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he has the largest strictly line bred, heavy-laying and exhibition flock of single-comb Rhode Island Reds on the Pacific coast, one thousand in number and all raised and bred by himself.
The Red Plume Poultry Yards, as Mr. Pike has named his chicken ranch in Garvanza, con- tains three large houses, twelve by fifty feet each, a brooder house with a capacity of two thousand chicks and heated by the Pride of Petaluma stove, and five Standard Cyphers incubators with a capacity of two thousand eggs. He makes a specialty of day-old chicks and hatching eggs, which he ships all over California and also to Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and British Co- lumbia. The first aim of his establishment is egg producers, for which consideration he will, if necessary, sacrifice exhibition requirements ; the next aim is that of weight, color and type. By a wise course of selection he has succeeded in pro- ducing early and persistent layers, one of his cus- tomers reporting an average of one hundred and eighty eggs each in twelve months, from thirty pullets hatched from eggs purchased from Mr. Pike. He makes a specialty of one strain origi- nated by Frank D. Reed, of Fall River, Mass., who has won on his Rhode Island Reds at all the large eastern poultry shows, he being the second oldest living exhibitor of this variety, and the greatest breeder during the longest period of years. Mr. Pike has succeeded in breeding this strain exclusively for nine years, and his yards contain birds that were awarded the first prize silver cup at the Los Angeles show in 1913, cocks and hens ideal in shape and color, and dark Reds specially mated to please fanciers. His standard bred cockerel, Campaigner, has been exhibited at fifteen poultry shows and has won eleven ribbons, while he has one hen, seven years old and still a good layer, which took three blue ribbons at the Boston Poultry Show in 1908, his Rhode Island Reds at the Los Angeles Show in 1912 having won fifteen out of sixteen ribbons and cups. Mr. Pike is an authority on this special breed of fowls, of which he has made a thorough study, years of experimenting, after commencing the breeding of Rhode Island Reds in 1906, having convinced him that this is the most profitable fowl to raise in California. His poultry are fed with his own specially prepared mixture, and his hatch- ing eggs, as well as the day-old chicks, bring good prices, since they are standard bred and good egg producers. He also sells a limited number of
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Mammoth Bronze turkey eggs. From the profits of chicken raising in seven months Mr. Pike has purchased nine cows, as the beginning of a dairy farm which he intends to manage in connection with his poultry ranch, which is open to visitors every day of the year. Mr. Pike is a member of the State and National Rhode Island Red Clubs, also a member of the State Poultry Breed- ers' Association.
Mr. Pike was born in Concord township, Erie county, N. Y., in 1852, a descendant of pioneers of that state, who were prominent in the War of 1812. He was married in David City, Neb., in 1874 to Miss Cornelia Doty; they have two living children, Leonard D. and Inez, Mrs. J. W. Brown.
OCCIDENTAL POULTRY FARM. Al- though Frank B. Smith has been in the poultry business only four years, he has made himself one of the best known and most successful men in that line in Southern California since coming here in July, 1910, and spending a year looking into the poultry situation in the state. Learning at that time that the raising of thoroughbred fowls as a commercial proposition could be made a pay- ing business, if rightly managed, Mr. Smith began at first in a small way in Highland Park, Cal., with fancy stock, purchasing in 1911 his present place of two acres on Sunset boulevard, at San Gabriel, Cal., making his beginning here with White Orpingtons, which he soon changed for Rhode Island Reds and Sicilian Buttercups. This latter is a strain not common in Southern Cali- fornia, having been imported into America from Sicily in 1910, being of the game order, in weight one and one-half pounds heavier than the Leg- horn variety, the color of the male being orange red, and that of the female buff with black spangles, the name of the variety being derived from their cup-shaped, double comb. Mr. Smith has great faith in this breed of fowl, and has taken over seventy ribbons at five Los Angeles poultry shows, and shows at Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Sacramento. He has seven hundred laying hens, which number he will double in the year 1915, and commands high prices for his stock, which he ships to Mississippi, Canada, Mexico and Australia. His receipts each year are from $2.50 to $3 per hen, aside from his sales of baby chicks, eggs for setting, and stock,
and there are in use upon his poultry farm six Cyphers incubators of two thousand egg capacity and a Maltby brooder of twelve hundred and fifty chick capacity.
