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There are many qualifications that enter into the equipment of a big and successful merchant, and Mr. Haggarty undoubtedly possesses most of them, and some of them without a rival. He has a wonderful faculty for detail, and there are few items in the management of the stores that do not come within his purview. For all that he remains a great buyer and it has been his custom for a number of years to visit the New York markets four times annually, besides trips abroad to the centers of design and creation in Europe. Perhaps it need not be added that Mr. Haggarty has exemplified among his business associates an ideally optimistic temperament and a belief in the soundness and con- tinned prosperity of his country. He is a man of wide observation and generous knowledge of world politics and business affairs. Outside of business he is devoted to home, and to the artistic surroundings which his material success has enabled him to create. A number of years ago he planned a magnificent home, which he constructed at a cost of over a hundred thousand dollars and, representing the Norman Gothic architecture of the 14th century, is one of the most beautiful pri- vate homes in the West Adams section of Los Angeles. It is called Castle York. The home is surrounded by spacious grounds, with sunken gardens and a conservatory of rare plants, while on the inside the ar- tistic tastes and inclinations of Mr. Haggarty have full expression. A devotee of music, he had installed in his home one of the most perfect pipe organs found in a private residence anywhere in the country. With his interests as a man of action and of domestic tastes so liberally satis- fiedl, Mr. Haggarty is a member of few outside clubs, contenting himself with membership in the Gamut Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Mr. Haggarty married August 24, 1901. at St. Paul, Minnesota, Miss Bertha M. Schnider.
PHILIP FORVE came to Los Angeles about twenty years ago, after a long experience in business at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In Los „Angeles he has been engaged in the sale, installation and manufacture of lighting fixtures, and is president of one of the largest companies in that line in southern California.
Mr. Forve was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1856. son of Jacob and Mary Forve. His schooling was ended at the age of fourteen, and he then served an apprenticeship of three years in the plumb-
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ing and heating business. On the conclusion of his apprenticeship he joined his brother Peter, under the firm name of Peter Forve & Brother, in the general plumbing and heating business and continued in successful operation for upwards of a quarter of a century. During his residence in Wilkes-Barre Mr. Forve served for four years as a member of the School Board.
On coming to Los Angeles in 1900 he went into partnership with H. W. Pettebone, under the name Forve, Pettebone & Company. Their first place of business for handling general lighting fixtures was at 515 South Broadway, but in 1907 they erected a five-story building, especially equipped for their business, at 512 South Broadway, known as the Forve- Pettebone Building. They occupy the entire second floor as a salesroom, the entire fifth floor for manufacturing and basement as a store room. Since 1902 the business has been incorporated with Mr. Forve as presi- dent. They employ about thirty people and manufacture a special line of lighting fixtures.
Mr. Forve is also a director of the Commercial National Bank, secretary and director of the Pure Oil Company and secretary and director of the Piru Oil and Land Company. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the California Club, in which he was a director in 1908- 1909, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. During 1914-1915 he was a director of the Chamber of Commerce.
E. COLLINS QUINBY is the man responsible for the famed Quinby's California "Chocolate Shops." There are many thousands of people dwelling in homes and cities remote and distant whose most delightful reminiscences of Los Angeles center around the Chocolate Shops and their products. Probably nowhere has the art of service and perfection of quality been carried out more completely than in these shops, which are distinctive of their kind, as Los Angeles is distinctive among all the cities of the Globe.
About ten years ago Mr. Quinby and his associate established the first shop, and from the beginning emphasized service and merchandise quality rather than superficial pretentiousness. Beautiful and artistic surroundings, furnishings and equipment have been introduced from time to time, so that today the shops are as delightful to the eye as their mer- chandise is to the palate. Competent judges and connoisseurs have pro- nounced the Chocolate Shop chocolates unexcelled by any anywhere, and it is indicative of the fine taste as well as the business enterprise of the proprietors that they have utilized the unique and typically Californian setting for their product. Millions of boxes of Quinby's California Choco- late Shops chocolates are shipped all over the country, and these boxes win new friends and are at once recognized by their old friends through the box of California redwood in which the confections are contained. The cabinet work on these boxes gives them a special value, and thou- sands of annual California visitors carry away no more distinctive souvenir of Los Angeles than one of these boxes of native redwood.
