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Miss Brown took up her duties at Long Beach in April, 1914. She was secretary and treasurer of the League of Library Commissions in 1912-13. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Congregational Church.
In the spring of 1923, after a year's leave of absence, Miss Brown resigned her position in Long Beach to take up bibliographical work in New York City. She is preparing a series of book-lists for libraries, and also establishing a center for supplying lists compiled by libraries. Her address is: Office of "Lantern Lists," Care of H. W. Wilson Co., New York City.
RAY MEACHAM has a large general practice as an attorney at Long Beach, and began his professional career there soon after leaving the army. He was a young officer in the Artillery Corps during most of the war period.
Mr. Meacham was born at Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 13, 1892,
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son of B. N. and Hattie (Ray) Meacham. His parents were born in Minneapolis, his father was a Minnesota farmer, and they came to Long Beach, California, direct from Minneapolis, in 1905, and still live here. His father in recent years has been identified with the oil development around Long Beach.
Only child of the family, Ray Meacham, spent the first thirteen years of his life in Minnesota, attended public school there, graduated in 1912 from the Long Beach High School, and continued his education in Leland Stanford University and the law department of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.
He left law school to join a local company, and enlisted in the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort McArthur, July 19, 1917. For a time he was on guard duty at San Luis Obispo, protecting the oil fields and plants. He attended the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Monroe, was commis- sioned as second lieutenant of Coast Artillery Corps July 15, 1918, and was assigned to the staff of the commander of Coast Defenses of Los Angeles as assistant personnel officer, and later detailed as Judge Advocate General Court Martial. He received his honorable discharge June 5, 1919.
Mr. Meacham was admitted to the California bar February 26, 1919, and was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts on the fourth of March the same year. His work has brought him rapidly increasing prominence in the law, since he began practice at Long Beach on June 15, 1919. Mr. Meacham is a republican, is active in local party affairs, being a mem- ber of both the County Central and State Central Committees of the Republican Party, is a member of Long Beach Lodge No. 888, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Long Beach Homestead of the Brotherhood of American Yeoman, the Alpha Delta Phi, the Union League Club of Los Angeles, and Long Beach and California Bar associations.
At Long Beach, December 31, 1918, he married Miss Celia Blair of Minneapolis, where she was born and educated. Mrs. Meacham is an active member of the Ebell Club of Long Beach. Their home is at 113 West 7th Street.
HENRY W. EMERY was one of the venerable and revered citizens of Los Angeles at the time of his death, which occurred June 10, 1921. Though he was eighty-eight years of age he had retained remarkable mental and physical vigor, and he had been in ill health only a few weeks prior to his demise.
A scion of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial period of our national history, Mr. Emery was born at China, Maine, on September 12, 1832. His father, a sea captain, was lost at sea when the son Henry Warren Emery was a child, the widowed mother having been left with a family of seven children and having later contracted a second marriage. The subject of this memoir gained his early education in the common schools of the old Pine Tree State and as a boy began to depend largely upon his own resources. He studied photography and became a skilled workman at the art. In the period of the Civil war he was of too delicate health to be eligible for military service, and under these conditions he fitted up a wagon with the necessary accessories and with the same traveled about and took daguerreotypes of the soldiers, these pictures having been sent home and having been cherished by the families of the gallant soldier boys. By this enterprise Mr. Emery reaped substantial financial rewards.
In the City of Chicago, Illinois, December 11, 1869, Mr. Emery wedded Miss Theresa Ridley, who was born at Harpswell Island, Maine, a daughter of Robert Ridley and a descendant of the martyred Ridley who had owned that island. Mrs. Emery was born September 11, 1898, and since the death of her husband she has continued her residence in Los Angeles. She lived in her native State of Maine until she was seventeen years of age, when she went to Des Moines, Iowa, where she completed her high school course. She became a popular teacher in the schools of
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that city, and taught also in the schools of Boston, Massachusetts. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Emery established their residence at St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened and successfully conducted a photograph gallery. He retired from active business fifteen years prior to his death and came to California, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. Emery was a man of gentle and unostentatious bearing, considerate and kindly in all of the relations of life, sincere and honorable, and well worthy of the unqualified esteem uniformly accorded to him during the course of a long and earnest life. Mr. Emery is survived by seven children : Claude H., Bernice, Archibald, Blanche (Mrs. Charles Burnell), Earl E., Frank Edgar and Izelle (Mrs. Raymond Scott). Blanche is the wife of Judge Charles Burnell, who is presiding on the bench of the Supreme Court at Los Angeles. They have one daughter, Dorothy. Miss Bernice Emery remains with her widowed mother.
