An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California. Containing a history of Los Angeles County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 116

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092

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A VIEW FROM THE RANCH OF RICHARD GARVEY.

AN ANTIQUATED ADOBE BUILDING WITH "OLD BALDY " IN THE VISTA.

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lic elergyman of Galveston, Texas, diocese; and that John Garvey, a Lientenant in the Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Regiment in the late war, was promoted on the field of Antietam for conspicuous gallantry, and died of wounds re- ceived there. John Garvey served ten years in the Twenty-ninth Infantry in the English army. For conspicuous gallantry in the defense of Lucknow during the Sepoy Rebellion he re- ceived the Queen's Sergeant's medal. He came to the United States in 1861 and entered the army soon after. Mr. Garvey's two sisters, Maria and Delia, reside at Cleveland, where their mother died in 1873. After the death of Mr. Garvey's wife, her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Mooney, with her daughter, Miss Mary E. Mooney, came ont from Cleveland, and now have care of the child. In politics Mr. Garvey, while never uninterested, acts thoroughly the independent citizen, not tied to any party, but always ready for independent action upon every issue. He was a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln and General Grant. In conclusion, we will add that Mr. Garvey is, in the fullest sense of the words, a self-made, self-educated man, - who, coming a poor boy from the old world, has splendidly illustrated the possibilities of the new, to those possessed of energy, combined with practical business qualifications and a de- termination to succeed.

YMAN, GRUENDYKE & CO., manu- facturers of lime, corner of Second and Vine streets, Los Angeles, began manu- facturing lime June 1, 1887, at Oro Grande, San Bernardino County, forty miles from San Bernardino. The company have large kilns, with a manufacturing capacity of 350 barrels per day. The lime is of a very superior quality, and they have never had a complaint of its pit- ting or scaling. In 1888 they shipped from Oro Grande 56,000 barrels. This company are the sole owners of the lime works there, and are increasing the capacity of the same. They also

own a controlling interest in the San Jacinto Lime Company at San Jacinto, and will increase the capacity of manufacturing there. They sup- ply the dealers here in the trade, and make extensive shipments to the dealers in Southern California and Arizona. Mr. Wyman, the head of the firm of Wyman, Gruendyke & Co., was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, May 3, 1839. He attended school there, and at the age of seventeen went to Toledo. Upon the break- ing out of the war he enlisted, in May, 1861, in the Fourteenth Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and participated with his command in every skirmish and battle, and was absent from his company only on one half-day's march, from Nashville to Franklin. He was in command of his company in General Sherman's march to the sea. After serving four years, he was mustered out in 1865. Returning to Toledo. he engaged in the lime business, and for twenty-two years has been one of the largest manufacturers of lime in the State of Ohio, where his works are located, shipping more lime than any individual company in the State. Mr. Wyman is a promi- nent member of the G. A. R .; is treasurer of the Fourteenth Ohio Regiment Society, and has been present at every rennion of his regiment. In 1888 he went from this State to Ohio to attend the reunion. In 1875 Mr. Wyman mar- ried Miss Emma Bailey, of Circleville, Ohio. They have three children: Elliott B., Edna F. and Julia A.

HARLES GERSON, capitalist, 24 Wil- mington street, Los Angeles, is a native of Germany, and was born on the River Rhine, at Worms, February 14, 1827. When eighteen years of age he emigrated to America and went to New Orleans. . IIe enlisted and served in the Mexican war, and after peace was declared he went to the eity of Mexico and re- mained there two years. Ile then came to Cal- ifornia, engaged in business and lived here several years. March 4, 1855, he married Miss Carolina

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Strauss, a native of the city of Bomberg, Ger- many. Soon after they were married they went to San Diego and engaged in mercantile business for several years, until the war. Then he went to Arizona and engaged in business at Fort Yuma, remaining in Arizona seven years. In 1870 he sold out his business there and came to Los Angeles, having removed his family here two years previous. He was engaged in business in this place several years; opened the La Fayette Hotel and conducted it nntil 1881. After again engaging in trade for several years, he retired, from active business life. He is a prominent member of the order of Chosen Friends, Guar- dean Council, No. 90. He has been appointed several times as representative to the Grand Council at San Francisco, and was recently ap- pointed Deputy Grand Conncilor for this dis- trict. Mr. and Mrs. Gerson have five children, three sons and two danghters: Herman and Samuel, engaged in plumbing business in Los Angeles; Edward, a jeweler of Pomona; Bertha, now Mrs. Frankel, also of Pomona, and Fanny.

