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which was terminated by the death of Mr. Miller in 1906. At Mr. Page's request Josephı R. Patton came from San Jose to Los Angeles and they practiced together until the death of Mr. Patton in 1910. Since then Mr. Page has practiced alone, giving practically all his time to corporation, banking, mining and insurance law.
For a number of years he has been the financial representative of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee in its California business. He was one of the organizers of the Southwestern Shipbuilding Company, and is its general counsel and a director. He was formerly general counsel for the Merchants Bank and Trust Com- pany and helped reorganize it as the Hellman Commercial Trust & Sav- ings Bank, of which he is president, director and general counsel. He was one of the organizers and is a director of the Occidental Life Insur- ance Company, vice-president and director of the Aronson & Company, a director of the State Bank of San Pedro, a director of the First National Bank of Alhambra, counsel for the Merchants' National Bank of Los Angeles, and has represented a number of important copper com- panies of Arizona and Nevada. He has also been counsel for the Los Angeles Realty Board, the Civic Center Association and a number of real estate firms.
For several years Mr. Page was a member of the Pasadena Board of Education, and was chairman of the board for over four years. He has been especially interested in his home city of Pasadena, but has also lent public-spirited co-operation to all the larger movements affect- ing southern California in general. He is a member of the California Club, Midwick Country Club, Valley Hunt Club, Cerritos Gun Club, Squirrel Inn Club, Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is a re- publican and a member of the Congregational Church.
March 1, 1906, he married Marie Markham, eldest daughter of former Governor Henry H. Markham of California. They have four children : Eleanor, a student in the Westridge School for Girls; Ben- jamin Markham, born in 1911; Henry, born in 1913, and Robert, born in 1919.
REV. MICHAEL O'GORMAN, who was educated and ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic church in Ireland, came to California and all his active work has been done in the Los Angeles district. He now has one of the large and prosperous churches in Pasadena.
He was born in Cavan, Province of Ulster, Ireland, August 15, 1883, son of Andrew and Anne (Collins) O'Gorman. To the age of fourteen he was a pupil in the national schools of Ireland and after that for five years took his classical course in St. Patrick's Seminary at Cavan. At the age of nineteen he entered upon his theological and philosophical courses in St. Patrick's College at Carlow, where he was ordained June 13, 1909.
Almost immediately after his ordination Father O'Gorman set out for the United States, and at Los Angeles on October 27, 1909, was ap- pointed assistant pastor at the Cathedral. Three months later he be- came assistant pastor of Our Lady of Loretto parish, and remained there diligent and faithful to his duties eight and a half years. Then came his appointment as pastor of the Holy Family Church in South Pasadena. This parish has had a rapid growth under Father O'Gorman and now contains a hundred thirty-two families, and property beside the church is to be improved with a parochial school, to be conducted by the Sis- ters of the Holy Name. Father O'Gorman has recently added to his
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responsibilities by establishing a new parish at Monterey Park, for- merly Ramona Acres. Eighty-two families are in that parish, and in a temporary building Mass is said every Sunday morning. At the close of the war it is planned to erect a permanent church building in that parish in 1918.
Father O'Gorman is a third degree Knight of Columbus and is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
FRANK C. COLLIER has been a well-known lawyer in the southwest for a number of years, and his own services and abilities have contributed much to the general prestige of the name Collier in the law, business and public affairs. His father, David C. Collier was one of those interested in the Kansas Border troubles, removing to Colorado where he was one of the first white men in the Territory, and later becoming judge of the Gilpin County Court. He was for many years a prominent lawyer at San Diego. Frank C. Collier is a brother of Colonel D. C. Collier, who has been active as a lawyer, banker, railroad builder and was di- rector general and later president of the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego in 1915.