ROBERT BALLANTINE SWEET, M. D., a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat, stands high in the Medical profession in Long Beach and is also one of the leaders in the public life of this city.
Doctor Sweet was born at Hampton, Iowa, August 3, 1876, son of Oney Foster and Helen Mathilda (Coon) Sweet. His father, now eighty- one years of age, served three years and eight months in the First Pennsyl- vania Light Artillery in the Civil war, and was engaged in twenty-one important battles of that great struggle. Doctor Sweet's mother is a woman of unusual educational attainments and literary ability. Her literary gifts descended to her son Oney Fred Sweet, one of the best known' writers of humor in the country, at one time connected with the Los Angeles Examiner, and for the past ten years a member of the staff of the Chicago Tribune.
Members of the Sweet family have participated in nearly every. war in which America has been engaged. Doctor Sweet had a great-grand- father in the American Revolution, another great-grandfather in the War of 1812, a grandfather in the Civil war, his father was represented in the same struggle as previously noted, one brother, Dr. W. S. Sweet, prac- ticing dentistry in Long Beach, was a soldier in the Spanish-American war, and he and his brother Oney Fred were both in the World war service.
Robert B. Sweet graduated from the Hampton High School in Iowa in 1894, from the Iowa College Academy in 1897, and subsequently entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, the medical school of the University of Chicago, receiving diplomas of graduation from both institutions in 1902. In the twenty years since his graduation Doctor Sweet followed general practice for eight years, and for the past twelve years has confined his attention to the eye, ear, nose and throat. He has contributed a number of papers, medical journals and read before medical societies and is a mem- ber of the Long Beach, Los Angeles County and American Medical asso- ciations. Dr. Sweet has studied in Vienna, Austria, taking a post graduate course in eye, ear, nose and throat.
He was commissioned a medical officer in the Navy Reserve August 28, 1918, and at present holds the rank of lieutenant in the Volunteer Naval Reserve. Doctor Sweet was a member of the Long Beach Board of Freeholders who drew up the present city charter in 1920-21. He served as a member of the Board of Health in 1917, and was a member of the Library Board in 1919-21-22. He is secretary of the City National Bank (Pacific Coast Trust & Savings ) Building Company. Doctor Sweet is an independent in politics, is a York Rite Mason, a life member of the Scottish Rite and a life member of the Mystic Shrine, and also a life member of Elks Lodge No. 888. He is a member of the Rotary Club, Virginia Country Club, Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, and attends the Congregational Church.
June 14, 1905, at Clarion, Iowa, he married Miss Mana Clark, daughter of T. C. Clark. Mrs. Sweet is a member of the P. E. O. and the Adelphian Society. They have four children, Helen E., Robert Clark, Russell Foster
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and Richard Ballantine. Doctor Sweet's offices are in the Pacific South-' west Bank Building at Long Beach.
W. GRAHAM MCINTOSH has been a resident of California since 1910, when he engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Los Angeles, and since 1917 he has been numbered among the successful and popular dental practitioners in the City of Long Beach, where he is one of the principals of the American & Anaheim dental office, at 1261 American Avenue. His office has the most modern equipment and facilities in both operative and laboratory departments, and in his practice he specializes 'in the use of the X-ray and in prosthetic dentistry.