OIIN C. GOLDSWORTHY, surveyor, was born in Wisconsin in 1840, his parents being John and Ursula (Edwards) Golds- worthy. His father was a mining engineer of high reputation and skill. Mr. Goldsworthy came to California in 1857, and spent four years in the mines, being familiarly known as " the kid," on account of his age. He won the con- tidence of his uneducated associates and was very useful to them in writing their letters, as they felt safer in intrusting the knowl- edge of their private affairs to him than to an older person. He studied in the Univer- sity of the Pacific at San José from 1861 to 1864, and gradnated as civil engineer from that institution, being as far as known the first graduate of the institution in that line. He then placed himself for two years longer under the tnition of Sherman Day, a noted mining engineer of that eity and afterward surveyor-

general of the United States. In 1866 he moved to Virginia City and there began his career as surveyor. He made a complete topographical map of the whole of that mining region, remain- ing there about one year. Spending the inter- vening time as mining engineer in San Francisco he came to Los Angeles in March, 1868, and has been a resident here ever since, chiefly ocenpied as surveyor. He has occasionally done some assaying and other special work. Any one who has been a practical mining engineer never entirely loses his interest in that branch of his profession. The office of city surveyor of Los Angeles was erected at his suggestion in 1870, and he was elected its first incumbent. In 1867 Mr. Goldsworthy was married to Miss J. H. Bullis, who had been virtually a schoolmate of his college days, she being an attendant at a seminary for young ladies at San José while he attended the lectures at the University. They are the parents of seven children, four girls and three boys. The oldest boy, George L., is nine- teen, and proposes, after graduating at a public school this year, to enter the University of Southern California. In politics Mr. Golds- worthy is a Republican, and in religions affilia- tion a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The unprecedented and rapid growth of this city, and his long and intimate acquaintance with its topography as a surveyor, has occasioned a great and satisfactory expansion in his pro- fessional labors.

HARLES GASSEN, wholesale and retail dealer in fresh and salted meats, corner of Spring and Third streets, is a native of Germany, and was born February 11, 1837. Ile was reared in his native country, and in 1851 emigrated to America. After living in New York, he determined to come to California; landed in San Francisco in 1858, and engaged in the butchering business in Sacramento until 1863. In that year he removed to Austin City Nevada; remained there until 1868, and then

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came to Southern California. He located in San Diego and was engaged in business there until 1874, when he came to Los Angeles, and, as a member of the firm of Pico & Gassen, con- ducted a wholesale meat business, this copart- nership continuing for one year. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Gassen established his present busi- ness, having his slaughter houses at Arroya Seco, and doing his slaughtering there until 1882. He then built a slaughter house up the river on his ranch, where he has since done all his slaughtering for his wholesale and retail trade, giving his large and commodious market on the corner of Spring and Third streets a selection of choice meats for his retail trade. He owns a large ranch of 700 acres for grazing his stock. . Mr. Gassen has had an eminently successful business career. When he landed in New York he had only one dollar in the world, and his success in life is owing to his own efforts, ability and good management. He was elected a member of the city council and held that office three years. In 1867 he married Miss Jennie Scott, a native of Ireland. They have four children: Amelia, Annie, Charles and Jennie.

OHN GRANT, of the firm of Smith & Grant, contractors. Los Angeles, was born in Scotland, February 8, 1861. He attended school during his boyhood, and served an ap- prenticeship in learning his trade there. He came to America in 1880, went to Chicago and began working at his trade, and was foreman on some of the largest buildings in that city. He remained there two years and then came to the Pacific Coast, and for several years engaged in building; in 1885 he came to Los Angeles and associated himself in business with James Smith, forming the firm of Smith & Grant, and since then they have been engaged in building. They have had the contracts for some of the best buildings in this city and in Pasadena. The Burdick Block, corner of Second and Spring

streets, upon which they are now engaged, is one of the most solid, substantial business blocks in the city. In 1887 Mr. Grant was united in marriage with Miss Emma Berke, of Minne- apolis.

B J. GOODMAN, architect, Los Angeles, is a native of Indiana, born May 23, 1864.

