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Ecclesiastical Los Angeles stands among the elect. She has set bounds around the saloon which it may not pass. Two hundred saloons must suffice for the city, no matter what its growth may be, and these, as well as the wholesale liquor houses, are segregated within borders which they must not pass, so that the resident portion of the city is kept clear of this evil. But there are more than two hundred churches in Los Angeles, and no limit to as many more as may come. There are 170 houses of worship worthy of mention-
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some of them beautiful examples of architecture- one of them a classical structure costing $250,000. The Young Men's Christian Association building and the Young Women's Christian Association building are among the costliest and most complete in all their appointments in the United States, which is to say, in the world. Los Angeles is a church-going city-the same may be truthfully said of every city in Southern California. The churches of Los Angeles are bound together in the strong brotherhood of the "Church Federation." Church unity is a practical fact, not a theory. There is no spirit of controversy among the de- nominations. Jewish and Baptist congregations have worshipped together at the Passover season, both rabbi and minister taking part in the service before the united congregations. That is the spirit -not of religious tolerance, but of brotherhood and friendship. The Protestant church member- ship of the city is nearly 60,000; the Catholic com- munion about the same, though, of course, the church attendance is much larger than the total memberships. The feeling of all the churches is well expressed by the Right Reverend Thomas J. Conaty, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles: "The earnest desire of the Catholic people, composed as they are of so many and varied nationalities, is to unite with the other citizens of Los Angeles to make our city a home to be proud of, and a community in which it is a privilege to dwell." Pasadena is the Epis- copal residence of the Right Reverend Joseph Johnson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern California.
With the churches stand the public schools, which begin their work of education with the tiny children. The kindergarten system of Los Ange-
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les is expensive to the city, because it is the very best, but it is the cheapest to the patron, who se- cures the best returns for the outlay. The Los Angeles child may begin its education when it is four and a half years old. The kindergartens are so distributed that they are for the benefit of the children of the "plain people"-the people whose the public schools are. They are not confined to "the best localities." The sessions are for half days only-the best for teacher and pupil; and the classes are never large-the average being thirty-six pupils. In the primary schools, into which the kindergartner is graduated, the average number of pupils to the class is about thirty-six. In his way through the public schools, the pupil is not only taught the indispensable "three R's," but constructive work in paper folding, basketry, and weaving; cardboard construction, and for the boys two years in wood sloyd with some mechani- cal drawing, while the girls spend the last two years of the elementary course in learning the ele- ments of cooking. All pupils have instruction in free-hand drawing, the beginnings of designing, and from the day they enter the schools until they leave them daily instruction in music-an educa- tion for the sons and daughters of the people. In 1908 the drawing exhibit of the Los Angeles schools was given the place of honor at Edinburgh. Great attention is paid to manual training. It is taken for granted that boys and girls educated in the public schools are not only going to know some- thing, but also to do something. The city looks after the health of the pupil's body as well as the education of his mind. There is a thorough health inspection of all the children in the public schools -the inspection being directed to five points-con- dition of eyesight, hearing, breathing, heart action,
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and the teeth. A compulsory education law is strictly enforced. The city keeps her children of school age off the streets and out of the factories and in the schools. Idleness is looked upon as a crime. The high standards which the city has set, and which it maintains, for the qualifications of the teacher, secure for the schools a most superior body of instructors. No one may teach in the grammar schools who has not received an educa- tion equivalent to graduation from a high school and a normal school.
On a par with the city schools are the county schools. The child on the ranche is not sent to the city to attend high school. Of the twenty-six high schools in Los Angeles county, eighteen are in the country districts. The buildings are usu- ally of the mission style of architecture; they are all handsome, splendidly adapted to their pur- pose; modern to the day of their erection; sur- rounded by beautifully kept grounds-educational palaces, each in its own park. All the county schools are ornaments to the country in appear- ance, as they are immeasurable benefits. More than 20,000 school children reside in the country ; ninety per cent of them live within easy distance of steam or electric railways and from fifteen min- utes to one hour distant from the center of Los Angeles. Whittier has a union high school which serves seven districts. The Citrus union high school at Azusa is a beautiful picture in the heart of the orange groves. The finest building in South Pasadena is its high school. San Gabriel, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre and many other of the towns deserve high praise for their school houses.
