History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 43

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

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Frederick William Kellogg was born at Norwalk, Ohio, December 7, 1866, and is a son of Theron Hotchkiss Kellogg and Frances Ann Esther (Penfield) Kellogg, his mother having graduated from Mount Holyoke College about 1859. In the public schools of his native place Mr. Kellogg continued his studies until his graduation from the high school in June, 1884, and previous to this, in 1878, he had become associated with news- paper work at Norwalk, where he had gained fortifying experience of initial order. From 1884 to 1887 he was in the employ of the Cleveland Press at Cleveland, Ohio, and in the latter year he became advertising man- ager of the Detroit News, the capital city of Michigan. He retained this position until 1894, and thereafter was advertising manager of the Cleve- land Press and the Scripps-McRae League. This relationship continued until 1899, when he became associated with L. V. Ashbaugh in founding the Omaha Daily News, which proved a successful venture, as did also the St. Paul Daily News, which they founded in 1900, and the Minneapolis Daily News, founded in 1902.

In 1905 Mr. Kellogg came to California, where he published the San Francisco Call and Post from 1913 to 1919, as president of the company controlling this property. Since 1919 he has been manager of the Los Angeles Express and has maintained his residence in the fair metropolis of Southern California. He is still a director of the Daily News Publishing Company of Omaha and the Daily News Publishing Company of St. Paul.

In politics Mr. Kellogg is aligned as an independent republican, he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he has received the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fra- ternity, and he holds membership in the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Pasadena and the Cali- fornia Golf Clubs, the Annandale and Flintridge Country Clubs, and the Olympic Club of San Francisco.

In the City of Detroit, Michigan, on the 8th of May, 1890, was sol-

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emnized the marriage of Mr. Kellogg and Miss Florence Scripps, daughter of the late William A. Scripps, who was a member of the famous newspaper family of that name, owning a large number of newspapers and also the United Press, the Scripps-McRae League having gained unequaled prestige in the newspaper field. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg have three children: Miss Ellen Scripps Kellogg, who was born November 7, 1891 ; Dorothy Winifred Kellogg, who was born in September, 1893, and who is now the wife of Dr. James H. Mckellar, of Pasadena ; and William Scripps Kellogg, who was born January 29, 1897, and who is associated with his father as partner in the publishing of the various California newspapers previously mentioned in this context. His marriage to Miss Alice Crowe occurred in 1920.

ROY L. SNAVELY is one of the progressive exponents of the real estate business in the City of Pasadena, where he maintains his office headquar- ters at 384 East Colorado Street. He was born at Iowa City, Iowa, March 12, 1885, and is a son of John Lincoln and Jemima (Schwimlay) Snavely, who are now residents of Whittier, Los Angeles County. John L. Snavely was engaged in the undertaking business at Greenfield and Corning, Iowa, and after coming to California became identified with the same line of business at Whittier, where he is now a painting contractor and has a prosperous business. He was born at North Liberty, Iowa, and his wife at Sharon Center, that state, these places being virtual suburbs of Iowa City. Mr. Snavely served as a member of the City Council of Corning, Iowa, and he was identified with the furniture and undertaking business throughout his active career until he recently retired to give his undivided attention to his business as a painting contractor. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Roy L. Snavely, the only child of his parents, gained his early education in the public schools of Greenfield and Corning, Iowa, and after his gradua- tion from Corning Academy he was for one year a student in Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa. His marriage occurred at Corning, and in 1905 he came with his wife to California and settled at Fullerton, where he remained one year. Thereafter he passed three years in the City of Los Angeles, and since that time he has maintained his home at Pasadena. He was employed as clerk in grocery stores at Fullerton and South Pasa- cena, and since 1912 he has been independently engaged in the real-estate business, in which his energy, progressiveness and correct methods have gained him both prominence and success as one of the representative realtors of this part of Los Angeles County. In connection with his general real estate operations he makes a specialty of investments and mortgages.

