History of Los Angeles county, Volume III, Part 1

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
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HISTORY OF

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

JOHN STEVEN McGROARTY EDITOR

Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors

With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses in the Period of the County's Greatest Growth and Achievement

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1923

* 979.493 M178h 2

813954 REFERENCE COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.

JOHN E. DALY. In considering the life and services of so fine a man and so eminent a lawyer as the late John E. Daly, of Long Beach, California, no words of commendation seem too great or expressions of sorrow over his loss too extravagant. For eighteen years Mr. Daly was identified with the history of Long Beach, was acquainted intimately with its people and their problems, and singly and collectively fought many of their battles on occa- sion.

John E. Daly was born at Hackensack, New Jersey, May 23, 1862, and passed away after a sudden illness, in his beautiful home at Long Beach, California, on September 11, 1921. In his infancy he was brought to Ster- ling, Illinois, by his parents, James V. and Ellen B. Daly, both of whom died at Los Angeles, California, in recent years.

In large measure, Mr. Daly was a self-made man. His educational advantages did not extend beyond the public schools of Sterling, while his great knowledge of law was a self achievement, assiduous study at home finally bringing its hard won reward in admission to the bar. In 1885, then twenty-three years old, Mr. Daly came to California and for two years after- ward made his home at Pasadena, removing then to Glendora, where he later became interested with the late Arthur L. Moore, in a lumber business, the firm having lumber yards at Glendora and also at Long Beach. In 1896 Mr. Daly was admitted to the bar of California, and for seven years after- ward engaged in the practice of law at Glendora, a large proportion of his practice during these years being cases of litigation in relation to water rights, and he became prominently identified with the development of water in the Azusa-Covina Valley.

In 1903 Mr. Daly was called to Long Beach because of the death of his partner, Arthur L. Moore, and this city continued to be his home during the rest of his life. He opened his first law office in the old postoffice, known as the W. W. Law building, on Pine Avenue between Ocean Avenue and First Street, removing later to the Bixby-Hartwell building, now the Ken- nedy Hotel, and still later, on the completion of the First National Bank building, established his offices in that modern structure.

Possessing as he did a keen, vigorous mind and carefulness of detail, Mr. Daly was an ideal Probate lawyer, was retained by so many large firms that he had a larger volume of appeal work than any other lawyer in Los Angeles County, at the time of his death having no less than forty estate cases pending. He was a director of the First National Bank and its attor- ney since 1905 ; was attorney for the Hotel Virginia and a director for some years ; was one of the originators and incorporators of the Daily Telegram, of Long Beach and its attorney at the time of his death; was a member of the directorate of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce for some years, and was the first president of the Long Beach Bar Association. Among the corporate interests he represented were the Alamitos Land Company, the Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Company and the Strand Improvement Company. He was a tireless worker for his clients and a for- ' midable. opponent, for his wit was keen and his knowledge of law and precedent indisputable, and a record of his cases shows them to have been among the most notable coming before the courts of the county during his active years. A well remembered case was that of the City of Long Beach

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against the Strand Company for the recovery of privately owned tide land from the Pine Avenue pier to the Hotel Virginia. The case was won by Mr. Daly after being carried to the Supreme Court of the state. Had his life been spared, there is little doubt but that service on the Bench would have crowned his long and honorable career as a lawyer.

Mr. Daly was married at Sterling, Illinois, on December 28, 1887, to Miss Malinda S. Snavely. Their only child, James H. Daly, formerly a member of the law firm of Daly, Daly & Todd, died after a brief illness, on May 4, 1922, surviving his father but a few months.

Mr. Daly was an important factor in republican political circles in Southern California for many years and in earlier years, in association with Henry P. Barbour and the late Frank C. Roberts, was especially vigorous in spreading republican doctrine. During the administration of Mayor Frank H. Downs; he served as city attorney of Long Beach, and later, when his private practice as senior member of the prominent law firm of Daly, Daly & Todd, engaged the larger part of his time and attention, he still loyally served his party organization as a member of the Republican Central or Congressional Committee.

