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 44

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

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The Freeman College of Applied Sciences is founded upon a donation of about $200,000 worth of land by Mr. Freeman, of Inglewood. The building is now in course of erection.

Hon. E. F. Spence, ex-Mayor of the city, donated a lot of land on the corner of Sixth and Pearl streets, upon which there is a three- story building. This property, worth about $70,000, is to be used for the erection of the "Spence Observatory" of the University of Southern California. The trustees of this fund have contracted with Alvan Clark & Sons for a forty-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being made by M. Mantois, of Paris, who also made the glasses for the Lick Telescope.

Rev. A. C. Ilazard, of Downey City, has donated $40,000 worth of land to constitute an endowment fund for the post-graduate course of the University.

Several other enterprises of a similar charac- ter are now in process of maturing, which will in all probability result in the establishment of several other colleges, constituting parts of the University.

The educational course consists, first, in an academic course in each one of these colleges, designed to furnish education to the masses. The college course is intended to fit students for the pursuit of the ordinary professions and the higher departments of business and general educational work. The post-graduate course will be under the supervision of a faculty com- prising the president of the University and the deans of each college. Thus students desiring to make a specialty of any department of science will be enabled to continue their studies in dif- ferent institutions and under as many different instructors as they may deem advisable in order

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to perfect them in that specialty, returning to this institution (the University) to pass their final critical examination, and, if successful, to obtain the diploma of the University of Southern California as to their fitness for, and mastery of, any specialty which they may have studied.

Something should here be said concerning the plans on which the educational part of this successful University is conducted, especially as it differs in several essential particulars from the systems used in almost every other similar institution. The plan aims specially at unity in arrangement and a wise division of labor. In dividing the labor great care is taken to place each subdivison in the hands of those skilled in that specialty. The finances, including the en- dowment funds, are controlled by six trustees, whose characters and business experience fit them for the responsible duties assigned them. They elect their own successors. . This plan is designed to prevent schemers from ever getting control of the funds, and to secure unity and permanency. Each trustee is made financially responsible for any loss to the fund in conse- quence of his carelessness, negligence or misap- propriation. The directors may bring any action necessary to protect or preserve the funds. The books and accounts are always open to inspection by the directors. The net income from the funds is used in paying the current expenses of the institution. The educational work is separated from the financial work, and is placed under the control of conference. Con - ference elects the board of directors annnally, and this board elects the faculty, controls the course of study and management of the ednca- tional work throughont. Each college or academy has also its local board of regents, who are annually appointed by the trustees of the Endowment Fund and by the board of directors. These boards of regents are local executive boards, for administering during the year the educational work in their locality.

The course of study in all the colleges and academies and the text books are so arranged that the years of study run parallel, and at any time a

student can move from one college or academy to another and enter classes and studies the same that he left. The scheme is based upon a unity and continuity of plan, and a division of work.

The system is quite novel, embracing a new combination which fits the institution for the highest degree of efficiency and adapts it to the wants of modern civilization. The late Bishop Simpson said he considered this the best planned and best guarded institution belonging to the Methodist Church. ITis opinion has since been indorsed by Bishops Wiley, Fowler and other leading lights of that denomination.

The general plan and many of the details of work alluded to in this account are the inven- tions of Judge R. M. Widney, while the exe- cution is largely in the hands of the president, Rev. M. M. Bovard, D. D.

Following is a list of names of the persons who constitute the boards and faculties connected with the University and its branch institutions:

Trustees of the Endowment Fund of the University .- IIon. R. M. Widney, Hon. E. F. Spence, Rev. M. M. Bovard, Rev. A. M. Hongh, Dr. J. P. Widney, G. D. Compton.

Directors of the University .- Hon. E. F. Spence, Dr. H. Sinsabangh, Hon. R. M. Wid- ney, Rev. A. M. Hongh, Rev. E. S. Chase, Rev. P. F. Bresee, Hon. S. C. Hubbell, Rev. W. A. Knighters, Rev. T. E. Robinson, Hon. Chas. Maclay, Rev. R. W. C. Farnsworth.

Associate Directors .- Ex-Governor John G. Downey, Hon. T. R. Bard, Rev. A. W. Bunker, Rev. E. S. Chase, C. H. Bradley, Rev. Charles Shelling.

Officers of the Faculty .- Rev. M. M. Bovard, Miss Ida R. Lindley, Prof. E. R. Shrader, Mrs. C. S. Nellis.