Mr. Snavely is a republican, is affiliated with Corona Lodge No. 324, A. F. and A. M., at Pasadena, is an active member of the Pasadena Realty Board and the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and prior to coming to California he had been a member of the Fifty-fifth Regiment of the Iowa National Guard. He and his wife are zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Pasadena, of which he is a member of the Board of Stewards. Mr. Snavely is an enthusiast as a fisherman. and enjoys to the full the many attractions of outdoor life in this beautiful state of his adoption. In indulging his hobby in fishing for mountain trout he maintains in the San Bernardino Mountains a cabin, located at Forest Home, and there he spends considerable time each successive summer.

At Corning, Iowa, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Snavely and Miss Florence Linn, who was born in that state and whose parents, Stephen D. and Ida (Register) Linn, are now residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mrs. Snavely is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, and is specially active in the Sunday School and the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Snavely have one son, Ronald L., who was born at Fullerton, California, October 3, 1905, and who graduated from the Pasadena High School as a member of the class of 1922.

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RAYMOND G. THOMPSON has the professional ability and prestige and the sterling personal characteristics that give him place as one of the repre- sentative members of the bar of Los Angeles County. He is engaged in the general practice of law in the City of Pasadena, with office in the Citizens National Bank Building, and he has served as justice of the peace of Pasadena County since February, 1919. With his partner, Judge Frank C. Durham, he is attorney for a number of local corporations of important order, including the Model Grocery Company, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $500,000; the L. C. Reed Company, a representative real estate concern of Pasadena ; the Peerless Dye Works; the Accessory Sales Company ; the Equitable Building and Loan Association of Pasadena, and the Mission Laundry Company of Pasadena. He is identified actively with the Pasadena Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Mr. Thompson was born at Murdock, Minnesota, March 23, 1886, and is second in order of birth in a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters, all residents of California and all but two being residents of Pasadena. The parents, Charles W. and Jessie F. (Redfield) Thompson, came to California in 1901, and the father engaged in the real estate and building business at Pasadena, where he died in 1914, at the age of fifty-six vears, his widow being still a resident of this city. The father of Charles W. Thompson was born in England. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this review was born in Wisconsin, and was a scion of the fine old New England Colonial family of which the historic character, John Alden, was a member. Charles W. Thompson was born in the State of Illinois and his wife in Wisconsin, their marriage having been solemnized in Minnesota, where they continued their residence until their removal to California.

Raymond G. Thompson acquired his earlier education in the public schools of Wilmar, Minnesota, and in 1906 he graduated from the high school at Pasadena, California. Thereafter he was for one year a student in the University of California, and he then completed a two years' course in the law department of the University of Southern California. He was admitted to the bar in August, 1909, and his professional novitiate was marked by his association in practice with Judge Howard A. Peairs at Los Angeles, Judge Peairs being now in service on the bench of the Superior Court at Bakersfield, this state. Later Mr. Thompson was in the law office of W. T. Craig, of Los Angeles, and since 1914 he has been estab- lished in successful practice at Pasadena. At the close of his first year here he became a member of the law firm of Bennett, Turnbull & Thompson, and this alliance continued until 1916. Since February, 1922, he has been in partnership with Judge Frank C. Durham.

Mr. Thompson is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, he and his wife are zealous members of the Lincoln Avenue Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and he is an especially appreciative member of the New Century Club. In the Masonic fraternity his ancient-craft affiliation is with Pasadena Lodge No. 272, and in the Scottish Rite of the time- honored fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which he is affiliated with Pasadena Lodge No. 672, B. P. O. E.

August 6, 1909, recorded the marriage of Mr. Thompson and Miss Hera E. Williams, who was born at Wabash, Indiana, a daughter of Frank E. Williams, a contractor and builder in the City of Pasadena, where his wife died in 1907. Mr. Williams is a scion of the family which claimed as its original American progenitor Roger Williams of Colonial days. Mrs. Thompson graduated from the Pasadena High School as a member of the class of 1908, and about one year later her marriage occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have three children: Muriel E., Winthrop E. and Wendell R.

GEORGE W. BURTON. "'The Eagle' is gone. For years he was known to the community. His circling flights were followed by many admirers.

