History of Los Angeles county, Volume III, Part 18

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 844

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The proprietor of the Hubb Health Institute is Oscar A. Hubb, D. O., D. C., Ph. C., a man of thorough and comprehensive training and much experience. He was born at Watertown, Wisconsin, July 4, 1887, and received his early education in the public schools of his native place. He then entered the Still College of Osteopathy at Des Moines, Iowa, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of July, 1907, receiving the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy, and began the practice of his calling at Milwaukee. He remained in that city, building up a large and lucrative

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professional business, until 1919, when he came to Santa Monica, and for a time was engaged in the practice of osteopathy exclusively. Subsequently he entered the Eclectic College of Chiropractic of Los Angeles and was graduated with the class of 1921, receiving the degrees of D. C. and Ph. C. Upon graduation he founded the Hubb Health Institute, of which he has since been proprietor. This institution, located at 109 Utah Avenue, Santa Monica, includes four rooms, and furnishes to its patrons the use of electric cabinet baths, shower baths, massage and adjustments of the spine, and also maintains a high voltage electric machine for special work. The motto of the establishment is: "Health is Your Greatest Asset." Since coming to Santa Monica Doctor Hubb has made numerous friendly con- nections, both professional and otherwise. He devotes the greater part of his time and attention to his health institute, but is socially inclined and belongs to several social and fraternal organizations. Dr. Hubb is a mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 906 of Santa Mon- ica and is physical instructor for the lodge. He is also a member of the Fra- ternal Order of Orioles, Santa Monica Bay Nest No.112, and a member of the Greek Letter College Fraternity A. N. A. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the California State Chiropractic Society.

SHERWOOD KINNEY. California has no need to seek far afield for capable, high-minded young business men. This is the type that belongs here as native sons, and through their achievements in whatever field they may be called to serve reflect honor upon themselves and their communities. Los Angeles County counts the Abbot Kinney Company of Venice, Cali- fornia, as one of its important business concerns, and its efficient secretary, Sherwood Kinney, is one of this city's representative men.

Sherwood Kinney was born at Santa Monica, California, January 23, 1891, and is a son of Abbot Kinney, long prominent in business life in Los Angeles County. After completing the public school course Mr. Kinney attended the Harvard Military School and Throop Polytechnic at Pasadena. His business experience began with the Abbot Kinney Company at Venice, where he was one of the department managers for two years, then helped to organize the Peoples Drug Company, with which he was associated for the following two years, returning then for a year to the Abbot Kinney Company. Mr. Kinney was then made president and manager of the Venice American Water Company, with which he continued until the outbreak of the World war. Like many another patriotic young man at that time, he put aside his personal interests and entered the army, but after serving three months in an infantry regiment he was transferred to the Spruce Produc- tion Department, in which he served for thirteen months, and when he received his honorable discharge it was as master electrician in the Signal Air Service.

After his return to civil life Mr. Kinney engaged in the stock business for almost a year, specializing in pig feeding and cattle brokerage, and then returned to the Abbot Kinney Company as secretary of the corporation. He is an active factor in the Venice Chamber of Commerce and hearty in his support of every worthy local enterprise.

Mr. Kinney married, February 26, 1913, Miss Lois Eleanor Wilson, who was born at San Diego, California, a daughter of Warren Wilson, now of Los Angeles, and was educated in private schools. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney have two sons : Abbot and Jack Sherwood. Mr. Kinney is active in political life only to the extent of good citizenship. He is a member of the American Legion and belongs also to the Los Angeles City Club.

CARLETON KINNEY is a prominent young business man at Venice, vice president of the Abbot Kinney Company.

He is a son of Abbot Kinney, and was born at Santa Monica, California, August 18, 1895. Mr. Kinney was liberally and technically educated, at- tending public schools in Venice, the Santa Monica High School, the California Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo, and took the civil engineering course in Leland Stanford University and later in the Uni-

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versity of California. After his university course Mr. Kinney purchased and managed for one year an almond orchard at Paso Robles, California. Then, in 1921, he became actively associated with the Abbot Kinney Com- pany of Venice, as vice president and superintendent of construction and maintenance.

