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THE HARVARD SCHOOL FOR BOYS is one of several excellent prepara- tory boys' schools of southern California, and has some special and distinctive advantages all its own. One of these is that it is closely affiliated with the educational program of the Episcopal church, and is known as the Bishop's School for Boys under the auspices of that
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church. It is a boarding and day school, and while not primarily a military school its schedule of student activities is conducted with mili- tary precision, and a judicious use has been made of military discipline and instruction.
The Harvard School is now in its 20th year of existence and work. It was founded in 1900 by Mr. Grenville C. Emery and Mrs. Ella R. Emery. Mr. Emery is now headmaster emeritus and the full title of the school is "The Harvard School Upon the Emery Foundation." The purpose of founding this school, in the words of Mr. Emery, was to educate and train the sons of those who are opposed to mixed schools in the early stages of their sons' growth and development, who are tired of the one-sided results of tutoring, and desire a school large enough to embrace the educative influence of numbers ; who are appre- ciative of a school surrounded by ample playgrounds and conducted . chiefly by men teachers; a school self-supporting, independent, Chris- tian, thoroughly equipped and conducted in all departments on the highest plane of educational efficiency.
"The Harvard School Upon the Emery Foundation" was incor- porated in 1911. The standards of instruction and discipline have been so carefully maintained in past years that the student graduates are now admitted to all colleges and universities which admit any students upon certificate without examination, and many others have been admitted by examination to the great universities of the country and have attained honor and distinction in scholarship and in other student activities.
The age of admission is from nine to twenty-one, and the utmost care is used in selecting the candidates for admission, boys of incorri- gible habits and without previous good associations being rigorously excluded. The school is both a grammar and high school, each separate, though the school is conducted as a unit with as little break as possible between the eighth and ninth grades. It is a school large enough to furnish the inspiration of numbers, without the defects and disadvant- ages that are inherent in most of the public institutions. There is healthy rivalry among the boys in the different classes, and the num- bers are not so great that the teacher is unable to give individual atten- tion. A thorough program of studies both required and elective is mapped out through the grammar and high school grades, and besides these the school furnishes opportunities for manual training, scientific military instruction, athletics, social and other organizations, while at all times emphasis is placed upon the formation of good and regular habits and the development of religious life. The school has eight buildings on the campus, including Harvard Hall, the home of the high school, including also the auditorium, library and recitation rooms, Junior Hall, home of the grammar school, Arnold Hall, a dormitory, Rugby Hall, a dormitory, a modern and up-to-date hospital with a trained nurse in attendance at all times, Gymnasium Hall, Manual Train- ing Building and the School Chapel. Harvard School is accredited to West Point Military Academy, and an army officer is detailed by the War Department for the military discipline and instruction. The school is designated by the War Department as a unit of the R. O. T. C. Junior Division.
Harvard School has graduated nineteen classes, numbering nearly three hundred boys, and how well the school has fulfilled its purpose is well reflected in the present positions enjoyed by many of these gradu- ates, some of whom are aready among the prominent men of affairs in southern California and in many other cities and states.
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REV. ROBERT B. GOODEN, headmaster of the Harvard School for Boys at Los Angeles, has been a pastor and identified with the educa- tional affairs of the Episcopal church in this diocese for the past four- teen years.
Mr. Gooden was born at Bolton, England, September 18, 1874, son of James and Hannah (Burton) Gooden. His early education was acquired in the Shaw Street Institute at Liverpool, England. Soon after leaving school in 1888 he came to the United States and for about ten years he lived near Fresno, California, and had a varied ex- perience in the agricultural and horticultural activities of that section.
He began his preparation for his present calling when in 1898 he entered Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut, where he was gradu- ated A. B. in 1902 and received his Master of Arts degree in 1903. He also attended the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut, graduating with the degree Bachelor of Divinity in 1904. The same year he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Brewster of Connecticut.
