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Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In his marriage he won a wife possessing a charming manner and a fine edu- cation, Miss Carhart, who was educated in New York City and as a girl resided in Santa Bar- bara. Their family consists of six children, Dana, Jr., Jesse, Virginia, Aileen, Andrea and Dorothy.
MARK KEPPEL. One of the most im- portant offices in the educational field is that of county superintendent of schools. The educa- tional interests of the county are delivered into his hands and he is held responsible for the con- duct and advancement of all schools coming with- in his jurisdiction. It is a position demanding talents of a high order and the man who fills it successfully must be endowed with rare in- telligence and executive ability. Los Angeles county is particularly fortunate in securing the right man for the place in Mark Keppel, its earnest and efficient superintendent of schools.
Mark Keppel's father, Garret Keppel, was a native of Holland, born at Gorkum in 1835. He came with his parents to the United States in 1844. The family lived for a time at Baltimore, Md., then in Michigan and later in Keokuk, Iowa. He attended the public schools of Michi- gan and Iowa. His wife was Rebecca Hurl- burt, a native of Missouri. Her father, Isaiah Hurlburt, was a native of Canada, and her mother, in maidenhood Rebecca Breeden, was a native of Kentucky. Mr. Keppel was one of the pioneers of California, immigrating to the west in 1859. His objective point was Pike's Peak, Colo., but owing to unfavorable reports received while en route he changed his course and desti- nation and crossed the plains to Oroville, Cal., and became one of the leading farmers of Butte county. His wife died in Butte county in 1882, and twenty years later, in 1902, he also passed away at his Butte county home.
Mark Keppel was the second child born in his father's family of eleven children, his birthday being April 11, 1867. His early years were passed on the farm. At nine years of age he entered the public school and laid the strongest, most perfect foundation for a successful future in whatever line he should elect to follow. The
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instinct for a higher education was deep rooted in the boy and as soon as he was able to do so he entered San Joaquin Valley College at Wood- bridge, graduating from that institution in 1892 with the degree of Ph. B. He returned to the farm and remained there one year, then ac- cepted a position as teacher in San Joaquin Valley College, which he filled for one year, and the next year following was a teacher at Fair- view, Yolo county.
Mr. Keppel came to Los Angeles in 1895 and was first engaged as a teacher in the Eighth street school. In 1896 he became principal of Harper, now Vermont Avenue school; in 1897 he was made principal of the Union Avenue school, where he remained until March, 1902, when he was promoted to the principalship of the Twentieth Street school, where he remained until his term of office as county superintendent of schools began in January, 1903.
During Mr. Keppel's incumbency there has been a constant period of transition, due to re- vision of text books and the rapid development of the county. Mr. Keppel has proven himself equal to the task imposed upon him and has met all demands upon his time and ingenuity with most satisfying results. The present excellent condition of the schools throughout the county attests his capable management and places him in the front ranks as a successful educator in the broadest sense of the word.
Mr. Keppel is ex-president of the School Masters Club of Los Angeles; member of the School Masters Club of Southern California; president of the Southern California Teachers Association ; and a member of the State Teachers Association, and of the National Educational Association.
Mr. Keppel married Miss Mae Hubbard, daughter of Hanford Ilubbard of Yolo county, April 15, 1894. Mrs. Keppel is a native of Yolo county. They have one daughter, Ester Mae Keppel. Mr. Keppel is a Republican, hav- ing served for years as a member of the Republi- can county central committee. He is also a member of numerous fraternal organizations : Ramona Parlor, N. S. G. W .; Woodmen of the World; Knights of the Maccabees; Fraternal Brotherhood; and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. His popularity
is unquestioned. He is devoted to educational work and his clear comprehension of the duties devolving on him in his official capacity, together with his efficient management, has been of material advantage to the schools of Los An- geles county.
