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In the period of the nation's participation in the World war Mr. Hood was for six months in the service of the Bureau of Air Craft Production, under Colonel Brice P. Disque, in the Spruce- Production Division, and at the time when the armistice brought the war to a close he was stationed at Powers, Oregon, with rank of sergeant, first class.
Mr. Hood has been inflexible in his support of the cause of the republican party from the time of his boyhood, and he figured as the youngest active politician in the Middle West at the time of the Mckinley "full-dinner-pail" presidential campaign, in connection with which at the age of eight years, he made a stirring political speech in support of the republican cause at Sioux City, his native place. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Hood has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, his basic affiliation being with Corona Lodge No. 324, A. F. and A. M., at Pasadena, and he being also past patron of Southland Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. He is a life member of Pasadena Lodge No. 672, B. P. O. E., and at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1922, he is presi- dent of the Cauldron Club, a leading social and musical organization in his home city. He takes marked satisfaction also in his active affilia- tion with the American Legion. He and his wife are popular figures in the representative social activities of Pasadena, and Mrs. Hood is here a member of the Shakespeare Club and the Tuesday Musical Club.
At "Palawoo," this attractive mountain home in the hills to the north of Altadena, on the 27th of July, 1920, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Hood and Miss Hazel Annis Teachout, who was born at Los Angeles, a representative of one of the old and prominent families of California, her ancestral line touching an influential Spanish California family of the early days.
The A. C. Vroman book store is one of the finest establishments of its kind in the United States. It was formerly located at 60 East Colorado Street, and the quarters now occupied were erected and equipped specially for its use, the attractive structure being of the seventeenth-century Spanish type of architecture, and the firm of Marston & Van Pelt, of Pasadena, having been the designers of the beautiful building occupied by the concern. Removal to this splendid new establishment was made on the 1st of May, 1920.
JOSEPH DAYTON CONDIT, M. D. During a period of eighteen years Dr. Joseph Dayton Condit has been engaged in the practice of medicine at
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Pasadena, where he has won much more than ordinary reputation as an authority on the practice of internal medicine. Not only in his professional activities but as a citizen as well he has shown a spirit of progressiveness that has made him valued and valuable as a resident of the city of his adoption, and his name has been connected frequently with movements which have contributed to the general welfare.
Doctor Condit was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, April 23, 1877, a son of Rev. Blackford Condit, D. D., and Sarah Louis ( Mills) Condit, both of whom are now deceased. He belongs to a family that has been identified with Indiana for many years and which has furnished distinguished men who have borne a share in making the history of that state. His maternal grandfather, Caleb Mills, a well-known educator of his day, inaugurated the public school system of the State of Indiana, while his father's uncle, Hon. Isaac Blackford, was one of the early members of the Indiana Supreme Bench.
Joseph Dayton Condit received his early education in the public schools of Terre Haute, following which he entered Wabash College, and was graduated therefrom in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then enrolled as a student at Columbia University, from which institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class of 1901, and in that year became an interne in St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, and later acted as house physician and surgeon in the Private Patients' Building, New York Hospital. He came to Pasadena in 1904 and estab- lished himself in practice, and since that time has advanced steadily and rapidly as a practitioner of internal medicine. He maintains well-appointed offices in the St. Louis Block, and is on the medical staff and a member of the Board of Directors of Pasadena Hospital. From May, 1917, to Feb- ruary, 1919, Doctor Condit was a major in the United States Army Medical Corps as regimental surgeon of the Seventy-ninth Field Artillery, Regular U. S. A. He keeps constantly in touch with the advancements constantly being made in his profession, is a close and careful student, and holds mem- bership in the American Medical Association, the California State Medical Society, the Los Angeles County Medical Society, the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, the Pacific Coast Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiological Society of North America and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, being also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He also belongs to the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the Flint Ridge Country Club and the Univer- sity Club, and in politics is a republican. He is a member of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
On April 5, 1904, at New York City, Doctor Condit was united in marriage with Miss Katharine A. Guernsey, who was born in British India, daughter of a retired British Army officer, the late Col. Forbes Guernsey. Doctor and Mrs. Condit occupy a very pleasant home in Pasadena.
