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and she and Mr. Thom entertain considerably in their beautiful home at Glendale. Both are members of the First Christian Church of Glendale.
BERT P. WOODARD. There is no profession which demands as much of one in which the rewards are greater, although they are not all of a material nature, than that of the law. The long years of preparation, and the subsequent ones of study and development all tend to bring out the best in a man's character and to fit him for future usefulness to his fellow men. It is a usual thing to find that the foremost men of all sections are those who are either in the active practice of the law, or who have at one time or another followed that profession. One of these alert and representative men and good citizens of Los Angeles County, whose long: connection with the law gives him experience and prestige, is Bert P. Woodard of Glendale.
Bert P. Woodard was born at Fayetteville, Tennessee, July 5, 1879. He attended the public schools of his native city, and took his degree of Bachelor of Laws from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1901. Admitted to the bar of Tennessee, he was for a year thereafter engaged in practice at Fayetteville, and then, in 1902, went to Nashville, Tennessee, and in that city continued to earn distinction for himself as an attorney until 1911, when he came West, and, while he established a residence at Glendale, maintained his office and practice at Los Angeles. In 1921 he was elected city attorney of Glendale, but resigned in March, 1922, and since then he has been engaged in practice in this city. Mr. Woodard handles both civil and criminal cases, and is noted for the care with which he prepares his briefs, and the clear and logical manner in which he presents his arguments. His offices are now at 10312 South Brand Boulevard. Ever since he came to Glendale he has taken a con- structive interest in its Chamber of Commerce, and he is now serving it as a member of its Civics Committee. He is also a member of the Kiwanis Club, and an ardent believer in the principles of this organization. A mem- ber of Glendale Lodge No. 1289, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, he is a past exalted ruler of it, and he is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias.
On November 15, 1915, Mr. Woodard was married to Miss Valeria M. Hearne, of Lebanon, Tennessee, and they have one daughter, Virginia D., a most attractive and bright little girl. 'Mrs. Woodard was born at Lebanon, and was educated in the famous Lebanon School for Girls, which gives to girls a collegiate training. Mrs. Woodard is a life member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, and has been quite active in the workings of that body. Both Mr. and Mrs. Woodard are thoroughly embued with an enthusiasm for their adopted state, and believe that nowhere else in the country are such unexcelled opportunities offered for intellectual and material development as here. They are proud of the fact that they are connected with the work of further advancing the prosperity of Glendale and Los Angeles County, and maintain that there need be no limit placed on what can be accomplished in their behalf in the years to come.
HENRY ERLE MASON has made his influence definite and constructive in connection with banking enterprise in Los Angeles County since he here established his residence, and in this connection he has brought to bear marked native ability and broad and varied experience. He is president of the Bank of North Long Beach and is secretary of the Moneta Com- mercial Bank, his residence being at North Long Beach, where he is valued as a liberal, progressive and public-spirited citizen.
Mr. Mason was born at Phillips, Nebraska, March 14, 1888, and is a son of Alfred W. and Mary Ann (Dixon) Mason, who were born and reared in Illinois and whose marriage was solemnized in Nebraska, their home for a number of years having been on their farm near Phillips, that state, and they being now residents of Gering, Nebraska, where the father is living virtually retired. The subject of this review is the elder of their
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two children and the younger, Edward R., is cashier of the Bank of North Long Beach.
