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by William Vaughn, and the trip was made at night. On arriving at their destination the venturesome members of the party found a quantity of snow about the lake. Mr. Craig owned the first automobile ever manufac- tured in Los Angeles, the same having been named "The Tourist," and its design having been such that persons occupying the back seats climbed in from steps at the rear of the car.
Somewhat more than twenty-three years ago Mr. Craig purchased the site of the present family home in Los Angeles at 1348 Kellam avenue, this land having been at the time a poppy field. Later he purchased and improved a citrus-fruit ranch which is now one of the show places of the La Habra District. When the family home was first established on this country place the public school at La Habra was conducted in an old and insecure building. Mr. Craig promptly initiated the movement which resulted in the erection of a fine school building of modern type, and he served as president of the local Board of Education. He contributed in many other ways to the devel- opment and upbuilding of the district, as he did also at Hermosa Beach, where he purchased land and established the summer home of the family fully twenty years ago.
Mr. Craig was a republican in politics, was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and the Union League, Ellis and Auto- mobile Clubs in the fair metropolis of Southern California. His was a noble and loyal nature of positive expression, and his genial personality won to him the staunchest of friends. He delighted in aiding aspiring young men, and many youths owe to him their start on successful business careers. He was considerate of those in his employ, always ready to pay his men the maximum wages and to share with others whatever good luck came to him. He was most loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, and aided in the building of churches and schools, besides doing all in his power to further other enterprises and measures advanced for the general good of the community. In the World war period he was insistent in his activities in aiding the Government war measures, and was specially earnest and liberal in the sup- port of the Red Cross. He was a man of broad mental and intellectual horizon, and was specially well informed in astronomy and geology.
On the 7th of June, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Craig and Miss Henrietta Olmstead, whose father was a native son of California and actively identified with pioneer gold mining at Placerville. Mrs. Craig survives her honored husband, as do also their two sons, Gerald Allen and Roland O., aged respectively, in 1922, twenty-nine and twenty-four years. The elder son is associated with the Fullerton Oil Company and the younger son, with the Rice Ranch Oil Company at Santa Maria. Gerald A. Craig while a student in the University of Southern California gained repu- tation as the star athlete of the institution and as the best all-around athlete in Southern California, both he and his brother having been stars in foot- ball. Roland O. is a graduate of the Harvard Military Academy and also the State Agricultural College of Oregon, at Corvallis. Both sons gained the rank of lieutenant in connection with the late World war. Gerald was in active service in France, as a member of the Eleventh Regiment, and he was not only gassed while at the front but also received a wound in one of his legs. Single-handed, he succeeded in capturing three German soldiers, and his was later the distinction of having received the Croix de Guerre from the French Government. Roland Craig, as first lieutenant, was assigned to the drilling of recruits at Waco, Texas. In all of the relations of life these fine young men are well upholding the honors of the family name.
JOSEPH A. MOORE. The automobile industry has its full quota of representatives at South Pasadena, none of whom is more capable or ener- getic than Joseph A. Moore, president and general manager of Joseph A. Moore, Incorporated. Mr. Moore has been identified with the automobile business in one or another way practically since he started upon his career, and is thoroughly experienced in every way. He is likewise prominent in civic life, being president of the Chamber of Commerce of South Pasadena,
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and has a number of important connections, of which he always makes use in his support of beneficial community movements.
Mr. Moore was born December 17, 1878, in Macon County, Illinois, and is a son of Alexander and Marguerite (Rhodes) Moore. Alexander Moore was born in Ohio, and as a young man adopted the vocation of farming. During the Civil war he fought as a soldier of the Union, belong- ing to an Illinois volunteer infantry regiment, and at the close of that struggle resumed his farming operations, which he carried on for many years in Illinois anl Nebraska. At the time of his retirement he and Mrs. Moore, also a native of Ohio, came to California to spend their declining years, and Mrs. Moore died at Long Beach in 1918. Mr. Moore then located at Los Angeles, and at present is a resident of the Soldiers Home at Sawtelle. There were two children in the family: Joseph A. ; and Min- nie, who is now Mrs. E. G. Taylor, of Long Beach.