One of the things the homeseeker has to do when he comes to California is to unlearn about all he
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has ever been taught about soil, climate, seasons, the habits of plants and the treatment of the farm and garden. The brilliantly illustrated "an- nuals" issued by the great florists and seed houses of the East are joke books in California, where things grow thirteen months in the year, rather than six. When the hour is dull one can read the chapter on "Garden Work in November" and laugh the tedious moments away. "What to Plant After Gathering the Peas" pleases the Whittier farmer, gathering his seventh crop for the cannery that year. One of the duties of the Christian par- ent in California is to explain to the wondering child the snow-drifted, ice-bound, frost-spangled Christmas cards issued by the Boston publishing houses and sent to this land where Christmas and Fourth of July are born under the sign of Gemini. Easter Sunday is no more beautiful and glorious, with its symbols of the resurrection, than is any Sunday in December. How can the emblems of the resurrection be very impressive in a land where nature has no symbols of death, but where month answers month, all through the year, in every flow- er-blossoming cemetery, shaded by fadeless palms and pines, crying, "Life-everlasting life!" Our children cannot understand Thomson's"Seasons." The pathos of the Christmas story of the ragged little waifs freezing to death in their wretched hovel on Christmas eve is largely lost. "Why did not the children go out of doors and get warm?" This is a land of life.
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ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, PASADENA
Humorist, author, lecturer, preacher, philanthropist; born July 30, 1844; Greensboro, Pa. Educated in public schools, Peoria, Ill .; private soldier in 47th Illinois Infantry; reporter on Peoria (Ill.) Transcript, 1869-72; editor Peoria Evening Review, 1872-75; editor Burlington (la.) Hawk-Eye, 1876-84. Popular lecturer, 1876-1905. Licensed to preach, Lower Merion Baptist Church (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), 1897; ordained to the Baptist ministry Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug., 1903. Married, first Caroline Spaulding Garrett, Peoria, Ill., March 4, 1870 (died, May, 1884); second, Clara Bradley Baker, Pasadena, Cal., March 27, 1898. His home, "Sunnycrest," on Orange Grove Ave., Pasadena.
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CLARA (BRADLEY) BURDETTE, PASADENA
Born East Bloomfield, N. Y., July 22, 1855. Educated in Syracuse public schools and Syracuse Univ., 1872-6; one of the founders of Alpha Phi Sorority. Active in educational and literary life and in women's ciub organizations and work; federated the woman's clubs of Cal. and was first Pres. of State Federation; also First Vice Pres. General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902-4. Builder and donor of Pasadena Maternity Hospital; trustee Throop Poly- technic Institute, Pasadena, and First Vice Pres. and Chairman finance committee Auditorium Company, Los Angeles. Mem. American Social Science Assn. and Archaeological Institute of America. Lecturer on social and economic questions; magazine and newspaper contributor; author of "The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold" and "To Idealize Drudgery." Married, 1878, N. Milman Wheeler (died 1886); 1890, Pressley C. Baker (died 1893); 1899, Robert J. Burdette.
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E. L. POTTER, LOS ANGELES
Born Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1866. Educated public schools of native state. Long known as a leading hotel man; from 1902 to Feb. 14, 1909, proprietor Hotel Clarendon, Sea Breeze, Fla., patronized by wealthy and cultivated tourists. Hotel burned on date named (having been expanded from fifty to four hundred rooms), and July, 1909, Mr. Potter came to Los Angeles and bought "The Van Nuys" business and equipment of Milo M. Potter, veteran hotel man, for $150,000, leasing building of I. N. Van Nuys for twelve and a half years. The Van Nuys Hotel contains two hundred guest rooms, one hundred private baths, was built fourteen years ago and is strictly modern. Mr. Potter closed its purchase July 19, 1909. Mem. B. P. O. E. Married, Sept. 29, 1903, Jessie Buell, daughter of A. C. Buell, Evanston, Ill.