Dr. McIntosh was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, on February 16, 1881, and is a son of James and Margaret (Graham) McIntosh, who passed their entire lives in Scotland and who were representatives of old and honored families of that land, the mother having been, on the maternal side, a descendant of the distinguished Gordon family of Cummington. James McIntosh was a skilled machinist, and he served a long term of years as secretary of the trades council in the City of Aberdeen. The parents are survived by three sons and four daughters, and two of the sons, Dr. McIntosh, of this review, and Edward, a successful contractor in the City of Los Angeles, are the only representatives of the family in the United States. James, who passed four months in this country, in 1922, he having come specially for the purpose of visiting his two brothers, is a public accountant and auditor at Wellington, New Zealand, where he was chair- man of the commission which carried forward the splendid campaign in raising funds for the support of the cause of Great Britain and her allies in the World war, this drive having resulted in the raising of 12,000,000 pounds, an amount equivalent to about $60,000,000. Of the two sisters one is a resident of Cape Town, South Africa, and the other remains at the old home in Scotland.
Dr. McIntosh received the best of educational advantages, both academic and professional. He attended the public schools of Aberdeen, studied for a time in London, England, attended Gordon College, Scotland, and was a student in Aberdeen University, one of the oldest universities in the world. He prepared himself thoroughly for the profession of his choice, and prior to coming to the United States he had been engaged in the practice of dentistry in Aberdeen, and Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England. As previously stated, the Doctor came to the United States in 1910, and for the ensuing seven years he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Los Angeles. Since that time he has maintained his home and professional headquarters in Long Beach.
In politics Dr. McIntosh has arrayed himself loyally in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the First Presbyterian Church of Long Beach. 'He is president of the fine Scottish organization, the Thistle Club of Long Beach, and is a valued member of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce.
On the 7th of August, 1907, in the City of Aberdeen, Scotland, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. McIntosh to Miss Elizabeth Henderson, who was born, reared and educated at Montrose, Scotland, and who is a direct descendant of Lady Grant, of the Grants of Fyvie Castle. Dr. and Mrs. McIntosh have three children, Dorothy, Norman Graham, and Mar- jorie, the elder daughter having been born at Aberdeen, Scotland, and the two younger children at Los Angeles, California.
ABBIE AND BEE BENDER. At 2006 Orange Street in Los Angeles is located Bender's Fudge Shop, a business and industry that has been remark- ably successful and is an example of what can be done by two enterprising young women with high ideals and systematic industry.
The proprietors of this shop are Misses Abbie and Bee Bender, natives of Connersville, Indiana, where Abbie was born in 1885 and Bee in 1888. Both are high school graduates and attended a commercial college at Indianapolis.
Mes. M. Winstead.
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They started out as business women, one as secretary for a business firm and the other as teacher. Working for others did not seem to promise a reasonable degree of permanent success and when they came to Cailfornia they decided to go into business for themselves. In their private circle of acquaintances they have been known for several years as expert in the making of quality candy. At the beginning of their Los Angeles venture they made up thirty-five pounds of fudge, and sold all of it the first day. Their capital was only two hundred dollars, but they have built up a business so rapidly that the gross sales now total over twenty thousand dollars annually. Bender's Fudge Shop is noted for its six different kinds of home-made candy, and the very finest ingredients go into every pound they make, no substitutes being permitted. These ingredients include pure jersey cream and the best creamery butter, cane sugar, english walnuts and chocolate. They buy their walnuts in the shell, and an important factor in their success no doubt has been the fact that they have performed all the work themselves, even to mixing the candies. The second day of operation they made up sixty pounds of candy, and on the following Saturday doubled their output. The average daily production is now about one hundred pounds, and this is sold not only to the local trade, but is shipped in five-pound tins all over the United States, and to Canada, Hawaii and even as far away as China.
The sisters own a piece of property in the San Fernando Valley, and they are now living in their bungalow with their mother on Western Avenue, but plan a new home in one of the exclusive sections of the city.
GEORGE M. WINSTEAD. Photography, as it is understood in modern days, is so far removed from the methods and so superior in results from those of former times, that it might almost be said that a new art had been discovered rather than an old one perfected. In considering the improved apparatus now in use in the taking of pictures and the wide field of enjoy- ment and instruction thus opened, it is not necessary to more than refer to the great complicated cameras with their complex lenses, that must be operated by specialists. It is the compact, perfected form of camera known as the Kodak that appeals to the general public, and only large firms like Winstead Brothers, at Long Beach and Los Angeles, who are in the busi- ness, can give any adequate idea of just how popular they are.