Joseph A. Moore attended the public schools of Ansley, Nebraska, where he had been taken by his parents when a boy, and his first employ- ment after the completion of his education was as a clerk in a general mer- chandise store at Ansley, where he spent five years. During that time, realizing the growing importance of the automobile industry, he had made a study of the business, in the meantime carefully conserving his savings, which in 1906 he invested in opening the first automobile garage at Ansley. Later he shipped in the first carload of Fords that ever reached that part of Nebraska, and curiosity ran high, people coming from miles around to see the cars unloaded. Mr. Moore continued as the Ford representative at Ansley for two years, from the spring of 1910, having formerly handled Buicks and Studebakers. In the fall of 1911 he came to Pasadena, Cali- fornia, and went to work as superintendent of the Ford agency, when Louis J. Hampton was agent. He was with Mr. Hampton for a little more than five years, following which, in the summer of 1916, he secured a Ford agency himself and opened an establishment at Lamanda Park. where he was located until January 1, 1919. The factory then transferred his establishment to South Pasadena, where he has since done over $500.000 worth of business a year. Recently he incorporated under the style of Joseph A. Moore, Incorporated, for $250,000, he being the president and general manager of the enterprise, which acts as an authorized Lincoln, Ford and Fordson dealer and also handles a complete line of standard modern accessories.
Mr. Moore occupies a high position in automobile trade circles, being president of the Automobile Trade Association of the San Gabriel Valley, vice president of the California Automobile Trade Association and a member of the Automobile Trade Association of America. He is also president of the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants Association of Pasadena, the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Sun- set Canyon Country Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Lions Club of Pasadena. As a fraternalist he belongs to Pasadena Lodge No. 672, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a life mem- ber : and a past noble grand and past grand patriot of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Moore was campaign manager on the Business Men's ticket for the city trusteeships in 1922, winning an overwhelming victory, two to one.
On June 19, 1901, at Ansley, Nebraska, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Miss Arlie Sargent, where she was a classmate of her husband. She is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, and is well and popularly known in social circles. Three sons have come to Mr. and Mrs. Moore: Meredith S., born at St. Edward, Nebraska, a graduate of Pasadena High School, class of 1921 ; and Joseph H. and J. Donald, born at Ansley, Nebraska, who are still attending the Pasadena schools.
JANES HARVEY MCBRIDE, M. D. In preparing a biographical sketch of such a man as Dr. James Harvey McBride, of Pasadena, whose brilliant professional achievements are based on an intimate knowledge of the intri-
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cate subjects of human anatomy and scientific therapeutics, the historian feels the limitations of his knowledge as well as like limitations that attach to the ordinary reader. In truth, any just biography of such a man should be prepared by one having some adequate professional knowledge, able to follow the line of original investigation which it has been Doctor McBride's fortune to make in some important lines of pathology. For the purposes of this review it must suffice to trace merely the outline of a distinguished career, without any attempt at learned discussion of the studies which have engaged the thought of a great man, or the methods by which, as a demon- strator, a teacher and an author, he has made them known to the world.
Doctor McBride was born at LaFayette, Oregon, January 23, 1849, a son of Dr. James and Mahala (Miller) McBride. His primary education was acquired in the public schools of Oregon, following which he attended McMinnville College in his native state, and then, choosing medicine for his profession, went to New York City and entered Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College, from which he was graduated in the year 1873 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He first saw active service as physician on the house staff of Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, where he remained for two years, and was then appointed assistant superintendent of the Wiscon- sin State Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Later he received the appointment to the superintendency of the Hospital for the Insane at Milwaukee, and after a service of five years became the founder of the Milwaukee Sanitarium for Nervous Diseases. This institution was opened in 1884, and was conducted successfully and grew to large proportions. Doctor McBride remained as director in charge and proprietor until 1895, when he disposed of his interests therein. Following this Doctor McBride made an extended trip through Europe and the Orient, and on his return to the United States in 1897 located at Pasadena, California, where he later founded the Southern California Sanitarium for Nervous Diseases, of which he was medical director for many years.