Mr. Kinney is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Stanford University. On June 21, 1921, he married Miss Melanie Randle, daughter of Albarta Randle, of Louisiana. Mrs. Kinney was born in Louisiana, and finished her education at St. Marys, Tennessee.

COLONEL OLIVER K. MARSHALL is governor of the Pacific Branch National Soldiers Home at Sawtelle, Los Angeles County.

Colonel Marshall was born at Sevierville, Tennessee, on the 11th of July, 1879, and is of an old and honored Southern family. He is a son of Amos T. and Mary (Wynn) Marshall, both likewise natives of Ten- nessee, where the former was born at Middle Creek and the latter at Pigeon Forge. The parents still reside at Sevierville, where the father has long been a banker and influential citizen, he having given many years of effective service as a county official. Amos T. Marshall is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In the public schools of his native state Colonel Marshall acquired his preliminary education, which was supplemented by a course in Murphy College, Tennessee. In 1901 he enlisted in the United States Navy, and at the expiration of his four years' term of service he was honorably dis- charged, with the rank of chief yeoman. In August, 1906, Colonel Mar- shall entered the National Soldiers Home service, in the office of the treasurer of the Mountain Branch at Johnson City, Tennessee. On November 10, 1911, he was appointed treasurer of this home, an office of which he continued the incumbent until July 1, 1915, when the Govern- ment conferred upon him appointment to the office of assistant inspec- tor general of the National Soldiers Homes. He retained this office until August 20, 1917, when he was called into active service in the United States Army. He served as supply officer and constructing quartermaster until April 5, 1919, when he was discharged to the reserves, he having been identified with the activities of the United States Army through practically the entire period of the nation's participation in the World war. After receiving his honorable discharge Colonel Marshall resumed his service as assistant inspector general of the National Soldiers Homes, and so served until February 1, 1921, when he was appointed to his present post, that of governor of the Pacific Branch, National Soldiers Home at Sawtelle, Cali- fornia, this being the largest of the ten branches of the National Home.

On the 18th of June, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Marshall and Miss Carrie Dempsey, who was born and reared at Johnson City, Tennessee, and the three children of this union are Virginia, Oliver K., Jr., and Evelyn.

CLINTON A. MATTESON. Already broadened by years of business experience in other sections, Clinton A. Matteson, realtor and president of the Whittier District Realty Board, came to Whittier in 1906, and has been an important factor in the development of this city, in which he occupies a leading place in its business and general community affairs.

Mr. Matteson was born at Middlebury, Vermont, April 17, 1869, a son of Elias H. and Emily (Lewis) Matteson, both of whom are deceased. Elias H. Matteson was of English descent and Revolutionary stock, a native of Vermont and prominent in political life, serving two terms in the Vermont Legislature. For twenty years he was concerned with lum- bering in his native state, then moved to Iowa, and passed the rest of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Emily Lewis, born also in Vermont, and connected by kinship with such old, Colonial pre-Revolu- tionary war families as the Hotchkiss and Hitchcocks.

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Clinton A. Matteson attended the public schools at Middlebury and afterward had high school privileges in Iowa. The first independent work he ever did away from home was when he engaged with a St. Louis firm as an advertising specialist, in which he continued for two years. Removing then to Chicago, he went into the hotel, restaurant and bakery business, conducting several stores at once, his system being to fit them up and get them well started and then dispose of them. He continued in business in Chicago for nine years, then sold his interests there and went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was engaged in the hotel and restaurant business for the next three years. During 1896-7-8-9 he was manager of the Bullock Hotel at Deadwood, South Dakota, a hostelry made famous because it had, on occasion, been the headquarters of the late Colonel Roosevelt, and follow- ing this for one season, had charge of the Lake Manawa resort for the Omaha & Council Bluffs Suburban Railway Company.

