History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 25

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 840

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While reluctant to leave her work at the Polytechnic High School, the growth of Mrs. Hollingworth's trade millinery classes, now represented in the Hollingworth School of Millinery, made this step imperative. This institution is now widely known and generally recognized as being of the highest grade, and furnishes the most thorough instruction in the art of making fine millinery, its standard being on a parity with those of leading institutions of the kind in the great metropolitan centers of America and Europe.

The marriage of Miss Lillian Louise Peinecke to Edward Everett Hollingworth, on the 14th of July, 1918, was the happy sequel to a long and valued acquaintanceship dating back to the summer of 1897, in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Hollingworth is editorial writer on the Los Angeles Evening Herald, and a special writer on subjects pertaining to higher education in California, and the power development of the Colorado River.

Mrs. Hollingworth is proud of her record of never having missed a season during all of her long business career, and her enthusiasm in her work, as coupled with her indisputable ability as a designer and instructor, have made her success inevitable. Of her ability as a milliner and instructor it has consistently been said that "she is invincible, surmounting all obstacles and eliminating all causes for discouragement."

EDWARD L. MAYBERRY, SR., was a sterling pioneer whose character, ability and achievement made him a man of prominence and influence in the earlier stages of development and progress in California, and in later vears he kept in full rhythm with the splendid march of advancement here made along both civic and material lines. He was one of the constructive workers of California, a true apostle of progress, and was one of the well known and honored pioneer citizens of the state at the time of his death, June 14, 1902.

Edward Leodore Mayberry was born at Wyndham, Maine, in 1834, a representative of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial days. He was reared and educated in the old Pine Tree State, and in his youth learned the trade of carpenter. In the year 1852 Mr. Mayberry arrived in San Francisco, California, after having made the voyage by way of Cape Horn. The captain of the sailing vessel on which he took passage was lost from the boat off Cape Horn, and Mr. Mayberry assumed command of the vessel in the capacity of master, and brought the same successfully to its destination. In San Francisco he soon engaged independently in business as a contractor and builder, and he became one of the leading and most successful pioneer exponents of this important

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line of enterprise in that city. He erected many prominent buildings at San Francisco, including the old Grand Hotel and the Colton residence, and his last contract and work in connection with public improvements was the erection of the State Insane Asylum at Nampa.

In 1876 Mr. Mayberry retired from his contracting business at San Francisco and made the overland trip to Los Angeles. En route he stopped at San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and other points, and after passing the winter of 1876-7 in and about Los Angeles he returned to San Francisco, in the latter part of 1877, there closed up all of his business affairs, and before the close of that year removed with his family to Los Angeles. In 1878 he established his residence at Alhambra, which was then a part of San Gabriel, and in the following year he purchased 160 acres of railroad land that is now a part of the Pasadena sewer farm. In April, 1881, he pur- chased from J. C. Hollenbeck the original El Molino ranch, to which he thereafter made additions until the estate had an area of 350 acres.

In the early '80s Mr. Mayberry became interested in the San Jacinto Valley, where he and his associates, A. H. Judson and Hancock M. Johnson, of Los Angeles, and W. F. Whittier and J. B. Stetson, of San Francisco, formed the Hemet Land Company and the Lake Hemet Water Company. Thereafter he devoted a large part of his time and energy to the develop- ment of this project, and eventually built the Hemet dam, which at that time was one of the largest masonry dams in the world. His superabundant vitality found expression in well ordered development work in this and other connections, and his achievement has had cumulative value to South- ern California with the passing years.

Mr. Mayberry was a great lover of horses, and kept a race stable up to the time of his death. He imported some of the first Hambletonian stock in California, and from this was built up his stable of fine track horses, one of the best known of which was the horse "George W. Mckinney." Mr. Mayberry was a devotee also of fishing and hunting, and in this connection he imported the first Laverick or Llewellyn setters into the state.

On the 17th of December, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mayberry and Mrs. Emily Jane (Gray) Wing, who crossed the plains to California in the preceding year. The devoted companionship of Mr. and Mrs. Mayberry was not long severed, for both died in the year 1902, he having passed away on the 14th of June of that year and his widow having survived him only fifteen days, her death occurring on the 29th of the same month. Of their children one son is living. Of the late Harry H. Mayberry, one of the sons, individual mention is made on other pages of this work, and in the following sketch will be found also a personal mention of another of the sons, Edward L., Jr.

EDWARD LEODORE MAYBERRY, JR., is an architect and structural engineer who has played a large part in connection with important development enterprises in California, and as a loyal and progressive citizen and man of affairs he has well upheld the prestige of a family name that has been closely identified with California history since the pioneer days, as is clearly shown in the memorial tribute found in the preceding sketch to his honored father, the late Edward Leodore Mayberry, Sr.

