History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 74

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

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years its vice chairman, and is a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He is a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles, also of the Pacific Coast Club of Long Beach.

In 1883 Mr. Barbour married Miss Florence E. Gray, of Maine. She died on March 7, 1923.

JOHN MACCREADY, contractor and builder at Hermosa Beach, has had something like thirty years of practical and active experience in the building vocation. Since coming to Hermosa Beach he has handled a large part of the building work in that vicinity, and not only enjoys a pros- perous business but a high place in local citizenship.

He was born in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, January 3, 1871, son of James and Catherine (McDougal) MacCready. His father was born in Edinburg, Scotland, and his mother in Nova Scotia. James MacCready was a landscape engineer, and went to Nova Scotia in the early sixties, following his profession there and later in Boston, Massachusetts. He died in Scotland and his wife in Boston.

John MacCready acquired his early education in public schools in Nova Scotia, attended night school at Boston, and for several years worked with his father and also had a period of employment at the coal mines of Nova Scotia. Mr. MacCready located at Boston in 1894, and for fifteen years was engaged in the carpenter's trade. He was carpenter foreman for one firm ten years. In 1909 he came to Los Angeles, followed his trade in that city a year, and in 1910 established his home at Hermosa Beach, and has since then engaged in the contracting business. He is a director of the National Bank of Hermosa Beach, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Redondo Lodge of Elks, No. 1378.

On October 15, 1901, he married Miss Margaret Conlon, of Boston. She was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and died September 18, 1920.

REV. ARTHUR JOSEPH HUTCHINSON. No history of Los Angeles County can be written without giving due credit for the work of the Roman Catholic Church in this region, for the record of its missionary labors extends back many generations, and long antedates American ownership. The older parishes are still ministering to the souls within their boundaries, but with the growth of population of the larger centers has come an exodus into the rural regions and a subsequent establishment of small communities. These, at first ministered to as missions, in time require a parish of their own, and new ones are formed, one of the latest of them being that of Our Lady of the Valley at Owensmouth, with missions at Chatsworth, Zelzah, Marian, Girard, Calabasas, Liberty and Trumfo, which include 200 families and 900 souls. This parish was established in March 1921, with Rev. Arthur Joseph Hutchinson as resident priest, and he is still in charge. This parish was formerly a mission served from Glendale, and Father O'Niel was the first priest to serve it.

Rev. Arthur Joseph Hutchinson was born at Brooklyn, New York, November 14, 1878, a son of Arthur John and Nora (Carey) Hutchinson, both natives of Ireland, and devout members of the Roman Catholic Church. Arthur John Hutchinson was a shipbuilder and conducted his business from Brooklyn, New York, until his death, which occurred April 23, 1898. His widow survived him until February 1, 1900, when she, too, passed away.

They had the following family: Mary, who lives at Calabasas, Califor- nia ; Elizabeth V., who is deceased ; Rev. Arthur Joseph ; James J. who is a resident of Calabasas, California ; John, who is deceased; and Edward C., Thomas and Catherine, who are all also residents of Calabasas, California.

Catholic parents quickly recognize and joyfully encourage a religious vocation in their children and eagerly make any sacrifice necessary to pro- vide every advantage for the child thus blessed with a call to the religious life. Father Hutchinson first attended the parochial school, of Saint Thomas Acquinas, Brooklyn, New York, and Saint Francis College of that same city. He then became a student of Saint Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York, and was ordained at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City,

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June 10, 1911. His first charge was as assistant priest at Holy Name Church, Buffalo, New York, where he spent six years, and then for eight months was pastor of Saint Joseph's Church at Varysburg, New York. With the entry of this country into the World war Father Hutchinson was one of the men of his faith who was sent not only to minister to the spiritual needs of his church members in the army, but to help to maintain the general morale, and encourage and sustain the brave lads so far removed from home influences. He served as chaplain, was overseas for a year, and worked in connection with the Knights of Columbus.

