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Aside from his extensive poultry raising, Mr. Lewis is interested in fraternal organizations, be- ing a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Maccabees.
WILLIAM HAYWARD. For many years William Hayward was one of the well-known hotel men in Los Angeles. After disposing of his interests in the Hayward Hotel, located at Seventh and Hill streets, he purchased the Burlington on East Second street, and for more than a dozen years continued to conduct this place, giving his entire time and attention to its manage- ment. His retirement came in 1912, and from then until the time of his death, which occurred June 26, 1914, Mr. Hayward was not associated with any active business interest, although he con- tinued to keep in touch with the general affairs of the city and to be especially watchful of the real estate market, making investments from time to time. In his career as a hotel man in Los Angeles, he made an enviable reputation for himself and formed many warm and lasting friendships. His hotel was much in favor with traveling men, and wherever this fraternity of the road are to be found there will also be found warm words for the late proprietor of the Bur- lington.
Mr. Hayward was a native of England, having been born in Sheffield, February 11, 1845, the son of William and Harriet (Howe) Hayward. He received his education in the Sheffield schools and when he had arrived at the necessary age he en- listed for service in the British army. His term of enlistment having expired, he determined, when twenty-one years of age, to come to America, locating in Boston, where he remained for two years, being engaged in the butcher business dur- ing that time. Later he went to Shreveport, La., where for eight years he followed the same line of occupation, meeting with much success. At the end of that time he again moved westward, this time going to Waco, Tex., walking the entire distance of about five hundred miles, there being neither railways nor other regular means of transportation. He was in Waco from 1871 to 1881, here again engaging in the butcher business. He then went to Williams, Ariz., where he became interested in the same business, this time extend- ing his interests to the industry of cattle raising as well, continuing thus from 1881 to 1898. While Mr. Hayward was giving his time and attention to his various interests, Mrs. Hayward became interested in business enterprises herself, and after a time found herself in active charge of a hotel. This undertaking flourished under her skillful management and its scope demanded additional care, so that in 1898 Mr. Hayward disposed of his other enterprises and for the two years following they worked together in this undertaking. On July 2, 1900, when the town of Williams was destroyed by fire, Mr. Hayward was burned out and did not feel that further in- vestment in the Arizona town was desirable. Ac- cordingly, he came to Los Angeles and purchased the old Ainsworth hotel, rechristening it the Hay- ward. At the end of a year he disposed of his interests there and purchased the Burlington, which he conducted until his retirement in 1912.
Aside from his popularity as a hotel man, Mr. Hayward was well known in fraternal circles and to a wide circle of friends. He was a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias and also of the Woodmen of the World. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.
The marriage of Mr. Hayward took place in St. Louis, August 22, 1874, uniting him with Miss Minna Temme, the daughter of William and Katherine (Kisker) Temme, and the descendant of a long line of noted German ancestry dating
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back for many centuries and well known in the Fatherland as noted tobacco importers. Mrs. Hayward bore her husband three children, two daughters and one son, Charles, who died at the age of twenty-five years. Ruth is the wife of Jesse J. Tilley, a business man of Los Angeles, while Ray is married to William Ergman, an employe of the Santa Fe Railroad. Both daugh- ters are well known in Los Angeles, where they have resided for many years. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Hayward has continued to make her home in Los Angeles, where she has many friends.
JOHN C. STICK. One of the leading young attorneys of Los Angeles today is John C. Stick, whose offices are in the Wesley Roberts building, where he conducts a large and growing practice. Mr. Stick was admitted to the bar of California in 1908 and at once commenced the practice of his profession in Los Angeles, where he has met with much deserved success. He is attorney for a number of prominent corporations and business firms and makes a specialty of corporation and probate law. Mr. Stick started his business career as a school teacher, following this line of occu- pation while he pursued his legal studies. In this way he not only made his way to the goal of his desire, but also garnered much valuable in- formation about human nature by the way.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Stick was born in Hanover, January 29, 1883, the son of W. C. and Lamanda (Rohrbaugh) Stick, who now re- side in Manchester, Md. He received his early education in the public schools of Manchester, Md., attending there from 1889 to 1897. When he was fourteen years of age he entered Glenville Academy, at Glenville, Pa., where he continued until 1900, when he entered St. John's College, at Annapolis, Md., graduating in the class of 1904 with the degree of A.B. He then taught school in New York and Pennsylvania during 1904, 1905 and 1906, after which the came to Cali- fornia. Here he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar. He was admitted to the bar of the state of Arizona, on motion, May 5, 1915, and to the United States District court and United States Circuit Court February 10, 1908.
