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JAMES A. FOSHAY, LOS ANGELES
Born in Cold Spring, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1856. Grad. State Normal School, Albany, N. Y., 1879; A.M., Univ. Southern California; Pd.D., State Normal Coll., Albany, N. Y., Taught public schools Putnam Co., N. Y., 1879-81; School Commissioner, 1881-7; Secretary N. Y. Assn. School Com- missioners and Supts., 1884-6. Moved to California, 1887. Mem. School Examining Board, Los Angeles Co., 1889-95; Deputy Supt. Schools, Los Angeles, 1893-5; Superintendent, July, 1895, to March 1, 1906. Elected Supreme Pres. Fraternal Brotherhood, in January, 1906. Mem. Natn'1. Council of Education and California Council of Education; identified with Sunset, University and Jonathan Clubs. Grand Master California Grand Lodge of Masons, 1900-1. Married, March 18, 1885, Miss Phebe Powell Miller.
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LAWRENCE B. BURCK, LOS ANGELES
Born in Galveston, Texas, 1872. Educated in the public schools and University of Texas. Engaged for eight years in the wholesale importation of Teas, Coffee and Spices at Galveston, Texas. Came to Los Angeles in 1904 and has since formed several companies devoted to building, loan, and investment, which have been important factors in the development of the city. Is President of The Lawrence B. Burck Co., and Vice President of The Los Angeles Abstract & Trust Co. Was married in September, 1905, to Phila B., daughter of Gail B. Johnson.
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CHARLES HULBERT TOLL, LOS ANGELES
Born Clinton, Ia., Nov. 24, 1858. Attended public schools there and college at Mt. Vernon, Ia. Began to earn living in factory at Clinton; served there as Deputy County Clerk and Deputy Postmaster. Came to Los Angeles in Septem- ber, 1885; conducted grocery seven years; Councilman of Fifth Ward four years. Cashier and Director Southern California Savings Bank, 1900-7; Vice Pres. and Director of Security Savings Bank since. Mem. Jonathan, Athletic, City and Union League Clubs, and Merchants' & Manufac- turers' Assn., Municipal League and Chamber of Commerce. Married, Sept. 4, 1901, Miss Eleanor M. Joy.
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FRANK D. MCCLURE, LOS ANGELES
Born Fremont Co., Ia., 1871, and came to California in 1884. Educated in Stockton Normal School and Val- paraiso (Ind.) University; grad. from latter in 1894, with B. S. (LL.B., 1896). Admitted to Indiana bar and U. S. Circuit courts for the district of Indiana in 1896; same year to California courts. Prac. at Visalia, Cal., 1896-1900; Bakersfield, 1900-7, and since the latter year at Los Angeles. Member of the firm of Woodruff & McClure; legal repre- sentative of San Pedro harbor interests at Washington, D. C., before Secretary of War (1908), in controversy defin- ing and establishing the lines of the Inner and Outer harbors. Mem. B. P. O. E. Married, 1396, Miss Angie E. Nugent.
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EDWARD S. COBB, LOS ANGELES
Took full course of mechanical engineering at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, 1875-9; 1880-2, headquarters in Boston, especlaily a testing engineer and designer of machine and power plants; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind., 1882-8; general engineering, Dalias, Tex., and Muskogee, I. T., 1882-92; speclai work on designs and tests for steam engine manufacturers of Erie, Pa., 1892-3. Came to California In 1893; mechanical and hydraulic engineer for Ris- don Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., 1893-4; designer of water power plants, mine-machinery installations and general consulting practice, 1894-6; senior member Cobb & Hesselmeyer, leading hydraulic and general engineers, and naval constructors, San Fran- cisco, 1896-1901; came to Los Angeles, latter year, and has since been a leading consulting engineer, chiefly engaged in heavy con- struction work on bridges, buildings, pipe lines, power plants and reinforced concrete.
