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WESTERN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY. The Western Hardwood Lumber Company at Los Angeles is one of the largest plants on the Pacific Coast specializing in hardwood, a product that has an enormous sale over Southern California. The business was established in 1905 and incorpo- rated in 1906. It is located at 214 .East Fifteenth Street in Los Angeles, and the plant, comprising office, sheds and other buildings, covers over five acres of ground. When the business was established Joseph Ringennan was president, Howell Baker secretary and D. J. Cahill vice president. The company throughout has maintained a capital of $100,000. Since 1918 the officers of the company have been : D. J. Cahill, president ; L. C. Spaulding, treasurer ; B. W. Byrne, secretary, and H. M. Cahill, a director.
The company maintains dry kilns, mills for resawing, trimming and reworking lumber, and a splendid veneer plant. The stock of hardwood includes everything that is used commercially in California, including many varieties of the Southern hardwood, and also large quantities of woods imported from the Hawaiian Islands, Japan, the Philippines and other oriental countries. It is conducted strictly as a wholesale institution.
The president and active manager, Dennis J. Cahill, was born at Omaha, Nebraska, was educated there in public schools, and in 1890 engaged in railroad work at Denver. In 1907 he came to Los Angeles and began with the Western Hardwood Lumber Company as vice presi- dent and is now its president. He is a member of the Merchants and
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Manufacturers Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Association of . Manufacturers, the All Year Club of Southern California, and is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus.
Bayard W. Byrne, secretary and sales manager of the company, was born at Hudson, New York, September 27, 1880, and was educated in public schools there. He had ten years of commercial training and experi- ence in New York City. In 1911 he came to Los Angeles, and for a time was bookkeeper with the Western Hardwood Lumber Company and from that position has been promoted to his present responsibilities.
Mr. Byrne is a member of the Rotary Club, the City Club, the Cham- ber of Commerce, the All Year Club, the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, the Better American Federation, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a vestryman of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. During the war he was active in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives. Mr. Byrne married Miss Clara Algar, of Hudson, New York, in September, 1905. They have two children, George C. and Bayard W., Jr. Mrs. Byrne was born and educated in Hudson, New York. She is a member of the Southwest Ebell Club.
E. B. LOWE is one of the oldest realtors in point of years of active service at Huntington Park. He established himself in business there May 15, 1911, and has handled a large share of the business involving real estate, loans, rentals and insurance. He has made a specialty of business and residence properties and also maintains a contracting depart- ment. Mr. Lowe was the first president of the Huntington Park Board of Realtors, and is a member of the State and National Real Estate Association. Since 1914 he has been a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board. His offices are at 131 Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park.
Mr. Lowe was born in Winterport, Maine, June 29, 1879, son of Minot S. and Eva (Boynton) Lowe. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. His father was a sea captain and the son, Edward, frequently sailed with his father. For a time he was in the clothing, boot and shoe business at Winterport, and then came to the Southwest and for a time lived at Silver Bell, Arizona. While there he followed steam engineering, and that was his occupation after locating in Los Angeles in 1909 until he engaged in the real estate business at Huntington Park. Mr. Lowe is a member of the Rotary Club, is a York Rite Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Chamber of Commerce. He also belongs to the Engineers Asso- ciation of Los Angeles.
On October 3, 1906, he married Miss Louise Plummer, daughter of Horace and Julia ( Fisher) Plummer, of Winterport, Maine. Mrs. Lowe was born at Passadumkeag, Maine, and was educated in the public schools in Winterport, Maine. They have one daughter, Georgia Bruce.
JAMES R. JOHNSTON, president of the Huntington Park Chamber of Commerce, was an electrical engineer by profession, saw active service in the great war, and is a prominent realtor of Los Angeles County. In September, 1919, he and H. N. Longfellow established the Pacific Loan & Realty Company at 116 South Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park. Mr. Johnston bought out the interest of his partner on June 1, 1921, and has since been alone, handling general real estate, loans, building, insur- ance and rentals. He specializes in business and industrial properties, and is a thoroughly equipped business man with the benefit of a large technical experience and knowledge.
