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In 1868 Colonel Woodford was elected on the democratic ticket to the Legislature at Wheeling, and helped formulate some of the early laws of the state. In 1871 he was elected sheriff of Lewis County and, by virtue of that office, also was tax collector, serving six years. In 1882 he was nominated for senator from the Tenth District, but was defeated
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by his republican opponent. He was candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1892, and in a democratic mass convention at Grafton in that year made a speech which was highly commended by William Jen- nings Bryan, who chanced to be present. Colonel Woodford at that time was advocating an advance brand of policies particularly as bearing on the financial question, and subsequently adopted as leading planks in the national democratic platform in 1896.
Colonel Woodford, on coming to California, in 1904, located at Elsinor, in Riverside County, and there owns one of the most beautiful homes in that vicinity. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has been a Mason since 1864. Though he has traveled extensively in recent years, covering practically every state of the Union and many parts of the Old World, Colonel Woodford has found no climate and no environment quite so agreeable as that of Elsinor.
In 1854, in Taylor County, Virginia, he married Miss Rebecca Cather, daughter of Jasper Cather, a Baptist minister. Mrs. Woodford died in 1885. She was the mother of six children. Three are deceased, named Flora S. N., Bruce S. and Clarkson J. The three living children are Iris Columbia, Phoebe Jane and John Howe Woodford.
GREGORY S. WOODFORD is vice president and managing director of the California Board of Directors of Stollwerck Brothers, Incorporated, of California, and vice president of the Stollwerck Chocolate Company of New York, a firm of international reputation as manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate.
Mr. Woodford, who has had a rapid rise in business affairs, was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 1884. He is a grandson of the venerable Asa Wesley Woodford of Elsinore, Riverside County, whose personal history is given on other pages of this publication.
Gregory S. Woodford was reared and educated in Cleveland, being five years of age when his parents removed to that city. He lived there until he was about twenty years of age, and for about a year worked as a newspaper man in Chicago, being a reporter with the Tribune, Examiner and Journal. He next entered the service of Swift & Com- pany as salesman, with Baltimore as his headquarters. He was with that house about five years, and in 1915 came to California, locating at San Francisco. Here he enter.d the service of Stollwerck Brothers, In- corporated, and in 1916 was sent to Los Angeles as the company repre- sentative in Southern California. In 1918 he was made vice president, manager and one of the California directors of the company.
The chief factory of Stollwerck Brothers, Incorporated, is at Stam- ford, Connecticut, but a new plant is soon to be built on the Pacific Coast at San Francisco. This company maintains offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Salt Lake City, and a warehouse at Spokane.
Mr. Woodford regards himself a fixture in Los Angeles, and since coming here has acquired a fine tract of three acres at Inglewood and erected a beautiful home. He is a democrat in politics and is affiliated with Inglewood Lodge No. 421, A. F. and A. M., Lodge No. 99 of the Elks at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Optimist Club, Press Club, Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufac- turers' Association and the Jonathan Club.
At Cleveland, Ohio, July 29, 1902, he married Miss Edith M. Satterfield of Mount Vernon, Illinois. Mrs. Woodford was born in Texas, but was reared and educated at Mount Vernon, Illinois, her
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parents, W. N. and Etta (Reed) Satterfield, now living at Inglewood, California. Mrs. Woodford was formerly very active in the Parent- Teachers Association, being its chairman, but had to give up this re- sponsibility on account of other duties. She is a member of the Cosmos Club. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford have two children, Wesley and Flora, both natives of Chicago, now attending the Inglewood schools.
CHARLES B. HOPPER. If there is such a thing as a real estate man "to the manner born," the description would fit Charles B. Hopper probably better than any other man in Southern California. The real estate business seems to have run in the Hopper family. Mr. Hopper's father was a successful real estate operator in the East, and also on the Pacific Coast, and Mr. Hopper himself grew up in the atmosphere of a real estate office and has known and wanted no other field of work since he was a boy.