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ERNEST B. COIL, LOS ANGELES
Born Perry, Ralls Co., Mo., Dec. 13, 1877, son of James A. and Barbara Amanda (Ball) Coil. Educated public schools; Mexico (Mo.) High School, from which grad. 1895; Mis- souri State University, two years; Columbia Law School, three years; and one year of law study under private tutor- ship. Located at Bakersfield, Cal., June 1, 1901; remained until 1904, being Deputy District Atty. Kern Co .; prac. San Francisco, 1904-7; and since latter year in Los Angeles; until Nov., 1907, associated with A. B. Mccutchen, and now with the firm O'Melveny, Stevens and Milliken. In poli- tics, a Democrat. Married in 1904, to Miss Amelia May Reardan.
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ROBERT ARNOLD ROWAN, LOS ANGELES
Born in Chicago, Il1., Aug. 20, 1876, son of George D. and Fannie F. Rowan. Father, a wholesale grocer and real estate operator, died Sept. 7, 1902. R. A. Rowan came to Los Angeles with parents in 1876. Public school education. Export business, N. Y. City, 1893-4; merchandise broker, 1895-7, and since latter year engaged in real estate business. Pres. R. A. Rowan & Co .; firm largely interested in Security building; and the Chester office bldg. contracts for which have just been let and which will exceed $1,000,000; person- ally, joint owner (with A. C. Bilicke) of Hotel Alexandria. Mem. Los Angeles Realty Board and California, Jonathan, Los Angeles Country, Pasadena Country and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, being Pres. of last named.
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PHILLIP D. ROWAN, LOS ANGELES
Born in Los Angeles Co., Sept. 11, 1884. Educated in pri- vate and public schools of the city. Employee of Farmers' & Merchants' Bank, 1900-01; in September of the latter year became associated with his brother, R. A. Rowan, and since July, 1905, identified with the management and opera- tion of the firm of R. A. Rowan & Co., of which he is Treas- urer. Interested in the Security and Chester office build- ings and other properties. Mem. California, Jonathan, Los Angeles, Athletic and San Gabriel Country Clubs.
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FRED S. ROWAN, LOS ANGELES
Born Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 31, 1879. Educated in Pasa- dena grammar and high schools. With the Tufts-Lyon Arms Co., 1899-01, and since 1902 associated with R. A. Rowan & Co., of which he has been Secretary since 1904; interested in the Security, and Chester office buildings and other properties. Mem. California, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country clubs, and Native Sons of Cali- fornia.
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WILLIAM G. KERCKHOFF, LOS ANGELES
Born in Terre Haute, Ind., son of George and Phillipine (Newhart) Kerckhoff, natives of Germany. Educated In that city and in Germany. Came to Los Angeles in 1875; became active in the lumber business and in April, 1879, associated himself with James Cuzner; later, the Kerckhoff-Cuzner MIll & Lumber Co. was orga- nized, in which both founders are still Interested, Mr. Kerckhoff being Pres. Corporation controls mills and lumber lands, steamers and schooners on the Umpqua river, wharves at San Pedro and retail yards through Southern California. Mr. Kerckhoff built the ten-story steel building occupied by the com- pany and the Santa Fe road; is also Pres. Pacific Light & Power Co. and of the San Joaquin Light & Power Co. Mem. California. Jonathan, Pacific Union, Bohemian, Los Angeles Country, Rocky Mountain, Bolsa Chica and Del Rey Clubs. Served two terms as State Commissioner of the Yosemite Valley.
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JAMES STARK BENNETT, PASADENA
Born at Sherburn, Oneida Co., N. Y. May 7, 1879. Removed to California with his parents in 1888. Graduated from Pomona College in the class of 1903, and received the degrees of M. A. and LL.B. from Columbia University in 1905 and 1906 respectively. Admitted to the practice of the law in New York in 1905 and in California the following year. Since January 1. 1910, has been engaged in general practice as member of the firm of Fleming & Bennett with offices in Los Angeles. Member of the University Club. Married October 8, 1907, to Ethelwyn Foote of Pasadena where they have since resided.
