned largely with corporation 
 interests. He is counsel for the San Fran- 
 cisco Breweries, Ltd., United Milk Company, 
 City Street Improvement Company, Fresno 
 Irrigated Farms Company, Brunswick- 
 Balke-Collender Company and other large 
 concerns. He has taken an active interest in 
 the Olympic Athletic Club, of which he has 
 served as Vice President for three consecu- 
 tive terms, and is also a member of the Bo- 
 hemian Club and of the Union League Club. 
 
 OBERTS, ARTEMAS ROS- 
 COE, Insurance, Waco, 
 Texas, was born in Gascon- 
 ade County, Missouri, August 
 24, 1864, the son of Jonathan 
 Roberts and Eliza J. (Mahanay) Roberts. 
 He married Leila Doyle at Palestine, Texas, 
 August 21, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Roberts spent his boyhood in Mis- 
 souri, and attended the public schools near 
 his home. In 1877, however, he moved to 
 Texas and first located at Alvarado. He re- 
 sumed his studies shortly after going to the 
 Lone Star State, and graduated at the Sam 
 Houston Normal Institute at Huntsville, 
 Texas, in June, 1884. 
 
 In April, 1885, after teaching school, Mr. 
 Roberts embarked in the insurance business, 
 and during the twenty-seven years that he 
 has followed that line he has won a place 
 among the leaders of his profession and has 
 had longer experience in life insurance than 
 any other man in the State of Texas. 
 
 Mr. Roberts' first position was that of 
 District Manager for the Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company of New York, with headquar- 
 ters in Dallas, which he opened in April, 
 1885. 
 
 He continued in that position until July, 
 1889, at which time he resigned to accept the 
 office of State Manager in Texas for the Mu- 
 tual Benefit Life Insurance Company of New- 
 ark, N. J. 
 
 He was elected President and Actuary ot 
 the Amicable Life Insurance Company, 
 March 8, 1910, and he still retains those 
 offices. 
 
 During his long service in the insurance 
 field, Mr. Roberts has done a great deal to 
 improve the business, and from the day he 
 started has moved continually upward. 
 
 He is a hard worker and has made life in- 
 surance the study of his life. He is a man of 
 high ideals and enjoys the confidence and re- 
 gard of business men in all parts of the State 
 in which he conducts his operations. One of 
 his proudest possessions is a collection of let- 
 ters of indorsement, written by bankers and 
 business men in all parts of the Lone Star 
 State when he was chosen to his present 
 position. 
 
 Mr. Roberts is a member of the Huaco 
 and the Philo clubs. 
 
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 ERMILYE, ROBERT 
 MONTGOMERY (Retired 
 Physician), Orange Culturist, 
 Redlands, California, was 
 born in New York City, May 
 
 23, 1879, the son of Robert M. Vermilye and 
 Annie (Hunter) Vermilye. He married 
 Frances M. Howard of New York City, April 
 
 24, 1904. Dr. Vermilye is a member of one 
 of New York's most influential families, his 
 grandfather, William M. Vermilye, having 
 been the founder of the old and well- 
 known banking firm of Vermilye & Com- 
 pany, one of the prominent banking houses 
 of the metropolis. 
 
 Dr. Vermilye spent the early part of his 
 life in Europe and received the preliminary 
 part of his education abroad, having at- 
 tended private schools in Berlin, Germany, 
 and Edinburgh, Scotland. Upon his return 
 to the United States, he entered the prepara- 
 tory department of the Polytechnic Institute 
 of Brooklyn and from there went to Prince- 
 ton University, graduating in the class of 
 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 He took up the study of medicine in the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia 
 University and was graduated from that in- 
 stitution in the year 1906 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 After two years in hospital work and study 
 in Europe, Dr. Vermilye opened offices in 
 New York City for the practice of his pro- 
 fession and was thus engaged until 1910, 
 when he retired from the medical field of 
 New York and transferred his home to 
 Southern California. This was prompted 
 partly on account of Mrs. Vermilye's health 
 and partly because of a decision he had made 
 to purchase a home in that section of the 
 country, which he considers to be one of 
 the most desirable parts of the world in 
 which to reside. 
 
 Dr. Vermilye's decision to locate perma- 
 nently in Southern California was the result 
 of extensive travel. After visiting most of 
 the world's attractive centers he came to the 
 
 conclusion that Southern California pos- 
 sessed more advantages, due to the goodness 
 of nature, than any other part of the world 
 he had visited. 
 
 Locating at Redlands, California, Dr. Ver- 
 milye invested in two orange ranches and 
 immediately engaged in fruit-growing, of 
 which he has made a success. In addition 
 to improving his property and making his 
 ranches among the best in that section, Dr. 
 Vermilye built a handsome residence at Red- 
 lands. 
 
 In 1910, Dr. Vermilye aided in the organi- 
 zation of the Calzona Mines Company, a cor- 
 poration capitalized at $1,500,000, of which 
 he was elected President. The company 
 owns gold and copper property in the Mojave 
 Desert country, its mines lying in California 
 near the Arizona line. Dr. Vermilye and his 
 associates operated the property for about a 
 year and a half, and after bringing it up to a 
 certain point of development disposed of 
 their interests to a syndicate of well known 
 Los Angeles capitalists who are continuing 
 the development work started by Dr. Ver- 
 milye's company. 
 
 Since locating in Southern California, Dr. 
 Vermilye has devoted himself almost exclu- 
 sively to his business interests and has taken 
 no part in public affairs, although he occu- 
 pies a splendid standing in the business and 
 social circles. 
 
 During his residence in New York, Dr. 
 Vermilye was a member of the Seventh Regi- 
 ment, New York National Guard, but re- 
 signed, after four years' service, upon mov- 
 ing to Redlands. Although he is not in ac- 
 tive practice, the Doctor still retains mem- 
 bership in the Medical Society of New York 
 County and the New York State Medical 
 Society, and he also belongs to a number of 
 clubs, including the Princeton Club of New 
 York, N. Y. ; the Jonathan Club of Los An- 
 geles, Cal.; the University Club of Redlands, 
 Cal., and the Country Club of the same 
 place. 
 
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 rj ONES, PHILO, Real Estate Owner 
 and Operator, Brawley, Imperial 
 County, California, is a native of 
 Davis, Macomb County, Michigan. 
 He was born January 22, 1874, 
 and, like many boys of what was 
 then the great Northwest, was reared on a farm. 
 His father was David T. Jones, a native of Wales, 
 England, and his mother was Lavina Sutliff Jones. 
 On August 4, 1909, Mr. Jones married Myrtle Hil- 
 len Nance at Santa Maria, California. 
 
 As a boy he attended the public schools of 
 Macomb County, Michigan, and of Ontario, Cali- 
 fornia, where the family had moved during Jones' 
 boyhood. He prepared for college at the Chaffey 
 Collegiate Institute, Ontario, California, where he 
 graduated in June, 1893. In 1894 he entered the 
 University of Southern California, which he at- 
 tended for one year. During the years 1895-1896 
 Mr. Jones was interested in business, but returned 
 to college in September, 1896. He left college at 
 the end of his junior year to enter business. 
 
 As a student he was among the leaders of his 
 classes; was president of the class of '93 at Chaffey 
 for four years and held the same office in the 
 freshman class at the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia. He was a member of the Sigma Chi Fra- 
 ternity while in attendance there. 
 
 He worked his way in college by owning the 
 college printing office and the university paper, 
 "The Courier," of which he was alternately editor 
 and business manager until June, 1898. 
 
 Mr. Jones as a young man was in business with 
 his father at Ontario, California, up to the time 
 when he left for college, 1894, and he himself owned 
 a bicycle and sporting goods store. 
 
