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DAVID WILLIAM HEPBURN, realtor, is a member of the firm Hamlin and Hepburn at Glendale, who have handled and developed some of the most successful subdivisions in this part of California in recent years. They have been partners in this business since November, 1920, and first operated at Owensmouth and since the Spring of 1921 in Glendale.
David William Hepburn is a Scotchman by birth, born at Dunblane, Scotland, January 19, 1894. He was educated in public schools, and in 1911, when seventeen years of age, came to America, first locating at Winnipeg, Canada, where for three years he was employed as a claim clerk by the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1914 he came to Los Angeles, and for three years worked in the Broadway Department Store, and then took the management of the ladies department of the Centura County Co-operative store at Fillmore. After an extensive experience in mer- cantile work he went to Owensmouth and became associated with Mr. Hamlin in the real estate business.
He is a member of the realty board and California Real Estate Asso- ciation, is a member of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce, the Oakmont Country Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Unity Center Church.
March 11, 1915, he married Miss Florence Albertine Landon of Los Angeles. They have two children: David Norman and Robert Edward. Mrs. Hepburn is a native of Rochester, New York, and was educated in the public schools there. She is a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club.
EMORY W. SHAW. In song, story and picture as well as on the prosaic page of history the present generation is told of the romance and facts pertaining to the "Argonauts of '49," but none of these can compare with the intimate annals of that Eastern hegira to the far West as they are preserved in the family records of those who more than seventy years ago crossed the plains in the great covered wagons of that non-traveling day. Perhaps few of his possessions are more carefully treasured by Emory W. Shaw, prominent realtor at Long Beach, than these old records wherein he is given a glimpse of the sturdy character of his late beloved and honored father, who as a youth of nineteen years crossed the country to California in 1849.
Emory W. Shaw is a native son of California. He was born at Selma in Fresno County on March 16, 1887, the youngest in a family of four sons born to Solon B. and Julia A. ( Maze) Shaw. The mother of Mr. Shaw survives and resides at Visalia City, California. She was born in Ken- tucky, and was young when she accompanied her parents to California, the long journey across the plains, with its adventures and dangers, still being easily recalled by her. Her people became farmers in Stanislaus and later in Fresno County, and it was in the former county that she was married to Solon B. Shaw. They became the parents of four sons : Frank S., who is a farmer near Fresno, California; Bert M., who is deceased ; Wil- liam B., who is superintendent of the Burma Oil Company, with head- quarters at Yenanyang, India ; and Emory W., who is the only one of the family residing at Long Beach.
The late Solon B. Shaw was born at Bangor, Maine, in 1830, and died at Visalia City, California, on October 14, 1922, in his ninety-second year. Coming of sturdy stock and intelligently ambitious to see more of the great country in which he was born than afforded by the lumber industries of his native region, he was easily induced to join a caravan preparing to cross the plains to the gold fields of California in the exciting days of 1849. Although his party met with dangers and disasters before the long and weary journey was over, he, being young and vigorous, was one
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who survived to reach the state, and in a comparatively short time acquired 3,000 acres of farming land in Stanislaus County. After his marriage he established his home at what is now Selma, a prosperous California city, but at that time nothing but a bit of wilderness with one building, a station house. He demonstrated his faith in its future by erecting the second house at this point, and it was there that his son, the late Bert M. Shaw, . was born, he being the second child born at Selma.
In many ways Solon B. Shaw was sensible and farseeing. In a country where cattle and stock interests immediately became of vital importance, he recognized the necessity of caring for their ailments in a scientific way, and after preparation and experience, removed to Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County, near the great cattle ranches, and established himself there as a veterinary surgeon, which profession he followed for the succeeding thirty-three years. He retired then to private life, but not to idleness, and for twenty years afterward kept busy and useful as a carpenter and finisher, both at Fresno and Visalia City. He was widely known, professionally and otherwise, and his name belongs on the list of California pioneers. He was of Scotch-English descent, and a large fortune awaiting the Shaw heirs in England was a family tradition in his youth. His uncle, Benjamin Shaw, a resident of the United States but the owner of property on Shaw Street, London, made three journeys to England to investigate the facts, and had secured the necessary sub- stantiating papers when he set sail to return to America on his last voyage, but the ship was wrecked and his life and all the necessary legal papers were lost at sea.