The marriage of Mr. Stick was solemnized in South Pasadena, June 1, 1911, the bride of his choice being Miss Ethyl B. Kohl, the daughter of
Martin Kohl, of that city. Of their union one son has been born, John C. Stick, Jr., born in 1912. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stick have many friends in Los Angeles and vicinity. Mr. Stick is a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles, and is also a Mason. In politics he is a Republican and is taking a keen interest in local affairs and stands high in party confidence.
THOMAS A. SMITH. Although himself a native of Missouri, Thomas A. Smith, esteemed citizen of Azusa, and resident of Southern Cali- fornia for almost forty years, is the descendant of an ancient German line of ancestry, his father being a native of the Fatherland. Mr. Smith has resided at various points in Southern California since making this state his home, and is well known for his religious work, having been associated with the Holiness church for many years, and being at this time pastor of a church of that denomination in Pasadena. His father, Conrad A. Smith, emigrated from the land of his birth to the United States in 1834, going first to St. Louis, and later to Warrenton, Warren county, Mo., where he established himself in business, and where the son, Thomas A., was born. The elder Smith was a pioneer of Warren- ton, engaging in the boot and shoe business there, and conducting this enterprise with success for more than forty years. He occupied a place of prominence in the town, being elected mayor on the Democratic ticket three times, and he served the public welfare in other ways also. He married Rhoda Davis, of Missouri, a first cousin of the late Bishop E. M. Marvin, a celebrated divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. She died in 1844, leaving two children. The second inarriage of Mr. Smith united him with Miss Polly Chiles, a native of Alabama, who passed away in 1877, leaving three children: Rhoda, now deceased; Phoebe M., now Mrs. William Roberts, of Azusa ; and Thomas A.
Thomas A. Smith was born in Warrenton, Warren county, Mo., April 11, 1853. His boy- hood was spent in his native city, where he re- ceived a good education, first in the public schools and later he attended Central Wesleyan College for four years. Under his father he learned the boot and shoe trade, becoming a skilled workman, and later also mastered the trade of tobacconist,
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became a capable photographer and also a tele- graph operator. His principal occupation, how- ever, was in the boot and shoe line. In 1878 he came to California, locating first at Downey, and later he purchased five acres near Azusa and en- gaged in his trade as boot and shoe maker, in the meantime planting his ranch to oranges. In 1881 his father joined him and purchased an additional ten-acre tract, upon which he also engaged in orange growing.
The marriage of Mr. Smith occurred in 1875, at Columbus, Mo., uniting him with Miss Eva I. Smith, the daughter of Rev. L. A. and Mary (Dickinson) Smith, of that place. Mrs. Smith has borne her husband five children, as follows: C. Leslie, Delta Cornelius, Cornwell E., Polly and Guy, all of whom are well known in Azusa and vicinity.
Although he has owned property at Azusa for many years, Mr. Smith has not made his home there continuously. In 1883 he took up a govern- ment claim at Gladstone, improved the place, erected a comfortable home, and there conducted a boot and shoe making business for some time. In 1889 he was again at Azusa, and secured a government contract to carry the United States mail from that point to Covina, remaining in this service for four years. In 1914 he moved into town and built a home there, although he still owns his original orange grove, which now num- bers ten acres, all in bearing trees.
In his religious associations Mr. Smith has for many years been a member of the Holiness Church. For a number of years he was elder and recorder of the branch at Azusa, and later became pastor of the Pasadena church.