At one time Mr. Daly owned a large amount of valuable realty in South- ern California, including tracts at San Pedro, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Fresno, Los Angeles and Long Beach, but in his later years disposed of all his holdings with the exception of his spacious residence at 739 Chestnut Avenue, Long Beach, where Mrs. Daly still resides. She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Long Beach, of which Mr. Daly, although not a member, was a regular attendant and liberal supporter. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Long Beach, and also of the Elks, and of the Union League Club of Los Angeles, and not only was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, but a cheerful and generous contribu- tor to its various beneficent enterprises. On the day of Mr. Daly's funeral, public respect was shown his memory in the closing of business houses and the passing of resolutions of respect and esteem by many business, pro- fessional, political and social organizations. His memory will long be kept green by those who knew his real worth.

CHARLES DANIEL LOCKWOOD, M. D., of Pasadena, has secured status and prestige as one of the representative surgeons engaged in practice in California, and has been prominently identified with the educational work of his profession, the while he has achieved large and worthy technical and financial success in his active practice as a surgeon.

Dr. Lockwood is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the early Colonial period of our national history. He is a descendant of Robert Lockwood, who came from England and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630. From this ancestor the Doctor is a descendant in the ninth generation in America, his ancestor in the second generation hav- ing been Joseph Lockwood, a son of Robert, the latter's children having been ten in number. In the direct lineage is found Richard Lockwood, who was born in 1735, a son of Armwell Lockwood. This Richard Lockwood was a member of the Delaware convention which in 1776 declared in favor of the revolution of the American colonies against the domination of Eng- land. It is through this ancestor that Dr. Lockwood obtained affiliation with the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Dr. Charles D. Lockwood was born at Effingham, Illinois, January 22, 1868, and is a son of John Hughes Lockwood and Ruth (Locke) Lock- wood. John H. Lockwood was born in the City of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, in 1837, and received excellent educational advantages. He became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and served as chaplain of the Forty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. In 1872 he moved with his family to Kansas, where he took up a soldier's claim, and for many years did the work of a minister of the Gospel in that border country. He was founder of the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina. About 1907 he came to California, and lived retired until his death.

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Rev. John H. Lockwood married Ruth Locke. She was sixteen when she married, and they lived happily together for over fifty-five years, and of their eleven children nine survived the beloved mother when she passed away June 4, 1922, at her home in Pasadena. She died at the age of seventy-eight. She was born in Ireland, was brought to the United States when a girl, and grew up in Illinois. She displayed her courage and forti- tude during the Civil war when, with her husband in the army, she looked after the home and her three young children. Again she endured the trials of pioneering in Kansas, and the last fifteen years of her life she lived in Southern California, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Although deprived of an early education, she had an alert mind, was always eager to learn, deplored the fact that she could not have the modern edu- cational advantages and kept abreast of the times. She was as progressive and modern minded as her children, and was informed on all the questions of the day. After she had reared her large family she graduated from the Chautauqua Institution, thus keeping in touch with the intellectual life of her children as one after the other they entered college. Her.dominating characteristics were her sweet humanity and her Christian heroism. Her surviving children besides Doctor Charles D. Lockwood are: Doctor Richard C., of Pasadena ; W. B. Lockwood, of St. Francis, Kansas ; Doctor Frank C., of Tucson, Arizona ; George M., of Redlands, California; Miss Elizabeth and Mrs. Fred Bull, of Pasadena; Mrs. William Carhart, of Ellsworth, Kansas; and Mrs. Daniel McGurk, of Athens, Ohio.

Doctor Charles D. Lockwood was only four years of age when the family moved to Kansas, where he gained in the public schools his prelimi- nary education. In 1890 he graduated from the academy of the Kansas Wesleyan University ; in 1893 he received from Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and in 1896 he graduated from the medical department of that great institution at Chicago with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has continued a close and appreciative student and has kept in touch with the advances made in med- ical and surgical science. In this connection it may be noted that in 1906 Doctor Lockwood took special courses in surgery and pathology in the Uni- versity of Vienna, Austria.

For fifteen years Dr. Lockwood was engaged in the general practice of his profession in Chicago and in Southern California, and for the past ten years he has specialized in surgery. From 1901 to 1918 he was pro- fessor of oral surgery in the College of Dentistry of the University of Southern California; from 1911 to 1918 he was attending surgeon to the Los Angeles County Hospital; and from 1910 to 1922 he held a similar position in connection with the Pasadena Hospital. He was president of the Western Surgical Association in 1921, and in 1922 he is president of the surgical section of the California State Medical Society and also of the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society. In 1919 he was presi- dent of the Los Angeles Surgical Society, and he maintains also an active affiliation with the American Medical Association.