If Doctor McBride has been well known and eminent as a practitioner, he has been equally so as author and educator. He was professor of dis- eases of the nervous system at the Chicago Polyclinic Medical College from 1890 to 1895, resigning in the latter year when he started on his European tour. He was president in 1910 of the American Academy of Medicine, a national organization devoted to medical sociology, and as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases was called as an expert in the trial of Charles Jules Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, and testified that he believed Guiteau to be insane.
Soon after graduating from medical college Doctor McBride made original researches in physiology and therapeutics, the results of some of which were published, as follows: Experiments on the effects of nitrate of amyl on the circulation of the brain of dogs and the use of this remedy in the treatment of epilepsy, published in 1875; experiments in the localiza- tion of the function of the brain of dogs, 1874-5 ; the production of epilepsy in dogs and rabbits, 1875; and investigations into the minute anatomy of the brain, 1876. The following are the titles of some of Doctor McBride's contributions to medical literature : Epileptic Insanity and the Criminal Responsibility of Epileptics (1894), The Treatment of the Morphine Habit (1900), The Management of the Neurasthenic (1901), Ideals of the Med- . ical Teacher (1903), Health and Education of Girls (1904) and The Individual and the Social Organism (1911). In addition he has written many addresses of a popular character and notes of travel.
Doctor McBride has led a busy life and has had little time for politics, except to take the interest characteristic of all men who favor clean govern- ment. He has never sought nor held public office, except for the semi- public positions to which he has been called in the line of his profession. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain, the Amer- ican Academy of Medicine, the American Neurological Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association, the American Medical Asso- ciation, the American Climatological and Clinical Association, the Amer-
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ican Association for the Advancement of Science and the California State Medical Society. Although the Doctor maintains an office in the Dodworth Building, he has really retired from the active practice of his profession, although still maintaining his personal interest in its achievements and progress.
At Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, September 20, 1887, Doctor McBride was united in marriage with Miss Evangeline Ackley. In the summer of 1922, with their daughter they made an extended trip to Europe, where they visited the war area and numerous other points of interest. Their son James was killed during the War.
MISS SYLVIA HARDING, whose work as a concert violinist and teacher of violin has accorded her a high place among Southern California artists, has except during the early years of her childhood and the years she was studying in the East spent her life in Southern California.
She was born in Chicago, and is of a family of Mayflower ancestry. Her grandfather was a sea captain, and made a trip to California in the days of '49, but did not remain. Her father, Edwin Harding, is a resident of Chicago. Miss Sylvia was brought to California one winter by her parents for the benefit of her health, and later the family came out to make their permanent home here. She received her musical education in Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, studied under Gustart Strube in Boston, did a great deal of concert work while in the East, and more recently has been a pupil of Mr. Staples in Los Angeles.
She organized and is head of the trio which has proved a splendid medium for the interpretation of the wonderful music adapted to such an organization. She and her associates have given many concerts, frequently at the Ambassador and before the Wilshire Country Club. Most of her time, however, is devoted to teaching the violin. Miss Harding recently purchased a home on Mount Washington, in the lovely Garvanza District. She is a member of the Hollywood Wom- an's Club, the Soroptimist Club, one of the first members of the American Musical Optimists, and belongs to the Los Angeles Music Teachers Association and the MacDowell Club.
HERBERT ROY PACKARD, D. D. S., brings to bear in the practice of his profession the highest modern standards and facilities in both operative and laboratory dentistry, and his handsomely appointed offices are established at 690 East Colorado Street in the City of Pasadena, where he has a large and representative practice.
Dr. Packard was born at Bloomington, Illinois, February 3, 1877, and is a son of Oscar Merry Packard and Sarah Augusta (Hetherington) Packard, who have been residents of California for the past twenty-one years and of Pasadena for the past eighteen years. The original American representatives of the Packard family came from England and settled in New England in the Colonial period of our national history, and the same is true of the Hetherington family, which is of Scotch-Irish lineage. Oscar M. Packard was in former years actively identified with real-estate enterprise in Bloomington and Chicago, Illinois, and within the period of his residence in Southern California his building operations have contrib- uted much to civic and material advancement. He is now (1922) in his seventy-fifth year and has retired from active business, he and his wife being honored citizens of Pasadena, where they have long maintained their home.