 Upon leaving college in June, 1898, he was given 
 the management of the Union Iron Works of Los 
 Angeles, which plant was in litigation at that time 
 and was sold the following year. He spent the next 
 two years as inside manager and buyer for Nick- 
 lin's Southwest Printers' Supply and American Type 
 Founders Company of Los Angeles. In 1901 he was 
 offered the position as superintendent of the Sa- 
 linas Water, Light and Power Company, in Mon- 
 terey County. This position he held for three years, 
 resigning on a change of ownership. 
 
 Mr. Jones next entered the field of construction 
 work, being variously engaged during the follow- 
 ing three years in installing water plants and re- 
 inforced concrete work for the Los Angeles Pacific 
 Railway, rebuilding an electric plant for the Valley 
 Electric Company at Santa Maria and latterly as- 
 sistant superintendent of the Los Angeles Invest- 
 ment Company. 
 
 While employed with the latter firm Mr. Jones 
 was invited to join an association of capitalists in- 
 terested in the newly awakened Imperial Valley, 
 and particularly in the organization of the Brawley 
 Town and Improvement Company. He thereupon 
 turned all of his energies in this direction, and in 
 
 the purchasing of the townsite of Brawley he 
 bought a sixth interest, as did his father, David T. 
 Jones. 
 
 The organization of the new corporation was 
 completed in May, 1907, and on June 1 of the same 
 year he took charge of the enterprise as Secretary 
 and General Manager. In June, 1910, the company, 
 desiring to enlarge its field of operation, took over 
 the Imperial Investment Company, capitalized at 
 $200,000, merging it with the Brawley Town and 
 Improvement Company. Six months later he, with 
 his father, secured the controlling interest in the 
 company and he was elected President, which po- 
 sition he still holds together with the general man- 
 agement. Immediately after this the corporation 
 purchased nearly one thousand acres of additional 
 lands and laid out the new townsite of Westmore- 
 land, with several small farm subdivisions, which 
 properties are now being developed and sold. 
 
 In June, 1911, with Los Angeles capitalists, he 
 purchased a controlling interest in the Southern 
 California Land Company, owning a half million 
 dollars' worth of Imperial Valley realty, and was 
 elected President of that corporation, after which 
 its interests were consolidated with those of the 
 Imperial Investment Company. The combined com- 
 panies own and operate ten tracts of land, includ- 
 ing six townsites, in the Imperial Valley. 
 
 While in Imperial Valley his career has been 
 linked with numerous notable enterprises that tend 
 for the advancement of that district. He has taken 
 a leading part there, in both business and politics. 
 When he had been in the valley but thirty days he 
 was appointed chairman of the "Brawley for County 
 Seat" Committee in 1907 on the organization of 
 Imperial County. He is a member of the Board of 
 Directors of the Brawley Chamber of Commerce, 
 which position he has held with distinction since 
 1907. He was a member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee and Acting Secretary of the Imperial County 
 Chamber of Commerce during the years 1909-1910. 
 He was appointed member of the Republican 
 County Central Committee in 1910. 
 
 Mr. Jones is interested largely in many of the 
 progressive corporations and organizations of that 
 district, among which are the following: President 
 and General Manager of the Imperial Investment 
 Company and Southern California Land Company; 
 President of the People's Abstract and Trust Com- 
 pany of El Centre, Imperial Valley; Vice President 
 of the Brawley Co-Operative Building Company; 
 Vice President of the Imperial Valley Milk Com- 
 pany, and Secretary of the Westmoreland Water 
 Company. 
 
 He is a member of the Brawley Lodge, 402, F. 
 and A. M., and the Santa Maria Chapter of the 
 Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of the Han- 
 cock Council of Los Angeles, Junior O. U. A. M., 
 and of the Brawley Club. He is also President of 
 the Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church at Brawley. 
 
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 OWLER, PAUL DOWNING, Man- 
 ufacturer, Los Angeles, Califor- 
 nia, was born in Clay County, 
 Illinois, November 16, 1872. He 
 is the son of William Wilson 
 Bowler and Alice (Downing) 
 Bowler. He married Sarah B. Allgood of Oneonto, 
 Alabama, December 25, 1898, and to them there 
 have been born five children. 
 
 Mr. Bowler attended the public schools of his 
 native county and the high school of Flora, Illinois. 
 He then entered the Orchard City College of Flora 
 and graduated from the commercial department in 
 1889. 
 
 Upon the completion of his studies, Mr. Bow- 
 ler associated himself with the Branch Saw Com- 
 pany of St. Louis, this being the beginning of his 
 commercial life, in which he has made rapid and 
 successful progress ever since. He remained with 
 the Branch Saw Company two years and then 
 went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he bought 
 out the machinery business of J. M. Reed & Com- 
 pany. He conducted it under its original name for 
 a short time and then formed a partnership with 
 A. E. Shinn, changing the name to Bowler & 
 Shinn. Later the house was merged with the busi- 
 ness of Keith, Simmons & Company, a machinery 
 and supply house ranked as one of the largest and 
 strongest financial institutions of the Tennessee 
 capital. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Bowler severed his connection with 
 Keith, Simmons & Company, and he and his fam- 
 ily spent a year in Europe. While abroad he made 
 a special study of the manufacturing industries of 
 Birmingham, England. 
 
 Learning of the discovery of the great oil fields 
 at Beaumont, Texas, on the tenth day of January, 
 1901, and realizing what this meant to the United 
 States, Mr. Bowler went immediately to Beaumont. 
 He entered into partnership with M. E. Layne, one 
 of the practical well drillers of that time, and en- 
 gaged in business under the firm name of Layne 
 & Bowler, with headquarters at Houston, Texas. 
 
 The firm plunged immediately into the develop- 
 ment of oil and water wells, and, finding that the 
 methods of development then in use were crude 
 and insufficient for operations on such a large 
 scale as were then in progress, began to devise 
 and patent improved methods to meet the condi- 
 tions of the field. Their system being generally 
 adopted, Mr. Bowler's company within a short 
 time handled practically the entire business for 
 oil and water well screen and vertical centrifugal 
 pumps used in Texas-, Louisiana and Arkansas. 
 
 Mr. Bowler enjoys the distinction of having de- 
 veloped the entire water supply for the Trinity & 
 Brazos Railway Company and the St. Louis, 
 Brownsville & Mexican Railway Company at the 
 time of their building, as well as developing the 
 greater part of the water supply of the South- 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company (Atlantic System) 
 
 for many years, each one a large undertaking. 
 
 The Texas business of Layne & Bowler being 
 well organized and on a splendid paying basis, Mr. 
 Bowler, in 1909, decided to organize another cor- 
 poration in California, and selected Los Angeles as 
 the most central place for his plant, which has 
 since been engaged in the manufacture of pat- 
 ented articles for the development or separation 
 of liquids from the underground strata. These 
 devices now number seventeen, with twelve more 
 pending in the United States patent office. 
 
 Since locating in Los Angeles, Mr. Bowler has 
 come to be one of the important men in the de- 
 velopment of the oil fields and in irrigating prog- 
 ress of the Southwest. 
 
 In former days, when an irrigator put down a 
 well it was attended not only with great difficulty 
 and with only a small degree of success, but the 
 operation carried with it great danger of life or 
 serious injury, on account of the dug pits, etc. 
 Mr. Bowler, with his improved and patented de- 
 vices, is enabled to do away with the dug pits and 
 place the patented centrifugal pump to any depth 
 desired, thus getting hold of and pushing much 
 more water than would be possible with the old 
 style of pump installed at water level. Then, too, 
 with a patented screen having thirty to forty times 
 the screening or separating capacity of the old sys- 
 tem whereby the pipe was perforated after it had 
 been installed or placed in the well, Mr. Bowler is 
 enabled to develop wells with capacity many times 
 greater than could be done with many other of the 
 best known means combined. 
 
 Owing to the extensive use of the Bowler sys- 
 tem vast stretches of arid, waste land in the South- 
 west have been reclaimed and put into cultivation 
 and great oil wells have brought fortunes to their 
 owners. The Southwestern part of the United 
 States is now undergoing a wonderful period of de- 
 velopment and the producers have come to look 
 upon Mr. Bowler's patented products as among the 
 principal factors in this work. 
 
