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Diedrich Kruse was born in the North of Germany, August 25, 1874, the second in the family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters, born to his parents, Gird and Marguerita (Bruns) Kruse, farming people. He was educated in the German public schools and became a farmer. In 1895 he entered the German army, in which he served for four years, two years in Germany and two years in China, where he participated in the Boxer war.
Returning to Germany he spent two years in farming, and then, having by that time a wife and two children, resolved to emigrate. He thoroughly investigated conditions in different countries and colonies and became con- vinced that nowhere could he be sure of obtaining such advantages as in the United States, and his present prosperity proves the wisdom of his choice.
For a brief period after reaching this country he lived in Kansas, but soon came on to California, and settled at Whittier. His first work was on a ranch where a brother was also employed. Their hours were long, the work hard and the pay very small, but out of this he managed to save a little, and with it he bought, after two years, his first property, one and one- half acres of oranges, on contract. On it he built a house, laid irrigation pipes, and at the same time kept on working on ranches and in the gravel pits. Misfortune came, through no fault of his own, his wages were lowered, and he was forced to sell his property, but did so at a profit of $900. He then bought twenty acres of the Baldwin tract, on which he built a house and made other improvements. This. purchase was also made under contract, and he found that the interest was too high, and the pay- ments too heavy for him to carry and so once more he sold, this time at a profit of $200. His next purchase was ten acres of bare land, corner of Rush and Merced avenues, El Monte, his present home. This he set to walnuts, and since then has been steadily improving the property, which is now a very valuable one.
In 1901 Mr. Kruse was married in Germany, to Miss Johanne Deecken, born in North Germany in 1875, and they have four children, namely : Martha Margaretta, who was born October 30, 1902; Fredericke Helen, who was born October 27, 1904 ; and twin sons, Amiel Hemman and Franz August, who were born December 16, 1919. After coming to the United States, Mr. Kruse at once took out naturalization papers and is a full-fledged American citizen. He is one of the leading members of the Whittier Lutheran Church. It was through his efforts and work that the present church building was purchased and his name is the first signed on the membership rolls. This is the first Lutheran Church to be organized at Whittier, and 250 families of German birth are in the congregation.
JOSEPH SCHANDONEY, whose home is at 805 North Hollenbeck Street, in the Boyle Heights District of Los Angeles, has lived in this county since early boyhood, and while making a successful individual career has been an
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interested witness of nearly all the important developments that have made Los Angeles one of the great modern cities of the continent.
Mr. Schandoney was born December 10, 1861, on the Moselle River in Germany, son of Mathew and Katherine (Ertz) Schandoney. He was one of the thirteen children of his parents, five of whom are still living. His parents, in 1867, started for America, and on their way to California crossed the Isthmus of Panama on the ancient railroad. They arrived in San Francisco in June, 1867, and in September came south along the coast to Wilmington, landing by lighter, and the father paid thirty dollars for a two-horse wagon to take the family to Los Angeles. Mathew Schan- doney was a brick mason by trade, and assisted in building such pioneer structures as the Downey block, the French Hospital and the Pico house. The mother died in 1894.
Joseph Schandoney was about six years of age when brought to Los Angeles. He had only a few terms of regular schooling. On March 11, 1871, before he was ten years of age he went to work as a cow herder for Tom Carey, the rancher. His wages were four dollars a month and board. While he could not attend school he studied at night, and when he was twenty-one he worked for his board to attend a select school, so that his education has been ample for his needs. Mr. Schandoney has always been engaged in some productive form of work, and in early days was a stock herder and cowboy, and afterwards an independent rancher. For a number of years he was a very successful bee keeper.
Mr. Schandoney's earliest recollections do not recall a single home west of Hill Street and south of Temple Street. He saw the first train come into Los Angeles, the engine covered with flags and altogether it was a day of general celebration. The train stopped at First and Alameda streets. The first street car line he also well recalls, it ending at Sixth and Figueroa Street and running to River Station, passing from Sixth to Hill, on Hill north to Fourth, east to Broadway, north to First Street, to Spring and then to Temple, from Plaza to Upper Main and thence to River Station. The fare was ten cents or four tickets for twenty-five cents.