T. HORACE DUDLEY. Standing pre-emi- nent among the leading citizens of Los Angeles county is T. Horace Dudley, of Santa Monica. Although yet a young man, he has met with al- most phenomenal success in his career, winning a position of prominence in financial and social circles, and becoming influential in the manage- ment of public affairs, as mayor of Santa Monica greatly advancing its civic development and im- provement. Keen-witted and quick of percep- tion, he has made himself useful as a business factor, and is now connected with two of the leading financial institutions of this part of the county, being president of both the Ocean Park Bank and of the Merchants' Bank in Santa Monica. He is of English birth and ancestry, having been born, October 21, 1867, in Leices- ter, England, which was likewise the birthplace of his father, Melville S. Dudley.
A man of culture and talent, T. Horace Dud- ley was educated in England, living there until 1889, when he came to California in search of a place in which the business ambitions of his youth might be realized. Locating at Bakers- field, he invested money in city property and also bought farming land near by. A few years later, he came to Santa Monica, and at once began to identify himself with the best and highest in- terests of the place, his business ability and tact being soon recognized and felt. With the growth and prosperity of Ocean Park, he has been in- timately associated from the time of its inception, being one of its principal civic promoters, and his name, with that of Abbot Kinney, will be remembered for generations to come. In 1902 Mr. Dudley assisted in organizing the Ocean Park Bank, and has since served acceptably as its president, E. S. Tomblin being now the first vice- president, W. A. Penny the second vice-president, and P. J. Dudley, the cashier. Mr. Dudley also helped to organize the Merchants' National Bank of Santa Monica, which was incorporated Sep-
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tember 23, 1903, and now occupies the hand- somest bank building in the county aside from buildings of the kind in Los Angeles. Of this institution Mr. Dudley has been president since its organization, William S. Vawter serving as vice-president, and George F. Doty as cashier. Mr. Dudley has likewise large business interests in the city of Los Angeles, and is connected with the Merchants' Trust Company. He is likewise prominent in fraternal circles, belonging to the Masons, and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Dudley has been twice married. He was married first, in Santa Monica, to Mary Addison Smith, a daughter of Capt. Addison Smith, of Baltimore, Md. His second marriage was with Mrs. Matilda (Brooks) Ryan.
GEORGE A. NADEAU. A pioneer of Los Angeles county, a prosperous and successful rancher and real-estate dealer, George A. Na- deau occupies a foremost position among the representative citizens of this section, to whose upbuilding and development he has given a distinctive service. He was born in Canada March 27, 1850, a son of Remi Nadeau, also a native of Canada, where for many years he engaged at his trade of millwright. In 1860 he started to California across the plains, spending the winter en route in Salt Lake City; thence came to California and to Los Angeles in the fall of 1861, making this his headquarters, although he followed teaming in Montana and Northern California. In 1866 he located permanently in Los Angeles coun- ty, where he purchased property and engaged in teaming, principally into the Owens river country, and in 1873 organized the Cerro Gor- do Freighting Company, doing a very exten- sive business, which continued until the rail- roads took the business. He added to his holdings until he owned thirty-two hundred and fifty acres of land. He became prominent among the upbuilding influences of this coun- ty, his name being perpetuated through his erection of the Nadeau hotel, at the corner of First and Spring streets, in Los Angeles, which was completed in 1884. His death oc- curred in 1886, at the age of sixty-eight years.
In his political affiliations he was a stanch Republican. His wife, formerly Martha F. Frye, was a native of New Hampshire, in which state they were married; she survived her husband some years, passing away Janu- ary 18, 1904, at the age of eighty-four years. She was a member of the Congregational Church. They were the parents of seven children, of whom but three are now surviv- ing: Joseph F., of Long Beach; and Mrs. Mary R. Bell, located on a farm adjoining that of her brother, George A. Nadeant.
