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Doctor Johnson was born at Columbus, Texas, October 13, 1871, a son of Jehu W. and Phila W. (Borden) Johnson. His mother was a daughter of Gail Borden. Doctor Johnson secured his early education in private schools, and took his medical work in Northwestern Uni- versity at Chicago, graduating in 1893 with the degrees Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine. He holds the degree LL. D., con- ferred by the University of Southern California. After completing his medical course he went abroad and did post-graduate work in several of the leading hospitals in London for one year. Returning to this country, he located at Los Angeles and soon was busy in a large private practice, and continued in the private profession for eighteen years. For twelve years he was chief surgeon of the Southern California Edi- son Company, and so organized its medical department that the phrase, "A corporation with a soul," was coined. He was appointed assistant medical director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company in Sep- tember, 1917, and is also a director in that great corporation.
He is vice-president and a director of the Southwestern Museum of Los Angeles, is a member of the Los Angeles County, the California and American Medical Associations, the Medical Society of Southern California, is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Colonial Wars, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and is affili- ated with the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Country Club, the California Club, and in politics is a republican. He is a member of the Phi Pho Sigma, which was founded at Northwestern University, then the Chicago Medical College and in affiliation with Northwestern University, and to Dr. Milbank Johnson solely belongs the credit of its inception. This is now the largest organization of its kind in the world. He also organized the Automobile Club of Southern California, and was its president for the first two years of its existence, when it built the first "good road" in California and instituted the state-wide good road campaign which has resulted in the wonderful good road system throughout the state.
September 16, 1893, at Alhambra, California, Doctor Johnson mar- ried Louise Lothrop. They have two daughters, Louiez and Evelyn Gail. The older daughter is the wife of Leslie J. Webb of Los Angeles, and the younger daughter is the wife of Brandon Bruner of Ontario, California.
CHARLES HOWARD PALMER JR., a mining engineer by profession, is one of the leading men of his calling in Los Angeles, and is largely in-
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terested in mining and oil properties in this country and Canada. He was born at Rochester, New York, September 26, 1886, a son of Charles Howard and Mary (Allis) Palmer. On the maternal side of the house Charles Howard Palmer Jr. is a direct descendant of Mayflower stock, and a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts. His father has been for many years one of the solid men of Rochester, and asso- ciated with a large financial institution in an official capacity.
After attending the Lewis Private School for young boys at Roch- ester, Charles Howard Palmer Jr. became a student of the Bradstreet's Preparatory School, and later of St. George's School at Newport, Rhode Island. He then entered Harvard University, and following his gradua- tion therefrom he entered the Columbia School of Mines at New York City, returning to Harvard for post-graduate work after completing. his engineering course. He holds two degrees, Bachelor of Science and Engineer of Mines.
Mr. Palmer's first practical experience in his profession was at McGill, Nevada, where he was in the employ of the Nevada Consoli- dated Copper Company, beginning with that concern at the bottom in 1911 and gaining an experience which made him eligible for the position of assistant engineer at Copper Flat, Nevada. Still later he was made assistant manager of the South Nevada Gold Mine Company at Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1912 Mr. Palmer leased the Columbia Mine at Good Springs, Nevada ; in February, 1913, leased the King Solomon Mine at Havilah, California; and in September, 1913, leased the Amer- ican Eagle Mine at Dos Cabezos, Arizona. During May, 1914, Mr. Palmer became engineer for the Pacific Mines Corporation at Ludlow, California ; in January, 1915, was made engineer for the United Eastern Mining Company of Oatman, Arizona ; in April, 1915, as a consulting engineer, opened offices in Los Angeles, to which city he had come in 1912 ; in July, 1917, he was made a director of the United Eastern Min- ing Company, and is now directing the affairs of several mining and oil properties in which he is financially interested.
Like other patriotic men of his profession, Mr. Palmer offered his services to his government during the time of war, and in October, 1917, went to Vancouver Barracks Engineers' Training Camp, and was made a first lieutenant in the Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps. Sent to Camp Meade, Maryland, with Company F, Three Hundred and Fourth Engineers, he was soon made regimental gas officer and later assistant to the chief engineer of the Seventy-ninth Division. On February 10, 1918, he was ordered to Washington as assistant to the assistant director of the United States Government Explosives Plant, receiving his pro- motion as captain on July 1, 1918, and his honorable discharge on February 18, 1919. A brother of his was a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, and died in France in November, 1917.
