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Born at Ashland, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1841, and died in Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 24, 1909. In 1861 enlisted in Company H, Forty- second Ohio Inf. and served thirty-eight months, for a portion of the time as General Garfield's private secretary. After the war studied dentistry in the office of Dr. Barclay, at Dalton, Ohio; prac. first, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and later in Mendota, Ill., remaining in the latter place for twenty years. Moved to Los Angeles, 1893, and practiced there until his demise. Grad. 1885 Chicago College of Dental Surgery; at time of death, Professor of Hygiene and Ethics in College of Dentistry, Univ. Southern California; a leader in his profession. Married 1869, Miss Kate Cameron, at Jessup, Ia. Mrs. Moody practiced dentistry with her husband for many years, and is one of the prominent women of Los Angeles.
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ROSE LA MONTE BURCHAM, LOS ANGELES
Born Dansville, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1857; daughter Dr. James and Eliza (Pratt) La Monte. Her father, born in England, prac. many years in Rochester, N. Y., and died Nov. 19, 1893. Rose L. Burcham educated public schools and semi- nary at Dansville, receiving teacher's certificate at sixteen; grad. Rochester Acad. 1882. Commenced med. studies with father; grad. Eclectic Med. Institute, Cincinnati, 1884. Located Highland, Cal., 1885; prac. there eleven years. Married Dec. 1887, Charles A. Burcham, Los Angeles; in 1896, with husband, became interested in Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Co., Randsburg, Cal., and since regular formation of company, has been secretary. Residence Los Angeles since 1899. On Board of Directors Fine Arts League; life mem. and dir. Ebell Club.
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WILLIAM M. TISDALE, REDLANDS
Born Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y., 1860. Educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., and Harvard Coll. Read law, at Utica, N. Y., in the office of Cookinham & Sherman, the latter now Vice President of the United States: Came to California in 1888 and to Redlands in 1890. Admit- ted to California bar, 1901, and in the following year appointed Postmaster by President Roosevelt; re-appointed in 1906. Reappointed by President Taft in 1910. Strong Republican. As a director of the Redlands Board of Trade and as a writer for standard newspapers and periodicals, Mr. Tisdale has been a recognized factor in promoting the interests of his home city. Married, 1884, Minnie D. Cooper, of Jefferson Co., N. Y.
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GEORGE E. HART, LOS ANGELES
Born New Hampshire, Nov. 6, 1859. Received common school education. Engaged in the manufacture of lumber for twenty years, operating three mills in New Hampshire; moved to Washington in 1891 and was the owner of mills in Seattle and Tacoma. Came to California in 1896, since which has been engaged in farm land and oil product busi- ness. His residence is one of the most completely equipped homes in the city and contains a $6,000 pipe organ. The summer home of Mr. Hart is at Corona Del Mar, where he has one mile of ocean front and one half mile on Newport Bay, on whose shore there are many beautiful homes, others in course of completion and many contemplated. Corona Del Mar (Crown of the Sea) is eighty feet above the sea and bay. Mem. Union League and Los Angeles Automobile Clubs.
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HOME OF GEORGE E. HART
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SHERMAN PEASE, LOS ANGELES
Born Thompsonville, Conn., 1869. Came to Los Angeles 1884. Engaged furniture business 1885 to 1904, as Vice Pres. Niles Pease Furniture Co .; since 1906 Pres. Pease Bros. Furniture Co. Mem. Governor's staff, with rank of Colonel. Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner; also B. P. O. E. and Union League Club.
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EDWIN JESSOP MARSHALL, LOS ANGELES
Born Baltimore Co., Md., Mar. 18, 1860. Educated in country schools Maryland and Illinois. From 1877 to 1887 engaged in railroad work for the Union Pacific and Santa Fe roads at Atchison, Kans., and Galveston, Tex. In 1888 appointed Cashier First Natn'l Bank, Lampasas, latter state; Pres. 1890, thus serving until coming to Los Angeles Jan. 1, 1904. Largely interested in the cattle business of Mexico and Southwest, and among his busi- ness connections are the following: Pres. Chino Land & Water Co. Sinaloa Land & Water Co., Palomas Land & Cattle Co., Jesus Maria Rancho (Inc.); Dir. First National Bank, Los Angeles Trust Co., Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co., Home Telephone & Telegraph Co., James H. Adams & Co. (Inc.), and Home Telephone Co., San Francisco. Mem. California, Jonathan and Country clubs, Los Angeles, and Bohemian Club, San Francisco.