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ERNEST ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, LOS ANGELES
Born Toronto, Can., Nov. 24, 1863, son of Alexander and Jane (Chapman) Montgomery. Great grand-uncle, General Richard Montgomery, was hero of Quebec. Educated public schools London, Can., and Stuart, Ia., spending boyhood on ranch. From 1884 to 1901 mining in Idaho and Washington; latter year went to Nye Co., Nev., where, in Montgomery district, developed valu- able properties (Johnnie Mine, etc.); operated "World Beater" and "O. B. Joyful" mines, Inyo Co., Cal .; 1903 identified with Los Angeles, Daggett & Tonopah Ry. Co .; helped organize Goldfield district; 1904 located famous Shoshone mine; hought Skidoo mine (1905) upon which spent $500,000. Pres. Skidoo Mines Co .; dir. Montgomery-Shoshone, Sapphire Oil Co. and First National Bank, Tonopah. Mem. Jonathan, Sierra Madre and other clubs; Thirty-second degree Mason; Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Commerce of Mines, Merchants & Manufacturers' Assn. Came to California 1891.
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A. E. HALSEY, LOS ANGELES
A. E. Halsey is well known as one of the solid men in the real estate and building business of Los Angeles. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., and has lived in California since 1882. He located in Los Angeles in 1897, and it is needless to say will always be identified with its welfare and advance- ment. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Union League Club, Federation Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, etc. President of The A. E. Halsey Company and director in several local companies. Mr. Halsey is also President of The Los Angeles Kern Oil Co., a producing company with wells located in the Kern River district near Bakersfield.
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ARTHUR B. MULLEN, LOS ANGELES
Born in Milwaukee, Wis., 1874, son of Andrew and Mary Teresa (Deane) Mullen. The father was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1832, and died in Los Angeles, March 4, 1899. Arthur B. was educated at St. Vincent's Coll. and Notre Dame Univ. Came to Los Angeles in 1888, and from 1901 to March, 1910, was manager of Mullen & Bluett Clothing Co., the largest establishment of the kind in Los Angeles; since latter date has been manager of new store corner of Broadway and Sixth St.
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WILLIAM F. CRONEMILLER, LOS ANGELES
Born at Brushy Point Mining Camp (near where Marshall discovered gold in California), Apr. 30, 1855. Public school and business education; grad. from Sacramento Business Coll. 1873, taught for two years in same school. For five years was manager of W. R. Strong Fruit Co., then eight years manager of Earl Fruit Co. One of the organizers of the Golden West Celery and Produce Co .; since the organiza- tion of the Vegetable Union, in 1902, has been its Pres .; handles ninety per cent of the vegetable produce of Southern California. Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Club, I. O. F. and Native Sons of the Golden West. Married, 1881, Mattie J. Frazee, of Sacramento and has one daughter, Flora May.
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CHARLES TILESTON LEEDS, LOS ANGELES
Born Newton, Mass., May 14, 1879. Educated in public schools of that place; at Newton High School; U. S. Mili- tary Academy (West Point), grad. 1903; and Mass. Institute of Technology (S. B., 1906). Cadet U. S. M. A., June 13, 1899; second lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, June 11, 1903; first lieutenant, same, Apr. 23, 1904. Served as lieutenant of Engineers in the Philippines (chiefly in Mindanao, Moro Province) until Dec., 1904; with 2nd Battalion of Engineers, Washington, D. C., to Aug., 1905; at Mass. Institute of Technology to June, 1906 (degree S. B.); at Fort Bayard, N. M., to Apr., 1908. Came to Los Angeles Apr., 1908; in charge U. S. Engineer Office since August, of that year. Married, Jan. 12, 1905, Amy Lee Shapleigh, of Newton, Mass.