 Mr. Bowler takes a great personal pride in his 
 business and in being a help in the development 
 of the Southwest, and in order that he may keep 
 abreast of the rapid progress in the work of devel- 
 oping the resources of the country, has reincorpor- 
 ated his company, adding new capital and new 
 blood. The style of the new organization is The 
 Layne & Bowler Corporation, capitalized under the 
 laws of California for $400,000, with Mr. Bowler as 
 President and General Manager. 
 
 Mr. Bowler has never sought or held public 
 office, but is well known for his activity in the 
 temperance cause in all its phases, and is a great 
 believer in clean government and the upbuilding of 
 the Southwest, which he consideres the best por- 
 tion of the world. 
 
 Mr. Bowler is not a clubman, but finds his chief 
 pleasure in his church affiliation and the associa- 
 tion of his family. 
 
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 ENNISON, BENNETT S., Secretary 
 and General Manager, Pacific Tun- 
 nel Machine Company, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born in 
 Wichita, Kansas, August 1, 1875, 
 the son of Edward R. Dennison 
 and Agnes (Couguill) Dennison. He married May 
 Rogers at Delta, Colorado, October 7th, 1895, and 
 to them there have been born two sons, Roger and 
 Bernarr Dennison. His great-grandfather, Aaron 
 Dennison, was a pioneer 
 watchmaker and credited 
 with being the father of the 
 industry in the United States. 
 Mr. Dennison was thrown 
 upon his own resources at 
 the age of seven years, his 
 father having died at that 
 time. He then worked his 
 way through school, graduat- 
 ing in the public schools of 
 Wichita in 1891. After leav- 
 ing school he learned the 
 watch-making trade and for 
 several years traveled 
 through the United States as 
 a jeweler and watch-maker. 
 In 1896 he entered the Ameri- 
 can College of Ophthalmology 
 at Chicago. He was gradu- 
 ated in 1900, with a degree 
 of O. P. H. D. 
 
 Following his graduation, 
 Mr. Dennison engaged in the 
 optical business, as a travel- 
 ing optician, having head- 
 quarters at Delta, Colorado, 
 and Denver. He maintained 
 establishments in each city 
 
 and twice a year made a tour of the State of 
 Colorado. 
 
 In 1906, after six years of successful operation 
 in the optical business, Mr. Dennison sold out his 
 business and went into mining in Colorado, and 
 after a short time moved to Chicago, 111., where 
 he became identified with C. G. Breitenbach, a 
 wholesale silverware house, as traveling sales- 
 man. He traveled through the Northwest for some 
 time, then was chosen Sales Manager for the house. 
 During this time Mr. Dennison had not given 
 up his mining aspirations, however, and in 1908, 
 returned to Colorado, where he engaged in leasing, 
 developing and selling mining properties in the 
 Clear Creek and Gilpin districts. Later in the 
 same year he purchased an interest in the George- 
 town Transportation Company, then engaged in 
 boring a tunnel in Georgetown, Colorado, for the 
 transportation of ore, and in this way began to 
 take a serious interest in tunnel building. At that 
 time the tunneling machinery in use was not en- 
 tirely satisfactory, and one of the engineers en- 
 
 BENNETT S. DENNISON 
 
 gaged in excavation work for Mr. Dennison's com- 
 pany, George Allen Fowler, began experiments 
 which resulted in the invention by him of an en- 
 tirely new type of tunneling machine. 
 
 This invention greatly impressed Mr. Dennison, 
 and he supplied the financial backing for the or- 
 ganization of The International Tunnel Machine 
 Company, which began the manufacture of the 
 machines. The first machine was built in 1909 at 
 the Davis Iron Works, of Denver, Colorado, and 
 was tested with a block of 
 solid concrete sixteen feet 
 long, fourteen feet wide and 
 twelve feet in depth. This 
 trial demonstrated the prac- 
 ticability of the Fowler ma- 
 ijL chine, but also showed its 
 
 H^ backers the necessity for 
 
 further improvement. Within 
 a short time another was 
 built in New York, and after 
 severe tests, proved highly 
 satisfactory. 
 
 In order to place the ma- 
 chine on the market proper- 
 ly the parent concern, The 
 International Tunnel Machine 
 Company, divided the United 
 States into trade districts, 
 leasing the patents to various 
 subsidiary companies for the 
 manufacture and operation 
 of the machines. Early in 
 1912 the territory west of 
 Colorado was acquired by a 
 group of business men head- 
 ed by Delphin M. Delmas, 
 the famous California Law- 
 yer, and the Western Tun- 
 nel Machine Company was organized. This Com- 
 pany, in turn, formed an operating company, known 
 as the Pacific Tunnel Machine Company, for the 
 States of California, Nevada and Arizona. 
 
 An enormous amount of development was be- 
 gun in these States a few years ago and, it is be- 
 lieved, will be continued for some years to come. 
 In this work tunneling is an important factor and 
 tunnel machinery can be employed to a great ex- 
 tent, both in railroad and mining operations. 
 
 Mr. Dennison early became associated with Mr. 
 Delmas in these enterprises and has been one of 
 the factors in the organization of the companies, 
 which have begun operations and are building the 
 machines for use in various large development 
 projects in the Southwest. 
 
 In addition to his offices as Secretary and Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Pacific Tunnel Machine Com- 
 pany, Mr. Dennison is a Director of the Western 
 Tunnel Machine Company, the holding corpora- 
 tion, and a Director of the Casa Delmas Company, 
 an affiliated concern. 
 
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 IROUX, JOSEPH LOUIS, Mining, 
 Los Angeles, California, was born 
 in Montreal, Canada, December 15, 
 1856, the son of Gidon Giroux and 
 Mary (Frichette) Giroux. 
 
 Mr. Giroux married Phoebe 
 Marcott at Kankakee, Illinois, October 17, 1893, 
 and to them there have been born three children, 
 Joseph, Louis and Poland Giroux. He is of French 
 descent, member of one of the old families of 
 Montreal, but has spent the greater part of his 
 life in the United States. 
 
 His family having moved to Kankakee, Illinois, 
 when he was a child, he received his education in 
 the schools of that district. He first attended the 
 country schools near Kankakee and later was a stu- 
 dent in the schools- of the city proper, leaving when 
 he was twenty years of age. 
 
 Mr. Giroux began his mining career at Bingham 
 Canyon, Utah, where he was for about two years, at 
 the end of which time he went to Butte, Montana, 
 and became associated with the W. A. Clark inter- 
 ests. He was in charge of these celebrated properties 
 for about ten years. At the conclusion of that 
 period he was transferred to Jerome, Ariz., as Gen- 
 eral Manager of the famous United Verde Copper 
 Co., and had charge of the property for about fifteen 
 years. 
 
 In 1903, Mr. Giroux severed his connection with 
 the Clark interests after twenty-five years' service 
 and went to the Cananea District, Sonora, Mexico. 
 There he opened up the Sultana Mine, organizing 
 the Giroux Consolidated Co., for the operation of 
 this and other properties he controlled, including 
 properties at Ely, Nev. The Sultana Mine, Mr. 
 Giroux later sold to a syndicate. 
 
 In 1906, he became interested in the Bagdad 
 Copper Co. of Arizona. He is the principal stock- 
 holder, in addition to directing its operations at 
 Hillside, Ariz. He also is the largest stockholder in 
 the Arizona & Nevada Copper Co. and the dominat- 
 ing factor in its affairs. 
 
 Mr. Giroux, as one of the practical mining men 
 of the West, has been one of its great developers. 
 Through his long experience he is regarded as one 
 of the expert judges of ores and their handling. He 
 has made mining a scientific study all during his 
 career of more than thirty-five years and has at- 
 tained an eminent place among the leaders of the 
 business. 
 