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AMOS ALFRED FRIES, LOS ANGELES
Born Vernon Co., Wis., Mar. 17, 1873, son of Christian M. and Mary Ellen (Shreve) Fries. Educated country and Mound City schools, Mo .; also in Nev. and Ore .; grad. Medford (Ore.) High School 1893, and U. S. Military Academy, 1898; post. grad. work two years, civil engineering, electricity and practical astronomy. 2nd Lieut. Engineers' Corps, Willet's Point, N. Y., during Spanish- American War; on river and harbor improvements Portland, Ore., 1898-9; U. S. Engineers' School 1899-1901; engineering work and military service in Philippines 1901-3; asst. river and harbor im- provements Portland, Ore., 1903-5; Captain June 11, 1904; assigned supt. of river and harbor improvements Los Angeles district Feb. 6, 1906. Pres. Engr's and Archt's Assn. So. Cal. and mem. of mili- tary and scientific organizations; also of City and Country clubs, Los Angeles. Married, 1899, Elizabeth C. Wait, Medford, Ore.
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CLARENCE W. BOWEN, SOUTH PASADENA
Born at Otselic, N. Y., 1863, son of Morell and Julia F. Bowen; mother belongs to the well known Warner family of New York. Clarence W. moved to Minneapolis, Minn., at an early age and attended Unlv. of Minnesota; went to New York City, where lived four years before coming to California in 1902; since been engaged in real estate business in Pasadena and Los Angeles. Has now extensive interests in California lands, and has organized several companies well known in the state, such as the Arrowhead Realty Corporation and the San Joaquin Development Co .; of the latter is Pres, and General Manager. Mem. Arrowhead Mountain, Annandale Country and Jonathan Clubs. Married Margaret B. Wilson and has four children; C. Winthrop, who attended the University of Minnesota; Virginla and Marguerite, students at Throop Polytechnic Institute, and Neill, pupil in grammar school.
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South Orange Grove HOME OF CLARENCE W. BOWEN
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R. B. YOUNG, LOS ANGELES
Native of Canada and educated in its schools. Came to Denver, Colo., in the seventies; then to San Francisco for six months, and finally (1879) to Los Angeles, where he has been identified with large building enterprises almost from the first. Among the structures which he has designed and built are the Vickery block, five stories; Hollenbeck Hotel, four stories; Westminster Hotel; Wilson block, corner of First and Spring streets; Rosslyn Hotel, South Main street; Broadway and Occidental Hotels; Lanker- ghim office building, corner of Third and Spring streets, and the Lankershim Hotel, corner of Broadway and Seventh Street. He has also erected a large number of residences. Mem. Jonathan Club, Chamber of Commerce and Unlon League Club; also Identl- fied with the Elks. Married and the father of Mary Elizabeth Moore and Frank Willson Young, the latter being his business partner.
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FRANK WILLSON YOUNG, LOS ANGELES
Native of Los Angeles and educated in California schools. Interested, with his father, for a number of years, and a member of the well known firm of architects, R. B. Young & Son. Mem. Southern California Chapter Institute of Architects; Jonathan and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, and Native Sons of the Golden West.
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FRANCIS QUARLES STORY, ALHAMBRA
Born Waukesha, Wis., July 18, 1845, son John P. and Eliz. (Quarles) Story, of Salem, Mass .; brother of Major Gen. J. P. Story, retired, U. S. A., and Judge Willlam Story of Colorado. For ten years a wool merchant in Boston and San Francisco. Resident of Alhambra since 1883. Pres. of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1902; mem. since 1891; Chairman of its Citrus Tariff Executive Committee which secured the tariff of 1897 and of the committee appointed to receive the N. E. A. Assn, in 1898 and 1907; also of Its Citizen's Relief Committee for San Francisco; and of Building Committee which raised the bonus required to erect present building. He is now Pres. Alhambra Orange Growers Assn, Semi Tropic Fruit Exchange, Fruit Growers' Supply Co., Executive Committee of the Citrus Protective League, Los Angeles City Directory Co., and San Gabriel Valley Country Club; and Dir. of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and the Equitable Savings Bank; and California representative of the National Con- servation Committee. Married, 1876, to Charlotte S. F. Devereux, who died childless in 1897.
