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National Bank Building, the Wholesale Terminal Buildings, and has under construction the buildings for the University of Southern Cali- fornia, the extension to Bullock's Store, and a number of other large structures.
Mr. Parkinson is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Engineers' and Architects' Association, the State Board of Architec- ture, and as a member of the California Club, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Los Angeles Country Club.
GEORGE J. WILSON, who has had a long and active experience in the stock and bond business and is now head of Wilson, Lackey & Company, stock and bond brokers and dealers in Los Angeles, came to Southern California from Philadelphia, where he had most of his early years of experience and training.
He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 11, 1878. His father, Benjamin Wilson, also a native of Belmont county, was educated at Mount Pleasant Boarding School, and for thirty years his chief busi- ness duties were as treasurer of a Pike Road Association at Flushing, Ohio. He was also director of the County Hospital and served in the Legislature two terms, and became very prominent as a republican leader in Ohio. He was chairman of his County Committee, and in that capa- city was called upon to introduce William McKinley at a number of places in Ohio where that eminent statesman was making his campaign for presidency. In 1912 he was at Wheeling, West Virginia, and soon after he had introduced William Taft to a public audience in that city he was taken ill and died. He married in Columbiana county, Ohio, Mary French. She was member of an old and prominent Quaker family whichi had helped found the town of Salem in Ohio. Benjamin Wilson and wife had four children: Dr. Joseph G. Wilson, who is now past assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Service ; Mrs. Al- bertus L. Hoyle, of Haddon Heights, New Jersey ; George J., and John French, who is a graduate of a college in Ohio, of West Town Boarding School near Philadelphia, of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and of Harvard University. He was president of all his classes in all these colleges but that of Harvard. . He is now a successful lawyer at Cleve- land.
George J. Wilson attended private schools, also was in college to the age of nineteen, and then removed to Philadelphia, where for two years he was in the service of the Provident Life Insurance Company. He then bought Charles G. Gates' seat in the Philadelphia Stock Ex- change and for five years was in the stock and bond brokerage business as a member of Newport, Wilson & Company. On coming to Los An- geles Mr. Wilson organized Wilson, Lackey & Company, of which he is president. This stock and bond house issues a semi-monthly stock re- port listing all securities.
Mr. Wilson is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a republican, and is a birthright Quaker in religious faith. At Westchester, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1900, he married Sarah E. Hoffman. They have two children, George Howard, born in 1902, a former student of the Los Angeles High School and now attending college, and Benjamin, born in 1910, attending the Berkeley Hall private school.
THE TIDINGS is the official organ of the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, and is published by the Tidings Publishing Company, of which W. E. Hampton is president.
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This journal, which means much to the Catholic population of South- ern California, was founded in 1895 under the name, Catholic Tidings. Mr. P. W. Croake was the first editor. The name was soon afterwards changed to The Tidings. In 1898 Mr. J. J. Bodkin bought a half interest in the paper, and soon acquired full ownership. He held the editorial chair from 1898 to 1904, when The Tidings was purchased by the late Bishop Conaty, and a corporation was organized to continue its publica- tion.
Under its new regime the first editor was Elmer Murphy, a graduate of the Catholic University of America at Washington. Mr. Herman J. Rodman, previously connected with the Los Angeles Express, was its second editor, holding the chair from the spring of 1906 to July, 1907, when, after a brief illness, he died.
The third editor, James Nolan, is now at the head of the Toledo Catholic Record. He had charge of The Tidings for a year and a half, and was succeeded temporarily by Rev. John J. Clifford, S. T. L., J. C. L. Miss Alice Stevens occupied the position for some four years, resigning in the fall of 1913.
The present editor, Charles Clifford Conroy, took charge in Novem- ber, 1913. To his editorial office he brought many talents and attain- ments not usually associated even with members of this brilliant pro- fession.
Though a native of Colorado, Mr. Conroy was reared and educated in Los Angeles. From 1904 to 1911 he was professor of history, astron- omy and geology in St. Vincent's College, and from 1911 to 1913 filled a similar post in the new Jesuit institution now known as Loyola College. Mr. Conroy is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, and member of a number of other astronomical societies, as well as of the Sociètè Scientifique de Bruxelles, which has its headquarters at Lou- vain, and is in some respects the premier Catholic scientific society of Europe.