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WILLIAM ALFRED MARTIN, LOS ANGELES
Born October, 1878, at Indian Bay, Ark., son of Micajah D. and Sarah E. (Rodman) Martin. Educated in common schools and at Hendrix Coll., Conway, Ark., and Univ. of Arkansas (Fayetteville); also, Cumberland Univ., Lebanon, Tenn. (grad. with LL. B.). Admitted to Supreme Court of California, Apr. 6, 1903; thus licensed to practice in all courts of the state; has since been engaged alone in general practice at Los Angeles; admitted to the Circuit and Dis- trict Court of the United States (Southern District of Cali- fornia) Feb. 15, 1909. Mem. Fraternal Brotherhood. Republican.
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J. A. MUNK, LOS ANGELES
Born in Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847. Served in Civil War as private Company I, 178th Regt., O. V. I .; then attended Mount Union Coll., Alliance, Ohio; grad. Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1869. Now Dean of California Eclectic Medical Coll .; Professor of Climatology, Hygiene and Public Health, and frequent contributor to Eclectic medical literature. Dr. Munk began collecting an Arizona library in 1884; first published his Arizona Bibliography in 1900 (second edition in 1908, with 3,000 titles); in 1905 published a volume of Arizona Sketches. His Arizona library now contains 4,000 items and has been donated to the Southwest Museum. Mem. Grand Army of the Republic and Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Now President of the National Eclectic Medical Association.
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FRANK GARRETT, LOS ANGELES
Born Sept. 14, 1869, at Leavenworth, Kan. Educated pub- lic schools Leavenworth; Holbrook Military Academy, Briar Cliff, N. Y .; Hamilton Coll., Clinton, N. Y. (A. B., 1892); and Univ. of Mich. (LL. B., 1895). Came to Los Angeles 1895; prac. there since. Jan., 1901, became member firm Haas & Garrett; Apr., 1906. H. L. Dunnigan admitted to the firm (Haas, Garrett & Dunnigan); Oct., 1900, admitted to practice before U. S. District Court and U. S. Circuit Court. Married, Nov. 16, 1899, Sara G. Dickinson. Mem. Los Angeles Bar Assn. and Thirty-second degree Mason, Shriner and B. P. O. E., No. 99. Democrat.
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GEORGE W. FINCH, LOS ANGELES
Born West Unity, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1851. Preliminary educa- tion in public schools. Studied medicine and practiced in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa until 1882, when he came to Los Angeles. Grad. California Eclectic Medical Coll., Nov. 28, 1890 (M. D.); continuous practice in Los Angeles since. Now Professor of Materia Medica at Eclectic Medical Coll., Los Angeles, and prominent as a botanist; mem. Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society and Eclectic Medical Society of Southern California. Married, Oct. 28, 1882, Mary A. Bradshaw, of Omaha, Neb., who died June 28, 1908.
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O. C. WELBOURN, LOS ANGELES
Born in Darke Co., Ohio, (1871), of English ancestry. Attended public schools and Bethany Coll. (A. M. degree); grad. Eclectic Medical Institute in 1891 (M. D.), and later took two years of professional study abroad. Resident of Southern California since 1894; now Pres. of Board of Trustees and Professor of Surgical Gynecology in California Eclectic Medical Coll .; also editor of California Eclectic Medical Journal. Ex-Pres. State Eclectic Medical Society and mem. National Assn .; Pres. of Westlake Hospital. Mem. Jonathan Club. Thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner. Married Miss Annie Lloyd in 1909.
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EDWARD ROSEBERRY MONK, LOS ANGELES
Born Columbiana Co., Ohio, Jan. 31, 1861. Educated Mount Union (Ohio) Coll. (B. A., 1882; M. A., later). Admitted to the bar before Michigan Supreme Court, 1883; elected Judge Territorial Court of Arizona, 1886, and re- elected to second term. Appointed Receiver U. S. Land Office at Tucson, 1893; also Disbursing Agent of Land Office, as well as Civil Service Examiner for Arizona and Regent Univ. of Arizona. Came to Los Angeles, 1900. Now holds chair of Medical Jurisprudence, Eclectic Medical Coll .; mem. Jonathan and California Clubs and Los Angeles Stock Exchange, Los Angeles Commandery, K. T., and Shriner. Member of Christ Episcopal Church and mcm. of the firm of E. R. Monk & Co., attorneys at law.