Frank C. Collier was born in a mining camp at Central City, Cali- fornia, September 14, 1878, a son of David C. and Martha Maria (John- son) Collier. In 1884 his parents moved to San Diego, where he grew up, graduating from the high school of that city in 1896. He took his law work in the University of Michigan, graduating LL. B. in 1901. He was admitted the same year to the bar of California and Michigan, was admitted to the District, Circuit and Federal Courts in 1903 and in 1908 to the United States Supreme Court. He began practice with the firm of Collier & Smith at San Diego, the senior partner being his brother. During 1902 he established his office at Prescott, Arizona. Mr. Collier returned to Los Angeles in 1903, and for three years followed a general practice, his clientage involving many interests in the south- west. During 1906-08 he was a member of the firm of Kemp & Collier, his partner being John W. Kemp. Mr. Collier spent the greater part of the year, 1909, abroad with residence at London, doing some special work in England. In the latter part of 1909 he returned to Los Angeles and then became associated with Oliver O. Clark under the firm name of Collier & Clark. Since then Mr. Collier has steadily practiced, with offices in the H. W. Hellman Building. He and his firm have repre- sented as attorneys the Los Angeles Wholesale Jewelers Board of Trade, the Baltimore Oil Company, of which Mr. Collier was assistant secre- tary, the Los Angeles Record, the Anaconda Petroleum Company, of which he is secretary, the Edmund G. Peycke Company, the Bekins Van & Storage Company, the Freconee Company, of which he was secre- tary, and the Peerless Pneumatic Clutch Company, of which he was for several years the secretary and is now counsel.
He is a knight commander of the Court of Honor, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Jonathan Club and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. December 11, 1905, he mar- ried Lucy Kate Pinkerton.
W. A. BONYNGE during the past thirty years has been identified with a number of important business and financial undertakings at Los .An- geles, and in insurance and banking circles his name is probably as well known as that of any other man in southern California.
He was born in Lancashire, England, January 22, 1855, son of
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Thomas and Louisa ( Taylor) Bonynge. He was privately tutored and also attended Alston College until the age of seventeen. He spent one year in the study of medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons at Dub- lin, but abandoned the profession to come to America. He located at one of the most interesting points in the west at the time, Virginia City, Nevada, where he was engaged in mining at the famous Comstock Lode until 1880. Mr. Bonynge then removed to San Antonio, Texas, where he was engaged in the fire insurance business, and also organized the Merchants' and Mechanics Building and Loan Association, which he served as secretary.
From San Antonio Mr. Bonynge turned to Los Angeles in 1888. Flere he resumed the fire insurance business and in 1903 established the Bonynge & Girdleson Company, a well known and prominent fire insur- ance agency in which he still owns a half interest. That is only one of a number of important connections he formed. In 1889 he organized the Home Investment Building & Loan Association, and has ever since been its secretary and director. In 1903 he organized the Commercial National Bank, of which he is also president and a director. Mr. Bonynge is a director in the National Bank of Riverside, and a director of the Golden State Bank of Anaheim.
Fraternally he has been especially prominent in Odd Fellowship, has filled all the chairs in the order, and was grand master of the state in 1899-1900. He is a member of South Gate Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and also a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Chamber of Commerce and Municipal League. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the Episcopal Church.
At Virginia City, Nevada, in January, 1878, Mr. Bonynge married Miss Mary Davis. Mrs. Bonynge, who died in October, 1915, was the mother of two children, Charles W., now a lieutenant in the Medical Department of the United States Navy ; and W. A., Jr., assistant cashier of the Commercial National Bank of Los Angeles. In January, 1917, Mr. Bonynge married at Los Angeles Margaret W. Douthit.
ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC PARISH. The founding of St. Joseph's par- ish may be dated from December 29, 1888, under which date the Rt. Rev. Bishop Francisco Mora appointed the Rev. Joseph Florian Bartsch, a secular priest, as rector pro tem. Under his direction the frame church fronting on Santee street between Twelfth and Pico was built and fur- nished at an expense of over nine thousand dollars.