The early home of Mr. Smith was in Pennsyl- vania, where he was born in Allegheny county, December 8, 1872, and brought up in Carnegie, receiving a fine education at the University of Pittsburg, where he was graduated in 1894 with the degrees of Ph. D. and Phar. M. An expert chemist, he was instructor in that branch at the University of Pittsburg for three years, as as- sistant professor, and for a period of two years held the office of assistant bacteriologist for the city of Pittsburg. Removing then to Iola, Kans., Mr. Smith became chief chemist and metallurgist for the Lanyon Zinc Company, one of the largest of its kind in the country, and was employed in consultation work for two years. In the interests of this company, he took several trips through the West, inspecting property and prospects for smelters in Utah and Colorado, arriving in South- ern California July 10, 1910, at which time he investigated the poultry situation in this state, with the result that he made his permanent home here and built up a business which has brought him to the top in the chicken industry. He has taken an active interest in various associations connected with his chosen line of business, and holds membership in the California State Poultry Association, the American Buttercup Club, the Rhode Island Red Club of California and the American Rhode Island Red Club, being president of the San Gabriel Poultry Association and secre- tary and treasurer of the Federation of Poultry- men of Southern California. Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Bessie I. Landis, a native of the state of Illinois, and they are the parents of one daughter, Landis H. Smith.
GOLDEN STATE PLANT AND FLORAL COMPANY. The greenhouses and nurseries of the Golden State Plant and Floral Company, in- corporated in April, 1903, comprise five acres of land on Santa Monica boulevard and Twenty-first street, Santa Monica, Cal., where trees and plants are sold both at wholesale and retail, a specialty being made of palms, of which the company shows seven varieties, which is a larger number than that in any other nursery in Southern California.
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Most of their business is with the cities of Los Angeles county, though they ship to various parts of the United States. Their fruit stock is con- tracted and grown for them by nurserymen in the San Fernando valley, Cal., while they import bamboo from Japan and other plants from Bel- gium, all ornamental stock being grown in their own nursery, which is like a tropical garden, and the moving picture people, appreciating the possi- bilities of the surroundings, have taken many of their pictures in these nurseries.
The officers of the Golden State Plant and Floral Company are C. F. Schader, president and promoter of the enterprise ; V. E. Hatheway, vice- president, and W. E. Elliott, secretary and treas- urer, Mr. Schader and Mr. Hatheway having been with the company from the first, Mr. Elliott having been associated with them since 1910. Mr. Hatheway has played an important part in the development of the place, being a pioneer of Santa Monica, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He first engaged in the wholesale and re- tail fruit and produce business in Santa Monica and Ocean Park, for a number of years being the only person in that line of business in these towns. In 1900 he sold out and started a small nursery in Santa Monica, and when the present company was incorporated in 1903 he exchanged his plant stock for stock in the new enterprise. At first only three men were employed as as- sistants where now the services of twelve are required. A water plant has been developed on the property, and the company pays dividends and is in every way in a flourishing condition, a great deal of the credit of which is due to the exertions of Mr. Schader and Mr. Hatheway, the president and vice-president and manager, who were in reality the founders of the prosperous business.
The best assortment of ornamental trees and shrubbery in growing condition in Southern Cali- fornia is furnished by this nursery, and the com- plete knowledge of the company concerning trees and shrubbery, the best time for planting decidu- ous trees in this climate, as well as palms and evergreens, the setting out of large plants, palms, shrubbery and trees, such as will make an imme- diate showing, make them an invaluable firm for the laying out of parks and private grounds. The list of trees and plants raised by this company is extensive, and includes ornamental trees and shrubbery, coniferous trees and shrubs, hardy
climbing and trailing plants, hardy flowering and conservatory and greenhouse plants, ferns, palms, agaves (the century plant), and in fact they can supply anything that is wanted for planting. All varieties of floral designs are made by them, and plants of all kinds furnished for decorations at weddings, etc. Besides carrying in stock a full line of both flower and vegetable seeds, Kentucky blue grass seed, and fertilizers of all kinds, they furnish rustic baskets, wire baskets, wire work of any design, garden pottery of all descriptions, and soap and sprays for destroying insect pests upon plants, and also handle garden hose.