All tourists through the West and Southwest know of the Fred Harvey eating houses, and Mr. Matteson became manager first at Gallup, New Mexico, and then at Winslow, Arizona. In 1901 he came to Los Angeles as manager of the Loma Linda Hotel, near Redlands, which he conducted for a season and then engaged in the produce business in the old Hughes market on Ninth Street, Los Angeles. In 1906 he came to Whittier as an officer in the State School, but in a short time went into business for him- self, starting the Music, Arts and Crafts Shop, and for two years served also as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. About this time he became associated with the Ellis and White Chautauqua system of Portland, Oregon, starting in as an agent, and when he retired three years later, was manager of the seven-day circuit.

In 1918 Mr. Matteson again embarked in the real estate business, open- ing a conveniently located office on East Philadelphia Street, Whittier, and since then has done a large amount of business in real estate, fire insurance and loans, and has owned and disposed of several citrus groves. He is largely interested in oil property, and following the strike of the Bell well he sold the first acreage from the original Foix property to ten Whittier people. This is now producing between 1500 and 1800 barrels per day and is in the course of further development. Mr. Matteson was active in the organization of the Whittier District Realty Board, of which he now presi- dent, and is a member of the California Real Estate Association and the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Mr. Matteson married in Iowa, on February 2, 1887, Miss Martha Daley, a daughter of John Daley, for many years an engineer with the Rock Island system. Mr. and Mrs. Matteson have two daughters: Gladys, who is the wife of Robert Robbins, proprietor of the Robbins Pharmacy at Whittier; and Marguerite, who resides at home: Mr. Matteson and his family are members of St. Mathias Episcopal Church, and has served as junior and senior warden and as vestryman. In his political views he is a republican. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Rotary and Forum Clubs, and a director of the Hacienda Country Club, which was organized in his office. He is a member of the Republican State Central Committee.

GEORGE HART has been for nearly fifteen years prominently identified with business interests in the City of Santa Monica, where he is now the executive head of the firm of George Hart & Sons, dealers in grain, feed, fuel, seeds, plants, garden tools, supplies, etc. The large and well equipped warehouse of the firm is at the corner of Eighth and Colorado streets, and is used primarily for the storage of grain, hay, fertilizers, etc. In connec- tion is maintained a gasolene and automobile-tire service station. This warehouse is situated on a lot 100 by 110 feet in dimensions, and affords 2,700 square feet of floor space. The main store of the firm is at 1434 Third Street, with a floor space of 1,600 square feet, and a rear lot is utilized by the concern for the accommodation of its nursery stock. The firm re- tains eight employes, and its business is of both wholesale and retail order,

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with an appreciable mail-order trade in cut flowers. The firm packs its seeds under its own name, and has the best of facilities for the grinding of feed, including the "N. R. G. Poultry Food." An interesting depart- ment is devoted to the sale of Roller canaries and the finest types and varie- ties of goldfish. The business was founded by James M. Kennedy, and after his purchase of the same, in 1908, Mr. Hart conducted the business under his own name until February, 1922, when he admitted his sons Russell K., Harold W. and Revilo S. to partnership, whereupon the present firm title of George Hart & Sons was adopted.

George Hart was born in McLean County, Illinois, December 15, 1870, and is a son of Abram and Lydia (Wald) Hart. After profiting by the advantages of the public schools Mr. Hart was employed five years as clerk in a general store at Arrowsmith, Illinois, and for the ensuing four years he was there engaged in the implement business. In 1900 he came to Los Angeles County, California, and for four years he gave his attention to the care of his orange grove at Pomona. In 1904 he established his resi- dence at Santa Monica, where his activities were in connection with the laundry business until 1908. He then purchased the business of which he is now the head. He is a member of the Board of Education of his home city, is superintendent of the Sunday School of the local Presbyterian Church, and is actively identified with the Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Santa Monica Club and the Kiwanis Club. He is one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Santa Monica and has here found opportunity for achieving substantial success in connection with normal lines of business enterprise. His wife is teacher of the Woman's Bible Class in the Presby- terian Sunday School, and is a popular member of the Wednesday After- noon Literary Club. She was born at Padua, Illinois, and her early edu- cation included a course in one of the state normal schools of that great com- monwealth. Of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Hart the first born, Lois is deceased, and the other four are married and reside in Santa Monica, the three sons, whose names have already been noted in this context, being associated with their father in business, and the youngest of the children being a daughter, Miriam.