Mr. Quinby established the Metropolitan Ice Cream Company in partnership with his son Paul W. The next year they opened their first chocolate shop, in a one-story building at 211 West 5th Street. It was the small, obscure store from which their business has been developed to one of national importance. In 1910 they opened a chocolate shop at 20 East Colorado Street in Pasadena. The third shop was opened in 1913 at 731 South Broadway, and in 1914 the fourth shop was estab- lished at 217 West 6th Street. In 1915 the building in which their 5th
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street store was located was torn down to make way for the Citizens National Bank Building. When that structure was completed a new chocolate shop was reopened. In 1916 the firm sold the Metropolitan Ice Cream Company to the Crescent Ice Cream Company.
The headquarters of the business are at 217 West 6th street, where they occupy four stories and basement. The wholesale department of the business was established in August, 1917, and in spite of the obvious restrictions and handicaps caused by the war it has had a wonderful growth and success. The manufacturing plant of Quinby's California Chocolate Shop chocolates is located on 8th and Santee streets, Los Angeles, in a modern and up-to-date building. The business is one that employs four hundred and fifty people, and there are agents for Quinby's Chocolate Shop chocolates in over 2,200 cities of the United States, the Philippine Islands and the entire west coast of South America.
The business is incorporated with Mr. Quinby as president and Paul W. Quinby vice-president and secretary.
CHARLES SEYLER, SR., was an old time Californian, coming to the state soon after the Civil war, and for many years was identified in official capacities with the Southern Pacific Railway, and later was a well known banker in Los Angeles.
He was born at Dansville, New York, October 12, 1843. He was schooled in his native state and in 1861, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in Company D of the 13th New York Infantry. He saw two years of active service. He lived in the east several years after the war, but in 1870 came to California and was employed as agent at various points around San Francisco for the Southern Pacific Company. Later he was put in the freight office at San Francisco, and in 1875 was transferred to Wilmington, now part of Los Angeles, as station agent. In 1880 he returned to San Francisco as traveling auditor. The company sent him back to Los Angeles in 1885 as district freight and passenger agent, and he continued in that office until 1902, when he left the railroad company to become cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Los Angeles. He finally retired from business activities in 1913, and died June 2, 1915. He was a member of the Masonic Order, of the Cali- fornia Club, and was a republican. At Wilmington, California, in 1876, he married Pauline Bauer.
Charles Seyler, Jr., the only child of his parents, was born at Wilmington, January 14, 1878. The insurance circles in southern Cali- fornia know him as one of the most successful insurance business get- ters and as a man who is proficient in all branches of general insurance.
He was educated in grammar and high schools, graduating in 1896, and in 1899, after receiving his degree from the University of Cali- fornia, he returned to Los Angeles, and for a time was employed as freight claim adjustor for the Southern Pacific Railway. He resigned this office in 1902 to enter the general insurance work. Mr. Seyler's offices are in the I. W. Hellman Building. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and Athletic Club and the Chamber of Commerce. August 7, 1916, at David City, Nebraska, he married Miss Marie Stoop.
JEAN ETCHEMENDY, a Los Angeles pioneer whose name is still held in honored remembrance and whose descendants still live at Los An- geles, was born at Hasparren, Basses-Pyrenees, France, November 11, ·1830. After spending his youth there and attending school he set out
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for South America. He left there in 1847, and located in San Fran- cisco, going from there to the mines in the northern part of the state. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1851, where he became interested in one of the first bakeries. Later he became identified with the sheep in- dustry on the Rancho San Pedro near Wilmington, and was a man of much business activity there until his death on March 13, 1872.
Mr. Etchemendy after coming to Los Angeles married in 1865 Juana Egurrola. She was born at Marquina, near Bilbao, Spain, Au- gust 29, 1835. After the death of her first husband she married the late Pierre Larronde, and she is now living in Los Angeles, at 237 North Hope street, where she resides with her three daughters, Made- leine, Marianne and Caroline Etchemendy, and her son, John M. Lar- ronde.