Mr. Johnston was born in Trenton, Missouri, April 28, 1894, son of Eugene and Mary J. (Livermore) Johnston. His father was born in Indiana and his mother at Shelbina, Missouri. The father of Mr. Johnston
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was in the transfer business in Missouri, and in November, 1921, came to California and is now living retired at Huntington Park.
James R. Johnston acquired a public school education at Trenton, Missouri, and then entered the University of Missouri, taking the elec- trical engineer course and graduating with the degree Electrical Engineer in 1917. On May 4, 1917, he enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, for duty with the Coast Artillery, and in November, 1917, was sent overseas. During the remainder of the period of hostilities in France he was on duty with the French artillery, beginning .December 24, 1917. He was a second lieutenant, and rejoined the American forces November 11, 1918, the day of the armistice. He received his honorable discharge in February, 1919. From March 1, 1919, until September 1 of the same year Mr. Johnston was an electrical engineer employed by the Southern California Edison Company, leaving that to engage in his present business. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Huntington Park Hotel Company.
Mr. Johnston is a member of the Lions Club, is a Mason and a member of the (R. H.) college fraternity. He is a Methodist.
On February 27, 1919, he married Miss Hope Gladys Longfellow, daughter of Howard N. and Hettie E. (Justus) Longfellow, of Los Angeles. Mrs. Johnston was born in Oklahoma, and was educated in the public schools at Trenton, Missouri, and in Baker University in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have one daughter, Dorothy Mae.
THOMAS M. CASEY is president of the Thomas M. Casey Investment Company of Huntington Park, a business organized in January, 1922, to handle loans, insurance, real estate and investments. The company oper- ates on a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars. The officers and directors are: Thomas M. Casey, president ; E. B. Hughes, vice president ; Edith H. Falls, secretary and treasurer; J. W. Grant and Oscar Hilton, directors. The company, whose offices are at 254 South Pacific Boulevard, maintains a building department and has facilities for handling every- thing in the line of real estate development and improvement.
Thomas M. Casey is a lawyer by profession and was born in Henry County, Missouri, April 25, 1858, son of George M. and Lucy A. (Crosswhite) Casey. He was educated in public schools, and then entered Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1881 and took his law degree in 1882. Mr. Casey became an influential lawyer and citizen of Clinton, Missouri, where he pursued his profession until 1900. He has been a resident of Huntington Park, California, since 1910, and for several years was superintendent of the Cudahy Ranch, until he established him- self in the real estate business. Mr. Casey is on the Advisory Board of the Huntington branch of the Southwest Pacific Bank. He is a director of the Huntington Park Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
On May 30, 1883, he married Miss Kate M. Salmon, of Clinton, Missouri, where she was born and educated. She finished her education in the Baptist Female College of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Casey have one son, Robert P., a resident of Los Angeles.
JAMES S. CANDEE is president of the Huntington Park Board of Realtors, and is associated with his brother, W. H. Candee, in the Candee Investment Company, one of the most enterprising real estate firms in this section of Los Angeles County.
The Huntington Park Board of Realtors was organized in 1920, E. B. Lowe being the first president and W. H. Candee the first secretary and treasurer. The local board is affiliated with the California State Asso- ciation and the National Real Estate Association, and all its members are also members of the state and national bodies. The present officers are: J. S. Candee, president, and E. E. McClary, secretary and treas-
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urer. There are eighteen members. They use the Multiple Listing System, and they have as an organization worked for the general welfare of the community. Recently the board installed three fine electrical signs to advertise Huntington Park. The board also makes appraisals for city and public properties.