ALBERT STANLEY has made a record of progressive and successful achievement in the handling of real estate in the Venice District of Los Angeles County, and the vital and attractive little City of Venice finds him here the executive head of the Stanley Realty Company, 48 Westminster Avenue. Mr. Stanley has developed a substantial and important business in the handling of city and suburban realty and has had charge of the development of two of the leading sub-divisions of Venice. He has been engaged in business at Venice since the year 1913, and his enterprise in- cludes the extending of financial loans on approved real estate security and the representing of nineteen insurance companies along all lines. In con- nection with his operations he retains an efficient corps of seven employes.

Mr. Stanley was born in the City of Macon, Georgia, on the 19th of April, 1880, and there he was afforded the advantages of the public . schools. In 1900 he was graduated from the University of Georgia, with the degree of Electrical Engineer, and in the profession for which he had thus fitted himself he did successful work in his native state until 1908, when he came to California and took the position of manager of the Home Telephone Company at Santa Monica. He retained this position seven years, and then retired to engage independently in the real estate business, of which he has become a prominent and successful represen- tative in Los Angeles County. He is the owner of valuable real estate in the county, including the Kensington Court Building in the City of Santa Monica. Mr. Stanley is an active and valued member of the Venice Chamber of Commerce and the local Realty Board, as well as of the Greater Santa Monica Club, the Kiwanis Club and the Venice lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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May 20, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stanley and Miss Estelle Michelson, who was born in the City of Chicago, Illinois, but reared and educated at Atlanta, Georgia, where her marriage was solemnized. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have two children : Max and Albert, Jr.

THE GOLDEN STATE PLANT & FLORAL COMPANY, of Santa Monica, stands well to the front as one of the representative concerns of its kind in Los Angeles County, and has developed a large and prosperous business through effective service based on scientific methods of floriculture and upon fair and honorable dealings. This business was founded in May, 1903, by Carl Shader and Victor E. Hatheway, and eventually removal was made from the modest little establishment in Santa Monica to the present fine plant at 2029 Santa Monica Boulevard, where the company has a well improved tract of five acres, the modern greenhouses having a glass area of 2,000 square feet and the general equipment throughout being of the best modern standard. Here are propagated all kinds of flowering plants, as well as foliage plants, shrubbery, etc., the conservatories and grounds showing plants from all quarters of the earth. Here have been developed several original types of plants, the "Snow White" coprosma from this establishment being a most beautiful product and having gained wide fame. The business, in connection with which is retained a corps of six employes, is of both wholesale and retail order, and from these conserva- tories shipments have been made to virtually all parts of the United States.

The Golden State Plant & Floral Company is incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, and its executive officers are as here designated : Carl Shader, president ; Victor E. Hatheway, vice president; and W. E. Elliott, secretary.

Victor E. Hatheway, who was one of the founders of this flourish- ing enterprise and has played a large part in its upbuilding, was born in Monroe County, Wisconsin, October 5, 1860, and is a son of the late George and Deborah (Griffin) Hatheway, the former a native of England and the latter of the State of Massachusetts. After coming to the United States George Hatheway engaged in farm enterprise in Wisconsin as one of the pioneers of Monroe County, and in the fine old Badger State he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths.

The public schools of Wisconsin afforded Victor E. Hatheway his youthful education, and there also he gained a full quota of experience in connection with the work of the home farm. At the age of sixteen years he left the farm and became a student in the public schools at Waukesha, where he continued his studies until he was twenty years of age. He then went to Denver, Colorado, and after there clerking a short time in a mercantile establishment he made the overland trip to Durango, that state, in which locality he was engaged in farm work a short time. Thereafter he served as a scout in connection with an uprising of the Piute Indians, and in the year 1887, at the age of twenty-six, he came to Santa Monica, Cali- fornia, where he engaged in the fruit and produce business until he became associated in the founding of the enterprise now conducted by the Golden State Plant & Floral Company, of which he is now the vice president, with secure status as one of the representative business men and popular and progressive citizens of the Santa Monica District, where he has no minor share of pioneer honors.