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LEE CHANNING GATES, LOS ANGELES
Born Preble Co., Ohio, Apr. 4, 1856, son of Laborious A. and Maria (Brumbaugh) Gates. Educated in public schools Indiana and Ohio. Taught school five years in Wayne Co., Ind., and Mont- gomery Co., Ohlo. Read law and was admitted to bar at Dayton, Ohio, 1881; prac. four years in Ohio. Moved to Kansas in 1885, ranching and practicing law untli 1892, at El Dorado. Located at Los Angeles 1892 and became atty. for the Los Angeles Abstract Co .; chief counsel Title Insurance and Trust Co., its successor, since formation in 1894. Independent Republican; active in State and municipal reforms. Charter mem. and first Pres. City Club; Pres. California Land Title Assn .; mem. American Assn. Title Men, and various local clubs. Married, 1883, Bessie B. Caidwell, Rich- mond, Ind .; two daughters, Hazel and June.
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J. B. COULSTON, PASADENA
Born Ellisburg, Pa., May 22, 1869. Previous to becoming a resident of Pasadena in 1905 was largely interested in Pennsylvania banks and the natural gas business of that state. Organized and Pres. of Colton National Bank and the Covina National Bank; Pres. Crown City National Bank and Crown City Savings Bank of Pasadena; Vice Pres. Traders Bank of Los Angeles; and interested in national banks at Riverside, South Pasadena and San Pedro. Is also an extensive grower of citrus fruits, with orange ranches at Covina and Glendora. Knight Templar, Shriner and Thirty-second degree Mason. Mem. Overland, Annandale and Jonathan clubs.
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ELIZABETH L. KENNEY, LOS ANGELES
Born Mattoon, Il1. Grad. Sioux Falls (S. D. )High School; course at Leland Stanford Univ .; LL. B. degree Northwest- ern (Ill.) Univ. Admitted bar Cal. 1897; first woman practitioner of Los Angeles. Gen. prac .; specialty, probate matters and administering of estates. Ardent advocate of woman's suffrage. Mem. College Woman's Club, Cal. Business Woman's Assn., Political Equality League and Friday Morning Club. Resident of Los Angeles for twenty- three years.
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JULIUS HAUSER, LOS ANGELES
Native of Germany, born 1847. Educated in public schools and learned trade in fatherland. Came to United States 1867, and for three years was variously employed in N. Y. state; then resumed the butcher's trade at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Moved to Sacra- mento, Cal., in 1870, where he worked at his trade for a time, then established a meat market at Broderick, Cal. In 1878 he married Caroline Hergett. He located in Los Angeles in 1882 and in that year established a retail market on a small scale at First & Main Streets, and the business having grown to large proportions, he was compelled in 1904 to incorporate and founded the Hauser Packing Company, associating his five sons with him, as follows: Julius Hauser, President; E. C. Hauser, Vice President; H. J. Hauser, Secretary & Manager; L. A. Hauser, Treasurer; F. M. Hauser, Superintendent, and C. F. Hauser. There is also a daugh- ter, Louise Wilhelmina Hauser. He is a member of Masonic order (Shriner); B. P. O. E .; & I. O. O. F.
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JOHN W. SHENK, LOS ANGELES
Born Shelborne, Vt., Feb. 7, 1875. Moved to Omaha, Neb., 1882. Grad. Omaha High School 1895 and Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Delaware, 1900; law course Univ. of Mich. Mem. Fourth Ohio Vol. Inf. from first call until February, 1899, Spanish-American War. Came to Los Angeles in September, 1900. Admitted Cal. bar October, 1903; appointed Deputy City Atty. of Los Angeles August, 1906, and First Asst. City Atty. Jan. 1, 1909. Mem. Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi; Master South Pasadena Lodge No. 367, A. F. & A. M., 1909; Royal Arch Mason, an Elk, and mem. Union League and San Gabriel Country Clubs.