He is the subdivision man supreme and pre-eminent, and his work in developing and selling subdivisions in and around Los Angeles is probably too well known to require further introduction. In later years his name and enterprise have been especially identified with the South- gate Gardens and South Park Gardens.
Mr. Hopper was born at Titusville, the famous center of the Penn- sylvania oil industry, September 26, 1880, a son of Isaac B. and Eliza- beth (Harriman) Hopper, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Adrian, Michigan. The family came to California and located at Los Angeles in 1895. Isaac Hopper died March 11, 1911, having been retired several years before his death. Charles B. and his sister, Mrs. Kelley Rees, of Portland, Oregon, are the only survivors of four children.
Charles B. Hopper, the youngest, was educated in the grammer and high schools of Los Angeles, attended Leland Stanford University, and in 1896 went to work in the real estate business with his father. He has been an independent operator since 1903, and it can be safely said that no one is better versed in real estate values in Southern California than he. He is a specialist in subdivision property. He has built over six hundred houses in this section, having developed the Lawndale dis- trict, between Los Angeles and Redondo, and also the Western avenue and Jefferson street district.
For the last two years he has been handling the famous Cudahy Ranch under the name of the Southgate Gardens, a tract of about two thousand acres adjoining. Los Angeles on the south. By 1919 a quarter of this property had been sold. Development work began on the ranch property in 1917, and within less than two years it has been completely transformed, now having broad paved avenues, with sewers, electric light and all modern improvements, and many of the avenues are lined by attractive homes, the grounds being subdivided in half-acre units. Besides the Southgate Gardens subdivision as a whole, there is a town- site of Southgate, opened March 1, 1918, and now well developed with stores, churches and schools.
The South Park Garden district is a very ambitious project, involv- ing one thousand acres, located south of the new Goodyear Rubber Com- pany plant, which will give employment to about seven thousand men. South Park Gardens is divided into Mr. Hopper's favorite unit, a half acre of ground, with all city improvements, a low price and good trans- portation.
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Mr. Hopper knows how to market property and get it placed with the right class of people, so that satisfaction is insured to all concerned. He has been author of some of the most effective advertising campaigns employed in the development and sale of Southern California property. He has five real estate offices, including those at Ocean Park, Whittier and Santa Ana. His main office, at 611 South Hill street, on the ground floor of the Consolidated Realty Building, is said to be the largest and finest real estate office on the Pacific Coast, and the best equipped sub- division office in the West, or west of Chicago, though probably not even Chicago has any office of the kind that equals it. The office is exceed- ingly large, with six thousand square feet of floor space, has special auditorium for lectures and moving pictures, and this auditorium is used every Tuesday and Thursday evenings and has been the medium for a great deal of educational instruction regarding the citrus district. Mr. Hopper operates three automobile excursions, with a free ranch dinner, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and altogether he furnishes a dollar's worth of service for every dollar he receives as commission.
Mr. Hopper is a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Athletic Club, 'California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Gramercy Tennis Club, and is a re- publican. But the organization where his name is especially enshrined is the Automobile Club of Southern California. He helped organize this club, and in the capacity of secretary and treasurer for about four years was the individual chiefly responsible for making it a real club, develop- ing its membership from thirty to two thousand. Most of the real work of increasing the membership and building up the organization was done in Mr. Hopper's real estate office as a pastime from his other duties. In recognition of what he did for the club, he was made an honorary mem- ber for life, with no dues to pay. He is also a director and one of the organizers of the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association, which has one of the largest sites for cemetery purposes in California. Mr. Hopper's recreation is in golf and tennis and in real estate.
His home is at 716 South Manhattan Place. He married Miss Helen MacDonald, of Columbus, Ohio, at Los Angeles, June 28, 1909. She was born and educated in Ohio, but finished her schooling in Los An- geles. Mrs. Hopper is a member of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. They have two native daughters of Los Angeles, Virginia and Elizabeth.
WILLIAM H. DAUM came to Southern California as industrial com- missioner for the Santa Fe Railway Company, but soon resigned and has since specialized in an almost unique profession, largely along the line of his former experience as a railroad industrial commissioner. Mr. Daum is credited with an important share of the enterprise and influence through which a score or more of industries have been located and developed in and around Los Angeles.