Father Bartsch was succeeded in August, 1890, by the Rev. A. Reid- haar, and he in turn in October, 1892, by Rev. John B. Metzler, who built the parish house. He closed his accounts on August 11, 1893, leaving a debt of $1,080 and a balance in the treasury of two cents. The parish had been entrusted to the Franciscan Fathers of the St. Louis, Missouri, Province, and the well-known Rev. Victor Aertker, O. F. M., was sent to become the next pastor. He was a zealous and good priest. and his energy soon brought forth results. Early in 1894 he added to the frame church, built a commodious school in 1895, which is the pres- ent Santee rooming house. The enlarged frame church becoming in- adequate Father Victor made systematic preparation for the building of a large brick structure. The necessary property was acquired at Twelfth and Los Angeles streets. The plans were drawn by the Franciscan architect for a church in pure Gothic style. The cornerstone was laid on July 16, 1901, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop George Montgomery, and the
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structure was completed early in 1903 without the slightest mishap. It was dedicated on May 3, 1903, by the Apostolic Delegate Diomede Fal- conio, O. F. M., Archbishop of Larissa and later Cardinal, who had been invited to Los Angeles for the purpose by Rev. Father Victor. That day a gala day not only for St. Joseph's parish and the Catholics of the town, but for all Los Angeles. Very appropriately the mayor of the city, together with the Very Rev. Patrick Harnett, administrator of the vacant diocese, were on the reception committee. A public reception was tendered the Apostolic Delegate on May 4th in the old Hazard's Pavilion. At the dedication services Monsignor Falconio officiated, Rt. Rev. Thomas Grace, Bishop of Sacramento, sang the Pontifical Mass, Archbishop Montgomery, then of San Francisco, assisted in the sanctu- ary and preached the dedicatory sermon. About twenty-five other pre- lates and priests both of the secular and regular clergy were in at- tendance.
During the same administration the old frame church was con- verted into a school and the residence of the Fathers was built at the same time as the church. When Father Victor left Los Angeles in 1904 the church was practically paid for, and no greater debt remained than he had found when coming here eleven years previous. In August, 1904, Rev. Raphael Fuhr was appointed pastor. He acquired for the parish the building at the southwest corner of Pico and Santee, erected by the St. Joseph s Society. In 1905 he resolved to build a brick school with basement and an auditorium with a seating capacity of about a thousand. The cornerstone was blessed and laid by Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Conaty in May, 1905. The large building was completed early in 1907. It stands south of the church and faces Los Angeles street. Up to this time the school had been in the hands of the Dominican Sisters. Father Raphael secured the services of the Franciscan Sisters, whose mother house is at Stella Niagara, near Buffalo, New York.
In 1909 Rev. Cassian Tritz became pastor of St. Joseph's. With much energy he set about the herculean task of reducing the oppres- sive load of debt, and his success in that was perhaps the most notable achievement. Specifications were also made and contracts let for the great and beautiful pipe organ, the last thing required to make the church and school perfectly equipped in every line. Failing health made the retirement of Father Cassian Tritz necessary and in August, 1912, the present incumbent Father Theophilus Richardt took charge. The organ was installed about Christmas, 1912, and was soon paid for. The able services of Professor John L. Jung as organist and choir director were secured, and he also teaches the two upper grades of boys in the school and directs the singing of all the children.
Conditions being now very normal, the principal task of the pastor was to keep things running along smoothly, to maintain the large group of buildings in repair and to reduce the debt. The house on Pico and Santee was converted into an apartment house. Street assessments for the widening of Los Angeles street, for the paving of Pico, Santee and Twelfth streets, cost the parish upwards of fifteen thousand dollars. Costly and beautiful vestments were secured and the statuary of the church was polychromed anew. For some years the School Society had by monthly contributions assisted in paying the largely increased sal- aries of the teaching staff. As soon as the debt of the parish was within easy control Father Theophilus Richardt laid the foundation for a per- manent school fund to be brought to such generous proportions that
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from the interest the salaries may be defrayed and school books fur- nished all the children free of cost.
The assistant priests of St. Joseph's during the last six years have been: Father George Wehmeyer, O. F. M .; Father Ferdinand Kenny, O. F. M .; Father Julius Gliebe, O. F. M., and Father John G. Koerner, O. F. M.
Something should now be said concerning the territorial limits of St. Joseph's parish. Specifically defined they are: In the west from Ninth and Hill, south on Hill to Fourteenth, east to Main, south to Six- teenth, east to Los Angeles, south to Washington. In the south along Washington to the Los Angeles River, in the east along the river to Seventh, in the north from river west on Seventh to Central, south to Ninth, west to Hill, the starting point. This territory is inhabited by people of the laboring class and has many poor, among whom the parish conference of St. Vincent de Paul has done much good. A crying need of the territory is a public playground site for the great number of poor children. This territory is gradually being invaded by public markets, storage houses, wholesale houses, laundries, carbarns; it is cut up by the tracks of the railroad yards, by trunk lines of the Pacific Electric and by spur tracks. The attendance at St. Joseph's is to a great extent made up of transients from rooming and apartment houses. The streets in the territory are very irregularly laid out and their care and mainte- nance are an unusual case of municipal neglect in this great and beau- tiful city.