The landscape gardening done by the Golden State Plant and Floral Company for the lawns of many beautiful Southern California homes in- cludes the home of H. D. Lombard at Beverly Hills, Charles Traunweiser of Santa Monica, Mrs. Albert Stevens of Los Angeles, W. J. Sullivan at Santa Monica, Nat Goodwin at Ocean Park, Mrs. W. J. Kling at Santa Monica and the Paulson estate at Brentwood Park, as well as all the schools in the Santa Monica district.
ANDREW STEWART LOBINGIER. One of the most prominent and best known surgeons in Los Angeles is Andrew Stewart Lobingier, who since 1902 has made this city his home. Before coming here he was for many years a prominent figure in the medical and educational world in Denver, Colo., being not only a practicing phy- sician and surgeon in the Rocky Mountain city, but also occupying a chair in the University of Colorado for a long term of years. Twice since removing to Los Angeles has Dr. Lobingier gone abroad to continue his studies in the great cen- ters of Europe, and his skill is recognized as being of a superior order, coupled as it is with patient attention to detail, a great love for humanity, a kindly, sympathetic nature, and a deep reverence for the sanctity of human life.
Dr. Lobingier was born in Laurelville, Pa., December 22, 1862. His parents were Jacob and Lillias Findley (Stewart) Lobingier, his father being descended from a long line of distinguished French ancestry of which Dr. Lobingier is justly proud. His mother was from a Scotch family of scarcely less distinction. The paternal ancestors were driven from their homes in France after the
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revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which deprived them of their guarantee of safety and religious freedom. The result was a general exodus from France of the Huguenot families, which repre- sented many of the most distinguished of the old French stock. The Lobingier family chose America as their future home, seeking there the freedom to worship God according to their con- science, which their native land had denied them. The progenitors of the American branch of the family sailed in 1727, and arriving in this country, made their homes in Lancaster county, Pa. The head of this family was Christopher Lobingier, and his son, bearing the same name, was promi- nent in the affairs of the Revolution, and in the founding of the commonwealth 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 also a member of the first legislature of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lobingier received his early education in the public schools of his native village, and was later prepared for college at Mt. Pleasant (Pa.) Institute, during the years from 1880 to 1883. Later he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated in 1886 with his degree of A. B. Immediately follownig this he took up the study of medicine in the same institution, in 1889 receiving the degree of M. D.
Having completed his college career, Dr. Lobingier removed to Denver, Colo., where he opened an office for the practice of medicine, and engaged in general family practice. He met with almost instantaneous success and was at once recognized as a man of great skill and a careful and conscientious practitioner. Within a short time he was elected to the professorship of bac- teriology and pathology in the Gross Medical College, and two years later was elected to the chair of pathology and surgical pathology in the University of Colorado at Denver, with which institution he was connected as a faculty member for the following eleven years.
This connection with the university Dr. Lobin- gier found both pleasant and profitable. He was accorded one promotion after another, holding successively the chairs of clinical surgery, and chief of the surgical clinic (1893) ; principles of surgery and clinical surgery and surgeon of the University Hospital (1896) ; chief of the depart- ment of surgery (1896-1902).
The close application to his professional duties had proven too great a strain, however, and in 1902 Dr. Lobingier resigned from the faculty of the university and came to Los Angeles, where he has since been located. In June of that year he attended the British Medical Association meet- ing in Manchester, England, and then spent the summer and fall in the study of surgery at the leading hospitals and under master surgeons in Heidelberg, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London. In 1906 he made a similar trip through the old world, again studying under the world's most distinguished surgeons. Since locating in Los Angeles Dr. Lobingier has devoted himself ex- clusively to the practice of surgery, for which he is so eminently fitted.
While in Denver Dr. Lobingier was a charter member of the Denver City Troop and acting surgeon of the Second Colorado Regiment, N. G. C., during the Leadville riots. He was also treasurer of the troop, and for several years was secretary of the State Medical Society, of which he was a prominent member.
Dr. Lobingier is justly prominent in Los An- geles, and has been actively associated with many popular movements during his residence here. He is a member of the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, of which he is the founder and first president; the Los Angeles County Medical Society, the Southern California Medical Association, California State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Medicine, California Academy of Medicine, Los Angeles Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, of which he is one of the founders, and a member of the board of governors. He is a member of the California, Athletic, Bohemian and Gamut Clubs, and of the Sons of the Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars. In politics he is a Republican ; and in his church affiliations is an Episcopalian, being a ves- tryman in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral.