George A. Nadeau is a Canadian by birth, but at the age of seven years he was brought by his parents to the United States. In Chi- cago and Faribault, Minn., he passed his boy- hood days, receiving his education in the pub- lic schools and by personal contact with the world. During the father's first years in Cal- ifornia his family continued to make the latter city their home, and there George A. engaged in an effort to gain an independent livelihood. In 1868 they went to New Hampshire, the state of the mother's nativity, and thence to New York City, where they sailed for Cali- fornia via the Isthmus of Panama. Upon landing in San Francisco they took a coast steamer for San Pedro, and from that point to the city of Los Angeles. Here Mr. Nadeau engaged with his father in freighting to the Owens river. Six years later he engaged in the stock business in Modoc county near the Oregon line, disposing of these interests twelve months after, and upon returning to Los Angeles engaged in this county in a like occupation. The ranch upon which he now lives, and where he has passed the greater part of the past thirty years, was purchased by his father in 1875, and contained one hun- dred and sixty acres ; which, since the death of the mother has been divided among the children.
After Mr. Nadeau's marriage in 1881 to Miss Nellie Tyler they located permanently on thirty acres of the old homestead, at the corner of Compton and Nadeau avenues, where Mr. Nadean is following farming in ad- dition to teaming. He has recently erected an elegant residence, complete in all of its ap- pointments. They are the parents of four
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children, Joseph G., Delbert G., Grace, and Stella Maie, the last named the wife of Ray Mathis, a dentist in Los Angeles. Mrs. Na- deau is a native of Iowa, but was only three years old when her parents removed to Cali- fornia, where they have ever since resided.
In addition to his home property Mr. Na- deau also owns sixty-three acres on Central avenue, about three-quarters of a mile from the city limits of Los Angeles, situated on the corner of Florence and Central avenues, and considered a valuable tract of land. One of the most important enterprises which he has undertaken was subdividing a forty acre tract, known as the Nadeau Villa tract, and which has since been entirely disposed of; he also owns property on Central avenue and Twen- tieth street, besides some in Long Beach.
Like his father, Mr. Nadeau takes a promi- nent part in public affairs, as a Republican in politics voting this ticket and seeking to ad- vance the principles lie endorses. He is a member of the Pioneers Society of Los An- geles county and takes a deep interest in the preservation of historical data and all associa- tions of the past.
HON. DAVID TOD PERKINS, assem- blyman from the Sixty-fifth district of Cali- fornia, was born in Akron, Ohio, April 23, 1852. His father, Simon Perkins, was a na- tive of Warren, Ohio, to which location the paternal grandfather, Simon Perkins, Sr., emi- grated from Connecticut, the state of his birth, in the pioneer days of the middle west. He was in charge of the settling of the Western Reserve and prominent in the upbuilding of that section. Simon Perkins, Jr., became a large landowner and capitalist of Akron, Ohio, among his chief interests being the presi- dency of the railroad company that construct- ed a line from Hudson to Millersburg. His prominence, however, in his native section was not limited to financial enterprises alone, but he was also known through his connection with many of the most important movements for the moral and educational growth of the general public. Through marriage he allied his interests with those of another prominent
family of Ohio, Grace Ingersol Tod, a native of the state, becoming his wife. She was a daughter of Judge Tod, and a sister of ex-gov- ernor David Tod, of Ohio, representatives of a Scotch family of worth and ability. The death of Simon Perkins, Jr., occurred in Ohio and that of his wife in Sharon, Pa. They left a family of eleven children, six of whom are now living. The oldest brother, George T. Perkins, was colonel of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and is president of the B. F. Good- rich Rubber Company, and lives with his family in Akron, Ohio. The second brother, Simon Perkins, was captain of Ohio Volun- teer Infantry during the Civil war. He is now an iron and steel manufacturer in Sharon, Pa., where he lives. The third brother, Charles Ezra Perkins, is the state engineer of Ohio, and has held the office uninterruptedly for sixteen years ; his home is in Columbus, Ohio.
