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For one year Captain Hunter practiced his profession, especially along the line of structural engineering in Chicago, and then returned to Pasadena and soon afterward formed a partnership with David Blank- enhorn in the corporation Blankenhorn-Hunter Company. Mr. Hunter is vice-president and director of this business. The company represents many large interests, and for several years have handled the financial investments of William Wrigley, Jr., in southern California, and the com- pany was the chief intermediary in the purchase of Catalina Island by Mr. Wrigley in 1919. Mr. Hunter is one of the executive officials in the new organization for handling the property of Catalina Island, being vice-president and treasurer of the Santa Catalina Island Company and vice-president and treasurer of the Wilmington Transportation Company. He is also a director of the Corona Foothill Lemon Company and is president of the Hunter Fireproof Storage Company.
Captain Hunter enlisted in August, 1917, and was assigned to duty in France attending the artillery school at Saumur and joining the 119th Field Artillery of the 32 Division on graduation. He was in that battle which stands out perhaps most prominently among those in which the American troops participated, Chauteau Thierry, to the Vesle River, and was also in the operations around Soissons. He received his honorable discharge December 8, 1918.
Captain Hunter is a member of the California Club, the Midwick
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Country Club and the University Club of Chicago. He is a member of the Episcopal church. September 27, 1913, at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, he married Gwendolyn Mitchell. They have two daughters, Helen and Louise.
RALPH B. LLOYD. While Mr. Lloyd's name is identified with a number of important business enterprises, manufacturing, lands and live stock, he has also contributed his share to the development of California resources as an oil man. He deserves lasting credit as the locator of the oil resources in the Ventura oil field, and as the man who possessed the faith, the courage and the enterprise to promote the development of the region.
Mr. Lloyd was born at Neosho, Missouri, February 28, 1875, son of Lewis Marshall and Sarah Elizabeth Lloyd. He first attended pri- vate school, and in 1887, when his parents moved to Ventura, California, he was in the public schools there to the age of fourteen. He received a high school education at Berkeley, California, and in 1895 entered the University of California, class of 1899, having specialized in social science.
After his university career Mr. Lloyd returned to Los Angeles and became associated with his father in the cattle business, handling large herds of live stock between Mexico, Arizona, Los Angeles and Ven- tura Counties. In 1904 Mr. Lloyd became vice president and general manager of the National Tank and Pipe Company, his chief associate being William E. Hampton of Los Angeles. This company manufac- tured pipe and tanks for mining, irrigation and city water works. While with that business Mr. Lloyd bought land and built a manufacturing plant at Portland, Oregon, and remained there as manager until 1911.
Having sold his Pipe Company interest, Mr. Lloyd invested in Portland real estate, which he now holds, and returned to Los Angeles and at once took an active hand in oil development. Some years previously, in 1898, he had convinced himself by his own investigations of the promise of oil in the Ventura district, and for ten or fifteen years he tried to interest others in that district. However, he failed to convince any of the knowing capitalists, and when he returned from Portland he determined to risk his capital and his personal enterprise on the project. He, with others, bought and leased about fourteen thousand acres of land on the apex of the Ventura dome, made some preliminary explorations, and eventually succeeded in interesting the Shell Company of California in the project. The Ventura dome is now one of the promising fields of California. The Shell Company, the General Petroleum Corporation and the State Consolidated Oil Com- pany are all engaged in its development. In much of his oil operations Mr. Lloyd has been closely associated with Joseph B. Dabney.
Mr. Lloyd is secretary and treasurer and general manager of the Ventura Land and Water Company, a company that was incorporated by his father on September 28, 1887, and has always remained a family corporation. Mr. Lloyd is a member of the Masonic Order, the Delta Upsilon College Fraternity, the University Club, Chamber of Com- merce, and from college times has maintained a close interest in out- door sports. While in university he excelled in track athletics, and has some forty medals which were awarded his prowess. He established some records in track events in the intercollegiate contests between Stanford University and the University of California.
At Los Angeles, January 28, 1904, Mr. Lloyd married Miss Lulu Hull. They have four daughters.