. Father Theophilus Richardt, pastor of St. Joseph's, is not only a man of great ability as a pastoral leader, but a man of most unusual tal- ents and of broad and liberal association gained from extensive experi- ence in different parts of the world. He was born in the Province of Saxony, Germany, January 31, 1869, son of George and Christina Rich- ardt. Beginning his education in parochial schools, at the age of eleven he came to America and entered St. Joseph's College at Teutopolis, Illi- nois, from which he graduated in 1886. He then took the Franciscan habit, and was a student of philosophy in the monastery at Quincy, Illi- nois, until 1890, and took his course in theology in the Franciscan Semi- nary at St. Louis, Missouri. He was ordained in 1893, and after 1894 became professor at St. Francis Solano College at Quincy, Illinois, where he remained eight years. He then went abroad to Rome, and at- tended the International College of San Antonio until 1903. On return- ing to America Father Richardt was stationed at Santa Barbara, Cali- fornia, and for nine years taught theology in the Old Mission. In 1912. as above noted, he was made pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Los Angeles.
BERTRAM D. LACKEY, well known in Los Angeles financial circles, started out in life to become an artist, for which he had no incon- siderable qualification and talent, but now for a number of years has found all his time and energies absorbed in directing and managing in- dustrial and sales departments for several corporations, and in Los Angeles as a member of the well-known firm of Wilson, Lackey & Company.
Mr. Lackey was born at Akron, Ohio, May 13, 1882, a son of Rev. Raymond and Julia (Delaney) Lackey. His father, also a native of Akron, was a graduate of Heidelberg University at Tiffin, Ohio, entered the Methodist ministry, and for many years was head of a large and prosperous congregation in Akron. He retired in 1914 and has since made his home at Los Angeles.
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Bertram D. Lackey graduated from the Akron High School in 1900 and soon afterward went to Philadelphia and found employment in the Art Department of the Ladies' Home Journal, doing general drawing and also studying art for a period of four years. He then abandoned art for business, and became connected with the American Agricultural Company as salesman, and later was sales manager of that large organization. In 1909 he went to Jacksonville, Florida, as vice president and general manager of the Southern Menhaden Com- pany, a subsidiary of the Dupont Powder Company of Wilmington, Delaware. While in the South Mr. Lackey erected the plant, bought the steamers, and otherwise outfitted and equipped the company for business. In 1913, having resigned, he returned to Philadelphia and took charge of the Bond Department of Newport, Wilson & Company, members of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Mr. Lackey came to Los Angeles in 1915 and joined Mr. Wilson in organizing the Wilson, Lackey & Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. They have a large and prosperous business as bond brokers and dealers in listed securities. Mr. Lackey is secretary of the Conejo Country Club, a member of the Brentwood Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Press Club. Recently he bought the beautiful Earl Rogers home in the Wilshire section of Los Angeles. He married at Jackson- ville, Florida, May 1, 1912, Betty Farrell.
WATT L. MORELAND. Twenty years would about cover the history of the automobile industry, and that period has been coincident with the active term of Watt L. Moreland's career. He is one of the older auto- mobile men in the country, and his experience makes him familiar with every phase of the development of American automobiles. Mr. Moreland has been a resident of Los Angeles for over fifteen years, and is gen- eral manager of the Moreland Motor Truck Company, one of the larger manufacturers of motor trucks on the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Moreland was born at Muncie, Indiana, February 11, 1879, a son of John B. and Alethea (Grice) Moreland. He attended grammar and high school there, and at the age of eighteen directed his energies into the machinist's trade. For three years he was with the Republic Iron and Steel Company, beginning at wages of fifty cents a day. Be- sides what his work brought him in the way of skill and experience he carried on and completed a course of mechanical engineering with the International Correspondence School. His next service was as diemaker with the Toledo Machine and Tool Company at Toledo, Ohio. Three months later he removed to Cleveland, and went to work for one of the pioneer concerns in the automobile industry, the Winton Carriage Com- pany. He was in the assembling and testing department, and later was transferred to the New York branch, where he had charge of the me- chanical department. From New York Mr. Moreland returned to his home state and at Kokomo became assistant in designing and building racing cars for the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company. Those familiar with the automobile industry will recall that it was some of the racing cars put out by the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company that took part and made such a splendid showing in the first endurance race in America.