David Tod Perkins, the subject of this history, is next to the youngest child. He was named for his uncle, David Tod, who was one of the war governors of Ohio. He was reared in his native state, and educated in the Akron public and high schools. Until 1880 he remained a resident of Ohio, and engaged in farming and merchandising. Attracted to California by its multifold opportunities Mr. Perkins located in Ventura county in 1880, and on the Los Posas ranch became associated with Senator Thomas R. Bard in general farm- ing and the raising of sheep. This latter in- dustry required no small effort, for the flock at times numbered as high as thirty thou- sand head. Mr. Perkins gave his entire time and attention to the management of the ranch interests for some time, but it is now many years since he became actively identified with movements of public importance in both Ven- tura and Santa Barbara counties as well as other sections of the state. He was promi- nently connected with the Union Oil Com- pany, into which was merged the Sespe, Tory and Hardison Stewart companies, and for a time served as its president. He is also as- sociated with the Graham & Loftus Oil Com- pany, of Fullerton, Orange county, Cal., as a director and vice-president, and is likewise a stockholder in the Bard Oil & Asphalt Com-
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pany. With Senator Bard he was instrumental in the organization of the Simi Land & Water Company, and also the Los Posas Water Com- pany, at this writing being a director in the former and president of the latter. Sixteen years ago he became interested in the Huen- eme Wharf Company and at that time as- sumed its management, retaining an active in- terest in the concern until July, 1906, when he sold out. A most important enterprise in the development of business interests is the Peo- ple's Lumber Company, of which Mr. Per- kins is serving as president. This corporation has extensive receiving yards in Hueneme and Ventura, Nordhoff, Oxnard and Santa Paula, in the last-named place operating a large plan- ing mill. The product is shipped to various points throughout Southern California, its ex- tensive interests bringing this enterprise to rank as an important factor in the. industrial element of the state. In the midst of his im- portant duties Mr. Perkins has still found time to interest himself in banking circles, as- sisting in the organization of the Bank of Hueneme, in which he is still identified as director and secretary.
Not alone, however, in the city of his resi- dence has Mr. Perkins given his aid in mat- ters of enterprise and finance. The Oxnard Electric Light and Water Company claims him as its vice-president, while he is also a stockholder in the Santa Paula Electric Light Company. In Santa Barbara his name is fa- miliar through his association with various public enterprises, among them the Santa Barbara Theater & Amusement Company, which is erecting an adequate building for amusement purposes, he serving as presi- dent of this organization. He is a director in the Potter Hotel Company, a stockholder in the Central Bank of Santa Barbara, and presi- dent of the Santa Barbara Realty Company. He has manifested his faith in the future of that city by investing in holdings of consid- erable value. He is also a large holder of real estate in Ventura county, leasing to the Ventura Agricultural Company (of which he is a director) about eighteen thousand acres, upon which is raised grain, stock, beets and beans in vast quantities.
Mr. Perkins has made his home in Hueneme for many years, having erected a residence on the Springville road. He married Mrs. Em- ma R. (Cranz) Perkins, of Akron, Ohio, and they have two children, Anna, wife of Tod Ford, Jr., of Pasadena ; and Charles C., a di- rector in the Thomas Hughes Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles. Mrs. Perkins is a member of the Presbyterian Church, although both Mr. Perkins and she give their support liberally to all charitable enterprises regardless of denomination.
Ventura county rose to an appreciation of the evident ability of Mr. Perkins many years ago, and after conferring upon him minor of- fices, among them that of county supervisor, which he held acceptably for nine years, he was elected in 1894 to the state legislature, as- semblyman from the Sixty-fifth district. This was pre-eminently a Democratic legislature and although there was little opportunity for a member of the opposition to gain a foothold, yet Mr. Perkins was remembered when sent back to the state house in 1904. He gave ac- tive service to his constituency along various lines, taking a prominent part in affairs of the House as a member of the Agricultural committee, Ways and Means committee; Rev- enue and Taxation committee; Banking com- mittee, of which he was chairman; Oil and Mining committees, and others. He made a strong fight for the re-election of Senator Bard, both his personal friend and the man whom he knew to be efficient, honorable and upright, a loyal citizen of his state and a stanch upholder of civic rights.