On December 2, 1910, Mr. Palmer was united in marriage at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, to Mary Wilde of Dorchester, Massachusetts. There are no children. Mrs. Palmer took a very active part in Red Cross work and other war movements, and is an enthusiastic club woman. Mr. Palmer belongs to the Los Angeles Country Club, the California Club, the Cerritos Gun Club, the Rocky Mountain Club of New York, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Harvard Club of New York, the Mayflower Society, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the Colonial Wars. While a republican, he has never entered politics.
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ILDEVERT I. DEHAIL. For many years some of the valuable property interests of Los Angeles have been in the Dehail ownership and manage- ment. The late Ildevert I. Dehail was one of the early and prominent real estate operators and owners of the city, and while only a few brief facts concerning his career are available he was evidently a man of re- markable enterprise, of undaunted courage, and made and lost and re- covered several fortunes.
He was born on a farm near Mortagne, France, May 17, 1848, and had but a few months of education. He was living in France when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, served as a French soldier and three months before the capture of Paris he was made a prisoner. He escaped once from the German prison and reached the Holland border before he was recaptured. He was then put in a fortress on the Rhine and re- mained there until after the war. Broken in health, he came to the United States, on the steamship "Europe." This vessel in midocean was wrecked and all the meager possessions of Mr. Dehail were swept away. The passengers were rescued by the English steamship "Greece," and arrived in New York City in 1874. During the war his parents both died.
Mr. Dehail turned his abilities to work in a butcher shop. Later he traveled around the country, chiefly in the southern states, and in 1877 engaged in the wholesale 'meat business at St. Louis. He prosecuted this with great vigor, and rapidly accumulated a fortune. He sold out in the late seventies and went to Leadville, Colorado, then one of the leading districts in the west. He became a mine operator and made and lost sev- eral fortunes there. He had come all the way to Colorado on horseback, and while in Leadville he located several mines. He located the "Morn- ing Star Mine." He was engaged in gold washing there and also ran the Clarendon Hotel, the leading hotel. In 1882 he went to San Fran- cisco, and from there to San Diego, and then back to San Francisco, looking for a location.
In February, 1886, with all his money gone, Mr. Dehail came to Los Angeles, and with renewed energy engaged in the real estate business. He bought twenty-five or thirty properties, improved and sold them. The next two years he acquired title to some property that has since be- come very valuable. He was especially identified with the upbuilding and improvement of the section between Central avenue and Main street and from First street to Sixth street. He was also responsible for the open- ing of San Pedro street, north of Third street. He was the active leader in getting paving and general improvements made. He also bought prop- erty in San Francisco at Twelfth and Market streets, and after the great fire erected a large hotel and was well known in San Francisco.
Mr. Dehail died while on t trip inspecting some of his property inter- ests in San Francisco September 3, 1918. He was a republican in poli- tics. At St. Louis, Missouri, he married Alice Ferrandon, a native of Nauvoo, Illinois. His only son, Elmo, was born at Los Angeles, April 11, 1892. He was educated in the grammar and high schools and then be- came associated with his father in the real estate business, and since his father's death has had the active management of the estate.
During the war with Germany Mr. Dehail took an active interest and gave liberally to the Red Cross and other patriotic measures. He was a very patriotic American.
COL. CASSIUS M. MOSES. One by one pass away the notable figures of the country's older military history, and there was a sad appropriate- ness in the death of Col. Cassius M. Moses on Decoration Day, May 30, 1919.
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Cassius M. Moses was born in Clymer, Chautauqua county, New York, January 31, 1865, the sixth of the seven sons born to Amasa C. and Naoma Terry Moses. In August, 1871, the Moses family moved to Barton county, Kansas, and the early boyhood years of Colonel Moses were spent on the Moses homestead, "punching cows," farm- ing and living the strenuous life of those pioneer days. In writing of this time, in later years, he said: "The memory of the days when my father and mother, their older sons, Arthur, Clayton and Edward, and the valiant friends and associates of that time were building an American empire in the wilderness will be my dearest, my most valued possession while life lasts."