Mr. Conroy has written several serial and several shorter historical articles, and has published a number of papers, technical and popular, in astronomical journals. His specialties in this line of scientific research are stellar brightness and stellar variability.
WILLIAM F. HOWARD, one of the founders and vice-president of the Western Pipe and Steel Company, also vice-president of the Southwest- ern Shipbuilding Company, two organizations that are highly significant in the development of Los Angeles district's industries, is a man of wide and varied experience in commercial affairs.
Born in County Down, Ireland, he attended the National Schools of Ireland and the Royal School at Armagh, and at the age of seventeen went to London and had one year of business life in that metropolis. Coming to America, he located at Chicago, and later at Kansas City, Missouri, and was for nine years connected with Armour & Company. Mr. Howard also had some experience in handling public utilities in the state of Minnesota, and spent several years in New York City in various enterprises.
Coming to Los Angeles, he was associated with Mr. 'Talbot and several others in organizing the Western Pipe and Steel Company, of which he has ever since been vice-president and director. This is an institution whose record has been marked by steady growth. It started with a small plant and with twenty-five employes, and its present im- portance is indicated by the fact that a thousand individuals are on the
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pay roll. The business covers the entire Pacific coast, with headquarters at San Francisco, and with factories at Los Angeles and Taft, and branch houses at Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield.
In March, 1918, Mr. Howard was one of the leaders in organizing the Southwestern Shipbuilding Company, of which he is vice-president and director. There is a special historical interest attaching to this com- pany, since it is one of the most complete organizations on the Pacific coast devoted to the great task of building up the American merchant marine. The company started their plant on the southerly end of Ter- minal Island, at the mouth of San Pedro Bay, April, 1918. They took a stretch of desert land and in a few months had a completely equipped shipyard and have already achieved results that few other organizations in the country can equal. The firm was awarded a contract for building twenty-three 8,800-ton ships for the emergency fleet corporation. On the 19th of October, 1918, the first ship was launched from the Ways, named the West Carnifax. The plant had been built in five months nineteen days, and this first ship had been completed and launched in seventy-seven working days. A second launching occurred December 31, a vessel of similar size went from the Ways named the West Caruth. The general manager of the company is David Hollywood, who has been a shipbuilder from boyhood, served his apprenticeship at Harland & Wolff's, in Belfast, Ireland.
Mr. Howard is also a director of the Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank, and a director of the Shaw-Butcher Ship Works at San Francisco. He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, California Club, and is a Mason.
At Mantorville, Minnesota, in June, 1903, he married Miss Caroline A. Severance. They have two children: Francis Severance, aged four- teen, a student in the public schools, and Caroline Elizabeth, a student in St. Catherine's School for Girls. The daughter Caroline was sponsor at the launching of the second boat, West Caruth.
Mrs. Howard is a sister of C. A. Severance, one of the foremost lawyers of America. He was born at Mantorville, Minnesota, in 1862, son of Erasmus C. and Amanda Julia (Arnold) Severance. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and is a member of the well-known St. Paul law firm of Davis, Kellogg & Severance. He represented the United States government in the litigation for dissolving the Harriman Railroad System. He was present at the launching of the West Caruth at San Pedro and went out on the trial trip of that boat. He is now attorney for the United States Steel Corporation in the litigation brought by the Federal authorities to dissolve it.
WALTER F. HAAS has been a resident of southern California thirty- five years, has been a prominent lawyer engaged in an active civil practice since 1891, and is also widely known as one of the eminent Masons of the west.
Mr. Haas was born at the town of California, Missouri, November 12, 1869, a son of John B. and Lina W. (Bruere), Haas. His early education was acquired in his native town, and on May 30, 1884, at the age of fifteen, he came to California and finished his education in the Los Angeles High School and studied law with the firm of Houghton, Silent & Campbell, of Los Angeles. He was admitted by the Supreme Court April 7, 1891, and the following year was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts. For a quarter of a century he has been one of the leading figures in the trial of important civil cases in the courts of this
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district, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities on water law and corporation law. In 1901 he formed a partnership with Frank Gar- rett, and in 1906 Harry L. Dunnigan entered the firm. Since the death of Mr. Garrett in 1911 the firm has been Haas & Dunnigan.