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CHARLES FORMAN, LOS ANGELES
Born near Owego, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1835. Educated in public schools of native town and Owego Academy. Came to Cali- fornia in 1853, and first served as cashier in the Sacramento post- office; in 1857, at end of Uncle's term as postmaster went over- land to settle accounts at Washington. Returning to Sacramento, was Deputy Secretary of State for two years; then engaged in mining in and around Virginia City, Nev., and while so engaged was made Major General of State Volunteers. In 1882 moved headquarters to Los Angeles, where he made his home in 1887; became Vice Pres. and Manager of City & Central Ry. Co. (after- ward Los Angeles Cable Ry. Co.); since 1902 devoted to power development of Kern River Co., of which Pres., as well as Sec- retary of the Pacific Light & Power Co. Pres., two years, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Married, 1862, Mary Agnes Gray; two children, Eloise and Charles, Jr.
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GEORGE H. WOODRUFF, LOS ANGELES
Born at Watertown, Conn., in 1873, son of J. F. and Ellen (Atwood) Woodruff. Educated in Connecticut public schools. Moved to the State of Washington, 1891. Grad. Vashon College, Tacoma, 1896, and then attended Stanford University (Cal.) four years. Admitted California bar in 1902; City Attorney of Whittier, 1903; associate counsel Title Insurance & Trust Co., 1904-6; chief counsel Union Trust & Title Co., 1906-7; now in general practice and mem- ber of firm of Woodruff & McClure. In politics, Republican. Mem. Chamber of Commerce; Masonic fraternity and B. P. O. E .; Jonathan and University Clubs. Married, 1901, Nellie E. Brittan.
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E. E. EASTON, LOS ANGELES
President of the Engineers' Exploration, Ltd., selected Los Angeles as his permanent home in 1906, because his exploration work in other parts of the world left no room for doubt that Los Angeles possesses more attractions for a home than any other spot on earth, and the city itself, as a business metropolis, has within Its reach dormant domains of unrivaled wealth when developed. He spent nearly a year in exploration work in South Africa; later made a comprehensive examination of the mineral deposits north of the Zam- besiriver, East Africa; had charge of an expedition for French-Dutch capital to report upon the minerai possibilities of the Malay Penin- sula and Borneo; explored the Atlas Mts., North Sahara Desert, and did similar examination work in Spanish Honduras. Married Elise Holliday In Berkeley, Cai .: two daughters and one son. Mem. Jonathan Club, Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Mines.
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PAUL WADSWORTH SCHENCK, LOS ANGELES
Born in Albion, Calhoun Co., Mich., Aug. 18, 1874. Grad. from Lake Forest (Ill.) University in 1898, with the degree LL.B., and in the following year admitted to the Illinois bar. Came to Los Angeles in 1902, and admitted to Cali- fornia bar at once; has practiced criminal law almost exclu- sively. Married, 1908, to Genevieve W. Kittrelle, a native of California and daughter of Marvin B. and Mary (Jones) Kittrelle, of Modesto, Cal.
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EDWIN W. SARGENT, LOS ANGELES
Born at Oregon, Dane Co., Wis., August 15, 1848; son of Croyden Sargent and Lucy W. (Hutchinson) Sargent; attended Wisconsin State University in years 1867-70; entered law department of the State University of Iowa in 1871, graduating in Law Department in 1874; commenced law practice at Denison, Iowa, remaining there from 1874 to 1879; moved to Atchison, Kan., where he remained until 1886. In July of this year he settled in Los Angeles. Early in 1887, he assisted in the organization and became the legal adviser of the "Los Angeles Abstract Company," which made a prominent feature of making the full, or unlimited certificate of title. This evidence of title soon became popular, and its growing business was reorganized in 1893 under the name of the "Title
Insurance and Trust Company." From this company, he retired in 1895 and organized the present "Title Guarantee and Trust Company," of which he is Vice-Pres. and legal adviser. From his long and active experience In promoting and having had successfully adopted, the Certificate of Title, as the evidence of title in this community, he is known and sometimes called "The Father of the Title Business" as it is conducted in South. California. Mem. of the Jonathan Club, Knight Templar and Shriner.