ALFRED GUIDO RUDOLPH SCHLOES- SER. Castles in Spain and other countries of Europe are not the only magnificent homes pre- serving ancestral interests; for in Southern Cali- fornia Dr. A. G. R. Schloesser, who comes from a prominent German family and whose ancestors frequented the royal court of that country, has built for himself two castles in the city of Holly- wood, where the snow-capped mountains and blue sky form perhaps as beautiful, if not as historic, a setting as the storied rivers and moun- tain fastnesses of European countries. Here in
his Castle Sans Souci, which is built in Tudor- Gothic style and contains a baronial hall and a Louis XV drawing room, Flemish-Gothic dining room and Louis XVI bed chamber, the castle entrance guarded by two lions of Carrara marble one hundred and fifty years old, which formerly guarded the palace of the Doges at Venice, Italy, and now upholds the Schloesser coat-of-arms, Dr. Schloesser has collected a great number of valuable paintings, carvings and statuary which lend to his home the interest of an art gallery, as well as tapestries, three Gothic coats of mail of the fifteenth century and the family coat-of-arms frescoed upon the ceiling of the baronial hall, which endow the place with the true spirit of a medieval castle. It is needless to say that Dr. Schloesser has been a great traveler, having made several tours of the world, during which he has been received by the royal houses of different lands and has brought home many of the inter- esting foreign souvenirs which, together with those handed down from his ancestors, make his home one of the most unique as well as one of the most beautiful in Southern California.
The family of Dr. Schloesser has been promi- nent both in Germany and America. A great- aunt, who was a singer of note, became the wife of Count Paul von Hopffgarten, Lord Chamber- lain to Frederick William III of Prussia and cap- tain of the regiment which was the favorite body- guard of Emperor William I. A cousin was the well-known General Victor von Vahlkamph, per- sonally decorated by Emperor William I with the Order of the Iron Cross, who in the siege of Paris in 1871 served under Field Marshal Count von Moltke, who was related by marriage to the family of Dr. Schloesser. Though of noble line- age on both sides of the house, Dr. Schloesser him- self was born in the United States and began his career with the ordinary public school education of American children. Chicago was his birth- place, where he was born April 19, 1851, the son of Rudolph and Amalia ( Hoffmann) Schloesser, his mother belonging to the von Groppe family of high standing in Germany, and his uncle, Francis A. Hoffmann, serving as lieutenant-governor of Illinois during the Civil war. The early education of Dr. Schloesser was received in the public schools of Chicago and the Select High School of Prof. C. J. Belleke, and he continued his educa- tion at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and
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Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he was graduated in 1871 with the degree of M. D., and with post-graduate courses at the universities of Wurzburg, Heidelberg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. While studying in Vienna in 1873 he offered his services as assistant physician in the Imperial Royal Allegemeines Krankenhaus during an epidemic of cholera. His special study, however, was that of dermatology and laryngol- ogy, along which lines he practiced for a number of years after his return to Chicago. That city will long remember the Schloesser family, for the Doctor's father was a prominent banker and real estate operator there for many years, in fact one of the pioneers of the city, and an associate of Marshall Field, Pullman and Potter Palmer, and built the Schloesser block, one of the first great office buildings in the city after the great fire of 1871. Dr. Schloesser himself was an intimate friend of James G. Blaine, and it was through the latter's introductions that he was enabled to meet many of the ambassadors and consuls during his foreign travels, as well as gain reception at royal houses.
In 1894 Dr. Schloesser bought a mine in Lassen county, Cal., paying $10,000 for the same, which, after being developed, yielded a net profit of $25,000 a month, and although being the owner of the mine himself, Dr. Schloesser entered into all stages of the work therein, from pick and shovel to the assay office, in order that he might become thoroughly familiar with mining. On this property he erected a hundred-ton cyanide mill, the first of the kind in Lassen county. Coming to Los Angeles in 1909, he entered into the bond investment and real estate and loan business on a large scale, and attracted by the excellent climate of this part of the state built his beauti- ful castle home in Hollywood, one of the suburbs of Los Angeles.