ROY S. LANTERMAN, M. D. Missing a nativity in California by a few short years, Dr. Roy S. Lanterman of Glendale is in all the essentials a Californian in the higher meaning-an accolade to the real Californian of birth or adoption.
He was born in Lansing, Michigan, July 20, 1869, and in 1874 his parents came West, settling in Los Angeles. The father, Jacob L. Lanter- man, was a native of Blairstown, New Jersey, and was one of the leading dentists of that community as well as one of its popular citizens. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland, from which his son Roy was also graduated. After a long and successful practice of his profession in Blairs- town and later on in Lansing, Michigan, he decided to retire from active practice and move further West, making the then young State of California his objective. In 1874, with his family, he arrived in Los Angeles and becoming thoroughly impressed with the great natural advantages of the locality, established his permament home here. He was a man of unusual business acumen and possessed that far sightedness so necessary to the successful investor, especially in a young community whose future was more or less problematical. He visualized the potentialities of Southern Cali- fornia and backed his judgment by large investments for that day. Firm in his belief that the territory adjacent to the city of Los Angeles would sooner or later be considered as one of the garden spots of the United States, he was willing to invest his capital in this region and it is needless to say that time has confirmed his judgment. His largest investment was the purchase of the La Canada rancho of six thousand acres. This rancho, lying in the heart of one of the most beautiful sections of Southern California, com- prised a district extending from the Arroyo Seco westward about seven miles to Tujunga. The demand for this property, owing to the enormous influx of population to Los Angeles County, has been so great that the
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majority of it has been sold for residential and other purposes and only about one thousand acres now remain unsold of the original holdings.
Dr. Jacob Lanterman took an active part in the political history of Los Angeles County in early days. He was not an office seeker, nor did he desire political preferment, but his efforts were toward the upbuilding of the community and to this end interested himself in politics in the effort to see that desirable and worthy men were placed in charge of public affairs. His allegiance was given to the Republican party. Both he and his wife were also greatly interested in the moral and spiritual welfare of the com- munity and they were mainly instrumental in founding the Congregational Church of La Canada, for which they donated the site and contributed largely towards the erection of the church edifice.
Dr. Lanterman was a true type of the California pioneer. A man of broad vision, far sighted, generous and open handed, who believed in the future of California and was willing to back his judgment with all he possessed. It is to this type of man that California owes its wonderful progress today. Dr. Lanterman died in Los Angeles in 1908 and his wife passed on four years later in 1912.
Dr. Roy S. Lanterman was born in Lansing, Michigan, and his early childhood was spent in Los Angeles. He attended the public schools of Los Angeles, McPherson Academy and the University of Southern Cali- fornia, and deciding on a medical career he entered the University of Maryland, from which he was graduated in medicine in 1893. This was supplemented by a post graduate course under Dr. Howard Kelly of Johns Hopkins University in diseases of women, after which he served in Balti- more eight months as an intern in Bay View Hospital and then returned to California and practiced at Santa Monica for four years. Then for over twenty years he was in practice in the city of Los Angeles and in 1922 moved his offices to Glendale, where he continues a general practice. He is a member of the Glendale Physicians' Club and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Lanterman married Miss Emily C. Folsom of Washington, D. C., her father also being a well known physician who had a large practice in Santa Monica. Dr. and Mrs. Lanterman are the parents of two sons, Lloyd S. and Frank D., both graduates from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Jacob L. Lanterman married Emeretta J. Chrisman, also a native of Blairstown, New Jersey, and besides Roy S. Lanterman, were the parents of Stella B. Lanterman and Frank D. Lanterman. Stella B. is the widow of L. M. La Fetra of Glendora and is a pioneer horticulturist of Covina Valley, has been exceedingly active in civic affairs of the community and generally recognized as an authority on horticulture.