CLIFTON J. PLATT has been in the most distinctive sense the apostle of progress in connection with the civic and material advancement of Pasadena and Southern California, and his operations in the handling and developing of real estate and in the erection of buildings of high grade have contributed much to the advancement of the City of Pasadena and its environs. As a leading representative of the real estate and bond business at Pasadena he here maintains his office headquarters in the Clifton J. Platt Block, a modern building erected and owned by him at 384 East Colorado Street.
Mr. Platt claims the Badger State as the place of his nativity, and in his career he has emulated in a significant degree the example of the badger, in the matter of "digging in." He was born at Hingham, Wisconsin. August 15, 1875, and is a son of Captain Josiah Platt, who was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Captain Platt enlisted in one of the first companies organized in Wisconsin and became its orderly sergeant. With his command, Company F, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin
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Volunteer Infantry, he participated in many engagements, including a goodly number of the major battles marking the progress of the great conflict, and the history of this regiment virtually constitutes the record of his military career. Both the first and second lieutenants of his company were killed in battle, and he won advancement in rank, with the result that he finally was elected and commissioned captain of his company, of which he continued in command until the close of the war.
Clifton J. Platt was a boy at the time of the family removal from Wisconsin to Nebraska and thence to Reamsville, Kansas, where he gained his early education in the public schools of the pioneer days, one of his teachers there being now a resident of Long Beach, California, and the friendship of the two being of close order. Mr. Platt's mother believed in giving her children the best possible educational advantages, and it was due to her insistence -that the family removed from Kansas to Lincoln, Nebraska, the seat of the University of Nebraska. As a lad Mr. Platt began to deliver copies of the Lincoln Evening News, with which paper he continued his connection nine years and finally was made its city circu- lator, at a salary of more than $100 a month. At the same time he was paying his way through the University of Nebraska, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He reverts with much satisfaction to the fact that while in the university he studied mathematics under the able preceptorship of the distinguished commander who brought honor to the American Expedition- ary Forces in the great World war-General John J. Pershing.
Several years prior to his completing his university course Mr. Platt's parents had come to California and established their residence in Pasadena, and here he joined them in 1899, soon after his graduation.
The "dig in" proclivities of Mr. Platt have here come most effectively into play and he has won success and prestige in his chosen sphere of activity. He has devoted most of his time to the sale of Pasadena realty, although he has handled also a considerable amount of country and beach property. He has built more than 100 houses and erected the first two brick buildings east of Garfield Avenue on Colorado Street, one of these still being owned by him. Mr. Platt states that for more than two years was vigorously waged the battle to effect the paving of Colorado Street between Marengo and Los Robles avenues, and it is needless to say that he was a valiant fighter for this improvement. He worked also to have Colorado Street paved and widened to the city limits, and also to obtain the erection of the Pasadena Federal Building. He was one of the men to place a competitive site in the recent Memorial Hall selection.
Mr. Platt is found loyally aligned in the local ranks of the democratic party, and has been a delegate from Pasadena to the Los Angeles County conventions of his party. He is a charter member of the Pasadena Realty Board, holds membership in Lodge No. 24 of the Fraternal Brotherhood, of which he was president in 1904, is an active member of the Presbyterian Men's Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Pasadena Presby- terian Church.
Mr. Platt asserts that "Ninety and Nine" is his charmed number. The numerals of the familiar and beloved hymn of this title have been many times repeated in the career of this vital and popular Pasadena realtor. When he was a "little shaver" in Wisconsin his mother and aunt used to sing this sweet old hymn to him :
There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold, But one was out on the hills away, Far away from the Gates of Gold.