Returning to California, he was assigned his first duties at St. Paul's Episcopal church, at Ventura. In 1905 he was regularly or- dained a priest by Bishop Johnson of Los Angeles in the Trinity Church of Santa Barbara. He then continued his duties at Ventura until 1906, and the following year had charge of the churches of Escondido and Fall Brook. In 1907 Rev. Mr. Gooden became rector of St. Luke's Episcopal church at Long Beach, and resigned that office in 1912 to become headmaster of the Harvard School for Boys. He is also trustee of the school and is secretary of the Standing Committee of the Episco- pal Diocese of Los Angeles and examining chaplain of the Los Angeles Diocese. He is also counselor of the Eighth District for the General Board of Religious Education of the Episcopal church. Mr. Gooden is affiliated with the Elks Lodge and in politics is a republican.
November 7, 1904, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Alice Moore. They have five children, all attending public school, named Alice, Frances, Robert, Heber and Muriel.
GENERAL JOHNSTONE JONES. Of distinguished ancestry, and with his lineage distinguished by his own character and achievements, General Johnstone Jones is one of the most widely known citizens of southern California, where for more than a quarter of a century he has done his work as a lawyer, leader in public affairs and as a soldier.
His first American ancestor in the paternal line was Cadwallader Jones, who came from Wales to Virginia in 1623, when twenty-two years of age. A later generation was represented by Peter Jones, who was an Indian trader at Peter's Point, now City Point, Virginia, and in 1675 commanded Fort Henry. In 1689-92 the governor of the Bahamas was Cadwallader Jones, also an ancestor of General Jones of Los An- geles. Peter Jones, who founded Petersburg, Virginia, in 1734, and Major Cadwallader Jones of Virginia, who in 1777, at the age of twen- ty-two, was commissioned captain of the Martha Washington Light Horse under General Washington, were both likewise in the direct line- age. Of Major Cadwallader Jones it should be stated that he was also an officer on the staff of General Lafayette, from whom he received one of those famous Toledo swords which were a gift from the King of Spain to General Washington, and through the latter were distributed among the American army officers. This sword was given to Major Cadwallader Jones about 1780, and has been worn by his lineal de- scendants of the same name in all the subsequent wars. The first son
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to bear it was Lieutenant Cadwallader Jones of Halifax county, North Carolina, who was an officer in the Marines during the battle between the Leopard and the Chesapeake, one of the most noted naval encounters of the War of 1812. The next to wear the sword was Colonel Cad- wallader Jones, whose mother, Rebecca Edwards Jones, was a grand- daughter of General Allen Jones. General Allen Jones was the friend and patron of the illustrious John Paul Jones, who took the family name in recognition of that fact. General Allen Jones was also a distinguished leader in the North Carolina colony both before and during the Revolu- tion. Through this branch of the Jones family General Jones of Los Angeles is related with the Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee, the Davie, Epps, Daniels, Eaton and Cobb families.
The mother of General Johnstone Jones was Annie Isabelle Iredell. Her father, James Iredell, served as attorney general and afterward as governor of North Carolina, and sat in the United States Senate with Webster, Clay and Calhoun as contemporaries. Governor Iredell was descended from Judge James Iredell, who was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1751, son of Francis and Margaret (McCulloch) Iredell, and grand- son of Rev. Francis Iredell. Judge Iredell at the age of seventeen was appointed collector of the port at Edenton, North Carolina, and quickly rose to distinction in the colony, studied law, and in 1790 was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by Presi- dent Washington. He died at the age of forty-six.
The wife of Governor James Iredell was Frances Treadwell. Her father, Dr. Benjamin Treadwell, was a skilled physician of Long Island. He was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullen, whose roman- tic history is familiar to every American school child. In the same an- cestry was Bishop Samuel Seabury, a great-great-grandson of John Al- den. Bishop Seabury was the first Protestant Episcopal bishop in the United States.