Trustees of the Chaffee College of Agricult- ure .- Rev. A. M. Hongh, Hon. E. F. Spence, C. E. White, G. E. Compton, Dr. J. P. Wid- ney, Hon. R. M. Widney.

Board of Regents of the Chaffee College of Agriculture .- Hon. S. L. Dyar, Rev. S. J. Fleming, George Chaffey, W. B. Chaffee, Dr. H.

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Sinsabaugh, Rev. P. H. Bodkin, Rev. A. M. Hough, Hon. C. Maclay, Rev. R. W. C. Farns- worth, Hon. E. F. Spence, P. M. Green, Joseph Holmes.

Principal of Chaffee College .- Prof. Randall. Trustees of the Maclay College of Theology. - Bishop C. H. Fowler, W. H. Griswold, M. M. Bovard, J. P. Widney, A. M. Hough, C. Maclay and R. M. Widney.

Trustees of Escondido Academy .- Watson Parish, R. A. Thomas, Philip Morse, E. S. Chase, R. M. Widney, R. W. C. Farnsworth.

Trustees of the College of San Diego .- Mr. Grunedyke, R. A. Thomas, Philip Morse, E. S. Chase, A. M. Hough, R. M. Widney.

Officers of the Alumni Association .- Rev. G. F. Bovard, F. E. Lacy, Mrs. M. C. Miltimore, Miss E. F. Walton, George Sinsabanglı.

Conference Visiting Committee .- Rev. T. E. Robinson, Rev. S. S. J. Kahler, Rev. M. F. Col- burn, Rev. C. W. White, Rev. J. A. MeMillan, Rev. C. Leach.

Presiding Elders .- Rev. R. W. C. Farns- worth, Rev. W. Nixon, Rev. J. B. Green, Rev. C. H. Bolinger.

Faculty of the College of Medicine .- Rev. M. M. Bovard, W. C. Cochran, M. D .; Joseph Kurtz, M. D .; G. W. Lasher, M. D .; Walter Lindley, M. D .; J. H. Utley, M. D .; C. A. II. de Szigethy, M. D .; E. A. Follansbee, M. D .; J. P. Widney, M. D .; II. Nadean, M. D .; H. H. Maynard, M. D .; W. L. Wills, M. D .; H. S. Orme, M. D .; F. T. Bicknell, M. D .; W. B. Percival, M. D .; A. McFarland, M. D .; J. S. Baker, M. D .; A. F. Darling, M. D .; IIon. R. M. Widney.

The present faculty of the University is made up as follows: Rev. M. M. Bovard, A. M., D. D., President, Tansey Professor of Christian Ethics; Rev. W. S. Matthew, A. M., Dean, Professor of Mental and Political Science; E. R. Shrader, A. M., Ph. D., Registrar, Pro- fessor of Physics and Chemistry; Rev. C. A. Weaver, A. M., Professor of Mathematics; Rev. E. R. Watson, M. A , Professor of Modern Lan- guages; C. R. Gunne, M. A., Secretary, Pro-

fessor and Principal of University Seminary; Tamar Gray, A. M., Professor of Greek; Rev. George A. Coe, A. M., Professor of English and History; E. E. Whittit, A. B., Instructor in Mathematics; Frank H. Suffel, B. A., Instructor in Latin and Greek; Fanny Sherman, A. M., Preceptress, Professor of Natural History; Philena S. Tufts, B. S., Instructor in Prepara- tory Year; Etta M. White, Instructor in Draw- ing and Painting.

LOS ANGELES COLLEGE.

The preliminary steps for the organization of a non-sectarian Christian school for the higher education of girls and young women were taken in June, 1885. It was the design of the organ- izers to establish a school which in time shonld afford for our Pacific Coast what Wellesley does for the Eastern,-a college whose course of study should be full and complete in all its particulars.

The school was opened formally on the second day of September, 1885, under the management of its president, D. W. Hanna, with an attend- ance of forty students, in a building erected for its temporary accommodation near the corner of Fifth and Olive streets. The building on the corner was occupied as the boarding depart- ment, and a small brick building that stood there between as a music hall.

The growth of the institution was rapid, and though many additions were made to the build- ings it was soon found that they could not be so arranged as to accommodate the numbers apply- ing for admission. During the summer of 1887, stock was subscribed by a number of our prominent citizens, and a building erected on the corner of Eighth and Hope streets, at a cost of $62,000, including the furnishing thereof. The building, heated by steam and lighted by elec- tricity from its own electric plant, is capable of accommodating 100 boarding pupils and 300 day students. It has now in daily attendance over 250, with eighteen teachers.