The children of Mr. Platt have heard the hymn many times, and to him the number 99 seems to have a happy charm. He and his wife were united in marriage at their own bungalow, 699 East Walnut Street ; they
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are, in the spring of 1922, living at 399 South Mentor Avenue; and they have in course of erection their fine new home at 1099 Arden Road. Furthermore, the new Federal Building, erected five years ago, would include among its street numbers 299 East Colorado Street. Mr. Platt and Mr. C. V. Sturdevant worked many months in securing subscriptions for this building site in Pasadena.
On the 28th of June, 1905, in the little bungalow home which the groom had provided, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Platt and Miss Maybelle Melda Pyle, daughter of Wilton R. Pyle, of Pasadena, who formerly resided at York, Nebraska. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Platt has been one of idyllic order, and their interests now center largely in the care of their fine family of four children : Melda, Virginia, Clifton J., Jr., and Courtney.
RICHARD C. LOCKWOOD, D. D. S. It has been declared by an authority that within the last twenty years science has made history with lightning speed and every phase of life has been benefited. In no profession has the advance been more noticeable than in dentistry's rightful position in medical science, since in scientific dental surgery has been found the cure of many of the maladies afflicting humanity. This profession is ably repre- sented at Pasadena by Dr. Richard C. Lockwood, who has been in active practice in this city for the past sixteen years.
Dr. Lockwood was born at Beloit, Kansas, September 3, 1883, and is a brother of Dr. Charles D. Lockwood, in whose sketch in this volume will be found the Lockwood family history. Richard C. Lockwood attended the public schools, and after completing his high school course at Beloit, entered the University of Southern California, from which institution he was graduated in 1906 with the degree of D. D. S., later doing some special work at Pasadena. He returned then to Kansas and was engaged in dental practice there until 1911, when he came back to Pasadena and has become prominently established here, with well appointed offices in the Citizens Savings Bank Building. During the World war he served as a member of the Pasadena Home Guards. He belongs to such representative organi- zations of his profession as the Southern California Dental Association, the National Dental Association and the Psi Omega dental fraternity of his university.
Dr. Lockwood married at Beloit, Kansas, September 7, 1909, Miss Elizabeth Mae Shaw, a daughter of Bennett and Emogene (Blossom) Shaw, early settled families of Kansas, both parents of Mrs. Lockwood being deceased. She is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, and is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames, Dr. Lockwood being eligible to the Sons of the American Revolution.
Through the Fitz-Randolphs, Mrs. Lockwood's ancestry in the old world and the new is of great antiquity. In the "Fitz-Randolph Traditions -a Story of a Thousand Years," by Lewis V. F. Randolph and published by the New Jersey Historical Society, "may be found an elaborate and neatly embellished narration of the genealogical traditions of the Randolph or Fitz-Randolph family in Massachusetts and New Jersey, with all the wealth of detail and historical data by which the Randolphs or Fitz- Randolphs of today trace their lineage back to Rolf, the Norseman of 912 A. D., who overran Normandy in France, and down through the dukes of Normandy to William the Conqueror ; thence in England through the dukes and kings and lords of Middleham in Yorkshire, England, whence one Edward Fitz-Randolph came to America in 1630 and married Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of one of the early New England Puritans. Richard III. Robert Bruce and various other figures of English history are attached by one line and another."
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In tracing the Fitz-Randolph ancestry Mr. Randolph begins with Rolf, the Norseman, who wedded a daughter of King Charles of France, then descends to William, Duke of Normandy, who died about 943, and follows
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with Richard, the Fearless, Richard, the Good, and another Richard, all dukes of Normandy. The line then descends through Eudo, Duke of Brit- tany ; Ribald, Lord of Middleham, brother of the Duke of Richmond; Ran- dolph, Lord of Middleham ; Robert Fitz-Randolph, Lord of Middleham, the builder of Castle Middleham; Randolph Fitz-Randolph, Lord of Middle- ham, who married a sister of the Duke of Portland; Randolph Fitz-Ran- dolph, who had a daughter, Mary Fitz-Randolph; Randolph de Neville, Lord of Middleham; then on through John to Randolph de Neville, the first Earl of Westmoreland, who married Margaret, daughter of Lady Stafford, a descendant of Edward I. The line then descends through six dukes of Westmoreland and their progeny to Edward Fitz-Randolph, Pilgrim, who was married May 10, 1637, at Scituate, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth Blos- som, who was a daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom. They moved to Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1669 and there Edward died in 1675.