These historic figures constitute the ancestral background to the career of General Johnstone Jones. General Jones was born at Hills- boro, North Carolina, September 26, 1848. His Christian name was in honor of his ancestor, Governor Gabriel Johnstone, one of the first co- lonial governors of North Carolina. He was liberally educated, attend- ing Hillsboro Military Academy and the South Carolina Military Acad- emy at Columbia. In November, 1864, at the age of fifteen, he enlisted in White's Battalion, South Carolina Cadets in Brigadier General Stephen Elliott's Brigade of Hardee's Army. He was with that command until the close of the war. Like many another high-spirited Southern youth lie felt impelled to take a practical hand in the work of rehabilitating the devastated country at the end of the Civil war, and for a time he was clerk in a store at Rock Hill, South Carolina. He also studied law under William K. Ruffin, son of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin at Hills- boro. In January, 1868, General Jones was appointed deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. The clerk of that court was William H. Bagley, father of Ensign Bagley, whose death early in the Spanish-American war is well remembered. William H. Bagley was also father of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the present secretary of the navy. A few months later, at the age of twenty, General Jones was admitted to the bar, and entered upon his active career as a lawyer at Baltimore. In 1872 he returned south and for two years was editor of the Daily Observer at Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1874 he was elected secretary of the State Senate, and in 1875 served as secretary of the
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Constitutional Convention. He was thus identified with and has a lively memory of those personalities and events which reflect the recon- struction era of his home state. During 1876-78 General Jones edited the Daily News at Raleigh. January 8, 1877, Governor Zebulon B. Vance appointed him adjutant general of North Carolina with the rank of brigadier general, and in this position his services were retained for three consecutive terms, by reappointment from Governor Thomas J. Jarvis in 1881 and by Governor Alfred M. Scales in 1885. General Jones was adjutant general in North Carolina until January, 1889.
For some years in the meantime he had his home at Asheville, and in 1884 was elected to represent Buncombe county in the State Legisla- ture. While there he was chosen chairman of the committee on military affairs. In January, 1879, while at the convention of Militia Officers in New York City, General Jones was one of the committee of three that drafted the Constitution and By-Laws of the National Guard Associa- tion of the United States. Later he served as vice president of this association, succeeding General Beauregard in that office.
It was on account of the ill health of his wife that General Jones gave up his law practice and resigned his active associations with the military and civic affairs of North Carolina to come to California in August. 1889. He had married in June, 1873, at Charlotte, North Caro- lina, Miss Elizabeth Waters Miller. Her father was Thomas C. Miller, a prominent North Carolina attorney. Among her ancestors was the noted General James Moore, who served with the rank of brigadier general in the Revolutionary war. On coming to California General Jones opened an office at San Diego in partnership with James E. Wadham, who has since served as mayor of San Diego. In September, 1890, General Jones was nominated for district attorney and in the following November was elected by a majority of eighteen, being the only democrat chosen, in the county that year. After a term of two years he was again nominated, and his service and his increasing popu- larity drew many votes to him outside his own party, but owing to the presence of a populist candidate and a three-cornered fight the republican nominee was victor.
In November, 1893, General Jones moved to Los Angeles and now for a quarter of a century has practiced law in that city. During 1896 he was nominated by the democrats of the city of Los Angeles for state senator from the Thirty-seventh Senatorial District and defeated by his republican opponent. On January 1, 1899, General Jones was appointed assistant district attorney by James C. Rives, and served four years in that position.
Within a month after the declaration of war against Spain General Jones had raised a cavalry regiment of twelve troops from Los Angeles, Pasadena, Los Nietos Valley, Norwalk, Whittier, Santa Ana and San Bernardino, and tendered their services to the president. Much to his disappointment the quota from California had been filled and there was no subsequent call for his regiment to the service. But he has done his part in two wars, and though not a soldier is not an inactive figure in the present great struggle in which America is engaged, and it can truthfully be said that whether in war or in peace he has been an American citizen whose ideals could be trusted and whose influence is valuable to the safeguarding of the Republic.