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DREW PRUITT, LOS ANGELES
Born at Selma, Drew Co., Ark., in 1860, son of J. M and Nancy (Johnston) Pruitt; in 1869 moved to Coryell Co., Tex., where he was raised on a farm and ranch. Educated at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., receiving there- from the degree of Ph.B. in 1880. In the following year admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Texas. Mar- ried Wilhelmina Franklin at Waco, Tex., in 1887. Located at Fort Worth, that state, where he enjoyed a large practice in the State and Federal courts for twenty years. Moved to Los Angeles in 1906, and has since been recognized as one of the leading lawyers of that city. Mem. Los. Angeles Bar Assn., Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Club, B. P. O. E. and Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar and Shrine.
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THADDEUS S. C. LOWE, PASADENA
Born Jefferson, N. H., Aug. 20, 1832. Constructed balloons in 1856-8-9, in order to study atmospheric phenomenon; during Civil War Chief of Aeronautic Corps; in 1862 devised system of signaling and valuable instruments for atmospheric investigation; constructed and operated largest aerostat ever built; invented compression ice machines and made first artificial ice in the U. S. (1865) ; also refrigerated first steam- ship for food transportation. Founded the Lowe Observa- tory in the Sierra Madre Mts., Cal., and built Mount Lowe R. R. Inventor of water-gas system, which revolutionized the gas industry .- Encyclopedia Americana. Later invented Metallurgical coke and gas ovens; smelting furnaces; includ- ing high grade steel converters, and "Planet" airship, for passenger, exploring, commercial and military purposes.
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JOHN DOWNEY WORKS, LOS ANGELES
Born in Ohio Co., Ind., March 29, 1847, son of James Alexander and Phoebe Downey. Early education in public schools of Ind., with special instruction in Latin. Served from Sept., 1863, to end of Civil War as private in Tenth Indiana Cav .; studied law with uncle, Alexander Downey, ex-Justice of the State Supreme Court, and was admitted to Indlana bar in 1868; prac. with his father and served a term in lower house of the legislature, before moving to San Diego, because of ill health in 1883. Has carried on large practice, under different firm names, being now senior member of Works & Works, his partner being his son, Lewis R. Moved to Los Angeles in 1896 and is again practicing with his son. Judge of Superior Court, 1886-7; Justice of Supreme Court 1888- 91; Councilman in 1909-10 (Pres. at time of resignation, Mar., 1910). Prominent in work of Municipal League; Pres. of various industrial companies; Mem. of the G. A. R. Carried popular vote for United States Senator from Callfornia at primary electlon March 16, 1910. Married, Nov. 8, 1868, Alice Banta; six children.
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VICTOR E. SHAW, LOS ANGELES
Born Dec. 15, 1857, in Pettis Co., Mo. Educated in public schools Saline Co., that state, until 1872, when he accom- panied his parents, Barnett J. and Sarah Glenn (Parberry) Shaw, to Oregon. Student at Willamette University, Salem, Ore., 1875-8; grad. law department of same (LL.B.) and admitted to bar of Missouri, 1880; prac. with Hon. William S. Shirk until coming to San Diego, Cal., 1888. Engaged in private practice there until 1906, when elected Associate Justice District Court of Appeals, serving four years. Mem. Masonic fraternity and B. P. O. E .; also of Cuyamaca Club, San Diego, and California, Jonathan, Union League, Annandale and San Gabriel Valley Country Clubs, Los Angeles. Married, Oct. 24, 1883, to Miss Mary L. Parker.