Frank D. Lanterman is a graduate from the University of the Pacific as a civil engineer and practiced this profession for many years. He is now living retired from active life on the old homestead at La Canada and is mainly occupied in the handling of the Lanterman Estates property, which has been incorporated. His two daughters are both prominent in social and artistic circles, Miss Harriet devoting herself to literature and Miss Lula, who is an accomplished vocalist.
The children of Dr. Jacob L. Lanterman are all representative citizens of the community and have done their part in upholding the family name of this worthy pioneer of Los Angeles County.
CHARLES STEPHEN HENDERSON. Though he has lived in Long Beach only a few years, Charles Stephen Henderson is one of the most popular and progressive business men and citizens. He is a man of varied business interests, and is one of the owners with James C. Savery of the Montana Building at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue. His offices are in that building, and he named it after the state from which he came to Southern California, and a state for which he has a very strong attach- ment.
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Mr. Henderson was born at Hastings, Nebraska, October 19, 1874, son of George and Helena (Adamstone) Henderson. His father was born at Liverpool, England, came to the United States as a young man and for a number of years lived at Baltimore. Soon after coming to this country the Civil war broke out and he joined Company C, of the Fifth Maryland Infantry, and served all through the war period in the Union army. After the war he was in the Government service at Baltimore. He was a civil and mining engineer, was employed by some of the great mining and indus- trial corporations in the West, and was one of the staff of engineers during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad through to San Francisco. In 1886 he located with his family at Butte, Montana, lived in that city for about ten years, and for the past twenty-six years his home has been in California. He was active in his profession with headquarters at Oak- land and Eureka, and for a little over a year has lived retired at Long Beach. George Henderson returned to Great Britain after he had been in this country a short time and married in Wales, Miss Helena Adamstone. She died at Butte, Montana, in 1903. Of their three children Charles Stephen is the oldest. Frederick A. is state fire insurance adjuster for the Pacific Fire Adjustment Bureau at Butte, Montana; J. Bert is connected with the Hanson Packing Company of Butte.
Charles Stephen Henderson was about twelve years of age when the family moved to Butte, Montana, and he completed his education there. For about fifteen years he was a salesman in a mercantile establishment at Butte, and in 1906 he was elected and served two years as Sheriff of Silver Bow County. In 1914 he was again elected Sheriff, and in March, 1910, he was appointed United States Marshal from Montana by President Taft. Practically all his time during the World war period was devoted to patriotic service. He served as chief-of-staff under B. E. Calkin and later succeeded Mr. Calkin as county director on the War Savings Stamp Committee. He was also for two terms a member of the Butte School Board.
In February, 1919, Mr. Henderson moved to Long Beach, California, and has a number of business interests in this part of the state. He is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, served as potentate of Bagdad Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Butte in 1918, is a life member of Butte Lodge No. 240, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was president of the Rotary Club of Butte in 1918, is a former member of the Silver Bow Club, and is now president of the Rotary Club of Long Beach and served as president of the city's Chamber of Commerce from July 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922. He is a member of the Virginia Country Club of Long Beach and is first vice president of the Taubman Bible Class, the largest men's Bible class in the world, its twenty-five hundred members holding their Sunday morning meetings in the Long Beach Auditorium. Mr. Henderson is a republican, but has taken little part in politics since coming to California. He was prominent party man in Montana, and in 1916 was candidate for governor, being defeated by Sam B. Stewart. He is a very able public speaker.
April 19, 1895, Mr. Henderson married Miss May Barnard of Butte, where she was born, daughter of the late L. A. Barnard, one of the founders of Butte. Her mother, Mary (Snyder) Barnard, is now living at Long Beach. Mrs. Henderson was educated in the public schools of Butte. They have one daughter, Rita Barnard, born at Butte, who graduated from the high school of that city in 1916 and in 1920 received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson reside at 17 Fifth Place in Long Beach.