Upon his return to Buffalo from overseas he was granted an indefinite leave of absence. In February, 1919, he came to California and for two months served as administrator of the Sacred Heart Parish at San Diego. He assisted in the work at Saint Patrick's Church at Hanford, California, for two months. On the completion of his service at Hanford he volun- teered to take up the mission work at his present charge. The parish is a large one covering much territory in the San Fernando Valley and in the Santa Monica Mountains. Father Hutchinson is a splendid organizer the work accomplished in two years bespeak him an efficient executive. A four- room school building was completed August 15, 1922, at Owensmouth, California, and has since been used as a church and school. As a learned and spiritual director his work already bears much fruit. The affairs of his charge are in good order and will succeed under his tireless care.

JOSEPH J. MURPHY, who is successfully engaged in the real estate busi- ness, with headquarters at Redondo Beach, has become known as one of the reliable and influential representatives of this important line of enter- prise in Los Angeles County. He succeeded to the business of Horan & Murphy, of which latter firm Mr. Murphy likewise had been junior mem- ber. With a well established reputation for effective and honorable dealings, the firm of Joseph J. Murphy controls a substantial business in the handling of urban and suburban realty and farm and oil lands, besides making a specialty of rental and general insurance.

Mr. Murphy was born in New York City, on the 24th of May, 1884, and was about two years old at the time of the family removal to Iowa, where his father engaged in farm enterprise, near Iowa City. The parents passed the remainder of their lives in the Hawkeye State, and both were earnest communicants of the Catholic Church.

After having profited by the advantages offered in the Catholic parochial schools at Iowa City Joseph J. Murphy there learned the baker's trade. His ambition later led him to learn also the trade of electro-plating, in a jewelry factory at Iowa City, but he finally turned his attention to the insurance business, of which he continued a successful representative at Iowa City until 1918, on the 18th of September, of which year he estab- lished himself in the same line of enterprise at Redondo Beach, California. In the following year he became also a representative of the real estate business, and in his operations here his success has attested both his energy and his correct business methods. Mr. Murphy has had no desire for political activity or public office, but is loyally aligned in the ranks of the democratic party. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church.

On the 22d of October, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Murphy and Miss Gertrude M. Cassidy, who was born and reared at Muscatine, Iowa, and whose education included a course in the musical department of St. Joseph's Academy at Dubuque, that state. Mrs. Murphy has a most gracious personality, is a talented musician and is popular in the representative social circles of her home community. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have five children, namely : William Joseph, Robert Richard, Gerald Francis, Josephine Gertrude and Marjorie Jean.

DWIGHT SATTERLEE, who passed from this life at his home in Los Angeles, March 21, 1923, had lived in Southern California for a number

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of years, though never active in profession or business. For many years he was a successful physician and surgeon in Iowa and in New England.

He was born at Gales Ferry, Connecticut, March 24, 1837, and was in the eighty-sixth year of his age when he died. His parents were Elisha and Hester Satterlee, and seven generations of the Satterlee family have lived at Gales Ferry. Doctor Satterlee attended public school at Gales Ferry, also East Greenwich Academy, and was a graduate of the Berkshire Medi- cal College at Massachusetts. Soon after he was graduated, he entered the Eleventh Connecticut Volunteers and was an assistant surgeon with the Sanitary Corps during the Civil war. He was in General Grant's army, entered Richmond with others after General Lee's surrender, was promoted, was mustered out in December, 1864, and commissioned major. For a number of years Doctor Satterlee practiced medicine and surgery at Norwich, Connecticut, and then moved West and located at the then new and promising town of Dunlap, Iowa, being the first member of his pro- fession to practice there. He became division surgeon of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway and his abilities brought him a practice more than equal to his energy and time. For some years his range of patients reached out over four counties surrounding Dunlap. He and Doctor Patterson were partners in a drug store. Doctor Satterlee when about fifty years of age gave up the work of his profession and looked after his business interests, including a farm.on which he raised fine stock. He was one of the original stockholders of the Dunlap State Bank. He also served by appointment a term as county supervisor. For many years he was Master of the Masonic Lodge at Dunlap, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and was a leading member of the First Congregational Church, was church chorister, superintendent of its Sunday school and for many years conducted a Bible class.