 He has been a hard worker all his life and his 
 mining business has been such as to prevent him 
 from taking an active interest in political or other 
 public matters, even had his inclinations been in 
 that direction. 
 
 He has had no club or fraternal affiliations dur- 
 ing the nine years he has been a resident of Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 ALLEN, JAMES M., Lawyer, San Francisco, Cal- 
 ifornia, was born in Bethlehem, Ohio, March 14, 
 1844, the son of John Allen and Lavina (Teel) 
 Allen, of colonial ancestry. 
 
 He was married in San Jose, December 29th, 
 1881, to Miss Ida M. Davis, and their children are 
 Harriet Elizabeth Burrage, wife of J. Otis Bur- 
 rage; Ruth M. Allen, wife of Lucius Hamilton 
 Allen; Clara A. Allen, Francis Frederick Allen 
 and James Kirke Allen. 
 
 Mr. Allen received his education in the 
 schools of Ohio, Illinois and Connecticut, and was 
 graduated from the High School at Chicago. He 
 entered Yale in 1863 and was graduated with the 
 class of 1867. 
 
 After admission to the Bar in Illinois, he prac- 
 ticed his profession for less than a year in Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 He practiced three years in Carthage, Mis- 
 souri, and settled in San Francisco in December, 
 1874, when he was associated with Hon. Francis G. 
 Newlands and afterwards with Lloyd and New- 
 lands, until January 1st, 1880, when he was elected 
 one of the Judges of the new Superior Court of San 
 Francisco for three years. 
 
 At the end of his term he formed a partnership 
 with Edgar F. Preston, whiclj continued until 1884, 
 when tne firm of Newlands and Allen was formed. 
 Soon afterwards, Wm. F. Herrin entered the part- 
 nership and the firm became Newlands, Allen and 
 Herrin. This was dissolved soon after 1891, when 
 Mr. Newlands took up his residence in Washing- 
 ton as a member of Congress and Mr. Herrin be- 
 came the chief counsel for the Southern Pacific 
 Company. Mr. Allen continued his practice and 
 was counsel for The Bank of California among 
 others. 
 
 BROWN, ARTHUR, JR., Architect, San Fran- 
 cisco, California, was born May 21, 1874, at Oak- 
 land, California. He is the son of Arthur Brown 
 and Victoria A. Brown. His father was a civil en- 
 gineer in charge of that department of the South- 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company. 
 
 The younger Mr. Brown received his prelimi- 
 nary education in the public schools of his native 
 city, following this with attendance at the Uni- 
 versity of California. He was graduated from the 
 latter institution as a civil engineer in 1896, with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 
 Soon after finishing his work at the University 
 Mr. Brown went to Paris for the purpose of study- 
 ing architecture, becoming a student in the world- 
 famous Ecole des Beaux Arts. He took advantage 
 of the opportunities for seeing the architecture of 
 the Old World cities, and when he was graduated, 
 in 1901, was splendidly equipped for the practice 
 of his chosen profession. Upon his return to 
 San Francisco from Paris in 1904 he quickly estab- 
 lished a reputation for himself as an artistic de- 
 signer of buildings. He opened a general practice 
 at once, and numerous structures in San Francisco 
 and other parts of California stand as monuments 
 to his skill. The interior dome and decorations of 
 the City of Paris building, San Francisco, is one 
 sample of his work, while others are the Burlin- 
 game Country Club, Berkeley (Cal.) Town Hall, 
 the Santa Fe Railroad Station at Redlands, Cal., 
 and various others. Mr. Brown, who is now a 
 member of the firm of Bakewell & Brown, is noted 
 for his versatility. 
 
 He is a member of the Societe des Architects 
 Diplomes par le Gouvernement, Beaux Arts So- 
 ciety, Cercle de 1'Union, Claremont Country Club 
 and University Club, of San Francisco. 
 
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 SWEET, EARL BER- 
 TRAND, Physician, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., was born 
 in Sioux City, la., May 
 4, 1875, the son of Har- 
 lan P. Sweet and Sarah 
 Elizabeth (Scoggin) 
 Sweet. He married Re- 
 gina Nauerth in New 
 York City, Apr. 18, 1906. 
 Dr. Sweet has been 
 a resident of Los An- 
 geles since boyhood, 
 his parents having 
 moved there from South 
 Dakota in 1884. He 
 went through the pub- 
 lic schools of that city 
 and for one year was a 
 student in the Medical 
 Department of the University of California in Los 
 Angeles, but left there to enter the University of 
 Penn. at Philadelphia. He was graduated in 1898 
 with the degree, Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 After graduation, Dr. Sweet returned to Los An- 
 geles and opened offices. He was steadily engaged 
 in general medical and surgical work up to 1904 
 when he accepted appointment as Assistant in Clin- 
 ical Medicine on the staff of the University of Cali- 
 fornia (affiliated), which position he retains. He 
 spent the year 1904 in college work, but at the end 
 of the period returned to his practice. In 1907 he 
 gave up general work to specialize in Internal Medi- 
 cine with special reference to the heart and lungs. 
 He is a member of the Los Angeles County Medi- 
 cal Assn., the Med. Soc. of the State of Cal., the 
 Am. Med. Assn., and the University Club, L. A. 
 
 SPELLACY, TIMO- 
 THY, Oil Operator, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Conneautsville, 
 Pa., and has been in 
 the oil business from 
 the time of his boy- 
 hood. He gained his 
 experience in the 
 fields of Pennsylvania 
 and Ohio, and about 
 thirteen years ago de- 
 cided to move West 
 and engage in the busi- 
 ness in California. 
 
 He first located at 
 Bakersfield, Cal., re- 
 maining there about 
 six years. A little 
 over six years ago he 
 transferred his business to Los Angeles and he has 
 since been among the foremost and most success- 
 ful operators in the Kern River, Midway and 
 Coalinga districts. 
 
 His first venture included the Lockwood and 
 Creseus, while he is now the heaviest stockholder 
 and an official in the Illinois Crude Oil Company 
 and the Premier and Mascot companies, all success- 
 ful concerns. 
 
 Mr. Spellacy has been prominent in politics 
 since locating in California, and in 1910 was a can- 
 didate for Lieutenant Governor on the Democratic 
 ticket. 
 
 In addition to this he has aided materially in 
 the upbuilding of Los Angeles. 
 
 He is Vice President of the Sierra Madre Club 
 and a member of several other organizations. 
 
 STEWART, JOHN TAYLOR. Physician and 
 Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in Ken- 
 tucky in 1850, the son of W. H. Stewart and Eliza- 
 beth (Webb) Stewart. His father was of Scotch 
 ancestry and his mother a member of an old 
 Southern family. 
 
 Dr. Stewart began his education in the public 
 schools of Kentucky, and at the conclusion of the 
 course went to Kentucky University at Lexington 
 where he finished his literary studies. Following 
 this he spent four years in the Cincinnati College 
 of Medicine and Surgery, at Cincinnati, O., from 
 which he received his degree of M. D. He was 
 also elected to the Chair of Anatomy by his col- 
 lege. Later he spent a year at Jefferson Medical 
 College, in Philadelphia, from which he received 
 the degree of Medical Doctor, and he also spent 
 one college year at the Bellevue College of New 
 York. He has spent much time in post-graduate 
 study in New York and Philadelphia and has en- 
 joyed valuable opportunities in such great medical 
 centers as Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Vienna, 
 Rome and Paris. He practiced his profession in 
 Kentucky for ten years and in Los Angeles since 
 1892. 
 
 He is a member of the Am. Med. Assn., the State 
 Med. Soc. of Cal., and is an ex-member of the Ken- 
 tucky State Med. Soc. 
 