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JOHN N. HUNT, SOUTH PASADENA
Born in Dewitt Co., Ill., in 1863. Educated in public schools and came to Los Angeles in 1882. From 1887 to 1894 in the employ of Southern California Savings Bank; from 1895 to 1907 Deputy County Tax Collector; then assumed office of Treasurer of Los Angeles County, to which he had been elected by the Republicans (practically without opposition) in December, 1906; Scottish Rite Mason; mem. Union League Club. Married, 1887, Hattie P. Collins, of Los Angeles.
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ROSE TALBOTT BULLARD, LOS ANGELES
Born Birmingham, Ia., Apr. 16, 1864, daughter of Dr. Joseph Talbott (deceased). Educated common schools, Birming- ham Academy and Northwestern Univ. Woman's Medical School (M. D., 1886) ; post-graduate work in Vienna, Chicago Policlinic and Post-graduate Medical School and Johns Hopkins Univ. Since 1907 Instructor in Gynecology Med. Dept. Univ. So. Cal .; medical examiner insurance companies. Ex-Sec. and Pres. Los Angeles Co. Med. Assn .; also mem. So. Cal. Medical and State Societies, American Medical Assn., and Friday Morning Club. On Board of Managers Y. W. C. A. Came to Los Angeles 1886. Married Frank D. Bullard May 3, 1888; one child, Helen, born May 15, 1892.
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CHARLES CLIFTON BROWNING, MONROVIA
Born Denver, Ill., May 25, 1861, son of Enoch C. and Sophia L. (Pennock) Browning; his father long in Christian church. Attended Shelbina (Mo.) College 1878-9; Christian Univ. 1880-1 and Missouri State Univ. 1881-3 (M. D.); interne Columbia (Mo.) Dispensary; prac. Hancock Co., Ill., 1883-8; 1888-91 in N. Y. as interne and In post graduate work. Came to California 1891; prac. San Jacinto and Highland until 1905. Since Mar. of latter year medical director of Pottenger Sanitarium, Monrovia, and since incorpora- tlon Vice-Pres. Pottenger Sanitarium Co. Mem. of American Med. Ass'n and State Medical Society, as well as Nat'n Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, International Congress on Tuberculosis and State Ass'n (Vice-Pres.) also of various other organizations for scientific and social investigation. Mem. Mystic Shrine and York Rite. Married, 1885, Miss Helen E. Tillabaugh; one child, Helen Gilberta.
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JOSEPH D. RADFORD, LOS ANGELES
Born Fond du Lac, Wis., Apr. 14, 1857. Educated in schools of that clty; grad. High School 1875. Same year became messenger in First Natn'I Bank of Fond du Lac; in 1883 private bank of Nel- son Story, Bozeman, Mont. Came to Los Angeles 1896, and for three years was Asst. Cashier National Bank of California; located at San Jose 1898 to become Cashier of Garden City Bank and Trust Co., later holding same position with First Natn'l Bank; in 1903 became Pres. of bank, resigned 1907 to accept Vice Pres. of German American Savings Bank. Pres. California Bankers Assn. 1908. Knight Templar and Shriner. Republican. Mem. Jonathan, Federation and City clubs. Married, 1908, Mrs. Florence Rivers Stowell; first wife, Miss Maria M. Pinney, to whom he was married in 1881, and who died in 1901.