Two courses of study have been adopted. The first, or the literary course, ean be completed in four years. It is fully as complete as that re-

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· quired by the best seminaries for young ladies, and is sufficiently extensive to fit young women for those employments in which they are likely to be most useful. It will qualify them to be- come competent teachers; it will fit them to be intelligent members of society; it lays a solid foundation for future acquisitions of knowledge; it fits them to observe closely, to think consec- utively, to reason logically, and to form inde- pendent judgments in regard to art, science, literature, government, morals and religion. .

Complete philosophical apparatus enables instructors to give all the experiments in mechanics, hydraulics, pnenmatics, electricity, aconstics and optics. The study of physiology is pursned with the aid of a skeleton, manikin and dissection of the different organs of the lower animals. A chemical laboratory enables · the pupil to master the study of chemistry by tlie aid of practical experiments. Where prac- ticable, the classes are taken to visit and see for themselves the application of these principles in the manufacture of things of daily life. The mind is thus aroused to see beauties and subject for thought in every object of use, as well as in every work of nature.

In addition to these there are special conrses of study in the modern languages and innsic, upon the satisfactory completion of which suit- able diplomas will be given. Class lessons in elocution are given to the whole school. The time of a special teacher is devoted to this de- partment. Particular attention is paid to the principles that underlie good reading, and the drill is so conducted as to lead the pupils to apply their knowledge in reading correctly at sight. Regular drills in gymnastics, including the complete manual for free gymnastics, the dumb-bells and wands, are given to all the stu- dents. This systematic exercise is conducive to the perfect development of the physical being. All students are required to take part in this exercise, unless specially excused by the teacher in charge.

The faculty of the institution comprises the following competent and earnest educators:

Rev. D. W. Hanna; A. M., President, Mental and Moral Sciences; Alice M. Broadwell, Lady Principal, History; Christine Moodie, Litera- ture and Rhetoric; Lucy S. Hanna, Secretary; Mary C. Noyes, A. M., Mathematics; Prof. D. O. Barto, Natural Sciences ; Mary A. Roe, Zoology and Geology; Rev. J. C. Nevin, Botany; Amy Saxton, Assistant Preparatory Depart- ment; Lnisa Carver, Principal Preparatory De- partment; Mary Russell, Lanra Moore, Primary Department.

Department of Elocution. - Kate Seaver Downs.

Department of Languages. --- Prof. Haver- mann, Latin; Prof. A. P. Dietz, French; Rev. Charles Bransby, Spanish; Herr Aruold Kut- ner, German.

Department of Music .- Prof. Adolph Wil- hartitz, Piano, Organ, Theory and Harmony; Miss Bertha Butler, Voice, Piano and Har- mony.

Art Department .- Mrs. C. F. Merrill.

Alice M. Broadwell, Director of Gymnasium ; Miss Stewart, Matron.

REV. D. W. HANNA, A. M., President of Los Angeles College, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, September 20, 1836. IIis father, Thompson Hanna, was a prominent paper manufacturer of that place. During boyhood Mr. Hanna at- tended the schools of his native town and of Marietta, Ohio, and finally graduated at Jeffer- son College in 1855. For several years there- after he assisted his father in paper manufacture. Next he was principal of the public schools in Middletown, Ohio. Meanwhile he gave some attention to science, and invented vulcanized fiber for electric purposes, and also " leatheroid," a valuable device. Bothı these commodities are manufactured largely under patents granted to himself and brother.

In 1878 Prof. Hanna resumed his educational work, taking charge of the young ladies' semi- nary at Monroe, Michigan. In 1881 he camne to California and took charge of McDonald Seminary at Napa. In the fall of 1884 he came to Los Angeles and opened Ellis College, and

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the following year established Los Angeles Col- lege, corner of Fifth and Olive streets. In March, 1888, he moved the school into the present large and commodious building, corner of Eighth and Hope streets. It is a large and prosperous school.

Prof. Hanna was ordained in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Napa, California. He married Miss Margaret Lippincott, of Mor- ristown, Belmont County, Ohio. They have two children, namely: Lucy Stanton, who is as- sisting her father in school work, and Fred, now in college.