Emory W. Shaw obtained his early educational training in the public schools of Paso Robles, Fowler and Visalia City, supplemented later by travel and years of practical experience in this and other countries. For twelve years he worked in the oil fields at Bakersfield, Taft, Coalingo, McKettrick and Los Angeles, then went to India, where his brother is officially connected with the Burma Oil Company, and was employed there for three and a half years, and upon his return engaged in business at Ventura, California, for a short time. In 1922 he came to Long Beach and at first was associated with the Val Lester organization in the real estate business, but on February 15, 1923, opened his own office at 232 East Fourth Street, and has built up a large and lucrative connection, handling real estate, investments, exchanges, insurance and loans. He has the handling of some of the finest properties in the city, and is the exclusive selling agent for the magnificent modern apartment building, The Chester- field. This splendid structure stands on the southwest corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, Long Beach, and contains fifty-four apartments, offered for sale on the modern plan of home ownership. It is doubtful if any other apartment building in Long Beach can in any way equal it in the comfort or luxury of appointments.
Mr. Shaw married at Hanford, California, on December 18, 1910, Miss Dora A. Ashworth, of Visalia City. Mrs. Shaw was born in Missouri and is a daughter of a prominent farmer of Tulare County, California, Benjamin Ashworth, who came to California with his family in Mrs. Shaw's childhood, and she was educated at Visalia City.
Mr. Shaw is one of the leading members of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and is active in all public movements that are making Long Beach so well and favorably known to every part of the country and in other lands. Few tourists now coming to California are satisfied to leave without making a short stay at least in this altogether delightful city. He is very active as a member of the California Realty Board, and with true California hospitality is ever ready to extend a welcome to members of his guild from other points. For eighteen years he has been a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, and belongs to the Yacht Club of Wilmington and to other social organizations at Long Beach. In political life he is identified with the democratic party.
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BION SMITH WARNER, D. O., is a prominent younger member of pro- fessional circles in Glendale, now practicing as an osteopathic physician, and is an ex-service man.
He was born at Lawtons, New York, and was educated there in the public schools and attended a commercial school in Buffalo, New York. After finishing his education he was associated with his father in the well drilling business for two years.
Doctor Warner came to California in September, 1917, and soon after- ward entered upon his studies in the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons at Los Angeles. He graduated with the class of 1921, and soon afterward established himself at Glendale, where he has achieved great success. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association and the Physicians' Club of Glendale, and belonged to the College Society Atlas Club. He is president of the local Modern Woodmen of America.
Doctor Warner is also affiliated with the Glendale Post of the American Legion. He enlisted as a private in the Aviation Corps in 1918, and served until honorably discharged in November of that year after the signing of the armistice. Doctor Warner is a member of the Congregational Church.
Mrs. Warner is an artist and one of the talented women of her profes- sion in Southern California. Her maiden name was Miss Nell Walker, and they were married September 18, 1920. She was born in Kansas, was educated in public schools and attended college at Lexington, Missouri, and remained in the College as a teacher of art for one year. She first lived in San Diego, California, where for two or three years she followed commercial art, and then became a painter of art titles for the motion picture studios. She worked in Brunton's Studios and later had a studio of her own at Hollywood. Some of her work as an artist was done for the motion pictures "Silent Call," Mary Pickford's "Heart of the Hills" and "One Man in a Million." She is a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Glendale, and belongs to the Kappa Psi Delta Sorority.
JAMES A. BELYEA, M. D. A specialist in nervous and mental diseases Doctor Belyea has achieved distinction both in the East and West. Ile has practiced at Glendale since 1921, with offices in the Central Building on East Broadway.