GEORGE B. WORKMAN, secretary and general manager of the Long Beach Dairy & Creamery Company, a well ordered concern that may con- sistently be said to represent virtually a public utility service in its field of operations, in Long Beach and vicinity, has been the vital and resourceful
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figure in the development and upbuilding of this thriving and important business enterprise.
Mr. Workman claims the old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Coshocton County, Ohio, on the 23d of Febru- ary, 1876, and he being a son of Joseph W. and Mahala ( Baker) Workman, both likewise natives of Ohio. The subject of this review was a child of one year at the time of the family removal from Ohio to Kansas, where his father took up a homestead in Rice County, one and one-half miles distant from the present county seat, where he reclaimed a farm and endured his share of the labors, trials and responsibilities of pioneer life. Joseph W. Workman became one of the substantial and honored citizens of the Sunflower State, where he continued to reside until his death, in July, 1922, at the age of seventy-one years, his widow still maintaining her home in Kansas. Joseph William Workman, grandfather of him whose name intro- duces this review, lost his life while serving as a soldier in the Mexican war, his wife having received as a heritage from her father, a soldier in the War of the Revolution, the tract of land in Kansas which later became the home of Joseph W. Workman and his family. George B. Workman is a member of a family of six sons and four daughters, all of whom are living except the eldest daughter, and he is the only representative of the imme- diate family in California, all of the others remaining residents of Kansas.
The discipline of the pioneer farm in Rice County, Kansas, was com- bined with that of the public schools in the boyhood and youth of George B. Workman, and he has placed high valuation upon the practical experience which he gained in his youth, all of the boys of the large family having early assumed working responsibilities. His first independent enterprise was in farm industry, and later he engaged in the buying and selling of cattle, a business with which his father was long and actively identified. He con- tinued as a successful representative of this line of business in Kansas until 1908, in the fall of which year he came to California and settled at Los Angeles. There he was employed in the freight department and later in the baggage room of the Santa Fe Railroad, with which he there continued his connection about one year. He then same to Long Beach and obtained work in the washing of milk cans at the plant of the Long Beach Dairy Company, his compensation being $65 a month. In this connection Mr. Workman found the desired opportunity for advancement and continuously increasing success. From 1910 until January, 1911, he was thus in the employ of the Long Beach Dairy & Creamery Company, and he then pur- chased stock in the concern. In September, 1911, he bought the interest of the manager of the enterprise, and he is now the owner of the controlling stock in the prosperous business, of which he is the general manager, besides being secretary of the company. Under his aggressive policies and able supervision the business which has been developed from modest proportions, involved in the operation of only four wagons in its distribution service, to such volume that at the present time forty wagons are in commission. The company does a wholesale and retail business in the handling of pasteurized milk and cream, certified milk for infants, buttermilk, cottage cheese and the unexcelled Santa Ana brand of butter.
Mr. Workman has won secure vantage-place as one of the representa- tive business men and loyal and progressive citizens of Long Beach. He is a director of the City National Building Company, which has at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1922, under construction a fine mod- ern office building of twelve stories at Long Beach, and he is also one of the promoters and a director of the corporation which was organized to effect the erection of the Cooper Arms apartment building of twelve stories, which is to be one of finest structures of its kind west of Chicago and which is to be owned by the new co-operative plan which is meeting with marked success in metropolitan centers, by the tenets, who will have title to their respective apartments in the building. Mr. Workman is also a heavy stockholder in the Associated Meat Company of Los Angeles, is president of the Los Cerritos Dairy & Cattle Company of Long Beach,
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and is financially interested in other important corporations in his home city and county. In politics he maintains an independent attitude, he is a valued member of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, is actively identified with the California State Dairy Asso- ciation, the Southern California Milk Dealers' Association and the Inter- national Milk Dealers' Association. He is (1922) representing the Fourth ward of Long Beach as a member of the City Council, he having been drafted for this office in May, 1921, when the commission system of municipal government was adopted by the city, he having assumed office July 4th of that year. He is an active member of the local Young Men's Christian Association.