PIERRE LARRONDE. In and around Los Angeles are several pieces of property that have for many years, in fact since pioneer times, had the title of ownership invested in the Larronde family, a name that repre- sents some of the oldest Californians, and about the first settlers in this state from France.
One of them was Pierre Larronde. He was born at St. Palais, County of Basses, Pyrenees, France, October 9, 1826. He attended school there and learned the carpenter's trade. In the early forties he crossed the ocean to Buenos Aires, South America. He left there in 1847 and from San Francisco went to the mines in the northern part of California. He arrived at Los Angeles when it was nothing but a Spanish town in 1851. Here he bought an interest in a sheep ranch, and for a number of years was a sheep rancher on the old Dominguez ranch, known as the Rancho San Pedro. He conducted operations on a large scale, but in 1889 sold out and thenceforward looked after his interests and investments in Los Angeles and surrounding districts. He had much real estate, and some of it is still in the family. In 1879 he bought the northwest corner at First and Spring streets from Frank Carpenter, and that property is still owned by his heirs. Pierre Larronde died May 24, 1896.
In Los Angeles September 14, 1874. he married Mrs. Juana Etche- mendy. To their marriage were born three children: Pierre Domingo, a native of Los Angeles, and now connected with the Franco-American Baking Company : Antoinette, Mrs. James J. Watson, of Los Angeles ; and John M., connected with the Title Insurance Company of Los An- geles.
PHILIP A. STANTON, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 4, 1868, son of Lewis and Rosalie Stanton, is a southern California pioneer in two important respects. Educated in the public schools of Cleveland. he came to Los Angeles in 1887. That makes him a pioneer in point of residence.
A much more noteworthy distinction has been his pioneer work in tlie development of Southern California. He early entered the real estate business and for thirty years has been promoting the growth of Los Angeles and making towns grow where none grew before. He subdivided and sold many tracts in Los Angeles city and Orange county, including several thousand acres where the city of Stanton now stands, and is still owner of several hundred acres in the latter locality.
This work has brought him into close association with some of the biggest business men and financiers of southern California, including
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I. W. Hellman, for whom he acted as agent ten years, the Stearns Rancho Company, the late R. J. Northam, and Mr. H. E. Huntington. Three flourishing southern California cities-Seal Beach, Hunting- ton Beach and Stanton-owe their founding and to a large extent their development to Philip A. Stanton. All these are in Orange county, "the little county of big crops." Mr. Stanton early saw their possi- bilities and the results have well vindicated his shrewdness and sound judgment. His chief interests at present are centered in Seal Beach, the favorite seaside resort of the rich "back country" of Orange county, and in Stanton, the center of a prosperous ranching and truck farming dis- trict.
Mr. Stanton is president of the Bayside Land Company of Seal Beach; president of the Benedict Water Company; president of the Stanton City Improvement Company ; president of the South Coast Im- provement Association, an organization which has done much to ad- vance the interests and development of the South Coast from Seal Beach to Balboa and Capistrano; and is a director of the California Savings and Commercial Bank.
His supreme faith in the resources and possibilities of the South Coast in general and in Orange county in particular has been justified by the remarkable growth of that section and the outlook for its future.
In this brief sketch Mr. Stanton's important public and political service must not be overlooked. For many years he had a deep interest in politics and was a leader in the regular republican party of the state, and one of its mainstays in southern California. He served as a member of the State Assembly from 1902 to 1910. In 1905 he was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. In 1909, while speaker of the Assembly, he bridged over a critical situation and rendered the nation a distinctive service by suppressing anti-Japanese legislation at the personal request of Theodore Roosevelt, then president. Some of the most important state laws bear Mr. Stanton's name. He was also largely responsible for legislation abolishing race track gambling and for the enactment of the direct primary law. He was a candidate for the re- publican gubernatorial nomination in 1910 and served as a republican national committeeman from California from 1912 to 1916.
Mr. Stanton is a Mason, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic, Jonathan and Union League Clubs of Los Angeles, the Union League Club of San Francisco, and of the Orange County Country Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Realty Board of Los Angeles.