In connection with the nation's participation in the World war Dr. Lockwood attended in July, 1916, the military training camp at Monterey. He organized and equipped Red Cross Ambulance Company No. 1, which was ready for active service at the time the United States declared war against Germany, in 1917. On the 1st of June of that year he opened at Allentown, Pennsylvania, the training camp for ambulance units, and after arriving in France he organized and assumed command of the American Camp Hospital No. 33 at Brest-January 13 to June 13, 1918. Thereafter he was in command of a surgical team at the front until November 11 of that year, when the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close. The Doctor attained to the rank of major in the Medical Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces, the commanding general of which com- mended him for bravery under fire July 14, 1918.

Dr. Lockwood is a member of the executive committee of the local post of the American Legion and also of that of the Boy Scouts of America.

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Prior to the nation's entrance into World war Dr. Lockwood was actively concerned in the organization of the Pasadena Chapter of the Navy League and also in other work for preparedness. He is independent in politics, his allegiance having originally been given to the republican party and later to the progressive party. He is affiliated with Corona Lodge, A. F. and A. M., the Sons of the American Revolution and other organizations, including the Annandale Golf Club, the Valley Hunt Club, the Twilight Club and the Lincoln Club. He holds membership in the Methodist Episco- pal Church and attends the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena.

At Platteville, Wisconsin, on the 5th of September, 1898, was sol- emnized the marriage of Dr. Lockwood and Miss Clara May Sanford, daughter of Henry C. and Mary (Greene) Sanford. Dr. and Mrs. Lock- wood have no children.

At Pasadena Dr. Lockwood maintains his offices at 607-12 Citizens Savings Bank Building, and his residence is at 295 Markham place. He was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons, and has taken active part in the splendid work in which this organization has main- tained leadership, in the raising of standards of surgical practice and hos- pital service. Dr. Lockwood has made many contributions to surgical literature, and many of his addresses have been read before' national soci- eties of his profession. He was chairman of the campaign committee which raised $500,000 for the enlargement of the Pasadena Hospital, and was made chairman of the building committee of this valuable institution. . His civic loyalty is on a parity with his fine sense of professional steward- ship, and more than this need not be said.

JOHN ALLIN, who died at his home January 6, 1920, had been a resident of Pasadena thirty-seven years, and was a man of much prominence and activity in its constructive, financial and civic affairs.

He was born in Devonshire, England, July 3, 1834, oldest of the ten children of William and Mary (Banbury) Allin. The Allins are of old English stock, and the name has been spelled with an I for many genera- tions. Two brothers of William Allin came to Canada and settled east of Toronto, where many of their descendants still live. The youngest brother of Mary Banbury was the late Colonel Banbury, who had so much to do with the early history of Pasadena.

The late John Allin was six months old when he came to the United States with his parents in January, 1835. The family lived at Gambier and Mount Vernon, Ohio, until 1850, when they moved to Northwestern Missouri and in 1852 settled near Iowa City in Johnson County, Iowa, where they remained until coming to Pasadena in 1882.

John Allin arrived at Pasadena November 1, 1882. He at once pur- chased several tracts of land, and held them for a number of years. He was one of the first directors of the first bank established in Pasadena, which was later incorporated as the first National Bank, and he continued on its Board of Directors for many years. He was continuously a director from the organization of the Pasadena Lake Vineyard Land & Water Company until it was taken over by the City of Pasadena in 1912. He also served as a member of the City Board of Trustees, and was a recognized leader in every movement for the upbuilding of the city and its surrounding territory. He was a member of Corona Lodge of Masons, Crown Chapter, R. A. M., Pasadena Chapter of the Eastern Star and the Universalist Church.

On September 13, 1860, John Allin married Jemima Townsend, who died at her home in Pasadena September 26, 1921, at the age of eighty-one, after a residence in Pasadena of thirty-nine years. She was born in Hamilton County, Indiana, September 4, 1840, and moved with her parents to the vicinity of West Branch, Iowa, in 1854. She was the oldest of the twelve children of David and Sidney (Maudlin) Townsend, who were early settlers of Pasadena, moving from Iowa to this section of Southern

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California in November, 1876. One of their sons was the late Stephen Townsend, of Long Beach.