George M. Winstead, of Winstead Brothers, at Long Beach, and asso- ciated with his brother. Thomas E. Winstead, of Winstead Brothers, at Los Angeles, was born at Great Bend, Kansas, July 5, 1884, the youngest of three sons born to Willis W. and Georgia (Stone) Winstead. The eldest son, Wirt W., died in Kansas in 1904. The mother of Mr. Winstead now resides at Long Beach. She was born in Missouri. Her father was a veteran of the Mexican war. He came to California in 1849 but returned to Missouri in 1850, removing later to Great Bend, Kansas, where he was a homesteader and gave the town site of Great Bend to Barton County.
Willis W. Winstead was born in Tennessee. He was a man of notable ' personality, manly vigor and undaunted physical courage, as evidenced by his record in the Civil war. He served with great valor for four years as a member of the National Guard, mainly in the guerilla warfare, and later was elected sheriff of Barton County, Kansas, serving with the great- est efficiency in this office during the period covered by the banditry of Jesse James and other desperadoes. Sheriff Winstead survived until 1907, passing away in his home at Great Bend.
George M. Winstead attended the public schools of Pomona, California, and Martin, Tennessee. In 1904 he became a student in the St. Louis Watchmaking School, having decided mechanical skill, and in 1905 was graduated from that school as a watchmaker and manufacturing jeweler. After working at his trade for a year at Ellenwood, Kansas, he embarked in business for himself at Great Bend, three years later removing to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he opened a jewelry store and began the handling of Kodaks as a side line, operating under his own name. He
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continued his jewelry business there for three years but after that dealt exclusively in Kodaks, and while there established agencies all over Kansas and Oklahoma.
When the United States entered into the World's war, Mr. Winstead reported at Camp Funston and under Major General Wood was com- missioned official photographer at Camp Funston and Fort Riley, where he continued until ill health made it necessary for him to seek a more genial climate. He came at that time to Long Beach and felt so well satisfied with Southern California as he found it, that he determined to remain and embark in business here. He first opened up a Kodak store and large finishing plant at Los Angeles and in December, 1918 opened up his present commodious store on the northeast corner of Pine and Broad- way at Long Beach. He is associated with his older brother, Thomas E. Winstead, under the firm name of Winstead Brothers, the latter having charge of the business at Los Angeles, while George M. Winstead looks after the Long Beach interests. The firm handles kodaks, fountain pens, Eversharp pencils, picture frames, photo supplies and its artistic work includes finishing, enlarging, coloring and commercial photography. Mr. Winstead does the fine finishing of films for the big establishments of Los Angeles. In addition to the above named business interests of the firm, they own still another prosperous store, at Hutchinson, Kansas, which they conduct under the name of the Winstead Photo & Finishing Co.
Mr. Winstead is the patentee of a photographic printing machine for making kodak prints. It combines speed and accuracy and will do the work now requiring three men. It has just been leased to the Eastman Company, who will manufacture it on a royalty basis, covering seventeen years, the life of the patent in the United States and all foreign countries.
George M. Winstead was married at Great Bend, Kansas, on January 7, 1908, to Miss Vida E. Lorimor, who was born and educated there. She is a daughter of Palmer P. and Mary A. Lorimor, natives of Iowa and pioneers in Barton County, Kansas, where her father was a farmer. She has an interesting family record, in which the statement is made that her grandfather, Josiah Lorimor, was an extensive landowner in Union County, Iowa, and donated the land on which the town of Lorimor stands. Mr. and Mrs. Winstead have one daughter, Wilma, who was born at Great Bend, Kansas, and educated at Long Beach. They are members of the First Congregational Church of Long Beach.