0 After obtaining the usual common-school education, he entered the office of John A. Hasecoster, and remained with him ten years, learning and practicing his profession. The first three years he worked without any compensation whatever, even supplying himself with all the necessary instruments. While in that office he designed plans for some of the finest buildings in the country. He came to Los Angeles in 1885, since which time he has been busy in his chosen profession, building up a good reputation by his manner of "building up" the city.

HARLES GOLLMER, of the firm of Baner & Gollmer, agents of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, is a native of Ger- many, and was born May 10, 1851. He attended school and served an apprenticeship to the trade of carriage and sign painting, in his native country. He emigrated to America in 1867 and came to the Pacific Coast the same year; spent one year in San Francisco, then came to Los Angeles, and, after working at his trade a short time, started a shop of his own and carried on the business here for fifteen years. In 1884 he became associated with Mr. Bauer in their present business and since that time the firm of Baner & Gollmer has been one of the most enterprising firms in their line in Southern Cali- fornia. Their warehouse, ice-house and bottling works are located on Alameda and Jackson streets, fronting on the railroad, and are thoroughly equipped with machinery of the latest improvement for the manufacture and bottling

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of the Anheuser-Busch beer. They are sole agents for Southern California, and supply a large portion of the trade in this city, and they also have a large shipping trade. Mr. Gollmer has been successfully engaged in business in Los Angeles over twenty years, and is well known as a generous, public-spirited citizen, actively identified with the progress and development of the city. In 1873 he married Miss Alice Grabe, a native of Canajoharie, New York. They have three children: Carl, Robert and Minnie.

HOMAS ANDREW GAREY was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 7, 1830 His an- cestors were German. Yonng Garey was reared in Hagerstown, Maryland, but moved to lowa in 1847. He started for California in 1850, stopping about a year in New Mexico and six months at Tubac, Arizona, arriving at San Diego in 1852. At Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 27, 1850, Mr. Garey was united in marriage with Lonisa J. Smith, a native of Massachusetts. Soon after their arrival in San Diego, they came to Los Angeles County, first settling at El Monte. Afterward, in 1865, Mr. Garey bought land on San Pedro street, Los An- geles, and engaged extensively in the citrus nursery business, and in this enterprise he has ever since continned. The demand for yonng orange, lemon and lime trees at one period was enormous, and as Mr. Garey was a very enter- prising and energetic man he did what he could to meet this demand. His sales of fruit trees, mostly citrus, one year were abont $75,000, and during a period of three years they were $175,000. He sent abroad for the best vari- etics, and it was he who introduced and namned the Mediterranean Sweet orange, the Paper- rine St. Michael, and also the Eureka lemon. Mr. Garey is acting president of the Los An- geles County Pomological Society; was over- seer of the State Grange one term, and of the Council of the District. composed of sixteen subordinate granges, and Master of Los An-

geles Grange. In connection with others, he helped to found both the towns of Pomona and Artesia, in Los Angeles County, and the new town of Garcy in Santa Barbara County. Lat- terly he has been engaged in the nursery bnsi- ness in Santa Barbara County, at Garey, Santa Maria Valley. Mr. Garey has been one of Los Angeles County's most useful citizens. He cer- tainly has done his part toward developing its material resources. Of their eight children, four are still living and are in Los Angeles County. They are A. T., W. E., Margaret A. and Albert H. A. T. Garey, the oldest, was born on the Puente Ranch, this county, July 14, 1854. He received his education in Los Angeles, and is a nurseryman by occupation. He married May 10, 1876, Miss Belle, daughter of David and Susan (Thompson) Lewis. They have three children living. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were among the pioneers of Los Angeles County and lived at El Monte, where they en- gaged extensively in the cultivation of hops, for thirty years. Mr. and Mrs. Garey reside in East Los Angeles. W. E. Garey, the second oldest of the family, a nurseryman by profession, was born in San Bernardino County, March 21. 1856. He was married in Santa Monica, in 1884, to Miss Lanra E. Carpenter, daughter of Stephen F. Carpenter. She is a native of Minnesota, born May 10, 1864. They have one child. . Margaret A. was born in Los Angeles, January 7, 1864. She was married December 13, 1882, to Daniel J. Carr, Grand Secretary of the Grand Division of the Brotherhood of Railway Con- ductors. They have one child, Garey Carr. Albert H. is in his fourteenth year, the only child now at home with his parents.