It is not necessary to eulogize upon the life of Mr. Perkins. Those who know him-and his circle of acquaintanceship is wide,-have never failed to recognize his sterling traits of character, a recognition given him unhesitat- ingly for a display of unusual business abil- ity, but better still for social qualities which have won him friends within the boundaries of a half dozen different counties where he is known familiarly. Always courteous, he has time for friends; always a man of business he holds this as a requisite to success. Both, perhaps, have been indispensable to his own success ; but the one has given a kindliness to
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his own character, and while he has won finan- cial prominence he has made his efforts par- allel with the welfare of the general public. No one doubts his loyalty and no one ques- tions his sincerity in matters of public impor- tance.
JOHN L. BEVERIDGE. As in the heyday of youth men long for the giant possibilities with- in the borders of cities, so in after life, with faculties matured and illusions vanished, they again gravitate towards those ceaseless activities which whet their interests, and tune their hearts and minds to a more than bountiful present. Such an one is John L. Beveridge, strong in mind and character, brave and resourceful in emer- gency, and since December. 1895, a resident of Hollywood, Cal. On both sides of the family he is descended from a long line of Scotch an- cestors, who bequeathed to their children and children's children all of the characteristics for which that sturdy nationality is noted. The paternal grandfather, Andrew Beveridge, was the first of the family to come to the new world, leaving his home in Scotland in 1770, when a lad of eighteen years, and settling in Washington county, N. Y. Fifteen years later, in 1785, the maternal grandparents. James and Agnes (Robertson) Hoy, also came to the United States, they too settling in the same county in New York. Both grandparents spent the remainder of their lives in the Empire state and their remains lie buried in the Hebron and Cambridge Cemeteries in Washington county. Among the children born to the paternal grandparents were eight sons, and of these George (the father of our subject) and James enlisted for service in the war of 1812: while on their way to Plattsburg to partici- pate in the battle of Lake Champlain, hostilities came to an end and there was no further need of their services. However, at considerable dis- tance from the scene of the conflict, they could hear the boom of cannon echo and re-echo across the lake. Retracing their footsteps they returned to their home in Washington county and were mustered out of the service.
Born and reared in Washington county, N. Y., George Beveridge was early in life initiated in the hard work which fell to the lot of the
farmer before the era of labor-saving machinery. For many years he followed this vocation in his native county, but in middle life, when his son John L. was in his eighteenth year, he removed to Illinois, settling in DeKalb county. There as in the east he followed the peaceful life of the agriculturist, and on the farm which he there established his earth life came to a close, his wife, who was in maidenhood Ann Hoy, also dying on the Illinois homestead.
While his parents were still living in New York state John L. Beveridge was born in Green- wich, Washington county, July 6, 1824. He re- ceived such education as the schools of his home district afforded, but as his parents could main- tain their family only by the most rigid economy, all thought of going away to college, which was then his greatest ambition, had to be abondoned. Until he was eighteen years of age he assisted in the work of the home farm in Washington county, and after the removal of the family to Illinois still continued farming, teaching school during the winter months in order to provide means with which to prosecute his studies. It was in the fall of 1842 that he entered the academy at Granville, Putnam county, Ill., where he spent one term, later entering Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, where he completed his academic course in the fall of 1845. His parents and brothers were anxious to have him follow this training by a course in college, but as his means were insufficient for this undertaking and not caring to be a burden to his family, who were anxious and willing to help him, he packed his trunk and with all the money he had ($40) started for the south to seek his fortune. Going to Tennessee, he taught school in Wilson, Overton and Jackson counties, interspersing the reading of law as his other duties would permit. As the result of his studious habits and persistency in the course which he had mapped out for himself he was admitted to the bar in Jackson county in November 1850.