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THE WESTLAKE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS was founded in 1904, and now in its sixteenth year, has won a standing and appreciation as one of the best institutions of its kind in southern California. It is a school that appeals to cultivated minds by the dignity of its claims and the wholesome scope of the advantages it offers.
The founding of this school for girls at Los Angeles was the result of a long projected plan by two Stanford graduates, Miss De Laguna and Miss Vance, who up to the summer of 1904 were members of the faculty of the University of Southern California. The Westlake School for Girls was therefore opened with a strong college preparatory bias, and in the first year of its work asked for accrediting by the State University. This request was practically granted at that time, and since that year the school has been on the accredited list of schools for entrance to the State University and is now accredited to Stanford University and the great eastern women's colleges.
The school was first opened in what was then a retired section opposite Westlake Park on Alvarado street. The two original build- ings were soon increased to six. The increase in buildings due to the growth of the school presented certain inconveniences and increased the difficulty of direct management, so that for some years the founders planned and worked for a new home. This new home was realized in the fine old English buildings on the crest of the Westmoreland Hills. To this site the school was moved in the Spring of 1917, thirteenth year of its existence. The location is one of double attractiveness. It is within the city and yet is sufficiently secluded to give unusual freedom of outdoor life. Nature seeins to have created the spot for the very purpose to which it has been put. A wonderful panorama stretches on all sides, affording an unbroken prospect as far as the Sierra Madre Mountains. It has been the purpose of the founders of the school to surround the students during their most impressionable years with those influences which would develop a sense of true har- mony and quicken their perception of things beautiful, and this pur- pose has been abundantly realized in the present site and also in the comfort and charm of the buildings which adorn it. The new campus has a large swimming pool in the open and the girls are qualifying as swimmers. Bowling on the green is also a favorite sport. The bracing air of the Westmoreland Hills is conducive to health and dis- play of energy, and outght to produce a race of vigorous women.
The grounds comprise a tract something over two acres in extent and the school is the center of an educational community. Its location on the edge of a deep ravine gives the school the advantages of a posi- tion of remoteness that aids much in emphasizing the scholastic nature of the spot.
ยท The school has continued to uphold its ideals as a college prepara- tory school, and offers full courses in all the subjects required for en- trance to the colleges. There is also a strong art department, music school and school of expression. A lower school in a separate building, thoroughly equipped, prepares students for the upper school. Students now are passing on to the colleges, never having attended any other school than the Westlake School for Girls, from the kindergarten to the senior class of the college preparatory.
The Westlake School for Girls is a purely private enterprise and the associate principals and joint owners are Miss Vance and Miss De Laguna. Miss Frederica De Laguna graduated A. B. from Stanford University and has her Master of Arts degree from Columbia Uni-
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versity. After leaving the university Miss De Laguna was professor of English Literature at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles until she joined Miss Vance in 1904 in establishing the present school.
Miss Jessica S. Vance is a graduate of Stanford University with the degrees A. B. and A. M. Prior to taking up her present work she taught at Mills College at Oakland, was assistant in English at Stanford University, and later Professor of Philology and Literature at the Uni- versity of Southern California.
The Westlake School for Girls, based upon the solid foundation of usefulness and culture, bringing sweetness and light into the lives of the young women of California, has taken its place in the educa- tional system of the Western Coast.
GEORGE SMEDLEY YARNALL is not "a mere business man." Probably from some of his Quaker ancestors he got the idea that to enter busi- ness was not altogether an opportunity of making money, but an oppor- tunity to exemplify one's best talents and service. Mr. Yarnall is the dean of the representatives of the Provident Life and Trust Com- pany of Philadelphia in California. This is one of the oldest life insurance companies in the country, having been founded by a group of Friends and financiers in Philadelphia more than half a century ago. Mr. Yarnall is also president and manager of the Federal Mort- gage and Bond Company, and now gives most of his time to the affairs of that company. His record of handling its affairs is one of the out- standing facts of his integrity.