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GRANT G. GILLETTE, LOS ANGELES
Is a leading promoter and operator of oil and mineral properties in the Southwest; first entered the mining field in Mexico, when he became interested in the San Antonio mine in Chihuahua; took up other properties, notably the Quedradillas and Los Muertos mines, which he sold at handsome profits; is now widely known throughout Mexico and California. Since coming to Los Angeles has promoted the Wellman Oil Co., the California Midway (con- trolling 400 acres), the Bankers' Oil Co. and the Consolidated Midway Oil Co. The Consolidated Midway has the biggest well in the world-60,000 barrels under perfect control. The Bankers'. (in which he is a leading director) has made the most wonderful progress of any company in the Kern river field. It is now produc- ing 600 barrels per day and has drilled 30 wells since the 27th of December. Mem. Union Club, Cleveland, Ohio, and the Cali- fornia, Elks, San Gabriel, Los Angeles Country, Sierra Madre and West Shore Gun Clubs; Chambers of Commerce and Mines. Mar- ried, 1895, Amanda E. Baumbaugh; children, a son and a daughter.
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A. L. HALEY ARCHITECT, LOS ANGELES
Born forty-five years ago at Malone, N. Y .; a leading archi- tect of Southern California. Is also the inventor and patentee of the Sanitary Concealed Metal Wall Bed and other inven- tions which has, and will continue to revolutionize apart- ment-house building on the Pacific Coast. Among some of his most important works may be mentioned the following; The Higgins office building, at a cost of $600,000. Ivins Apartment, Owens Apartments, Burlington Apartments, Ponet Square, the Macdonald Apartments; the Harry Har- rington; the Wilhelm and the Girard House. Besides the above mentioned he is the architect for a large number of commercial and private buildings in various parts of the City.
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HIGGINS OFFICE BUILDING Reinforced concrete, absolutely fire proof A. L. HALEY, Architect Inc., Architect
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DR. D. TONJES KRUDOP, LOS ANGELES
Born in Hanover, Germany, of an ancient German family. Educated in Germany and N. Y. City schools, coming with parents to that city in 1870; then reared on an Iowa farm until twenty; secured a commercial education, taught school, and in 1885 began the study of medicine, at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, from which graduated in 1888 (having previously graduated from med. dept. Univ. of Minnesota). After post-graduate course at Hahnemann, settled at Minneapolis, Minn., where he successfully practiced until his coming to Los Angeles in 1899. Began professional work there in 1907; was prominently identified with Bethlehem Mission and in 1908 founded a free medical clinic at the Salvation Army Industrial Home. Mem. Homeopathic County, State of Callfornia, and Southern California Medical Socleties and the American Insti- tute. Married,in Philadelphia, Martine E. Muhlig, ward of the late William Thaw, of Pittsburg; she was a Hahnemann graduate (1888) and practitioner; died Jan. 6, 1910, leaving a son and two daughters.
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M. N. AVERY, LOS ANGELES
Born in Washtenaw Co., Mich., 1855. Educated at Chelsea School, that state; Eastman's Business College, Pough- keepsie, N. Y., in which he took a course in commerce and banking; Michigan University, grad. 1881, M. D. Prac. medicine and surgery at Niles, Mich., 1881-89, when he located in Los Angeles. Incorporated the German American Savings Bank, Los Angeles, 1890, since which actively and continuously identified with it-nine years as Cashier, three years Vice President and eight years President (now Pres). Republican. Presbyterian. Mem. Y. M. C. A., Cali- fornia Club, Chamber of Commerce, Union League and City Club. Married, 1880, Miss Sarah E. Gorton, of Jackson Co,, Mich.
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LUTHER MILTON POWERS, LOS ANGELES
Born in New Hanover Co., N. C., 1853, son of William and Lucy J. (Murray) Powers. Educated in common schools and Wake Forest College, near Raleigh. Studied medicine at Wilmington, and in 1877 graduated from Washington University School of Medicine, of Baltimore Md. Prac. in North Carolina and at Norfolk, Neb., until July 12, 1887, when he came to Los Angeles. Appointed Health Officer of Los Angeles, in February, 1893, which position he still fills. Post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital Medical Coll., N. Y. City, 1881; Coll. Physicians & Surgeons, 1884-5, and Polyclinic, 1885. Mem. Los Angeles, Southern Cali- fornia and California Medical Societies. Married, Nov. 28, 1881, Miss Mary Ella Stevenson.