The Candee Investment Company was established in 1920 to do a general real estate, insurance, loan and rental business. It is a copartner- ship between J. S. Candee and his brother, W. H. Candee. James S. Candee was born in Omaha, Nebraska, November 5, 1894, son of Horace G. and May (Somers) Candee, the former a native of Muscatine, Iowa, and the latter of Connecticut. Horace G. Candee was in the banking business at Omaha. In 1898 he came to California and located at San Diego, and in 1902 removed to Hollywood, where he engaged in the real estate business. Subsequently he bought the State Bank at El Cajon, operating it until 1913. Since then he has been a resident of Huntington Park, and he bought the controlling interest in the National Bank and directed its affairs until 1917, when he sold out and is now retired. Horace G. Candee was the father of three children, a daughter, Harriet, now deceased, and the sons, William H. and James S.
James S. Candee was educated in public. schools at Hollywood, and then entered the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1917. In April, 1917, he enlisted for service in the World war, attended the First Officers' Training Camp at Presidio, San Francisco, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. Later he was promoted to first lieutenant, and was in the service until honorably discharged December 1, 1919. After the war Mr. Candee was with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California in the merchandise distribution department until he and his brother established the Candee Investment Company.
He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Lions Club and the Huntington Park Chamber of Commerce. On April 18, 1922, he married Miss Florence Burr, daughter of Eugene and Grace (Ryan) Burr, of Leavenworth, Kansas, where she was born. She was educated in the public schools of her native town and in the Bishop's School of San Diego, California.
JAMES J. PENNY, for seventeen years manager of The Telegram, a republican afternoon daily, is a man who has steadily. followed one line of business all of his life, and understands it in all of its manifold complexi- ties. Mr. Penny was born at Benton, Franklin County, Illinois.
Until he was sixteen years old he attended the public schools of Benton, and then left school to go into the local newspaper office in the capacity of printer's "devil." Subsequently he went to Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, and became editor and publisher of the Johnson County Journal. After several years he sold this paper, and, going to Pinckneyville, conducted the Pinckneyville Democrat for ten years. His next venture in the journalistic field was the organizing of a stock company at Aurora, Illinois, for the purpose of publishing the Daily Times, but after about a year disposed of his interests and went to Murphysboro, Illinois, and, buying the Murphysboro Independent, conducted it for ten years. In 1904 he sold the Independent and came to California, without any definite plans. Stopping off at Long Beach he was so impressed with the possibili- ties of the city he decided to remain. The Long Beach Telegram had been established by a stock company composed of the late F. C. Roberts, Fred W. Stowell and others, but during the month of its existence Mr. Stowell was not satisfied with the results and regretted embarking in the venture. Mr. Penny bought Mr. Stowell's interest, and from February, 1905, to January, 1923, was its manager, when he disposed of his interests.
Mr. Penny belongs to the Long Beach Rotary Club and the Virginia Country Club of Long Beach. Fraternally he maintains affiliations with
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Long Beach Lodge No. 888, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He attends the Christian Science Church, but is not a member of that cult.
Mrs. Penny prior to her marriage was Miss Bertha A. Sullivan, of Pinckneyville, Illinois. She was born, reared and educated in that town. She belongs to the Ebell Club of Long Beach, and other social organiza- tions. For some years she was quite active in newspaper work, for which she is particularly fitted, and in which she achieved success, but in more recent years she has only written when she has felt the urge, or when the paper was in need of her services. Some of her writings have been issued in book form under the title of "Browsing Around the World," of which there have been two editions. During the trip which gave rise to this work she represented the old Los Angeles Morning Herald and The Telegram. About two years ago she wrote a series, published in The Tele- gram, which was very popular, entitled "Reflections of a Tired Housewife." Her literary activities have resulted in her membership with the College Woman's Club, although she never attended college. Mr. and Mrs. Penny maintain their home at 1805 East First Street, Long Beach. In addition to her literary work Mrs. Penny is otherwise talented, and having traveled extensively is able to speak of her experiences and observations, as well as upon the current events of the day, in so entertaining a manner that she is in demand as a speaker at banquets and other gatherings. Through this medium and her club work she is now giving expression to her individuality, rather than with her pen.
RICHARD HORTER WELLS. In California and throughout the South- west are many beautiful evidences of the work done by the late Richard Horter Wells as chief architect of the Santa Fe Railway. Perhaps the best known of these is the famous El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. As chief architect of the western division for a quarter of a century he had charge of an enormous volume of building for the Railway Company. He designed all the attractive mission type eating houses and stations along the road.