Henry E. Mason acquired his youthful education in the public schools of Hamilton and Howard counties, Nebraska, and by taking both academic and commercial courses in a well ordered business college at St. Paul, that state. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty years of age, and from 1908 to 1912 he was in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, at Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming. In the spring of 1913 he returned to Nebraska, where his marriage soon after occurred, and in September of that year he removed with his bride to La Grande, Oregon, where for six months he was in the employ of the Oregon-Wash- ington Railroad & Navigation Company. In March, 1914, he took a position in the United States National Bank at La Grande, with which he continued his connection until October 1, 1917, when he resigned his position of paying teller, and returned to Nebraska, where in the City of Omaha he assumed a responsible executive position with the Live Stock National Bank, in connection with which he was manager of the Live Stock Cattle Loan Company, with resources of more than $2,000,000. On the 1st of July, 1918, he purchased an interest in and became cashier of the Com- mercial State Bank at Paxton, Nebraska, continuing in this office until September 1, 1921, when he sold his stock in the institution and came to California. Here, on the 1st of November of the same year, he accepted the position of secretary and ex-officio cashier of the Moneta Commercial Bank, at Moneta. He still retains this office, but in the autumn of 1922 he effected the organization of the Bank of North Long Beach, which was incorporated on September 5, of that year, he becoming its president and his only brother being made its cashier. The new bank bases its operations on a capital stock of $50,000 and is destined to play an important part in safeguarding and advancing of the general economic, industrial and com- mercial interests of the vital community which it serves. The other execu- tive officers of the bank are: Natt Piper, Dr. Charles A. Allen and M. O. C. Hull, vice presidents, and L. F. Stephenson, secretary-treasurer, the directorate including also J. M. Woodruff and R. E. Patterson. In addi- tion to his important capitalistic interests in California, Mr. Mason is the owner of approximately 1,000 acres of land in his native state of Nebraska.
The political allegiance of Mr. Mason is given to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. His basic Masonic affiliation is with La Grande Lodge, No. 41, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at La Grande, Oregon; and in Nebraska Consistory, No. 1, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, at Omaha, he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being there affiliated with Tangier Temple of the Mystic Shrine and with the Scottish Rite Low Twelve Club. He is also a member of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 985, at North Platte, Nebraska. His wife is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Mason holds membership in the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and also in the Moneta Chamber of Com- merce. The family home is at 539 East Eleventh Street, Long Beach.
Mr. Mason was one of the leading spirits in the organization of the North Side Chamber of Commerce, which includes all territory north of the city limits of Long Beach, with a population of several thousand. He was elected as the first president of this organization. He is a charter member of the Petroleum Commercial Club of Long Beach and is serving as a member of the finance committee. This club is made up of some of the leading men of the oil world and business men of Long Beach, and promises to become one of the leading clubs of the country, as its mem- bership is confined almost exclusively to men of means. The club con- templates the erection of a magnificent building and has already paid $200,000 for the site. Mr. Mason is interested in the Long Beach Morning Sun and is a member of the advisory board.
On the 4th of March, 1913, occurred the marriage of Mr. Mason to Miss Alice J. Hill, of St. Paul, Nebraska, in which state she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Mason have three children, Alice Byrdette and
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Cecil William, who were born at La Grande, Oregon, and Robert Edward, was was born at St. Paul, Nebraska.
JAMES H. DALY. That age should pass off the theater of life, giving way to those who bear the torch in turn, is Nature's stern law, but when Death comes to the young, the virile, the useful, cutting off prematurely a career of honorable achievement, the grim visitor carries a message that it is difficult to understand or be reconciled to. In the death of James H. Daly, on May 3, 1922, Long Beach lost one of her worthiest examples of efficient brilliant young manhood, and the bar of Southern California one of its most honorable and able members.
James H. Daly was a native son of California, born at Glendora, on April 30, 1889. His parents came to Long Beach in 1903. His dis- tinguished father was born in New Jersey but for eighteen years before his death in 1921, had been one of the leading citizens of Long Beach, and the dean of its bar. His mother, Mrs. John E. Daly, was born in Illinois, accompanied her husband to California in 1887, and still is a resident of Long Beach, and now doubly bereft, losing both her husband and only child within the short space of eight months.
In 1907 James H. Daly was graduated from the Long Beach High School and then spent one year in the law school of the University of California, from there going to Ann Arbor and entering the law school of the University of Michigan. Three of his California classmates and room- mates who were graduated with him from the University in 1911, survive and mourn their friend and comrade, they being Wilbur F. Downs, of Long Beach, A. J. Verheyen, of Hollywood, and Harry Kaufman of Los Angeles. All four were members of the Rocky Mountain Club at the university, now the Kappa Beta Psi fraternity.