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Shrewd were the piercing eyes which gazed down upon the toilers of life in critical thought of vain struggles. Buoyant, serene and fearless, he sent messages of inspiration and faith to those who learned to know him. Then the day came when 'The Eagle' soared away. Into the blue vault of heaven, circling higher and higher, smaller and smaller he became-a mere speck against the translucent glory of a new day. A blink of the eyes of the gazer and lo! 'The Eagle' has gone. The focus has been lost, and only into the vision of memory shall he come again."

Such was the tribute of a co-worker at the time of the death of George W. Burton, long known in newspaper circles of Los Angeles as "The Eagle," a man who combined the unusual traits of journalistic ability and sound business capacity and whose four-score years and two had been crowded with useful, interesting and helpful experiences. He was born near Dublin, Ireland, July 18, 1839, a son of Richard and Ann (Ward) Burton, and his family stock was almost pure Saxon, having been part of the great middle class which made the revolution and set up the common- wealth. The ancestors of the family went to Ireland as a part of Ireton's army, but there is also a strain of Celtic blood in the family. George W. Burton attended the public schools of his native land until not quite thirteen years of age, when he was brought to the United States, the family set- tling at Glenham, New York, where he attended night and preparatory schools for seven years. In 1859 he enrolled as a student at Racine Col- lege, Racine, Wisconsin, from which he was graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1863. While living in Glenham, New York, he had worked in a woolen factory in order to obtain the means of finishing his education. After graduation from college he taught the grammar school connected with that college for three years, and in 1866, having just married the sec- ond daughter of William M. Cox, originally of Philadelphia, but at that time of St. Paul, he moved to California. During the next twelve years, at San Mateo, Redwood City, Fair Oaks and Los Angeles, California, and Portland, Oregon, he conducted on his own behalf classical schools of such grade as successfully fitted the graduates for entrance to almost any of the eastern universities. In 1878, tiring of the responsibilities attached to the management of these schools, he moved to San Francisco and with others purchased the Howard Ranch of about 640 acres at San Gabriel. For a time he devoted his energies to farming, but gradually drifted into newspaper work. It was by accident, rather than design, that his work fell into lines so closely related with the business world. After farming for three years he disposed of his holdings and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a reporter on the Evening Express. Later he established `a large printing office at Los Angeles, but subsequently gave this up because of failing health and again turned his attention to newspaper work, this time as a member of the Herald staff. He remained with that paper until 1889, when he purchased the Grocer and Country Merchant, a weekly trade paper of San Francisco, and conducted it for four years, then returning to Los Angeles, where he bought and conducted the Commercial Bulletin. He carried on general newspaper work while editing this paper, but finally sold it and joined the Times editorial staff and was identified with that paper until his death in 1921.

Mr. Burton made two trips, each of a year's duration, through western Europe for his paper, and published volumes of essays from his newspaper work and volumes of letters sent from Europe covering his trips. He was not only considered, justly, one of the most capable newspaper men of his day and city, but was also a business man of parts, and accumulated a small fortune through his dealings in California real estate. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and had numerous journalistic, social and civic connections, and was greatly popular with his co-workers. As to politics he was a democrat until 1896, when he considered it his duty as a good citizen to oppose the Chicago platform of his party, and accordingly offered his services to the republican committee.

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Mr. Burton married Frances Elizabeth Thompson, a native of New York state and a daughter of Robert and Anne (Burton) Thompson.

AMOS R. JAMIESON has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Pasadena since. 1912, and is one the representative members of the bar of Los Angeles County, his offices being main- 'tained at 203 Central Building, Pasadena.

Mr. Jamieson is of sterling English lineage and was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, March 27, 1868, a son of Rev. Archibald and Anna (Cory) Jamieson. The father wasa pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the northwestern part of Iowa and in South Dakota, as now constituted, and his early ministerial services were in Ontario, Canada. He established his residence in northwest Iowa in 1872, and in that state he and his wife were venerable and revered citizens at the time of their deaths, he having died at the age of eighty years and his widow at the age of eighty-two. He was at one time a candidate for Congress from Iowa on the Prohibition ticket. and later he was the party's candidate for lieutenant governor of South Dakota. Of the family of three sons and two daughters two sons and one daughter are living, the subject of this review being the only one of the number in California.