Doctor Belyea, who did much valuable work for the army during the World war, both in home camps and overseas, was born at Saginaw, Michi- gan, August 6, 1881. He attended public schools there, the Michigan Agri- cultural College at Lansing, and graduated Doctor of Medicine from Detroit College of Medicine in 1905. For one year he was an interne in St. Eliza- beth's Hospital at Toledo, Ohio, and then established the Toledo Sana- torium, in which he is still financially interested. Doctor Belyea came to Glendale in 1921, and in Southern California has limited his practice to nervous and mental diseases.
In his special field he has had an exceptional range of experience. He did post-graduate work in the Hospital for Insane at Washington, D. C., and the Michigan State Psychopathic .Hospital at the University of Michi- gan. In May, 1917, he enlisted in the Medical Corps, being commissioned first lieutenant, and a month later was promoted to captain. He was stationed at ten different camps and cantonments and was overseas thirteen months, and while there established clinics in nine hospitals. He received his honorable discharge from the army July 31, 1919. Doctor Belyea conducted examinations of thousands of enlisted men during the war.
He is a member of the Glendale Physicians' Club, is a member of the American Medical Association, belongs to the Michigan State Medical Association, the Los Angeles Society for Neurology and Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, Eagles and Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce at Glendale, and is a charter member and chairman of the membership committee of the Exchange Club. He is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
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Doctor Belyea married Miss Florence Buckley of Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, on October 24, 1921. She was born in Philadelphia, and was educated in the public schools of that city and the University of Michigan. She is an active member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Glendale.
ROBERT B. GRUBBS, M. D. Among the men devoted to the science of healing in Los Angeles County, few bring to bear upon their profession greater gifts of ability, scholarship and enthusiasm, as well as resource and devotion to professional ethics, than Dr. Robert B. Grubbs, of Santa Monica. Instead of selecting his calling in the untried fervor of extreme youth, the choice of this genial practitioner was that of a mature mind, trained to thoughtfulness in other avenues of endeavor and to full realiza- tion of the responsibilities and possibilities which confronted him. His experience has been a broad one and his training hard and thorough.
Doctor Grubbs was born April 9, 1872, in King and Queen County, Virginia, a son of Alexander Campbell and Virginia Boyd (Bland) Grubbs. He is a decendant on his father's side of Daniel Boone of Kentucky and on his mother's side of the Blands of Virginia. His father, a native of Kentucky, was educated in the public schools of his native state, at the Southern Medical College, Richmond, Virginia, and in the medical depart- ment of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began practice in Virginia, where he passed his entire career, and won a high place in the ranks of his profession and in the confidence of a large clientele. Both he and Mrs. Grubbs are deceased.
Robert B. Grubbs attended the public schools of King and Queen County, Virginia, following which he pursued a course at Aberdeen Acad- emy in his native state. He next received instruction at William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia, after which he secured a business train- ing at the Richmond Commercial College. When he entered upon his independent career it was as an employe of the Richmond & Danville Rail- way Company, with which he was identified until 1890, when he entered the service of the United States Government, and for ten years was the incumbent of various positions with the Department of Agriculture, the United States Weather Bureau and the Department of War. When he left the latter he entered Columbia University, Washington, D. C., and after a course in the medical department was graduated with the class of 1899, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Doctor Grubbs embarked in practice in the District of Columbia, where he remained one year, at the same time taking special courses, and then accepted a commission as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army June 19, 1900. In March, 1901, having taken the examination and passed it suc- cessfully, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps, and served through three periods of two years each in the Philippine Islands. He was promoted successively to captain and major and was retired as lieutenant-colonel September 22, 1917, on account of disability incurred in the line of duty. However, he continued in active service at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., during the World war, and was relieved March 1, 1919. Doctor Grubbs has made the circuit of the world, via the Philippines, India, Egypt, Italy, France, England and other continental countries, and his decision to settle in Los Angeles County was reached after such a trip lasting several months, in which he and Mrs. Grubbs visited the most noted spots in the world. He is strongly of the opinion that the garden spot of the world is located here. In January, 1920, he came to California, and on April 7 of that year com- menced the general practice of medicine and surgery at Santa Monica, making his home in Brentwood Park, West Los Angeles. He has a select practice, and is justly accounted one of the leaders of the Los Angeles County profession. Doctor Grubbs is a member of the California State Medical Society and is at present (1923) chairman of the Santa Monica Branch of the Los Angeles County Medical Society. He is also a
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member of the American Medical Association, likewise belongs to the Santa Monica and Ocean Park Chamber of Commerce, the Union League Club, the Brentwood Country Club and Bay Cities Post No. 123, American Legion. His Masonic affiliations are: Centreville Lodge No. 80, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Shacklefords, Virginia; El Paso Con- sistory No. 3, of El Paso, Texas ; and Al Malaikah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Los Angeles.