Mr. Winstead is a member of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Long Beach Rotary Club and in 1921 was a director in both bodies. In politics he is a republican and belongs to the Union League Club of Los Angeles ; is president of Montezuma Lodge, a summer resort situated twenty-five miles from Flagstaff, Arizona, on Mormon Lake, the largest body of water in that state; belongs to the Virginia Country Club; the Young Men's Christian Association and the Add. Club of Long Beach ; is a life member of Long Beach Lodge of Elks, No. 888; and belongs to the Photographers Association of America. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, a member of Great Bend Lodge No. 15, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Wichita Consistory No. 2, Wichita, Kansas ; and a life member of Al Malaikah Shrine at Los Angeles.
REMI NADEAU came to California in 1859, and was famous for the great transportation service he developed and that made his name known all over the Southwest. He was also one of the constructive figures in the early development of Los Angeles as a city.
It is said that his finances at first permitted the purchase of only a few mules, but he kept adding to his equipment until at one time he owned sixty-five teams of twenty-two mules to a team. He had some sixty-five stations and these teams traveled the entire distance from the Mexican border through San Pedro and Death Valley, Panamint Valley, Mono County, and to Bodie in Caliveras County, making Los Angeles and San Fernando, and hauled freight exclusively. This is the only transportation facility the region afforded for some years. The Nadeaus had an important
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part in developing the borax resources at Death Valley, and Remi Nadeau was one of the founders of the great business subsequently known as the twenty-mule team borax mines.
He was born near Quebec, Canada, in 1818. As a young man he showed a mechanical turn of mind and all his varied enterprises, though on a small scale at first, showed the constructive energy in him. He was one of a family of fifteen children, his parents being married at the age of sixteen. On leaving his native land, Remi Nadeau came to the United States and lived in Minnesota until he crossed the plains to California, spending the winter en route at Salt Lake City. While his business enterprises covered a new territory, many of them were connected with Los Angeles County. The present site of Clune's Auditorium, just opposite the Pershing Square, was a great corral for the many teams owned by him. About 1882 he started the construction of the Nadeau House, the first four-story structure in Los Angeles and for many years afterward a famous hostelry. In dispo- sition he was very ambitious, possessed wonderful executive ability, and throughout his enterprises were permeated with a high degree of public spirit. At one time he had the largest vineyard, thirty-six hundred acres, owned by any individual in the world. This vineyard was located near the town of Huntington Park. After it had come into full bearing, an insect attacked it and so ravaged the vines that in a few months' time they were practically all gone. This vineyard was part of the four thousand acre property known as the Cudahy Ranch which he sold for $700,000.
Remi Nadeau also deserves lasting memory for the pioneer part he played in developing the beet sugar industry in Southern California. At one time he had some twenty-eight hundred acres in this crop. His beet fields were in the Bliona District, where is now Playa del Rey. The making of sugar was accomplished by a crude process. Later he sent a large sum of money by a friend to Europe for the purpose of buying machinery used abroad for the manufacture of sugar beets. The machinery was shipped to California, and on arrival it was found to be unworkable, and Mr. Nadeau lost over a hundred thousand dollars by the venture. However, his initia- tive was of tremendous worth and really started the beet sugar business in Southern California. His handling of this and other affairs showed the large scale on which his mind operated. At one time he planted the largest barley field anywhere in the world, thirty thousand acres, in the vicinity of Inglewood, then called the Centenella Ranch. The expected and usual rains did not come that year and here again was entailed loss of two hundred thousand dollars.
Remi Nadeau owned the land at Fifth and Olive streets now owned by the City Water Board. The old Nadeau residence, a two-story white house, stood at the southwest corner of Fifth and Olive and he lived there many years. He died January 15, 1886. He had that restless and inexhaustible energy which kept him at work without vacation until he had worn his body out. He died at the age of sixty-eight.
At Concord, New Hampshire, Remi Nadeau married Miss Martha Fry, a native of that state. She was a daughter of Elijah and Martha Fry, natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively. They came from old American families of Revolutionary stock and English descent, their ancestors being among the earliest settlers in New England. Of their seven children three died in childhood.
GEORGE ALBERT NADEAU, the last surviving son of the late Remi Nadeau, was for many years closely associated with his father's wide flung business enterprises. His home for many years was in Los Angeles on Nadeau street, named for his father, and the occupied part of the old ranch and his residence was the old ranch house with many memories and tradi- tions of pioneer days in Los Angeles.
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