Mr. Yarnall was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, November 24, 1856, a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Smed- ley) Yarnall, both now deceased. His parents were born in the same locality of Pennsylvania. Both the Yarnall and Smedley families came to America as colonists with William Penn. Isaac Yarnall and wife had a family of five sons and three daughters, all living except one son, who died at the age of fifteen, and one daughter who died in in- fancy. George S. is the only one in California, his brothers and sisters living near Philadelphia.
He attended a private school in Delaware county and also a noted Friends school, the Westtown Boarding School in Chester county. He remained on his father's farm to the age of twenty-one, and his educa- tion was completed at the age of sixteen. For five or six years he was in the coal, feed and lumber business at Glenmills and Morton Stations on the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad. Then for eight years he was in the clerical department of the Pennsylvania Rail- road at the Broad Street Station in Philadelphia. On account of ill health he took a six months' leave of absence and came out to California, remaining at Pasadena and resigning his position with the Pennsylvania Company. He lived at Pasadena three years and then returned east. For three years he was associated with his brother William S. in the optical business in Philadelphia, and then joined the field force of the Provident Life and Trust Company. For eight years he was in the home office at Philadelphia, and in 1902 returned to California and has ever since been representative and special agent of that company, and it is his intention to remain with the organization the rest of his active career. He also does a general brokerage business in insurance of all kinds.
Mr. Yarnall's courage and resourcefulness as a business man were
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put to the test when in April, 1916, he took over the tangled affairs of the Investment Building Company of Los Angeles, which a few months previously had been reorganized as the Federal Mortgage and Bond Company. At that time the assets of the company were largely on the debit side, and the records of the previous management were such that only a man conscious of his own rectitude could have been induced to accept the responsibilities which Mr. Yarnall shows as presi- dent and manager. During the past three years he has worked steadily to put the organization on a paying basis, and on every hand has come evidence of confidence in his administration and the general integrity of the resources of the business itself. The company has a large amount of improved and unimproved property, and have built and sold a large number of artistic bungalows and are developing some of the best resi- dence sections in and around the city.
For many years Mr. Yarnall has been a prominent factor in the prohibition party. In his native state he was chairman of the Prohi- bition County Committee of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, for twelve years, and was the prohibition candidate for Congress in the campaign prior to the election of the present congressman Charles H. Randall. He received a larger vote than ever previously given to any other pro- hibitionist for such office in the United States. He has been similarly active in behalf of prohibition in California. He was instrumental and wrote the resolutions for the dry fight and carried it before the con- vention in 1914. He was executive secretary of the California Dry Campaign Committee in that year. Afterward he was president of the Pasadena Dry Federation, handling the campaign in Pasadena, where such a tremendous dry vote was cast. He is a member of the New Century Club, a literary club of Pasadena, member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Automo- bile Club of Southern California, and in different ways has made his influence count for good roads. He is also president of the Friendly Circle of Pasadena, and his religious associations are those of his an- cestors, the Society of Friends.
November 6, 1879, in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Mr. Yar- nall married Miss Ella Mendenhall. Her parents, Henry and Deborah (Passmore) Mendenhall, lived on a farm adjoining that of the Yar- nalls in Delaware county and she was reared and educated in the same locality as her husband. Mrs. Yarnell is a member of the W. C. T. U. of Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Yarnall first came to California in 1888, spending three years at that time, and returned in 1902. They have always had their home in Pasadena, their residence being at 656 North Los Robles avenue, Pasadena.
REV. PATRICK O'DONOGHUE. One of the most recently established parishes of the Catholic church in Los Angeles is the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, of which Father O'Donoghue is the second and present pastor.
This parish was established by the late Bishop Conaty in June, 1915. In absence of a regular church edifice the first mass was said at the Temple Street Car Barn at the corner of Edgeware and Temple streets. The present church occupies ground at the corner of Union and Court streets. The cornerstone of the edifice was laid June 17, 1916, and the church was dedicated in November, 1917, by Bishop Conaty. A rectory was also built in the spring of 1917, and a parish hall and parish school complete the group of buildings and the services of the parish. The
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