Mr. Haas has given his legal services to a number of business cor- porations, and has served as president of the Tampico Land, Lumber & Development Company, as director of the Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank, as vice-president of C. J. Kubach Company, as director of the K. & K. Brick Company and as president of the Fidelia Investment Com- pany. During 1899-1900 he was city attorney of Los Angeles. In Oc- tober, 1915, he was knighted Knight Commander of the Court of Honor by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite at Washington, D. C. He is one of the committee on Grievances and Appeals of the Grand Lodge of the State of California, is past master of Palestine Lodge No. 351, A. F. and A. M., and a member of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Haas is a member of the Gamut Club, Union League Club, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Bar Asso- ciations. He resides at Alhambra, where recently he completed a beau- tiful hollow tile concrete home of twenty-one rooms.
MRS. HARRIET WAUGH PAHL. Among the women of Los Angeles, Mrs. Harriet Waugh Pahl, superintendent of the Angelus Hospital, is socially and professionally prominent. Mrs. Pahl was born in Maine and was left an orphan at an early age. Her father was an American of English descent, and her mother a native of Nova Scotia. Her paternal grandfather, a scion of one of the oldest New England families, in whose home she was reared, was a man of unusual intellect and progressive ideas, and because she was a girl and an orphan, he insisted that she have a good business education. She was also given training in the practical household arts and in early life acquired a sense of individuality as well as responsibility to the world.
For eight years Mrs. Pahl lived in Honolulu, a member of the house- hold of Hon. Lawrence McCully, where she enjoyed many superior ad- vantages. She was in Honolulu during the reign of the late King Kala- kuaa and also while Queen Lilioukalani was on the throne during which time there was maintained all the pomp and ceremony of a foreign court. Each country being represented by an ambassador or minister plenipoten- tiary and with the men of war of these nations always in the harbor, life at Honolulu at that time was very gay and delightful.
Mrs. Pahl came to Los Angeles and took charge of the Good Samari- tan Hospital in 1897. She was connected with that institution for four- teen years and then went to the Angelus Hospital, where she has been for nine years. This hospital has prospered wonderfully under her able and capable management and ranks as one of the best in Los Angeles. When she took charge the hospital was not profitable, but it is now paying dividends and shows a fine financial rating. Mrs. Pahl is a graduate of the Illinois Training School for Nurses of Chicago, in which city she met and married Dr. P. C. H. Pahl, now assistant professor in the University of Southern California and chief of staff of the university clinic. They have two children, a son fourteen years old and a daughter twelve. Dr. and Mrs. Pahl are now building a delightful home of the Swiss chalet type on a beautiful hillside near Elysian Park, overlooking for many miles the picturesque San Fernando Valley.
Mrs. Pahl is a member of the Ebell Club and of all the clubs of her profession. Since coming to Los Angeles, Mrs. Pahl has worked untir-
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ingly in the interests of hospital betterment and high standards for nurses, and is one of the best known and most respected hospital women on the Pacific coast.
HERMAN BARUCH for twenty years was distinguished in Los Angeles as a hard-working, quiet and efficient business man, a builder of trade and commerce, and at his death left a record of unimpeachable integrity and widespread generosity.
He was born in Hechingen, Germany, April 26, 1860, a son of Solo- mon and Babette Baruch. He attended the common schools, a boarding school at Stuttgart to the age of sixteen, following which he clerked in a mercantile house at Munich to the age of twenty, and after that at Frankfort for two years. On coming to Los Angeles, Mr. Baruch found employment as a clerk in the wholesale grocery house of Hellman, Haas & Company. In 1891 he was made a partner in the business, the name being changed to Haas, Baruch & Company. With that well-known enterprise his name and energies were identified until his death, on Octo- ber 21, 1909. Successful in business, he was interested in public-spirited movements and various charitable organizations, was a charter member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and Concordia Club, a republican voter and an active member of the Jewish Faith.