 ODEMAR, GUSTAV 
 OSCAR, Contractor, 
 Los Angeles, Cal., was 
 born in Magdeburg, 
 Germany, July 30, 1872, 
 the son of Frederick 
 William Odemar and 
 Maria (Schneider) Ode- 
 mar. He married Min- 
 nie Stoll, daughter of a 
 California pioneer, at 
 Los Angeles, April 20, 
 1898, and to them there 
 have been born three 
 children, Irma, Walter 
 and Florence Odemar. 
 The Odemar family is 
 of French origin. One 
 of its members was a 
 soldier in the Army of 
 Napoleon, but after the retreat from Moscow settled 
 in Germany at Magdeburg and changed the name of 
 O de'Mar to its present form. 
 
 Mr. Odemar received his early education in the 
 public schools of his native country and was 
 brought to America in 1885. He first resided in 
 Texas and for two years attended school there. 
 
 In 1887 he moved to Los Angeles, where his 
 brothers were contractors, and he went to work 
 with them. He remained with them until 1906, 
 when he went into the contracting business on his 
 own account. 
 
 Mr. Odemar is enthusiastic for the upbuilding 
 of his adopted city, but has never taken any active 
 part in politics. He devotes most of his time to 
 business, his only social affiliation being member- 
 ship in the Germania Turnverein. 
 
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 (DECEASED) 
 HOLLYWOOD, CAL. 
 
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 905 
 
 ERGUSON, DAVID WAL- 
 TER, District Freight and 
 Passenger Agent of the North 
 Pacific Steamship Company, 
 Los Angeles, California, is a 
 native of Clinton, Iowa, born January 19, 
 1875. His father was William Ferguson and 
 his mother, Elnor Brown (Duncan) Fergu- 
 son. Mr. Ferguson traces his descent through 
 a notable line of ancestry, 
 among whom is the 
 famed King Fergus of 
 Scotland. On July 15, 
 1899, he married Ruth 
 Lillian Green in Los An- 
 geles, by which union 
 there were three children, 
 David Halliday, (deceas- 
 ed), Lillian and Donald 
 Ferguson. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson was ed- 
 ucated in the Chicago 
 public schools, and on 
 moving to Winnipeg, 
 Canada, continued his 
 grammar schooling in 
 that city. He then took 
 a brief business course in 
 the Winnipeg Business 
 College. 
 
 About this time Mr. 
 Ferguson went to British 
 Columbia, and located in 
 Vancouver. He worked 
 there for several years in 
 a mercantile house, but 
 decided to seek a more 
 
 D. W. FERGUSON 
 
 congenial climate and in 1893 he moved south 
 to Los Angeles, California. He became as- 
 sociated there with a large dry goods house 
 in the capacity of salesman and remained in 
 that line until he was appointed manager of 
 the cloak and suit department. He ma.le a 
 signal success in this work, but after he had 
 been with his firm for seven years a better 
 opportunity offered itself and he resigned, 
 going to Portland, Oregon. There he en- 
 gaged in the cloak and suit business, continu- 
 ing in it for a period of approximately a year 
 and a half. 
 
 Becoming tired of commercial work, he 
 turned his attention to amusement enter- 
 prises and returned to Los Angeles, where 
 he managed several musical organizations. 
 After traveling for three years and a half 
 he again sought new fields. 
 
 Quitting this in 1905, he entered the 
 transportation business and after a year was 
 
 appointed Southern California agent for the 
 North Pacific Steamship Company, which 
 operates a line of vessels between San Diego, 
 California and Portland, Oregon. 
 
 For several years he devoted his entire 
 time to this work, but by the end of four 
 years he had branched out in the steamship 
 business, assuming the representation of a 
 number of foreign and domestic lines aid 
 soon became known as 
 one of the leading trans- 
 portation men in the west. 
 At the present time he is 
 the Southern California 
 representative for thirty 
 standard steamship lines 
 and in addition to this 
 business is agent for the 
 Marine Baggage and Ac- 
 cident Insurance Compa- 
 ny and the Wells Fargo 
 Express Company's 
 checks and money orders. 
 Similarly he handles the 
 American Express Com- 
 pany's and the Domestic 
 and Travelers' Checks 
 and money orders, which 
 are negotiable in all parts 
 of the civilized world. 
 
 Among the better 
 known companies of 
 which Mr. Ferguson is 
 the representative are the 
 Cunard Steamship Com- 
 pany, which owns the 
 mighty Lusitania and 
 
 Mauretania, the White Star Company, the 
 Hamburg-American Steamship Company, 
 the French Line Steamship Company, the 
 Italian Line Co., and the Steamship Line. 
 
 Other interests which he represents are 
 the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance 
 Company and the Compania Naviera Del Pa- 
 cifico, a large corporation with headquarters 
 in Mexico City. He is also a licensed Custom 
 House broker for the Port of Los Angeles and 
 is a notary public for Los Angeles County. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson is a member of the National 
 Geographic Society and of the Los Angeles 
 Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of 
 the Merchants and Manufacturers' Associa- 
 tion and is one of those men willing to do 
 anything for the furtherance of his city. He 
 is a Shriner, Mason, an Elk, a Forester, a 
 Maccabee, and belongs to the Steamship 
 Agents' Association, and the Southern Cali- 
 fornia Traffic Association. 
 
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 ORRISON, EDGAR D., Oil 
 Operator, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born in Washing- 
 ton County, Ohio, on June 5, 
 1873. His father was James 
 C. Morrison and his mother Augusta 
 (Moore) Morrison. 
 
 Mr. Morrison spent his boyhood in his 
 native State, where he studied in the gram- 
 mar schools of Washing- 
 ton County. When the 
 Morrison family moved 
 West about this time, 
 Mr. Morrison entered the 
 public schools of Ne- 
 braska, where he studied 
 for a brief period. He 
 went to business college 
 at Omaha, Nebraska, for 
 a year and mastered ste- 
 nography. 
 
 In 1890 he left the 
 business college and went 
 to Gordon, Nebraska, 
 where he secured employ- 
 ment in the Maverick 
 Bank; remained with the 
 same financial house 
 when it was changed to 
 the First National Bank 
 of Gordon. He was made 
 Assistant Cashier, and 
 served in that office for a 
 period of some seven 
 years, becoming known 
 as one of the enterprising 
 young men of that com- 
 
 E. D. MORRISON 
 
 of this decided to return to the West. 
 He did not go back to Nebraska, how- 
 ever, but sought new fields in California, 
 whither he moved in the fall of 1903. He 
 secured a one-half interest in a hotel at Santa 
 Barbara, and for one year managed and 
 financed that concern. At the end of that 
 time he opened a hotel of his own in San 
 Bernardino, California. After continuing as 
 a hotel man for a brief 
 period Mr. Morrison 
 moved to Inglewood, 
 near Los Angeles, where 
 he engaged in the real 
 estate business for five 
 years. He became prom- 
 inently associated among 
 the business men of that 
 place and was elected 
 City Clerk of the munici- 
 pality. He remained in 
 that place and was num- 
 bered among the high- 
 class business men until 
 1909, when he went into 
 his present oil business. 
 In the early part of 1909 
 Mr. Morrison became as- 
 sociated with the United 
 Oil Company, of which 
 he is Vice President and 
 a Director. 
 
 The phenomenal 
 growth of that corpora- 
 tion has been largely due 
 to such men as Mr. M!or- 
 rison, who lent their force 
 
 munity. In 1897 he was elected City Clerk 
 of Gordon, in which office he served for sev- 
 eral terms. Later he was made Treasurer 
 of the Sheridan County (Nebraska) Fair As- 
 sociation, which position he filled for a 
 period of four years. 
 
 He was Clerk of the School Board of 
 Sheridan County at one time and rendered 
 valuable services to the educational circles 
 of that community. 
 
 ^ In 1901 he was elected Treasurer of the 
 Niobrara Land and Sheep Company, which 
 was widely recognized as one of the largest 
 organizations of its kind in the State. Mr. 
 Morrison shared considerably in the develop- 
 ment and success of that company. 
 
 Mr. Morrison left Nebraska in the spring 
 of 1903, and went to Boston, where he re- 
 mained for a brief period. During his stay 
 in the East he traveled considerably in the 
 New England States, and after a few months 
 
 or capital or both in the financing of it. Since 
 that time he has invested heavily in the oil 
 business in Southern California and holds 
 office or is a stockholder in some of the 
 largest oil corporations. 
 