On September 17, 1903, Doctor Grubbs was united in marriage with Miss Alice Maude Egan, daughter of Charles W. and Eunice S. (Hitch- cock) Egan, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Grubbs was born in Steuben County, New York, and was educated in the schools of Washington, D. C. A woman of marked intellectual attainments, she has taken a keen interest in local affairs and is an active member of the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club and the secretary of the Brentwood Park Welfare Association. The pleasant and attractive home of Doctor and Mrs. Grubbs is located at Hanover Street and Burlingame Avenue, Brentwood Park, West Los Angeles.
EDMUND T. REMMEN, M. D., is a graduate of medicine with a thorough practical as well as a theoretical training, and is one of the most successful of the younger physicians and surgeons now engaged in their profession at Glendale.
Doctor Remmen was born in Valley City, North Dakota, April 26, 1896. He was reared there, attended public school, and graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1919. In the meantime he served as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, enlisting January 8, 1918, and received his honorable discharge December 18, of the same year. Doctor Remmen took the regular medical course in Rush Medical College, in the medical department of the University of Chicago, and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1922. He had three months of practical work in the St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, and after coming to California spent one year as an interne in the Los Angeles County Hospital. He is now engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery at Glendale.
Doctor Remmen is a member of the Physicians' Club, belongs to the American Legion Post and the Masonic Order and Modern Woodmen of America. His college fraternities are the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Kappa Kappa Medical fraternity.
September 26, 1919, Doctor Remmen married Miss Hazel Electa Rowan of Grand Forks, North Dakota. She was born in Minneapolis, and attended school at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mrs. Remmen is a member of the Glendale Tuesday Afternoon Club.
EDWARD SWIFT, M. D. After graduating and finishing his training in New York, Doctor Swift came to Los Angeles, and has earned his reputation by thorough and skillful work both in general practice and in surgery. He went into the Army Medical Corps from Los Angeles, and since his return has been engaged in practice at Glendale.
Doctor Swift was born at Bayoune, New Jersey, August 18, 1888. He attended public schools at Brooklyn, New York, the Trinity School in New York City, and graduated in medicine from Columbia University in 1910. For a year he was an interne in the Roosevelt Hospital, and then removed to Los Angeles and engaged in practice as a surgeon.
Doctor Swift was commissioned first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in June, 1917. For ten months he performed his duties at Camp Kearney, and then went overseas, spending eleven months abroad with the 159th Infantry Regiment, attached to the Fourth British Army. In March, 1918, Doctor Swift was promoted to captain and continued in service until receiving his honorable discharge on May 7, 1919.
Doctor Swift located at Glendale in June, 1920, and while in general practice he specializes in surgery. He is a member of Glendale Post No. 127, of the American Legion, belongs to the Nu Sigma Nu Medical
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Fraternity, the College Social Fraternity Sigma Chi and the American Medical Association.