He whose name introduces this review was born at Sacramento, Cali- fornia, September 18, 1871, and his early educational advantages were those of the public schools of San Gabriel and the high school in Los Angeles. In 1896 he graduated from the University of California, with the degree of Bachelor of Letters and for two years thereafter he was employed in the transportation department of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. In 1903, after having been previously associated with the whole- sale hardware house of the Union Hardware & Metal Company of Los Angeles, he determined to fit himself for the practice of architecture and engineering. With this end in view he entered in that year the cele- brated Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1906 graduated from this institution with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For six months

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after his return to Los Angeles Mr. Mayberry held the position of engineer in the employ of Carl Leonardt, and in March, 1907, he formed a profes- sional partnership with Llewellyn A. Parker and opened offices in Los Angeles. Since that time he has gained high reputation in his profession and has been concerned with large engineering and construction work, as well as general architectural designing and construction. Among the more noteworthy examples of his work may be mentioned the Hamburger Theater Building, Los Angeles; the Linda Vista Bridge at Pasadena, which was one of the first reinforced concrete bridges built in the South- west ; the Central Avenue Bridge, 2,150 feet in length, across the Salt River at Phoenix, Arizona, and the fine Neuner and Western Union Build- ings in Los Angeles and the building of the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital. Mr. Mayberry devised and is the patentee of the arch-rib floor system in reinforced concrete construction.

The World war period found Mr. Mayberry instant in valuable service of technical order. In December, 1916, about four months before the United States became formally involved in this great conflict, Mr. Mayberry applied for commission in the Engineer Reserve Corps, and was commis- sioned captain of engineers. In May, 1917, he entered the First Officers' Training Camp at the Presidio, and soon afterward he was transferred to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. Shortly before the close of his course at the training camp he returned home to attend to urgent business, and in December, 1917, he received his honorable discharge. In June of the following year he dissolved his professional alliance with Mr. Parker and reapplied for commission on the Engineer Corps of the United States Army. Favorable action had been passed upon his application when the signing of the historic armistice brought the war to a close, so that no requisition was made for his further service In March, 1919, Mr. May- berry again opened his professional offices in Los Angeles, and he has since been actively and successfully engaged in the work of his chosen vocation, with reputation as one of the skilled and influential architects and construction engineers of the great Southwest, where there is constant demand and great opportunities for men in this important profession which touches material and civic progress. Mr. Mayberry has his Los Angeles offices in the Pacific Electric Building, and he and his family reside at 1230 East Ocean Avenue, Long Beach. Mr. Mayberry is an active mem- ber of the American Association of Engineers and the American Society of Military Engineers ; he is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- · merce and the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and in Los Angeles he holds membership in the Old Colony and the University Clubs, besides which he is a member of the Automobile Club of Southern California. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and as a citizen he is most loyal and progressive-a native son whose interest in all that concerns the welfare and advance of California is of the most vital order.

On the 24th of January, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mayberry and Miss Ada S. Phillips, daughter of Alonzo Phillips, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Gladys Emily, who was born on the 7th of August, 1914.

GLORIA FISKE BRETHERTON, also known as Mrs. George Kellogg Bretherton, is one of the notable vocal instructors and coaches of Los Angeles, whose talent and undoubted faculty for her work have placed her among the leaders in her profession. She was born at Helena, Montana. and was there educated. Her grandfather crossed the plains to Montana during the early '60s, being one of the men who had the vision and fore- sight to move westward during the making of this region. The caravan with which he made the long and dangerous trip across the plains was attacked by the Sioux Indians, but he lived through it and finally reached his destination. Van H. Fisk, father of Mrs. Bretherton, became one of the earliest settlers of Helena, and there owned and published the Helena Herald.

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About 1904 Mrs. Bretherton came to Los Angeles to study music, and had the good fortune to have five years' instruction under Madame Esther Butler, a well-known teacher of music of London and Paris. She has coached under Chevalier Fulgenzio Guerrico, operatic director. Seven years ago she began teaching voice culture, and has a large following. Until she was seriously ill with influenza, which attack destroyed her voice for a time, she did a great deal of concert work, church singing and recital work in Los Angeles. Her voice is a wonderful one, and she could take all of the high tones without effort. It is a lyric voice with extraordi- nary pianissimo. Since her illness she has thrown herself into her teaching, which she loves. She specializes on placement, diction, interpretation repertoire. She maintains a studio at 501 Tajo Building, but her first studio was in Blanchard Hall. In her new studio she has everything very attractive, and here she holds monthly teas so as to give her pupils oppor- tunity to sing and receive their friends. Mrs. Bretherton has written a large amount of verse which has been set to music, and she has also translated considerably from the Italian. One of the notable occasions when she delighted with her wonderful voice was at a special High Mass at the San Gabriel Mission for the Mission Players, when she sang the "Ave Maria." Her pupils show the result of her skill and careful training. and are in demand by those who appreciate fine work and real music.