In July, 1911, Mr. Daly became associated with his father, the late John E. Daly, in the practice of law at Long Beach, under the style of Daly & Daly, the firm name later becoming Daly, Daly & Todd. The young partner early manifested a remarkable aptitude for the law and his success was immediate and devotion to his profession became one of the great interests of his life. In connection with his father and individually, he won many notable victories in the courts and at the time of death was probably one of the most successful lawyers in Southern California. He was vice president and a director of the First National Bank of Long Beach, director and attorney for the City Transfer Company, attorney for the Long Beach Bath House, for the Seaside Investment Company, for the Jotham Bixby Company and for the Strand Investment Company, organized the J. V. Giaconi Company and many other concerns and was a large stockholder in the Halfhill Tuna Company.
Mr. Daly was married on May 14, 1914, to Miss Lorence O'Neil, the ceremony taking place in the beautiful home at Los Cerritos, which he had prepared. Their acquaintance began while Mr. Daly was a student in the University of Michigan, Mrs. Daly, also a student, being a daughter of James H. O'Neil of Jackson, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Daly have one daughter, Elizabeth, now four years old. Mr. Daly was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Long Beach, with which he had united when . fifteen years old. He was a member of the Long Beach Chamber of Com- merce, the Long Beach Bar Association, of which his father had been the first president, and at times and on occasion, was prominently identified with the progressive interests of these bodies. He was an active member of the Elks at Long Beach and belonged to the Virginia Country Club. He was the type of young man to whom wholesome out-door sports appeal and few league football games were played in this section that he failed to attend, often being accompanied by his father.
The death of this beloved father was a source of great grief to Mr. Daly, for the affection between them had been unusually close. This, combined with a great press of business may have weakened his resistance when disease attacked him, but it was unsuspected by his friends and when he first complained of slight illness no particular alarm was felt. It developed
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into tonsilitis and septic pneumonia which defied the skill and science of eminent physicians and within a few days he passed out of life at the Sea- side Hospital.
HARRY E. MCCARTNEY is head and manager of the construction depart- ment of the firm Hayward & McCartney, real estate, insurance, loan, sub- dividers and contractors and builders at Glendale. Mr. McCartney's depart- ment specializes in the finer class of homes. His regular staff comprises from sixteen to thirty persons and in seasons is greatly augmented as the volume of building requires. During the past two years this branch of the firm has done a large volume of building business. At the present writing they have ten contracts underway and plans are being prepared for the building of a number of homes in a new sub-division recently pur- chased by the firm. The firm specializes in the English and Spanish style of architecture, though they do work in other types as well. They built the fine home of City Councilman Dwight W. Stephenson and that of Glendale's prominent educator, Mrs. Ella E. Gray, both these homes exemplifying the English style. They also constructed the Spanish house in the Eagle Rock District for George Finncane, and in Wilshire Crest at Los Angeles built the fine home of Mrs. Addie B. Starr. Their building has also extended to Alhambra and other sections around Glendale.
Harry E. McCartney was born in Philadelphia, April 24, 1889. He attended public schools there, and in 1901 at the age of twelve years went to work in the furniture department of the great John Wanamaker store. He remained with the Wanamaker establishment until 1906. Following that for two years he was an employe of the Link Belt Engineering Com- pany in a Philadelphia suburb, and at the same time attended night classes in the Spring Garden Institute, being a student of mechanical drawing. The panic of 1907 stopped his progress toward the architectural profession, and then for a short time he worked with a large leather concern and from 1908 to 1911 was with another industry in Philadelphia.
Mr. McCartney came to California in September, 1911, and first became associated with the Barnhan Stationery Company at San Bernadino, being instrumental in establishing a wholesale department of the business dealing in wrapping paper, tags, twines and cordage. From there he went with Blake, Moffett & Towne, one of the oldest wholesale paper houses on the Pacific Coast and was traveling salesman for this firm.
Mr. McCartney became identified with the real estate business in September, 1920, as local representative of the Glendale office of Edwards & Wildey Company. Then in December, 1921, he formed his present partnership with E. P. Hayward.