The marriage of Dr. Lobingier and Miss Kate Reynolds, of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., occurred at Denver, November 2, 1889. They have one daughter, Gladys, who, together with her mother, is well known in social circles in Los Angeles, where they are both exceedingly popular.
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SHOBAL P. MULFORD. One of the older members of the Los Angeles county bar and a man who has taken a prominent part in the legal affairs of Southern California is S. P. Mulford, senior partner of the law firm of Mulford & Dryer, with offices in the I. N. Van Nuys build- ing. In 1883 he came to Los Angeles on account of ill health, from which he recovered in three years, and since 1886 has been engaged in the practice of his profession, building for himself an enviable reputation.
Mr. Mulford was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 26, 1850, the son of David and Sarah Ann (Vail) Mulford, both born in Butler county, Ohio, the former in 1812; he died in Los Angeles in 1906, at the age of ninety-four years; the latter died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850, when her son S. P. was but six weeks old. His maternal grandparents were Quakers and among the early settlers in Middletown, Ohio, where his father and mother were married.
Although born in Ohio, the greater part of the boyhood of S. P. Mulford was passed on a farm in Henry county, Ill., where he resided from the time he was six years of age until he was eighteen. He was reared in the family of his mother's sis- ters, Mrs. Andrew Patton and Mrs. Adam C. Deem, and received his early education in a coun- try school. At the age of eighteen he returned to Ohio, where he took a two years' course in a Normal school at Lebanon, after which he taught two years and then finished his education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, graduat- ing with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1876, as did also the lady whom he afterwards married. Subsequently he read law with Col. M. C. Law- rence, of Union county, Ohio, and in 1878 was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of that state. Two years later he was also admitted to practice in the United States courts.
In 1880 Mr. Mulford's health failed and for a few years he traveled in an effort to regain it, and for the time gave up entirely his law prac- tice. In 1883 he came to Los Angeles and for about three years was engaged with Porter Brothers Company, a wholesale commission house. During this time he regained his health in the genial climate of the Southland, and in 1886 again engaged in the practice of law, which he has continuously followed since. In 1904 he formed a partnership with George W. Dryer un- der the firm name of Mulford & Dryer.
After two years' residence in California, on August 26, 1885, Mr. Mulford was united in mar- riage with Helen B. Farrar, a native of Cam- bridge, Ohio, and a daughter of Capt. William M. and Anna E. (Brown) Farrar. Captain Farrar was a member of General Garfield's staff in the Civil war and a prominent lawyer in Cambridge at the time of his death in 1893.
Aside from his legal associations, Mr. Mulford has been prominent in the affairs of Los Angeles since he took up his residence here. He is a stockholder in the First National, Commercial National, and German American Trust & Savings Banks of Los Angeles. He is a stanch Repub- lican, and has been closely identified with many of the important undertakings of his party in years past. He is a Mason, belonging to Pen- talpha Lodge No. 202, F. & A. M., Signet Chap- ter No. 57, R. A. M., Los Angeles Commandery No. 9, K. T., and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Mr. Mulford is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles and has been active in all the affairs of the church since his settlement in the city, having been for many years a member of the board of trustees and during much of that time acting as its secre- tary. He is also one of the directors of the local Young Men's Christian Association. He erected his first home in 1888 at the corner of Eleventh and Hill streets in which he and his family re- sided for twenty-six years. This property was sold in 1913, and the family now resides in the beautiful home since erected by Mr. Mulford at Fifth and Westmoreland.
ELECTA KENNELS. Mr. and Mrs. Brad- dock, who are joint partners in the Electa Ken- nels, at Venice, Cal., have had many years of ex- perience in the breeding of thoroughbred dogs. In 1905 they came to Los Angeles from Atlantic City, N. J., where they were engaged in the hotel business and in the raising of dogs. For a num- ber of years they managed the kennels of Ella F. Morgan of Walgrove, Cal. In December, 1913, they established the Electa Kennels, the first of the kind started in Venice, in connection with which they also maintain a veterinary establish- ment.