On account of failing health Doctor Satterlee left Iowa when he was sixty-three years of age, and going East to Norwich, Connecticut, had a major operation performed by a famous New York surgeon, from which he never fully recovered. For a time he recuperated at Denver and then came to California to live in a mild climate, and his years were prolonged for nearly a quarter of a century. He became a member of the Los Angeles City Club, was affiliated with Stanton Post and the Loyal Legion and was a member of the First Congregational Church of that city.

Doctor Satterlee married Miss Anna E. Hickox, of an old family of Mayflower and Revolutionary stock. Her home in early years was at Rock- ville, Connecticut, and she and Doctor Satterlee were married May 26, 1870. Doctor Satterlee is survived by Mrs. Satterlee and by three chil- dren: Mrs. William H. Kennedy of Los Angeles; Mrs. Bert J. Thompson of Forest City, Iowa; and Lloyd Dwight Satterlee of Los Angeles. There are also seven grandchildren.

Mrs. Satterlee is prominently known in Southern California and else- where for her literary ability. She is a member of the League of American Penwomen and of the Southern California Woman's Press Club and has written much for publication in the interests of reforms ; her stories, poems and essays have appeared in various periodicals East and West and a novel, entitled "Love's Equality," published in 1900, won high commendation from leaders of reform. A novel published later, called "The Wonder Girl," is a romance of California. Two plays written especially for the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Daughters of the American Revolution have been enacted on the stage in Los Angeles, and printed copies sold for use in other communities.

GEN. MADISON T. OWENS. Within the present generation there has not arisen in the West a more brilliant lawyer or a finer citizen than Gen. Madison T. Owens, of Whittier. He has been a permanent resident of this community since 1900, and during this time has taken a prominent place in his profession, has rendered capable and faithful service in public office and has established a name and rank for himself in the State Militia

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General Owens was born at Apollo, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1852, a son of Samuel Owens, also a native of Pennsylvania, and a prominent attorney and agriculturist of Iowa, who died at Whittier in 1898, aged eighty-four years. He had retired from farming in Iowa and moved to Whittier about 1887. Mr. Owens was of Welsh descent and came from an illustrious family, his great-grandfather having fought with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular Campaigns in Spain. The mother of General Madison T. Owens, Elizabeth (Townsend) Owens, died in 1902 at Whittier, at the age of seventy-eight years. Her paternal ancestors were with one of the early Holland Dutch colonies that settled at Philadelphia in about 1680. Four members of the Townsend family settled at New York in the early days.

Madison T. Owens received his early education in the public schools, and when he was a lad of thirteen years moved with his parents to a farm near Waterloo, Iowa. He attended the Waterloo High School, following which he entered the State University of Iowa in 1872, where for three years he took a special course in the collegiate department. Afterward, in June, 1878, he graduated from the law department and began the prac- tice of his profession at Waterloo, where he remained for ten years. He served as a member of the City Council of that city, and for five years was attorney for Blackhawk County.

In November, 1887, the elderly couple moved to California to make it their permanent home, and in the year following built a substantial resi- dence at Whittier. Madison T. Owens closed up his business affairs at Waterloo and joined his parents at Whittier February 14, 1888. At that time he opened a law office in Los Angeles, and in 1889 was elected one of the police judges of that city. With the exception of one short inter- ruption he was retained in that office until January 1, 1899. Ten years in this office proved a valuable and wonderful experience, as it was during the formative period, when men of broad vision, courage and faith were laying sound and deep the foundations for what has since proven the greatest metropolis west of the Mississippi, the future promise of which seems to be almost boundless.