Mr. Daum was born at Nortonville, Kansas, September 11, 1883, and all his early experience was in railroading. His parents were Wil- liam and Margaret (Payne). Daum. He attended the public schools of Nortonville and graduating from the high school at Topeka, Kansas, in 1897, and soon afterward went to work for the Santa Fe Railway as freight clerk and handler at Meriden, Kansas. The first year he was paid twenty dollars a month. He was then telegraph operator at Atchi- son six months, was transferred as telegraph operator to Melvern, Kansas, then to Barclay, and in 1900 returned to Atchison as night
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agent. In 1903 the company sent him to Topeka as train dispatcher, and in 1904 moved him further west to Albuquerque, where he had charge of the telegraph department until December of that year. He was then made agent of the Santa Fe at Holbrook, Arizona, and while there was in the cattle business on the side. In 1906 he became superin- tendent of terminals for the Santa Fe Railway Company at Seligman, Arizona.
In 1907 Mr. Daum moved his headquarters to Los Angeles as indus- trial commissioner for the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque. He continued this work for five years, and in 1912 resigned to engage in the industrial realty business for himself.
He was interested in the first big modern lemon packing and storage house, locating it at San Dimas. He located a dozen fruit packing houses in Southern California, and was associated with A. S. Bradford in starting the town of Placentia. During his service as industrial com- missioner for the Santa Fe he was instrumental in locating two hundred twenty-three industries, a hundred seventy-five of them in Southern California.
Some of the important industries which have been established with Mr. Daum handling more or less of the negotiations are the American Can Company, Republic Motor Truck Company, Griffin Car Wheel Com- pany, American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company, Globe Oil Mills, Cali- fornia Cotton Oil Company, Federal Box Company, Pacific Portable Construction Company, Pan-American Petroleum Company, Charles R. McCormack Lumber Company of Los Angeles and San Diego. Very recently Mr. Daum had charge of the arrangements through which the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, established its twenty-six million dollar rubber and cotton mill plant in Southern Cali- fornia.
A tremendous amount of interest has been aroused by the coming of the Goodyear Company to Los Angeles. The rubber and cotton mill plant, when in full operation, will employ eight thousand people, and it is the largest single industry ever established west of the Rocky Moun- tains. Mr. Daum has recently figured in the discussions of plans, based partly on the Goodyear enterprise, and the logical development of natural resources and advantages of Southern California toward making Los Angeles the center of air navigation and transportation for America. The fact that practical business men like Mr. Daum are working on such plans is a striking illustration of the splendid advances made in aeronautics during the past five years.
Mr. Daum is manager and director of the Factory Site Company, is vice president and director of the Sunset Park Land Company, man- ager of the Industrial Center Corporation, and manager of the Artesian Land Company. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Congregational Church. At Atchison, Kansas, June 19, 1906, he married Mary Rose. Their four children are: Elizabeth Rose, born in 1907; Dorothy Marian, born in 1911; William Howard Jr., born in 1913, and Richard Hampton, born in 1915.
PARAN FLINT RICE. While his interests as a lawyer identify him with the ablest members of the Los Angeles bar, Mr. Rice is also dis- tinguished for his scholarly activities, his scientific pursuits, and his active association with many affairs and organizations outside of his own profession.
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Mr. Rice was born at Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1859, son of Thomas and Mary (Dorsey) Rice. The Rice family goes back to the fifth century in Wales. The name was originally Ap-Rice and was also spelled Rhys. This branch of the Rice family came to Massachusetts in 1635. The Edmund Rice Association of Massachusetts holds annual meetings and has a large membership of the descendants of the original settler. Thomas Rice was a prominent New York business man and for about forty-five years was in the wholesale grocery business at Syracuse. He was born at Ashby, Massachusetts. His wife was a native of Ovid, New York, and they were married at Geneva, in that state, where she was reared and educated. Her family was of French origin and was first settled in Maryland, where the Carrolls and Dorseys for many years were among the most prominent families of the province and state.