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WILLIAM KENNEDY, LOS ANGELES
Until his removal to Los Angeles in 1903, William Kennedy was a resident of Iowa, where he was engaged in teaching and law prac- tice. Born in Lee Co., that state, 1848; Lewis G. Kennedy, his father, a Kentuckian, who moved first to Illinois and then to Iowa, where (in Lee Co.) he married Mary Newsom, of a pioneer family. William Kennedy, from seventeen to twenty-five, chiefly engaged in teaching, for two years being superintendent of the Farmington (Ia.) public schools. Began study of law at Chicago Univ .; admit- ted to bar and commenced practice at Oskaloosa, Ia., in 1875; moved to Des Moines, 1879, and continued there in practice until coming to Los Angeles in 1903, since which in professional work in that city. Man of earnest purpose and substantial record. While teaching at Farmington married Alice Proper; two children were born to them-Carrie M. and Obie C. the latter of whom died in 1904. Mr. Kennedy is a Mason and a Republican.
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H. BERT ELLIS, LOS ANGELES
Born Lincoln Center, Maine, May 17, 1863," son of James H. and Annie M. (Bullard) Ellis. Directly descended from Thomas Davis, Lord Mayor of London (1677) and (maternally) from Governor Bradford, second Governor of Mass. Educated public schools of Fredericton, N. B., Collegiate School (also Fredericton), Univ. New Brunswick and Acadia Coll. Wolfville, N. S. (grad. 1884, A. B.): also, Univ. So. Cal. (1888, M. D.) Post grad. work Univs. Goettingen and Wien, 1888-9. Prac. in Los Angeles since. 1889; since 1893, prac. devoted to eye, ear, nose and throat. Mem. local and nat'l med. societies; Cal., Jonathan, Univ. and Sunset clubs of Los Angeles, and Bohemian Club San Francisco. Pres. Los Angeles Board of Education 1903-5. Prof. Diseases of Eye and Treas. California Med. Coll. Married, 1907, to Mrs. Florence E. Chandler.
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ED. W. HOPKINS, LOS ANGELES
Born at Oskaloosa, Ia., March 25, 1863. Received common school education; worked on a farm and read law there in younger days; admitted to practice by Supreme Court of Iowa; moved to Los Angeles in 1891, but has not practiced in California. In 1895 began work in the County Assessor's office; in Assessor Ward's second term became Chief Deputy Assessor and on the death of Mr. Ward, Sept. 4, 1907, was appointed county assessor. In politics, stanchly Repub- lican. Is a Thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Shrine. Married, 1895, Miss Martha L. McVicker, of Iowa.
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ALMON PORTER MAGINNIS, LOS ANGELES
Born Cleveland, O., Jan. 1, 1848. Educated in Cleveland public and high schools (grad. 1866). Railroad engineering 1866-8 on Kansas Pacific; in 1880 timber contracting on Texas Pacific; in 1882 hridge bullding on Cotton Belt line, In Texas. In 1882 became connected with the Santa Fe as president of the colony of the Neosho Falls & Western road, a branch built through portions of Kansas; in 1886-7 bought right-of-way for extension of Santa Fe from Kansas City to Chicago. In 1887 came to California as Mang'r Pacific Land Improvement Co .; later appointed Commissioner of Land Dept. and Tax Commsr. and Claim Agt. of Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque, N. M .; also Pres. Santa Fe Car Icing, Navajo Ice & Cold Storage, Winslow Electric Light & Power, Gate Clty Ice & Pre-cooling Co's, etc. Married 1878, Alice J. Harpham, of Havana, Ill .; three children.
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Security Savings Bank, Los Angeles
S INCE February 11, 1889, when the Security Savings Bank, with only $68,000 capital paid in, opened for business in a small storeroom at No. 148 Main street, its growth has been gradual and steady, until the present finds the institution with $1,000,000 paid-up capital and $850,000 reserve, permanently located in the Security Building.
In the twenty-one years of its history, the bank has in- creased its capital four times, and the deposits have grown from less than $200,000 for the first year to more than $27,000,000, owned by more than 60,000 depositors, giving this institution the distinction of being the largest of its kind in the Southwest. The equipment is conceded to be the finest in the West, and it has one of the largest and best appointed Safe Deposit and Storage Vaults in the United States.
At intervals of several years the Security absorbed three other savings banks-the Main Street, the Los Angeles, and the Southern California. In every respect the Security Savings Bank has lived up to its name and has won a de- served success.