REV. S. H. WELLER, D. D., President of the Occidental University, was born September 9, 1833, in Dayton, Ohio. He received his ele- mentary education in his native State, and gradu- ated in 1856, at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, taking the first honor of his class. For a term he had charge of the High School in Davenport, Iowa, and then pursued a theological course at a seminary, and for the succeeding twenty years he labored successfully in the min- istry of the Presbyterian Church. Then, after serving for a short time as president of the Kansas City Female College, he came to the Golden Coast, in 1885, since which time his efforts have been devoted to the establishment of the University above mentioned. He mar- ried Miss Ella Fraser, of Morrison, Illinois. They have a son, IIarold Fraser by name.

REV. CARLOS BRANSBY, Professor of Spanish in the Occidental University, is a native of the Republic of Columbia, South America. His father was John Bransby, Esq., a consin of Sir Ashley Cooper, the eminent English surgeon, and his mother, Señora Doña Ana Gómez, a lady of pure Castilian extraction. He was born in the city of Bogotà, and received his early preparatory and Spanish education in his native place, completing the course in the higher schools. In 1870 he came to North America and entered the New Jersey State Normal School, where he graduated the following year. In the fall of 1871 he entered Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, where he pursued his

studies three years, taking a full classical course. . In 1874 he entered Union Theological Semi- nary, New York, and graduated in 1877. He spent the following winter on a lecturing tour; then he came to Missouri to take charge of the Presbyterian churches of De Soto and Ironton, and was ordained at the latter place in April, 1879. In the fall of the same year he accepted a call to the Presbyterian. Church of Kinsley, Kansas, where he remained till the close of 1881. On Jannary 1, 1882, he arrived in the Golden State, and engaged in ministerial work until 1886, since which time he has devoted his time and attention, almost exclusively, to edu- cational interests and literary pursuits.

Prof. Bransby has translated into the Spanish language Ryle's Expository Thoughts, also the American Tract Society's text-book and other religious works, and written the Second Spanish Book of the Worman series, published by A. S. Barnes & Co. He has also contributed articles on educational subjects to the Colombian papers, and is a contributor to La America, an able Spanish weekly published in New York; to El Faro, of the city of Mexico, and to other secu- lar and religious papers.

THE LOS ANGELES BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.

This flourishing young institution of learn- ing is, as its name implies, the representative seat of advanced education of the Baptist de- nomination in Southern California; and, judg- ing the future by the past, it is destined to soon become one of the leading great centers of learning on the Pacific Coast. At the annual meeting of the Baptist Association held in San Diego, in 1883, the subject of the need of a Baptist College in Southern California was first presented. At the meeting of the association, held in Los Angeles, in 1884, the matter came prominently before that body and the discussion of it consumed a large part of the session. It was shown that, although this great Christian society had a college in the northern part of the State, yet, being separated from this by 500 iniles distance and intervening mountain ranges,

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with the attendant expense and loss of time in traveling, rendered it impracticable for the ma- jority of students living in Southern California to attend it; that the rapid increase of popula- tion of a cosmopolitan character, who necd the moral stimulus of a Christian college in their midst, and the future promise and great proba- bilities of this Italy of America made the founding of such a school of imperative im- portance. An affirmative decision being reached, and Los Angeles chosen as the most appropriate location for the University, several propositions were received to furnish a site for it. The one offered by John S. Maltman and G. H. Shatto, embracing fifteen acres of choice land contign- ous to the western city limits, for a campus, and ten city lots besides, as a donation, was ac- cepted, and preparations were made to build. The corner-stone of the University building was laid February 3, 1887, and it was com- pleted in time to open school the next fall. It is a substantial and ornate structure-of brick with stone trimmings-four stories high, in- cluding basement, and cost $25,000. The rooms are large, well lighted, airy and inviting, ad- mirably adapted to the purposes for which they were designed. It stands near the middle of the campus, comprising nearly sixteen acres, on the apex of a gently sloping eminence, which commands a charming view of ocean, plain and snow-capped mountain peaks of the Sierra Madre, composing a landscape unsur- passed in picturesque beanty, while the fresh mountain breezes in the morning and the in- vigorating wave-kissed breezes from the Pacific in the afternoon render the climate delightful and healthful. The ladies' dormitory is a two- story frame structure, standing a few rods to the west of the main building, and contains twenty-five bay-window rooms, very commo- dions and pleasant.