MARTHA COLLINS WEAVER. One of the admirably ordered institutions that contributes its quota to the prestige of Los Angeles as a metropolitan educational center is the Elliott School for Girls, of which Miss Weaver is the owner and principal and in the upbuilding of which she has shown marked pedagogic and administrative ability. This popular residential and day school for girls occupies a finely appointed building at 1303 South Gramercy Place.

The Elliott School was founded in 1917, by Mrs. Louise Bogart Joralmon, and in the spring of the following year Miss Weaver purchased and assumed control of the institution. The headquarters were removed from the original location, on West Adams Street, to the present fine and beautifully situated building, at the corner of Pico Street and Gramercy Place, where the commencement exercises for the school were first held in the year 1919.

A limited number of girls are accepted in the school home, which is a real home, not an institution, with an atmosphere of culture, in which constant effort is made to develop what is highest and best in each girl and to give her that poise and charm of manner characteristic of a girl of refinement. The progress and loyalty of the students are evidence of their happiness in such an environment.

The course of study covering work, which is standard in the grades from the first through the ninth, includes without extra charge, because the principal recognizes their value in the harmonious development of students, French, singing, art, expression and dancing. The finest of piano and violin teachers complete opportunities for training of every sort. The following extracts from the catalogue foreword of the institution so clearly indicate the scope of its functions that they are worthy of repro- duction in this sketch :

"The aim of the Elliott School is to provide superior educational advantages for girls, while emphasizing, as equally important, conditions favorable for growth in character; for only through this combination can girls attain a full and harmonious development. . . . The school occupies a beautiful home in the heart of one of the best residence sections of the City of Los Angeles. ... It is a great, roomy house, with wide verandas on three sides, standing well back in spacious grounds that are dotted with rare shrubs and trees and masses of flowers. The elevation is such that neither the ocean breeze nor the view of the mountains can ever be obstructed. It suggests what it really is-a home, and not an institution. In this home a limited number of resident pupils are accepted, where.

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without the restraints of the school room, but with that kindly discipline necessary for the safety and comfort of every household, they are taught those deep, underlying principles which make for charming and capable womanhood. ... The aim of all the work is to teach children to like to study, and at the same time to train them in habits of concentration and independent thinking. . . . An interesting feature of the school life is the out-of-door class work and study. A play-ground teacher supervises the recreation hours, and the extensive grounds give ample opportunity for out- door games and exercise. . . . The school home is open to boarding pupils the entire year. Day pupils are accepted for all school sessions. The ' faculty are women especially prepared for the work which they do, not wholly for scholarship but also for their high ideals and their love for leading pupils into a larger knowledge and appreciation of what is truest and best."

In the admirable work of this school Miss Weaver has an able coadjutor in the person of her sister, Miss Frances C. Weaver, who is the assistant principal.

Miss Weaver was born in the State of Illinois and received her degrees of Bachelor and later Master of Arts from McKendree College, one of the old established schools. Later she did much special work in the great University of Chicago. She gave a number of years of most effective service as dean of the Illinois Woman's College, and thereafter was for four years dean of women in Upper Iowa University. Upon coming to California she became associated with a Los Angeles private school for girls, and since assuming control of the Elliott School she has brought the same to a remarkably high standard of service in every department and relation, with the result that it receives a supporting patronage that is essentially representative in character. It is gratifying to offer this record concerning the admirable service which this cultured and gracious gentle- woman is rendering in connection with educational work in the fair metropolis of Southern California.

ALLEN G. VOGAN. The blacksmith who has wandered so long throughi song and story, the man of hard muscles, strong physique, genial manner, ready wit and innumerable companionable qualities, seems to have a living counterpart in Allen G. Vogan, of Pasadena, for while Mr. Vogan is not a blacksmith in the sense of being a horseshoer, his work in this direction being of an artistic nature, he came of a family of blacksmiths and was apprenticed to the trade as a youth, while the other characteristics mentioned as belonging to the 'smithy of fable are contained in his make-up. Mr. Vogan, familiarly known to his friends as "Al," is now proprietor of the Vogan Auto Works, one of the successful business enterprises of Pasadena.

Mr. Vogan was born March 8, 1877, in Lawrence County, Pennsyl- vania, and is a son of Jonathan D. and Mary M. (Rowland) Vogan, both of whom died in the Keystone State, where they had been born. Jonathan D. Vogan, who was a mechanic, served as a private in the Union Army during the Civil War, being a member of Company A, 134th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He died at the age of sixty-three years, and Mrs. Vogan died when seventy-nine years of age. Of their family of four sons and two daughters, three sons and one daughter are living, Allen G. being the only one living in California, with the others scattered all over the United States.