JUDGE SIDNEY N. REEVE, a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, came to southern California nearly twenty years ago, leaving some prominent professional associations in Chicago, and has been an active member of the Los Angeles bar and a public official for over ten years.
He was born at Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Canada, April 11, 1877. Four years later, in 1881, his parents, George B. and Alice (Jones) Reeve, moved to Chicago, where he attended public school to the age of fourteen. He gained his first knowledge of the law in the law office of Samuel B. Foster, and in September, ! ... , graduated LL.B. from the Law Department of Lake Forest University. He was then about nine- teen and a half years old, and as he could not yet qualify for practice, he spent the time pursuing a post-graduate course in McGill University at Montreal. Returning to Chicago in 1899, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois, and first engaged in practice with
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Charles Deneen, who was then state's attorney and afterward governor of Illinois. Judge Reeve was making promising advancement though under the handicap of ill health, and finally for the sake of his health he left Chicago and in 1901 came to Los Angeles. For several years he made no attempt to practice and found employment on his father's ranch at LaMirado. In 1907 he was formally admitted to the bar in California. In 1906 he accepted the place of clerk in the township court of Los Angeles county. In 1908 he became deputy city attorney and assistant prosecuting attorney and in 1910 was elected and served until January, 1915, as justice of the peace of Los Angeles township.
Since January, 1915, Judge Reeve has been a member of the Su- perior Court and has presided over Department 8, usually described as the juvenile and psychopathic department. In this branch of the judi- ciary he handles about ten thousand cases every year, practically all of them involving children, insane and feeble minded, or matters affecting child welfare and the unfortunate class generally.
Judge Reeve is a Mason, a Woodman of the World, and is a mem- ber of the University Club, Brentwood Country Club, the Episcopal church and in politics is a republican. November 5, 1908, he married Miss Mary Widney, daughter of W. W. Widney, a Los Angeles pioneer. They have two children: Sidney N., Jr., born in 1912, now attending public school, and Mary Virginia, born in 1917.
DREW PRUITT is a lawyer of over a third of a century's experience, attained his early successes and distinctions in Texas, and since 1906 has been one of the strong and able lawyers of Los Angeles.
He was born at Selma in Drew county, Arkansas, January 1, 1860, a son of Jacob M. Pruitt. His father, who was born at Moulton, Ala- bama, in 1819, was a southern planter, spent his early life in Alabama, moved in 1843 to Hernando, De Soto county, Mississippi, where he had a plantation operated by slave labor, and in 1850 went to Selma, Drew county, Arkansas, and owned several plantations in that locality. After the war, in 1869, he sold out his Arkansas properties and moved to what was then the frontier of northern Texas, engaging in ranching and cattle raising in Coryell county. He lived there until his death in 1894. He married at Moulton, Alabama, Nancy P. Johnson.
Drew Pruitt was one of twelve children. He acquired his early education in the district schools of Coryell county, Texas, until fifteen, attended a preparatory school at Waco for two years, and took his uni- versity course in Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated with the degree B. P. in 1881. He studied law in the office of Herring, Kelly and Williams at Waco one year, and after his admission to the Texas bar began practice at Fort Worth. He was one of the leading lawyers of north Texas for many years, and on several occa- sions served by appointment as judge of the District Court.
Judge Pruitt came to Los Angeles in 1906. Here also he has been appointed judge in special cases, and makes a specialty of corporation and probate law. He is a member of the Los Angeles and American Bar Associations, belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, is affiliated with Moneta Lodge, F. and A. M., South Gate Chapter, R. A. M., Los Angeles Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Malikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Democrat and a member of the Jonathan Club.
At Waco, Texas, May 1, 1887, Mr. Pruitt married Wilhelmina Franklin. Their son, Drew, Jr., born at Fort Worth in April, 1888,
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was educated in the University of Texas and Stanford University, and early in the World war entered the officers' training camp at American Lake. He joined the famous Yankee Division 26 and was assigned to duty in Field Hospital Unit No. 102 in France, spent ten months with the Expeditionary Forces, and in the spring of 1919 was recovering from his wounds sustained in the battle of Argonne in the hospital at San Diego, California.