J. F. Sartori, President, M. S. Hellman, Vice-Presi- dent, W. D. Longyear, Cashier and Secretary, and T. Q. Hall, Assistant Cashier, have been with the Security since its organization - Mr. Sartori first as Cashier, Mr. Hellman as a Director, and Mr. Longyear as Assistant Cashier. John E. Plater, Vice-President, was President of the Los Angeles Savings Bank when that institution consolidated with the Security; and Charles H. Toll, Vice-President, was Cashier of the Southern California Savings Bank. Mr. Longyear has risen to his present position by long and faithful service. Mr. Hall began as messenger. C. W. Wilson, Assistant Cashier, was with the Southern California Savings Bank. W. M. Caswell, Assistant Secretary, was Cashier of the Los Angeles Savings Bank. J. H. Griffin, Assistant Secretary, was Secretary of the Southern California Savings.
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SECURITY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES Ground floor and basement occupied by Security Savings Bank and Security Safe Deposit Vaults.
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS LONGYEAR, Los ANGELES
Born in Jackson Co., Mich., July 2, 1863; after the death of his father, in 1872, moved to Kalamazoo; was educated in schools of that city. Entered Kalamazoo National Bank in November, 1884; resigned position in October, 1889, and came to California. In 1890 accepted position with Security Savings Bank, of Los Angeles, when that institution was only a year old; elected Assistant Cashier in April, 1893, and Cashier and Secretary (present position) in January, 1895. Scottish Rite Mason. Mem. California and Jonathan Clubs. Married, 1893, Miss Ida A. Mackay.
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SAMUEL INGHAM MERRILL, LOS ANGELES
Born Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1856; educated in its common and high schools commenced business with Buffalo graln house; came to Oakland, Cal., Sept. 11, 1876, and opened grocery; bookkeeper, then manager for Hopkins & Haley, San Francisco bankers, 1877- 81. Came to Los Angeles Dec. 24th of that year and entered hard- ware business as Merrili & Babcock; wholesale iron trade as Per- clval & Merrill 1883-5; book and statlonery house (Merrill & Cook) 1885-91; developed one of the largest retall oll concerns In world 1891-1901; Gen. Mangr. and Pres. California Industrial Co. since .; also Dir. Western Gas Engine Co. and Chamber of Commerce. Organized Y. M. C. A. of Los Angeles In Feb., 1882. and Pres. four years; one of the founders Baptist College, Union Rescue Mission, Good Samaritan Mission, Mckinley Industrlai Home and First New Testament Church of Los Angeles. Married, 1888, Sarah De Etta Dearborn; has three children.
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JACOB L. LANTERMAN, LA CANADA
Born in New Jersey, 1827; died at Glendora, Cal., 1908. Reared as the son of a poor farmer in New Jersey. Secured an education by individual exertions and finally worked his way through the Baltimore Dental College; then went to Michigan and opened his office at Lansing, then a little back woods settlement, but soon to be the state capital; as soon as practice would warrant marrled Ammoretta J. Crisman, who came from near his New Jersey home; four children born, one dying in infancy and three being now residents of Southern California; a competency realized from pro- fessional work, banking and farming, but at expense of his health. Dr. Lanterman came to Los Angeles Co. In 1874, buying several thousand acres of wild land at La Canada, which he transformed into the beautiful family home, known as Homewood. There his children, Stella, Frank and Roy, were reared, and there his wife died in 1902; he himself passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stella B. La Fetra, at Glendora, in 1908-a man of sterling character, as quiet In his demeanor as in his charltles.
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WILLIAM SPRINGER BARTLETT, LOS ANGELES
Born South Bend, Ind., where he had practical mercantile training; commenced banking career in San Francisco as bookkeeper for California Trust Co. (later National Gold Bank and Trust Co.), of which he became Cashier; sub- sequently came to Southern California and organized several banks and other corporations; in February, 1898, German- American Savings Bank, became Chairman Board of Dir., German-American Sav. Bank. One of the promoters and organizers of the Home Telephone Co., Los Angeles; Treas. and Dir. Y. M. C. A. Mem. California Club. In politics, Republican; in religion, Presbyterian. Married at Oakland, Cal., Miss F. C. Gray, of Virginia.
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