Mr. Wells was born at Toronto, Canada, December 27, 1847, and lived through more than three quarters of a century. He died January 21, 1923. He was a son of Arthur George and Georgiana Dora Rideont Wells. His mother was a native of England. Richard H. Wells was a member of the first generation of the Wells family which had not served in the British army from the time of William the Conqueror. Richard H. Wells was survived by four brothers, all of them successful men. His brother, Arthur G. Wells, has been in the service of the Santa Fe Railway Com- pany for over forty years, and since 1920 has been vice president in charge of operations of the Santa Fe Railway Company, with headquarters in Chicago. Another brother, R. E. Wells, is in the automobile business at Los Angeles, John Wells is a Santa Fe Railway official at Los Angeles, and William Wells is in the brokerage business in Chicago.
Richard H. Wells was educated in a private school for boys at Guelph, Ontario, and as a youth became an employe in the postal service of the Grand Trunk Railway. He rose to the position of chief clerk. At the age of twenty-two he entered the office of Langley, Langley & Burke, architects. On leaving Canada he moved to Colorado in 1872, acquired a large ranch and engaged in the sheep business on an extensive scale. A few years later practically all his stock perished in a great blizzard. Soon after that he resumed work as an architect with the Santa Fe Railway Com- pany, and subsequently practiced architecture as an independent profes- sion at Topeka, Kansas. He again lost practically his entire fortune in the panic of 1893. Mr. Wells on March 27, 1897, resumed his connec- tions with the Santa Fe Railway Company, and for practically a quarter of a century had been chief architect of the western division.
" The late Mr. Wells was a very religious man, a Christian in word and deed, and extremely charitable. He was also an authority on fishing, and was
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a member of the Rod and Reel Club. He was a personal friend of Helen Hunt Jackson. While in Colorado Mrs. Jackson spent much of her time at his ranch. In her book, "Bits of Travel," Mr. Wells, his dog and his horse are frequently mentioned. For a number of years his headquarters were at Pueblo, Colorado, and from that point he directed much of his work as a railroad architect. He was also architect for many of the beautiful homes in Denver and Pueblo. He was a member of the Epis- copal Church, and his funeral was conducted in the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn.
Mr. Wells is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ottalie U. Wells, and two sons and two daughters. The son Clarence F. Wells is a contractor at Los Angeles. Charles W. Wells, at home with his mother in Glendale, was in the army during the World war, having charge of classes of instruction. The daughter, Catherine W., is the wife of Dr. James L. Flint, a prominent eye, ear and nose specialist of Los Angeles, and Doctor and Mrs. Flint have three children, the youngest named for his grand- father. The other daughter is Mrs. Harriet Wells Hopkins, of Glendale.
GEORGE U. MOYSE has been one of the prominent men in the educa- tional affairs of Los Angeles County for many years. Under him as principal the Union High School at Glendale has enjoyed remarkable progress and maintained work of the highest standard for many years.
Mr. Moyse, who completed his education in California, was born at Little Prairie, Wisconsin. In 1891 his family moved to California. His first home was at Rivera. For three years he was a student in the University of Southern California, and then for two years was principal of the Gallitin Grammar School. Mr. Moyse graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of California with the class of 1897, and then resumed his work as principal of the Gallitin Grammar School for a year, and for two years was vice-principal of the Siskiyou County High School at Yreka. He served one year as vice-principal of the Bakersfield School, and in 1902 began the work which he has carried on for over twenty years as principal of the Union High School at Glendale.
Mr. Moyse has been a member of the County Board of Education at Los Angeles County, and has long been prominent among the school men of Southern California. He is a member of the School Masters Club of Southern California, the California High School Teachers Association and the California State Teachers Association, being a member of the council of the southern section of that body., He is a Delta Tau Delta, a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the Eastern Star, and belongs to the Rotary Club and University Club and Chamber of Commerce at Glendale. His church is the Methodist Episcopal.