Mr. McCartney is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and realty board. He married September 11, 1911, Miss Grace L. Books of Philadelphia. They have one son, Jack Hyde. Mrs. McCartney was born and educated in Philadelphia, and is active in club work at Glendale, being a life member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club.
EDWIN D. HAMLIN is senior member of Hamlin & Hepburn, realtors, at Glendale, a firm organized in November, 1920. Their first operations were at Owensmouth, where they engaged in selling ranch acreage. Since April, 1921, they have been located at 203 West Broadway in Glendale. Their success has been conspicious in the handling of sub-divisions, two of these sub-divisions already sold out being the Fairview of 135 acres and Sunset Grove of ten acres. At present the firm is handling Castle Heights of ten acres adjoining the Brand Estate at Mountain and Western, and Edgemont Park of one hundred acres located in the city limits of Burbank, about a mile from Griffith Park. They were influential in annexing five hundred acres to the limits of Glendale. The firm also have an insurance department and have built numerous homes on their sub-divisions. They import lumber for building direct, chartering a ship for that purpose.
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Mr. Edwin D. Hamlin is a lawyer by profession, but for a number of years has been active in business. He was born at Atlanta, New York, April 22, 1880, was educated in the public schools there, high school at Naples, New York, attended a preparatory school at Geneseo in his native state and was graduated in law from New York University with the class of 1905. After a brief period of private practice he became secretary of the Lima Honeoye Light and Railway Company of New York. Several years later he became sales engineer at Buffalo, New York, for the General Electric Company.
Mr. Hamlin has been a resident of California since 1914. He was sales engineer of the Pacific Light & Power Corporation at Los Angeles, until 1917. He first engaged in real estate business at Santa Paula, then at Owensmouth, and since then at Glendale. He is a member of the Realty Board and the California Real Estate Association, the Chamber of Com- merce and is a member of the Masonic Order and the Oakmont Country Club.
January 4, 1911, Mr. Hamlin married Miss Grace Landon of Rochester, New York. They have a family of four children : Edwin L., Herbert S., Grace Jeanette and John Richard. Mrs. Hamlin was born in Butte, Montana, but was educated at Rochester, New York. She is a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Glendale, and belongs to the Eastern Star.
JOHN FLETCHER DODSON. One of the oldest residents of the com- munity of San Pedro, and member of a pioneer family of Southern Cali- fornia, the late John Fletcher Dodson, who died July 3, 1921, was a business man and citizen of constructive purpose, an upbuilder, a leader in affairs, and possessed that kindliness of heart and generosity of disposition that made his taking off a source of grief to the entire citizenship.
At the time of his death his services as a patriot during the World war were especially recalled. He acted as chairman of the draft board of San Pedro, serving without salary. Less well known was his constant spirit and practice of charity to the poor, and a sympathy always ready and expressing itself in generous acts for the poor and unfortunate. He was an active member of the St. Vincent dePaul Society, and was the first Grand Knight of Angels Gate Council, Knights of Columbus. His funeral was conducted under the direction of the Knights of Columbus. It was attended by several hundred friends drawn there to do honor to him as a. man and citizen. The funeral services were held in Mary Star of the Sea Church at San Pedro.
John Fletcher Dodson was born April 8, 1867, on the Rancho San Pedro, California, son of Arthur Mckenzie and Reyes (Dominquez) Dodson. His mother represented one of the old Spanish families of South- ern California. Up to the age of thirteen John F. Dodson attended public schools in Los Angeles. He then went to live in the home of his father's old time friend George Hinds at Wilmington. Mr. Hinds' attachment for the elder Dodson was strengthened in the fact that the latter had rendered him financial assistance when he came here from the East, a kindness Mr. Hinds never forgot and one which he had never been able to repay to his own satisfaction. He took a keen interest in the sons of his benefactors. For ten years John F. Dodson was superintendent of Henrietta Stock Farm, one of Mr. Hinds' numerous ranches. This was located near Compton, and was devoted to the breeding and training of standard horses. Out of this experience Mr. Dodson became an expert horseman, and frequently drove some of the Hinds horses in races in the Southern California circuit.