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WILLIAM S. GIBSON, LOS ANGELES
Born Greenville, Pa., 1869. Educated Denmark (Ia.) public schools and Denmark Academy, having moved to that place at nine years of age. Grad. Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1882 (M. D.); prac. in Iowa twelve years. Came to Los Angeles Co. 1894; prac. since, with success. Vice- Pres. Board of Trustees West Lake Hospital. Mem. I. O. O. F .; Masonic fraternity, White Shrine of Jerusalem, Amoranth and O. E. S. Married, 1884, Cora M. Joy, native of New York state; two children, Merrill E. and Joy E.
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JAMES FRANKLYN COOK, LOS ANGELES
Born Warwick, Mass., Nov. 2, 1868; parents brought him to Boston, at three years of age; educated at Waterbury (Conn.) High School and Mount Hermon (Mass.) School; then attend- ed Harvard Dental School, and 1891 graduated from Dental department Univ. of Michigan. Began prac. in Toledo, Ohio, where he remained nine years; came to Los Angeles, 1900, and has continued prac. since. Mem. Ohio State Medical Assn .; Pres. Southern California Dental Assn., 1908; California Club and Los Angeles Athletic Club; Univ. of Michigan Alumni; Masonic fraternity and B. P. O. E.
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JOHN WESLEY TRUEWORTHY, LOS ANGELES
Born Troy, N. Y., May 28, 1843. Early education in pub- lic schools and Hillsboro (Ill.) Academy. Also University Ann Arbor, Michigan. Served in Civil War as private in Ninth Illinois Infantry. Grad. Rush Medical Coll. (Chicago) Jan. 25, 1865, with professional degree; in active practice since. Came to Los Angeles from Kansas City, Mo., 1892; Mem. American Medical Assn., California State Medical Society, Los Angeles County Medical Society, Southern California District Medical Society; ex-Pres. Los Angeles Academy of Medicine and ex-mem. Pan-American Medical Congress. Ex-Pres. Los Angeles Public Library Board; mem. California, University and Sierra Clubs and Chamber of Commerce, Sequoya League and Archaeological Society. Knight Templar and Shriner.
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SEELEY WINTERSMITH MUDD, LOS ANGELES
Born Kirkwood, Mo., Aug. 16, 1861. Educated in public schools of native town and St. Louis; was grad. Washington Univ., 1883 (degree, Engineer of Mines). Assayer and Supt. copper dept. St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co., 1883-5; mangr. 1885 to pres- ent of Small Hopes Consolidated Mining Co. and Boreel Mining Co .; mangr. May, 1899, to Apr., 1902, Ibex Mining Co. (Little Johnnie mine); May, 1902 to June, 1904, western consulting engi- neer New Jersey Zinc Co. Moved from Denver to Los Angeles, 1903; Mar., 1904, to Dec., 1905, Pacific Coast consulting engineer for Guggenheim Exploration Co .; later, for American Smelting & Refining Co .; Dec., 1904, to present, Pres. and mangr. Queen Esther Mining & Milling Co. of Kern Co., Cal .; 1907 to present dir. and a consulting engineer of Ray Consolidated Copper Co. and Gila Copper Co. For fifteen years engaged in private mining and active as consulting engineer.
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JOSEPH MESMER, LOS ANGELES
Born Tippecanoe City, Miami Co., Ohio, Nov. 8, 1855. Lived in Los Angeles since 1859. Public school education. In 1878, at 158-60 North Main St., founded Queen Shoe Store; for twenty-eight consecutive years continued as shoe merchant; since 1906 engaged in manufacturing; Pres. St. Louis Fire Brick & Clay Co. In 1904 secured site for new government building, for which, through voluntary sub- scriptions, he raised $281,000, of which $65,000 was returned to subscribers; Pres. Los Angeles River Improvement Com- mission; always prominent in that public work; considered one of the builders of modern Los Angeles. Mem. Cali- fornia and Jonathan Clubs.