MRS. A. T. ANDERSON is proprietor of the Golden West Sanitarium at 1100 Windsor Road in Glendale. Mrs. Anderson is a graduate nurse and a thoroughly well qualified business woman, and has given this sani- tarium a most enviable reputation among hospitals and similar institutions in Southern California.
It was formerly known as the Thornycroft Sanitarium, being owned by Mrs. Nan Maxon Miller. 'There are five acres of ground, with shrub- bery and trees, altogether being a very restful spot. There are thirty- three cottages, a two-story administration building and a one-story hospital building 135x50 feet. The equipment and service are similar to those in the best regulated institutions of the kind in the country.
Mrs. Allie Anderson was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1884, daughter of Walter E. Taylor and a descendent of the family of Gen. Zachary Taylor. She took her nurses' training course in Greenville, and post- graduate course in Chicago, and she came to Glendale in 1903 with her three children, Cymbeline, Waltha and John. She had practically no capital, and in five years has developed a property that is worth $100,000. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce, the
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Professional and Business Woman's clubs, the Tuesday Afternoon Club and is very popular in the community both for her character and for her business achievements.
SIDNEY S. GILHULY had received a record of successful service in the real estate field at Glendale, when he became a member of the firm Gilhuly & Russell, realtors. This partnership was organized May 1, 1923, to succeed the individual business of Mr. Gilhuly, who had estab- lished his offices at 1257 South Central Avenue in 1921. The firm has all the facilities for a general real estate business, handling loans, rentals, exchanges and insurance.
Sidney Stewart Gilhuly was born at Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 1888, and was reared and educated there. For a time after leaving school he was an employe of the operating department of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1910 he came to the United States, and lived at Larimore, North Dakota, until he came to California in 1912. In Los Angeles Mr. Gilhuly entered the service of the Santa Fe Railway Company, and was with that road until he moved to Glendale in 1918.
Mr. Gilhuly is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a Knights Templar Mason, a member of Glendale Lodge No. 1289, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Baptist Church. He married, July 1, 1907, Miss Rose Schnitzius, of St. Joseph, Missouri, where she was born and educated. They have two children, Marjorie, aged four- teen, and Rosemary, aged ten. Mrs. Gilhuly is a member of the Glendale Tuesday Afternoon Club.
WELLS SOUTHWORTH HASTINGS, who died suddenly at his home, 128 North St. Andrews Place, in Hollywood, May 8, 1923, had lived in Los Angeles County and did some of his important work here, but his achieve- ments as an author and artist belong to the world of literature rather than to any one locality.
He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, June 24, 1878, son of Col. George Seymour and Harriet Mills (Southworth) Hastings. On both sides he represents old, socially prominent and wealthy families of Connecticut. His father served as secretary to Governor Fenton of Connecticut during the Civil war, and for many years was a prominent corporation lawyer in New York. Harriet Southworth was a noted beauty, whose portrait was painted by Daniel Huntington. Her father at one time owned the Southworth Paper Mills. The Southworth and Hastings families have been in America since 1620.
Wells S. Hastings was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1902. He was in the same class with Reginald Vanderbilt, Bryant Hooker and a group of other prominent men, and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Three days after graduating from Yale Mr. Hastings married Elizabeth Putman Stearns, of Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of Charles Stearns. Mrs. Hastings represents an old Colonial and Revolutionary family. The original home site of the Stearns family was granted from the King. On the old home at Hartford the front door is adorned with a number, containing the royal insignia of the three Royal Feathers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hastings after their marriage went to Paris, where they lived a few years writing and studying, and the greatest part of their married life was spent in travel. Mr. Hastings was a man of independent means, permitting him to make full use of his opportunities for travel, study and artistic application. He was a director in several important manufacturing and business corporations in the East. They had a home in Maine and also spent many winters in Florida, where Mr. Hastings pursued his favorite sport of fishing on the Indian River. One of his diversions was dogs, and he owned the Druid Kennels, keeping twenty- three blooded animals, including old English sheep dogs, police dogs and
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