COAST RADIO, INCORPORATED. This concern represents a recent and important addition to the industrial and commercial interests of Los Angeles County, and has its headquarters in the City of El Monte. As a closed corporation it received in May, 1922, its corporate charter from the State of California, and its corps of executive officers is as here noted: G. S. Corpe, president ; C. R. Parker, vice president ; and T. L. Corpe, secretary and treasurer. The Coast Radio is incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, and has from the General Bakelite Company, of New York, its license for the moulding of Bakelite products, there being but three other productive plants of the kind on the Pacific Coast. The Coast Radio has instituted active operations in the manufacturing of Bakelite products, the basic material being of remarkable efficiency in constituting electrical insulation, the product being virtually indestructible, and new and widely diversified uses for the same being developed almost daily. The Coast Radio has its plant admirably equipped for the manufacturing of all man- ner of Bakelite products, from toys to the finest mechanism used in radio service. The corporation manufactures also its own dies, jigs and moulds, and the entire productive enterprise is concentrated in the well equipped manufactory at El Monte. The trade of the concern is extended from Denver, Colorado, to Honolulu, and from Vancouver, British Columbia, to and including Mexico. The broadcasting radio station maintained by this corporation at El Monte is one of powerful scope and most modern type, its operation proving a splendid medium of exploitive advertising for El Monte, one of the historic towns of Southern California. El Monte figures as the terminus of the old Santa Fe trail, and in the pioneer days the weary ox teams were here loosed from their cumbersome loads after many months of desert and mountain travel. El Monte is again brought into prominence through the installation of the plant and station of the Coast Radio, and its old-time prestige as a trail's end is now being trans- cended by the fame which it is gaining in connection with the marvelous development of radio science.
The three young and progressive men who have given to El Monte the Coast Radio industry have here evinced the same fine pioneering exspirito that animated those who came to this point in the days when this section was on the very frontier of civilization, and their enterprise is contributing greatly to the civic and material advancement and reputation of El Monte. The Coast Radio corporation manufacturers for the entire Pacific Coast trade the new radio frequency amplifier patented by Dr. John M. Miller, of the United States Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., this remark- able device covering all wave-lengths used in radio transmission. The broadcasting radio-phone station operated by the company at El Monte activates under Government license, with call letter K U Y, and its radio- utterances are to be heard from Mexico to Canada and as far east as Denver. The property on which is established the plant of the Coast Radio, Incorporated, was owned for many years by Hon. A. Quinn, who settled at El Monte about the year 1867 and who later served as a member of the California Senate. Senator Quinn brought here from Sacramento three eucalyptus sprigs or sprouts, which were carried in the pocket of his overcoat, and the tree which he planted on the property at El Monte is now 137 feet in height and supports one end of the huge antennae wires of the Coast Radio broadcasting station.
GRANVILLE PRENTISS TAYLOR. As actor and playwright both in America and in Europe he was known as Taylor Granville. It was the fortune of Los Angeles to claim him as a resident during his last days His entire life was devoted to the profession he chose in early youth. He died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Charles M. Walworth, at 2014 Grace Avenue in Hollywood.
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He was born in Chicago, son of William G. and Mary Elizabeth (Cheney ) Taylor. His mother is a daughter of Dr. Lucian Prentiss Cheney, a famous Chicago physician and surgeon and at one time city physician of Chicago. Mrs. Walworth's grandfather was a surgeon at the battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812.
As a boy Granville Taylor lived a neighbor to Eugene Field in Chicago. They became great chums and it was through the encouragement of Eugene Field and the great faith of that famous poet in the boy's abilities, that the latter became interested in the stage and made it his life work. He was fifty years of age when he died, and for thirty years he had been not only a player on the legitimate stage but a playwright and frequently starred in his own productions. His last work was writing the prologue for "The Covered Wagon," and by a same coincidence Emerson Hough, author of this epic died only a few days after Mr. Taylor, and both of the same trouble, tumor of the stomach.
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