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WELLINGTON CHARLES BURKE, M. D. The late Dr. Wellington Charles Burke, of Los Angeles, although not long a resident of the city, during the period he was located here established himself as one of the distinguished men of his profession, and had his career not been cut short, would have gained a fame that probably would have been inter- national on account of his special work with reference to rectal diseases, upon which he was an admitted authority. He was born at Fishkill, New York, May 30, 1866, of Scotch and Protestant Irish ancestry. After attending the village schools of his native place, when only eight years of age he entered the grammar school of Newburg, New York, and com- pleted its courses. His parents then moving to Kansas City, Missouri, he, in 1877, entered the high school of his ward and after being graduated from it took a business college course, from which he was graduated with ' honors in 1885.
From childhood it was his ambition to become a physician, and after reading medicine for three years, in 1889 he became a student of the Medical Department of the Missouri State University, from which he was graduated in 1892 as president of his class and missing first honors by one-sixth of one per cent. Immediately after graduation Doctor Burke was elected to the faculty of the University Medical Club and was given the chair of first assistant demonstrator of anatomy. One year later he was elected co-demonstrator of anatomy and associate professor of operative surgery in the post graduate faculty, visiting surgeon to the university dispensary, president of the Alumni Association, second vice-president of the Twin City Medical Society, and a member of other medical societies. Later he was made an honorary member of the Kansas State Medical Association and the Grand River Medical Society.
Until 1895 Doctor Burke remained at Kansas City, but in that year came to Los Angeles, forming a partnership here with Dr. W. G. Cochran. Two years later he severed this connection and established himself in offices in the Lindley Building, continuing alone until his death. He had a chair in the University Medical College of Los Angeles, and was a member of the County, State and National Medical Associations. When overtaken by his last illness Doctor Burke was just completing an exhaustive work on rectal surgery, on which he specialized. He was much beloved by his patients and associates in the medical profession. A ready and pleasing speaker, he was very popular and much sought after as a public speaker and toastmaster of banquets of physicians and surgeons. Bringing with him the most advanced ideas of more eastern practitioners, Doctor Burke found ready recognition at Los Angeles, and from 1900 to 1903 was special surgeon for the Santa Fe Railroad. A man of more than average height, he being six feet, four inches tall, Doctor Burke commanded attention everywhere, and this presence, combined with his handsome features and delightful personality, made him one never to be forgotten. His untimely demise was mourned as a public loss, and his memory is tenderly cherished by many outside of his immediate family.
In 1892 Doctor Burke was united in marriage with Harriet Eggers Carlstrom, sister of Professor John T. Eggers, M. D., of Kansas City, Missouri. Mrs. Burke was taken by her parents when seventeen years old from Fairfield, Iowa, to Kansas City, Missouri, and she was educated at the Female Seminary of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Doctor and Mrs Burke had two children, namely: Norman and Ruth. During the long illness of Doctor Burke prior to his demise the family exchequer
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was depleted and Mrs. Burke felt impelled to become a producer in order to meet the living expenses of her family. A cultured lady, she naturally turned toward literary work, and for years was a special writer and society editor for the leading papers of Los Angeles. She is now one of the most experienced newspaper women of this part of the state.
Inheriting her mother's literary ability, Mrs. Ruth Burke Stephens, senior member of the firm of Stephens & Sterry, publicity bureau and news service, with offices at Nos. 337-338 Blanchard Building, Los Angeles, has become one of the leading publicity writers of southern California. Although still in her teens when she was graduated from the Los Angeles schools, she began her newspaper career, handling the difficult departments devoted to railroads and the stock exchange in addi- tion to handling society items. In 1912 she was married to Stubert B. Stephens, a son of Chancellor David S. Stephens of the University of Kansas City, and resided in Kansas City until 1914, when she returned to Los Angeles and re-entered the newspaper field. Early in 1916 she began specializing on publicity work, and when this country entered the world war Mrs. Stephens developed into the most effective worker in the city. She handled all the publicity work for the Women's Liberty Loan Com- mittee, of which she was a member, during the last four loan drives, and also of the War Savings campaign. So effective did she prove herself that she was transferred to the State War Savings Organization, and was publicity director of that organization for southern California and editor and business manager of the War Savings Stamp News. At one time Mrs. Stephens was editor of the magazine known as "Baby's World."