Mr. Dodson lived in San Pedro from 1893, and in 1898 established himself in business there as a contractor in cement and grading work. After carrying this on alone for about eight years he was joined in 1904 by his brother James H. Dodson, and thereafter the firm was Dodson Brothers. They handled an immense volume of work in the contracting line.
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The late Mr. Dodson married at San Pedro, June 5, 1898, Miss Kate Agnes Savage. Mrs. Dodson and seven children survive him. Mrs. Dod- son's father was former State Senator William H. Savage of San Pedro, a prominent figure in the life and affairs of that community and whose career is sketched elsewhere. The late Mr. Dodson, while associated with his brother James H., handled a great deal of street contracting in and around San Pedro, and they also conducted a large farm and ranch. At the time of his death Mr. Dodson was a member of the firm Dodson & Butterfield, general contractors. He had much to do with the material and civic development of San Pedro, and the history of that city can never be written without expressing in some way a tribute to his energy and enterprise.
HENRY L. MILLER is a business man with more than half a century of experience, and has been in Southern California for thirty years. Mr. Miller in 1906 established the H. L. Miller Company at Glendale, a general real estate, insurance, investment, loans, rentals and exchanges. The company specializes in insurance of all kinds, and had its main office at 109 South Brand Boulevard and also a branch office.
Mr. Miller was born at Maysville, Kentucky, May 10, 1851. When he was a child his people moved to Iowa and he was educated in the public schools of Montezuma that State. He received his higher education in Grinnell College at Grinnell, Iowa, with the class of 1869. After leaving college he went on the road as a commercial salesman for the Moon Buggy Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and for thirty years sold the goods of that well known old Middle West house. Mr. Miller had been a resident of California since 1892. After leaving the road he was for three years in the dry goods business at San Diego, and then became a dealer in real estate at Los Angeles, remaining in that city until 1906 when he came to Glendale.
Mr. Miller is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, is a member of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce and the Congregational Church.
JAMES EUGENE ECKLES, M. D., D. O. A graduate in osteopathy as well as of the regular school of medicine Doctor Eckles has had a busy profes- sional career at Glendale, and is one of the men of highest standing in the professional circles of that city.
Doctor Eckles was born at Maquoketa, Iowa, November 27, 1876. When he was a small child his family removed to Nebraska where he at- tended public schools, growing up on a frontier district, and after getting his own early advantages he taught school for ten years. He attended the Bryant Normal University at Stromsburg, Nebraska, and after passing the civil service examination was an employe of the postal department with home at York, Nebraska, for eight years.
Doctor Eckles came to California in January 1912, and entered the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles, and also the Pacific Medical College, where he was graduated Doctor of Medi- cine in 1915. Since then he has carried on a general practice at Glendale, and his standing is indicated by his election as vice-president of the Glen- dale Physicians and Surgeons Club. He is a member of the local Medical and Osteopathic Association, and is on the staff of the Glendale Hospital and Sanatorium. Doctor Eckles is a member of the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Glendale Chamber of Commerce, the Flint Ridge Country Club, the Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club, and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
December 1, 1896, he married Miss Jennie M. Dorsey of Arborville, Nebraska, where she was born and educated. Mrs. Eckles is an active member of the Parent-Teachers Association, of the War Mothers and an Eastern Star. They have five children: Merle, deceased; Mabel, wife of Charles Mittendorf of Glendale; Marguerite, Ralf and Gilbert, all at home.
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EARLE C. PENDROY is the founder and active head of Pendroy's gen- eral department store at Brand and Harvard streets in Glendale. Mr. Pendroy established this business May 15, 1922. He has a store with thirty-thousand square feet of floor space, employs sixty people, and car- ries a large and selected stock of dry goods, ready to wear clothing, shoes, carpets, draperies, luggage, china, household furnishings, furniture, art goods and art needle work and household hardware. The company is incorporated for $200,000, Mr. Pendroy being president and treasurer, J. C. Kundson, vice-president and Mrs. E. C. Pendroy, secretary.
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