The public schools of Iowa and South Dakota afforded Amos R. Jamieson his early education, and he was for some time a student in the University of South Dakota. As a youth he learned and followed the printer's trade, and later he studied law in the office of Judge C. B. Kennedy, of Canton, South Dakota, to the bar of which state he was admitted in 1890. Thereafter he was engaged in successful law practice in turn at Canton, Elk Point and Hudson, that state, and at Elk Point he served as police justice. In Lincoln County, South Dakota, he served as deputy state's attorney and as acting state's attorney, besides giving an able administration as county judge and as city attorney of Canton. He was active and influential in political affairs in that state, 'and for a time he was editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Tribune, at Hudson, South Dakota, while he was engaged in the practice of law at that place. He has retained a distinct predilection for newspaper work and has been a valued spe- cial editorial contributor to the Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune, and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

In 1912 Mr. Jamieson came with his family from Canton, South Dakota, to Pasadena, California, where he shortly afterward opened an office and engaged in the general practice of law, his admission to the California bar having occurred in 1914. He has developed a sub- stantial and important law practice and has high standing as a trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. In the World war period he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board at Pasadena.

Mr. Jamieson has been long and prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which his basic affiliation is still with Silver Star Lodge, A. F. and A. M. at Canton, South Dakota, of which he is a past master, as is he also of Jeptha Lodge No. 121 at Hudson, that state. He served also as grand marshal of the Masonic Grand Lodge of South Dakota. He is an earnest member of the Lincoln Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church at Pasadena, of which he is an official, besides being teacher of the adult Bible Class in its Sunday School. Mrs. Jamieson is active in the church work of the Free Methodist denomination and also as a member of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union.

At Elk Point, South Dakota, on the 24th of July, 1893, Mr. Jamie- son wedded Miss Mae R. Fluent, and she died at Pasadena November 18, 1912, within a short time after their removal to California. She is survived by two sons: Hugh F., who is associated with U. S. Forest

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Service, and Donald G., who is now employed in the offices of a leading bonding company in New York City.

On the 18th of June, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jamieson and Mrs. Arvilla B. (Cole) Jamieson, widow of his eldest brother, who died about the same time as did the first wife of the subject of this sketch. The attractive and hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson is at 715 Manzanita Avenue.

SAMUEL BROOKS MORRIS. The more modern of the cities of the country, especially those in the West, are attracting engineers of experience and skill and a desire for public service for it is now gen- erally recognized that it is absolutely necessary to have the utility departments of the city management, especially those affecting the public health and sanitation, in charge of men who know their busi- ness and can handle the many affairs of their offices expeditiously and effectively. Pasadena is very fortunate in having Samuel Brooks Mor- ris at the head of its water department, because he is fitted for the place through his association with the department, and careful tech- nical training in his profession.

Samuel Brooks Morris was born at Los Angeles, California, August 24, 1890, a son of B. Samuel and Elizabeth P. (Shoemaker) Morris. The Morris family has been prominent in Philadelphia for generations, Robert Morris being one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The Shoemaker family has been located in America since about 1630. Through Colonel Major Shoemaker of Philadelphia, Mrs. B. Samuel Morris is eligible to membership in the Colonial Dames.

B. Samuel Morris was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1858, and his wife is a native of Westchester, Pennsylvania, born in 1849. They were married at West Grove, Pennsylvania, in 1883, and in 1886 came West, first settling in San Gabriel, California, just opposite to the old Episcopal Church. After a short time in that city they moved to Pasadena, leaving it for Los Angeles and Los Nietos. In 1900, however, they returned to Pasadena. The father has been in the real estate and insurance business practically all of his life, and is still occupied with these kindred lines. He and his wife have had three sons born to them, all living, namely: Charles S., assistant superintendent of schools of Modesta, California, and dean of its junior college ; Benjamin W., in business with his father and who lives at Pasadena, California, and Samuel Brooks, who is the youngest.

