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"In 1898 Doctor McCoy read a paper before the Southern California Dental Association on the general health relations of the teeth, describing cases from his own practice and from personal observations, in which, in his belief, the systemic derangements had been caused by toxic condi- tions of the mouth and teeth, and the relief of those general disturbances by treatment original with himself at that time. Some fifteen years later the world awakened to the importance of considering the teeth in the light of infections.
"Doctor McCoy was the pioneer in the entire West in introducing oral hygiene in the public schools, sowing in 1890 the good seed which are now yielding their beneficial harvest. He read a paper before the
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American Medical Association in 1894 on the subject at the San Fran- cisco Mid-Winter Fair, which was widely copied in both medical and dental journals. Long before the great Forsythe Clynic of Boston had been founded, it was his dream to interest some wealthy patients in establishing such an institution in Los Angeles. May that dream yet be .fulfilled.
"Doctor McCoy was one of the small coterie of Southern California dentists who pre-visioned the present College of Dentistry of the Uni- versity of Southern California, aided in establishing it, and was a mem- ber of its faculty. He lived to be proud of an institution which has come to be an honor to the community and state.
"Doctor McCoy was a member of the Pacific Coast Dental Congresses in 1894 and 1905, and was one of the honorary presidents of the Panama- Pacific Dental Congress of 1915.
"The limitations of space prevent us from further enlarging this biographical recital of a man who so gracefully adorned the profession to which he contributed so bountifully ; of a man who, through his re- ligious convictions and teachings, helped us to see that the only reward of virtue is virtue, and the only way to have a friend is to be one. A noble man has been taken from the ranks. We mourn a loss to dentistry greater than this modest tribute could depict, and bow in respect and admiration to the memory of a life spent in an unselfish abandon that thereby he could more liberally add to the comforts of those in the province of his ministrations. We mourn the removal from among us of one dearly beloved and most highly esteemed as a friend and adviser."
Doctor McCoy passed away after a surgical operation on June 12, 1919, and sleeps in beautiful Hollywood Cemetery, guarded by the mountains that were his friends, and beneath the blue skies of his be- loved California.
HARRY W. HARRISON. The vital point in the application of power to automotive machinery, as exemplified in nearly every type of motor car and truck, is the electric spark. The mechanism required to produce that spark is therefore the one indispensable element, and as that mechanism requires constant or periodical care and reinstallation, it necessarily involves in a great city like Los Angeles a big business service of itself, thoroughly specialized and requiring a large amount of capital and many expert men.
This is the business service by which Harry W. Harrison is a factor in the modern affairs of Los Angeles. Mr. Harrison, who has had an interesting career of business progress, was born at Toronto, Canada, June 13, 1884, a son of Hugh and Sarah Harrison. At the age of fifteen, when his days in the public school ended, he entered the Ryrie Brothers retail jewelry house at Toronto as a salesman. He remained there until 1906, when, going West, he spent a year as sales- man with the retail jewelry house of Chandler & Mitchell at Vancouver, British Columbia, and another year was at Seattle, Washington, with Albert Hansen, a jeweler.
From Seattle Mr. Harrison came to Los Angeles and established one of the pioneer enterprises for the recharging and repairing of electric trucks. His first shop was on Werden Place, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. He handled all his patronage with the help of one man. The next year he had a building especially erected for his purposes at the corner of Boyd and Wall Streets. That was his business headquarters until 1915, when he moved into his present building at 831-839 South
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Los Angeles Street. Here he has a perfectly appointed and especially constructed place adapted to the handling of his business. The first floor is 150x100 feet, and the second floor 100x40 feet. Eighteen expert men are now in his service. At the beginning he had as the nucleus of his regular patronage the care of only six electric trucks. Three years later he handled a battery service of forty trucks and was also selling agent for the General Vehicle Electric Truck. In 1916, on selling that agency, he acquired the local agency for the Exide Battery, and now has facilities for handling a general battery repair and charging service. The growth of this service has been phenomenal and today he has one of the largest organizations in Los Angeles for that purpose.
Mr. Harrison is a member of Westlake Lodge of Masons, belongs to the various Scottish Rite bodies and the Mystic Shrine, and as a member of the Jonathan Club, Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and in politics is a republican. March 30, 1910, he married, at Los Angeles, Helen Woodruff, formerly of Dayton, Ohio.
ARTHUR C. LILLIE is proprietor of the Hartford Windshield Com- pany of Los Angeles, an industry which has been in existence for ten years, and has developed on the merits of its product until its output is now sold and distributed to all parts of the world where automobiles are used.
Mr. Lillie was born in Nashville, Tennessee, September 24, 1888, a son of C. S. and Ella J. Lillie. At the age of fifteen he left high school in his native city and for several years was associated with his father, a building contractor. In 1910 he came to Los Angeles, and from that time forward has been identified with the Hartford Windshield Company. At first he was superintendent of installation, and in 1912 bought an interest in the business.