 He is Vice President and a Director 
 in the Rex Midway Oil Company and holds 
 the same positions with the Midnight Oil 
 Company. 
 
 He possesses and controls interests in 
 several other similar organizations, finding 
 himself well occupied in handling his inter- 
 ests in that extensive field. 
 
 Aside from his extensive holdings in oil 
 and landed properties in California, Mr. 
 Morrison has mining interests in Colorado. 
 He is recognized in the Southwest as a pro- 
 gressive mining and oil operator, willing to 
 follow any movement that is for the upbuild- 
 ing and progress of the Southwest. 
 
 He is a Knight of the Round Table. 
 
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 EDRICK, JULIAN B., Oil 
 Producer, Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia, was born at Russell, 
 Kansas, March 5, 1883. His 
 father was Martin Van B. 
 Hedrick and his mother Margaret (Snell) 
 Hedrick. He married at Los Angeles, March 
 9, 1908, Agnes Jane Whyte. 
 
 Mr. Hedrick was reared partly in Kansas 
 and in Colorado, but at an 
 early age was thrown 
 upon his own resources 
 and was unable to com- 
 plete his schooling. He 
 started as a messenger 
 boy in Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado, with the Postal 
 Telegraph-Cable Compa- 
 ny, remaining with them 
 for a number of years. 
 Then, with a compara- 
 tively insignificant 
 amount of capital and 
 with practically no expe- 
 rience in that line, he en- 
 tered the brokerage busi- 
 ness in Colorado Springs. 
 He followed that occupa- 
 tion for two years, having 
 operated successfully 
 while he was still a boy. 
 In 1900, foreseeing 
 the great future that Cali- 
 
 J. B. HEDRICK 
 
 in 1907, where he has been identified in a 
 business way, particularly with oil interests, 
 down to date. 
 
 On his arrival in Los Angeles he made 
 up his mind to enter the oil industry, which 
 was then expanding. He became a close 
 business associate with C. F. Whittier in oil 
 development and was one of the far-sighted 
 operators who arrived early in the Midway 
 and West Side fields to 
 take part in the great de- 
 velopment of that dis- 
 trict. When the Whittier- 
 Campbell Company was 
 organized, two years 
 later, Mr. Hedrick be- 
 came secretary and treas- 
 urer of that organization. 
 Mr. Hedrick's success 
 in the oil business was 
 remarkable, and on No- 
 vember 19, 1909, when 
 the United Oil Company 
 was incorporated for 
 $2,000,000, he was made 
 secretary of that corpora- 
 tion, as well as a director. 
 Mr. Hedrick has played a 
 prominent part in the 
 financing and progress of 
 that corporation, he de- 
 voted all of his time to its 
 welfare, and a short time 
 
 fornia offered for a young man of his years, 
 Mr. Hedrick, who was not yet 20 years old, 
 sold his business in Colorado Springs and 
 settled in Los Angeles, where he shortly 
 opened brokerage offices and where he was 
 actively engaged in that business for close to 
 five years. 
 
 About that time the Goldfield boom was 
 exciting people in every part of the country, 
 particularly in the Southwest, and, like many 
 young men of his age, he determined to 
 leave everything and seek his fortune in the 
 desert country of Nevada. He went imme- 
 diately to Goldfield, Nevada, where in the 
 brief space of a few months he associated 
 himself with a number of the large mining 
 men and interests. He continued there only 
 two years, returning to Los Angeles early 
 
 after organization the company was put on a 
 dividend-paying basis. 
 
 He was made secretary of the Midway 
 Central Oil Company and is a director in the 
 San Francisco Midway Oil Company. He 
 has participated in the organization of sev- 
 eral other large oil and petroleum companies 
 and helped finance numerous enterprises. He 
 invested heavily in the Bakersfield region, 
 in the McKittrick fields and in the scattered 
 oil lands of Southern California. With a 
 capacity for hard work and a determina- 
 tion to win, he has followed the oil busi- 
 ness for the last four years with an untiring 
 energy. 
 
 He is a member of the Gamut Club of 
 Los Angeles, of the Elks and of the Los 
 Angeles Athletic Club. 
 
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 RYANT, WESLEY J., Real 
 Estate Speculator, Los An- 
 geles, California, was born 
 in Greenville, Drake County, 
 Ohio, on April 2, 1862. His 
 
 father was Enos Bryant and his mother 
 
 Sarah A. (Townsend) Bryant. He is a near 
 
 relative of David Bryant, an early pioneer. 
 
 Mr. Bryant married Mary A. Williams on 
 
 January 9, 1888, at Cher- 
 okee, Iowa, and to them 
 
 there have been born two 
 
 children, Hazel Hope 
 
 and A r 1 e y Tennyson 
 
 Bryant. 
 
 Mr. Bryant received 
 
 his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Woodbury 
 
 County and Cherokee, 
 
 Iowa, graduating from 
 
 the high school of the 
 
 latter place. He studied 
 
 law, but did not apply 
 
 for admsision to the Bar, 
 
 therefore never practiced 
 
 his profession, preferring 
 
 to go info the merchan- 
 dise business. 
 
 When he was seven 
 
 years of age (1869) Mr. 
 
 Bryant moved with his 
 
 parents to Michigan, but 
 
 they stayed there only 
 
 one year, and then moved 
 
 to Woodbury County, in 
 
 the northwestern part of 
 
 Iowa, a spot in the wil- 
 
 W. J. BRYANT 
 
 derness where they endured the hardships 
 and perils of frontier life. When he was 
 twenty-one years of age Mr. Bryant was 
 teaching school, and while so occupied de- 
 voted much of his leisure time for a space of 
 three years to the study of law, in which he 
 could have qualified. Later, however, he 
 followed the merchandise business for five 
 years, a line in which he attained a consider- 
 able degree of success. 
 
 At the conclusion of this period he went 
 to California and located at Palms, a suburb 
 of Los Angeles, where he bought consider- 
 able property. He opened real estate offices 
 (1890) in the Natick House, Los Angeles, 
 and shortly afterwards was appointed to the 
 office of Justice of the Peace of Ballona 
 Township for a three-year term. At the ex- 
 piration of that term he was again elected 
 for the following term of four years. A 
 notable record which he made is that dur- 
 
 ing all of his term of office no appeals from 
 his decisions ever resulted in a reversal by a 
 higher court. At the close of his second term 
 as Justice, Mr. Bryant devoted his time to 
 real estate, a field in which he has attained 
 prominence because of his handling numer- 
 ous large deals which have been part of the 
 advancement of the City of Los Angeles and 
 vicinity, his word always being as good as 
 a bond among his busi- 
 ness associates. 
 
 Mr. Bryant has at all 
 times taken a keen inter- 
 est in public affairs and is 
 one of the men who has 
 been concerned in vari- 
 ous movements having 
 for their object the im- 
 provement of his adopted 
 city. He was actively 
 connected with the Citi- 
 zens' Improvement Asso- 
 ciation, an organization 
 which has done much to 
 build up Los Angeles' 
 most beautiful residential 
 section, and he is now 
 President of the Ninth 
 Ward Improvement As- 
 sociation. Both of these 
 bodies, in which Mr. Bry- 
 ant is a dominant factor, 
 have been important 
 links in the chain of mod- 
 ern upbuilders in the 
 Southwest. In addition 
 to his real estate and 
 building activities, Mr. Bryant is an 
 ardent worker for educational and for 
 good road improvement. In State and 
 National politics he is a staunch Republican, 
 and in local affairs has worked with the 
 Good Government forces. 
 