It was in December of 1847 that Mr. Beve- ridge returned to the north, and on January 20 following was united in marriage with Miss Helen M. Judson. the ceremony being performed in the old Clark Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Chicago, of which her father was then pastor. During the spring of 1848 he returned
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to Tennessee with his bride, and in that state their two children, Alla May and Philo Judson, were born. Mismanagement on the part of an associate with whom he had entrusted his means threw him in debt in the fall of 1849, and as soon as he could earn the amount of his indebtedness and clear himself he returned to Illinois, and in Sycamore, the county-seat of DeKalb county, be- gan to practice the profession of law. His recent financial experience had left him practically with- out funds, so that it was only by the most rigid economy that he was able to earn enough from his legal practice to support his family. As op- portunity offered he did outside work, such as keeping books for some of the business houses of the town, besides some railroad engineering. A dawn of brighter prospects began to appear when, in the spring of 1854, he removed to Evanston, a town twelve miles north of Chicago, which had recently been laid out under the super- vision of the Northwestern University, a Metho- dist institution, of which his father-in-law was then financial agent and business manager. The following year Mr. Beveridge opened a law office in Chicago, meeting with some discouragements at first, but finally gathering around him a large and influential clientele.
There is probably no epoch in Mr. Beveridge's long and brilliant career of which he is more proud than the four years and fifty-five days spent in his country's service during the Civil war. It was on August 25, 1861, that he signed the muster roll and recruited Company F, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, receiving rapid promotion from his superiors, who soon noted his knowledge and ability in the line of military tactics. From captain of Company F he was promoted to major. As a part of the Army of the Potomac his regi- ment was active in the campaign of 1862-63, and participated in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, in the seven days fight around Richmond, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the campaign of 1863 his regiment had the post of honor, the right of the First Brigade, First Division of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac. In command of his regiment he held the advance of the army to Gettysburg and his regiment was the first to receive the fire of the enemy on that
memorable battle field. It was at the request of Governor Richard Yates that on November 2, 1863, Mr. Beveridge resigned his commission as major to accept the rank of colonel of a cavalry regiment authorized to be raised by the secretary of war. Later he recruited and or- ganized the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, of which he was commissioned colonel, his rank to date from January 28, 1864. He served with his regiment in the department of Missouri, taking an active part in the Price raid. For some time after his regiment was mustered out he was re- tained by order of the secretary of war as presi- dent of the military commission in St. Louis. On May 1, 1865, he was commissioned brigadier- general by brevet, and received his final discharge February 7, 1866, having been four years and fifty-five days in active service, and one hundred and eleven days on recruiting service.
Returning at once to Chicago, Mr. Beveridge resumed the practice of law, but at considerable disadvantage, for he was without a library and his former clientage had become scattered. In November of 1866 he was elected sheriff of Cook county, a position which he filled for one term, after which he again practiced law until Novem- ber. 1870, the latter date marking his election as state senator. One year later, in November of 1871, he was elected congressman at large, and in November of 1872 was elected lieutenant- governor on the ticket with Governor Oglesby. The election of the latter to the United States senate resulted in Mr. Beveridge becoming gover- nor of Illinois, taking his chair January 21, 1873. From the foregoing it will be seen that honor up- on honor was placed upon him in rapid succes- sion, any one of which would have satisfied the most ambitious.
After the close of his gubernatorial term Mr. Beveridge became associated in business with D. B. Dewey, under the firm name of Beveridge & Dewey, as bankers and dealers in commercial paper, with offices in the McCormick Block, Chicago. In November, 1881, he was made assistant United States treasurer, a position which he filled with ability until September 1885. On account of ill-health he retired from active life about this time making his home in Evans- ton, until December. 1895, when he removed to California, and has since made his home in Holly-
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wood. The wife of his youth is still spared to him and together they are spending their last days in the quietness and serenity which is the just reward for noble and consecrated living. Both of their children have been trained to lives of usefulness and are now filling their place in the world's activities. The eldest child, Alla May, is now the wife of Samuel B. Raymond, and they make their home in Chicago, Ill .; the only son, Philo Judson, has taken an active part in pro- moting the interests of Hollywood, and at this
writing (1906) is traveling abroad with his fam- ily. Mr. Beveridge's early religious training was in the faith of the United Presbyterain Church, but during later years he became a member of the Episcopal Church. As a member of the Illinois Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Mr. Beveridge, on February 8, 1885, read a paper entitled The First Gun at Gettysburg, and as he said of the conflict, so we say of his life, "The battle was fought, the victory was won."
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