Judge Owens re-engaged in the practice of law, and has been a per- manent resident of Whittier since 1900. Since leaving the bench he has taken an active part in political affairs, and for a time was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, a delegate to the State Conven- tion which nominated Hiram Johnson for governor and a delegate to the convention which renominated the governor. Since moving to Whittier he has served as city attorney for several years, but resigned that office to take up his professional work, which embraces a general civil practice and specializing in probate law. He is a member of the Board of Library Trustees of Whittier, and has served as its president since 1905.

General Owens has had an extended and interesting experience in mili- tary affairs. While residing in Iowa he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Sherman, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was afterward given a like appointment on the staff of Governor Larrabee, but resigned his commission when he came to California. On October 7, 1889, he was appointed major and signal officer of the First Brigade, N. G. C., and in May, 1890, organized the Signal Corps of this brigade, of which he was in command for a number of years. Subsequently he was placed on the retired list with General Johnson and his staff, but was later re- assigned to duty as signal officer on the staff of General Last, of the First Brigade, which commission he retained until General Last was retired. During all this time he took an active interest in National Guard affairs, and in 1912 was appointed judge advocate general by Gov. Hiram Johnson, with the rank of colonel. This office he held until February 1, 1916, when, on his own request, he was placed on the retired list, National Guard of California, with the rank of brigadier-general.

General Owens was worshipful master of Waterloo Lodge No. 105, A. F. and A. M., for two terms, in 1885 and 1886, at Waterloo, Iowa, his

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lodge being the largest in the State of Iowa. Since coming to California he has become a member of Los Angeles Commandery No. 9, serving as its eminent commander in 1895 and attending the conclave at Boston that year. He is a member of Al Malaikah Shrine of Los Angeles. Demit- ting from the Blue Lodge at Waterloo, he is now affiliated with Los Angeles Lodge No. 278, A. F. and A. M. He was a charter member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles in 1888, and was its president for two years and a member of its Board of Directors for seven or eight years. He also is a charter member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, for many years a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a member of the National Travel Club of America, a member of the Hacienda Country Club of Whittier, the Los Angeles and American Bar Associations, and the Save its Redwoods League. During the World war General Owens was chief of the Whittier Division of the American Pro- tective League.

BERT R. HOLLOWAY is the proprietor of the Holly Hatchery at Van Nuys, said to be the finest and one of the largest hatcheries in California, specializing in the hatching of White Leghorn chickens. This hatchery does all the hatching for some of the largest poultry ranches in Southern Califor- nia. The industry that Mr. Holloway has built up is located on ten acres of land, and his hatchery buildings occupy 18,000 square feet of floor space. Some idea of the great capacity of his business is shown in some statistics. During the year 1921 the spring hatch amounted to 575,000 chicks, and the fall hatch to 128,000. The next year the spring hatch was 750,000, and the fall 161,000. The work for the year 1923 indicates that the total hatch will be over one million chicks.

Mr. Holloway is a native of Creston, Iowa, and came to California in 1886. For a number of years he was in the employ of an express company, and in 1908, when he married, he began to take stock of a permanent fu- ture for himself and family. He made his first essay in the poultry indus- try in 1909, in an experimental way on his city lot. In the spring of 1910, with borrowed money, he rented a place near Van Nuys, and after many difficulties on account of lack of experience and capital began to see the light of success ahead. During these early years he paid his living expenses by continuing his employ in the express service. In the fall of 1912 he bought a five-acre ranch, and on this land the successive build- ings constituting his poultry establishment have been erected. For several years he was in the poultry business in a general way, primarily for the production of market eggs. The hatching business was started as a sepa- rate department in 1913, and in ten years it has increased to the great volume described in the figures previously mentioned.

Mr. Holloway is first vice president and member of the executive committee of the Poultry Producers of Southern California, which he helped organize, and is also vice president of the Fernando Valley Feed & Fuel Company and is a member of the Agricultural Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.