In the spring of 1882 he went to work for his brothers, who were engaged in a general mercantile business in Great Bend, Kansas. In 1888 he accepted a commercial position in Pueblo, Colorado, and went there to live, and enlisted in the National Guard of the state of Colorado in April, 1889, and served the state in every capacity from private sol- dier to the highest office in the guard, that of brigadier general. On January 18, 1895, he was appointed adjutant general of the state of Colorado by Governor A. W. McIntire, and removed to Denver and was reappointed adjutant general by Governor McIntire April 1, 1895, and again reappointed adjutant general by Governor Alna Adams March 1, 1897. Quoting from a report made by Gen. Irving Hale, U. S. V .: "As adjutant general and quartermaster general of the state of Colorado for over three years, including the long service of the guard during the Leadville strike, Gen. Cassius M. Moses showed great energy and executive ability and put the National Guard of Colorado in the ex- cellent condition as to drill, discipline and equipment in which it was found at the outbreak of the Spanish war."
In the spring of 1898, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, the entire National Guard of Colorado, under the command of General Moses, was mobilized at Camp Adams, near Denver, and the entire quota was mustered into the United States service May 1, 1898. It was then General Moses proved his true loyalty and love of country by resigning as adjutant general, intending to enter the ranks as a private soldier, but this sacrifice was not accepted and he was commissioned major, First Regiment Infantry, Colorado Volunteers, May 1, 1898, and with the regiment left Camp Adams May 17, 1898, for the Philippine Islands via San Francisco, reaching Manila Bay July 16, 1898. Major Moses participated in engagements before Manila, and in the capture of that city, August 13, 1898. Quoting from a report of this engagement by Capt. William A. Cornell, U. S. V. (now lieutenant-colonel, United States Army) : "In this movement, Major Moses not only distinguished himself for his bravery and fearless leadership, and his genius and skill in successfully commanding the troops under him, receiving and merit- ing the hearty commendation of his superiors in rank, and the true respect of his subalterns." Quoting from a letter written by Major General F. V. Green, U. S. V .: "I saw Major Moses daily from June to September, 1898, and can testify to his ability, his fine soldierly qualities, his zeal and enthusiasm in the performance of every duty, and his high character in every respect as an officer. The First Colo- rado was an unusually fine regiment, and I considered Major Moses one of the best officers in it." On September 6, 1898, he was com- missioned lieutenant colonel. In the Philippine insurrection Colonel Moses commanded at various times every part of the First Colorado Regiment. Quoting from a letter written by Major General E. S. Otis:
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"In the Philippines we considered Colonel Moses one of our best officers and he was promptly selected for dangerous service requiring tact and courage. In General Lawton's movement to the south he, with six com- panies of his regiment, took the brunt of the initiative attack upon the enemy's position and gallantly carried it, the colonel being severely wounded and carried from the field."
On June 10, 1899, in General Lawton's advance on Guadaloupe Heights, Las Pinos and Paranaque, Colonel Moses was severely wounded. He never fully recovered from the injuries received, and they finally caused his death at the age of fifty-four years. He was mustered out with the regiment September 8, 1899, at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, and returned to Colorado, where he lived until January, 1903, when he moved to Los Angeles to make his perma- nent home. He engaged in mercantile business until 1915, when mines and mining affairs engrossed him.
Colonel Moses was married October 14, 1890, to Miss Betsey Bald- win Cunningham of Frederick, Illinois, who survives, with a daughter, Donna, the wife of Capt. John James Vandenburgh, Coast Artillery, United States Army; a son, John Campbell Moses, first lieutenant, Second Field Artillery, United States Army, of the American Expedi- tionary Forces in France, and a grandson, John James Vanderburgh Jr. Colonel Moses is survived also by his six brothers, Arthur H., Clayton L., Edward W., William A., Lincoln E. and Seward E.