ACOB F. GERKENS, capitalist, 9 Sotello street, Los Angeles, was born in Holstein, Germany, January 12, 1842. His parents emigrated to America during his early child- hood and settled in Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. When only sixteen years of age

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the subject of this sketch started with ox teams across the plains for California. He came direct to Los Angeles and for several years was en- gaged in teaming and freighting here. He next went to Yuma and ran a ferry one year, and again engaged in freighting and carried on the business until 1865. At that time he was em- ployed by Robert Burnett as foreman on his ranch, continuing as such for two years. During this time, January 9, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Isadora Carabajal, a native of Los Angeles. From that time until 1871 he was successfully engaged in sheep-raising. ITis next venture was in the grocery business, on San Fernando street, at the junction of Downey avenne. He had been twice elected a member of the city council, and in 1877 sold ont his store, having accepted the appointment of chief of police of Los Angeles. He held that office one year and was also assistant chief of police two years. For six years he held an office un- der the city government. Mr. Gerkens never went to school in his life, but as a result of his self-education he can speak and write three dif- ferent languages. Mr. and Mrs. Gerkens have had three children, two of whom survive: Charles F. and Margurette. The death of their daughter Annie occurred May 29, 1889.

JON. HENRY T. HAZARD, the present Mayor (1889) of Los Angeles, is a native of Illinois. In 1854, at the age of eight years, he left Evanston, with his parents, over- land for California, arriving in this city late in the summer of that year. Mr. Hazard gradu- ated at the Law School, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, at an early age, when he returned to Los Angeles and entered on the practice of law, which he has continued ever since. He has filled several posi- tions of importance during this time, including those of city attorney, member of the State Legislature, mayor, etc. His public spirit has been evinced in many ways, but particularly in the erection of an immense pavilion bearing his name,

on the corner of Fifth and Olive streets. In 1874 Mr. IIazard married, at San Gabriel, the third daughter of Dr. William Geller. They have no children. Mr. A. M. Hazard, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was long a resident of Los Angeles, died some years ago. Mr. Haz- ard has several brothers and one sister, who reside in this city.

EORGE C. HOPKINS .- Among the nu- merous classes of business which character- ize Los Angeles as the commercial me- tropolis of Southern California, the storage and warehouse business is an important one. The largest and finest institution in this line in this city and one of the largest on the Pacific Coast is the California Warehouse, situated on East Seventh street. The California Warehouse Com- pany was incorporated in June, 1888, with a capital stock of $50,000, and the building was erected and opened for business in October follow- ing. The warehouse is a very large brick struct- ure 153 x 301 feet in dimensions, two stories in height, and contains 60,000 square feet of floor space. Being covered with iron roofing and floored with bituminons rock, it is both fire and rat proof, and is finished and furnished with the best improved machinery and appliances for handling freight, packing wool, etc., by the use of which thirty cars of freight can be handled or 50,000 pounds of wool can be bailed per day. The warehouse has a special railroad track con- necting it with the Southern Pacific system ; and freight can be nnloaded and loaded from wagons on either side or from the driveway through the center of the building. The company owns an entire block of ground, which is encompassed by a sixty-foot street. The California Warehouse Company is composed of a number of the lead- ing business men and heaviest capitalists of the city, representing four to five millions of dollars. The officers are: T. J. Weldon, President and Treasurer, and George C. Hopkins, Vice-Presi- dent and Secretary. The company handles and

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stores every class of goods except explosive and inflammable articles, such as oils and paints. They handle and bale 200,000 pounds of wool annually, and during the busy season have $100,000 in value of goods in store in the house at one time. The business gives employment to from fifteen to forty men. Mr. Hopkins, the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, and the active manager of the warehouse business, is a man of large experience in this braneli, having been in the employ of the American Ex- press Company in Chicago ten years, and in the freight department of the Southern Pacific Rail- road Company about eight years, before organ- izing the California Warehouse Company, in which he was one of the prime movers. He came to California in 1872, and engaged in wool- growing in Oregon four years, at the end of which time he removed to Los Angeles. He was born near Aurora, Illinois, in 1846; went to Chicago in 1852, when it was a mere country town, saw it grow to a great commercial metropo- lis, and witnessed its destruction by the most terrible conflagration in the world's history, on October 9 and 10, 1871. He is greatly in love with Los Angeles and Southern California, and thinks this is the garden spot of the world. Mr. Hopkins's consort was Miss Spencer, daughter of Judge James A. Spencer, one of the original projectors of the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad, and was one of the builders of the Kansas City & Topeka division. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have two children, a son and daughter.