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A. T. CURRIER, SPADRA
Born in Maine, Apr. 30, 1840. Educated public schools of that state. Came to California in 1861; moved to Idaho, 1862, and engaged in mining for six years; in 1868 drove herd of cattle from Oregon to California, and in 1869 bought land in Southern California. Resident of Southern California since 1870. Sheriff of Los Angeles Co., 1882-4; State Senator, 1898-1902. Now owner of 2,400 acres of land at Spadra, and 68 acres of fruit lands at N. Pomona and Currier Block, Los Angeles. Pres. Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co., Los Angeles Co., which now carries $5,000,000 insurance on buildings; also Pres. Canyon Water Co., of Pomona, and dir. First National Bank, of that place. Repub- lican in politics.
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SYDNEY SMITH, LOS ANGELES
Born near Toronto, Canada, in 1868. Educated at Dr. Tassie's Preparatory School and Trinity College, of that city, from which he graduated in 1886; also attended Day's Commercial College, of Toronto. Has been engaged in mining for many years; owner of Sun and Moon mine, Idaho Springs, Idaho; then went to Austin, Nev., and opened famous Phelps-Stokes mine. Came to Los Angeles, 1909; engaged in the oil business in connection with his mining interests. Has traveled extensively here and abroad; much interested in automobiling. Mem. South Shore Country, Illinois Athletic and Automobile Clubs, of Chicago; also, of the Century Club, of Cleveland, Ohio.
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WILLIAM HARRISON HOLLIDAY, LOS ANGELES
Born in St. Louis, Mo., July, 1863. Attended Phillips- Exeter Academy; grad. from Harvard College, 1886. Entered the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank, of Los Angeles, as bookkeeper, in May, 1887; in July of that year became identified with the Southern California National Bank of Los Angeles, of which became Cashier in 1895 (name having been changed to the Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles) ; elected Pres. of Merchants National Bank, 1906, and in October, 1909, Pres. of the Los Angeles Clearing House Assn. Is director in ten or twelve Southern Cali- fornia banks. Mem. California Club, Los Angeles and Annandale Country Clubs.
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RICHARD GARVEY, LOS ANGELES
Born in County Mayo, Ireland, September 1838, son Peter and Mary (Flannigan) Garvey. Came to the U. S. 1850, landing at Savannah, Ga., and later, 1853, moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Crossed the plains in 1858 and settled in Southern California, making Los Angeles headquarters, which has been his home for fifty-two years; 1859-63 carried the U. S. Government mail to outlying posts in California and New Mexico, which then included Arizona; for twenty years successfully engaged in mining. Since 1872 engaged in farming and stock-raising; owner of 6,000 or more acres of land; 1876-8, receiver for the Temple & Worlmen Estate and Bank of Los Angeles. Is a Roman Catholic and independent in politics. Married, 1884, Tessie B. Mooney, of Cleveland, Ohio; one son, Richard Garvey, Jr., now attending Columbia University. New York City.
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JOHN F. CRAIG, LONG BEACH
Born at Gibraltar, Mich., May 18, 1868. Educated in public schools and State Normal School. Began business career as Secretary for John Craig & Sons, Trenton, Mich .; Secretary and Treasurer of that firm, 1889-1900; Vice Pres. and Treasurer of the Craig Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, O., 1900-5; in 1906 reorganized, with his father, the Craig Shipbuilding Co, and has since personally directed the build- ing of its works at Long Beach. Is also Pres. of the Western Dredging & Marine Construction Co., of Long Beach and a director in the Adams Transportation Co., Monroe Transpor- tation Co., Toledo Steamship Co., Portage Transit Co., and the Western Steam Navigation Co.
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