At Montgomery, Alabama, June 27, 1892, he married Jeannette Meer- tief. Mrs. Baruch is a director of the Jewish Orphans' Home and inter- ested in various other charities. She is the mother of two children. Elsie, the daughter, is a graduate of the Girls' Collegiate School, and during the war was active in Red Cross work and was with the United States Food Administration, and during 1919 was still connected with the Red Cross. The son, Frederick H., born in Los Angeles, is a grad- uate of the University of California and left his place with Haas, Baruch & Company to join the first officers' training camp at the Presidio. He was transferred to March Field and Fort Sill, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service, and since his honorable discharge has re- joined Haas, Baruch & Company as a salesman.
GEORGE L. HOLTON, president of the Turner Oil Company, has been a prominent figure and constructive worker in the industrial situation in California thirty-five years.
Of old New England stock, he was born at Northfield, Massachu- setts, February 22, 1863, son of John Pomeroy and Stella (Tyler) Hol- ton. At the age of seventeen, after completing his education in the gram- mar and high schools, he went to New York City, and for a year was with the Remington Arms Company. For several years Mr. Holton was superintendent of agriculture of the Mount Herman School.
In 1884, on coming to California, he became superintendent of the Bear Valley Irrigation Company. Mr. Holton and his associates planted orchards, built irrigation ditches, divided large tracts of land, and laid out the city of Redlands, giving the permanent industrial and agricul- tural bent to that community. Mr. Holton had an active part in all that work for ten years. In 1894 he removed to Los Angeles, and has since been identified with much of the oil development in California. In 1899 he was made superintendent of construction with the Howard Oil Com- pany. In 1901, having resigned, he organized the Densmore-Stabler Refining Company and became its manager. This business was absorbed in 1904 by the Turner Oil Company, and Mr. Holton continued as man- ager. Upon the death of M. W. Turner, in 1908, Mr. Holton was elected president.
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The Turner Oil Company was one of the first to put down a well in the Los Angeles territory. Later they acquired oil interests in Whittier, and they now have extensive holdings in Ventura county known as the Mutual Oil Company and the Cosmopolitan Oil Company. The com- pany's refinery is at Los Angeles, at 9th street and Santa Fe avenue.
Mr. Holton is president of the California Oil Exchange and vice president of the Independent Petroleum Market Association. He has an extremely useful recreation in the cultivation and management of a seventy-acre grove of Valencia oranges in Orange county. In associa- tion with his son as joint owner a six hundred forty acre tract in Tulare county is devoted to stock raising.
Mr. Holton is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a mem- ber of the Sierra Madre Club, the Union League Club, and a republican in politics. At Redlands September 25, 1885, he married Miss Fanny L. Pratt.
Robert Goodyear Holton, only son of George L. Holton, was born at Los Angeles, April 17, 1889. He attended the public schools, also the Troop Institute at Pasadena, and since school days has been asso- ciated with his father in business. He is now president of the Mutual Oil Company, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Turner Oil Company, a director in the Asphaltum and Oil Refining Company, and a director in the Western Oil Company, oil distributors. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is junior warden of Golden West Commandery No. 43. He is also a member of the Sierra Madre Club and the Jonathan Club and is a republican. February 22, 1917, at Selma, California, he married Netta Scott. They have one child, John Pomeroy Holton, and this grandson of George L. Holton represents the eleventh generation of the Holton family in America.
CHARLES JAMES WADE recently rounded out a quarter of a cen- tury of service as secretary of the State Mutual Building and Loan Asso- ciation of Los Angeles. Organized in 1889, Mr. Wade became connected with the company two years later and his individual abilities have played an important part in the impressive record of this association. When he first became connected with it the association had less than a hundred thousand dollars in assets. An official statement for July, 1919, shows total assets of over four million four hundred thousand dollars, and it now has outstanding in loans nearly four millions. Its management has been at once conservative and progressive and the history of the com- pany in detail would prove it a vital factor in the growth and develop- ment of Los Angeles.