 He is President of the Good Government 
 organization of Boyle Heights, a populous 
 section of the city, and is a member of the 
 Good Government Committee of Los Angeles 
 proper. In recent years this party, which is 
 non-partisan, has become an influential force 
 in the politics of Los Angeles. He is First 
 Vice President of the Ohio Society, an organ- 
 ization of Buckeye State natives; has been a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias for 27 
 years, and also belongs to the Woodmen of 
 the World. Mr. Bryant, who enjoys the con- 
 fidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, has 
 succeeded in every enterprise in Los Angeles 
 that he has undertaken, and is very popular. 
 
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 'LEOD, JOHN MUNRO, Real Estate 
 
 Mg and Oil Operator, Los Angeles, 
 I Cal., is the eldest son of the late 
 John Munro McLeod and Jessie 
 Hunter (Brown) McLeod, both of 
 Scotland. He was born in Strat- 
 ford, Canada, November 3, 1871. He married Eva 
 Ethel Largen at Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 26, 1898, 
 and to them have come three children, Eva Ethel, 
 John Munro, Jr. and Alfred Wellington McLeod. 
 
 Mr. McLeod's father was 
 a noted railroad builder and 
 oil operator in Canada, hav- 
 ing completed the construc- 
 tion of the Grand Trunk Line 
 from Sarnia to Toronto, later 
 going into the oil business at 
 Petrolia, Canada. He owned 
 one of the first refining plants 
 in America, selling his prod- 
 uct to the Grand Trunk Rail- 
 way, and from this it is ap- 
 parent that the younger Mc- 
 Leod had a good inspiration 
 to guide him in the work of 
 oil development, so it is not 
 difficult to understand why 
 he has become a leader in 
 the industry. 
 
 Mr. McLeod was educated 
 in the public schools of New 
 Westminster, going through 
 the various grades, and tak- 
 ing examination for the High 
 School. At this point, how- 
 ever, he entered commercial 
 pursuits and opened a gen- 
 eral store in his home city at 
 the age of eighteen, and after 
 a few years as a merchant, 
 went in for dairying and 
 farming in British Columbia, 
 which business he followed 
 for a number of years with 
 marked success. Hearing of 
 the great opportunities in Southern California, 
 Mr. McLeod disposed of his farming and 
 dairy interests and in the summer of 1900 moved to 
 Los Angeles. The southern metropolis was then 
 entering on the boom period, and Mr. McLeod was 
 one of the thousands who went there looking for an 
 opportunity to invest. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival his attention was drawn 
 to the .oil business, which he had followed closely 
 for several years, waiting for a chance to get into 
 it. His first venture was in the Kern River field, 
 where he became interested in a small way. The 
 oil business held Mr. McLeod for four years, and 
 then he turned his attention to real estate, which 
 was thriving at that time. He opened an office in 
 Los Angeles in 1904, and later organized the firm of 
 Winton & McLeod, going into real estate on a large 
 scale. They opened up a number of large subdivis- 
 ions in Los Angeles, among them the Calkins Fig- 
 ueroa Street Tract, the Winton and McLeod Fig- 
 ueroa Street Tract, and the Winton and McLeod 
 Figueroa Tracts Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. 
 
 During the Eastern money panic in 1907 it took 
 all of Mr. McLeod's efforts to carry several syndi- 
 cates of which he was the head, and after things 
 became easier he withdrew from the active work of 
 the real estate business and made a complete sur- 
 vey of the oil districts in California with one of the 
 
 J. M. McLEOD 
 
 most competent geologists of the country. He sup- 
 plemented this with advice from several of the 
 older, practical oil men in the State. 
 
 In his inquiry he visited all the principal fields, 
 including Santa Maria, Kern River, Coalinga and 
 McKittrick, and investigated most fully what is 
 known as the Midway Field, but which at that time 
 was practically undeveloped. After studying forma- 
 tions there, he arrived at a conclusion contrary to 
 that of the oldest oil men of the district, who 
 thought there was only a 
 narrow strip in which was 
 oil ; his judgment and faith in 
 that section have since been 
 justified. He took a lease on 
 forty acres, which now con- 
 stitute part of the Hale-Mc- 
 Leod property, but on ac- 
 count of the adverse opinion 
 of old operators, which was 
 generally believed, he was 
 unable to get necessary funds 
 to drill, and so forfeited his 
 hold on that piece of proper- 
 ty; however he later again se- 
 cured that same property, 
 with additional territory, for 
 the Hale-McLeod Co., and it 
 is now conceded to be one of 
 the best pieces of oil territory 
 in California. The present 
 sub-tenants, the Midway Pre- 
 mier, Midway 5, and Kalispell 
 Companies, all have weils 
 that have been large pro- 
 ducers. During 1911 a well 
 belonging to the Kalispell Co. 
 has produced at the rate of 
 2500 barrels a day. 
 
 This body of oil lies below 
 the salt water line, which it 
 has always been contended 
 by the oldest operators was 
 the "bottom-water" below 
 which oil would never be 
 
 secured. Vindications of Mr. McLeod's unfaltering 
 belief in the field are the companies that went on 
 the "flat" and have successfully operated, their 
 stockholders having all been induced to enter the 
 field at the instigation of Mr. McLeod. 
 
 Mr. McLeod is Vice Pres. of the Hale-McLeod 
 Co. and Four Investment Co.; Director and Mgr. 
 Toronto Midway Oil Co. and Director 32 Oil Co., 
 Director Edmunds Midway Oil Co., and heavily in- 
 terested in the Esperanza Consolidated Oil Co. 
 
 Mr. McLeod and associates have handled and 
 financed a greater number of oil companies, com- 
 bining a greater acreage, than almost any other 
 company interested in the California oil fields. The 
 acreage financed and operated through Mr. McLeod 
 amounts to over 1700, and includes the wells of over 
 twenty companies, representing a combined invest- 
 ment of upwards of five million dollars. 
 
 These achievements have placed Mr. McLeod 
 among the real developers of the Southwest, and 
 while he has made a large fortune for himself, he 
 has also been the means of making others wealthy, 
 and at the same time has added to the industrial 
 strength of Southern California. 
 
 He is a member of the Union League Club, of 
 San Francisco; Union League, Sierra Madre, San 
 Gabriel Valley Country, and the Los Angeles Ath- 
 letic Clubs, all of Los Angeles. 
 
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 W. D. REYNOLDS 
 
 REYNOLDS, W. D., Cattle Raising and 
 Handling, Reynolds Building, Fort Worth. 
 Texas, was born in Alabama, April 22, 1846. 
 
 Mr. Reynolds is Vice President of the 
 Reynolds Cattle Company, Director of the 
 Fort Worth National Bank, Director of the 
 First National Bank of Stamford, Texas, and 
 President of the Cisco Cotton Oil Company. 
 
 Z. FREEMAN CALLAHAN 
 
 CALLAHAN, Z. FREEMAN, Architect, 
 Contractor and Real Estate, San Diego, Cal., 
 was born in Maine in 1867. 
 