GEORGE EDWARD MILLIKEN. Los Angeles City and County are not the growth of an impulse, or the result of the discovery of some natural resources, but the legitimate result of the combined efforts of several generations of sturdy, responsible business men who had faith in the locality and energy and industry to work for the future as well as for their own times. One of the men whose name is indissolubly connected with the earlier history of this region is the late George Edward Milliken, father of Mrs. Charles Coulter of Los Angeles, widow of the late Charles Coulter, a member of another pioneer family of the city and county.

George Edward Milliken was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and belonged to old New England stock on both sides of the family, his mother, Anne Head, of Boston, also coming of excellent Colonial extraction. His

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paternal great-grandfather was one of the first to be graduated from Har- vard University, and he subsequently became a resident of the State of Maine, where he lived and died.

Of a somewhat venturesome turn of mind, George Edward Milliken journeyed to California at a very early day, being in the state at the time the first nugget of gold was discovered, but he subsequently returned to the East. He married Louise Blaisdell, of Maine, and they had one daughter, Lillian, now Mrs. Charles Coulter. After a few years' residence in Maine. Mr. Milliken once more made the long trip westward, but under much more comfortable conditions than formerly, arriving in Los Angeles in 1869, and a year later he was joined by his wife and daughter, and this city continued to be his home until his death in 1910. Embarking in the manufacture of ice, he continued in that industry until his retirement many years ago. A man of an inventive turn of mind, he patented three of his devices, one of which was a machine for grading hills. All his life he was a great reader, and he was exceptionally well informed upon a number of subjects. When the Millikens first came to Los Angeles they established their home on Fort Street, south of Franklin, on a very high hill, but Mr. Milliken later purchased the property formerly occupied by the old J. W. Robinson store, and here he erected the residence in which he continued to live until claimed by the Great Reaper.

Lillian Milliken attended the Los Angeles High School and was graduated therefrom in 1873. On June 8, 1923, she, with the other two surviving members of this first class, participated in the mid-centennial celebration of this school. After completing her course in this institution she was a student of Mills Seminary, now Mills College, for a year, and still later she studied music with Antone Seidel.

On May 28, 1875, Lillian Milliken and Charles Coulter were united in marriage. He was manager of the Los Angeles Woolen Mills, owned by him and his father, Rev. B. F. Coulter, mentioned below, and later he became interested in the ice business. Mr. Coulter was educated in Ken- tucky, and accompanied his parents and their other children to Los Angeles. His death occurred in 1888, and he is survived by his widow and their one child, Miss Charlene Coulter.

Rev. B. F. Coulter, another of the representative men of an earlier period in the history of Los Angeles, was born in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1832, and he continued to reside in Kentucky until he was twenty years old. From there he went to Clarksville, Tennessee, and later to Nash- ville, Tennessee, but returned to Clarksville, which city was his home until 1877, with the exception of a year he lived at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1877 Mr. Coulter came west to California, and a year later he opened the immense dry-goods establishment in the Downey Block, corner of Tem- ple and Spring streets, which still bears his name, and is still one of the vital forces in the business life of the city. Several changes in location have taken place since this establishment was founded, but its present home on West Seventh Street is in the heart of the finest retail district, and it is the most beautifully appointed store in the county.

In addition to being a most excellent business man the Rev. Mr. Coulter was a minister of the Christian Church for a quarter of a century, and during the last fifteen years of his life he devoted practically all of his time to his ministerial duties. The handsome church edifice of his denomina- tion on North Broadway was erectetd by him. He and his two sons, Frank and Charles, who were associated with him in his business ventures, have all passed away, but the results of their noble and effective work in behalf of the community and humanity remain, and are influencing the lives of the present generation in no small measure.

HOMER SEWELL is president and general manager of Homer Sewell, Incorporated, at 141 East Ocean Avenue, Long Beach, the real estate organization specializing in oil lands and leases. Mr. Sewell is heavily interested in the oil districts of the Santa Fe Springs and Signal Hill

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History of Los Angeles county, Volume II, Part 74

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