REV. PHILIP WILLIAMS, of the Order of St. Benedict, and pastor of All Souls Catholic church at Alhambra, is a priest whose constructive work and leadership made him widely known in several southern Cali- fornia parishes.
He was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, May 12, 1869, son of John B. and Mary (Prendergast) Williams. To the age of ten his education was directed by the Catholic parochial schools. He then attended public school, and in 1882 entered St. Benedict's College at Atchison, Kansas, He pursued both his classical and theological studies in that institution, and was ordained a priest July 26, 1893. During four years of his seminary course he was teacher of oratory at St. Benedict's and continued in that capacity for four years after his ordination. His book on that subject is used in many Catholic colleges. His first regular pastorate was in Sacred Heart church at Atchison, Kansas, where he spent four and a half years and five years as the founder and pastor of St. Benedict's parish at Kansas City, Kansas. While stationed there he erected the church, school, parish house and Sisters' house. Altogether his record of achievement is one that caused the people of southern California to enter- tain the highest expectations of his efficiency, and in that they were not disappointed.
His transfer to California brought him at first to the parish of St. Catherine's at Avalon on Catalina Island. While there he erected a church building and had a prosperous pastorate of four years. From there he came to Alhambra and built All Souls Church and Rectory, where he has been the beloved minister for a number of years. He was pastor of the parish when the handsome new church was dedicated on November 16, 1913. The ceremony of dedication had as its most con- spicuous figure Very Rev. Monsignor Harnett, vicar general of the diocese. In his sermon Dr. Harnett complimented both the pastor and
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people upon their energy and devotion in raising in the brief period of their coming together so creditable a structure to the worship of God.
ANDREW MULLEN was one of the stalwart, dignified and very suc- cessful business figures in Los Angeles life, and it is significant of his character that the business with which he was so long identified as a merchant is still continued and is one of the most perfectly appointed clothing stores on the Pacific Coast.
Andrew Mullen was born in County Mayo, Ireland, October 4, 1832, but was only three years old when his parents came to the United States and settled at Albany, New York. The public schools of that town gave him a limited education. He was very young when he went west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his best training and his broadening outlook on affairs and men were acquired by actual contact with business. He was associated with his brother under the firm name of Mullen Brothers & Company in the wholesale woolen business at Mil- waukee for a number of years. Later they moved their headquarters to Chicago, and were at one time known as one of the leading importers of woolens in this city.
It was because of ill health that Andrew Mullen finally sold out his interest in the Chicago establishment, and on January 1, 1888, came to Los Angeles.
Not long afterward he bought a large interest in the firm of Bluett & Sullivan. This was a business which had been established some years before by W. C. Bluett, J. C. Daly and J. B. Sullivan. W. C. Bluett is now deceased, and Mr. Mullen acquired the interest of Mr. Daly. J. B. Sullivan has long been identified with the business and is now secretary of the corporation. With the coming of Mr. Mullen the firm name was changed to Mullen & Bluett, and in 1890 incorporated as the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company. Andrew Mullen was president of the corporation until his death on March 4, 1899.
For many years the store was at First and Spring streets, but on March 10, 1910, it was moved to the corner of Sixth and Spring and Broadway, where it occupies the entire ground floor of the Story Building. This great business, while still continued as the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company, has as its active managers only members of the Mullen family and Mr. Sullivan, secretary of the corporation. Miss Marie Mullen is president of the corporation, and Edward F. Mullen is vice president.
It will be appropriate to quote a paragraph that appeared in a local publication several years ago pertaining to the two older men in the business: "The two older men who conducted the business for a great many years were conspicuous figures in the business and social life of Los Angeles. Mr. Bluett brought with him a habit contracted in Ireland. He came in from his home to his business every morning and returned every evening on horseback. He invariably rode a very handsome saddle horse. Mr. Mullen was a tall figure, bent somewhat when he arrived here by the accumulating years. They were both gentlemen of the old school type, always most courteous in their deal- ings with the public and always most considerate of every person in their employ. Yet, in spite of this dignified mien and lacking as they were in all the breeziness that characterizes the typical western Amer- ican business man, they were just the same exceedingly American in all their sentiments, and excellent citizens in every relation of life. The real head of the house today, Edward F. Mullen, lacks somewhat of
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the towering stature of his father, but lacks nothing of the suavity of manner and courtesy of conduct in his relations with the public which marked the two elder men now gone from among us."