 Mr. Callahan was educated in the schools 
 of Maine and Massachusetts. He went to 
 San Diego in 1906. He belongs to the 
 Knights of Pythias and is a member of the 
 San Diego Yacht Club. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Abbott, William M San Francisco. . .623 
 
 Abernathy, Capt. Jack Oklahoma 813 
 
 Aldridge, W. H Los Angeles 364 
 
 Alexander, Hon. George Los Angeles 442 
 
 Allen, James M San Francisco 902 
 
 Allen, Hon. M. T Los Angeles 803 
 
 Allison, A. B Los Angeles 619 
 
 Almada, Jesus Culiacan, Mex...768 
 
 Alpaugh, Edwin K Los Angeles 464 
 
 Alton, John Los Angeles 383 
 
 Amweg, Col. F. J San Francisco. . . .888 
 
 Anderson, A. P Los Angeles 71 
 
 Anderson, J. C Los Angeles 594 
 
 Andrews, Harry Los Angeles 544 
 
 Arnold, Bion J Chicago, 111 406 
 
 Arnold, Ralph Los Angeles 344 
 
 Arnoldy, Fred N Los Angeles 658 
 
 Ashurst, Hon. Henry F Prescott, Ariz.. . . 64 
 
 Austin, John C. W Los Angeles 441 
 
 Avakian, J. C Los Angeles 722 
 
 Averill, George E Los Angeles 689 
 
 Axelson, Charles F Los Angeles 330 
 
 B 
 
 Bacon, Francis E Los Angeles 486 
 
 Bacon, Walter R San Francisco 817 
 
 Bain, Ferdinand R Los Angeles 223 
 
 Balch, Allan C Los Angeles 115 
 
 Baldwin, James V Los Angeles 574 
 
 Barber, Dr. D. C Los Angeles 795 
 
 Barber, Ray J Los Angeles 531 
 
 Bard, Dr. Cephas L Ventura Co., Cal. 40 
 
 Bard, Hon. Thomas R Hueneme, Cal 36 
 
 Barham, Guy B Los Angeles 592 
 
 Barker, W. A Los Angeles 622 
 
 Barlow, Dr. W. Jarvis Los Angeles 545 
 
 Barneson, Capt. John San Francisco 502 
 
 Barret, A. B Los Angeles 566 
 
 Barrett, W. E San Francisco 145 
 
 Bartlett, Rev. Dana W Los Angeles 599 
 
 Barton, Dr. H. P Los Angeles 350 
 
 Batchelder, George A San Francisco 162 
 
 Bates, H. S San Francisco 274 
 
 Baum, A. R San Francisco 693 
 
 Baum, F. G San Francisco. . ..512 
 
 Bayly, William Los Angeles 128 
 
 Beach, Dr. Everett C Los Angeles 429 
 
 Bean, Jacob Alhambra, Cal 200 
 
 Beckett, Dr. W. W Los Angeles 155 
 
 Behymer, L. E Los Angeles 737 
 
 Bell, Harmon Oakland, Cal 358 
 
 Bennett, James S Los Angeles 509 
 
 Bennie, James W Clifton, Ariz 818 
 
 Bennitt, E. J Phoenix, Ariz 218 
 
 Bent, Arthur S Los Angeles 544 
 
 Berry, C. J Los Angeles 840 
 
 Besley, Capt. J. C Coronado, Cal 630 
 
 Bettis, H. I Los Angeles 554 
 
 Bicknell, Dr. F. T Los Angeles 118 
 
 Bilger, Frank W Oakland, Cal 449 
 
 Bilicke, A. C Los Angeles 82 
 
 Bird, A. C Compton, Cal 124 
 
 Birdno, John J , Safford, Ariz 292 
 
 Bittinger, George E Los Angeles 79 
 
 Bixby, George H Long Beach, Cal.. 9 
 
 Bixby, Jotham Long Beach, Cal.. 7 
 
 Bixby, William F Los Angeles 771 
 
 Black, George N Los Angeles 545 
 
 Blackstock N Los Angeles 84 
 
 Bledsoe, Benjamin F San Bernardino. .254 
 
 Bley, Adolfo Hermosillo, Mex.. 95 
 
 Bolin, P. J Los Angeles 870 
 
 Booth, Hiram E Salt Lake City. . .183 
 
 Booth, Willis H .Los Angeles 443 
 
 Boothe, E. Y Los Angeles 835 
 
 Boruff, Fred L San Fernando. . . 804. 
 
 Bowler, Paul D Los Angeles 900 
 
 Bradley, Dr. E. R Los Angeles 152 
 
 Brainerd, Dr. H. G. Los Angeles 83 
 
 Bridge, Dr. Norman Los Angeles 20 
 
 Brown, Arthur, Jr San Francisco. . . .902 
 
 Brown, Frank L San Francisco 130 
 
 Brown, Harrington Los Angeles 592 
 
 Brown, Henry F Minneapolis 758 
 
 Browning, Dr. Charles C Los Angeles 221 
 
 Brownstein, D. J Los Angeles 629 
 
 Brunswig, L. N Los Angeles 711 
 
 Bryan, E. P Los Angeles 765 
 
 Bryant, W. J Los Angeles 908 
 
 Buck, Frank H San Francisco 28 
 
 Buick, D. D . . . .Los Angeles 370 
 
 Bullard, Hon. George Purdy. .. Phoenix, Ariz.... 23 
 
 Burch, Franklin P Los Angeles 533 
 
 Burch, H. Kenyon Los Angeles 24 
 
 Burcham, C. A Los Angeles 732 
 
 Burnell, George Edwin Los Angeles 678 
 
 Burnham, Major F. R Pasadena, Cal 657 
 
 Burnham, George San Diego, Cal. . .498 
 
 Burton, J. A Los Angeles. . 315 
 
 Bush, William E Los Angeles 712 
 
 Butler, Sidney A Los Angeles 78 
 
 Byrne, Callaghan Los Angeles 238 
 
 Byrne, J. J Los Angeles 146 
 
 Callaghan, Bryan San Antonio, Tex.564 
 
 Callahan, Z. Freeman San Diego, Cal . . . 910 
 
 Calvert, J. W Azusa, Cal 650 
 
 Cameron, Ralph H Grand Canyon, Ar.819 
 
 Campbell, Charles N San Antonio, Tex.255 
 
 Campbell, Kemper B Los Angeles 603 
 
 Carson, Dr. J. K Los Angeles 675 
 
 Carson, John M Los Angeles 300 
 
 Cashin, J. O Los Angeles 383 
 
 Cashion, J. A Los Angeles 272 
 
 Cass, Alonzo B Los Angeles 125 
 
 Catrow, Henry Salt Lake City. . .356 
 
 Chandler, Charles L Los Angeles 701 
 
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 Chandler, J. Paul Los Angeles 
 
 Chandler, Leo S Los Angeles 
 
 Chapman, Melvin C Oakland, Cal 
 
 Chappell, D. A Los Angeles 
 
 Chappellet, F Los Angeles 
 
 Cheney, Hon. W. A Los Angeles 
 
 Chesebrough, A. S San Francisco... 
 
 Christy, Lloyd B Phoenix, Ariz 
 
 Churchill, O. H Los Angeles 
 
 Clark, Eli P Los Angeles 
 
 Clark, J. Ross Los Angeles 
 
 Clark, Percy H Los Angeles 
 
 Clayton, N. W Salt Lake City. . 
 
 Cleaveland, J. F Phoenix, Ariz. . . 
 
 Cochran, George I Los Angeles 
 
 Cochran, Dr. Guy Los Angeles 
 
 Code, W. H Los Angeles 
 
 Coffee, L. W Los Angeles 
 
 Coffey, Dr. Titian J Los Angeles 
 
 Coit, Henry A Los Angeles 
 
 Cole, Elmer E Los Angeles 
 
 Cole, Dr. George L Los Angeles 
 
 Cole, Louis M Los Angeles 
 
 Collier, D. C San Diego, Cal. . 
 
 Collier, Frank C Los Angeles 
 
 Colter, Fred T Springerville, Ar. 
 
 Conaty, Rt. Rev. Thomas J....LOS Angeles 
 
 Condee, A. J Los Angeles 
 
 Condon, E. B Los Angeles 
 
 Cook, Hon. Carroll San Francisco.. . 
 
 Cook, Dr. C. W Los Angeles 
 
 Cook, J. E Los Angeles 
 
 Cooper, M. G Los Angeles 
 
 Cornell, F. D Los Angeles 
 
 Coryell, J. B San Francisco. . . 
 
 Coulston, J. B Pasadena, Cal.. . 
 
 Coward, H. C *San Francisco . . . 
 
 Cowles, Dr. J. E Los Angeles 
 
 Cox, Frank I Phoenix, Ariz. . . 
 
 Craig, Hon. Gavin W Los Angeles 
 
 Creswell, H. T San Francisco. . . 
 
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 Hogan, Col. W. J Pasadena, Cal 726 
 
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 Jess, Stoddard Los Angeles 30 
 
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