CHARLES L. BUNDY, whose offices are in the Investment Building at Los Angeles, is widely known for his operations in the real estate field, and has been especially identified with development work, banking and other enterprises at Santa Monica.
He has practically lived all his life in and around Santa Monica, though he was born at Ames, Iowa, November 16, 1875. His father, Nathan Bundy, who was born at Chesterhill, Ohio, November 16, 1846, after getting his education moved to Ames Iowa, and in 1876 came to Santa Monica, California, where he became extensively interested in real estate and did a great deal of development in and around that city and also in Los Angeles. He died in November, 1913. He and his wife had six children, all of whom are still living but one.
Charles L. Bundy was educated in the grammar and high schools of Santa Monica, and at the age of eighteen entered the Bank of Santa Monica as bookeeper. Eventually he was promoted to the office of cashier, and after ten years of continuous service resigned to establish an office in Los Angeles and engage in the real estate business. Mr. Bundy has seldom if ever handled any property except his own, and his interests are sufficiently large to require all his time. He is vice- president and director of the Santa Monica Land and Water Company and vice-president and director of the Santa Monica Land Company. He is a member of the California Club, Brentwood Country Club and a republican in politics.
May 20, 1897, he married Hallie Loomis. They have two very promising young sons. Douglas, who was born in 1898, is a graduate of the Hollywood High School, also attended the famous preparatory school at Ojai known as the Thatcher School, spent one year in the Officers Training School for the Field Artillery at Yale University, and is now a student in Leland Stanford University. Robert Bundy, born in 1901, had four years in the Thatcher School, is a graduate of the Los Angeles High School and is now at Leland Stanford University.
REV. PATRICK DALY, assistant pastor of St. John's Catholic church at Hyde Park, has been identified with this young and growing parish since he came a newly ordained priest from his native Ireland.
Father Daly was born in County Kerry, Ireland, August 21, 1888, son of Mortimer and Mary (Relihan) Daly. His father was born in County Kerry in 1858, and spent his active career as a farmer. He was the father of seven children. Two of his brothers, uncles of Rev. Patrick Daly, were also priests, Father John Daly, pastor of St. Brendan's Church at Elkins, West Virginia, and Father Patrick Daly, who recently died and was pastor of St. Joseph's Church at Longsight, Manchester, England.
Father Daly attended the National schools of County Kerry to the age of fourteen. He was then in St. Michael's College at Listowel a year, then in St. Brendan's Seminary at Killarney, from which he graduated after a three year's course. He studied philosophy and theology in St. Kieran's College in Kilkenny and was ordained there
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June 13, 1915. Father Patrick Daly also has a brother, Mortimer, who will receive ordination as a priest in June, 1919.
Father Patrick Daly immediately set out for the United States and since arriving has been assistant pastor of St. John's parish at Hyde Park. The church was established in 190S, and the church home was dedicated in January, 1910, by the late Bishop Conaty. Father Daly was at first assistant to Father Jerry Burke, pastor of St. John's, and is now assistant to Father Leo G. Garsse. Father Daly is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
NORMAN R. MARTIN is a widely known California man, a veteran of the railroad service, spending many years with the Southern Pacific Company, but is now giving his time to public work as superintendent of Charities of Los Angeles County, and superintendent of the County Hospital.
Mr. Martin was born at Brushton, Franklin county, New York, September 17, 1872, but has been a resident of Los Angeles since he was nine years of age. His parents were Russell Clinton and Sarah A. (Gibson) Martin. His father, who was born at Burlington, Vermont, November 30, 1848, was educated there and at the age of fourteen man- aged to get into the army as a volunteer in the First Vermont Cavalry, and saw a year and a half of active service in putting down the rebel- lion. Following the war he located at Brushton, New York, and was in the drug business there until 1881. In that year he brought his family west to Los Angeles, and entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railway as locomotive engineer. He was on the road at the throttle over thirty-four years, finally retiring in 1914. He married at Moira, Franklin county, New York, September 22, 1868, Miss Sarah A. Gibson. Of their three children two are living.
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