Andrew Mullen, though a Democrat, was appointed by Governor Markham as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Whittier State School and was president of the board. He was also one of the organ- izers of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and was for some years its treasurer. After his death the Board of Directors of the Chamber, in a meeting held March 15, 1899, drew up special resolutions of respect to his memory, and these resolutions were engrossed and sent to his family.
Andrew Mullen was one of the organizers and a director of the Columbia Trust Company, of the Citizens National Bank, and of the California Clay Manufacturing Company. In the development of the clay working industry of the state he deserves to be especially remem- bered, as well as his active associates, W. H. Perry and other pioneer business men.
Andrew Mullen married, at Brooklyn, New York, Mary Teresa Deane. She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and died in Los An- geles May 29, 1910, a daughter of Judge Edward and Esnima (O'Fla- herty) Deane. He was an Irish jurist and, after retiring from office, moved to Brooklyn, New York. Both the Deane and O'Flaherty families were of the old and prominent residents of Ireland. The Deane estate in County Mayo was called "Carrygowan" and was between Swineford and Castlebar. Judge Deane died in the eastern states years ago, and the widow died years later in Oakland, California. Andrew Mullen and wife had eight children, including: Edward Fran- cis, Marie Rose, Arthur Benedict, now deceased, and Genevieve, Mrs. George Allan Hancock of Los Angeles.
Edward Francis Mullen was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 8, 1864, and was educated in parochial schools and in Notre Dame University at Notre Dame, Indiana. In 1883, at the age of nine- teen, returning to Chicago, he went to work in the wholesale woolen business of Mullen Brothers & Company. When his father sold out his interest in that establishment he came to Los Angeles and for a time was bookkeeper in the First National Bank. He then became associated with his father in the purchase of the Bluett & Sullivan concern, changing the name to Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company, of which he has since been vice president. The growth and development of this business has occupied all of Mr. Mullen's time and care, and he acknowledges hardly any other interest besides his store and his home, and consequently is allied with no societies. He is a member of the Catholic Church. June 1, 1887, at Chicago, he married Mary Stella Smith. They have two children, Andrew J., born at Los Angeles Sep- tember 7, 1888, educated in St. Vincent's College of this city, and a graduate of Santa Clara College, and is now clothing buyer for the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company. The daughter, Catherine, is Mrs. Daniel F. Murphy, of San Francisco.
DAVID M. THOMSON is the Los Angeles representative and manager of the Balfour-Guthrie Company, a firm known all over the world, with ramifications in the transportation, grain and merchandise, insurance and other branches of finance and commerce that well justify the claim made that it is the largest private institution of its kind in the world.
The home offices of the company are in England, and David M.
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Thomson is himself a Scotchman, though most of his business training has been acquired in America. He was born at Edinburgh, August 6, 1873, son of Graham and Margaret Mckenzie (Murray) Thomson. He was educated in public and private schools and at the age of seventeen entered a stock brokerage business and followed that line continuously for fifteen years.
When the Balfour-Guthrie Company sent him to America Mr. Thomson spent one year in training at San Francisco, and was then sent to Los Angeles as manager of the local branch. The Los Angeles office of the concern was opened in 1892, primarily in the land business and loaning on land. The first local manager was Mr. Fortune, who was succeeded a few years later by Mr. Pettigrew, who expanded the business to the buying and selling of general merchandise. In 1902 J. B. Lumgair became manager, and was succeeded by Mr. Thoinson in 1910.