Paran Flint Rice was educated in the public schools of Syracuse, attended the Phillips-Exeter Academy of New Hampshire, Syracuse Uni- versity, and read law in London, England, and in Los Angeles. He came to California in 1895, and has the d gree LL. B. from the Uni- versity of California. He was admitted to the California bar in 1898, and later to the United States Supreme Court. He has practiced alone and handled a general clientage until the last few years, when he has given much of his time to corporation and probate work and has been attorney for a number of large estates. Mr. Rice is also chief owner and president of the Monrovia Daily News, published at Monrovia, Cali- fornia. He is a director in a number of commercial organizations. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Society of International Law, and in politics is a republican.
Mr. Rice is a Psi Upsilon, a member of the University Club, City Club, and is a Fellow of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, the National Geographic Society, and has pursued his scientific interests by extensive travel in Europe and America. Mr. Rice was reared in the Episcopal Church, but is not a member of any church.
At San Francisco, August 3, 1915, he married Ruth G. Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she was born and educated. They have one daughter, Mary Dorsey Rice, born at San Francisco September 15, 1918.
BYRON C. SUTHERLAND, who has achieved a place of special prom- inence in the dental profession, has been a resident of California for the past ten years, and came to this state from Boston and vicinity, having been reared and educated in the heart of New England.
He was born at Palmer, Massachusetts, October 21, 1875, attended public school there, graduating from high school in 1893. Doctor Sutherland is a graduate in dentistry with the degree D. D. S. from the Boston Dental College. He rec ived his degree with the class of 1899. This was the last class to graduate before the Boston Dental College became the Dental Department of Tufts University. Doctor Sutherland began practice at Ware, Massachusetts, afterwards in Springfield, and for nine years had a busy practice with an office in South Braintree, a Boston suburb. He gave up his work there to come to Los Angeles in 1909, and in this city was chief operator for "Parker, the Painless Dentist" three years. On leaving Los Angeles he was located at San Diego three years, and on returning to Los Angeles formed a partner- ship with Dr. J. P. Hines in January, 1916. They were associated as Drs. Hines and Sutherland, Dentists, until April, 1918, at which time Doctor Suth rland bought out his partner and has since practiced alone,
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with offices at 820 South Broadway. He makes a specialty of bridge work and the "Anchor Roofless Plate."
Doctor Sutherland was made a Mason at Braintree, Massachusetts, being affiliated with Delta Lodge, and was its junior deacon when he left for the West. He also belonged to Pentalpha Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He has demitted to those bodies, but has not resumed his affiliation in California. Doctor Suther- land owns a ranch of a thousand acres of cotton land in the State of Sonora, Mexico.
October 21, 1905, he married Miss Winifred E. Pike of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was born and educated there, and her mother's ancestry runs back in straight line to John and Priscilla Alden. She is a stepdaughter of Colonel F. S. Howes of San Diego, California." Colonel Howes served as a captain in the Spanish-American war, and during the World war was in the Intelligence Department and was re- turned as a colonel of the Coast Artillery. Doctor and Mrs. Sutherland have two children, J. Winston, who was born in Braintree, Massachu- setts, and is attending the Westlake School for Boys, and Bettina, born at Los Angeles. The family reside at Verdugo Canyon, Glendale. Doctor Sutherland is licensed to practice dentistry in Massachusetts, California, Porto Rico and Mexico.
THOMAS CLAYTON MURPHY. The life of the late Thomas Clayton Murphy, brief in years, was wrought largely in good works in the hearts of his fellowmen. In this he was true to his descent from his illustrious grandfather, the world renowned temperance advocate, Francis Murphy. Mr. Murphy while on the platform traveled from coast to coast, but most of his active life was spent in Los Angeles.
He was born at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1885. His death occurred at Los Angeles April 5, 1919, as a result of influenza-pneumonia.