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F. C. FINKLE, LOS ANGELES
Born Viroqua, Wis., May 3, 1865. Educated in local high school with civil engineering in view; special course in civil engineering at Univ. of Wisconsin until Jan., 1887, when he came to California. In 1887-8 was chief engineer North Riverside L. & W. Co., Jurupa L. & W. Co. and Vivienda Water Co .; 1889-96 chief engineer San Bernardino Gas & Electric Co., East Riverside Irrigation Dis- trict and Grapeland Irrigation District, and City Engineer San Bernardino; 1897-1906, chief engineer Southern California Edison Co., Los Angeles, and 1907-1910 consulting engineer of same, as well as for Central Colorado Power Co. and many other large compa- nies in the west. Built and owns Finkle Building, an eight story reinforced concrete block at 6th & Flower Sts., Los Angeles. Lead- ing expert and writer on engineering and geology. One of the organizers of National Irrigation Congress, held in Salt Lake City, Sept. 15-17, 1891. Mem. leading engineering, architectural and geographical societies, and California clubs; B. P. O. E., K. of P., etc.
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JOHN PARK DOUGALL, LOS ANGELES
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 19, 1874. Moved to New Zealand in 1875, receiving his preliminary education in that country. Became a resident of California in 1891. Grad. California Medical Coll., May, 1904; prac. Los Angeles since. Professor of Bacteriology, Pacific Coll. of Medicine and Osteopathy; Pres. Southern California Eclectic Medical Assn. (1907); mem. National Eclectic Medical Assn. and Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California (Secretary from 1906 to date); also, of the California Board of Medical Examiners, of which Pres. 1908-9. Past Noble Grand and Past Chief Patriarch, I. O. O. F. and K. of P .; Mason; Past Consul Commander, W. O. W.
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THOMAS LORENZO DUQUE, LOS ANGELES
Born in province of Havana, Cuba, Sept. 5. 1853. Educated in public schools and College of Monserrate, Havana, and Friends' Central School, Philadelphia (1865-9). In Sept., 1869, joined an unsuccessful Cuban expedition under General Goicouria; spent several months of 1871 with his brother in Jamaica; then Panama Railroad clerk until 1878; purser on Pacific Mail steamers between Panama and San Francisco until 1884; returned to Havana in 1885, married in 1886, and In 1888 (Apr. 25th) came to Los Angeles; father of nine children. Prominent in banking; has served as Pres. of Security Savings Bank and Main Street Savings Bank (1895-1905); leading member Los Angeles and San Diego Chambers of Commerce; Pres. and Mangr. San Felipe Land & Water Co. and Dir. Southern Trust & Savings Bank. For some years Con- sular representative of Ecuador, Honduras and Cuba.
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LYNDEN ELLSWORTH BEHYMER, LOS ANGELES
Born at Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio, Nov. 5, 1862. Educated in public schools of Shelbyville, Ill .; engaged in mechanical and mercantile pursuits in Illinois and Dakota until coming to Cali- fornia in 1886; since 1892, manager and promoter of musical, dramatic and literary events in Los Angeles; fourteen years manager of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which (with Harley Hamil- ton) organized, and seventeen years manager Woman's Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Behymer is also manager of the Auditorium, Theater Beautiful, Simpson's Auditorium and the Great Phil- harmonic Course. Elected to French Academy and received decoration of "The Palms," March 1, 1908; active in all artistic and cultural movements to improve the city. Mem. Al Mala- ikah Temple, Knights of Mystic Shrine, Scottish Rite Mason, B. P. O. E. (No. 99), Gamut Club, Chamber of Commerce and M. & M. Assn. Married Menettie Sparkes, Fredonia, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1885; three children, Enid, Elsie, Glen.
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