The company handles many different lines of merchandise, operat- ing in food stuffs, building materials, and doing a general shipping and commission business. At the present time they are taking over two of the largest fire insurance companies in the United States. The company also acted as agents for the Australian Wheat Board and Australian Government Line Steamers. The Los Angeles territory under the direct management of Mr. Thomson comprises all of California south of the Tehachap Mountains. For many years the business of the Balfour- Guthrie Company (local) was small properties, but in the last two years it has developed to a very large extent radiating in scope from the Tehachap to the Mexican border. Mr. Thomson is a member of the Los Angeles Grain Exchange, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a mem- ber of the Masonic Order and is a Congregationalist in religion. He married at Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Annie Mckenzie Morrison, on December 13, 1904.
SAMUEL E. BURKE has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1900, is one of the best known and most capable dental surgeons of the city and is also a man of high standing in Masonic circles in this state.
A native of Ontario, Canada, where he was born February 13, 1868, he is a son of Joseph and Matilda Edith (Edgerton) Burke, both of whom were natives of the north of Ireland. Dr. Burke attended gram- mar and high schools in Ontario until 1899, and following that spent two years clerking with McCrimmon Brothers at Lindsay, Ontario. After that he was head of the dress silk goods department of Carsley & Company at Toronto until 1893. His next business connection was with the Duplex School Seat Company at Battle Creek, Michigan, but in 1893 he left that work and for three months was a student in the Uni- versity of Michigan, and then attended the dental department of Lake Forest University, now the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. He graduated April 17, 1896, and was in practice at Bloomington, Illinois, until 1900, when he came to Los Angeles.
Dr. Burke is a past master of Sunset Lodge No. 352, A. F. and A. M., having served as master during 1906-07. He is past principal sojourner, scribe, king and high priest of Signet Chapter No. 57, R. A. M., has held all the chairs of Los Angeles Council No. 11, R. & S. M., is a mem- ber of Los Angeles Commandery No. 43, K. T., and is also a Scottish Rite Mason. April 5, 1918, he was elected most illustrious grand master of the Grand Council of California, and on October 10, 1918, was elected junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of the state. Dr. Burke is a member of the University Club, and is a republican in politics and a member of the Episcopal church.
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April 5, 1909, he married in Los Angeles Hazel Rosenberg. By a former marriage he has one child: Frazie, aged nineteen, a graduate of the grammar schools and the Manual Arts High School, and on June 19, 1919, graduated in the law department of the Southern California University. His daughter Edith is attending the public schools.
WILLIAM H. WORKMAN JR., whose special interests for the greater part have been electrical engineering, and who has many important achievements to his credit in that field, is also a financial expert and was the man chiefly instrumental in organizing the Morris Plan Bank in Los Angeles.
Mr. Workman was born at Los Angeles, March 21, 1874, and is still living in the house where he was born. This residential landmark was built by his grandfather in 1865. Mr. Workman is a son of Wil- liam H. Workman Sr., and the details of the history of this interesting and prominent family of southern California are found on other pages of this publication.
Mr. Workman Jr. graduated A. B. from St. Vincent's College in 1893, and in 1895 received the degree Master of Arts. He received his technical training at Stanford University, completing a four years' course in electrical engineering in two years' time. After obtaining his diploma from Stanford he returned to Los Angeles and became assistant to the superintendent and in charge of the testing of insulators on poles for the Southern California Power Company, which was then undertaking the rather daring proposition of transmitting electric power a distance of eighty-three miles from Santa Ana Canyon above Red- lands to Los Angeles. A year later this property was absorbed by the Southern California Edison Company, with which Mr. Workman con- tinued in charge of insulation of underground systems with the title of assistant superintendent. Later he was made superintendent, and finally assistant to the president, John B. Miller.
In 1903 Mr. Workman gave up his professional work and spent a year traveling around the world. He resumed his profession as an expert on electric properties, his services being retained in that capacity by N. W. Harris & Company of Chicago, bankers. At the request of this firm, in December, 1904, Mr. Workman became first vice president and managing director of the Seattle-Tacoma Power Company at Seattle, Washington. This property under Mr. Workman's direction was given a high degree of efficiency, and in 1908 it was sold at a profit to the stockholders. Mr. Workman was invited to remain by the new owners, but he declined and returned to Los Angeles, where, after a brief rest, he took charge in the spring of 1909 of the manufacturing department of the Union Oil Company, with headquarters at San Fran- cisco.
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