All the dogs of the Electa Kennels are thor- oughbreds and are registered in the American
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Kennel Club of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Brad- dock's Wire Hair Fox Terriers are all English bred, a male of this species, Simonds Hot Pot, by name, being worthy of special mention, having been imported from England, where his grandsire was the highest priced dog ever sold. His mate, Simonds Little Girl, has been a great prize win- ner, at the Baltimore exhibit having taken the first prize for puppy and for novice; at Wash- ington, D. C., the first prize for puppy and also for novice and reserve winner, and at Norfolk, Va., the same. The parents of this dog were both prize winners likewise, the father, Art Critic, having been the longest-headed dog of his breed in England, and the puppies never sell for less than $100 each. Mr. and Mrs. Braddock's col- lection of Airedales has never been excelled in dog shows. Two male Airedales, Pike's Peak Benedict, twenty-one months of age, and Electa Nedman, ten months old, are fine specimens, the latter having taken the first prize as the best puppy at the Los Angeles Dog Show in November, 1914. Electa Lady and Electa Lightfoot, female Aire- dales, have also been the winners of prizes. Biff the Fifth, their full-blooded Boston Terrier, is absolutely perfect in coloring and marking, an undefeated heavyweight Boston Terrier, which has taken seven cups and two medals. He is four years old, having been raised by his owners from a pup, and all his puppies have been blue ribbon dogs, and he is considered one of the best bred dogs on the Pacific coast. His father sold for $1250 and his grandfather for $2500. For Biff the Fifth $500 has been refused, and he has taken the first prize at Venice, as the best dog of his breed at the show, and the first prize in his class at the Los Angeles Dog Show in Novem- ber, 1914, one of his puppies taking the first prize as the best puppy. Two medals which Mr. and Mrs. Braddock value highly are one awarded by the Societe Canine de Savoie Aix les Bains, dog breeders of Paris, to Biff the Fifth, and another from the Airedale and Bull Dog Breeder Associa- tion of England, won by Pike's Peak Benedict as the best dog at the Venice show of 1914.
The Electa Kennels of Mr. and Mrs. Braddock have a large demand and sale for their stock all over the Southwest. Visitors are welcome at the establishment, and many lovers of dogs take ad- vantage of the opportunity to inspect the fine col- lection of thoroughbred animals.
ROBINSNEST POULTRY RANCH. After a number of years spent in a stirring and very different line of occupation from that which he at present follows, George Robins, a pioneer poultry raiser of Los Angeles county, has been for seventeen years engaged in the business of poultry raising in Southern California with re- markable success.
Born in Cornwall, England, November 5, 1860, Mr. Robins was for some time a marine engineer by trade, sailing all over the world in this capacity, and coming to America in 1885, where his last position at sea was as engineer of the palatial steam yacht Norma, built and owned by Norman Monroe, of New York. Removing to the western part of the country, Mr. Robins engaged in the hotel business in Denver, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., for some time, and on coming to Los Angeles county, in 1896, started in the poultry business at Long Beach, at first in a small way, at the same time conducting a restaurant in Los Angeles. Selling out his business interests in the city after a couple of years, he was enabled to devote his entire attention to the raising of poultry, in which he began with Plymouth Rock fowls, after two years selling these, however, and devoting himself to the raising of White Leg- horns, starting with a flock of one thousand laying hens. In 1907 Mr. Robins removed to his present ranch of five acres, on Sunset boulevard, located in the Sunnyslope district, near the town of San Gabriel, where he now has a finely appointed establishment comprising two thousand chickens, which number it is his intention soon to increase to thirty-five hundred. Having bred and inter- bred the stock, he has now evolved his high-class Robins strain of White Leghorns, and figures that the profit per year from each hen is from $1 to $1.50. On his estate he has twenty-one poultry houses for laying hens, each with a capacity of one hundred hens; he uses the small colony brooder system, having in use twenty-four brood- ers of one hundred chick capacity each, wherein the baby chicks are kept up to the time when they begin to lay ; and he runs six Cyphers incubators, of twenty-eight hundred egg capacity, it being his plan to hatch ten thousand chicks during the year 1915. An important part of his business is the selling of baby chicks and of eggs for hatch- ing. Although when he started in the poultry business he was advised that it would not prove a profitable one, Mr. Robins was not discouraged ;
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