In June, 1900, at Lyons, Kansas, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Workman to Miss Emma Irene Clark, who was there born, reared and educated. The one child of this union is Mina Mahala, who was born at Lyons, Kansas, and who was graduated in the high school at Geneseo, that state, besides having attended school at Long Beach after the family removal to California. Mrs. Workman and her daughter are popular figures in the social activities of the community, Mrs. Workman being a member of the Ebell Club of Long Beach and being also a director of the Long Beach Dairy & Creamery Company.
WILLIAM ANTONY FRYE. A business that has grown to immense im- portance within a comparatively short time and is one of healthy and logical growth, is the handling of automobile accessories and tires and garage maintenance. In this line of commercial activity, as in almost every other, Long Beach is able to compete successfully with her sister cities. A large and going concern of this kind at Long Beach is the California Garage & Service Corporation, of which William Antony Frye is secretary and treas- urer, and the founder of the business in December, 1922. Mr. Frye is an overseas veteran of the World war, and is commanding officer of the Four Hundred and Seventy-eighth Pursuit Squadron, United States Reserve Air Force.
Mr. Frye was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1897, and is a son of Antony Wintrode and Cora (Daugherty) Frye. The father of Mr. Frye has been prominent as a banker for the greater part of his life. He is a graduate of Washington & Jefferson College, served as secretary and treasurer of the Fifth Avenue Trust & Savings Bank, at Pittsburgh ; assistant cashier of the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank, and cashier of the Bank of America. He was one of the organizers of the Los Angeles City Club and its president. The mother of Mr. Frye, a lady of social charm and many accomplishments and particularly gifted in music, for several years taught music at Pittsburgh and later in the Woman's Seminary at Washington, Pennsylvania, and subsequently went into comic opera. In that connection she is still pleasurable recalled throughout the East for her attractive appearance and musical and dramatic talent.
William Antony Frye attended the Clearwater Grammar School and in 1916 was graduated from the high school at Long Beach. A natural mechanical talent led to an interest in automobiles, but before any real business connections had been formed, his thoughts were turned toward military service, as his own country became involved in the World war. On July 31, 1917, he enlisted in the United States Air service and received his ground school training during August and September at the University Training Camp, Berkeley, California, and his flying training from October to December, 1917, at San Diego. On December 22, 1917, he was com- missioned a first lieutenant in the Air Service, and was flying instructor at Park Fields, Memphis, Tennessee, from January, 1918, to August, 1918, and went overseas in September, 1918. Lieutenant Frye acquitted himself with honor and was discharged in April, 1919, and given reserve status in May, 1919, and now is commanding officer of the Four Hundred and Seventy-eighth Pursuit Squadron, United States Reserve Air Force.
Soon after returning to Long Beach, Mr. Frye went into the business
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of merchandising automobile tires and accessories, in partnership with Charles G. De Coudres, an ensign in the United States Navy, their place of business being on the corner of Ocean and Locust streets. In October, 1920, removal was made to 436-38 American Avenue, Long Beach, and in October, 1921, Mr. Frye purchased his partner's interest and continued - the business, handling the General, the Kelly-Springfield and United States tires, his business style being William A. Frye, Inc. In December, 1922, Mr. Frye founded the California Garage and Service Corporation, of which he is secretary and treasurer. The corporation will very soon be established in very commodious quarters in a new modern three-story building on the corner of Third and Olive streets.
Mr. Frye was married at Memphis, Tennessee, on February 25, 1918, to Miss Barbara Lee Bixby, a member of one of the old and substantial families of Southern California, and a daughter of the late George H. and Amelia M. E. Bixby. Mr. and Mrs. Frye have one son and two daughters : William Antony, Jr., Amelia Jane and Barbara Bixby Frye. They enjoy one of the attractive homes of Long Beach and have a wide social acquaint- ance. Mr. Frye has shown business capacity of a high order and has built up a very solid reputation. He is a member of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and of the Kiwanis Club, and politically is a republican, serving as president in 1920 and 1921, continuously, of the Seventieth Assembly Republican Club.
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