DWIN WALKER HOUGIITON, archi- tect, Pasadena, was born in Hartley Row, England, in 1856. His father was a busi- ness man, farmer and builder. After attending school until eighteen years of age, he associated himself with his brother at Elongate Hill, Lon- don, where he learned the art of architecture. Studying this six years, he, in company with his brother, came to America. Two years sub- sequently he returned to England, and October

13, 1884, married Miss Margaret H. Crudge, daughter of Mrs. Crudge, of Tiverton, Devon- shire. Soon afterward he came again to Amer- ica and settled in El Paso, Texas, two years, and then came to Pasadena. His office is in the First National Bank Building. He has designed and superintended the construction of the fol- lowing residences in Pasadena: James Hewitt's, $3,000; Mrs. Graham's, $5,000; J. G. Rust's, $3,500; T. Jones's, $4,000; Dr. Arthur's, $6,500; Dr. MeQuilling's, $6,500; Dr. Schultz's, $2,000; H. H. Rose's, $4,000; A. E. McBride's, $4,000; T. N. Harvey's, $4,000, and Mrs. E.B. Dexter's, $7,500. Mr. Houghton's charges are as follows: Preliminary studies, 1 per cent .; working draw- ings and specifications, 2} per cent .; working drawings and details, 3 per cent .; working draw- ings and superintending, 5 per cent.

OHN F. HOGAN was born near Killar- ney, Ireland, in 1829, and is a son of John and Mary (Flinn) Hogan. They had a family of twelve children, nine boys and three girls, all of whom lived to maturity. The father died when the subject of this sketch was a small boy. At the age of nine years he made the voyage across the Atlantic, and landed in America. He was first an assistant gardener in the city of Philadelphia. Afterward he went into gardening for himself, and was very sue- cessful for a number of years in Rochester, New York, where, on Christmas day, 1857, he and Miss Mary Lowe, also a native of the Emerald Isle, were united in marriage. He subsequently moved to Sandusky, Ohio, where he lived for twenty-five years. At the breaking out of the war he was the first recruit in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Vol- unteers, and served his country bravely till he was honorably discharged in the city of Washington, in 1865. Soon after the war closed he sold out his interests at Sandusky and moved to Peoria, Illinois, where he established the Spring Hill Park, in the heart of the city.

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This park covers an area of twelve acres of land, and is one of the finest in the United States. It has a swimming park 150 feet square and from two and a half to twelve feet deep. The sulphur and mineral water is ob- tained from a well 860 feet deep. There are forty-two bath rooms, and the whole was fitted up at a cost of $21,000. Mr. Hogan sold his interests there in 1880, and went to Quincy, Illinois, where he built another park, known as Hogan Park. This he soon sold, and came to California, locating at the city of Los Angeles. There he was very successful in the real-estate business. About one year ago he retired from active business and bought residence property in Santa Monica. This he has improved and has built a very comfortable residence at the corner of Second street and Nevada avenne, overlooking the sea, where he and the partner of his youth are spending the evening of life, retired from the excitements and requirements of a business life. They have only one child, Mary, now the wife of John Moran, of Los Angeles. Mr. Hogan has been eminently suc- cessful in his calling, and is the principal stoek- holder iu the Wharf Association, in Santa Monica. They are both members of the Catholic church, and Mr. Ilogan is an intelligent and enthusiastic supporter of the principles of the Republican party.

ATHAN H. HOSMER .-- Among the pio- neers of the Sierra Madre Colony, mention must be made of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Hosmer came to Los Angeles County in 1878, and located at Florence, where he engaged in general farming upon rented lands. He also purchased machinery and contracted for baling hay, etc. He continued his operations at that place until 1881, and after a visit East in No- vember of that year he took up his residence at Sierra Madre. He early saw the desirability of the Sierra Madre Colony tract for residence pur- poses, and its adaptability to fruit cultivation.

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Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1092

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092