The Townsend family is of English Quaker stock and came to the United States prior to the Revolutionary war. The great-grandfather of Jemima Townsend was John Townsend, a Revolutionary soldier who joined a Pennsylvania regiment as a drummer boy at the age of fifteen. He lived to the venerable age of ninety. When the regiment to which he belonged was campaigning in South Carolina he contracted the measles and was left sick in a haystack. A young girl of thirteen, named Elvira Cain, found him, took him to a building on her father's plantation and nursed him to recovery, remaining faithful to this task after being exposed to the same disease from which her patient was suffering. When he recovered he rejoined his regiment, and when the war was over, and at the age of twenty, he returned to South Carolina and married Elvira Cain, who was then eighteen or nineteen years of age. They lived together seventy years. Elvira (Cain) Townsend was the mother of twelve children. She died in Ohio at the age of one hundred and two years and three days. She was born March 7, 1768, and died March 10, 1870, having over six hundred living descendants. It is believed that she was the last surviving widow of a Revolutionary soldier. When Elvira (Cain) Townsend was a hundred years old her descendants and close friends gave her a birthday party. She presided at the head of the table, and among the many experiences of her life she told of the British soldiers beating her father nearly to death and hanging her older brother to an apple tree and how her mother when she saw the horrible sight fainted. Whereupon the soldiers cut him down and spared his life, because, as they said, the old woman made such an awful fuss about it.

The three surviving children of the late John Allin and wife are T. D. Allin and C. A. Allin, comprising the firm of Allin Brothers, civil engineers of Pasadena, and the one daughter, Rosa L. Allin, also of Pasadena.

CHARLES ARTHUR ALLIN is a son of John and Jemima (Townsend) Allin, pioneer residents of Pasadena whose life has been reviewed in the preceding sketch. He is a civil engineer, a graduate of the University of California, and throughout the practice of his profession has been associated with his brother, T. D. Allin, and is a member of the firm of Allin Brothers, civil engineers.

Charles Arthur Allin was born near Iowa City, Iowa, March 25, 1867, and was about sixteen years of age when the family came to Pasadena. He finished his education in local schools, then entered the University of California, graduating Ph. B. in 1894. Three years of the time he spent at the university he specialized in civil engineering. After leaving the university he assisted his brother in the latter's practice as a civil engineer, involving largely work in the construction, design and maintenance of irrigation and water plants, and subsequently became member of the firm Allin Brothers. Mr. Allin, who is unmarried, is a republican, a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Knights of Pythias and Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity, and his church associations are with the Universal- ist Church.

THOMAS DAVID ALLIN is a consulting engineer, member of the firm Allin Brothers, civil engineers, with offices in the Kendall Building, Pasadena. Mr. Allin was educated for his profession in California, and for thirty years has had a varied and important practice in and around Pasadena.

He was born at West Branch, Iowa, son of John and Jemima (Townsend) Allin. The history of his father and his ancestry is found in the preceding sketch. T. D. Allin is the oldest of three children. His brother, Charles Arthur Allin, is junior member of the firm Allin Brothers. His only sister, Rosa L. Allin lives at 109 East Walnut Street in Pasadena.

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T. D. Allin was the first young man from Pasadena to enter the University of California or any other institution of higher learning, and he pursued his education as a civil engineer there. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Municipal Improvements and the American Water Works Associa- tion. He has been an engineer for a number of the water companies in and around Pasadena, and was the first city engineer of South Pasadena, the first city engineer of Alhambra, and was city engineer of Pasadena from 1901 to 1905. He also acted as a member of the City Water Commission in 1912, and from 1913 to 1919 was com- missioner of Public Works of Pasadena, being vice-president of the commission the last four years. Outside of his profession, he has served in the capacity of a bank director since 1903. In that year he became a director in the American Bank of Pasadena, and continued when this was merged with the Crown City Bank, following which came a merger with the National Bank of Pasadena, and he is now a member of the Executive Board, comprising local directors of the Pasadena branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank.