After completing a course of study at home Samuel Brooks Morris took an academic course at Throop Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1907, and then took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Civil Engineering at Stanford University, from which he was graduated in 1911. Returning to Pasadena, he worked for the North Pasadena Land and Water Company for several months, and then for a year was on valuation work for private water companies in the City of Pasadena under Burdett Moody, who was then chief engineer. Subsequently the city bought up the private water companies, and Mr. Moody was made chief of the water department, holding that office until May, 1913, when Mr. Morris succeeded hini as chief engineer, and has continued to hold the office ever since. This is au appointive office, and Mr. Morris is responsible to the city manager.

On August 31, 1912, Mr. Morris married at Pasadena Miss Anabel Millar Johnson, a daughter of the late Theron W. and Elizabeth Field (Haskins) Johnson. Mrs. Morris was born at Northfield, Minnesota, and was educated in the Northfield High School, from which she was graduated in 1909; and Pomona College. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have two children: Brooks Theron and Robert Field, both of whom were born at Pasadena. Mrs. Morris is a member of the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, and is an associate member of the Opportunity Club. She is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American

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Revolution. Her parents came from old New England families. Her mother died at the home of Mr. Morris in Pasadena in 1914. The father died at Northfield, Minnesota, in 1909, having been a farmer all of his life. During the war between the North and the South he served in an engineering regiment. The Johnsons were related to the Fiskes from New York and the Haskins and the Fields from Massachusetts.

Mr. Morris is a charter member of the Pasadena University Club. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Amer- ican Association of Engineers, and the American Water Works Association. He is a member of the Branner Geology Club and the Seismological Society of America. A communicant of the Episcopal faith, he belongs to All Saints Church at Pasadena.

REV. NICHOLAS T. EDWARDS. The family name of Edwards has been a familiar one in both state and national history in the United States for very many years. The early New England colonists knew it well, and theology, statesmanship, literature, education, business and scientific discovery have later added distinction to the name. This family originated in Wales, where it continues to be known to this day, sometimes in the humbler walks of life, and again on the broader highways that better opportunities have made possible. A widely known member of this honorable old Welsh family in California is Rev. Nicholas T. Edwards of Whittier, for twenty- five years a faithful minister in the Congregational Church, and one of the deeply interested and best informed men in the citrus producing industry in Southern California.

Nicholas T. Edwards was born at Salem, Massachusetts, July 8, 1857, a son of Richard and Betsy (Sampson) Edwards, the latter of whom, a native of Massachusetts, resides at Bloomington, Illinois, in the enjoyment of good health and in possession of all her faculties, in her ninety-seventh year. The father of Dr. Edwards died in 1911, aged eighty-four years.

Richard Edwards was an unusual man, and in the course of his life filled positions of great public usefulness and was an influence for good wherever he was known. Born in an obscure mining district in Wales, he had in boy- hood neither social advantages nor educational privileges. His father had heard of America, and until he secured passage across the sea, like many of his unknown ancestors of an earlier day, the oldest son bent every effort to this end and finally reached the Western Reserve, Ohio, poor, lonely, with little knowledge of the country's language or customs. He was twenty years old, but this did not discourage him in seeking an education. He set out for Boston and had made half the journey on foot, when by fortunate chance he secured the job of conveying a horse and buggy to Bos- ton, and after satisfactorily executing this commission, sought a school in which he could pay for instruction by work. It is not necessary to detail the hardships this determined youth faced or the difficulties he overcame before he was adjudged a competent teacher and was made principal of the Bridgewater Normal School. He next served as principal of the St. Louis (Mo.) Normal School, following which he became principal of the Illinois State Normal School, the first of its kind in Illinois, and the policy Mr. Edwards introduced has been the pattern followed by all normal schools in the United States. Later he became state superintendent of public instruction, and the schools of Illinois owe much of their efficiency to his enthusiasm and devotion to their interests. To his marriage with Betsy Sampson eleven children were born, and of these the following survive: Nicholas T .; Richard Arthur, who is president of the First National Bank of Peru, Indiana; George H., who is a manufacturing jeweler of Kansas City, Missouri, ex-mayor and a member of the new water commission; Walter A., LL. D., head of the classical department of the Los Angeles High School, who for ten years was president of the Throop Institute ; Owen, who is a farmer near Bloomington, Illinois; Annie E., who is the widow of Newton C. Dougherty, formerly of the city of Greeley, Colorado,

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History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 43

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