Colonel Moses is remembered as an honest, capable, patriotic Amer- ican, who at all times labored for the welfare of his fellow soldiers, the good of the service and the honor of his country, respected and admired by his army comrades, business and social associates.
GARRETTSON DULIN is a prominent young business man of Los Angeles, formerly local manager for E. H. Rollin & Son of Boston, during the war an officer and instructor in aviation, and now member of the firm Blankenhorn, Hunter, Dulin Company, Bonds and Invest- ment Bankers.
Mr. Dulin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, May 24, 1889, and one month after his birth his parents, Edgar G. and Jean Belden (Gar- rettson) Dulin, came to California and located in San Diego. Garrett- son was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, attended the University of California, and completed his education in Cornell Uni- versity, at Ithaca, New York.
He became Los Angeles manager for the nationally known bond house of E. H. Rollin & Son of Boston in 1912. His ability and per- sonal character have made that house a prosperous factor in Los Angeles financial circles for five years. Early in the war with Germany Mr. Dulin began training for an aviator. After his course of instruction he was commissioned second lieutenant, and was then placed on duty as an instructor at Marshfield, Riverside, California. He remained in the service until after the signing of the armistice, and then returned to Los Angeles. March 1, 1919, he entered the firm of Blankenhorn, Hunter, Dulin Company, and on February 14, 1920, was united in mar- riage to Miss Jane Stimson, daughter of George W. Stimson of Pasa- dena. Mr. Dulin is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Mid- wick Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club and California Club, and belongs to the college fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon.
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MISS LLOY GALPIN. There is hardly a name that stands for more in the social and artistic circles of Southern California than that of Galpin. Miss Lloy Galpin is a daughter of Cromwell Galpin, and her own modest part as a member of this family is as a teacher in the Los Angeles New High School.
Cromwell Galpin came to Los Angeles in 1883, when the city had a population of eleven thousand. At that time he was on his way to the Hawaiian Islands. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan, and during his residence in Los Angeles was a member of the editorial staff of the Times-Herald and Express. He was also a contributor to the Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas. He built his home on Loomis street near Sixth street, where the family lived twelve years. The neigh- borhood as far as Seventh and Figueroa was all orange groves. Their home was one of great hospitality, and Mr. Galpin entertained many noted people. Later he bought a ranch at Eagle Rock, and in June, 1885, while on his way to the ranch, found the river so swollen that he had to ford the otherwise stream. At Eagle Rock he did much toward shaping the social and civic life and conditions of that community.
His first wife and the mother of Miss Lloy Galpin died in 1888. In 1890 Cromwell Galpin married Kate Tupper. Her name is conspicuous among American woman educators and particularly so in the far west. She was Professor of Education in the University of Nevada, being the first woman full-fledged professor in the country in a co-educational uni- versity. At Los Angeles she was one of the founders of the Friday Morning Club. Besides the abilities and qualifications that made her a notable educator she was a woman of broad social views, and had many rare friends. Her home was the rendezvous of musicians, educators and many great thinkers. Mrs. Galpin was a first cousin to Kate Douglas Wiggin. In 1893, at the World's Congress of Women, she spoke on the same platform with Mme. Modjeska, and Mme. Copeland of Belgium. This congress was presided over by the late Mrs. Potter Palmer. During the suffrage campaign of 1885 Mrs. Galpin, then Kate Tupper, toured California as speaker with Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt.
Mrs. Galpin was the founder of the Shakespeare Club of Los An- geles. Ben Greet, the great English actor and manager, said this club was unique because it was made up entirely of students of Shakespeare. In 1903 Mrs. Galpin went abroad and after touring Europe spent several months at Stratford, devoting all her time while there to the study of Shakespeare. A memorial of Mrs. Galpin, a bust by Emilie Perry, is placed in Stratford as a tribute to her Shakespearean studies.
In 1905 she and Mr. Galpin went abroad for a tour of six months, spending their time in Vienna, Berlin, Italy and other points. Two weeks after their return home she became ill, and died in January, 1906.
Soon afterward the remainder of the family. moved to the Eagle Rock ranch. Miss Lloy Galpin's mother was the creator of the Woman's Parliament at Los Angeles, the first attempt to unify social and civic organizations for the city's betterment. Mrs. D. J. Stevens of Santa Monica was the first president, Mrs. Galpin was the first speaker and the second president. This was an organization made up of only South- ern California clubs.