Mr. Allin is a member of the Executive Board of the Pasadena Technical Society, is a director of the Pasadena Chamber of Com- merce and Civic Association, and a member of the Pasadena City Planning Commission. He is a republican, is a York and Scottish, Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America, and belongs to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena, to the Y. M. C. A. and Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. Mr. Allin is a member of the Tournament of Roses Association, and has had some part in the plans and arrange- ments for the new Tournament of Roses Stadium.

At Pasadena, October 18, 1892, he married Miss Jessie E. Patter- son, who is of Quaker parentage, only daughter of Captain Elihu R. and Clara Naomi (Mead) Patterson. She was only two years of age when her father, who had been a captain in the Thirtieth Ohio In- fantry in the Civil war, died as a result of exposure while in the army. Mrs. Allin was born in Ohio, was reared in Minnesota and came to Pasadena for the benefit of her mother's health in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Allin have two children: Hazel Allin, a graduate with the class 1917 from Stanford University, and Ralph Walter Allin, a student in the Pasadena High School.

C. WELLINGTON KOINER has proved effectively through thirteen years of service as general manager and mechanical-electrical engineer of the municipal electric utility system of Pasadena his special technical and execu- tive eligibility for the important office of which he is now the incumbent, that of city manager of Pasadena, a position to which he was appointed in May, 1921, and in which he is giving a most vigorous and progressive administration.

Mr. Koiner was born in Augusta County, Virginia, May 17, 1870, and is a son of George W. and Nancy (Reed) Koiner, both likewise natives of that historic old commonwealth, in which the respective families were founded in the Colonial period of our national history. The original pro- genitor of the Koiner family in America came to this country in 1740, and after remaining a short time in Pennsylvania he made permanent settlement in Virginia, whence representatives of the family later went forth as patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution. George W. Koiner became a Virginia farmer or planter. Mrs. Koiner was a daughter of Haskell Reed, who was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he served in the command of General "Stonewall" Jackson.

C. Wellington Koiner received his preliminary education in the public schools of his native state, and he has never regretted the discipline which came to him through being early thrown upon his own resources. To study along the line that makes for mastering of expedients he believes that every

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American boy should read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Koiner provided ways and means by which he was enabled to complete a course in the School of Industrial Science at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he gained the initial technical knowledge which, as advanced by further study and broad practical experience, has made him a skilled mechanical and electrical engineer. In 1891-2 he erected at Anthony, Florida, a power plant for the Maryland Phosphate Mining Company. From 1892 to 1898 he was general manager of the Laurel Electric Light, Power & Heat Com- pany at Laurel, Maryland. In the latter year he was made general manager of the Oneida (New York) Light & Power Company, and when, in 1901, this company became an integral part of the Madison County Gas & Electric Company he was retained as superintendent of the latter corporation, of which he later became president and general manager. From June, 1905, to June, 1907, Mr. Koiner was secretary and treasurer of the National Light & Improvement Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and had charge of the properties controlled by this company at Wichita, Kansas, and Fort Worth and Waco, Texas. In 1907-8 Mr. Koiner served for a time as super- intendent and engineer for the Los Angeles Gas & Electric Company, and in March, 1908, he became electrical engineer and general manager of the Pasadena Municipal Light & Power Utility, of which position he continued the incumbent until May, 1921, when he became the first city manager of Pasadena, a commission or directoral system of municipal government having been adopted shortly before this. His professional career has been one of consecutive advancement, and he has marked the passing years with worthy achievement. He has served as consulting engineer for various municipalities, is a director of the Pasadena Building & Loan Association, of the Young Men's Christian Association, American Association of Engi- neers, Los Angeles Chapter, and the local Chamber of Commerce, is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and holds mem- bership also in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Amer- ican Association of Engineers, the American Society for Municipal Improvements, also a member of the Advisory Board of the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena, and is vice president of the City Managers' Association and belongs to the Union League Club. For a time during the nation's participation in the World war Mr. Koiner served as power expert of the engineering staff of the United States Shipping Board in the City of Philadelphia. In his home city he is a member of the Kiwanis and the New Century clubs. He and his wife are members of the First Pres- byterian Church at Pasadena, and Mrs. Koiner is a member also of the Shakespeare and the Sorosis clubs. In the Masonic fraternity has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is affiliated also with the Mystic Shrine and the Knights Templar.

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History of Los Angeles county, Volume III, Part 1

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944 Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Number of Pages: 844

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 844