In his educational progress Dr. Packard was afforded the advantages in turn of the Normal University, at Normal, Illinois; the Northwestern University, at Evanston, that state; the University of California, at Berke- ley; and the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. In the last mentioned institution he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of
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Doctor of Dental Surgery, and he has since been established in the suc- cessful practice of his profession in Southern California, his practice being now of general order, though for a time he specialized in dental pathology. He formerly served as president of the San Bernardino County Dental Society and as president of the Pasadena branch of the Los Angeles County Dental Society, a position which he held during the entire period of American participation in the World war, when dental practitioners in all parts of the Union found great demand upon their time in giving profes- sional service to recruited men. During the war period he was a member of the California Military Reserves. Dr. Packard is president of the Natural Rock Products Company, the quarries of which are at Acton and the reduction plant at Pasadena. He is a republican, is a member of the University Club of Pasadena, the Cauldron Club of Pasadena, is scout master of the local post of the Boy Scouts, and takes the deepest of inter- est in this organization and its work, with supreme pleasure in accompany- ing his boys on their various outings. He is also president of the Scout Leaders Association. Dr. Packard was one of the founders of the Boy Scout movement in Pasadena, and has always taken an active interest in its progress. He and his wife are members of the First Congregational Church of Pasadena.
At Upland, San Bernardino County, on the 19th of August, 1902, was recorded the marriage of Dr. Packard and Miss Mary A. Fry, a daughter of Rev. H. B. and Eliza (Wariner) Fry, who now reside in Pasadena, where Mr. Fry is living retired, in his eighty-fifth year, after many years of active and fruitful service as a clergyman of the Congregational Church. He held many important pastoral charges in the Eastern and Middle West- ern states prior to coming to California. He graduated from Oberlin University, at Oberlin, Ohio, having left that institution to enter service as a Union soldier in the Civil war, in which he served three years. By study while with his regiment he made up a full year of college work. He has written various philosophical and religious books and treatises, and has recently published a book of philosophy. He retains wonderful physical and mental vitality, and is one of the revered citizens of the state of his adoption. He is of German-Swiss ancestry, and his wife is of English lineage, both families having been founded in America in the Colonial period. Dr. and Mrs. Packard have four fine sons, all natives of Califor- nia : Herbert R., Jr., Harold, Donald and Charles.
H. O. CLARKE, a successful general building contractor in Pasadena, came to California for his health, which had been undermined by his experience as an office worker in the Middle West. He accomplished the first purpose of coming here, regaining his health and strength, and then determined to make his home in this genial climate, finding outdoor work in the building trades, and since then has built up a very satisfactory business as a contractor.
Harry O. Clarke was born in Peoria County, Illinois, July 3, 1880, son of Ephraim H. and Abigail (Greene) Clarke. His father was born on a farm in Peoria County, devoted all his active years to farming and since 1919 has lived retired in Pasadena. The mother was also a native of Peoria County, and died in the City of Peoria in 1911. Of the five children Harry O. was the oldest. One son and one daughter are now deceased. The living sister is Mrs. Walter House, of Long Beach, California, and the brother is Thomas O., also of Long Beach. All the children were born on the old farm in Peoria County. While in Illinois Ephraim Clarke was prominent in the State and National Grange.
Harry O. Clarke acquired a country school education in Illinois, attended Brown's Business College in Peoria ten months, and, leaving the farm at the age of twenty, he worked in an office in Peoria for about five years.
At the age of twenty-five he came to California, lived in Los
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Angeles five years, and gradually did an increasing amount of work in the building trade, and after employment as a journeyman he took up contracting and has been established in that business at Pasadena about twelve years. He has handled a large amount of general build- ing and repair work in Pasadena, Los Angeles, Highland Park and Santa Monica.