In attaining his present position in his profession Dr. Lockwood has led a busy life and has found little time for activity in politics, but is an earnest republican in his views. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Flintridge Country Club.
ARTHUR R. MCARTHUR, one of the progressive business men and rep- resentative citizens of Pasadena, has been in the most significant sense the builder of the ladder on which he has risen to a plane of substantial pros- perity and unassailable commercial prestige. He has been dependent upon his own resources since he was a lad of thirteen years, has valiantly fought the stern battle of life for himself, has retained his buoyant spirit of opti- mism, and has so ordered his course as to merit and receive the confidence and respect of his fellow men. He is associated with his wife in the owner- ship and conducting of a most flourishing business in Pasadena, under the title of the McArthur Furniture Company.
Arthur Reynolds McArthur was born in the City of Chicago, Illinois, August 14, 1881, and is a son of Samuel P. and Mary J. (Dickson) McAr- thur. He was but thirteen years old when he began to "paddle his own canoe," and while providing for his own maintenance he also attended school at all possible intervals in the states of Illinois and Missouri. He finally was able to pass two years as a student in the Northern Illinois State Normal School at Dixon. Thereafter he made a record of excellent achieve- ment as a traveling commercial salesman. He first represented a St. Louis wholesale grocery house, and covered a large territory, including Southern Illinois, Southern Missouri, Southeastern Arkansas and Western Kentucky and Tennessee. His health finally became much impaired, and as a recuper- ative measure he went to Texas. He passed about five months at El Paso, and finally was able to attempt health recruiting in New Mexico and Ari- zona, as well as California. With characteristic fortitude and determination he fought to regain his health, and for seven years his struggle was a stern one. He finally conquered, as shown by the fact that when he passed exam- ination for military service in connection with the World war he ran up a perfect score in a physical way. After these seven years of somewhat pre- carious financial standing and imperfect health, he regained his powers and gallantly started once more his business activities. He became a. traveling salesman for wholesale furniture, and represented in turn wholesale houses at Port Washington, Wisconsin; Jamestown, New York; and North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. In this connection he "covered" the larger cities west of the Mississippi River, and during the last two years of his service "on the road" he covered territory in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, his wife having accompanied him on his travels during the final two years.
In 1913 Mr. McArthur established his residence at Pasadena. He arrived in this city at ten o'clock in the morning, and before the close of the day he rented the store at 43 West Colorado Street where, on the 21st of January, 1914, about twenty days after his arrival in the city, he opened a furniture establishment, which he has since successfully conducted at this
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location. In August, 1921, he opened a larger store, at 38-40 East Union Street, and the two well equipped stores now represent the centers of large and prosperous enterprises in the handling of furniture, carpets, stoves, etc. The McArthur Furniture Company buys, sells and exchanges furniture, and makes a specialty of furniture repairing. In the upbuilding of this large and well ordered business Mr. McArthur has had a loyal and valued coadjutor in the person of his wife, who has been his active assistant. He is a member of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the local Merchants' Association and the Lions Club, and is a life member of Pasadena Lodge No. 672, B. P. O. E. In politics he is independent, and gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment.
March 2, 1907, at Los Angeles, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McArthur and Miss Lena Margaret Clark, who was born in Ventura County, California, and was reared and educated in Los Angeles County. Mrs. McArthur is popular in the social life of Pasadena, and presides gra- ciously over her attractive home, besides continuing to assist her husband in his business activities.
IRVING S. MONROE is a native son, a member of a family of historical prominence of Eureka, and has been engaged in business at Pasadena since 1910. His business interests are now real estate, loans and insurance.