The first term of school opened September 14, 1887, with Dr. William Shelton, LL.D., as president. At the close of the first college year Dr. Shelton resigned, and on July 15, 1888, Rev. J. H. Reider was elected his suc-

cessor by an unanimons vote of the board. President Reider consented to accept the proffered honor on condition that he should have financial as well as literary control of the institution. On assuming charge, he infused new life and vigor into the young University. During the first year of his management he raised $6,000 outside of the regular income and paid off the indebtedness incurred the year previous; and the attendance increased so that two new teachers were added to the faculty, making eleven instructors. The educational facilities of the University were enlarged and improved, so that the curriculum of studies is as full and comprehensive as that of the East- ern colleges and universities; and comprises classical and scientific courses, as well as a com- plete conservatory course in music, and a course iu art. The attendance in 1889 is 107 students, and the total enrollment since the opening of the University is 225. Within the past year large accessions have been made to the Univer . sity library; the campus has been nicely graded and over 900 ornamental trees have been planted on the grounds, besides shrubbery. The insti- tution is free from debt and has property of $100,000 in valne. A large snm will be raiscd the present year for an endowment fund; and the board of trustees are making provisions for erect- ing another and still larger University building.

PRESIDENT J. H. REIDER was born in Woos- ter, Ohio, July 6, 1848, is descended from German ancestry and belongs to a family of ministers, five cousins being preachers, and Dr. Reider, the distinguished clergyman, late of Chicago, was an uncle of his. Being a mem- ber of a family of eight children, he, from choice, and with his father's consent, started ont to earn his own living at sixteen years of age, and supported himself through college, chiefly by teaching. He took a classical course in Denton University, graduating with honors; and before leaving college accepted a call to preach in Columbia City, Indiana. During his five years of ministerial labors there the church grew from a membership of twenty to 150.

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His next charge was at Bluffton, where he re- mained eight years; and by excessive labor injured his health, preaching in one instance 113 sermons in 113 evenings, during a series of revival meetings, and riding three and five miles alternately to his appointments. In obedience to urgent recommendations of physi cians he resigned; and, with a view to seeking a milder climate, removed to Winfield, Kansas, taking pastoral charge of a prosperous church, which had one of the finest church edifices in the State. After two years and three months of successful work there, the failing health of his daughter demanded a change, and in April, 1887, he came with his family to Southern California, accepting a call the same month to the Baptist Church of Monrovia, where, during the year of his pastoral work, before resigning to accept the presidency of the University, he increased the membership of the church from twenty-five to 164, and built a house of worship.

Mr. Reider is a polished, thrilling speaker, his masterly eloquence having won for him in the East the title of "golden-tongued orator." In the fourteen years of his public ministry he baptized into the church 856 persons. Before being ordained for the ministry, he was joined in marriage with Miss McLoud, of Columbus, Ohio, on June 11, 1872. Of their two chil- dren, one died in infancy. Lenella G., their living daughter, is a bright, promising miss of twelve years, who, when they brought her to California, was threatened with catarrhal con- sumption, and was scarcely able to walk, but now enjoys robust health.

OCCIDENTAL UNIVERSITY.

The principal building of this institution is a fine three-story brick structure on a beautiful slope just east of the city of Los Angeles, be- tween First and Second streets. The view from this point in every direction is magnificent. School was opened here in 1888. The prepara- tory department is the old McPherron Academy, at No. 526 South Grand avenue, which was opened September 23, 1886, by A. S. and J. M.

McPherron, as a boarding and day school for boys, and which is now named the Occidental Academy. Both boys and girls are of course admitted to the University.

Corps of instructors in the University: Rev. S. H. Weller, D. D., President and Professor of Moral Science and Mental Philosophy ; John Mc- Pherron, A. M., Vice-President and Professor of Mathematics; Rev. J. W. Parkhill, A. M., An- cient Languages; Mrs. L. M. Stevens, Special Teacher in Latin and Instructor in Elocution; Rev. John A. Gordon, D. D., English Literature and Belles-lettres; Mrs. Laura A. Dunlap, Gram- mar Department; Rev. Carlos Bransby, A. M., Modern Languages; Miss Asbury Kent, Piano and Class Instruction in Voice Culture; Miss Kate Fraser, Painting and Drawing; Mrs. J. M. McPherron, Matron.

The instructors in the Academy are: Rev. S. H. Weller, D. D., President; Horace A. Brown, A. M .. Principal; General C. W. Adams, Mathe- matics; Rev. J. W. Parkhill, A. M., Ancient Languages; Mrs. H. A. Brown, Primary School; Miss Asbury Kent, Piano and Class Instruction in Vocal Music; Miss Kate Fraser, Painting and Drawing; Mrs. Emma H. Adams, Matron.

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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