Mr. Wade, the secretary of the association, has had an active busi- ness career beginning with his arrival in the City of Boston on January 10, 1872, on his eighteenth birthday. He was born in Suffolk County, England, January 10, 1854. In 1869 when he was fifteen years old his parents Mark Edward and Eliza Anne (Nazer) Wade crossed the ocean and settled at Goderich, Ontario, Canada. His father had been a gentleman farmer in England and in Canada he and his wife lived retired. He died at Brussels and his wife at Stratford, Ontario. Charles. J. was one of four sons and eight daughters. Three of the sons and four of the daughters are living. Mr. Wade and his youngest sister reside in Los Angeles, one sister is a resident of England, while the others are in Illinois, near Chicago.
Charles James Wade attended the Queen Elizabeth grammar school · at Ipswich, England, from 1865 to 1869. During 1870-71 he was a student
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of law at Goderich, Ontario. On arriving in Boston on his birthday as above noted he became bookkeeper for Sanderson, Foster & Company, and was with that concern until 1876. During 1877-82 he was book- keeper for the New England News Company in Boston, and from 1882 to 1889 was credit man and bookkeeper for the U. S. Wind Engine and Pump Company, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Wade came to California in June, 1889. He bought a fruit ranch at Cucamonga, but in 1891 entered the service of the State Mutual Buildinfi & Loan Association as a solicitor, and in 1892 was appointed assistant secretary and in 1894 entered upon his long term of service as secretary.
He sold his fruit ranch in 1896 and moved to Hollywood, built his home in that suburb in 1897 and he and his family have occupied it as their family residence since 1898. Mr. Wade is a member and former president of the California State League of Building & Loan Associa- tions, was the first representative from the State at the National League meetings, and had that honor on three different occasions. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Organization. For the past twenty years he has served as treasurer of St. Stephen's church at Hollywood, is a former president of the Hollywood Community Sing, and is a life member and treasurer of the Grand Council of California of the Royal Arcanum. He is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Foresters, is a member, and for two years in succession was president, of the Hollywood Board of Trade, is a member of the City Club of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, San Gabriel Valley Coun- try Club.
At Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1876, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Howard of that city. She died at the Hollywood home of the family, September 1, 1907, the mother of three sons and one daugh- ter. Mr. Wade also has five grandsons. His daughter Mabel Howard spent seventeen months in France with the Red Cross, and soon after her return was married, August 20, 1919, at the home in Hollywood, to Rufus W. Balch, of Santa Monica. She is a graduate of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles. The son, Charles Howard Wade, is assistant secretary of the State Mutual Building & Loan Association, resides at Hollywood and has two sons. Franklin S. is superintendent of operation of the Southern Counties Gas Company, as noted elsewhere in this publication, also lives at Hollywood and has one son. Henry Nazer, the youngest son, lives at Milwaukee and is the father of two boys.
March 25, 1918, Mr. Wade married Isabella Raeburn Darling. She was born at Montreal, Canada, of a Scotch-Canadian family of that city. Mrs. Wade is also a graduate of the Good Samaritan Hospital at Los Angeles, and is a member of the Alumnae Association and treasurer.
FRANKLIN S. WADE. The work by which the name of Franklin S. Wade stands out among Southern Californians has been as engineer and technical expert, first with the Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corporation, and for the past several years with the Southern Counties Gas Company of California. Primarily he furnished the technical skill and devised many of the scientific methods for the manufacture of domestic gas from crude oil. This is a California development pure and simple, and the application of the methods on a broad scale by the gas companies of this state has been of great service to the fuel-using public.
Mr. Wade was born at Kansas City, Missouri, July 27, 1885, but has
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spent most of his life in Southern California. He is a son of C. J. and Mary Elizabeth (Howard) Wade. His father on coming to California settled on a fruit ranch at Cucamonga, but for the past twenty-eight years has been secretary and manager of the State Mutual Building and Loan Association of Los Angeles. The mother died in Los Angeles September 1, 1907. There are four children: Mabel H., who from March, 1918, until the summer of 1919 was engaged in Red Cross work in France; Charles H., who is assistant secretary with his father in the Building and Loan Association; Franklin S. and Henry H., connected with the Cutler-Hammer Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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