Fraternally Dr. Schloesser is a Knight Tem- plar Mason and a Shriner. The social clubs to which he belongs are the Jonathan, Gamut and Hollywood clubs, and he is also an active member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Hollywood Board of Trade. His marriage with Emma M. R. McDonell, daughter of Gen. A. A. McDonell, was solemnized in Chicago, November 19, 1874, and they are the parents of four children, Alexander R., Mrs. J. G. Barnett, Mrs. George F. Stone and Mrs. Eric E. Eastman.
VOLNEY S. BEARDSLEY. As president of the Beardsley Electric Company of Los Angeles and one of the most prominent manufacturers of automobiles in California, Volney S. Beardsley occupies a high place in the commercial life of the city, and is also personally popular with a wide circle of friends. He has been associated with the automobile business in some capacity since com- ing to Los Angeles in 1901 and since his earliest manhood he has been in the business of manu- facturing vehicles of a high class, forsaking the business of making buggies and carriages on the advent of the automobile into modern life. He is a member of several exclusive clubs in Los Angeles, including the Gamut Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and in his religious views holds to the English Lutheran Church. In his political preferences Mr. Beardsley is a Republi- can, and while never seeking official recognition he is well informed and an independent thinker, taking a keen interest in all political issues, par- ticularly questions which affect the municipality.
Mr. Beardsley is a native of Ohio, born at Gar- rettsville, January 6, 1868, the son of John S. and Nancy Beardsley. There he attended the public and high schools, graduating from the latter at the age of seventeen years. He then entered the Ohio Business College in Mansfield, where he graduated at the end of a year, and following this was engaged with the Mansfield Buggy Com- pany as bookkeeper for six years. At the end of this time he was elected treasurer of this company and for an additional six years occupied this position of trust and responsibility. He then disposed of his interests and started the Beardsley & Hubbs Company, manufacturers of vehicles. In 1901 he sold his interest in this company and came to California, locating in Los Angeles, where he has since made his home. Mr. Beardsley came to Los Angeles to accept a position as sales manager for the Auto Vehicle Company, with which he remained for five years, then organizing the California Auto Company, distributers for Firestone-Columbus and Columbus Electric cars, Mr. Beardsley being the president of the local company and serving in this capacity for four and a half years. At that time he organized the Beardsley Electric Company, of which he has been president since its incorporation. They have salesrooms at 1250-1260 West Seventh street, and a factory at Wilhardt and San Fer- nando streets, where they employ forty high-class
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mechanics and manufacture both commercial and pleasure cars. They have three models in the pleasure car and two in the commercial, and all are extremely popular, especially with the local public. The business has prospered and is now one of the best established in Southern California. The marriage of Mr. Beardsley and Miss Minnie M. Mitchell was solemnized December 25, 1892, in Mansfield, Ohio.
HARRY STEPHEN McCALLUM. Civic affairs of large import have received the thought- ful attention of Mr. McCallum since he became a resident of Los Angeles in 1907 and embarked in the practice of law, maintaining offices at pres- ent at No. 456 South Spring street. The pur- suance of problems directly identified with the law has not represented the limit of his mental energies, for in common with the progressive citizenship of the municipality he has contributed to local progress and aided in realty development. As might be expected of one of his far-seeing patriotism, he has rendered efficient service as a member of the Boosters' Club and the Citizens' committee of one thousand as well as in other organizations tending toward local advancement. One of his largest civic achievements has been in connection with the Federated Improvement Association of Los Angeles, which he served in the capacity of vice-president for one term and of which he is now officiating as president for the second term. The Vermont Square Improve- ment Association, of which he was president for five terms, received the benefit of his tactful, ef- ficient oversight and executive ability, while he has the honor of having established through his personal efforts the first branch Carnegie library in the city.