As a vacation Mr. Moreland spent some time in Los Angeles in 1902 and became so fascinated with the country that he determined to remain. Soon afterward the Magnolia Automobile Company was or- ganized by him, with plant at Riverside, for the manufacture of auto-
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mobiles. He remained there a year and a half as general manager of the company. About that time the company became involved in some law suits over patents which obstructed their business, and Mr. More- land accordingly returned to Los Angeles and for a time was identified with the Auto Vehicle Company, and later with other similar concerns. In April, 1911, he established the Moreland Motor Truck Company, of which he is general manager, while the other executive officers are R. H. Raphael, president ; C. J. Kubach, vice president, and J. L. Armer, secretary and treasurer. The Moreland Motor Truck Company manu- factures a general line of trucks, which are now found employed in in- dustries and with many individual owners all up and down the Pacific Coast, from South America to Canada, while many of them have been exported to Australia.
In May, 1902, at Riverside, California, Mr. Moreland married Miss Margaret Elkins. They have three children, Margaret, Harriet and Watt. Mr. Moreland is a republican, a member of the Jonathan and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, the Gamut Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, and in business circles is also well known as president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the California State Manufacturers' Association.
HENDERSON HAYWARD, M. D. A resident of Los Angeles for the past twenty-five years, Henderson Hayward is a retired physician, prac- ticed for many years after the Civil war in the East, but in Los Angeles has been chiefly identified with business affairs.
He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1844, son of Dr. Joseph and Sally (Brearley) Hayward. From 1855 to 1858 he attended the Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg, Pennsyl- vania, and took up the study of medicine in Georgetown University at Washington. Previous to graduation he had entered government service, and from October, 1864, until April, 1865, was hospital steward in the United States Army, under Colonel L. A. Edwards. When his superior was called away to other duties he left Dr. Hayward as chief clerk of the Medical Department of the. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
After a period of semi-retirement and recuperation during 1869-71, Dr. Hayward located in Delaware County, near Philadelphia, and prac- ticed medicine steadily for over twenty years. Impaired health com- pelled him to give up his profession, and in December, 1894, he came to Los Angeles, where he has since been a permanent resident. For a time he was secretary and treasurer of the Coalinga Oil Company, and subse- quently served as director in the Reed Crude and the Rice Ranch Oil Company. From 1898 for seven years Dr. Hayward gave most of his time to his real estate investments, but for ten years has had no interests to interfere seriously with his retirement. However, he has served as director of the Security Savings Bank and Hellman Bank. He is a member of the Los Angeles Country and University Clubs.
Dr. Hayward has been twice married. For his second wife he mar- ried in San Francisco, April 22, 1897, Julia Dibble. He had eight chil- dren by his first wife and one daughter by his present marriage.
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EDGAR S. DULIN is a native of southern California, and for a num- ber of years has been prominent in financial and business circles at Pasadena and Los Angeles, being one of the active executives in the well-known organization of the Blankenhorn-Hunter Company, invest- ment bankers.
He was born at San Diego, California, November 4, 1892, son of Edgar G. Dulin. His father, who was born at Liberty, Missouri, Octo- ber 21, 1852, was educated there, and later became associated with his uncles, the famous Studebaker brothers of South Bend, Indiana, as manager of the Kansas City branch of the Studebaker Brothers Car- riage Factory. Later he was a rancher at Russell, Kansas, until 1888, when he removed to San Diego, where he was instrumental in organiz- ing the Pacific Wood and Coal Company. Later he was in business in San Francisco in connection with the Pacific Coast Syrup Company and other large enterprises. He retired in 1908 and is now a resident of Los Angeles. At Kansas City, Missouri, he married Jennie Garrett- son, daughter of E. A. Garrettson, a prominent banker in the middle west.
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