Mr. Clarke is independent in matters of politics, and was a strong prohibitionist when that was an issue. He is affiliated with San Pas- qual Lodge No. 452, F. and A. M., at Pasadena, belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and the Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is secretary of the Master Builders Association in Pasadena, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the First Baptist Church.
June 14, 1906, in Los Angeles, he married Miss Grace J. Bartle, a native of Peoria, Illinois, and reared and educated there. Her father died a number of years ago in Peoria. Her mother is Mrs. E. U. Finkle, and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Clarke. Mrs. Clarke is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, and is a director of the Y. W. C. A. They have one daughter, Cora Elizabeth, who was born in Los Angeles.
HARVEY G. CATTELL, president of the Pasadena Transfer and Storage Company, and member of the State Board of Equalization, Fourth District of California, is one of the leading business men and solid citizens of Pasadena. He was born as Harrisville, Ohio, October 1, 1861, a son of George and Mary B. (Ratcliff) Cattell, of Quaker parentage. George Cattell died in Ohio in 1863, having been a farmer all his life. After his death his widow went to Iowa, and later became a resident of Pasadena, where she died in 1919.
Two years of age when he was taken to Iowa, Harvey G. Cattell was reared in that state, and acquired his educational training in the public schools of New Sharon, Iowa. It was there that he was mar- ried, and there he began his business career as a dealer in agricultural implements. He was in this line for twelve years, and then, in 1898, moved to Ogden, Utah, hoping the change would prove beneficial to his wife's health, which was then impaired. While living at Ogden Mr. Cattell was superintendent of a large land and irrigation company operating .in Bear River Valley, and this occupied him until 1903, when he came to Pasadena.
At the time he became a resident of Pasadena Mr. Cattell bought a small transfer business, and soon thereafter formed a partnership with J. C. Coy. At that time their office was at 30 South Raymond Avenue. In November, 1909, Mr. Cattell bought out Mr. Coy and incorporated this business under the name of the Pasadena Transfer and Storage Company. Their corporation has grown from a small undertaking to one of the leading concerns in this line in Los Angeles County, and Mr. Cattell has been its president since the incorporation. During 1922 a large storage warehouse was erected by the company on South Marengo Avenue. As his interests have increased Mr. Cat- tell has made wise investments and is also president of the Farm Lands Investment Company, composed of Pasadena business men. This company at one time owned over 5,000 acres in the San Joaquin Valley.
Mr. Cattell is very active in politics as a republican, and served nearly four years as a member of the City Council of Pasadena, during Mayor Thomas Early's administration. Owing to his being elected to the State Assembly during his last year in the council Mr. Cattell resigned from that body so as to give more attention to his duties as representative, and served so ably that he was re-elected to the Assembly, of which he was made speaker pro tem. He has been a director of the Tournament of Roses of Pasadena for the past ten years ; was a director of the Pasadena Young Men's Christian Asso-
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ciation, but resigned when he was made a member of the State Board of Equalization. The Fourth District, which he represents on the board, has a larger population than any other district of California. His present term expires in 1923, and he was elected in November, 1922, for another four-year term. He has been a member of the State Central Committee and the County Central Committee of his party for a number of years.
On October 4, 1882, Mr. Cattell married at Lynnville, Iowa, Miss Ardilla J. Arnold. She is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasa- dena, was its vice president for two years, and is a member of other social organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Cattell have the following chil- dren : Eva T., who is a teacher in the Stockton, California, public schools; Laura, who married Earl A. Flanders, an orange grower of Tulare County, operating a ranch he and Mr. Cattell are developing in partnership; Roscoe A., who is a veteran of the World war, having served in France, is a petroleum engineer connected with the bureau of mines at Washington, and for a short time after the close of the war he was in Algeria as superintendent of certain oil operations for Pearson & Company of London, England ; and Edna E., who married George C. Brundage, and they live in Santa Cruz. These children are all graduates of the Pasadena High School. Of late years Mr. Cattell has not given much attention to the details of his transfer and storage company, although remaining its president, for his time and attention are occupied with other matters, but there is no necessity for him to do so as during the years he was its dominating factor he so developed the concern that others can now carry out his ideas without his personal supervision.
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