His grandfather, Francis Murphy, was born in Ireland April 24, 1836. As a youth he came to America and for a number of years led, a happy, convivial existence, gradually sinking into the class of irre- trievable drunkards. About 1870, while living at Portland, Maine, through the influence of a gospel meeting, he abruptly reformed, aban- doned dissipation entirely, and in a few years rose to rank as a national leader in temperance, and in many ways was one of the most con- spicuously successful temperance workers and evangelists the world has known. Though he died in 1907, his name today is spoken with a deeper reverence perhaps than is paid to any other man of his class. He was the originator of the famous Murphy Blue Ribbon Pledge: "With malice toward none, with charity for all. I, the undersigned, do pledge my word and honor, God helping me, to abstain from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and that I will by all honorable means encourage others to do the same." The signers to this pledge, it is said, numbered twelve million. He carried his work to England and Ireland, to Aus- tralia and New Zealand, and though he had worked unceasingly in the cause for over thirty years, it was his earnest wish that he might live to be a hundred years old and keep up his activities to the last. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wayland Trask, in Los Angeles, June 30, 1907, at the age of seventy-one.
William Murphy, son of Francis and father of Thomas Clayton Murphy, was in many ways the image of his father both in personal figure and character and in his chosen work as a temperance orator. He
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was born in Seattle, and his wife, Clara Mackay, represented an old Southern family.
Thomas Clayton Murphy was a graduate of the University of Wis- consin. With his brother, Francis Murphy Jr., he toured the entire coun- try, Thomas speaking on temperance, while Francis employed his rich baritone voice in singing Gospel hymns, seldom failing to sing "Face to Face," a favorite hymn of his grandfather. Incidentally, it should be mentioned that the famous gospel hymn, "God Be With You 'Til We Meet Again," was written for Francis Murphy by the Rev. Dr. Rankin. The young man lectured in all the large cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific, finally giving a series of lectures at Fresno, Bakersfield and San Diego.
Upon retiring from the lecture platform, Thomas Clayton Murphy took up newspaper work. He edited a couple of columns daily in the Los Angeles Record under the title, "The Under Groove," filling these columns largely with little sidelights on the personalities and characters found in the local court rooms. Besides his work as a newspaper man, he was appointed judge of the Sunrise Court, where he found a fertile field for his temperance philanthropy. He also entered commercial lines, becoming president of the Stop Fire Company, being associated with the late Timothy J. Spellacy.
Thomas C. Murphy married Miss Florence Caswell, daughter of Cornelius Caswell. They were married April 26, 1909. Cornelia Cas- well for many years lived in California. Florence Caswell is a native daughter of California, and was educated in the Girls' Collegiate School, a fashionable institution of Los Angeles. She and her husband attended the Christ Church. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were very happy in their work and life, and were the parents of two children, Thomas, born in 1910, and Jane, born in 1916.
JUDGE WILLIAM ATWELL CHENEY. Many of the finest associations and memories of the Los Angeles bar past and present gather around the dignified figure of Judge Cheney. His first honors in law and politics were given him in California over forty years ago. He has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1882, for six years divided the work of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, most of the time with one other judge, and for twenty-six years was chief counsel for the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation.
Judge Cheney, who retired from active practice on account of his health in June, 1917, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, February 18, 1848, son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha (Whitney) Cheney. Mem- bers of the Cheney and Whitner families have long been prominent in the history of Massachusetts. Judge Cheney attended public schools and academies in Boston, was educated for the ministry, and to restore his health, seriously impaired by hard work in school, spent a year at sea on a trading vessel. He followed the vocation of preaching only a short time.
He first came to California in 1867, remaining about three years. He became a permanent Californian in 1875, first locating in San Fran- cisco, then in Plumas County. He was admitted to the bar there in 1877, and the following year was elected county judge of Plumas County, an office he filled until 1880. When the old constitution was changed, in 1880, he was elected to the State Senate, serving three sessions, being a member of the Judiciary Committee, having in charge the revision of the legal codes. He also engaged in the practice of law at Sacramento.
Before his term as state senator expired Judge Cheney removed to
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