Allen G. Vogan was educated in the public school at McPherson, Kansas, in which community he was reared, and later took a com- mercial course at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. When he was fifteen years of age, at Newcastle, he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade, a vocation in which his grandfather, three of his uncles and two of his brothers spent their entire lives. He mastered his trade and passed twelve years at Newcastle, where he was engaged in busi- ness on his own account for a short time, but in 1903 turned his face

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to the West and located at Long Beach, California, where he spent three years. In 1906 he came to Pasadena, where he engaged in machine blacksmithing and the manufacture of artistic iron work. This he followed until March, 1913, when he established the Vogan Auto Works, an enterprise that has proved greatly successful under his good management and expert workmanship. His place of business is located at No. 119 East Union Street, and is fitted with the latest equipment, which, combined with Mr. Vogan's mastery of his trade and fidelity to business contracts and agreements, have given him a large and constantly-growing patronage. Mr. Vogan has other in- terests and is a director of the San Gabriel Auto Trade Association. He is an active member of the Merchants Association of Pasadena and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, and as a fraternalist is a past chancellor in the Pasadena Knights of Pythias and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Fraternal Brotherhood. His religious connection is with the Central Christian Church, in which he is treasurer and in the work of which he takes a very active and helpful part. Mr. Vogan was born and reared a republican and usually supports that party, although he reserves the right to give his vote elsewhere as his judgment prompts and his knowledge of candidates directs. He has always given his aid to movements of a community nature that have promised to be beneficial.

On April 10, 1901, at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, Mr. Vogan was united in marriage with Miss Cora M. Bowden, of that city, who was reared and educated there. Like her husband, Mrs. Vogan is greatly interested in religious work and is active in the movements of the Central Christian Church.

BLANCHE WEAVER, M. D., brings to bear in the practice of her pro- fession both a thorough technical ability as a physician and surgeon and also'a specially high sense of stewardship. She finds in her chosen vocation a medium for benignant service to those in affliction and distress, a means for safeguarding health and happiness, and as a cultured gentlewoman of deep and abiding human sympathy she translates this sympathy from mere sentiment into an actuating motive for helpfulness. In her substantial and representative practice in the City of Los Angeles the Doctor specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of women and children, and her unqualified success attests the popular estimate placed upon her in the community. Her offices are maintained at 406 Story Building.

Dr. Weaver was born and reared in Eastern Ohio, graduated from the Ohio Northern University and thereafter took an effective post-graduate course in normal work in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. For a number of years she was successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools of the Buckeye State, and she made an excellent record in the pedagogic profession, her work having been in both grade and high schools. Ever earnest in extending her experience and cultural horizon, Dr. Weaver has availed herself of the privileges and advantages of travel. After having passed one summer in Colorado she gave a year to travel in Europe. Impressed, 'even before visitation, with the manifold advantages and attractions of California, she determined here to establish her permanent home, and it is needless to state that she has found no reason to regret this decision.

In preparation for the profession of her choice Dr. Weaver here entered the Los Angeles College of Physicians and Surgeons, and since her gradua- tion from this institution she has further fortified herself by well ordered post-graduate course in the large clinics of Chicago, Rochester and New York City, the year 1919 having marked her completion of such a course in the national metropolis, and her attention being given specially to the study and research that have admirably fitted her for her special field of practice, that pertaining to the diseases, of women and children. Her professional work in Los Angeles, as combined with her gracious person-

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ality, has gained to her a wide and representative acquaintanceship, and she is the loved friend in many homes that have been the stage of her able and devoted professional ministrations.

FREDERICK J. HARRIGAN deserves to be remembered as one of the men most active in developing the marketing facilities for California's greatest product, citrus fruit. He was a resident of Los Angeles for thirty-three years, and was one of the founders and at the time of his death was vice- president of the Fay Fruit Company.

He had been retired from business on account of ill health for several months before he passed away August 30, 1921. He was born at Kala- mazoo, Michigan, November 18, 1861. After being educated in the schools at Kalamazoo he went south, to Galveston, Texas, and for several years was night manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company there. In 1889 he brought his bride to California, and for a time was in the employ of the Earl Fruit Company. Later he became associated with Mr. F. P. Fay, an old time Californian, in the fruit business, and they built up and developed the Fay Fruit Company. While the Earl Fruit Company had been established at an earlier date, the Fay Fruit Company in time became the largest exclusive citrus fruit shipping organization in the state. Mr. Harrigan found in this work an opportunity to express his energies and talent for business, and its success satisfied his constructive ambition. He was also vice-president of the Fay Securities Company.

At one time he was a member of the Jonathan Club, but club life and politics had no attractions for him. When not at his place of business he was at his home, and the companionship and interest of his family were accorded his supreme affection.

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History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 25

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944 Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Number of Pages: 840

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 840