The early years of Harry Stephen McCallum were passed in an environment of poverty, for his parents, John J. and Mary Ann (Bates) Mc- Callum, were people of humble circumstances, unable to give him the advantages which his am- bitious spirit craved. In Iowa, where he was born July 15, 1857, he attended public schools, also (in 1869-70) the preparatory school of Tabor College, but he was still a mere lad when he began to earn his livelihood in the lead mines of Joplin, Mo. During 1878 he began to work in the gold
mines of Leadville, Colo., where later he leased a saw and shingle mill. During thirteen years of residence in Missouri, Colorado, Utah and Idaho he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law and eventually was admitted to practice before the supreme court of Utah. Meanwhile he had worked in the mines at Bingham canyon, Utah, in 1883 and during the same year had gone to Wood river in Idaho, where he engaged as super- intendent of mines. As a miner he was a leader among his fellow-workers and accomplished much for the benefit of the Republican party, whose principles he has supported from the time of attaining his majority. Service as a member of the county central committee of Alturus county made him a local party leader and gradually brought him into territorial prominence, which was augmented by his efficient labors as chief clerk of the house of representatives during the thirteenth session of the Idaho territorial legisla- ture. In no small degree he became a factor in the securing of statehood for Idaho.
Public service characterized the residence of Mr. McCallum in Utah as it did in Idaho. As chairman of the Liberal county committee of Salt Lake county he was a factor in the general up- building. Particularly valuable was his work in the interests of a school system for Salt Lake City, and the present system, established in 1891, resulted not a little from his judicious and tactful study of the conditions from an educational stand- point. Under his personal supervision came the election of the first board of education, whom he selected, which body founded the excellent educa- tional system in that city. The attractions of Los Angeles allured him from an established practice in the mountain regions and brought him to South- ern California, where he quickly rose to civic and professional prominence and where, the year fol- lowing his removal hither, he was united in mar- riage with Mary J. Boyd, a lady of culture, who assists him in dispensing a broad hospitality in their charming home. Besides his mining ex- periences he has been identified with oil interests, notably the Calabasas Oil Company of California, which he served officially as vice-president. Dur- ing youth he served as first lieutenant of the Tabor Highland Guard and after removing to Colorado he acted as adjutant of the Seventh Regiment, Colorado National Guard. In religion he and his wife are of the Episcopalian faith.
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NORMAN BRIDGE, M. D. With one of Malta, De Kalb county, on an undeveloped tract the earliest colonies seeking religious freedom in of land destitute of fence or buildings or im- provements of any kind. The struggle for a living, that had been so keen in Vermont, seemed scarcely less severe in those early days of Illinois life, and the sons gave up hope of schooling in order that they might lighten the burden for their parents. The father died in 1879, but the mother, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Ann Bagley, survived him for many years, passing away in 1903 at a very advanced age. the new world there came from England to Massachusetts in 1632 an earnest Puritan, Deacon John Bridge. Commanding force of character is indicated by his successful efforts in saving the settlement of Cambridge when Hooker seceded to Connecticut in 1636, while his faith in the value of educational institutions appears in his labors in behalf of Harvard College and his gratifying success in planting that university in his home town. On Cambridge Common may now be seen a bronze statue of the Deacon, in the garb of a Puritan, the work of the well-known artists. T. R. and M. S. Gould, and erected in 1832. One of the inscriptions on the monument reads as fol- lows: "This Puritan helped to establish here church, school and representative government, and thus to plant a Christian commonwealth." Another inscription on the monument is: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." As might have been expected of a man so loyal to his adopted country, so stanch in his religious convictions and so earnest in edu- cational affairs, he gave to the nation descendants of true value in citizenship, men of fine minds and brave hearts, and women whose gentle virtues made blessed their homes. Among the most noted of these descendants was Col. Ebenezer Bridge, an officer in the Revolution and a man who commanded his forces gallantly and success- fully through the most arduous campaigns and in the most sanguinary engagements.
In the sixth generation of descent from Deacon John came James Madison Bridge, whose life of earnest struggle to maintain his family by the tilling of the soil merited a greater financial rec- ompense than was his to enjoy. For years he lived on a small and rocky farm a few miles from the village of Windsor in the Vermont hills, and on that unproductive tract he managed to earn the necessities for wife and children, three in number. The elder son, Edward, became a soldier in the Fifty-fifth Illinois Infantry during the Civil war, was injured at Shiloh, but recovered and participated in many later important battles, finally dying near the end of his period of service. The youngest child, a daughter, is now Mrs. Susan B. Hatch, of Des Moines, Iowa. The second son, Norman, was born on the little Vermont farm December 30, 1844, and accom- panied the family to Illinois in 1856, settling near
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