The Hartford Windshield Company was originally established in 1908 by J. N. Tabor, inventor of the automobile windshield. In 1910 H. S. Kennedy and Walter Cather bought the interest of Mr. Tabor, and at that time reorganized the business under the title of Hartford Windshield Company. Mr. Lillie bought the industry in 1912, and for six years had as partner Mr. Spencer, but since March, 1918, has been sole owner. A few years ago only five employes were required, but at the present time there are thirty-five men working under Mr. Lillie. The products manufactured by the Hartford Windshield Company are all patented, either being inventions of their own or inventions which are controlled exclusively by them, and are distributed throughout the United States by sales agencies.
Mr. Lillie is affiliated with Golden Gate Lodge No. 358, F. and A. M., is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Auto Trade Association, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, and in politics is a republican. September 18, 1908, he married Lucile Squire. They have two children: Anita, born in 1910, and James, born in 1912, both attending the public schools.
CARL F. HORN is a well-known business figure in Los Angeles, where his dancing school and academy has become a fixture in the social life of the city. ,
Mr. Horn was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, October 18, 1878, a son of Louis H. and Johanna (Labastian) Horn. He grew up in his
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native city, attending public school to the age of sixteen, and then took up night work in the Chambers Business College. In the daytime he worked as bookkeeper and cashier for the Ross & Todd Wood and Coal Company for a year and a half. Mr. Horn has a military record, having joined Company C of the Fourth Missouri Infantry as a bugler during the Spanish-American war. He was with that organization nine months. On returning to St. Joseph, he was department manager for Hirsch Bros. two years, and then went to St. Louis, Missouri, and during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was musical director for two large concessions on the Pike until the fall of that year. Soon after returning to St. Joseph, Mr. Horn opened a dancing school, and in 1905 came West to Los Angeles, where he was put in charge of a department of the Broadway Department Store. He filled that position three years, and at the same time operated a night dancing school at Forty-eighth Street and Ver- mont Avenue. His enterprise was popular, enjoyed a steady growth, and in 1906 moved to Mercantile Place. In 1908 he gave all his time to his school, moving it to Fifteenth and Main Streets, and on September 2, 1916, occupied his present location at 755 South Spring Street, where he conducts a high-class dancing school and academy.
Mr. Horn is affiliated with St. Joseph Camp No. 1 of the Woodmen of the World, Court No. 33 of the Independent Order of Foresters, is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, City Club, Com- mercial Business Men's Association, Union League Club, Business Men's Accident Association of America, and the Automobile Club of Southern California. He married, in Los Angeles, Miss Marguerite Mackey, on August 28, 1917. Mr. Horn has one child by a former marriage, Ivan Lynn, born April 5, 1908.
WALTER FRANCIS MCENTIRE is one of the newer members of the Los Angeles community. He was for many years a successful lawyer and business man in the East. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 4, 1861, son of Captain Joseph and Morgianna Rosamond (Sheble) McEntire. His maternal grandmother's people were Quakers and settled in Phila- delphia as early as 1685, and were among the builders of that city. Mr. McEntire's maternal grandfather belonged to one of the thirteen families that located in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mr. McEntire's paternal grandparents came from the north of Ireland in 1812 and settled in Virginia, where they were farmers, and later moved to St. Louis.
The names McEntire and Sheble at one time had more significance in the river transportation of the Mississippi and Missouri than any other two names that might be mentioned. Captain Joseph McEntire organ- ized the Omaha Packet Company, which operated a line of steamers up the Missouri River as far as the outpost of civilization at Fort Benton, Montana. His boats were practically the only regular line of transporta- tion to those remote sections of the United States. Captain Edwin A. Sheble, a brother of Mrs. Morgianna Rosamond McEntire, organized at St. Louis The Anchor Line of steamers plying between St. Louis and New Orleans.
Walter Francis McEntire attended the grammar and high schools of St. Louis to the age of seventeen. Then, while employed in the law offices of Nathaniel Myers, he studied law and between times attended the St. Louis University, and was admitted to the bar and to practice in the state and Federal courts in the year 1880. Mr. McEntire was busied with a large law practice at St. Louis until 1903. In that year, having become interested in several mining ventures in Colorado, he transferred
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his headquarters to Chicago. In 1906 he resumed the practice of law at Chicago, and in the fall of 1908 was appointed assistant special state's attorney under Frank J. Loesch, who at that time was general Western solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the spring of 1909 Mr. McEntire resigned and removed to New York, where he represented several large corporations as attorney, and came to be recognized as a corporation lawyer of splendid standing in the Eastern metropolis. He had to give up his business interests there on account of ill health, and in February, 1915, came to Los Angeles, where he has resumed law practice, but somewhat less strenuously than in former days, attaining here, however, a high standing and a good practice.
Mr. McEntire is deeply interested in the life and affairs of Cali- fornia and has written a number of articles on California history. He has made a special study of the old Spanish missions. He is a member of the Union League Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Law Com- mittee of the Republican State Central Committe of the Southern Divi- sion of California.
While a resident of St. Louis he was actively identified with educa- tional affairs. He was a member of the Board of Education of that city for three years, and while in office did good work for the public schools; he also did much to promote the welfare of the St. Louis Uni- versity. He was president of the Jefferson Club in 1906 and 1907. At St. Louis, August 1. 1887, he married Miss Julia E., daughter of Gerard O. Kalb, one of the pioneers of that city. Their only child, Vera, is the wife of Samuel Stockton White III of Philadelphia.
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