HON. SAMUEL LUDWELL BERKLEY. Unversally recognized as a man of sound business ability, marked executive capacity, constructive and progressive ideas and clear-headed judgment in civic matters of impor- tance, Hon. Samuel Ludwell Berkley has discharged the duties and re- sponsibilities of the office of mayor of Santa Monica since 1916 in a manner that has gained the confidence and commendation of the people of this community. For many years he was engaged in business ventures, here and elsewhere, and in each community in which he resided his business

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record has been an open book and his status as a public-spirited citizen has never been questioned.

Mr. Berkley was born on the Muskingum River, at Lowell, Wash- ington County, Ohio, March 30, 1864, and is a son of Thomas Jefferson and Nancy (DeLong) Berkley. Thomas Jefferson Berkley was born near Winchester, Virginia, where in young manhood he learned the trade of miller, which he followed as an employe and as an owner at Winchester for several years. Later he went to Lowell, Ohio, where he continued in the same line of business, and subsequently to Woodbine, Iowa, which was his home and center of business activities until his death, about the year 1892. He was a man of high principles and unquestioned integrity, and had the faith and esteem of those with whom he associated and with whom he came into contact. Mrs. Berkley, who was born in Pennsylvania, passed away at Tacoma, Washington, in 1920, at the age of eighty-eight years. They were life long and consistent members of the Baptist Church.

Samuel L. Berkley was a child when taken by his parents to Virginia, where he acquired his primary education, subsequently going to Iowa, where he completed his training in the public schools. His first employ- ment was as a clerk at Woodbine, in a general store, and when he entered upon his independent career it was as the proprietor of a pharmacy at Woodbine. In 1906 Mr. Berkley disposed of his holdings and interests at Woodbine and came to California, first locating at Fresno, where he re- mained only a few months. In the same year he settled permanently at Santa Monica, which has since been his home. At the time of his arrival he established himself in the drug business, to which he gave his attention until selling out in 1918. He made a success of his business ventures and established an excellent reputation in business circles.

Always interested in civic matters, when he located at Santa Monica Mr. Berkley began to identify himself with movements looking toward the public welfare and advancement of the place of his adoption. His activities in this direction soon drew attention to his abilites, and he was elected alder- man from the Sixth Ward and served in the Council for one term. In 1915 he became the candidate of his party for the mayoralty, to which, he was duly elected, taking office January 1, 1916. He has since occupied the chief's executive post and has given the city a clean, energetic and business- like administration, which has been characterized by numerous civic im- provements. Mayor Berkley is a member of the Baptist Church, in which he is serving as treasurer and deacon. He belongs to the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Santa Monica Club and the Union League Club of Los Angeles, and has several fraternal connections.

On April 26, 1888, Mayor Berkley was united in marriage with Miss Ruby Alice Kling, a daughter of Jacob and Emily ( Bliss) Kling, of Adams, Walworth County, Wisconsin, and to this union there have been born three children: Hugh Kling, of Los Angeles, who has one son, Hugh West- brook; Laurence J., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who is the father of two children, John and Elizabeth; and Robert DeLong, who is a student at Red- lands University. Mrs. Berkley was born at Adams, Walworth County, Wisconsin, where she received her education in the public schools. She is an active member of the Baptist Church and of the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, and a woman of numerous graces and accomplishments.

MRS. BELLE F. BELL has been for forty years a resident of the Whittier District of Los Angeles County, and for more than half of this period she has here had active charge of her farm property. She has proved not only a business woman of exceptional ability, but also has the gracious person- ality that invariably makes for popularity in social life, the result being that she has a host of friends in the state that has represented her home since her girlhood. She was born in Texas, a daughter of William Gillespie, and was about nine years old when she accompanied her parents to Cali- fornia, her father, a mechanic by vocation, having resided for varying

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History of Los Angeles county, Volume III, Part 18

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944 Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Number of Pages: 844

Author: McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Publication date: 1923
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 844