Mr. Monroe was born at Eureka, Humboldt County, California, July 14, 1884, son of Josephi P. and Olivia (Walsh) Monroe. His grandparents, C. A. and Anna Monroe, were California forty-niners, settling at Eureka, where the grandfather located a silver mine. One of the ancestors of the Monroe family was the famous Revolutionary" hero, Israel Putnam. Joseph P. Monroe was born in California, and was named in honor of his uncle, Joseph P. Albee, who was killed by the Indians at Redwood Creek. His wife, Olivia Walsh, was also born at Eureka. Her father, Thomas Walsh, of a family that came from Dublin, Ireland, was the first mayor of Eureka, and one of California's distinguished pioneers. He had a general merchandise store and was interested in the lumber business at Eureka, and at one time owned a lumber yard at Los Angeles. General U. S. Grant, while stationed at Fort Humboldt, near Eureka, was a frequent guest at the Walsh home, and he and Thomas Walsh were intimate friends. Thomas Walsh died at the Palmer House in Chicago while a delegate to an Episco- pal Convention there. He is buried in San Francisco. Joseph P. Monroe for many years was a manufacturer and bottler of soda and mineral waters at Eureka. He died in that city February 6, 1922, at the age of sixty-four, and his wife died there in 1894. All their four sons and three daughters are still living.
Irving S. Monroe is the oldest son and only member of the family in Los Angeles County. He acquired a grammar and high-school education at Eureka, and his skill in instrumental music he made the basis of a profes- sion for several years. At the same time he was associated with his father in the manufacture of soda waters, and established a bottling plant at Gold- field, Nevada, during the boom days. On coming through Pasadena in 1910, Mr. Monroe established the Crown City Bottling Works, and con- tinued the manufacture of carbonated soda waters until 1917. Since then he has been in the real estate and insurance business, and is agent for the Great American & Springfield Fire Insurance Company, the Travelers Insurance Company and also writes considerable life insurance. He is a notary public.
Mr. Monroe has never given up altogether his musical accomplishments and tastes. He is the trombone player and a member of the Music Com- mittee of the Pasadena Elks' Band, one of the finest musical organizations on the coast. This band every year leads the tournament of roses parade. He is also trombone player in the Pasadena Shrine Band. Mr. Monroe is a republican, is affiliated with Pasadena Lodge No. 272, F. and A. M., Crown Chapter No. 72, R. A. M., Pasadena Lodge No. 324, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pasadena Lodge No. 672, Benevolent and Protective
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Order of Elks. He is a member of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, and before Lamanda Park was incorporated in Pasadena he was secretary and treasurer of the Board of Trade of that suburb. He represents the Sixty-ninth Assembly District for the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee and is a member of the Pasadena Realty Board.
September 2, 1913, at Pasadena, he married Miss Luella Curran, a native of Chicago, but reared in Pasadena. She is a graduate of the Pasa- dena High School, and finished her education in Leland Stanford Univer- sity. She is a member of the Lamanda Park Woman's Club and the Stanford Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe, who reside at 45 South Roosevelt Avenue, have four children, Irving Albee, Phillip Lee, Gene Richard and Everett Cecil, all natives of Pasadena.
FREDERICK WILLIAM KELLOGG has been a worker in the newspaper field from the time of his early youth to the present, has run the full gamut of journalistic experience and as a newspaper owner and publisher has achieved large success and high reputation. He has exemplified in his career the best of American progressiveness and resourcefulness, and is a scion of sterling Colonial ancestry in New England, the original representatives of the Kellogg family having come from England and settled in Massachusetts in 1634. That Mr. Kellogg is one of the outstanding figures in newspaper publishing on the Pacific Coast needs no further voucher than the statement that he is the chief owner and executive officer of the following named California newspaper properties : Pasadena Evening Post, Venice Evening Vanguard, Glendale Daily Press, San Pedro Daily News, Santa Ana Daily News, Anaheim Herald, Santa Monica Evening Outlook, Sawtelle Tribune, Ocean Park Herald, Hollywood Daily News and California Farmer. With E. A. Dickson he owns and operates the Los Angeles Evening Express. Mr. Kellogg's only son is associated with him in his various newspaper enterprises.
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