The daughter Hazel Galpin married John R. Lowe, now superin- tendent of the San Diego and Arizona Railway, with headquarters in San Diego. They have five lovely daughters, the oldest thirteen. The younger daughter, Ellen Galpin, is a graduate of Stanford University and is now working toward the doctor's degree in medicine at the Uni-
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versity of Chicago. The son, Alfred Galpin, a sculptor by profession, is editor of the Standard Oil Bulletin in San Francisco.
Miss Lloy Galpin is a member of many literary clubs, also a member of the Business Woman's Civic Club and enrolled for active service in the Red Cross, and had hoped for an opportunity to go overseas. She is now giving her attention to her congenial duties as one of the teachers in the New High School.
OSCAR CLARENCE SMITH was born in Los Angeles, California, De- cember 12, 1885. He is the son of Charles W. Smith, a retired carriage manufacturer and pioneer of Los Angeles, and Louisa Anna Smith. He completed the grammar school course in Los Angeles and entered the high school, leaving the latter institution before the completion of his final year to enter the employ of the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank of this city, at the age of sixteen, continuing, however, to attend the night school for some years and to do much reading as a means of preparing himself for his chosen vocation.
His first duties with the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank were to act as messenger, after which he was promoted successively to clerk, book- keeper, teller, head of the loan department, assistant secretary and finally secretary of the above institution, succeeding the late Roy P. Hillman to that position in February, 1919. Today Mr. Smith has the distinction of being the oldest employe of the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank in point of service, with the exception of the president, Dr. M. N. Avery, and his long connection with the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank has brought him in contact with the most prominent financiers and business men of Los Angeles during the period of the city's greatest growth along banking lines.
On May 8, 1907, Mr. Smith was married at Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Miss Belle Wilcox, a niece of Wallace J. Wilcox and the late Fred Elmer Wilcox of Pasadena. Mr. Smith has two sons, Hobart and Howard Smith.
Mr. Smith is a republican in politics and a member of the Los An- geles Athletic Club.
WILLIAM BYRON SCARBOROUGH has been a quiet, dignified and hard-working member of the business and social community of Los Angeles for over thirty years. He is especially well known in financial circles, and was formerly president of two banks in Monrovia.
His career is an instance of perseverance and hard work in raising him from a condition of obscure poverty to one of real influence. He was born in Louisiana in April, 1853. About the close of the war his father moved to Brenham, Texas. His mother died there in February, 1869. At that time William Byron was a boy of sixteen, his father was an invalid, and he also had the care and responsibility of a little sister and brother. He was in a strange country without acquaintances or friends and without money. Probably then, under the spur of necessity, he learned and applied the greatest lesson of life, to accept and make use of the opportunities that lie nearest and lose no time in doing it. All the following summer he worked and toiled in the fields, caring for a large crop of water melons and cotton, and realized enough to pay the expenses of the family household. This instance of enterprise encou- raged him to something better, and the following year he bought some teams and took contracts for the delivery of railroad ties and cord wood to a railroad then being extended from Brenham to Austin, Texas.
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was a student in Waco University, now Baylor University. He expected to practice law, but when about ready to stand his examination for ad- mission to the bar he accepted an offer of two hundred fifty dollars a month as cashier in a wholesale dry goods company. A few months later he resigned to engage in the mercantile business, and followed it successfully for several years.
The majority of successful Americans come sooner or later to California. Mr. Scarborough, however, is probably indebted to his mem- bership in the Masonic Order for his long and congenial residence in this state. He was made a Mason in 1876 and passed all the chairs in the York Rite before he was thirty years of age. In August, 1883, he attended the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar at San Francisco as commander of the Waco Commandery. When he left Texas he had not the least idea of severing his home and business ties with that state. However, he became so infatuated with the climatic advantages and the outlook for the future of Los Angeles that he put his affairs in Texas in order and in February, 1885, permanently took up his home in Los Angeles. He was honored with the office of grand master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of California in 1902.
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